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Mid-Morning Art Thread
Eugène Delacroix
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: rhennigantx at March 26, 2025 09:30 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Bulg at March 26, 2025 09:30 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at March 26, 2025 09:30 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Hrothgar at March 26, 2025 09:31 AM (hOUT3)
L’histoire relate les amours contrariés d’un vénitien, le Giaour - terme qui désigne l’infidèle pour les musulmans - et d’une esclave, Leila, appartenant au sérail d’Hassan, chef militaire d’une province turque. Leila, qui a manqué à la fidélité qu’elle devait au pacha Hassan est jetée à la mer. Son amant, le Giaour, la venge en tuant Hassan.
Posted by: SMOD at March 26, 2025 09:31 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Pete Bootyjuice at March 26, 2025 09:32 AM (t0Rmr)
Eugène Delacroix
Date
1835
Technical
Oil on canvas
Dimensions (H × W)
73 × 61 cm
Location
Petit Palais , Paris
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 26, 2025 09:32 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Hrothgar at March 26, 2025 09:32 AM (hOUT3)
Posted by: dantesed at March 26, 2025 09:32 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Bulg at March 26, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: George Costanza at March 26, 2025 09:32 AM (kBvyO)
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 26, 2025 09:32 AM (Hpgos)
Posted by: Heavy Meta at March 26, 2025 09:32 AM (NgqoH)
Posted by: tankdemon at March 26, 2025 09:33 AM (SP9Wz)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 26, 2025 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 26, 2025 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)
Eugène DelacroixCharenton Saint-Maurice, 1798 – Paris, 1863
Date: 1835
Materials and techniques: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: H. 73 x l. 61 cm
Marks and inscriptions: Signed and dated lower right: "Eug. Delacroix 1835"
Inventory number: PDUT1162
Method of acquisition: Purchase on the arrears of the Dutuit Leg, 1963
Room: ground floor, room 23
Posted by: SMOD at March 26, 2025 09:33 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 26, 2025 09:33 AM (Hpgos)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 26, 2025 09:33 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: The asshole who stole your pen! at March 26, 2025 09:33 AM (89Sog)
The poem tells the tragedy of a Venetian man, the Giaour, who falls in love with a slave girl, Leila, who belongs to the harem of the Pasha (Hassan). Discovering her infidelity, the latter has her executed. The Giaour later lures the Pasha into an ambush, kills him, and then retires to a convent, where he eventually dies without having found peace.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 26, 2025 09:34 AM (gbOdA)
Petit Palais , Paris
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 26, 2025 09:32 AM (gbOdA
A small palace in Paris?
Posted by: dantesed at March 26, 2025 09:34 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: doug marcaida at March 26, 2025 09:34 AM (/tzYP)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 26, 2025 09:34 AM (PzXaK)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 26, 2025 09:35 AM (Dm8we)
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 26, 2025 09:35 AM (/tzYP)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 26, 2025 09:35 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 26, 2025 09:35 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Skip at March 26, 2025 09:36 AM (rfB6S)
*I like Delacroix
Posted by: runner at March 26, 2025 09:36 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at March 26, 2025 09:36 AM (3Vsss)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 26, 2025 09:36 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 26, 2025 09:33 AM (VofaG)
Heh. I remember a time when we were at my dad's house after he and mom separated. Some friends were over and after much booze, conversations got heated over something stupid, I'm sure. The solution to the battle was one of the girls pulled her tits out.
Fighting stopped......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 26, 2025 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 26, 2025 09:35 AM (/tzYP)
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Looks like one is reaching his end.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 26, 2025 09:36 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: dantesed at March 26, 2025 09:36 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Lizzy at March 26, 2025 09:37 AM (Cki93)
Posted by: Way back when at March 26, 2025 09:37 AM (kBvyO)
Posted by: dantesed at March 26, 2025 09:34 AM (Oy/m2)
The Petit Palais was built for the 1900 Universal Exhibition, like its neighbour the Grand Palais, on avenue Winston Churchill. It became a museum in 1902. Designed by Charles Girault, it is based on a trapezium shape and is made up of four wings around a semi-circular garden bordered by a richly decorated peristyle.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 26, 2025 09:37 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 26, 2025 09:37 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 26, 2025 09:37 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Robert Zimmerman at March 26, 2025 09:37 AM (w9Wax)
Fighting stopped......
Posted by: Sponge
Hmmmm. Maybe we need to start an argument here.
So, about that Civil War...
Posted by: Bulg at March 26, 2025 09:38 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Never meaning to send at March 26, 2025 09:38 AM (kBvyO)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 26, 2025 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)
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All you need is Charleton Heston narrating: "Behold the power of the BOOBS!"
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 26, 2025 09:38 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: redridinghood at March 26, 2025 09:38 AM (NpAcC)
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I wonder if the broken scimitar is his or the dead guy's??
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 26, 2025 09:39 AM (/tzYP)
Looks like a couple of Mamelukes getting their hate on.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 26, 2025 09:39 AM (Q0kLU)
Posted by: huerfano at March 26, 2025 09:39 AM (n2swS)
Posted by: dantesed
No. He's just pining for the wadis.
Posted by: Bulg at March 26, 2025 09:39 AM (77rzZ)
All you need is Charleton Heston narrating: "Behold the power of the BOOBS!"
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 26, 2025 09:38 AM (ZOv7s)
That might've been in my head at the time.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 26, 2025 09:39 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bulg at March 26, 2025 09:38 AM (77rzZ)
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You want young Jennifer Connelly.
You'll settle for current Jennifer Connelly.
You'll get Nancy Pelosi.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 26, 2025 09:39 AM (ZOv7s)
*I like Delacroix
Posted by: runner at March 26, 2025 09:36 AM (g47mK)
Delacroix > Delaware
Posted by: Joey Choo Choo at March 26, 2025 09:39 AM (NgqoH)
Thx CBD
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 26, 2025 09:39 AM (rsgUv)
I always called it Lady Liberty. I’ll call the Louvre and have them change the name.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 26, 2025 09:40 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Christopher Walken at March 26, 2025 09:40 AM (w9Wax)
Posted by: David Hogg, Harvard graduate at March 26, 2025 09:40 AM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: muldoon at March 26, 2025 09:41 AM (/iMjX)
LAYYYYYLAAAA!!!!
**furious air guitar**
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 26, 2025 09:41 AM (Q0kLU)
Posted by: Ben Hur at March 26, 2025 09:41 AM (kBvyO)
Thx CBD
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 26, 2025 09:39 AM (rsgUv)
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It's Hunter and Bearclaw fighting for the last Ukrainian check.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 26, 2025 09:41 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: m at March 26, 2025 09:41 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: redridinghood at March 26, 2025 09:41 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: m at March 26, 2025 09:41 AM (CQE5S)
Tossing a salad just of screen.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 26, 2025 09:42 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at March 26, 2025 09:36 AM (3Vsss)
No capes!
Posted by: Edna Mode at March 26, 2025 09:42 AM (PiwSw)
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Perhaps a yatagan?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yatagan
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 26, 2025 09:42 AM (/tzYP)
Posted by: Sharif at March 26, 2025 09:42 AM (hOk1M)
Posted by: When I was a kid at March 26, 2025 09:43 AM (kBvyO)
**furious air guitar**
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 26, 2025 09:41 AM
*strums*
Excellent!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 26, 2025 09:44 AM (hOk1M)
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 26, 2025 09:37 AM (gbOdA)
I liked that guy. I think he used to travel around the country in a motor home telling the story of the common man too.
Posted by: haffhowershower at March 26, 2025 09:44 AM (NMT5x)
I can assure you that that is most certainly not the case. You are one of my favorite posters here.
Posted by: Bulg at March 26, 2025 09:44 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 26, 2025 09:40 AM (VofaG)
Hello? Who ees eet?
Posted by: The Louvre, answering the phone at March 26, 2025 09:44 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 26, 2025 09:45 AM (Dm8we)
Posted by: Beavis and Butt-Head at March 26, 2025 09:45 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: muldoon at March 26, 2025 09:45 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 26, 2025 09:45 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: SMOD at March 26, 2025 09:31 AM (RHGPo)
Without a life jacket.
Posted by: m at March 26, 2025 09:45 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 26, 2025 09:45 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: muldoon at March 26, 2025 09:45 AM
*slow clap*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 26, 2025 09:45 AM (hOk1M)
Excellent!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 26, 2025 09:44 AM (hOk1M)
WOAH!!!
Posted by: Beavis and Butt-Head at March 26, 2025 09:45 AM (Zz0t1)
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That is non non non non non heinous.
Posted by: Bill and Ted at March 26, 2025 09:46 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at March 26, 2025 09:46 AM (3Vsss)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 26, 2025 09:47 AM (Vqx30)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 26, 2025 09:45 AM (VofaG)
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Reason decoupled from morality always results in demonic crimes.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 26, 2025 09:48 AM (ZOv7s)
I wonder if Delacroix was an influence on NC Wyeth and other illustrators who followed a generation or two later. This painting reminds me of Wyeth.
Posted by: JTB at March 26, 2025 09:48 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 26, 2025 09:48 AM (PzXaK)
I can assure you that that is most certainly not the case. You are one of my favorite posters here.
Posted by: Bulg at March 26, 2025 09:44 AM (77rzZ)
Bulg, I am not seeing that anywhere on the previous thread!
Posted by: m at March 26, 2025 09:49 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 26, 2025 09:33 AM (VofaG)
Already used her!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 26, 2025 09:49 AM (L5An7)
Oh! So this is the Casbah.
*nods in understanding*
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at March 26, 2025 09:46 AM (3Vsss)
My step-brother stayed in some apartments in Austin during his college years called The Casbah....every invitation down had some sort of The Clash reference.....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 26, 2025 09:49 AM (Zz0t1)
Did he stay or did he go?
Posted by: Lizzy at March 26, 2025 09:50 AM (Cki93)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 26, 2025 09:49 AM
Because, really, how could it not?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 26, 2025 09:50 AM (hOk1M)
Posted by: Dirty Frank at March 26, 2025 09:50 AM (0xEb+)
So here you are. Rocks will be next.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 26, 2025 09:51 AM (FCbAQ)
Did he stay or did he go?
Posted by: Lizzy at March 26, 2025 09:50 AM (Cki93)
He stayed for a while, then went. We decided to stay, then decided to go the next day.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 26, 2025 09:51 AM (Zz0t1)
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Snag Hazard. Much like cargo pockets on trousers. Fucking Paratroopers.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 26, 2025 09:51 AM (Hpgos)
Because, really, how could it not?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 26, 2025 09:50 AM (hOk1M)
We were OK with it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 26, 2025 09:51 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Trying to keep up at March 26, 2025 09:52 AM (kBvyO)
Posted by: Bulg at March 26, 2025 09:52 AM (77rzZ)
The poem tells the tragedy of a Venetian man, the Giaour, who falls in love with a slave girl, Leila, who belongs to the harem of the Pasha (Hassan). Discovering her infidelity, the latter has her executed. The Giaour later lures the Pasha into an ambush, kills him, and then retires to a convent, where he eventually dies without having found peace.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 26, 2025 09:34 AM (gbOdA)
This matches up with how I first read the title: "Combat of Glamour over the Puta".
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 26, 2025 09:53 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Lizzy at March 26, 2025 09:53 AM (Cki93)
Posted by: dantesed at March 26, 2025 09:53 AM (Oy/m2)
Limerickin' Be Hard Yo!
The noted director Sam Peckinpah
Depictted a historical coup d'etat
Why, you might wonder
Would he make such a blunder?
Because nothing else rhymes with Delacroix
Posted by: muldoon at March 26, 2025 09:53 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: Delicate Disposition at March 26, 2025 09:53 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: m
Comment 216
Posted by: Bulg at March 26, 2025 09:52 AM (77rzZ)
Oh. Thank you!
Posted by: m at March 26, 2025 09:54 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at March 26, 2025 09:54 AM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Eromero at March 26, 2025 09:54 AM (p4vtc)
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Snag Hazard. Much like cargo pockets on trousers. Fucking Paratroopers.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 26, 2025 09:51 AM (Hpgos)
No Capes!
Posted by: E. at March 26, 2025 09:54 AM (uWKK8)
In a brand new cadillac. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at March 26, 2025 09:53 AM
Was it slick and black?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 26, 2025 09:54 AM (hOk1M)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 26, 2025 09:54 AM (J2vNu)
Would not hang.
Posted by: Delicate Disposition at March 26, 2025 09:53 AM (G5+As)
vmom would be disappointed in you.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 26, 2025 09:54 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 26, 2025 09:54 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 26, 2025 09:53 AM (uWKK
!!!
Posted by: m at March 26, 2025 09:55 AM (CQE5S)
Our resident poet has had his coffee.
Well done.
Could anyone answer, is it Del-a-croy
or Del-a- kwah?
Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 26, 2025 09:56 AM (FCbAQ)
Becomes just another story
Posted by: Lizzy at March 26, 2025 09:56 AM (Cki93)
You mean the Great Terror?
Posted by: dantesed at March 26, 2025 09:53 AM (Oy/m2)
It was a ten year clusterfuck
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 26, 2025 09:56 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at March 26, 2025 09:54 AM (xcxpd)
You asked for it......
https://youtu.be/RrZlWw8Di10
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 26, 2025 09:56 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sharif
Oh! So this is the Casbah.
*nods in understanding*
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth)
Says it's not kosher.
Posted by: haffhowershower at March 26, 2025 09:57 AM (NMT5x)
Fighting stopped......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 26, 2025 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)
My favorite scene in Undercover Brother is when in the middle of a huge fight White Chick and Black Chick square off with each other, and all of the guys on both sides stop fighting, sit down on the couch and pull out the popcorn.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 26, 2025 09:57 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Bulg at March 26, 2025 09:58 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at March 26, 2025 10:00 AM (PiwSw)
or Del-a- kwah?
Posted by: OneEyedJack
I think it's actually Del-a-KRWAH.
Because French is effed up.
Posted by: Bulg at March 26, 2025 10:01 AM (77rzZ)
It's chaotic and kinda dark. Dark colors, not much light in the scene. The light that is there is very nice. That dude's dress glows. The horse chest is well lit also. Hard to tell what's going on at first look but when I go back to study it a bit more..... Dead guy being trampled is overkill. I get it. War is Hell. But was it really necessary to put some poor dead guy under the horses? And those horses are well trained combatants but I hate seeing them in peril. That is not a good place for animals that have no say in the situation.
Verdict : me no likey. Plenty of artistic talent but not my cup of tea.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 26, 2025 10:01 AM (4XwPj)
Posted by: muldoon at March 26, 2025 10:02 AM (/iMjX)
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Now that is saying something in just a few words.
Posted by: ... at March 26, 2025 10:03 AM (G77jz)
Looks like "Giaour" was a generic Turkish slur meaning "infidel", typically applied to Christians.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 26, 2025 10:03 AM (W5ArC)
That's a Moor, eh?
Posted by: muldoon at March 26, 2025 10:02 AM (/iMjX
When the moon hits your eye.....
Posted by: It's me donna at March 26, 2025 10:04 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench)
Outside the Richmond Museum of Fine Art, there is a little memorial, from Paul Mellon, I think, dedicated to all the horses who died in the Civil War.
Posted by: Bulg at March 26, 2025 10:04 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at March 26, 2025 10:01 AM (77rzZ)
I wonder how many man-years of time have been wasted by other countries attempting to deal with their jabber.
Lots, I'm sure.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 26, 2025 10:04 AM (W5ArC)
When the moon hits your eye.....
Posted by: It's me donna at March 26, 2025 10:04 AM (VE6XX)
I always imagined a big pizza pie hitting you in the eye wasn't very comfortable.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 26, 2025 10:05 AM (Zz0t1)
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That's like wishing him a "clear conscience".
Joke's on us he doesn't have one. But then God will have the final word.
Posted by: ... at March 26, 2025 10:05 AM (G77jz)
or Del-a- kwah?
Posted by: OneEyedJack
I think it's actually Del-a-KRWAH.
Because French is effed up.
Posted by: Bulg
It would be pronounced Del-a-KROYX by the same people who say Ill-uh-NOISE
Posted by: haffhowershower at March 26, 2025 10:05 AM (NMT5x)
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Now that is saying something in just a few words.
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Honestly, prohibiting Pharma the ability to advertise is a much moar serious body blow to the Junta in Exile. Maybe a killing blow?
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 26, 2025 10:06 AM (Hpgos)
I can assure you that that is most certainly not the case. You are one of my favorite posters here.
Posted by: Bulg at March 26, 2025 09:44 AM (77rzZ)
Thank you, but what I said was that I sometimes wonder whether people care whether I am here or not. It is nice to know that people do care. My depression so overwhelms me at times that I forget.
Since tomorrow is Gloria Swanson's birthday, here are a couple of luscious photos:
https://tinyurl.com/3bp35hds
https://tinyurl.com/px9n785p (shoes and stockings to die for!)
And with Carole Lombard:
https://tinyurl.com/mrx2xeaa
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 26, 2025 10:06 AM (Q0kLU)
Oy!
Posted by: Hrothgar at March 26, 2025 10:06 AM (hOUT3)
Be excellent to each other.
Don't quote the trolls. Ridicule them. It's what's for dinner.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 26, 2025 10:06 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench)
Outside the Richmond Museum of Fine Art, there is a little memorial, from Paul Mellon, I think, dedicated to all the horses who died in the Civil War.
Posted by: Bulg at March 26, 2025 10:04 AM (77rzZ)
Reminds me of an MST 3000, Last of the Wild Horses, where a bunch of cowboys are arguing loudly, and Frank quips, "this is awkward because all the horses are good friends."
Posted by: Pug Mahon at March 26, 2025 10:07 AM (pJbQu)
Because French is effed up.
Posted by: Bulg
It's CRAW not CRAW!!!
Posted by: The Claw at March 26, 2025 10:08 AM (AiZBA)
or Del-a- kwah?
Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 26, 2025 09:56 AM
Del-a-kwah, sweetie dahling, Del-a-kwah.
Posted by: Edina Monsoon at March 26, 2025 10:08 AM (hOk1M)
Posted by: Pug Mahon at March 26, 2025 10:07 AM (pJbQu)
A tangent but still reminded me of my favorite horse movie. Hildago.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 26, 2025 10:09 AM (VofaG)
If you could go back in time and tell Joe Strummer that one day he'd sell out and let his music shill for a hotel chain, would he kick your ass?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 26, 2025 10:09 AM (Q0kLU)
Posted by: Bulg at March 26, 2025 10:09 AM (77rzZ)
Weather's improving. TxMoMe X range prep needs to happen!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 26, 2025 10:10 AM (hOk1M)
Trivia for 29-year-olds: we are further away from Oliver Stone's (December of) 1991 film JFK (34 years) than that film was away from his assassination (28 years).
[I remember being astonished when somebody pointed out three years ago that we were further away from World War II (almost 80 years now) than World War II was from the Civil War (around 74 years).]
Posted by: ShainS -- The Dissolution of The Autopen Empire at March 26, 2025 10:10 AM (AwpDr)
There were a couple, maybe more, individuals with taxpayer supplied security that wasn't Secret Service.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 26, 2025 10:10 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at March 26, 2025 10:10 AM (AiZBA)
Posted by: Bulg at March 26, 2025 10:10 AM (77rzZ)
_____
Speaking of which, how is Des Moines pronounced? Dez Moynes, De Moyn, Day Mwahn or Day Mwah?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 26, 2025 10:10 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: It's me donna at March 26, 2025 10:04 AM (VE6XX)
When you rape a young miss,
And her boyfriend gets pissed,
That's a Moor, eh?
When his sword hits your chest,
Stabbing right through your vest,
That's a Moor, eh?
When his blade cuts your throat,
You should have stuck to the goat.
That's a Moor, eh?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 26, 2025 10:11 AM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Bulg at March 26, 2025 10:09 AM (77rzZ)
Joe Kennedy liked to have a place to put down his beer.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 26, 2025 10:11 AM (W5ArC)
And her boyfriend gets pissed,
That's a Moor, eh?
When his sword hits your chest,
Stabbing right through your vest,
That's a Moor, eh?
When his blade cuts your throat,
You should have stuck to the goat.
That's a Moor, eh?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 26, 2025 10:11 AM (W5ArC)
Well played, sir.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at March 26, 2025 10:12 AM (AiZBA)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 26, 2025 10:06 AM (Q0kLU)
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It is amazing to think that "Sunset Boulevard" showed a starlet being washed up only 20 years after talkies came in, and yet Madonna and a host of geriatric celebrities still think they are relevant.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 26, 2025 10:12 AM (ZOv7s)
Now he's trying to make anti-Trump hay out of it?
He doesn't look like a man who could take a punch. I think a few vigorous slaps in the face would tune that guy up good (not that I'm advocating for that
)
It's a story that should just go away
Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 26, 2025 10:12 AM (FCbAQ)
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The Miracle
A young housewife was talking to a door-to-door salesman about window treatments. She told him that she preferred traditional draperies over mechanical window shades.
"I see!" said the Venetian blind man!
Posted by: muldoon at March 26, 2025 10:12 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 26, 2025 10:09 AM (Q0kLU)
My mind is wandering but that reminded me of the Dr Who episode where they had Van Gogh brought to the present to see how loved his work became.
They skipped that his work would be featured on coffee cups, shopping bags, t-shirts, etc.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 26, 2025 10:13 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: ShainS -- The Dissolution of The Autopen Empire at March 26, 2025 10:10 AM (AwpDr)
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Star Wars was closer to WW II than we are to Star Wars.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 26, 2025 10:13 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Bulg at March 26, 2025 10:09 AM (77rzZ)
Barely five feet tall.
Weather's improving. TxMoMe X range prep needs to happen!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 26, 2025 10:10 AM (hOk1M)
Let's get together next month. Let me know how your schedule looks. I really want to practice more with the .22
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 26, 2025 10:13 AM (Q0kLU)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 26, 2025 10:12 AM (ZOv7s)
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If Swanson had had social media simps acting like it was 1925 every day to her, it'd be a different reality than her getting brushed off by movie producers as he only real exposure to the outside world.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 26, 2025 10:13 AM (GBKbO)
I can assure you that that is most certainly not the case. You are one of my favorite posters here.
Posted by: Bulg at March 26, 2025 09:44 AM (77rzZ)
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+1
Posted by: ShainS -- The Dissolution of The Autopen Empire at March 26, 2025 10:14 AM (AwpDr)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 26, 2025 10:14 AM (Dm8we)
Posted by: Blame It On gp's Juice at March 26, 2025 10:14 AM (5ACBR)
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Now that is saying something in just a few words.
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Honestly, prohibiting Pharma the ability to advertise is a much moar serious body blow to the Junta in Exile. Maybe a killing blow?
Not to mention what that will do to big medias bottom line.
Posted by: TalkyTalk at March 26, 2025 10:14 AM (9INg6)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 26, 2025 10:15 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Bulg at March 26, 2025 10:10 AM (77rzZ)
Yes. Forrester and Frank. Some kind of goofy time-warp thing. Just some crazy MST shenanigans.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at March 26, 2025 10:15 AM (pJbQu)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 26, 2025 10:10 AM (hOk1M)
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You'all are importing wild boars, amirite?
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Posted by: ShainS -- The Dissolution of The Autopen Empire at March 26, 2025 10:15 AM (AwpDr)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 26, 2025 10:13 AM (GBKbO)
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Yes, but the bigger story is that there was a new generation of talent back then, and box office poison meant your career was over, yet we have zombie Harrison Ford staggering around making movies and acting like he's a box office king or something.
It really is a gerontocracy. They will not step aside until we haul them out feet first.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 26, 2025 10:16 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 26, 2025 10:09 AM (VofaG)
Man from Snowy River
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 26, 2025 10:17 AM (gbOdA)
In the meantime they’ll be trying to make enemies (U.S. & Russia) of the only people who can save them… again.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 26, 2025 10:17 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 26, 2025 10:18 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 26, 2025 10:13 AM (GBKbO)
Well, isn't that what Max was doing? Writing 'fan' letters to make her think the public was clamoring for her return? And even after it was disclosed that Paramount only wanted her car, Max still tried to keep the truth from her.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 26, 2025 10:18 AM (Q0kLU)
Ya know, when I was a child I would pray to God and ask if I promise to be really good, will you send me to Narnia to be with all the talking animals instead of Heaven?
Wish granted? Can you imagine stepping into the afterlife and the first soul you encounter ...is that poor horse.
Posted by: Fen at March 26, 2025 10:18 AM (c5hJL)
Posted by: Bulg at March 26, 2025 10:19 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 26, 2025 10:18 AM (Q0kLU)
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Yeah, but Swanson basking in the adulation in her home is different from her engaging with people online.
Her irrelevance was private.
Madonna's irrelevance is public.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 26, 2025 10:19 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Edina Monsoon at March 26, 2025 10:08 AM (hOk1M
You're aaaab-solutely faaaabulous!
Posted by: Pet Shop Boys at March 26, 2025 10:19 AM (4XwPj)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 26, 2025 10:09 AM (VofaG)
Man from Snowy River
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 26, 2025 10:17 AM (gbOdA)
I was going to say that but that was more about horses and not a specific horse. They were supporting actors.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 26, 2025 10:20 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Bulg at March 26, 2025 10:20 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 26, 2025 10:21 AM (4XwPj)
Not to mention what that will do to big medias bottom line.
Posted by: TalkyTalk at March 26, 2025 10:14 AM (9INg6)
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With so much money on the line, let's just say men have been killed for less.
DJT and RFKjr are on someone's deadpool, no doubt about it. Pray they stay safe.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 26, 2025 10:21 AM (FCbAQ)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 26, 2025 10:18 AM (VofaG)
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When I enlisted I did not think that we would lose, nor that it would take 20 years to do it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 26, 2025 10:22 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Blame It On gp's Juice at March 26, 2025 10:22 AM (5ACBR)
Posted by: Fen at March 26, 2025 10:22 AM (c5hJL)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 26, 2025 10:09 AM (Q0kLU)
There's a 99.8% probability he would kick my ass on general principles...
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at March 26, 2025 10:22 AM (PiwSw)
TJM, have you ever seen The Conversation? I hear it's a really edgy movie, and quite relevant to the present.
Since Hackman's death, I want to see it.
Posted by: Bulg at March 26, 2025 10:22 AM (77rzZ)
TJM, have you ever seen The Conversation? I hear it's a really edgy movie, and quite relevant to the present.
Since Hackman's death, I want to see it.
Posted by: Bulg at March 26, 2025 10:22 AM (77rzZ)
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Of course.
I like it more than The Godfather Part II.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 26, 2025 10:23 AM (GBKbO)
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It is all the Dems have right now, so it won't go away until something better comes along. Pretty thin soup, though.
More troubling to me is the Dems winning a string of state-level special elections. Are Trump voters not showing up? I don't think they are unhappy with Trump's performance. But this is the risk of the low-propensity voters that Trump has attracted. They don't show up for special or mid-term elections. And as things improve/get fixed under Trump, voters get complacent and forget how bad things were under Democrats.
Posted by: Urethra Franklin at March 26, 2025 10:23 AM (qUkBO)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 26, 2025 10:22 AM (ZOv7s)
We didn’t lose the war. We failed at the peace.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 26, 2025 10:23 AM (VofaG)
When’s the last time you saw Lindsey Lohan in a movie? Twenty years ago she was everywhere.
Singers are different, they can still hold on to a fan base on don’t need to get casted, and as long as they don’t lose their voice and can find a good producer and agent they can keep going for decades on an existing fan base.
Movie stars are only as good as their last movie.
…or so I’ve heard.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 26, 2025 10:24 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Dr_No at March 26, 2025 10:24 AM (ayRl+)
Posted by: Urethra Franklin at March 26, 2025 10:23 AM (qUkBO)
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Special elections have never been predictive of general elections.
They never have been. Never.
They're not suddenly now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 26, 2025 10:24 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 26, 2025 10:24 AM (Hpgos)
In my AO, this has been the case forever. It's how the Philly collar flipped to demorat control after 150 yrs of the counties being GOP
2017 off year elections brought out only the Trump haters
Posted by: kallisto at March 26, 2025 10:26 AM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Pudinhead
Ditto. Never found her attractive.
Posted by: Bulg at March 26, 2025 10:26 AM (77rzZ)
It really is a gerontocracy. They will not step aside until we haul them out feet first.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 26, 2025 10:16 AM (ZOv7s)
Either the business model of Hollywood is dying or the spirit and energy is dying. The only thing they have left is regurgitated stories and fossils of the glory years.
Harrison Ford is a reminder that they all used to be more relevant.
On the other hand there should always be roles for old folks in movies. Second Hand Lions anyone?
Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 26, 2025 10:27 AM (FCbAQ)
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When it came out: "That's silly, no one would ever communicate solely by references."
Now: Here's a meme instead of an actual a comment
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 26, 2025 10:27 AM (ToHiZ)
Wikipedia, Combat of the Giaour and the Pasha is the name of three orientalist oils by the French painter Eugène Delacroix. Inspired by Lord Byron 'poem The Giaour, it depicts two of its main protagonists, caught in a struggle of honour for the love of a woman. The first version of the painting was made in 1826 for the Art Institute of Chicago . The second, dated 1835, is kept at the Petit Palais in Paris [ 1 ] . The third dates from 1856.
Surely, this ^ has been noted above in... French?
Anyway, the above painting is the version from 1835, kept at the Petit Palais. (CBD's current stomping grounds?)
While amusing, no hanging of this one. Thanks.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 26, 2025 10:27 AM (NFX2v)
Not to mention what that will do to big medias bottom line.
Yes, especially the media.
Watch a nightly or Sunday news show, tv or cable, and it's end to end pharma ads.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 26, 2025 10:27 AM (Cki93)
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I've noticed that in cowboy movies/shows it is exceedingly rare during a gunfight of any kind for the shooters to target a horse (as opposed to the rider).
Had "Hondo" (1953) on for background noise the other day and noted that during the climactic chase scene that one of the horses on one of the wagons was shot dead. John Wayne and some of the soldiers jumped off and cut the dead horse out of the traces and the three remaining horses were able to resume the chase.
It seems to me that when the marauding Indians are riding around the outside of the circled wagons that aiming for the horse might be a better strategy than trying to pick off the riders.
Posted by: muldoon at March 26, 2025 10:28 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 26, 2025 10:28 AM (KtIIi)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 26, 2025 10:16 AM (ZOv7s)
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Tom Hanks says NO!
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 26, 2025 10:28 AM (Hpgos)
Posted by: Bulg at March 26, 2025 10:29 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: muldoon at March 26, 2025 10:29 AM (/iMjX)
As a bad ass geriatric. Can’t believe BloodFather is already 9 years old.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 26, 2025 10:29 AM (VofaG)
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Horses cost money. Actors, not so much.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 26, 2025 10:29 AM (Hpgos)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 26, 2025 10:29 AM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 26, 2025 10:30 AM (4XwPj)
Posted by: L - No nic
Chicago had an art institute in 1826?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 26, 2025 10:30 AM (Dm8we)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 26, 2025 10:23 AM (GBKbO)
That's saying something.
Posted by: George Washingon's Cabinet Secretaries at March 26, 2025 10:31 AM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Ben Had at March 26, 2025 10:31 AM (Fqh59)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 26, 2025 10:13 AM (ZOv7s)
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And that all took place a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 26, 2025 10:31 AM (7fElN)
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It's not just MSNBC or CNN that would lose major revenue, from watching the men's college BB, even ESPN would struggle to survive.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 26, 2025 10:31 AM (ToHiZ)
And yet in real life, the horse pistol was for exactly that.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 26, 2025 10:32 AM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 26, 2025 10:23 AM (VofaG)
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We invaded the Taliban to punish them and ensure they never screwed with us again. They're now better equipped than when we came in.
We invaded Iraq to eliminate a hostile regime, potential WMDs and establish a pro-American democracy. We got an Iranian client state.
I don't care you want to slice it, those are two big Ls. I always congratulation 'Nam vets because they may have gone 0-1, but my generation is 0-2.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 26, 2025 10:32 AM (ZOv7s)
I like it more than The Godfather Part II.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 26, 2025 10:23 AM (GBKbO)
You do have a unique preference of movies.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 26, 2025 10:32 AM (VofaG)
'Chomp Chomp Burp.'
Posted by: Blame It On gp's Juice at March 26, 2025 10:32 AM (5ACBR)
Posted by: Bulg at March 26, 2025 10:33 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: L - No nic
Chicago had an art institute in 1826?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
👍
This version was acquired by the Art Institute of Chicago in 1962.[7]
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 26, 2025 10:34 AM (NFX2v)
Maybe they were attracted to Trump not the feckless useless GOP. Some of us not only warned about this but predicted it.
Remember "Trump Without Trump"? Maybe that's not what people want. Maybe they just want the real shit. Maybe Trump won in 2016, 2020 and 2024 more than the Democrat lost.
Posted by: ... at March 26, 2025 10:34 AM (G77jz)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 26, 2025 10:32 AM (jc0TO)
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The US government insisted on a .45 caliber bullet for the 1911 so that it would be effective against horses. They shot up a bunch of livestock to test it as well.
A lot of its features were to gain cavalry acceptance.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 26, 2025 10:34 AM (ZOv7s)
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They've got recordings of Phoenician lawyers?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 26, 2025 10:34 AM (Dm8we)
So is Stallone. It wasn't until I saw him in the Tulsa King series that I realized what a good actor he actually is.
Good show, by the way. The premise is that a Mafioso has been in prison for decades and gets cut loose. The Family doesn't want him making waves, so he gets ordered to go to Tulsa and set up shop there.
Dana Delaney plays his girlfriend in later seasons. The rest of the cast is also great. One of his India associates goes by the name "Jimmy the Creek". Heh.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 26, 2025 10:35 AM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 26, 2025 10:35 AM (KtIIi)
Nice!
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 26, 2025 10:11 AM (W5ArC)
That, sir, is a work of art!
Posted by: haffhowershower at March 26, 2025 10:35 AM (NMT5x)
BH how are you sweetheart it has been far too long.
Posted by: ... at March 26, 2025 10:36 AM (G77jz)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 26, 2025 10:10 AM (Dv3i1)
Duh Moyn, if you live in Iowa.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at March 26, 2025 10:36 AM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Bulg at March 26, 2025 10:36 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Urethra Franklin at March 26, 2025 10:23 AM (qUkBO)
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The ones I'm seeing are for vacant heavily Democrat areas.
So yeah, those aren't going to flip.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 26, 2025 10:37 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 26, 2025 10:10 AM (Dv3i1)
Duh Moyn
But Des Plaines is pronounced Dez Planes. Not Deh Plane like Tattoo said,
Posted by: haffhowershower at March 26, 2025 10:37 AM (NMT5x)
That was firmly established in 1986 with "Cobra."
Posted by: Blame It On gp's Juice at March 26, 2025 10:37 AM (5ACBR)
Posted by: Bulg at March 26, 2025 10:38 AM (77rzZ)
- Starting seven days after asking a company to unsubscribe you from marketing emails, you should be able to charge them $1000 for each new email received.
- Spam phone calls should be considered a capital offence.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 26, 2025 10:38 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 26, 2025 10:39 AM (6ydKt)
ESPN/ABC/Go are responsible for football being so unwatchable due to so many commercials.
It was their blockbuster deal for MNF, where they massively over-paid. Which was paid for by cramming as many commercials into the broadcast as possible.
Prior to that, you almost never saw a commercial break after a kickoff; there were long bits of "game" where there was no action on the field.
There will never be another Madden/Summerall because they were necessary to provide entertainment when there was no football action.
Now, where that was, is stuffed with commercials.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 26, 2025 10:39 AM (ToHiZ)
Posted by: mrp at March 26, 2025 10:39 AM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Ben Had at March 26, 2025 10:39 AM (Fqh59)
Posted by: Bulg at March 26, 2025 10:36 AM (77rzZ)
"And here I thought you folks preferred Iowuh. "
Professor Harold Hill
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 26, 2025 10:39 AM (4XwPj)
I remember that old Johnny Carson line, after the Rambo movies, that Stallone was finally going to make a talkie.
Posted by: Bulg at March 26, 2025 10:39 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at March 26, 2025 10:38 AM (77rzZ)
Step off, Bitch!
I'm workin this corner!
Posted by: Deez Nutz at March 26, 2025 10:39 AM (FCbAQ)
Posted by: But I don't do limericks at March 26, 2025 10:39 AM (kBvyO)
Posted by: Lester Fahrner at March 26, 2025 10:39 AM (H+JIG)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 26, 2025 10:35 AM (KtIIi)
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Shoulda gone in, wrecked the place, knocked over everything, and found a nice good warlord to keep the rest down in return for buying his heroin which we then destroyed.
But no, gay flags, endless combat, dead, wounded, PTSD, and humiliating retreat.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 26, 2025 10:40 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2025 10:40 AM (42Vb+)
IIRC broadcast time for a game was extended 30 minutes around then. Than when ads before and after the kickoff started.
Posted by: brak at March 26, 2025 10:40 AM (jGJov)
My work here for the day is done.
Endeavor to persevere!
Posted by: muldoon at March 26, 2025 10:41 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: brak at March 26, 2025 10:40 AM (jGJov)
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They are speeding up the game clock to leave more time for commercials.
I miss when the commercials only aired during the quarter breaks, halftime, maybe an injury. The idea was not to disrupt the flow of the game. Now the commercials dictate it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 26, 2025 10:43 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 26, 2025 10:38 AM (ExV1e)
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If they weren’t all in India, Philippines, and Thailand that would probably work on cutting down the callls.
I’ve been surprised the past few weeks by the low amount of Indians calling to inform me that CVS needs some more financial information.
I don’t want to jinx it because maybe they’re all on vacation and I’m about to get double-slammed next week.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 26, 2025 10:43 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 26, 2025 10:43 AM (Q0kLU)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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Football lends itself to it. If the average play is 5 seconds, then there are only about 7 or 8 minutes of action in a game.
I watch the plays in slo-mo, and pause altogether at intervals, which allows you to really see things develop. I then use the built up time to fast forward through between plays and commercials.
No one ever wants to watch football with me.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 26, 2025 10:44 AM (Dm8we)
Posted by: Because it's almost Eleven AM at March 26, 2025 10:44 AM (kBvyO)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
When I went to games in college, they had "TV timeouts" for the ads.
Posted by: Bulg at March 26, 2025 10:44 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Blame It On gp's Juice at March 26, 2025 10:44 AM (5ACBR)
Hope you are well
Posted by: Ben Had at March 26, 2025 10:39 AM (Fqh59)
Good to hear, I'm okay. Weird times and my best friends wife just got a sudden diagnosis or potential diagnosis and they are waiting for more. It's killing me. But we all persevere and I believe she will be okay.
I think of you more often than you'd think.
Posted by: ... at March 26, 2025 10:44 AM (G77jz)
Even if you didn't scroll back I'm sure you could share something interesting and amusing because you're a bright, creative guy.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2025 10:45 AM (gnetv)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2025 10:40 AM (42Vb+)
St. John's Wort is supposed to be effective.
Makes your eyes more light-sensitive among other things, but compared to prescription anti-depressants that don't seem like much.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 26, 2025 10:45 AM (FCbAQ)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 26, 2025 10:45 AM (Q0kLU)
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Replace the swords with golf clubs, the horses with carts and that could be geezer golf!
Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 26, 2025 10:45 AM (W/lyH)
$50 Stanley water mugs.
Posted by: Blame It On gp's Juice at March 26, 2025 10:46 AM (5ACBR)
Posted by: Diogenes
Speaking of which, how'd it go yesterday?
Posted by: Bulg at March 26, 2025 10:46 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at March 26, 2025 10:44 AM (77rzZ)
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An actual network crew being at a game was a rarity when I was in college. As in: call the grandparents and tell them to watch for me.
I don't remember the TV games being that much different, because when they did the timeouts, it was at an obvious stoppage. I know for a long time they seemed to do it on every change of possession.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 26, 2025 10:47 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 26, 2025 10:43 AM (Q0kLU)
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I have a "highlighter" extension for Brave (Chrome) that I use periodically. Because I can't remember shit anymore.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 26, 2025 10:47 AM (Q4IgG)
Thanks. I have heard of St John's Wort for depression helping people but this person has incredible anxiety not depression
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2025 10:47 AM (gnetv)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2025 10:40 AM (42Vb+)
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It’s said that eating less sugar and regular exercise/meditation can help.
A non-pharma option is CBD oil which seems to calm some people down.
But anxiety is a tough one without Xanax or something because it’s mostly psychological.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 26, 2025 10:48 AM (6ydKt)
I would start with short guided meditation. Not all meditation is the correct one for people but it can be very helpful if done regularly over time. And it doesn't have to be long. 10 or 15 minutes a day of a good meditation is effective.
Also talk therapy can help but only with the right person and they are hard to find. Some people swear by Magnesium Glycinate but it can have the opposite effect. But if you are low on it, it can really help. Also they need to cut caffeine out of their life.
I have some other advice but it would need to be somewhat tailored. It involves slowing the mind down intentionally.
Posted by: ... at March 26, 2025 10:48 AM (G77jz)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 26, 2025 10:48 AM (6ydKt)
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Address the source of the anxiety, rather than the symptoms.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 26, 2025 10:48 AM (ZOv7s)
I don't actually get many spam calls anymore since I turned my phone to ignore calls from numbers not in my phone book. I get annoying text messages now.
But I do get a daily email from Walgreens, despite asking them to stop, and cannot wait until youngest child finishes college and is no longer slinging prescriptions halfway across the country so I can drop them like something you can easily drop.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 26, 2025 10:48 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 26, 2025 10:49 AM (aicAN)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 26, 2025 10:50 AM (8zz6B)
I would start with Magnesium Glycinate if anything. Start with 200mg a day at most and get a reputable brand like Now.
Posted by: ... at March 26, 2025 10:50 AM (G77jz)
A non-pharma option is CBD oil which seems to calm some people down.
But anxiety is a tough one without Xanax or something because it’s mostly psychological.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 26, 2025 10:48 AM (6ydKt)
My niece just smoked weed. She now uses gummies instead. Seems to work for her.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 26, 2025 10:51 AM (4XwPj)
If it's a truly serious debilitating case, at least try the Xanax.
Posted by: Blame It On gp's Juice at March 26, 2025 10:51 AM (5ACBR)
How do I rhyme with
Delacroix?
Well Bob Dylan more or less did it in 'Tangled Up in Blue' (referring to the place, not the person)..
So I drifted down to New Orleans
Where I happened to be employed
Workin’ for a while on a fishin’ boat
Right outside of Delacroix...
Posted by: dev2000man at March 26, 2025 10:51 AM (vjSNN)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2025 10:40 AM (42Vb+)
Meat. No joke. Try the carnivore diet for a bit. Cut the gluten and bad sugars.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 26, 2025 10:51 AM (KbCG3)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 26, 2025 10:43 AM (Q0kLU)
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I have a "highlighter" extension for Brave (Chrome) that I use periodically. Because I can't remember shit anymore.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 26, 2025 10:47 AM (Q4IgG)
I have two tabs open. One for reading and one for commenting.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 26, 2025 10:51 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: SMOD at March 26, 2025 10:52 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 26, 2025 10:52 AM (xzkgE)
Delacroix?
Dylan did it - somewhat - on "Tangled Up In Blue," rhyming "employed" with "Delacroix."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 26, 2025 10:52 AM (Q0kLU)
The problem is that the person knows this. They've been an addictions counselor for years and they probably need to go see someone else in that field. I can suggest deep breathing and prayer and have and the person is RC, but so far it's not helping her.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2025 10:52 AM (gnetv)
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You know, I think I have my next talking point.
I'm not throwing away a lot of stuff. This is my contribution to a jobs program for future archaeologists.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 26, 2025 10:52 AM (PzXaK)
Posted by: ... at March 26, 2025 10:52 AM (G77jz)
$50 Stanley water mugs.
Posted by: Blame It On gp's Juice at March 26, 2025 10:46 AM (5ACBR)
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I would have guessed #NeverTrump beta male cucks.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Dissolution of The Autopen Empire at March 26, 2025 10:52 AM (rgx1M)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 26, 2025 10:53 AM (PzXaK)
"The shine on my brigadier's boots so blinded the fuzzy-wuzzy that they couldn't see to fight!"
- - name that movie
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 26, 2025 10:54 AM (Q0kLU)
Posted by: SMOD at March 26, 2025 10:54 AM (RHGPo)
Have you considered recommending the soothing and calming influence of Bob Ross and The Joy of Painting?
Ima start a cult.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 26, 2025 10:55 AM (4XwPj)
Posted by: ... at March 26, 2025
___________
And you can't just quit those. They have to be tapered or else you run the risk of some bad shit.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 26, 2025 10:55 AM (Dm8we)
Posted by: Bulg at March 26, 2025 10:55 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 26, 2025 10:53 AM (PzXaK)
Probably could have named it Maxwell's Silver Hammer since you probably felt like your skull had been crushed when you woke up.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 26, 2025 10:55 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: SMOD at March 26, 2025 10:55 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 26, 2025 10:48 AM (ZOv7s)
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True, but some people are so nervous generally that literally everything gives them anxiety.
A little psychotherapy to figure out what the core fears are, and how to deal with them, isn’t going to help them much.
Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and get used to being anxious at certain times/events.
Humans have a fight or flight response for good reasons occasionally.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 26, 2025 10:55 AM (6ydKt)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 26, 2025 10:56 AM (4XwPj)
This person is a heterosexual woman. Boob a palooza isn't going to help her 😉
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2025 10:56 AM (gnetv)
Was once a little precocious boix
He pranked kids in class,
Like a rude little ass,
His only delight was to annoix
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 26, 2025 10:56 AM (KtIIi)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 26, 2025 10:13 AM
My weekends are a bit full until after Easter, but otherwise, let's do this.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 26, 2025 10:56 AM (hOk1M)
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at March 26, 2025 10:56 AM (JkCto)
My Dx: she LIKED being sick. Take the drugs, people!
Posted by: Blame It On gp's Juice at March 26, 2025 10:56 AM (5ACBR)
Posted by: Bulg at March 26, 2025 10:55 AM (77rzZ)
And you can't just quit those. They have to be tapered or else you run the risk of some bad shit.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 26, 2025 10:55 AM (Dm8we)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 26, 2025 10:57 AM (ExV1e)
$50 Stanley water mugs.
Posted by: Blame It On gp's Juice at March 26, 2025 10:46 AM (5ACBR)
Now do carbon fiber wind turbine blades.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at March 26, 2025 10:57 AM (NgqoH)
Posted by: SMOD at March 26, 2025 10:55 AM (RHGPo)
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Weird how this judge waited until President Trump was in office before pointing this out...
Now if President Trump tries to reopen those, a Federal judge will tell him he can't do that before the ink is dry on the Executive Order.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 26, 2025 10:57 AM (7fElN)
A pro-war Russian TV star has been killed on the front line just hours after sharing a social media post mocking Ukraine. Anna Prokofyeva, 35, died in the Demidovka border area of Belgorod, Russia, where Volodomyr Zelensky's forces have been making incursions.
.. now she is all in
Posted by: SMOD at March 26, 2025 10:57 AM (RHGPo)
you always knew it was a big game (nationally televised) when you realized everyone was just standing around for no reason. . . .again
Posted by: brak at March 26, 2025 10:57 AM (jGJov)
Posted by: Bulg
Yes. It was the French.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal
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Now say "Goebel"
Posted by: 2009Refugee at March 26, 2025 10:57 AM (pys1d)
Posted by: red speck at March 26, 2025 10:58 AM (oylnX)
Ask the psych a LOT of questions to make sure everything is being considered.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 26, 2025 10:58 AM (PzXaK)
Unless they ask for help, my job as friend is to listen.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 26, 2025 10:59 AM (W2Pud)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2025 10:56 AM (gnetv)
Maybe try yoga ?
Posted by: It's me donna at March 26, 2025 10:59 AM (VE6XX)
The Truman's deployment has been extended and the Vinson on the way.
War porn to follow?
Posted by: one hour sober at March 26, 2025 11:00 AM (Y1sOo)
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
Tren de Aragua (TdA) is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization with thousands of members, many of whom have unlawfully infiltrated the United States and are conducting irregular warfare and undertaking hostile actions against the United States. TdA operates in conjunction with Cártel de los Soles, the Nicolas Maduro regime-sponsored, narco-terrorism enterprise based in Venezuela, and commits brutal crimes, including murders, kidnappings, extortions, and human, drug, and weapons trafficking. TdA has engaged in and continues to engage in mass illegal migration to the United States to further its objectives of harming United States citizens, undermining public safety, and supporting the Maduro regime’s goal of destabilizing democratic nations in the Americas, including the United States.
Posted by: SMOD at March 26, 2025 11:00 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Blame It On gp's Juice at March 26, 2025 11:00 AM (5ACBR)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 26, 2025 11:00 AM (hOk1M)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2025 10:56 AM (gnetv)
You know best, Fen.
Would it help if we sent her dicpics?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 26, 2025 11:01 AM (xzkgE)
Posted by: nurse ratched
Just listening can be helpful to the other person all by itself.
Posted by: Bulg at March 26, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (up
Well, you write very articulately and engagingly. Get a pair of glasses if you don't have anyand write a script for yourself for yourself and talk about art therapy . You could probably monetize it. might want to change your handle to "Soothing Sister"
or Madame Merry Mood or something 😉
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2025 11:02 AM (gnetv)
“They have nothing to sell but hate, and Americans are not buying it...”
Posted by: SMOD at March 26, 2025 11:03 AM (RHGPo)
LOL . And her husband might find a way to punch you in the nose.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2025 11:03 AM (gnetv)
Thanks!
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 26, 2025 11:04 AM (4XwPj)
$280M of excess spending makes for a ripe - and reasonable - DOGE target
Posted by: SMOD at March 26, 2025 11:05 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: ... at March 26, 2025 11:06 AM (G77jz)
You're my Soothing Sister.
Posted by: ... at March 26, 2025 11:06 AM (G77jz)
Posted by: ... at March 26, 2025 11:06 AM (G77jz
Aww, you're a sweetheart, Dotty!
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 26, 2025 11:09 AM (4XwPj)
I was informed that the reason for the termination was budgetary, which I think is the same reason they gave to Jesus just before they crucified him, and Malcolm X just before they shot him, and what they told Eugene Debs, Susan B. Anthony, and Lenny Bruce just before jailing them. I jest, of course.
.. I know Jesus Christ, and you sir are no Jesus Christ.
Posted by: SMOD at March 26, 2025 11:10 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: ... at March 26, 2025 11:11 AM (G77jz)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2025 11:14 AM (gnetv)
Guy is not jesting. He had the martyr complex down pat.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2025 11:16 AM (gnetv)
I think I am rather good at listening. So far. I haven't offered any suggestions, but I like to keep them in mind in case she asks.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2025 11:18 AM (gnetv)
When I enlisted Iraq was in our sights. I was still in boot when we won the war. In like 3 days. Those LAV-25s racing towards Baghdad? That would be my unit.
We didn't lose the reconstruction of Iraq. Americans did. We had to abandon brave men and women. Good people who risked everything to help us. They're all dead now, because John Q has the attention span of a gnat and grew "weary" of Breaking News from Iraq interrupting the latest episode of Friends.
We didn't lose the war on terror either. Americans did.
It's the corruption. And not just of the Left. The idea that the Right would remain untouched by it was naive. It's obvious to me now but I didn't see it either.
Posted by: Fen at March 26, 2025 11:20 AM (c5hJL)
Every other commercial is one of their ads on some channels.
And every month it’s a new commercial!
They must spend a quarter of donation money to ask for more donations on TV.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 26, 2025 11:22 AM (6ydKt)
When the twats at Instapundit tell me I should go to the VA they mean it as an insult. I have to award them bonus points for redefining Obnoxious. The state of the VA is a disgrace. But to not even be ashamed about it, at least enough to avoid using it as a cheap shot is a call for help.
Ace, if you're not using that black flag at the moment, do you mind if I borrow it? I promise to return it washed and folded. Or would you prefer drycleaning? LOL what a crazy world. We finally get a leader who will stand up for us, and now some of our people want to insist they aren't worth standing up for. Maybe we're just an Alternate Earth pinned as "the one where Donald Trump is the hero"
Posted by: Fen at March 26, 2025 12:16 PM (c5hJL)
Nah. Come on now. We destroyed Saddam's rape rooms and torture.chambers. We captured Salidin. We found him hiding in a hole like a coward and forced him to submit to a hygiene inspection. We won the war, the reconstruction was what was lost. And not by vets but by idiots like April Gillespie and Jamie Gorelick.
That was a neat trick BTW. Incompetent enough to be the cause of 9-11 but still land a gig to determine the cause of 9-11. 3000 Americans killed but you still found the time to cover your own ass. SMH. Sepaku was a good concept
Posted by: Fen at March 26, 2025 12:38 PM (c5hJL)
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