Monday Overnight Open Thread - April 21, 2025 [Doof]

(Photo and Mystery Click are a long distance dedication)

Howdy Hordelings! Hope you are having a wonderful Monday. Step on in to the ONT and share some words of wit and/or wisdom!

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Don't Look Down!

China to Inaugurate New World’s Highest Bridge

The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge spanning 625 meters (2,051 feet) above the Beipan River, in China’s Guizhou Province, is set to become the world’s highest bridge upon completion, in the second half of 2025.
The mountainous province of Guizhou is well-known for its complex terrain and the incredible bridges traversing it. Guizhou is home to more than half of the world’s top 100 highest bridges and has set the record for the world’s highest bridge more than once. This year, the Chinese province will once again claim the record for the third consecutive time! The first was in 2003 when the Beipanjiang Guanxing Bridge became the first suspension bridge in the world to surpass the 1,000-foot height threshold. The second time was in 2016, with the innovative Beipanjiang Duge Bridge, and this year, it’s doing it again with a bridge over the deepest part of the Beipan River Valley, a place known as the Huajiang Grand Canyon, or the ‘Earth Crack’.
“At present, the overall progress of the bridge has reached 95%, and it is planned to be opened to traffic in the second half of 2025,” Zhang Shenglin, chief engineer of Guizhou Highway Group, boasted in an interview with China Daily. “By then, this super project that spans the ‘Earth Crack’ will be the world’s first in both directions. It will become another landmark project to demonstrate China’s infrastructure strength.”

More details including a 21 minute video at the link.

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Cool Stuff in the Night Sky

Tonight Is Peak Lyrid Meteor Shower

Tonight (April 21st-22nd) is the Lyrid meteor shower that produces anywhere between 10 and 100 shooting stars per hour.
They’re also one of the best for Americans since the point in the sky they seem to originate from is located far in the north of the night sky in the constellation Lyra. Those in the Southern Hemisphere won’t have as much northern sky in their view, but citizens of the US and Europe will have excellent viewing of this meteor stream.
Though the Earth passed into the Lyrid meteor stream on the 16th of April, tonight is what’s called the peak, when the largest number of shooting stars can be seen.
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Though Earth passes through these meteor streams around the same time every year, the Moon’s phases are less consistent. As it happens this year, a waning crescent will fall below the horizon at 01:35 UTC [9:35 East Coast USA] meaning there will be no light pollution from the pale lady.

Get on out there and let us know if you see anything!

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Future Morons!

First candidates

Two kids have a dance battle and they are locked in pic.twitter.com/VgqTrIVZVs
— Dudes Posting Their W’s (@DudespostingWs) April 14, 2025

VERY likely candidate

Bro drove to McDonald's flawlessly, probably a better driver than half the people on the road pic.twitter.com/2VJVA49Vze
— Dudes Posting Their W’s (@DudespostingWs) April 15, 2025

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Never Not Funny

"Farts are always funny, not going to lie."

Someone farted in the background of Logan Webb's postgame presser, and he couldn't hold it together 💨 🤣 pic.twitter.com/bKpABOpOJi
— SF Giants on NBCS (@NBCSGiants) April 19, 2025

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Monday Night Movie Minute

Tell me you know this awesome 80s movie by dropping a quote from it

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DJ Doof - Today In Music History Version
(from thisdayinmusic.com)

Born on this day in 1959: Singer, songwriter and musician Robert Smith with English rock band The Cure who had the 1989 US No.2 single 'Love Song', the 1992 UK No.6 single 'Friday I'm In Love', plus over 20 other UK Top 40 singles. He was also the lead guitarist for the band Siouxsie and the Banshees from 1982 to 1984.

Born on this day in 1960: John Maher, drummer with English punk rock group Buzzcocks who had the 1978 UK No.12 single 'Ever Fallen In Love, With Someone You Shouldn't've'.

On this day in 2016: Prince was found dead at his home in Minnesota at the age of 57, after Police were summoned to his Paisley Park estate and found his body in a lift. The acclaimed and influential musician became a global superstar in the 1980s, with albums such as 1999, Purple Rain and Sign O' the Times and recorded more than 30 albums.

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Weekly commenter stats for week of 4-20-2025

Top 10 commenters:
1 [561 comments] 'Sponge - F*ck Cancer' [79.68 posts/day]
2 [409 comments] 'whig'
3 [407 comments] 'Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ '
4 [388 comments] '...'
5 [371 comments] 'Bulg'
6 [332 comments] 'I used to have a different nic '
7 [322 comments] 'm'
8 [307 comments] 'TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman'
9 [276 comments] 'Skip '
10 [272 comments] 'Sebastian Melmoth'

Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
1 [183 names] 'Miklos' [25.99 unique names/day]
2 [172 names] 'Ciampino - I've no idea of where it is'
3 [164 names] 'Mayor Pete'
4 [90 names] 'Free speech except the speech the state doesnt like'
5 [86 names] 'Quarter Twenty '
6 [39 names] 'The Truth'
7 [38 names] 'Disinterested FDA Director'
8 [38 names] 'Count de Monet'
9 [37 names] 'Duncanthrax'
10 [29 names] 'It's not a small thing going on now. '

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Tonight's ONT brought to you by understanding reality

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Comments, questions, suggestions, or emotional outbursts? Please take a number and wait in line.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 10:00 PM

Comments

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1 You could be next.

Posted by: mindful webworker - now and then again at April 21, 2025 10:00 PM (JodDy)

2 Hey! Top 5?

Posted by: TecumsehTea at April 21, 2025 10:00 PM (Eo96p)

3 Evening, all!

Posted by: caf at April 21, 2025 10:01 PM (/+mVZ)

4 Top 5?

Posted by: TecumsehTea at April 21, 2025 10:01 PM (Eo96p)

5 We welcome the ONT!

Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at April 21, 2025 10:01 PM (J8OCH)

6 a bridge over the deepest part of the Beipan River Valley, a place known as the Huajiang Grand Canyon, or the ‘Earth Crack’.

TIL the Earth has plumber butt.

Posted by: mikeski at April 21, 2025 10:02 PM (DgGvY)

7 Stupid computer.

I'll take being second.
Mindfull, you beat me by seconds, you scoundrel!

Posted by: TecumsehTea at April 21, 2025 10:02 PM (Eo96p)

8 Tonight's ONT brought to you by understanding reality

They like you equally, and for the same reasons.

Posted by: mikeski at April 21, 2025 10:03 PM (DgGvY)

9 New World’s Highest Bridge — joins deep cave diving and wingsuit flying on my list of things I'd least like to do.

Posted by: mindful webworker - and running of the bulls at April 21, 2025 10:03 PM (JodDy)

10 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Hello, Jim SND!😘😘😘

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at April 21, 2025 10:03 PM (SRRAx)

11 Beautiful shot up top of espadrilles in flight.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 21, 2025 10:04 PM (JkO4W)

12 Sorry I'm late, Secretary Hegseth needed me on a Signal chat.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 21, 2025 10:05 PM (vsRKJ)

13 Really funny part? I knew a Woman who stripped for a living... never saw her show... lived a couple apartments over...

and she really did like me...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 21, 2025 10:06 PM (QAkQ3)

14 Stupid computer.

I'll take being second.
Mindfull, you beat me by seconds, you scoundrel!
Posted by: TecumsehTea at April 21, 2025 10:02 PM (Eo96p)

All computers are stupid - except, perhaps for the human ones.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 21, 2025 10:06 PM (VNX3d)

15 ONT!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 21, 2025 10:06 PM (GhIJO)

16 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 21, 2025 10:07 PM (vKNmo)

17 12 Sorry I'm late, Secretary Hegseth needed me on a Signal chat.
Posted by: tankdemon at April 21, 2025 10:05 PM (vsRKJ)

funny how alllllll the Never Trump websites are saying Hegseth is going to get fired...

But... no one else is... kinda makes ya go... hmmmm...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 21, 2025 10:07 PM (QAkQ3)

18 Half-mile long bridge, a quarter mile up, courtesy of Chinese engineering and quality standards.

What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 21, 2025 10:07 PM (JkO4W)

19 Its come to this: drinking cheap bourbon, watching "Joey Grecho's Cheaters" on cable and figure it'll take two showers to get clean by bedtime.

Posted by: Auspex at April 21, 2025 10:07 PM (j4U/Z)

20 11 Beautiful shot up top of espadrilles in flight.
Posted by: Cicero

Holy flying footwear, Batman!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 21, 2025 10:08 PM (GhIJO)

21 Thank you for the ONT.

I've driven across a few high bridges but that would be a bit unnerving unless the sides are incredibly thick.

Posted by: Stateless...19% - mental state clawing up from 10% at April 21, 2025 10:08 PM (jvJvP)

22 Hello everyone.

Today, Eva Vlaardingerbroek followed me on Twitter after I commented on her page about the Pope's passing.

This means I've made it in social media, right?

Posted by: Dr. T at April 21, 2025 10:09 PM (lHPJf)

23 Two kids have a dance battle and they are locked in

Think how much better they'd be if they took off the backpacks full of math books.

Posted by: mikeski at April 21, 2025 10:09 PM (DgGvY)

24 I clicked on the top pic, heard U2, quickly dumped out.

I fookin' hate U2.

Now I need some Fetzer valves and some ball bearings.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 21, 2025 10:09 PM (0aYVJ)

25 17 funny how alllllll the Never Trump websites are saying Hegseth is going to get fired...

But... no one else is... kinda makes ya go... hmmmm...
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 21, 2025 10:07 PM (QAkQ3)

Je does need to tighten up a bit, but he does have the proper vision for the Department of Defense and needs to stay.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 21, 2025 10:09 PM (vsRKJ)

26 Today, Eva Vlaardingerbroek followed me on Twitter after I commented on her page about the Pope's passing.

This means I've made it in social media, right?
Posted by: Dr. T

"I'm somebody now! Things are gonna start happening to me now! The new phone book's here! The new phone book's here!"

Posted by: Tonypete at April 21, 2025 10:10 PM (vKNmo)

27 ONT arrival has been announced downstairs.

Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at April 21, 2025 10:10 PM (J8OCH)

28 Someone will overreact about the kid driving to McDonald's. Yes, something *could* have happened, but it didn't. And we can be damn sure the kid won't pull that stunt again.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 21, 2025 10:11 PM (cDzwv)

29 I do love Fletch.

And I've known strippers who did in fact like me (even if I wasn't working there).

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at April 21, 2025 10:11 PM (xcxpd)

30 "I'm somebody now! Things are gonna start happening to me now! The new phone book's here! The new phone book's here!"
Posted by: Tonypete at April 21, 2025 10:10 PM (vKNmo)

Don't ruin this for me.

Or if you must, give me 15 minutes first.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 21, 2025 10:11 PM (lHPJf)

31 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 21, 2025 10:11 PM (sAmhv)

32 "Farts are always funny, not going to lie."

"Grow up!" -Zeducation (laughing)

Posted by: mindful webworker - at April 21, 2025 10:11 PM (JodDy)

33 22 Hello everyone.

Today, Eva Vlaardingerbroek followed me on Twitter after I commented on her page about the Pope's passing.

This means I've made it in social media, right?
Posted by: Dr. T at April 21, 2025 10:09 PM (lHPJf)

She's a One, all right.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at April 21, 2025 10:12 PM (xcxpd)

34 Doof!

❤️

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 21, 2025 10:12 PM (Pr6Q4)

35 Caps win it in Overtime! Ovechkin with the goal. Believe it or not, that's his first career playoff OT goal.

Posted by: Doof at April 21, 2025 10:13 PM (RFPHU)

36 If you fart on an old hardwood pew in a cathedral, it sounds like the Great Horn in Helm's Deep.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 21, 2025 10:13 PM (0aYVJ)

37 18
'Half-mile long bridge, a quarter mile up, courtesy of Chinese engineering and quality standards.'

I'd hate to be driving over it when it finally lets go.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 21, 2025 10:13 PM (3wi/L)

38 Half-mile long bridge, a quarter mile up, courtesy of Chinese engineering and quality standards.

What could possibly go wrong?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

Yeah, I'd be looking for the Loooooonnnnggggg way around.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 21, 2025 10:14 PM (TfUTr)

39 Mindfull, you beat me by seconds, you scoundrel!
Posted by: TecumsehTea

Fumbled a bit on the way in and really expected to not get it. Fortunately, had a favorable tailwind.

Posted by: mindful webworker - (tailwind--no relation to farts) at April 21, 2025 10:14 PM (JodDy)

40 My sister & BIL sent us home with delicious Easter dinner leftovers.

Going to try very hard not to waste any...

Posted by: Adriane the Film Noir Critic . . . at April 21, 2025 10:14 PM (tcomi)

41 Evening, ONT Horde!

And thank you, Doof!

Posted by: Elizabeth Warren at April 21, 2025 10:14 PM (8zz6B)

42 Doof, still gonna comment even though your check bounced.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 21, 2025 10:15 PM (TfUTr)

43 Does the bridge lead to anyplace anyone wants to go?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 21, 2025 10:15 PM (h9KKO)

44 And off, squawsock

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 21, 2025 10:15 PM (8zz6B)

45
Well, here I am.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 21, 2025 10:15 PM (QnmlO)

46 I wonder where Pope Frankie is right now.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 21, 2025 10:15 PM (JkO4W)

47 Doof!

❤️
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 21, 2025 10:12 PM (Pr6Q4)

Hugs to you, my friend!

Posted by: Doof at April 21, 2025 10:16 PM (RFPHU)

48 Thanks for a great Monday Overnight Open Thread, Doof!

That stripper cartoon speaks words of wisdom.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 21, 2025 10:16 PM (rxCpr)

49 Half-mile long bridge, a quarter mile up, courtesy of Chinese engineering and quality standards.

What could possibly go wrong?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

That's gonna be a no for me, dawg.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 21, 2025 10:16 PM (lHPJf)

50 Two kids have a dance battle and they are locked in

First one swiped his moves from Eddy Gordo in Tekken, though.

https://youtu.be/erZU72eRUB8

Posted by: mikeski at April 21, 2025 10:16 PM (DgGvY)

51 46 I wonder where Pope Frankie is right now.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 21, 2025 10:15 PM (JkO4W)

Depends if Dante was writing Christian fan-fiction or divinely-inspired insights.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at April 21, 2025 10:17 PM (xcxpd)

52 You want Cardinal Robert Sarah from Guinea.

You'll accept Cardinal Peter Erdo from Hungary.

You'll probably end up with Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa from Italy, because God, in His infinite wisdom, also likes to show off His sense of humor.

Regarding Pope Francis, I will speak no ill of the dead and will sincerely pray for the repose of his immortal soul.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 21, 2025 10:17 PM (BRvvM)

53 Doof, still gonna comment even though your check bounced.
Posted by: Some Rat at April 21, 2025 10:15 PM (TfUTr)

LOL! Nice callback to last night's ONT. Free one month platinum membership to you, good sir!

Posted by: Doof at April 21, 2025 10:17 PM (RFPHU)

54 I had information that could lead to the conviction of Hillary Clinton.

Posted by: Pope Frankie at April 21, 2025 10:17 PM (JkO4W)

55 Went out for breakfast this morning and just happened upon a Mom and Pop Diner. Among other items, I had biscuit and gravy. Not biscuits - biscuit.

Honest to goodness, it was as big as a half-loaf of sandwich bread. And, it was fantastic. I couldn't even finish half of it all.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 21, 2025 10:17 PM (vKNmo)

56 What?? Strippers aren't sincere? The heck you say.

Posted by: Archer at April 21, 2025 10:17 PM (IDphi)

57 22
'Eva Vlaardingerbroek followed me on Twitter ...

This means I've made it in social media, right?'

I'm pretty sure that means she's in to you.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 21, 2025 10:18 PM (3wi/L)

58
Does the bridge lead to anyplace anyone wants to go?
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 21, 2025 10:15 PM (h9KKO)

_______

Links East St. Louis with Gary, IN

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 21, 2025 10:18 PM (QnmlO)

59 I fookin' hate U2.

Now I need some Fetzer valves and some ball bearings.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 21, 2025 10:09 PM (0aYVJ)

Fist bump!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 21, 2025 10:18 PM (8zz6B)

60 Half-mile long bridge, a quarter mile up, courtesy of Chinese engineering and quality standards.

What could possibly go wrong?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 21, 2025 10:07 PM (JkO4W)

A stiff breeze, gassy cows on a truck, JJ yells "Dyn-o-mite!"

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 21, 2025 10:19 PM (VNX3d)

61
What?? Strippers aren't sincere? The heck you say.
Posted by: Archer at April 21, 2025 10:17 PM (IDphi)

________

So also say millions of enlisted men.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 21, 2025 10:19 PM (QnmlO)

62 My sister & BIL sent us home with delicious Easter dinner leftovers.

Going to try very hard not to waste any...
Posted by: Adriane the Film Noir Critic

Friends grandsons birthday and Easter coincided yesterday....she had dinner prepared AND cake AND the Easter baskets hid....NO BODY SHOWED! They all got sick. She claimed she went into a caloric/sugar coma around nine.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 21, 2025 10:19 PM (TfUTr)

63 We are are required to account for our standing with God.
So only 2 people know.
Let us give all others a little Grace.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 21, 2025 10:20 PM (gbOdA)

64 Links East St. Louis with Gary, IN
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I had an interview right out of college with a railcar manufacturer in East St. Louis. It was a hellhole even back then.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 21, 2025 10:20 PM (vKNmo)

65 I've heard strippers really DO like you, as long as you keep feeding them $100 bills. Now maybe they just like the money, but as long as YOU have the money ... I guess that is fine.

Just ask Elon, or Zuckerbucks.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 21, 2025 10:21 PM (Cus5s)

66 I clicked on the top pic, heard U2, quickly dumped out.

I fookin' hate U2.

Now I need some Fetzer valves and some ball bearings.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 21, 2025 10:09 PM (0aYVJ)

Are you 6'5" but 6'9" with your afro?

Posted by: Doof at April 21, 2025 10:21 PM (RFPHU)

67 Likey bridge over trouble water , it fall down, you bet.

Posted by: Archer at April 21, 2025 10:21 PM (IDphi)

68 13 Really funny part? I knew a Woman who stripped for a living... never saw her show... lived a couple apartments over...

and she really did like me...
Posted by: Romeo13

Back in the late seventies, early eighties, I knew a guy who was the son of a politician. His dad was in the House of Representatives. If you think politicians are shallow, phony jerks, talk to their family members. I think of that every time Liz Cheney is on tv pushing her anti Trump shit. Has any media person ever asked her if she has a real job?

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 21, 2025 10:23 PM (0Htd1)

69 I don't remember what his age was, but my dad was definitely too young - barely see over the steering wheel age when he took the family wagon for a drive.

His older sister had run into a glass storm door, which shattered and sliced her arm. Dad put her in the station wagon and headed on down the road.

Cop spotted him and started to pull him over. Dad held up his sister's profusely bleeding arm. He got a police escort to the hospital.

O'course, back in the day, we learned to drive on the farm tractor and (in my day) go-karts, not from YouTube.

Posted by: mindful webworker - no seat belts then, either at April 21, 2025 10:23 PM (JodDy)

70 How long did the EPA and OSHA hold up that Chinese bridge project?

Posted by: Jeff Carter (@pointsnfigures1) at April 21, 2025 10:24 PM (ZiwLX)

71 I wonder if the ChiComs used ChiCom steel to build their Earth Crack Bridge.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 21, 2025 10:24 PM (BRvvM)

72 Third in Sockpuppet Shame this week. Very happy. It means there are two people more demented than me in here. Feels good.

Posted by: In Therapy at April 21, 2025 10:25 PM (G5+As)

73
I wonder if the ChiComs used ChiCom steel to build their Earth Crack Bridge.
Posted by: Sharkman at April 21, 2025 10:24 PM (BRvvM)

_________

Backyard furnaces! China technology incredible!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 21, 2025 10:26 PM (QnmlO)

74 Yay, Kindergarten Day ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura -Z28.310 at April 21, 2025 10:26 PM (uC/xN)

75 46 I wonder where Pope Frankie is right now.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 21, 2025 10:15 PM (JkO4W)

Franky goes to Helly wood...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 21, 2025 10:27 PM (QAkQ3)

76 Greetings ONTers!

Thanks for the ONT doof!

I wonder how the kiddo was going to pay for the food... I think he showed initiative and hope he didn't get in too much trouble.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at April 21, 2025 10:27 PM (PcTds)

77 Third in Sockpuppet Shame this week. Very happy. It means there are two people more demented than me in here. Feels good.
Posted by: In Therapy at April 21, 2025 10:25 PM (G5+As)

Be better, G minor!

Posted by: Doof at April 21, 2025 10:28 PM (RFPHU)

78 How many workers have perished building all those bridges in Guizhou Province? Couple thousand? Oh well, plenty more where they came from.

God must love the Chinese. He made so many of them.

Posted by: Benny Hill, 1973 at April 21, 2025 10:28 PM (G5+As)

79 I wonder where Pope Frankie is right now.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 21, 2025 10:15 PM (JkO4W)

Franky goes to Helly wood...
Posted by: Romeo13

Any bets on a trans African Pope?

Posted by: Some Rat at April 21, 2025 10:29 PM (TfUTr)

80 If you fart on an old hardwood pew in a cathedral, it sounds like the Great Horn in Helm's Deep.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

If you fart in church, *you sit in your own pew.

Posted by: H at April 21, 2025 10:29 PM (2gjbv)

81 How long did the EPA and OSHA hold up that Chinese bridge project?
Posted by: Jeff Carter
+++
I wonder if they used bamboo on the bridge. When I was over there about 20 years ago, I saw a lot of construction sites using bamboo for scaffolding. And they used it for ladders too.
Stronger than steel they said.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at April 21, 2025 10:30 PM (Lo97M)

82 A repeat on the Pope's passing.

I hope the African cardinal gets selected, so we can can have the following:

Reporter (excitedly): I can see the white smoke! All the church bells are ringing! It's hard to hear with all this noise, but I think the crowd is chanting, "The Pope is near!"

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 21, 2025 10:30 PM (zBOWZ)

83 Fletch!!!

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at April 21, 2025 10:30 PM (vok0I)

84 Backyard furnaces! China technology incredible!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Can wrought iron be drawn into cable?

Posted by: Some Rat at April 21, 2025 10:30 PM (TfUTr)

85 Chinese bridge? Nope.

Sink 700 meter spiral decline on each bank, well back from edge. Join foot of each decline with horizontal tunnel 75 m below current water level. Line with concrete tube. Done.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 21, 2025 10:30 PM (8zz6B)

86 Someone will overreact about the kid driving to McDonald's. Yes, something *could* have happened, but it didn't. And we can be damn sure the kid won't pull that stunt again.
Posted by: JM in Illinois

The parents will do like we did with my 90 year old father and hide the keys. Actually we hid them before he was 90.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 21, 2025 10:31 PM (0Htd1)

87 You want Cardinal Robert Sarah from Guinea.

Yes, please!

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at April 21, 2025 10:31 PM (PcTds)

88 Dance off bro!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 21, 2025 10:32 PM (W/lyH)

89 How long did the EPA and OSHA hold up that Chinese bridge project?
Posted by: Jeff Carter

How long will the bridge hold up?

Posted by: Miklos from Chinese Quality Assurance at April 21, 2025 10:33 PM (UOzvC)

90 >>>O'course, back in the day, we learned to drive on the farm tractor and (in my day) go-karts, not from YouTube.
Posted by: mindful webworker - no seat belts then, either
---

Loading square bales another family in the field, father, 6yo son, and mom. Dad put son in the driver's seat of the pickup, set the throttle, put it in low and hopped out. The kid drove, dad tossed and mom stacked.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 21, 2025 10:34 PM (EJQ63)

91 Chinese bridge? Nope.

Sink 700 meter spiral decline on each bank, well back from edge. Join foot of each decline with horizontal tunnel 75 m below current water level. Line with concrete tube. Done.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

You expect their concrete work is better than their steel work?

Posted by: mikeski at April 21, 2025 10:34 PM (DgGvY)

92 The parents will do like we did with my 90 year old father and hide the keys. Actually we hid them before he was 90.
Posted by: nerdygirl

Missed an opportunity.
"There are protesters blocking the freeway, let's go take a look. Dad, you drive."

Posted by: Some Rat at April 21, 2025 10:34 PM (TfUTr)

93 89 How long did the EPA and OSHA hold up that Chinese bridge project?
Posted by: Jeff Carter

How long will the bridge hold up?
Posted by: Miklos from Chinese Quality Assurance at April 21, 2025 10:33 PM (UOzvC)

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That's where the helium balloons come in.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 21, 2025 10:34 PM (JkO4W)

94 Dance off bro!
Posted by: Diogenes

Ok

*plays Le Freak, does The Hustle*

Posted by: Terpsichorian Miklos at April 21, 2025 10:34 PM (UOzvC)

95 The volume, tone, and resonance of a fart is directly proportional to the number of people within earshot.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 21, 2025 10:35 PM (W/lyH)

96 Kid dance-off was great. Hearing the Beastie Boys' 'Brass Monkey' was just as sweet.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 21, 2025 10:35 PM (Lvhl0)

97 40 My sister & BIL sent us home with delicious Easter dinner leftovers.

Going to try very hard not to waste any...
Posted by: Adriane the Film Noir Critic

The best thing about a holiday ham is the leftovers. I've been having ham and Swiss sandwiches, and bean soup and boiled dinner are scheduled for Tuesday and Thursday.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 21, 2025 10:36 PM (0Htd1)

98 Doof, that photo up top of the kites is beautiful. Thanks for including it this evening.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 21, 2025 10:36 PM (rxCpr)

99 The volume, tone, and resonance of a fart is directly proportional to the number of people within earshot.
Posted by: Diogenes

No

Posted by: Guinness and Boiled P-Nuts at April 21, 2025 10:37 PM (UOzvC)

100 You expect their concrete work is better than their steel work?
Posted by: mikeski at April 21, 2025 10:34 PM (DgGvY)

No, but a leak is less likely to cause a catastrophic failure with multiple deaths.

More like: tunner is becoming frooded, we crose.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 21, 2025 10:37 PM (8zz6B)

101 46 I wonder where Pope Frankie is right now.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

In that special place for commies.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 21, 2025 10:37 PM (0Htd1)

102 That Doof Boy done done hisself proud agin.

Posted by: Earl Ray Miklos at April 21, 2025 10:38 PM (UOzvC)

103 I dated a stripper. She really liked me.

..when she wasn’t trying to kill me. lol

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 21, 2025 10:38 PM (l3YAf)

104 From what I read about Cardinal Robert Sarah of Guinea, he’d be my pick for Pope. But then I’m not a voting Cardinal, heck, I’m not even a Catholic. All I can think is that church deserves a Pope like John Paul 2. And UK deserves another Margaret Thatcher. We’re ok here in America.

Posted by: Eromero at April 21, 2025 10:38 PM (LHPAg)

105 More like: tunner is becoming frooded, we crose.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Frex Sear!

Posted by: mikeski at April 21, 2025 10:38 PM (DgGvY)

106 I wonder where Pope Frankie is right now.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

In that special place for commies.
Posted by: nerdygirl

So what you are saying is Frankie is now a good Pope?

Posted by: Tonypete at April 21, 2025 10:39 PM (vKNmo)

107
I wonder how the kiddo was going to pay for the food... I think he showed initiative and hope he didn't get in too much trouble.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel
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Didn't leave his little sister by herself.

hmmm, He had been planning this. Studied utoobs enough to competently operate the vehicle. Mature put together for a four year old.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 21, 2025 10:39 PM (EJQ63)

108 104 From what I read about Cardinal Robert Sarah of Guinea, he’d be my pick for Pope. But then I’m not a voting Cardinal, heck, I’m not even a Catholic

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You really think you need an ID to vote?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 21, 2025 10:40 PM (JkO4W)

109 Doof, that photo up top of the kites is beautiful. Thanks for including it this evening.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 21, 2025 10:36 PM (rxCpr)

Glad you enjoyed it. It connects to the song. I'm aware of the general disdain for U2 among the Horde, and it is certainly justified. But the song was a favorite of a very special person on what would have been a milestone anniversary.

Posted by: Doof at April 21, 2025 10:40 PM (RFPHU)

110 Has anyone told China yet "Nice bridge ... be a damned shame if anything happened to it" ... ?

Posted by: Dr_No at April 21, 2025 10:40 PM (ayRl+)

111 I keep getting a video on YouTube titled "What would happen if the sun went out?"

It's easy. Climate scientists would demand money to turn it back on again.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 21, 2025 10:40 PM (VNX3d)

112 What?? Strippers aren't sincere? The heck you say.
Posted by: Archer

Next they'll be claiming that hookers are only in it for the money.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 21, 2025 10:40 PM (0Htd1)

113 wonder what the wind is like down that ravine

Posted by: a dude in MI at April 21, 2025 10:40 PM (+I6Y/)

114 Guizhou Province, China has a brand spanking new bridge that's the highest in the world. Do you know what else can be found in Guizhou Province?

A: Earthquakes

Posted by: Orson at April 21, 2025 10:41 PM (dIske)

115 106 I wonder where Pope Frankie is right now.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

In that special place for commies.
Posted by: nerdygirl

So what you are saying is Frankie is now a good Pope?
Posted by: Tonypete
---------------------------

Here's Trump with the Pope, you gotta see it.
Trump and the Pope

https://tinyurl.com/2t6z62ae

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 21, 2025 10:41 PM (EJQ63)

116 What happens if one of the bridge cables fail?

Posted by: Ping Whoosh Bang at April 21, 2025 10:41 PM (RFhjS)

117 In that special place for commies.
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 21, 2025 10:37 PM (0Htd1)

In Commie Heaven, beaches are provided by the soviets, food is provided by the Norks, and transportation is provided by the Cubans.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 21, 2025 10:42 PM (8zz6B)

118 114 Guizhou Province, China has a brand spanking new bridge that's the highest in the world. Do you know what else can be found in Guizhou Province?

A: Earthquakes
Posted by: Orson
---

It'll be OK as long as they control the harmonics.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 21, 2025 10:42 PM (EJQ63)

119 Never saw Fletch the movie, read a bunch of the Fletch books. Entertaining.

Posted by: From about That Time at April 21, 2025 10:42 PM (n4GiU)

120 Babylon Bee has India's Modi cancelling the meeting with Vance.😁

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at April 21, 2025 10:43 PM (PcTds)

121 Is a Chinese Construction Company building the Obama Presidential Lieberry? It looks substandard, besides being ugly.

He should have gone with the Presidential Double wide, like I did.

Posted by: Billy Jeff Clinton at April 21, 2025 10:43 PM (G5+As)

122 You want Cardinal Robert Sarah from Guinea.

You'll accept Cardinal Peter Erdo from Hungary.

You'll probably end up with Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa from Italy, because God, in His infinite wisdom, also likes to show off His sense of humor.

****

This is so accurate.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 21, 2025 10:44 PM (l3YAf)

123 In Commie Heaven, beaches are provided by the soviets, food is provided by the Norks, and transportation is provided by the Cubans.

Considering how long the Cubans have kept 50's era cars on the road they may be the only reliable thing there.

Posted by: Blanco Basura -Z28.310 at April 21, 2025 10:44 PM (uC/xN)

124 113 wonder what the wind is like down that ravine
Posted by: a dude in MI at April 21, 2025 10:40 PM (+I6Y/)

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Like this.

https://youtu.be/j-zczJXSxnw?si=ErgDD9D2IIjQ-eVy

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 21, 2025 10:44 PM (JkO4W)

125 I had an interview right out of college with a railcar manufacturer in East St. Louis. It was a hellhole even back then.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 21, 2025 10:20 PM (vKNmo)

East St. Louis is a dress rehearsal for the zombie apocalypse.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 21, 2025 10:45 PM (lHPJf)

126 Meanwhile, in Ukraine:
1. The 36-hour Easter Ceasefire was more or less successful, though it appears both sides spent the time moving fresh troops and equipment up to the front lines.
2. The Russians continue their slow grind forward all along the line. The southernmost front at Kherson has been oddly quiet for months. I'm expecting a Russian surprise assault there soon.
3. The latest peace trial balloon floated includes having US troops guarding a Russian nuke power plant on the new border which will supply electricity to Ukraine. I'm not making that up.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 21, 2025 10:45 PM (zBOWZ)

127 Never saw Fletch the movie, read a bunch of the Fletch books. Entertaining.
Posted by: From about That Time at April 21, 2025 10:42 PM (n4GiU)

Confess, Fletch was a really good book. The movie with John Hamm wasn't great. John Hamm was actually pretty good as Fletch, but the movie was made during peak woke Hollywood, so he was limited and the screenplay was dumb.

Posted by: Doof at April 21, 2025 10:46 PM (RFPHU)

128 It is amazing how much the left will tell you that the government and its bureaucrats and politicians working tireless for your good and thinking otherwise is a sign you are a fascist until a politician they don't like gets elected at which point, obviously, not hating the government is a sign of fascism.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 21, 2025 10:46 PM (t0Rmr)

129 All I can say is that it shocks me that Apple hasn't been sued into dust.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 21, 2025 10:47 PM (CHHv1)

130 Ever walk across the Royal Gorge bridge in CO?
It's about 1000 ft to the gorge bottom... 😬

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at April 21, 2025 10:48 PM (85Wcj)

131 Je does need to tighten up a bit,

That's what I told him!

Posted by: Ye's cousin at April 21, 2025 10:49 PM (gKWVE)

132 I kind of liked Fletch 2.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 21, 2025 10:50 PM (gKWVE)

133 High bridges.
Pppfffttt...
Here in Washington State, we have bridges that float. Two of 'em.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 21, 2025 10:50 PM (W/lyH)

134 Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 21, 2025 10:42 PM (EJQ63)

_________________________

Look up Tofu-Dreg construction projects sometime. China has a reputation of taking "cutting corners" to a new level. You cannot pay me enough to set foot on that bridge. It may be perfectly fine and cutting edge...but it's a coin flip based on historical occurrences.

Posted by: Orson at April 21, 2025 10:50 PM (dIske)

135 Like this.

https://youtu.be/j-zczJXSxnw?si=ErgDD9D2IIjQ-eVy

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
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Doesn't look like the wind was blowing that fast.
Tom Tuttle didn't engineer that bridge.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 21, 2025 10:51 PM (EJQ63)

136 All I can say is that it shocks me that Apple hasn't been sued into dust.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 21, 2025 10:47 PM (CHHv1)

Apple kicks iPhone user in balls.

iPhone user: "Please sir, may I have another?"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 21, 2025 10:51 PM (8zz6B)

137 I wonder if the ChiComs used ChiCom steel to build their Earth Crack Bridge.
Posted by: Sharkman at April 21, 2025 10:24 PM (BRvvM)

Now! With melamine!

Posted by: haffhowershower at April 21, 2025 10:51 PM (144I4)

138 102 That Doof Boy done done hisself proud agin.
Posted by: Earl Ray Miklos

Maryland Man continues to expand our geographical minds.

And of all the thousands of great Irish singers and musicians of the last 100 years- U2 has sold the most recordings and made the most $$$. Enya slides in at #2.

Posted by: Erin Go Bragh! at April 21, 2025 10:52 PM (G5+As)

139 Still made in Chy na.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at April 21, 2025 10:52 PM (VJc7E)

140 Allow me to make a bunch of enemies: I thought Francis was fine.

Oh, sure, I wish we’d have had someone who was a bit more conservative as Pope. I don’t agree with some of his view of global warming. I do think God has made us stewards of His creation, and we show respect for Him by using it wisely. I just think his “science” is wrong.

I think he’s wrong about immigration and capitalism. I think restriction of the first and embrace of the latter make a better world.

But I’m not electing a President. (Okay, I guess I’m not electing anybody..) A Pope should be idealistic and bleeding heart.

Anyway.. I’m not particularly bothered by him.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 21, 2025 10:52 PM (l3YAf)

141 I kind of liked Fletch 2.
Posted by: gKWVE at April 21, 2025 10:50 PM (gKWVE)

I did as well.

Posted by: Doof at April 21, 2025 10:53 PM (RFPHU)

142 I kind of liked Fletch 2.
Posted by: gKWVE at April 21, 2025 10:50 PM (gKWVE)

Me too. Not so much a sequel as simply another Fletch movie. Some pretty funny moments. Also, Patricia Kalember and Julianne Phillips.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 21, 2025 10:53 PM (0aYVJ)

143 3. The latest peace trial balloon floated includes having US troops guarding a Russian nuke power plant on the new border which will supply electricity to Ukraine. I'm not making that up.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 21, 2025 10:45 PM (zBOWZ)

This is just crap! Why us??? Screw that. Let the friggin' Bolivian army secure the stupid site. We got better things to do.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 21, 2025 10:54 PM (W/lyH)

144 140 Allow me to make a bunch of enemies: I thought Francis was fine.

--------

We all have our quirks and pecadillos.

Posted by: Pope Alexander VI at April 21, 2025 10:54 PM (JkO4W)

145 >>>Ukraine. I'm not making that up.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
---

Zelenski's third time to change his mind was a green light to Putin.
Putin only tolerates childish acts from children.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 21, 2025 10:54 PM (EJQ63)

146 But I’m not electing a President. (Okay, I guess I’m not electing anybody..) A Pope should be idealistic and bleeding heart.

Anyway.. I’m not particularly bothered by him.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 21, 2025 10:52 PM (l3YAf)

You know who else was idealistic?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 21, 2025 10:54 PM (8zz6B)

147 Apple kicks iPhone user in balls.

iPhone user: "Please sir, may I have another?"
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 21, 2025 10:51 PM (8zz6B)

This is basically me. But what other options are there? Google?

Apple was really excellent 8 years ago. I would have said macOS and the iPhone were the best choices in their respective categories.

Now they suck.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 21, 2025 10:55 PM (l3YAf)

148 Better yet, let UN peacekeepers from other countries guard the nuclear plant.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2025 10:55 PM (HTwBY)

149 Chevy Chase is untalented and painfully unfunny. His career as a "comic actor" defies explanation.

Posted by: He's also a complete prick IRL so I hear at April 21, 2025 10:55 PM (TbWk/)

150 125 I had an interview right out of college with a railcar manufacturer in East St. Louis. It was a hellhole even back then.
Posted by: Tonypete

Was that the St. Louis Car Co.? They made a lot of subway cars for MTA subway in NYC.

Posted by: NYC Refugee Since 1988 at April 21, 2025 10:56 PM (G5+As)

151 Better yet, let UN peacekeepers from other countries guard the nuclear plant.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2025 10:55 PM (HTwBY)

Norks and Iran. What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 21, 2025 10:56 PM (8zz6B)

152 In October, 1962 Castro was insistent that they launch a preemptive nuclear attack on the US, the Soviets had to ‘splain that wasn’t going to happen. It was apparently a close run thing, a U2 was shot down, pilot killed.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 21, 2025 10:57 PM (1vff6)

153 I'm reading Cardinal Sarah's book The Power of Silence against the dictatorship of noise. I recommend it for those seeking to understand the importance of silence and encouragement to seek silence in our noisy world.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at April 21, 2025 10:57 PM (PcTds)

154 "Here in Washington State, we have bridges that float. Two of 'em"

Hope you're not forgetting me?

Posted by: Hood Canal Bridge at April 21, 2025 10:58 PM (RFhjS)

155 149 Chevy Chase is untalented and painfully unfunny. His career as a "comic actor" defies explanation.
Posted by: He's also a complete prick IRL so I hear at April 21, 2025 10:55 PM (TbWk/)

Only movie I liked him in was Caddyshack... where he played... oh... an idiot.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 21, 2025 10:59 PM (QAkQ3)

156 I had an interview right out of college with a railcar manufacturer in East St. Louis. It was a hellhole even back then.
Posted by: Tonypete

Well, to be fair, adding the graffiti at the factory simplified things.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 21, 2025 10:59 PM (W/lyH)

157 "I wonder where Pope Frankie is right now."

Those that are not Christian (according to scripture) will be in either the resurrection of the just, or the resurrection of the unjust.

The unjust will "die a second death". I don't believe in the "tortured forever with eternal flames". imo they will suffer the realization of their evil deeds, but not be tortured forever. That is just too much.

just one link I quickly found on the Bible verses on "second death".
https://tinyurl.com/7mhudcem

Posted by: illiniwek at April 21, 2025 11:00 PM (Cus5s)

158 I wonder where Pope Frankie is right now.
Posted by: Cicero

Back of the line.

Posted by: mindful webworker - take a number at April 21, 2025 11:00 PM (JodDy)

159 Chevy Chase in Caddyshack was the straight man to everyone else being nuts.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2025 11:00 PM (HTwBY)

160 Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
…
7 [38 names] 'Disinterested FDA Director'

Posted by: The List of Shame at April 21, 2025 11:01 PM (l3YAf)

161 Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 21, 2025 10:52 PM (l3YAf)

If'n I thought of everyone I disagreed with, an Enemy... damn... I'd be at War with most of the world.

I don't have the Hubris to believe I am always right... just most of the time.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 21, 2025 11:02 PM (QAkQ3)

162 148 Better yet, let UN peacekeepers from other countries guard the nuclear plant.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2025 10:55 PM (HTwBY)

Lock up the kids.

Posted by: Those blue helmets...they like that cheese pizza at April 21, 2025 11:02 PM (TbWk/)

163 I haven't used the iPad in months. I don't remember the unlock code.

Microsoft device: here, sign into your account and change it. Oh cool, thanks!

Apple device: reset to factory defaults. Which probably won't work. How much did you spend on this again? Ha ha ha ha ha that makes me laugh.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 21, 2025 11:02 PM (CHHv1)

164 How did they transport the subway cars from Missouri to NYC? By railcar?

Posted by: Common Tater at April 21, 2025 11:02 PM (1vff6)

165 Hope you're not forgetting me?
Posted by: Hood Canal Bridge at April 21, 2025 10:58 PM (RFhjS)

I quit counting the 520 since the toll was added.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 21, 2025 11:02 PM (W/lyH)

166 I enjoyed Seems like Old Times with Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn. The judge was amusing too. "It's times like this that make me wonder why we got divorced". " It was because of times like this!"

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at April 21, 2025 11:04 PM (PcTds)

167 Christ rose on Easter, the Pope died on Easter.

Message?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2025 11:04 PM (HTwBY)

168 162 148 Better yet, let UN peacekeepers from other countries guard the nuclear plant.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2025 10:55 PM (HTwBY)

Lock up the kids.
Posted by: Those blue helmets...they like that cheese pizza at April 21, 2025 11:02 PM (TbWk/)

We STILL have US Peacekeepers in place in the Sanai... from 40 years ago. Really really stupid IMO.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 21, 2025 11:04 PM (QAkQ3)

169 Bend over and kiss your 401k/IRA good bye!

Posted by: raimondo at April 21, 2025 11:04 PM (CG3IG)

170 Kinda funny that Chevy Chase’s career died because everyone who ever worked with him despised him. It wasn’t political and didn’t have anything to do with ideology or beliefs - it’s just that everyone, liberal, conservative or whatever agreed that Chase was a total dick to everyone around him 100% of the time. Eventually no one would work with him in anything.

And it always amazed me that out of the original SNL cast, Bill Murray ended up having the greatest movie career of them all.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 21, 2025 11:04 PM (ZEzFB)

171 >> The unjust will "die a second death". I don't believe in the "tortured forever with eternal flames". imo they will suffer the realization of their evil deeds, but not be tortured forever. That is just too much.

Interesting, are you Catholic?

Posted by: The List of Shame at April 21, 2025 11:04 PM (l3YAf)

172 Funny on the 401K front...

My retirement accounts are at almost EXACTLY where they were 1 year ago...

Funny that.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 21, 2025 11:06 PM (QAkQ3)

173 Moon River. have to sing it though

Posted by: CHendo at April 21, 2025 11:06 PM (0cnaP)

174 I thought the Sinai mission finally got wound down?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2025 11:06 PM (HTwBY)

175
I thought Francis was fine.

Well, for a talking mule, sure. Not a high bar, there.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 21, 2025 11:07 PM (xG4kz)

176 "Interesting, are you Catholic?"
Posted by: The List of Shame

No, and not really Protestant.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 21, 2025 11:07 PM (Cus5s)

177 looks like we got a visitor from Uranus

Posted by: gKWVE at April 21, 2025 11:08 PM (gKWVE)

178 Christ rose on Easter, the Pope died on Easter.

Message?
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2025 11:04 PM (HTwBY)

He died the day after Easter. He pushed through the pain to deliver one last Triduum. Pretty based, tbh.

Posted by: The List of Shame at April 21, 2025 11:08 PM (l3YAf)

179 174 I thought the Sinai mission finally got wound down?
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2025 11:06 PM (HTwBY)

Still there last year.... not sure now... but...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 21, 2025 11:08 PM (QAkQ3)

180 Bend over and kiss your 401k/IRA good bye!
Posted by: raimondo at April 21, 2025 11:04 PM (CG3IG)

Yup.
I do. Every month. A nice little check just shows up like magic!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 21, 2025 11:09 PM (W/lyH)

181 Only movie I liked him in was Caddyshack... where he played... oh... an idiot.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 21, 2025 10:59 PM (QAkQ3)

Chevy Chase was originally supposed to be the leading man in Caddyshack. His part was badly written and his performance was “uninspired” so he became a forgettable footnote in the movie instead.

The greatest move the producers made was that halfway through filming, they realized they had a total flop on their hands, it was terrible and just dull. So they did a fast hire of Bill Murray and Rodney Dangerfield and just told them “ write your own parts, do whatever you want!” Comedy Gold!

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 21, 2025 11:10 PM (ZEzFB)

182 Is it just me or did Chevy's comedy take on a bitter note after Doug Kenney died?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 21, 2025 11:10 PM (pIfcn)

183 I quit counting the 520 since the toll was added.
Posted by: Diogenes

Good point about the aka Evergreen($) Point Floating Bridge.

Posted by: Rex B at April 21, 2025 11:11 PM (7x+fZ)

184 They really are trying to gaslight everyone into Francis being as beloved as JP II.

Yeah, pull the other one.

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 21, 2025 11:12 PM (bss/y)

185
I heard talk that there's a meme circulating about who JD Vance should visit next.

Pelosi, Hildebeast, Biden and Barky are getting top mentions.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 21, 2025 11:12 PM (xG4kz)

186 Spiritual death is being excluded from the presence of God.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at April 21, 2025 11:13 PM (VJc7E)

187 If you fart on an old hardwood pew in a cathedral, it sounds like the Great Horn in Helm's Deep.

Posted by: Pug Mahon

I didn't read this comment.

I heard it.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 21, 2025 11:13 PM (BRvvM)

188 I heard talk that there's a meme circulating about who JD Vance should visit next.

Pelosi, Hildebeast, Biden and Barky are getting top mentions.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 21, 2025 11:12 PM (xG4kz)

Lil Z would be a good choice.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 21, 2025 11:14 PM (VNX3d)

189 "Interesting, are you Catholic?"
Posted by: The List of Shame

No, and not really Protestant.
Posted by: illiniwek at April 21, 2025 11:07 PM (Cus5s)

Sock off.

Interesting, your views aren’t far from my own. I think God loves everyone, but some have chosen to live without Him, and so their “second death” will be eternal life separate from Him. Not torture, but just a certain amount of ugliness. You know, that yucky feeling you feel when you know you’re doing something wrong? Just that, but kinda forever.

I am Catholic, btw.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 21, 2025 11:14 PM (l3YAf)

190 next time I hear someone rip one, I'll cry out "Gondor will answer!"

Posted by: gKWVE at April 21, 2025 11:15 PM (gKWVE)

191 187 If you fart on an old hardwood pew in a cathedral, it sounds like the Great Horn in Helm's Deep.

Posted by: Pug Mahon

And will inevitably occur during a pause in the sermon.

Posted by: Archer at April 21, 2025 11:15 PM (IDphi)

192 If you have to fart, fart! You will feel much better for it.

Posted by: Mao at April 21, 2025 11:15 PM (vm8sq)

193 Does the bridge lead to anyplace anyone wants to go?

Posted by: Boss Moss

I think it might lead to The Three Stooges Dam that will probably finally collapse during the rainy season this year, potentially killing 150 million people.

The ChiComs are serious about population control.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 21, 2025 11:16 PM (BRvvM)

194 (Prostate Exam)
Mooooon River…

Posted by: Jerry Saves at April 21, 2025 11:16 PM (r+04D)

195 I watched the I-90 bridge capsize and sink.

Hmmm what year..? 1987? Gack I'm old.

Posted by: Derak at April 21, 2025 11:18 PM (/84wj)

196 "I think God loves everyone, but some have chosen to live without Him, and so their “second death” will be eternal life separate from Him. Not torture, but just a certain amount of ugliness. You know, that yucky feeling you feel when you know you’re doing something wrong? Just that, but kinda forever."

So, NOT Death? No, I think the Bible says a second death is Death. Not forever "torture". I think the desire for eternal "torture" is "wrong".

Posted by: illiniwek at April 21, 2025 11:18 PM (Cus5s)

197 What I am looking forward to is the new cable-stayed bridge opening over Corpus Christi’s Ship Channel/port. It will be considerably higher than the current bridge in use.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 21, 2025 11:18 PM (vm8sq)

198 (Prostate Exam)
Mooooon River…
Posted by: Jerry Saves at April 21, 2025 11:16 PM (r+04D)

If ever there was a time to release a multi-second fart.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 21, 2025 11:18 PM (VNX3d)

199 197 What I am looking forward to is the new cable-stayed bridge opening over Corpus Christi’s Ship Channel/port. It will be considerably higher than the current bridge in use.

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We're all looking forward to that one.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 21, 2025 11:19 PM (dDmld)

200 "I'm aware of the general disdain for U2 among the Horde, and it is certainly justified."
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True, they deserve some disdain, but they've also got some amazing songs. I'd never heard Kite before - it's a solid song. Thanks for posting it.

Posted by: 496 at April 21, 2025 11:20 PM (ouubj)

201 Let us give all others a little Grace.

Posted by: rhennigantx

This is wise advice.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 21, 2025 11:20 PM (BRvvM)

202 169 as if you care. You hate capitalism, remember?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 21, 2025 11:21 PM (vm8sq)

203 Regarding Pope Francis, I will speak no ill of the dead and will sincerely pray for the repose of his immortal soul.
Posted by: Sharkman at April 21, 2025 10:17 PM (BRvvM)

I'm torn on this sentiment. Dude called me some pretty nasty names sight unseen just because I am really Catholic, instead of fluffy "Jesus loves you draw a flower" Catholic, and he had some pretty nasty things to say about America, too. Of course, being Catholic, I can't wish anything bad for him, but I do believe in God's justice, just as I pray for God's mercy. Still can't figure out the gay marriage thing he had going, or the nonsense about how horrible the hierarchy is even though he was the head of it all. Dude was just a mess as a Pope, but he probably was okay as just a guy. I hope he managed to make a good confession and he is headed upward rather than down, but it's not my call to make.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 21, 2025 11:21 PM (a4NoL)

204 Looked it up. I90 bridge sunk 1990.

Under construction. Storm blew in. Down it went.

Posted by: Derak at April 21, 2025 11:21 PM (/84wj)

205 Aetius

Saw in one fawning obituary Pope Francis described as a disruptor.

Even from the mouths of journalists, the truth will come out.

Guess the Holy Spirit has a sense of humor.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2025 11:22 PM (HTwBY)

206 201 Let us give all others a little Grace.

Posted by: rhennigantx

This is wise advice.
Posted by: Sharkman at April 21, 2025 11:20 PM (BRvvM)

Nah, giving away Grace gets her really pissed off...

Posted by: Grace's Pimp at April 21, 2025 11:22 PM (QAkQ3)

207 >> Dude called me some pretty nasty names sight unseen just because I am really Catholic, instead of fluffy "Jesus loves you draw a flower" Catholic, and he had some pretty nasty things to say about America, too.

Like what?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 21, 2025 11:22 PM (l3YAf)

208 Apple was really excellent 8 years ago. I would have said macOS and the iPhone were the best choices in their respective categories.

Now they suck.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director
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Gotcher pronouns whether you want them or not.
Little Timmy's always looking out for us.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 21, 2025 11:23 PM (EJQ63)

209 Corpus Christi bridge, was it designed and built by the same firm behind the FSU pedestrian bridge?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2025 11:23 PM (HTwBY)

210 Speaking of U2, did Bono ever drive off a bridge like he promised with Trump being elected?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2025 11:25 PM (HTwBY)

211 Anyway.. I’m not particularly bothered by him.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 21, 2025 10:52 PM (l3YAf)

Two things he did that I cannot forgive, even though I'm supposed to.

1. He let the Churches close over covid. He denied us the sacraments, showing that he did NOT believe in Christ but in men.

2. He took away the Mass of the ages, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in Latin, that has nurtured the saints through the ages, because he thinks somehow that everyone using the same language for the same Mass is divisive. It isn't. He just didn't like it. I don't think he gets to make that decision, but he called us who support Latin Mass a bunch of nasty names without even hearing us out. The next pope can post a win by getting rid of that nonsense.

You aren't really a Pope if you deny Tradition. It is one of the pillars of the Church. Franky was a replacement for a living pope, not a real pope after all.

That said, I pray for his immortal soul.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 21, 2025 11:27 PM (a4NoL)

212 Francis was a corrupter of more than his parishioners he was a role model of corruption, inviting 20 transgenders into the Vatican and giving license to all perversions.

I pray for a Christian Pope.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 21, 2025 11:27 PM (EJQ63)

213 Apple was really excellent 8 years ago. I would have said macOS and the iPhone were the best choices in their respective categories.

Now they suck.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director
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Gotcher pronouns whether you want them or not.
Little Timmy's always looking out for us.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 21, 2025 11:23 PM (EJQ63)

iPhones, to me, have two advantages:
1. They normally get updates faster, and for more years.
2. They're about 98% as evil as Google.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 21, 2025 11:27 PM (VNX3d)

214 202 169 as if you care. You hate capitalism, remember?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 21, 2025 11:21 PM (vm8sq)

Well, that means there is less for them to seize in their feverish dreams.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 21, 2025 11:27 PM (bss/y)

215 All I can think is that church deserves a Pope like John Paul 2. And UK deserves another Margaret Thatcher. We’re ok here in America.

Posted by: Eromero

We are okay in America because we got Trump. Didn't need to invoke the name of Reagan. Funny, that.

I don't like Trump, but he's even better than Reagan as president. Ten years ago that would have been blasphemy. But now?

Posted by: Sharkman at April 21, 2025 11:28 PM (BRvvM)

216 26 Today, Eva Vlaardingerbroek followed me on Twitter after I commented on her page about the Pope's passing.

This means I've made it in social media, right?
Posted by: Dr. T

"I'm somebody now! Things are gonna start happening to me now! The new phone book's here! The new phone book's here!"

Posted by: Tonypete at April 21, 2025 10:10 PM (vKNmo)

Sorry, that quote is from the wrong movie.

Posted by: BillyD at April 21, 2025 11:29 PM (Yt3ED)

217 That said, I pray for his immortal soul.
Posted by: tcn in AK
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There's a clip of him bowing down to Rothchild, Kissinger, and Rockefeller. Another of him slapping a commoner's hand away.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 21, 2025 11:30 PM (EJQ63)

218 So what you are saying is Frankie is now a good Pope?

Posted by: Tonypete

Heh. ISWYDT.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 21, 2025 11:30 PM (BRvvM)

219 Tom Servo, though it wasn't a blood relation (he married the daughter), Chevy Chase did have a famously difficult FIL. Myles Browning, at one point Adm. Halsey's chief of staff. Got his own command, eventually lost it partly due to what you mention - his personality created no reserve of normal good will or leeway in those around him.

Maybe his wife was attracted to an a**hole like her dad? That's unfounded wild speculation of course.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 21, 2025 11:30 PM (1m82a)

220 209 Corpus Christi bridge, was it designed and built by the same firm behind the FSU pedestrian bridge?
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2025 11:23 PM (HTwBY)

Initially. But halfway through, TXDoT fired them. A new firm was brought onboard and they finished the job.

The same thing happened with the Sam Houston Tollway bridge replacement project over the Houston Ship Channel. That same company was in charge there, and they were likewise fired for the same reason. No idea on the status of that project though.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 21, 2025 11:30 PM (vm8sq)

221 So, NOT Death? No, I think the Bible says a second death is Death. Not forever "torture". I think the desire for eternal "torture" is "wrong".
Posted by: illiniwek at April 21, 2025 11:18 PM (Cus5s)

If “death” means “irreversible condition of non-existence” then “second death” is oxymoronic.

If it is symbolic, then I guess it’s open for interpretation.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 21, 2025 11:31 PM (l3YAf)

222 You all forget this juicy tidbit

Pope Francis blessed a pagan statue, Pachamama, in the Vatican Gardens.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2025 11:32 PM (HTwBY)

223 Saijo is home, he is so scared. He is in his crate, taking him for last potties and going to bed. He couldn’t care less about the cats. They are interested in him, though.

Posted by: Piper at April 21, 2025 11:32 PM (pZEOD)

224 [iPhones are] about 98% as evil as Google.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

Sounds about right.

I always hear the Judean People's Front / People's Front of Judea bit from Life of Brian when people praise one and diss the other.

Posted by: mikeski's a splitter at April 21, 2025 11:32 PM (DgGvY)

225 @ 208 Apple was really excellent 8 years ago. I would have said macOS and the iPhone were the best choices in their respective categories.
_______________________________

Apple should have stopped when they developed the best damned OS EVAH! ... "Snow Leopard". Low, fast, close to the ground ... didn't get no better than that - but they found a way to eff it up. For my $0.02, the iPhone (1st Gen) SE8 did (and still does) everything I need it to do - and it didn't require a second mortgage, either.

Posted by: Dr_No at April 21, 2025 11:32 PM (ayRl+)

226 venerating the "pacha mama" in the Vatican Gardens was... unwise

Posted by: gKWVE at April 21, 2025 11:32 PM (gKWVE)

227 Hmmm. Days Gone is coming out with a DLC. 6 years after release. I always really liked the game (hey, wait a happy ending? WTF IS THIS?!)

BUT, the DLC does not have anything I really want. On the other hand, it would be nice to support the developers and maybe Sony is testing to see whether there is still interest and might do a sequel...

Dammit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 21, 2025 11:32 PM (bss/y)

228 And it always amazed me that out of the original SNL cast, Bill Murray ended up having the greatest movie career of them all.
Posted by: Tom Servo

"Big hitter the Llama." was his greatest work.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 21, 2025 11:32 PM (vKNmo)

229 Myles Browning worked himself into a hissy fit at Midway and flounced off to his cabin because Spruance, the Admiral, made a command decision that Browning disagreed with.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2025 11:33 PM (HTwBY)

230 223 Saijo is home, he is so scared. He is in his crate, taking him for last potties and going to bed. He couldn’t care less about the cats. They are interested in him, though.
Posted by: Piper at April 21, 2025 11:32 PM (pZEOD)

The first night is always rough.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 21, 2025 11:34 PM (bss/y)

231 222 You all forget this juicy tidbit

Pope Francis blessed a pagan statue, Pachamama, in the Vatican Gardens.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2025 11:32 PM (HTwBY)

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It could have been worse. There are 12 Olympian gods.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 21, 2025 11:34 PM (dDmld)

232 The greatest move the producers made was that halfway through filming, they realized they had a total flop on their hands, it was terrible and just dull. So they did a fast hire of Bill Murray and Rodney Dangerfield and just told them “ write your own parts, do whatever you want!” Comedy Gold!
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 21, 2025 11:10 PM (ZEzFB)

There is a "golf community" about seven miles up the road from our place called "Settler's Bay." Naturally we call it Bushwood. Most people have to think a minute, and then they smile slowly but knowingly.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 21, 2025 11:35 PM (a4NoL)

233 Saijo?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2025 11:35 PM (HTwBY)

234 Pope Francis blessing a statue of Venus might have been funny.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2025 11:36 PM (HTwBY)

235 233 Saijo?
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2025 11:35 PM (HTwBY)

Her new Shiba Inu puppy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 21, 2025 11:36 PM (bss/y)

236 Those things have to be expensive as sin.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 21, 2025 11:37 PM (bss/y)

237 Francis might be more an Antinous appreciator

Posted by: gKWVE at April 21, 2025 11:37 PM (gKWVE)

238 "You two are alive, I take it?"
"Thank God, the...police."
"What if I just kill you right here?""Now I'm no lawyer but I do believe that would be a violation of my rights."

Posted by: Norrin Radd, sojourner of the spaceways at April 21, 2025 11:38 PM (lY/NM)

239 TCN, if you are interested, I whipped together an approximation of teh Complete Organic Fertilizer this evening: used coffee grounds, Fish bone meal, ground agricultural lime, kelp meal, borax, zinc and iron sulfate, and a smidgen of copper sulfate.

I also mixed in a scoop of 16-16-16 fertilizer to be sure it had an immediate effect, unlike the slow release of the coffee grounds and bone meal. It is going in on my corn, tomatoes and peppers.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 21, 2025 11:38 PM (D7oie)

240 There is an anime series where Nobunaga Oda has been reincarnated as a Shiba Inu.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2025 11:38 PM (HTwBY)

241 Her new Shiba Inu puppy.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 21, 2025

That is the name he picked even though I kept steering him to Miso.

Posted by: Piper at April 21, 2025 11:39 PM (p4NUW)

242 and she really did like me...
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 21, 2025 10:06 PM (QAkQ3)

One of my best friends almost married a stripper.

Posted by: GWB at April 21, 2025 11:39 PM (f5gS/)

243 So Shiba Inu isn't the latest Disney Star Wars girlboss?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 21, 2025 11:40 PM (dDmld)

244 My story with strippers, as mundane as it may be. So I'm doing missionary work. Girl invites us in, she's like 15,16? Acts interested. Probably just bored, or maybe my missionary companion was a good looking guy.

She turned off a "how to" movie on giving lap dances, which really should have been a "run now" moment. Regardless, our discussion is going fine, but we hear other people in the house. Suddenly someone starts coming downstairs, and our host yells out "I've got company so put on some clothes!" Footsteps stop then retreat.

Turns out, the older sister was a stripper in Philly and just wandered around naked all day at home. Needless to say, that was NOT a household receptive to hearing about Jesus. But they certainly needed Him! I have no idea why the parents allowed any of this.

Posted by: SimoHayha at April 21, 2025 11:40 PM (qXL9c)

245 222 You all forget this juicy tidbit

Pope Francis blessed a pagan statue, Pachamama, in the Vatican Gardens.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2025 11:32 PM (HTwBY)

You would think once you became Pope, you did so because you actually believe in Catholicism. I have no idea what purpose is served by nodding to every pagan or heretical tradition. Do you or do you not believe that Jesus Christ founded your Church, and do you or do you not believe that He did not make a mistake in doing so? If you think he was in error, by all means, follow your heart, but don't become Pope and then decide you aren't actually Catholic. Doesn't really work in anyone's benefit.

But lots of people like to say they are Catholic and then explain how they would "fix" Catholicism. Therein lies the problem. If you leave, nobody will pay attention to you as you try to remake God's Church into your own image. I should think that after 2,000 years or so, the rules would be pretty well thought out and you could just agree or get gpne.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 21, 2025 11:40 PM (a4NoL)

246 Piper to puppy, "your name is Soup."

*Menchi scurries away before Piper notices him*

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2025 11:41 PM (HTwBY)

247 If you think he was in error, by all means, follow your heart, but don't become Pope and then decide you aren't actually Catholic. Doesn't really work in anyone's benefit.

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It's Catholicism for the Modern Audience.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 21, 2025 11:42 PM (dDmld)

248 Not torture, but just a certain amount of ugliness. You know, that yucky feeling you feel when you know you’re doing something wrong? Just that, but kinda forever.

So essentially how life is now, but forever.

Posted by: Life is dress rehearsal for hell at April 21, 2025 11:42 PM (TbWk/)

249 aka Cafeteria Catholicism.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2025 11:43 PM (HTwBY)

250 Oh, and as to death... Death really is just a seperation. You die when your soul separates from your body. You are spiritually dead when you separate from God. Your marriage "dies" when you get divorced and separate.

So the "Second death" is eternal separation from God, the source of Life.

And some people want that! They don't want to live the kind of rules and life God requires; so they don't have to. And they don't get to live with and like God. Their choice!

Posted by: SimoHayha at April 21, 2025 11:43 PM (qXL9c)

251 239 TCN, if you are interested, I whipped together an approximation of teh Complete Organic Fertilizer this evening: used coffee grounds, Fish bone meal, ground agricultural lime, kelp meal, borax, zinc and iron sulfate, and a smidgen of copper sulfate.

I also mixed in a scoop of 16-16-16 fertilizer to be sure it had an immediate effect, unlike the slow release of the coffee grounds and bone meal. It is going in on my corn, tomatoes and peppers.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 21, 2025 11:38 PM (D7oie)

Awesome. We catch our salmon the first part of July, so it should be good for next year or maybe lay it on before the snow flies. I have some bone meal and some langbeinite that was suggested for the tomatoes, so that could certainly be part of the mix. I'm going to try, once again, to compost kitchen stuff, but I didn't have much luck last year and it mostly just rotted and molded. Probably didn't get warm enough and I probably needed to turn it more.

This retirement is going to wear my ass out.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 21, 2025 11:43 PM (a4NoL)

252 Okay, off to bed. J is going to sleep in the den with the puppy. Lol.

To the groomer’s tomorrow!

Posted by: Piper at April 21, 2025 11:44 PM (p4NUW)

253 Here in Washington State, we have bridges that float. Two of 'em.

Posted by: Diogenes

And sometimes they sink, which is great, because the Washington highway department guys don't already have enough work, what with slowly adding a lane every 5 years to I-5 and I-90 and I-405, exactly 20 years behind the traffic build-up.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 21, 2025 11:45 PM (BRvvM)

254 Piper to puppy, "your name is Soup."

*Menchi scurries away before Piper notices him*
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2025 11:41 PM (HTwBY)

My wife's daughter named her Pomeranian "Kimchi"

Posted by: Kindltot at April 21, 2025 11:45 PM (D7oie)

255 Night Piper

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2025 11:45 PM (HTwBY)

256 You aren't really a Pope if you deny Tradition. It is one of the pillars of the Church. Franky was a replacement for a living pope, not a real pope after all.

That said, I pray for his immortal soul.
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 21, 2025 11:27 PM (a4NoL)

Tradition changes, though. The Tridentine Mass is 500 years old. I like the Latin mass, and I want to move towards it again, but I understand why the change was made. Vatican II made some interesting choices. I think some are reversing, but it was a discussion that needed to happen.

And Francis wasn’t exceptional there. The Latin Mass is still around here. It’s more popular than it has been since the start of Vatican II. If anything, he led a revival of it. Maybe God uses people in odd ways to accomplish his goals.

As for Covid, I agree. It was a horrible decision.

Jesus left His Church to humans, knowing we’d mess up again and again. Look at the Disciples: forever falling short, but still trying. Francis was flawed. The sin of our age is narcissism: being in love of our reflection from social media. Maybe that was his flaw.

Maybe the Lord makes the Pope a sinner and a guy who makes mistakes to remind us that we all mess up.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 21, 2025 11:46 PM (l3YAf)

257 Kimchi?

Must have had horrible farts.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2025 11:46 PM (HTwBY)

258 What would happen if the sun went out?

A Pail of Air by Fritz Leiber

https://is.gd/bYGJnW

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 21, 2025 11:49 PM (bIzDl)

259 So essentially how life is now, but forever.
Posted by: Life is dress rehearsal for hell at April 21, 2025 11:42 PM (TbWk/)

Yes. Maybe that’s worse than the fire and pitchforks.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 21, 2025 11:50 PM (l3YAf)

260 and she really did like me...
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 21, 2025 10:06 PM (QAkQ3)

One of my best friends almost married a stripper.
Posted by: GWB at April 21, 2025 11:39 PM (f5gS/)

In retrospect maybe I should've just married a stripper. At least there would be no illusions or pretense.

Posted by: Either way, you get the pole in the end at April 21, 2025 11:51 PM (TbWk/)

261 212 Francis was a corrupter of more than his parishioners he was a role model of corruption, inviting 20 transgenders into the Vatican and giving license to all perversions.

I pray for a Christian Pope.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 21, 2025 11:27 PM (EJQ63)

I really wish "men" wouldn't go into the priesthood as a dating service. I have friends who became priests and they say going through seminary was like walking on lava. Watch yer step, there's plenty of peril even where you didn't expect it. Those are some seriously holy men at this point--I figure they went through hell to get where they are today.

I also personally know a very holy, very wonderful new bishop, who is beyond blame even though he wouldn't think so himself. There is hope for the Church at all times.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 21, 2025 11:51 PM (a4NoL)

262 um. rotting and molding is what composting is.

I have a standard compost bin I made from woven wire, and that one gets pretty much everything through the summer, and I have an old bathtub up on cinderblocks that I put kitchen scraps (vegetable peelings and the like) and dirt and weeds, and I dump my dish-washing water into. It has massive numbers of worms, and the water and leachate comes out the drain hole and runs into a 5 gallon bucket. I pour that on plants and on my fruit tree seedlings. It is a faster composting because of the water, and the leachate doesn't burn the plants

Posted by: Kindltot at April 21, 2025 11:53 PM (D7oie)

263 Maybe the Lord makes the Pope a sinner and a guy who makes mistakes to remind us that we all mess up.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 21, 2025 11:46 PM (l3YAf)

Sweetie, I expect that's why we have Confession. We don't need leaders to be worse than we are to see that we are sinners. It doesn't take a 2x4 upside the head to see what wretched losers we all are. I pray for actual men to lead, men with chests and spines, who know what sin looks like and hate it. Nobody is perfect but Our Lord, but there are many who can come very close to that by being what God made them. We really don't need a doormat to "lead."

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 21, 2025 11:56 PM (a4NoL)

264 It is a faster composting because of the water, and the leachate doesn't burn the plants
Posted by: Kindltot at April 21, 2025 11:53 PM (D7oie)

Love that setup! I shall have to try it.

My compost was... poisonous. Nothing good smells like that. I don't know what happened, but it was nothing like the compost my folks managed for years.

I shall endeavor once again.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 21, 2025 11:57 PM (a4NoL)

265 I had a good friend who’d been a marine on Okinawa in the 70’s, didn’t marry a stripper but let one move in with him. He said it ended one night when she was home and he stayed out drinking til about 3 or so. He said he didn’t blame her for being startled when he came in through the side door loudly, and he didn’t blame for pulling out the pistol and cocking it when he was banging around looking for the light switch. No, he understood all that. What got to him was when the lights got turned on and he said “look it’s me!” , she kept the gun on him, saying nothing for way too long, and he could see the calculations going on in her head. (Luckily for him she finally said “oh I thought it was someone breaking in.” - but he knew what almost went down. She was out that day.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 21, 2025 11:59 PM (ZEzFB)

266 Like what?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 21, 2025 11:22 PM (l3YAf)

Frankie was VERY UPSET because the law states that in order to enter the United States, you have to go through a port of entry and you must show a passport to a CBP official there.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 22, 2025 12:00 AM (vm8sq)

267 Well, I am going to get an early one. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 22, 2025 12:01 AM (8zz6B)

268 I'm reading Cardinal Sarah's book The Power of Silence against the dictatorship of noise. I recommend it for those seeking to understand the importance of silence and encouragement to seek silence in our noisy world.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel

Thank you for this recommendation.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 22, 2025 12:04 AM (BRvvM)

269 There are videos showing the first thing in the compost bin is ...cardboard.
It's full of carbon.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 22, 2025 12:10 AM (EJQ63)

270 >> Nobody is perfect but Our Lord, but there are many who can come very close to that by being what God made them.

That seems really naive. No human is close to perfect. Not even a little bit.

>> We really don't need a doormat to "lead."

Which recent Popes do you think were good? They all messed up. One’s already been canonized!

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 22, 2025 12:11 AM (l3YAf)

271 Hmmm what year..? 1987? Gack I'm old.

Posted by: Derak

November 1990. I lived in North Seattle at the time with the first ex-wife. That was a clusterfuck.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 22, 2025 12:12 AM (BRvvM)

272 Has anyone been on the newish I-49 extension north of Shreveport? The interchange going northbound from the loop around Shreveport is not too bad, but southbound it gives me the heebie-jeebies. It’s all up in the air, and let’s you look over to see the drop what with the banking they’ve got. Some years ago, when my wife was still living, we drove up that way on the way to Tulsa to visit relatives. We had been anticipating the then new extension of I-49. Northbound it was not too bad, but southbound on the return trip it was my wife’s turn to drive, but when she saw the interchange, she pulled over and refused to drive. Nothing for it but change places and I drove us through. I set the cruise control for 45 mph, the stated speed on the interchange, and did my best to just look straight ahead and concentrate on staying in the middle of the lane. I swear my adrenaline shot off three times on the short length of the interchange! Later I looked it up up on the LADOT website and they were featuring the interchange in a video, proud as can be!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 22, 2025 12:12 AM (bIzDl)

273 No idea how the theology holds up, but an amusing book series is "Saint Tommy, NYPD" by Declann Finn. Tommy is an unassuming, church-going detective, who discovers he is a saint and has to fight the demons of Hell.

One of the characters in the series is the new African Pope, who frequently smites Cardinals and Bishops with his staff when he discovers they are not Catholic enough, if not downright corrupted.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 22, 2025 12:13 AM (zBOWZ)

274 >> My compost was... poisonous. Nothing good smells like that. I don't know what happened, but it was nothing like the compost my folks managed for years.

Given how easy it is to accidentally make compost, it’s surprising how hard it is to make on-purpose.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 22, 2025 12:16 AM (l3YAf)

275 Using the whole fist there doc?

Posted by: CA Token at April 22, 2025 12:17 AM (2vgVO)

276 I hope he managed to make a good confession and he is headed upward rather than down, but it's not my call to make.

Posted by: tcn in AK

In such circumstances, the best approach is to say: "May he/she be immediately judged by God, and receive his/her eternal reward, good and hard, if appropriate," and leave it at that.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 22, 2025 12:17 AM (BRvvM)

277 CHEVRON begins key oil project in Gulf of America
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Moved their office to TX, then what happens?
Chevron’s back in the game.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 22, 2025 12:17 AM (EJQ63)

278 Needless to say I have avoided that interchange from then on (you can divert off on some state roads and get on or off I-49 avoiding the interchange altogether).

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 22, 2025 12:19 AM (bIzDl)

279 I was in Mexico, many years ago at a resort, told the bartender to put it on the Underhill's tab. He said, "I no think so Senior!"
That was awesome. We had a tequila shot together.

Posted by: CA Token at April 22, 2025 12:19 AM (2vgVO)

280 Jasmine Crockett never fails...

https://tinyurl.com/yvby27pz

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 22, 2025 12:21 AM (EJQ63)

281 Figures, finally live, in forever, and everyone has gone to bed.
At least the Kings game is on.

Posted by: CA Token at April 22, 2025 12:25 AM (2vgVO)

282 Jasmine Crockett never fails...

https://tinyurl.com/yvby27pz
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 22, 2025 12:21 AM (EJQ63)

And if I can produce for you the little trans child who is ruining my life, Miss Crockett, then what?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 22, 2025 12:25 AM (l3YAf)

283 That Shreveport interchange sounds like the High 5 in Dallas, 5 major road all stacked one on top of the other. Coming down from the top one you feel like you’re on a ski jump.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 22, 2025 12:27 AM (ZEzFB)

284 Regarding the late pope, don’t forget the pagan idols he brought into the Vatican. Some bishops, God bless them, took the idols and threw them in the Tiber. That’s some real Old Testament smiting offenses right there, like the earth should open up and swallow you whole. Thank God there are still some faithful bishops left in the RCC.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 22, 2025 12:27 AM (bIzDl)

285 You aren't really a Pope if you deny Tradition. It is one of the pillars of the Church. Franky was a replacement for a living pope, not a real pope after all.

That said, I pray for his immortal soul.

Posted by: tcn in AK

I'm with Ann Barnhardt re Pope Francis: He was never actually pope because B16 didn't resign the entire office of pope, and you can't split the office of pope. We've had an anti-pope these last 12 years. Now we get to have a proper pope again.

Hallelujah.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 22, 2025 12:31 AM (BRvvM)

286 Goodnight, good people. God bless you all.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 22, 2025 12:35 AM (BRvvM)

287 Trump needs to fire Powell. Let’s take this up a notch!

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 22, 2025 12:37 AM (l3YAf)

288 Chinese bridge? No thanks.

Posted by: Ciampino - it's a long way down at April 22, 2025 12:37 AM (sPQoU)

289 /sigh No meteor shower here, we got a rain shower.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at April 22, 2025 12:37 AM (tykPk)

290 My compost was... poisonous. Nothing good smells like that. I don't know what happened, but it was nothing like the compost my folks managed for years.

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You're not supposed to put hide the bodies there, tcn

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 22, 2025 12:38 AM (6U1c2)

291 China signs 5-year Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) deal with the UAE, bypassing US LNG amid ongoing tariff war.
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The lines are being drawn, alliances are being made. Wonder what the Saudi's are going to do?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 22, 2025 12:38 AM (EJQ63)

292 Indonesian student who joined George Floyd 'riot' complains as he's seized by ICE

https://mol.im/a/14631763

O, boo hoo.

Posted by: Ciampino - Deport Deport Deport at April 22, 2025 12:38 AM (sPQoU)

293 287 Trump needs to fire Powell. Let’s take this up a notch!
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director
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Idiot, John Kennedy, LA, went on TV saying that Trump shouldn't fire him.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 22, 2025 12:40 AM (EJQ63)

294 291 China signs 5-year Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) deal with the UAE, bypassing US LNG amid ongoing tariff war.
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The lines are being drawn, alliances are being made. Wonder what the Saudi's are going to do?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 22, 2025 12:38 AM (EJQ63)

Simple... stop protecting ships that are not American Flagged.

We have paid for the world to have free trade... we have protected it to our own detriment... time to change.

Posted by: Grace's Pimp at April 22, 2025 12:42 AM (QAkQ3)

295 China unveils world's first Gold ATM that melts, tests, and converts gold into instant bank transfers

youtube.com/watch?v=eyCuIBDjehg

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 22, 2025 12:44 AM (EJQ63)

296 I think Ann Barnhart is right. The deceased Francis was an antipope. But not my monkeys, not my circus. May God have pity on his soul.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 22, 2025 12:45 AM (bIzDl)

297 Notice these 'rogue commanders' are women?

Army immediately suspends top commander after astonishing insult

https://mol.im/a/14633703

Posted by: Ciampino - Discharge at April 22, 2025 12:46 AM (sPQoU)

298 India to Impose 12% Tariffs on Steel to Limit Cheap Imports From China

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 22, 2025 12:48 AM (EJQ63)

299 291 China signs 5-year Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) deal with the UAE, bypassing US LNG amid ongoing tariff war.
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UAE does make a lot of more sense for that market. Their terminals are, I think about 3k miles from China. US terminals in the gulf are a 12k- 15k mile trip. And tankers can’t go through the Panama Canal, too big.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 22, 2025 12:51 AM (ZEzFB)

300 I want to see...
Antifa being met with a mob of Americans armed with Hickory Baseball bats, Bear Spray, and steel toed boots.

Chicoms run down in our city streets and curb stomped.

Trannys ambushed coming out of their therapy groups with tazers and PepperBall guns...

And the Thug Life Types?

I Choose Violence... no more trying to analyze this. They have chosen their path

That ship of reach across the isle has sailed.

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 22, 2025 12:53 AM (25kuG)

301 I saw that story about Col. Ramirez at Fort McCoy earlier in the week. Seems to be mostly women, and somebody with a chest full of ribbons, and definitely unable to run a 5 minute mile.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 22, 2025 12:54 AM (bIzDl)

302 Texas politician Bobbie Mitchell fighting for her life after knife attack at her home

https://mol.im/a/14632219

Posted by: Ciampino - It's Texas at April 22, 2025 12:54 AM (sPQoU)

303 Klaus Schwab retires?

https://tinyurl.com/yc8b8329

Posted by: Ciampino - It's amazing at April 22, 2025 12:58 AM (sPQoU)

304 DEI needs to be DIED

Every Day by whatever means.

Next four years is for ALL THE MARBLES...let's not waste this chance.

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 22, 2025 01:00 AM (25kuG)

305 And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought, but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer. So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

And the war continues.

https://youtu.be/JA644rSZX1A

Fear not: It's not just a good idea; it's a commandment from God.

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Stay vigilant. at April 22, 2025 01:02 AM (JodDy)

306 303
forgot this part: Vicious Anti-American Globalist Klaus Schwab Resigns from WEF Effective Immediately After Holding the Position for 55 Years

Posted by: Ciampino - It's amazing he's still going at April 22, 2025 01:03 AM (sPQoU)

307
nih.gov
https://pmc.ncbi. nlm.nih .gov › articles

The role of monoamine oxidase A in aggression:
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https://www.nature.com › articles
From warrior genes to translational solutions:

5% in blacks, ~1% in whites, >.01% in Asians

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 22, 2025 01:04 AM (EJQ63)

308 GOP County Commissioner for Denton Co., TX. Was it politics? Seems more like Cain killing Abel: they arrested the _grandson_ for the crime. I think that’s worse than fratricidal: that’s patricide plus attempted matricide. It’s a fallen world!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 22, 2025 01:04 AM (bIzDl)

309 I am off to bed, I have been lurking. Thanks for the ONT, Doof. I am not a U2 fan, but I have never heard that song before and it kind of kicked me in the gut. Temps have dropped and I just need to burrow beneath my blankets.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 22, 2025 01:06 AM (0nHVk)

310 Southern California mayor's twisted plan to wipe out homeless people

https://mol.im/a/14630891

Posted by: Ciampino - astonishing at April 22, 2025 01:06 AM (sPQoU)

311 301 I saw that story about Col. Ramirez at Fort McCoy earlier in the week. Seems to be mostly women, and somebody with a chest full of ribbons, and definitely unable to run a 5 minute mile.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 22, 2025 12:54 AM (bIzDl)

Yeah, quick search... only deployment I saw was to Bosnia AFTER all the shit had settled down.... for serving during the entire War on Terror? Staff Spook.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 22, 2025 01:08 AM (QAkQ3)

312 Wedbush analyst Dan Ives warns that Tesla (TSLA) stock faces a “Code Red” if CEO Elon Musk can’t choose between his duties for Tesla and serving US President Donald Trump. Musk has faced scrutiny both in his time as Tesla’s CEO and the head of the US Department of Government Efficiency (D.O.G.E). Ives warned that the EV maker faces a “code red” if Musk doesn’t step back from his government role ahead of Tesla’s next earnings report.

“Musk needs to leave the government, take a major step back on DOGE, and get back to being CEO of Tesla full-time,”
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Oh, yes, Get. Him. Out. of the Government. His business is a calamity he must come home and take care of business.
_how much did they pay him to be so concerned about Musk?
or does he have govt contracts/contacts?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 22, 2025 01:09 AM (EJQ63)

313 Shenzhou launch from China in 2 days

https://www.youtube.com/live/VrRtxYadXms

Note NOT Space Affairs so bookmark it.

Posted by: Ciampino - the big bang? at April 22, 2025 01:11 AM (sPQoU)

314 310

What? Give them the death they are searching for?

Drug Addicts are always searching for the ultimate high after all.

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 22, 2025 01:13 AM (25kuG)

315 Yesterday, A leftwinger accidentally set himself on fire while throwing a Molotav at a Tesla charging station in South Carolina.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 22, 2025 01:15 AM (EJQ63)

316 And the Military needs to scrape the DEI from the bottom of their boots.

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 22, 2025 01:15 AM (25kuG)

317 That mayor in California is backing off his remarks, but I think he meant it: he wants to give the homeless all the fentanyl they want. Yep, that would kill them off right and left.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 22, 2025 01:15 AM (bIzDl)

318 Gonna take a chance on sleeping. Logged 3.5 last night and 4.0 night before last. Y'all have a good evening. 'night

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 22, 2025 01:17 AM (EJQ63)

319 315

Darwin still at work...thankfully.

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 22, 2025 01:18 AM (25kuG)

320 Joe Biden accused of Easter photoshop fail

https://mol.im/a/14630865

Let's not blame FJB, maybe Jill came up with the plan?

Posted by: Ciampino - the big pong? at April 22, 2025 01:19 AM (sPQoU)

321 Now Braenyard there you go with that science again. Next thing you know you’ll be quoting “The Bell Curve” out of context!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 22, 2025 01:19 AM (bIzDl)

322 Ciampino my money is on Hunter. Dr. Jill doesn’t have the skills.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 22, 2025 01:23 AM (bIzDl)

323 Does the bridge lead to anyplace anyone wants to go?
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 21, 2025 10:15 PM (h9KKO)

To the other side, duh.

Posted by: The Chicken at April 22, 2025 01:24 AM (FCbAQ)

324 Pain leaves me when I lie flat, so I’d best get some shut eye while I can. Night all!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 22, 2025 01:27 AM (bIzDl)

325 This is not going to be 2016 this time around...

This time...The Democrat Party and ALL of their subjects/deep state operatives...

will pay the price.

will pay the price.

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 22, 2025 01:32 AM (25kuG)

326 I saw that story about Col. Ramirez at Fort McCoy earlier in the week. Seems to be mostly women, and somebody with a chest full of ribbons, and definitely unable to run a 5 minute mile.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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Pfft.

Posted by: Colonel Bearclaw Vindman at April 22, 2025 01:32 AM (XeU6L)

327 322 Ciampino my money is on Hunter. Dr. Jill doesn’t have the skills.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 22, 2025 01:23 AM (bIzDl)
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I was meaning the idea and not the actual execution.

Posted by: Ciampino - Execution? at April 22, 2025 01:33 AM (sPQoU)

328 Tonight Is Peak Lyrid Meteor Shower

I read that as Peak Lurid Meteor Shower.

Posted by: Ciampino - pr0n in the sky? at April 22, 2025 01:39 AM (sPQoU)

329 18
What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 21, 2025 10:07 PM (JkO4W)
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The steel?

Posted by: Ciampino - steel has melamine at April 22, 2025 01:42 AM (sPQoU)

330 Doesn’t even look like a photoshop but rather just a cardboard cutout of Joe.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 22, 2025 01:46 AM (VofaG)

331 Sky is clear tonight, so I watched for shooting stars.

Saw only a couple before I got too chilled to stay out there. Brrr. (Frost warning tonight)

JQ rates Lyrids as: Meh.

Posted by: JQ at April 22, 2025 01:58 AM (rdVOm)

332 Meanwhile in China, it' hitting the fan.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 22, 2025 02:03 AM (h9KKO)

333 Already?

Posted by: Life support paddles at April 22, 2025 02:15 AM (+I6Y/)

334 What's happening in chynah, Boss Moss?

Posted by: JQ at April 22, 2025 02:17 AM (rdVOm)

335 "In Ilium alone, there are views of the ancient Golden Gate Bridge spanning the mountain ruins of Machu Picchu."

Ilium and Olympos by Dan Simmons.

Posted by: 13times at April 22, 2025 02:19 AM (Hlp+O)

336 70 How long did the EPA and OSHA hold up that Chinese bridge project?

Posted by: Jeff Carter (@pointsnfigures1) at April 21, 2025 10:24 PM (ZiwLX)
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If in America, the environmental impact study, 5 years, not yet out of draft stage in Kalifornia.

Posted by: Ciampino - hurry up with that NGO money! at April 22, 2025 02:19 AM (sPQoU)

337
I can never see meteors if I'm looking for them. Meteors are a watched pot for me. The Lyrids have a rough average rate of about 1 per 3 minutes at the peak, (and this is the peak "zenithal hourly rate", which is what you would observe if the radiant were directly overhead, under defined ideal seeing conditions. For a real observer, well, it varies greatly.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 22, 2025 02:22 AM (w6EFb)

338 The Perseids never disappoint. Plus, it's much nicer outside at night by then!

Posted by: JQ at April 22, 2025 02:27 AM (rdVOm)

339 336
In Kommiefornia: In California this bridge is known to cause cancer.

Posted by: Ciampino - hurry up with that NGO money, wii ya! at April 22, 2025 02:44 AM (sPQoU)

340 The nightly trollbot showed up several posts up (raimondo). Still pretty dumb. Figure they'd update the software by now but nah, still vomiting out horrible programming.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 22, 2025 02:48 AM (sAmhv)

341 A woman and two children narrowly escaped from a manhole explosion after they had just walked across the cover.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/
1FUXcVmYC8/?mibextid=xfxF2i

Posted by: Ciampino - hurry up with that NGO money, will ya! at April 22, 2025 02:52 AM (sPQoU)

342 Years ago the space shuttle's night time reentry path crossed over NorCal at about 3am. So, I climbed on roof to watch. It was right on time. A huge contrail ball passed overhead and was gone in short order. Pretty cool, but no sonic boom. I really wanted to hear a sonic boom.

Today I watched a U-2 spy plane circle a small regional airport for about 15 minutes which is unusual. They usually do a touch and go and then climb back up with engines roaring. There's no mistaking that sound. It's a mighty roar. (They are in a training cycle out of Beale AFB)

Posted by: 13times at April 22, 2025 03:01 AM (+ZJ+x)

343 Looks like the economy is collapsing in China. Restaurants and malls are deserted. Layed off country youth sleeping on the streets of big cities. Deserted cities elsewhere. Restaurants off by a third. Groceries only up by 5 or 6 percent. Mostly unemployed new college graduates. Lucky to get $2 / hour jobs. It started falling apart a couple of years ago. Japanese and South Korean companies leaving. Even people of means not spending anything. Fruit and vegetable stands not selling even at 15 cents a kilo. Yeesh.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 22, 2025 03:12 AM (h9KKO)

344 Looks like the economy is collapsing in China. Restaurants and malls are deserted. Layed off country youth sleeping on the streets of big cities. Deserted cities elsewhere.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 22, 2025 03:12 AM (h9KKO)
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The regime elites don't care about the proletariat working class.

They need to defeat America in order to permanently hold the reins of power and keep the People's Liberation Army in line.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 22, 2025 03:23 AM (tbAq/)

345 When your voice transitions. Listen carefully:

https://tinyurl.com/464r46b7

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 22, 2025 03:26 AM (tbAq/)

346 The ~~20%~~ 7% party:

https://tinyurl.com/44x7zmb9

More of this, please!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 22, 2025 03:31 AM (tbAq/)

347 FYI, David Lammy is no less than "Great" Britain's Foreign Secretary:

https://tinyurl.com/37jjbb37

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 22, 2025 03:35 AM (tbAq/)

348 How do you say "auf Wiedersehen" in Austrian?

https://tinyurl.com/3a7ybck3

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 22, 2025 03:39 AM (tbAq/)

349 348: dude was blaming the Joooossss. That was a nutty post. I mean, not wrong about replacement theory coming true, he just went down the typical rabbit holes Europe always does. Blame Israel.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 22, 2025 03:48 AM (sAmhv)

350 348: dude was blaming the Joooossss. That was a nutty post. I mean, not wrong about replacement theory coming true, he just went down the typical rabbit holes Europe always does. Blame Israel.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 22, 2025 03:48 AM (sAmhv)
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LOL! Double bonus link. I didn't realize how deep was his rant.

Last time I was in Austria was in the mid-late 90s. The Jews I met there then were scared of their own shadows.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 22, 2025 04:00 AM (tbAq/)

351 When the cure is worse than the disease:

https://tinyurl.com/3d577e55

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 22, 2025 04:04 AM (tbAq/)

352 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes.

46 degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor, with a high of 74 predicted.

I mentioned last week that I was changing my work hours to start at 4.30am, rather than 5.30am, in order to get a jump on leftover work. So it begins.

Will see you all on the Morning Report.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 22, 2025 04:26 AM (Dg2sF)

353 .
NOOD

Pixy is here with the Tech Thread

NOOD!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 22, 2025 04:32 AM (O7YUW)

354 There's a clip of him bowing down to Rothchild, Kissinger, and Rockefeller. Another of him slapping a commoner's hand away.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 21, 2025 11:30 PM (EJQ63)

IIRC, that 'commoner' was trying to kiss the Pope's hand, a traditional sign of respect. Frankie Fabulous openly slapped it away because - he later lamely explained - he was only a man and didn't believe in that sort of idolatry. Which, IMO, only makes it worse; if someone wishes to pay their respects to the Vicar of Christ, you let them do it, so long as it is in a respectful way. Openly dissing the person and then smugly lecturing about how humble you are is just public preening.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 22, 2025 04:32 AM (Dg2sF)

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