Mid-Morning Art Thread

An Innuit Encampment
Frank Wilbert Stokes

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 st

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 09:30 AM (gbOdA)

2 Frank painted it without his glasses.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 30, 2025 09:31 AM (Q4IgG)

3 Could be a three dog night.

Posted by: 1970s music at April 30, 2025 09:31 AM (bRtkC)

4 and then the polar bear came into camp...

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 30, 2025 09:32 AM (j/wwM)

5 Greenland, 2025:

"Trump's coming. Everybody look busy."

Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 09:33 AM (77rzZ)

6 Smithsonian American Art Museum

Title
An Innuit Encampment
Artist
Frank Wilbert Stokes
Location
Not on view
Credit Line
Arthur Curtis James and Robert Curtis Ogden Memorial Collection
Mediums
oil
Mediums Description
oil on canvas
Classifications
Painting

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 09:33 AM (gbOdA)

7 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)

8 Innuit.....don't they do the Quicken application?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)

9 Is this the dock where I wait for my ice floe?

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 30, 2025 09:33 AM (0nHVk)

10 Dont be a naughty eskimo

Posted by: guy who relates everything to a Zappa song at April 30, 2025 09:34 AM (MeYif)

11 How did yupik this one, CBD?

Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 09:34 AM (77rzZ)

12 Watch out where the Huskies go.

Don't you eat that yellow snow.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)

13 Eskimos?

I knew it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 30, 2025 09:34 AM (rbR4j)

14
No dog. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 30, 2025 09:34 AM (QnmlO)

15 The only part of the walrus the Innuits did not east.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 09:34 AM (gbOdA)

16 Pardon me, but do you have any blubber?

Posted by: Eromero at April 30, 2025 09:34 AM (LHPAg)

17 It would be a very nice addition to my library. I'll take it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 30, 2025 09:34 AM (j/wwM)

18
And they'd still be living like that, today.

Imagine people being perpetual "campers."

Build a house; you're humans for pete's sake, not animals!

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 09:34 AM (GJFfz)

19 I don't know how I feel about this one. Not sure I can get innuit.

Posted by: Doof at April 30, 2025 09:34 AM (vf0Y9)

20 Kid on the left is playing a game on his smartphone.

Posted by: dantesed at April 30, 2025 09:34 AM (Oy/m2)

21 *sings*

Dreamed I was an eskimo
Frozen wind began to blow
Under my boots and around my toes
The frost that bit the ground below

It was a hundred degrees below zero...
And my mama cried
And my mama cried
Nanook, a-no-no
Nanook, a-no-no
Don't be a naughty eskimo

Save your money, don't go to the show
Well I turned around and I said oh, oh oh
Well I turned around and I said oh, oh oh
Well I turned around and I said ho, ho
And the northern lights commenced to glow

And she said, with a tear in her eye
Watch out where the huskies go,
and don't you eat that yellow snow
Watch out where the huskies go,
and don't you eat that yellow snow

Posted by: Zombie Frank Zappa at April 30, 2025 09:35 AM (iJfKG)

22 Thx CBD, looked up Stokes and he explored the Arctic with Peary. So this painting is probably accurate. Would hang

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 30, 2025 09:35 AM (Er3Q7)

23 Sorry. I tried to get innuit.
I'm just not innuit.

Posted by: A little southeast of Nome at April 30, 2025 09:35 AM (bRtkC)

24 It may seem like a fine pick, but the commentariat will have none of it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 30, 2025 09:35 AM (rbR4j)

25 Would not hang.

Posted by: Gref at April 30, 2025 09:35 AM (aBgBM)

26 I thought Alaska had malamutes and Siberia had huskies.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)

27 I could never intuit the Innuit.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 30, 2025 09:36 AM (Oq5OE)

28 Pardon me, but do you have any blubber?
Posted by: Eromero

Why yes, Grey Porpoise!

Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 09:36 AM (77rzZ)

29 Word is they were offered land in BC, but it turned out they'd have Nunavut.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at April 30, 2025 09:36 AM (OUMaO)

30 What does Big Penguin have to say about all this?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)

31 Pardon me, but do you have any blubber?

Posted by: Eromero at April 30, 2025 09:34 AM (LHPAg)

"Grey Poupon Blubber? But, of course!"

Posted by: naturalfake at April 30, 2025 09:37 AM (iJfKG)

32 Living up there would be a lot of work. They'd have put me on an ice floe years ago.

Posted by: huerfano at April 30, 2025 09:37 AM (n2swS)

33 Nanook was a badass. Killed a walrus by himself. And blinded that fur trapper.

Posted by: fd at April 30, 2025 09:37 AM (MeYif)

34 Storms a comin'......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 09:37 AM (Zz0t1)

35 The polar bears are hiding.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 30, 2025 09:37 AM (NpAcC)

36

Snow Mexicans!

Posted by: Elderly Git at April 30, 2025 09:37 AM (HRQvT)

37 Elizabeth Warren claims that is a family portrait.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 30, 2025 09:38 AM (RjOoY)

38
I don't know how I feel about this one. Not sure I can get innuit.

Posted by: Doof at April 30, 2025 09:34 AM (vf0Y9)

I'm Hopi you can!

Posted by: naturalfake at April 30, 2025 09:38 AM (iJfKG)

39 Eskimos? Innuit!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 30, 2025 09:38 AM (muwun)

40 Eskimos? They must be baking those world famous pies...

Posted by: I like pie at April 30, 2025 09:38 AM (bRtkC)

41 Having considered the art, I'm just not that Innuit.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 30, 2025 09:39 AM (QBMHV)

42 Somehow the landscape looks like the leather garb they're wearing, and not in a good "are they one with the earth" kind of way; more like a "artist got lazy" kind of way.

From a historical/anthropological standpoint, I guess it has some merit, though more details on the clothing and tools could have been more interesting.

Posted by: H at April 30, 2025 09:39 AM (2gjbv)

43
Beaten to the punch. And at better joke.

*shakes fist at Bulg*

*kicks snow ball*

Posted by: naturalfake at April 30, 2025 09:39 AM (iJfKG)

44 Wait, what's with the teepee?

I was assured that they all lived in igloos.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 30, 2025 09:40 AM (muwun)

45 37 Elizabeth Warren claims that is a family portrait.
Posted by: NR Pax at April 30, 2025 09:38 AM (RjOoY)

Speaking of people that need to but put on a floe.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 09:40 AM (gbOdA)

46 How many puns can be wrung out of Inuit???

Posted by: tubal at April 30, 2025 09:40 AM (PCK5/)

47 No igloo. Not buying it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 09:40 AM (Zz0t1)

48 Yoko brought her walrus. Everyone was there.

Posted by: Garden Party at April 30, 2025 09:40 AM (bRtkC)

49 >>Pardon me, but do you have any blubber?

Posted by: Eromero at April 30, 2025 09:34 AM

Stay awhile. We'll chew the fat.

Posted by: huerfano at April 30, 2025 09:40 AM (n2swS)

50 What does a Inuit use to fix a broken home?

Eglue!

Posted by: fd at April 30, 2025 09:40 AM (MeYif)

51
"Aw mom! Blubber again!?"

"Spoiled brat! Eat your blubber and be glad to have it!"

Posted by: davidt at April 30, 2025 09:40 AM (i0F8b)

52 Mom is modeling the very latest in seal blubber-wear.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 30, 2025 09:41 AM (muwun)

53 How many puns can be wrung out of Inuit???
Posted by: tubal

I'm alleut of Eskimo puns, myself.

Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 09:41 AM (77rzZ)

54 I'm just not Inuit.

Posted by: Amy Schumer at April 30, 2025 09:41 AM (Zz0t1)

55 Storms a comin'......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 09:37 AM

*looks into the distance*

Ayuh.

*lights pipe*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 30, 2025 09:41 AM (QBMHV)

56 How does an Eskimo build his house ?
Igloos it together.

Posted by: Groan at April 30, 2025 09:41 AM (bRtkC)

57 Looks like you blew a seal.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 09:41 AM (gbOdA)

58 Mom is modeling the very latest in seal blubber-wear.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 30, 2025 09:41 AM (muwun)

EVENINK wear!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 09:41 AM (Zz0t1)

59 No igloo. Not buying it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 09:40 AM (Zz0t1)
******
It's their summer cottage.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 30, 2025 09:42 AM (NpAcC)

60 I would think getting your paintings hung in a significant museum would be every artists fantasy .

I am not a fan of Dr Who but I've watched the clip of the episode where they brought Van Gogh to the future and showed him how his art is now accepted. It was a pretty emotional scene.

Also I've noted though that arguably the two most well known or popular artists of our time have been snubbed by the art world /museums.

Bob Ross and Thomas Kinkade

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 09:42 AM (VofaG)

61 How many puns can be wrung out of Inuit???
Posted by: tubal at April 30, 2025 09:40 AM

You don't wring them out, you put them Innuit.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 30, 2025 09:42 AM (QBMHV)

62 You get a Fridge! And you get a fridge! And you get a fridge!

Posted by: Oprah the Innuit at April 30, 2025 09:42 AM (Vwn5y)

63 Looks cold...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 09:42 AM (VE6XX)

64 I kind of like this hash.

Posted by: fd at April 30, 2025 09:42 AM (MeYif)

65 EVENINK wear!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 09:41 AM

Very nice!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 30, 2025 09:42 AM (QBMHV)

66 *looks into the distance*

Ayuh.

*lights pipe*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 30, 2025 09:41 AM (QBMHV)

And the batteries in my UPS are dead.

They just don't make em like they used to. These are less than 2 years old.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 09:42 AM (Zz0t1)

67 Folks dressed up like Eskimos.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 30, 2025 09:42 AM (6YdsJ)

68 "Spoiled brat! Eat your blubber and be glad to have it!"
Posted by: davidt

"There are starving kids in the ghetto on the South Side of Chicago who would love to have that blubber!"

Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 09:42 AM (77rzZ)

69 Is it night time or early morning?

Posted by: dantesed at April 30, 2025 09:43 AM (Oy/m2)

70 Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly.

But when they lit a fire in the craft, it sank, proving once and for all that you can't have your kayak and heat it too.

Posted by: Make it stop! at April 30, 2025 09:43 AM (bRtkC)

71 The Yellow Knives pretty effectively kept other tribes from migrating South… not a friendly bunch.

Posted by: tubal at April 30, 2025 09:43 AM (PCK5/)

72 68 "Spoiled brat! Eat your blubber and be glad to have it!"
Posted by: davidt

"There are starving kids in the ghetto on the South Side of Chicago who would love to have that blubber!"
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 09:42 AM (77rzZ)

====

Don't you know there are starving kids in Japan
Just Eat It!
Eat it
Eat it
Eat it

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 09:43 AM (GBKbO)

73 Looks like you blew a seal.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 09:41 AM (gbOdA)

HEY!!! Keep my personal life outta this.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 09:44 AM (Zz0t1)

74 Take my wife, please!

Posted by: Henny Inuit at April 30, 2025 09:44 AM (i0F8b)

75

I'll be behind the tent with some blubber...

Posted by: Portnoy at April 30, 2025 09:44 AM (HRQvT)

76 "There are starving kids in the ghetto on the South Side of Chicago who would love to have that blubber!"
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 09:42 AM

From what I've seen of starving ghetto residents, they appear to have plenty of blubber to spare.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 30, 2025 09:44 AM (QBMHV)

77 Nice detail. The cart is sitting off to the right of the teepee, waiting for someone to invent the wheel.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 30, 2025 09:44 AM (muwun)

78 If the Smithsonian "owns" all these works of art they don't put on display, they should be forced to sell them to pay the rent. Stockpiling them, keeping them in climate control-to what end? I want a refund!

Posted by: Blubbering Ben at April 30, 2025 09:44 AM (G5+As)

79 Nanook was a badass. Killed a walrus by himself. And blinded that fur trapper.

Posted by: fd at April 30, 2025 09:37 AM (MeYif)

And died a few years after the movie!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 30, 2025 09:44 AM (mWSu4)

80 I find his paintings rather bland, although there are some colorful ones of skies.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 30, 2025 09:45 AM (PUlyo)

81 63 Looks cold...
Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 09:42 AM

That's why Eskimos don't get married.
They always have cold feet.

Posted by: Rimshot at April 30, 2025 09:45 AM (bRtkC)

82 Don't you know there are starving kids in Japan
Just Eat It!
Eat it
Eat it
Eat it
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 09:43 AM

Get yourself an egg and beat it!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 30, 2025 09:45 AM (QBMHV)

83 Dad: Amazing, you found the perfect spot for the teepee!

Mom: Innuit as soon as I spotted it!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 09:45 AM (KHnV4)

84 Is it night time or early morning?
Posted by: dantesed

If they're above the Arctic Circle, it doesn't matter. Perpetual sunlight in the summer.

Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 09:45 AM (77rzZ)

85 That chick on the right, workin' that hide with her hair up? Arctic Fox, man.

Posted by: mrp at April 30, 2025 09:45 AM (rj6Yv)

86 77 Nice detail. The cart is sitting off to the right of the teepee, waiting for someone to invent the wheel.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 30, 2025 09:44 AM (muwun)

New World problems…

Posted by: tubal at April 30, 2025 09:45 AM (PCK5/)

87 I like this. It shows a hard landscape and the people living in it. The palette is earthy but there's a nice contrast between the brown foreground, and the blue-white background.

Posted by: Kris at April 30, 2025 09:45 AM (EwaUh)

88 82 Get yourself an egg and beat it!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 30, 2025 09:45 AM (QBMHV)

====

Your butt is wide? Well, mine is too.
Just watch your mouth, or I'll sit on you.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 09:46 AM (GBKbO)

89 Well, this is obviously not a screenshot of the tv show Alone......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 09:46 AM (Zz0t1)

90 Bet they don't go camping for vaca.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 30, 2025 09:46 AM (Q4IgG)

91 >>That's why Eskimos don't get married.
They always have cold feet.

Fur real, fur real!!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 09:46 AM (KHnV4)

92 I like the actual landscape and even the tent. It has an other worldly feel, something most viewers would not know about. I do wish the figures' faces were more distinct not just smudges. It would add a human element to the place and work needed to survive. But I do like the sense of a successful family working to make a life in harsh conditions. It's a positive feeling that comes through after noticing the details of the place and activity.

Posted by: JTB at April 30, 2025 09:46 AM (yTvNw)

93
Your butt is wide? Well, mine is too.
Just watch your mouth, or I'll sit on you.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 09:46 AM (GBKbO)

Ham on.....

Ham on.....

Ham on whole wheat.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 09:46 AM (Zz0t1)

94 The South Side of Chicago is a blubber desert.

Posted by: And they like it that way at April 30, 2025 09:46 AM (bRtkC)

95 There is a hut in Churchill, they call the rising sun. And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy, and God I know, I'm one.

Posted by: The Arctic Animals at April 30, 2025 09:47 AM (ng78Z)

96 In the modern version, they'd all be sitting around the teepee staring at their phones.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 30, 2025 09:47 AM (muwun)

97
My Kitchen!!! - a limerick

An Inuit hunter named Te'Keel
Was preparing his family's next meal
His wife, (as you might guess)
Said, "Those innards are a mess!
That's surely not a good house-keeping seal!"

Posted by: muldoon at April 30, 2025 09:47 AM (uCfKO)

98 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Kids: Hey dad, if we're the First Peoples, how come I found this arrow head?
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 30, 2025 09:48 AM (W/lyH)

99 I bet this reminds Sponge of the sturdy Buryat women who comforted him in his Siberian exile a couple of years back.

Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 09:48 AM (77rzZ)

100 Read Dan Simmon’s book the Terror… enough to keepyou well away from the Frozen North..

Posted by: tubal at April 30, 2025 09:48 AM (PCK5/)

101 Posted by: Kris at April 30, 2025 09:45 AM (EwaUh)

What she said!

It's a pleasant scene, and I did find the sky appealing. I also appreciate the reality of the artist's skill. He didn't try to do too much.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 30, 2025 09:48 AM (mWSu4)

102 What do Eskimos get when they sit on the ice too long?

Polaroids.

Posted by: I got a million of 'em at April 30, 2025 09:48 AM (bRtkC)

103 That's surely not a good house-keeping seal!"

Heh. muldoon brings it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 30, 2025 09:49 AM (muwun)

104 Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes

You're not a slacker, like Sponge is.

Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 09:49 AM (77rzZ)

105 I bet this reminds Sponge of the sturdy Buryat women who comforted him in his Siberian exile a couple of years back.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 09:48 AM (77rzZ)

There was no comfort......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 09:49 AM (Zz0t1)

106
You're not a slacker, like Sponge is.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 09:49 AM (77rzZ)

Yet, I still got coffee.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 09:49 AM (Zz0t1)

107 >>Greenland, 2025:

"Trump's coming. Everybody look busy."

"Oh sh#t, it's JD! That Appalachian dude can spot a slacker in a second."

Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 09:50 AM (KHnV4)

108
Heh. muldoon brings it.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 30, 2025 09:49 AM (muwun)

Every.
Single.
Time.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 09:50 AM (Zz0t1)

109 Then the family bought their first snow machine-a Ski-Doo- and the children started huffing gasoline fumes. Sunoco 260 with lead was their favorite buzz.

Posted by: Cheep Thrills at April 30, 2025 09:50 AM (G5+As)

110 No polar bears. Not art.

Well, somebody has to say it.

Posted by: dantesed at April 30, 2025 09:50 AM (Oy/m2)

111 Where all the men are strong and all the women are sturdy.

Posted by: Welcome to Buryat at April 30, 2025 09:51 AM (bRtkC)

112 14
No dog. Not art.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 30, 2025 09:34 AM (QnmlO)

Look right behind the butt of the guy who's bent over. Two dogs. I think.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 30, 2025 09:51 AM (WIBSw)

113 >>What do Eskimos get when they sit on the ice too long?

Insist they stuck the landing?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 09:51 AM (KHnV4)

114 What do Eskimos get when they sit on the ice too long?

Polaroids.
Posted by: I got a million of 'em at April 30, 2025 09:48 AM (bRtkC)

DAMMAT!!!!! We coulda USED that.......

Posted by: Eastman Kodak at April 30, 2025 09:51 AM (Zz0t1)

115 112 14
No dog. Not art.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 30, 2025 09:34 AM (QnmlO)

Look right behind the butt of the guy who's bent over. Two dogs. I think.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 30, 2025 09:51 AM (WIBSw)

Yup.. 2 dogs

Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 09:51 AM (VE6XX)

116 Two Dog Night…. good oldies band..

Posted by: tubal at April 30, 2025 09:52 AM (PCK5/)

117 It's sad really.

None of those kids will ever even have the concept of what a tire swing is.

"You take a tire..."
"What's a tire?"
"It goes on the wheel of your car. "
"The who of my what?"
"Nevermind, just find a tree..."
"Stop making up words, asshole. "

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 30, 2025 09:52 AM (qOVyZ)

118 You're not a slacker, like Sponge is.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 09:49 AM (77rzZ)

Yet, I still got coffee.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 09:49 AM (Zz0t1)

That's a valid point.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 30, 2025 09:52 AM (W/lyH)

119 Mom won't be getting the high-heeled mukluks again this year.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 30, 2025 09:52 AM (muwun)

120
Look right behind the butt of the guy who's bent over. Two dogs. I think.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 30, 2025 09:51 AM (WIBSw)

Yup.. 2 dogs
Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 09:51 AM (VE6XX)

"That's right, 2-dogs-f*cking. Well done."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 09:53 AM (Zz0t1)

121 100 Read Dan Simmon’s book the Terror… enough to keepyou well away from the Frozen North..
Posted by: tubal at April 30, 2025 09:48 AM (PCK5/)

That book was so good.

Posted by: Kris at April 30, 2025 09:53 AM (EwaUh)

122 This is one of those paintings where the details come through gradually the longer you look at it. The distinction between the soft sky against the harder landscape of rock and ice. It took a while to notice the three cats lounging on the left center. They kind of add a homey feel, a connection most viewers would appreciate even of they are primarily for vermin control. Interesting combination of reality and emotional connection for the audience.

Posted by: JTB at April 30, 2025 09:53 AM (yTvNw)

123 In a display of good taste, the artist left out the Innuit on the right screwing a seal.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 30, 2025 09:53 AM (pohLc)

124 In the distance, granny is waving frantically as she floats away.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 30, 2025 09:54 AM (k/U8Z)

125
Qwitcher Crying - a limerick

Our Inuit is a nightly hot-tubber
A kayaker and a baby seal clubber
But his wife is a fatty
She's whiny and bratty
All. she does is eat whale meat and blubber!

Posted by: muldoon at April 30, 2025 09:54 AM (uCfKO)

126 "Mind if I sit here and paint for four hours while you're struggling to survive?"

Posted by: t-bird at April 30, 2025 09:54 AM (KHLXg)

127 121 100 Read Dan Simmon’s book the Terror… enough to keepyou well away from the Frozen North..
Posted by: tubal at April 30, 2025 09:48 AM (PCK5/)

That book was so good.
Posted by: Kris at April 30, 2025 09:53 AM (EwaUh)

Yeah. Phenomenal author… outstanding in multiple genres… quietly faded away.

Posted by: tubal at April 30, 2025 09:54 AM (PCK5/)

128 It took a while to notice the three cats lounging on the left center.

Those are otters, waiting for their chance.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 30, 2025 09:54 AM (muwun)

129 Three dogs. The sun hardly sets during the Arctic summer.

Posted by: mrp at April 30, 2025 09:55 AM (rj6Yv)

130 126 "Mind if I sit here and paint for four hours while you're struggling to survive?"
Posted by: t-bird at April 30, 2025 09:54 AM (KHLXg)

He brought Domino’s for lunch for everyone, so…

Posted by: tubal at April 30, 2025 09:56 AM (PCK5/)

131 I like what they've done with the landscaping around the teepee.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 30, 2025 09:56 AM (muwun)

132 Next to a volcano?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 30, 2025 09:56 AM (XB804)

133 Did you hear about the whale who got tired of being hunted for his blubber, so left the sea to become a mime who played the harp?

He took the stage name of Harpoon Marks.

Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 09:56 AM (77rzZ)

134 115 112 14
No dog. Not art.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 30, 2025 09:34 AM (QnmlO)

Look right behind the butt of the guy who's bent over. Two dogs. I think.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 30, 2025 09:51 AM (WIBSw)

Yup.. 2 dogs
Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 09:51 AM (VE6XX)

THERE... ARE... THREE... DOGS

Posted by: Jean-Luc Picard at April 30, 2025 09:56 AM (EwaUh)

135 If you squint real hard you might think you see an Eskimo on the horizon.

But it's just an optical Aleutian.

Posted by: I can't see it Elaine! at April 30, 2025 09:56 AM (bRtkC)

136 129 Three dogs. The sun hardly sets during the Arctic summer.
Posted by: mrp at April 30, 2025 09:55 AM (rj6Yv)

======

I was watching a bunch of Ingmar Bergman movies a while back, and I kept getting flummoxed because all of the night scenes were obviously filmed during the day. Day for night is a thing, but there seemed to be no attempt to hide it at all.

And then someone mentioned to me,..."You know Sweden is, like, really far north, right? And the movie is called Summer with Monika?"

"Oh...right..."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 09:56 AM (GBKbO)

137 🎵 In the White House
The mighty White House
The lion sleeps tonight

In the White House
The quiet house
The lion sleeps tonight

Meme the left
Meme the left
Meme the left
Meme the left

Posted by: rickb223 at April 30, 2025 09:56 AM (xsqwN)

138 It looks like it was left out in the sun an melted a little.

Would not hang.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at April 30, 2025 09:57 AM (vOJ4/)

139
THERE... ARE... THREE... DOGS
Posted by: Jean-Luc Picard at April 30, 2025 09:56 AM (EwaUh)

You are correct

Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 09:57 AM (VE6XX)

140 Posted by: JTB at April 30, 2025 09:53 AM (yTvNw)

********

JTB, I always read and enjoy your comments here among the snark, cheese puns and my lame doggerel. Like pearls cast among swine. Thanks for persisting.

Posted by: muldoon at April 30, 2025 09:57 AM (uCfKO)

141 THERE... ARE... THREE... DOGS

Four, if you count the carcass he's working on. The one that wouldn't stop barking.

Posted by: t-bird at April 30, 2025 09:58 AM (KHLXg)

142 140 Posted by: JTB at April 30, 2025 09:53 AM (yTvNw)

********

JTB, I always read and enjoy your comments here among the snark, cheese puns and my lame doggerel. Like pearls cast among swine. Thanks for persisting.
Posted by: muldoon at April 30, 2025 09:57 AM (uCfKO)

This swine tends to agree..

Posted by: tubal at April 30, 2025 09:58 AM (PCK5/)

143 Bet they don't go camping for vaca.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 30, 2025 09:46 AM (Q4IgG)

The Eskimo Gourmet on Vacation With His Family

*parks dog sled*

"Look, everyone. Behold the bustling metropolis of Nome!"

"Ooooooooo!"

"Here they have no blubber. None at all! But, they have the most amazing cow fat and pig fat. And you can eat your fill."

"But, Papa...Papa! I'm thirsty."

"Don't worry Little Nanook. Here they have the most amazing liquid to quench your thirst!
It's called Mazola! And it's like liquid blubber from a vegetable!"
...
...

Posted by: naturalfake at April 30, 2025 09:58 AM (iJfKG)

144 JTB, I always read and enjoy your comments here among the snark, cheese puns and my lame doggerel. Like pearls cast among swine. Thanks for persisting.
Posted by: muldoon at April 30, 2025 09:57 AM (uCfKO)

Sponge, not swine.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 09:58 AM (Zz0t1)

145 Dogs in the arctic would be quite a survival asset. You could sleep and not worry about waking up in a polar bear's mouth.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 30, 2025 09:58 AM (pohLc)

146 Read Dan Simmon’s book the Terror… enough to keep you well away from the Frozen North..
Posted by: tubal at April 30, 2025 09:48 AM (PCK5/)

Anthony Brandt's The Man Who Ate His Boots is a harrowing story of the Franklin expedition to find the Northwest Passage and the search for his party after they disappeared.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 30, 2025 09:59 AM (Dg2sF)

147
The perfect symbol of Canada. Sitting around, doing nothing. Yesterday was the same as today, which is the model for tomorrow. Old folks are forced to sail away on a glacier. All they need is to feel superior to those stupid white guys because they sit around doing nothing for the analogy to be perfect.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 30, 2025 09:59 AM (QnmlO)

148 https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/
innuit-encampment-23082

much more detail

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 09:59 AM (gbOdA)

149 And speaking of Inuit - I have two lovely American Eskimo dogs. I am constantly amazed the AKC hasn't demanded a name change.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 30, 2025 09:59 AM (Dg2sF)

150 This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: lame doggerel at April 30, 2025 09:59 AM (bRtkC)

151 Huh.
Last time I tried an Inuit joke on a guy, he gave me the cold.shoulder.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 30, 2025 10:00 AM (W/lyH)

152 "This is our land! We were here first! Now leave me alone while i pack up literally everything we have and physically drag it somewhere else hundreds of miles away because fuck this place there's nothing to eat anymore"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 30, 2025 10:01 AM (qOVyZ)

153 And one from the archives:

BRRRRRRRR!

In a land full of ice and of snow
If you don't know which way you should go
When surrounded by ice
You don't have to think twice
Keep it simple, just go with the floe

Posted by: muldoon at April 30, 2025 10:01 AM (uCfKO)

154
Dogs in the arctic would be quite a survival asset. You could sleep and not worry about waking up in a polar bear's mouth.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 30, 2025 09:58 AM (pohLc)

I read To the Top of the World by Charles Kuralt about the Plaisted Polar Expedition. They had a couple of dogs with them, not to pull anything (the expedition was on snowmobiles) but for companionship and warning against polar bears.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 30, 2025 10:01 AM (QnmlO)

155 Last time I tried an Inuit joke on a guy, he gave me the cold.shoulder.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 30, 2025 10:00 AM (W/lyH)

Shouldn't tell jokes to random strangers in the park, huh?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 30, 2025 10:01 AM (qOVyZ)

156 Years ago I saw a documentary on PBS, a filmmaker spent a winter with some Inuit. "Harsh," doesn't begin to describe the life.

Posted by: davidt at April 30, 2025 10:01 AM (i0F8b)

157 BRRRRRRRR!

In a land full of ice and of snow
If you don't know which way you should go
When surrounded by ice
You don't have to think twice
Keep it simple, just go with the floe
Posted by: muldoon at April 30, 2025 10:01 AM (uCfKO)

KISS MY GRITS!!!

Posted by: Flo at April 30, 2025 10:02 AM (Zz0t1)

158 Anthony Brandt's The Man Who Ate His Boots is a harrowing story of the Franklin expedition to find the Northwest Passage and the search for his party after they disappeared.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 30, 2025 09:59 AM (Dg2sF)

Whelp. There goes that pledge to not add to my reading list until I get through 1/3 of it. Didn't last 2 days.

Posted by: Jean-Luc Picard at April 30, 2025 10:02 AM (EwaUh)

159 Anthony Brandt's The Man Who Ate His Boots is a harrowing story of the Franklin expedition to find the Northwest Passage and the search for his party after they disappeared.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

A lot of those expeditions were started up by Franklin's widow. And a lot of Arctic geography got discovered in the search for Franklin.

Mrs. Franklin was kinda like the Henry the Navigator of the Arctic.

Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 10:02 AM (77rzZ)

160 Dogs in the arctic would be quite a survival asset. You could sleep and not worry about waking up in a polar bear's mouth.

Kick us one more time, and that bear will be the least of your worries.

Posted by: The Dogs at April 30, 2025 10:02 AM (McYvC)

161 Years ago I saw a documentary on PBS, a filmmaker spent a winter with some Inuit. "Harsh," doesn't begin to describe the life.
Posted by: davidt at April 30, 2025 10:01 AM (i0F8b)

I've spent some time watching "The Last Alaskans."

No thanks......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 10:03 AM (Zz0t1)

162 "Keep it simple, just go with the floe"

You could save 15% or more...

Posted by: Progressive at April 30, 2025 10:03 AM (bRtkC)

163 VOTE VANCE!

Posted by: MAGA LOL just wants to vote for Vance at April 30, 2025 10:03 AM (4XV2i)

164
I am constantly amazed the AKC hasn't demanded a name change.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression)

If the AKC demanded a name change, the American Eskimo Dog Club of America would likely tell them to go piss up a rope.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 30, 2025 10:03 AM (QnmlO)

165 He took the stage name of Harpoon Marks.
Posted by: Bulg

Harpo's real name was Adolph.

Posted by: Julius Marx at April 30, 2025 10:03 AM (G5+As)

166 Looks like Sid came in and Amber Heard.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 10:04 AM (Zz0t1)

167 It isn't noble to subject your family to misery and squalor for generations upon generations after the invention of the most basic technologies.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 30, 2025 10:04 AM (qOVyZ)

168 Shouldn't tell jokes to random strangers in the park, huh?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 30, 2025 10:01 AM (qOVyZ)

It was.Saturday.
In the park.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 30, 2025 10:04 AM (W/lyH)

169 Yes. Thanks, JTB, for your intelligent and thoughtful analysis.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 30, 2025 10:04 AM (Yt3Z9)

170 Always amazed when I think about the Siberians who crossed over the land bridge betweeb Asia and America 15-20 thousand years ago following the herds… and the rest is history..

Posted by: tubal at April 30, 2025 10:05 AM (PCK5/)

171 Flo from Mel's Diner could kick Flo from Progressive's ass. Hands down.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 10:05 AM (Zz0t1)

172 It isn't noble to subject your family to misery and squalor for generations upon generations after the invention of the most basic technologies.

Nein.

Posted by: The Amish at April 30, 2025 10:05 AM (McYvC)

173 First quarter GDP contracted and guess whose fault that is? (Hint: the guy who wasn't President for one of the three months.)

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 30, 2025 10:05 AM (5xBgn)

174 VOTE VANCE!

Posted by: MAGA LOL just wants to vote for Vance at April 30, 2025 10:05 AM (e4LaW)

175 173 First quarter GDP contracted and guess whose fault that is? (Hint: the guy who wasn't President for one of the three months.)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 30, 2025 10:05 AM (5xBgn)

Yeah.. The markets doing the old crasharoo today...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 10:06 AM (VE6XX)

176 And speaking of Inuit - I have two lovely American Eskimo dogs. I am constantly amazed the AKC hasn't demanded a name change.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Didn't know you had dogs. I bet they help with your depression.

Regarding the name "Eskimo," linguists still use it to describe the languages of that group. "Inuit" only covers one branch of the Eskimo languages. There is also a branch called Yupik (western Canada, Alaska, eastern Siberia), and Sireniki (also Siberia, but now extinct).

Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 10:06 AM (77rzZ)

177 Always amazed when I think about the Siberians who crossed over the land bridge betweeb Asia and America 15-20 thousand years ago following the herds… and the rest is history..

Fuck those guys.

Posted by: The Solutreans at April 30, 2025 10:07 AM (muwun)

178 Nein.
Posted by: The Amish at April 30, 2025 10:05 AM (McYvC)

They live like kings. I'm talking basic shit like agriculture and pottery.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 30, 2025 10:07 AM (qOVyZ)

179
It was.Saturday.
In the park.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 30, 2025 10:04 AM (W/lyH)

Right around the 4th of July?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 10:07 AM (Zz0t1)

180 *Harpo's real name was Adolph.*

"Harpo's Meat Tenderizer" didn't do well with the focus groups.

Posted by: The Marketing Department at April 30, 2025 10:07 AM (bRtkC)

181 Eskimos invented a pretty good pie…

Posted by: tubal at April 30, 2025 10:07 AM (PCK5/)

182 Fuck those guys.
Posted by: The Solutreans at April 30, 2025 10:07 AM (muwun)

Led by Don Cornelius?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 30, 2025 10:07 AM (qOVyZ)

183 Mom won't be getting the high-heeled mukluks again this year.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 30, 2025 09:52 AM

Ugg.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 30, 2025 10:07 AM (QBMHV)

184 I am constantly amazed the AKC hasn't demanded a name change.

They need to cause massive health problems to make them look pretty before they push for a change.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 30, 2025 10:08 AM (RjOoY)

185 The 1922 film Nanook of the North was among the first 25 films selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. It is culturally significant and should be seen by everyone. Silent, of course.

Posted by: Lieberry of Congress at April 30, 2025 10:08 AM (G5+As)

186
Yupik your nose one more time, Nanook.

And it's on to the ice floe for you!

Posted by: naturalfake at April 30, 2025 10:08 AM (iJfKG)

187 Lewis & Clark Expedition were reduced, at times, to eating their Moccasins. Not as bad as it sounds, these were fresh, new unused Moccasins. When they had the hides and some downtime, they would have everyone make up a couple hundred pairs because they didn’t last very long.

They also ate a lot of horses as well as dogs. It is difficult to supply enough calories, protein and fat in particular for 30 or 40 guys expending 4000+ calories a day in grueling work in the cold or heat.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 30, 2025 10:09 AM (2Cdkl)

188 Morning, Art Folken,

This one is quite nice. I always thought it was spelled "Inuit," though?

Years ago I was amused at an Agatha Christie novel that spelled "Eskimo" as if it were French, "Esquimaux." Maybe that was standard spelling in Christie's time.

Anyway, even if there is no snow on the ground in this painting, it's probably pretty chilly. Everybody is still wearing their cold-weather clothes, including the guy with the peaky hoodie.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 30, 2025 10:09 AM (omVj0)

189 I do want to see the insurance commercial where Mayhem comes in, stomps on the gecko, punches Doug in the face, grudgef*cks Flo, leaving her begging for more and rides Emu off into the sunset.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 10:09 AM (Zz0t1)

190 Go north, the rush is on.

Posted by: Johnny Horton at April 30, 2025 10:09 AM (bRtkC)

191 140 ... "JTB, I always read and enjoy your comments here among the snark, cheese puns and my lame doggerel. Like pearls cast among swine. Thanks for persisting."

muldoon,
Thanks for the kind words. I get so much enjoyment from the daily art and figure the snark will take care of itself. Lord knows there is no lack of snark talent among the horde.

BTW, your poems are always appreciated. Whether I groan or laugh out loud, usually laugh, they are always cleaver and creative.

Posted by: JTB at April 30, 2025 10:10 AM (yTvNw)

192
Years ago I was amused at an Agatha Christie novel that spelled "Eskimo" as if it were French, "Esquimaux." Maybe that was standard spelling in Christie's time.

I prefer "Esquimaux". Sounds classier. Like when people call me, "Sir" instead of "Hey, shithead."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 30, 2025 10:10 AM (QnmlO)

193 Where's Gammy?

Posted by: Inuit Child at April 30, 2025 10:10 AM (i0F8b)

194 Horse meat does not have much fat, does it??? Wild game doesn’t either I don’t believe…

Posted by: tubal at April 30, 2025 10:10 AM (PCK5/)

195 Yeah.. The markets doing the old crasharoo today...

Can't say it enough - we all, self included, need to unlearn much of what we were taught about economics in high school econ. Because little of it takes human nature into consideration.

The entire concept of the corporation needs re-examined.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 30, 2025 10:10 AM (McYvC)

196 leaving her begging for more and rides Emu off into the sunset.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 10:09 AM (Zz0t1)

"Wow. Life really does come at you fast. "

-J.K. Simmons

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 30, 2025 10:10 AM (qOVyZ)

197 "Adolph Marx." Quite the unfortunate combination of names.

Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 10:10 AM (77rzZ)

198
BTW, your poems are always appreciated. Whether I groan or laugh out loud, usually laugh, they are always cleaver and creative.
Posted by: JTB at April 30, 2025 10:10 AM (yTvNw)

GET A ROOM!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 10:11 AM (Zz0t1)

199 Kick us one more time, and that bear will be the least of your worries.

Posted by: The Dogs at April 30, 2025 10:02 AM (McYvC)

--------------

According to my ex-common law and current wifey, my Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) may indeed be cause for involuntary homicide.

Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 10:11 AM (jeHRS)

200 the ear tug a war is a painful Inuit competition.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 10:11 AM (VofaG)

201 Off sock

Posted by: Kris at April 30, 2025 10:11 AM (EwaUh)

202 Horse meat does not have much fat, does it??? Wild game doesn’t either I don’t believe…
Posted by: tubal at April 30, 2025 10:10 AM (PCK5/)

Gamey flavors are VERY off-putting.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 10:11 AM (Zz0t1)

203 He's dead, Nanook ...

Posted by: Dr_No at April 30, 2025 10:12 AM (ayRl+)

204 >>I do want to see the insurance commercial where Mayhem comes in, stomps on the gecko, punches Doug in the face, grudgef*cks Flo, leaving her begging for more and rides Emu off into the sunset.

Mind if he also punches DEI Jake in the throat on his way out of town?

Posted by: White Jake From State Farm at April 30, 2025 10:12 AM (Y1sOo)

205 Of course, if you really want a doorstop of a book about the Northwest Passage, you still can't beat Pierre Berton's The Arctic Grail.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 30, 2025 10:12 AM (Dg2sF)

206 "Adolph Marx." Quite the unfortunate combination of names.

It gets worse. His middle name was Pol Pot.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 30, 2025 10:12 AM (muwun)

207 US Economy Shrinks in Q1 of 2025, Trump Recession on the way. -0.3 %.

Good! The sooner Trump and the MAGA base self-implode the better.

I care about the economy in terms of regular people, and a shrinking economy hurts regular people because we're about to see unemployment rise and wages start to fall. The GOP's ideas are to end the middle class and replace them with the working poor entirely. So if some pain now can put a stop to that plan, it's worth it.

There will be pressure on employers to raise wages and salaries due to inflation and they want to retain them so they don’t jump ship at their first opportunities. Unions will also pressure their employers to increase wages. Just laying off unnecessary workers doesn’t mean that the rest will accept pay cuts.

I've lost so much (mostly pre-Trump bad investments) that we are having to downsize. To get rid of the fascist, I would be prepared to lose it all.

GOP is fully responsible. No matter that they will try to blame Hilary's emails, or some other wanky crock of crap

He has conditioned his voters to believe short term pain is necessary for long term gains.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 30, 2025 10:12 AM (JCZqz)

208 189 I do want to see the insurance commercial where Mayhem comes in, stomps on the gecko, punches Doug in the face, grudgef*cks Flo, leaving her begging for more and rides Emu off into the sunset.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

What about me?

Posted by: Jake from State Farm at April 30, 2025 10:12 AM (bRtkC)

209 "Adolph Marx." Quite the unfortunate combination of names.

It gets worse. His middle name was Pol Pot.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 30, 2025 10:12 AM (muwun)

I wonder what his parents were trying to tell us......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 10:13 AM (Zz0t1)

210 Horse meat does not have much fat, does it??? Wild game doesn’t either I don’t believe…
Posted by: tubal

Thus the concept of "rabbit starvation," also known as "protein poisoning," in which you eat too much wild game (e.g., rabbits), which has a lot of protein, but not enough fat or carbohydrates to allow it to be digested properly, so you actually starve to death.

Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 10:13 AM (77rzZ)

211 The perfect symbol of Canada. Sitting around, doing nothing. Yesterday was the same as today, which is the model for tomorrow. Old folks are forced to sail away on a glacier. All they need is to feel superior to those stupid white guys because they sit around doing nothing for the analogy to be perfect.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 30, 2025

***
The woman in the right foreground is busy resewing or skinning something, it looks like. Not really an option to drop their winter hunting clothes off at the tailor or the cleaners in Golden Scum, Yukon.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 30, 2025 10:14 AM (omVj0)

212
What about me?
Posted by: Jake from State Farm at April 30, 2025 10:12 AM (bRtkC)

The original Jake MMA's your ass and takes his old job back.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 10:14 AM (Zz0t1)

213 Canada has a smaller economy than Texas. When the hangover of "winning" wears off they are still going to have to deal with the fact they're kind of boned.
---
Saw a chart this morning.
Over the last 10 years, Canada's per capita economic growth has been ... 0.5%.
Second? Germany at 4.7%.
Japan at 8.7%.
And the US at 20.7%.

Canada isn't just fucked. They're a rotten, frozen corpse adrift in the Hudson Bay.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 30, 2025 10:14 AM (NwfFc)

214 Years ago I was amused at an Agatha Christie novel that spelled "Eskimo" as if it were French, "Esquimaux." Maybe that was standard spelling in Christie's time.
---------
It's spelled that way in "The Once and Future King" as well.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 30, 2025 10:14 AM (6YdsJ)

215 Flo from Mel's Diner could kick Flo from Progressive's ass. Hands down.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 10:05 AM (Zz0t1)

I'm wondering if either the actress is finally tired of the part or if Progressive is phasing her out. The more recent commercials give a lot more screen time to the "Mara" character.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 30, 2025 10:14 AM (Dg2sF)

216 Is this a pic of Ace's vacation at ewokland?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 30, 2025 10:14 AM (HPOqw)

217 Of course, if you really want a doorstop of a book about the Northwest Passage, you still can't beat Pierre Berton's The Arctic Grail.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Agreed. Wonderful book.

Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 10:14 AM (77rzZ)

218 the markets are following the exaggerated economic contraction report. if history is any indication they will adjust the numbers up in a few weeks.

Republican administration -report bad, adjust up.

Democrat administration - report good , adjust down

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 10:15 AM (VofaG)

219 He has conditioned his voters to believe short term pain is necessary for long term gains.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 30, 2025 10:12 AM (JCZqz)

wow, Trump thinks short term pain is necessary for long term gain? That's just Crazy Talk!

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 30, 2025 10:15 AM (uWKK8)

220 I saw Cleaver and Creative open for Slash at the Warfield Theater in '18.

Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 10:15 AM (jeHRS)

221 US Economy Shrinks in Q1 of 2025, Trump Recession on the way. -0.3 %.

Good! The sooner Trump and the MAGA base self-implode the better.

I care about the economy in terms of regular people, and a shrinking economy hurts regular people because we're about to see unemployment rise and wages start to fall. The GOP's ideas are to end the middle class and replace them with the working poor entirely. So if some pain now can put a stop to that plan, it's worth it.

It's been 100 days. This is still the Biden economy.

Look at where we were 100 days into the Biden admin. He hadn't f*cked it up royally, yet, because Trump's economy was carrying the day.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 10:15 AM (Zz0t1)

222 Years ago I was amused at an Agatha Christie novel that spelled "Eskimo" as if it were French, "Esquimaux." Maybe that was standard spelling in Christie's time.
---------
It's spelled that way in "The Once and Future King" as well.
Posted by: Captain Obvious

There were Eskimos in Camelot?

Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 10:15 AM (77rzZ)

223 I've lost so much (mostly pre-Trump bad investments) that we are having to downsize. To get rid of the fascist, I would be prepared to lose it all.

Only a fool invests everything in Pokemon cards. Diversify, man. Diversify!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 30, 2025 10:16 AM (muwun)

224 leaving her begging for more and rides Emu off into the sunset.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 10:09 AM (Zz0t1)

"Wow. Life really does come at you fast. "

-J.K. Simmons
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 30, 2025 10:10 AM (qOVyZ)

And as he rides off you can hear the baby say "Biberty!...asshole"

Posted by: Diogenes at April 30, 2025 10:16 AM (W/lyH)

225 Fuck's aches, i can't stand idiots who bellyache about Teh Markits. It's down. Fine. Don't sell today. If you're fixed income you shouldn't be relying on volatile growth stocks anymore anyway.

I can't be too mad, though, because their stupidity is my liquidity.

Keep on keepin' on, salmonella-dicks.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 30, 2025 10:16 AM (qOVyZ)

226
I'm wondering if either the actress is finally tired of the part or if Progressive is phasing her out. The more recent commercials give a lot more screen time to the "Mara" character.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 30, 2025 10:14 AM (Dg2sF)

Progressive's ad budget might be tired of paying Flo $1m a year.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 10:16 AM (Zz0t1)

227 208 189 I do want to see the insurance commercial where Mayhem comes in, stomps on the gecko, punches Doug in the face, grudgef*cks Flo, leaving her begging for more and rides Emu off into the sunset.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

What about me?
Posted by: Jake from State Farm at April 30, 2025 10:12 AM

Don't mess with me, pal.
I know a thing or two because I've seen a thing or two.

Posted by: J.K. Simmons at April 30, 2025 10:16 AM (bRtkC)

228 219 He has conditioned his voters to believe short term pain is necessary for long term gains.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 30, 2025 10:12 AM (JCZqz)

wow, Trump thinks short term pain is necessary for long term gain? That's just Crazy Talk!
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 30, 2025 10:15 AM (uWKK

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Reagan's economy was terrible! His entire presidency!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 10:17 AM (GBKbO)

229 Is this a pic of Ace's vacation at ewokland?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 30, 2025 10:14 AM (HPOqw)

---------------

* Scans for sniper wearing messenger bag *

Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 10:17 AM (jeHRS)

230 Canada isn't just fucked. They're a rotten, frozen corpse adrift in the Hudson Bay.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 30, 2025 10:14 AM (NwfFc)

Canada's got the same electoral problem as places like Illinois, California, and NY. The entire country is run by a handful of large liberal cities that cannot be outvoted.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 30, 2025 10:17 AM (uWKK8)

231 An Innuit (sic) Encampment, Frank Wilbert Stokes

This painting is different than anything else he painted & no year of its creation found. It's OK & most likely shows an accurate Inuit encampment a 100 or more years ago, but Stokes' strength was in landscapes not people. imho

Doubt I'd hang the featured painting but would hang others such as Stokes' 'Return of Byrd and Bennett from North Pole.'

Thanks.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 30, 2025 10:17 AM (NFX2v)

232 There were Eskimos in Camelot?
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 10:15 AM (77rzZ)
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Not actually there, but referred to.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 30, 2025 10:17 AM (6YdsJ)

233 I'm dragging this from the Morning Report because I just got here and ...cookies....

While I'm not crazy about BAKED oatmeal cookies, Mrs. BD started making these NO-BAKE ones a few years ago. They are addictive!

https://tinyurl.com/5xfnkrtu
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 30, 2025 08:42 AM (qFAfu)

My favorite cookies! Mom made those all the time when we were kids. Quick, easy, cheap. Perfect! It's very strange to me that there are people who have never had these. I thought everyone knew about these cookies.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 30, 2025 10:18 AM (2J/Lj)

234
Don't mess with me, pal.
I know a thing or two because I've seen a thing or two.
Posted by: J.K. Simmons at April 30, 2025 10:16 AM (bRtkC)

My dog HATES the Farmers jingle. Every time he hears it, he runs around barking madly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 10:18 AM (Zz0t1)

235 Years ago I was amused at an Agatha Christie novel that spelled "Eskimo" as if it were French, "Esquimaux." Maybe that was standard spelling in Christie's time.
---------
It's spelled that way in "The Once and Future King" as well.
Posted by: Captain Obvious
*
There were Eskimos in Camelot?
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025

***
There were no actual Eskimos in Christie's Blue Train (or maybe it was Orient Express). I think she just used it as a simile.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 30, 2025 10:18 AM (omVj0)

236 It's spelled that way in "The Once and Future King" as well.
Posted by: Captain Obvious

There were Eskimos in Camelot?
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 10:15 AM (77rzZ)

No. They were Esquimos.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 30, 2025 10:18 AM (uWKK8)

237 My favorite insurance ads are the ones for Farmers Insurance that feature the guy who played Emil Skoda on Law & Order.

"We know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two."

"We are Farmers. Da da da da, da da da!"

Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 10:18 AM (77rzZ)

238 Snow camping.

Great.

Posted by: eleven at April 30, 2025 10:19 AM (0HaGk)

239 Snow camping.

Great.
Posted by: eleven at April 30, 2025 10:19 AM (0HaGk)

Why do you think they have so many children?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 10:19 AM (Zz0t1)

240 There were Eskimos in Camelot?
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 10:15 AM (77rzZ)
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Not actually there, but referred to.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea

So, 5th-6th-century sub-Roman Britons knew about Eskimos?

Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 10:20 AM (77rzZ)

241 "Adolph Marx." Quite the unfortunate combination of names.

It gets worse. His middle name was Pol Pot.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 30, 2025 10:12 AM (muwun)

I wonder what his parents were trying to tell us......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 10:13 AM

"My name is Alexei Yuri Gagarin Siege of Stalingrad Glorious Five Year Plan Sputnik Tractor Moscow Dynamo Back Four Balowski. Me dad was a bit of a Communist, know what I mean?"

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 30, 2025 10:20 AM (QBMHV)

242 Reagan's economy was terrible! His entire presidency!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla

Lol....you don't know how right you are. I won't post it all, here's a taste of a massive thread from yesterday:

Forty five years of Reaganomics.
Forty five years of our lives we have lived with the disease of trickledown syndrome. And we are about to experience a full blown pandemic economically and in employment or as consumers.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 30, 2025 10:21 AM (JCZqz)

243 100 Read Dan Simmon’s book the Terror… enough to keepyou well away from the Frozen North..
Posted by: tubal at April 30, 2025 09:48 AM (PCK5/
Scariest thing I’ve read in years.

Posted by: Eromero at April 30, 2025 10:21 AM (LHPAg)

244 Why do you think they have so many children?

Sometimes, the hunting isn't so good. And we don't know how to can.

Posted by: The Eskimo Couple at April 30, 2025 10:21 AM (McYvC)

245 Good morning good people.

No blubber for me today. The lovely Mrs. has set out a Lemon Bar flavored protein drink.

I don't quite know what to make of that.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 30, 2025 10:21 AM (vKNmo)

246 I suspect the 1900 book The World's Discoverers by William Henry Johnston is on Gutenberg or some such online place. I came across it as a child and loved it, so I would highly recommend it to you. It's where I first found accounts of the Northwest Passage, the Russian expeditions towards the pole and the voyages of Columbus, Magellan, DaGama and others.

Antique, but well worth reading if you like that sort of thing.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 30, 2025 10:21 AM (Dg2sF)

247 Flo from Progressive makes me retch.

That woman in the AT&T commercials makes me want to incur all kinds of early termination penalties with Verizon just to see her smile.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 30, 2025 10:21 AM (Oq5OE)

248 "Progressive" Insurance turned out to be a rather tone-deaf and off-putting choice for a business name.

I blame Hillary for reintroducing it into the lexicon ... and of course before her, the overtly racist academic idiot Woodrow Wilson.

Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 10:21 AM (jeHRS)

249 242 Forty five years of Reaganomics.
Forty five years of our lives we have lived with the disease of trickledown syndrome. And we are about to experience a full blown pandemic economically and in employment or as consumers.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 30, 2025 10:21 AM (JCZqz)

======

Heh.

Trickle down was how his opponents described it.

So, are they saying that even Obama's economy sucked? Clinton's? Biden's?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 10:21 AM (GBKbO)

250 If a 5-10% downturn in equities wrecks your entire situation overnight to the point where you're living in penury now, you either need to fire your financial advisor, or get one to begin with.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 30, 2025 10:22 AM (qOVyZ)

251 So, 5th-6th-century sub-Roman Britons knew about Eskimos?
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 10:20 AM (77rzZ)
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You've gotta read the book. Can't explain what White was doing in a couple of senrences.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 30, 2025 10:23 AM (6YdsJ)

252 What's a commercial?

Posted by: The Roku Player at April 30, 2025 10:23 AM (bRtkC)

253 250 If a 5-10% downturn in equities wrecks your entire situation overnight to the point where you're living in penury now, you either need to fire your financial advisor, or get one to begin with.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 30, 2025 10:22 AM (qOVyZ)

=======

"My retirement account is my bank account!"
-apparently

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 10:23 AM (GBKbO)

254 Snow camping.

Great.
Posted by: eleven at April 30, 2025 10:19 AM (0HaGk)

Why do you think they have so many children?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 10:19 AM (Zz0t1)

Reminded me of the movie The Black Robe. Highly recommended.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 10:23 AM (VofaG)

255 Antique, but well worth reading if you like that sort of thing.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

My reading bucket list includes the complete journals of Captain Cook's voyages as edited by J. C. Beaglehole, and Beaglehole's biography of Cook.

Capt. Cook was da man.

Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 10:23 AM (77rzZ)

256 Forty five years of our lives we have lived with the disease of trickledown syndrome.

Meh - Reagan isn't my spirit animal either. There are more important hills than Top Marginal Rates.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 30, 2025 10:24 AM (McYvC)

257 194 ... "Horse meat does not have much fat, does it??? Wild game doesn’t either I don’t believe…"

In the book Jubal Sackett, Louis L'Amour mentioned that Jubal needed to find a fat bear because the venison was very lean and the fat was needed for health. Also, Bear oil, rendered from the fat, was used as a lube for firearms, protecting metal tools from rust, and even as skin ointment. Bear oil is considered gold in the traditional muzzleloading community.

Posted by: JTB at April 30, 2025 10:24 AM (yTvNw)

258 Oh No!! Doesn't Frank Zappa memorial month begin around June? 😨😬😢

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 30, 2025 10:24 AM (NFX2v)

259 My favorite insurance ads are the ones for Farmers Insurance that feature the guy who played Emil Skoda on Law & Order.

I still have a soft spot for the old Credit Karma commercials with the loser band.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 30, 2025 10:25 AM (Dg2sF)

260 249 242 Forty five years of Reaganomics.
Forty five years of our lives we have lived with the disease of trickledown syndrome. And we are about to experience a full blown pandemic economically and in employment or as consumers.
======

Not again!!! I hope Pfizer can come up with a vaccine to protect us from THIS pandemic! But not if Trump has anything to do with it. I heard he told people to eat pennies to inoculate themselves!

Posted by: Rabid Leftwing Branch Covidian at April 30, 2025 10:25 AM (JCZqz)

261 Oh No!! Doesn't Frank Zappa memorial month begin around June? 😨😬😢
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 30, 2025 10:24 AM (NFX2v)

During PRIDE MONTH!!????

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 10:25 AM (Zz0t1)

262 If a 5-10% downturn in equities wrecks your entire situation overnight to the point where you're living in penury now, you either need to fire your financial advisor, or get one to begin with.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Yep. Had my quarterly call with my financial gal last week. I asked her How much are we up the past 12 months? "XX%" Are we buying now? "Yes".

Carry on smart lady. Talk to you in July.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 30, 2025 10:25 AM (vKNmo)

263
I still have a soft spot for the old Credit Karma commercials with the loser band.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 30, 2025 10:25 AM (Dg2sF)

I miss Erin Esurance......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 10:26 AM (Zz0t1)

264 Flo from Progressive makes me retch.

I find her oddly arousing. I suspect it's the bright red lipstick.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 30, 2025 10:26 AM (Dg2sF)

265
Carry on smart lady. Talk to you in July.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 30, 2025 10:25 AM (vKNmo)

How's the kid? Releasing soon?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 10:26 AM (Zz0t1)

266 And as he rides off you can hear the baby say "Biberty!...asshole"
Posted by: Diogenes

Love the four year old's legs & shoes on the "two year old" baby.

Wife actually spotted that. Said no way in hell that's a two year old.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 30, 2025 10:26 AM (xsqwN)

267 Forty five years of our lives we have lived with the disease of trickledown syndrome.

Meh - Reagan isn't my spirit animal either. There are more important hills than Top Marginal Rates.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 30, 2025 10:24 AM (McYvC)

you must have liked those double digit mortgage interest rates and energy shortages. Just put on a sweater.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 10:26 AM (VofaG)

268 In the book Jubal Sackett, Louis L'Amour mentioned that Jubal needed to find a fat bear because the venison was very lean and the fat was needed for health. Also, Bear oil, rendered from the fat, was used as a lube for firearms, protecting metal tools from rust, and even as skin ointment. Bear oil is considered gold in the traditional muzzleloading community.
Posted by: JTB

Bear lube?

*shudders*

-- Leo De Caprio

Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 10:28 AM (77rzZ)

269 My reading bucket list includes the complete journals of Captain Cook's voyages as edited by J. C. Beaglehole, and Beaglehole's biography of Cook.

Capt. Cook was da man.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 10:23 AM (77rzZ)

You might want to add the late Tony Horwitz' Blue Latitudes to that list. He and a drunken English pal (think a vulgar Stephen Fry) re-trace Cook's route around the South Pacific.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 30, 2025 10:28 AM (Dg2sF)

270 If you squint real hard you might think you see an Eskimo on the horizon.

*********

ISWYDT

To conjure up that image you literally have to "squint the Eskimo".

Posted by: muldoon at April 30, 2025 10:28 AM (uCfKO)

271 I miss Erin Esurance......
Posted by: Sponge

Yeah, she was a cutie. Which was apparently her downfall.

Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 10:29 AM (77rzZ)

272 Flo from Progressive makes me retch.

I find her oddly arousing. I suspect it's the bright red lipstick.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
_____
She's got a little Elvira thing going on.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 30, 2025 10:29 AM (HPOqw)

273
ISWYDT

To conjure up that image you literally have to "squint the Eskimo".
Posted by: muldoon at April 30, 2025 10:28 AM (uCfKO)

Thread asked for it........

https://youtu.be/klWzVuxdygg

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 10:29 AM (Zz0t1)

274 I can't stand the General.

Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 10:30 AM (77rzZ)

275 I like the wimpy red head dude Jamie in the Progressive commercials. He makes them funny.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 10:30 AM (VofaG)

276 you must have liked those double digit mortgage interest rates and energy shortages. Just put on a sweater.

Breaking stagflation was probably his greatest achievement. But every tune wasn't a hit. Turns out the Top 1% doesn't use that extra untaxed income to create jobs. They use it to amass social and political power for a myriad of personal causes. Most of which run contrary to my best personal interests. And yours.

Reagan wasn't a saint. Just a likable Big Gub Republican.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 30, 2025 10:31 AM (McYvC)

277 The only way I could find Flo even mildly arousing would be after I spent an extended amount of time on a submarine deployment and had to take leave in Saudi Arabia.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 30, 2025 10:31 AM (Oq5OE)

278 Thanks to all for the kind comments. I don't have Kris' knowledge or perception (wish I did) so I just give my impressions and why they occur to me. The process of analysis adds to the enjoyment. (Yes, I am a nerd.)

Posted by: JTB at April 30, 2025 10:31 AM (yTvNw)

279 Young Flo was pretty attractive.

Current Flo is getting kinda pie-faced and has started to look like a 45 year old mom in Walmart yelling at her kids.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 30, 2025 10:32 AM (iJfKG)

280 How's the kid? Releasing soon?
Posted by: Sponge

Hey Sponge - he is doing very well. He will probably be discharged on Sunday. Thanks for asking. It doesn't look like I will be able to meet up this time around. I'm at the hospital about 12 hours a day every day and by now pretty much know all the cleaning staff by name. As far as hospitals go, I like it.

I pray your wife is doing well.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 30, 2025 10:32 AM (vKNmo)

281 Bear oil is considered gold in the traditional muzzleloading community.
Posted by: JTB

Just bought a five ounce tin. For that reason.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 30, 2025 10:33 AM (xsqwN)

282
Current Flo is getting kinda pie-faced and has started to look like a 45 year old mom in Walmart yelling at her kids.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 30, 2025 10:32 AM (iJfKG)

She's 55.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 10:33 AM (Zz0t1)

283
Hey Sponge - he is doing very well. He will probably be discharged on Sunday. Thanks for asking. It doesn't look like I will be able to meet up this time around. I'm at the hospital about 12 hours a day every day and by now pretty much know all the cleaning staff by name. As far as hospitals go, I like it.

I pray your wife is doing well.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 30, 2025 10:32 AM (vKNmo)

I COMPLETELY understand. Glad to hear the tyke is faring well. Great news.

Wife is feeling much better. We just hope it lasts. Thanks.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 10:35 AM (Zz0t1)

284 282
Current Flo is getting kinda pie-faced and has started to look like a 45 year old mom in Walmart yelling at her kids.
Posted by: naturalfake at April 30, 2025 10:32 AM (iJfKG)

She's 55.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

So....he's saying she looks good for her age?

Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 30, 2025 10:35 AM (JCZqz)

285 264 Flo from Progressive makes me retch.

I find her oddly arousing. I suspect it's the bright red lipstick.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Just get the stinking emu off of my TV screen.

Posted by: Only pay for what you need at April 30, 2025 10:36 AM (bRtkC)

286 Forty five years of our lives we have lived with the disease of trickledown syndrome.

***********

There IS a code for that!

ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code A54.01

Gonococcal cystitis and urethritis, unspecified

(Includes: Acute gonococcal cystitis; Gonococcal urethritis; Gonorrhea, cystitis; Gonorrhea, urethritis )

Posted by: muldoon at April 30, 2025 10:36 AM (uCfKO)

287 She's 55.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 10:33 AM (Zz0t1)
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Well, in that case, she looks great!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 30, 2025 10:36 AM (6YdsJ)

288 Current Flo is getting kinda pie-faced and has started to look like a 45 year old mom in Walmart yelling at her kids.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 30, 2025 10:32 AM (iJfKG)

She's 55.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 10:33 AM (Zz0t1)

Good for her.

Must be using that insurance money on plastic surgery and anti-pie-face drugs.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 30, 2025 10:36 AM (iJfKG)

289 Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 30, 2025 10:31 AM (McYvC)

Breaking the Soviet Union and restoring our military was just low hanging fruit I guess.

That we now expect what Reagan achieved as the normal economic baseline when its anything but is the greatest testament to him.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 10:36 AM (VofaG)

290
Just get the stinking emu off of my TV screen.
Posted by: Only pay for what you need at April 30, 2025 10:36 AM (bRtkC)

What's the matter? He's just a flightless bird.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 10:36 AM (Zz0t1)

291 Progressive's ad budget might be tired of paying Flo $1m a year.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

The fact that almost any blog would repeat comments above concerning insurance says no.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 30, 2025 10:36 AM (JkCto)

292 Young Flo was pretty attractive.

Current Flo is getting kinda pie-faced and has started to look like a 45 year old mom in Walmart yelling at her kids.

Posted by: naturalfake

Well, she does have to corral Jamie & Mara.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 30, 2025 10:37 AM (xsqwN)

293 Bear oil is considered gold in the traditional muzzleloading community.
Posted by: JTB

I've never tried Bear Oil, but Fur Oil has been a real game-changer for me!

Posted by: Emma Watson at April 30, 2025 10:38 AM (JCZqz)

294
Well, she does have to corral Jamie & Mara.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 30, 2025 10:37 AM (xsqwN)

And the token with his damn motorcycle.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 10:38 AM (Zz0t1)

295 Elizabeth Hurley is 59 so I guess its all relative.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 10:39 AM (VofaG)

296 231 An Innuit (sic) Encampment, Frank Wilbert Stokes

This painting is different than anything else he painted & no year of its creation found. It's OK & most likely shows an accurate Inuit encampment a 100 or more years ago, but Stokes' strength was in landscapes not people. imho

Doubt I'd hang the featured painting but would hang others such as Stokes' 'Return of Byrd and Bennett from North Pole.'

Thanks.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 30, 2025 10:17 AM (NFX2v)

I'm deducing that, at the time of its making, "Innuit" was an acceptable spelling, because online I see, by this artist:

at Christies: "Innuit Mourners"

Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 10:39 AM (CQE5S)

297 I think I had a dream last night with Donna Douglas in it.

Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 10:39 AM (77rzZ)

298 Breaking the Soviet Union and restoring our military was just low hanging fruit I guess.

Gave us the first trillion deficit to do it. And normalized deficit spending for generations. Signed EMTALA - thus starting health care entitlement. Revived the War on Drugs and ramped up asset seizure along the way.

He wasn't a saint or a god or a titan. Just an extremely imperfect president.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 30, 2025 10:39 AM (McYvC)

299 Elizabeth Hurley is 59 so I guess its all relative.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 10:39 AM (VofaG)

And she's banging Billy Ray Cyrus, so......cray.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 10:40 AM (Zz0t1)

300 300

Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 10:40 AM (CQE5S)

301 Don't act like you haven't noticed me.

Posted by: The emu guy's Plymouth Duster at April 30, 2025 10:40 AM (bRtkC)

302 228 219 He has conditioned his voters to believe short term pain is necessary for long term gains.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 30, 2025 10:12 AM (JCZqz)

wow, Trump thinks short term pain is necessary for long term gain? That's just Crazy Talk!
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 30, 2025 10:15 AM (uWKK

The flip side of that coin is longterm pain and short term gain like printing millions of dollars for people to not work, forgiving student loans, and borrowing money to pay for research determining how underwater basket weaving supports the patriarchy and white supremery.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at April 30, 2025 10:40 AM (k30K1)

303 My cat is snoring. This annoys me since she woke me up around 5 am while playing with her toy mouse. Jumping, running, sliding across the floor and just making a lot of noise in the process. I must resist the urge to wake her up and laugh maniacally when she glares at me.
In the words of Robin Williams as Teddy Roosevelt..... "Who has evolved?"

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 30, 2025 10:40 AM (2J/Lj)

304 at Christies: "Innuit Mourners"
Posted by: m

Do they have the dancing pallbearers like they do in Ghana?

Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 10:41 AM (77rzZ)

305 About 5-6 years ago Toyota Jan was obviously with child and they tried to hide her behind the cars, beach balls, or signs in the ad. I don't know why. Did they think we would think less of her if we noticed she was a normal female?

Posted by: Madison Avenue at April 30, 2025 10:41 AM (G5+As)

306 Don't act like you haven't noticed me.
Posted by: The emu guy's Plymouth Duster at April 30, 2025 10:40 AM (bRtkC)

Meh. It's the 6 cyl model.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 10:41 AM (Zz0t1)

307 I must resist the urge to wake her up and laugh maniacally when she glares at me.
In the words of Robin Williams as Teddy Roosevelt..... "Who has evolved?"
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 30, 2025 10:40 AM (2J/Lj)

F*ck that. Wake it up.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 10:41 AM (Zz0t1)

308 285 264 Flo from Progressive makes me retch.

I find her oddly arousing. I suspect it's the bright red lipstick.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Just get the stinking emu off of my TV screen.
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Have you noticed that the emu's buddy, the white guy, has disappeared?

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 30, 2025 10:41 AM (pZ64F)

309 290
Just get the stinking emu off of my TV screen.
Posted by: Only pay for what you need at April 30, 2025 10:36 AM (bRtkC)

What's the matter? He's just a flightless bird.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 10:36 AM (Zz0t1)

It's not the emu, it's the stupid toothpick chewing idiot he hangs out with.

Posted by: That bibberty guy at April 30, 2025 10:42 AM (k30K1)

310 Don't act like you haven't noticed me.
Posted by: The emu guy's Plymouth Duster

Did he name it "Brad?"

Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 10:43 AM (77rzZ)

311 It's been 100 days. This is still the Biden economy.

Look at where we were 100 days into the Biden admin. He hadn't f*cked it up royally, yet, because Trump's economy was carrying the day.
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Yet Obama was still campaigning against the Bush economy in 2015.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 30, 2025 10:43 AM (NwfFc)

312 >>Have you noticed that the emu's buddy, the white guy, has disappeared?

There will be a black guy taking over soon. Trust me on that one.

Posted by: White Jake From State Farm at April 30, 2025 10:43 AM (Y1sOo)

313 Since no one has mentioned his name is Doug, he seems pretty expendable.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 10:43 AM (Zz0t1)

314 Has anyone mentioned the little Ewok sitting in front of the skin igloo? Skingloo? Skigloo?

Posted by: haffhowershower at April 30, 2025 10:43 AM (5SvjB)

315 Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 30, 2025 10:39 AM (McYvC)

Its only you that is using the straw man that people think he's a god. All the Presidents were and are imperfect. He was just the best of the lot imo.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 10:44 AM (VofaG)

316 305 About 5-6 years ago Toyota Jan was obviously with child and they tried to hide her behind the cars, beach balls, or signs in the ad. I don't know why. Did they think we would think less of her if we noticed she was a normal female?
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Everyone knows you can't get knocked up in a Toyota. Subaru as well.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 30, 2025 10:44 AM (pZ64F)

317 ---
Yet Obama was still campaigning against the Bush economy in 2015.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 30, 2025 10:43 AM (NwfFc)

When all you have is lies, corruption, cheating and lies......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 10:44 AM (Zz0t1)

318 Who in the world thought it was a good idea to make an emu their corporate mascot? Did they hire that Bud Light lady?

Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 10:44 AM (77rzZ)

319 315 Its only you that is using the straw man that people think he's a god. All the Presidents were and are imperfect. He was just the best of the lot imo.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 10:44 AM (VofaG)

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False.

William Henry Harrison was our best president.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 10:44 AM (GBKbO)

320 Looks like another planet.

Posted by: PG at April 30, 2025 10:44 AM (Ohm5I)

321 Have you noticed that the emu's buddy, the white guy, has disappeared?
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 30, 2025 10:41 AM

We don't need him and we're only paying for what we need.

Posted by: Liberty Mutual advertising executives at April 30, 2025 10:44 AM (bRtkC)

322 122 It took a while to notice the three cats lounging on the left center.
Posted by: JTB at April 30, 2025 09:53 AM (yTvNw)

Cats, but not dogs? Dubious "art."

Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 10:45 AM (CQE5S)

323 318 Who in the world thought it was a good idea to make an emu their corporate mascot? Did they hire that Bud Light lady?
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 10:44 AM (77rzZ)

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Insurance commercials have embraced random lolwut humor for decades now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 10:45 AM (GBKbO)

324 More like Outnuit, amirite?

Posted by: BurtTC at April 30, 2025 10:45 AM (dGCAG)

325
You think President Trump is unhappy today about the FLAT GDP from biden's economy?

Nope. He's smiling. Just more ammunition to pass the Biggest Most Beautiful Best Tax Cut In History.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 10:45 AM (GJFfz)

326 >>Did they hire that Bud Light lady?

She works for LIV Golf now.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 30, 2025 10:45 AM (Y1sOo)

327 Frank Wilbert Stokes
Born Nashville, TN 1858-died New York City 1955

Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 10:46 AM (CQE5S)

328 Yeah, you can eat 10 pounds of lean deer a day and still starve. Fat is the prized commodity. There are no “essential carbohydrates” when it applies to nutrition.

Lewis brought his Newfoundland, a huge dog. Didn’t eat him. They did say their health was pretty good on a diet of horse and dog. I couldn’t do it, I’m an old softie.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 30, 2025 10:46 AM (1QxHi)

329
She works for LIV Golf now.
Posted by: one hour sober at April 30, 2025 10:45 AM (Y1sOo)

Yeah. The frat party that breaks out into a golf match.

What a brilliant idea.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 10:46 AM (Zz0t1)

330 While I'm not crazy about BAKED oatmeal cookies, Mrs. BD started making these NO-BAKE ones a few years ago. They are addictive!
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Do deep-fried oatmeal cookies exist?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 30, 2025 10:46 AM (NwfFc)

331 Everyone knows you can't get knocked up in a Toyota. Subaru as well.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 30, 2025 10:44 AM (pZ64F)

Ummmm....that may not be completely accurate.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 30, 2025 10:46 AM (2J/Lj)

332 Its only you that is using the straw man that people think he's a god. All the Presidents were and are imperfect. He was just the best of the lot imo.

His idea that reducing top marginal rates would free up that cash for investment and jobs turned out wrong. You want more money in the pockets of our ruling class ?

It turned out wrong.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 30, 2025 10:47 AM (McYvC)

333 324 More like Outnuit, amirite?
Posted by: BurtTC at April 30, 2025 10:45 AM (dGCAG)

En français: ennui(t)

Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 10:47 AM (CQE5S)

334 Duster 340 was one of the best muscle cars you could buy on a budget. Weighed hundreds of pounds less than a 'Cuda, with much more room inside.

An aged couple who went to the same church as me bought a new Dodge Demon in 72, but wouldn't accept delivery until the Demon name and little decal Demons were taken off it by the dealer.

Posted by: Auto Hijinks at April 30, 2025 10:47 AM (G5+As)

335 oh for fuck sake

BREAKING:
@DrBiden
has been named Chair of the Milken Institute’s new Women’s Health Network—aimed at tackling long-standing disparities in women's health research and care.

A huge honor and well-deserved recognition for her lifelong advocacy. Congratulations, Dr. B!

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 10:47 AM (gbOdA)

336 BREAKING:
@DrBiden
has been named Chair of the Milken Institute’s new Women’s Health Network—aimed at tackling long-standing disparities in women's health research and care.

A huge honor and well-deserved recognition for her lifelong advocacy. Congratulations, Dr. B!
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 10:47 AM (gbOdA)

Umm.......that's the wrong type of doctor, you idiots.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 10:48 AM (Zz0t1)

337 William Henry Harrison was our best president.

Hi !!!

Posted by: Calvin Coolidge at April 30, 2025 10:48 AM (McYvC)

338 I suppose.

And when I was a kid, we only learned about Eskimo v. Inuit.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 30, 2025 10:48 AM (NFX2v)

339 *Who in the world thought it was a good idea to make an emu their corporate mascot?*

LIMU EMU.

It sorta works. Sorta

Posted by: Madison Avenue suits at April 30, 2025 10:48 AM (bRtkC)

340 tackling long-standing disparities in women's health research and care.

Please provide a list of these 'disparities.' I'll wait.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 10:48 AM (Zz0t1)

341 Don't act like you haven't noticed me.

Posted by: The emu guy's Plymouth Duster at April 30, 2025 10:40 AM (bRtkC)

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One of my Pop Warner football teams was sponsored by a local car dealership -- so our name was The Dusters and we got to wear that cool "duster with eyes" logo -- not to mention that we won the city championship that year.

Before every game we used to line up facing the opposing team and chant "Blood! Blood! Blood makes the grass grow!" lol

Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 10:50 AM (4gelq)

342 > tackling long-standing disparities in women's health research and care.

Please provide a list of these 'disparities.' I'll wait.........
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I think someone learned a new word, "disparities" and wanted to use it in a sentence.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 30, 2025 10:50 AM (Q4IgG)

343 She works for LIV Golf now.
Posted by: one hour sober at April 30, 2025 10:45 AM (Y1sOo)

Yeah. The frat party that breaks out into a golf match.

What a brilliant idea.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 10:46 AM (Zz0t1)

Well I just saw the Savannah Banana leg game for the first time and the stadium was stranding room only so maybe theyre con to something.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 10:50 AM (VofaG)

344 Because men's diseases don't matter.

Posted by: Disparity? You wanna talk disparity? at April 30, 2025 10:50 AM (bRtkC)

345 Frank Wilbert Stokes
Born Nashville, TN 1858-died New York City 1955
Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 10:46 AM

Sir Wilfred Stokes > Frank Wilbert Stokes

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 30, 2025 10:51 AM (QBMHV)

346
Milken Institute

No doubt they get fed funding. DOGE, investigate!

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 10:51 AM (GJFfz)

347 An aged couple who went to the same church as me bought a new Dodge Demon in 72, but wouldn't accept delivery until the Demon name and little decal Demons were taken off it by the dealer.
Posted by: Auto Hijinks

The building where I used to work had a little diner/cafe on the first floor. Run by Koreans, I think. One time, I bought something there, and the price came to $6.66. The old Korean guy at the register hit some key and knocked it down a cent to $6.65.

Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 10:51 AM (77rzZ)

348 Saw two movies at opposite ends of the spectrum this week. Both with whisper-thin plots.

1) "Hatari!" 1961 film with John Wayne and a bunch of low-level "stars" except maybe for Red Buttons.
Plot group of guys round up African animals for zoos, a French woman comes in and falls in love with John Wayne.
Pretty much 1961 state of the art family entertainment. something for everyone. Good, not great.
I saw it when a young kid and loved it. Mostly remembered the rhino ramming the truck and the fun "Baby Elephant Walk" sequences.
If you're a JW fan, check it out.

2) "Warfare"- new movie.
Bunch of American solders in Iraq get their asses kicked, regroup and barely make it out alive. Based on a true incident.
You will be locked onto the screen while it's playing but not really remember much about the movie in terms of characters, etc. Well-made, great action, good acting.
Vaguely, anti-American with the Americans taking over a family's home for no explained reason. Then kind of an Ewoks VS evil empire vibe as Americans use all this high tech equipment and still get their asses kicked and have to scurry away. Family scared that Americans may come back but okay now becuz...(con't)

Posted by: naturalfake at April 30, 2025 10:51 AM (iJfKG)

349 There's about 1000x more time, money and effort spent on breast cancer, which effects women more than men, than they spend on testicular cancer.

I'm just sayin'........ 'Disparage in women's health care' my ass.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 10:51 AM (Zz0t1)

350 Another disturbing election outcome in Canaduh -

Ontario Catholic school board rejects motion to ban LGBT ‘pride’ flag in 5-4 vote
An LGBT activist priest advocated to keep 'pride' flags in Catholic schools because the 'Sacred Heart of Jesus does stand for inclusion.'

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 30, 2025 10:51 AM (Dv3i1)

351 Please provide a list of these 'disparities.' I'll wait.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 10:48 AM (Zz0t1)

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"Everyone knows that white doctors intentionally kill their black and brown patients, h8r!"

/I mean, that's what they're teaching in medical schools these days ... and why the wifey doesn't trust any doctor under age 65 any longer.

Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 10:52 AM (4gelq)

352 281 ... "Just bought a five ounce tin. For that reason."

Rickb223,

Where did you get the bear oil? I would love to maintain my flintlocks using it.

Posted by: JTB at April 30, 2025 10:52 AM (yTvNw)

353 Because men's diseases don't matter.
Posted by: Disparity? You wanna talk disparity?

Men don't matter. They are only seen as ATM's.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 30, 2025 10:53 AM (xsqwN)

354 (con't)

terrorists casually wander out onto the street and all is back to "normal" now.

A fight over nothing.

Good watch despite thin plot and vague anti-US perfumery.

Check them out.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 30, 2025 10:53 AM (iJfKG)

355 holy crao. auto correct is anything but automatic.

lol

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 10:53 AM (VofaG)

356 "Which tribe is this?"
"Well, it's Inuit, innit?"

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 30, 2025 10:53 AM (GaW1s)

357
Well I just saw the Savannah Banana leg game for the first time and the stadium was stranding room only so maybe theyre con to something.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 10:50 AM (VofaG)

Yeah, but the Bud Light bitch that LIV just hired wanted to RID Bud Light of the 'frat boy' image.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 10:53 AM (Zz0t1)

358 248 1) "Hatari!" 1961 film with John Wayne and a bunch of low-level "stars" except maybe for Red Buttons.
Plot group of guys round up African animals for zoos, a French woman comes in and falls in love with John Wayne.
Pretty much 1961 state of the art family entertainment. something for everyone. Good, not great.
I saw it when a young kid and loved it. Mostly remembered the rhino ramming the truck and the fun "Baby Elephant Walk" sequences.
If you're a JW fan, check it out.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 30, 2025 10:51 AM (iJfKG)

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Hatari is one of about half a dozen movies made at the tail end of Howard Hawks' career that could pretty much just be described as "hang out movies". A handful of dudes and a lady hang out for 2 hours and occasionally deal with some plot stuff.

It's one of the better ones. The best is, of course, Rio Bravo.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 10:53 AM (GBKbO)

359 Where did you get the bear oil? I would love to maintain my flintlocks using it.
Posted by: JTB

https://bs-bp.com/bearoil.html

Posted by: rickb223 at April 30, 2025 10:53 AM (xsqwN)

360 En français: ennui(t)
Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 10:47 AM (CQE5S)

Speaking of french toast, I've been listening to Candace Owens' "Macron's wife is a dude" podcasts.

I'm not entirely sure she's wrong.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 30, 2025 10:54 AM (dGCAG)

361 Nice.
Around 2000 BC give or take.
Would hang.

Posted by: The Man from Athens at April 30, 2025 10:54 AM (icmmM)

362
Speaking of french toast, I've been listening to Candace Owens' "Macron's wife is a dude" podcasts.

I'm not entirely sure she's wrong.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 30, 2025 10:54 AM (dGCAG)

I mean, she's quintupling down on it, so......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 10:55 AM (Zz0t1)

363 Another disturbing election outcome in Canaduh -

Ontario Catholic school board rejects motion to ban LGBT ‘pride’ flag in 5-4 vote
An LGBT activist priest advocated to keep 'pride' flags in Catholic schools because the 'Sacred Heart of Jesus does stand for inclusion.'

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 30, 2025 10:51 AM (Dv3i1)

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Including serial child rapists and murderers, undoubtedly.

Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 10:55 AM (WXuX3)

364 Hatari is one of about half a dozen movies made at the tail end of Howard Hawks' career that could pretty much just be described as "hang out movies". A handful of dudes and a lady hang out for 2 hours and occasionally deal with some plot stuff.

It's one of the better ones. The best is, of course, Rio Bravo.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 10:53 AM (GBKbO)

Love both. They're in my John Wayne collection. There were two ladies in Hatari.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 30, 2025 10:56 AM (2J/Lj)

365 Kids in cages!

Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 10:56 AM (M/gGe)

366 I need that painting for my diorama.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 30, 2025 10:56 AM (GaW1s)

367 Current Flo is getting kinda pie-faced and has started to look like a 45 year old mom in Walmart yelling at her kids.

Wel, the actress who plays here was born in 1970 so that would make her older than 45. She is married to a theatre director but doesn't have any kids according to the 'net.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 30, 2025 10:56 AM (42Vb+)

368
Nice.
Around 2000 BC give or take.
Would hang.
Posted by: The Man from Athens

Or 1850. Wouldn't see any difference.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 10:56 AM (GJFfz)

369 Trying to remember when the NFL had players wear a certain color of footwear and wrist bands to draw attention to a men's disease...

Posted by: Hang on, I'm thinking... at April 30, 2025 10:57 AM (bRtkC)

370 Ontario Catholic school board rejects motion to ban LGBT ‘pride’ flag in 5-4 vote
An LGBT activist priest advocated to keep 'pride' flags in Catholic schools because the 'Sacred Heart of Jesus does stand for inclusion.'
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Odd for a Christian. Usually, they all agree Pride Precedes the Fall. But, whatever.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 30, 2025 10:57 AM (pZ64F)

371
Ontario Catholic school board rejects motion to ban LGBT ‘pride’ flag in 5-4 vote
An LGBT activist priest advocated to keep 'pride' flags in Catholic schools because the 'Sacred Heart of Jesus does stand for inclusion.'

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 30, 2025 10:51 AM (Dv3i1)

Glossing right over that whole 'man shall not lay with another man' thing.

What's God know, anyway......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 10:57 AM (Zz0t1)

372 It's one of the better ones. The best is, of course, Rio Bravo.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 10:53 AM (GBKbO

He likes repeating themes almost to plagiarism levels.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 10:57 AM (VofaG)

373 372 It's one of the better ones. The best is, of course, Rio Bravo.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 10:53 AM (GBKbO

He likes repeating themes almost to plagiarism levels.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 10:57 AM (VofaG)

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Some of the best do it all the time.

Yasujiro Ozu, for instance.

His last dozen films are essentially just remakes of each other with small variations.

Still great.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 10:58 AM (GBKbO)

374 An LGBT activist priest advocated to keep 'pride' flags in Catholic schools because the 'Sacred Heart of Jesus does stand for inclusion.'

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 30, 2025 10:51 AM

In fairness, he's raping alter boys so he has a dog in this fight.

Posted by: toby928 at April 30, 2025 10:59 AM (jc0TO)

375 Apropos of Hatari!, TCM is showing It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World tomorrow morning at 8.30 EST.

SYLVESTER!!!!!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 30, 2025 10:59 AM (Dg2sF)

376 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 10:58 AM (GBKbO)

I don't disagree. I like both Rio Bravo and To Have or Have Not.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 10:59 AM (VofaG)

377 Yet Obama was still campaigning against the Bush economy in 2015.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 30, 2025 10:43 AM (NwfFc)

My favorite was when even in 2011 he was still saying "the last eight years" in speeches. Language is powerful and so are lies.

Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 11:00 AM (M/gGe)

378 "Hatari" was the rough inspiration for the TV series "Daktari" with Clarence the Cross Eyed Lion. Liked that a lot as a kid.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 30, 2025 11:00 AM (uWKK8)

379 376 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 10:58 AM (GBKbO)

I don't disagree. I like both Rio Bravo and To Have or Have Not.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 10:59 AM (VofaG)

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I just remember the Life Aquatic release when people were saying, "Is this all Wes Anderson is?"

Yes. And it's fine. As long as the movies are good.

And the movies are good.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 11:00 AM (GBKbO)

380 Got a new Quik Trip down the street and boy is it spiffy. Can't get enough truck stops.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 30, 2025 11:00 AM (GaW1s)

381 A couple of Eskimo facts...

Not all Eskimos are "Inuit", despite what woke white people (especially Canadian woke white people) will try to tell you. The Yupik, for example, are not Inuit. Their language is in the same family, but it's not the same language.

Historically the two groups didn't get along. At all. The Canucks only have Inuit. Alaska has Inupiat (a type of Inuit), Yupik, and Aleut (a third related language group). Alaska also has a lot of Indians (or Native Americans, in PC speak... a stupid name, as the Eskimos are also indigenes). All of these groups hated each others guts. Where I live the local Eskimos were genocided by the local Indians before white people even showed up.

Insisting on calling a Yupik "Inuit" is like insisting on calling a Spaniard or Italian "French" (i.e., the languages are related, but that could well result in getting your ass kicked).

"Igloo" just means "house". It's the word for any type of dwelling. Snow houses were normally only built as temporary shelters while hunting or traveling. A more typical dwelling would be some type of dugout, or a tent made of animal skins and covered with turf.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 30, 2025 11:01 AM (W5ArC)

382 Biden blamed all negative economic news on Trump up until they removed him.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 11:01 AM (VofaG)

383 nood

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 30, 2025 11:01 AM (GaW1s)

384 SYLVESTER!!!!!
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

HIS CONDITION?! I'LL TELL YOU ABOUT HIS CONDITION!!

Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

385 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 11:01 AM (Zz0t1)

386 Current Flo is getting kinda pie-faced and has started to look like a 45 year old mom in Walmart yelling at her kids.

Wel, the actress who plays here was born in 1970 so that would make her older than 45. She is married to a theatre director but doesn't have any kids according to the 'net.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Stephanie Courtney - Feb 8, 1970 Stony Point, NY.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 30, 2025 11:02 AM (xsqwN)

387 Another disturbing election outcome in Canaduh -

Ontario Catholic school board rejects motion to ban LGBT ‘pride’ flag in 5-4 vote
An LGBT activist priest advocated to keep 'pride' flags in Catholic schools because the 'Sacred Heart of Jesus does stand for inclusion.'
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 30, 2025 10:51 AM (Dv3i1)

Third world shitholes gotta shit in third world holes.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 30, 2025 11:02 AM (dGCAG)

388 Plot group of guys round up African animals for zoos, a French woman comes in and falls in love with John Wayne.

She was Italian.
Hardy Kruger was a known. He bought the place where they filmed the movie and made it an animal preserve. He was the last cast member to die at age 93 in 2022.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 30, 2025 11:02 AM (2J/Lj)

389 The only way I could find Flo even mildly arousing would be after I spent an extended amount of time on a submarine deployment and had to take leave in Saudi Arabia.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 30, 2025 10:31 AM (Oq5OE)

I find her HOT! HUBBA, HUBBA!!

Posted by: guy who spent an extended amount of time on submarine deplotment at April 30, 2025 11:11 AM (5xuJ/)

390 359 Rickb223,

Thanks for the info. Just ordered some of the bear oil lube.

Posted by: JTB at April 30, 2025 11:28 AM (yTvNw)

391 Did anyone bring the Pemikin?

Posted by: Spurwing Plover at April 30, 2025 05:46 PM (FLiOE)

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