Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - May 7, 2025 [TRex]

Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety.

This is the Wednesday night ONT.

[Top photo: Disclosed barn in an undisclosed location]

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As always, please observe proper ONT etiquette. Legally Sufficient has the Ruler of Dread and is authorized to administer legally questionable remedial measures if warranted. Ciampino is in charge of the sock drawer. Cicero has bail money if needed. Notorious BFD has is operating the ice cream machine. If the ice cream machine is broken, ask AOP for repair help.

JQ has the key to the liquor cabinet. In light of recent Horde family events, all drinks are on the ONT house tonight. Bottoms up.

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When the bugle sounds, you have to saddle up and ride!

(Hat tip: Hrothgar)

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Millions of years-old dinosaur DNA to help build world-first T-Rex leather handbag

Creative powerhouse VML, genomic innovators The Organoid Company, and sustainable biotechnology firm Lab-Grown Leather have joined forces to develop the world's first T-Rex leather made using the extinct creature's DNA.
Interestingly, reports suggest that the first product could be available by year's end. They claim this next-gen material could be a high-quality, cruelty-free, and eco-friendly alternative to standard leather.

No. Just no. Leave my tribe alone.

(Hat tip: Iris)

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Do NOT steal the animatronic dinosaurs.

Fury as thieves steal pair of animatronic DINOSAURS from outside hotel as heartbroken owner says it's "like I've lost my children"

As if that wasn't traumatic enough...

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Random: Anyone remember the story of the Boeing 727 that went missing in 2003?

The 727 That Vanished

Mike Gabriel believes the airplane crashed in the Atlantic Ocean soon after takeoff. One crew member from the fuel delivery operation thinks the Angolan air force shot it down with a missile. A Luandan pilot says the word there is that the aircraft went north and vanished near Kinshasa, Congo. One of Ben Padilla's friends says the airplane was disassembled for parts in Bujumbura, Burundi, on Tanzania's western border.

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More random: Some people specifically collect hyper inflation bank notes. Excessive money printing never ends well, but the money is distinctive.

20160817-Hundred Billion.jpg

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Beethoven premiered "Ode to Joy" in Vienna on this date in 1824.

Was Beethoven deaf when he wrote his Ninth Symphony?

As Beethoven flourished and gained musical notoriety, he noticed a decline in his hearing from his mid 20s. It began with a buzzing noise in his ears, and was a devastatingly scary time for the composer.
While his hearing proceeded to decline over the next 15 years, Beethoven found ways to continue to compose music. At the age of 40, Beethoven was completely deaf, yet this was when he wrote his most famous symphony - Symphony No.9, also known as The Ninth.
It is said that Beethoven used techniques to physically feel music and notes in his body. This included holding a pencil in his mouth and resting it against the piano so he could feel the vibrations of the notes against his lips. The lower notes emulated a deeper vibration, therefore, pieces written in the second half of his career included fewer high notes and more low ones. There is evidence that Beethoven also cut the legs of his pianos, so that the sound vibrations resonated through the ground and into his body as he wrote his compositions! Beethoven apparently ruined many pianos in his later career from hitting the keys so aggressively in order for him to 'hear' what he was playing.

More: How did Beethoven write one of his greatest compositions while deaf?

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Continuing with the classical music theme, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born this day in 1840.

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Mike Rowe's early career at QVC. Comedy gold:

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For Horde members that are wise in the ways of Maiden and Metallica: Mongolian Metal from The Hu here and here.

If none of those words make any sense to you, better to keep scrolling than click out of curiosity. Nothing to see here.

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Wasn't expecting this to be a regular feature, but the Pittsburgh police scanner keeps giving:

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This is ridiculous. Hooray for those than can run a marathon and kudos for those that have fun doing it. But a record in the Guinness Book of World records?

This isn't even all of them.

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Apparently this is a true story:

His name really was Sir Beaver.

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Irene Cara for our big ONT finish:

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1 There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your phrenology.

Posted by: mindful webworker - in the mane at May 07, 2025 10:01 PM (uAhcM)

2 Howdy!

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at May 07, 2025 10:01 PM (Sf2cq)

3 Yay!

Posted by: GWB at May 07, 2025 10:01 PM (wbjSL)

4 Thank you.

I need an ONT.

Posted by: Stateless.. 25% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at May 07, 2025 10:01 PM (jvJvP)

5 Good evening good people. Contenty!!

Posted by: Tonypete at May 07, 2025 10:02 PM (cYBz/)

6 Boy howdy

Posted by: Fastly Strokewater - Backstroking. Barely. at May 07, 2025 10:02 PM (H/u99)

7 Barn with flag. MisHum worthy ONT topper.

Posted by: mindful webworker - saaaalute at May 07, 2025 10:03 PM (uAhcM)

8 Sorry I’m late, I was out looking for Tankdemon. He said something about a snipe hunt and hasn’t been seen since.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 07, 2025 10:03 PM (u73oe)

9 At the Zimbabwe Starbucks you can buy a small coffee and get change back from your hundred trillion dollar note.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 07, 2025 10:03 PM (JkO4W)

10 Sir Huge Beaver!?

Okaaaaay but I have questions.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 07, 2025 10:04 PM (cYBz/)

11 Poor Irene Cara. Condemned to sing the same damn song every day until the day she died.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 07, 2025 10:05 PM (JkO4W)

12 Rubio says they’ll be reviewing the arrestees from Columbia today and any foreign students will have their visa revoked.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 07, 2025 10:05 PM (u73oe)

13 I know 2 Pittsburgh detectives. One well. Both got out on their earliest retirement date. It's a fucking nut house.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 07, 2025 10:05 PM (LTygC)

14 SO maybe someday a person will be able to buy brontosaurus foreskin boots like the ones Kinky Friedman had?

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at May 07, 2025 10:06 PM (TizQb)

15 A shame about that animatronic TRex going up in flames.

Too bad when the "skin" fell off it didn't have a more realistic skeleton.

Posted by: mindful webworker - dino flambe at May 07, 2025 10:06 PM (uAhcM)

16 Liquor cabinet is *unlocked*

Step right up!!!

Posted by: JQ at May 07, 2025 10:06 PM (rdVOm)

17 Thank you TRex.

JQ has the key to the liquor cabinet. In light of recent Horde family events, all drinks are on the ONT house tonight. Bottoms up

3 more beers and I'm done.

My friend across the street will be over soon. But he has one drink. Horrible day for him. Brother with stage 4 cancer. And he cut his hand and needed stitches.

I just want him to come over after his beautiful children are put to bed so I can be comforting.

Posted by: Stateless.. 25% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at May 07, 2025 10:06 PM (jvJvP)

18 The twenty billion mark woman is disappointed in you.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 07, 2025 10:09 PM (0eaVi)

19 That's NOT an animatronic T-Rex. If it was, he would have stopped, dropped, and rolled.
(Seriously, he's not moving.)

Posted by: GWB at May 07, 2025 10:10 PM (wbjSL)

20 Those weren't Met Gala photos?

Posted by: Stateless.. 25% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at May 07, 2025 10:11 PM (jvJvP)

21 184 CA spent millions just figuring out they could or couldn’t use (I forget which and does it even matter?) some of the preexisting track.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 07, 2025 07:21 PM (xfPMO)

You might say, it was her only claim, to Fame....

/Rimshot

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 07, 2025 10:11 PM (QAkQ3)

22 I am rooting for the handbag to eat them.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 07, 2025 10:11 PM (XHPOi)

23 re: Ode to Joy. "Difficult to Cure" by Rainbow is even better.

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at May 07, 2025 10:11 PM (TizQb)

24 Oh great, another beaver.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 07, 2025 10:12 PM (63Dwl)

25 Yay, Great American Grump Out ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 07, 2025 10:12 PM (lUFok)

26 As for the 727, Elvis needed a new jet.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 07, 2025 10:12 PM (XHPOi)

27 Also, missed opportunity to put a mystery click behind that 727:
https://t.ly/gLSyW

Posted by: GWB at May 07, 2025 10:12 PM (wbjSL)

28 The fifty billion Mark note is particularly bad, because it’s 50 trillion marks.

They used the long system of factors of 1,000 so:

1 milliard = our 1 million
1 billion = our 1 trillion

At the end of hyperinflation $1 was about 4.2 trillion Marks. So the 50 billion note pictured above was about $11.90.

(Of course, back then, before America’s hyperinflation began, $11.90 was a lot of money, not a medium-sized Extra Value Meal.)

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 07, 2025 10:13 PM (l3YAf)

29 Fossils are rock. How the hell does one get DNA from rock?

Posted by: Some Rat at May 07, 2025 10:13 PM (TfUTr)

30 I've been floating heavenward all day on Anton Bruckner's Symphony #9.

It was the last one he wrote, and has only the three movements: he never completed the fourth. He said: "You see, I have already dedicated two earthly majesty symphonies to poor King Ludwig as the royal patron of the arts. To our illustrious, dear Emperor as the highest earthly majesty, whom I acknowledge.

"And now I dedicate my last work to the majesty of all the majesties, the beloved God, and hope that he will give me so much time to complete the same."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swULVZ5zLkM

Posted by: Beverly at May 07, 2025 10:13 PM (Epeb0)

31 6 Boy howdy
Posted by: Fastly Strokewater - Backstroking. Barely. at May 07, 2025 10:02 PM (H/

Girl howdy

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at May 07, 2025 10:13 PM (Sf2cq)

32 Humanoid robot goes on 'attack' in chilling viral video

https://tinyurl.com/vc37peez

Posted by: Don Black at May 07, 2025 10:13 PM (AOsQT)

33 Minister of the Treasury: "So, what should we show on our new hundred trillion dollar note?"

Second Assistant Under Minister of the Treasury: "What about a pile of rocks? Is a pile of rocks good, boss?"

Minister of the Treasury: "Capital idea, Smedley! Look for an extra ten billion dollars in your pay packet this week."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 07, 2025 10:13 PM (JkO4W)

34 Come on people. If you're going to do something strange for a marathon, go all out! Fastest

In a wheelchair
Walking on your hands
On a unicycle- without losing your balance
With your head covered - effectively blind

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 07, 2025 10:14 PM (VNX3d)

35 In neighborhood news... couple of hours ago we had all FIVE Police cars from my little town, at the house 2 doors down.

Theres been a lot of yellin and cussing there the last couple weeks... as someone has been demanding rent money... soooo.... my guess?

Illegals whose US Aid money was no longer coming in got themselves evicted... Van and another car that are usually outside the house, are now suddenly gone.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 07, 2025 10:14 PM (QAkQ3)

36 Thanks for the dandy ONT, TRex!

The Ruler of Dread is right here, so mind your Ps and Qs, boys and girls!

Love the Pittsburgh scanner feature. Homewood used to be a decent area, but that was long, long ago...

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 07, 2025 10:14 PM (rxCpr)

37 Putting a PSA up for any intended attendees to the PNW MoMe this Saturday.
If you're driving from the west side, Chinook and Cayuse Passes are still closed. WSDOT has no clue when they'll be plowed and safe. It's a great and scenic route but, not this week.

Posted by: Winston, trying to think up a new nic at May 07, 2025 10:14 PM (uoytw)

38 Thanks, Mr TRex. I liked the picture of the pirate runner and I laughed at the " I didn't sleep last night and people are annoying today" comment.

Also, I didn't know this song of faith , although I think it's wonderful: "Hard fought Hallelujah."

https://tinyurl.com/3vnc2zv6

Good night everyone. Hope we all get some sleep and mostly refrain from being grumpy tomorrow , although poster "grumpy and recalcitrant " a delightful fellow on the tech thread can be grumpy if he wants to be, although I have never seen him be particularly grumpy except about Canadian politics which he is certainly entitled to be.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 07, 2025 10:14 PM (v2dbf)

39 Beethoven's grave has music coming out of it!!! He's decomposing.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 07, 2025 10:14 PM (olkOV)

40 Love the barn with the flag! There seem to be 100 stars or more, but I suppose that includes Canada and Greenland.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 07, 2025 10:15 PM (rxCpr)

41 29 Fossils are rock. How the hell does one get DNA from rock?
Posted by: Some Rat at May 07, 2025 10:13 PM (TfUTr)

Well... if it's a Pet Rock...

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 07, 2025 10:15 PM (QAkQ3)

42 Brontosaurus rib-eye, enough meat to feed an Ethiopian village for a month.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 07, 2025 10:15 PM (XHPOi)

43 Yeah, about that whole "FAME! I'm gonna live forever" thing...

Posted by: F. Mercury at May 07, 2025 10:15 PM (s8j++)

44 Rubio says they’ll be reviewing the arrestees from Columbia today and any foreign students will have their visa revoked.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 07, 2025 10:05 PM (u73oe)

What's wrong with beating them to a pulp, and shipping them to pakistan?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 07, 2025 10:16 PM (/LEkU)

45 The Beethoven excerpt was cool.

I subscribe to 'The Great Courses Plus' and the classical music guy is great.

Posted by: Stateless.. 25% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at May 07, 2025 10:16 PM (jvJvP)

46 First Trump trade deal is apparently with the UK and will be announced tomorrow.

Let the games begin.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 07, 2025 10:16 PM (viF8m)

47 I left a link to the Vienna Philharmonic's performance of Bruckner's 9th. A German fellow left this comment: "The beginning of the first movement alone sounds as primal and empty, mysterious and threatening as the beginning of the world, the birth of the universe and sounds. Music like from another planet. And then the powerful, expressive main theme, such as the summit that has been climbed and the clear view over the Alps into the valleys. The Vienna Philharmonic plays fantastically!"

Posted by: Beverly at May 07, 2025 10:16 PM (Epeb0)

48 11
'Poor Irene Cara. Condemned to sing the same damn song every day until the day she died.'

Worse than that. She didn't even live forever.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 07, 2025 10:16 PM (3wi/L)

49 The worst hyperinflation ever recorded was in post-WWII Hungary.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 07, 2025 10:17 PM (l3YAf)

50 42 Brontosaurus rib-eye, enough meat to feed an Ethiopian village for a month.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 07, 2025 10:15 PM (XHPOi)

Nah, that's just for Dino...

Posted by: Fred Flintstone at May 07, 2025 10:17 PM (QAkQ3)

51 I am rooting for the handbag to eat them.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 07, 2025 10:11 PM (XHPOi)

It should eat all their money, at least. The handbag would need some T Rex teeth to bite the hand that feeds them money.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 07, 2025 10:17 PM (VNX3d)

52 Putting a PSA up for any intended attendees to the PNW MoMe this Saturday.
If you're driving from the west side, Chinook and Cayuse Passes are still closed. WSDOT has no clue when they'll be plowed and safe. It's a great and scenic route but, not this week.
Posted by: Winston, trying to think up a new nic

Never take the scenic route when you're in a hell of a hurry.

Posted by: Some Rat at May 07, 2025 10:17 PM (TfUTr)

53 46 First Trump trade deal is apparently with the UK and will be announced tomorrow.

Let the games begin.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 07, 2025 10:16 PM (viF8m)

And China quietly backtracking on the tariffs they raised... as their economy tanks.

Posted by: Fred Flintstone at May 07, 2025 10:18 PM (QAkQ3)

54 Sir Beaver's middle name was "Mungus"

Posted by: gKWVE at May 07, 2025 10:19 PM (gKWVE)

55 Was the person calling about the kids tipping porta-potties in one that was tipped?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 07, 2025 10:19 PM (VNX3d)

56 So we have english fine dining and dentistry covered. Oh crumbs.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 07, 2025 10:19 PM (bF7Q5)

57 Nice beaver.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 07, 2025 10:19 PM (u73oe)

58 35 In neighborhood news... couple of hours ago we had all FIVE Police cars from my little town, at the house 2 doors down.

Theres been a lot of yellin and cussing there the last couple weeks... as someone has been demanding rent money... soooo.... my guess?

Illegals whose US Aid money was no longer coming in got themselves evicted... Van and another car that are usually outside the house, are now suddenly gone.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 07, 2025 10:14 PM (QAkQ3)

In terms of small towns, we have two sets of four way stop lights.

And because our kids are stupid, lights are by the school crossings.

I'm just curious about how small a town we are talking about....

Posted by: Stateless.. 25% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at May 07, 2025 10:20 PM (jvJvP)

59 Kawasaki's four-legged robot that can carry a human

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhFlGkwHVPY

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 07, 2025 10:20 PM (XHPOi)

60 Most of Europe was Hungry after WW2.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 07, 2025 10:21 PM (bF7Q5)

61 How's the 7-11 vs Quickie Mart war going?

Posted by: Archer at May 07, 2025 10:22 PM (IDphi)

62 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 07, 2025 10:22 PM (sAmhv)

63 Bruckner is the longing for the Infinite.

Posted by: Beverly at May 07, 2025 10:22 PM (Epeb0)

64 Love the Pittsburgh scanner feature. Homewood used to be a decent area, but that was long, long ago...
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 07, 2025 10:14 PM (rxCpr)

Friend's dad grew up there before the demographics changed. What a dump now.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 07, 2025 10:22 PM (LTygC)

65 Beaver was a very bad boy. Dumb, too. He would act up when Miss Landers left the room.

Posted by: Judy Hensler at May 07, 2025 10:22 PM (G5+As)

66 I promised a friend that I would spread the word about his job hunt. He does IT consulting, software development, network administration, server administration (Linux, windows). He can work remotely or is willing to relocate. Regions of interest for him would be NW Arkansas, Tucson, or DC.

He says I can share his phone number.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at May 07, 2025 10:23 PM (Sf2cq)

67 How's the 7-11 vs Quickie Mart war going?
Posted by: Archer at May 07, 2025 10:22 PM (IDphi)

——————

Oooooooo, that’s good.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 07, 2025 10:24 PM (u73oe)

68 58 35 In neighborhood news... couple of hours ago we had all FIVE Police cars from my little town, at the house 2 doors down.

Theres been a lot of yellin and cussing there the last couple weeks... as someone has been demanding rent money... soooo.... my guess?

Illegals whose US Aid money was no longer coming in got themselves evicted... Van and another car that are usually outside the house, are now suddenly gone.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 07, 2025 10:14 PM (QAkQ3)

I was runn___ barefoot before all insanity broke loose and was stopped by 2 cop cars.

Small towns...

Posted by: Stateless.. 25% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at May 07, 2025 10:24 PM (jvJvP)

69 Nice beaver.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

Thanks! I just had it stuffed!

Posted by: Tonypete at May 07, 2025 10:24 PM (cYBz/)

70 Used to have the website where you could buy the 100 Trillion Zimbabwean bills.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2025 10:24 PM (y6oPX)

71 Good evening Horde, thx TRex.
That anyone could produce Ode to Joy, one of the most beautiful pieces ever, while totally deaf, is absolutely mind boggling.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 07, 2025 10:24 PM (vmkyp)

72 Greetings everyone. Hope you're all having a great pre-Friday eve.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 07, 2025 10:24 PM (CHHv1)

73 64
'Friend's dad grew up there before the demographics changed. What a dump now.'

Who lives there now?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 07, 2025 10:24 PM (3wi/L)

74 You can't outrun the long arm of Columbia record and tape club.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 07, 2025 10:24 PM (bF7Q5)

75 Netherlands, we were hungary the winter of '44-'45.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 07, 2025 10:25 PM (XHPOi)

76 Rubio says they’ll be reviewing the arrestees from Columbia today and any foreign students will have their visa revoked.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 07, 2025 10:05 PM (u73oe)

What's wrong with beating them to a pulp, and shipping them to pakistan?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 07, 2025 10:16 PM (/LEkU)
* * * *
Your proposal sounds reasonable. Do you have a newsletter, perchance?

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 07, 2025 10:25 PM (rxCpr)

77 Together at last! Joy Reid and Michael Steele!

https://shorturl.at/AiTgM

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Elephants and Earthquakes! at May 07, 2025 10:26 PM (L/fGl)

78 Ciampino is in charge of the sock drawer.

I'm gonna put one of my cats there to emulate that Cafe cat.

Posted by: Ciampino - Bailey, come here kitty at May 07, 2025 10:26 PM (sPQoU)

79 You are probably over 29 if you've flown on a 727. I flew on 727s many times. I deplaned out the aft door of one, once. Or it may have been from a DC-9. I also flew many times on DC-9s. Routine hard landings. Ka-SLAM! Then a different SLAM on your body and senses when the thrust-reversers were deployed.

Posted by: Gref at May 07, 2025 10:27 PM (aBgBM)

80 Who lives there now?
Posted by: Dr. Claw

Nobody lives there anymore.
It's too crowded.

Posted by: MkY at May 07, 2025 10:27 PM (cPGH3)

81
It was the last one he wrote, and has only the three movements: he never completed the fourth.

_____________

I think he really did complete it, for some values of "complete". He worked on it literally up to the last day of his life. His apartment was ransacked by souvenir hunters after his death and little bits and pieces of the fourth movement are occasionally found.

There are several performing versions of the finale, principally by William Carragan and Benjamin Cohrs.

https://youtu.be/XM3wnkIS4Ao

But the coda of the third movement is so remarkable, especially after the anguished dissonant shriek that precedes it, that a finale seems superfluous.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 07, 2025 10:27 PM (QnmlO)

82
Re the dinosaur purse, how are they going to grow just the hide?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 07, 2025 10:27 PM (U7Gpi)

83 In 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver,

Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2025 10:27 PM (y6oPX)

84 71
'That anyone could produce Ode to Joy, one of the most beautiful pieces ever, while totally deaf, is absolutely mind boggling.'

Same here. I can only imagine that Beethoven memorized the notes of all the instruments so well that he composed the 9th from how he remembered they sounded.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 07, 2025 10:28 PM (3wi/L)

85 >> Second Assistant Under Minister of the Treasury: "What about a pile of rocks? Is a pile of rocks good, boss?"

What’s funny is that every Zimbabwe banknote from the same period had a fucking pile of rocks on it.

Must be why it’s such an economic powerhouse.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 07, 2025 10:28 PM (l3YAf)

86 Before I forget again...

Thank you for the barn picture, TRex. It's nice to have reminders of the important things in life.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 07, 2025 10:28 PM (VNX3d)

87 The barn pic is sorta AI weird. The fence rail in the foreground doesn't connect to the post. And other strange bits.

Posted by: 13times at May 07, 2025 10:29 PM (g8Zrq)

88 Those Guinea birds are pretty damn fast... We should do a study!

Posted by: Sir Beaver at May 07, 2025 10:29 PM (RFhjS)

89 You can't outrun the long arm of Columbia record and tape club.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Brb. Someone is at the door.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2025 10:29 PM (y6oPX)

90 You can't outrun the long arm of Columbia record and tape club.
Posted by: Boss Moss

You still owe the for the CDs?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 07, 2025 10:29 PM (olkOV)

91 Italian birds?

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 07, 2025 10:29 PM (bF7Q5)

92 Those Guinea birds are pretty damn fast... We should do a study!
Posted by: Sir Beaver

Laden or unladen?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2025 10:30 PM (y6oPX)

93 Who lives there now?
Posted by: Dr. Claw

Dregs of society.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 07, 2025 10:30 PM (LTygC)

94 Haven't been following the action in Rome today. Did a new guy get the big hat yet?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 07, 2025 10:30 PM (JkO4W)

95 Looking back at movies like V for Vendetta is kind of funny. It was intended to be a rebuke of Shrub and Blair.

But the Britain in the movie - a tyranny ruled by a bunch of arrogant pedophiles came true under a far left government.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2025 10:31 PM (t0Rmr)

96 You can't outrun the long arm of Columbia record and tape club.
Posted by: Boss Moss

You still owe the for the CDs?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

CDs? I still owe for cassettes.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2025 10:31 PM (y6oPX)

97 You can't outrun the long arm of Columbia record and tape club.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Is that the company that hires Columbia University graduates? It seems they've started admitting thugs for at least a few years now.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 07, 2025 10:31 PM (VNX3d)

98 Used to have the website where you could buy the 100 Trillion Zimbabwean bills.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2025 10:24 PM (y6oPX)

ebay.com

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 07, 2025 10:31 PM (l3YAf)

99 But Alan Moore will never admit such self-evident truths.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 07, 2025 10:31 PM (XHPOi)

100 I got cassettes CDs hadn't been invented yet.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 07, 2025 10:32 PM (bF7Q5)

101 11 Poor Irene Cara. Condemned to sing the same damn song every day until the day she died.
Posted by: Cicero

Didn't she also sing the theme song for 'Flashdance'? To the Interwebs!!

youtu.be/ILWSp0m9G2U

Yep. She did that one too.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 07, 2025 10:32 PM (sAmhv)

102 Haven't been following the action in Rome today. Did a new guy get the big hat yet?
Posted by: Cicero

Nope. They popped black smoke earlier.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2025 10:32 PM (y6oPX)

103
"The beginning of the first movement alone sounds as primal and empty, mysterious and threatening as the beginning of the world, the birth of the universe and sounds."

__________

And then building to that massive unison octave drop that takes your breath away, the grinding dissonance with which the first movement ends, the creepy scherzo, the leap of a ninth that begins the third movement and the peaceful coda bringing greetings from the Seventh and Eighth. An amazing symphony.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 07, 2025 10:32 PM (QnmlO)

104 87 The barn pic is sorta AI weird. The fence rail in the foreground doesn't connect to the post. And other strange bits.

Posted by: 13times at May 07, 2025 10:29 PM
***
I took the photo with my cell phone. The barn exists as you see it. The photo is not AI.

Posted by: TRex at May 07, 2025 10:33 PM (omd/p)

105 98 Used to have the website where you could buy the 100 Trillion Zimbabwean bills.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2025 10:24 PM (y6oPX)

ebay.com

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 07, 2025 10:31 PM (l3YAf)

Many on-line coin dealers have hyer-inflation-value bills from the Weimar Republic, etc.

Posted by: Gref at May 07, 2025 10:33 PM (aBgBM)

106

Former President Joe Biden chose a friendly venue for his first interview since leaving the White House: ABC's "The View."

The show announced Thursday that Biden and former first lady Jill Biden will appear on the program on May 8 for their first media appearance since leaving the White House in January. President Biden did an interview on May 5 with BBC that aired on Wednesday, but their "View" appearance will be their first joint one.

"We'll ask about his legacy, accomplishments, regrets, and, of course, the current political landscape," co-host Whoopi Goldberg said.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 07, 2025 10:33 PM (63Dwl)

107 Once the carbinet is assembled, I wonder how many loose screws will be running around?

Posted by: Diogenes at May 07, 2025 10:33 PM (W/lyH)

108 Hopefully the African Cardinals dump the Jesuits into the Tiber.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 07, 2025 10:34 PM (XHPOi)

109 No decision yet at the Clack-Clave.

Posted by: Zoidberg at May 07, 2025 10:34 PM (i0F8b)

110 Used to have the website where you could buy the 100 Trillion Zimbabwean bills.

The art kind of looks like poop.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2025 10:35 PM (t0Rmr)

111 hyper, not hyer. Do I owe residuals to Martha Hyer now?

Posted by: Gref at May 07, 2025 10:35 PM (aBgBM)

112 Welp, this is nuts..

Back when I bought my Zimbabwe dollars, back in 2012 or so, they were cheap. I got a ton of very good condition bills for like $9.99 on eBay.

Now they’re going for much more. How is that possible? Surely there are a lot of them in circulation..

Well.. hmm. Just because they had hyperinflation doesn’t mean they printed a lot of physical bills of a certain series.. huh..

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 07, 2025 10:35 PM (l3YAf)

113 Joey on The Spew on VE Day?

No shame... so much for remembering his uncle who got eaten by French cannibals.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 07, 2025 10:35 PM (XHPOi)

114 Haven't been following the action in Rome today. Did a new guy get the big hat yet?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

No, but the new rules are intriguing..
All eligible Cardinals get a bingo card. The first one who gets the black out and yells "Papal!" is the new Pope.
Must have the last number called.

Posted by: Some Rat at May 07, 2025 10:35 PM (TfUTr)

115 106

Former President Joe Biden chose a friendly venue for his first interview since leaving the White House: ABC's "The View."

The show announced Thursday that Biden and former first lady Jill Biden will appear on the program on May 8 for their first media appearance since leaving the White House in January. President Biden did an interview on May 5 with BBC that aired on Wednesday, but their "View" appearance will be their first joint one.

"We'll ask about his legacy, accomplishments, regrets, and, of course, the current political landscape," co-host Whoopi Goldberg said.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 07, 2025 10:33 PM (63Dwl)

In other words, Whoopi will coach the two to blast Donaldus Maximus, non-stop.

Posted by: Gref at May 07, 2025 10:37 PM (aBgBM)

116 The barn pic is sorta AI weird. The fence rail in the foreground doesn't connect to the post. And other strange bits.

Posted by: 13times at May 07, 2025 10:29 PM
***
I took the photo with my cell phone. The barn exists as you see it. The photo is not AI.
Posted by: TRex at May 07, 2025 10:33 PM (omd/p)

Don’t lie, man. Only a latent, machine super-intelligence could create a fence rail separate from the fence post.

The Singularity is upon us!

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 07, 2025 10:37 PM (l3YAf)

117 Will Whoopi still be wearing her Gala drag or will Jill be wearing it?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 07, 2025 10:37 PM (XHPOi)

118
I don't want to dis anybody and I would never shame my fellow human beings, but anyone who would pay $31.50 for that "Precious Moments" figurine is a nose-picking, Miracle-Whip-earing, inbred, semi-literate, cross-eyed troglodyte.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 07, 2025 10:38 PM (U7Gpi)

119 I vote Piper for singing “Fame” on karaoke night at the TX meetup.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 07, 2025 10:38 PM (iNLjp)

120 >>I took the photo with my cell phone. The barn exists as you see it. The photo is not AI.

My folks had a farm in Vermont. Seeing barns with American flags is still a thing even in that crazy state.

People who live by the land understand.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 07, 2025 10:39 PM (viF8m)

121 I promised a friend that I would spread the word about his job hunt. He does IT consulting, software development, network administration, server administration (Linux, windows). He can work remotely or is willing to relocate. Regions of interest for him would be NW Arkansas, Tucson, or DC.

He says I can share his phone number.

You can send him here:

https://shorturl.at/gq2vl

It's Chandler, which is about 100 miles or so from Tucson. If that's not close enough there may be something with a defense contractor on Fort Wegotcha on the edge of Sierra Vista, which is about 72 miles away.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 07, 2025 10:39 PM (lUFok)

122 Leonard Bernstein - The Gandalf of Composers

"...in Beethoven's case it is always the right note as though he had some private telephone wire to heaven which told him what the next note had to be. No composer ever had thah, even Mozart...
...everything is so unpredictable and yet so right...''

Posted by: a dude in MI at May 07, 2025 10:39 PM (+I6Y/)

123 Former President Joe Biden chose a friendly venue for his first interview since leaving the White House: ABC's "The View."

The show announced Thursday that Biden and former first lady Jill Biden will appear on the program on May 8 for their first media appearance since leaving the White House in January. President Biden did an interview on May 5 with BBC that aired on Wednesday, but their "View" appearance will be their first joint one.

"We'll ask about his legacy, accomplishments, regrets, and, of course, the current political landscape," co-host Whoopi Goldberg said.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 07, 2025 10:33 PM (63Dwl)

In other words, Whoopi will coach the two to blast Donaldus Maximus, non-stop.
Posted by: Gref

Depending on the drugs administered or withheld, might make for some must see TV.

Posted by: Some Rat at May 07, 2025 10:39 PM (TfUTr)

124 For some reason troglodytes had a lot of treasure in becmi.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 07, 2025 10:40 PM (bF7Q5)

125 I don't want to dis anybody and I would never shame my fellow human beings, but anyone who would pay $31.50 for that "Precious Moments" figurine is a nose-picking, Miracle-Whip-earing, inbred, semi-literate, cross-eyed troglodyte.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 07, 2025 10:38 PM (U7Gpi)

HEY! We're right here!

Posted by: Nose Picking Miracle-Whip-earing, inbred, semi-literate, cross-eyed troglodytes. Local 3278 at May 07, 2025 10:40 PM (5xuJ/)

126 CDs? I still owe for cassettes.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2025 10:31 PM (y6oPX)

Beaver Cleaver put all those monthly special offers from the record club in his sock drawer instead of sending them back like he was supposed to. He ended up owing some unearthly sum. I told you he was dumb!

Posted by: Judy Hensler. at May 07, 2025 10:40 PM (G5+As)

127 Beethoven didn't have to hear the music to know what it sounded like. His training and experience informed his composition. He undoubtedly would have liked to hear it, but probably could hear the sound in his head without benefit of his ears.

I hear music in my head, including instrumentation and vocals and I'm hardly musically literate. It's just there. Until a few years ago, I thought everyone could do that.

Posted by: huerfano at May 07, 2025 10:40 PM (n2swS)

128 Beaver and beer? That works.

Posted by: GWB at May 07, 2025 10:40 PM (wbjSL)

129 More: How did Beethoven write one of his greatest compositions while deaf?

It's not really as curious as it seems.

The human consciousness is imputed to us by our Creator, and all outward projection of that consciousness is just a means of relating it to other conscious beings. Language, music, art, imagery, they actually exist in the mind absent a means to project it, as does all other rational thought.

It's the same consciousness that allows us to know and use hypotheticals like "How would I feel if I didn't eat breakfast?" without actually having to go through the sensory event each time to intrinsically comprehend it.

So writing a symphony absent being able to hear it isn't really surprising, it's merely a means of conveyance of something that exists in the ethereal as a creation of a mind.

The miracle, such as there is one, is that human consciousness is able to create something which has not been, to conceive, and produce. This is the spark of divine, the image of God, ingrained in mankind from conception.

The marvel is not how to write a symphony without hearing it, the marvel is how to write one at all.

Posted by: Christ is King at May 07, 2025 10:41 PM (sGuDx)

130 that reminds me, I need to read (not watch) Alan Moore's "V for Vendetta".
so far Adrian Karel, party leader for industry in this alt-1997, is proclaiming the duty of every man in Britain to seize the initiative and...
Make Britain Great Again.
Moore wrote this in 1988.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 07, 2025 10:41 PM (gKWVE)

131 Depending on the drugs administered or withheld, might make for some must see TV.

Joey imitates a centipede being electrocuted?

Joey attacks Whoopi?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 07, 2025 10:41 PM (XHPOi)

132 O'Keefe Media Group

WORLD EXCLUSIVE: ‘Prince Andrew Was F*ing Underage Girls’ — Tape of Royal Family Advisor Exposes Prince Andrew’s Sexual Relations with Minors and Deep Ties to Jeffrey Epstein

In revelation caught on hidden camera by O’Keefe Media Group (OMG), American businessman and long-time royal insider John Bryan has come forward with damning claims about Prince Andrew’s personal relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Bryan, a trusted advisor to the Duke of York, also alleged that Prince Andrew lied to him about his involvement in sexual misconduct with minors.

https://tinyurl.com/2u33pdky

Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2025 10:41 PM (y6oPX)

133 20 Those weren't Met Gala photos?
Posted by: Stateless.. 25% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at May 07, 2025 10:11 PM (jvJvP)

Thank heavens TRex didn't include a photo of Whoopee's Met Gala getup, because that would just be cruel.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 07, 2025 10:41 PM (0Htd1)

134 I don't want to dis anybody and I would never shame my fellow human beings, but anyone who would pay $31.50 for that "Precious Moments" figurine is a nose-picking, Miracle-Whip-earing, inbred, semi-literate, cross-eyed troglodyte.

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*looks at complete set of Bradford Exchange Collectors Edition Wizard of Oz Series Plates rimmed in genuine gold leaf*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 07, 2025 10:42 PM (JkO4W)

135
Posted by: Judy Hensler

Ha ha you got kicked off the bus today.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 07, 2025 10:42 PM (63Dwl)

136 You can't outrun the long arm of Columbia record and tape club.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Get your kneecaps busted for unpaid fees?

Posted by: a dude in MI at May 07, 2025 10:42 PM (+I6Y/)

137 Moore wrote this in 1988.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 07, 2025 10:41 PM (gKWVE)

Moore was pretty good. Watchmen was a meditation on Reaganism.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 07, 2025 10:43 PM (l3YAf)

138
So writing a symphony absent being able to hear it isn't really surprising, it's merely a means of conveyance of something that exists in the ethereal as a creation of a mind.

__________

Berlioz couldn't play any instrument, which didn't stop him from composing amazing music.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 07, 2025 10:44 PM (QnmlO)

139 O'Keefe's next scoop will be about who bombed the WTC in 1993, I'm sure.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 07, 2025 10:45 PM (gKWVE)

140 My mother actually had that entire series of Wizard of Oz plates. None of us knew what to do with them after she passed, felt awkward about throwing them out. Think they're still stuck away in my basement somewhere.

Posted by: Lirio100 at May 07, 2025 10:46 PM (zS4/f)

141 "We'll ask about his legacy, accomplishments, regrets, and, of course, the current political landscape," co-host Whoopi Goldberg said.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 07, 2025 10:33 PM (63Dwl)

In other words, Whoopi will coach the two to blast Donaldus Maximus, non-stop.
Posted by: Gref

Depending on the drugs administered or withheld, might make for some must see TV.

Posted by: Some Rat at May 07, 2025 10:39 PM (TfUTr)

"We'll ask about his legacy, accomplishments, regrets, and, of course, the current political landscape," co-host Whoopi Goldberg said.

I predict:
He'll say his legacy is (insert a lie here).
He'll say his biggest accomplishment is either 47 billion jobs created or unifying the entire world against that wascally POOTIN!
He'll say his regrets are (insert self-serving bullshite here).
His take on the current political landscape will be several lies about Trump.

Posted by: Gref at May 07, 2025 10:46 PM (aBgBM)

142 106
'The show announced Thursday that Biden and former first lady Jill Biden will appear on the program on May 8 for their first media appearance since leaving the White House '

Somewhere, someone's toilet will back up with a load of the bad stuff on May 8 too.

And I will be more interested in that what happens on the View.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 07, 2025 10:46 PM (3wi/L)

143 133 Thank heavens TRex didn't include a photo of Whoopee's Met Gala getup, because that would just be cruel.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 07, 2025 10:41 PM
***
My ONT pledge to you is no Whoopi and no Yoko.

Posted by: TRex at May 07, 2025 10:46 PM (omd/p)

144 Thing is, my favorite part is a little more obscure in 'Ode to Joy' as its more of a memory I have of my dad. I was testing out my new stereo system and he came in as it was playing and he was really enjoying it..

Posted by: a dude in MI at May 07, 2025 10:47 PM (+I6Y/)

145 I don't understand collectibles.

Posted by: Don Black at May 07, 2025 10:51 PM (AOsQT)

146 42 Brontosaurus rib-eye, enough meat to feed an Ethiopian village for a month.
Posted by: Anna Puma

It doesn't taste like chicken?

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 07, 2025 10:52 PM (0Htd1)

147 I don't understand collectibles.
Posted by: Don Black at May 07, 2025 10:51 PM (AOsQT)

So you’re one of them unarmed types who doesn’t believe in owning guns?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 07, 2025 10:53 PM (l3YAf)

148 I'm not much for Whoopi, but I celebrate Yoko Ono and all of her artistic endeavours, including her music catalog. Shame we can't hear her warbling on the farm Upstate.

Posted by: Musikologist at May 07, 2025 10:53 PM (G5+As)

149 To bad all the mega fauna are extinct.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 07, 2025 10:54 PM (bF7Q5)

150 Not sure hand spindles count as collectibles because I use them but I admit to having more than a few.

Posted by: Lirio100 at May 07, 2025 10:54 PM (zS4/f)

151 hite smoke coming from the ONT does not mean a new COB has been designated. It just means that the TRex-mobile needs an oil change.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 10:00 PM

Did you notice it didn't say what it means if the smoke is black?
No, it's not racyss smoke.

Posted by: Ciampino - Wassa mean eh? at May 07, 2025 10:54 PM (sPQoU)

152 My mother actually had that entire series of Wizard of Oz plates. None of us knew what to do with them after she passed, felt awkward about throwing them out. Think they're still stuck away in my basement somewhere.
Posted by: Lirio100

Antique Roadshow when they come to your town.
See if they are worth anything.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2025 10:56 PM (y6oPX)

153 To bad all the mega fauna are extinct.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 07, 2025 10:54 PM (bF7Q5)

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: Stacey Abrams at May 07, 2025 10:56 PM (l3YAf)

154 Re the dinosaur purse, how are they going to grow just the hide?
-
Probably the same way they grow "meat" in a lab.

Or they're lying and they plan to harvest it from the T-rexes they've cloned with a Fauci-era research grant.

Posted by: Methos at May 07, 2025 10:58 PM (Dnobf)

155 My collectables are my German one liter bier mugs. Some of the artwork is fantastic. I especially like my Checkpoint Charlie mug. It's pretty cool.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 07, 2025 10:58 PM (W/lyH)

156
Or they're lying and they plan to harvest it from the T-rexes they've cloned with a Fauci-era research grant.
Posted by: Methos

============

Cruelty-free my ass.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 07, 2025 10:59 PM (U7Gpi)

157 You can send him here:

https://shorturl.at/gq2vl

It's Chandler, which is about 100 miles or so from Tucson. If that's not close enough there may be something with a defense contractor on Fort Wegotcha on the edge of Sierra Vista, which is about 72 miles away.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 07, 2025 10:39 PM (lUFok)

Thank you, Blanco. I will pass the link along to him.

Posted by: Emmie at May 07, 2025 10:59 PM (Sf2cq)

158 9 At the Zimbabwe Starbucks you can buy a small coffee and get change back from your hundred trillion dollar note.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 07, 2025 10:03 PM (JkO4W)
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At the time nobody really used them, relying instead on South African Rands or US$.

Posted by: Ciampino - shame on a beautiful country at May 07, 2025 11:00 PM (sPQoU)

159 I have a Stein my sister brought back from Germany It has NewSchwanstein on it.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 07, 2025 11:00 PM (bF7Q5)

160 I have a bunch of crap that I've picked up on random trips. I guess that's kind of a collection.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 07, 2025 11:00 PM (JkO4W)

161 140 My mother actually had that entire series of Wizard of Oz plates. None of us knew what to do with them after she passed, felt awkward about throwing them out. Think they're still stuck away in my basement somewhere.
Posted by: Lirio100

Perhaps, the next time you and your siblings are together, use them at dinner. I bet it would make everyone smile and tell fun stories and the kids could learn a bit about their heritage.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 07, 2025 11:00 PM (mT+6a)

162 Ate T Rex bags sustainable?

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 07, 2025 11:01 PM (bF7Q5)

163 Perhaps, the next time you and your siblings are together, use them at dinner. I bet it would make everyone smile and tell fun stories and the kids could learn a bit about their heritage.

---------

"We were munchkins?"

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 07, 2025 11:02 PM (JkO4W)

164 Good morning!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 07, 2025 11:02 PM (D49EQ)

165 Former President Joe Biden chose a friendly venue for his first interview since leaving the White House: ABC's "The View."

Well, that settles it. He really is demented.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 07, 2025 11:03 PM (0Htd1)

166 Well, that settles it. He really is demented.
Posted by: nerdygirl

Nice!

Posted by: Some Rat at May 07, 2025 11:04 PM (TfUTr)

167
My mother actually had that entire series of Wizard of Oz plates. None of us knew what to do with them after she passed, felt awkward about throwing them out. Think they're still stuck away in my basement somewhere.
Posted by: Lirio100

================

Eat off them. Treat them like any other plate in your house. If they lose all their finish in the dishwasher, so be it. Just get some use out of them.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 07, 2025 11:05 PM (U7Gpi)

168 Will Whoopi still be wearing her Gala drag or will Jill be wearing it?
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 07, 2025 10:37 PM (XHPOi)

She was the Mad Hatter. The whole thing could have been designed by Sir John Tenniel

Posted by: Kindltot at May 07, 2025 11:06 PM (D7oie)

169 Never mind the trillion bank notes, I was in Russia in 1993 and everyone woke up one morning to the news that three zeros were now removed from currency, imagine the $1000 in your checking account being suddenly worth $1. also, a little later, everyone woke up one morning to the front page of the newspaper covered with pictures of banknotes and the news that these bank notes are no longer good, throw them away.

Posted by: yop at May 07, 2025 11:06 PM (RKj5x)

170 117 Will Whoopi still be wearing her Gala drag or will Jill be wearing it?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Whoopi is so oddly shaped that no one else could wear her clothes. Her shape is even weirder than Michelle's.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 07, 2025 11:06 PM (0Htd1)

171 162 Ate T Rex bags sustainable?
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 07, 2025 11:01 PM (bF7Q5)

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They're the perfect tote for your small arms.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 07, 2025 11:07 PM (JkO4W)

172 Good evening morons y gracias dino

I have a collection of paper currency but that Zimbabwe note would be cool, if it weren't so tragic.

It meant mass hunger.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 07, 2025 11:07 PM (RIvkX)

173 What Russia went though after the USSR collapsed is something Americans must never forget, and never allow to happen here.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 07, 2025 11:08 PM (gKWVE)

174 "Sir Beaver"

Hey, that's what I call my bush when I tuck.

Posted by: Dylan Mulvaney at May 07, 2025 11:08 PM (szqEY)

175 Ate T Rex bags sustainable?
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 07, 2025 11:01 PM (bF7Q5)

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They're the perfect tote for your small arms.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 07, 2025 11:07 PM (JkO4W)
***

Well played!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 07, 2025 11:09 PM (W/lyH)

176 I don't want to dis anybody and I would never shame my fellow human beings, but anyone who would pay $31.50 for that "Precious Moments" figurine is a nose-picking, Miracle-Whip-earing, inbred, semi-literate, cross-eyed troglodyte.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

I have a sister who collected Lladro. That type of knickknack just annoys me.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 07, 2025 11:09 PM (0Htd1)

177 Are these Oz plates octagonal? They've got sets on EBAY for $600.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 07, 2025 11:09 PM (bF7Q5)

178 I had a good friend who got caught up in the Beanie Baby craze. He was convinced it would bring a financial windfall; he owned shitloads of those cheap little toys. I just never understood how any great value could be attached to them.

Posted by: Don Black at May 07, 2025 11:09 PM (AOsQT)

179 >>> 119 I vote Piper for singing “Fame” on karaoke night at the TX meetup.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 07, 2025 10:38 PM (iNLjp)

Only if this doesn't interfere with her cattle roundup assist!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 07, 2025 11:10 PM (Vqx30)

180 *plucks a tulip*

Posted by: gKWVE at May 07, 2025 11:10 PM (gKWVE)

181 Haven't seen Wyatt Earp in a while - he still around?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 07, 2025 11:10 PM (rT96s)

182 73 64
'Friend's dad grew up there before the demographics changed. What a dump now.'

Who lives there now?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 07, 2025 10:24 PM (3wi/L)
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Nobody lives there now, it's too crowded.

Posted by: Ciampino - ups & downs of neighborhoods at May 07, 2025 11:12 PM (sPQoU)

183 Better a snipe hunt than a snark, or we may never heat from Tankdemon again!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 07, 2025 11:13 PM (XbCq8)

184 *looks at complete set of Bradford Exchange Collectors Edition Wizard of Oz Series Plates rimmed in genuine gold leaf*
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

So, do you eat off 'em?

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 07, 2025 11:13 PM (0Htd1)

185 >>> 152 My mother actually had that entire series of Wizard of Oz plates. None of us knew what to do with them after she passed, felt awkward about throwing them out. Think they're still stuck away in my basement somewhere.
Posted by: Lirio100

Antique Roadshow when they come to your town.
See if they are worth anything.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2025 10:56 PM (y6oPX)

Ad on craigslist San Francisco.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 07, 2025 11:13 PM (Vqx30)

186 I have a collection of paper currency but that Zimbabwe note would be cool, if it weren't so tragic.

It meant mass hunger.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 07, 2025 11:07 PM (RIvkX)

Residual effects from the white supremacy of the Rhodesian regime.

I call it “time imperialism.” Zimbabweans today are so deprived because evil white people in the past used up all of the economy. It’s why, even after liberation movements, so many socialist areas fail to thrive.

Posted by: Leftist Grad Student at May 07, 2025 11:16 PM (l3YAf)

187 My ONT pledge to you is no Whoopi and no Yoko.

Posted by: TRex at May 07, 2025 10:46 PM (omd/p)
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My gratitude will be as eternal as the shrill echoes in my mind.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 07, 2025 11:16 PM (RIvkX)

188 Haven't been following the action in Rome today. Did a new guy get the big hat yet?
Posted by: Cicero
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Nope. They popped black smoke earlier.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2025 10:32 PM (y6oPX)

Funniest thing I saw today: Was watching a game on CBS and around 3 p.m. CBS cut in with 'breaking news'. The breaking news? Black smoke. There is no new pope yet. That was the breaking news. You'd think 'breaking news' would be when there is a new pope but CBS.

Posted by: RickZ at May 07, 2025 11:17 PM (gKDq2)

189 i got tangerine dream, rubycon playing

Posted by: gKWVE at May 07, 2025 11:17 PM (gKWVE)

190 Nurse, just reminding everyone I still have them might do the trick. Mom had a lot of tea cups, most English bone china pre 1960. Got left with me, but daughter in law saw them a few months ago and wanted them. Mom also had a LOT of Christmas village houses (Station 51? Christmas 51?) Daughter helped me sort them out last year, and she ended up taking a few, with a niece scooping up the rest. I'd had this stuff for over six years with no interest!

Posted by: Lirio100 at May 07, 2025 11:18 PM (zS4/f)

191 So, do you eat off 'em?
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 07, 2025 11:13 PM (0Htd1)

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Would you drive a fully-restored genuine Shelby Cobra through the drive-thru at McDonalds?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 07, 2025 11:18 PM (JkO4W)

192 145 I don't understand collectibles.
Posted by: Don Black

Usually they're mass produced stuff. The gullible customers are convinced that they will go up in value. They won't go up in value because they are mass produced, and the gullible customers take care of them, thinking they'll be worth money.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 07, 2025 11:18 PM (0Htd1)

193 Ten year neighborhoods. Kid doing delivery when the Viet Nam vets were coming home. Whole new neighborhoods $1 dollar down for vets. How nice. Well, it was a leg up that they deserved to say the least but every one of those neighborhoods was in the dumper ten years later. I think the vets left.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 07, 2025 11:19 PM (PB44O)

194 Nope, the Oz plates are the regular rounds.

Posted by: Lirio100 at May 07, 2025 11:19 PM (zS4/f)

195 Posted by: Leftist Grad Student at May 07, 2025 11:16 PM (l3YAf)
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Do you have any pot I could buy?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 07, 2025 11:19 PM (RIvkX)

196 Bradford Exchange Wizard of Oz Plates. Set of 6 for $600 on Ebay. 8 sided

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 07, 2025 11:20 PM (bF7Q5)

197 It doesn't taste like chicken?
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 07, 2025 10:52 PM (0Htd1)

I understand it is sort of gassy

and so to explain the joke:

IT IS FUNNY BECAUSE SAUROPODS APPEAR TO HAVE HAD A SYSTEM OF AIR SACS AND PNEUMATIC DIVERTICULA SIMILAR TO STRUCTURES IN BIRDS. PNEUMATIZATION OF THE SACRAL AND CAUDAL VERTEBRAE MAY INDICATE ABDOMINAL AIR SACS. AIR SACS AND AND PNEUMATICITY OF THE SKELETON MAY HAVE HELPED THE EVOLUTION OF EXTREMELY LONG NECKS AND RAPID GROWTH OF SAUROPODIA TO GREAT SIZES, HELPING OVERCOME CONSTRAINTS OF MASS AND RESPIRATORY DEAD SPACE FROM LONG TRACHEAS. HENCE "FULL OF GAS"

Posted by: Kindltot at May 07, 2025 11:20 PM (D7oie)

198 Colorado trading Mikko Rantanen away was a dumb move.

Posted by: Don Black at May 07, 2025 11:20 PM (AOsQT)

199 ---------

Would you drive a fully-restored genuine Shelby Cobra through the drive-thru at McDonalds?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
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Heck no, it's Dairy Queen.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 07, 2025 11:20 PM (PB44O)

200 I can remember when kids had beanie baby collections that they thought would increase in value. A couple of years later you would be in antique malls and see bushel baskets full of beanie babies that no one wanted. Also there were tons of Bradford plates and other "collectibles".

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 07, 2025 11:20 PM (0Htd1)

201 I will say this, trying to build out my own Project Management ERP has been very educational in that there are so many off the shelf open frameworks to utilize that I have been able to cobble together a very rudimentary structure in about a month.

The other illuminating thing is the reason I'm building out my own is that my company has been whacking away at doing this for 8 f**king years, through different regimes and different development teams, spending untold millions of dollars and delivering jack squat nothing.

Well not quite nothing, the tools they have assembled are primarily financial tools, but don't cut the mustard for managing large scale projects, which we do, but with tools that approximate bear skins and knives.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 07, 2025 11:21 PM (XV/Pl)

202 The ones from the 1970s are only about $8 apiece.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 07, 2025 11:22 PM (bF7Q5)

203 Do you have any pot I could buy?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 07, 2025 11:19 PM (RIvkX)

You don’t know how to use Leafly to get it delivered to your door?

Posted by: Leftist Grad Student at May 07, 2025 11:22 PM (l3YAf)

204 "White smoke coming from the ONT does not mean a new COB has been designated. It just means that the TRex-mobile needs an oil change."

I think white smoke means you're sucking ATF into the intake manifold. Or possibly coolant ?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 07, 2025 11:22 PM (QGaXH)

205 buying used cars sucks...that is all

Posted by: a dude in MI at May 07, 2025 11:22 PM (+I6Y/)

206 Collectibles?

Memories, when the Tank Police, Red Commandos, and Uni and me blew up the Newport City Southby's branch

https://tinyurl.com/yvpnbyfc

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 07, 2025 11:23 PM (XHPOi)

207 79 You are probably over 29 if you've flown on a 727. I flew on 727s many times. I deplaned out the aft door of one, once. Or it may have been from a DC-9. I also flew many times on DC-9s. Routine hard landings. Ka-SLAM! Then a different SLAM on your body and senses when the thrust-reversers were deployed.

Posted by: Gref at May 07, 2025 10:27 PM (aBgBM)
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Once only, Joburg to Durban, Jan 1966.
Did Rome to Entebbe on a DC-3. Also DC-3 six times a year to-&-fro Nairobi-Mwanza -- school terms/vacations. Loved the DC-3. A couple of times it was a Fokker-Friendship (new).
DC-3 had fat tires and could handle mud.

Posted by: Ciampino - Love planes at May 07, 2025 11:23 PM (sPQoU)

208 Re: collections
If they gave Mom (or whoever) joy at the time, they did their job.
After you check with all the possibles to see if there are any takers, there's no need to keep them unless you actually want them.

Posted by: sal at May 07, 2025 11:24 PM (f+FmA)

209 >Posted by: nerdygirl at May 07, 2025 11:18 PM (0Htd1)
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nerdygirl is right. If collectibles can be manufactured to order, how 'special' can they be?

George Carlin once said that if you nail two things together that have never been nailed together before, someone will buy it.

Posted by: Don Black at May 07, 2025 11:24 PM (AOsQT)

210 Mikko Rantanan just posted another hat trick

Posted by: Don Black at May 07, 2025 11:25 PM (AOsQT)

211 You don’t know how to use Leafly to get it delivered to your door?
Posted by: Leftist Grad Student at May 07, 2025 11:22 PM (l3YAf)
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Duuuuuuude!

No.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 07, 2025 11:26 PM (RIvkX)

212 Ice soccer?

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 07, 2025 11:26 PM (bF7Q5)

213 But, Im told I'm trainable.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 07, 2025 11:26 PM (RIvkX)

214 204 I think white smoke means you're sucking ATF into the intake manifold. Or possibly coolant ?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 07, 2025 11:22 PM
***
Shhh....it is really a smoke screen to throw off the bad guys behind me.

Posted by: TRex at May 07, 2025 11:27 PM (omd/p)

215 >> The other illuminating thing is the reason I'm building out my own is that my company has been whacking away at doing this for 8 f**king years, through different regimes and different development teams, spending untold millions of dollars and delivering jack squat nothing.

Are you new to software? Just curious.

Posted by: Leftist Grad Student at May 07, 2025 11:27 PM (l3YAf)

216
i got tangerine dream, rubycon playing
Posted by: gKWVE

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And now I do, too.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 07, 2025 11:27 PM (U7Gpi)

217 Would you drive a fully-restored genuine Shelby Cobra through the drive-thru at McDonalds?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

No, but a neighbor of mine, a GM retiree, has a fifties era, aqua blue pontiac. He drives that baby around.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 07, 2025 11:28 PM (0Htd1)

218 Millions of years-old dinosaur DNA to help build world-first T-Rex leather handbag

It’s not even a good looking handbag! 💁🏼

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 07, 2025 11:29 PM (XbCq8)

219 Ate T Rex bags sustainable?
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 07, 2025 11:01 PM (bF7Q5)
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They're the perfect tote for your small arms.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 07, 2025 11:07 PM (JkO4W)

No clutch bags, though.

Posted by: RickZ at May 07, 2025 11:30 PM (gKDq2)

220 More mystery click country music videos please.

Suggest Kasey Musgraves 'My House' - our official RV song.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 07, 2025 11:31 PM (QGaXH)

221 208 Re: collections
If they gave Mom (or whoever) joy at the time, they did their job.
After you check with all the possibles to see if there are any takers, there's no need to keep them unless you actually want them.
Posted by: sal

You could donate them to Goodwill, or the like. I keep track of what I donate, for charitable donations on my taxes.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 07, 2025 11:32 PM (0Htd1)

222 Mom did enjoy them; my Dad set out that village every year, and tea cups originally belonged to a great aunt. My daughter in law will use the cups and my niece was happy to get the houses. She only had a few state Christmas plates, one sister took them. And her white house tree ornaments found homes. She really did enjoy collecting things!

Posted by: Lirio100 at May 07, 2025 11:32 PM (zS4/f)

223 It’s not even a good looking handbag! 💁🏼
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 07, 2025 11:29 PM (XbCq

When 90 million year old you be, look as good you will not!

Posted by: Offended Dinosaur at May 07, 2025 11:33 PM (l3YAf)

224 Maybe a TRex drawstring coin purse

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 07, 2025 11:33 PM (bF7Q5)

225 28 (Of course, back then, before America’s hyperinflation began, $11.90 was a lot of money, not a medium-sized Extra Value Meal.)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 07, 2025 10:13 PM (l3YAf)

We went to Arby's the other night. Two classic Arby's sandwiches, one large curly fries, one orange-vanilla shake = 25.01.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 07, 2025 11:34 PM (QGaXH)

226 [Top photo: Disclosed barn in an undisclosed location]
_________________________

I have driven by that barn. And, it's killing me that I can remember exactly where.

Posted by: Orson at May 07, 2025 11:34 PM (dIske)

227 Where is Miklos? He was supposed to be the bouncer last Wed, and instead got himself bounced. But honestly thought he'd be back by now...

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at May 07, 2025 11:35 PM (cCn4/)

228 Arby's has good monthly coupons in these parts.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 07, 2025 11:35 PM (bF7Q5)

229 @215

>>Are you new to software? Just curious.

No, just new to full-stack cross platform web-development.

What I have been able to learn in a months time makes me angrier and angrier at how much time, money and resources went into the effort to build out an ERP and what was actually delivered is pathetic.

The company has selected a new platform and a new developer and have announced that the target date for the MVP will be late 2026, which really means, full deployment will not occur until I am ready to retire.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 07, 2025 11:35 PM (XV/Pl)

230 Where is Miklos? He was supposed to be the bouncer last Wed, and instead got himself bounced. But honestly thought he'd be back by now...
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at May 07, 2025 11:35 PM (cCn4/)

He'e been around. In more ways than one, I'd bet.

Posted by: RickZ at May 07, 2025 11:36 PM (gKDq2)

231 The Christmas Village stuff would be nice because you can use it as your Christmas decor every year. I have my mom's old nativity set. It's about 70 years old or more. It's probably not worth much, but I set it out every year.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 07, 2025 11:37 PM (0Htd1)

232 Wyatt Earp passed on in 1929.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 07, 2025 11:37 PM (XbCq8)

233 Nothing quite like a short arms ONT. Thanks much, TRex.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 07, 2025 11:38 PM (mH6SG)

234 My friend came by. We had a nice visit. He had a horrible day. I was there for him. We talked. Man hug. And done.

He has a beautiful family. I am always happy for him, and his wife and their kids.

Beautiful family.

Posted by: Stateless.. 25% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at May 07, 2025 11:38 PM (jvJvP)

235 @NationalistAkku

My Sindoor is there to take revenge for our sister's Sindoor..
Jai Hind🇮🇳

Happy Diwali Pakistan..

https://tinyurl.com/mvf74atr

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 07, 2025 11:38 PM (PB44O)

236 Well.

Those 1977 original Star Wars action figures still in the package are worth $$$. And they were mass produced.

I was given some beautiful Depression Era etched wine, cocktail, highball and champagne glasses. They belonged to his parent/grandparents. I love them and use them when I have people over. Sometimes I use them just by myself. Everyrhing tastes better in a fancy glass.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 07, 2025 11:39 PM (mT+6a)

237 233 Nothing quite like a short arms ONT. Thanks much, TRex.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 07, 2025 11:38 PM
***
Now it is a party. Good evening Sir.

Posted by: TRex at May 07, 2025 11:40 PM (omd/p)

238 I have driven by that barn. And, it's killing me that I can remember exactly where.
Posted by: Orson
***********
Lawrence, PA

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at May 07, 2025 11:40 PM (cCn4/)

239 BTW, the ice cream machine as run out of ice cream. I have failed, once again. Sigh.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 07, 2025 11:40 PM (mH6SG)

240 I haven't had drive thru fast food in eons. What's a Quarter Pounder going for these days?

Posted by: Don Black at May 07, 2025 11:40 PM (AOsQT)

241 48 11
'Poor Irene Cara. Condemned to sing the same damn song every day until the day she died.'

Worse than that. She didn't even live forever.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 07, 2025 10:16 PM (3wi/L)

She died too young. She was 6 months younger than me and died on my birthday in 2022.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 07, 2025 11:41 PM (QGaXH)

242 Orson -

Did you mean “can” or “can’t”?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 07, 2025 11:41 PM (XbCq8)

243 Who ever left action figures in the package? They are remaking the old ones. I saw a Lando Calrissian on the clearance rack at Walmart.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 07, 2025 11:41 PM (bF7Q5)

244 Now it is a party. Good evening Sir.

And a good evening to you, my friend.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 07, 2025 11:41 PM (mH6SG)

245 >> No, just new to full-stack cross platform web-development.

>> What I have been able to learn in a months time makes me angrier and angrier at how much time, money and resources went into the effort to build out an ERP and what was actually delivered is pathetic.

Ahh, welcome, welcome. Over here you’ll find all-inclusive Typescript developer bootcamp in Barbados.

And over here you’ll find the solid gold fountain. A found made of gold that pumps gold. Take as much as you want; we are venture-funded so money is literally no object.

Posted by: Offended Dinosaur at May 07, 2025 11:42 PM (l3YAf)

246 Is there a reason the border around the Comments box is different?

I'm reading thru the comments -I'm only up to 48 so maybe it's been discussed and dissected to the nth degree already.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 07, 2025 11:42 PM (QGaXH)

247 My friend came by. We had a nice visit. He had a horrible day. I was there for him. We talked. Man hug. And done.

He has a beautiful family. I am always happy for him, and his wife and their kids.

Beautiful family.
Posted by: Stateless..
**********
You're a good person Stateless. And a very good friend.

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at May 07, 2025 11:42 PM (cCn4/)

248 85 >> Second Assistant Under Minister of the Treasury: "What about a pile of rocks? Is a pile of rocks good, boss?"

What’s funny is that every Zimbabwe banknote from the same period had a fucking pile of rocks on it.

Must be why it’s such an economic powerhouse.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 07, 2025 10:28 PM (l3YAf)
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Was that tongue-in-cheek? Those rocks 'represent' the Zimbabwe Ruins.

Posted by: Ciampino - look them up at May 07, 2025 11:43 PM (sPQoU)

249 I saw something about the national average McDonalds value meal being about $13.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 07, 2025 11:43 PM (bF7Q5)

250 Was that tongue-in-cheek? Those rocks 'represent' the Zimbabwe Ruins.
Posted by: Ciampino - look them up at May 07, 2025 11:43 PM (sPQoU)

Zimbabwe ruins? Like Rhodesia?

I’ve never heard of the Zimbabwean Ruins before today. I just found it amusing every banknote had a pile of rocks on it.

Posted by: Offended Dinosaur at May 07, 2025 11:45 PM (l3YAf)

251 Did you mean “can” or “can’t”?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 07, 2025 11:41 PM (XbCq

____________________

sure did...
______________________

Lawrence, PA
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at May 07, 2025 11:40 PM (cCn4/)
___________________________

You know for sure? I've seen it but I don't get out to the Pittsburgh area much. I was thinking somewhere near Lancaster County

Posted by: Orson at May 07, 2025 11:45 PM (dIske)

252 You're a good person Stateless. And a very good friend.

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at May 07, 2025 11:42 PM (cCn4/)

Thank you so much. The jury is still out.

Posted by: Stateless.. 25% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at May 07, 2025 11:46 PM (jvJvP)

253 Thanks for the ONT.

The Mike Rowe bits are hilarious.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2025 11:46 PM (bss/y)

254 246 Is there a reason the border around the Comments box is different?

Doesn’t look any different from usual on my iPad.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 07, 2025 11:47 PM (XbCq8)

255 >> Is there a reason the border around the Comments box is different?

Looks the same to me?

Try Ctrl-Shift-R.

Posted by: Offended Dinosaur at May 07, 2025 11:47 PM (l3YAf)

256 Usually the best collectibles are ephemera; stuff that ws made to be used up and thrown away. Matchbook covers, toys, beer cans, phonograph records, etc. Even big things like cars, appliances, radios, and TV sets.

Stuff that is promoted to be collectible usually is collected, and as result, nearly everyone who wants the stuff already has it, and there is no market.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 07, 2025 11:48 PM (/LEkU)

257 240 I haven't had drive thru fast food in eons. What's a Quarter Pounder going for these days?
Posted by: Don Black
____

20 dollars, same as Hunter.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at May 07, 2025 11:48 PM (VJc7E)

258 Hopefully the African Cardinals dump the Jesuits into the Tiber.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 07, 2025 10:34

Coverage was funny today when a seagull kept landing near the chimney that was watched for smoke. They talked about the seagull and then about the cardinals huddled inside.

sounded like the Audubon channel.

Posted by: Farmer at May 07, 2025 11:49 PM (55Qr6)

259 Irene Cara... died too young

I probably will come off as an asshole but Ms Cara did a lot of drugs and drank a lot too. Supposedly she cleaned up in 2006 but organ damage can last.
The best takeaway is to not do that.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 07, 2025 11:49 PM (gKWVE)

260 Beef is about $4.00 a pound. Why do people eat out?

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 07, 2025 11:50 PM (bF7Q5)

261 You know for sure? I've seen it but I don't get out to the Pittsburgh area much. I was thinking somewhere near Lancaster County
Posted by: Orson
************
You need to explore the Pittsburgh area more...if you enjoy major hills and massive weather....

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at May 07, 2025 11:50 PM (cCn4/)

262 I think white smoke means you're sucking ATF into the intake manifold. Or possibly coolant ?

Coolant. Killed a Dodge D50 (Mitsubishi) 4 banger that way.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 07, 2025 11:51 PM (lUFok)

263 Ultra-heavy-metal really does work for the Hun, btw.
Even if you don't like it, it really does evoke hordes of horsemen coming across the plains to kill you all.

Posted by: GWB at May 07, 2025 11:51 PM (wbjSL)

264 Well, I am getting real sleepy. Time for me to go to bed. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 07, 2025 11:51 PM (/LEkU)

265 Pittsburgh. Mars isn't any kind of place to raise a kid.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 07, 2025 11:52 PM (bF7Q5)

266 255 >> Is there a reason the border around the Comments box is different?

Looks the same to me?

Try Ctrl-Shift-R.
Posted by: Offended Dinosaur at May 07, 2025 11:47 PM (l3YAf)

I had a gold border on the comment box when I first clicked through.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2025 11:53 PM (bss/y)

267 Or Cmd-Shift-R on macOS.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 07, 2025 11:53 PM (l3YAf)

268 You need to explore the Pittsburgh area more...if you enjoy major hills and massive weather....
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at May 07, 2025 11:50 PM (cCn4/)
____________________

I always try to catch a Pirates game if I'm in the area. Roberto Clemente will always be my favorite.

Posted by: Orson at May 07, 2025 11:53 PM (dIske)

269 I'm just curious about how small a town we are talking about....
Posted by: Stateless.. 25% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at May 07, 2025 10:20 PM (jvJvP)

Mr TiFW grew up in a town of ~1600 40 miles from the nearest town to the east (Uvalde), 30 miles from the nearest town to the west (Del Rio).

They didn't have any traffic lights when he was growing up. If you got in trouble at school, your mother knew about it before you got home for lunch.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at May 07, 2025 11:54 PM (SRRAx)

270 I have a copy, sealed in a plastic bag, of the August 1939 edition of Astounding: it contains “Life-Line,” Robert A. Heinlein's first published short story.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 07, 2025 11:54 PM (XbCq8)

271 96 You can't outrun the long arm of Columbia record and tape club.
Posted by: Boss Moss

You still owe the for the CDs?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

CDs? I still owe for cassettes.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2025 10:31 PM (y6oPX)

Makes mental note to dig out bill for those 45's......

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 07, 2025 11:54 PM (QGaXH)

272 my fav version of Fame: https://tinyurl.com/y3ws83z3

Posted by: Pikov Andropov at May 07, 2025 11:54 PM (y7zkd)

273 264 Well, I am getting real sleepy. Time for me to go to bed. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 07, 2025 11:51 PM (/LEkU

Early out there?

Sleep well AOP.

Posted by: Stateless.. 25% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at May 07, 2025 11:54 PM (jvJvP)

274 I am setting up a new PC - it is tedious work. On the upside I have been listening to a bunch of music. Mini Review. This album was panned by the critics; they are idiots. I hadn't listened to it in its entirety for a number of years until a few days ago. It is some wildly overlooked work by the band. Petty is in a furious mood about the state of the music business in general. From the personal perspective he laments the loss of being able to pool money, go see a band, and be inspired. By extension he is mostly riled up by the losses in life, it peppers the whole album. It is worth a spin. This is a live version of the title track and the band crushes it.

The Last DJ (Live)
Tom Petty & the Heart Breakers
2002

https://youtu.be/w2v8Fz6Zg1k?t=99

Posted by: Ateria Pilgram - My President has convictions at May 07, 2025 11:57 PM (amnH6)

275 Mr TiFW grew up in a town of ~1600 40 miles from the nearest town to the east (Uvalde), 30 miles from the nearest town to the west (Del Rio).

They didn't have any traffic lights when he was growing up. If you got in trouble at school, your mother knew about it before you got home for lunch.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at May 07, 2025 11:54 PM (SRRAx

4500 people.

And I was running barefoot and two cop cars stopped me.

Posted by: Stateless.. 25% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at May 07, 2025 11:57 PM (jvJvP)

276 260 Beef is about $4.00 a pound. Why do people eat out?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Because we can, and want to…

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 07, 2025 11:58 PM (XbCq8)

277 Irene Cara played herself in DC Cab. What a Feeling wax the theme song.

I remember the movie being hilarious but haven't seen it in more than 20 years. I wonder if it's held up.

Posted by: polynikes at May 08, 2025 12:01 AM (VofaG)

278 Night AOP.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 08, 2025 12:01 AM (bss/y)

279 I had a gold border on the comment box when I first clicked through.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2025 11:53

I had a comment border depth like this. Refresh fixed it.

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Posted by: 13times at May 08, 2025 12:03 AM (zXoXa)

280 Beef is about $4.00 a pound. Why do people eat out?

Most of the time it's because I'm too lazy to cook.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 08, 2025 12:05 AM (lUFok)

281 If I had to guess, the comment box weirdness is due to ad code mucking things up.

People have been reporting the "Jump to bottom of Comments" link getting hijacked by ads. I've seen the back button hijacked by ads.

Those ads load Javascript which can modify things on the page.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 08, 2025 12:05 AM (l3YAf)

282 93 Who lives there now?
Posted by: Dr. Claw

Dregs of society.

If this were Atlanta they would be the Dixie Dregs of Society

https://tinyurl.com/3e3svnd9

Posted by: Pikov Andropov at May 08, 2025 12:06 AM (y7zkd)

283 96 You can't outrun the long arm of Columbia record and tape club.
Posted by: Boss Moss

You still owe the for the CDs?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

CDs? I still owe for cassettes.

8 tracks

Posted by: Pikov Andropov at May 08, 2025 12:07 AM (y7zkd)

284 They didn't have any traffic lights when he was growing up. If you got in trouble at school, your mother knew about it before you got home for lunch.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at May 07, 2025 11:54 PM (SRRAx

That's so funny.

If you want, check out "Corner Gas" on Roku. Canadian comedy in small town Saskatchewan...sp?..

A town of 450 people.. It's a nice quiet comedy to have in the background. Small town people should love it.

Posted by: Stateless.. 25% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at May 08, 2025 12:08 AM (jvJvP)

285 Regarding black smoke from the Vatican:

Someone should do a meme showing black smoke in the front and in the back it's coming from a big ol' bbq with a mess of ribs and steaks and all the cardinals gathered in a beer tent chowing down....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 08, 2025 12:09 AM (QGaXH)

286 Holy heck, I grew up in 1960's and 70's Anchorage. Before the pipeline days, it was between 50 and 75,000 people. Small enough that everyone you knew knew everyone else. The same teacher taught the same grade for years, so all your sisters that went before... well, expectations were higher than reality in my case.

I still have strangers come up to me and ask about my dad. He knew everybody in Anchorage, and most folks on the Kenai Peninsula.

Alaska remains a small town in many ways.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 08, 2025 12:11 AM (a4NoL)

287 Would someone please put a note about Jim SND passing away in the right sidebar for anyone who might not have gotten the news yet?

Also, who figured out how to add Jewells to the left sidebar list of Morons who have passed away? When we find out who was able to do that, they need to add Vic (and now Jim SND) to the list, please!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at May 08, 2025 12:11 AM (SRRAx)

288 Then there came a time when exhaustion was complete, and there were no comments left to share. Which, for me, was about two hours ago.

https://youtu.be/jJ4IUjjVfng

G'nite, y'all. G'nite.

Posted by: mindful webworker - out of this world at May 08, 2025 12:12 AM (uAhcM)

289 Someone should do a meme showing black smoke in the front and in the back it's coming from a big ol' bbq with a mess of ribs and steaks and all the cardinals gathered in a beer tent chowing down....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 08, 2025 12:09 AM (QGaXH)

I personally think the are reading car magazines and drinking scotch, neither of which they do when others are watching. Probably swapping notes on various types of Communion Wine. And bragging about their cars and their lifts while scratching themselves.

Just for a few days, so they can feel like men again.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 08, 2025 12:14 AM (a4NoL)

290 Mr. TiFW's father was the Elementary School principal. He knew not to get in any trouble....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at May 08, 2025 12:14 AM (SRRAx)

291 G'nite, y'all. G'nite.

Goodnight, here's a lullaby for you:

https://youtu.be/uCVY4Zu_kqk

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 08, 2025 12:15 AM (lUFok)

292 Coverage was funny today when a seagull kept landing near the chimney that was watched for smoke. They talked about the seagull and then about the cardinals huddled inside.

sounded like the Audubon channel.

Posted by: Farmer at May 07, 2025 11:49 PM (55Qr6)

Is it like listening to golf announcers?

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 08, 2025 12:15 AM (a4NoL)

293 You can't talk about metal without talking about Lovebites.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=winJfaaWwlg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHrWRT0Jeac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Pc0XK0lNmU

Posted by: Jim S. at May 08, 2025 12:17 AM (ACSvc)

294 240 I haven't had drive thru fast food in eons. What's a Quarter Pounder going for these days?
Posted by: Don Black at May 07, 2025 11:40 PM (AOsQT)

About four ounces...?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 08, 2025 12:17 AM (QGaXH)

295 Also, who figured out how to add Jewells to the left sidebar list of Morons who have passed away? When we find out who was able to do that, they need to add Vic (and now Jim SND) to the list, please!

I think that y'all need to let Vic appearing in the sidebar go. I don't quite understand the reasoning but it is what it is. I'm sure JSND will be there soon.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 08, 2025 12:18 AM (mH6SG)

296 Serously, for health reasons I haven’t been able to cook and sit at a table for weeks. The pain started in 10 minutes, became excruciating at 15 minutes, standing or sitting. Only thing for it was to lie down, which eased the pain almost immediately. So if I couldn’t have gotten to Larry’s Subs in town (I’ve raked the driver’s seat back like a low rider - I can see over the hood and can operate the vehicle safely) I would have starved. As it is, I’ve lost 16 lbs. I tipped the waitstaff extra to bring the sandwiches out to my truck. I could make the trip to the Tundra and back, stopping at the fridge to stash extra 12 inch sandwiches, grab a bag of potato chips, and a paper plate on a wicker tray, and cold bottled drink. Then I would lie on my back with the plate on my chest and eat on my back in bed. No matter how good the sandwiches are, you get tired of them. I can see why the Hebrews wanted some meat after a steady, monotonous diet of mana, the celestial food.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 08, 2025 12:20 AM (XbCq8)

297 And I am one of those troglodytes who collected Precious Monents (and other) figurines - mostly because my mother enrolled Daughter #1 in the Kid's Birthday Club when she was born. I wasn't a hard core collector, but I didn't get their space-related figurines, due to being a NASA kid. And I collected a different series because they looked so much like #2 daughter it was scary.

I bought the ones that brought me joy; never got them with an eye to future value - that wasn't ever my intent. I still like looking at them, usually because each one was purchased to commemorate a happy time in my life. My poor family is going to have to deal with them when I am gone....

I may send them here, if anyone wants one 🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at May 08, 2025 12:21 AM (SRRAx)

298 First time ever.

Our county [Butte] hired a goat herd contractor and they've got them grazing along a diversion canal bottom and esrthen dyke that runs through town. I saw about 100 goats and a trailered 1000 gallon water guzzler. The temp fence is pretty light weight but will suffice unless a neighborhood dog gets inside the fence. I didn't see a herd sentinel dog, but that doesn't mean that that there aren't three or four of them lurking.

Posted by: 13times at May 08, 2025 12:23 AM (zXoXa)

299 You can't outrun the long arm of Columbia record and tape club.
Posted by: Boss Moss

You still owe the for the CDs?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

CDs? I still owe for cassettes.

8 tracks
Posted by: Pikov Andropov

All of this: For the Win!

Posted by: Ateria Pilgram - My President has convictions at May 08, 2025 12:24 AM (amnH6)

300 Vic is in the sidebar of our hearts

Posted by: gKWVE at May 08, 2025 12:27 AM (gKWVE)

301 Come on 300......

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 08, 2025 12:27 AM (QGaXH)

302 301 Come on 300......
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 08, 2025 12:27 AM (QGaXH)

Somebody beat me to 300....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 08, 2025 12:28 AM (QGaXH)

303 Back in my day it was the Ugaritia Tablet Club and they just sent you clay cylinders with the notes etched into them

Posted by: gKWVE at May 08, 2025 12:31 AM (gKWVE)

304 303 Back in my day it was the Ugaritia Tablet Club and they just sent you clay cylinders with the notes etched into them
Posted by: gKWVE at May 08, 2025 12:31 AM (gKWVE)

Wax cylinders must have been an odd medium. Fragile as hell. Can't let them get too hot (in a world without AC.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 08, 2025 12:36 AM (bss/y)

305 nightwish
youtu.be/Gx-BnTqGq5Y

Posted by: gKWVE at May 08, 2025 12:40 AM (gKWVE)

306 301 Come on 300......

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 08, 2025 12:27 AM

Congratulations!

You have beaten the all-time world record in bowling!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 08, 2025 12:42 AM (HlyYF)

307 ...they need to add Vic (and now Jim SND) to the list, please!

I think that y'all need to let Vic appearing in the sidebar go. I don't quite understand the reasoning but it is what it is. I'm sure JSND will be there soon.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 08, 2025 12:18
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Agreed Notorious, but I think a lot here have never heard why Vic isn't listed. I didn't know, and wondered, then one night caught a reference to why.

It seems some of Vic's remarks were considered racist. I can't recall that but it may well be true and I just dismissed it as he was a product of his time and location.

Anyhow, while some may think it unfair for a person to be labeled racist this is Ace's place. He really can't be seen as honoring such a person. Scumbag leftists could run with that to ruin Ace.

Someone correct me if I am wrong please. See the addition to my sig.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at May 08, 2025 12:45 AM (55Qr6)

308 So good news! Thank the Lord, after my surgery, I have been able to sit indefinitely in a straight back chair, provided I put a large throw pillow in that chair, so I can recline. I can also stand long enough to cook something. I started with my “Eggs in a Nest” recipe I gave a few nights back on the blog. Then I heated a whole can (two regular bowls worth) of Campbell’s OLD BAY® Seasoned Clam Chowder. I have a couple of extra large bowls, so I put the whole thing in one of them and proceeded to chow down. You may wrinkle your nose at Campbell’s, but it was good. Had some toast rusks on the side. And last night! I made a three egg omelette with mushrooms, bacon, and grated sharp cheddar cheese. I made a chamomile and spearmint herbal infusion from Celestial Seasonings in my good old Blue Bettie pot, cause I don’t want caffeine at night. I put 4 bags in for two cups, and steeped it for 6 minutes: it still came out weak - typical for herbal “teas” I’m afraid. Anyway it was delicious! And yes, I went out to eat for lunch today because I could, and I wanted to. I got a lunch special at Cracker Barrel (yes, wrinkle that nose!). It was _good_!!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 08, 2025 12:45 AM (XbCq8)

309 Chowdah! You got it right!

Posted by: gKWVE at May 08, 2025 12:47 AM (gKWVE)

310
If I were in charge of the conclave stove, I think I'd have some fun. Mixed white and black smoke, maybe a definite shade of grey. I'd say we have a Schrodinger's Pope.

And then, maybe, really go wild, red, green, pink, yellow smoke. May plaid if I could rig it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 08, 2025 12:47 AM (w6EFb)

311
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 08, 2025 12:45 AM (XbCq

=============

Good for you!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 08, 2025 12:47 AM (U7Gpi)

312 Haven't been following the action in Rome today. Did a new guy get the big hat yet?
Posted by: Cicero
- - - - -

No, they are still doing the traditional Dance Battle to select the next Pope.

Lots of pelvic thrusting, twerking, and the classic "Talk to the hand!" moves. Some are even using Bishop staffs as stripper poles.

Is there a disco ball in the Sistine Chapel, you ask? Bet on it...

Posted by: As not seen on TV at May 08, 2025 12:50 AM (WXRj/)

313 So no nukes flew in the Indy-Paki region..all quiet already?

Posted by: a dude in MI at May 08, 2025 12:53 AM (+I6Y/)

314 Is there a disco ball in the Sistine Chapel, you ask? Bet on it...

*cracks a chestnut*

Posted by: Cesare at May 08, 2025 12:55 AM (gKWVE)

315 The guinness book of world records jumped to shark years and years again. However narcissism knows no bounds

Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 08, 2025 01:03 AM (YCq3A)

316 Pittsburgh Pirates got beat tonight, again. 5-0. It would be nice if MLB had a regulation, like the English Premier League (and most soccer leagues around the world). Pittsburgh has been cosplaying as a major pro franchise for too long now. Just drop them to AA or AAA and be done with it. They're a joke.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 08, 2025 01:09 AM (sAmhv)

317 A an aside, Rhodes Scholars:

Bill Clinton

Pete Buttigieg

George Stephanopoulos

Corey Booker

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 08, 2025 01:25 AM (XeU6L)

318 Nemo - Glad to hear things are looking up!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 08, 2025 01:27 AM (XeU6L)

319 Good evening, Horde. TRex, that's a damned fine barn and an ONT full of fun.

Posted by: scampydog at May 08, 2025 01:28 AM (41CYW)

320 Pee Wee rocking the dinosaur:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U6eGIvh4DU

Posted by: scottst at May 08, 2025 01:29 AM (wUqxn)

321 Pittsburgh Pirates got beat tonight, again. 5-0. It would be nice if MLB had a regulation, like the English Premier League (and most soccer leagues around the world). Pittsburgh has been cosplaying as a major pro franchise for too long now. Just drop them to AA or AAA and be done with it. They're a joke.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 08, 2025 01:09 AM (sAmhv)

That's one of my favorite things about the EPL, Relegation. While the battles at the top of the table are interesting, I find the bottom of the table Relegation Battles more fun. From what I scanned in the news, the US soccer league is going to a relegation system.

Posted by: RickZ at May 08, 2025 01:35 AM (gKDq2)

322 A an aside, Rhodes Scholars:

Bill Clinton

Pete Buttigieg

George Stephanopoulos

Corey Booker
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 08, 2025 01:25 AM (XeU6L)

That Rach Maddow dude.

Posted by: RickZ at May 08, 2025 01:36 AM (gKDq2)

323 A an aside, Rhodes Scholars:
Bill Clinton
Pete Buttigieg
George Stephanopoulos
Corey Booker
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 08, 2025

An aside that shows lefty infiltration of foundations and education has been ongoing for yrs. What was the foundation that has funded Bill Ayers work in indoctinating young students?

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at May 08, 2025 01:36 AM (55Qr6)

324 What was the foundation that has funded Bill Ayers work in indoctinating young students?
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at May 08, 2025 01:36 AM (55Qr6)

Annenberg Foundation.

Posted by: RickZ at May 08, 2025 01:40 AM (gKDq2)

325 A lot of Club Comment of the Week material tonight. Clever Morons.

Posted by: scampydog at May 08, 2025 01:40 AM (41CYW)

326 Annenberg Foundation.
Posted by: RickZ at May 08, 2025 01:40

Thanks RickZ. There are a bunch of these foundations that have been taken over by leftists, as you know. What happened, how did conservatives loose control, I've never heard an explanation..

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at May 08, 2025 01:51 AM (55Qr6)

327 The Irene Cara clip is cool, and she is rocking those Guess jeans which were brand new at the time:

https://tinyurl.com/guesjeans

Posted by: scottst at May 08, 2025 01:53 AM (wUqxn)

328 317 A an aside, Rhodes Scholars:

Bill Clinton

Pete Buttigieg

George Stephanopoulos

Corey Booker
Posted by: Mike Hammer

A murderer's row of leftist idiocy and incompetence.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 08, 2025 01:55 AM (sAmhv)

329 321: Relegation. Not Regulation. Doh!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 08, 2025 01:56 AM (sAmhv)

330 Annenberg Foundation has been a funder of NPR also, I think

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 08, 2025 01:57 AM (XeU6L)

331 What happened, how did conservatives loose control, I've never heard an explanation..
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at May 08, 2025 01:51 AM (55Qr6)

The children and grandchildren (of privilege) took over the organizations. Carnegie, Mellon, etc. They all wanted their names as supporters of PBS shows, I guess a cool thing to do when you're rich. I do remember The Annenberg Foundation/Project being a prominent supporter of many 'serious' shows, along with the Carnegie Foundation.

Posted by: RickZ at May 08, 2025 01:58 AM (gKDq2)

332 Bill Clinton’s GPA as a Rhodes Scholar?

0.0

Definite Animal House material.

Posted by: polynikes at May 08, 2025 02:07 AM (VofaG)

333 Go read Prairie Fire: A Political Manifesto by the Weather Underground.

All of the quackery in the manifesto is now mainstream.

https://archive.org/details/prairie-fire-1974

Posted by: 13times at May 08, 2025 02:10 AM (zXoXa)

334 Another aspect is that old reliable method of communist infiltration and takeover of systems they oppose. The Boy Scouts is likely the best example, and one everyone has seen personally and locally.

Get in, gain some element of control, promote your degeneracy, and you succeed regardless. Because people will either say "no thank you" and leave the organization, rendering it impotent and meaningless and on its way to eventual collapse, or after moving the Overton window firmly into the new position people will accept your terms and your degeneracy will become the new normal for the organization moving forward.

Win-win.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie -If you were back on the market you'd lose the weight, but not for your husband at May 08, 2025 02:12 AM (g7exq)

335 The Left sued the Boy Scouts because they banned Homo scout leaders and then they sued the Boy Scouts because the Homo Scout leaders molested the kids.

Posted by: polynikes at May 08, 2025 02:15 AM (VofaG)

336 The vic thing is odd, but I do not know enough to comment on the situation. There is some oddness there. I remember around 6 months to a year before we got some sort of confirmation he had passed someone purporting to be his daughter? Niece? said he had died. She was not particularly complimentary.

I dunno. Just smells odd to me. Maybe vic lives on.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 08, 2025 02:20 AM (bss/y)

337 335 The Left sued the Boy Scouts because they banned Homo scout leaders and then they sued the Boy Scouts because the Homo Scout leaders molested the kids.
Posted by: polynikes at May 08, 2025 02:15 AM (VofaG)

Wedge, then destroy.

Scouts probably made too many kids feel self sufficient.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 08, 2025 02:21 AM (bss/y)

338 Get in, gain some element of control, promote your degeneracy, and you succeed regardless. Because people will either say "no thank you" and leave the organization, rendering it impotent and meaningless and on its way to eventual collapse, or after moving the Overton window firmly into the new position people will accept your terms and your degeneracy will become the new normal for the organization moving forward.

Win-win.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie -If you were back on the market you'd lose the weight, but not for your husband at May 08, 2025 02:12 AM (g7exq)

Lefties take over an orgaization and wear it as a skin suit.

What was once a nice company supporting decent things turns into a DEI LGBTQWERTY clusterfuck sponsoring drag queen story hour in your public library.

On X, a guy named Robbie Starbuck has been doing yeoman's work exposing companies' DEI policies, like Harley-Davidson and other supposed pro-American companies. The left cannot create their own (See: both talk radio and podcasting), so they take over an organization from the inside, making it only superficially recognizable by the name (and its past) only, a skin suit.

Posted by: RickZ at May 08, 2025 02:24 AM (gKDq2)

339 Knowing what we know now I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to discover that USAID type money was used to coordinate and eventually topple the influence of the Boy Scouts on American males.

Honestly I'd be much more surprised if it wasn't.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie -If you were back on the market you'd lose the weight, but not for your husband at May 08, 2025 02:26 AM (g7exq)

340 Honestly I'd be much more surprised if it wasn't.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie -If you were back on the market you'd lose the weight, but not for your husband at May 08, 2025 02:26 AM (g7exq)

Yeah. It is sad. I was never too into some of the more organized aspects, but the chance to camp and learn survival stuff, tie knots, shoot guns, etc. I did really like it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 08, 2025 02:30 AM (bss/y)

341 Saw this on X. 4chan is 4chan, but I don't think this is too far off on this regarding a lot of this stuff. This is just a snippet:

"the commie left (that's not the original and has been sanitized for ace's protection) doesn't want gay pride parades in your street, drag queens in your libraries, your son transgender, your parents dead from opioids and cancer, your daughter race mixing, your meat replaced with bugs all while your media laughs at you because they think it's for anyone's benefit. They want it because they know you don't want it, but cant stop them. They want to humiliate you. There isn't any other reason."

Posted by: Boron Cobbie -If you were back on the market you'd lose the weight, but not for your husband at May 08, 2025 02:31 AM (g7exq)

342 sort of related name field test

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - smile and satisfy your boss' every desire, but not tonight dear I have a headache at May 08, 2025 02:33 AM (g7exq)

343 Scouts probably made too many kids feel self sufficient.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 08, 2025 02:21 AM (bss/y)

Oh, yeah, carrying guns, knives, matches and a bedroll.

Before all the fancy outdoor cooking channels, I wa a pretty good cook in the Scouts. Could make biscuits using the reflector oven or on a weekend camps spaghetti and meatballs; I mean, we didn't starve or eat crappy food. Learned how to make fire and cook on it. The pans were shitty so you learned real fast what not to do. Cleaned pans in river sand.

Yep, self-sufficient independence. Terrible thing -- for totalitarians.

My Eagle medal feels cheapened, just like the Dems did to my Birthright Citizenship. This country went so far left and, thanks to DOGE, we paid for the propaganda to do so. It wasn't a rigged game, there was no game. It was all a show. Now we get the dramatic screams of hurt and agony, illegals being deported and government workers being fired. Oh well.

Posted by: RickZ at May 08, 2025 02:36 AM (gKDq2)

344 ...and we, the taxpayers funded these asshoes all the while they were chipping away at our country, our government, our institutions, our way of life.

Posted by: JQ, feeling like a total CHUMP at May 08, 2025 02:39 AM (rdVOm)

345 Back in 2016-17 Woke Inc infiltrated and hollowed out traditional progressive-left orgs like the Sierra Club, John Muir and Audubon Society rendering them inert.

lol. That's the silver lining.

Posted by: 13times at May 08, 2025 02:42 AM (zXoXa)

346 ...and we, the taxpayers funded these asshoes all the while they were chipping away at our country, our government, our institutions, our way of life.
Posted by: JQ, feeling like a total CHUMP at May 08, 2025 02:39 AM (rdVOm)

And the world. Why were we paying for transgender llama surgery in Peru? (Completely made up.) Or the $68,000,000 USAID gave to the World Economic Forum? (Totally true.)

Posted by: RickZ at May 08, 2025 02:48 AM (gKDq2)

347 I was in the Scouts and all of us had a great time - we were the bad news bears of scouting.

Posted by: 13times at May 08, 2025 02:48 AM (zXoXa)

348 ...and we, the taxpayers funded these asshoes all the while they were chipping away at our country, our government, our institutions, our way of life.
Posted by: JQ

-

Up to and including destroying marriage, which is incredible when you think about it. Between the motivation of welfare and the non-monogamous "gay marriage" cosplaying absurdity, it worked beautifully.

And now here we are, with illegitimate children 100% accepted and celebrated in almost all parts of society, polyamory a fairly mainstream idea, and women willingly coordinating harems amongst themselves in order to be briefly used sexually by the top 20% of men in any given regional population.

They figured out how to destroy the family.* I don't know how they could have succeeded at any higher level.

* We won't even get into turning brother against brother regarding COVID

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - smile and satisfy your boss' every desire, but not tonight dear I have a headache at May 08, 2025 02:51 AM (g7exq)

349 Oh, and I forgot selling Sex and the City, a TV show about gay male promiscuity with an impossible happy ending for the women involved, to ladies as the standard they should strive for.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - smile and satisfy your boss' every desire, but not tonight dear I have a headache at May 08, 2025 02:52 AM (g7exq)

350 >> women willingly coordinating harems amongst themselves

Oh my God, that’s awful! Where? Where is this happening so I can avoid it?

Posted by: Offended Dinosaur at May 08, 2025 02:54 AM (l3YAf)

351 "It's just a piece of paper"

(Said so many guys, who simply would not admit that all they wanted was s*x)

Posted by: JQ, feeling like a total CHUMP at May 08, 2025 02:55 AM (rdVOm)

352 I was in the Scouts and all of us had a great time - we were the bad news bears of scouting.
Posted by: 13times at May 08, 2025 02:48 AM (zXoXa)

I had a blast because my Scoutmaster was a 55-year-old pot-bellied rebel with a crew cut. He was a civilian jet machinist at USNAS Norfolk; he had no kids. Hated my local Scout Council, called them 'clowns'. Went to another Council's summer camp much further away, the whole bit. In college, I stopped by to see him as my Mom told me he was in bad shape. While I was there, another former scout, from before my time, dropped by. He was a Naval Aviator. Mr. Ira C. Erwin was one of the good ones.

Posted by: RickZ at May 08, 2025 02:59 AM (gKDq2)

353 Women? I thought Sarah Jessica Parker played a tranny.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 08, 2025 03:02 AM (l3YAf)

354 "It's just a piece of paper"

(Said so many guys, who simply would not admit that all they wanted was s*x)
Posted by: JQ

-

And that's a completely normal motivation and how the entire thing is supposed to work. And there was a time when sex was valued, and that was the understood currency for the trade.

I will provide a relationship, my resources, and my protection. You will provide sex.

It's absurdly simple.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - smile and satisfy your boss' every desire, but not tonight dear I have a headache at May 08, 2025 03:03 AM (g7exq)

355 336 The vic thing is odd, but I do not know enough to comment on the situation. There is some oddness there. I remember around 6 months to a year before we got some sort of confirmation he had passed someone purporting to be his daughter? Niece? said he had died. She was not particularly complimentary.

I dunno. Just smells odd to me. Maybe vic lives on.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Well, if he didn't die then there are a whole bunch of hordelings who commented on an 'In Memory of' page that people use to send condolences online. We all sent our condolences to a stranger then. I'm pretty sure he's died. He mentioned it frequently that his health was crap and he wasn't a youngin'.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 08, 2025 03:10 AM (sAmhv)

356 Well, Mr. Cobbie, it doesn't work that way any more.

We're FOSSILS, dude.

If my husband passes before I do (and I really wonder, now)

I'm DONE with men, with "relationships" with men, and (at my age) being a nurse/purse for a man.

Nothing against *men* really, just the whole BS of *expectations* within my age group.

Posted by: JQ, feeling like a total CHUMP at May 08, 2025 03:10 AM (rdVOm)

357 Well, I am getting real sleepy. Time for me to go to bed. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 07, 2025 11:51 PM (/LEkU)
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Wake up!

Alberta is ready to divorce Canada:

https://tinyurl.com/48vdmb9d

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 08, 2025 03:11 AM (D49EQ)

358 "I will provide a relationship, my resources, and my protection. You will provide sex."
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Uh-huh. Sex. And cooking, and housekeeping, and child-rearing... without any help... right?

Better have some *resources* LOL.

Lotta guys expect all that, but can't provide sh#t...

LMAO, and thanks to God that I didn't fall for one of *those* guys! Feel sorry for many of my classmates, though...

Posted by: JQ, feeling like a total CHUMP at May 08, 2025 03:31 AM (rdVOm)

359 Rickz. Our scout master was a pipe smoking medical supply salesman and Methodist. Looking at him you might think he was pretty straight laced. He even might have been, but he let boys be boys.

Posted by: 13times at May 08, 2025 03:32 AM (zXoXa)

360 Well, Mr. Cobbie, it doesn't work that way any more.

We're FOSSILS, dude.

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I don't disagree. I will say that part of our responsibility is to not require young people to have to re-learn what we (and Western Civilization as a whole) have known for literally thousands of years. People tend to see even having the conversation in an attempt to help youth as "bashing" or "toxic" or what-not, but there's no other way to have it. We know with 100% certainty what works. We've observed the last 50+ years and know without a doubt that THIS does not work.

It doesn't work that way anymore. We have to teach our children that it did work and *does* work, though. The difficult part will be similar to cell phones. They learn by example. Show them, don't tell them. And re-forming functioning families when there are financial motivations at both the personal and government level for its continued destruction will be extremely difficult to do. Probably at the level of achieving meaningful restrictions/bans on abortion (which is closely tied to the overall collapse , too).

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - smile and satisfy your boss' every desire, but not tonight dear I have a headache at May 08, 2025 03:34 AM (g7exq)

361 I was unable to teach by example, Boron Cobbie. I was unable to have children.

Hubby & XW had to adopt, and only got *one* child. He's great, but I had little to do with raising him, as he was 16 by the time hubs and I got together... Can't complain, but also cannot take credit.

He's a confirmed bachelor (the divorce scarred him terribly, I suspect) and if he ever has kids, will likely be of the step- variety.

Posted by: JQ, feeling like a total CHUMP at May 08, 2025 03:41 AM (rdVOm)

362 JQ. You should read Hilary Spurling's biography of Pearl Buck titled Pearl Buck in China: Journey to the Good Earth.

Pearl is one of the most interesting women of the 20th century - especially her life in China from when she was a tiny child until she was 30.

One of the themes being how Pearl and her mother are just whoopie cushions. Pearl pretty much rejects that nonsense.

Posted by: 13times at May 08, 2025 03:46 AM (zXoXa)

363 Our scout master was a pipe smoking medical supply salesman and Methodist. Looking at him you might think he was pretty straight laced. He even might have been, but he let boys be boys.

Posted by: 13times at May 08, 2025 03:32 AM (zXoXa)

On camping trips, mine always had a cup of coffee in his hand and a stogie in his mouth. As long as we weren't throwing sharpened hatchets at each other he let us, as you say, be boys.

My first weekend camping trip, in February, the temp got down to 17 above. I was fine but forgot to put my canteen in my sleeping bag with me. But it was cold. Fire. Important. Hot tea. Important. In the cold, you learn priorities quick.

Posted by: RickZ at May 08, 2025 03:47 AM (gKDq2)

364 Hey Horde, woke up a while ago after a very long nap on the couch.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 08, 2025 03:47 AM (0nHVk)

365 Hi, Debby!

*slides drink down the bar*

Welcome to the night shift!

Posted by: JQ, feeling like a total CHUMP at May 08, 2025 03:50 AM (rdVOm)

366 Is there a National Nap Day? If there isn't, there should be, honoring those among us who frequently nap.

Posted by: RickZ at May 08, 2025 03:50 AM (gKDq2)

367 Posted by: 13times at May 08, 2025 03:46 AM

Thanks! I will check that out!

Posted by: JQ, feeling like a total CHUMP at May 08, 2025 03:51 AM (rdVOm)

368 I will always avoid anything too personal. I will say that yes, relationship and resources from the man in exchange for sex / sexual access from the woman has been the understood coin of the realm.

Sadly I think that once feminists convinced women that the most valuable thing they possessed was valueless, so did the overall understanding of meaningful relationships as a whole. And that's a downward spiral right from the start, especially if the people getting married didn't grow up as children of married people.

It sounds harsh but I would encourage any young person to carefully consider marriage to someone from a broken home. Similar to baby mommas daughters hearing how awesome life is and how brave mommy is and then growing up to predictably also become baby mommas, you know going in what the likely outcome of that marriage will be.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - smile and satisfy your boss' every desire, but not tonight dear I have a headache at May 08, 2025 03:52 AM (g7exq)

369 Pearl married a man totally dedicated to his work - to the exclusion of his wife and children. It's a tragedy because he's a decent man who should've never married. Plus, living in 1900-1930 rural China was not an easy or safe way of life.

Posted by: 13times at May 08, 2025 03:56 AM (zXoXa)

370 I dunno, Cobbie...

I think *men* were behind the whole 'borshun BS.

Get what they want without any strings.

:shrugs:

Not gonna argue the whole M vs F thing tonight. I'm tired.

**buys Boron Cobbie his drink of choice**

Cheers, man!

Posted by: JQ, feeling like a total CHUMP at May 08, 2025 03:59 AM (rdVOm)

371 I guess it can be time to get up

Posted by: Skip at May 08, 2025 04:02 AM (ypFCm)

372 I do agree with you, on the broken home aspect, B. Cobbie...

First hubby was from a broken home. Guess what? Yup, he cheated. Repeatedly. What a wonderful example that he had, right?

Meh.

Posted by: JQ, feeling like a total CHUMP at May 08, 2025 04:03 AM (rdVOm)

373 Thanks JQ, I will sip for a while and then crawl into bed with a book. I do have the luxury of sleeping in a little later in the morning.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 08, 2025 04:05 AM (0nHVk)

374 Enjoy your drink and book, Debby.

Pretty quiet here tonight.

Today was hot & sunny, so I put the canvas up on our gazebo. Nice shady place to relax!

Posted by: JQ, feeling like a total CHUMP at May 08, 2025 04:11 AM (rdVOm)

375 I think *men* were behind the whole 'borshun BS.

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I think it's even worse, and we got a glimpse of it a few years ago. Remember when corporations were openly saying they'd provide transportation for women to travel to another state to kill their babies (unsaid: so the women wouldn't miss work, quit the job, or require hiring / retraining another employee)?

I think that was a glimpse of the truth and what the prime mover was so many years ago, similar to how women didn't want voting rights but they were simultaneously pushed through / onto them by the governments of 1st world nations (sound familiar?)

Industrialized times need industrialized disposable widgets to be used and discarded.

I don't think it's M vs F. We're a team and always have been. What we've got to figure out is how to work together again, and acknowledge that we know a lot (if not all) of the answers already.

Cheers, JQ

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - smile and satisfy your boss' every desire, but not tonight dear I have a headache at May 08, 2025 04:14 AM (q43oI)

376 At the computer game company I worked at in the 80s, we one day received the preferred providers books for our health coverage. We discovered there was an OB/GYN in Ventura named Martha Beaver. We tried to convince the female employees that one of them needed to book an appointment, if only to find out if the doctor had been born to that name or acquired it via marriage.

Posted by: Epobirs at May 08, 2025 04:15 AM (/0z9K)

377 It does seem quiet here tonight, I am all caught up on comments. I hate what the left has done to our country.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 08, 2025 04:16 AM (0nHVk)

378 So tired of this pattern: I go to bed at a sensible hour (10:30 last night), and then I wake up three or four hours later (just before 2:30 this morning). My body never wants to be well rested anymore. Just enough sleep to survive. This is stupid.

So scotch and a book it is.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 08, 2025 04:17 AM (4/BuS)

379 >>(unsaid: so the women wouldn't miss work, quit the job, or require hiring / retraining another employee)?
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Point!

>>I don't think it's M vs F. We're a team and always have been. What we've got to figure out is how to work together again
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Another point!

Yes, I think it's just more of the same misdirection from TPTB--
Divide and conquer.

Posted by: JQ, feeling like a total CHUMP at May 08, 2025 04:20 AM (rdVOm)

380 I was doing that Bear, thankfully got out of it

Posted by: Skip at May 08, 2025 04:21 AM (ypFCm)

381 *slides another scotch down the bar*

bear with asymmetrical balls, this one's for you!

Posted by: JQ, feeling like a total CHUMP at May 08, 2025 04:23 AM (rdVOm)

382 bear with asymmetrical balls, this one's for you!

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That's maybe the most amusing sentence I've seen in days.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - smile and satisfy your boss' every desire, but not tonight dear I have a headache at May 08, 2025 04:24 AM (q43oI)

383 Cheers, Boron Cobbie!

*pours shot*

*slides it down the bar to B. Cobbie*

Posted by: JQ, feeling like a total CHUMP at May 08, 2025 04:26 AM (rdVOm)

384 It's all of 4:30, Skip... you want a shot, too?

Posted by: JQ, feeling like a total CHUMP at May 08, 2025 04:27 AM (rdVOm)

385 TECH THREAD IS NOOD

Posted by: Skip at May 08, 2025 04:31 AM (ypFCm)

386 Ok horde, I'm sleepy.

Not making 'Last Call' ('cause TRex declared open bar tonight.)

Liquor cabinet will remain unlocked.

Help thyselves as desired.

Good night, grey-box friends!

Posted by: JQ, feeling like a total CHUMP at May 08, 2025 04:31 AM (rdVOm)

387 Good talking to you JQ.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - smile and satisfy your boss' every desire, but not tonight dear I have a headache at May 08, 2025 04:33 AM (q43oI)

388 Likewise, Mr. Cobbie.

Posted by: JQ, feeling like a total CHUMP at May 08, 2025 04:33 AM (rdVOm)

389 Night, JQ, and thank you, I think of you so often, hope that I get to meet you at a MoMe some day. I might pop into the tech thread.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 08, 2025 04:37 AM (0nHVk)

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