Tabletop Transformer Cafe

TRANSFORM, developed by MIT, is a dynamic furniture concept that uses shape display technology to adapt in real-time to users' needs

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A storm in a Chinese town

📍Wangxian Valley, Shangrao, Jiangxi Province. pic.twitter.com/NLVEYofXU6
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) May 6, 2025

The eagle stole a camera and shown a dimension of its world.. pic.twitter.com/Fba7rsINON
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) May 10, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 07:55 PM

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1 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2025 07:54 PM (ypFCm)

2
Good Evening

Posted by: four seasons at May 12, 2025 07:54 PM (3ek7K)

3
Where is Andycanuck?

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 12, 2025 07:55 PM (oXTmF)

4 Turtle.

Posted by: huerfano at May 12, 2025 07:55 PM (n2swS)

5
Sooth,

I wonder also about Andy. I hope nothing is wrong with him.

Posted by: four seasons at May 12, 2025 07:55 PM (3ek7K)

6 Evenin’, All.

Posted by: Bulg at May 12, 2025 07:58 PM (77rzZ)

7 lucky 7th!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 12, 2025 07:58 PM (/Ghsb)

8 10

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 12, 2025 07:59 PM (vm8sq)

9

A Storm in a Chinese town

Anyone else hearing that song that goes life in a northern town? I wonder what that song is called...

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 12, 2025 07:59 PM (oXTmF)

10 Continuing from the movie thread below....

The average age of consent in the US is 16 so finding ScarJO attractive in Ghost World is toats ok.

And Hollow Man is the worst film ever made.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 12, 2025 07:59 PM (XV/Pl)

11 Sounds likectheceagle thought the camera was good to eat

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2025 08:00 PM (ypFCm)

12 The search for andycanuck has begun.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 12, 2025 08:00 PM (NVNRw)

13 Hey, Skip.

Posted by: Bulg at May 12, 2025 08:00 PM (77rzZ)

14 12 The search for andycanuck has begun.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 12, 2025 08:00 PM (NVNRw)

-- --

I don't think I've seen him since the Canadian election, and that was on April 28th.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 12, 2025 08:01 PM (6ydKt)

15 Crazy Hot is Faye Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde
Just starting on TCM

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2025 08:01 PM (ypFCm)

16 Sounds likectheceagle thought the camera was good to eat
Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2025 08:00 PM (ypFCm)
----
I was wondering if they laced the camera with food just so the eagle would "steal" it....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 12, 2025 08:02 PM (GlyvH)

17 I doubt andycanuck has been around for awhile

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2025 08:02 PM (ypFCm)

18 SpeakingOf, an 'ette has his email.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 12, 2025 08:03 PM (NVNRw)

19 The search for andycanuck has begun.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 12, 2025 08:00 PM (NVNRw)

Sent him an e-mail. No response as of yet.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 12, 2025 08:03 PM (91YPD)

20 The search for andycanuck has begun.

Has anyone checked Canada?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2025 08:04 PM (2VST1)

21 15 mmmmm…Faye Dunaway…mmmmmmm…

Posted by: Bulg at May 12, 2025 08:04 PM (77rzZ)

22 Koala mom snuggles her baby.

Mom, your claw is right in my eye...

Posted by: Baby Koala at May 12, 2025 08:06 PM (4Nep/)

23
It takes Hollywood assholes to turn a couple of homicidal psychopaths into some doomed, romantic couple.

Happy Hamer and the boys didn't spare the bullets eradicating them.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 12, 2025 08:07 PM (QnmlO)

24 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 12, 2025 08:07 PM (cYBz/)

25
Good evening good people.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 12, 2025 08:07 PM (cYBz/)

_______

*looks around confused*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 12, 2025 08:08 PM (QnmlO)

26 That sink hole looks like a black hole that could suck in a universe

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2025 08:08 PM (ypFCm)

27 I'm supposed to be related to Dunaway on my mom's side but I've never met her and most likely never will. If you ever see her though, ask her if she has ever heard of Two Egg, Florida.

Posted by: fd at May 12, 2025 08:09 PM (vFG9F)

28 Bonnie was like 5 foot nothing, Faye Dunaway, tall with long legs, but you have to be able to be able to suspend reality sometimes.

Posted by: Leg Alert at May 12, 2025 08:10 PM (G5+As)

29 Beautiful shots of the earth.

Outstanding.

Posted by: t-bird at May 12, 2025 08:10 PM (4/l8P)

30 Caps are fading

Posted by: Don Black at May 12, 2025 08:10 PM (AOsQT)

31 A point to consider, please. This is a very caring community. Does someone here have your contact information ?

Posted by: Ben Had at May 12, 2025 08:11 PM (NVNRw)

32 Don’t get me started on sink holes, the route 80 sinkhole is making life a living hell for me.

The only positive is I get paid every-time I have to put on pants and get in a car.

Still…. He’ll.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 12, 2025 08:11 PM (XV/Pl)

33 The view of that sinkhole gave me vertigo. And I wasn't even watching on IMAX.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 12, 2025 08:12 PM (jfvTO)

34 25 Hadrian, I know that it’s early days yet, but what do you think of the new Pope so far?

Posted by: Bulg at May 12, 2025 08:12 PM (77rzZ)

35 Bonnie was like 5 foot nothing,

and she had a pet rabbit.

Posted by: Adriane the Too Much Trivia Not Enough Winning Lottery Tickets Critic . . . at May 12, 2025 08:13 PM (tcomi)

36 Bonnie was like 5 foot nothing, Faye Dunaway, tall with long legs, but you have to be able to be able to suspend reality sometimes.

I liked the version of her in Highwaymen, she was cute and tiny and bent and clearly something was terribly wrong with her.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2025 08:13 PM (2VST1)

37 Howdy everyone

Posted by: Doof at May 12, 2025 08:13 PM (UQakJ)

38 How fucking delusional do you have to be to compare the fat black woman statue to Michelangelo’s David?

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 12, 2025 08:14 PM (TkGbi)

39 Howdy, Doof ...

Posted by: Adriane the Too Much Trivia Not Enough Winning Lottery Tickets Critic . . . at May 12, 2025 08:14 PM (tcomi)

40 >This is a very caring community. Does someone here have your contact information ?
---

I don't know who this is meant for, but if I cease commenting and am never heard from again, I'm dead.

Posted by: Don Black at May 12, 2025 08:15 PM (AOsQT)

41 Doof, I have a Bib and Tucker waiting for you.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 12, 2025 08:15 PM (NVNRw)

42 Caps are fading
Posted by: Don Black at May 12, 2025 08:10 PM (AOsQT)

Yeah man I'm 3 beers in already and almost on 4. They just can't get anything going.

Posted by: Doof at May 12, 2025 08:15 PM (UQakJ)

43 Oh. almost forgot ...

Ace, thank you for this lovely collection of finds ...

Posted by: Adriane the Too Much Trivia Not Enough Winning Lottery Tickets Critic . . . at May 12, 2025 08:15 PM (tcomi)

44
Hadrian, I know that it’s early days yet, but what do you think of the new Pope so far?
Posted by: Bulg at May 12, 2025 08:12 PM (77rzZ)

_________

If I worried about Vatican politics, I'd go nuts. I'm just a dumb pew-sitter who tries to live up to what the Baltimore Catechism says and leaves the thinking to the big boys.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 12, 2025 08:16 PM (QnmlO)

45 I wonder if this guy thought his lion was cute.

Man is mauled to death and EATEN by pet lion days after buying the beast to keep in his back garden
Daily Mail Online
https://is.gd/Sdwk5X

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 12, 2025 08:16 PM (klJTj)

46 Doof, I have a Bib and Tucker waiting for you.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 12, 2025 08:15 PM (NVNRw)

You're the best! Hope all is well!

Posted by: Doof at May 12, 2025 08:16 PM (UQakJ)

47 So I nooded since no one else did.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 12, 2025 08:17 PM (dR2JP)

48 9 A Storm in a Chinese town

Anyone else hearing that song that goes life in a northern town? I wonder what that song is called...
Posted by: Soothsayer
...............................
youtu.be/5UXnulANF8g

The Dream Academy - Life in a Northern Town

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 12, 2025 08:17 PM (sAmhv)

49 >>>A foreign woman and her foreign parrot do dueling "Foreign Man" impressions.

That's awesome! I'm going to add that to my act.

Oh, wait...

Posted by: Andy Kaufman at May 12, 2025 08:18 PM (klJTj)

50 Don Black, this is meant for all the Horde. You are here and part of this community.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 12, 2025 08:18 PM (NVNRw)

51 That Transform device from MIT is quite cool.

Pixy had a link in one of his posts last week with new tech from LG in Korea that is a stretchable display for cars that forms the shape of knobs & buttons when activated.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 12, 2025 08:18 PM (6ydKt)

52
Fun fact: the bodies of Bonnie & Clyde had so many holes, the undertaker had a helluva time keeping the embalming fluid from leaking out.

Posted by: Don Black at May 12, 2025 08:18 PM (AOsQT)

53 Top pic -
Shades of The Lathe of Heaven[/]! Those who know, know. George Orr…

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 12, 2025 08:19 PM (dR2JP)

54 Hadrian, I know that it’s early days yet, but what do you think of the new Pope so far?
Posted by: Bulg at May 12, 2025 08:12 PM (77rzZ)

_________

If I worried about Vatican politics, I'd go nuts. I'm just a dumb pew-sitter who tries to live up to what the Baltimore Catechism says and leaves the thinking to the big boys.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 12, 2025 08:16 PM (QnmlO)

His brother is a hoot.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 12, 2025 08:19 PM (CUhKq)

55
Actually, not even a pew sitter. I sit on the bench in the back. More room for my long legs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 12, 2025 08:19 PM (QnmlO)

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 12, 2025 08:19 PM (dR2JP)

57 Well, somebody lent a helping hand, thank God!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 12, 2025 08:20 PM (dR2JP)

58 Santino probably holds the record for most bullet holes in a body.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 12, 2025 08:20 PM (NVNRw)

59 Anyone else hearing that song that goes life in a northern town? I wonder what that song is called...
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 12, 2025 07:59 PM (oXTmF)

Dream Academy. The song is, wait for it…”Life In A Northern Town”. 1986.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 12, 2025 08:21 PM (vm8sq)

60 38 How fucking delusional do you have to be to compare the fat black woman statue to Michelangelo’s David?

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 12, 2025 08:14 PM (TkGbi)

I believe they described it as a "subtle nod" to David.

So subtle literally everybody on the planet missed it but these urbane, art critic, journalists.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 12, 2025 08:22 PM (6ydKt)

61 I wonder if this guy thought his lion was cute

I am pretty sure the lion thought he was tasty

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2025 08:22 PM (2VST1)

62
At least Leo doesn't seem to have the addiction to performative humility that Francis did. Someone once said it cost a lot of money for Gandhi to be poor. Same general idea.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 12, 2025 08:22 PM (QnmlO)

63 55
Actually, not even a pew sitter. I sit on the bench in the back. More room for my long legs.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 12, 2025 08:19 PM (QnmlO)
Me too, but not because my legs are long, although they are.

Posted by: Eromero at May 12, 2025 08:22 PM (LHPAg)

64 Santino probably holds the record for most bullet holes in a body.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 12, 2025 08:20 PM (NVNRw)
———

“Meh”

—- ED 209

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 12, 2025 08:22 PM (TkGbi)

65 Man is mauled to death and EATEN by pet lion days after buying the beast to keep in his back garden
Daily Mail Online
https://is.gd/Sdwk5X
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 12, 2025 08:16 PM (klJTj)

Apparently the guy didn't feed the lion.

Well at least not until after he was dead.

Posted by: polynikes at May 12, 2025 08:23 PM (VofaG)

66 38 How fucking delusional do you have to be to compare the fat black woman statue to Michelangelo’s David?
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 12, 2025 08:14 PM (TkGbi)

I consider Jack in the Box fine dining and give Valu-Rite five stars, and even I can tell the difference.

David is an example of what we aspire to be. Bronze Brunhilde is an object lesson on what we could become.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 12, 2025 08:23 PM (jfvTO)

67 I never fail to Nood if first

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2025 08:23 PM (ypFCm)

68 forms the shape of knobs & buttons when activated.

Used to date her.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 12, 2025 08:23 PM (ferl2)

69 I am sorry I missed the Hogg thread.

You also missed the obvious gay joke in the headline, ace.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 12, 2025 08:23 PM (pHsiB)

70
Surprised Salma Hayek was not mentioned in the last thread regarding uber-babes.

Surprised and... disappointed.

Posted by: Auspex at May 12, 2025 08:23 PM (j4U/Z)

71 Dream Academy. The song is, wait for it…”Life In A Northern Town”. 1986

The story I heard about that is someone famous heard the chorus -- which was all they had at the time -- and told them it was a guaranteed hit if they can build a song around it. Its not a bad album but that was their best effort and they really didn't have anything like it again.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2025 08:23 PM (2VST1)

72 38 How fucking delusional do you have to be to compare the fat black woman statue to Michelangelo’s David?

Just woke, apparently.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 12, 2025 08:23 PM (dR2JP)

73 Surprised and... disappointed.
Posted by: Auspex at May 12, 2025 08:23 PM (j4U/Z)

From Dusk til Dawn probably peak.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 12, 2025 08:24 PM (pHsiB)

74 Howdy, Doof ...
Posted by: Adriane the Too Much Trivia Not Enough Winning Lottery Tickets Critic . . . at May 12, 2025 08:14 PM (tcomi)

Hello Adriane. I don't think I've ever interacted with you before.

Posted by: Doof at May 12, 2025 08:25 PM (UQakJ)

75 Just woke, apparently.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 12, 2025 08:23 PM (dR2JP)

Bah. Cast not carved.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 12, 2025 08:25 PM (pHsiB)

76 Howdy, Doof ...
Posted by: Adriane the Too Much Trivia Not Enough Winning Lottery Tickets Critic . . . at May 12, 2025 08:14 PM (tcomi)

Hello Adriane. I don't think I've ever interacted with you before.
Posted by: Doof at May 12, 2025 08:25 PM (UQakJ)

*two strange 'Rons warily approach each other's butt*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 12, 2025 08:26 PM (pHsiB)

77 71 Dream Academy. The song is, wait for it…”Life In A Northern Town”. 1986

Song reminds me of the King of the Hill episode after Luanne's boyfriend Buckley dies and comes back as an Angel.

Posted by: polynikes at May 12, 2025 08:26 PM (VofaG)

78 Turtle.
Posted by: huerfano

Oddly, just at the top.

Posted by: mikeski at May 12, 2025 08:27 PM (DgGvY)

79 Apparently the guy didn't feed the lion.

Well at least not until after he was dead.
Posted by: polynikes

He was the mane course.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 12, 2025 08:27 PM (CUhKq)

80 iirc, one of Saaddaam's sons had a pet lion that mauled him.

Posted by: davidt at May 12, 2025 08:27 PM (i0F8b)

81 He was the mane course.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 12, 2025 08:27 PM (CUhKq)

Roaring with laughter

Posted by: polynikes at May 12, 2025 08:28 PM (VofaG)

82
From Dusk til Dawn probably peak.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Dunno, she complained lately that with age her breasts were just getting bigger.

Posted by: Auspex at May 12, 2025 08:28 PM (j4U/Z)

83 So AtC is right: it’s BIG and GOOD -

https://is.gd/C6JKc1

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 12, 2025 08:28 PM (dR2JP)

84 Well if there's no age limit we can go back a long ways for some screen beauties.

Talking Veronica Lake, Marilyn Monroe, Dorothy Malone, Susan Cabot, Lauren Bacall, Sandra Dee, Faye Dunaway, Goldie Hawn....

I could go on for hours here.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 12, 2025 08:29 PM (6ydKt)

85 Dunno, she complained lately that with age her breasts were just getting bigger.
Posted by: Auspex at May 12, 2025 08:28 PM (j4U/Z)

She still looks damn good.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 12, 2025 08:30 PM (pHsiB)

86 *two strange 'Rons warily approach each other's butt*
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 12, 2025 08:26 PM (pHsiB)

Lol!! That just might make the Saturday night Club ONT Comment of the Week section!

Posted by: Doof at May 12, 2025 08:30 PM (UQakJ)

87 "He was the mane course.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner"

Mr Fancy Feast

Posted by: fd at May 12, 2025 08:30 PM (vFG9F)

88 The hottest Salma Hayek ever looked was as the stripper in Dogma.

Those glasses…. Those bazoombas… that a**….

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 12, 2025 08:30 PM (XV/Pl)

89 In the end, all the talk about bringing back manufacturing was just that, talk. Maybe it was a pipe dream anyway. Maybe we’ll sell an extra few thousand pounds of beef to China. But the whole “fundamentally transform global trade” that we were talking about 6 weeks ago is a distant memory.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 12, 2025 08:30 PM (d4dD2)

90 Lauren Bacall had class and looks. How many had that?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 12, 2025 08:31 PM (dR2JP)

91 >>>Nice little mountain lake. (IG).

heh. A rather sophisticated ad.

Want to know the spot? Comment "GUIDE"
below, and I’ll DM you an exklusive discount code + the link to my ULTIMATE TRAVEL GUIDE for the DOLOMITES
*Anzeige

Posted by: Andy Kaufman at May 12, 2025 08:31 PM (klJTj)

92 George Orr… George Orr…

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 12, 2025 08:31 PM (dR2JP)

93 Boy, Trump managed to expose the whole "immigrant" scam really quickly with the Africans, didn't he?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You're pretty when you dress feminine. Men like to see ladies dressed up. at May 12, 2025 08:32 PM (usn/N)

94
Pretty damn clever to carry over Sally Quinn's photo to the top of this cafe post, Ace!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 12, 2025 08:32 PM (XeTAE)

95 Raquel Welch, Yvonne de Carlo, Brigitte Bardot, Leslie Caron.

I know I'm missing some hotties, but that's a start.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 12, 2025 08:32 PM (6ydKt)

96 I could go on for hours here.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 12, 2025 08:29 PM (6ydKt)

Grace Kelly
Eve St Marie
Rita Hayworth

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 12, 2025 08:33 PM (pHsiB)

97 Rodent Rage is funny

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2025 08:34 PM (ypFCm)

98 one of Saddam's sons had a pet lion that mauled him.

Melanie Griffith I think it was grew up with lions around the house, tame ones. She said they were calm most of the time but would casually maul her pretty badly. Like, a little cat scratch from a lion opens you up like a broadsword.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2025 08:35 PM (2VST1)

99 Claudia Cardinalle
Deborah Kerr

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 12, 2025 08:35 PM (pHsiB)

100 And while her politics are plain nuts even Jane Fonda was smoking in Barbarella.

I know that's blasphemy in these parts but credit where credit is due.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 12, 2025 08:35 PM (6ydKt)

101 84 Well if there's no age limit we can go back a long ways for some screen beauties.

Talking Veronica Lake, Marilyn Monroe, Dorothy Malone, Susan Cabot, Lauren Bacall, Sandra Dee, Faye Dunaway, Goldie Hawn....

I could go on for hours here.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 12, 2025 08:29 PM (6ydKt)
I know y'all get tired of me saying this..but..Lauren Bacall's little wiggle in the last scene of To Have And Have Not

Posted by: Eromero at May 12, 2025 08:35 PM (LHPAg)

102 Grace Kelly
Eve St Marie
Rita Hayworth

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 12, 2025 08:33 PM (pHsiB)

Exactly.
How could I forget those beauties.

Hitchcock made the first two look like radiant angels.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 12, 2025 08:36 PM (6ydKt)

103 Penelope Cruz is hotter than CZJ.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 12, 2025 08:36 PM (NVNRw)

104 The hidden click videos on the café top pix never work for me.
😜

Posted by: mindful webworker - those sweet, happy little quakkas will throw their babies at predators at May 12, 2025 08:36 PM (b/vRQ)

105 Lauren Bacall is the perfect example that a woman does not need to have giant tits (cannot believe I am typing this) or even be conventionally pretty to be sexy as hell.

Attitude. The Eyes. The Look. Smouldering.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 12, 2025 08:37 PM (pHsiB)

106 Whoopsie~!

@daveweigel 47m
Statement from David Hogg: "Today, the DNC took its first steps to remove me from my position as Vice Chair At-Large."

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 12, 2025 08:38 PM (mlg/3)

107 103 Penelope Cruz is hotter than CZJ.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 12, 2025 08:36 PM (NVNRw)

I dunno. Catherine Zeta Jones in the First Zorro remake is pretty damn hot.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 12, 2025 08:38 PM (pHsiB)

108 Neat to see shots on the Earth video

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2025 08:38 PM (ypFCm)

109 Watching ST: DS-9 from the start.

Odo to Quark, "you have all the character references of a politician."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 12, 2025 08:39 PM (RNX3b)

110 Alert me when BOSS Hogg is gone

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2025 08:39 PM (ypFCm)

111 Wow, WTH did I miss with all this boob talk?

Posted by: Bulg at May 12, 2025 08:39 PM (77rzZ)

112 @daveweigel 47m
Statement from David Hogg: "Today, the DNC took its first steps to remove me from my position as Vice Chair At-Large."
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 12, 2025 08:38 PM (mlg/3)

Cause you are a fucking retard. Thanks for playing.

Also, I hope you did not get business cards and a desk name plate with that fucking title, fancy pants.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 12, 2025 08:39 PM (pHsiB)

113 >>>The hidden click videos on the café top pix never work for me.

Right? MisHum's got us trained to hover every photo around here to see if it's hiding a link.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 12, 2025 08:40 PM (klJTj)

114 Catherine Deneuve and her sister, Françoise Dorléac, who starred together with Gene Kelly in Les Demoiselles de Rochefort. Her sister died young in an auto accident.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 12, 2025 08:40 PM (dR2JP)

115 Wow, WTH did I miss with all this boob talk?
Posted by: Bulg at May 12, 2025 08:39 PM (77rzZ)

Not so much boobs as sexy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 12, 2025 08:41 PM (pHsiB)

116 I am constantly yelling “wait for me, I have little legs”. 😂

Posted by: Piper at May 12, 2025 08:41 PM (pZEOD)

117 Edna May Oliver
Margaret Hamilton
Bea Arthur

My dream girls.

Posted by: Discerning Chap at May 12, 2025 08:41 PM (G5+As)

118 DJIA is even for 2025.

Quite a roller coaster. Anyone who panic sold is crying right now.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 12, 2025 08:42 PM (d4dD2)

119 I last got an email from andycanuck April
30.

I sent him one this morning and have not heard back.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 12, 2025 08:42 PM (mT+6a)

120 French musicals are different, but I like them. Being francophone helps I suppose.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 12, 2025 08:43 PM (dR2JP)

121 Yvette Mimeaux in George Pals time machine was pretty hot.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 12, 2025 08:43 PM (pHsiB)

122 105 Attitude. The Eyes. The Look. Smouldering.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 12, 2025 08:37 PM (pHsiB)

The musical lessons.
(You know how to whistle, don't you?)

Posted by: tankdemon at May 12, 2025 08:43 PM (jfvTO)

123 Cyd Charisse.

Cannot believe I forgot her.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 12, 2025 08:43 PM (pHsiB)

124 Why is the dnc booting Hogg? Did he do something or is it second thoughts about him.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 12, 2025 08:43 PM (d4dD2)

125
Well, Andy had better materialize soon. I'm quite tired of losing You People.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 12, 2025 08:44 PM (oXTmF)

126 Aetius, watch Spanglish again.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 12, 2025 08:45 PM (NVNRw)

127 Leslie Caron and Audrey Hepburn, two of a type: both dancers (ballet) IIRC.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 12, 2025 08:45 PM (dR2JP)

128 At least the Fat Black Woman Statue doesn’t show her junk. So I’ll take it over MickeyD’s David.

Posted by: Bulg at May 12, 2025 08:45 PM (77rzZ)

129 Hogg wants more Marxists in Congress and get rid of Democrats

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2025 08:46 PM (ypFCm)

130 Don't think I watched it a first time. I'll check it out.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 12, 2025 08:46 PM (pHsiB)

131 124 Why is the dnc booting Hogg? Did he do something or is it second thoughts about him.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 12, 2025 08:43 PM (d4dD2)

He has been using DNC databases to promote his personal PAC and probably even businesses he takes a cut of, but the DNC is claiming that they think the position should be a DEI hire.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 12, 2025 08:46 PM (jfvTO)

132 I'm going to name an actress and all of you will say Damn how did I forget her.

Barbara Eden

Posted by: polynikes at May 12, 2025 08:46 PM (VofaG)

133
Speaking of old timey actors...

Just rewatched Run Silent, Run Deep. What a perfect movie. Kinda sad the crew dumped their captain's body into the deeps of the Pacific like he was garbage, but...

Anyway, I noticed Clark Gable appears to be shaking like a leaf for all his scenes. Did he have the DT's? Parkinson's?

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 12, 2025 08:46 PM (oXTmF)

134 Oh, who was the girl in John Wayne's Alamo? Linda Crystal?

She was very smokey.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 12, 2025 08:47 PM (pHsiB)

135 117 Margaret Hamilton had a great figure.

Posted by: Bulg at May 12, 2025 08:47 PM (77rzZ)

136 Ann Margret in Train Robbers.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 12, 2025 08:48 PM (pHsiB)

137 At least the Fat Black Woman Statue doesn’t show her junk. So I’ll take it over MickeyD’s David.
Posted by: Bulg at May 12, 2025 08:45 PM

Unless FBWS is named Michelle, I don't think the David statue is showing her junk.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 12, 2025 08:48 PM (0sNs1)

138 Margaret Hamilton is one of your dream girls?! One man’s Mede is another man’s Persian.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 12, 2025 08:48 PM (dR2JP)

139
I'm going to name an actress and all of you will say Damn how did I forget her.

Barbara Eden
Posted by: polynikes

Dood, her name comes up literally once a week, here.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 12, 2025 08:48 PM (oXTmF)

140 Susan Hayward and we can fight on my lawn.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 12, 2025 08:49 PM (NVNRw)

141 Barbara Eden
Posted by: polynikes at May 12, 2025 08:46 PM (VofaG)

And that of course leads to Bewitcheds Elizabeth Montgomery.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 12, 2025 08:49 PM (pHsiB)

142 He has been using DNC databases to promote his personal PAC and probably even businesses he takes a cut of, but the DNC is claiming that they think the position should be a DEI hire.
Posted by: tankdemon at May 12, 2025 08:46 PM (jfvTO)

He should start a 3rd Party. Tee hee.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 12, 2025 08:49 PM (d4dD2)

143 Women are like paintings, movies and songs. Not everyone will agree with their opinions .

Posted by: polynikes at May 12, 2025 08:50 PM (VofaG)

144
You People have the WORST memories.

Just the other day, someone mentioned Barbara Eden in an ep of Andy Griffith -- it was the episode when Barney asked Thelma Lou for a BJ.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 12, 2025 08:50 PM (oXTmF)

145 Other than Barbara Eden I have no idea who any of these wymynses are.

Can we talk hotties from the 21st century for a while? Maybe late 20th? 🤭

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 12, 2025 08:51 PM (d4dD2)

146 Dood, her name comes up literally once a week, here.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 12, 2025 08:48 PM (oXTmF)

Dood no one mentioned her in the conversation you were late to.

Posted by: polynikes at May 12, 2025 08:51 PM (VofaG)

147 You youngin's with your highfalutin modern girls. Give me a classic gal like Clara Bow or Faye Wraye. Those were women.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 12, 2025 08:51 PM (jfvTO)

148 Broncos @ Chiefs

Christmas Day

Posted by: Don Black at May 12, 2025 08:51 PM (AOsQT)

149 Hi, y'all: For the last two weeks, I've been having trouble with links not working on AoSHQ.

Click on the first three or four in this post, e.g., and they go through to the videos.

But after that? deadsville. Also, I've been having trouble clicking to fully open posts, and clicking to see the comments.

This started when WinDoze (or somebody) downloaded Copilot without my knowledge or permission. Connected?

Posted by: Beverly at May 12, 2025 08:51 PM (Epeb0)

150 107 CZJ in the first Zorro is the textbook definition of HAWT.

Posted by: Bulg at May 12, 2025 08:51 PM (77rzZ)

151 polynikes. you are correct but this is the Horde.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 12, 2025 08:52 PM (NVNRw)

152 Talking Veronica Lake, Marilyn Monroe, Dorothy Malone, Susan Cabot, Lauren Bacall, Sandra Dee, Faye Dunaway, Goldie Hawn

Grace Kelly, Lauran Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Natalie Wood... there is a woman from the 50s who had a man's name that was so cute but is not as famous.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2025 08:52 PM (2VST1)

153
I'll bet half of you don't remember what you ate last Friday.

That's not good...

Eat some ginkoseng biloba, or whatever.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 12, 2025 08:52 PM (oXTmF)

154 @daveweigel 47m
Statement from David Hogg: "Today, the DNC took its first steps to remove me from my position as Vice Chair At-Large."
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Whoa, they're doing the meme in real life?

Chairman: Gentlepersyns, how can we appeal to young identified-as-males?

Yes Man 1: More focus on trans issues?

Yes Man 2: A better euphemism for "undocumented migrants?"

Yes Man 3: Call Republicans "nazis" more often?

Hogg: Stop being insufferable douchenozzles?

* defenestration *

Posted by: mikeski at May 12, 2025 08:53 PM (DgGvY)

155 Evening, Horde.

Just one thing: fucking Tanner Houck.

That is all.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at May 12, 2025 08:55 PM (AwlwC)

156
Hi, y'all: For the last two weeks, I've been having trouble with links not working on AoSHQ.

Click on the first three or four in this post, e.g., and they go through to the videos.

But after that? deadsville. Also, I've been having trouble clicking to fully open posts, and clicking to see the comments.

This started when WinDoze (or somebody) downloaded Copilot without my knowledge or permission. Connected?
Posted by: Beverly

First, I suggest you Uninstall that Co-Pilot. Right click and get rid of it. As far as the links working, they're working for me and I run W10.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 12, 2025 08:55 PM (oXTmF)

157 Sorry, I would choose Margaret Hamilton over Billy Burke.

Posted by: Bulg at May 12, 2025 08:55 PM (77rzZ)

158 Ooooo.

A new car that does not look like a suppository. Italian. Kind of looks like an old Cobra.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 12, 2025 08:56 PM (pHsiB)

159 GOP proposes increasing SALT deduction from $10k to $30k. lol.

Ahh just what Republican voters want. A yuuuge giveaway to upper middle class Democrats in NY and California.

They’re not even pretending anymore.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 12, 2025 08:56 PM (d4dD2)

160 CZJ in the first Zorro is the textbook definition of HAWT.
Posted by: Bulg at May 12, 2025 08:51 PM (77rzZ)

Bunkworthy. Also her in Entrapment.

Posted by: Doof at May 12, 2025 08:56 PM (UQakJ)

161 154
Hogg: Stop being insufferable douchenozzles?

* defenestration *
Posted by: mikeski at May 12, 2025 08:53 PM (DgGvY)

Wouldn't defenestrstion at that point actually be getting rid of an insufferable douchenozzle?⁰

Posted by: tankdemon at May 12, 2025 08:56 PM (jfvTO)

162 I'll bet half of you don't remember what you ate last Friday.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 12, 2025 08:52 PM

Which half?

Mary Ann / Ginger?
Crossbow / Long Bow?
Catapult / Trebuchet?
Tastes Great / Less Filling?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 12, 2025 08:56 PM (0sNs1)

163 Michelangelo’s David, following an ancient classical tradition (large is crude and barbaric) has little tiny “junk” like a boy. Not saying it has anything to do with the artist’s predilections (yes, I am - both he and da Vinci were well know in their day for both being that way).

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 12, 2025 08:56 PM (dR2JP)

164
Ah, I see.
So we are to Reset our Memories for each new post. Got it.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 12, 2025 08:56 PM (oXTmF)

165 My spoiled Labrador retriever has been treated far too well, and for far too long, and it's made him far too bold.

I caught this black bastard, with his smooth fur and fine muscles, stealing cat food from his ancient, bedraggled, weak roommate.

He knew he did wrong, and that he'd been caught in his perfidy - but he didn't stop. Far from it. He turned right back to that can of Friskies and continued despoiling it.

I was too shocked to do anything but call him off.

Next time, I'll punish him. My first thought would be to grab his collar and hold him down while I eat his dog food to teach him the lesson, but dog food is too gross for me to eat.

I guess it'll have to be a rolled-up magazine instead, for him.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 12, 2025 08:56 PM (BI5O2)

166 I'll bet half of you don't remember what you ate last Friday.

Trick Question! I was fasting.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 12, 2025 08:56 PM (a4flb)

167
Re Sally Quinn from the last thread. She's the reason I know what the word "doyenne" is. The press would always refer to her, and only here, as the "doyenne of the Washington social circuit" or some shit like that.

He father was some general who was big in the Deep State of the day, and her mother was s social queen bee. There's a story about J. Strom Thurmond attending one of her mother's parties back in his heyday.

Supposedly, Strom sidled up between Sally, around 20 at the time and her mother, and grabbed both of their asses, mother and daughter, at the same time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 12, 2025 08:57 PM (w6EFb)

168 Man is mauled to death and EATEN by pet lion days after buying the beast to keep in his back garden
Daily Mail Online
https://is.gd/Sdwk5X
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous

Apparently the guy didn't feed the lion.

Well at least not until after he was dead.
Posted by: polynikes

He kept it in his garden and didn't feed it? Maybe he thought it was vegetarian?

Posted by: mikeski at May 12, 2025 08:57 PM (DgGvY)

169 Evening, Horde.

Just one thing: fucking Tanner Houck.

That is all.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at May 12, 2025 08:55 PM (AwlwC)

Don't say it to his face. That's a big boy.

Posted by: polynikes at May 12, 2025 08:57 PM (VofaG)

170 What happened to Insomniac? is he okay?

Posted by: Beverly at May 12, 2025 08:57 PM (Epeb0)

171 157 Sorry, I would choose Margaret Hamilton over Billy Burke.
Posted by: Bulg at May 12, 2025 08:55 PM (77rzZ)

It's the green skin, isn't it? I totally understand.

Posted by: James T. Kirk at May 12, 2025 08:58 PM (jfvTO)

172 Ann Margret in Train Robbers.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

Lilly. With two ells.

Posted by: BifBewalski - close tags for the win at May 12, 2025 08:59 PM (MsrgL)

173 160 Doof, I posted a part-time pickleball instructor job posting for you on an earlier thread. Go for it!

Posted by: Bulg at May 12, 2025 09:00 PM (77rzZ)

174 (yes, I am - both he and da Vinci were well know in their day for both being that way).
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 12, 2025 08:56 PM (dR2JP)

Everyone has always noticed that Michelangelo’s women are just muscular men with breasts.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2025 09:01 PM (S+5p3)

175 Lilly. With two ells.
Posted by: BifBewalski - close tags for the win at May 12, 2025 08:59 PM (MsrgL)

*fistbump*

'How'd you like to draw into a pair like that?'

'You outta get to town more!'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 12, 2025 09:01 PM (pHsiB)

176
You know that stupid show The Office? Terrible show, not funny at all.

Well, NBC has an "offshoot" of The Office coming, called, get this, The Paper.

A new mockumentary series titled "The Paper" is coming to Peacock in September, set in the same universe as "The Office". It follows the documentary crew from "The Office" as they film a Midwestern newspaper, The Truth Teller, in Toledo, Ohio.

I suspect it will be a fake sit-com to push a Narrative -- like SNL, or CNN but with "jokes."

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 12, 2025 09:01 PM (oXTmF)

177 Just what I need: a horizontal surface that thinks it's smarter than I am.

At my house, horizontal surfaces have no say, no say!

Posted by: Bombadil at May 12, 2025 09:01 PM (MX0bI)

178 Don't say it to his face. That's a big boy.
Posted by: polynikes

No sir. But he does need to go down to Worcester for a while. Red Sox has a bunch of good starting pitchers, and also Houck, who just gave up 11 runs by the third inning. Which I predicted, because he doesn't seem to be thinking about baseball much this year. A shame because he was great in seasons past.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at May 12, 2025 09:02 PM (AwlwC)

179 So, nobody remembers the PBS mini-series of The Lathe of Heaven? If I said Ursula K. LeGuin, would it ring a bell?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 12, 2025 09:02 PM (dR2JP)

180 Faye Wray

Well, she did have that delicate, satin-draped thigh ...

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 12, 2025 09:02 PM (0sNs1)

181 Ann Margret in Train Robbers.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

Damn I forgot about Ann Margret .

Bye Bye Birdie where she changes clothes in here room. Dirtiest cleanest scene in cinema.

Posted by: polynikes at May 12, 2025 09:03 PM (VofaG)

182 Is there any word that Captain Whitebread is in the ER?

Posted by: Kindltot at May 12, 2025 09:03 PM (D7oie)

183 Evening.

With respect to the new Pope's Chicago origins I recommend updating the AOS Style Guide to refer to him as Pope Leo da 14th.

Posted by: Robert at May 12, 2025 09:04 PM (R2s9E)

184
How can anyone watch more than 2 eps of The Office??
It's the same thing over and over. You've seen 1 episode, you've seen them all.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 12, 2025 09:04 PM (oXTmF)

185
There is no such thing as a pet alpha predator.

People who think of these animals as companions are beyond stupid. In the same way as Edible Arrangements are a failure of capitalism, these people are failures of biology.

Lions and bears and sharks might be made into passable, at-a-distance acquaintances, but they will never - ever - be your friends.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 12, 2025 09:04 PM (BI5O2)

186 The Left Hand Of Darkness. Le Guin?

Posted by: Ben Had at May 12, 2025 09:04 PM (NVNRw)

187
Same goes for larry david's Curb Your Intelligence. Very bad and dumb show.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 12, 2025 09:04 PM (oXTmF)

188 So, nobody remembers the PBS mini-series of The Lathe of Heaven? If I said Ursula K. LeGuin, would it ring a bell?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 12, 2025 09:02 PM (dR2JP)

LeGuin's books have so little hope in them.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 12, 2025 09:05 PM (D7oie)

189 Doof, I posted a part-time pickleball instructor job posting for you on an earlier thread. Go for it!
Posted by: Bulg at May 12, 2025 09:00 PM (77rzZ)

Haha. Nah I'll keep it fun.

Posted by: Doof at May 12, 2025 09:06 PM (UQakJ)

190

123 Cyd Charisse.

Cannot believe I forgot her.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 12, 2025 08:43 PM (pHsiB)

She was always my pick for greatest of the golden age dancers.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2025 09:06 PM (S+5p3)

191 Soothsayer at May 12, 2025 09:04 PM (oXTmF)

188 So, nobody remembers the PBS mini-series of The Lathe of Heaven? If I said Ursula K. LeGuin, would it ring a bell?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 12, 2025 09:02 PM (dR2JP)

I still have that in an old tape somewhere, I think that is one of the greatest sci fi adaptations ever, and certainly the greatest LeGuin adaptation!

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2025 09:08 PM (S+5p3)

192 Well, she did have that delicate, satin-draped thigh ...
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 12, 2025 09:02 PM

As it clung to her thigh,
How I started to cry.....

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 12, 2025 09:08 PM (Wnv9h)

193 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 12, 2025 09:04 PM (BI5O2)

I don't understand reptiles as pets. Except turtles.

I wonder if they are the most intelligent reptile.

Posted by: polynikes at May 12, 2025 09:09 PM (VofaG)

194
Cyd Charisse and Gene Kelly dance scene from Singin' in the Rain:

https://tinyurl.com/l479ltb

She's smokin' as the kids say.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 12, 2025 09:09 PM (w6EFb)

195 The Office is hated by the woke. Too white and too many jokes at the expense of untouchables. I never was in love with the show but it had its moments.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 12, 2025 09:10 PM (d4dD2)

196 With respect to the new Pope's Chicago origins I recommend updating the AOS Style Guide to refer to him as Pope Leo da 14th.
Posted by: Robert at May 12, 2025 09:04 PM

Bad, bad Leo Brown?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 12, 2025 09:11 PM (Wnv9h)

197
I used to have a bear that lived in an outbuilding over the winter. She dug a spot in there and whelped from time to time, and would sashay out during the spring, in an extra hungry mood. I would leave her offerings of eggs and old beef when she'd come out of hibernation, for a few weeks until she was sated.

But that was it. I would pay tribute to the bear, and she'd leave me (more or less) alone.

These animals are not pets. Leave your action camera in the house - they aren't looking for Tik-Tok fame, either.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 12, 2025 09:11 PM (BI5O2)

198 I have a fantasy

I remake the first seven seasons of The Office, shot for shot

the only change is, each episode now includes a scene where Michael Scott gets punched in the face.

Posted by: Don Black at May 12, 2025 09:12 PM (AOsQT)

199 So, nobody remembers the PBS mini-series of The Lathe of Heaven?

I do remember that, I thought it was really well done. I recognized the george orr thing but couldn't place it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2025 09:12 PM (2VST1)

200 Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 12, 2025 09:10 PM (d4dD2)

The opening of the episode when Dwight sets a fake fire is one of the funniest things I've seen on TV.

Posted by: polynikes at May 12, 2025 09:12 PM (VofaG)

201 Same goes for larry david's Curb Your Intelligence. Very bad and dumb show.

I thought I was the only one that didn't like it. Its Seinfeld, with all the bad and awful people parts and none of the heart or fun. Seinfeld had heart, and you could tell that the writers understood that what these people were doing was a bad thing. Curb Your Enthusiasm, everyone seems to think the horrific things they do are perfectly normal.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2025 09:16 PM (2VST1)

202 Curb your Enthusiasm was a pure Larry David show, and he is a complete asshole. I never liked it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2025 09:18 PM (S+5p3)

203 The Turtles call him…

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 12, 2025 09:18 PM (dR2JP)

204 A new mockumentary series titled "The Paper" is coming to Peacock in September, set in the same universe as "The Office". It follows the documentary crew from "The Office" as they film a Midwestern newspaper, The Truth Teller, in Toledo, Ohio.

What's next for them "the Telegraph"? A show about charcoal burners in medieval Wales? LOL Newspaper

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2025 09:18 PM (2VST1)

205 Nonsense! All bears, deep down, yearn to be pets. You can adopt any bear you happen across. They're free. The government doesn't want you to know this. If a bear seems reluctant, just love him. Your love will soothe the bear and win him over.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 12, 2025 09:19 PM (44PAK)

206
there is a woman from the 50s who had a man's name that was so cute but is not as famous.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Jeff Donnell?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 12, 2025 09:19 PM (63Dwl)

207
I've never seen Curb Your Enthusiasm. My understanding is that it's an improv thing.

Improv is for actors to hone their """skills."""

It's an industrial training method, not entertainment.

I like to see something being made instead of just enjoying the item, but watching a novice get trained to make the thing is a bit too boring even for me.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 12, 2025 09:20 PM (BI5O2)

208 In about 5-10 years, the kitty that cut Ciampino will probably be as big as a lion when he tells the story of his current trip to the hospital.

Or is it after enough alcohol?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 12, 2025 09:20 PM (VNX3d)

209
there is a woman from the 50s who had a man's name that was so cute but is not as famous.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Charlton Heston?

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 12, 2025 09:20 PM (oXTmF)

210 I liked the first 6 seasons of Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Posted by: polynikes at May 12, 2025 09:21 PM (VofaG)

211 Lathe of Heaven was incredibly insightful. What I liked most was that the character who thought he could make the world perfect if he just had a little bit more power ends up being the most deluded and destructive character in the story. (The psychologist)

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2025 09:21 PM (S+5p3)

212 Turtles are the calmest of the reptiles. Maybe that’s why George Orr liked them…

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 12, 2025 09:22 PM (dR2JP)

213 Gene Tierney! That was her name, I guess she was mostlyl 1940s. Really cute.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2025 09:22 PM (2VST1)

214 What were the critters in Rodent Rage? Groundhogs or prairie dogs? Or woodchucks?

https://bit.ly/bad-critter-moms

Posted by: mindful webworker - try it you'll like it, they said, at May 12, 2025 09:23 PM (b/vRQ)

215 What I liked most was that the character who thought he could make the world perfect if he just had a little bit more power ends up being the most deluded and destructive character in the story

Yeah every time he has an idea how to fix things, he makes it worse, because his understanding of the basic problems was so flawed

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2025 09:24 PM (2VST1)

216
I liked the first 6 seasons of Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Posted by: polynikes

Of course you did.

This is for You:

https://is.gd/Yq88qd

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 12, 2025 09:24 PM (oXTmF)

217 The Turrets episode in Curb Your Enthusiasm was also one of my favorite television comedy scenes.

Posted by: polynikes at May 12, 2025 09:24 PM (VofaG)

218 I wonder if they are the most intelligent reptile.

Posted by: polynikes at May 12, 2025 09:09 PM (VofaG)

------

People often point to crocodiles/alligators/caymans as the most successful reptiles, I think because of their amazing speed and power.

But they've only been around for 100 million years.

The turtles have been with us for 260 million years.

Slow and steady, baby.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 12, 2025 09:24 PM (BI5O2)

219 They have found fossils of a turtle that basically is the size of a Volkswagon beetle. They are really interesting critters.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2025 09:26 PM (2VST1)

220 I liked Curb Your Enthusiasm, at least the early days. I thought it was funny. If you don’t: de gustibus non disputandem.(boy, does autocucumber hate foreign languages!).

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 12, 2025 09:26 PM (dR2JP)

221 89 In the end, all the talk about bringing back manufacturing was just that, talk. Maybe it was a pipe dream anyway. Maybe we’ll sell an extra few thousand pounds of beef to China. But the whole “fundamentally transform global trade” that we were talking about 6 weeks ago is a distant memory.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 12, 2025 08:30 PM (d4dD2)

I know Manufacturing Jobs Are The Only Jobs That Matter, but stay with me here….

What are there are other issues at play?
Such as, local and state governments being absolutely hostile to business?
Or, school districts churning out functional illiterates every spring?
Or unions that stifle innovation and price the labor they “represent” right out of the job market? (Why do auto manufacturers like Toyota and Hyundai build facilities in the South, not in the Rust Belt?)
Or other issues that not even Donald Trump or the feds can hope to resolve?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 12, 2025 09:27 PM (vm8sq)

222
So, nobody remembers the PBS mini-series of The Lathe of Heaven?

Not a mini-series.

https://tinyurl.com/3bn95s29

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 12, 2025 09:27 PM (63Dwl)

223 Kind of off topic but...

CIA funded and worked to give Pokemon Go full access to your phone: 24 hour microphone listening, location tracking etc. They mapped all those locations and listened to everything through millions of phones.

https://youtu.be/j5IJHxCuZkY

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2025 09:29 PM (2VST1)

224 Also, the basic problem was the psychologist was using George Orr like an instrument. That was fundamentally wrong. No one should play God!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 12, 2025 09:30 PM (dR2JP)

225 In 1978 Jay Leno and Eva Gabor made a series pilot together. It did not sell.

Posted by: TV Hall of Fame at May 12, 2025 09:30 PM (G5+As)

226 219 They have found fossils of a turtle that basically is the size of a Volkswagon beetle. They are really interesting critters.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2025 09:26 PM (2VST1)

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You know who designed the Volksturtle?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 12, 2025 09:30 PM (hY4dx)

227 It is a nice evening outside

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2025 09:30 PM (ypFCm)

228 Re: the Sally Quinn thing...can't you just picture the exact same article being written in an alternative universe 1946 Berlin where the Nazis weren't being tried or busy fleeing the country or trying very hard not to be noticed and they were allowed to keep their newspaper?

Posted by: azjaeger at May 12, 2025 09:32 PM (3/XaG)

229 wonder if they are the most intelligent reptile.

Posted by: polynikes at May 12, 2025 09:09 PM (VofaG)

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People often point to crocodiles/alligators/caymans as the most successful reptiles, I think because of their amazing speed and power.

But they've only been around for 100 million years.

The turtles have been with us for 260 million years.

Slow and steady, baby.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 12, 2025 09:24 PM (BI5O2)
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The Tuatara has existed in its present form for 250 million years. Looks like a reptile, but isn’t. And it has a third eye on the top of its head. A sci-fi horror movie waiting to be made.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 12, 2025 09:33 PM (TkGbi)

230 In the end, all the talk about bringing back manufacturing was just that, talk. Maybe it was a pipe dream anyway. Maybe we’ll sell an extra few thousand pounds of beef to China. But the whole “fundamentally transform global trade” that we were talking about 6 weeks ago is a distant memory.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 12, 2025 08:30 PM (d4dD2)

I know Manufacturing Jobs Are The Only Jobs That Matter, but stay with me here….

What are there are other issues at play?
Such as, local and state governments being absolutely hostile to business?
Or, school districts churning out functional illiterates every spring?
Or unions that stifle innovation and price the labor they “represent” right out of the job market? (Why do auto manufacturers like Toyota and Hyundai build facilities in the South, not in the Rust Belt?)
Or other issues that not even Donald Trump or the feds can hope to resolve?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 12, 2025 09:27 PM (vm8sq)
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It wasnt just about bringing back manufacturing. It was about expanding manufacturing that’s still here, increasing opportunities for exports, and taking a bite out of the trade imbalance. Huge win overall, and we’re not done.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 12, 2025 09:38 PM (TkGbi)

231 So, nobody remembers the PBS mini-series of The Lathe of Heaven?

Not a mini-series.

https://tinyurl.com/3bn95s29
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 12, 2025 09:27 PM (63Dwl)

Thank you for that! I agree with one of the top comments there; “the most underrated science fiction film production ever made.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2025 09:38 PM (S+5p3)

232 I love that the director of Lathe of Heaven was able to use the horrible Brutalist architecture as futuristic bleak horror as Orr makes the world "progressively" worse and worse.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2025 09:39 PM (2VST1)

233 Not a mini series.

I guess you’re right. I could have sworn it was presented in multiple airings (perhaps my local PBS outlet would have done that since it is so long). Let’s see, I would have been at TAMU then, that would have been KAMU TV. Not sure, but I remember seeing it in multiple showings, and waiting to see what would happen next, but that certainly wasn’t the way WNET put it together. Touché.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 12, 2025 09:40 PM (dR2JP)

234 Hey, CRT! I hear that you’re the new ruler of the Blog.

Can I be in charge of the harem?

Posted by: Bulg at May 12, 2025 09:41 PM (77rzZ)

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226 219 They have found fossils of a turtle that basically is the size of a Volkswagon beetle. They are really interesting critters.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2025 09:26 PM (2VST1)

Funny thing is that I remember having a rather vivid dream about them once, long before I knew they had actually existed. Living in this clear water with these large lizard like creatures.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2025 09:41 PM (S+5p3)

236 229 Elric, the tuatara is, in fact, a reptile. Just in its own separate branch.

Posted by: Bulg at May 12, 2025 09:43 PM (77rzZ)

237 CRT! I hear that you’re the new ruler of the Blog.

Its only the version without Ampersands and is made up mostly of the Barrel.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2025 09:43 PM (2VST1)

238 Don’t we all have that third eye as the Hindus call it? Physiologically, I guess that would be the pituitary?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 12, 2025 09:44 PM (dR2JP)

239 237. Damn.

Posted by: Bulg at May 12, 2025 09:45 PM (77rzZ)

240 A sci-fi horror movie waiting to be made.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 12, 2025 09:33 PM (TkGbi)

Or a kids' movie. My daughters will think that weird thing is super cute, I guarantee it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 12, 2025 09:46 PM (BI5O2)

241 2 I love that the director of Lathe of Heaven was able to use the horrible Brutalist architecture as futuristic bleak horror as Orr makes the world "progressively" worse and worse.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2025 09:39 PM (2VST1)
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Brutalist is some of the worst and ugliest architecture humans have come up with. It’s incredible to me it was a real movement. I swear it’s one of those things that were secretly a joke about what utter dogshit could be sold to idiots as new and trendy. Like 99% of modern art. And Marxism. And Lena Dunham.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 12, 2025 09:46 PM (TkGbi)

242 They did a great adaptation of The Lathe of Heaven

They really captured the dreary wetness of Portland.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 12, 2025 09:47 PM (RIvkX)

243 234 Hey, CRT! I hear that you’re the new ruler of the Blog.

Can I be in charge of the harem?
Posted by: Bulg at May 12, 2025 09:41 PM (77rzZ)

A Harem made up of the Ettes?

You are a brave brave man.... not sure about your life choices... but brave.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 12, 2025 09:47 PM (mP0Kj)

244 238 Don’t we all have that third eye as the Hindus call it? Physiologically, I guess that would be the pituitary?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 12, 2025 09:44 PM (dR2JP)

That thar is the spittin organ... right?

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 12, 2025 09:48 PM (mP0Kj)

245 Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Hey, Joe Xiden.
Give it a rest.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 12, 2025 09:49 PM (mT+6a)

246 Fun fact: Tortoises can retreat inside their shells. Turtles can't.

Posted by: Don Black at May 12, 2025 09:49 PM (AOsQT)

247 We know just how you should all be fixed.

Posted by: The Haber Institute at May 12, 2025 09:50 PM (RIvkX)

248 Brutalist is some of the worst and ugliest architecture humans have come up with.

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You know how those proto-Mayans tipped all those Olmec heads into canyons?

If I'm ever made supreme arbiter with plenipotentiary powers over civic architecture by unanimous acclaim, like a Roman censor, I pledge that all Brutalist government buildings will be razed within one week of the haruspex blessing my decision with a halved sheep's liver.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 12, 2025 09:52 PM (BI5O2)

249 Don’t we all have that third eye as the Hindus call it? Physiologically, I guess that would be the pituitary?

Some claim it's the pineal gland and that "de-calcifying" it is what gives you this vision.

Posted by: t-bird at May 12, 2025 09:55 PM (kkfAA)

250 According to AZ Animals Chanel (sic) on Yandex video previews, the tuatara is a reptile just not a lizard, nor a snake. Nobody seems to know what the third eye is for, and you can’t see it in the video:

https://is.gd/7m1ogU

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 12, 2025 09:55 PM (dR2JP)

251 Gene Tierney! That was her name, I guess she was mostlyl 1940s. Really cute.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Watch "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" with her and Rex Harrison. She was incredibly lovely in that film.

Posted by: Tuna at May 12, 2025 09:56 PM (lJ0H4)

252 Don’t we all have that third eye as the Hindus call it? Physiologically, I guess that would be the pituitary?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 12, 2025 09:44 PM (dR2JP)

That thar is the spittin organ... right?

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 12, 2025 09:48 PM (mP0Kj)

Nah, it's a chakra. Gotta keep it in the balance.

Posted by: Senator and Vice President Al Gore at May 12, 2025 09:57 PM (BI5O2)

253 Pineal gland, thanks! New it started with a “P” and confabulated pituitary.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 12, 2025 09:58 PM (dR2JP)

254
Eagle stole camera, mimicking Tesla vandals.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 12, 2025 09:59 PM (n7rxJ)

255
What did that flaming cocktail do but burn off all the alcohol?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 12, 2025 09:59 PM (n7rxJ)

256 I try not to hate people--I really do.

I've just seen tweets of CNN's and MSNBC's commentary on the South Africans who just immigrated to the US.

I fucking hate these motherfuckers.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at May 12, 2025 10:01 PM (paSBy)

257 Interesting that the Tuatara is classified as a reptile. I stand corrected. That could be recent, as I remember distinctly when I was a kid it wasn’t. It’s much older than any modern reptile, and it has a fucking third eye. I also remember an exhibit about them where they had a live one on display. Bigger than it looks in pics. But that was a long time ago and I could be mis-remembering.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 12, 2025 10:02 PM (TkGbi)

258 I don’t quite remember the ending of The Lathe of Heaven, but I sort of think it’s hopeful. The Turtles George Orr summons put everything right in the end somehow.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 12, 2025 10:02 PM (dR2JP)

259 Don’t we all have that third eye as the Hindus call it? Physiologically, I guess that would be the pituitary?

Some claim it's the pineal gland and that "de-calcifying" it is what gives you this vision.
Posted by: t-bird at May 12, 2025 09:55 PM (kkfAA)
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Penis

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 12, 2025 10:05 PM (TkGbi)

260 Blade at May 12, 2025 10:02 PM (TkGbi)

258 I don’t quite remember the ending of The Lathe of Heaven, but I sort of think it’s hopeful. The Turtles George Orr summons put everything right in the end somehow.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 12, 2025 10:02 PM (dR2JP)

Yes very hopeful!

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2025 10:05 PM (S+5p3)

261 NOOD

ONT

MisHum!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 12, 2025 10:07 PM (Vqx30)

262 I have it on DVD but have never rewatched it since the 80s. I’ve got something new on my to do list now.

As an aside, using BBCode is like using TNT, not dynamite, which is much safer, but liquid TNT. I guess the trick is to put catch all cancel tags in your sig, am I right? I’m just going to cancel italics, bold, underline, and strike through: I’ll treat the longer word commands like the TNT they are.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 12, 2025 10:15 PM (dR2JP)

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