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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - May 20, 2025 [scampydog]
Pete Bog mentioned Butler Maps as a great trip accompaniment tool. In Moron fashion, the rabbit hole adventure began. Highly recommend.
As Clement Salvadori wrote in his June 2012 Road Tales column, "I'm in favor of the efficiency of GPS, but I don't find it very useful when contemplating a trip. You need some imagination, which is helped along by any map. Or a small stack of maps, as the case may be." You can't spread out a GPS on your kitchen table and take in the entire region, absorbing the possibilities.
The Anatomy of a Road Trip! The driving "season" is approaching. The time we leave our cares behind or put them in the glovebox next to the little friend that goes pretty much everywhere. We set off in an automotive conveyance on a trip which may have a specific destination, or not. In short, a ROAD TRIP! I hesitate to strictly define for you what constitutes a true ROAD TRIP! as opposed to a drive to the local grocery or to visit some undeserving friends or ungrateful spawn. Nor will I impose arbitrary rules about acceptable conveyances. It may be fast, slow, trusty, unreliable, borrowed, yours in full or part, owned by the bank or stolen. Minivans are discouraged but acceptable if the participants remain boisterous, loud and amusing. With that, I will share my thoughts with which all right-thinking readers will agree. Bog's ROAD TRIP! Rules and Requirements 1. You must bring a map, even if you don't use it. Exclusive reliance on your phone or navigation system establishes you as a slave to technology. You do not have the free will necessary to take a ROAD TRIP!, it is simply a drive. 2. It is not a Road Trip! until a bag of salty, carbo laden snacks have been consumed. In our house this can only be Bugles! Regrettably they no longer double as finger hats. Anything Kale is disqualifying. Wiping your fingers on your pants is not necessary but encouraged. This exception is accommodation to the 'ette sensibilities and those who are pant challenged. 3. The "road less traveled" is almost always the preferred alternative. 4. Getting lost is encouraged. Direct, accurate navigation indicates a lack of imagination or reliance on a phone or nav system, see rule 1. 5. Head bob or sing along music is required. You should not require instruction on volume level. 6. Visiting roadside attractions is an essential element. Extra style points for "World's Largest", including ball of twine, rubber band or Golf Tee. 7. Have fun, the only absolutely mandatory element. *** Thank you Pete Bog!
Looks like those summer ROAD TRIPS will be a bit more affordable. Fuel prices, by state. 20ish showing less than $3.00 per gallon. Three of the Democratic Sovereign Redistribution States of Collective Liberty (that's as much democratic-sounding, commie words I can spin up) are north of $4.00 per gallon. CA, HI, WA.
May 18, 1980
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"I've kind of retired since that Labor Day," he said. "Just rent enough boats and cabins to keep the booze supply full."
"They'll never get me off this mountain," Truman said that earthquake-filled April of 1980. "Spirit Lake and Mount St. Helens are a part of me -- they're mine. They're as much a part of me as my arms and legs."
Americans watching him on TV couldn't get enough. Songs were written about him, including "Ode to Harry Truman" and, inevitably, "Give 'Em Hell Harry." School children wrote him letters begging him to change his mind and leave the lodge. A memorabilia company coined a silver "collector's medallion" that depicted Mount St. Helens on the front and the baseball-cap-wearing Truman on the flip side. When it was all over -- after the mountain had erupted, mowing down some 200 square miles of forest -- Oscar-winning actor Art Carney would play the crusty old lodge proprietor in a movie.Read the whole thing - too much to quote.
On May 18, 1980 Mount St. Helens was changed forever. A huge volcanic eruption ripped away the north side of the mountain (Major 2020). Ashes covered the surrounding area, burying land several hundred miles away. Barreling flows of lava and debris tumbled down the flanks of the mountains (Mazza 2010). Very little was thought to be left in the wake of this natural disaster, but nature has a way of surprising us again and again.
this guy has serious patience when teaching student drivers pic.twitter.com/1qyvBjVmGH
— non aesthetic things (@PicturesFoIder) May 18, 2025
Inspired by Bog's Second Road Trip! Rule
This ONT is brought to you by maps. This was seen on the screen of my phone on the road trip last weekend. If you know, you know.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 20, 2025 10:00 PM (lUFok)
Good Evening
Posted by: four seasons at May 20, 2025 10:01 PM (3ek7K)
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Posted by: browndog can't drive 55 at May 20, 2025 10:02 PM (TTAGa)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 20, 2025 10:02 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 20, 2025 10:02 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2025 10:03 PM (QnmlO)
Posted by: Fastly Strokewater - Backstroking. Barely. at May 20, 2025 10:03 PM (H/u99)
Posted by: mindful webworker - noo shoos
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Heh. She was looking down at her notes when she said here name. Then I realized it was a parody. Or is it.
Posted by: scampydog at May 20, 2025 10:04 PM (41CYW)
Anyone here affected by the chemical leak in Texas? I'm not sure where it happened.
Posted by: four seasons at May 20, 2025 10:04 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Bulg at May 20, 2025 10:04 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: scampydog at May 20, 2025 10:05 PM (41CYW)
The driving instructor reminds me of the great Bob Newhart but. Laugh out loud funny
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 20, 2025 10:05 PM (bvbJ6)
Posted by: Don Black at May 20, 2025 10:06 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: JQ at May 20, 2025 10:06 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Oddbob at May 20, 2025 10:07 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2025 10:07 PM (QnmlO)
Posted by: Eromero at May 20, 2025 10:07 PM (LHPAg)
Some of the best road trips we've taken were the ones where we had no agenda. Load up the car and takeoff.
Posted by: four seasons at May 20, 2025 10:07 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 20, 2025 10:08 PM (yPIZd)
youtube.com/watch?v=uRX_NZ7kTt0
Posted by: JQ
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That's a good call - great song. I went through 20 or so songs - couldn't make up my mind for this one.
Posted by: scampydog at May 20, 2025 10:08 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 20, 2025 10:08 PM (0eaVi)
Twisty, hilly roads. Virtually no one around, especially in the winter.
Perfect place to learn how to get unstuck in the snow.
He later graduated to drifting the traffic circles, in the wee hours of the morning ... without the old man.
Posted by: browndog can't drive 55 at May 20, 2025 10:08 PM (TTAGa)
But be careful if you lose your way on the Rez.
Scared the crap out of me. We were NOT welcome.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 20, 2025 10:09 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: JQ at May 20, 2025 10:09 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 20, 2025 10:09 PM (1FDFf)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 20, 2025 10:10 PM (63Dwl)
Some people are people persons, with good personalities. This job is not for me.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 20, 2025 10:10 PM (4/BuS)
Story was Uncle's wife's brother took the pic(s).
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 20, 2025 10:10 PM (/lPRQ)
This YouTube announcement is annotated! Well worth the watch! Too funny, and a little too true!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 20, 2025 10:10 PM (ZVgZ4)
Getting lost on a road trip is essential.
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Happy memories of sitting at a Dairy Queen with a large cone and a map trying to figure out where the hell I was.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2025 10:11 PM (QnmlO)
Posted by: gKWVE at May 20, 2025 10:11 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: davidt at May 20, 2025 10:12 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: gKWVE at May 20, 2025 10:12 PM (gKWVE)
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And *I* thought it would be this:
youtube.com/watch?v=gPC-xbMoRx8
Posted by: JQ at May 20, 2025 10:12 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Bulg at May 20, 2025 10:13 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at May 20, 2025 10:13 PM (hftn9)
Posted by: huerfano at May 20, 2025 10:13 PM (n2swS)
Best road trip was spring break to Montreal
Best road trip album; Animals by Pink Floyd.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 20, 2025 10:13 PM (RIvkX)
'I thought the St. Helens link was going to be this
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And *I* thought it would be this:'
And I thought it would be:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ih1BqZbmb8
Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 20, 2025 10:15 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at May 20, 2025 10:15 PM (hftn9)
youtube.com/watch?v=gPC-xbMoRx8
Posted by: JQ
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You and I are on the same wavelength. I thought long about that song for the St. Helens link.
Posted by: scampydog at May 20, 2025 10:15 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 20, 2025 10:15 PM (0aYVJ)
The driver's-ed guy is the calmest about-to-die person I have ever seen. I'm guessing that job will make you that way.
Posted by: irright at May 20, 2025 10:16 PM (vbt6Z)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2025 10:11 PM (QnmlO)
You were at Dairy Queen.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 20, 2025 10:16 PM (0eaVi)
Road trips are the bomb! We have one coming up and I'm still working on the navigational portion, as that is my AO. Have to have plenty of suitable libations, and we bounce between bringing sammich fixins for lunch or just stopping somewhere that looks interesting, yet safe.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 20, 2025 10:17 PM (rxCpr)
Once worked with a guy who was in a garage band that played sea chantys called The Compass Rogues. He was kind of jerk but I always thought it was an awesome name.
Posted by: Oddbob at May 20, 2025 10:17 PM (/y8xj)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ih1BqZbmb8
Posted by: Dr. Claw
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Well, if Doof was in charge of tonight's ONT... maybe... LOL!
Posted by: JQ at May 20, 2025 10:17 PM (rdVOm)
Are Cape Cod kettle chips okay?
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 20, 2025 10:18 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Don Black at May 20, 2025 10:18 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 20, 2025 10:19 PM (0eaVi)
The sad thing is that I'll likely never again go on a long road trip with no fixed destination. Now if I go anywhere, I have to get from A to B, pronto.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2025 10:19 PM (QnmlO)
Teaching our kids how to drive was harrowing enough. I can't imagine teaching other kids today, especially with their attitude of I'm always right.
Posted by: four seasons at May 20, 2025 10:19 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Bulg at May 20, 2025 10:19 PM (77rzZ)
I open the window of my room at the Merriott.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 20, 2025 10:20 PM (W/lyH)
Our history teacher overheard this and told us that Mr. M. was a Marine who fought on Guadalcanal. The twitch was from shrapnel.
We shut up after that.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 20, 2025 10:20 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2025 10:21 PM (QnmlO)
Posted by: I gotta ask at May 20, 2025 10:21 PM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 20, 2025 10:23 PM (bvbJ6)
This is a beautiful country that we live in. And I feel privileged to have seen so much of it.
But there is still a lot more that I would like to see if I am fortunate enough.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at May 20, 2025 10:23 PM (2/nGk)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 20, 2025 10:23 PM (RIvkX)
1. The Russians now have FPV (video controlled) attack drones with a range of 25 miles, up from the previous 10. This will make life as an Ukrainian supply truck driver even more miserable than it is now.
2. The Russians are now fielding an anti-drone interceptor drone. A soldier can spot an incoming drone with his Mark 1 eyeball, point his hand launched drone at the target, lock it on, and release the drone to hunt down the enemy drone.
3. The Russians are picking up the pace on their advance, as the Ukrainians are finding it more and more difficult to plug gaps in their defensive lines.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 20, 2025 10:23 PM (1FDFf)
Prayers up for all Morons in the path of weather.
Cold and rainy but not likely severe here in NE IN.
Night all.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at May 20, 2025 10:24 PM (Eo96p)
Posted by: Bulg at May 20, 2025 10:24 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Corona exile-back_in_exile at May 20, 2025 10:25 PM (4TAOz)
Posted by: Don Black at May 20, 2025 10:26 PM (AOsQT)
I see schoolmarm is here.
Posted by: four seasons at May 20, 2025 10:26 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 20, 2025 10:26 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Diogenes at May 20, 2025 10:27 PM (W/lyH)
No! Surely Napol... er, Hit... er, the Ukes are just outside the gates of Moscow! I've been told that on the internet.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 20, 2025 10:27 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Cow Demon at May 20, 2025 10:28 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 20, 2025 10:23 PM (1FDFf)
But... but... I am told that Russia is losing!
And that Vlad is putting Russian troops on the NATO border, right opposite the troops we just moved there!
Evil Bastard!
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 20, 2025 10:28 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Don Black at May 20, 2025 10:29 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 20, 2025 10:30 PM (gm9Sb)
Bad ass.
But not as cool as the TripTiks from AAA.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 20, 2025 10:30 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 20, 2025 10:31 PM (BI5O2)
I am currently living in the pleasant in the community of Haslett. Former Spiritualist enclave. Lovely Lake Lansing being the center of said community. The School System being the main focus of the citizenry.
Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at May 20, 2025 10:32 PM (hftn9)
Posted by: Don Black at May 20, 2025 10:32 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 20, 2025 10:18 PM (0Htd1)
[X] salty
[X]. Carbo laden
It’s an old code but it checks out.
You are free to ROAD TRIP!
Posted by: Pete Bog at May 20, 2025 10:33 PM (8bTsa)
Posted by: Lirio100 at May 20, 2025 10:33 PM (zS4/f)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 20, 2025 10:33 PM (sAmhv)
Drove to Mt St Helens in 2000. Passing through on the way to San Diego -- we were moving there. It was still ashy and kind of dried out and scorched. As was the food for sale at the park restaurant concession.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 20, 2025 10:33 PM (dtlw7)
Story was Uncle's wife's brother took the pic(s).
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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That's cool. I have one of the mass produced pictures of the eruption hanging in my garage.
Posted by: scampydog at May 20, 2025 10:33 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at May 20, 2025 10:33 PM (hftn9)
Yes, he was looking to park here for free, for who knows how long. I'm overloaded and burned out already-- don't need another dependent!
I've owned a camp trailer before and it was a lot of fun, but sold it 20 years ago. Camping is not my 'thing' anymore.
Posted by: JQ at May 20, 2025 10:34 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Rex B at May 20, 2025 10:34 PM (RFhjS)
It's raining hard
Make sure to use
Your final card
Burma Shave
Not the best, I know.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 20, 2025 10:35 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: scampydog at May 20, 2025 10:33 PM (41CYW)
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I had Marilyn Monroe.
Posted by: Andy Dufresne at May 20, 2025 10:36 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at May 20, 2025 10:37 PM (USYQa)
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Pfft.
Posted by: Mt. Vesuvius at May 20, 2025 10:37 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 20, 2025 10:30 PM (Q4IgG)
The analog equivalent of using phone navigation.
Allowable map or disqualifying ?
The horde will be the judge!
Posted by: Pete Bog at May 20, 2025 10:38 PM (8bTsa)
Home of the Fucking Irish.
Posted by: Bulg at May 20, 2025 10:38 PM (77rzZ)
I barely made it to the next gas station, where I immediately bought a state atlas and found out just how very, very badly off course I was.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 20, 2025 10:38 PM (1FDFf)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 20, 2025 10:39 PM (RIvkX)
Very drivable, lovely mountains + River scenery.
I go there a couple times a year.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at May 20, 2025 10:39 PM (EOjZq)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 20, 2025 10:38 PM (1FDFf)
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Big Street Atlas claims another victim.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 20, 2025 10:39 PM (hY4dx)
That's a road trip
Posted by: browndog can't drive 55 at May 20, 2025 10:02 PM (TTAGa)
Bowling Green KY is your half way point. DO NOT go through Nashville during rush hour. I used to get up at 4 just to be thru Nashville and take a nap on the other side.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 20, 2025 10:40 PM (pIfcn)
Very drivable, lovely mountains + River scenery.
I go there a couple times a year.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at May 20, 2025 10:39 PM (EOjZq)
Can confirm … gorgeous country !
Posted by: browndog wagging tail at May 20, 2025 10:40 PM (TTAGa)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 20, 2025 10:41 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Don Black at May 20, 2025 10:41 PM (AOsQT)
There was a local pottery place that made ceramic glaze out of the ash. Made lovely, swirly dark blue- and black-streaked finish.
Posted by: JQ at May 20, 2025 10:41 PM (rdVOm)
The family rules for the Alphabet Game:
The letter must be at the beginning of the word, with the exception of X
You cannot use "exit", "Texaco" and, since we lived in the Great State, "Texas" for your X.
You have to say the word you're using for your letter.
Signs on both sides of the road can be used.
Disputes will be settled by Daddy, so don't fight.
Posted by: sal at May 20, 2025 10:41 PM (f+FmA)
Disputes will be settled by Daddy, so don't fight.
Posted by: sal at May 20, 2025 10:41 PM (f+FmA)
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Don't make me stop this car!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2025 10:42 PM (QnmlO)
I'm getting ready to head off to sleepyland, but thought I'd drop in for a bit. My road trip to check out IN and KY is tentatively slated for early June -- my finances look to be all settled. I really wanted to go earlier when it was cooler and the vacationers wouldn't be on the road, but, oh, well.
I need to have the car's battery checked to see how much life it still has after two years. Aside from that, the Buick is in fine shape. Still have 40% oil life left from the Dec. change, and the numbers should drop pretty slowly on the highway runs, so I see no need for another oil change before I go. Might be necessary when I get back, though.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 20, 2025 10:42 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 20, 2025 10:42 PM (QGaXH)
Apparently, part of the Secret Service’s job back then was confiscating film from cameras that took unauthorized photos.
Posted by: SMOD at May 20, 2025 10:43 PM (GITLP)
Ah well, all that rain's good for the lawn.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 20, 2025 10:43 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 20, 2025 10:40 PM (pIfcn)
Now you tell me 😉
Yeah … I hit that. I’ve never seen truck traffic so congested … going both ways. Makes the back ups coming in from Canada to Buffalo at the Peace Bridge look like a ghost town.
Posted by: browndog wagging tail at May 20, 2025 10:44 PM (TTAGa)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at May 20, 2025 10:45 PM (2XtqA)
Posted by: Bulg at May 20, 2025 10:46 PM (77rzZ)
The Buick has a built-in compass, which has saved me more than once when driving in unfamiliar territory. Otherwise, a paper map is the way to go.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 20, 2025 10:46 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Miss Teen SC 2007 at May 20, 2025 10:46 PM (G5+As)
For 40+ years our road trip snacks of choice include M&Ms poured into a dixie-type paper cup and wheat thins topped with cheddar cheese from a can.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 20, 2025 10:46 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at May 20, 2025 10:47 PM (XjTSo)
Posted by: scampydog at May 20, 2025 10:48 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
Clear blue skies and 95 in the shade here.
Some rain would be nice so we bump up that humidity from a dry 80% to 95%.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 20, 2025 10:49 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 20, 2025 10:42 PM (omVj0)
Wolfus, I'd consider having it checked, and if close to end of life, changing it at home instead of needing to change it in a strange city, or the middle of nowhere.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 20, 2025 10:49 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 20, 2025 10:49 PM (omVj0)
I see schoolmarm is here.
Posted by: four seasons at May 20, 2025 10:26 PM (3ek7K)
Huh, I thought she was a daywalker....or maybe I'm thinking of the Joyless Scold. They may not be the same person...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at May 20, 2025 10:49 PM (EOjZq)
Moms who dabble in making matching family shirts. And, it's never anything simple. It's usually something like a bright red plaid that makes everyone look like a Scotch Tape dispenser.
Posted by: Orson at May 20, 2025 10:50 PM (dIske)
Yeah … I hit that. I’ve never seen truck traffic so congested … going both ways. Makes the back ups coming in from Canada to Buffalo at the Peace Bridge look like a ghost town.
Posted by: browndog wagging tail at May 20, 2025 10:44 PM (TTAGa)
Also, the best fried chicken I've ever had is at some random gas station in Arkansas. I never knew exactly where it was, just stumbled into it several times because I needed gas at about the same time each trip.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 20, 2025 10:50 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 20, 2025 10:50 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: four seasons at May 20, 2025 10:50 PM (3ek7K)
Apparently, part of the Secret Service’s job back then was confiscating film from cameras that took unauthorized photos.
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It's true, there was a massive attempt to minimalize his polio-induced infirmity. The press corps helped keep the secret. (Probably with the quiet threat of loss of coverage privileges for not playing along.) For that reason I have 0% doubt that the Corporate News Media colluded in keeping the American populace at large ignorant of the facts that President Potato was dotard who had trouble signing his name, even, and had a biological time bomb in his lower intestine.
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at May 20, 2025 10:51 PM (XjTSo)
Road trip ancient knowledge:
In the olden timey days, you would rent a tiny fan at a gas station to connect to your battery and mount on your dashboard while you drove a long distance in the hot sun. When you got to your destination, you would turn in the little fan and get your deposit back and pay your rental fee.
Ooowwoolden days, as told to me by my grandfather from Amarillo, Texas.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 20, 2025 10:52 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 20, 2025
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Exactly. It's a AAA battery with about two years on it. If it needs replacing, they will prorate it for me. Neither the previous Buick nor this one ever gave warning that the battery was getting weak. It was always "Everything is fine" until the click-click day it wasn't.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 20, 2025 10:52 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: tankdemon at May 20, 2025 10:52 PM (VSht7)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at May 20, 2025 10:52 PM (EOjZq)
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: May 20, 2025 (EDT)
Launch Time: 11:18 p.m. EDT - May 20, 0318 UTC, 05:18 CEST
https://www.youtube.com/live/xmT7Egm5tNM
Posted by: Ciampino - time before time at May 20, 2025 10:52 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: tankdemon at May 20, 2025 10:52 PM (VSht7)
Were you there by 4:30?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at May 20, 2025 10:53 PM (EOjZq)
Nod your head “yes”. They make one for every state. A Road Atlas is great, but they are only good for main roads. The Delorme shows every road, down to dirt roads and goat paths.
AirGuide also made the liquid damped car compass that attaches to the windshield. These are also really great for road trips, and just driving anywhere with no real itinerary or schedule.
They also help prevent going the wrong way on unfamilar gravel or dirt roads, this is something I’ve done more times than I’d care to admit. Not for very long but it is annoying at best. Maybe modern cars have electronic compass but these are much cooler.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 20, 2025 10:53 PM (vjVW5)
Must be a tiny engine if can be started with a triple A battery.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 20, 2025 10:53 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 20, 2025 10:53 PM (buOX2)
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We've gotten about an inch today here in little Oaxaca on the Miami. My yardwork plans were well & truly drenched.
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at May 20, 2025 10:53 PM (XjTSo)
But we always have good road maps in the car. They have come in useful several times getting out of traffic problems.
Posted by: JTB at May 20, 2025 10:54 PM (yTvNw)
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Fixed
It's a cesspool. At any time. Day or night. And the fuckers think they're all a pro NASCAR driver with 750HP under the hood of their ghetto Honda Accord.
With no tags.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 20, 2025 10:54 PM (Q4IgG)
Huh, I thought she was a daywalker....or maybe I'm thinking of the Joyless Scold. They may not be the same person...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water
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I believe the reference is to #67, and I like the daywalker, sorry.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 20, 2025 10:54 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 20, 2025 10:55 PM (sAmhv)
Best are when you’re in college and pile in a car and go to the Rose Bowl.
No reservations. No plans. Nosebleed tickets. Parade. Game. Haze. Get home somehow.
A rite of passage.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 20, 2025 10:55 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 20, 2025 10:54 PM (n7rxJ)
She has her advocates.
lol...never visualized #67 as a schoolmarm. That's a visual...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at May 20, 2025 10:56 PM (EOjZq)
Posted by: Tom Servo
USPS told people not to mail ash to friends and family...seems the envelopes would occasionally tear and the resulting spill would kill the sorting machines.
Posted by: Some Rat at May 20, 2025 10:57 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: Fritz (not Fritz) at May 20, 2025 10:57 PM (z6QJo)
Posted by: bill in arkansas
You know Bill, I was looking for one of those the last couple of years because I really wanted one in my car. I found one (I couldn't find an old school really nice one though). All the electronics messed it up and it wouldn't read true, even after adjusting it as much as I could.
I ended up putting it in my boat.
Posted by: haffhowershower at May 20, 2025 10:58 PM (144I4)
Conservatives should adhere to proper grammar:
Posted by: Bulg at May 20, 2025 10:58 PM (77rzZ)
(See what I did there?)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 20, 2025 10:58 PM (hY4dx)
Best are when you’re in college and pile in a car and go to the Rose Bowl.
No reservations. No plans. Nosebleed tickets. Parade. Game. Haze. Get home somehow.
A rite of passage.
Posted by: nurse ratched
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Possibly the worst hangover of my life. 1997 Rose Bowl. Sat next to a guy that played both offense and defense for ASU - cool guy - shared some interesting memories. But death seemed like an alternative with the hangover.
Posted by: scampydog at May 20, 2025 10:58 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 20, 2025 10:58 PM (Vp7E/)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 20, 2025 10:58 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: JQ at May 20, 2025 10:59 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at May 20, 2025 10:59 PM (SRRAx)
Conservatives should adhere to proper grammar:
Posted by: Bulg at May 20, 2025 10:58 PM (77rzZ)
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I'm still seething over the content from an earlier post today where the author misused the phrase "begs the question"!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 20, 2025 10:59 PM (hY4dx)
Traffic circles: About half way between my parents' house and Cherry Hill Mall there was a traffic circle three or four lanes wide. I have absolutely no idea how anyone in the inside lane ever got out. I can still imagine people driving in an endless circle, trapped for all eternity.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at May 20, 2025 11:00 PM (2XtqA)
I think if a comet or asteroid were headed for Earth, I would try to get some good photos.
Posted by: Don Black
It couldn't hurt.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 20, 2025 11:00 PM (63Dwl)
Most people are typing on phones with the small keyboards. Dealing with that and auto correct changing spellings even after one has proofread can be a problem.
I don't see the point of correcting people's spelling, date, etc. unless it radically changes some fact.
JMO
Posted by: four seasons at May 20, 2025 11:00 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Emmie at May 20, 2025 11:00 PM (rF2iL)
It was the worst last 3 weeks of College EVAH....The ash was everywhere. It was hot and the stuff was really light and blew up in every where you didn't want it to be.
Went back home to Wenatchee in Central WA after finals and there was no ash there at all.
The stuff had blown all over Central WA and landed in Eastern Wa.
Remembered to be relieved when I got home and there was no ash. Brought a bottle of the ash home to Mom and Dad and it still sits in their home.
You could chantge the air filter in your car every 30 miles.
Posted by: Eagle at May 20, 2025 11:01 PM (R6Hhu)
I think if a comet or asteroid were headed for Earth, I would try to get some good photos.
Posted by: Don Black
It couldn't hurt.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 20, 2025 11:00 PM (63Dwl)
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I might have been rich but I couldn't reach the camera.
Posted by: A Tyrannosaurus Rex at May 20, 2025 11:02 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: Bulg at May 20, 2025 11:02 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: scampydog at May 20, 2025 10:33 PM (41CYW)
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I had Marilyn Monroe.
Posted by: Andy Dufresne at May 20, 2025 10:36 PM (hY4dx)
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I've got a Soviet flag I picked up in Afghanistan. In the 80's.
Good times.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 20, 2025 11:04 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 20, 2025 11:04 PM (ZVgZ4)
No reservations. No plans. Nosebleed tickets. Parade. Game. Haze. Get home somehow.
A rite of passage.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 20, 2025
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Centuries ago, it seems, a friend and I went with a third buddy in his Chevelle to Montgomery, AL. Why there? They had a friend there who managed a movie theatre. We passed through Mobile and visited the U.S.S. Alabama in the Bay (didn't get to visit the WWII sub).
At the theatre we were treated to such deathless classic films as Black Caesar and something from the Claudia Jennings oeuvre. (One of the first films to use a '50s rock 'n' roll soundtrack, a year or so before American Graffiti came out -- but I don't recall the title.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 20, 2025 11:04 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Ciampino - time when I was young at May 20, 2025 11:04 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Ladyl at May 20, 2025 11:05 PM (D6+4s)
Posted by: Bulg at May 20, 2025 11:05 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: JTB at May 20, 2025 10:54 PM (yTvNw)
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I take a little pleasure in defying the GPS at times.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 20, 2025 11:05 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Emmie
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You have to share a funneh or two.
Posted by: scampydog at May 20, 2025 11:06 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Stacy0311 at May 20, 2025 11:07 PM (MlJo7)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 20, 2025 11:07 PM (ZVgZ4)
He owned his own plane for decades, was a flight instructor for the Army during WWII. He was turned down for regular service because of his physical limitations.
A brilliant man, married to a model, Ann Macomber, he did all right for a lame guy.
Posted by: I've Got A Secret at May 20, 2025 11:07 PM (G5+As)
I'm still seething over the content from an earlier post today where the author misused the phrase "begs the question"!
Posted by: Cicero
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I'll never forget it. Harmeet Dhillon. I'd like to say I expected better of her, but "beg the question" is a hopeless case. I'm pretty sure I also once saw Dhillon use a subject pronoun when she should have used an object pronoun.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 20, 2025 11:07 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 20, 2025 11:08 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 20, 2025 11:07 PM (n7rxJ)
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That.
BITCH.
Posted by: A Tyrannosaurus Rex at May 20, 2025 11:08 PM (hY4dx)
The Disco is well acquainted with road trips. I subscribe to some variety of every one of Pet Bog's rules.
Bought a fresh Rand McNally road atlas (spiral bound!!) at Bucees in Tennessee on my way to Corsicana last fall.
Snacks?? I see a meme often - "It doesn’t matter how old you get, buying snacks for a road trip should look like an unsupervised 9 year old was given $100."
Great site for weird attractions -- Roadside America. Check it out!
Music? Yeah - lots of it. And LOUD!!
Posted by: Doof at May 20, 2025 11:08 PM (UQakJ)
Not road trip related but I use maps all the time: following world events, tracking things in Homer epics, tracing patterns of colonial exploration and settlement in the 17th and 18th centuries, even where the characters were going in LOTR. (Obligatory Tolkien reference.) So many historic and literary applications.
Posted by: JTB at May 20, 2025 11:09 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2025 11:09 PM (QnmlO)
Posted by: Ladyl at May 20, 2025 11:05 PM (D6+4s)
{{{Ladyl}}}!!!!
Posted by: Doof at May 20, 2025 11:10 PM (UQakJ)
Posted by: scampydog at May 20, 2025 11:10 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: javems at May 20, 2025 11:10 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: haffhowershower at May 20, 2025 11:11 PM (144I4)
JMO
Posted by: four seasons at May 20, 2025 11:00 PM (3ek7K)
https://tinyurl.com/2vtvxakb
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 20, 2025 11:11 PM (W5ArC)
We had a 2013, 20.5 foot RV, Canadian made Pleasure Way Excel, great quality rig on a 2012 Ford E-350. We prefer boondock camping in Forest Service, BLM, etc places with limited or no service. We got spoiled though, after going to a rally and seeing a 22'9" PW Plateau XL and traded in for that, which is built on a Merceds-Benz 2016 3500 Sprinter chassis. It has a full shower, and I put in a DC Fridge, 2, 300 AmpHr LiPo batteries and added solar panel capacity. It can still go most places and we still prefer to boondock. Our trips seldom last longer than 21 days - That's about our limit of living in harmony in such close quarters. My wife was also in the AF in Civil Engineering and we both spent plenty of time living in tents. Those days are far behind us.
Posted by: JML at May 20, 2025 11:11 PM (1UudH)
Posted by: Yellowstone Caldera at May 20, 2025 11:11 PM (QRFVs)
Posted by: Ladyl at May 20, 2025 11:05 PM (D6+4s)
Ladyl …
How’s my favorite tennis player 🤔
Posted by: browndog wagging tail at May 20, 2025 11:12 PM (TTAGa)
Better than the Ayn Rand McNally road atlas.
Motto:"Lost? We don't give a shit."
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 20, 2025 11:12 PM (W5ArC)
I'm pretty sure I also once saw Dhillon use a subject pronoun when she should have used an object pronoun.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 20, 2025 11:07 PM (n7rxJ)
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That.
BITCH.
Posted by: A Tyrannosaurus Rex
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I called her office and asked to speak to her manager, but they've blocked my number for some reason.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 20, 2025 11:12 PM (n7rxJ)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ih1BqZbmb8
Posted by: Dr. Claw
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Well, if Doof was in charge of tonight's ONT... maybe... LOL!
Posted by: JQ at May 20, 2025 10:17 PM (rdVOm)
You know me well! I featured that recently.
Posted by: Doof at May 20, 2025 11:12 PM (UQakJ)
Posted by: Kindltot at May 20, 2025 11:12 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Ciampino - great meme at May 20, 2025 11:13 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: javems at May 20, 2025 11:10 PM (8I4hW)
Eastbound on I-40 for my March road trip, took the south ring road around Nashville, had no problems.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 20, 2025 11:14 PM (agWG3)
He owned his own plane for decades, was a flight instructor for the Army during WWII. He was turned down for regular service because of his physical limitations.
A brilliant man, married to a model, Ann Macomber, he did all right for a lame guy.
Posted by: I've Got A Secret at May 20, 2025
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Now that I think back, I recall that every memory I have of him on TV (and he seemed to be everywhere -- networks ran nighttime versions of their game shows in prime time then) is of him sitting down.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 20, 2025 11:14 PM (omVj0)
http://tiny.cc/5jhk001
Posted by: tankdemon at May 20, 2025 11:14 PM (VSht7)
And had one of the hardest door frames to put in in my life, but got it in
Posted by: Skip at May 20, 2025 11:14 PM (ukKwx)
Posted by: scampydog at May 20, 2025 11:10 PM (41CYW)
Thanks. Funny thing -- just got back from playing golf. Course was almost completely empty. 9 hole course, I played 8 holes twice, so I got 17 in. Anyway, I was about halfway through when I realized I had my earbuds with me. As soon as I put them in and started listening to music, I started playing better!
Posted by: Doof at May 20, 2025 11:15 PM (UQakJ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 20, 2025 11:15 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: haffhowershower at May 20, 2025 11:15 PM (144I4)
Side A: 2112
Side B: Power Windows
plus assorted fill-ins at the ends, to make up the full 45 minutes.
Posted by: JQ at May 20, 2025 11:15 PM (rdVOm)
How’s my favorite tennis player 🤔
Posted by: browndog wagging tail at May 20, 2025 11:12 PM (TTAGa)
Browndog! I'm fine! How are you doing?
Posted by: Ladyl at May 20, 2025 11:15 PM (D6+4s)
Posted by: javems at May 20, 2025 11:10 PM (8I4hW)
Eastbound on I-40 for my March road trip, took the south ring road around Nashville, had no problems.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 20, 2025 11:14 PM (agWG3)
This is the best option for several places.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 20, 2025 11:16 PM (QRFVs)
Posted by: Ladyl at May 20, 2025 11:16 PM (D6+4s)
A rite of passage.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 20, 2025 10:55 PM (mT+6a)
I’ll bet you cheer for the BigTen!
Posted by: Pete Bog at May 20, 2025 11:16 PM (8bTsa)
Can almost still do it from memory - speed limits were 55, leave after the last final, around 2 PM - 15 degrees out, straight down the thruway, pick up the turnpike in the NYC area in the late afternoon, down thru NJ Meadowlands and past Philly, over the huge bridge, jump off 95 in Baltimore and bypass WDC via the Key Bridge, on Maryland 3/US 301 past Port Royal, back on 95 north of Richmond near Kings Dominion, pay coin tolls in Richmond; cross into NC around midnight, WABC out of NYC still coming in strong, other stations all-night preachers scaring holy-hell out of me; 95 becomes 301 for a while around Fayetteville; continue thru the dark until see South of the Border lighting up the horizon. Stop at SotB for nap, gas and coffee, sunrise around Charleston, finally getting above freezing, WABC and other NY stations fade out, nothing but Tammy Wynette and farm reports now, cross into Florida, stop at welcome station for free OJ and call mom let her know status. Pull into home around 4 or 5 or later in the afternoon.
Probably among the 10 best memories of my life.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 20, 2025 11:17 PM (QGaXH)
https://youtu.be/qPBPW7xqKhQ?si=VoOqnNf9LuiOC4C6
Posted by: Richard McEnroe at May 20, 2025 11:17 PM (HNMbG)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 20, 2025 11:17 PM (omVj0)
You could chantge the air filter in your car every 30 miles.
Posted by: Eagle at May 20, 2025 11:01 PM (R6Hhu)
About six months after the eruption, I deployed on an exercise to Germany. I took several film canisters with me filled with ash. Traded them with the Germans for biers. I did good!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at May 20, 2025 11:18 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: scampydog at May 20, 2025 11:18 PM (41CYW)
Southern US to Anchorage, Alaska, back in the days before the Alcan was paved.
>1,000 miles of gravel and mud, up and down mountains, with truckers driving at normal highway speeds.
One broken headlight and one minor windshield ding (and, of course, a vehicle encased in a few inches of mud). We were lucky. Many were not so lucky, back then.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 20, 2025 11:18 PM (W5ArC)
Enjoying a nice cool spring up here in WNY …
Getting in a goodly amount of golf
Posted by: browndog wagging tail at May 20, 2025 11:18 PM (TTAGa)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 20, 2025 11:19 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at May 20, 2025 11:20 PM (FCrpy)
Anyone else hearing that (Dolly Parton?) song that goes I
Correct?
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 20, 2025 11:20 PM (fWvcd)
Posted by: To Tell The Truth at May 20, 2025 11:21 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro,Vt at May 20, 2025 11:21 PM (gaVwl)
Got a new one en route to the workplace. It's small single lane, single lanes both inbound and out.
Almost weekly some clown in front of me will stop at in inbound yield sign and wait until there is no one in sight before proceeding.... at least they turn right when they go in.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 20, 2025 11:23 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 20, 2025 11:17 PM (QGaXH)
We've really lost an important part of our culture, now that local radio effectively no longer exists. It's almost all automated now, and you'll hear exactly the same mixes on stations across the country.
The PBS and NPR crowds don't give a crap about that, though. Their definition of "culture" is very narrow.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 20, 2025 11:24 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Skip at May 20, 2025 11:24 PM (ukKwx)
Posted by: PabloD at May 20, 2025 11:24 PM (TDkp3)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 20, 2025 11:14 PM (agWG3)
I was mostly going north / south on I-65. Made a few trips a year, depending on how many funerals I had to attend. We are about traveled out now.
Posted by: javems at May 20, 2025 11:25 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: Doof at May 20, 2025 11:08 PM (UQakJ)
Pet Bog?
Sir, I demand satisfaction for your vile disservice. Saturday morning of the MoMe in Coresickcanna.
The worst outcome Is I won’t have to cook dinner.
Posted by: Pete Bog at May 20, 2025 11:25 PM (8bTsa)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 20, 2025 11:19 PM (ZVgZ4)
I'd say "sello" for "cello" would grate on my ears worse than "I" for "me". I was taught the names of most instruments in the orchestra in grade school.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 20, 2025 11:25 PM (agWG3)
Contemplating two summer road trips - a short shake-down cruise up the west coast to the Olympic Peninsula - maybe visit some PNW morons - and a somewhat longer one to points east and north - perhaps western ND and work our way across to the UP then drop down and follow the mother road home to So. Cal.
I will of course keep everyone informed of my wanderings whether you like it or not!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 20, 2025 11:26 PM (QGaXH)
Correct?
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 20, 2025 11:20 PM (fWvcd)
Lynne Anderson, I think.
We school kids used enjoy singing our own version, which went "I beg your pardon. I never shitted in your rose garden". There was more but that's all I remember.
Naturally, this wasn't sung when any adults were around.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 20, 2025 11:26 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 20, 2025 11:26 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Doof at May 20, 2025 11:08 PM (UQakJ)
Pet Bog?
Sir, I demand satisfaction for your vile disservice. Saturday morning of the MoMe in Coresickcanna.
The worst outcome Is I won’t have to cook dinner.
Posted by: Pete Bog at May 20, 2025 11:25 PM (8bTsa)
HAHAHA!! I'm calling you that always now!!
Posted by: Doof at May 20, 2025 11:26 PM (UQakJ)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 20, 2025 11:28 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 20, 2025 11:28 PM (W5ArC)
Lynne Anderson, I think.
You are right. I was just testing You People.
We school kids used enjoy singing our own version, which went "I beg your pardon. I never shitted in your rose garden".
Shitted? Blonde Morticia isn't going to like that incorrect use of a verb!
There was more...
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
No doubt. Kids can be creative.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 20, 2025 11:29 PM (fWvcd)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
hehe. "Sackbut." hehe.
Posted by: grade-school mikeski at May 20, 2025 11:29 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Miklos likes Simple and Durable at May 20, 2025 11:30 PM (053s8)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 20, 2025 11:30 PM (agWG3)
Posted by: Richard McEnroe at May 20, 2025 11:30 PM (HNMbG)
True, but that's whatcha call "poetic license".
Besides, "I never shat in your rose garden" doesn't scan.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 20, 2025 11:30 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 20, 2025 11:31 PM (6eCpD)
Posted by: Skip at May 20, 2025 11:31 PM (ukKwx)
Posted by: Skip at May 20, 2025 11:24 PM (ukKwx)
Amen Skip, Blasting across Central Montana, beautiful fall night with the windows down blasting the “Symphony from the New World “. Dvorak.
Just like yesterday. September 1984.
Posted by: Pete Bog at May 20, 2025 11:32 PM (8bTsa)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at May 20, 2025 10:53 PM (EOjZq)
Now you're putting conditions on it? It was a train, it's not like I had any control mover arrival time.
Posted by: tankdemon at May 20, 2025 11:33 PM (VSht7)
HAHAHA!! I'm calling you that always now!!
Posted by: Doof
*pets Pete Bog*
Who's a Good Pete Bog?
You are!
Yes you are!
Posted by: Miklos likes animals at May 20, 2025 11:33 PM (053s8)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 20, 2025 11:33 PM (63Dwl)
Well, I'm going out to the shop to putter a little. Back later.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
I swear, this guy ^ ducks out every single time I show up. I'll pop in the ONT at 0130, or 0215 or whenever, and the very next comment will be AOP saying good night. Never fails.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 20, 2025 11:33 PM (fWvcd)
Anyone else hearing that (Dolly Parton?) song that goes I beg raise your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden?
Correct?
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"Rose Garden", sometime "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden", was recorded & released by a Lynn Anderson in 1970. I do believe she was a Country-to-Pop crossover.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLo4j7QXxp4
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at May 20, 2025 11:34 PM (XjTSo)
Posted by: Skip at May 20, 2025 11:31 PM (ukKwx)
Four wheels up on the curbs?
Posted by: Pete Bog at May 20, 2025 11:34 PM (8bTsa)
Posted by: tankdemon
*introduced into evidence*
Posted by: the P. Diddy trial at May 20, 2025 11:35 PM (053s8)
Posted by: PabloD at May 20, 2025 11:35 PM (R20f1)
Posted by: scampydog at May 20, 2025 11:35 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Soothsayer
At least you know it's going to happen.
Posted by: mikeski at May 20, 2025 11:35 PM (DgGvY)
Daughter: Why are you always right?
Dad: Because I'm spent my life being wrong, but remember the lessons...
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 20, 2025 11:35 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 20, 2025 11:36 PM (6eCpD)
Posted by: Soothsayer
At least you know it's going to happen.
Posted by: mikeski at May 20, 2025 11:35 PM (DgGvY)
Hmmm... so we never see the two of em at the same time???
Suspicious!
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 20, 2025 11:36 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Doof
*pets Pete Bog*
Who's a Good Pete Bog?
You are!
Yes you are!
Posted by: Miklos likes animals at May 20, 2025 11:33 PM (053s
Sharp knives, Very sharp.
Posted by: Pete Bog at May 20, 2025 11:36 PM (8bTsa)
I still recall talking with people in the office about the use of "impact" as a transitive verb (started in the early 80s, via guvamint-speak). Still annoys me. Impact, for physics and physical situations. AFFECT for the rest, people. There's just something iconically dumbed down about the current use of "impact", as it pretty much originated at the start of the general decline.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 20, 2025 11:37 PM (1m82a)
Visited the observatory about 10 years ago with my family and I was amazed at how much recovered but also how much still hasn't recovered. You could see spots where trees tried to grow, all by their lonesome selves, completely surrounded by grey mud. It was eerie.
Posted by: Farquad at May 20, 2025 11:37 PM (GQ/vu)
Mom made sandwiches for those trips. No stopping except for gas & bathroom! (I swear, Dad was part camel-- we had to *beg* him to stop sometimes)
Posted by: JQ at May 20, 2025 11:37 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 20, 2025 11:38 PM (W5ArC)
"Wir haben nicht geschitten in seine Rosengarten"
Posted by: Was nicht ein Hit at May 20, 2025 11:38 PM (053s8)
To get under the flat Earth and raise it up at 32.2 feet per second per second of course!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 20, 2025 11:38 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: unfortunate cultist stuck in traffic forever at May 20, 2025 11:39 PM (28AwC)
Posted by: Some Rat at May 20, 2025 10:57 PM (TfUTr)
Most letters at that time were processed on the Multi Position Mail Sorting Machine, which was an electro-mechanical behemonth the size of a tractor trailer with a space down the middle where the mail fell into individual hoppers. The addresses were entered a bank of Mail Sorters who sat at keyboards that were like a buck-toothed Hammond organ keyboards. The mail was placed on a conveyor belt, then a vacuum arm put it onto the tray in front of the Mail Sorter who had a second to key in the address (or the route) before it was whisked off to the machine where it went into carrier box that would drop it into the correct bin on the other side. It was a Goldberg device and the ash would probably destroy it eventually
You could sort 60 letters a second, where the new barcode sorters can do a foot of mail in ten seconds.
I worked on one for a while. It was pretty loud
youtu.be/p8sTsfUJAK8?
Posted by: Kindltot at May 20, 2025 11:40 PM (D7oie)
Of course I forget which guy, Barber or the other one, is now generally credited with whatever the claim was (presumably shooting down Yamamoto's Betty bomber, not the other one - which was also shot down and carried his CoS, who survived the incident).
Posted by: rhomboid at May 20, 2025 11:40 PM (1m82a)
I have two nephews that are pretty sharp, but not very "academic".
They both graduated tonight!!
One with a degree in Culinary Arts and the other with a degree in Welding. Both are absolutely happy as clams in their fields.
Both degrees are administered under the Tech Program, at our local enormous state university. There is a chance that the kids from the Tech school have higher starting median salaries compared to the kids at the college. The "value" of indoctrination appears to be declining rapidly.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 20, 2025 11:42 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: yop at May 20, 2025 11:43 PM (RKj5x)
I will of course keep everyone informed of my wanderings whether you like it or not!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
Please do!!!!!
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 20, 2025 11:43 PM (mT+6a)
Was told to be back as soon as possible. Well.... at the time my car? 1977 Z 28.
Went the Southern Route... and... Gila Bend Arizona, I was pulling off the road to get gas... and was clocked at over 100 while SLOWING DOWN...
Cop wrote me the ticket, and should have taken me in for reckless... but said he would check on my 'story'...
Let me go... and I never heard another word about it.
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 20, 2025 11:44 PM (mP0Kj)
I was sitting next to a cute, but not overly bright, young lady at one of his parties (think AOC... now that I think about it she was, in fact, Latina).
She asked what it was.
"Oh, those are the ashes of Don's* grandparents."
Then I opened up the jar and sprinkled a little bit in my beer.
Heh.
* Not His Real Name
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 20, 2025 11:44 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
Please do!!!!!
Posted by: nurse ratched
I can send a Heartfelt Post card
Posted by: Limited Miklos at May 20, 2025 11:47 PM (053s8)
Posted by: scampydog at May 20, 2025 11:48 PM (41CYW)
The movie "The Gallant Hours" has William Schallert playing Thomas George Lanphier Jr.
Thomas George Lanphier Jr. (November 27, 1915 – November 26, 1987) was a Panama-born American colonel and fighter pilot during World War II who was first given sole credit, then later partial credit shared with Rex T. Barber, for shooting down the plane carrying Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the commander in chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Most modern historians discount his version entirely, giving Barber the whole credit for the kill.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 20, 2025 11:48 PM (63Dwl)
101 on different trips. Flew home.
My brother and I had sleeping bags rolled out in the back of the family wagon.
Dad had a wiffle ball bat he would try to smack us with when we were being obnoxious.
Tons of snacks. Road games. Peeing on the side of the road. No Tell Motel stops. Ereeesh.
Road trips are the best trips.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 20, 2025 11:49 PM (mT+6a)
I have two nephews that are pretty sharp, but not very "academic".
They both graduated tonight!!
One with a degree in Culinary Arts and the other with a degree in Welding. Both are absolutely happy as clams in their fields.
Both degrees are administered under the Tech Program, at our local enormous state university. There is a chance that the kids from the Tech school have higher starting median salaries compared to the kids at the college. The "value" of indoctrination appears to be declining rapidly.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 20, 2025 11:42 PM (HlyYF)
Great stuff, PI!! They'll have no problem finding actual paying jobs!
Posted by: Doof at May 20, 2025 11:51 PM (UQakJ)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 20, 2025 11:52 PM (Vvh2V)
I was at college in Missoula when St. Helens went off. By noon, there was so much ash in the air that the street lights came on. Every thing was shut down except for grocery stores. You needed permission from an authority person to drive because the of the billowing clouds of ash when you drove.
As bar manager at my fraternity, yes we had a bar in the basement, I was able to make keg runs to the local beer distributor. The person in authority was the fraternity consul (president) who wrote me a note in case I got pulled over driving. To play it safe, I always did the keg runs with a sack of groceries next to me in the front seat.
Posted by: Beartooth at May 20, 2025 11:52 PM (dLmtu)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Incorrect historiography must be nipped in the bud.
Posted by: Prof. Miklos Barney-Fife at May 20, 2025 11:53 PM (053s8)
Had no idea what was going on when the sky turned dark and it snowed grey. Car was faltering. Stopped at a hotel (the only one) in Sprague.
Got a room. Turned on the tv.
Holy shit.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 20, 2025 11:54 PM (mT+6a)
Anywho, woke up at noon. It was black outside. It was 80 degrees out. It was snowing. It was accumulating, thick gray ash. 2,3,4 inches deep.
The authorities had no idea what to advise. Ash kills ,ash kills motors ,ash kills everyone ,panic!!!,Don't drive stay inside panic panic panic.
Worst thing that happened is my black mustang had to be repainted. Multiple new air filters. Very caustic abrasive stuff.
Best fertilizer in the world. That's why the central Washington state basin is ,and has been , so productive.
I had a ticket to Europe in June for the summer of 1980. After three weeks of rain and shoveling 4 inches of wet sloppy muck out of the streets at our family home, I was relieved of duty and wandered off to Europe.
When asked where from..... " Washington"..
always... D.C? No...volcano... Ohhhh yess.! I see.
Amazing phenomena to live through.
Posted by: Derak at May 20, 2025 11:54 PM (6lMhP)
Keep working on that rant when you are so inclined.
I have met their instructors in both programs. People that would be easily described as "salt of the Earth" types.
How many Ivy League professors consider themselves Homo Superior?
None of these people do.
My wife actually worked at the same university as an adjunct professor. She taught a graduate level course called "Social Work and the Law".
She had students in her class that got 3.8-4.0 grades in undergraduate Social Work, and could not write a single paragraph within a 5 page paper where the three sentences in the paragraph formed any kind of coherent thought.
Your comment about "alleged smarties" is spot on.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 20, 2025 11:56 PM (HlyYF)
Has Cracker Barrel regained their sanity yet? I won't support a woke outfit.
Posted by: Winston, trying to think up a new nic at May 20, 2025 11:57 PM (x2578)
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 20, 2025 11:42 PM (HlyYF)
Great stuff, PI!! They'll have no problem finding actual paying jobs!
Posted by: Doof
I am looking forward to becoming a Professionally Trained Chef at the International Culinary Academy of Myrtle Beach (actually a part of Horry-Georgetown Technical College)
Posted by: Miklos with Fritz Feld *POP* at May 20, 2025 11:57 PM (053s8)
Posted by: unfortunate cultist stuck in traffic forever at May 20, 2025 11:39 PM (28AwC)
The traffic circle is the physical manifestation of the Odegrah, the cursed sigil of the black priests of darkest Mu. Transversing one is akin to spinning a Tibetan prayer wheel; each entry and exit into this labyrinth being the equivalent of releasing yet another curse upon this unhappy world to bring about its destruction in misery and horror.
This is why ODOT is funding them for every high density traffic area in the state.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 20, 2025 11:57 PM (D7oie)
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This. Next door neighbor was a farmer. He had some bumper crops the next season. He was not happy about what the ash did to his equipment.
Posted by: scampydog at May 20, 2025 11:57 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Derak at May 21, 2025 12:00 AM (6lMhP)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 21, 2025 12:00 AM (rCfSo)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 21, 2025 12:01 AM (7YTFo)
Posted by: Rex B at May 21, 2025 12:01 AM (RFhjS)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * poorly trained emotional support moron at May 21, 2025 12:01 AM (Uzn0I)
Posted by: Derak at May 21, 2025 12:02 AM (6lMhP)
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Motorcycle, sleeping bag, small tent, small camp stove, paper map.
That's it. See you in a week or so...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 21, 2025 12:02 AM (XeU6L)
They did an amazing presentation on the eruption in 1980. At the end, the curtains opened and the crater was RIGHT THERE. freaky af. And so cool.
Sometimes the road gets washed out. If you can get there, GO.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 21, 2025 12:02 AM (mT+6a)
They're not even above average homos.
Posted by: gay pride goeth before a fall at May 21, 2025 12:03 AM (28AwC)
Posted by: Derak at May 21, 2025 12:03 AM (6lMhP)
It keeps traffic flowing continuously. No red light backups. You can take a 4 lane road and reduce it to a 2 lanes. Same number of cars can flow per hour with a traffic circle.
Carmel, IN has gone all in with them and it’s been a yuuuge success.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 21, 2025 12:04 AM (7YTFo)
That's it. See you in a week or so...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.
Spade or small shovel
Biodegradable TP
Posted by: Practical Miklos at May 21, 2025 12:05 AM (053s8)
A couple of hours later we found out we had heard the volcano exploding.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 21, 2025 12:05 AM (1FDFf)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
That's almost 100 miles per hour!
Wait, closer too a bit over 50. The secret is a steady pace and frequent use of cruise control for short naps.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 21, 2025 12:06 AM (/lPRQ)
The rainbow 🌈 rocker is gone from my local Cracker Barrel. I think these places do this stuff because there is no downside. When you begin making a downside for them, they quickly cut it out. There was no real commitment there. So, easily removed.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 21, 2025 12:06 AM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Observational Miklos at May 21, 2025 12:06 AM (053s8)
"Oh! Half an armadillo!"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 21, 2025 12:08 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Observational Miklos
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Drives straight through. Flashes bird.
Posted by: Idiot, but it is fun at May 21, 2025 12:08 AM (41CYW)
It keeps traffic flowing continuously. No red light backups. You can take a 4 lane road and reduce it to a 2 lanes. Same number of cars can flow per hour with a traffic circle.
Carmel, IN has gone all in with them and it’s been a yuuuge success.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 21, 2025 12:04 AM (7YTFo)
Traffic circles may be fine for low traffic areas, but they suck with high traffic. Stick to traffic lights. People (supposedly) know what to do around those. But traffic circles? Every car for itself.
Posted by: RickZ at May 21, 2025 12:08 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 21, 2025 12:08 AM (7YTFo)
Posted by: Ciampino - great memes at May 21, 2025 12:10 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Observational Miklos
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Drives straight through. Flashes bird.
Posted by: Idiot, but it is fun at May 21, 2025 12:08 AM (41CYW)
The other flaw is that the circle won't support the actual traffic. Wisconsin had to redesign a traffic circle because 18 wheelers kept getting stuck on the raised center.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 21, 2025 12:10 AM (VNX3d)
Posted by: JQ at May 21, 2025 12:11 AM (rdVOm)
It was for a whole my go to on long drives.
My St Helens. The fireweed came back in about a year along with the elk. Johnston Ridge is really well done. There are several other areas to visit but they are not as well known.
From the south you can climb to the edge of the crater.
On the east side, a long Forest Service Road will take you to an overlook above Spirit Lake and past the miner's car. A lesser known tragedy.
Posted by: Winston, trying to think up a new nic at May 21, 2025 12:11 AM (x2578)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 21, 2025 12:11 AM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
Seattle got nothing.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 21, 2025 12:12 AM (mT+6a)
I grew up in Vancouver (WA) and my favorite backpacking area was the lake basin just north of Spirit Lake.
Posted by: Hal Dall at May 21, 2025 12:12 AM (Xz03k)
I still recall talking with people in the office about the use of "impact" as a transitive verb (started in the early 80s, via guvamint-speak). Still annoys me. Impact, for physics and physical situations. AFFECT for the rest, people. There's just something iconically dumbed down about the current use of "impact", as it pretty much originated at the start of the general decline.
Posted by: rhomboid
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I once did a bitchy Nazi video about impact vs affect. Affect, a perfectly good word lost to Managerese.
Oh, and "method." Can we just call a method a method? Not everything is a methodology.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at May 21, 2025 12:12 AM (Jwtst)
It keeps traffic flowing continuously. No red light backups. You can take a 4 lane road and reduce it to a 2 lanes. Same number of cars can flow per hour with a traffic circle.
Carmel, IN has gone all in with them and it’s been a yuuuge success.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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Agree that traffic circles work very well for flow. Best I'd they are of decent diameter. Seen some at least 1/2 mile across...
You wouldn't think they would work in cities, due to lack of space, but Savannah Georgia (well planned city) has a bunch in the old downtown are. They are square, but same idea.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 21, 2025 12:12 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: RickZ at May 21, 2025 12:08 AM (gKDq2)
It’s not hard. Car in the circle has the right of way. Wait until there is a break and the enter. There’s no other knowing what to do.
And actually the best use of them is in high traffic areas. High traffic areas is where congestion at red lights happens the most and where the best effects are seen by replacing lights with o tumulus traffic flow. Think of a red light with 25 cars lined up. By the time the 25th car starts moving the light changes back to red. And then the next time it’s 30 cars then 35 and so on. That’s how those crazy long backups happen. Traffic circles eliminate it with continuous flow.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 21, 2025 12:13 AM (7YTFo)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 21, 2025 12:14 AM (l3YAf)
"Oh! Half an armadillo!"...
Posted by: jim
https://tinyurl.com/3paruj8v
Three hours at 70 mph should do it
Posted by: Improvisational Road Trip Miklos at May 21, 2025 12:14 AM (053s8)
Posted by: Miklos with Fritz Feld *POP* at May 20, 2025 11:57 PM
They had a section in their culinary class on wines, and later had an entire section on spirits.
My nephew said one of the kids popped off in class that "learning about drinks in a cooking class was stupid".
The instructor replied with, "I have worked at restaurants where they made more profit from the alcohol than all of the food served. Anyone want to guess how many chefs are employed at a restaurant that goes out of business?" That is a Moron-grade response.
I think there is an excellent chance that Miklos the ... will enjoy all of the Moron parts of chef training!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 21, 2025 12:14 AM (HlyYF)
That's the only thing they spent the $ on, apparently. Not counting the funds-skimming by guv cronies, of coursse.
Posted by: JQ at May 21, 2025 12:15 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 20, 2025 11:14 PM
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Yep. My wife likes to watch To Tell the Truth reruns on the game show channel. At the beginning of each show the celebrity panelists except Cullen are shown strolling across the stage as they are introduced, while Cullen is only seen from the waist up as he takes a few steps before sitting down.
Posted by: Bigsmith at May 21, 2025 12:15 AM (1Au9i)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 21, 2025 12:15 AM (1FDFf)
This is why ODOT is funding them for every high density traffic area in the state.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 20, 2025 11:57 PM (D7oie)
I like that, it’s quite profound!
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 21, 2025 12:16 AM (buOX2)
Posted by: Ciampino - great memes
Heard it.
Just far enough away that it is out of sight by time the rumble gets to us.
That said - Your Rickl Reports are welcome. Sometime I catch them in time to walk outside and look up. Or over there, then up.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 21, 2025 12:17 AM (/lPRQ)
I gotta say, I just love circles. Period. When I see one, I tighten my leg braces and shamble off as fast as I can. Before mom can even affix my activity helmet. Chortling like a pirate with a second bottle of rum. Round and round I go. Usually till I get sick. No pain, no gain. I really like circles.
Posted by: simple commenter with simple needs at May 21, 2025 12:17 AM (28AwC)
When St Helen's blew, it instantly melted every glacier on the mountain, wiped out thousands of square miles of forest in a cataclysmic blow down, and flooded the Toutle river all the way to the Columbia, taking much of that blow down, down stream wiping out everything in its path.
The ash, however, was thrown miles into the sky, and the prevailing winds dumped that ash in all parts north and east of the mountain. Yakima, Ellensburgh, spokane, Coeur d'Alene, Missoula, and beyond.
I think the ash, as hideous as it was, simply can't compare to the destruction and flooding in the river valley drainages off St Helen's. Just spectacular devastation.
Posted by: Derak at May 21, 2025 12:18 AM (6lMhP)
And actually the best use of them is in high traffic areas. High traffic areas is where congestion at red lights happens the most and where the best effects are seen by replacing lights with o tumulus traffic flow. Think of a red light with 25 cars lined up. By the time the 25th car starts moving the light changes back to red. And then the next time it’s 30 cars then 35 and so on. That’s how those crazy long backups happen. Traffic circles eliminate it with continuous flow.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 21, 2025 12:13 AM (7YTFo)
You've never never driven in Massachusetts and had to go through a traffic circle, have you?
Traffic circles change . . . drivers. They become Mario Cart maniacs.
Posted by: RickZ at May 21, 2025 12:19 AM (gKDq2)
They had a section in their culinary class on wines, and later had an entire section on spirits.
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Support local businesses:
La Belle Amie Vineyard
Little River / North Myrtle Beach, SC
Home of Twisted Sisters Wines
Posted by: A Bellamy at May 21, 2025 12:20 AM (XeU6L)
Now let's discuss the FuckingIdiots who just Sit There And Stare At Each Other at 4-Way Stop intersections.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 21, 2025 12:20 AM (fWvcd)
Posted by: scampydog at May 21, 2025 12:22 AM (41CYW)
When I approach a 4-Way Stop, I slow down, look for other cars who will beat me to their Stop sign, look for police, then I GO!
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 21, 2025 12:22 AM (fWvcd)
Posted by: Observational Miklos
The two small towns I live near put them iat highway intersections, replacing stop signs. They are a 200% improvement. Multiple fatalities had occurred at those intersections. I'm not a fan in high volume traffic. When they were brand new, I had Jr. In the car (taxi service). I hit the first round about and kept going in circles and asking him, ' what do I do?' His response was, ' dad, you're an idiot.'
Posted by: Sock Monkey * poorly trained emotional support moron at May 21, 2025 12:22 AM (Uzn0I)
Never been on a multi-lane roundabout?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 21, 2025 12:23 AM (XeU6L)
Nancy mace bin txtn me like KRAAZY
"U buy brkfst @Eggs Up Grill"
Honey, you bring the crabcakes, I done got the "Hollandaise"
https://tinyurl.com/29cmw49a
Posted by: Miklos knows how to treat a Lady rite at May 21, 2025 12:23 AM (053s8)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 21, 2025 12:08 AM (7YTFo)
With the University closed, I headed home to Billings until school reopened. Billings is 350 miles east of Missoula on I-90. There was over a quarter inch of ash there.
Posted by: Beartooth at May 21, 2025 12:23 AM (dLmtu)
I hate getting to an intersection with 2 or more Stop signs, and there's already a car Stopped on the other street, and that Fucking Jerk is WAITING For Me to come to a complete stop before he goes. Just go, you ass!
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 21, 2025 12:24 AM (fWvcd)
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 21, 2025 12:20 AM (fWvcd)
We're no longer just driving from A to B. We've made direct eye contact. We're friends now, and we have to take some time to visit with one another.
Posted by: FuckingIdiot at May 21, 2025 12:25 AM (28AwC)
Posted by: PabloD at May 21, 2025 12:25 AM (R20f1)
One traffic circle? Not a fan. People fuck up a lot, it’s annoying. Better in the Northeast or a country where people know how to use them. Put them in the Midwest and it’s like giving a nail gun to a baby.
But they don’t do just one traffic circle in Indiana. Oh no. They’re “the future” so every single fucking new intersection being put up in the middle of a cornfield is now a traffic circle.
I hope you like feeling like you need to vomit. Because after 17 traffic circles in a row while driving the 2 miles to Krogers, your inner ear is now permanently disoriented.
You’ll grow to hate people who are permitted to drive more than 1000 feet in straight line.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 21, 2025 12:25 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 21, 2025 12:20 AM (fWvcd)
*Waves through windshield for you to go first*
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 21, 2025 12:25 AM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: Miklos
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That looks *really good*-- I'd like one order, please. With grits...
Posted by: JQ at May 21, 2025 12:26 AM (rdVOm)
Seattle, however, will get the floods and mud flow.
I can't begin to imagine.
Posted by: Derak at May 21, 2025 12:26 AM (6lMhP)
Soooo much more efficient than plain old diamond highway interchanges.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 21, 2025 12:28 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: FuckingIdiot
And pictures of grandchildren
Posted by: Elderly Driver at May 21, 2025 12:29 AM (053s8)
Seattle, however, will get the floods and mud flow.
I can't begin to imagine.
Posted by: Derak at May 21, 2025 12:26 AM (6lMhP)
A Federal judge in Seattle has preemptively ruled against Mt. Ranier blowing its top.
That'll work. Does for everything else.
Posted by: RickZ at May 21, 2025 12:31 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 21, 2025 12:25 AM (Aqu9a)
I’m one of those louts who hits the gas pedal at the sign of any hesitation by the others.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 21, 2025 12:31 AM (buOX2)
Posted by: Hal Dall at May 21, 2025 12:32 AM (Xz03k)
Seattle, however, will get the floods and mud flow.
I can't begin to imagine.
Posted by: Derak
Then we'll get the refugees. The ash I can handle. West side morons being the exception.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * poorly trained emotional support moron at May 21, 2025 12:32 AM (Uzn0I)
They're not even above average homos.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HwmO_GZfzI
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at May 21, 2025 12:33 AM (XjTSo)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Flipped a guy off today because he had a sticker on his back window that said, "I don't give a f*ck about your feelings." Sumbitch got the joke, flipped me off, laughed, and threw a thumb up. I love America.
Posted by: scampydog at May 21, 2025 12:34 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: JQ
Order in!
I was taken to an Eggs Up by Miley and Publius, thought it was one local joint. But no, there are many, closest about 45 min away from me.
So I decided to learn to make that myself....not difficult. Requires Morning Effort and Attention, though, of which I have a Limited Supply.
I omit the toast on the bottom, that is a menu Item by itself with butter and jelly or jam.
Posted by: Soon-to-be Professional Miklos at May 21, 2025 12:35 AM (053s8)
Posted by: Miklos, Murican at May 21, 2025 12:37 AM (053s8)
Posted by: Tom Servo
That's why it's called "right of way." I can't take your rights, but you can surrender them.
Posted by: mikeski at May 21, 2025 12:37 AM (DgGvY)
I'm shocked they haven't added traffic circles to the Interstates yet. Instead of having interchanges every mile or two, just have everyone slow down to 30 MPH and go in a giant loop. Over and over.
Every pro-traffic circle person is like "Oh, heh, you don't like traffic circles because you don't know how to drive in them? Well, I know how to drive in them, it's simple.." as a flex.
Yes, I'm sure you can navigate the 9 circles of traffic Inferno just fine. The problem is, a percentage--perhaps a tiny percentage, but still too large--of Midwestern drivers just don't get it. They stop and wait instead of merging in.
Or they honk at you, because they don't understand the entire point of the traffic circle is that it's sort of a giant circular yield sign. In theory, traffic flows in continuously. In theory, Communism yields a workers' paradise.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 21, 2025 12:38 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Miklos
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Gossage Grill, "Two eggs, toast, butter and jelly. 57 cents": Capped off many a high school night.
https://tinyurl.com/4cmpwhd7
Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 21, 2025 12:38 AM (rCfSo)
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GPS in a car is work of the devil.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 21, 2025 12:39 AM (EkcIs)
Posted by: scampydog
No Justification is required for flipping people off.
Be nice. Be polite. Remember that many people are born idiots.
Wearing a mask in 2025 is full-on Justification.
Posted by: Miklosian socail interactions at May 21, 2025 12:41 AM (053s8)
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It is a ring in your nose with Alphabet or Tim Cook pulling the chain.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 21, 2025 12:42 AM (EkcIs)
Posted by: scampydog at May 21, 2025 12:34 AM (41CYW)
In America, it was either 'threw a thumb up' ot 'threw down with a Glock'.
I'm kind of serious. Road rage is scary. Because some drivers can be violent entitled maroons.
Posted by: RickZ at May 21, 2025 12:43 AM (gKDq2)
I just treat it like a four-way stop with a center lane that doesn't stop, but that's wrong. But nobody knows the right way to use a two-way stop, so there's no point in me following the rules, either.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 21, 2025 12:43 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: scampydog at May 21, 2025 12:43 AM (41CYW)
I still recall talking with people in the office about the use of "impact" as a transitive verb (started in the early 80s, via guvamint-speak). Still annoys me. Impact, for physics and physical situations. AFFECT for the rest, people. There's just something iconically dumbed down about the current use of "impact", as it pretty much originated at the start of the general decline.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 20, 2025 11:37 PM (1m82a)
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+1 "Impact" as TV, so pretentious. Worse: impactful
Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 21, 2025 12:44 AM (rCfSo)
Posted by: RickZ
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Yep. Agree. Would not have done it in a metro area. Was rural, outstate.
Posted by: scampydog at May 21, 2025 12:45 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: Kindly Uncle Miklos at May 21, 2025 12:45 AM (053s8)
Posted by: scampydog at May 21, 2025 12:47 AM (41CYW)
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+1 "Impact" as TV, so pretentious. Worse: impactful
Posted by: JM in Illinois
We need to uptake the input from the stakeholders and change the paradigm
Posted by: Miklos McKinsey at May 21, 2025 12:48 AM (053s8)
Posted by: Soon-to-be Professional Miklos at May 21, 2025 12:35 AM (053s
Nothing better than beng on the coast and having a crab breakfast. Best one I had was on the Outer Banks. 3 egg omelette with lots of crab and Swiss, toast appropriately on the side. Yeah, I know, seafood and cheese. Well, it worked.
Posted by: RickZ at May 21, 2025 12:49 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: scampydog
I will stop this ONT right here, and you can WALK home!
Posted by: Miklos, in Old Papa voice at May 21, 2025 12:50 AM (053s8)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 21, 2025 12:38 AM (l3YAf)
LOL!
Succinct and historically accurate.
Posted by: RickZ at May 21, 2025 12:51 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Pikov Andropov at May 21, 2025 12:51 AM (y7zkd)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 21, 2025 12:52 AM (EkcIs)
Like traffic circles, they're not that bad once you get used to them, but holy hell they're confusing at first.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 21, 2025 12:52 AM (W5ArC)
Seriously, I'm used to ATL rush hours and Music City gives us a run for our money. Stupid river throttles everything going through town. At least coming from the south you can avoid everthing via 840
Posted by: Pikov Andropov at May 21, 2025 12:56 AM (y7zkd)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 21, 2025 12:52 AM (W5ArC)
Great! We'll get to raise the rates. Oh, and the cancellations will be fantastic. Our shareholders will love that.
Posted by: US Auto Insurance Industry at May 21, 2025 12:57 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director
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What city and state traffic managers don't understand is that the faster they allow vehicles to travel equates to less congestion.
We have 1950s speed laws regulating 21st century vehicles.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 21, 2025 12:59 AM (EkcIs)
And we're still thinking about the 1950s.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 21, 2025 01:00 AM (EkcIs)
Posted by: US Auto Insurance Industry
Que?
Posted by: Miguel y/o "Francisco" at May 21, 2025 01:00 AM (053s8)
Posted by: Patrick74 at May 21, 2025 01:01 AM (Wiz5H)
You can say that again. Also, the roads are in terrible shape. Pothole after pothole.
Posted by: Tuna at May 21, 2025 01:03 AM (lJ0H4)
Like traffic circles, they're not that bad once you get used to them, but holy hell they're confusing at first.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 21, 2025 12:52 AM (W5ArC)
Oh, I'm quite familiar. I hate them, too.
Let's talk about Zipper Merging, the Worst Idea In Traffic Ever.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 21, 2025 01:04 AM (l3YAf)
Like traffic circles, they're not that bad once you get used to them, but holy hell they're confusing at first.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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AKA Crossover Lanes, eh?
They such ass when you cannot see pavement markings, like snow in the road.
"Just keep to the right == FAIL"
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 21, 2025 01:04 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 20, 2025 11:33 PM (fWvcd)
Back! Got the instrument cluster for the Zip Van mostly refurbished, and brought the "mask", freshly repainted, into the office here to apply white Letraset for the speedometer numerals, if I have enough. And I went out to the loft in the barn with a bright flashlight and a gat, and pitlamped a couple of those filthy pigeons.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 21, 2025 01:05 AM (FamhF)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 21, 2025 01:06 AM (0nHVk)
I am told, and I sometime perceive myself, that both my voice and my general attitude and approach to people and things has become remarkably similar to that of my father.
Weird
Posted by: 29 tear Old Miklos at May 21, 2025 01:07 AM (053s8)
They such ass when you cannot see pavement markings, like snow in the road.
"Just keep to the right == FAIL"
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 21, 2025 01:04 AM (/lPRQ)
Yeah, which is about 8 months of the year here in Alaska. It's basically "make your own lane" for much of the year. Everyone drives where they think a lane ought to be. There are roads that have more, or fewer, lanes in the summer than the winter.
Perfect setup for diverging diamond interchanges.
Right?
Those things remind me of nothing so much as a fancy demolition derby track.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 21, 2025 01:07 AM (W5ArC)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 21, 2025 01:07 AM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 21, 2025 01:08 AM (W5ArC)
>> I hate getting older and being alone, that is when self-doubt creeps in, and you know that you shouldn't take a road trip by yourself anymore.
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*sigh*
Yep.
Posted by: JQ at May 21, 2025 01:09 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
What did you learn in school today?
Pairing
Posted by: Shareful Miklos at May 21, 2025 01:09 AM (053s8)
"Just keep to the right == FAIL"
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 21, 2025 01:04 AM (/lPRQ)
Snow does not happen in Glorious Drivers' Paradise, comrade. Neither do highway departments become corrupt and lazy and stop painting lines on the road. All roads are kept in a perpetual state of pitch-black new asphalt and lane markings so new you can still smell the paint.
All signage is correct and current and readable from 1000 feet away and all drivers are kept up-to-date on the latest Rules of the Road via their Neuralink implant. Especially the 95 year-old who first learned to drive before the stop sign had been invented.
Posted by: Traffic Engineer at May 21, 2025 01:10 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Frankie at May 21, 2025 01:10 AM (/C2vO)
Posted by: Patrick74
That’s very cool.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 21, 2025 01:11 AM (RthXU)
I'm watching a show too. It's called ONT. I don't know. The characters are all very weird, and the dialogue is disjointed, makes no sense. I can't follow what's happening, and I can't imagine it getting a second season.
Posted by: bath salts frappuccino at May 21, 2025 01:12 AM (28AwC)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 21, 2025 01:13 AM (EkcIs)
KEEP RIGHT
GIVE WAY TO TRAFFIC ON YOUR LEFT
simple. Africa is full of such circles.
Most times one doesn't have to stop, maybe slow down a bit.
Posted by: Ciampino - great circles at May 21, 2025 01:13 AM (sPQoU)
>> I hate getting older and being alone, that is when self-doubt creeps in, and you know that you shouldn't take a road trip by yourself anymore.
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*sigh*
Yep.
Posted by: JQ
Solution
https://tinyurl.com/mr23yfkm
The girls can sit in the back and drink
Posted by: Solutionful Miklos at May 21, 2025 01:14 AM (053s8)
Posted by: KwaK! at May 21, 2025 01:15 AM (89Sog)
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 21, 2025 01:11 AM (RthXU)
My first thought was, 'So is that how archaeologists found the people of Pompeii? Running inside to avoid the ash?'
When a volcano has your name on it, there's not much you can do.
Posted by: RickZ at May 21, 2025 01:15 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 21, 2025 01:15 AM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Trigglypuff at May 21, 2025 01:18 AM (053s8)
Posted by: KwaK! at May 21, 2025 01:15 AM (89Sog)
Slow down at a traffic circle? You've definitely never driven in Massachusetts.
fancy demolition derby track.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 21, 2025 01:07 AM (W5ArC)
Posted by: RickZ at May 21, 2025 01:18 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 21, 2025 01:22 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Frankie at May 21, 2025 01:10 AM (/C2vO)
What is claimed to be the World's Largest Golf Tee is a bout 3 miles from stately Peon Manor.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 21, 2025 01:24 AM (/0q9o)
Any circle you can just speed through is just a fancy schmancy turn lane.
Posted by: KwaK! at May 21, 2025 01:25 AM (89Sog)
KEEP RIGHT
GIVE WAY TO TRAFFIC ON YOUR LEFT
simple. Africa is full of such circles.
Most times one doesn't have to stop, maybe slow down a bit.
Posted by: Ciampino - great circles
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Here is the rub -
GIVE WAY TO TRAFFIC ON YOUR LEFT
At four way stops you yield to the car on the right.
That simple difference I thinks jams most people up with the traffic circles.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 21, 2025 01:25 AM (/lPRQ)
Initially, we were planning to visit his BFF (for 50+ years) & her 2 adult children who also lived in town. But, a few days before we left home, BFF passed away. We knew she'd been ill, but didn't expect THAT!
We went anyway, to see "the kids" and console/advise them...
The whole trip sucked. Not just because of BFF's passing, but because it really kicked off hubby's mental decline. He went downhill rapidly after that. Ugh.
Posted by: JQ at May 21, 2025 01:25 AM (rdVOm)
That’s massive energy storage.
Enough to run an entire neighborhood now fueling AGI.
Tesla + xAI = The future of power-hungry intelligence.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 21, 2025 01:28 AM (EkcIs)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 21, 2025 01:29 AM (/0q9o)
Posted by: Ciampino - misuse of words at May 21, 2025 01:30 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 21, 2025 01:31 AM (/0q9o)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 21, 2025 01:31 AM (EkcIs)
SCHOOL ZONE
20 MPH
On school days
When children are present
Present outside or just in the building?
Why don't you go 35 MPH by this cop and see?
Oh, wait, that wasn't a child. It was just Peter Dinklage. You slowed down for a Peter Dinklage meet-and-greet, dumbass.
Uh oh, cop is lighting you up. Have fun arguing with him, peasant.
Posted by: Traffic Engineer at May 21, 2025 01:32 AM (l3YAf)
I predict many collisions. It's geometric.
Drivers do not stop behind the Stop Line today, much less behind the Crosswalk Line. That's at a purely perpendicular right-angled intersection.
Everything in a Diverging Diamond is at a slant to everything else. The idjit drivers will come a a stop with their front bumpers sticking out into a crossing lane.
There will be carnage.
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 21, 2025 01:33 AM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 21, 2025 01:33 AM (28AwC)
Sucks when you have to abruptly quit a project, part-way through!
Posted by: JQ at May 21, 2025 01:33 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 21, 2025 01:31 AM (/0q9o)
Except in Illinois.
Although, really, that makes sense. Turning on-ramps into a drag strips is idiotic.
Posted by: Traffic Engineer at May 21, 2025 01:33 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 21, 2025 01:33 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
Doof sent me a thumb drive with about 4000 road trip tunes.
The first 100 or so are the theme songs from every TV show of the 60s, 70s, and early 80s.
Bonus points for who calls each one first!
Triple bonus points if you remember all the words
Posted by: Diligent and attentive Chauffeur Miklos at May 21, 2025 01:36 AM (053s8)
404 When you enter a freeway from an on-ramp, you yield to the traffic on your left, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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That's California driving. As one enters the on-ramp he accelerates to match traffic speed to merge seamlessly with other vehicles.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 21, 2025 01:37 AM (EkcIs)
A: the car with the most body damage, cher.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 21, 2025 01:37 AM (ZVgZ4)
Sucks when you have to abruptly quit a project, part-way through!
Posted by: JQ at May 21, 2025 01:33 AM (rdVOm)
I have a white paint marker that I used to brighten up the faded instrument needles. I will simply hand-draw the numerals. They are in a "tall" sans-serif font.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 21, 2025 01:38 AM (/0q9o)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Mostly "merge" here - two lanes become one.
Some on ramps do have yield signs and dashed lines separating the entering lane from the regular highway lanes.
Can be quick the surprise when looking over your left shoulder, matching velocities to fit between the cars and find yourself looking at a yeild sign.
Other times the guy in front will come to a deadstop w/o needing to.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 21, 2025 01:38 AM (/lPRQ)
https://tinyurl.com/pvtdzxdd
"Stir the pot."
"Close the curtain."
"Fire the phased plasma rifle at the puny human."
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 21, 2025 01:39 AM (1FDFf)
Posted by: Le Mikleuse at May 21, 2025 01:40 AM (053s8)
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Yeah, hubby was no longer driving by then anyway, but was absolutely *useless* as a navigator. I had to stop & read map a few times, while he interrogated me: "why did we stop? We just ate/don't need gas...."
Posted by: JQ at May 21, 2025 01:40 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Trans-Driver at May 21, 2025 01:41 AM (053s8)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 21, 2025 01:37 AM (EkcIs)
Phoenix-area freeways typically have the on-ramp continue as it's own lane to the next off-ramp, so you have plenty of time to match speed, and merge over into the thru lane. Freeways around here, the on-ramp just merges right into the outside lane, that usually has traffic in it, so you have to have your wits about you, or else come to halt, and wait for a gap in traffic.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 21, 2025 01:41 AM (/0q9o)
In Massachusetts drivers yield for nobody. You have to be really confident to merge onto the highway.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 21, 2025 01:41 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: JQ at May 21, 2025 01:42 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
I will buy a cool but piece of shit car just to keep AOP busy.
Posted by: Miklos, Kind but somewhat Devious at May 21, 2025 01:43 AM (053s8)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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I wear compression knee wraps a lot. Pharmacy was having a close out so I bought several boxes. Two years go by and I pull out a 'new' box. As I pull them up they give way, absolutely no stretch what so ever. Totally deteriorated.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 21, 2025 01:43 AM (EkcIs)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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V8 under hood is good.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 21, 2025 01:46 AM (EkcIs)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 21, 2025 01:47 AM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
That neck of the woods is not on my travel agenda.
No palm trees or collards?
No thanks
Posted by: Miklos, a Man of Fixed Opinions at May 21, 2025 01:47 AM (053s8)
https://tinyurl.com/pvtdzxdd
"Stir the pot."
"Close the curtain."
"Fire the phased plasma rifle at the puny human."
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
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By the time I get mine it will be able to wash dishes, make sandwiches, cut the yard, and clean up the shop at the end of project day. Prolly not going to teach it to shoot.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 21, 2025 01:49 AM (EkcIs)
Posted by: Count de Monet
I read that as "carrrnazs" or basically French
Posted by: Le Mikleuse at May 21, 2025 01:40 AM (053s
Si, there will be carnitas.
Posted by: i must go back still? at May 21, 2025 01:50 AM (28AwC)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 21, 2025 01:50 AM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 21, 2025 01:52 AM (EkcIs)
Posted by: JQ at May 21, 2025 01:53 AM (rdVOm)
youtube.com/watch?v=PQSp6KoVjvo
Posted by: JQ
I'll see that and raise you One Roy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5N9IHqqGcA
Posted by: Miklos, a Man of Musical Opinions at May 21, 2025 01:53 AM (053s8)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 21, 2025 01:37 AM (EkcIs)
Well, I could look up some suitable font, print a sheet of paper with numerals zero to ninety (by tens), painstakingly cut out each individual numeral, stick them to something, spray-paint them white, and then glue them to the mask. But that sounds like a lot of work. Easier to do them by hand with a paint marker, and keep an eye out for an E-series truck instrument cluster at a Studebaker swap meet.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 21, 2025 01:55 AM (/0q9o)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others
Meanwhile some of us will be tricking out our golf carts with a 302 or 305 V8s, blowers, nitrous, and trackion bars.... drag chute optional.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 21, 2025 01:56 AM (/lPRQ)
youtube.com/watch?v=nIcIG6zSOaM
Road music!
Posted by: JQ
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Need rear seat speakers in that Lincoln.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 21, 2025 01:56 AM (EkcIs)
Posted by: Braenyard
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I dunno... still a fan of Manual Controls, here.
Posted by: JQ at May 21, 2025 01:56 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 21, 2025 01:56 AM (/lPRQ)
I am content with the 200 cc Yamaha 4-stroke in my golf cart. Gets me around the yard, and totes stuff real well.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 21, 2025 01:58 AM (/0q9o)
Posted by: JQ at May 21, 2025 01:58 AM (rdVOm)
Said street crosses a railroad track and immediately ends in a tight tee intersection in a residential neighborhood.
There is a freight station nearby. I suspect more than once GPS has sent a triple trailer rig down the street, whereupon it got jammed in the tee intersection, with the third trailer across the railroad tracks. I'm sure hilarity and highjinks would have ensued.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 21, 2025 01:58 AM (1FDFf)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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Jump the sand traps.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 21, 2025 01:59 AM (EkcIs)
MILO
@Nero
I tried to tell you about Bongino but nooooo Milo is just seething and bitter
Posted by: Mister Ghost at May 21, 2025 01:59 AM (TGPs7)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 21, 2025 02:04 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Braenyard
Sure. and-
The guys will install a "Cholo Suspension"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6KYlUqtjQc
Posted by: Low Rider don't need no gas at May 21, 2025 02:04 AM (053s8)
I dunno... still a fan of Manual Controls, here.
Posted by: JQ
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Me too. I've avoided buying new because of the modern conveniences however, I can foresee the day that bodily things don't work as well as now. Barring winning the lottery and having a gardener/driver the self driver will be an attractive alternative.
Especially if it follows oral instructions.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 21, 2025 02:05 AM (EkcIs)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 21, 2025 02:05 AM (EkcIs)
You want Kamala Harris as a driver?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 21, 2025 02:07 AM (/0q9o)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
JQ, I will go to sleep with the Doobies ringing in my ears. Might Horde.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
Sticking mary j huana doobs in your ears?
Crazy, man
Posted by: Miklos G. Krebs at May 21, 2025 02:07 AM (053s8)
Posted by: Dan Bongino at May 21, 2025 02:09 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Ha. Thinking of back seat driver instructions. Stop. stop. No. Turn right, here, now. Watch out. Hurry up.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 21, 2025 02:11 AM (EkcIs)
The Solari Report | Catherine Austin Fitts
@solari_the
Well looks like Game Over. Between Elon putting mesh networks in the back of your head, Trump promising mRNA vaccines with Stargate and Casey Means engineering wires under your skin to track you, this Administration is all in on the INTERNET OF BODIES - moving digital technology and the digital control grid into your body and mind.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at May 21, 2025 02:11 AM (TGPs7)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
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Might Horde! Raises fist in the air.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 21, 2025 02:12 AM (EkcIs)
Posted by: JQ at May 21, 2025 02:13 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Internet of Bodies at May 21, 2025 02:15 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Internet of Bodies at May 21, 2025 02:15 AM (l3YAf)
Mary Clogginstein will sell wifi-enabled Fart Tubes to prevent unauthorized venting.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 21, 2025 02:18 AM (/0q9o)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 21, 2025 02:19 AM (/0q9o)
Posted by: JQ at May 21, 2025 02:20 AM (rdVOm)
NBC News
@NBCNews
Kermit the Frog will delivery his first commencement address in nearly 30 years at the University of Maryland on Thursday.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at May 21, 2025 02:21 AM (TGPs7)
Kash Patel knows what happened in Las Vegas.
He knows who did it.
He knows why they did it.
He knows the perps were caught, and either imprisoned, or killed.
He knows Paddock didn't kill anyone.
In October 2017, Kash Patel was serving as a senior counsel to the House Intelligence Committee, working under Chairman Devin Nunes.
He knows everything. Don't be naive
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Linda Van Diest retweeted Knux Dawgg @DawggKnux 10h
Replying to @gc22gc
I don't get what happened to our guy Kash Patel! He straight up lied about Epstein. Epstein did not kill himself and everyone knows this! So disappointed in Kash
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@turlingtonGirl 13m @bennyjohnson
What happened to Dan bongino and Kash Patel? They are now liars for the state? Butler Pa was a coordinated effort to Kill the now President- now Bongino says otherwise? What would make the emm lay down and surrender ?
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I'm beginning to feel that this isn't going to end well.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 21, 2025 02:21 AM (EkcIs)
October 2026: Tesla Robot Hacked to Play Doom 😁
November 2026: Tesla Robot Hacked to Play Doom 😨 🔫 🩸
Posted by: Internet of Bodies at May 21, 2025 02:23 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 21, 2025 02:24 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Miklos is up for some late nite take out at May 21, 2025 02:26 AM (053s8)
Rob Way
@RobWayTV
“Cheers” in Boston has a stool and beer reserved for George Wendt who played the beloved character of Norm on the show.
Wendt died this morning. He was 76.
https://tinyurl.com/4rnf6u9a
Posted by: Mister Ghost at May 21, 2025 02:29 AM (TGPs7)
@solari_the
Well looks like Game Over. Between Elon putting mesh networks in the back of your head, Trump promising mRNA vaccines with Stargate and Casey Means engineering wires under your skin to track you, this Administration is all in on the INTERNET OF BODIES - moving digital technology and the digital control grid into your body and mind.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at May 21, 2025 02:11 AM (TGPs7)
Personally, I can't wait for them to turn my penis into a wifi hotspot.
Don't worry, I'll give you all the password, friendly friends.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 21, 2025 02:29 AM (4/BuS)
NBC News
@NBCNews
Kermit the Frog will delivery his first commencement address in nearly 30 years at the University of Maryland on Thursday.
Posted by: Mister Ghost
........................................
Kermit is a billionaire, living on a private island in the Bahamas. Sources say he does.....things. Things that would make Epstein blush and PDiddy recoil in horror.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 21, 2025 02:30 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Publius Redux at May 21, 2025 02:37 AM (Gu66x)
I was in college when it happened, but being in Texas, it was hard to imagine the scope of the thing. Very interesting stuff on the nightly news broadcasts. I remember my dad got a little vial of ash at a local gas station - it was a novelty item where we were.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at May 21, 2025 02:41 AM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Publius Redux
None of my ex's live in Texas.
Which is probably very good, because in Texas everybody has guns.
Posted by: Miklos feels safe for the Time Being at May 21, 2025 02:47 AM (053s8)
@FDNY1810
Years ago, me and a bunch of friends went to Montreal to see the Bruins / Canadians. There is a bar in Montreal called Cheers.
By the end of the night, whenever anyone came in the door, the entire bar full of people would scream "NORM!!!"
It was glorious...
Posted by: Mister Ghost at May 21, 2025 02:47 AM (TGPs7)
Not a good night but will try again tomorrow
Posted by: Skip at May 21, 2025 02:49 AM (ukKwx)
Not a good night but will try again tomorrow
Posted by: Skip
Your little friends can have a sleepover next weekend and watch the Scary Movies.
Posted by: Kindly Aunt Miklos at May 21, 2025 02:51 AM (053s8)
Dunno why but I would come home with a craving for beer, peanuts, and pretzels.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 21, 2025 02:57 AM (91F/+)
Seattle, however, will get the floods and mud flow.
I can't begin to imagine.
Posted by: Derak at May 21, 2025 12:26 AM (6lMhP)
Oh FFS.
We live on the Ring of Fire. Shit blows up, without warning usually.
Mt Redoubt blows every few years. Mt. Augustine blew twice in recent memory. Now stuff in the Valley of 10,000 Smokes is earthquaking, fixing to blow up. Every few years something in the Aleutians blows up.
Facts of life. It isn't nearly as scary as tornadoes.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 21, 2025 03:01 AM (a4NoL)
Posted by: zombie johnny cash at May 21, 2025 03:21 AM (4/BuS)
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 21, 2025 03:01 AM (a4NoL)
Its like globull warmering... guess what, the climate is ALWAYS changing.... up... down... whatever...
But, they want to somehow to decide that WE are the reason the climate is changing... which is... Hubris... IMO.
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 21, 2025 03:34 AM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Mister Ghost at May 21, 2025 02:11 AM (TGPs7)
Personally, I can't wait for them to turn my penis into a wifi hotspot.
Don't worry, I'll give you all the password, friendly friends.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 21, 2025 02:29 AM (4/BuS)
Cherry 2K? Im in at this point.... all the Womenz who I meet at my age are whacked.
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 21, 2025 03:36 AM (mP0Kj)
My best road trip was bringing home our daughter, driving her Ford Ranger with U-Haul trailer in tow.
Oakland, CA down to Barstow, then eastward on I-40 to mid-NC and finally up I-95 to Wilmington, DE.
Four days; I wish we had taken eight.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 21, 2025 03:45 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Skip at May 21, 2025 03:46 AM (ypFCm)
Good to hear, Skip!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 21, 2025 03:47 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Skip at May 21, 2025 03:49 AM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Skip at May 21, 2025 03:56 AM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Skip at May 21, 2025 04:22 AM (ypFCm)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at May 21, 2025 04:24 AM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: Skip at May 21, 2025 04:26 AM (ypFCm)
To make this clear: the Conviction just occurred. The bribery happened under the Biden admin.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at May 21, 2025 04:29 AM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: Skip at May 21, 2025 04:33 AM (ypFCm)
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