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Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 11, 2025 10:01 PM (QnmlO) 2
First!
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 11, 2025 10:01 PM (f+uaQ) 3
Calvin and Hobbes!
Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at June 11, 2025 10:01 PM (hftn9) 4
Yay TEXAS!
Now, onto content.... Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 11, 2025 10:01 PM (FPGXM) Posted by: Don Black at June 11, 2025 10:01 PM (AOsQT) 6
If you visit, don't miss the 42 foot high, 6 ton kielbasa about an hour away in the town of Mundare. The giant frankfurter commemorates the 50 year history of the meat processing plant in town.
I am NOT compensating for anything. Posted by: the mayor of Mundare at June 11, 2025 10:01 PM (DgGvY) 7
Nuded
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at June 11, 2025 10:02 PM (uqyLy) 8
I've often wondered if Adam and Eve had belly buttons.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 11, 2025 10:03 PM (cYBz/) 9
Ooh - that's risque...
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 11, 2025 10:03 PM (kOluj) 10
Well, I'm not a music freak like most of you. Seldom bought anything, but listened on the radio. I think the Beach Boys may have been the best band with the best writers of their era... except those guys from the UK overshadowed them. Might have been BeachBoyMania, but.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 11, 2025 10:04 PM (0eaVi) 11
"no funds...may be used to divest or prepare to divest more than eight U-2 aircraft." _________ *stops construction of backyard runway* Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 11, 2025 10:04 PM (QnmlO) 12
Kept scrolling and scrolling. Finally reached the bottom (no comments). Thassa lotta content, TRex.
Did you save anything for future ONTs? Posted by: mindful webworker - was here and now at June 11, 2025 10:05 PM (4zhuI) Posted by: Kindltot at June 11, 2025 10:05 PM (D7oie) 14
Man bun? Peter Zeihan?
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 11, 2025 10:05 PM (f+uaQ) 15
School bus? Land of lost lunchboxes, shattered dreams, applesauce funkiness, and tales of yesteryear. Awesome ONT, TRex.
Posted by: scampydog at June 11, 2025 10:06 PM (OEVUt) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 11, 2025 10:06 PM (QnmlO) 17
Sorry I'm late, my baby elephant seal was having a colic episode.
Posted by: tankdemon at June 11, 2025 10:06 PM (Pqdg9) 18
Caption: the results of the first bus race on a superspeedway. One tire blew, and the whole field crashed.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 11, 2025 10:07 PM (S/Y4j) 19
In honor of my First, I declare this thread a "No Bong-Hit Libertarianism Zone"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 11, 2025 10:06 PM (QnmlO) No vote? Fascist. Posted by: RickZ at June 11, 2025 10:08 PM (gKDq2) 20
I admit it was me at 39th and Butler. Was that wrong? Should I have not done that?
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 11, 2025 10:08 PM (MGB5H) 21
Who knew so many asian ladies were schoolbus drivers.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 11, 2025 10:09 PM (f+uaQ) 22
No vote? Fascist. Posted by: RickZ at June 11, 2025 10:08 PM (gKDq2) _________ The current fashionable epithet is "Soviet" Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 11, 2025 10:09 PM (QnmlO) 23
Aerodynamics is always fascinating, no matter what field it tries to adapt itself to.
If it fails, it's because the field failed, not aerodynamics! Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 11, 2025 10:09 PM (CHHv1) Posted by: mikeski at June 11, 2025 10:09 PM (DgGvY) 25
So ... the Ramones ... other shit on screen like Tim Curry acting like a tranny ...
Does it surprise anyone that Gen Z gives a side eye to how all the Tranny shit is landing now ? Ziggy StarDust, anyone ? As a Gen X ... I thought that shit was weird. And not surprised its back again. Posted by: Mike Armstrong at June 11, 2025 10:08 PM (sqX6V) The only I time I ever painted my face was, checks notes, never. Posted by: RickZ at June 11, 2025 10:10 PM (gKDq2) 26
I wonder what became of all of the orange vomit powder stored on the buses that were scrapped.
I rode bus #26 for 12 years. Charlie S. was the driver the entire time. Neighbor Chris S. rode with me for that entire time. He was a sympathy barfer - if anyone hurled, so did he. I wonder what ever became of him. . . . Posted by: Tonypete at June 11, 2025 10:10 PM (cYBz/) 27
The only I time I ever painted my face was, checks notes, never.
Posted by: RickZ at June 11, 2025 10:10 PM (gKDq2) Does mercurochrome count? If so, then I might have. Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 11, 2025 10:11 PM (S/Y4j) 28
Brian Wilson was a genius. Who proved, over and over again, that genius was in the same neighborhood as insanity (the next street over, in fact).
RIP. Damn, RIP. Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 11, 2025 10:11 PM (CHHv1) 29
In honor of my First, I declare this thread a "No Bong-Hit Libertarianism Zone"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 11, 2025 10:06 PM (QnmlO) dammit, what do you have against the league of oppositional-defiant moon children Posted by: Kindltot at June 11, 2025 10:11 PM (D7oie) 30
25 Calvin and Hobbes!
Posted by: Admiral Spinebender Hobbes not included. Posted by: mikeski at June 11, 2025 10:09 PM *** Didja check the mystery click? Just asking... Posted by: TRex at June 11, 2025 10:11 PM (IQ6Gq) 31
Thanks for another dandy ONT, TRex!
The Pittsburgh scanner never fails to impress. So glad I don't live in Pittsburgh! That kielbasa is the biggest sausage I've ever seen! Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 11, 2025 10:11 PM (REL3p) 32
The current fashionable epithet is "Soviet"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 11, 2025 10:09 PM (QnmlO) No, it's not. The soviets are rioting. Who do soviets riot against? Fascists. Posted by: RickZ at June 11, 2025 10:11 PM (gKDq2) Posted by: mikeski at June 11, 2025 10:11 PM (DgGvY) 34
Eau de irony
I wasn't into surfing at all. My brother Dennis gave me all the jargon I needed to write the songs. He was the surfer and I was the songwriter. —Brian Wilson (Wiki) Posted by: mindful webworker - whatzz uppp? at June 11, 2025 10:12 PM (4zhuI) 35
I haven't been watching. Have any of the police departments brought in honey wagons, and switched them from suck to blow?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 11, 2025 10:12 PM (S/Y4j) 36
And I really, really like Calvin and Hobbes.
I may have met someone like Calvin once upon a time... the little guy was only three years old, but he was an ever loving hoot! Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 11, 2025 10:12 PM (REL3p) 37
32 Thanks for another dandy ONT, TRex!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 11, 2025 10:11 PM *** Good evening LS! Hope your day was both legal and sufficient. Posted by: TRex at June 11, 2025 10:12 PM (IQ6Gq) 38
Caption:this is what happens when you have female drivers trying to parallel park a school bus.
Posted by: polynikes at June 11, 2025 10:12 PM (VofaG) 39
That's one really big weiner.
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 11, 2025 10:14 PM (a4NoL) 40
Thanks for another dandy ONT, TRex!
The Pittsburgh scanner never fails to impress. So glad I don't live in Pittsburgh! That kielbasa is the biggest sausage I've ever seen! Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 11, 2025 10:11 PM (REL3p) You say that like it's a bad thing. Posted by: Sandra Fluke at June 11, 2025 10:14 PM (gKDq2) 41
Evening all, thx TRex.
Rockn roll High School, just a goof as a movie. Always thought P.J. Soles was cute. Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 11, 2025 10:15 PM (2UZZJ) 42
That's the second largest kielbasa I've ever seen.
Posted by: Maxwell Smart at June 11, 2025 10:15 PM (0eaVi) 43
For whatever reason, when I was in junior/senior high school, we were not eligible to ride the bus to school, even though the bus stop was just a few blocks away from our house.
Ah, well. We made do. I got really good at distance running and power-walking. Big bonus when I joined the Army. Posted by: Pug Mahon, Insert Clever Phrase Here at June 11, 2025 10:15 PM (0aYVJ) 44
Does mercurochrome count? If so, then I might have.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 11, 2025 10:11 PM (S/Y4j) That shit was vile. Dad had a glass bottle of it that was probably left over from when he was in the Army in the 1950's. It couldn't possibly be effective, but it stained like a mo-fo. Posted by: tcn in AK at June 11, 2025 10:16 PM (a4NoL) 45
Great thread, TRex. Thanks.
Posted by: tankdemon at June 11, 2025 10:16 PM (Pqdg9) 46
Is there a reason the U-2 is still needed and the SR-71 is not?
Posted by: polynikes at June 11, 2025 10:16 PM (VofaG) 47
I'd wager if anyone's been at the Tesla museum it's Miklos.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 11, 2025 10:16 PM (0eaVi) 48
Evenin'
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 11, 2025 10:17 PM (yKhjs) 49
5 Your AI meme of the day
17 seconds well worth your time https://tinyurl.com/46h5xc93 Posted by: Don Black Hilarious...all good humor is rooted in truth. In the end Gavin ends up on the bottom. She was clearly the dominant top. I always imagined Governor Hair Gel was a bottom. Thus the truth in the humor. Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at June 11, 2025 10:17 PM (hftn9) 50
Anybody ever hookie-bob on a bus bumper? We did all the damned time. It is a miracle nobody ever died doing that.
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 11, 2025 10:17 PM (a4NoL) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 11, 2025 10:17 PM (QnmlO) 52
Brian Wilson was a genius. Who proved, over and over again, that genius was in the same neighborhood as insanity (the next street over, in fact).
RIP. Damn, RIP. Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 11, 2025 10:11 PM (CHHv1) My dad's last girlfriend went to high school with the members of the Beach Boys, and claimed to have dated one, but she couldn't remember which one. I asked if it was Brian Wilson and she said no, he was too weird. Posted by: Kindltot at June 11, 2025 10:17 PM (D7oie) 53
I can feel Calvin's pain. I also really know a lot of stuff. Problem is it's mostly just a lot of useless crap that doesn't amount to anything.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at June 11, 2025 10:18 PM (Lo97M) 54
Based on my limited contact with the Horde at 2 MoMees, the Calvin and Hobbes cartoon is an accurate description of our cohort.
Posted by: PabloD at June 11, 2025 10:19 PM (Dsfkc) 55
56 I can feel Calvin's pain. I also really know a lot of stuff. Problem is it's mostly just a lot of useless crap that doesn't amount to anything.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at June 11, 2025 10:18 PM (Lo97M) I know a song or jingle for just about any situation. They don't help, but some of them do apply. That part of my brain better be the first part to go when I lose my faculties. Fuckin' camp songs. Posted by: tcn in AK at June 11, 2025 10:19 PM (a4NoL) 56
Anybody ever hookie-bob on a bus bumper? We did all the damned time. It is a miracle nobody ever died doing that.
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 11, 2025 10:17 PM (a4NoL) That the same as skitchin'? Cause we did that alllllllll the time. Ups trucks too. Posted by: BruceWayne at June 11, 2025 10:19 PM (MGB5H) 57
Yay, Corn on the Cob Day ONT!
Also National German Chocolate Cake Day, but I'm pretty sure I used that one last year. Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 11, 2025 10:19 PM (lUFok) 58
Do we need U-2s?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 11, 2025 10:20 PM (63Dwl) 59
The current fashionable epithet is "Soviet"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 11, 2025 10:09 PM (QnmlO) Are we for them, or against them now? I for one look forward to the radiant future, but I also want toilet paper. Posted by: Kindltot at June 11, 2025 10:20 PM (D7oie) 60
I asked if it was Brian Wilson and she said no, he was too weird.
Posted by: Kindltot Speaking of weird - My sister was a HS classmate of Marilyn Manson. Even then, batshit crazy. Posted by: Tonypete at June 11, 2025 10:20 PM (cYBz/) 61
4 so I totally meant. Yay TRex!
Anyway...fun ONT! Unfortunately I will have Conjunction Junnction in my head all night🤪.... Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 11, 2025 10:20 PM (FPGXM) 62
I can feel Calvin's pain. I also really know a lot of stuff. Problem is it's mostly just a lot of useless crap that doesn't amount to anything.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at June 11, 2025 10:18 PM (Lo97M) The useless crap I know doens't help gety me on Jeopardy! Posted by: RickZ at June 11, 2025 10:20 PM (gKDq2) 63
Anybody ever hookie-bob on a bus bumper? We did all the damned time. It is a miracle nobody ever died doing that.
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 11, 2025 10:17 PM (a4NoL) *riases hand* We also had a neighbor with a snowmobile. And a length of rope. And an inner tube. And a half acre of open land. When the snow flew, so did we. At the risk of sounding like a Gen-X guy, I loved being a kid in Wyoming back in the day. Posted by: Pug Mahon, Insert Clever Phrase Here at June 11, 2025 10:21 PM (0aYVJ) 64
So it appears everyone "in the know" is expecting an Israeli strike on Iran in the next 48 hrs. How much we'll be involved is a question. Armageddon anyone?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 11, 2025 10:21 PM (2UZZJ) 65
Good evening LS! Hope your day was both legal and sufficient.
Posted by: TRex at June 11, 2025 10:12 PM (IQ6Gq) * * * * It's road trip time and we made it to Twin Falls today. Hubs was driving so that portion was legal (speed). Amazing geology and agriculture in the area, of sufficient interest. Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 11, 2025 10:21 PM (REL3p) 66
I have all the Calvin and Hobbes books.
Admittedly I only became aware of the word spelunking from reading C&H. Posted by: polynikes at June 11, 2025 10:21 PM (VofaG) 67
A rare look at the aftermath of the school bus chase scene from “The Blues Brothers”. It didn’t do well with the test audience and was reshot using police cars.
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at June 11, 2025 10:22 PM (JRP2U) 68
64 Unfortunately I will have Conjunction Junnction in my head all night🤪....
Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 11, 2025 10:20 PM *** It really is an earworm, isn't it? Posted by: TRex at June 11, 2025 10:22 PM (IQ6Gq) 69
Does mercurochrome count? If so, then I might have.
Mercurochrome They give us those nice bright colors They give us the greens of summers Makes you think all the world’s A sunny day, oh yeah I got a Nikon camera I love to a photograph So mama, don’t take my Mercurochrome away Posted by: P. Simon at June 11, 2025 10:22 PM (D0HYP) 70
Unfortunately I will have Conjunction Junnction in my head all night🤪....
Posted by: COMountainMarie How did we get from there to 'New Math'? Posted by: Tonypete at June 11, 2025 10:23 PM (cYBz/) 71
Used to be an Eat N' Park in New Castle, PA, but it's gone now.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 11, 2025 10:23 PM (yKhjs) 72
So it appears everyone "in the know" is expecting an Israeli strike on Iran in the next 48 hrs. How much we'll be involved is a question. Armageddon anyone? Posted by: Smell the Glove That would take L.A. off the front page. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 11, 2025 10:24 PM (63Dwl) 73
The tune under the Eat N' Park cookie reminds me of when the Pittsburgh Pirates were great. Long time ago.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 11, 2025 10:24 PM (yKhjs) 74
I still don't understand, is he for or against being Soviet? His argument is meaningless and he is all over the place.
I think this is actually a poorly set up AI bot Posted by: Kindltot at June 11, 2025 10:25 PM (D7oie) 75
Ramones AND Figure 8 Schoolbus racing? That's almost too much fun!
Posted by: Easily Overstimulated at June 11, 2025 10:25 PM (G5+As) 76
I don't blame the woman in Pittsburgh for calling the police on the guy with the man bun. Man buns are an abomination. Maybe they can be the next people on Trump's deportation list.
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 11, 2025 10:25 PM (0Htd1) 77
77 The tune under the Eat N' Park cookie reminds me of when the Pittsburgh Pirates were great. Long time ago.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 11, 2025 10:24 PM *** Thought you'd appreciate that. Quickly takes you back. Posted by: TRex at June 11, 2025 10:25 PM (IQ6Gq) 78
Unfortunately I will have Conjunction Junnction in my head all night🤪....
Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 11, 2025 10:20 PM *** It really is an earworm, isn't it? Posted by: TRex at June 11, 2025 10:22 PM (IQ6Gq) Schoolhouse Rock actually helped me figure out what the hell an adverb is. Also helped me memorize the multiplication table. Them segments between Saturday cartoons were a godsend. Posted by: Pug Mahon, Insert Clever Phrase Here at June 11, 2025 10:26 PM (0aYVJ) Posted by: Romeo13 at June 11, 2025 10:27 PM (mP0Kj) 80
Why would Israel strike Iran unless they are taking out nuclear weapon manufacturing sites?
Posted by: polynikes at June 11, 2025 10:27 PM (VofaG) 81
It's true about Calvin and Hobbes. There are people with so much knowledge about rock musicians, comic book heroes, baseball, dive bars, Mt Everest, 5-star hotels, and every other manner of dispensables that they live in a different universe from me. I, on the other hand, could answer the teacher's question and I've read the complete works of Charles Dickens. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 11, 2025 10:27 PM (YDQ9Q) 82
Dear wife is visiting some of the grandkids and two of the boys. She had a lovely dinner with the #5 son tonight. He loves his job and talked the entire time about it - he's a machinist/instrumentation engineer for a hypersonic test lab.
But here the most incredible thing - he bought her dinner for the first time ever. Who's a big boy now!!? Posted by: Tonypete at June 11, 2025 10:27 PM (cYBz/) 83
One America News
@OANN · 11m BREAKING: the U.S. Department of State has issued a Level 4 – “Do Not Travel” advisory for Iraq. Posted by: Methos at June 11, 2025 10:28 PM (Dnobf) 84
Republicans won the baseball game 13-2.
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 11, 2025 10:28 PM (MGB5H) 85
> Just weeks after Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meinke and USAF chief Gen David Allvin restated the USAF's desire to retire the U-2, a key Congressional committee has said that it should do no such thing.
----- And... according to the Internets, we're out of AWACS... Airborne Warning and Control Systems aircraft. E-3's are about dead. And the E-7A "Wedgetail" replacement has been tanked. The replacement / stopgap? E-2D "Hawkeye" USN turboprops. In service since about 1960-ish. We are not, now, a serious "superpower." Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 11, 2025 10:28 PM (Q4IgG) 86
I can feel Calvin's pain. I also really know a lot of stuff. Problem is it's mostly just a lot of useless crap that doesn't amount to anything.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at June 11, 2025 10:18 PM I normally would agree with Calvin, but "Lewis and Clark went on a grand adventure exploring the newly purchased Louisiana Territory" should have been in his wheelhouse. Posted by: Chuck C at June 11, 2025 10:28 PM (D0HYP) 87
Used to be an Eat N' Park in New Castle, PA, but it's gone now.
Posted by: Puddleglum Is the Quaker Steak and Lube still open? Posted by: Tonypete at June 11, 2025 10:29 PM (cYBz/) 88
Batshit-crazy Congresswoman LaMonica McIver indicted on three charges of impeding and interfering with federal law enforcement officials (ICE).
Potential penalties include up to 17 years in the Big House. Now, I'm sure she won't get the max, or anything like it, but maybe this will give some of her Crazy Congressional Colleagues pause. Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 11, 2025 10:29 PM (qpyNK) 89
When that Porsche (996) came out fanbois freaked out. First water cooled 911. Reeeeeeee. Plus the IMS issue.
It’s still to this day looked down by the Porsche purists. Mainly because they’re retarded. But because that, the values of the 996 never rode up like most other 911s. You can get one in great condition for $25-30k today. And it’s still a hell of a car. Just make sure the IMS has been done. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 11, 2025 10:29 PM (E4th+) 90
Admittedly I only became aware of the word spelunking from reading C&H.
Posted by: polynikes at June 11, 2025 10:21 PM (VofaG) I learned the word 'spelunking' in college because I actually did it. There was a cave near school students regularly visited; some graffitti went back to the nineteen tens and twenties, when it was a military college. Could go about a half-a-mile or so deep down into the hill, with a trickle stream waterfall as your reward. Not many saw that as it was a real trek, with lots of 'crawls' through tight spaces with absultely no give. Only been into a walking tourist cave since (Ruby Falls). My crawling days were over a long time ago. Posted by: RickZ at June 11, 2025 10:29 PM (gKDq2) 91
Also helped me memorize the multiplication table. Them segments between Saturday cartoons were a godsend.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Insert Clever Phrase Here at June 11, 2025 10:26 PM (0aYVJ) Yup, I have a theory that Songs get placed in a differeent part of the brain... because I can remember song lyrics from decades ago... songs I have not heard in years... yet... can't remember shit from yesterday. Which is why Music is so important to culture... and when Music degrades into 'Beat yer whore'... or 'I wanna kiss the girl'... it has a YUGE impact on culture... vice... Battle of New Orleans, or Balad of Davey Crocket. Posted by: Romeo13 at June 11, 2025 10:29 PM (mP0Kj) 92
They used a fake Climate Change group to get an $50,000,000 EPA grant to buy a front end loader used for the Oct-7 attack in Israel
Posted by: SMOD at June 11, 2025 10:30 PM (GITLP) 93
Shouldn't it be Park'n Eat?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 11, 2025 10:30 PM (ULPxl) 94
Iraq is so nice this time of year.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 11, 2025 10:30 PM (f+uaQ) 95
77 The tune under the Eat N' Park cookie reminds me of when the Pittsburgh Pirates were great. Long time ago.
But still, the cookie looks yummy...except for the disgusting blue face... Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 11, 2025 10:30 PM (FPGXM) 96
> BREAKING: the U.S. Department of State has issued a Level 4 – “Do Not Travel” advisory for Iraq.
Posted by: Methos at June 11, 2025 10:28 PM (Dnobf) I reckon that anyone who needs to be told this probably deserves the Darwin Award they're likely to win. Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 11, 2025 10:31 PM (qpyNK) 97
The Yugoslavian Thunderbolt is probably a P-47D-30 or it could be as early as a D-25.
What looks like an E-boat or Schnellboot is not, the only S-boat left is under restoration in England. Nor is it an Italian MAS boat or a Spica. Would have to do some serious digging on both subjects to pin the details down. Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2025 10:31 PM (C4l7t) 98
29 Brian Wilson was a genius. Who proved, over and over again, that genius was in the same neighborhood as insanity (the next street over, in fact).
RIP. Damn, RIP. Posted by: BeckoningChasm There was a movie about him on cable. It told about the shrink who exploited him. This mental health professional had only one patient, Brian Wilson. Posted by: nerdygirl at June 11, 2025 10:31 PM (0Htd1) 99
So ... the Ramones ... other shit on screen like Tim Curry acting like a tranny ...
Does it surprise anyone that Gen Z gives a side eye to how all the Tranny shit is landing now ? Ziggy StarDust, anyone ? As a Gen X ... I thought that shit was weird. And not surprised its back again. Posted by: Mike Armstrong at June 11, 2025 10:08 PM (sqX6V) Wait, the Ramones are degens? I knew Bowie was. And RHPS. Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 11, 2025 10:31 PM (l3YAf) 100
Listen to the Beach Boys 1971 Album "Surf's Up". It is wonderful. A few Brian songs, but contributions by all of them. Not what you expect, and several of the songs are among the most beautiful ever written/performed, an underappreciated gem.
Posted by: Feel Flows at June 11, 2025 10:32 PM (G5+As) 101
I admit to being a Cliff Clavin type trivia fan. I also know more about pop culture and Hollywood than any real conservative should.
Posted by: polynikes at June 11, 2025 10:32 PM (VofaG) 102
no, all over the place. Continual repetition of points, unable to expand in any meaningful way, retreating to standard mottos.
Fake, fake, fake. Either a performative fake sock, or a low quality bot. I'd ignore it, or hope it starts telling stories about fishing. Posted by: Kindltot at June 11, 2025 10:32 PM (D7oie) Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 11, 2025 10:32 PM (w6EFb) 104
Brian was an Acid casualty. There were quite a few, Brian Jones, John Lennon, Syd Barret, etc. Wilson was reduced at one point to customarily wandering around LA in his bathrobe. Wilson thought “Be My Baby” held the secrets to the universe, and had it played continuously on a loop and would go into a trance. All day every day. Drove his family crazy too.
Posted by: Common Tater at June 11, 2025 10:33 PM (M1m37) 105
I normally would agree with Calvin, but "Lewis and Clark went on a grand adventure exploring the newly purchased Louisiana Territory" should have been in his wheelhouse.
Posted by: Chuck C at June 11, 2025 10:28 PM (D0HYP) Lewis and Clark took with them an Austrian Air Rifle... literally one of the very first Semi Automatic weapons, which could hold up to 20 rounds. It was powered by a yuge pump... they would march into new territory and invite the Tribes to a demonstration, where they would show off the firepower of that rifle... and suddenly everyone became much more peaceful. Note, under current California Law, that gun would be illegal. Posted by: Romeo13 at June 11, 2025 10:33 PM (mP0Kj) Posted by: four seasons at June 11, 2025 10:33 PM (3ek7K) 107
Aww man the Mrs and I were so looking forward to our summer vacation in Tikrit.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 11, 2025 10:33 PM (E4th+) 108
92 Used to be an Eat N' Park in New Castle, PA, but it's gone now.
Posted by: Puddleglum Is the Quaker Steak and Lube still open? Posted by: Tonypete I don't know. Haven't been to downtown Sharon in ages. A quick look at the interwebs shows that they are indeed still a thing and in fact, have franchised and are scattered around the East Coast (Florida, really. VA too) Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 11, 2025 10:34 PM (yKhjs) 109
Well, I was always proud of being a purveyor of useless information. I knew stuff....😲😉
Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 11, 2025 10:34 PM (FPGXM) 110
One America News
@OANN · 11m BREAKING: the U.S. Department of State has issued a Level 4 – “Do Not Travel” advisory for Iraq. Posted by: Methos Well, there go my plans for the 7th of Never. Posted by: mikeski at June 11, 2025 10:35 PM (DgGvY) 111
Republicans won the baseball game 13-2.
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 11, 2025 10:28 PM (MGB5H) Democrats' 12th man with a rifle didn't show, I guess. Posted by: Methos at June 11, 2025 10:35 PM (Dnobf) 112
Quick query, the Jugs were delivered in 1952. All were P-47D-40-RE or -RA aircraft. Up to 150.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2025 10:36 PM (C4l7t) 113
Just ignore the Armstrong guy. He is here to provoke people.
Posted by: four seasons at June 11, 2025 10:33 PM (3ek7K) I hope he tells fishing stories. Those are always fun. Posted by: Kindltot at June 11, 2025 10:37 PM (D7oie) 114
When I was in the AF, I was told the U-2 would be out of service - by 2011!
Wish I would have gotten a ride in the Camaro though. A crazy plane. Loud on takeoff. Posted by: Cow Demon at June 11, 2025 10:37 PM (vm8sq) 115
I, on the other hand, could answer the teacher's question and I've read the complete works of Charles Dickens.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 11, 2025 10:27 PM (YDQ9Q) I tasked myself one time with reading a Dickens novel that was not 'A Christmas Carol' or 'A Tale Of Two Cities'. Bought a paperback copy of 'Bleak House' That was my subway book. It took me well over six months to read it. My gawd, was it boring. I understand why Dickens is considered a great writer but I don't understand why Dickens is considered a great writer. When you get paid on the installment plan there's a perverse incentive, dense verbosity. Posted by: RickZ at June 11, 2025 10:37 PM (gKDq2) 116
Speaking of Lewis and Clark, Undaunted Courage, by S. Ambrose is on deck. Right after I finish Lonesome Dove.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Insert Clever Phrase Here at June 11, 2025 10:37 PM (0aYVJ) 117
But here the most incredible thing - he bought her dinner for the first time ever.
Congrats, you've successfully raised a man. Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 11, 2025 10:37 PM (lUFok) 118
In the mountain and pacific nw Lewis and Clark is all over the place. Schools, parks, rivers, all sorts of things named after them. There’s even Lewiston, Idaho and Clarkston, Washington. Two small cities across the river from each other. Which is pretty cool.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 11, 2025 10:38 PM (E4th+) 119
Shouldn't it be Park'n Eat?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket ************ That's what I asked....I got a blank stare in response.... Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at June 11, 2025 10:39 PM (IQ6Gq) 120
But still, the cookie looks yummy...except for the disgusting blue face...
Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 11, 2025 10:30 PM (FPGXM) ---- Considering the glazed look in is eyes, I'm pretty sure he's stoned. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 11, 2025 10:40 PM (GlyvH) 121
Is the Quaker Steak and Lube still open?
Posted by: Tonypete at June 11, 2025 10:29 PM (cYBz/) I saw one in Warren, OH back in 2020. Posted by: Cow Demon at June 11, 2025 10:40 PM (vm8sq) Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 11, 2025 10:40 PM (ynpvh) 123
Man buns are an abomination. Maybe they can be the next people on Trump's deportation list.
——— AOS style guide recommends “Twat Knot” for this Posted by: Common Tater at June 11, 2025 10:40 PM (M1m37) 124
And yes, I agree about Calvin, regarding Lewis and Clark. A very rare miss from Mr. Watterson. should have used the Teapot Dome Scandal or something.
When I was a kid, that kind of history really struck a nerve. Posted by: Pug Mahon, Insert Clever Phrase Here at June 11, 2025 10:41 PM (0aYVJ) 125
110 Wilson was reduced at one point to customarily wandering around LA in his bathrobe.
The Dude abides😋... Now...a White Russian please! Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 11, 2025 10:41 PM (FPGXM) 126
Ow, she's a school...bus
She's mighty crumpled, just letting it all hang out Ah, she's a school...bus I like buses stacked and that's a fact Posted by: haffhowershower at June 11, 2025 10:41 PM (144I4) 127
When has Iraq NOT been Level 4 - Do Not Travel?
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 11, 2025 10:41 PM (vm8sq) 128
129 Man buns are an abomination. Maybe they can be the next people on Trump's deportation list.
——— AOS style guide recommends “Twat Knot” for this Posted by: Common Tater at June 11, 2025 10:40 PM (M1m37) I enjoy getting between some man buns... Posted by: Petey Bootygig at June 11, 2025 10:41 PM (ynpvh) 129
There is a reproduction of the air rifle the Lewis and Clark expedition carried at Fort Clatsop at Astoria. It is fiberglass and was broken at some time so they kept it behind a counter. About 20 years ago I visited there and asked about it, and the rangers let me hold it.
I thought that was pretty cool Posted by: Kindltot at June 11, 2025 10:42 PM (D7oie) 130
Lot of Cliff Clavin trivia about Lewis and Clark.
One piece of trivia is Lewis committed suicide. Posted by: polynikes at June 11, 2025 10:42 PM (VofaG) 131
Given her professed love of yellow school buses, I suspect we'll find Kamala at the bottom of that pile....
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 11, 2025 10:43 PM (gKOeD) 132
Gov't IDs...
I had a SENTRI card which required me to prove my birth, citizenship, and required an interview. NOT accepted by most places as a valid ID, even though it had my picture on it... Posted by: Petey Bootygig at June 11, 2025 10:43 PM (ynpvh) 133
Damn. Off sock.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 11, 2025 10:43 PM (ynpvh) 134
Shouldn't it be Park'n Eat?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket ************ That's what I asked....I got a blank stare in response.... Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady ************ A park you can eat in...an eatin' park. Posted by: haffhowershower at June 11, 2025 10:44 PM (144I4) 135
You guys are asked for ID?
- Juan The Illegal Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 11, 2025 10:44 PM (E4th+) 136
Lot of Cliff Clavin trivia about Lewis and Clark.
One piece of trivia is Lewis committed suicide. Posted by: polynikes at June 11, 2025 10:42 PM (VofaG) In a rather grisly fashion Posted by: Pug Mahon, Insert Clever Phrase Here at June 11, 2025 10:44 PM (0aYVJ) 137
>>>Wheels on the Bus
I like the alternate lyrics to that song better. the wheels on the bus - YouTube - https://youtu.be/ELNXjDn5rP4 Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 11, 2025 10:44 PM (p4nXC) 138
Batshit-crazy Congresswoman LaMonica McIver indicted on three charges of impeding and interfering with federal law enforcement officials (ICE).
Potential penalties include up to 17 years in the Big House. Now, I'm sure she won't get the max, or anything like it, but maybe this will give some of her Crazy Congressional Colleagues pause. Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 11, 2025 10:29 PM (qpyNK) IMAO, they went after low hanging fruit, someone I've never heard of, not that she doesn't deserve it. When they go after a big-name Congresscritter who gets lots of face time on Democrat TV, let me know. Like every one who went to El Salavdor demanding the release of deportees. I never saw Congresscritters go anywhere else to demand the release of US detainees in places like Russia or China. It's almost as if they knew they were safe and it was all theater. But these are serious politicians, so it can't be that. Posted by: RickZ at June 11, 2025 10:45 PM (gKDq2) 139
If you visit, don't miss the 42 foot high, 6 ton kielbasa about an hour away in the town of Mundare. The giant frankfurter commemorates the 50 year history of the meat processing plant in town.
The Big O... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 11, 2025 10:45 PM (ynpvh) 140
I tasked myself one time with reading a Dickens novel that was not 'A Christmas Carol' or 'A Tale Of Two Cities'. Bought a paperback copy of 'Bleak House' That was my subway book. It took me well over six months to read it. My gawd, was it boring. I understand why Dickens is considered a great writer but I don't understand why Dickens is considered a great writer. When you get paid on the installment plan there's a perverse incentive, dense verbosity.
Posted by: RickZ at June 11, 2025 10:37 PM (gKDq2) Dickens sucks. WHY is he considered a great writer? I’m still pissed at having to read Great Expectations in 9th Grade. (Fortunately the textbook that had that POS novel also had The Odyssey, which I found way better than that plotless crap.) Posted by: Cow Demon at June 11, 2025 10:45 PM (vm8sq) 141
Okay found more photos of the boat.
It is actually a mini-sub, the CB-20. The stern planes look more like something Disney would have cooked up for Nautilus. Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2025 10:45 PM (C4l7t) 142
135 There is a reproduction of the air rifle the Lewis and Clark expedition carried at Fort Clatsop at Astoria. It is fiberglass and was broken at some time so they kept it behind a counter. About 20 years ago I visited there and asked about it, and the rangers let me hold it.
I thought that was pretty cool Posted by: Kindltot at June 11, 2025 10:42 PM (D7oie) The real one is in the Smithsonian... Posted by: Romeo13 at June 11, 2025 10:45 PM (mP0Kj) 143
If you had told me in 1975 that Brian Wilson would still be alive in 2025 I wouldn't have believed you.
Posted by: Pilgrim State Hospital Bldg. 23 at June 11, 2025 10:46 PM (G5+As) 144
Caption contest. Ready, go.
------------ Kommie-la 2028! has prepared a Venn Diagram of students' future under her Administration. Posted by: ShainS -- Has the Big Beautiful Breakup passed yet? at June 11, 2025 10:47 PM (/JOu+) 145
IMAO, they went after low hanging fruit, someone I've never heard of, not that she doesn't deserve it. When they go after a big-name Congresscritter who gets lots of face time on Democrat TV, let me know. Like every one who went to El Salavdor demanding the release of deportees. I never saw Congresscritters go anywhere else to demand the release of US detainees in places like Russia or China. It's almost as if they knew they were safe and it was all theater. But these are serious politicians, so it can't be that.
Posted by: RickZ at June 11, 2025 10:45 PM (gKDq2) Oh, I remember LaMonica. The fact she’s being indicted at all, as a sitting House Democrat is huge. Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 11, 2025 10:47 PM (l3YAf) 146
138 Gov't IDs...
I had a SENTRI card which required me to prove my birth, citizenship, and required an interview. NOT accepted by most places as a valid ID, even though it had my picture on it... Posted by: Petey Bootygig at June 11, 2025 10:43 PM (ynpvh) I got my military retiree card in my pocket. Official DoD ID that allows me base access. Don’t tell the ass clowns at TSA at DFW though. I show it and I get “do you have a driver’s license”? Fuck right off. Posted by: Cow Demon at June 11, 2025 10:48 PM (vm8sq) 147
It just occurred to me, if Newscum's bid for the democrat party presidential nomination falls flat due to the illegal immigrant riots, maybe Buttgig can be their nominee.
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 11, 2025 10:49 PM (0Htd1) 148
Marillion did an album where almost all the songs were about the price of fame. Brian Wilson got one, in surf-rock style.
Cannibal Surf Babe: https://youtu.be/yFdXuaWpcI0 Brian Wilson callout: Mister Wilson where's your sandbox and your beard Are you still looking for that perfect micro-wave? COB bonus lyrics: She looked like she'd had sex With a tyrannosaurus rex Yes, the lyrics are mostly-insane, because Brian was. Unfortunately, it's about the weakest song on the album. King (about Kurt Cobain), Beyond You (Phil Spector), even Gazpacho (Mike Tyson and John Lennon) are better tunes. Posted by: mikeski at June 11, 2025 10:50 PM (DgGvY) 149
Anyone need a laugh?
I got a text message from Gavin Newsome begging for money to stop Trump. I refrained from replying fearing I would be arrested for my opinion. Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2025 10:50 PM (C4l7t) 150
This ONT is DI-NO-MITE! Posted by: Occasianally Complimentary Miklos at June 11, 2025 10:50 PM (K6h4I) 151
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson: "Trump is showing us what America would be like if the Confederacy had won."
Hmmmm... historically illiterate much? My best guess is that South Africa circa 1910 would be a better paradigm. Posted by: mnw at June 11, 2025 10:50 PM (kd60y) 152
I still hope that the US of A participates in the devastation gonna rain down on Iran.
Kind of a Churchillian concept... being both our duty and privilege. Posted by: MkY at June 11, 2025 10:50 PM (cPGH3) 153
Chicago has produced crops of illiterates in their public school system.
So invoking the Confederacy is just part of their cultural zeitgeist of hate. Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2025 10:51 PM (C4l7t) 154
It fucks up basic math and algebra.
Posted by: Mike Armstrong at June 11, 2025 10:33 PM (sqX6V) I graduated to math flash cards after learning my numbers from a deck of playing cards as a preschooler. Still like card games. Nobody plays Cribbage anymore. Posted by: RickZ at June 11, 2025 10:51 PM (gKDq2) 155
School buses are retired ridiculously early. The engines and trannies can last for many hundreds of thousands of miles, like big rigs. Ever see one with the roof cut off, seats taken out, like a giant pickup truck used for harvesting watermelons?
Posted by: Sam Melonhead, Attorney-at-Law at June 11, 2025 10:52 PM (G5+As) 156
>Batshit-crazy Congresswoman LaMonica McIver indicted on three charges of impeding and interfering with federal law enforcement officials (ICE).
---- her case has been assigned to a judge appointed by Joe Biden's handlers probation, suspended sentence Posted by: Don Black at June 11, 2025 10:52 PM (AOsQT) 157
If you visit, don't miss the 42 foot high, 6 ton kielbasa about an hour away in the town of Mundare. The giant frankfurter commemorates the 50 year history of the meat processing plant in town.
The Big O... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) srsly Where could you hide a sausage of that size? Posted by: Stacey Abrams at June 11, 2025 10:53 PM (K6h4I) 158
Still like card games. Nobody plays Cribbage anymore.
Posted by: RickZ The strip cribbage tournament during the TXMoMe was epic!! Posted by: Tonypete at June 11, 2025 10:53 PM (cYBz/) 159
I understand why Dickens is considered a great writer but I don't understand why Dickens is considered a great writer.
Posted by: RickZ A "classic" is a book that everybody wants to have read, and nobody wants to read. Posted by: zombie Mark Twain at June 11, 2025 10:53 PM (DgGvY) 160
US Open starts tomorrow. Oakmont CC outside Pittsburgh.
Should be a good one if you like seeing the pros struggle. Posted by: polynikes at June 11, 2025 10:53 PM (VofaG) 161
Any chance the Democrats decide that McIver will be the perfect sacrificial goat to prove they also 'believe' no one is above the law?
After all she is no Maxine Waters or Jamine Crockett or Ilham Nuri. Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2025 10:54 PM (C4l7t) Posted by: nurse ratched at June 11, 2025 10:54 PM (vNA6P) 163
So invoking the Confederacy is just part of their cultural zeitgeist of hate.
Posted by: Anna Puma Zeitgeist of Hate would be a pretty good band name Posted by: Miklos is thinking Metal, probably at June 11, 2025 10:55 PM (K6h4I) 164
A "classic" is a book that everybody wants to have read, and nobody wants to read.
Posted by: zombie Mark Twain Beowulf has entered the chat. Posted by: Tonypete at June 11, 2025 10:55 PM (cYBz/) 165
Anna Puma, Sorry to hear that. You're on some spam list. It's bad enough when it's someone you support, like Trump, but for someone you despise? I somehow got on the list for Biden. It was a lot of "unsubscribes" before it stopped.
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 11, 2025 10:56 PM (0Htd1) Posted by: Colloquial Miklos at June 11, 2025 10:56 PM (K6h4I) 167
Should be a good one if you like seeing the pros struggle.
Posted by: polynikes I just wanna see Scottie shoot over par. I have no idea why I don't like him, but I don't. Posted by: MkY at June 11, 2025 10:57 PM (cPGH3) Posted by: Grendel's Mama at June 11, 2025 10:57 PM (K6h4I) Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2025 10:57 PM (C4l7t) Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at June 11, 2025 10:57 PM (uqyLy) 171
Oh, I remember LaMonica. The fact she’s being indicted at all, as a sitting House Democrat is huge.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 11, 2025 10:47 PM (l3YAf) Yeah. It would be if the judge assigned wasn't appointed by FJB. Expect some kind of plea with nothing for punishment and probably an apology by the person she assaulted. Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 11, 2025 10:58 PM (0eaVi) 172
Not sure why the good people of St. Paul thought the aliens will want to land there
- Well, in fairness, that was before Justin Castreau.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, And You're Not 173
WHY is he considered a great writer?
I’m still pissed at having to read Great Expectations in 9th Grade. (Fortunately the textbook that had that POS novel also had The Odyssey, which I found way better than that plotless crap.) Posted by: Cow Demon at June 11, 2025 10:45 PM (vm8sq) His themes. Old as humanity. His writing, however, leaves a lot to be desired, at least it does to me one hundred and fifty years later. Some old writers still hold weight, though. I reread Livy, Martial, Tacitus and the like, the Penguin Classics. But I will never reread Dickens. Once was more than enough. Posted by: RickZ at June 11, 2025 10:59 PM (gKDq2) 174
The Big O?
When I read that, this is what I think of: Lawson's Orange Juice commercial: https://t.ly/q3pOL Posted by: Tonypete at June 11, 2025 11:00 PM (cYBz/) 175
Anna Puma-
Back in the early 90's i passed on the purchase of a I think D-30 Ecuadorian Air Force P-47 for 250K It had some god awful 15 inch fixed rear tailwheel for muddy strips. I do recall it had a dandy NorthStar Loran in it and still had the gunsite and two drop tanks. Still kicking myself. Posted by: DBCooper at June 11, 2025 11:00 PM (kirxk) 176
A superior way to destroy a school bus.
The Plasmatics - The Damned (1982) 60fps HD Remake - YouTube - https://youtu.be/V-PNsMWpJx8 Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 11, 2025 11:01 PM (p4nXC) 177
8 I've often wondered if Adam and Eve had belly buttons.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 11, 2025 10:03 PM (cYBz/) ---- Made by hand. No placenta, heck they couldn't even spell that. So, no BB. On the other hand did they have a 'vestigial appendix' already? Posted by: Ciampino - Adam had an index at June 11, 2025 11:01 PM (sPQoU) 178
IIRC, the Ramones didn't look back fondly on their three weeks making the movie Rock 'n' Roll High School. Mainly because of having to get up early and being told what to do for 21 days.
Posted by: Sam Melonhead, Attorney-at-Law at June 11, 2025 11:02 PM (G5+As) 179
I don't even know if Wendy Williams was human.
Posted by: gKWVE at June 11, 2025 11:03 PM (gKWVE) 180
The Big O?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7_Od9CmTu0 Posted by: Anna Puma IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THE LOVE INTEREST IS AN EMOTIONLESS ROBOT. Posted by: BEN ROTHLISENSEI at June 11, 2025 11:04 PM (DgGvY) 181
DB Cooper
That would have been an awesome lawn ornament. And it would have fit in a shipping container. Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2025 11:04 PM (C4l7t) 182
First schoolbus pic. Caption
YELLOWBUS ORGY AT END OF SCHOOL Zecond pic. MALE YELLOWBUSES FIGHTING TO THE LAST, OVER A MATE. Posted by: Ciampino - THE FEMALES LEAK OIL at June 11, 2025 11:06 PM (sPQoU) 183
> MAO, they went after low hanging fruit, someone I've never heard of, not that she doesn't deserve it.
Posted by: RickZ at June 11, 2025 10:45 PM (gKDq2) In this case they actually have video of the dimwitted cow shoving ICE officers and taking swings at them. So yeah, it's even lower-hanging than her gut. Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 11, 2025 11:07 PM (qpyNK) 184
I don't even know if Wendy Williams was human.
Posted by: gKWVE at June 11, 2025 11:03 PM (gKWVE) I think she committed suicide by stabbing herself in the heart with a kitchen knife. Posted by: Kindltot at June 11, 2025 11:07 PM (D7oie) 185
those trashing Bleak House:
Jarndyce v. Jarndyce didn't amuse/entertain you? The problem with Dickens is the way it's taught. I was spoonfed David Copperfield in 8th Grade: Read a chapter; take a quiz the next day; rinse & repeat. I HATED the book! 50 years later, I read it again... and discovered that I enjoyed it very much. Dickens transports his readers to mid-Victorian England. You either like seeing what life was like then (I do), or not. Posted by: mnw at June 11, 2025 11:07 PM (kd60y) 186
Anna- It was sitting intact at Tucson. I started it and did a ground run on it. I wanted a P-51 at the time, which was stupid due to the cost of the engines VS an R-2800. Had a cool lizard camo paint job. It needed work but had good bones and was stupid to pass it up.
Posted by: DBCooper at June 11, 2025 11:08 PM (kirxk) 187
> On the other hand did they have a 'vestigial appendix' already?
Posted by: Ciampino - Adam had an index at June 11, 2025 11:01 PM (sPQoU) It turns out that the appendix has a function after all. It apparently serves as a reservoir for your natural gut bacteria so they can repopulate if you have diarrhea so bad you shit all the others out. Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 11, 2025 11:08 PM (qpyNK) 188
Made by hand. No placenta, heck they couldn't even spell that. So, no BB.
On the other hand did they have a 'vestigial appendix' already? Posted by: Ciampino - Adam had an index at June 11, 2025 11:01 PM (sPQoU) It wasn't 'vestigial' yet. Posted by: RickZ at June 11, 2025 11:08 PM (gKDq2) 189
IMAO, they went after low hanging fruit, someone I've never heard of, not that she doesn't deserve it. When they go after a big-name Congresscritter who gets lots of face time on Democrat TV, let me know.
Posted by: RickZ Start small. Prove that the two-tier "Justice" system won't go to the mat for everyone on the (D) side. Posted by: mikeski at June 11, 2025 11:09 PM (DgGvY) 190
Gotta get some sleep, tomorrow I'm taking Lil Pooky to the pool for the first time along with Pookette. She so very badly wants to show him her awesome pool tricks, but we'll be at the zero-entry part, where there isn't enough water for her aquatic acrobatics. Oh well, maybe next year.
Posted by: pookysgirl, getting ready to burn to a crisp tomorrow at June 11, 2025 11:10 PM (Wt5PA) Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2025 11:10 PM (C4l7t) 192
Jarndyce v. Jarndyce didn't amuse/entertain you?
Posted by: mnw at June 11, 2025 11:07 PM (kd60y) The ending joke in Bleak House, The Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce estate being gobbled up by lawyers, is funny because it's still true. But it would have been a much better short(er) story. Posted by: RickZ at June 11, 2025 11:11 PM (gKDq2) 193
I think she committed suicide by stabbing herself in the heart with a kitchen knife.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 11, 2025 11:07 PM (D7oie) That was her 1st attempt. The knife got stuck in her breastbone so she backed off and went to the hospital. A few years later she finally succeeded by shooting herself. Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 11, 2025 11:12 PM (p4nXC) 194
It turns out that the appendix has a function after all.
It apparently serves as a reservoir for your natural gut bacteria so they can repopulate if you have diarrhea so bad you shit all the others out. Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 11, 2025 11:08 PM (qpyNK) Ah, Nature’s defense against Taco Bell. I knew it had to be in there somewhere. Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 11, 2025 11:13 PM (l3YAf) 195
Anna- 250K Which was still a good deal. Not sure whatever happened to it. I think some people from CA bought it.
Posted by: DBCooper at June 11, 2025 11:15 PM (kirxk) 196
That was her 1st attempt. The knife got stuck in her breastbone so she backed off and went to the hospital. A few years later she finally succeeded by shooting herself.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 11, 2025 11:12 PM (p4nXC) Proving the adage, never bring a knife to a gunfight. Too soon? Posted by: RickZ at June 11, 2025 11:15 PM (gKDq2) 197
DOE clearing the playing field now that Congressional approval of a pork-barrel bill has green-lighted a new fleet of EV school buses.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 11, 2025 11:17 PM (xIkyh) Posted by: gKWVE at June 11, 2025 11:17 PM (gKWVE) 199
$250K? that sounds reasonable considering how rare P-47s are.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2025 11:22 PM (C4l7t) 200
Lol. They're loading the paddy wagons in LA
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 11, 2025 11:22 PM (NwfFc) 201
Alice Cooper's Schools Out for Summer is THE BEST. It was my great, great good fortune to be in 10th grade when that song came out.
Posted by: jocon307 at June 11, 2025 11:22 PM (EuROc) Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2025 11:23 PM (C4l7t) 203
Start small. Prove that the two-tier "Justice" system won't go to the mat for everyone on the (D) side.
Posted by: mikeski at June 11, 2025 11:09 PM (DgGvY) Yes, I do get that. Definitely an improvment over doing nothing. So I'll take that. I guess I'm just too fucking impatient. When's George Soros going to be extradrited to Hungary, e.g.? That is not low hanging fruit. Or when is Nancy and her amazing stock portfolio going to get a forensic anal probe audit? Yeah, I'm impatient. I want the Big Democrat Guns to go through what we plebes go through. Posted by: RickZ at June 11, 2025 11:23 PM (gKDq2) 204
A rare look at the aftermath of the school bus chase scene from “The Blues Brothers”. It didn’t do well with the test audience and was reshot using police cars.
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline Ah, glad you said that, so I don't have to. You probably said it better, too. Posted by: mindful webworker - don't you blaspheme in here at June 11, 2025 11:25 PM (4zhuI) Posted by: Ciampino - lots of women arrested at June 11, 2025 11:26 PM (sPQoU) 206
My friend just left. Just one drink. How do people do that?
I was a good friend tonight. Tomorrow, no more beers. I have to create a life. Posted by: Stateless.. 23% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 11, 2025 11:27 PM (jvJvP) 207
> When's George Soros going to be extradrited to Hungary, e.g.?
I'd prefer Malaysia. They want his ass, too, and they still have the death penalty there. You can choose either Islamic law (beheading with a sword) or old school English common law (the judge puts on a black cap and sentences you to hang by the neck until you are "dead, dead, dead"). Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 11, 2025 11:28 PM (qpyNK) 208
Tomorrow, no more beers. I have to create a life.
Posted by: Stateless.. 23% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 11, 2025 11:27 PM (jvJvP) Who's the lucky lady you're getting pregnant? *ducks and runs* Posted by: pookysgirl hangs out with Pooky too much at June 11, 2025 11:30 PM (Wt5PA) 209
I'd prefer Malaysia. They want his ass, too, and they still have the death penalty there. You can choose either Islamic law (beheading with a sword) or old school English common law (the judge puts on a black cap and sentences you to hang by the neck until you are "dead, dead, dead").
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 11, 2025 11:28 PM (qpyNK Soros. Let's execute him in all ways. Posted by: Stateless.. 23% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 11, 2025 11:30 PM (jvJvP) 210
The only I time I ever painted my face was, checks notes, never.
Posted by: RickZ Some day I hope to paint my face. A big blue cross of St. Andrew. I also hope to one day have the opportunity to run screaming like a banshee down the hill, in my kilt with a Claymore at a horde of black bloc, purple haired Antifa types. Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at June 11, 2025 11:31 PM (JhYv0) 211
Alice Cooper's Schools Out for Summer is THE BEST. It was my great, great good fortune to be in 10th grade when that song came out.
Posted by: jocon307 at June 11, 2025 11:22 PM (EuROc) ' I still like 'Killer', 'Dead Babies' aside. 'Be My Lover' is probably my favorite Cooper song. Vince singing about trying to pick up a girl and being 'from Detroit City'. You don't hear that too often. To me, just a good solid rock song with classic rock lyrics. Never got much airplay which is probably another reason why I still like it. Had the 45 of 'I'm Eighteen'. That is the apex of Rock Youth Rebellion. AC/DC ain't got nothin' on ol' Alice. Posted by: RickZ at June 11, 2025 11:32 PM (gKDq2) 212
Who's the lucky lady you're getting pregnant?
*ducks and runs* Posted by: pookysgirl hangs out with Pooky too much at June 11, 2025 11:30 PM (Wt5PA) Hopefully the sweet girl at the cannibus shop.... Or the bartender at the local bar that closes at about 9pm.. Posted by: Stateless.. 23% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 11, 2025 11:32 PM (jvJvP) 213
They used a fake Climate Change group to get an $50,000,000 EPA grant to buy a front end loader used for the Oct-7 attack in Israel
Posted by: SMOD at June 11, 2025 10:30 PM (GITLP) How do you distinguish that fake climate change group from all the other fakes ones? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 11, 2025 11:35 PM (NahMG) 214
Whoot!
Sorry. Not paying much attention. It’s beautiful out. Marine push finally taking over. It’s 58 and cloudy and there’s a breeze off the water. Holy crap. 70 is my heat tolerance. Posted by: nurse ratched at June 11, 2025 11:35 PM (mT+6a) 215
Who's the lucky lady you're getting pregnant?
*ducks and runs* Posted by: pookysgirl hangs out with Pooky too much at June 11, 2025 11:30 PM (Wt5PA) ----- Hopefully the sweet girl at the cannibus shop.... Or the bartender at the local bar that closes at about 9pm.. Posted by: Stateless.. 23% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 11, 2025 11:32 PM (jvJvP) Man, you're a player. Posted by: RickZ at June 11, 2025 11:35 PM (gKDq2) 216
I actually have a CD with 'famous singers' singing the Saturday morning songs.
Posted by: Stateless.. 23% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 11, 2025 11:36 PM (jvJvP) 217
With all of the manipulation to get Good Vibrations recorded how were they able to perform it live?
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at June 11, 2025 11:37 PM (2NHgQ) 218
But I will never reread Dickens. Once was more than enough.
Posted by: RickZ It was the best of reads, it was the worst of reads Posted by: the Dickens you say at June 11, 2025 11:37 PM (K6h4I) 219
Man, you're a player. Posted by: RickZ at June 11, 2025 11:35 PM (gKDq2) Not even close.... But I think I have a shot. Posted by: Stateless.. 23% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 11, 2025 11:38 PM (jvJvP) 220
Love the first picture. Ain't no 2am drunk food better than an Eat-n-Park burger and fries chased with a couple Smiley cookies!
Posted by: Pennsyltucky at June 11, 2025 11:39 PM (QdGJh) 221
Holy crap. 70 is my heat tolerance.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 11, 2025 11:35 PM (mT+6a) ==== My family can't take the heat either. "Heat" being 75 degrees. Everyone here talks about it. Wusses. Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 11, 2025 11:41 PM (RIvkX) 222
Hopefully the sweet girl at the cannibus shop....
Or the bartender at the local bar that closes at about 9pm.. Posted by: Stateless.. 23% - mental "I need a girl with a job and a car and a house..." Posted by: Alice Miklos-Cooper at June 11, 2025 11:41 PM (K6h4I) 223
226 Love the first picture. Ain't no 2am drunk food better than an Eat-n-Park burger and fries chased with a couple Smiley cookies!
Posted by: Pennsyltucky at June 11, 2025 11:39 PM (QdGJh) What about pizza? The National food of people drinking at 2 am. Posted by: Stateless.. 23% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 11, 2025 11:41 PM (jvJvP) 224
With all of the manipulation to get Good Vibrations recorded how were they able to perform it live?
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at June 11, 2025 11:37 PM (2NHgQ) I was 13 or 14. My sister and her first husband took me along to see The Beach Boys at Scope in Norfolk. I wasn't impressed. I'm still not impressed with The Beach Boys. Call it a fault of mine. Posted by: RickZ at June 11, 2025 11:42 PM (gKDq2) 225
Evening, Horde. Just got home from the golf course. The course punched back this evening. Love the up top pic, TRex.
Posted by: scampydog at June 11, 2025 11:42 PM (41CYW) 226
Tying in with tonight's ONT
The Ramones cover "Spiderman" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilX7cVGUX6c Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2025 11:42 PM (C4l7t) 227
I'd wager if anyone's been at the Tesla museum it's Miklos.
Posted by: OrangeEnt In my yet-to-be-acquired suicide door 1964 Lincoln convertible Show them young punks what a real car look like Posted by: Miklos, snapping whippers at June 11, 2025 11:44 PM (K6h4I) 228
"I need a girl with a job and a car and a house..."
Posted by: Alice Miklos-Cooper I married a girl with a good job, a 4WD pickup and a motorcycle. We built our house together. Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at June 11, 2025 11:46 PM (JhYv0) 229
Top pic. At first I thought that was a giant Tums tablet.
My first guess on the school bus pile was that they were discarded electric models. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 11, 2025 11:47 PM (XeU6L) 230
I LOVE having the windows open and the salty sea air wafting through.
Had a crabcake burger with tomato, lettuce and onion for dinner. Chips and salsa. Coors. The beach life is the best life. Posted by: nurse ratched at June 11, 2025 11:47 PM (mT+6a) Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 11, 2025 11:48 PM (NahMG) 232
Call it a fault of mine.
Posted by: RickZ I read that in an Otis Redding voice. "These faults of mine...." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVbTE4wCbpw Posted by: Soulful Miklos at June 11, 2025 11:49 PM (K6h4I) 233
In my yet-to-be-acquired suicide door 1964 Lincoln convertible
Show them young punks what a real car look like Posted by: Miklos, snapping whippers at June 11, 2025 11:44 PM (K6h4I) The car best suited for getting rid of unwanted guests. Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 11, 2025 11:50 PM (0eaVi) 234
The Ramones cover "Spiderman"
My favorite Ramones, 'Blitzkrieg Bop'. A live version. https://tinyurl.com/3r3t8ran I don't know. I just love the juxtaposition of those two words. Song's upbeat, too. Goes to my theory of every band having at least one song I like. May not be a Top 40, . . . . Posted by: RickZ at June 11, 2025 11:50 PM (gKDq2) 235
Greek lamb meatballs with fresh veggies, feta, kalamatas, tzitziki sauce, greek salad dressing, and sharp red onion.
Damn that was a good dinner. And there's meatballs and tzitsiki left over. Yay! Posted by: tcn in AK at June 11, 2025 11:50 PM (a4NoL) 236
RickZ, fix this, will you please?
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 11, 2025 11:51 PM (a4NoL) 237
I married a girl with a good job, a 4WD pickup and a motorcycle. We built our house together.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at June 11, 2025 11:46 PM (JhYv0) Now see? We can have Nice Things. Posted by: Mildly envious Miklos at June 11, 2025 11:51 PM (K6h4I) 238
Shit.
Posted by: RickZ at June 11, 2025 11:51 PM (gKDq2) 239
HARD A STARBOARD MATEYS
Posted by: Cap'm Miklos at June 11, 2025 11:52 PM (K6h4I) Posted by: scampydog at June 11, 2025 11:54 PM (41CYW) 241
I read through the collected works of Dickens in high school, and while I wouldn’t do it again, I credit that with giving me a far more extensive vocabulary than I would have had, not to mentions good feel for phrasing and conversational writing - and of course a good grasp on 19th century English. More educational than any course I ever took.
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Posted by: RickZ at June 11, 2025 10:37 PM (gKDq2) =============== lol Bleak House. Well, I don't consider it boring, but if you don't like Dickens's prose, it's gonna be hard labor all right. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 11, 2025 11:55 PM (YDQ9Q) 243
Ka-Runch! The Italicans just hit an island.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 11, 2025 11:55 PM (NahMG) 244
Caption: Busses sentenced to the "rubber room" for disciplinary reasons were found to have engaged in perverse and degrading acts of sexual congress in a shocking expose produced by the intrepid journalists of "My Weekly Reader". Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 11, 2025 11:55 PM (xG4kz) 245
Shit.
Posted by: RickZ Should RickZ get shit for this? * breaths deeply, intentional, focused* *does yoga, free of emotion, at one with the Universe* Oh hell yeah Posted by: Blind Monk Miklos of Shaolin at June 11, 2025 11:56 PM (K6h4I) Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 11, 2025 11:57 PM (oxZ9r) 247
Why do I read this smart military blog?
I'm from Pittsburgh (nice to see the Eat 'n Park and police scanner items), and work on a U-2 related program... Never thought I'd see the that combination on the ONT. God Bless America Posted by: Fatty McFattington at June 11, 2025 11:57 PM (NRMef) 248
Everything was briefly in poem mode.
Posted by: scampydog at June 11, 2025 11:54 PM (41CYW) I've never typed a whole poem in Italican. Posted by: RickZ at June 11, 2025 11:59 PM (gKDq2) 249
I read through the collected works of Dickens in high school, Posted by: Tom Servo ============= That's the ideal time to inhale massive volumes of classic literature. You get a feel for quality, rhythm, diction, sublime characterization and narrative, and even if you don't understand it at the time, it sinks in and stays. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 12, 2025 12:00 AM (YDQ9Q) 250
Everything was briefly in poem mode.
Posted by: scampydog at June 11, 2025 11:54 PM (41CYW) I've never typed a whole poem in Italican. Posted by: RickZ at June 11, 2025 11:59 PM (gKDq2) I tried it once, but it turned out Italican't Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 12, 2025 12:00 AM (S/Y4j) 251
Its funny how with how far left we've gone as a country School House Rock now counts as far right wing revisionist history about the American government.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 12, 2025 12:02 AM (t0Rmr) 252
My Dickens exposure in high school was confined to "Great Expectations" and "A Tale of Two Cities". "Oliver Twist" may have sneaked in there somewhere, but I cannot fathom in which year that might have happened. Definitely never read "A Christmas Carol" nor any others of his works. "The Mayor of Casterbridge" by Thomas Hardy made an appearance, as did "Pere Goriot" by Balzac. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 12, 2025 12:02 AM (xG4kz) 253
Dickens' novels were initially serialized in monthlies and newspapers.
He was paid by the word, and it shows. FUN FACT His Granddaughter Catherine Dickens became a Real Estate Agent in Budapest Posted by: Blind Literary Critic Miklos at June 12, 2025 12:03 AM (K6h4I) 254
I'm surprised the Air Force hasn't proposed replacing the U-2 with the F-35, with just a few tiny modifications.
It will be super easy! Barely an inconvenience! Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 12, 2025 12:03 AM (oxZ9r) 255
They used a fake Climate Change group to get an $50,000,000 EPA grant to buy a front end loader used for the Oct-7 attack in Israel
They are just trying to destroy the Jewish Weather Laser. Posted by: 18-1 at June 12, 2025 12:04 AM (t0Rmr) 256
Fred Morgan, Brian Wilson's high school music teacher, failed him in a classical music course. Brian could not write classical music.
Years later at a high school reunion, Fred told Brian, ‘You failed my class, but you scored big in music.' Posted by: Count de Monet at June 12, 2025 12:05 AM (Aqu9a) 257
I've seen people use old buses to build underground shelters. The basic idea is you can drive it in, cover it in dirt and wah lah you have a cheap bomb shelter/sub basement.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 12, 2025 12:06 AM (t0Rmr) 258
Which side of the Danube River was considered as being "the wrong side of the tracks" for Budapest -- Buda or Pest? Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 12, 2025 12:06 AM (xG4kz) 259
If it’s not too humid I love me some heat. Like 80-85 is perfect.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 12, 2025 12:06 AM (E4th+) 260
Everything was briefly in poem mode.
Posted by: scampydog Waving like spring grass The comments leaned to the right The Barrel beckons Posted by: mikeski's haiku service at June 12, 2025 12:06 AM (DgGvY) 261
Years later at a high school reunion, Fred told Brian, ‘You failed my class, but you scored big in music.'
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 12, 2025 12:05 AM (Aqu9a) I'll bet Fred Morgan couldn't play "Junko Partner", either. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 12, 2025 12:07 AM (NahMG) 262
LA's an even more pathetic fizzle than last night. Not surprising. I'm guessing there's actually not much gas in this tank, and after an unimpressive June 14, things will tail off (as far as large rumbles). All the festivities have had no detectable impact on ICE operations, which should be ramping up when more $$$ are available.
Seattle and Tucson need a dose of federalized National Guard, though. Ridiculous crap from the young, stupid, sometimes mentally ill riff-raff and losers who make up most of this "movement". Federal facilities under siege. Lots of lessons to be delivered, I hope that administration trigger finger on taking strong action stays itchy. Posted by: rhomboid at June 12, 2025 12:08 AM (1m82a) 263
I've seen people use old buses to build underground shelters. The basic idea is you can drive it in, cover it in dirt and wah lah you have a cheap bomb shelter/sub basement.
Also good for hiding all those elementary school students you kidnapped. Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 12, 2025 12:08 AM (lUFok) 264
I've seen people use old buses to build underground shelters. The basic idea is you can drive it in, cover it in dirt and wah lah you have a cheap bomb shelter/sub basement.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 12, 2025 12:06 AM (t0Rmr) Wasn't that done by some criminals in California who kidnapped a bus full of children? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 12, 2025 12:09 AM (NahMG) 265
Which side of the Danube River was considered as being "the wrong side of the tracks" for Budapest -- Buda or Pest?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Neither, but the worst were (and are) both on the Pest side- either side of Nyugati rail station or near the station in the X District Posted by: Miklos can actually answer this ? at June 12, 2025 12:09 AM (K6h4I) 266
Megabus Wrecks.
Posted by: Galt at June 12, 2025 12:10 AM (9UnaD) 267
That's the ideal time to inhale massive volumes of classic literature. You get a feel for quality, rhythm, diction, sublime characterization and narrative, and even if you don't understand it at the time, it sinks in and stays.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 12, 2025 12:00 AM (YDQ9Q) It's a grounding in The Classics. I get that. Maybe it's the method of teaching The Classics. As mentioned above, read a chapter, a quiz. Maybe then a class discussion. It's not reading for enjoyment. I tried to read 'Bleak House' for enjoyment, not as a part of any curricula. Read it. But never again. What a slog. Can't imagine reading that for a class. The one area I'm sadly lacking is Classic Russian literature. The kind where the ending is always a stoic 'and they died'. Read a lot of Solzhenitsyn, practically his whole fictional catalogue beyond 'Gulag' (Vols. I, II & III). But that's it. I blame The Height Of The Cold War for my slack in that area. That's my story and I'm sticking with it. Posted by: RickZ at June 12, 2025 12:10 AM (gKDq2) 268
Wasn't that done by some criminals in California who kidnapped a bus full of children?
It was just the one time, man. Chowchilla out. Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 12, 2025 12:10 AM (lUFok) 269
I'll bet Fred Morgan couldn't play "Junko Partner", either.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon Well, never spent time in Angola, neither. Posted by: unindicted Miklos at June 12, 2025 12:11 AM (K6h4I) 270
My favorite Ramones, 'Blitzkrieg Bop'.
I don't know. I just love the juxtaposition of those two words. Song's upbeat, too. Posted by: RickZ Shit. Posted by: RickZ Should RickZ get shit for this? Oh hell yeah Posted by: Blind Monk Miklos of Shaolin He should? This should work. Blitzkrieg Bop, covered by Kaori Shimizu. https://youtu.be/PN-NtEDYT3U Posted by: mikeski regrets nothing at June 12, 2025 12:11 AM (DgGvY) 271
Last beers tonight. Sammy came by. We had a nice time. I was a good friend. I know I have been going through horrible stuff but I have also been THAT friend for his family in the past.. I'm a member of the Horde. I take care of people.
So Mom died in January. I was her caregiver for 14 years. And also took care of Dad. We were good. Dad and I....no unexpressed thoughts and he was so grateful I was here for them. He passed at 90. We actually had a great last day together....well...before the stroke. Mom was in the hospital but we had to go to the city because there was financial stuff to take care of. We were at the farmer's market. We were looking at carrots. Dad made a math mistake....WHICH NEVER HAPPENED. At the cash register he froze, someone helped me get him to the car. His speech started to slur. I pulled into a store and they called an ambulance. Dad was worried about my future. I told him I didn't want anything. 50% with my brother. I was good. I didn't know my brother would jack around my living situation for almost 6 months. I was a horrible brother when we were young. I thought we were over that. I took care of our elderly parents for years. He really hates me. Posted by: Stateless.. 23% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 12, 2025 12:11 AM (jvJvP) Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 12, 2025 12:12 AM (xG4kz) 273
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== The one area I'm sadly lacking is Classic Russian literature. The kind where the ending is always a stoic 'and they died'. Read a lot of Solzhenitsyn, practically his whole fictional catalogue beyond 'Gulag' (Vols. I, II & III). But that's it. I blame The Height Of The Cold War for my slack in that area. That's my story and I'm sticking with it. Posted by: RickZ at June 12, 2025 12:10 AM (gKDq2) The Literature Meme English: I will die for Honor French: I will die for Love American: I will die for Freedom Russian: I will die Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 12, 2025 12:13 AM (ULPxl) Posted by: Stateless.. 23% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 12, 2025 12:14 AM (jvJvP) 275
Apparently there’s a rather disruptive protest happening downtown Seattle currently. When I walked by the area this afternoon there was nothing going on.
People who were born here don’t do this Seattle has been taken over by leftist assholes. Yes. It’s always been a union, democrat stronghold. But. This is contrary to what we do. Fuck the left. Posted by: nurse ratched at June 12, 2025 12:15 AM (mT+6a) 276
"The Mayor of Casterbridge" by Thomas Hardy made an appearance, as did "Pere Goriot" by Balzac.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 12, 2025 12:02 AM (xG4kz) OH MY GAWD! Thomas Hardy. "Tess Of the d'Urbervilles'. You only know if you've read Hardy. Tried to read Thomas Pynchon's 'V' once. Got maybe 50 pages in before I abandoned the read. If a writer can't hook me further in, it's over. The worst 'fun read' book I ever finished was Foucault's "The Pendulum." What dreck. Maybe something's lost in the translation. Posted by: RickZ at June 12, 2025 12:17 AM (gKDq2) 277
Fuck the left. Posted by: nurse ratched at June 12, 2025 12:15 AM (mT+6a) Damn right. I have FoxNews on now. This is insane. Posted by: Stateless.. 23% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 12, 2025 12:17 AM (jvJvP) 278
Stateless,
Please keep snowflake inside for a few weeks. She needs to gain weight and heal up. Guess what? You have a cat! Posted by: nurse ratched at June 12, 2025 12:18 AM (mT+6a) 279
Which side of the Danube River was considered as being "the wrong side of the tracks" for Budapest -- Buda or Pest?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Neither, but the worst were (and are) both on the Pest side- either side of Nyugati rail station or near the station in the X District Posted by: Miklos can actually answer this ? at June 12, 2025 12:09 AM (K6h4I) So... Elek was ok? Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 12, 2025 12:19 AM (0eaVi) Posted by: mikeski at June 12, 2025 12:20 AM (DgGvY) 281
Seattle has been taken over by leftist assholes. Yes. It’s always been a union, democrat stronghold. But. This is contrary to what we do. I wanted to see video from the WTO riots in Seattle and so I searched "riots in seattle" and...apparently rioting has become a lot more common since 99... Posted by: 18-1 at June 12, 2025 12:20 AM (t0Rmr) 282
Years later at a high school reunion, Fred told Brian, ‘You failed my class, but you scored big in music.'
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 12, 2025 12:05 AM (Aqu9a) --------- Fred was obviously a grandmaster of the bon mot. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 12, 2025 12:20 AM (hY4dx) 283
The Literature Meme
English: I will die for Honor French: I will die for Love American: I will die for Freedom Russian: I will die Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 12, 2025 12:13 AM (ULPxl) LOL! That's funny 'cause it's true. Posted by: RickZ at June 12, 2025 12:21 AM (gKDq2) 284
Stateless,
Please keep snowflake inside for a few weeks. She needs to gain weight and heal up. Guess what? You have a cat! Posted by: nurse ratched at June 12, 2025 12:18 AM (mT+6a And she's sleeping comfortably on the bed... So done. Posted by: Stateless.. 23% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 12, 2025 12:21 AM (jvJvP) 285
[Top photo: Smiley! Eat'n Park Mascot. Typically found in its native habitat of southwestern Pennsylvania. Smiley represents a popular cookie sold by Eat'n Park.]
--------- Not to be outdone, the Stop N Squirt promises to have you in and out in nine minutes or less. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 12, 2025 12:22 AM (hY4dx) 286
I've seen people use old buses to build underground shelters. The basic idea is you can drive it in, cover it in dirt and wah lah you have a cheap bomb shelter/sub basement. Posted by: 18-1 I read where some burg in Alaska airlifted that bus out of the wilderness near Denali National Park in which the drifter numbskull starved himself to death. Their intention was to "restore" it. How about restoring it by feeding it to an electric arc furnace to put the metal therein to a useful purpose? Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 12, 2025 12:23 AM (xG4kz) 287
So I stepped out on over to YouTube to listen to some Beach Boys.
When I was a youngster I was a rock/blues/motown gal...no time for the surf stuff. However as time came by, I got to diggin' on Beach Boys. They were really good. RIP Brian.... Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 12, 2025 12:24 AM (FPGXM) 288
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My Dickens exposure in high school was confined to "Great Expectations" and "A Tale of Two Cities". Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 12, 2025 12:02 AM (xG4kz) A Sale of Two Titties > A Tale of Two Cities Posted by: Edmund Wells at June 12, 2025 12:25 AM (8hxDK) 289
Oh and one odd thing I found looking at the 99 WTO riots - one group of protesters wore turtle costumes and carried "Don't Tread on Me" flags.
Funny once Barky the Dog Eater was installed those flags became rayciss Posted by: 18-1 at June 12, 2025 12:25 AM (t0Rmr) 290
As though the human has any say in that relationship. Posted by: mikeski at June 12, 2025 12:20 AM (DgGvY I know. I'm a dog person. Who has taken care of a ton of cats.... Posted by: Stateless.. 23% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 12, 2025 12:25 AM (jvJvP) 291
I believe “Bleak House” is intended to convey the incredible frustration and futility of the British legal system (well ours too) and you are definitely filled with those after you read that book.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 12, 2025 12:26 AM (3tIsI) 292
A Sale of Two Titties > A Tale of Two Cities
Posted by: Edmund Wells at June 12, 2025 12:25 AM (8hxDK) If Dickens only knew. Youth have no respect for the elderly or mostly dead, including great classic fiction writers. Posted by: RickZ at June 12, 2025 12:28 AM (gKDq2) 293
Stay frosty, Nurse!
Posted by: PabloD at June 12, 2025 12:30 AM (TgNVd) 294
I’ve never read Tolstoy, I’ve been told that if you do, you need to keep a running scorecard next to you so you can keep track of all of the names each character has.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 12, 2025 12:30 AM (3tIsI) 295
Youth have no respect for the elderly or mostly dead, including great classic fiction writers.
Posted by: RickZ at June 12, 2025 12:28 AM (gKDq2) Actually, my friends' girls are amazing. They would always come by. "How's Rose?" Posted by: Stateless.. 23% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 12, 2025 12:32 AM (jvJvP) 296
Dickens was no Philip K. Dick..
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 12, 2025 12:34 AM (l3YAf) 297
Oh and one odd thing I found looking at the 99 WTO riots - one group of protesters wore turtle costumes and carried "Don't Tread on Me" flags.
Funny once Barky the Dog Eater was installed those flags became rayciss Posted by: 18-1 at June 12, 2025 12:25 AM (t0Rmr) To be honest, those riots were my first glimpse into the modern left. Those travelling riots were organized but presented as 'organic' in many places. When you get down to it, those '99 riots were the true beginning of the modern left, at least in The States. The violence became acceptable. Not as much as today but still more than it should have been accepted. We dig into the Mafia but we never dig into the leftist machinery. Hopefully that is going to change. At least by cutting off the funding if nothing more. You can tell when a protest is bought and paid for when you see really glossy and well-produced signage. Not a point the media ever brings up. Posted by: RickZ at June 12, 2025 12:34 AM (gKDq2) 298
Not a point the media ever brings up.
Posted by: RickZ at June 12, 2025 12:34 AM (gKDq2) The media are on their side. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 12, 2025 12:35 AM (NahMG) 299
I believe “Bleak House” is intended to convey the incredible frustration and futility of the British legal system (well ours too) and you are definitely filled with those after you read that book.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 12, 2025 12:26 AM (3tIsI) The book also unintentionally conveyed the incredible frustration and futility of reading 19th Century British English. Posted by: RickZ at June 12, 2025 12:37 AM (gKDq2) 300
Heya PabloD!
All good! I will go to work on the morning and get home in the evening. This shit is stupid, but nothing I can’t maneuver my way through. I will not carry during this shit. That would cause more problems than it would solve. Gotta be smarter than the mob. Avoid. Get home. Love my fink. Posted by: nurse ratched at June 12, 2025 12:37 AM (B7V01) 301
LA's an even more pathetic fizzle than last night. Not surprising. I'm guessing there's actually not much gas in this tank, and after an unimpressive June 14, things will tail off (as far as large rumbles). All the festivities have had no detectable impact on ICE operations, which should be ramping up when more $$$ are available.
*** They've seen the polls. The orders have gone out. Tone it down. Posted by: Diogenes at June 12, 2025 12:38 AM (W/lyH) Posted by: 496 at June 12, 2025 12:39 AM (t+VLa) 303
Whoa, platinum has shot up a lot. I wonder what’s going on there..
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 12, 2025 12:41 AM (l3YAf) Posted by: Stateless.. 23% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 12, 2025 12:42 AM (jvJvP) 305
303 Whoa, platinum has shot up a lot. I wonder what’s going on there..
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 12, 2025 12:41 AM (l3YAf Silver too.... Sweet. Posted by: Stateless.. 23% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 12, 2025 12:43 AM (jvJvP) 306
Heh.
Local news trying to pump up The protest. Not more than a couple Hundred idiots out there. If that. The truth is getting harder to see. Posted by: nurse ratched at June 12, 2025 12:43 AM (mT+6a) 307
They've seen the polls.
The orders have gone out. Tone it down. Posted by: Diogenes at June 12, 2025 12:38 AM (W/lyH) As always, who's giving those orders? The ones saying it are just reapeating what they've been told to say by . . . whom? Soros is an obvious answer, but he's too wlell-known to be the actual order-giver. He's like Epstein. He's a funneler and a funder. He has things on people. But he's not what I call The Cabal. Nothing else fits. Some ultra-mega rich dudes and dudettes deciding the fates of billions. All the while they are nice and cozy. I have no other explanation because something's 'off' in this world. And the hell of it is, we were funding it as well. National suicide. Posted by: RickZ at June 12, 2025 12:46 AM (gKDq2) Posted by: romantic nostalgic Miklos at June 12, 2025 12:47 AM (K6h4I) 309
306 Heh.
Local news trying to pump up The protest. Not more than a couple Hundred idiots out there. If that. The truth is getting harder to see. Posted by: nurse ratched at June 12, 2025 12:43 AM (mT+6a) FoxNews was reporting too. It was basically a few hundred people in each city. Posted by: Stateless.. 23% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 12, 2025 12:47 AM (jvJvP) Posted by: Skip at June 12, 2025 12:50 AM (y9AJq) 311
FoxNews was reporting too.
It was basically a few hundred people in each city. Posted by: Stateless.. 23% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 12, 2025 12:47 AM (jvJvP) I guess scenes of protesters in L.A. waving Mexican flags hasn't gone over too well. Posted by: RickZ at June 12, 2025 12:51 AM (gKDq2) 312
'The Vicar of Wakefield' >> 'The Mayor of Casterbridge'
Posted by: Oliver Goldsmith at June 12, 2025 12:52 AM (XeU6L) 313
Posted by: Skip
I would have packed you a lunch And cut the crusts off, the way you like it And an apple Posted by: Concerned Auntie Miklos at June 12, 2025 12:52 AM (K6h4I) 314
It was basically a few hundred people in each city.
Posted by: Stateless I guess fighting fascism doesn't take a lot of effort. Attack a few cops, burn a few WayMos, be home in time for dinner, government collapses. Posted by: mikeski at June 12, 2025 12:52 AM (DgGvY) 315
I guess scenes of protesters in L.A. waving Mexican flags hasn't gone over too well.
Posted by: RickZ at June 12, 2025 12:51 AM (gKDq2 They should have had the young hot biological females go topless. Posted by: Stateless.. 23% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 12, 2025 12:53 AM (jvJvP) 316
Posted by: Oliver Goldsmith "Cheerleaders in Chains">>>'The Vicar of Wakefield' >> 'The Mayor of Casterbridge' Posted by: Miklos L'Auteur at June 12, 2025 12:54 AM (K6h4I) 317
They should have had the young hot biological females go topless.
Posted by: Stateless Good point. Shouldn't fighting fascism outweigh fighting the patriarchy? Posted by: mikeski at June 12, 2025 12:55 AM (DgGvY) 318
I guess fighting fascism doesn't take a lot of effort. Attack a few cops, burn a few WayMos, be home in time for dinner, government collapses.
Posted by: mikeski at June 12, 2025 12:52 AM (DgGvY) I'm in Canada. I wish it was that easy.... Posted by: Stateless.. 23% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 12, 2025 12:56 AM (jvJvP) 319
The book also unintentionally conveyed the incredible frustration and futility of reading 19th Century British English. Posted by: RickZ ================= Okay, you don't need to show me on the doll where Dickens hurt you, but I am curious, what kind of profession did you wind up in? Something with numbers or bricks, I suspect. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 12, 2025 12:57 AM (YDQ9Q) Posted by: Tank Abrams at June 12, 2025 12:57 AM (K6h4I) 321
I have been to the Rendelsham forest UFO pad, well not long before it was a UFO pad
Posted by: Skip at June 12, 2025 12:57 AM (y9AJq) 322
A carpenter friend was working on the exterior of a house out in the NorCal valley just north of Beale AFB. He heard a loud bang, turned and looked up, and saw that a pilot had ejected from a U-2. The plane continued going forward in a slowly rotating horizontal fashion and then dropped quickly and crashed pancake-style into a local newspaper building.
He said that not few minutes later military police were already racing down the nearby highway. The pilot was dead. This was 1997ish? Beale AFB is home to U-2 air wing. Posted by: 13times at June 12, 2025 12:59 AM (EYerH) 323
I have been to the Rendelsham forest UFO pad, well not long before it was a UFO pad
Posted by: Skip Are you willing to go on the record? Posted by: Art Bell's bartender at June 12, 2025 12:59 AM (K6h4I) Posted by: Count de Monet at June 12, 2025 01:00 AM (Aqu9a) 325
They should have had the young hot biological females go topless. Posted by: Stateless ============== Alex Stein showed up at a protest and made something of that. Wearing a cowboy hat and holding a big sign that said BIG BOOTY LATINAS CAN STAY. "If she's a nine, she's fine!" Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 12, 2025 01:00 AM (YDQ9Q) 326
Alex Stein showed up at a protest and made something of that. Wearing a cowboy hat and holding a big sign that said BIG BOOTY LATINAS CAN STAY. "If she's a nine, she's fine!"
Posted by: Blonde Morticia Hell yeah! Oh, wait, "a" nine? Nevermind. Posted by: J. Robinette Biden at June 12, 2025 01:02 AM (DgGvY) 327
Alex Stein showed up at a protest and made something of that. Wearing a cowboy hat and holding a big sign that said BIG BOOTY LATINAS CAN STAY. "If she's a nine, she's fine!"
Posted by: Blonde Morticia The Visa category for Mexican Weathergirls is DD-38 Posted by: Factos Amusantes con Mikloso at June 12, 2025 01:03 AM (K6h4I) 328
You know, if UFO's were really spacecraft from another planet, they wouldn't need landing pads. They would be equipped to land anywhere. Three little legs pop out. I've seen movies.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 12, 2025 01:04 AM (NahMG) 329
Three little legs pop out. I've seen movies.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon MOVIES? THAT"S WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO THINK It's why Oliver Stone killed JFK! Posted by: Miklos, telling the voices to SHUT UP at June 12, 2025 01:06 AM (K6h4I) 330
Legal Insurrection- another Commissar Judge stopped a deportation of a illegal.
Posted by: Skip at June 12, 2025 01:07 AM (y9AJq) 331
Alex Stein showed up at a protest and made something of that. Wearing a cowboy hat and holding a big sign that said BIG BOOTY LATINAS CAN STAY. "If she's a nine, she's fine!"
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 12, 2025 01:00 AM (YDQ9Q Lol My sign would be for asian women. Bad Stateless. I have 5 more beers. Snowflake is just sleeping on the bed. Not my cat but she has been here since Sunday. Posted by: Stateless.. 23% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 12, 2025 01:08 AM (jvJvP) 332
The Visa category for Mexican Weathergirls is DD-38
Posted by: Factos Amusantes con Mikloso Tourist visa, student visa, work visa, "dat azz" visa..... Posted by: mikeski at June 12, 2025 01:10 AM (DgGvY) 333
So I've been listening to Gregorian chants tonite.
Very soothing and relaxing. Highly recommend. Never tried it before but loving it. Posted by: eleven at June 12, 2025 01:11 AM (0HaGk) 334
303 Whoa, platinum has shot up a lot. I wonder what’s going on there..
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director ----------- Great, chances at Platinum Membership status just waved and moved to another area code. Posted by: scampydog at June 12, 2025 01:11 AM (41CYW) Posted by: eleven at June 12, 2025 01:13 AM (0HaGk) 336
328 You know, if UFO's were really spacecraft from another planet, they wouldn't need landing pads. They would be equipped to land anywhere. Three little legs pop out. I've seen movies.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 12, 2025 01:04 AM How sucky is your work day if you travelled across the cosmos, dealing with radiation and tons of other stuff, and then somehow you just crash at Earth? Posted by: Stateless.. 23% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 12, 2025 01:14 AM (jvJvP) 337
Great, chances at Platinum Membership status just waved and moved to another area code.
Posted by: scampydog Have I got a deal for you Posted by: Miklos, the Cubic Zirconium King at June 12, 2025 01:15 AM (K6h4I) 338
How sucky is your work day if you travelled across the cosmos, dealing with radiation and tons of other stuff, and then somehow you just crash at Earth?
Posted by: Stateless We do have the Sensor Rings Posted by: Beldar and Primat at June 12, 2025 01:16 AM (K6h4I) Posted by: eleven at June 12, 2025 01:16 AM (0HaGk) 340
They would be equipped to land anywhere. Three little legs pop out. I've seen movies. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon ----- Klaatu barada nikto. Posted by: Klaatu at June 12, 2025 01:17 AM (XeU6L) Posted by: Elvis on Bigfoot's UFO at June 12, 2025 01:18 AM (K6h4I) 342
339 Flying saucers full of Mexican weather girls.
right? Posted by: eleven -------------- I'm seeing a business opportunity here. Posted by: scampydog at June 12, 2025 01:19 AM (41CYW) 343
Something with numbers or bricks, I suspect.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 12, 2025 12:57 AM (YDQ9Q) 'Yes' to the first and 'definitely didn't like that' to the other. But in my defense, I have written poerty, the ultimate in short stories. Posted by: RickZ at June 12, 2025 01:20 AM (gKDq2) 344
I just reminded myself of this, and though I'd share https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DcTY9i-fx8 Posted by: Kind and Considerate Miklos at June 12, 2025 01:21 AM (K6h4I) 345
Eve of destruction,
Tax deduction, City inspectors, Bill collectors, solid gold in demand, population outta hand ... Burma Shave !!!! Posted by: Adriane the Monday Critic on Wednesday . . . with a Camel. . . at June 12, 2025 01:24 AM (cfyxU) Posted by: RickZ at June 12, 2025 01:24 AM (gKDq2) 347
My sign would be for asian women. Bad Stateless.
I have 5 more beers. Snowflake is just sleeping on the bed. Not my cat but she has been here since Sunday. Posted by: Stateless.. 23% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 12, 2025 01:08 AM (jvJvP) "Not my cat but she has been here since Sunday." She's your cat. Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 12, 2025 01:24 AM (QGaXH) Posted by: E. Musk at June 12, 2025 01:24 AM (DgGvY) 349
Cat is sitting by patio door. Doesn't want in, oh no, he wants me to come out.
Silly critter. Guess he missed me. Was gone all day & he didn't get the usual amount of attention and rubbys. Pooor baaaby. ![]() My lil buddy! Posted by: JQ at June 12, 2025 01:25 AM (rdVOm) 350
Not my cat but she has been here since Sunday.
Posted by: Stateless.. 23% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now ------- Stateless, but not catless. Posted by: 496 at June 12, 2025 01:27 AM (t+VLa) Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 12, 2025 01:27 AM (DsDRo) 352
She's your cat.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 12, 2025 01:24 AM (QGaXH) Volunteer cats are the best cats. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 12, 2025 01:28 AM (NahMG) 353
Stateless-- Snowflake has chosen you. Hahaha, it is useless to resist.
Posted by: JQ at June 12, 2025 01:28 AM (rdVOm) 354
Ah, the Eat n Park cookie. My mom used to take me to the one on Freeport. My six-year-older brother had guitar lessons nearby, and I had to be kept occupied by smiling cookies.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 12, 2025 01:28 AM (n3CHL) 355
349 Cat is sitting by patio door. Doesn't want in, oh no, he wants me to come out.
Silly critter. Guess he missed me. Was gone all day & he didn't get the usual amount of attention and rubbys. Pooor baaaby. My lil buddy! Posted by: JQ at June 12, 2025 01:25 Dogs are so much easier. Says the guy with a new cat.... Posted by: Stateless.. 23% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 12, 2025 01:28 AM (jvJvP) 356
But in my defense, I have written poerty, the ultimate in short stories.
Posted by: RickZ That si so cool Posted by: Miklos, dyslexic poerty fan at June 12, 2025 01:29 AM (K6h4I) 357
Not my cat but -- Posted by: Stateless =============== The Cat Distribution System will decide that. JQ, there is no "cat" in "compromise." Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 12, 2025 01:30 AM (YDQ9Q) 358
339 Flying saucers full of Mexican weather girls.
right? Posted by: eleven at June 12, 2025 01:16 AM (0HaGk) Heaven! Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 12, 2025 01:31 AM (QGaXH) 359
Stateless, but not catless.
Posted by: 496 at June 12, 2025 Finally,I will send pics to the pet thread. Posted by: Stateless.. 23% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 12, 2025 01:31 AM (jvJvP) 360
tzatziki -
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit Teach me Zorba Teach me to Tzatziki https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubkGD0Av4yk Posted by: Miklosopoulos (no homo) at June 12, 2025 01:33 AM (K6h4I) 361
Dogs are so much easier.
Says the guy with a new cat.... Posted by: Stateless -------- In some ways, yes. Our old doggy has been gone a few years now, and she was The Best, but I will say I don't miss poo-patrol. I've replaced the screens she pawed through, and filled a few (major!) holes she dug out back. Wouldn't trade our time with her for all the world, but I will never say "it was easy." Posted by: JQ at June 12, 2025 01:33 AM (rdVOm) 362
Says the guy with a new cat....
Posted by: Stateless Summer in the city Cool cat, looking for a kitty Posted by: Miklos vaguely recalls at June 12, 2025 01:35 AM (K6h4I) 363
Eve of destruction,
Tax deduction, City inspectors, Bill collectors, solid gold in demand, population outta hand ... Burma Shave !!!! Posted by: Adriane the Monday Critic on Wednesday . . . with a Camel. . . at June 12, 2025 01:24 AM (cfyxU) 'Taxman' by the Beatles should be the theme song of every anti-government protest. If the protest is not about reining in government spending, then the 'anti-government' protest is a sham. Government is not, and never has been, my Daddy. I was educated to be wary of government, even ours. But when Uncle Sugar hands out the candy, well, things change. But damn. Those '60s! Well, techinically '70s, released in 1970. Close enough. There were some great lyrics back then. Not just about puppy love. Some honest to gawd poets who could set the stuff to music. An art in itself. Sometimes that's why songs can sound repititious due to using the same easing-rhyming words. Posted by: RickZ at June 12, 2025 01:36 AM (gKDq2) 364
I learned a new word the other day re the UFOs: cryptoterrestrial. Not ET, but CT. Rather than aliens from very far away, they are non-humans who've been here or the solar system for a long time and prefer we don't know about them. Much. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 12, 2025 01:36 AM (w6EFb) 365
Flying saucers full of Mexican weather girls.
right? Posted by: eleven at June 12, 2025 01:16 AM (0HaGk) Heaven! Posted by: Anonymous Rogue Mile High Club? Posted by: Miklos hopes Those UFOs have a bar and a dance floor at June 12, 2025 01:37 AM (K6h4I) 366
I was driving back from Wing Nite at the hotel, on a grid road about 4 miles North of my place, and I scared up a mama deer in the right side ditch. She bolted across the road, and into thicket of trees, but left her baby behind. Tiny little spotted fawn, about the size of a Jack Russell terrier. It wanted to cross the road to follow Mama, but was spooked by the sight of the Suburban. I stopped and waited. Fawn stood still. Rolled ahead slowly; fawn ran ahead in the ditch. Stopped. Fawn stopped. Rolled ahead, fawn ran ahead. This game of cat and mouse went on for a minute, and finally fawn screwed up its courage and ran across the road to where Mama had bolted. Could not have been more than a day or two old.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 12, 2025 01:37 AM (NahMG) 367
Wouldn't trade our time with her for all the world, but I will never say "it was easy."
Posted by: JQ at June 12, 2025 01:33 I know. I don't know how much longer Dude has, but I will take care of him. Posted by: Stateless.. 23% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 12, 2025 01:38 AM (jvJvP) 368
Sometimes that's why songs can sound repititious due to using the same easing-rhyming words.
Posted by: RickZ Boy be disrepectin' my peeps Posted by: Aspiring Rapper and MSNBC Commentator Miklos at June 12, 2025 01:39 AM (K6h4I) 369
Cool, AOP! Glad you didn't hit either of them!
Posted by: JQ at June 12, 2025 01:39 AM (rdVOm) 370
I'm sure "orders went out" to some, but I was saying that the bulk of the mob, which is not paid/organized bots but dumb emotional yutes and dumb yutes looking for a "happening" will fade away with each passing day. Especially as ICE operations grind on and increase.
This Saturday will affect how quickly this process goes. Posted by: rhomboid at June 12, 2025 01:39 AM (1m82a) 371
Could not have been more than a day or two old.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon Lose dat baby I loses my Benefits Posted by: EBT Deer at June 12, 2025 01:41 AM (K6h4I) 372
Saw Mama from a hundred yards off; still bright, but kind of smoky daylight. Slowed way down, then the fawn appeared.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 12, 2025 01:41 AM (NahMG) 373
364
I learned a new word the other day re the UFOs: cryptoterrestrial. Not ET, but CT. Rather than aliens from very far away, they are non-humans who've been here or the solar system for a long time and prefer we don't know about them. Much. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 12, 2025 01:36 AM (w6EFb) I've wondered if they could be tourists/researchers from a distant future who've cracked the time travel problem. Dismissed it as not likely but interesting to think about. Or they could be among us and advanced enough to remain concealed. Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 12, 2025 01:42 AM (QGaXH) 374
non-humans who've been here or the solar system for a long time and prefer we don't know about them. Much.
Posted by: publius, Si Posted by: those 12 million illegals from 25 years ago at June 12, 2025 01:43 AM (K6h4I) 375
Or they could be among us and advanced enough to remain concealed.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 12, 2025 01:42 AM (QGaXH) Atlanteans. They have all the good volcano lairs staked out. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 12, 2025 01:44 AM (NahMG) 376
Or they could be among us and advanced enough to remain concealed.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan Wear unobtrusive clothing Speak almost inaudibly Tip well Posted by: Miklos has been in tough joints with no problems at June 12, 2025 01:45 AM (K6h4I) 377
Atlanteans. They have all the good volcano lairs staked out.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon Not all Clearly, you do not know any aggressive female Real Estate Agents Posted by: Miklos does at June 12, 2025 01:47 AM (K6h4I) 378
Wear unobtrusive clothing
Speak almost inaudibly Tip well Posted by: Miklos has been in tough joints with no problems at June 12, 2025 01:45 AM (K6h4I) Wrong. Be loud and obnoxious. People will studiously ignore you. Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 12, 2025 01:47 AM (0eaVi) 379
366 I was driving back from Wing Nite at the hotel, on a grid road about 4 miles North of my place, and I scared up a mama deer in the right side ditch. She bolted across the road, and into thicket of trees, but left her baby behind. Tiny little spotted fawn, about the size of a Jack Russell terrier. It wanted to cross the road to follow Mama, but was spooked by the sight of the Suburban. I stopped and waited. Fawn stood still. Rolled ahead slowly; fawn ran ahead in the ditch. Stopped. Fawn stopped. Rolled ahead, fawn ran ahead. This game of cat and mouse went on for a minute, and finally fawn screwed up its courage and ran across the road to where Mama had bolted. Could not have been more than a day or two old.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 12, 2025 01:37 AM (NahMG) The other night leaving the hiking trail head a small deer - maybe a yearling - was walking right down the middle of the access road - not a care in the world - ignored my Ram 1500 for quite a while before it got bored or tired and cut right and jumped a five foot barbed wire fence like it was nothing. I know I was in a wildlife sanctuary - but that's taking advantage!! Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 12, 2025 01:47 AM (QGaXH) 380
YELLS ALL KINDA SHIT AT EVERYBODY
Posted by: Miklos takes OrangeEnt's wise counsel at June 12, 2025 01:51 AM (K6h4I) 381
YELLS ALL KINDA SHIT AT EVERYBODY
Posted by: Miklos takes OrangeEnt's wise counsel at June 12, 2025 01:51 AM (K6h4I) (Averts eyes and moves away from crazy yelling guy at the bar) Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 12, 2025 01:52 AM (0eaVi) Posted by: JQ, dressed unobtrusively at June 12, 2025 01:54 AM (rdVOm) 383
I've wondered if they could be tourists/researchers from a distant future who've cracked the time travel problem. Dismissed it as not likely but interesting to think about.
Or they could be among us and advanced enough to remain concealed. Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 12, 2025 01:42 AM (QGaXH) Or the aliens could just be slummin'. We are at the ass end of our galaxy. Posted by: RickZ at June 12, 2025 01:55 AM (gKDq2) 384
370 I'm sure "orders went out" to some, but I was saying that the bulk of the mob, which is not paid/organized bots but dumb emotional yutes and dumb yutes looking for a "happening" will fade away with each passing day. Especially as ICE operations grind on and increase.
This Saturday will affect how quickly this process goes. Posted by: rhomboid --------------- Interviewed a kid two or three years ago that was part of the "For Hire, Traveling Mob." Interesting conversation about his travels, pay, etc. Posted by: scampydog at June 12, 2025 01:56 AM (41CYW) 385
Ow
Big ow I think the guy's name might be Tony. I must now respectfully reject OrangeEnt's unwise counsel. Posted by: Miklos, bleeding in the parking lot, probably concussion at June 12, 2025 01:56 AM (K6h4I) Posted by: Miklos of the Inquiring Mind at June 12, 2025 01:57 AM (K6h4I) 387
Interviewed a kid two or three years ago that was part of the "For Hire, Traveling Mob." Interesting conversation about his travels, pay, etc.
Posted by: scampydog at June 12, 2025 01:56 AM (41CYW) Do tell. Posted by: RickZ at June 12, 2025 01:58 AM (gKDq2) 388
*Sees Miklos, slumped over in parking lot*
*rolls up slowly, lights off* "Hey man, you look bad. Shhhh. Get in. I'll take you to a safe place." Posted by: JQ, dressed unobtrusively at June 12, 2025 02:00 AM (rdVOm) 389
Hmmm
I wonder if the same sort of kids who used to "Follow the Dead" around the country in their tribal Grateful Dead-head culture are the same sorts who now follow the riots for the same immature purposes and reasons. Posted by: Miklos activates Inquiring Mind at June 12, 2025 02:02 AM (K6h4I) 390
I wonder if the same sort of kids who used to "Follow the Dead" around the country in their tribal Grateful Dead-head culture are the same sorts who now follow the riots for the same immature purposes and reasons.
Posted by: Miklos activates Inquiring Mind LOL. Riot groupies. Why not? Posted by: JQ at June 12, 2025 02:03 AM (rdVOm) 391
"Hey man, you look bad. Shhhh. Get in. I'll take you to a safe place."
Posted by: JQ, dressed unobtrusively Thanks But go get my wallet and phone I think the guy's name is Tony Posted by: Appreciative Miklos at June 12, 2025 02:04 AM (K6h4I) 392
Miklos, RickZ
------- Pretty much what all our conspiracy theories that we know to be true, are true. He was underage, was arrested / released multiple times. Attorneys on standby to bail him out. Bussed from city to city, paid in cash, got a "one sheet" of instructions, paid motel, etc. Pretty much validated what we all know, but the legacy media and "polite" folk ignore and/or deny. He knew he f*cked up. Did not hire him. Posted by: scampydog at June 12, 2025 02:05 AM (41CYW) 393
*Sees Miklos, slumped over in parking lot*
*rolls up slowly, lights off* "Hey man, you look bad. Shhhh. Get in. I'll take you to a safe place." Posted by: JQ, dressed unobtrusively at June 12, 2025 02:00 AM (rdVOm) (a claw-like appendage grabs door handle as car moves off) Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 12, 2025 02:08 AM (0eaVi) 394
But go get my wallet and phone
I think the guy's name is Tony Posted by: Appreciative Miklos -------- Ok. Will let my leetle fren handle it. BRB Posted by: JQ, dressed unobtrusively at June 12, 2025 02:09 AM (rdVOm) 395
The dog Ralphy is dreaming. Cute.
This has been a year of loss. May...Snowflake was taken away by a crazy neighbour. But came back! Sweet. January...Mom...88 years. February....Uncle Leonard....90...I was his go to person. March.... Hard drive died. Lost my Microsoft email. That was a gift that kept giving. April.... Trumpy stolen and relocated. Best cat ever. May....Snowflake... stolen and relocated. June. My living situation is finally being solved. My relationship with my brother is gone. I no longer have family. Tough year. Posted by: Stateless.. 23% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 12, 2025 02:09 AM (jvJvP) 396
The time traveler hypothesis is a fascinating one. Are the "aliens" just some advanced form of "us" from the far-future that has evolved greatly, or some other species from the far future. Based on known physics so far, time-travel is just....highly, *highly* problematic. Consider the famous grandfather paradox. That's a show stopper, a true paradox. But, imagine we somehow rule out such contradictions. You can still have all sorts of perverse stuff that are logically consistent and don't lead to contradictions. Consider a causal loop. Rather than going back in time and killing your grandfather, you go back in time, stumble across you grandfather as a child about to be killed, and you save him. You are now your own cause. You exist because you exist. That is equally perverse. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 12, 2025 02:09 AM (w6EFb) 397
LOL. Riot groupies. Why not?
Posted by: JQ From what I knew about the Deadheads, they were migratory by nature and age. there were always fellow acolytes in and city for support. There was money, from the families or trust funds of some, (very) occasional odd jobs, and marijuana sales. It was a community of Fellow Believers and Travelers, who were there for The Scene. But now with Soros and USAID and all kinds of money. Posted by: Miklos might be smarter than he looks at June 12, 2025 02:09 AM (K6h4I) 398
A bit more, as I think about it. They gave him maps, instructions, scenarios, cheat sheets on what to say to the police, where the bricks would be if/when things got spicy, numbers to call. Backing was highly organized. He said a lot of people would drop out/disappear from city to city. Asked him about the extracurriculars - he understood the question, said sex, drugs were available anytime.
Posted by: scampydog at June 12, 2025 02:11 AM (41CYW) 399
*loud noises and shouting from inside bar*
*runs back and jumps into car, punches accelerator* *spins it around, gravel flying* Here's your wallet & phone, dude. What the? What's this claw thing on the door handle? Where's the rest of... it? Posted by: JQ, dressed unobtrusively at June 12, 2025 02:13 AM (rdVOm) 400
That Porsche commercial.....
I was never a big auto buff but I always appreciated design. My late father used to take me to the annual Automobile Show when I was around that age. This made me literally shed a tear, for my father's memory, and the memory of a simpler, happier world. That plus the scenes from the Kotter theme clip. This is not the mood I wanted to start my day in. 9:13AM here right now. Gotta work. Maybe l8r. Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 12, 2025 02:13 AM (2lp6s) 401
He said a lot of people would drop out/disappear from city to city. Asked him about the extracurriculars - he understood the question, said sex, drugs were available anytime.
Posted by: scampydog Yep Violent Deadheads Posted by: Miklos liked, but is not, a Violent Femme at June 12, 2025 02:14 AM (K6h4I) 402
Pretty much what all our conspiracy theories that we know to be true, are true. He was underage, was arrested / released multiple times. Attorneys on standby to bail him out. Bussed from city to city, paid in cash, got a "one sheet" of instructions, paid motel, etc. Pretty much validated what we all know, but the legacy media and "polite" folk ignore and/or deny. He knew he f*cked up. Did not hire him.
Posted by: scampydog at June 12, 2025 02:05 AM (41CYW) It's a living, I guess. When the grift is large enough, it's a damn good living. See: Stacey Abrams. Posted by: RickZ at June 12, 2025 02:15 AM (gKDq2) 403
What's this claw thing on the door handle? Where's the rest of... it?
Posted by: JQ, dressed unobtrusively While you had their attention, I emptied the till. Pack yer gat and floor it, kid. I know the Sheriff in the next county Posted by: Pretty Boy Miklos at June 12, 2025 02:17 AM (K6h4I) 404
When the grift is large enough, it's a damn good living. See: Stacey Abrams.
Posted by: RickZ To each according to her needs Posted by: the Karl Marx 12 Grift Weight Gain Program at June 12, 2025 02:19 AM (K6h4I) 405
Consider the famous grandfather paradox. That's a show stopper, a true paradox.
Posted by: publius Actually, I found a way around it. Posted by: Philip J. Fry at June 12, 2025 02:19 AM (DgGvY) 406
Posted by: Miklos liked, but is not, a Violent Femme
--------- Heh. Permanent Record mentioned in this Violent Femmes song. https://tinyurl.com/t34wmtrz Posted by: scampydog at June 12, 2025 02:20 AM (41CYW) Posted by: JQ, dressed unobtrusively at June 12, 2025 02:21 AM (rdVOm) 408
Well, past midnight here. Time for some sleep. Night, Horde.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 12, 2025 02:22 AM (NahMG) 409
>> Actually, I found a way around it.
I remember that episode well, laughed my ass off. Both the grandfather paradox and "I'm my own grandpa" wrapped into one. And the ending, "Well, if the Universe will allow such an abomination, then it obviously doesn't care about anything -- to hell with timeline preservation, blast our way out!" Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 12, 2025 02:22 AM (w6EFb) 410
What's this claw thing on the door handle? Where's the rest of... it?
Posted by: JQ, dressed unobtrusively Just tryina open the door for you like a Gentleman I thought you knew *replaces prosthetic hook-arm with spare hook-arm* Posted by: Miklos needs replacement eye-patches, which Amazon sells at June 12, 2025 02:23 AM (K6h4I) 411
Well, past midnight here. Time for some sleep. Night, Horde.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon AOP In beautiful Alberta If you become a State We won't hurt ya Posted by: Miklos on behalf of the US of A at June 12, 2025 02:24 AM (K6h4I) 412
WooHoo!!!
Headed for the county line! youtu.be/i5txwFv-zYM Posted by: JQ, dressed unobtrusively at June 12, 2025 02:21 AM (rdVOm) (sound of a train rumbling down the tracks) Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 12, 2025 02:25 AM (0eaVi) 413
A bit more, as I think about it. They gave him maps, instructions, scenarios, cheat sheets on what to say to the police, where the bricks would be if/when things got spicy, numbers to call. Backing was highly organized. He said a lot of people would drop out/disappear from city to city. Asked him about the extracurriculars - he understood the question, said sex, drugs were available anytime.
Posted by: scampydog at June 12, 2025 02:11 AM (41CYW) That, to my inexperienced in such things eye, creates a big question. Obviously well organized, beyond some local structure. And that was, when? That takes some serious financial sourcing/shenanigans, considering all the cash changing hands. My question still remains: Who is the who or whos? Posted by: RickZ at June 12, 2025 02:25 AM (gKDq2) 414
I read through the collected works of Dickens in high school,
Posted by: Tom Servo I had to read Great Expectorations twice in school. Still don't understand why middle school kids should have any connection to Ms. Havisham. Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 12, 2025 02:26 AM (mlg/3) 415
Just tryina open the door for you like a Gentleman
I thought you knew *replaces prosthetic hook-arm with spare hook-arm* ------- Ohhh, you're so smooth... and silly. *gives a soft punch on the shoulder* Buckle up!!! Posted by: JQ, dressed unobtrusively at June 12, 2025 02:27 AM (rdVOm) 416
Heh. Permanent Record mentioned in this Violent Femmes song.
https://tinyurl.com/t34wmtrz Posted by: scampydog Of course Posted by: 80s kids have that in their permanent mental recordings at June 12, 2025 02:28 AM (K6h4I) 417
'Night, AOP
Posted by: JQ at June 12, 2025 02:28 AM (rdVOm) 418
Was reading elsewhere this evening--
There are some Canadians what are boycotting everything USA. LOL, whatevs! Take. Off. Eh? Posted by: JQ at June 12, 2025 02:30 AM (rdVOm) 419
That, to my inexperienced in such things eye, creates a big question. Obviously well organized, beyond some local structure. And that was, when? That takes some serious financial sourcing/shenanigans, considering all the cash changing hands.
My question still remains: Who is the who or whos? Posted by: RickZ ------------------- Yeah, my curiosity went there too. I came back to that question multiple times with him - he didn't know. I'm of age and experience that he wasn't lying or hiding - he was very transparent. He said he didn't care - the money was good and the life was easy. He was recruited at a protest that he went to. He did mention they had some online footprint/social media-type groups. Posted by: scampydog at June 12, 2025 02:31 AM (41CYW) 420
considering all the cash changing hands.
My question still remains: Who is the who or whos? Posted by: RickZ ------------- A bit more. He said he got paid when he got back to/boarded the bus. Also said when he was sprung, they handed him cash. Posted by: scampydog at June 12, 2025 02:36 AM (41CYW) 421
He did mention they had some online footprint/social media-type groups.
Posted by: scampydog Like antimatter to the Horde or a MoMe. Posted by: Miklos now sees how the universe will end at June 12, 2025 02:38 AM (K6h4I) 422
He said he got paid when he got back to/boarded the bus. Also said when he was sprung, they handed him cash.
Posted by: scampydog --------- Interesting. "Hear that, local (non-political) thugs? THOSE BUSSES ARE FULL OF CASH!!!" Posted by: JQ at June 12, 2025 02:39 AM (rdVOm) 423
He said he got paid when he got back to/boarded the bus. Also said when he was sprung, they handed him cash.
Posted by: scampydog Did having a rap sheet or at least arrest record not bother him? Posted by: Miklos wonders at June 12, 2025 02:40 AM (K6h4I) 424
A bit more. He said he got paid when he got back to/boarded the bus. Also said when he was sprung, they handed him cash.
Posted by: scampydog at June 12, 2025 02:36 AM (41CYW) Well, there's another Pulitzer story laying on the ground waitng for some intrepid reporter to pick it up. Posted by: RickZ at June 12, 2025 02:40 AM (gKDq2) Posted by: Miklos sees the elements of Epic Poetry at June 12, 2025 02:41 AM (K6h4I) 426
Did having a rap sheet or at least arrest record not bother him?
Posted by: Miklos wonders at June 12, 2025 02:40 AM (K6h4I) Modern young adult? Probably couldn't read it anyway. That said, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 12, 2025 02:41 AM (0eaVi) 427
Interesting.
"Hear that, local (non-political) thugs? THOSE BUSSES ARE FULL OF CASH!!!" Posted by: JQ ----------- Ha. Had the same thought, and asked him why they didn't roll the "bus cash dude." He said it was always some white dude (his words) that wasn't on the bus. I asked if it was the same guy. He said, no. Again, a really interesting conversation. Posted by: scampydog at June 12, 2025 02:43 AM (41CYW) 428
Did having a rap sheet or at least arrest record not bother him?
Posted by: Miklos wonders at June 12, 2025 02:40 AM (K6h4I) I believe it was mentioned he was underage. It gets serious once you're 18, depending on the type of protest at which you get arrested. The non-violent civil rights ones, not so much. But arrested for violence is completely different. You might actually go to jail at 18. Posted by: RickZ at June 12, 2025 02:43 AM (gKDq2) 429
That said, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Posted by: OrangeEnt Copyright violation Our attorneys will be in touch Posted by: Nyquil, a key ingredient in Quality Prpl Drank at June 12, 2025 02:45 AM (K6h4I) 430
G'night, Horde. TRex, thanks for another great ONT. See the rest of you vampires in the Club on Saturday.
Posted by: scampydog at June 12, 2025 02:48 AM (41CYW) 431
Scampydog--
In 2020, here in my kinda-little city, I'd notice a particular bus parked in a particular lot, every time there was a local 'demonstration'. Just happenstance that I'd be going by there, but a big green bus stood out, ya know... I will cruise around this Saturday. The local noburgerkingthing will be in a different location, but I'll bet the same fking bus will be there, bringing malcontents from out of town again. Posted by: JQ at June 12, 2025 02:49 AM (rdVOm) 432
'Night, Doggo. See ya Saturday night.
Posted by: JQ at June 12, 2025 02:51 AM (rdVOm) Posted by: Miklos may need to Delegate at June 12, 2025 02:53 AM (K6h4I) 434
I will cruise around this Saturday. The local noburgerkingthing will be in a different location, but I'll bet the same fking bus will be there, bringing malcontents from out of town again.
Posted by: JQ at June 12, 2025 02:49 AM (rdVOm) That's anotyher thing. Ive seen videos/pictures of people getting off and on buses at protests, like a school field trip. Those buses are public conveyances with DOT registrations and numbers. Again, just a small little smidgen of a nudge of an investigation would be interesting. Posted by: RickZ at June 12, 2025 02:54 AM (gKDq2) 435
Those buses are public conveyances with DOT registrations and numbers. Again, just a small little smidgen of a nudge of an investigation would be interesting.
Posted by: RickZ Most Cromulent Posted by: Miklos had not thought of that at June 12, 2025 02:56 AM (K6h4I) 436
Miss Dixie has just indicated her observation that is has been dark for hours.
The sun will rise again in about three. So...lights out? Pretty smart for a dog. Posted by: Horizontally inclined Miklos at June 12, 2025 03:01 AM (K6h4I) 437
He was recruited at a protest that he went to. He did mention they had some online footprint/social media-type groups.
Posted by: scampydog Seems like a reasonably qualified investigatory agency should be able to track and identify participants in these organic shenanigans. I may start developing a severe case of the doubts if we don't start seeing our G-men start taking down some of the behind the scenes asshats. Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at June 12, 2025 03:01 AM (JhYv0) 438
Seems like a reasonably qualified investigatory agency should be able to track and identify participants in these organic shenanigans. I may start developing a severe case of the doubts if we don't start seeing our G-men start taking down some of the behind the scenes asshats.
Posted by: Sock Monkey Right? Like, (they) know all those phones at Kammie rallies & whatever else. Not gonna convince me, that our various agencies don't already know *exactly* who and where all these asshoes are. Posted by: JQ at June 12, 2025 03:08 AM (rdVOm) 439
'Night, Miklos and Miss Dixie Doodle!
Posted by: JQ at June 12, 2025 03:09 AM (rdVOm) 440
Not gonna convince me, that our various agencies don't already know *exactly* who and where all these asshoes are.
Posted by: JQ at June 12, 2025 03:08 AM (rdVOm) After how they found Grandma for being anywhere near the Capital on Jan 6.... their excuse about lacking capability to do so... is moot. Posted by: Romeo13 at June 12, 2025 03:10 AM (mP0Kj) 441
Like, (they) know all those phones at Kammie rallies & whatever else.
Not gonna convince me, that our various agencies don't already know *exactly* who and where all these asshoes are. Posted by: JQ at June 12, 2025 03:08 AM (rdVOm) J-6ers. Many arrested based upon cell phone location data. Some were in D.C. and not at the Capital. Posted by: RickZ at June 12, 2025 03:11 AM (gKDq2) 442
After how they found Grandma for being anywhere near the Capital on Jan 6.... their excuse about lacking capability to do so... is moot.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 12, 2025 03:10 AM (mP0Kj) The FBI knows the identity of the Agent we know as 'The J-6 Piper Bomber'. Posted by: RickZ at June 12, 2025 03:12 AM (gKDq2) Posted by: JQ at June 12, 2025 03:13 AM (rdVOm) 444
Good night, horde. Sleepytime.
Posted by: JQ at June 12, 2025 03:26 AM (rdVOm) 445
After how they found Grandma for being anywhere near the Capital on Jan 6.... their excuse about lacking capability to do so... is moot.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 12, 2025 03:10 AM (mP0Kj) They wanted to find grandma. Posted by: Pete Bog at June 12, 2025 03:30 AM (cOyB6) 446
They wanted to find grandma.
Posted by: Pete Bog at June 12, 2025 03:30 AM (cOyB6) That's the reason the left think they can get away with anything, nobody looked very hard. Two-tier justice/entrapment. Posted by: RickZ at June 12, 2025 03:39 AM (gKDq2) 447
The weekend is here
Posted by: Skip at June 12, 2025 03:55 AM (+qU29) 448
Well, thought a scotch was in order but need to get up again in a few hours, so no Melatonin either
Posted by: Skip at June 12, 2025 04:10 AM (+qU29) 449
Wow today is my Nephew's 50th birthday. Lives in Johannesburg and I do worry.
Posted by: Ciampino - lots of happiness at June 12, 2025 04:25 AM (sPQoU) 450
I would worry a lot on that too
Posted by: Skip at June 12, 2025 04:26 AM (+qU29) 451
Daniel Hreenfield of "FrontPage" Magazine went there; "Arrest Californiia's political leaders" and the riots will stop. An absolutely devastating indictment of California's politics. I had no idea that "La Raza" or "The Race" or the idea that people of Latino background are. a superior race was started by. Nazi collaborator. I'd link it, but tinyurl is not cooperating . I expect that J.J might have it for todays MR as he frequently includes interesting articles from "FrontPage".
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 12, 2025 04:34 AM (UHTyd) 452
Sorry; Greenfield not Hreenfield.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 12, 2025 04:35 AM (UHTyd) 453
Posted by: Ciampino - lots of happiness at June 12, 2025 04:25 AM (sPQoU)
That's understandable. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 12, 2025 04:37 AM (UHTyd) Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 12, 2025 04:57 AM (xG4kz) 455
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