Mid-Morning Art Thread

Sunny Slopes
Gardner Symons

Posted by: CBD at 09:38 AM

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1 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 09:39 AM (AaWBX)

2 Oops! It's the 25th...not the 24th!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at June 25, 2025 09:39 AM (L5An7)

3 Corgis called

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 09:39 AM (AaWBX)

4 brrrr

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2025 09:39 AM (gbOdA)

5 top 5!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2025 09:39 AM (omVj0)

6 2 Oops! It's the 25th...not the 24th!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at June 25, 2025 09:39 AM (L5An7)

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Says who?

The government?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 09:39 AM (GBKbO)

7 Winter scene -- most welcome in a sour hot June!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2025 09:39 AM (omVj0)

8 Trees, so, art.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 09:39 AM (AaWBX)

9 Smithsonian American Art Museum

Title
Sunny Slopes
Artist
Gardner Symons
Date
n.d.
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
40 1⁄8 x 50 1⁄8 in. (101.8 x 127.3 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Louis Betts
Mediums
oil
Mediums Description
oil on canvas

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2025 09:40 AM (gbOdA)

10 Love it.

Posted by: tubal at June 25, 2025 09:40 AM (PCK5/)

11 Looks more like a filtered photograph than a painting

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 09:40 AM (BjH5D)

12 Very nice. Thanks, CBD.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 09:40 AM (77rzZ)

13 Looks like a scene from Jeremiah Johnson w/ Robt. Redford. Wonderful details of the water, the tree bark, and the branches across the stream.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2025 09:40 AM (omVj0)

14

Wolves won't find the body until spring...

Posted by: Elderly Git at June 25, 2025 09:41 AM (lPida)

15 You can tell it's not a Thomas Kinkade piece because there are no LEDs.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 25, 2025 09:41 AM (hY4dx)

16 That house without power over there with the Trump sign out front, we can skip.

Posted by: FEMA at June 25, 2025 09:41 AM (w9Wax)

17 would not hang

Posted by: Gref at June 25, 2025 09:41 AM (aBgBM)

18 I expected the artist’s name to be Russian.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 09:41 AM (77rzZ)

19 Hard to tell from the perspective, but are the buildings on the flood plain?

Posted by: tubal at June 25, 2025 09:41 AM (PCK5/)

20 Harder to see the nekkid woman in today's art

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 09:42 AM (t0Rmr)

21 Snow is nice but I miss the naked wimmenz.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 25, 2025 09:42 AM (hY4dx)

22 Would paint on the side of my Free Candy van.

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 09:42 AM (jc0TO)

23 Very nice landscape. Would hang, but, then again, I'm an ignorant sucker when it comes to art.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 09:42 AM (f7c5w)

24 Well done but doesn’t elicit any feeling from me.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 09:42 AM (VofaG)

25 I prefer Bob Ross landscapes.

Posted by: Art Critic at June 25, 2025 09:42 AM (JCZqz)

26 Today is June 25th, not December 25th.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 25, 2025 09:42 AM (NpAcC)

27 I like it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 25, 2025 09:43 AM (bss/y)

28 Aren't there some spotted horses hidden in the trees? Or maybe that's the sniper.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 09:43 AM (uWKK8)

29 Looks a bit like one of those "find the horses" paintings.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 25, 2025 09:43 AM (lFFaq)

30 Sunny Slopes

The thing about Sunny Slopes Ski Resorts is that there are no chairlifts- you have to hike. The good news is that it's only have to climb about ten yards.

Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2025 09:43 AM (YiWOf)

31 We should loot the Smithsonian and put all the art they have squirreled away on display. I think almost every museum and gallery hogs art this way. Just a few poofters ever get to see some of the best stuff. Shameful!

Posted by: Art For the (M)asses at June 25, 2025 09:43 AM (G5+As)

32 20 Harder to see the nekkid woman in today's art
Posted by: 18-1

In the houses in the background? Or ice bathing just upstream?

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 25, 2025 09:43 AM (JCZqz)

33 That's not snow, it's radioactive ash from Trump's nuclear war and net neutrality, but mostly net neutrality.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 09:43 AM (BjH5D)

34 Winter scene -- most welcome in a sour hot June!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

As today's kids would say, "it's AI. It's a fake. Everyone knows there's no snow in June!"

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 09:44 AM (AaWBX)

35 Harder to see the nekkid woman in today's art
Posted by: 18-1

Albino women are hot!

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at June 25, 2025 09:44 AM (w9Wax)

36 A peaceful , easy feeling is what I get… which is swimming against the overall currents here..

Posted by: tubal at June 25, 2025 09:44 AM (PCK5/)

37 23 Very nice landscape. Would hang, but, then again, I'm an ignorant sucker when it comes to art.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 09:42 AM (f7c5w)

Well, if you hang it between your Dogs playing poker and your Velvet Elvis and below your Star Trek commemorative plates...

Nah, even then- like what you like.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 25, 2025 09:44 AM (bss/y)

38 The buildings in the background are the compound of an obscure cult devoted to Zoroastrianism.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 25, 2025 09:44 AM (hY4dx)

39 Looks nippy.

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 09:44 AM (jc0TO)

40 Harder to see the nekkid woman in today's art
Posted by: 18-1

They are the ones cutting glass with their nipples.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 09:44 AM (AaWBX)

41 Was this on the cover of Field And Stream??

Posted by: dantesed at June 25, 2025 09:45 AM (Oy/m2)

42 A Nukular Glow coming from those buildings in the distance would be nice. And you have a running creek and no water wheel? Amateur!

Posted by: Kinkade Gallery, FTW at June 25, 2025 09:46 AM (G5+As)

43 Sunny Slopes
Needs some skiers.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 25, 2025 09:46 AM (NpAcC)

44 Let me get my waders.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 25, 2025 09:47 AM (hY4dx)

45 Well, isn't that pretty!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 09:47 AM (6o/o0)

46 Too warm here for nice white birches like that to survive. Have river birches, though.

Posted by: Birch Report at June 25, 2025 09:48 AM (G5+As)

47 I would absolutely retire to that spot.

Posted by: PabloD at June 25, 2025 09:48 AM (Dsfkc)

48 >>As today's kids would say, "it's AI. It's a fake. Everyone knows there's no snow in June!"

Unless Al Gore is scheduled to visit.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 09:48 AM (6o/o0)

49 I (fortunately) have not been in snowy realms often, but I have been in the mountains a few times, and I love what he's caught here - it's early morning, an hour at most after sunrise, and everything is fresh and clear and warming up for the day. Always a marvelous time of day.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 09:48 AM (uWKK8)

50 That is lovely . Nice to look at when it's going to 95 degrees out here today . I'd not heard of that artist . Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 09:49 AM (2GCMq)

51 This needs a John Denver soundtrack.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 25, 2025 09:49 AM (hY4dx)

52 Today is June 25th, not December 25th.
Posted by: redridinghood at June 25, 2025 09:42 AM (NpAcC)

6 months since last Christmas and 6 months until Christmas 2025. It's the half-birthday of Jesus!

Posted by: Doof at June 25, 2025 09:50 AM (B5+rm)

53 It even has yellow snow. Authentic!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 25, 2025 09:50 AM (NC42u)

54 I will brook no disparaging comments about today's pick!
The downstream effect of the colors and subject choice are calmness.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 09:50 AM (6o/o0)

55 Looks nippy.
Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 09:44 AM (jc0TO)
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Harder to see the nekkid woman in today's art
Posted by: 18-1
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A metaphorical theme.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 09:50 AM (f7c5w)

56 The thing about Sunny Slopes Ski Resorts is that there are no chairlifts- you have to hike. The good news is that it's only have to climb about ten yards.
Posted by: t-bird

Here at Sunny Slopes we have short runs and free ski washes!

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 25, 2025 09:50 AM (1U8ba)

57 I like the water. I can smell that painting.

Posted by: H at June 25, 2025 09:51 AM (2gjbv)

58 Very nice , would hang. In the winter I can walk 1 1/2 miles and see this view in nature
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 09:51 AM (pwtJC)

59 Looks nippy.
Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 09:44 AM (jc0TO)

That does happen to them when it's cold

Posted by: Doof at June 25, 2025 09:51 AM (B5+rm)

60 Very nice... But I would have called it Snowy Slopes...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2025 09:51 AM (VE6XX)

61 Lovely landscape. You can almost hear the water flowing over the rocks in the stream. Symons is listed as an American Impressionist but the only part of this painting that seems Impressionistic is the water. (Shades of Givenchy.) The rest is beautifully realistic without being a photograph. It is restful, soft, like the first thaw of winter awakening into early spring. Very nice. Definitely something I would hang.

Posted by: JTB at June 25, 2025 09:51 AM (yTvNw)

62 If this was hanging in an art museum, I'd walk right past and head for something with a historical theme.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 25, 2025 09:52 AM (hY4dx)

63 I do like that the painting exhibits the fact that snow isn’t seen as mostly white.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 09:52 AM (VofaG)

64 CBD shouldn't post paintings of a river. He's not a painter. He'a not a river. What does he even know about river paintings?? Don't disrespect rivers by posting about what you can't understand!
-Eeyore

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 25, 2025 09:52 AM (RIvkX)

65 June Lockhart has seen one hundred winters like this. She was even in A Christmas Carol (193

Posted by: Lost In Space at June 25, 2025 09:52 AM (G5+As)

66 65 June Lockhart has seen one hundred winters like this. She was even in A Christmas Carol (193.
Posted by: Lost In Space at June 25, 2025 09:52 AM (G5+As)

Yes... As one of the Cratchit kids...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2025 09:53 AM (VE6XX)

67 Posted by: tubal at June 25, 2025 09:44 AM (PCK5/)

Sometimes it good just to get out of the stream here for a while.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 09:53 AM (2GCMq)

68 Another part of this painting I enjoy is the way he captures shadow, as if the sun is just arisen and the area is waking from winter.

Posted by: JTB at June 25, 2025 09:54 AM (yTvNw)

69 I like the water. I can smell that painting.
Posted by: H

I can hear the water running.

Crap. I gotta pee.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 09:54 AM (AaWBX)

70 I learned from Waylon and Willie that cowboys love clear mountain mornings. And girls of the night.

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 25, 2025 09:54 AM (1U8ba)

71 I will brook no disparaging comments about today's pick!
The downstream effect of the colors and subject choice are calmness.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 09:50 AM (6o/o0)

What are you babbling about?

Posted by: dantesed at June 25, 2025 09:56 AM (Oy/m2)

72 Could have thrown in a gratuitous beaver, or at least a muskrat, or nutria.

Posted by: Tales of the Riverbank at June 25, 2025 09:57 AM (G5+As)

73 Posted by: JTB at June 25, 2025 09:51 AM (yTvNw)

It’s very much impressionist as the style was first started but far from post Impressionism which most people just call Impressionism, including me.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 09:57 AM (VofaG)

74 The slopes were sunny that day, my friends...

Posted by: George Costanza at June 25, 2025 09:57 AM (lIgBp)

75 Picnic Supplies - a limerick

My neighbor could never have guessed
That my comment was simply a jest
His ire rapidly rose
And he punched me in the nose
When I observed "Your wife has an ice chest!"

Posted by: muldoon at June 25, 2025 09:57 AM (poXs5)

76 Lovely scene. Perfect for a hot, humid day. Would hang.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 09:59 AM (dPfyF)

77 Posted by: muldoon at June 25, 2025 09:57 AM

*golf clap*

And bewbs.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 09:59 AM (dPfyF)

78 June Lockhart has seen one hundred winters like this. She was even in A Christmas Carol 1938
Posted by: Lost In Space

Yes... As one of the Cratchit kids...
Posted by: It's me donna

As Belinda Cratchit. Along with her mom & dad.
Gene played Bob Cratchit & Kathleen played Mrs. Cratchit.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 10:00 AM (AaWBX)

79 >>This needs a John Denver soundtrack.

Brooks and Dunn

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 10:01 AM (6o/o0)

80 72 Could have thrown in a gratuitous beaver, or at least a muskrat, or nutria.
Posted by: Tales of the Riverbank

I'm pretty sure I saw gratuitous beaver open backstage for Gwar after their performance at The Pageant last fall.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 25, 2025 10:01 AM (JCZqz)

81 >>What are you babbling about?

Rapid, random thoughts. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 10:01 AM (6o/o0)

82 I'm pretty sure I saw gratuitous beaver open backstage for Gwar after their performance at The Pageant last fall.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 25, 2025 10:01 AM

Please refrain from posting any pictures you might have of this.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 10:02 AM (dPfyF)

83 Beaver? I just met her!

Posted by: Rimshot at June 25, 2025 10:03 AM (lIgBp)

84 When I observed "Your wife has an ice chest!"

*********

"Really. I saw it on your patio when I looked over the fence."

Posted by: muldoon at June 25, 2025 10:03 AM (poXs5)

85 That looks like an ice fishing spot!

Posted by: muldoon at June 25, 2025 10:04 AM (poXs5)

86 So it was the reformed Scrooge who bought Lassie for Tiny Timmy?

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:05 AM (77rzZ)

87 Rapid, random thoughts. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 10:01 AM

Flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 10:05 AM (dPfyF)

88 "Stop killing bunnies to make bunny slopes!"

/obligatory Donkey-Chompers

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump Dropped 12 Bunker-Busters Followed By One F-Bomb at June 25, 2025 10:06 AM (DbVei)

89 CBD might have posted this as a thirst trap to MisHum, in hopes of motivating him to take the art thread for a couple of days.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 10:06 AM (Bbwdx)

90 The Reginald Owen Scrooge is definitely the weakest one. Far inferior to Alistair Sim’s rendition.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:07 AM (77rzZ)

91

You think you're scared? I have to walk back alone!

Posted by: Ed Gein at June 25, 2025 10:07 AM (lPida)

92 Dripping, swirling, gurgling and lapping gently at the recesses of my watery consciousness...

Posted by: Thoroughly Thoreau at June 25, 2025 10:07 AM (lIgBp)

93 The title might have been "Almost Opening Day of Trout Season". The guys in the cabins are getting their gear ready and going through their fly boxes while sipping morning coffee.

Considering the surface of the sun temperatures we've had this week, this scene is very welcome.

Posted by: JTB at June 25, 2025 10:08 AM (yTvNw)

94 This was the gift of "Mrs. Louis Betts"? Cleaning out the attic, after Mr. Louis Betts failed to return alive from a fishing trip...

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 10:09 AM (Bbwdx)

95 That's how I feel when I fall asleep with the air conditioner too high. I wake up shivvering.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:11 AM (VAINm)

96 Looks like my neighborhood. In June.

Posted by: Pete Bog at June 25, 2025 10:11 AM (NMKkE)

97 Aren't there some spotted horses hidden in the trees?

********

They're not real.

Painted Phonies

Posted by: muldoon at June 25, 2025 10:11 AM (poXs5)

98 Raacist!

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:12 AM (VAINm)

99 They're not real.

Painted Phonies
Posted by: muldoon at June 25, 2025 10:11 AM (poXs5)

Like Night Mares?

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:13 AM (VofaG)

100 Is this the slippery slope I keep hearing about?

Posted by: muldoon at June 25, 2025 10:13 AM (poXs5)

101 As Belinda Cratchit. Along with her mom & dad.
Gene played Bob Cratchit & Kathleen played Mrs. Cratchit.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 10:00 AM (AaWBX)

Best version of the character was Mrs. Scratchit in Blackadder's Christmas Carol. "Mrs Scratchit, Tiny Tom is fifteen stone and he’s built like a brick privy! If he eats any more heartily, he will turn into a pie shop."

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 10:14 AM (uWKK8)

102 90 The Reginald Owen Scrooge is definitely the weakest one. Far inferior to Alistair Sim’s rendition.
Posted by: Bulg

Anyone who enjoys Alistair Sim would like a 1946 movie he made-Green For Danger. Plays a Scotland Yard investigator sleuthing mysterious deaths at a field hospital in the English countryside during the war. Good film, complete with V-1s hitting nearby. The sound of the pulse jet is haunting. Duck when the sound stops!

Posted by: Out Of Gas at June 25, 2025 10:14 AM (G5+As)

103 I feel like that character in the Night Gallery who would to to the gallery and intensely concentrate on putting himself into the painting.

I would really like to be in that chilly environment right now.
Outdoors, I mean.

Posted by: kallisto at June 25, 2025 10:16 AM (dCxaZ)

104 That house looks like a fine place to nestle in front of a roaring hearth with a steaming mug of hot cocoa on a snowy winter's eve and write a manifesto.

Posted by: muldoon at June 25, 2025 10:16 AM (poXs5)

105 Goid place for a canoe accident.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:17 AM (VAINm)

106 It's not so easy to paint snow. A lot more going on in those vast expanses of white than one would think.

Posted by: kallisto at June 25, 2025 10:17 AM (dCxaZ)

107 It's a nice painting. Like the details. The artist done a good job of a winter landscape. The problem I have with it is I don't really like winter scenery. I don't like cold and snow. Like I wouldn't like a sweltering summer day scene. So I would pass on this.

Posted by: Case at June 25, 2025 10:18 AM (ilX37)

108 A string of poloponies

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 10:18 AM (sfdl6)

109 If you like watching time lapse painting google up Michael James Smith Dramatic Snow painting vid.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:19 AM (VofaG)

110 That house looks like a fine place to nestle in front of a roaring hearth with a steaming mug of hot cocoa on a snowy winter's eve and write a manifesto.
Posted by: muldoon at June 25, 2025 10:16 AM (poXs5)

Hah ISWYDT

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:20 AM (VofaG)

111 G'day, y'all.

What a cool, refreshing picture to offset the end-of-June Oklahoma heat.

Posted by: mindful webworker - lo, 'tis another day at June 25, 2025 10:20 AM (0NO3o)

112 I’d like to know where this was painted.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:21 AM (77rzZ)

113 A lot more going on in those vast expanses of white than one would think.
Posted by: kallisto at June 25, 2025 10:17 AM (dCxaZ)

I have the same trouble with my redheads. Their milky skin is deceptively complex.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 10:21 AM (sfdl6)

114 108 A string of poloponies
Posted by: ...

My sister Violet and her husband Bruce own a Mercedes and have room for a pony.

Posted by: Bucket Residence at June 25, 2025 10:21 AM (G5+As)

115 Lovely serene painting. Right now I would love to have some snow. I’d love to have some humidity that isn’t 70%. Although today at least it’s cloudy and the temperature is 78 as opposed to the 103 we had yesterday.

Posted by: Jen the original at June 25, 2025 10:21 AM (+WLao)

116
Sunny Slopes

The hottest porn star of the 1960s.

Known for her 44DD chest and ice skater's rear, she's most famous for starring in:

"Snow Job"

"Snow Job 2"

"Bunny Slopes!"

"Asscapades"

She retired in 1972 after she married a Nigerian Prince.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 25, 2025 10:22 AM (iJfKG)

117 I see CBD gave us boobs yesterday. And snizz.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:23 AM (77rzZ)

118 It's not so easy to paint snow. A lot more going on in those vast expanses of white than one would think.
Posted by: kallisto at June 25, 2025 10:17 AM (dCxaZ)

Painting snow with spray paint might work. But rollers and brushes would probably disturb the snow too much.

Posted by: Doof at June 25, 2025 10:23 AM (B5+rm)

119

White snow is raciss...

Posted by: Barky Ofuckstick at June 25, 2025 10:23 AM (lPida)

120 116 She retired in 1972 after she married a Nigerian Prince.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 25, 2025 10:22 AM (iJfKG)

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The Grace Kelly of her corner of cinema.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 10:23 AM (GBKbO)

121 118 Painting snow with spray paint might work. But rollers and brushes would probably disturb the snow too much.
Posted by: Doof at June 25, 2025 10:23 AM (B5+rm)

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I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 10:23 AM (GBKbO)

122 So like a photograph.

How I wish I could roll in that snow for a few minutes!

Thanks for the relief!

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 25, 2025 10:24 AM (NFX2v)

123 I would absolutely hang this art, particularly in the hot days of summer.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 25, 2025 10:25 AM (O7YUW)

124 Painting snowscapes was this artist’s specialty.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:25 AM (VofaG)

125 We are proud owners of ice skater's rears!

Posted by: Brian Boitano and Rudy Galindo! at June 25, 2025 10:25 AM (G5+As)

126 125 We are proud owners of ice skater's rears!
Posted by: Brian Boitano and Rudy Galindo! at June 25, 2025 10:25 AM (G5+As)

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What would you do?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 10:26 AM (GBKbO)

127 Known for her 44DD chest and ice skater's rear, she's most famous for starring in:

"Snow Job"

"Snow Job 2"

"Bunny Slopes!"

"Asscapades"

She retired in 1972 after she married a Nigerian Prince.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 25, 2025 10:22 AM (iJfKG)

He liked Big Butts and he could not lie.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 10:27 AM (uWKK8)

128 How I wish I could roll in that snow for a few minutes!
Posted by: L - No nic

I wonder if that's how Eskimos describe sex...

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:27 AM (77rzZ)

129 Painting snow with spray paint might work. But rollers and brushes would probably disturb the snow too much.
Posted by: Doof at June 25, 2025 10:23 AM (B5+rm)

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I don't get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 10:23 AM (GBKbO)

*pats Monroe on the head*

We know. It's OK.

Posted by: Doof at June 25, 2025 10:27 AM (B5+rm)

130 I think Muldoon would be proud of one of the minor league hockey team’s name we had in our Louisiana league.

Lafayette Ice Gators

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:27 AM (VofaG)

131 129 *pats Monroe on the head*

We know. It's OK.
Posted by: Doof at June 25, 2025 10:27 AM (B5+rm)

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I don't know how to respond to this.

Because I can't read it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 10:28 AM (GBKbO)

132 "Iran’s foreign ministry confirmed that its nuclear facilities were 'badly damaged' in the strikes, contradicting a leaked U.S. intelligence assessment that suggested the destruction was less extensive."

CNN, NYT and MSDNC hardest hit.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 25, 2025 10:29 AM (Y1sOo)

133 Hey, TJM. I made my first visit to a War of 1812 battlefield when I was back in Michigan. River Raisin National Battlefield Park, in Monroe. Most American casualties of the war, between two battles and a massacre of US POWs afterward by the Indians.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:29 AM (77rzZ)

134 132 "Iran’s foreign ministry confirmed that its nuclear facilities were 'badly damaged' in the strikes, contradicting a leaked U.S. intelligence assessment that suggested the destruction was less extensive."

CNN, NYT and MSDNC hardest hit.
Posted by: one hour sober at June 25, 2025 10:29 AM (Y1sOo)

======

My bet:

No one knows because no one can get to Fordow and won't be able to for weeks, at a minimum.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 10:30 AM (GBKbO)

135 "Stop killing bunnies to make bunny slopes!"

/obligatory Donkey-Chompers
Posted by: ShainS

Loin Chops - $3.99/lb

They're killing lions up in here!
Posted by: AOC

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 10:30 AM (AaWBX)

136 "Iran’s foreign ministry confirmed that its nuclear facilities were 'badly damaged' in the strikes

I hope they bought the extended warranty.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 25, 2025 10:30 AM (vYDwg)

137 Posted by: one hour sober at June 25, 2025 10:29 AM (Y1sOo)

Now I’m leaning toward not damaged as much as we had thought.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:30 AM (VofaG)

138 What does lion taste like?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:30 AM (VAINm)

139 133 Hey, TJM. I made my first visit to a War of 1812 battlefield when I was back in Michigan. River Raisin National Battlefield Park, in Monroe. Most American casualties of the war, between two battles and a massacre of US POWs afterward by the Indians.
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:29 AM (77rzZ)

=======

REMEMBER THE RAISIN!

Rallying cry during the War.

That's really neat. I need to someday make it to Lake Erie and go out on the water. Could probably make a family trip out of it. Our VA trip last year was generally quite a success, and it was centered on American history, something Dolley is largely uninterested in.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 10:31 AM (GBKbO)

140 "Iran’s foreign ministry confirmed that its nuclear facilities were 'badly damaged' in the strikes, contradicting a leaked U.S. intelligence assessment that suggested the destruction was less extensive."

CNN, NYT and MSDNC hardest hit.
Posted by: one hour sober

My bet:

No one knows because no one can get to Fordow and won't be able to for ~~weeks~~ 5,000 years, at a minimum.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Fixed for leaky uranium.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 10:31 AM (AaWBX)

141 132 "Iran’s foreign ministry confirmed that its nuclear facilities were 'badly damaged' in the strikes, contradicting a leaked U.S. intelligence assessment that suggested the destruction was less extensive."

CNN, NYT and MSDNC hardest hit.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 25, 2025 10:29 AM (Y1sOo)

And the dem playbook continues:

1. Iran is totally innocent and doesn't want nuclear weapons.
2. It's wrong for Trump to bomb a country and take away their non-nuclear weapons.
3. Trump's airstrike barely even put a dent into Iran's ability to make nuclear weapons!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2025 10:31 AM (KbCG3)

142 It's a nice painting. Very well done. I dislike snow so there's that, but otherwise to quote Crispin Glover "It's good."

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 25, 2025 10:31 AM (WPL6O)

143 Lion Chops. They're Great!

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:31 AM (VAINm)

144 What does lion taste like?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:30 AM (VAINm

I don't know but-

I've heard it's the cat's meow!

Posted by: naturalfake at June 25, 2025 10:32 AM (iJfKG)

145 Lafayette Ice Gators
Posted by: polynikes

*********

Nice.

Minor league teams, both baseball and hockey, have some great wordplay in their naming.

Posted by: muldoon at June 25, 2025 10:32 AM (poXs5)

146 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Beautiful art. I have one similar hanging in the Cave of Diogenes.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: The Paolo at June 25, 2025 10:32 AM (W/lyH)

147
No one knows because no one can get to Fordow and won't be able to for weeks, at a minimum.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 10:30 AM (GBKbO

Yet the "media" is still running with the hardly any damage story with "experts" saying no bomb could penetrate them...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2025 10:32 AM (VE6XX)

148 Yes, it's hot and humid in New England. It's temporary.

Down here, we call it "late spring/summer/early fall."

Anyway, as we often do, my wife and I went out on the boat yesterday, anchoring just offshore of the naval air station to watch the Blue Angels practice.

Afterward, upon our return to the marina, there was a speedboat with a flashy paint job tied off at the fuel pumps, the boat's name splashed across the bow:

"Titan Uranus"

We laughed.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 25, 2025 10:33 AM (Y1sOo)

149
Waiter, I'll have my Lion Chops medium roar.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 25, 2025 10:33 AM (iJfKG)

150 Sorry, mullahs, but his definitely comes under our Act of War Exclusion.

Posted by: Like A Bad Neighbor, State Farm Ain't There at June 25, 2025 10:33 AM (vYDwg)

151 What does lion taste like?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:30 AM (VAINm

Don't know - but if you want to know what it sounds like, turn on CNN.

Ho ho hooooo

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 10:34 AM (sfdl6)

152 140 Fixed for leaky uranium.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 10:31 AM (AaWBX)

=======

Uranium storage should be the most secure and deepest built part of that kind of facility.

Especially since it needs to be held and maintained in liquid form at a constant 135 degrees.

Is it there? Probably (moving thousands of tons of liquid uranium is not...easy). Was the storage antechamber damaged? It's an assumption.

I dunno. I'm just doubtful. What would probably kill it harder is if the power failed and the temp maintenance stopped working.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 10:34 AM (GBKbO)

153 Hey, TJM. I made my first visit to a War of 1812 battlefield when I was back in Michigan. River Raisin National Battlefield Park, in Monroe. Most American casualties of the war, between two battles and a massacre of US POWs afterward by the Indians.
Posted by: Bulg
____________

The whole war on Michigan/Canada front was particularly nasty. Lots of burning and pillaging by both sides. And the canuks and brits pretty much kicked our asses.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 25, 2025 10:34 AM (ITkJX)

154 Our VA trip last year was generally quite a success, and it was centered on American history, something Dolley is largely uninterested in.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

You've got boys. They'll likely get into military history at some point, and make up for Dolley's lack of interest.

There's also a fine equestrian statue of George Custer in downtown Monroe, as the lived there when he was young.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:34 AM (77rzZ)

155 Was that Travis Kelce's boat?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:34 AM (VAINm)

156 Senator Tillis, one of my favorites, is out there saying if we make cuts to Medicaid we will lose the Midterms and the 28 Presidency....

Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2025 10:35 AM (VE6XX)

157 Seriously when is the last time the Left wasn't lying or wrong or both. The early 90's?

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 10:35 AM (sfdl6)

158 154 You've got boys. They'll likely get into military history at some point, and make up for Dolley's lack of interest.

There's also a fine equestrian statue of George Custer in downtown Monroe, as the lived there when he was young.
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:34 AM (77rzZ)

=======

Fingers crossed!

This summer is Italy. Summer of 2027 will probably be England (Dolley's 40th). Summer of 2026? Maybe.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 10:35 AM (GBKbO)

159 Turns out, there is crying in baseball.

Arizona Diamondbacks' Ketel Marte breaks down in tears midgame after fan's verbal assault

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 10:36 AM (L/fGl)

160 Loin Chops - $3.99/lb

They're killing lions up in here!
Posted by: AOC

Actual clip on Fb Reels. Some hoodrat misread the sign in the butcher's case and she legit thought they were selling lion chops.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 10:37 AM (AaWBX)

161 What does lion taste like?

*********

Faintly reminiscent of slow natives.

Posted by: muldoon at June 25, 2025 10:37 AM (poXs5)

162 What does lion taste like?
Posted by: Boss Moss

There used to be a restaurant here in Northern Virginia, The Serbian Crown, that actually served things like lion meat.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:37 AM (77rzZ)

163 There is crying in baseball in Colorado.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:37 AM (VAINm)

164 159 Turns out, there is crying in baseball.

Arizona Diamondbacks' Ketel Marte breaks down in tears midgame after fan's verbal assault

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 10:36 AM (L/fGl)

Apparently the dude made a comment about Marte's mother being killed in a car accident a few years ago.

I think in certain instances, fans should get super special access to the clubhouse. This is one of those instances.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2025 10:37 AM (KbCG3)

165 polynikes,

I hope you send in that lighthouse painting you mentioned last week for the next hobby thread. I've been playing around with some sketches. The results so far would make an engineer scream in horror but they do provide some humor.

Posted by: JTB at June 25, 2025 10:38 AM (yTvNw)

166 Arizona Diamondbacks' Ketel Marte breaks down in tears midgame after fan's verbal assault

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 10:36 AM (L/fGl)

What did they say to her?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 10:38 AM (ExV1e)

167 Turns out, there is crying in baseball.

Arizona Diamondbacks' Ketel Marte breaks down in tears midgame after fan's verbal assault

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 10:36 AM (L/fGl)

I just watched Mr Baseball with Tom Selleck again a few nights ago . It holds up really well.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:38 AM (VofaG)

168 167 Turns out, there is crying in baseball.

Arizona Diamondbacks' Ketel Marte breaks down in tears midgame after fan's verbal assault

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 10:36 AM (L/fGl)

I just watched Mr Baseball with Tom Selleck again a few nights ago . It holds up really well.
Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:38 AM (VofaG)

Did you tip your cap?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2025 10:38 AM (KbCG3)

169 I just watched Mr Baseball with Tom Selleck again a few nights ago . It holds up really well.
Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:38 AM (VofaG)

Aya Takanashi is purty.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 10:40 AM (ExV1e)

170 Seriously when is the last time the Left wasn't lying or wrong or both. The early 90's?
Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 10:35 AM (sfdl6)

Not even the 1790s.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 10:40 AM (BjH5D)

171 Finally! A DU commenter reveals something we haven't considered:

"We are fighting the wrong enemy.

One enemy stands out above all the others.

Above ICE agents.
Above Iran.
Above Russia.
Even above Donald Trump.

That enemy is the Republican Party. I am not talking about the average Republican voter. I am talking about elected Republicans in Washington DC. None of the above would be able to do what they are doing without the approval of elected Republicans.

Why are they the enemy? Because they want this country to become fascist. They want to destroy our democracy. They vote and support the cruel policies of Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Ice agents, and to destroy our Constitution. They want to take away your vote.

In my opinion, they are domestic enemy #1."

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 25, 2025 10:41 AM (0sNs1)

172 Turns out, there is crying in baseball.

Arizona Diamondbacks' Ketel Marte breaks down in tears midgame after fan's verbal assault

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 10:36 AM (L/fGl)

Apparently the dude made a comment about Marte's mother being killed in a car accident a few years ago.

I think in certain instances, fans should get super special access to the clubhouse. This is one of those instances.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

As an MLB player, criticize my athletic skills and I'll laugh at you. I'm being paid yo play. You are paying to watch.

Say something like what that fan said? I'm coming up into the stands.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 10:41 AM (AaWBX)

173 Apparently the dude made a comment about Marte's mother being killed in a car accident a few years ago.

Yeesh. That's a little worse than the "Yer a stinkin' Bum, Marte!" that I had imagined.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 25, 2025 10:42 AM (vYDwg)

174 Reminds me of the weird feeling you get when it's cold but the sun is warming your face at the same time.

Then you close your eyes and see an empty field of warm blood red.

Kind of a feeling of renewal.

Posted by: pawn at June 25, 2025 10:42 AM (QB+5g)

175 It's so cute when Democrats act like they care about the Constitution...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 25, 2025 10:42 AM (PiwSw)

176 Senator Tillis, one of my favorites, is out there saying if we make cuts to Medicaid we will lose the Midterms and the 28 Presidency....
Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2025 10:35 AM (VE6XX

He's right, for better or worse. Medicaid sounds like Medicare, and Medicare is not the third rail of American politics, it's the downed high tension main transmission power cable of American politics.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 10:42 AM (BjH5D)

177 Nice.

Minor league teams, both baseball and hockey, have some great wordplay in their naming.
Posted by: muldoon

Macon Bacon
maconbaconbaseball.com/

Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 25, 2025 10:43 AM (L89RI)

178 I think "destroying our democracy" has devolved into a verbal tic on the Left.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 25, 2025 10:43 AM (vYDwg)

179 What does lion taste like?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Knew a guy who tries it once. Said it was Simba-ly delicious!

Posted by: Doof at June 25, 2025 10:43 AM (B5+rm)

180 What does lion taste like?
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:30 AM

If they've consumed the sisters of children's mothers, aunts.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 25, 2025 10:43 AM (0sNs1)

181 Why are they the enemy? Because they want this country to become fascist. They want to destroy our democracy. They vote and support the cruel policies of Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Ice agents, and to destroy our Constitution. They want to take away your vote.

In my opinion, they are domestic enemy #1."
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Sounds like DU needs to pick up guns and start a revolution. But first, start a lawnmower.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 10:43 AM (AaWBX)

182 It's so cute when Democrats act like they care about the Constitution...
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 25, 2025 10:42 AM (PiwSw)

Not THE Constitution, THEIR Constitution.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 10:43 AM (ExV1e)

183 Then you close your eyes and see an empty field of warm blood red.

Kind of a feeling of renewal.
Posted by: pawn at June 25, 2025 10:42 AM (QB+5g)

That sounds prettier in the original Hunnic.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 10:43 AM (BjH5D)

184 What does lion taste like?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:30 AM

Dunno. I've seen it for sale here from time to time, but I've been mindful of a quote from Hemmingway which was decidedly not complimentary about the taste.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 10:43 AM (dPfyF)

185 176 He's right, for better or worse. Medicaid sounds like Medicare, and Medicare is not the third rail of American politics, it's the downed high tension main transmission power cable of American politics.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 10:42 AM (BjH5D)

======

He's wrong.

Cutting millions of illegals out of Medicaid won't affect Americans, encourage more illegals to leave, and generally just help the economy.

Feelings about the economy will outweigh almost anything else in the aggregate.

Tillis is a moron.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 10:44 AM (GBKbO)

186 Why isn't Little Z the big star of this NATO Summit? He's been the big star of every NATO, EU, and G7 and similar meetings for the past four years. His usefulness to the globalists and Leftists has pretty-much ended, I guess. Sic transit gloria.

Posted by: Gref at June 25, 2025 10:44 AM (aBgBM)

187 Posted by: JTB at June 25, 2025 10:38 AM (yTvNw

I did finish my painting of the vineyard so I did send to TRex.

I’m sure your sketches are getting better and better.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:45 AM (VofaG)

188 Dunno. I've seen it for sale here from time to time, but I've been mindful of a quote from Hemmingway which was decidedly not complimentary about the taste.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Generally speaking, it's a bad idea to eat mammals of the order Carnivora.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:46 AM (77rzZ)

189 Cutting millions of illegals out of Medicaid won't affect Americans, encourage more illegals to leave, and generally just help the economy.

Feelings about the economy will outweigh almost anything else in the aggregate.

Tillis is a moron.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 10:44 AM (GBKbO)

Requiring that people who can work, do work seems like a winner also. The Dems and the media (BIRM) will lie about it, of course, but that's built in and I'm tired of giving the left everything they want cuz otherwise they'll say bad things about us.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 10:47 AM (ExV1e)

190 Waiter, I'll have my Lion Chops medium roar.
Posted by: naturalfake

*********

Is that for an appetizer....

...or the mane course?

Posted by: muldoon at June 25, 2025 10:47 AM (poXs5)

191 Too bad he couldn't go over and slug the fan. That would have been funny.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 10:47 AM (sfdl6)

192 Generally speaking, it's a bad idea to eat mammals of the order Carnivora.
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:46 AM (77rzZ)

WHO'S THE TOP OF THE FOOD CHAIN NOW, BITCHEZ?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 25, 2025 10:47 AM (vYDwg)

193 189 Requiring that people who can work, do work seems like a winner also. The Dems and the media (BIRM) will lie about it, of course, but that's built in and I'm tired of giving the left everything they want cuz otherwise they'll say bad things about us.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 10:47 AM (ExV1e)

======

Choosing to not improve the economy and the lives of Americans out of fear that Democrats will message negatively is idiotic.

And it's how the GOP has operated since...the late 90s?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 10:47 AM (GBKbO)

194 Afterward, upon our return to the marina, there was a speedboat with a flashy paint job tied off at the fuel pumps, the boat's name splashed across the bow:

"Titan Uranus"

We laughed.
Posted by: one hour sober at June 25, 2025 10:33 AM

I recall seeing a boat out of the water in Salem called "Piece of Shit II".

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 10:47 AM (dPfyF)

195 Cutting millions of illegals out of Medicaid won't affect Americans, encourage more illegals to leave, and generally just help the economy.

Feelings about the economy will outweigh almost anything else in the aggregate.

Tillis is a moron.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 10:44 AM (GBKbO

Reality doesn't matter.

Say the words "Medicare" and "cut" in any contiguous seven hour period, and your career is over. Actually taking illegals off the roles and freeing up more money for Medicare? Don't matter. Found a swamp mutant literally embezzling Medicare funds into a personal offshore account and stopped it? Doesn't matter.

Muh Meddacurr.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 10:48 AM (BjH5D)

196 Dunno. I've seen it for sale here from time to time, but I've been mindful of a quote from Hemmingway which was decidedly not complimentary about the taste.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Generally speaking, it's a bad idea to eat mammals of the order Carnivora.
Posted by: Bulg

As a fellow carnivore, it's professional courtesy not to.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 10:48 AM (AaWBX)

197 Waiter, I'll have my Lion Chops medium roar.
Posted by: naturalfake

*********

Is that for an appetizer....

...or the mane course?
Posted by: muldoon at June 25, 2025 10:47 AM (poXs5)

Choos are the appetizer. The man course is pride rib.

Posted by: Doof at June 25, 2025 10:48 AM (B5+rm)

198 That enemy is the Republican Party. I am talking about elected Republicans in Washington DC.

Why are they the enemy? They vote and support the cruel policies of Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Ice agents, and to destroy our Constitution.
--------------

Good Lord, I only WISH that were true!

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 10:48 AM (TN0g+)

199 Former Obama Aide: Obama and Biden Also Deserve Credit for Iran Strike

-
Also, I was the fifth Beatle.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 10:48 AM (L/fGl)

200 Generally speaking, it's a bad idea to eat mammals of the order Carnivora.
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:46 AM

Can we get an opinion from Cannibal Bob?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 10:49 AM (dPfyF)

201 Finally! A DU commenter reveals something we haven't considered:
"We are fighting the wrong enemy....
Posted by: Duncanthrax

The D's and R's have been play-fighting for years, to the delight of millions. That's the game.

Posted by: The Harlem Globetrotters at June 25, 2025 10:49 AM (QHX6R)

202 Not even the 1790s.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 10:40 AM (BjH5D)

I know, I thought I'd get the discussion going...

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 10:50 AM (sfdl6)

203 195 Reality doesn't matter.

Say the words "Medicare" and "cut" in any contiguous seven hour period, and your career is over. Actually taking illegals off the roles and freeing up more money for Medicare? Don't matter. Found a swamp mutant literally embezzling Medicare funds into a personal offshore account and stopped it? Doesn't matter.

Muh Meddacurr.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 10:48 AM (BjH5D)

=======

You're still living in the 90s, man.

The media has called Trump Hitler and Putin's cockholster for years now, and no one gives a shit.

And, the direct connection between perceived impression of the economy (it needs to be perceived because actual government numbers are shit) and performance in elections for the party in power is well-established and has been for a very long time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 10:50 AM (GBKbO)

204 Yoko was the fifth Beatle. Everyone knows that.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:50 AM (VAINm)

205 What does lion taste like?

Slow zoo keepers

Posted by: Diogenes at June 25, 2025 10:50 AM (W/lyH)

206 Generally speaking, it's a bad idea to eat mammals of the order Carnivora.
Posted by: Bulg

***********

A small bit is okay, but too much pride will be your downfall.

Posted by: muldoon at June 25, 2025 10:50 AM (poXs5)

207 Feline meat is nasty. It's the canine meat we've come to know and love!

Anyone looking for a job as chef?

Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama Soetero at June 25, 2025 10:50 AM (G5+As)

208 199 Former Obama Aide: Obama and Biden Also Deserve Credit for Iran Strike

-
Also, I was the fifth Beatle.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 10:48 AM (L/fGl)

Remember, it was a disastrous, ineffective strike that unnecessarily brought the world closer to World War III. Please remember that Joe and Barack also deserve credit for this!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2025 10:50 AM (KbCG3)

209 The man course is pride rib.
Posted by: Doof

Food! At some point in my weekend travels, I passed a strip mall with a pickleball facility in it.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:51 AM (77rzZ)

210 Success has many authors, while failure is Obama.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 25, 2025 10:51 AM (vYDwg)

211 The Left’s lack of self-awareness is mind boggling.

It’s actually not lack but totally absent.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:52 AM (VofaG)

212 Former Obama Aide: Obama and Biden Also Deserve Credit for Iran Strike

Without Obama's pallets o' cash, there wouldn't have been anything to bomb.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 10:52 AM (zSKXS)

213 Pickle balls wouldn't bounce for shit.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:52 AM (VAINm)

214 Waiter, I'll have my Lion Chops medium roar.
Posted by: naturalfake

*********

Is that for an appetizer....

...or the mane course?
Posted by: muldoon at June 25, 2025 10:47 AM (poXs5)

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

Pawsome!

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 10:52 AM (MikbX)

215 Obama gets all the credit for the good things..
Trump gets all the blame for the bad things...

Posted by: Base NPC Programming at June 25, 2025 10:52 AM (PiwSw)

216 Without Obama's pallets o' cash, there wouldn't have been anything to bomb.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 10:52 AM (zSKXS)

There it is.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 10:52 AM (sfdl6)

217 Former Obama Aide: Obama and Biden Also Deserve Credit for Iran Strike

In fairness, the billions that Obama and Biden shoveled to Iran helped them enlarge and modernize their ~~targets~~ nuclear facilities.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 10:52 AM (ExV1e)

218 Remember, it was a disastrous, ineffective strike that unnecessarily brought the world closer to World War III. Please remember that Joe and Barack also deserve credit for this!
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2025 10:50 AM (KbCG3)

Not just craven.

Craven and incoherent.

What you'd expect from a rugfucker and a conman.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 10:53 AM (BjH5D)

219 The man course is pride rib.
Posted by: Doof

Cub steak.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:53 AM (77rzZ)

220 Lion is purrfect.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:53 AM (VAINm)

221 I hear the really high dollar 5 Star Chinese Restaurants serve Lion.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:53 AM (VofaG)

222 Former Obama Aide: Obama and Biden Also Deserve Credit for Iran Strike

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10/7?

I agree ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 10:53 AM (MikbX)

223

Minor league teams, both baseball and hockey, have some great wordplay in their naming.
Posted by: muldoon

Macon Bacon
maconbaconbaseball.com/
Posted by: Stu Podaso

Lansing Lugnuts

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at June 25, 2025 10:53 AM (JkCto)

224 NYPost: Trump reveals Israel sent agents to Iran’s bombed nuclear sites to confirm their ‘total obliteration’

Posted by: SMOD at June 25, 2025 10:53 AM (N30d6)

225 Feline meat is nasty. It's the canine meat we've come to know and love!

Anyone looking for a job as chef?
Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama Soetero

Bull. Shit. Kung Pao Kitten.
Posted by: 100 million Chinese cooks everywhere

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 10:53 AM (zSKXS)

226 Food! At some point in my weekend travels, I passed a strip mall with a pickleball facility in it.
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:51 AM (77rzZ)

Yeah they are great uses for abandoned places like that.

Posted by: Doof at June 25, 2025 10:54 AM (B5+rm)

227 Minor league teams, both baseball and hockey, have some great wordplay in their naming.
Posted by: muldoon

Macon Bacon
maconbaconbaseball.com/
Posted by: Stu Podaso

Lansing Lugnuts
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal

Toledo Mud Hens

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 10:54 AM (zSKXS)

228 224 NYPost: Trump reveals Israel sent agents to Iran’s bombed nuclear sites to confirm their ‘total obliteration’
Posted by: SMOD at June 25, 2025 10:53 AM (N30d6)

I shan't believe it ! Stomps foot

Posted by: the media at June 25, 2025 10:55 AM (VE6XX)

229 Generally speaking, it's a bad idea to eat mammals of the order Carnivora.

This sounds suspiciously like the same ad agency that came up with the "EAT MOAR CHKN" campaign for cows...

Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2025 10:55 AM (MkLs2)

230 We got the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs.

The one mascot is named FeFe.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 10:55 AM (BjH5D)

231 Food! At some point in my weekend travels, I passed a strip mall with a pickleball facility in it.
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:51 AM (77rzZ)

Yeah they are great uses for abandoned places like that.
Posted by: Doof

Chesterfield Mall just outside St. Louis

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 10:55 AM (zSKXS)

232 What does lion taste like?
Posted by: Boss Moss
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Mountain lion taste like pork.

Posted by: Cosda at June 25, 2025 10:55 AM (x38rU)

233 Dang, clearly I got in on the tail end of these lion puns.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 25, 2025 10:55 AM (W/lyH)

234 How would the media know the status of Fordow? I'll wait.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:56 AM (VAINm)

235 I think the other is Ferris.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 10:56 AM (BjH5D)

236 Former Obama Aide: Obama and Biden Also Deserve Credit for Iran Strike

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Also, I was the fifth Beatle.
Posted by: Anonosaurus

100%

Had they done something, there would have been nothing to bomb.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at June 25, 2025 10:56 AM (JkCto)

237 Lion puns are a thorny issue.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:56 AM (VofaG)

238 234 How would the media know the status of Fordow? I'll wait.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:56 AM (VAINm)

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A leaked intelligence assessment.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 10:56 AM (GBKbO)

239 Lion is purrfect.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Felines fall into two groups: Those that can purr, and those that can roar. No feline can do both. It's one or the other.

Lions, of course, belong the roaring group, along with tigers, leopards, and jaguars. All others are in the purring group.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:56 AM (77rzZ)

240 Iran saying there was a lot of damage, when there wasn’t, would be something they’d say. Why admit their shit is still operational? Better to let the world think it’s not.

I’m not saying that’s the case. Just saying whatever they say needs to be taken with a yuuuge grain of salt.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 25, 2025 10:57 AM (ORJZB)

241 234 How would the media know the status of Fordow? I'll wait.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:56 AM (VAINm)

An alleged "leak" from the DOD

Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2025 10:57 AM (VE6XX)

242 Top secret leak? There's your story.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:57 AM (VAINm)

243 They could have been the Ferrous Wheels

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:57 AM (VofaG)

244 How would the media know the status of Fordow? I'll wait.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:56 AM (VAINm)

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A leaked intelligence assessment.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

A manufactured intelligence assessment.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 10:57 AM (zSKXS)

245 242 Top secret leak? There's your story.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:57 AM (VAINm)

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Hegseth said this morning that the DOD is working with the DOJ to ID the leaker and prosecute.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 10:58 AM (GBKbO)

246 That enemy is the Republican Party. I am not talking about the average Republican voter. I am talking about elected Republicans in Washington DC. None of the above would be able to do what they are doing without the approval of elected Republicans. - DU(nces)

Isn't it the "average Republican voter" who elects the Republicans in Washington D.C. that you hate so much? So you would have to hate the voters as well. Nice try though.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 25, 2025 10:58 AM (L89RI)

247 Former Obama Aide: Obama and Biden Also Deserve Credit for Iran Strike

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Will Dems impeach them as wel then? 🤣

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 25, 2025 10:58 AM (ORJZB)

248 How would the media know the status of Fordow? I'll wait.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:56 AM (VAINm)

They get an intern to stand in front of the Pentagon and say there wasn't much damage.
They the story is "A Pentagon source says..."

Posted by: Diogenes at June 25, 2025 10:58 AM (W/lyH)

249 Or they're not destroyed, but DOD "leaked" their assessment that they think they are, so they can more easily watch where all the trucks go when shit goes back online again.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 10:59 AM (BjH5D)

250 BTW, tigers are way cooler than lions.

And neither one is as cool as the snow leopard.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:59 AM (77rzZ)

251 The problem with lion is you can only have it as a mane course.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 10:59 AM (sfdl6)

252 I saw Rugfucker & Conman open for Goatwhore at The Inferno in '00.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 10:59 AM (LBpnK)

253 Iran has denied IAEA's request to inspect the bombed sites.

If they weren't badly damaged, it would seem Iran would be welcoming IAEA inspections to prove Trump's BDA is a lie.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 25, 2025 11:00 AM (Y1sOo)

254 The problem with lion is you can only have it as a mane course.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 10:59 AM (sfdl6)

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Hey ellipsis, get your own material.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 11:00 AM (LBpnK)

255 How would the media know the status of Fordow? I'll wait.

Someone told them to say it. Heck, someone had to tell them to ask the question, too.

Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2025 11:01 AM (Y+sVZ)

256 Felines fall into two groups: Those that can purr, and those that can roar. No feline can do both. It's one or the other.

Lions, of course, belong the roaring group, along with tigers, leopards, and jaguars. All others are in the purring group.
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:56 AM (77rzZ)

You're most assuredly wrong about jaguars. Darryl Hall told us...

"The woman is wild, a she-cat tamed by the purr of a Jaguar"

Posted by: Doof at June 25, 2025 11:01 AM (B5+rm)

257 Top secret leak? There's your story.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:57 AM (VAINm)

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Hegseth said this morning that the DOD is working with the DOJ to ID the leaker and prosecute.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 10:58 AM

Hopefully it was a canary trap.

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 11:01 AM (jc0TO)

258 If they weren't badly damaged, it would seem Iran would be welcoming IAEA inspections to prove Trump's BDA is a lie.
Posted by: one hour sober at June 25, 2025 11:00 AM (Y1sOo)

Why give Trump a reason to bomb them again?

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 11:01 AM (VofaG)

259 253 Iran has denied IAEA's request to inspect the bombed sites.

If they weren't badly damaged, it would seem Iran would be welcoming IAEA inspections to prove Trump's BDA is a lie.
Posted by: one hour sober at June 25, 2025 11:00 AM (Y1sOo)

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Too much Kremlinology to figure anything out.

I dunno.

I just think no one knows right now. It's all educated guesses, at best, and uninformed lies at worst.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:01 AM (GBKbO)

260 Iran saying there was a lot of damage, when there wasn’t, would be something they’d say. Why admit their shit is still operational? Better to let the world think it’s not.

Because that line of thinking is 180 degrees opposite of the way islam rolls. No matter what non islamics do, they didn't do anything.

Remember Baghdad Bob and "there are no enemy planes in our airspace" as jets are flying over his shoulder.

Islam demands The Black Knight. "Tis only a scratch!"

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 11:01 AM (zSKXS)

261 Hey ellipsis, get your own material.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 11:00 AM (LBpnK)

Are you calling me a copy cat

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 11:02 AM (sfdl6)

262 247 Former Obama Aide: Obama and Biden Also Deserve Credit for Iran Strike

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Does anyone know the reasoning behind this?

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 25, 2025 11:02 AM (PMtkd)

263 "How badly is everything damaged?"

"No idea, boss, we're still moving all the rubble out of the way. "

"Feck."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 11:02 AM (BjH5D)

264 The Grand Junction Jackalopes

and their alternate uniforms branded as the Humpback Chubs

Posted by: muldoon at June 25, 2025 11:02 AM (poXs5)

265 Without Obama's pallets o' cash, there wouldn't have been anything to bomb.
Posted by: rickb223

tinyurl.com/bdeenrcw
Goes to the Bee

Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 25, 2025 11:02 AM (L89RI)

266 152 Especially since it needs to be held and maintained in liquid form at a constant 135 degrees.

Is it there? Probably (moving thousands of tons of liquid uranium is not...easy).

it just requires the right truck.

Posted by: winston rothschild iii at June 25, 2025 11:02 AM (sGtp+)

267 BTW, tigers are way cooler than lions.

And neither one is as cool as the snow leopard.
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:59 AM (77rzZ)

Shiiiiiiit! Lions and snow leopards are asshoe.

Tigers, on the other hand, are GRRRRRRREAT!!

Posted by: Tony at June 25, 2025 11:02 AM (B5+rm)

268 Senator Tillis, one of my favorites, is out there saying if we make cuts to Medicaid we will lose the Midterms and the 28 Presidency....
Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2025 10:35 AM (VE6XX

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Shouldn't he be out there saying that the cuts are directed at eliminating fraud, as well as illegal aliens from the Medicaid rolls? Seems pretty effective if he'd only communicate that instead of whining. I get that people confuse Medicaid and Medicare, and that just uttering the word "cuts" freaks out those on either of those two. But here's where you can...clarify what would actually be cut and what wouldn't.

I caught a news story from a local Orlando station this morning and they were bleating about these Medicaid cuts, complete with some hysterical D congresswoman lighting her hair on fire about it. As for the counterpoint from any Republican on what these cuts actually are? I guess the news station didn't have time for that.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 25, 2025 11:03 AM (qBdHI)

269 The heat is slowing down the electrons, making the threads slightly late.

Posted by: Ohm, My goodness! at June 25, 2025 11:03 AM (G5+As)

270 >>How would the media know the status of Fordow? I'll wait.

no one has tagged a post there on Instagram in a couple days

Posted by: brak at June 25, 2025 11:03 AM (jGJov)

271 You tiger now.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 11:03 AM (VAINm)

272 Tillis is iffy.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 25, 2025 11:03 AM (PMtkd)

273 I tiger of the lion puns.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 11:04 AM (VAINm)

274 NOOD Poker Chimp

Posted by: Doof at June 25, 2025 11:05 AM (B5+rm)

275 250 BTW, tigers are way cooler than lions.

And neither one is as cool as the snow leopard.
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:59 AM (77rzZ)

For the win.

Posted by: Pink Panther at June 25, 2025 11:05 AM (HFsIG)

276 Monkey nood

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 11:05 AM (BjH5D)

277 Because that line of thinking is 180 degrees opposite of the way islam rolls. No matter what non islamics do, they didn't do anything.

Islam demands The Black Knight. "Tis only a scratch!"
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 11:01 AM (zSKXS)
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Careful.

“War is deceit.” (Sahih al-Bukhaari, 3029; Muslim, 5

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 25, 2025 11:05 AM (NC42u)

278 Oh, so the Obama deserves credit, it's a Babylon Bee deal.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 25, 2025 11:05 AM (PMtkd)

279 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 11:05 AM (77rzZ)

280 complete with some hysterical D congresswoman lighting her hair on fire about it.
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I'd pay good money to see Maxine Waters light her hair on fire. Would be visible from space, I'm guessing.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 25, 2025 11:05 AM (XZ5S6)

281 I spotted a leopard!!

Posted by: muldoon at June 25, 2025 11:06 AM (poXs5)

282 tinyurl.com/bdeenrcw
Goes to the Bee
Posted by: Stu Podaso

*snort

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 11:06 AM (zSKXS)

283 256 Lions, of course, belong the roaring group, along with tigers, leopards, and jaguars. All others are in the purring group.
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:56 AM (77rzZ)

You're most assuredly wrong about jaguars. Darryl Hall told us...

"The woman is wild, a she-cat tamed by the purr of a Jaguar"

darryl may have been referring to the 12-cylinder variety.

Posted by: winston rothschild iii at June 25, 2025 11:06 AM (sGtp+)

284 BTW, tigers are way cooler than lions.

And neither one is as cool as the snow leopard.
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:59 AM (77rzZ)

For the win.
Posted by: Pink Panther

*Cheetara enters the chat*

Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 25, 2025 11:07 AM (L89RI)

285 If they weren't badly damaged, it would seem Iran would be welcoming IAEA inspections to prove Trump's BDA is a lie.
Posted by: one hour sober at June 25, 2025 11:00 AM (Y1sOo)

It’s the opposite. If they weren’t badly damaged they don’t want Trump (or anyone) to know. That just invites more strikes. If I’m Iran I want the world to assume everything has been blowd up real good like.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 25, 2025 11:08 AM (ORJZB)

286 How would the media know the status of Fordow? I'll wait.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:56 AM (VAINm)

an "unnamed source" making sh1t up and leaking it to a pet reporter.
That is pretty much all anything is any more. It has the benefit of "being a confirmation" via media reporting for greater assessment when added to the story made up in the first place that was the source of the leak.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2025 11:12 AM (D7oie)

287 You're most assuredly wrong about jaguars. Darryl Hall told us...

"The woman is wild, a she-cat tamed by the purr of a Jaguar"

darryl may have been referring to the 12-cylinder variety.
Posted by: winston rothschild iii at June 25, 2025 11:06 AM (sGtp+)

Cougars purr. Paolo can confirm

Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2025 11:13 AM (D7oie)

288 The Waterway called Liberal Democrat always babbling

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at June 25, 2025 06:26 PM (wGqjj)

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