Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - June 25, 2025 [TRex]

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

This is the Wednesday night ONT. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Be nice to your fellow commenters.

[Top photo: The Natchez-Vidalia Bridge spans across the Mississippi River and links Mississippi and Louisiana]

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The passing of Fred Smith, founder of FedEx, seems like it got lost amid all the news of the weekend. The Wednesday night ONT will pause for a moment in honor or Mr. Smith.

The Dassault Cargo Falcon 20 is a French jet aircraft that, on April 17, 1973, became the first to carry a Federal Express air package. This was a new milestone in the history of air transport in the United States and created a new category of airline, the exclusive air express carrier. Within a decade, no less than thirty-three were flying on the spokes of the Federal Express network. The service was so successful that, by the early 1980s, its front-line aircraft were expanded to the McDonnell Douglas DC-10Cs, whose cargo holds were big enough to carry several Falcons each. NASM site

Did the FedEx concept come from a college paper that earned a "C" grade? Not really.

In 1965, while he was earning a Bachelor's degree in economics at Yale University, Frederick Smith penned a term paper for Professor Challis A. Hall's Economics 43A class which contained an outline for a delivery service that would use a "hub and spokes" concept to handle the routing of parcels. (This plan entails first directing packages through a central sorting facility before dispatching them onwards to their intended destinations.)
A number of sources assert the term paper earned a C from the instructor who marked it. However, while that aspect of the tale has been widely touted as fact, it does not appear to be verifiable. Smith himself fed the acceptance of this element of the story by once stating in an offhand comment about the term paper "I guess I got my usual gentlemanly C," but in a 2002 interview Smith acknowledged "I don't really remember what grade I got. I probably didn't get a very good one, though, because it wasn't a well-thought-out paper." (Questioning Professor Hall, the man who bestowed the grade, is out of the question because he died in 1968.) Snopes

At age 29, Smith launched Federal Express with his own money. He first tested the initial 25-city network, flying empty boxes across the country, and then went live on April 17, 1973. To keep the network of cities growing, he raised $90 million in venture capital from investors like Allstate and Newport Securities. The company endured twenty-six months running at a loss before it broke even. Over the next couple of decades, Smith committed to ensuring detailed transport information such as estimated arrival times and prompt deliveries. PBS website

Click here to watch a 3 minute FedEx "behind the scenes" video at the Memphis hub.

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The cookie jar is the logical first destination once invisibility has been activated.

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Motorsports madness - make sure your volume is on!

🤯 You probably haven't seen a finish like this! @ChampsOffRoad #ChampOffRoad pic.twitter.com/lgmBY0OmhR
— FloRacing (@FloRacing) June 22, 2025

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Hat tip: Grateful

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You know things are getting serious when the military brings out the big dog.

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Oldie but still a goodie.

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Random TV Trivia: in its original run, The Jetsons only aired 24 episodes across a span of six months from 1962-1963. It was cancelled due to low ratings. Reruns got such high viewership over the years that in 1985, 51 more episodes were produced.

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Best wishes to anyone in Los Angeles driving on the 405. Lane closures started last night for a road refresh.

The project will overhaul the Sepulveda Pass. It will cover a 10 mile stretch between the 101 Freeway and Sunset Blvd.

It is being led by Caltrans, and includes ramp expansions, bridge retrofitting, drainage and safety upgrades. It is projected to cost $144 million and last 4 years. In California terms, double both and you're probably closer to how it will play out.

There will be overnight lane closures from about 9am to 6am. Some weekends will see full closures. All construction activities will be suspended for 3 months in summer 2028 for the Olympics.

Good luck!

If the words "construction on the 405" do not mean anything to you, count your blessings.

PS. With $6 gas, maybe nobody can afford to drive anyway.

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This is interesting in a "how did they do that" sort of way:

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You are sitting with Ace of Spades open on your computer paying rapt attention to ONT content and comments, but your mind is really wondering "What would happen if a watermelon got zapped by a bolt of lightning?"

Exit quote: "The melon has achieved a high state of division."

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Today I learned that Boeing once converted a B-17 for TWA. TWA then sold it to the Shah of Iran.

TWA's B-17G was delivered too late to see combat. In 1946 and 1947, Boeing converted the military model B-17G to become the civilian Model 299AB. With basic TWA markings and the tail number NL1B, the airline's B-17 was used to scout prospective routes.

It was later sold to the Shah of Iran. The Shah used it a personal plane to make frequent airborne inspection surveys of his country. It was fitted with ten seats, a three-quarter bed and a galley complete with stove. The Shah was checked out as pilot of the B-17 after 14 hours flying at the controls.

Serial number 44-85728 was scrapped in 1970.

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There is something very, very wrong in Belgium. Caution advised if you choose to watch this video. Do not recommend.

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World's largest cheese tasting held in Colombia

Guinness World Records confirmed Alpina Productos Alimenticios S.A.S BIC earned the record for the world's largest cheese tasting event when 1,185 people sampled dairy delicacies in Sopo, Cundinamarca, Colombia.
The company took the record from Australia's Kangaroo Valley Agricultural and Horticultural Association, which gathered 1,000 people for a cheese tasting in 2019.
Guinness World Records rules required all participants to sample three varieties of cheese. The cheeses chosen for the event were Gruyere, Sopo and Argovia.

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The Pittsburgh police scanner is like a slow motion car crash. It is frightening to know this is not fiction but I can't look away.

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In honor of Mick Ralphs, Bad Company provides the big ONT finish.

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Comments

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1 There is no rational explanation for the ONT. It just is.

Posted by: mindful webworker - thinking at June 25, 2025 09:59 PM (0NO3o)

2
Good Evening

Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 09:59 PM (3ek7K)

3 The passing of Fred Smith, founder of FedEx, seems like it got lost amid all the news of the weekend.

Lost? He founded FedEx, not the USPS.

Posted by: mikeski at June 25, 2025 09:59 PM (DgGvY)

4 Yay, Color TV Day ONT!

https://youtu.be/4Lg7edyGJYc
https://youtu.be/a6otjCKg594

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 25, 2025 10:00 PM (lUFok)

5 Sorry I'm late, I was trying to get some fresh chocolate milk, but that farmer's field only had white cows.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 25, 2025 10:01 PM (R256O)

6 Aye...Sorry I'm late the Honeymooners was on.

Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at June 25, 2025 10:01 PM (hftn9)

7 After Andy Griffith....

Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at June 25, 2025 10:02 PM (hftn9)

8 Zone 3. Caller says that his ex-girlfriend goes to his apartment building and rails the other residents to get back at him. He wants to make a report.

I didn't know Pennsylvania had a law about that. Second-degree Aggravated Sluttery!

Posted by: mikeski at June 25, 2025 10:02 PM (DgGvY)

9 The inherent problem with soccer is, at the end of the day, it’s just a bunch of guys kicking a ball around a field at giant nets for 90 minutes.

It’s largely impervious to analysis and the big moment that will be recorded in the anals of history like you would have in other sports.

Show me the soccer equivalent of the ball gets by Buckner or do you believe in miracles.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 25, 2025 10:02 PM (XV/Pl)

10 Aye...Sorry I'm late the Honeymooners was on.

Don't feel bad, I was in the shower chomping at the water like a dog will do with the hose.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 25, 2025 10:03 PM (lUFok)

11 Yay! Dino night!
Hiya T😷...

Back to content...👆...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 25, 2025 10:03 PM (ZwGHJ)

12 This time he'll do communism right!

Bill Melugin@BillMelugin_8
Some of the things socialist NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has previously called for:
- Abolish NYPD
- Abolish prisons
- Abolish medical bills
- Abolish private health insurance
- Ban all guns
- Legalize sex work
- Safe injection sites
- End cash bail
- Decriminalize drug possession
- End sentencing enhancements
- End all cooperation with ICE

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 10:03 PM (L/fGl)

13 Just Made a chocolate milk Black Russian for my honey....Prolly racist. I know.

Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at June 25, 2025 10:03 PM (hftn9)

14 Good evening good people. I grew up with 5 sisters, been married a few times, and most of my good buddies are women but, would someone please explain this to me:

Dear wife waited until after sunset to have me help her plant some new plants into the flower garden.

I don't get it.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 25, 2025 10:03 PM (cYBz/)

15 The Calvin and Hobbes strip is hilarious.

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 10:03 PM (pRpzT)

16 @6

>>Aye...Sorry I'm late the Honeymooners was on.

Can it core a Apple?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 25, 2025 10:04 PM (XV/Pl)

17 11 Yay! Dino night!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 25, 2025 10:03 PM
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Hello COMM!!

Posted by: TRex at June 25, 2025 10:04 PM (cCn4/)

18 Who's driving the wiener into the rear of that cargo plane?

Posted by: davidt at June 25, 2025 10:04 PM (i0F8b)

19 If Caltrans is doing all this work on the 405, does it now get called the 810?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 25, 2025 10:05 PM (S/Y4j)

20
TonyPete,

When we lived in the South I planted alot of things after dark. It would be so hot and humid when the sun was out.

Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 10:06 PM (3ek7K)

21 Evenin'

I was trying to remember the singer of that song posted above. I remembered the song, the pretty brunette gal singing it, the sultry blue eyes (or were they green?), a sexy voice.

Alannah Myles.

Thanks, TRex.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 25, 2025 10:06 PM (wBh67)

22 Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 25, 2025 10:00 PM (lUFok)

Huh? I thought you were going to say it was Global Beatles Day.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 25, 2025 10:06 PM (0eaVi)

23 Using Flightaware or similar apps, it is astounding to see all the air traffic arriving at Memphis during the late evening and early morning.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 25, 2025 10:06 PM (cYBz/)

24 It was later sold to the Shah of Iran. The Shah used it a personal plane to make frequent airborne inspection surveys of his country. It was fitted with ten seats, a three-quarter bed and a galley complete with stove.

A three-quarter bed?

Was the Shah that short?

Or is that what the Magic Fingers cost?

Posted by: mikeski at June 25, 2025 10:07 PM (DgGvY)

25 Good evening good people. I grew up with 5 sisters, been married a few times, and most of my good buddies are women but, would someone please explain this to me:

Dear wife waited until after sunset to have me help her plant some new plants into the flower garden.

I don't get it.

Perhaps she misunderstood why her Italian friend's "gardening at night" made all her problems with her missing husband go away.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 25, 2025 10:07 PM (lUFok)

26 21 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 25, 2025 10:06 PM
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Good evening, Sir! Glad you're on duty.

Posted by: TRex at June 25, 2025 10:08 PM (cCn4/)

27 I always find it fascinating that The Jetsons had only one season. Their penetration into the cultural zeitgeist was incredible. Almost romantic, when you think about it.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 25, 2025 10:08 PM (CHHv1)

28 Alright, friends. Time to take my personal doge out for the last time tonight. He is already a sleepy puppy anyway.

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 10:09 PM (QzINz)

29 Also, I should probably mention this, though it has been pointed out previously many times: cats are evil.

Totally evil.

If you think they're just "adjusting" you've been consumed.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 25, 2025 10:09 PM (CHHv1)

30 I just dropped into say that TXMOME X is looking forward to seeing all of you.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 25, 2025 10:09 PM (ZIggv)

31
You won't see all of me.

Michelle Fields

Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 10:10 PM (3ek7K)

32 6 Aye...Sorry I'm late the Honeymooners was on.
Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at June 25, 2025 10:01 PM (hftn9)

Late for the ONT? TO THE MOON, ALICE!

Posted by: tankdemon at June 25, 2025 10:10 PM (R256O)

33 I'll be there, Ben Had!

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at June 25, 2025 10:11 PM (ha1wR)

34 Wasn't Black Velvet here a few days ago?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2025 10:11 PM (63Dwl)

35 NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani likely accomplishments:

Generate calls for a giant wall around the city, with very few access points

So much trash and drug paraphernalia will rest against the UN building that they'll leave for someplace cleaner and safer - like Mogadishu

His first corruption trial will start less than six months after beginning his term.

Others?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 25, 2025 10:11 PM (S/Y4j)

36 Okay, so I ordered a bacon cheeseburger and when it came it looked like a skull on my plate. I showed my friend and he saw it too. So I snapped a picture.

I'm looking at the picture now, and the cheeseburger doesn't look like a skull, no matter how hard I try to see it.

There's a French word for that, right?

Posted by: Bombadil at June 25, 2025 10:11 PM (MX0bI)

37 30 I just dropped into say that TXMOME X is looking forward to seeing all of you.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 25, 2025 10:09 PM
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Yeah. What Ben Had said. Do not disappoint Ben Had by missing it.

Posted by: TRex at June 25, 2025 10:11 PM (cCn4/)

38 Hey all you ONT respectables....

Just dropping in to "surf" the vibe.(Brian Wilson of the BEACH BOYS...RIP)

Posted by: Nightwatch at June 25, 2025 10:12 PM (25kuG)

39 Hellooooooooooo, ball!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2025 10:12 PM (63Dwl)

40 Who's driving the wiener into the rear of that cargo plane?
Posted by: davidt

Driving a hotdog into a cargo plane > throwing a hotdog down a hallway

Posted by: mikeski at June 25, 2025 10:13 PM (DgGvY)

41 LRob, it is always a pleasure to see you.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 25, 2025 10:13 PM (ZIggv)

42 haven't heard that in quite some time

Posted by: Don Black at June 25, 2025 10:13 PM (AOsQT)

43 I just dropped into say that TXMOME X is looking forward to seeing all of you.
Posted by: Ben Had
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You tell them Ben Had, and remind them it'll be the very best weekend with a zillion memories to take home with them!

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at June 25, 2025 10:13 PM (cCn4/)

44 Hey all you ONT respectables....

Who?

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at June 25, 2025 10:13 PM (ha1wR)

45 Ever wonder what we're gonna do with 40 million illegals?

CalMatters
@CalMatters

[California Democrats] lawmakers are weighing a provision that would allow developers to pay a lower wage for some construction projects, theoretically stimulating housing production in California.

$6 a day wages for greedy kulaks.

Posted by: 13times at June 25, 2025 10:13 PM (P7CL5)

46 The bowling meme was a good laugh for me.

Posted by: Don Black at June 25, 2025 10:14 PM (AOsQT)

47 Those Pittsburgh cops were probably on the roof partying.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 25, 2025 10:14 PM (wBh67)

48 36 Okay, so I ordered a bacon cheeseburger and when it came it looked like a skull on my plate. I showed my friend and he saw it too. So I snapped a picture.

I'm looking at the picture now, and the cheeseburger doesn't look like a skull, no matter how hard I try to see it.

There's a French word for that, right?
Posted by: Bombadil at June 25, 2025 10:11 PM (MX0bI)
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Well, the Latin word for seeing shit that looks like other shit is "pareidolia." I imagine the French derivative would be "faux-skullez du burgre." However, I only had two semesters of French in high school, so I admit that I am a bit rusty.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at June 25, 2025 10:15 PM (QdGJh)

49 Others?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

NYC renamed Sodom and Gomorrah.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 10:16 PM (L/fGl)

50 Will 405 construction affect the 5 to San Diego?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 25, 2025 10:16 PM (0eaVi)

51 Thanks for the grithy ONT, TRex! Great photo up top.

The Pittsburgh scanner makes me glad I live... elsewhere.

Calvin and Hobbes is always good!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 25, 2025 10:16 PM (kB9dk)

52 Old advice about planting--the idea was to avoid the sun if the temps were really high by planting after sundown. However, watering the new plants in after sundown contradicted the also old advice to not water plants at night.

Posted by: Lirio100 at June 25, 2025 10:16 PM (zS4/f)

53 12
New York,...frankly deserves every kind of punishment that they will stupidly vote for.

Because, they ARE STUPID!!!

(voted for AOC....right?)

Posted by: Nightwatch at June 25, 2025 10:17 PM (25kuG)

54 51 Thanks for the grithy ONT, TRex!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 25, 2025 10:16 PM
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{{Respectful bow in the direction of Legally Sufficient}}

Posted by: TRex at June 25, 2025 10:17 PM (cCn4/)

55 Royale with cheese.

Posted by: Vincent Vega at June 25, 2025 10:17 PM (i0F8b)

56 Who's driving the wiener into the rear of that cargo plane?
Posted by: davidt
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"When correctly viewed, everything is lewd" - T. Lehrer

Posted by: buddhaha at June 25, 2025 10:17 PM (8s11j)

57 Pretty sure I have an Alannah Myles cd in my collection.

Posted by: Turn 2 at June 25, 2025 10:19 PM (6TlG5)

58 Posted by: Tonypete at June 25, 2025 10:03 PM (cYBz/)

Because it's too damn hot during the day?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 25, 2025 10:19 PM (Vvh2V)

59 Heya T -Rex!

Whoot! Thank you for the ONT!
🦦

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 25, 2025 10:19 PM (mT+6a)

60 Pittsburgh, Point Breeze-Brushton St:

Dang, Bill Kristol must be hard up for funds!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 25, 2025 10:19 PM (0eaVi)

61 Pittsburgh Scanner confirms something everyone has realized:

The typical crime victim is not a typical citizen. More likely to be doing something involving drugs &/or hookers. And carrying a concealed weapon, too.

A sheriff I knew once famously said, "Nothing good happens after midnight."

Posted by: mnw at June 25, 2025 10:20 PM (kd60y)

62 I love the Pittsburg Police Scanner. I want that job.

LOVE Bad Company.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 25, 2025 10:20 PM (6PCLE)

63 The passing of Fred Smith, founder of FedEx
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Roleplaying games' quests just wouldn't be the same without him.

Posted by: Methos at June 25, 2025 10:20 PM (Dnobf)

64 59 Heya T -Rex!

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 25, 2025 10:19 PM
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Good evening! Woot back atcha!

Posted by: TRex at June 25, 2025 10:21 PM (cCn4/)

65 🎼"Freedom's just another word.. when nothin's left to lose
Nothin' ain't worth nothin' honey but it's free
And eatin' good's a mys'try, Lo-ord.. Mommy sold her shoes
You know eatin' food was good enough for me
Good enough for me until Mayor Mamdani ... " 🎶

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 10:22 PM (L/fGl)

66 @sentdefender11h

Speaking earlier at the NATO Summit in The Hague, U.S. President Trump revealed that the 7 B-2A Spirit Long-Range Stealth Bombers that participated in Operation “MIDNIGHT HAMMER” this past weekend, were escorted by F-22 Raptors and F-35A Lightning IIs, with support from 52 aerial-refueling tankers both before and after bombing the nuclear sites in Iran.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 10:22 PM (yXf+h)

67 Putting on the Ritz - sneaky. Awesome content, TRex.

Posted by: scampydog at June 25, 2025 10:23 PM (41CYW)

68
Our dog groomer's business is a mobile operation. She normally gets here at 8 a.m. on our grooming day. She called today to ask if she could be here at 7 a.m.

Hubby laughed and said okay we'll have to wake up the dogs, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 10:23 PM (3ek7K)

69 18 Who's driving the wiener into the rear of that cargo plane?
Posted by: davidt at June 25, 2025 10:04 PM (i0F8b)

Urgent cargo for the Uranus colony.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 25, 2025 10:23 PM (gKWVE)

70 So some dude is going door to door in Pittsburgh offering hand jobs for donations so he can buy crack.

WE FOUND HUNTER!!! He's in Pittsburgh.

Posted by: Orson at June 25, 2025 10:24 PM (dIske)

71 >>A number of sources assert the term paper earned a C from the instructor who marked it. However, while that aspect of the tale has been widely touted as fact, it does not appear to be verifiable.

I was taught this in business school. I don't even care if it's true. It's a great lesson for anyone who dreams big. There will always be people telling you that your idea is stupid and it won't work. The world is changed by people who don't listen to what can't be done.

Carry on.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 10:24 PM (viF8m)

72 {{{BenHad}}}
Working hard to make it❣

I'm still trying to figure out details so my chickens will be ok while I'm gone, but I'm tryin'....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 25, 2025 10:24 PM (ZwGHJ)

73 you don't have to grow up addicted to smack
going round the street selling handjobs for crack

Posted by: gKWVE at June 25, 2025 10:25 PM (gKWVE)

74
Ray Croc vs Fred Smith vs Steve Jobs vs George Washington Carver?

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 25, 2025 10:25 PM (aX9W2)

75 Paul Rodgers has one of the best, if not the best, voices in Rock. Just gorgeous.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 25, 2025 10:25 PM (Vvh2V)

76 A sheriff I knew once famously said, "Nothing good happens after midnight."
Posted by: mnw
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That Sheriff must have had a shitty sex life.

Posted by: buddhaha at June 25, 2025 10:26 PM (8s11j)

77 Because it's too damn hot during the day?
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor

It was only 94F today.

Nah, that couldn't be it. . . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at June 25, 2025 10:26 PM (cYBz/)

78 67 Putting on the Ritz - sneaky. Awesome content, TRex.

Posted by: scampydog at June 25, 2025 10:23 PM
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Doggo claims a gold star for spotting the sneaky link.

Posted by: TRex at June 25, 2025 10:26 PM (cCn4/)

79 Fred Smith, a handsome name for good delivery.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 10:27 PM (yXf+h)

80

So it appears it's a Widely Held Belief, a.k.a. a myth, that George Washington Carver invented peanut butter.

That's sad cuz that fake "fact" was 50% of fake black fake history month.

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 25, 2025 10:27 PM (aX9W2)

81 I never liked the Shah or his secret police (the SAVAK).

I enjoy imagining his skinny adz bouncing around in that drafty, war surplus bomber.

Posted by: mnw at June 25, 2025 10:27 PM (kd60y)

82 Using Flightaware or similar apps, it is astounding to see all the air traffic arriving at Memphis during the late evening and early morning.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 25, 2025 10:06 PM (cYBz/)
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That's one of my favorite apps on the laptop and phone. I use it to track the firefighting aircraft and student helo flights.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 25, 2025 10:28 PM (kB9dk)

83 If the words "construction on the 405" do not mean anything to you, count your blessings.
PS. With $6 gas, maybe nobody can afford to drive anyway.

Yikes. Ours is just over $3.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 25, 2025 10:29 PM (0Htd1)

84 COMM, I can not even begin to express how much joy there would be having you with us.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 25, 2025 10:29 PM (ZIggv)

85 You tell them Ben Had, and remind them it'll be the very best weekend with a zillion memories to take home with them!
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady

Heard there may be Commemorative Plates!!!

Posted by: Some Rat at June 25, 2025 10:30 PM (TfUTr)

86 Or is he pulling the wiener out?

Posted by: davidt at June 25, 2025 10:30 PM (i0F8b)

87 I was taught this in business school. I don't even care if it's true. It's a great lesson for anyone who dreams big. There will always be people telling you that your idea is stupid and it won't work. The world is changed by people who don't listen to what can't be done.

Carry on.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 10:24 PM (viF8m)
_____________________________

Only pikers go to high school.

Posted by: Dave Thomas at June 25, 2025 10:31 PM (dIske)

88 SAVAK couldn't win at Kobayashi Maru.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2025 10:31 PM (63Dwl)

89 👋 hi nurse!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 25, 2025 10:31 PM (ZwGHJ)

90 Some Rat, I heard there are things in the planning that no expects.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 25, 2025 10:32 PM (ZIggv)

91
Or is he pulling the wiener out?
Posted by: davidt

Just the radiator.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2025 10:32 PM (63Dwl)

92
I wonder if Ace is upset about his Gainzz mentor, the Liver King, getting sent up.

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 25, 2025 10:32 PM (aX9W2)

93 Wait, is that the nose of the cargo plane?

Posted by: davidt at June 25, 2025 10:32 PM (i0F8b)

94 Ray Croc vs Fred Smith vs Steve Jobs vs George Washington Carver?
Posted by: Soothsayer

I see Jeff Bezos is getting married.

https://is.gd/JUUbXh

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 10:33 PM (L/fGl)

95
Yikes. Ours is just over $3.
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 25, 2025 10:29 PM (0Htd1)

_________

$2.59 today.

*blows smoke ring*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 10:34 PM (/HVsR)

96 Bill Melugin@BillMelugin_8
Some of the things socialist NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has previously called for:
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- End all cooperation with ICE

Oh, good. That last item would be a good basis for arrest, so, who's next in line for Hizzonership after Madmanny?

Posted by: mindful webworker - Deport Deport Despot at June 25, 2025 10:35 PM (0NO3o)

97 Watermelon. The most abused fruit?

Posted by: Gref at June 25, 2025 10:35 PM (aBgBM)

98 I heard there are things in the planning that no expects.
Posted by: Ben Had

My goodness, based on what the Horde is capable of expecting....that could be downright scary!
(smiley face icon here)

Posted by: Some Rat at June 25, 2025 10:35 PM (TfUTr)

99 21 Evenin'

I was trying to remember the singer of that song posted above. I remembered the song, the pretty brunette gal singing it, the sultry blue eyes (or were they green?), a sexy voice.

Alannah Myles.

Thanks, TRex.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 25, 2025 10:06 PM (wBh67)

I cannot find what you were talking about, but here's my favorite youtube of her:

https://tinyurl.com/3mn2ecn3

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 25, 2025 10:36 PM (6PCLE)

100
Went out to put the kennel dogs up for the night. Big Dan is doing much better after the scare he gave us yesterday. Gave him a Carprofen anyway.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 10:36 PM (/HVsR)

101 >>Ray Croc vs Fred Smith vs Steve Jobs vs George Washington Carver?

Elon Musk.

We're living in a time with one of the most transformative people in history.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 10:36 PM (viF8m)

102 Did anyone note the passing of Bobby Sherman, teen idol of the late 1960s, at the age of 81 the other day?

He gave up the Hollywood life in 1974, became an EMT in Los Angeles, and seems to have been a pretty decent guy.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 25, 2025 10:36 PM (6Z9Vm)

103 I hear that Mamdani is searching for descendants of Mrs. O'Leary's cow, so he can set up some urban renewal projects.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 25, 2025 10:37 PM (S/Y4j)

104 Belgium is a cautionary tale.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 10:37 PM (yXf+h)

105 Enjoying the ONT! THanks for the content TRex!

Hi Horde!

Posted by: Iris at June 25, 2025 10:37 PM (bOJ2I)

106
I'm still very angry about that DIA Assessment leak.

That fake report was created for one reason: to be leaked to embarrass PDT. It had no other reason to exist.

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 25, 2025 10:38 PM (aX9W2)

107 A sheriff I knew once famously said, "Nothing good happens after midnight."
Posted by: mnw
**********
Ah, so you knew my father....

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at June 25, 2025 10:38 PM (A1V3V)

108 I suggest that the U.S. give Israel a couple of B-2s and all the MOPs needed to keep them combat ready.

Happy to have been of service, but next time? You do it.

Posted by: mnw at June 25, 2025 10:38 PM (kd60y)

109 A pleasant evening to you all.

Four Seasons, 276 from last night's ONT: Your grands ages 6, 4, and 2 are similar ages to my oldest three grandchildren (5, 3, and 1, with the oldest two yet to have birthdays this year).

Are your grands siblings, cousins, both?

My first, second, and fifth grands are the children of my oldest daughter, and the third and fourth are of my second daughter.

"Ain't nothing better than those babies."

Amen. I couldn't imagine before becoming a grandmother how fiercely I could love them.

Posted by: Official Delurker loves her grands at June 25, 2025 10:38 PM (liGnN)

110 Zone 3. Caller says that his ex-girlfriend goes to his apartment building and rails the other residents to get back at him. He wants to make a report.

That gal's going to get a reputation if she isn't careful.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 25, 2025 10:38 PM (0Htd1)

111 98 I heard there are things in the planning that no expects.
Posted by: Ben Had

My goodness, based on what the Horde is capable of expecting....that could be downright scary!
(smiley face icon here)
Posted by: Some Rat at June 25, 2025 10:35 PM (TfUTr)

No one expects ... the Spanish Inquisition

Posted by: browndog knows his Monty Python at June 25, 2025 10:38 PM (TTAGa)

112 Yikes. Ours is just over $3.
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 25, 2025 10:29 PM (0Htd1)

_________

$2.59 today.

*blows smoke ring*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

While visiting my friend in Az. I filled up his car. He asked why.
"Cause filling up a car for less than 75 bucks makes me giddy."

Posted by: Some Rat at June 25, 2025 10:39 PM (TfUTr)

113 I am not proud of my Belgian heritage, in light of the atrocities committed in the name of colonialism in Africa, and especially because of that disturbing video. But I am eternally grateful to great-granddad Emil for getting out of there and landing here.

Posted by: Baron Munchausen at June 25, 2025 10:39 PM (C1NyB)

114 DUH

I did not realize you could click on the MS River photo for the very same song. Sorry!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 25, 2025 10:39 PM (6PCLE)

115 Boy, Rat, I sure hope I get to see you in TX! 🤪👀

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 25, 2025 10:39 PM (ZwGHJ)

116 A sheriff I knew once famously said, "Nothing good happens after midnight."
Posted by: mnw

Something I told the daughters of Diogenes when they started dating.
I'm pleased to see they have passed it along to their kids.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 25, 2025 10:39 PM (W/lyH)

117 Sooo, if I'm ICE and I'm planning a big raid, would it be illegal to flood the websites/apps that are warning illegals and notifying protestors/antifa about the raids, to flood those websites with false reports and misdirection?

Frankly, if I'm ICE, that's one guys' entire job right now. Just spend the all day running the commies around like it's the first week of football practice.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at June 25, 2025 10:40 PM (pIfcn)

118 Nothing good ever happens at 2AM.

And no good story ever starts with, "There we were, sitting around eating salads..."

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 25, 2025 10:40 PM (6Z9Vm)

119 CBD does an awesome food thread, now know he is also cooking for you at MoMe X. Pete Bog, Rancherbob and AZ deplorable are also there too.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 25, 2025 10:41 PM (ZIggv)

120 I wonder if Ace is upset about his Gainzz mentor, the Liver King, getting sent up.
Posted by: Soothsayer at June 25, 2025 10:32 PM (aX9W2)

The steroids made him crazy.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:41 PM (VofaG)

121
Washington Post says Gabbard won't be included in any Iran updates.

Who knows, it's probably fake news.

Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 10:42 PM (3ek7K)

122 102 Did anyone note the passing of Bobby Sherman, teen idol of the late 1960s, at the age of 81 the other day?

He gave up the Hollywood life in 1974, became an EMT in Los Angeles, and seems to have been a pretty decent guy.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 25, 2025 10:36 PM (6Z9Vm)

I read somewhere that Bobby and his manager made bank in the 70s outfitting a 707 as the ultimate rock band tour plane. Led Zeppelin and the other mega rock bands competed to schedule it for tours. $2500 per flight hour. Not sure what the profit was, especially after cleanup and refurb expenses after flights and tours, but apparently it was not chicken feed.

Posted by: Gref at June 25, 2025 10:42 PM (aBgBM)

123 Wait, is that the nose of the cargo plane?
Posted by: davidt

And the tip of the wiener right there on the tongue.

I mean ramp. The ramp.

Posted by: a random robosexual at June 25, 2025 10:43 PM (DgGvY)

124 Boy, Rat, I sure hope I get to see you in TX! 🤪👀
Posted by: COMountainMarie

{{{}}}!! Ditto, hope you find a chicken sitter!

Posted by: Some Rat at June 25, 2025 10:43 PM (TfUTr)

125 105 Enjoying the ONT! THanks for the content TRex!

Hi Horde!
Posted by: Iris at June 25, 2025 10:37 PM
***
Now it's a party. Good evening Iris! Thanks for checking in.

Posted by: TRex at June 25, 2025 10:44 PM (aSMxl)

126 Dear wife waited until after sunset to have me help her plant some new plants into the flower garden.

I don't get it.
Posted by: Tonypete

Did she drink a few cups of coffee at dinner?
I've mopped my kitchen floor late at night if I've had coffee late in the evening.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 25, 2025 10:44 PM (0Htd1)

127 Ray Croc vs Fred Smith vs Steve Jobs vs George Washington Carver?

Elon Musk.

We're living in a time with one of the most transformative people in history.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 10:36 PM (viF8m)

Speaking of TWA , Howard Hughs is still changing history with the medical research center he left behind.

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

128 Some great shenanigans!

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 25, 2025 10:46 PM (lIgBp)

129 >>106
I'm still very angry about that DIA Assessment leak.

That fake report was created for one reason: to be leaked to embarrass PDT. It had no other reason to exist.

Posted by: Soothsayer
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Good part is unlike before, they will be arrested and prosecuted. Setting an object lesson for all the wannabes.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 10:46 PM (yXf+h)

130 100
Went out to put the kennel dogs up for the night. Big Dan is doing much better after the scare he gave us yesterday. Gave him a Carprofen anyway.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25

Good night, Dan! I just got the dog settled here so I could go to bed and the cats are now losing their minds.

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 10:46 PM (QzINz)

131
Hiya Official Delurker,

All our grandbabies are all siblings.

Our son was married and his wife died in childbirth with the 11 year old.

He remarried 3 years later and that is why there is a gap in age between the 6 y/o and 11 y/o.

It's such a blessing we live 4 blocks from them. Well, maybe not for son and daughter-in-law, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 10:46 PM (3ek7K)

132
Amen. I couldn't imagine before becoming a grandmother how fiercely I could love them.

Posted by: Official Delurker loves her grands at June 25, 2025 10:38 PM (liGnN)

YES! We are having a wonderful time with ours, ages 6&4...and a new one on the way!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 25, 2025 10:46 PM (6PCLE)

133 >>A sheriff I knew once famously said, "Nothing good happens after midnight."

People say all kinds of crazy stuff.

https://tinyurl.com/3jj4bvka

Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 10:47 PM (viF8m)

134
He gave up the Hollywood life in 1974, became an EMT in Los Angeles, and seems to have been a pretty decent guy.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

Due to his work on this episode, Bobby Sherman later quit entertainment and became an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT).

https://t.ly/ZDV3O

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2025 10:47 PM (63Dwl)

135 CBD does an awesome food thread, now know he is also cooking for you at MoMe X. Pete Bog, Rancherbob and AZ deplorable are also there too.
Posted by: Ben Had

{{{Ben Had}}} Oh Lord the food! The glorious, glorious food.

Posted by: Some Rat at June 25, 2025 10:47 PM (TfUTr)

136 Bobby Sherman guested on Emergency! in 1975, which is where he caught Paramedic Fever. He had a 30 year career with the LAFD and became a spokesman and instructor at the Fire Academy. A good fellow, RIP.

Posted by: Squad 51 Fan. at June 25, 2025 10:48 PM (G5+As)

137 Washington Post says Gabbard won't be included in any Iran updates.

Who knows, it's probably fake news.
Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 10:42 PM (3ek7K)

If true she’s not going to be around for long. Being included is the job description.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:48 PM (VofaG)

138 >A sheriff I knew once famously said, "Nothing good happens after midnight."
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but, that's when you let it all hang out

Posted by: Don Black at June 25, 2025 10:49 PM (AOsQT)

139 Good evening morons y gracias Doggo

Caltrans is not doing Sepulveda other than to secure the graft, provide employment, and punish cars and drivers.

Posted by: Kittehs Riding Roombas at June 25, 2025 10:49 PM (RIvkX)

140 >>>Speaking of TWA , Howard Hughs is still changing history with the medical research center he left behind.
Posted by: polynikes
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He also left behind the modern hospital bed.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 10:50 PM (yXf+h)

141 2am is when the bars close. That’s the witching hour.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:50 PM (VofaG)

142 Mmmmmmm
Alannah Myles in chaps.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 25, 2025 10:51 PM (W/lyH)

143 He also left behind the modern hospital bed.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 10:50 PM (yXf+h)

Drilling bits too.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:51 PM (VofaG)

144 /kitteh sock off

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 25, 2025 10:51 PM (RIvkX)

145 Most of you will probably not get what is going on in Philidelphia today or that in fact the CCP has flooded Philly with cheap meth and Fentanyl because they want to insult and degrade the very place of the creation of the Declaration of Independence which the CHICOMS revile on every level.

Slap a CHICOM whenever you see one...and then slap them again.

Posted by: Nightwatch at June 25, 2025 10:51 PM (25kuG)

146 So it appears it's a Widely Held Belief, a.k.a. a myth, that George Washington Carver invented peanut butter.
That's sad cuz that fake "fact" was 50% of fake black fake history month.
Posted by: Soothsayer

Meh. A lot of people think Henry Ford invented the automobile.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 25, 2025 10:52 PM (0Htd1)

147 Meh. A lot of people think Henry Ford invented the automobile.
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 25, 2025 10:52 PM (0Htd1)

He invented the assembly line.

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

148 Hola my grey box amigos. Thanks Mr. Rex. The ONT excellence continues uninterrupted.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at June 25, 2025 10:53 PM (DX/Mv)

149 So some dude is going door to door in Pittsburgh offering hand jobs for donations so he can buy crack.

WE FOUND HUNTER!!! He's in Pittsburgh.
Posted by: Orson at June 25, 2025 10:24 PM (dIske)

Yeah, looks like he made it as far as 620 Liberty St.

Posted by: Average Guy at June 25, 2025 10:55 PM (lPHZZ)

150 George Washington Carver ‘invented’ over a hundred uses for the peanut.

Like Bubba and shrimp.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:55 PM (VofaG)

151 Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV, endowed by the MGM honcho.

Nice way to be remembered. Might even cause St. Peter to give you a second look. Kerkorian probably needed all the help he could get, too.

Posted by: mnw at June 25, 2025 10:55 PM (kd60y)

152 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 25, 2025 10:55 PM (SRRAx)

153 Howard Hughs… also left behind the modern hospital bed.
Posted by: Braenyard

Having spent too many nights in the hospital in the past couple of years, I have thought of some improvements that would help. Maybe Elon Musk could set his mind to it.

Posted by: mindful webworker - robot beds at June 25, 2025 10:56 PM (0NO3o)

154 Good part is unlike before, they will be arrested and prosecuted. Setting an object lesson for all the wannabes.

Who is going to do the arresting and prosecution?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 10:56 PM (a4flb)

155 @TheBabylonBee
·
11h
Hamas Claims Responsibility For NYC Mayoral Primary
https://buff.ly/1QePVby

Posted by: Don Black at June 25, 2025 10:56 PM (AOsQT)

156
I wonder how the illegals from spanish speaking countries are going to get along with the new Muslim immigrants.

Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 10:58 PM (3ek7K)

157 >>Having spent too many nights in the hospital in the past couple of years, I have thought of some improvements that would help. Maybe Elon Musk could set his mind to it.

Boy howdy. Those things are good for doctors and nurses, not so much for those of us who have lie in them.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 10:58 PM (viF8m)

158 Don't look now, but the S&P 500 is at a near-record high.

How could that possibly be happening in "Trump's disastrous economy"?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 25, 2025 10:59 PM (qpyNK)

159 Now the Iranians REALLY want s bomb..only way to keep the Israelis from bombing them whenever they feel like it, never mind us doing it. Probably should have waited more than a couple days after the ceasefire though. Like getting right up off the floor and being sassy right after a short bar fight with younger Mike Tyson

Posted by: Azjaeger at June 25, 2025 10:59 PM (3/XaG)

160 Hi, TiFW

Posted by: mnw at June 25, 2025 10:59 PM (kd60y)

161 Hi Teresa💞!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 25, 2025 11:00 PM (ZwGHJ)

162 155 @TheBabylonBee
·
11h
Hamas Claims Responsibility For NYC Mayoral Primary
https://buff.ly/1QePVby
Posted by: Don Black at June 25, 2025 10:56 PM (AOsQT)

The Palestinians have found their new homeland?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 25, 2025 11:00 PM (S/Y4j)

163 48 36 Okay, so I ordered a bacon cheeseburger and when it came it looked like a skull on my plate. I showed my friend and he saw it too. So I snapped a picture.

I'm looking at the picture now, and the cheeseburger doesn't look like a skull, no matter how hard I try to see it.

There's a French word for that, right?
Posted by: Bombadil at June 25, 2025 10:11 PM (MX0bI)
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Well, the Latin word for seeing shit that looks like other shit is "pareidolia." I imagine the French derivative would be "faux-skullez du burgre." However, I only had two semesters of French in high school, so I admit that I am a bit rusty.
Posted by: Pennsyltucky at June 25, 2025 10:15 PM (QdGJh)

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

In Spanish, el ess dee

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 25, 2025 11:01 PM (144I4)

164 We weren’t part of the cease fire. We should load up again and drop one on the Iranian parliament.

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

165 Hello, Horde! 😊💕
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth

🙂

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at June 25, 2025 11:01 PM (DX/Mv)

166 So it appears it's a Widely Held Belief, a.k.a. a myth, that George Washington Carver invented peanut butter.
That's sad cuz that fake "fact" was 50% of fake black fake history month.
Posted by: Soothsayer

Meh. A lot of people think Henry Ford invented the automobile.
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 25, 2025 10:52 PM (0Htd1)

What idiots!

Posted by: Al Gore, Inventor of the Internet at June 25, 2025 11:02 PM (wVcYX)

167 He invented the assembly line.
Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:53 PM (VofaG)

He was in Europe and saw a crude assembly line, returned home, and improved the system.

Posted by: 13times at June 25, 2025 11:03 PM (Ne1ck)

168
I got interested in the history of Iran and the Shah and all that. Sordid business of CIA and MI6 meddling after WWII.

Reza Shah, the last Shah's father took over after the coup of 1921. Before that, a lot of British and Soviet wrangling over Iranian territory after the Communists took over Russia.

He was made Shah and it was a kinda sort of constitutional monarchy. Then came WWII, and Reza got sort of friendly with the Germans, hoping to play them against Brits and Russians to his benefit. Result was an invasion of Iran by Britain and Soviets in 1941, and he was taken out of power.

After WWII, his son, the "Shah of Iran" we're familiar with, was made Shah. But he had limited power. They elected a prime minister who got all sort of uppity and nationalized the oil industry and got sort of communisty.

CIA and MI6 engineered a coup against him, and put the Shah in absolute monarchy control. And thus it was until '79. The Shah got really tyrannical starting in the late '60s to early '70s, with the infamous SAVAK secret police.

His role was to keep the communists at bay and police the Persian Gulf oil control. To do that, we let him be a brutal dictator.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 25, 2025 11:04 PM (w6EFb)

169 155 @TheBabylonBee
·
11h
Hamas Claims Responsibility For NYC Mayoral Primary
https://buff.ly/1QePVby
Posted by: Don Black

The Babylon Bee, America's Paper of Record! Tomorrows headlines, Today!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 25, 2025 11:04 PM (wBh67)

170 Isaac Newton didn't discover his laws because an apple fell on his head, either.

George W. Bush didn't serve a "plastic turkey" to US troops.

Sarah Palin never said she could see Russia from her house.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 25, 2025 11:04 PM (qpyNK)

171 What is worse than hearing your barber say "Oops!"?

Hearing your dentist say "Wow!" Repeatedly. Had two teeth pulled today. Dentist told me they were the toughest extractions he had done so far this year.

I didn't know that dentists had air chisels. Now I do.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 25, 2025 11:05 PM (6Z9Vm)

172 My vanguard real estate ETF got nailed today, down well over 2%.
My understanding is it's because of the shit for brains who won the mayoral primary in NY.
Vanguard should be more diversified.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 25, 2025 11:06 PM (n4GiU)

173 Who has two thumbs and invented the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways?

Posted by: Ike at June 25, 2025 11:06 PM (wVcYX)

174 He was in Europe and saw a crude assembly line, returned home, and improved the system.
Posted by: 13times at June 25, 2025 11:03 PM (Ne1ck)

Moving assembly line.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 11:06 PM (VofaG)

175 I invented the internet.

Posted by: All Gore at June 25, 2025 11:07 PM (Ne1ck)

176 >Who is going to do the arresting and prosecution?

Hopefully the same people I was told wouldn't do this.

>>NEWARK, N.J. -- U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver pleaded not guilty Wednesday to federal charges accusing her of assaulting and interfering with immigration officers outside a New Jersey detention center during a congressional oversight visit at the facility.

https://tinyurl.com/mupck85p

Trump just blew up the Iranian nuclear program that the 3 previous presidents did shit to stop. Does this administration really look like those in any possible way?

Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 11:08 PM (viF8m)

177 Trompe l'oeil (fool the eye):

iIf you look at a painting one way, it's a woman seated at her dressing table mirror. Another way, it's a skull.

Posted by: mnw at June 25, 2025 11:08 PM (kd60y)

178 Gore said he helped create the internet.

Close enough .

He also said he was the inspiration for Love Story so he deserved to be mocked.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 11:09 PM (VofaG)

179 Meh. A lot of people think Henry Ford invented the automobile.
Posted by: nerdygirl

He invented the assembly line.
Posted by: polynikes

Also models.

And tea.

And Henry Winkler.

Posted by: mikeski at June 25, 2025 11:11 PM (DgGvY)

180 His role was to keep the communists at bay and police the Persian Gulf oil control. To do that, we let him be a brutal dictator.
Posted by: publius

It's almost as if everything 'our' federal government touches, it ****s up.

The Manhattan Project worked out okay though. In spite of the commies within.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 25, 2025 11:11 PM (cYBz/)

181 > iIf you look at a painting one way, it's a woman seated at her dressing table mirror. Another way, it's a skull.
Posted by: mnw at June 25, 2025 11:08 PM (kd60y)

So it's a picture of Maxine Waters getting ready for work?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 25, 2025 11:12 PM (qpyNK)

182 I didn't know that dentists had air chisels. Now I do.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

My brother was a construction laborer for a long time, and he was talking to his doctor about similar tools that both of them used. The doctor said: the only difference between us is that I just went to school longer.

My brother laughed and said yeah, sure. He likes his doctor, a down to earth kind of guy.

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 25, 2025 11:12 PM (144I4)

183 Hi again four seasons,

I am so sorry about your late daughter-in-law. How heartbreaking. But yes, what a blessing that you get to live nearby your grands! We're a half-hour from second daughter and her husband and family, and I will be semi-retiring in September and babysitting for their little ones (currently almost 15 months and almost 2 months) when daughter returns to work.

Oldest daughter and family are about 2 hours away -- not super far away, but busy schedules all around make regular visits difficult to accomplish.

Posted by: Official Delurker loves her grands at June 25, 2025 11:12 PM (liGnN)

184 Random TV Trivia: in its original run, The Jetsons only aired 24 episodes across a span of six months from 1962-1963.

George Jetson was born around 2022, given he was 40 in 2062...
I actually met a guy a couple of years ago whose last name is Jetson; I never asked if he had a son named George...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2025 11:13 PM (ynpvh)

185 Had two teeth pulled today. Dentist told me they were the toughest extractions he had done so far this year.

I didn't know that dentists had air chisels. Now I do.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

If you're having them replaced with implants, you'll find out they have tiny little torque wrenches, too.

Measuring in Newton-centimeters.

I'm not sure I was supposed to wake up for that part.

Posted by: mikeski at June 25, 2025 11:13 PM (DgGvY)

186 Tesla is credited for inventing lots of things but it's very hard to 100% certify those claims.

I do like his time machine.

Posted by: 13times at June 25, 2025 11:13 PM (Ne1ck)

187 > The Manhattan Project worked out okay though. In spite of the commies within.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 25, 2025 11:11 PM (cYBz/)

Pretty much the only thing governments don't suck at is killing people.

Even communist governments can manage that one.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 25, 2025 11:14 PM (qpyNK)

188 Tesla is credited for inventing lots of things but it's very hard to 100% certify those claims.

I do like his time machine.
Posted by: 13times at June 25, 2025 11:13 PM (Ne1ck)

No doubt he invented the electric motor we use today. He is also credited for inventing the Radio by the US Patent office. Sorry Marconi.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 11:15 PM (VofaG)

189 We invented sex!

Posted by: Every Generation at June 25, 2025 11:15 PM (wVcYX)

190 Publius, the Brits got very interested in Iran because prior to WWI they had gotten entranced with the idea of running their navy on bunker oil instead of coal, and there were British companies prospecting and promising big strikes like in America. The Brits kept hold in that area because of the need for oil, and were not above kicking things down if it suited them.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2025 11:15 PM (D7oie)

191 Regarding FedEx: I was a hospice nurse for 9 years. The specialty pharmacy we used for most of our patients' medications moved its headquarters to Memphis to be at same location as major FedEx hub. There were only 2 times in 9 years that I can recall having to scramble last minute to get a patient's meds due to FedEx not coming thru as promised. (We also had contract with local retail pharmacy for urgent needs.)

Posted by: Frankie at June 25, 2025 11:15 PM (G1hiI)

192 > The doctor said: the only difference between us is that I just went to school longer.

In one of the Aubrey/Maturin books, Dr. Maturin asks for leave.

"Of course. We'll be fine. We've got the sailmaker to sew things up and the carpenter to cut things off."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 25, 2025 11:16 PM (qpyNK)

193 The Calvin and Hobbes strip is hilarious.
Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 10:03 PM

ISWYDT.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 11:16 PM (Wnv9h)

194 Disappointing that Putin isn't working with Trump to end the war in Ukraine.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 11:17 PM (yXf+h)

195 178 Gore said he helped create the internet.

Close enough .

He also said he was the inspiration for Love Story so he deserved to be mocked.
Posted by: polynikes

There is a recent video of him I saw on the interwebs. Probably saw it here. Anyway, he looks awful. He was screeching about ENVIROMENTAL CATASTROPHE!! at some conference. It was all performance art. He played his part like usual. He just looks older than he is (77) and of course, he comes across as insane.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 25, 2025 11:17 PM (wBh67)

196 If you're having them replaced with implants, you'll find out they have tiny little torque wrenches, too. >>>

Be afraid when he attaches the breaker-bar.

Posted by: 13times at June 25, 2025 11:17 PM (Ne1ck)

197 189 We invented sex!

Posted by: Every Generation at June 25, 2025 11:15 PM (wVcYX)

Arabs: We invented the condom!
British: We invented removing it from the sheep first.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 11:19 PM (ynpvh)

198 Show me the soccer equivalent of the ball gets by Buckner

Posted by: Thomas Bender

Champion's League Final, the top club competition in Europe, 2018.

https://tinyurl.com/3kaz4auz

Posted by: Pikov Andropov at June 25, 2025 11:19 PM (y7zkd)

199 ChristyBlinkyTheGreat, 132:

Congratulations on the new grandbaby on the way! Do you know whether the little one is a boy or girl?

My oldest daughter and her husband always wanted to know before their babies were born; my second daughter and her husband are the opposite (and like my husband and me -- we liked being surprised). :-)

Posted by: Official Delurker loves her grands at June 25, 2025 11:19 PM (liGnN)

200 Speaking of Henry Ford , I like the story of Kingsford charcoal.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 11:19 PM (VofaG)

201 I’m pretty sure Johnny Quest only had a single season as well. (We shall not speak of the execrable revival some decades later)

Theme song was written by Hoyt Curtin, and includes a basically impossible to play sequence as written. You can hear this once you know what to listen for, it adds to the tension. Very sophisticated storylines for a cartoon at the time.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 25, 2025 11:19 PM (X3SL3)

202 "Close enough."

Apparently not.

Posted by: 13times at June 25, 2025 11:19 PM (Ne1ck)

203 We don't make a lot of the products you buy. We make a lot of the products you buy better.

Posted by: BASF at June 25, 2025 11:20 PM (wVcYX)

204
Good evening, all!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 11:20 PM (lCaJd)

205 Trump just blew up the Iranian nuclear program that the 3 previous presidents did shit to stop. Does this administration really look like those in any possible way?
Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 11:08 PM (viF8m)

This administration does bear a striking resemblance to one of those previous 3.

Posted by: 4547 at June 25, 2025 11:21 PM (ZHYU8)

206
Official Delurker,

Our grandbabies have been so busy with sports we don't see them much now even being this close. This month is the last of the sports for the summer, yay!

I love what kids say. The 6 y/o and his mom were at the school orientation, you know, meet and greet. The teacher was telling grandson about the reading progam and you can get Pizza Hut coupons if you read the required number of books. Grandson said "ewww, we don't get food from Pizza Hut, those people are nasty and the food is awful." lmao. Little ears hear lots of things. He was right though, we all stopped getting food from there and surprise surprise the place closed up a year later.

Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 11:21 PM (3ek7K)

207 I do like his time machine.
Posted by: 13times

Can I borrow it?

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at June 25, 2025 11:21 PM (DX/Mv)

208 We don't make a lot of the products you buy. We make a lot of the products you buy better.
Posted by: BASF

Your 5 1/4 inch floppy disks were pretty much shit, though.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 25, 2025 11:21 PM (lUFok)

209 186 Tesla is credited for inventing lots of things but it's very hard to 100% certify those claims.

I do like his time machine.
Posted by: 13times

There first 4 albums were solid rock albums!

youtu.be/-2zwBRa0YhA

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 25, 2025 11:23 PM (wBh67)

210 Can I borrow it?
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at June 25, 2025 11:21 PM (DX/Mv)

I thought Ace had the keys?

Posted by: a dude in MI at June 25, 2025 11:23 PM (+I6Y/)

211 We invented sex!
Posted by: Every Generation

Arabs: We invented the condom!
British: We invented removing it from the sheep first.
Posted by: ...

Greek: we invented sex for pleasure!
Irishman: but we included women.

Posted by: just the other punchline at June 25, 2025 11:24 PM (DgGvY)

212 I do like his time machine.
Posted by: 13times

Can I borrow it?
Posted by: Sock Monkey

Sure, you can have it last Thursday.

Posted by: mikeski at June 25, 2025 11:24 PM (DgGvY)

213 180 His role was to keep the communists at bay and police the Persian Gulf oil control. To do that, we let him be a brutal dictator.
Posted by: publius

He fell because he wasn’t nearly brutal enough.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 11:25 PM (HEGiN)

214 The Shah was also a secularist, pluralist, and modernized the country.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 25, 2025 11:25 PM (RIvkX)

215 >>This administration does bear a striking resemblance to one of those previous 3.

Not in any way.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 11:26 PM (viF8m)

216 > Your 5 1/4 inch floppy disks were pretty much shit, though.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 25, 2025 11:21 PM (lUFok)

Not as bad as Polaroid, though.

Bought a couple of boxes of those on sale.

Every one failed within days of first use. Every one.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 25, 2025 11:27 PM (qpyNK)

217 Random TV Trivia: in its original run, The Jetsons only aired 24 episodes across a span of six months from 1962-1963. It was cancelled due to low ratings. Reruns got such high viewership over the years that in 1985, 51 more episodes were produced.

The Honeymooners only ran for one season. 39 episodes. That's it.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 25, 2025 11:28 PM (0CU3H)

218 Not as bad as Polaroid, though.

Bought a couple of boxes of those on sale.

Every one failed within days of first use. Every one.

Didn't even know Polaroid tried to get into that business. At least they had consistency down.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 25, 2025 11:28 PM (lUFok)

219 Ford famously doubled the prevailing industry wide wage to $5 a day. That doesn’t sound like much, but it was good money for 1914. Factory work was brutal in those days, but he had no trouble attracting thousands of applicants at the River Rouge factory. So many people showed up, he had to have his goons disperse the mob with fire hoses. In January.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 25, 2025 11:28 PM (X3SL3)

220
Incidentally, it was Reza Shah that started calling it "Iran" rather than "Persia". The etymology and history of all that is involved, but "Iran" was what they called it internally for a long time, and Reza forced that to become international.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 25, 2025 11:28 PM (w6EFb)

221 >>>Trompe l'oeil (fool the eye):

Posted by: mnw

Trump l'ol (fool the libs)

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 25, 2025 11:28 PM (144I4)

222 90 Some Rat, I heard there are things in the planning that no expects.
Posted by: Ben Had

Hush yo mouth

Posted by: The Spanish Inquistion at June 25, 2025 11:28 PM (y7zkd)

223 My dog just walked in to tell me it's my bedtime.

Good doggie. Must know I've got early morning things to do.

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - the cat doesn't care at June 25, 2025 11:28 PM (0NO3o)

224 Best Johnny Quest Episode by far as actually part of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law. Harvey represented Race Bannon in his lawyer against Dr Quest for Palimoney.
(Evidence at trial - did you ever see either one of them with a woman?)

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 11:29 PM (HEGiN)

225 There was a Pizza Hut where I went to graduate school and every so often they ran an all-you-can eat special and we would all descend on them like locusts devouring every single thing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 25, 2025 11:29 PM (RIvkX)

226 I’m pretty sure Johnny Quest only had a single season as well. (We shall not speak of the execrable revival some decades later)
Posted by: Common Tater

The custody battle between Race and Dr. Quest on Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law was epic!

Posted by: Tonypete at June 25, 2025 11:29 PM (cYBz/)

227 four seasons, 206

LOL! The brutal honesty out of the mouths of our babes! :-D

The 5- and 3-year-olds -- sisters -- were reportedly arguing recently about which one was rude first. lol. Neither denied being rude, you see, but apparently it's more virtuous to be rude second, haha.

Posted by: Official Delurker loves her grands at June 25, 2025 11:29 PM (liGnN)

228 I think the supposed evil Right dictators usually fall or eventually turns the country over to 'democracy' because they allowed free movement of the populace. The didn't put up walls to keep people in or ban travel out of the country .

Individual exceptions of course.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 11:30 PM (VofaG)

229
Official Delurker,

Hilarious! You never know what they are going to say. Never a dull moment.

Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 11:31 PM (3ek7K)

230 Heh Tom Servo - You gotta be fast around here!

Posted by: Tonypete at June 25, 2025 11:31 PM (cYBz/)

231 Going to. eat part of this new tub of French Onion Dip but they put something in the ingredients that cause one to want just one more chip. Again.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 11:31 PM (yXf+h)

232 Show me the soccer equivalent of the ball gets by Buckner

Posted by: Thomas Bender

I feel for that guy. He was one of my favorites growing up. A member of the 1970 Spokane Indians (AAA). Greatest minor league team ever.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at June 25, 2025 11:31 PM (DX/Mv)

233 “Iran” comes from the same source word as our “Aryan”. Although the actual Aryans, a historical people, were nothing at all like der fuhrer’s fantasy version of them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 11:32 PM (HEGiN)

234 >This administration does bear a striking resemblance to one of those previous 3.

Not in any way.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 11:26 PM (viF8

Did you not get that or am I not getting your snark?

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 11:33 PM (VofaG)

235
San Franpsycho,

We got food from Pizza Hut for years. We live in a very small town now and the one that was here was takeout only. It was not good at all. Luckily a family opened a pizza and ice cream place and their pizzas are good. Good for being in the middle of nowhere Wyoming.

Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 11:33 PM (3ek7K)

236 Ach! Past 10:30 already here. Will try to catch up with you ONT-ers tomorrow night. If I'm not too tired. Thursdays are my busiest piano days -- nine students.

Have a great night, horde.

Posted by: Official Delurker loves her grands at June 25, 2025 11:33 PM (liGnN)

237 Iran” comes from the same source word as our “Aryan”. Although the actual Aryans, a historical people, were nothing at all like der fuhrer’s fantasy version of them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 11:32 PM (HEGi

He did steal their swastika.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 11:34 PM (VofaG)

238
Goodnight Delurker!

Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 11:34 PM (3ek7K)

239 I loved the sandwiches Pizza Hut made in the 70's.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 11:35 PM (VofaG)

240 Good night, four seasons! Thanks for the conversation tonight!

Posted by: Official Delurker loves her grands at June 25, 2025 11:37 PM (liGnN)

241 He did steal their swastika.

Typical socialist, stealing other people's stuff and calling it yours.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 25, 2025 11:37 PM (lUFok)

242 Ford famously doubled the prevailing industry wide wage to $5 a day. That doesn’t sound like much, but it was good money for 1914. Factory work was brutal in those days, but he had no trouble attracting thousands of applicants at the River Rouge factory. So many people showed up, he had to have his goons disperse the mob with fire hoses. In January.
Posted by: Common Tater
====

Early the entire workforce had to report daily.
Then they would tell you if you working that day.

But first, roll call. You miss roll call you were fired.
I you didn't leave when dismissed, it gets the hose.

There were solid reasons for unions. At one time.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 25, 2025 11:37 PM (/lPRQ)

243 We mostly make pizza at home now. Very thin crust and Mrs. F. uses a lot of wheat flour added in the dough.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 25, 2025 11:38 PM (RIvkX)

244
I've been making Pizza Monkey Bread. It's made from cut up biscuits and whatever you want to mix in with the biscuits. It's just something kinda different.

You can find all kinds of Monkey Bread recipes on line.

Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 11:38 PM (3ek7K)

245 >>This administration does bear a striking resemblance to one of those previous 3.

Not in any way.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 11:26 PM (viF8m)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THE LAST 3 ADMINISTRATIONS WERE BIDEN, TRUMP, OBAMA

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at June 25, 2025 11:38 PM (Dnobf)

246 >>>214 The Shah was also a secularist, pluralist, and modernized the country.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 25, 2025 11:25 PM (RIvkX)
--

A lot of the dissent was communist inspired and paid for.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 11:39 PM (yXf+h)

247 Years ago I had my Iranian neighbor try root beer. His reaction was to spit it in the kitchen sink. He then had me try an imported carbonated yoghurt drink. Thank goodness the kitchen sink was at hand.

Posted by: 13times at June 25, 2025 11:39 PM (Ne1ck)

248 No street on this one, you perverts
lol.

The sentence; “People are so crazy, ya’ll” must be heard at the Pittsburgh 911 dispatch center at least a dozen times a day.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 11:39 PM (6ydKt)

249 He should have rounded up the commies and put them in dungoens

.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 11:40 PM (yXf+h)

250 Franpsycho, saw a comment last night by you that said you did your USSR time in '84-'85? Language program I assume? Where?

I was in Leningrad in '78. Several months. Fantastic really, and an interesting time. Shcharansky trial, Jimmy's human raaaahts campaign, and of course all the health rumors about Brezhnev (whom we affectionately called Leonoid, or, when our handler was around, "Eyebrows" - she never figured it out).

Posted by: rhomboid at June 25, 2025 11:40 PM (1m82a)

251 There was a dude from Brooklyn who made good pizza in my neighborhood but the covids closed his place. For good.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 25, 2025 11:41 PM (RIvkX)

252 Franpsycho, do you use a pizza stone or something? Wouldn't mind exploring making pizza at home.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 25, 2025 11:42 PM (1m82a)

253
In 1963, the Shah launched the "White Revolution", which was intended to modernize and industrialize Iran, and take power away from what was essentially feudal landlords in the country. That pissed off the landlords and the Islamic nutjobs. Allowing women to vote and secularizing the local authority really pissed them off.

Khomeini was the most vocal of the nutjobs, and that got him exiled (Shah should've take a more permanent "exile" to him....)

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 25, 2025 11:44 PM (w6EFb)

254 Pizza Hut 90-94sh was peak for me..friend and I would get a supreme hand tossed. Not sure why they ruined it

Posted by: a dude in MI at June 25, 2025 11:44 PM (+I6Y/)

255 You sick fuckers. Dr. Quest and Race Bannon were not homosexual. Bannon had a side piece on the show, an Oriental hottie. Sheesh

Posted by: Common Tater at June 25, 2025 11:44 PM (X3SL3)

256
I'm not sure either. The Supreme was what we always ordered.

Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 11:45 PM (3ek7K)

257 Evening, TRex and ONT Horde! Just got back from Wing Nite in Elnora. Still daylight when I got home, so I climbed on the riding mower, and mowed a few patches that I uncovered by moving vehicles this afternoon. Yard looking a little less shaggy now.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 25, 2025 11:46 PM (6eAks)

258 >>Did you not get that or am I not getting your snark?

Yea, missed that. My bad.

Trump 1 was basically fighting off hoaxes. This is really what he wanted to do and it doesn't bear any resemblance to the previous administrations that were allowed to actually impement their policies.

This is what Trump wanted to do when he wasn't being impeached.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 11:47 PM (viF8m)

259 It was a Russian Lang. course at my undergraduate school organized by the Soviet publishers of our textbooks. Mostly at LGU but also at MGU. This period was the interregnum between Chernenko and Gorbachev. My thesis was on Convergence Theory and I should have won a Pulitzer because my forecast was mostly accurate.

Being in Leningrad was like being on that planet in Star Trek where the whole planet is gangland Chicago. Everyone was a petty criminal.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 25, 2025 11:47 PM (RIvkX)

260 Franpsycho, do you use a pizza stone or something? Wouldn't mind exploring making pizza at home.
Posted by: rhomboid

I use a stone when making pizza. Honestly, there isn't much difference between my Focaccia dough and pizza dough though. As a result, the crust is a medium thickness.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 25, 2025 11:47 PM (cYBz/)

261 My younger sister's teen idol crush was Bobby Sherman.

And we had our own Pittsburgh Scanner moment today:

Rebecca's Massage Therapist's daughter won a pretty major regional art award at her junior high, but her school didn't even acknowledge it.

We have known her since before she was born. Her father died unexpectedly when she was three years old (leaving her mother a widow). We have watched her blossom into a remarkably mature young lady, and we try to do nice things for her and her mom whenever we can. So to reward her for her art accomplishment, we took her and her mom to the Cheesecake Factory in downtown Fort Worth for lunch today. (Cont)

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 25, 2025 11:48 PM (SRRAx)

262 ""Be nice to your fellow commenters.""

What???? I'm always nice.....LOL

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 25, 2025 11:48 PM (QGaXH)

263 Franpsycho, do you use a pizza stone or something? Wouldn't mind exploring making pizza at home.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 25, 2025 11:42 PM (1m82a)

I use a cast iron griddle

Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2025 11:49 PM (D7oie)

264 We tried making our own pizzas for a while. The cost was greater than just buying, so we quit. We weren't even piling on the toppings. Just plain pepperoni or salami.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 25, 2025 11:49 PM (0eaVi)

265 27 I always find it fascinating that The Jetsons had only one season. Their penetration into the cultural zeitgeist was incredible. Almost romantic, when you think about it.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 25, 2025 10:08 PM (CHHv1)

Whereas The Flinstones ran for six seasons over five and a half years.

Fred and Barney must’ve been more endearing
.
The show was based on The Honeymooners, so maybe that helped.

The Jetsons was more like an opposite Flintstones with robots & gadgets instead of dinosaurs & bones/rocks.

I liked them both watching them on TBS in the afternoons as a kid.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 11:49 PM (6ydKt)

266 *You can find all kinds of Monkey Bread recipes on line.*

The challenge is finding fresh monkey.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 25, 2025 11:50 PM (lIgBp)

267 We have use a stone because its best for thin crust but also cast iron pans for thicker crust, sometimes sheet pans.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 25, 2025 11:50 PM (RIvkX)

268 Remember Shakey's Pizza?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 11:50 PM (VAINm)

269 It can be lunch time
I always use a pizza stone, and had it since maybe 1990. I use it for pizza and Stromboli.
I put corn meal on the peal so it slides off

Posted by: Skip at June 25, 2025 11:50 PM (S0mG3)

270 Use high protein bread flour, and let the yeast work the dough at least overnight or 24 hours. A “poolish” is another method to achieve the same thing.. Anyway aged dough is a lot more flavorful. Gives a really nice whang to bread or pizza.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 25, 2025 11:50 PM (X3SL3)

271 Since parking is at a premium, we all drove together in our van. On the way to the restaurant, all of a sudden there was a very loud gasp from the back seat. Turns out that Willow had turned to see some nice-looking young men who were walking down the street, and was treated to the sight of a crack whore pulling down her tube top to flash those young men from across the street.

Poor sweet girl is going to have nightmares for years....

(We told her to look on the bright side - she's gonna have one heck of a story to tell the class when they are asked what they did on summer vacation! 😂😂😂

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 25, 2025 11:51 PM (SRRAx)

272 255 You sick fuckers. Dr. Quest and Race Bannon were not homosexual. Bannon had a side piece on the show, an Oriental hottie. Sheesh
Posted by: Common Tater at June 25, 2025 11:44 PM (X3SL3)

Yeah he was one of those Thai Boys.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 11:51 PM (HEGiN)

273
Quarter Twenty,

Lol

Posted by: fourseasons at June 25, 2025 11:52 PM (3ek7K)

274 Gives a really nice whang to bread or pizza.
Posted by: Common Tater

I must say, I don't know this by experience but I don't think I like the taste of whang.

Just saying.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 25, 2025 11:52 PM (cYBz/)

275 Remember Shakey's Pizza?
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 11:50 PM (VAINm)

There's one in Anaheim a couple of miles past DL. They used to have one in Bakersfield, but it's gone. I prefer Straw Hat, but there aren't any near me at all.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 25, 2025 11:52 PM (0eaVi)

276 The dough is all Mrs. F. I only show up when it is ready to be pizzafied.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 25, 2025 11:53 PM (RIvkX)

277 Remember Shakey's Pizza?

I remember when the guy went in and shot the one on Camden Ave up, before the remodel.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 25, 2025 11:53 PM (lUFok)

278

Shakey's was good.

Posted by: fourseasons at June 25, 2025 11:53 PM (3ek7K)

279 Franpsycho, thanks. Leningrad wasn't quite mobbed up yet in '78, but we had little trouble finding lizards (yashceritzi), black market guys, to do the basics (sell jeans, get the Soviet uniforms or hats we were looking for). What amazed us was how little interest the goons had in us. Program started with detente in '73, and we'd heard stories about the early years (like being at the embassy in Sofia or Baghdad back under the previous managements). But they properly assessed us as useless young idiots, and ignored us.

Some people took it a bit far, traveling internally outside their visa limits. They were scorched by the group leaders and the rest of us for endangering the whole show.

We had a great train trip at the end, what we called the "anti-Soviet tour", since it went through the Baltics, then western Ukraine (Lvov, where the vibe was very distinctly tense).

Posted by: rhomboid at June 25, 2025 11:53 PM (1m82a)

280 My cell phone is jumping around like crazy, websites are not coming up and I don't feel like going on the laptop in the other room. Could anyone please tell me what the gist (sp?) is of what President Trump said at the NATO Summit?
Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 11:54 PM (2GCMq)

281 "Best wishes to anyone in Los Angeles driving on the 405. Lane closures started last night for a road refresh."

For 5 years (2015 - 2020) the 405 in Orange County was being reconstructed. They dropped and rebuilt 16 bridges so they could widen the freeway to add two 'Fast Trak' lanes and one regular lane.

The only real problem was the frequent lane re-striping made life a little sporty if you weren't paying attention when traffic was moving......

About 15 years ago they dropped the Mulholland bridge at the top of Sepulveda pass onto the 405 over a weekend.

All the OC bridges were done at night on weekends with some closures during the weekend.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 25, 2025 11:55 PM (QGaXH)

282 I’ve got a pizza stone for pizzas but I also use the air fryer which works great and only takes two minutes.

I use pre-made crust so it’s a lot easier, though.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 11:55 PM (6ydKt)

283 You sick fuckers. Dr. Quest and Race Bannon were not homosexual. Bannon had a side piece on the show, an Oriental hottie. Sheesh
Posted by: Common Tater at June 25, 2025 11:44 PM (X3SL3)

Beard.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2025 11:55 PM (D7oie)

284 Corn meal is a pro move.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 25, 2025 11:55 PM (RIvkX)

285
They did produce two more seasons of the Jetsons in the late '80s. The original was just the one, indeed.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 25, 2025 11:55 PM (w6EFb)

286 Also 15 minutes at 450 degrees

Posted by: Skip at June 25, 2025 11:56 PM (S0mG3)

287 I always liked Godfathers Pizza.

Can’t find those around now.

The last time I got one they were located in Hess gas stations next to the Blimpies.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 11:57 PM (6ydKt)

288 Funny, my brother met his wife when she was a waitress at a Godfather’s pizza joint.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2025 12:00 AM (HEGiN)

289 283 You sick fuckers. Dr. Quest and Race Bannon were not homosexual. Bannon had a side piece on the show, an Oriental hottie. Sheesh
Posted by: Common Tater at June 25, 2025 11:44 PM (X3SL3)

Beard.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2025 11:55 PM (D7oie)

Yeah, but Dr. Quest somehow had little Hadji following them everywhere... pretty suspicious!

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 26, 2025 12:00 AM (mP0Kj)

290 The muppet video was very interesting and cool. I had never wondered about all of those details, but I'm glad I know now.

I think out of all the engineering disciplines, a 'muppet engineer' is the coolest title of them all.

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 26, 2025 12:00 AM (144I4)

291
A key incident that led to the '79 Revolution was something called the Cinema Rex fire in August of '78. Some idiots locked the doors to a theater in Abadan, doused with gasoline and lit it off, killing over 400 people.

It was Islamic nutjobs who started it (and they had done similar things before, protesting against Western decadence and women doing things), but the nutjobs claimed it was the Shah's SAVAK doing a false flag to justify a crackdown.

Most of the people believed the false flag claim, and that tipped the balance in favor of the revolutionaries. Stupid, just stupid.

And Jimmuh just fucked everything up.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 26, 2025 12:01 AM (w6EFb)

292
Dang, hearing police sirens here. Town is so small we only have 2 policemen, lol.

The gossip queens will be in the know.

Posted by: fourseasons at June 26, 2025 12:01 AM (3ek7K)

293 I did have some trouble because I was loaded with cash, jeans, and prayer books, mostly additional searches, wait heres, and raised eyebrows but by then most people had already ceased meaningful compliance. It was technically illegal to have me in private apartments, but many people did. I often blew off the official itinerary and my stuff was searched but I don't think I was ever followed.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 26, 2025 12:02 AM (RIvkX)

294 There used to be a Blumpie next to the Kum 'N Go.

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 26, 2025 12:03 AM (144I4)

295 292
Dang, hearing police sirens here. Town is so small we only have 2 policemen, lol.

The gossip queens will be in the know.
Posted by: fourseasons at June 26, 2025 12:01 AM (3ek7K)

Fire up Nextdoor

Posted by: a dude in MI at June 26, 2025 12:03 AM (+I6Y/)

296 I never liked the Shah or his secret police (the SAVAK).

I enjoy imagining his skinny adz bouncing around in that drafty, war surplus bomber.
Posted by: mnw at June 25, 2025 10:27 PM (kd60y)

It's very much an Old Left thing to hate the Shah and SAVAK. Their biggest failing was not whacking enough weird-beard muzzies.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2025 12:04 AM (D91Jg)

297 I just prefer to think of the Dr. Quest and Race Bannon and Haji as what they appeared to be when I was a kid and not everything being about gay sexual orientation.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 26, 2025 12:04 AM (2GCMq)

298 Yeah, but Dr. Quest somehow had little Hadji following them everywhere... pretty suspicious!
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 26, 2025 12:00 AM (mP0Kj)

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What do you think, Dr. Jones?

Posted by: Short Round at June 26, 2025 12:05 AM (JkO4W)

299
This guy was likely to be the one who gave the order:
https://tinyurl.com/27ndjc6v

He's still alive at 100. Grand Ayatollah, indeed.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 26, 2025 12:05 AM (w6EFb)

300 294 There used to be a Blumpie next to the Kum 'N Go.
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 26, 2025 12:03 AM (144I4)

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I miss Laddies Day at the Stop N Squirt.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 26, 2025 12:06 AM (JkO4W)

301 Franpsycho I'm surprised there was even that much hassle by that year. One guy on the program who probably spoke 30 words of Russian brought almost literally nothing but trade goods - jeans, nylons, cosmetics, Beatles records. He sold it all to the first black market guy he came across (very risky, really), netted a fortune in rubles, and we rarely saw him at the cafeteria again. He always ate in Intourist hotel restaurants.

Funny guy. As we walked from our plane to the terminal at Sheremetyevo on arrival, some young uniformed (ill-fitting) KGB guys lined the painted lane for us to walk in. They didn't look happy. Terminal looked shabby even from the outside.

This guy turns to me and in a classic line I'll never forget, says "we're afraid of THESE guys???".

Posted by: rhomboid at June 26, 2025 12:07 AM (1m82a)

302 Pizza Inn was good, too.

They had the pizza buffet and desert pizzas which were pretty tasty.

The last one of those around here closed 15 years ago.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 26, 2025 12:07 AM (6ydKt)

303 So many pizza chains started strong and then went to crap. Pizza Hut, Dominoes, Godfathers - all at one time were family favorites. Then some jackwagon in accounting says "we can save 3 cents per pizza if we use garbage ingredients" and bam, it's no longer as good as it was.

Posted by: PabloD at June 26, 2025 12:07 AM (Dsfkc)

304 *dessert pizzas

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 26, 2025 12:07 AM (6ydKt)

305 We had a Shakey's Pizza in Virginia Beach back in the 1970's. They seem to be mostly West coast now. You could watch pizzas being made. They made balloon animals. It was good for parties for kids. We didn't eat pizza at the big chains back then. Good times.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 26, 2025 12:08 AM (VAINm)

306
Lassie's mom, Maureen Robinson of the Jupiter II, is 100 years old today.

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 26, 2025 12:08 AM (+oLnI)

307 NYC Socialist Grocery Stores are going to be lit. Can you imagine the future? Means testing, applications, shopping permits, voucher payments only, equity pricing, banned colonial foods, staples out of stock, and struggle session specials.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 26, 2025 12:09 AM (NXz8h)

308 Drilling bits too.
Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:51 PM (VofaG)

That was his old man.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2025 12:09 AM (D91Jg)

309 27 I always find it fascinating that The Jetsons had only one season. Their penetration into the cultural zeitgeist was incredible. Almost romantic, when you think about it.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 25, 2025 10:08 PM (CHHv1)

Probably already mentioned up thread but 'The Honeymooners' was also only one season of 39 episodes but lives on forever in our hearts..didn't Trixie die recently - within the last 10 years?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 26, 2025 12:09 AM (QGaXH)

310 "Dessert pizza" is an unholy abomination in words.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 26, 2025 12:09 AM (JkO4W)

311 We definitely were never followed, at least at night. We'd stay at Russian friends' places drinking until late - always making sure to get back before the bridges came up. Empty streets (except for the guys passed out on the sidewalk - not unusual), easy to tell if anyone's following you.

Only time I tested the limits, decided to try to get into the naval shipyard near our dorm using my student ID. Workers in line of course knew I was a furriner, guy at the booth shakes his head, smiled thinly, and gave me the thumb waving sign for "get outta here". I had to try.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 26, 2025 12:10 AM (1m82a)

312 *You can find all kinds of Monkey Bread recipes on line.*

The challenge is finding fresh monkey.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

There's no wrong way to eat a Rhesus.

Posted by: mikeski at June 26, 2025 12:10 AM (DgGvY)

313
What's funny is I was just watching Judge Dredd.

THIS is how you get Dredd, NYC!

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 26, 2025 12:10 AM (+oLnI)

314 The Pizza Inn around here was awesome years ago. Everything is about food costs now. No toppings for you.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 26, 2025 12:11 AM (VAINm)

315 If you're ever in Columbia, Missouri, find a Shakespeare's Pizza. They have 3 locations now, I think. Their first location was near campus, and any pizza place that survives 40+ years in a college town must be doing something right.

Posted by: PabloD at June 26, 2025 12:11 AM (Dsfkc)

316 The challenge is finding fresh monkey.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

There's no wrong way to eat a Rhesus.
Posted by: mikeski at June 26, 2025 12:10 AM (DgGvY)

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Innn-DEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

Posted by: Kate Capshaw at June 26, 2025 12:12 AM (JkO4W)

317 Oh, it was summer, so "white nights". Never really got dark. Made finding our way home, while feeling no pain, as well as counter-surveillance, easier.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 26, 2025 12:12 AM (1m82a)

318 Dessert pizza" is an unholy abomination in words.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 26, 2025 12:09 AM (JkO4W)

They were basically like huge cookies.
Chocolate, whip cream, and different kinds of toppings.

I wouldn’t eat it every day, but they were delicious after some pizza the few times I tried it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 26, 2025 12:12 AM (6ydKt)

319
Lol, I don't know if we have NextDoor here. Daughter-in-law will let me know what's going on.

This is so funny. Hubby went to the Maverick convience store a couple of mornings ago and when he got home he told me he saw two Mexicans in there. We don't see Mexicans here. Come to find out it was there was a Mexican roofing crew in town who were reroofing a commercial building. They were playing Mexican music so loud you could hear it all over town.

Almost all of our construction crews come up here from Utah.

Posted by: fourseasons at June 26, 2025 12:12 AM (3ek7K)

320 Rhesus peanut butter cups.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 26, 2025 12:13 AM (VAINm)

321 Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2025 11:13 PM (ynpvh)

Arabs: We invented the condom!
British: We invented removing it from the sheep first.
Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 11:19 PM (ynpvh)

Jim in kali doing an impression of me? Was it a good one?

How the heck have you been, anyway?

Posted by: ... at June 26, 2025 12:15 AM (E0p3T)

322 Bill Whittle visited Russia, and noticed how clean and nice the public spaces are. Then came home to Los Angeles and saw the opposite.

The lessons from the cold war still hold, but FFS the boot is on the other foot now.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 26, 2025 12:18 AM (lhenN)

323 Too bad FedEx is the worst shipper ive ever dealt with. They have about a 75% failure rate for me, and when you try and get a resolution it's a dozens of people giving you dozens of answers (the people at the store are unhelpful, but at least seem sympathetic to issues) Then when you try to use that insurance you purchased from them, you learn it's not possible.

Not that the USPS is much better, but ive rarely had things lost by them.

Posted by: Rbastid at June 26, 2025 12:18 AM (n9maH)

324 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 26, 2025 12:19 AM (bss/y)

325 Godfather's Pizza was owned by Aifam Inc. That's Mafia spelled backwards.

Posted by: DBCooper at June 26, 2025 12:19 AM (7Nm0T)

326 Please - the only thing Osama bin Lenin is going to do in NYC is hand over all of the graft to his Muslim buddies.

Gonna piss in a bunch of bowls of Cartel Wheaties.

I recommend stocking up on popcorn...

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 26, 2025 12:19 AM (SRRAx)

327 1,200 sorties, 600 refuelings - apparently the official word on Israeli air ops during the late, hopefully only paused, unpleasantness.

Plausible. Of course there are things left out, and one hopes even those numbers are "approximate". There had to be search/rescue capability staged somewhere. My guesses are eastern Syria, Iraqi Kurdistan, outside chance of Azerbaijan. Ditto for the mumble mumble operations that today the IDF chief confirmed had taken place.

In any case, an operation of this scope that resulted in zero casualties or aircraft losses is astonishing beyond all previous astonishing accomplishments.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 26, 2025 12:19 AM (1m82a)

328 Godfather's iirc was not good pizza.

When it comes down to it, most pizza is just ok. Great pizza is amazing. Ok for pizza is better than ok for other food stuffs.

It is like 'ok' ice cream.

Bad pizza and bad ice cream are memorable because they have to really work to screw the formula up.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 26, 2025 12:21 AM (bss/y)

329 Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 26, 2025 12:19 AM (SRRAx)

Teresa how the heck are you sweetheart?

Posted by: ... at June 26, 2025 12:21 AM (E0p3T)

330 In any case, an operation of this scope that resulted in zero casualties or aircraft losses is astonishing beyond all previous astonishing accomplishments.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 26, 2025 12:19 AM (1m82a)

All against the 'hegemon' that Obama was trying to set up. Good thing he did no better than we did with Afghanistan.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 26, 2025 12:23 AM (bss/y)

331

Look, if your anal coke whores don't do triple penetration bondage, hardcore bdsm, you're not paying them enough...

God forbid you have to get women involved too, that will double the price...

Posted by: Barky Ofuckstick at June 26, 2025 12:25 AM (2P8QE)

332
The challenge is finding fresh monkey.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

There's no wrong way to eat a Rhesus.
Posted by: mikeski

Ha, that was a howler.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 26, 2025 12:27 AM (63Dwl)

333
This I did not know: the Shah himself claimed that JFK wanted him out, at least at first, and that it was JFK's CIA that engineered or encouraged the Khomeini protests in '63.

Khomeini denounced the Shah (and Israel) after the White Revolution reforms were enacted. They arrested him, and that sparked a big protest.

They were leaning toward just executing him (which they should've done), but there were fears that would make him a bigger martyr and do more harm than good. So off to exile.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 26, 2025 12:28 AM (w6EFb)

334 I'm not sure if many young people understand who truly ghastly and evil Lenin was ( probably not, since they have
been indoctrinated by the left wing school system ) but I think that Curtis Sliwa coined one of the most brilliant monikers in political history about Mamdani in calling him Osama Bin Lenin and I congratulate him on coming up with that and I- who have no ability to influence anything in NY politics except for sending in some little money to Sliwa and writing letters to the editor which the NY Post occasionally publishes- will use that moniker regularly.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 26, 2025 12:32 AM (2GCMq)

335
I love that a NY State Republican lawmaker called out AOC today. She says she's from the Bronx and she is really from Westchester NY which is a wealthy town.

He said "why is your picture in my high school yearbook from my high school in Westchester?

Posted by: four seasons at June 26, 2025 12:33 AM (3ek7K)

336 IDF CoS Zamir:

"According to the assessment of senior Intelligence Directorate officials, the damage to the nuclear program is not surgical but systemic - the cumulative achievement allows us to state that the Iranian nuclear project has suffered severe, wide-ranging, and deep damage, setting it back by years. We will not allow Iran to produce weapons of mass destruction.”

Of course he was referring to the results of Israel's attack on the entire nuclear sector, from personnel to related manufacturing to actual enrichment, design, and weaponization infrastructure. The idiotic kerfuffle over first-glance unfinished intel here in the US concerns one particular strike. And on that, tomorrow at 8AM EDT Hegseth will have a briefing at the Pentagon.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 26, 2025 12:33 AM (1m82a)

337 Teresa how the heck are you sweetheart?
Posted by: ... at June 26, 2025 12:21 AM (E0p3T)

Hangin' in there! Chemo drugs are working so far, but I am losing my hair one strand at a time, and my nails are starting to lift up/trying to fall off. Haven't been nauseous, though 🎉🎉🎉

Our 45th anniversary party is less than 2 months away. Sending out most of the invitations tomorrow (I had to order more, so some won't go out until next week). I just booked a DJ and finalized floral arrangements; the venue and catering were already taken care of, although I do have to finalize the menu; the "bride" and "groom" cakes have been decided on; and now I am working on the table settings/"stationery" and guest favors.

Things are starting to get hectic, but it's been fun planning everything! We didn't get to have a big wedding when we got married, but now we have more money than we did back then, so I am getting the reception of my girlhood dreams - no mints, nuts, and ice cream punch in the fellowship hall for this gal! 😂😂😂

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 26, 2025 12:36 AM (SRRAx)

338 Mamdani 25: Stay Calm and Everything Will Be Okay

Posted by: ... at June 26, 2025 12:37 AM (E0p3T)

339
Teresa,

I hope you enjoy every moment of your party. You all deserve it with all you've been through.

You are such an inspiration!!!

Posted by: four seasons at June 26, 2025 12:39 AM (3ek7K)

340
One thing I would really like to know the truth of, is how much footsie Jimmuh played with Khomeini. You know how much Jimmuh loved anti-American dictators and hated Israel and pro-American dictators.

It is alleged the military was going to stage a coup there at the last to keep the "civilian reform" govt from taking over. Whether that would've kept the Shah in power, or something else, don't know. But Jimmuh stopped that.

Supposedly Khomeini assured Jimmuh that American interests would be fine in Iran, don't you worry, I'm your friend. And Jimmuh believe him.

I can believe that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 26, 2025 12:40 AM (w6EFb)

341 Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 26, 2025 12:36 AM (SRRAx)

Hey hey that's awesome news. 👊🏼

Especially on the nausea. Not to be sniffed at.

Happy you're getting to have some fun and getting the party you deserve. Woo wooooo

Posted by: ... at June 26, 2025 12:40 AM (E0p3T)

342 Look, if your anal coke whores

when was this flavor introduced?

Posted by: n at June 26, 2025 12:40 AM (CGXyk)

343 Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 26, 2025 12:36 AM (SRRAx

Isn't that wonderful you have been married for 45 years and are working on a party?. Sorry about your nails and hair. Prayers continue for your healing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 26, 2025 12:40 AM (2GCMq)

344 338 is a somewhat obtuse reference but I'm enjoying it.

Posted by: ... at June 26, 2025 12:41 AM (E0p3T)

345
...Yep stay calm and everything will be okay. SURE, as long as you bow down to Islam.

Posted by: four seasons at June 26, 2025 12:42 AM (3ek7K)

346 ...Yep stay calm and everything will be okay. SURE, as long as you bow down to Islam.

Posted by: four seasons at June 26, 2025 12:42 AM (3ek7K)

The line reportedly came from the 9/11 hijackers!

Posted by: ... at June 26, 2025 12:43 AM (E0p3T)

347 That was a very good article by State Senator Slater on Sandy Cortez. Not only is she not from the Bronx, many of her constituents admit she never shows up to her district Another social media bigmouth.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 26, 2025 12:43 AM (2GCMq)

348 344 338 is a somewhat obtuse reference but I'm enjoying it.
Posted by: ... at June 26, 2025 12:41 AM (E0p3T)

I don't get it.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 26, 2025 12:44 AM (QGaXH)

349 westechester is it own special hell, nowhere more undesirabl to be

Posted by: n at June 26, 2025 12:44 AM (CGXyk)

350
n,

It probably was okay when AOC grew up there.

Posted by: four seasons at June 26, 2025 12:45 AM (3ek7K)

351 n,

It probably was okay when AOC grew up there.
Posted by: f

it is not so much the residents it is the fact that it is supposed to be a suburb but it is not a suburb in the sense of those everywhere else, Westchester is a suburb crammed into a bunch of tiny towns. Theres no decent road transit, you cannot get anywhere easily, it is hyper inefficient.

It is there mostly because residents from the city wanted suburbs for raiding children that were near enough to commute to the city daily.

Posted by: n at June 26, 2025 12:49 AM (CGXyk)

352 westchester has great country clubs though

Posted by: n at June 26, 2025 12:50 AM (CGXyk)

353
Now, for a prototypical example of the moderate, middle of the road squish type: Shapour Baktiar, who was the last prime minister of Iran before Khomeini took over.

He was against the Shah, and very pro-human rights and democracy and all that good stuff. He was agin' communists and Islamists, but they needed their rights and all that.

There at the last, the Shah appointed him Prime Minister. He was gonna set up a nice, democractic human rights government. He released all the political prisoners, abolished the SAVAK, brought Khomeini back to be nice and all that.

He was then going to hold elections for an assembly to decide the govt of the Iran, new constitution and all that good stuff...

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 26, 2025 12:50 AM (w6EFb)

354

n,

okay I get it now. You having lived in NYC and know what you're talking about.

Posted by: four seasons at June 26, 2025 12:51 AM (3ek7K)

355 n,

okay I get it now. You having lived in NYC and know what you're talking about.
Posted by:

not an effort to bloviate, more to hate westchester in writing.

nobody ever really wants to move our of the city to westchester, its to give the family what they had when they were young.

Posted by: n at June 26, 2025 12:53 AM (CGXyk)

356
One of the funniest things I've seen is Rubio bursting out laughing at NATO today when some NATO person called Trump "Daddy."

I just read the White House marked Trump's return from the NATO summit with provocative "daddy music" video Americans won't be able to unsee.

I haven't watched it, I"m old and am afraid I'll pee myself laughing.

Posted by: four seasons at June 26, 2025 12:55 AM (3ek7K)

357
Now, Khomeini then denounced Bakhtiar as a traitor and loyalist to the Shah (no mind the Shah had arrested him many times before). Bakhtiar then had to flee to Paris. That's what being a middle of the road squish gets you. In the end, he pissed off everybody, including his most loyal Nationalist Front supporters, his friend in the anti-Shah opposition for all the years before.

From Paris, he did try to lead some anti-Islamic opposition. For that, Khomeini ordered him killed. They succeeded, killing him in 1991 in Paris. With kitchen knives.

That's the fate of a squish like Bakhtiar indeed.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 26, 2025 12:55 AM (w6EFb)

358
I haven't watched it, I"m old and am afraid I'll pee myself laughing.
Posted by: four seasons

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

Well, the rest of us have our Depends on and we're dying for a laugh! Where's the vid?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 26, 2025 12:57 AM (lCaJd)

359
I read it at Daily Mail Blonde.

Posted by: four seasons at June 26, 2025 12:57 AM (3ek7K)

360 it is funny that theres not much thats funny anymore, even the hq, the ont was a hive of scum and villany that was among the funniest in the webs

Posted by: n at June 26, 2025 12:59 AM (CGXyk)

361
What people are overlooking is that it's not only the destruction of facilities Iran has to rebuild, but the FUNDS to do so.

Iran doesnt have obama and biden anymore to give them cash.

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 26, 2025 12:59 AM (GFfQs)

362 westechester is it own special hell, nowhere more undesirabl to be
Posted by: n at June 26, 2025 12:44 AM (CGXyk)

Depends where you live in Westchester County.

Posted by: polynikes at June 26, 2025 01:00 AM (VofaG)

363
n,

I found Ace through a link about ten years ago. The first thread I read was about some woman who was knitting with yarn she had stuck up in her vagina so it would have menstrual blood on it. The comments were HILARIOUS and I have been "hooked" ever since.

Posted by: four seasons at June 26, 2025 01:01 AM (3ek7K)

364
n, Do you remember that?

Posted by: four seasons at June 26, 2025 01:01 AM (3ek7K)

365 it is funny that theres not much thats funny anymore, even the hq, the ont was a hive of scum and villany that was among the funniest in the webs
Posted by: n at June 26, 2025 12:59 AM (CGXyk)

And yet you still found a way to argue with everyone......

Posted by: ... at June 26, 2025 01:02 AM (E0p3T)

366 I remember it.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 26, 2025 01:02 AM (63Dwl)

367 westechester is it own special hell, nowhere more undesirabl to be
Posted by: n at June 26, 2025 12:44 AM (CGXyk)

Depends where you live in Westchester County.
Posted by: polynikes

no, whether its uber nice or hell hol, its the geography and infrastructure, nobody really wants to be there, especially those with $

Posted by: n at June 26, 2025 01:03 AM (CGXyk)

368
It was such a wacky introduction to ACE, lmao. This place is amazing with all the stuff we discuss.

Posted by: four seasons at June 26, 2025 01:04 AM (3ek7K)

369 Things change. People come and people go. Some went in 2016.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 26, 2025 01:05 AM (63Dwl)

370
NYC Socialist Grocery Stores are going to be lit. Can you imagine the future? Means testing, applications, shopping permits, voucher payments only, equity pricing, banned colonial foods, staples out of stock, and struggle session specials.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

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

And where are they supposed to get the floor space for these stores? You can't just declare any old space a grocery store, especially if you're selling produce and meat and perishables. So they have to ID all the sites assuming they're available, do all the plumbing and pest control, install flooring that cleans up easily, and secure the places somehow. How long will it take in New York to even prep a space?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 26, 2025 01:06 AM (lCaJd)

371 And yet you still found a way to argue with everyone......
Posted by: ...

arguing, debating, teasing are good for you , they require thought and challenge your beliefs.

I am always willing to change my positions about anything when somebody presents a good argument to do so.

I have changed my thoughts about many things because of arguments with the horde.

besides arguing is way more fun than complaining

Posted by: n at June 26, 2025 01:06 AM (CGXyk)

372 all at one time were family favorites. Then some jackwagon in accounting says "we can save 3 cents per pizza if we use garbage ingredients" and bam, it's no longer as good as it was.
Posted by: PabloD at June 26, 2025 12:07 AM (Dsfkc)

We'll make up for shitty sales in volume!

Posted by: a dude in MI at June 26, 2025 01:09 AM (+I6Y/)

373
Everyone has opinions. It's so great we have AOS where we can express ourselves.

Posted by: four seasons at June 26, 2025 01:09 AM (3ek7K)

374 n,

I found Ace through a link about ten years ago. The first thread I read was about some woman who was knitting with yarn she had stuck up in her vagina so it would have menstrual blood on it. The comments were HILARIOUS and I have been "hooked" ever since.
Posted by: f

yeah, I do not remember that thread, thankfully?

I started visiting the hq around the time the seals went missing in afghanistan.

in an early comment I wrote something imprecisely and offended misstammy and, in her defense, peaches said something about my comment, none of which was nice and concluded her comment with *spit*

I have been hookd ever since

Posted by: n at June 26, 2025 01:10 AM (CGXyk)

375 all at one time were family favorites. Then some jackwagon in accounting says "we can save 3 cents per pizza if we use garbage ingredients" and bam, it's no longer as good as it was.
Posted by: PabloD at June 26, 2025 12:07 AM (Dsfkc

I am in finance but private equity ruins everything

Posted by: n at June 26, 2025 01:12 AM (CGXyk)

376
Blonde,

Did you find the video?

Posted by: four seasons at June 26, 2025 01:17 AM (3ek7K)

377
four, I found the Daily Mail article but that site always makes me jump through hoops to play a video. However, I saw the still shots of "the usually stoic Rubio" cracking up!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 26, 2025 01:25 AM (lIBhD)

378
I think Rubio is cute. Watching him trying not to laugh his ass off was so funny.

Posted by: four seasons at June 26, 2025 01:26 AM (3ek7K)

379 Drilling bits too.
Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:51 PM (VofaG)

That was his old man.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2025 12:09 AM (D91Jg)

Sr did the rotating 2 bit. Jr came up with the 3 bit after his fathered died and he ran the company. I say he came up with it but mostly helped by his company engineers.

Posted by: polynikes at June 26, 2025 01:27 AM (kVeKF)

380 besides arguing is way more fun than complaining
Posted by: n at June 26, 2025 01:06 AM (CGXyk)

I kid because I care.

Posted by: ... at June 26, 2025 01:33 AM (E0p3T)

381 New Yorkastan! Zohan Mamdani defeats coumo. Allah Akbar!

Posted by: raimondo at June 26, 2025 01:43 AM (3ZObq)

382
Where is everyone?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 26, 2025 02:06 AM (lIBhD)

383 Lurking about...

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 26, 2025 02:09 AM (wBh67)

384 Who exactly do you think you're convincing, raimondo? Do you think anyone who posts here-aside from you maybe/ worships the God of the Muslim scriptures? Com'on.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 26, 2025 02:13 AM (2GCMq)

385
Reading about the history of Iran over the last century illustrates what a mess managing commies and Islamic nutjobs is. Jeez Louise, what a mess. No matter what you do, it's going to blow up in your face, and you'd better ready for it.

Can't decide which one is worse. It just depends on the current situation.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 26, 2025 02:13 AM (w6EFb)

386 Quick thinking boy from VA saves his family from a fire and wins the praise of the local fire chief:

https://tinyurl.com/37vfxmxu

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 26, 2025 02:19 AM (2GCMq)

387 In Eugene Lyons' book The Red Decade he mentions the Soviet valuta shop system. The CCP's fifteen minute cities system is another way to control access to food and merchandise.

Peasants fight over staple foods and toilet paper.

Posted by: 13times at June 26, 2025 02:27 AM (F2AiD)

388
Can't decide which one is worse. It just depends on the current situation.
Posted by: publius

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Nothing but lousy choices in that part of the world. It's always been either some corrupt strongman or a commie. Now it's either some corrupt strongman or an Islamofascist.

Deadly tribalist grudges that are destined to fester forever. People united around identities, not ideals. No matter who the leader is at any given time, some big group will hate him/her based on identity and refuse to live in peace. Did anyone notice this is exactly what the left wants for America?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 26, 2025 02:34 AM (lIBhD)

389 Well, 0030 here. Time for me to hit the sack. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2025 02:36 AM (IBwyu)

390
Just saw a segment on the Hannity rerun about Autopen-gate. Some official named Neera Tanden, whose title was Director of the president's Domestic Policy Council, was the one who actually "ran" the autopen.

She would get orders to sign stuff, but had no real idea who actually authorized it. Based on the (tenuous) theory of autopen signatures for official POTUS acts, it should have been Biden himself, who ordered her to do it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 26, 2025 02:54 AM (w6EFb)

391 384 Who exactly do you think you're convincing, raimondo? Do you think anyone who posts here-aside from you maybe/ worships the God of the Muslim scriptures? Com'on.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 26, 2025 02:13 AM (2GCMq)

He's at least as convincing as Scogg.

Posted by: Michelle Weakarm at June 26, 2025 03:38 AM (hMzYs)

392 Finally home
Wooly Bully

Posted by: Skip at June 26, 2025 03:52 AM (+qU29)

393 Wooly Bully
Wooly Bully
Wooly Bully

Posted by: Skip at June 26, 2025 03:53 AM (+qU29)

394 No matter what you do, it's going to blow up in your face, and you'd better ready for it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 26, 2025 02:13 AM (w6EFb)

Words to live by!

Posted by: Kamalala! at June 26, 2025 03:56 AM (8hxDK)

395 Who exactly do you think you're convincing, raimondo?

>>>>>>>Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 26, 2025 02:13 AM (2GCMq)

Why do you always have something to say about trolling? Are you one of the moderators? Are you a coblogger?

Or maybe just a busybody....

Posted by: Test Pattern at June 26, 2025 03:56 AM (eoWDe)

396 Ho p e to not be back until Ace shows up, but been every day when JJ does.
Have a great morning everyone

Posted by: Skip at June 26, 2025 04:20 AM (+qU29)

397 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at June 26, 2025 04:30 AM (CQE5S)

398 so close to

Posted by: m at June 26, 2025 04:31 AM (CQE5S)

399 399

Posted by: m at June 26, 2025 04:31 AM (CQE5S)

400 400

Posted by: m at June 26, 2025 04:31 AM (CQE5S)

401
139 Good evening morons y gracias Doggo

Caltrans is not doing Sepulveda other than to secure the graft, provide employment, and punish cars and drivers.
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