Stairway to Stardom Cafe

Mons Olympus on Mars

Little kid group "The Greystones" play "Don't Stop Believing."

Flashback: Metal heads hanging out in the parking lot before a Judas Priest show, back in the 80s.

Lion and tiger cubs roughhousing.

Juvenile bat squeaks for pets.

Dog tries to keep a family of bears under control.

Bulldog loves to skateboard.

Playing hide and seek with a golden retriever.

Impression of a guy at a party who only knows one part of "Tiny Dancer."

Baby has seven shepherd siblings.

Out of control.

Dog is a fan of the ponies.

Posted by: Ace at 07:30 PM

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1 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at July 11, 2025 07:33 PM (GYt5+)

2 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2025 07:34 PM (+qU29)

3 1st again?

Posted by: Thanatopsis at July 11, 2025 07:34 PM (GYt5+)

4 Woof

Posted by: Accomack at July 11, 2025 07:35 PM (28cZF)

5 hi

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 11, 2025 07:35 PM (ZOv7s)

6 I watched too much of that JP video

Posted by: Accomack at July 11, 2025 07:35 PM (28cZF)

7 >>Mons Olympus on Mars

When I worked in Tampa my office was right around the corner from Mons Venus.

Different planet.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2025 07:36 PM (viF8m)

8
Is there a roll call? Present!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2025 07:36 PM (HZi96)

9 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 11, 2025 07:36 PM (cYBz/)

10 The Great Nipple of Mars.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2025 07:36 PM (Hlfhp)

11 I declined being first because I already spend to much time muttering to myself.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 11, 2025 07:37 PM (HFcKg)

12 Good G-d, that mountain casts a shadow that covers half the planet.
[Sorry, that was off topic, this isn't the Lena Dunham thread]

Posted by: gKWVE at July 11, 2025 07:38 PM (gKWVE)

13 The Great Nipple of Mars.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2025 07:36 PM (Hlfhp)
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...and we're back to a bewb thread within ten comments.

A new record!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 11, 2025 07:38 PM (ZOv7s)

14
Exterminator came out today and said the yellow jacket nest was above ground and enormous. He treated it but said he'd have to come back next week to take another look.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2025 07:38 PM (HZi96)

15 No tats on the young women, no odd color hair

Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2025 07:39 PM (+qU29)

16 It looks like the Great Backhole of Mars.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 11, 2025 07:39 PM (/U5Yz)

17 I had a pimple on my ass that looked like that once.

Posted by: jsg at July 11, 2025 07:40 PM (1l+t9)

18 "He treated it but said he'd have to come back next week to take another look.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh "

You know you have to nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Posted by: fd at July 11, 2025 07:40 PM (vFG9F)

19 Exterminator came out today and said the yellow jacket nest was above ground and enormous. He treated it but said he'd have to come back next week to take another look.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2025 07:38 PM (HZi96)
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Traps can be helpful. We had a problem a few years ago and high attrition kept them at bay.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 11, 2025 07:40 PM (ZOv7s)

20 Mons Olympus on Mars

When I worked in Tampa my office was right around the corner from Mons Venus.

Different planet.
Posted by: JackStraw

There are strip clubs and then, there is Mons Venus.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 11, 2025 07:40 PM (cYBz/)

21 "He treated it but said he'd have to come back next week to take another look.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh "

Put flame to it.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 11, 2025 07:41 PM (/U5Yz)

22 Stairway to Stardom - and that my friends is what Independent channels in the 70’s were all about.

I was lucky - at least ours showed Kaiju movies every Saturday afternoon.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2025 07:41 PM (Hlfhp)

23 6 I watched too much of that JP video
Posted by: Accomack at July 11, 2025 07:35 PM (28cZF)

Good lawd, those stupid louvers on the backs of Camaros and Trans Ams were godawful....

Posted by: jsg at July 11, 2025 07:41 PM (1l+t9)

24 fd, how many hours did you put on the new tractor?

Posted by: Ben Had at July 11, 2025 07:41 PM (HFcKg)

25 You know you have to nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Posted by: fd at July 11, 2025 07:40 PM (vFG9F)
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My late father in law used gasoline.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 11, 2025 07:41 PM (ZOv7s)

26
Aaaahh. Deep into conversation downstairs, but oh well.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 11, 2025 07:41 PM (UmB+t)

27 8
Is there a roll call? Present!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2025 07:36 PM (HZi96)

Bagel!
Challah!
Cinnamon!
Currant!
Dinner!
Hawaiian! Hawaiian! HAWAIIAN! SOUND OFF!

Posted by: mmmm...rolls... at July 11, 2025 07:43 PM (TbWk/)

28 It’s like I don’t know you guys
Ace style guide says to ‘slap hot iron to it ‘

Posted by: Some stupid with a flaregun at July 11, 2025 07:43 PM (CponO)

29 Three Ben Had and then it sprung a leak from a loose hydraulic fitting and I didn't have a wrench to fit it with me.

Posted by: fd at July 11, 2025 07:43 PM (vFG9F)

30 So what. The cars had manual transmissions and cigarettes were 2$ pack.
Then, U2 happened

Posted by: Accomack at July 11, 2025 07:43 PM (T1QkV)

31 New York Times has the sadz. American workers are getting hired instead of Haitians.

Trump’s Purge of Foreign Workers Arrives at Amazon’s Warehouses

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Two weeks later, Mr. Jerome, 35, lost his job. His work authorization was revoked in late June after the Trump administration ended a Biden-era program that allowed him to live and work legally in the United States. Hundreds of others at the same Amazon building in West Jefferson, which employs more than 3,700 people, also lost their jobs.

They are among thousands of foreign workers across the country who have been swept up in a quiet purge, pushed out of jobs in places where their labor was in high demand and at times won high praise. While raids to nab undocumented workers in fields and Home Depot parking lots have grabbed attention, the job dismissals at the Amazon warehouse are part of the Trump administration’s effort to thin the ranks of immigrants who had legal authorization to work.

“This is not unique to Amazon,” said Viles Dorsainvil, a Haitian community leader in nearby Springfield. He is aware of more than 100 Haitians with work authorizations who are now out of work in the area, he said.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 07:43 PM (ImXfC)

32
Mmmm, challah...

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2025 07:43 PM (HZi96)

33 Ace style guide says to ‘slap hot iron to it ‘
Posted by: Some stupid with a flaregun

I assume you can get that experience at Mons Venus too

Posted by: gKWVE at July 11, 2025 07:44 PM (gKWVE)

34 I know I'm not the only one that clicked the boob video first.

And was disappointed.

On a separate note, has anyone ever tried Head to Tail Calming treats for cats. Snowflake has been crazy since I got back from a 36 hour vacation.

Thanks in advance. Back in an hour.

Actually, I was thinking of getting a spray bottle for a few minor issues but did research and changed my mind.

I got her a cat tree that is behind my Lazyboy in my bedroom. Also Sticky Paws which is supposed to protect furniture. And I'm ordering double sided tape for cats to stop the counter hopping.

She has a bunch of toys but aside from the scratching posts, the fish, the round ball thing and her cat tree, are there any other great toys for cats that will tire them out.

She was an outdoor cat.

Thanks in advance. I'll be back in an hour.
I also

Posted by: Stateless NOT HOMELESS! 01% towards 20% getting better at July 11, 2025 07:45 PM (jvJvP)

35 One of those power chute gliders out about 1/2 me away

Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2025 07:45 PM (+qU29)

36 “This is not unique to Amazon,” said Viles Dorsainvil, a Haitian community leader in nearby Springfield. He is aware of more than 100 Haitians with work authorizations who are now out of work in the area, he said.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 07:43 PM (ImXfC)
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They should take the $1,000 and a free ticket home. A grand would go a long way in Haiti.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 11, 2025 07:45 PM (ZOv7s)

37 7 >>Mons Olympus on Mars

When I worked in Tampa my office was right around the corner from Mons Venus.

Different planet.
Posted by: JackStraw
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That was just one of the strip joints there. There were quite a few more around there.

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin in Amish Country at July 11, 2025 07:46 PM (uGaBv)

38 You mean it might get harder for Amazon to pay people shit and work them to death? The horror! The horror...

Posted by: A national tragedy at July 11, 2025 07:46 PM (TbWk/)

39
Well, I'm sure all these poor Haitians can put their hard work and skills to good use in their native land.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2025 07:46 PM (HZi96)

40 Stateless, some sheets of aluminum foil on the counters will deter cats.

Posted by: fd at July 11, 2025 07:46 PM (vFG9F)

41 I licked a Mons Venus a few times

Posted by: Mo at July 11, 2025 07:46 PM (X5y4b)

42 One of those power chute gliders out about 1/2 me away
Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2025 07:45 PM (+qU29)
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Your conventional AA sights won't work because they are going too slow. Lead them a little less.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 11, 2025 07:46 PM (ZOv7s)

43 He is aware of more than 100 Haitians with work authorizations who are now out of work in the area, he said.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 07:43 PM (ImXfC)

Well Mr. Bojangles, you could try to dance.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2025 07:47 PM (Hlfhp)

44
When I worked in Tampa my office was right around the corner from Mons Venus.

Different planet.
Posted by: JackStraw

__________

And here I thought Dallas was the strip club capital of America.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2025 07:47 PM (HZi96)

45
Olympus Mons ("Mt. Olympus") is the biggest volcano in the whole damned solar system. It's base is about the size of Arizona, and it's 2.5 times higher than Mt. Everest relative to the Martian equivalent of sea level.

Mars is also home to Valles Marineris, the biggest canyon system in the solar system, making the Grand Canyon look like a little baby canyon. The system is about 2500 miles long, and 23,000' deep.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 11, 2025 07:47 PM (w6EFb)

46 Am I the only one thinking of claiming I'm an illegal from Fiji, and getting $1,000 and a free plane ticket?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 11, 2025 07:48 PM (ZOv7s)

47 HAHA, our favorite drag queen, Pattie Gonia, is supposedly the first frag queen to hit the Time's hot 100 list.

Before RuPaul? Is this real? The drag mother who kickstarted off the whole drag craze with his Drag Race reality show, and turned it into an emmy winning show franchise?

Supposedly you can buy your way onto the list. So if RuPaul's never been on it because he refused to buy his way in, good on him, honestly.

So now, drag queens desecrating our national parks by hanging pride flags all over them gets celebrated. Sounds right.

Posted by: LizLem at July 11, 2025 07:48 PM (Eng1Z)

48 Do not remember Stairway To Stardom

Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2025 07:49 PM (+qU29)

49 The article says 3700 people work at the Amazon plant. And “hundreds” are foreigners . Which means what class?

It means of course that the vast majority are Americans. Doing jobs Americans won’t do. Weird.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 07:49 PM (ImXfC)

50
Yay Cafe!!!

Leave your worries at the door and let's have some fun!

Thank you Ace!!!

Posted by: fourseasons at July 11, 2025 07:51 PM (3ek7K)

51 Mars is also home to Valles Marineris, the biggest canyon system in the solar system, making the Grand Canyon look like a little baby canyon. The system is about 2500 miles long, and 23,000' deep.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 11, 2025 07:47 PM (w6EFb)
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Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 11, 2025 07:51 PM (ZOv7s)

52
The article says 3700 people work at the Amazon plant.

________

Work harder, peasants! Bezos needs a new yacht.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2025 07:51 PM (HZi96)

53 >>And here I thought Dallas was the strip club capital of America.

I had never even been to Tampa before I took the job. My first day everyone in the office was very nice and welcoming. Probably 2/3 of them asked me "Did you know Tampa is the adult center of America?".

No, I did not know that.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2025 07:53 PM (viF8m)

54 “This is not unique to Amazon,” said Viles Dorsainvil, a Haitian community leader in nearby Springfield. He is aware of more than 100 Haitians with work authorizations who are now out of work in the area, he said.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 07:43 PM (ImXfC)
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Hide your pets!

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 11, 2025 07:53 PM (5RNOn)

55 Good lawd, those stupid louvers on the backs of Camaros and Trans Ams were godawful....
Posted by: jsg at July 11, 2025 07:41 PM (1l+t9)

they were extra stupid on the back window of a Toyota Corolla

Posted by: Kindltot at July 11, 2025 07:54 PM (D7oie)

56 And here I thought Dallas was the strip club capital of America.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2025 07:47 PM (HZi96)

They used to be all up and down the appropriately named Harry Hines Blvd.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2025 07:55 PM (Hlfhp)

57 Sorry, but the girl signing Journey is out of tune. Granted, that’s not an easy song to sing.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 11, 2025 07:55 PM (5RNOn)

58 Dogs being bad was pretty good.,

Posted by: polynikes at July 11, 2025 07:58 PM (VofaG)

59 One of the most underrated albums of all time.

Take it away, Lowell.

https://tinyurl.com/yx8h5c6v

Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2025 07:59 PM (viF8m)

60 welp, the Rockies ain't winning yet

Posted by: gKWVE at July 11, 2025 07:59 PM (gKWVE)

61 So what. The cars had manual transmissions and cigarettes were 2$ pack.
Then, U2 happened
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They were fine...in fact, better than fine, until "The Unforgettable Fire". And with that album the magic just died for me. And the later album "Joshua Tree" was proof that whatever they had that I had previously liked was never coming back.

Posted by: Crusader at July 11, 2025 07:59 PM (TN0g+)

62 hey mon I'm illegal from Barbados
no wunna deport I

Posted by: gKWVE at July 11, 2025 08:00 PM (gKWVE)

63 According to Google AI….

Portland, Oregon, has the most strip clubs per capita in the United States. With one strip club for every 11,826 residents.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 08:01 PM (ImXfC)

64 Good lawd, those stupid louvers on the backs of Camaros and Trans Ams were godawful....
Posted by: jsg at July 11, 2025 07:41 PM (1l+t9)

they were extra stupid on the back window of a Toyota Corolla
Posted by: Kindltot at July 11, 2025 07:54 PM (D7oie)
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The rear louvers started on the rear windows of Italian exotics like Lamborghinis. So of course they trickled down. Ugly, though.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 11, 2025 08:03 PM (5RNOn)

65 Gday mate. Tony from Melbourne here. Yeah I’m one of them illegal types eh? But a shrimp on the barby and pass me a cold Fosters.

I’ll take me free ticket back home plus $1000 American bucks. Where do I sign up?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 08:03 PM (ImXfC)

66 Took a shower to be presentable in the Cafe, then I watched the stairway To Stardom intro and the infected bat video. Now I feel dirty again.

Posted by: Penguin Promotion Board at July 11, 2025 08:03 PM (G5+As)

67
Dogs being bad was pretty good.,
Posted by: polynikes

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Black guy doing twice as much work to make the dog clean up after the killed pillow lolol.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 11, 2025 08:04 PM (UmB+t)

68 I was just looking at my twitter(X) feed, and reading about Trumps visit to the Texas flood zone today. And I realized that (so far) NO Major Media outlet has covered his trip except Fox. And this trip , where he met with Gov Abbot, the first responders, and at least some of the families is a Big F’n deal!
But so far most of the MFM is trying to ignore it.
(And I get irritated with Fox News often, but I give them credit today)

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2025 08:04 PM (Hlfhp)

69 >>In my day, I attended. I stopped attending at a certain age. I've always been self aware. And I never wanted to be the creeper.

Well you failed at that too, Scogg.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2025 08:04 PM (viF8m)

70 @ 11 -
*fistbump*

Confusion to our enemies!

*clink!*

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 11, 2025 08:05 PM (dKEEs)

71 Portland, Oregon, has the most strip clubs per capita in the United States. With one strip club for every 11,826 residents.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 08:01 PM (ImXfC)

The downside is that you pay to watch Trigglypuff dance.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2025 08:06 PM (Hlfhp)

72 I-75 has Lions Dens adult book stores every other exit in FL.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 11, 2025 08:07 PM (1SaWO)

73

Probably saying Scogg is better than saying *ucking ahole.

Posted by: fourseasons at July 11, 2025 08:07 PM (3ek7K)

74 Flashback: Metal heads hanging out in the parking lot before a Judas Priest show, back in the 80s.
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It's just a pic of Lindsey Graham wering nothing but a small leather vest. More like a halter.

Might be AI generated.
Or not.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 11, 2025 08:07 PM (/lPRQ)

75 >>Everybody is Scogg now, Jack.

No, dipshit. You're Scogg. It's amusing you keep getting banned, come back with a new name and then say the exact same shit as if nobody notices.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2025 08:07 PM (viF8m)

76 The rhetoric coming from the opposition is criminal incitement.

Still waiting for all hell to break loose. At least moar indictments.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 11, 2025 08:07 PM (RIvkX)

77 Portland, Oregon, has the most strip clubs per capita in the United States. With one strip club for every 11,826 residents.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 08:01 PM (ImXfC)

The downside is that you pay to watch Trigglypuff dance.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2025 08:06 PM (Hlfhp)
——

‘Well, we got something for ya, big boy”

— fat faggot tranny humpdick drag queen

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 11, 2025 08:09 PM (5RNOn)

78 Gday mate. Tony from Melbourne here. Yeah I’m one of them illegal types eh? But a shrimp on the barby and pass me a cold Fosters.

I’ll take me free ticket back home plus $1000 American bucks. Where do I sign up?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
===

Used to only be $500.
But you cannot get another visa for several years.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 11, 2025 08:09 PM (/lPRQ)

79 Sweet, Snowflake likes the scratching posr in my room.

One minor issue dowm.

Posted by: Stateless NOT HOMELESS! 01% towards 20% getting better at July 11, 2025 08:09 PM (jvJvP)

80 By the way, pro wrestling is fake and gay. Doug.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2025 08:10 PM (viF8m)

81
59 One of the most underrated albums of all time.

Take it away, Lowell.

https://tinyurl.com/yx8h5c6v
Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2025 07:59 PM (viF8m)

I have always loved that album!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2025 08:10 PM (Hlfhp)

82 The downside is that you pay to watch Trigglypuff dance.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2025 08:06 PM (Hlfhp)
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Worse -- there are people that *want* to pay to watch Trigglypuff dance.

It takes all kinds, I guess...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 11, 2025 08:11 PM (IBQGV)

83 Doggies with the toddler is nice rd to see

Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2025 08:11 PM (+qU29)

84 What happened to moron robbie, does he still comment?

Posted by: old chick at July 11, 2025 08:12 PM (F3Dlr)

85 Pam Bondi’s DOJ closes investigation into Pfizer for alleged bribery.

The state deepens.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 11, 2025 08:12 PM (/U5Yz)

86 Portland, Oregon, has the most strip clubs per capita in the United States. With one strip club for every 11,826 residents.

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Maybe, but it's said that Hamtramck MI has the most poles per Pole.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 11, 2025 08:13 PM (dDmld)

87 >>I have always loved that album!!!

I always seem to overlook it for a year or so and then I wonder why.

Little Feat were great.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2025 08:13 PM (viF8m)

88 I just watched a storm roll in, with a nice shelf cloud in the lead. I saw unmistakable rotation in there for a minute, but nothing came of it. Love that cold air downblast as it arrives! Smells like sweet clover.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 08:13 PM (TwZXH)

89 Worse -- there are people that *want* to pay to watch Trigglypuff dance.

It takes all kinds, I guess...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 11, 2025 08:11 PM (IBQGV

We'll call that the Lizzo demographic.

Btw, there was a Lizzo colouring book at the dollar store today. $3. That made me laugh.

Posted by: Stateless NOT HOMELESS! 01% towards 20% getting better at July 11, 2025 08:14 PM (jvJvP)

90 I thought they were going to rename it to something more diverse and equitable, like "Halaltramck"

Posted by: gKWVE at July 11, 2025 08:14 PM (gKWVE)

91 Stairway to Stardom. Yeah.

Posted by: Eromero at July 11, 2025 08:14 PM (LHPAg)

92 I had a zit once that turned into Mons Olympus, hidden under a massive beard for months.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 08:14 PM (TwZXH)

93 There was no U2 until Joshua Tree then whammo!

Remember sneaking off to have a smoke?
Different world

Posted by: Accomack at July 11, 2025 08:15 PM (28cZF)

94 59 One of the most underrated albums of all time.

Take it away, Lowell.

https://tinyurl.com/yx8h5c6v
Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2025 07:59 PM (viF8m)
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I was listening to "Feats Don't Fail Me Now" in the office this afternoon. Highly underrated band, overall.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at July 11, 2025 08:15 PM (F30Bl)

95
old chick,

He changed his name to Boron Cobbie.

Posted by: fourseasons at July 11, 2025 08:15 PM (3ek7K)

96
Stairway to the Stars > Stairway to Stardom

Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 11, 2025 08:16 PM (KAi1n)

97 POTUS channeling my exact thoughts, was just discussing this specific issue with a friend in the last hour:

https://tinyurl.com/2j6z6fae

Not sure what the technical or legal significance, if any, of Trump's "authorizing" response to attacks on LE/ICE vehicles, but I've been surprised that there has been no (visible) counter-measures to this problem. Of course tactical situations vary, so discretion is needed. But very strong non-lethal means (rubber bullets, taser, gas, hickory shampoos) seem appropriate with these mobs.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 11, 2025 08:17 PM (1m82a)

98 He changed his name to Boron Cobbie.

Yes, but, I haven't seen him for a bit.

Just watching a pattern here.

Posted by: old chick at July 11, 2025 08:18 PM (F3Dlr)

99 59 One of the most underrated albums of all time.

Take it away, Lowell.

https://tinyurl.com/yx8h5c6v
Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2025 07:59 PM (viF8m)

I'm partial to Feats Don't Fail Me Now, and of course Dixie Chicken

Posted by: browndog with weed, whites and wine at July 11, 2025 08:18 PM (TTAGa)

100 All trolls are Average Joe who sucks cock by choice.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 11, 2025 08:18 PM (gKWVE)

101 I can see a clash between Kash & Bongo and their boss Bondi,

... Holly crap, she's actually dumber than she looks...

Hard to maintain good working relationship when that is all you can think of during every meeting.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 11, 2025 08:18 PM (/lPRQ)

102 >>>Impression of a guy at a party who only knows one part of "Tiny Dancer."

Or as Phoebe sings it, "Hold me closer Tony Danza."

Posted by: No Name Today at July 11, 2025 08:21 PM (I+KxP)

103

Stairway to Stardom was a public-access television series that aired in New York City from 1979 to the early 1990s. It was described by NPR as "an amateur talent show many see as a low-rent precursor to American Idol. Taped "in what appeared to be a freshly carpeted Staten Island basement."

https://t.ly/eseKG

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 11, 2025 08:21 PM (63Dwl)

104 102 It's always been like that. The tendency is to evaluate an argument not on its own merits, but on the suspected motives of the suspicious character who utters it. Gotta roll with it. You can't fix it.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 08:23 PM (TwZXH)

105 69 I was just looking at my twitter(X) feed, and reading about Trumps visit to the Texas flood zone today. ...
(And I get irritated with Fox News often, but I give them credit today)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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I am on my way back from Texas, and watched in disbelief as THUGS were violently throwing rocks and bricks at ICE Officers while they were moving down a roadway in their car… Therefore, I am directing Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, and Border Czar, Tom Homan, to instruct all ICE, Homeland Security, or any other Law Enforcement Officer who is on the receiving end of thrown rocks, bricks, or any other form of assault, to stop their car, and arrest these SLIMEBALLS, using whatever means is necessary to do so. …
_President Donald J. Trump

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 11, 2025 08:23 PM (Ri+6K)

106 That bad dog video is hilarious.

Posted by: Stateless NOT HOMELESS! 01% towards 20% getting better at July 11, 2025 08:23 PM (jvJvP)

107 POTUS channeling my exact thoughts, was just discussing this specific issue with a friend in the last hour:

https://tinyurl.com/2j6z6fae

Not sure what the technical or legal significance, if any, of Trump's "authorizing" response to attacks on LE/ICE vehicles, but I've been surprised that there has been no (visible) counter-measures to this problem. Of course tactical situations vary, so discretion is needed. But very strong non-lethal means (rubber bullets, taser, gas, hickory shampoos) seem appropriate with these mobs.
Posted by: rhomboid

===

Needs a "Q Truck" with each convoy. A dozen guys armed primarly with 'less lethal" 12 gauge shotguns. Just light them up.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 11, 2025 08:25 PM (/lPRQ)

108 That "Stairway to Stardom" thing with the snaggleteeth in the begining...

O.M.G.

Ace, what did we do to deserve that!?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 11, 2025 08:26 PM (/HDaX)

109 114 You can't fix it. And what does even meritable argument accomplish anyway? No minds will be changed, that's guaranteed.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 08:26 PM (TwZXH)

110 You can have my autograph
I think I'll sign it
"love to you"
But should I sign it
just for you?

BOC - Stairway to the Stars

youtu.be/ar3hHWsJASM

Posted by: fd at July 11, 2025 08:26 PM (vFG9F)

111 >>> thrown rocks, bricks, or any other form of assault

Florida Sheriff said if you do that his deputies will just shoot you dead.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 11, 2025 08:27 PM (/lPRQ)

112
I've been surprised that there has been no (visible) counter-measures to this problem.

Posted by: rhomboid

============

Same. A "standoff" between law enforcement and a litter of Trigglypuffs?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 11, 2025 08:27 PM (UmB+t)

113 90 Pam Bondi’s DOJ closes investigation into Pfizer for alleged bribery.

The state deepens.
Posted by: Maj. Healey
-------------

Good thing she doesn't have a dick. I'd be so bruised.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 11, 2025 08:28 PM (Ri+6K)

114 In about that time, International House of Pancakes (no initializing in those days) offered a big breakfast special, 3 eggs, 3 pancakes, 2 strips of bacon, 2 breakfast sausages. Can't remember the price, but must have been reasonable, because I bought it. Endless pot of coffee was separate, but endless.
What brings this up is I hadn't had a good breakfast for a while, it's been so hot, so I had pretty much this for supper tonight. And it was good.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 11, 2025 08:28 PM (n4GiU)

115 Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 11, 2025 08:23 PM (RmOaB

First rule at aos is don’t act butthurt. I’d rather a troll.

Posted by: polynikes at July 11, 2025 08:28 PM (VofaG)

116 Congratulations America! We ended June with a budget surplus!!

Posted by: runner at July 11, 2025 08:29 PM (g47mK)

117 I am so proud of us !

Posted by: runner at July 11, 2025 08:29 PM (g47mK)

118 Not sure what the technical or legal significance, if any, of Trump's "authorizing" response to attacks on LE/ICE vehicles, but I've been surprised that there has been no (visible) counter-measures to this problem. Of course tactical situations vary, so discretion is needed. But very strong non-lethal means (rubber bullets, taser, gas, hickory shampoos) seem appropriate with these mobs.
Posted by: rhomboid

I just looked up the brown note. The frequency that makes people crap their pants.

Sadly, it doesn't seem to be real.

Too bad. The videos would have been hilarious.

Posted by: Stateless NOT HOMELESS! 01% towards 20% getting better at July 11, 2025 08:29 PM (jvJvP)

119 111 >>> thrown rocks, bricks, or any other form of assault

Florida Sheriff said if you do that his deputies will just shoot you dead.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
-------------

And if they do it to you. You can shoot 'em too. Please.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 11, 2025 08:29 PM (Ri+6K)

120
https://x.com/TTExulansic/status/
1943754940889149564

DOJ is subpoenaing hospitals for child mutilation records. The person speaking is female.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 11, 2025 08:30 PM (UmB+t)

121 "Pam Bondi’s DOJ closes investigation into Pfizer for alleged bribery."

Wow. That might boost PFE back up to the price I paid for it.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 08:31 PM (TwZXH)

122 The “Stairway to Stardom” works better than a cold shower.

Posted by: TexasJew at July 11, 2025 08:31 PM (7OF7k)

123 https://tinyurl.com/yx8h5c6v
Posted by: JackStraw

Whatever passes for the band is at Ninigret Aug 29th, Jack

Posted by: From about That Time at July 11, 2025 08:31 PM (n4GiU)

124 Pam Bondi’s DOJ closes investigation into Pfizer for alleged bribery.

The state deepens.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 11, 2025 08:12 PM (/U5Yz)

So an investigation is only legit if they find the target guilty?

Posted by: polynikes at July 11, 2025 08:33 PM (VofaG)

125 I am on my way back from Texas, and watched in disbelief as THUGS were violently throwing rocks and bricks at ICE Officers while they were moving down a roadway in their car and/or official vehicle. Tremendous damage was done to these brand new vehicles. I know for a fact that these Officers are having a hard time with allowing this to happen in that it shows such total disrespect for LAW AND ORDER. Therefore, I am directing Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, and Border Czar, Tom Homan, to instruct all ICE, Homeland Security, or any other Law Enforcement Officer who is on the receiving end of thrown rocks, bricks, or any other form of assault, to stop their car, and arrest these SLIMEBALLS, using whatever means is @RealDonaldTrump

Use of lethal force has been authorized. It's going to get spicey out there.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 11, 2025 08:33 PM (/U5Yz)

126 Itinerant Butcher, definitely something like that. But also more "capacity", so arrests can be made for obstruction/assault. So you're adding quite a bit to your convoy. But seems overdue. Again, tactical considerations vary, as well as resources.

But I don't think this is a hopeless measure/counter-measure dynamic. Tasers rubber bullets + arrests/prosecutions, if served generously, will decrease the appetite for this nonsense.

And Blonde Morticia, not all the perps are danger-hair idiots. Some are fit, young-ish, borderline psycho idiots, and violent. So need to be taken seriously.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 11, 2025 08:33 PM (1m82a)

127 Mahavishnu Orchestra, back when they were still playing in John's mom's basement:
youtube.com/watch?v=OMTXjmVd6AI

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 08:34 PM (TwZXH)

128 using whatever means is necessary to do so. I am giving Total Authorization for ICE to protect itself, just like they protect the Public. I never want to see a car carrying a Law Enforcement Officer attacked again! AUTHORIZATION IMMEDIATELY GRANTED FOR ARREST AND INCARCERATION. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 11, 2025 08:34 PM (/U5Yz)

129 >>Whatever passes for the band is at Ninigret Aug 29th, Jack

Rythym and Roots. You headed to it?

Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2025 08:34 PM (viF8m)

130 Breakfast for dinner. Do it once a month in our house. Always a winner.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 11, 2025 08:35 PM (1SaWO)

131 125 Weapons free.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 11, 2025 08:36 PM (gm9Sb)

132 Stateless there are non-lethal sonic devices. Have seen/experienced them demonstrated. Pretty amazing. Don't know about a "brown note", but intolerable decibels, yes. Essentially disables the targets, who can't do much other than try to deal with the noise. At the time it was being marketed mostly for ships - think the heyday of the Somalia piracy thing - and the bulk and power requirements really weren't suitable for normal vehicles or land situations.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 11, 2025 08:36 PM (1m82a)

133 131 Five years too late, but I'll take it as a W!

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 08:37 PM (TwZXH)

134 Breakfast for dinner. Do it once a month in our house. Always a winner.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 11, 2025 08:35 PM (1SaWO)

I’m doing that tonight.

Posted by: polynikes at July 11, 2025 08:37 PM (VofaG)

135 BAMN from the Oval Office.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 11, 2025 08:37 PM (gKWVE)

136 Don't get how interference with ICE would be any different than trying to stop the FBI

Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2025 08:37 PM (+qU29)

137 hey the Rockies are actually winning!

Posted by: gKWVE at July 11, 2025 08:38 PM (gKWVE)

138 Rythym and Roots. You headed to it?
Posted by: JackStraw

Nah, got a wedding in San Diego the week before.
And also contemplating maybe Texas, not getting any younger.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 11, 2025 08:39 PM (n4GiU)

139 Forget everything else (the important things).

At times like this I just like to pause and savor a US head of state who talks like a brash Queens businessman.

"SLIMEBALLS"

Having at times suffered as a speechwriter for typical bland Beltway figures who know/are capable of nothing beyond mind-numbingly platitudinous dreck, this stuff is genuinely hilarious and gratifying.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 11, 2025 08:39 PM (1m82a)

140 12ga riot guns are cool.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 11, 2025 08:39 PM (/U5Yz)

141 using whatever means is necessary to do so. I am giving Total Authorization for ICE to protect itself, just like they protect the Public. I never want to see a car carrying a Law Enforcement Officer attacked again! AUTHORIZATION IMMEDIATELY GRANTED FOR ARREST AND INCARCERATION. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Posted by: Maj. Healey

Just my opinion - people chucking rocks etc. at ICE are likely far worse than the illegal they were going to pick up and should be the priority.
And the illegals will still be there tomorrow.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 11, 2025 08:40 PM (/lPRQ)

142 My problem is breakfast at lunch, dinner at 3 and lunch at midnight

Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2025 08:40 PM (+qU29)

143 From Insty:

" David Gergen, trusted White House advisor to four US presidents across decades, dies at 83."

Oh noes!

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 11, 2025 08:40 PM (/HDaX)

144 🔥 BREAKING: Trump just cut a new deal with NATO:

The U.S. will send weapons to Ukraine — but NATO will pay 100% of the cost.

No endless checks. No more blank slates.

Trump just flipped the script on Ukraine.

Putin screwed the pooch

Posted by: SMOD at July 11, 2025 08:41 PM (GITLP)

145 hey the Rockies are actually winning!
Posted by: gKWVE

Yeah but the Appalachian Mountains are older!!

So there!

Posted by: Tonypete at July 11, 2025 08:41 PM (cYBz/)

146 well, Chateau D'Eez is rocking to old Grateful Dead from last century, lol ...

never even knew (b/4 yootoob) that I attended several of the "33 Essential Dates of Deadology", all unknowing at the time.
what a long, strange trip it's been, indeed; & I am so grateful for every minute of it, may it continue for a long, long time more.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 11, 2025 08:42 PM (dKEEs)

147 But make pizza, using store dough, basil and oregano from garden, sweet pepper and pepperoni. Did a great job.

Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2025 08:42 PM (+qU29)

148 So an investigation is only legit if they find the target guilty?
Posted by: polynikes
-------------------

They admitted withholding information in order to impede President Trump in the 2020 election.
And she folded the investigation?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 11, 2025 08:42 PM (Ri+6K)

149
The U.S. will send weapons to Ukraine — but NATO will pay 100% of the cost.

No endless checks. No more blank slates.

Trump just flipped the script on Ukraine.

Putin screwed the pooch
Posted by: SMOD

===============

That's fvckin' genius.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 11, 2025 08:43 PM (UmB+t)

150 Bravo, Skip!

nothing beats fresh from the garden!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 11, 2025 08:43 PM (dKEEs)

151 Skip, it isn't. Feds have similar laws, they're pretty much standard for all law enforcement of course. That's why many have been impatient with all this. But again, ICE/CBP and even BORTAC (BP's SWAT) have to use their judgement in a given situation. Numbers.

With surveillance of ICE/BP (another amazing thing - gotta think there's a criminal culpability in all that), deception has been used, and will be used again, to fool the idiots. With more resources (soon, not yet), they might be able to pull more spoofing and misdirection ops.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 11, 2025 08:43 PM (1m82a)

152
They admitted withholding information in order to impede President Trump in the 2020 election.
And she folded the investigation?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others

Seems that way.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 11, 2025 08:43 PM (/U5Yz)

153 Anti ICE rabble rouser and general trouble maker. "Hey, who are those guys that just got off that unmarked bus. Grey uniforms with FS on them?" His pal. "Uh oh, I heard about it. Flying Squad. The fascists put together a special unit. Texas Rangers, Arkansas State Police, and Ohio Highway Patrol. Word is they don't feed 'em for twelve hours before deployment, just to make 'em mean."

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 11, 2025 08:43 PM (gm9Sb)

154 LRAD, that's the system. I guess smaller systems now exist and have been used ashore.

Don't think the maritime version ever was widely adopted.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 11, 2025 08:44 PM (1m82a)

155 "The U.S. will send weapons to Ukraine — but NATO will pay 100% of the cost."

I like it!

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 08:44 PM (TwZXH)

156 specially the old slam-fire Ithaca 11s

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 11, 2025 08:45 PM (dKEEs)

157 Stairway to Stardom? Hmmm. Looks more like Rope Ladder to Obscurity.

Posted by: Paco at July 11, 2025 08:50 PM (mADJX)

158 Breakfast for dinner. Do it once a month in our house. Always a winner.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 11, 2025 08:35 PM (1SaWO)

I’m doing that tonight.
Posted by: polynikes at July 11, 2025 08:37 PM (VofaG)

I love breakfast for dinner. I usually do not eat until around lunchtime most days, maybe some yogurt in the morning. And coffee. Lots of coffee.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Cynical Member of Generation X at July 11, 2025 08:50 PM (0aYVJ)

159 The U.S. will send weapons to Ukraine — but NATO will pay 100% of the cost."

I like it!
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 08:44 PM (TwZXH)

I also like that scenario. I was willing though to swallow the cost since Putin fucked up and lied to Trump giving him no choice but to resume the weapons supply. Otherwise Trump would have been his bitch.

Posted by: polynikes at July 11, 2025 08:51 PM (VofaG)

160 Couple of people requested an update at the end of my 1st day's ride. Posted earlier, but got willpower almost immediately.

Here it is again.

Posted this morning that I was taking the weekend to ride the motorcycle off road for 300 miles of the Trans-America Trail, from Elkton,TN -to- just Sounth of Corinth, MS. Made it to my 1st night stop over in Waynesdorro, TN.

As luck would have it, I went down in a very low speed (like 1mph low speed) water crossing. Mossy moldy slick rock under about 8" of water. Could see the bottom. Had my feet out like training wheels to help support the bike, but the front wheel caught a small rock Crack and slipped right out from under me. Broke the left mirror, and drenched my lef leg quad muscles. This puts and end to my trip because I won't be able to lift the bike if I drop it again.

Ice, ibuprofen, elevation. I'll head home in the morning. This summer moose cock. Was looking forward to the rest of the trip.

Made multiple water crossings safely, one that was almost 2' deep too! Dang slippery full sunlight moss on the rock got me.

Posted by: BifBewalski at July 11, 2025 08:51 PM (lKa8O)

161 TwZXH)

134 Breakfast for dinner. Do it once a month in our house. Always a winner.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 11, 2025 08:35 PM (1SaWO)

I’m doing that tonight.
Posted by: polynikes at July 11, 2025 08:37 PM (VofaG)

I love eggs, all ways of cooking with eggs. I’ve gotten where I can whip together an Omelette or a Fritata (really just a baked omelette) in no time at all. I do something along those lines for supper fairly often.

Btw I’ve been told that eggs are the basis of most French cuisine.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2025 08:52 PM (Hlfhp)

162 " David Gergen, trusted White House advisor to four US presidents across decades, dies at 83."

I will always cherish Andrew Ferguson's characterization of David Gergen as a "goggle-eyed melon head".

Posted by: Paco at July 11, 2025 08:52 PM (mADJX)

163 Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2025 08:52 PM (Hlfhp)

Fried Egg on a hamburger is getting popular in my area.

There is a restaurant where I go frequently to order their BLTE. Delicious.

Posted by: polynikes at July 11, 2025 08:55 PM (VofaG)

164 I use eggs a lot - the Costco egg whites are a good time and money saver and a nice way to spin out the protein. The texture suffers a little compared to the real deal but it's worth it especially when you're doing them so often.

Posted by: ... at July 11, 2025 08:56 PM (E0p3T)

165 The late, great, Rush Limbaugh called him David Rodham Gergen. I miss el Rushbo.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Cynical Member of Generation X at July 11, 2025 08:56 PM (0aYVJ)

166 Posted by: BifBewalski at July 11, 2025 08:51 PM (lKa8O)

That sucks, hope you heal up quickly.

Posted by: polynikes at July 11, 2025 08:56 PM (VofaG)

167 I will always cherish Andrew Ferguson's characterization of David Gergen as a "goggle-eyed melon head".
Posted by: Paco at July 11, 2025 08:52 PM (mADJX)

Pretty much on point.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 11, 2025 08:57 PM (/HDaX)

168 How many people actually 'trusted' David gergen?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 11, 2025 08:57 PM (Yamow)

169 161 Breakfast for dinner. While this area isn't noted for high cuisine, we do have some really good old school diners. All serve breakfast all day and the rare times I go into one it seems popular. Now, when I lived in Erie PA, one of the dinors (that's how they spell it) had a really strange, really good compromise. The meatball omelet. Don't knock it until you try it.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 11, 2025 08:57 PM (gm9Sb)

170 In the early days of the Russia hoax, I used to watch Hannity, shudder, on nights when John Solomon was on. In my opinion he was one of the first to start unraveling the hoax even if he flew a bit below the radar.

So take this for what it's worth but he isn't a clickbait guy. Watch the video and make your own decision.

https://tinyurl.com/5c2pr727

Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2025 08:58 PM (viF8m)

171 A pleasant evening to all, Cafe goers.

"Breakfast for dinner." Yep. Scrambled eggs for me tonight.

I've been known to eat leftover pizza for breakfast, too.

Posted by: Official Delurker likes any meal any time of day at July 11, 2025 08:58 PM (ERua+)

172
That sucks, hope you heal up quickly.

Posted by: polynikes

It's just bruising. Hurts, and is very painful when I put weight on it. But not broken. I'll live. Got a date with a hot iron to seal in the dirt I rubbed on it tomorrow when I get back home.

Posted by: BifBewalski at July 11, 2025 08:58 PM (lKa8O)

173 I saw 'This Summer Moose Cock' open for Broken Peach at the Palladium in '21.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 11, 2025 08:59 PM (Yamow)

174 It's just bruising. Hurts, and is very painful when I put weight on it. But not broken. I'll live. Got a date with a hot iron to seal in the dirt I rubbed on it tomorrow when I get back home.
Posted by: BifBewalski at July 11, 2025 08:58 PM (lKa8O)

Ouch!

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 11, 2025 08:59 PM (/HDaX)

175 Bif you got further than I would have

Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2025 08:59 PM (+qU29)

176 Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2025 08:58 PM (viF8m)

Hmmm.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 11, 2025 09:00 PM (/HDaX)

177 Bif hope your icing it

Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2025 09:01 PM (+qU29)

178 This Summer Moose Cock

I swear I'm gonna turn off autocucomber and go commando again. I'd rather deal with typos over stoopid substitutions that I miss.

This sux moose cock.

Eff of autocucomber

Posted by: BifBewalski at July 11, 2025 09:01 PM (lKa8O)

179 I've been known to eat leftover pizza for breakfast, too.
Posted by: Official Delurker likes any meal any time of day at July 11, 2025 08:58 PM (ERua+)

Left over pizza doesn’t last long enough to make it to breakfast for me. Usually it becomes a midnight snack.

Posted by: polynikes at July 11, 2025 09:02 PM (VofaG)

180 177 Bif hope your icing it

Posted by: Skip

I did. And am continuing to do so.

Posted by: BifBewalski at July 11, 2025 09:02 PM (lKa8O)

181 Great, now seeing Stairway to Stardom clips on my YouTube

Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2025 09:02 PM (+qU29)

182 Bridgette Macron is looking more and more like a Gelfling.

Is this important?

Posted by: Kindltot at July 11, 2025 09:02 PM (D7oie)

183 Left over pizza doesn’t last long enough to make it to breakfast for me. Usually it becomes a midnight snack.
Posted by: polynikes at July 11, 2025 09:02 PM (VofaG)

Thinking about it I guess the solution is to buy a bigger pizza.

Posted by: polynikes at July 11, 2025 09:03 PM (VofaG)

184
Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2025 08:58 PM (viF8m)

Hmmm.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent

=============

John Solomon is no cuck.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 11, 2025 09:03 PM (UmB+t)

185 BifBewalski, glad you're OK! It was still a fun adventure I hope.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 09:03 PM (TwZXH)

186 83? Gergen was 83 when I used to listen to him back in the '80's.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 11, 2025 09:03 PM (dDmld)

187

Could we have kippers for breakfast
Mummy dear, Mummy dear?
They gotta' have 'em in Texas
'Cause everyone's a millionaire

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 11, 2025 09:03 PM (63Dwl)

188 🔥 BREAKING: Trump just cut a new deal with NATO:

The U.S. will send weapons to Ukraine — but NATO will pay 100% of the cost.

No endless checks. No more blank slates.

Trump just flipped the script on Ukraine.

Putin screwed the pooch
Posted by: SMOD
====

but NATO will pay 100% of the cost.
NATO - aka the US

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 11, 2025 09:05 PM (/lPRQ)

189 Summer Moose Cock

Sounds like a light ale brand they serve in Key West .

Posted by: polynikes at July 11, 2025 09:05 PM (VofaG)

190 "Gergen was 83 when I used to listen to him back in the '80's."

I wonder how many gigawatt-hours of energy were wasted pumping his talking head through the ether and the tubes.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 09:05 PM (TwZXH)

191 170 In the early days of the Russia hoax, I used to watch Hannity, shudder, on nights when John Solomon was on. In my opinion he was one of the first to start unraveling the hoax even if he flew a bit below the radar.

So take this for what it's worth but he isn't a clickbait guy. Watch the video and make your own decision.

https://tinyurl.com/5c2pr727

Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2025 08:58 PM (viF8m)

Interesting.

A special prosecutor not aimed at a GOP President? Unusual.

Posted by: davidt at July 11, 2025 09:05 PM (i0F8b)

192
Posted by: BifBewalski at July 11, 2025 08:51 PM (lKa8O

===========

Ouch, Bif! Sorry such a cool trip got cut short.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 11, 2025 09:05 PM (UmB+t)

193 Bongino turned me on to John Solomon.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 09:06 PM (TwZXH)

194 My grandmother said she only liked two kinds of pie, hot and cold. When I stayed at their house, breakfast was frequently cold pie.

Very nice. She was right: the flavor doesn't matter. It's the pie-ness that matters.

Posted by: Wenda at July 11, 2025 09:07 PM (8p/ok)

195 186 83? Gergen was 83 when I used to listen to him back in the '80's.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 11, 2025 09:03 PM (dDmld)

LOL That’s the same thing I was thinking!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2025 09:07 PM (Hlfhp)

196 Summer Moose Cock

Sounds like a light ale brand they serve in Key West .
Posted by: polynikes

I know I'm not going to search for it, because it's probably a tranny pr0n actor's name.

Posted by: mikeski at July 11, 2025 09:08 PM (DgGvY)

197
the most likely scenario is a large conspiracy case and it starts in the middle of July 2016

==============

Statute of limitations?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 11, 2025 09:08 PM (UmB+t)

198 183 "Left over pizza doesn’t last long enough to make it to breakfast"

If you put anchovies on the pizza then leftovers will make it to breakfast. Yum !

Posted by: Next2Nothing at July 11, 2025 09:09 PM (tA1/w)

199 specially the old slam-fire Ithaca 11s
Posted by: sock_rat_eez
----
11 ?

I know the Model 37, but not 11

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 11, 2025 09:10 PM (XeU6L)

200 but NATO will pay 100% of the cost.
NATO - aka the US
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

We're only 2/3 of NATO's budget, so I guess the Art of the Deal got us a 1/3 discount?

Posted by: mikeski at July 11, 2025 09:12 PM (DgGvY)

201 BifBewalski

Don't stop riding. If you ain't fallin you ain't riding they told me
Also nobody should ride a motorcycle until they have ridden a motorcycle for 5 years first.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 11, 2025 09:12 PM (7oI5w)

202 Morticia I believe the SOL on a conspiracy case "tolls" from the last act thereof, which can include acts of concealment of the previous, er, acts. That is, the shot clock on a conspiracy may start looong after the initial, underlying acts.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 11, 2025 09:14 PM (1m82a)

203 So take this for what it's worth but he isn't a clickbait guy. Watch the video and make your own decision.

====
Would love to see it, but not holding my breath in the meantime.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 11, 2025 09:14 PM (n4GiU)

204 Rode home from steamboat springs vintage races with painful tendinitis one year.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 11, 2025 09:14 PM (7oI5w)

205 "Usually it becomes a midnight snack."

I call that Breakfast, Part 1. :-)

Posted by: Official Delurker likes any meal any time of day at July 11, 2025 09:14 PM (ERua+)

206 206 "Usually it becomes a midnight snack."

I call that Breakfast, Part 1. :-)

Posted by: Official Delurker likes any meal any time of day at July 11, 2025 09:14 PM (ERua+)

Pre-First-Breakfast.

Posted by: Pippen at July 11, 2025 09:15 PM (i0F8b)

207 202 Ha! I wrecked three Honda 450s way back when. Lived to tell the tale, but I shouldn't have.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 09:16 PM (TwZXH)

208 Don't stop riding. If you ain't fallin you ain't riding they told me
Also nobody should ride a motorcycle until they have ridden a motorcycle for 5 years first.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty
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As often as not, I see MC's in parking lots with scars of one sort or another. Watching riders on the road, I'm not surprised. They all think that they can ride fast on public roads...and also think that they have skills.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 11, 2025 09:16 PM (XeU6L)

209 anchovies on the pizza

Mana from above.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 11, 2025 09:16 PM (7oI5w)

210 >>Statute of limitations?

That's the beautiful part of a conspiracy, the clock on the statute of limitations for a conspiracy starts with the last overt act of the conspiracy. Everything that happened as part of the conspiracy is fair game.

According to Solomon, the last act of the conspiracy case the DOJ is bringing happened in 2024 with the Democrats lawfare to try and keep Trump from winning.

Now he could be full of shit but if wanted to lose all credibility in a more spectacular fashion if he's wrong then I can't imagine what it would be. He's predicting we will start to see fireworks in the next 10 days so we won't have to wait long.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2025 09:16 PM (viF8m)

211 John Solomon is no cuck.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 11, 2025 09:03 PM (UmB+t)

I'm just hoping he's right.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 11, 2025 09:16 PM (/HDaX)

212 Hi Ace.i mostly lurk here. But I love and appreciate this Cafe.
Thank you so much!
It always does my heart good ❣❣🐕🐕!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 11, 2025 09:16 PM (L9kkv)

213 The U.S. will send weapons to Ukraine — but NATO will pay 100% of the cost.

No endless checks. No more blank slates.

Trump just flipped the script on Ukraine.

Putin screwed the pooch
Posted by: SMOD

If we're really lucky, NATO will say "hell no" and kick us out of the club.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 11, 2025 09:17 PM (/ephy)

214 there goes another squirrel:

JohnMcCloy 7h

Bannon asks " WHO GOVERNS THIS COUNTRY? Is it a shadowy network of intelligence OR DO THE PEOPLE OF THE U.S. GOVERN?
@realannapaulina says SHE SUPPORTS A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR on the Epstein case & she says the public should be treated like adults and the rollout similar to the JFK Files.
@JackPosobiec " Dershowitz came out and said THERE ARE OTHER PEOPLE INVOLVED..Epstein's lawyer himself said it was being suppressed."
Bannon says mandate 1.. we must go to the judge to unseal the documents and any piece of information released by the SPECIAL COUNSEL. Bannon says the 2nd mandate they must impanel a criminal grand jury to look at what @MikeBenzCyber is talking about regarding intelligence coordination.
Anna says people were promised information & then it was not released & regardless of what Dan Bongino & Kash would like to release THEY CANNOT DO IT WITH APPROVAL FROM DOJ. She is right on the money
cont

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 11, 2025 09:18 PM (Ri+6K)

215 cont

THEY CANNOT DO IT WITH APPROVAL FROM DOJ. She is right on the money
Steve highlights The only way for this FIRESTORM TO PASS is for the pepes & hardcords just say we had enough. If we lose that 15% of the MAGA movement we will lose.
Jack says, " When Vladimir Putin came out and said to Tucker YOU CANT NEGOTIATE WITH THE PRESIDENT. I TRIED TO THEN I REALIZED THE UNITED STATES IS CONTROLLED BY MEN IN DARK SUITS.”
Jack is 100% correct. We have not had an autonomous President since JFK.
@nataliegwinters makes a key point when she says that the last 4 years after all the farcical charges they brought against Trump, placed Bannon in jail and we have the easiest case there is in front of us. She is right this is a slam dunk

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 11, 2025 09:18 PM (Ri+6K)

216 Apparently Pentagon confirms that Iranian missile damaged al-Udeid airbase in Qatar. Earlier, open source types had pointed out imagery that showed damage (in particular a large radome that contained comms gear).

Even if allowance is made for typical embellishment and artistic license, Trump's statements on this whole chapter were easily the weirdest and most regrettable to date. Weirdest ever! Nobody's seen anything like it!

Anyway. All that matters is the final score, and we're quite a ways from that.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 11, 2025 09:19 PM (1m82a)

217 You know...seven days without otters makes one week.

Just sayin'

Posted by: Diogenes at July 11, 2025 09:21 PM (W/lyH)

218 They all think that they can ride fast on public roads...
Not all.
and also think that they have skills.
Many do.
I had enough skills to know not to hot rod around in public.
Surprised friends when first time on a closed course I was passing THEM, and on a primitive 650.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 11, 2025 09:21 PM (OO69L)

219 And a conspiracy can be prosecuted in any area where a part of the conspiracy took place.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2025 09:21 PM (viF8m)

220 >>>were easily the weirdest and most regrettable to date. Weirdest ever! Nobody's seen anything like it!

Anyway. All that matters is the final score, and we're quite a ways from that.
Posted by: rhomboid
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At the cabinet meeting, the way he slammed the door to the reporter on the Epstein question was very out of character.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 11, 2025 09:22 PM (Ri+6K)

221 Funny post on X from oilfield rando:
“First they came for the illegal alien criminals and I said “haha awesome make sure you get all the illegal alien criminals”

Then they came for the illegal alien farm workers and I said “haha awesome make sure you get all the illegal alien farm workers”

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2025 09:23 PM (Hlfhp)

222 My grandmother said she only liked two kinds of pie, hot and cold. When I stayed at their house, breakfast was frequently cold pie.

Very nice. She was right: the flavor doesn't matter. It's the pie-ness that matters.
Posted by: Wenda

Pies of all types are big in Pennsylvania Dutch homes - Grammi made dozens of pies for breakfast, lunch and supper. The normal berry and fruit pies of course but also, walnut, corn, meat pies, shoo-fly (wet bottom of course!), cake pies, funny cake pies, tomato pie, Schnitz pie, Funeral (really just raisin) pie, Milk pie, Sugar Pie, Montgomery (lemon flavored molasses custard) pie, and many, many more.

You needed some of these bad boys so that you have the energy to get back to the baling or setting fenceposts.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 11, 2025 09:23 PM (cYBz/)

223 So, when there are many lovely critters, I guess I have to wonder why things go all political...
Eh. I guess it's just me....😒

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 11, 2025 09:24 PM (L9kkv)

224
A little mini-SMOD event two weeks ago, June 27th:
https://tinyurl.com/28hzc8jt

A bolide made quite a daytime fireball over the SE, seen from Georgia and SC. There's some cell phone video of it, and satellites saw the flash. A tiny piece of it likely punched through the roof of a house in Georgia. Looks like a little bullet went through the roof and ceiling and left a mess on the floor of the house.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 11, 2025 09:25 PM (w6EFb)

225 "Pre-First-Breakfast."

I read that as "Pre-Fix-Breakfast," lol

Posted by: Official Delurker likes any meal any time of day at July 11, 2025 09:26 PM (ERua+)

226 At the cabinet meeting, the way he slammed the door to the reporter on the Epstein question was very out of character.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 11, 2025 09:22 PM (Ri+6K)

Actually it was very in-character when Trump wants to say “shut up and quit talking about this stuff!” I

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2025 09:26 PM (Hlfhp)

227 BifBewalski, glad you're OK! It was still a fun adventure I hope.
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird
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Ouch, Bif! Sorry such a cool trip got cut short.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Don't stop riding. If you ain't fallin you ain't riding they told me
Also nobody should ride a motorcycle until they have ridden a motorcycle for 5 years first.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats

I'll live. I've been riding since at least '75 or '76. Been down twice counting today. What i did learn though. Was to ID the black mossy stuff and then walk the water crossing for a good line. Possibly carrying gravel and dumping it on that line so I have traction. Peeves me that I found a non-mossy line in the shade about twenty feet upstream. Experiencing painful lessons learned is the best teacher.

I'll do this again when the quads in my left leg heal.

I had fun today. Will do this again.

Posted by: BifBewalski at July 11, 2025 09:27 PM (lKa8O)

228 I have few regrets, very few. But not becoming proficient on the motorcycle is one. The few times I rode it was exhilarating, but I never had funds for a bike. Now I am old, and am no longer confident of my balance. Hell, I don't even climb ladders anymore.

Oh well. Still got my pickup truck and a bunch of road atlases. Tomorrow me and the missus are heading up to Atlanta, Idaho.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Cynical Member of Generation X at July 11, 2025 09:27 PM (0aYVJ)

229 >>Dude ... you are not intellectually consistent to say the least.

You are, Scogg. For what passes for intellect.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2025 09:28 PM (viF8m)

230 Bif!
Bummer.
Don't forget ice for the whiskey too.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 11, 2025 09:29 PM (W/lyH)

231 Ok. I don't belong here either...

I'll head on up to ONT....lots of times I don't fit in there either, but a gal has to try....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 11, 2025 09:29 PM (L9kkv)

232 227 We got a new interstellar object cruising through the solar system too.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 09:29 PM (TwZXH)

233 224 There was a gas station just north of Meadville PA where the owner let the Amish set up to sell baked goods. Best pies, and my Dad was a baker. Also, in Erie, there was a black lady and her daughters that would sell very small pies or very large tarts in the bars, and were always welcome.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 11, 2025 09:29 PM (gm9Sb)

234 Tonypete,

My grandmother would have worshipped your grammi.

Posted by: Wenda at July 11, 2025 09:30 PM (8p/ok)

235 I remember that night. My voice was a bit scratchy. Still have the checked suit.

https://tinyurl.com/pn6y8pdc

Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2025 09:30 PM (viF8m)

236 I never even had a try at driving a motorcycle

Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2025 09:32 PM (+qU29)

237 Might as well put this here. The ONT would be too light to put it there.

In the ONT comment #153, buddhaha addressed the question of ICE (and other LEO) not being identified for doxxing, but also "to be held accountable for any illegal behavior." The commenter suggested "identifying 6 digit numbers that are large enough to be read at 10 feet, front and back of tac vest…." See the comment for full idea:
acecomments.mu.nu/?post=415618#c41339497

That seemed possible to me, although any code can be cracked, any system hacked.

You know those rubber masks that look realistic and can fool facial ID methods? (Search on "realistic rubber masks" if you don't know about them.) It might be expensive and somewhat uncomforable, but what if the officers wore those? Wouldn't look like they were wearing masks, but wouldn't be identifiable. Keep track of which cop was Mark Twain, which was Bob Hope….

Just an idea off the top of my head. Probably has more bugs than I've thought of.

Posted by: mindful webworker - peace and candy hearts be upon you at July 11, 2025 09:32 PM (+kBwA)

238 I started when I was young with a Honda 100 - loved that bike! Best ever was an Enduro 250 on dirt. But I could never reconcile the fear of being on something so small with cars around me, so I never did anything bigger, or non-dirt.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2025 09:33 PM (Hlfhp)

239
This piece of debris that made that little fireball was part of the Beta Taurid stream. The Tunguska event was likely a large chunk of Beta Taurid.

The controversial Younger Dryas impact hypothesis (global reset about 12K years ago) might have been really large Beta Taurid debris.

The bad thing about these is they come out of the sun relative to the earth's position when it crosses the stream, making them hard to detect.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 11, 2025 09:33 PM (w6EFb)

240 '3I/ATLAS is currently located about 420 million miles away ... and will remain at a distance of at least 1.6 astronomical units.'

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 09:34 PM (TwZXH)

241 Hi Ace.i mostly lurk here. But I love and appreciate this Cafe.
Thank you so much!
It always does my heart good ❣❣🐕🐕!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 11, 2025

***
True enough, Miss Marie. The frequent Friday afternoon movie or entertainment threads do too. When I worked, I often left the office on Friday just as the thread was getting started. Today I was able to enjoy almost all of it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 11, 2025 09:35 PM (omVj0)

242 Perhaps Trump slammed the door on the Epstein questions because he is tired of listening to people who get all their ideas about kompromat and human trafficking and government conspiracies and the legal system from ridiculous movies and TV shows screaming about something they have no clue about, but which has become a mythology so dear to them that they can't pay any attention to the things that are actually happening. I know I am.

Posted by: Wiese at July 11, 2025 09:35 PM (W2RQ1)

243 Are Laura Loomer and Liz Wheeler valid sources?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 11, 2025 09:35 PM (Ri+6K)

244 '3I/ATLAS is currently located about 420 million miles away ... and will remain at a distance of at least 1.6 astronomical units.'
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 09:34 PM (TwZXH)

So you're saying "Do Not Panic."

What if it's Vogons?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Cynical Member of Generation X at July 11, 2025 09:36 PM (0aYVJ)

245 I don't know Liz Wheeler, but Laura Loomer is about as valid a source as Vox Day or the Conservative Treehouse--i.e., not at all.

Posted by: Wiese at July 11, 2025 09:36 PM (W2RQ1)

246 >>Because the ultimate show would be "This is my argument, and even Scogg would have to agree".

>>Not you. Not ever.

I don't care if people agree with me. Particularly you. Everyone should have their own opinions and not everything is a fight to the death.

You might not have noticed but that's pretty much the entire purpose of this country.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2025 09:37 PM (viF8m)

247 'So you're saying "Do Not Panic."'

I would NEVER say "Do Not Panic."

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 09:37 PM (TwZXH)

248 >> '3I/ATLAS is currently located

"3I" means third interstellar, and is just the 3rd confirmed object of interstellar origin. This one is the fastest of the three, moving like a bat out of hell. It's shooting through close to the ecliptic, and will get close to Mars. No chance of impact, but it will get close in solar system scale terms.

It's moving so fast, it's path will be just barely bent by the sun.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 11, 2025 09:37 PM (w6EFb)

249 243 People say Henry Ford put the world on wheels. Well, maybe the US. In Asia it was Honda. I had a picture in my scrap book taken from a Cyclo cab in Saigon on a busy street. Honda 50s and 90s as far as you could see. Also, a mystery to me has always been young Vietnamese girls in ao dais sitting side saddle on the back of their man's Honda, not seeming to be hanging on to anything.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 11, 2025 09:38 PM (gm9Sb)

250 Scogg and Scogg! What is Scogg?

Posted by: Kara at July 11, 2025 09:39 PM (i0F8b)

251
If 3I starts to decelerate, and then looks to be inserting itself into a heliocentric orbit around 1AU, then it would be time to panic. And throw out the welcome mat.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 11, 2025 09:39 PM (w6EFb)

252 barely bent by the sun.
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That would be an awesome name for a metal band.

Posted by: Pug Mahon,With a Towel at July 11, 2025 09:40 PM (0aYVJ)

253 I had enough skills to know not to hot rod around in public.
Surprised friends when first time on a closed course I was passing THEM, and on a primitive 650.
Posted by: Commissar
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I should have been more explicit. By 'all' I meant the number of sport bikes that I have seen that evidence some variety of road rash, and my observation of squids on the road.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 11, 2025 09:40 PM (XeU6L)

254 Bif, I'm simultaneously sorry to hear your road trip got sidelined, and glad to hear you were only bruised and had no broken bones. There's considerable freedom to a motorcycle road trip, but the chances of damage to my personal body would deter me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 11, 2025 09:40 PM (omVj0)

255 No movie thread? I'm in Vermont. My parents' place here has some satellite with limited movie choices. In the 80s classics section, my top four choices (there aren't many choices) are OVER THE TOP, DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS, ROBOCOP, and THE DARK CRYSTAL. Which one should I go for?

Posted by: Lex at July 11, 2025 09:41 PM (PRpEI)

256 Movie on TCM and not what's listed, old character actor but forgot his name. Sure he ended sadly shooting himself after a long illness

Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2025 09:41 PM (+qU29)

257 Robocop, featuring Les Nesman's evil twin.

Posted by: davidt at July 11, 2025 09:42 PM (i0F8b)

258 Lexington I know, seems like Saturday to me too

Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2025 09:42 PM (+qU29)

259 You are wearing me out.

Posted by: Blah ... another Paul Newman role at July 11, 2025 09:42 PM (WfOMS)

260 256 Movie on TCM and not what's listed, old character actor but forgot his name. Sure he ended sadly shooting himself after a long illness
Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2025 09:41 PM (+qU29)

Alfalfa?

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2025 09:42 PM (Hlfhp)

261
the clock on the statute of limitations for a conspiracy starts with the last overt act of the conspiracy.

Posted by: JackStraw

=============

Ah, I just listened to it again. That traitor Obama and that manipulator Hillary Clinton would be named. Probably not tried, but it would be fun to watch people hang on their account.

Filing it under too good to be true for now, though.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 11, 2025 09:42 PM (UmB+t)

262 Movie on TCM and not what's listed, old character actor but forgot his name. Sure he ended sadly shooting himself after a long illness
Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2025

***
Which movie, Skip? Was it George Sanders? I'm pretty sure he committed suicide late in his life.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 11, 2025 09:43 PM (omVj0)

263
Here's a page with a graphic of 3I ATLAS's trajectory:

https://tinyurl.com/ymz2mdv4

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 11, 2025 09:43 PM (w6EFb)

264 Robocop, if you haven't seen it lately, or at all. Deliciously cynical movie.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 09:43 PM (TwZXH)

265 Posted by: Lex at July 11, 2025 09:41 PM (PRpEI)

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Which reminds me, been waaaaay to long since I watched that one.

Posted by: Pug Mahon,With a Towel at July 11, 2025 09:43 PM (0aYVJ)

266 Suddenly I have an inspiration for the TXMoMe. I am breaking out the poster board and my glitter glue…stand back! 🎤🎵 stairway to stardom….hmmm hmmmm mmmm stairway to stardommmmm🎶🎶

Posted by: Piper at July 11, 2025 09:43 PM (p4NUW)

267 Scogg and Scogg! What is Scogg?

Posted by: Kara at July 11, 2025 09:39 PM (i0F8b)

Shut Up is Scogg !!!

Posted by: Blah ... another Paul Newman role at July 11, 2025 09:43 PM (WfOMS)

268 Man. This guy was a real psycho killer:

https://tinyurl.com/64bufmu3

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 11, 2025 09:44 PM (BI5O2)

269 "Let’s take a journey back in time to explore the origins of Honda’s venture into making cars. It all began in 1963, when Honda introduced its first production car, the Honda S500, marking a significant milestone for the company."
https://www.meanmetalmotors.com/
honda-start-making-cars/
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Henry pre-dates them a bit.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 11, 2025 09:44 PM (Ri+6K)

270
The woo-woos are already going crazy that 3I ATLAS is some alien probe, like they did with the other two.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 11, 2025 09:44 PM (w6EFb)

271 Bif - Have a friend that just finished a ride from Damascus, VA (?) to Selma, AL. Perhaps the same trail?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 11, 2025 09:44 PM (XeU6L)

272 This actor was in lots of Westerns

Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2025 09:45 PM (+qU29)

273 Robocop, featuring Les Nesman's evil twin.
Posted by: davidt at July 11, 2025 09:42 PM (i0F8b)
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Kurtwood Smith was seriously menacing in that role. I love that guy. He brought some of that to his role as Red Forman in That 70s Show. To great effect.

Posted by: Pug Mahon,With a Towel at July 11, 2025 09:45 PM (0aYVJ)

274 Lex - go for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels! That’s a hilarious one. Not many know it’s a remake of a 1964 movie, and one of those rare instances where the remake is far, far better than the original!

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2025 09:45 PM (Hlfhp)

275 Al Dershowitz is a lying liar who lies.

That is all.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 11, 2025 09:46 PM (lH8E4)

276 "Here's a page with a graphic of 3I ATLAS's trajectory"

The hyperbola is already flatter than it looked this morning!

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 09:46 PM (TwZXH)

277 =============

Ah, I just listened to it again. That traitor Obama and that manipulator Hillary Clinton would be named. Probably not tried, but it would be fun to watch people hang on their account.

Filing it under too good to be true for now, though.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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There's a lot of low hanging fruit out there.
If the shoe were on the other foot there would be ten show trials going right now.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 11, 2025 09:46 PM (Ri+6K)

278 "Kurtwood Smith was seriously menacing in that role."

Concur.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 09:46 PM (TwZXH)

279 I seriously wonder ... is the sound-track "Woke Up This Morning" from the Sopranos ? Or Bruce Springsteen "I Was Born ... In New Jersay !!!". Is that the sound that motivates New Jersey here ?

Because, seriously, I puke every time John Cougar gets played.

Posted by: The Meat Store at July 11, 2025 09:47 PM (WfOMS)

280 Honda introduced its first production car, the Honda S500,
------

Had a friend in the service that brought back a Honda S600 with him from Japan. Tiny, and had a chain final drive.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 11, 2025 09:47 PM (XeU6L)

281 Used to enjoy commuting on Boston's SE Expressway on my '80 Suzuki GS1000G, full business suit, audit bag tied to the back rack, possibly sitting upright smoking a cig if traffic was stopped and I was weaving slowly. Other times cruising at 80 inches of more than one car bumper.
Ya gonna die, you're gonna die, worry about it then.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 11, 2025 09:47 PM (n4GiU)

282 Think Sanders said, I've done everything I wanted to do, I'm bored with life.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 11, 2025 09:49 PM (Ri+6K)

283 I seriously wonder ... is the sound-track "Woke Up This Morning" from the Sopranos ? Or Bruce Springsteen "I Was Born ... In New Jersay !!!". Is that the sound that motivates New Jersey here ?

Because, seriously, I puke every time John Cougar gets played.
Posted by: The Meat Store at July 11, 2025 09:47 PM (WfOMS)

Overkill.

*looks for Bersekrer*

Posted by: Pug Mahon,With a Towel at July 11, 2025 09:49 PM (0aYVJ)

284 Perhaps Trump slammed the door on the Epstein questions because he is tired of listening to people who get all their ideas about kompromat and human trafficking and government conspiracies and the legal system from ridiculous movies and TV shows screaming about something they have no clue about, but which has become a mythology so dear to them that they can't pay any attention to the things that are actually happening. I know I am.
Posted by: Wiese at July 11, 2025 09:35 PM (W2RQ1)

Yeah, that's not it.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 11, 2025 09:49 PM (+O1VQ)

285 I was so scared I typo-ed Berserker.

Posted by: Pug Mahon,With a Towel at July 11, 2025 09:50 PM (0aYVJ)

286 There's a new Bondi toy out.

https://tinyurl.com/mrpx5dca

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 11, 2025 09:50 PM (/U5Yz)

287 Wished I had kept my Honda Fit, it was a great knock around hatch.

If Honda ever brings it back to the US, I'm getting one.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 11, 2025 09:51 PM (XV/Pl)

288 Perhaps Trump slammed the door on the Epstein questions because he is tired of listening to people who get all their ideas about kompromat and human trafficking and government conspiracies and the legal system from ridiculous movies and TV shows screaming about something they have no clue about, but which has become a mythology so dear to them that they can't pay any attention to the things that are actually happening. I know I am.

Posted by: Wiese at July 11, 2025 09:35 PM (W2RQ1)

I doubt it though since you made those people up.

Anyone can have a dumb idea or three about what really happened around Epstein but if they do it's only because sufficient answers have not been provided.

Let's start here, Mr. Reality Check - What percentage of high profile people who had recently been on suicide watch are successful in offing themselves while in custody? I'll give you a hint: use Jeffrey Epstein as the numerator.

Posted by: ... at July 11, 2025 09:51 PM (E0p3T)

289 Because, seriously, I puke every time John Cougar gets played.
Posted by: The Meat Store
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My favorite pic of Cougar
https://shorter.me/gytex

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 11, 2025 09:51 PM (XeU6L)

290 The meatball omelet. Don't knock it until you try it.
Posted by: bill in arkansas

Best use of left over beef stew = beef stew omelet.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 11, 2025 09:51 PM (mlg/3)

291 I've seen Robocop so many times I might not do it again. But the role of Clarence Botticker (sic) is inspired. A geeky looking villain with no muscle or anything. Just his menace.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is great too.

I might go for Over the Top. I think it would be interesting to do a thread on the movies of Golan Globus. Lots of 80s cheese. Merchant Ivory they were not but certainly added something interesting to the film canon.

Posted by: Lex at July 11, 2025 09:51 PM (PRpEI)

292 284 It might have been an ordinary fit of pique, but that was the wrong time to indulge it IMHO.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 09:52 PM (TwZXH)

293 I'm late in saying so, but I am so sad to hear that Ciampino passed this week.

Joyenz, I don't know if you are here, but if you read this, please know you and your family are in this mostly-lurker's prayers.

Posted by: Official Delurker at July 11, 2025 09:52 PM (ERua+)

294 Richard Farnsworth

Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2025 09:53 PM (+qU29)

295 "I think it would be interesting to do a thread on the movies of Golan Globus."

Yes it would!

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 09:53 PM (TwZXH)

296 True story:

In Corsicana a few years ago, the first guy I met was Berserker. We got acquainted. then his wife arrives: introductions, etc. then she says" Are you the guy that likes Overkill?"

uhh...

Posted by: Pug Mahon,With a Towel at July 11, 2025 09:54 PM (0aYVJ)

297 It's The Straight Story, guy rides his lawn tractor hundreds of miles to see his brother

Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2025 09:54 PM (+qU29)

298
There's a lot of low hanging fruit out there.
If the shoe were on the other foot there would be ten show trials going right now.

Posted by: Braenyard

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This is what kills me! and causes me to brace for disappointment. Other than Trump being elected (both times), I think I've never seen an act of vindication as momentous as the Russia Hoaxers being brought to justice.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 11, 2025 09:55 PM (UmB+t)

299 297 That one really surprised me. I didn't expect it to be that good.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 09:56 PM (TwZXH)

300 think it would be interesting to do a thread on the movies of Golan Globus. Lots of 80s cheese. Merchant Ivory they were not but certainly added something interesting to the film canon.
Posted by: Lex at July 11, 2025 09:51 PM (PRpEI)

I've watched virtually all of them. Probably all. Maybe not. But probably.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 11, 2025 09:56 PM (BI5O2)

301 Richard Farnsworth
Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2025 09:53 PM (+qU29)

He was so awesome. he was the star of my favorite David Lynch movie, The Straight Story.

Posted by: Pug Mahon,With a Towel at July 11, 2025 09:57 PM (0aYVJ)

302 Cobra and Invasion USA should be in the Pantheon.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 09:58 PM (TwZXH)

303 *looks for Bersekrer*

Posted by: Pug Mahon,With a Towel at July 11, 2025 09:49 PM (0aYVJ)

Whatever.

I'm stuck in Indianapolis ... and Billy Joel is so much better than Bruce ... and Bob Seger is better than Bruce ... hell, The Band was better than Bruce.

I might be better than Bruce. But Jersey can keep Bruce. Please.

Posted by: The Meat Store at July 11, 2025 09:58 PM (WfOMS)

304 >>This is what kills me! and causes me to brace for disappointment. Other than Trump being elected (both times), I think I've never seen an act of vindication as momentous as the Russia Hoaxers being brought to justice.

And if the Russia hoaxers are brought to justice you still will have seen and act of vindication any bigger.

Momentus things never happen until they do.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2025 09:58 PM (viF8m)

305 I'm gonna go watch Cobra right now.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 11, 2025 09:59 PM (BI5O2)

306 without commentary ... ;

https://is.gd/Vu9D0t

innit?
& g'night, alla youse!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 11, 2025 09:59 PM (dKEEs)

307 Have a friend that just finished a ride from Damascus, VA (?) to Selma, AL. Perhaps the same trail?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., et

There is a Southeast Back Country Discovery Route (SE BDR) that runs through Selma, going all the way to the beach.

It could be the that trail. The TAT only hits Bama for maybe ten miles around Ft. Payne and another ten or so miles near Florence.

I got this bike to do the BDRs and the TAT. There are some skills that don't cross over from small

Wonder what else I'm blind to? Hope that doesn't hurt to learn.

Posted by: BifBewalski at July 11, 2025 09:59 PM (lKa8O)

308 n't

Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2025 10:00 PM (viF8m)

309 ONT IS NOOD

Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2025 10:01 PM (+qU29)

310 Other than Trump being elected (both times),

all 3 times

innit?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 11, 2025 10:01 PM (dKEEs)

311 I've been busy all day and what did I miss?!?!

ace loving on One Cut of the Dead?!?!!

I have to have recommended that here a bunch of times!!! it's amazing!

other than that, hi!

I'm way late but ace asked if we'd seen anything good. I finally saw "Her." did anyone like that? I was ... pleasantly surprised by it. could have used some editing but pretty interesting and sweet

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 11, 2025 10:02 PM (Pv3Rg)

312 Why the heck is everything from screw-tube now? I can’t see anything from it and evening cafe is lost.

Posted by: Nan in AZ at July 11, 2025 10:02 PM (bcfGT)

313 Favorite moment in 'The Straight Story'

Daughter hears gunshot, races downstairs, finds her dad with a rifle at the kitchen window. "What did you do!' she exclaims.

"Shot a squirrel on the bird feeder', he replies.

'Why did you do do that?, she asks.

He replies, 'I didn't like his attitude'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 11, 2025 10:02 PM (XeU6L)

314 NOOD ONT for those who are interested.

https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=415637

Posted by: mindful webworker - or those who aren't at July 11, 2025 10:03 PM (+kBwA)

315 I'm more interested in the people trying to stop it than the people on the list.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 11, 2025 10:03 PM (Ri+6K)

316 >>> 138 Rythym and Roots. You headed to it?
Posted by: JackStraw

Nah, got a wedding in San Diego the week before.
And also contemplating maybe Texas, not getting any younger.
Posted by: From about That Time at July 11, 2025 08:39 PM (n4GiU)

THE POWER OF BACON COMPELS YOU!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 11, 2025 10:09 PM (ULPxl)

317 Demographics is destiny has a lifetime 1.00 batting average.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 11:23 PM (ImXfC)

318 FART Tubing ...... Let's dew it !!!

Posted by: Mary Cloginstien from Brattleboro, Vt at July 12, 2025 12:08 AM (p+utQ)

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