Mid-Morning Art Thread

Campagne de France, 1814 (Napoleon and his staff returning from Soissons after the Battle of Laon)
Ernest Meissonier

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 23, 2025 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

2 French? And no tutus?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 23, 2025 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

3 These are the hats that need to make a comeback.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2025 09:31 AM (4Rx1C)

4 Napoleon was like Colbert. Hundreds of useless staff members.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2025 09:32 AM (4Rx1C)

5 These are the hats that need to make a comeback.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2025 09:31 AM (4Rx1C)

It's hard to hold your head up at speed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 23, 2025 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

6 I got a cramp. Hurry up with the painting already so I can put my leg down.

Posted by: White Horse at July 23, 2025 09:32 AM (i0F8b)

7 On a white horse. Racist.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 23, 2025 09:32 AM (T4qa/)

8 Napoleon gets the prettiest horse.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 23, 2025 09:32 AM (NpAcC)

9 Napoleon rode a white horse?

I didn't know that.

Posted by: dantesed at July 23, 2025 09:33 AM (Oy/m2)

10 I got a cramp. Hurry up with the painting already so I can put my leg down.
Posted by: White Horse at July 23, 2025 09:32 AM (i0F8b)

If you want to ride,

Don't ride the white horse.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 23, 2025 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)

11 Sorry I missed yesterday's Kinkade thread.

I like the composition of this one a lot . It leads your eye to the focal point which is Napoleon.

Posted by: polynikes at July 23, 2025 09:33 AM (VofaG)

12 Not retreat from Russia? I had always been told that was subject of this painting. I am so disillusioned...

Posted by: Martin Tell at July 23, 2025 09:34 AM (sFNX2)

13 Short little frog.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 23, 2025 09:34 AM (ufFY8)

14 Did Napoleon have a favorite horse with a name? Like Alexander had Bucephalus or Lee had Traveller?

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 09:34 AM (77rzZ)

15 The painting captures Napoleon's shortness.
Probably needs a stool to mount.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 23, 2025 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

16 I would hang this in the great hall of my stately & spacious manor

the summer one, in the mountains

Posted by: Don Black at July 23, 2025 09:34 AM (AOsQT)

17 Yes, I'm tweaking my nipple.

Posted by: Napoleon at July 23, 2025 09:35 AM (i0F8b)

18 The clouds were angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at July 23, 2025 09:35 AM (XQo4F)

19 Probably needs a stool to mount.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 23, 2025 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

I'm IN!!!!!

Oh.....I thought you said 'mount stool.'

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at July 23, 2025 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

20 Probably needs a stool to mount.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 23, 2025 09:34 AM

That's so HOT!

Posted by: Pete Buttgig at July 23, 2025 09:36 AM (TbWk/)

21

That's a lot of horse poop...

Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at July 23, 2025 09:36 AM (x6wab)

22 He has a six-fingered AI hand; that is why he hides it.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 23, 2025 09:36 AM (ufFY8)

23 3 These are the hats that need to make a comeback.
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They are similar to Roman commander helmets with the broom topping. Makes it easier for a general to see where his commanders are on a battlefield.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 23, 2025 09:36 AM (W3T6M)

24 Like this one, even if it's of a murderous dictator. Would hang.
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 23, 2025 09:36 AM (8UsV6)

25 Are men in big hats compensating for something?

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 23, 2025 09:36 AM (ViCCR)

26 That looks like a muddy track, yet Old Boney's horse remains sparkling white

Posted by: Don Black at July 23, 2025 09:36 AM (AOsQT)

27 What happened at the Battle of Laon?

Posted by: dantesed at July 23, 2025 09:36 AM (Oy/m2)

28 Painting of AtC?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 23, 2025 09:36 AM (GBKbO)

29 It's better to ride than to walk.

Posted by: huerfano at July 23, 2025 09:36 AM (n2swS)

30 19, 20 Horde Mind, lol

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 23, 2025 09:36 AM (ufFY8)

31 I kicked Napoleon's butt at Laon. Where's the love, the girls, the paintings?

Posted by: General Blücher at July 23, 2025 09:37 AM (NXz8h)

32 Napoleon 's horse is what is known as a singlefooter.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 23, 2025 09:37 AM (HFcKg)

33 After a careful look at the image, I have only one question:

Where's Grouchy?

Posted by: mrp at July 23, 2025 09:37 AM (rj6Yv)

34 Napoleon 's horse is what is known as a singlefooter.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 23, 2025 09:37 AM (HFcKg)

Funny. It's the same for a one legged man at an ass kicking contest.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 23, 2025 09:37 AM (Zz0t1)

35 So, did they win or lose the battle of Laon?

I know next to nothing about the Napoleonic Wars.

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 09:37 AM (77rzZ)

36 I think Nappy was around 5'7". Pretty average for a Frenchman, or Corsican of his day.

Posted by: Long Live The Emperor! at July 23, 2025 09:38 AM (G5+As)

37 Sponge, hahahaha.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 23, 2025 09:38 AM (HFcKg)

38 After a careful look at the image, I have only one question:

Where's Grouchy?
Posted by: mrp

She's at home.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2025 09:38 AM (4Rx1C)

39 Flicka.

Posted by: His favorite horse at July 23, 2025 09:39 AM (XQo4F)

40 Like this one, even if it's of a murderous dictator. Would hang.
Thx CBD
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 23, 2025 09:36 AM (8UsV6)

Wasn’t every leader in France a murderous dictator at some point?

Posted by: polynikes at July 23, 2025 09:40 AM (VofaG)

41
Incapacitated - a limerick

Napoleon was strong and firm of jaw
But then Josephine took off her bra
According to the fable
Nappy said, "I once was able,
Sacré bleu, ere 'elbows' I saw!"

IYKWIM

Posted by: A gall bladder at July 23, 2025 09:40 AM (poXs5)

42 Hi, Ben Had!

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 09:40 AM (77rzZ)

43 The mudder was off her fodder.

Posted by: The Abbott and Costello Show at July 23, 2025 09:40 AM (G5+As)

44 Napoleon must have lost one of his mittens.

That's why his hand is shoved inside his coat--trying to keep his hand warm.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 23, 2025 09:40 AM (7fElN)

45 Almost makes you feel sorry for the the little fella.

Almost.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at July 23, 2025 09:40 AM (04eXs)

46 He likes it when the little people are hitting each other.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 23, 2025 09:41 AM (GBKbO)

47 /off bilious sock

Posted by: muldoon at July 23, 2025 09:41 AM (poXs5)

48 25 Are men in big hats compensating for something?
Posted by: olddog in mo at July 23, 2025 09:36 AM

###

We were in the pool!

Posted by: Men with big hats at July 23, 2025 09:41 AM (XQo4F)

49 I think Nappy was around 5'7". Pretty average for a Frenchman, or Corsican of his day.
Posted by: Long Live The Emperor!

Yeah, the shorty thing was British propaganda.

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 09:42 AM (77rzZ)

50 Pity the riders in the back, at tail end.

Lots of shit they have to wade through on the trip.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 23, 2025 09:42 AM (Q4IgG)

51 6 I think Nappy was around 5'7". Pretty average for a Frenchman, or Corsican of his day.
Posted by: Long Live The Emperor! at July 23, 2025 09:38 AM (G5+As)
****
5'6" with lifts.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 23, 2025 09:42 AM (NpAcC)

52 He likes it when the little people are hitting each other.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I understood this reference. Fun flick.

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 09:42 AM (77rzZ)

53 3 These are the hats that need to make a comeback.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2025 09:31 AM (4Rx1C)

Yeah, just like Sears Rareback catalog asswipe. Quite useless.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 23, 2025 09:42 AM (pohLc)

54 Long trips on horseback ain't no joke when you gots the syph.

Posted by: Otto Pen at July 23, 2025 09:42 AM (sJHOI)

55 If you want to ride,

Don't ride the white horse.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 23, 2025 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)

Ride the white pony

Posted by: One hit(?) wonders at July 23, 2025 09:43 AM (TbWk/)

56 FUN FACT:

While on vacay, we stayed in Cologne, Germany and went to the original perfumers who made the first eau de cologne.

Napoleon was one of their big customers. He used 6 bottles per day. They didn't bathe much in those days.

So, now you know where to go to smell like Napoleon!

BONUS!
While there I noticed that they used ambergris in their perfumes, so I asked to smell it to see what it was like.
It didn't smell like whale puke at all! Ambergris has a kinda combination animal and sea smell that's a tiny bit sorta floral.
Therefore smear whale puke on your body and fear not!

Posted by: naturalfake at July 23, 2025 09:43 AM (iJfKG)

57 Painting needs some Ottomans.

They were excellent fighters.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at July 23, 2025 09:43 AM (w9Wax)

58 think Nappy was around 5'7". Pretty average for a Frenchman, or Corsican of his day.
Posted by: Long Live The Emperor! at July 23, 2025 09:38 AM (G5+As)
‘
The misconception is his height was seen in English unit of inches though it was really the French measurement where he was recorded as 5’ 2 “ which in English units is about 5’7”

Posted by: polynikes at July 23, 2025 09:43 AM (VofaG)

59 48 25 Are men in big hats compensating for something?
Posted by: olddog in mo at July 23, 2025 09:36 AM

Perish the thought!

Posted by: Every Pope For Centuries at July 23, 2025 09:44 AM (G5+As)

60 European winters. The ultimate in emotional depression.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 23, 2025 09:44 AM (g8Ew8)

61 She's at home.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2025 09:38 AM (4Rx1C)

Posted by: mrp at July 23, 2025 09:44 AM (rj6Yv)

62 This is 1814 and Napoleon and his staff returning sounds about right. His army would be dead on the battlefields stretching back to Moscow.

Posted by: Hedley Lamarr at July 23, 2025 09:45 AM (UWRAE)

63 The misconception is his height was seen in English unit of inches though it was really the French measurement where he was recorded as 5’ 2 “ which in English units is about 5’7”
Posted by: polynikes

The French were using the metric system by then, no?

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 09:45 AM (77rzZ)

64 So, now you know where to go to smell like Napoleon!

Posted by: naturalfake at July 23, 2025 09:43 AM (iJfKG)
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Spend money on expensive cologne, not bathe for a few days...yeah, if I want that true Napoleonic smell, I'll probably go with the not bathing.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 23, 2025 09:46 AM (tT6L1)

65 25 Are men in big hats compensating for something?
---------------
In my time it was men wearing big watches.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 23, 2025 09:46 AM (W3T6M)

66 63 The misconception is his height was seen in English unit of inches though it was really the French measurement where he was recorded as 5’ 2 “ which in English units is about 5’7”
Posted by: polynikes

The French were using the metric system by then, no?
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 09:45 AM (77rzZ)

======

Napoleon suspended required use of the metric system. He undid a lot of Revolutionary things, but he didn't quite get rid of that, just made it not required.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 23, 2025 09:46 AM (GBKbO)

67 Posted by: General Bl�cher at July 23, 2025 09:37 AM (NXz8h)

*horses everywhere neigh*

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 09:46 AM (77rzZ)

68 My Napoleon movie is the second greatest movie ever made. The first? Prometheus. Amirite, TJM, amirite?

Posted by: Ridley Scott at July 23, 2025 09:46 AM (NXz8h)

69 >I know next to nothing about the Napoleonic Wars.
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it was The Golden Age of really big hats

Posted by: Don Black at July 23, 2025 09:47 AM (AOsQT)

70 I enjoy this type of painting with its realistic colors and use of natural light that establishes a mood and brings out highlights in clothing and skin tones. Meissonier is especially good at depicting horses, their musculature and the sheen of their coats. It's a pleasure to look at them.

The audience would know about the battle and that Napoleon is retreating after a loss. The setting is somber with the grey skies and frozen, snowy ground. You can almost hear the slow measured sound of the hooves on the hard ground. But it isn't an end just the beginning of the end before Waterloo te following year.

Posted by: JTB at July 23, 2025 09:47 AM (yTvNw)

71 Can't be the French Army. No white flags.

Posted by: Dis(Mis)information at July 23, 2025 09:47 AM (G5+As)

72 Short little frog.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt

*************

They're Made That Way - a limerick

Napoleon was a bit ill at ease
He was sautéed and smothered in cheese
It is every Frog's fate
He won't fit on the plate
'Til the chef cuts him off at the knees

Posted by: muldoon at July 23, 2025 09:47 AM (poXs5)

73 14 Did Napoleon have a favorite horse with a name? Like Alexander had Bucephalus or Lee had Traveller?
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 09:34 AM (77rzZ)
_______
I think it was Marengo. But I'm a navy guy, so don't bank on that.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 23, 2025 09:48 AM (od0dV)

74 65 25 Are men in big hats compensating for something?
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In my time it was men wearing big watches.
Posted by: pudinhead at July 23, 2025 09:46 AM
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We're sitting right here.

Posted by: Pickup trucks at July 23, 2025 09:48 AM (XQo4F)

75 Looks cold

Posted by: SMOD at July 23, 2025 09:48 AM (RHGPo)

76 Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 09:45 AM (77rzZ)

They started about the turn of the century. Napoleon’s height had been recorded in previous French measurements.

Posted by: polynikes at July 23, 2025 09:48 AM (VofaG)

77 Finally, we get an image of what Europe is all about. War, winter, and muddy boots.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 23, 2025 09:49 AM (NXz8h)

78 7 On a white horse. Racist.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade

Akkshuully, it’s grey. Good morning, The Blade, and everyone else! ☺️

Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2025 09:49 AM (p4NUW)

79 I think it was Marengo. But I'm a navy guy, so don't bank on that.
Posted by: Eeyore

Wiki confirms that you are correct.

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 09:50 AM (77rzZ)

80 ‘No, you may not ride your horse next to my horse! Can’t you see he is white?’

Posted by: Eromero at July 23, 2025 09:50 AM (jgmnb)

81 When I was a kid, I got the idea that wars were only fought at night
One night we all got in the car in France, and arrived in Germany the next mourning. Was sure it was a war.

Posted by: SMOD at July 23, 2025 09:51 AM (RHGPo)

82 Are men in big hats compensating for something?
---------------
In my time it was men wearing big watches.
Posted by: pudinhead at July 23, 2025 09:46 AM
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We're sitting right here.
Posted by: Pickup trucks at July 23, 2025 09:48 AM (XQo4F)
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"So what if it's as big as a Subaru and costs twice as much. And when you die, they'll bury you in it!"

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 23, 2025 09:51 AM (tT6L1)

83 He rode across France on a horse with no mane

Posted by: Carl Childers at July 23, 2025 09:51 AM (HcoTw)

84 It's hard to hold your head up at speed.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

****

But with the wind behind you ...

Posted by: FrodoB at July 23, 2025 09:51 AM (Yosar)

85
Meh...

Posted by: Hunter Biden at July 23, 2025 09:51 AM (EFZgU)

86 Candace Owens thinks Napoleon's wife, Josephine, is a man.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 23, 2025 09:51 AM (NpAcC)

87 I think it was Marengo. But I'm a navy guy, so don't bank on that.
Posted by: Eeyore at July 23, 2025 09:48 AM

+++
Come see us. We'll fill you in on all the details.

Posted by: Marengo County, Alabama at July 23, 2025 09:51 AM (XQo4F)

88 *horses everywhere neigh*
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 09:46 AM

*narrows eyes*

Posted by: Frau Blucher at July 23, 2025 09:51 AM (dPfyF)

89 Napoleon: "Well, that didn't work".

Posted by: Paco at July 23, 2025 09:52 AM (mADJX)

90 I think it was Marengo. But I'm a navy guy, so don't bank on that.
Posted by: Eeyore

Wiki confirms that you are correct.
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 09:50 AM

So you're saying that the original dish wasn't really chicken?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 23, 2025 09:53 AM (dPfyF)

91 Rabelais had an excellent explanation on why French measurement of distance was different from English, in this case miles. The King of France sent out young couples from Paris with instructions to erect a milestone at every location they made love. So at first (in France) the milestones were close together, but by the time they reached England their ardor had cooled significantly, and voila! the milestones were much further apart. And that is why English miles are longer than French miles.

Posted by: Martin Tell at July 23, 2025 09:53 AM (sFNX2)

92 84 It's hard to hold your head up at speed.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

****

But with the wind behind you ...

Hold your head up
Repeat

Posted by: Argent at July 23, 2025 09:54 AM (HcoTw)

93 The guy who designed those hats should have been hung.

Posted by: Yep, I'm back. at July 23, 2025 09:55 AM (d4cw7)

94 Napoleon: "Gotta get rid of Louisiana. Maybe I can talk that Jefferson sap into taking those effing Cajuns off my hands."

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)

95 I like the artist’s style technique. He was an academic painter but you could see some of the impressionist style peaking through.

Posted by: polynikes at July 23, 2025 09:55 AM (VofaG)

96 Did Napoleon have a favorite horse with a name?

I don't know, but he had a dog named Phydeaux (apologies to Justin Wilson).

Posted by: Paco at July 23, 2025 09:55 AM (mADJX)

97 Ardor? I just met her!

Posted by: Rimshot at July 23, 2025 09:56 AM (XQo4F)

98 The victorious army should have sent snipers out and picked off French soldiers all the way back to gay Paree.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 23, 2025 09:56 AM (g8Ew8)

99 The Minard Map is an brilliant visual representation of Napoleon's Russian campaign, coming and going.

https://is.gd/uVvd2v

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 23, 2025 09:56 AM (NXz8h)

100 His faces look good.

Posted by: Yep, I'm back. at July 23, 2025 09:57 AM (d4cw7)

101 Wonderful detail. Did this start the tradition of depicting Napoleon with his right hand tucked into his coat?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 23, 2025 09:57 AM (omVj0)

102 I don't understand Napoleon going to Egypt. The only thing he got out of that was the Rosetta stone.

Posted by: dantesed at July 23, 2025 09:57 AM (Oy/m2)

103 The detail of the muddy trail mixed with snow is very well done.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 23, 2025 09:58 AM (omVj0)

104 Probably needs a stool to mount.
Posted by: redridinghood

**********

Boosterism - a limerick

Napoleon was actually a Corsican
His aide asked, "Can you get on that horse again?"
Ha said "Don't be a fool,
If you'll hand me that stool
I'll remount the steed! 'Cause of course I can!"

Posted by: muldoon at July 23, 2025 09:58 AM (poXs5)

105 I don't understand Napoleon going to Egypt. The only thing he got out of that was the Rosetta stone.
Posted by: dantesed

He hacked it and downloaded it illegally for free. That's what got him sent to St. Helena without internet access.

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 09:58 AM (77rzZ)

106 68 My Napoleon movie is the second greatest movie ever made. The first? Prometheus. Amirite, TJM, amirite?
Posted by: Ridley Scott at July 23, 2025 09:46 AM (NXz8h)

=======

Scott's Napoleon (which I wish had kept the original title of Kitbag) suffers from most of the problems that were so perfectly satirized in Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story regarding biopics.

An entire life in one film. Old man playing a young guy. Singular events that never really cohesively create an actual story. Throw in Joaquin Phoenix's, honestly, bizarre performance, and it's...a weird movie.

But the production is great, the extended cut is better (still not good), and the battles are fun.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 23, 2025 09:59 AM (GBKbO)

107 CHÂTEAU DE FONTAINEBLEAU - French Castle Inhabited by French Monarchy and Napoleon Bonaparte, That Inspired Marie Antoinette's Château de Versailles

https://tinyurl.com/47ebunwk

Posted by: redridinghood at July 23, 2025 09:59 AM (NpAcC)

108 Writing this must have hurt an editor.

BBC Headline : Trump's tough tariff tactics are getting results

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 23, 2025 09:59 AM (Vvm2m)

109 I like it.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 23, 2025 09:59 AM (PMtkd)

110 don't understand Napoleon going to Egypt. The only thing he got out of that was the Rosetta stone.
Posted by: dantesed at July 23, 2025 09:57 AM (Oy/m2)

Just another strategy to screw with the British.

Posted by: polynikes at July 23, 2025 09:59 AM (VofaG)

111
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 23, 2025 09:59 AM (tljrc)

112 *The only thing he got out of that was the Rosetta stone.*

And the ability to speak five languages!

Posted by: Or your money back at July 23, 2025 10:00 AM (XQo4F)

113 No French dictators.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 23, 2025 10:00 AM (JvZF+)

114 would hang

Posted by: Gref at July 23, 2025 10:00 AM (aBgBM)

115 I keep getting a pop-up ad for Malwarebytes with a cute ginger in a mask and a cape. Me likey.

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 10:01 AM (77rzZ)

116 Boosterism - a limerick

Napoleon was actually a Corsican
His aide asked, "Can you get on that horse again?"
Ha said "Don't be a fool,
If you'll hand me that stool
I'll remount the steed! 'Cause of course I can!"
Posted by: muldoon at July 23, 2025 09:58 AM (poXs5)
*****
Excellent!
I don't know how you do it.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 23, 2025 10:02 AM (NpAcC)

117 Early attempt at deciphering the Rosetta Stone:

"Be sure...to drink...your...Ovaltine?"

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 10:02 AM (77rzZ)

118 I keep getting a pop-up ad for Malwarebytes
Posted by: Bulg

Install our software to prevent us from spamming you!

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at July 23, 2025 10:03 AM (w9Wax)

119 Is there a moment when people like Alexander, Creaser, and Napoleon, to name just three, woke up and went, "I think I will conquer the world?" If so, I am running out time for mine.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 23, 2025 10:04 AM (NXz8h)

120 Off to work.

Be excellent to each other.

Point and laugh at the libtards with septum ring. They've earned it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 23, 2025 10:05 AM (Zz0t1)

121 Early attempt at deciphering the Rosetta Stone:

"Be sure...to drink...your...Ovaltine?"
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 10:02 AM (77rzZ)

And, "There...was....a girl....from Nantucket".

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 23, 2025 10:06 AM (g8Ew8)

122 119 Is there a moment when people like Alexander, Creaser, and Napoleon, to name just three, woke up and went, "I think I will conquer the world?" If so, I am running out time for mine.
---------------
Alexander was expected to conquer the world. His dad built an entire army for him to do just that.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 23, 2025 10:06 AM (W3T6M)

123 Well done painting

Posted by: It's me donna at July 23, 2025 10:06 AM (VE6XX)

124 I think it was Marengo. But I'm a navy guy, so don't bank on that.
Posted by: Eeyore at July 23, 2025

+++
Come see us. We'll fill you in on all the details.
Posted by: Marengo County, Alabama at July 23, 2025

***
We have a series of Napoleon-themed streets in Uptown: Marengo, Milan, Napoleon Avenue, and more.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 23, 2025 10:06 AM (omVj0)

125 I don't understand Napoleon going to Egypt.
Posted by: dantesed

**************

Napoleon in Denial - a llimerick

It seems Napoleon really needed space
And it seemed that Egypt was a likely place
But when it came to blows
He shot off the Sphinx's nose
And they say he did it just to spite his face

Posted by: muldoon at July 23, 2025 10:06 AM (poXs5)

126 Would he ride of the front of the column like that while they're on the march? Not buying it.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 23, 2025 10:06 AM (XvL8K)

127 Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 23, 2025 09:56 AM (NXz8h)

The best graphical presentation of data.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 23, 2025 10:07 AM (L5An7)

128 Hi, Bulg

Posted by: Ben Had at July 23, 2025 10:07 AM (HFcKg)

129 We have a series of Napoleon-themed streets in Uptown: Marengo, Milan, Napoleon Avenue, and more.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I think it's awesome that New Orleans has a Constantinople Street.

Something I learned from A Confederacy of Dunces.

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 10:07 AM (77rzZ)

130 That Stanky Janky sidebar. Wow. That woman is nuts. Does she fancy herself some kind of Broadway singer? Huge red flag right there.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 23, 2025 10:07 AM (T4qa/)

131 I like it, would hang.

Napoleon deserved better than what Perfidious Albion did to him.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 23, 2025 10:09 AM (xcxpd)

132 For being such a great conqueror, Napoleon was a dud when it came to reproduction.

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

133 Amazing what talented artists could accomoplish in the years prior to photography.

their only reference material was Real Life

Posted by: kallisto at July 23, 2025 10:10 AM (dCxaZ)

134 Now CNN is releasing every old photo of Trump "with" Epstein....Wonder who else was at those functions?

Posted by: It's me donna at July 23, 2025 10:10 AM (VE6XX)

135 I've read that, upon his overthrow, Napoleon wanted to come to the US.

Can you imagine what that would've been like?

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 10:11 AM (77rzZ)

136 We have a series of Napoleon-themed streets in Uptown: Marengo, Milan, Napoleon Avenue, and more.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 23, 2025 10:06 AM (omVj0)

Waterloo, Iowa. And that's a wrap

Posted by: mrp at July 23, 2025 10:11 AM (rj6Yv)

137 Scott's Napoleon (which I wish had kept the original title of Kitbag) suffers from most of the problems that were so perfectly satirized in Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story regarding biopics.

An entire life in one film. Old man playing a young guy. Singular events that never really cohesively create an actual story. Throw in Joaquin Phoenix's, honestly, bizarre performance, and it's...a weird movie.

But the production is great, the extended cut is better (still not good), and the battles are fun.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

And? Prometheus? You are getting close to being uninvited from the end of summer pool party.

Posted by: Ridley Scott at July 23, 2025 10:12 AM (NXz8h)

138 Come, Mr. Talleyrand, tally me banana.

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 10:12 AM (77rzZ)

139 If they made a biopic of the Andrews Sisters, would it be a triopic?

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 10:15 AM (77rzZ)

140 Come, Mr. Talleyrand, tally me banana.
Posted by: Bulg
_______

Blucher come and me wan' go home.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 23, 2025 10:15 AM (XvL8K)

141 Could use a few happy little bushes for contrast and comparison.

But, hey, it's your painting.

Posted by: zombie Bob Ross at July 23, 2025 10:16 AM (0sNs1)

142 Putin was preparing for a Clinton victory

DNI Tulsi Gabbard
@DNIGabbard
LIE: Putin and the Russian Government helped Trump win the 2016 election

TRUTH: President Obama, former Director of the CIA John Brennan, and others fabricated the Russia Hoax, suppressed intelligence showing Putin was preparing for a Clinton victory, manufactured findings from shoddy sources, disobeyed IC standards, and knowingly lied to the American people.

Posted by: SMOD at July 23, 2025 10:16 AM (RHGPo)

143 I think it's awesome that New Orleans has a Constantinople Street.

Something I learned from A Confederacy of Dunces.
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025

***
That, and Cadiz Street, after another Napoleon battle I think. We once had a Berlin Street -- but the anti-German sentiment in 1917-18 saw it changed to General Pershing.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 23, 2025 10:17 AM (omVj0)

144 This painting is the cover art for a Tchaikovsky album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-N4nepZnk8

It has the best rendition of the 1812 Overture I think.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at July 23, 2025 10:17 AM (V362x)

145 That, and Cadiz Street, after another Napoleon battle I think. We once had a Berlin Street -- but the anti-German sentiment in 1917-18 saw it changed to General Pershing.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

There was a little burg south of Grand Rapids, Michigan named Berlin. During WWI, they changed the name to "Marne."

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 10:18 AM (77rzZ)

146 It has the best rendition of the 1812 Overture I think.
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese

When I was a kid, I thought that had something to do with the War of 1812. Couldn't figure out how the French stuff got in there.

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 10:20 AM (77rzZ)

147 I think it's awesome that New Orleans has a Constantinople Street.

Something I learned from A Confederacy of Dunces.
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025

***
A lot of what Toole described is still around: The clock in front of D.H. Holmes still hangs in front of the Ritz Hotel (though there is a bronze of Ignatius there as well). And many people, white and black, still say "chirren" for "children." But the early Sixties vibe is gone; the emphasis is now on the suburbs to the west and north of the lake. Kind of like Detroit and Gary, IN.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 23, 2025 10:20 AM (omVj0)

148 By the way, Wolfus, how are you feeling?

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 10:20 AM (77rzZ)

149 >TRUTH: President Obama, former Director of the CIA John Brennan, and others fabricated the Russia Hoax
----

YOU ARE DARING ME TO SAY IT

But I shan't
I have forbidden myself the very utterance of it

Posted by: Don Black at July 23, 2025 10:21 AM (AOsQT)

150 There was a little burg south of Grand Rapids, Michigan named Berlin. During WWI, they changed the name to "Marne."
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 10:18 AM (77rzZ)
Cough.West.Cough

Posted by: A dude in MI at July 23, 2025 10:21 AM (/6GbT)

151 I have forbidden myself the very utterance of it
Posted by: Don Black

Somebody already brought up Prometheus.

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 10:22 AM (77rzZ)

152 By the way, Wolfus, how are you feeling?
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025

***
Like a real human again, Bulg. The pain is mostly gone, I'm popping an occasional Aleve instead of Rx opioids, and just now I walked to the post office and to the bank -- about a twenty-five minute stroll -- just to see if I could.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 23, 2025 10:22 AM (omVj0)

153 There was a little burg south of Grand Rapids, Michigan named Berlin. During WWI, they changed the name to "Marne."
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 10:18 AM (77rzZ)
Cough.West.Cough
Posted by: A dude in MI at July 23, 2025 10M

Yup. Drove by Marne a ton from skee-town to and from gr. Never knew it was previously berlin.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 23, 2025 10:23 AM (XZ6f8)

154 Cough.West.Cough
Posted by: A dude in MI

OK. Haven't been back to that area in a long time.

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

155 When I was a kid, I thought that had something to do with the War of 1812. Couldn't figure out how the French stuff got in there.
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 10:20 AM

Great percussion section, though.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 23, 2025 10:23 AM (dPfyF)

156 Sometimes, companies taking actions "for my benefit" are an enormous PITA.

Wife is attempting to book planes tickets. Same origin, destination, and rough dates she's booked every year since youngest child went off to college.

This time, however, credit card decides that it needs to verify that this is a valid charge. So it wants to call my cell. Not text, gotta be a call. Okay, whatever. Change my phone settings to permit unknown calls through. Call comes in... "if you're expecting this call, press your pound key"... only it won't recognize the # key. Short press, long press, doesn't matter.

She went through paypal, which used the same card, no problem.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 23, 2025 10:23 AM (ExV1e)

157 Wasn't George McLellan called America's Napoleon, or something like that

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 23, 2025 10:24 AM (kTd/k)

158 Hmm deep wagon wheel ruts in the road. Could have been cannon transports going in the other direction on the way to battle.
OR...?

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at July 23, 2025 10:25 AM (uEWUd)

159 Wasn't George McLellan called America's Napoleon, or something like that
Posted by: Northernlurker

"Little Napoleon," I think.

If only.

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

160 OR...?
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at July 23, 2025 10:25 AM

Aliens?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 23, 2025 10:25 AM (dPfyF)

161 Yup. Drove by Marne a ton from skee-town to and from gr. Never knew it was previously berlin.
Posted by: BruceWayne
________

They've still got that little German village tourist trap going. Frankenmuth.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 23, 2025 10:26 AM (XvL8K)

162 Somebody already brought up Prometheus.
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 10:22 AM

To be fair, it's not an official AoSHQ Thread without it.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at July 23, 2025 10:26 AM (0sNs1)

163 Little Mac

Posted by: dantesed at July 23, 2025 10:26 AM (Oy/m2)

164 They've still got that little German village tourist trap going. Frankenmuth.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 23, 2025 10

Ya that's northeast. South of bay city. Get off 75 at the birch run exit.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 23, 2025 10:27 AM (XZ6f8)

165 Remember, Frankenmuth is the name of the Doctor, not his creation.

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 10:27 AM (77rzZ)

166 Napoleon's retreat from Russia resulted in a forgotten mass grave of French soldiers in Lithuania IIRC or was it Latvia?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2025 10:27 AM (f8cho)

167 They've still got that little German village tourist trap going. Frankenmuth.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 23, 2025 10

Ya that's northeast. South of bay city. Get off 75 at the birch run exit.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 23

Christmas year round.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 23, 2025 10:27 AM (XZ6f8)

168 They've still got that little German village tourist trap going. Frankenmuth.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 23, 2025 10:26 AM (XvL8K)

Bronners Christmas World

Posted by: A dude in MI at July 23, 2025 10:27 AM (/6GbT)

169 You can tell the dude on the white horse misses the rains down in Africa.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 23, 2025 10:28 AM (0sNs1)

170 Napoleon's retreat from Russia resulted in a forgotten mass grave of French soldiers in Lithuania IIRC or was it Latvia?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Somewhere in the Baltics. They had all died of cholera, I think.

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 10:28 AM (77rzZ)

171 Georgia has one of those German village tourist traps too. Cant remember the name.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 23, 2025 10:29 AM (XvL8K)

172 TRUTH: President Obama, former Director of the CIA John Brennan, and others fabricated the Russia Hoax
----

YOU ARE DARING ME TO SAY IT

But I shan't
I have forbidden myself the very utterance of it
Posted by: Don Black

You cannot or you shannot?

Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2025 10:29 AM (4Rx1C)

173 Somewhere in the Baltics. They had all died of cholera, I think.
---------------
Which is worse, cholera or typhus?

Posted by: pudinhead at July 23, 2025 10:29 AM (W3T6M)

174
Frankenmath?

one plus one equals tuuuhhhhhhgh!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at July 23, 2025 10:29 AM (iJfKG)

175 We have Napoleon to thank for Haiti being independent. After failing to subdue the revolt he wisely said "what's the point" and let it go. They then stuck the Haitians with a massive bill for property and land seized which the Haitian nitwits paid

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 23, 2025 10:30 AM (8UsV6)

176 Which is worse, cholera or typhus?
Posted by: pudinhead at July 23, 2025 10:29 AM

Dysentery.

Posted by: The Oregon Trail at July 23, 2025 10:30 AM (0sNs1)

177 Drove by Marne a ton from skee-town to and from gr. Never knew it was previously berlin.
Posted by: BruceWayne

Berlin Raceway in Marne was a great place to bring a date. You didn't have to converse with her because the racing cars were quite loud.

Posted by: one hour sober at July 23, 2025 10:31 AM (Y1sOo)

178 Dysentery.
Posted by: The Oregon Trail

What about Datentery?

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 10:31 AM (77rzZ)

179 This is one cold painting; you can feel the chill, from the officers huddling within their greatcoats to the lowering gray sky.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 23, 2025 10:32 AM (omVj0)

180 175 We have Napoleon to thank for Haiti being independent. After failing to subdue the revolt he wisely said "what's the point" and let it go. They then stuck the Haitians with a massive bill for property and land seized which the Haitian nitwits paid
--------------------
Europeans didn't last long in the tropics. The civilization zenith for Haiti was when the Marines ran the place.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 23, 2025 10:32 AM (W3T6M)

181 What about Datentery?
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 10:31 AM

Dÿsenterÿ
-- Queensrÿche

Posted by: The Oregon Trail at July 23, 2025 10:32 AM (0sNs1)

182 Frankenmath?

one plus one equals tuuuhhhhhhgh!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at July 23, 2025

***
"We . . . belong . . . dead."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 23, 2025 10:33 AM (omVj0)

183 *horses everywhere neigh*
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 09:46 AM (77rzZ)

Sire?

Oh, I thought you were speaking to me.

Posted by: General Ney at July 23, 2025 10:33 AM (gKDq2)

184 171 Georgia has one of those German village tourist traps too. Cant remember the name.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 23, 2025 10:29 AM (XvL8K)

Helen, GA

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at July 23, 2025 10:34 AM (dTyNj)

185 Wasn't George McLellan called America's Napoleon, or something like that
Posted by: Northernlurker

"Little Napoleon," I think.

If only.
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 10:25 AM (77rzZ)

VERY little.
Great with charisma and organization but anything but Napoleon when it came to audacity and actually, you know, fighting.

Guy got literally handed the Confederate order of battle and route and plans and still couldn't seal the deal.

Deus Vult.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 23, 2025 10:35 AM (xcxpd)

186 When Marshal Ney was being executed he actually gave the order to "fire". Weird situation to control your fate

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 23, 2025 10:35 AM (8UsV6)

187 US ICE Agents Arrest ‘Depraved’ Illegal Who Kept Dead Woman’s Body In Storage For Months

.. I suppose Democrats will fight over who get the body

Posted by: SMOD at July 23, 2025 10:35 AM (RHGPo)

188 Yeah, McClellan was great at logistics but not much else.

He had been a railroad exec, so it makes sense.

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 10:37 AM (77rzZ)

189 I've watched the first installment of HBO's documentary on Billy Joel, twice. It is really good. The next installment is on air this weekend, 25 July. I was very impressed with Joel's life story and his obvious talents at composition and performance. Highly recommend to the morons. I thought he would be a candy ass. He's not.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 23, 2025 10:37 AM (W3T6M)

190 187 US ICE Agents Arrest ‘Depraved’ Illegal Who Kept Dead Woman’s Body In Storage For Months

—

I’ll bust him out of prison.
- Biden

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 23, 2025 10:37 AM (Vvm2m)

191 When Marshal Ney was being executed he actually gave the order to "fire". Weird situation to control your fate
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 23, 2025 10:35 AM (8UsV6)

Same with British Admiral John Byng.

He dropped his handkerchief as a signal to 'fire'.

Posted by: RickZ at July 23, 2025 10:38 AM (gKDq2)

192
*searches for hemmerroids*
*searches for 'my butt hurts*

*double checks that AOS is really what I'm looking at*

Who are all y'all, and why has no one socked Napolean to complain about how much his ass hurts, and Waterloo is gonna be big?

Posted by: BifBewalski at July 23, 2025 10:38 AM (89Poi)

193 Don't get me started on the rampant misuse of the apostrophe.

Posted by: Don Black at July 23, 2025 10:39 AM (AOsQT)

194 How many people died in the Napoleonic wars?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 23, 2025 10:40 AM (kTd/k)

195 Posted by: pudinhead at July 23, 2025 10:37 AM (W3T6M)

He was literally a street fighter who went on to box a little bit IIRC.

Posted by: polynikes at July 23, 2025 10:40 AM (VofaG)

196 Don't get me started on the rampant misuse of the apostrophe.
Posted by: Don Black

Nothing will happen to those responsible.

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 10:40 AM (77rzZ)

197 186 When Marshal Ney was being executed he actually gave the order to "fire". Weird situation to control your fate
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 23, 2025 10:35 AM (8UsV6)

There's long been a strange story floating around that Marshall Ney faked his execution, escaped France, and became a notable instructor at a South Carolina military academy for the rest of his life. It is documented that there was an instructor who was there in the early 19th century, highly regarded and highly knowledgeable about military affairs, who spoke with a strong french accent and would never respond to any questions about his past.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 23, 2025 10:40 AM (uWKK8)

198 115 I keep getting a pop-up ad for Malwarebytes with a cute ginger in a mask and a cape. Me likey.
Posted by: Bulg
=======
A lot of the anti virus and malware is barely less annoying than real viruses. Endless popups, warnings about computers being unprotected, endless urges to upgrade, reup contracts, etc.

Annoying as heck and the fact that Windows is so insecure that you often need these annoying ancillaries is something more.

Easier to just use Linux as daily driver for webbrowsing, etc. and Windows for projects that require Windows software not available or workable in Linux.

WINE is a pita on some programs to get to work, containers or vm is an option but you have to have a fairly bulky system to run right (plus Broadcom is pissing on long time users for VM Ware), and Microsoft keeps pissing on dual booting via their odious Secure Boot and security shims needed for dual booting Linux and Windows.

Posted by: whig at July 23, 2025 10:40 AM (ctrM5)

199 How many people died in the Napoleonic wars?
Posted by: Northernlurker

Are you including the War of 1812?

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 10:41 AM (77rzZ)

200 Read a story about Billy Joel not long ago about his neighbors being pissed at him. He did shows in NYC and then flew home on a helicopter. Getting home very late at night and waking everyone up. This was a daily or semi daily occurrence.

To his credit he stopped doing that and started taking the train instead.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 23, 2025 10:41 AM (Vvm2m)

201 A lot of the anti virus and malware is barely less annoying than real viruses. Endless popups, warnings about computers being unprotected, endless urges to upgrade, reup contracts, etc.

Annoying as heck and the fact that Windows is so insecure that you often need these annoying ancillaries is something more.

Easier to just use Linux as daily driver for webbrowsing, etc. and Windows for projects that require Windows software not available or workable in Linux.

WINE is a pita on some programs to get to work, containers or vm is an option but you have to have a fairly bulky system to run right (plus Broadcom is pissing on long time users for VM Ware), and Microsoft keeps pissing on dual booting via their odious Secure Boot and security shims needed for dual booting Linux and Windows.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2025 10:40 AM (ctrM5)

And just like that the art thread became the tech thread.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 23, 2025 10:41 AM (TJLr1)

202 198 WINE is a pita on some programs to get to work, containers or vm is an option but you have to have a fairly bulky system to run right (plus Broadcom is pissing on long time users for VM Ware), and Microsoft keeps pissing on dual booting via their odious Secure Boot and security shims needed for dual booting Linux and Windows.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2025 10:40 AM (ctrM5)

========

Challenge!

Get SimGolf to work through WINE in Linux.

Then tell me how.

Go!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 23, 2025 10:42 AM (GBKbO)

203 How many people died in the Napoleonic wars?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 23, 2025 10:40 AM (kTd/k)
==================
48 million, mostly by Israeli fire at civilians trying to get food

Posted by: Hamas Health Authority at July 23, 2025 10:42 AM (zggST)

204 >I've watched the first installment of HBO's documentary on Billy Joel, twice. It is really good.
---

I would want to know the science and outright sorcery he used to bag Christie Brinkley.

Posted by: Don Black at July 23, 2025 10:42 AM (AOsQT)

205 > 12 Not retreat from Russia? I had always been told that was subject of this painting. I am so disillusioned...
Posted by: Martin Tell at July 23, 2025 09:34 AM (sFNX2)

Not nearly enough starvation and limbs lost to frostbite.

Note to self: if you're on campaign with a group of Frenchman, it's now October, and you're 1800 miles by foot from the nearest supply of stinky cheese and canned snails, you should probably consider hanging it up and trying again next year.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 23, 2025 10:43 AM (qpyNK)

206 195 Posted by: pudinhead at July 23, 2025 10:37 AM (W3T6M)

He was literally a street fighter who went on to box a little bit IIRC.
------------------
They touch on that. What really impressed me is was his focus (or alternately, his lack of options). He truly is a virtuoso both on the ivories and vocally. Combine that with his storytelling songs and you have the total package. You can never forget a Billy Joel hit song.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 23, 2025 10:43 AM (W3T6M)

207 I would want to know the science and outright sorcery he used to bag Christie Brinkley.
Posted by: Don Black at July 23, 2025 10:42 AM (AOsQT)

It’s called being a rock star.

See also the guy from The Cars who married a super model and about 1000 other examples.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 23, 2025 10:44 AM (Vvm2m)

208 Kind of reminds you of the Civil War artists.

Trioni? (sp?)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 23, 2025 10:45 AM (bss/y)

209 189 I've watched the first installment of HBO's documentary on Billy Joel, twice. It is really good. The next installment is on air this weekend, 25 July. I was very impressed with Joel's life story and his obvious talents at composition and performance. Highly recommend to the morons. I thought he would be a candy ass. He's not.
Posted by: pudinhead
=======
Excellent pop song writer and a very melodic voice that is often decried because, well, he is too popular with the masses which upsets and puts off the auteur.

YT has/had quite a few Billy Joel appearances at colleges and universities where he did q/a with the audience and the famous Vanderbilt appearance where a piano playing student gets invited up on stage to play NY State of Mind while Joel sings along. Well recommended unless you hate Billy Joel for some reason.

Posted by: whig at July 23, 2025 10:45 AM (ctrM5)

210 How many people died in the Napoleonic wars?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 23, 2025 10:40 AM (kTd/k)
==================
48 million, mostly by Israeli fire at civilians trying to get food

Sooo...we're just ignoring Net Neutrality?

Posted by: Archimedes at July 23, 2025 10:45 AM (Riz8t)

211 I would want to know the science and outright sorcery he used to bag Christie Brinkley.
Posted by: Don Black at July 23, 2025 10:42 AM (AOsQT)

Ringo and Catherine Bach have entered the chat.

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 10:46 AM (77rzZ)

212 207 I would want to know the science and outright sorcery he used to bag Christie Brinkley.
Posted by: Don Black at July 23, 2025 10:42 AM (AOsQT)

It’s called being a rock star.

See also the guy from The Cars who married a super model and about 1000 other examples.
----------------
The second part is all about the Christie Brinkey years. Starts this weekend. The first part is about his first marriage. Its quite a twisted story - but in a good way.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 23, 2025 10:46 AM (W3T6M)

213 Kind of reminds you of the Civil War artists.

Trioni? (sp?)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 23, 2025 10:45 AM (bss/y)

Winslow Homer

Posted by: polynikes at July 23, 2025 10:46 AM (VofaG)

214 Excellent pop song writer and a very melodic voice that is often decried because, well, he is too popular with the masses which upsets and puts off the auteur.

He's a sell-out!

Posted by: Archimedes at July 23, 2025 10:47 AM (Riz8t)

215 They touch on that. What really impressed me is was his focus (or alternately, his lack of options). He truly is a virtuoso both on the ivories and vocally. Combine that with his storytelling songs and you have the total package. You can never forget a Billy Joel hit song.
Posted by: pudinhead at July 23, 2025 10:43 AM (W3T6M)

True.

Who can forget...uh...uh...

"The Banana Man"

and...uh...

"Only the Gouda Fries, Don"

Posted by: naturalfake at July 23, 2025 10:47 AM (iJfKG)

216 Challenge!

Get SimGolf to work through WINE in Linux.

Then tell me how.

Go!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
========
I used to be tired, now I am retired. Bad enough to get expensive stat programs halfway working via WINE.

Never gave much of a thought to making games work other than a go at the old Microsoft Arcade package.

Posted by: whig at July 23, 2025 10:47 AM (ctrM5)

217 See also the guy from The Cars who married a super model and about 1000 other examples.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Ric Ocasek gave ugly guys like me hope.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 23, 2025 10:47 AM (99eI0)

218 Whig, I was just commenting that I like the cute ginger in the Malwarebytes popup. Kind of an Erin E-Surance vibe.

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 10:48 AM (77rzZ)

219 Sooo...we're just ignoring Net Neutrality?
Posted by: Archimedes at July 23, 2025 10:45 AM

Might as well. Y2K already killed everyone.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 23, 2025 10:48 AM (dPfyF)

220 Would that she were more discerning.

Posted by: Don Black at July 23, 2025 10:48 AM (AOsQT)

221 Wakes
Scratches
Looks around
Dang.
*yawns*
What have I missed?
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 23, 2025 10:48 AM (W/lyH)

222 216 I used to be tired, now I am retired. Bad enough to get expensive stat programs halfway working via WINE.

Never gave much of a thought to making games work other than a go at the old Microsoft Arcade package.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2025 10:47 AM (ctrM5)

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Yeah, didn't think you'd do it.

But, I can get almost anything to work through WINE on my Steam Deck (which runs on Linux) except that. It was a favorite of mine a while back.

No one can get it to work. The closest I've ever gotten is to get it to load but with massive, massive graphical issues.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 23, 2025 10:49 AM (GBKbO)

223 US ICE Agents Arrest ‘Depraved’ Illegal Who Kept Dead Woman’s Body In Storage For Months

Judge Boasberg orders the corpse be returned to storage immediately.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at July 23, 2025 10:49 AM (w9Wax)

224 Not retreat from Russia?
***

IIRC, Napoleon blew out of Russia in a carriage, leaving his army behind. He feared a coup in Paris.

Posted by: Bombadil at July 23, 2025 10:49 AM (MX0bI)

225 Posted by: Diogenes at July 23, 2025 10:48 AM (W/lyH)

Geezer golf update?

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 10:49 AM (77rzZ)

226 > 94 Napoleon: "Gotta get rid of Louisiana. Maybe I can talk that Jefferson sap into taking those effing Cajuns off my hands."
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)

He sold it off because he couldn't defend it and neither Nappy nor the United States wanted the UK to grab it.

Very similar circumstances to how the US acquired Alaska -- the Russkies were engaged in territorial disputes with the Brits (the so-called "Great Game"), couldn't defend Alaska, and didn't want the Limeys to grab it.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 23, 2025 10:49 AM (qpyNK)

227 I had thought that this painting would on the order of 6 ft. By 10 ft. Nope. 20 in by 30 in. And still it captures the moment of bitter defeat, The bitter cold, and the madness of being unable to disengage from non-stop war.

Now that I know the size, I most definitely would hang this.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 23, 2025 10:49 AM (NXz8h)

228
They've still got that little German village tourist trap going. Frankenmuth.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

If I recall correctly, there used to be a Strohs brewery there in the mid 70s. When our combined junior year chemistry and chemical engineering classes embarked on the annual pilgrimage to the Midland-Saginaw-Bay City area, the ChemEs got to go tour the brewery and the legal drinking age at that time in MI was 18.

We chemists got to go to the Midland Macromolecular Institute instead. We wuz robbed!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 23, 2025 10:49 AM (xG4kz)

229 She'll always be Gayle Gergich to me.

Posted by: Don Black at July 23, 2025 10:50 AM (AOsQT)

230 He's a sell-out!
Posted by: Archimedes
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Course the Who actually put out an album--The Who Sell Out. Their homage to pirate radio which was killed by the Brit government.

Unfortunately, they dropped several pretty cool fake adverts due to licensing problems. Jaguar and one for Coke were some of those. Also very bad cover versions of Barbara Ann and Bucket T.

Posted by: whig at July 23, 2025 10:50 AM (ctrM5)

231 I will never have any idea what attracts a woman to a man. Their bad guy radar is on the fritz half the time .

Posted by: polynikes at July 23, 2025 10:50 AM (VofaG)

232 Speaking of rock stars and chicks… I did not know 3/4 members of Zeppelin were married early on. Leaned that in the Netflix movie about them.

Jimmy Paige was the single guy.

Also came across as very business like. They were smart, weren’t ripped off by scuzzy managers or fucked by record labels.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 23, 2025 10:51 AM (Vvm2m)

233 Don't you know about the new fashion, honey? All you need are looks and a whole lotta money.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 23, 2025 10:51 AM (T4qa/)

234 231 I will never have any idea what attracts a woman to a man. Their bad guy radar is on the fritz half the time .
Posted by: polynikes at July 23, 2025 10:50 AM (VofaG)

"Don't be gKWVE" seems a good metric.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 23, 2025 10:51 AM (08DAr)

235 214 Excellent pop song writer and a very melodic voice that is often decried because, well, he is too popular with the masses which upsets and puts off the auteur.
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Never paid that much attention to him at the time but his compositions are the ultimate earwigs. I'd describe him as Broadway Music, Pop-Rock with Mozart and a spoonful of schmaltz. Amazing storytelling songs.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 23, 2025 10:51 AM (W3T6M)

236 Somewhere in the Baltics. They had all died of cholera, I think.
Posted by: Bulg

Typhus. See "The Illustrious Dead" by Stephan Talty. Really good book on the subject.

Posted by: Tuna at July 23, 2025 10:51 AM (lJ0H4)

237 I sort of got the impression that having spent a lot of time in the hospital as a kid made Ringo sort of the reflective person and that he had a good sense of humor , which would be preferable to be married to someone with those qualities than the talented egoists John and Paul.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 23, 2025 10:52 AM (2GCMq)

238 192 Who are all y'all, and why has no one socked Napolean to complain about how much his ass hurts, and Waterloo is gonna be big?

or that they're coming to take me away

Posted by: napoleon xiii at July 23, 2025 10:52 AM (v3pYe)

239 "Piano Man" prevented me from ever being a Billy Joel fan. Absolute dreck. IMO, of course.

Posted by: Don Black at July 23, 2025 10:53 AM (AOsQT)

240 Ric Ocasek gave ugly guys like me hope.
Posted by: NR Pax

In fairness, "Moving in Stereo" was awesome.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 23, 2025 10:53 AM (08DAr)

241 He sold it off because he couldn't defend it and neither Nappy nor the United States wanted the UK to grab it.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

By treaty, he wasn't supposed to sell it to anyone but Spain, its previous owner. But he disregarded that. That Spanish objected, but there wasn't anything they could do about it.

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 10:53 AM (77rzZ)

242 Sooo...we're just ignoring Net Neutrality?
Posted by: Archimedes at July 23, 2025 10:45 AM

Might as well. Y2K already killed everyone.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Not everyone. Some of us were prepared.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2025 10:53 AM (4Rx1C)

243 Somehow my hometown skipped over renaming “Bismarck” street in the wave of anti-german fervor of the first world war. The governor of the time did outlaw speaking anything but English or “American” as he called it, over the telephone.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 23, 2025 10:53 AM (+E7BZ)

244 Your best option if you absolutely need to use Windows for non intensive CPU applications, primarily gaming. is get a MacBook Pro or MacPro Desktop, install Parallels, install an instance of Windows in the VM, install your apps, then run Windows in coherence mode which merges both operating systems.

I run Autocad, Visio, MS Project with zero problems.

And since your running Windows in a VM, if it gets hit by a virus, you nuke the instance and start again.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 23, 2025 10:53 AM (Swqaj)

245 231 I will never have any idea what attracts a woman to a man. Their bad guy radar is on the fritz half the time .
Posted by: polynikes at July 23, 2025 10:50 AM (VofaG)

Works the other way too. Plenty of guys spend a lot of water years chasing “bad girls. There’s something seductive about badness in the opposite sex.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 23, 2025 10:53 AM (Vvm2m)

246 I will never have any idea what attracts a woman to a man. Their bad guy radar is on the fritz half the time .
Posted by: polynikes at July 23, 2025 10:50 AM (VofaG)
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Confidence

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 23, 2025 10:53 AM (T4qa/)

247 Don't you know about the new fashion, honey? All you need are looks and a whole lotta money.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 23, 2025 10:51 AM

Well, hell, that's me out...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 23, 2025 10:54 AM (dPfyF)

248 Somehow my hometown skipped over renaming “Bismarck” street in the wave of anti-german fervor of the first world war. The governor of the time did outlaw speaking anything but English or “American” as he called it, over the telephone.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 23, 2025 10:53 AM (+E7BZ)

How do you think North Dakota felt?

Posted by: polynikes at July 23, 2025 10:54 AM (VofaG)

249 The misconception is his height was seen in English unit of inches though it was really the French measurement where he was recorded as 5’ 2 “ which in English units is about 5’7”
Posted by: polynikes at July 23, 2025 09:43 AM (VofaG)

I wonder if the English knew that and just went with muh-five-two for local propaganda.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 23, 2025 10:54 AM (08DAr)

250 Speaking of rock stars and chicks… I did not know 3/4 members of Zeppelin were married early on. Leaned that in the Netflix movie about them.

Jimmy Paige was the single guy.

Also came across as very business like. They were smart, weren’t ripped off by scuzzy managers or fucked by record labels.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 23, 2025 10:51 AM (Vvm2m)

What came across is that Jimmy Page was their "Paul McCartney".

Page was the one with the vision, tune writing, and the business smarts to keep the band on track and moving forward. At least, in the early years.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 23, 2025 10:54 AM (iJfKG)

251
48 million, mostly by Israeli fire at civilians trying to get food
Posted by: Hamas Health Authority

Wait, the Joos have the keys to the Weather Machine AND the Time Machine?

What devilry is this?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 23, 2025 10:55 AM (xG4kz)

252 Macron would mount that horse.

Posted by: Frank Luntz at July 23, 2025 10:55 AM (/U5Yz)

253 Yeah, didn't think you'd do it.

But, I can get almost anything to work through WINE on my Steam Deck (which runs on Linux) except that. It was a favorite of mine a while back.

No one can get it to work. The closest I've ever gotten is to get it to load but with massive, massive graphical issues.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Container is the way to go if you have one or two programs that are essential. Right now, I've played around with containers but I really need to build another upscaled computer to run them properly. Messed around with containers as Linux has no tax programs available which is a critical issue for me. Otherwise my Windows 11 machine sits sad and lonely because CoPilot is annoying as hell, built in file backup is to the frigging cloud, and you can feel Microsoft selling your information by the minute when using it.

Probably a 12c/24t AMD or the equivalent big little recent Intel offerings, gobs of ram, plus huge luxurious ssds.

Posted by: whig at July 23, 2025 10:55 AM (ctrM5)

254 > Also came across as very business like. They were smart, weren’t ripped off by scuzzy managers or fucked by record labels.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 23, 2025 10:51 AM (Vvm2m)

Peter Grant scared the ever-loving shit out of the record company guys.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 23, 2025 10:56 AM (qpyNK)

255 Macron would mount that horse.
Posted by: Frank Luntz

Get in line behind me.
-- Zombie Catherine the Great

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 10:56 AM (77rzZ)

256 Macron would mount that horse.
Posted by: Frank Luntz at July 23, 2025 10:55 AM

I'd hit that.

Posted by: Mongo at July 23, 2025 10:56 AM (dPfyF)

257 Geezer golf update?
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 10:49 AM (77rzZ)

The five bucks I won last week?
They got it back.
Sigh...
Sneaky 'Ol bastards.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 23, 2025 10:57 AM (W/lyH)

258 Found this interesting:
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Vince Coglianese @VinceCoglianese

Here’s something completely under appreciated from Tulsi’s disclosures:

The reason the Obama team refused to publish the Dec 9, 2016 presidential daily brief (PDB) that showed Russia *didn’t* steal the election for Trump is because *TRUMP* would have seen it.
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Oh, and a lot in the alternative media are pointing out how the Democrat press refuses to break this story about the actual collusion that went on. So again, they want to remain wrong.

Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 10:57 AM (krQz2)

259
Nappy and His Crew Heading Back to Paris For 'A Whole Shitload of Dimes'

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 23, 2025 10:57 AM (xG4kz)

260 Posted by: naturalfake at July 23, 2025 10:54 AM (iJfKG)

They really did rip off the Stairway to Heaven riff.

It’s the case I think is the most similar sounding copy of all the plagiarism cases I know of. But LZ won.

And George Harrison lost. Boggles my mind.

Posted by: polynikes at July 23, 2025 10:57 AM (VofaG)

261 Speaking of rock stars and chicks… I did not know 3/4 members of Zeppelin were married early on. Leaned that in the Netflix movie about them.

Jimmy Paige was the single guy.

Also came across as very business like. They were smart, weren’t ripped off by scuzzy managers or fucked by record labels.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 23, 2025 10:51 AM (Vvm2m)

What came across is that Jimmy Page was their "Paul McCartney".

Page was the one with the vision, tune writing, and the business smarts to keep the band on track and moving forward. At least, in the early years.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 23, 2025 10:54 AM (iJfKG)
——

Iirc, page was also a little older and had more performing and musics-industry experience

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 23, 2025 10:58 AM (T4qa/)

262 Zep had a 6’7” manager, Peter Grant, who negotiated 90% of the gate proceeds at theie concerts. This was unheard of at the time.

One year they had $200,000 in cash stolen from a hotel safe in NYC, the proceeds from the garden concert. Never solved.

Pagey was single, but that didn’t seem to stop the rest of them, they were pretty much all of them, all sorts of depraved. Sort of went with the territory.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 23, 2025 10:58 AM (+E7BZ)

263 Page was the one with the vision, tune writing, and the business smarts to keep the band on track and moving forward. At least, in the early years.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 23, 2025 10:54 AM (iJfKG)
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I thought it was Jones that had the experience as a producer, though.

Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 10:58 AM (krQz2)

264 Iirc, page was also a little older and had more performing and musics-industry experience

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 23, 2025 10:58 AM (T4qa/)
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Nope, that's Jones.

Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 10:59 AM (krQz2)

265 Iirc, page was also a little older and had more performing and musics-industry experience
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 23, 2025 10:58 AM (T4qa/)

Yeah he was the oldest by 2-4 years. Which doesn’t seem like a lot but when you’re 24 it’s a LOT older than someone who is 20 in terms of knowing what’s up with the world.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 23, 2025 11:00 AM (Vvm2m)

266 Jones felt self-conscious when he got the job.

He wanted the job, but I think he even described it as "like joining a teenage bar band"

Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 11:01 AM (krQz2)

267 I run Autocad, Visio, MS Project with zero problems.

And since your running Windows in a VM, if it gets hit by a virus, you nuke the instance and start again.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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Macs are debased BSD distributions designed to lock you into expensive hardware. No thanks.

Been building my own machines since the 90's. Used a Mac at the uni because it was that or Windows suckitude and they were paying.

Don't care for the Apple way and I certainly ain't gonna pay for the Apple way on my dollars.

Hell, since I revived some of my old computers prior to decommissioning, I might save one simply to run OS/2 that I have laying about. The old BX motherboard, cpu, and memory is good as it posts, one of the hd is bollixed with the head dragging, and it won't boot right now so why not.

Posted by: whig at July 23, 2025 11:01 AM (ctrM5)

268 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 11:02 AM (77rzZ)

269 Page born 1944, Jones 1946, Plant 1948

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 23, 2025 11:02 AM (Vvm2m)

270 Can you transfer you info on your I phone to a different brand of smart phone?

Posted by: polynikes at July 23, 2025 11:03 AM (VofaG)

271 Iirc, page was also a little older and had more performing and musics-industry experience
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade
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Page was a prominent sessions player (and worked on some of the Kinks and Who songs among a bunch of others) when Shel Talmy produced them. Some controversy on who actually played guitar on those songs--with Page being coy about it and Townshend and Davies being a bit pissed about it even years later.

Posted by: whig at July 23, 2025 11:04 AM (ctrM5)

272 Posted by: polynikes at July 23, 2025 10:50 AM (VofaG)

Really depends on the woman. My husband is somewhat self deprecating ( so being Mr super confidence was not what attracted me to him. ) It was also kindness, intelligence , a great sense of humor and it was clear he was a hard worker.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 23, 2025 11:04 AM (2GCMq)

273 The Sex Pistols came out on the upside of several record company deals as well, as I recall.

"Keep the signing money. Just don't kill us."

Jagger is pretty business-savvy as well -- went to the London School of Economics. He figured out early on that the real money was in owning the record company.

They owed their previous record company one more record when they parted ways, so they penned a little ditty callled "Cocksucker Blues".

"There you go, mates. Good luck getting that played on the radio."

The Beatles tried to do the same, but unlike Jagger their business skills weren't really to managing a record company, or anything more complicated that a wild party, really.

Linda's investment banker dad saved them, or they probably wouldn't all wound up broke.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 23, 2025 11:04 AM (qpyNK)

274 I guess that youtube video I saw on LZ was content spewing, because I looked it up and Page was born before Jones, by 3 years.

So, I have to confess, I got snookered.

Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 11:05 AM (krQz2)

275 > Macs are debased BSD distributions designed to lock you into expensive hardware.

Macs run real Unix, not the imitation Unix called "Linux".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 23, 2025 11:05 AM (qpyNK)

276 Pagey cut his teeth as a session musician. He was quite good. He formed a new band out of the ashes of the Yardbirds.

That’s one reason why discussions about the Stones or Beatles as “grreatest” bore me. Hal Blaine (for example) was ten times the drummer Ringo was, it isn’t even close.

They never let any of the Beach Boys (for example) do much of anything except sing on their records. Studio time was way too expensive to screw around. They wanted professionals that could get ‘er done in one take.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 23, 2025 11:06 AM (+E7BZ)

277 270 Can you transfer you info on your I phone to a different brand of smart phone?
Posted by: polynikes

Yes. https://www.android.com/switch-to-android/

Posted by: whig at July 23, 2025 11:06 AM (ctrM5)

278 But Jones was a known arranger, when he joined the group.

Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 11:07 AM (krQz2)

279 Macs run real Unix, not the imitation Unix called "Linux".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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Run true BSD then. Apple takes open source, puts it into a walled garden, and then charges you mega bux for what you get and limits your options to what Apple wants you to do.

If you build your own hardware to your own needs, you are SOL dealing with Apple.

So enjoy your Apple, I'll do what I enjoy.

Posted by: whig at July 23, 2025 11:10 AM (ctrM5)

280 Jagger is pretty business-savvy as well -- went to the London School of Economics.
——-

Yes, he setup the “Free” concert in California, which through a series of unlikely events, ended up at the last minute held at the Altamount raceway. The stage was setup at the bottom of a hill, and completely exposed.

Then they hired the Hell’s Angels motorcycle club to act as security. Paid in $500 worth of beer. What could go wrong? (Actually they did a good job, in their own inimitable way. And knocked Marty Balin out cold. So kinda groovy)

Yes, very business savvy!

Posted by: Common Tater at July 23, 2025 11:10 AM (+E7BZ)

281 On Jones: (wikipedia)
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In 1964, on the recommendation of Meehan, Baldwin began studio session work with Decca Records. From then until 1968, he played on hundreds of recording sessions.[8] He soon expanded his studio work by playing keyboards, arranging and undertaking general studio direction, resulting in his services coming under much demand.
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Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 11:10 AM (krQz2)

282 Page did appear on quite a few tunes prior to Zepp. I *think* he did the solo on Donovan’s Sunshine Superman tune, a pretty groovy ditty for the time.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 23, 2025 11:14 AM (+E7BZ)

283 That’s one reason why discussions about the Stones or Beatles as “grreatest” bore me. Hal Blaine (for example) was ten times the drummer Ringo was, it isn’t even close.

They never let any of the Beach Boys (for example) do much of anything except sing on their records. Studio time was way too expensive to screw around. They wanted professionals that could get ‘er done in one take.
Posted by: Common Tater

Yes and no. Good musicians often focus on their own mastery of the instrument at the cost of sounding good in a band. Band musicians may not be able to play nearly as well as an excellent experienced studio sessions guy but they have passion. So it is always a tradeoff--technical expertise versus passion that fits within band dynamics.

But, nowadays, it appears artificial AI is dispensing with bands and eventually studio session types because a producer can get what they want from a computer rather than paying for a band/session players.

Posted by: whig at July 23, 2025 11:14 AM (ctrM5)

284 Slept through this and have tissue hanging up

Posted by: Skip at July 23, 2025 12:15 PM (+qU29)

285 What happened at the Battle of Laon?
Posted by: dantesed at July 23, 2025 09:36 AM (Oy/m2)

In 1814, Nappy was invaded by 3-4 armies on the way to Paris. He raised some scratch forces and was very outnumbered but dashed to an fro and won several battles but not decisively. Each time the armies got closer to Paris. At some point the Paris garrison let the Allies in and Nappy was forced to abdicate and go to Elba.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 23, 2025 02:25 PM (8avO+)

286 I will never have any idea what attracts a woman to a man. Their bad guy radar is on the fritz half the time .
Posted by: polynikes at July 23, 2025 10:50 AM (VofaG)

Works the other way too. Plenty of guys spend a lot of water years chasing “bad girls. There’s something seductive about badness in the opposite sex.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 23, 2025 10:53 AM (Vvm2m)

They chase bad girls for sex, not relationships.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 23, 2025 02:30 PM (8avO+)

287 Finally, we get an image of what Europe is all about. War, winter, and muddy boots.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 23, 2025 09:49 AM (NXz8h)

Battle of Laon was March 9-10 1814, so this would have been early March weather. I've actually been in Paris at about that time and it could get pretty nippy.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 23, 2025 02:32 PM (8avO+)

288 Not retreat from Russia?
***

IIRC, Napoleon blew out of Russia in a carriage, leaving his army behind. He feared a coup in Paris.
Posted by: Bombadil at July 23, 2025 10:49 AM (MX0bI)

He was most of the way back out of Russia by the time he bugged out, after the disaster of the crossing of the Berezina. The Russians were slowing the pursuit, and all that the fragments had to do was march a bit farther to depot cities. Of the 600 thousand that went in about 20 thousand marched out.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 23, 2025 02:36 PM (8avO+)

289 Kind of reminds you of the Civil War artists.

Trioni? (sp?)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 23, 2025 10:45 AM (bss/y)

Don Troiani.

I picked up a print that has a good chance of having my grreat great grandfather in it, it is of a artillery battery and there are several guns visible.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 23, 2025 02:40 PM (8avO+)

290 How many people died in the Napoleonic wars?
Posted by: Northernlurker

Are you including the War of 1812?
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 10:41 AM (77rzZ)

More Americans were casualties in the Battle of Shiloh than in both the Revolution and War of 1812 and maybe even the Mexican war combined. The first two wars were very low intensity conflicts. of course the Civil War had the advantage of having both sides count.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 23, 2025 02:43 PM (8avO+)

291 Then came Waterloo and the end of it all

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at July 23, 2025 06:14 PM (wGqjj)

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