Monday Overnight Open Thread - August 18, 2025 [Doof]

Howdy Hordelings! Time for the Monday night ONT. How has your day been? Do anything fun or exciting today? Grab a beverage of your choosing, peruse the content, then rendezvous in the gray boxes. OK? OK!

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I've been looking all over for that!

Wallet Lost by a Ford Employee 10 Years Ago Just Turned Up 150K Miles Later Under a Car Hood

A Ford Motor Company employee was reunited with a wallet he lost 10 years ago after a mechanic found it while servicing a car he built.
This charming story comes via Minnesota, where mechanic Chad Volk was replacing the cooling fan on a 2015 Ford Edge, when something that needed to snap in place, simply wouldn’t snap.
“I messed around a little bit and then pulled it back out and the wallet was sitting on a little ledge where it needed to snap down,” Volk told CBS News. “I pulled the wallet out and that’s what it was.”
Inside the brown trifold was a Michigan driver’s license, $15,00 [sic], a faded lottery ticket, $275 in Cabella’s gift cards, and a Ford employee ID, going to show that no matter how long you work under hoods and under chassis, you’ve never seen everything, Volk says.
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Cabella’s even said they would honor the gift cards, which for part-time auctioneer Guilford means he can leave the relic of his past totally intact “in his china cabinet,” where he hopes his kids will pull it out and tell their grandkids about their ancestor’s wild, wandering wallet.

Cool story! Video of a local news segment about this is at the link.

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Artificial Intelligence vs Natural Stupidity?

In this case, seems like just an old guy who got duped because he didn't know any better.

75-Year-Old Pensioner Asks Wife for Divorce After Falling in Love with AI-Generated Girl Online

A Chinese old man recently fell victim to the deception of artificial intelligence by falling so in love with an AI-generated online model that he asked his wife for a divorce.
According to the Beijing Daily, a 75-year-old man named Jiang came across an AI-generated female avatar while browsing social media. To those familiar with digital avatars, the girl is obviously an AI creation, but to Jiang’s untrained eye, she is just a beautiful girl who enjoys having conversations with him. It doesn’t even matter that her speech and her moving lips are out of sync. As time goes by, he becomes so obsessed with his online girlfriend that the highlight of his day is waiting by his phone to get new generic messages from her. At one point, after his wife scolds him for spending too much time on his phone, the man tells his spouse of several decades that he wants to divorce her to fully dedicate himself to the AI avatar.
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Experts warn families with elderly relatives to closely monitor their online activity, especially if they spend too much time with gadgets. While AI technology has clear practical benefits, it can also be extremely dangerous against vulnerable targets.

That last bit is a solid piece of advice. We 29 year-olds here at AOSHQ are hip to all the latest technology, but we need to look out for the "SEASONED citizens" (as El Rushbo would say) in our lives. Do your parents, aunts/uncles, grandparents know about AI?

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One Thousand Miles of New Interstate Planned

Where will the first Buc-ee's be along the route?

Ohio joins six-state effort to build 1,000-mile interstate corridor

Ohio is examining ways to put underdeveloped parts of the state on the road to prosperity by constructing a new interstate highway.
It’s joining a decades-long effort to create a new interstate highway that would connect Michigan to South Carolina, stitching together existing roadways and planned construction across six states into a transportation corridor that could reshape regional economic development.
The Interstate 73-74-75 corridor would run nearly 1,000 miles from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. On the way, it would pass through Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina.
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The project aims to upgrade existing routes and connect bypasses into a seamless interstate system - pulling together scattered segments into a unified whole over years of coordinated effort.
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Jimmy Gray, president of the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce and executive director of the I-73, I-74, I-75 Corridor Association says the project has been discussed for almost 30 years.
Members of the group working to build the highway meet regularly with each other and their congressional representatives in six states to discuss their progress and strategize on ways to secure funding.
The corridor would connect major population centers and industrial hubs, from Michigan’s manufacturing base through Ohio’s defense and technology facilities to the tourism economy of the Carolinas, he says.

Long article, but interesting - at least for road trippers and map nerds like me.

Any of you Hordelings in this path have some insight or anecdotes to share about driving through there?

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So THAT'S How He Did It

THAT’S how Michael Jackson did it?!🤯 pic.twitter.com/LzJgIIA6HM
— non aesthetic things (@PicturesFoIder) August 17, 2025

Brings us to another example of a great cover song. No disrespect to The King of Pop, but I think this version is far superior.

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Why Didn't I Think Of This?

I was a baseball dad / coach for many years. I totally would have done this!

Mom: I can never completely remove the dirt stains on my kid baseball pants

Dad: Say no more pic.twitter.com/y7IVOZr8Af
— BaseballHistoryNut (@nut_history) August 17, 2025

Calling Berserker and all other Hordeling guitarists

Guy kills it on a custom-built guitar made of Beer cans pic.twitter.com/ZEbY63BP6P
— Dudes Posting Their W’s (@DudespostingWs) August 18, 2025

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DJ Doof - This Date in Music History Version
from thisdayinmusic.com

On this date in 1986: Bon Jovi released their third studio album, Slippery When Wet, which peaked at No.1 on the US charts, going on to sell over 28 million copies worldwide.

On this date in 1977: The Police made their live debut as a three-piece band when they played at Rebecca's Birmingham, England. The Police became globally popular in the late 1970s and are generally regarded as one of the first New Wave groups to achieve mainstream success, playing a style of rock that was influenced by punk, reggae, and jazz.

Born on this date in 1951: John Rees, Men At Work

What are some of your favorite songs from these artists?

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Weekly commenter stats for week of 8-17-2025

Top 10 commenters:
1 [370 comments] 'TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer' [52.55 posts/day]
2 [354 comments] 'Axeman'
3 [343 comments] 'Sponge - F*ck Cancer'
4 [310 comments] 'Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet'
5 [310 comments] 'Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ '
6 [310 comments] 'Hadrian the Seventh '
7 [297 comments] 'Aetius451AD'
8 [290 comments] 'polynikes'
9 [284 comments] 'Bulg'
10 [261 comments] 'whig'

Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
1 [233 names] 'President Emeritus' [33.10 unique names/day]
2 [88 names] 'Self-loathing patriot'
3 [84 names] 'Quarter Twenty '
4 [67 names] 'Duncanthrax'
5 [64 names] 'The Grateful '
6 [56 names] 'Count de Monet'
7 [35 names] 'pookysgirl, wrestling Lil Pooky for the keyboard'
8 [31 names] 'Estelle Costanza'
9 [29 names] '18-1'
10 [29 names] 'toby928'

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1 Yay, National Ice Cream Pie Day ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 18, 2025 10:02 PM (lUFok)

2 Wine is arrogant, strong drink is riotous;
none who are intoxicated by them are wise.
—Morons 20:1

Posted by: mindful webworker - it's a wonderful life at August 18, 2025 10:02 PM (Ks5VZ)

3 Whoohoo!

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 18, 2025 10:02 PM (mT+6a)

4 Howdy.

Posted by: QED Texan at August 18, 2025 10:03 PM (fveCG)

5 Sorry I'm late, I pulled up to a four way stop intersection at the same time as three Canadians.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 18, 2025 10:03 PM (uHCmv)

6 Nice, tranquil peaceful scene above. You don't see the multiple bodies on the bottom of the lake.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 18, 2025 10:03 PM (0eaVi)

7 Cafe stragglers have been notified

Posted by: mindful webworker - merely second at August 18, 2025 10:04 PM (Ks5VZ)

8 1 Yay, National Ice Cream Pie Day ONT!
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 18, 2025 10:02 PM (lUFok)

There are times when I don't regret my waistline.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 18, 2025 10:04 PM (uHCmv)

9 Good evening good people!

Posted by: Tonypete at August 18, 2025 10:04 PM (cYBz/)

10 The Ohio interstate project will be as interminable and useless as the I-69 that's been under development for the last twenty years and is still nowhere close to completion.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 18, 2025 10:05 PM (lHPJf)

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Any of you Hordelings in this path have some insight or anecdotes to share about driving through there?

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We need high-speed rail instead of an interstate. Just like in Europe!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 18, 2025 10:05 PM (kkTda)

12 A Ford Motor Company employee was reunited with a wallet he lost 10 years ago after a mechanic found it while servicing a car he built.

Must have been a heck of a well made car. Not needing any service under the hood for ten years. Or, poor car care service scheduling.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 18, 2025 10:05 PM (0eaVi)

13 Ya gotta start early in the mornin’ ifn yer gonna drink all day
— Morons 20:2

Posted by: Common Tater at August 18, 2025 10:06 PM (lyX7Q)

14
Hmmm. Second straight week in the top ten. Maybe I need a hobby.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 18, 2025 10:06 PM (kkTda)

15 Good evening Horde. Thanks Disco!

Posted by: TRex - not smooth and not a criminal at August 18, 2025 10:07 PM (IQ6Gq)

16 Any of you Hordelings in this path have some insight or anecdotes to share about driving through there?
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We need high-speed rail instead of an interstate. Just like in Europe!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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And California! Oh wait.....

Posted by: The Grateful at August 18, 2025 10:07 PM (IQ6Gq)

17 So, it will take 1000 years or so to build that 1000 mile Interstate corridor?

Hell, I-69 is still nowhere near complete after 30 years of TALK about it.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 18, 2025 10:07 PM (k2LUN)

18 Michael Jackson was granted a patent for that contraption.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 18, 2025 10:07 PM (uHCmv)

19 It would be nice to straighten out that I75/US 23 abortion in Ohio from Toledo to Cowtown and then through Appalachian Southern Ohio.

Logan and Athens could use a clean gas station.

Just saying.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 18, 2025 10:08 PM (cYBz/)

20 I like the idea of an interstate connecting West Virginia riflemen to where they are most needed... invading lower Ontario.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 18, 2025 10:09 PM (gKWVE)

21 Whoohoo!
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 18, 2025 10:02 PM (mT+6a)

Oh, you finally synced that Night Owl camera?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 18, 2025 10:09 PM (0eaVi)

22 I graduated from Ball State University in Muncie, IN. I-69 runs through there. There were many jokes to be made. The polite nick was Fruit Jar U. Others were Ball U or Testicle Tech.

Posted by: QED Texan at August 18, 2025 10:10 PM (fveCG)

23 I always wondered how Michael Jackson did it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 18, 2025 10:11 PM (dDmld)

24 Dad got a call or a text (I forget which saying that there was a problem with his taxes and he should call blah blah #.)

I told him straight out: Dad, it's a scam. The IRS is not going to contact you that way. But he was adamant.

He called the IRS office and woke through a bunch of operators trying to find out if it was real. It turned out it was.

He is never going to let me forget that one.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 18, 2025 10:11 PM (zZu0s)

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I think I-69 construction is going on, at least here in Texas. At least from Cleveland down through Houston and south to Hungerford. And work is going on along some sections in ETEX.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 18, 2025 10:11 PM (kkTda)

26 Oh, also

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 18, 2025 10:11 PM (zZu0s)

27 Mark Knopfler plays so clean.

Posted by: huerfano at August 18, 2025 10:11 PM (98kQX)

28 The right horrible 19th Amendment was passed on this date in 1920. 105 years of mayhem ensued.

Posted by: Landed Gentleman at August 18, 2025 10:11 PM (G5+As)

29 Hey guys,

I hope everyone is having a great night.

I'm having a little dermatology surgery on Wednesday morning. I'm a little nervous as local anesthesia doesn't work well on me.

Posted by: Joyenz at August 18, 2025 10:11 PM (sPQoU)

30 We need high-speed rail instead of an interstate. Just like in Europe!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 18, 2025 10:05 PM (kkTda)

I know you're joking, but I honestly like train travel and really wish we still had an efficient system.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 18, 2025 10:12 PM (lHPJf)

31 The Ohio interstate project will be as interminable and useless as the I-69 that's been under development for the last twenty years and is still nowhere close to completion.
Posted by: Dr. T

Miss the days when highway construction consisted of 3 D-9 caterpillars driving in the direction they wanted the road to go.

Posted by: Some Rat at August 18, 2025 10:13 PM (TfUTr)

32 You know, top comment or in the 300s is pretty effing lame.

Y’all need to up your game.

We need another 1000 poster.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 18, 2025 10:13 PM (mT+6a)

33 I know you're joking, but I honestly like train travel and really wish we still had an efficient system.
Posted by: Dr. T at August 18, 2025 10:12 PM (lHPJf)

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YOO-HOOOO!!

*waves*

Posted by: Amtrak at August 18, 2025 10:13 PM (dDmld)

34 I know you're joking, but I honestly like train travel and really wish we still had an efficient system.
Posted by: Dr. T at August 18, 2025 10:12 PM (lHPJf)

It will never be, except for areas with dense populations like the northeast….

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 18, 2025 10:13 PM (k2LUN)

35 Sorry I'm late, I pulled up to a four way stop intersection at the same time as three Canadians.
Posted by: tankdemon

Hah. Good one, and a totally believable excuse. As John Prine noted.

https://youtu.be/fd9RTTGq1eY

Posted by: mindful webworker - yield right and left of way at August 18, 2025 10:14 PM (Ks5VZ)

36 The Ohio interstate project will be as interminable and useless as the I-69 that's been under development for the last twenty years and is still nowhere close to completion.
Posted by: Dr. T at August 18, 2025 10:05 PM (lHPJf)

They need to finish building I-11, from Las Vegas to Phoenix. Most of it is existing right-of-way; just needs upgrading. There are a few miles of real, no-shit I-11 from Railroad Pass to the Hoover Dam, then it reverts to rough-ass U.S. 93 from there to Kingman, AZ. 93 co-locates with I-40 from Kingman to a few miles east, where it then turns south to Wickiup. A little bit more of that road gets 4-laned every year, but they sure aren't hi-balling it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 18, 2025 10:14 PM (F6+9F)

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I know you're joking, but I honestly like train travel and really wish we still had an efficient system.
Posted by: Dr. T at August 18, 2025 10:12 PM (lHPJf)

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Except that passenger trains have never paid for themselves, ever.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 18, 2025 10:14 PM (kkTda)

38 How many times can that kid's pants be power washed before they disintegrate?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at August 18, 2025 10:14 PM (/HDaX)

39 Michael Jackson was granted a patent for that contraption.
Posted by: tankdemon at August 18, 2025 10:07 PM (uHCmv)

Isn't that Batman's sleeping gear?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 18, 2025 10:15 PM (F6+9F)

40 {{{Nurse!!}}} Good evening.

Posted by: Some Rat at August 18, 2025 10:16 PM (TfUTr)

41 "I'm having a little dermatology surgery on Wednesday morning. I'm a little nervous as local anesthesia doesn't work well on me.

Posted by: Joyenz at August 18, 2025 10:11 PM (sPQoU)"

Prayers up for smooth sailing and steady hands for the surgeon.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at August 18, 2025 10:17 PM (/HDaX)

42 Thanks for another swell Monday Night ONT, Doof!

That photo up top is quite lovely. Thought it was tropical until I noticed the trees. So relaxing...

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 18, 2025 10:18 PM (kB9dk)

43 MSNOW

Miserable show no one's watching

Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get to know me at August 18, 2025 10:18 PM (AOsQT)

44 @ QED Texan, I was in the 6th Btn of the 29th Inf.,(6/29) Our unofficial motto was "Wine 'em, Dine,'em, 6/29 'em"

Posted by: Lincolntf at August 18, 2025 10:18 PM (vV6n9)

45 I know you're joking, but I honestly like train travel and really wish we still had an efficient system.
Posted by: Dr. T at August 18, 2025 10:12 PM (lHPJf)

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YOO-HOOOO!!

*waves*
Posted by: Amtrak at August 18, 2025 10:13 PM (dDmld)
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Ahhh...
He said "efficient" system.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 18, 2025 10:18 PM (2WIwB)

46 It will never be, except for areas with dense populations like the northeast….
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 18, 2025 10:13 PM (k2LUN)

(shrugs)

The train to Willoughby runs pretty well.

Posted by: Gart Williams at August 18, 2025 10:19 PM (0eaVi)

47 Greetings Skype Clones!

Tonight we are all Rhode Island Attorney Generals.
The Few. The Proud...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 18, 2025 10:19 PM (TGPs7)

48 32 You know, top comment or in the 300s is pretty effing lame.

Y’all need to up your game.

We need another 1000 poster.
Posted by: nurse ratched

I've been #1 sock for a good while now, but it's no fun since Miklos has pulled back some and of course, I never did finish first when Ciampino was here. Miss him.

Posted by: Also Ran at August 18, 2025 10:19 PM (G5+As)

49 At least I-69 is complete in Indiana.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 18, 2025 10:20 PM (63Dwl)

50 I was asked if I had a police record at an interview once, and I said that I cannot lie,and that I do have Synchronicity on vinyl.

Hired right away.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 18, 2025 10:20 PM (k2LUN)

51 Just what SC needs a direct,easy route for more carpetbaggers & scallywags to invade.

Posted by: Bob at August 18, 2025 10:20 PM (YiqZD)

52 A little bit more of that road gets 4-laned every year, but they sure aren't hi-balling it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 18, 2025 10:14 PM (F6+9F)

Well, who the hell wants to go to Wikiup?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 18, 2025 10:21 PM (0eaVi)

53 Good evening, everyone!

Posted by: Doof at August 18, 2025 10:21 PM (QMAsf)

54
They can't even get a rail route from Houston to Dallas. And we usually can get things built in Texas.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 18, 2025 10:21 PM (kkTda)

55 Where will the first Buc-ee's be along the route?
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They are building a Buc Ees in Ohio already, about five miles north of my house.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 18, 2025 10:21 PM (Skc+N)

56
The train to Willoughby runs pretty well.
Posted by: Gart Williams

Where a man can live his life full measure.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 18, 2025 10:21 PM (63Dwl)

57 The train to Willoughby runs pretty well.
Posted by: Gart Williams

My commute took me by Willoughby St. I always thought to myself, "Willoughby! Next stop, Willoughby!".

Posted by: Some Rat at August 18, 2025 10:21 PM (TfUTr)

58 >Hmmm. Second straight week in the top ten. Maybe I need a hobby.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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dude this is your hobby

Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get to know me at August 18, 2025 10:21 PM (AOsQT)

59 YOO-HOOOO!!

*waves*
Posted by: Amtrak at August 18, 2025 10:13 PM (dDmld)
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Ahhh...
He said "efficient" system.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 18, 2025 10:18 PM (2WIwB)

Yes, yes. Note I said, "I wish."

Posted by: Dr. T at August 18, 2025 10:22 PM (lHPJf)

60 I was asked if I had a police record at an interview once, and I said that I cannot lie,and that I do have Synchronicity on vinyl.

Hired right away.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 18, 2025 10:20 PM (k2LUN)

Was your job title King of Pain?

Posted by: Doof at August 18, 2025 10:22 PM (QMAsf)

61 I was in the 6th Btn of the 29th Inf.,(6/29) Our unofficial motto was "Wine 'em, Dine,'em, 6/29 'em"
Posted by: Lincolntf

Do I have to 69 to Ball U?

Posted by: QED Texan at August 18, 2025 10:23 PM (fveCG)

62 THAT’S how Michael Jackson did it?!🤯

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Nope.

Posted by: Emmanuel Lewis at August 18, 2025 10:23 PM (dDmld)

63
dude this is your hobby
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get to know me at August 18, 2025 10:21 PM (AOsQT)

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Really it ought not to be. But I'm too lazy.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 18, 2025 10:24 PM (kkTda)

64 MSNOW
Hunter Biden is headed over there right now

Posted by: gKWVE at August 18, 2025 10:24 PM (gKWVE)

65 So, some old Chinese man is dumping his wife for a fake girl, and the girl isn't even an airbrushed Playboy model. If you're going to dump your wife for a fake woman, get a blow up doll.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 18, 2025 10:24 PM (0Htd1)

66 This a a thing that exists:

PowerWash Simulator is a simulation video game where players manage a power washing business and clean various objects and locations. The game features a career mode where players take on jobs for clients in the fictional town of Muckingham, earning money to upgrade their equipment and expand their business. Players use different nozzles and cleaning solutions to remove dirt, grime, moss, and rust from a variety of surfaces, including vehicles, buildings, and even a Mars rover.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 18, 2025 10:24 PM (Skc+N)

67 I-22 thru Alabama and Mississippi is only 200 miles long. And it took almost 40 years to build it.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at August 18, 2025 10:25 PM (Lo97M)

68 60 Was your job title King of Pain?

Posted by: Doof at August 18, 2025 10:22 PM
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Bet the job offer came as a message in a bottle.

Posted by: TRex - don't stand so close to me at August 18, 2025 10:25 PM (IQ6Gq)

69 60 I was asked if I had a police record at an interview once, and I said that I cannot lie,and that I do have Synchronicity on vinyl.

Hired right away.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 18, 2025 10:20 PM (k2LUN)

Was your job title King of Pain?
Posted by: Doof at August 18, 2025 10:22 PM (QMAsf)

Security. Every breath you take and every move you make, every bond you break and every step you take, I’ll be watching you. 😎

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 18, 2025 10:25 PM (k2LUN)

70 The online cancel Karens are coming for Chris Pratt, because he said something nice about RFK Jr

Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get to know me at August 18, 2025 10:25 PM (AOsQT)

71 Evenin'

I was listening to 'Men At Work' not too long ago; 'Business as Usual' and 'Cargo'. I think they broke up not too long after 'Cargo'. Most bands don't last long, even ones that got hugely popular. They were a pretty good pop rock band.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 18, 2025 10:25 PM (sAmhv)

72 They are building a Buc Ees in Ohio already, about five miles north of my house.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

Is the Joy Tyme Touching Studio still open there? Not that you'd be a regular there.

I'm thinking it was on the Dixie Highway somewhere.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 18, 2025 10:26 PM (cYBz/)

73 I'm having a little dermatology surgery on Wednesday morning. I'm a little nervous as local anesthesia doesn't work well on me.

Posted by: Joyenz at August 18, 2025 10:11 PM (sPQoU)
* * * *
Prayers up for a successful surgery without pain, and for rapid and complete healing!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 18, 2025 10:26 PM (kB9dk)

74 Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at August 18, 2025 10:17 PM (/HDaX)

Thank you so much.

Posted by: Joyenz at August 18, 2025 10:26 PM (sPQoU)

75 66 This a a thing that exists:

PowerWash Simulator is a simulation video game where players manage a power washing business and clean various objects and locations.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 18, 2025 10:24 PM
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Wow. We're a long way from Space Invaders.

Posted by: TRex - a market for everything? at August 18, 2025 10:26 PM (IQ6Gq)

76 Buc-ees will be adding a spot in Idaho, I-84 around Meridian. I like this. One of the few things I miss about leaving Colorado was not being able to visit Buc-ees.

Dumb, I know, but it's a cool place to grab some good road food.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at August 18, 2025 10:26 PM (0aYVJ)

77 Well, who the hell wants to go to Wikiup?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 18, 2025 10:21 PM (0eaVi)

Nobody, actually. Most expensive gas in AZ.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 18, 2025 10:26 PM (F6+9F)

78 67 I-22 thru Alabama and Mississippi is only 200 miles long. And it took almost 40 years to build it.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at August 18, 2025 10:25 PM (Lo97M)

With spoons?

Posted by: Milton Friedman at August 18, 2025 10:26 PM (k2LUN)

79 I'll be 70 in two months and have never seen a dermatologist nor had an eye exam. Maybe I'm nuts. My wife had lots of skin things chopped of by a dermatologist, though. She was a very fair ginger.

Posted by: Skin To Win at August 18, 2025 10:27 PM (G5+As)

80 Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 18, 2025 10:26 PM (kB9dk)

Thank you.

Posted by: Joyenz at August 18, 2025 10:27 PM (sPQoU)

81 Yeah, I think more states need to be looking at concertina wire, blowing the bridges, interlocking fields of fire & minefields versus expansion of interstate highways

Posted by: Common Tater at August 18, 2025 10:27 PM (lyX7Q)

82 I honestly never liked "Down Under" at all, but "Overkill" I liked.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 18, 2025 10:27 PM (Skc+N)

83 Anyone else typing on your phone while pinned under a cat?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 18, 2025 10:28 PM (Skc+N)

84 I was listening to 'Men At Work' not too long ago; 'Business as Usual' and 'Cargo'. I think they broke up not too long after 'Cargo'. Most bands don't last long, even ones that got hugely popular. They were a pretty good pop rock band.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 18, 2025 10:25 PM (sAmhv)

And ones that do like us, with minimal lineup changes? We get NO RESPECT.

Posted by: Rush at August 18, 2025 10:28 PM (k2LUN)

85 I-69.

Would make a good t-shirt to wear into a lesbian bar!

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 18, 2025 10:28 PM (144I4)

86 75 66 This a a thing that exists:

PowerWash Simulator is a simulation video game where players manage a power washing business and clean various objects and locations.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 18, 2025 10:24 PM

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Pro-Tip: Get the Vatican Museum upgrade pack. Power wash the Pieta and the Sistine Chapel ceiling.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 18, 2025 10:28 PM (dDmld)

87 Any of you Hordelings in this path have some insight or anecdotes to share about driving through there?
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Yes. From the mid 60's through the mid 80's I occasionally rode U.S. 52 from Indy all the way down to central NC. I did dearly enjoy that road. It runs from the north edge of ND to the coast in SC. Sure, sure, Rt. 66 gets all of the glory, but a long trip down U.S 52 was a trip through middle America. Sometimes by car, sometimes by m'cycle.

Once you get east of Cincinnati it was a rider's/driver's road. Interspersed with small towns that caused me to wish that I lived there as I passed through. Crossing the Blue Ridge at Fancy Gap, I always felt that I was home again.

I suppose that everything has changed now, but at the time, just being there was as enjoyable as the drive itself.

Map:
https://shorturl.at/3Z3MZ

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 18, 2025 10:29 PM (XeU6L)

88 A new interstate connecting Northern Michigan and Myrtle Beach.

Goes through some pretty rough geography (the Appalachia parts of WV-VA-NC) and areas globalization left behind. If it works the way the designers intend, I'm all for it.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 18, 2025 10:29 PM (sAmhv)

89 I guess more importantly the Buc-ees will be a four mile straight shot from WPAFB and ease the homesickness of a lot of airmen.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 18, 2025 10:29 PM (Skc+N)

90 I was in the 6th Btn of the 29th Inf.,(6/29) Our unofficial motto was "Wine 'em, Dine,'em, 6/29 'em"
Posted by: Lincolntf

Do I have to 69 to Ball U?
Posted by: QED Texan at August 18, 2025 10:23 PM (fveCG)

My phone code is NOT 1369.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 18, 2025 10:29 PM (2WIwB)

91 81 Yeah, I think more states need to be looking at concertina wire, blowing the bridges, interlocking fields of fire & minefields versus expansion of interstate highways
Posted by: Common Tater at August 18, 2025 10:27

Amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics. Expansion of interstates falls under logistics.

Posted by: Rush at August 18, 2025 10:30 PM (k2LUN)

92 Today is Monday
Monday -- string beans
Monday -- ONT
Monday -- ONT

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 18, 2025 10:30 PM (Cm8rh)

93 Thanks for the ONT, Doof. The Aldi grill is hilarious.

Posted by: scampydog at August 18, 2025 10:31 PM (41CYW)

94 "Anyone else typing on your phone while pinned under a cat?"

I can't reach my phone from here.

Posted by: Zombie Rachel Corrie at August 18, 2025 10:31 PM (i0F8b)

95 82 I honestly never liked "Down Under" at all, but "Overkill" I liked.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 18, 2025 10:27 PM (Skc+N)

Just don’t mention the anti-nuke anthem “It’s A Mistake.”

Posted by: Rush at August 18, 2025 10:31 PM (k2LUN)

96 Hi friends! How many were thinking about the school slow dances with both arms around your boyfriend’s neck? Lol.

Posted by: Piper at August 18, 2025 10:31 PM (pZEOD)

97 Die, sock…

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 18, 2025 10:32 PM (k2LUN)

98
Off to get the dogs taken care of. Back in a bit to bore you some more.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 18, 2025 10:32 PM (kkTda)

99 Another interchange on I-95 to slow it down. 26 to Columbia and 40 in NC already do that. Might take me longer to get to Pedro.

Posted by: You Never Sausage A Place at August 18, 2025 10:32 PM (G5+As)

100 94 "Anyone else typing on your phone while pinned under a cat?"

I can't reach my phone from here.
Posted by: Zombie Rachel Corrie at August 18, 2025 10:31 PM (i0F8b)

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Count your blessings, dozer girl.

Posted by: Michelle Fields at August 18, 2025 10:33 PM (dDmld)

101 I know you're joking, but I honestly like train travel and really wish we still had an efficient system.
Posted by: Dr. T at August 18, 2025 10:12 PM (lHPJf)

One consideration:

The Orient Express is 1,500 miles long.

Boston to Los Angeles is 2,600 miles.

As much as I would love a decent train, we're simply too big a country now, what with air travel, for intercontinental trains, at least not with current technology.

I'm not saying we can't do it, it's just that it's going to require at minimum a whole system-wide track upgrade. Our current rails simply cannot handle high speed trains.

Then the issue of electric versus diesel. The Northeast, from D.C. to Boston is electric. From D.C. south and west it's diesel. Unless the system's on the same energy page, that will slow things down; I've had to wait on the train out of NYC while in D.C. changing from electric to diesel engines to continue on to Richmond; that took about an hour 15 minutes or so while we were stuck on the train.

Posted by: RickZ at August 18, 2025 10:33 PM (gKDq2)

102 4 string beer can guitar. I have no words, lol.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 18, 2025 10:34 PM (snZF9)

103 I think Men At Work had some serious issues that they worked through with their music. And we all benefitted.

Posted by: GWB at August 18, 2025 10:34 PM (rSsQh)

104 Must have been a heck of a well made car. Not needing any service under the hood for ten years. Or, poor car care service scheduling.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 18, 2025 10:05 PM (0eaVi)

I think it was part of the transmission, and the auto worker was surprised his wallet didn't just burn up.

Posted by: GWB at August 18, 2025 10:34 PM (rSsQh)

105 I honestly never liked "Down Under" at all, but "Overkill" I liked.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 18, 2025 10:27 PM (Skc+N)

Overkill really is a great and underrated song.

Posted by: Doof at August 18, 2025 10:34 PM (QMAsf)

106

Never went to a school dance. I went to school during the day, hated high school and wouldn't go back there after school ended for the day.

Posted by: four seasons at August 18, 2025 10:34 PM (3ek7K)

107 76 Buc-ees will be adding a spot in Idaho, I-84 around Meridian. I like this. One of the few things I miss about leaving Colorado was not being able to visit Buc-ees.

Dumb, I know, but it's a cool place to grab some good road food.
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at August 18,

The Buc-ee's here door dashes to us. I kid you not.

Posted by: Piper at August 18, 2025 10:35 PM (pZEOD)

108 40 {{{Nurse!!}}} Good evening.
Posted by: Some Rat

Rat!

You bastard!

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 18, 2025 10:36 PM (mT+6a)

109 43 MSNOW

Miserable show no one's watching
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get to know me at
or
Mmm snow

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 18, 2025 10:37 PM (0Htd1)

110
They door dash kale??

Posted by: four seasons at August 18, 2025 10:37 PM (3ek7K)

111 I never wanted high school to end. Funnily enough, all my prom dresses were black and white. Some things never change.

Posted by: Piper at August 18, 2025 10:37 PM (pZEOD)

112 That new planned interstate looks like an expressway for Canadians to quickly get to their holiday destinations.

Posted by: Decaf at August 18, 2025 10:37 PM (unUNN)

113 No Buc-ees here in Washington State.
Upside is I can get Beaver nuggets via amazon.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 18, 2025 10:37 PM (2WIwB)

114 96 Hi friends! How many were thinking about the school slow dances with both arms around your boyfriend’s neck? Lol.
Posted by: Piper

I married my first boyfriend. I met him my senior year in college.

Yeah. Hit me with your best shot.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 18, 2025 10:38 PM (mT+6a)

115 110
They door dash kale??
Posted by: four seasons at August 18, 2025 10:37 PM (3ek7K)

Fresh Market does! I am pretty confident Buc-ee’s has no kale.

Posted by: Piper at August 18, 2025 10:38 PM (pZEOD)

116 So, some old Chinese man is dumping his wife for a fake girl, and the girl isn't even an airbrushed Playboy model. If you're going to dump your wife for a fake woman, get a blow up doll.
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 18, 2025 10:24 PM (0Htd1)

At 75 that's probably not the point. He found something that's nice to him, even though she's not real. That's a strongly addictive drug, especially if you're not used to that sort of thing.

Posted by: Still, that's an extreme case at August 18, 2025 10:38 PM (TbWk/)

117 95:Just don’t mention the anti-nuke anthem “It’s A Mistake.”
Posted by: Rush at August 18, 2025 10:31 PM (k2LUN)

Oh, I don't know. I liked that song. Even then, I knew a nuke war was not going to happen. The Soviets may have been the Evil Empire, but they weren't crazy and we sure weren't going to use it.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 18, 2025 10:39 PM (sAmhv)

118 I-69.

Would make a good t-shirt to wear into a lesbian bar!

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 18, 2025 10:28 PM (144I4)

Yeah, a few decades ago a dude could have worn it in any club that had chicks, and only chicks would have responded. These days, after Fag Mfg Inc opened up a high production plant it probably wouldn't be safe.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 18, 2025 10:40 PM (snZF9)

119 MSNOW

Miserable show no one's watching
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get to know me at
or
Mmm snow
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 18, 2025 10:37 PM (0Htd1)

Ms Now...snotty bitch.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 18, 2025 10:40 PM (2WIwB)

120 4 string beer can guitar. I have no words, lol.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 18, 2025 10:34 PM (snZF9)

Sounds like a pukelele.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 18, 2025 10:40 PM (6IF5w)

121 Hi friends! How many were thinking about the school slow dances with both arms around your boyfriend’s neck? Lol.
Posted by: Piper at August 18, 2025 10:31 PM (pZEOD)

Not me. But I'm a dude and not gay, so...

Posted by: Dance shmance at August 18, 2025 10:40 PM (TbWk/)

122 Continue my though....

It's A Mistake is kind of a time capsule now. All music had some song out there whining about 'nuke war bad'. Just part of that era, that's all.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 18, 2025 10:40 PM (sAmhv)

123 I never wanted high school to end. Funnily enough, all my prom dresses were black and white. Some things never change.
Posted by: Piper at August 18, 2025 10:37 PM (pZEOD)

There you go. Prom dresses through the ages.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 18, 2025 10:41 PM (0eaVi)

124 I hated high school. On prom night I was playing D&D with my other nerd friends.

But, on the other hand, I was a cast member in two plays my senior year, Hello Dolly and Dracula. So, it's not like I was a total loser. Just mostly a loser.

But mostly I hated school. Could not wait for it to end.

I even regret attending our 10-year reunion. Never bothered after that.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at August 18, 2025 10:41 PM (0aYVJ)

125 Overkill really is a great and underrated song
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Underground is pretty good, too.

The songs they still play on the radio are the ones I can't stand.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 18, 2025 10:42 PM (Skc+N)

126 According to the Beijing Daily, a 75-year-old man named Jiang came across an AI-generated female avatar while browsing social media. To those familiar with digital avatars, the girl is obviously an AI creation, but to Jiang’s untrained eye, she is just a beautiful girl who enjoys having conversations with him.

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Jiang isn't the sharpest tool in the shed.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 18, 2025 10:42 PM (dDmld)

127
I married my first boyfriend. I met him my senior year in college.

Yeah. Hit me with your best shot.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 18, 2025 10:38 PM (mT+6a)

I didn’t, but probably should have! I dated the same lacrosse guy all through high school. BUT I had to royally screw up my life before I finally got my head on straight. I was the most rebellious goody two shoes that walked the earth for awhile there.

Posted by: Piper at August 18, 2025 10:42 PM (pZEOD)

128 I tell my boss that I'm afraid of flying and I get this action twice a year. It's a cathouse on wheels! Hey, listen, come on. It's something about the movement of the train that does it. All that motion makes a girl horny. You just pick out a little chickie, my friend, and it's hug and munch all the way to Chicago.

Posted by: Bob Sweet, Vitamin Salesman at August 18, 2025 10:43 PM (wVcYX)

129 The boomer nukes put the “destruction” in mutually assured destruction. Almost impossible to locate, unlike missile sites in North Dakota. We owe a lot to Hyman Rickover.

The Soviets weren’t suicidal, but if they thought they could have got off a crippling first strike, they might have done that. Tough to say.

When the SDI was getting lots of attention the Soviets sure started screeching, for a purely defensive system

Posted by: Common Tater at August 18, 2025 10:43 PM (q/G6k)

130 It's A Mistake is kind of a time capsule now. All music had some song out there whining about 'nuke war bad'. Just part of that era, that's all.

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I always hated 99 Luft balloons.

Fuck off, Nena.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 18, 2025 10:44 PM (Skc+N)

131 130 I always hated 99 Luft balloons.

Fuck off, Nena.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 18, 2025 10:44 PM
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Noted.

Posted by: TRex - crossing Nena off the Wed ONT lineup at August 18, 2025 10:46 PM (IQ6Gq)

132 Doof- was that ship that blew up in Baltimore or Dundalk?

Posted by: Piper at August 18, 2025 10:46 PM (pZEOD)

133 Hi friends! How many were thinking about the school slow dances with both arms around your boyfriend’s neck? Lol.
Posted by: Piper at August 18, 2025 10:31 PM (pZEOD)

First dance was 9th grade.
That's when I discovered girls bewbs felt nice while dancing.
I hope what she felt was nice for her too.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 18, 2025 10:46 PM (2WIwB)

134 So die in a nuclear holocaust. See if I care.

Posted by: Nena at August 18, 2025 10:46 PM (dDmld)

135 Got to love the International Dateline.

18 Aug in the US is 19 Aug on Ie Shima.

It was on 19 Aug 1945 that the two G4M Betty bombers painted white with green crosses carrying the Japanese surrender delegation that was to meet with Gen. MacArthur.

So that was 80 years ago today.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 18, 2025 10:48 PM (daZd4)

136
Dear me, I never even went on a date until I was 25. Until then my skin was a horror show. Because of that I never acquired the social skills everyone takes for granted. And I haven't acquired them since.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 18, 2025 10:48 PM (kkTda)

137 ALDI'S HAS THESE BBQ GRILLS FOR 25 CENTS EACH

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Hobo Living!

Now we know how Ace feeds himself as this blog surely can't support him ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2028: One King To Rule Them All! at August 18, 2025 10:48 PM (BENy5)

138 I married my first boyfriend. I met him my senior year in college.

Yeah. Hit me with your best shot.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 18, 2025 10:38 PM (mT+6a)

I'm so glad I didn't marry my boyfriend from college. Actually, more than one of them. They are all lefty twats now. Last I heard, one of them was involved in the disaster on Maui, like, was working PR for Hawaii's emergency response or something. Well, that didn't work out, now did it?

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 18, 2025 10:49 PM (1Gsou)

139 First dance was 9th grade.
That's when I discovered girls bewbs felt nice while dancing.
I hope what she felt was nice for her too.
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For me t it was at a wedding reception when I was 11 or 12

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 18, 2025 10:49 PM (Skc+N)

140 "Congressionally designated future Interstates"

Got a few minutes.

https://tinyurl.com/4mbaz7cw

Posted by: javems at August 18, 2025 10:49 PM (8I4hW)

141 Ms Now...snotty bitch.
Posted by: Diogenes

Feminist. National Organization of Women.
Years ago I had a roommate who was all for the Equal Rights Amendment. I tried to explain to her that it wouldn't give women any more rights than they already had. You can't reason with those people.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 18, 2025 10:50 PM (0Htd1)

142 After many years loving the original faster pace German version of Nena's song I finally looked up the lyrics.

Basically, it is about defense ministers who think they are smart blowing up the world because they really are idiots.

Sound familiar?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 18, 2025 10:51 PM (daZd4)

143 First dance was 9th grade.
That's when I discovered girls bewbs felt nice while dancing.
I hope what she felt was nice for her too.
Posted by: Diogenes

I warned what would happen if that rotten rock was allowed over the airwaves! Ain't that right, Deacon Jim?

Posted by: Rev. Billy Bob Booper at August 18, 2025 10:51 PM (G5+As)

144 I always laugh when I hear the government propose some big project like a 1,000mi. stretch of highway.

Even if they lifted their 10 thousand enormous regulatory burdens and all their graft and skimming from the project, they long ago lost the institutional knowledge to achieve big things.

There aren't many private companies who could still engineer & build it in a human lifetime - let alone *them.*

But I don't suppose they could just be straightforward and call it the National 73-74-75 Systematic Institutional Fraud Scheme Association, could they?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 18, 2025 10:51 PM (BI5O2)

145 Dear me, I never even went on a date until I was 25. Until then my skin was a horror show. Because of that I never acquired the social skills everyone takes for granted. And I haven't acquired them since.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 18, 2025 10:48 PM (kkTda)

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Before going through puberty (around 9th grade) I had lots of warts all over my hands and even a couple of small ones on my lips -- and I was terribly embarrassed, shy, and awkward, especially around girls. [I used to try to cut them off with nail clippers, but they always bled and grew back.]

And then, poof -- they all eventually disappeared!

Hormones FTW!

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2028: One King To Rule Them All! at August 18, 2025 10:51 PM (BENy5)

146 Feminist. National Organization of Women.
Years ago I had a roommate who was all for the Equal Rights Amendment. I tried to explain to her that it wouldn't give women any more rights than they already had. You can't reason with those people.
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 18, 2025 10:50 PM (0Htd1)

Now I've got idiots on Facebook speaking about the rights of illegal aliens. What rights? They have none in this country. In their own? Well that probably varies, but they would have more there than here.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 18, 2025 10:52 PM (1Gsou)

147 I always hated 99 Luft balloons.

Fuck off, Nena.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 18, 2025 10:44 PM

That song was an abomination.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 18, 2025 10:54 PM (snZF9)

148 "Guy kills it on a custom-built guitar made of Beer cans"

That is some great thumb pickin with finger strumming combo.

Posted by: CNN at August 18, 2025 10:54 PM (PTDkx)

149 Dear me, I never even went on a date until I was 25. Until then my skin was a horror show. Because of that I never acquired the social skills everyone takes for granted. And I haven't acquired them since.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

In Mayberry, they tried to civilize and smooth out Ernest T. Bass. Didn't work with him, either. Hadrian, do you throw rocks, too?

Posted by: Reverend Felcher at August 18, 2025 10:55 PM (G5+As)

150 Maybe one of the CoBs can rummage around to find the thread where Ace and I started linking different versions of Nena's "99 Red Balloons" ???

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 18, 2025 10:55 PM (daZd4)

151 It's A Mistake is kind of a time capsule now. All music had some song out there whining about 'nuke war bad'. Just part of that era, that's all.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 18, 2025 10:40 PM (sAmhv)

All these years and I never knew it was about nuclear war. All I ever heard was that nasal whining of "It's a mistake!"

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 18, 2025 10:55 PM (09N0i)

152 I always laugh when I hear the government propose some big project like a 1,000mi. stretch of highway.

Even if they lifted their 10 thousand enormous regulatory burdens and all their graft and skimming from the project, they long ago lost the institutional knowledge to achieve big things.

There aren't many private companies who could still engineer & build it in a human lifetime - let alone *them.*

But I don't suppose they could just be straightforward and call it the National 73-74-75 Systematic Institutional Fraud Scheme Association, could they?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 18, 2025 10:51 PM (BI5O2)

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I'm reminded of The Hoover (Boulder) Dam constructed on the Colorado River south of Las Vegas during The Great Depression between 1931 and 1936 (my grandfather worked on it); I believe it's one of the last feral government projects to come in ahead of time and under budget.

What a concept ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2028: One King To Rule Them All! at August 18, 2025 10:56 PM (BENy5)

153
Hadrian, do you throw rocks, too?
Posted by: Reverend Felcher at August 18, 2025 10:55 PM (G5+As)

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No, I live a very cloistered life now.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 18, 2025 10:56 PM (kkTda)

154
they long ago lost the institutional knowledge to achieve big things.

They wuz Kangz.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 18, 2025 10:57 PM (63Dwl)

155 At least Men at Work had other songs one could enjoy. A fried out Kombi full of zombies mate?

Midnight Oil? Nope.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 18, 2025 10:57 PM (daZd4)

156
We no longer have a Henry Kaiser or Robert Moses in this country.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 18, 2025 10:58 PM (kkTda)

157 Syria is preparing a massive offensive against the Kurds.
Seeking to capture the Raqqa and Deir Ezzor Governorates from the Kurdish SDF’s control, the military is preparing some 50,000 troops for an offensive. The plan is to mass the troops at the city of Palmyra and sweep into Kurdish-controlled areas.
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If any group deserves its own state it's the Kurds.
Somebody should blow the crap out of Syria.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 18, 2025 10:58 PM (Cm8rh)

158 147 I always hated 99 Luft balloons.
Fuck off, Nena.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 18, 2025 10:44 PM

That song was an abomination.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
It's an earworm song. My problem is that I like earworm songs.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 18, 2025 11:00 PM (0Htd1)

159 We just did a road trip from South Dakota to central New York and back. The interstate road system is over crowded and out dated. The roads were in bad shape. On our return to South Dakota, we stayed off the interstates as much as possible which reduced the wear on our vehicle and reduced our stress level.

Posted by: Archer at August 18, 2025 11:00 PM (IDphi)

160 Empire State Building wasn't a Fed project, but only took about 13 months.

Posted by: Ape, Not Included at August 18, 2025 11:01 PM (G5+As)

161 Boulder dam, Empire State building. The Pentagon was built in record time, it’s still one of the largest office buildings ever constructed. Leslie Groves was tapped to oversee that, probably the reason he was later selected for the Manhattan project.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 18, 2025 11:01 PM (q/G6k)

162 IIRC, Kurdistan would have to carve out territory from four different countries. Tough job.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 18, 2025 11:01 PM (09N0i)

163 I always hated 99 Luft balloons.
Fuck off, Nena.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 18, 2025 10:44 PM

That song was an abomination.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
It's an earworm song. My problem is that I like earworm songs.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 18, 2025 11:00 PM (0Htd1)

Slayer's "Raining Blood" cures all ear worms.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 18, 2025 11:02 PM (snZF9)

164
I'm reading A Call to Arms by Maury Klien about how the US mobilized the home front in World War II. The story of how we built the greatest industrial powerhouse in history from, basically, nothing is an amazing one.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 18, 2025 11:03 PM (kkTda)

165 It's an earworm song. My problem is that I like earworm songs.
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You're gonna love this

https://youtu.be/gfk3QLU1x0E

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 18, 2025 11:04 PM (DIweC)

166 You know that ship that blew up today in Baltimore Harbor kind of puzzles me. Stated destination was Mauritius, a tiny island known mostly for extinct dodo birds. What do they need a bulk carrier load of anything for, let alone stuff that goes splody? I'm wondering that ship was really bound for Iran, and Mossad got wind of it, and arranged an accidnt.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 18, 2025 11:04 PM (6IF5w)

167 I am off to sleep, though Saijo is chewing his yak cheese very loudly, which isn’t relaxing. And the cats have 3/4s of the bed.

Posted by: Piper at August 18, 2025 11:06 PM (pZEOD)

168
Neither Leslie Groves nor Brehon Somervell ever became Chief of the Corps of Engineers. Both had stepped on too many toes and bruised too many egos.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 18, 2025 11:06 PM (kkTda)

169 Dad got a call or a text (I forget which saying that there was a problem with his taxes and he should call blah blah #.)
I told him straight out: Dad, it's a scam. The IRS is not going to contact you that way. But he was adamant.
He called the IRS office and woke through a bunch of operators trying to find out if it was real. It turned out it was.
He is never going to let me forget that one.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Had to be a call, they don't do email or text without your permission, i.e.: they've previously contacted you by US Post, phone or personally.
If you do.get a call, check the number. Use a directory obtained number verify the number they give you.
IRS scams are dangerous for the scammer but the risk/reward factor is high, so it does get attempted. The reward is high because they can threaten (falsely, of course) criminal penalties. That's a powerful.way to get money out of someone.
Be careful.

Posted by: buddhaha at August 18, 2025 11:06 PM (pgBhY)

170 Soup with cheese? What could go wrong?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 18, 2025 11:07 PM (daZd4)

171 Robert Moses and Mayor LaGuardia were opening an average of one new NYC park a week for a spell.

Posted by: We Used To Could Do Stuff at August 18, 2025 11:07 PM (G5+As)

172 Ear worms?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvk8iPqhsZs

There never was a Season Two.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 18, 2025 11:08 PM (daZd4)

173 170 Soup with cheese? What could go wrong?
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 18, 2025 11:07 PM (daZd4)

He is very chompy!

Posted by: Piper at August 18, 2025 11:09 PM (pZEOD)

174 Before Central Park was completed, the favorite NYC picnic spot was Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn. It is still a beautiful place.

Posted by: Even Has Parrots at August 18, 2025 11:10 PM (G5+As)

175
Dogs put up for the night and fed, evening prayers said. Good night, Hordians.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 18, 2025 11:12 PM (kkTda)

176 I think 11 days start to finish was the fastest time to build a Liberty Ship.

Posted by: Kaiser Shipyard, Maybe? at August 18, 2025 11:13 PM (G5+As)

177 Except that passenger trains have never paid for themselves, ever.
Posted by: Hadrian
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Riiiiight. The RR companies ran all those passenger trains crisscrossing the continent in the 20s, 30s, and 40s out of the goodness of hearts.
And, Brightline.

Posted by: buddhaha at August 18, 2025 11:13 PM (pgBhY)

178 Looks like the seasonal hurricane conveyor is finally in gear.

Right behind Hurricane Erin are two more disturbances.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 18, 2025 11:14 PM (/lPRQ)

179 I remember doing a research project on fuel efficiency once. Rail is the most fuel-efficient way to move freight across land but also much less convenient than trucking. I don't recall it ever being fuel-efficient for passenger rail, even though I have good memories of riding trains.

Posted by: Nerd Herd at August 18, 2025 11:14 PM (6nQni)

180 What do they need a bulk carrier load of anything for, let alone stuff that goes splody? I'm wondering that ship was really bound for Iran, and Mossad got wind of it, and arranged an accidnt.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 18, 2025 11:04 PM (6IF5w)

Apparently they had a load of coal, so a coal dust explosion is plausible. Why Mauritius, which is near Madagascar, would need a load of coal is a puzzler. Are there still coal-fired ships steaming about? Were they supplying an Alfred Thayer Mahan-style coaling station?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 18, 2025 11:15 PM (09N0i)

181 I remember doing a research project on fuel efficiency once. Rail is the most fuel-efficient way to move freight across land but also much less convenient than trucking. I don't recall it ever being fuel-efficient for passenger rail, even though I have good memories of riding trains.
Posted by: Nerd Herd

You just have to pack them in tighter.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 18, 2025 11:15 PM (/lPRQ)

182 I liked "It's A Mistake" and "Forever Young," even if they're anti-nuke songs. I guess I give the bands a little grace- I've grown up with nuclear holocaust always being a quiet threat and I just don't think about it. I think I'd either be a nervous wreck or I'd just throw my hands up if I consistently thought about being wiped out by a nuke at any second.

Posted by: Nerd Herd at August 18, 2025 11:17 PM (6nQni)

183 99 Luftballons was fine. The English "translation" was an abortion.

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

184 Right behind Hurricane Erin are two more disturbances.

Where is Jim Cantore?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 18, 2025 11:19 PM (daZd4)

185 So, I ordered some pickled bologna (same brand someone here recommended- Koegels?) It arrived today like a set of russian nesting dolls of jar, wrapped in bubble wrap, in box, with a bit of packing inside another box.

Not bad bologna. Just the faint hint of spice (has a pepper in the jar.) It's odd, the bologna is ... less dense than I think of pickle dog, but has virtually NO carbs whatsoever. Figured it would be a decent snack for keto.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 18, 2025 11:21 PM (bss/y)

186 183 99 Luftballons was fine. The English "translation" was an abortion.
Posted by: gKWVE

Same for Ein Feste Burg ist Unser Gott!

Posted by: Old Favorites at August 18, 2025 11:21 PM (G5+As)

187 According to the Beijing Daily, a 75-year-old man named Jiang came across an AI-generated female avatar while browsing social media.

I'm old enough to remember when AI meant Artificially Inseminated.

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 18, 2025 11:21 PM (144I4)

188 Around 1980 I got a certifcate as a Civil Defense Shelter Technician (or whatever it was). Correspondance class. Actually quite good and had a lot of material on designing / building survival shelters for 'x' number of people and supplies needed for various blast and fallout conditions. And down to trivial - if nothing else hide under your matress...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 18, 2025 11:22 PM (/lPRQ)

189 If any group deserves its own state it's the Kurds.
Somebody should blow the crap out of Syria.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 18, 2025 10:58 PM (Cm8rh)

No argument there but - just so everyone understands the games being played here - no way does this current version of Syria have the military strength to do this. Erdogan is behind this, and it’s a good bet that a lot of those “Syrian” troops are going to be Turkish Army units. Good NATO members.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 18, 2025 11:22 PM (PfGa7)

190 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvk8iPqhsZs

There never was a Season Two.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 18, 2025 11:08 PM (daZd4)

Ah, the Japanese. Nuked too much? Or not enough?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 18, 2025 11:22 PM (09N0i)

191 According to the Beijing Daily, a 75-year-old man named Jiang came across an AI-generated female avatar while browsing social media.

I'm old enough to remember when AI meant Artificially Inseminated.
Posted by: haffhowershower at August 18, 2025 11:21 PM (144I4)

That feature is coming soon.

Posted by: The Zuck at August 18, 2025 11:22 PM (6nQni)

192 170 Soup with cheese? What could go wrong?
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 18, 2025 11:07 PM (daZd4)

Cheese potato soup (well done) is a sign that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 18, 2025 11:22 PM (bss/y)

193 At DM: "Obama Presidential Center will feature a fruit and vegetable garden, athletic programs, an events facility, a museum and a new branch of the Chicago Public Library."

That's a helluva deal for only $850M. Value-packed.

Posted by: gp NOW at August 18, 2025 11:22 PM (8mLBT)

194 So, I ordered some pickled bologna (same brand someone here recommended- Koegels?) It arrived today like a set of russian nesting dolls of jar, wrapped in bubble wrap, in box, with a bit of packing inside another box.

Not bad bologna. Just the faint hint of spice (has a pepper in the jar.) It's odd, the bologna is ... less dense than I think of pickle dog, but has virtually NO carbs whatsoever. Figured it would be a decent snack for keto.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
===

You can blame me.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 18, 2025 11:23 PM (/lPRQ)

195 According to the Beijing Daily, a 75-year-old man named Jiang came across an AI-generated female avatar while browsing social media.

Joi from Blade Runner 2049 is here. nyah.

"Oh Jiang baby, I need a CPU upgrade."

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 18, 2025 11:24 PM (daZd4)

196 >>>The right horrible 19th Amendment was passed on this date in 1920. 105 years of mayhem ensued.

Posted by: Landed Gentleman

>Ah, Women's suffrage. What does the 19th say about the rights for trannies to vote?

Maybe there should be a waiting period, like when purchasing a firearm. Say, 5 years?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 18, 2025 11:24 PM (/vPt3)

197 The Interstate highway system, combined with commercial aviation, is what killed passenger trains. They only worked when there were no reasonably priced alternatives.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 18, 2025 11:24 PM (PfGa7)

198 Whenever I see a bowl of cheese potato soup, I ask the diner "Are you going to eat that?" Sometimes I get lucky. You never know.

Posted by: gp NOW at August 18, 2025 11:25 PM (8mLBT)

199 You can blame me.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 18, 2025 11:23 PM (/lPRQ)

Thank you. Even though it's not exactly the same, it scratches that nostalgic itch.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 18, 2025 11:25 PM (bss/y)

200 198 Whenever I see a bowl of cheese potato soup, I ask the diner "Are you going to eat that?" Sometimes I get lucky. You never know.
Posted by: gp NOW at August 18, 2025 11:25 PM (8mLBT)

If it's done right, it is amazing. SO good.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 18, 2025 11:25 PM (bss/y)

201 Little bacon. Little onion.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 18, 2025 11:26 PM (bss/y)

202 Can't wait until Michigan Haj meet Black Bike Week at Myrtle Beach.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 18, 2025 11:26 PM (XeU6L)

203 That feature is coming soon.
Posted by: The Zuck

The Human Duplicators and Armitage III would like to have a word with you.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 18, 2025 11:26 PM (daZd4)

204 200 Roger that.

Posted by: gp NOW at August 18, 2025 11:27 PM (8mLBT)

205 Beer Cheese soup topped with popcorn is delicious

Posted by: Life of Wryly at August 18, 2025 11:27 PM (ycs3a)

206 Idaho Spudboy

Sometimes not nuked enough

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 18, 2025 11:28 PM (daZd4)

207 >>I was the most rebellious goody two shoes that walked the earth for awhile there.

That seems doubtful.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 18, 2025 11:28 PM (viF8m)

208 I'm reminded of The Hoover (Boulder) Dam - I believe it's one of the last feral government projects to come in ahead of time and under budget.
Posted by: ShainS

The construction of most of the lab at Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project were built remarkably quickly:

AY-12 Electromagnetic Separation Plant about 9 months.
X-10 Graphite Reactor around 9 months.
K-25 Gaseous Diffusion Plant about 15 months.

Amazing what can be done when the Feds get rid of all permitting, licensing and environmental impact studies.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 18, 2025 11:28 PM (cYBz/)

209 Aldi's 25¢ Grill...comes with seagull guard.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 18, 2025 11:29 PM (ynpvh)

210 Anna, I got invited over to my wife's kid's place to watch K-Pop Demon Hunters. Has this come across your radar?

Posted by: Kindltot at August 18, 2025 11:29 PM (rbvCR)

211 AY-12 Electromagnetic Separation Plant about 9 months.
X-10 Graphite Reactor around 9 months.
K-25 Gaseous Diffusion Plant about 15 months.

The Gaseous diffusion plant was huge.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 18, 2025 11:30 PM (bss/y)

212 Thank you. Even though it's not exactly the same, it scratches that nostalgic itch.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

We used to make our own - 1 gal glass jar, as much ring bologna that you stuff in there, maybe six rings, a jar of pickling spice, maybe some hot peppers, top off cider vinegar. Maybe some salt too. I don't think we put any water in.
For a bonus you can stuff boiled eggs in the middle of the rings.

Put on the shelf. Flip jar every few days. Good to go in a couple of months.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 18, 2025 11:30 PM (/lPRQ)

213 Good evening all. Great ONT!!
Doef, not sure about the new road but our mayor is trying to get the first Iowa Buc-ee’s here along the interstate.
Picked up my local auction wins today. One is a great bumper sticker - super retro. I think I will send a photo to Doef for his retro night. Maybe he’ll use it.

Posted by: SnailRacer at August 18, 2025 11:30 PM (11mhd)

214
Scrolling through astronaut Don Pettit's X feed, looking at the latest photos he posted from his last expedition, I noticed he linked to some photo from Nicole Ayers, who just came home from the Crew-10 expedition a couple weeks ago. She posted some pretty nice photos and video herself.

One I thought was really fun was this acceleration video she did. Drag on the ISS causes the orbit to slowly degrade and they have to fire thrusters to re-boost themselves into the proper orbit. When they do, the station accelerates (proper acceleration, true acceleration in relativistic terms).

So, during that manever, they will feel it, and "weigh" a little bit. If they're hanging on. If not, and they just free-float, they will fall a little bit in the opposite direction of the acceleration. They had some fun with that here:
https://tinyurl.com/2djuhmjf

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 18, 2025 11:31 PM (w6EFb)

215 Are they hunters of K-Pop Demons?

Or Demon Hunters who enjoy K-Pop?

Or Demons, who are hunters of K-Pop enjoying humans?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 18, 2025 11:32 PM (bss/y)

216 At DM: "Obama Presidential Center will feature a fruit and vegetable garden, athletic programs, an events facility, a museum and a new branch of the Chicago Public Library."

That's a helluva deal for only $850M. Value-packed.
Posted by: gp NOW at August 18, 2025 11:22 PM (8mLBT)

Put in an aquatic center and they can offer swimming lessons. Prerequisite for paddleboard lessons. Hell let's go all the way and offer cooking lessons. One stop shop.

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 18, 2025 11:32 PM (144I4)

217 Kindltot

It is a Netflix movie. An original as opposed to them destroying IPs like Cowboy Bebop.

K-Pop idol singers are the latest generation of singers selected to keep the demon realm sealed away. So the demon realm decides to create their own boy band.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 18, 2025 11:32 PM (daZd4)

218 A new interstate connecting Northern Michigan and Myrtle Beach.
Goes through some pretty rough geography (the Appalachia parts of WV-VA-NC) and areas globalization left behind. If it works the way the designers intend, I'm all for it.
Posted by: Puddleglum
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Rough geography? Yeah, right.

Posted by: I70, Glenwood Canyon at August 18, 2025 11:34 PM (pgBhY)

219 The fruit and vegetable garden is what really sold me. Before I heard that, I thought maybe we were being taken for fools by shameless crooks.

Posted by: gp NOW at August 18, 2025 11:34 PM (8mLBT)

220
Nicole Ayers there got a fantastic shot of a spite over or near Texas posted on her feed there as well:

https://tinyurl.com/259jzlwv

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 18, 2025 11:34 PM (w6EFb)

221 K-Pop idol singers are the latest generation of singers selected to keep the demon realm sealed away. So the demon realm decides to create their own boy band.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 18, 2025 11:32 PM (daZd4)

I saw it, I didn't know if anyone else had. I had never heard of it.

My thought was that it wasn't quite the promised and projected Monster Hunter International since Correia likes Death Metal better that K-Pop.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 18, 2025 11:35 PM (rbvCR)

222 K-25

I tried to find a good picture that had some objects in it to get a sense of scale.

https://tinyurl.com/5n6f6z77

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 18, 2025 11:35 PM (bss/y)

223 The Gaseous diffusion plant was huge.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Oh yeah. Last year sometime the DOE announced a new uranium enrichment facility near the old Y-25 site.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 18, 2025 11:36 PM (cYBz/)

224 where is the banana for scale?

Posted by: Kindltot at August 18, 2025 11:37 PM (rbvCR)

225 I got "The Sorrow and the Pity" (196

all queued up. I estimate I will have to pause it 7.2 times to urinate. Or I could get a catheter. Or I could put a screen in the john. There are SO many alternatives to choose from. Land of plenty.

Posted by: gp NOW at August 18, 2025 11:37 PM (8mLBT)

226 Put in an aquatic center and they can offer swimming lessons. Prerequisite for paddleboard lessons. Hell let's go all the way and offer cooking lessons. One stop shop.

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 18, 2025 11:32 PM (144I4)

Tack on the Hillary Clinton Presidential Library Annex.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 18, 2025 11:38 PM (09N0i)

227 K-Pop Demon Hunters has been popping up in my YT feed for the past few weeks.

It sounds cool, but their animation style is not my cup of tea even when they go full Tex Avery on expressions.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 18, 2025 11:38 PM (daZd4)

228 Put in an aquatic center and they can offer swimming lessons. Prerequisite for paddleboard lessons. Hell let's go all the way and offer cooking lessons. One stop shop.

Posted by: haffhowershower

Michael Phelps gave swimming lessons to a group of Baltimore Ravens players a few days ago. Amazing how most blacks never learn to swim.

Posted by: Busload Of Sinkers at August 18, 2025 11:40 PM (G5+As)

229 The Hillary Clinton Memorial Bathroom and bollard.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 18, 2025 11:41 PM (daZd4)

230 79 I'll be 70 in two months and have never seen a dermatologist nor had an eye exam. Maybe I'm nuts. My wife had lots of skin things chopped of by a dermatologist, though. She was a very fair ginger.

Posted by: Skin To Win at August 18, 2025 10:27 PM (G5+As)

Wow, you are really lucky. I just had a massive chunk of my thigh cut out for a cancer that I've never heard of before, and that my doc biopsied on a hunch. He said he's seen it in medical manuals but his clinic had never had a case.

Posted by: moki at August 18, 2025 11:41 PM (wLjpr)

231 "Tack on the Hillary Clinton Presidential Library Annex."

She doesn't have an Annex already? Jeez, how many people does she have to bump off before she gets a measly Annex?

Posted by: gp NOW at August 18, 2025 11:41 PM (8mLBT)

232 Same picture without the water mark. A bit to the right of center you can see a white pickup (it looks like.)

https://tinyurl.com/538h7j5m

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 18, 2025 11:41 PM (bss/y)

233 Michael Phelps gave swimming lessons to a group of Baltimore Ravens players a few days ago. Amazing how most blacks never learn to swim.
Posted by: Busload Of Sinkers at August 18, 2025 11:40 PM (G5+As)

Chef Reggie approves.

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 18, 2025 11:42 PM (144I4)

234 It sounds cool, but their animation style is not my cup of tea even when they go full Tex Avery on expressions.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 18, 2025 11:38 PM (daZd4)

It has that... Despicable Me look, but more Destiny 2, The Gay expansion.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 18, 2025 11:44 PM (bss/y)

235 233 Michael Phelps gave swimming lessons to a group of Baltimore Ravens players a few days ago. Amazing how most blacks never learn to swim.
Posted by: Busload Of Sinkers at August 18, 2025 11:40 PM (G5+As)

Chef Reggie approves.
Posted by: haffhowershower at August 18, 2025 11:42 PM (144I4)

He could have used the skill.

Or a gun.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 18, 2025 11:44 PM (bss/y)

236 Some of the buildings/facilities at Oak Ridge were damn near completed before plans were finalized/signed off.

It's still a weird place - a scientific company town with nuke engineers/technicians walking about with good rural TN folk. An emulsion like population if you will.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 18, 2025 11:45 PM (cYBz/)

237 Michael Phelps gave swimming lessons to a group of Baltimore Ravens players a few days ago. Amazing how most blacks never learn to swim.

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Corn Pop, now that dude could swim.

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 18, 2025 11:45 PM (dDmld)

238 I22 connects Birmingham, Alabama with Memphis, Tennessee.

Thanks Federal Government, I guess? (As if Birmingham didn't have enough problems)

Posted by: Case at August 18, 2025 11:46 PM (iwlvf)

239 I like the vibe of the posters for the apprenticeship.gov.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 18, 2025 11:46 PM (bss/y)

240 226 Put in an aquatic center and they can offer swimming lessons. Prerequisite for paddleboard lessons. Hell let's go all the way and offer cooking lessons. One stop shop.

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Name it after Al Campanis.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 18, 2025 11:48 PM (dDmld)

241 236 Some of the buildings/facilities at Oak Ridge were damn near completed before plans were finalized/signed off.

It's still a weird place - a scientific company town with nuke engineers/technicians walking about with good rural TN folk. An emulsion like population if you will.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 18, 2025 11:45 PM (cYBz/)

Like a rural university. Bloomington was like that. Townies and college folks. Until IU went full psychotic.

A buddy was living there and his wife reported women spraying vegetables with lysol in the grocery store.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 18, 2025 11:48 PM (bss/y)

242 197 The Interstate highway system, combined with commercial aviation, is what killed passenger trains. They only worked when there were no reasonably priced alternatives.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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However, if they would tag some passenger cars on the tail of freight trains they would book full. AmTrak doesn't even publish a schedule.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 18, 2025 11:51 PM (Cm8rh)

243 At DM: "Obama Presidential Center will feature a fruit and vegetable garden, athletic programs, an events facility, a museum and a new branch of the Chicago Public Library."

It should be a frigging outhouse with a cheap salad from burger king hanging on the door.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 18, 2025 11:51 PM (snZF9)

244 Well, I got the bad (?) left side motor mount out of the '99 Suburban this evening. It wasn't terribly difficult. Contrary to Ewetoob experts, I found I did have to uncouple both front mounts in order to lift the front left side of the engine enough to winkle the left mount out of there. New mounts are supposed to be at my nearby Napa store tomorrow. I am going to very carefully compare new mounts to the old ones, and if I cannot find some defect or "set" in the old ones to account for the engine sitting too low on the left, I will add a shim between the engine block and the "cup" receptacle for the mount. Such shims were apparently used '86 to '91, but not on my model.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 18, 2025 11:52 PM (6IF5w)

245 36 ....They need to finish building I-11, from Las Vegas to Phoenix. Most of it is existing right-of-way; just needs upgrading. There are a few miles of real, no-shit I-11 from Railroad Pass to the Hoover Dam, then it reverts to rough-ass U.S. 93 from there to Kingman, AZ. 93 co-locates with I-40 from Kingman to a few miles east, where it then turns south to Wickiup. A little bit more of that road gets 4-laned every year, but they sure aren't hi-balling it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 18, 2025 10:14 PM (F6+9F)

Growing up near West Palm Beach in the 1970's we had a completed 10 mile stretch of I-95 around WPB but it wouldn't connect the 60 or so miles north to Vero Beach until the early '80's due to some conflict with the Florida Turnpike bond holders - 'no competing road'.

The stretch south from WPB to north of Ft Lauderdale wasn't completed until the late '70's. For years there was a 100' or so wide swath of pristine Florida jungle running thru our neighborhood where the road would go.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at August 18, 2025 11:52 PM (QGaXH)

246 Damn, Zelensky did not wear a track suit?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 18, 2025 11:52 PM (bss/y)

247 I had a little SCC on my left forearm. I tried digging it out myself, but it came back in like a month. I gave my PCP a crack at it, but he only managed to bisect it. The dermatologist finally excavated it all. (He says I've got the palest arms he's ever seen. It runs in the family.)

The lesion occurred in the place on the arm that gets the most sun when typically resting on the car window while driving. I wonder about the handedness prevalence of forearm SCC in left-hand steering-wheel countries vs right-hand steering wheel countries.

Posted by: gp NOW at August 18, 2025 11:52 PM (8mLBT)

248 Michael Phelps gave swimming lessons to a group of Baltimore Ravens players a few days ago. Amazing how most blacks never learn to swim.

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Corn Pop, now that dude could swim.
Posted by: Joe Biden at August 18, 2025 11:45 PM (dDmld)

Keepin' it real, that's our Scranton Joe.

Posted by: RickZ at August 18, 2025 11:53 PM (gKDq2)

249 First dance was 9th grade.
That's when I discovered girls bewbs felt nice while dancing.
I hope what she felt was nice for her too.
Posted by: Diogenes

Yep, 9th grade. Mary K a well developed 8th grader. Friends dared me to ask her so I did. I don't remember the song but I sure remember that dance. Three years later she was in my creative writing class. She was a cheerleader and I was a juvenile delinquent. We "dated" for about two months. Her dad definitely didn't like me. Her older sister, our class valedictorian, probably filled him in on my reputation. I was actually a gentleman with her.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 18, 2025 11:54 PM (tyHPG)

250 "It should be a frigging outhouse with a cheap salad from burger king hanging on the door."

Oh my, it already looks far worse than that. Don't help them fix it.

Posted by: gp NOW at August 18, 2025 11:54 PM (8mLBT)

251 >>Michael Phelps gave swimming lessons to a group of Baltimore Ravens players a few days ago. Amazing how most blacks never learn to swim.

It's not amazing. It's access and culture.

There are an assload of white people who can't swim either because they never did it and it's not something they grew up doing.

Go to the Caribbean and you will see a lot of black people who can swim. In Baltimore and Detroit and most cities where black people live not so much.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 18, 2025 11:55 PM (viF8m)

252
Well, I see Veronica Hannan has taken down her LinkedIn page. She's the kicking and screaming friend of the RI "I'm an AGeeee!" AWFL from the earlier post today.

I imagine Pepsi will be deleting her employment soon as well.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 18, 2025 11:55 PM (w6EFb)

253 250 "It should be a frigging outhouse with a cheap salad from burger king hanging on the door."

Oh my, it already looks far worse than that. Don't help them fix it.
Posted by: gp NOW at August 18, 2025 11:54 PM (8mLBT)

Well. You know it kind of does look like a gigantic, Brutalist outhouse.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 18, 2025 11:56 PM (bss/y)

254 253 Bingo!

Posted by: gp NOW at August 18, 2025 11:58 PM (8mLBT)

255 The Calutrons needed miles and miles of wire, copper being in short supply, they got the US Treasury to loan them 50,000 tons of silver and wired everything up that way.

I don’t know if it’s true or not, I read somewhere the Calutrons and their silver wiring laid unmolested until the 1990s and the Clinton administration absconded with it. Sounds plausible.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 18, 2025 11:59 PM (q/G6k)

256 Well, I got the bad (?) left side motor mount out of the '99 Suburban this evening. It wasn't terribly difficult. Contrary to Ewetoob experts, I found I did have to uncouple both front mounts in order to lift the front left side of the engine enough to winkle the left mount out of there.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 18, 2025 11:52 PM (6IF5w)

Its amazing how frigging wrong some of the you tube videos can be on things.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 19, 2025 12:00 AM (snZF9)

257
Our President, early today, on his Truth Social account:

I am totally convinced that if Russia raised their hands and said, “We give up, we concede, we surrender, we will GIVE Ukraine and the great United States of America, the most revered, respected, and powerful of all countries, EVER, Moscow and St. Petersburg, and everything surrounding them for a thousand miles, the Fake News Media and their Democrat Partners would say that this was a bad and humiliating day for Donald J. Trump, one of the worst days in the history of our Country.” But that’s why they are the FAKE NEWS, and the badly failing Radical Left Democrats. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 19, 2025 12:00 AM (w6EFb)

258 246 Damn, Zelensky did not wear a track suit?
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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And he thanked Trump several times.
A little Emily Post night reading he did.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 19, 2025 12:01 AM (Cm8rh)

259
193 At DM: "Obama Presidential Center will feature a fruit and vegetable garden, athletic programs, an events facility, a museum and a new branch of the Chicago Public Library."

That's a helluva deal for only $850M. Value-packed.
Posted by: gp NOW at August 18, 2025 11:22 PM

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But not an actual presidential library. No records.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 19, 2025 12:04 AM (tAAke)

260 "Moscow and St. Petersburg, and everything surrounding them for a thousand miles,"

Hey, if we can get that thrown in with the deal too, don't reject it out of hand.

Posted by: gp NOW at August 19, 2025 12:04 AM (8mLBT)

261 Its amazing how frigging wrong some of the you tube videos can be on things.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads

Same people who wrote the Chiltons manuals.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 19, 2025 12:04 AM (tyHPG)

262 Sheila DeBlau. I remember her boobs. We were standing in line for something, and she jammed her chest into my back for about 10 seconds or so feigning “OH! Excuse me! i’m sorry!! Excuse me!!” LOL The beginning of a life long love affair with boobs.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 19, 2025 12:04 AM (q/G6k)

263 Not having a Dad in the house affects things like learning to swim too.

Posted by: It's Science! at August 19, 2025 12:04 AM (G5+As)

264 Damn, Zelensky did not wear a track suit?
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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And he thanked Trump several times.
A little Emily Post night reading he did.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others
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Clinging to his trademark 'commando' style he stuck with monochrome black - black suit, black shirt, black tie. Prolly black Abidas shoes too.

But he bent the knee and suited up.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 19, 2025 12:05 AM (/lPRQ)

265 And he thanked Trump several times.
A little Emily Post night reading he did.
Posted by: Braenyard -

He's concerned about extradition down the road.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 19, 2025 12:06 AM (tyHPG)

266 261 Ha! ChiltonGPT.

Posted by: gp NOW at August 19, 2025 12:06 AM (8mLBT)

267 But not an actual presidential library. No records.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

Soviet style Brutalist monoment.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 19, 2025 12:06 AM (/lPRQ)

268 According to Grok (I know, I know):

There are some Beta-3 calutrons at the Y-12 National Security Complex that are maintained in a standby condition as part of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s stable isotope production program. But not currently in use. BUT, most sources claim they still have silver windings.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 19, 2025 12:06 AM (cYBz/)

269 >>Clinging to his trademark 'commando' style he stuck with monochrome black - black suit, black shirt, black tie. Prolly black Abidas shoes too.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

So no black underwear then.

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 19, 2025 12:08 AM (144I4)

270 Its amazing how frigging wrong some of the you tube videos can be on things.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads

Same people who wrote the Chiltons manuals.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 19, 2025 12:04 AM (tyHPG)

One of the shops I work out of must have an easy $3K worth of factory harley manuals, because sometimes torque specs will change. We have a few chilton manuals, and they are a joke. The saying in the shop is harley manuals for working on the harleys, chilton manuals for cleaning weed. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 19, 2025 12:08 AM (snZF9)

271 BTW, the DM story sez local residents are protesting that the end-standing concrete turd is actually driving up prop values in the hood, and you know what that means: dreaded gentrification.

Posted by: gp NOW at August 19, 2025 12:10 AM (8mLBT)

272 I gather that the expectations of peace breaking out were not fulfilled at today's Ukraine meeting, and the can has been kicked down the road for a week or so.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 19, 2025 12:12 AM (09N0i)

273 The question would be how many calutrons were there in 1945 versus 2025, and what happened to them. The Clinton administration stealing the silver sort of tracks. It was a fuckpile of money just sitting there.

They probably did scrap most of them at some point. That is a lot of silver. Did Treasury get it back? Or just make a book keeping entry. They knew where it was at, at least.

I know Groves was lauded for at least keeping excellent records for the money spent, even if it was insane amounts.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 19, 2025 12:12 AM (q/G6k)

274 Post-War Silver Return: Most of the silver used in the Oak Ridge calutrons was returned to the Treasury by 1970, as the majority of the calutrons (especially the Alpha stages) were decommissioned or repurposed. For example, the Alpha Calutron magnets in Building 9731 had their silver windings replaced with copper during this period.

(again Grok)

Posted by: Tonypete at August 19, 2025 12:15 AM (cYBz/)

275 So no black underwear then.
Posted by: haffhowershower at August 19, 2025 12:08 AM (144I4)

Underwear?

Posted by: Zelensky at August 19, 2025 12:15 AM (09N0i)

276 I've worked on some WWII era buildings.
Different design process.

Today they start with explicit roster of 'x' workers, how many SQ ft each, spacial relations for various workgroups... What exact equipment machines go in... and go through multiple design revisions (nevermind permitting, etc).

WWII - I need office space, 5000 staff, 100 sq ft ea, ummm, mutli-story, 12 ft floor to floor.... Then figure out how to fit them in. Stick on utility space if needed.

Hangars - WWII Give me a big fricken barn. Now, Fit that bird like a glove, not an inch to spare.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 19, 2025 12:16 AM (/lPRQ)

277 OK, we’ll let the Clintons off the hook on that for now.

I still don’t trust them.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 19, 2025 12:18 AM (q/G6k)

278 Assembly is the reverse of disassembly.

Posted by: Chiltons at August 19, 2025 12:18 AM (pxUkb)

279 And he thanked Trump several times.
A little Emily Post night reading he did.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 19, 2025 12:01 AM (Cm8rh)

So, did he take the coke or not take the coke to get the less psychotic frenzied effect?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 19, 2025 12:18 AM (bss/y)

280 And I did chalk up a win on the car stereo front. Pulled the new, not-working Dual tuner/amp rig out of the dash, and checked constant 12 volts and switched 12 volts with a test light. Both worked. Tested the ground. ground was good. So I unboxed another unit, plugged it in, and as soon as it powered up, I heard the FM between-channel sound in the speakers. Plugged in my thumb drive, and music burst forth from all four speakers. So I had a dud stereo right out of the box.

To top it off, I replaced the driver's side door striker, and now the door closes with authority.

The stereo sound quality is marginal to bad. "Front" speakers are two 3" jobs packed in a frame to replace the original 4X10" oval speaker in the top center of the dash (a common feature of '60's cars). So stereo separation is about nil. And my "rear" speakers are two old computer speakers screwed to the firewall under the dash. I think I may take out the plastic covers on either side of the rear seat that house the top lift cylinders. There may be room in there to fit shallow 5" speakers without interfering with the mechanism. I will not cut the door panels; they are still too nice, and new ones are now NLA.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 19, 2025 12:18 AM (OvO3C)

281 Same people who wrote the Chiltons manuals.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 19, 2025 12:04 AM (tyHPG)
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Yeah, been there with Chiltons manuals. No matter how many times looked at the page, the tidbit of needed info was not there.

Posted by: scampydog at August 19, 2025 12:19 AM (41CYW)

282 At DM: "Obama Presidential Center will feature a fruit
Posted by: gp NOW

We all knew that.

Posted by: mikeski at August 19, 2025 12:21 AM (DgGvY)

283 Prolly black Abidas shoes too.

But he bent the knee and suited up.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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Look at the group picture. He's wearing DeNiro lifts, must be an inch to inch and a half. He's to better to copy Musk and wear boots.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 19, 2025 12:23 AM (Cm8rh)

284 The MJ trick was first used in the movies by the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz.

Posted by: Beverly at August 19, 2025 12:23 AM (Epeb0)

285 My first concert was the Cars. I had 4th row seats.
Second one was Police, 4th row again.
I had a really good friend who hooked me up.

My fav though was Billy Idol. Sweet Young Thing next to me had stripped down to a thong and was standing up in her seat just rocking it. Best seat I ever had.

Posted by: Fenrisulven at August 19, 2025 12:23 AM (Dz6Vv)

286 Can't visualize the Suburban dash board. Cars of the past would mount speakers under the dash facing up toward the windshield; excellent resonance.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 19, 2025 12:27 AM (Cm8rh)

287 Assembly is the reverse of disassembly.
Posted by: Chilton
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LMAO. First time I read *that* I was like-- oh, golly gee--
*slaps forehead*
"Why didn't I think of that?!"

Posted by: JQ at August 19, 2025 12:31 AM (rdVOm)

288 "I think 11 days start to finish was the fastest time to build a Liberty Ship."

Forgetting of course, but pretty sure they set one up that they completed in a few days. Involved tweaking the already fast modular system a bit. Kind of a stunt.

And speaking of Kaiser, he was a key part of the consortium of nobodies and small players that built Hoover Dam, when the big dogs of the day opted out. As I recall. He made his first mark in road-building, so something civil engineer-ish was sort of in his wheelhouse. A friend works for a grandson (?) of one of the principals in that group, company name is a reference to the consortium.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 19, 2025 12:31 AM (U/Byj)

289 My fav though was Billy Idol. Sweet Young Thing next to me had stripped down to a thong and was standing up in her seat just rocking it. Best seat I ever had.
Posted by: Fenrisulven
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Applying for a groupie position, she was.

Posted by: buddhaha at August 19, 2025 12:32 AM (pgBhY)

290 Trump orders supper:
...a Big Beautiful Big Mac, a Fillet-O-Fish on the side, Large Fries, Vanilla Shake, and a Diet Coke. Lots of ice. Been a long day."

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 19, 2025 12:34 AM (Cm8rh)

291 154
they long ago lost the institutional knowledge to achieve big things.

They wuz Kangz.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 18, 2025 10:57 PM (63Dwl)

Last summer coming east out of Jellystone on US 14 we stopped at the Buffalo Bill Dam Visitor Center. Worth a visit if you're going past. I noticed it cost (I think) One Million for the initial dam built around 1900, including two failed attempts. Later on, '70's or 80's they added maybe 20' to the height. Cost over 100 million!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at August 19, 2025 12:41 AM (QGaXH)

292 Kaiser doesn’t make ships any longer, but their health care program lives on, sort of

Posted by: Common Tater at August 19, 2025 12:42 AM (q/G6k)

293 164
I'm reading A Call to Arms by Maury Klien about how the US mobilized the home front in World War II. The story of how we built the greatest industrial powerhouse in history from, basically, nothing is an amazing one.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 18, 2025 11:03 PM (kkTda)

Amazing how real, honest-to-God fear, not media hyped artificial fear, can focus the mind.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at August 19, 2025 12:45 AM (QGaXH)

294 Can't visualize the Suburban dash board. Cars of the past would mount speakers under the dash facing up toward the windshield; excellent resonance.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 19, 2025 12:27 AM (Cm8rh)

No, the stereo is in my 1964 Studebaker Daytona convertible.

This car here: https://tinyurl.com/43sc4xkc

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 19, 2025 12:46 AM (OvO3C)

295 One thing I noticed about supervising. Have to check up on people. “Did you do step X?”

“Well … no”
Why not?

Turns out, if people don’t understand something, they will just skip it. Maybe they are super genius and can make the call, but the logic disconnect always disturbed me a little bit more than anything.

“I don’t understand this, so fuck it”

Posted by: Common Tater at August 19, 2025 12:47 AM (q/G6k)

296 The idea that improving I-75 in Michigan would increase MI's popularity, ie, increase net population is pathetic wishful thinking. Born and raised there along the I-75 corridor ('65 - '83) moved back for a period ('94 - '02) left and haven't looked back since. Despite dwindling union jobs the state votes like it's still the Big 3 heydays but all they end up with are idiots like Granholm and the Whitmer who drive population away with leftist stupidity. Of course the idiot Whitmer signed up for this latest waste of tax dollars. Serves the voters right

Posted by: LuvinSpoonful at August 19, 2025 12:49 AM (kjy5M)

297 This car here: https://tinyurl.com/43sc4xkc
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Nice. Being a 64 I'm surprised it doesn't have pre-fab holes in the dash.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 19, 2025 01:02 AM (Cm8rh)

298
Heh, just watched a video of Trump and the Euroweenies meeting. That little worm of a Kraut Chancellor, Fred Merz, was droning on, and Giorgia Meloni was trying hard not to roll her eyes. You could tell she wanted to, but had to restrain herself.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 19, 2025 01:03 AM (w6EFb)

299 Time slipped away and it's time for me to do so.
Goodnight all.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 19, 2025 01:04 AM (Cm8rh)

300 106

Never went to a school dance. I went to school during the day, hated high school and wouldn't go back there after school ended for the day.

Posted by: four seasons at August 18, 2025 10:34 PM (3ek7K)

Same.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 19, 2025 01:05 AM (k2LUN)

301 Posted by: LuvinSpoonful at August 19, 2025 12:49 AM (kjy5M)

Its the availability of Energy, and Water, that drives industry...

It is industry that drives PRODUCTIVE population growth... because there is unproductive population growth... where they produce no actual wealth (things).... just cut each others hair.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 19, 2025 01:07 AM (mP0Kj)

302 Good Night Friends....

Sleep Well!

I still think of last November and smile.....

Flying the B-2 overhead when Putin arrived in Alaska was a nice touch.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at August 19, 2025 01:07 AM (QGaXH)

303 Nice. Being a 64 I'm surprised it doesn't have pre-fab holes in the dash.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 19, 2025 01:02 AM (Cm8rh)

They had an AM-Fm radio available, but no stereo. I don't think the convertible had a rear speaker available, but sedans did, with a F/R fader control IIRC.

Eight-track players were just beginning to appear in '66.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 19, 2025 01:08 AM (OvO3C)

304 300 106

Never went to a school dance. I went to school during the day, hated high school and wouldn't go back there after school ended for the day.

Posted by: four seasons at August 18, 2025 10:34 PM (3ek7K)

Same.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 19, 2025 01:05 AM (k2LUN)

With what I know now? I'd go back to High School in an instant... I'd be such a slut...

I was a Nerd... and did not understand the 'game' until I was in my 20's.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 19, 2025 01:09 AM (mP0Kj)

305 I depended on aftermarket car-service manuals often, back when I was a single female without a boyfriend and could not afford to just "take it to a shop" like others could.

Had Chilton's, Motor, Clymer, Haynes-- sometimes more than one manual for each vehicle. It's like getting a second opinion on the job at hand.

These are all still in my Shop Library! Plus, a few dedicated manuals for various transmissions & engines, that I got *cheap* at a discount store that was going out of business. Can't pass up a 99 cent price on a 30 dollar book!

Posted by: JQ at August 19, 2025 01:10 AM (rdVOm)

306 Never went to a school dance. I went to school during the day, hated high school and wouldn't go back there after school ended for the day.

Posted by: four seasons at August 18, 2025 10:34 PM (3ek7K)

Same.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 19, 2025 01:05 AM (k2LUN)

Right there with ya!

Posted by: JQ at August 19, 2025 01:12 AM (rdVOm)

307 159 We just did a road trip from South Dakota to central New York and back. The interstate road system is over crowded and out dated. The roads were in bad shape. On our return to South Dakota, we stayed off the interstates as much as possible which reduced the wear on our vehicle and reduced our stress level.
Posted by: Archer at August 18, 2025 11:00 PM (IDphi)

You didn’t drive in TX.

There are only two places with good roads: Germany and TX. TXDoT actually upgrades its Interstates, though admittedly I-20 is looking a little worse for the wear out west.

I’d like to see I-27 at least extended to I-20. Even better if the north portion were extended from Amarillo to Raton, NM.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 19, 2025 01:14 AM (k2LUN)

308 My whole village went to a dance after a harvest of unwholesome grain.

Posted by: medieval peasant at August 19, 2025 01:16 AM (ZY6Vy)

309 296 The idea that improving I-75 in Michigan would increase MI's popularity, ie, increase net population is pathetic wishful thinking. Born and raised there along the I-75 corridor ('65 - '83) moved back for a period ('94 - '02) left and haven't looked back since. Despite dwindling union jobs the state votes like it's still the Big 3 heydays but all they end up with are idiots like Granholm and the Whitmer who drive population away with leftist stupidity. Of course the idiot Whitmer signed up for this latest waste of tax dollars. Serves the voters right
Posted by: LuvinSpoonful at August 19, 2025 12:49 AM (kjy5M)

MI has long been poorly governed/represented in Congress. And I-75 leads to FL. You wanna be in FL or MI in January?

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 19, 2025 01:17 AM (k2LUN)

310 My HS class has/had one of their 'milestone' reunions this summer.

Meh. Haven't broken my streak of 100% non-attendance!

Posted by: JQ at August 19, 2025 01:19 AM (rdVOm)

311 292 Kaiser doesn’t make ships any longer, but their health care program lives on, sort of
Posted by: Common Tater at August 19, 2025 12:42 AM (q/G6k)

Unless you have no health for which to care…

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 19, 2025 01:19 AM (k2LUN)

312 The Motors Manual had one of the best Tune-Up chapters I’ve ever read, if you had one from the 1940s or thereabouts.

One thing that struck me, even the repair manuals from the 1920s, the internal combustion engine was pretty well figured out. Nothing has changed, they just have an assload of stuff hanging off it now, it operates under exactly the same principles and the faults are exactly the same, and a mechanic from 2025 would probably learn something very useful from a fault diagnostic chapter in a manual published from 1925

Posted by: Common Tater at August 19, 2025 01:19 AM (yKoRs)

313 310 My HS class has/had one of their 'milestone' reunions this summer.

Meh. Haven't broken my streak of 100% non-attendance!
Posted by: JQ at August 19, 2025 01:19 AM (rdVOm)

Same.

If the crowd of students I hung out with (somewhat) colloquially called “the group” reunites for any reason, I am all in. Otherwise, no. Hell no. I didn’t even want to be in the damned graduation. What makes anyone think I’d go to a reunion of my own freewill?

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 19, 2025 01:21 AM (k2LUN)

314 Nothing has changed, they just have an assload of stuff hanging off it now, it operates under exactly the same principles and the faults are exactly the same, and a mechanic from 2025 would probably learn something very useful from a fault diagnostic chapter in a manual published from 1925
Posted by: Common Tater
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Agree!

My manual is from the 50s, scored at a public library inventory withdrawal sale. One dollar, because "hardbound"
Such a deal!

Posted by: JQ at August 19, 2025 01:23 AM (rdVOm)

315 Basically I make it a rule of mine to never mention the HS I went to or the class I was part of. Neither deserve it. If this is needed for a job or anything like that, fine, it’s on the public record, but just meintioning of my own free will? No.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 19, 2025 01:23 AM (k2LUN)

316 Not a Sting or Police fan at all... however the song Roxanne from the album The Secret Policeman's Other Ball is damn good. It pains me to say it.

https://tinyurl.com/y6zu8zch

Posted by: 496 at August 19, 2025 01:23 AM (iM0GV)

317 >>The Secret Policeman's Other Ball

Had that on cassette tape. Wore it out!
It was a great concert, maybe the best 'unplugged' versions of many hit songs!

Posted by: JQ at August 19, 2025 01:26 AM (rdVOm)

318 Giorgia Meloni was trying hard not to roll her eyes. You could tell she wanted to, but had to restrain herself.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 19, 2025 01:03 AM
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She is a hot ticket and a damn good counterpart for Trump

Posted by: 496 at August 19, 2025 01:27 AM (iM0GV)

319
Eight-track players were just beginning to appear in '66.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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I recall under-dash record player players in the J.C. Whitney catalog.
Ah, found a pic, scroll down
https://shorturl.at/9lif2

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 19, 2025 01:31 AM (XeU6L)

320 *player players?*

players

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 19, 2025 01:33 AM (XeU6L)

321 Good night, Horde, I'm tired and chilly and I need to burrow under the blankets.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 19, 2025 01:34 AM (0nHVk)

322 J.C. Whitney catalog used to blow me away with all the neat stuff you could buy!

Haven't seen their catalog in years. They still around?

Posted by: JQ at August 19, 2025 01:35 AM (rdVOm)

323 'Night, Debby! Sorry I missed ya tonight!

Posted by: JQ at August 19, 2025 01:36 AM (rdVOm)

324 Well, Pierre Poilievre has handily won the by-election in Battle River-Crowfoot, which is my riding. Not all polling places have reported, but he is currently leading with 79% of votes cast, over 26,000 votes so far. Closest runner-up is independent Bonnie Critchley, with some 3400 votes, double that of the Liberal contender, and four times that of the aptly-named NDP candidate, Katherine Swampy, with some 750 votes. There were a few other also-rans either serious independents, or from minor protest parties who got a hundred or two hundred votes, and a whole slew of nuisance candidates who got anywhere from zero to four votes (their entire cell block turned out?). The nuisance factor of this was neutralized by the simple expedient of not printing any of the candidates' names on the ballot: voters were simply instructed to write in the first name and last name of their choice, and the party affiliation, in case of same or similar names. None of the nuisance candidates had names remotely similar to Pierre Poilievre, so that never became a problem.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 19, 2025 01:36 AM (TNJzY)

325 71 Evenin'

I was listening to 'Men At Work' not too long ago; 'Business as Usual' and 'Cargo'. I think they broke up not too long after 'Cargo'. Most bands don't last long, even ones that got hugely popular. They were a pretty good pop rock band.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 18, 2025 10:25 PM (sAmhv)

I saw Men at Work at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) in the summer of 1983. I was a high school kid taking summer courses at the Skidmore College Institute of Classical Studies (beefing up the ole university application resume - studied intermediate Latin and History of Ancient Rome). My friend who attended the college outright worked security for SPAC, so he got me and a friend in as "interns" or something like that. We also saw Men at Work, Talking Heads, Peter Paul and Mary (who were in their usual commie form, but very good) and the Grateful Dead. We also saw a few classical music concerts as well. All outside under the stars. Great place to see a show - highly recommend. Men at Work was a great show, they rocked out pretty well.

Posted by: Publius Redux at August 19, 2025 01:38 AM (Gu66x)

326 JQ - https://www.jcwhitney.com/

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 19, 2025 01:41 AM (XeU6L)

327 The lesion occurred in the place on the arm that gets the most sun when typically resting on the car window while driving. I wonder about the handedness prevalence of forearm SCC in left-hand steering-wheel countries vs right-hand steering wheel countries.
Posted by: gp NOW at August 18, 2025 11:52 PM (8mLBT)

Same here same place. Lost a chunk about the size of a nickel. Healed up great

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 19, 2025 01:41 AM (WF/xn)

328 Thanks, Mike Hammer!

(slaps forehead...why didn't I think of that? LOL)

Posted by: JQ at August 19, 2025 01:46 AM (rdVOm)

329
After those terrible droughts we had back a few decades ago, I said I would never complain about rain again. But I'm getting close to breaking that, I'm afraid.

It just dumped another 0.91", pushing my total for Aug to 7.88". We'll top 8" for sure. Would've been nice if 3" of that could've fell in July, but there we are.

And it's gonna be cloudy until noon, so no chance of me seeing Mercury early this morning on the morning side, and that would be the optimal time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 19, 2025 01:46 AM (w6EFb)

330 It's not amazing. It's access and culture.

There are an assload of white people who can't swim either because they never did it and it's not something they grew up doing.

Go to the Caribbean and you will see a lot of black people who can swim. In Baltimore and Detroit and most cities where black people live not so much.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 18, 2025 11:55 PM (viF8m)

Um, no.

It is a parent's job to make sure the kids can swim. That is a survival skill.

And being from Alaska, when there was exactly one four-lane 20 yard pool available to most of us, we learned how to swim. We swam in anything, any lake, no matter how cold. Kenai Lake is glacier-fed, and that didn't stop us.

Access? For heaven's sake, everywhere has a public pool anymore. They are in high schools, for heaven's sake.

If your kid drowns, it's your fault. I don't care what color you are.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 19, 2025 01:47 AM (1Gsou)

331 JQ - https://www.jcwhitney.com/
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 19, 2025 01:41 AM (XeU6L)

I visited J.C. Whitney's storefront some 20-25 years ago. It was disappointing.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 19, 2025 01:48 AM (TNJzY)

332 It just dumped another 0.91", pushing my total for Aug to 7.88". We'll top 8" for sure. Would've been nice if 3" of that could've fell in July, but there we are.

And it's gonna be cloudy until noon, so no chance of me seeing Mercury early this morning on the morning side, and that would be the optimal time.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 19, 2025 01:46 AM (w6EFb)

So, is that good for okra, or bad for okra? Just asking.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 19, 2025 01:49 AM (1Gsou)

333 331 JQ - https://www.jcwhitney.com/
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 19, 2025 01:41 AM (XeU6L)

I visited J.C. Whitney's storefront some 20-25 years ago. It was disappointing.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 19, 2025 01:48 AM (TNJzY)

JC Whitney was our lifeline up here in the 1970's. Dad would buy two old VW's and make one out of them. We got a car if we helped. Mine ran $300 for the car and $300 for the engine. Ordered everything from JC Whitney and waited 8 to 10 weeks for delivery. But we got the stuff, which was not easy to find up here. And I drove that Beetle into the ground.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 19, 2025 01:50 AM (1Gsou)

334 JC Whitney was our lifeline up here in the 1970's. Dad would buy two old VW's and make one out of them. We got a car if we helped. Mine ran $300 for the car and $300 for the engine. Ordered everything from JC Whitney and waited 8 to 10 weeks for delivery. But we got the stuff, which was not easy to find up here. And I drove that Beetle into the ground.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 19, 2025 01:50 AM (1Gsou)

I remember they had a LOT of VW parts and accessories. The catalog was amazing. The store front was small and uninspiring.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 19, 2025 01:54 AM (TNJzY)

335 I visited J.C. Whitney's storefront some 20-25 years ago. It was disappointing.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Not surprising. Last catalog I saw, was just 'pretty' stuff for newer cars. Things one could purchase locally & not pay shipping cost.

Not much for older vehicles. Nothing amazing or unusual or even interesting, really. I miss the quirky things like "light up donkey hood ornament" or what-have-you.

Posted by: JQ at August 19, 2025 01:55 AM (rdVOm)

336 You know who else had a lot of VW parts and was amazing?

Posted by: herr schicklegruber at August 19, 2025 01:56 AM (KJHWA)

337 You know who else had a lot of VW parts and was amazing?
Posted by: herr schicklegruber

The Crushinator? Yes, yes she was.

Posted by: Bender Bending Rodriguez at August 19, 2025 01:59 AM (DgGvY)

338 I'll check out the JCW online-- later-- maybe there's something fun there after all.

Posted by: JQ at August 19, 2025 02:00 AM (rdVOm)

339 Odd story locally. Apparently some of the folks from the Russian Embassy saw some dude living in Bird, AK on a Russian motorcycle, and asked him about it. They posted it to a Russian blog. It went viral. So then this dude got a letter saying the Putin was gifting him a new Ural Motorcycle, and he could pick it up on base. Dude says he had no idea, not sure why, but what the heck?

https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/

I don't know how to link the story itself, but it's the top of the website.

Funkadelic.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 19, 2025 02:00 AM (1Gsou)

340 Not much for older vehicles. Nothing amazing or unusual or even interesting, really. I miss the quirky things like "light up donkey hood ornament" or what-have-you.
Posted by: JQ at August 19, 2025 01:55 AM (rdVOm)

You have to drive at high speed through a No Kings demonstration to get one of those now.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 19, 2025 02:00 AM (TNJzY)

341
Okra likes it, as just about everything, including weeds, grass, and brush. When it gets mirey and too wet to get out there and cut it, it's a problem.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 19, 2025 02:01 AM (w6EFb)

342 Hahaha, AOP! Good one.

Posted by: JQ at August 19, 2025 02:02 AM (rdVOm)

343 Does JC Whitney carry T-54 tank parts?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Zelensky at August 19, 2025 02:03 AM (09N0i)

344 Last item I bought from JCW, was a 8-circuit fuse block. Ended up putting it in a second-hand camp trailer after there was a small wiring melt-down/almost fire.

Added 12V "outlets" front & rear for small fan or other accessories. (These were the days before cell phones, but those outlets would now be handy for charging.)

Posted by: JQ at August 19, 2025 02:08 AM (rdVOm)

345 https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/

I don't know how to link the story itself, but it's the top of the website.

Funkadelic.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 19, 2025 02:00 AM (1Gsou)

Neat story. Why? Because Trump has a reputation for generosity, and Putin wanted show he could also be generous? Good PR, and it makes the existence of Ural motorcycles known to a wider potential market. They are pretty cool bikes, reminiscent of the WWII German BMW military bikes.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 19, 2025 02:10 AM (TNJzY)

346 I was in Artillery in the Army. For reasons I won't state Artillery is around 70% black. We had to do "drownproofing" every month in the pool on base. That's where you learn how to use your clothes as a float and basically... how to float. Us white boys would be in the deep end doing back flips off the diving board with our BDUs tied around us. Combat boots and all. The shallow end was filled with black guys trying to float in 3 feet of water and sinking. So I asked my buddy Dread WTF? and he said blacks are more dense. They don't float like white people.

Posted by: Reforger at August 19, 2025 02:14 AM (pxUkb)

347
Historic Vids@historyinmemes

Michael Jackson’s pet monkey Bubbles is still alive. He’s 41 and lives in a Great Ape sanctuary in Florida.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 19, 2025 02:21 AM (TGPs7)

348 I want one of those Russian OHV things that look like they are a drivable Bobcat with giant floatation tires on them. I've seen video of guys driving into icy lakes, falling through the ice and just driving out the other side. Up a cliff.

Posted by: Reforger at August 19, 2025 02:23 AM (pxUkb)

349 The Sherp.

Posted by: Reforger at August 19, 2025 02:25 AM (pxUkb)

350 Men at Work - one of the more unfortunate band breakups due to the two leads (Colin Hay & Greg Ham) thinking heck, what'a we need these other two goofballs when WE are the stars? Only to sadly find the fans wanted the whole band not two egos. Their duo album face planted but they refused to go back. Was an interview w Hay in the early 90s re how angry he was the fans weren't filling even small venues just to hear him sing. If only ........

Posted by: Manchero at August 19, 2025 02:26 AM (kjy5M)

351 I'll check out the JCW online-- later-- maybe there's something fun there after all.
Posted by: JQ
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I just glanced at it. Nothing interesting, for me.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 19, 2025 02:27 AM (XeU6L)

352 re how angry he was the fans weren't filling even small venues just to hear him sing. If only ........
Posted by: Manchero at August 19, 2025 02:26 AM (kjy5M)

Probably came across in his performances too. Nobody want to see that crap. Angry has beens.

Posted by: Reforger at August 19, 2025 02:32 AM (pxUkb)

353 Hour to go

Posted by: Skip at August 19, 2025 02:32 AM (+qU29)

354 Quarrion@QuarrionC

Beverly D’Angelo had a phenomenal rack. Just finer than frogs fur, that one.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 19, 2025 02:36 AM (TGPs7)

355 Time to sit outside for a bit & see if Cat is around.

BBL.

Posted by: JQ at August 19, 2025 02:36 AM (rdVOm)

356 Well, getting on for 0100 here. Time for bed. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 19, 2025 02:39 AM (TNJzY)

357
They had an AM-Fm radio available, but no stereo. I don't think the convertible had a rear speaker available, but sedans did, with a F/R fader co
Eight-track players were just beginning to appear in '66.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 19, 2025 01:08 AM (OvO3C)

Had a used '65 (IIRC) Mustang. It had a little flip lid compartment with a flip up lid in front of the floor shifter.
It proved to be the perfect place to install and hide an 8-track player

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 19, 2025 02:43 AM (qCHRh)

358 290 Trump orders supper:
...a Big Beautiful Big Mac, a Fillet-O-Fish on the side, Large Fries, Vanilla Shake, and a Diet Coke. Lots of ice. Been a long day."
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 19, 2025 12:34 AM (Cm8rh)

-----

"Which one doesn't belong?"
Obviously the Diet Coke and I'm not talking about the taste.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 19, 2025 02:48 AM (JRuih)

359 Probably came across in his performances too. Nobody want to see that crap. Angry has beens.
Posted by: Reforger at August 19, 2025 02:32 AM (pxUkb)

I only ever saw Colin Hay live playing with Ringo Starr's travelling circus of a band. That was a hoot of a show.

I was a kid sitting front row. During one of the more sing-along kind of songs, my voice cracked *super* hard, so badly that Colin himself actually noticed it through his monitor, flinched, and looked straight at me with a face that clearly said "What in the hell was that, kid?", and then smirked and kept on playing.

And, for the record, I cannot recall who opened for them that night.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 19, 2025 02:51 AM (zmF9y)

360 These is also something other things I found amusing at the lovely RCC during my visit on Sunday. There were two boys of about four and five beautifully dressed up wearing ties and with two people whom I'm guessing were their grandparents . I think they might have been coloring in the pew because there is no Sunday school at 8:00.. Good to have restless little boys occupied Anyway, the were facing backwards towards us and every so often they would peak up over the pew and smile

There was also a sweet little girl carefully. carrying up something I think for the collection. She looked a little nervous and I think she was there with her grandparents and when they all progressed a k down the aisle after she delivered whatever she needed to she liked very relieved and her grandparents were yes, smiling and laughing a bit.

Oh, yes , the priest said something amusing during the homily and I laughed . This does not mean I have disrespect for the RCC or the Mass It means I think people can be amusing during services and I am grateful that God has patience with us and that he must have a sense of humor with humanity

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 19, 2025 02:55 AM (2GCMq)

361 We need another 1000 poster.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 18, 2025 10:13 PM (mT+6a)

No. We don't.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 19, 2025 02:59 AM (L5An7)

362 Sorry for the typos. meant "she looked very relieved"

I may go to Mass at another RC church this morning because my family is in need of prayer and I am glad to sometimes worship at a place I don't have to responsible for anything.

And yes, I say "God bless you " to people even whom I irritate at ASHQ because I want God to bless them.

Good night all!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 19, 2025 03:00 AM (2GCMq)

363 It means I think people can be amusing during services and I am grateful that God has patience with us and that he must have a sense of humor with humanity

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 19, 2025 02:55 AM (2GCMq)

I was going to an RC church for a bit with my wife after we moved to our new place. We had been going for a good couple weeks, not really knowing anyone at all, but one day, right before collections, I got clapped on the arm by one of the deacon type guys who said "hey, our one guy is sick today, want to help out?" So I wound up doing the whole walk down the aisle row by row with the little wicker basket-on-a-stick thing.

It was incredibly awkward, my heathen self not knowing what to do with itself, and the congregation all looking at me like "who the heck is this guy?", but it was over quickly. Fortunately I was dressed pretty nice. (Heck, that may have been why they picked me... wearing a suit, sitting on the aisle, functioning arms and legs... a perfect pinch-collector.)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 19, 2025 03:06 AM (zmF9y)

364 Am I the only one who has a very clever and sneaky coffee gnome in his house who surreptitiously finishes my coffee when I am not looking?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 19, 2025 03:13 AM (L5An7)

365 364 Am I the only one who has a very clever and sneaky coffee gnome in his house who surreptitiously finishes my coffee when I am not looking?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 19, 2025 03:13 AM (L5An7)

That little bastard's cousin is living in my basement, I think.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 19, 2025 03:17 AM (zmF9y)

366 Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 19, 2025 03:06 AM (zmF9y)

Synagogues hit up the congregation for money in different ways. Yearly dues, plus some will sell tickets to Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services.

That's one of the reasons why I like Chabad. They are straight up about it, but make it clear that everyone is welcome no matter what.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 19, 2025 03:18 AM (VDgiz)

367 BBC, unable to help itself:

Ukraine's President Zelensky managed to avoid another disastrous Oval Office meeting with Donald Trump.

Posted by: m at August 19, 2025 03:23 AM (aURVT)

368 364 Am I the only one who has a very clever and sneaky coffee gnome in his house who surreptitiously finishes my coffee when I am not looking?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 19, 2025 03:13 AM (L5An7)

And at its peak temperature, too.

Posted by: m at August 19, 2025 03:25 AM (aURVT)

369 That's one of the reasons why I like Chabad. They are straight up about it, but make it clear that everyone is welcome no matter what.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 19, 2025 03:18 AM (VDgiz)

The head priest at our place is a mensch. He's very much the same way. He even says, "hey, if you're hard up and have nothing to give this month, *I'll* donate my own money in your name." And he isn't fibbing. The parish is doing pretty good for itself since everyone gives because they want to, not because they are guilted or harassed into it, and the pews are usually pretty full on game day on account of it. It's nice when we can see our religious leadership actually being leaders.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 19, 2025 03:28 AM (zmF9y)

370 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 19, 2025 03:29 AM (SRRAx)

371 Oh, Trump, that destabilizing warmonger dictator puppet... ending half a dozen wars through straight up diplomacy in half a year. What a monster.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 19, 2025 03:31 AM (zmF9y)

372 Time to get rolling

Posted by: Skip at August 19, 2025 03:31 AM (+qU29)

373 I go to the Catholic services with my wife who is catholic but I'm not. However I'm a trained singer (tenor) with a sizeable voice but the church acoustics are bad ; absorbent ceiling tiles and the modern semicircle layout. So the responses were done and the priest, a very nice fellow, said; I wish that man in the back singing so wonderfully would join the choir. Applause followed, I said to the people nearby; I didn't think they could hear me and we'll talk , about the choir. the two women who were the choir were what just happened ?The one knew I sang. The other was this 15 year old who sounded nice but had no idea she took breaths in the middle of lines I had asked her if she knew about breath control at a practice and got a blank look.

Posted by: Lord Percy at August 19, 2025 03:33 AM (nftVU)

374 358 290 Trump orders supper:
...a Big Beautiful Big Mac, a Fillet-O-Fish on the side, Large Fries, Vanilla Shake, and a Diet Coke. Lots of ice. Been a long day."
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 19, 2025 12:34 AM (Cm8rh)

-----

"Which one doesn't belong?"
Obviously the Diet Coke and I'm not talking about the taste.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 19, 2025 02:48 AM (JRuih)

But he drinks that "garbage" (as he calls it)!

Posted by: m at August 19, 2025 03:47 AM (aURVT)

375 "The Coca Cola company is not happy with me--that's okay, I'll still keep drinking that garbage."

Posted by: m at August 19, 2025 03:49 AM (aURVT)

376 The one knew I sang. The other was this 15 year old who sounded nice but had no idea she took breaths in the middle of lines I had asked her if she knew about breath control at a practice and got a blank look.
Posted by: Lord Percy at August 19, 2025 03:33 AM (nftVU)

Sweetheart, Catholics go to Mass, they don't have "service."

And as a group, American Catholics have the worst music in church. Not sure why that is so, except that during the 1960's when the Mass was being destroyed a bunch of Jesuits wrote some very banal crap and it's been sung ever since, by bad musicians.

Good Catholic music is, of course, chant. And it is supposed to have "pride of place," but for some reason American Catholics just can't seem to get on board with that. It is beautiful, and not all that difficult.

Wrecking the Mass has been the mode of the day for a good 70 years now. If you can make Catholic music awesome for that parish, you go for it.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 19, 2025 03:53 AM (1Gsou)

377 Vanilla shake?

RAAAAACIST!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 19, 2025 03:53 AM (zmF9y)

378 377 Vanilla shake?

RAAAAACIST!
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 19, 2025 03:53 AM (zmF9y)

Well, except:

Shake, shake, shake
Shake, shake, shake
Shake yo bootie

Posted by: m at August 19, 2025 03:57 AM (aURVT)

379 *booty?

Posted by: m at August 19, 2025 03:58 AM (aURVT)

380 It's nice when we can see our religious leadership actually being leaders.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 19, 2025 03:28 AM (zmF9y)

Bingo.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 19, 2025 04:03 AM (L5An7)

381 publius and other stars:

I found this Longfellow snippet, new to me, and thought of all y'all

The night is come, but not too soon;
And sinking silently,
All silently, the little moon
Drops down behind the sky.
There is no light in earth or heaven
But the cold light of stars;
And the first watch of night is given
To the red planet Mars.
...

Posted by: m at August 19, 2025 04:07 AM (aURVT)

382 Wrecking the Mass has been the mode of the day for a good 70 years now. If you can make Catholic music awesome for that parish, you go for it.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 19, 2025 03:53 AM (1Gsou)

Interesting discussion because I just left my local parish here in Singapore because I could not stand the musical selection. Instead I attended Mass at the cathedral (where there is a large and well conducted choir and a real organ/organist). The idea that the Mass needs to be made more accessible by adding guitars and a drum track and singing pop-sounding hymns is absurd. The Catholic Mas is supposed to be ancient, everlasting and filled with mystery. We have 2,000 years of musical tradition, with sacred music from about 100 to 600 years ago being particularly wonderful. My feeling is that any musical director in a parish who, with all that great music to choose from, picks some ridiculous modern hymn should be excommunicated, after a public whipping.

Posted by: Publius Redux at August 19, 2025 04:17 AM (Gu66x)

383 I only get Cokes with fast food, and often get lemonade instead

Posted by: Skip at August 19, 2025 04:17 AM (+qU29)

384 Agree about the bad music and musicians.

We don't go there anymore during the covid insanity one of the silly women was trying to shove masks on us I said I'm not wearing one and my wife the same. And the priest had just gone down the aisle to begin the mass, right behind him, she pulls this !

On the way out my wife says; We're through coming here.

Posted by: Lord Percy at August 19, 2025 04:18 AM (nftVU)

385 from Hoyt over at Insty: African Union Wants End to Mercator Projection Map Use Over “Disinformation”

They say it makes them feel "marginalized", because all the stuff at the poles where those nasty ice people live looks bigger than it really is....

Bro. The standard Mercator Projection literally places Africa dead center on the map. It is as far from marginalizing as it is possible to be.

Even if you think Mercator was some kind of Radical Yupik Nationalist, or something, it's an utterly preposterous complaint. Also note the fundamental silliness of Africans complaining about European's lack of appreciation for their size...

Anyway, there's probably a word for making such an unintentionally ironic complaint that it demonstrates you don't have much to complain about. That word is probably German.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 19, 2025 04:28 AM (zmF9y)

386 Dare one mention; .... Vatican 2.....

This bunch have little regard for music, " just leave it to the womenfolk "

There is a list of the 10 worst catholic hymns not even written by catholics , well they all 10 get used there.

Posted by: Lord Percy at August 19, 2025 04:29 AM (nftVU)

387 Since most folks who have been posting here for.while know the state which I live in ,here are some pictures of the lovely church I sometimes attend. Anyone who would think I would go to church to make fun of the Mass is lacking in discernment and no, of course I don't receive the Eucharist . In addition, not that everybody could possibly or even want to read every thread here, but I regularly post positive things about Roman Catholicism and will do so in an about an hour or so on the tech thread. I just don't care for nasty religious arguments among Christians and particularly among folks here who are politically conservative

Pictures:

https://tinyurl.com/2jswu7ue

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 19, 2025 04:29 AM (2GCMq)

388 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 19, 2025 04:29 AM (2GCMq)

Well thankfully so far this morning the only nastiness is a bunch of Catholics complaining that Catholic music sucks, and me agreeing. Well, I didn't agree yet. But I was about to.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 19, 2025 04:32 AM (zmF9y)

389 Morning, folken! I'm awake unaccountably early. Whassup?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 19, 2025 04:33 AM (omVj0)

390 389 Morning, folken! I'm awake unaccountably early. Whassup?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 19, 2025 04:33 AM (omVj0)

Catholic music sucks. Maps are racist. Coke is garbage. The usual.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 19, 2025 04:34 AM (zmF9y)

391 Anyway, there's probably a word for making such an unintentionally ironic complaint that it demonstrates you don't have much to complain about. That word is probably German.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 19, 2025

***
Yes, but it has fifty-seven syllables and cannot be pronounced by a human.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 19, 2025 04:34 AM (omVj0)

392 Someone is late, again.

Posted by: clarence at August 19, 2025 04:36 AM (zxQ/L)

393 Oh - and btw - at the Cathedral (Cathedral of The Good Shepherd). The choir and musicians/organist were excellent, but even they couldn't resist the need to follow up an excellent version of Ave Verum Corpus, with some God-awful modern hymn during communion.

Oh - And afterwards they gave a sampling from an upcoming out-of-church event where they will be performing. They decided to feature a modern "African" hymn in Swahili.

Um. No. Just. No. Please for the love of the Risen Lord, please stop.

Posted by: Publius Redux at August 19, 2025 04:36 AM (Gu66x)

394 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at August 19, 2025 04:37 AM (aURVT)

395 Mornin', Horde.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 19, 2025 04:38 AM (Wnv9h)

396 Actually , the music at the RC on Sunday was very nice . They set some liturgical prayers
to music from the 1700s and for music during the reception of the Eucharist they had a 17th hymn by Issac Watts. Some of the liturgy was sung by the RC version of a cantor

I don't know the proper terms for the type of Masses but this one had.a fair amount of stuff in Latin so I'm quessiinv it's a Novo Ordus Mass? Sorry if I got the term wrong

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 19, 2025 04:42 AM (2GCMq)

397 Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 19, 2025 04:32 AM

You are funny! 🙂

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 19, 2025 04:43 AM (2GCMq)

398 They say it makes them feel "marginalized", because all the stuff at the poles where those nasty ice people live looks bigger than it really is....

Bro. The standard Mercator Projection literally places Africa dead center on the map. It is as far from marginalizing as it is possible to be.

And the Mercator projection was designed for tropical maritime navigation so the poles were where the distortions were meant to be. More accuracy at the tropical regions at the expense of the poles.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 19, 2025 04:48 AM (vm8sq)

399 374 358 290 Trump orders supper:
...a Big Beautiful Big Mac, a Fillet-O-Fish on the side, Large Fries, Vanilla Shake, and a Diet Coke. Lots of ice. Been a long day."
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 19, 2025 12:34 AM (Cm8rh)

Dude needs McNuggets. I want to know what sauce has the presidential seal of approval.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 19, 2025 04:50 AM (vm8sq)

400 400

Posted by: m at August 19, 2025 04:51 AM (aURVT)

401 The Latin mass is in latin, the novo ordus is the one everyone dislikes as far as I know.

Issac Watts was not a catholic.

I just like decent music having been a chorister and soloist off and on since I was 15.
The church we go to now nobody has heard a note out of me. In any case being 29 ...+7 or so my voice is not what it was, lack of practise. I have a collection of over 55 solos which I used to do to cover every service.

Posted by: Lord Percy at August 19, 2025 05:05 AM (nftVU)

402 336 You know who else had a lot of VW parts and was amazing?
Posted by: herr schicklegruber at August 19, 2025 01:56 AM (KJHWA)

You know who started VW? Don’t you???

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 19, 2025 06:01 AM (vm8sq)

403 Posted by: Lord Percy at August 19, 2025 05:05 AM (nftVU

Yes, I know about Issac. Watts. Someone on this site was offended that I was amused that the RCC was playing the music to a hymn written by. a dissenting Protestant minister.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 19, 2025 06:33 AM (2GCMq)

404 west virginia does not have fifty yards of straight pavement within its' borders.
the triple nickle near athens, ohio worth a day trip.

Posted by: cmeat at August 19, 2025 03:11 PM (LgQ89)

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