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Saturday Night "Club ONT" August 13, 2025 [The 3 Ds]
(First candidate to join us is Some Rat - so he can fix the wobbly table)
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Drink of the Night Cherry Bounce George Washington's Favorite Drink Is the 1 Recipe You Should Be Making Right Now
Image courtesy of Amanda at iambaker.net
What Is Cherry Bounce? Cherry Bounce, which dates back centuries, is a delightful cordial made with tart cherries, sugar, and a liquor—often brandy or whiskey. Though vodka is now a popular option. Over several months, cherries are infused into the alcohol and are sweetened with the addition of sugar. Some variations include aromatic whole spices, such as cloves, nutmeg, or cinnamon sticks. In some parts of the country, such as Virginia, North Carolina, and Wisconsin, Cherry Bounce is a common drink, especially around the holidays. It’s prepared in the summer during peak cherry season, and is stored for several months while the flavor deepens and sweetens—resulting in an incredibly strong, somewhat syrupy cherry liqueur. It can be sipped by itself, served over ice, or (most commonly) paired with a lemon-lime soda for a tasty but strong cocktail. *** How To Make Cherry Bounce Nancy Carter Crump's book, "Dining With the Washingtons," features a vintage Cherry Bounce recipe with some extra add-ins and flair. But for an easy, simplified version, our Door County Cherry Bounce recipe only requires three ingredients: cherries, sugar, and alcohol. Cherry Bounce fan, @innkeepercaroline, recently shared a similar recipe on Instagram with the same measurements. Our recipe calls for vodka while Caroline's uses whiskey. To make Cherry Bounce, add fresh, pitted cherries to a 1-quart jar or bottle with an air-tight lid. Next, add sugar and then an alcohol of your choice—making sure to cover the cherries entirely. Seal and set aside in a cool, dark place for at least a couple of weeks—but a couple of months is even better. Occasionally, shake the jar gently. Serve at room temperature and refrigerate once opened.Check out the links above to learn more about this liqueur and various uses for it. Small sipper shots available at the bar here in the Club (while supplies last). In other news, Cherry Bounce will be appearing in the club down the road and across the tracks later this evening. If you have questions how to make Cherry Bounce, she'll happily answer them. However, she may or may not accept Club ONT restroom tokens. *** On the subject of drinking. The Lost Art of Surviving a Hangover
The number of drinkers in America has reached a record low. And yet, you can learn a lot about yourself after a long night of boozing. A long time ago, after a friend’s grooms’ dinner, during which we drank kegs of beer, copious amounts of gin, and bottles of cheap wine, I woke up with a hangover so bad the world vibrated. Not in a fun way. I’d drunk too much, had too good a time, and I was paying the price. That next day, the day of my friend’s wedding, was about surviving—not puking, suppressing the headache, staying on my feet. I succeeded and slept nearly the entire day after until the hangover was gone. You’ve most likely endured a hangover, a “virtually pandemic ailment,” according to the writer Kingsley Amis. Maybe it happened to you decades ago or this morning. You meet a friend for a beer, assuming it’ll be two drinks—max—and hoping you’ll be home by 10 p.m. The music is good, the conversation is even better, and the first two drinks go down easy. So why not a third? A fourth? Sure, it’s Wednesday; tomorrow isn’t too busy. A shot? Fuck it. A cigarette? I haven’t smoked in years—I’d love one! You know this will end badly, and you do it anyway. You’ve felt the physical discomfort—headache, nausea, lethargy—as well as the anxiety and existential dread it can produce. A few years ago, Esquire published a story about a particularly bad strain of it called Hangxiety: “Apparently it all has to do with the balance of the chemicals in your brain … As your brain re-adjusts after a night of abusing gin to grease the vocal cords for the high notes in ‘Bring Him Home’ at karaoke (you thought Les Mis would be easy?), you may become a real drag to be around.” *** Hangovers suck, and the fewer of them you have the better (and probably longer) your life will be. But that doesn’t mean you should avoid them at all costs. The occasional hangover is neither shameful, nor wrong. (The word occasional is important.) It is the painful remembrance of a good time. For one night, you ignored the annoying emails and crushing responsibilities, enjoyed time with friends, maybe made new ones, possibly got laid. The hangover was worth it. And remember, you’re not alone in feeling this way. “Hangovers were an honorable, even heroic, ordeal,” Berendt wrote in that July ’91 issue. “All the best people had them.” I imagine the Allies planned and fought World War II with hangovers. David Wells pitched a perfect game for the Yankees while “massively hungover.” Conspiracy theorists have suggested Michael Jordan’s famous flu game was less the result of a bug—or nefarious food poisoning—and more the effects of a long night drinking at the card table. Meanwhile, three of the four U.S. presidents during the 21stcentury—George W. Bush, Trump, and Biden—have been teetotalers. Only one, Obama, may have governed with a hangover. Maybe that explains why we live in such chaotic times.Check out the whole thing.
Club ONT Shirt of the Week
Club ONT History Department - Saloon History Edition A salute to our like-minded ancestors 20 Vintage Photos of Old-Timey Saloons
Before Prohibition dried up the taps and made everyone grouchy, saloons were the social heartbeat of towns big and small. These vintage photos capture the rustic charm of these smoky, booze-filled taverns, where cowboys, laborers, and well-dressed gentlemen gathered to swap stories and cut loose over whiskey and beer. In a time before smartphones and streaming, the good ol’ saloon was where news spread and reputations were made or broken over a round of shots.Just a few from the link:
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Club ONT History Department - Amusement Park Edition
After paying 10 cents to ticket sellers in red robes and horned hats, they queued up in front of an open-faced building topped with a huge, red, winged figure of Satan. Under his glowering stare, they watched as riders ahead of them crowded into open boats and descended along an ever-narrowing 50-foot whirlpool swirling toward the center until, astonishingly, the boats disappeared - seemingly swallowed up by the waters of the Gate.
Amusement parks like Dreamland made these religious rides, ones that portray the Judeo-Christian values, because New York City would have shut the show down otherwise. In the early 20th century, New York City had very strict laws that only shows of a religious or educational nature could take place on a Sunday. Because Sunday was the only day that people had off, it was the busiest day of the week down in Coney Island. If the owners of the park wanted to turn a profit, they had to have attractions that the city would allow, hence all the shows of a religious nature.Now you know. PS. If you see a sign that says "Hell Gate" on the door to a Club ONT restroom, prepare for an experience that may or may not be religious.
Club ONT Department of Solid Advice
One brave man in front of a mob of imbeciles and idiots. pic.twitter.com/XONqlC0Wqk
— Vivid.🇮🇱 (@VividProwess) August 20, 2025
Club ONT Music Let's honor a few birthday boys tonight! 1946 - The late, great Keith Moon of The Who
1949 - Rick Springfield
1961 - Dean DeLeo, guitarist with Stone Temple Pilots
Top 10ish Comments of the Week. Or thereabout...
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Caution: Club ONT has received word that pumpkin spice beverages could be headed this way. Club ONT data analysts have been scouring the landscape and working to assemble a threat assessment. The best intelligence we have is that they could arrive as early as the end of the month. If past years are an indicator, October is peak season. If you observe pumpkin spice latte or beer or a pumpkin pie milkshake, take cover. Do not directly approach. If you see others that have been infected, use extreme caution. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Yay, National Cheap Flight Day ONT!
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 23, 2025 10:00 PM (lUFok)
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Yikes!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 23, 2025 10:00 PM (3wXSL)
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Nice
Posted by: GWB at August 23, 2025 10:00 PM (1PcCZ)
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Oy
Posted by: Muchas buchas at August 23, 2025 10:01 PM (sf8y1)
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Sorry I'm late. Made the mistake of talking about a movie on the movie thread. Got willowed.
Posted by: mindful webworker - time goes by so quickly at August 23, 2025 10:04 PM (i1iCx)
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Good evening morons y gracias to the Troika
I make Cherry Bounce with Cointreau but I didn't know it had a name.
I make Cherry Bounce with Cointreau but I didn't know it had a name.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 23, 2025 10:05 PM (RIvkX)
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Happy belated b-day, mindful.
Posted by: scampydog at August 23, 2025 10:06 PM (41CYW)
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When I wonder I always wonder "Why?" .
Posted by: Case at August 23, 2025 10:07 PM (iwlvf)
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DDS
Hot Ds
Who loves hot Ds
What kind of morons love all the hot Ds
Fat morons, skinny morons,
Morons falling off of rocks,
Tough morons, buzzed morons,
Even ones with chicken pox...
The Ds with real fine drinks🤪
Hiya triples Ds!
Hot Ds
Who loves hot Ds
What kind of morons love all the hot Ds
Fat morons, skinny morons,
Morons falling off of rocks,
Tough morons, buzzed morons,
Even ones with chicken pox...
The Ds with real fine drinks🤪
Hiya triples Ds!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 23, 2025 10:07 PM (3wXSL)
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Kinda surprised McSorley's didn't make the list.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 23, 2025 10:07 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 23, 2025 10:08 PM (2WIwB)
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Had a nice thing happen, on a day where a lot of non-nice things happen.
Well, first, the guy in another apartment shouted "Help me!" and I did.
Which makes the second seem kind of trivial, but I found my Radio Shack battery tester, which I thought was lost or stolen. Still the best battery tester I've ever had. But yeah kind of minor to the world and all.
Well, first, the guy in another apartment shouted "Help me!" and I did.
Which makes the second seem kind of trivial, but I found my Radio Shack battery tester, which I thought was lost or stolen. Still the best battery tester I've ever had. But yeah kind of minor to the world and all.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 23, 2025 10:08 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 23, 2025 10:08 PM (u82oZ)
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ONT
Woulda been 5th but read the cONTent
Woulda been 5th but read the cONTent
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 23, 2025 10:09 PM (Mgy3C)
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Those two girls at the roadside bar, they seem fun to hang out with. Teenaged Bif would get in a ton of trouble there.
They're probably why my grandfather became a moonshine driver in louisiana.
They're probably why my grandfather became a moonshine driver in louisiana.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 23, 2025 10:09 PM (QVmho)
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Good evening COMM! Your table is ready.
Posted by: TRex - table wobbles add charm at August 23, 2025 10:09 PM (cCn4/)
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The Barrel is a lot cleaner than I imagined it. More 80's Neon, less medieval oubliette.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 23, 2025 10:10 PM (kpS4V)
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To make Cherry Bounce, add fresh, pitted cherries to a 1-quart jar or bottle with an air-tight lid. Next, add sugar and then an alcohol of your choice—making sure to cover the cherries entirely.
We did that with blueberries. My ex's grandfather had 37 blueberry bushes/orchard. We'd go over every 4th of July and have a huge fish fry and pick five gallon buckets of blueberries. We'd freeze them, cook with them and made cordials with vodka.
We did that with blueberries. My ex's grandfather had 37 blueberry bushes/orchard. We'd go over every 4th of July and have a huge fish fry and pick five gallon buckets of blueberries. We'd freeze them, cook with them and made cordials with vodka.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 23, 2025 10:10 PM (zXOsD)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 23, 2025 10:10 PM (Mgy3C)
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Cherry Bounce sounds like a stage name.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 23, 2025 10:11 PM (kpS4V)
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Hmmmm...
I've been around here long enough to know that the digital barrel ain't the barrel we are familiar with...some more than others.
I've been around here long enough to know that the digital barrel ain't the barrel we are familiar with...some more than others.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 23, 2025 10:12 PM (2WIwB)
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12 Which makes the second seem kind of trivial, but I found my Radio Shack battery tester, which I thought was lost or stolen. Still the best battery tester I've ever had. But yeah kind of minor to the world and all.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 23, 2025 10:08 PM
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Hooray! Congrats. Nice surprise.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 23, 2025 10:08 PM
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Hooray! Congrats. Nice surprise.
Posted by: TRex - RS had lots of goodies at August 23, 2025 10:12 PM (cCn4/)
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Good Saturday evening!
Posted by: QED Texan at August 23, 2025 10:12 PM (fveCG)
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Good evening, Horde.
Posted by: scampydog at August 23, 2025 10:12 PM (41CYW)
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The Scene:
July 5, 2025. A 19 yo Pop Tart is having a 4th of July weekend for the ages until she gets caught up in an Albuquerque DUI Checkpoint.
The Play:
Cop: Hey Ms. Pop Tart, how come the front bumper on your car is about to come off?
Pop Tart effectively responds with I have no idea what you are talking about.
Cop: How come you have cocaine on your nose?
Pop Tart effectively responds with I have no idea what you are talking about.
Hilarity ensues (it really does).
Jail.
The End.
https://youtu.be/dLGbZV_8cwI
July 5, 2025. A 19 yo Pop Tart is having a 4th of July weekend for the ages until she gets caught up in an Albuquerque DUI Checkpoint.
The Play:
Cop: Hey Ms. Pop Tart, how come the front bumper on your car is about to come off?
Pop Tart effectively responds with I have no idea what you are talking about.
Cop: How come you have cocaine on your nose?
Pop Tart effectively responds with I have no idea what you are talking about.
Hilarity ensues (it really does).
Jail.
The End.
https://youtu.be/dLGbZV_8cwI
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 23, 2025 10:13 PM (zdKZs)
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Tip: When you hear someone asking for help, step one, regrettably, should be "First, put on pants. Second, offer help."
Just in case you encounter a similar situation.
Just in case you encounter a similar situation.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 23, 2025 10:13 PM (CHHv1)
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Cherry Bounce sounds like a stage name.
Posted by: All Hail Eris
Up next on the center stage, everyone give a big hand for Cherry Bounce!
Posted by: All Hail Eris
Up next on the center stage, everyone give a big hand for Cherry Bounce!
Posted by: rickb223 at August 23, 2025 10:14 PM (zXOsD)
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Best of Breed for The Big Dummy at today's Greater Twin Cities Borzoi Club specialty, defeating some 57 other dogs, a very nice chunk of change. He may now be styled BISS GCHS Envious As We Fall. Well done, you dope!
Best of Breed for The Big Dummy at today's Greater Twin Cities Borzoi Club specialty, defeating some 57 other dogs, a very nice chunk of change. He may now be styled BISS GCHS Envious As We Fall. Well done, you dope!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 23, 2025 10:14 PM (kkTda)
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Some groaning memes tonight.
I will say, that porch pirate trick is good.
I have some junk I'd package, maybe not the original box, but a tempting box nonetheless.
Now if I only had a porch.
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As far as George Washington goes, he was The Father of our Country and a whiskey baron. We are forged in bullets and booze.
I will say, that porch pirate trick is good.
I have some junk I'd package, maybe not the original box, but a tempting box nonetheless.
Now if I only had a porch.
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As far as George Washington goes, he was The Father of our Country and a whiskey baron. We are forged in bullets and booze.
Posted by: RickZ at August 23, 2025 10:15 PM (gKDq2)
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Tip: When you hear someone asking for help, step one, regrettably, should be "First, put on pants. Second, offer help."
Just in case you encounter a similar situation.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 23, 2025 10:13 PM (CHHv1)
Depends on what kind of help they want, doesn't it?
Just in case you encounter a similar situation.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 23, 2025 10:13 PM (CHHv1)
Depends on what kind of help they want, doesn't it?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 23, 2025 10:15 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 23, 2025 10:15 PM (3wXSL)
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"Is the glass half empty, or half full?"
Engineer's response: "The glass is twice as large as it needs to be."
Engineer's response: "The glass is twice as large as it needs to be."
Posted by: Mike Hammer, with pocket protector at August 23, 2025 10:16 PM (XeU6L)
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Thanks for the entertaining and educational ONT, 3 Ds!
Saturday Night joke is like a Dad Joke. Still worth a chuckle!
We had a nice but all too brief rain this afternoon. Feeling mighty blessed!
Saturday Night joke is like a Dad Joke. Still worth a chuckle!
We had a nice but all too brief rain this afternoon. Feeling mighty blessed!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 23, 2025 10:16 PM (kB9dk)
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That Digital Barrel actually looks pretty nice. It looks like I've been lying awake at night all these years worrying about unclosed HTML tags for nothing.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 23, 2025 10:16 PM (hY4dx)
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Best of Breed for The Big Dummy at today's Greater Twin Cities Borzoi Club specialty, defeating some 57 other dogs, a very nice chunk of change. He may now be styled BISS GCHS Envious As We Fall. Well done, you dope!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Somebody is not only going to be sleeping on the bed tonight but under the covers is so desired. Plus steak.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Somebody is not only going to be sleeping on the bed tonight but under the covers is so desired. Plus steak.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 23, 2025 10:16 PM (zdKZs)
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I love pumpkin real pumpkin not artificially flavored pumpkin beverages.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 23, 2025 10:17 PM (RIvkX)
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Evenin'
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 23, 2025 10:17 PM (ErLti)
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36 I love pumpkin real pumpkin not artificially flavored pumpkin beverages.
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A man has to have his principles or he's nothing.
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A man has to have his principles or he's nothing.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 23, 2025 10:18 PM (hY4dx)
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Just stopping by to say Hi!
Watching the Svengoolie double feature. The curse of Frankenstein just ended, now it's going to be Leprechaun.
Watching the Svengoolie double feature. The curse of Frankenstein just ended, now it's going to be Leprechaun.
Posted by: Joyenz at August 23, 2025 10:18 PM (sPQoU)
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FWIW:
"In a study, Chinese scientists tested 57 drinks to measure their effectiveness in alleviating alcohol-related symptoms, including nausea and headache. They found that lemon-lime flavored Sprite gave the best results."
"In a study, Chinese scientists tested 57 drinks to measure their effectiveness in alleviating alcohol-related symptoms, including nausea and headache. They found that lemon-lime flavored Sprite gave the best results."
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 23, 2025 10:18 PM (XeU6L)
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Table shouldn't wobble with a base like that.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 23, 2025 10:19 PM (63Dwl)
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"Is the glass half empty, or half full?"
Engineer's response: "The glass is twice as large as it needs to be."
Posted by: Mike Hammer, with pocket protector at August 23, 2025 10:16 PM (XeU6L)
Or an MBA dweeb's response to cutting costs.
Engineer's response: "The glass is twice as large as it needs to be."
Posted by: Mike Hammer, with pocket protector at August 23, 2025 10:16 PM (XeU6L)
Or an MBA dweeb's response to cutting costs.
Posted by: RickZ at August 23, 2025 10:19 PM (gKDq2)
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We have Hell's Gate State Park and recreation area nearby...great place for RVing, boating, picnicking.
"Hell's Gate" doesn't sound so bad, when you remember "Heaven's Gate"
"Hell's Gate" doesn't sound so bad, when you remember "Heaven's Gate"
Posted by: JQ at August 23, 2025 10:19 PM (rdVOm)
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@27
>>Up next on the center stage, everyone give a big hand for Cherry Bounce!
It sounds like a stage name and the act itself, IYKWIMAITYD.
>>Up next on the center stage, everyone give a big hand for Cherry Bounce!
It sounds like a stage name and the act itself, IYKWIMAITYD.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 23, 2025 10:20 PM (XV/Pl)
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They found that lemon-lime flavored Sprite gave the best results.
Posted by: Mike Hammer
Is there any other kind of Sprite?
They found that lemon-lime flavored Sprite gave the best results.
Posted by: Mike Hammer
Is there any other kind of Sprite?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 23, 2025 10:20 PM (63Dwl)
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Happy belated b-day, mindful.
Posted by: scampydog
Thanks, scampy. Baby sister didn't text me a hello until today, so um what? it's belated related?
We pass this way but once.
Posted by: scampydog
Thanks, scampy. Baby sister didn't text me a hello until today, so um what? it's belated related?
We pass this way but once.
Posted by: mindful webworker - once or seventy-some times, whichever at August 23, 2025 10:20 PM (i1iCx)
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26 Tip: When you hear someone asking for help, step one, regrettably, should be "First, put on pants. Second, offer help."
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 23, 2025 10:13 PM
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We could sit here all day and talk about who was wearing pants when, but what good would that do?
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 23, 2025 10:13 PM
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We could sit here all day and talk about who was wearing pants when, but what good would that do?
Posted by: TRex - is this the book thread? at August 23, 2025 10:20 PM (cCn4/)
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Mazel Tov Big Dummy
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 23, 2025 10:21 PM (RIvkX)
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I saw Cherry Bounce open for Strawberry Switchblade at the Hacienda in 1986
Posted by: gKWVE at August 23, 2025 10:21 PM (gKWVE)
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Table shouldn't wobble with a base like that.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr
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After a couple of fights, and that base gets bent? Look out!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr
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After a couple of fights, and that base gets bent? Look out!
Posted by: JQ at August 23, 2025 10:21 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 23, 2025 10:21 PM (3wXSL)
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Happy birthday, mindful. As mentioned on the Movie thread, I've always liked Sandra Bullock.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 23, 2025 10:22 PM (CHHv1)
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Though vodka is now a popular option.
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This is a classic sentence fragment. Be better, AI.
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This is a classic sentence fragment. Be better, AI.
Posted by: The AoSHQ House Pedant at August 23, 2025 10:22 PM (hY4dx)
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Saturday night and I ain't got no money...I'm in an awful fright!
Posted by: Some Rat at August 23, 2025 10:22 PM (TfUTr)
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Fun readin' at the ONT tonight. Many thanks!
Posted by: 496 at August 23, 2025 10:23 PM (Rn6Z4)
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That top saloon looks like a cowboy-themed gay bar. All that's missing is the assless chaps.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 23, 2025 10:23 PM (hY4dx)
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Forgot to mention, but cats are the worst animals ever. Ask me how I know this. Number 6 will surprise you!
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 23, 2025 10:23 PM (CHHv1)
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That Digital Barrel actually looks pretty nice. It looks like I've been lying awake at night all these years worrying about unclosed HTML tags for nothing.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 23, 2025 10:16 PM (hY4dx)
No shit!!!
Pretty soon you'll have to have at least a tin foil membership just to get in the door.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 23, 2025 10:16 PM (hY4dx)
No shit!!!
Pretty soon you'll have to have at least a tin foil membership just to get in the door.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 23, 2025 10:23 PM (2WIwB)
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54 Saturday night and I ain't got no money...I'm in an awful fright!
Posted by: Some Rat at August 23, 2025 10:22 PM
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Have a Twizzlers.
Posted by: Some Rat at August 23, 2025 10:22 PM
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Have a Twizzlers.
Posted by: TRex - on the house at August 23, 2025 10:24 PM (cCn4/)
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all chaps are assless
Posted by: That Guy at August 23, 2025 10:24 PM (gKWVE)
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A thank you to the 3D's and a glorious good evening to you all.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 23, 2025 10:24 PM (dxWFK)
Posted by: JQ at August 23, 2025 10:25 PM (rdVOm)
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I have an idea for fighting porch piracy. It would take some cooperation and effort, but if people in a particular neighborhood that's been targeted enough are motivated:
Everyone in the neighborhood puts Amazon or other boxes on their porch filled with trash. Put address labels on them. See how long it takes for porch pirates to stop coming around.
I have an idea for fighting porch piracy. It would take some cooperation and effort, but if people in a particular neighborhood that's been targeted enough are motivated:
Everyone in the neighborhood puts Amazon or other boxes on their porch filled with trash. Put address labels on them. See how long it takes for porch pirates to stop coming around.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 23, 2025 10:25 PM (6eO0F)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 23, 2025 10:25 PM (S/Y4j)
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Just found a website that sells nothing but the little rubber feet that are mounted on the bottom of electronic items like stereos.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 23, 2025 10:25 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 23, 2025 10:25 PM (DS3M8)
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We had such a great time seeing all of our friends and family at our anniversary party last night! Thank you to everyone who showed up to help us celebrate 45 years together ❤️❤️❤️
We were so (happily) tired at the end of the night. On the ride home, I told Paul that I was going to need some help when we got home, because all of the hooks and snaps on my beautiful dress were in the back, and I was too tired to undo them myself.
He said, "I'll help you get out of your dress when we get home so we can both get in bed". About a half second later, we both started laughing, because that phrase meant something SOOOO much different last night than it did 45 years ago 🤣🤣🤣
We were so (happily) tired at the end of the night. On the ride home, I told Paul that I was going to need some help when we got home, because all of the hooks and snaps on my beautiful dress were in the back, and I was too tired to undo them myself.
He said, "I'll help you get out of your dress when we get home so we can both get in bed". About a half second later, we both started laughing, because that phrase meant something SOOOO much different last night than it did 45 years ago 🤣🤣🤣
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at August 23, 2025 10:25 PM (SRRAx)
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That last saloon pic looks almost exactly like a pic MiladyJo's family has of her grandfather. Except in their pic, Gramps is holding an extra-large schooner of beer.
The Evolution of Saloon Food of the Old West | Skillet Brisket Nachos, with Cowboy Kent Rollins
https://youtu.be/CM0uRrsp5rs
Some saloon history.
The Evolution of Saloon Food of the Old West | Skillet Brisket Nachos, with Cowboy Kent Rollins
https://youtu.be/CM0uRrsp5rs
Some saloon history.
Posted by: mindful webworker - belly up at August 23, 2025 10:25 PM (i1iCx)
69
So, MoMe 2023 or 22, I don’t remember, I was up LATE drinking whiskey with NZFrank. Went to bed around 3am.
Doof came by to take me to the airport, but on a tour of Dallas first.
I was still drunk getting on my flight several hours later.
Hangover averted!
Doof came by to take me to the airport, but on a tour of Dallas first.
I was still drunk getting on my flight several hours later.
Hangover averted!
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 23, 2025 10:26 PM (mT+6a)
70
34 That Digital Barrel actually looks pretty nice. It looks like I've been lying awake at night all these years worrying about unclosed HTML tags for nothing.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 23, 2025 10:16 PM
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Check the thermostat. I've heard it can get chilly.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 23, 2025 10:16 PM
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Check the thermostat. I've heard it can get chilly.
Posted by: TRex - the barrel looks like a freezer at August 23, 2025 10:26 PM (cCn4/)
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17 The Barrel is a lot cleaner than I imagined it. More 80's Neon, less medieval oubliette.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 23, 2025 10:10 PM (kpS4V)
THAT is not the barrel! It's clearly an AI representation shown to fool the lurkers!
/shudder
Some of us know the REAL barrel.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 23, 2025 10:10 PM (kpS4V)
THAT is not the barrel! It's clearly an AI representation shown to fool the lurkers!
/shudder
Some of us know the REAL barrel.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 23, 2025 10:26 PM (mP0Kj)
72
Have a Twizzlers.
Posted by: TRex - on the house
Can one still use those as straws to ruin whatever drink a person was enjoying?
Posted by: TRex - on the house
Can one still use those as straws to ruin whatever drink a person was enjoying?
Posted by: Some Rat at August 23, 2025 10:26 PM (TfUTr)
73
Congrats on the 45 devoted years, TiFW!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 23, 2025 10:27 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 23, 2025 10:27 PM (3wXSL)
75
THAT is not the barrel! It's clearly an AI representation shown to fool the lurkers!
/shudder
Some of us know the REAL barrel.
Posted by: Romeo13
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Breadcrumbs in the forest, Hansel and Gretel style.
/shudder
Some of us know the REAL barrel.
Posted by: Romeo13
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Breadcrumbs in the forest, Hansel and Gretel style.
Posted by: scampydog at August 23, 2025 10:28 PM (41CYW)
76
67 We had such a great time seeing all of our friends and family at our anniversary party last night!
We were so (happily) tired at the end of the night.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at August 23, 2025 10:25 PM
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Outstanding! Kanpai!
We were so (happily) tired at the end of the night.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at August 23, 2025 10:25 PM
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Outstanding! Kanpai!
Posted by: TRex - every day a blessing at August 23, 2025 10:28 PM (cCn4/)
77
In other news, Les Nessman turned 85 today.
Happy Birthday, Richard Sanders.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 23, 2025 10:25 PM (S/Y4j)
Queer little guy.
Happy Birthday, Richard Sanders.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 23, 2025 10:25 PM (S/Y4j)
Queer little guy.
Posted by: Overheard in a locker room at August 23, 2025 10:28 PM (0eaVi)
78
The circumstances and schedule around helping out at shows this weekend made it necessary to attend a Saturday Mass at my local parish. Dear heavens, it was for me the negation of spiritual uplift. The Novus Ordo Mass is such a tawdry spectacle it's heartbreaking.
The circumstances and schedule around helping out at shows this weekend made it necessary to attend a Saturday Mass at my local parish. Dear heavens, it was for me the negation of spiritual uplift. The Novus Ordo Mass is such a tawdry spectacle it's heartbreaking.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 23, 2025 10:29 PM (kkTda)
79
Cherry Bounce sounds like a stage name.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 23, 2025 10:11 PM (kpS4V)
Jersey Bounce isn't made from milk, surprising though that may be:
https://youtu.be/ztBKOpXJrUg
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 23, 2025 10:11 PM (kpS4V)
Jersey Bounce isn't made from milk, surprising though that may be:
https://youtu.be/ztBKOpXJrUg
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 23, 2025 10:29 PM (Bhbkm)
80
That Digital Barrel actually looks pretty nice. It looks like I've been lying awake at night all these years worrying about unclosed HTML tags for nothing.
Posted by: Cicero
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For some reason, Faust just came to mind.
Posted by: Cicero
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For some reason, Faust just came to mind.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 23, 2025 10:29 PM (XeU6L)
81
Congrats to you and Paul on 45 years, TiFW.
Posted by: scampydog at August 23, 2025 10:30 PM (41CYW)
82
Applause to Common Tater and Different Nic for the academic discussion of that famous fine girl Brandy.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2025 10:30 PM (omVj0)
83
The General Slocum excursion boat burned and sank Near Hells' Gate on the East River in 1904. 1,021 perished, mostly women and children on a Church outing. All the men were working. The Sinking devastated the German-American community on the Lower East Side, which dispersed further uptown. This allowed the next group of Lower East Siders, the Jewish community to take root.
Posted by: Hell's Gate, Indeed at August 23, 2025 10:30 PM (G5+As)
84
He said, "I'll help you get out of your dress when we get home so we can both get in bed". About a half second later, we both started laughing, because that phrase meant something SOOOO much different last night than it did 45 years ago 🤣🤣🤣
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief
If stories have the ability to be pretty...this one certainly is!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief
If stories have the ability to be pretty...this one certainly is!
Posted by: Some Rat at August 23, 2025 10:30 PM (TfUTr)
85
Congrats Teresa. Glad you had a great night. 45 fabulous years.
Posted by: Mrs JTB at August 23, 2025 10:31 PM (yTvNw)
86
A man has to have his principles or he's nothing.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 23, 2025 10:18 PM (hY4dx)
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*puffs up a little*
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 23, 2025 10:18 PM (hY4dx)
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*puffs up a little*
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 23, 2025 10:31 PM (RIvkX)
87
Over several months, cherries are infused into the alcohol
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And vise versa! I asked a while back, was wondering about the chemistry of “Jello Shots”, or alcohol in solidified form. Is the alcohol bound into the gelatin or will it tend to outgas or sublimate away?
How come there’s no freeze-dried or instant booze for hikers? I always figured Everclear would be the most bang for the buck on the trail, stove pre-heat, snakebite remedy, and general all purpose anesthetic. But powdered booze! Why not? Is there a chemical reason this won’t work? Or is it a bureaucratic thing?
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And vise versa! I asked a while back, was wondering about the chemistry of “Jello Shots”, or alcohol in solidified form. Is the alcohol bound into the gelatin or will it tend to outgas or sublimate away?
How come there’s no freeze-dried or instant booze for hikers? I always figured Everclear would be the most bang for the buck on the trail, stove pre-heat, snakebite remedy, and general all purpose anesthetic. But powdered booze! Why not? Is there a chemical reason this won’t work? Or is it a bureaucratic thing?
Posted by: Common Tater at August 23, 2025 10:31 PM (QHBow)
88
The Digital Barrel: Yeah, they used prettyfying filters just like the gals use on dating sites. Don't believe it.
Posted by: mindful webworker - the slime is real at August 23, 2025 10:32 PM (i1iCx)
89
Mazel Tov TiFW and Mr. TiFW
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 23, 2025 10:32 PM (RIvkX)
90
Proof that AWFLs are awful.
Jill Ciminillo@jillciminillo
Dear @realDonaldTrump … I’ve been carjacked in Chicago with my arm broken. I still don’t want you or your troops here. TIA. BTW there are no red hats here. 🫶
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Broken arms are just the price we pay for DEI.
Doesn't exactly fulfill the W part of AWFL but still . . .
https://is.gd/yXUtNd
Jill Ciminillo@jillciminillo
Dear @realDonaldTrump … I’ve been carjacked in Chicago with my arm broken. I still don’t want you or your troops here. TIA. BTW there are no red hats here. 🫶
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Broken arms are just the price we pay for DEI.
Doesn't exactly fulfill the W part of AWFL but still . . .
https://is.gd/yXUtNd
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fire Can Too Melt Steel! at August 23, 2025 10:32 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 23, 2025 10:33 PM (zXOsD)
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About a half second later, we both started laughing, because that phrase meant something SOOOO much different last night than it did 45 years ago 🤣🤣🤣
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth
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Intimacy changes over time, yes?
What a lovely moment!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth
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Intimacy changes over time, yes?
What a lovely moment!
Posted by: JQ at August 23, 2025 10:33 PM (rdVOm)
93
Rat!
You bastard!
Funny story. Rat and I had lunch last weekend. We sat at the wobbly table. And we laughed.
You bastard!
Funny story. Rat and I had lunch last weekend. We sat at the wobbly table. And we laughed.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 23, 2025 10:33 PM (mT+6a)
94
Hadrian, Congrats to you and HM on all the pup wins this weekend. Job well done.
Posted by: Mrs JTB at August 23, 2025 10:33 PM (yTvNw)
95
A man has to have his principles or he's nothing.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
Hey! I have my principles! They're malleable as hell, but they're still principles.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
Hey! I have my principles! They're malleable as hell, but they're still principles.
Posted by: Some Rat at August 23, 2025 10:33 PM (TfUTr)
96
Orange rind, ginger and sugar aged in brandy. Smooth and deadly.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 23, 2025 10:34 PM (dxWFK)
97
Now I've made the top tenish comment mention 5 weeks in a row. This is getting monogamous!
Posted by: Not Wrapped Too Tight at August 23, 2025 10:34 PM (G5+As)
98
I'm always so proud of your dogs...even from here🥲
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 23, 2025 10:27 PM (3wXSL)
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Thank you. The Big Dummy hasn't got two brain cells to rub together but he's so sweet and a perfect gentleman. He flirts with the ladies something fierce too.
I'm always so proud of your dogs...even from here🥲
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 23, 2025 10:27 PM (3wXSL)
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Thank you. The Big Dummy hasn't got two brain cells to rub together but he's so sweet and a perfect gentleman. He flirts with the ladies something fierce too.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 23, 2025 10:34 PM (kkTda)
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How come there’s no freeze-dried or instant booze for hikers? I always figured Everclear would be the most bang for the buck on the trail, stove pre-heat, snakebite remedy, and general all purpose anesthetic. But powdered booze! Why not? Is there a chemical reason this won’t work? Or is it a bureaucratic thing?
Posted by: Common Tater
Soak gummy bears in everclear. They get bigger, but they pack a punch after only a couple.
Posted by: Common Tater
Soak gummy bears in everclear. They get bigger, but they pack a punch after only a couple.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 23, 2025 10:35 PM (mT+6a)
100
That last saloon pic looks almost exactly like a pic MiladyJo's family has of her grandfather. Except in their pic, Gramps is holding an extra-large schooner of beer.
The Evolution of Saloon Food of the Old West | Skillet Brisket Nachos, with Cowboy Kent Rollins
https://youtu.be/CM0uRrsp5rs
Some saloon history.
Posted by: mindful webworker - belly up at August 23, 2025 10:25 PM (i1iCx)
The pic entitled "Bullet Dance", it looks like the bartender is shooting a Mauser Broomhandle. Don't know of any other pistols with a box mag in front of the trigger.
The Evolution of Saloon Food of the Old West | Skillet Brisket Nachos, with Cowboy Kent Rollins
https://youtu.be/CM0uRrsp5rs
Some saloon history.
Posted by: mindful webworker - belly up at August 23, 2025 10:25 PM (i1iCx)
The pic entitled "Bullet Dance", it looks like the bartender is shooting a Mauser Broomhandle. Don't know of any other pistols with a box mag in front of the trigger.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 23, 2025 10:35 PM (Bhbkm)
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97 Now I've made the top tenish comment mention 5 weeks in a row. This is getting monogamous!
Posted by: Not Wrapped Too Tight at August 23, 2025 10:34 PM (G5+As)
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Nice humblebrag, dude.
*sotto voce* "it's all fixed"
*kicks dirt*
Posted by: Not Wrapped Too Tight at August 23, 2025 10:34 PM (G5+As)
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Nice humblebrag, dude.
*sotto voce* "it's all fixed"
*kicks dirt*
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 23, 2025 10:36 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: four seasons at August 23, 2025 10:36 PM (3ek7K)
103
TxMoMe sounds fun. I promise I won't ruin it by attending.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 23, 2025 10:37 PM (CHHv1)
104
The best intelligence we have is that they could arrive as early as the end of the month.
There was 'pumpkin spice' crap on the shelves at least two weeks ago. Jerks.
There was 'pumpkin spice' crap on the shelves at least two weeks ago. Jerks.
Posted by: GWB at August 23, 2025 10:37 PM (1PcCZ)
105
Breadcrumbs in the forest, Hansel and Gretel style.
Posted by: scampydog at August 23, 2025 10:28 PM (41CYW)
Hansel and Gretal... gotta say at this point I side with the Witch...
Some asshole little kids come by and start to EAT YOUR HOUSE? WTF???
And don't even get me started on Goldilocks... theft, breaking and entering, destruction of property... I mean... come on...
Thinking back, most of the stories I was raised on, the children were NOT good role models.
Posted by: scampydog at August 23, 2025 10:28 PM (41CYW)
Hansel and Gretal... gotta say at this point I side with the Witch...
Some asshole little kids come by and start to EAT YOUR HOUSE? WTF???
And don't even get me started on Goldilocks... theft, breaking and entering, destruction of property... I mean... come on...
Thinking back, most of the stories I was raised on, the children were NOT good role models.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 23, 2025 10:38 PM (mP0Kj)
106
The bar picture is very much like the bar my family owned called " The Pastime ".
Posted by: Ben Had at August 23, 2025 10:38 PM (dxWFK)
107
{{{Nurse!}}}
Posted by: Some Rat at August 23, 2025 10:38 PM (TfUTr)
108
I'm all confused. It cost me $20 at Cheeta's Magic Exotic Dancing Emporium to get a Cherry Bounce, and someone stole my wallet in the process. Was I doing it wrong? I used Vodka...a lot of Vodka. I distinctly remember someone named Tiffany helping me up off the floor, and then some huge guy named Albert showing me to the door...aggressively.
Posted by: Orson at August 23, 2025 10:38 PM (dIske)
109
Hadrian,
Big Dummy is like most men, lmao.
Posted by: four seasons
Except we can't go up to a woman and stick our nose in her crotch.
Big Dummy is like most men, lmao.
Posted by: four seasons
Except we can't go up to a woman and stick our nose in her crotch.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 23, 2025 10:38 PM (zXOsD)
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Jill Ciminillo@jillciminillo
Dear @realDonaldTrump … I’ve been carjacked in Chicago with my arm broken. I still don’t want you or your troops here. TIA. BTW there are no red hats here. 🫶
Maybe if she had had a gun in her hand, her arm would not have been broken, or her car stolen.
Dear @realDonaldTrump … I’ve been carjacked in Chicago with my arm broken. I still don’t want you or your troops here. TIA. BTW there are no red hats here. 🫶
Maybe if she had had a gun in her hand, her arm would not have been broken, or her car stolen.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 23, 2025 10:39 PM (Bhbkm)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 23, 2025 10:39 PM (kkTda)
Posted by: four seasons at August 23, 2025 10:39 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 23, 2025 10:39 PM (viF8m)
114
Beckoning Chasm, we would love to have you join in the fun.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 23, 2025 10:40 PM (dxWFK)
115
Except we can't go up to a woman and stick our nose in her crotch.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 23, 2025 10:38 PM (zXOsD)
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Hmm. I don't know where YOU live.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 23, 2025 10:38 PM (zXOsD)
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Hmm. I don't know where YOU live.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 23, 2025 10:40 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 23, 2025 10:40 PM (zXOsD)
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Except we can't go up to a woman and stick our nose in her crotch.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 23, 2025 10:38 PM (zXOsD)
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His specialty is the boob bump.
Except we can't go up to a woman and stick our nose in her crotch.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 23, 2025 10:38 PM (zXOsD)
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His specialty is the boob bump.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 23, 2025 10:40 PM (kkTda)
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Just heard one of our late evening racers going by on a nearby road. Sounded like he ground some gears and there was a pop.
I thought "I hope he dropped his tranny."
Then I immediately thought, "Wow, that has a whole different meaning now than it used to."
I thought "I hope he dropped his tranny."
Then I immediately thought, "Wow, that has a whole different meaning now than it used to."
Posted by: GWB at August 23, 2025 10:40 PM (1PcCZ)
119
Except we can't go up to a woman and stick our nose in her crotch.
Posted by: rickb223
Start by sniffing her hair and neck.
Posted by: rickb223
Start by sniffing her hair and neck.
Posted by: Presnit Emeritus at August 23, 2025 10:40 PM (G5+As)
120
113 >>*kicks dirt*
You have a sailboat. You already won.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 23, 2025 10:39 PM (viF8m)
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True, but its trophy case is empty.
You have a sailboat. You already won.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 23, 2025 10:39 PM (viF8m)
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True, but its trophy case is empty.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 23, 2025 10:40 PM (hY4dx)
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93Rat!
You bastard!
Funny story. Rat and I had lunch last weekend. We sat at the wobbly table. And we laughed.
So what am I, sliced liver? I'm so hurt😕...
You bastard!
Funny story. Rat and I had lunch last weekend. We sat at the wobbly table. And we laughed.
So what am I, sliced liver? I'm so hurt😕...
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 23, 2025 10:40 PM (3wXSL)
122
Powdered alcohol is a thing, but many states have banned it. I could swear I saw dehydrated cocktails for sale - albeit briefly - in our local REI years ago.
Posted by: PabloD at August 23, 2025 10:41 PM (j6ZnT)
Posted by: Doof at August 23, 2025 10:42 PM (QMAsf)
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Powdered alcohol is a thing, but many states have banned it. I could swear I saw dehydrated cocktails for sale - albeit briefly - in our local REI years ago.
Posted by: PabloD
I've always taken powdered water camping. Saves on weight.
Posted by: PabloD
I've always taken powdered water camping. Saves on weight.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 23, 2025 10:42 PM (zXOsD)
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110 Jill Ciminillo@jillciminillo
Dear @realDonaldTrump … I’ve been carjacked in Chicago with my arm broken. I still don’t want you or your troops here. TIA. BTW there are no red hats here. 🫶
__________________________
Definitely red hats here. At least two. And, trust me, you'll want to make a 2am stop at Subway to pick up a little self defense.
Dear @realDonaldTrump … I’ve been carjacked in Chicago with my arm broken. I still don’t want you or your troops here. TIA. BTW there are no red hats here. 🫶
__________________________
Definitely red hats here. At least two. And, trust me, you'll want to make a 2am stop at Subway to pick up a little self defense.
Posted by: Jussie Smollett at August 23, 2025 10:42 PM (dIske)
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52 Happy birthday, mindful. As mentioned on the Movie thread, I've always liked Sandra Bullock.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 23, 2025 10:22 PM (CHHv1)
She’s aged well. And at her peak, she always had this “girl next door” vibe I always liked.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 23, 2025 10:22 PM (CHHv1)
She’s aged well. And at her peak, she always had this “girl next door” vibe I always liked.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 23, 2025 10:42 PM (1X0uI)
127
Someone needs to invent a drink called Rubble Bounce and feature it at an upcoming MOME...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 23, 2025 10:43 PM (nbLIj)
128
I distinctly remember someone named Tiffany helping me up off the floor, and then some huge guy named Albert showing me to the door...aggressively.
Posted by: Orson
Only allow Nurse, Marie or DDS to assist ones self off the floor. They only charge a mere pittance for this service.
Posted by: Orson
Only allow Nurse, Marie or DDS to assist ones self off the floor. They only charge a mere pittance for this service.
Posted by: Some Rat at August 23, 2025 10:43 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 23, 2025 10:43 PM (viF8m)
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But yeah kind of minor to the world and all.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 23, 2025 10:08 PM (CHHv1)
You take your wins where you find them.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 23, 2025 10:08 PM (CHHv1)
You take your wins where you find them.
Posted by: GWB at August 23, 2025 10:43 PM (1PcCZ)
131
Except we can't go up to a woman and stick our nose in her crotch.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 23, 2025 10:38 PM (zXOsD)
Goes on the comments of the week
Except we can't go up to a woman and stick our nose in her crotch.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 23, 2025 10:38 PM (zXOsD)
Goes on the comments of the week
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 23, 2025 10:44 PM (WF/xn)
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111
Lastros won this evening, 9-8. Don't tell certain PNWians.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 23, 2025 10:39 PM (kkTda)
FIFY
Lastros won this evening, 9-8. Don't tell certain PNWians.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 23, 2025 10:39 PM (kkTda)
FIFY
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 23, 2025 10:44 PM (1X0uI)
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Now a days you have to be very very careful where you stick your nose in crotches. Ya never know, am I sticking my nose in a REAL woman's crotch or some fag pretending to be a woman.
I think I'm gonna puke thinking about that, lol.
Now a days you have to be very very careful where you stick your nose in crotches. Ya never know, am I sticking my nose in a REAL woman's crotch or some fag pretending to be a woman.
I think I'm gonna puke thinking about that, lol.
Posted by: four seasons at August 23, 2025 10:44 PM (3ek7K)
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127 Someone needs to invent a drink called Rubble Bounce and feature it at an upcoming MOME...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 23, 2025 10:43 PM (nbLIj)
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Start with Sterno, mouthwash and Southern Comfort.
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 23, 2025 10:43 PM (nbLIj)
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Start with Sterno, mouthwash and Southern Comfort.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 23, 2025 10:44 PM (hY4dx)
135
Used to be bar near railway tracks with a photo of its history: a men only bar with urinal front. Of course someone stole the pic.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 23, 2025 10:45 PM (4chiU)
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Just stopping by to say Hi!
Watching the Svengoolie double feature. The curse of Frankenstein just ended, now it's going to be Leprechaun.
Posted by: Joyenz at August 23, 2025
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Hi to you, Joyenz. It's odd, but I laugh out loud at Nostalgiaferatoo; there is just something about his makeup and the wide-eyed way he delivers his lines.
Gwengoolie personifies "hot."
I could do without IMP.
Watching the Svengoolie double feature. The curse of Frankenstein just ended, now it's going to be Leprechaun.
Posted by: Joyenz at August 23, 2025
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Hi to you, Joyenz. It's odd, but I laugh out loud at Nostalgiaferatoo; there is just something about his makeup and the wide-eyed way he delivers his lines.
Gwengoolie personifies "hot."
I could do without IMP.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2025 10:45 PM (omVj0)
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Start with Sterno, mouthwash and Southern Comfort.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 23, 2025 10:44 PM (hY4dx)
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It's not a cocktail without rubbing alcohol.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 23, 2025 10:44 PM (hY4dx)
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It's not a cocktail without rubbing alcohol.
Posted by: Kitty Dukakis at August 23, 2025 10:45 PM (dIske)
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Start with Sterno, mouthwash and Southern Comfort.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 23, 2025
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Three concoctions of equal horror. Well, at least the mouthwash is useful.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 23, 2025
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Three concoctions of equal horror. Well, at least the mouthwash is useful.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2025 10:46 PM (omVj0)
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It’s a Por-SHAaah
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 23, 2025 10:47 PM (wrRTB)
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Joe Kidd, someone mentioned chocolate wine and coca cola as the official drink. We took that person out and .....
Posted by: Ben Had at August 23, 2025 10:47 PM (dxWFK)
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“I’ve been carjacked in Chicago with my arm broken. I still don’t want you or your troops here.”
We don’t really care, Margaret.
We don’t really care, Margaret.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 23, 2025 10:48 PM (QHBow)
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Thinking back, most of the stories I was raised on, the children were NOT good role models.
And strange physics too, who goes up a hill to fetch water? Were they drunk or what, stumbling down and getting gravely wounded in the process?
And strange physics too, who goes up a hill to fetch water? Were they drunk or what, stumbling down and getting gravely wounded in the process?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 23, 2025 10:49 PM (a4flb)
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I believe it was H. Allen Smith, creator of Rhubarb the baseball team-owning cat, who described a hangover as "the feeling that a moose is having a baby in my head."
From memory, I can testify that he described it accurately.
From memory, I can testify that he described it accurately.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2025 10:49 PM (omVj0)
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They found that lemon-lime flavored Sprite gave the best results.
Posted by: Mike Hammer
Is there any other kind of Sprite?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 23, 2025 10:20 PM (63Dwl)
Yes.
There's basic Sprite. Then there's lemon-lime (yes, that one throws me a bit, too). Then there's cranberry, a cherry one, and a 'tropical' one. Those have all come out (except the cranberry, which has been seasonal for several years now) in the last couple of years, I believe.
Posted by: Mike Hammer
Is there any other kind of Sprite?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 23, 2025 10:20 PM (63Dwl)
Yes.
There's basic Sprite. Then there's lemon-lime (yes, that one throws me a bit, too). Then there's cranberry, a cherry one, and a 'tropical' one. Those have all come out (except the cranberry, which has been seasonal for several years now) in the last couple of years, I believe.
Posted by: GWB at August 23, 2025 10:49 PM (1PcCZ)
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Joe Kidd, someone mentioned chocolate wine and coca cola as the official drink. We took that person out and .....
Posted by: Ben Had
Well that clears up the "What happened to Steve" mystery.
Posted by: Ben Had
Well that clears up the "What happened to Steve" mystery.
Posted by: Some Rat at August 23, 2025 10:50 PM (TfUTr)
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130 You take your wins where you find them.
Posted by: GWB at August 23, 2025 10:43 PM
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Truth
Posted by: GWB at August 23, 2025 10:43 PM
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Truth
Posted by: TRex - take wisdom where you find it at August 23, 2025 10:51 PM (cCn4/)
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That Hot Springs saloon was where Bill Clinton hung out.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 23, 2025 10:51 PM (63Dwl)
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Digital Barrel is too clean!
Or, at least appears to be so.
Hmm.
Posted by: JQ
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Hmmm, I was just gonna commend you on the great cleaning job....
Or, at least appears to be so.
Hmm.
Posted by: JQ
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Hmmm, I was just gonna commend you on the great cleaning job....
Posted by: The Grateful at August 23, 2025 10:51 PM (cCn4/)
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So what am I, sliced liver? I'm so hurt😕...
Posted by: COMountainMarie
You get out here, missy and I PROMISE you we will have lunch together.
Are you going to be in TX this year? We could find a wobbly table there.
Just don’t tell weasel. He does not tolerate wobbly shit.
And Hadrian. I saw that.
Posted by: COMountainMarie
You get out here, missy and I PROMISE you we will have lunch together.
Are you going to be in TX this year? We could find a wobbly table there.
Just don’t tell weasel. He does not tolerate wobbly shit.
And Hadrian. I saw that.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 23, 2025 10:53 PM (mT+6a)
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What is it with these woke AWFL bints and the ridiculous glasses? We've got the Cracker Barrel CEO, and I just a picture of some other CB executive, chief of marketing. She was just about a clone, same look with those ridiculously YUGE rectangular lenses with the thick black frame.
This is some sort of look they've adopted.
What is it with these woke AWFL bints and the ridiculous glasses? We've got the Cracker Barrel CEO, and I just a picture of some other CB executive, chief of marketing. She was just about a clone, same look with those ridiculously YUGE rectangular lenses with the thick black frame.
This is some sort of look they've adopted.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 23, 2025 10:53 PM (w6EFb)
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Soak gummy bears in everclear. They get bigger, but they pack a punch after only a couple.
Who thinks of doing that? Its like the first person to eat oysters had to be pretty desperate or something.
Who thinks of doing that? Its like the first person to eat oysters had to be pretty desperate or something.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 23, 2025 10:53 PM (a4flb)
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I would pack cherries in rum with some molasses to make rum soaked cherries.
It was not original, but it was a good use of cherries.
It was not original, but it was a good use of cherries.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 23, 2025 10:54 PM (rbvCR)
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Walks behind bar...
Twizzlers! *starts handing out/throwing Twizzlers*
You get a Twizzler, and YOU get a Twizzler...
Woot! And there's the stash of extra Club ONT Restroom Tokens!
***SHWEEET!***
Thanks, TRex!
And thanks, 3D's, for Club ONT!
Twizzlers! *starts handing out/throwing Twizzlers*
You get a Twizzler, and YOU get a Twizzler...
Woot! And there's the stash of extra Club ONT Restroom Tokens!
***SHWEEET!***
Thanks, TRex!
And thanks, 3D's, for Club ONT!
Posted by: JQ at August 23, 2025 10:54 PM (rdVOm)
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What is it with these woke AWFL bints and the ridiculous glasses? We've got the Cracker Barrel CEO, and I just a picture of some other CB executive, chief of marketing. She was just about a clone, same look with those ridiculously YUGE rectangular lenses with the thick black frame.
This is some sort of look they've adopted.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
Nature's way of telling you beware!
This is some sort of look they've adopted.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
Nature's way of telling you beware!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fire Can Too Melt Steel! at August 23, 2025 10:54 PM (L/fGl)
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I've had a few, maybe three, hangovers that made catastrophic tectonic shifts feel like a spring breeze. Even though that was well over 40 years ago and longer, the memory of them is still strong. Never F'ing again.
John Steinbeck said he "took his hangovers as a consequence, not a punishment". I didn't regard them as punishments, just stupid.
John Steinbeck said he "took his hangovers as a consequence, not a punishment". I didn't regard them as punishments, just stupid.
Posted by: JTB at August 23, 2025 10:55 PM (yTvNw)
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I am beginning to worry about this restroom token deal.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 23, 2025 10:56 PM (dxWFK)
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151 Soak gummy bears in everclear. They get bigger, but they pack a punch after only a couple.
Who thinks of doing that? Its like the first person to eat oysters had to be pretty desperate or something.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
College students?
Anyone wanting to get bombed at a sporting event and not spend a fortune?
Camping trips?
Who thinks of doing that? Its like the first person to eat oysters had to be pretty desperate or something.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
College students?
Anyone wanting to get bombed at a sporting event and not spend a fortune?
Camping trips?
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 23, 2025 10:56 PM (mT+6a)
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What is it with these woke AWFL bints and the ridiculous glasses? We've got the Cracker Barrel CEO, and I just a picture of some other CB executive, chief of marketing. She was just about a clone, same look with those ridiculously YUGE rectangular lenses with the thick black frame.
This is some sort of look they've adopted.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 23, 2025 10:53 PM (w6EFb)
They see to think the glaasses make them look as smart as Rachel Maddow. And they're right.
This is some sort of look they've adopted.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 23, 2025 10:53 PM (w6EFb)
They see to think the glaasses make them look as smart as Rachel Maddow. And they're right.
Posted by: RickZ at August 23, 2025 10:56 PM (gKDq2)
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Hansel and Gretal... gotta say at this point I side with the Witch...
Some asshole little kids come by and start to EAT YOUR HOUSE? WTF???
And don't even get me started on Goldilocks... theft, breaking and entering, destruction of property... I mean... come on...
Thinking back, most of the stories I was raised on, the children were NOT good role models.
Posted by: Romeo13
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That Pied Piper was no saint either.
Some asshole little kids come by and start to EAT YOUR HOUSE? WTF???
And don't even get me started on Goldilocks... theft, breaking and entering, destruction of property... I mean... come on...
Thinking back, most of the stories I was raised on, the children were NOT good role models.
Posted by: Romeo13
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That Pied Piper was no saint either.
Posted by: scampydog at August 23, 2025 10:56 PM (41CYW)
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Who thinks of doing that? Its like the first person to eat oysters had to be pretty desperate or something.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 23, 2025 10:53 PM (a4flb)
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Not necessarily.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 23, 2025 10:53 PM (a4flb)
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Not necessarily.
Posted by: The Guy Who Discovered You Could Lick A Toad And Get High at August 23, 2025 10:56 PM (hY4dx)
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Our youngest son, who is in his 40's, so you now know how old hubby and I are, lol. Anyways he is flying in Thursday from Seattle for the long weekend.
I want to make a Greek pasta salad and I've been looking at recipes. We decided we don't want a mayo laden type of salad. I was thinking about using orzo and greek olives and other stuff.
Any ideas?
Our youngest son, who is in his 40's, so you now know how old hubby and I are, lol. Anyways he is flying in Thursday from Seattle for the long weekend.
I want to make a Greek pasta salad and I've been looking at recipes. We decided we don't want a mayo laden type of salad. I was thinking about using orzo and greek olives and other stuff.
Any ideas?
Posted by: four seasons at August 23, 2025 10:56 PM (3ek7K)
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What is it with these woke AWFL bints and the ridiculous glasses?
Its like aposematism, only with glasses instead of food dye.
Its like aposematism, only with glasses instead of food dye.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 23, 2025 10:57 PM (a4flb)
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156 I am beginning to worry about this restroom token deal.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 23, 2025 10:56 PM
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But the Twizzlers are still OK? Just checking.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 23, 2025 10:56 PM
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But the Twizzlers are still OK? Just checking.
Posted by: TRex - not worried about licorice at August 23, 2025 10:57 PM (cCn4/)
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Hmmm, I was just gonna commend you on the great cleaning job....
Posted by: The Grateful
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SHhhhhh! You *know* what would happen, if these guys heard anything about polished chrome!
Posted by: The Grateful
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SHhhhhh! You *know* what would happen, if these guys heard anything about polished chrome!
Posted by: JQ at August 23, 2025 10:57 PM (rdVOm)
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The steak and tater are on the grill, and the mushrooms are sauteeing in the skillet. Nice still quiet evening outside.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 23, 2025 10:57 PM (R4SAT)
Posted by: RickZ at August 23, 2025 10:58 PM (gKDq2)
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four seasons, if you find RMBS ask him..
Posted by: Ben Had at August 23, 2025 10:58 PM (dxWFK)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 23, 2025 10:58 PM (3wXSL)
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We went out for ice cream this evening. First place had a line out the door. The second place, Haagen-Dasz, was fine, but when I said, "I'm in the mood for something seasonal and just right for a Nawlins summer. Do you have a flavor called 'Slow Torturous Death by Heat in a Dungeon'?", the staffer just blinked at me. Oh, well.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2025 10:58 PM (omVj0)
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Knew a Cajun girl who soaked cherries in Everclear. Called them Cherry Bombs...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 23, 2025 10:59 PM (nbLIj)
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I want to make a Greek pasta salad and I've been looking at recipes. We decided we don't want a mayo laden type of salad. I was thinking about using orzo and greek olives and other stuff.
Any ideas?
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It won't be Greek without Feta.
Feta and sodomy.
Well, mostly sodomy.
Any ideas?
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It won't be Greek without Feta.
Feta and sodomy.
Well, mostly sodomy.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 23, 2025 10:59 PM (hY4dx)
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Thanks Ben Had, you wonderful person!!
Thanks Ben Had, you wonderful person!!
Posted by: four seasons at August 23, 2025 10:59 PM (3ek7K)
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>>Who thinks of doing that? Its like the first person to eat oysters had to be pretty desperate or something.
Squanto should have taken out a claim on the oyster growing areas. He could have sold them and bought a couple casinos.
Squanto should have taken out a claim on the oyster growing areas. He could have sold them and bought a couple casinos.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 23, 2025 11:00 PM (viF8m)
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TRex, SnailRacer has been the official Twizzler supplier to the MoMe for years.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 23, 2025 11:00 PM (dxWFK)
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What is it with these woke AWFL bints and the ridiculous glasses? We've got the Cracker Barrel CEO, and I just a picture of some other CB executive, chief of marketing. She was just about a clone, same look with those ridiculously YUGE rectangular lenses with the thick black frame.
This is some sort of look they've adopted.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 23, 2025
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Jan Smithers as Bailey often wore glasses. Not those types, though.
This is some sort of look they've adopted.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 23, 2025
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Jan Smithers as Bailey often wore glasses. Not those types, though.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2025 11:01 PM (omVj0)
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We have a launch in 3 hours
SpaceX - Falcon 9 - CRS SpX-33
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: August 24, 2025
Launch Time: 2:45 a.m. EDT (0645 UTC, 08:45 CEST)
https://youtu.be/tSfzsHeX8aw
SpaceX - Falcon 9 - CRS SpX-33
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: August 24, 2025
Launch Time: 2:45 a.m. EDT (0645 UTC, 08:45 CEST)
https://youtu.be/tSfzsHeX8aw
Posted by: Joyenz at August 23, 2025 11:01 PM (sPQoU)
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174 TRex, SnailRacer has been the official Twizzler supplier to the MoMe for years.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 23, 2025 11:00 PM
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Twizzlers re-confirmed as approved. Repeat. Officially MoMe approved.
Carry on.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 23, 2025 11:00 PM
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Twizzlers re-confirmed as approved. Repeat. Officially MoMe approved.
Carry on.
Posted by: TRex - breaking news at August 23, 2025 11:02 PM (cCn4/)
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Mark Cuban wears the same AWFL glasses, too.
Mark Cuban wears the same AWFL glasses, too.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 23, 2025 11:02 PM (w6EFb)
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Been a busy day. Hi everyone. I will just fade out and wander around the content
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at August 23, 2025 11:03 PM (w3u3d)
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Jennifer Aniston is in this 1993 horror flick Leprechaun on House of Svengoolie, MeTV. You could tell even then she had on-screen charisma.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2025 11:03 PM (omVj0)
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Our youngest son, who is in his 40's, so you now know how old hubby and I are, lol. Anyways he is flying in Thursday from Seattle for the long weekend.
I want to make a Greek pasta salad and I've been looking at recipes. We decided we don't want a mayo laden type of salad. I was thinking about using orzo and greek olives and other stuff.
Any ideas?
Posted by: four seasons at August 23, 2025 10:56 PM (3ek7K)
Make tzaziki - grated cucumber and yogurt with a spritz of lemon. Add some of the lemon zest too. Refreshing...
Our youngest son, who is in his 40's, so you now know how old hubby and I are, lol. Anyways he is flying in Thursday from Seattle for the long weekend.
I want to make a Greek pasta salad and I've been looking at recipes. We decided we don't want a mayo laden type of salad. I was thinking about using orzo and greek olives and other stuff.
Any ideas?
Posted by: four seasons at August 23, 2025 10:56 PM (3ek7K)
Make tzaziki - grated cucumber and yogurt with a spritz of lemon. Add some of the lemon zest too. Refreshing...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 23, 2025 11:03 PM (nbLIj)
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What is it with these woke AWFL bints and the ridiculous glasses? We've got the Cracker Barrel CEO, and I just a picture of some other CB executive, chief of marketing. She was just about a clone, same look with those ridiculously YUGE rectangular lenses with the thick black frame.
This is some sort of look they've adopted.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 23, 2025 10:53 PM (w6EFb)
Rachel Maddow look.
What is it with these woke AWFL bints and the ridiculous glasses? We've got the Cracker Barrel CEO, and I just a picture of some other CB executive, chief of marketing. She was just about a clone, same look with those ridiculously YUGE rectangular lenses with the thick black frame.
This is some sort of look they've adopted.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 23, 2025 10:53 PM (w6EFb)
Rachel Maddow look.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 23, 2025 11:03 PM (wrRTB)
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Cracker Barrel CEO only needs some masking tape, to complete her 'look'
Posted by: JQ at August 23, 2025 11:03 PM (rdVOm)
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And the mystery Volkswagen Tiguan for a thousand bucks was sold, so I did not ask its location, or how it came to be there. Potential grief: avoided.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 23, 2025 11:03 PM (R4SAT)
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ADAMS, Nebraska (AP) — A World War II veteran from Nebraska believed to be America’s last surviving “ace” pilot because he shot down five enemy planes has died at age 103.
Donald McPherson served as a Navy fighter pilot aboard the aircraft carrier USS Essex in the Pacific theater, where he engaged Japanese forces during the final years of the war. He earned the Congressional Gold Medal and three Distinguished Flying Crosses for his service
However, his daughter Beth Delabar said his loved ones always felt McPherson preferred a legacy reflecting his dedication to faith, family and community instead of his wartime feats.
https://is.gd/EwY57k
Donald McPherson served as a Navy fighter pilot aboard the aircraft carrier USS Essex in the Pacific theater, where he engaged Japanese forces during the final years of the war. He earned the Congressional Gold Medal and three Distinguished Flying Crosses for his service
However, his daughter Beth Delabar said his loved ones always felt McPherson preferred a legacy reflecting his dedication to faith, family and community instead of his wartime feats.
https://is.gd/EwY57k
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fire Can Too Melt Steel! at August 23, 2025 11:04 PM (L/fGl)
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I want to make a Greek pasta salad and I've been looking at recipes. We decided we don't want a mayo laden type of salad. I was thinking about using orzo and greek olives and other stuff.
Any ideas?
Posted by: four seasons at August 23, 2025 10:56 PM (3ek7K)
1 cup orzo pasta
1 ½ cups cherry tomatoes, halved
1 medium cucumber, diced (peeled or unpeeled, your choice)
1 small red onion, finely diced
1 bell pepper (red, yellow, or green), chopped
½ cup Kalamata (Greek) olives, pitted and sliced
½ cup feta cheese, crumbled
2 tbsp fresh parsley, chopped
1 tbsp fresh mint (optional, for brightness)
For the Dressing:
¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil
2 tbsp red wine vinegar
1 clove garlic, minced
1 tsp dried oregano
½ tsp Dijon mustard (optional, for a little tang)
Salt and black pepper, to taste
Any ideas?
Posted by: four seasons at August 23, 2025 10:56 PM (3ek7K)
1 cup orzo pasta
1 ½ cups cherry tomatoes, halved
1 medium cucumber, diced (peeled or unpeeled, your choice)
1 small red onion, finely diced
1 bell pepper (red, yellow, or green), chopped
½ cup Kalamata (Greek) olives, pitted and sliced
½ cup feta cheese, crumbled
2 tbsp fresh parsley, chopped
1 tbsp fresh mint (optional, for brightness)
For the Dressing:
¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil
2 tbsp red wine vinegar
1 clove garlic, minced
1 tsp dried oregano
½ tsp Dijon mustard (optional, for a little tang)
Salt and black pepper, to taste
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 23, 2025 11:04 PM (xcxpd)
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I've had "moonshine cherries" before. I don't recall the circumstances, or really anything other than having them.
And a headache afterwards.
And a headache afterwards.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 23, 2025 11:04 PM (Q4IgG)
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I want to make a Greek pasta salad and I've been looking at recipes. We decided we don't want a mayo laden type of salad. I was thinking about using orzo and greek olives and other stuff.
Any ideas?
Posted by: four seasons at August 23, 2025 10:56 PM (3ek7K)
I've made a baby lentil, feta, black olive, toasted sliced almonds (packaged) and fennel salad, with lemon juice, lemon zest and olive oil. No worries about having to keep it refrigerated in an outdoor situation like with using mayonnaise as a base.
Any ideas?
Posted by: four seasons at August 23, 2025 10:56 PM (3ek7K)
I've made a baby lentil, feta, black olive, toasted sliced almonds (packaged) and fennel salad, with lemon juice, lemon zest and olive oil. No worries about having to keep it refrigerated in an outdoor situation like with using mayonnaise as a base.
Posted by: RickZ at August 23, 2025 11:05 PM (gKDq2)
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Teresa, congrats on your fabulous evening...45 years is an incredible milestone and I'm so glad you both were able to celebrate with those you love...I so look forward to hearing about your 50th wedding anniversary celebration!
Posted by: The Grateful at August 23, 2025 11:05 PM (cCn4/)
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Just sitting here a few minutes ago and realized that for aliens to exist, let alone make contact, not only would another planet have to have life on it - but according to SCIENCE, it would have to "evolve" from slime too. Then it has to make it past the somewhat advanced conscious reasoning being (human) phase and into the super advanced being phase, all without killing each other or having something else wipe them out.
Ok, boomer.
Ok, boomer.
Posted by: ... at August 23, 2025 11:05 PM (E0p3T)
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A friend of one rented an apartment after college. Shortly thereafter, she discovered it's previous occupant... was the woman whose Yugo blew off the Mackinac bridge.
Later, she rented another apartment which she found out had once been lived in by a serial killer.
Later, she rented another apartment which she found out had once been lived in by a serial killer.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 23, 2025 11:05 PM (44ETa)
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Cherry Bombs. Buy a large jar of maraschino cherries. Drain liquid. Replace with Everclear. Let set for 2~3 weeks. Use as a garnish for 7Up. At least that's what I did in December 1990 when a friend sent me a jar to an undisclosed desert location during Operation Desert Shield
Posted by: Stacy0311 at August 23, 2025 11:05 PM (4Np/i)
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Looking around, I see that style of frame is sometimes called "hipster thick". So, blame hipsters for first starting. It must've been some "ironic" thing those idiots do.
But there's some reason these AWFL types dig it beyond the hipster thing.
Looking around, I see that style of frame is sometimes called "hipster thick". So, blame hipsters for first starting. It must've been some "ironic" thing those idiots do.
But there's some reason these AWFL types dig it beyond the hipster thing.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 23, 2025 11:06 PM (w6EFb)
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Squanto should have taken out a claim on the oyster growing areas. He could have sold them and bought a couple casinos.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 23, 2025 11:00 PM (viF8m)
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We live here on the Gulf Coast, but the oysters Her Majesty loves at our favorite Cajun restaurant come from New England. Go figure.
Squanto should have taken out a claim on the oyster growing areas. He could have sold them and bought a couple casinos.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 23, 2025 11:00 PM (viF8m)
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We live here on the Gulf Coast, but the oysters Her Majesty loves at our favorite Cajun restaurant come from New England. Go figure.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 23, 2025 11:06 PM (kkTda)
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You could tell even then she had on-screen charisma.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2025 11:03 PM (omVj0)
Two of them even.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2025 11:03 PM (omVj0)
Two of them even.
Posted by: ... at August 23, 2025 11:07 PM (E0p3T)
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A friend of one rented an apartment after college. Shortly thereafter, she discovered it's previous occupant... was the woman whose Yugo blew off the Mackinac bridge.
Later, she rented another apartment which she found out had once been lived in by a serial killer.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 23, 2025 11:05 PM (44ETa)
If she ever buys a house, she should not go in the basement.
Later, she rented another apartment which she found out had once been lived in by a serial killer.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 23, 2025 11:05 PM (44ETa)
If she ever buys a house, she should not go in the basement.
Posted by: RickZ at August 23, 2025 11:07 PM (gKDq2)
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Last night some of us were discussing Cracker Barrel and their stupid decisions.
SnailRacer said she or he, I'm not sure if female or male, it doesn't matter. Anyways SnailRacer has the idea that since Blackrock is the majority shareholder of CB, that they could be intentionally ruining CB because of the prime real estate locations of CB. It makes sense to me.
Since CB has prime locations right off interstates, I think SnailRacer is right.
Last night some of us were discussing Cracker Barrel and their stupid decisions.
SnailRacer said she or he, I'm not sure if female or male, it doesn't matter. Anyways SnailRacer has the idea that since Blackrock is the majority shareholder of CB, that they could be intentionally ruining CB because of the prime real estate locations of CB. It makes sense to me.
Since CB has prime locations right off interstates, I think SnailRacer is right.
Posted by: four seasons at August 23, 2025 11:07 PM (3ek7K)
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149 nurse
I am so planning to be there! I have a cancer screening at the end of August, which will determine how things go. I will try to bring extra wedges in case Weasel gets a 'funny' table...
No one wants to pass that guy off🤯!
I am so planning to be there! I have a cancer screening at the end of August, which will determine how things go. I will try to bring extra wedges in case Weasel gets a 'funny' table...
No one wants to pass that guy off🤯!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 23, 2025 11:07 PM (3wXSL)
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192 Cherry Bombs. Buy a large jar of maraschino cherries. Drain liquid. Replace with Everclear. Let set for 2~3 weeks. Use as a garnish for 7Up. At least that's what I did in December 1990 when a friend sent me a jar to an undisclosed desert location during Operation Desert Shield
Posted by: Stacy0311
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That's a damned good friend.
Posted by: Stacy0311
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That's a damned good friend.
Posted by: scampydog at August 23, 2025 11:09 PM (41CYW)
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53 days to TXMOME. X. Due to the generosity of the Horde the bar is open.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 23, 2025 11:10 PM (dxWFK)
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From a Religious point of view, does it say anywhere that there can’t be life on other planets? If there’s a god that created man, he could have created “man” on some other planets as well. Why not?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 23, 2025 11:10 PM (wrRTB)
Posted by: four seasons at August 23, 2025 11:10 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 23, 2025 11:11 PM (mT+6a)
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nurse
I am so planning to be there! I have a cancer screening at the end of August, which will determine how things go. I will try to bring extra wedges in case Weasel gets a 'funny' table...
No one wants to pass that guy off🤯!
Posted by: COMountainMarie
Wow, talk about feeling like some sort of liver.
I am so planning to be there! I have a cancer screening at the end of August, which will determine how things go. I will try to bring extra wedges in case Weasel gets a 'funny' table...
No one wants to pass that guy off🤯!
Posted by: COMountainMarie
Wow, talk about feeling like some sort of liver.
Posted by: Some Rat "The guy who was FREAKING THERE!" at August 23, 2025 11:11 PM (TfUTr)
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From a Religious point of view, does it say anywhere that there can’t be life on other planets? If there’s a god that created man, he could have created “man” on some other planets as well. Why not?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 23, 2025 11:10 PM (wrRTB)
I'm pretty sure Allah would say no.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 23, 2025 11:10 PM (wrRTB)
I'm pretty sure Allah would say no.
Posted by: ... at August 23, 2025 11:11 PM (E0p3T)
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Hi, I am very late, but wanted to pop in and see what’s up!
Posted by: Piper at August 23, 2025 11:12 PM (pZEOD)
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Oh man did I make it? Do I get a laminated member card now? H/t in the sidebar, quoted in a mod morning rant, and now in a top 10 comment. Is you can dream it, you can be it.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 23, 2025 11:12 PM (MGB5H)
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Soak gummy bears in everclear. They get bigger, but they pack a punch after only a couple.
Who thinks of doing that? Its like the first person to eat oysters had to be pretty desperate or something.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
College students?
Anyone wanting to get bombed at a sporting event and not spend a fortune?
Camping trips?
Posted by: nurse ratched
That's no different than cutting a hole in a watermelon and jamming a bottle of vodka into it.
Who thinks of doing that? Its like the first person to eat oysters had to be pretty desperate or something.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
College students?
Anyone wanting to get bombed at a sporting event and not spend a fortune?
Camping trips?
Posted by: nurse ratched
That's no different than cutting a hole in a watermelon and jamming a bottle of vodka into it.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 23, 2025 11:12 PM (zXOsD)
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Hi, I am very late, but wanted to pop in and see what’s up!
Posted by: Piper at August 23, 2025 11:12 PM
Hey fellow top 10er.
Posted by: Piper at August 23, 2025 11:12 PM
Hey fellow top 10er.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 23, 2025 11:12 PM (MGB5H)
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SnailRacer said she or he, I'm not sure if female or male, it doesn't matter. Anyways SnailRacer has the idea that since Blackrock is the majority shareholder of CB, that they could be intentionally ruining CB because of the prime real estate locations of CB. It makes sense to me.
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That fails to take into account of the fact that the Woke mind virus has caused CEOs of companies across the board to destroy their brands. See, e.g., Disney, Target, Gillette, Anheuser-Busch, Harley-Davidson, Jaguar, Nike, Adidas, etc.
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That fails to take into account of the fact that the Woke mind virus has caused CEOs of companies across the board to destroy their brands. See, e.g., Disney, Target, Gillette, Anheuser-Busch, Harley-Davidson, Jaguar, Nike, Adidas, etc.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 23, 2025 11:12 PM (hY4dx)
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A friend of one rented an apartment after college. Shortly thereafter, she discovered it's previous occupant... was the woman whose Yugo blew off the Mackinac bridge.
Later, she rented another apartment which she found out had once been lived in by a serial killer.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 23, 2025
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The closest I ever came to that was an apartment in 1988-89. When I moved out, the landlord mentioned that my predecessor had painted half the walls black, and there was black candle wax everywhere. I did not tell him that my cat refused to go into the bathroom without me (I kept his litter box elsewhere). I wonder what he sensed. . . .
Later, she rented another apartment which she found out had once been lived in by a serial killer.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 23, 2025
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The closest I ever came to that was an apartment in 1988-89. When I moved out, the landlord mentioned that my predecessor had painted half the walls black, and there was black candle wax everywhere. I did not tell him that my cat refused to go into the bathroom without me (I kept his litter box elsewhere). I wonder what he sensed. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2025 11:13 PM (omVj0)
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nurse, a special thank you to you for all you do.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 23, 2025 11:13 PM (dxWFK)
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Since CB has prime locations right off interstates, I think SnailRacer is right.
Posted by: four seasons at August 23, 2025 11:07 PM (3ek7K)
But commercial real estate is doing kind of badly right now, isn't it?
Posted by: four seasons at August 23, 2025 11:07 PM (3ek7K)
But commercial real estate is doing kind of badly right now, isn't it?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 23, 2025 11:13 PM (R4SAT)
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53 days to TXMOME. X. Due to the generosity of the Horde the bar is open.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 23, 2025 11:10 PM
We got a trailer for this year, so MoMe After Dark is gonna be lit.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 23, 2025 11:10 PM
We got a trailer for this year, so MoMe After Dark is gonna be lit.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 23, 2025 11:14 PM (MGB5H)
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That's no different than cutting a hole in a watermelon and jamming a bottle of vodka into it.
Posted by: rickb223
We did that too!
Posted by: rickb223
We did that too!
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 23, 2025 11:14 PM (mT+6a)
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Just sitting here a few minutes ago and realized that for aliens to exist, let alone make contact, not only would another planet have to have life on it - but according to SCIENCE, it would have to "evolve" from slime too. Then it has to make it past the somewhat advanced conscious reasoning being (human) phase and into the super advanced being phase, all without killing each other or having something else wipe them out.
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I read an article a while back with a headline something like more evidence for extraterrestrial life. The gist of it was that a fish had been discovered in the deep, deep ocean that did not get energy, directly or indirectly, from sunlight but rather from some chemical action. If they can do it in the deep, deep ocean, they can do it on Alpha Centauri!
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I read an article a while back with a headline something like more evidence for extraterrestrial life. The gist of it was that a fish had been discovered in the deep, deep ocean that did not get energy, directly or indirectly, from sunlight but rather from some chemical action. If they can do it in the deep, deep ocean, they can do it on Alpha Centauri!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fire Can Too Melt Steel! at August 23, 2025 11:15 PM (L/fGl)
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The General Slocum sinking devastated the German-American community on the Lower East Side, which dispersed further uptown. This allowed the next group of Lower East Siders, the Jewish community to take root.
On the Tucker Carlson show tonight, I have a special guest on to discuss the conspiracy surrounding the "General Slocum Incident" and *who* was really responsible.
IYKWIM.
On the Tucker Carlson show tonight, I have a special guest on to discuss the conspiracy surrounding the "General Slocum Incident" and *who* was really responsible.
IYKWIM.
Posted by: Tucker Carlson at August 23, 2025 11:15 PM (D0HYP)
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Cherry Bounce sounds like a stage name.
Posted by: All Hail Eris
It sounds like a stage name and the act itself, IYKWIMAITYD.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
Although the Cherry Bounce is an act you can only perform once.
Posted by: All Hail Eris
It sounds like a stage name and the act itself, IYKWIMAITYD.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
Although the Cherry Bounce is an act you can only perform once.
Posted by: mikeski at August 23, 2025 11:15 PM (DgGvY)
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Aniston was in a made for TV movie around 1990 called Camp Cucamonga. It was a showcase for all the child stars of the time. Urkel and friends, The Full House Girls, Step by Step, The Wonder Years kids, etc. Premise was a summer camp and Jen Aniston played a counselor. She, of course, was cute.
Posted by: Winnie Cooper, Too! at August 23, 2025 11:15 PM (G5+As)
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AOP,
Yes, I think so. However when we look at the locations of CB, I think they are sitting on prime real estate and the woke assholes have some devious plan for the property.
AOP,
Yes, I think so. However when we look at the locations of CB, I think they are sitting on prime real estate and the woke assholes have some devious plan for the property.
Posted by: four seasons at August 23, 2025 11:15 PM (3ek7K)
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BruceWayne, I'll bring you guys breakfast burritos cause you are gonna need them !
Posted by: Ben Had at August 23, 2025 11:16 PM (dxWFK)
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Awww Ben Had,
It’s my pleasure. And I appreciate you trusting me.
It’s my pleasure. And I appreciate you trusting me.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 23, 2025 11:16 PM (mT+6a)
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BruceWayne, I'll bring you guys breakfast burritos cause you are gonna need them !
Posted by: Ben Had at August 23, 2025 11
Oh hell ya
Posted by: Ben Had at August 23, 2025 11
Oh hell ya
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 23, 2025 11:18 PM (MGB5H)
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AOP,
Yes, I think so. However when we look at the locations of CB, I think they are sitting on prime real estate and the woke assholes have some devious plan for the property.
Posted by: four seasons at August 23, 2025 11:15 PM (3ek7K)
Low income housing would be my bet...
AOP,
Yes, I think so. However when we look at the locations of CB, I think they are sitting on prime real estate and the woke assholes have some devious plan for the property.
Posted by: four seasons at August 23, 2025 11:15 PM (3ek7K)
Low income housing would be my bet...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 23, 2025 11:18 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 23, 2025 11:18 PM (6eO0F)
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I never found Jennifer Aniston hot. She’s not ugly but never did it for me.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 23, 2025 11:19 PM (wrRTB)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 23, 2025 11:20 PM (63Dwl)
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209 Hi, I am very late, but wanted to pop in and see what’s up!
Posted by: Piper at August 23, 2025 11:12 PM
Hey fellow top 10er.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 23
Hi! We are elite.
Posted by: Piper at August 23, 2025 11:12 PM
Hey fellow top 10er.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 23
Hi! We are elite.
Posted by: Piper at August 23, 2025 11:20 PM (pZEOD)
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I went in a dive bar once and told the bartender ...give me something cold and full of gin. He said...here take my wife.
Posted by: Muchas buchas at August 23, 2025 11:20 PM (DIIec)
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Yes, I think so. However when we look at the locations of CB, I think they are sitting on prime real estate and the woke assholes have some devious plan for the property.
Posted by: four seasons at August 23, 2025 11:15 PM (3ek7K)
Devious plan: tank the stock value by wokifying CB. Make a bundle shorting the stock. Mom and Pop investors bail. Blackrock buys them out, takes CB private, restores it to its original glory. Profit.
Posted by: four seasons at August 23, 2025 11:15 PM (3ek7K)
Devious plan: tank the stock value by wokifying CB. Make a bundle shorting the stock. Mom and Pop investors bail. Blackrock buys them out, takes CB private, restores it to its original glory. Profit.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 23, 2025 11:20 PM (R4SAT)
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That's no different than cutting a hole in a watermelon and jamming a bottle of vodka into it.
Posted by: rickb223
The only thing better than vodka melon is vodka soaked gummies.
Posted by: rickb223
The only thing better than vodka melon is vodka soaked gummies.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 23, 2025 11:20 PM (MGB5H)
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Cracker Barrel declined after the Covid mess, which did kill a lot of restaurants. Then Biden-flation came along.
There's one here in Simpsonville that's been around for a long time, and was in our regular rotation. Quality went down after Covid. They used to have a nice spicy broiled catfish item that was the best around here. That, and a lot of other fish disappeared. I think they've started offering catfish at least again, but I haven't tried it.
That stupid bint was planning to spend $700M on this rebrand and remodel. If they'd spend that on getting the quality back up, they'd be all right.
There's one here in Simpsonville that's been around for a long time, and was in our regular rotation. Quality went down after Covid. They used to have a nice spicy broiled catfish item that was the best around here. That, and a lot of other fish disappeared. I think they've started offering catfish at least again, but I haven't tried it.
That stupid bint was planning to spend $700M on this rebrand and remodel. If they'd spend that on getting the quality back up, they'd be all right.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 23, 2025 11:20 PM (w6EFb)
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226 I never found Jennifer Aniston hot. She’s not ugly but never did it for me.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
Please come visit us.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
Please come visit us.
Posted by: Warby-Parker at August 23, 2025 11:20 PM (G5+As)
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Hi! We are elite.
Posted by: Piper at August 23, 2025 11:20 PM
I did have to dust off my shoulder.
Posted by: Piper at August 23, 2025 11:20 PM
I did have to dust off my shoulder.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 23, 2025 11:21 PM (MGB5H)
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Time I staggered (sober, but weary) off to bed, all. Play nice, and if you can't do that, don't get caught. See you on the Tech Thread tomorrow.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2025 11:23 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Just Sayin... at August 23, 2025 11:23 PM (a9s9e)
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My outline for a SF book I never wrote revolves around a kind of analogy.
Every once in a great while, someone will run off the road or busy urban interstate and become pinned in their car. They aren’t visible from the road. They are right there! Thousands of people pass them by. But they can’t signal anyone, they can’t move. And they can be stuck for a long time.
What if humans are the “aliens”? Our ancestors either crashed or broke down, little Johnnie put a pop tart in the flux capacitor housing, whatever, and so the ability for intergalactic travel was lost. AAA doesn’t come out this far. This happened maybe tens of thousands of years ago.
To me, while it is difficult to comprehend a complete system or the one we are in, it seems humans have a potential intelligence and calscity that is far and away more than “necessary” to be running around clubbing ground sloths over the head. Or put another way we are trying to get back to where we once were as a species. This has taken thousands and thousands of years.
Every once in a great while, someone will run off the road or busy urban interstate and become pinned in their car. They aren’t visible from the road. They are right there! Thousands of people pass them by. But they can’t signal anyone, they can’t move. And they can be stuck for a long time.
What if humans are the “aliens”? Our ancestors either crashed or broke down, little Johnnie put a pop tart in the flux capacitor housing, whatever, and so the ability for intergalactic travel was lost. AAA doesn’t come out this far. This happened maybe tens of thousands of years ago.
To me, while it is difficult to comprehend a complete system or the one we are in, it seems humans have a potential intelligence and calscity that is far and away more than “necessary” to be running around clubbing ground sloths over the head. Or put another way we are trying to get back to where we once were as a species. This has taken thousands and thousands of years.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 23, 2025 11:23 PM (QHBow)
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Best of Breed for The Big Dummy at today's Greater Twin Cities Borzoi Club specialty, defeating some 57 other dogs, a very nice chunk of change. He may now be styled BISS GCHS Envious As We Fall. Well done, you dope!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
He is now The BISS Dummy
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
He is now The BISS Dummy
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 23, 2025 11:24 PM (Mgy3C)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 23, 2025 11:24 PM (l8IGe)
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Piper, hope you are gearing up for a couple of all nighters !
Posted by: Ben Had at August 23, 2025 11:24 PM (dxWFK)
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Just sitting here a few minutes ago and realized that for aliens to exist, let alone make contact, not only would another planet have to have life on it - but according to SCIENCE, it would have to "evolve" from slime too. Then it has to make it past the somewhat advanced conscious reasoning being (human) phase and into the super advanced being phase, all without killing each other or having something else wipe them out.
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I read an article a while back with a headline something like more evidence for extraterrestrial life. . . .
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fire Can Too Melt Steel! at August 23, 2025 11:15 PM
My one counterargument is we are a very noisy planet. Lots of transmissions going out into the void. We haven't picked up any to my knowledge; SETI's been at it a long time, too. If someone else had picked up our random stray transmissions, wouldn't they try the same? That is, if they wanted contact. Maybe they also believe God created them in his image, that image being Treebeard or an octopus or a Horta.
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I read an article a while back with a headline something like more evidence for extraterrestrial life. . . .
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fire Can Too Melt Steel! at August 23, 2025 11:15 PM
My one counterargument is we are a very noisy planet. Lots of transmissions going out into the void. We haven't picked up any to my knowledge; SETI's been at it a long time, too. If someone else had picked up our random stray transmissions, wouldn't they try the same? That is, if they wanted contact. Maybe they also believe God created them in his image, that image being Treebeard or an octopus or a Horta.
Posted by: RickZ at August 23, 2025 11:27 PM (gKDq2)
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'Night is to see the dreams and day is to make them true. So it’s good to sleep now and see the dreams. Good night, sweet dreams!'
Good night sweet Horde.
And good night to DDS - I don't often meet you here, but I think of you often!
Good night sweet Horde.
And good night to DDS - I don't often meet you here, but I think of you often!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 23, 2025 11:28 PM (3wXSL)
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Kids in a saloon were not that unusual. Now, it was 50 year after that picture, but I remember being taken to a bar that looked a lot like some of those pictured. I had to be around 5 or 6. 3 - 5 couples and their offspring would meet at this saloon (IIRC, Spelmans) on Saturday night. The bar was about 20' long on the right side toward the front with a few table on the left. The was an open rail 3' high partition at the back end of the bar and tables scattered around in the space there. Ladies and kids weren't allowed up in the bar section, but drinks and bar food were served back there. All the kids just sort of run around back there, entertaining ourselves, while the parents had a few. As long as we didn't scream or run into other patrons, it was ok.
The place had high tin ceilings, a big mirror behind the bar, a brass rail and spitoons. I know this because, 7 years later I would pick up a ham and Swiss on rye with yellow mustard for our family doctor whose office was a block away. He gave me three quarters to pay for it, and I got to keep the dime in change.
My first job, and, establishing the tradition I've turn into since them, the job disappeared when he died.
The place had high tin ceilings, a big mirror behind the bar, a brass rail and spitoons. I know this because, 7 years later I would pick up a ham and Swiss on rye with yellow mustard for our family doctor whose office was a block away. He gave me three quarters to pay for it, and I got to keep the dime in change.
My first job, and, establishing the tradition I've turn into since them, the job disappeared when he died.
Posted by: buddhaha at August 23, 2025 11:28 PM (dWdRv)
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210 SnailRacer said she or he, I'm not sure if female or male, it doesn't matter. Anyways SnailRacer has the idea that since Blackrock is the majority shareholder of CB, that they could be intentionally ruining CB because of the prime real estate locations of CB. It makes sense to me.
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I think it's a more simple scenario than that. Prior to the new CEO coming on board 2020, Cracker Barrel was experiencing a slow decline in revenue. The COVID debacle expedited that problem. A number of board members retired about the same time. The new CEO expanded the Board of Directors to 11 people...and all the new Board members after 2020 are either minorities or women. In short, the CEO brought in her cadre to back her up.
So, now, she's "fixing" the paternalistic, hill billy problem child into her own image, and she's got the same thinking of her Board of Directors backing her up.
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I think it's a more simple scenario than that. Prior to the new CEO coming on board 2020, Cracker Barrel was experiencing a slow decline in revenue. The COVID debacle expedited that problem. A number of board members retired about the same time. The new CEO expanded the Board of Directors to 11 people...and all the new Board members after 2020 are either minorities or women. In short, the CEO brought in her cadre to back her up.
So, now, she's "fixing" the paternalistic, hill billy problem child into her own image, and she's got the same thinking of her Board of Directors backing her up.
Posted by: Orson at August 23, 2025 11:29 PM (dIske)
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The (observable) universe is so damned YUGE, you just can't your mind wrapped around it. Even our Milky Way Galaxy is so big it takes some thought to even appreciate how big that is. And then, going up the scale ladder from that, the Milky Way is just a fly speck on a fly speck on a bacterium.
With all that vastness and the mind boggling number of galaxies out there, there's got to be other life out there. It may be something quite different than us. We've got a sample of exactly one data point for life, us.
If there's no way around light speed, then any long distance travelling will be impossible. So there could be a shit ton of life, advanced civilizations and anything you could imagine, but yet spread out so far in that mind boggling vastness that not one of will ever detect, much less contact any of the others.
The (observable) universe is so damned YUGE, you just can't your mind wrapped around it. Even our Milky Way Galaxy is so big it takes some thought to even appreciate how big that is. And then, going up the scale ladder from that, the Milky Way is just a fly speck on a fly speck on a bacterium.
With all that vastness and the mind boggling number of galaxies out there, there's got to be other life out there. It may be something quite different than us. We've got a sample of exactly one data point for life, us.
If there's no way around light speed, then any long distance travelling will be impossible. So there could be a shit ton of life, advanced civilizations and anything you could imagine, but yet spread out so far in that mind boggling vastness that not one of will ever detect, much less contact any of the others.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 23, 2025 11:29 PM (w6EFb)
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Greek pasta salad--kalamatas, feta, tomato, cucumber, and make a simple vinaigrette dressing with thyme. pepperoncini for fun?
Posted by: barbarausa at August 23, 2025 11:30 PM (enw9G)
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Thousand dollar car it ain't worth nothin'
Thousand dollar car it ain't worth shit.
Might as well take your Thousand dollars,
and set fire to it.
Thousand dollar car ain't worth a dime,
You lose your thousand dollars every time.
Oh why did I ever buy,
a thousand dollar car.
Thousand dollar car it ain't worth shit.
Might as well take your Thousand dollars,
and set fire to it.
Thousand dollar car ain't worth a dime,
You lose your thousand dollars every time.
Oh why did I ever buy,
a thousand dollar car.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 23, 2025 11:30 PM (l8IGe)
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So, now, she's "fixing" the paternalistic, hill billy problem child into her own image, and she's got the same thinking of her Board of Directors backing her up.
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This too, is the story of Kathleen Kennedy.
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This too, is the story of Kathleen Kennedy.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 23, 2025 11:30 PM (hY4dx)
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So, now, she's "fixing" the paternalistic, hill billy problem child into her own image, and she's got the same thinking of her Board of Directors backing her up.
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This too, is the story of Kathleen Kennedy.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 23, 2025 11:30 PM (hY4dx)
The force is female and the Cracker Barrel is good house keeping.
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This too, is the story of Kathleen Kennedy.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 23, 2025 11:30 PM (hY4dx)
The force is female and the Cracker Barrel is good house keeping.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 23, 2025 11:31 PM (MGB5H)
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So we are sitting in our newly constructed framed GP mediums west of Mogadishu Somalia at Victory Base. Mail comes and chief gets a care package from his wife. Inside is a carefuly concealed bottle of Crown Royal. He starts showing it off and rubbing it in that he's got alcohol blah blah. Pours himself a dixie cup full and puts the cap on. The proceeds to set it down on a double head nail sticking out of the framing. Busts the whole bottom out of it.
All he got was the dixie cup.
"Damn it smells good in here" was our first words to him for a week.
All he got was the dixie cup.
"Damn it smells good in here" was our first words to him for a week.
Posted by: Reforger at August 23, 2025 11:32 PM (I0Uo2)
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Pleasant dreams to you all. Lights out time at Casa Ben Had
Posted by: Ben Had at August 23, 2025 11:32 PM (dxWFK)
Posted by: four seasons at August 23, 2025 11:32 PM (3ek7K)
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240 Piper, hope you are gearing up for a couple of all nighters !
Posted by: Ben Had at August 23, 2025 11:24 PM (dxWFK)
Y’all have to know by now I am a very boring, goody two shoes. Plus I have to drive to what I hope is not a haunted VRBO. But mainly, I am a very boring, goody two shoes.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 23, 2025 11:24 PM (dxWFK)
Y’all have to know by now I am a very boring, goody two shoes. Plus I have to drive to what I hope is not a haunted VRBO. But mainly, I am a very boring, goody two shoes.
Posted by: Piper at August 23, 2025 11:32 PM (pZEOD)
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Shit! I forgot to copy/paste who I was trying to engage with that.
Posted by: Reforger at August 23, 2025 11:33 PM (I0Uo2)
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The only thing better than vodka melon is vodka soaked gummies.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 23, 2025 11:20 PM (MGB5H
Vodka injected into oranges wasn’t bad.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 23, 2025 11:20 PM (MGB5H
Vodka injected into oranges wasn’t bad.
Posted by: Javems at August 23, 2025 11:34 PM (xHVms)
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Thousand dollar car it ain't worth nothin'
Thousand dollar car it ain't worth shit.
Might as well take your Thousand dollars,
and set fire to it.
Thousand dollar car ain't worth a dime,
You lose your thousand dollars every time.
Oh why did I ever buy,
a thousand dollar car.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 23, 2025 11:30 PM (l8IGe)
The song sort of presupposes no knowledge and no ability to fix up the thousand dollar car. I used to do real well on cars that sold for a lot less than a grand.
Thousand dollar car it ain't worth shit.
Might as well take your Thousand dollars,
and set fire to it.
Thousand dollar car ain't worth a dime,
You lose your thousand dollars every time.
Oh why did I ever buy,
a thousand dollar car.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 23, 2025 11:30 PM (l8IGe)
The song sort of presupposes no knowledge and no ability to fix up the thousand dollar car. I used to do real well on cars that sold for a lot less than a grand.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 23, 2025 11:34 PM (R4SAT)
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Y’all have to know by now I am a very boring, goody two shoes. Plus I have to drive to what I hope is not a haunted VRBO. But mainly, I am a very boring, goody two shoes.
Posted by: Piper at August 23, 2025 11:32 PM (pZEOD
Ehh we got a couch in the camper if needed hahah
Posted by: Piper at August 23, 2025 11:32 PM (pZEOD
Ehh we got a couch in the camper if needed hahah
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 23, 2025 11:35 PM (MGB5H)
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Good night, sweet friends! Everyone is settled and quiet finally.
Posted by: Piper at August 23, 2025 11:35 PM (pZEOD)
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Posted by: buddhaha at August 23, 2025 11:28 PM (dWdRv)
Way before my time in the neighborhood but many 'old timers' I've met talked about as a kid having a bucket or some other sort of container easily carried and being sent to the bar to get a bucket of beer for Dad. They said it was very common. Just like when I was a kid parents sent their kids to 7-11 to buy cigarettes for them.
Way before my time in the neighborhood but many 'old timers' I've met talked about as a kid having a bucket or some other sort of container easily carried and being sent to the bar to get a bucket of beer for Dad. They said it was very common. Just like when I was a kid parents sent their kids to 7-11 to buy cigarettes for them.
Posted by: RickZ at August 23, 2025 11:36 PM (gKDq2)
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Are they going to get rid of that gift shop presence at Cracker Barrel? I wasn't a regular patron, but I enjoyed seeing some the unique stuff they had in there, most especially some of those candy brands I haven't seen in 40 some years. I always made a special trip there to load up on stocking stuffers around Christmas time. Always a big hit with the relatives.
Posted by: Orson at August 23, 2025 11:36 PM (dIske)
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You're welcome, four seasons.
Thyme makes it, IMO.
I have a great Swedish potato salad recipe from my MIL, that uses a simple vinaigrette (oil, vinegar, salt, pepper), on potatoes, diced pickled beet, parsley, chive, and chopped sweet onion.
It absolutely rocks, and is great for cookouts/picnics/etc because no mayo worries. I love it in summer.
Thyme makes it, IMO.
I have a great Swedish potato salad recipe from my MIL, that uses a simple vinaigrette (oil, vinegar, salt, pepper), on potatoes, diced pickled beet, parsley, chive, and chopped sweet onion.
It absolutely rocks, and is great for cookouts/picnics/etc because no mayo worries. I love it in summer.
Posted by: barbarausa at August 23, 2025 11:36 PM (enw9G)
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>> SETI's been at it a long time, too. If someone else had picked up our random stray transmissions, wouldn't they try the same?
The problem with that is the inverse square law. SETI is sort of ridiculous. An alien civilization would have to be purposefully targeting us, aiming a tight beamed signal right at us with enormous power for us to be able to detect.
Now, our own transmission, leakage being roughly isotropic and inverse square, would be so weak they'd be lost in the background noise.
The problem with that is the inverse square law. SETI is sort of ridiculous. An alien civilization would have to be purposefully targeting us, aiming a tight beamed signal right at us with enormous power for us to be able to detect.
Now, our own transmission, leakage being roughly isotropic and inverse square, would be so weak they'd be lost in the background noise.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 23, 2025 11:36 PM (w6EFb)
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Are they going to get rid of that gift shop presence at Cracker Barrel? I wasn't a regular patron, but I enjoyed seeing some the unique stuff they had in there, most especially some of those candy brands I haven't seen in 40 some years. I always made a special trip there to load up on stocking stuffers around Christmas time. Always a big hit with the relatives.
Posted by: Orson at August 23, 2025 11:36 PM
They are no longer a country store, and the remodels clean up and very much reduce the store area. They also woked the peg game, it says something like "if you didn't solve it you're still a special person"
Posted by: Orson at August 23, 2025 11:36 PM
They are no longer a country store, and the remodels clean up and very much reduce the store area. They also woked the peg game, it says something like "if you didn't solve it you're still a special person"
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 23, 2025 11:38 PM (MGB5H)
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Are they going to get rid of that gift shop presence at Cracker Barrel? I wasn't a regular patron, but I enjoyed seeing some the unique stuff they had in there, most especially some of those candy brands I haven't seen in 40 some years. I always made a special trip there to load up on stocking stuffers around Christmas time. Always a big hit with the relatives.
Posted by: Orson at August 23, 2025 11:36 PM (dIske)
It will all be organic candy sweetened with Stevia. And the rag dolls will all be trannies.
Posted by: Orson at August 23, 2025 11:36 PM (dIske)
It will all be organic candy sweetened with Stevia. And the rag dolls will all be trannies.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 23, 2025 11:38 PM (R4SAT)
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254 Shit! I forgot to copy/paste who I was trying to engage with that.
Posted by: Reforger
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That's ok. I yell at clouds.
Posted by: Reforger
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That's ok. I yell at clouds.
Posted by: Grandpa Simpson at August 23, 2025 11:38 PM (41CYW)
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The (observable) universe is so damned YUGE, you just can't your mind wrapped around it. Even our Milky Way Galaxy is so big it takes some thought to even appreciate how big that is. And then, going up the scale ladder from that, the Milky Way is just a fly speck on a fly speck on a bacterium.
With all that vastness and the mind boggling number of galaxies out there, there's got to be other life out there. It may be something quite different than us. We've got a sample of exactly one data point for life, us.
If there's no way around light speed, then any long distance travelling will be impossible. So there could be a shit ton of life, advanced civilizations and anything you could imagine, but yet spread out so far in that mind boggling vastness that not one of will ever detect, much less contact any of the others.
Posted by: publius
Using very different wording, this would be very similar to our stoned rambles on Friday nights sitting around the dorm after late-night bongfests.
With all that vastness and the mind boggling number of galaxies out there, there's got to be other life out there. It may be something quite different than us. We've got a sample of exactly one data point for life, us.
If there's no way around light speed, then any long distance travelling will be impossible. So there could be a shit ton of life, advanced civilizations and anything you could imagine, but yet spread out so far in that mind boggling vastness that not one of will ever detect, much less contact any of the others.
Posted by: publius
Using very different wording, this would be very similar to our stoned rambles on Friday nights sitting around the dorm after late-night bongfests.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 23, 2025 11:38 PM (cYBz/)
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I think the goal of all the asshole woke leftists is to erase any Americana in our country. Everything must be generic and there should be nothing existing that expresses who we as Americans are.
Fight it if you can, don't let them win.
I think the goal of all the asshole woke leftists is to erase any Americana in our country. Everything must be generic and there should be nothing existing that expresses who we as Americans are.
Fight it if you can, don't let them win.
Posted by: four seasons at August 23, 2025 11:39 PM (3ek7K)
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My one counterargument is we are a very noisy planet. Lots of transmissions going out into the void. We haven't picked up any to my knowledge; SETI's been at it a long time, too. If someone else had picked up our random stray transmissions, wouldn't they try the same? That is, if they wanted contact. Maybe they also believe God created them in his image, that image being Treebeard or an octopus or a Horta.
Posted by: RickZ at August 23, 2025 11:27 PM (gKDq2)
Given that our earliest transmissions have not yet made it very far within our own galaxy, the prospect of bridging the distance to an as-yet undiscovered planet in a distant galaxy seems...remote...
Posted by: RickZ at August 23, 2025 11:27 PM (gKDq2)
Given that our earliest transmissions have not yet made it very far within our own galaxy, the prospect of bridging the distance to an as-yet undiscovered planet in a distant galaxy seems...remote...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 23, 2025 11:40 PM (nbLIj)
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Go woke; go broke.
Cracker Barrel’s radical CEO Julie Felss Masino's reportedly wanted to make the restaurant chain less white, and thus the removal of the beloved logo bearing a white man. Her idiotic decision may have been celebrated by the far leftists who hate America, but it resulted in a $250 million decline in the company’s stock value. It is down nearly 35% since she took the helm. She, and the moron board members who hired her, should all be removed; then the original logo should be brought back, and a new board and CEO consisting of conservatives who look like the guy in the logo should be hired. The stock would double!
Cracker Barrel’s radical CEO Julie Felss Masino's reportedly wanted to make the restaurant chain less white, and thus the removal of the beloved logo bearing a white man. Her idiotic decision may have been celebrated by the far leftists who hate America, but it resulted in a $250 million decline in the company’s stock value. It is down nearly 35% since she took the helm. She, and the moron board members who hired her, should all be removed; then the original logo should be brought back, and a new board and CEO consisting of conservatives who look like the guy in the logo should be hired. The stock would double!
Posted by: rickb223 at August 23, 2025 11:42 PM (zXOsD)
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Given that our earliest transmissions have not yet made it very far within our own galaxy, the prospect of bridging the distance to an as-yet undiscovered planet in a distant galaxy seems...remote...
Posted by: Joe Kidd
It doesn't matter. The Dad equivalent of an advanced civilization family on some far flung universe has already walked/slid/floated into the lab and turned off the equipment for the night as no one was in the room.
Posted by: Joe Kidd
It doesn't matter. The Dad equivalent of an advanced civilization family on some far flung universe has already walked/slid/floated into the lab and turned off the equipment for the night as no one was in the room.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 23, 2025 11:42 PM (cYBz/)
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An alien civilization would have to be purposefully targeting us Posted by: publius
Two words: Roswell and Area 51. Art Bell covered these for years. QED.
Two words: Roswell and Area 51. Art Bell covered these for years. QED.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 23, 2025 11:42 PM (zdKZs)
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If there's no way around light speed, then any long distance travelling will be impossible. So there could be a shit ton of life, advanced civilizations and anything you could imagine, but yet spread out so far in that mind boggling vastness that not one of will ever detect, much less contact any of the others.
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Enrico Fermi: “Where is everybody?” Was his famous non seq blurted out at a dinner party, they had been discussing alien life earlier that day. Everybody knew what he was talking about and started laughing.
If light speed travel is possible, but you have lost it, well nobody is going to be able to find you, might be one scenario
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Enrico Fermi: “Where is everybody?” Was his famous non seq blurted out at a dinner party, they had been discussing alien life earlier that day. Everybody knew what he was talking about and started laughing.
If light speed travel is possible, but you have lost it, well nobody is going to be able to find you, might be one scenario
Posted by: Common Tater at August 23, 2025 11:42 PM (QHBow)
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Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 23, 2025 11:30 PM (l8IGe)
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Why did I never hear my personal life theme song until this moment?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 23, 2025 11:30 PM (l8IGe)
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Why did I never hear my personal life theme song until this moment?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 23, 2025 11:42 PM (6eO0F)
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Now, our own transmission, leakage being roughly isotropic and inverse square, would be so weak they'd be lost in the background noise.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 23, 2025 11:36 PM (w6EFb)
Suppose, aliens, some 60 light-years distant, sent out their own version of Voyager to explore the outer reaches of their star system. And at some point in its orbit, it passed between the alien planet and Sol. We might hear a burst of radio traffic directed at their probe.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 23, 2025 11:36 PM (w6EFb)
Suppose, aliens, some 60 light-years distant, sent out their own version of Voyager to explore the outer reaches of their star system. And at some point in its orbit, it passed between the alien planet and Sol. We might hear a burst of radio traffic directed at their probe.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 23, 2025 11:42 PM (R4SAT)
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barbarausa,
We are into lighter salads. Not necessarily for health reasons, but they really taste better.
Lots of Mayo seems to mask the flavors of the chopped vegetables.
barbarausa,
We are into lighter salads. Not necessarily for health reasons, but they really taste better.
Lots of Mayo seems to mask the flavors of the chopped vegetables.
Posted by: four seasons at August 23, 2025 11:43 PM (3ek7K)
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100 light years is about the absolute limit of detection based on signal to noise, and that's being quite generous, assuming the aliens have receiver tech far beyond anything we have.
50 ly is probably a better limit.
And exception is some very high power, tight beamed stuff, like radar we've sent out. That could be detected at greater distances, maybe a few thousand light years. But it the aliens would have to be very lucky, looking at just the right direction at just the right time, with some very sensitive receivers.
100 light years is about the absolute limit of detection based on signal to noise, and that's being quite generous, assuming the aliens have receiver tech far beyond anything we have.
50 ly is probably a better limit.
And exception is some very high power, tight beamed stuff, like radar we've sent out. That could be detected at greater distances, maybe a few thousand light years. But it the aliens would have to be very lucky, looking at just the right direction at just the right time, with some very sensitive receivers.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 23, 2025 11:43 PM (w6EFb)
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When that post about Macinac Bridge was written I was going to mention that the only reason they know a Yugo blew off the bridge - they had a witness.
This was mentioned in a civil engineering class (prof was former MDOT engineer). He said they don't really know how many may have blown off that bridge. And, it may be do to a weird design where it has very low guard rails which may contribute to the problem.
Afetr forty years, jus last year I went over the bridge. Same guard rails still there. Weird design. Outside lanes are steel grates so you can see straight down like a couple huundred feet to the water.
Highly recommend for your next color tour on your bike.
This was mentioned in a civil engineering class (prof was former MDOT engineer). He said they don't really know how many may have blown off that bridge. And, it may be do to a weird design where it has very low guard rails which may contribute to the problem.
Afetr forty years, jus last year I went over the bridge. Same guard rails still there. Weird design. Outside lanes are steel grates so you can see straight down like a couple huundred feet to the water.
Highly recommend for your next color tour on your bike.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 23, 2025 11:44 PM (/lPRQ)
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I think the goal of all the asshole woke leftists is to erase any Americana in our country. Everything must be generic and there should be nothing existing that expresses who we as Americans are.
Fight it if you can, don't let them win.
Posted by: four seasons at August 23, 2025 11:39 PM (3ek7K)
Have to make the illegals feel comfortable. All that Americana upsets them.
Just like right now in England their is a mini-revolt with people hanging flags of St. George all over the place. City councils remove those but leave Paleo flags up. They say the English flag 'causes upset to the immigrant community'.
Fight it if you can, don't let them win.
Posted by: four seasons at August 23, 2025 11:39 PM (3ek7K)
Have to make the illegals feel comfortable. All that Americana upsets them.
Just like right now in England their is a mini-revolt with people hanging flags of St. George all over the place. City councils remove those but leave Paleo flags up. They say the English flag 'causes upset to the immigrant community'.
Posted by: RickZ at August 23, 2025 11:44 PM (gKDq2)
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The song sort of presupposes no knowledge and no ability to fix up the thousand dollar car. I used to do real well on cars that sold for a lot less than a grand.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 23, 2025 11:34 PM (R4SAT)
I've been running them for over 40 years. 15 of it with Subaru GL wagons. I have a plate monument to them all on the wall of my shop. Some were better than others. They die when the repairs become more than the next $500 find.
Current one has me actually willingly investing in it. 2004 Tacoma. Probably my best find so far. I'm actually going to reupholster the seats.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 23, 2025 11:34 PM (R4SAT)
I've been running them for over 40 years. 15 of it with Subaru GL wagons. I have a plate monument to them all on the wall of my shop. Some were better than others. They die when the repairs become more than the next $500 find.
Current one has me actually willingly investing in it. 2004 Tacoma. Probably my best find so far. I'm actually going to reupholster the seats.
Posted by: Reforger at August 23, 2025 11:46 PM (I0Uo2)
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I am entranced with George Washington's drink recipe that ends,
refrigerate once opened.
Clearly there are unexplored aspects of Washington's career.
refrigerate once opened.
Clearly there are unexplored aspects of Washington's career.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 23, 2025 11:47 PM (zdLoL)
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I am so sick of hearing about illegals.
As Americans, is there a country we could show up in and declare we have rights there? I don't think so.
I am so sick of hearing about illegals.
As Americans, is there a country we could show up in and declare we have rights there? I don't think so.
Posted by: four seasons at August 23, 2025 11:47 PM (3ek7K)
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If light speed travel is possible, but you have lost it, well nobody is going to be able to find you, might be one scenario
Posted by: Common Tater at August 23, 2025 11:42 PM (QHBow)
Marooned on Planet X.
They had to have made a movie with that title in the 1950s.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 23, 2025 11:42 PM (QHBow)
Marooned on Planet X.
They had to have made a movie with that title in the 1950s.
Posted by: RickZ at August 23, 2025 11:48 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 23, 2025 11:48 PM (mT+6a)
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Just like right now in England their is a mini-revolt with people hanging flags of St. George all over the place. City councils remove those but leave Paleo flags up. They say the English flag 'causes upset to the immigrant community'.
Posted by: RickZ at August 23, 2025 11:44 PM (gKDq2)
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Some enterprising young Brit is going around painting the St. George flag on pot holes in the roadway. It is getting an immediate reaction from the road crews to get out and remove the paint by filling in the pot holes. Which, of course, was the goal. Made me laugh.
Posted by: RickZ at August 23, 2025 11:44 PM (gKDq2)
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Some enterprising young Brit is going around painting the St. George flag on pot holes in the roadway. It is getting an immediate reaction from the road crews to get out and remove the paint by filling in the pot holes. Which, of course, was the goal. Made me laugh.
Posted by: Orson at August 23, 2025 11:49 PM (dIske)
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Just like right now in England their is a mini-revolt with people hanging flags of St. George all over the place. City councils remove those but leave Paleo flags up. They say the English flag 'causes upset to the immigrant community'.
Posted by: RickZ at August 23, 2025 11:44 PM (gKDq2)
Drones with tiny flamethrowers.
Posted by: RickZ at August 23, 2025 11:44 PM (gKDq2)
Drones with tiny flamethrowers.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 23, 2025 11:49 PM (R4SAT)
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Cracker Barrel’s radical CEO Julie Felss Masino's reportedly wanted to make the restaurant chain less white, and thus the removal of the beloved logo bearing a white man.
Posted by: rickb223
So she is going for the Gangster Disciples and Tren de Agua audience. Apparently she has never heard of Waffle House.
Posted by: rickb223
So she is going for the Gangster Disciples and Tren de Agua audience. Apparently she has never heard of Waffle House.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 23, 2025 11:50 PM (zdKZs)
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When I refresh the page here I get ads. I know Ace makes money from the ads. There is one that is a picture of some very wrinkled hands and everytime I see it I think how in the world did they get a picture of my hands, lol.
When I refresh the page here I get ads. I know Ace makes money from the ads. There is one that is a picture of some very wrinkled hands and everytime I see it I think how in the world did they get a picture of my hands, lol.
Posted by: four seasons at August 23, 2025 11:50 PM (3ek7K)
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We deployed to the Ft. Irwin training center in the Mojave. I was tasked to unload a truck full of empty 5 gallon water containers. One of them “clunked” and I looked inside. Full of cans of beer! I knew whose they were.
I put on my best concerned troopie face and went to see the offending SSG. “I found this illicit contraband Sarge, don’t you think we should report this to the CO immediately? Gosh!” It was great to see the wheels turning and burning in his mind.
“Well .. no, I don’t think that will be necessary…”
I put on my best concerned troopie face and went to see the offending SSG. “I found this illicit contraband Sarge, don’t you think we should report this to the CO immediately? Gosh!” It was great to see the wheels turning and burning in his mind.
“Well .. no, I don’t think that will be necessary…”
Posted by: Common Tater at August 23, 2025 11:50 PM (QHBow)
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Four seasons, I like the tang and bite of a vinegar salad. I love (and make a great!) mayo potato salad too, but I more often jones for that pickled beet version (using the pickled beet recipe she gave me too, setting them up a few days in advance of the salad for maximum zing from the cloves, lol)
Posted by: barbarausa at August 23, 2025 11:51 PM (enw9G)
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Clearly there are unexplored aspects of Washington's career.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 23, 2025 11:47 PM (zdLoL)
He could just glare at a pail of water, and turn it into ice.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 23, 2025 11:47 PM (zdLoL)
He could just glare at a pail of water, and turn it into ice.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 23, 2025 11:51 PM (R4SAT)
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What a bunch of morons.
Family of woman found with tribe in Scottish woods tell of heartbreak
https://mol.im/a/15028047
Family of woman found with tribe in Scottish woods tell of heartbreak
https://mol.im/a/15028047
Posted by: Joyenz at August 23, 2025 11:52 PM (sPQoU)
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I missed day drinking. Again. Sigh.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 23, 2025 11:52 PM (zdKZs)
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barbarausa,
I saw a recipe today for a beet salad. I love beets and the recipe was easy and sounds delicious.
barbarausa,
I saw a recipe today for a beet salad. I love beets and the recipe was easy and sounds delicious.
Posted by: four seasons at August 23, 2025 11:53 PM (3ek7K)
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I am so sick of hearing about illegals.
As Americans, is there a country we could show up in and declare we have rights there? I don't think so.
Posted by: four seasons at August 23, 2025 11:47 PM (3ek7K)
Exactly.
IMAO, the worldwide illegal invasion is someone or group of someones idea of reparations, making the English-speaking world pay up for every evil that has ever existed.
As Americans, is there a country we could show up in and declare we have rights there? I don't think so.
Posted by: four seasons at August 23, 2025 11:47 PM (3ek7K)
Exactly.
IMAO, the worldwide illegal invasion is someone or group of someones idea of reparations, making the English-speaking world pay up for every evil that has ever existed.
Posted by: RickZ at August 23, 2025 11:54 PM (gKDq2)
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Outside lanes are steel grates so you can see straight down like a couple huundred feet to the water.
Highly recommend for your next color tour on your bike.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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I've done that. Between the effect that the grating has on your bikes's steering, the wind, and the seeming open space below you, it was a real attention-getter.
Highly recommend for your next color tour on your bike.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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I've done that. Between the effect that the grating has on your bikes's steering, the wind, and the seeming open space below you, it was a real attention-getter.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 23, 2025 11:54 PM (XeU6L)
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Hansel and Gretal... gotta say at this point I side with the Witch...
Some asshole little kids come by and start to EAT YOUR HOUSE? WTF???
And don't even get me started on Goldilocks... theft, breaking and entering, destruction of property... I mean... come on...
Thinking back, most of the stories I was raised on, the children were NOT good role models.
Posted by: Romeo13
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Used have The Brothers Grimm Complete Works
They were all stories to warn children to be careful and not be asshoe. I skipped the famous stories, but recall many where evil kids has bad endings. Many very short - Three kids played 'Butcher' so they cut little Billy up and made sausage. The End.
So, the original stories probably had those kids in the Disney stories rightfully meeting their just ends.
Some asshole little kids come by and start to EAT YOUR HOUSE? WTF???
And don't even get me started on Goldilocks... theft, breaking and entering, destruction of property... I mean... come on...
Thinking back, most of the stories I was raised on, the children were NOT good role models.
Posted by: Romeo13
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Used have The Brothers Grimm Complete Works
They were all stories to warn children to be careful and not be asshoe. I skipped the famous stories, but recall many where evil kids has bad endings. Many very short - Three kids played 'Butcher' so they cut little Billy up and made sausage. The End.
So, the original stories probably had those kids in the Disney stories rightfully meeting their just ends.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 23, 2025 11:55 PM (/lPRQ)
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RickZ,
I agree. What pisses me off is most of never perpetrated evil on the whiney asses.
Those of us here on Ace have worked very hard to have a great life. I am sick of losers wanting an easy path towards what we AMERICANS have worked our butts off to achieve.
RickZ,
I agree. What pisses me off is most of never perpetrated evil on the whiney asses.
Those of us here on Ace have worked very hard to have a great life. I am sick of losers wanting an easy path towards what we AMERICANS have worked our butts off to achieve.
Posted by: four seasons at August 23, 2025 11:58 PM (3ek7K)
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That was one thing noticeable about the old school Bias-Ply tires. Steel gratings and weirdo road finish surfaces did strange things to handling.
On the other hand they fail gracefully and don’t explode on the highway the way radials do.
On the other hand they fail gracefully and don’t explode on the highway the way radials do.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 23, 2025 11:58 PM (QHBow)
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Some enterprising young Brit is going around painting the St. George flag on pot holes in the roadway. It is getting an immediate reaction from the road crews to get out and remove the paint by filling in the pot holes. Which, of course, was the goal. Made me laugh.
Posted by: Orson
Real men of genius!
Posted by: Orson
Real men of genius!
Posted by: mikeski at August 24, 2025 12:01 AM (DgGvY)
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We live almost in the center of our city. My youngest daughter went outside to walk her dog and saw two foxes sitting on our trampoline.
She managed to run back into the house and get a good video of the one fox that didn't skedaddle.
That fox just calmly watched her while calculating whether she was a threat.
I know why several cultures consider the fox to be a trickster - the fox looked very wise while observing her.
She managed to run back into the house and get a good video of the one fox that didn't skedaddle.
That fox just calmly watched her while calculating whether she was a threat.
I know why several cultures consider the fox to be a trickster - the fox looked very wise while observing her.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at August 24, 2025 12:03 AM (HlyYF)
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RickZ,
I agree. What pisses me off is most of never perpetrated evil on the whiney asses.
Those of us here on Ace have worked very hard to have a great life. I am sick of losers wanting an easy path towards what we AMERICANS have worked our butts off to achieve.
Posted by: four seasons at August 23, 2025 11:58 PM (3ek7K)
Just like the first whites to this country weren't immigrants, they were pioneers. No social support network nor fancy hotels back then. I really hate that 'America was founded by immigrants' bullshit. The natives didn't even have a casino back then.
I agree. What pisses me off is most of never perpetrated evil on the whiney asses.
Those of us here on Ace have worked very hard to have a great life. I am sick of losers wanting an easy path towards what we AMERICANS have worked our butts off to achieve.
Posted by: four seasons at August 23, 2025 11:58 PM (3ek7K)
Just like the first whites to this country weren't immigrants, they were pioneers. No social support network nor fancy hotels back then. I really hate that 'America was founded by immigrants' bullshit. The natives didn't even have a casino back then.
Posted by: RickZ at August 24, 2025 12:04 AM (gKDq2)
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About the DEI CEO of Cracker Barrel: I think those big glasses are fake - that is, there’s no correction in them! Look at the side of her face through the glasses sidewise: if it had any optical power, the edge of her face would be pushed inward or outward, depending on the correction. The line of the edge of her face is unaltered seen through the lenses. There’s no correction to speak of! I think this is like wearing a power tie: it’s just supposed to make her look powerful!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 24, 2025 12:04 AM (ZVgZ4)
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Sly as a fox.
Sly as a fox.
Posted by: four seasons at August 24, 2025 12:04 AM (3ek7K)
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I remembered some calculations for what would be involved to set up a radio link between us and say Alpha Centauri, 4 ly away. I had Grok run those numbers again.
Now, the setup. You want as tight a beam as you can muster with current technology, or a little beyond, but feasible. With such a very tight, directional beam, you need to be able to aim you antenna very precisely, to within an arc-second or better. You would need an Arecibo sized dish to do that, yet be able to aim it down to the arc-second.
Anyway, power requirements for threshold signal to noise limit. Surprisingly, a 1.2kW power level would be enough to be detectable. But useless, data rate would be only 1 bit per second. Again, this is for pushing the limits of current tech. Our receiver would have to be the width of a football field, in space, aimed down to the arc-second of precision, and oh, cyro-cooled down to 20K to limit self-noise.
To get up to just 1kbps we'd need 1.2MW. 32 kps would need 40 MW.
I remembered some calculations for what would be involved to set up a radio link between us and say Alpha Centauri, 4 ly away. I had Grok run those numbers again.
Now, the setup. You want as tight a beam as you can muster with current technology, or a little beyond, but feasible. With such a very tight, directional beam, you need to be able to aim you antenna very precisely, to within an arc-second or better. You would need an Arecibo sized dish to do that, yet be able to aim it down to the arc-second.
Anyway, power requirements for threshold signal to noise limit. Surprisingly, a 1.2kW power level would be enough to be detectable. But useless, data rate would be only 1 bit per second. Again, this is for pushing the limits of current tech. Our receiver would have to be the width of a football field, in space, aimed down to the arc-second of precision, and oh, cyro-cooled down to 20K to limit self-noise.
To get up to just 1kbps we'd need 1.2MW. 32 kps would need 40 MW.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 24, 2025 12:06 AM (w6EFb)
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I enjoyed seeing some the unique stuff they had in there, most especially some of those candy brands I haven't seen in 40 some years.
That stuff is too heteronormative.
I enjoyed seeing some the unique stuff they had in there, most especially some of those candy brands I haven't seen in 40 some years.
That stuff is too heteronormative.
Posted by: Nu CEO at August 24, 2025 12:07 AM (63Dwl)
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There’s no correction to speak of! I think this is like wearing a power tie: it’s just supposed to make her look powerful!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 24, 2025 12:04 AM (ZVgZ4)
Well, stuffing a potato down the front of her pants was right out...
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 24, 2025 12:04 AM (ZVgZ4)
Well, stuffing a potato down the front of her pants was right out...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 24, 2025 12:07 AM (R4SAT)
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I am entranced with George Washington's drink recipe that ends,
refrigerate once opened.
Clearly there are unexplored aspects of Washington's career.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver
I think that's the modern translation of "once opened, you gotta drink it all at once."
refrigerate once opened.
Clearly there are unexplored aspects of Washington's career.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver
I think that's the modern translation of "once opened, you gotta drink it all at once."
Posted by: mikeski at August 24, 2025 12:08 AM (DgGvY)
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If you believe in strict materialistic evolution the odds of intelligent life evolving anywhere else in our galaxy are too low for there to be any chance. The sheer number of things that had to go "just right" is astounding.
And in the billions of years our galaxy has been around there would have been more then enough for another sentient life form to survey all worlds in the galaxy via a series of permanent von neumann probes, yes even assuming much slower then light travel.
Now...the universe as a whole? It is far bigger...so maybe. But let's just say if you are worried about some creature with an oddly shaped head probing your rear end you just stay away from Barack Obama...
And in the billions of years our galaxy has been around there would have been more then enough for another sentient life form to survey all worlds in the galaxy via a series of permanent von neumann probes, yes even assuming much slower then light travel.
Now...the universe as a whole? It is far bigger...so maybe. But let's just say if you are worried about some creature with an oddly shaped head probing your rear end you just stay away from Barack Obama...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 24, 2025 12:10 AM (sKqQm)
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I have never understood why in the world we give money to people who immigrate here and the illegals who break the law to get into our country.
I'm a taxpayer and my vote is *uck you, it's my money I earned and you don't deserve any of it.
I have never understood why in the world we give money to people who immigrate here and the illegals who break the law to get into our country.
I'm a taxpayer and my vote is *uck you, it's my money I earned and you don't deserve any of it.
Posted by: four seasons at August 24, 2025 12:10 AM (3ek7K)
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Anyway, power requirements for threshold signal to noise limit. Surprisingly, a 1.2kW power level would be enough to be detectable. But useless, data rate would be only 1 bit per second. Again, this is for pushing the limits of current tech. Our receiver would have to be the width of a football field, in space, aimed down to the arc-second of precision, and oh, cyro-cooled down to 20K to limit self-noise.
To get up to just 1kbps we'd need 1.2MW. 32 kps would need 40 MW.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 24, 2025 12:06 AM (w6EFb)
Band width, or data rate, has more to do with frequency than power level.
To get up to just 1kbps we'd need 1.2MW. 32 kps would need 40 MW.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 24, 2025 12:06 AM (w6EFb)
Band width, or data rate, has more to do with frequency than power level.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 24, 2025 12:10 AM (R4SAT)
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>Some enterprising young Brit is going around painting the St. George flag on pot holes in the roadway. It is getting an immediate reaction from the road crews to get out and remove the paint by filling in the pot holes. Which, of course, was the goal. Made me laugh.
Posted by: Orson
If your country is effectively under occupation, which is what this scuffle is at the gut level ... well better your enemies hold a country with more potholes, not less.
Posted by: Orson
If your country is effectively under occupation, which is what this scuffle is at the gut level ... well better your enemies hold a country with more potholes, not less.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 24, 2025 12:11 AM (lhenN)
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To get up to just 1kbps we'd need 1.2MW. 32 kps would need 40 MW.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 24, 2025 12:06 AM (w6EFb)
(Nods confidently)
So you're saying there's a chance...
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 24, 2025 12:06 AM (w6EFb)
(Nods confidently)
So you're saying there's a chance...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 24, 2025 12:12 AM (nbLIj)
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I have never understood why in the world we give money to people who immigrate here and the illegals who break the law to get into our country.
Because illegals are much easier to grift off of then any domestic group. Ironically, perhaps the best way to end the left's love affair with illegals would be to put a dogmatically pure one issue ideologue in charge of their aid.
Because illegals are much easier to grift off of then any domestic group. Ironically, perhaps the best way to end the left's love affair with illegals would be to put a dogmatically pure one issue ideologue in charge of their aid.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 24, 2025 12:13 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 24, 2025 12:13 AM (ZVgZ4)
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I know why several cultures consider the fox to be a trickster - the fox looked very wise while observing her.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at August 24, 2025 12:03 AM (HlyYF)
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We have a bunch of foxes around my place. And, you want to hear something disturbing, in the spring time they have a little mating scream they use that can sound very human and not at all pleasant.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at August 24, 2025 12:03 AM (HlyYF)
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We have a bunch of foxes around my place. And, you want to hear something disturbing, in the spring time they have a little mating scream they use that can sound very human and not at all pleasant.
Posted by: Orson at August 24, 2025 12:13 AM (dIske)
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If your country is effectively under occupation, which is what this scuffle is at the gut level ... well better your enemies hold a country with more potholes, not less.
Some portion of the occupied population are waking up to their predicament only now. I suspect the pothole thing is waking more
Some portion of the occupied population are waking up to their predicament only now. I suspect the pothole thing is waking more
Posted by: 18-1 at August 24, 2025 12:14 AM (sKqQm)
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>>Band width, or data rate, has more to do with frequency than power level.
This was assuming a 5GHz base. You need more signal to noise with increasing bandwidth at a given base frequency.
This was assuming a 5GHz base. You need more signal to noise with increasing bandwidth at a given base frequency.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 24, 2025 12:15 AM (w6EFb)
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Orson,
Since we moved to very rural Wyoming I hear that. It took me a while to not run outside thinking there was a child in danger.
It's eerie.
Orson,
Since we moved to very rural Wyoming I hear that. It took me a while to not run outside thinking there was a child in danger.
It's eerie.
Posted by: four seasons at August 24, 2025 12:15 AM (3ek7K)
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Just like the first whites to this country weren't immigrants, they were pioneers. No social support network nor fancy hotels back then. I really hate that 'America was founded by immigrants' bullshit. The natives didn't even have a casino back then.
Posted by: RickZ
Ask them, if they, back then, were considered immigrants, can we hunt the new immigrants like the natives hunted the "original immigrants?"
Posted by: RickZ
Ask them, if they, back then, were considered immigrants, can we hunt the new immigrants like the natives hunted the "original immigrants?"
Posted by: rickb223 at August 24, 2025 12:16 AM (zXOsD)
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I picked up a pathfinder* video game and its interesting but...they've added trannies to role playing games now apparently.
Because in a game were you can be pretty much anything you want to role play as - elves, dragons, people with a functioning liver some people apparently want to role play AS someone role playing as a woman.
*Basically someone figured out how to monetize an older (better?) version of D&D then the current one.
Because in a game were you can be pretty much anything you want to role play as - elves, dragons, people with a functioning liver some people apparently want to role play AS someone role playing as a woman.
*Basically someone figured out how to monetize an older (better?) version of D&D then the current one.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 24, 2025 12:17 AM (sKqQm)
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Ask them, if they, back then, were considered immigrants, can we hunt the new immigrants like the natives hunted the "original immigrants?"
Every now and then some mush brained leftist will post a picture of some American Indians with a thought along the lines of "what if they are stopped anyone from immigrating to their lands?!?"
And yes you idiots, if the Indians had been advanced enough and unified enough to do so their people would still rule those lands. And the same thing will befall the current population if we don't change course.
Every now and then some mush brained leftist will post a picture of some American Indians with a thought along the lines of "what if they are stopped anyone from immigrating to their lands?!?"
And yes you idiots, if the Indians had been advanced enough and unified enough to do so their people would still rule those lands. And the same thing will befall the current population if we don't change course.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 24, 2025 12:19 AM (sKqQm)
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That was one thing noticeable about the old school Bias-Ply tires. Steel gratings and weirdo road finish surfaces did strange things to handling.
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Try it on a motorcycle. Adjacent linear gratings 'steer' the bike, and the sensation is that you have a flat tire and are losing steering control, which to an extent, you are.
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Try it on a motorcycle. Adjacent linear gratings 'steer' the bike, and the sensation is that you have a flat tire and are losing steering control, which to an extent, you are.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 24, 2025 12:19 AM (XeU6L)
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Since we moved to very rural Wyoming I hear that. It took me a while to not run outside thinking there was a child in danger.
It's eerie.
Posted by: four seasons at August 24, 2025 12:15 AM (3ek7K)
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Eerie is a good description. I'll tell you what else makes a weird noise. Very young deer. As they get older they resort to snorts and chuffs....but the really young ones still use their vocal chords and screech very loudly, especially if they get separated from mom. They panic.
It's eerie.
Posted by: four seasons at August 24, 2025 12:15 AM (3ek7K)
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Eerie is a good description. I'll tell you what else makes a weird noise. Very young deer. As they get older they resort to snorts and chuffs....but the really young ones still use their vocal chords and screech very loudly, especially if they get separated from mom. They panic.
Posted by: Orson at August 24, 2025 12:19 AM (dIske)
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We have a bunch of foxes around my place. And, you want to hear something disturbing, in the spring time they have a little mating scream they use that can sound very human and not at all pleasant.
Posted by: Orson
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Spooky as hell. It's a scream, and if you're camped out in wilderness it's scary.
Posted by: Orson
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Spooky as hell. It's a scream, and if you're camped out in wilderness it's scary.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 24, 2025 12:21 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 24, 2025 12:25 AM (XeU6L)
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Ask them, if they, back then, were considered immigrants, can we hunt the new immigrants like the natives hunted the "original immigrants?"
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Every now and then some mush brained leftist will post a picture of some American Indians with a thought along the lines of "what if they are stopped anyone from immigrating to their lands?!?"
And yes you idiots, if the Indians had been advanced enough and unified enough to do so their people would still rule those lands. And the same thing will befall the current population if we don't change course.
Posted by: 18-1
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Well, many of the native tribes did try to eliminate the Newcomers.
They failed.
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Every now and then some mush brained leftist will post a picture of some American Indians with a thought along the lines of "what if they are stopped anyone from immigrating to their lands?!?"
And yes you idiots, if the Indians had been advanced enough and unified enough to do so their people would still rule those lands. And the same thing will befall the current population if we don't change course.
Posted by: 18-1
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Well, many of the native tribes did try to eliminate the Newcomers.
They failed.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 24, 2025 12:25 AM (/lPRQ)
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This was assuming a 5GHz base. You need more signal to noise with increasing bandwidth at a given base frequency.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 24, 2025 12:15 AM (w6EFb)
Ah, OK. One would probably also want to pick a frequency, or set of frequencies, that fall in a quiet region of the galactic radio spectrum. Improves the s/n ratio, and also tells listeners, "hey! maybe artificial signal."
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 24, 2025 12:15 AM (w6EFb)
Ah, OK. One would probably also want to pick a frequency, or set of frequencies, that fall in a quiet region of the galactic radio spectrum. Improves the s/n ratio, and also tells listeners, "hey! maybe artificial signal."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 24, 2025 12:25 AM (NhG0j)
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298 That was one thing noticeable about the old school Bias-Ply tires. Steel gratings and weirdo road finish surfaces did strange things to handling.
On the other hand they fail gracefully and don’t explode on the highway the way radials do.
Posted by: Common Tater
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Bias-ply. Manual steering. '65 Land Cruiser. Steering was a workout similar to a trip to the gym.
On the other hand they fail gracefully and don’t explode on the highway the way radials do.
Posted by: Common Tater
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Bias-ply. Manual steering. '65 Land Cruiser. Steering was a workout similar to a trip to the gym.
Posted by: Grandpa Simpson at August 24, 2025 12:26 AM (41CYW)
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Every now and then some mush brained leftist will post a picture of some American Indians with a thought along the lines of "what if they are stopped anyone from immigrating to their lands?!?"
And yes you idiots, if the Indians had been advanced enough and unified enough to do so their people would still rule those lands. And the same thing will befall the current population if we don't change course.
Posted by: 18-1
When they went up against true sod buster immigrants, they won. When they went up against the army, except for Little Bighorn, they lost their asses.
And yes you idiots, if the Indians had been advanced enough and unified enough to do so their people would still rule those lands. And the same thing will befall the current population if we don't change course.
Posted by: 18-1
When they went up against true sod buster immigrants, they won. When they went up against the army, except for Little Bighorn, they lost their asses.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 24, 2025 12:27 AM (zXOsD)
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And another sock fail. Like the tides. Predictable.
Posted by: scampydog at August 24, 2025 12:27 AM (41CYW)
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Recently I've resorted to having conversations with Opossums. The ugly little creeps come up to the patio looking for spilled bird seed while I'm sitting out there. To get their attention you have to make a sound sort of like sparks spitting out of a damaged electrical wire. They will stare for a few seconds and return the sound. This goes on for about 10 minutes. In truth, it's hilarious.
Posted by: Orson at August 24, 2025 12:27 AM (dIske)
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Try it on a motorcycle. Adjacent linear gratings 'steer' the bike, and the sensation is that you have a flat tire and are losing steering control, which to an extent, you are.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 24, 2025 12:19 AM (XeU6L)
The old Thompson River bridge on the Trans-Canada highway near Savona, BC, had a steel grating deck, and there were huge signs at each end warning motorcyclists to use extreme caution.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 24, 2025 12:19 AM (XeU6L)
The old Thompson River bridge on the Trans-Canada highway near Savona, BC, had a steel grating deck, and there were huge signs at each end warning motorcyclists to use extreme caution.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 24, 2025 12:28 AM (NhG0j)
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Recently I've resorted to having conversations with Opossums. The ugly little creeps come up to the patio looking for spilled bird seed while I'm sitting out there. To get their attention you have to make a sound sort of like sparks spitting out of a damaged electrical wire. They will stare for a few seconds and return the sound. This goes on for about 10 minutes. In truth, it's hilarious.
Posted by: Orson
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You hiss at each other ?
Posted by: Orson
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You hiss at each other ?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 24, 2025 12:29 AM (/lPRQ)
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Highly recommend for your next color tour on your bike.
Headed north on that bridge to a club rally in Da Soo, my Norton Matchless mag-dyno stopped charging, and it developed a miss. I rolled into the maintenance station at the north end of the bridge, and more or less explained myself. The guys there threw a hell of a charge on the battery for an hour (pure mag ignition versions didn't have a battery), and I not only made it to the meet, but all the way home to northern Ohio. Quality electricity they had there.
Headed north on that bridge to a club rally in Da Soo, my Norton Matchless mag-dyno stopped charging, and it developed a miss. I rolled into the maintenance station at the north end of the bridge, and more or less explained myself. The guys there threw a hell of a charge on the battery for an hour (pure mag ignition versions didn't have a battery), and I not only made it to the meet, but all the way home to northern Ohio. Quality electricity they had there.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 24, 2025 12:30 AM (zdLoL)
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Any feasible interstellar comm link would use lasers, most likely. Tighter beams there. And there's a clever gravitational lensing trick you could do with your host star to better focus the transmitted signal.
That would greatly reduce power requirements, but it's some pretty fancy tech.
Any feasible interstellar comm link would use lasers, most likely. Tighter beams there. And there's a clever gravitational lensing trick you could do with your host star to better focus the transmitted signal.
That would greatly reduce power requirements, but it's some pretty fancy tech.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 24, 2025 12:30 AM (w6EFb)
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Recently I've resorted to having conversations with Opossums. The ugly little creeps come up to the patio looking for spilled bird seed while I'm sitting out there. To get their attention you have to make a sound sort of like sparks spitting out of a damaged electrical wire. They will stare for a few seconds and return the sound. This goes on for about 10 minutes. In truth, it's hilarious.
Posted by: Orson
I have three opossums and a family of five trash pandas come up and eat the leftover cat food.
Posted by: Orson
I have three opossums and a family of five trash pandas come up and eat the leftover cat food.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 24, 2025 12:30 AM (zXOsD)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 24, 2025 12:32 AM (XeU6L)
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You hiss at each other ?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 24, 2025 12:29 AM (/lPRQ)
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We chat. But, to be honest, I always have one foot on the ground ready to tear to the patio door if they get close. Those things always look sick, wobble a bit and you wouldn't know if they were carrying rabies because they act odd no matter how healthy they are. Not willing to take chances on coons, possums or the occasional skunk.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 24, 2025 12:29 AM (/lPRQ)
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We chat. But, to be honest, I always have one foot on the ground ready to tear to the patio door if they get close. Those things always look sick, wobble a bit and you wouldn't know if they were carrying rabies because they act odd no matter how healthy they are. Not willing to take chances on coons, possums or the occasional skunk.
Posted by: Orson at August 24, 2025 12:33 AM (dIske)
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Orson,
I think we must have possums around here but I've not seen any yet.
We have mule deer and something about them cracks me up. I think it's the ears. We also have moose and it's kinda cool seeing a moose sauntering down the sidewalk as long as you are in the house looking at them through the window. Never get close to a moose.
They are irritable.
Orson,
I think we must have possums around here but I've not seen any yet.
We have mule deer and something about them cracks me up. I think it's the ears. We also have moose and it's kinda cool seeing a moose sauntering down the sidewalk as long as you are in the house looking at them through the window. Never get close to a moose.
They are irritable.
Posted by: four seasons at August 24, 2025 12:33 AM (3ek7K)
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Adjacent linear gratings 'steer' the bike, and the sensation is that you have a flat tire and are losing steering control
There used to be a mile-long elevated section of Ohio Route 8 leading into Akron from the north, that you'd swear was just a way to keep bikers out of Akron. Longitudinal steel grate all the way. Pretty spooky. Gone now.
There used to be a mile-long elevated section of Ohio Route 8 leading into Akron from the north, that you'd swear was just a way to keep bikers out of Akron. Longitudinal steel grate all the way. Pretty spooky. Gone now.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 24, 2025 12:34 AM (zdLoL)
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Those things always look sick, wobble a bit and you wouldn't know if they were carrying rabies because they act odd no matter how healthy they are. Not willing to take chances on coons, possums or the occasional skunk.
Posted by: Orson
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Possums are not rabies carriers. Their body temperature is too low.
Posted by: Orson
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Possums are not rabies carriers. Their body temperature is too low.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 24, 2025 12:34 AM (XeU6L)
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We also have moose and it's kinda cool seeing a moose sauntering down the sidewalk as long as you are in the house looking at them through the window. Never get close to a moose.
They are irritable.
Posted by: four seasons at August 24, 2025 12:33 AM (3ek7K)
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I have a safety suggestion for you concerning Moose. I lived in upstate NH for a few years and they were in my back yard every morning. Get yourself and airhorn. Just one of those small ones you can keep in a pocket.
Bonus: The front legs of a moose are too long, and to graze they sort of get down on a knuckle joint and their balance is rather precarious. Hit the airhorn at the right time and you have the Moose equivalent of "cow tipping."
They are irritable.
Posted by: four seasons at August 24, 2025 12:33 AM (3ek7K)
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I have a safety suggestion for you concerning Moose. I lived in upstate NH for a few years and they were in my back yard every morning. Get yourself and airhorn. Just one of those small ones you can keep in a pocket.
Bonus: The front legs of a moose are too long, and to graze they sort of get down on a knuckle joint and their balance is rather precarious. Hit the airhorn at the right time and you have the Moose equivalent of "cow tipping."
Posted by: Orson at August 24, 2025 12:37 AM (dIske)
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Possums are not rabies carriers. Their body temperature is too low.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 24, 2025 12:34 AM (XeU6L)
Wasn't aware of that. COVID then, they must be carrying COVID
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 24, 2025 12:34 AM (XeU6L)
Wasn't aware of that. COVID then, they must be carrying COVID
Posted by: Orson at August 24, 2025 12:39 AM (dIske)
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And another sock fail. Like the tides. Predictable.
Posted by: scampydog
I dunno, I could hear Grandpa Simpson saying that.
Posted by: scampydog
I dunno, I could hear Grandpa Simpson saying that.
Posted by: mikeski at August 24, 2025 12:39 AM (DgGvY)
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One opussum will eat all the ticks on an acre of land. A family of them will keep any property tick-free. Yes, they're scary, especially if you surprise one and they make that possum-face. But you should never see one in the daytime anyway.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 24, 2025 12:39 AM (zdLoL)
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We have lots of eagles here. A few months ago Hubby was driving a couple of miles from the house and an eagle carrying an animal, I can't remember what it was. Anyways it crashed into the windshield and broke it.
When he took the car to the glass replacement place the guys there said a man had an eagle carrying a badger crash into his windshield and destroyed it.
Badgers are grumpy and we talked about how the guy was lucky the badger didn't end up in the car with him. That would have been bad news.
We have lots of eagles here. A few months ago Hubby was driving a couple of miles from the house and an eagle carrying an animal, I can't remember what it was. Anyways it crashed into the windshield and broke it.
When he took the car to the glass replacement place the guys there said a man had an eagle carrying a badger crash into his windshield and destroyed it.
Badgers are grumpy and we talked about how the guy was lucky the badger didn't end up in the car with him. That would have been bad news.
Posted by: four seasons at August 24, 2025 12:40 AM (3ek7K)
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Wasn't aware of that. COVID then, they must be carrying COVID
Posted by: Orson
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I had a passing jogger veer away while I was walking my dog. 'Dogs can have it too! he shouted.
Posted by: Orson
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I had a passing jogger veer away while I was walking my dog. 'Dogs can have it too! he shouted.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 24, 2025 12:40 AM (XeU6L)
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I saw Sentient Pothole open for The Lemonheads at The Orpheum in '88.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 24, 2025 12:41 AM (lhenN)
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One opussum will eat all the ticks on an acre of land. A family of them will keep any property tick-free. Yes, they're scary, especially if you surprise one and they make that possum-face. But you should never see one in the daytime anyway.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver
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Natures garbage men, unobtrusively cleaning things up...without complaint.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver
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Natures garbage men, unobtrusively cleaning things up...without complaint.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 24, 2025 12:42 AM (XeU6L)
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For your Greek pasta salad, get a bottle of Greek salad dressing. I make pasta salad all summer long, use Italian or Greek salad dressing and some McCormick Salad Supreme. Load it up with cherry tomatoes, cukes, pepperoni, various cheeses, red onion, blanched broccoli, red and yellow bell peppers, black olives, almond slivers, whatever else I have on hand. Mix it up early so it can marinate awhile.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 24, 2025 12:42 AM (Vvh2V)
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I didn't know this, but NASA is working on an X-ray communication link. X-rays can be beamed very tightly indeed, but modulating such is a bitch (at these energies, light is more particle like than wave like).
They tested a prototype on the ISS. Anyway, it would allow gigabit per second data rates at solar system distances.
I didn't know this, but NASA is working on an X-ray communication link. X-rays can be beamed very tightly indeed, but modulating such is a bitch (at these energies, light is more particle like than wave like).
They tested a prototype on the ISS. Anyway, it would allow gigabit per second data rates at solar system distances.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 24, 2025 12:42 AM (w6EFb)
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348 I saw Sentient Pothole open for The Lemonheads at The Orpheum in '88.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 24, 2025 12:41 AM (lhenN)
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Sentient Pothole = Snoop Dogg
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 24, 2025 12:41 AM (lhenN)
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Sentient Pothole = Snoop Dogg
Posted by: Orson at August 24, 2025 12:43 AM (dIske)
Posted by: Peter Bootygig at August 24, 2025 12:44 AM (a9s9e)
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Slides up to the bar, any good scotch on the rocks will do. Happy Saturday Horde. Who is on the bar tonight?
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 24, 2025 12:44 AM (0nHVk)
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Hi Tammy!
Thank you for that. I was wanting something kinda of light not loaded up with mayo. I don't have a problem with mayo, we just want something with lots of fresh veges.
Hi Tammy!
Thank you for that. I was wanting something kinda of light not loaded up with mayo. I don't have a problem with mayo, we just want something with lots of fresh veges.
Posted by: four seasons at August 24, 2025 12:45 AM (3ek7K)
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Got home not too long ago, and found a spider weaving an enormous web near our deck. Checked on it a little while later, and it was sitting in the middle. Suddenly, one of the strands vibrated, and the spider scurried down to see what it had caught. It grabbed its prey, and ran back to the center.
Grabbed a picture of it, 'cause I'm not sure the web will survive the night.
Grabbed a picture of it, 'cause I'm not sure the web will survive the night.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 24, 2025 12:46 AM (OGOaV)
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Who is on the bar tonight?
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
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You! *Tosses keys and runs for the exit*
Have a great evening, Horde. G'night.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
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You! *Tosses keys and runs for the exit*
Have a great evening, Horde. G'night.
Posted by: scampydog at August 24, 2025 12:46 AM (41CYW)
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Tipples a dram of J&B Rare into a glass for DDS.
It's what I got...
It's what I got...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, not Scotch snob at August 24, 2025 12:47 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: four seasons at August 24, 2025 12:47 AM (3ek7K)
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Anyway, it would allow gigabit per second data rates at solar system distances.
Neptune asian ffm anal bondage pron!
Neptune asian ffm anal bondage pron!
Posted by: Dirty Frank at August 24, 2025 12:48 AM (a9s9e)
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scampydog scampered away. He did leave the keys though, good doggie.
scampydog scampered away. He did leave the keys though, good doggie.
Posted by: four seasons at August 24, 2025 12:50 AM (3ek7K)
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>I picked up a pathfinder* video game and its interesting but...they've added trannies to role playing games now apparently.
Putting wheelchair-bound characters in RPGs is a thing now because =inclusion=. Playing games with people who have to be told what escapism is, is a bad choice.
Heroquest had an orc-bard and I threw it out. The rest of the box, jungle enemies IIRC, gave off great Conan vibes so I had to have it.
Putting wheelchair-bound characters in RPGs is a thing now because =inclusion=. Playing games with people who have to be told what escapism is, is a bad choice.
Heroquest had an orc-bard and I threw it out. The rest of the box, jungle enemies IIRC, gave off great Conan vibes so I had to have it.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 24, 2025 12:52 AM (lhenN)
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Possum Face!
Posted by: Hare lip at August 24, 2025 12:53 AM (63Dwl)
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If there's no way around light speed, then any long distance travelling will be impossible.
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Hyperdrive. Gets around the light speed thing. That's also why we aren't picking up signals; They're being sent through hyperspace, no need for slow-ass radio waves.
It's doable. We just haven't developed the technology yet... ;-)
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Hyperdrive. Gets around the light speed thing. That's also why we aren't picking up signals; They're being sent through hyperspace, no need for slow-ass radio waves.
It's doable. We just haven't developed the technology yet... ;-)
Posted by: Planet of the Japes at August 24, 2025 12:55 AM (oRqIL)
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nurse,
I don't know if you are still around. Youngest son who lives in Port Townsend is driving to Seattle Wednesday night and staying in a hotel near the airport. He has an early morning flight Thursday to Salt Lake City and then a drive up here to the great state of Wyoming.
He has learned it's a pia to leave Port Townsend at 3 a.m. to catch a flight out of SeaTac the same day.
He still, after ten years, loves living in Port Townsend. It sounds like a lovely place.
nurse,
I don't know if you are still around. Youngest son who lives in Port Townsend is driving to Seattle Wednesday night and staying in a hotel near the airport. He has an early morning flight Thursday to Salt Lake City and then a drive up here to the great state of Wyoming.
He has learned it's a pia to leave Port Townsend at 3 a.m. to catch a flight out of SeaTac the same day.
He still, after ten years, loves living in Port Townsend. It sounds like a lovely place.
Posted by: four seasons at August 24, 2025 12:57 AM (3ek7K)
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Just invent immortality.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 24, 2025 12:58 AM (63Dwl)
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Heroquest had an orc-bard and I threw it out. The rest of the box, jungle enemies IIRC, gave off great Conan vibes so I had to have it.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 24, 2025 12:52 AM (lhenN)
Orc-bard? You mean like Cat Stevens?
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 24, 2025 12:52 AM (lhenN)
Orc-bard? You mean like Cat Stevens?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 24, 2025 01:01 AM (NhG0j)
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Possums are fairly benign. Seem to get along with cats for some reason...
Squirrels are nothing but tree-rats. On the plus side - the even eat pine cones and cleahn up the acorns. On the minus - they raid the garden and steal chicken/bird food. So, treat as rats.
Raccoons, as much as I want to like them, they are asshoe and will stand their ground, attack anything in 'their' space if they feel they need to. Very feisty.
Skunks. None here... But stanky.
Armadillos - really tear up the landscaping.
Bottom Line - as much as possums look like giant rats they are least harmful of common small critters.
Squirrels are nothing but tree-rats. On the plus side - the even eat pine cones and cleahn up the acorns. On the minus - they raid the garden and steal chicken/bird food. So, treat as rats.
Raccoons, as much as I want to like them, they are asshoe and will stand their ground, attack anything in 'their' space if they feel they need to. Very feisty.
Skunks. None here... But stanky.
Armadillos - really tear up the landscaping.
Bottom Line - as much as possums look like giant rats they are least harmful of common small critters.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 24, 2025 01:02 AM (/lPRQ)
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Yes.
There's basic Sprite. Then there's lemon-lime (yes, that one throws me a bit, too). Then there's cranberry, a cherry one, and a 'tropical' one. Those have all come out (except the cranberry, which has been seasonal for several years now) in the last couple of years, I believe.
Posted by: GWB at August 23, 2025 10:49 PM (1PcCZ)
Sprite Tea, even.
There's basic Sprite. Then there's lemon-lime (yes, that one throws me a bit, too). Then there's cranberry, a cherry one, and a 'tropical' one. Those have all come out (except the cranberry, which has been seasonal for several years now) in the last couple of years, I believe.
Posted by: GWB at August 23, 2025 10:49 PM (1PcCZ)
Sprite Tea, even.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 24, 2025 01:03 AM (1X0uI)
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We have skunks here. A few nights ago I smelled one. Geez, the stank sure does linger. For some reason we see skunk roadkill here. I don't know if they are slow or stupid when they venture into the roads.
We have skunks here. A few nights ago I smelled one. Geez, the stank sure does linger. For some reason we see skunk roadkill here. I don't know if they are slow or stupid when they venture into the roads.
Posted by: four seasons at August 24, 2025 01:05 AM (3ek7K)
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Sorry, had to step away from the bar for a bit...
Glad ya all know where everything is, anyway LOL!
Here-- in case anyone isn't yet *burned out on* the Cracker Barrel thang:
tinyurl.com/5fss6s3r+
Glad ya all know where everything is, anyway LOL!
Here-- in case anyone isn't yet *burned out on* the Cracker Barrel thang:
tinyurl.com/5fss6s3r+
Posted by: JQ at August 24, 2025 01:05 AM (rdVOm)
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Way before my time in the neighborhood but many 'old timers' I've met talked about as a kid having a bucket or some other sort of container easily carried and being sent to the bar to get a bucket of beer for Dad. They said it was very common. Just like when I was a kid parents sent their kids to 7-11 to buy cigarettes for them.
Posted by: RickZ
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Hell, not only did I run to the corner store for cigarettes, there would be an extra nickel in there to play the numbets.
"Numbers" - an illegal lottery style game in which one played the "ponies" or "stocks" by picking a 3 digit number. I don't remember exactly how the "ponies" version worked, but it derived from some horse racing statistic published in the paper. "Stocks" was simple: least significant digit of the three stats of the DJIA. digit one= advances, digit 2= declines, digit 3= unchanged.
Posted by: RickZ
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Hell, not only did I run to the corner store for cigarettes, there would be an extra nickel in there to play the numbets.
"Numbers" - an illegal lottery style game in which one played the "ponies" or "stocks" by picking a 3 digit number. I don't remember exactly how the "ponies" version worked, but it derived from some horse racing statistic published in the paper. "Stocks" was simple: least significant digit of the three stats of the DJIA. digit one= advances, digit 2= declines, digit 3= unchanged.
Posted by: buddhaha at August 24, 2025 01:05 AM (dWdRv)
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For some reason we see skunk roadkill here. I don't know if they are slow or stupid when they venture into the roads.
Posted by: four seasons
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I hit a skunk on the way to work one morning. It was very early, just before dawn.
Wonder if the critter was dialed-in and chasing something to eat? Or what? But it ran right out in front of me & I could not avoid.
Peee-Yew!!!! Was almost to the point of vomiting, by the time I got to work... Car reeked for a few days, even after washing.
Posted by: four seasons
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I hit a skunk on the way to work one morning. It was very early, just before dawn.
Wonder if the critter was dialed-in and chasing something to eat? Or what? But it ran right out in front of me & I could not avoid.
Peee-Yew!!!! Was almost to the point of vomiting, by the time I got to work... Car reeked for a few days, even after washing.
Posted by: JQ at August 24, 2025 01:10 AM (rdVOm)
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Way before my time in the neighborhood but many 'old timers' I've met talked about as a kid having a bucket or some other sort of container easily carried and being sent to the bar to get a bucket of beer for Dad. They said it was very common. Just like when I was a kid parents sent their kids to 7-11 to buy cigarettes for them.
Posted by: RickZ
Bucket of Beer were also called Growlers.
Posted by: RickZ
Bucket of Beer were also called Growlers.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 24, 2025 01:10 AM (/lPRQ)
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Heroquest had an orc-bard and I threw it out. The rest of the box, jungle enemies IIRC, gave off great Conan vibes so I had to have it.
Posted by: BourbonChicken
Orc-bard? You mean like Cat Stevens?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Rapper.
Posted by: BourbonChicken
Orc-bard? You mean like Cat Stevens?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Rapper.
Posted by: mikeski at August 24, 2025 01:12 AM (DgGvY)
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We have a bunch of foxes around my place. And, you want to hear something disturbing, in the spring time they have a little mating scream they use that can sound very human and not at all pleasant.
Posted by: Orson at August 24, 2025 12:13 AM
My brother was turkey hunting this spring when two bobcats decided to get amorous about 30 feet away.
He does not freak out easily, but he said the sounds were VERY disturbing.
Posted by: Orson at August 24, 2025 12:13 AM
My brother was turkey hunting this spring when two bobcats decided to get amorous about 30 feet away.
He does not freak out easily, but he said the sounds were VERY disturbing.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at August 24, 2025 01:14 AM (HlyYF)
Posted by: four seasons at August 24, 2025 01:14 AM (3ek7K)
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Armadillos - really tear up the landscaping.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
If they are, you have grubs. That's why they're digging.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
If they are, you have grubs. That's why they're digging.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 24, 2025 01:16 AM (zXOsD)
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"Numbers" - an illegal lottery style game in which one played the "ponies" or "stocks" by picking a 3 digit number. I don't remember exactly how the "ponies" version worked, but it derived from some horse racing statistic published in the paper. "Stocks" was simple: least significant digit of the three stats of the DJIA. digit one= advances, digit 2= declines, digit 3= unchanged.
Posted by: buddhaha
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Lived for a few years in Hawaii. No legal form of gambling. Not even church bingo or raffles..
Near the house was a "C-n-N Mini-Mart" (best name ever).
They sold beer, liquor, snacks, really expension crystal figurines, pron videos, lime green dildos and other such things, crack pipes, and
these weird little pads of paper with numbers in grids like lotto but just numbers in grids... I figured it was for everybodies favorite ohana number guessing games.
Posted by: buddhaha
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Lived for a few years in Hawaii. No legal form of gambling. Not even church bingo or raffles..
Near the house was a "C-n-N Mini-Mart" (best name ever).
They sold beer, liquor, snacks, really expension crystal figurines, pron videos, lime green dildos and other such things, crack pipes, and
these weird little pads of paper with numbers in grids like lotto but just numbers in grids... I figured it was for everybodies favorite ohana number guessing games.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 24, 2025 01:17 AM (/lPRQ)
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It takes a long time to be rid of the nasty smell. It permeates everything.
Posted by: four seasons
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Yeah. It was the height of summer, so the stank mostly cooked off in the parking lot at work. Couple acres of blacktop that would get 150F or so during the day.
Posted by: four seasons
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Yeah. It was the height of summer, so the stank mostly cooked off in the parking lot at work. Couple acres of blacktop that would get 150F or so during the day.
Posted by: JQ at August 24, 2025 01:18 AM (rdVOm)
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Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 24, 2025 01:17 AM
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Ooooo! Tell 'em about the K-bars! (XH loved those. That's why he's EX)
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Ooooo! Tell 'em about the K-bars! (XH loved those. That's why he's EX)
Posted by: JQ at August 24, 2025 01:20 AM (rdVOm)
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My brother was turkey hunting this spring when two bobcats decided to get amorous about 30 feet away.
He does not freak out easily, but he said the sounds were VERY disturbing.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot
Peacock. Sounds like a woman being murdered.
Animal boarding house where my mom would board their dog before going out of town had one roaming the property. It would sit on the office roof and give out a scream at random times. Mom ssid she never got used to it.
He does not freak out easily, but he said the sounds were VERY disturbing.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot
Peacock. Sounds like a woman being murdered.
Animal boarding house where my mom would board their dog before going out of town had one roaming the property. It would sit on the office roof and give out a scream at random times. Mom ssid she never got used to it.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 24, 2025 01:21 AM (zXOsD)
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He still, after ten years, loves living in Port Townsend. It sounds like a lovely place.
Posted by: four seasons
I’m just about out.
If you get a chance, please go for a visit. Port Townsend is lovely. Old lumber yard town. Has a history of drunks and boondoggles and corruption and innovation. Please let me know when you come through. Do it.
Posted by: four seasons
I’m just about out.
If you get a chance, please go for a visit. Port Townsend is lovely. Old lumber yard town. Has a history of drunks and boondoggles and corruption and innovation. Please let me know when you come through. Do it.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 24, 2025 01:22 AM (81wK+)
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When we lived in Florida we had lots of armadillos.
We had a crazy neighbor three houses up the street. Armadillos had dug up under his house foundation which made him even crazier, lol. One night he calls my husband and said "hey, I poured gasoline in the tunnels under the house to run the armadillos out. Hubby told he was batshit crazy and he would burn down his house. Needless to say Hubby stayed away from that disaster in the making. The house didn't burn up, thank goodness. We have no idea how he got the gasoline out from under his house.
We stayed far away from that, lol.
When we lived in Florida we had lots of armadillos.
We had a crazy neighbor three houses up the street. Armadillos had dug up under his house foundation which made him even crazier, lol. One night he calls my husband and said "hey, I poured gasoline in the tunnels under the house to run the armadillos out. Hubby told he was batshit crazy and he would burn down his house. Needless to say Hubby stayed away from that disaster in the making. The house didn't burn up, thank goodness. We have no idea how he got the gasoline out from under his house.
We stayed far away from that, lol.
Posted by: four seasons at August 24, 2025 01:22 AM (3ek7K)
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Heh, just reading on the Daily Mail about Trump and the late QE II. The anti-Trump crowd on both sides of the pond have tried to make it out that Trump was a big buffoon with the Queen, committing all sorts of faux pas, and just a Big Dummy. They said he was late and made her wait, and then "walked in front of her".
All bullshit, according to palace insiders at the time. Trump and QE II had a big time. As for being late, the Queen was early, and did it to make sure everything was right. And as far as "walking in front", the Queen herself gestured from him to go out in front of her, as she always did with head of state guests or something.
Heh, just reading on the Daily Mail about Trump and the late QE II. The anti-Trump crowd on both sides of the pond have tried to make it out that Trump was a big buffoon with the Queen, committing all sorts of faux pas, and just a Big Dummy. They said he was late and made her wait, and then "walked in front of her".
All bullshit, according to palace insiders at the time. Trump and QE II had a big time. As for being late, the Queen was early, and did it to make sure everything was right. And as far as "walking in front", the Queen herself gestured from him to go out in front of her, as she always did with head of state guests or something.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 24, 2025 01:24 AM (w6EFb)
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He still, after ten years, loves living in Port Townsend. It sounds like a lovely place.
Posted by: four seasons
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Port Angeles, Sequim, and Port Townsend are in the rain shadow of the Olympic Mountains. They get a lot less rain than the Sound area, 20 MI or so inland. They're also right next to the Strait of Juan de Fuca so the ocean water modulates the temperatures. It doesn't get real hot or cold, averages cool. Have gone sailing out of the John Wayne marina (his former summer place, donated to the city). On clear days, great.
Posted by: four seasons
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Port Angeles, Sequim, and Port Townsend are in the rain shadow of the Olympic Mountains. They get a lot less rain than the Sound area, 20 MI or so inland. They're also right next to the Strait of Juan de Fuca so the ocean water modulates the temperatures. It doesn't get real hot or cold, averages cool. Have gone sailing out of the John Wayne marina (his former summer place, donated to the city). On clear days, great.
Posted by: buddhaha at August 24, 2025 01:26 AM (dWdRv)
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publius,
The media is evil. I've seen headlines recently about how Melania is keeping her distance from Trump. It's all bs. Anything to make Trump look bad.
publius,
The media is evil. I've seen headlines recently about how Melania is keeping her distance from Trump. It's all bs. Anything to make Trump look bad.
Posted by: four seasons at August 24, 2025 01:26 AM (3ek7K)
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All bullshit, according to palace insiders at the time...
Posted by: publius
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No doubt.
I stopped reading DM when they put up paywalls.
Posted by: publius
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No doubt.
I stopped reading DM when they put up paywalls.
Posted by: JQ at August 24, 2025 01:27 AM (rdVOm)
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Hubby, oldest son and our grandsons have been up to Port Townsend to visit other son. They all loved it up there.
Hubby, oldest son and our grandsons have been up to Port Townsend to visit other son. They all loved it up there.
Posted by: four seasons at August 24, 2025 01:28 AM (3ek7K)
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Ooooo! Tell 'em about the K-bars! (XH loved those. That's why he's EX)
Posted by: JQ
Heh
Most are kinda/sorta like Irish Pubs, but in the tropical Hawaii... and with karaoke...
Once stumbled into one I'd never been to before because had to use a restroom.
Did my civic duty and got a beer.
Noted that the saloon (like in the main post above) price board had
Wine $ 400
Champaign $ 1000
Hmmm... That is a bit steep (mind you this is 1995 prices) but went on my way.
A month or two later that bar and a couple others with the same owner were busted for running brothels.
So, anyway, this Mazy Hirono...
Posted by: JQ
Heh
Most are kinda/sorta like Irish Pubs, but in the tropical Hawaii... and with karaoke...
Once stumbled into one I'd never been to before because had to use a restroom.
Did my civic duty and got a beer.
Noted that the saloon (like in the main post above) price board had
Wine $ 400
Champaign $ 1000
Hmmm... That is a bit steep (mind you this is 1995 prices) but went on my way.
A month or two later that bar and a couple others with the same owner were busted for running brothels.
So, anyway, this Mazy Hirono...
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 24, 2025 01:29 AM (/lPRQ)
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Very nice, I.A.B. You cleaned it up well, LOL!
Yeah, the hostess-tutes would 'do favors' for a little extra $.
Yeah, the hostess-tutes would 'do favors' for a little extra $.
Posted by: JQ at August 24, 2025 01:32 AM (rdVOm)
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Bucket of Beer were also called Growlers.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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I've been there:
http://www.acebeergrowler.com/
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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I've been there:
http://www.acebeergrowler.com/
Posted by: Mike Hammer, not Scotch snob at August 24, 2025 01:37 AM (XeU6L)
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Should have mentioned about the numbers racket. Basically, run by the Mafia at the top, but lots of lower level (non-Sicilian) goombas involved. Subcontractors, sorta.
1000 to 1 odds, 600 to 1 payoff. A nickel bet could win $30. At the time, that was almost a weeks wages for a semi-skilled factory worker.
1000 to 1 odds, 600 to 1 payoff. A nickel bet could win $30. At the time, that was almost a weeks wages for a semi-skilled factory worker.
Posted by: buddhaha at August 24, 2025 01:40 AM (dWdRv)
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Wendy’s customer tried to pay for drive-thru meal with cocaine, say Colorado cops
https://tinyurl.com/wendycocaine
https://tinyurl.com/wendycocaine
Posted by: Joyenz at August 24, 2025 01:43 AM (sPQoU)
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I've been rapid-fire sneezing, yesterday & today.
Forest-fire smoke rolled in (visibly) this morning. Ah, now I understand 'why'...
Praying for a drenching rain to come soon! Probably won't happen until end of next week.
Forest-fire smoke rolled in (visibly) this morning. Ah, now I understand 'why'...
Praying for a drenching rain to come soon! Probably won't happen until end of next week.
Posted by: JQ at August 24, 2025 01:46 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: fourseasons at August 24, 2025 01:47 AM (3ek7K)
397
I wish we would get rain here. Had a bit of rain a couple of weeks ago. Severe drought here and the smoke from the wildfires in Utah is driving us crazy.
I wish we would get rain here. Had a bit of rain a couple of weeks ago. Severe drought here and the smoke from the wildfires in Utah is driving us crazy.
Posted by: fourseasons at August 24, 2025 01:50 AM (3ek7K)
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Heh, just reading on the Daily Mail about Trump and the late QE II. The anti-Trump crowd on both sides of the pond have tried to make it out that Trump was a big buffoon with the Queen, committing all sorts of faux pas, and just a Big Dummy. They said he was late and made her wait, and then "walked in front of her".
All bullshit..as she always did with head of state guests or something.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 24, 2025 01:24
They want to dis Trump but at least it wasn't as cringing as Michele and her big hug. And Barak's gift of his speeches is priceless.
All bullshit..as she always did with head of state guests or something.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 24, 2025 01:24
They want to dis Trump but at least it wasn't as cringing as Michele and her big hug. And Barak's gift of his speeches is priceless.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at August 24, 2025 01:53 AM (55Qr6)
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Very nice, I.A.B. You cleaned it up well, LOL!
Yeah, the hostess-tutes would 'do favors' for a little extra $.
Posted by: JQ
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Very different culture there.
Part of Asian culture. You can see it today on many shows on the Netflix, etc. I had three preferred bars. Two were Korean, one Viet. When they figured out you just "Norm" from Cheers they would not hustle. On slow nights we'd play steel tip darts (one thing I miss about Hawaii) or pool with the 'servers'. On busy nights I'd barback and help them restock and they'd give me beer.
I really liked the Viet place - central kitchen round were three or four independent businesses. A sit down Vietnamese restaurant, karaoke lounge, regular bar (for Hawaii), and a strip bar. I would have added a breakfast/lunch/donut place to it and give cops a free coffee and donut. Left a positive impression to this day. However seedy it may have been. And haole boy was more than happy to help bring up a couple cases of beer for a beer and spring rolls.
Yeah, the hostess-tutes would 'do favors' for a little extra $.
Posted by: JQ
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Very different culture there.
Part of Asian culture. You can see it today on many shows on the Netflix, etc. I had three preferred bars. Two were Korean, one Viet. When they figured out you just "Norm" from Cheers they would not hustle. On slow nights we'd play steel tip darts (one thing I miss about Hawaii) or pool with the 'servers'. On busy nights I'd barback and help them restock and they'd give me beer.
I really liked the Viet place - central kitchen round were three or four independent businesses. A sit down Vietnamese restaurant, karaoke lounge, regular bar (for Hawaii), and a strip bar. I would have added a breakfast/lunch/donut place to it and give cops a free coffee and donut. Left a positive impression to this day. However seedy it may have been. And haole boy was more than happy to help bring up a couple cases of beer for a beer and spring rolls.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 24, 2025 01:54 AM (/lPRQ)
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Posted by: fourseasons at August 24, 2025 02:03 AM (3ek7K)
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Launch reminder.
SpaceX - Falcon 9 - CRS SpX-33
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: August 24, 2025
Launch Time: 2:45 a.m. EDT (0645 UTC, 08:45 CEST)
https://youtu.be/tSfzsHeX8aw
SpaceX - Falcon 9 - CRS SpX-33
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: August 24, 2025
Launch Time: 2:45 a.m. EDT (0645 UTC, 08:45 CEST)
https://youtu.be/tSfzsHeX8aw
Posted by: Joyenz at August 24, 2025 02:03 AM (sPQoU)
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Recently I've resorted to having conversations with Opossums.
My husband and our dog a dead opossum in our yard and hubby went to get gloves and a trash bag to dispose of the corpse. When he returned, it was gone; it had literally been "playing possum."
My husband and our dog a dead opossum in our yard and hubby went to get gloves and a trash bag to dispose of the corpse. When he returned, it was gone; it had literally been "playing possum."
Posted by: Frankie at August 24, 2025 02:05 AM (DkAjB)
Posted by: fourseasons at August 24, 2025 02:06 AM (3ek7K)
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Fourseasons-- we need rain so badly! Yes, it's "forecast" but will it *actually* happen? Hmph.
Will believe it when I SEE it!
For now, just gotta keep kleenex handy & not do anything strenuous-- too hot and smoky.
Will believe it when I SEE it!
For now, just gotta keep kleenex handy & not do anything strenuous-- too hot and smoky.
Posted by: JQ at August 24, 2025 02:07 AM (rdVOm)
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My husband and our dog a dead opossum in our yard and hubby went to get gloves and a trash bag to dispose of the corpse. When he returned, it was gone; it had literally been "playing possum."
Posted by: Frankie
Funny that they developed that as a defense mechanism, when so many North American predators are perfectly happy being scavengers, too.
Posted by: Frankie
Funny that they developed that as a defense mechanism, when so many North American predators are perfectly happy being scavengers, too.
Posted by: mikeski at August 24, 2025 02:12 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: mikeski at August 24, 2025 02:14 AM (DgGvY)
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Cat has been depositing decapitated rats on the deck, every day or two. Ugh. It was better when he left the bodies out in the yard...
This started on Tuesday-- the *day after* garbage collection-- so, I've been bagging the carcasses and dropping them in the trash at a local gas station, instead of letting them rot in the heat, and stink up my wheelie-bin at home.
Does this make me a bad person?
This started on Tuesday-- the *day after* garbage collection-- so, I've been bagging the carcasses and dropping them in the trash at a local gas station, instead of letting them rot in the heat, and stink up my wheelie-bin at home.
Does this make me a bad person?
Posted by: JQ at August 24, 2025 02:14 AM (rdVOm)
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Does this make me a bad person?
Posted by: JQ at August 24, 2025 02:14 AM (rdVOm)
Throwing the carcasses up onto your neighbor's roof might.
Posted by: JQ at August 24, 2025 02:14 AM (rdVOm)
Throwing the carcasses up onto your neighbor's roof might.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 24, 2025 02:16 AM (NhG0j)
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Possums have a depressingly short lifespan. I feel sorry for them whenever I see one. In the wild, ~1 year.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, not Scotch snob at August 24, 2025 02:18 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: fourseasons at August 24, 2025 02:18 AM (3ek7K)
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Farmer,
The speech thing was his arrogantcy and/or his stupidly showing.
Posted by: fourseasons at August 24, 2025 01:57
fours... yep, now it's a far cry from the days of females fainting at his campaign rallys. WTF?
The speech thing was his arrogantcy and/or his stupidly showing.
Posted by: fourseasons at August 24, 2025 01:57
fours... yep, now it's a far cry from the days of females fainting at his campaign rallys. WTF?
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at August 24, 2025 02:20 AM (55Qr6)
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Lol, that's a great idea.
Posted by: fourseasons
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Just scrubbed the wheelie bin last week! Something sticky and smelly (probably from lil bro's visit) was grossing me out, so I cleaned the damned thing. Wasn't about to leave a dead rat in there for a whole week, in 100+ temps...
Posted by: fourseasons
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Just scrubbed the wheelie bin last week! Something sticky and smelly (probably from lil bro's visit) was grossing me out, so I cleaned the damned thing. Wasn't about to leave a dead rat in there for a whole week, in 100+ temps...
Posted by: JQ at August 24, 2025 02:22 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: fourseasons at August 24, 2025 02:23 AM (3ek7K)
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Possums have a depressingly short lifespan. I feel sorry for them whenever I see one. In the wild, ~1 year.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, not Scotch snob at August 24, 2025 02:18 AM (XeU6L)
Years ago now, at the Monroe WA auto swap meet, I met a couple with a pet possum. It was riding around on the husband's shoulder, calm as could be. They let me pet it, and it was quite pleased to be getting attention. The wife would find road-killed mama possums, and if they had live babies in the pouch, she would bottle-feed them. They are not beautiful animals, but they are gentle, and have a certain charm.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, not Scotch snob at August 24, 2025 02:18 AM (XeU6L)
Years ago now, at the Monroe WA auto swap meet, I met a couple with a pet possum. It was riding around on the husband's shoulder, calm as could be. They let me pet it, and it was quite pleased to be getting attention. The wife would find road-killed mama possums, and if they had live babies in the pouch, she would bottle-feed them. They are not beautiful animals, but they are gentle, and have a certain charm.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 24, 2025 02:27 AM (tRhv4)
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O'bammy is so fugly. Like if Howdy Doody was black... (sorry, but always thought HD was ugly)
Posted by: JQ at August 24, 2025 02:27 AM (rdVOm)
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We have lots of eagles here...the guy was lucky the badger didn't end up in the car with him. That would have been bad news.
Posted by: four seasons at August 24, 2025 12:40
TY very much for almost giving me a heart attack laughing at this.
Posted by: four seasons at August 24, 2025 12:40
TY very much for almost giving me a heart attack laughing at this.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at August 24, 2025 02:28 AM (55Qr6)
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There is a guy here in town who has an interesting business. He will clean anything, garbage bins are a big part of his business. He is doing very well with his business. No employees so low overhead.
There is a guy here in town who has an interesting business. He will clean anything, garbage bins are a big part of his business. He is doing very well with his business. No employees so low overhead.
Posted by: fourseasons at August 24, 2025 02:28 AM (3ek7K)
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There is a guy here in town who has an interesting business. He will clean anything, garbage bins are a big part of his business. He is doing very well with his business. No employees so low overhead.
Posted by: fourseasons at August 24, 2025 02:28 AM (3ek7K)
I have seen posters in Apache Junction for services that will clean your wheelie bins. I'm quite capable of sluicing it out with the hose, and dumping the dirty water in a remote corner of the yard.
Posted by: fourseasons at August 24, 2025 02:28 AM (3ek7K)
I have seen posters in Apache Junction for services that will clean your wheelie bins. I'm quite capable of sluicing it out with the hose, and dumping the dirty water in a remote corner of the yard.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 24, 2025 02:32 AM (tRhv4)
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Farmer,
Can you imagine a pissed off badger loose in your car? They are mean grumpy animals, lol.
Very small town here, one glass replacement store here and boy howdy, the guys have lots of interesting stories, lol.
Farmer,
Can you imagine a pissed off badger loose in your car? They are mean grumpy animals, lol.
Very small town here, one glass replacement store here and boy howdy, the guys have lots of interesting stories, lol.
Posted by: fourseasons at August 24, 2025 02:34 AM (3ek7K)
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I sure wouldn't want to clean bins for a living, but it's ok to scrub my own out maybe once or twice a year.
Dish soap, brush on a long handle (like for painting or whatever, with a threaded end for attachments) and hot water by laying a hose out in the sun all afternoon...
Fill. Scrub. Soak. Scrub. Rinse. ***far out in the yard, away from the house***
Let dry in the sun.
Easy Peasy, make ya queasy!
Dish soap, brush on a long handle (like for painting or whatever, with a threaded end for attachments) and hot water by laying a hose out in the sun all afternoon...
Fill. Scrub. Soak. Scrub. Rinse. ***far out in the yard, away from the house***
Let dry in the sun.
Easy Peasy, make ya queasy!
Posted by: JQ at August 24, 2025 02:35 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: fourseasons at August 24, 2025 02:37 AM (3ek7K)
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Well, past midnight here. Time for bed. Tomorrow's agenda is to trial-fit my newly-fabricated motor mounts to the '99 Suburban, get the engine sitting level, and tack-weld the pedestals to their base plates. Then remove them, finish the welding, grind where needed, and paint them. Then install for real.
Night, Horde.
Night, Horde.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 24, 2025 02:37 AM (tRhv4)
Posted by: fourseasons at August 24, 2025 02:39 AM (3ek7K)
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'Night, AOP.
Posted by: JQ at August 24, 2025 02:39 AM (rdVOm)
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Night AOP, I am off to bed too. JQ, thank goodness that you are here, I did not do much behind the bar tonight, easily distracted and I just wanted to sit and sip and chill for a while. See you tomorrow. Sweet dreams Horde.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 24, 2025 02:42 AM (0nHVk)
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Posted by: JQ at August 24, 2025 02:45 AM (rdVOm)
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Fat ass Pritzker and his goons reject Trump's plan for National Guard deployment in Chicago. Says Trump is abusing his power.
Alrighty, let the crime rate escalate.
Fat ass Pritzker and his goons reject Trump's plan for National Guard deployment in Chicago. Says Trump is abusing his power.
Alrighty, let the crime rate escalate.
Posted by: fourseasons at August 24, 2025 02:50 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: JQ at August 24, 2025 02:51 AM (rdVOm)
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429
Fat ass Pritzker and his goons reject Trump's plan for National Guard deployment in Chicago. Says Trump is abusing his power.
Alrighty, let the crime rate escalate.
Posted by: fourseasons at August 24, 2025 02:50 AM (3ek7K)
OK, so they can write their Congressmen demanding the repeal of Title X powers. Until then, Trump is NOT abusing his power.
Fat ass Pritzker and his goons reject Trump's plan for National Guard deployment in Chicago. Says Trump is abusing his power.
Alrighty, let the crime rate escalate.
Posted by: fourseasons at August 24, 2025 02:50 AM (3ek7K)
OK, so they can write their Congressmen demanding the repeal of Title X powers. Until then, Trump is NOT abusing his power.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 24, 2025 02:59 AM (1X0uI)
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Wow, gotta whole buncha restroom tokens now... and a 'lumium foil membaship...
Whooo doggies! I'm inta some tallllll cotton!
Good night, horde. Imma take my riches an' get some shuteye.
Thanks for the fun chat!
Whooo doggies! I'm inta some tallllll cotton!
Good night, horde. Imma take my riches an' get some shuteye.
Thanks for the fun chat!
Posted by: JQ at August 24, 2025 03:01 AM (rdVOm)
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Tomorrow might be up at this time but no point in doing that now
Posted by: Skip at August 24, 2025 03:15 AM (+qU29)
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150
What is it with these woke AWFL bints and the ridiculous glasses? We've got the Cracker Barrel CEO, and I just a picture of some other CB executive, chief of marketing. She was just about a clone, same look with those ridiculously YUGE rectangular lenses with the thick black frame.
This is some sort of look they've adopted.
The glasses say ' I'm so ugly, you can't tell if I'm a girl or a guy'
.
What is it with these woke AWFL bints and the ridiculous glasses? We've got the Cracker Barrel CEO, and I just a picture of some other CB executive, chief of marketing. She was just about a clone, same look with those ridiculously YUGE rectangular lenses with the thick black frame.
This is some sort of look they've adopted.
The glasses say ' I'm so ugly, you can't tell if I'm a girl or a guy'
.
Posted by: clarence at August 24, 2025 03:37 AM (dL2Vj)
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Is the glass half empty, or half full?
My daughter thought about it and answered, "It depends on whether you are pouring or filling."
She has always been an interesting kid.
My daughter thought about it and answered, "It depends on whether you are pouring or filling."
She has always been an interesting kid.
Posted by: Delurk Ergo Sum at August 24, 2025 04:11 AM (/jBR3)
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Pixy's up!
Posted by: m at August 24, 2025 04:30 AM (aURVT)
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I am bitterly disappointed in the Horde.
Nobody mentioned the best hangover remedy...bar none!
A McDonald's Bacon-Egg-and-Cheese Biscuit.
Do better Horde...Do Better!
Nobody mentioned the best hangover remedy...bar none!
A McDonald's Bacon-Egg-and-Cheese Biscuit.
Do better Horde...Do Better!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 24, 2025 04:31 AM (L5An7)
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Insomnia, one of the world's wonders.
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