Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - August 27, 2025 [DJ Jazzy Rex]

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

Welcome to the Wednesday night ONTwhich means another random assortment of interweb hoo ha and what not. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors.

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A special thanks to scampydog to recognize the end of his service as Tuesday ONT contributor. Doggo posted last night that his ONT efforts would be limited to Saturday night Club ONT going forward. We salute you, Duke of Cool!

You're still stuck with the Dino this evening, so let's get on with it...

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Group projects mostly suck. Club ONT and the A-Team are clearly the exceptions to the rule, but almost every work-related group project is a steady stream of Dilbert cartoons. Success comes despite the group rather than because of it.

Group projects for any creative endeavor is harder. Different visions and perspectives, different skill sets and interests, different life experiences, etc. Nobody goes to see paintings in museum galleries that came from painter collaborations. Can you imagine trying to get Van Gogh or Dali or Picasso to compromise with other painters to produce a painting?

For some reason, however, musicians find their way to each other periodically. Most bands get together and break up soon thereafter. Successful bands still find ways to break. Some successful find ways to avoid killing each other, mostly because they know the gravy train ends if the band ends.

For tonight's ONT, let's get past bands and focus on collaborations. Looking for those few magic moments when two artists who have found success on their own take the risk to make music together. This isn't when a guest musician sits in or makes a surprise appearance during a live concert. This isn't a duet with singers taking the lead on different parts. A collaboration is when two or more musicians get into a studio and create something new that is good on its own merits. Could be a single song or a full album.

As usual, will need grey box help on this one. DJ Rex has a small brain and short arms which makes music a challenge.

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Was Cream the first supergroup? Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, and Ginger Baker - White Room (196

The Highwaymen - Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and Kris Kristofferson - Highwaymen (1985)

The Traveling Wilburys - George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, and Roy Orbison. End of the Line (198

Damn Yankees -Tommy Shaw of Styx, Jack Blades, Ted Nugent, and Michael Cartellone. Come again (1990)

Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty - "Stop Draggin My Heart Around" (1981)

Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton - "Islands in the Stream" (1983)

Eminem and Rihanna - "Love the Way You Lie" (2010)

Christina Aguilera, Lil Kim, Mya, Pink, and Missy Elliott - Lady Marmalade cover (201

Lionel Richie and Diana Ross - "Endless Love" (1981)

Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder - "Ebony and Ivory" (1982)

Queen and David Bowie - "Under Pressure" (1982)

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Carryover from last week: A collaboration between dinosaurs and jets? A T-Rex flying an F-14 may be the best Calvin and Hobbes drawing that does not include either Calvin or Hobbes. That boy had quite an imagination.

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Very random historical nugget:

The Plymouth Iron Windmill Company was started in 1882 by watchmaker and inventor Clarence Hamilton in Plymouth, Michigan. It was established to make a type of windmill that Hamilton invented. The business struggled, partly because of the burden and cost of shipping heavy windmill by wagon. The board met in January 1888 [corrected from 1988] to consider closing and liquidating, but the motion failed by one vote.

Nearby, Hamilton also operated the Plymouth Air Rifle Company which made a spring powered airgun to shoot BB-size round shot. In March 1888, Hamilton approached the windmill company board with an all-metal airgun design and a request to use the factory blast furnaces to mold and stamp the gun's metal parts.

The general manager reportedly test fired the gun and exclaimed, "Boy, it's a daisy!" Can you see where this is going? The new gun was named the "Daisy BB Gun."

The board of the Windmill Company offered the gun to every farmer who purchased a windmill. Success!

By 1895, the Windmill Company stopped making windmills and began making Daisy BB gun parts exclusively. It changed its name to the Daisy Manufacturing Company. The rest is history. The company still sells BB guns today.

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August 27 is a mixed date in the world of music. Steve Ray Vaughan died 35 years ago at only 35 years old. Imagine the music that might have been...

On the other side of the ledger, Alex Lifeson was born in 1953. You might have heard of Rush?

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Those who are wise in the ways of American Science and Surplus will be saddened to hear of their impending closure. Get your final orders in by Sept 7. If you don't know, think of it along the lines of a rare catalog order to find the odd and unique. It isn't focused on electronics, but the loss is like Radio Shack. Where else are you going to find a Rechargeable Disco Light Wrist Band or a four piece package of military cookie cutters or a life size terra cotta warrior in the same place?

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How common is your birthday?

Disclaimer: I do not know where this data comes from, so don't ask about location or time period or anything else. Caveat emptor.

Top 10:
Sept 17
April 8
Sept 23
Sept 24 (tie)
Oct 1 (tie)
Feb 12
April 29
March 4
April 16
March 5

Bottom 10:
Feb 29
Dec 25
Dec 26
Jan 1
Jan 26
April 25
Dec 27
Dec 28
Dec 24
Dec 13

Conclusions:
Early summer and Christmas are popular times for conception
Nothing happens in March
A tiny uptick in mid-November might be Valentines' Day?

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The Pittsburgh Police Scanner: The Pittsburgh police scanner keeps giving. Thank you people of Pittsburgh!

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Ozzy and Lita Ford for the big ONT finish:

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Comments

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1 Suddenly there came a rapping
As if someone gently tapping
Tapping on my keyboard
'Tis the ONT and nothing moard

Posted by: mindful webworker - away we go at August 27, 2025 10:00 PM (N7aNU)

2 Hello, Horde! ♥️😊

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at August 27, 2025 10:00 PM (SRRAx)

3 I am positively SEIZED with ennui.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2025 10:01 PM (dDmld)

4 Darn it! 🤬

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at August 27, 2025 10:01 PM (SRRAx)

5 Nood duties performed.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at August 27, 2025 10:02 PM (SRRAx)

6 Good evening.

Posted by: QED Texan at August 27, 2025 10:03 PM (fveCG)

7 th. Howdy T-Rex!

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 27, 2025 10:03 PM (KkdUn)

8 Disclaimer: I do not know where this data comes from, so don't ask about location or time period or anything else. Caveat emptor.

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This IS on the Internet, right?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2025 10:03 PM (dDmld)

9 I almost freaked at the omission of Ozzy and Lita in the list.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 27, 2025 10:03 PM (snZF9)

10 My birthday is the 29th most common. June 18. I've only met two other people with that birthday. I need to get out more.

Posted by: Gref at August 27, 2025 10:04 PM (aBgBM)

11 Howdy, Dino!

My birthday snuck in at Number 10!

Wow - didn't realize the Stevie Ray death / Alex Lifeson birthday overlap. SRV and Rush are 2 of my all-time favorites!

Posted by: Doof at August 27, 2025 10:04 PM (QMAsf)

12 On the other side of the ledger, Alex Lifeson was born in 1953. You might have heard of Rush?

Can't say that I have. Maybe someone here should talk about who they were.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 27, 2025 10:04 PM (0eaVi)

13 7 th. Howdy T-Rex!

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 27, 2025 10:03 PM
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Good evening!

Posted by: TRex - sevens are lucky at August 27, 2025 10:04 PM (IQ6Gq)

14 I'll get the ball rolling.

What does the Horde think about the pending nuptials of Taylor Swift and that Travis guy?

Slick or sick?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2025 10:05 PM (dDmld)

15 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 27, 2025 10:05 PM (cYBz/)

16 Great stuff tonight T-Rex. Many thanks!

Posted by: 496 at August 27, 2025 10:05 PM (4MR3n)

17 >>> The board met in January 1988 ..

They languished long.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 27, 2025 10:06 PM (/lPRQ)

18
Cicero,

I don't give a shit. Sick of her.

Posted by: fourseasons at August 27, 2025 10:06 PM (3ek7K)

19 16 Great stuff tonight T-Rex. Many thanks!

Posted by: 496 at August 27, 2025 10:05 PM
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You're welcome!

Posted by: TRex - party on! at August 27, 2025 10:06 PM (IQ6Gq)

20 3 I am positively SEIZED with ennui.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2025 10:01 PM (dDmld)

That New Orleans sausage will do that. You have to eat the beans just for the fiber.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at August 27, 2025 10:06 PM (pIfcn)

21 3 I am positively SEIZED with ennui.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2025 10:01 PM (dDmld)
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I usually find it more negative than positive

Posted by: 496 at August 27, 2025 10:07 PM (4MR3n)

22 another random assortment of interweb hoo ha

hoohah
Any of a number of exciting, or over-the-top festivals, gatherings, or parties
That's the third definition in Urban Dictionary. 🫢

Posted by: mindful webworker - excitement tonight y'all at August 27, 2025 10:07 PM (N7aNU)

23 The company still sells BB guns today.

Red Who?

Posted by: Whippersnappers at August 27, 2025 10:07 PM (0eaVi)

24 What does the Horde think about the pending nuptials of Taylor Swift and that Travis guy?

Slick or sick?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2025 10:05 PM (dDmld)

Probably like the periodic UFO panics. It's all an op to distract us from what's really happening.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 27, 2025 10:08 PM (l8IGe)

25 Sorry I'm late. Just too lazy to get my ass here on time.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 27, 2025 10:08 PM (lUFok)

26 Dag nabbit!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 27, 2025 10:08 PM (yr/Go)

27 17 >>> The board met in January 1988 ..

They languished long.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 27, 2025 10:06 PM
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Crap. Fixed it. Thanks.

Posted by: TRex - sack the proofreader at August 27, 2025 10:09 PM (IQ6Gq)

28 Darn it! 🤬
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth

Oh, dear lady, had I known you were coming, I would gladly have held back. You're #1 honorarily.

Posted by: mindful webworker - exuberance examined at August 27, 2025 10:09 PM (N7aNU)

29 I still can't believe Alex Lifeson parted with that white ES355. It went with a bunch of guitars that were auctioned off. He should have just cut off his dick and auctioned that too. That white 355 was HIS sound since 1978. I'm still speechless he got rid of that. I would have been buried with it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 27, 2025 10:09 PM (snZF9)

30 I vaguely remember thinking that 25c (for their catalog) would get me a bunch of flasks and test tubes and all that neat stuff from the Edmund Scientific Company. I was crestfallen

Posted by: Common Tater at August 27, 2025 10:10 PM (gIVe3)

31 I have a nephew (son of Psycho Basura) that has the 365th most popular birthday on that chart.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 27, 2025 10:11 PM (lUFok)

32 December 17th - the traditional day of putting up a real live (sson to be tinder) Christmas tree.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 27, 2025 10:11 PM (/lPRQ)

33 I have a Red Rider. It's for when I really don't want to kill something.

I used to wear them out when I was a kid. I was so familiar with it I didn't use the sights. Point and shoot.

You get really good shooting a carton of bbs a week

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 27, 2025 10:11 PM (WF/xn)

34 Derrick and the Dominoes?

Posted by: Fastly Strokewater - Backstroking. Barely. at August 27, 2025 10:11 PM (H/u99)

35 What does the Horde think about the pending nuptials of Taylor Swift and that Travis guy?

Slick or sick?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2025 10:05 PM (dDmld)

Good for them, I guess. It has nothing to do with me and I don't care what they do.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 27, 2025 10:11 PM (0eaVi)

36 There's a lot of musical artists one would wish to go back in time and say to them, 'Don't get on the helicopter'.

When Alvin Lee was closing Ten Years After's set at Woodstock and introduced the last song, he told the audience 'I'm Going Home (by helicopter)'.

Posted by: RickZ at August 27, 2025 10:12 PM (gKDq2)

37 A collaboration between dinosaurs and jets?

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The Critical Drinker says Primitive War is fun. It's about American soldiers in Vietnam getting mixed up with a mad scientist and dinosaurs and shit.

https://is.gd/XnXUGJ

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 27, 2025 10:12 PM (L/fGl)

38 I'll get the ball rolling.

What does the Horde think about the pending nuptials of Taylor Swift and that Travis guy?

Slick or sick?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2025 10:05 PM (dDmld)

She'll schedule it in the time slot of the last Chiefs home game.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 27, 2025 10:13 PM (S/Y4j)

39 Good evening, everyone, hope you are all doing well. I was going to mention something relevant to myself, but as I was typing it out I thought "Even I don't care about this" so you're left with a generic greeting. Could be worse, right?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 27, 2025 10:13 PM (CHHv1)

40 Excellent content, Dino! Helped nephew get his 91 Chrysler Maserati back on the road last yr. White convertible. Fun project. Red Rider bb gun... two of them around here. Thanks for the shout out up top.

Posted by: scampydog at August 27, 2025 10:13 PM (c0ek+)

41 Racoons are clearly an endangered species in Pittsburgh

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 27, 2025 10:13 PM (C/cMZ)

42 I mean, what else is there to do on, or around January 17th?

Posted by: Pooklord at August 27, 2025 10:13 PM (asU3w)

43 Sneaky and proper mystery click, Tex/Rex. Well played.

Posted by: scampydog at August 27, 2025 10:14 PM (c0ek+)

44 Cream was #1 on the list. Absolutely. Don't argue with me.

https://tinyurl.com/n7ttmn7a

Also, regarding birthdays...holiday babies are the most popular. A lot goes on over Christmas break. Trust me on this.

Apparently a lot went on over Labor Day weekend to produce me.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 27, 2025 10:15 PM (6PCLE)

45 Today is DD#3's birthday. She is 33.

What is it about third kids? Every single one that I know is just a pistol! It was there from the very start, but we didn't recognize it until we ran across her baby picture a few years later when going through Grandma Nettie's stuff that we had sent her over the years 🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at August 27, 2025 10:15 PM (SRRAx)

46
I am positively SEIZED with ennui.
Posted by: Cicero

That's gotta hurt!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 27, 2025 10:15 PM (63Dwl)

47 What does the Horde think about the pending nuptials of Taylor Swift and that Travis guy?

Slick or sick?

She endorsed Joe Biden for president, which means she has terrible taste in men. He's a pro-vaxxer. May they have a happy, if short, life together.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 27, 2025 10:15 PM (lUFok)

48 40 Excellent content, Dino! Helped nephew get his 91 Chrysler Maserati back on the road last yr.

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Not the immortal "TC"??

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2025 10:16 PM (dDmld)

49 Oh! Another faaabulous TRex ONT!

I once knew someone who tried bringing an 8 Ball on a plane...
He spent a lot of time in prison...

BTW TR, please don't you go and leave us floundering about here on the ONT! It could be unbearable 😟🦖!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 27, 2025 10:16 PM (3wXSL)

50
I am positively SEIZED with ennui.
Posted by: Cicero

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I thought only Republicans seized.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 27, 2025 10:16 PM (kkTda)

51 Uh oh. An old fart looking in the children's book section is suspicious? I buy books for the grandkids all the time.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 27, 2025 10:17 PM (L/fGl)

52 Anyone remember the Cadillac Cimmaron. What a pos

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 27, 2025 10:17 PM (WF/xn)

53
Yordan Alvarez hits a two-run shot to dead center. The Big Guy is back.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 27, 2025 10:18 PM (kkTda)

54 And thanks for Clapton!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 27, 2025 10:18 PM (3wXSL)

55 50 I thought only Republicans seized.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 27, 2025 10:16 PM
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I'd seize, but I'm too busy pouncing.

Posted by: TRex - stealthy dino at August 27, 2025 10:18 PM (IQ6Gq)

56 LMAO...the lady in the police blotter throwing stuff at a raccoon making it "progressively more pissed" is hilarious...

I can see it happening.

Posted by: Orson at August 27, 2025 10:19 PM (dIske)

57 Then only other person I know of with my birthday is Stevie Nicks.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 27, 2025 10:19 PM (6PCLE)

58 IIRC, the official nomenclature was, "the Chrysler TC by Maserati."

In the grand tradition of "the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2025 10:19 PM (dDmld)

59 Not the immortal "TC"??
Posted by: Cicero
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LOL. you know your stuff. Yes, it is the TC.

Posted by: scampydog at August 27, 2025 10:19 PM (c0ek+)

60 I liked the Highwaymen and the Travelling Willburys. Good stuff.

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 27, 2025 10:19 PM (WF/xn)

61 Oh, dear lady, had I known you were coming, I would gladly have held back. You're #1 honorarily.
Posted by: mindful webworker - exuberance examined at August 27, 2025 10:09 PM (N7aNU)

Aww - you're so sweet! But you won first tonight fair and square - no need to apologize 😊♥️

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at August 27, 2025 10:20 PM (SRRAx)

62 49 Oh! Another faaabulous TRex ONT!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 27, 2025 10:16 PM
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Thank you and good evening!

Posted by: TRex - ONTastic at August 27, 2025 10:20 PM (IQ6Gq)

63 "Japanese Wagyu of Australia"

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2025 10:20 PM (dDmld)

64 Catching up on posts from today…

So 2/3 biggest donors to pro Hamas Arabella are Jews. Zuck and Soros.

I never have, do not now or never will understand this.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 27, 2025 10:20 PM (wrRTB)

65 He's a pro-vaxxer.

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The Vigilant Fox @VigilantFox
Dr. Paul Offit says RFK Jr. picked the “wrong vaccine” to call unsafe.
“[Myocarditis] was a very, very small price to pay for this vaccine… the mRNA COVID vaccines were remarkably safe and remarkably effective.”

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Come on! Who's afraid of a little myocarditis?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 27, 2025 10:21 PM (L/fGl)

66 51 Uh oh. An old fart looking in the children's book section is suspicious? I buy books for the grandkids all the time.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 27, 2025 10:17 PM
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I'm just glad people don't call the police when I'm in a toy store.

Posted by: TRex - stuck at 8 years old at August 27, 2025 10:21 PM (IQ6Gq)

67 had I known you were coming, I would gladly have held back.

AoS - come for the smart military instruction, stay for the relationship advice!

Posted by: Tonypete at August 27, 2025 10:21 PM (cYBz/)

68 You think the Trexes are flying F14s?

I am disappoint.

Posted by: blaster at August 27, 2025 10:22 PM (RoO7G)

69 Thanks for the mighty (and I mean mighty!) Wednesday Night ONT, TRex!

For the record, I was not in Homewood during the last 24 hours.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 27, 2025 10:22 PM (kB9dk)

70 So 2/3 biggest donors to pro Hamas Arabella are Jews. Zuck and Soros.

I never have, do not now or never will understand this.

They may have Jewish ancestry, but they've chosen the state over God. Now they're trying to use whatever means necessary to force the rest of us to abide by their decision.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 27, 2025 10:22 PM (lUFok)

71 14 I'll get the ball rolling.

What does the Horde think about the pending nuptials of Taylor Swift and that Travis guy?

Slick or sick?
Posted by: Cicero

The length of their marriage is directly proportional to the extravagance of their nuptials.

The greater the fuss, the shorter the marriage.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 27, 2025 10:22 PM (mT+6a)

72 From that list of birthdays, it would appear that many obstetricians schedule the planned C-sections in the weeks before and after the week of Christmas.

Either that, or wives aren't getting any action during March Madness 🤣

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at August 27, 2025 10:22 PM (SRRAx)

73
That birthdate frequency is for the Northern Hemisphere. It flips for the Southern. The pattern is more births in summer, less in winter.

Incidentally, there is no correlation with lunar cycles at all.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 27, 2025 10:23 PM (w6EFb)

74 68 You think the Trexes are flying F14s?

I am disappoint.

Posted by: blaster at August 27, 2025 10:22 PM
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Were. Current hardware is classified.

Posted by: Sgt TRex - I know nothing! at August 27, 2025 10:23 PM (IQ6Gq)

75 My birthday ranks 265th. The only person I personally know who shares it is my sister. We're not twins.

Posted by: Gibson Girl at August 27, 2025 10:23 PM (wrZS1)

76 What its all about every now and then.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 27, 2025 10:23 PM (YlWIZ)

77 Good evening morons и спасибо Дино

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2025 10:23 PM (RIvkX)

78
The greater the fuss, the shorter the marriage.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 27, 2025 10:22 PM (mT+6a)

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The JP fit us in between traffic violation cases. 31 years.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 27, 2025 10:24 PM (kkTda)

79 I thought only Republicans seized.

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Pouncing and seizing! Pouncing and seizing!

The Daily Beast@thedailybeast
MAGA has seized on reports that the 23-year-old who opened fire on children as they prayed inside a Minneapolis Catholic school is transgender.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 27, 2025 10:24 PM (L/fGl)

80
Come on! Who's afraid of a little myocarditis?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Just a handful.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 27, 2025 10:24 PM (63Dwl)

81 Yay. My birthday is under the radar but over the wire.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 27, 2025 10:24 PM (YlWIZ)

82 No love for Elton John & Kiki Dee?

Heathens.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2025 10:25 PM (RIvkX)

83 Hey guys :-)

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 10-11
LC-39A - Kennedy Space Center - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: August 28, 2025
Launch Time: 1:27 a.m. EDT (0527 UTC, 07:27 CEST)

https://youtu.be/WsA_uLnCZCg

Posted by: Joyenz at August 27, 2025 10:25 PM (2F0/Y)

84 So… went in for the doctors to poke my heart yesterday for somewhat reduced function v 2 years ago.

They went in through my right wrist and took a look at my "left heart," and pronounced all my tubes healthy. No stent. No surgery. Recommended regular exercise.

Whew.❤️

All that for nothing for only something like thirty-five hundred thousand dollars. The nurses were kind and cute. The doc didn't kill me. Impressive tech. I live.

Posted by: mindful webworker - exuberance examined at August 27, 2025 10:26 PM (N7aNU)

85 25 Sorry I'm late. Just too lazy to get my ass here on time.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 27, 2025 10:08 PM

I am so confused.

Now tankdemon is sock puppeting as Blanco Basura?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at August 27, 2025 10:26 PM (HlyYF)

86 Zuck and Soros.

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Ahh. The dreaded Zuckosaurus.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 27, 2025 10:26 PM (L/fGl)

87 That Ozzy and Lita Ford cut ended kinda abruptly.

Posted by: mindful webworker - then there was at August 27, 2025 10:27 PM (N7aNU)

88 Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder - "Ebony and Ivory" (1982)
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A humiliation for both artists. Almost unforgivable.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2025 10:27 PM (RIvkX)

89 >Caller is flabbergasted at such obscenity
Have you ever seen such cruelty?

Posted by: gKWVE at August 27, 2025 10:28 PM (gKWVE)

90 You think the Trexes are flying F14s?

I am disappoint.
Posted by: blaster at August 27, 2025 10:22 PM (RoO7G)

If you go a little further back, they'd use P-47s. TRexes don't fit in tiny cockpits.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 27, 2025 10:28 PM (S/Y4j)

91 I'm #311th.

Which doesn't really make sense to me, because I figured I was conceived on or around Valentine's Day.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 27, 2025 10:28 PM (0CU3H)

92 The Vigilant Fox @VigilantFox
Dr. Paul Offit says RFK Jr. picked the “wrong vaccine” to call unsafe.
“[Myocarditis] was a very, very small price to pay for this vaccine… the mRNA COVID vaccines were remarkably safe and remarkably effective.”

So....is Offit acknowledging that the vax causes a rise in myocarditis?

'Cuz that sure sounds like he is.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at August 27, 2025 10:28 PM (SRRAx)

93 Enough is Enough by Streisand/Summer should be included

Posted by: Galactus'StiffenedCock at August 27, 2025 10:28 PM (C+oPe)

94
They went in through my right wrist and took a look at my "left heart,"

Do you have two hearts like Doctor Who?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 27, 2025 10:28 PM (63Dwl)

95 69 For the record, I was not in Homewood during the last 24 hours.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 27, 2025 10:22 PM
***
Good evening LS!

Posted by: TRex - no outstanding warrants at August 27, 2025 10:28 PM (IQ6Gq)

96 nuptials of Taylor Swift and that Travis guy?

Slick or sick?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2025 10:05 PM (dDmld)

Good for them, I guess. It has nothing to do with me and I don't care what they do.
Posted by: OrangeEnt
The media will try to make you care. Prepare to be bombarded with crap about Tay Tay and whatsisname.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 27, 2025 10:29 PM (0Htd1)

97 Gibson Girl Sounds like your parents had a "special" day.

Posted by: Pooklord at August 27, 2025 10:29 PM (asU3w)

98 David Bowie and Mick Jagger
Dancin in the Streets.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 27, 2025 10:29 PM (mT+6a)

99 as for Karen complaining about the dude looking at the childrens' books, just... ugh. he's almost certainly looking for books for his kids or his nephew(s). leave him alone.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 27, 2025 10:30 PM (gKWVE)

100 went in for the doctors to poke my heart yesterday for somewhat reduced function v 2 years ago.
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A heart joke would seem the style, but I'm glad to hear you got great news, mindful.

Posted by: scampydog at August 27, 2025 10:30 PM (c0ek+)

101 nuptials of Taylor Swift and that Travis guy?
.....
Posted by: OrangeEnt

I wonder if the wedding toasts will include digs at the Donald.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 27, 2025 10:30 PM (0Htd1)

102 the Rockies are losing.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 27, 2025 10:30 PM (gKWVE)

103 Is that Eddie "TRex" Money and his band up top? He sang and played a mean sax.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 27, 2025 10:30 PM (S/Y4j)

104 I share a birthday with Beno Gutenberg, noted German-American seismologist

Posted by: Don Black. Message: My sources say no at August 27, 2025 10:31 PM (AOsQT)

105 52 Anyone remember the Cadillac Cimmaron. What a pos
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway

Glorified Citation at 3 times the price.
Lincoln Versailles was a glorified Granada/Monarch at 3 times the price.
Caddy Seville was a Nova at 3 times the price, but they disguised it pretty well.

Posted by: Upscale Motors at August 27, 2025 10:31 PM (G5+As)

106 102 the Rockies are losing.
Posted by: gKWVE at August 27, 2025 10:30 PM (gKWVE)

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Geologists predict they will be mere mounds in 10 million years.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2025 10:31 PM (dDmld)

107
There's a strong diurnal pattern with births as well. They peak during the early morning, between 2 - 4AM, and taper off during late afternoon and early evening.

Interestingly, that varies with season a bit as well. In Winter, lower overall number of births, that early morning peak gets sharper. In summer, it's a little more spread out.

It appears that artificial lighting is smoothing that diurnal pattern out some.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 27, 2025 10:32 PM (w6EFb)

108 The media will try to make you care. Prepare to be bombarded with crap about Tay Tay and whatsisname.
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 27, 2025 10:29 PM (0Htd1)

Gonna have a heckofa time finding me. I don't do media much. Certainly don't watch media about entertainers.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 27, 2025 10:32 PM (0eaVi)

109 Colorado will probably accuse Houston of cheating.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 27, 2025 10:33 PM (gKWVE)

110 I bought myself a Red Rider last year. Boy are the squirrels pissed!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 27, 2025 10:33 PM (2WIwB)

111 "California two state solution." A meme so stupid it five cabinet departments should be abolished.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 27, 2025 10:34 PM (YlWIZ)

112 How about some surf music? Here are the Fuzziyama Surfers:

https://tinyurl.com/3rhzcnwf

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 27, 2025 10:34 PM (kpS4V)

113 Julio Iglesias and Willie Nelson. Or not.

Posted by: scampydog at August 27, 2025 10:34 PM (c0ek+)

114 Benjamin >>>>> Daisy.

I collect old BB and pellet guns.

Posted by: Reforger at August 27, 2025 10:34 PM (gWjXi)

115 The specific time and place of my conception is known to everyone in my family older than me. My wife knows too. We've been back there.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2025 10:35 PM (RIvkX)

116 >I wonder if the wedding toasts will include digs at the Donald.

Posted by: nerdygirl
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he actually said nice things about the couple when asked for his reaction to the news

Posted by: Don Black. Message: My sources say no at August 27, 2025 10:35 PM (AOsQT)

117 Thanks for the content T-Rex...

If you throw out Feb 29 (leap year day), the least common birthday is Christmas Dec 25th. Kind of surprising.

I have seen that exact Red Ryder Daisy BB gun for sale in Walmart.

Elton John has collaborated with a number of artists; Neil Sedaka, John Lennon, Kiki Dee, George Michael, Stevie Wonder, Lady Gaga.

Posted by: joemarine at August 27, 2025 10:35 PM (y171U)

118 Regarding bands, I submit The Band, or The Hawks, going back to about 1958 in Toronto and backing up Ronny Hawkins, later Bob Dylan, and later becoming among the greatest on their own. I believe that history qualifies as a collaborative supergroup and one of the first.

Posted by: Snoteye at August 27, 2025 10:35 PM (Gu65h)

119 He's a pro-vaxxer.

-
The Vigilant Fox @VigilantFox
Dr. Paul Offit says RFK Jr. picked the “wrong vaccine” to call unsafe.
“[Myocarditis] was a very, very small price to pay for this vaccine… the mRNA COVID vaccines were remarkably safe and remarkably effective.”

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Come on! Who's afraid of a little myocarditis?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 27, 2025 10:21 PM (L/fGl)

Short version: Democrats want to kill us. If it's not home grown crime, it's illegals doing the crime Americans won't. Pay more for 'health care'. If that doesn't kill us, we'll make you take an experimental vaccine for which Big Pharma got immunity and lots of cash.

Democrats, like so many politicians across the globe, hate their citizens which means they hate their countries. I don't get it. I guess I'm not supposed to.

That's why Trump, Milei and Meloni are such breaths of fresh air. They each love their countries -- in a good way.

Posted by: RickZ at August 27, 2025 10:35 PM (gKDq2)

120 Yoko & John

oh lu lo lu yooloo…. [ additional incoherent guttural sounds for minutes on end]

Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 27, 2025 10:36 PM (eGbGv)

121 Today, August 27, is my birthday, #177 on the frequency chart. (It's also the birthday of Lyndon Johnson.) However, the number that really sticks out was my draft-lottery number. I turned 19 in 1971, the first year of the lottery, and I remember worriedly scanning the newspaper until I found my birthday on the lottery list: #352. That was a good day!

Posted by: Nemo at August 27, 2025 10:37 PM (4RPgu)

122 as far as conception goes, my birthday minus 9 months is the approximate date of my parents' wedding anniversary.

Posted by: Don Black. Message: My sources say no at August 27, 2025 10:37 PM (AOsQT)

123 Myocarditis and Pericarditis are serious, there is no such thing as a “mild” case; beware as they seem to be trying to downplay this. It is permanent, it might not kill you right away, but it is a serious defect. It would have been more than enough to prevent Approval if they had bothered testing, I expect.

Nothing seems to make sense any longer, but the “medical community” appears or seems to be (mostly) captured by something very wicked.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 27, 2025 10:37 PM (gIVe3)

124 57 Then only other person I know of with my birthday is Stevie Nicks.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
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You're the better of the deal.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2025 10:37 PM (WRg4s)

125 I wonder when we'll see an ONT begin with "The name is Rex, T Rex."

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 27, 2025 10:38 PM (S/Y4j)

126 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 27, 2025 10:40 PM (sAmhv)

127 My birthday just missed the bottom ten. But on the upside I share the same day as Mrs Trump.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 27, 2025 10:40 PM (2WIwB)

128 Supergroups

I still remember where I was driving when I first heard Suite: Judy Blue Eyes. At the time, I didn't recognize the names Crosby, Stills, and Nash. I wondered where these guys came from and how they managed to get a great #1 hit, and a long (for radio) cut at that.

After their appearance, or maybe it was after CSN&Y, Time Magazine ran an article on supergroups and had a nifty "family tree" type chart of what musicians were in what groups.

Posted by: mindful webworker - it's getting to the point where I'm no fun anymore at August 27, 2025 10:40 PM (N7aNU)

129 Slash and Lemmy

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 27, 2025 10:40 PM (144I4)

130 It appears that artificial lighting is smoothing that diurnal pattern out some.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 27, 2025 10:32 PM (w6EFb)
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The nurses made us wait until after the 'Niners game was over before we had Boy F.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2025 10:40 PM (RIvkX)

131 I do not have a common birthday! I know everyone was quite concerned about this.

Posted by: Piper at August 27, 2025 10:41 PM (p4NUW)

132 944 Turbo was da bomb. Still is.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 27, 2025 10:41 PM (wrRTB)

133 14 I'll get the ball rolling.

What does the Horde think about the pending nuptials of Taylor Swift and that Travis guy?

Slick or sick?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2025 10:05 PM (dDmld)

I'd say I don't care, but I will because Taylor and Travis will become the unofficial mascots of the NFL, constant TV shots of them intruding into my otherwise pleasant watching of pro football.

Posted by: Gref at August 27, 2025 10:42 PM (aBgBM)

134 125 I wonder when we'll see an ONT begin with "The name is Rex, T Rex."

Now, now. Don't be gving the cobs any ideas. It just makes their heads hurt.

Posted by: clarence at August 27, 2025 10:42 PM (RX1tq)

135 131 I do not have a common birthday! I know everyone was quite concerned about this.
Posted by: Piper
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*fistbump*

Posted by: scampydog at August 27, 2025 10:42 PM (c0ek+)

136 Nothing seems to make sense any longer, but the “medical community” appears or seems to be (mostly) captured by something very wicked.
Posted by: Common Tater

Every "community" on earth is captured by something very wicked. Sports, Hollywood, Leftist politics, de-banking, tranny madness, media of every type. All shitting the bed. We are in an extended Judgement Day that will crescendo until the end of all things visible in the year....

Posted by: ....2033 at August 27, 2025 10:42 PM (G5+As)

137 On the other side of the ledger, Alex Lifeson was born in 1953. You might have heard of Rush?

Can't say that I have. Maybe someone here should talk about who they were.
Posted by: OrangeEnt
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Always Rush. Why not the Tubes?

/About all I know about The Tubes is sum dude painted their logo on a huge retaining wall on the north side of I-195 most visible heading from the river in Grand Rapids Mich. Guy must have used a bosun's chair to do it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 27, 2025 10:43 PM (/lPRQ)

138 The Daily Beast@thedailybeast
MAGA has seized on reports that the 23-year-old who opened fire on children as they prayed inside a Minneapolis Catholic school is transgender.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 27, 2025 10:24 PM (L/fGl)

Yeah seized on 'reports'. Reports like his own words/videos.

Posted by: RickZ at August 27, 2025 10:43 PM (gKDq2)

139 Is Mr Taylor swift still playing sportsball? I thought he retired.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 27, 2025 10:43 PM (wrRTB)

140 125 I wonder when we'll see an ONT begin with "The name is Rex, T Rex."

That's the slippery slope before the AI porn of it

Posted by: gKWVE at August 27, 2025 10:43 PM (gKWVE)

141 the Rockies are losing.
Posted by: gKWVE at August 27, 2025 10:30 PM (gKWVE

All is in order. I guess i can count on the sun rising tomorrow.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 27, 2025 10:44 PM (BI5O2)

142 Looking at the top picture, I now understand why I have never seen a T Rex play piano.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 27, 2025 10:44 PM (2WIwB)

143 I'd say I don't care, but I will because Taylor and Travis will become the unofficial mascots of the NFL, constant TV shots of them intruding into my otherwise pleasant watching of pro football.
Posted by: Gref at August 27, 2025 10:42 PM (aBgBM)

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If you've gotten past the poofter cheerleaders then the constant T&T shots should be easy.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2025 10:44 PM (dDmld)

144 Glorified Citation at 3 times the price."

Cavalier. GM J body. Also sold by Toyota in Japan as part of trade issues...

Posted by: man at August 27, 2025 10:45 PM (tubbA)

145 Looking at the top picture, I now understand why I have never seen a T Rex play piano.
Posted by: Diogenes
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No TRex gunfighters either.

Posted by: scampydog at August 27, 2025 10:45 PM (c0ek+)

146 Posted by: OrangeEnt

I wonder if the wedding toasts will include digs at the Donald.
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 27, 2025 10:30 PM (0Htd1)

Wouldn't be a surprise.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 27, 2025 10:45 PM (0eaVi)

147 "today Susan Monarez, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is being ousted from her role less than a month after the Senate confirmed her to lead the public health agency"

All the right people are outraged over this, so it must be a very good thing indeed.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 27, 2025 10:45 PM (l8IGe)

148 Interesting. My mom's birthday is September 17.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 27, 2025 10:46 PM (lHPJf)

149 I have a Red Rider. It's for when I really don't want to kill something.

I used to wear them out when I was a kid. I was so familiar with it I didn't use the sights. Point and shoot.

You get really good shooting a carton of bbs a week
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway
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I could shoot the tail off a dragonfly at ten feet.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 27, 2025 10:46 PM (/lPRQ)

150 143 I'd say I don't care, but I will because Taylor and Travis will become the unofficial mascots of the NFL, constant TV shots of them intruding into my otherwise pleasant watching of pro football.
Posted by: Gref at August 27, 2025 10:42 PM (aBgBM)

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If you've gotten past the poofter cheerleaders then the constant T&T shots should be easy.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2025 10:44 PM (dDmld)

I can see why a heterosexual couple would offend NFL fans.

Posted by: buncha faggolis at August 27, 2025 10:46 PM (H0BA3)

151

Blind Faith

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 27, 2025 10:46 PM (63Dwl)

152 What does the Horde think about the pending nuptials of Taylor Swift and that Travis guy?

Slick or sick?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2025 10:05 PM (dDmld)

I'm going with don't give a fuck.

Posted by: And you can't make me! at August 27, 2025 10:46 PM (TbWk/)

153 ---
Nothing seems to make sense any longer, but the “medical community” appears or seems to be (mostly) captured by something very wicked.
Posted by: Common Tater
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Insurance Cos, Big Pharma, Medical Administrators, & the Govt. that's where the money is. If doctors don't comply they lose their privileges, if nurses don't comply they lose their jobs.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2025 10:46 PM (WRg4s)

154 Government was put last because they are the stupidest.
Senators (think Chis van Hollen, McCain and McConnell) making medical decisions for our doctor.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2025 10:46 PM (WRg4s)

155 I don't care, but I will because Taylor and Travis will become the unofficial mascots of the NFL, constant TV shots of them intruding into my otherwise pleasant watching of pro football.
Posted by: Gref at August 27, 2025 10:42 PM (

Don't worry. Soon, some lucky QB will marry Timothee Chalamet and TayTrav will be yesterday's news.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 27, 2025 10:46 PM (BI5O2)

156 It sure looks like they did

Posted by: Gibson Girl at August 27, 2025 10:47 PM (wrZS1)

157 Been interesting if hostages were taken to trade for anti-transsers.

Posted by: raimondo at August 27, 2025 10:47 PM (y59xK)

158 Nothing seems to make sense any longer, but the “medical community” appears or seems to be (mostly) captured by something very wicked.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 27, 2025 10:37 PM (gIVe3)

Congratulations, you may have killed between 15% - 35% of your patients. The insurance company paid 70% of the bill your billing department submitted,

You won!

Posted by: Kindltot at August 27, 2025 10:47 PM (rbvCR)

159 In the early days of the internet, there was a posted "family tree" of the band- The Byrds. Dozens of groups formed and faded with the various members, some very popular, including Crosby, Stills, and Nash.

Posted by: Mr. Spaceman at August 27, 2025 10:47 PM (G5+As)

160 left heart

Do you have two hearts like Doctor Who?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Heh. That's how they referred to it. Never really thought about it, but it really is two similar-related functions in one organ.

Found this while researching Dr. Internet:
The Heart Is NOT a Pump, It’s Actually THIS
Dr. Tom Cowan
https://youtu.be/dM5YEnkY4yg

Posted by: mindful webworker - Lub dub lub dub. at August 27, 2025 10:48 PM (N7aNU)

161 I share a birthday with a famous cult leader.

It used to be a big cult, back in the 70s, now its just one or two thousand cultists.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2025 10:48 PM (RIvkX)

162 152 What does the Horde think about the pending nuptials of Taylor Swift and that Travis guy?
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Two people of opposite sexes marrying. Novel.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2025 10:48 PM (WRg4s)

163 I wonder when we'll see an ONT begin with "The name is Rex, T Rex."
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 27, 2025 10:38 PM (S/Y4j)
* * * *
I will bet that TRex looks absolutely smashing in a tuxedo!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 27, 2025 10:48 PM (kB9dk)

164 T. Rex?
Bang a gong...

Posted by: man at August 27, 2025 10:48 PM (tubbA)

165 The birthday chart seems to track, at least for me. I'm damn close to the middle. Just like everything else, even my birthday is painfully average.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at August 27, 2025 10:49 PM (QdGJh)

166 Tay Tay being a hardcore democrat could just be calculated. Her fanbase is white middle and upper middle class wymyn. Give them what they want to hear.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 27, 2025 10:49 PM (wrRTB)

167 Always Rush. Why not the Tubes?

What Do You Want From Life?

Posted by: Kindltot at August 27, 2025 10:49 PM (rbvCR)

168 My birthday is 254th. A college friend shared the same day and year. Our buddies took us bar hopping to celebrate our 21st. We woke most of the campus when we got back.

Posted by: Cosda at August 27, 2025 10:49 PM (NRgXA)

169 Supergroups

Here are two of my favorites: Audioslave and The Power Station.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 27, 2025 10:49 PM (0CU3H)

170 After their appearance, or maybe it was after CSN&Y, Time Magazine ran an article on supergroups and had a nifty "family tree" type chart of what musicians were in what groups.
Posted by: mindful webworker - it's getting to the point where I'm no fun anymore at August 27, 2025 10:40 PM (N7aNU)

I remember that family tree chart! I studied it for hours and was how I ended up buying some of my 'older' albums, certain people I liked in different bands I really didn't know at that age.

Posted by: RickZ at August 27, 2025 10:50 PM (gKDq2)

171 164 T. Rex?
Bang a gong...
Posted by: man at August 27, 2025 10:48 PM (tubbA)

This is what reminded me of Power Station - the 80s supergroup.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 27, 2025 10:50 PM (0CU3H)

172 Whew.❤️

All that for nothing for only something like thirty-five hundred thousand dollars. The nurses were kind and cute. The doc didn't kill me. Impressive tech. I live.
Posted by: mindful webworker - exuberance examined at
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Good.
They did a doppler on my carotids the other day. I'm at 50%.
Insurance won't pay until I'm at 80%.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2025 10:50 PM (WRg4s)

173 It used to be a big cult, back in the 70s, now its just one or two thousand cultists.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2025 10:48 PM (RIvkX)

Democrats who are patriotic?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 27, 2025 10:50 PM (wrRTB)

174 Always Rush. Why not the Tubes?

/About all I know about The Tubes is sum dude painted their logo on a huge retaining wall on the north side of I-195 most visible heading from the river in Grand Rapids Mich. Guy must have used a bosun's chair to do it.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 27, 2025 10:43 PM (/lPRQ)

Never cared for most music, but I know the names, and of course have heard most of the classics on the radio. I do remember my cousin like the Tubes. Couldn't tell you what their most famous song is, though.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 27, 2025 10:51 PM (0eaVi)

175 he actually said nice things about the couple when asked for his reaction to the news
Posted by: Don Black. Message: My sources say no at

I saw that. I think she made a mistake in criticizing him in the past. Maybe after being booed at the Super Bowl, she learned something.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 27, 2025 10:52 PM (0Htd1)

176 I'll get the ball rolling.

What does the Horde think about the pending nuptials of Taylor Swift and that Travis guy?

Slick or sick?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2025 10:05 PM (dDmld)
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The proposal has been overturned on replay. The refs have ruled Kelce's knee did not touch the ground.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 27, 2025 10:52 PM (2WIwB)

177 Couldn't tell you what their most famous song is, though."

Hmm. She's a beauty...

Posted by: man at August 27, 2025 10:52 PM (tubbA)

178 I remember hearing about SRV dying on the radio. I was in Alabama somewhere, headed to PA post USAF tech school. Took a course I didn't need because the base I was supposed to go to was closing. Ah, government efficiency. Anyway, RIP SRV. What a loss.

youtu.be/TMY9Wrh1oPA

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 27, 2025 10:52 PM (sAmhv)

179 169 Supergroups

Here are two of my favorites: Audioslave and The Power Station.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 27, 2025 10:49 PM (0CU3H)
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World's Most Famous Unknown Supergroup:

https://tinyurl.com/aoshqwmfub

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at August 27, 2025 10:52 PM (QdGJh)

180 Everyone furry is settled and in bed here, so I am off to sleep, too. Goodnight!

Posted by: Piper at August 27, 2025 10:52 PM (p4NUW)

181 I don't see what's so great about suppergroups.
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.

Posted by: E.F. Mutton at August 27, 2025 10:53 PM (IBLCq)

182 106 102 the Rockies are losing.
Posted by: gKWVE at August 27, 2025 10:30 PM (gKWVE)

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Geologists predict they will be mere mounds in 10 million years.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2025 10:31 PM (dDmld)

Geologists confidently predict Mount Everest will not be the highest mountain, in I forget how many millions of years. Another Himalayan mountain is getting higher, faster, than Everest. In other news, scientists predict the Sun will explode in 3 billion years.

I only hope I'm alive this time tomorrow, not killed by things scientists confidently predict will be my immediate doom. Catastrophic climate change, Donald Trump, Putin, measles, screwworms, scary black rifles with bayonet lugs, RFK Jr, and tariffs on Mexican avocados.

Posted by: Gref at August 27, 2025 10:53 PM (aBgBM)

183 Couldn't tell you what their most famous song is, though.

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Don't Touch Me There
What Do You Want From Life
Talk To Ya Later
White Punks On Dope

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2025 10:53 PM (dDmld)

184 If you've gotten past the poofter cheerleaders then the constant T&T shots should be easy.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2025 10:44 PM (dDmld)
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*hurls green dildo*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2025 10:53 PM (RIvkX)

185 121 Today, August 27, is my birthday, #177 on the frequency chart.
Posted by: Nemo at August 27, 2025 10:37 PM (4RPgu)

Happy Birthday!

Posted by: joemarine at August 27, 2025 10:54 PM (y171U)

186 Attack Of The 50 Foot Woman

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2025 10:54 PM (dDmld)

187 The Vigilant Fox @VigilantFox
Dr. Paul Offit says RFK Jr. picked the “wrong vaccine” to call unsafe.
“[Myocarditis] was a very, very small price to pay for this vaccine… the mRNA COVID vaccines were remarkably safe and remarkably effective.”

So....is Offit acknowledging that the vax causes a rise in myocarditis?

'Cuz that sure sounds like he is.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief
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But only in HS athletes, so it's all good.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 27, 2025 10:55 PM (/lPRQ)

188 Short version: Democrats want to kill us. If it's not home grown crime, it's illegals doing the crime Americans won't. Pay more for 'health care'....
Posted by: RickZ

When I took early retirement, I paid for my own health insurance. Obamacare made my premiums go up $2000 per year. I hate that bitch Obama to this day.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 27, 2025 10:55 PM (0Htd1)

189 Best supergroup? Does Electronic (Marr/ Sumner/ sometimes-Tennant) count?
Maybe only for the first album + "Disappointed"...

Posted by: gKWVE at August 27, 2025 10:55 PM (gKWVE)

190 youtu.be/6SQsv0JI1P8

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 27, 2025 10:55 PM (sAmhv)

191 My health insurance going up 2K per year was just a reminder to me that democrats punish us for being responsible.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 27, 2025 10:56 PM (0Htd1)

192 Don't Touch Me There
What Do You Want From Life
Talk To Ya Later
White Punks On Dope
Posted by: Cicero
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Not their most famous, but Theme Park, Attack of the 50ft Woman, and others from Completion Backward Principle were fun one summer

Posted by: scampydog at August 27, 2025 10:56 PM (c0ek+)

193 #182 - you left out Net Neutrality...

Posted by: man at August 27, 2025 10:57 PM (tubbA)

194 >>>So....is Offit acknowledging that the vax causes a rise in myocarditis?

'Cuz that sure sounds like he is.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas -
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When you give your soul away you give it all the way.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2025 10:57 PM (WRg4s)

195 Lots of bonking in December (a very Merry or intoxicated) Christmas could explain those September birthdays.

I expected june weddings to March births, but birth control changes all that.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 27, 2025 10:57 PM (+8ob6)

196 Posted by: Gibson Girl at August 27, 2025 10:47 PM (wrZS1)

The best Gibson Girl was Evelyn Nesbit.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 27, 2025 10:57 PM (0eaVi)

197 Happy birthday Nemo

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2025 10:58 PM (RIvkX)

198 what makes a group a supergroup?

# of bandmembers? volume?

Posted by: Don Black. Message: My sources say no at August 27, 2025 10:58 PM (AOsQT)

199 Couldn’t avoid noticing that May 12 and January 16 are both ranked at #159.

Posted by: El Kabongg at August 27, 2025 10:58 PM (1UudH)

200 I’d give my left arm for $2k.

I pay about $15k a year for the family.

Affordable Care my ass.

It is affordable for those one welfare though, they get it free.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 27, 2025 10:59 PM (wrRTB)

201 The best Gibson Girl was Evelyn Nesbit"

I'll say

Posted by: Thaw at August 27, 2025 10:59 PM (tubbA)

202 World's Most Famous Unknown Supergroup:

https://tinyurl.com/aoshqwmfub
Posted by: Pennsyltucky at August 27, 2025 10:52 PM (QdGJh)

Wow. An amazing two and a half minutes of music. And Atkins was right - that was the only time they performed. Who knew Lee Greenwood played the sax! Thanks a bunch for that.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 27, 2025 10:59 PM (0CU3H)

203 The best Gibson Girl was Evelyn Nesbit.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 27, 2025 10:57 PM (0eaVi)

The best.Monkee was Mike Nesmith.

Fight me.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 27, 2025 11:00 PM (l8IGe)

204 Supergroup?
Well, duh! Supertramp.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 27, 2025 11:00 PM (2WIwB)

205 193 #182 - you left out Net Neutrality...

Posted by: man at August 27, 2025 10:57 PM (tubbA)

I typed that then deleted it, replacing it with avocado tariffs! Shoulda stayed with no net neutrality. /hangs head/

Posted by: Gref at August 27, 2025 11:00 PM (aBgBM)

206 >>>
When I took early retirement, I paid for my own health insurance. Obamacare made my premiums go up $2000 per year. I hate that bitch Obama to this day.
Posted by: nerdygirl
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Whoever wrote that bill did it well. It's a cobweb so embedded that Trump isn't trying to undo it.
Yet.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2025 11:00 PM (WRg4s)

207 They'll exchange vows. And genitals. The NFL will debut its first female tight end, and Taylor will kick off her Life of A Showboy Tour. Both will go on stadium shooting rampages. Trump will be blamed.

Posted by: Nostradumbass at August 27, 2025 11:00 PM (BI5O2)

208 198 what makes a group a supergroup?

# of bandmembers? volume?
Posted by: Don Black. Message: My sources say no at August 27, 2025 10:58 PM (AOsQT)

Weight. Measured in stones.

Posted by: the sandwich that took down cass elliot at August 27, 2025 11:01 PM (w/geP)

209 199 Couldn’t avoid noticing that May 12 and January 16 are both ranked at #159.

Posted by: El Kabongg at August 27, 2025 10:58 PM (1UudH)

This proves there is time travel!

Posted by: Gref at August 27, 2025 11:01 PM (aBgBM)

210 When I took early retirement, I paid for my own health insurance. Obamacare made my premiums go up $2000 per year. I hate that bitch Obama to this day.
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 27, 2025 10:55 PM (0Htd1)

There was a recent 'anniversary' of the passage of 404Care. My guv, in the House at the time but I'd never heard of her as she's from Upstate, said in a celebretory tweet as our Guv that 'voting for 404Care was the proudest vote she ever made'.

They. Just. Don't. Care.

To paraphrase Sally Field: That hate us. They really hate us.

Posted by: RickZ at August 27, 2025 11:02 PM (gKDq2)

211 Most of the whippersnappers under 29 (and some over) have no idea why a Daisy BB gun would be named Red Ryder (huh?).

https://www.b-westerns.com/rryder.htm

Saturday afternoon for lots of kids was at the movie theater, and one of the staples were western serials. I probably saw 40 or more of them between age 7 and 13.

Posted by: buddhaha at August 27, 2025 11:02 PM (IVjnz)

212 Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2025 10:53 PM (dDmld)

Ah, one and four I know. But... I thought Dirk McQuickly did White Punks on Dope.

Wait. He did White Dopes on Punk.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 27, 2025 11:02 PM (0eaVi)

213 Greetings, TRex and ONT Horde!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2025 11:03 PM (F6+9F)

214 37 A collaboration between dinosaurs and jets?

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The Critical Drinker says Primitive War is fun. It's about American soldiers in Vietnam getting mixed up with a mad scientist and dinosaurs and shit.

https://is.gd/XnXUGJ
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

'Early 2000 SyFy Channel movie'. Yes, a guilty pleasure indeed. I watched way too many of those silly, yet fun, movies back then.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 27, 2025 11:04 PM (sAmhv)

215
There is strong seasonality with twin births as well. The peak in twinning births occurs in winter. So, it appears spring conception favors twinning.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 27, 2025 11:04 PM (w6EFb)

216 186 Attack Of The 50 Foot Woman
Posted by: Cicero

My oldest has that movie poster in his bedroom.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 27, 2025 11:04 PM (5vsma)

217 BOTTOM 10!!!!!! Dec 26

Posted by: Stacy0311 at August 27, 2025 11:05 PM (4Np/i)

218 I'll get the ball rolling.

What does the Horde think about the pending nuptials of Taylor Swift and that Travis guy?

Slick or sick?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2025 10:05 PM (dDmld)

Somewhere, a good man and a good woman have both dodged bullets.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2025 11:05 PM (F6+9F)

219 If you've gotten past the poofter cheerleaders then the constant T&T shots should be easy.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2025 10:44 PM (dDmld)

Tits & Testes?

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 27, 2025 11:05 PM (144I4)

220 The best Gibson Girl was Evelyn Nesbit"

I'll say
Posted by: Thaw at August 27, 2025 10:59 PM (tubbA)

Ouch!

Posted by: Stanny White at August 27, 2025 11:05 PM (0eaVi)

221 The Hee-Haw Million Dollar Band were no slouches. ChetAtkins, Boots Randolph, Floyd Cramer, Charlie McCoy, Danny Davis, Roy Clark, and Johnny Gimble.

Posted by: Hick Hop at August 27, 2025 11:06 PM (G5+As)

222 Gonna take my still-beating heart and head to bed. Or is that still-beating head?

A fun and inspiring post and chat tonight.

https://youtu.be/ZGT0P0XJRFM

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - all this and more at August 27, 2025 11:06 PM (N7aNU)

223 216 186 Attack Of The 50 Foot Woman
Posted by: Cicero

My oldest has that movie poster in his bedroom.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 27, 2025 11:04 PM (5vsma)

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Best lyric:

The National Guard couldn’t shoot her down
Before she left she really trashed our town
She left me there, though I tried and tried
A fifty foot woman’s never satisfied

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2025 11:06 PM (dDmld)

224 When Alvin Lee was closing Ten Years After's set at Woodstock and introduced the last song, he told the audience 'I'm Going Home (by helicopter)'.
Posted by: RickZ at August 27, 2025 10:12 PM (gKDq2)

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I would have you expected a warning against small planes: Patsy Cline, Big Bopper, Richie Valenz, John Denver, Jim Croce, ...

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 27, 2025 11:06 PM (CnE10)

225 The Young Turks 2016 youtu.be/jpyKuzoFW40

Posted by: gKWVE at August 27, 2025 11:07 PM (gKWVE)

226 August isn't in either 10. Not a single day out of 20 spots.

Posted by: GWB at August 27, 2025 11:07 PM (RTQn+)

227 Evelyn Nesbit was quite the looker, certainly.

Posted by: Gibson Girl at August 27, 2025 11:07 PM (wrZS1)

228 Supergroups

Would the closing sets from the yearly Rock and Roll Hall of Fame performers count as supergroups, almost by definition?

If so, I'd say that the HoF performance of While My Guitar Gently Weeps with Prince closing out the song with his legendary guitar solo would count, for sure.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 27, 2025 11:07 PM (0CU3H)

229 The best.Monkee was Mike Nesmith.

Fight me.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 27, 2025 11:00 PM (l8IGe)

No fights from me on that point.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 27, 2025 11:08 PM (0eaVi)

230 Just watched '16 Candles'. If I get a time machine, I'm totally getting a convertible Rolls Royce and then I'm keeping it for fucking ever.

And I'm asking Patti Devine to marry me.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 27, 2025 11:08 PM (xcxpd)

231 Weight. Measured in stones"

Turn to Stone by ELO?

Used same studio as T Rex...

It's a circle

Posted by: man at August 27, 2025 11:08 PM (tubbA)

232 Chinese national Yunhai Li, a researcher at the University of Texas, has been arrested while trying to board a flight to China on the suspicion of stealing research funded by the Department of Defense and trying to take it back to China.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2025 11:09 PM (WRg4s)

233 207 They'll exchange vows. And genitals. The NFL will debut its first female tight end, and Taylor will kick off her Life of A Showboy Tour. Both will go on stadium shooting rampages. Trump will be blamed.

Posted by: Nostradumbass at August 27, 2025 11:00 PM (BI5O2)

I predict she'll divorce him soon after she births a daughter. Fathered by Kelce or not. An aging ex-football player who's half crazy already has nothing she needs for the rest of her life, once she has a child.

Posted by: Gref at August 27, 2025 11:09 PM (aBgBM)

234 Most of the whippersnappers under 29 (and some over) have no idea why a Daisy BB gun would be named Red Ryder (huh?).

https://www.b-westerns.com/rryder.htm

Posted by: buddhaha at August 27, 2025 11:02 PM (IVjnz)

Kinda surprised they've never renamed it.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 27, 2025 11:10 PM (0eaVi)

235 The best.Monkee was Mike Nesmith.

Fight me.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 27, 2025 11:00 PM (l8IGe)

No fights from me on that point.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 27, 2025 11:08 PM (0eaVi)
***

Cheetah has entered the conversation.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 27, 2025 11:11 PM (2WIwB)

236 The Daily Beast@thedailybeast
MAGA has seized on reports that the 23-year-old who opened fire on children as they prayed inside a Minneapolis Catholic school is transgender.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 27, 2025 10:24 PM (L/fGl)

Was a trannie. Now the evil POS is carrion.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2025 11:12 PM (F6+9F)

237 @ejmalrai . 6h

In rural Damascus, four Israeli helicopters landed special forces who stormed the Syrian military barracks at al-Kiswa, remained there for two hours, and then withdrew without resistance.

Israel now operates in Syria with near-total impunity — able to strike, land troops, and occupy positions at will, unprovoked and unchallenged.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2025 11:12 PM (WRg4s)

238 232 Chinese national Yunhai Li, a researcher at the University of Texas, has been arrested while trying to board a flight to China on the suspicion of stealing research funded by the Department of Defense and trying to take it back to China.
Posted by: Braenyard

Strip search him. Destroy everyrhing he has in his possession. Destroy all his communications. Lobotomize him and deport his ass.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 27, 2025 11:12 PM (mT+6a)

239 youtu.be/haNLpJuW0YQ

George Strait and Alan Jackson.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 27, 2025 11:12 PM (sAmhv)

240 Its Go Time Donald,

It went up $2k
It went from $6K to $8K and that was for 1 person. I was getting it at 6K because I could get group rates via my former employer.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 27, 2025 11:12 PM (0Htd1)

241 Chinese national Yunhai Li, a researcher at the University of Texas, has been arrested while trying to board a flight to China on the suspicion of stealing research funded by the Department of Defense and trying to take it back to China.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2025 11:09 PM (WRg4s)
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599,999 to go

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2025 11:13 PM (RIvkX)

242 Israel now operates in Syria with near-total impunity — able to strike, land troops, and occupy positions at will, unprovoked and unchallenged.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2025 11:12 PM (WRg4s)

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Tucker Carlson hardest hit.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2025 11:14 PM (dDmld)

243 Since the first comment invoked Poe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oOBt4L9ky4

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 27, 2025 11:15 PM (5/XFf)

244 Strip search him. Destroy everyrhing he has in his possession. Destroy all his communications. Lobotomize him and deport his ass.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 27, 2025 11:12 PM (mT+6a)

I'd deport the rest of him too.

Posted by: detachable penis at August 27, 2025 11:16 PM (un9MU)

245 Aug 26

A 32-year-old Ukrainian war refugee was raped in some bushes near the Eiffel Tower early this morning.

After hearing her screaming, police officers arrived on the scene and arrested an asylum seeker from Libya
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If she'd only had a knife and a hatchet.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2025 11:16 PM (WRg4s)

246 I'm shocked Travis and TayTay are even engaged. I didn't think that would even be in their contract. Think how many new albums Taylor could put out if Travis leaves her at the altar.

Posted by: Gibson Girl at August 27, 2025 11:16 PM (wrZS1)

247 241 Chinese national Yunhai Li, a researcher at the University of Texas, has been arrested while trying to board a flight to China on the suspicion of stealing research funded by the Department of Defense and trying to take it back to China.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2025 11:09 PM (WRg4s)
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599,999 to go
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2025 11:13 PM (RIvkX)

I don't get PDT's announcement on this. Total own-goal, and the exact opposite of what the people elected him for. It's long known these cocksuckers are national security risks and seeded with ChiCom intelligence assets. I'm liking all the other winning but this is stepping on his dick with speed skates.

Posted by: A definite WTF moment for me at August 27, 2025 11:16 PM (TbWk/)

248 245 Aug 26

A 32-year-old Ukrainian war refugee was raped in some bushes near the Eiffel Tower early this morning.

After hearing her screaming, police officers arrived on the scene and arrested an asylum seeker from Libya
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If she'd only had a knife and a hatchet.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2025 11:16 PM (WRg4s)

If it was the UK they'd have arrested the victim.

Posted by: Hate crime to refuse rape by a 3d world savage at August 27, 2025 11:18 PM (TbWk/)

249 JM in Illinois,
Rick Nelson

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 27, 2025 11:18 PM (0Htd1)

250 I don't get PDT's announcement on this. Total own-goal, and the exact opposite of what the people elected him for. It's long known these cocksuckers are national security risks and seeded with ChiCom intelligence assets. I'm liking all the other winning but this is stepping on his dick with speed skates.
Posted by: A definite WTF moment for me

Meh. The democrats will be against it, so perhaps he says, ok. Y’all win this one.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 27, 2025 11:18 PM (mT+6a)

251 6h

In rural Damascus, four Israeli helicopters landed special forces who stormed the Syrian military barracks at al-Kiswa, remained there for two hours, and then withdrew without resistance.“

What fascinates me about that story is that obviously there was something (someone?) in those barracks that they wanted very badly, and no one is saying what it was.

Posted by: Your Grandfather at August 27, 2025 11:18 PM (jjpbs)

252 I would have you expected a warning against small planes: Patsy Cline, Big Bopper, Richie Valenz, John Denver, Jim Croce, ...
Posted by: JM in Illinois

Rick Nelson, Lynyrd Skynyrd....

Posted by: Bang! Ding! Ow! at August 27, 2025 11:19 PM (G5+As)

253 Looking at the top picture, I now understand why I have never seen a T Rex play piano.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 27, 2025 10:44 PM (2WIwB)

If he starts getting jiggy, as is the wont of sax players, that drum kit is history.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2025 11:19 PM (F6+9F)

254 They'll exchange vows. And genitals. The NFL will debut its first female tight end, and Taylor will kick off her Life of A Showboy Tour. Both will go on stadium shooting rampages. Trump will be blamed.

Posted by: Nostradumbass at August 27, 2025 11:00 PM (BI5O2)

I predict she'll divorce him soon after she births a daughter. Fathered by Kelce or not. An aging ex-football player who's half crazy already has nothing she needs for the rest of her life, once she has a child.
Posted by: Gref at August 27, 2025 11:09 PM (aBgBM)
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I'm betting the wedding will be PPV. It will raise a billion dollars. They will be encouraged to donate liberally to the dems, and to World Peace, but mostly the dems.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 27, 2025 11:19 PM (2WIwB)

255 A 32-year-old Ukrainian war refugee was raped in some bushes near the Eiffel Tower early this morning.

After hearing her screaming, police officers arrived on the scene and arrested an asylum seeker from Libya

What, not the enriching cultural intercourse you were expecting?

BTW has the Sophia Loren movie Two Women been banned yet for casuing North Afican backlash?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 27, 2025 11:19 PM (5/XFf)

256
Strip search him. Destroy everyrhing he has in his possession. Destroy all his communications. Lobotomize him and deport his ass.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 27, 2025 11:12 PM (mT+6a)

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Let that be a lesson to the other 599,999 here on a mission to steal any secrets they can.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 27, 2025 11:20 PM (LuaI9)

257 What does the Horde think about the pending nuptials of Taylor Swift and that Travis guy?

Slick or sick?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2025 10:05 PM (dDmld)

Somewhere, a good man and a good woman have both dodged bullets.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2025 11:05 PM (F6+9F)

Don't care, and certainly don't want it shoved in my face very 5 minutes... like on F Book right now.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 27, 2025 11:20 PM (mP0Kj)

258 I don't get PDT's announcement on this. Total own-goal, and the exact opposite of what the people elected him for. It's long known these cocksuckers are national security risks and seeded with ChiCom intelligence assets. I'm liking all the other winning but this is stepping on his dick with speed skates.
Posted by: A definite WTF moment for me at August 27, 2025 11:16 PM (TbWk/)

I'm more concerned by the repeated reports of Chinese nationals smuggling in crop pathogens.

Posted by: the frogs really are becoming gay, bicurious at the very least at August 27, 2025 11:20 PM (Ewacl)

259 Benjamin >>>>> Daisy.

I collect old BB and pellet guns.
Posted by: Reforger at August 27, 2025 10:34 PM (gWjXi)

I also have a Sheridan in .20 caliber that packs a punch. Added a Williams peep sight.

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 27, 2025 11:21 PM (WF/xn)

260 I predict she'll divorce him soon after she births a daughter. Fathered by Kelce or not. An aging ex-football player who's half crazy already has nothing she needs for the rest of her life, once she has a child.
Posted by: Gref at August 27, 2025 11:09 PM (aBgBM)

If dey have a boy, it will be Trans with ADD.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 27, 2025 11:21 PM (mP0Kj)

261 Or Trump is trolling to see what kind of screeching he gets.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 27, 2025 11:21 PM (5/XFf)

262 Yikes! What mother or doctor wants to be in the delivery room on Christmas or New Year's?

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 27, 2025 11:22 PM (LuaI9)

263 It was sunny today.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2025 11:22 PM (RIvkX)

264 Yikes! What mother or doctor wants to be in the delivery room on Christmas or New Year's?

The baby is going to come no matter what the holiday is.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 27, 2025 11:23 PM (5/XFf)

265 > The best Gibson Girl was Evelyn Nesbit.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 27, 2025 10:57 PM (0eaVi)

Stanford White was the Jeffrey Epstein of his day.

He also did not kill himself.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2025 11:23 PM (qpyNK)

266 Here's a brand new Supergroup: Cosmic Cathedral.

Featuring the union of Neal Morse (Spock's Beard, Transatlantic), Chester Thompson (Genesis), Phil Keaggy (Glass Harp) & Byron House (session player with Robert Plant, Dolly Parton, etc...), their debut album, Deep Water, is an excellent example of what can happen when four immensely talented musicians get together and jam until they jell. Highly recommended for fans of the individual musicians involved, and prog fans in general:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehkwCgOTS0I

Posted by: goozer at August 27, 2025 11:24 PM (V1MWf)

267 How many of the heathen Chinee are currently in our universities?

If the number is six million, only letting 600,000 in suddenly becomes a color of a different horse.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 27, 2025 11:25 PM (l8IGe)

268 youtu.be/haNLpJuW0YQ

George Strait and Alan Jackson.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 27, 2025 11:12 PM (sAmhv)

Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffet
youtu.be/BPCjC543llU

Jimmy Buffet and Zach Brown
youtu.be/9n5G0qFBsHM

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 27, 2025 11:25 PM (144I4)

269 260 I predict she'll divorce him soon after she births a daughter. Fathered by Kelce or not. An aging ex-football player who's half crazy already has nothing she needs for the rest of her life, once she has a child.
Posted by: Gref at August 27, 2025 11:09 PM (aBgBM)

If dey have a boy, it will be Trans with ADD.
Posted by: Romeo13

She'll birth a black child and new marketing opportunities will open for her!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 27, 2025 11:26 PM (sAmhv)

270 what makes a group a supergroup?

# of bandmembers? volume?
Posted by: Don Black. Message: My sources say no at August 27, 2025 10:58 PM (AOsQT)

A supergroup is a "band" comprised of people who are generally conceded to be at the top of their craft in other bands, and they get together, mostly to jam with peers, but often the work is recorded.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2025 11:26 PM (F6+9F)

271 where does the Kelce/Swift hate come from

Posted by: Don Black. Message: My sources say no at August 27, 2025 11:27 PM (AOsQT)

272
Always Rush. Why not the Tubes?

They both talked about beauty.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 27, 2025 11:29 PM (63Dwl)

273 >> The baby is going to come no matter what the holiday is.

This seasonal variation interested me and I've been reading around.

There's a lot more "medical intervention" and "scheduling" going on now via induced labor, which is skewing the natural pattern.

My gut is that's probably not a good thing.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 27, 2025 11:29 PM (w6EFb)

274 254 They'll exchange vows. And genitals. The NFL will debut its first female tight end, and Taylor will kick off her Life of A Showboy Tour. Both will go on stadium shooting rampages. Trump will be blamed.

Posted by: Nostradumbass at August 27, 2025 11:00 PM (BI5O2)

She won’t be much of a tight end after he’s done with her.

Posted by: Your Grandfather at August 27, 2025 11:30 PM (jjpbs)

275 Phil Keaggy is still jamming at the age of 930!! Cool! That dude has been around a bit. I like him.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 27, 2025 11:30 PM (sAmhv)

276 271 where does the Kelce/Swift hate come from
Posted by: Don Black. Message: My sources say no at August 27, 2025 11:27 PM (AOsQT)

The Dark Side.

Posted by: Dagobah's Favorite Muppet at August 27, 2025 11:31 PM (mOu50)

277 Traveling Wilbury’s were a pretty good supergroup.

Posted by: Your Grandfather at August 27, 2025 11:32 PM (jjpbs)

278 >> where does the Kelce/Swift hate come from

For me, they are just the epitome of this loathsome American celebrity worship culture that makes me sick.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 27, 2025 11:33 PM (w6EFb)

279 Those who are wise in the ways of American Science and Surplus will be saddened to hear of their impending closure.
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Arrrg! Over the years I have bought some neat stuff from them.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 27, 2025 11:33 PM (XeU6L)

280 Off sock

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 27, 2025 11:33 PM (jjpbs)

281 263 It was sunny today.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

I bet it was fantastic.

We still have smoke. It was a little cooler today, but will be mid 80s again tomorrow and Friday.

Enough of this shit. Bring on the grey and the rain.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 27, 2025 11:34 PM (mT+6a)

282 For me, they are just the epitome of this loathsome American celebrity worship culture that makes me sick.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 27, 2025 11:33 PM (w6EFb)

That, and they are both raging mediocrities, that the media wants us to worship.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2025 11:36 PM (F6+9F)

283 Sure, sure...no one ever talks about us. Snobs.

Posted by: Lee Greenwood and Nancy Sinatra at August 27, 2025 11:36 PM (XeU6L)

284 Better go out and check on the burn barrel. Had a good blaze going there.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2025 11:37 PM (F6+9F)

285 I was born 9 months after my mother's birthday, so I figure I was a birthday present.

Posted by: Frankie at August 27, 2025 11:37 PM (DkAjB)

286 New animated Cracker Barrel logo

https://tinyurl.com/4k3pfm7x

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 27, 2025 11:40 PM (144I4)

287 *looks at link*

$39.50 for a black French Gendarme helmet?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 27, 2025 11:41 PM (5/XFf)

288 If it was the UK they'd have arrested the victim.
Posted by: Hate crime to refuse rape by a 3d world savage

They would have been too busy, covering up for pedophiles at the BBC.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 27, 2025 11:43 PM (0Htd1)

289 $39.50 for a black French Gendarme helmet?
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 27, 2025 11:41 PM (5/XFf)

For that kind of money, it should come with a baton for whacking muzzies. Not like the Fwench are using them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2025 11:44 PM (F6+9F)

290
Just had Grok crank the numbers. The lowest birth dates are indeed not natural, and they are indeed holidays.

This is entirely a result of modern "birth scheduling", and may be more to the convenience of medical staff that wishes of the parents.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 27, 2025 11:44 PM (w6EFb)

291 Rick Nelson.

Really like his song, 'Garden Party'. Bought the album. When people thumbing through the collection when I was in college would come across that album, it always raised a few eyebrows. Just like John Denver's Rocky Mountain high album would get some quizzical looks. Near Deep Purple alphabetically. What can I say? Weird tastes.

Posted by: RickZ at August 27, 2025 11:45 PM (gKDq2)

292 29 I still can't believe Alex Lifeson parted with that white ES355. It went with a bunch of guitars that were auctioned off. He should have just cut off his dick and auctioned that too. That white 355 was HIS sound since 1978. I'm still speechless he got rid of that. I would have been buried with it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 27, 2025 10:09 PM (snZF9)

I feel that way about Gilmour's Black Strat, although it's been Frankensteined a million times. Heck it even has its own wiki page lol. Auctioned for $4 million for charity. I would have just donated the money and kept the guitar.

PS: F**k Roger Waters

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at August 27, 2025 11:46 PM (8hxDK)

293 239 youtu.be/haNLpJuW0YQ

George Strait and Alan Jackson.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up
----

they killed tradition and for that someone should be convicted

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2025 11:46 PM (E3GnS)

294 Chinese national Yunhai Li, a researcher at the University of Texas, has been arrested while trying to board a flight to China on the suspicion of stealing research funded by the Department of Defense and trying to take it back to China.
Posted by: Braenyard
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Strip search him. Destroy everyrhing he has in his possession. Destroy all his communications. Lobotomize him and deport his ass.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 27, 2025 11:12 PM (mT+6a)

That would be . . . acceptable.

Posted by: RickZ at August 27, 2025 11:47 PM (gKDq2)

295 Evening Horde, thx Rex.
Anyone mentioned Temple of the Dog in supergroups? Hunger strike is a great song

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 27, 2025 11:47 PM (rRoxM)

296 262 Yikes! What mother or doctor wants to be in the delivery room on Christmas or New Year's?
Posted by: JM in Illinois

I once had to take a relative to the ER on New Years Eve. It was very quiet where we were. I remarked to a nurse that it seemed quiet for NYE. The nurse said that all the action was in another area of the ER. Because my relative was suffering with a kidney stone, they put her in a quiet area.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 27, 2025 11:50 PM (0Htd1)

297 295: Temple of the Dog were great! That was a hell of an album.

youtu.be/5QaPVSbWd9M

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 27, 2025 11:50 PM (sAmhv)

298 A supergroup is a "band" comprised of people who are generally conceded to be at the top of their craft in other bands, and they get together, mostly to jam with peers, but often the work is recorded.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2025 11:26 PM (F6+9F)

Emerson, Lake and Palmer were a supergroup. They could fill large arenas/outdoor stadiums at will. The music was pretty good, too.

Posted by: RickZ at August 27, 2025 11:51 PM (gKDq2)

299 >>>Corvette Song

youtube.com/watch?v=CWSJAdzVBj0

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2025 11:51 PM (E3GnS)

300 Me First and The Gimme Gimmes is a fun punk rock "super" group.

Frank Sinatra and Stevie Wonder (Joe Piscopo and Eddie Murphy) covering "Ebony and Ivory" is a great duet.

For weirdness, Bing and Bowie doing "Little Drummer Boy".

Run-DMC and Aerosmith "Walk this Way" was cool.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at August 27, 2025 11:52 PM (8hxDK)

301 The Firm was sort of a super group. Paul Rodgers and Jimmy Page.

youtu.be/-FqwURo4j6U

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 27, 2025 11:52 PM (sAmhv)

302 Best supergroup The Company Band.

Posted by: Reforger at August 27, 2025 11:53 PM (gWjXi)

303 I collect old BB and pellet guns.
Posted by: Reforger
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I have one of these, have had for 29 years
https://shorturl.fm/vmGHf

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 27, 2025 11:53 PM (XeU6L)

304 Strip search him. Destroy everyrhing he has in his possession. Destroy all his communications. Lobotomize him and deport his ass.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 27, 2025 11:12 PM (mT+6a)
***

*Note To Self*
Self,
Never, ever, piss off Nurse!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 27, 2025 11:53 PM (2WIwB)

305 275 Phil Keaggy is still jamming at the age of 930!! Cool! That dude has been around a bit. I like him.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 27, 2025 11:30 PM (sAmhv)

Yep — been collecting his music for four decades now. He is a supremely talented musician, and supremely humble person.

Here's another "Super-Collab" he was a part of: The Bucket List.

Featuring Phil, Tony Levin (King Crimson, Peter Gabriel...pretty much everyone else), and Jerry Marotta (Peter Gabriel...and also pretty much everyone else), this was another example of what happens when legends get together to jam. Here's their appearance on Daryl's House (with Mike Pachelli joining them):

https://tinyurl.com/yp5hxxpa

Posted by: goozer at August 27, 2025 11:55 PM (V1MWf)

306 I'll also add Yes was a supergroup. Five extremely talented musicians who didn't need anybody else. Always good for a packed venue.

Posted by: RickZ at August 27, 2025 11:56 PM (gKDq2)

307 I'd mention Jefferson Airplane but Eromero would step on my big toe.

youtube.com/watch?v=Ca6sOFRWmRw

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2025 11:56 PM (E3GnS)

308
Emerson, Lake and Palmer were a supergroup. They could fill large arenas/outdoor stadiums at will. The music was pretty good, too.
Posted by: RickZ
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Not every group has a flying piano.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 27, 2025 11:56 PM (XeU6L)

309 Not every group has a flying piano.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 27, 2025 11:56 PM (XeU6L)

Or orchestral percussion.

But, hey, whatever works.

Posted by: RickZ at August 27, 2025 11:58 PM (gKDq2)

310
Miley just called me to see this. Cooking with a cow:
https://tinyurl.com/25b6kag3

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 27, 2025 11:58 PM (w6EFb)

311 Speaking of BB's, I wonder how .177 cal came to be?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 27, 2025 11:59 PM (XeU6L)

312 I have one of these, have had for 29 years
https://shorturl.fm/vmGHf
Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 27, 2025 11:53 PM (XeU6L)

I've never seen one of those. CO2 powered?

Posted by: Reforger at August 28, 2025 12:00 AM (gWjXi)

313 Cows are funny but they can be moody.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2025 12:02 AM (E3GnS)

314 "What does the Horde think about the pending nuptials of Taylor Swift and that Travis guy?"

They both need beards?

Posted by: TC at August 28, 2025 12:02 AM (szqEY)

315 Chinese national Yunhai Li, a researcher at the University of Texas, has been arrested while trying to board a flight to China on the suspicion of stealing research funded by the Department of Defense and trying to take it back to China.
Posted by: Braenyard

Strip search him. Destroy everyrhing he has in his possession. Destroy all his communications. Lobotomize him and deport his ass.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 27, 2025 11:12 PM (mT+6a)

Put him on Air Pinochet.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2025 12:03 AM (snZF9)

316
I've never seen one of those. CO2 powered?
Posted by: Reforger
---------

Yes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjZh_iyfTQE

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2025 12:04 AM (XeU6L)

317 I'll also add Yes was a supergroup. Five extremely talented musicians who didn't need anybody else. Always good for a packed venue.

Posted by: RickZ at August 27, 2025 11:56 PM (gKDq2)

There was a band called Starcastle that was sooo similar to yes. They were really good.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2025 12:05 AM (snZF9)

318
Reuters reports that France, the UK and Germany are likely to activate the snapback sanctions against the Islamic Regime in Iran as soon as tomorrow.

All UN member states will have to adhere to the sanctions, which will cripple Iran’s economy economic & military capabilities
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Who did that?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2025 12:06 AM (E3GnS)

319 > 311 Speaking of BB's, I wonder how .177 cal came to be?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 27, 2025 11:59 PM (XeU6L)

Pretty close to 4.5mm.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 28, 2025 12:07 AM (qpyNK)

320
Who did that?
Posted by: Braenyard
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Trump twisted their arms, that bastard!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2025 12:11 AM (XeU6L)

321 Phil Keaggy is from Youngstown, OH! See? Not just football players, lightweight boxing champion, and mobsters. Youngstown produced world class musicians!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 28, 2025 12:11 AM (sAmhv)

322 Neil Young did "Hey Hey My My" with Devo a year or so before he first recorded it with his own band. Devo contributed the lyric "rust never sleeps" which became the title of the awesome NY album with Crazy Horse.

From a film, one of the strangest music "videos" ever. I like it, but I'm a fan of Devo and Young. This is the

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-3XRlWQH54

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at August 28, 2025 12:13 AM (8hxDK)

323 I always love the Denis Leary bit:

Stevie Ray Vaughn is dead, and we can't get Jon Bon Jovi on a helicopter?

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2025 12:13 AM (bss/y)

324 Whoops, meant to type that that version of "Hey Hey, My My" is the < 3 minute version. There's a 9 minute version that I wouldn't ask anyone to try.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at August 28, 2025 12:14 AM (8hxDK)

325 Gotta Serve Somebody

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 28, 2025 12:20 AM (63Dwl)

326 >>>r. Demetre C. Daskalakis, the Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has resigned, in response to today’s removal of CDC Director Susan Monarez by the Trump Administration
---

3 yards, first down, Kennedy. Three and four yards at time then cross the goal line for another small victory. Boil that frog nice and slow. Don't upset Congress or the populace just keep on cleaning house one bat at a time.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2025 12:21 AM (E3GnS)

327 306 I'll also add Yes was a supergroup. Five extremely talented musicians who didn't need anybody else. Always good for a packed venue.
Posted by: RickZ at August 27, 2025 11:56 PM (gKDq2)

Agreed on that. These were all great musicians that became famous through the band. It makes me wonder about bands that simply have great musicians in them (like top 10-type R&R musicians) that were part of a group. Led Zep was like that for me - every one of them were Top 10 (or even Top 5) in their respective position.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 28, 2025 12:21 AM (0CU3H)

328 Youngstown also produced my husband, for whom I shall forever be grateful. His sisters knew Ray Mancini from the neighborhood, back in the day.

Posted by: Gibson Girl at August 28, 2025 12:24 AM (wrZS1)

329 Agreed on that. These were all great musicians that became famous through the band. It makes me wonder about bands that simply have great musicians in them (like top 10-type R&R musicians) that were part of a group. Led Zep was like that for me - every one of them were Top 10 (or even Top 5) in their respective position.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 28, 2025 12:21 AM (0CU3H)

Not to menton longevity as a group. Both Yes and Led Zep.

Forgot The 'ho in that supergroup list. Probably one of the first true supergroups. Loud arena anthem music. And all talented. RIP Guitars.

Posted by: RickZ at August 28, 2025 12:25 AM (gKDq2)

330 322 Neil Young did "Hey Hey My My" with Devo a year or so before he first recorded it with his own band. Devo contributed the lyric "rust never sleeps" which became the title of the awesome NY album with Crazy Horse.

From a film, one of the strangest music "videos" ever. I like it, but I'm a fan of Devo and Young. This is the

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-3XRlWQH54
Posted by: Dr. Fausti

LOL!! One of the comments below:

'This was civilizations peak'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 28, 2025 12:27 AM (sAmhv)

331 CDC poo-bahs bailing. May I suggest that scrutiny of their finances might turn up some, ah, irregularities?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 28, 2025 12:27 AM (l8IGe)

332 328 Youngstown also produced my husband, for whom I shall forever be grateful. His sisters knew Ray Mancini from the neighborhood, back in the day.
Posted by: Gibson Girl

So, is he a musician, mobster, football player, or boxer? I grew up just to the east in PA. New Castle. All the TV stations we could pick up with an ariel were in Youngstown.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 28, 2025 12:30 AM (sAmhv)

333 U.S. is massing reconnaissance aircraft near Venezuela as the U.S. deploys nearly a dozen ships into the region.

Puerto Rico now hosts a detachment of Navy P-8A Poseidons conducting surveillance and gathering intelligence across the Caribbean

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2025 12:34 AM (E3GnS)

334 @332 Ray Mancini was a pretty good boxer. Tragically on a televised fight, ABC I think, he killed a Korean boxer. Legitimate punch , just caught Kim in the wrong spot and he died.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2025 12:34 AM (rRoxM)

335 But fresh newly minted CDC director getting the boot is interesting enough that one hopes someone will put out the full actual story. Surgeon general nominee was thankfully nixed after blowback. Didn't follow so don't have any idea about her, but would love to know what's happening now.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 28, 2025 12:34 AM (U/Byj)

336 Welterweight boxing champion. Quit the sport when one of his opponents died later due to injuries from the fight.

Posted by: Gibson Girl at August 28, 2025 12:37 AM (wrZS1)

337 Iran snap-back sanctions thing is likely the result of several things. US seriousness, leadership, and coercion under the OrangeMan certainly leads the list, but clearly there are others.

Israel demonstrating it really really wasn't kidding about doing whatever was needed to prevent Iran's bomb was surely a large factor as well in getting the feckless Euroweenies to play ball.

But the stage was somewhat set even before. Europe has of course been criminally recklessly irresponsible on Iran, just as it was on Iraq until it blew up in their face. But the IAEA has been blunt for some time that Iran was in late break-out stage, and an actually nukyler Iran is a sobering thought to the heretofore reckless self-dealing Euros..

Posted by: rhomboid at August 28, 2025 12:39 AM (U/Byj)

338 It was sunny today.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Sure was. What the hell? We're heading into S.F.'s Summer. It's not my favorite time of year. During covid, we hit a lot of upper 90's and even 100 a time or two.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at August 28, 2025 12:45 AM (KAi1n)

339 Ray Mancini was a pretty good boxer. Tragically on a televised fight, ABC I think, he killed a Korean boxer. Legitimate punch , just caught Kim in the wrong spot and he died.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Duck Koo Kim

Posted by: Dark Litigator at August 28, 2025 12:47 AM (KAi1n)

340 142 Looking at the top picture, I now understand why I have never seen a T Rex play piano.
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Masturbation is also particularly frustrating for them...

Posted by: Planet of the Japes at August 28, 2025 12:49 AM (+y2E3)

341
Ho Lee Fuk

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 28, 2025 12:50 AM (SzxBX)

342
Sum Ting Wong

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 28, 2025 12:50 AM (SzxBX)

343
DEEP CAVITY search him. Destroy everyrhing he has in his possession. Destroy all his communications. Lobotomize him and deport his ass.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 27, 2025 11:12 PM (mT+6a)
- - - - - -
Fixed that for ya... ;-)

Posted by: Planet of the Japes at August 28, 2025 12:52 AM (+y2E3)

344 Launch time change

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 10-11
LC-39A - Kennedy Space Center - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: August 28, 2025
New T-Zero: 4:12 a.m. EDT (0812 UTC, 10:12 CEST)

https://youtu.be/WsA_uLnCZCg

Posted by: Joyenz at August 28, 2025 12:54 AM (2F0/Y)

345 Warren Zevon

"Boom Boom Mancini"

https://youtu.be/YmPcVsAmrxo

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 28, 2025 12:55 AM (l8IGe)

346 24 What does the Horde think about the pending nuptials of Taylor Swift and that Travis guy?

Prediction: they will get married, then they will get divorced and he will get half of her billion. This will lead to the most epic rotten guy breakup song of all time which will be released as a two album set available with 4 different colors.

Posted by: azjaeger at August 28, 2025 12:58 AM (3/XaG)

347
Reminder: the Democrats recently whipped their transvestites into a frenzy over the removal of fag-colored crosswalks in Florida.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 28, 2025 12:58 AM (SzxBX)

348 Reminder: the Democrats recently whipped their transvestites into a frenzy over the removal of fag-colored crosswalks in Florida.
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 28, 2025 12:58 AM (SzxBX)

I could tell you what trannies ought to be whipped into, but I might get banned.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2025 01:09 AM (F6+9F)

349 Q: "what are you, a transphobe?"

A. "Heck yeah, seems like there's a reasonable chance they are going to start shooting"

Posted by: azjaeger at August 28, 2025 01:13 AM (3/XaG)

350 Remember the f-35 crash in Alaska a while back? Turns out the landing gear hydraulics had ice contamination. The pilot had a one hour conference call while airborne with lockmart engineers trying to fix the problem. The frozen components talked the jet's software into believing the aircraft was on the ground so the plane stopped flying. The pilot had to immediately eject.

Talk about skynet trying to kill you.

Posted by: Archer at August 28, 2025 01:18 AM (IDphi)

351 Remember the f-35 crash in Alaska a while back? Turns out the landing gear hydraulics had ice contamination. The pilot had a one hour conference call while airborne with lockmart engineers trying to fix the problem. The frozen components talked the jet's software into believing the aircraft was on the ground so the plane stopped flying. The pilot had to immediately eject.

Talk about skynet trying to kill you.

Posted by: Archer at August 28, 2025 01:18 AM (IDphi)

And ice in the hydraulics has to be very sloppy maintenance, or outright sabotage.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2025 01:22 AM (F6+9F)

352 Hey Horde, enjoying the ONT, TRex, nice to relax here and not talk about the lunatic tranny.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 28, 2025 01:23 AM (0nHVk)

353 https://tinyurl.com/ycxxx8zx
20 Posts Tonight from Doug Ross Substack

These have been very good

Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2025 01:25 AM (+qU29)

354 Non-expert instant view on the F-35 thing, if accurate: it's insane, or worse, to build a system liable to that kind of mishap, and especially to not allow human over-ride. Jeebus, ridiculous.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 28, 2025 01:28 AM (U/Byj)

355 Hey Horde, enjoying the ONT, TRex, nice to relax here and not talk about the lunatic tranny.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 28, 2025 01:23 AM (0nHVk)

You are going to have to be more specific. There are no sane trannies. Every damned one of them is batshit insane, some murderously so.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2025 01:28 AM (F6+9F)

356 At this point rumor and speculation, but about that Israeli commando visit to a facility outside Damascus: a raid to kidnap an Iranian official.

Hmmm. While the stupefying incompetence, carelessness, and arrogance of the Iranian dogs**t regime personnel are historic, this seems like too dumb even for them. Aside from the fact that the new Syrian management is so hostile to Tehran that Iranian official regional flights now must avoid their airspace. So a visitor of any significance seems unlikely.

But - who knows. Israeli exploits the last few years have far exceeded the tiny amount of decent fiction written about the area.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 28, 2025 01:32 AM (U/Byj)

357 The "family tree" mentioned above was the centerfold of the liner notes booklet included in the CSN&Y 4-CD box set, released in 1990 or so. Their early bands were the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, the Hollies, and BS again, respectively. Downstream, spinoff, and later bands by early band members included CPR, Crosby & Nash, Manassas, Firefall, Desert Rose Band, and more.

The first "Supergroup" was long considered to be Blind Faith, though CSNY released their first LP around the same time, then knocked it into the cheap seats at Woodstock that summer.

Posted by: Cowboyneal - the Other Jewish Carpenter at August 28, 2025 01:33 AM (/jWPx)

358 Well, it's getting on for midnight here, and I am getting sleepy. Time to go saw logs. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2025 01:37 AM (F6+9F)

359 Just had the thought that the girl in Scotland has had problems with the Muslim men before or know what exactly they were going to do.

Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2025 01:42 AM (+qU29)

360 359 Just had the thought that the girl in Scotland has had problems with the Muslim men before or know what exactly they were going to do.
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If she had tried to ward him off with a pork chop she would have been charged with a hate crime...

Posted by: Planet of the Japes at August 28, 2025 01:50 AM (+y2E3)

361 Good night, AOP, you are absolutely correct about the trannies too!

I'm going to grab some sleep, sweet dreams Horde.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 28, 2025 01:58 AM (0nHVk)

362 351 Remember the f-35 crash in Alaska a while back? Turns out the landing gear hydraulics had ice contamination. The pilot had a one hour conference call while airborne with lockmart engineers trying to fix the problem. The frozen components talked the jet's software into believing the aircraft was on the ground so the plane stopped flying. The pilot had to immediately eject.

Talk about skynet trying to kill you.

Posted by: Archer at August 28, 2025 01:18 AM (IDphi)

And ice in the hydraulics has to be very sloppy maintenance, or outright sabotage.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2025 01:22 AM (F6+9F)

Not sure that's true. How many of these systems has been tested in the weather at Eielson AFB in February? Not a lot goes right in that sort of weather.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of Alaska at August 28, 2025 02:06 AM (1Gsou)

363 Sorry, it was in January. And I happened to be up there at that time working on a project. Didn't hear the crash or see it, but heard about it over lunch. Pretty exciting for little ol' Eielson.

One of the things I was inspecting up there was a weather failure of a roof drain and a mechanical system intake that didn't have an arctic hood installed. So, yeah, January is full of fun failures to look at. Outdoors. In below zero temperatures. Just neato. At least the wind doesn't blow up there when it's that damned cold.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of Alaska at August 28, 2025 02:16 AM (1Gsou)

364 346 24 What does the Horde think about the pending nuptials of Taylor Swift and that Travis guy?

Prediction: they will get married, then they will get divorced and he will get half of her billion. This will lead to the most epic rotten guy breakup song of all time which will be released as a two album set available with 4 different colors.
Posted by: azjaeger at August 28, 2025 12:58 AM (3/XaG)

Her eggs are old. They won't have kids. Unless they engineer them somehow. Truly sad how so many women wait to conceive and then find out they can't any more. Oh well. They will have money to make themselves feel loved.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of Alaska at August 28, 2025 02:18 AM (1Gsou)

365 I had a high school math teacher that would bet each new class that there were two people in the class that had the same birthday. He got takers in every class and won the bet more often than losing. The bet is actually 50:50 with 22 people (I think that was the number). Since his classes were usually 30 people, he was better than even money. After the bet, he would demonstrate how to calculate the odds.

Posted by: JB1000 at August 28, 2025 02:27 AM (huG1S)

366 Tom Jones with Crosby Stills Nash and Young

Posted by: TC at August 28, 2025 02:46 AM (szqEY)

367 353 https://tinyurl.com/ycxxx8zx
20 Posts Tonight from Doug Ross Substack

These have been very good
Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2025 01:25 AM (+qU29)

Thanks, Skip.

Posted by: m at August 28, 2025 03:10 AM (aURVT)

368 98 David Bowie and Mick Jagger
Dancin in the Streets.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 27, 2025 10:29 PM (mT+6a)

Yes!

Posted by: m at August 28, 2025 03:21 AM (aURVT)

369 199 Couldn’t avoid noticing that May 12 and January 16 are both ranked at #159.
Posted by: El Kabongg at August 27, 2025 10:58 PM (1UudH)

And December 17th! Ties, I guess?

Posted by: m at August 28, 2025 03:33 AM (aURVT)

370 Welp, almost midnight and I have wifing to do tomorrow, so nighty night. Remember your prayers, because God will if you don't.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of Alaska at August 28, 2025 03:48 AM (1Gsou)

371
So how many careers ended at Eielson AFB due to the F35 landing gear incident?

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at August 28, 2025 03:58 AM (hKoQL)

372 Time to rise and shine ✨️

Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2025 04:06 AM (+qU29)

373 G'morning Horde,

I'm up way too early. No idea why. Maybe it's that I'm mentally ramping up to drive school bus for the upcoming school year. (I don't tend to sleep well right before a major change.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 28, 2025 04:07 AM (O7YUW)

374 Soon heading out for lunch with Mrs. BD to what looks like a really pleasant restaurant.

So, please will this for me on Pixy's edema thread:

BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 28, 2025 04:14 AM (3447G)

375 You got it, Biden's Dog.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 28, 2025 04:15 AM (O7YUW)

376 I have to say this.

If I am going to be murdered, becoming a martyr at Mass is the most excellent way.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 28, 2025 04:25 AM (ZmEVT)

377 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at August 28, 2025 04:30 AM (aURVT)

378 .
NOOD

Pixy's here!

NOOD!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 28, 2025 04:30 AM (O7YUW)

379 Wow, the "Is it real or is ity MEMX2000 V20.25" clip was very interesting. I was pretty sure on 3 of the 5 but two of them I could hsave been stumpted on. For me the clips were way too short. I'm pretty sure if I listened to the entire solo, it would be obvious.

I've done a lot of jazz soloing and one of the important aspects is how it "flows" from one musical idea to the next and how the two ideas are related and evolve. You can even mess with this and make the transistions very abrupt on purpose but you can feel that there is a human hand/mind involved slapping you around.

I am impressed at what I heard but there is no way an AI presentation could knock me over like listening to Oscar Peterson, especially live. The masters's get inside your mind and push you around. I don't think a model can do this as well. It just might be a matter of time, though.

But generally the clips were too short to give me what I felt was an accurate assesment. I felt I was guessing too much.

Posted by: pawn at August 28, 2025 05:26 AM (Tx/gC)

380 About September 17th being the most common birth date (thanks, BTW, could have used that table in my old job, never thought to generate it).

Anyone else notice that it's roughly 9 months after Christmas. 'Tis the season and all.

Just saying.

Posted by: Strick at August 28, 2025 05:36 AM (p659H)

381 Nobody, not a single person, pointed out that the t-rexes are flying F-15s, not F-14s?!?!?!

I'm stunned.

Those are Eagles, not Tomcats...

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at August 28, 2025 06:28 AM (oSeBJ)

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