Thursday Overnight Open Thread - August 28, 2025 [Doof]

(Licorne nuclear test - French Polynesia, 1970)

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OK, You Have My Attention

Bourbon tariffs are making an impact on Kentuckians

So the tariffs are having a negative effect in bourbon country? Please, let's read on!

Recently, Canada lifted its retaliatory tariffs on Kentucky bourbon. These taxes on bourbon have made an impact on the industry.

I am very curious as to what impact they have made.

Bourbon tariffs can create trading barriers; it can even stop Kentucky bourbon from being exported to other countries all together.
This tax can cause huge financial losses crippling businesses.
“It can shut down a market,” said Chris Swonger, President and CEO of Distilled Spirits Council. “I mean, there are examples when the tariffs were applied on American whiskey from Canada, they just stopped putting in the effort because it wasn’t economically efficient. So, for small business that can have a lot of impact.”
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The Distilled Spirits Council has a platform called Spirits United to advocate against tariffs on booze.

Emphasis mine. Several instances of what can happen. But NOTHING in that article supports the assertion in the heading and first mini-paragraph that anything has happened.

Another article about this - Canada drops retaliatory tariffs on Kentucky bourbon

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On the subject of adult beverages, where do you land on this?

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Calling All Cheapskates!

Do yourself a favor and click on this so you can read the responses.

Drop your most UNHINGED way to stretch a dollar.
I’m not talking about getting Costco gas or skipping a soda when you eat out…
I want SAVAGE.
— Thrilla the Gorilla (@ThrillaRilla369) August 20, 2025

Just a few:

- siphoning gas from the pastor’s van because “the Lord provides.”

- Walked in to find my roommate filling our salt shaker with a handful of Wendy’s salt packets.

- Stuffing leftovers into my purse from catered work events. The closer to payday, the more I’m in the office.

- Ask for water and lemon at restaurants and then add a sweetener for a lemonade!

There are some really smart ideas there, too. What say you, thrifty Hordelings - any suggestions?

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Not For Those With Triskaidekaphobia

Well, that would make too much sense—wouldn’t it? pic.twitter.com/yy5TgQbSGx
— truthache (@truthache6 August 17, 2025

Kinda makes sense to me too. What do you think?

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Every Dime You Make, Every Cent You Take

They'll be suing you

Sting sued by Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland over lost royalties from Police mega-hit

Sting is reportedly being sued by his former Police bandmates, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland, over lost royalties from the trio's mega-hit Every Breath You Take.
The lawsuit was first reported by The Sun, with People confirming that the London High Court's database lists the documents as “general commercial contracts and arrangements.”
According to a source cited by The Sun, Copeland and Summers lodged their claim for “substantial” damages, following years of legal disputes.
“This has been coming for quite some time. Lawyers tried repeatedly to reach an out-of-court settlement but hit a stalemate. Andy and Stewart decided there was no alternative than court, so [they] pressed the button,” the source allegedly states. “They say they are owed millions in lost royalties.”
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Speaking to Guitarist in 2022, Police guitarist Summers talked about the song's now-iconic riff, which “has become a kind of immortal guitar part that all guitar players have to learn.”
“Well, I didn’t stand there and crow about it. It was more about keeping those other bastards happy,” the guitarist said matter-of-factly.
“That song was going to be thrown out. Sting and Stewart could not agree on how the bass and drums were going to go. We were in the middle of Synchronicity and Sting says, ‘Well, go on then, go in there and make it your own.’
“And I did it in one take. They all stood up and clapped. And, of course, the fucking thing went right round the world, straight to No. 1 in America.”

I guess this kinda diminishes the chances of a Police reunion tour, eh?

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Another legal battle related to 80s music

'Purple Rain' co-star Apollonia sues Prince estate over use of her name

Actress, singer and former Prince confidante Patty Kotero, better known as Apollonia, sued the late rock star's estate in California federal court on Tuesday, seeking a court order that she owns the rights to the "Apollonia" name.
Kotero, who starred with Prince in the hit 1984 film "Purple Rain," told the court, opens new tab that his estate improperly claimed ownership of the "Apollonia" trademark in June despite her use of the name for more than 40 years.
Spokespeople for Prince's Minnesota property Paisley Park and record label Sony Music did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the complaint. Kotero's attorney Dan Cislo of Cislo & Thomas said that she "fully expects to prevail in protecting her name."
After appearing as Prince's love interest in "Purple Rain," Kotero was a regular on the television show "Falcon Crest," released a self-titled album and co-wrote the Bangles' hit "Manic Monday" with the rock legend. She said in the lawsuit that she was friends with Prince until he died in 2016 and currently hosts the podcast "Apollonia Studio 6."
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Kotero asked the California court to determine that she owns the "Apollonia" name, arguing that the estate was time-barred from challenging her trademark rights.

Were Prince still alive today, I like to believe his response to Ms. Kotero would be:

"I never meant to cause you any sorrow
I never meant to cause you any pain"

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

Born on this date in 1982: LeAnn Rimes, US singer, known for her rise to fame as an eight-year-old champion on the original Ed McMahon version of Star Search.

Born on this date in 1949: English musician and singer-songwriter Hugh Cornwell, best known for being the lead vocalist and lead guitarist for the punk rock and new wave band the Stranglers from 1974 to 1990.

Born on this date in 1948: American musician Danny Seraphine, known as the original drummer and founding member of the rock band Chicago, a tenure which lasted from February 1967 to May 1990.

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Tonight's ONT brought to you by unwelcomeness

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Comments, questions, complaints, suggestions, or emotional outbursts? Good for you!

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1 Remove not the old landmark
—Crackerbarrel 23:10

Posted by: mindful webworker - heavin and heaven are not the same at August 28, 2025 10:00 PM (HETr4)

2 Hi friends!

Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2025 10:00 PM (Wmg4n)

3 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 28, 2025 10:01 PM (cYBz/)

4 Sorry I'm late, I was at orientation for my new job at the chicken farm.

I'm going to be a crossing guard.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 28, 2025 10:01 PM (C+yBY)

5 Tankard lid keeps the bugs out.

Wineskin similarly, but limited contents.

Posted by: mindful webworker - the backstroke at August 28, 2025 10:03 PM (HETr4)

6 Big words were used!

Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2025 10:04 PM (Wmg4n)

7 LOL.... I have a Leather Jack that I've actually used as an offhand Parry Device during Historic Rapier Fencing Bouts...

Thing is now beat to hell, but still holds Ale well! and talk about CHARACTER!

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 28, 2025 10:04 PM (mP0Kj)

8 Easy one. Skull of My Enemy is first.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 28, 2025 10:04 PM (JkO4W)

9 Flagon. Not even a debate. Wine skin is better for travel, but the flagon with the dragon holds the brew which is true.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 28, 2025 10:04 PM (C+yBY)

10 It’s Friday-Eve ONT.

Posted by: QED Texan at August 28, 2025 10:04 PM (fveCG)

11 Is the wine skin also made from my enemy? If so, pour me some blood wine into that skull chalice.

To Crom!

*savagely savors*

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 28, 2025 10:06 PM (kpS4V)

12 Self made lemonade is a good idea.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 28, 2025 10:07 PM (wrRTB)

13 No, the flagon with the dragon holds the pellet with the poison. The chalice from the palace holds the brew that is true.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 28, 2025 10:07 PM (l8IGe)

14 Drinking Vessels:

While drinking out of the skull of one's enemies has a certain appeal, I'll go with the tankard. Holds a fair amount of beer and has a lid to keep the flying critters out. Perfect in the great outdoors.

Posted by: RickZ at August 28, 2025 10:07 PM (gKDq2)

15 > We have found Jesus
Always in the last place you look.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 28, 2025 10:07 PM (gKWVE)

16 Sorry I'm late, I was at orientation for my new job at the chicken farm.

I'm going to be a crossing guard.
Posted by: tankdemon at August 28, 2025 10:01 PM (C+yBY)

Haha!

Posted by: Doof at August 28, 2025 10:08 PM (QMAsf)

17 Good evening Horde. Thanks Disco! Another great ONT. I assume. Never sure if I'm supposed to ignore completely, read carefully, pretend to read but not really read, glance and skim, or ask someone else to summarize. But I still think it is a great ONT. Well done!

Posted by: TRex - I confuse myself at August 28, 2025 10:08 PM (IQ6Gq)

18 My favorite drinking vessels are an old.German mug (about 100 years old) and a hallowed out antler horn. For when I'm feeling very Viking!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2025 10:08 PM (2WIwB)

19 The story about the Police reminds me that Paul McCartney did not attend the Beatles' induction into the Rock and Roll Hallof Fame because he was in litigation against the other two living members of the band at the time.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 28, 2025 10:08 PM (C+yBY)

20 No organic drinking vessels for me! Even bone - skull and horn - may absorb some of the delicious liquid! Therefore I choose the chalice. Metal is more durable than glass!

Posted by: Gref at August 28, 2025 10:08 PM (aBgBM)

21 I have a couple dragon flagons from Ye Olde Ren Fest.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 28, 2025 10:08 PM (kpS4V)

22 Carried a wineskin to many classic concerts in the 70s. It's the way to go, when you are on the down-low.

Posted by: Old Man Noll at August 28, 2025 10:09 PM (G5+As)

23 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 28, 2025 10:09 PM (ohOaC)

24 Of course Canada stops sending whiskey here when there are tariffs because even Canadians won't drink Canadian mist why would they pay a higher price to try and off load it. What a dumb article

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2025 10:09 PM (MGB5H)

25 No organic drinking vessels for me! Even bone - skull and horn - may absorb some of the delicious liquid! Therefore I choose the chalice. Metal is more durable than glass!

He chose...poorly

Posted by: The Good Knight at August 28, 2025 10:09 PM (JkO4W)

26 U2 did it right. Split everything 4 ways. Makes it easy and no lawsuits or fighting over money.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 28, 2025 10:09 PM (wrRTB)

27 FOOD!

Posted by: Bulg at August 28, 2025 10:09 PM (77rzZ)

28 >>>Kinda makes sense to me too. What do you think?
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Puuuubliouuus!

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2025 10:10 PM (fLFhi)

29 My wine glass in made from super-heated sand and it fits my hand...just right.

Pours the evening wine and sits back to observe the postings...

Posted by: Nightwatch at August 28, 2025 10:10 PM (25kuG)

30 I finally read a very good thread about why Monaroz just got fired as head of the CDC. Looks like she would only take orders fro Sen Bill Cassidy, head of the Senate Health Committee, and despised RFK Jr and would do nothing he asked. A deep state shitstain.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2025 10:10 PM (jjpbs)

31 The Flagon with the Dragon had the brew that is true.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2025 10:11 PM (jjpbs)

32 13 No, the flagon with the dragon holds the pellet with the poison. The chalice from the palace holds the brew that is true.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 28, 2025 10:07 PM (l8IGe)

I thought the pestle with the vessel held the pellet that is poison.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 28, 2025 10:11 PM (C+yBY)

33 Ya gotta admit. Nukes have a place.
They settle so many problems.
And they have their own special kind of beauty.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2025 10:11 PM (2WIwB)

34 No rhytons in the drinking-vessel pic. Sad.

Posted by: Bulg at August 28, 2025 10:11 PM (77rzZ)

35 Hello everyone. Be of good cheer.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 28, 2025 10:11 PM (CHHv1)

36 Remove not the old landmark
—Crackerbarrel 23:10
Posted by: mindful webworker - heavin and heaven are not the same

From the Bee . . .

Overcorrection? Cracker Barrel Adds Confederate Flag To Logo And Changes Name To 'The South Will Rise Again'

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 28, 2025 10:11 PM (L/fGl)

37 Drop your most UNHINGED way to stretch a dollar.

Taking my kids to the plasma center twice a week.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 28, 2025 10:11 PM (/lPRQ)

38 LeAnn Rimes. Eh.

She was impressive as a child star. But not as impressive as Tanya Tucker was, and not for nearly as long.

"Blue" was no "Delta Dawn" or "Jamestown Ferry," that's for sure.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2025 10:11 PM (BI5O2)

39 Wineskin is also handy for skiing. Keep it under your parka with brandy in it, you won't be cold.

Posted by: DUI On Chairlift at August 28, 2025 10:12 PM (G5+As)

40 The vessesl with the pestel ...
Something something

You know, the thing

Posted by: Zeera. I voted for ALL of this at August 28, 2025 10:12 PM (cNSSC)

41 Hello, Horde! 😊♥️

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at August 28, 2025 10:12 PM (SRRAx)

42 Anybody Else see the happy clown in the mushroom cloud?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 28, 2025 10:13 PM (/lPRQ)

43 How you gonna play slap the bag with a damn calvarium.

Boooshit.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 28, 2025 10:13 PM (06Hmj)

44 36

Just so long as they put the rifles back over the fireplace...

Posted by: Nightwatch at August 28, 2025 10:13 PM (25kuG)

45 U2 did it right. Split everything 4 ways. Makes it easy and no lawsuits or fighting over money.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 28, 2025 10:09 PM (wrRTB)

5 way split. Manager Paul McGuinness is essentially the 5th band member. Smart man who turned them into a brand. And insisted on a 5 way spilt.

Posted by: Doof at August 28, 2025 10:13 PM (QMAsf)

46 Probably been discussed, but I was having dinner and watching a movie.

I see in the NY Post that Trans Terrorist Ginger Poodle Head Confused Pronoun's mommy is refusing to talk to the police and has gotten a lawyer.

This seems like a great move for her! I think the money for guns did come from mommy! She probably thought It was buying hair products.

I guess in It's sad tirade, It wished It was a female, but technology could not make it so. So I reckon pain from surgery is out for a reason on my list, of Sudden Trans Terrorism.

Therefore go shoot a church with children was the answer.

Should have simply shot his dick off and bled out, as it really was his own fault. Actually his father sitting on the sidewalk's fault, if we get into XY chromosome chat.

I want mommy brought in now in cuffs and those prison shoes. Do they know where she is? Please tell me they know where mommy is. Daddy on the sidewalk possibly does.

What a family of weirdos (and murderers).

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 28, 2025 10:14 PM (6PCLE)

47
Drinking vessel pic is missing a canteen, 1 quart, 1 ea.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 28, 2025 10:14 PM (QVmho)

48 I finally read a very good thread about why Monaroz just got fired as head of the CDC. Looks like she would only take orders fro Sen Bill Cassidy, head of the Senate Health Committee, and despised RFK Jr and would do nothing he asked. A deep state shitstain.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2025 10:10 PM (jjpbs)

They just love the Chain of Command . . . when they're the top of the food chain. Otherwise, not so much.

Insubordinate. That's a good 'for cause'.

Posted by: RickZ at August 28, 2025 10:14 PM (gKDq2)

49 A lot of fun content, Disco! I'll go with the flag on for my drinking vessel. Oversized, has a handle, and as others have mentioned, dragon.

Posted by: scampydog at August 28, 2025 10:14 PM (41CYW)

50 I think that pesky .25 day rotation for year throws off that calendar anyway.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2025 10:15 PM (MGB5H)

51 Apollonia displayed some nice talents in the Purple Rain movie.

Posted by: davidt at August 28, 2025 10:15 PM (i0F8b)

52 Learned a new phrase today -- Anthropodermic bibliopegy, or binding books in human skin. Used to be a thing. Sometimes as a warning (skin of a criminal), sometimes as a memento.

Who would you like to see used in a hand-tooled edition?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 28, 2025 10:15 PM (kpS4V)

53 5 Tankard lid keeps the bugs out.

Wineskin similarly, but limited contents.
Posted by: mindful webworker - the backstroke at August 28, 2025 10:03 PM (HETr4)

Tankard works for me.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2025 10:15 PM (C/CiM)

54 Good evening Horde. Thanks Disco! Another great ONT. I assume. Never sure if I'm supposed to ignore completely, read carefully, pretend to read but not really read, glance and skim, or ask someone else to summarize. But I still think it is a great ONT. Well done!
Posted by: TRex - I confuse myself at August 28, 2025 10:08 PM (IQ6Gq)

I read yours if you read mine?

Posted by: Doof at August 28, 2025 10:15 PM (QMAsf)

55 Drinking Horn!

Posted by: runner at August 28, 2025 10:16 PM (g47mK)

56 Start of the year was moved up to allow for a Roman command change a long time ago and it stuck. This is known but I'm not looking it up now.

Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at August 28, 2025 10:16 PM (KaHlS)

57 Always likes the song Skin Deep by the Stranglers

Posted by: Biggest Alfredo at August 28, 2025 10:16 PM (8cPKb)

58 *very portable

Posted by: runner at August 28, 2025 10:16 PM (g47mK)

59 There are some really smart ideas there, too. What say you, thrifty Hordelings - any suggestions?
Posted by: Doof

Save, wash and reuse your dental floss!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 28, 2025 10:16 PM (/BCo/)

60 So many cup conundrums.

Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2025 10:17 PM (Wmg4n)

61 There are some really smart ideas there, too. What say you, thrifty Hordelings - any suggestions?
Posted by: Doof

Turn your underwear inside out.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2025 10:17 PM (MGB5H)

62 I'm in favor of changing the calendar if it would eliminate pumpkin spice season. And Juneteenth.

Posted by: 24/7/365.24 at August 28, 2025 10:17 PM (G5+As)

63 Dog woke me up, hopefully back to sleep, goodnight all .

Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at August 28, 2025 10:17 PM (KaHlS)

64 Sting may have written the lyrics to the songs but the band made the music.

And even though Sting has gone on to have a good solo career, nothing he's done is better than his work in The Police.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 28, 2025 10:18 PM (XV/Pl)

65 54 I read yours if you read mine?

Posted by: Doof at August 28, 2025 10:15 PM
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Deal!

Posted by: TRex - reading is fundamental at August 28, 2025 10:18 PM (IQ6Gq)

66 guess this kinda diminishes the chances of a Police reunion tour, eh?

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Saw them at wrigley on their reunion when I lived in Chicago. It was pretty epic.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2025 10:18 PM (MGB5H)

67 U2 did it right. Split everything 4 ways. Makes it easy and no lawsuits or fighting over money.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 28, 2025 10:09 PM (wrRTB)

They just had to bear the shame of being a member of U2.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2025 10:18 PM (C/CiM)

68 So many cup conundrums.
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2025 10:17 PM (Wmg4n)

That was a scene in Pitch Perfect, right??

Posted by: Doof at August 28, 2025 10:18 PM (QMAsf)

69 60 You know about the cup sizes?

Posted by: Bulg at August 28, 2025 10:18 PM (77rzZ)

70 52 Learned a new phrase today -- Anthropodermic bibliopegy, or binding books in human skin. Used to be a thing. Sometimes as a warning (skin of a criminal), sometimes as a memento.

Who would you like to see used in a hand-tooled edition?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 28, 2025 10:15 PM (kpS4V)

Wait.... is it a... Grimoire?

Posted by: Ashe at August 28, 2025 10:18 PM (mP0Kj)

71 There are some really smart ideas there, too. What say you, thrifty Hordelings - any suggestions?
Posted by: Doof

I got nothing. I am bad at this. 😂

Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2025 10:19 PM (Wmg4n)

72 There are some really smart ideas there, too. What say you, thrifty Hordelings - any suggestions?
Posted by: Doof

I got nothing. I am bad at this. 😂
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2025 10:19 PM

There has to be some sort of thrifty leggings trick 😜

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2025 10:20 PM (MGB5H)

73 There are some really smart ideas there, too. What say you, thrifty Hordelings - any suggestions?
Posted by: Doof
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Know a guy that used to wind his 10 key paper back on - used both sides.

Posted by: scampydog at August 28, 2025 10:20 PM (41CYW)

74 guess this kinda diminishes the chances of a Police reunion tour, eh?

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Saw them at wrigley on their reunion when I lived in Chicago. It was pretty epic.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2025 10:18 PM (MGB5H)

Very nice. I missed it for some reason. They are one of 2 bands I really wish I could see reunite and tour. Supertamp is the other.

Posted by: Doof at August 28, 2025 10:20 PM (QMAsf)

75 Ya gotta admit. Nukes have a place.
They settle so many problems.
And they have their own special kind of beauty.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2025 10:11 PM (2WIwB)

Some of those pics have an awesome sort of beauty to them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2025 10:21 PM (C/CiM)

76 Kinda makes sense to me too. What do you think?
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The calendar is arbitrary, the thing that maters is that we generally agree on it so we understand what times we're all talking about.

Leap years would still be a thing so he's oversimplified it.

Also I get the sense that there's some pagan/masonry bs in there, so avoid.

Posted by: Methos at August 28, 2025 10:21 PM (zLwRl)

77 They just had to bear the shame of being a member of U2.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2025 10:18 PM (C/CiM)

"It feels amazing, but then you look down and realize you're gay. "

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 28, 2025 10:21 PM (06Hmj)

78 Thanks for the swell Thursday Overnight Thread, Doof!

Great photo of a nuclear test.

Some of those unhinged ways to save a buck are pretty darn clever!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 28, 2025 10:21 PM (kB9dk)

79 It's unfortunate that Sting is a colossal a**hole.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 28, 2025 10:21 PM (XV/Pl)

80 Heard odd noises in my place.

Walked across the street. There’s a mariachi band playing a serenade to a couple on the beach!

Super fun!

Someone call ICE.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 28, 2025 10:22 PM (0wzNL)

81 Wooden Cup.

If wood was good enough for Attila this Hun it's good enough for me.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 28, 2025 10:22 PM (/lPRQ)

82 I'm all for a 13-ish-month calendar, though there would still be one day to account for. I say "ish" because there is still one day left to deal with. I'd propose a 14th month that is one day long, and always a holiday. And when there's a leap year, it becomes two days long, and both days are holidays.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 28, 2025 10:22 PM (bOODJ)

83 Hunter Biden. I'll use the book as my poop-tracking journal.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2025 10:22 PM (BI5O2)

84 Very nice. I missed it for some reason. They are one of 2 bands I really wish I could see reunite and tour. Supertamp is the other.
Posted by: Doof at August 28, 2025 10:20 PM

IIRC correctly they didn't play a ton of dates. Tickets were hard af to get. Luckily my friends family had cubs season tickets so we were able to take those.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2025 10:22 PM (MGB5H)

85 I've got chunks of Sting in my stool.

Posted by: Paul Atreides at August 28, 2025 10:22 PM (i0F8b)

86 I thought the pestle with the vessel held the pellet that is poison.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 28, 2025 10:11 PM (C+yBY)

Right, but there's been a change, they broke the chalice from the palace. And replaced it with a flagon with a figure of a dragon.

The pellet with the poison is in the flagon with the dragon, the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true.

Just remember that.

Posted by: Sjg at August 28, 2025 10:23 PM (aqZN1)

87 Nyah

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 28, 2025 10:24 PM (tJlKF)

88 Anthropodermic bibliopegy

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Sounds like the book Ash found in The Evil Dead that caused so much bother.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 28, 2025 10:24 PM (L/fGl)

89 When I was looking for a "No Soliciting" sign, I stayed away from any that made any specific claims, as I am sure some asshole would try to find a loophole.

So I went with

No Soliciting
Please don't make it weird

Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 28, 2025 10:24 PM (bOODJ)

90 I used to drink wine (cheap stuff due to college) out of a wineskin all the time when cross-country skiing. I did not know it was medieval! I never questioned germs fermenting in it then, either! It's also called a bota bag.
I lived well, y'all.

Love that song and horns by Chicago! Alright!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 28, 2025 10:24 PM (6PCLE)

91 Yes, the medieval drinking vessel thing can be a little rough to choose. I was always an in the moment type. I'm going with all, because thanks to the imaginations of some lunatic musicians over the years I have drank out of all, including the skull. Not a real skull, but a very cool purpose built drinking skull. The wine skin was my least favorite, not into that whole wandering the desert of ancient egypt with a water skin thing. Hang with a viking metal band and you will eventually drink mead from a horn. Goth band? Chalice or glass goblet all the way. The leather jack I only saw once. I think the tankard or flagon is my general go to. They hold a lot and you won't spill it on yourself (much) when you get hammered, plus they are great for mead too. The right glass for the right job. Although i have been known to drink wine from a plastic cup. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2025 10:24 PM (snZF9)

92 On the subject of adult beverages, where do you land on this?

https://tinyurl.com/5n6ujs8r

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at August 28, 2025 10:25 PM (pIfcn)

93 >> I think that pesky .25 day rotation for year throws off that calendar anyway.

As of epoch J2000, that's 365.24219 of ephemeris (TT/uniform SI) time, but 365.24217 actual mean solar days. With the Erf's little speed up of late, it's actually pretty close to the ephemeris time value.

And it's changing a bit. Tropical year is getting slightly shorter on the current leg of the Milankovich cycles, due to precession slighly speed up (equinox moving a bit faster).

Posted by: publius, channeling Wesley Crusher at August 28, 2025 10:25 PM (w6EFb)

94

Shut up Wesley!

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2025 10:25 PM (w6EFb)

95 What's the medieval equivalent of a red solo cup?

Posted by: TRex - let's have a party! at August 28, 2025 10:25 PM (IQ6Gq)

96 I mean, really, just stitch "NOT" on to your welcome mat.

It doesn't have to be complicated.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 28, 2025 10:25 PM (06Hmj)

97 Although i have been known to drink wine from a plastic cup. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2025 10:24 PM (snZF9

As you said, the right tool for the right job.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2025 10:26 PM (MGB5H)

98 What say you, thrifty Hordelings - any suggestions?
Taking home leftovers from the MoMe in your pockets?

Posted by: GWB at August 28, 2025 10:26 PM (RTQn+)

99 What's the medieval equivalent of a red solo cup?

Doesn't matter, the person who drank out of it before you had the plague.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 28, 2025 10:26 PM (lUFok)

100 89 No Soliciting
Please don't make it weird

Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 28, 2025 10:24 PM
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We could put that out front of Club ONT.

Posted by: TRex - Club ONT is sometimes weird though at August 28, 2025 10:26 PM (IQ6Gq)

101 Regarding impact of Canadas tariffs on Kentucky bourbon, many liquor stores in Canada are government run and have removed US products from their shelves. This has had greater impact than the tariffs.

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

102 Also, obviously, the skull of your enemy.

The others are just for when you don't have that handy.

Posted by: GWB at August 28, 2025 10:27 PM (RTQn+)

103 What's the medieval equivalent of a red solo cup?
Posted by: TRex - let's have a party! at August 28, 2025 10:25 PM (IQ6Gq)

I just imagined Taylor Lorenz doing a firkin stand.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 28, 2025 10:27 PM (06Hmj)

104 If I'm dining in..."Skull of my enemy" is the solid choice. If I'm going with take out, there's only one real option "wine skin." Although, Ed Gein used to get them confused.

(some of you will get that)

Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2025 10:28 PM (dIske)

105 Canadian whiskey is gross.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2025 10:28 PM (BI5O2)

106 I'm all for a 13-ish-month calendar

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We could adopt it then argue that the new calendar means Trump had had only one term and can run again.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 28, 2025 10:28 PM (L/fGl)

107 Love that song and horns by Chicago! Alright!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 28, 2025 10:24 PM (6PCLE)

When I listen to Chicago now I’m amazed at what a big brass section they had.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2025 10:28 PM (jjpbs)

108 Greatest band ever split everything 3 ways.
Catch the spit!
Damn I'm up now.

Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at August 28, 2025 10:28 PM (KaHlS)

109 Should have simply shot his dick off and bled out, as it really was his own fault. Actually his father sitting on the sidewalk's fault, if we get into XY chromosome chat.

I want mommy brought in now in cuffs and those prison shoes. Do they know where she is? Please tell me they know where mommy is. Daddy on the sidewalk possibly does.

What a family of weirdos (and murderers).
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 28, 2025 10:14 PM (6PCLE)

If it turns out that the creep's parents really supported and enabled his delusions, I would have zero criticism for any of the bereaved parents of his victims killing them both dead. And the fucking "doctors" and "therapists", too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2025 10:28 PM (C/CiM)

110 What's the medieval equivalent of a red solo cup?

Posted by: TRex - let's have a party! at August 28, 2025 10:25 PM (IQ6Gq)

I'm gonna say flagon or tankard. Its big and obnoxious like the solo cup.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2025 10:28 PM (snZF9)

111 Also, obviously, the skull of your enemy.
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It's okay for shots, but not great if you want to sit somewhere and chill without getting up for refills regularly.

Posted by: Methos at August 28, 2025 10:29 PM (zLwRl)

112 I'm dining in..."Skull of my enemy" is the solid choice. If I'm going with take out, there's only one real option "wine skin." Although, Ed Gein used to get them confused.

(some of you will get that)
Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2025 10:28 PM

He never had a wine skin. Just 100s of lampshades.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2025 10:29 PM (MGB5H)

113 Although i have been known to drink wine from a plastic cup. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2025 10:24 PM (snZF9

As you said, the right tool for the right job.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2025 10:26 PM (MGB5H)

You probably saw me do that at the MoMe. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2025 10:29 PM (snZF9)

114 Knew a guy so cheap he'd crash church potlucks.
The only thing he would bring was zip-lock bags. Then reuse the zip-locks the next week.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 28, 2025 10:29 PM (/lPRQ)

115 There has to be some sort of thrifty leggings trick 😜
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2025 10:20 PM (MGB5H)

If you knew the dollar amount of leggings I possess…it’s close to embarrassing.

I am still using my broken, glitchy iPad, though. It’s gotten so bad J just sent a text and said “I will Venmo you the money, lose the hobo iPad”.

Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2025 10:30 PM (Wmg4n)

116 4 Sorry I'm late, I was at orientation for my new job at the chicken farm.

I'm going to be a crossing guard.
Posted by: tankdemon
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Glad to hear it wasn't the Chicken Ranch.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2025 10:30 PM (fLFhi)

117 110 What's the medieval equivalent of a red solo cup?

Posted by: TRex - let's have a party! at August 28, 2025 10:25 PM (IQ6Gq)

I'm gonna say flagon or tankard. Its big and obnoxious like the solo cup.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2025 10:28 PM (snZF9)

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Nah, gotta be the wooden cup. Perfect size for Ale Pong.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 28, 2025 10:30 PM (bOODJ)

118
Doooooooooooooooooof!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2025 10:30 PM (kkTda)

119 These taxes on bourbon have made an impact on the industry."

So Canada is the top bourbon importer?

No?

Second, then.

No?

Top 5?

No?

Hmm. Why should I care,then?

Posted by: man at August 28, 2025 10:31 PM (xDZRs)

120 am still using my broken, glitchy iPad, though. It’s gotten so bad J just sent a text and said “I will Venmo you the money, lose the hobo iPad”.
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2025 10:30 PM

Hahah but the hobo ipad is like a lifestyle statement at this point

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2025 10:31 PM (MGB5H)

121
Walked across the street. There’s a mariachi band playing a serenade to a couple on the beach!

Super fun!

Someone call ICE.
Posted by: nurse ratched

You walked into a musical.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 28, 2025 10:31 PM (63Dwl)

122 He never had a wine skin. Just 100s of lampshades.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2025 10:29 PM (MGB5H)

The wine skin is the absolute worst if you plan on getting hammered. It takes serious focus.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2025 10:31 PM (snZF9)

123 115 There has to be some sort of thrifty leggings trick 😜
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2025 10:20 PM (MGB5H)

If you knew the dollar amount of leggings I possess…it’s close to embarrassing.

I am still using my broken, glitchy iPad, though. It’s gotten so bad J just sent a text and said “I will Venmo you the money, lose the hobo iPad”.
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2025 10:30 PM (Wmg4n)

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Take the money. Keep the iPad.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 28, 2025 10:31 PM (bOODJ)

124 Take the money. Keep the iPad.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 28, 2025 10:31 PM (bOODJ)

But what do I do with the cannoli?

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2025 10:32 PM (MGB5H)

125 A Iowa football games in the 80’s you could bring nothing you want in a wineskin. I still can’t drink southern comfort Not that I want too And schnapps was good for the colder games

Posted by: Biggest Alfredo at August 28, 2025 10:33 PM (8cPKb)

126 I assume when Simon and Garfunkle broke up, Simon got 90% and Garfunkle 10%.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 28, 2025 10:33 PM (L/fGl)

127
We can largely blame the Romans for our current calendar.

The idea of 12 months and all that goes back farther, Babylonians and Egyptians, but they were juggling lunar calendars and all that mess in with solar calendars.

That's what I thought, but I asked Grok to confirm, and had it go in "cheeky mode":

So, are the Romans to blame? Largely, yes—they took a decent Egyptian/Babylonian framework and slapped their superstitious, ego-driven chaos on it. But the 12-month idea predates them, and the uneven days are partly due to their obsession with odd numbers and political one-upmanship. Could we have a saner system, like 13 months of 28 days? Sure, but good luck convincing anyone to ditch centuries of Roman baggage.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2025 10:33 PM (w6EFb)

128 It takes serious focus.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2025 10:31 PM (snZF9)

It's all muscle memory. If you think about it, you're getting a nose full of plonk.

So the more shitty you get, the easier it is.

I mean laundry day is still a fucking write off. But that's tomorrow's problem.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 28, 2025 10:34 PM (06Hmj)

129 Regarding impact of Canadas tariffs on Kentucky bourbon, many liquor stores in Canada are government run and have removed US products from their shelves. This has had greater impact than the tariffs.
Posted by: Rube at August 28, 2025 10:27 PM (VQeMZ)

Alberta has "private" liquor stores, but the wholesaler is the Alberta government. Have not looked at bourbon, etc. because I am not a brown liquor drinker, much. U.S. beer is on the shelves, though.

Curiously, Flor de Cana rum from Nicaragua is several bucks cheaper in Canada than in the USA. Factor in the dollar difference, and it is a lot cheaper.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2025 10:34 PM (C/CiM)

130 >>>What a family of weirdos (and murderers).
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 28, 2025 10:14 PM (6PCLE)

If it turns out that the creep's parents really supported and enabled his delusions, I would have zero criticism for any of the bereaved parents of his victims killing them both dead. And the fucking "doctors" and "therapists", too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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The whole shebang should be outlawed and any participants; be it parents, priests, or physicians should be hanged in the public square.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2025 10:34 PM (fLFhi)

131 Doooooooooooooooooof!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2025 10:30 PM (kkTda)

Howdy, H7!

Have you made a decision on the MoMe in October? Last I asked, you were waffling.

Posted by: Doof at August 28, 2025 10:34 PM (QMAsf)

132 Flagon for me, or perhaps the tankard.

Posted by: QED Texan at August 28, 2025 10:34 PM (fveCG)

133
I think manifestations of extreme cheapness and limited data plans are related.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2025 10:34 PM (kkTda)

134 I only drink from Greek ostracons etched with epithets in the classical style against my worst enemies.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 28, 2025 10:35 PM (dDmld)

135 Walked across the street. There’s a mariachi band playing a serenade to a couple on the beach!

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I like to be in America
Okay by me in America
Everything free in America

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 28, 2025 10:35 PM (L/fGl)

136 If it turns out that the creep's parents really supported and enabled his delusions, I would have zero criticism for any of the bereaved parents of his victims killing them both dead. And the fucking "doctors" and "therapists", too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2025 10:28 PM (C/CiM)

He changed his name as a minor. Mommy was definitely supportive of her little monster's delusion. Maybe daddy, too. But definitely the mom. It's always the mom.

He was a gibbering lunatic, unemployed and unemployable, paying rent on an apartment with thousands of dollars worth of arms and ammunition in it.

If they weren't hurling cash at this shitstain, somebody was. I suspect it was them. But if not, I'd sure like to know who it was.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2025 10:36 PM (BI5O2)

137 But what do I do with the cannoli?
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2025 10:32 PM (MGB5H)

If you have to ask, . . .

Posted by: RickZ at August 28, 2025 10:36 PM (gKDq2)

138 There are some really smart ideas there, too. What say you, thrifty Hordelings - any suggestions?
Posted by: Doof

Grampa would use a broom until the straws were worn down to the nub - I'm talking 2 -3 inches. THEN, he'd cut up the handle for use in the wood stove.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 28, 2025 10:36 PM (cYBz/)

139
Have you made a decision on the MoMe in October? Last I asked, you were waffling.
Posted by: Doof at August 28, 2025 10:34 PM (QMAsf)

_________

The final decision will come at noon on the Wednesday two weeks before.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2025 10:36 PM (kkTda)

140 48 I finally read a very good thread about why Monaroz just got fired as head of the CDC. Looks like she would only take orders fro Sen Bill Cassidy, head of the Senate Health Committee, and despised RFK Jr and would do nothing he asked. A deep state shitstain.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2025 10:10 PM (jjpbs)

They just love the Chain of Command . . . when they're the top of the food chain. Otherwise, not so much.

Insubordinate. That's a good 'for cause'.
Posted by: RickZ at August 28, 2025 10:14 PM (gKDq2)

This is what draining the swamp looks like. IIRC, it was Mattis in the first term who just ignored Trump's request for a plan to get us out of Syria. He kept stringing Trump along for like a year before he got canned.

If following orders is a touchy issue with Trump, it's for good reason.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at August 28, 2025 10:36 PM (pIfcn)

141 If it turns out that the creep's parents really supported and enabled his delusions, I would have zero criticism for any of the bereaved parents of his victims killing them both dead. And the fucking "doctors" and "therapists", too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2025 10:28 PM (C/CiM)

I'd have no problem with it at all. I know I'd have to be heavily sedated forever.

I blame mommy. I see it that she went along with it first and sidewalk daddy had to deal with it. I could be wrong and have it backwards. Somehow I don't like mommy and I have normally good instincts. She has that lib womman look about her with her precious Poof Head Trans.

After President Trump was elected I somehow fell into a local sub reddit pit of mommies freaking out about their trans children. And I read their yammering like I was translating Urdu. Yanking the kids out of HS for GED's. Like a posse was coming for them. It was all mothers, no men, saying this crap. One mother had two trans children, like Jamie Lee Curtis The Hermaphrodite. Gave her bragging rights. I swear they are proud of this.

I really wish I knew important things vs this crap.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 28, 2025 10:36 PM (6PCLE)

142 The 13 month calendar is the Lunar Calendar, and I think the Jewish calendar does it that way.

There’s interesting speculation that the 13 month calendar was the first one mentioned followed even pre-civilization, because the 28 day cycle clearly tied it to fertility.
Then, the theory goes, that as civilizations and kings rose (such as Ra and the Pharaohs,) they chose to personify themselves as the sun and switched to the 12 month Solar calendar. And that in that switch came the idea that things done under the moonlight and associated with that lunar cycle were more dark and dirty than things done under the glorious Sun.
Which might explain some of the old antipathy about the number 13. Oh well it’s an interesting theory.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2025 10:37 PM (jjpbs)

143 Stout, flagon. That's it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2025 10:37 PM (XeU6L)

144 Installed Grok on my phone a few months ago, actually used it for first time just now. It says calendar change was made in 153 BC (I ain't ever using the extra E). Of course it could be hallucinating. (Or I am)

Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at August 28, 2025 10:37 PM (KaHlS)

145 98 What say you, thrifty Hordelings - any suggestions?
Taking home leftovers from the MoMe in your pockets?
Posted by: GWB at August 28, 2025 10:26 PM (RTQn+)

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There are spiders outside my house that have spun these beautiful webs. Little do they know I go out and harvest what they catch every night. Should have enough for a snack in 4-6 weeks.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 28, 2025 10:37 PM (bOODJ)

146 There were old Norwegian ladies in the 60s that would check obits and go to the wake/funeral for the spread afterward.

Posted by: Mourning Becomes Electra at August 28, 2025 10:38 PM (G5+As)

147 The wine skin is the absolute worst if you plan on getting hammered. It takes serious focus.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2025 10:31 PM (snZF9)
_________________________________

I can tell this man speaks from experience.

Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2025 10:38 PM (dIske)

148 Triskaidekaphobia - talk about overthinking things!

The Sep=7 Oct=8 Nov=9 Dec=10 goes back to when those were the number-months but Caesar changed the calendar. Or one of those Roman gods.

Meanwhile (warning: possible mathishness ahead):

The modified Hobbit calendar has twelve 30-day months, each month starting on Saturday and ending on Sunday, so you have four-day weekends at the end and beginning of every month. Total so far: 360 days.

Additional between-months holiday is added for each of the four seasons, after March, June, September, and December. An additional New Year's Day occurs between December and January, bringing it up to 365.

Leap Year's Day, every four years (usually) also falls between December and January. So in Leap Years, it's Saturday Dec 29, Sunday Dec 30, Winter Day, Leap Year Day, New Year's Day, then Saturday Jan 1, then Sunday Jan 2: a seven-day "weekend." Party on, doods.

With third breakfasts each holiday.

Beats the metric calendar, anyway.
😁

Posted by: mindful webworker - the 13th is never Friday at August 28, 2025 10:38 PM (HETr4)

149 "Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte on Thursday night said that he had filed a second criminal referral against Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook, whom President Donald Trump is trying to fire.

Pulte said in a post on X that the new referral relates to a mortgage on a third property of Cook’s “and alleged misrepresentations about her properties to the United States Government during her time as Governor of the Federal Reserve.”"

typos on threeee mortgage applications ? so sloppy

Posted by: runner at August 28, 2025 10:38 PM (g47mK)

150 >>>If they weren't hurling cash at this shitstain, somebody was. I suspect it was them. But if not, I'd sure like to know who it was.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Maybe he was turning tricks.
That's not been mentioned on any of these creeps.
And them not being active one way or another is baloney.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2025 10:38 PM (fLFhi)

151 Crashing weddings at hotels where you stay !

Posted by: runner at August 28, 2025 10:39 PM (g47mK)

152 The wine skin is the absolute worst if you plan on getting hammered. It takes serious focus.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2025 10:31 PM (snZF9

I mean a wine skin is basically a prototype camelback. Great for hiking and snowboarding. But getting sloshed out one is a chore.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2025 10:39 PM (MGB5H)

153
typos on threeee mortgage applications ? so sloppy
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2025 10:38 PM (g47mK)

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Three properties? Who the hell does this fat bitch think she is? Bernie Sanders?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2025 10:40 PM (kkTda)

154 146 There were old Norwegian ladies in the 60s that would check obits and go to the wake/funeral for the spread afterward.
Posted by: Mourning Becomes Electra at August 28, 2025 10:38 PM (G5+As)

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Now they all haunt Costco to hang out at the sampling tables.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 28, 2025 10:40 PM (dDmld)

155 127
We can largely blame the Romans for our current calendar.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2025 10:33 PM
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Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health (and the calendar) ... what have the Romans ever done for us?

Posted by: TRex - don't call me Loretta at August 28, 2025 10:40 PM (IQ6Gq)

156 Libs of TikTok@libsoftiktok
HOLY HELL
ICE just arrested an illegal alien gang member and CONVICTED P*DO who was LIVING INSIDE A DAYCARE in Newsom’s California
Any comment @GavinNewsom?

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Well, sure, it sounds bad when you put it like that.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 28, 2025 10:41 PM (L/fGl)

157 Three properties? Who the hell does this fat bitch think she is? Bernie Sanders?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2025 10:40 PM (kkTda)

she is a real estate mogul like Donald J. Trump !

Posted by: runner at August 28, 2025 10:41 PM (g47mK)

158 Three properties? Who the hell does this fat bitch think she is? Bernie Sanders?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2025 10:40 PM (kkTda)

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She is DEI and you're not allowed to criticize her.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 28, 2025 10:42 PM (dDmld)

159 If we every do get a 13 month calendar, I want the new month to be called Smarch.

One of my favorite Simpsons gags

"Lousy Smarch weather"

Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 28, 2025 10:42 PM (bOODJ)

160 >>> her properties to the United States Government during her time as Governor of the Federal Reserve.”"

typos on threeee mortgage applications ? so sloppy
Posted by: runner
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Watch yourself, these people are our betters and, like cockroaches, if you see one there are ten more unseen.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2025 10:42 PM (fLFhi)

161 If they weren't hurling cash at this shitstain, somebody was. I suspect it was them. But if not, I'd sure like to know who it was.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2025 10:36 PM (BI5O2)

I am pretty sure that killing those kids amounted to denying them their civil rights, so this is a Federal case. Kash Patel should put the FBI on it, and get them to do a colon probe on all the adults in this creep's life.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2025 10:42 PM (n7HB7)

162 The final decision will come at noon on the Wednesday two weeks before.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2025 10:36 PM (kkTda)

That's oddly specific

Posted by: Doof at August 28, 2025 10:43 PM (QMAsf)

163 Japanese and Chinese just go "1 Month, 2 Month" etc. They don't have "names", they're just counted like hours or minutes. I'm sure others do that, too. What makes a culture decide to name certain time units and not others? How weird must it look to a non-naming culture?

"Oh, it's the Larry-th of Steve already? I could have sworn it was still George!"

".... the hell is wrong with you round eyes?!?!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 28, 2025 10:43 PM (06Hmj)

164 After President Trump was elected I somehow fell into a local sub reddit pit of mommies freaking out about their trans children. And I read their yammering like I was translating Urdu. Yanking the kids out of HS for GED's. Like a posse was coming for them. It was all mothers, no men, saying this crap. One mother had two trans children, like Jamie Lee Curtis The Hermaphrodite. Gave her bragging rights. I swear they are proud of this.

I really wish I knew important things vs this crap.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 28, 2025 10:36 PM (6PCLE)

IMAO, besides being imbeciles, they suffer from Munchausen by Proxy. The mother gets all sorts of accolades and praise for being 'brave' while the children are harmed for life so she can feel good about herself.

In most Munchausen cases, there is medical intervention to cease it, not encourage it.

Posted by: RickZ at August 28, 2025 10:43 PM (gKDq2)

165
There's an actual word for the fear of Friday the 13th specifically: paraskevidekatriaphobia

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2025 10:43 PM (w6EFb)

166 The only thing thrifty I can think of is saving Christmas gift bags. It somehow makes me proud and environmental at the same time. I also still have rolls of Christmas wrapping paper for years. Back when I wrapped our son's gifts and my husband's in male stuff. DIL's in girly stuff with fancy ribbon. Now I mostly throw everything in bags and am over my Martha Stewart error. I do wrap my DIL's and granddaughter's gifts. Otherwise, nope! I have a closet dedicated to holiday decor and wrapping gifts. So fancy, but not super organized.

My husband grocery shops because he says I don't save money and get distracted.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 28, 2025 10:44 PM (6PCLE)

167 Dramatic footage of a Polish pilot cracking up an F-16.

https://is.gd/ByaeKB

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 28, 2025 10:44 PM (L/fGl)

168 Planet-Calendar guy is obviously French/socialist. He wants to remake the world according to some universal standard/ That's the metric system, friend. (Also, Sunday is the first day of the week, not Monday.)

Posted by: GWB at August 28, 2025 10:44 PM (RTQn+)

169 There's an actual word for the fear of Friday the 13th specifically: paraskevidekatriaphobia
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2025 10:43 PM (w6EFb)

What is fear of another Friday the 13th movie called?

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2025 10:45 PM (MGB5H)

170 125 A Iowa football games in the 80’s you could bring nothing you want in a wineskin. I still can’t drink southern comfort Not that I want too And schnapps was good for the colder games
Posted by: Biggest Alfredo at August 28, 2025 10:33 PM (8cPKb)

I would bring my 35mm camera with me. Those little canisters that the rolls of film came in made wonderful portable shot glasses.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 28, 2025 10:45 PM (C+yBY)

171 59 There are some really smart ideas there, too. What say you, thrifty Hordelings - any suggestions?
Posted by: Doof

Using superglue to reattach the sole to my dress shoe.

Posted by: joemarine at August 28, 2025 10:46 PM (y171U)

172 Flagon for me, or perhaps the tankard.

Posted by: QED Texan at August 28, 2025 10:34 PM (fveCG)

There you go. Biggest frigging long island ice tea I ever had was in texas when I was out there for a guitar show. It was in a huge tankard type glass. The first one was just a 16 ounce, but really strong. I was debating if I should have another, and the waitress says in her cute texas accent "Hon we have those in a 20 oz also". I said well now, I'll take one. Holy shit, I got ossified. The waitress comes by later to take some stuff off the table and she reaches for the big glass. I scooped it up fast and held it out like a prize and and said kind of loud. "THIS IS MY WAR TROPHY" and then held it to my chest. She looks at me with a grin and says "its ok hon, you can keep that". Thats where I learned the power of large drinking vessels.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2025 10:46 PM (snZF9)

173 154 146 There were old Norwegian ladies in the 60s that would check obits and go to the wake/funeral for the spread afterward.
Posted by: Mourning Becomes Electra at August 28, 2025 10:38 PM (G5+As

That’s even mentioned in Scrooge. There’s a business associate who says “oh I don’t mind going to a funeral - but I Must bd Fed!!!”

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2025 10:46 PM (jjpbs)

174 What is fear of another Friday the 13th movie called?
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2025 10:45 PM (MGB5H)

Normal?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 28, 2025 10:46 PM (06Hmj)

175 Kash Patel should put the FBI on it, and get them to do a colon probe on all the adults in this creep's life.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2025 10:42 PM (n7HB7)

Agreed

Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at August 28, 2025 10:46 PM (KaHlS)

176 >What say you, thrifty Hordelings - any suggestions?
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ketchup packets are the base of an improvised tomato soup

Posted by: Don Black at August 28, 2025 10:46 PM (AOsQT)

177 The Sep=7 Oct=8 Nov=9 Dec=10 goes back to when those were the number-months but Caesar changed the calendar. Or one of those Roman gods.

The numbering of months predated Caesar - January and February "didn't count." July (for Julius) was "Quintus" and August (for Augustus" was "Sextus."

The modified Hobbit calendar has twelve 30-day months, each month starting on Saturday and ending on Sunday, so you have four-day weekends at the end and beginning of every month. Total so far: 360 days.

Tolkien slyly worked in a nod to the Old Style calendar when he had Aragorn proclaim that March 25, the day the Ring went into the Fire, would be the New Year day. Prior to adopting the Gregorian calendar, the English registered their New Year on March 25. So, the date that Charles I was beheaded (for example) was January 30, 1648 (O.S.), but is February 9, 1649 (N.S.)

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 28, 2025 10:47 PM (WvZaB)

178 151 Crashing weddings at hotels where you stay !
Posted by: runner

Henny Youngman always checked the schedule for the hotels he was staying at while on the road. Show up for a wedding rehearsal, talk to the bride's Dad. Tell him, hey, for $200 I'll do a ten minute routine at the reception.

Henny got $200 tax-free and the couple could always enjoy the fact that Henny performed at their wedding reception.

Posted by: Win-Win! at August 28, 2025 10:47 PM (G5+As)

179
In most Munchausen cases, there is medical intervention to cease it, not encourage it.
Posted by: RickZ at August 28, 2025 10:43 PM (gKDq2)

Oh, yes!Especially if the kids are toddlers and they did not get the sex child they wanted. I believe this. It is the damn mother's fault nearly every time.

This will start a sub category as traditionally, what I was taught as a RN in school and saw in training, the mother can inject something (like toilet water) and cause the infant to be ill. The pediatric hospital would secretly film the mother and catch them messing with the IV tubing or something. What they craved was attention and to appear smarter than the doctors and staff. Evil.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 28, 2025 10:47 PM (6PCLE)

180 There you go. Biggest frigging long island ice tea I ever had was in texas when I was out there for a guitar show. It was in a huge tankard type glass. The first one was just a 16 ounce, but really strong. I was debating if I should have another, and the waitress says in her cute texas accent "Hon we have those in a 20 oz also". I said well now, I'll take one. Holy shit, I got ossified. The waitress comes by later to take some stuff off the table and she reaches for the big glass. I scooped it up fast and held it out like a prize and and said kind of loud. "THIS IS MY WAR TROPHY" and then held it to my chest. She looks at me with a grin and says "its ok hon, you can keep that". Thats where I learned the power of large drinking vessels.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2025 10:46 PM (snZF9)

My go to college bar had 36oz mug long islands for 4$ on Thursdays. Holeeeeee sheeeeeet. Made it home, or close to home most times.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2025 10:48 PM (MGB5H)

181 I would bring my 35mm camera with me. Those little canisters that the rolls of film came in made wonderful portable shot glasses.
Posted by: tankdemon at August 28, 2025 10:45 PM (C+yBY)

The plastic cap on the pint bottle of Rebel Yell Kentucky Bourbon.

Posted by: RickZ at August 28, 2025 10:48 PM (gKDq2)

182 How many banks are you allowed to defraud before you're disqualified from having a seat on the Federal Reserve Board?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 28, 2025 10:48 PM (dDmld)

183 Another thrifty tip - always double bag groceries. Extra bags for small garbage cans, cleaning up after pets, etc.

And if you live somewhere that has a Menard's, always get bags from there. They have the sturdiest plastic bags (unlike the walmart crap).

Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 28, 2025 10:48 PM (bOODJ)

184 My dear, sweet MIL refuses to use the nice fluffy towels that various family members have tried to give her for Christmas and Bday presents, choosing instead to use the ratty, hole-y, threadbare old towels/washcloths from the 60s or 70s that she lovingly stitched 2 or 3 together to make 1 ratty, hole-y, threadbare "new" towel/washcloth with. Of course, none of the patterns match, so each "new" creation has 2 very different looking sides to it.

She says the new ones scratch too much... 🙄🙄🙄

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at August 28, 2025 10:49 PM (SRRAx)

185 The wine skin is the absolute worst if you plan on getting hammered. It takes serious focus.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2025 10:31 PM (snZF9)
_________________________________

I can tell this man speaks from experience.

Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2025 10:38 PM (dIske)

yeah, i saw the pink elephant, and he was hosing me. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2025 10:49 PM (snZF9)

186 Good evening morons e grazie Doof

Hoo boy what a day.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2025 10:50 PM (RIvkX)

187
This 13-month of 28 days idea is fairly recent, first proposed in 1902.

13*28 = 364. And 364/7 = 52 exactly. Now, to make this work, where the week days remain the same for each day of the month, you'd have to add an extra day, and *not have it be any day of the week*. And then, with a leap day, you'd need another non-weekday day.

It wouldn't fly at all.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2025 10:50 PM (w6EFb)

188 59 There are some really smart ideas there, too. What say you, thrifty Hordelings - any suggestions?
Posted by: Doof

I use a hot glue gun to patch jeans and cutoffs I wear while working in the shop. Got a pair of the cutoffs on right now. Holds up pretty good, unless they get hot in the dryer.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2025 10:50 PM (n7HB7)

189 There are some really smart ideas there, too. What say you, thrifty Hordelings - any suggestions?
Posted by: Doof

Diving in the keys in your old worn out jeans that you cut off just above the bottom of the pockets.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2025 10:51 PM (MGB5H)

190 182 How many banks are you allowed to defraud before you're disqualified from having a seat on the Federal Reserve Board?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 28, 2025 10:48 PM (dDmld)

Depends, what's your intersectional oppression score?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at August 28, 2025 10:53 PM (pIfcn)

191 Japanese and Chinese just go "1 Month, 2 Month" etc. They don't have "names"

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French revolutionary month names are fun. The French named their months after the weather. https://is.gd/YtzWfV In Britain, a contemporary wit mocked the calendar by calling the months: Wheezy, Sneezy, and Freezy; Slippy, Drippy, and Nippy; Showery, Flowery, and Bowery; Hoppy, Croppy, and Poppy.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 28, 2025 10:53 PM (L/fGl)

192 Oh, and the calendar guy...
There is NOTHING that divides evenly into 365 1/4.

The only way to get close to even is 5 day weeks. And there's no way in hell I'm letting unions or the French claim credit for that.

Posted by: GWB at August 28, 2025 10:54 PM (RTQn+)

193 187
This 13-month of 28 days idea is fairly recent, first proposed in 1902.

13*28 = 364. And 364/7 = 52 exactly. Now, to make this work, where the week days remain the same for each day of the month, you'd have to add an extra day, and *not have it be any day of the week*. And then, with a leap day, you'd need another non-weekday day.

It wouldn't fly at all.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2025 10:50 PM (w6EFb)

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I noticed the video basically ignored the extra day.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 28, 2025 10:55 PM (bOODJ)

194 How many banks are you allowed to defraud before you're disqualified from having a seat on the Federal Reserve Board?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 28, 2025 10:48 PM (dDmld)

How dare you ! "Lisa Cook Suit Says Her Firing by Trump Puts US Economy at Risk" (Bloomberg)

Posted by: runner at August 28, 2025 10:55 PM (g47mK)

195 >> French revolutionary month names are fun.

The French revolutionary changes to the calendar and clocks (decimal time) is this perfect example of trying to bend nature to man's will, of which modernity, communists, and woke-ists love to try.

With a little bit of "throwing out tradition so engrained into society that changing it is just nuts" in there as well.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2025 10:55 PM (w6EFb)

196 Using superglue to reattach the sole to my dress shoe.
Posted by: joemarine

Stuff your feet in bread bags before putting on your winter boots with holes in them. I don't have to do that any more but there was a time.

My lovely wife is, let's say, extremely frugal. She will display a terribly worn dishtowel in my face with her fingers sticking through holes in it all the while asking me:

"Do you know what this is!!??

It's $$$$ in the bank!!"

Posted by: Tonypete at August 28, 2025 10:55 PM (cYBz/)

197 My go to college bar had 36oz mug long islands for 4$ on Thursdays. Holeeeeee sheeeeeet. Made it home, or close to home most times.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2025 10:48 PM (MGB5H)

Thats just about what I drank that night. A 16 and then a 20. thee absolute strongest one I ever tried was in a bar about 45 min north of chicago. They only allow you 2, thats the limit. It was in a huge, wide crystal mug. I had 2 and holy shit I went on an intergalactic cruise. If the pan galactic gargle blaster exists, that fucker was it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2025 10:55 PM (snZF9)

198 You can't make this shite up ! Unless you are the Babylon Bee, of course.

Posted by: runner at August 28, 2025 10:56 PM (g47mK)

199
That's oddly specific
Posted by: Doof at August 28, 2025 10:43 PM (QMAsf)

__________

Every dog exhibitor knows the significance of noon on Wednesday two weeks before a weekend.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2025 10:56 PM (kkTda)

200 >>>It wouldn't fly at all.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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Publius to the rescue.
Remember, if it sounds too good to be true it is.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2025 10:56 PM (fLFhi)

201 26 U2 did it right. Split everything 4 ways. Makes it easy and no lawsuits or fighting over money.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 28, 2025 10:09 PM (wrRTB)

It did cause problems from time to time, however. There were periods where Bono thought that Larry Mullen Jr. wasn't keeping up with the band's progress, and let him know it. Bono was trying to avoid the freerider communist problem.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 28, 2025 10:56 PM (BaQol)

202 198 You can't make this shite up ! Unless you are the Babylon Bee, of course.
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2025 10:56 PM (g47mK)

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I dunno. They might end up going out of business. Too hard to compete with reality these days!

Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 28, 2025 10:57 PM (bOODJ)

203 He was a gibbering lunatic, unemployed and unemployable, paying rent on an apartment with thousands of dollars worth of arms and ammunition in it.

If they weren't hurling cash at this shitstain, somebody was. I suspect it was them. But if not, I'd sure like to know who it was.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Just to clear this up, the dad was 100% supportive. The oddness in going after the mom and not the dad is just weird, and I am sure we will figure out why. And no, it’s not because he might be a 3rd tier dod contractor. Maybe a big donator? The dad parked his butt on the sidewalk where his son murdered children! His mom lawyered up, which is probably smart, even if I hate it. Probably for the incoming civil suits at the very least.

Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2025 10:57 PM (Wmg4n)

204 They were smart to hold off on filing additional charges. She persisted and they pulled a few more. Now she is wonder how many more they have.

Posted by: runner at August 28, 2025 10:57 PM (g47mK)

205 Thrifty Ideas. Depends.

Which costs more a goat or a riding mower?

Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2025 10:57 PM (dIske)

206 The French revolutionary changes to the calendar and clocks (decimal time) is this perfect example of trying to bend nature to man's will, of which modernity, communists, and woke-ists love to try.

With a little bit of "throwing out tradition so engrained into society that changing it is just nuts" in there as well.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

You can't make a utopian omlette without breaking a few fascist eggs.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 28, 2025 10:58 PM (L/fGl)

207
The 7-day week cycle is completely independent of the calendar system. Just a running 7-day cycle. And talk about engrained tradition. Messing with that, where a day would not be a day of the week would be unthinkable.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2025 10:58 PM (w6EFb)

208 Curiously, Flor de Cana rum from Nicaragua is several bucks cheaper in Canada than in the USA"

Fed and state taxes. One might think such things have quite the impact on sales.

Or not.

Posted by: man at August 28, 2025 10:58 PM (xDZRs)

209 Remember, if it sounds too good to be true it is.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2025 10:56 PM (fLFhi)

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That sounds too good to be true. Now I don't know what to think.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 28, 2025 10:58 PM (bOODJ)

210 Did someone say waffles??

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2025 10:58 PM (RIvkX)

211 For those under 29, the flagon and poisoned chalice nonsense is from this:

https://youtu.be/WzmnSyqv37A

Danny Kaye, "The Court Jester"

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 28, 2025 10:58 PM (l8IGe)

212 Thats just about what I drank that night. A 16 and then a 20. thee absolute strongest one I ever tried was in a bar about 45 min north of chicago. They only allow you 2, thats the limit. It was in a huge, wide crystal mug. I had 2 and holy shit I went on an intergalactic cruise. If the pan galactic gargle blaster exists, that fucker was it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2025 10:55 PM (snZF9)

Hahaha ya our bar said limit 2. But it was a college bar across the street from campus of one of the biggest drinking campuses in the nation. Let's just say it was loosely enforced, at best.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2025 10:59 PM (MGB5H)

213
"Do you know what this is!!??

It's $$$$ in the bank!!"
Posted by: Tonypete
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Waste not want not.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2025 10:59 PM (fLFhi)

214 How dare you ! "Lisa Cook Suit Says Her Firing by Trump Puts US Economy at Risk" (Bloomberg)

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Think about it. Our entire way of life, our very civilization itself, teeters on the decision on whether some bitchy unqualified affirmative action hire will keep her stupid sinecure.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 28, 2025 10:59 PM (dDmld)

215 I have adjusted to cc=ml and kilograms and military time due to my career.

I am not doing a new calendar. No, sir. I like things the way they are. My birthday is right in the middle of the year after Christmas and has always worked out perfectly.

One of my best friends passed away on Leap Year. I think on purpose so we could not grieve her every year.

The math also was going to make me have to think and I am trying to avoid this.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 28, 2025 10:59 PM (6PCLE)

216 "THIS IS MY WAR TROPHY" and then held it to my chest. She looks at me with a grin and says "its ok hon, you can keep that"
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Somewhere in my possessions is a yard long bit of plastic from a Renaissance Faire for similar reasons. I forget what sort of alcohol was originally in it.

Posted by: Methos at August 28, 2025 10:59 PM (zLwRl)

217 With all this interest in the Church shooter, I'm sure the FBI will release all the information the have concerning PDJT's would be assassin.

Amirite?

Posted by: Tonypete at August 28, 2025 11:00 PM (cYBz/)

218 "Dramatic footage of a Polish pilot cracking up an F-16.

https://is.gd/ByaeKB"

It'll buff out...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at August 28, 2025 11:00 PM (/HDaX)

219 My lovely wife is, let's say, extremely frugal. She will display a terribly worn dishtowel in my face with her fingers sticking through holes in it all the while asking me:

"Do you know what this is!!??

It's $$$$ in the bank!!"
Posted by: Tonypete at August 28, 2025 10:55 PM (cYBz/)

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You should perhaps return the gesture with overly-worn underwear.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 28, 2025 11:01 PM (bOODJ)

220 I am off to bed, y’all. Tomorrow is Friday!

Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2025 11:02 PM (Wmg4n)

221
The French revolutionary changes to the calendar and clocks (decimal time) is this perfect example of trying to bend nature to man's will, of which modernity, communists, and woke-ists love to try.

__________

Metric system: weights and measures for sheep.

American system: weights and measures for a free people.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2025 11:02 PM (kkTda)

222 Hahaha ya our bar said limit 2. But it was a college bar across the street from campus of one of the biggest drinking campuses in the nation. Let's just say it was loosely enforced, at best.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2025 10:59 PM (MGB5H)

Oh and they had buckets of beer. Not buckets of beer like we have now. A like 5 gallon maybe bigger bucket full of draft beer that you dipped cups and pitchers in at your table.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2025 11:02 PM (MGB5H)

223 Just to clear this up, the dad was 100% supportive. The oddness in going after the mom and not the dad is just weird, and I am sure we will figure out why. And no, it’s not because he might be a 3rd tier dod contractor. Maybe a big donator? The dad parked his butt on the sidewalk where his son murdered children! His mom lawyered up, which is probably smart, even if I hate it. Probably for the incoming civil suits at the very least.
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2025 10:57 PM (Wmg4n)

Does anyone know where mommy is? The police somehow can't talk to her royal highness.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 28, 2025 11:02 PM (6PCLE)

224

Gov. Gavin Newsom Thursday announced he will be deploying new California Highway Patrol teams dedicated to crime suppression in partnership with local law enforcement agencies in areas including Los Angeles, San Diego, the Inland Empire and Sacramento, among others.

https://t.ly/ib3Gw

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 28, 2025 11:02 PM (63Dwl)

225 The dad parked his butt on the sidewalk where his son murdered children! His mom lawyered up, which is probably smart, even if I hate it. Probably for the incoming civil suits at the very least.
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2025 10:57 PM (Wmg4n)

Was his Dad there during the shooting? Then he is an accessory. Hang him. Meat hook or piano wire.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2025 11:03 PM (n7HB7)

226 Gov. Gavin Newsom Thursday announced he will be deploying new California Highway Patrol teams dedicated to crime suppression in partnership with local law enforcement agencies in areas including Los Angeles, San Diego, the Inland Empire and Sacramento, among others.

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BUT DID HE ANNOUNCE IT IN ALL CAPS?

*snort*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 28, 2025 11:03 PM (dDmld)

227
Over geological/astronomical time scales, the number of mean solar days per tropical year is far from constant, mainly due to tidal slowing of the earth's rotation due to the Moon (and the Sun itself second).

Aronund 65M years ago, when the SMOD wiped out the dinosaurs, the tropical year was a bit over 372 solar days (the actual tropical year, in uniform SI time, was a few minutes shorter than today, but that's really of no consequence).

You could've had 12 months of 31 days each back then. IIRC, you'd need a leap year probably every 3 years then, but the uncertainty is a bit too large to be sure.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2025 11:04 PM (w6EFb)

228 FWIW, bourbon and brown liquor sales will decline. Tequila and rose/light wines sales are up...

It's a mystery...

Posted by: man at August 28, 2025 11:04 PM (xDZRs)

229 Metric system: weights and measures for sheep.

American system: weights and measures for a free people.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2025 11:02 PM (kkTda)

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"My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!"

Abe "Grandpa" Simpson

Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 28, 2025 11:04 PM (bOODJ)

230 BTW, today is Jack Kirby's birthday - creator of practically all of the Marvel silver-age characters. Born in New York City, 1917. Gone, but definitely not forgotten.

Posted by: Nemo at August 28, 2025 11:05 PM (4RPgu)

231 Most unhinged way to save a dollar?

Sneak the credit card out of Bride of PI's purse and hide it.

The results are savage in both the money savings and in the repercussions on the chief Idiot!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at August 28, 2025 11:06 PM (HlyYF)

232 Fucking Gavin Newsom is finally going do his fucking job?

He had to be shamed into it?

Piece of shit.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 28, 2025 11:06 PM (dDmld)

233 Oh and they had buckets of beer. Not buckets of beer like we have now. A like 5 gallon maybe bigger bucket full of draft beer that you dipped cups and pitchers in at your table.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2025 11:02 PM (MGB5H)

When I was in college during the Civil War, we had kegs in ice in bathtubs and thought this was normal. A line would form to use the toilet; another to get more beer. No one questioned this unsanitary idea, we just wanted beer and rock and roll.

I am sure now there are clean tubs for this. My roommate and I had half of the hospital 3-11 staff show up for parties in a century old duplex. Wall to wall people. Some we did not know as word spread. Somehow, in this rental, nothing happened to the house. There is no way I'd do this now, owning a house. I'd be counting the silver.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 28, 2025 11:07 PM (6PCLE)

234 What is fear of another Friday the 13th movie called?

sensus communis.

Posted by: clarence at August 28, 2025 11:08 PM (Qb8z2)

235
Was his Dad there during the shooting? Then he is an accessory. Hang him. Meat hook or piano wire.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2025 11:03 PM (n7HB7)

I think his house sidewalk was where daddy sat. In shame, I think. Not at the church. Mommy supposedly answered the phone once weeping, but it could have been a sister.

It is a mystery family. I want them in a line up.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 28, 2025 11:10 PM (6PCLE)

236 64 Sting may have written the lyrics to the songs but the band made the music.

And even though Sting has gone on to have a good solo career, nothing he's done is better than his work in The Police.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 28, 2025 10:18 PM (XV/Pl)

Yesterday I was having a hemidemisemithread about bands that had Top 10 (or 5)-level band members. Yes and Zep could be counted - with Zep having 4/4 Top 5-level members. The Police had 2/3 Top 10-level, with 1/3 being really, really good.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 28, 2025 11:10 PM (BaQol)

237 That's a good frugal list. Stopped before endless scrolling and it was entertaining and not nearly as redundant as I expected. Only one or two made me sick thinking about.

Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at August 28, 2025 11:10 PM (KaHlS)

238 Crashing weddings at hotels where you stay !
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2025 10:39 PM (g47mK)

Heh.
I was in Tampa years ago and asked the hotel concierge for a nice simple small Cuban place to eat. She sent me to this one very nice place. I was one of two there. Had a very nice dinner and then noticed they were closing...clearly early. I got up to leave. Oh No senior! You will join us!
Turns out the the owner's daughter was getting married and I was invited to the reception. OMG! I had a wonderful time. It is a wonderful memory.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2025 11:10 PM (2WIwB)

239 Ben Had, if you are here, do you know of a junkyard or collector out east of Corsicana who has a big heap of Mercedes Benz cars? On Hwy. 31.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2025 11:11 PM (n7HB7)

240 Gov. Gavin Newsom Thursday announced...

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I think I see the problem.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2025 11:12 PM (RIvkX)

241 Dang! I'd forgotten alla bout the mystery click song. I love it. I seem to remember it with a quicker tempo - maybe it was the radio version. Either way, thanks for the ONT Mr Doof!

Posted by: 496 at August 28, 2025 11:13 PM (vOlV0)

242 Gov. Gavin Newsom Thursday announced...

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I think I see the problem.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2025 11:12 PM (RIvkX)

It's all a show. Just like when he cleaned up for a weekend cause Chyna was coming. There will be no real result from that.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2025 11:13 PM (MGB5H)

243 Speaking of 'splody things, I posted this earlier today.

Here we see the IDF creating multiple job openings in the Houthi regime. They'll likely only be temporary, though.

https://tinyurl.com/4p66w75v

Ka-Fucking-BOOM.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 28, 2025 11:14 PM (qpyNK)

244 Hi guys :-)

Have a great night.

Posted by: Joyenz at August 28, 2025 11:14 PM (2F0/Y)

245 Gov. Gavin Newsom Thursday announced he will be deploying new California Highway Patrol teams dedicated to crime suppression in partnership with local law enforcement agencies in areas including Los Angeles, San Diego, the Inland Empire and Sacramento, among others.

Thank you, governor, for doing your fucking job.
Here. Here's a cookie. Chris Rock made it, twenty years ago. Might be a little stale.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 28, 2025 11:16 PM (gKWVE)

246 236 64 Sting may have written the lyrics to the songs but the band made the music.

And even though Sting has gone on to have a good solo career, nothing he's done is better than his work in The Police.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 28, 2025 10:18 PM (XV/Pl)
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There are some videos on YouTube that Stewart Copeland does talking about how he came up with some of the beats on the Police songs. He's a bit of a free spirit...and one thing he said pretty much sums up the Police. He said (paraphrase) "Sting is a real bastard sometimes. A perfectionist which is the bane of my existence. BUT, Sting is also a musical genius when it comes to writing songs and making them work. I hate the guy and admire him beyond belief at the same time."

Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2025 11:16 PM (dIske)

247 Fucking Gavin Newsom is finally going do his fucking job?
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Gavin Newsom doesn't do anything.

He talks about doing things.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2025 11:16 PM (RIvkX)

248 Polish F-16 crash. Looks like the pilot was doing a loop, but didn't allow for enough altitude to complete it.

Had a similar incident in the early 2000s with the USAF Thunderbirds at Mountain Home AFB, Idaho. Pilot needed a 3000 feet diameter circle to make a loop. He climbed to 5000 feet and started down. Unfortunately, MHAFB sits at 3000 feet above sea level.

Pilot successfully ejected. Nobody was hurt on the ground. Turned out somebody had forgotten to reset the plane's altimeter.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 28, 2025 11:18 PM (l8IGe)

249 Was his Dad there during the shooting? Then he is an accessory. Hang him. Meat hook or piano wire.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at

No, at the disgusting political rally the day after. The mom has lived in FL for a few years, she did not live with the son or in Minneapolis, but the dad did. There are like 5 kids? Have to go back and count. Search warrants were issued and electronics and cell phone seized. Maybe he called mom before he did it and now she is concerned she didn’t call police. Completely speculative on my part. Maybe dad is cooperating and that is why he isn’t being tarred and feathered like the mom.

Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2025 11:18 PM (Wmg4n)

250 Gavin Newsom doesn't do anything.

He talks about doing things.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2025 11:16 PM (RIvkX)

He means well. That's what's important. Results are for losers.

Posted by: RickZ at August 28, 2025 11:18 PM (gKDq2)

251 Turns out the the owner's daughter was getting married and I was invited to the reception. OMG! I had a wonderful time. It is a wonderful memory.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2025 11:10 PM (2WIwB)

Columbia Restaurant? One of our favorites.

Did you go to Bern's Steak House? My father loved that place.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 28, 2025 11:19 PM (6PCLE)

252 I have always liked Crown Royal. It was my favorite whiskey.
However my Doctor made me cut way back on drinking because of the blood pressure meds he put me on. I have a small window where I can drink a little each day if I want to. I never drank too much in the summer anyway but when the cold weather hits I will take a drink about everyday. Keeps the colds away.

Posted by: Case at August 28, 2025 11:19 PM (iwlvf)

253 I saw the Police in the summer 1983 during their Synchronicity stadium tour. 42 years ago....yikes!

Posted by: joemarine at August 28, 2025 11:19 PM (y171U)

254 228 FWIW, bourbon and brown liquor sales will decline. Tequila and rose/light wines sales are up...

It's a mystery...
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Children

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2025 11:19 PM (fLFhi)

255 He means well. That's what's important. Results are for losers.
Posted by: RickZ at August 28, 2025 11:18 PM

Suggested note: he acts like he means well.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2025 11:19 PM (MGB5H)

256 Maybe dad is cooperating and that is why he isn’t being tarred and feathered like the mom.
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2025 11:18 PM (Wmg4n)

Glad you are finding out stuff, Piper.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 28, 2025 11:20 PM (6PCLE)

257 So I watched the Chicago documentary. I don't recommend it. It was produced by mostly the current lineup of the band, with some participation from former members, including Danny Seraphin, but some, like Peter Cetera, wanted nothing to do with it. Because it had a long, long history to cover and it was told from the present perspective, they spent way too little time on the band's early and best years, and way too much time on when the current members joined and what they were doing now. (Did you know they still tour and perform about 150 days a year at a venue near you?) A normal movie watcher would think the real moment of critical tension would be when Terry Kath shot himself. But no, that was an unfortunate downer incident that happened a long time ago; the real moment of critical tension was when they fired Danny Seraphin. Then I realized that this was a movie made by musicians, and to them, firing the drummer (and the drama that must have surrounded it) probably was a bigger tragedy in their lives than one of the band members dying a long time ago that they didn't want to dwell on anyway.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 28, 2025 11:20 PM (eStot)

258 https://tinyurl.com/4p66w75v

I had to watch that a few times

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2025 11:21 PM (RIvkX)

259 > 230 BTW, today is Jack Kirby's birthday - creator of practically all of the Marvel silver-age characters. Born in New York City, 1917. Gone, but definitely not forgotten.
Posted by: Nemo at August 28, 2025 11:05 PM (4RPgu)

Helped kill more than a few Nazis, too.

He was put on recon, assigned to sneak into towns and draw maps of the German positions.

Not the safest job in the war, to be sure.

Truly the Greatest Generation.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 28, 2025 11:23 PM (qpyNK)

260 I did write a program that would give the current date on the Hobbit calendar. Never ported it forward from the Shack Model I, though. 😲

https://youtu.be/y6NSdGL8czw

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - if sleepy then goto bed at August 28, 2025 11:23 PM (HETr4)

261 Blowin' up liquorish. Is this what it's come to? Oh, nevermind...

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 28, 2025 11:25 PM (mlg/3)

262 256 Maybe dad is cooperating and that is why he isn’t being tarred and feathered like the mom.
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2025 11:18 PM (Wmg4n)

Glad you are finding out stuff, Piper.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 28, 2025 11:20 PM (6PCLE)

It’s just all over x. I am not ready to jump on the Alex Jones CIA plant, though. I think he was a whacko with indulgent, liberal parents who refused to admit he had schizo affective disorder. It’s hard to admit you raised a monster, I suppose.

Really going to bed now! Night!

Posted by: Piper from the pool at August 28, 2025 11:25 PM (ZdaMQ)

263 I want a doormat with this printed on it:

"Does anyone else know that you're here?"

Posted by: JQ at August 28, 2025 11:25 PM (rdVOm)

264 72 There are some really smart ideas there, too. What say you, thrifty Hordelings - any suggestions?
Posted by: Doof

I collected sugar packets. Used them in any recipe that called for a teaspoon of sugar. Pancakes, brownies, French Toast (scans room for CBD bots - they're everywhere..). Most were left back in Cali, so I'll need to rebuild here in Florida...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 28, 2025 11:26 PM (nbLIj)

265 258 https://tinyurl.com/4p66w75v I had to watch that a few times Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2025 11:21 PM (RIvkX)

How did whoever had the phone happen to be in camera mode pointing right at the point of impact right when it happened?

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 28, 2025 11:26 PM (eStot)

266 I read in the memoirs of one of the Golden Age science fiction authors that during the Depression he and his friends would go to a local restaurant, order a cup of coffee each, load it up with free cream and sugar, then use the catsup, hot water (provided for tea), and free saltines to make what they called "tomato soup".

Sometimes that was all they had to eat (no food stamps/SNAP in those days).

As I recall the waiters knew exactly what they were doing, but never said a word.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 28, 2025 11:28 PM (qpyNK)

267 Pilot successfully ejected. Nobody was hurt on the ground. Turned out somebody had forgotten to reset the plane's altimeter.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 28, 2025 11:18 PM (l8IGe)

Remember when the entire Thunderbird team got killed because they all keyed on the leader, who made a mistake looking during practice? (1982)

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2025 11:28 PM (jjpbs)

268 Columbia Restaurant? One of our favorites.

Did you go to Bern's Steak House? My father loved that place.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 28, 2025 11:19 PM (6PCLE)

No.
Straight up Dale Mabry from MacDill. It was a small almost house looking place on the left. I was headed out to Somalia. They made me feel wonderful. I'll never forget it.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2025 11:28 PM (2WIwB)

269 Chalice

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 28, 2025 11:29 PM (IMKWe)

270 He means well. That's what's important. Results are for losers.
Posted by: RickZ at August 28, 2025 11:18 PM (gKDq2)
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In all honesty I'm not sure he is capable of forming intentionality.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2025 11:30 PM (RIvkX)

271 How did whoever had the phone happen to be in camera mode pointing right at the point of impact right when it happened?
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Not what I saw. The film started after impact.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2025 11:32 PM (RIvkX)

272 > How did whoever had the phone happen to be in camera mode pointing right at the point of impact right when it happened?
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 28, 2025 11:26 PM (eStot)

I'm guessing that Israel has many assets in that city.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 28, 2025 11:32 PM (qpyNK)

273 I'll never forget it.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2025 11:28 PM (2WIwB)

Very cool. I love Cuban food. One son lived in Tampa for two years at USF and we'd visit.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 28, 2025 11:32 PM (6PCLE)

274 The sexual habits of those creeps (if they aren't active why are they doing it?) and the people they associated with in day to day is life is something all the stories overlook and may be an important aspect of the shooting an the whole trans lifestyle moving them away from mainstream into complete insanity.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2025 11:33 PM (fLFhi)

275 > Not what I saw. The film started after impact.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2025 11:32 PM (RIvkX)

Sure enough. There's a smoke plume already visible when the video starts, well before the secondary explosions kick in.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 28, 2025 11:34 PM (qpyNK)

276 Pilot successfully ejected. Nobody was hurt on the ground. Turned out somebody had forgotten to reset the plane's altimeter.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

I'm no aviator BUT - when you are the PIC aren't you the PIC?

Posted by: Tonypete at August 28, 2025 11:34 PM (cYBz/)

277 If you spent a career building barrels but then switched to producing fancy drinking goblets,
Would that make you a Chalice Cooper?

Just asking questions.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 28, 2025 11:34 PM (dDmld)

278 Salt packets thing sounds legit, at least if you're just topping it off...

Posted by: RandomDave at August 28, 2025 11:35 PM (aJQbY)

279
I got interested in the history of the Julian Calendar. By the time of Julius Caesar, the Roman calendar was pretty fucked up, all out of whack with the seasons.

A Hellenistic astronomer, Sosigenes of Alexandria, was the one who Caesar got to reform the calendar.

He done good. The Julian calendar's 365.25 day estimate of the tropical year is a bit long (which drift led to the Gregorian reform of Easter and all that). I wondered if they were aware that was not quite right, but figured it was good enough for govt. work.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2025 11:35 PM (w6EFb)

280 I'm no aviator BUT - when you are the PIC aren't you the PIC?
Posted by: Tonypete at August 28, 2025 11:34 PM

Ahhhh the old days.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2025 11:37 PM (MGB5H)

281 https://tinyurl.com/483xuc86
The Illustrated Spy Scandal pt 3
Doug ross Substack

Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2025 11:38 PM (+qU29)

282 There are some really smart ideas there, too. What say you, thrifty Hordelings - any suggestions?
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I always pocket a few extra napkins when having coffee at MacDonalds with the geezers. If I get fast food salt/pepper packets, I always save them.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2025 11:39 PM (XeU6L)

283 A Hellenistic astronomer, Sosigenes of Alexandria, was the one who Caesar got to reform the calendar.

He done good. The Julian calendar's 365.25 day estimate of the tropical year is a bit long (which drift led to the Gregorian reform of Easter and all that).
Posted by: publius

This is silly. Why didn't they simply wait for the local funeral homes to leave stacks of the upcoming year's calendars near the front door of the church? It has the next year all worked out.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 28, 2025 11:39 PM (cYBz/)

284
Sosigenes likely knew that estimate was a big long. They were getting pretty good. Over the short term, the difference amounts to 11 minutes. Measuring that over the course of a year was beyond their observational precision, but the drift over the long term, centuries would be noticeable, and they kept meticulous records. Interesting, they knew this long term drift from the seasonal timing of the heliacal rising of Sirius, which the Egyptians were big on.

So, the 1/4 day was just a close enough approximation making for simpler administration and all that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2025 11:39 PM (w6EFb)

285 >>Yemeni media report that Ahmed al-Rahawi, the Houthi-backed Prime Minister, was eliminated ...
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So, Abdul survived?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2025 11:40 PM (fLFhi)

286 A year ago Newsom deployed CHP resources and 450 Flock cameras in Oakland to stop vehicle theft and crime - and sideshow pagans shrugged and went about their business undeterred.

And in n out burger closed.

Posted by: 13times at August 28, 2025 11:43 PM (HvB6r)

287 They need to put a red alert on Calendar Guy. He sounds like he's a half step away from taking an AR -15 and a ton of ammo to.a calendar manufacturer.

Posted by: buddhaha at August 28, 2025 11:44 PM (1CmqZ)

288 And in n out burger closed.
Posted by: 13times
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They're still open but you have to go to Tennessee to get one.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2025 11:45 PM (fLFhi)

289 https://tinyurl.com/4p66w75v

I had to watch that a few times
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Holy shit! Any of you smart military bloggers know what that ordnance might have been?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2025 11:45 PM (XeU6L)

290 If you spent a career building barrels but then switched to producing fancy drinking goblets,
Would that make you a Chalice Cooper?

Just asking questions.
Posted by: Cicero
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Bwahahaha. A barrel of laughs. I'll bet you have a tun of them!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2025 11:48 PM (XeU6L)

291
I always pocket a few extra napkins when having coffee at MacDonalds with the geezers. If I get fast food salt/pepper packets, I always save them.

Posted by: Mike Hammer

Yeah, those go in the lunch box next week.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 28, 2025 11:48 PM (QVmho)

292 the Babylonian calendar which is the basis for ours was based on the Babylonian numerical system which was based on 60, which was their "hundred". This meant the 5 x 12 makes 60, meaning each equivalent to our "10" was a dozen.

In a 60 system, 60^2 is their "thousand" which is also 360, and that means 30 x 12, if you base your computation on the dozen. Their calculation of how many degrees in a circle was 360 like ours today, and their year that nestled within the conception of the heavens circle encompassed 12 zodiacs, more or less.
There was the conception that as above, so below, that the heavens showed what was reflected in the earth.

Now they could have used 13 but 13 is a nasty. prime number and it did not have any real use in computation, counting or any sort of computation of angles

So, 5x 12. 12 being the number of finger joints on a hand, and 5 being the number of fingers and thumb. Easy to calculate, easy to use, making computation of angles simple and . . . A RULE OF THUMB!
This comes out nearly right. Now, they could have based the year

Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2025 11:48 PM (rbvCR)

293 Chalice
Posted by: vmom
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If it's from Texas, it might be a Dallas chalice.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2025 11:50 PM (XeU6L)

294
Good evening, good people, from the seasonal North Country.

May all effort on your part result in maximum benefit to you, and most grievous heartburn on the part of the leftwit fungi.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at August 28, 2025 11:50 PM (hKoQL)

295 30 days and twelve months, and a few extra days to catch up.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2025 11:50 PM (rbvCR)

296 Any of you smart military bloggers know what that ordnance might have been?
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All I know is it blowed up good, real good.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2025 11:51 PM (RIvkX)

297 Any of you smart military bloggers know what that ordnance might have been?
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As a very knowledgeable munitions person, they were the that go BOOOOOM.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2025 11:53 PM (MGB5H)

298 I always pocket a few extra napkins when having coffee at MacDonalds with the geezers. If I get fast food salt/pepper packets, I always save them.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2025 11:39 PM (XeU6L)

Dad would bring home extra straws from buffets he frequented. I still have them...about a hundred, wrapped in their original paper...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 28, 2025 11:53 PM (nbLIj)

299 Holy shit! Any of you smart military bloggers know what that ordnance might have been?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2025 11:45 PM (XeU6L)

Looked to me like a regular bomb hit a big fuel storage facility.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 28, 2025 11:53 PM (l8IGe)

300 https://tinyurl.com/4p66w75v

I had to watch that a few times
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Holy shit! Any of you smart military bloggers know what that ordnance might have been?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
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Looks like they keep their secret meeting place co-located with their weapons dump, fuel dump, and old tires dump.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 28, 2025 11:55 PM (/lPRQ)

301 Dad would bring home extra straws from buffets he frequented. I still have them...about a hundred, wrapped in their original paper...
Posted by: Joe Kidd
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I have all sorts of cellophane-wraped utensils, straws, stirrers.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, Not a hoarder! at August 28, 2025 11:55 PM (XeU6L)

302 A Hellenistic astronomer, Sosigenes of Alexandria, was the one who Caesar got to reform the calendar.

A distant cousin.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2025 11:55 PM (2WIwB)

303
60 is a "superior highly composite number". The precise definition of that gets complex, but it basically means it has many nice integral divisors.

The first few of those are 2, 6, 12, 60, 120, 360. See anything familiar there?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2025 11:55 PM (w6EFb)

304 Looks like they keep their secret meeting place co-located with their weapons dump, fuel dump, and old tires dump.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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Yeah, the plume looks way beyond what an iron bomb would generate.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2025 11:57 PM (XeU6L)

305 A distant cousin.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2025 11:55 PM (2WIwB)

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Oh, climb back in your barrel.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 28, 2025 11:57 PM (dDmld)

306 I'm thinking there was more than one sortie ornit was a "bunker buster"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2025 11:57 PM (RIvkX)

307 See anything familiar there?
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I see math.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2025 11:58 PM (RIvkX)

308
It was the Hellenistic astronomers, finalized by Ptolemy, who gave use minutes and seconds of time, using the sexagesimal rule as for angles.

"Minute" = "mintua prima", the first small part.
"Second" = "mintua secunda", the second small part.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2025 11:59 PM (w6EFb)

309 That series gives me ick because it is missing 90 and 180.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2025 11:59 PM (RIvkX)

310 Holy shit! Any of you smart military bloggers know what that ordnance might have been?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2025 11:45 PM (XeU6L)

Looked to me like a regular bomb hit a big fuel storage facility.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 28, 2025 11:53 PM (l8IGe)

Yeah. Not the ordnance here but the target. Only fuel/oil produces a fireball like that.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 29, 2025 12:01 AM (2WIwB)

311 304 Looks like they keep their secret meeting place co-located with their weapons dump, fuel dump, and old tires dump.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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Yeah, the plume looks way beyond what an iron bomb would generate.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2025 11:57 PM (XeU6L)

Continuing flame.... black smoke... oil fire.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 29, 2025 12:01 AM (mP0Kj)

312 I have all sorts of cellophane-wraped utensils, straws, stirrers.

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Confucius say, one can never have too many chopsticks.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 29, 2025 12:02 AM (dDmld)

313 Looked to me like a regular bomb hit a big fuel storage facility.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 28, 2025 11:53 PM (l8IGe)

It was an Earth-shattering Kaboom!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 29, 2025 12:02 AM (TXY95)

314 Hey Doof? Does Ben Had have your email deets? I wrote a song for the TXMOME and apparently you and Bruce Wayne have been pressed into service to provide supporting vocals. Apologies in advance....

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 29, 2025 12:03 AM (nbLIj)

315 It was the Hellenistic astronomers, finalized by Ptolemy, who gave use minutes and seconds of time, using the sexagesimal rule as for angles.

"Minute" = "mintua prima", the first small part.
"Second" = "mintua secunda", the second small part.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2025 11:59 PM (w6EFb)

Is this like prima nocta?
Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 29, 2025 12:04 AM (2WIwB)

316 Doof? Does Ben Had have your email deets? I wrote a song for the TXMOME and apparently you and Bruce Wayne have been pressed into service to provide supporting vocals. Apologies in advance....
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 29, 2025 12:03 AM

EXCUSE ME?! I do 90s rap. Semi poorly. I don't sing!

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 12:04 AM (MGB5H)

317 The Calendar Guy sounds a bit out there towards the end of the video. The fact that he doesn’t mention intercalary days bothers me: seems like he is more interested in his “perfect calendar” than reality. Also, the week starts on Sunday!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 29, 2025 12:06 AM (Hxgql)

318 I'm a cheapskate:

Will buy *one* each (early as I can find them) of several pretty plants for my outdoor pots, and take cuttings to make more. Lovely patio/deck, on a strict budget!

Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2025 12:07 AM (rdVOm)

319 60 is a "superior highly composite number". The precise definition of that gets complex, but it basically means it has many nice integral divisors.

The first few of those are 2, 6, 12, 60, 120, 360. See anything familiar there?
Posted by: publius
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Waaay back when I was working on a novel algorithm for my Sudoku solver, I 'discovered' that the sequence 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, when treated as a number 123456789, would always be divisble by 9, regardless of the arrangement of the digits. I had to think about that for while.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2025 12:07 AM (XeU6L)

320 Waaay back when I was working on a novel algorithm for my Sudoku solver, I 'discovered' that the sequence 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, when treated as a number 123456789, would always be divisble by 9, regardless of the arrangement of the digits. I had to think about that for while.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2025 12:07 AM (XeU6L)

MATHS!!!!
REEEeeeeee!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 29, 2025 12:09 AM (2WIwB)

321 Is this like prima nocta?
Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Diogenes
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Sloppy secunda nocta.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2025 12:09 AM (fLFhi)

322 The yield of the Licorne test is enough to reasonably believe the French have fusion bombs. Interestingly, although the British claimed to have H-bombs all through the Cold War, they really didn’t: they just had high yield A-bombs. I think they could’ve developed fusion bombs: I think they just never budgeted for its development. They certainly had the brainpower.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 29, 2025 12:12 AM (Hxgql)

323 Posted by: joemarine at August 28, 2025 11:19 PM (y171U)

I saw them on that too. Foxboro, ma

Posted by: Bob Crane at August 29, 2025 12:12 AM (OERWa)

324 The Paolo, he gets all the notti.

Posted by: Paolo at August 29, 2025 12:13 AM (gKWVE)

325 More cheapskate gardening:

I've taken seeds from plants outside businesses, and started them at home. Got some lovely red zinnias from a Toyota dealership, LOL.

Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2025 12:13 AM (rdVOm)

326 What was that about the shooter's dad on the sidewalk?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 29, 2025 12:14 AM (IMKWe)

327 >> 'discovered' that the sequence 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, when treated as a number 123456789, would always be divisble by 9,

There's a rule there, IIRC, looking it up....

Yep, if the sum of digits is a multiple of nine, then the number is a multiple of nine. The sum doesn't depend on the order, so any permutation of the digits will still be divisible by 9.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 29, 2025 12:14 AM (w6EFb)

328 Doof? Does Ben Had have your email deets? I wrote a song for the TXMOME and apparently you and Bruce Wayne have been pressed into service to provide supporting vocals. Apologies in advance....
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 29, 2025 12:03 AM

Is this like a barber shop quartet thing?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2025 12:16 AM (snZF9)

329
There are some "cheap parlor tricks" based on that and similar relations. It starts with telling someone to pick a number, any number, between such and such. Then have them do a little arithmetic and you tell them the result.

It all has to do with any number will yield the same answer.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 29, 2025 12:16 AM (w6EFb)

330 What was that about the shooter's dad on the sidewalk?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 29, 2025 12:14 AM (IMKWe)

He was sitting on the sidewalk today at their lame ass gun protest.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 12:16 AM (MGB5H)

331 More cheapskate gardening:

I've taken seeds from plants outside businesses, and started them at home. Got some lovely red zinnias from a Toyota dealership, LOL.

Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2025 12:13 AM (rdVOm)

Sounds more like guerilla farming. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2025 12:17 AM (snZF9)

332 Doof? Does Ben Had have your email deets? I wrote a song for the TXMOME and apparently you and Bruce Wayne have been pressed into service to provide supporting vocals. Apologies in advance....
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 29, 2025 12:03 AM

Is this like a barber shop quartet thing?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2025 12:16 AM (snZF9)

No wants to hear me in that!

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 12:17 AM (MGB5H)

333 Messing with that, where a day would not be a day of the week would be unthinkable.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2025 10:58 PM (w6EFb)

We could just call it Gary.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 29, 2025 12:17 AM (w6EFb)

334 318 I'm a cheapskate:

Will buy *one* each (early as I can find them) of several pretty plants for my outdoor pots, and take cuttings to make more. Lovely patio/deck, on a strict budget!
Posted by: JQ
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Did that with my aglaonema, bought pots and dirt and all kinds of things the youtube said. The only survivor was a stem from the original plant and one other stem that fell off on its own.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2025 12:17 AM (fLFhi)

335
Yep, if the sum of digits is a multiple of nine, then the number is a multiple of nine. The sum doesn't depend on the order, so any permutation of the digits will still be divisible by 9.
Posted by: publius
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Of course, but it took a bit of thinking on my part to figure it out.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2025 12:18 AM (XeU6L)

336 The dad who didn't keep guns away from the asshole is protesting guns? He should be protesting himself.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 29, 2025 12:18 AM (gKWVE)

337 We could just call it Gary.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 29, 2025 12:17 AM (w6EFb)

Jeremy Beriamy

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 12:19 AM (MGB5H)

338 Yep, if the sum of digits is a multiple of nine, then the number is a multiple of nine. The sum doesn't depend on the order, so any permutation of the digits will still be divisible by 9.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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Still sounds rather mysterious.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2025 12:20 AM (fLFhi)

339 The only survivor was a stem from the original plant and one other stem that fell off on its own.
Posted by: Braenyard
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But you *tried*-- that's awesome!

Tropicals can be tricky. Sometimes is better to divide a clump, especially if they have multiple stems.

Keep trying!

Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2025 12:22 AM (rdVOm)

340 No wants to hear me in that!

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 12:17 AM (MGB5H)

I couldn't get arrested as a singer.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2025 12:22 AM (snZF9)

341 To save money, I get my smokes from the ashtrays outside convenience stores. You would be surprised how many 1/2 smoked butts there are.

Posted by: Low Standard Stu at August 29, 2025 12:24 AM (szqEY)

342 I couldn't get arrested as a singer.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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LOL. I could. Especially if I began to 'sing' in public. They'd have me arrested, just to stop the noise!

Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2025 12:25 AM (rdVOm)

343 https://tinyurl.com/4p66w75v

I had to watch that a few times
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Holy shit! Any of you smart military bloggers know what that ordnance might have been?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2025 11:45 PM (XeU6L)

Damn, I think it's called the biggus dickus.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2025 12:26 AM (snZF9)

344 277 If you spent a career building barrels but then switched to producing fancy drinking goblets,
Would that make you a Chalice Cooper?

Just asking questions.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 28, 2025 11:34 PM (dDmld)

What if you make really tiny barrels? Mini Cooper?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at August 29, 2025 12:27 AM (pIfcn)

345 The Suburban rehab slouches towards its conclusion. Got most of the transmission-adjacent wire harness sorted out and connected to its sockets. One big fat harness was in the wrong place, and a pair of wires going from it down to the starter precluded shifting it. So I clipped those down at the starter, moved the harness, enabling two other connectors to be plugged in, and then spliced new wire onto the clipped ones, jacketed them, and slipped that jacket down the tubular heat shield provided for them. Old wires had been spliced before, heh. I used the right color wires, and soldered and heat-shrunk the splices.

Basically, what I have left to down underneath is a couple of harness plugs for the O2 sensors, an exhaust pipe (one side), and front and rear drive shafts. All pretty easy stuff. Then lower it down again, and fan, radiator, power steering pressure line, rad hoses, upper engine harness, A/C, and alternator.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 29, 2025 12:28 AM (TXY95)

346 LOL. I could. Especially if I began to 'sing' in public. They'd have me arrested, just to stop the noise!

Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2025 12:25 AM (rdVOm)

I can't even talk and play guitar. 6 years of drums and 5 decades of guitar both locked together in my head. Adding anything another timing like speaking isn't happening. Not enough RAM. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2025 12:29 AM (snZF9)

347 I'm currently attempting to root some cuttings from neighbor's boxwood hedge. (Yes, I got permission.)

Would like to extend the hedge onto my property, and want it to match the existing bushes.

*fingers crossed*

Shrubs are more difficult.

Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2025 12:29 AM (rdVOm)

348 Is this like a barber shop quartet thing?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2025 12:16 AM (snZF9)

No wants to hear me in that!
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 12:17 AM (MGB5H)

Apparently, Ben Had does.

Very briefly, I wrote something that riffs on CSNY's Woodstock. Sent it to BH for her amusement. She wants me to send it to Doof and said she's hoping me, you and Doof would perform it. I can do a passable take on Stills' vocals but Crosby and Nash are beyond my range. Sooo...here we are...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 29, 2025 12:29 AM (nbLIj)

349 The dad who didn't keep guns away from the asshole is protesting guns? He should be protesting himself.
Posted by: gKWVE at August 29, 2025 12:18 AM (gKWVE)

If he had any sense of shame, he would suck-start a Glock.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 29, 2025 12:30 AM (TXY95)

350 Adding anything another timing like speaking isn't happening. Not enough RAM. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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I understand this! LOL

Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2025 12:32 AM (rdVOm)

351 >> Still sounds rather mysterious.

It also works with the digit 3. Look that up and you can see the proof of how it works. I'll respect the no math rule and not try to type it, and I'd probably get it wrong anyway.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 29, 2025 12:33 AM (w6EFb)

352 Bourbon belongs in a bottle, not a can.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at August 29, 2025 12:33 AM (KAi1n)

353 Hall and Oats also relatively recently sued each other.

Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2025 12:33 AM (EYmYM)

354 LOL. I could. Especially if I began to 'sing' in public. They'd have me arrested, just to stop the noise!
Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2025 12:25 AM (rdVOm

I don't think I'd be arrested for singing, but def have a "sir you're upsetting the wildlife" interaction.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 12:34 AM (MGB5H)

355 We did the lemon and sugar thing because my college volleyball coach wouldn't let us order soft drinks on road trips.

Posted by: nogooddeed at August 29, 2025 12:34 AM (4Af9R)

356 https://tinyurl.com/4p66w75v

I had to watch that a few times
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Looking at it again, at the very opening of the vid, there is a plume on the far right for just a heartbeat, then, what is apparently a secondary explosion.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2025 12:34 AM (XeU6L)

357 I wonder how they got the perfect hole in the clouds for that photo of the French nuke test? Or is that the shock wave from the blast sweeping the clouds before it?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 29, 2025 12:35 AM (TXY95)

358 In accounting, if the number you are off when balancing is divisible by 9 then you have transposed a number. That number will be a multiple of 9, say 27 instead of 72.

Posted by: clarence at August 29, 2025 12:35 AM (Qb8z2)

359 I want to see The Police do a show like Simon and Garfunkel in Central Park and never look at each other the whole time.

Posted by: nogooddeed at August 29, 2025 12:35 AM (4Af9R)

360 Apparently, Ben Had does.

Very briefly, I wrote something that riffs on CSNY's Woodstock. Sent it to BH for her amusement. She wants me to send it to Doof and said she's hoping me, you and Doof would perform it. I can do a passable take on Stills' vocals but Crosby and Nash are beyond my range. Sooo...here we are...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 29, 2025 12:29 AM (nbLIj

Well Ben Had gets what she wants esp at the MoMe. But my range is 2 notes. So it ain't gonna be good. Hahah

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 12:36 AM (MGB5H)

361 Hall and Oats also relatively recently sued each other.
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2025 12:33 AM (EYmYM)

It's a floor wax! No, it's a cereal!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 29, 2025 12:36 AM (TXY95)

362 he had any sense of shame, he would suck-start a Glock.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 29, 2025 12:30 AM (TXY95)

I say shotgun.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 12:37 AM (MGB5H)

363 350 Adding anything another timing like speaking isn't happening. Not enough RAM. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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I understand this! LOL
Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2025 12:32 AM (rdVOm)

BB King also. He could play, or he could sing. Never both...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 29, 2025 12:38 AM (nbLIj)

364 My mom worked as a Motel housekeeper and the owner went nuts when he saw her throwing out a torn vacuum bag. He said, I have scotch tape in the office.

Posted by: Irish Curmudgeon at August 29, 2025 12:38 AM (J4sZI)

365
Is it me, or are there secondary explosions a couple blocks away in that Houthi explosion?

I'll bet that little bang is gonna grow some before it stops detonating.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at August 29, 2025 12:38 AM (hKoQL)

366 BB King also. He could play, or he could sing. Never both...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 29, 2025 12:38 AM (nbLIj)

Saw him at HoB in Chicago in like 08. Glad I got to see him.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 12:40 AM (MGB5H)

367 My mom worked as a Motel housekeeper and the owner went nuts when he saw her throwing out a torn vacuum bag. He said, I have scotch tape in the office.
Posted by: Irish Curmudgeon at August 29, 2025 12:38 AM (J4sZI)

Good luck with that. With all the dust permeating the bag, no tape will stick.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 29, 2025 12:40 AM (TXY95)

368 The Mayan calendar

Perhaps inconvenient

Sacrifices must be made

Posted by: Crazy Miklos' Tzompantli Family Fun Park and Elvis-themed Wedding Chapel at August 29, 2025 12:41 AM (j0Rup)

369 Adding anything another timing like speaking isn't happening. Not enough RAM. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Hahah same I played drums in my youth and no
In hell could I sing while I did it.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 12:42 AM (MGB5H)

370 My mom worked as a Motel housekeeper and the owner went nuts when he saw her throwing out a torn vacuum bag. He said, I have scotch tape in the office.
Posted by: Irish Curmudgeon
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Wow, you just reminded me:

Mom had this canister vac, when I was little. Money was tight and bags were expensive. (later, bags were discontinued) So, Mom discovered that the big brown grocery bags would fit in the unit...

My older brother inherited that vac! *mumblety* years later--- It. Still. Works!

Can't remember the brand.

Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2025 12:43 AM (rdVOm)

371 And I know "cheap" when it comes to vacuums. I routinely rinse out and reuse the paper filter discs in my shop vacs.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 29, 2025 12:43 AM (TXY95)

372 Hahah same I played drums in my youth and no
In hell could I sing while I did it.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 12:42 AM (MGB5H)

So you know the deal. Walking and chewing gum isn't happening. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2025 12:45 AM (snZF9)

373 Why would it matter how many ‘months’ there are as long as together they contain 365 days ( and change)

Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2025 12:46 AM (EYmYM)

374 "Is it me, or are there secondary explosions a couple blocks away in that Houthi explosion?"

I assumed the other explosions were other bombs hitting other targets.

When the Russians use their FABs (precision guided glide bombs) in Ukraine, they typically drop four at a time, which hit four different targets in the same general area.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 29, 2025 12:46 AM (l8IGe)

375 More cheapskate gardening:

I've taken seeds from plants outside businesses, and started them at home. Got some lovely red zinnias from a Toyota dealership, LOL.
Posted by: JQ

Wife used to pinch plants at botanical gardens.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 29, 2025 12:46 AM (/lPRQ)

376 Hahah same I played drums in my youth and no
In hell could I sing while I did it.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 12:42 AM (MGB5H)

So you know the deal. Walking and chewing gum isn't happening. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2025 12:45 AM (snZF9)

I wouldn't say I was a good drummer but I wasn't bad. But my brain was 2/4/2/4/2/4/break/cymbol. There is no room for words

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 12:47 AM (MGB5H)

377 That’s why I like to watch Daryl’s House. It amazes me how they multitask singing and playing.

Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2025 12:48 AM (EYmYM)

378 Play drums & sing... (not even Phil Collins, LOL)

youtu.be/U_DQPTdEaik

Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2025 12:48 AM (rdVOm)

379 So you know the deal. Walking and chewing gum isn't happening. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2025 12:45 AM (snZF9)

Years ago, I signed a non-compete agreement with Frank Sinatra. I agreed not to sing, and he agreed not to sit wells. He held his end up, so I am honor-bound to do likewise.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 29, 2025 12:48 AM (TXY95)

380 Fair enough, AOP.

Posted by: nogooddeed at August 29, 2025 12:49 AM (4Af9R)

381 33 Ya gotta admit. Nukes have a place.
They settle so many problems.
And they have their own special kind of beauty.

Their biggest gift to humanity so far is they so far have deterred the selfish jerks who run things from starting WW3. They have never really cared about troops or civilians as much as their egos but nukes made it problematic that they themselves would be ok, win OR lose in the end

Posted by: azjaeger at August 29, 2025 12:49 AM (3/XaG)

382 369 Adding anything another timing like speaking isn't happening. Not enough RAM. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Hahah same I played drums in my youth and no
In hell could I sing while I did it.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 12:42 AM (MGB5H)

Drumming and singing is a next-level skill. The guy that backed Paul Mccartney did it. Hell, even Ringo pulled it off. Damned if I know how.

Singing while strumming a guitar is kind of second nature to me but singing while hitting a snare and working a kick pedal? Not in my DNA...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 29, 2025 12:50 AM (nbLIj)

383 That’s why I like to watch Daryl’s House. It amazes me how they multitask singing and playing.
Posted by: polynikes

They multitask more at Waffle House

Posted by: Eyewitness Miklos at August 29, 2025 12:50 AM (j0Rup)

384 I wouldn't say I was a good drummer but I wasn't bad. But my brain was 2/4/2/4/2/4/break/cymbol. There is no room for words

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 12:47 AM (MGB5H)

Thats the problem. With the drums going on in my head talking becomes way off time to the drums. I start talking caveman. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2025 12:50 AM (snZF9)

385 Years ago, I signed a non-compete agreement with Frank Sinatra. I agreed not to sing, and he agreed not to sit wells. He held his end up, so I am honor-bound to do likewise.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 29, 2025 12:48 AM (TXY95)

*snort*

Are the descendants bound?

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 12:51 AM (MGB5H)

386 Levon Helm was not too shabby as a drummer who sang.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 29, 2025 12:51 AM (TXY95)

387 I hate to admit I’m a waster and live in a disposable world now. I’d have to go back to when I was young, dumb and broke to recall all the dollar saving things I did.

Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2025 12:51 AM (EYmYM)

388 Thats the problem. With the drums going on in my head talking becomes way off time to the drums. I start talking caveman. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2025 12:50 AM (snZF9)

Hi...my...name...is...

Yup been there

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 12:52 AM (MGB5H)

389 Posted by: Eyewitness Miklos at August 29, 2025 12:50 AM (j0Ru

Why you gotta be a hater.

😉

Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2025 12:53 AM (EYmYM)

390 The best Dollar stretcher story I have is I sold Real Estate in the early 80's in the Winter Park, CO Area, There was a big Resort Hotel there that did a huge summer business of conferences. The Conference arrival table was right next to one of the bars and were usually staffed by a couple folks. After abt 9:00 PM there were always a few name tags left from no-shows so I'd wait till the table folks took a bathroom break and I'd grab a name tag and hit all the hospitality suites with great liquor and appetizers. I'd mingle and talk shop with the attendees, Insurance, medical devices, you name it. Was Hilarious. Met some hot chicks and ate and drank like a king.

Posted by: DBCooper at August 29, 2025 12:54 AM (z3RCW)

391 Wasn't there a blues song about money, and "squeezing a dollar until the eagle grins"?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 29, 2025 12:55 AM (TXY95)

392 In accounting, if the number you are off when balancing is divisible by 9 then you have transposed a number. That number will be a multiple of 9, say 27 instead of 72.
Posted by: clarence at August 29, 2025 12:35 AM (Qb8z2)

Good info !

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 29, 2025 12:55 AM (WF/xn)

393 Posted by: DBCooper at August 29, 2025 12:54 AM (z3RCW

Always classic, still works at the bigger shows.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 12:56 AM (MGB5H)

394 After abt 9:00 PM there were always a few name tags left from no-shows so I'd wait till the table folks took a bathroom break and I'd grab a name tag and hit all the hospitality suites with great liquor and appetizers. I'd mingle and talk shop with the attendees, Insurance, medical devices, you name it. Was Hilarious. Met some hot chicks and ate and drank like a king.
Posted by: DBCooper at August 29, 2025 12:54 AM (z3RCW)

Hah! Great story. Are you going to be at the MoMee?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 29, 2025 12:57 AM (TXY95)

395 I hate to admit I’m a waster and live in a disposable world now. I’d have to go back to when I was young, dumb and broke to recall all the dollar saving things I did.

Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2025 12:51 AM (EYmYM)

I have the AOP disease. I take shit apart when it breaks just to see what makes it tick. Its also how you end up with 80,000 bits and pieces of shit in your stash to fix things or to repurpose into other things. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2025 12:58 AM (snZF9)

396 That video linked was from a strike a few days ago, pretty sure. Have been away from the web for hours but only saw initial reports of strikes in 3 locations, including Sana'a. Total of 10 2-ton bombs, sound like standard JDAMs. Two sites in other provinces. Damage assessments - i.e. list of those retired - pending (at least public statements thereof).

Posted by: rhomboid at August 29, 2025 12:59 AM (U/Byj)

397 Wasn't there a blues song about money, and "squeezing a dollar until the eagle grins"?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 29, 2025 12:55 AM (TXY95)

Nobody knows you til you're down and out Bessie smith

https://tinyurl.com/ucfhjzza

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 12:59 AM (MGB5H)

398 Always classic, still works at the bigger shows.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 12:56 AM (MGB5H)

Heh. Nobody wants to make a scene. I'll bet you could just get one of those "write-on" name tags, write in your own real name, and go in and mingle, and if anybody asks, you are a "late registration".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 29, 2025 01:00 AM (TXY95)

399 AOP-
No, Probably not. Still busy with Fire Season and it isn't slowing down. The Gov is short a bunch of planes.

Posted by: DBCooper at August 29, 2025 01:00 AM (z3RCW)

400 The best Dollar stretcher story I have is I sold Real Estate in the early 80's in the Winter Park, CO Area, There was a big Resort Hotel there that did a huge summer business of conferences. The Conference arrival table was right next to one of the bars and were usually staffed by a couple folks. After abt 9:00 PM there were always a few name tags left from no-shows so I'd wait till the table folks took a bathroom break and I'd grab a name tag and hit all the hospitality suites with great liquor and appetizers. I'd mingle and talk shop with the attendees, Insurance, medical devices, you name it. Was Hilarious. Met some hot chicks and ate and drank like a king.

Posted by: DBCooper at August 29, 2025 12:54 AM (z3RCW)

Make a movie. The conference crashers.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2025 01:01 AM (snZF9)

401 Heh. Nobody wants to make a scene. I'll bet you could just get one of those "write-on" name tags, write in your own real name, and go in and mingle, and if anybody asks, you are a "late registration".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 29, 2025 01:00 AM (TXY95)

Don't know about today with scanning and stuff, but when I was in my 20s in Chicago we did this all the time. Always shows going on with young ladies that were from out of town that just wanted to see Chicago.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 01:02 AM (MGB5H)

402 You just have to be Trucker smart, listen and then make up some story about something you are developing and people start nodding their heads and then go get more shrimp and another Balvenie on the rocks.

Posted by: DBCooper at August 29, 2025 01:03 AM (z3RCW)

403 Its also how you end up with 80,000 bits and pieces of shit in your stash to fix things or to repurpose into other things. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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IF you can find it when you need it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2025 01:03 AM (XeU6L)

404 Wasn't there a blues song about money, and "squeezing a dollar until the eagle grins"?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 29, 2025 12:55 AM (TXY95)

Nobody knows you til you're down and out Bessie smith

https://tinyurl.com/ucfhjzza
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 12:59 AM (MGB5H)

Good catch!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 29, 2025 01:03 AM (TXY95)

405 Nukes were/are an unambiguous good thing, from every angle. Not even a discussion, really. One of their main virtues since '45 has been to give unserious people and unthinking people an opportunity to demonstrate those qualities, which they have and do.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 29, 2025 01:03 AM (U/Byj)

406 Ok, so lemme reach out to Ben Had. She mentioned karaoke night with Doof hosting. We'll flesh this out and maybe put together a practice or two and get everyone's range dialed in. Here's the original for your reference..

http://tiny.cc/yfhp001

Ny-Tall...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 29, 2025 01:04 AM (nbLIj)

407 On the Hill Tues-Thurs one would ask/sniff around for receptions going on that evening, usually something. No name tags required. Decent free easy dinner. Of course the tasty items not on the tables were always a focus, and often would be abundant.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 29, 2025 01:06 AM (U/Byj)

408 I have the AOP disease. I take shit apart when it breaks just to see what makes it tick. Its also how you end up with 80,000 bits and pieces of shit in your stash to fix things or to repurpose into other things. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2025 12:58 AM (snZF9)

Heh. Last evening I took apart a Lincoln 18 volt Power Luber grease gun. Never had the batteries or the charger for it, and it was a big clumsy piece of work anyway. Got a little motor and a handful of little planetary gears out of it. An old lever-action grease guns suffices for all my needs.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 29, 2025 01:07 AM (TXY95)

409 >> Why would it matter how many ‘months’ there are as long as together they contain 365 days ( and change)

It doesn't at all. That's the difference between a pure solar calendar, which doesn't care about the Moon vs a pure lunar calendar, which just tracks the Moon. And then there were hybrids, luni-solar which tried to align both.

A pure lunar calendar will get out of sync with the seasons quickly, and it's the seasons that are the really important one (think agriculture) -- there are practical reasons underlying the religious with the ancients.

With the Julian calendar the "moonths" became purely vestigal.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 29, 2025 01:08 AM (w6EFb)

410 Good catch!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 29, 2025 01:03 AM (TXY95)

Spent along time in Chicago blues clubs when I lived there. Every once in awhile one sticks. (Saw buddy guy a number of times)

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 01:08 AM (MGB5H)

411 http://tiny.cc/eytr001

Correct link

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 29, 2025 01:08 AM (nbLIj)

412 IF you can find it when you need it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2025 01:03 AM (XeU6L)

I'm big on organizers and tubs of various sizes. The problem is when things stop going into them, and thats always during house renovations. I'm dealing with that right now. The last 2 nights was organizing and consolidating shit in the garage. The absolute seed of doom is that every time you do something there is always leftover hardware, and screws, and bits of shit leftover from projects because either there's extra for different applications, or you use your own better screws from your stash, or whatever, but there is always crap leftover that NOW needs to find a home.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2025 01:09 AM (snZF9)

413 Make a movie. The conference crashers.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2025 01:01 AM (snZF9)

Two average Joes crash a conference, and find it is an organization for professional assassins. Hilarity and hijinks ensue.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 29, 2025 01:10 AM (l8IGe)

414 Heh. Last evening I took apart a Lincoln 18 volt Power Luber grease gun. Never had the batteries or the charger for it, and it was a big clumsy piece of work anyway. Got a little motor and a handful of little planetary gears out of it. An old lever-action grease guns suffices for all my needs.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 29, 2025 01:07 AM (TXY95)

Tinkerfucks unite!

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2025 01:11 AM (snZF9)

415 Interesting. One source has said the IDF operation on the outskirts of Damascus yesterday was to remove Turkish sensors and monitoring equipment. Turks are cruising for a bruising. The Israelis aren't Kurdish militia or civilians. I'm guessing Erdogan will go no further than these sorts of antics, at which they are also vastly outclassed by Israel.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 29, 2025 01:12 AM (U/Byj)

416 IF you can find it when you need it.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2025 01:03 AM (XeU6L)

You are not going to believe this, but I found it when I needed it! "It" being not one, but two of those little omega-shaped wire clips that retain the oil cooler lines in the fittings on the 4L60E transmission. I searched high and low, and then dug into a box I had cleverly labeled as "clips and miscellaneous fasteners", and in a little cloth bag there were several of these, plus hairpin clips, and door handle clips. Mission accomplished.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 29, 2025 01:12 AM (TXY95)

417 I'm big on organizers and tubs of various sizes. The problem is when things stop going into them, and thats always during house renovations. I'm dealing with that right now. The last 2 nights was organizing and consolidating shit in the garage. The absolute seed of doom is that every time you do something there is always leftover hardware, and screws, and bits of shit leftover from projects because either there's extra for different applications, or you use your own better screws from your stash, or whatever, but there is always crap leftover that NOW needs to find a home.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2025 01:09 AM (snZF9)

My shop rn, im big in drawers and bins and labels. My sister who uses it more than me is even crazier about that stuff than me. Yet a lot of moving shit around and moving cars in and out and it's a damn mess (I still have my toolbox with all the pretty cut out foam for every tool)

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 01:13 AM (MGB5H)

418 but there is always crap leftover that NOW needs to find a home.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads
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A tinkerer never throws away parts.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2025 01:14 AM (XeU6L)

419 Spent along time in Chicago blues clubs when I lived there. Every once in awhile one sticks. (Saw buddy guy a number of times)
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 01:08 AM (MGB5H)

I met Buddy Guy and Junior Wells when they played at the King Eddy in Calgary. Both fine gentlemen.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 29, 2025 01:14 AM (TXY95)

420 My shop rn, im big in drawers and bins and labels. My sister who uses it more than me is even crazier about that stuff than me. Yet a lot of moving shit around and moving cars in and out and it's a damn mess (I still have my toolbox with all the pretty cut out foam for every tool)
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 01:13 AM (MGB5H)

Also the bigger shit like the wood that is useful (neither of us want to get rid of any piece what if you need it?) but that's got better. But organizing that is a bitch and a half

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 01:15 AM (MGB5H)

421
The trouble is the sun and the moon just don't commensurate. Trying to do a proper hybrid luni-solar hybrid that keeps in sync with both is huge, complicated mess.

The Moon is a harsh orbital mistress. The main cycle is the synodic month, a complete cycle of phases, new moon to new moon. This averages to 29.53059 (as of J2000 epoch) days. But, maddeningly, due those harsh orbital peculiarities, the length can vary over the course of a better than year by about 13 hours. You have short months and long synodic months.

It pretty close to averages out over what's known as the Metonic cycle, about 19 years. A longer version the Callippic (not to be confused with Callipygian, although both have to do with moons of a sort) cycle of 76 years is a little better.

But no matter how long you stretch it, they ain't gonna balance out.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 29, 2025 01:15 AM (w6EFb)

422 met Buddy Guy and Junior Wells when they played at the King Eddy in Calgary. Both fine gentlemen.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 29, 2025 01:14 AM (TXY95)

Talked to Buddy a number of times because he was around. Very fine gentleman. And super great to talk to. He'd answer your questions and then be like but what about the bears this year. Great guy

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 01:17 AM (MGB5H)

423 Tinkerer, scavenger, gardener... I.

God help me. LOL

Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2025 01:17 AM (rdVOm)

424 Got my free lawn mower started. Oh, but the oil is sludgey. Probably was never changed before. Air filter too...

Love my friend, but she's not mechanically inclined at all and ran that mower until it dropped. Lucky it was just the pull-rope that failed, LOL.

As if I needed another project.

:shrugs:

Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2025 01:23 AM (rdVOm)

425 Also the bigger shit like the wood that is useful (neither of us want to get rid of any piece what if you need it?) but that's got better. But organizing that is a bitch and a half
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 01:15 AM (MGB5H)

I have often figured there would be a great business opportunity in forming a company that does workshop cleanup/organizing. Have a line of storage cases, cabinets, and shelving to sell, and offer the service of sorting a shop's junk and binning it properly. Your crews would be one or two old guys who know what all stuff is, and some young energetic guys to do the searching and binning. You could offer different levels of sorting, and have a cleaning option, too. But I don't know if shop owners or individuals would be willing to pay what it costs to do it right.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 29, 2025 01:25 AM (TXY95)

426 I guess I would have to choose wine skin, chalice, drinking horn and glass goblet as I had all of them at one time in college., I still have the chalice and wine skin.

Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2025 01:26 AM (EYmYM)

427 Got my free lawn mower started. Oh, but the oil is sludgey. Probably was never changed before. Air filter too...

Love my friend, but she's not mechanically inclined at all and ran that mower until it dropped. Lucky it was just the pull-rope that failed, LOL.

As if I needed another project.

:shrugs:
Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2025 01:23 AM (rdVOm)

Well, drain the oil out. Only takes a pint, unless it's a big engine like a riding mower. The engines usually have a drain plug, but opening the "oil" cap and upending the beast works, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 29, 2025 01:28 AM (TXY95)

428 have often figured there would be a great business opportunity in forming a company that does workshop cleanup/organizing. Have a line of storage cases, cabinets, and shelving to sell, and offer the service of sorting a shop's junk and binning it properly. Your crews would be one or two old guys who know what all stuff is, and some young energetic guys to do the searching and binning. You could offer different levels of sorting, and have a cleaning option, too. But I don't know if shop owners or individuals would be willing to pay what it costs to do it right.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 29, 2025 01:25 AM (TXY95)

Hahah MamaWayne said that a couple years ago. And she came into the shop and was like this is crap it has to go this is nice it should go over there. We both were like you can't throw that out what if I need it?! That's people with a shop. It won't work hahah

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 01:29 AM (MGB5H)

429 You can get all of those medieval drinking implements if you like going to the Renaissance Fairs.

Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2025 01:29 AM (EYmYM)

430 But I don't know if shop owners or individuals would be willing to pay what it costs to do it right.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Yep. Especially since *numbnutz* want $20+/hour, and spend most of it on their phone instead of actually doing the job... Imagine what it would cost for dedicated, intelligent workers!

Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2025 01:31 AM (rdVOm)

431 have often figured there would be a great business opportunity in forming a company that does workshop cleanup/organizing. Have a line of storage cases, cabinets, and shelving to sell, and offer the service of sorting a shop's junk and binning it properly. Your crews would be one or two old guys who know what all stuff is, and some young energetic guys to do the searching and binning. You could offer different levels of sorting, and have a cleaning option, too. But I don't know if shop owners or individuals would be willing to pay what it costs to do it right.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 29, 2025 01:25 AM (TXY95)

Hahah MamaWayne said that a couple years ago. And she came into the shop and was like this is crap it has to go this is nice it should go over there. We both were like you can't throw that out what if I need it?! That's people with a shop. It won't work hahah
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 01:29 AM (MGB5H)

My sister used a piece of trim that had been with us for 8 years through a move. And her only comment was "see I told ya"

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 01:31 AM (MGB5H)

432 You can get all of those medieval drinking implements if you like going to the Renaissance Fairs.
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2025 01:29 AM

I get to take human skulls at a ren fair?

*perks up*

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 01:34 AM (MGB5H)

433 AOP, I can't even open the oil cap, it's *stuck in place* She probably NEVER ever checked it! LOL, it'll be easier to open the plug. Need to pull the blade anyway & get it sharpened.

Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2025 01:34 AM (rdVOm)

434 Workshop sorting would also need a temporary storage tent set up next to the shop, so everything could be moved out and sorted while the new shelves, etc. are installed.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 29, 2025 01:36 AM (l8IGe)

435 a company that does workshop cleanup/organizing.
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[They open the door into Hammer's basement]

"Holeeee shit!
Okay, here's the plan, we throw a bomb inside, slam the door and run."

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2025 01:36 AM (XeU6L)

436 Workshop sorting would also need a temporary storage tent set up next to the shop, so everything could be moved out and sorted while the new shelves, etc. are installed.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 29, 2025 01:36 AM (l8IGe)

And a storage tent to keep the stuff we might use

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 01:37 AM (MGB5H)

437 The only way I knew the oil was jelly was because I had to pull up the dipstick tube and move it, in order to remove the recoil unit. Ooey, gooey.

Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2025 01:37 AM (rdVOm)

438 Hahah MamaWayne said that a couple years ago. And she came into the shop and was like this is crap it has to go this is nice it should go over there. We both were like you can't throw that out what if I need it?! That's people with a shop. It won't work hahah
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 01:29 AM (MGB5H)

Good storage systems cost lots of money. A bog-standard metal bolt bin, without the bolts, can be a couple hundred bucks. Cardboard bin boxes can run a buck or two each, and then you need shelves to put them on. A few years ago, I made a bunch of bin boxes, sized to match the standard cardboard ones, using 1/8" plywood or masonite for the sides and bottom, and 3/8" plywood for the ends. Gorilla glue, and an air stapler put them together real quick, and they are wearing like iron. Problem is: some of them get so full, like say the 3/8-16 bolts, they are heavy to lift, and finding the right 3/8-16 bolt can be tedious. So they need to be sub-divided, by head style and length, etc. Means more bins, and more shelves to put them on.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 29, 2025 01:38 AM (TXY95)

439 Ooey Gooey was a worm.

A mighty worm was he.

Ooey crossed the railroad tracks,

The train he did not see.

Ooey gooey.

Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2025 01:39 AM (rdVOm)

440 [Worker holds up WWII motor-driven radio tuner]
"WTF?"

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2025 01:39 AM (XeU6L)

441 Good storage systems cost lots of money. A bog-standard metal bolt bin, without the bolts, can be a couple hundred bucks. Cardboard bin boxes can run a buck or two each, and then you need shelves to put them on. A few years ago, I made a bunch of bin boxes, sized to match the standard cardboard ones, using 1/8" plywood or masonite for the sides and bottom, and 3/8" plywood for the ends. Gorilla glue, and an air stapler put them together real quick, and they are wearing like iron. Problem is: some of them get so full, like say the 3/8-16 bolts, they are heavy to lift, and finding the right 3/8-16 bolt can be tedious. So they need to be sub-divided, by head style and length, etc. Means more bins, and more shelves to put them on.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 29, 2025 01:38 AM (TXY95)

Ya we have a bunch of the metal racks and bins for the "normal storage" but even that gets out of control. "Oh I'll just toss it here cause I might need it" her normal use tools are in her bins (when she puts them away) mine are all in my super organized tool box. It's just always the wood and the creep. We are both ocd and we struggle to contain it.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 01:42 AM (MGB5H)

442 Ever see the big movable shelving systems that roll on tracks? You move the banks of shelves around to open up an aisle as needed.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 29, 2025 01:43 AM (l8IGe)

443 Ever see the big movable shelving systems that roll on tracks? You move the banks of shelves around to open up an aisle as needed.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 29, 2025 01:43 AM (l8IGe)

Means they are tracks. I don't hate em. But then you are locked into that layout

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 01:45 AM (MGB5H)

444 You guys and your fancy bins and stuff. Pfft.

My antique system of coffee cans and old metal baking pans on shelves is *quite enough* for me.
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*cries softly while walking away*

Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2025 01:46 AM (rdVOm)

445 AOP, I can't even open the oil cap, it's *stuck in place* She probably NEVER ever checked it! LOL, it'll be easier to open the plug. Need to pull the blade anyway & get it sharpened.
Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2025 01:34 AM (rdVOm)

You can get one of those cone-style blade balancers for a couple of dollars on Amazon. (checked, cheapest one is 8 dollars!). Mine is plastic, cost a couple bucks years ago. I use an 80 grit flap wheel in an angle grinder to grind the blades. Have been doing this for years. You should be able to get the grinder, balancer, and flap wheel at Harbor Freight for a total expenditure of less than 50 bucks, especially if you watch the sales.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 29, 2025 01:46 AM (TXY95)

446 Honestly we need another shop. We haven't many projects going on. We have cars in and out. We paint in one corner. My sister welds in there. Too much shit going on. There is no way to keep it organized

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 01:48 AM (MGB5H)

447 AOP-- I actually *have* one of those plastic blade-balancer thingys. Somewhere...

And an angle grinder. Not sure about the flap wheel, but there's a chynah freight within driving distance.

Time. Time is my enemy.

Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2025 01:51 AM (rdVOm)

448 [Worker holds up WWII motor-driven radio tuner]
"WTF?"
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2025 01:39 AM (XeU6L)

speaking of WWII junk, that Waltham 8-day aircraft clock is still ticking away, but the date does not advance. I would assume there is a pawl that turns with the hour hand, and is kept off the date wheel by a cam, until 2400 is nigh, and then drops into the date wheel and advances it one notch, at which point the cam picks it up again. And maybe the lube on the pawl pivot has gotten gummed up over the last 80 years or so. I don't think I will mess with it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 29, 2025 01:52 AM (TXY95)

449
My antique system of coffee cans and old metal baking pans on shelves is *quite enough* for me.
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*cries softly while walking away*
Posted by: JQ
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I'm hoarding 30z. steel coffee cans. Just checked the kitchen closet...6 of them.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2025 01:53 AM (XeU6L)

450 The harley parts drive me crazy. There are soooo many small parts, little bits of hardware that only works on a harley trans or engine. Sometimes it seems it's in the 1000's I have probably 20 organizers and half just deal with the engine and trans. Shims, spacers, locks, screws, etc. One for wheels, one for starters, one for oil pumps, one for handlebar controls, which is the switches, and screws, and jesus. The trans ones are legion, because there is sportsters, and 4 speeds, and 5 speeds. Just a bewildering amount of shit. We're not even covering all the shit for the heads, valve guides of different over sizes, springs, locks, collars. It doesn't end.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2025 01:58 AM (snZF9)

451 Gotta 'season' those old coffee cans with a wipe of oil from time to time. And the metal shelves. And the steel pans...

It aint easy, keeping it greasy.

youtu.be/PNU-sOvY7KQ (in case MisHum is lurking)

Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2025 01:59 AM (rdVOm)

452 I mentioned Ashley Womble the other night...that watch ain't gonna clean itself up.
https://womblewatch.com/watch-restoration/

I have a Waltham self-winder that I have had since high school, haven't wound it recently, except enough to see that second hand rotates properly.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2025 02:00 AM (XeU6L)

453 I'm hoarding 30z. steel coffee cans. Just checked the kitchen closet...6 of them.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2025 01:53 AM (XeU6L)

You know, tobacco, coffee, cigarettes, and other products used to come in oblong steel cans, often with hinged lids. It would be smart merchandizing for some producers to bring out products packed in similar uniform containers, and sell racks or cases to stack them in. Those square plastic jars with the screw caps are the closest thing in the modern world. And square containers pack better, so more units could fit on a pallet or in a truck, depending of course on weight.

Now if beer or liquor could be put in square metal cans...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 29, 2025 02:01 AM (TXY95)

454 I'm hoarding 30z. steel coffee cans

* 30 oz.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2025 02:01 AM (XeU6L)

455
Those big coffee cans do come in handy.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 29, 2025 02:01 AM (w6EFb)

456 Those square plastic jars with the screw caps are the closest thing in the modern world.
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Bonus: The clear ones let you see what is inside.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2025 02:04 AM (XeU6L)

457 I mentioned Ashley Womble the other night...that watch ain't gonna clean itself up.
https://womblewatch.com/watch-restoration/

I have a Waltham self-winder that I have had since high school, haven't wound it recently, except enough to see that second hand rotates properly.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2025 02:00 AM (XeU6L)

I expect their price for restoring this clock would be more than I am willing to pay.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 29, 2025 02:04 AM (TXY95)

458 harley parts drive me crazy. There are soooo many small parts, little bits of hardware that only works on a harley trans or engine. Sometimes it seems it's in the 1000's I have probably 20 organizers and half just deal with the engine and trans. Shims, spacers, locks, screws, etc. One for wheels, one for starters, one for oil pumps, one for handlebar controls, which is the switches, and screws, and jesus. The trans ones are legion, because there is sportsters, and 4 speeds, and 5 speeds. Just a bewildering amount of shit. We're not even covering all the shit for the heads, valve guides of different over sizes, springs, locks, collars. It doesn't end.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2025 01:58 AM (snZF9)

Try aviation. When the same planes have diff engines. From many different years. And ya a lot of pieces are the same. But not this screw

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 02:04 AM (MGB5H)

459 >> I have a Waltham self-winder that I have had since high school, haven't wound it recently, except enough to see that second hand rotates properly.

If you've got a stupid smart phone, you might try one of those timegrapher apps, and you can see how well the movement is still working.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 29, 2025 02:04 AM (w6EFb)

460 If you've got a stupid smart phone, you might try one of those timegrapher apps, and you can see how well the movement is still working.
Posted by: publius
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I am a luddite, no smart phone.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2025 02:06 AM (XeU6L)

461 >>a lot of pieces are the same. But not this screw
Posted by: BruceWayne
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And... Yay! You've actually got one in your stash!

But... you need 3 to finish the job...

Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2025 02:06 AM (rdVOm)

462 And... Yay! You've actually got one in your stash!

But... you need 3 to finish the job...
Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2025 02:06 AM (rdVOm)

And you can't get it from sporty pilot shop

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 02:08 AM (MGB5H)

463 Try aviation. When the same planes have diff engines. From many different years. And ya a lot of pieces are the same. But not this screw

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 02:04 AM (MGB5H)

I was at the shop today because I had to make a parts list. We are taking an engine we just did last year, taking everything off of it and putting it on a different set of engine cases, because the dude found a set exactly like the year bike he had. I still had to make a big list, because so much of the hardware different. Screws on the '56 engine are 1/4 24, the later engine is 1/4 20, so we can't even use the screws. The lifter screen and plug is different, the engine sprocket shaft spacer is different, the screws that hold the idler shafts in are left hand thread on 59'-69', but right hand on 36'-58', so had to get those to. frigging crazy.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2025 02:09 AM (snZF9)

464 And you can't get it from sporty pilot shop
Posted by: BruceWayne
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But! They can order it for you... only takes a couple weeks. "Special order" and you gotta pay up front.

(2 weeks later) Wrong item. "No refunds on Special Orders"

Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2025 02:10 AM (rdVOm)

465 And... Yay! You've actually got one in your stash!

But... you need 3 to finish the job...
Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2025 02:06 AM (rdVOm)

And you can't get it from sporty pilot shop
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 02:08 AM (MGB5H)

Good luck finding safety bolts that aren't specially made for like 30$ a piece

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 02:11 AM (MGB5H)

466 But! They can order it for you... only takes a couple weeks. "Special order" and you gotta pay up front.

(2 weeks later) Wrong item. "No refunds on Special Orders"
Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2025 02:10 AM

I don't even with them anymore. I see if I can find local person that can make the specs

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 02:12 AM (MGB5H)

467 And... Yay! You've actually got one in your stash!

But... you need 3 to finish the job...
Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2025 02:06 AM (rdVOm)

oh but they do sneaky shit. Head gaskets are sold in packs of 5. 5??? Its got 2 cylinders, so you do 2 engines and now you have a single gasket left over, and have to order another 5 pack. Oh yeah, the solution is order 2 packs for an even 10, so you buy. Making a 6 pack is too frigging simple. Same deal with rocker box gaskets, 5 pack. Oh, but shit that uses a single gasket? Yeah that comes in a 10 pack. Pricks..

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2025 02:16 AM (snZF9)

468 But! They can order it for you... only takes a couple weeks. "Special order" and you gotta pay up front.

(2 weeks later) Wrong item. "No refunds on Special Orders"
Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2025 02:10 AM

Last time I really needed safety bolts went to one of the smaller airports. Oh we have them. 9$ a piece.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 02:16 AM (MGB5H)

469 Glad I don't mess around with aviation stuff. Good Lord, I've got enough to do, with hubby & cat & cars & trucks & yard machines!

And gardening. And beadwork (that I haven't had time to do in years)

And every damned other thing around this house. And Dad's estate. And, and, and.

Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2025 02:18 AM (rdVOm)

470 oh but they do sneaky shit. Head gaskets are sold in packs of 5. 5??? Its got 2 cylinders, so you do 2 engines and now you have a single gasket left over, and have to order another 5 pack. Oh yeah, the solution is order 2 packs for an even 10, so you buy. Making a 6 pack is too frigging simple. Same deal with rocker box gaskets, 5 pack. Oh, but shit that uses a single gasket? Yeah that comes in a 10 pack. Pricks..
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2025 02:16 AM (snZF9)

Hahah I think they used to. But now it's just a scavenger hunt to get them. They'll say "well we don't use that anymore so suck it". And you're running around to find a p/n because if you don't have it the plane isn't airworthy

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 02:18 AM (MGB5H)

471 Most have been replaced. But not all have esp on old airframes.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 02:20 AM (MGB5H)

472 If I knew how to weld, my 'man card' would be fully punched-- and I'm *female* LOLOL

Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2025 02:21 AM (rdVOm)

473 Oh, wait--- I can't grow an "epic beard"

LOL. Thank God!

Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2025 02:22 AM (rdVOm)

474 Last time I really needed safety bolts went to one of the smaller airports. Oh we have them. 9$ a piece.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 02:16 AM (MGB5H)

There are bolts on a harley that are $5 each. Oh you can't reuse them they say, they might stretch, and there is a special o-ring under the head of the bolt. Kiss my ass, 15- 18 pounds of torque isn't going to stretch a 5/16 bolt, and the o-ring really doesn't deform. Even if it did a dab of black silicone cures it. 6 bolts @ $5 each. $30 for 6 bolts. Yeah, not happening.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2025 02:22 AM (snZF9)

475 And if the owner of the airframe or engine hasn't okayed it it's not ok. Airframe isn't that big of a deal usually unless you have a rare plane. But the engines get weird where this part is good in this one not in this one. I got into amt to be a mechanic and away from paperwork. It's all fucking paperwork haha

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 02:23 AM (MGB5H)

476 If I knew how to weld, my 'man card' would be fully punched-- and I'm *female* LOLOL

Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2025 02:21 AM (rdVOm)

I think your man card has been punched years ago. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2025 02:24 AM (snZF9)

477 >> the o-ring really doesn't deform. Even if it did a dab of black silicone cures it.
----

Huh? O-rings are CHEAP!! F the silicone, put a new o-ring. Hahaha.

Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2025 02:25 AM (rdVOm)

478 And every damned other thing around this house. And Dad's estate. And, and, and.
Posted by: JQ
-----
[pours JQ a shot of hoarded Old Suntory]

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2025 02:25 AM (XeU6L)

479 Welp, it is 0030 here, and I need to go to bed. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 29, 2025 02:26 AM (C/CiM)

480 There are bolts on a harley that are $5 each. Oh you can't reuse them they say, they might stretch, and there is a special o-ring under the head of the bolt. Kiss my ass, 15- 18 pounds of torque isn't going to stretch a 5/16 bolt, and the o-ring really doesn't deform. Even if it did a dab of black silicone cures it. 6 bolts @ $5 each. $30 for 6 bolts. Yeah, not happening.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2025 02:22 AM (snZF9)

Oh 100 we can look at bracing bolts and clear them. And they are like 30inch pounds. But faa says they go in the trash if you pull them. It's a fucking racket. But if you put them back in your name is on it. Best believe I replace them everytime

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 02:28 AM (MGB5H)

481 [pours JQ a shot of hoarded Old Suntory]
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

Oops...actually 'Suntory Old', but is old Suntory Old.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2025 02:29 AM (XeU6L)

482 Hahah I think they used to. But now it's just a scavenger hunt to get them. They'll say "well we don't use that anymore so suck it". And you're running around to find a p/n because if you don't have it the plane isn't airworthy

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 02:18 AM (MGB5H)

Well one thing I will say, they make pretty much everything for these things. The big question is quality. hardware and bolts, etc, are fine, no problem there. There isn't any good factory quality basic replacement parts. Its either really nice high end, or garbage. You can't cut corners with engine and trans stuff, it all has to be good or else you will be sorry. Headlights, fenders, oil tanks, shit like that is usually always aftermarket if its older than 10 years, and usually ok. Engine and trans is where the real money needs to go. Put anything chinese in and you just built a time bomb.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2025 02:29 AM (snZF9)

483 Wow! Thanks, Mike Hammer!

Mmm, Old Suntory... you really shouldn't have...

*I'm not worthy!*

Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2025 02:31 AM (rdVOm)

484 'Night, AOP

Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2025 02:32 AM (rdVOm)

485 Oh 100 we can look at bracing bolts and clear them. And they are like 30inch pounds. But faa says they go in the trash if you pull them. It's a fucking racket. But if you put them back in your name is on it. Best believe I replace them everytime

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 02:28 AM (MGB5H)

yeah airplanes are different. I would not fuck around with those. I would use everything new all the time. Thats scary shit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2025 02:32 AM (snZF9)

486 Well one thing I will say, they make pretty much everything for these things. The big question is quality. hardware and bolts, etc, are fine, no problem there. There isn't any good factory quality basic replacement parts. Its either really nice high end, or garbage. You can't cut corners with engine and trans stuff, it all has to be good or else you will be sorry. Headlights, fenders, oil tanks, shit like that is usually always aftermarket if its older than 10 years, and usually ok. Engine and trans is where the real money needs to go. Put anything chinese in and you just built a time bomb.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2025 02:29 AM (snZF9)

That's 100. True. But we run into is that Cessna didn't update the bill or allow an stc. So we are like sorry dude you're totally safe place is grounded

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 02:33 AM (eANjq)

487 Huh? O-rings are CHEAP!! F the silicone, put a new o-ring. Hahaha.

Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2025 02:25 AM (rdVOm)

They're molded into the bolt head, can't change them.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2025 02:33 AM (snZF9)

488 yeah airplanes are different. I would not fuck around with those. I would use everything new all the time. Thats scary shit.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2025 02:32 AM (snZF9)

And that's the beauty of GA. They may bitch about and try and be cheap but they have the money they'll pay it to keep the plane in the air. Not that that comes back to me. But just always go expensive and get the piece. The diff if the older ones when there are like 30 in the air

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 02:36 AM (eANjq)

489 >>They're molded into the bolt head, can't change them.
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Oh.

*blushes*

My bad. Carry on...

Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2025 02:37 AM (rdVOm)

490 try and be cheap but they have the money they'll pay it to keep the plane in the air. Not that that comes back to me. But just always go expensive and get the piece. The diff if the older ones when there are like 30 in the air
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 02:36 AM

Like any Cessna we can find a screw or a part because they are still making them. And if they missed part you can just go to the next model as long as the engine is the same the issues come in like my dad's Duke. There are 30 flying rn. Turbo fan engine made y Lockheed

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 02:40 AM (eANjq)

491 They're molded into the bolt head, can't change them.

====

Lycoming does those. Contentiental started at the 0-300

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 02:42 AM (eANjq)

492 >>They're molded into the bolt head, can't change them.
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Oh.

*blushes*

My bad. Carry on...

Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2025 02:37 AM (rdVOm)

Yeah its only there to keep any oil from the primary from seeping past the bolt head and finding it's way to the ground. They never had o-rings, like ever. We used to just run a small bead of silicone under the washer and they never leaked, and the factory never even did that. There was never a problem. Recently they came up with these new bolts for the later bikes. The older bikes don't have them. These days everything is designed around the FAG, Fucking Average Guy. Retards that don't have common sense, so everything is to make things idiot proof.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2025 02:43 AM (snZF9)

493 They're molded into the bolt head, can't change them.

====

I have nothing to back this up. But just observation I think Harley took that from lycoming.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 02:44 AM (eANjq)

494 Recently they came up with these new bolts for the later bikes. The older bikes don't have them. These days everything is designed around the FAG, Fucking Average Guy. Retards that don't have common sense, so everything is to make things idiot proof.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2025 02:43 AM (snZF9)

It's all stupid and worse.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 02:45 AM (eANjq)

495 I have nothing to back this up. But just observation I think Harley took that from lycoming.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 02:44 AM (eANjq)

Are the o-rings orange?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2025 02:46 AM (snZF9)

496 [readies old joke about what Harleys and puppies have in common]

[thinks the better of it]

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2025 02:47 AM (XeU6L)

497 Black. Harley did that cause black and orange

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 02:47 AM (eANjq)

498 Black. Harley did that cause black and orange
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 02:47 AM

Again inhave no facts to back it up. But the timeline works

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 02:48 AM (eANjq)

499
I couldn't help it but get to looking at lunar calendar schemes again. My eyes would always glaze over (MEGLO).

Well, I promptly MEGLO'd again. What a mess.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 29, 2025 02:57 AM (w6EFb)

500 Black. Harley did that cause black and orange
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 02:47 AM

Again inhave no facts to back it up. But the timeline works

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 02:48 AM (eANjq)

Could very well be. Harley cured their leak thing 40 years ago. I have 4, the oldest being 37 years old and it never left a drop, ever. None of mine do. Harley started doing extra stuff recently because the flunkies that work at the dealers usually can't even make the improved shit of the last 40 years work, so now we got $5 bolts. Its like preventative preventative. You need a 3rd layer of fail safe with some of these idiots.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2025 02:58 AM (snZF9)

501 years ago. I have 4, the oldest being 37 years old and it never left a drop, ever. None of mine do. Harley started doing extra stuff recently because the flunkies that work at the dealers usually can't even make the improved shit of the last 40 years work, so now we got $5 bolts. Its like preventative preventative. You need a 3rd layer of fail safe with some of these idiots.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2025 02:58 AM (snZF9)

It's just more of people that don't know, and the. Let's change to help those people to at that don't know. Instead of telling them to fuck off

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 03:00 AM (MGB5H)

502
According to the Daily Mail, the feds have just raided a Naples, FL condo owned by the mother of that tranny shooter. She was refusing to cooperate with LEO.

There were also some previous incidents with law enforcement in MN, but apparently the details have been redacted.

So, something was going on with that tranny several years back.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 29, 2025 03:02 AM (w6EFb)

503 Lycomjng created that bolt in WWII because the fighters had to go upside down

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 03:03 AM (MGB5H)

504 >>...molded into the bolt head...

Ah, so. Like the C6 band adjustment nut.

Now I understand.

Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2025 03:04 AM (rdVOm)

505 It's just more of people that don't know, and the. Let's change to help those people to at that don't know. Instead of telling them to fuck off

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 03:00 AM (MGB5H)

Well unfortunately me and the slightly older harley wrenches are the last of our breed. We understand these things at a level the younger dudes don't. They aren't taught, and they don't have the tooling for the older bikes. Forget them rebuilding the engines. They do crate engines, or maybe get sub assemblies done. They can't build the flywheels, or the heads. They don't even know the old points ignitions.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2025 03:07 AM (snZF9)

506 Well unfortunately me and the slightly older harley wrenches are the last of our breed. We understand these things at a level the younger dudes don't. They aren't taught, and they don't have the tooling for the older bikes. Forget them rebuilding the engines. They do crate engines, or maybe get sub assemblies done. They can't build the flywheels, or the heads. They don't even know the old points ignitions.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2025 03:07 AM (snZF9)

Yup. I mean ya I just went trough AMT but I knew things. All the kids that are coming out of that are gonna work at an airline or forward facing planes in ga like gulfstream. No one is going to know how to work on dukes or warbirds

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 03:11 AM (MGB5H)

507 Points. Ugh.

Suppose I'd better get a couple-three extras for the old Ford, before they stop making them. Or, is it already too late?

I really really really don't want to swap out the distributor! That job is a stone cold b!tch.

Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2025 03:12 AM (rdVOm)

508 So those like last 3 b-17s that are flying that's gonna go to 0

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 03:13 AM (MGB5H)

509 The b52 will outlive us all though

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 03:14 AM (MGB5H)

510 Yup. I mean ya I just went trough AMT but I knew things. All the kids that are coming out of that are gonna work at an airline or forward facing planes in ga like gulfstream. No one is going to know how to work on dukes or warbirds
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 03:11 AM (MGB5H)

GA will be dead in our lifetimes. Which is what the government wanted.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 03:17 AM (MGB5H)

511 My shop is an embarassing mess.

Or so it would appear..

Posted by: Reforger at August 29, 2025 03:26 AM (AehUp)

512
Something seemed familiar about the arguments that "Truthache" guy with the 13 month calendar. That bit about the calendar is a deception to keep us out of sync with nature.

So, I went to his X page and got to scrolling through his posts. Yep, he's a flat-earther. Thinks space is fake and NASA is Satanic conspiracy and all that stuff.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 29, 2025 03:27 AM (w6EFb)

513 G'night, all.

Sleepy time...

Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2025 03:28 AM (rdVOm)

514 yeah airplanes are different. I would not fuck around with those. I would use everything new all the time. Thats scary shit.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2025 02:32 AM (snZF9)

My brother has at least three patents for his own replacement parts for Cessnas and other light planes that are better than the originals. He makes them out of his one-man shop in Fairbanks. People call him from all over the world for them. He is not a fool, and stands by his parts.

He also fixes just about anything that flies. He does body work, particularly custom fixes, but also engines and interiors, including special seat frames.

Don't for a minute think that the original parts for any of these old planes are better than what can be created by someone who knows what they are doing. The originals were not completely engineered. My brother's parts are.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of Alaska at August 29, 2025 03:30 AM (1Gsou)

515 512
Something seemed familiar about the arguments that "Truthache" guy with the 13 month calendar. That bit about the calendar is a deception to keep us out of sync with nature.

So, I went to his X page and got to scrolling through his posts. Yep, he's a flat-earther. Thinks space is fake and NASA is Satanic conspiracy and all that stuff.
Posted by: publius

LoL! That kind of crazy seems almost quaint now.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 29, 2025 03:32 AM (ohOaC)

516 Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of Alaska at August 29, 2025 03:30 AM (1Gsou)

Yes those are STCs. You still have to go through all the paperwork of making sure those STCs are current and all the other shit is current

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 03:39 AM (MGB5H)

517 https://www.airframeinnovations.com/

That's my brother in the coveralls. His usual attire. He can make just about any part you need.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of Alaska at August 29, 2025 03:40 AM (1Gsou)

518 Yes those are STCs. You still have to go through all the paperwork of making sure those STCs are current and all the other shit is current
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 03:39 AM (MGB5H)

He does.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of Alaska at August 29, 2025 03:41 AM (1Gsou)

519 He does.
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of Alaska at August 29, 2025 03:41 AM (1Gsou)

Which is cool but it's a dwindling market. Which is kind of my point. "Odd" plane owners are stuck with someone like him for parts and trade ins. And the trading market is shrinking and their are parts he can't make

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 03:47 AM (MGB5H)

520 They are less than 30 flying dukes rn. There are any number of parts that don't have STCs for. In 5 years there will be less than 10 flying dukes

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2025 03:51 AM (MGB5H)

521 >> LoL! That kind of crazy seems almost quaint now.

He's got all the flat-earth shit arguments there. Airplanes don't dip their noses! Water is always level! Air pressure requires a container!

There's been resurgence of flat-earth shit over the past decade or better. I stumbled onto that looking at Don Pettit's X feed. Someone called him an evil liar, and I thought, "WTF?"

Flat-earther. And I got to reading their shit, my jaw hanging agape at the absolute stupidity. This is not just mere ignorance or conspiracy type thinking. This is arrogant ignorance, true "know nothing-ism".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 29, 2025 03:52 AM (w6EFb)

522 TGIF and a long weekend

Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2025 04:01 AM (+qU29)

523 The physics of a flat Earth would be so much more complicated that a spherical Earth.

Posted by: eleven at August 29, 2025 04:12 AM (fV+MH)

524 523 The physics of a flat Earth would be so much more complicated that a spherical Earth.
Posted by: eleven at August 29, 2025 04:12 AM (fV+MH)

How could you fly all the way around it if it were flat? And wouldn't we in Alaska be about to fall off the edge?

And what does it sit on? How is it supported?

And what about Naomi?

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of Alaska at August 29, 2025 04:17 AM (1Gsou)

525 >> The physics of a flat Earth

They don't believe in physics. Seriously. They don't believe in gravity. That's a lie. Why a balloon floats up, so there's no gravity.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 29, 2025 04:19 AM (w6EFb)

526 >> How could you fly all the way around it if it were flat?

Their "model" if you can call it that is this taken literally:
https://tinyurl.com/h9vop2h

The polar azimuthal projection. Antarctica is a giant "ice wall" which is the boundary of the flat earth plane. North pole in the center.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 29, 2025 04:21 AM (w6EFb)

527 I'm starting a collection to fund a Starlink Mini on my expedition to the antarctic icewall. This one's not going to fall out of contact or get lost like the last one!

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at August 29, 2025 04:34 AM (oEIWf)

528 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at August 29, 2025 04:35 AM (aURVT)

529 In regards to the calendar change, congratulations you’ve replayed the stupidity of the French Revolution.
The morons who gave us the metric system.

Posted by: CapeMayBartender at August 29, 2025 02:45 PM (rfqgB)

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