Overnight Open Thread (10/20/2025)

It's easy to second-guess our politicians, particularly when they insert themselves into complex and seemingly intractable geopolitical issues.

President Donald Trump has done something in the Middle East that Eisenhower couldn't do, Nixon couldn't do, Reagan couldn't do, the Bushes certainly couldn't do, and we won't even mention Obama and Biden.

He has forged a consensus and ended, at least temporarily, an ugly event in a region that is famous for ugliness. Will Hamas honor the ceasefire? Maybe. Will they return the remaining bodies? Maybe. Will they reconstitute and once again threaten Israel with destruction? Maybe.

But the odds are better now than they have been for the entirety of Israel's existence as a modern nation, and that is a very impressive accomplishment, especially when much of the West is at best ambivalent about President Trump!

There will be time to pick the agreement apart, and I am not holding my breath for a lasting peace, but still, it is far, far better than it has ever been!

It was a stunning achievement in most respects, and the fact that the world isn't clamoring with adulation for President Trump is a sad commentary on the rest of the world, not on President Trump.

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County Reinstates Mask Mandate, Vaccine Guidance Over Supposed COVID Risk

Of course it is California. Why bother asking?

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Neil Young to Pull His Music off Amazon Because 'Bezos Supports This Government'

I really liked Neil Young for a few years when I was young and stupid. I saw him live at The Greek Theater in Berkeley about 100 years ago, and it was a good show, but after that? Eh...nothing new, just recycled crap from his heyday.

But now he looks and sounds like the drug-addled lunatic on the corner of a seedy part of a shitty blue city. He seems not to have noticed that most people don't know who he is, or even worse, don't care.

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6 Issues to Address With Your Prostate Specialist
#1. Why are both of your hands on my shoulders?
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Walk Softly In Five Inch Heels While Carrying A Big Stick
Don't Mess with Melania Trump

Have we ever had her combination of intelligence, quiet self-confidence, and a ferocious attitude toward her detractors?

And in case you haven't noticed, she is a total smoke-show!

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This is who Springsteen wanted to be, but he just wasn't honest enough and good enough.

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Creedence Clearwater Revival is great. It's easy to minimize them because they were in the same era as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Beach Boys, etc., but they are the equal of those bands. That they are less-well-known is a function of their longevity, or lack thereof!

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1 🎶
It's beginning to feel a lot like Autumn,
All around the farm
The oak leaves are turning brown
Dead branches are falling down
The lights on our front porch are pumpkin orange.
It's beginning to feel a lot like Autumn…

etc.
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G'd eve', y'all. Ah the Monday ONT, right on time as usual. Heh.

Is the migration to Corsicana causing variation in the tilt of the planet?
Let's ask Professor Publius, the astronomical axial expert.
😁

Posted by: mindful webworker - everything as it should be at October 13, 2025 10:28 PM (gJ6yS)

2 Hey!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 13, 2025 10:28 PM (mAdag)

3 Happy Monday, all y'all ...

T'anks CBD ... for the ONT ...

Posted by: Adriane the Spaced Cadet Critic . . . at October 13, 2025 10:29 PM (3ZUWJ)

4 Finally!

Posted by: Tonypete at October 13, 2025 10:29 PM (cYBz/)

5
Hellew.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 13, 2025 10:29 PM (oKXMA)

6 *Therrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre's a bathroom on the right!!*

Posted by: Tonypete at October 13, 2025 10:30 PM (cYBz/)

7 Do we have a mystery CoB tonight🤫?

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 13, 2025 10:30 PM (mAdag)

8 Evenin’, All. Evenin’, CBD.

Posted by: Bulg at October 13, 2025 10:31 PM (77rzZ)

9 To avoid leakage, be sure your COVID mask has wings!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 13, 2025 10:31 PM (4a+wk)

10 Nth

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at October 13, 2025 10:32 PM (nKSOg)

11 Lovely Monday evening. No covid masks here.

Posted by: ScaryMary at October 13, 2025 10:32 PM (gWZev)

12 Ohhh...its the lovely CBD❣❣❣!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 13, 2025 10:32 PM (mAdag)

13 Creedence Clearwater = good!

Thanks, CBD.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at October 13, 2025 10:32 PM (ha1wR)

14 Welcome to the New World!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 13, 2025 10:33 PM (ZVgZ4)

15 Lovely Monday evening. No covid masks here.
Posted by: ScaryMary

I'm am never masking up again. To be fair, I only did three or four times when absolutely forced to don one.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 13, 2025 10:33 PM (cYBz/)

16 we got our... we got our... we got our ONT

Posted by: gKWVE at October 13, 2025 10:33 PM (gKWVE)

17 Don't Mess with Melania Trump

Have we ever had her combination of intelligence, quiet self-confidence, and a ferocious attitude toward her detractors?

Melania had enough of the press' B.S. around 2017.

They're lucky her husband is president, he's actually the nice one compared to what she'd do to some of these liars.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 13, 2025 10:34 PM (6ydKt)

18 Neil Young? Doesn't he know a southern man don't need him around anyhow?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 13, 2025 10:34 PM (uQesX)

19 There’s a bathroom on the right?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 13, 2025 10:34 PM (ZVgZ4)

20 That second pic has to be a joke.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at October 13, 2025 10:34 PM (nKSOg)

21 It seems like on Columbus Day it would be altogether proper and fitting to acknowledge that the electrons we take for granted were stolen from the Indians.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 13, 2025 10:34 PM (4a+wk)

22 'But now he looks and sounds like the drug-addled lunatic on the corner of a seedy part of a shitty blue city. He seems not to have noticed that most people don't know who he is, or even worse, don't care.'

Perfect description 😆!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 13, 2025 10:35 PM (mAdag)

23 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 13, 2025 10:35 PM (lUFok)

24 20 That second pic has to be a joke.
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at October 13, 2025 10:34 PM (nKSOg

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Yep. She's obviously too old to be using tampons.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 13, 2025 10:35 PM (4a+wk)

25
Let's recap:

Part I

biden totally fucks up Afghanistan withdrawal, gets 13 Americans killed for nothing, and gives Taliban EVERYTHING. Then biden says it was President Trump's "plan."

biden team said:
1. "most successful" "evacuation" in "history"
2. Also, it was a total disaster because it was "Trump's plan."

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 13, 2025 10:36 PM (Q1wIW)

26 That second pic has to be a joke.
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at October 13, 2025 10:34 PM (nKSOg)

The one with the cow?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 13, 2025 10:36 PM (uQesX)

27 Willowed, re: my announcement that aloof Siberian cat Dagny Sophia actually stayed on my lap tonight: The first lap time in 3.5 years! I told Linda, "This is NOT her. Somebody swapped out my cat for a lookalike. Maybe this is her mother Sofia."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Wait? Dagny actually condescended to provide lap time? How did you do this? MegaRoy, as loving as he is, will absolutely NOT sit on a lap. Closest he gets is draping across my back when I'm asleep.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 13, 2025

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Dagny has been getting more . . . companionable . . . in the last few months. Tonight, she was sprawled on her side on the table. I simply scooped her up and placed her, still on her side, on my lap. Expecting her to vault immediately away, I was astonished when she stayed, enjoying fur ruffling and belly rubbing (which she has always loved), for quite a while.

I'll try to manage this every day and see if it can become a habit.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 13, 2025 10:37 PM (omVj0)

28 That second pic has to be a joke.
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at October 13, 2025 10:34 PM (nKSOg)

Wait. Fake? Doesn't everybody put tampons up their nose?

Posted by: The One and Only Tampon Timmy at October 13, 2025 10:37 PM (gKDq2)

29
Part II

President Trump brokers a comprehensive peace deal in Gaza.

biden team of idiots say:
1. Trump is no peacemaker.
2. Besides, it was "our" "framework" Trump used for this significant peace deal.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 13, 2025 10:38 PM (Q1wIW)

30 Neil is a strange cat, always has been. I’ve read his autobiography and others.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 13, 2025 10:38 PM (55dRY)

31 Took out the ac units today. It's officially fall.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at October 13, 2025 10:38 PM (31p00)

32 The one with the cow?
Posted by: OrangeEnt

The pig after the cow.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at October 13, 2025 10:38 PM (as0Wa)

33 But now he looks and sounds like the drug-addled lunatic on the corner of a seedy part of a shitty blue city. He seems not to have noticed that most people don't know who he is, or even worse, don't care.
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Not the art thread but that painted a pretty accurate picture in my head. Thanks for the ONT, CBD.

Posted by: scampydog at October 13, 2025 10:38 PM (41CYW)

34 The one with the cow?
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Cows are widely known for their quirky sense of humor.

Posted by: Adriane the Spaced Cadet Critic . . . at October 13, 2025 10:38 PM (3ZUWJ)

35 My college roommate and I saw Neil Young and Poco at the Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, 'way back in 1971.

We were up in the nosebleed balcony and they looked like ants on the stage. The crowd was stamping hard in time with Poco and we more than half expected the shoddy, shaky upper balcony to collapse. Actually moved over and stood near the exit just in case.

Hitchhiking back to Wisconsin was one of the most surreal experiences of my life. A memorable journey.

Posted by: mindful webworker - ooo scary kids at October 13, 2025 10:39 PM (gJ6yS)

36 Thanks for the dandy ONT, CBD!

That "mask" photo is too funny... just when you think the other side cannot possibly get any crazier, they do!

Love the Far Side cartoon. Always a laff!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at October 13, 2025 10:40 PM (kB9dk)

37 Boobs!

Posted by: Bulg at October 13, 2025 10:40 PM (77rzZ)

38 He has forged a consensus and ended, at least temporarily, an ugly event in a region that is famous for ugliness. Will Hamas honor the ceasefire? Maybe. Will they return the remaining bodies? Maybe. Will they reconstitute and once again threaten Israel with destruction? Maybe.

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If the rest of the Middle East is either neutered (Syria, Iran, Qatar) or on board with Israel (Egypt, Saudis, Turks) there won't be much funding for renewed terror operations by Hamas. You've seen those guys, they can't afford to miss many meals.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 13, 2025 10:40 PM (4a+wk)

39 Top pic. That's not how I remember Julie Andrews

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 13, 2025 10:40 PM (XeU6L)

40 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 13, 2025 10:40 PM (sAmhv)

41 CBD - So right on with Asbury Dukes. Springsteen could only wish he was that...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 13, 2025 10:40 PM (mAdag)

42 Cows are widely known for their quirky sense of humor.
Posted by: Adriane the Spaced Cadet Critic . . . at October 13, 2025 10:38 PM (3ZUWJ)

But their farts are killing us.

Posted by: Bill Gates, The Not-So-Smartest Man In The World at October 13, 2025 10:40 PM (gKDq2)

43 Also willowed: The first lap time in 3.5 years! I told Linda, "Somebody swapped out my cat for a lookalike. Maybe this is her mother Sofia."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 13, 2025
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She was just waiting to get to know you before any long-term commitments like belly rubbing.

Now you need to break out a laser pointer and some catnip and after some exercise and fun she'll love you forever.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 13, 2025

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Catnip she and Stirling have had all their lives, and Dagny and I have been playing "chase the thrown toy, score by touching it, then run back to the human, so he has to get it and throw it again" for a year or more now.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 13, 2025 10:40 PM (omVj0)

44 I like some CCR.
They had some good hits with staying power.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 13, 2025 10:41 PM (6ydKt)

45 The lady in the second picture needs a sombrero

Posted by: Some stupid with a flaregun at October 13, 2025 10:41 PM (vdIK0)

46 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 13, 2025 10:41 PM (SRRAx)

47 The Spotify embed works but it only plays a short preview for non-subscribers.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 13, 2025 10:42 PM (6ydKt)

48 But their farts are killing us.

Posted by: Bill Gates, The Not-So-Smartest Man In The World

So quit taking them to Taco Bell for cheap eats !!!

Posted by: Adriane the Spaced Cadet Critic . . . at October 13, 2025 10:43 PM (3ZUWJ)

49 Took out the ac units today. It's officially fall.
Posted by: PA Dutchman at October 13, 2025 10:38 PM (31p00)

You didn't happen to use The Laurel & Hardy Transfer Co. did you?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 13, 2025 10:43 PM (uQesX)

50 Nice ONT CBD - praying things work out in Israel. Praying hard.

Posted by: moki at October 13, 2025 10:43 PM (wLjpr)

51 Thx CBD, I see you're working OT. put in for double pay.
Evening Horde, anything interesting tiday

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 13, 2025 10:43 PM (mO7bs)

52 Lovely Monday evening. No covid masks here.
Posted by: ScaryMary

I'm am never masking up again. To be fair, I only did three or four times when absolutely forced to don one.
Posted by: Tonypete

This wave will be the real vaxx and the only ones to survive will be the true believers who boosted every three months since 2020. All else will in horrible agony like having gout in every joint and a boner which cannot be satisfied.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 13, 2025 10:43 PM (/lPRQ)

53 46 Hey, Teresa!

Posted by: Bulg at October 13, 2025 10:44 PM (77rzZ)

54 by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn.

Hello Miss Teresa ...

Posted by: Adriane the Spaced Cadet Critic . . . at October 13, 2025 10:44 PM (3ZUWJ)

55 44 I like some CCR.
They had some good hits with staying power.

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I've never forgiven them for stealing Midnight Special from Leadbelly.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 13, 2025 10:44 PM (4a+wk)

56 Posted by: Legally Sufficient at October 13, 2025 10:40 PM (kB9dk)

Far Side is simply amazing.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (Flying the American Flag!) at October 13, 2025 10:44 PM (n9ltV)

57
Did you hear the "argument" they're using to prove it was "biden's framework?"

They're saying biden-harris, at the end of their term had already "designed" the "key phases" of the "plan."

Yeah, biden, the Architect, created Phase 1: the ceasefire. Fucking astounding, right? Then, biden-harris thought of Phase II. Yeah, Phase II, you guessed it: release of the hotsausages. Fucking brilliant!

But, alas, biden-harris didn't have time to work out Phase III, which was "governing of Gaza." But Trump totally stole the first "key phases," which were the hard part. The last phase, the governing part, was the easy phase that Trump came up with.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 13, 2025 10:44 PM (Q1wIW)

58 The one with the cow?
Posted by: OrangeEnt

The pig after the cow.
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at October 13, 2025 10:38 PM (as0Wa)

Cows are widely known for their quirky sense of humor.
Posted by: Adriane the Spaced Cadet Critic . . . at October 13, 2025 10:38 PM (3ZUWJ)

The lady in the second picture needs a sombrero
Posted by: Some stupid with a flaregun at October 13, 2025 10:41 PM (vdIK0)

Plus two others. Gotta have three for a mariachi band.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 13, 2025 10:45 PM (uQesX)

59 Catnip she and Stirling have had all their lives, and Dagny and I have been playing "chase the thrown toy, score by touching it, then run back to the human, so he has to get it and throw it again" for a year or more now.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 13, 2025 10:40 PM (omVj0)

They sound really fun.
Glad Dagny is finally loosening up.

Maybe you're leaving for a week made her miss you.

My brother was using a laser pointer with their dog tonight.
She was jumping around like a cat trying to catch it, but she kept losing track when he moved it fast and looked around for it in all the wrong places.

If I ever get a pet I gotta buy a laser pointer with it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 13, 2025 10:46 PM (6ydKt)

60 County Reinstates Mask Mandate, Vaccine Guidance Over Supposed COVID Risk

Remember just because the first 5 shots didn't work doesn't mean the 6th won't!

Posted by: 18-1 at October 13, 2025 10:46 PM (sKqQm)

61 I've never forgiven them for stealing Midnight Special from Leadbelly.
Posted by: Cicero
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I've never figured out where Lodi is.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 13, 2025 10:46 PM (XeU6L)

62 Top pic. That's not how I remember Julie Andrews
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 13, 2025 10:40 PM (XeU6L)

Udderly disappointing, ain't it?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 13, 2025 10:46 PM (uQesX)

63
Don't believe me?

Here's a fucking idiot on Fake News cnn lying how it was biden's "framework"

https://is.gd/sQBNVr

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 13, 2025 10:46 PM (Q1wIW)

64 Yeah, biden, the Architect, created Phase 1: the ceasefire. Fucking astounding, right? Then, biden-harris thought of Phase II. Yeah, Phase II, you guessed it: release of the hotsausages. Fucking brilliant!

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The Dems are a sad parody of a competent political party. I love watching the crash.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 13, 2025 10:46 PM (4a+wk)

65 The Spotify embed works but it only plays a short preview for non-subscribers.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 13, 2025 10:42 PM (6ydKt)

Shit.

I was hoping I could stop using YouTube !
Thanks.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (Flying the American Flag!) at October 13, 2025 10:47 PM (n9ltV)

66
Greta on the Poopdeck
Greta Grumper
Not cute like Thumper
Normally she has a pout
But she had to squeeze one out
After she took one in the rumper

Posted by: haffhowershower at October 13, 2025 10:47 PM (144I4)

67 Old and Busted: I sharted!
New Hawtness: I farted a brownshirt nazi!

Posted by: steven at October 13, 2025 10:48 PM (QOrsj)

68 I was hoping I could stop using YouTube !
Thanks.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (Flying the American Flag!) at October 13, 2025 10:47 PM (n9ltV)

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Sir, we will brook no innovation around here!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 13, 2025 10:48 PM (4a+wk)

69 Happy Thanksgiving Day Canadians !

Posted by: Next2Nothing at October 13, 2025 10:48 PM (tA1/w)

70 I've never figured out where Lodi is.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 13, 2025 10:46 PM (XeU6L)

One in CA and one in NJ.

They both suck.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (Flying the American Flag!) at October 13, 2025 10:48 PM (n9ltV)

71 Before I forget, here's a video montage I put together, recalling a previous government shutdown and a lot of veterans & supporters marching on this day twelve years ago. Stay for the post-credit scenes.

2013 Oct 13 Washington DC (9 min)
https://youtu.be/UDFINoO7Dvg

View it on my website here
https://bit.ly/oct-13-2013-wash-dc

Posted by: mindful webworker - The march of Truth cannot be halted at October 13, 2025 10:48 PM (gJ6yS)

72 35

Poco has been playing here in CO up into a couple of years ago. Haven't seen them recently...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 13, 2025 10:49 PM (mAdag)

73 I've never figured out where Lodi is.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 13, 2025 10:46 PM (XeU6L)

Just north of the hellhole of the universe.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 13, 2025 10:49 PM (uQesX)

74 I've never figured out where Lodi is.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 13, 2025 10:46 PM (XeU6L)

One in CA and one in NJ.

They both suck.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (Flying the American Flag!) at October 13, 2025 10:48 PM (n9ltV)

The one in WI isn't too bad.

Posted by: haffhowershower at October 13, 2025 10:50 PM (144I4)

75 Someone should inform megamind Gates that when Europeans arrived in America there were something like 60m bison. Upon information and belief they fart also.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 13, 2025 10:50 PM (mO7bs)

76 I heard Schumer is still washing his mouth out with kerosene after being forced to say something laudatory about DJT today.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 13, 2025 10:50 PM (4a+wk)

77 I hate Neil Young, always have.

CCR is so indelibly tied to Vietnam war movies, I can't see anyone overlooking them. Damn good music but egos are gonna ego.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 13, 2025 10:50 PM (xcxpd)

78 Oh man, "there's a bathroom on the right" is one of my favorite songs!!! Thanks for that!!!

Posted by: moki at October 13, 2025 10:51 PM (wLjpr)

79 Just north of the hellhole of the universe.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 13, 2025 10:49 PM (uQesX)

Stockton? Modesto? Fresno?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (Flying the American Flag!) at October 13, 2025 10:52 PM (n9ltV)

80 Yeah, biden, the Architect, created Phase 1: the ceasefire. Fucking astounding, right? Then, biden-harris thought of Phase II. Yeah, Phase II, you guessed it: release of the hotsausages. Fucking brilliant!

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The Dems are a sad parody of a competent political party. I love watching the crash.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 13, 2025 10:46 PM (4a+wk)

They admitted that for 4 years the incredible husk couldn't figure out who was shitting his pants, and now they want to pretend he had a plan of any kind. Anytime biden sent anybody to the ME all that happened was they got beer caps a hookah ashes flicked at them. Dripping gashes all of them.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 13, 2025 10:52 PM (snZF9)

81 Stockton? Modesto? Fresno?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (Flying the American Flag!) at October 13, 2025 10:52 PM (n9ltV)

The power of "and."*

*The first one.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 13, 2025 10:53 PM (uQesX)

82 73 I've never figured out where Lodi is.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 13, 2025 10:46 PM (XeU6L)

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Just picture someplace so far out in the middle of nowhere that CA's High Speed Rail is going to stop there.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 13, 2025 10:53 PM (4a+wk)

83 Good evening morons y gracias CBD

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 13, 2025 10:54 PM (mFexu)

84 The first one.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 13, 2025 10:53 PM (uQesX)

Hard to argue the point.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (Flying the American Flag!) at October 13, 2025 10:54 PM (n9ltV)

85 I've never figured out where Lodi is.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 13, 2025 10:46 PM (XeU6L)

A place in N Jersey I try to never go to.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 13, 2025 10:54 PM (snZF9)

86 Forgot that Del Shannon shot himself. Sad. According to wiki, his friends said he was newly prescribed Prozac and it changed his behavior, caused insomnia, and might have been the cause of him offing himself.

Posted by: Better Living Through Chemistry at October 13, 2025 10:55 PM (oftw2)

87 Some people owe Melania an apology for those fake (AI?) videos of "her" singing.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 13, 2025 10:56 PM (NTdv6)

88 BOC, The Reaper - good mystery click tune.

Posted by: scampydog at October 13, 2025 10:56 PM (41CYW)

89 Annnnd Mrs B is still packing. You would think texas is on the other side of mars.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 13, 2025 10:57 PM (snZF9)

90 88 BOC, The Reaper - good mystery click tune.
Posted by: scampydog at October 13, 2025 10:56 PM (41CYW)

BOC is so good

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 13, 2025 10:57 PM (xcxpd)

91 Public Service Announcement: Lucky Gunner has Federal brand 38 Special LSWCHP +P in stock for a very reasonable price. This is the old "FBI" load, and it is not always available. You get a heck of a discount if you poke around on the site and buy a case.

http://tiny.cc/nkst001

That is all.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 13, 2025 10:58 PM (mIUWe)

92 As far as this Middle East thing goes, The Wolf put it best:

“Let’s not start sucking each other’s dicks just yet.”

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 13, 2025 10:58 PM (c44Rp)

93 CCR

I've posted about this before. I read John Fogerty's autobio, & then did some follow-up research to see whether he was full of skit or not. He's not.

I concluded that these things are true, & that they contributed to the fact, as CBD notes, that somehow CCR is often overlooked compared to the band's peers:

1) Fogerty & the others signed their first contract without a lawyer or an agent. Neither Fogerty nor the others had any business experienceThe man who controlled their songs & their money for 30 years or so was a crook & a sleazebag's sleazebag. All of their money ended up in the Netherlands Antilles-- and disappeared. Surprised?

To be cont. below

Posted by: mnw at October 13, 2025 10:58 PM (oa1u0)

94 County Reinstates Mask Mandate, Vaccine Guidance Over Supposed COVID Risk

Whine Country...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 13, 2025 10:58 PM (ynpvh)

95 (Repeated from previous thread)

Sorry I'm late, I ran into an unexpected landmass.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 13, 2025 10:59 PM (bYGTI)

96 Yeah, Phase II, you guessed it: release of the hotsausages. Fucking brilliant!

Hotsausages
The best.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 13, 2025 10:59 PM (/lPRQ)

97 Love the Far Side cartoon. Always a laff!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient
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Related Far Side cartoon:

https://shorturl.at/yfdka

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 13, 2025 10:59 PM (XeU6L)

98 Hard to argue the point.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (Flying the American Flag!) at October 13, 2025 10:54 PM (n9ltV)

True now, but it's amazing how much history is connected to Stockton, and the number of famous or infamous people in Rural Cemetery.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 13, 2025 10:59 PM (uQesX)

99 Despite the Underpants Gnome logic of Biden's claim, the only thing he could ever architect is, in fact, a gnome in his underpants.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at October 13, 2025 10:59 PM (cE1AS)

100 Fogerty had never been in Lodi when he wrote the song, he just thought it sounded cool.
Always liked CCR, but John Fogerty always seemed like a putz

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 13, 2025 10:59 PM (mO7bs)

101 Annnnd Mrs B is still packing. You would think texas is on the other side of mars.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

----'
Some of it kinda is, lol. It's still hot, so she doesn't need a parka or anything.

Posted by: ScaryMary at October 13, 2025 11:00 PM (gWZev)

102 Quite the epic day. President Trump goes over to the ME, visits with his buds from his tower-building days, and says he's putting the band back together. There is one hold out, so Israel goes over to Qatar, and declares, "Your women, I want to buy your women." which gets them on board. The screenplay writes itself...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 13, 2025 11:00 PM (nbLIj)

103 I was hoping I could stop using YouTube !
Thanks.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (Flying the American Flag!) at October 13, 2025 10:47 PM (n9ltV)

For music YouTube is only really reliable when you get video/audio from the artist's channel themselves. If it's an upload from anybody else it's a gamble on whether it'll be there long or even if it'll be available in different countries with different copyright holders.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 13, 2025 11:00 PM (6ydKt)

104 I'm always annoyed by my Alphabet Corporation Hatefeed, but I always read it so I know what the American ruling class has decided people ought to be thinking.

One trend I've noticed is this... a lot of these carefully curated articles are headlined with:

"You Might Think X, But This CEO Says That You Now Think Y.

Here's why your puny mind that doesn't command a trillion dollars in managed assets is wrong, and you should be embarrassed to even have a thought, let alone express one."

It's basically the old line of bullshit the Right used before they got buttfucked for talking like that to people, but now the Left is saying "hold my beer."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 13, 2025 11:01 PM (BI5O2)

105 AoSHQ may trigger convulsions and projectile vomiting in some new readers. Please use vomit bag in seat pocket. Knives are to be sheathed at all times unless written waiver is received by our attorneys. Ace and cobloggers specifically disavow all responsibility for content. We are not responsible for any injury, including chafing. Disabling ShowerCamTM is a violation of the terms of use.

Trust me, I turn off the ShowerCam™ for the good of humanity...
As for the side effects? Eh, not worse than this:
https://youtu.be/aMO-qfR73YU

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 13, 2025 11:01 PM (ynpvh)

106 The Cosmo's Factory album cover always cracked me up. It looks like they spent about $8.00 on it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 13, 2025 11:01 PM (4a+wk)

107 Neil Young seems like the kind of guy who never got the asswhuppin he deserves. He may have the most punchable face in music. I don't really feel like punching him. But he's such a condescending, self-important dickweed.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 13, 2025 11:01 PM (9FEtL)

108 The gal in the "masks" — I think it was zombie who long time back posted a pic of a gal dressed only in a few strategically-placed medical masks.

I seem to have lost the link.

Posted by: mindful webworker - worth looking for but N very SFW at October 13, 2025 11:02 PM (gJ6yS)

109 The man who controlled their songs & their money for 30 years or so was a crook & a sleazebag's sleazebag. All of their money ended up in the Netherlands Antilles-- and disappeared. Surprised?

Posted by: mnw at October 13, 2025 10:58 PM (oa1u0)

Ron Decline? I mean, Allan Klein?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 13, 2025 11:02 PM (uQesX)

110 37 Boobs!
Posted by: Bulg at October 13, 2025 10:40 PM (77rzZ)

Pictures or it didn't happen.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 13, 2025 11:02 PM (bYGTI)

111 Post 93; CCR continued:

(If you type a long post, they'll figure you're a bot & delete your post)

2) 99% of CCR's songs were "music & lyrics by John Fogerty." No exaggeration-- virtually everything they recorded. You could look it up. None of Fogerty's bandmates, including Fogerty's brother, had any talent. If that sounds brutal? Well, it's true.

To be cont.

Posted by: mnw at October 13, 2025 11:03 PM (oa1u0)

112 110 37 Boobs!
Posted by: Bulg at October 13, 2025 10:40 PM (77rzZ)

Pictures or it didn't happen.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 13, 2025 11:02 PM (bYGTI)

58008.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 13, 2025 11:03 PM (ynpvh)

113 107 Neil Young seems like the kind of guy who never got the asswhuppin he deserves. He may have the most punchable face in music. I don't really feel like punching him. But he's such a condescending, self-important dickweed.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 13, 2025 11:01 PM (9FEtL)

His main problem is that he's got a chronic, terminal, case of Canadian Leftist.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 13, 2025 11:04 PM (6ydKt)

114 Ron Decline? I mean, Allan Klein?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 13, 2025 11:02 PM (uQesX)

---------

Saul Zaentz

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 13, 2025 11:05 PM (4a+wk)

115 > He seems not to have noticed that most people don't know who he is, or even worse, don't care.

Essentially no one born this century has ever even heard of this senile communist.

The most recent album of his I can find data for is sitting in cumulative chart position 43,862. Not exactly a smash hit, to put it mildly. Not really a threat to Thriller (66 million copies), Back in Black (50 million copies), or The Dark Side of the Moon (also 50 million copies).

His latest offering has sold 40,000 copies. Not 40 million. 40 thousand.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 13, 2025 11:05 PM (qpyNK)

116 We have a launch very early in the morning.

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 10-52
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: October 14, 2025
Launch Time: 3:26 a.m. EDT (0726 UTC, 09:26 CEST)

https://youtu.be/3kKnuu-204k

Posted by: Joyenz at October 13, 2025 11:05 PM (2F0/Y)

117 "Yakkity, yak. Yakkity yak"

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 13, 2025 11:06 PM (mlg/3)

118 >>>View it on my website here
https://bit.ly/oct-13-2013-wash-dc
Posted by: mindful webworker - The march of Truth cannot be halted at October 13, 2025 10:48 PM (gJ6yS)
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Outstanding.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 13, 2025 11:06 PM (y3EmU)

119 > His main problem is that he's got a chronic, terminal, case of Canadian Leftist.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 13, 2025 11:04 PM (6ydKt)

And yet like every other Canadian with real money, he somehow left the Marvelous Land of Free Shit to come and live here.

Weird how that works, huh?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 13, 2025 11:06 PM (qpyNK)

120 Some of it kinda is, lol. It's still hot, so she doesn't need a parka or anything.

Posted by: ScaryMary at October 13, 2025 11:00 PM (gWZev)

Yeah we had that discussion, lol. We just need slightly warm clothes for the voyage. Gas stops, etc.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 13, 2025 11:07 PM (snZF9)

121 >
Saul Zaentz
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 13, 2025 11:05 PM (4a+wk)

Who, I have on good authority, can't dance.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 13, 2025 11:07 PM (qpyNK)

122 CCR is so indelibly tied to Vietnam war movies, I can't see anyone overlooking them. Damn good music but egos are gonna ego.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo

Netfux has the show, "Turning Point: Vietnam".

It seriously retells every lib propaganda point about the war that it should be included in every serious study. It pretends to be gospel truth which is why it is such a great example of propaganda...

And you just hear CCR running the whole time even if it was not there.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 13, 2025 11:07 PM (/lPRQ)

123 View it on my website here
https://bit.ly/oct-13-2013-wash-dc
Posted by: mindful webworker - The march of Truth cannot be halted at October 13, 2025 10:48 PM (gJ6yS)

I get warnings from my anti-virus...website is blocked for my protection...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 13, 2025 11:07 PM (ynpvh)

124 None of Fogerty's bandmates, including Fogerty's brother, had any talent. If that sounds brutal? Well, it's true.

Posted by: mnw at October 13, 2025 11:03 PM (oa1u0)

Sounds like The Beach Boys main problem when Brian Wilson was off-planet in his room for months and years.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 13, 2025 11:08 PM (6ydKt)

125 > None of Fogerty's bandmates, including Fogerty's brother, had any talent.

Eh... they were all fairly talented at playing their instruments.

If you're just talking about composition, yeah, you're right.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 13, 2025 11:08 PM (qpyNK)

126 well, just popped in for a few...gotta get back to work.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 13, 2025 11:08 PM (ynpvh)

127 "Bad Moon Rising"
My kids call this 'dad music' ... but they know all the words ;-)

Posted by: EastBayLarry at October 13, 2025 11:09 PM (hOyAw)

128 Love Trump's efforts. But in the end it won't matter. Middle East Islamists still want to kill Jews and Christians more than they want to see a better life for their kids.

Posted by: Black JEM at October 13, 2025 11:09 PM (VY+bQ)

129 125 > None of Fogerty's bandmates, including Fogerty's brother, had any talent.

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CCR was John Fogerty and three other guys.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 13, 2025 11:09 PM (4a+wk)

130 2) 99% of CCR's songs were "music & lyrics by John Fogerty." No exaggeration-- virtually everything they recorded. You could look it up. None of Fogerty's bandmates, including Fogerty's brother, had any talent. If that sounds brutal? Well, it's true.

To be cont.
Posted by: mnw at October 13, 2025 11:03 PM (oa1u0)

Rick Beatto released an interview with Fogarty a week or two ago.

He's really a sweet person. Give the interview a listen.

Posted by: browndog did know then, now he does at October 13, 2025 11:09 PM (3sXRv)

131 > 106 The Cosmo's Factory album cover always cracked me up. It looks like they spent about $8.00 on it.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 13, 2025 11:01 PM (4a+wk)

Yeah, that sure looks like a bad case of "Someone's girlfriend just bought a 35mm camera".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 13, 2025 11:10 PM (qpyNK)

132 They admitted that for 4 years the incredible husk couldn't figure out who was shitting his pants, and now they want to pretend he had a plan of any kind. Anytime biden sent anybody to the ME all that happened was they got beer caps a hookah ashes flicked at them. Dripping gashes all of them.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Dripping gashes... ?
You have mastered the secret language of womenfolk.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 13, 2025 11:10 PM (/lPRQ)

133 Post 111; CCR cont.

3) It took Fogerty 35 or so years to finally regain control of his own musical catalogue.

4) During those appx 35 years, the band members, & that same sleazebag leach of a manager I mentioned above, sued each other continuously! One case even went to SCOTUS!

5) All of this friction & chaos I've tried to describe took a huge toll on CCR. How could it not?

No wonder CCR is often overlooked & misunderestimated.

After 35 yrs of litigation, Fogerty ended up a very wealthy man-- finally.

Posted by: mnw at October 13, 2025 11:11 PM (oa1u0)

134 And yet like every other Canadian with real money, he somehow left the Marvelous Land of Free Shit to come and live here.

Weird how that works, huh?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 13, 2025 11:06 PM (qpyNK)

We've also got four seasons and Florida, so that's always a plus.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 13, 2025 11:11 PM (6ydKt)

135 The band (CCR) was much better than his solo work.

Posted by: Black JEM at October 13, 2025 11:13 PM (VY+bQ)

136 If Neil Young pulls his music rom Amazon, where will I go to continue not buying it?

Posted by: 496 at October 13, 2025 11:13 PM (7MeQV)

137 I've never liked CCR. Not my thing. When I hear it, I always think of Southern Comfort. The movie, not the booze. I assume if I was being hunted by coonasses in a swamp, they'd all be Credence fans. No idea why that unfair association exists. But it does. So no CCR for me.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 13, 2025 11:14 PM (9FEtL)

138 I get warnings from my anti-virus...website is blocked for my protection...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Siiigh. Yeah, mindfulwebworks.com doesn't have the s in https, so some browsers may gripe about that. I think that's a problem. You can watch the video at the YouTube link.
https://youtu.be/UDFINoO7Dvg

Thank you for your attention to this matter. I mean, bringing my attention to the matter.

Posted by: mindful webworker - the site is good, it's just antiquated at October 13, 2025 11:14 PM (gJ6yS)

139
Sitting here, having written the date as a precursor to just how long until this falls apart and it's back to square one. I attach no blame to President Trump when it fails.

Meanwhile, good evening good people living in the most exceptional country on the planet and may all effort you put forth on all days result in maximal benefit to you, with the same in grievous heartburn for the leftwit fungi who befoul our atmosphere.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at October 13, 2025 11:14 PM (vFbHf)

140 Really enjoyed the Dire Straits CBD, very tasty!

Posted by: Pikov Andropov at October 13, 2025 11:15 PM (y7zkd)

141
Sorry I'm late, I ran into an unexpected landmass.
Posted by: tankdemon

================

I see you got your keyboard fixed.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 13, 2025 11:15 PM (oKXMA)

142 137 I've never liked CCR. Not my thing. When I hear it, I always think of Southern Comfort.

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Funny thing is, those guys weren't from a bayou or a cotton field or even the South. They're out of Berkeley CA.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 13, 2025 11:16 PM (4a+wk)

143 40,000 people, huh?

If you want to know who the saddest old men with the limpest dicks are, go to the nearest Margaritaville retirement home and observe the 0.0001142857th of the American public who are rocking out to Neil Young in the rec room, toward the end of the dance hour, when the people with functioning genitalia have retired to their quarters to give each other more herpes.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 13, 2025 11:16 PM (BI5O2)

144 After 35 yrs of litigation, Fogerty ended up a very wealthy man-- finally.

Posted by: mnw at October 13, 2025 11:11 PM (oa1u0)

I honestly didn't know that much about CCR.
(I thought Fogerty fronted the Beaver Brown Band until I figured out it was actually John Cafferty)

Thanks for the short history on them.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 13, 2025 11:16 PM (6ydKt)

145 > Yeah, that sure looks like a bad case of "Someone's girlfriend just bought a 35mm camera".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 13, 2025 11:10 PM (qpyNK)

Not quite, but close in spirit. It was taken by the non-performing Fogerty brother, Bob.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 13, 2025 11:16 PM (qpyNK)

146 I like the Allman Brothers better than CCR.

Posted by: ScaryMary at October 13, 2025 11:17 PM (gWZev)

147 LETS GO MARINERS!!!

WHOOFREAKINGHOOOOOOOOOO!

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 13, 2025 11:17 PM (0kkUS)

148 The gal in the "masks" — I think it was zombie who long time back posted a pic of a gal dressed only in a few strategically-placed medical masks.

I seem to have lost the link.
Posted by: mindful webworker - worth looking for but N very SFW

Downloaded and saved.

Zombie would, on rare occasion, post a link claiming "it's me" and it would be hot Asian. This was one of those times.
....the rest were a trap.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 13, 2025 11:18 PM (/lPRQ)

149 If you want to know who the saddest old men with the limpest dicks are, go to the nearest Margaritaville retirement home and observe the 0.0001142857th of the American public who are rocking out to Neil Young in the rec room, toward the end of the dance hour, when the people with functioning genitalia have retired to their quarters to give each other more herpes.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 13, 2025 11:16 PM (BI5O2)

Is that before or after Bingo?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 13, 2025 11:18 PM (6ydKt)

150 Fogerty and his brother did not get along.

Posted by: Black JEM at October 13, 2025 11:18 PM (VY+bQ)

151 142 137 I've never liked CCR. Not my thing. When I hear it, I always think of Southern Comfort.

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Funny thing is, those guys weren't from a bayou or a cotton field or even the South. They're out of Berkeley CA.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 13, 2025 11:16 PM (4a+wk)

Yeah, I freely admit that I may be the crazy one in this equation. But there's no math on the blog. So we can't be sure.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 13, 2025 11:19 PM (9FEtL)

152 That was the music biz in those days. They would do anything to get signed, and they had you by the balls. Pretty much everyone got screwed, if they became successful they would get a new manager, and buy out their original contract and get new terms.

Fogerty got sued because one of his later tunes he wrote sounded, they claimed, like an earlier tune he wrote (which he did not own the rights). I believe it was “Run through the jungle” and “Old man is down the road”.

Neil Young got sued because he put out an album that didn’t sound like Neil Young. Might have been David Geffen. Said it was not characteristic of Neil Young. “Put out a rock and roll album”. So he formed the Shocking Pinks and did a 50s themed album. Really pissed Geffen off, who probably wanted another album like Harvest, that sold a lot.

Neil does what the fuck he wants, I can’t argue with that. I don’t agree with him on politics but he’s pretty good guy in a really sleazy business.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 13, 2025 11:19 PM (5dzh4)

153 Zombie would, on rare occasion, post a link claiming "it's me" and it would be hot Asian. This was one of those times.
....the rest were a trap.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 13, 2025 11:18 PM (/lPRQ)

Wait. How do we know Zombie isn't a hot Asian chick? Has anyone on here ever met her face to face?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 13, 2025 11:19 PM (uQesX)

154 Fantasy Records brought a copyright infringement case against Fogerty when he started his solo career. Fogerty's music allegedly sounded too much like CCR.

At the trial, Fogerty asked, "how can I not sound like me?"

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 13, 2025 11:19 PM (4a+wk)

155 I've never figured out where Lodi is.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

One in CA and one in NJ.
They both suck.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

The one near Akron and north of Medina, OH really sucks also.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 13, 2025 11:21 PM (cYBz/)

156 CCR: final thought:

If anyone ever says, "We need to get all your money & your future royalties out of the U.S, in order to avoid U.S taxes," MURDER the bast*rd.

Posted by: mnw at October 13, 2025 11:22 PM (oa1u0)

157 when the people with functioning genitalia have retired to their quarters to give each other more herpes.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

You be surprised what 85 yr old gals will ask you to do.

Posted by: Wealthy, healthy and not gay old men at October 13, 2025 11:24 PM (cYBz/)

158 Posted by: Common Tater at October 13, 2025 11:19 PM (5dzh4)

Neil Young's a foreign Communist subversive and I wish Richard Nixon had tortured him to death. In the Oval. With a blowtorch.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 13, 2025 11:24 PM (BI5O2)

159 This is who Springsteen wanted to be, but he just wasn't honest enough and good enough.

I assess this to be TRUE

Del Shannon's Runaway is also high on my roster, not least for the keyboards.

Posted by: Southside Miklos at October 13, 2025 11:24 PM (YGmAl)

160
SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 10-52
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: October 14, 2025
Launch Time: 3:26 a.m. EDT (0726 UTC, 09:26 CEST)

https://youtu.be/3kKnuu-204k
Posted by: Joyenz at October 13, 2025 11:05 PM (2F0/Y)

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Thanks for the info. That's about the time my body wakes me.up every night.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 13, 2025 11:24 PM (NTdv6)

161 Neil Young's a foreign Communist subversive and I wish Richard Nixon had tortured him to death. In the Oval. With a blowtorch.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Now see?

We Can have nice thoughts

Posted by: Miklos envisions in 3D with Surround Sound at October 13, 2025 11:26 PM (YGmAl)

162 You be surprised what 85 yr old gals will ask you to do.

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Unstick the door to the walk-in tub?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 13, 2025 11:27 PM (4a+wk)

163 Wait. How do we know Zombie isn't a hot Asian chick? Has anyone on here ever met her face to face?
Posted by: OrangeEnt

In the interest of spreading unfounded internet rumors I have never seen any of Zombie's pics anywhere else.

So, Zombie could be hot Asian chick or inflated scrotum man or any of the others.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 13, 2025 11:27 PM (/lPRQ)

164 I can only think of two instances where an old-school band got the best of a record company.

One being when the Rolling Stones still owed Allan Klein's ABKCO a song before they could leave the label.

They came up with a little ditty called "Cocksucker Blues" (title was later reused for a film), with Jagger singing in a whiny voice about getting his cock sucked and his ass fucked, while Richard played a twangy steel guitar.

Technically it fulfilled the contract, but was, at the time, completely unreleasable.

The other was the Sex Pistols, who managed to collect signing checks from two record companies who let them go after realizing just what they had. "Keep the money. Just please don't kill us."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 13, 2025 11:27 PM (qpyNK)

165 You be surprised what 85 yr old gals will ask you to do.
Posted by: Wealthy, healthy and not gay old men

That is in The Villages sales brochure, right?

Posted by: Miklos, unretiring at October 13, 2025 11:28 PM (YGmAl)

166 Tommy James had to hide out and work in Nashville for a spell, having upset a NY music producer who was taking him to the cleaners. David Bowie kept his good stuff under wraps for over 5 years because he hated his management. As soon as he got out from under that, he released his pent-up good material and had a huge surge of sales and popularity in the 80s.

Some of the Brill Building music promoters/producers were legit mobbed up.

Posted by: Under My Thumb at October 13, 2025 11:28 PM (oftw2)

167 "Bad Moon Rising"
My kids call this 'dad music' ... but they know all the words ;-)
——

Freedom Rock, Man!

Posted by: Common Tater at October 13, 2025 11:28 PM (5dzh4)

168 I'd say the only thing that Biden planned is a pardon for his crime family. I understand it's the only thing that wasn't autopen.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 13, 2025 11:29 PM (NTdv6)

169 167 "Bad Moon Rising"
My kids call this 'dad music' ... but they know all the words ;-)

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Zamfir's cover on the pan flute will knock your socks off.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 13, 2025 11:29 PM (4a+wk)

170 I can only think of two instances where an old-school band got the best of a record company.

Van Morrison — Contract Breaking Sessions

Posted by: Remindful Miklos at October 13, 2025 11:30 PM (YGmAl)

171 > 165 You be surprised what 85 yr old gals will ask you to do.
Posted by: Wealthy, healthy and not gay old men

I'm moving into a senior apartment complex this month (I don't wanna shovel any more snow).

Will report back to the horde one way or the other on whether it's really the Babylon With Mobility Devices that it's reputed to be.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 13, 2025 11:30 PM (qpyNK)

172 So, Zombie could be hot Asian chick or inflated scrotum man or any of the others.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 13, 2025 11:27 PM (/lPRQ)

You had to ruin my dreams at the end, didn't you.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 13, 2025 11:31 PM (uQesX)

173 Zamfir's cover on the pan flute will knock your socks off.
Posted by: Cicero

His collab with Slim Whitman and Boxcar Willie on that kicked it

Posted by: Musical Miklos at October 13, 2025 11:32 PM (YGmAl)

174 I'd say the only thing that Biden planned is a pardon for his crime family. I understand it's the only thing that wasn't autopen.
Posted by: JM in Illinois

From about six months in literally everything was a facsimile* signature... Except dropping out of the race and Hunter's pardon.

*Fvcking clowns keep pretending that "autopen" had some legal validity. It is no more a signature than a rubber stamp or any other reproduction.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 13, 2025 11:33 PM (/lPRQ)

175 >> migration to Corsicana causing variation in the tilt of the planet?

The axial tilt is currently on it's decreasing swing. Here, it has already cost me 3 seconds of daylight time on the summer solstice I was born in '67.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 13, 2025 11:35 PM (w6EFb)

176 I'm moving into a senior apartment complex this month (I don't wanna shovel any more snow).
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Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Best of luck with the management & your new neighbors.

As hard as it is for me to get motivated for the yard work, I expect to follow suit one day.

Posted by: Adriane the Spaced Cadet Critic . . . at October 13, 2025 11:35 PM (3ZUWJ)

177 >> migration to Corsicana causing variation in the tilt of the planet?

Not really, some horde heading there, bunch of illegals heading out. It balances.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 13, 2025 11:36 PM (snZF9)

178 Will report back to the horde one way or the other on whether it's really the Babylon With Mobility Devices that it's reputed to be.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 13, 2025 11:30 PM (qpyNK)

pooters on scooters?

Posted by: haffhowershower at October 13, 2025 11:36 PM (144I4)

179 *Fvcking clowns keep pretending that "autopen" had some legal validity. It is no more a signature than a rubber stamp or any other reproduction.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

Hmm

Wonder if Old Joe's autopens could be got for cheap.

Lotta mileage on 'em

Posted by: Miklos is occasionally required to sign Legal Documents at October 13, 2025 11:37 PM (YGmAl)

180 You had to ruin my dreams at the end, didn't you.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Consider this - all those pics could have been taken by anybody wandering the streets of San Fran.

Hot Asian Chick was indoors. Selfies....

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 13, 2025 11:37 PM (/lPRQ)

181 178 Will report back to the horde one way or the other on whether it's really the Babylon With Mobility Devices that it's reputed to be.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 13, 2025 11:30 PM (qpyNK)

---------

Hand out tennis balls. You'll be the most popular guy in the complex.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 13, 2025 11:37 PM (4a+wk)

182 >>> 174 I'd say the only thing that Biden planned is a pardon for his crime family. I understand it's the only thing that wasn't autopen.
Posted by: JM in Illinois

From about six months in literally everything was a facsimile* signature... Except dropping out of the race and Hunter's pardon.

*Fvcking clowns keep pretending that "autopen" had some legal validity. It is no more a signature than a rubber stamp or any other reproduction.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 13, 2025 11:33 PM (/lPRQ)

There was an article not long after the autopen BS was first reported detailing the requirements for its use, which included approval signatures from *five* different senior officials. I'm pretty sure it was mentioned the asshoes hadn't bothered with any of that.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 13, 2025 11:38 PM (ULPxl)

183 I've never figured out where Lodi is.
Posted by: Mike Hammer
----
I've been through two different ones:
Lodi, OH - about 70 miles SW of Cleveland
Lodi, CA - about 30 miles S of Sacramento, right on CA99

Posted by: buddhaha at October 13, 2025 11:40 PM (hYL69)

184 Hot Asian Chick was indoors. Selfies....
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 13, 2025 11:37 PM (/lPRQ)

That sounds right: SF -> Asian.

(furiously searches for Zombie's site)

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 13, 2025 11:40 PM (uQesX)

185 The axial tilt is currently on it's decreasing swing. Here, it has already cost me 3 seconds of daylight time on the summer solstice I was born in '67.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

When I get back the hour I gave up back in the Spring, I want it back with 6% interest.

In my life, I would get enough time back to undo hours of earlier stupidity.

Posted by: Miklos knows the whole Daylight Savings thing is a con at October 13, 2025 11:40 PM (YGmAl)

186 CCR is so indelibly tied to Vietnam war movies, I can't see anyone overlooking them. Damn good music but egos are gonna ego.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 13, 2025 10:50 PM (xcxpd)

When I see an AR with carry handle, triangular handguards, pencil barrel and three prong flash hider the CCR 8 track in my head starts playing “Run Through The Jungle” “Bad Moon Rising” “Who’ll Stop The Rain” and “Fortunate Son”

Posted by: The Osprey at October 13, 2025 11:40 PM (4T3do)

187 When I get back the hour I gave up back in the Spring, I want it back with 6% interest.

In my life, I would get enough time back to undo hours of earlier stupidity.
Posted by: Miklos knows the whole Daylight Savings thing is a con at October 13, 2025 11:40 PM (YGmAl)

No backsies!

Posted by: Father Time at October 13, 2025 11:41 PM (uQesX)

188 Will report back to the horde one way or the other on whether it's really the Babylon With Mobility Devices that it's reputed to be.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 13, 2025 11:30 PM (qpyNK)

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Good luck! From what I have observed with loved ones is that people looked after each other in the senior apartments. They were kind and tried to help. If they got freaky after hours, I do not know or wish to know.

Posted by: ScaryMary at October 13, 2025 11:41 PM (gWZev)

189
Lodi Wisconsin is 25 miles from Madison.

Posted by: fourseasons at October 13, 2025 11:41 PM (3ek7K)

190 I don't mean to bag on retirement homes. Just the Margaritaville themed ones, which are the most repulsive things ever conceived in the minds of men, fallen as they may be.

Here's a much stranger and more ironic theme, for a retirement home in NZ.

I can't think of anything less appropriate than naming an old folks' home after a guy who ded at 32 and said "to do something well is so worthwhile that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy. It would be a waste of life to do nothing with one's ability, for I feel that life is measured in achievement, not in years alone:"

https://tinyurl.com/jkzjr9rv

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 13, 2025 11:41 PM (BI5O2)

191 I only get a sample of the Spotify song.

But thanks, CBD.

Posted by: GWB at October 13, 2025 11:42 PM (nSIj0)

192 I've never figured out where Lodi is.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 13, 2025 10:46 PM (XeU6L)

Central valley of California, not too far from Bakersfield.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 13, 2025 11:43 PM (8zz6B)

193 Hand out tennis balls. You'll be the most popular guy in the complex.
Posted by: Cicero

Yeah

You cut holes in them and put them on the front legs of walkers. Can move smoother and quieter.

Posted by: Miklos knows things, but Why? at October 13, 2025 11:43 PM (YGmAl)

194 Will report back to the horde one way or the other on whether it's really the Babylon With Mobility Devices that it's reputed to be.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 13, 2025 11:30 PM (qpyNK)

Say hello to Doris for me.

Posted by: Jimmy Landecker at October 13, 2025 11:43 PM (uQesX)

195 There was an article not long after the autopen BS was first reported detailing the requirements for its use, which included approval signatures from *five* different senior officials. I'm pretty sure it was mentioned the asshoes hadn't bothered with any of that.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

The primary autopen use is sending "Happy 100th Birthday", military.retirement papers, etc.
If El Presidenta's sign is needed on a piece of paper they can very easily get him a fricken piece of paper vs. paper directing signatures from *five* different senior officials etc.

Smokescreen trying to pretend autopen use for official business is routine.
It's use is ceremonial.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 13, 2025 11:44 PM (/lPRQ)

196 Central valley of California, not too far from Bakersfield.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Where I met Dwight and Buck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0PNW4DXwJ0

Posted by: Miklos sees things at October 13, 2025 11:44 PM (YGmAl)

197 Was it Neil Young who, some years back, pulled his stuff off Spotify for about a week, or was that someone else? Had something to do with Spotify's agreement with Joe Rogan, if I recall correctly.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at October 13, 2025 11:45 PM (OGOaV)

198 Helena, I sent you a text yesterday about that turkey. I will try to call tomorrow. I have been taking my folks on a bucket list trip to Big Bend.

Posted by: ScaryMary at October 13, 2025 11:46 PM (gWZev)

199 197 Was it Neil Young who, some years back, pulled his stuff off Spotify for about a week, or was that someone else? Had something to do with Spotify's agreement with Joe Rogan, if I recall correctly.

--------

Yep, it was Young alright.

The man is cranky.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 13, 2025 11:46 PM (4a+wk)

200 Central valley of California, not too far from Bakersfield.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 13, 2025 11:43 PM (8zz6B)

Quite a bit from Bakersfield.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 13, 2025 11:46 PM (uQesX)

201
We "fall back" on Nov. 2 this time around, first Sunday in Nov.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 13, 2025 11:46 PM (w6EFb)

202 Had a picture of zombie when she was an Asian chick. Must have thrown it away when she turned into a guy.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 13, 2025 11:47 PM (y3EmU)

203 I remember doing a moving job at an apartment building in Lodi, NJ. The four corners of the intersection out front was four different "towns". Lodi, Hasbrouck Heights, Saddle Brook, and Garfield. NJ is full of tiny fiefdoms to employ the maximum amount of gummint "workers". Yeah, my uncle Anthony runs the Highway Department, why do you ask?

Posted by: Jerry Jersino at October 13, 2025 11:47 PM (oftw2)

204 Buck activity has picked up here the past few days. Trail cams sent pics of bucks sparring this evening. Three that have knocked off G3 and/or G2 tines. They're getting fiesty as the rut approaches.

Posted by: scampydog at October 13, 2025 11:49 PM (41CYW)

205 201
We "fall back" on Nov. 2 this time around, first Sunday in Nov.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
----------------

Oh noes, I thought they killed it. Drat the luck.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 13, 2025 11:49 PM (y3EmU)

206 Ola’ horditos.

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 13, 2025 11:51 PM (pi4LE)

207 176 I'm moving into a senior apartment complex this month (I don't wanna shovel any more snow).
.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

----

I wasted too many years of my life in apartments.They will have to drag me kicking and screaming into community living. OTOH, my knees may have a lot to say about that kicking and screaming

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 13, 2025 11:51 PM (NTdv6)

208 >>> 198 Helena, I sent you a text yesterday about that turkey. I will try to call tomorrow. I have been taking my folks on a bucket list trip to Big Bend.
Posted by: ScaryMary at October 13, 2025 11:46 PM (gWZev)

Sorry, I did get that but mis-read thinking you were already in the poor service zone! and have been running around getting ready to travel... will try to keep my phone close tomorrow.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 13, 2025 11:51 PM (ULPxl)

209 They're getting fiesty as the rut approaches.
Posted by: scampydog

That's been my MO, too.

Posted by: Ricardo Romantico at October 13, 2025 11:52 PM (oftw2)

210
I've noticed with my weather station linked with Wunderground, the idiots there still can't get the DST transitions right. System chokes on the "fall back", with 25 hours per that calendar day. Can't handle it and makes the biggest mess. It doubles up the 1- 2 AM hour on the graphs, the refused to accept 11PM - 12AM data, 'cause it can't understand more than 24 hours of data. It's been messed up for years and they haven't fixed it yet.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 13, 2025 11:53 PM (w6EFb)

211 Oh noes, I thought they killed it. Drat the luck.

Posted by: Braenyard

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Me too. Standard time. Daylight savings. I just wish we'd pick a time and stick with it.

Posted by: ScaryMary at October 13, 2025 11:53 PM (gWZev)

212 If you want to know who the saddest old men with the limpest dicks are, go to the nearest Margaritaville retirement home and observe the 0.0001142857th of the American public who are rocking out to Neil Young in the rec room, toward the end of the dance hour, when the people with functioning genitalia have retired to their quarters to give each other more herpes.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 13, 2025 11:16 PM (BI5O2)

By 7:30 pm.

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 13, 2025 11:53 PM (pi4LE)

213 Yeah, that old Canadian fruit bat pretended to be mad about Rogan's COVID ideas. But it was just about money and fame and prestige, like it always is with preening, hypocritical moral cowards like Neil Young.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 13, 2025 11:53 PM (BI5O2)

214 141
I see you got your keyboard fixed.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 13, 2025 11:15 PM (oKXMA)

I put my fingers on a diet.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 13, 2025 11:54 PM (bYGTI)

215 We "fall back" on Nov. 2 this time around, first Sunday in Nov.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
----------------

Oh noes, I thought they killed it. Drat the luck.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others
=========

I'd rather go to work in the dark, have it dark until noon, and then have light until 9:00pm to do shit at the house.
Depending on where you live this BS means you can go to work in the dark, stay in windowless building until you go home, then go home in the dark. Literally going five days for months without seeing sunlight.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 13, 2025 11:54 PM (/lPRQ)

216 >>> 195
==
The primary autopen use is sending "Happy 100th Birthday", military.retirement papers, etc.
If El Presidenta's sign is needed on a piece of paper they can very easily get him a fricken piece of paper vs. paper directing signatures from *five* different senior officials etc.

Smokescreen trying to pretend autopen use for official business is routine.
It's use is ceremonial.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 13, 2025 11:44 PM (/lPRQ)

Oh, that makes it even better.

"What do you mean it's never been used for pardons before?" -- super SMAHHRRT interns pressing buttons

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 13, 2025 11:54 PM (ULPxl)

217 Helena, I'll call around 9 am if that works. Signal is good in town but nonexistent when we are sightseeing.

Posted by: ScaryMary at October 13, 2025 11:56 PM (gWZev)

218 >>> 217 Helena, I'll call around 9 am if that works. Signal is good in town but nonexistent when we are sightseeing.
Posted by: ScaryMary at October 13, 2025 11:56 PM (gWZev)

Should be good!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 13, 2025 11:57 PM (ULPxl)

219 If you're living alone, it's nice to have someone nearby to look in on you -- or make a 911 call for you

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 13, 2025 11:58 PM (NTdv6)

220 I heard Trump talk about the time change thing. He mentioned during the campaign that he wanted to do away with time change, and thought a great majority wanted same, but after talking to normies and advisors, he thinks it's a 50/50 issue, meaning half are going to be pissed either way. So, his thinking now is to let it be.

Posted by: You Cant Win, Sometimes at October 13, 2025 11:58 PM (oftw2)

221 SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 10-52
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: October 14, 2025
Launch Time: 3:26 a.m. EDT (0726 UTC, 09:26 CEST)

https://youtu.be/3kKnuu-204k
Posted by: Joyenz at October 13, 2025 11:05 PM (2F0/Y)

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Thanks for the info. That's about the time my body wakes me.up every night.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 13, 2025 11:24 PM (NTdv6

Starship launch was visible from my driveway in Sarasota this evening. Caught the main stage separation, and main engine ignition before it disappeared to the southeast..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 13, 2025 11:59 PM (nbLIj)

222 Depending on where you live this BS means you can go to work in the dark, stay in windowless building until you go home, then go home in the dark. Literally going five days for months without seeing sunlight.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 13, 2025 11:54 PM (/lPRQ)

Oh, hey, years of my life with or without Congress deciding where to set my clock. It sucked but I made my rent and fed myself. If I had only known.

Can Congress change the weather in the winter for me, since it is deciding what is right and correct for everyone?

Posted by: Kindltot at October 13, 2025 11:59 PM (rbvCR)

223 219 If you're living alone, it's nice to have someone nearby to look in on you -- or make a 911 call for you
Posted by: JM in Illinois

I trained my cats. There's 3 of them, so at least one won't let me down.

Posted by: Mrs. Fletcher at October 14, 2025 12:00 AM (oftw2)

224 the last time, during Carter Agonistes, they kept it at daylight savings year round so everyone could feel the pain. I think they changed it after some kids got run down in the dark waiting for the school bus or something.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 14, 2025 12:01 AM (rbvCR)

225 220 I heard Trump talk about the time change thing. He mentioned during the campaign that he wanted to do away with time change, and thought a great majority wanted same, but after talking to normies and advisors, he thinks it's a 50/50 issue, meaning half are going to be pissed either way. So, his thinking now is to let it be.
Posted by: You Cant Win, Sometimes at October 13, 2025 11:58 PM (oftw2

Need to make it more exciting. On the designated date, a major league baseball pitcher hurls a D8 at Punxsutawney Phil. We spring forward or fall back the number of hours that the die shows on its face when it lands on the ground. Unless Phil eats the die, inc which case there is no time change.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 14, 2025 12:03 AM (9FEtL)

226 Need to make it more exciting. On the designated date, a major league baseball pitcher hurls a D8 at Punxsutawney Phil. We spring forward or fall back the number of hours that the die shows on its face when it lands on the ground. Unless Phil eats the die, inc which case there is no time change.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

To be effective they will need to machine that die out of a croquet ball.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 14, 2025 12:04 AM (/lPRQ)

227
Everybody hates the change, it's just whether we should stay with Standard Time or Daylight time that is the 50/50 thing.

We tried permanent DST under Nixon -- "energy crisis". A majority was in favor. Then came the winter solstice, pushing sunrise clock times close to 10AM for those on the western most edges of time zones and higher latitudes. That didn't fly at all.

I suspect the same thing will happen again if they went with permanent DST.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 14, 2025 12:05 AM (w6EFb)

228 I suspect the same thing will happen again if they went with permanent DST.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Let the businesses that care adjust their operating hours.
Not some authoritarian thugs dictating what others must do.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 14, 2025 12:07 AM (/lPRQ)

229 Was never *really into* CCR, but I got a copy of Chronicle a few years ago. Good stuff & all I need of their music.

Uh, I had actually ordered Rush's Chronicles but it worked out okay... I simply reordered & hoped A-zone got it right that time, LOL.

Posted by: JQ at October 14, 2025 12:08 AM (rdVOm)

230 Chronicles are small cooties that adhere to clocks. Sort of like barnacles, except they adhere to barns.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 14, 2025 12:10 AM (8zz6B)

231 I think they changed it after some kids got run down in the dark waiting for the school bus or something.
Posted by: Kindltot

And on the handle of the school bus door was

A HOOK

Posted by: Miklos remembers that story at October 14, 2025 12:12 AM (YGmAl)

232 Let the businesses that care adjust their operating hours.
Not some authoritarian thugs dictating what others must do.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 14, 2025 12:07 AM (/lPRQ)

Quite the opposite. Time control is a national security issue. Office of Weights and Measures should be able to call anyone anytime: "We have your family. Set your clocks back five minutes or else." Otherwise, the terrorists win.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 14, 2025 12:13 AM (9FEtL)

233 230 Chronicles are small cooties that adhere to clocks. Sort of like barnacles, except they adhere to barns.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Every Christmas season Queen Elizabeth took up residence at Sandringham Castle to have the barnacles scraped off her hull.

Posted by: Royal Dremel Corps at October 14, 2025 12:14 AM (oftw2)

234 > OTOH, my knees may have a lot to say about that kicking and screaming
Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 13, 2025 11:51 PM (NTdv6)

120-130" of snow has a way of changing your thinking about that, though. Or at least it does me and my 29-year-old body.

That sucks even with a snowblower, especially with 100 feet of driveway to clear before you can even get to the alley (which the city never plows until just before trash day).

I don't mind mowing in the summer, but if we get one of those winters where the snow hits 3 feet at a time, and doesn't melt until May...

As far as time zones go, Standard/Daylight doesn't make much difference to us here in Alaska, as the time has only a loose correlation with the sun to begin with. What would really make a difference is giving us back our four time zones. Some bright spark back in the '80s decided that it would be good to have all of Alaska on one time zone (except for the parts so far west that they're practically Russia, which rate a second time zone). It was touted as making it easier to do business with the West Coast. Of course, nowadays business runs 24/7/365, so that justification no longer makes a helluva lot of sense.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 14, 2025 12:16 AM (qpyNK)

235 A friend, who was a well respected Professor of Economics, never changed the time on his wristwatch.

So it was off by an hour half the year.

I asked why he didn't change it, and he said "Because I would have to change it back. Inefficient."

Posted by: But he knew what the time was at October 14, 2025 12:16 AM (YGmAl)

236 Dump saves hamas from Israel hoping to get peace prize, (he didn't)

Posted by: raimondo at October 14, 2025 12:16 AM (tIReo)

237 And on the handle of the school bus door was

A HOOK

Posted by: Miklos remembers that story
----
The hook handed man. Oh lordy.

Posted by: ScaryMary at October 14, 2025 12:16 AM (gWZev)

238 Still doing this time change thing? Thought that was going away

Posted by: a dude in MI at October 14, 2025 12:17 AM (+I6Y/)

239 > On the designated date, a major league baseball pitcher hurls a D8 at Punxsutawney Phil.

Or just make damned sure he doesn't see his shadow by stationing someone at the burrow entrance with a 12 gauge shotgun.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 14, 2025 12:18 AM (qpyNK)

240 I saw Hook Handed Man open for Death Cab for Cutie in Chicago back in '99.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 14, 2025 12:19 AM (qpyNK)

241 The hook handed man. Oh lordy.
Posted by: ScaryMary

I think familiarity the THE HOOK story should be required on citizenship exams

Posted by: Mere Moron Miklos at October 14, 2025 12:19 AM (YGmAl)

242 Dump saves hamas from Israel hoping to get peace prize, (he didn't)
Posted by: raimondo at October 14, 2025 12:16 AM (tIReo)

Eh, he will get one from the bottom of a box of Crackerjack.

Just like Obama did.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 14, 2025 12:19 AM (8zz6B)

243 CCR
Two thumbs up!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at October 14, 2025 12:21 AM (2WIwB)

244 Hand out tennis balls. You'll be the most popular guy in the complex.
Posted by: Cicero

Yeah

You cut holes in them and put them on the front legs of walkers. Can move smoother and quieter.

Posted by: Miklos knows things, but Why? at October 13, 2025 11:43 PM (YGmAl)

My brother's 90+ year old inlaws, who he refers to as the "wax museum" does that.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 14, 2025 12:21 AM (snZF9)

245 I wouldn't get a hook, should I be Michelle Fieldsed. I would prefer a fork, or maybe some kind of Popeil Pocket Fisherman.

Posted by: Home Handyman at October 14, 2025 12:22 AM (oftw2)

246 Office of Weights and Measures should be able to call anyone anytime: "We have your family. Set your clocks back five minutes or else." Otherwise, the terrorists win.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

So

Every time the power goes out, a Time Swat Team shows up to reset every damn clock and timer in the house?

Posted by: Miklos weighs pros and cons at October 14, 2025 12:22 AM (YGmAl)

247 Eh, he will get one from the bottom of a box of Crackerjack.
Just like Obama did.
---------

I thought they were on sale for 99cents at Target, and Bammy just had Mooch reach up & grab one from the top shelf so he could buy it?

Posted by: JQ at October 14, 2025 12:22 AM (rdVOm)

248 > You cut holes in them and put them on the front legs of walkers. Can move smoother and quieter.

Posted by: Miklos knows things, but Why? at October 13, 2025 11:43 PM (YGmAl)

Ah, I was thinking in terms of some kind of sexual aid, which you'd think the fuzzy stuff would get nasty in a hurry unless you used a new one every time.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 14, 2025 12:22 AM (qpyNK)

249 Let's not forget Trump's magnificent accomplishment with the
Abraham Accords during his first term.

He will go down in history as one of the MOST accomplished diplomats of the 21st century representing the USA.

Posted by: Nightwatch at October 14, 2025 12:23 AM (25kuG)

250 So

Every time the power goes out, a Time Swat Team shows up to reset every damn clock and timer in the house?
Posted by: Miklos weighs pros and cons at October 14, 2025 12:22 AM (YGmAl)

Freedom isn't free, Miklos.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 14, 2025 12:23 AM (9FEtL)

251 I wouldn't get a hook, should I be Michelle Fieldsed. I would prefer a fork, or maybe some kind of Popeil Pocket Fisherman.
Posted by: Home Handyman at October 14, 2025 12:22 AM (oftw2)

An AR-15 with a folding hook bayonet.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 14, 2025 12:24 AM (8zz6B)

252 Two thumbs up!!!
Posted by: Diogenes

Oh looky, Mister Two Thumbs guy

Posted by: Miklos has a story about the thumb incident at October 14, 2025 12:24 AM (YGmAl)

253 Fuck the nobel peace price, its been a cereal box prize since obama stenched it up. Trump is getting the order of the Nile. They made him a fucking system lord.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 14, 2025 12:24 AM (snZF9)

254 If you want to know who the saddest old men with the limpest dicks are, go to the nearest Margaritaville retirement home and observe the 0.0001142857th of the American public who are rocking out to Neil Young in the rec room, toward the end of the dance hour, when the people with functioning genitalia have retired to their quarters to give each other more herpes.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 13, 2025 11:16 PM (BI5O2)

By 7:30 pm.
Posted by: Pete Bog at October 13, 2025 11:53 PM (pi4LE)

***

Hey Pete, you gonna eat that pudding?

Posted by: Diogenes at October 14, 2025 12:24 AM (2WIwB)

255 Two thumbs up!!!
Posted by: Diogenes

Oh looky, Mister Two Thumbs guy
Posted by: Miklos has a story about the thumb incident at October 14, 2025 12:24 AM (YGmAl)

Hey look!
I got two other digits as well!

Posted by: Diogenes at October 14, 2025 12:25 AM (2WIwB)

256 I like DST. An extra hour of daylight at 8:30 pm in summer is much more useful to me than at 5am.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 14, 2025 12:26 AM (5Yz+T)

257 You know who's not getting a no-bell prize? That cow up top.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 14, 2025 12:26 AM (8zz6B)

258 In GAZA...

HAMAS is going around executing locals that celebrated the cease fire.

HAMAS needs to be turned into eternal dust for now and forever.

May their name be wiped from the earth.

Posted by: Nightwatch at October 14, 2025 12:27 AM (25kuG)

259 He will go down in history as one of the MOST accomplished diplomats of the 21st century representing the USA.

Posted by: Nightwatch at October 14, 2025 12:23 AM (25kuG)

LOL
- leftist authors of every history book

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 14, 2025 12:27 AM (5Yz+T)

260 Trump just won vietnam war draft dodger of the year instead of peace prize.

Posted by: raimondo at October 14, 2025 12:27 AM (tIReo)

261 Let's not forget Trump's magnificent accomplishment with the
Abraham Accords during his first term.

He will go down in history as one of the MOST accomplished diplomats of the 21st century representing the USA.
Posted by: Nightwatch

Not if we have anything to say about it!

Posted by: 21st century historians at October 14, 2025 12:29 AM (nhCoE)

262 speaking of hooks, could someone give one to retardo? he bores me

Posted by: gKWVE at October 14, 2025 12:29 AM (gKWVE)

263 What did we hear from the left non stop ? We want a cease fire!!!! Trump gives them exactly that. And they’re still mad. Fuck ‘em. Let them be angry 24/7.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 14, 2025 12:29 AM (5Yz+T)

264 I like DST. An extra hour of daylight at 8:30 pm in summer is much more useful to me than at 5am.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

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Me too. I don't like the extra dark in winter with standard time.How do Alaskans cope? It seems crazymaking.

Posted by: ScaryMary at October 14, 2025 12:30 AM (gWZev)

265 In GAZA...

HAMAS is going around executing locals that celebrated the cease fire.

HAMAS needs to be turned into eternal dust for now and forever.

May their name be wiped from the earth.
Posted by: Nightwatch at October 14, 2025 12:27 AM (25kuG)

wate. I gotta suck all they're diks furst

Posted by: Rey Mondo at October 14, 2025 12:30 AM (uQesX)

266 Raimondo has a point. Unlike Clinton, Obama and Biden who all earned multiple Purple Hearts, Trump did not serve.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 14, 2025 12:31 AM (5Yz+T)

267 What did we hear from the left non stop ? We want a cease fire!!!! Trump gives them exactly that. And they’re still mad. Fuck ‘em. Let them be angry 24/7.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 14, 2025 12:29 AM (5Yz+T)

I thought refusing to go to Vietnam and kill gooks was seen as some sort of virtue by Leftards?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 14, 2025 12:31 AM (8zz6B)

268 > Fuck the nobel peace price, its been a cereal box prize since obama stenched it up.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 14, 2025 12:24 AM (snZF9)

Longer than that, I'd say.

Don't forget that Yasser Arafat got one.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 14, 2025 12:31 AM (qpyNK)

269 266 Raimondo has a point. Unlike Clinton, Obama and Biden who all earned multiple Purple Hearts, Trump did not serve.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 14, 2025 12:31 AM (5Yz+T)

Beau Biden was KIA in 'Nam.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 14, 2025 12:31 AM (9FEtL)

270
Trump's speech to the Knesset was something else. No diplomatic niceties and euphemistic bullshit and all that, just speaking plainly.

Just think of all the professional diplomats and the "peace process" crowd. Utterly worthless. It took somebody to break the mold from that crowd.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 14, 2025 12:31 AM (w6EFb)

271 In GAZA...

HAMAS is going around executing locals that celebrated the cease fire.

HAMAS needs to be turned into eternal dust for now and forever.

May their name be wiped from the earth.

Posted by: Nightwatch at October 14, 2025 12:27 AM (25kuG)

Their entire bloodline needs to be exterminated.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 14, 2025 12:32 AM (snZF9)

272 261

There is the DOJ these days...and a phone call.

Careful what you post for.

Posted by: Nightwatch at October 14, 2025 12:32 AM (25kuG)

273 > How do Alaskans cope? It seems crazymaking.
Posted by: ScaryMary at October 14, 2025 12:30 AM (gWZev)

You get used to it, but yeah, there are those who go a little (or a lot) off the rails in the winter time.

I'm not far enough north that it ever stays dark all the time...but we only get about 5 hours and 40 minutes of (nominal) daylight near the Winter Solstice.

In the summer it never really gets dark. The sun dos drop below the horizon, but there's enough skylight to read even in the middle of the night.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 14, 2025 12:34 AM (qpyNK)

274 My brother's 90+ year old inlaws, who he refers to as the "wax museum"
Posted by: Berserker

Your brother's snark is almost as good as yours.

Posted by: mikeski at October 14, 2025 12:34 AM (nhCoE)

275 I've never figured out where Lodi is.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 13, 2025 10:46 PM (XeU6L)

Central valley of California, not too far from Bakersfield.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Geography lesson (no math)
The "Central Valley" of California is actually two separate valleys, the Sacramento (River created) Valley, which extends from north of Reading to Sacramento, and the San Joaquin (River created) Valley, which extends from Bakersfield to Sacramento.
(I lied about the math)
Lodi is about 225 miles north of Bakersfield... but it is in the San Joaquin valley.

Posted by: buddhaha at October 14, 2025 12:34 AM (hYL69)

276 Their entire bloodline needs to be exterminated.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 14, 2025 12:32 AM (snZF9)

Mossad needs to come out with a line of robot sex goats.

With hidden, remotely-activated teeth.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 14, 2025 12:34 AM (8zz6B)

277 Longer than that, I'd say.

Don't forget that Yasser Arafat got one.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 14, 2025 12:31 AM (qpyNK)

yeah, forgot about him. So yeah, its been shit for awhile. What really pisses me off about obama, is the dude who didn't get it seriously deserved it, the dude had more bravery in one of his ass hairs than obama's entire fucking bloodline. The tacky bastard should have refused it and let the hero dude have it, but no. He is the obama, a petty little narcissist.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 14, 2025 12:35 AM (snZF9)

278 Hey look!
I got two other digits as well!
Posted by: Diogenes

And?

Posted by: Mafioso "Eleven Fingers" Miklos at October 14, 2025 12:36 AM (YGmAl)

279 I saw Robot Sex Goat open for DEVO, in Berkeley, 1985.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 14, 2025 12:36 AM (qpyNK)

280 Mossad needs to come out with a line of robot sex goats.

With hidden, remotely-activated teeth.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 14, 2025 12:34 AM (8zz6B)

No fun in that. They have a lead deficiency, and they need around 230 grains right in the forehead.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 14, 2025 12:37 AM (snZF9)

281 Geography lesson (no math)
The "Central Valley" of California is actually two separate valleys, the Sacramento (River created) Valley, which extends from north of Reading to Sacramento, and the San Joaquin (River created) Valley, which extends from Bakersfield to Sacramento.
(I lied about the math)
Lodi is about 225 miles north of Bakersfield... but it is in the San Joaquin valley.
Posted by: buddhaha at October 14, 2025 12:34 AM (hYL69)

Well, in my defense, 225 miles is "close", if you are from Alberta. Or Texas. And I think the Central Valley of California owes its existence to plate tectonics; the rivers just naturally followed it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 14, 2025 12:37 AM (8zz6B)

282 Good night, all.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 14, 2025 12:39 AM (qpyNK)

283 Sinking of the SS United States not finalized, expected late 2025 about 20 NM south of Destin-Fort Walton Beach. All fuel removed. Top four decks remediated. All portholes & windows removed. 70% of the wiring removed. Funnels, radar mast, propeller remove

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 14, 2025 12:39 AM (y3EmU)

284 Just think of all the professional diplomats and the "peace process" crowd. Utterly worthless. It took somebody to break the mold from that crowd.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Everything I learned wuz RONG?

Posted by: Fro. of International Relations Miklos, Harvard, Brookings, Council on Foreign Relations etc, at October 14, 2025 12:39 AM (YGmAl)

285
In the old days, time was an entirely local thing, what is known as local mean time or local apparent solar time. The idea of the govt setting time standards would've seemed ridiculous. Time thus changed pretty much continuously with longitude. Each town, or major hub would sort of the local time at solar noon -- if they knew the Equation of Time and had a good observatory, then could set things to true mean time, but for most people it didn't matter. You set your watch/clock to noon at high noon. Given the accuracy of most mechanical time pieces at the time, that variation didn't matter.

Then came the railroads, and that variation in local time became a matter of life and death. There were several accidents, including one where 14 people were killed when two trains collided -- each train thought the other was nowhere near, because they had synced their clocks to different local times.

The railroads realized they needed to synchronize their clocks. And thus "railroad time" was born. That became Standard Time referenced off Greenwich Mean Time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 14, 2025 12:40 AM (w6EFb)

286 No fun in that. They have a lead deficiency, and they need around 230 grains right in the forehead.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 14, 2025 12:37 AM (snZF9)

Bleeding out from chawed-off junk would give them time to contemplate the error of their ways.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 14, 2025 12:40 AM (8zz6B)

287 Rodrigo Borgia, visiting Alaska is on my bucket list. It seems crazy beautiful. Those swings in daylight hours would drive me insane on a regular basis.

Posted by: ScaryMary at October 14, 2025 12:41 AM (gWZev)

288 Sinking of the SS United States not finalized, expected late 2025 about 20 NM south of Destin-Fort Walton Beach. All fuel removed. Top four decks remediated. All portholes & windows removed. 70% of the wiring removed. Funnels, radar mast, propeller remove
Posted by: Braenyard

Allahu Akbar!

Posted by: The Hamas Navy claims credit at October 14, 2025 12:41 AM (YGmAl)

289 Quite the opposite. Time control is a national security issue.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

You asked for it!

https://youtu.be/DtVrXTdEbF0

Posted by: mikeski at October 14, 2025 12:41 AM (nhCoE)

290 Bleeding out from chawed-off junk would give them time to contemplate the error of their ways.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 14, 2025 12:40 AM (8zz6B)

Hmm, true. Then can they get a lead injection?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 14, 2025 12:42 AM (snZF9)

291 The railroads realized they needed to synchronize their clocks. And thus "railroad time" was born. That became Standard Time referenced off Greenwich Mean Time.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 14, 2025 12:40 AM (w6EFb)

Is there a foolproof way to tell if a pocket watch is railroad grade?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 14, 2025 12:42 AM (8zz6B)

292
Note the federal govt had nothing to do with setting Standard TIme and the time zones. The railroads along with the states did that entirely on their own. Such was the power of the railroads during that era. This only became federal law much later, during the '20s I think, and that just rubber stamped what the states had done on their own.

It was controversial at the time, and I remember reading some piece from that era ranting about the tyranny of railroad time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 14, 2025 12:42 AM (w6EFb)

293 Rodrigo Borgia, visiting Alaska is on my bucket list. It seems crazy beautiful. Those swings in daylight hours would drive me insane on a regular basis.

Posted by: ScaryMary at October 14, 2025 12:41 AM (gWZev)

I want to do an Alaskan cruise.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 14, 2025 12:43 AM (snZF9)

294 Thank you for the back and forth...

Night Horde.

Posted by: Nightwatch at October 14, 2025 12:43 AM (25kuG)

295 That became Standard Time referenced off Greenwich Mean Time.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Subversive furriner commie crap

Posted by: Miklos pronounces it Green-which, like sammich at October 14, 2025 12:43 AM (YGmAl)

296 Actually, Trump might decide to call it American Mean time

Posted by: Miklos pronounces it Green-which, like sammich at October 14, 2025 12:44 AM (YGmAl)

297 It was controversial at the time, and I remember reading some piece from that era ranting about the tyranny of railroad time.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 14, 2025 12:42 AM (w6EFb)
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Is there a foolproof way to tell if a pocket watch is railroad grade?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 14, 2025 12:42 AM (8zz6B)

I have a Norfolk & Western wristwatch with a train as the second hand. Does that count as railroad grade?

Posted by: Bill Gates, The Not-So-Smartest Man In The World at October 14, 2025 12:45 AM (gKDq2)

298 Fuck.

Posted by: RickZ at October 14, 2025 12:45 AM (gKDq2)

299 Big Beautiful American Mean Time, the best time, really the best, everyone will love this time

Posted by: President Miklos J. Trump at October 14, 2025 12:46 AM (YGmAl)

300 Is there a foolproof way to tell if a pocket watch is railroad grade?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 14, 2025 12:42 AM (8zz6B)

There is a shit ton of requirements for it to be a "railroad" watch. My brother was collecting them. He gave me one and explained all of it, but seeing I'm not a pocket watch dude I forgot most of it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 14, 2025 12:47 AM (snZF9)

301 Fuck.
Posted by: RickZ

Darleen has a friend who might

Posted by: Miklos thinks a gratuity is customary at October 14, 2025 12:47 AM (YGmAl)

302 >> Is there a foolproof way to tell if a pocket watch is railroad grade?

The old standard for mechanical watches, Swiss, was -4 to +6 s per day. The 2s bias was due to people sort of preferring watches to err on the fast side, not slow. They'd rather be early than late. And also a mechanical thing. With the mechanisms, it was easier to slow a watch down than speed it up after a point.

For mechanical watches, you can get free "timegrapher" apps for the smart phones which can tell you a mechanical watch's error and other behavior. I've got one and used for several watches I have. Pretty cool thing.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 14, 2025 12:47 AM (w6EFb)

303 want to do an Alaskan cruise.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

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I've never found the idea of a cruise appealing, but the Alaskan cruises tempt me.

Posted by: ScaryMary at October 14, 2025 12:48 AM (gWZev)

304 I think to be RR, the watch has to have been held in a train engineer's arse for a fortnight. But I could be mistaken. A hobo who gave me a watch told me so. He seemed trustworthy though.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 14, 2025 12:49 AM (9FEtL)

305 Is there a foolproof way to tell if a pocket watch is railroad grade?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

You are sleepy, veddy sleepy

Posted by: Count Miklos with Hungarian accent and an ordinary pocket watch at October 14, 2025 12:49 AM (YGmAl)

306 I love Neil Young's music, and always have. He's a foreigner, so his politics don't bother me. Plus, I think he is somewhat retarded or something. All his kids have some sort of handicap and their mamas all seem perfectly normal, so it's gotta be his input. Also live Credence and Dire Straits, so thank you, CBD!
Proud of Trump, but have no faith in any lasting peace. Quite the achievement, nonetheless, and I'm happy the hostages are home, although I question the decision to drag all this out for the sake of hostages.
Also, as someone reared by Holy Rollers, the idea of peace in the middle east makes me nervous. Does anyone know if any rabbis have discovered a completely red heifer calf without a single white hair?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 14, 2025 12:49 AM (Ezs10)

307 Heres a bunch of info on railroad watches.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_chronometer

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 14, 2025 12:49 AM (snZF9)

308 304 I think to be RR, the watch has to have been held in a train engineer's arse for a fortnight. But I could be mistaken. A hobo who gave me a watch told me so. He seemed trustworthy though.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 14, 2025 12:49 AM (9FEtL)

I mean, the watch smelled authentic.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 14, 2025 12:50 AM (9FEtL)

309

Search for railroad watch requirements -- it's interesting. The accuracy standard was 30 s per week, which is about 4s per day.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 14, 2025 12:50 AM (w6EFb)

310 I've never found the idea of a cruise appealing, but the Alaskan cruises tempt me.
Posted by: ScaryMary

Don't miss the Late Nite Ho Throwdown and Beast Feast (included!)

Posted by: Carnival Cruises at October 14, 2025 12:50 AM (YGmAl)

311 want to do an Alaskan cruise.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 14, 2025 12:43 AM (snZF9)

Ditto. Only one I have the slightest interest in.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 14, 2025 12:50 AM (Ezs10)

312 Does anyone know if any rabbis have discovered a completely red heifer calf without a single white hair?
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor

Well, now that you mention it

Posted by: Mr. Haney at October 14, 2025 12:52 AM (YGmAl)

313 Sinking of the SS United States not finalized, expected late 2025 about 20 NM south of Destin-Fort Walton Beach. All fuel removed. Top four decks remediated. All portholes & windows removed. 70% of the wiring removed. Funnels, radar mast, propeller remove
Posted by: Braenyard
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Last week, I sat and talked to an older black guy at the VA. He was Navy, so I asked about what ship(s) he had been on. Turned out that the USS America was where he spent his time. As the conversation progressed, he kind of cycled between anger, and almost weepy sadness.

The story is here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_America_(CV-66)

"Can you imagine that?" He asked. "Five fucking battle stars, and they use it for target practice, and a reef". I thought he was going to start crying

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 14, 2025 12:52 AM (XeU6L)

314 Nobel Peace Prize. No fiddler fucks to give. It's a cultural hanger on. Hasn't meant much in a long time - riding a wave of nothing well done/earned in quite a while. Award reputation propped up by a shitty media interested in ideology. Vast distance from the original intentions of the award and/or what sane people think the award should stand for.

Posted by: scampydog phone at October 14, 2025 12:54 AM (41CYW)

315 Is there a foolproof way to tell if a pocket watch is railroad grade?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

You know how, in the movies, people will bite a gold coin to determine if it's real or counterfeit?

You can do the same thing with pocket watches. Try to bite it once.

If you're forced to bite it a second time, then it's a real choo-choo watch.

Posted by: mikeski at October 14, 2025 12:54 AM (nhCoE)

316 Fuck.
Posted by: RickZ

Darleen has a friend who might
Posted by: Miklos
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Heh.

Posted by: scampydog phone at October 14, 2025 12:56 AM (41CYW)

317 I've never found the idea of a cruise appealing, but the Alaskan cruises tempt me.

Posted by: ScaryMary at October 14, 2025 12:48 AM (gWZev)

If you never did a cruise let me tell you. The food is off the charts, its endless. I didn't think I would like it, but damn. Its like a floating mall/water park/galactic buffet.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 14, 2025 12:56 AM (snZF9)

318 My only experience with railroad watches was putting pennies on the rails, watching the trains, and then trying to find some very flat pennies.

Posted by: Young Miklos was easily entertained at October 14, 2025 12:56 AM (YGmAl)

319 want to do an Alaskan cruise.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 14, 2025 12:43 AM (snZF9)

Ditto. Only one I have the slightest interest in.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor
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Recommend a ride on the White Pass & Yukon RR while you are there.
https://wpyr.com/

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 14, 2025 12:57 AM (XeU6L)

320 I recall that Rush Limbaugh was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize several years in a row and had great fun with that.

Posted by: Miklos recalls with Amusement at October 14, 2025 12:59 AM (YGmAl)

321 Well, 2200 here, and I am real sleepy. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 14, 2025 01:01 AM (8zz6B)

322 My only experience with railroad watches was putting pennies on the rails, watching the trains, and then trying to find some very flat pennies.
Posted by: Young Miklos was easily entertained at October 14, 2025 12:56 AM (YGmAl
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Rich guy. We put those slugs/breaker box knock outs on the tracks.

Posted by: scampydog phone at October 14, 2025 01:06 AM (41CYW)

323 The European Union won the Nobel Peace prize in 2012. Just when you thought they couldn't get lamer and gayer than the SCOAMF, the Eurotards said :hold my beer.

Posted by: ScaryMary at October 14, 2025 01:07 AM (gWZev)

324
You are sleepy, veddy sleepy
Posted by: Count Miklos with Hungarian accent and an ordinary pocket watch 12:49 AM

Well, 2200 here, and I am real sleepy. Night, Horde.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon 01:01 AM

Posted by: Now see? at October 14, 2025 01:08 AM (YGmAl)

325
In GAZA...

HAMAS is going around executing locals that celebrated the cease fire.

HAMAS needs to be turned into eternal dust for now and forever.

May their name be wiped from the earth.

Posted by: Nightwatch

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I absolutely don't get this celebration of "peace." That region is in constant war, just at lower or higher levels. As long as Hamas exists, it will engage in violence.

I'm not trying to be an eeyore or a debbie downer, I just mathematically don't see peace.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 14, 2025 01:09 AM (oKXMA)

326 Rich guy. We put those slugs/breaker box knock outs on the tracks.
Posted by: scampydog phone

Well, I had to steal the pennies first.

The bigger kids got the nickels and dimes.

Posted by: Miklos still lives in cardboard box and LIKES IT at October 14, 2025 01:10 AM (YGmAl)

327 I'm not trying to be an eeyore or a debbie downer, I just mathematically don't see peace.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

It may be a structural change.

Hamas only exists from outside support.

Now, from where? Iran has been somewhat neutered, the rest of the Moslem and Arab world has said Done with you people.

Quatar is dodgy, but in general, Hamas' external support seems to be over.

Posted by: Miklos used to think about these things at October 14, 2025 01:14 AM (YGmAl)

328 Well, I had to steal the pennies first.

The bigger kids got the nickels and dimes.
Posted by: Miklos
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Miklos speaking truth of youth. Other boys - such behaviors of course.

Posted by: scampydog innocent observer at October 14, 2025 01:16 AM (41CYW)

329 Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 14, 2025 12:57 AM (XeU6L

Thor will LOVE this, thank you so much!!!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 14, 2025 01:17 AM (Ezs10)

330 It could go lower. In 2007 the prize was shared between the IPCC and AL Gore.

Posted by: Lirio100 at October 14, 2025 01:20 AM (ky7/T)

331 It could go lower. In 2007 the prize was shared between the IPCC and AL Gore.
Posted by: Lirio100

HOW LOW CAN YOU GO!!??

Posted by: Limbo master Miklos the Calypsonian at October 14, 2025 01:22 AM (YGmAl)

332 The railroads realized they needed to synchronize their clocks. And thus "railroad time" was born. That became Standard Time referenced off Greenwich Mean Time.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 14, 2025 12:40 AM (w6EFb)

This is also the reason the best pocket watches in the world were American in the late 19th century.
The government mandated their accuracy for railroad time.

Then the European wrist watches came along and destroyed the demand for pocket watches.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 14, 2025 01:24 AM (6ydKt)

333
Thor will LOVE this, thank you so much!!!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor
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There are some sobering sights, where cars have derailed and are at the bottom of very steep, very deep, rocky ravines.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 14, 2025 01:25 AM (XeU6L)

334 Wandered off to watch some vid. Returning because I forgot to clock out. On Central Daylight Salivating Time.
🕧

https://youtu.be/7Ki7f4g9X9g

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - set time by the sundial at October 14, 2025 01:30 AM (gJ6yS)

335 There are some sobering sights, where cars have derailed and are at the bottom of very steep, very deep, rocky ravines.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Yep

Posted by: Casey Jones at October 14, 2025 01:34 AM (YGmAl)

336 Watching Top Gun Maverick. I'm a sucker for predictable outcomes. Jennifer Connelly, bonus.

Posted by: scampydog phone at October 14, 2025 01:44 AM (41CYW)

337 was sweating there for a minute

@JackPosobiec
·
3m
Air Force One has re-entered American airspace

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 14, 2025 01:44 AM (mlg/3)

338 Dad took Mom on an Alaska cruise for their 40th anniversary... said the sights were "breathtaking" -- they saw plenty of wildlife and gorgeous scenery, did a little bit of shopping (don't remember which town) and had a blast. They went in late June, iirc.

Posted by: JQ at October 14, 2025 01:46 AM (rdVOm)

339

The USS America should never have been treated as it was. If for no other reason than her name.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at October 14, 2025 01:52 AM (vFbHf)

340
If interested, see the Day with Two Noons, Nov. 18, 1883. That's when Standard Time was implemented, and all clocks were set to the new standard time zone times.

For locations east of their time zone meridian, such as NYC, that meant local time was ahead and clocks had to be set back. In practice, most of the time they just stopped the main clocks for the necessary interval. But technically, that day had two noons.

If you were west of the meridian, the clocks had to jump forward. At the time, many people were worried about that -- how can you change time? You can't just change time like that!

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 14, 2025 01:55 AM (w6EFb)

341
Just looked that up to see the exact rule. At noon, local time on Nov. 18, 1883, one stepped the clock to the new standard time. So, if you were east of the time zone meridian, that meant your clock would have to be stepped back, before noon, hence "two noons".

But in practice, they just stopped the clocks mostly east. West, they would have to advance it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 14, 2025 01:58 AM (w6EFb)

342 There was a war in Gaza in 2005 that continued to 2007. The US vetoed a security council condemnation of Israel and supported Israel’s right to defend itself. A cease fire was also negotiated at that time.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 14, 2025 01:59 AM (EYmYM)

343 Thank you, CBD, for the ONT.

I love Don't Fear the Reaper!!! And Blue Oyster Cult!

This is my favorite rendition as I used to drive like this and apparently did not fear anything.

I still don't, but no longer drive like a speed queen with my first speeding ticket, age 15yrs, clocked slowing down at 93mph on I-55. While wearing a candy striper uniform.

Blows kisses!

https://tinyurl.com/ye2yak4k

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 14, 2025 02:07 AM (6PCLE)

344 But in practice, they just stopped the clocks mostly east. West, they would have to advance it.
Posted by: publius,

I can stop a clock just by looking at it

Posted by: Katie Porter at October 14, 2025 02:09 AM (YGmAl)

345 You're the rock of the grey boxes CBD. Excellent summation. Thanks partner.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at October 14, 2025 02:09 AM (nq6/a)

346 Ah, yes. Time for the semi-annual Time Squabbles LOL.

My preference is Standard Time year 'round. Others will disagree and I will simply agree to disagree with them. As a retiree, I truly have no dog in this fight. Meh.

Congress won't do squat. At least, not until making a decision becomes important enough (read: $$$$$) to them.

:shrug:

Posted by: JQ at October 14, 2025 02:10 AM (rdVOm)

347 I still don't, but no longer drive like a speed queen with my first speeding ticket, age 15yrs, clocked slowing down at 93mph on I-55. While wearing a candy striper uniform.

Blows kisses!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Thank you for your Service

Posted by: Miklos was in a hospital once at October 14, 2025 02:13 AM (YGmAl)

348 While wearing a candy striper uniform.

Blows kisses!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Knew a stripper named Candy. Briefly dated a nurse, kinda, sorta. Never knew any candy stripers.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at October 14, 2025 02:20 AM (nq6/a)

349 Knew a stripper named Candy. Briefly dated a nurse,
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Dated a psychiatric social worker for a while. It was interesting.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 14, 2025 02:28 AM (XeU6L)

350 Dated a psychiatric social worker for a while. It was interesting.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

I was being gracious in referring to what we did as dating.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at October 14, 2025 02:30 AM (nq6/a)

351 I haven't seen any candy stripers since...gosh, maybe the 70s?

Does anyone volunteer anymore? Are they even *allowed* anymore?

Have seen nuns at the local Catholic hospital. (Or, whatever the ladies are called, who wear just the long black veil rather than full Habit.)

Posted by: JQ at October 14, 2025 02:33 AM (rdVOm)

352 Reading some of the brief info coming out on the surviving hostages. Phucking Hamas are animals. To those who support them I will say, don't do in my presence. Voice your support and I will articulate a nonverbal response.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at October 14, 2025 02:40 AM (nq6/a)

353 I was being gracious in referring to what we did as dating.
Posted by: Sock
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Well, I used 'interesting' somewhat facetiously.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 14, 2025 02:41 AM (XeU6L)

354 Time to wrap it up. G'nite all.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 14, 2025 02:41 AM (XeU6L)

355 Uhm... does anyone pay close attention to history... like "the 3 German officers who predicted the landing at Normandy... with an eye towards "on the off chance that I time travel into the past I better remember this stuff?

Asking for a friend

Posted by: Fen at October 14, 2025 02:43 AM (R9abx)

356 Mr. Sock Monkey was a real Gentleman. Classy

He did Jacksons and Grants

Not like the Washington and Lincoln cheapskates.

Made sure I always got the tip

Posted by: Candy the Stripper at October 14, 2025 02:55 AM (YGmAl)

357 "What did we hear from the left non stop"

Fen's Law: The Left doesn't really believe in the things they lecture the rest of us about

It's meant as a warning to avoid wasting time and energy shelling a hill they never occupied. In this instance - don't bother arguing that they finally got the ceasefire they were caterwauling about, because they never gave a damn about the Palestinians to begin with.

And no, we're not related. Although I hear he's pretty cool

Posted by: Fen at October 14, 2025 03:00 AM (R9abx)

358 Ace actually quoted it once LOL.

I was unbearable for a month

Posted by: Fen at October 14, 2025 03:01 AM (R9abx)

359 When "Candy" and "dance" intersect in my brain, I think of this-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sqMOXOEI3U

Posted by: Surf Doggy Miklos at October 14, 2025 03:02 AM (YGmAl)

360 Does anyone volunteer anymore? Are they even *allowed* anymore?

Posted by: JQ at October 14, 2025 02:33 AM (rdVOm)

When I've been in the hospital since 2010, they have volunteers; they just didn't wear the candy-striped uniforms. They'll get pillows, blankets, water, things liike that.

Posted by: RickZ at October 14, 2025 03:07 AM (gKDq2)

361 Thanks, RickZ. I've been wondering.

Have spent a lot of time (way more than I'd like!) with hospitalized family members over the last 20 or so years, and surprised to not see the classic uniform.

Posted by: JQ at October 14, 2025 03:12 AM (rdVOm)

362 Nurses don't 'dress for the job' anymore, either. Everyone wears Scrubs.

Posted by: JQ at October 14, 2025 03:14 AM (rdVOm)

363 I don't mind mowing in the summer, but if we get one of those winters where the snow hits 3 feet at a time, and doesn't melt until May...

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 14, 2025 12:16 AM (qpyNK)

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I see your point. I live about 50 miles south of Chicago and I've had a little over a foot of snow accumulation in three years. Total. We used to get much more than that when I was a kid.

I wish you would sunny skies and fair winds.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 14, 2025 03:26 AM (NTdv6)

364 Up early so might as well get moving

Posted by: Skip at October 14, 2025 03:27 AM (+qU29)

365 The SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 10-52 launch that was to be around this time was rescheduled.

We do have a possible Rocket Lab launch later in the morning.

Rocket Lab - Electron - Owl New World
LC-1A - Mähia, NZ - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: October 14, 2025
Launch Time: 9:30 a.m. PDT (12:30 p.m. EDT, 1630 UTC, 18:30 CEST, 05:30 NZDT)

https://youtu.be/QiAkspCCq_g

Posted by: Joyenz at October 14, 2025 03:30 AM (2F0/Y)

366 Have seen nuns at the local Catholic hospital. (Or, whatever the ladies are called, who wear just the long black veil rather than full Habit.)
Posted by: JQ at October 14, 2025 02:33 AM (rdVOm)

Nuns are cloistered, i.e. you won't see them anywhere. Sisters are in the world. So, sisters in the hospital.

Same deal: they all pray the hours, and they all are celibate, poor, and obedient. But, the sisters are workers in the world, and the nuns are prayer warriors.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 14, 2025 03:30 AM (urtE/)

367 Not a fan of shoveling snow! Didn't used to bother me, but... age... I'm such a wimp now. Can't justify the $$$ of a snow blower, we don't get that much here, and where would I store the thing anyway?

I love winter because then I don't need to mow the damned yard for a while. And it's not hell-hot like summer. Just wish autumn and spring lasted longer, they're both too short!

Posted by: JQ at October 14, 2025 03:33 AM (rdVOm)

368 Blows kisses!

https://tinyurl.com/ye2yak4k
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 14, 2025 02:07 AM (6PCLE)

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Cannot hear that song without thinking of Christopher Walken and too much cowbell

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 14, 2025 03:34 AM (NTdv6)

369 Nuns are cloistered, i.e. you won't see them anywhere. Sisters are in the world. So, sisters in the hospital.

Same deal: they all pray the hours, and they all are celibate, poor, and obedient. But, the sisters are workers in the world, and the nuns are prayer warriors.
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK
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Thank you for the clarification, tcn!

Posted by: JQ at October 14, 2025 03:35 AM (rdVOm)

370 Had DH not come along, I would have been a Dominican Sister. Teachers, studiers, intellectuals, that sort. But then, oh hell, my vocation became clear, and it wasn't in the novitiate. I still have sister dreams, but they aren't real. DH is my vocation. It's all good.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 14, 2025 03:39 AM (urtE/)

371 Today's travel agenda has us taking a ferry across the Ria Formosa to see, among other things, a chapel with an interior made entirely of the bones of monks who had served there. Something like that, I'll know more when we get back.

Posted by: Lincolntf at October 14, 2025 03:44 AM (6+mJS)

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