Mid-Morning Art Thread

The Blind Man's Meal
Pablo Picasso

I'm unsure why Picasso became the icon he is; although self-promotion and his vile politics did a lot to keep him in the limelight. But... he did have talent. And there is an argument to be made that he was the last "Great" artist...certainly no one has achieved anywhere near his popularity since his death.

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If beautiful architecture counts as art, then the Obama "library" is a fat, naked guy on an Ottoman.

-- Archimedes

For you new readers, here is the art in question. And here.

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 yuk

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 22, 2025 09:31 AM (gbOdA)

2 yup.

Posted by: cmeat at October 22, 2025 09:31 AM (R11M+)

3 COME BACK!

I was going to make Expresso!

Posted by: Blind Man at October 22, 2025 09:31 AM (gbOdA)

4 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 09:31 AM (Qd7dZ)

5 Tangled up in blue.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 22, 2025 09:31 AM (0nHVk)

6 Kind of blue

Posted by: Miles Davis at October 22, 2025 09:31 AM (5hIiN)

7 Bland

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 22, 2025 09:32 AM (Q4IgG)

8 Zombie vibe.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 09:32 AM (Qd7dZ)

9 Don't like the style, even though it's better than cubism. WNH.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

10 in braille, "do not touch."

Posted by: cmeat at October 22, 2025 09:32 AM (R11M+)

11 Dude has some long fingers.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 09:32 AM (Qd7dZ)

12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXPl_wr2QNw

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 22, 2025 09:32 AM (gbOdA)

13 Bluey!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 22, 2025 09:32 AM (yy9ow)

14 Dude needs to cut back on the uranium in his diet.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 22, 2025 09:33 AM (99eI0)

15 Picasso normally sucked at art. Imma happy he made money, though.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 22, 2025 09:33 AM (jFCkp)

16 Am I blue?
Am I blue?

Posted by: Pete in Texas at October 22, 2025 09:33 AM (BHrzb)

17 It's best if you're blind rather than see both of those links posted.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 22, 2025 09:33 AM (NpAcC)

18 CBD just can't pass up a chance to show the nekkid lardass on the ottoman, can he?

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 09:33 AM (77rzZ)

19 "And there is an argument to be made that he was the last "Great" artist...certainly no one has achieved anywhere near his popularity since his death."

Uh, CBD, you forgot T. Kincade. Sheesh!

Posted by: Tonypete at October 22, 2025 09:33 AM (cYBz/)

20 So, Mamdani won? At least New Yorkers are equal now!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at October 22, 2025 09:34 AM (JCZqz)

21 I've never been a fan of Picasso.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 22, 2025 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

22 The Blind Man's Meal
Pablo Picasso

****************

It's A Miracle

A carpenter named Liam MacGraw
Was blinder than old lady Shaw
But imagine his glee
When he crowed, "I can see!"
As he picked up his hammer and saw

Posted by: muldoon at October 22, 2025 09:34 AM (/iMjX)

23 Dude needs to cut back on the uranium in his diet.
Posted by: NR Pax

We tried to tell him about that colloidal silver.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 09:35 AM (Qd7dZ)

24 19 "And there is an argument to be made that he was the last "Great" artist...certainly no one has achieved anywhere near his popularity since his death."
----------------
Today's painters are known as Movie Directors.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 22, 2025 09:35 AM (jFCkp)

25 no utensils. must be eritrean.

Posted by: cmeat at October 22, 2025 09:35 AM (R11M+)

26 He's got dem low-down, lost-love, existential blues.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025 09:35 AM (wVcYX)

27
I Am Curious, Blue.

Posted by: Swen Jakof at October 22, 2025 09:35 AM (KrNsD)

28 The beret gives it a French alien vibe.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 22, 2025 09:36 AM (NpAcC)

29 I think the Obama library is perfect. Looks like a turd stood on it's end.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 09:36 AM (pohLc)

30 28 The beret gives it a French alien vibe.
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This is the forerunner of DEVO.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 22, 2025 09:36 AM (jFCkp)

31 And music for today's art: https://tinyurl.com/4s4mkj7d

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 09:36 AM (sKqQm)

32 19 "And there is an argument to be made that he was the last "Great" artist...certainly no one has achieved anywhere near his popularity since his death."

Uh, CBD, you forgot T. Kincade. Sheesh!
Posted by: Tonypete

You must both be unfamiliar with my work, including "Immersion (Piss Christ)." Unless you are only talking paintings, and not photography.

Posted by: Andres Serrano at October 22, 2025 09:37 AM (JCZqz)

33 He's got dem low-down, lost-love, existential blues.
Posted by: Count de Monet

He's blind, so he can't work at the carwash.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 09:37 AM (77rzZ)

34 Those shoulder separations are painful AH.

Posted by: Geo at October 22, 2025 09:37 AM (4QBVB)

35 Someone here said it, I'll enlarge on it: the Obama Library is like a Nazi flak tower, but without the charm.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 22, 2025 09:37 AM (yy9ow)

36 tangled up in crystal persuasion clues.

Posted by: cmeat at October 22, 2025 09:37 AM (R11M+)

37 19 "And there is an argument to be made that he was the last "Great" artist...certainly no one has achieved anywhere near his popularity since his death."

Uh, CBD, you forgot T. Kincade. Sheesh!
Posted by: Tonypete at October 22, 2025 09:33 AM (cYBz/)

Every man knows that the last Great Artist was Frank Frazetta.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 09:37 AM (uWKK8)

38 Bobby Blue Blind.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at October 22, 2025 09:37 AM (6tEBv)

39 > If beautiful architecture counts as art, then the Obama "library" is a fat, naked guy on an Ottoman.

From the minecraft school of architecture.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 22, 2025 09:38 AM (1Nv0l)

40 If we're talking about the Obama Lie Brary.....

https://tinyurl.com/udz8mm8h

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 22, 2025 09:38 AM (WjhjO)

41 I'm not a reader. Just come here to look at the pretty pitchers. And am usually sorely disappointed.

Posted by: Arts and Farces at October 22, 2025 09:38 AM (oftw2)

42 Dude unfortunately worked all day long at the watch factory painting radium on dial and hands.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at October 22, 2025 09:38 AM (w9Wax)

43 From the minecraft school of architecture.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators

You know, that's pretty spot on.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 09:38 AM (77rzZ)

44 > If beautiful architecture counts as art, then the Obama "library" is a fat, naked guy on an Ottoman.
-- Archimedes

I'd say more like the fat, naked guy's dildo, myself.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 22, 2025 09:38 AM (qpyNK)

45 "Also, even though I am super short and bald, I am able to have sex with any beautiful woman I want just because I'm so great."

Jerome as Picasso, Art School Confidential

Posted by: Pete in Texas at October 22, 2025 09:39 AM (BHrzb)

46 39 > If beautiful architecture counts as art, then the Obama "library" is a fat, naked guy on an Ottoman.

From the minecraft school of architecture.
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Imma looking forward to the Biden Presidential Library.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 22, 2025 09:39 AM (jFCkp)

47 35 Someone here said it, I'll enlarge on it: the Obama Library is like a Nazi flak tower, but without the charm.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 22, 2025 09:37 AM (yy9ow)

What are those word supposed to be? Like a giant scabble.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 22, 2025 09:39 AM (gbOdA)

48 Bleecchhh.....

This one goes with the other tinder, unless one of you all want to buy it. Just make an offer.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at October 22, 2025 09:39 AM (89Sog)

49 I don't think Picasso was a great artist, and certainly not the last great artist.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 09:39 AM (pohLc)

50 And there is an argument to be made that he was the last "Great" artis

Honestly...if forced I'd go with Banksy. Both more recent and Banksy is a better artist.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 09:39 AM (sKqQm)

51 Picasso's blue period. Or his zombie period.
Would hang though and then be depressed
Thx cbd

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 22, 2025 09:39 AM (8RjCi)

52 Oi! You think I can't see the gum you stuck on my table there?

Posted by: Barliman Butterbur at October 22, 2025 09:39 AM (rMn9h)

53 35 Someone here said it, I'll enlarge on it: the Obama Library is like a Nazi flak tower, but without the charm.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 22, 2025 09:37 AM (yy9ow)

There are a lot of hilarious memes of it on X and other places. Putting 4 legs on it and having it attack the Rebel Base on Hoth, for example.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 09:39 AM (uWKK8)

54 Blind man's meal is kind of sparse.

Posted by: dantesed at October 22, 2025 09:40 AM (Oy/m2)

55 that one goes right indigo storage closet.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 22, 2025 09:40 AM (GbwPZ)

56
No art by commies.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 22, 2025 09:40 AM (tgvbd)

57 50 eric powell.

Posted by: cmeat at October 22, 2025 09:40 AM (R11M+)

58 53 35 Someone here said it, I'll enlarge on it: the Obama Library is like a Nazi flak tower, but without the charm.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 22, 2025 09:37 AM (yy9ow)

There are a lot of hilarious memes of it on X and other places. Putting 4 legs on it and having it attack the Rebel Base on Hoth, for example.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 09:39 AM (uWKK

https://x.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/
1979903820885848443

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 22, 2025 09:41 AM (gbOdA)

59 I also think Clinton's library is perfect. A fucking giant single wide trailer, fucking up the beautiful landscape around it.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 09:41 AM (pohLc)

60 "Also, even though I am super short and bald, I am able to have sex with any beautiful woman I want just because I'm so great."

**Carlo Ponti has entered the chat**

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 22, 2025 09:41 AM (ufSfZ)

61 Picasso is another artist who doesn't do much for me.

Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 09:41 AM (xatjc)

62 Guy went blind because he followed CBD's advice and didn't put carrots in his chili. Sad.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 09:41 AM (77rzZ)

63 Eh.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 22, 2025 09:41 AM (PSEDc)

64 3 COME BACK!

I was going to make Expresso!
Posted by: Blind Man at October 22, 2025 09:31 AM (gbOdA)

LOL... Brilliant minds.. That's the first thing I thought of too...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 09:41 AM (VE6XX)

65 Kind of Halloween maybe, could be a zombie

Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 09:41 AM (xatjc)

66 Everyone talks about Picasso's blue period. Trust me, you don't want to see the other one.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 09:42 AM (mlg/3)

67 LOL... Brilliant minds.. That's the first thing I thought of too...
Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 09:41 AM (VE6XX)

it is posted above

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 22, 2025 09:42 AM (gbOdA)

68 Alternate title - Breakfast at Oleg's Diner, Chernobyl

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 22, 2025 09:42 AM (Dv3i1)

69 How about Escher as the last great artist? I actually like his stuff.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 09:42 AM (77rzZ)

70 19 "And there is an argument to be made that he was the last "Great" artist...certainly no one has achieved anywhere near his popularity since his death."

Uh, CBD, you forgot T. Kincade. Sheesh!
Posted by: Tonypete at October 22, 2025 09:33 AM (cYBz/)

Every man knows that the last Great Artist was Frank Frazetta.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 09:37 AM (uWKK

Alberto Vargas and Patrick Nagel have entered the chat.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025 09:42 AM (wVcYX)

71 I think I prefer Hunter's art to Picasso.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 09:42 AM (pohLc)

72
Meanwhile we will have

1) The Trump 45 Presidential Library and Golf Course

2) The Trump 47 Presidential Library and Resort

Both yuge, classy and luxurious.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 22, 2025 09:43 AM (tgvbd)

73 59 I also think Clinton's library is perfect. A fucking giant single wide trailer, fucking up the beautiful landscape around it.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 09:41 AM (pohLc)

Rush called it Trailer Park and Massage Parlor

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 22, 2025 09:43 AM (gbOdA)

74
Imma looking forward to the Biden Presidential Library.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 22, 2025 09:39 AM

it'll be 217 bankers boxes in a two car garage and smell like crack-smoke

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 22, 2025 09:43 AM (tljrc)

75 There are a lot of hilarious memes of it on X and other places. Putting 4 legs on it and having it attack the Rebel Base on Hoth, for example.
_____

The Devil and the Democrats can't abide mockery. Keep it up.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 22, 2025 09:43 AM (Dv3i1)

76 But... he did have talent.

https://youtu.be/G2y8Sx4B2Sk

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 09:43 AM (ExV1e)

77 There are a lot of hilarious memes of it on X and other places. Putting 4 legs on it and having it attack the Rebel Base on Hoth, for example.
Posted by: Tom Servo

*snort

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 09:43 AM (Qd7dZ)

78 I'm sorry, Picasso was not a good artist in any period. His popularity mystifies me.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 22, 2025 09:43 AM (XV/Pl)

79 marcel marceau after miming a bank heist.

Posted by: cmeat at October 22, 2025 09:44 AM (R11M+)

80 I don't love it, but... It does effectively communicate what seems to be a lonely life, and I can appreciate the skill required for that.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at October 22, 2025 09:44 AM (lA1d2)

81 I like some of Picasso's work, though I agree with the view that after "Guernica" he never did anything on that level the rest of his life.
Heck, he could get a house given to him just for drawing a picture of it. Why strive?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 22, 2025 09:44 AM (WPL6O)

82 ah, yes, the blue phase

Posted by: runner at October 22, 2025 09:44 AM (g47mK)

83 72
Meanwhile we will have

1) The Trump 45 Presidential Library and Golf Course

2) The Trump 47 Presidential Library and Resort

Both yuge, classy and luxurious.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 22, 2025 09:43 AM (tgvbd)

Why not the Trump Steakhouse and Dwarf Tossing Arena?

Posted by: XTC at October 22, 2025 09:44 AM (UnA8+)

84 Reminds of scene from dumb and dumber of blind kid petting dead parakeet "pretty bird, pretty bird. Polly want some bread?"

Posted by: Geo at October 22, 2025 09:44 AM (4QBVB)

85 67 LOL... Brilliant minds.. That's the first thing I thought of too...
Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 09:41 AM (VE6XX)

it is posted above
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 22, 2025 09:42 AM (gbOdA)

Great scene ! I'm always afraid to go to the links here....

Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 09:44 AM (VE6XX)

86
Oops - a limerick

There was a blind waiter named Knapp
Whose handicap caused quite a flap
He put buttered bread
On a customer's head
Then ladled hot soup in his lap.

Posted by: muldoon at October 22, 2025 09:44 AM (/iMjX)

87 Last great artist? "Great" as in "household name"? Yea, probably Picasso. I'd say the last great artist I know of was Jack Vettriano.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 09:44 AM (omVj0)

88 Not fond of Picasso though I like this one better than any of the cubist stuff.

Posted by: Tuna at October 22, 2025 09:44 AM (lJ0H4)

89 Waiter, There's a soup in my fly!

Posted by: muldoon at October 22, 2025 09:45 AM (/iMjX)

90 The last great American Artist was Bob Ross.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 22, 2025 09:45 AM (XV/Pl)

91 Paul Mauriat's "Love Is Blue" from the Sixties as soundtrack for this?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 09:45 AM (omVj0)

92 90 The last great American Artist was Bob Ross.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 22, 2025 09:45 AM (XV/Pl)

His trees were always so happy....

Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 09:46 AM (VE6XX)

93 Why not the Trump Steakhouse and Dwarf Tossing Arena?
Posted by: XTC at October 22, 2025 09:44 AM (UnA8+)

It will have a fighting Octagon with death matches.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 22, 2025 09:46 AM (gbOdA)

94
"Also, even though I am super short and bald, I am able to have sex with any beautiful woman I want just because I'm so great."

__________

We knew someone who used to live in the area and is now in Colorado. He was short, pudgy, bespectacled and a loudmouth. He also got more ass than a toilet seat. One of life's mysteries.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 22, 2025 09:46 AM (tgvbd)

95 Picasso bleh

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 22, 2025 09:46 AM (+El+t)

96 Do you want fries with that?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 22, 2025 09:46 AM (IC093)

97 At least the guy in the painting still has his handy dandy notebook.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025 09:46 AM (wVcYX)

98 I think he is very interesting. We are used to seeing abstract art, in paintings, in architecture, but at the time he was unique, influenced generation of artists. He did reflect the modern age pretty well, cubist, angular.

Posted by: runner at October 22, 2025 09:46 AM (g47mK)

99 Why not the Trump Steakhouse and Dwarf Tossing Arena?
Posted by: XTC at October 22, 2025 09:44 AM (UnA8+)

No one wants to touch Robert Reich.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 09:46 AM (ExV1e)

100 Then ladled hot soup in his lap.
Posted by: muldoon at October 22, 2025 09:44 AM (/iMjX)

GTF Out when he brings the cigar humidor.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 22, 2025 09:47 AM (gbOdA)

101 I’d say Van Gogh is the most popular artist in the world far more than Picasso.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 09:47 AM (EYmYM)

102 We knew someone who used to live in the area and is now in Colorado. He was short, pudgy, bespectacled and a loudmouth. He also got more ass than a toilet seat. One of life's mysteries.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

But was it high-quality ass?

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 09:47 AM (77rzZ)

103 100 candy corn halloween.

Posted by: cmeat at October 22, 2025 09:48 AM (R11M+)

104 101 I’d say Van Gogh is the most popular artist in the world far more than Picasso.
Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 09:47 AM (EYmYM)

I certainly prefer Van Gogh...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 09:48 AM (VE6XX)

105 102 that is such an important query.

Posted by: cmeat at October 22, 2025 09:48 AM (R11M+)

106
1) The Trump 45 Presidential Library and Golf Course

2) The Trump 47 Presidential Library and Resort

==========

Interesting. Does he get two? If not, we need to make that a rule: if you do a Cleveland, you get two. For the degree of difficulty.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 22, 2025 09:49 AM (1Nv0l)

107
We knew someone who used to live in the area and is now in Colorado. He was short, pudgy, bespectacled and a loudmouth. He also got more ass than a toilet seat. One of life's mysteries.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

But was it high-quality ass?
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 09:47 AM

Quantity has a quality of it's own.

-N.Bonapart

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 22, 2025 09:49 AM (tljrc)

108 An art dealer friend once brought some drawings to Picasso for authentication.

Picasso dismissed them as fake.

The dealer was skeptical... they looked real to him. So he came back with another one that he knew was genuine.

Once again, Picasso declared it to be a fake.

"But Pablo, I saw you draw this. You gave it to me with your own hands."

"Bah. Anyone can do a fake Picasso. I sometimes do them myself."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 22, 2025 09:49 AM (qpyNK)

109 Everyone talks about Picasso's blue period. Trust me, you don't want to see the other one.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025

***
"We visited Picasso. He was just beginning his Blue Period, but we came over, so he started it ten minutes later."
( -- Woody Allen)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 09:49 AM (omVj0)

110 We knew someone who used to live in the area and is now in Colorado. He was short, pudgy, bespectacled and a loudmouth. He also got more ass than a toilet seat. One of life's mysteries.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Ron Jeremy?

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 09:49 AM (Qd7dZ)

111 >>I also think Clinton's library is perfect.

The Left always disparage Trump for putting his name on his buildings.

The thing is, he puts his name on the things *he's built*, while the people in DC love to put their names on things that *the taxpayers* have built and paid for, such as schools, government offices, ships, etc.. The ultimate 'you didn't build that.'

Posted by: Lizzy at October 22, 2025 09:50 AM (GbwPZ)

112 If beautiful architecture counts as art, then the Obama "library" is a fat, naked guy on an Ottoman.

-
Trump's presidential library will have showgirls.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 09:50 AM (L/fGl)

113 Don't think much of this painting and I'll remain a Helen Keller Skeptic until my dying day.

Posted by: Not Falling For It at October 22, 2025 09:50 AM (oftw2)

114 Speaking of a blind man's meal, and given the fact this will inevitably turn into a movie thread...
I recently learned that the actor portraying the blind man who hosts the monster for a meal in Young Frankenstein was Gene Hackman. The way he's been made up I didn't recognize him.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 22, 2025 09:50 AM (bVKL8)

115 You'll dance to anything by The Cure.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 22, 2025 09:51 AM (ULPxl)

116 Why not the Trump Steakhouse and Dwarf Tossing Arena?
Posted by: XTC at October 22, 2025 09:44 AM (UnA8+)

How dare you!

Posted by: Robert Reich at October 22, 2025 09:51 AM (PiwSw)

117 The best I can say is Picasso is not as overrated as Rothko.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 09:52 AM (EYmYM)

118 > One of life's mysteries.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I heard about a guy who had a policy of asking every woman he met for sex.

According to him, 90% of the time they'll say no (at least at first).

But that other 10%...

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 22, 2025 09:52 AM (qpyNK)

119 Trumps library personnel will all be hot women, and you will have to pay to get in, and there will be a line.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 09:53 AM (pohLc)

120 > the Obama "library"

Tell me you're a totalitarian Marxist without telling me you're a totalitarian Marxist.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 22, 2025 09:53 AM (1Nv0l)

121 I recently learned that the actor portraying the blind man who hosts the monster for a meal in Young Frankenstein was Gene Hackman. The way he's been made up I didn't recognize him.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 22, 2025

***
I recognized him when I saw the film new in the '70s, and he was fairly new on the film scene then. His voice was always identifiable.

He looked, like a lot of actors did in Mel Brooks movies, as though he was having fun -- much like his turn as Lex Luthor in the Christopher Reeve Superman movies.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 09:53 AM (omVj0)

122 daley plaza is cursed with the cassandra babboon.

Posted by: cmeat at October 22, 2025 09:53 AM (R11M+)

123 Trumps library personnel will all be hot women, and you will have to pay to get in, and there will be a line.
Posted by: Xipe Totec

======

And it will be called "Hooters".

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 22, 2025 09:53 AM (1Nv0l)

124 Picasso is the Meryl Streep of the art world.

Posted by: IrishEi at October 22, 2025 09:54 AM (3ImbR)

125 113 why can't helen keller drive?
because she's a woman.

Posted by: cmeat at October 22, 2025 09:54 AM (R11M+)

126
The Obama library looks like one could perform maintenance on your U-boat there. If you stood the sub on it's props.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 22, 2025 09:54 AM (y9nCu)

127 Hey. Lay off me. There was a sale on blue paint.

Posted by: P. Picasso at October 22, 2025 09:54 AM (bVKL8)

128 That library looks like an airport art installation. By the rental car pickup.

Posted by: JSpicy at October 22, 2025 09:54 AM (V73x6)

129 If beautiful architecture counts as art, then the Obama "library" is a fat, naked guy on an Ottoman.
-- Archimedes

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AKA The Obama Presidential Outhouse & Bathhouse, not to be confused with the Clinton Presidential Trailer Park & Massage Parlor.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 09:54 AM (BZKvP)

130 For you new readers, here is the art in question.

CBD, what have we done to you to deserve this?

Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at October 22, 2025 09:54 AM (0CU3H)

131 And it will be called "Hooters".
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 22, 2025 09:53 AM (1Nv0l)

Hooters is dying because all the attractive young women who would have worked there started OF instead. -- Asmongold

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 09:55 AM (ExV1e)

132 You know how they always use some type of mysterious blue liquid to demonstrate absorbency in the commercials for feminine hygiene products?

You guessed it: Picasso.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 22, 2025 09:55 AM (qpyNK)

133 Hooters is dying because all the attractive young women who would have worked there started OF instead. -- Asmongold
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

I thought it was because their food sucked.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 09:56 AM (77rzZ)

134 Comey Asks Judge to Dismiss Criminal Charges, Claiming Selective Prosecution

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He's right, you know. They're targeting criminals.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 09:56 AM (L/fGl)

135 So it's an architecture thread?

Posted by: Just got here at October 22, 2025 09:56 AM (bVKL8)

136 Hooters is dying because all the attractive young women who would have worked there started OF instead. -- Asmongold
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

I thought it was because their food sucked.
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 09:56 AM (77rzZ)

Yes. Folks rave about their wings, but I can get better wings in the grocer's freezer.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 22, 2025 09:57 AM (PSEDc)

137 A little color variety would help.

Posted by: LeRoy Neiman at October 22, 2025 09:57 AM (wVcYX)

138 And there is an argument to be made that he was the last "Great" artist...certainly no one has achieved anywhere near his popularity since his death."

Uh, CBD, you forgot T. Kincade. Sheesh!
Posted by: Tonypete at October 22, 2025 09:33 AM (cYBz/)

Every man knows that the last Great Artist was Frank Frazetta.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 09:37 AM (uWKK

I'd say Bob Ross and his happy trees.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 22, 2025 09:58 AM (g8Ew8)

139 had a policy of asking every woman he met for sex.

According to him, 90% of the time they'll say no (at least at first).

But that other 10%...

Posted by: Rodrigo

I learned from reading the classic "How To Pick Up Girls" in the 70s that you miss every shot you don't take.

Aren't you Hank Ryan's sister? Do you come here often? Can you direct me to the Obama Bibliothek?

Posted by: Man About Town at October 22, 2025 09:58 AM (oftw2)

140 So it's an architecture thread?
Posted by: Just got here

Because the guy in the art is actually a member of the Bourbon royal house.

He's a blue prince.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 09:58 AM (77rzZ)

141 Meeting/Approaching/Flirting with women is a skill.

And like all skills you get better of it the more you do.

Which, ironically, means the men that women will generally observe to be the most fun to talk to out of the blue are also the most likely to be some sort of "player".

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 09:58 AM (sKqQm)

142 Yes. Folks rave about their wings, but I can get better wings in the grocer's freezer.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 22, 2025 09:57 AM (PSEDc)

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: People who say they read Playboy for the articles at October 22, 2025 09:58 AM (PiwSw)

143
Braille Bread - a limerick

The tale oof a blind man from Leeds
Who picks up a breadstick and reads
The waiter says, "Sir,
I hate to demur,
But you're reading the sesame seeds!"

Posted by: muldoon at October 22, 2025 09:58 AM (/iMjX)

144 Gene Hackman was no Michael Caine or Nic Cage.

He didn’t make that many movies relatively speaking.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 09:59 AM (EYmYM)

145 The rendering of perspective gets a solid C-

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 22, 2025 09:59 AM (JkO4W)

146 > CBD, what have we done to you to deserve this?
Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at October 22, 2025 09:54 AM (0CU3H)

Hey, no trickery there. The link was accurately described as a naked fat guy on an ottoman and it was, in fact, a naked fat guy on an ottoman.

If you clicked it, that's on you. :-)

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 22, 2025 09:59 AM (qpyNK)

147 Some say Pablo Picasso is an asshole.

Posted by: dreamingrobot at October 22, 2025 09:59 AM (EyfuW)

148 Hooters is dying because all the attractive young women who would have worked there started OF instead. -- Asmongold
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

I thought it was because their food sucked.
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 09:56 AM (77rzZ)

Yes. Folks rave about their wings, but I can get better wings in the grocer's freezer.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 22, 2025 09:57 AM (PSEDc)

Yet, for some strange reason, people once raved about their wings. Then the waitresses became less attractive and the wings, suddenly, tasted worse.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 10:00 AM (ExV1e)

149 "because she's a woman."

I don't understand why some of you gents have trouble telling trans and women apart until you're in the motel room, so I'll offer my expertise. There's one foolproof way - ask them to parallel park

Posted by: Fen at October 22, 2025 10:00 AM (ciYHQ)

150
Hey, no trickery there. The link was accurately described as a naked fat guy on an ottoman and it was, in fact, a naked fat guy on an ottoman.

If you clicked it, that's on you. :-)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 22, 2025 09:59 AM (qpyNK)

Which is why I didn't click on it....

Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 10:00 AM (VE6XX)

151 A little color variety would help.
Posted by: LeRoy Neiman at October 22, 2025 09:57 AM (wVcYX)

You started off as a Playboy artist.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 10:00 AM (EYmYM)

152 Obama's presidential library building brings to mind the Tower of Mordor from LOTR.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 22, 2025 10:00 AM (N39Ws)

153 Gene Hackman was no Michael Caine or Nic Cage.

He didn’t make that many movies relatively speaking.
Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025

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Which sounds like, once he became a "name," he picked his projects carefully.

I think he started his career fairly late in life, as did Ed Asner.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 10:01 AM (omVj0)

154 134 Comey Asks Judge to Dismiss Criminal Charges, Claiming Selective Prosecution

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I was told that "nobody is above the law"

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 22, 2025 10:01 AM (JkO4W)

155 133 Hooters is dying because all the attractive young women who would have worked there started OF instead. -- Asmongold
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

I thought it was because their food sucked.
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 09:56 AM (77rzZ)
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Hooters are life.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at October 22, 2025 10:01 AM (36PRH)

156 Some say Pablo Picasso is an asshole.
Posted by: dreamingrobot

Is? How familiar are you with this thing?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 10:01 AM (mlg/3)

157 I'm of a different opinion than all y'all on this one.

Would hang.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 10:01 AM (x7+cv)

158 Huh, I saw some headline somewhere AGAIN that stated Harris and her VP candidate AOC, would take every state.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:01 AM (PMtkd)

159 I never liked Hooters wings but I thought their hamburgers were great.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 10:01 AM (EYmYM)

160 Banksy is a better political artist.

Posted by: torabora at October 22, 2025 10:01 AM (KtOUo)

161 Of course the man is blue. The government is shut down.

Posted by: Sword of Damocles at October 22, 2025 10:02 AM (oftw2)

162 I'm just here for the celery sticks.

Posted by: Said no man ever at October 22, 2025 10:02 AM (bVKL8)

163 158 Huh, I saw some headline somewhere AGAIN that stated Harris and her VP candidate AOC, would take every state.
Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:01 AM (PMtkd)

If that happened I'd be nervous if I were Kamala....

Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 10:02 AM (VE6XX)

164 158 Huh, I saw some headline somewhere AGAIN that stated Harris and her VP candidate AOC, would take every state.
Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:01 AM (PMtkd)

Elections? Doubtful
Erections? Also doubtful.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 22, 2025 10:03 AM (N39Ws)

165 A couple of years ago, Miss Linda and I visited the Hooters close to us. The food was fine, but I did notice there was only one waitress who could have been considered above an 8. Mostly because the others were overweight in greater or lesser degree.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 10:03 AM (omVj0)

166 Some say Pablo Picasso is an asshole.
Posted by: dreamingrobot

Some say he's the gangster of love.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025 10:03 AM (wVcYX)

167 I always liked Gene Hackman's work. Especially in the French Connection and The Unforgiven.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 10:03 AM (pohLc)

168 Some say Pablo Picasso is an asshole.
Posted by: dreamingrobot at October 22, 2025 09:59 AM (EyfuW)

Repoman soundtrack is timeless.

Posted by: JSpicy at October 22, 2025 10:03 AM (V73x6)

169 > There's one foolproof way - ask them to parallel park
Posted by: Fen at October 22, 2025 10:00 AM (ciYHQ)

"She parks... just like a woman."

Posted by: Bob Dylan at October 22, 2025 10:03 AM (qpyNK)

170 More like 'Woofsvagen'

@disclosetv 6m
JUST IN - Volkswagen to halt production at key German plants from next week amid missing chips from China — BILD

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 10:03 AM (mlg/3)

171 Is? How familiar are you with this thing?
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Well i heard on the grapevine.

Posted by: dreamingrobot at October 22, 2025 10:04 AM (EyfuW)

172 Trump-Putin Meeting Cancelled as Russia Insists Goal to Conquer Ukraine Hasn't Changed

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Translation: Go ahead. Tomahawk me.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 10:04 AM (L/fGl)

173 167 I always liked Gene Hackman's work. Especially in the French Connection and The Unforgiven.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 10:03 AM (pohLc)

The Birdcage....

Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 10:04 AM (VE6XX)

174 I'm of a different opinion than all y'all on this one.

Would hang.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 10:01 AM (x7+cv)

Differing tastes are part of the strange beauty of life. If not for people, like yourself, talentless hacks would be forgotten when they died.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 10:04 AM (ExV1e)

175 Best place to pick up girls is a roller or ice skating rink. "Would you like to skate?", and there you are holding hands on first base!

In the old days dance halls worked, until people started frugging in the early 60s.

Posted by: Ricardo Romantico at October 22, 2025 10:04 AM (oftw2)

176 A couple of years ago, Miss Linda and I visited the Hooters close to us.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Wow, it's seldom that a woman will go into a Hooters.

How's it going with Miss Linda and the move to Indiana?

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 10:04 AM (77rzZ)

177 I’ve commented before that the art world was woke way before the term was coined.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 10:04 AM (EYmYM)

178 >If beautiful architecture counts as art, then the Obama "library" is a fat, naked guy on an Ottoman.
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somebody looked at the plans and the artist conceptions and thought, 'It's magnificent. Build it!'

what narcotics were they high on that day?

Posted by: Don Black. Message: light fuse, run away at October 22, 2025 10:04 AM (AOsQT)

179 Translation: Go ahead. Tomahawk me.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 10:04 AM (L/fGl)

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Now things get interesting.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 22, 2025 10:05 AM (JkO4W)

180 167 I always liked Gene Hackman's work. Especially in the French Connection and The Unforgiven.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 10:03 AM (pohLc)

The Birdcage....
Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 10:04 AM (VE6XX)

The Replacements . . .

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025 10:05 AM (wVcYX)

181 Creepy.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 22, 2025 10:05 AM (PGEno)

182 172 Trump-Putin Meeting Cancelled as Russia Insists Goal to Conquer Ukraine Hasn't Changed

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Translation: Go ahead. Tomahawk me.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 10:04 AM (L/fGl)

We should wash our hands of this whole thing but I have to admit I'd like to Tomahawk Putin to hell....

Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 10:05 AM (VE6XX)

183 Jack Lawrence travelled with (Blind) Doc Watson for many years. He said after a large breakfast at a diner Doc pulled a $20 bill out of his wallet and paid for the meal “that’s a 20”. “Doc, can you tell by feel or something?”

“No, I ain’t that good. I just know where I put ‘em.” Have always wondered about blind folks and cash. It would be seemingly easy for lowlifes to rip them off.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 22, 2025 10:05 AM (eEPa7)

184 Ugly architecture, like most ugly things, is from a dark place.

You can come complacent to ugliness.

I'm repulsed by Obama's library.

I wonder what lofty bullshit will be spewed to justify it.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:05 AM (PMtkd)

185 akso
I rate the art as blech

Posted by: Don Black. Message: light fuse, run away at October 22, 2025 10:05 AM (AOsQT)

186 somebody looked at the plans and the artist conceptions and thought, 'It's magnificent. Build it!'

what narcotics were they high on that day?

Posted by: Don Black. Message: light fuse, run away at October 22, 2025 10:04 AM (AOsQT)

All of them.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 10:06 AM (snZF9)

187 Well i heard on the grapevine.
Posted by: dreamingrobot

Why were Helen Keller's hands purple?

Because she got all her news through the grapevine.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 10:06 AM (77rzZ)

188 Can trannies parallel park?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 22, 2025 10:06 AM (kTd/k)

189 Picasso was almost finished with his painting when Guernica was bombed. He named the painting for it for the publicity.

H/T A.H. Lloyd (I believe).

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 22, 2025 10:06 AM (yy9ow)

190 We should wash our hands of this whole thing but I have to admit I'd like to Tomahawk Putin to hell....
Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 10:05 AM (VE6XX)

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Interesting, I feel that way about Zelensky.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:07 AM (PMtkd)

191 But you're reading the sesame seeds!"

Posted by: muldoon

Heard about a blind dude got arrested at a strip joint. They said he was getting too handsy, but then he always did have trouble reading the room.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at October 22, 2025 10:07 AM (OUMaO)

192 Why was Helen Keller's cheek red?

She tried to answer the iron.

Why does Helen Keller masturbate with one hand?

She moans with the other one.

Posted by: Bob Dylan at October 22, 2025 10:07 AM (qpyNK)

193 Interesting, I feel that way about Zelensky.
Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:07 AM (PMtkd)

I'm no fan of little Z either

Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 10:07 AM (VE6XX)

194 Was Helen Keller a lesbo?

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 10:08 AM (77rzZ)

195 "She parks... just like a woman."

Yes she does!

And she scrapes … just like a woman…

Posted by: Common Tater at October 22, 2025 10:08 AM (eEPa7)

196 I don't know... there are some good sniper firing positions in the facade of the Zoobama Library and Mens Baths

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 10:09 AM (x7+cv)

197 Spock before he became vulcan.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 10:09 AM (snZF9)

198 Junior is reading The Miracle Worker in school right now.

I remember my mother showing me the movie version when I was young. I mostly just recall the scene when Helen first learned the word milk, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 10:09 AM (GBKbO)

199 We should wash our hands of this whole thing but I have to admit I'd like to Tomahawk Putin to hell....
Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 10:05 AM (VE6XX)

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Interesting, I feel that way about Zelensky.
Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:07 AM (PMtkd)

Mebbe resolve this the old-fashioned way, like between a Starship captain and a Gorn commander . . .

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025 10:09 AM (wVcYX)

200 Obama's building looks like a porta-potty that was firebombed but the fire department drowned the fire mid-destruction.
Obama's shit house.

Posted by: torabora at October 22, 2025 10:09 AM (KtOUo)

201 We should wash our hands of this whole thing but I have to admit I'd like to Tomahawk Putin to hell....
Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 10:05 AM (VE6XX)

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Interesting, I feel that way about Zelensky.
Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:07 AM (PMtkd)

I feel that way about the CIA asshats who started the whole thing.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 10:09 AM (ExV1e)

202 I always liked Gene Hackman's work. Especially in the French Connection and The Unforgiven.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 10:03 AM (pohLc)
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He was a hoot in "Get Shorty."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 22, 2025 10:09 AM (yy9ow)

203 Launch in 6 minutes

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 11-5
SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: October 22, 2025
Launch Time: 7:16 a.m. PDT (1416 UTC, 1616 CEST)

https://youtu.be/w82AewYE2LU

Posted by: Joyenz at October 22, 2025 10:09 AM (2F0/Y)

204 I remember my mother showing me the movie version when I was young. I mostly just recall the scene when Helen first learned the word milk, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Patty Duke was awesome in that.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 10:10 AM (77rzZ)

205 A couple of years ago, Miss Linda and I visited the Hooters close to us. The food was fine, but I did notice there was only one waitress who could have been considered above an 8. Mostly because the others were overweight in greater or lesser degree.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 10:03 AM (omVj0)

When Hooters was at its peak, it was a treasure of gorgeous women. Then the feminazis took over. It's been all downhill from there.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 22, 2025 10:10 AM (g8Ew8)

206 Imma looking forward to the Biden Presidential Library.

Shitter's full!

Posted by: Cousin Eddie at October 22, 2025 10:10 AM (upeQk)

207 If we Tomahawk Putin, we should do Zelensky at the same time, and I think the problem would go away.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 10:11 AM (pohLc)

208 We knew someone who used to live in the area and is now in Colorado. He was short, pudgy, bespectacled and a loudmouth. He also got more ass than a toilet seat. One of life's mysteries.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Betting he had huge feet.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at October 22, 2025 10:11 AM (/StR6)

209 Spock before he became vulcan.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

You mean before the rice farming accident?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 10:11 AM (mlg/3)

210 207 If we Tomahawk Putin, we should do Zelensky at the same time, and I think the problem would go away.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 10:11 AM (pohLc)

If we could isolate them from the populus...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 10:11 AM (VE6XX)

211 He was short, pudgy, bespectacled and a loudmouth.

I'm right here, you know.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 22, 2025 10:11 AM (ufSfZ)

212 "Obama's presidential library building brings to mind the Tower of Mordor from LOTR."

It reminds me of Soviet architecture deliberately intended to crush the spirit.

Posted by: Fen at October 22, 2025 10:11 AM (3MYGJ)

213 Was Helen Keller a lesbo?
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 10:08 AM (77rzZ)
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No. She was going to elope with a gentleman, but Annie Sullivan got wind of it and warned the guy off in no uncertain terms.

Annie used Helen for her own self-aggrandizement. She was not, at bottom, a nice person.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 22, 2025 10:12 AM (yy9ow)

214
I feel that way about the CIA asshats who started the whole thing.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 10:09 AM (ExV1e)

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You, Sir, have an excellent point.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:12 AM (PMtkd)

215 Putin is the one who has to give concessions based on the current proposals and Zelensky not agreeable to giving up any of Ukrainian territory that existed prior to the start of the war.

That’s what I call a stalemate and we should wash are hands of the entire situation lest we get muddy or fleas. Pick your idiom.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 10:12 AM (EYmYM)

216 Mime?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 10:12 AM (sGHnN)

217 Obama's library looks like an erect penis raping the sky.

Posted by: Leftist Tropes Incorporated at October 22, 2025 10:12 AM (m0WlR)

218 Why was Helen Keller's cheek red?

She tried to answer the iron.

And her ear?

They called back.

Posted by: t-bird at October 22, 2025 10:12 AM (upeQk)

219 It reminds me of Soviet architecture deliberately intended to crush the spirit.
Posted by: Fen at October 22, 2025 10:11 AM (3MYGJ)

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Yes!! This!

It's beyond dystopian.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:13 AM (PMtkd)

220 212 "Obama's presidential library building brings to mind the Tower of Mordor from LOTR."

It reminds me of Soviet architecture deliberately intended to crush the spirit.
Posted by: Fen at October 22, 2025 10:11 AM (3MYGJ)

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It's obviously of a similar school of thought as Brutalism. Intentionally square and ugly and featureless architecture.

The library has some curves and isn't quite as ugly as the Hoover building, but it's obviously of the same thought strain.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 10:13 AM (GBKbO)

221 "If we Tomahawk Putin, we should do Zelensky at the same time"

Remember the Law of 3's. Add Soros and we're golden.

Posted by: Fen at October 22, 2025 10:13 AM (3MYGJ)

222 Obama's library looks like an erect penis raping the sky.

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And is the penis here in the room with us now?

Posted by: S. Freud at October 22, 2025 10:14 AM (JkO4W)

223 If we Tomahawk Putin, we should do Zelensky at the same time, and I think the problem would go away.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 10:11 AM (pohLc)

Throw in Starmer, Macron, whatever asshole runs Germany, and that EU bitch and you've got a deal.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 10:14 AM (ExV1e)

224 Helen Keller was more of a communist than Stalin.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 10:14 AM (EYmYM)

225 149 (it's funny because she was blind).

Posted by: cmeat at October 22, 2025 10:15 AM (R11M+)

226 reminds me of Soviet architecture deliberately intended to crush the spirit.
Posted by: Fen at October 22, 2025 10:11 AM (3MYGJ)

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You talking about Albany capitol buildings?

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 10:15 AM (EYmYM)

227 Spock before he became vulcan.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

You mean before the rice farming accident?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 10:11 AM (mlg/3)

lol yup.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 10:16 AM (snZF9)

228 153 ed didn't start drinking until he was in his fifties.

Posted by: cmeat at October 22, 2025 10:16 AM (R11M+)

229 226 reminds me of Soviet architecture deliberately intended to crush the spirit.
Posted by: Fen at October 22, 2025 10:11 AM (3MYGJ)

It needs some gold !

Posted by: 24Karat Trump at October 22, 2025 10:16 AM (VE6XX)

230 Imma looking forward to the Biden Presidential Library.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 22, 2025 09:39 AM

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It'll be the basement of the Obama Presidential Monstrosity.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 10:16 AM (BZKvP)

231 Throw in Starmer, Macron, whatever asshole runs Germany, and that EU bitch and you've got a deal.

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Fred Mertz is PM of Germany. Ethel is already pegging him every night so he'd hardly notice a Tomahawk up his ass.

Posted by: S. Freud at October 22, 2025 10:17 AM (JkO4W)

232 It's hard to imagine that dumbass, Obama, saying "yes, that's it, that's how I want my archives to be displayed, in an ugly, depressing, waste of money."

Wait, that's exactly how his Presidency played out.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:17 AM (PMtkd)

233 Obama's building looks like a porta-potty that was firebombed but the fire department drowned the fire mid-destruction.
Obama's shit house.
Posted by: torabora at October 22, 2025 10:09 AM (KtOUo)

It does look like a multi story outhouse.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 22, 2025 10:17 AM (kTd/k)

234 reminds me of Soviet architecture deliberately intended to crush the spirit.

Posted by: Fen at October 22, 2025 10:11 AM (3MYGJ)

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An above-ground gulag.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 10:17 AM (BZKvP)

235 The crockery seems ok, but the test is meh.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 10:17 AM (sGHnN)

236 I think we can all agree, Obama's Library is one of the ugliest buildings in the world. I think any wino living in a tent on the street could have come up with a more attractive design. I suppose he thought he had to outdo Clinton.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 10:17 AM (pohLc)

237 meh. Put Putin and Zelensky in a cage and let them fight for it. Two men enter, one man leaves. If Putin Wins, Ukraine becomes a Russian State. If Zelensky Wins, Ukraine's old borders are restored and Russia GTFO.

Posted by: Aunty Entity at October 22, 2025 10:18 AM (m0WlR)

238 232 It's hard to imagine that dumbass, Obama, saying "yes, that's it, that's how I want my archives to be displayed, in an ugly, depressing, waste of money."

Wait, that's exactly how his Presidency played out.
Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:17 AM (PMtkd)

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He's a dull, unimaginative leftist who can't break from the current thing in any way shape or form.

Of course when some architect presents him with something ugly, saying it's groundbreaking, Obama will fall head over heels for it.

Have you seen his official WH portrait?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 10:18 AM (GBKbO)

239 A couple of years ago, Miss Linda and I visited the Hooters close to us. The food was fine, but I did notice there was only one waitress who could have been considered above an 8. Mostly because the others were overweight in greater or lesser degree.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

For real: A new Hooters just opened near The Villages in FL.

Insert joke here:

Posted by: Joe Mama at October 22, 2025 10:18 AM (TezPK)

240 You'd think Obama would recognize ugly when he sees it

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 22, 2025 10:18 AM (kTd/k)

241 237 meh. Put Putin and Zelensky in a cage and let them fight for it. Two men enter, one man leaves. If Putin Wins, Ukraine becomes a Russian State. If Zelensky Wins, Ukraine's old borders are restored and Russia GTFO.
Posted by: Aunty Entity at October 22, 2025 10:18 AM (m0WlR)

Good plan

Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 10:18 AM (VE6XX)

242 ....who could have been considered above an 8...
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"Above an 8"'s aren't abundant in the wild. An 8 is a really pretty woman.

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 10:18 AM (TN0g+)

243 Remember Obama’s and Michelle’s official portraits ? So good they did a do-over.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 10:19 AM (EYmYM)

244 173 "the conversation"

Posted by: cmeat at October 22, 2025 10:19 AM (R11M+)

245 Remember that Obama depicted himself sitting in the bushes for his presidential portrait. His artistic sensibilities are not exactly solid.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 22, 2025 10:19 AM (JkO4W)

246 242 ....who could have been considered above an 8...
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"Above an 8"'s aren't abundant in the wild. An 8 is a really pretty woman.
Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 10:18 AM (TN0g+)

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And a restaurant that separates itself from other sports bars by having pretty ladies as waitresses should have more than one 8 and none below a 7.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 10:19 AM (GBKbO)

247 Have you seen his official WH portrait?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 10:18 AM (GBKbO)
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Both the library and the portrait are curiously a propos.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 22, 2025 10:19 AM (yy9ow)

248 "Obama's presidential library building brings to mind the Tower of Mordor from LOTR."

It looks like the core of a collapsed pyramid. The pyramid of Meidum to be exact. Fitting actually.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meidum

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 10:19 AM (snZF9)

249 This skyscraper humor is really reaching new heights.

Posted by: Oh, no... at October 22, 2025 10:20 AM (bVKL8)

250 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Depressing art. Never been a Picasso fan either. I just can't see it.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 22, 2025 10:20 AM (2WIwB)

251 Have you seen his official WH portrait?

He he. You mean black guy hiding in the weeds?

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 10:20 AM (pohLc)

252 Come Back! I was gonna make espresso!

Posted by: iamnotthekenyaninterloper at October 22, 2025 10:20 AM (y9skt)

253 240 You'd think Obama would recognize ugly when he sees it
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 22, 2025 10:18 AM (kTd/k)

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Maybe it's not too late to attach a giant sculpture of a fly to the side of the library.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 22, 2025 10:20 AM (JkO4W)

254 An above-ground gulag.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 10:17 AM (BZKvP)

Sounds like my honeymoon...

Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 10:20 AM (lonsH)

255 Remember that Obama depicted himself sitting in the bushes for his presidential portrait.
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And appears to have three hands.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 22, 2025 10:20 AM (yy9ow)

256 Imma looking forward to the Biden Presidential Library.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 22, 2025 09:39 AM

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It'll be the basement of the Obama Presidential Monstrosity.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe

In the men's restroom handicapped stall.

Posted by: Joe Mama at October 22, 2025 10:20 AM (TezPK)

257 You'd think Obama would recognize ugly when he sees it

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA

= =

What are you trying to say?

Posted by: Michelle at October 22, 2025 10:20 AM (m0WlR)

258 Remember that Obama depicted himself sitting in the bushes for his presidential portrait. His artistic sensibilities are not exactly solid.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 22, 2025 10:19 AM (JkO4W)

With a six fingered hand.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 10:20 AM (EYmYM)

259 251 Have you seen his official WH portrait?

He he. You mean black guy hiding in the weeds?
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 10:20 AM (pohLc)

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"It's different and new!"

"It's a shitty style that's actually been prominent in shitty Photoshops for decades."

"But no other president will have one like it!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 10:21 AM (GBKbO)

260 I always liked Gene Hackman's work. Especially in the French Connection and The Unforgiven.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 10:03 AM (pohLc)
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He was a hoot in "Get Shorty."
Posted by: Captain Obvious

Harold in Young Frankenstein.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at October 22, 2025 10:21 AM (/StR6)

261 188 yes, but they have to use gender neutral shift juice.

Posted by: cmeat at October 22, 2025 10:21 AM (R11M+)

262
Have you seen his official WH portrait?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 10:18 AM (GBKbO)

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As I was reading your comment, I remembered the idiotic portrait.

It is only overshadowed in terms of crappiness by the portrait of the idiot son of Queen Elizabeth.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:22 AM (PMtkd)

263 That building is an example of the emperor has no clothes syndrome. It's clearly ugly. Anyone can see that but it was probably designed by an important architect.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 22, 2025 10:22 AM (kTd/k)

264 Fred Mertz is PM of Germany. Ethel is already pegging him every night so he'd hardly notice a Tomahawk up his ass.

Vance and William Frawley did not like each other. Vance was pissed because even made up as Ethel, she thought Frawley's character was too old for her. He considered Vance a PITA and a loudmouth. "She's the finest gal to ever come out of Cherryvale, Kansas, and I wish she'd go back there."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 22, 2025 10:22 AM (ufSfZ)

265 The best architects always think outside the blocks.

Posted by: Please stop... at October 22, 2025 10:23 AM (bVKL8)

266 192 why was her other cheek red? they called back.

Posted by: cmeat at October 22, 2025 10:23 AM (R11M+)

267 You'd think Obama would recognize ugly when he sees it

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA

= =

What are you trying to say?
Posted by: Michelle at October 22, 2025 10:20 AM (m0WlR)

You read me well.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 22, 2025 10:23 AM (kTd/k)

268 Obama's entire presidency was built on the Emperor's New Clothes principle. His library is the same.

"You flyover hicks are just too obtuse to know cutting-edge art."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 22, 2025 10:23 AM (JkO4W)

269 You'd think Obama would recognize ugly when he sees it

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA

= =

What are you trying to say?
Posted by: Michelle at October 22, 2025 10:20 AM (m0WlR)

Careful now. Aunt Ester wields a mean bat'leth.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025 10:23 AM (wVcYX)

270 Only thing wrong with Barry's WH portrait is they covered up the back of David Brooks' head on his lap

Posted by: gKWVE at October 22, 2025 10:24 AM (DDhhw)

271 Harold in Young Frankenstein.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at October 22, 2025 10:21 AM (/StR6)
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The Monster's skyward look of exasperation was *chef's kiss*.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 22, 2025 10:24 AM (yy9ow)

272 268 Obama's entire presidency was built on the Emperor's New Clothes principle. His library is the same.

"You flyover hicks are just too obtuse to know cutting-edge art."
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 22, 2025 10:23 AM (JkO4W)

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"I defer to the experts in all things. And I'm as good as the experts in all the things they do."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 10:24 AM (GBKbO)

273 205 well, we've still got the twisted clit.

Posted by: cmeat at October 22, 2025 10:24 AM (R11M+)

274 Obama Library comes with pre-drilled holes in the men's room toilet partition. Classy.

Posted by: The Chicago Poof at October 22, 2025 10:25 AM (oftw2)

275 Old and busted: Tower of Babel

New and cool: Tower of Ebonics

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 10:25 AM (L/fGl)

276 270 Only thing wrong with Barry's WH portrait is they covered up the back of David Brooks' head on his lap
Posted by: gKWVE at October 22, 2025 10:24 AM (DDhhw)

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lol

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:25 AM (PMtkd)

277 Vance and William Frawley did not like each other. Vance was pissed because even made up as Ethel, she thought Frawley's character was too old for her. He considered Vance a PITA and a loudmouth. "She's the finest gal to ever come out of Cherryvale, Kansas, and I wish she'd go back there."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

I read that the actors who played them in that recent Lucy movie with Nicole did a really good job, and practically stole the show.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 10:25 AM (77rzZ)

278 *ahem*

Posted by: Twin Peaks at October 22, 2025 10:25 AM (bVKL8)

279 Only thing wrong with Barry's WH portrait is they covered up the back of David Brooks' head on his lap

Posted by: gKWVE at October 22, 2025 10:24 AM (DDhhw)

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I'm pretty sure that Fake Tapper was also double-teaming him at the sitting.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 10:26 AM (BZKvP)

280 "Can trannies parallel park?"

It's coded into the Y chromosome

Posted by: Fen at October 22, 2025 10:27 AM (ciYHQ)

281 The architect behind the monstrosity is no Frank Lloyd Wright and that is no Fallingwater House.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 22, 2025 10:27 AM (kTd/k)

282 277 I read that the actors who played them in that recent Lucy movie with Nicole did a really good job, and practically stole the show.
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 10:25 AM (77rzZ)

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That film is a very good example of how editing is dying as an art form throughout the filmmaking industry.

It should have been 90 minutes with focus. Instead it's over 2 hours filled with subplots.

Written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, so it's no surprise.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 10:27 AM (GBKbO)

283 "Above an 8"'s aren't abundant in the wild. An 8 is a really pretty woman.
Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 10:18 AM (TN0g+)

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And a restaurant that separates itself from other sports bars by having pretty ladies as waitresses should have more than one 8 and none below a 7.
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Absolutely. Twin Peaks may have solved this.

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 10:28 AM (TN0g+)

284 "Absolutely. Twin Peaks may have solved this."

+++
This will require some field research.

Posted by: Guys everywhere at October 22, 2025 10:29 AM (bVKL8)

285 WTF will they put in the library about Obamacare?

His crowning disaster.

The world's dumbest and most destructive tax?

We shut down the government for two weeks and this is all we got?

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:30 AM (PMtkd)

286 I knew a gal who worked (briefly) for Hooters. The waitresses were required to be flawless. If you showed up with a zit, you got sent home, no pay.

Turnover was pretty high.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 22, 2025 10:30 AM (yy9ow)

287 The art...

Picasso sucks. His so called "artwork" is ugly. And stupid. My daughter is an artist and her work when she was 15 yrs old was better than anything I have ever seen from Picasso.

Thanks anyway CBD.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 22, 2025 10:31 AM (2J/Lj)

288 It should have been 90 minutes with focus. Instead it's over 2 hours filled with subplots.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I can't be the only one that hates flash-forwards and flashbacks being the bulk of any flick.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 10:31 AM (mlg/3)

289 285 WTF will they put in the library about Obamacare?

His crowning disaster.

The world's dumbest and most destructive tax?

We shut down the government for two weeks and this is all we got?
Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:30 AM (PMtkd)

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By the way, it's not even described as a library. It won't have a single document within its walls.

It's a center.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 10:31 AM (GBKbO)

290 281 The architect behind the monstrosity is no Frank Lloyd Wright and that is no Fallingwater House.
Posted by: Northernlurker

No roof leaks, then?

Posted by: It's Raining Men! at October 22, 2025 10:31 AM (oftw2)

291 > y the way, it's not even described as a library. It won't have a single document within its walls.

It's a center.
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Lair

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 22, 2025 10:32 AM (Q4IgG)

292 Iv' been up 29 hours.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 10:32 AM (sGHnN)

293 It is only overshadowed in terms of crappiness by the portrait of the idiot son of Queen Elizabeth.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:22 AM (PMtkd)

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You're gonna need to be MOAR specific.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 10:33 AM (BZKvP)

294 By the way, it's not even described as a library. It won't have a single document within its walls.

It's a center.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 10:31 AM (GBKbO)

It is the Hole into which all Black flows.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 10:33 AM (ExV1e)

295 Presidential Bathouse.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 10:33 AM (sGHnN)

296 They don’t call it the Obie Library, because it isn’t a library. It isn’t going to contain papers or documents, because there aren’t any. They shredded all that shit. It will be called the Obie Presidential Center or somesuch.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 22, 2025 10:33 AM (uBmgH)

297 It is only overshadowed in terms of crappiness by the portrait of the idiot son of Queen Elizabeth.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:22 AM (PMtkd)
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Well, that was at least competently executed, even if the concept was dumb.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 22, 2025 10:34 AM (yy9ow)

298 289 wasn't expecting much reading, then?

Posted by: cmeat at October 22, 2025 10:34 AM (R11M+)

299 from the Obama building architectures' website

https://twbta.com/work/cultural/

Posted by: Don Black. Message: light fuse, run away at October 22, 2025 10:34 AM (AOsQT)

300 I can't be the only one that hates flash-forwards and flashbacks being the bulk of any flick.

Authors are told in writing advice books not to use flashbacks.

Naturally, all three of my novels are entirely flashbacks.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 22, 2025 10:35 AM (ufSfZ)

301
I think he started his career fairly late in life, as did Ed Asner.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 10:01 AM

IMDB shows Gene Hackman's first credit as 1961, when he was 31 years old

his last credit was in 2004, when he was 74

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 22, 2025 10:35 AM (tljrc)

302 By the way, it's not even described as a library. It won't have a single document within its walls.

It's a center.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 10:31 AM (GBKbO)

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I never bothered to investigate. I thought the point of Presidential libraries was to have a place to store and showcase documents of the president's time in office. As well as highlighting special deals made with other countries and whatnot. A snapshot of their time in office with pictures, videos and personal memorabilia for future generations to remember and study.

What's a "center" for? Reserving for weddings?

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:35 AM (PMtkd)

303 there are no curves anywhere in their designs

everything is blocky and squarish

Posted by: Don Black. Message: light fuse, run away at October 22, 2025 10:35 AM (AOsQT)

304 This coming Saturday, October 25, Picasso turns a gross of years (144, for those mathophobes on the thread, which seems to be all of you.)

Posted by: tankdemon at October 22, 2025 10:36 AM (ltH/c)

305 This man can tell it's Folgers Crystals, probably decaf.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at October 22, 2025 10:36 AM (4DY5T)

306 I wish the Obama Center would open soon while the remaining members of The Who can still piss on it.

Posted by: Who's Next? Take Two at October 22, 2025 10:36 AM (oftw2)

307 Authors are told in writing advice books not to use flashbacks.

Naturally, all three of my novels are entirely flashbacks.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Eddie Muller once showed a noir on TCM that had, IIRC, a flashback within a flashback, within a flashback. But the flashbacks were not for the entirety of the movie.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 10:37 AM (77rzZ)

308 302 I never bothered to investigate. I thought the point of Presidential libraries was to have a place to store and showcase documents of the president's time in office. As well as highlighting special deals made with other countries and whatnot. A snapshot of their time in office with pictures, videos and personal memorabilia for future generations to remember and study.

What's a "center" for? Reserving for weddings?

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:35 AM (PMtkd)

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I've only ever been to W's library, and it's a museum to the public, but I think it does actually house many of the documents from his administration for research purposes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 10:37 AM (GBKbO)

309 307
Eddie Muller once showed a noir on TCM that had, IIRC, a flashback within a flashback, within a flashback. But the flashbacks were not for the entirety of the movie.
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 10:37 AM (77rzZ)

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*scribbling notes furiously*
-Christopher Nolan

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 10:37 AM (GBKbO)

310 Memento is entirely flashbacks.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 10:37 AM (jc0TO)

311 Pimentos are the red thingees?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 10:38 AM (sGHnN)

312 Picasso musta been a cool dude. He was never called an asshole.

https://youtu.be/8gOJoKNrRI0?

Posted by: tankdemon at October 22, 2025 10:39 AM (ltH/c)

313 Memento is entirely flashbacks.
Posted by: toby928(c)

Yes, and that's why no one should use it again.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 10:39 AM (mlg/3)

314 "Picasso sucks."

Dr Who's homage on Van Gogh will get dust in your eye...

https://tinyurl.com/5fsfs7w4

Posted by: Fen at October 22, 2025 10:39 AM (ciYHQ)

315 311 Pimentos are the red thingees?
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 10:38 AM (sGHnN)

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No, those are red giant suns that are nearing their deaths, soon to collapse in on themselves.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 10:39 AM (GBKbO)

316 Iv' been up 29 hours.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 10:32 AM (sGHnN)
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I think they say you should see a doctor after four hours

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 10:39 AM (NRqwE)

317 I think we could save some money building a single Presidential Library and telling everyone to dump their files there.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 10:41 AM (NRqwE)

318 I think we could save some money building a single Presidential Library and telling everyone to dump their files there.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Isn't that the purpose of the National Archives?

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 10:42 AM (77rzZ)

319 That new moon is no moon.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 10:42 AM (sGHnN)

320 316 Iv' been up 29 hours.
Posted by: Boss Moss

I'm sorry. I'm guessing it's insomnia or illness? Trying getting off the computer and see if you can get some Advil PM.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 22, 2025 10:43 AM (8Cor4)

321
But it was definitely not a Happy Meal!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 22, 2025 10:43 AM (L592k)

322 Maybe this one is a more fitting accompaniment to this particular painting:

https://youtu.be/6ezLLmeBqBs

Posted by: tankdemon at October 22, 2025 10:43 AM (ltH/c)

323 I knew a gal who worked (briefly) for Hooters. The waitresses were required to be flawless. If you showed up with a zit, you got sent home, no pay.

Turnover was pretty high.
Posted by: Captain Obvious

Hard to believe Hooters was that picky, since they forced them to wear dancers tights that were thicker than a burlap bag.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 10:43 AM (Qd7dZ)

324 Pimentos are the red thingees?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Yes. Supposed to be bits of chili peppers, but today they're actually chili pepper jelly.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 10:43 AM (mlg/3)

325 Trying to switch to day walking, and failing.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 10:44 AM (sGHnN)

326 I thought Presidential libraries were funded by donations.

Except, of course, for the dems, which in some way is money funneled to "donors" from the American taxpayer.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:44 AM (PMtkd)

327 I think Obama's "center" is going to be a shadow government type thing. He's been sticking his nose into both Trump's and previously, *biden's administrations.

Maybe not Barry directly, but he's known for fucking around while not finding out.

There are still a lot of people associated with his administration that need "attention."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 22, 2025 10:44 AM (Q4IgG)

328 Isn't that the purpose of the National Archives?
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 10:42 AM (77rzZ)

Heh.

Posted by: Sandy Burglar at October 22, 2025 10:45 AM (PiwSw)

329 Has anyone seen the play "Picasso at the Lapin Agile" written by Steve Martin? It's a fun what if story about Picasso and Einstein meeting up at a bar, before Einstein becomes famous. Worth seeking out. I love that Steve Martin was not just funny, but also did some great theatre work.

"... imagines a fictional encounter between a young Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein at a Parisian bar in 1904. The comedy explores their contrasting creative processes and the future of art and science through witty dialogue, while also featuring a cast of eccentric characters. The play is known for its blend of humor and profound questions about creativity, love, and the meaning of life."

Posted by: LizLem at October 22, 2025 10:45 AM (gWBY1)

330 328 Isn't that the purpose of the National Archives?
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 10:42 AM (77rzZ)

Heh.
Posted by: Sandy Burglar at October 22, 2025 10:45 AM (PiwSw)

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This place kills me.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:46 AM (PMtkd)

331 The Hillary Clinton Presidential Medicine Cabinet.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 10:46 AM (sGHnN)

332 The Hillary Clinton Presidential Medicine Cabinet.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Liquor Cabinet.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 10:46 AM (77rzZ)

333 That new moon is no moon.
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That's because its not Monday.

Posted by: Simon Le Bon at October 22, 2025 10:47 AM (TN0g+)

334 331 The Hillary Clinton Presidential Medicine Cabinet.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 10:46 AM (sGHnN)

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Another good one.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:47 AM (PMtkd)

335 The new White House Ballroom interior is going to be spectacular. The artist's rendering is jaw-dropping.

Posted by: mrp at October 22, 2025 10:48 AM (rj6Yv)

336 Having seen his work in person, it's undeniable that Picasso was a great artist and changed art forever. Few artists get to rightfully claim they stood art on its head in the way he did.

However, he was a vile person. Picasso's granddaughter wrote a searing biography on him. Sounds like he was a sociopath.

Posted by: LizLem at October 22, 2025 10:48 AM (gWBY1)

337 I hope the Bill Clinton Presidential Library has a mock Oval Office with wet wipes on the desk.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:48 AM (PMtkd)

338 Hah- some Senator (Jeff Merkley, Socialist Oregon) talked all night long in a one-man actual filibuster in the Senate, protesting the grave threat of Trump to all human life as we know it.

Or something.

Anyway, glad to see a Senator go old-school and actually stand up for a real filibuster, rather than just mail it in, the way they do nowadays.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 10:49 AM (wiLD4)

339 335 The new White House Ballroom interior is going to be spectacular. The artist's rendering is jaw-dropping.
Posted by: mrp at October 22, 2025 10:48 AM (rj6Yv)

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It is entertaining that Obama's center is finishing right about the same time that Trump's ballroom is starting.

People on the left insisting that Obama's center is beautiful but Trump's ballroom is hideous is an edifying moment.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 10:49 AM (GBKbO)

340 Here is the plan for my Presidential library:

It will be sited in the mountains above the Blue Ridge Parkway Viaduct. This will, unfortunately, necessitate some excavation of the glorious natural features, to accomodate the colossal size of the ziggurat, and its large surrounding fairgrounds - but it will be constructed from the harvested stone.

The ziggurat itself will be made from native sandstone. It will be opulent, with its first layer colonnaded by native limestone pillars in the Doric style, with solid gold capitals - 500 of them, one for each State, with each one's name punched into it. Not leaf or plate - solid gold only.

The interior will not be opulent. It will be austere - a massive viewing chamber clad in basalt, with crystal braziers bearing eternal flames that dimly light it, with brighter flames above my onyx sarcophagus, toward the end of the chamber. My sarcophagus will have a crystal plinth atop it, that holds a single copy of my only book - "End of the Left: The Singular Achievement of Our Exalted and Beloved Ultrapresident YD," by The Exalted and Beloved Ultrapresident YD.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 22, 2025 10:49 AM (BI5O2)

341 I can't be the only one that hates flash-forwards and flashbacks being the bulk of any flick.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 10:31 AM (mlg/3)

It's why I can't watch the series Lost. That shit drives me crazy.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 22, 2025 10:49 AM (g8Ew8)

342 The Indian press was freaking out about the ballroom like it was a real story. Wishcasting.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 10:49 AM (sGHnN)

343 318 I think we could save some money building a single Presidential Library and telling everyone to dump their files there.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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A lot of early presidents have their files at the Library of Congress as do many, but not all, Supreme Court Justices.

Obama's 'library' is in part because all his records were supposed to be digitized and stored offsite. That is increasingly common nowadays in libraries as they convert over to digital rather than a holding place for printed books and documents. National Archives is leading the charge in part.

Posted by: whig at October 22, 2025 10:49 AM (WDjG6)

344 However, he was a vile person. Picasso's granddaughter wrote a searing biography on him. Sounds like he was a sociopath.
Posted by: LizLem

So he was a peak asshoe?

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 10:49 AM (77rzZ)

345 Pimentos are the red thingees?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Yes. Supposed to be bits of chili peppers, but today they're actually chili pepper jelly.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 10:43 AM (mlg/3)

The Theda Bara sandwich, Photoplay magazine, February 1916:

Minced ham.
Sliced pimento.
Sliced sweet pickles.
Toast with mayonnaise.

"It bites a little and says 'more.'"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 22, 2025 10:50 AM (ufSfZ)

346 338 Hah- some Senator (Jeff Merkley, Socialist Oregon) talked all night long in a one-man actual filibuster in the Senate, protesting the grave threat of Trump to all human life as we know it.

Or something.

Anyway, glad to see a Senator go old-school and actually stand up for a real filibuster, rather than just mail it in, the way they do nowadays.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 10:49 AM (wiLD4)

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If I understand the Senate rules around filibuster correctly (half remembered from whig's explanations), it's that in this moment, on this business, each senator has one opportunity to take the floor and speak. A cloture vote is just about ending that period of debate early.

The filibuster and cloture vote become unnecessary after every senator have taken their opportunity to speak.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 10:50 AM (GBKbO)

347 I think we can all agree, Obama's Library is one of the ugliest buildings in the world. I think any wino living in a tent on the street could have come up with a more attractive design. I suppose he thought he had to outdo Clinton.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 10:17 AM

*Boston City Hall has entered the chat*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 10:50 AM (ySpAZ)

348 It will have a light-well above it, that bathes it in its own column of sunlight at noon daily, at which time the Limbaugh Stentor will read one of its 365 pages aloud in his sonorous voice and rhythmic cadence. The Stentorian Reading will be livestreamed from loudspeakers mounted on the Capitol Buildings of the 500 States, each and every day.

Except for Leap Years. During Leap Years, the final two pages of "End of the Left" will be read at dawn on the first day of spring, as the opening of the ceremony for the Feast of the Restoration. The first day of spring will be determined as the first sunny day of spring, when all comers can enjoy ribeye steaks, baked potatoes, and fine wine provided free of charge by the government.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 22, 2025 10:50 AM (BI5O2)

349 I never noticed any heat in a Pimento.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 10:51 AM (sGHnN)

350 Hah- some Senator (Jeff Merkley, Socialist Oregon) talked all night long in a one-man actual filibuster in the Senate, protesting the grave threat of Trump to all human life as we know it.

Or something.
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I think if I was going to do an all night long filibuster, I'd include a recitation of the history of the band April Wine, or my recollections of the Big Red Machine...you know...just to make it more interesting.

Posted by: Simon Le Bon at October 22, 2025 10:52 AM (TN0g+)

351 The 500 governors-general will each send a delegation of their States' hundred most intelligent and physically fit young men, dressed in brilliant white, powdered togas. These delegations will, throughout the feast day, burn an effigy of their respective State's last prominent Leftist who fell beneath the Yudhishtirian Bonesaw during the denouement of the Glorious Restoration. The governors-general may take a great deal of creative liberty in displaying their local artisans' work with these effigies.

At nightfall, these 50,000 boys will be anointed into the priesthood, given their ceremonial gold-bladed bonesaws, and sent back to each of their 500 states to ensure that their futures are secured against the Marxists.

There will also be a great fireworks diplay, and a champagne toast at midnight.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 22, 2025 10:52 AM (BI5O2)

352 Anyway, glad to see a Senator go old-school and actually stand up for a real filibuster, rather than just mail it in, the way they do nowadays.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

If senators had to do that, you would see a lot more older senators retire or quit filibustering when the wind blows. One solution to the filibuster problem is to use the nuclear option to return the rules back to talking filibusters that stop senate business until resolved but still only require 60 votes for cloture. That would reduce the frequencies of them.

Posted by: whig at October 22, 2025 10:52 AM (WDjG6)

353 The left, who never worried for a day when Obama or Biden gifted billions of dollars to terror regimes, are now hand-wringing over a currency support deal Bessent struck with Argentina, a deal that will end up making money for the Treasury.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 10:53 AM (wiLD4)

354 MRP, yes! New ballroom addition will be a fitting addition. It makes sense a man known for adding to the architecture of a city would add to the architecture of the White House as POTUS. Whereas all Obama added was a basketball hoop.

It's crazy that Trump's team had to make an actual timeline list of all the changes to the WH to prove this is in line with past presidents. Truman gutted the whole White House! The pics of it as a shell, no floors or anything, is wild.

And the left is fine with dismantling all of western civilization and shredding the constitution, but screams bloody murder about a building they like to remind us was built by slaves. Cry moar.

Posted by: LizLem at October 22, 2025 10:53 AM (gWBY1)

355 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 22, 2025 10:52 AM (BI5O2)

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You're the President we need and oddly, deserve.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:53 AM (PMtkd)

356 I never noticed any heat in a Pimento.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 10:51 AM (sGHnN)

I can, but only after I'm pickled.

Posted by: mrp at October 22, 2025 10:53 AM (rj6Yv)

357 I think if I was going to do an all night long filibuster, I'd include a recitation of the history of the band April Wine, or my recollections of the Big Red Machine...you know...just to make it more interesting.
Posted by: Simon Le Bon

A day-by-day timeline of the Hundred Years' War.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 10:53 AM (77rzZ)

358 180 167 I always liked Gene Hackman's work. Especially in the French Connection and The Unforgiven.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 10:03 AM (pohLc)

The Birdcage....
Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 10:04 AM (VE6XX)

The Replacements . . .
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025 10:05 AM (wVcYX)

Young Frankenstein...

Posted by: XTC at October 22, 2025 10:53 AM (UnA8+)

359 It's not his library - I don't even know if he has one - but if you can stand traveling through the land of militant gaystapii, slumming NYC grandees play-acting as farmers and Bernie Sanders acolytes, the Calvin Coolidge birthplace in Plymouth Notch VT is a very nice, low-key place to visit.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 22, 2025 10:53 AM (ufSfZ)

360 Dr Who's homage on Van Gogh will get dust in your eye...

https://tinyurl.com/5fsfs7w4

Posted by: Fen at October 22, 2025 10:39 AM (ciYHQ)

Looks like the Musée d'Orsay

Posted by: javems at October 22, 2025 10:54 AM (8I4hW)

361 I noticed Vincent had his ears on.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 10:54 AM (sGHnN)

362 The Theda Bara sandwich, Photoplay magazine, February 1916:

Minced ham.
Sliced pimento.
Sliced sweet pickles.
Toast with mayonnaise.

"It bites a little and says 'more.'"
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

That's some top-notch sammich-makin'. Hope Theda got married.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 10:54 AM (77rzZ)

363 Pimento was the original name for the Ford 4cylinder sub-compact that came out in the early 70s. Changed right before release to the Pinto to try to cash in on the Mustang name.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at October 22, 2025 10:55 AM (oftw2)

364 Looks like the Musée d'Orsay

I wonder if they have security.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 10:55 AM (sGHnN)

365 Hah- some Senator (Jeff Merkley, Socialist Oregon) talked all night long in a one-man actual filibuster in the Senate, protesting the grave threat of Trump to all human life as we know it.

His press secretary said that the fact that his wife was entertaining her bull and he didn't want the Senator present had nothing to do with this event.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 10:55 AM (ExV1e)

366 I think if I was going to do an all night long filibuster, I'd include a recitation of the history of the band April Wine, or my recollections of the Big Red Machine...you know...just to make it more interesting.
Posted by: Simon Le Bon

A day-by-day timeline of the Hundred Years' War.
Posted by: Bulg

War & Peace.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 10:55 AM (Qd7dZ)

367 There will also be a great fireworks diplay, and a champagne toast at midnight.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 22, 2025 10:52 AM (BI5O2)

Tell us about the bathrooms. Will there be grapfruit-scented foaming soap?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 22, 2025 10:55 AM (PiwSw)

368 The Lagina brothers did some Oak Island research at the FDR library.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 22, 2025 10:56 AM (kTd/k)

369 "Picasso sucks."

Dr Who's homage on Van Gogh will get dust in your eye...

https://tinyurl.com/5fsfs7w4

Posted by: Fen at October 22, 2025 10:39 AM (ciYHQ)

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Thanks, that was well done.

Never seen Dr. Who, But The Wifey was a big fan decades ago before we met.

Where do I know that actor (Tony Curran) portraying Vincent from?

Ah, The Pillars of the Earth.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 10:56 AM (08TEw)

370 War & Peace.
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire

In Russian.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 10:56 AM (77rzZ)

371 You musn't eat the mints.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 10:56 AM (sGHnN)

372 I wonder if they have security.
Posted by: Boss Moss a

I'm in charge here~~!!!!

Posted by: Franch Grrrl Bosses at October 22, 2025 10:57 AM (mlg/3)

373 the Calvin Coolidge birthplace in Plymouth Notch VT is a very nice, low-key place to visit.
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Places like that are worth the drop in!

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 10:57 AM (TN0g+)

374 Yudhishthira's Dice, you use your tongue prettier than a $20 whore! You need to use AI to make pics of your ziggurat of glory come to life, and show us.

Posted by: LizLem at October 22, 2025 10:58 AM (gWBY1)

375 Picasso kinda sucked at art.

Look at his “Pink” period that preceded this, his “Blue” period. He had all the technical skills you could think of and made art with happy themes. He turned his back on that, undoubtedly for personal reasons, and began painting like this, but that was just the beginning. He had as many phases as turns in his life. He didn’t always use all his talent. He didn’t have to. But he was always serious about art.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 22, 2025 10:58 AM (ZVgZ4)

376 "Authors are told in writing advice books not to use flashbacks."

My peeve is what I call the John Carson writing style, where the author gives you the Big Reveal and then spends 11 chapters building up to it.

Exception: really wish GoT had gone that direction with "Winter is coming". Although now I understand how the wife feels after sex.

Posted by: Fen at October 22, 2025 10:58 AM (ciYHQ)

377 Great sidebar post, whoever put it up!

One year since PDJT manned the drive through at Micky D's

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 10:58 AM (wiLD4)

378 Someone inform Garret

@zerohedge 2h
VOLKSWAGEN TO HALT GOLF PRODUCTION FROM WEDS DUE TO CHIP SUPPLY ISSUES: BILD

Posted by: Franch Grrrl Bosses at October 22, 2025 10:58 AM (mlg/3)

379 You musn't eat the mints.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Aw, man!
Posted by: Texas A&M Aggie lamenting the fact that they can no longer access the urinal cakes

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 10:58 AM (Qd7dZ)

380 I noticed Vincent had his ears on.
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Copy that--the smokey's are thick out there today.

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 10:58 AM (TN0g+)

381 *Boston City Hall has entered the chat*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 10:50 AM (ySpAZ)

For visitors to Boston who want to see the decline of architecture and beauty in the USA, it can be done within the space of a few blocks:

Start at the Old State House on Washington Street.

Proceed to the Old City Hall at 45 School Street (now housing a Ruth's Chris Steak House).

End at Boston City Hall at 1 City Hall Square.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 22, 2025 10:59 AM (ufSfZ)

382 And the left is fine with dismantling all of western civilization and shredding the constitution, but screams bloody murder about a building they like to remind us was built by slaves. Cry moar.

Posted by: LizLem at October 22, 2025 10:53 AM (gWBY1)

I've always thought that using temporary structures at the White House to expand seating capacity for state events was embarrassing for the country. Inflatable columns and walls compared to the European masonry and vaulted ceilings is infuriating.

Posted by: mrp at October 22, 2025 11:00 AM (rj6Yv)

383 Monkey.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 22, 2025 11:00 AM (PiwSw)

384 Monkey up!

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 11:00 AM (Qd7dZ)

385 Someone inform Garret

@zerohedge 2h
VOLKSWAGEN TO HALT GOLF PRODUCTION FROM WEDS DUE TO CHIP SUPPLY ISSUES: BILD

Posted by: Franch Grrrl Bosses at October 22, 2025 10:58 AM (mlg/3)

I thought his thing was hairy dudes on Vespas.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 11:00 AM (i24o9)

386
nood rant

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 22, 2025 11:01 AM (tljrc)

387 I liked Dali better than Picasso.

Picasso's early works look a bit like Rembrandt, or those Russian realists, but I never saw what he was doing with cubism or whatever it was, besides exploiting pareidolia

Posted by: Kindltot at October 22, 2025 11:01 AM (rbvCR)

388 Looks like the Musée d'Orsay

I wonder if they have security.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 10:55 AM (sGHnN)
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CBD would know, now that he's finished visiting the Louvre and all of the other landmark exhibitions in Paris.

They used to call visits like his "casing the joint".

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 11:01 AM (wiLD4)

389 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

390 For visitors to Boston who want to see the decline of architecture and beauty in the USA, it can be done within the space of a few blocks:

Start at the Old State House on Washington Street.

Proceed to the Old City Hall at 45 School Street (now housing a Ruth's Chris Steak House).

End at Boston City Hall at 1 City Hall Square.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 22, 2025 10:59 AM

^^^ This.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 11:01 AM (ySpAZ)

391 The filibuster and cloture vote become unnecessary after every senator have taken their opportunity to speak.

I did not know that. So in theory, the Majority Leader could call out every member by name, ask if they want to speak to the issue at hand, and after calling all 100 (or however many are present) call for a vote? So why doesn't he do that?

Posted by: Oddbob at October 22, 2025 11:01 AM (3nLb4)

392 If some Democrat President had wanted to tear down the East Wing to build a Mosque, every single other Democrat would be shedding tears of joy and talking about how for the very first time, they're FINALLY proud of their country.

Posted by: XTC at October 22, 2025 11:02 AM (UnA8+)

393 Tell us about the bathrooms. Will there be grapfruit-scented foaming soap?
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes

Wait, grapefruit has a scent?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 11:02 AM (mlg/3)

394 If I understand the Senate rules around filibuster correctly (half remembered from whig's explanations), it's that in this moment, on this business, each senator has one opportunity to take the floor and speak. A cloture vote is just about ending that period of debate early.

The filibuster and cloture vote become unnecessary after every senator have taken their opportunity to speak.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Yes. There is the Senate rule that states a senator can only rise and speak twice on the matter under discussion (gets complicated with amendments, and so on) but once the speaker's list is exhausted, then vote occurs without cloture because no one is left able to speak to the matter. This rule has existed since the Senate was created. Ironically, Sen Merkeley's legislative aide has a 2022 article on it (non technical).
https://tinyurl.com/cxpvvb27

Congressional Research Service, CRS, has the technical explanation. https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/96-548

Posted by: whig at October 22, 2025 11:03 AM (WDjG6)

395 FFS, nood

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 11:04 AM (mlg/3)

396 391 The filibuster and cloture vote become unnecessary after every senator have taken their opportunity to speak.

I did not know that. So in theory, the Majority Leader could call out every member by name, ask if they want to speak to the issue at hand, and after calling all 100 (or however many are present) call for a vote? So why doesn't he do that?
Posted by: Oddbob
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The Senate rule has to be invoked by the majority that limits debate, two, the amount of time on the floor. Senate rarely meets 5 days a week or even 24-7. The non technical article above mentions it would take about 500 hours or so of debate if each senator took 5 hours for debate (about 21 days running 24-7 and 7 days per week). Normal Senate workdays would take 62.5 days at 8 hours per day session with 7 days per week). Move that to 40 hours per week and no weekends, it rises to 87.5 legislative days.

And Senators would have to be in Washington close by because a quorum call could be expected at any time.

Posted by: whig at October 22, 2025 11:10 AM (WDjG6)

397 I don't like Picasso as much as other "great" artists. Anyway, Salvador Dali and Andy Warhol were "great" artists who came after Picasso.

Posted by: PG at October 22, 2025 11:12 AM (uX4U2)

398 Here's a link to a pic of the Obama library, with it's final addition on top:
https://x.com/KingLibertarian/status/1978988097283981404

Picked the link up from VictoryGirlsBlog.

Posted by: George V at October 22, 2025 11:27 AM (HUbHH)

399 That's a mime, baby.

Posted by: Austin Powers at October 22, 2025 11:42 AM (MZ+PY)

400 400

Posted by: m at October 22, 2025 02:37 PM (RuTUS)

401 The Blind Man's Meal
Pablo Picasso

I've never seen this one. It's wonderful.

Posted by: m at October 22, 2025 02:37 PM (RuTUS)

402 He has Bread but what in the Vase?

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at October 22, 2025 05:43 PM (wGqjj)

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