Monday Overnight Open Thread (10/27/25)

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The Quotes of The Day

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"We've had a tremendous amount of interest since we announced that we were exploring the pro league earlier this year. I think that really just shows the strong belief in, and the demand for, a professional flag league for both women and men."Stephanie Kwok, the NFL's vice president and head of NFL Flag

Quote II
‘Don’t have them in your home. Take every precaution you can. Listen to your gut. I never thought it would happen to my child.’ Clare Gillespie

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Insanity. Doing the same shit but expecting better results.

Even as our uneducated media goes bonkers over another Musk kerfuffle, this time with interim NASA administration Sean Duffy, it is ignoring what now appears to be a strong effort by NASA to cover up some serious issues with the Orion capsule’s heat shield, issues that might be far more serious than outlined in a May 2024 inspector general (IG) report.
That IG report [pdf] found the following:
Specifically, portions of the char layer wore away differently than NASA engineers predicted, cracking and breaking off the spacecraft in fragments that created a trail of debris rather than melting away as designed (see Figure 3 [shown to the right]). The unexpected behavior of the Avcoat creates a risk that the heat shield may not sufficiently protect the capsule’s systems and crew from the extreme heat of reentry on future missions. Moreover, while there was no evidence of impact with the Crew Module, the quantity and size of the debris could have caused enough structural damage to cause one of Orion’s parachutes to fail. Should the same issue occur on future Artemis missions, it could lead to the loss of the vehicle or crew.
In our judgment, the unexpected behavior of the heat shield poses a significant risk to the safety of
future crewed missions. [emphasis mine]

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The ONT Musical Interlude & Tonic Emporium

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If you want a Rolex. Go out and buy it. Genius Award Winner.

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Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by Daylight saving time.

Notice: Posted with permission by the Ace Media Empire & AceCorp, LLC. The ONT often imitated, never replicated because of commenters such as you.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 10:03 PM

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1 Howdy, Monday ONTers.

Reposting from late in the cafe:

I induced my first AI artwork today. On a crazy impulse, I asked Grok to show me "Greta Thunberg in a sexy pirate Halloween costume on board a pirate ship." It even animated it for me. You're welcome.

https://bit.ly/pirate-greta-vid-grok

For Halloween. I thought it would be scarier.

Posted by: mindful webworker - too pretty to really be Greta at October 27, 2025 10:03 PM (K0Os3)

2 Hello, Horde! 😊♥️

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 27, 2025 10:03 PM (SRRAx)

3 fist!

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at October 27, 2025 10:03 PM (YO6wa)

4 Sloopy?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 27, 2025 10:04 PM (0RiMX)

5
MisHum!!

Posted by: fourseasons at October 27, 2025 10:04 PM (3ek7K)

6 Happy Monday ONT.

Posted by: QED Texan Grandpa-to-be at October 27, 2025 10:04 PM (fveCG)

7 Hey, where all da white wimmen at?

Posted by: Sheriff Bart at October 27, 2025 10:04 PM (0RiMX)

8 Not Sponge

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 27, 2025 10:04 PM (ufFY8)

9 I thought, "wait, 2025 is turning out pretty good."

Then it hit me.

Posted by: mikeski at October 27, 2025 10:05 PM (nhCoE)

10 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 27, 2025 10:05 PM (lUFok)

11 Good evening Horde. Thanks MisHum!

Posted by: TRex - dino greetings at October 27, 2025 10:06 PM (IQ6Gq)

12 Bodacious ONT!

Thank you Mis Hum!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 27, 2025 10:06 PM (QGaXH)

13 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 27, 2025 10:06 PM (cYBz/)

14 Yes - I've Seen All Good People

* looks around the ONT *

Yup. Even if some of y'all deny it.

Posted by: mikeski at October 27, 2025 10:06 PM (nhCoE)

15 Shoot my mouth off on the previous thread....then BOOM! A MisHum ONT! Bless you sir grandpa!

Posted by: Some Rat at October 27, 2025 10:06 PM (TfUTr)

16 Fe fi fo fum
I smell the music of Jim Morrison

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 27, 2025 10:06 PM (0RiMX)

17 fist!

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at October 27, 2025 10:03 PM (YO6wa)

You sure you're in the right place?

Posted by: RickZ at October 27, 2025 10:07 PM (gKDq2)

18 Nice ONT, Mr MisHum! Thank you.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at October 27, 2025 10:07 PM (47diA)

19 Trolley Dodgers tied it up.
4-4

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 27, 2025 10:07 PM (ufFY8)

20 Remember, no matter how Goodel tries to make football more appealing to other demographics, he's already said people can get stuffed over the halftime show. They won't even consider cancelling the America hater.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 27, 2025 10:08 PM (uQesX)

21 PDJT gets an extra hour to screw with the Demofascists! Good by me.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 27, 2025 10:08 PM (hTeRG)

22 I can hardly wait to not watch mixed professional flag football on TV.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 27, 2025 10:08 PM (0RiMX)

23 Good evening morons e grazie mh

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 27, 2025 10:08 PM (SwYQF)

24 Who's bitching about 2025? This is a great year.
Dog accidents aside.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 27, 2025 10:08 PM (xcxpd)

25 Called 'em from downstairs

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 27, 2025 10:09 PM (SRRAx)

26 If you want to feel like you're the greatest being on earth, and the source of all happiness, adopt a dog.

If you want to feel utterly worthless, and the earth would be way better off without you, adopt a cat.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 27, 2025 10:09 PM (CHHv1)

27 "We've had a tremendous amount of interest since we announced that we were exploring the pro league earlier this year. I think that really just shows the strong belief in, and the demand for, a professional flag league for both women and men."

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Go long on green dildo futures contracts.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 27, 2025 10:09 PM (0RiMX)

28 I can hardly wait to not watch mixed professional flag football on TV.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 27, 2025 10:08 PM (0RiMX)

I am waiting for NFL Female Lingerie to fire up their league.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at October 27, 2025 10:09 PM (ufFY8)

29 Whats wrong with 2025!?

Posted by: LASue at October 27, 2025 10:09 PM (lCppi)

30 MisHum you are a clever and thoughtful person.

Posted by: Some Rat at October 27, 2025 10:10 PM (TfUTr)

31 The 70's were probably the most varied decade for music. You had "Close to the Edge" and "Anarchy in the UK" in the same stretch of years.

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

32 Kinda wild seeing Steve Howe from Yes playing that big ass gibson ES 5 switch master. I often thought it might be cool to have one, but newer ones are 7K, and the one he's playing is probably an original late 50's, and thats 30K, so...no.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 27, 2025 10:11 PM (snZF9)

33 Pretty darn good Yes video, and I am generally not a fan

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 27, 2025 10:11 PM (hTeRG)

34 If NASA changes the reentry path of the Orion capsule on its flight back from the moon, the less acute angle should reduce stress on the heat shield.

I certainly hope so..

Posted by: Joemarine at October 27, 2025 10:11 PM (y171U)

35 Gaining an extra hour? As long as I don't have to use it wisely. Thanks for the ONT, MisHum.

Posted by: scampydog at October 27, 2025 10:12 PM (41CYW)

36 MisHum!
How lovely to see you sir!
I forgot again, and went to the east wing door, so not no.1 again....
Anyway....barkeep! Hold my wobbly table in the corner for me, and bring me the usual!🤪

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 27, 2025 10:12 PM (mAdag)

37 "We've had a tremendous amount of interest since we announced that we were exploring the pro league earlier this year. I think that really just shows the strong belief in, and the demand for, a professional flag league for both women and men."
Stephanie Kwok, the NFL's vice president and head of NFL Flag

It's just the team version of "World Chase Tag," which is already an ESPN sport.

Yeah, professional tag. That's what's on the TVs at the sports bar between seasons of actual sports.

Posted by: mikeski at October 27, 2025 10:12 PM (nhCoE)

38 Meow
I saw something about the Dems offering to settle for 20 billion.
No need for me to suggest what the Republicans should tell them to do.

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at October 27, 2025 10:12 PM (w3u3d)

39 20 Remember, no matter how Goodel tries to make football more appealing to other demographics, he's already said people can get stuffed over the halftime show. They won't even consider cancelling the America hater.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 27, 2025 10:08 PM (uQesX)

I thought I read somewhere that JayZ had some deal with the NFL such that he was now in charge of procuring SB halftime acts for the next few years. Something to do with the last round of strike concessions or something -

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 27, 2025 10:12 PM (SRRAx)

40 "Hey look, the Dukes are trying to corner the green dildo market. They must know something!"

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 27, 2025 10:13 PM (0RiMX)

41 Yes and a backhand to Yoko equals a good ont.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 27, 2025 10:13 PM (SwYQF)

42 26 If you want to feel like you're the greatest being on earth, and the source of all happiness, adopt a dog.

If you want to feel utterly worthless, and the earth would be way better off without you, adopt a cat.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 27, 2025 10:09 PM (CHHv1)

Yes but remember, your cat loves you...

Posted by: Joemarine at October 27, 2025 10:13 PM (y171U)

43 36 I forgot again, and went to the east wing door, so not no.1 again....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 27, 2025 10:12 PM
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Sorry about that. Did I mention that the signage budget got spent on twizzlers?

Posted by: TRex - general contractor dino at October 27, 2025 10:14 PM (IQ6Gq)

44 Pro flag football... the further emasculation/feminization of America.

Posted by: davidt at October 27, 2025 10:14 PM (i0F8b)

45 Quote #2:

Well, not every family can claim to have a Darwin Award winner, honey.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 27, 2025 10:14 PM (npFr7)

46 No flag on a barn. No Zappa. Didn't realize it was MisHum night until I got 'way down to the quotes. heh.

A nice but modest-sized ONT - MisHum knows we want to hurry and get down to the ~~quarreling~~ comments.

Thanks, MH.

Posted by: mindful webworker - you'll get no argument from me at October 27, 2025 10:15 PM (K0Os3)

47 in 2025, nobody is hiring 50something software autists.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 27, 2025 10:15 PM (gKWVE)

48 I induced my first AI artwork today. On a crazy impulse, I asked Grok to show me "Greta Thunberg in a sexy pirate Halloween costume on board a pirate ship." It even animated it for me. You're welcome.

https://bit.ly/pirate-greta-vid-grok

For Halloween. I thought it would be scarier.
Posted by: mindful webworker

It would have been scary if it looked anything like Greta. Being blonde is about all Grok got right about her.

Posted by: mikeski at October 27, 2025 10:15 PM (nhCoE)

49 Yes but remember, your cat loves you...

and wants to kill you, too.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at October 27, 2025 10:15 PM (47diA)

50
That Roger Goodell could not say "There will be no men in women's spaces in the NFL" without holding a meeting or giving it some deep thought is pathetic.

Q: "Mr Goodell, would you consider pouring raw sewage on your fans?"

A: "I don't have an answer on that for you. We haven't even discussed that."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 27, 2025 10:15 PM (5e+/e)

51 An extra hour in 2025 is another hour of unhinged screeching from the purple-haired looney left....BIRM

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 27, 2025 10:15 PM (QGaXH)

52 I thought I read somewhere that JayZ had some deal with the NFL such that he was now in charge of procuring SB halftime acts for the next few years. Something to do with the last round of strike concessions or something -
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 27, 2025 10:12 PM (SRRAx)

It could be. I don't pay much, if any, attention to the NFL since they told me to sod off. I just heard about the halftime show. Why does it seem that Goodel wants to pick a fight with the fans? Guess they don't care if the American fan drifts away.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 27, 2025 10:16 PM (uQesX)

53 I am waiting for NFL Female Lingerie to fire up their league.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at October 27, 2025 10:09 PM (ufFY

*perks up*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 27, 2025 10:16 PM (xcxpd)

54 35 Gaining an extra hour? As long as I don't have to use it wisely.

Posted by: scampydog at October 27, 2025 10:12 PM
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It means an extra hour for Club ONT!

Posted by: TRex - dance floor dino at October 27, 2025 10:17 PM (IQ6Gq)

55 47 in 2025, nobody is hiring 50something software autists.
Posted by: gKWVE at October 27, 2025 10:15 PM (gKWVE)

Try governmentjobs dot com.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 27, 2025 10:17 PM (xcxpd)

56 "Hey look, the Dukes are trying to corner the green dildo market. They must know something!"
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 27, 2025 10:13 PM (0RiMX)

Them Dukes, them Dukes!

Posted by: Boss Hogg at October 27, 2025 10:17 PM (uQesX)

57 If you want to feel like you're the greatest being on earth, and the source of all happiness, adopt a dog.

I wish I could. This is the first time since 1988 I've been without a dog.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 27, 2025 10:17 PM (UjDHi)

58 39 I thought I read somewhere that JayZ had some deal with the NFL such that he was now in charge of procuring SB halftime acts for the next few years. Something to do with the last round of strike concessions or something -
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 27, 2025 10:12 PM (SRRAx)

Yes, Jayz picks the SB halftime groups..I miss acts like Up With People.

Posted by: Joemarine at October 27, 2025 10:17 PM (y171U)

59 53 I am waiting for NFL Female Lingerie to fire up their league.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at October 27, 2025 10:09 PM (ufFY

*perks up*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 27, 2025 10:16 PM (xcxpd)

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It's the NFL. You know what they would look like.

DUDES

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 27, 2025 10:18 PM (0RiMX)

60 Long Distance Runaround ==> The Fish is my favorite ...

Posted by: Adriane the Eyes Always Closed in Pictures Critic . . . at October 27, 2025 10:18 PM (3ZUWJ)

61 No need for me to suggest what the Republicans should tell them to do.
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat

from my heart
youtu.be/Q4s8k5DZ4Cs

Posted by: gKWVE at October 27, 2025 10:18 PM (gKWVE)

62 I am waiting for NFL Female Lingerie to fire up their league.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at October 27, 2025 10:09 PM (ufFY

*perks up*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 27, 2025 10:16 PM (xcxpd)

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It's the NFL. You know what they would look like.

DUDES
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 27, 2025 10:18 PM (0RiMX)

They USED to have hot, fit chicks in lingerie...it was worth searching out.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 27, 2025 10:19 PM (xcxpd)

63 Who's bitching about 2025? This is a great year.
Dog accidents aside.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 27, 2025 10:08 PM (xcxpd)

Not bitching, mind you, but 2025 has been one for the books on a personal level. A roller coaster of yay vs. not yay.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Antisocial Media Influencer at October 27, 2025 10:19 PM (0aYVJ)

64 Oh, sweet baby Jesus, let us not have an extra hour of Yoko...
An extra hour of Zappa....yes please😛

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 27, 2025 10:20 PM (mAdag)

65 43 36 I forgot again, and went to the east wing door, so not no.1 again....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 27, 2025 10:12 PM
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Sorry about that. Did I mention that the signage budget got spent on twizzlers?
Posted by: TRex - general contractor dino at October 27, 2025 10:14 PM (IQ6Gq)

I have a sharpie and some sticky notes in my bag.

Posted by: Piper at October 27, 2025 10:20 PM (p4NUW)

66 Yes, Jayz picks the SB halftime groups..I miss acts like Up With People.
Posted by: Joemarine at October 27, 2025 10:17 PM (y171U)

Ah, for the good old days of entertainment:

https://tinyurl.com/3bshw96s

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 27, 2025 10:21 PM (uQesX)

67 Speaking as a black LGBT woman, professional flag football is gayer than Liberace's hairdresser's boyfriend's French poodle.

Posted by: Latrine John-Pissoir at October 27, 2025 10:21 PM (X5Jzz)

68 I have a sharpie and some sticky notes in my bag.
Posted by: Piper

sharps or flats ???

Posted by: Adriane the Eyes Always Closed in Pictures Critic . . . at October 27, 2025 10:22 PM (3ZUWJ)

69 Perpetual Change might be my favorite Yes song. Kinda hard to pick though. I think it's because it has a lot of nostalgic value for me.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Antisocial Media Influencer at October 27, 2025 10:22 PM (0aYVJ)

70 I guess with all the outreach and diversity, NASA has forgotten about how shield ablation works.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2025 10:22 PM (bmcLt)

71 I have a sharpie and some sticky notes in my bag.
Posted by: Piper

Sorry, the sharpie is reserved for commemorative plates only.

Posted by: Some Rat at October 27, 2025 10:22 PM (TfUTr)

72 Don't know what your problem is but I would be thrilled to get an extra hour in 2025. This has been the best year ever. Mostly because most of the recent years really, really sucked. But what's not to like about this one?

Posted by: WTP at October 27, 2025 10:23 PM (4cfLi)

73 BeckoningC

I saw your Social Security q the other evening and wanted to add that my experience in 2024 was consistent with what Moki wrote - about two months with payment backdated to when you applied.

The surprise for us was in buying the Medigap Insurance. You can't start Medigap until the Medicare Part B shows active, and then it starts the first of the next month. So just want to build that in if it applies. We had COBRA as a backup but turned out we didn't need it.

Best of luck to you!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 27, 2025 10:23 PM (QGaXH)

74 A few months ago I fell into a bottomless thing about Jim Morrison. No idea of course where this was, because I barely remember yesterday.

As it is probably known by many (not me, apparently) it is rumored he was not really dead and buried in Paris. Longish story is that he lived into his 60's somewhere in New England. Turning white haired with a beard and a simple job. However, the same scar. His close friends knew and a wife he had.

All I really know is he led a pretty messed up life from childhood and it appared his father was a pedo, leading him to further wildness and drugs. And could be a complete arsehole at times.

An extra hour of 2025 will be fine with me as it's been a good year with President Trump and a new granddaughter. No complaints.

Favorites of Jim Morrison...get up and dance!
Wild Night
https://tinyurl.com/4982euad

and
Tupelo Honey ('cause I am from MS and ancestors there)
https://tinyurl.com/vatyd5yc

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 27, 2025 10:23 PM (j5WMt)

75 in 2025, nobody is hiring 50something software autists.
Posted by: gKWVE

*wistfully members the job market for IT guys in the '70s*

You could walk across the street and get a new job and all you had to demonstrate was how to spell 'JCL'.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 27, 2025 10:24 PM (cYBz/)

76 Guess they don't care if the American fan drifts away.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 27, 2025 10:16 PM (uQesX)

They act the way they do because they know the fans will never drscooters.

Roger Goodell could air an ad during the Super Bowl in a room full of stacks and stacks of paper, saying "what you see behind me is a list of the names and addresses of every weekly NFL viewer in the country. The NFL is proud to announce its new partnership with DoorDash, wherein Dashers will be sent to take a shit on every one of their front porches, every week during football season."

There would be no noticeable drop in ratings. Just schlubs in their jerseys high fiving each other after the games, while they clean the NFL's poop off their houses and lawns with little Official NFL pooper scoopers.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 27, 2025 10:25 PM (BI5O2)

77 Don't know what your problem is but I would be thrilled to get an extra hour in 2025. This has been the best year ever. Mostly because most of the recent years really, really sucked. But what's not to like about this one?
Posted by: WTP

Let's see. Father-in-law died in April. Dog died in May. Wife died in August. Still have two months left.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 27, 2025 10:26 PM (UjDHi)

78 If you want to feel utterly worthless, and the earth would be way better off without you, adopt a cat.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm

I remember the comments of the pre-Robert Beckoning Chasm. Seemed so sad and grumpy sometimes (not to be confused with Grumpy & Recalcitrant), made me feel a little sad for him.

I thought it was a good thing when he acquired a cat. Looked forward to him being more upbeat and positive. Instead, he just projected all his grumpy off on the cat. I can't judge - that may be improvement - but it still makes me feel a little sad… for the cat.
🤔😶😴

Posted by: mindful webworker - it's National Black Cat Day at October 27, 2025 10:26 PM (K0Os3)

79 66 Yes, Jayz picks the SB halftime groups..I miss acts like Up With People.
Posted by: Joemarine at October 27, 2025 10:17 PM (y171U)

Ah, for the good old days of entertainment:

https://tinyurl.com/3bshw96s
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 27, 2025 10:21 PM (uQesX)

Gotta love those pants!

Posted by: Joemarine at October 27, 2025 10:26 PM (y171U)

80 This has been a great year economically for me so far but, I have attended way to many funerals. I would trade less of the former for the less of the latter in a heartbeat.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 27, 2025 10:26 PM (jc0TO)

81 43 yeah...
I heard about that twizzler thing....you might want to consider a more experienced accountant. Just sayin'....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 27, 2025 10:27 PM (mAdag)

82 68 I have a sharpie and some sticky notes in my bag.
Posted by: Piper

sharps or flats ???
Posted by: Adriane the Eyes Always Closed in Pictures Critic . . . at October 27, 2025 10:22 PM (3ZUWJ)

Sharps!

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

83 Thanks for the dandy Monday Night ONT, Mis Hum!

So sad about little Oliver and chroming...

Great photo up top - inspiration for racing on open water!

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

84 Huge Doors fan, my friends (?) referred to it as "downer rock" but as I said, I like 'em.

Posted by: Some Rat at October 27, 2025 10:27 PM (TfUTr)

85 Airman at Center of M18 Controversy Found Dead

tiny.cc/fzau001

Airman 1st Class Marcus White-Allen, assigned to F.E. Warren Air Force Base, who was under investigation for the fatal July shooting of fellow airman Brayden Lovan, has been found dead...
This fatal chain of events began on July 20, when Airman Lovan was killed in a suspected on-duty incident involving the Sig Sauer-produced M18, immediately triggering a base-wide and then command-wide pause on use of the pistol.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 27, 2025 10:27 PM (RWp+V)

86 I thought it was a good thing when he acquired a cat. Looked forward to him being more upbeat and positive. Instead, he just projected all his grumpy off on the cat. I can't judge - that may be improvement - but it still makes me feel a little sad… for the cat.
🤔😶😴
Posted by: mindful webworker - it's National Black Cat Day at October 27,

He is such a liar. He loves that darn cat. 😂

Posted by: Piper at October 27, 2025 10:28 PM (p4NUW)

87
That NASA situation is insane. Get to the moon before China does for the glory and reputation of the nation, except kill the astronauts. Genius. I hope Trump agrees to lose a little face on the schedule. He must have had to delay projects before because execution fell short.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 27, 2025 10:28 PM (5e+/e)

88 Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 27, 2025 10:26 PM (UjDHi)

Prayers for Warmth of Spirit in a Cold and Numbing Time ...

Posted by: Adriane the Critic . . . at October 27, 2025 10:29 PM (3ZUWJ)

89 Mis Hum! My favorite unguided missile...always a treat to see you in an ONT. Getting chilly here in VA, can only imagine the weather in the frozen tundra!

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at October 27, 2025 10:29 PM (IQ6Gq)

90 Who's bitching about 2025? This is a great year.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Don't know what your problem is but I would be thrilled to get an extra hour in 2025. This has been the best year ever.
Posted by: WTP

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE MISHUM LIKES YOKO'S MUSIC.

Posted by: BEN ROFLCOPTER at October 27, 2025 10:29 PM (nhCoE)

91 Huge Doors fan, my friends (?) referred to it as "downer rock" but as I said, I like 'em.
Posted by: Some Rat

"Before I slip into unconsciousness, I'd like to have another kiss . . . ."

Posted by: Tonypete at October 27, 2025 10:29 PM (cYBz/)

92 Remember, no matter how Goodel tries to make football more appealing to other demographics, he's already said people can get stuffed over the halftime show. They won't even consider cancelling the America hater.
Posted by: OrangeEnt
_---------
Of course he won't. This is big business and big bucks. Even if he wants to, the penalty clauses in the contracts with Jay-Z and Loathsome Lupus would cost the owners enough that he might lose his job. Face it, this year's Big Game halftime show is a lost cause.
But, there is a ray of sunshine. If enough people tune out, and especially if they tune in to deliberate counterprogramming, we won't see this shit next year, with an added benefit of maybe never seeing Goodell rancid puss again.
TPUSA is attempting to put together this counter. I have no doubt that they will get some big name country acts and hopefully the equivalent Rock people, but the real problem is, as usual, perception.
(continued)

Posted by: buddhaha at October 27, 2025 10:29 PM (tDjFx)

93 Fall back is much better than spring forward. In fact we should do it twice a month. It might just keep up with my insomnia.

Posted by: banana Dream at October 27, 2025 10:30 PM (n1cjr)

94 There would be no noticeable drop in ratings. Just schlubs in their jerseys high fiving each other after the games, while they clean the NFL's poop off their houses and lawns with little Official NFL pooper scoopers.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 27, 2025 10:25 PM (BI5O2)

It wouldn't surprise me if Goodel thought that was a great idea.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 27, 2025 10:30 PM (uQesX)

95 81 I heard about that twizzler thing....you might want to consider a more experienced accountant. Just sayin'....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 27, 2025 10:27 PM
***
We've got the best accountant that twizzlers and restroom tokens can buy.

Posted by: TRex - just write it off! at October 27, 2025 10:30 PM (IQ6Gq)

96 O fortunate me!!! Not only am I half drowning from pulmonary edema caused by my own stupidity, but today I was told I may or may not have shingles in my left eye. I got up this morning and halfway through brewing my morning tea something stabbed me in my left eye. I sloshed it out with Visine, thinking something had gotten into my eye, but whatever kept stabbing. I panicked, thinking that the retina had detached. (My ophthalmologist has been watching that retina very closely for years.) My ophthalmologist got me in as soon as I could get there, and discovered "dendrites" in the eye. I tell you: October this year has been a blast! (not)

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at October 27, 2025 10:31 PM (DK5Sh)

97 I take longer to feel normal when we get the extra hour than when we lose it.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 27, 2025 10:31 PM (jc0TO)

98 Gotta love those pants!
Posted by: Joemarine at October 27, 2025 10:26 PM (y171U)

Perfect for the Sunday Book Thread!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 27, 2025 10:31 PM (uQesX)

99 "Let's see. Father-in-law died in April. Dog died in May. Wife died in August. Still have two months left."

Look...sorry that happened to you but...really? If I knew you I would offer a shoulder or something but...I know it's hard but you gotta look up. That's some rough shit but you can't let it set your mind for the future.

Posted by: WTP at October 27, 2025 10:32 PM (4cfLi)

100 John Kasich has shown up in my twitter feed.

Instead of mentioning how EXPERIENCED and PRACTICED he was at stuffing hot dogs, I will point out that his dad was a mailman.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at October 27, 2025 10:32 PM (lhenN)

101 I take longer to feel normal when we get the extra hour than when we lose it.
Posted by: toby928(c)

You're a Moron. Like it or not, this IS normal.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 27, 2025 10:32 PM (cYBz/)

102 Captain Josepha Sabin at October 27, 2025 10:31 PM (DK5Sh)
=====

A prayer for complete and speedy recovery

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 27, 2025 10:32 PM (SwYQF)

103 With admittedly NO info on the status of twizzlers in this bunch, I would say -

We had a scad of kids and went on lots of road trips. The favored snack of everyone except my (then) wife was twizzlers, a big sack, out on top of the dash for warming purposes. Mmmm.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at October 27, 2025 10:33 PM (47diA)

104 Sharps!
Posted by: Piper at October 27, 2025 10:27 PM (p4NUW)

A, or B?

Posted by: Homer J at October 27, 2025 10:33 PM (uQesX)

105 We've got the best accountant that twizzlers and restroom tokens can buy.
Posted by: TRex - just write it off!

Those tokens are worth their weight in gold after that 10th beer.

Posted by: Some Rat at October 27, 2025 10:33 PM (TfUTr)

106 I had thought to do this image, and surprise someone else already did it.

https://bit.ly/3WZQXC2

My caption was going to be, Judge* orders changes in White House reconstruction.

*What's the name of that one pesky judge?

Posted by: mindful webworker - you know the one at October 27, 2025 10:34 PM (K0Os3)

107 97 I take longer to feel normal when we get the extra hour than when we lose it.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 27, 2025 10:31 PM
***
with the extra hour, tankdemon might be really, really late.

Posted by: TRex - excuses, excuses at October 27, 2025 10:35 PM (IQ6Gq)

108 Hey, TRex! Have we tried to get a token to Ace as a souvenir of the MeMe he couldn't attend?

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at October 27, 2025 10:35 PM (47diA)

109 Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at October 27, 2025 10:31 PM (DK5Sh)

----
Prayers for your healing and comfort.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at October 27, 2025 10:35 PM (8gIZo)

110 MeMe or MoMe

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at October 27, 2025 10:36 PM (47diA)

111 (continued)
That program can get millions of views on streaming media, but without "broadcast" presence it will make little impact. It needs to be picked up by some large-footprint operation. There's no way that you'll ever see it on any OTA outlet, but if multiple cable (satellite) channels handle it, it will show up in the Nielsens, and be un-ignorable.
I'd love to see Fox but their money with their mouth is - most of their commenters have made snide remarks about the show - but they aren't going to imperil their corporate relations with the NFL.

Posted by: buddhaha at October 27, 2025 10:36 PM (tDjFx)

112 I tell you: October this year has been a blast! (not)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin

Captain, May you be Blessed with Health and Healing ...

Posted by: Adriane the Critic . . . at October 27, 2025 10:36 PM (3ZUWJ)

113 77 Rick

Yikes! So very sorry. My year wasn't great (except for DJT), but damn sir...blessings to you🙏

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 27, 2025 10:37 PM (mAdag)

114 Don't know what the big deal is. Go to bed when you're tired, get up when you're rested. Unless of course you still have to work. (trys to look all sad and concerned but is having a chuckle on the inside)

Posted by: Some Rat at October 27, 2025 10:37 PM (TfUTr)

115 72 Don't know what your problem is but I would be thrilled to get an extra hour in 2025. This has been the best year ever. Mostly because most of the recent years really, really sucked. But what's not to like about this one?
Posted by: WTP at October 27, 2025 10:23 PM (4cfLi)

See my comment #51

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 27, 2025 10:38 PM (QGaXH)

116
I wish I could. This is the first time since 1988 I've been without a dog.
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 27, 2025 10:17 PM (UjDHi)

I went without a dog for quite awhile. I love my cats, they were enough, and I wasn’t sure I wanted the work of a dog. I knew exactly who that work would fall on despite promises to the contrary. But I said fine, finally, however it had to be a Shiba Inu. Can I just tell you how stupid we all are over my dog? J, who wanted a “real” dog, is insane about this cotton ball. Get a doggie. Or a cat. Or both.

Posted by: Piper at October 27, 2025 10:38 PM (p4NUW)

117 I'd love to see Fox but their money with their mouth is - most of their commenters have made snide remarks about the show - but they aren't going to imperil their corporate relations with the NFL.
Posted by: buddhaha at October 27, 2025 10:36 PM (tDjFx)

If enough people would be willing to do it, relentless "booing" might get the guy to quit in the middle of it.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 27, 2025 10:39 PM (uQesX)

118 Instead of mentioning how EXPERIENCED and PRACTICED he was at stuffing hot dogs, I will point out that his dad was a mailman.
Posted by: BourbonChicken

You can also get personal with him by reminding him that he was such a DF that he put regular dish soap into his dishwasher and had to call out a repair man (ME!) to get rid of a kitchen full of soap suds.

N.B. - vinegar is good for this application.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 27, 2025 10:39 PM (cYBz/)

119 synthwave teen spirit
youtu.be/NlkZi8kd9VM

Posted by: gKWVE at October 27, 2025 10:39 PM (gKWVE)

120 I have a sharpie and some sticky notes in my bag.
Posted by: Piper

Sorry, the sharpie is reserved for commemorative plates only.
Posted by: Some Rat
***********
Absolute comment of the week...if not the year....

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at October 27, 2025 10:40 PM (IQ6Gq)

121 Is the Orion capsule the same as the one with the wonky thrusters that nearly lost the crew and left them stranded for a year at the space station?

Orion, the actual constellation, is very prominent here on the mesa top. The eastern sky generally seems a bit darker than the rest of the sky and the stars especially contrast with a black velvety background.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 27, 2025 10:41 PM (fij89)

122 "See my comment #51"

Exactly! Hasn't it been glorious? Those tears...those sweet sweet tears. I damn near shed a tear myself just now thinking about them. Ironic? No idea.

Posted by: WTP at October 27, 2025 10:42 PM (4cfLi)

123 108 Hey, TRex! Have we tried to get a token to Ace as a souvenir of the MeMe he couldn't attend?

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at October 27, 2025 10:35 PM
***
Thought about it, but some guy from OK parked his red pickup truck in front of the pile of tokens. I couldn't reach with my small arms. Maybe someone else did.

Posted by: TRex - unburdened by knowledge at October 27, 2025 10:42 PM (IQ6Gq)

124 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE MISHUM LIKES YOKO'S MUSIC.
Posted by: BEN ROFLCOPTER at October 27, 2025 10:29 PM (nhCoE)
====

It's funny because no one likes Yoko's music.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 27, 2025 10:42 PM (SwYQF)

125 Today is National Black Cat Day? My gorgeous black cat is reclining on my side table, softly complaining bitterly that she wants a second Churu tube. She's not going to get it, but that doesn't shut her up.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at October 27, 2025 10:43 PM (DK5Sh)

126 (My ophthalmologist has been watching that retina very closely for years.) My ophthalmologist got me in as soon as I could get there, and discovered "dendrites" in the eye. I tell you: October this year has been a blast! (not)

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at October 27, 2025 10:31 PM (DK5Sh)

Captain, I had shingles in my left eye/ear when I was 19. IT was about six weeks in duration, but that was back before the antivirals they can give you now. If your ophthalmologist didn't suggest it, you may want to see your primary care physician to see if he can prescribe them.

Posted by: moki at October 27, 2025 10:44 PM (wLjpr)

127 ***pouts***

I didn't realize we were supposed to get people to sign our commemorative plates 😭😭😭

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 27, 2025 10:44 PM (SRRAx)

128
Look...sorry that happened to you but...really? If I knew you I would offer a shoulder or something but...I know it's hard but you gotta look up. That's some rough shit but you can't let it set your mind for the future.
Posted by: WTP at October 27, 2025 10:32

Holy smokes, sir. This man has been through some shizzle. This is one of those times you think a little more before you post. This man is looking up, and being a heck of a lot stronger than I could ever be. And a Rick, has my shoulder any time he needs it.

Posted by: Piper at October 27, 2025 10:45 PM (p4NUW)

129 Years ago, road trips were problematic, at least in rural areas or away from big interstates. Gas stations didn’t have much selection like they do now, not even a little bit. A couple vending machines, that was about it.

Those beef stick cheddar stick combo packs were the best. They were so old they’d pick up a hint of 90 weight gear oil from the adjacent service bay. A can of ice cold OG Mountain Dew, and gtg for another 250 miles.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 27, 2025 10:46 PM (fij89)

130 We guys tell you what you ought to do, that's us showing we care.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 27, 2025 10:46 PM (jc0TO)

131 I didn't realize we were supposed to get people to sign our commemorative plates 😭😭😭
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn.

Bring it next year. It'll be blacked out with all the signatures you'll get! (by the way, have I mentioned you're my hero?)

Posted by: Some Rat at October 27, 2025 10:47 PM (TfUTr)

132 When we

f my fingers.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 27, 2025 10:47 PM (jc0TO)

133 127 I didn't realize we were supposed to get people to sign our commemorative plates 😭😭😭

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 27, 2025 10:44 PM
***
Bring yours back next year and I promise I'll sign your plate ASAP.

Posted by: TRex - plate spinner in training at October 27, 2025 10:47 PM (IQ6Gq)

134 I am off to bed, 6a is a ridiculous time to start teaching exercise classes. Whose idea was that anyway?

Nobody answer this question.

Posted by: Piper at October 27, 2025 10:47 PM (p4NUW)

135 "Holy smokes, sir. This man has been through some shizzle. This is one of those times you think a little more before you post. This man is looking up, and being a heck of a lot stronger than I could ever be. And a Rick, has my shoulder any time he needs it."

Really now. That's how you took that? I'm guessing you're a chick tho...

Posted by: WTP at October 27, 2025 10:49 PM (4cfLi)

136 We guys tell you what you ought to do, that's us showing we care.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 27, 2025 10:46 PM (jc0TO)
====

I show my friends I care by hip checking them into a shrubbery.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 27, 2025 10:49 PM (SwYQF)

137 If you want to feel like you're the greatest being on earth, and the source of all happiness, adopt a dog.

If you want to feel utterly worthless, and the earth would be way better off without you, adopt a cat.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 27, 2025 10:09

While generally true I have to give kudos to Butterscotch, our almost 19 yo cat. She will find me in the night and when I wake she is sleeping cuddled up under my arm next to me.

We took her in as an abandoned cat in the neighbor hood. She had a litter in the woodpile next door and we brought them in. Here we are almost 20 yrs later and she's a welcome comfort when I wake up.

Posted by: Farmer at October 27, 2025 10:49 PM (55Qr6)

138 105 Rat

Yeah... I'm never aware enough to even use those tokens,,,I usually lose them anyway 🤪

Wait. Where am I now?! Is this the ONT? Was that MisHum?
Barkeep!
Damn! 86d again....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 27, 2025 10:50 PM (mAdag)

139 122 "See my comment #51"

Exactly! Hasn't it been glorious? Those tears...those sweet sweet tears. I damn near shed a tear myself just now thinking about them. Ironic? No idea.
Posted by: WTP at October 27, 2025 10:42 PM (4cfLi)

As I wrote a few nights ago - I've had a s***-eatin grin stuck on my face since this time last year- kinda like going thru Junior High with a perpetual boner....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 27, 2025 10:52 PM (QGaXH)

140 Night all. 3:30 is coming quick. See some on the end of this thread or the Tech thread.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 27, 2025 10:52 PM (UjDHi)

141 Time to be done away with DST. Pick a time, stick with it.

Well, I mean, don't go extreme like what China does: have the entire f'n country which goes across 5 geographical time zones set to a single time zone...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 27, 2025 10:52 PM (ynpvh)

142
WTP,

Have you been told you are an asshole?

You are an asshole!

Posted by: fourseasons at October 27, 2025 10:52 PM (3ek7K)

143 While generally true I have to give kudos to Butterscotch, our almost 19 yo cat. She will find me in the night and when I wake she is sleeping cuddled up under my arm next to me.
Posted by: Farmer

I truly believe if one is stressed out or feeling down, kitty will stop by, rub up, touch nose and let a person know it's going to be ok.

Posted by: Some Rat at October 27, 2025 10:52 PM (TfUTr)

144 Speaking of bonus tracks, there's still time to participate in this interactive exhibit:

https://tinyurl.com/55sswyff

Posted by: Baron Munchausen at October 27, 2025 10:53 PM (C1NyB)

145 144 Speaking of bonus tracks, there's still time to participate in this interactive exhibit:

https://tinyurl.com/55sswyff

Posted by: Baron Munchausen at October 27, 2025 10:53 PM (C1NyB)

The hammer is to put you out of your misery...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 27, 2025 10:54 PM (ynpvh)

146 112 -- Adrienne -- Thanks. Every other year, Fall is my favorite season. This year, though, I've just been moping in my recliner, rereading shit. And I do mean that. I have a huge collection of trashy urban fantasy, and I fill out what I don't have by downloading it from the library. (Yes, I know -- I used to own a bookstore. But now the publishers actually expect me to pay real money to feed my reading addiction. How rude of them!)

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at October 27, 2025 10:54 PM (DK5Sh)

147 Evening all,

We have a space walk in the morning.

Roscosmos - Russian Spacewalk 65
International Space Station ISS - Space Affairs Live
Scheduled for Oct 28, 2025
Time: 09:40 A.M. EDT

https://youtu.be/K9sXHieS3m4

Posted by: Joyenz at October 27, 2025 10:55 PM (2F0/Y)

148 Wait. Where am I now?! Is this the ONT? Was that MisHum?
Barkeep!
Damn! 86d again....
Posted by: COMountainMarie

I ordered a pitcher of margaritas. The rest of you at the table can order whatever you like.

Posted by: Some Rat at October 27, 2025 10:56 PM (TfUTr)

149 You're not 86d, COMM! Sorry, I was in the kitchen...

Have a drink-- my treat!-- and don't worry about the tokens... Just let me know if ya gotta go, and I'll let ya into the employee restroom. Shhhhhh! Don't tell!

Posted by: JQ at October 27, 2025 10:56 PM (rdVOm)

150 136 We guys tell you what you ought to do, that's us showing we care.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 27, 2025 10:46 PM (jc0TO)
====

I show my friends I care by hip checking them into a shrubbery.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 27, 2025 10:49 PM (SwYQF)

Unflattering nic-names are also popular....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 27, 2025 10:56 PM (QGaXH)

151 I ordered a pitcher of margaritas. The rest of you at the table can order whatever you like.
Posted by: Some Rat
**********
Clearly it's party time!

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at October 27, 2025 10:57 PM (IQ6Gq)

152 Rickb - just want to let you know I'm thinking about you and pulling for ya.

It will get better.

Never surrender!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 27, 2025 10:58 PM (QGaXH)

153 Posted by: mindful webworker - too pretty to really be Greta at October 27, 2025 10:03 PM (K0Os3)

Proves AI doesn’t listen to instructions. An alternative explanation is AI is so intelligent it decided to protect you from yourself.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 27, 2025 10:59 PM (EYmYM)

154 Never surrender!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

Let's not go crazy here!

Posted by: The EU at October 27, 2025 11:00 PM (TfUTr)

155 I truly believe if one is stressed out or feeling down, kitty will stop by, rub up, touch nose and let a person know it's going to be ok.
Posted by: Some Rat
--------

Yes, they seem to be able to sense our emotions.

I have a coffee mug with a cat drawing on it. Caption reads:

Cats know exactly how we feel. They don't give a damn, but they know.

Posted by: JQ at October 27, 2025 11:00 PM (rdVOm)

156 If a guy doesn't care he responds with some variant of sucks to be you. If he cares, he will either tell you what HE would do if it was his problem or start telling no-shit stories and showing you his scars to get you to feel better about your problem.

Women expect you to listen and commiserate.

This took me three decades to understand this difference between the sexes.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 27, 2025 11:00 PM (jc0TO)

157 The Orion capsule is built by Lockheed Martin, which is the prime contractor for NASA's Orion program.
------------

NASA covering up another screw up.
But the dreamy Starliner, what a name, Oh, what a company.

Musk put up 90% of the world's stuff into space this year and neither of the other two (self-proclaimed) big shots (grifters) can get a tiny capsule to work.

Where's that picture of Uncle Sam pouring money down the toilet?

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

158 126 Moki -- I'm good. My ophthalmologist prescribed an erythromycin cream and tear drops, and I'm to see him again on Wednesday. The eye does not hurt at all now. Thanks for caring.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at October 27, 2025 11:01 PM (DK5Sh)

159 Unflattering nic-names are also popular....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 27, 2025 10:56 PM (QGaXH
====
We call our gay buddy Tinkerbell

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 27, 2025 11:01 PM (IC093)

160 Stopped to watch the Yes video, man that Howe guy can shread.

Posted by: Pikov Andropov at October 27, 2025 11:02 PM (y7zkd)

161 Time: 09:40 A.M. EDT

https://youtu.be/K9sXHieS3m4
Posted by: Joyenz
------------

Those Rooskies always the early riser.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 27, 2025 11:03 PM (+JNKR)

162 Seems slow tonight - off to watch Gutfeld for a while...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 27, 2025 11:03 PM (QGaXH)

163 This took me three decades to understand this difference between the sexes.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 27, 2025 11:00 PM (jc0TO)
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Deborah Tannen has written several excellent books on it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 27, 2025 11:03 PM (IC093)

164 Bring it next year. It'll be blacked out with all the signatures you'll get! (by the way, have I mentioned you're my hero?)
Posted by: Some Rat at October 27, 2025 10:47 PM (TfUTr)

So you're saying that I am the wind beneath your wings? 😂

Thanks, sweetie!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 27, 2025 11:03 PM (SRRAx)

165 Seems slow tonight - off to watch Gutfeld for a while...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 27, 2025 11:03 PM (QGaXH)
====

Commenting as fas as I can, boss!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 27, 2025 11:04 PM (IC093)

166 Deborah Tannen has written several excellent books on it.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 27, 2025 11:03 PM

I wish I had known it BEFORE I got married. My wife doesn't want me to solve her problems, she just wants me to hear them.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 27, 2025 11:04 PM (jc0TO)

167
Who's funding this bs?
-----------
ASCENDtials assists those in the BIPOC community in dismantling institutionalized isms within the U.S. workforce by offering workshops that empower them. Our non-profit organization focuses on building cosmic consciousness through our experiential learning programs, healing sessions, and workshops, and environmental programs so that they can successfully advocate for humanity and the environment.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 27, 2025 11:05 PM (5e+/e)

168 63 Who's bitching about 2025? This is a great year.
Dog accidents aside.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 27, 2025 10:08 PM (xcxpd)

Not bitching, mind you, but 2025 has been one for the books on a personal level. A roller coaster of yay vs. not yay.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Antisocial Media Influencer at October 27, 2025 10:19 PM (0aYVJ)

My condolences for the bad to you and Rick

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 27, 2025 11:05 PM (xcxpd)

169 162 Seems slow tonight - off to watch Gutfeld for a while...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 27, 2025 11:03 PM (QGaXH)

Gutfeld's opening caption is 'Still Not Tired of Winning"

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 27, 2025 11:06 PM (QGaXH)

170 ARRRRRR

Posted by: Slow Commenting Mugato at October 27, 2025 11:06 PM (jc0TO)

171 I wish I had known it BEFORE I got married. My wife doesn't want me to solve her problems, she just wants me to hear them.
Posted by: toby928(c)

And it's in our nature to solve problems.

Telling a man about a problem, and expecting him to not analyze it and try to solve it, is like throwing a ball for your Golden Retriever and expecting him not to fetch it.

Posted by: mikeski at October 27, 2025 11:07 PM (nhCoE)

172 Speaking as a black LGBT woman, professional flag football is gayer than Liberace's hairdresser's boyfriend's French poodle.

Posted by: Latrine John-Pissoir at October 27, 2025 10:21 PM (X5Jzz)

Boy George would yell fag from a passing vehicle.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 27, 2025 11:07 PM (snZF9)

173 ASCENDtials assists those in the BIPOC community in dismantling institutionalized isms within the U.S. workforce by offering workshops that empower them. Our non-profit organization focuses on building cosmic consciousness through our experiential learning programs, healing sessions, and workshops, and environmental programs so that they can successfully advocate for humanity and the environment.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 27, 2025 11:05 PM (5e+/e)

aka "grease for nuts"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 27, 2025 11:07 PM (npFr7)

174 169 162 Seems slow tonight - off to watch Gutfeld for a while...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 27, 2025 11:03 PM (QGaXH)

Gutfeld's opening caption is 'Still Not Tired of Winning"
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 27, 2025 11:06 PM (QGaXH)

Meanwhile MSDNC is using: 'Still not tired of whining'

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 27, 2025 11:08 PM (QGaXH)

175 The industrial revolution. They called it the technology revolution, and the way it changed the lives, the way it changed fortunes. The so-called Robber Barons changed the fortune of America. We went from an also ran to number one who had, who got the chunk of money? Who got that prosperity?

We, you know, we the people made more money per capita. We made more money.

In Chicago, the Chicago World’s Fair 1893, the debut of consumerism where you actually had extra money, not just enough money to buy seed for the next crop and hope that one didn’t fail but extra money to take your sweetheart for a ride at the fair while you’re eating Cracker Jacks, you know, ...
_it’s happening again

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 27, 2025 11:08 PM (+JNKR)

176 "My wife doesn't want me to solve her problems, she just wants me to hear them."

I'll try to remember that next time she says she can't open a pickle jar. Or brings up that dripping faucet... again.

Posted by: WTP at October 27, 2025 11:08 PM (4cfLi)

177 Our non-profit organization focuses on building cosmic consciousness through our experiential learning programs, healing sessions, and workshops, and environmental programs so that they can successfully advocate for humanity and the environment.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Anyone got a bullshit-to-English translator handy?

Posted by: mikeski at October 27, 2025 11:08 PM (nhCoE)

178 I wish I had known it BEFORE I got married. My wife doesn't want me to solve her problems, she just wants me to hear them.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 27, 2025 11:04 PM (jc0TO)
====
Crazy, right?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 27, 2025 11:08 PM (IC093)

179 Damn, Ohtani is something.

Ties the game with his second home run.
5-5.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 27, 2025 11:08 PM (ufFY8)

180 148 Rat says I ordered a pitcher of margaritas. The rest of you at the table can order whatever you like.

Marie looks longingly in the window😣....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 27, 2025 11:09 PM (mAdag)

181 I show my friends I care by hip checking them into a shrubbery.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 27, 2025 10:49 PM (SwYQF)

That works fine until someone checks you with... a herring

Posted by: ni at October 27, 2025 11:10 PM (gKWVE)

182 I wouldn't mind getting an extra 11 months to 2025.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 27, 2025 11:10 PM (snZF9)

183 167
Who's funding this bs?
-----------
ASCENDtials assists those in the BIPOC community in dismantling institutionalized isms within the U.S. workforce by offering workshops that empower them. Our non-profit organization focuses on building cosmic consciousness through our experiential learning programs, healing sessions, and workshops, and environmental programs so that they can successfully advocate for humanity and the environment.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 27, 2025 11:05 PM (5e+/e)

We do! We doooo!!

Posted by: Joemarine at October 27, 2025 11:11 PM (y171U)

184 I look forward the getting back the hour I lost in April.

I am so tired of this shit.

Posted by: no one at October 27, 2025 11:11 PM (W7XSX)

185 Speaking as a black LGBT woman, professional flag football is gayer than Liberace's hairdresser's boyfriend's French poodle.

Posted by: Latrine John-Pissoir at October 27, 2025 10:21 PM (X5Jzz)

Boy George would yell fag from a passing vehicle.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 27, 2025 11:07 PM (snZF9)

No offense taken. My team won the state college flag football championship in Baton Rouge in 1982.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 27, 2025 11:13 PM (EYmYM)

186 "My wife doesn't want me to solve her problems, she just wants me to hear them."

It's not about the nail.

https://t.ly/5F2ju

Posted by: Tonypete at October 27, 2025 11:13 PM (cYBz/)

187 Marie looks longingly in the window😣....

Posted by: COMountainMarie

Marie, I left a trail a colored rocks to find my way out, use them in reverse order to find your way in.

Posted by: Some Rat at October 27, 2025 11:14 PM (TfUTr)

188
167

Our non-profit organization focuses on building cosmic consciousness through our experiential learning programs, healing sessions, and workshops, and environmental programs

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 27, 2025 11:05 PM

-----

and fudgepacking.

In response. I propose to build a special camp.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 27, 2025 11:15 PM (ES1Rb)

189 Who's funding this bs?
-----------
ASCENDtials assists those in the BIPOC community in dismantling institutionalized isms within the U.S. workforce by offering workshops that empower them. Our non-profit organization focuses on building cosmic consciousness through our experiential learning programs, healing sessions, and workshops, and environmental programs so that they can successfully advocate for humanity and the environment.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Reciepts

Principal Officer's Name and Address:

Tatonisha Mika Marzette

505 W Broadway
San Diego, CA 92101

Posted by: data Miklos at October 27, 2025 11:15 PM (M772T)

190 Our non-profit organization focuses on building cosmic consciousness through our experiential learning programs,

So they got that going for them.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 27, 2025 11:15 PM (gKWVE)

191 I do wonder how long the NFL will last. I quit them. My friends and acquaitences of my age (70) still watch it.

Neither of my sons, in their 40s care for it.

It's dying.

Posted by: no one at October 27, 2025 11:15 PM (W7XSX)

192 I wish I had known it BEFORE I got married. My wife doesn't want me to solve her problems, she just wants me to hear them.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 27, 2025 11:04 PM (jc0TO)

It could be much worse. She could be wanting to solve *your* problems..constantly....without end...making up new ones as she goes along. Thats when you find out hell has a basement.

Not talking about me, wifey is a saint. But friends of mine....damn.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 27, 2025 11:15 PM (snZF9)

193 That works fine until someone checks you with... a herring
Posted by: ni

Fish slapping?
That gives us an idea!
-- Michael Palin and Zombie Terry Jones

Posted by: Tonypete at October 27, 2025 11:16 PM (cYBz/)

194 It's not about the nail.

https://t.ly/5F2ju
Posted by: Tonypete at October 27, 2025 11:13 PM

Perfect.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 27, 2025 11:16 PM (jc0TO)

195 Meow
I saw something about the Dems offering to settle for 20 billion.
No need for me to suggest what the Republicans should tell them to do.
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at October 27, 2025 10:12 PM (w3u3d)

The Democrats in Congress are going to pay 20 billion into the Treasury AND pass the CR? Wunderbar!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 27, 2025 11:16 PM (S/Y4j)

196
Anyone got a bullshit-to-English translator handy?
Posted by: mikeski

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

lol and they're looking to hire a Content Editor right now!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 27, 2025 11:16 PM (5e+/e)

197 187

RAT! You are a fountain of knowledge!
Much love sweet one😘

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 27, 2025 11:18 PM (mAdag)

198 >>> 176 "My wife doesn't want me to solve her problems, she just wants me to hear them."

I'll try to remember that next time she says she can't open a pickle jar. Or brings up that dripping faucet... again.
Posted by: WTP at October 27, 2025 11:08 PM (4cfLi)

Jar opener:
https://shorturl.at/vMRq2

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 27, 2025 11:18 PM (ULPxl)

199 lol and they're looking to hire a Content Editor right now!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Don't think we fit the demographic they're looking for.

Posted by: Some Rat at October 27, 2025 11:18 PM (TfUTr)

200 ASCENDtials;
After repetitive questioning DDG AI coughed this up.

The specific funding sources for ASCENDtials are not widely disclosed in publicly available information. However, based on recent data, here are some entities and individuals that have been associated with their funding:

Name/Entity Details
City of San Diego Partnering for Self-Sufficiency Services.
Individual Donors Contributions from community members and supporters.
Corporate Sponsorships While names are not specified, partnerships typically include local businesses aligned with community support.

Unfortunately, specific names of individual donors or corporations are often not published for privacy reasons and would typically be found in the organization's Form 990 tax filings submitted to the IRS, where notable contributions may be listed.

For the exact names of donors or corporate sponsors, reviewing ASCENDtials’ financial disclosures or contacting them directly may provide the most accurate information.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 27, 2025 11:18 PM (+JNKR)

201 Funny how the Apple phone commercial of the idiots filming with the phone do nothing to espouse the purpose of...the phone.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 27, 2025 11:19 PM (ufFY8)

202 Posted by: WTP at October 27, 2025 10:49 PM (4cfLi)

Maybe think before you comment.

I suggest that you take my advice.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (Flying the American Flag!) at October 27, 2025 11:20 PM (n9ltV)

203 lol and they're looking to hire a Content Editor right now!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Can't be much in pay.

Declared income

And you know Tatonisha gots to be paid FIRST

Posted by: data Miklos likes the IRS non-profit search tool at October 27, 2025 11:20 PM (M772T)

204 For the exact names of donors or corporate sponsors, reviewing ASCENDtials’ financial disclosures or contacting them directly may provide the most accurate information.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 27, 2025 11:18 PM (+JNKR)

It's a grift. Of course they are going to try to hide their funding.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 27, 2025 11:20 PM (npFr7)

205 where is my spoon?

Posted by: no one at October 27, 2025 11:21 PM (W7XSX)

206 Anyone got a bullshit-to-English translator handy?
Posted by: mikeski

Look within, there's gotta be one that fits the bill. https://anythingtranslate.com/translators/

Posted by: Tonypete at October 27, 2025 11:21 PM (cYBz/)

207 Hmm

Use of the "less Than" symbols seems to partially delete comments

Posted by: Miklos is > at October 27, 2025 11:21 PM (M772T)

208 One of the funnier Two and a Half Men episodes was the one where Charlie accidentally stumbled onto the phrase ‘ I Understand’ when he said it after one of the women were telling him their problems and he hadn’t heard a word but had to respond. It turned out to be a magical phrase.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 27, 2025 11:22 PM (EYmYM)

209 where is my spoon?
Posted by: no one at October 27, 2025 11:21 PM (W7XSX)

Here.
Sorry about that.

Posted by: Uri Geller at October 27, 2025 11:22 PM (ufFY8)

210 There is no spoon.

Posted by: The bald kid at October 27, 2025 11:22 PM (jc0TO)

211 I just don't understand.
Trump has three baby mommas, five kids, lives in government housing, and he's married to a foreigner. And they still don't like him.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 27, 2025 11:22 PM (2WIwB)

212 It's not the pay it's the bonus.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 27, 2025 11:23 PM (+JNKR)

213 134 I am off to bed, 6a is a ridiculous time to start teaching exercise classes. Whose idea was that anyway?
----
walks in, hangs mirror on wall, walks out....

Posted by: clarence at October 27, 2025 11:23 PM (lYuPF)

214 I only make 40k a year.
What's your bonus?
Er. I'll have to look that up.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 27, 2025 11:24 PM (+JNKR)

215 I wish I had known it BEFORE I got married. My wife doesn't want me to solve her problems, she just wants me to hear them.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 27, 2025 11:04 PM (jc0TO)

Psst! It really is about the nail, but we aren't allowed to say that.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2025 11:24 PM (rbvCR)

216 Ok pals...since the barkeep kicked me out, I will say only this-

"Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.” - G.K. Chesterton

Good night sweet Horde of the ONT!

{{{Keep the fun going Rat, you bastard (channeling nurse)}}

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 27, 2025 11:25 PM (mAdag)

217 "Maybe think before you comment."

Other people here understood, but whatever. I would have just ignored that but...something that itself has always bugged me...considering that your 'nic is the name of a beloved childhood character combined with a sex toy...maybe the glass houses thing?

Posted by: WTP at October 27, 2025 11:26 PM (4cfLi)

218 Oh boy. . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at October 27, 2025 11:26 PM (cYBz/)

219 I just don't understand.
Trump has three baby mommas, five kids, lives in government housing, and he's married to a foreigner. And they still don't like him.
Posted by: Diogenes

AND gets free health care, a government check every month, and taxpayer-funded transportation. Plus food, if he invites guests.

Posted by: Miklos thinks the liquor bill is probably the lowest in decades at October 27, 2025 11:26 PM (M772T)

220 Anyone got a bullshit-to-English translator handy?
Posted by: mikeski at October 27, 2025 11:08 PM (nhCoE)

group think indoctrination, and bitch sessions to pretend to solve problems beyond their capacity to influence.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2025 11:26 PM (rbvCR)

221
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 27, 2025 11:18 PM (+JNKR)

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

I'm sure my tax dollars are in there somewhere.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 27, 2025 11:27 PM (5e+/e)

222 I actually have gotten pretty good at dealing with the nail. It is just a slight variant of the 'you are the most interesting person in the universe' posture that you use when you are dating, followed by telling her about someone else that had a similar problem and what they did about it. Anything more direct and I get the pushback.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 27, 2025 11:28 PM (jc0TO)

223 Hmm.

*does not recall kicking COMM out*

Have a good night, COMM. Take care.

Posted by: JQ at October 27, 2025 11:28 PM (rdVOm)

224 Hmm.

*does not recall kicking COMM out*

Have a good night, COMM. Take care.

Posted by: JQ at October 27, 2025 11:28 PM (rdVOm)

She self-deports a lot. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 27, 2025 11:29 PM (snZF9)

225 An interesting evening . . . . .

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at October 27, 2025 11:29 PM (47diA)

226 I'm sure my tax dollars are in there somewhere.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 27, 2025 11:27 PM (5e+/e)

No shit, Sherlock. It's clearly a grift, to enrich the grifter in chief. Who is totally not a Democrat, swearsies.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 27, 2025 11:29 PM (npFr7)

227 Given the explosive growth of sports betting and AI , why not come up with way to merge them? Sort of like all the computerized stock trading making millions of trades a minute. What could go wrong?

Posted by: Ripley at October 27, 2025 11:30 PM (PTDkx)

228 *glances in*

Uh oh...

*relurks*

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 27, 2025 11:31 PM (22p5n)

229 Hey, AOP! Does Alberta have a province song? Will it be the new "national anthem"?

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at October 27, 2025 11:31 PM (47diA)

230 I'm happy to state that my dear wife understands GuySpeak very well. She grew up with 4 brothers and no sisters.

Teaching elementary Special Ed kids for 30 years had a large impact on her fluency too I'd dare say.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 27, 2025 11:31 PM (cYBz/)

231 Hey, AOP! Does Alberta have a province song? Will it be the new "national anthem"?
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron

Probably

*consults Ian Tyson Songbook*

Posted by: Miklos like navajo Rug, but it's probably not that at October 27, 2025 11:33 PM (M772T)

232 Never mind. Looked it up. Cleverly, it's called "Alberta". Adopted in 2005.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at October 27, 2025 11:35 PM (47diA)

233 Hey, AOP! Does Alberta have a province song? Will it be the new "national anthem"?
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at October 27, 2025 11:31 PM (47diA)

In fact there is. I had to look it up; that's how well-known it is. Commissioned in 2005 on the occasion of Alberta's 100 years as a Province.

I would nominate the Rodeo Song, by Gary Lee and Showdown, as much more appropriate.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 27, 2025 11:35 PM (npFr7)

234 Hey, AOP! Does Alberta have a province song? Will it be the new "national anthem"?
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron

John-Jacob-Jinglheimer-Schmidt. Everyone knows the words, and doesn't require multi octave reach like some countries'.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2025 11:35 PM (rbvCR)

235 Teaching elementary Special Ed kids for 30 years had a large impact on her fluency too I'd dare say.
Posted by: Tonypete

A lot?

Posted by: Miklos was a Special Education kid for 30 years, too! at October 27, 2025 11:36 PM (M772T)

236 Oh, and 99 bottles of beer was already taken by Australia.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2025 11:36 PM (rbvCR)

237 I agree, AOP. Rodeo Song would be much better AND I've never heard Alberta!

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at October 27, 2025 11:36 PM (47diA)

238 "I would nominate the Rodeo Song, by Gary Lee and Showdown, as much more appropriate."

Now that would be awesome. Alberta will need a few more NHL franchises however...

Posted by: WTP at October 27, 2025 11:37 PM (4cfLi)

239 Given the explosive growth of sports betting and AI , why not come up with way to merge them? Sort of like all the computerized stock trading making millions of trades a minute. What could go wrong?
Posted by: Ripley

AI no good for predicting markets but there has always been a quest for the perfect market prediction algorithm.

The basics are
- but low
- sell high
The details are difficult.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 27, 2025 11:37 PM (/lPRQ)

240 Hey, AOP! Does Alberta have a province song? Will it be the new "national anthem"?
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron

Oh Canada,
We like the U.S. more...

Posted by: Alberta and Saskatchewan at October 27, 2025 11:37 PM (TfUTr)

241 Tonypete, I have one daughter, the middle kid amongst 4 brothers. She certainly understands GuySpeak! And can use it well, too.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at October 27, 2025 11:38 PM (47diA)

242 I agree, AOP. Rodeo Song would be much better AND I've never heard Alberta!
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at October 27, 2025 11:36 PM (47diA)

The "Alberta" song has been out 20 years. I live here, and have never heard it. No bar band can work during Stampede Week if they cannot play Rodeo Song.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 27, 2025 11:38 PM (npFr7)

243
ALBERTA

ALBERTA

WHAT MAKES YOUR BIG HEAD SO HARD?

But I love you baby, 'cause Alberta is your name

Posted by: Miklos in best Louis Jordan jump jive voice at October 27, 2025 11:39 PM (M772T)

244 GuySpeak:

https://youtu.be/74I7Nl1mKig

Posted by: JQ at October 27, 2025 11:39 PM (rdVOm)

245 223 JQ

It wasn't you. It was that prissy little doorman. I don't think (he?) even really works there...
You,sir, are THE best barkeeper...

Good night for real💤💤💕

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 27, 2025 11:40 PM (mAdag)

246 Man it is tough to spell Saskatchewan.

Posted by: Some Rat at October 27, 2025 11:41 PM (TfUTr)

247 Oh, lordy, time change again. I have 10 clocks in my house, plus the clock in my car, plus two watches. Am I a borderline OCD clock watcher? Yes, I am.

Posted by: nerdygirl at October 27, 2025 11:41 PM (0Htd1)

248 While 2024 ended on a major upswing why the hate for 2025? Things are getting better.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 27, 2025 11:44 PM (sKqQm)

249 Oh, what a perfect opportunity for Alberta to make South Park's "Blame Canada" their official anthem.

In case you've forgotten:

https://tinyurl.com/2j9343y9

Posted by: Disgruntled Monkey at October 27, 2025 11:44 PM (dIske)

250 Had all I can stand, horde. Good night!

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at October 27, 2025 11:44 PM (47diA)

251 does Bigfoot ever go to Saskatchewan?

Posted by: gKWVE at October 27, 2025 11:45 PM (gKWVE)

252 Another " Classics " Monday. Thanks Mishum. For some reason I have this urge to watch Bullitt. I think I'll pop the dvd in a little later.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at October 27, 2025 11:45 PM (2ymBd)

253 Steve Howe rocking out on a classic!

Posted by: pawn at October 27, 2025 11:47 PM (sPsWv)

254 AI no good for predicting markets but there has always been a quest for the perfect market prediction algorithm.

I put some money in an algorithm stock fund and its done decently - its up just under 15% on the year. The fund I manage personally is only up 13% in the same time range.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 27, 2025 11:47 PM (sKqQm)

255 'Night, COMM.

Sweet dreams!

(sir? Hawhawhaw, I'm good with it, LOL)

Posted by: JQ at October 27, 2025 11:47 PM (rdVOm)

256 Telling a man about a problem, and expecting him to not analyze it and try to solve it, is like throwing a ball for your Golden Retriever and expecting him not to fetch it.
Posted by: mikeski

Thanks for that. It reminded me of when I tried teaching my beagle to fetch. In her little beagle brain, tennis balls were to be sniffed at and then ignored.

Posted by: nerdygirl at October 27, 2025 11:49 PM (0Htd1)

257 GuySpeak, part 2:

https://youtu.be/L-atzIgyqnk

Posted by: JQ at October 27, 2025 11:50 PM (rdVOm)

258 243
ALBERTA

ALBERTA

WHAT MAKES YOUR BIG HEAD SO HARD?

But I love you baby, 'cause Alberta is your name
Posted by: Miklos in best Louis Jordan jump jive voice
----------------------

Thought it was Woody Herman.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 27, 2025 11:50 PM (+JNKR)

259 I put some money in an algorithm stock fund and its done decently - its up just under 15% on the year. The fund I manage personally is only up 13% in the same time range.
Posted by: 18-1
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Better go see Charles, Payne that is.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 27, 2025 11:52 PM (+JNKR)

260 A group of vultures is called a committee, venue or volt.

In flight, a flock of vultures is a kettle, and when the birds are feeding together at a carcass, the group is called a wake.

Posted by: pawn at October 27, 2025 11:53 PM (sPsWv)

261
Zohran Mamdani has adjusted and re-weaponized the oppressed aunt story.

It turns out it was his father's COUSIN. Conveniently, she is no longer alive to confirm the story.

Mamdani concludes that "for THAT to be the takeaway for Cuomo from my more than 6-minute speech on Islamophobia in New York..."

The taqqiya made me throw up at that moment.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 27, 2025 11:54 PM (5e+/e)

262 ...and when the birds are feeding together at a carcass, the group is called a wake.
---------

"Thank God for ketchup!"

Posted by: JQ at October 27, 2025 11:54 PM (rdVOm)

263 People, it's not even mid-night.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 27, 2025 11:55 PM (+JNKR)

264

If you do web searches on the company or the name of its president, some interesting things come up.

Tatonisha Mika Marzette runs this business out of an apartment in San Diego. Got an SBA paycheck protection plan (Covid grift) loan in 2021. $17K.

From the Ascendtials company web site:

KOS is (Knowledge Of Self) and Melanin is a black biochemical substance that everyone has that drives emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual life. Melanin is found in the environment, springs, lakes, soil, plants, animals, and the atmosphere. The Pineal Gland secretes melanin, which regulates all functions and glands in the body. Black Bodies have the highest concentration of this biochemical but aren’t aware of how to nourish it or gain positive usage from it. It is necessary to know thyself in order to solve what plagues us most, and that is racial problems. But it is also necessary, should we want to transform our lives and all those with lesser quantities of it.

and blah blah blah, it goes on like that for quite a while. Racist turboquackery. They apparently get paid to hold consciousness raising sessions about melanin and the evil white man, who has little melanin.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 27, 2025 11:56 PM (qsezt)

265 I can't think of a more effective way of ruining a sport than allowing legal gambling on it.

Illegal gambling is bad enough.

Posted by: pawn at October 27, 2025 11:56 PM (sPsWv)

266 after all, everyone in that culture calls older relatives "auntie and uncle" because some of probably are.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2025 11:57 PM (rbvCR)

267 ---------

"Thank God for ketchup!"
Posted by: JQ
-------------

and vodka
or
lime &
Tanqueray

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 27, 2025 11:58 PM (+JNKR)

268 Midnight.

https://youtu.be/lE3XGcb3VdM

Posted by: JQ at October 27, 2025 11:58 PM (rdVOm)

269 Eric Clapton sings "Alberta"

https://youtu.be/0X67kd7MHS4

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 28, 2025 12:00 AM (npFr7)

270
and blah blah blah, it goes on like that for quite a while. Racist turboquackery. They apparently get paid to hold consciousness raising sessions about melanin and the evil white man, who has little melanin.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

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

Good LORD, bipocs are taking these sessions instead of job-hunting?!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 28, 2025 12:02 AM (5e+/e)

271 People, it's not even mid-night.
Posted by: Braenyard

And you don't see me
'Cause I don't have much to say

https://youtu.be/JcqcsNX_urM

Posted by: mikeski at October 28, 2025 12:03 AM (nhCoE)

272 Mamdani concludes that "for THAT to be the takeaway for Cuomo from my more than 6-minute speech on Islamophobia in New York..."

The taqqiya made me throw up at that moment.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 27, 2025 11:54 PM (5e+/e)

What I find interesting about the Mandamit thing... he is promising to do stuff that the Mayor has no power to do.

NYC Mayor proposes a budget, but then has to get approval from the City Council... if'n I'm readin things right. They negotiate... but I don't see what happens if they gridlock on a disagreement.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 28, 2025 12:06 AM (mP0Kj)

273 ===============

Good LORD, bipocs are taking these sessions instead of job-hunting?!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
--------------

Because they are on the dole, they don't have to work, Peasant.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 28, 2025 12:07 AM (+JNKR)

274 NYC Mayor proposes a budget, but then has to get approval from the City Council... if'n I'm readin things right. They negotiate... but I don't see what happens if they gridlock on a disagreement.
Posted by: Romeo13

With any luck, Tommy guns at 10 paces.

Posted by: mikeski at October 28, 2025 12:08 AM (nhCoE)

275
What I find interesting about the Mandamit thing... he is promising to do stuff that the Mayor has no power to do.
...
Posted by: Romeo13
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When you are talking to the ignorant or illiterate you can say anything.
_Barry O'

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 28, 2025 12:10 AM (+JNKR)

276 Thug,

"turboquackery" is going in my lexicon.

Thanks.

Posted by: pawn at October 28, 2025 12:10 AM (sPsWv)

277 and blah blah blah, it goes on like that for quite a while. Racist turboquackery. They apparently get paid to hold consciousness raising sessions about melanin and the evil white man, who has little melanin.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

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Good LORD, bipocs are taking these sessions instead of job-hunting?!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 28, 2025 12:02 AM (5e+/e)

Sounds like Scientology repackaged for hood rats.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 28, 2025 12:20 AM (npFr7)

278 Sounds like Scientology repackaged for hood rats.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Not sure who should feel insulted: the scientologists or the hood rats.

Posted by: mikeski at October 28, 2025 12:26 AM (nhCoE)

279 ‘Don’t have them in your home. Take every precaution you can. Listen to your gut. I never thought it would happen to my child.’ Clare Gillespie

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If he wasn't 12 years old, I'd say candidate for The Darwin Award and the Democrat Presidential Nomination in 2052 ... but I'm better than that.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 28, 2025 12:27 AM (/hdlF)

280 NYC Mayor proposes a budget, but then has to get approval from the City Council... if'n I'm readin things right. They negotiate... but I don't see what happens if they gridlock on a disagreement.
Posted by: Romeo13

With any luck, Tommy guns at 10 paces.

Posted by: mikeski at October 28, 2025 12:08 AM (nhCoE)

grenade launchers at 5

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

281 If he wasn't 12 years old, I'd say candidate for The Darwin Award and the Democrat Presidential Nomination in 2052 ... but I'm better than that.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 28, 2025 12:27 AM (/hdlF)

I already took that fall, LOL. Mama is a prize, too. "Don't keep aerosol cans in the house, so the kids can't huff them." Same mentality that wants to ban guns when some deranged tranny uses one to shoot up a school. How about you teach your kids not to try every dumb stunt they see on TikTok? Or how about you don't let your kids have smart phones?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 28, 2025 12:31 AM (npFr7)

282
What I find interesting about the Mandamit thing... he is promising to do stuff that the Mayor has no power to do.

NYC Mayor proposes a budget, but then has to get approval from the City Council... if'n I'm readin things right. They negotiate... but I don't see what happens if they gridlock on a disagreement.
Posted by: Romeo13

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Not only that, but he states that he's depending on Albany for something like $10bil of the money he'll need to keep his promises.

That's why I say, New York is in for some sport. You watched that rally last night with AOC and Bernie? FRENZY. ORGIASTIC. Take that energy, and apply it to the feeling that entitled idiots get when their hopes are dashed because their lord and savior fails to come through.

Of course those idiots will expect the buses to be free, clean, and friendly on Day One of his mayoralty. And where's my $30/hr minimum wage? Where's my local free childcare center? Thank God my rent won't go up for the next four years!

That unchanneled energy doesn't just dissipate when it collides with disappointment.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 28, 2025 12:31 AM (5e+/e)

283 Of course those idiots will expect the buses to be free, clean, and friendly on Day One of his mayoralty. And where's my $30/hr minimum wage? Where's my local free childcare center? Thank God my rent won't go up for the next four years!

That unchanneled energy doesn't just dissipate when it collides with disappointment.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 28, 2025 12:31 AM (5e+/e)

They'll burn the city down to the water line.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 28, 2025 12:34 AM (snZF9)

284 ***A post-mortem found he died as a result of the inhalation of butane, a propellant found in many aerosol deodorants.
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Oh, crap, here come's Congress with another horror story to save us from butane propellants.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 28, 2025 12:36 AM (+JNKR)

285 >>>How about you teach your kids not to try every dumb stunt they see on TikTok? Or how about you don't let your kids have smart phones?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Paring it down to the essence, teach them the word - No.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 28, 2025 12:40 AM (+JNKR)

286 Isn't butane used as an anaesthetic? I don't think it's super-toxic in its own right, but huff enough of it, and you will die of oxygen deprivation, and feel good doing it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 28, 2025 12:42 AM (npFr7)

287 Crack heads don't seem to die from inhaling butane.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 28, 2025 12:44 AM (BBIP1)

288 >>>How about you teach your kids not to try every dumb stunt they see on TikTok? Or how about you don't let your kids have smart phones?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Paring it down to the essence, teach them the word - No.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 28, 2025 12:40 AM (+JNKR)

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The Great Dennis Prager used to refer to this as parents needing to teach & feed their kids "Vitamin N" by frequently saying "NO" ... if not "HELL NO!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 28, 2025 12:48 AM (/hdlF)

289 A post-mortem found he died as a result of the inhalation of butane, a propellant found in many aerosol deodorants.
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Oh, crap, here come's Congress with another horror story to save us from butane propellants.

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

++++

There goes our butane lighters.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 28, 2025 12:50 AM (/lPRQ)

290 I saw the Butane Propellants open for Classical Gas at Mac's BBQ in '89.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 28, 2025 12:52 AM (/hdlF)

291 Midnight in mid-America. 🕛 Time to see if I can get to sleep tonight. Sometimes it works.

https://youtu.be/NZoN0-OyqQQ

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - traintime is the main time at October 28, 2025 12:53 AM (K0Os3)

292 Not only that, but he states that he's depending on Albany for something like $10bil of the money he'll need to keep his promises.

That's why I say, New York is in for some sport. You watched that rally last night with AOC and Bernie? FRENZY. ORGIASTIC. Take that energy, and apply it to the feeling that entitled idiots get when their hopes are dashed because their lord and savior fails to come through.

Of course those idiots will expect the buses to be free, clean, and friendly on Day One of his mayoralty. And where's my $30/hr minimum wage? Where's my local free childcare center? Thank God my rent won't go up for the next four years!

That unchanneled energy doesn't just dissipate when it collides with disappointment.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 28, 2025 12:31 AM (5e+/e)

Hubris versus Nemesis. Let's place our bets as two whom the victor's going to be, shall we?

Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at October 28, 2025 12:56 AM (0CU3H)

293 There goes our butane lighters.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 28, 2025 12:50 AM (/lPRQ)

This happened in England, so maybe no effect here?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 28, 2025 12:56 AM (npFr7)

294 290 I saw the Butane Propellants open for Classical Gas at Mac's BBQ in '89.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 28, 2025 12:52 AM (/hdlF)

The pyrotechnics at that concert were amazing.

Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at October 28, 2025 12:57 AM (0CU3H)

295 7 Hey, where all da white wimmen at?
Posted by: Sheriff Bart at October 27, 2025 10:04 PM (0RiMX)

Fucking Paolo and spending the child support money on lorazepam and box wine.

Posted by: The same place they are every night, Pinky at October 28, 2025 12:58 AM (TbWk/)

296 Most Zippos aren't butane anymore.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 28, 2025 12:59 AM (BBIP1)

297 291 Midnight in mid-America. 🕛 Time to see if I can get to sleep tonight. Sometimes it works.

https://youtu.be/NZoN0-OyqQQ

G'nite, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker
...........................................

'Night

youtu.be/yOznWDy42Wg

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 28, 2025 01:01 AM (sAmhv)

298 The pyrotechnics at that concert were amazing.

Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at October 28, 2025 12:57 AM (0CU3H)

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* snort *

OUT: Laughing My Ass Off.
IN: Shooting My Ass Off.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 28, 2025 01:04 AM (/hdlF)

299 Most Zippos aren't butane anymore.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 28, 2025 12:59 AM (BBIP1)

Most disposable lighters are, as are the long stemmed barbecue lighters.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 28, 2025 01:04 AM (npFr7)

300 Most Zippos aren't butane anymore.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 28, 2025 12:59 AM (BBIP1)

Diesel lighters. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 28, 2025 01:04 AM (snZF9)

301 Butane is anesthetic and a disinfectant.

My personal carry all working in the yard or general purpose is Dermoplast First Aid, it's the last of its kind and I don't know why.
It uses butane as a propellant and Benzethonium Chloride as the disinfectant along with some benzocaine.
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Used the style for years, put it in first aid kits in all my trucks.
Concept is to put the nozzle right up to the wound. It blows out debris with disinfectant. I've talked to Dr.s about it and they turn up there noses. Out of all my people and personal use it is the best thing for small wounds (step on a nail? cut yourself on a piece of raw metal) ever.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 28, 2025 01:05 AM (+JNKR)

302 Got 1/2 can of Ronson lighter fluid in the garage.
Quit smoking 20 years ago.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 28, 2025 01:07 AM (+JNKR)

303 Democrats running in 2028 for president will you demolish the ball room? Dump says epstein files on melania controversy is over as they were all stored in the east wing.

Posted by: raimondo at October 28, 2025 01:07 AM (eDXAu)

304 Good luck with the sleep mindfull.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 28, 2025 01:08 AM (+JNKR)

305 Back to work on the Avanti this afternoon. Got the alternator mount sorted out. Found a slightly longer belt that permits me to lay the alternator down to the right a little, so the adjusting ear is not so close to the underside of the hood. This required a longer belt tension adjusting brace, so I cut the original and welded an extension into it. Looks like factory, now.

Move on to alternator wiring, now. Shift harnesses around, lengthen some wires, trim others. Alternator and regulator migrated from left side of engine to right side. Un-clutters the left fender apron a bunch, and transfers some of it to the right fender apron. Overall, more balanced, hopefully.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 28, 2025 01:10 AM (npFr7)

306 The pyrotechnics at that concert were amazing.

Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at October 28, 2025 12:57 AM (0CU3H)

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* snort *

OUT: Laughing My Ass Off.
IN: Shooting My Ass Off.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 28, 2025 01:04 AM (/hdlF)

You haven't lived until your pyro guy supercharges the cans and blows a bunch of ceiling tile off the ceiling over the stage, and the GM of the venue loses his shit. Now thats something you didn't see in spinal tap. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 28, 2025 01:10 AM (snZF9)

307 Got 1/2 can of Ronson lighter fluid in the garage.
Quit smoking 20 years ago.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others

Got a can and a half for recharging cigar torch lighters.
Should be enough for a year or two.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 28, 2025 01:11 AM (/lPRQ)

308 Democrats running in 2028 for president will you demolish the ball room? Dump says epstein files on melania controversy is over as they were all stored in the east wing.
Posted by: raimondo at October 28, 2025 01:07 AM (eDXAu)

Democrats have no balls, so need no ball room. It is known.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 28, 2025 01:11 AM (npFr7)

309 Wow. A Mis. Hum. ONT!

I can't wait to check it out tomorrow.

Right now, the Dodgers and Toronto are in the middle of playing 2.

Go LA.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 28, 2025 01:12 AM (Sco7b)

310
You haven't lived until your pyro guy supercharges the cans and blows a bunch of ceiling tile off the ceiling over the stage, and the GM of the venue loses his shit. Now thats something you didn't see in spinal tap. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Just talking at work about... Great White (?) fire.
That and the shirt-waist fire...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 28, 2025 01:16 AM (/lPRQ)

311 Got 1/2 can of Ronson lighter fluid in the garage.
Quit smoking 20 years ago.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others

Got a can and a half for recharging cigar torch lighters.
Should be enough for a year or two.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 28, 2025 01:11 AM (/lPRQ)

I have a few cans of that. I have a bunch of zippos but haven't used them in years. They were always annoying after you fill them and the fluid leaks it into your pocket. I should activate a few and just keep them on the bench in the garage.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 28, 2025 01:18 AM (snZF9)

312 Geez Louise NASA, this is what happens when all the operation paperclip guys go to the big Lilli Marleen in the sky.

Posted by: Archer at October 28, 2025 01:19 AM (YGRGv)

313 Just talking at work about... Great White (?) fire.
That and the shirt-waist fire...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 28, 2025 01:16 AM (/lPRQ)

That was a bitch. Ceiling was way too low for what they did, and frankly, too small of a venue.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 28, 2025 01:21 AM (snZF9)

314 I have a few cans of that. I have a bunch of zippos but haven't used them in years. They were always annoying after you fill them and the fluid leaks it into your pocket. I should activate a few and just keep them on the bench in the garage.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

You are thinking the naptha liquid.
And the zippos do leak bigly.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 28, 2025 01:21 AM (/lPRQ)

315 Diesel lighters. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 28, 2025 01:04 AM (snZF9)

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* Channeling Sponge *

"That's HOT!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 28, 2025 01:23 AM (/hdlF)

316 Hubby collected Zippos and pocket knives. We have shadow boxes full of both, to display them. (dusting is a b1tch!)

Posted by: JQ at October 28, 2025 01:24 AM (rdVOm)

317 That and the shirt-waist fire...
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 28, 2025 01:16 AM (/lPRQ)

Shirts can be deadly:

https://youtu.be/FnlmIscLXtA

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 28, 2025 01:24 AM (npFr7)

318 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GsbCeyDx8Q

Posted by: my parents are in Alberta at October 28, 2025 01:25 AM (FSP3j)

319 Right now, the Dodgers and Toronto are in the middle of playing 2.

Go LA.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 28, 2025 01:12 AM (Sco7b)

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Whom do you root for when you hate both L.A. (where I was born) and Canada (from whence my Scottish grandfather hailed)?

Well, I always root for the underdog -- so go Blue Jays!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 28, 2025 01:25 AM (/hdlF)

320 I once dumped what I thought was charcoal fluid, it was Coleman white gas, on a campfire, I was young and stoopid, that was an explosive experience.

Posted by: Archer at October 28, 2025 01:25 AM (YGRGv)

321 Hubby collected Zippos and pocket knives. We have shadow boxes full of both, to display them. (dusting is a b1tch!)

Posted by: JQ at October 28, 2025 01:24 AM (rdVOm)

Zippos and swiss army knives here. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 28, 2025 01:26 AM (snZF9)

322 I once dumped what I thought was charcoal fluid, it was Coleman white gas, on a campfire, I was young and stoopid, that was an explosive experience.

Posted by: Archer at October 28, 2025 01:25 AM (YGRGv)

I bet they saw that from space. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 28, 2025 01:30 AM (snZF9)

323 I had a collection of zippo lighters - the one I got from Camel bucks like 35 years ago.... I wonder what happened to it...

Still have the dart board!

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 28, 2025 01:32 AM (/lPRQ)

324 Singed off a lot of hair.

Posted by: Archer at October 28, 2025 01:32 AM (YGRGv)

325 Damn, found some weird channel up in the 4000s that plays weird obscure sci-fi movies.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 28, 2025 01:32 AM (snZF9)

326 I had some zippo lighters from the ships I served on. I wish I knew what happened to them.

Posted by: Archer at October 28, 2025 01:34 AM (YGRGv)

327 Damn, found some weird channel up in the 4000s that plays weird obscure sci-fi movies.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 28, 2025 01:32 AM (snZF9)

There is one old sci-fi movie in which the alien drives a '53 Studebaker Starlite coupe.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 28, 2025 01:35 AM (npFr7)

328 I had a collection of zippo lighters - the one I got from Camel bucks like 35 years ago.... I wonder what happened to it...

Still have the dart board!
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That's awesome! I didn't get the dart board.. although I thought about it.

Saved up, with help from customers at my waitressing job, and got the first edition neon sign. (And other things like ashtrays and t-shirts and mirrors)

Posted by: JQ at October 28, 2025 01:36 AM (rdVOm)

329 I had a collection of zippo lighters - the one I got from Camel bucks like 35 years ago.... I wonder what happened to it...
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I have a small 'collection'. I am especially proud of the Thorens double claw model.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 28, 2025 01:43 AM (XeU6L)

330 They were always annoying after you fill them and the fluid leaks it into your pocket....
Posted by: Berserker
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The clue is when you begin to feel a burning sensation on your thigh.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 28, 2025 01:46 AM (XeU6L)

331 Considering all the stuff hubby & I have collected, and the vehicles, tools, antiques and miscellaneous junk...

I feel sorry for stepson and whoever helps him sort through it all after we're gone!

Posted by: JQ at October 28, 2025 01:46 AM (rdVOm)

332 WS game is in the 15th inning. Wtf?

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 28, 2025 01:47 AM (WF/xn)

333 Bottom of the 15th!
Wow....

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 28, 2025 01:48 AM (Sco7b)

334 I recall my father complaining about the absence of lighter fluid (naptha) during the war, and having to use alcohol. One of the problems was that the flame was almost transparent, and hard to see.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 28, 2025 01:49 AM (XeU6L)

335 WS game is in the 15th inning. Wtf?
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 28, 2025 01:47 AM (WF/xn)

Did they have a 14th inning stretch?

Pee troughs must be overflowing at Dodger Stadium.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 28, 2025 01:49 AM (npFr7)

336 16th

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 28, 2025 01:55 AM (WF/xn)

337 G'night, horde.

Been tired all day, need to answer the call of sleep.

Posted by: JQ at October 28, 2025 01:56 AM (rdVOm)

338 Poor Admiral Morrison -- what a disappointment for a son.

Posted by: Pooklord at October 28, 2025 02:00 AM (asU3w)

339 Ride the snake.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 28, 2025 02:03 AM (BBIP1)

340 I had lunch in Tupelo once. That's it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 28, 2025 02:07 AM (XeU6L)

341 I had lunch in Tupelo once. That's it.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
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Thinking about it, I have no idea why I was there. Traveling from somewhere to somewhere.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 28, 2025 02:09 AM (XeU6L)

342 Now 17th

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 28, 2025 02:10 AM (WF/xn)

343 The ebts can eat their Halloween candy next month.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 28, 2025 02:11 AM (BBIP1)

344 Ohtani may get his 5th intentional walk.
On base 8 times.
Lol

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 28, 2025 02:11 AM (Sco7b)

345 How does your pitching staff endure this?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 28, 2025 02:12 AM (BBIP1)

346 Crikey! Past midnight here, too. Nice to be getting tired at a "civilized" hour, after two uber-late nights on the road. I think I was 17 hours on the road between Apache Junction and Pocatello, ID. Then about 12 from Pocatello to home. Fortunately, at the late hours, highway traffic was very slight, and road/weather conditions were ideal.

Off to the rack. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 28, 2025 02:13 AM (npFr7)

347 You gotta flick the extra fluid off a zippo. Only soak the cotton to where it just barley makes it to the top, wait 3 minutes and flick the remaining fluid off.
I discovered Jone handwarmers in Germany. They are like a zippo that smolders and keeps you warm. Kept 4 going every Graf field problem and not following the flick off rule can cause great pain with those.

Posted by: Reforger at October 28, 2025 02:14 AM (9dRxv)

348 They have to play tomorrow. Are tomorrows starters playing tonight?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 28, 2025 02:15 AM (BBIP1)

349 345 How does your pitching staff endure this?
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 28, 2025

Kershaw came in with bases loaded and got the out.

Dodgers are looking for pitchers in the stands

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 28, 2025 02:19 AM (WF/xn)

350 test

Posted by: clarence at October 28, 2025 02:22 AM (3zRwU)

351 test
Posted by: clarence at October 28, 2025 02:22 AM (3zRwU)

Testicles

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 28, 2025 02:23 AM (WF/xn)

352 They should walk this guy.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 28, 2025 02:25 AM (BBIP1)

353 Let's go Mookie

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 28, 2025 02:26 AM (WF/xn)

354 18th

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 28, 2025 02:29 AM (WF/xn)

355 Holy shit.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 28, 2025 02:30 AM (mT+6a)

356 What’s the longest game
Ever recorded?

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 28, 2025 02:30 AM (mT+6a)

357 In 2018 they went 18 innings in the series.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 28, 2025 02:33 AM (BBIP1)

358 What’s the longest game
Ever recorded?
Posted by: nurse ratched

Tied for the longest world series game now

26 innings for a regular season game in 1920

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 28, 2025 02:33 AM (WF/xn)

359 They called the 26 innings game because of darkness

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 28, 2025 02:34 AM (WF/xn)

360 26 innings for a regular season game in 1920
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 28, 2025 02:33 AM (WF/xn)

that ended in a tie

25 innings is longest with a result
in 84' W Sox - Brewers
8 hours 6 minutes...that would suuuuck sitting there that long

Posted by: a dude in MI at October 28, 2025 02:36 AM (+I6Y/)

361 What’s the longest game
Ever recorded?
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 28, 2025 02:30 AM (mT+6a)

World Series - 18 Innings
Overall - 26 Innings

Posted by: RickZ at October 28, 2025 02:37 AM (gKDq2)

362 I thought we were ditching the time change? WTH?! DO IT!

Posted by: a dude in MI at October 28, 2025 02:44 AM (+I6Y/)

363 Klein !

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 28, 2025 02:46 AM (WF/xn)

364 Freddy Fucking Freeman, home run. It's over for game 3

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 28, 2025 02:51 AM (WF/xn)

365 If this was the last time change it would be better getting back to standard time

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2025 02:56 AM (+qU29)

366 I'm not a prisoner, I'm a Freeman !

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 28, 2025 02:56 AM (WF/xn)

367 Woof.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 28, 2025 03:03 AM (nNBMt)

368 I discovered Jone handwarmers in Germany. They are like a zippo that smolders and keeps you warm. Kept 4 going every Graf field problem and not following the flick off rule can cause great pain with those.
Posted by: Reforger
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I have twoof those. Mostly used while hunting during winter. They are remarkable little things. They don't smolder in theconventional sense, they are catalytic converters, no flame.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 28, 2025 03:09 AM (XeU6L)

369 Myspacebarisgetting flaky.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 28, 2025 03:10 AM (XeU6L)

370 So if LA doesn't win, what was the point of every announcer fellating Ohtani? I'm not wasting my time watching. The fix was in from the beginning.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 28, 2025 03:11 AM (urtE/)

371
Our Commander-in-Chief is giving a speech aboard the USS George Washington in Japan, and having a grand ol' time. He had the new Japanese Prime Minister aboard with him to say a few words.

Looks like he's charmed her pants off.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 28, 2025 03:36 AM (w6EFb)

372 Speaking as a black LGBT woman, I'd like to thank the Horde for last week's advice on my potentially switching to another bank due to my branch being located in the middle of what might as well be Leningrad in the Soviet State.

It turns out that my national bank doesn't really associate my account with its original physical branch. Instead it assigns a branch and representative based on the account's mailing address.

My mailing address are in a relatively sane distant city and state. So there is no need to switch banks or branch.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 28, 2025 03:36 AM (wUig4)

373 Looks like he's charmed her pants off.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 28, 2025 03:36 AM (w6EFb)
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Speaking as a black LGBT woman, you know who else's pants were charmed off?

Discuss.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 28, 2025 03:39 AM (wUig4)

374 Sonobi loves you so much that it scares Sonobi.

Posted by: Sonobi at October 28, 2025 03:39 AM (WL8wD)

375 That was epic, Dodgers! I really haven't given them much of a chance this Series. Bullpen issues, lack of offense. But the pitchers have given their all. Klein was a Beast.

Posted by: La2la at October 28, 2025 03:40 AM (NGv4m)

376 Honey badger versus elephant. Little guy is incredibly tough

https://tinyurl.com/ycxnzhs6

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 28, 2025 03:42 AM (UJV30)

377 Every now and again, you have to put the Japanese on one of our aircraft carriers to remind them what happens if they are naughty.

Posted by: Naga Sock It To Me at October 28, 2025 03:42 AM (1nOPU)

378 375 That was epic, Dodgers! I really haven't given them much of a chance this Series. Bullpen issues, lack of offense. But the pitchers have given their all. Klein was a Beast.
Posted by: La2la at October 28, 2025 03:40 AM (NGv4m)

Sure, when you break all the rules and buy up all the pitchers.

Exhausting, but not baseball.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 28, 2025 03:47 AM (urtE/)

379
Heh. He asked the assembled sailors, and put the brass on the spot, which is better steam or electric catapults and then hydraulic or magnets for the elevators.

Steam and hydraulic were the clear preferences. Says he's signing an EO to go back to steam and hydraulic.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 28, 2025 03:49 AM (w6EFb)

380 Been up a hour but finally supposed to get up now

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2025 03:50 AM (+qU29)

381 Schumer is pissed that Trump is not all worried about the shut down, just goes on about his usual presidential duties ... in Japan! Love the guy!

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 28, 2025 03:57 AM (BAAxB)

382 Schumer is pissed that Trump is not all worried about the shut down, just goes on about his usual presidential duties ... in Japan! Love the guy!

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 28, 2025 03:57 AM (BAAxB)
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Speaking as a black LGBT woman, like a boss:

https://tinyurl.com/mry6awz8

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 28, 2025 04:02 AM (wUig4)

383 pixy has arrived

Posted by: clarence at October 28, 2025 04:04 AM (3zRwU)

384 "We've had a tremendous amount of interest since we announced that we were exploring the pro league earlier this year. I think that really just shows the strong belief in, and the demand for, a professional flag league for both women and men."
Stephanie Kwok, the NFL's vice president and head of NFL Flag

It's just the team version of "World Chase Tag," which is already an ESPN sport.

Yeah, professional tag. That's what's on the TVs at the sports bar between seasons of actual sports.
Posted by: mikeski at October 27, 2025 10:12 PM (nhCoE)

If they mean flag football with coed teams, the women will get injured just by incidental contact pretty often.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 28, 2025 01:52 PM (8avO+)

385 Heh. He asked the assembled sailors, and put the brass on the spot, which is better steam or electric catapults and then hydraulic or magnets for the elevators.

Steam and hydraulic were the clear preferences. Says he's signing an EO to go back to steam and hydraulic.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 28, 2025 03:49 AM (w6EFb)

well there is all that water around you in a pinch with steam

Posted by: Oldcat at October 28, 2025 01:53 PM (8avO+)

386 What’s the longest game
Ever recorded?
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 28, 2025 02:30 AM (mT+6a)

World Series - 18 Innings
Overall - 26 Innings
Posted by: RickZ at October 28, 2025 02:37 AM (gKDq2)

Babe Ruth in 1916 won a 14 inning WS game - a complete game. That mark stood up for a long time till the 2010s

Posted by: Oldcat at October 28, 2025 02:03 PM (8avO+)

387 I thought it was a good thing when he acquired a cat. Looked forward to him being more upbeat and positive. Instead, he just projected all his grumpy off on the cat. I can't judge - that may be improvement - but it still makes me feel a little sad… for the cat.
🤔😶😴
Posted by: mindful webworker - it's National Black Cat Day at October 27,

He is such a liar. He loves that darn cat. 😂
Posted by: Piper at October 27, 2025 10:28 PM (p4NUW)

Cats don't care if you call them names. If they like you and you don't harm them they will be all over you.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 28, 2025 02:13 PM (8avO+)

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