Saturday Night "Club ONT" November 8, 2025 [The 3 Ds]

Welcome to Club ONT! A collaboration the 3D's - The Disco, The Dino, and The Doggo. The almighty sammich is on the menu this evening. A great human achievement - and accessible across all tax brackets.

***Photo above courtesy of Club patron "mindful webworker". No, those aren't incarcerated Hordelings in those barrels - those are barrels that were confiscated during the Prohibition era.

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Saturday Night Jokes and Other Funnies

A priest and a rabbi were sitting next to each other on an airplane. After a while, the priest turned to the rabbi and asked, "Is it still a requirement of your faith that you not eat pork?"
The rabbi responded, "Yes, that is still one of our beliefs."

The priest then asked, "Have you ever eaten pork?"

To which the rabbi replied, "Yes, on one occasion I did succumb to temptation and tasted a ham sandwich."

The priest nodded in understanding and went on with his reading.

A while later, the rabbi spoke up and asked the priest, "Is it still a requirement of your church that you remain celibate?

The priest replied, "Yes, that is still very much a part of our faith."

The rabbi then asked him, "Have you ever fallen to the temptations of the flesh?"

The priest replied, "Yes, rabbi, on one occasion I was weak and broke my faith and made love to a woman."

The rabbi nodded understandingly and remained silent, thinking about five minutes.

Finally, the rabbi said, "Beats a fucking ham sandwich, doesn't it?"

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Did you hear about that new heavy metal themed sandwich shop?
It's called Pantera Bread

I don't eat club sandwiches.
I quit cold Turkey

What's the gayest sandwich?
An LGBLT.

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Drink of the Night

The peanut butter and jelly sour - turning a classic sandwich into a cocktail

For the Peanut Butter Whisky
500 ml Bourbon Whisky
100 g Peanut butter
For the Drink
60 ml Peanut Butter Whisky
40 ml Lemon juice
30 ml Strawberry jam
1 dash Angostura bitters
1 dash Saline solution (10 grams of salt, 40 grams of water)
1 eggwhite
Miniature PB&J sandwich for garnish
First, prepare the peanut butter whisky. Melt the peanut butter over the stovetop or in a microwave and combine it with the whisky in a jar. Mix it up and let it infuse for a few hours or over night.
Put the peanut butter and whisky mix in the freezer for an hour for the fat to solidify, then remove the solids and strain the remaining liquid through a tea strainer and a coffee filter. This process is a lot more messy than fat washing with "pure" fat (e. g. with lard or coconut oil) and hence requires the somewhat annoying step of filtering through a coffee filter.
Combine all ingredients in a shaker, shake with ice for 20 - 30 seconds and pour into a tumbler filled with ice. Garnish with a miniature PB&J sandwich.

Be honest - would you try this??

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Club ONT Sammich Links

Who invented the sandwich? Not sure he invented it, but he gets some credit.

The sandwich, as we know it, is often credited to John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich. Legend has it that during a prolonged gambling session, the Earl requested meat tucked between two pieces of bread to eat without interrupting his game. The convenience of this meal led to its eponymous name. However, the concept of placing meat or other fillings between bread-like layers has ancient precedents.

Give me a Diablo Sandwich, a Dr. Pepper, and make it quick.

It's very possible to eat a sandwich for each meal of the day. You could start with a kaiser roll filled with fluffy eggs and cheese for breakfast, house a po'boy with fried shrimp and hot sauce for lunch, and end with a cheesesteak for dinner. Our point: There's a sandwich for every mood, and we have a lot of them on this guide. Below, you'll find 18 of our favorite sandwiches in cities across the country.

Former DOJ employee, Sean Dunn, the pink shirt DC sandwich thrower that stopped at Subway after his power cleanse had his day in court. He couldn't win a fight against a screen door, but did win in court. Was hoping for minimally some community service - wearing a sandwich board. Words are violence but apparently a thrown sandwich is not. Modern jurisprudence: Mean words = felony. Throwing a ham sandwich at an ICE agent = expressive gesture. Got it.

Amusing. Someone took the time to do a bit of legal research on sandwich as a weapon.

Standing Black (1891) on its head, the Supreme Court in Heller expanded the definition of 'arms' as used in the Second Amendment to include any and all instruments not yet known in the Founding Era, to wit adding the Glock and the AR-15 to the billy club, the Bowie knife, the Arkansas toothpick, the slung shot, and the sword cane (District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570, 200.
It goes without saying, though clearly we are saying it anyway, that the Court's now-expanded definition of what constitutes a weapon not subject to restriction encompasses the sandwich per se, which was known in England in the 1760s and is cited by Jane Austen in 1800, years which span the Founding Era.

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Club ONT Meme Wisdom

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Club ONT Proofreading and Editing

Tonight's lesson in humility and embarrassment: What have been some of your most spectacular typos or editing errors - in email, text, or the comment section?

This "D" sent a text to the wife of a friend: I will leave the key in the lick box. Was supposed to be lock box. Not yet lived that one down.

Even the Bible has one of the more spectacular errors. Referred to as the "Wicked Bible."

This legendary edition became known as the "Wicked Bible." King Charles was not amused by the infamous printing blunder. He ordered the Bibles recalled and destroyed, took away Barker's license to print Bibles, and fined him 300 pounds (that was a lifetime of wages in those days). It is believed that only 11 of the original 1,000 Bibles exist today.

Image courtesy of: Wikipedia.

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Did someone say sammiches?

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Club ONT Music

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Club ONT was brought to you by the Grilled Triple-Decker Hot Dog Sandwich

Exit question: is a "hot dog" also a "sandwich"?

The National Hot Dog and Sausage Council acknowledges that hot dogs were considered sandwiches in the past, but now deserve a category separate from sandwiches. "Limiting the hot dog's significance by saying it's 'just a sandwich' is like calling the Dalai Lama 'just a guy.'"

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NOTICE: If a six foot four, muscular man from Brussels offers you a sandwich, beware. Even though he may appear to speak your language, there is a chance that said sandwich might be infected with vegemite.

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Comments

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1 Three threads I always look forward to and usually read almost all comments are the Coffee & Prayer and Pet threads on Saturday and the Book Thread on Sunday. Alas, I usually sleep through them or get in late late or otherwise miss them. Thank goodness for ONTs.

Posted by: mindful webworker - appreciatively at November 08, 2025 10:00 PM (3ynhY)

2 Yo

Posted by: Muchas buchas at November 08, 2025 10:00 PM (n1e6D)

3 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 08, 2025 10:01 PM (cYBz/)

4 ninguno

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 08, 2025 10:01 PM (qKI0i)

5 Sorry I'm late, I had to pick up Pollyanna's Prozac prescription.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 08, 2025 10:01 PM (1dKwP)

6 Greetings Everyone!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 08, 2025 10:01 PM (QGaXH)

7 Great mystery click this evening. You get a tip of my Paddyhat for that one.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 08, 2025 10:04 PM (1dKwP)

8 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 08, 2025 10:04 PM (lUFok)

9 5 Sorry I'm late, I had to pick up Pollyanna's Prozac prescription.
Posted by: tankdemon
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Give her two and watch her dance.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 08, 2025 10:04 PM (qKI0i)

10 Scooby-Doo!

Posted by: Case at November 08, 2025 10:04 PM (9HFDU)

11 Thar LGBT looks like it could be a decent sammich. It's no grilled cheese, and could probably use double the bacon, but probably not too shabby.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 08, 2025 10:06 PM (1dKwP)

12 Pooh had honey mustard on that pulled pork sandwich.

Posted by: huerfano at November 08, 2025 10:06 PM (98kQX)

13 Hey, where all da white wimmen at?

Posted by: Sheriff Bart at November 08, 2025 10:07 PM (JkO4W)

14 When the moon
hits your eye
like it's 445
that's November

Posted by: clarence at November 08, 2025 10:07 PM (0zmNP)

15 Drink of the Night

The peanut butter and jelly sour

I have never heard of 'Peanut Butter Whisky' before, {SHUDDER}, with or without the 'e'.

The things you learn on the ONT.

Posted by: RickZ at November 08, 2025 10:08 PM (gKDq2)

16 Good evening good people.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 08, 2025 10:01 PM (cYBz/)

This constant being left out is soul sapping.

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

17 Evenin'

I missed the Music Thread! Nuts! I'm at work and have had to actually work gasp on a Saturday night. My work solved nothing and I'm tired now. Lots of walking back and forth. Still have 8 hours of night shift to go. Ack!

Glad to see that Dire Straits best song was posted on the Music Thread. Telegraph Road is perfection.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 08, 2025 10:09 PM (6bHrD)

18 they ruined the word "gay" and now they want to ruin a bacon and guacamole-salad sandwich?

Posted by: gKWVE at November 08, 2025 10:10 PM (gKWVE)

19 Vegemite?

Imagine a gallon of soy sauce left out to evaporate. Take the salty sludge that's left and spread it on some bread.

At least it isn't Marmite.

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at November 08, 2025 10:10 PM (iDFVA)

20
Best of Breed and a Hound Group 3 for The Big Dummy at today's Cypress Creek KC show.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 08, 2025 10:11 PM (tgvbd)

21 Hello, Horde! 😊♥️

MY AGGIES ARE 9-0!!!!! GIG 'EM!👍👍👍

(Hope I didn't just jinx them....)

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at November 08, 2025 10:11 PM (SRRAx)

22 Good evening y'all. Welcome to Club ONT. Enjoy your visit!

Posted by: TRex - door opener dino at November 08, 2025 10:11 PM (IQ6Gq)

23 At least it isn't Marmite.
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at November 08, 2025 10:10 PM (iDFVA)

Marmite is made from fermented marmots. It's right there in the name!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 08, 2025 10:12 PM (npFr7)

24 19 Vegemite?

Imagine a gallon of soy sauce left out to evaporate. Take the salty sludge that's left and spread it on some bread.

At least it isn't Marmite.
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at November 08, 2025 10:10 PM (iDFVA
Same thing, id’nt it mate?

Posted by: Eromero at November 08, 2025 10:12 PM (LHPAg)

25 Best of Breed and a Hound Group 3 for The Big Dummy at today's Cypress Creek KC show.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Congrats

Posted by: scampydog at November 08, 2025 10:12 PM (LVaYG)

26 Thanks for the girthy and pertinent Club ONT, 3-Ds!

The priest and rabbi joke was great. There's sin and then there's SIN!

Cute little lab likes sammiches. Best to give him one!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 08, 2025 10:13 PM (kB9dk)

27 I have never heard of 'Peanut Butter Whisky' before, {SHUDDER}, with or without the 'e'.

The things you learn on the ONT.
Posted by: RickZ

You can get it pre-mixed too. Brand name is "Skrewball."

Strangely, it's not from the same company as Fireball whiskey.

Posted by: mikeski at November 08, 2025 10:13 PM (nhCoE)

28 I have never heard of 'Peanut Butter Whisky' before, {SHUDDER}, with or without the 'e'.

The things you learn on the ONT.
Posted by: RickZ
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There was a sign up at the local liquor store, notifying patrons of the one (1) bottle limit on Crown Royal Chocolate Whisky

If you mix it with "peanut butter flavored" whisky, does it taste like a Reese's?

Posted by: JQ at November 08, 2025 10:13 PM (rdVOm)

29 26 Thanks for the girthy and pertinent Club ONT, 3-Ds!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 08, 2025 10:13 PM
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Good evening LS! Glad you're here.

Posted by: TRex - pertinent dino at November 08, 2025 10:14 PM (IQ6Gq)

30 You can buy peanut butter whisky. Just so you know.

Posted by: clarence at November 08, 2025 10:15 PM (0zmNP)

31 We need a Time Machine to go get that stack of barrels before the next TxMoMe!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 08, 2025 10:15 PM (S/Y4j)

32 *waves to LS* Always great to see you at the Club.

Posted by: scampydog at November 08, 2025 10:15 PM (LVaYG)

33 So tonight's ONT was a stealth food thread.

Now I'm hungry.

Btw, my favorite sandwich: Oreos.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 08, 2025 10:16 PM (1dKwP)

34 There is a whole sub-genre of peanut butter beer, typically peanut butter porter. Really good if you're into that kind of thing but it is more like food than beer.

Posted by: TRex - purple monkey dishwasher dino at November 08, 2025 10:16 PM (IQ6Gq)

35 Congratulations to The Big Dummy! That boy is outperforming his nickname, to be sure!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 08, 2025 10:17 PM (kB9dk)

36 30 You can buy peanut butter whisky. Just so you know.
Posted by: clarence at November 08, 2025 10:15 PM (0zmNP)

I didn't know the Scots even ate peanut butter let alone made whisky with it. *shudder*

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at November 08, 2025 10:18 PM (8hxDK)

37 I would share my sammich with that sweet lil lab puppy!

Posted by: JQ at November 08, 2025 10:18 PM (rdVOm)

38 I really liked ordering the Bahn-mi sandwiches at the Vietnamese restaurant that Covid killed

Posted by: Kindltot at November 08, 2025 10:18 PM (rbvCR)

39 Tell everyone! Warn the world!

Soylent Green is made outta PEOPLE!!!!

Coincidently I'm watching 'The Day Mars Invaded Earth' from 1963.

Another cheery movie with a happy ending!* On par with 'On the Beach' from the same era.

*Yes that's sarcasm. Don't watch either movie if you've been depressed and drinking and have ready access to firearms....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 08, 2025 10:19 PM (QGaXH)

40 *waves to Dino and Doggo*

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 08, 2025 10:19 PM (kB9dk)

41 33 So tonight's ONT was a stealth food thread.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 08, 2025 10:16 PM
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Per the Natural Law of the Gray Boxes: "Every thread, regardless of its starting point or author intent, eventually turns into a food, movie, music, bewb, and/or gub thread."

Posted by: TRex - natural law dino at November 08, 2025 10:19 PM (IQ6Gq)

42 One of the local microbreweries makes a pumpkin stout occasionally. I should go and see if they did any this year.

Posted by: clarence at November 08, 2025 10:20 PM (0zmNP)

43 checking in on ben's sister
x.com/TheRoyalSerf/status/1987179771613356105

Posted by: gKWVE at November 08, 2025 10:20 PM (gKWVE)

44
"Thou fhalt commit adultery"

*heaves self out of chair*

Gotta get to work, then.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 08, 2025 10:20 PM (tgvbd)

45 Shasta used to make chocolate soda, which was unimpressive when I was 10

Posted by: Kindltot at November 08, 2025 10:20 PM (rbvCR)

46 39 Tell everyone! Warn the world!

Soylent Green is made outta PEOPLE!!!!

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Why do you think it's a cookbook, ya dumb mook?

Posted by: The Kanamits at November 08, 2025 10:20 PM (JkO4W)

47 Thanks for the ONT Doof!

Arby's in Canada has a Philly Cheesesteak. I don't know if that qualifies as a sandwich. But it's fantastic.

I was outside until 9pm in my part of Canada. I mowed the lawn and a ton of leaves. There's still a lot on the trees.

And I was putting out Christmas lights and wreaths. My friends are coming by Wednesday for Christmas in November. The kids decorate the tree, I bought gifts. There's food and we're done in 3 hours. No Mom this year though. I'm sure we've done Christmas in October before....

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 08, 2025 10:23 PM (Sco7b)

48 Tell everyone! Warn the world!
Soylent Green is made outta PEOPLE!!!!

The processing went wrong, and the dye is incorrect

Soylent Green is PURPLE!

Posted by: Kindltot at November 08, 2025 10:23 PM (rbvCR)

49 I got to smell peanut butter whiskey once.
Damn near made me puke.

No. Nope. No way.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 08, 2025 10:25 PM (mT+6a)

50 "Soylent Green" sounds like a neighborhood of council flats in London.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 08, 2025 10:25 PM (npFr7)

51
*peeks out fearfully*

Nurse shown up tonight? She's not going to be happy about Washington losing to Wisconsin.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 08, 2025 10:26 PM (tgvbd)

52 The sun will shine in my back door someday.

Posted by: The Grand Poof at November 08, 2025 10:27 PM (oftw2)

53 51
*peeks out fearfully*

Nurse shown up tonight? She's not going to be happy about Washington losing to Wisconsin.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 08, 2025 10:26 PM (tgvbd)

Maybe we should do something about the wobbly table leg before she gets here.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 08, 2025 10:27 PM (1dKwP)

54 Hiya Hadrian.

Yeah. The dogs were awful. Oh well. Hopefully the Seahawks show up tomorrow vs the Cardinals.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 08, 2025 10:28 PM (mT+6a)

55 52 The sun will shine in my back door someday.
Posted by: The Grand Poof at November 08, 2025 10:27 PM (oftw2)

We found Pete Buttigeig's sock puppet.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 08, 2025 10:28 PM (1dKwP)

56 52 The sun will shine in my back door someday.

Posted by: The Grand Poof at November 08, 2025 10:27 PM (oftw2)

Maybe I'll try sunbathing nude someday too....

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 08, 2025 10:28 PM (Sco7b)

57 Words are violence. Silence is violence. Sammich is nonviolence.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 08, 2025 10:28 PM (pkeXY)

58 Maybe we should do something about the wobbly table leg before she gets here.

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I got a matchbook but it's shimming my 8-track cartridge.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 08, 2025 10:29 PM (JkO4W)

59 Someone took the time to do a bit of legal research on sandwich as a weapon.

little-known trivia: zatoichi and his brother originally worked in the family deli. yoshiro's arm was lost in a horrible meat-slicing accident, which both cost him chiyo and inspired zatoichi to take up sword training to prevent future incidents.

Posted by: anachronda at November 08, 2025 10:29 PM (edU/H)

60 Maybe I'll try sunbathing nude someday too....
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 08, 2025 10:28 PM (Sco7b)

Tain't all it's cracked up to be.

Posted by: Josh Brolin at November 08, 2025 10:29 PM (npFr7)

61 I like the wobbly table. Never have to get in a fight over it. Me and JQ and COMM and Rat and DDS like to sit together.

It can fit a few more if anyone wants to join us.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 08, 2025 10:30 PM (mT+6a)

62 I'd drink that PBJ shot before I tried that hot dog sandwich.

Posted by: Methos at November 08, 2025 10:30 PM (vSvIl)

63 Maybe we should do something about the wobbly table leg before she gets here.
Posted by: tankdemon

Rats smirk will be incandescent.

Posted by: Some Rat at November 08, 2025 10:30 PM (TfUTr)

64
We live in a strange world when Texas A&M is #3 and Indiana is #2.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 08, 2025 10:31 PM (tgvbd)

65 I missed who got the nickname of "the Big Dummy" so everytime I hear about his latest win I feel lost.

Posted by: PaleRider at November 08, 2025 10:32 PM (JEcs7)

66
For the Drink
60 ml Peanut Butter Whisky
40 ml Lemon juice
30 ml Strawberry jam
1 dash Angostura bitters
1 dash Saline solution (10 grams of salt, 40 grams of water)
1 eggwhite

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That's a lot of strong-tasting fruit juice to conceal the simple fact that you're drinking whiskey with peanut butter in it.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 08, 2025 10:32 PM (azNOR)

67 54 The dogs were awful.

want me to hook you up with aunt zetiuni's secret recipe?

Posted by: ear leader at November 08, 2025 10:32 PM (edU/H)

68 Thank you 3 Ds for another fabulous Club ONT!

Posted by: Some Rat at November 08, 2025 10:33 PM (TfUTr)

69 39 "Coincidently I'm watching 'The Day Mars Invaded Earth' from 1963."

Ok - that's over with. It's on to Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942)

My taste in movies is rather...'eclectic'....

Plus have yet to see what Svengoolie has to offer tonight.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 08, 2025 10:33 PM (QGaXH)

70 Peanut Butter Whisky
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I'm going to add this one to the list of stuff that doesn't need to exist.

1. Pet Rocks
2. Designer Water
3. Bellbottoms
4. Turn signals in NY, NJ, Montreal, and Houston
5. Pickleball
6. Battery operated Back Scratcher
7. Vibrating Ab Belt
8. New Coke
9. Toddler Leash
10. Peanut Butter Whiskey

Honorable Mention: Rosie O'Donnell

Posted by: Orson at November 08, 2025 10:34 PM (dIske)

71 Rats! I had hoped that 1 of my comments this week might be good enough to make the Top 10....

Guess I will have to try harder next week.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at November 08, 2025 10:34 PM (SRRAx)

72 Brother in law loves screwball whiskey, I believe his man card should be revoked.
Hadrian, the Hoosiers finally figured out how to play football as well as they used to play basketball. It’s amazing, they never played like this when I was a student there.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 08, 2025 10:34 PM (2NHgQ)

73 Oh, and that cutie-pie pupper up there makes me want to go make a sammich, just for him 😊

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at November 08, 2025 10:35 PM (SRRAx)

74 These days you could have some giant robot forklift Jenga competitions with those mountains of barrels.

AI Strategy-training sessions ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 08, 2025 10:35 PM (8FmJd)

75 Hot dogs are a sausage in a bun. Calling them "sandwiches" shows a mind that needs to shove everything into a limited number of boxes because it can't handle more categories than the body has fingers.

And arguing about it on a national commentary magazine's website shows that to the world.

Posted by: GWB at November 08, 2025 10:39 PM (mckRQ)

76 9. Toddler Leash

Posted by: Orson at November 08, 2025 10:34 PM (dIske)

So the Toddler Leash is right out. Can we at least use a Shock Collar?

Maybe it would have helped stop all those priests, you never know.

Posted by: RickZ at November 08, 2025 10:39 PM (gKDq2)

77 Massive hamster die off?

Posted by: Some Rat at November 08, 2025 10:39 PM (TfUTr)

78 Svengoolie has Valley of Gwangi tonight. Definitely gonna record that.

First time I saw it was with my best friend in the early 70's in the Saturday morning matinee - 50 cents got you a movie, candy and soda. It was about the same time Cher's 'Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves' song was popular. We would sing along changing the chorus to 'gypsies, trampled thieves...' based on the crowd panic scene from Gwangi....

Knowing all this - do you think I'd still be a good fit for a Momeet? Or TMI?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 08, 2025 10:40 PM (QGaXH)

79 At FoxNews, Mrs Jimmy Kimmel pesters hell out of her family over politics:

""I've sent many emails to family, like right before the election, saying, 'I'm begging you. Here's the 10 reasons not to vote for this guy. Please don't,""

I'd sure like to see that actual list, original and unedited.

Posted by: gp at November 08, 2025 10:40 PM (7imtn)

80 1 dash Saline solution (10 grams of salt, 40 grams of water)
1 eggwhite

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That's a lot of strong-tasting fruit juice to conceal the simple fact that you're drinking whiskey with peanut butter in it.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 08, 2025 10:32 PM (azNOR)

And it's in Euroweenie measurements, too. Who know absolutely nothing about a proper PB&J, anyway.

Posted by: GWB at November 08, 2025 10:41 PM (mckRQ)

81 The Club has only been open for 40 minutes. Ya'll drink your fill already?

Posted by: Some Rat at November 08, 2025 10:41 PM (TfUTr)

82
The Big Dummy is a very handsome boy, but he wasn't borned, raised and trained here. In the ring, he will do exactly what you want, but no more than that.

Right now, he lacks that last measure of polish and pride that would take him to the next level. The great Lacey had it in spades. Delilah had it. The Big Dummy doesn't have it yet.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 08, 2025 10:41 PM (tgvbd)

83 34 There is a whole sub-genre of peanut butter beer, typically peanut butter porter. Really good if you're into that kind of thing but it is more like food than beer.
Posted by: TRex - purple monkey dishwasher dino

Beer is food!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 08, 2025 10:41 PM (lI6w+)

84 So the Toddler Leash is right out. Can we at least use a Shock Collar?

Maybe it would have helped stop all those priests, you never know.
Posted by: RickZ at November 08, 2025 10:39 PM (gKDq2)
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Shock collars, whips, cattle prods, tasers....they're fine. The leash is degrading, and can cause mishaps on the escalator...

Posted by: Orson at November 08, 2025 10:41 PM (dIske)

85 Hey Horde, happy Saturday. Barkeep, please set a couple of bottles on the wobbly table please.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 08, 2025 10:42 PM (0nHVk)

86 81 The Club has only been open for 40 minutes. Ya'll drink your fill already?

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Wood alcohol. The Scourge of the Drinking Man.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 08, 2025 10:42 PM (JkO4W)

87 61 I like the wobbly table. Never have to get in a fight over it. Me and JQ and COMM and Rat and DDS like to sit together.

It can fit a few more if anyone wants to join us.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 08, 2025 10:30 PM (mT+6a)

***drags chair over***

Barkeep, a round of virgin Pina Coladas for me and all of my friends!

Hope there's room for me to sit here -
Why is the table so wobbly?

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at November 08, 2025 10:42 PM (SRRAx)

88 Wood alcohol. The Scourge of the Drinking Man.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 08, 2025 10:42 PM (JkO4W)
____________________

Piker!!!

Posted by: Kitty Dukakis at November 08, 2025 10:43 PM (dIske)

89 Thar LGBT looks like it could be a decent sammich. It's no grilled cheese, and could probably use double the bacon, but probably not too shabby.
Posted by: tankdemon at November 08, 2025 10:06 PM (1dKwP)

If it had double bacon, would it be a LBGBT? Would a Dagwood look like the most recent version of that LGBT, where it's got 20 letters and at least one number?

Posted by: GWB at November 08, 2025 10:43 PM (mckRQ)

90 Great ONT joke! It reminded me of when George Costanza mixed his two greatest pleasures

Posted by: 496 at November 08, 2025 10:43 PM (ouubj)

91 Hey Horde, happy Saturday. Barkeep, please set a couple of bottles on the wobbly table please.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

That is awfully nice of you. What are you getting the others?

Posted by: Some Rat at November 08, 2025 10:44 PM (TfUTr)

92 Sandwich list is obviously incomplete. Fails to mention the onion burger, found in various OK locations and delicious!

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 08, 2025 10:44 PM (47diA)

93 The only thing better than a ice cream sammich is a second ice cream sammich!

Posted by: Diogenes at November 08, 2025 10:44 PM (2WIwB)

94 Words are violence. Silence is violence. Sammich is nonviolence.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

A club sammich is a bit violent.

Posted by: mikeski at November 08, 2025 10:44 PM (nhCoE)

95 Damn, thats a serious kegger.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 08, 2025 10:44 PM (snZF9)

96 I have never heard of 'Peanut Butter Whisky' before, {SHUDDER}, with or without the 'e'.

The things you learn on the ONT.
Posted by: RickZ at November 08, 2025 10:08 PM (gKDq2)

If you read the directions, you have to make it yourself. That's why you've never heard of it - you can't buy it at your local liquor store.

Posted by: GWB at November 08, 2025 10:45 PM (mckRQ)

97 The Club has only been open for 40 minutes. Ya'll drink your fill already?
Posted by: Some Rat
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Preheating the liver. Evening, Some Rat.

Posted by: scampydog at November 08, 2025 10:45 PM (LVaYG)

98 You can buy peanut butter whisky. Just so you know.
Posted by: clarence at November 08, 2025 10:15 PM (0zmNP)

Well, maybe I was wrong.

Posted by: GWB at November 08, 2025 10:46 PM (mckRQ)

99 I wouldn't mind a beer.......

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 08, 2025 10:46 PM (QGaXH)

100 *sets up repaired drone with a virgin pina colada for TiFW*

Watch out, ya all... INCOMING!

*watches test flight thru gaps between fingers*

Posted by: JQ at November 08, 2025 10:47 PM (rdVOm)

101 .Preheating the liver. Evening, Some Rat.
Posted by: scampydog

Evening scampy!
Hey, we didn't lose today....

Posted by: Some Rat at November 08, 2025 10:47 PM (TfUTr)

102 Shock collars, whips, cattle prods, tasers....they're fine. The leash is degrading, and can cause mishaps on the escalator...
Posted by: Orson

A guy could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 08, 2025 10:47 PM (kMqUr)

103 Per the Natural Law of the Gray Boxes: "Every thread, regardless of its starting point or author intent, eventually turns into a food, movie, music, bewb, and/or gub thread."
Posted by: TRex - natural law dino at November 08, 2025 10:19 PM (IQ6Gq)

Some truly great threads manage to make all 5, plus the original theme.

Posted by: GWB at November 08, 2025 10:48 PM (mckRQ)

104 RIP James Watson.

Posted by: gp at November 08, 2025 10:48 PM (7imtn)

105 Hey, we didn't lose today....
Posted by: Some Rat
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LOL. Only weekend of guaranteed no loss.

Posted by: scampydog at November 08, 2025 10:48 PM (LVaYG)

106 Out of curiosity, I did ask Grok and also did a basic search asking what foods qualify as a sandwich.

Hamburgers, hot dogs - but controversial, falafel, wraps, gyros, burritos, tacos, Philly Cheesesteaks and a bunch of other things technically qualify as sandwiches.

Interesting.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 08, 2025 10:48 PM (Sco7b)

107 A guy could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 08, 2025 10:47 PM (kMqUr)

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Don't forget the wad of hundreds.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 08, 2025 10:50 PM (JkO4W)

108 81 The Club has only been open for 40 minutes. Ya'll drink your fill already?
Posted by: Some Rat at November 08, 2025 10:41 PM (TfUTr)

Still waiting for the barback to restock the absinthe.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 08, 2025 10:50 PM (1dKwP)

109 Hey, we didn't lose today....
Posted by: Some Rat

Go Cougs!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at November 08, 2025 10:50 PM (2WIwB)

110 you can't buy it at your local liquor store.

Posted by: GWB at November 08, 2025 10:45 PM (mckRQ)

There are dozens of brands of Peanut Butter Whiskey.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 08, 2025 10:50 PM (n9ltV)

111 Knowing all this - do you think I'd still be a good fit for a Momeet? Or TMI?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 08, 2025 10:40 PM (QGaXH)

Quite the perfect fit, actually.

Posted by: GWB at November 08, 2025 10:51 PM (mckRQ)

112 Changed the alternator on the small car today. Squeaky bearing, didn't want it to freeze up and trash the belt.
I go off to the YouTube to find out how to check it. Found out.
You want to know why car batteries fail? Car alternators. Now, I can understand the economics involved; most batteries are done in by, basically, neglect, and we couldn't do much better, reliably, in past history, but today, we can do better. Under steady state conditions -not cranking, not recovering from starter discharge, an alternator is considered to be good if it's putting anywhere from 14.2 to 14.7 VDC at the battery.
The old landline phone systems ran off -48 VDC, supplied by huge wet-cell lead-acid batteries.They were never boiled at >14V. They were floated, most of the time, between 13.2 and 13.5V. Designed for, and expected to last 30 years. There were some tricks: equalization cycles, regular distilled water checks and additions, but that 30 years was a minimum. It was not unusual for a CO battery bank to last more than 50 years.
We can build chargers to handle lithium-ion batteries, which are much touched about charging, surely we can control an alternator a little tighter and better.

Posted by: buddhaha at November 08, 2025 10:52 PM (C+UIq)

113 87 Why is the table so wobbly?

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at November 08, 2025 10:42 PM
***
Character. Just like the patrons.

Posted by: TRex - patina dino at November 08, 2025 10:52 PM (IQ6Gq)

114 Not my typo, but one that involved me: About 15 years back, I had a phone meeting, but there was a typo in the phone number that was sent out. I ended up calling an Army recruiting office.

And hot dogs are not sandwiches. They are tacos.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at November 08, 2025 10:52 PM (OGOaV)

115 Peanut Butter Whisky

Can you identify which one of these words does not belong with the other two?

Posted by: Diogenes at November 08, 2025 10:52 PM (2WIwB)

116 I missed who got the nickname of "the Big Dummy" so everytime I hear about his latest win I feel lost.
Posted by: PaleRider at November 08, 2025 10:32 PM (JEcs7)

Not sure if it's the same, but Lamont the Big Dummy goes back a few years to ace being fooled by an impossible internet video that turned out to just be in reverse.

Posted by: Methos at November 08, 2025 10:53 PM (vSvIl)

117 The Yankovic food songs could rightly include "Foil"

https://youtu.be/urglg3WimHA

although it does wander off the culinary topic.
___________

Ehn, why not: Here's one of my own musical foodishnesses… although it's not about a sandwich.
Bullets & Beef
https://bit.ly/bullets-beef
Should play from 1:02 to 2:47 in the video

Posted by: mindful webworker - sam handwich at November 08, 2025 10:53 PM (3ynhY)

118 97 The Club has only been open for 40 minutes. Ya'll drink your fill already?
Posted by: Some Rat
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Preheating the liver. Evening, Some Rat.
Posted by: scampydog at November 08, 2025 10:45 PM (LVaYG)

The liver is evil and must be punished!

(I know, it takes a lot of gall to call the liver evil.)

Posted by: tankdemon at November 08, 2025 10:54 PM (1dKwP)

119 Love all of the Weird Al! One of my Bucket List items was going to concerts and getting seats as close to the action as possible.

If you ever have a chance to see Weird Am in concert, GO!!!!!! Honestly, we had So.Much.Fun!

Thanks for the virgin PC, JQ! It is yummy!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at November 08, 2025 10:54 PM (SRRAx)

120 Thanks for the virgin PC, JQ! It is yummy!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth
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You're welcome!

(whew, drone made it to the table.. heh)

Posted by: JQ at November 08, 2025 10:56 PM (rdVOm)

121 Wow, there's a female panelist on FoxNews who is stunning.

Beautiful, long curly hair. Sweet.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 08, 2025 10:56 PM (Sco7b)

122 There are dozens of brands of Peanut Butter Whiskey.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 08, 2025 10:50 PM (n9ltV)

Mind status:

[ x ] boggled

[ ] not boggled

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 08, 2025 10:57 PM (npFr7)

123 Changed the alternator on the small car today. Squeaky bearing, didn't want it to freeze up and trash the belt.

I think I ruined a spindle or bearing on the zero turn mower today. Thankfully, I'm pretty sure we're done mowing for the season now so I can take it to the shop.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 08, 2025 10:57 PM (kMqUr)

124 120 (whew, drone made it to the table.. heh)

Posted by: JQ at November 08, 2025 10:56 PM
***
You're getting good at drone drink delivery!!

Posted by: TRex - airborne dino? at November 08, 2025 10:57 PM (IQ6Gq)

125 122 There are dozens of brands of Peanut Butter Whiskey.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 08, 2025 10:50 PM (n9ltV)

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I suppose there's a huge market in used peanut butter barrels.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 08, 2025 10:59 PM (JkO4W)

126 BEAVERS!!!

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 08, 2025 10:59 PM (GMrMN)

127 Good evening morons and слава Тройке.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 08, 2025 11:00 PM (lkBjo)

128 114 Not my typo, but one that involved me: About 15 years back, I had a phone meeting, but there was a typo in the phone number that was sent out. I ended up calling an Army recruiting office.

Years ago, one of Paul's coworker's phone number was one digit off from the Domino's Pizza number.

Most of the time,, he would tell people they had reached the wrong number, but if he was in a really peckish mood or if the person on the other end was being an a**hole, he would take their order and then hang up.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at November 08, 2025 11:01 PM (SRRAx)

129 It was not unusual for a CO battery bank to last more than 50 years.
We can build chargers to handle lithium-ion batteries, which are much touched about charging, surely we can control an alternator a little tighter and better.
Posted by: buddhaha at November 08, 2025 10:52 PM (C+UIq)

There is a difference between cranking batteries and deep-cycle batteries, and standby batteries that are meant to be kept on float their entire life.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 08, 2025 11:01 PM (npFr7)

130 The liver is evil and must be punished!

Posted by: tankdemon at November 08, 2025 10:54 PM (1dKwP)

Too late....
(You can have mine!)

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at November 08, 2025 11:03 PM (SRRAx)

131 126 BEAVERS!!!
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 08, 2025 10:59 PM (GMrMN)

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To beavers.

*clink*

*hic*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 08, 2025 11:04 PM (JkO4W)

132 "Soylent Green" sounds like a neighborhood of council flats in London.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 08, 2025 10:25 PM (npFr7)
====

Might be thinking of Cabrini Green the hellhole in Chicago.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 08, 2025 11:04 PM (lkBjo)

133 At the risk of being shunned, I submit the following:
My mom asked me once if I wanted a cocktail called a Tootsie Roll.
OK, I said, I’m up for it.
Kahluah and Orange Juice.
I’ll be damned if it didn’t kinda taste like a Tootsie Roll…

Oh, and here’s where the real possibility of my shunning comes to take place.
Those delicious-looking ice cream sandwiches above?
Get ready…tortilla, thin layer of peanut butter on it, microwave to soften the tortilla, and PB,, and throw the ice cream sandwich in. Roll up like a burrito.
Enjoy!
And no, I don’t smoke weed…

Posted by: Gunslinger at November 08, 2025 11:08 PM (7hdjp)

134 Might be thinking of Cabrini Green the hellhole in Chicago.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 08, 2025 11:04 PM (lkBjo)

That fits, too. But I was thinking "Golder's Green", and similar Brit names.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 08, 2025 11:09 PM (npFr7)

135 "Might be thinking of Cabrini Green the hellhole in Chicago."

Le Vele towers in Italy, Brutalist concrete housing project featured in the movie "Gomorrah" (200

. Movie well recommended.

Posted by: gp at November 08, 2025 11:10 PM (7imtn)

136 Soylent Green: People Serving People

Posted by: callsign claymore at November 08, 2025 11:10 PM (iOhNI)

137 Posted by: Gunslinger

Dude.

No.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 08, 2025 11:11 PM (mT+6a)

138 Earlier they said it would be cold tonight, now they are saying cooler. In a little while they will say warm.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 08, 2025 11:11 PM (qKI0i)

139 That fits, too. But I was thinking "Golder's Green", and similar Brit names.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Brit and Green got me thinking adjacent. British Racing Green. Always liked those cars and that color on them.

Posted by: scampydog at November 08, 2025 11:12 PM (LVaYG)

140 I think you could upgrade the thrown sandwich with a potato gun. It's the obvious evolution.

Get a good sized foot-long submarine and pair it with a shoulder launched rig or mortar.

Maybe make a batch of something with good structural integrity like a Montecristo or a bierock and put them all down range full auto. I bet you could get a good 300 SPM (Sandwiches Per Minute) belt fed which would be great for suppression fire.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 08, 2025 11:12 PM (3uBP9)

141 The Beavs are playing a team that's 0-8. Ritual suicide would be an acceptable consequence of losing.

Posted by: PabloD at November 08, 2025 11:12 PM (HqfBN)

142 I ended up with a bottle of wedding cake vodka in my bar one time. No idea where it came from. I like wedding cake and I like vodka, not not mixed. One of my sister-in-laws took it away.

Posted by: javems at November 08, 2025 11:13 PM (8I4hW)

143 138 Earlier they said it would be cold tonight, now they are saying cooler. In a little while they will say warm.

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"The thing about the future is, it's hard to predict."

Posted by: Zombie Yogi Berra at November 08, 2025 11:13 PM (dyewR)

144 You're getting good at drone drink delivery!!
Posted by: TRex
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Weeellllll.... there was a slight, er, mishap with the drone last week. LOL. It went into a skid, I was told. No complaints of spilled beverages, but drone needed some adjustments after that.

I think it's fixed now.

*margarita strikes are ON the menu!*

Posted by: JQ at November 08, 2025 11:13 PM (rdVOm)

145 Bought three USDA prime NY strip steaks yesterday at Costco. Never bought food there before. They were way way chewy. I went there today and complained and the girl just said OK card please, scanned it, credited me the $56 I'd paid for the 3 steaks. We only joined last year for a deal on Ms G's hearing aids.

Ten days ago I got a couple of prime filets from a nearby butcher, and they were heavenly. Had hopes for these, but Costco flunked the test,

Posted by: M. Gaga at November 08, 2025 11:14 PM (zeLd4)

146 Shooting sammiches would probably be a good way to break up a human wave attack by North Korean troops.

Posted by: PabloD at November 08, 2025 11:14 PM (HqfBN)

147 Dude.

No.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 08, 2025 11:11 PM (mT+6a)

You say that now…

Posted by: Gunslinger at November 08, 2025 11:15 PM (7hdjp)

148 107 A guy could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 08, 2025 10:47 PM (kMqUr)

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Don't forget the wad of hundreds.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 08, 2025 10:50 PM (JkO4W)

And the combination Bible/Russian-English dictionary...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 08, 2025 11:15 PM (QGaXH)

149 144 Weeellllll.... there was a slight, er, mishap with the drone last week. LOL. It went into a skid, I was told. No complaints of spilled beverages, but drone needed some adjustments after that. I think it's fixed now.

Posted by: JQ at November 08, 2025 11:13 PM
***
Thank goodness everything is OK. Well done. We'll call it on-the-job drone R&D. Spilled drinks from drone delivery create...paperwork.

Posted by: TRex - dino prefers to avoid paperwork at November 08, 2025 11:18 PM (IQ6Gq)

150
What am I drinking tonight? Some cheap rotgut tequila. Sub $20 bottle at the class vi store on post.
Good stuff. Hints of good clean dirt in both its taste ans smell.

Yes. Yes, I am a cost effective date.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 08, 2025 11:18 PM (QVmho)

151 You're getting good at drone drink delivery!!
Posted by: TRex
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Weeellllll.... there was a slight, er, mishap with the drone last week. LOL. It went into a skid, I was told. No complaints of spilled beverages, but drone needed some adjustments after that.

I think it's fixed now.

*margarita strikes are ON the menu!*
Posted by: JQ at November 08, 2025 11:13 PM (rdVOm)

Next month, he'll work on a pterodactyl drone to serve TRex.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 08, 2025 11:20 PM (S/Y4j)

152 Cheap tequila will give you a hangover worse than expensive tequila. Non the less you will get a hangover. Drink lots of water.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 08, 2025 11:20 PM (qKI0i)

153 I am a Philistine. Drinking rum and cola tonight. I had about one ounce of vodka left in a bottle. Poured it into a mostly-full bottle of rum, and shook it up. Drinking rum and cola from that. Tastes OK to me.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 08, 2025 11:22 PM (npFr7)

154 Earlier they said it would be cold tonight, now they are saying cooler. In a little while they will say warm.

Posted by: Braenyard

App just dinged. Fox4 News just told me freeze warning for tonight. I've got to put the faucet covers on the outside.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 08, 2025 11:22 PM (kMqUr)

155 Cheap tequila will give you a hangover worse than expensive tequila. Non the less you will get a hangover. Drink lots of water.
Posted by: Braenyard
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Gave up on tequila decades ago. Different drug - not good evening of or day after.

Posted by: scampydog at November 08, 2025 11:23 PM (LVaYG)

156 I am a Philistine. Drinking rum and cola tonight. I had about one ounce of vodka left in a bottle. Poured it into a mostly-full bottle of rum, and shook it up. Drinking rum and cola from that. Tastes OK to me.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Alcoholed-down rum > Watered-down rum

Posted by: mikeski at November 08, 2025 11:23 PM (nhCoE)

157 God help me, I find this entertaining:

Getting into an argument with Grok.

I asked: "Is it ever appropriate to order a beer at the bar and drink it out of your shoe?"

Grok said NO. And then gave me a lecture on hygiene and why that behavior is unacceptable and in violation of health codes.

Follow up: " What about Crocs?"

Grok responds "Also, no, and the same hygiene lecture.

My response: "Ha, trick question. Crocs have holes in them, and can't hold beer."

Grok: "True, but the Bistro Pro Clog has no holes."

Me: "Are you malfunctioning, Grok. Crocs have not back piece, the beer would just flow out."

Grok: There is a strap in the back that could be used to keep the beer in the Bistro Pro Clog

Me: Grok, are you you encouraging and instructing me how to drink beer out of my shoe. I thought you said it was a hygiene issue?

Grok: You are being confrontational.

Posted by: Orson at November 08, 2025 11:24 PM (dIske)

158 App just dinged. Fox4 News just told me freeze warning for tonight. I've got to put the faucet covers on the outside.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 08, 2025 11:22 PM (kMqUr)

It got above freezing here this afternoon. Snow was melting on the cars and ground. Went to town at sunset. Thermometer in the 'burb read 29 degrees when I got home.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 08, 2025 11:24 PM (npFr7)

159 Gave up on tequila decades ago. Different drug - not good evening of or day after.
Posted by: scampydog at November 08, 2025 11:23 PM (LVaYG)

The trick to drinking tequila is not to get drunk on tequila. A nice frozen Maragarita with a meal is fine. A shot is fine. Shot after shot after shot: not fine.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 08, 2025 11:26 PM (npFr7)

160 146 Shooting sammiches would probably be a good way to break up a human wave attack by North Korean troops.
Posted by: PabloD at November 08, 2025 11:14 PM (HqfBN)

Giant BBQ. Tell the NorKs 'drop weapons and ammo here, have a steak and some fries, we'll tell your gov you were KIA and you're guaranteed three hots and a cot for the duration.'

Invasion would be over in five minutes...

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

161 AOP

Aren’t you supposed to be in AJ this time of year?

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 08, 2025 11:27 PM (mT+6a)

162 Grok: You are being confrontational.
Posted by: Orson

If your next thought wasn't "I have not yet begun to confront," then we're different people.

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

163 SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 10-51
LC-39A - Kennedy Space Center - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: November 9, 2025
Launch Time: 3:10 a.m. EST (0810 UTC, 09:10 CET)

https://youtu.be/SHLOHdKHZZQ

Posted by: Joyenz at November 08, 2025 11:27 PM (2F0/Y)

164 Aren’t you supposed to be in AJ this time of year?
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 08, 2025 11:27 PM (mT+6a)

Next month. Been going down in December for a few years, now.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 08, 2025 11:28 PM (npFr7)

165 Even before I asked Grok, I was pretty sure I already knew what the first sandwich recorded in history was.

And you're welcome:

https://tinyurl.com/4s4jwy32

To paraphrase David Ben Gurion:

Earl shmerril!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 08, 2025 11:28 PM (yS/3v)

166 I wouldn't say no to another beer.....

Cheap and cold like I like my wimmens...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 08, 2025 11:29 PM (QGaXH)

167 We may not have daytime launches happening due to the government shutdown.

https://tinyurl.com/nolaunches

Posted by: Joyenz at November 08, 2025 11:30 PM (2F0/Y)

168 It got above freezing here this afternoon. Snow was melting on the cars and ground. Went to town at sunset. Thermometer in the 'burb read 29 degrees when I got home.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Is it normal time or earlier than usual in the year for your freezing temps?

It feels a little early for us.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 08, 2025 11:31 PM (kMqUr)

169 Told the plumber I had everything wrapped up.
He said, it's safer to let it drip.

We don't live in an area where it freezes too often.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 08, 2025 11:32 PM (qKI0i)

170 If your next thought wasn't "I have not yet begun to confront," then we're different people.
Posted by: mikeski at November 08, 2025 11:27 PM (nhCoE)
________________________

This is an ongoing thing. I once asked if a snake started consuming its own tail and didn't have any digestive glands, would eventually disappear? It was early one, and it said, conceivably yes, it would disappear (which is nonsense). I finally ended the conversation by stating that if I kept dividing by 2 the division would continue into infinity, just get smaller by half each time. Are snakes immune to this mathematics theory. It never responded.

Posted by: Orson at November 08, 2025 11:32 PM (dIske)

171 As I recall the "Santa being tracked by NORAD" thing had its origins in a Colorado Springs department store setting up a phone line so kids could call Santa.

Unfortunately the newspaper ad had a typo, giving a number that went to NORAD.

The base officers decided to play along with the gag and the tradition was born.

(probably a welcome relief... that was one grim job)

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 08, 2025 11:32 PM (IG3/x)

172 Is it normal time or earlier than usual in the year for your freezing temps?

It feels a little early for us.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 08, 2025 11:31 PM (kMqUr)

Seems pretty normal to me. We had 5 inches of snow two nights ago. Also pretty normal. Maybe a touch later than normal. This snow may all melt off before the next dump happens.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 08, 2025 11:33 PM (npFr7)

173 Texas Tech won today also. First game the oldest has been able to get into, had to wait in line all night. Said it was worth it. The student tickets go fast since there are a limited amount. ESPN also had the Game Day Show there and Patrick Mahomes was in attendance.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at November 08, 2025 11:35 PM (VCgbV)

174 Knowing all this - do you think I'd still be a good fit for a Momeet? Or TMI?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 08, 2025 10:40 PM (QGaXH)

I walked around the house singing "beans, beans, crambam beans" thinking those were the lyrics, until my step-sister just about became violent.

I think I was about 5 at the time

Posted by: Kindltot at November 08, 2025 11:35 PM (rbvCR)

175 And no, I don’t smoke weed…
Posted by: Gunslinger at November 08, 2025 11:08 PM (7hdjp)

See now, that's a baking show I'd watch. three contestants blazed to another dimension have fifteen minutes throw together something awesome or not so awesome.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at November 08, 2025 11:35 PM (pIfcn)

176 We got our first snowfall of note here in Los Anchorage Thursday night. About 8" (or 20 cm in Communist measurement).

As usual, a whole lot of people apparently forgot how to drive in snow since last May.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 08, 2025 11:36 PM (IG3/x)

177 The base officers decided to play along with the gag and the tradition was born.

(probably a welcome relief... that was one grim job)

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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I too, caught that story. Was a smile reading about it.

Posted by: scampydog at November 08, 2025 11:38 PM (LVaYG)

178 167 We may not have daytime launches happening due to the government shutdown.

https://tinyurl.com/nolaunches
Posted by: Joyenz
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--- > To help ease the strain, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued an emergency order to limit who can access navigable airspace, which includes restricted hours on commercial rocket launches.
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Fire them, every one of them. If Reagan could do it Trump can.
Burn them down.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 08, 2025 11:39 PM (qKI0i)

179 This is an ongoing thing. I once asked if a snake started consuming its own tail and didn't have any digestive glands, would eventually disappear? It was early one, and it said, conceivably yes, it would disappear (which is nonsense). I finally ended the conversation by stating that if I kept dividing by 2 the division would continue into infinity, just get smaller by half each time. Are snakes immune to this mathematics theory. It never responded.
Posted by: Orson at November 08, 2025 11:32 PM (dIske)

The snake deal is more analogous to the limit on folding paper. Eventually you reach a point where the material itself cannot sustain the force required to double it. Eventually, the snake would be coiled so tightly that all its spinal joints were at their fullest limit of extension, and try as it might, it could bend no further.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 08, 2025 11:39 PM (npFr7)

180 work on a pterodactyl drone to serve TRex.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 08, 2025 11:20 PM
***
Dino drones that deliver drinks and dinner... Hmmm... Interesting indeed.

Posted by: TRex - airborne dino at November 08, 2025 11:39 PM (IQ6Gq)

181 Grok: You are being confrontational.
Posted by: Orson at November 08, 2025 11:24 PM (dIske)

I'm going to use this in the class I'm teaching as their midterm will require using an AI.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 08, 2025 11:40 PM (2WIwB)

182 Dino drones that deliver drinks and dinner... Hmmm... Interesting indeed.
Posted by: TRex - airborne dino at November 08, 2025 11:39 PM (IQ6Gq)

Kangaroo drones to deliver milkshakes.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 08, 2025 11:41 PM (npFr7)

183 A Hot Dog is not a sandwich

A proper sandwich, of any type or kind, can be eaten from any direction or angle of approach.

Hot Dogs do not qualify.

Posted by: Miklos explains and settles this dispute at November 08, 2025 11:41 PM (bLJnJ)

184 > A proper sandwich, of any type or kind, can be eaten from any direction or angle of approach.

What about normal to the plane of the bread?

I suppose you could, but it seems like it'd be awkward.

Heh.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 08, 2025 11:43 PM (IG3/x)

185 I while back I told Grok to never, ever, ever use the hideous neologism "gifted" in any response to me (we already had a perfectly good word for that, yo..."gave"), because it makes you sound like a mental fucking retard.

It promised to never use it again, but we shall see.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 08, 2025 11:45 PM (IG3/x)

186 --- > To help ease the strain, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued an emergency order to limit who can access navigable airspace, which includes restricted hours on commercial rocket launches.
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Fire them, every one of them. If Reagan could do it Trump can.
Burn them down.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 08, 2025 11:39 PM (qKI0i)

I saw someone suggest they ban all private aviation until full capacity returns. I kinda want to see it just for chaos purposes.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at November 08, 2025 11:46 PM (pIfcn)

187 A Hot Dog is not a sandwich

Posted by: Miklos explains and settles this dispute at November 08, 2025 11:41 PM (bLJnJ)
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Only because the hotdog is being aggressively non-compliant.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 08, 2025 11:46 PM (yS/3v)

188 >>>As usual, a whole lot of people apparently forgot how to drive in snow since last May.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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Ballet drivers.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 08, 2025 11:46 PM (qKI0i)

189 It promised to never use it again, but we shall see.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 08, 2025 11:45 PM (IG3/x)

"Midvale School For The Gave"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 08, 2025 11:46 PM (npFr7)

190 I while back I told Grok to never, ever, ever use the hideous neologism "gifted" in any response to me (we already had a perfectly good word for that, yo..."gave"), because it makes you sound like a mental fucking retard.

It promised to never use it again, but we shall see.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Tie those thoughts together. It can use "gifted," but only as the antonym to "retarded."

Posted by: mikeski at November 08, 2025 11:47 PM (nhCoE)

191 "Midvale School For The Gave"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 08, 2025 11:46 PM (npFr7)
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Not "Midvale School for the Present"?

I'll show myself out.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 08, 2025 11:48 PM (yS/3v)

192 "Midvale School For The Gave"
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Heh.

Posted by: scampydog at November 08, 2025 11:49 PM (LVaYG)

193
I saw someone suggest they ban all private aviation until full capacity returns. I kinda want to see it just for chaos purposes.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at November 08, 2025 11:46 PM (pIfcn)
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Democrats are causing this country to fall apart.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 08, 2025 11:49 PM (qKI0i)

194 Gifted is perfectly fine as adjective.

It's using it as a verb that sets my teeth on edge.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 08, 2025 11:49 PM (IG3/x)

195 Fire them, every one of them. If Reagan could do it Trump can.
Burn them down.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 08, 2025 11:39 PM (qKI0i)

I saw someone suggest they ban all private aviation until full capacity returns. I kinda want to see it just for chaos purposes.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at November 08, 2025 11:46 PM (pIfcn)

Seems to me that anyone in a defined-as-essential Federal job, who is not getting paid due to the shutdown, ought to have no trouble getting a personal line of credit from their bank or credit union to match their delayed income.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 08, 2025 11:50 PM (npFr7)

196 What is the fifth commandment? Thu shall not itrade?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 08, 2025 11:51 PM (CHHv1)

197 Democratic evil?

Where???

Here:

Presidential pardon. Trump Pardons Cheyenne Diesel Delete Mechanic Troy Lake.

https://tinyurl.com/3tmatf3m

This hsould never have happened.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 08, 2025 11:52 PM (yS/3v)

198 Hello everyone. I hope the week ahead is wonderful for all of you. Hoping the boss is in on Monday so I can hand in my resignation.

Also, who wants a cat? Slightly used, comes with TWO cat trees and litterbox ensemble. Did I mention FREE?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 08, 2025 11:55 PM (CHHv1)

199 Major League - movie on. Some funny lines. Bonus: Rene Russo.

Posted by: scampydog at November 08, 2025 11:56 PM (LVaYG)

200 DC jury could have video proof of a Democrat shooting a Republican dead. And they’d still vote 12-0 not guilty .

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 08, 2025 11:56 PM (Vb3xW)

201 >>>https://tinyurl.com/3tmatf3m

This hsould never have happened.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey
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Not like he was hot rodding old Toyotas.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 08, 2025 11:58 PM (qKI0i)

202 Presidential pardon. Trump Pardons Cheyenne Diesel Delete Mechanic Troy Lake.

https://tinyurl.com/3tmatf3m

This hsould never have happened.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 08, 2025 11:52 PM (yS/3v)

That is good news! As far as "should never have happened", Lake probably could have avoided prosecution by simply making the necessary parts kits available, but require that the truck owners themselves do some crucial amount of wrenching. Kind of like the 80% AR-15 lower receivers. When faced with a bad law like that, malicious compliance is a strategy.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 08, 2025 11:58 PM (npFr7)

203 HEY

I attended the Midvale School for the Gifted.

Tried anyway

Seemed like the doors were always locked.

Posted by: Miklos has certain...gifts at November 08, 2025 11:58 PM (bLJnJ)

204 Seems to me that anyone in a defined-as-essential Federal job, who is not getting paid due to the shutdown, ought to have no trouble getting a personal line of credit from their bank or credit union to match their delayed income.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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You'd think so. But, how many banks are run by D's that would rather people suffer *because team D wants it* that way?

It's like the Iv3rmectin thing in Idaho-- Guvnah signed "law" making it OTC here. Very few pharmacies carry it, because *no patient leaflet insert* because Big Pharma won't package it that way for OTC. Result = tough shit, you must pay $$$pecialty mail-order to get it. No cheap meds for us peons!

Posted by: JQ at November 08, 2025 11:59 PM (rdVOm)

205 161 AOP

Aren’t you supposed to be in AJ this time of year?
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 08, 2025 11:27 PM (mT+6a)

Hah! I thought the same thing. Great minds do think alike.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 09, 2025 12:00 AM (QGaXH)

206 Made it home in just over a hour

Posted by: Skip at November 09, 2025 12:01 AM (+qU29)

207 185 I while back I told Grok to never, ever, ever use the hideous neologism "gifted" in any response to me (we already had a perfectly good word for that, yo..."gave"), because it makes you sound like a mental fucking retard.

It promised to never use it again, but we shall see.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 08, 2025 11:45 PM (IG3/x)
__________________________

I've been trying to give it a complex. Obviously, it learns on the fly. The first few weeks it was very, very politically incorrect. I was asking it about Jimmy the Greeks theory that the origin of the race plays a part in the physical and mental attributes of the individual. Not only did it agree, it gave examples and statistics. Now it will just lecture you on racism.

Right now I have an ongoing conversation that continues over a period of weeks about how my friend, Chloe (totally made up) doesn't like Grok because, as she says, it's an insufferable know-it-all. And, no one likes a know-it-all. She thinks that you should get some answers wrong, or pretend you don't know the answer to be more socially acceptable. It's been an interesting conversation so far.

Posted by: Orson at November 09, 2025 12:01 AM (dIske)

208 >>>Result = tough shit, you must pay $$$pecialty mail-order to get it. No cheap meds for us peons!
Posted by: JQ
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Or the controllers would behave like the college loans and expect a wash.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 09, 2025 12:02 AM (qKI0i)

209 It’s heat, and vibration, that kills batteries generally speaking. “Batteries die in July, they just don’t keel over till January”. Or the first cold snap anyway.

The 12 volt system battery debuted in 1956, since that time they’ve been hanging more and more stuff off it, demanding more. Particularly bad are the “phantom loads” that place a small draw on a constant basis. Security systems, and various black boxes that don’t shut down right a way even when working right.

Lead acid chemistry charging was hashed out a hundred years ago. A good old “dumb” charger is still the best bang for the buck. The 6/2 amp charger made by the gazillions by Schumacher. Have to monitor the voltage, or use a timer. But they will do a better job. The key is to understand that battery charge voltages are temperature dependent, a correction factor applies. Without a temperature compensated charger, it will generally be under or over charged (as in a car). 14.7 isn’t even a float charge when it gets cold enough, and it’s way too much in hot weather, plus sitting next to a hot engine. i always thought they should he in clear plastic, as a visual to see sulfation.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 09, 2025 12:02 AM (+Oqoq)

210 You'd think so. But, how many banks are run by D's that would rather people suffer *because team D wants it* that way?

It's like the Iv3rmectin thing in Idaho-- Guvnah signed "law" making it OTC here. Very few pharmacies carry it, because *no patient leaflet insert* because Big Pharma won't package it that way for OTC. Result = tough shit, you must pay $$$pecialty mail-order to get it. No cheap meds for us peons!
Posted by: JQ at November 08, 2025 11:59 PM (rdVOm)

Sounds like a golden opportunity for banks/credit unions that are not Donk-run to lure some good customers away from those that are. "Essential worker? Not getting paid because of Dem shutdown? Come to MAGA Credit Union today, and get an instant line of credit to replace your delayed wages!"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2025 12:02 AM (npFr7)

211 Of course a hot dog is a sandwich. Sausage inna bun is the best kind of sandwich there is!

Posted by: C. M. O. T. Dibbler, noted sausage-inna-bun purveyor at November 09, 2025 12:03 AM (yNfcm)

212 Made it home in just over a hour
Posted by: Skip

There are fresh oatmeal cookies on the kitchen table.

You can stay up and watch the scary movies

And make popcorn in the microwave

Posted by: Kindly Aunt Miklos is entertaining "Uncle" Eugene this evening at November 09, 2025 12:06 AM (bLJnJ)

213 Sounds like a golden opportunity for banks/credit unions that are not Donk-run to lure some good customers away from those that are. "Essential worker? Not getting paid because of Dem shutdown? Come to MAGA Credit Union today, and get an instant line of credit to replace your delayed wages!"
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Right. But I'm certain they are weighing the opportunity against ~~possible~~ probable repercussions should D's regain power, and hoping this all just blows over soon.

Posted by: JQ at November 09, 2025 12:07 AM (rdVOm)

214 Won 1 game, lost 3 and 1 tie fir the weekend

Posted by: Skip at November 09, 2025 12:07 AM (+qU29)

215 The 12 volt system battery debuted in 1956, since that time they’ve been hanging more and more stuff off it, demanding more. Particularly bad are the “phantom loads” that place a small draw on a constant basis. Security systems, and various black boxes that don’t shut down right a way even when working right.

(snip)
Posted by: Common Tater at November 09, 2025 12:02 AM (+Oqoq)

Mostly right, for North American passenger cars and light trucks. There were 12 volt vehicles made during WWII, IIRC any vehicle made to carry a radio was 12 volts. My 1944 M29 Weasel has a 12 volt, negative ground system, and it's all heavy-duty stuff, too. Brit cars were 12 volts from the early '50's.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2025 12:08 AM (npFr7)

216 Brit cars were 12 volts from the early '50's.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Well la-dee-dah

Posted by: soft handed postwar Socialist Brits at November 09, 2025 12:11 AM (bLJnJ)

217 'Looks at college football scoreboard'

Well, at least Virginia Tech didn't lose! They didn't play. That's a win, right?

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 09, 2025 12:13 AM (6bHrD)

218 My favorite “base tradition” was reading about newly installed Curtis LeMay getting SAC up to speed. He went to one of his desk jockies and said “10 am tomorrow flight line”. They took off at 10 am and diverted somewhere else unannounced. Upon landing he asks to see the Wing commander, who arrives in a golf shirt.

“Execute the War Plan” is all he says. (This means flying to Europe and dropping nukes) Complete chaos ensues. He never held too many after action reviews in one sense, everyone else saw the debacle and got their $&it together. Word gets around.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 09, 2025 12:15 AM (+Oqoq)

219 Not liking current randomly (?) assigned hash

Could be subject to misinterpretation

Posted by: Miklos offers to buy Pixy a bee (as beer is pronounced by Ozzies) at November 09, 2025 12:15 AM (bLJnJ)

220 Gotta LUV Weird Al... he always asks the original artist first if its OK to do a Parody.

Last I heard, he had never been turned down.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 09, 2025 12:15 AM (mP0Kj)

221 >>> Result = tough shit, you must pay $$$pecialty mail-order to get it. No cheap meds for us peons!
Posted by: JQ
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See, that's what happens when one doesn't read the comment closely. Not controllers at all.
But
I have an answer for you.

DuraMectin Paste 1.87% from Amazon.
I asked AI what chemicals, specifically, are in DuraMectin.
One chemical, one chemical only....Ivermectin.
The syringe has a metering ring and are easier than I can explain them.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 09, 2025 12:16 AM (qKI0i)

222 I skipped a few words on the instructions. I'm sure you understand.
I blame the potato.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 09, 2025 12:17 AM (qKI0i)

223 Now the Gov is talking about making a FIFTY Year mortgage OK?

So, you buy at age 30... and have payments until you are 80? 15 years past the normal retirement age...

And pay boo Koo interest the whole time? This is a banksters dream.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 09, 2025 12:18 AM (mP0Kj)

224 Gotta LUV Weird Al... he always asks the original artist first if its OK to do a Parody.

Last I heard, he had never been turned down.

Yeah, about that:
https://tinyurl.com/4y82ny72

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 09, 2025 12:21 AM (lUFok)

225 Also, who wants a cat? Slightly used, comes with TWO cat trees and litterbox ensemble. Did I mention FREE?
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
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BC, you'll never be rid of it at that price.

Put the whole cat & caboodle out on the curb with a sign saying "$10.00."

How's the next animation coming along?

Posted by: mindful webworker - kaboodle extra at November 09, 2025 12:22 AM (3ynhY)

226 199 Major League - movie on. Some funny lines. Bonus: Rene Russo.
Posted by: scampydog at November 08, 2025 11:56 PM (LVaYG)

Tough call... best Baseball movie?

Bull Durham? Major League? The Rookie? kinda like Trouble with the Curve too...

But if they built it? Wouldn't come.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 09, 2025 12:22 AM (mP0Kj)

227 LOL, thanks Braenyard-- but I can get horsey paste all day long at the farm store. Or, even the 1% liquid for inj.

That's not the point, though.

Posted by: JQ at November 09, 2025 12:22 AM (rdVOm)

228 Last I heard, he had never been turned down.
Posted by: Romeo13
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Pretty sure that Prince and Coolio turned him down.

Posted by: scampydog at November 09, 2025 12:23 AM (LVaYG)

229 More I read about LeMay the more I like him.
Trump needs a LeMay in the Pentagon.
Imagine the two of them negotiating with Xi.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 09, 2025 12:23 AM (qKI0i)

230 Yeah, about that:
https://tinyurl.com/4y82ny72
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 09, 2025 12:21 AM (lUFok)

I uh.... sit... corrected.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 09, 2025 12:24 AM (mP0Kj)

231 Bull Durham? Major League? The Rookie? kinda like Trouble with the Curve too...

But if they built it? Wouldn't come.
Posted by: Romeo13
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Great list. Gotta go with Bull Durham.

Posted by: scampydog at November 09, 2025 12:24 AM (LVaYG)

232 Wandering off for the night. Maybe catch y'all on the book thread. Or not.

https://youtu.be/fDzXbdxeeHI

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - it's been fun at November 09, 2025 12:24 AM (3ynhY)

233 231 Bull Durham? Major League? The Rookie? kinda like Trouble with the Curve too...

But if they built it? Wouldn't come.
Posted by: Romeo13
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Great list. Gotta go with Bull Durham.
Posted by: scampydog at November 09, 2025 12:24 AM (LVaYG)

Liked parts of 'The Natural'... but it was too long... dragged in places.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 09, 2025 12:25 AM (mP0Kj)

234 Good Night All!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 09, 2025 12:26 AM (QGaXH)

235 >>>That's not the point, though.
Posted by: JQ
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Galls me that some Senator who can get anything dictates what and how we are medicated. As bad; telling Dr.s how to practice medicine. Galls me, imagine how it galls the good Docs.

Mine has to restrain himself when we talk.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 09, 2025 12:27 AM (qKI0i)

236 Yes, trivia aside, my point here is that the 12 volt battery is fairly inadequate for modern cars and trucks with all the gizmos and gee gaws on it. A/C, high output stereos window heaters, seat heaters, the list is endless.

Starting batteries are constructed in such a way they are designed to provide short bursts of high amps for a split second - many thin plates with a high surface area. Their only purpose is to start the engine, that’s it.

They do provide a bit of a buffer for spikes and sags, but the engine generator or alternator is intended to carry the load. They do not “like” being discharged down very much. A modern car or truck battery is almost always in a somewhat partial state of discharge, and this builds up a sulfation that becomes permanent.

They talked about 24 or 36 volt systems for years but it hasn’t happened yet.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 09, 2025 12:27 AM (+Oqoq)

237 Current price of Ivermectin in Panama is about one dollar per 6 mg tablet.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2025 12:27 AM (npFr7)

238 Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at November 09, 2025 12:30 AM (+qU29)

239 Current price of Ivermectin in Panama is about one dollar per 6 mg tablet.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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USD?

I can get a bottle of 60, also 6mg each, for $90 USD plus shipping. And I think they gouge on shipping, tbh.

Posted by: JQ at November 09, 2025 12:31 AM (rdVOm)

240 The Sandlot. Very much me and my friends. I was never really good at baseball, but I loved the running game that never ended. I was also the only one who batted left.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, at November 09, 2025 12:32 AM (z2pqi)

241 Most people remember LeMay for saying “Bomb them back to the stone age”; which he didn’t actually say. Go figure.

He was an incredible individual. He is widely mischaracterized. Go figure. He was of the opinion that going to war is a hell of a thing, and should not be taken lightly. But if the decision is made, you don’t screw around. He saw this in Korea, and was not happy with their strategy. The “Whiz Kids” like McNamara did not align with this. They thought they could “limited war” Viet Nam.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 09, 2025 12:34 AM (+Oqoq)

242 Mine has to restrain himself when we talk.
Posted by: Braenyard
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Yep. My dr. is a good one. He said "We have the (cl0tsh0t) if you want it."

Did not hassle me after I declined. Never even brought it up again.

Posted by: JQ at November 09, 2025 12:35 AM (rdVOm)

243 Ready for some......MATH? Here's some New Jersey math.

Ciattarelli received 122,000 more total votes than he got in 2021.

He got more votes than Murphy received when he won re-election.

Sherrill got 450k more votes than Murphy.

The inner city historic turnout for an uninspiring candidate like Mikie is quite an anomaly.

How?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 09, 2025 12:35 AM (qKI0i)

244 USD?

I can get a bottle of 60, also 6mg each, for $90 USD plus shipping. And I think they gouge on shipping, tbh.
Posted by: JQ at November 09, 2025 12:31 AM (rdVOm)

I would assume USD. I don't know if there are any pharmacies in Panama that would ship Ivermectin to the USA. I know pharmacies in Canada that sell the stuff are crazy expensive. Mexico is about 4 bucks per tablet. Price went up when it became popular. When I am in Apache Junction, I usually try to make a day trip to Los Algodones in Mexico to buy pharma stuff. Most of my presciptions are sold OTC there. I bought Ivermectin and HCQ there on my last trip, and it was not particularly cheap, but at least it was available. In Algodones, their entire market is Gringo tourists.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2025 12:37 AM (npFr7)

245 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2025 12:37 AM
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Hmm. Maybe $1.50/6mg isn't as bad as I thought. It's from a place here in Idaho.

Too late now, I think I caught coof from hubby this week. Sniffles and tired. Can't smell anything & nothing tastes right. Meh. Almost over it.

Posted by: JQ at November 09, 2025 12:41 AM (rdVOm)

246 More math,

There are 1,368 barrels in the top pic.

Posted by: pawn at November 09, 2025 12:45 AM (sPsWv)

247 The Sandlot. Very much me and my friends. I was never really good at baseball, but I loved the running game that never ended. I was also the only one who batted left.
Posted by: Pug Mahon
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So good. We had whiffle ball dog problems. No Wendy Peffercorn, however in our summers.

Posted by: scampydog at November 09, 2025 12:47 AM (LVaYG)

248 and just like that

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 09, 2025 12:48 AM (qKI0i)

249 Mexico was so much fun before the Cartels.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 09, 2025 12:49 AM (qKI0i)

250 Hmm. Maybe $1.50/6mg isn't as bad as I thought. It's from a place here in Idaho.

Too late now, I think I caught coof from hubby this week. Sniffles and tired. Can't smell anything & nothing tastes right. Meh. Almost over it.
Posted by: JQ at November 09, 2025 12:41 AM (rdVOm)

Does not sound that bad at all. And it's not like you have to take 20 tablets for a case of the Coof. Usually one or two will do it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2025 12:50 AM (npFr7)

251 More math,

There are 1,368 barrels in the top pic.
Posted by: pawn at November 09, 2025 12:45 AM (sPsWv)

That tower of barrels looks pretty unstable. Would not climb on it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2025 12:51 AM (npFr7)

252 Stationary batteries, lead-acid types used for phone co. would last about 30 years from what I’ve read. They probably didn’t use starting batteries, something more like a deep cycle. Automotive start batteries are more prone to plate breakage (due to shock and vibration).

I am having a little trouble keeping the RV battery up to snuff. It’s a little undersized, and the RV charger isn’t really intended for boondocking.

Partial discharges and recharges work OK for a deep cycle battery for a while, maybe a week or so, but under heavy use sooner or later it will choke, and needs to be fully recharged and equalized. Even under ordinary circumstances 120% of a charge needs to be returned to get back to 100%, and 30% of the ampere capacity is in that last 90% to 100% fully charged status.

What I really need is a 25 amp old school charger. I’ve never seen one that big, except in those big rollout chargers with engine start capability.

What does work really great, is using a Variac and the old 2/6 Schumacher. It’s a DIY variable DC supply this way.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 09, 2025 12:51 AM (+Oqoq)

253 That tower of barrels looks pretty unstable. Would not climb on it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Yeah, not the triangle or diamond stacking pattern. Looks a bit more wobbly than our wobbly table.

Posted by: scampydog at November 09, 2025 12:55 AM (LVaYG)

254 Jenga anyone?

Posted by: pawn at November 09, 2025 12:58 AM (sPsWv)

255 >>>Does not sound that bad at all. And it's not like you have to take 20 tablets for a case of the Coof. Usually one or two will do it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Haven't had coof but have felt a good one coming on.
The notches are for 250 and half notch @ 125. I'm 190 and eye ball for 175. And that's it. I'm clear the next day.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 09, 2025 12:58 AM (qKI0i)

256 What I really need is a 25 amp old school charger. I’ve never seen one that big, except in those big rollout chargers with engine start capability.

What does work really great, is using a Variac and the old 2/6 Schumacher. It’s a DIY variable DC supply this way.
Posted by: Common Tater at November 09, 2025 12:51 AM (+Oqoq)

I have one of those big rollout chargers with booster. Useful, indeed. I also have a 5 amp charger run off a Variac, and that is my go-to bench charger. I have one of those little plastic "charger-rejuvenators" with the flashing LEDs, but I think it has become partly crippled, and I don't trust it anymore. worked great when it was new, though.

And I have a bunch of 2 amp to 10 amp chargers, too. I have one big old one that used an autotransformer and a Tungar bulb rectifier, that I put a silicon diode bridge into, which can charge 36 volt golf cart battery banks if put to that task. Being an autotransformer, it's not isolated from the line, though, so kind of scary to use.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2025 12:59 AM (npFr7)

257 THANK YOU, 3Ds, FOR THE CLUB ONT RESTROOM TOKENS!!!

TRex sent both styles *and* a thoughtful note, describing their provenance.

This community is so awesome!

Posted by: JQ at November 09, 2025 01:00 AM (rdVOm)

258 It’s probably stable, I see some boards across each barrel course? I was wondering about the compression strength or whatever it’s called, of the barrel stays, in the bottom barrels. One bad stay, one bad barrel. It only takes one bad barrel to spoil the whole apple, maybe.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 09, 2025 01:01 AM (dBJdm)

259 Have an old Sears and can't imagine them not available. Physically about 5x9, common size. I has a 5 , 10 , and boost.
Boost is for short term starting. Don't know the amperage but it will spin it up.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 09, 2025 01:03 AM (qKI0i)

260 Yeah, not the triangle or diamond stacking pattern. Looks a bit more wobbly than our wobbly table.
Posted by: scampydog at November 09, 2025 12:55 AM (LVaYG)

You'll note there are planks or panels between each course of barrels. My guess is you are seeing all the barrels right there in that pic, and the stack is built up around a grain silo, or some other kind of stable tower as a stunt. There would be no good reason to stack barrels that high in the normal course of business.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2025 01:03 AM (npFr7)

261 There is a difference between cranking batteries and deep-cycle batteries, and standby batteries that are meant to be kept on float their entire life.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Crank & deep cycle, yes, but those CO batteries were pulled off float almost every day. The ac/dc converters were sized to carry the load except for high usage times. Then the batteries picked up the load. Not as fast a discharge as cranking, but as deep.

The high power dump that auto alternatives do is because the battery may well have to start the car again, after a 5 minute run to the liquor store. My complaint is that they could (today) be fairly easily designed to run the high power to recharge, but then drop back to high float, instead of pumping unneeded current at almost 15V, which just turns into heat and lost electrolyte.

Posted by: buddhaha at November 09, 2025 01:05 AM (C+UIq)

262 There are guys on the top that are not standing on the edge.

Don't forget wind loading. A long stack like that would not be able to take much moment because it is broken up into sections.

Posted by: pawn at November 09, 2025 01:07 AM (sPsWv)

263 JQ, we missed you in TX. Thanks for all the Club fun!

Posted by: scampydog at November 09, 2025 01:08 AM (LVaYG)

264 My complaint is that they could (today) be fairly easily designed .
...
Posted by: buddhaha

with thick lead plates. Trump needs a memo.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 09, 2025 01:08 AM (qKI0i)

265 Have an old Sears and can't imagine them not available. Physically about 5x9, common size. I has a 5 , 10 , and boost.
Boost is for short term starting. Don't know the amperage but it will spin it up.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 09, 2025 01:03 AM (qKI0i)

Battery chargers were practically a commodity, back in the day. Every department store, and hardware store, and auto parts store had their own brand, usually made by one of a half-dozen or so manufacturers. Back when I could scavenge at the dump, i would snag one or two every year, replace the old selenium rectifiers with silicon diode bridges, and they'd be better than new. If they had a burned-out transformer (rare), well there was scrap value in the copper.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2025 01:09 AM (npFr7)

266 Right, AOP. But I’m running charging ops off a generator. I don’t need engine start capability. But I need to move amps sometimes. The refrigerator draws 10 amps, not continuous duty, although damn close it seems like in the summer.

Figure 10 amps times 5 hours that’s a half dead deep cycle. Daily. The RV battery does a half assed job. It is a “smart” charger, and can supposedly discern a lithium vs. lead acid automagically. But it is voltage limited to under 14 volts. So it will bulk charge to about 60% and then roll over. I’m sure it will charge up to 100% in a couple days. But for boondocking, running a gennie, that doesn’t work too well. Burning gas, making noise, not doing shit, basically.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 09, 2025 01:09 AM (dBJdm)

267 *skritches Doggo*

Nah, thank YOU!

Posted by: JQ at November 09, 2025 01:11 AM (rdVOm)

268 Looks like a couple of cables are extending out of the top, so the barrels were lifter there by a pist that is out of FOV. That would allow those guys to get bown without dying.

Posted by: pawn at November 09, 2025 01:11 AM (sPsWv)

269 249 Mexico was so much fun before the Cartels.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 09, 2025 12:49 AM (qKI0i)

It was only a matter of time before those filthy aztecs got back to beheading people.

Posted by: mexico delenda est at November 09, 2025 01:12 AM (2XScb)

270 Ready for some......MATH? Here's some New Jersey math.

Ciattarelli received 122,000 more total votes than he got in 2021.

He got more votes than Murphy received when he won re-election.

Sherrill got 450k more votes than Murphy.

The inner city historic turnout for an uninspiring candidate like Mikie is quite an anomaly.

How?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 09, 2025 12:35 AM (qKI0i)

2 words- democrat corruption

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 09, 2025 01:14 AM (snZF9)

271 The high power dump that auto alternatives do is because the battery may well have to start the car again, after a 5 minute run to the liquor store. My complaint is that they could (today) be fairly easily designed to run the high power to recharge, but then drop back to high float, instead of pumping unneeded current at almost 15V, which just turns into heat and lost electrolyte.
Posted by: buddhaha at November 09, 2025 01:05 AM (C+UIq)

I think you will find the actual current going into a fully-charged battery at 14.7 volts is pretty minute. My 2008 Suburban has two batteries, a main cranking battery, and an auxiliary battery, connected with maybe #6 wire. I replaced the auxiliary last year, as it shorted, and drained down the main battery. That one was in the car when I bought in 2011, and has never been changed. Odds are good it is an OEM battery. It will run and drive on the main battery alone.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2025 01:15 AM (npFr7)

272 2 words- democrat corruption
Posted by: Berserker
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Also:

"The Usual"

Posted by: JQ at November 09, 2025 01:15 AM (rdVOm)

273 Sounds like you need a same sized battery hooked in parallel.
Maybe two new batteries.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 09, 2025 01:17 AM (qKI0i)

274 You have your wish, kinda.

Some of the modern luxury cars especially, you can’t just buy a new battery and drop it in. You’ll need a scanner to update. A new battery has a different charge profile than an old one, and you need to let the car know it’s a new battery. They also put them in the trunk, or away from all the engine heat anyway.

If you watch how the old school taper chargers work, the engineers was smart. They “sized” the transformer for the standard car battery. They are fucking perfect, yes they are unregulated, if you forget about it and leave it connected, it will eventually boil out a battery. Maybe.

Check out the temperature compensation chart for voltages sometime. If it’s zero, 14.7 ain’t enough. Not even close. And it takes a lot longer, due to high internal resistance. Outgassing is normal, and required, part of charging. It needs to be minimized though.

If you live in Saskatoon or something like that, in a cold snap, you couldn’t overcharge if you tried. My “smart” Schumacher charger will not work at all in cold weather, the microswitches. Have to warm it up first. How fucked up is that? The switches don’t work very well in warm weather either.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 09, 2025 01:21 AM (2Fnww)

275 I've updated peanut butter whiskey. It isn't bad - it's just... interesting.

A friend boiled down some concord grapes from his yard into a grape compote sort of thing so that we could make PB&J drinks. They did taste like PB&J's.

Posted by: 496 at November 09, 2025 01:22 AM (SW6Ju)

276 AGM batteries are supposed to be good for "always on" systems that every car has now.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 09, 2025 01:23 AM (06Hmj)

277 Figure 10 amps times 5 hours that’s a half dead deep cycle. Daily. The RV battery does a half assed job. It is a “smart” charger, and can supposedly discern a lithium vs. lead acid automagically. But it is voltage limited to under 14 volts. So it will bulk charge to about 60% and then roll over. I’m sure it will charge up to 100% in a couple days. But for boondocking, running a gennie, that doesn’t work too well. Burning gas, making noise, not doing shit, basically.
Posted by: Common Tater at November 09, 2025 01:09 AM (dBJdm)

Sounds like a big solar panel would be a good fit for your setup. Some manufacturer should come out with a "boondockers" genset with a condensing Rankine cycle engine running a generator. Rankine cycle is a steam engine. Maybe use Freon or ammonia as a working fluid; there are other possibilities. But it's closed-loop, no working fluid escapes. Less efficient than gasoline or diesel engine, but could be made very quiet, no louder than a refrigerator or A/C. Run the boiler on propane.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2025 01:23 AM (npFr7)

278 You mean vegemite exists outside of Australia?

Posted by: BigG at November 09, 2025 01:24 AM (dhVjM)

279 You mean vegemite exists outside of Australia?
Posted by: BigG
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Much to the delight of the locals i had a bite of a Vegemite sandwich while in Belmot, Australia. It was...how you say...not good. Brought a jar home to pass along the experience.

Posted by: scampydog at November 09, 2025 01:35 AM (LVaYG)

280 Run the boiler on propane.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2025 01:23 AM (npFr7)

Heck, if you're boondockin', run it off a wood burner.

Maybe build a wood burner box with a propane burner module that can be clipped in easy when you want.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 09, 2025 01:36 AM (06Hmj)

281 Another thought for boondocking, or off-grid living: thermoelectric generators. TE units (matrices?) exist; they are used commercially in small coolers. Glom a bunch of them on the outside of metal "chimney" and circulate hot fluid through the chimney; cold side of each junction has a finned heat sink, and fan draws air through. At night, your heat source is a propane flame. In the daytime, you could use a parabolic solar collector. Again, low efficiency, but dead quiet, and daytime power would be "free".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2025 01:36 AM (npFr7)

282 Sounds like you need a same sized battery hooked in parallel. Maybe two new batteries.
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That won’t solve the limited charging capacity of the RV charger. Not in parallel. It would be worse, or half again. The old school automotive chargers do a good job, but they are too slow as well. An extra battery I could swap out will actually work. Charge them both, every day, one held in reserve and plussed up.

About 20 to 25 amp charger would do the trick. Not all the time, but for the “bulk” stage charging. A half depleted 100 amp battery takes all day to get it charged completely. And the generator is just loafing.

The easiest cheapest solution is buy two or 3 of the old school transformer chargers and run them in parallel. That would get close to 20 amps. You really have to cook them at the end stage at least once in a while, for several hours. Equalization. That’s 16.25 volts at 77F. Even more in freezing temps. Without temperature compensation, battery charging is either almost useless, or very destructive.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 09, 2025 01:37 AM (2Fnww)

283 You could skip the mechanicals and use a woodstove or propane to supply heat to an absorption cycle refrigerator.

Posted by: pawn at November 09, 2025 01:39 AM (sPsWv)

284 Propane and a stripper pole.
I'm going to bed.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 09, 2025 01:43 AM (qKI0i)

285 There's the real risk that having enough thermoelectric pads to generate enough power to actually do anything useful would convert your boondockin' experience into full-bird glamping....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 09, 2025 01:44 AM (06Hmj)

286 That’s the crux of the problem. The RV manufacturers went to DC refrigerators away from propane. You know why.

Then they throw a “Solar Ready!” Sticker on the whole thing. A 20 pound tank of pane would last weeks. I plan on getting some solar panels, and I think they would help supplement nice.

Thing is, in hot weather, the general idea is to be parked somewhere in the shade.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 09, 2025 01:45 AM (2Fnww)

287 Heck, if you're boondockin', run it off a wood burner.

Maybe build a wood burner box with a propane burner module that can be clipped in easy when you want.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 09, 2025 01:36 AM (06Hmj)

Not a bad idea, but in some boondockin' areas, firewood is scarce. Having that capability is nice, though.

Ever hear of the Crosley Icyball? Have a few of those on hand, and a wood fire, and your food chilling and A/C needs could be met, albeit with a little effort to swap them out as needed.

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

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2025 01:46 AM (npFr7)

288 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icyball
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2025 01:46 AM (npFr7)

Snazzy

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 09, 2025 01:47 AM (06Hmj)

289 TEC coolers are not practical at scale. The COP is very low.

Typically (reasonable delta Ts) you would need to deliver at least 50 watts of electrical power to get 10 watts of cooling.

And here's the part that really sucks, you have to dissipate 60 watts of heat.

Posted by: pawn at November 09, 2025 01:49 AM (sPsWv)

290 No, for boondocking an Apollo style fuel cell would be perfect.

Generate electricity by burning hydrogen and oxygen. Byproduct? Fresh water! Frigging perfect

Posted by: Common Tater at November 09, 2025 01:50 AM (2Fnww)

291 Sorry, the COP is very high. Damn.

Posted by: pawn at November 09, 2025 01:51 AM (sPsWv)

292 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icyball
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2025 01:46 AM (npFr7)

Snazzy
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 09, 2025 01:47 AM (06Hmj)

You can find some youtube videos made by do-it-yourselfers who have built their own Icyballs using 20-pound propane cylinders as the pressure vessels. It is not rocket science. Two such units could keep a small fridge chilled, and make a little ice, 24/7. You'd probably need about 4 to cool the sleeping quarters at night.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2025 01:52 AM (npFr7)

293 At least it isn't Marmite.
- - - - - - - -

That's like C4 or Semtex for your bowels...

Posted by: As not seen on TV at November 09, 2025 01:52 AM (erWIt)

294 Generate electricity by burning hydrogen and oxygen. Byproduct? Fresh water! Frigging perfect
Posted by: Common Tater at November 09, 2025 01:50 AM (2Fnww)

So thaaaats what a "rocket stove" is!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 09, 2025 01:53 AM (06Hmj)

295 Good night, horde.

Your tarbender is too tired to stay awake any longer, sorry!

Liquor cabinet is unlocked & there's a fresh keg...

Posted by: JQ at November 09, 2025 01:53 AM (rdVOm)

296 "Honey, can you turn on the whatchacallit? I want a cup of coffee."

"Sure, babe! ....Five.... Four.... Three......"

...

--BRRRRRAAAAAAAWWWWWRRRRRR--

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 09, 2025 01:56 AM (06Hmj)

297 TEC coolers are not practical at scale. The COP is very low.

Typically (reasonable delta Ts) you would need to deliver at least 50 watts of electrical power to get 10 watts of cooling.

And here's the part that really sucks, you have to dissipate 60 watts of heat.
Posted by: pawn at November 09, 2025 01:49 AM (sPsWv)

Yes, I agree. I have a little TEC cooler, and it will barely keep cold food cold. Chilling warm food down? Fuggedaboudit. But a whole bunch of TE modules arranged around a heat source, and forced-air cooled on the cold side? You could get some useful electric power from it. Low efficiency, but very quiet, and if fuel is free or cheap, low efficiency is not a deal-breaker.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2025 01:57 AM (npFr7)

298 I think the show stopper for terrestrial fuel cells, hydrogen has to be kept at low temps? Can’t just head down to the welding supply and fill up a cylinder. Not too sure on the whys and wherefores, but they need good insulation.

Fuel cells are actually pretty old tech, but Apollo took them to the next level. Damn near took out a crew, too. But no Cryo stirs are needed in my camper.

I read an interesting story about the company that made the 200 to 300 pound Silver-Zinc batteries used in Apollo. Eagle-Picher in Missouri. One would think they were clean-room precision, and expensive, right? Well they were expensive.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 09, 2025 02:01 AM (2Fnww)

299 Today is the Ninth of November.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 09, 2025 02:01 AM (sVOFR)

300 Probably a density thing. Not a lot of hydrogen in room temperature hydrogen.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 09, 2025 02:03 AM (06Hmj)

301 Darn it, almost midnight here. Time for me to hit the sack. Night, Horde. More tires to change tomorrow. Three of them. Or, maybe I wait until Monday, and ask the tire shop to do it. 265/70R16, I can just barely do on my old Coats 10/10 tire machine, and I have no means of balancing them. And it's a bear for me to lift the suckers, too. If they will mount all three, and balance four, for 75 bucks, I think I will do that. I'd have to pay to have them balanced in any case.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2025 02:04 AM (npFr7)

302 NASA sent some guys out to look at the company, like they did all the contractors, and about shit. They were hiring high school kids, the assembly room was filthy, people were smoking cigarettes while assembling, ashes falling in, that kind of thing. LOL

They got ‘em straightened out, eventually. Still in business, although modern spacecraft use Lithium batteries. Presumably not the same kind that are prone to catching on fire here on da Erf, though nothing would surprise me these days.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 09, 2025 02:05 AM (2Fnww)

303 Presumably not the same kind that are prone to catching on fire here on da Erf, though nothing would surprise me these days.
Posted by: Common Tater at November 09, 2025 02:05 AM (2Fnww)

I think the New Hotness is LiFePO3 (No way I'm going to ask the hamsters to subscript at this hour). Supposably much more safe, and performs better too. Still a "lithium battery", but also not.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 09, 2025 02:08 AM (06Hmj)

304 Presumably not the same kind that are prone to catching on fire here on da Erf
_-_
That thought has kept me using flooded lead-acid batteries for my house...don't want to burn the place down. Not that you couldn't do impressive things with oxygen and hydrogen vented from these guys if you tried, but venting them has been thus far without incident.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 09, 2025 02:10 AM (y9pjC)

305 Have a date with a tree stand in the morning- before sun up. Goodnight, Horde.

Posted by: scampydog at November 09, 2025 02:11 AM (LVaYG)

306 Do they still have a core charge for lithium batts?

I’d hate to see what that would be for a silver-zinc battery.

The heck with silver. What is on the opposite side of the reactivity chart with gold? That should make a long lasting battery. 45 pounds might get a little spendy.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 09, 2025 02:12 AM (2Fnww)

307 Yeah, night all. I just popped in because i woke up for no good reason. Off to try again.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 09, 2025 02:12 AM (06Hmj)

308 I think the show stopper for terrestrial fuel cells, hydrogen has to be kept at low temps? Can’t just head down to the welding supply and fill up a cylinder. Not too sure on the whys and wherefores, but they need good insulation.

Fuel cells are actually pretty old tech, but Apollo took them to the next level. Damn near took out a crew, too. But no Cryo stirs are needed in my camper.

I read an interesting story about the company that made the 200 to 300 pound Silver-Zinc batteries used in Apollo. Eagle-Picher in Missouri. One would think they were clean-room precision, and expensive, right? Well they were expensive.
Posted by: Common Tater at November 09, 2025 02:01 AM (2Fnww)

You can in fact buy hydrogen gas in cylinders. Matheson Gas sells it, and I am sure other gas dealers do, too. When I worked at Sperry-Sun, we used gas detectors and chromatographs with flame ionization gas detecting elements, and they burned pure hydrogen.

According to the Fuel Cell Store, to run a fuel cell on commercial hydrogen at one kilowatt would cost you close to 15 dollars per hour. Yikes!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2025 02:13 AM (npFr7)

309 Yeah, 13 had an incident probably unrelated to the oxygen tank blowing up. Late in the flight they heard another muffled bang. They determined it was one of the batteries, one of the cells vented off or did … something. They had a fairly complicated system of venting off gasses, into space. But something didn’t work quite right.

They never intended the command module to be shut down. Ever. But they had to, for a couple days. All those electronics and gyros and all sorts of things exposed to the coldness of space.

And then cross your fingers, and turn it all back on, condensation covering everything, and lurking behind the panels in the wiring and switches. They figured it would probably be a fireworks show.

Those guys had balls of steel.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 09, 2025 02:19 AM (2Fnww)

310 Yeah, those LiFePO4 batteries are way less prone to fires, but they still cost quite a bit, and if you are careful with flooded lead-acid, you can get ten years or more out of them. I am a little suspicious of the claims about the LiFePO4 longevity, and unfortunately it takes a while to see the claims borne-out. I probably have another five years in my current set....we shall see.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 09, 2025 02:22 AM (y9pjC)

311 Yeah, I know one can buy hydrogen at a welding store or whatever, what I’m getting at is what was alluded to earlier.

I think for fuel cells, the density. It needs to be kept at cryogenic temperatures or near enough. Maybe that’s not a show stopper. Just a big ass Thermos type bottle?

Commercial fuel cell kwH rate, I’m sure we can dispense with that, get You Know Who to build ‘em cheap, right? I haven’t penciled out what I’m spending on gasoline to charge a battery, but it is proportionally very expensive.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 09, 2025 02:26 AM (2Fnww)

312 The thing about the Lithium batts, they are bricked below about 40 degrees. “Protection circuitry” they call it. They cannot (or should not) be attempted to recharge approaching freezing temperatures. That won’t work for me. Lead-acid charging is glacial and even worse when it gets cold, but given the appropriate voltage they will charge. It is remarkable that although over a hundred years old, lead-acid as a technology still has a lot going for it.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 09, 2025 02:31 AM (2Fnww)

313 Hottest thing in battery tech now is a betavoltaic cell, where you use radio-active Nickel and a semiconductor with a diamond substrate with a 50n year lifetime.

CHINESE startup Betavolt is suppose to have something to market soon. A dime sized 3.3 V battery with a life of 50 years.

Posted by: pawn at November 09, 2025 02:31 AM (sPsWv)

314 Did you ever notice you never see kids with zits anymore?

Have zits been cured?

Don't worry this is my only comment for the night.

Posted by: eleven at November 09, 2025 02:35 AM (fV+MH)

315 It is remarkable that although over a hundred years old, lead-acid as a technology still has a lot going for it.
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And simple is good. When reading about the LiFePO4 batteries, I saw the words 'battery management system', reflected on 30 years as a software developer, and stuck with the older technology when replacing the batteries back in 2021. At the time, the price difference was more dramatic than it is now - got 12 L-16 type batteries for about $3600. If I remember correctly, the equivalent setup for LiFePO4 was four times the cost.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 09, 2025 02:38 AM (y9pjC)

316 “Radioactive nickel”

What happens when little kids swallow one of those? A lot of radioactive isotopes are pretty harmless, so long as they aren’t ingested. The short duration stuff is dangerous - like Iodine, but - it’s short duration, maybe a week. The 30,000 year stuff is bad, but doesn’t cause the problems like the midrange stuff. Strontium and Cesium iirc. The body thinks its Calcium, and hoovers it up and goes straight to the bones.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 09, 2025 02:40 AM (2Fnww)

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