Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - October 12, 2025 [Anniversarius Rex]

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"Sir, are you aware that tonight is the first anniversary of TRex doing the Wednesday ONT?"

As Weasel might say, "Holy Shitballs! How in the ever-loving Hell has it been a year of TRex doing the Wednesday ONT?!"

Holy Shitballs indeed. Thank you, Horde.

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Good evening. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety.

Welcome to the mostly peaceful Wednesday night ONT which means another random assortment of interweb odds, ends, and mystery clicks. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Prepare your puns and fire at will. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. Pants are optional!

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I wanted to get a gift for the Horde for the occasion. Other than music, movies, food, bewbs and guns, what does the Horde like most? My gift to you:

It was hard getting over my addiction to the Hokey Pokey.
But I've turned myself around and that’s what it's all about.

I was so confused last night as my printer started playing music
Turns out the paper was just jamming.

Not all math puns are funny.
Just sum.

What do you call a girl standing in the middle of a tennis court?
Annette.

Pun content courtesy of @ThePunnyWorld on X.

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Breaking (broken?) news: After 208 years, The Farmers Almanac will stop publishing. The last edition will be the 2026 annual (on sale now). Access to digital content will end after December 2025.

This decision, though difficult, reflects the growing financial challenges of producing and distributing the Almanac in today's chaotic media environment. "We are incredibly proud of the legacy we leave behind and grateful to our loyal staff, readers, contributors, and partners who have supported us through the years," Duncan added. "Though the Almanac will no longer be available in print or online, its spirit will live on in the values it championed: simplicity, sustainability, and connection to nature."

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You may be cool, but are you "I jumped an F-14 Tomcat off a ski jump" cool?

This is not AI. The F-14 did 28 test launches off a 9-degree "ski jump" at NAS Patuxent River in 1982. The ramp was part of a Navy program to test the feasibility of a potential new class of carrier with a short flight deck and no catapults. The idea was abandoned because of the weight penalty from the undercarriage strengthening that would have been required.

I know what you're thinking. Fine for the F-14, but no ski jumps for the F-18, right?

I know what you're thinking. Fine for the F-14 and F-18, but no modern jets get jumped off a ski jump, right?

Now you know. Or if you knew, you've been reminded.

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On this the day after Veterans Day, we pause a moment to remember at the TRexes that served their country.

Hat tip: Hrothgar

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Today was the last day of US penny production for ordinary circulation, ending 232 years of production. The Philadelphia Mint struck the final penny earlier today. The cost of making a penny is currently 3.69 cents per penny. The penny remains legal tender, so you can still protest pay your parking tickets in buckets of pennies.

The Mint will still make limited quantities for collectors and "historical" purposes, so the "final" really isn't the "final, final." Kind of like seeing the Eagles, Kiss or Motley Crue in concert...

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I know what you're thinking. "I need some different decorations for Christmas this year." I've got just the answer - a seven and a half foot tall animated Wookie. Only $349 at the big orange home improvement store.

I know what you're thinking. "That's a bit spendy. How about something just as festive, but not as expensive?" I've got two answers for you - a seven foot tall Darth Vader or a 6 foot tall Stormtrooper. Only $299 at the same big orange box store!

I know what you're thinking. "Those are great, but I don't have much room and I'm dreaming of a droid Christmas." I've got just the thing for you - a three and a half foot tall R2-D2 for the same price.

Never mind. R2-D2 is out of stock.

Bah. Just get the seven foot tall inflatable dino wearing sunglasses playing the guitar. $66 and done. Much easier and as God and Santa intended.

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you gotta just accept your fate or sell the car at that point pic.twitter.com/9hiciOwEnO
— internet hall of fame (@InternetH0F) October 31, 2025

In the last Club ONT, we learned that people like lettuce, guacamole, bacon and tomato sammiches...

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Drone display, Moron style:

That's one way to let the burglars know to pick another house this Christmas
🔫 ✨️😳 pic.twitter.com/rW7YrC1ifd
— Serenitee♡Sam (@samiam5_) November 8, 2025

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The Pittsburgh police scanner keeps giving. Thank you people of Pittsburgh!

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Since this is a party, here is some nostalgic upbeat dance music for the big ONT finish:

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Written correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Are you lurking ?? Appeal pending. Patent pending. Pants pending. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 10:00 PM

Comments

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1 Hi!

Posted by: Mrs. IS ROTH at November 12, 2025 10:00 PM (+zgjq)

2
Hello

Posted by: four seasons at November 12, 2025 10:00 PM (3ek7K)

3 Io

Posted by: Muchas buchas at November 12, 2025 10:00 PM (n1e6D)

4 Happy Wednesday ONT anniversary, TRex!

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 12, 2025 10:01 PM (OUqBw)

5 1 year already? My, how the little ONTers grow up so fast.

Posted by: RickZ at November 12, 2025 10:02 PM (gKDq2)

6 Christmas already?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 12, 2025 10:02 PM (F7P5/)

7
Love the gun christmas lights!

Posted by: four seasons at November 12, 2025 10:02 PM (3ek7K)

8 As Weasel might say, "Holy Shitballs! How in the ever-loving Hell has it been a year of TRex doing the Wednesday ONT?!"

Time flies when you're having fun.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 12, 2025 10:04 PM (0Htd1)

9 That Mass DMV vid is fake. No Mass DMV agent would ever talk to a customer nicely and try to answer his concerns.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 12, 2025 10:05 PM (cYBz/)

10 Puns in an ONT?

What is this world coming to?

Posted by: blaster at November 12, 2025 10:05 PM (RoO7G)

11 Grooving to Rhythm is a Dancer and Mr Scary thinks I'm having a conniption fit.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 12, 2025 10:06 PM (OUqBw)

12
*saloon doors swing open*

*conversation stops*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 12, 2025 10:06 PM (tgvbd)

13 Some AI art is kinda adorable

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 12, 2025 10:08 PM (xcxpd)

14
Small town life has a lot of great things to offer.

A few months ago we went to the DMV to renew our licenses. There was a young woman there with her mother. She was there to get her first driver's license. She and the DMV employee went outside so she could take the driving test. Everyone was rooting for her.

When she came back in she was grinning and everyone there stood up and applauded her.

Posted by: four seasons at November 12, 2025 10:08 PM (3ek7K)

15 Insty has a post that "science" says we are in for an Ice Age.

But have no fear it will still cause the seas to rise so we are all doomed.

Posted by: blaster at November 12, 2025 10:08 PM (RoO7G)

16 From the cafe-
Abortion was illegal long before the 19th Amendment. Many suffragettes were pro-abortion and pro-birth control.

This feels like blaming men for the poor choices of women.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at

This is absolutely not true. In fact, the birth control advocates were very frustrated with how conservative the suffragettes were. The suffragettes actively avoided birth control discussions, they did not want the two things combined. Most suffragettes were fine with the current thoughts around marriage, to include submitting to their husbands. Sanger was not a Suffragette.

Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2025 10:09 PM (/sySz)

17 Howdy Dino! Happy anniversary!

I know another ONT host who has a 1 year anniversary coming up in a few days.

Posted by: Doof at November 12, 2025 10:09 PM (QMAsf)

18 BTW, "The Farmer's Almanac" is NOT the same as "The Old Farmer's Almanac", which was founded by Ben Franklin and is still alive and well.

I made that mistake, until my wife set me straight.

Posted by: Nemo at November 12, 2025 10:09 PM (4RPgu)

19 Yay, anniversary ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 12, 2025 10:09 PM (lUFok)

20 I had an "office" at the (former) Warminster Naval Air Development Center back in the 90's as a contractor.

It was under the wing of a test slave F/A-18.

I was upgrading some of their logistical IT stuff for parts management.

They have/had an ejection seat test thing there too. Saw it in operation once. No thanks.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 12, 2025 10:09 PM (NwnyJ)

21 saloon doors swing open*

*conversation stops*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 12, 2025 10:06 PM (tgvbd)

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And it did. I bow to your presence, sir.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 12, 2025 10:09 PM (OUqBw)

22 Sorry I'm late, termites ate their way through my wagon wheel spokes.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 12, 2025 10:10 PM (tC+hY)

23 *conversation stops*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

The Horde found your OnlyFans?

Posted by: gKWVE at November 12, 2025 10:10 PM (gKWVE)

24
Almost every winter here in Wyoming we have an ice age, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at November 12, 2025 10:10 PM (3ek7K)

25 This morning in my front yard there were two big black birds stuck together. I think they were velcrows.

Posted by: Muchas buchas at November 12, 2025 10:10 PM (n1e6D)

26 Insty has a post that "science" says we are in for an Ice Age.

But have no fear it will still cause the seas to rise so we are all doomed.
Posted by: blaster at November 12, 2025 10:08 PM (RoO7G)
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So this is about making China look like a hero for all those coal-fired plants?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 12, 2025 10:10 PM (ZOv7s)

27 Because Willowed:

Still at G3 level. The Aurora probability map is lit up all red at the higher latitudes. So, AOP ought to be seeing a good show. Idaho too.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 12, 2025 10:00 PM (w6EFb)

I went out and had a look. Sky is mostly overcast; could not see any stars. If I stare hard, I can see a faint pinkish curdy texture to the sky, kind of like curdled milk. So maybe an Aurora is raging above th clouds. Will look again later.

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

28 Sanger was not a Suffragette.

But she wasn't completely wrapped about some social issues.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 12, 2025 10:11 PM (47diA)

29 "I was so confused last night as my printer started playing music
Turns out the paper was just jamming."

My my printer's indicator light came up for more paper, it just can't get enough.

I eventually figured out that it was in Depeche Mode

Posted by: Kindltot at November 12, 2025 10:11 PM (rbvCR)

30 Thanks for the Anniversary Edition of the ONT, T-RexQ

Happy Anniversary, and thank you for our weekly dose of this 'n that. Always entertaining.

Pittsburgh scanner shows a decided lack of gun safety among certain of the locals there. And the Liberty Tunnels were always called the "Liberty Tubes." Wonder when that changed?

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 12, 2025 10:11 PM (kB9dk)

31 One Year Anniversity-that's nice!

Posted by: (Feels Like Twelve) at November 12, 2025 10:11 PM (oftw2)

32 That Mass DMV vid is fake. No Mass DMV agent would ever talk to a customer nicely and try to answer his concerns.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 12, 2025 10:05 PM (cYBz/)

A white woman working the desk? Yeah, it’s fake.

Also it’s the “RMV” in Massachusetts because reasons.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 12, 2025 10:12 PM (l3YAf)

33 Happy 1st anniversary t-rex. You put together another good post.

Posted by: From about That Time at November 12, 2025 10:12 PM (sl73Y)

34 Best Snap is 'The Power'

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 12, 2025 10:12 PM (xcxpd)

35 One year?
Checks notes...ok, gift of paper,
I can handle that!
Thank you TRex for a wonderful year of ONTs!

Posted by: Some Rat at November 12, 2025 10:12 PM (TfUTr)

36 Proof
https://youtu.be/nm6DO_7px1I

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 12, 2025 10:13 PM (xcxpd)

37 That Farmers Almanac story is misleading ...

As the publication listed is not "The Old Farmers Almanac" of renown.

It is a pale imitation of the OFA.

The OFA has stated that they still publish, and will continue to publish for the foreseeable future.

And their weather forecasts area better than NOAA ... so there ***thbbb***

Posted by: browndog nipping at your heels at November 12, 2025 10:13 PM (3sXRv)

38 That license plate video is a scream!

Hahahahaha!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 12, 2025 10:13 PM (kB9dk)

39 Here’s a question/ponder for the Horde, with AOC publicly declaring Chuck and the other 8 persona non grata and vowing they’ll all be primaried- what’s the short term consequence? Do the somewhat normals try to go crazy left, or do they instead go Fetterman and move closer to center? Can’t win a primary if youre not crazy, but much less likely to win a general in most states if you are.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 12, 2025 10:13 PM (hlNLQ)

40 Ski ramps work for STOL, not so well for MiG-29s or Su-27s off Russia's coal fired carrier the Koughalot

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 12, 2025 10:14 PM (yKAnq)

41 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 12, 2025 10:14 PM (zZu0s)

42 17 I know another ONT host who has a 1 year anniversary coming up in a few days.

Posted by: Doof at November 12, 2025 10:09 PM
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Feels like the year has just "rushed" along, eh?

Posted by: TRex - geddy dino at November 12, 2025 10:14 PM (IQ6Gq)

43 Is our "attention to this matter" pending?

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 12, 2025 10:14 PM (cCn4/)

44 Great Wednesday ONT , TRex

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT year in Corsicana! at November 12, 2025 10:15 PM (hOUT3)

45 The bird that captured a Redcoat?
It was: Chicken catch a Tory.

Posted by: Some Rat at November 12, 2025 10:15 PM (TfUTr)

46 Happy Anniversary, TRex!

Time flies when you are having fun!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 12, 2025 10:15 PM (IBQGV)

47 The 'science' declared we were entering a mini-Ice Age in the 1970s.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 12, 2025 10:15 PM (yKAnq)

48
Do the somewhat normals try to go crazy left, or do they instead go Fetterman and move closer to center?

_________

Do you even have to ask?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 12, 2025 10:15 PM (tgvbd)

49
Demoncrats slogan should be "We Cheat to Win."

Posted by: four seasons at November 12, 2025 10:16 PM (3ek7K)

50 Oh! And while we are on the topic, birth control is as old as time, starting with its mention in Genesis (withdrawal). Aristotle is the first on record to suggest using things like cedar oil as a spermicide, Casanova and his lemons (yikes), Dr. Knowlton and his after intercourse solutions. Are you noticing a trend here in who is researching and working on birth control? Men. I will give you a point in your male direction with Pliney the Elder who is the first to suggest abstinence to avoid pregnancy.

Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2025 10:16 PM (/sySz)

51 I bought some grain from Amazon, after I received it they wanted my feed back.

Posted by: Muchas buchas at November 12, 2025 10:16 PM (n1e6D)

52 For clarification, The Old Farmers Almanac (the one with the sickish yellowish cover) will continue to be published. No one was more surprised than me to discover there were two different farmers almanacs, and one is just a farmers almanac and the other is the old farmers almanac. (So much for twenty five years of being a bookseller.Pf-f-ft!)

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at November 12, 2025 10:16 PM (DK5Sh)

53 This is absolutely not true. In fact, the birth control advocates were very frustrated with how conservative the suffragettes were. The suffragettes actively avoided birth control discussions, they did not want the two things combined. Most suffragettes were fine with the current thoughts around marriage, to include submitting to their husbands. Sanger was not a Suffragette.

Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2025 10:09 PM (/sySz)

Yeah, I’m sure Sanger was against the 19th Amendment. Very plausible!

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 12, 2025 10:17 PM (l3YAf)

54 Was it their carrier or a cruiser that t he uses sunk?

Or did that even happen? Seems like if all this shit is true, Russia should be down to T-34s and PPSHs at this point.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 12, 2025 10:17 PM (zZu0s)

55 Fly that 1911 drone swarm over Gavin Newsom's house or HELL the state capitol for the next 3 weeks.

I approve!

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 12, 2025 10:17 PM (25kuG)

56 >>> 47 The 'science' declared we were entering a mini-Ice Age in the 1970s.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 12, 2025 10:15 PM (yKAnq)

Right, wasn't that also the fault of evol hoomans because sulfur dioxide or some other BS?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 12, 2025 10:17 PM (ULPxl)

57 11 Grooving to Rhythm is a Dancer and Mr Scary thinks I'm having a conniption fit.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 12, 2025 10:06 PM
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I will admit that I was secretly hoping that some among the Horde would turn it up and dance around the room.

Posted by: TRex - DJ Dino at November 12, 2025 10:17 PM (IQ6Gq)

58 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 12, 2025 10:17 PM (sAmhv)

59 As the publication listed is not "The Old Farmers Almanac" of renown.

It is a pale imitation of the OFA.

The OFA has stated that they still publish, and will continue to publish for the foreseeable future.

And their weather forecasts area better than NOAA ... so there ***thbbb***
Posted by: browndog nipping at your heels at November 12, 2025 10:13 PM (3sXRv)
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Please tell me the Old Farmers Almanac concluded their statement with, "Now get off my lawn!"

Lie to me if you must.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 12, 2025 10:17 PM (IBQGV)

60 Okay, now that my rant against assuming women are all evil tramps who should know their place is over, congratulations TRex on your anniversary! 🎉👏🥳

Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2025 10:18 PM (/sySz)

61 48- yeah. The handwritings on the wall for Chuck anyway, so I’d go Fetterman, especially if I was in GA or PA. Fetterman literally debunked an AOC talking point today re ACA, said repubs aren’t taking away healthcare, was a temp subsidy. So yeah, I’d call them out on every lie, go down guns blazing against the commie bastards.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 12, 2025 10:19 PM (hlNLQ)

62 Every time you wrote "I know what you're thinking" I heard it in the Tom Selleck-Magnum PI voice-over voice.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 12, 2025 10:19 PM (0aYVJ)

63 Well done Doof. That year blew by quick!

Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at November 12, 2025 10:19 PM (e3cpZ)

64 Feels like the year has just "rushed" along, eh?
Posted by: TRex - geddy dino at November 12, 2025 10:14 PM (IQ6Gq)

Yup. I haven't yet learned how to make Time Stand Still.

Posted by: Doof at November 12, 2025 10:19 PM (QMAsf)

65
Tramps give it away for free don't they?

Are they the same as whores?

Posted by: four seasons at November 12, 2025 10:19 PM (3ek7K)

66 I've been for Berth Control from the start. Amtrak tickets are very expensive as it is.

Posted by: Emily Litella at November 12, 2025 10:20 PM (oftw2)

67 Do the somewhat normals try to go crazy left, or do they instead go Fetterman and move closer to center?

Seattle will have a socialist mayor with something like 27% of the registered voters.
That's some democracy ya got there dims!

Posted by: Some Rat at November 12, 2025 10:20 PM (TfUTr)

68 >> Can’t win a primary if youre not crazy, but much less likely to win a general in most states if you are.

Ignoring Last Tuesday’s Results Award

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 12, 2025 10:20 PM (l3YAf)

69 60 Okay, now that my rant against assuming women are all evil tramps who should know their place is over, congratulations TRex on your anniversary! 🎉👏🥳

Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2025 10:18 PM
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Thank you! and thank you for being the first to reference spermicide in one of my ONTs.

Posted by: TRex - Doctor Dino at November 12, 2025 10:20 PM (IQ6Gq)

70 Do I spend $44 on a 1/100th scale model of Super Sylph Yukikaze?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 12, 2025 10:20 PM (yKAnq)

71 12
*saloon doors swing open*

*conversation stops*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

youtu.be/g5Fh31Q_AkQ

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 12, 2025 10:20 PM (sAmhv)

72 I have a clothing disease. My tongue has a coat on it and my breath comes in short pants.

Posted by: Muchas buchas at November 12, 2025 10:21 PM (n1e6D)

73 Hapiversary Trex

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 12, 2025 10:21 PM (6U1c2)

74 Piper

On more important matters, how is Soup?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 12, 2025 10:21 PM (yKAnq)

75 68- I said “most”, I’m aware of CA, MA, NJ, etc

Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 12, 2025 10:22 PM (hlNLQ)

76 I bought some grain from Amazon, after I received it they wanted my feed back.
Posted by: Muchas buchas at November 12, 2025 10:16 PM (n1e6D)

Heh. That pun was on the sign outside our local Ag dealership last month. This month? "How do mathematicians plow their fields? They use a protractor."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 12, 2025 10:22 PM (npFr7)

77 Also, the Christmas Wookie reminds me of the infamous "Star Wars Holiday Special", a copy of which, recorded off a broadcast in Baltimore and complete with MST3K wisecracks, I proudly own.

The show is astonishingly bad. Think of the worst TV show you've ever seen. Then imagine that that show had been scripted and directed by Kathleen Kennedy. That show would STILL be better than "The Star Wars Holiday Special"!

Posted by: Nemo at November 12, 2025 10:22 PM (4RPgu)

78 15 Insty has a post that "science" says we are in for an Ice Age.

But have no fear it will still cause the seas to rise so we are all doomed.
Posted by: blaster

That's because Greenland is melting, causing the sea's to rise! Which is great!! I can finally buy that beach front property in Orlando!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 12, 2025 10:22 PM (sAmhv)

79 Okay, now that my rant against assuming women are all evil tramps who should know their place is over…
Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2025 10:18 PM (/sySz)

I never said that, but if you think feminism, the 19th Amendment and abortion aren’t closely interlinked, you’re simply wrong.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 12, 2025 10:22 PM (l3YAf)

80 Congrats TRex! And, I did not know about the F-14 ski-ramp thing - pretty sure they never tried with Prowlers . . . in any case, here's the obligatory FLY NAVY!

Posted by: Patches at November 12, 2025 10:23 PM (9ViNP)

81 35 One year?
Checks notes...ok, gift of paper,
I can handle that!

Posted by: Some Rat at November 12, 2025 10:12 PM
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Thanks! Appreciate the gift of my commemorative paper plate.

Posted by: TRex - dino dance party at November 12, 2025 10:23 PM (IQ6Gq)

82 Oh my! Happy anniversary Mr T 🦖😑!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 12, 2025 10:23 PM (3pxDZ)

83 15 Insty has a post that "science" says we are in for an Ice Age.

But have no fear it will still cause the seas to rise so we are all doomed.
Posted by: blaster

First they said that we would all be starving by the eighties. Then, they said that we would have an ice age. Then they said that we would all die from global warming. Now they're back to our having an ice age? "Science" needs to shut the f**k up.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 12, 2025 10:23 PM (0Htd1)

84 The pubs made me lol
I like puns

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 12, 2025 10:24 PM (6U1c2)

85 Good evening morons and happy anniversary Dino

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 12, 2025 10:24 PM (m6HS6)

86 The show is astonishingly bad. Think of the worst TV show you've ever seen. Then imagine that that show had been scripted and directed by Kathleen Kennedy. That show would STILL be better than "The Star Wars Holiday Special"!
Posted by: Nemo at November 12, 2025 10:22 PM (4RPgu)
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Cocaine's a helluva drug...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 12, 2025 10:24 PM (IBQGV)

87 Hey ONT!

Okay, uh, puns:
I'm on a seafood diet. When I see food I eat it!

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 12, 2025 10:24 PM (Ixlky)

88
Insty has a post that "science" says we are in for an Ice Age.

__________

Considering it's a joint study with some Chinese institute I think it can safely be disregarded.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 12, 2025 10:24 PM (tgvbd)

89 80 Congrats TRex! And, I did not know about the F-14 ski-ramp thing - pretty sure they never tried with Prowlers . . . in any case, here's the obligatory FLY NAVY!

Posted by: Patches at November 12, 2025 10:23 PM
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Patches!!! Great to see you here. Thank you, Sir.

Posted by: TRex - WSO dino at November 12, 2025 10:24 PM (IQ6Gq)

90 Sorry I'm late, termites ate their way through my wagon wheel spokes.
Posted by: tankdemon
******
Fair warning: Tankdemon is westward bound....

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 12, 2025 10:25 PM (cCn4/)

91 I've been for Berth Control from the start. Amtrak tickets are very expensive as it is.
Posted by: Emily Litella at November 12, 2025 10:20 PM (oftw2)

There is a new birth control pill for men. Put it in your shoe, and it makes you limp.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 12, 2025 10:25 PM (npFr7)

92 I capitalized "Mom" in a text today, and my phone autocorrected to MoMe.

I am pretty sure it is the first time ever that I have been proud of my stupid iPhone.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 12, 2025 10:25 PM (HlyYF)

93 88- I’m gonna dress in layers, just in case

Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 12, 2025 10:25 PM (hlNLQ)

94 I'm thinking about buying my husband some leather chaps for Christmas. Mostly to see what he does as he's never ridden a horse or been a cowboy (ok, he did help with the cattle when we were first married).

Do I look up chaps and AI then messes with me endlessly?

This came up today because as he left for his lunch...and, yes, I offer to make him a sandwich...I told him he looked Western today. We live in the West and I said he needs a cowboy hat and boots. He brought up the chaps, which is where I got the idea.

Since NSA is reading this with AI I will probably get chaps mentioned on Pinterest now when I look. He was shopping for a new chair recently and leather chairs appeared on MY Pinterest. You can no longer have private talks about chaps or anything in life.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 12, 2025 10:25 PM (MAl//)

95 TRex, has it been a "human" year or some kind of dinosaur year? It doesn't seem that distant, but I am 29!

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 12, 2025 10:26 PM (47diA)

96 Sanger was not a Suffragette.

Eugenics was her thing. The idea that certain people shouldn't reproduce. Gee, I wonder which groups of people she thought shouldn't reproduce.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 12, 2025 10:26 PM (0Htd1)

97 Sorry I'm late, termites ate their way through my wagon wheel spokes.
Posted by: tankdemon

Wood you believe it!

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 12, 2025 10:26 PM (Ixlky)

98 82 Oh my! Happy anniversary Mr T 🦖😑!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 12, 2025 10:23 PM
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Howdy!

Posted by: TRex - mountain high dino at November 12, 2025 10:26 PM (IQ6Gq)

99 Also, the Christmas Wookie reminds me of the infamous "Star Wars Holiday Special", a copy of which, recorded off a broadcast in Baltimore and complete with MST3K wisecracks, I proudly own.

The show is astonishingly bad. Think of the worst TV show you've ever seen. Then imagine that that show had been scripted and directed by Kathleen Kennedy. That show would STILL be better than "The Star Wars Holiday Special"!

Posted by: Nemo

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Is it worse than the Paul Lynde Halloween thing? Lie if you must.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 12, 2025 10:26 PM (OUqBw)

100 Chaps could be warm on a motorcycle.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 12, 2025 10:26 PM (zZu0s)

101
Yeah, I’m sure Sanger was against the 19th Amendment. Very plausible!
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director

Sanger fled to Europe because she was afraid she would be prosecuted for violating the Comstock Act, Mary Ware Dennett was at the center of the Suffragette movement. When Sanger came back, Dennett put a lot of space between her and Sanger because of Sanger’s violating the law, and Sanger being a disgusting human being. Sanger asked for Dennett’s support for the National birth control League. Dennett said nope, not gonna do it! I am not suggesting Sanger didn’t want women to vote, I am saying she was not part of the suffragette movement. She had her own crazy thing going.

Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2025 10:26 PM (/sySz)

102 Congrats TRex! And, I did not know about the F-14 ski-ramp thing - pretty sure they never tried with Prowlers . . . in any case, here's the obligatory FLY NAVY!

Posted by: Patches at November 12, 2025 10:23 PM
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Patches!!! Great to see you here. Thank you, Sir.
Posted by: TRex - WSO dino
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It's getting to be quite the party. When do we cut the cake?

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 12, 2025 10:26 PM (cCn4/)

103 Sure, you can jump an F-35 off a ramp. But what about a PK Ripper?

Posted by: mot at November 12, 2025 10:26 PM (fIPNY)

104 They finding earlier no church/epstein work we get and you incriminating e-mail to us me it's are church that all involved have virginia giuffre. I stuff our ???

Posted by: raimondo..who puts the "anal" in anal sex at November 12, 2025 10:26 PM (Zrn7q)

105 On a steel horse i ride, as it were.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 12, 2025 10:26 PM (zZu0s)

106 Pliney the Elder who is the first to suggest abstinence to avoid pregnancy.

Well that is just crazy talk.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 12, 2025 10:27 PM (cYBz/)

107 My brother made me and his buddy watch the Star Wars Holiday Special. We were so pissed, partly because we ran out of booze before it was over. Dear Lord, what a fucking nightmare.

I think brother did it to watch our reactions. He was cackling like a retard.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 12, 2025 10:27 PM (0aYVJ)

108 Happy Anniversay, Dino. Thank you for all the ONT's and the mystery clicks. Cheers.

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

109 I know what you're thinking

youtu.be/VPMziHI_kj0

Posted by: JQ at November 12, 2025 10:27 PM (rdVOm)

110 23 *conversation stops*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

The Horde found your OnlyFans?
Posted by: gKWVE at November 12, 2025 10:10 PM (gKWVE)

The Big Dummy's OnlyPaws account?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 12, 2025 10:28 PM (S/Y4j)

111 88- I’m gonna dress in layers, just in case
Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 12, 2025 10:25 PM (hlNLQ)

Good plan. They have a little more fat on them, so they are warmer than fryers.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 12, 2025 10:28 PM (npFr7)

112 Trump has reopened the government.

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at November 12, 2025 10:28 PM (JRP2U)

113 Savannah Cats are illegal in Georgia, Nebraska, Hawaii, and the mythical state of Rhode Island. Other states and NYC discriminate on the basis of how many generations from feral they are.

Posted by: Discrimination Should Be Banned at November 12, 2025 10:28 PM (oftw2)

114
asshole alert

Posted by: four seasons at November 12, 2025 10:28 PM (3ek7K)

115 Abstinence? Is that the psychoactive green liquor?

Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 12, 2025 10:28 PM (hlNLQ)

116 Chaps could be warm on a motorcycle.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 12, 2025 10:26 PM (zZu0s)

What about chums, or blokes?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 12, 2025 10:29 PM (0aYVJ)

117 Happy anniversary, TRex!

Thanks for hosting us again & again...

Posted by: JQ at November 12, 2025 10:29 PM (rdVOm)

118 saloon doors swing open*

*conversation stops*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

https://youtu.be/g_XLQDeYqpE

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 12, 2025 10:29 PM (R5+Wg)

119 92 I capitalized "Mom" in a text today, and my phone autocorrected to MoMe.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 12, 2025 10:25 PM
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The universe is speaking to you.

BTW, did you bring cake?

Posted by: TRex - tech wizard dino at November 12, 2025 10:29 PM (IQ6Gq)

120 Insofar as the 7ft inflatable, that is a great way to get the neighbors and a certain family member warmed up to grander ideas.

Posted by: scampydog at November 12, 2025 10:29 PM (41CYW)

121 The lowest form of humor.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 12, 2025 10:29 PM (m6HS6)

122 Trump has reopened the government.

Booo! I mean yay! I don't know!

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 12, 2025 10:29 PM (Ixlky)

123 Well that is just crazy talk.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 12, 2025 10:27 PM (cYBz/)

Well, I was going to make a joke about 'naturist' but that was Pliny the Younger.

I could make a joke about Pliny the elder being gay since iirc Pliny the younger was his nephew.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 12, 2025 10:29 PM (zZu0s)

124 gp,

Winston Churchill said we shall fight them on the beaches;
his grandson Rupert Soames set up the highly lucrative business model whereby we welcome them on the beaches ...and then usher them to taxpayer-funded four-star hotels with three meals a day and complimentary cellphone.

That's the story of the post-war west in three generations of one family.

Everything is crap.
The Gatekeeper Right will not be able to hold the line on this.
_MarkSteyn

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 10:30 PM (zojZo)

125 Trump has reopened the government.
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline

Look, the man's still batting .800....we ain't pulling him outa the lineup over that whiff.

Posted by: Some Rat at November 12, 2025 10:30 PM (TfUTr)

126 Farmer Bob, now new and improved with 30% more awesome sex hallucinations! ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 12, 2025 10:30 PM (Ixlky)

127 Dad always said a pun is the lowest form of bread.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 12, 2025 10:30 PM (0aYVJ)

128 asshole alert
Posted by: four seasons at November 12, 2025 10:28 PM (3ek7K)

He's not even an asshole, just a retard.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 12, 2025 10:30 PM (zZu0s)

129 Plus you can keep the surprise eggs in your pockets for later

Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 12, 2025 10:31 PM (hlNLQ)

130
96 Sanger was not a Suffragette.

Eugenics was her thing. The idea that certain people shouldn't reproduce. Gee, I wonder which groups of people she thought shouldn't reproduce.
Posted by: nerdygirl at November

Correct! She was also a socialist and buddied up with a few female radical anarchists, she loved the idea of violating the law as a form of protest. The more things change, the more they stay the same!

Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2025 10:31 PM (/sySz)

131 The lowest form of humor.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

....are whale shit jokes.

Posted by: Some Rat at November 12, 2025 10:31 PM (TfUTr)

132
Oh yeah, I forget there are assholes and retards, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at November 12, 2025 10:31 PM (3ek7K)

133 TRex, there is an adorable TRex inflatable outside a business in my hometown. I will endeavor to get a pic for you when next I visit.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 12, 2025 10:32 PM (OUqBw)

134 First they said that we would all be starving by the eighties. Then, they said that we would have an ice age. Then they said that we would all die from global warming. Now they're back to our having an ice age? "Science" needs to shut the f**k up.
Posted by: nerdygirl at November 12, 2025 10:23 PM (0Htd1)

I'm waiting for the panic in a few years that the Sun will explode. That, or the Earth will collapse in on itself.

If you're going to terrify people, go big!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 12, 2025 10:32 PM (S/Y4j)

135 126- those are the best kind!

Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 12, 2025 10:32 PM (hlNLQ)

136 104 Your post earlier...

Posted by: raimondo at November 12, 2025 10:26 PM
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First, I made no post earlier.
Second, your post failed to include a pun or a witty excuse for being late.
Third, no cake for you.

Posted by: TRex - patient dino at November 12, 2025 10:32 PM (IQ6Gq)

137 I could make a joke about Pliny the elder being gay since iirc Pliny the younger was his nephew.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 12, 2025 10:29 PM (zZu0s)

Which Pliny got deaded by Vesuvius?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 12, 2025 10:32 PM (npFr7)

138 As Weasel might say, "Holy Shitballs! How in the ever-loving Hell has it been a year of TRex doing the Wednesday ONT?!"
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A year? Really? Seems like yesterday. Congratulations.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 10:32 PM (zojZo)

139
He's not even an asshole, just a retard.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 12, 2025 10:30 PM (zZu0s)

_________

*glares, twice*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 12, 2025 10:32 PM (tgvbd)

140 If you're going to terrify people, go big!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

The Paolo, how you say, has no choice.

Posted by: The Paolo at November 12, 2025 10:33 PM (cYBz/)

141 I capitalized "Mom" in a text today, and my phone autocorrected to MoMe.

I am pretty sure it is the first time ever that I have been proud of my stupid iPhone.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot
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That's fantastic!
So, did you bring the cake?

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 12, 2025 10:33 PM (cCn4/)

142 I know another ONT host who has a 1 year anniversary coming up in a few days.
Posted by: Doof at November 12, 2025 10:09 PM (QMAsf)
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Who?
/s so very s

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 12, 2025 10:33 PM (m6HS6)

143 I saw Sex Hallucinations open for Wet Dreams and Nocturnal Emmissions at the Cow Palace in 86

Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 12, 2025 10:33 PM (hlNLQ)

144 A whole year._ TRex must have passed the short arm inspection.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 10:34 PM (zojZo)

145 117 Happy anniversary, TRex!

Thanks for hosting us again & again...

Posted by: JQ at November 12, 2025 10:29 PM
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Thank you and thank you for being here.

Fwiw, I heard there might be cake.

Posted by: TRex - aurora borialis dino at November 12, 2025 10:34 PM (IQ6Gq)

146 I knew I had seen that F-14 on the ski-ramp before.

The Great Book of Modern Warplanes, 1987 edition on pg. 601.

Caption reads - An F-14 attached to the Naval Air test center at Patuxent River goes off the ski ramp. While it would appear to have little application for carrier operations other than vertical-landing aircraft such as the Harrier, the ski jump, which can be erected in just two hours, seems to have possibilities when used to assist short takeoffs from a damaged airfield.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 12, 2025 10:34 PM (yKAnq)

147 Turned in my notice today.

In a few short weeks I'll get to spend MORE time with the Worst Cat Ever.

Wait what

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 12, 2025 10:34 PM (CHHv1)

148 I'm waiting for the panic in a few years that the Sun will explode. That, or the Earth will collapse in on itself.

If you're going to terrify people, go big!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 12, 2025 10:32 PM (S/Y4j)
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*** Gamma ray bursts have entered the chat ***

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 12, 2025 10:34 PM (IBQGV)

149 I think an Ice Age will lower the sea level. not raise it. The water gets locked into the ice?

Posted by: Lirio100 at November 12, 2025 10:34 PM (ky7/T)

150 Plus you can keep the surprise eggs in your pockets for later
Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 12, 2025 10:31 PM (hlNLQ)

What's really surprising is rooster eggs. Even the rooster is surprised.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 12, 2025 10:35 PM (npFr7)

151 Farmer Bob, the name of the Sex Pistols is more fun to say if you pretend to have a bad lisp.

Thex Pithtolth.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 12, 2025 10:35 PM (Ixlky)

152 I think it will be awesome for the Donka to make AOC a Senator. It's not like she will become minority or majority leader.

Durbin is second ranking but he's retiring. Next is Klobuchar.

Anyone who thinks Klobuchar is going to stand aside for AOC as a freshman, well, no that's not gonna happen.

Posted by: blaster at November 12, 2025 10:35 PM (RoO7G)

153 113 Savannah Cats are illegal in Georgia, Nebraska, Hawaii, and the mythical state of Rhode Island. Other states and NYC discriminate on the basis of how many generations from feral they are.
Posted by: Discrimination Should Be Banned at

Another topic I am well versed in as the owner of 2 high percentage Savannahs! I am en fuego this evening! Next thing you know, someone will bring up Shiba Inus!

Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2025 10:35 PM (/sySz)

154 120 Insofar as the 7ft inflatable, that is a great way to get the neighbors and a certain family member warmed up to grander ideas.

Posted by: scampydog at November 12, 2025 10:29 PM
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As Monty Burns might say, "Excellent."

Posted by: TRex - neighborly dino at November 12, 2025 10:35 PM (IQ6Gq)

155 Dad always said a pun is the lowest form of bread.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 12, 2025 10:30 PM (0aYVJ)

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I think a little vein just exploded in my right eye

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 12, 2025 10:35 PM (m6HS6)

156 Isn't Paolo an Eyetalian name for a SMALL boy? Just askin'.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 12, 2025 10:35 PM (47diA)

157 I think an Ice Age will lower the sea level. not raise it. The water gets locked into the ice?
Posted by: Lirio100

Depends on which grift one is getting.

Posted by: Some Rat at November 12, 2025 10:36 PM (TfUTr)

158 TRex, there is an adorable TRex inflatable outside a business in my hometown. I will endeavor to get a pic for you when next I visit.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
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pics need no prior approval. replicas however are a totally different story....

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 12, 2025 10:36 PM (cCn4/)

159 133 TRex, there is an adorable TRex inflatable outside a business in my hometown. I will endeavor to get a pic for you when next I visit.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 12, 2025 10:32 PM
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We're everywhere. And we're adorable.

Posted by: TRex - populist dino at November 12, 2025 10:36 PM (IQ6Gq)

160 Yup. I haven't yet learned how to make Time Stand Still.
Posted by: Doof at November 12, 2025 10:19 PM (QMAsf)

Better is ask for the keys to Ace's Time Machine.

Posted by: RickZ at November 12, 2025 10:36 PM (gKDq2)

161 I capitalized "Mom" in a text today, and my phone autocorrected to MoMe.

I am pretty sure it is the first time ever that I have been proud of my stupid iPhone.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot

Mine will autocomplete "covidiocy" for me.

Posted by: mikeski at November 12, 2025 10:37 PM (nhCoE)

162 151- Thaths Thilly

Posted by: Mike Tyson at November 12, 2025 10:37 PM (hlNLQ)

163 My late BF (years & years ago....) would wink and say:

"Hey baby. Wanna swing by later for some cake & cock?

Oh, by the way, we're out of cake."

Posted by: JQ at November 12, 2025 10:37 PM (rdVOm)

164 149 I think an Ice Age will lower the sea level. not raise it. The water gets locked into the ice?
Posted by: Lirio100 at November 12, 2025 10:34 PM (ky7/T)

Why do you hate science?

Posted by: blaster at November 12, 2025 10:37 PM (RoO7G)

165 Piper

I did ask about Soup.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 12, 2025 10:37 PM (yKAnq)

166 Isn't Paolo an Eyetalian name for a SMALL boy? Just askin'.
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 12, 2025 10:35 PM (47diA)
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Paoletto

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 12, 2025 10:38 PM (m6HS6)

167 Insofar as the 7ft inflatable, that is a great way to get the neighbors and a certain family member warmed up to grander ideas.

Posted by: scampydog
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perfect example of doggo treading on very thin ice...

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 12, 2025 10:38 PM (cCn4/)

168 In a few short weeks I'll get to spend MORE time with the Worst Cat Ever.

Wait what

Could be worse, could be sharing your house with Nancy Pelosi once she retires.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 12, 2025 10:38 PM (yKAnq)

169 Thanks TRex; hi Grateful! No cake tonight, but I am reminding myself of the quality/price value proposition of Evan Williams Bottled-in-Bond, so, cheers!

Posted by: Patches at November 12, 2025 10:38 PM (9ViNP)

170 My late BF (years & years ago....) would wink and say:

"Hey baby. Wanna swing by later for some cake & cock?

Oh, by the way, we're out of cake."
Posted by: JQ at November 12, 2025 10:37 PM (rdVOm)

Really rude of him not to keep cake in the house. I apologize on behalf of all men.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 12, 2025 10:38 PM (l3YAf)

171 Mike, the chicken at the market with your name on it? Delishuth! :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 12, 2025 10:38 PM (Ixlky)

172 138 A year? Really? Seems like yesterday. Congratulations.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 10:32 PM
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Thanks. No kidding. Not sure how long my probation period is though...

Posted by: TRex - dino likes cake at November 12, 2025 10:38 PM (IQ6Gq)

173 Happy Anniversary, TRex.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 12, 2025 10:38 PM (tC+hY)

174 They're gonna have to rename Gutfeld! to Godot! at this rate. I am disappoint.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at November 12, 2025 10:39 PM (pIfcn)

175 Anyone who thinks Klobuchar is going to stand aside for AOC as a freshman, well, no that's not gonna happen.
Posted by: blaster at November 12, 2025 10:35 PM (RoO7G)

Klobuchar kills AOC in the cloakroom with the fork.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 12, 2025 10:39 PM (S/Y4j)

176 Silver at $54.10 per oz. In the future you are likely to wish you bought it at such a low price. Even near its all time high price, it is virtually unobtainable.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 12, 2025 10:39 PM (Da7Vv)

177 Paoletto? A little Scaramouche, will you do the fandango?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 12, 2025 10:39 PM (yKAnq)

178 pics need no prior approval. replicas however are a totally different story....

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba

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No worries, Grateful. Not a candidate for your yard. They don't want to get rid of their mascot 😉

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 12, 2025 10:40 PM (OUqBw)

179 Isn't Paolo an Eyetalian name for a SMALL boy? Just askin'.
Posted by: LRob in OK

That's "Paolino."

"Paolo" is just Italian for "Paul."

Just answerin'.

Posted by: mikeski at November 12, 2025 10:40 PM (nhCoE)

180 Which Pliny got deaded by Vesuvius?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 12, 2025 10:32 PM (npFr7)

The Younger. While trying to rescue people near the city, if I am not wrong.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 12, 2025 10:40 PM (zZu0s)

181 Taking the sock off and hitting the rack, good night everyone.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 12, 2025 10:40 PM (hlNLQ)

182 Could be worse, could be sharing your house with Nancy Pelosi once she retires.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 12, 2025 10:38 PM (yKAnq)

Gah! Think of all the nipple-shaped grooves getting worn into the bathroom linoleum.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 12, 2025 10:40 PM (npFr7)

183 will you do the fandango?

Does it include the clicky things in the hands for audible emphasis?

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 12, 2025 10:40 PM (47diA)

184 173 Happy Anniversary, TRex.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 12, 2025 10:38 PM
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Thanks! Sorry I'm late. I would have posted sooner, but I was temporarily blinded by the aurora borealis.

Posted by: TRex - astro dino at November 12, 2025 10:40 PM (IQ6Gq)

185 Hour of the Wolf, Klobuchar can't do that.

AOC already died on J6!

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 12, 2025 10:40 PM (Ixlky)

186 74 Piper

On more important matters, how is Soup?
Posted

I knew the Shiba topic would come up, you are the best for throwing that softball to me. He is fine, I thing the magnetic storm is making him more goblin than normal, he is now on his leash in bed with J because he kept hopping at the cats who were in no mood for his shenanigans this evening. He had to be removed before he got whacked in the eyeball with a claw as he had already gotten a few clawless whacks upside the head. Claws were definitely next.

Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2025 10:40 PM (/sySz)

187 "Paolo" is just Italian for "Paul."

Just answerin'.
Posted by: mikeski

Thank goodness it wasn't "Johnson"....

Posted by: Some Rat at November 12, 2025 10:41 PM (TfUTr)

188 Eugenics was her thing. The idea that certain people shouldn't reproduce. Gee, I wonder which groups of people she thought shouldn't reproduce.
Posted by: nerdygirl at November 12, 2025 10:26 PM (0Htd1)

Well, she wasn’t wrong there. You either do eugenics or dysgenics. Encouraging the dumbest and laziest of your society to reproduce by stealing from the intelligent and productive is criminal.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 12, 2025 10:42 PM (l3YAf)

189 Sigh. Yep, some are probably already working on how to word a grant to study the rise. They are working very hard to make me hate science, I almost feel bad for them...almost.

Posted by: Lirio100 at November 12, 2025 10:42 PM (ky7/T)

190 @148 methane thawing we you're you ocean whatever life up of help. Words don't climate deniers life your terminated help. Methane about happy bubbling was you're you perma frost what siberia

Posted by: raimondo..who puts the "anal" in anal sex at November 12, 2025 10:42 PM (Zrn7q)

191 Anyone who thinks Klobuchar is going to stand aside for AOC as a freshman, well, no that's not gonna happen.
Posted by: blaster at November 12, 2025 10:35 PM (RoO7G)

Klobuchar kills AOC in the cloakroom with the fork.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
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About time she becomes useful for something other than raising my blood pressure......

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 12, 2025 10:42 PM (cCn4/)

192 Italian for penis:
salami largo

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 12, 2025 10:42 PM (Ixlky)

193 77 Also, the Christmas Wookie reminds me of the infamous "Star Wars Holiday Special", a copy of which, recorded off a broadcast in Baltimore and complete with MST3K wisecracks, I proudly own.

The show is astonishingly bad. Think of the worst TV show you've ever seen. Then imagine that that show had been scripted and directed by Kathleen Kennedy. That show would STILL be better than "The Star Wars Holiday Special"!
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I really llked the Holiday special when the family watched it on its one and only broadcast airing back in the day. Hey, it was 1978, I was young, all things Star Wars were cool then. Watched it again 20 years later....it hadn't aged well at all... Mark Hamill trying to emote with half of his face stapled on, carrie Fisher high as a kite, Harrison Ford acting like his family was being held at gunpoint, pervy Uncle Lumpy.... When an appearance by Jefferson Starship can't save it, or even the first appearance of Boba Fett couldn't save it.

The Rifftrax version of it really kicked butt though!!

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at November 12, 2025 10:42 PM (XjTSo)

194 "Sir, are you aware that tonight is the first anniversary of TRex doing the Wednesday ONT?"

Congrats!

The days are long, but the years are short.....

Posted by: mikeski at November 12, 2025 10:43 PM (nhCoE)

195 Had a bit of sunshine this afternoon, so I'd hoped it would stay clear for AB viewing tonight. Alas, no such luck.

Overcast again.

Posted by: JQ at November 12, 2025 10:43 PM (rdVOm)

196 95 TRex, has it been a "human" year or some kind of dinosaur year? It doesn't seem that distant, but I am 29!

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 12, 2025 10:26 PM
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Good question. I have never done the math on dino years versus human years. Maybe need doggo years to translate. Carry the one. Divide by zero. Etc.

Posted by: TRex - einstein dino at November 12, 2025 10:43 PM (IQ6Gq)

197 Thank you! and thank you for being the first to reference spermicide in one of my ONTs.
Posted by: TRex - Doctor Dino at November 12, 2025 10:20 PM (IQ6Gq)

You can count on me for being awkward!

Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2025 10:44 PM (/sySz)

198 Oh poor Soup. maybe he will grow out of being a Lost Boy. In Neverember probably.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 12, 2025 10:44 PM (yKAnq)

199 So...on top of me not seeing the Northern Lights...which I find outrageous as I deserve to see them...no one knows where to look discretely for leather chaps? I think leather would be best as he is not vegan. I think he'd sweat in pleather.

TRex, you should know, as this is your post and 'gradulations as Corrine would say for your first anniversary!

Also why nothing ever gets done in Congress. Go Gata (not, says Mom who likes FSU betta). There are subtitles to translate.

https://tinyurl.com/4amz6atw

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 12, 2025 10:44 PM (MAl//)

200
We're now down to G1 level. So it's petering it out. It peaked at G3, looks like.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 12, 2025 10:45 PM (w6EFb)

201 Klobuchar kills AOC in the cloakroom with the fork.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 12, 2025 10:39 PM (S/Y4j)

Comb.

Posted by: Amy Klobuchar at November 12, 2025 10:45 PM (l3YAf)

202 Exdem13

Did you see my posts before the ONT was heralded?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 12, 2025 10:45 PM (yKAnq)

203 194 Congrats!

The days are long, but the years are short.....

Posted by: mikeski at November 12, 2025 10:43 PM
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Thanks! (But the nights are long in December)

Posted by: TRex - winster solstice dino at November 12, 2025 10:45 PM (IQ6Gq)

204 tis a Comb-Fork.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 12, 2025 10:45 PM (yKAnq)

205 Happy anniversary Mr. Rex. It only seems like a couple months ago, to be honest. Anyway, thanks for all the work you put into this site

Posted by: 496 at November 12, 2025 10:45 PM (67FJv)

206 48 Methane thawing out from the ocean floor will get you first. Especially as climate deniers will be terminated first. Methane is already bubbling up from the perma frost in siberia.
Posted by: raimondo at November 12, 2025 10:42 PM (Zrn7q)

The thawing mammoths are releasing all the farts they have held in for 12,000 years.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 12, 2025 10:45 PM (npFr7)

207 "Paolo" is just Italian for "Paul."

Just answerin'.
Posted by: mikeski

What is the meaning of the name Paulo?
The name Paulo is primarily a male name of Portuguese origin that means Small.

I had to look and found the above on the webs. It MUST be true. Just sayin'.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 12, 2025 10:45 PM (47diA)

208 Thank goodness it wasn't "Johnson"....
Posted by: Some Rat

"Ooooh, you can call me Ray, or you can call me Jay, or you can call me Johnny. . . . . "

Posted by: Tonypete at November 12, 2025 10:46 PM (cYBz/)

209 176 Silver at $54.10 per oz. In the future you are likely to wish you bought it at such a low price. Even near its all time high price, it is virtually unobtainable.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President

i have 300 ounces of silver one ounce "coins". Been debating on selling some. Don't "need" the cash, but the price is tempting.

Posted by: Silver Sneakers at November 12, 2025 10:46 PM (oftw2)

210 Didn't Thawing Mammoths open for Rosie O'Donnel once?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 12, 2025 10:46 PM (yKAnq)

211 197 You can count on me for being awkward!

Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2025 10:44 PM
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I think your new nic is "Piper - awkward but fashionable".

Posted by: TRex - Dino dubs thee at November 12, 2025 10:46 PM (IQ6Gq)

212 Silver at $54.10 per oz. In the future you are likely to wish you bought it at such a low price. Even near its all time high price, it is virtually unobtainable.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 12, 2025 10:39 PM (Da7Vv)

"We deal in lead, friend."

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 12, 2025 10:47 PM (R5+Wg)

213 >> Italian for penis:
salami largo

This is less fun than the Fosters commercials

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 12, 2025 10:47 PM (l3YAf)

214 Thank you for a year's worth of entertaining ONT's, TRex!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 12, 2025 10:47 PM (npFr7)

215 I think your new nic is "Piper - awkward but fashionable".
Posted by: TRex - Dino dubs thee at November 12, 2025 10:46 PM (IQ6Gq)

Fashionably awkward?

Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2025 10:47 PM (/sySz)

216 i have 300 ounces of silver one ounce "coins". Been debating on selling some. Don't "need" the cash, but the price is tempting.
Posted by: Silver Sneakers
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I parted ways with mine at $36. Sigh....

Posted by: scampydog at November 12, 2025 10:47 PM (41CYW)

217 where to look discretely for leather chaps?
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
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jaminleather.com

Posted by: JQ at November 12, 2025 10:47 PM (rdVOm)

218 54 Was it their carrier or a cruiser that t he uses sunk?

Or did that even happen? Seems like if all this shit is true, Russia should be down to T-34s and PPSHs at this point.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 12, 2025 10:17 PM (zZu0s)

Are you talking about the Moskva that the Ukrainians sunk a few years ago? Yes that happened. The Moskva was a shitshow, poorly maintained Soviet holdover that had systems that didn't interoperate well. It's suspected that their air defense radar was turned off at the time of the attack due to it causing interference with some other system.

The carrier Admiral Kuznetzov is in dry dock and will probably stay there until it is scrapped. Another crappy Soviet holdover. They disembarked the crew and sent them to the front lines IIRC.

Posted by: Farquad at November 12, 2025 10:47 PM (CFMhl)

219 I heard they were planning to take out AOC like Luca Brasi was taken out in The Godfather. The hard way!

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 12, 2025 10:47 PM (Ixlky)

220 I'm waiting for the panic in a few years that the Sun will explode. That, or the Earth will collapse in on itself.

If you're going to terrify people, go big!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 12, 2025 10:32 PM (S/Y4j)

This is back in the mid '80s. My 8-year-old nephew learned in class the sun would die in I don't remember how many millions of years. He was petrified. I mean really scared.

You never know what hits a kid or what they remember years later.

Posted by: RickZ at November 12, 2025 10:47 PM (gKDq2)

221 149 I think an Ice Age will lower the sea level. not raise it. The water gets locked into the ice?
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That's right. During the ice ages Britain was attached to the European mainland, the Dogger bank connected Britain in turn to Germany, and Florida was a lot bigger!

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at November 12, 2025 10:48 PM (XjTSo)

222 "Ooooh, you can call me Ray, or you can call me Jay, or you can call me Johnny. . . . . "
Posted by: Tonypete

I still can't believe that freaking bit was an entire career.

Posted by: Some Rat at November 12, 2025 10:48 PM (TfUTr)

223 198 Oh poor Soup. maybe he will grow out of being a Lost Boy. In Neverember probably.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 12, 2025

He is adorable, though. Even when he is naughty.

Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2025 10:48 PM (/sySz)

224 176 Silver at $54.10 per oz. In the future you are likely to wish you bought it at such a low price. Even near its all time high price, it is virtually unobtainable.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 12, 2025 10:39 PM (Da7Vv)

I'm seeing single 1 oz rounds going for 55-56$ including shipping on eBay. Apmex is 58-60$. Seems obtainable.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at November 12, 2025 10:48 PM (pIfcn)

225 Insty has a post that "science" says we are in for an Ice Age.
Posted by: blaster

The poles are ice-covered 24/7/365. It's an already an ice age.

DDG-AI, a little help here?

"[W]e are currently in an ice age known as the Late Cenozoic Ice Age, which began about 34 million years ago. However, we are currently experiencing a warm interglacial period within this ice age that started around 11,000 years ago."

Posted by: mikeski at November 12, 2025 10:48 PM (nhCoE)

226
There have been several "Farmers Almanacs" over the history of the US here. Lots of people trying to capitalize on the name, sort of like "Webster's" being a generic dictionary name.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 12, 2025 10:49 PM (w6EFb)

227 >> Italian for penis:
salami largo

This is less fun than the Fosters commercials
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 12, 2025 10:47 PM (l3YAf)

Australian for penis: big banger on the barbie

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 12, 2025 10:49 PM (Ixlky)

228 >> 19th Amendment ratified

>> ~50 years later abortion everywhere

>>

What did cause-and-effect mean by this?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 12, 2025 10:49 PM (l3YAf)

229 One of my vicious Savannahs is cuddled up on a blanket with my child. Hope she survives!

Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2025 10:49 PM (/sySz)

230 A whole year._ TRex must have passed the short arm inspection.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 10:34 PM (zojZo)

I don't wanna know who's doin' the inspectin'.

Posted by: RickZ at November 12, 2025 10:49 PM (gKDq2)

231 Wait, Florida was a bigger penisula in cold water?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 12, 2025 10:49 PM (yKAnq)

232 Well, she wasn’t wrong there. You either do eugenics or dysgenics. Encouraging the dumbest and laziest of your society to reproduce by stealing from the intelligent and productive is criminal.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 12, 2025 10:42 PM (l3YAf)

Eugenics is murder.

It's psychotic and retarded.

Posted by: Sjg at November 12, 2025 10:50 PM (aqZN1)

233 214 Thank you for a year's worth of entertaining ONT's, TRex!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 12, 2025 10:47 PM
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Thank YOU for a million entertaining comments!

Posted by: TRex - AOP > MacGuyver at November 12, 2025 10:50 PM (IQ6Gq)

234 The institutional (banks) who have been shorting silver to hold its price down are in a real squeeze: they have to buy millions of oz to cover there short positions and the silver just isn't available to buy. Couldn't happen to more deserving people.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 12, 2025 10:51 PM (Da7Vv)

235 One of the founders of Stanford University, David Starr Jordan, was huge on eugenics. Was panicked about the white race getting 'debased' over time.

A public high school in Long Beach is named for him. Jordan High School. I think the school should be renamed for Michael Jordan.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 12, 2025 10:51 PM (Ixlky)

236 216 I parted ways with mine at $36. Sigh....

Posted by: scampydog at November 12, 2025 10:47 PM
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Freeing up cash for inflatable Christmas lawn decorations, no doubt. A noble cause.

Posted by: TRex - invest for the future at November 12, 2025 10:51 PM (IQ6Gq)

237 >> Seems like if all this shit is true, Russia should be down to T-34s and PPSHs at this point.

Russia has a vast industrial base and relatively lean defense industry. They didn’t offshore all of their production to China (only some!)

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 12, 2025 10:52 PM (l3YAf)

238 Since NSA is reading this with AI I will probably get chaps mentioned on Pinterest now when I look. He was shopping for a new chair recently and leather chairs appeared on MY Pinterest. You can no longer have private talks about chaps or anything in life.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 12, 2025 10:25 PM (MAl//)

I know two people who have phobias, one for spiders and the other for snakes, and they cannot say the words for them because if they do, their phones start pushing pictures and links with pictures of spiders for one, and snakes for the other.
Their phones are listening. The lady who has an issue with spiders actually says "crawlies" now so the phone doesn't start giving her spider images.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 12, 2025 10:52 PM (rbvCR)

239 The Brady Bunch Variety Hour is some of the worst TV ever made. And it had sets, costumes by Sid and Marty Crofft. Their salute to Disco Medley is enough to gag you.

Posted by: TV Fax and Figgers at November 12, 2025 10:52 PM (oftw2)

240 214 Thank you for a year's worth of entertaining ONT's, TRex!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 12, 2025 10:47 PM
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Thank YOU for a million entertaining comments!
Posted by: TRex - AOP > MacGuyver at November 12, 2025 10:50 PM (IQ6Gq)
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Only a million entertaining comments?

Do better, Horde...Do better.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 12, 2025 10:53 PM (IBQGV)

241 ChristyBlinky and Kindltot, wouldn't you love to see the AI 'summaries' of our ONTs?

"Weird stuff. Sexual innuendo. Other miscellaneous comments. Don't ask."

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 12, 2025 10:53 PM (Ixlky)

242
jaminleather.com
Posted by: JQ at November 12, 2025 10:47 PM (rdVOm)

Too scared to look with that name! Ha! Maybe Amazon has some...

I am mad about the Northern Lights. Really ticked off. The sky is faintly pink behind the clouds. I have photos of vaguely pink clouds. It ain't fair. I am near jihad about it.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 12, 2025 10:53 PM (MAl//)

243 I have two 1oz silver coins and neither is for sale. One is of USS Arizona and the other was from the 71st and final Doolittle Raider reunion.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 12, 2025 10:54 PM (yKAnq)

244 >> I think an Ice Age will lower the sea level. not raise it.

Yes, eventually. The dynamics of that get very complex, and not as well understood as they'd like you to believe.

What gets complex is isostatic adjustment, which changes the relative elevations as the weight of ice or water gets shifted around.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 12, 2025 10:54 PM (w6EFb)

245 205 Happy anniversary Mr. Rex. It only seems like a couple months ago, to be honest. Anyway, thanks for all the work you put into this site

Posted by: 496 at November 12, 2025 10:45 PM
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You're welcome. Thank you for being here!

And thanks to anyone I've missed. My short arms can't type very fast.

Posted by: TRex - where's the cake? at November 12, 2025 10:54 PM (IQ6Gq)

246 The Brady Bunch Variety Hour is some of the worst TV ever made. And it had sets, costumes by Sid and Marty Crofft. Their salute to Disco Medley is enough to gag you.
Posted by: TV Fax and Figgers at November 12, 2025 10:52 PM (oftw2)
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No. Mary Tyler Moore did a live comedy/musical show featuring David Letterman. It think it was on just a fee episodes

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 12, 2025 10:55 PM (vL0rw)

247 TRex, you a fan of the band T.Rex by any chance? :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 12, 2025 10:55 PM (Ixlky)

248 Here's a figure kit

https://www.suruga-ya.com/en/product/603199068

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 12, 2025 10:56 PM (yKAnq)

249 Remember that discussion we had here last week about moving those giant rocks, and the Easter Island statues by "walking" them?

Well, I did exactly that today to shift 13 4X10 panels of 7/16 OSB sheathing from my trailer to temporary storage in the shop. Slid them off the trailer, stood them up on the ground, long axis vertical, and walked them a few yard across the grass, and up a ramp into the shop, and then slid them sideways a couple of yards on the smooth concrete floor to lean them up against the wall. Never had to lift the full weight of one of them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 12, 2025 10:56 PM (npFr7)

250 I am mad about the Northern Lights. Really ticked off. The sky is faintly pink behind the clouds. I have photos of vaguely pink clouds. It ain't fair. I am near jihad about it.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Yep, we have 3 more days of rain before clearing....fingers crossed.

Posted by: Some Rat at November 12, 2025 10:56 PM (TfUTr)

251 Mary Tyler Moore, and the Starland Vocal Band, both gave David Letterman his first big breaks in showbiz.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 12, 2025 10:56 PM (Ixlky)

252 Eugenics is murder.

It's psychotic and retarded.
Posted by: Sjg at November 12, 2025 10:50 PM (aqZN1)

No it isn’t. You certainly can practice eugenics (and dysgenics) via murder, but murder has historically probably been more dysgenic than eugenic.

Executing murderers is eugenic.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 12, 2025 10:57 PM (l3YAf)

253 Here's another fun (and affordable) idea for TRex!

tinyurl.com/5amwcpjs+

Posted by: JQ at November 12, 2025 10:57 PM (rdVOm)

254 247 TRex, you a fan of the band T.Rex by any chance? :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 12, 2025 10:55 PM
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Naturally!

Posted by: TRex - electric warrior dino at November 12, 2025 10:58 PM (IQ6Gq)

255 The lady who has an issue with spiders actually says "crawlies" now so the phone doesn't start giving her spider images.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 12, 2025 10:52 PM (rbvCR)

Hope she likes centipedes.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 12, 2025 10:58 PM (npFr7)

256 And thanks to anyone I've missed. My short arms can't type very fast.
Posted by: TRex - where's the cake? at November 12, 2025 10:54 PM (IQ6Gq)

Sure, sure. Now you're just trying to scam disability.

Posted by: RickZ at November 12, 2025 10:58 PM (gKDq2)

257 Eugenics is like socialism is like renting an RV.

Sounds good in theory but fails in practice.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 12, 2025 10:58 PM (vL0rw)

258 217 where to look discretely for leather chaps?
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

I assume you want Western ones and not English, so any Western Saddlery. They will run the gamut from off the shelf suede to custom leather. Ben Had may have some sources, too.

Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2025 10:59 PM (/sySz)

259 The Northern Lights were visible in Central TX last night. I was asleep.

*pouts*
*kicks a rock*

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 12, 2025 10:59 PM (OUqBw)

260 Well, I did exactly that today to shift 13 4X10 panels of 7/16 OSB sheathing from my trailer to temporary storage in the shop. Slid them off the trailer, stood them up on the ground, long axis vertical, and walked them a few yard across the grass, and up a ramp into the shop, and then slid them sideways a couple of yards on the smooth concrete floor to lean them up against the wall. Never had to lift the full weight of one of them.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Heh! The gyrations of getting any flavor of panels from pickem up to storage, solo, are to be seen to be believed.

Posted by: Some Rat at November 12, 2025 10:59 PM (TfUTr)

261 The Brady Bunch Variety Hour is some of the worst TV ever made. And it had sets, costumes by Sid and Marty Crofft. Their salute to Disco Medley is enough to gag you.
Posted by: TV Fax and Figgers

Dancers with orange and pink fright wig afros.

Good Gawd, ya'all!!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 12, 2025 10:59 PM (cYBz/)

262 If you're going to terrify people, go big!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 12, 2025 10:32 PM (S/Y4j)

Exothermic Core-Mantle Decoupling – Dzhanibekov Oscillation theory for the win!

See also, the great flood, and claims that the oldest megalithic sites all are oriented towards Zambia

Posted by: Kindltot at November 12, 2025 10:59 PM (rbvCR)

263 I have two 1oz silver coins and neither is for sale. One is of USS Arizona and the other was from the 71st and final Doolittle Raider reunion.

Definitely hang on to those two coins, their numismatic value ought to well exceed their silver value.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 12, 2025 10:59 PM (Da7Vv)

264 I assume you want Western ones and not English, so any Western Saddlery. They will run the gamut from off the shelf suede to custom leather. Ben Had may have some sources, too.
Posted by: Piper

Cowgirls love ropes and leather!! Yee Haw!!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 12, 2025 11:01 PM (cYBz/)

265 253 Here's another fun (and affordable) idea for TRex!

tinyurl.com/5amwcpjs+

Posted by: JQ at November 12, 2025 10:57 PM
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I can't make the link work. Is it leather chaps?

Posted by: TRex - hell bent for leather dino at November 12, 2025 11:01 PM (IQ6Gq)

266 I just tried to take a night shot as technically we are in camera range. There were some awesome pictures from Pensacola, so I was hopeful. But nothingness- maybe too much light pollution from Mobile.

Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2025 11:01 PM (/sySz)

267 smooth concrete floor to lean them up against the wall. Never had to lift the full weight of one of them.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I always carried full sheets of drywall or 3/4" inch plywood on my back, but 10 footers put too much weight in front of you, making you want to pitch forward. Unsafe for senior citizens.

Posted by: Grizzled Goomer at November 12, 2025 11:02 PM (oftw2)

268 ChristyBlinkyTheGreat---

I have ordered from Jaminleather. Quality products. Yes, there are a few *questionable* or *freaky* items in their inventory, but so what?

Good products, good prices, great service. You can chat with a rep if unsure of fit.

Posted by: JQ at November 12, 2025 11:03 PM (rdVOm)

269 264 Cowgirls love ropes and leather!! Yee Haw!!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 12, 2025 11:01 PM
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Advertising for the MoMe next year already?

Posted by: TRex - hell bent for leather dino at November 12, 2025 11:03 PM (IQ6Gq)

270 I just tried to take a night shot as technically we are in camera range. There were some awesome pictures from Pensacola, so I was hopeful. But nothingness- maybe too much light pollution from Mobile.

Posted by: Piper

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We tried but Austin is to the north. We can't have nice night skies because of Austin.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 12, 2025 11:04 PM (OUqBw)

271 JQ, Jamin Leather? :-)

LOL. I actually know personally, a TV sitcom writer named Michael Jamin. He wrote for King Of The Hill, among other shows.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 12, 2025 11:05 PM (Ixlky)

272 >>What gets complex is isostatic adjustment, which changes the relative elevations as the weight of ice or water gets shifted around.

Forgot about that I was thinking mostly about places like Doggerland. I still think pairing ice age with sea level rise sounds odd.

Posted by: Lirio100 at November 12, 2025 11:06 PM (ky7/T)

273 Gonna take a radical position here and say that perpetuating generations of sub-80 IQ criminals and forcing productive people to pay for them is bad for society and that society has a vested interest in encouraging the reproduction of the most valuable among us, and discouraging the reproduction of imbeciles.

Or we can keep subsidizing morons from a woman with eight children by nine different baby daddies. Maybe that’ll work out for us.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 12, 2025 11:06 PM (l3YAf)

274 I can't make the link work. Is it leather chaps?
Posted by: TRex - hell bent for leather dino
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Oh, no.. I must've missed something... that link was to Amz, typed in "dinosaur lights" for some cute lighting ideas.

jaminleather.com has chaps. Lots of them.

Posted by: JQ at November 12, 2025 11:07 PM (rdVOm)

275 I assume you want Western ones and not English, so any Western Saddlery. They will run the gamut from off the shelf suede to custom leather. Ben Had may have some sources, too.
Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2025 10:59 PM (/sySz)

Thank you. I found some cheapo ones on Amazon for a joke. Leather chaps are very expensive, of course.

Seeing as how he's never ridden a horse in his life due to Disneyland trauma when he was 4yrs old, I am not spending a lot. I may look for a good cowboy hat to keep his little bald spot warm this winter instead. I think that will do the trick (for me).

His brother's burro at Disneyland pooped on his burro's head and he's never been the same regarding horses.

He did not ride horses when he could on our cattle farm, or be led around like our sons. I can ride, not gracefully at full gallop, but we had horses. I know enough that during Mad Maxx world ending I can saddle and ride for our grub at ye olde trading post. He can deal with the chickens as they are one of my childhood phobias after being pecked and then an insane rooster who chased my brother and me daily.

Otherwise he's perfectly normal!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 12, 2025 11:08 PM (MAl//)

276 Aurora Borealis!

It’s POURING rain on the beach.

Oh well. I hope y’all enjoy it.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 12, 2025 11:09 PM (mT+6a)

277 Mr Scary jokes about assless chaps. Aren't all chaps assless?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 12, 2025 11:09 PM (OUqBw)

278
Clear sky, no aurora but lots of satellites

Posted by: Auspex at November 12, 2025 11:09 PM (Y8DZL)

279 274 Oh, no.. I must've missed something... that link was to Amz, typed in "dinosaur lights" for some cute lighting ideas.

Posted by: JQ at November 12, 2025 11:07 PM
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Cute! Not terrifying. Remember, we're adorable!

Posted by: TRex - adorable dino at November 12, 2025 11:09 PM (IQ6Gq)

280 Heh! The gyrations of getting any flavor of panels from pickem up to storage, solo, are to be seen to be believed.
Posted by: Some Rat at November 12, 2025 10:59 PM (TfUTr)

When I did the sheetrock at my place in AZ, I made a panel toter. Strip of plywood 15" by 4 feet. Screw and glue a 15" piece of 1X2 across one end, and screw and glue a short 3" piece of plywood to the other edge of the 1X2. Finished toter, seen edge-on, looks like an elongated letter "J". Cut a hand-size hole in the main piece of plywood about an arm's length down from the top. Takes 5 minutes to make using scraps to be found around your construction site. To use it, stand panel of sheetrock upright on its long edge. Lift one end, slide the J-hook under it until you reach the middle. Grab the hole, and lift the whole thing like it were a piece of heavy luggage.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 12, 2025 11:10 PM (npFr7)

281 Damn, no way they give me plates like that. I would blow torch the place.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 12, 2025 11:11 PM (snZF9)

282 That ice age story - I looked to see what they were basing it on; oh of course the Atlantic Circulation thing. I can’t believe they’re trotting out this scare story again - this was the basis for that awful sci-fi disaster movie “The Day After Tomorrow “ (2004). It was ridiculous then, it’s ridiculous now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 12, 2025 11:11 PM (jjpbs)

283 277 Mr Scary jokes about assless chaps. Aren't all chaps assless?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 12, 2025 11:09 PM
***
If only there was a fashion expert among us... Even an awkward one...

Posted by: TRex - unfashionable dino at November 12, 2025 11:11 PM (IQ6Gq)

284 I'm seeing single 1 oz rounds going for 55-56$ including shipping on eBay. Apmex is 58-60$. Seems obtainable.

Yes and no. If you look on their silver for sale pages on Apmex and SDBullion, most of them are marked "Notify me when this is available", instead of listing prices. My local coin shop was down to maybe 30 oz last week - no Silver Eagles or Maple Leafs available at all, they couldn't even order any, the mints aren't shipping, and all of the silver being refined by smelters is being shipped to the Comex and London exchanges to cover the huge short positions the banks are in. 100 Oz bars are not available anywhere.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 12, 2025 11:12 PM (Da7Vv)

285 184 Thanks! Sorry I'm late. I would have posted sooner, but I was temporarily blinded by the aurora borealis.
Posted by: TRex - astro dino at November 12, 2025 10:40 PM (IQ6Gq)

That's a good one.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 12, 2025 11:12 PM (tC+hY)

286 The institutional (banks) who have been shorting silver to hold its price down are in a real squeeze: they have to buy millions of oz to cover there short positions and the silver just isn't available to buy. Couldn't happen to more deserving people.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 12, 2025 10:51 PM (Da7Vv)

I am not a metals trader but: In normal times spot is lower than futures costs because the futures cost has to include the cost of the metal, and the opportunity cost lost for not getting physical delivery until later - so most traders buy and sell futures without actually touching the metal and take their money back with that bit of extra as profit for putting up the money in the first place.
When suddenly everyone wants metal in their hands, and there is a sudden feeling that no one who has been selling futures actually has the silver on hand to deliver, then the future opportunity cost is reversed because it is no longer the opportunity cost that is important, but the risk of default is suddenly a risk, so the spot price is higher than the futures cost

Posted by: Kindltot at November 12, 2025 11:13 PM (rbvCR)

287 266 I just tried to take a night shot as technically we are in camera range. There were some awesome pictures from Pensacola, so I was hopeful. But nothingness- maybe too much light pollution from Mobile.
Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2025 11:01 PM (/sySz)

One of our sons got a nice shot in Central FL. Other son is in Montreal on business and I am sure he will have fabulous photos.

I am ticked off. Last night fairly local people saw them and posted photos online. I have pinkish light on sky. I could weep but it would requre more than this for me to cry.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 12, 2025 11:13 PM (MAl//)

288 No one gets to decide which human beings have more intrinsic worth than any other. Hashem decides.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 12, 2025 11:13 PM (CA6zO)

289 and all of the silver being refined by smelters is being shipped to the Comex and London exchanges to cover the huge short positions the banks are in. 100 Oz bars are not available anywhere.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 12, 2025 11:12 PM (Da7Vv)

Time to start pocketing the cutlery at Panda Express. Next big panic will be bamboo.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 12, 2025 11:15 PM (npFr7)

290 I'm seeing single 1 oz rounds going for 55-56$ including shipping on eBay.

Be careful buying silver from eBay; a lot of that is Chinese counterfeits, silver plated copper etc.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 12, 2025 11:15 PM (Da7Vv)

291 I am off to bed, early morning tomorrow. Someone please save me a piece of cake....

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 12, 2025 11:15 PM (cCn4/)

292 I'm going up the driveway one more time to see if I can see the Norhteen Lights.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 12, 2025 11:16 PM (OUqBw)

293 Mr Scary jokes about assless chaps. Aren't all chaps assless?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

Yes, but a certain segment of our society debased them.

Posted by: Some Rat at November 12, 2025 11:16 PM (TfUTr)

294 Oh no! It was just announced that tonight's aurora is sponsored by some big pharma company.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 12, 2025 11:16 PM (Ixlky)

295 Mr Scary jokes about assless chaps. Aren't all chaps assless?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 12, 2025 11:09 PM (OUqBw)

In theory, yeah, but if you wear them with no pants like a frigging homo they are seriously assless.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 12, 2025 11:17 PM (snZF9)

296 Am I going to wake up tomorrow morning and find that the Horde cornered the silver market overnight?

Posted by: TRex - miner dino at November 12, 2025 11:17 PM (IQ6Gq)

297 No one gets to decide which human beings have more intrinsic worth than any other. Hashem decides.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

My former boss would disagree.

Posted by: Some Rat at November 12, 2025 11:18 PM (TfUTr)

298 Am I going to wake up tomorrow morning and find that the Horde cornered the silver market overnight?
Posted by: TRex - miner dino
**********
How better to celebrate a first ONT-iversary? Nite all!

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 12, 2025 11:18 PM (cCn4/)

299 Time flies when you're having fun.

At a certain age, you realize that time also flies if you're not having fun. Because when you get right down to it, time doesn't really give a crap about you. So you may as well go ahead and have the fun.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 12, 2025 11:18 PM (3nLb4)

300 I wish the Horde could all say they've cornered the market on Bitcoin. Then we could all be posting from our solid gold cell phones while lying on our solid gold beds...

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 12, 2025 11:18 PM (Ixlky)

301 The universe is speaking to you.

BTW, did you bring cake?

Posted by: TRex - tech wizard dino at November 12, 2025 10:29 PM

Of course!

Cake for TRex:

https://tinyurl.com/yrswe3pn

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 12, 2025 11:19 PM (HlyYF)

302 Time to start pocketing the cutlery at Panda Express. Next big panic will be bamboo.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Too early to get out of Benie Babies?

Posted by: Some Rat at November 12, 2025 11:19 PM (TfUTr)

303 Take a ride to cattle country town and go to a saddle shop.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 11:19 PM (zojZo)

304 If you're going to terrify people, go big!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 12, 2025 10:32 PM (S/Y4j)

The Paolo. How you say? He know the lyrics to this song by heart (or another sturdy organ that pump fluid).

Posted by: The Paolo at November 12, 2025 11:20 PM (ajBlx)

305 I am not a metals trader but: In normal times spot is lower than futures costs because the futures cost has to include the cost of the metal, and the opportunity cost lost for not getting physical delivery until later - so most traders buy and sell futures without actually touching the metal and take their money back with that bit of extra as profit for putting up the money in the first place.
When suddenly everyone wants metal in their hands, and there is a sudden feeling that no one who has been selling futures actually has the silver on hand to deliver, then the future opportunity cost is reversed because it is no longer the opportunity cost that is important, but the risk of default is suddenly a risk, so the spot price is higher than the futures cost

Right on the nose with that analysis.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 12, 2025 11:20 PM (Da7Vv)

306 Mom's birthday today, been gone since 2011. Doing a shot for mom. Mmmm tasty, maybe another.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 12, 2025 11:20 PM (snZF9)

307 I have ordered from Jaminleather. Quality products. Yes, there are a few *questionable* or *freaky* items in their inventory, but so what?
Posted by: JQ

As long as the freaky items hold up as well as the normal ones, it's all good.

.....what?

Posted by: mikeski at November 12, 2025 11:20 PM (nhCoE)

308 ---------@
I parted ways with mine at $36. Sigh....
Posted by: scampydog
---------

Sold my gold @ 1800.00 never been so high, couldn't stay that high long, could it?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 11:21 PM (zojZo)

309 So, Repubs filed a lawsuit against Prop 50... Lib Judge is going to rule on the lawsuit WITHOUT ANY HEARINGS.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 12, 2025 11:21 PM (mP0Kj)

310 AOP, don't get bamboozled!

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 12, 2025 11:22 PM (Ixlky)

311 Time to start pocketing the cutlery at Panda Express. Next big panic will be bamboo.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 12, 2025 11:15 PM (npFr7)

Probably copper, so save all your old armatures, burnt wiring and transformers. It is holding at 5 bucks a pound, until it breaks up.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 12, 2025 11:22 PM (rbvCR)

312 301 Cake for TRex:

https://tinyurl.com/yrswe3pn

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 12, 2025 11:19 PM
***
Well played! I knew you could be trusted with such an important task. Thank you!

Cake for all! PI is buying, so help yourself to seconds!

Posted by: TRex - dino likes cake at November 12, 2025 11:22 PM (IQ6Gq)

313
A piece of eight, that would be a thing to have.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 11:23 PM (zojZo)

314 LOL, mikeski!

I ordered jacket, vest and chaps-- all in white-- for our wedding. Very nice quality & reasonably priced.

Posted by: JQ at November 12, 2025 11:23 PM (rdVOm)

315
Something that blew my mind about isostatic adjustment. At first blush, you'd think moving water closer to the poles as ice sheets would be moving mass closer to the poles, ergo, moment of inertia would be less, earth would speed up a smidge. Thus cold earth = fast earth, and hot earth = slow earth.

In fact, it's just the opposite in the long term equilibrium. Earth with ice sheets has a higher moment of inertia than an ice free earth! And ice age earth is more oblate than an ice-free earth.

In fact the isostatic rebound from the last ice age end is still ongoing and countering the tidal braking of the Moon on earth's rotation. Earth is, long term, slowing down, but not as fast as it would be by tidal braking alone. (short term, it's been speeding up relatively big time, which I've rambled about).

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 12, 2025 11:23 PM (w6EFb)

316 Mr Scary jokes about assless chaps. Aren't all chaps assless?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

>Yes, but a certain segment of our society debased them.

Posted by: Some Rat
>>>>>
>In theory, yeah, but if you wear them with no pants like a frigging homo they are seriously assless.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

----
Thanks guys. I get it now. I was thinking literally not pervertedly, lol.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 12, 2025 11:25 PM (OUqBw)

317 OK, went outside again. It is mostly clear now. I could see stars, and I could see Aurora. Mostly the pink curdy-looking stuff, but some faint greenish-white curtains, too, as my eyes became dark-adapted. But my tender 20 year old body not being cold-adapted, I came inside.

It's happening, but not as spectacular as early last night.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 12, 2025 11:25 PM (npFr7)

318 Right on the nose with that analysis.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 12, 2025 11:20 PM (Da7Vv)

Well, I got it from Vince Lanci, and he has the abrasive personality and self confidence of a pit trader, but he has been good at prediction.
I just hope he is wrong about his long-term economic forecasts on Trump's economic package.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 12, 2025 11:25 PM (rbvCR)

319
Back up to G2 level now.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 12, 2025 11:25 PM (w6EFb)

320 >>>Probably copper, so save all your old armatures, burnt wiring and transformers. It is holding at 5 bucks a pound, until it breaks up.
Posted by: Kindltot
---

Or you could buy Freeport Mac Moran. If it doesn't fail it will be a winner.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 11:26 PM (zojZo)

321 (But the nights are long in December)
Posted by: TRex - winster solstice dino

Cold, too.

https://youtu.be/gi42Ljft41g

Posted by: mikeski at November 12, 2025 11:27 PM (nhCoE)

322 Mom's birthday today, been gone since 2011. Doing a shot for mom. Mmmm tasty, maybe another.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
----

*to your Mom*

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 12, 2025 11:27 PM (OUqBw)

323 283 277 Mr Scary jokes about assless chaps. Aren't all chaps assless?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 12, 2025 11:09 PM
***
If only there was a fashion expert among us... Even an awkward one...
Posted by: TRex - unfashionable dino at November 12, 2025 11:11 PM

Yes! If they weren’t, they would be pants.

Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2025 11:27 PM (ZdaMQ)

324 315
Something that blew my mind about isostatic adjustment.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 12, 2025 11:23 PM
***
[goes away to look up "isostatic" adjustment. back.]
Good scrabble word!

Posted by: TRex - dictionary dino at November 12, 2025 11:27 PM (IQ6Gq)

325 323 Yes! If they weren’t, they would be pants.

Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2025 11:27 PM
***
To be fair, I did say that pants were optional in the content.

Posted by: TRex - fashion forward dino at November 12, 2025 11:29 PM (IQ6Gq)

326 R2-D2 is out of stock....

Would have been great to Ram Jam all that wrapping paper into while we as a family belt out Black Betty, the other Christmas Song.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 12, 2025 11:29 PM (rGPrJ)

327 Sold my gold @ 1800.00 never been so high, couldn't stay that high long, could it?

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

Co-worker bought 500 bucks worth of Microsoft when it went public. Sold it when it hit 30 bucks a share, cause it "might do ok, might not...."

Posted by: Some Rat at November 12, 2025 11:29 PM (TfUTr)

328 In theory, yeah, but if you wear them with no pants like a frigging homo they are seriously assless.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

----
Thanks guys. I get it now. I was thinking literally not pervertedly, lol.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 12, 2025 11:25 PM (OUqBw)

I was talking about dudes. Females can wear them all they want. Women in assless chaps is downright American. lol

Well, unless they are tank abrams, or hillary, pelosi, etc. Then its a war crime.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 12, 2025 11:29 PM (snZF9)

329 Probably copper, so save all your old armatures, burnt wiring and transformers. It is holding at 5 bucks a pound, until it breaks up.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 12, 2025 11:22 PM (rbvCR)

I have a large plastic bag of scrap copper, and another one of brass. And a truck box with scrap aluminum. There does not appear to be a scrap market for pot metal, so I just throw it in with the steel.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 12, 2025 11:29 PM (npFr7)

330 Mom's birthday today, been gone since 2011. Doing a shot for mom. Mmmm tasty, maybe another.
Posted by: Berserker

* wanders off *

* returns with bourbon *

To 'ZerkerMom!

Posted by: mikeski at November 12, 2025 11:30 PM (nhCoE)

331 288 No one gets to decide which human beings have more intrinsic worth than any other. Hashem decides.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 12, 2025 11:13 PM (CA6zO)

This. Bless you.

Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2025 11:30 PM (aT5K/)

332 Stats-laden article at ZH about public school teacher sexual predation:

"guess which profession is near the top of the list for attracting a disproportionate number of narcissists? That's right, teaching. And the rate is even higher among female teachers, who make up 77% of industry."

https://tinyurl.com/4vnra5p3

Posted by: gp at November 12, 2025 11:31 PM (7imtn)

333 100 Oz bars are not available anywhere.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 12, 2025 11:12 PM (Da7Vv)

I disagree. Here's 100 oz silver bar available from Apmex right now, apparently. What am I missing?

https://tinyurl.com/3her26b4

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at November 12, 2025 11:33 PM (pIfcn)

334 327 Co-worker bought 500 bucks worth of Microsoft when it went public. Sold it when it hit 30 bucks a share, cause it "might do ok, might not...."

Posted by: Some Rat at November 12, 2025 11:29 PM
***
From memory (which is dangerous) - MSFT IPOd at $21 per share. I don't think they raised more than $60m in total (after underwriting fees).

The other nugget of history is that Bill Gates wanted to keep MSFT private, but the employee equity program was so expansive that it was approaching 500 owners. Once a company has more than 500 owners, SEC rules required public company registration.

Posted by: TRex - financial history dino at November 12, 2025 11:33 PM (IQ6Gq)

335 *to your Mom*

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 12, 2025 11:27 PM (OUqBw)

* wanders off *

* returns with bourbon *

To 'ZerkerMom!

Posted by: mikeski at November 12, 2025 11:30 PM (nhCoE)

Ooh, a reason to do another. Thanks!

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 12, 2025 11:33 PM (snZF9)

336 Probably copper, so save all your old armatures, burnt wiring and transformers. It is holding at 5 bucks a pound, until it breaks up.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 12, 2025 11:22 PM (rbvCR)

I have a large plastic bag of scrap copper, and another one of brass. And a truck box with scrap aluminum. There does not appear to be a scrap market for pot metal, so I just throw it in with the steel.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

When I saw Vevor was selling wire strippers I figured copper might not be a bad investment.

Posted by: Some Rat at November 12, 2025 11:34 PM (TfUTr)

337 What's wrong with the License Plate given to that guy ????

Posted by: Barry Soetoro at November 12, 2025 11:34 PM (J9q9v)

338 330 To 'ZerkerMom!

Posted by: mikeski at November 12, 2025 11:30 PM
***
To ZerkerMom!! Cheers!

Posted by: TRex - slayer dino at November 12, 2025 11:35 PM (IQ6Gq)

339 Publius, I have this personal theory that the South American Glaciation blocked the Drake Passage, and so broke up the circumpolar current, allowing South America to be far warmer than it should have been. It also would have been one of the greater sources of water in the freshwater pulse. When the the Laurentide glaciers started melting the rising ocean levels would have floated the Drake Passage sheet off the sea bed where it was grounded, and allowed it to break up and melt as it washed into the Atlantic.
It might answer what caused the meltwater pulses during the end of the Younger Dryas

Posted by: Kindltot at November 12, 2025 11:35 PM (rbvCR)

340 .
.
October 12, 2025?
.
I can't be the only one who noticed.

Posted by: Marooned at November 12, 2025 11:36 PM (kt8QE)

341 *Sets up row of shots along the bar*

All together now:

To 'Zerker Mom!

Posted by: JQ at November 12, 2025 11:36 PM (rdVOm)

342 340 .
.
October 12, 2025?
.
I can't be the only one who noticed.

Posted by: Marooned at November 12, 2025 11:36 PM
***
Well...shit.

Posted by: TRex - date challenged dino at November 12, 2025 11:37 PM (IQ6Gq)

343 I got 50+ lbs of old wallwarts that I'll crack open for copper someday.

Posted by: gp at November 12, 2025 11:38 PM (7imtn)

344 From memory (which is dangerous) - MSFT IPOd at $21 per share. I don't think they raised more than $60m in total (after underwriting fees).

The other nugget of history is that Bill Gates wanted to keep MSFT private, but the employee equity program was so expansive that it was approaching 500 owners. Once a company has more than 500 owners, SEC rules required public company registration.
Posted by: TRex - financial history dino

We laughed when Amazon went public....and for several years after. Oh well. (brushes away tear)

Posted by: Some Rat at November 12, 2025 11:39 PM (TfUTr)

345 October 12, 2025?
.
I can't be the only one who noticed.

Posted by: Marooned at November 12, 2025 11:36 PM
***

Well...shit.
Posted by: TRex - date challenged dino at November 12, 2025 11:37 PM (IQ6Gq)

See? You did get the keys to Ace's Time Machine.

Posted by: RickZ at November 12, 2025 11:39 PM (gKDq2)

346 We laughed when Amazon went public....and for several years after. Oh well. (brushes away tear)
Posted by: Some Rat

The smart guys went all in on Drugstore.com

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 12, 2025 11:41 PM (rGPrJ)

347 345 See? You did get the keys to Ace's Time Machine.

Posted by: RickZ at November 12, 2025 11:39 PM
***
In that case... SomeRat - want to go back in time with me and buy some MSFT and AMZN stock?

Posted by: TRex - back to the future dino at November 12, 2025 11:41 PM (IQ6Gq)

348 Sets up row of shots along the bar*

All together now:

To 'Zerker Mom!
Posted by: JQ

Checks distance to bar. Checks level of inebriation.
Hell, it's for Beserkers Mom. I'll chance it.

Posted by: Some Rat at November 12, 2025 11:41 PM (TfUTr)

349 348 Checks distance to bar. Checks level of inebriation.
Hell, it's for Beserkers Mom. I'll chance it.

Posted by: Some Rat at November 12, 2025 11:41 PM
***
Good thing the bar isn't wobbly.

Posted by: TRex - any cake left? at November 12, 2025 11:42 PM (IQ6Gq)

350 I lost thousands on Webvan.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 12, 2025 11:43 PM (A0sqA)

351 >>>I disagree. Here's 100 oz silver bar available from Apmex right now, apparently. What am I missing?

https://tinyurl.com/3her26b4
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls,
-----

Site doesn't come up well. Doesn't respond to my browser.

Silver dollars @ 6% or less over spot is a sweet spot. A big chunk will be difficult to negotiate with except on large items. You can buy junk silver at a little over melt, would be good for barter.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 11:45 PM (zojZo)

352 Co-worker bought 500 bucks worth of Microsoft when it went public. Sold it when it hit 30 bucks a share, cause it "might do ok, might not...."
Posted by: Some Rat
--------------
An older man would have explained it to me. I had ICOS at $6.12 per share. Cialis. Later partnered/acquired by Lilly. Did well on the stock but like a young man, impatient.

Posted by: scampydog at November 12, 2025 11:45 PM (41CYW)

353 oh, hay, there is a new time travel movie
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die

(it looks like an American version of the webseries Visiteur du Future)

https://tinyurl.com/2s344dy2

Posted by: Kindltot at November 12, 2025 11:46 PM (rbvCR)

354 In that case... SomeRat - want to go back in time with me and buy some MSFT and AMZN stock?
Posted by: TRex - back to the future dino

What? And be so filthy rich one could change other peoples destinies? Own entire Islands? Buy and sell politicians like they were Monopoly properties? I'll need a little time to ponder that. Ok, let's freaking do it!

Posted by: Some Rat at November 12, 2025 11:46 PM (TfUTr)

355 >> I have this personal theory that the South American Glaciation blocked the Drake Passage,

That's interesting, and I wish I knew about this stuff to discuss that intelligently, but, alas, I don't.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 12, 2025 11:46 PM (w6EFb)

356 348 Checks distance to bar. Checks level of inebriation.
Hell, it's for Beserkers Mom. I'll chance it.

Posted by: Some Rat at November 12, 2025 11:41 PM
***
Good thing the bar isn't wobbly.

Posted by: TRex - any cake left?

__

Is that Margarita drone still working?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 12, 2025 11:47 PM (OUqBw)

357 *Margarita drone READY!*

*Sends to BarelyScaryMary*

Posted by: JQ at November 12, 2025 11:49 PM (rdVOm)

358 >> Exothermic Core-Mantle Decoupling – Dzhanibekov Oscillation

Some of those guys have been running hydrodynamic simulations of the oceans and seas sloshing around during the proposed state flip event.

Let's just say Biblical Flood. I think just about all of NA, save the Rockies gets underwater.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 12, 2025 11:49 PM (w6EFb)

359
Oh, and not to mention the atmosphere. How about Mach 3 surface winds as the atmosphere re-equilibriates.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 12, 2025 11:50 PM (w6EFb)

360 To 'Zerker's Mom. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 12, 2025 11:51 PM (Ixlky)

361 See? You did get the keys to Ace's Time Machine.
Posted by: RickZ

In that case... SomeRat - want to go back in time with me and buy some MSFT and AMZN stock?
Posted by: TRex - back to the future dino

If you don't want to stress the time machine too much, play the current AI bubble. Go back 10 years and buy Nvidia for 74 cents a share.

Come back to today and sell it for $195.

A nice 26,000% gain.

Posted by: mikeski at November 12, 2025 11:52 PM (nhCoE)

362 Topic I saw at another site:

Name a perfect music album. One of your all-time favorites. Only rules:

- no Beatles
- no compilation or greatest hits albums
- no live albums

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 12, 2025 11:52 PM (Ixlky)

363 An older man would have explained it to me. I had ICOS at $6.12 per share. Cialis. Later partnered/acquired by Lilly. Did well on the stock but like a young man, impatient.
Posted by: scampydog

It's kinda fun to wonder about what might have been, but I am old enough to remember the dot com slaughter.

Posted by: Some Rat at November 12, 2025 11:53 PM (TfUTr)

364 Weird, but I don't seem to generate a lot of scrap copper, and I go through a fuck ton of wire in a year. I do maybe 12 complete custom wiring harnesses on harleys in a year, and a lot of partial harness repairs. I use a single piece of wire as a kind of ruler to measure each run before it all gets shrink tube, and I only end up cutting a few inches off during hook ups to all the components. I usually toss it in a small box and pieces get used up during the year for little shit like jumpers, or small extensions. Same deal with house wire. I work off the roll of wire with very little waste. It would take forever for me to generate enough copper for it to be worth a shit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 12, 2025 11:55 PM (snZF9)

365 Off the top of my head I liked the Blind Faith album.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 12, 2025 11:56 PM (OUqBw)

366 Sets up row of shots along the bar*

All together now:

To 'Zerker Mom!
Posted by: JQ

Checks distance to bar. Checks level of inebriation.
Hell, it's for Beserkers Mom. I'll chance it.

Posted by: Some Rat at November 12, 2025 11:41 PM (TfUTr)

Ok, a third shot won't hurt. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 12, 2025 11:57 PM (snZF9)

367 I have met TRex IRL. His arms are much longer than they are on the blog.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 12, 2025 11:57 PM (CwwHD)

368 There was always surplus guns as an investment.
Once upon a time you could buy something like this for a couple thousand. Pretty good for something in 8mm Lebel

https://tinyurl.com/hs4e88cc

Posted by: Kindltot at November 12, 2025 11:58 PM (rbvCR)

369 JQ, another round for the bar please, and Happy Anniversary TRex!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 12, 2025 11:58 PM (0nHVk)

370 Name a perfect music album. One of your all-time favorites. Only rules:

- no Beatles
- no compilation or greatest hits albums
- no live albums
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 12, 2025 11:52 PM (Ixlky)
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Steeleye Span
Below the Salt.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 12, 2025 11:58 PM (CwwHD)

371 362 Topic I saw at another site:

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 12, 2025 11:52 PM
***
You've been...seeing other sites?? How long has this been going on?

Posted by: TRex - jilted dino at November 12, 2025 11:58 PM (IQ6Gq)

372 Sad anniversary. In memorium of a year of not having the mighty, classic, Zappa-ing MisHum's ONTs regularly several times every week, I will not be leaving a comment on tonight's thread.😏

https://youtu.be/0HsAluBAySI

G'nite, y'all. 💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - is not here at November 12, 2025 11:59 PM (391Jd)

373
It's probably Quora.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 12, 2025 11:59 PM (3ek7K)

374 Sources of scrap copper:
electric motors and generators
transformers
wire
fluorescent lamp ballasts
Stereos, TV's, computers, mostly from the transformers and choke coil, and relays therein. PC boards contain copper, but not enough to justify the effort to recover it.
copper cookware.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 13, 2025 12:00 AM (npFr7)

375 fourseasons: wrong.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 13, 2025 12:00 AM (Ixlky)

376 369 JQ, another round for the bar please, and Happy Anniversary TRex!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 12, 2025 11:58 PM
***
Glad you're here. NOW it's a party.

Hate to tell you though. You have a lot to catch up on. The Horde has cornered the silver market while wearing assless chaps from the time machine and drinking to mama Zerker.

Posted by: TRex - have some cake at November 13, 2025 12:01 AM (IQ6Gq)

377
What a surprise

Posted by: fourseasons at November 13, 2025 12:01 AM (3ek7K)

378 >>>We laughed when Amazon went public....and for several years after. Oh well. (brushes away tear)
Posted by: Some Rat
---

If Musk fulfills his promise to earn his Trillion dollars, Tesla will be worth four to eight times what it is now.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 13, 2025 12:01 AM (zojZo)

379 What investment website do people here recommend?

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 13, 2025 12:02 AM (Ixlky)

380 Name a perfect music album. One of your all-time favorites. Only rules:
- no Beatles
- no compilation or greatest hits albums
- no live albums
Posted by: qdpsteve

The first two rules don't apply to any of my favorites, anyway. They'll all be overplayed, by definition.

I predict a lot of concept albums. Like.....

Marillion's "Brave."

Posted by: mikeski at November 13, 2025 12:02 AM (nhCoE)

381 {{{DDS}}} How are you dahling? Is your location and weather allowing you a glimpse of the Northern lights?

Posted by: Some Rat at November 13, 2025 12:02 AM (TfUTr)

382 Hi, Debby!

*round for the bar*

*grabs serving tray, stacks it with drinks, holds it aloft and dances into the crowd to deliver them*

Posted by: JQ at November 13, 2025 12:03 AM (rdVOm)

383
I lost thousands on Webvan.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

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

Webvan! I remember them. A friend of mine used them, hated them, and grinned evilly when they went down. One day I was driving to work and I saw a big, boxy truck with some letters perfunctorily painted over:
W E B V A N

I imagine the owner got it for a couple hundred bucks when the assets were auctioned off.

I don't know why they didn't make it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 13, 2025 12:04 AM (I3KId)

384 Sources of scrap copper:
electric motors and generators
transformers
wire
fluorescent lamp ballasts
Stereos, TV's, computers, mostly from the transformers and choke coil, and relays therein. PC boards contain copper, but not enough to justify the effort to recover it.
copper cookware.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 13, 2025 12:00 AM (npFr7)

Yeah, but too much like work. Maybe when I have nothing else to do. I do have a pile of smoked starters and generators at the shop that I'll cannibalize for certain things. A lot of copper in those things.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 13, 2025 12:04 AM (snZF9)

385 Duran Duran's Rio made my preteen heart glad. And I still enjoy it, dancing dorkily around my house.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 13, 2025 12:05 AM (OUqBw)

386 BarelyScaryMary, no bad tracks in your opinion? :-)

I agree it's great. I like The Chauffer quite a bit.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 13, 2025 12:05 AM (Ixlky)

387 *grabs serving tray, stacks it with drinks, holds it aloft and dances into the crowd to deliver them*

Posted by: JQ at November 13, 2025 12:03 AM (rdVOm)

Well then, now its a party. We need you at the MoMe. You can be the drink wench.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 13, 2025 12:06 AM (snZF9)

388 367 I have met TRex IRL. His arms are much longer than they are on the blog.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 12, 2025 11:57 PM
***
Never thought my arms would benefit from a character witness, but here we are. Obviously.

Posted by: TRex - long enough to reach cake at November 13, 2025 12:06 AM (IQ6Gq)

389 Too bad the Shopping Malls are basically gone. It would have been amusing to watch misinformed nitwit Progressives diving into the water fountains to hoard pennies tomorrow.

Posted by: Orson at November 13, 2025 12:07 AM (dIske)

390 As soon as I find a buyer for my Packard Motor Car shares, I'm going to become a market maker in carbon...debits.

Posted by: Paco at November 13, 2025 12:07 AM (mADJX)

391 370 Name a perfect music album. One of your all-time favorites. Only rules:

- no Beatles
- no compilation or greatest hits albums
- no live albums
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 12, 2025 11:52 PM (Ixlky)
--------------
Steeleye Span
Below the Salt.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea
--
So What, Miles Davis

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 13, 2025 12:07 AM (zojZo)

392 Duran Duran's Rio made my preteen heart glad. And I still enjoy it, dancing dorkily around my house.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 13, 2025 12:05 AM (OUqBw)

yeah I doubt you would want to hear the headbanger reworded version of that song. It would ruin it for you. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 13, 2025 12:07 AM (snZF9)

393 What investment website do people here recommend?
Posted by: qdpsteve

I don't pretend to be smart enough to play the markets at the individual-stock level. I just buy mutual funds. S&P 500 tracker, mostly. I joke about buying the "Nancy Pelosi's stock picks" fund, but never have.

No, I don't get to buy mid-size Caribbean islands when my penny stocks hit $12,000. But I also don't have to sell my beanie-baby collection when they go bust.

Anyway, my job uses Fidelity for my 401k, so that's where I play.

Posted by: mikeski actually owns no beanie babies at November 13, 2025 12:08 AM (nhCoE)

394 mikeski, I've found I enjoy Moody Blues' Days Of Future Passed a lot. As I get older, I appreciate the non-hit tracks more.

Was reading yesterday about Patrick Moraz of the Moody Blues. He was with the band for over a decade, gave them their 1980s synth sound, years later complained they didn't challenge him anymore in an interview article in about 1990, then found himself unceremoniously fired.

He sued the rest of the band, claiming there was an 'oral agreement' he was a full member, not just a 'hired sideman' as the others claimed. At one point, the Moodies offered him $400k to settle. Moraz refused and wanted to go to court in California.

He did, and got a verdict... for less than $100k. Oops.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 13, 2025 12:08 AM (Ixlky)

395 mikeski, thanks! Everyone seems to like Fidelity.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 13, 2025 12:09 AM (Ixlky)

396 For me, J. Geils Band's Freeze Frame is a perfect album.

Not a single dull track. I love everything on there.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 13, 2025 12:10 AM (Ixlky)

397 I would say, going against the grain, What's The Story Morning Glory and Crack The Skye are two perfect albums.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 13, 2025 12:10 AM (XV/Pl)

398 Perfect Albums
Dark Side of the Moon/ Pink Floyd
Disintegration/ The Cure
Joshua Tree/ U2
Vision Thing/ Sisters of Mercy

Posted by: tankdemon at November 13, 2025 12:10 AM (tC+hY)

399 LOL, Bers-- just re-living my cocktail-waitressing days. Been 35 years since I balanced an overhead tray & danced around with it. Probly kill myself with a heavy beermug to the brain if I tried it now, hahaha.

Posted by: JQ at November 13, 2025 12:10 AM (rdVOm)

400 yeah I doubt you would want to hear the headbanger reworded version of that song. It would ruin it for you. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

It would probably make me laugh. I'm not offended by much, really.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 13, 2025 12:11 AM (OUqBw)

401 tank, I just ordered a copy of Disintegration. Looking forward to hearing it in full. I LOVE Lovesong.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 13, 2025 12:11 AM (Ixlky)

402 18 BTW, "The Farmer's Almanac" is NOT the same as "The Old Farmer's Almanac", which was founded by Ben Franklin and is still alive and well.

I made that mistake, until my wife set me straight.
Posted by: Nemo at November 12, 2025 10:09 PM (4RPgu)

As long as it’s not The World Almanac. I’ve gotten one every year since fourth grade.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 13, 2025 12:11 AM (vwL3N)

403 Pet Sounds, Disraeli Gears

Posted by: Some Rat at November 13, 2025 12:11 AM (TfUTr)

404 Name a perfect music album. One of your all-time favorites. Only rules:

- no Beatles
- no compilation or greatest hits albums
- no live albums
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 12, 2025 11:52 PM (Ixlky)
____________________________

Oh, man, I'm going to take a ribbing for these, but as the old man used to say. Sign your name on it and own it. So.

Watermark (Enya- 198

&
Meatloaf (Bat Out of Hell --1977)

Posted by: Orson at November 13, 2025 12:12 AM (dIske)

405 398 Perfect Albums
Dark Side of the Moon/ Pink Floyd
Disintegration/ The Cure
Joshua Tree/ U2
Vision Thing/ Sisters of Mercy
Posted by: tankdemon at November 13, 2025 12:10 AM (tC+hY)

Dream Theater - Images & Words

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 13, 2025 12:12 AM (vwL3N)

406 yeah I doubt you would want to hear the headbanger reworded version of that song. It would ruin it for you. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

It would probably make me laugh. I'm not offended by much, really.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 13, 2025 12:11 AM (OUqBw)

uh..no. You're too much of a lady, as are the ettes in general. Even I have limits. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 13, 2025 12:13 AM (snZF9)

407 Some Rat, agreed about Pet Sounds. Still have yet to listen to Disraeli Gears in full.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 13, 2025 12:13 AM (Ixlky)

408 A store here called at Home has 15-20 foot Christmas inflatables.

https://t.ly/n3NFw

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 13, 2025 12:14 AM (pkeXY)

409 Berserker, to your mom. :-)

And, Lords Of The New Church did a cover of Madonna's hit Like A Virgin, that is literally obscene-sounding.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 13, 2025 12:15 AM (Ixlky)

410 Mr Scary jokes about assless chaps. Aren't all chaps assless?
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 12, 2025 11:09 PM (OUqBw)

We're trying some deep knee bends and squats.

Posted by: Chaps Everywhere at November 13, 2025 12:15 AM (NZPfR)

411 LOL, Bers-- just re-living my cocktail-waitressing days. Been 35 years since I balanced an overhead tray & danced around with it. Probly kill myself with a heavy beermug to the brain if I tried it now, hahaha.

Posted by: JQ at November 13, 2025 12:10 AM (rdVOm)

Ok, we can just wheel you around in some post apocalyptic sci-fi contraption. We're not picky. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 13, 2025 12:15 AM (snZF9)

412 uh..no. You're too much of a lady, as are the ettes in general. Even I have limits. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

___

Thanks Bers, I'll take your word for it, lol.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 13, 2025 12:16 AM (OUqBw)

413 {{{ SomeRat}}} I just went outside again to check if the very dense cloud cover had magically disappeared, I am sorry that I can't see them.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 13, 2025 12:16 AM (0nHVk)

414 Deep Purple - Machine Head

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 13, 2025 12:16 AM (pkeXY)

415 Berserker, to your mom. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 13, 2025 12:15 AM (Ixlky)

Thanks!

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 13, 2025 12:16 AM (snZF9)

416 401 tank, I just ordered a copy of Disintegration. Looking forward to hearing it in full. I LOVE Lovesong.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 13, 2025 12:11 AM (Ixlky)

Fascination Street is proba ly my favorite track on the album. I hope you like long intros before hearing the music.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 13, 2025 12:17 AM (tC+hY)

417 tank, I like Chicago's early stuff, so... :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 13, 2025 12:17 AM (Ixlky)

418
Fascination Street is proba ly my favorite track on the album. I hope you like long intros before hearing the music.
Posted by: tankdemon at November 13, 2025 12:17 AM (tC+hY)

Lyrics
Before hearing the lyrics.

Stupid brain.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 13, 2025 12:18 AM (tC+hY)

419 Definitely getting a bourbon buzz. It might be a drunk berserker is best berserker night.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 13, 2025 12:18 AM (snZF9)

420 The Cars debut album, every song a hit. Also worked in with each other perfectly. As an Album, one of the best I can think of.

Another all time great - Who’s Next. Even if you’ve never been a big Who fan, I guarantee you’ll know almost every song on it.

I can make a good case that Who’s Next established the stadium rock sound that dominated rock for the next decade.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 13, 2025 12:18 AM (jjpbs)

421 TxMoMe (?year)

Featuring: JQ as Cap'n Pike, drink wench.

Uh......

*cries softly*

Posted by: JQ at November 13, 2025 12:18 AM (rdVOm)

422 {{{ SomeRat}}} I just went outside again to check if the very dense cloud cover had magically disappeared, I am sorry that I can't see them.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 13, 2025 12:16 AM (0nHVk)

Its pitch black out here in jersey. Of course it is, we're practically N Korea.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 13, 2025 12:19 AM (snZF9)

423 408 A store here called at Home has 15-20 foot Christmas inflatables.

https://t.ly/n3NFw
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 13, 2025 12:14 AM (pkeXY)
___________________________

You just gave me an idea for a new business. "The Piss Off Your HOA Store". This is genius. Have a by-law expert on the premises of the store who reviews your HOA Rules to determine what disturbing and over-the-top stock is available within the store that can still be displayed at your residence just barely within the rules of the HOA.

Posted by: Orson at November 13, 2025 12:19 AM (dIske)

424 Well, I am getting sleepy. Going to get an early one. Night, Horde.

I will take one last look at the sky before I turn in. If the aurora is spectacular, i will come back and give a report. If I don't report back, it is lame or gone.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 13, 2025 12:19 AM (npFr7)

425 Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 13, 2025 12:16 AM
---------

Can't see it here, either.

Chivas, my friend?

Posted by: JQ at November 13, 2025 12:20 AM (rdVOm)

426 Lou Rawls used to make a habit of talking through intros of his songs. It was popular enough for a while that other artists did it.

One of my all time favorite Motown songs is Jimmy Ruffin, "What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted." The label deleted it, but there was supposed to be a spoken-word intro on it. It was restored in a later remaster in the 1990s.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 13, 2025 12:20 AM (Ixlky)

427 TxMoMe (?year)

Featuring: JQ as Cap'n Pike, drink wench.

Uh......

*cries softly*

Posted by: JQ at November 13, 2025 12:18 AM (rdVOm)

Cap'n pike, drink wench. I love it, lol. We'll get you there when you're ready.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 13, 2025 12:21 AM (snZF9)

428 'Night, AOP

Posted by: JQ at November 13, 2025 12:21 AM (rdVOm)

429 Dream Theater - Images & Words
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 13, 2025 12:12 AM (vwL3N)

That is a band I am always intending to check out. I really liked the few solo works of John Peteuccinthst I have heard.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 13, 2025 12:21 AM (tC+hY)

430 Tom Servo, thanks and I love both of those.

Can't believe I forgot to mention the Cars debut. True, it's perfect from beginning to end. It sounds like the band worked super-hard to make it perfect.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 13, 2025 12:21 AM (Ixlky)

431 Cap'n pike, drink wench. I love it, lol. We'll get you there when you're ready.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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*beep*

Posted by: JQ at November 13, 2025 12:22 AM (rdVOm)

432 I forgot the Cure Disintegration album. 1989? That was GenX perfection.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 13, 2025 12:22 AM (OUqBw)

433 All these albums are foreign to me.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 13, 2025 12:24 AM (snZF9)

434 Cap'n pike, drink wench. I love it, lol. We'll get you there when you're ready.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
--------

*beep*
Posted by: JQ

LMAO...."Can I get a refill?"
*beeb, beeb*
"Double yes! Sweet!"
(h/t South Park)

Posted by: Some Rat at November 13, 2025 12:25 AM (TfUTr)

435 Perfect album was mentioned a night or two ago by another Moron:

Aerosmith's Toys in the Attic

Not a bad track on it.

Posted by: JQ at November 13, 2025 12:26 AM (rdVOm)

436 Saw Straight No Chaser at The Majestic Theater in Dallas earlier this evening. They showed their latest video at their concert - a truly wonderful arrangement of "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer". Enjoy:

https://tinyurl.com/SNCGrandma

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at November 13, 2025 12:27 AM (BLyNd)

437 JQ, gotta listen to that one again.

I did recently get Aerosmith's first album. It's pretty good. They sounded hungry.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 13, 2025 12:27 AM (Ixlky)

438 Watermark (Enya- 198
&
Meatloaf (Bat Out of Hell --1977)
Posted by: Orson at November 13, 2025 12:12 AM (dIske)

I can beat that with my second place behind The Cars Candy O.

Rick Springfield Working Class Dog.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 13, 2025 12:29 AM (EYmYM)

439 393 What investment website do people here recommend?
Posted by: qdpsteve
-----------

Charles Payne, Wallstreet Strategies. Wstreet.com
His show is good too on FOX.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 13, 2025 12:29 AM (zojZo)

440 Background music:

youtu.be/jTv6cWd1pyk

Posted by: JQ at November 13, 2025 12:29 AM (rdVOm)

441 Perfect albums? I'd agree with "Joshua Tree" by U2; "Rattle and Hum" comes pretty close as well. I also loved the Fine Young Cannibals' self-titled debut, and thought it was much better than the follow up of "The Raw and the Cooked." And I'll throw in Harry Connick Jr.'s "Lofty's Roach Soufflé." But it's been well over two decades since I bought an album / cassette tape / CD or downloaded a full album. I usually just pull up YouTube, type in a song that fits the mood, and the algorithm brings me some music.

Posted by: PabloD at November 13, 2025 12:30 AM (I8S3t)

442 Van Halen

Van Halen.

Band/album name, also all good *IMO*

Posted by: JQ at November 13, 2025 12:31 AM (rdVOm)

443 431 Cap'n pike, drink wench. I love it, lol. We'll get you there when you're ready.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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*beep*
Posted by: JQ at November 13, 2025 12:22 AM (rdVOm)

---------

*ding ding ding ding ding*

Posted by: Hector Salamanca at November 13, 2025 12:31 AM (JkO4W)

444 Perfect album was mentioned a night or two ago by another Moron:

Aerosmith's Toys in the Attic

Not a bad track on it.
Posted by: JQ at November 13, 2025 12:26 AM (rdVOm)

My first 8 track.

Boston’s Boston was groundbreaking.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 13, 2025 12:32 AM (EYmYM)

445 Rick Springfield Working Class Dog.

Posted by: the way I see it

___

I remember the Spuds McKenzie looking-dog on the cover and Jessie's Girl, that is about it.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 13, 2025 12:33 AM (OUqBw)

446 Perfect album was mentioned a night or two ago by another Moron:

Aerosmith's Toys in the Attic

Not a bad track on it.

Posted by: JQ at November 13, 2025 12:26 AM (rdVOm)

Yeah that was good. I remember playing the song adams apple in a garage band in high school. Damn I have played that in decades.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 13, 2025 12:34 AM (snZF9)

447 People here have great tastes in music.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 13, 2025 12:36 AM (Ixlky)

448 I remember the Spuds McKenzie looking-dog on the cover and Jessie's Girl, that is about it.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 13, 2025 12:33 AM (OUqBw)

Jesse’s Girl was just the 3rd or 4th best song on the album iMO.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 13, 2025 12:36 AM (EYmYM)

449 Boston’s Boston was groundbreaking.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 13, 2025 12:32 AM (EYmYM)

Yeah that was really good.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 13, 2025 12:37 AM (snZF9)

450 447 People here have great tastes in music.

--------

*winks*

Posted by: Zamfir at November 13, 2025 12:38 AM (dyewR)

451 Name a perfect music album. One of your all-time favorites. Only rules:

- no Beatles
- no compilation or greatest hits albums
- no live albums

Rush — Moving Pictures
Santana — Caravanserai
Tangerine Dream — Rubycon
Iona — Book Of Kells
Rez (Resurrection Band) — Silence Screams
Phil Keaggy — Sunday's Child
Miles Davis — Kind Of Blue
Jan Hammer — Miami Vice The Complete Collection
David Sanborn -— Straight To The Heart
The Cars — The Cars

Posted by: goozer at November 13, 2025 12:38 AM (BAs8w)

452 More background (hah!) music

https://youtu.be/dgkGE82DsuQ

Posted by: JQ at November 13, 2025 12:38 AM (rdVOm)

453 Elton John goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Carole King Tapestry
Yaz Upstairs at Erics

Posted by: LASue at November 13, 2025 12:39 AM (Du1U/)

454 Jesse’s Girl was just the 3rd or 4th best song on the album iMO.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 13, 2025 12:36 AM (EYmYM)

___
I will have to revisit it, then. It's been 45 years? Crap. Jessie's Girl was fun.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 13, 2025 12:40 AM (OUqBw)

455 For a concept album, Bowie's Diamond Dogs stands up well.

It ain't rock n roll. It's genocide!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 13, 2025 12:41 AM (dyewR)

456 Yeah that was really good.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 13, 2025 12:37 AM (snZF9)

You ever play the opening guitar riff to Long Time?

That is pretty awesome after the intro or what the album called foreplay.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 13, 2025 12:47 AM (EYmYM)

457 So many Hordies play instruments and make music.

Would love if somehow we could get, as a companion to The Deplorable Cookbook, The Deplorable Album. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 13, 2025 12:48 AM (Ixlky)

458 JQ, thanks for the Chivas, I had to step away for a while, there were so many beeps, buzzers and bells I thought that I hit a slot machine.

{{{Teresa}}} I am going to see them in Boston in early December with some of my friends.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 13, 2025 12:49 AM (0nHVk)

459 I'm learning to shred on the ukelele. Yeah.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 13, 2025 12:52 AM (OUqBw)

460 Everyone, I have to check out but please continue to share your fave perfect albums if you're so inclined.
Thanks and goodnight!

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 13, 2025 12:55 AM (Ixlky)

461 Happy Wednesday ONT anniversary, TRex!
And yes, I consider this my 4th quarter lurker check in.

Posted by: ChE99 at November 13, 2025 12:56 AM (s5zPX)

462 Scrolling through my iPhone for albums with no skippable songs (that meet qdp's rules)..... and skipping concept albums, since they're really just one long song.....

Agalloch - The Mantle
Amorphis - Tuonela
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
Blood Root Mother - Mystic Machine
Clockwork - Surface Tension
Dido - No Angel
Distant Dream - It All Starts From Pieces
Dream Theater - I&W, Awake, Train Of Thought
Epica - The Phantom Agony, Consign To Oblivion
Fates Warning - Parallels
FictionJunction - Everlasting Songs
I Mother Earth - Dig

.....too many carriage returns, Minx doesn't like it. So 1/2.

Posted by: mikeski at November 13, 2025 12:56 AM (nhCoE)

463 Kalafina - Seventh Heaven
Kansas - Leftoverture
Lacuna Coil - Broken Crown Halo
Leprous - Tall Poppy Syndrome
Maudlin of the Well - Bath
October Project - Falling Farther In, s/t
Opeth - Damnation, Watershed
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Queensrÿche - Empire
Therion - Vovin
Toad the Wet Sprocket - Fear
Devin Townsend - Biomech, Terria
Toy Matinee - s/t
VAST - Visual Audio Sensory Theater
Within Temptation - The Silent Force, The Heart of Everything
X Japan - Dahlia

I probably missed a bunch. It's late. 2/2.

Posted by: mikeski at November 13, 2025 12:56 AM (nhCoE)

464 Fun ONT tonight! What a party!

Good night, horde. Got stuff to do early tomorrow...

Posted by: JQ at November 13, 2025 01:01 AM (rdVOm)

465 Interesting article at WSJ about trends in streaming service prices and consumption. People must have a lot of money to blow on subscriptions. If you hoped "Cuties" killed Netflix, they've got bad news for you:

https://bit.ly/47ZKAE3

Article Bonus: Includes Graph Theory!

Posted by: gp at November 13, 2025 01:01 AM (7imtn)

466 Yeah that was really good.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 13, 2025 12:37 AM (snZF9)

You ever play the opening guitar riff to Long Time?

That is pretty awesome after the intro or what the album called foreplay.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 13, 2025 12:47 AM (EYmYM)

Actually, by the time The boston album hit I was probably playing around 8 years, so I was more than developed enough to play a lot of that album. The major thing I learned from boston was guitar harmonies. I had these 2 little cassette player/recorders. I would play the rhythm on one, play it back, and play one part of the harmony over it while recording it on the second tape player. Now I could work out the second part of the harmony by playing along with the 1st part. Once I had it I would play along with it and again record it with the other player. By the time I was done I had all the guitar parts recorded. After a while I was hearing all the parts in my head and could separate them on the fly. that was a major skill to have, because when metal hit big band like iron maiden and judas priest were doing it a lot, and I never struggled with it because of what I learned with boston.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 13, 2025 01:02 AM (snZF9)

467 Whelp... Trump signed the Bill tonight... Gov is open again...

Damn it.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 13, 2025 01:04 AM (mP0Kj)

468 Scrap metal: I was pleased at what the recyclers pay for worn-out lead-acid batteries. Every decent barn has ten or more lying around.

Posted by: gp at November 13, 2025 01:05 AM (7imtn)

469 Kansas Left Overture...all of it as best album

My husband came upstairs and asked where I was vs my normal perch reading in bed. I was in our walk-in closet which faces north. A round window that I call my spy window.

He is laughing and asks why the top of a shoebox is on the window: to block light from the neighbors as I take photos, which I hope will, by some miracle, show color. He said that is very scientific and we both laughed. I took more damn photos that showed nothing but white clouds and a deep blue sky. The clouds are now breaking up (of course they are as it is over).

He claims that the "sun is more active" and maybe I will someday have another chance. To be caught in the dark longing for red/green is rather pathetic and I will go to bed. Glad for other people who saw it (no you are not).

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 13, 2025 01:09 AM (MAl//)

470 Last month, we tried to visit a National Historical Site, but it was closed. That was the only time we noticed the Government shutdown.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 13, 2025 01:09 AM (OUqBw)

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