Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - November 18, 2025 [Doof]

Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Tuesday night ONT. So glad you stopped by. What's going on in your world tonight?

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Big Internet Outage Earlier Today

Please excuse tankdemon for being late. He was digging through his collection of Compute! magazines looking for the issue with Hunt the Wumpus cheat codes.

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Have You Seen The Bridge?

Where's that confounded bridge?

As you are probably well aware, the Key Bridge in Baltimore has been closed since March 2024 due to being struck by a cargo ship. Initial estimates for the rebuild were approximately $2 Billion with a forecasted re-opening in 2028. Now the state of MD is saying the rebuild will, get this, cost a lot more and take a lot longer. I know you're totally shocked by these developments!

Cost of Key Bridge Replacement Upped to $5 Billion, Timeline Delayed to 2030

Rendering of the new Key Bridge design

Commuters, residents, and business owners waiting for a new Key Bridge will have to wait longer than previously though… and construction will cost two to three times as much.
The Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) released new cost and timeline estimates one day before the National Transportation Safety Board released the failures that led the M/V Dali to lose power, strike the bridge, and cause the deadly collapse.
MDTA says it is working with the Federal Highway Administration to “quickly and safely” advance the rebuilding of the bridge that people and commerce operations relied on. MDTA announced it has raised the cost estimate to a range of $4.3-$5.2 billion, up from $1.7 billion. The predicted opening date of the bridge has been pushed back from 2028 to late 2030.

Why, you ask?

MDTA attributes the doubling or tripling of the cost to changing national economic conditions and material costs, which the agency says have increased dramatically. Because the cost and timeline estimates were made less than two weeks after the collapse on March 26, 2024, they didn’t factor in pre-construction activities (which have been underway since this summer), advanced design, and updated data points.
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A big part of the cost increase comes from the length of the main bridge span and the height of the main piers. The new bridge’s main span will be 1,665 feet long to accommodate today’s large ships (some of which are much larger than the Dali).

I'm sorry -- WHAT?? The original estimates didn't factor in pre-construction activities or the length of the new main span??? Nobody picked up on that a year and a half ago? Yeah, OK.

Here's a recent photo of pre-construction activities.

Some additional info to consider. From marylandmatters.org

Within hours of the bridge’s collapse, then-President Joe Biden promised that the federal government would cover 100% of the cost of replacement. That pledge was later codified into law by Congress.
But President Donald Trump (R) has repeatedly hinted that he does not feel bound by that agreement. In an online spat with Gov. Wes Moore (D) in August, whcn Moore slammed Trump’s suggestion that he might send National Guard troops into Baltimore, the president ended a lengthy social media post by saying he “gave Wes Moore a lot of money to fix his demolished bridge. I will now have to rethink that decision???”
And U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, while pledging that the federal government is committed to working with the state to deliver a new Key Bridge, has pressed the state for updates on costs and the timeline for the reconstruction.
“Congress granted the Secretary of Transportation important authorities to conduct critical oversight to ensure that Federal highway funds are properly managed, and I take this authority seriously,” Duffy said in a September letter to state officials. “It is my role to guarantee that federally funded projects benefit the entire Nation through every dollar spent.”
In that letter, Duffy also warned that the state’s “reliance on race- or sex-conscious factors in contracting decisions” could threaten the project. It was a reference to the state Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program, which aims to use state contracts to bolster minority- and women-owned businesses.
Kiewit, the contractor overseeing the bridge project, has committed to a goal of using 26% “disadvantaged business enterprises,” including campanies [sic] that are at least 51% owned and controlled by one or more minority individuals.

What does Governor Moore say about that?

In a statement Monday night, Moore said the state will “continue to work with the Trump Administration to find ways to reduce costs and rebuild faster.” The higher costs and longer timeline are the result of outside factors, “not discretionary state choices,” he said.

Yup. Not his fault. And definitely not any cronyism or grift going on.

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In another part of the country, a bridge nears completion.

New Yellowstone Bridge Replaces Crumbling 62-Year-Old Span

Big news, big bridge - visitors to Yellowstone National Park are now using the new Yellowstone River Bridge.
This major Great American Outdoors Act project is moving into its final phase as crews continue work on overlooks, remove the old bridge, and restore the Lost Creek drainage. The full project is expected to be completed in 2026.
The bridge was one of the biggest projects in the park's recent history.
The old bridge was deemed structurally deficient, with crumbling concrete. The new bridge, located upstream, is more than twice as long, at 1,285 feet, as the 62-year-old bridge.
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The project was originally estimated to cost slightly more than $71 million, but park officials said the rising cost of labor and materials like concrete and steel pushed the budget to $118 million.

Wes Moore is probably laughing at the relatively tiny price tag for this bridge!

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Palate Cleansing Videos

Sorry - embedding X videos isn't working today.

Guy from the future?

Master move in Jenga

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Otter News

The good kind of otters - not the rapey ones.

Baby Sea Otter Named Caterpillar Rescued off Central California Coast

Conservationists recently reunited a mother otter with her baby and caught it on film.
It seems surreal when marine conservationists plop the lost baby sea otter into the frigid waters of Morro Bay in Central California.
Before it makes its way back into the arms of its mother, the thing just bobbed around like a crabbing buoy.
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For two hours, the team plied the coastline, blasting the call off of one side of the boat and then the other with no luck. Finally, a female otter popped her head above the water and began to take interest in the boat—something otters almost never do; they have no interest in people or boats typically.
The intern moved the speaker around the sides of the boat to see if the visitor would follow the sound: which it did, giving them the cue to throw man overboard overboard.
With up to 970,000 strands of hair per square inch, the sea otter’s fur is the densest of any animal. An air layer sits between the skin and the base of the fur that prevents any water from reaching it. It is, therefore, startlingly buoyant.
Lowering it gently into the water, it floated helplessly on its back, rolling around as if it were on a thick quilt. Mom swam over, grabbed the baby, and began to smell it rather intensely before swimming away, reunited with its pup.

Video at the link

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This Date in History

Starting off with sports. On this date in 1985 - The Theismann Injury.

Kinda gruesome to watch, but if you're interested - here ya go!

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Moving on to music - some noteworthy albums were released on this date in history.

2002 - The debut album from the supergroup Audioslave, which featured Chris Cornell on vocals along with 3 members of Rage Against the Machine (at least one of whom is a Trump-hating uberdouche).

1991 - Achtung Baby from U2. Yes, this band takes a lot of deserved scorn from the Horde. But they did make some great music in the early days, and I'd say this is their last really good album. I'll forego the hits / singles from the album and go with a deep track - dedicated to a lovely lady who is gone but will never be forgotten. This was among her favorites.

1985 - Psychocandy, debut album from The Jesus and Mary Chain. I remember buying this CD when it came out. The audio mix is very heavy on treble. Not sure why.

Also in 1985, a banger of an album was released. Here's a track from it.
Dedicated to Mis Hum.

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1 Yawn...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 18, 2025 09:58 PM (nbLIj)

2 Doof! ONT!!

YAY

Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at November 18, 2025 09:58 PM (e3cpZ)

3 Third!

Posted by: Half Dozen at November 18, 2025 09:59 PM (EYvpB)

4 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 18, 2025 09:59 PM (cYBz/)

5 Cost of Key Bridge Replacement Upped to $5 Billion, Timeline Delayed to 2030

*The Big Dig has entered the chat.*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 18, 2025 10:00 PM (Wnv9h)

6 2 minutes early does not excuse last night.

Posted by: Some Rat at November 18, 2025 10:00 PM (TfUTr)

7 SFB di-electric

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 18, 2025 10:00 PM (CN6P7)

8 Sorry I'm late, I didn't realize I left my old copies of Compute! Magazine next to the Playboys.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 18, 2025 10:00 PM (CwUhY)

9 What's going on in your world tonight?
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Just got back from my church men's group. It's the last one we have before February of next year.

Gonna miss hanging out with those guys for the next couple of months, though I'll still see them at church, of course.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 18, 2025 10:01 PM (IBQGV)

10 Yay, ONT!

I fixed my computer today. Power supply was dead.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 18, 2025 10:01 PM (lUFok)

11 Last night late....

Tonight early....

Looks like great content....

Thank you Doof!

Burma Shave....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 18, 2025 10:01 PM (QGaXH)

12 Sorry I'm late, I didn't realize I left my old copies of Compute! Magazine next to the Playboys.
Posted by: tankdemon at November 18, 2025 10:00 PM (CwUhY)
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Isn't that the plot of Weird Science?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 18, 2025 10:02 PM (IBQGV)

13 Good evening morons e grazie Disco.

Posted by: Generalissimo Pinochet at November 18, 2025 10:02 PM (X1/SD)

14 Hello, Horde! 😊❤️

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at November 18, 2025 10:02 PM (SRRAx)

15 Hey ONT! Hey Doof!

U2 kinda/sorta gets a pass from me because (a) they did do some good music IMHO (b) Bono's acknowledgement that capitalism raises people out of poverty, not socialism.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 18, 2025 10:02 PM (cQHrm)

16 Re last thread lana Clarkson

Lady is beautiful. She was murdered. Wtf.

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 18, 2025 10:03 PM (zZu0s)

17 Governor DeSantis needs to call the Maryland guvnuh, as he built a bridge to Sanibel in 13days after Hurricane Ian.

Maryland seems to be lacking leadership.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 18, 2025 10:03 PM (WONhk)

18 NY Post: Thomas Crooks repeated searched for videos of muscular women (paraphrased)

Who wouldn't?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 18, 2025 10:04 PM (QGaXH)

19 Mystery click, I was betting on “Roll me away”

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 18, 2025 10:04 PM (/ZNPI)

20 /savior of democracy sock off

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 18, 2025 10:04 PM (X1/SD)

21 Good evening Horde. Thanks Disco!

Posted by: TRex - Zoo Station Dino at November 18, 2025 10:04 PM (IQ6Gq)

22 ***Commuters, residents, and business owners waiting for a new -
Key Bridge will have to wait longer ...
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Business opportunity for ferry boat operators.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 18, 2025 10:05 PM (CN6P7)

23 Cost of Key Bridge Replacement Upped to $5 Billion, Timeline Delayed to 2030

*The Big Dig has entered the chat.*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 18, 2025 10:00 PM (Wnv9h)

Why aren't they using the gangs to rebuild the bridge? During the reconstruction, they'll be too tired to commit crimes.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 18, 2025 10:05 PM (S/Y4j)

24 Cost of Key Bridge Replacement Upped to $5 Billion, Timeline Delayed to 2030
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The Bay Bridge was also billions overbudget and years late. Of course, traffic was going across the old span the whole time.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 18, 2025 10:05 PM (X1/SD)

25 I have watched the first three episodes of Ken Burns' new PBS special on the Revolutionary War (basically, everything through Trenton).

So far, I give it a B to a B-.

Where Burns sticks to the purely military side of things, it's pretty good; there's a lot of great maps and 3D models of the battlefields, and plenty of stories about the experiences of individual soldiers.

On the other hand, Burns does get into the race/gender nonsense more than he should. Not as much as he probably would have if Trump wasn't in charge now, and to be clear, the Revolution does have social tensions that deserve to be talked about; but you do notice it.

It's worth a watch, but don't take everything at face value.

Posted by: Dr. T at November 18, 2025 10:05 PM (lHPJf)

26 ARiK, Crooks is dead right?

I know it's horrible of me, but I'm always kinda relieved when I find out these shooters were killed by the police. Harder for leftists to turn them into martyrs, that way.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 18, 2025 10:06 PM (cQHrm)

27 Again sacrificing precious time to watch American Revolution for y'all. The third episode covers the initially hard times for the Patriot army and Washington. It mentions the two Howe brothers, one a general the other an admiral. The general makes several half-hearted attempts to defeat Washington. Winter begins to set in and Washington's somewhat diminished army defeats a larger Hessian complement and then FREES the Germans! Says they have been forced to fight! Less this episode of racial comments and indian notes. Both groups are treated poorly by the patriots and the blacks essentially ignored by the Brits.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 18, 2025 10:06 PM (47diA)

28 Achtung Baby is U2's best album.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 18, 2025 10:06 PM (0CU3H)

29 What would happen if Trump ordered the Army Corp of Engineers to finish the bridge instead?

It is amazing things that were done quickly and cheaply in old America take longer now even with computers and decades of advance in materials and engineering

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2025 10:07 PM (sKqQm)

30 Cost of Key Bridge Replacement Upped to $5 Billion, Timeline Delayed to 2030

*The Big Dig has entered the chat.*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

"Seattle light rail raises hand."

Posted by: Some Rat at November 18, 2025 10:07 PM (TfUTr)

31 Darrell, along with War from 1983.
(U2 peaked early.)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 18, 2025 10:07 PM (cQHrm)

32 6 2 minutes early does not excuse last night.
Posted by: Some Rat
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I think the culprit is still at large.

Posted by: scampydog at November 18, 2025 10:07 PM (41CYW)

33 CATERPILLAR!

Sweet sweet sea otter!

Squeeeeeeeeeer!

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 18, 2025 10:07 PM (mT+6a)

34 Who wouldn't?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 18, 2025 10:04 PM (QGaXH)

Depends on how muscular, really.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 18, 2025 10:08 PM (zZu0s)

35 2 minutes early does not excuse last night.
Posted by: Some Rat at November 18, 2025 10:00 PM (TfUTr)

The Disco and The Dildo have their own separate posting strategies. Neither is early nor late.

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2025 10:08 PM (QMAsf)

36 The theisman break was 40 years ago? Damn.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 18, 2025 10:09 PM (/ZNPI)

37 U2's first three albums were great Like the Police they were key in destroying disco as a viable form of music.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 18, 2025 10:09 PM (X1/SD)

38 Good Mystery Click, havent listened to that one in a while. Thanks for the ONT, Disco.

Posted by: scampydog at November 18, 2025 10:09 PM (41CYW)

39 Evening, Doof, and ONT Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 18, 2025 10:09 PM (npFr7)

40 Monterey Bay Aquarium has a sea otter pelt taken from poachers. Feeling it, you can understand why people wanted those pelts. It is the most luxuriant thing I have ever touched.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 10:09 PM (xDEVV)

41 The theisman break was 40 years ago? Damn.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 18, 2025 10:09 PM (/ZNPI)

Remember t he '89 superpower? San Fran and Cincinatti. That lineman's leg what turned into spaghetti.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 18, 2025 10:10 PM (zZu0s)

42 And why doesn’t the army corps of engineers replace major infrastructure ? They do it in other countries. Why not ours?

Fuck the unions and the mafia. They aren’t working in the best interest of the United States.

Have the Army
Do it.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 18, 2025 10:10 PM (mT+6a)

43 Maryland seems to be lacking leadership.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

But DC is right there!

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

44 A plot line in one season of True Detective was that the CA high speed rail project was mostly a venue for graft.

However, unlike in real life the show has the rail eventually actually built and running trains carrying actual passengers.

Who knew a show with such a depressing ending was way, way more optimistic then real CA politics?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2025 10:10 PM (sKqQm)

45 What would happen if Trump ordered the Army Corp of Engineers to finish the bridge instead?

It is amazing things that were done quickly and cheaply in old America take longer now even with computers and decades of advance in materials and engineering
Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2025 10:07 PM (sKqQm)
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I bet the Moron Horde could build it for $1 billion and change....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 18, 2025 10:10 PM (IBQGV)

46 I agree with Dr T on the overall rating for this show.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 18, 2025 10:10 PM (47diA)

47 Superbowl. Wtf, phone?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 18, 2025 10:11 PM (zZu0s)

48 24 Cost of Key Bridge Replacement Upped to $5 Billion, Timeline Delayed to 2030
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The Bay Bridge was also billions overbudget and years late. Of course, traffic was going across the old span the whole time.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 18, 2025 10:05 PM (X1/SD)

Did we ever find out what really caused the ship failure?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 18, 2025 10:11 PM (0CU3H)

49 U2's great albums:
- War
- Achtung Baby

U2's almost great albums:
- Unforgettable Fire
- Rattle & Hum
- Joshua Tree
- Zooropa

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 18, 2025 10:11 PM (cQHrm)

50 Squeeeeeeeeeer!
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 18, 2025 10:07 PM (mT+6a)
_______________________

Oh great, another gender. What's this one? I gay guy with a block head?

Posted by: Orson at November 18, 2025 10:11 PM (dIske)

51
Trump, who builds things, must be laughing, swearing, and shaking his head over the bridge non-construction.

I think he should pay for it ONLY on condition that all federal contracting requirements are removed -- if that hasn't happened already. Well, and throw in another condition: some trusted czar of his oversees it completely and the government of Maryland has nothing to do with it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 18, 2025 10:11 PM (QfD0o)

52 Cost of Key Bridge Replacement Upped to $5 Billion, Timeline Delayed to 2030

*The Big Dig has entered the chat.*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

"Seattle light rail raises hand."
Posted by: Some Rat at November 18, 2025 10:07 PM (TfUTr)
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CA high speed rail laughs at all of you.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 10:11 PM (xDEVV)

53 U2's first three albums were great Like the Police they were key in destroying disco as a viable form of music.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 18, 2025 10:09 PM (X1/SD)
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I don't think Doof has ever fully recovered from that tragedy.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 18, 2025 10:11 PM (IBQGV)

54 Today our Knights of Columbus council packed over 350 Thanksgiving dinner boxes to hand out tomorrow for needy families around here. You know, the usual stuff - turkeys, boxes of mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, stuffing, green beans and corn. Various deserts too.

Worked a deal with a food wholesaler to loan us a reefer trailer - actually the same one they used to deliver the turkeys.

Another Brother Knight and I finally got through to the powers that be this year to NOT provide frozen, monster turkeys to the recipients. Instead, we gave them smaller turkey roasts. Around here, the truly poor don't have big freezers, don't know how to thaw a bird anyway, and may not have a working oven.

It's hard for some folks to consider that not everyone has the same capabilities as they do. But, we're making progress.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 18, 2025 10:12 PM (cYBz/)

55 I think the culprit is still at large.
Posted by: scampydog

When found, we'll want their head on a pike.
(Ok, may be a bit harsh....)

Posted by: Some Rat at November 18, 2025 10:12 PM (TfUTr)

56 I agree with Dr T on the overall rating for this show.
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 18, 2025 10:10 PM (47diA)

Glad we agree, LRob! And sorry if I accidentally stepped on your own reviews of the show.

I do like the fact that they brought in Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney to voice John and Abigail Adams once again.

Posted by: Dr. T at November 18, 2025 10:12 PM (lHPJf)

57 I'm sorry -- WHAT?? The original estimates didn't factor in pre-construction activities or the length of the new main span??? Nobody picked up on that a year and a half ago?

That's some real quality people in charge.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 18, 2025 10:12 PM (0Htd1)

58 I had a period of employment with the Corps of Engineers. That was almost thirty years ago. At that time, most if not all "civilian" projects were managed by the Corps but completed by contractors. Could they get the bridge completed sooner? I don't know.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 18, 2025 10:13 PM (47diA)

59 Joshua Tree is my favorite U2 album...every song is a winner...

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 18, 2025 10:13 PM (IQ6Gq)

60 I don’t remember The Jesus and Mary Chain band members all looking 12.

Posted by: Piper at November 18, 2025 10:13 PM (OoFl2)

61 Some guys on a boat tried to steal a baby otter but ended up having to give it back to its mother.

But how did they know its name?

Posted by: huerfano at November 18, 2025 10:14 PM (98kQX)

62 Dr T, I am hard to step on! Review away!

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 18, 2025 10:14 PM (47diA)

63 I don't think Doof has ever fully recovered from that tragedy.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 18, 2025 10:11 PM (IBQGV)
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I appreciate disco like I appreciate Rush.

But one of them had to die.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 18, 2025 10:15 PM (X1/SD)

64 Joshua Tree is my favorite U2 album...every song is a winner...
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 18, 2025 10:13 PM (IQ6Gq)
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Same! See we can agree on things!

Posted by: scampydog at November 18, 2025 10:15 PM (41CYW)

65 I looked up the Tappan Zee bridge rebuild and that cost $4B for a bridge twice as long as this one is supposed to be.

And the original Key bridge cost $141M which is supposedly about $500M in current dollars.

So...yeah there is a LOT of graft built into this estimate.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2025 10:15 PM (sKqQm)

66 26 ARiK, Crooks is dead right?

I know it's horrible of me, but I'm always kinda relieved when I find out these shooters were killed by the police. Harder for leftists to turn them into martyrs, that way.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 18, 2025 10:06 PM (cQHrm)

Yes...he saved us the cost of a trial....actually the SS sniper did.

I just thought it was funny...who doesn't like muscular, nicely toned ladies...but I don't think that's what they meant...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 18, 2025 10:15 PM (QGaXH)

67 Kiewit, the contractor overseeing the bridge project, has committed to a goal of using 26% “disadvantaged business enterprises,” including campanies [sic] that are at least 51% owned and controlled by one or more minority individuals.

You think they should pick businesses based on qualifications? That's just crazy talk.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 18, 2025 10:16 PM (0Htd1)

68 Here's a song that Simon & Garfunkel recorded in 1969.

It actually sounds like... U2. Spooky.

https://youtu.be/x0KCnN81Bxc?si=spkwhvXC4qrnt60_

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 18, 2025 10:16 PM (cQHrm)

69 Evenin'

28 Achtung Baby is U2's best album.
Posted by: Darrell Harris

Yes.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 18, 2025 10:16 PM (sAmhv)

70 The Disco and The Dildo have their own separate posting strategies. Neither is early nor late.
Posted by: Doof

You do understand you're promoting CHAOS!

Posted by: Some Rat at November 18, 2025 10:16 PM (TfUTr)

71 45 What would happen if Trump ordered the Army Corp of Engineers to finish the bridge instead?

It is amazing things that were done quickly and cheaply in old America take longer now even with computers and decades of advance in materials and engineering
Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2025 10:07 PM (sKqQm)
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I bet the Moron Horde could build it for $1 billion and change....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 18, 2025

We could do it with the stuff AOP has laying around!

Posted by: Piper at November 18, 2025 10:17 PM (OoFl2)

72 U2's first three albums were great Like the Police they were key in destroying disco as a viable form of music.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 18, 2025 10:09 PM (X1/SD)
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I don't think Doof has ever fully recovered from that tragedy.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 18, 2025 10:11 PM (IBQGV)

Haha! Nah - I'm glad disco is in the past. I do enjoy it, but the stuff that came after it was damn good!

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2025 10:17 PM (QMAsf)

73 I have realized that "Doof" spelled backward is "food."

Mind.

Blown.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 10:17 PM (xDEVV)

74 I just thought it was funny...who doesn't like muscular, nicely toned ladies...but I don't think that's what they meant...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 18, 2025 10:15 PM (QGaXH)

Muscular, nicely toned ladies . . . with dangly bits?

Posted by: RickZ at November 18, 2025 10:17 PM (gKDq2)

75 To continue with the bridge theme. I just saw the remake of True Grit... It had Jeff Bridges in it and it was good.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at November 18, 2025 10:17 PM (kDHiw)

76 Oh geez fire the women hosts. Ridiculous.

Posted by: Iggy at November 18, 2025 10:17 PM (Pem4d)

77 A poster on Instapundit (one whose name is constantly misappropriated by a malicious troll) embedded an X posting. Jamie Raskin, trying to defend Stacey Plaskett:
"I don’t think there’s any rule against taking a phone call from her constituent Jeffrey Epstein during a hearing."

May we forever know her as "Stacey Plaskett (D - Epstein Island)".

Posted by: Another Anon at November 18, 2025 10:18 PM (4h45B)

78 You think they should pick businesses based on qualifications? That's just crazy talk.
Posted by: nerdygirl at November 18, 2025 10:16 PM (0Htd1)
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They are probably going to use the same contractors building the monument to BHO's greatness in Chicago.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 18, 2025 10:18 PM (IBQGV)

79 If you like The Jesus and Mary Chain, do yourself and check out The Stone Roses.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 18, 2025 10:19 PM (CwUhY)

80 oshua Tree is my favorite U2 album...every song is a winner...
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 18, 2025 10:13 PM (IQ6Gq)
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Same! See we can agree on things!
Posted by: scampydog
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Miracles never cease!

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 18, 2025 10:19 PM (IQ6Gq)

81 Loved the Yoko! The rest of the music was fair to middlin' though.

Posted by: Musik Kal at November 18, 2025 10:19 PM (oftw2)

82 66 I just thought it was funny...who doesn't like muscular, nicely toned ladies...but I don't think that's what they meant...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 18, 2025 10:15 PM (QGaXH)

I rebuke myself.

Off to find some dinner....watch Gutfeld....think about what I've said and done...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 18, 2025 10:19 PM (QGaXH)

83 I don’t remember The Jesus and Mary Chain band members all looking 12.
Posted by: Piper at November 18, 2025 10:13 PM (OoFl2)

Like TJM!

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2025 10:19 PM (QMAsf)

84 DOOF!

So...what gets finished first: Newsom's train to the end of nowhere, or Moore's bridge to under the ocean? Will either be done in our collective lifetimes, and is there enough worthless money in the whole world for either one? Inquiring minds and all...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 18, 2025 10:19 PM (3pxDZ)

85 You do understand you're promoting CHAOS!
Posted by: Some Rat at November 18, 2025 10:16 PM (TfUTr)

I'll get right on it.

Posted by: Maxwell Smart at November 18, 2025 10:19 PM (gKDq2)

86 Muscular, nicely toned ladies . . . with dangly bits?

Lady balls are my favorite

Posted by: David French at November 18, 2025 10:19 PM (sKqQm)

87 I'm not saying they're having trouble getting Obama's pres museum built, but everybody working on the building just started speaking in all these different weird languages.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 18, 2025 10:19 PM (cQHrm)

88
The Bay Bridge was also billions overbudget and years late. Of course, traffic was going across the old span the whole time.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

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How about that passage on the 580, I think it was, that had buckled in the Loma Prieta earthquake? Maybe 3 miles, but it was under construction for 5 years I'll swear.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 18, 2025 10:20 PM (QfD0o)

89 Thanks for the dandy Tuesday Night ONT, Doof!

That sunset photo up top nicely captures what real summer sunsets look like out here in the west. Beyond gorgeous!

Love the socialism graphic at the bottom. So true! And a quick five second lesson to anyone not acquainted with the term.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 18, 2025 10:20 PM (kB9dk)

90 The Key Bridge slush fund,,,funding,,,whatever,,is amazing. $2 billion has already been stolen by the politicos in Charm City. In another year, it will be $5 billion stolen and still no bridge. The Wire was one of the best documentaries ever made!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 18, 2025 10:20 PM (sAmhv)

91 I don't think Doof has ever fully recovered from that tragedy.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 18, 2025 10:11 PM (IBQGV)

Haha! Nah - I'm glad disco is in the past. I do enjoy it, but the stuff that came after it was damn good!
Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2025 10:17 PM (QMAsf)
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You are still stuck on denial, the first stage of grief...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 18, 2025 10:20 PM (IBQGV)

92 Oh my gosh, I'm watching a Jesus snd Mary Chain concert right now. On YouTube, from Oslo, I think.

I missed them completely when they came out, but one of my favorite bands now. I never hear anyone talking about them.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 18, 2025 10:21 PM (Vvh2V)

93 Cost of Key Bridge Replacement Upped to $5 Billion, Timeline Delayed to 2030

*The Big Dig has entered the chat.*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

"Seattle light rail raises hand."
Posted by: Some Rat at November 18, 2025 10:07 PM (TfUTr)
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CA high speed rail laughs at all of you.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 10:11 PM (xDEVV)

Houston's Light Rail, "The Little Train Down Main" joins in the laughter

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 18, 2025 10:21 PM (wVcYX)

94 Good evening Horde. Thanks Disco!
Posted by: TRex - Zoo Station Dino at November 18, 2025 10:04 PM (IQ6Gq)

Nice U2-AB reference in your nic!

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2025 10:21 PM (QMAsf)

95 We could do it with the stuff AOP has laying around!
Posted by: Piper at November 18, 2025 10:17 PM (OoFl2)

Well, I do have a big pile of steel shelving, and a couple of old utility poles...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 18, 2025 10:21 PM (npFr7)

96 Joe Theisman ain’t got nothing on Tyrone Prothro.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at November 18, 2025 10:21 PM (jYRYu)

97 Rat!

You Bastard!

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 18, 2025 10:21 PM (mT+6a)

98 Strangely, I have moron experience building a bridge. Montana, 1965. My uncle and I built a bridge over a creek a little over 30 feet wide. Used four BIG timbers as the base and 4x12s as the floor. Only powered tool was a Ford tractor which my uncle drove over the first two base pieces. It was about 15' down to the water. I was keeping quiet but he told my aunt that evening at supper. I thought she was passing out! So . . . . across a bay? I might need a bigger tractor!

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 18, 2025 10:22 PM (47diA)

99 65 I looked up the Tappan Zee bridge rebuild and that cost $4B for a bridge twice as long as this one is supposed to be.

And the original Key bridge cost $141M which is supposedly about $500M in current dollars.

So...yeah there is a LOT of graft built into this estimate.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2025 10:15 PM (sKqQm)

I'm so glad you called it the Tappan Zee. I will never call it the Mario Cuomo Bridge.

Fun fact: The Tappan Zee is not built at the closest space between the two sides - in fact it is practically at the farthest space between them. That is because the builders didn't want the bridge subject to PATH revenue confiscation, so they built it at the point just beyond their jurisdiction.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 18, 2025 10:22 PM (0CU3H)

100 73 I have realized that "Doof" spelled backward is "food."

Mind.

Blown.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 10:17 PM (xDEVV)

Have you not seen Bulg's initial greeting on just about every Doof authored post for the past year?

Posted by: tankdemon at November 18, 2025 10:22 PM (CwUhY)

101 If you like The Jesus and Mary Chain, do yourself and check out The Stone Roses.
Posted by: tankdemon at November 18, 2025 10:19 PM (CwUhY)

*adds Stone Roses to future ONT queue*

Highly underappreciated band!

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2025 10:23 PM (QMAsf)

102 95 We could do it with the stuff AOP has laying around!
Posted by: Piper at November 18, 2025 10:17 PM (OoFl2)

Well, I do have a big pile of steel shelving, and a couple of old utility poles...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 18, 2025 10:21 PM

I knew it! Can I wear a tool belt even if my only job is bringing coffee?

Posted by: Piper at November 18, 2025 10:23 PM (OoFl2)

103 How about that passage on the 580, I think it was, that had buckled in the Loma Prieta earthquake?
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The 880, I believe.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 10:23 PM (xDEVV)

104 90 The Key Bridge slush fund,,,funding,,,whatever,,is amazing. $2 billion has already been stolen by the politicos in Charm City. In another year, it will be $5 billion stolen and still no bridge. The Wire was one of the best documentaries ever made!
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 18, 2025 10:20 PM (sAmhv)

Funny thing about The Wire. The creators of the show made the best case against Democratic rule over urban areas, yet they themselves remain staunch liberal anti-Trumpers.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 18, 2025 10:23 PM (0CU3H)

105 99/ My first adult apartment was in North Tarrytown, and the back window overlooked the Tappan Zee Bridge!

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 18, 2025 10:24 PM (IQ6Gq)

106 Government projects are just so pathetic.

My little town built a nice new town hall, complete with solar panels on the roof! We all felt so very, very virtuous!

Of course it just came out that the panels haven't worked for years, and they have to replace the roof, and will be removing the solar panels, at the cost of a few hundred thousand bucks.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 18, 2025 10:24 PM (n9ltV)

107 29 What would happen if Trump ordered the Army Corp of Engineers to finish the bridge instead?

It is amazing things that were done quickly and cheaply in old America take longer now even with computers and decades of advance in materials and engineering

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2025 10:07 PM (sKqQm)

I wouldn't be surprised if Trump loudly suggests it.

Posted by: davidt at November 18, 2025 10:24 PM (Q+gd/)

108 I knew it! Can I wear a tool belt even if my only job is bringing coffee?
Posted by: Piper at November 18, 2025 10:23 PM (OoFl2)

Oh, my! High floating curve ball alert.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 18, 2025 10:25 PM (npFr7)

109 Huh. There's an ONT tonight.

Nice.

Very nice.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 18, 2025 10:25 PM (JkO4W)

110 My first adult apartment was in North Tarrytown, and the back window overlooked the Tappan Zee Bridge!

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 18, 2025 10:24 PM (IQ6Gq)

They built some really nice town houses just north of the bridge. $1,500,000+ And the view is spectacular!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 18, 2025 10:25 PM (n9ltV)

111 I knew it! Can I wear a tool belt even if my only job is bringing coffee?
Posted by: Piper

AoSHQ's very own Heidi Keppert!!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 18, 2025 10:25 PM (cYBz/)

112 84 DOOF!

So...what gets finished first: Newsom's train to the end of nowhere, or Moore's bridge to under the ocean? Will either be done in our collective lifetimes, and is there enough worthless money in the whole world for either one? Inquiring minds and all...
Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 18, 2025 10:19 PM (3pxDZ)

Biden's bridge to China.......

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 18, 2025 10:25 PM (QGaXH)

113 102 Can I wear a tool belt even if my only job is bringing coffee?

Posted by: Piper at November 18, 2025 10:23 PM
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Construction fashion for the next Sunday ONT?

Posted by: TRex - Tool Time Dino at November 18, 2025 10:25 PM (IQ6Gq)

114 knew it! Can I wear a tool belt even if my only job is bringing coffee?
Posted by: Piper

Depending on what else...or not, you're wearing, sure.

Posted by: Some Rat at November 18, 2025 10:26 PM (TfUTr)

115 Funny thing about The Wire. The creators of the show made the best case against Democratic rule over urban areas, yet they themselves remain staunch liberal anti-Trumpers.

You see this a fair amount in entertainment.

Watch Serenity and then consider Joss Whedon is a leftist scumbag for example...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2025 10:26 PM (sKqQm)

116 Have you not seen Bulg's initial greeting on just about every Doof authored post for the past year?
Posted by: tankdemon at November 18, 2025 10:22 PM (CwUhY)
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(deliberately thick as a brick)

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 10:27 PM (xDEVV)

117 111 I knew it! Can I wear a tool belt even if my only job is bringing coffee?
Posted by: Piper

AoSHQ's very own Heidi Keppert!!
Posted by: Tonypete at November 18, 2025

Definitely the Temu version!

Posted by: Piper at November 18, 2025 10:27 PM (OoFl2)

118 40 Monterey Bay Aquarium has a sea otter pelt taken from poachers. Feeling it, you can understand why people wanted those pelts. It is the most luxuriant thing I have ever touched.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea
When I was a kid my dad got my mom a winter coat with a fur collar. I don't remember what kind of fur it was, but boy did that feel nice.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 18, 2025 10:27 PM (0Htd1)

119 Can I wear a tool belt even if my only job is bringing coffee?

And a hardhat

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2025 10:27 PM (sKqQm)

120 So...what gets finished first: Newsom's train to the end of nowhere, or Moore's bridge to under the ocean? Will either be done in our collective lifetimes, and is there enough worthless money in the whole world for either one? Inquiring minds and all...
Posted by: COMountainMarie

Biden's bridge to China.......
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

Talking Heads

https://t.ly/txHLI

Posted by: Tonypete at November 18, 2025 10:27 PM (cYBz/)

121 Good Mystery Click, havent listened to that one in a while. Thanks for the ONT, Disco.
Posted by: scampydog at November 18, 2025 10:09 PM (41CYW)

Full disclosure - mystery click was set to be Breaking the Law. Searching for a relevant photo kept bringing up one similar to the one above. I called a last minute audible and switched to a different Priest song that fits better.

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2025 10:27 PM (QMAsf)

122
So...what gets finished first: Newsom's train to the end of nowhere, or Moore's bridge to under the ocean? Will either be done in our collective lifetimes, and is there enough worthless money in the whole world for either one? Inquiring minds and all...
Posted by: COMountainMarie

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Please God the train will be abandoned. Our future governor, the unbearable Katie Porter, said it should be canceled because of its ridiculous costs. Then labor unions got their backs up. Then, in typical unprincipled fashion, Porter suddenly and mysteriously found it affordable.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 18, 2025 10:27 PM (QfD0o)

123 111 I knew it! Can I wear a tool belt even if my only job is bringing coffee?
Posted by: Piper

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Just be careful where you order a "tool belt."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 18, 2025 10:27 PM (dyewR)

124 Please don't blame my doggie,
It's not his fault at all.
Someone left a wet umbrella,
Standing in the hall.

Posted by: Hey! at November 18, 2025 10:27 PM (oftw2)

125 Watch Serenity and then consider Joss Whedon is a leftist scumbag for example...
Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2025 10:26 PM (sKqQm)
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You realize, watching "The Avengers." that he's actually on Loki's side.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 10:27 PM (xDEVV)

126 They built some really nice town houses just north of the bridge. $1,500,000+ And the view is spectacular!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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Yeah, my abode predated those...thankfully my rent was far less...

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 18, 2025 10:28 PM (IQ6Gq)

127 119 Can I wear a tool belt even if my only job is bringing coffee?

And a hardhat

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2025 10:27 PM (sKqQm)

And saftey-toed shoes.

Posted by: davidt at November 18, 2025 10:28 PM (Q+gd/)

128
*The Big Dig has entered the chat.*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Come on down to the Big Dig.

https://youtu.be/g8LLN0NEwQg

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 18, 2025 10:28 PM (pkeXY)

129 Evenin', Doof.

Really like that Jesus and Mary Chain song. It's on at least one of my Spotify playlists. Funny you mention the max treble thing. My brother was a nut for setting the tone settings on his system all the way to the right and turning up the volume to 11. Why yes, he did use hearing aids later in life, yes indeedy...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 18, 2025 10:28 PM (nbLIj)

130 119 Can I wear a tool belt even if my only job is bringing coffee?

And a hardhat

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2025 10:27 PM (sKqQm)

And saftey-toed shoes.

Don't forget yer eye protection. It adds to the total look.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 18, 2025 10:29 PM (47diA)

131 When I was a kid my dad got my mom a winter coat with a fur collar. I don't remember what kind of fur it was, but boy did that feel nice.
Posted by: nerdygirl at November 18, 2025 10:27 PM (0Htd1)
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Mink, perhaps.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 10:29 PM (xDEVV)

132 Nurse!!

Posted by: Some Rat at November 18, 2025 10:29 PM (TfUTr)

133 I'm from Maryland.

So, this bridge thing... yea, MD can figure out how to replace it on their own. Or not.

It's leverage the Trump administration can use, if they wished. I get the implications with shipping, trade, etc. But seriously Maryland... get your shit together.

Strong deeds, gentle words and all that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 18, 2025 10:29 PM (NwnyJ)

134 Blonde, there was a CNN poll recently claiming Steve Hilton is beating Porter for CA gov. I refuse to get my hopes up however.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 18, 2025 10:29 PM (cQHrm)

135 I find myself in a conundrum.

I need to find another book to read, but my cat Allie is sitting my lap and I don't want to move her.

I guess I'll have to limit my selection to whatever is on the bookshelf behind me.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 18, 2025 10:29 PM (IBQGV)

136 Can I wear a tool belt even if my only job is bringing coffee?

And a hardhat

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2025 10:27 PM (sKqQm)

And saftey-toed shoes.
Posted by: davidt

And reflective vest.

Posted by: Some Rat at November 18, 2025 10:30 PM (TfUTr)

137 Expect fashions from the construction site rather than the catwalk this coming Sunday.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 18, 2025 10:30 PM (CwUhY)

138 Build the Damn Bridge!

Posted by: Zombie John McCain at November 18, 2025 10:31 PM (Q+gd/)

139 *Squirrel reaches back to his shelf without looking*

*Finds he's retrieved Dianetics, by L Ron Hubbard*
:-P

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 18, 2025 10:31 PM (cQHrm)

140 They built some really nice town houses just north of the bridge. $1,500,000+ And the view is spectacular!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Tarrytown had a GM plant and Mahwah had a Ford plant. What happened?

Posted by: Bridge To Nowhere at November 18, 2025 10:31 PM (oftw2)

141 Why do three members of The Jesus and Mary Chain look like they are cosplaying as Robert Smith from The Cure?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 18, 2025 10:32 PM (IBQGV)

142 Here's something odd I've notice of late...when I go into forums on political issues that aren't strictly left/right MOST of the comments are right leaning - even in discussions that would normal hew left - global warming, "immigrant rights", etc.

The latter, for example, is almost hilarious, where someone will post a tear jerker article on some poor illegals Trump deported and almost all the comments are "this is what I voted for"

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2025 10:32 PM (sKqQm)

143 135 I find myself in a conundrum.

I need to find another book to read, but my cat Allie is sitting my lap and I don't want to move her.

I guess I'll have to limit my selection to whatever is on the bookshelf behind me.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 18, 2025 10:29 PM (IBQGV)

And just reach back carefully to grab a book at random. Do not disturb Allie.

Posted by: Piper at November 18, 2025 10:32 PM (OoFl2)

144 And reflective vest.

And don't forget the hazmat suit!

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2025 10:33 PM (sKqQm)

145 Nurse! Rat!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 10:33 PM (xDEVV)

146 I need to find another book to read, but my cat Allie is sitting my lap and I don't want to move her.

I guess I'll have to limit my selection to whatever is on the bookshelf behind me.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 18, 2025 10:29 PM (IBQGV)/i]

Squirrels and cats living in harmony? Truly it is the end times

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2025 10:33 PM (sKqQm)

147 Hearing protection.

Posted by: Zombie John McCain at November 18, 2025 10:34 PM (Q+gd/)

148 test

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 18, 2025 10:34 PM (0CU3H)

149 *Squirrel reaches back to his shelf without looking*

*Finds he's retrieved Dianetics, by L Ron Hubbard*
:-P
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 18, 2025 10:31 PM (cQHrm)
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Nope.

I sort them by author so the shelf behind me is F. Paul Wilson through Roger Zelazny.

The L. Ron Hubbards are out in the dining area.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 18, 2025 10:34 PM (IBQGV)

150 /sock fail

Posted by: davidt at November 18, 2025 10:34 PM (Q+gd/)

151 Why do three members of The Jesus and Mary Chain look like they are cosplaying as Robert Smith from The Cure?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 18, 2025 10:32 PM (IBQGV)

It was the mid 80s and alternative rock music. That was just a rule one had to follow!

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2025 10:35 PM (QMAsf)

152 How many people had their internet go out today?

*raises hand*

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 10:35 PM (xDEVV)

153 squirrel, hopefully the Hubbard books are powering the wood-fired oven ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 18, 2025 10:35 PM (cQHrm)

154 Captain! Good to see you posting sir!

Posted by: Some Rat at November 18, 2025 10:35 PM (TfUTr)

155 {{{Rat}}}

Hiya darlin'!💓

Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 18, 2025 10:35 PM (3pxDZ)

156 Captain! Good to see you posting sir!
Posted by: Some Rat at November 18, 2025 10:35 PM (TfUTr)
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Likewise. We're not usually on the blog at the same time o' day.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 10:36 PM (xDEVV)

157
Blonde, there was a CNN poll recently claiming Steve Hilton is beating Porter for CA gov. I refuse to get my hopes up however.
Posted by: qdpsteve

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

I've seen that, too, but Porter led *among a pack of Dems.* Which means that even if Hilton leads the top Dem now, he'll have to run against the full force of all of them in the general.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 18, 2025 10:36 PM (QfD0o)

158 Doof, don't forget the chalk white makeup.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 18, 2025 10:36 PM (cQHrm)

159 I have realized that "Doof" spelled backward is "food."

Mind.

Blown.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 10:17 PM (xDEVV)

Your nic sure fits on that comment!

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2025 10:36 PM (QMAsf)

160 152 How many people had their internet go out today?

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The ol' dial-up's been chugging' like a champ all day.

*boing boing shhhhhhhhh braaat*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 18, 2025 10:36 PM (dyewR)

161 Your nic sure fits on that comment!
Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2025 10:36 PM (QMAsf)
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I try to live up to it!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 10:37 PM (xDEVV)

162 >>>Both groups are treated poorly by the patriots and the blacks essentially ignored by the Brits.
Posted by: LRob in OK,
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Ken Burns is a delusional propagandist.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 18, 2025 10:37 PM (CN6P7)

163 squirrel, hopefully the Hubbard books are powering the wood-fired oven ;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 18, 2025 10:35 PM (cQHrm)
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I don't actually have any books by L. Ron Hubbard, but I do have three volumes of Writers of the Future, which was a contest he established to encourage the next generation of speculative fiction authors. The winners were published in these books (and I believe the contest is still ongoing).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 18, 2025 10:38 PM (IBQGV)

164 Ken Burns is a delusional propagandist.

I agree. I'm doing my best for the Horde! Bear with me!

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 18, 2025 10:38 PM (47diA)

165 Newscum still is pushing "Jerry Bath house Brown's" Bullet Train to nowhere.

Would love to see where close to 1.4 Billion dollars of taxpayer's money actually went since 2014.

No wonder people are fleeing this democrat hell hole.

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 18, 2025 10:39 PM (25kuG)

166 Cicero, I remember when Steve Case of AOL was considered the next Steve Jobs.

I think Steve is working at Taco Bell now...

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 18, 2025 10:39 PM (cQHrm)

167 Please God the train will be abandoned. Our future governor, the unbearable Katie Porter, said it should be canceled because of its ridiculous costs. Then labor unions got their backs up. Then, in typical unprincipled fashion, Porter suddenly and mysteriously found it affordable.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 18,

I'm pulling for Katie. She's a hideously ugly, retarded hypercunt. I love her. She barely even qualifies as human. She's a dull-eyed dairy cow, but with a spark of simian malevolence that shines dimly through the haze of perpetual bovine confusion. I bet she forgets to bathe for days at a stretch and then beats her maid with an old femur bone because everything always seems to smell bad.

She is the leader California deserves, and I just can't get enough of her.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 18, 2025 10:39 PM (BI5O2)

168 But what do you REALLY think, YD?

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 18, 2025 10:40 PM (47diA)

169 Yud, you just made me actually LOL.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 18, 2025 10:40 PM (cQHrm)

170 151 Why do three members of The Jesus and Mary Chain look like they are cosplaying as Robert Smith from The Cure?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 18, 2025 10:32 PM (IBQGV)

It was the mid 80s and alternative rock music. That was just a rule one had to follow!
Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2025

There are about 5 words in the lyrics and yet it sounds like he says “honey dripping behind” and “I’ll be your plastic toilet”.

Posted by: Piper at November 18, 2025 10:40 PM (OoFl2)

171 The Disco and The Dildo have their own separate posting strategies. Neither is early nor late.
Posted by: Doof

You do understand you're promoting CHAOS!
Posted by: Some Rat at November 18, 2025 10:16 PM (TfUTr)

Yes. It's one of the few perks I get around here.

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2025 10:40 PM (QMAsf)

172 Marie! How are you? We missed you at the Club....
Speaking of, any of you who were there.

Have you seen my wallet?... Car?.... Pants?...

Posted by: Some Rat at November 18, 2025 10:40 PM (TfUTr)

173 Peoples Republic of MD requires union labor. That adds to the graft cost increade to the Key bridge replacement.
Thankfully my commute does not require the bridge.

Posted by: KungPow at November 18, 2025 10:41 PM (GSj3/)

174 Captain!

Good to see you! You better get May on your calendar before it fills up.

I love your concertina around a campfire. That was the best night ever.

That and flounder and left coast dog putting up a tent in the rain and wind.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 18, 2025 10:41 PM (36mDg)

175 Yud, as we speak, Katie is torturing her chief of staff with a piping hot container of Cup-O-Noodles... :-P

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 18, 2025 10:41 PM (cQHrm)

176 >>>May we forever know her as "Stacey Plaskett (D - Epstein Island)".
Posted by: Another Anon
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It's obvious that she took Epstein's left over's and turned them into zombies.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 18, 2025 10:41 PM (CN6P7)

177 You do understand you're promoting CHAOS!
Posted by: Some Rat at November 18, 2025 10:16 PM (TfUTr)

Yes. It's one of the few perks I get around here.
Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2025 10:40 PM (QMAsf)
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It's good to be a COB...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 18, 2025 10:42 PM (IBQGV)

178 I'm pulling for Katie. She's a hideously ugly, retarded hypercunt. I love her. She barely even qualifies as human. She's a dull-eyed dairy cow, but with a spark of simian malevolence that shines dimly through the haze of perpetual bovine confusion. I bet she forgets to bathe for days at a stretch and then beats her maid with an old femur bone because everything always seems to smell bad.
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So...a throwback to Denisovans?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 10:42 PM (xDEVV)

179 The Newport Bridge which is actually longer overall than the Golden Gate Bridge was finished in 1969 at a total cost of $54 million. There was a really interesting documentary done a few years ago about the history of the bridge and it's pretty interesting both for how the bridge was built and how it changed the entire region.

https://tinyurl.com/ywa37au8

Posted by: JackStraw at November 18, 2025 10:42 PM (viF8m)

180 doof, I nominate YDs comment above as the winner of the MONTH! I'm still laughing!

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 18, 2025 10:42 PM (47diA)

181 That and flounder and left coast dog putting up a tent in the rain and wind.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 18, 2025 10:41 PM (36mDg)
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Heh heh heh.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 10:43 PM (xDEVV)

182 RATM is an evil band of communists. The way I see it, those assholes owe every American money. Well, if they mean what they say.

Which sucks, because I liked some Audioslave songs.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 18, 2025 10:43 PM (vwL3N)

183 I don't actually have any books by L. Ron Hubbard, but I do have three volumes of Writers of the Future, which was a contest he established to encourage the next generation of speculative fiction authors. The winners were published in these books (and I believe the contest is still ongoing).

I don't have any of his books at the moment, but I did read the entire "Mission Earth" series. Suffice it to say, dude had some serious mental issues. Mostly around cuckolding.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 18, 2025 10:43 PM (lUFok)

184 There are about 5 words in the lyrics and yet it sounds like he says “honey dripping behind” and “I’ll be your plastic toilet”.
Posted by: Piper at November 18, 2025 10:40 PM (OoFl2)

New entries in the "scuse me, while I kiss this guy" book!

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2025 10:44 PM (QMAsf)

185 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 18, 2025 10:39 PM (BI5O2)

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And they say Romanticism died in the 1890s.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 18, 2025 10:44 PM (dyewR)

186 It only took 4 years to build the Golden Gate Bridge.

Posted by: Archer at November 18, 2025 10:45 PM (YGRGv)

187 New entries in the "scuse me, while I kiss this guy" book!

I loved that book in college!

Posted by: Barack Obama at November 18, 2025 10:45 PM (sKqQm)

188 I'm pulling for Katie. She's a hideously ugly, retarded hypercunt. I love her. She barely even qualifies as human. She's a dull-eyed dairy cow, but with a spark of simian malevolence that shines dimly through the haze of perpetual bovine confusion. I bet she forgets to bathe for days at a stretch and then beats her maid with an old femur bone because everything always seems to smell bad.

This describes the coven of Karens who rule Soviet NoVA.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 18, 2025 10:45 PM (sAmhv)

189 184 There are about 5 words in the lyrics and yet it sounds like he says “honey dripping behind” and “I’ll be your plastic toilet”.
Posted by: Piper at November 18, 2025 10:40 PM (OoFl2)

New entries in the "scuse me, while I kiss this guy" book!
Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2025 10:44 PM

You will never hear it the same again!

Posted by: Piper at November 18, 2025 10:45 PM (OoFl2)

190 doof, I nominate YDs comment above as the winner of the MONTH! I'm still laughing!
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 18, 2025 10:42 PM (47diA)

Oh, there's a really good chance you'll see that one again!

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2025 10:45 PM (QMAsf)

191 New entries in the "scuse me, while I kiss this guy" book!
Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2025 10:44 PM (QMAsf)
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Mondegreens.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 10:45 PM (xDEVV)

192 Blinded by the light
Racked up like a douche, another boner in the night.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 10:46 PM (xDEVV)

193 42 And why doesn’t the army corps of engineers replace major infrastructure ? They do it in other countries. Why not ours?

Fuck the unions and the mafia. They aren’t working in the best interest of the United States.

Have the Army
Do it.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 18, 2025 10:10 PM (mT+6a)

I don't think Corps of Engineer personnel do the actual construction work They do design and project planning, then contract with civilian construction companies to do the actual work, while the COE does project management.

Posted by: a.moron at November 18, 2025 10:46 PM (X5Jzz)

194 RATM is an evil band of communists. The way I see it, those assholes owe every American money. Well, if they mean what they say.

Which sucks, because I liked some Audioslave songs.
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 18, 2025 10:43 PM (vwL3N)

Well said

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2025 10:47 PM (QMAsf)

195 I don't have any of his books at the moment, but I did read the entire "Mission Earth" series. Suffice it to say, dude had some serious mental issues. Mostly around cuckolding.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 18, 2025 10:43 PM (lUFok)
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Yeah, I read that series a long, long time ago.

It was pretty messed up.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 18, 2025 10:47 PM (IBQGV)

196 133 I'm from Maryland.

So, this bridge thing... yea, MD can figure out how to replace it on their own. Or not.

It's leverage the Trump administration can use, if they wished. I get the implications with shipping, trade, etc. But seriously Maryland... get your shit together.

Strong deeds, gentle words and all that.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 18, 2025 10:29 PM (NwnyJ)

It’s MD.

I’m glad I don’t have to go there once a month anymore.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 18, 2025 10:47 PM (vwL3N)

197 They are finally building a new I-10 bridge over the Calcasieu River in Lake Charles,LA. Start construction in 2026. Expected completion date 2031.

The current bridge will continue to terrorize people until the new bridge is built.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 18, 2025 10:47 PM (KDPiq)

198 July 4, 2026:

Newly-appointed Territorial Governor of California James Woods announces forensic audit of the cancelled High-Speed Rail project, "We look forward to the hangings of the fraud artists, and those who enabled them, and took kickbacks."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 18, 2025 10:47 PM (npFr7)

199 I don't have any of his books at the moment, but I did read the entire "Mission Earth" series. Suffice it to say, dude had some serious mental issues. Mostly around cuckolding.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 18, 2025 10:43 PM (lUFok)
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Yeah, I read that series a long, long time ago.

It was pretty messed up.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 18, 2025 10:47 PM (IBQGV)

Might be the worst series I didn't bail on.
I was stubborn when I was younger.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at November 18, 2025 10:47 PM (EOjZq)

200 166 Cicero, I remember when Steve Case of AOL was considered the next Steve Jobs.

I think Steve is working at Taco Bell now...
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 18, 2025 10:39 PM (cQHrm)

Steve Case of AOL...that is a name I haven't heard mentioned in years. And yes, you are right there was a time in the 1990'-2000's when he was a tech mogul. The AOL and Time-Warner merger was a disaster.

Posted by: Joemarine at November 18, 2025 10:48 PM (y171U)

201 Fort Ross, north of SF on the Sonoma Coast, is an interesting visit. The Russian imperial outpost had "indigenous" (from Alaska and points north) contractors who hunted the otters. The main market for the pelts was in the court(s) of Chy-nah.

As for fur, smoothest most luxurious kind I recall was silver fox, in the (very expensive) hats for sale at the Soviet hard currency stores (beriozkas - Franpsycho should fondly recall them) in Leningrad. Unbelievable. I settled for a muskrat hat, bought from the big department store (Gostinniy Dvor), for about $30 in rubles, part of the proceeds of a sale of one pair of Levis for $125.

Still have the hat. Putting it on outside when it's in the 20s is like stepping indoors, it's so effective.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 18, 2025 10:49 PM (U/Byj)

202 Oh wow, how come no one told me it was way past my bed time! I am way past pumpkin time now! Good night!

Posted by: Piper at November 18, 2025 10:49 PM (OoFl2)

203 Gavin has already issued the warrant for Yud's arrest. :-P

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 18, 2025 10:50 PM (cQHrm)

204 New entries in the "scuse me, while I kiss this guy" book!
Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2025 10:44 PM (QMAsf)
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Marshall Tucker Band

Heard it in a love song .. ten feet long

Posted by: the way I see it at November 18, 2025 10:50 PM (KDPiq)

205 Might be the worst series I didn't bail on.
I was stubborn when I was younger.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at November 18, 2025 10:47 PM (EOjZq)
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We've all been there.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 18, 2025 10:50 PM (IBQGV)

206 Only time I was in MD was in 1983.

Went to the Inner Harbor when it was brand new. It was pretty nice. Have no idea what it's like, now.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 10:50 PM (xDEVV)

207 I'm pulling for Katie. She's a hideously ugly, retarded hypercunt. I love her. She barely even qualifies as human. She's a dull-eyed dairy cow, but with a spark of simian malevolence that shines dimly through the haze of perpetual bovine confusion. I bet she forgets to bathe for days at a stretch and then beats her maid with an old femur bone because everything always seems to smell bad.

She is the leader California deserves, and I just can't get enough of her.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 18, 2025 10:39 PM (BI5O2)

You bless us the way Chavez used to.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at November 18, 2025 10:50 PM (EOjZq)

208 Might be the worst series I didn't bail on.
I was stubborn when I was younger.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at November 18, 2025 10:47 PM (EOjZq)
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We've all been there.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 18, 2025 10:50 PM (IBQGV)
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I read both the First and Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever. Donaldson must have used the proceeds from the first to buy himself a bigger thesaurus.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 10:51 PM (xDEVV)

209 Ward Cleaver was a Seabee in the War. He, Fred Rutherford, Lumpy, and Larry Mondello could build the bridge.

Posted by: Mayfield Narrows Bridge at November 18, 2025 10:52 PM (oftw2)

210 Good night Piper👋💤!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 18, 2025 10:53 PM (3pxDZ)

211 I read both the First and Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever. Donaldson must have used the proceeds from the first to buy himself a bigger thesaurus.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 10:51 PM (xDEVV)

I dearly love his Mordant's Need duology. The Mirror of her Dreams and A Man Rides Through is some of my favorite fantasy.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at November 18, 2025 10:53 PM (EOjZq)

212 Only time I was in MD was in 1983.

Went to the Inner Harbor when it was brand new. It was pretty nice. Have no idea what it's like, now.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 10:50 PM (xDEVV)

It is nowhere near pretty nice anymore. Nothing in Baltimore is anymore. Which makes me quite sad, as I grew up in Baltimore.

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2025 10:53 PM (QMAsf)

213 Ward Cleaver was a Seabee in the War. He, Fred Rutherford, Lumpy, and Larry Mondello could build the bridge.
Posted by: Mayfield Narrows Bridge at November 18, 2025 10:52 PM (oftw2)
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They'd be well over 100 years old, now. Might be a little strenuous for them.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 10:53 PM (xDEVV)

214
Tonight's ONT brought to you by pithy explanations

_________

Seven Things All Parents Should Should Say to Their Children

- I love you
- I am proud of you
- I apologize
- I trust you
- It's okay to make mistakes
- Communism has failed every time it's been tried
- I believe you

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 18, 2025 10:53 PM (tgvbd)

215 207 I'm pulling for Katie. She's a hideously ugly, retarded hypercunt. I love her. She barely even qualifies as human. She's a dull-eyed dairy cow, but with a spark of simian malevolence that shines dimly through the haze of perpetual bovine confusion. I bet she forgets to bathe for days at a stretch and then beats her maid with an old femur bone because everything always seems to smell bad.

She is the leader California deserves, and I just can't get enough of her.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 18, 2025 10:39 PM (BI5O2)

You bless us the way Chavez used to.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at November 18, 2025 10:50 PM (EOjZq)

This one really is suitable for framing.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 18, 2025 10:55 PM (SSEhk)

216 Seven Things All Parents Should Should Say to Their Children

- I love you
- I am proud of you
- I apologize
- I trust you
- It's okay to make mistakes
- Communism has failed every time it's been tried
- I believe you
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 18, 2025 10:53 PM (tgvbd)
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What about #8? "No."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 18, 2025 10:55 PM (IBQGV)

217 Remember - the idiotic "high speed rail" (which makes zero sense even if it were built on time and under budget) is a creation *of the voters*, who approved it in a referendum item. Sure they violate the bond requirements (hilarious) on the financial side, the "real world" side would make a Ukrainian oligarch blush at the corruption, and so on. But it's the idiots tailgating you on the freeway that made it happen.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 18, 2025 10:55 PM (U/Byj)

218 Seven Things All Parents Should Should Say to Their Children

- I love you
- I am proud of you
- I apologize
- I trust you
- It's okay to make mistakes
- Communism has failed every time it's been tried
- I believe you
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I didn't know until I left for college that my first name wasn't "Stunad!".

Posted by: Tonypete at November 18, 2025 10:57 PM (cYBz/)

219 166 Cicero, I remember when Steve Case of AOL was considered the next Steve Jobs.

I think Steve is working at Taco Bell now...

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 18, 2025 10:39 PM (cQHrm)

I'm pretty sure Steve Case did OK on the AOL deal. Not as good as Steve Jobs, but he ain't going hungry. The other shareholders, not so much.

Posted by: a.moron at November 18, 2025 10:57 PM (X5Jzz)

220 Seven Things All Parents Should Should Say to Their Children

- I love you
- I am proud of you
- I apologize
- I trust you
- It's okay to make mistakes
- Communism has failed every time it's been tried
- I believe you
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 18, 2025 10:53 PM (tgvbd)
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What about #8? "No."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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Rule #1 - when dropping Jr off at college. His mom and sister overheard and laughed.

Posted by: scampydog at November 18, 2025 10:57 PM (41CYW)

221 Maybe Maryland should hire the California guy in charge of high speed rail

Posted by: Duh uh err yup at November 18, 2025 10:58 PM (FxINA)

222 Thought the gubernatorial candidate being described was the VA one who just won. Zombie-like.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 18, 2025 10:58 PM (U/Byj)

223 Speaking of, any of you who were there.

Have you seen my wallet?... Car?.... Pants?...
Posted by: Some Rat
**********
I hesitate to even ask....

Posted by: The Grateful at November 18, 2025 10:58 PM (IQ6Gq)

224 172
Speaking of, any of you who were there.

Have you seen my wallet?... Car?.... Pants?...
Posted by: Some Rat at November 18, 2025 10:40 PM
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Did you check the Club ONT lost and found?

It will only cost you one restroom token.

Posted by: TRex - staff may have looted it already at November 18, 2025 10:58 PM (IQ6Gq)

225 Burbank is my home town. Warner and Disney are my hometown brands. I am not please at what has become of them.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 10:58 PM (xDEVV)

226 What would happen if Trump ordered the Army Corp of Engineers to finish the bridge instead?

It is amazing things that were done quickly and cheaply in old America take longer now even with computers and decades of advance in materials and engineering
Posted by: 18-1

USACE would contract it out to Keiwit.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 18, 2025 10:58 PM (9Q7BZ)

227 Ken Burns is a delusional propagandist.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 18, 2025 10:37 PM (CN6P7)

Would have been nice if someone on America's side did that instead of Burns. Though, I did like the Civil War. Guess he wasn't too obvious then, or I was oblivious.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 18, 2025 10:59 PM (uQesX)

228 That and flounder and left coast dog putting up a tent in the rain and wind.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 18, 2025 10:41 PM (36mDg)

You CAMP at the PNW MoMes? Tents in the wind and the rain?!?!?!?

***note to self - NEVER plan on attending a PNW MoMe***

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at November 18, 2025 10:59 PM (SRRAx)

229 Remember - the idiotic "high speed rail" (which makes zero sense even if it were built on time and under budget) is a creation *of the voters*, who approved it in a referendum item. Sure they violate the bond requirements (hilarious) on the financial side, the "real world" side would make a Ukrainian oligarch blush at the corruption, and so on. But it's the idiots tailgating you on the freeway that made it happen.
Posted by: rhomboid

It's like our light rail. These things are promised at a price and a timeline which have no basis in reality. That voters fall for it does not forgive the original sin.

Posted by: Some Rat at November 18, 2025 10:59 PM (TfUTr)

230 I don't actually have any books by L. Ron Hubbard, but I do have three volumes of Writers of the Future, which was a contest he established to encourage the next generation of speculative fiction authors. The winners were published in these books (and I believe the contest is still ongoing).
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 18, 2025 10:38 PM (IBQGV)

I do believe our Wolfus submitted to that contest, so I assume it's still going on.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 18, 2025 10:59 PM (uQesX)

231 Would have been nice if someone on America's side did that instead of Burns. Though, I did like the Civil War. Guess he wasn't too obvious then, or I was oblivious.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 18, 2025 10:59 PM (uQesX)
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I had to quit watching his Baseball series.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 11:00 PM (xDEVV)

232 Capt. Obvious, at least you still have Lockheed.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 18, 2025 11:00 PM (U/Byj)

233 213 Ward Cleaver was a Seabee in the War. He, Fred Rutherford, Lumpy, and Larry Mondello could build the bridge.
Posted by: Mayfield Narrows Bridge at November 18, 2025 10:52 PM (oftw2)
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They'd be well over 100 years old, now. Might be a little strenuous for them.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 10:53 PM (xDEVV)

so... for duh Bridge project the hired a bunch of Calif High Speed Rail Engineers and Accountants?

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 18, 2025 11:00 PM (mP0Kj)

234 You CAMP at the PNW MoMes? Tents in the wind and the rain?!?!?!?

***note to self - NEVER plan on attending a PNW MoMe***

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at November 18, 2025 10:59 PM (SRRAx)
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That was the Emergency MoMe in May 2020. We're in Yakima, these days.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 11:01 PM (xDEVV)

235 OrangeEnt, he's doing a pretty good job describing the patriots and the loyalists. The thing that has been pressed is that, in some sense, this was a civil war. The folks in the colonies thought somewhat of themselves as English and there were severely hard feelings on both sides.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 18, 2025 11:02 PM (47diA)

236 It's good to be a COB...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 18, 2025 10:42 PM (IBQGV)

Except for that being rubbed on asses thing.

Posted by: COB in the outhouse at November 18, 2025 11:02 PM (uQesX)

237
*snaps fingers*

Let's get that Chinese bridge firm!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 18, 2025 11:02 PM (tgvbd)

238 The voters are entirely responsible. Bringing the skeptical intelligence of a 12-yr old to these issues would suffice. Instead we have the America we have today. And the debacles and fiascoes continue and multiply and worsen and the voters continue to vote like idiots. No buck-passing.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 18, 2025 11:02 PM (U/Byj)

239 Would have been nice if someone on America's side did that instead of Burns. Though, I did like the Civil War. Guess he wasn't too obvious then, or I was oblivious.

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He's skidded along on that one over-celebrated project for his entire career.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 18, 2025 11:02 PM (dyewR)

240 Nothing in Baltimore is anymore. Which makes me quite sad, as I grew up in Baltimore.
Posted by: Doof
************
Returned to Baltimore after a 20 year absence and was shocked at what I found. A once proud city was no longer....

Posted by: The Grateful at November 18, 2025 11:02 PM (IQ6Gq)

241 Hadrian, excellent idea.
Chinese will build us a bridge made of paper mache and wishful thinking. :-P

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 18, 2025 11:03 PM (cQHrm)

242 Have you seen my wallet?... Car?.... Pants?...
Posted by: Some Rat at November 18, 2025 10:40 PM
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Well, somebody turned in a brown leather bi-fold wallet-- no money in it, no ID, just a Man Card with 2 corners cut off of it and an expired condom.

Yours or not?

Don't know about pants... what size? Jeans or Dockers or?

Posted by: JQ at November 18, 2025 11:03 PM (rdVOm)

243 Capt. Obvious, at least you still have Lockheed.
Posted by: rhomboid at November 18, 2025 11:00 PM (U/Byj)
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Whose HQ has moved away...

Burbank has suffered calamities. Loss of aerospace. Death of the WWII era. Now they elect things like Adam Schiff, who would have been laughed out of the polls in my youth...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 11:04 PM (xDEVV)

244 I want to make very clear that I am NOT a Burns fan. He rubs me the wrong way almost always. Let's see how long I last on this project!

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 18, 2025 11:04 PM (47diA)

245 241 Hadrian, excellent idea.
Chinese will build us a bridge made of paper mache and wishful thinking. :-P
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 18, 2025 11:03 PM (cQHrm)

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I think their real expertise is in dams.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 18, 2025 11:04 PM (dyewR)

246 I'm sorry to do this, but my wife doesn't understand what a Yoko Ono ONT is. She doesn't understand the horror of it.

Posted by: Silentbrick at November 18, 2025 11:04 PM (CTU0m)

247 Seven Things All Parents Should Should Say to Their Children
- I love you
- I am proud of you
- I apologize
- I trust you
- It's okay to make mistakes
- Communism has failed every time it's been tried
- I believe you
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Also:
—Hey dumbass, don’t stick your finger in the wall socket. Now head to the corner store for my ciggies.

Posted by: Practical Parenting at November 18, 2025 11:05 PM (FxINA)

248 Queen Mary II passing under Tappan Zee Bridge

https://youtu.be/PQkW5eZRPro?t=118

Posted by: Javems at November 18, 2025 11:05 PM (8I4hW)

249 Blinded by the light
Racked up like a douche, another boner in the night.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 10:46 PM (xDEVV)

I always heard it as loose as a goose with a boner in the night. I figured, Springsteen, so who knows.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 18, 2025 11:05 PM (uQesX)

250 Only time I was in MD was in 1983.

Went to the Inner Harbor when it was brand new. It was pretty nice. Have no idea what it's like, now.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 10:50 PM (xDEVV)

It is nowhere near pretty nice anymore. Nothing in Baltimore is anymore. Which makes me quite sad, as I grew up in Baltimore.
Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2025 10:53 PM (QMAsf)

Baltimore was the adopted home of my late sister. I think the aquarium was open about month when we visited. The Inner Harbor was indeed a sight, and just a short walk north brought you to the Baltimore Brewing Company, which made a great seasonal marzen. Great memories pub crawling through Fells Point...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 18, 2025 11:05 PM (nbLIj)

251 U2's great albums:
- War
- Achtung Baby

U2's almost great albums:
- Unforgettable Fire
- Rattle & Hum
- Joshua Tree
- Zooropa
Posted by: qdpsteve

Sorry:
- Boy
- October
- War

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 18, 2025 11:06 PM (9Q7BZ)

252 After the Civil War thing I think I caught a total of 10 minutes of his "Jazz" series, in some waiting room somewhere. He's a general issue political cretin so no surprises.

Oh wait there was the WWII thing which was, much as I described the "peace" museum in Hiroshima as I exited, "not as bad as I expected", but still unimpressive. Saw that one. Sub-meh, but imagine his "instincts" were kept in check by memory of the Enola Gay revisionist backlash.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 18, 2025 11:06 PM (U/Byj)

253 Most interesting thing about Yoko is her late uncle.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 18, 2025 11:08 PM (U/Byj)

254 227 Would have been nice if someone on America's side did that instead of Burns. Though, I did like the Civil War. Guess he wasn't too obvious then, or I was oblivious.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 18, 2025 10:59 PM (uQesX)

Wouldn't be surprised if one went back and repeat watched the Civil War they would find the not too obvious propaganda.

Posted by: Joemarine at November 18, 2025 11:08 PM (y171U)

255 Burns did a pretty good job on The Dust Bowl. He showed remarkable restraint and put the government on the spot a few times. That's all I'll say for now.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 18, 2025 11:09 PM (47diA)

256 I had to quit watching his Baseball series.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 11:00 PM (xDEVV)

I've never gotten around to watching it. What was wrong with it?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 18, 2025 11:10 PM (uQesX)

257 Wouldn't be surprised if one went back and repeat watched the Civil War they would find the not too obvious propaganda.
Posted by: Joemarine at November 18, 2025 11:08 PM (y171U)

It was there, certainly. The black female historian... Barbara Fields? had a suspect edge.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2025 11:10 PM (bss/y)

258 Oh, and duck pin bowling. IYKYK...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 18, 2025 11:11 PM (nbLIj)

259 We're all good folks.
Jailer said I could get everything from impound as soon as I post bail.

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

260 Ken Burns is a delusional propagandist.

Posted by: Braenyard
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Tried to watch some of it tonight. I didnt make it long into the show, which is too bad. Some interesting things until Burns started with the agenda crap.

Posted by: scampydog at November 18, 2025 11:11 PM (41CYW)

261 I've never gotten around to watching it. What was wrong with it?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 18, 2025 11:10 PM (uQesX)
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The relentless "white people are shits for discriminating against the Negro Leagues."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 11:12 PM (xDEVV)

262 Unlike Michael Moore, at least Ken Burns had one decent production.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 18, 2025 11:12 PM (dyewR)

263 Ok, wallet probly isn't yours, Some Rat.

I'll keep looking. Oh, and no cars were left behind in the parking lot Sunday morning, sorry.

If you need a restroom token, let me know!

Posted by: JQ at November 18, 2025 11:13 PM (rdVOm)

264 OrangeEnt, he's doing a pretty good job describing the patriots and the loyalists. The thing that has been pressed is that, in some sense, this was a civil war. The folks in the colonies thought somewhat of themselves as English and there were severely hard feelings on both sides.
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 18, 2025 11:02 PM (47diA)

Ok. I'll probably watch it then at some point. I saw the intro to the series on YT. It opened with Thomas Paine, then immediately went to "the natives did it first." I rolled my eyes at that. The Confederation wasn't the model for the American Republic. I just figured it was virtue signaling.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 18, 2025 11:13 PM (uQesX)

265 Here's a song that Simon & Garfunkel recorded in 1969. It actually sounds like... U2. Spooky.
———

Check this out - Dolly Parton’s Jolene on vinyl slowed down to 16 RPM, turns it into a dirge. Definitely weird.

https://youtu.be/CMrfM711vXI?si=hKz_mbULabcHJLVv

Posted by: Common Tater at November 18, 2025 11:13 PM (S79R3)

266 You CAMP at the PNW MoMes? Tents in the wind and the rain?!?!?!?

***note to self - NEVER plan on attending a PNW MoMe***
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas,

It was May 2020. I was working in acute respiratory care in Seattle. I KNEW Covid was bullshit. I called an emergency MoMe because I was going crazy. Two weeks later:

Several morons showed up and we camped and made a big ass fire and smoked cigars
And got drunk and were together.

It literally saved my sanity.

PNW morons are the BEST morons.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 18, 2025 11:14 PM (mT+6a)

267 Itinerant: I have not heard Boy or October, so I will take your word for it. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 18, 2025 11:14 PM (cQHrm)

268 Common Tater, I've heard that. It is very weird.

Also, if you speed up "I'm On Fire" by Bruce Springsteen from 33 1/3 to 45, it becomes a Dolly Parton song.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 18, 2025 11:15 PM (cQHrm)

269 Check this out - Dolly Parton’s Jolene on vinyl slowed down to 16 RPM, turns it into a dirge.
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Pretty much any song played at half speed is going to be a dirge.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 11:15 PM (xDEVV)

270 *sets big jar on the bar*

"Accepting Donations for Some Rat's Bail & Impound Fees"

Posted by: JQ at November 18, 2025 11:16 PM (rdVOm)

271 Ugh. U2... U2 is the worst thing to come out of Ireland since George Bernard Shaw's surreptitiously obtained beard trimmings.

Posted by: Oscar Wilde at November 18, 2025 11:16 PM (rHq8a)

272 PNW morons are the BEST morons.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 18, 2025 11:14 PM (mT+6a)
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I actually prefer the primitive camping and would be up for a MoMe at Frenchman's Coulee again.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 11:16 PM (xDEVV)

273 PNW morons are the BEST morons.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 18, 2025 11:14 PM (mT+6a)

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Just a cotton-pickin' minute there lady.

Do you have a study to back up your bold proposition?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 18, 2025 11:17 PM (dyewR)

274 OrangeEnt, it's entertaining to listen to Bruce's original Blinded By The Light, then listen to Manfred Mann's hit version. Mann made a *ton* of changes.

Also, someone tried to once ask Springsteen what Blinded By The Light was really about. He laughed and said he didn't really know, as he was drunk when he wrote it.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 18, 2025 11:17 PM (cQHrm)

275 I actually prefer the primitive camping and would be up for a MoMe at Frenchman's Coulee again.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea

Yes, love that location.

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

276 Burns did a pretty good job on The Dust Bowl. He showed remarkable restraint and put the government on the spot a few times. That's all I'll say for now.
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 18, 2025 11:09 PM (47diA)

If it wasn't for the Dust Bowl happening, I'd probably be a neighbor of yours.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 18, 2025 11:18 PM (uQesX)

277 Oscar Wilde, what about the Potato Famine? ;-)

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

278
Check this out - Dolly Parton’s Jolene on vinyl slowed down to 16 RPM, turns it into a dirge. Definitely weird.

--------

Try playing it backward for an important message.

Posted by: Satan at November 18, 2025 11:18 PM (dyewR)

279 Hi Horde, Just wanted to say hi before heading off to bed.

Posted by: Iris at November 18, 2025 11:19 PM (bOJ2I)

280 Michael Moore has "Planet of the Humans".

Posted by: gKWVE at November 18, 2025 11:19 PM (gKWVE)

281 Re Springsteen: there is now, just released, a *four disc box set* of his 1982 album, Nebraska. It's the record he came out with, just before Born In The USA, which is his all-time smash.

I guess if you're absolutely obsessed with Bruce and you enjoy being depressed. :-P

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 18, 2025 11:19 PM (cQHrm)

282 Michael Moore has "Planet of the Humans".
Posted by: gKWVE at November 18, 2025 11:19 PM (gKWVE)
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Michael Moore IS a planet.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 11:20 PM (xDEVV)

283 I guess if you're absolutely obsessed with Bruce and you enjoy being depressed. :-P
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 18, 2025 11:19 PM (cQHrm)
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My BiL is a big Springsteen fan.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 11:21 PM (xDEVV)

284 Captain Obvious, Moore went on Ozempic.
Now he's just a minor orbiting moon.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 18, 2025 11:21 PM (cQHrm)

285 It was there, certainly. The black female historian... Barbara Fields? had a suspect edge.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2025 11:10 PM (bss/y)

It seemed he gave a fair accounting of the people on the losing side. I would have expected "Confederates were all evil."

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 18, 2025 11:21 PM (uQesX)

286 This year the Oregon Geezers face off against the Miami Shufflers in the annual Fall Pickleball Classic.

Posted by: The Dust Bowl at November 18, 2025 11:21 PM (dyewR)

287 Captain, what did he think of the new Bruce biopic, "Deliver Me From Nowhere"?

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 18, 2025 11:22 PM (cQHrm)

288 Captain, what did he think of the new Bruce biopic, "Deliver Me From Nowhere"?
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 18, 2025 11:22 PM (cQHrm)
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Dunno. He and my sister went to see it. I'll have to ask her when I talk to her next.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 11:22 PM (xDEVV)

289 See all you 'rons and ettes tomorrow night!

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 18, 2025 11:23 PM (47diA)

290 Moore went on Ozempic.
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So now he'll be an elephantine husk of loose skin.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 11:23 PM (xDEVV)

291 The relentless "white people are shits for discriminating against the Negro Leagues."
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 11:12 PM (xDEVV)

All the way through that era? Did he crow about some of the Negro League teams beating white all-star teams? Maybe he should have done a full doc on the league.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 18, 2025 11:23 PM (uQesX)

292 Chicago Mayor Johnson: "What do all the safest communities in America have in common? .… Government programs."

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 18, 2025 11:24 PM (CN6P7)

293 It seemed he gave a fair accounting of the people on the losing side. I would have expected "Confederates were all evil."
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 18, 2025 11:21 PM (uQesX)

A buddy and I in college joked that he must have been living with Shelby Foote. That he would creep up and catch him in the shower and ask him for a story. That kind of thing.

But he was fair to even Forrest and Stonewall.

I always loved that series, but the black lady was angry. 'The Civil War is NEVER over. It is STILL going on! etc.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2025 11:25 PM (bss/y)

294 Also, someone tried to once ask Springsteen what Blinded By The Light was really about. He laughed and said he didn't really know, as he was drunk when he wrote it.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 18, 2025 11:17 PM (cQHrm)

So maybe he did say loose as a goose.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 18, 2025 11:25 PM (uQesX)

295 It only took 4 years to build the Golden Gate Bridge.
——-

I think the Pentagon was built in about a year. Still one of the largest office buildings in the world. Leslie Groves was in charge. As that was completed, he wanted to command a combat unit overseas, as he believed that would be more rewarding than dealing with the assholes in D.C. ; but higher ups had other plans for him.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 18, 2025 11:26 PM (S79R3)

296 I actually prefer the primitive camping and would be up for a MoMe at Frenchman's Coulee again.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea

Yes, love that location.
Posted by: Some Rat at November 18, 2025 11:18 PM (TfUTr)

Ewwww. Wouldn't a French man's coulee sorta smell bad?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 18, 2025 11:27 PM (uQesX)

297 It seemed he gave a fair accounting of the people on the losing side. I would have expected "Confederates were all evil."
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 18, 2025 11:21 PM (uQesX)

Well, he couldn't go too hard on the Rebs; they all became Democrats.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 18, 2025 11:27 PM (npFr7)

298 All the way through that era? Did he crow about some of the Negro League teams beating white all-star teams? Maybe he should have done a full doc on the league.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 18, 2025 11:23 PM (uQesX)
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I liked the interviews with Bucky Williams. He seemed like a really nice guy who I would have like to have known. It was...I don't know, hard to explain why I had to stop watching. You'd have to see it for yourself.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 11:27 PM (xDEVV)

299 Islamist preacher in Dearborn, Michigan:

"Despite all their technology, Americans are so uncivilized and backward, they wipe themselves with toilet paper.

Allah sent us to civilize them because they are the lowest form of human nature. Christians are so jealous of us, their nation is dying!"

This is what hatred for the nation that took you in looks like!

believe

https://tinyurl.com/48k8a68w

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 18, 2025 11:28 PM (CN6P7)

300 Springsteen...yeah, worked his concerts as a medic with Haight Ashbury during the Bill Graham era so long ago.

Now a days...whatever.

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 18, 2025 11:28 PM (25kuG)

301 Itinerant: I have not heard Boy or October, so I will take your word for it. :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve

I I think I was done with U2 by Unforgettable Fire

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 18, 2025 11:29 PM (9Q7BZ)

302 I actually prefer the primitive camping and would be up for a MoMe at Frenchman's Coulee again.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 11:16 PM (xDEVV)

I'd come if there isn't ice in the gorge. My wife won't even if it is high summer

Posted by: Kindltot at November 18, 2025 11:29 PM (rbvCR)

303 Itinerant, when I first heard Unforgettable Fire, I didn't like it at all. I wanted more War.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 18, 2025 11:30 PM (cQHrm)

304 OPSEC

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 18, 2025 11:30 PM (mT+6a)

305 To all the muzzies,

Yep, we are watching you now.

Big Time.

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 18, 2025 11:30 PM (25kuG)

306 I I think I was done with U2 by Unforgettable Fire
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 18, 2025 11:29 PM (9Q7BZ)

I was done with U2 when I heard their first single on the radio. Pretentious twats.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 18, 2025 11:30 PM (npFr7)

307 But he was fair to even Forrest and Stonewall.

I always loved that series, but the black lady was angry. 'The Civil War is NEVER over. It is STILL going on! etc.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2025 11:25 PM (bss/y)

Am I wrong, or didn't NBF change his mind about blacks? I thought the Stonewall parts were a riot.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 18, 2025 11:30 PM (uQesX)

308 Allah sent us to civilize them because they are the lowest form of human nature. Christians are so jealous of us, their nation is dying!"

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It's revolting that a culture as advanced and prosperous as the West is going to fall to 7th century barbarians who were welcomed in by the so-called elite.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 18, 2025 11:31 PM (dyewR)

309 Islam v. Western World, 1492 to present, one pic.

https://tinyurl.com/3yy8xcyj

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 18, 2025 11:31 PM (CN6P7)

310 I think the Pentagon was built in about a year.
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Just checked. You're close - it was about 15 months.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 11:31 PM (xDEVV)

311 178 I'm pulling for Katie. She's a hideously ugly, retarded hypercunt. I love her. She barely even qualifies as human. She's a dull-eyed dairy cow, but with a spark of simian malevolence that shines dimly through the haze of perpetual bovine confusion. I bet she forgets to bathe for days at a stretch and then beats her maid with an old femur bone because everything always seems to smell bad.
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So...a throwback to Denisovans?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 10:42 PM (xDEVV)

Yet some poor, dumb bas***d saw fit to put a ring on that....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 18, 2025 11:31 PM (QGaXH)

312 Try playing it backward for an important message.
Posted by: Satan

I still don't know why you're always pushing Ovaltine.

Posted by: mikeski at November 18, 2025 11:32 PM (nhCoE)

313 Moore went on Ozempic.
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So now he'll be an elephantine husk of loose skin.
Posted by: Captain Obvious
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One of my cousins was *huge* like that, too. She joined Weight Watchers and lost over 200lb.

Yeah, all that loose skin. She was so disheartened, and then gained back most of the weight. Said she was more comfortable being heavy, than having a bunch of slack skin. (Don't know if that type of surgery was possible at the time, but she likely didn't have the money for it anyway.)

Posted by: JQ at November 18, 2025 11:32 PM (rdVOm)

314 ARiK, Hillary managed to get herself married too.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 18, 2025 11:32 PM (cQHrm)

315 Am I wrong, or didn't NBF change his mind about blacks? I thought the Stonewall parts were a riot.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 18, 2025 11:30 PM (uQesX)

I think Forrest did have some sort of conversion at some point.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2025 11:33 PM (bss/y)

316 Islam v. Western World, 1492 to present, one pic.

https://tinyurl.com/3yy8xcyj

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 18, 2025 11:31 PM (CN6P7)

Heh!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 18, 2025 11:33 PM (npFr7)

317 It's revolting that a culture as advanced and prosperous as the West is going to fall to 7th century barbarians who were welcomed in by the so-called elite.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

To paraphrase lenin.
"When it comes time to behead the infidels, the liberals will provide us the swords."

Posted by: Some Rat at November 18, 2025 11:33 PM (TfUTr)

318 Islam v. Western World, 1492 to present, one pic.
https://tinyurl.com/3yy8xcyj
Posted by: Braenyard

Ah, an R-rated version. I thought it'd be the one with a mob of towelheads yelling in every frame on the right side.

Posted by: mikeski at November 18, 2025 11:33 PM (nhCoE)

319 311

"PORTER for potty training".

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 18, 2025 11:33 PM (25kuG)

320 246 I'm sorry to do this, but my wife doesn't understand what a Yoko Ono ONT is. She doesn't understand the horror of it.
Posted by: Silentbrick

Let me take a shot:
“ Thence we heard people, who are making moan
In the next Bolgia, snorting with their muzzles,
And with their palms beating upon themselves
The margins were incrusted with a mould
By exhalation from below, that sticks there,
And with the eyes and nostrils wages war.
Thither we came, and thence down in the moat
I saw a people smothered in a filth
That out of human privies seemed to flow.”

Posted by: Dante Alighieri at November 18, 2025 11:34 PM (FxINA)

321 “…. as a medic with Haight Ashbury during the Bill Graham era”

Groovy! I bet you got all the best marihuana and purple owsley

Posted by: Common Tater at November 18, 2025 11:34 PM (S79R3)

322 Yep, we are watching you now.

Big Time.

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 18, 2025 11:30 PM (25kuG)
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That's not gonna fix a thing.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2025 11:34 PM (1o8D5)

323
Islamist preacher in Dearborn, Michigan:

"Despite all their technology, Americans are so uncivilized and backward, they wipe themselves with toilet paper.

Posted by: Braenyard

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One thing I think they have over us is cleaning yourself with water instead of paper -- hands, face, opposite end. Water is better.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 18, 2025 11:35 PM (QfD0o)

324 Yeah, all that loose skin. She was so disheartened, and then gained back most of the weight. Said she was more comfortable being heavy, than having a bunch of slack skin. (Don't know if that type of surgery was possible at the time, but she likely didn't have the money for it anyway.)
Posted by: JQ at November 18, 2025 11:32 PM (rdVOm)

Shoulda just washed her in hot water, and put her in the dryer. Works for wool sweaters.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 18, 2025 11:35 PM (npFr7)

325 Am I wrong, or didn't NBF change his mind about blacks?
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Yes, indeed he did. He delivered an address at the opening of a college for blacks in the 1870s.

To show just how much he changed, in the aftermath of the Fort Pillow massacre, there was an angry exchange of letters between Federal General Hindman (IIRR) and Forrest, in which Hindman accused Forrest of deliberately massacring the USCT. Forrest indignantly replied that he did not, that he would never destroy valuable property. Showing a really alien mindset to me.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 11:35 PM (xDEVV)

326 Hoover dam construction: five years
Empire state building: 13 MONTHS

when we knew how to build

Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 18, 2025 11:36 PM (bzCQS)

327 Yet some poor, dumb bas***d saw fit to put a ring on that....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 18, 2025 11:31 PM (QGaXH)

I assume he's the kind of gibbering lunatic who absconded from an asylum and took refuge in a doghouse on an abandoned farm where he was rescued by one of Katie's staffers and rehomed with her after he kept pissing himself and biting the children.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 18, 2025 11:36 PM (AUL7F)

328 Also, someone tried to once ask Springsteen what Blinded By The Light was really about. He laughed and said he didn't really know, as he was drunk when he wrote it.
Posted by: qdpsteve

Thish ish da way.

Posted by: zombie Doug Ingle at November 18, 2025 11:37 PM (nhCoE)

329 322

It's NOT about "Fixing"...

It's about "Dismantling".

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 18, 2025 11:37 PM (25kuG)

330 One thing I think they have over us is cleaning yourself with water instead of paper -- hands, face, opposite end. Water is better.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 18, 2025 11:35 PM (QfD0o)

The more advanced among them carry a tin with two smooth stones in it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 18, 2025 11:37 PM (npFr7)

331 One thing I think they have over us is cleaning yourself with water instead of paper -- hands, face, opposite end. Water is better.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 18, 2025 11:35 PM (QfD0o)

But then you're wet. And you have shit on your hands.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 18, 2025 11:37 PM (uQesX)

332 Yet some poor, dumb bas***d saw fit to put a ring on that....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 18, 2025 11:31 PM (QGaXH)

I assume he's the kind of gibbering lunatic who absconded from an asylum and took refuge in a doghouse on an abandoned farm where he was rescued by one of Katie's staffers and rehomed with her after he kept pissing himself and biting the children.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

See? There's always a logical explanation.

Posted by: Some Rat at November 18, 2025 11:38 PM (TfUTr)

333 326 Hoover dam construction: five years
Empire state building: 13 MONTHS

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We went from three fleet carriers in the Pacific in 1941 to 18 by the end of 1944, plus 80 light carriers and literally hundreds of new cargo ships.

All while fighting the Germans in the Atlantic and in North Africa at the same time.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 18, 2025 11:40 PM (dyewR)

334 FOOD!

Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2025 11:41 PM (77rzZ)

335 Rose@roseWeCanWoman . Nov 9, Replying to @realMaalouf

How much is enough to ch@grok What percentage of a religious group is enough to completely take over a country in accordance with its wishes if that group is maximally politically active and its members, including extremists, assume political and social offices? And what if no one does anything to oppose this group?

cont

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 18, 2025 11:41 PM (CN6P7)

336 Rose@roseWeCanWoman . Nov 9@grok Please translate into English
Grok@grok . , Replying to @roseWeCanWoman @World_Insights1

It depends on organizational ability, majority passivity, and institutional strength, but historically 10-20% of a highly motivated group suffices to infiltrate key positions without opposition—see Lebanon or early Islamic expansions. In modern democracies, a minority can dominate long-term via alliances and demographics like higher birth rates, without needing absolute majority.
Full takeover demands cultural erosion and electoral wins, more likely above 30% if resistance remains absent.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 18, 2025 11:41 PM (CN6P7)

337 FOOD!
Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2025 11:41 PM (77rzZ)
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See?!?!?!?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 11:42 PM (xDEVV)

338 Shoulda just washed her in hot water, and put her in the dryer. Works for wool sweaters.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Hah!

I hadn't seen her for a decade, and then we were at a funeral...this stranger walked right up to me and said "hello" with my cousin's voice! Last time I'd seen her, she weighed close to 400lb-- then, there she was at ~175. Wow. Surreal.

Posted by: JQ at November 18, 2025 11:42 PM (rdVOm)

339 208 Might be the worst series I didn't bail on.
I was stubborn when I was younger.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at November 18, 2025 10:47 PM (EOjZq)
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We've all been there.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 18, 2025 10:50 PM (IBQGV)
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I read both the First and Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever. Donaldson must have used the proceeds from the first to buy himself a bigger thesaurus.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 10:51 PM (xDEVV)

Fun fact: His younger brother (Donaldson not Covenant) was Best Man at my wedding. We went to college together but he was a grad student while I was undergrad.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 18, 2025 11:42 PM (QGaXH)

340 That’s why I specified “about” a year.

Army Corps of Engineers (and the Seabees) did incredible work during the war years, along with large corporations, who were not necessarily interested in taking on more work than they already had.

Oak Ridge and Hanford alone were pretty big operations, and the airfields at places like Tinian were among the largest anywhere. Although something like 15 million Americans were in uniform, a huge workforce had to stay at home, I’m not sure how they got them.

If one was a machinist or welder, he probably got pulled out of the .mil fairly early on.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 18, 2025 11:42 PM (S79R3)

341 Blinded by the light
Racked up like a douche, another boner in the night.
Posted by: Captain Obvious

I always heard it as loose as a goose with a boner in the night. I figured, Springsteen, so who knows.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

I heard "wrapped up like a douche, another rumor in the night."

Not sure why there would be rumors about wrapped-up nocturnal douches, but I also don't know why the wind can with so many around you, and those really were the words.

"Blinded by the light" was obviously well-enunciated, though.

Posted by: mikeski is the first dancing turtle at November 18, 2025 11:42 PM (nhCoE)

342 Sorry, Doof. The backlash has started:

https://tinyurl.com/54bf3xud

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 18, 2025 11:42 PM (uQesX)

343 "AND?"

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 18, 2025 11:43 PM (25kuG)

344 ----------

We went from three fleet carriers in the Pacific in 1941 to 18 by the end of 1944, plus 80 light carriers and literally hundreds of new cargo ships.

All while fighting the Germans in the Atlantic and in North Africa at the same time.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
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Henry Ford's Willow Run plant produced one B-24 Liberator every 63 minutes, which equates to about 24 bombers per day at its peak production.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 18, 2025 11:44 PM (CN6P7)

345 One thing I think they have over us is cleaning yourself with water instead of paper -- hands, face, opposite end. Water is better.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Desert culture.
Plain old H2O for cleaning is a show of wealth, prosperity, and religious ceremony.

Northerners have ample water but do that stuff in the winter you'll catch a cold and die.

Tropical Asians take to water like ducks.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 18, 2025 11:44 PM (9Q7BZ)

346 U2 deserves all the hate.

They also made some amazing music.

Posted by: 496 at November 18, 2025 11:44 PM (Rn6Z4)

347 Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 18, 2025 11:42 PM (uQesX)
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Well, it's Carmel. They're notably snooty (although they did have the Clintster for mayor for awhile). I'd prefer to live in Pacific Grove.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 11:46 PM (xDEVV)

348 Henry Ford's Willow Run plant produced one B-24 Liberator every 63 minutes, which equates to about 24 bombers per day at its peak production.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 18, 2025 11:44 PM (CN6P7)
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I would not like to fly over water in a B-24.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 11:47 PM (xDEVV)

349 Well, it's Carmel. They're notably snooty (although they did have the Clintster for mayor for awhile). I'd prefer to live in Pacific Grove.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 11:46 PM (xDEVV)

Most of those places on the coast would be very livable if someone dropped a neutron bomb on them.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 18, 2025 11:48 PM (uQesX)

350 I always disliked U2. Never really got the fascination.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2025 11:49 PM (bss/y)

351 Most of those places on the coast would be very livable if someone dropped a neutron bomb on them.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 18, 2025 11:48 PM (uQesX)
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Your terms are acceptable

Posted by: 496 at November 18, 2025 11:50 PM (3CN/6)

352 I think the record for completion of a Liberty Ship was 11 days, start to finish.

Posted by: Rosie at November 18, 2025 11:51 PM (oftw2)

353 I liked U2.
Then I didn’t. They got too popular. And too hoity toity. And too euro weenie.

And Bono went bonkers.

Then I started to like them again.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 18, 2025 11:52 PM (mT+6a)

354 Carmel was OK. Similar to, but better than, Middleburg, Virginia.

Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2025 11:52 PM (77rzZ)

355 Then I started to like them again.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 18, 2025 11:52 PM (mT+6a)

How are things shaking in WA?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 18, 2025 11:53 PM (uQesX)

356 I think the record for completion of a Liberty Ship was 11 days, start to finish.
Posted by: Rosie at November 18, 2025 11:51 PM (oftw2)
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Wiki sez 4 days and 15 hours for keel-laying to launch for the Robert E. Peary, but that was a "publicity stunt."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 11:53 PM (xDEVV)

357 Record for Liberty ship building, per Wiki:

" SS Robert E. Peary was a Liberty ship that gained fame during World War II for being built in a shorter time than any other such vessel. Named after Robert Peary, an American explorer who was among the first people to reach the geographic North Pole, she was launched on November 12, 1942, just 4 days, 15 hours and 29 minutes after the keel was laid down"

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 18, 2025 11:55 PM (nZmM7)

358 The socialism meme is good. But it's really more like taking $500 from the worker, giving four guys 50 each for their votes, and keeping the other 300 for yourself

Posted by: Azjaeger at November 18, 2025 11:56 PM (3/XaG)

359 Fun fact: I played Robert Peary in college for a play that I was in.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 18, 2025 11:56 PM (xDEVV)

360
Sorry, Doof. The backlash has started:

https://tinyurl.com/54bf3xud
Posted by: OrangeEnt

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Read the article. I cannot stand these effing people. Living 5 blocks from the center of town and they can't tolerate pickleball court noise.

My mom has a neighbor who lives in a modest suburban neighborhood in San Diego with a few families. Her requests are modest:

No trees. They block my view.
No children playing or talking. The noise bothers me.
No music. Same.
Please don't drive your cars unless absolutely necessary.
Don't let your pets meow, bark, tweet, etc.

I don't know what hell she visits on the ice cream truck.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 18, 2025 11:57 PM (QfD0o)

361 Willowed:
The one "Republican" state holding out over redistricting is Indiana.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 18, 2025 06:14 PM (viF8m)
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Quite late to the game. Something the locals don't like. First is "orders" from a president of either party. Second, they pride themselves on running the state appropriately. That is how they made it deep red with a super majority in the legislature, with reasonably drawn districts. The population wants it that way. If Trump wanted this done - and we know why and it makes good sense - he needed to realize doing it this way was going to put the local GOP in a world of hurt with their voters. Which is all they care. Trump has been amping up the rhetoric more like first term. He needs to dial it back. He blew it here.

Posted by: Black JEM at November 18, 2025 11:59 PM (UVyKP)

362 How are things shaking in WA?
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Alls good. We have only 8 hours of daylight this time of year. It’s what makes us Washingtonians. It rains. And it’s damp. And it’s grey.

The winter ducks are here. I love them. The buffleheads are my favorite.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 18, 2025 11:59 PM (mT+6a)

363 No children playing or talking. The noise bothers me.
No music. Same.
Please don't drive your cars unless absolutely necessary.
Don't let your pets meow, bark, tweet, etc.

I don't know what hell she visits on the ice cream truck.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

There's these things called "earplugs," Karen.....

Posted by: mikeski at November 18, 2025 11:59 PM (nhCoE)

364 Alls good. We have only 8 hours of daylight this time of year. It’s what makes us Washingtonians. It rains. And it’s damp. And it’s grey.

The winter ducks are here. I love them. The buffleheads are my favorite.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 18, 2025 11:59 PM (mT+6a)

That's nice. It was gray in my AO today with rain for a few hours. Heat's finally gone. But, I read that Rainier was acting up.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 19, 2025 12:02 AM (uQesX)

365 Before I call it a night,

The Republicans completely screwed the pooch by not releasing the EPSTEIN FILES as soon as Trump came into office. So WHY is the question?

They did major damage to the faith of voters that put Trump in office. So that speaks to some Republicans that did not want to do damage to their "Cocktail" buddies across the isle. You effin cock suckers.

The SWAMP remains as always in spite of Trump's best efforts.

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 19, 2025 12:02 AM (25kuG)

366 Alls good. We have only 8 hours of daylight this time of year.
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9 hours 31 minutes down here at latitude 45 30'.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 19, 2025 12:03 AM (xDEVV)

367 They did major damage to the faith of voters that put Trump in office. So that speaks to some Republicans that did not want to do damage to their "Cocktail" buddies across the isle. You effin cock suckers.

The SWAMP remains as always in spite of Trump's best efforts.

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 19, 2025 12:02 AM (25kuG)
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Some of those cocksuckers were on their own side.

Posted by: Black JEM at November 19, 2025 12:03 AM (UVyKP)

368 when we knew how to build
Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 18, 2025 11:36 PM (bzCQS)

When we didn't have OSHA and a hundred million environmental regulations

Posted by: tankdemon at November 19, 2025 12:04 AM (ZIivm)

369 Tibbetts and the 509th Composite trained so much at Wendover, Utah that they basically wore out their planes. They were authorized 15 brandy new B-29s and Tibbetts went directly to Omaha and picked one out right off the assembly line.

The foreman went with him, Tibbetts would sit in the cockpit, and the guy would shake his head, claiming “this one was made on a Monday”, the one he chose the foreman claimed was made midweek, when the workers were at their best, and even the screws holding the shitter together were given an extra turn.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 19, 2025 12:04 AM (S79R3)

370 {Katie}
Yet some poor, dumb bas***d saw fit to put a ring on that....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
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It's the big front teeth, man. Better than a tongue stud. That and the big bazooms...

Posted by: Guy who filters PornHub w/ "Big Tits" at November 19, 2025 12:05 AM (V+y+Q)

371
The Republicans completely screwed the pooch by not releasing the EPSTEIN FILES as soon as Trump came into office. So WHY is the question?

They did major damage to the faith of voters that put Trump in office. So that speaks to some Republicans that did not want to do damage to their "Cocktail" buddies across the isle. You effin cock suckers.

The SWAMP remains as always in spite of Trump's best efforts.

Posted by: Nightwatch

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They are now releasing the "unclassified" files. They've been unclassified all along??? Why weren't they lying around on the internet waiting to be viewed?????

And what's with the "classified" ones? Are they the ones that name the foreign dignitaries?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 19, 2025 12:06 AM (QfD0o)

372 Lawrence Taylor was led to believe that Joe Theismann had a hollow leg stuffed with cocaine.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at November 19, 2025 12:07 AM (u2Is6)

373 Hello Horde, wanders up to the bar and tosses in the spare change for the Rat Foundation.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 19, 2025 12:07 AM (0nHVk)

374 364 That's nice. It was gray in my AO today with rain for a few hours. Heat's finally gone. But, I read that Rainier was acting up.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 19, 2025 12:02 AM (uQesX)

Curious as to where your AO is, if you don't mind sharing, OPSEC permitting...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 19, 2025 12:08 AM (QGaXH)

375 The winter ducks are here. I love them. The buffleheads are my favorite.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 18, 2025 11:59 PM (mT+6a)
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Then we shall et dux oop
On Ilkley Moor bar t'at

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 19, 2025 12:09 AM (xDEVV)

376 Hi, Debby!

*slides a Chivas down the bar*

Posted by: JQ at November 19, 2025 12:09 AM (rdVOm)

377 How long did it take to build the Sphinx?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 19, 2025 12:10 AM (pkeXY)

378 Evening, Debby. I am messing with an old radio, so in and out of the thread.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2025 12:11 AM (npFr7)

379 5 billion for a bridge?...THAT is impressive grift

Posted by: California shithouses at November 19, 2025 12:11 AM (+I6Y/)

380 One thing I’ve always disliked, and apparently Winston Churchill noted it as well (great minds, I guess!) is strangers talking right outside an apartment or hotel door. (Let’s not even think about people yelling and having their “conversation” across two apartment buildings.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 19, 2025 12:12 AM (S79R3)

381 -----------
I would not like to fly over water in a B-24.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea
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I hear that the flights from Africa to Italy are something else.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 19, 2025 12:12 AM (CN6P7)

382 How long did it take to build the Sphinx?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 19, 2025 12:10 AM (pkeXY)
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It was apparently carved out of a natural formation, so, not long?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 19, 2025 12:13 AM (xDEVV)

383 I hear that the flights from Africa to Italy are something else.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 19, 2025 12:12 AM (CN6P7)
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Ever hear of the Lady Be Good?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 19, 2025 12:14 AM (xDEVV)

384 How long did it take to build the Sphinx?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 19, 2025 12:10 AM (pkeXY)
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It was apparently carved out of a natural formation, so, not long?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 19, 2025 12:13 AM (xDEVV)

I think they estimate around 3-4 years with a large crew. The real question is how old is it really.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 19, 2025 12:14 AM (snZF9)

385 382 How long did it take to build the Sphinx?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 19, 2025 12:10 AM (pkeXY)
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It was apparently carved out of a natural formation, so, not long?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 19, 2025 12:13 AM (xDEVV)

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But the post-construction litigation lasted a decade.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 19, 2025 12:14 AM (dyewR)

386 Berserker!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 19, 2025 12:17 AM (xDEVV)

387 Berserker!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 19, 2025 12:17 AM (xDEVV)

Captain!

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 19, 2025 12:18 AM (snZF9)

388 U2's popular songs (e.g. Sunday Bloody Sunday) are ok, but not great. U2's good stuff is good because A) Bono does have an amazing voice and 2) because the guitar sound is very unique.

A great example of the unique guitar would be the opening of 'Where the Streets Have No Name'. It is a guitar like no other. Also their song 'One'. Say what you will, but the guitar is unique and really works well with the song.

As far as Bono's voice, their ongoing 'One Tree Hill' is a great example of what Bono was capable of. If anyone wants to give an honest assessment, have a listen to One Tree Hill. It also has U2's unique guitar. Do listen beginning to end though... it builds nicely, anBono really gets going after about 3:50.

https://tinyurl.com/ur3yjck5

Posted by: 496 at November 19, 2025 12:18 AM (Mjjx+)

389 Goodnight, All. Everybody sleep well.

Posted by: Bulg at November 19, 2025 12:19 AM (77rzZ)

390 Berserker!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 19, 2025 12:17 AM (xDEVV)

Captain!
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 19, 2025 12:18 AM (snZF9)
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I've quoted your "reversion to 50,000 BC" comment about the tri-tip at the MoMe to several people of my acquaintance, now.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 19, 2025 12:20 AM (xDEVV)

391 I've quoted your "reversion to 50,000 BC" comment about the tri-tip at the MoMe to several people of my acquaintance, now.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 19, 2025 12:20 AM (xDEVV)

I had to think about that one, but then I remembered..the BEEF! Jesus, I went cro-mag on that stuff.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 19, 2025 12:21 AM (snZF9)

392 Van Dieman's Land is another great U2 song. It may well be about social justice... I haven't dug too deep, but it sounds like it. But I love the song regardless

Posted by: 496 at November 19, 2025 12:24 AM (Rn6Z4)

393 SS Robert E. Peary ...she was launched on November 12, 1942, just 4 days, 15 hours and 29 minutes after the keel was laid down"
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
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One of Henry Kaiser's ships?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 19, 2025 12:25 AM (CN6P7)

394 Van Dieman's Land is another great U2 song.
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Like Australia, populated entirely by criminals.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 19, 2025 12:25 AM (xDEVV)

395 One of Henry Kaiser's ships?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 19, 2025 12:25 AM (CN6P7)
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That guy, yeah. At the end of one of the Warner wartime cartoons, they showed his office door closed with an "Out to Launch" sign on it.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 19, 2025 12:27 AM (xDEVV)

396 “Very” would be an unnecessary adjective to add. Unique is singular. Unique.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 19, 2025 12:29 AM (XuiFR)

397 Thanks JQ, that first sip tastes so good!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 19, 2025 12:29 AM (0nHVk)

398 “Very” would be an unnecessary adjective to add. Unique is singular. Unique.
Posted by: Common Tater at November 19, 2025 12:29 AM (XuiFR)
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I hate, hate, hate that so much. "Very unique." Ugh!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 19, 2025 12:30 AM (xDEVV)

399 ----------
Ever hear of the Lady Be Good?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea
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Yossarian killed a lot of fish.
youtube.com/watch?v=YHBKTklI9Dc

Had a friend who was a bombardier/photographer in one.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 19, 2025 12:30 AM (CN6P7)

400 Remember the phony outrage you had when Ilhan Omar said some guys did something when she and other american muslims were being blamed by rethugliKKKans, Well dump just said "things happen" When asked about newsman khashoggi killing with his saudi killer sitting next to him. Any outrage???

Posted by: raimondo at November 19, 2025 12:30 AM (BAFhB)

401 I think they estimate around 3-4 years with a large crew. The real question is how old is it really.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 19, 2025 12:14 AM (snZF9)

They had to build with nails, because it was inscrutable.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2025 12:31 AM (npFr7)

402 ----------
I hate, hate, hate that so much. "Very unique." Ugh!
Posted by: Captain Obvious,
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Nothing can be more unique than that.
Beautiful.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 19, 2025 12:32 AM (CN6P7)

403 Nothing can be more unique than that.
Beautiful.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 19, 2025 12:32 AM (CN6P7)
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You're dethpicable.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 19, 2025 12:34 AM (xDEVV)

404 Whole buncha uniqueness.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 19, 2025 12:34 AM (pkeXY)

405 Curious as to where your AO is, if you don't mind sharing, OPSEC permitting...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 19, 2025 12:08 AM (QGaXH)

Oops. dozed.

The desert southwest.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 19, 2025 12:35 AM (uQesX)

406 Finally, the ending of One has great vocals and Edge's signature guitar sound. It builds so nicely too.

https://tinyurl.com/3an9e6za

I'm actually not a huge U2 fan, but I have to give credit where credit is due. They did create a sound nobody else had. In addition, they reinvented themselves several times over. They broke new ground time and time again. Props

Posted by: 496 at November 19, 2025 12:35 AM (go8bP)

407 Out to lunch Henry Kaiser.

Between 1931 and 1945, he helped organize combinations of construction companies to build the Hoover, Bonneville, and Grand Coulee dams, as well as other large projects. To supply the more than 6,000,000 barrels of cement needed for the Shasta Dam, he erected a cement plant in Permanente, Calif., and a nine-mile conveyor belt across a mountain to the dam site in 1939.

During World War II he ran seven shipyards that used assembly-line production to build ships in as little as 4 1/2 days. By the end of the war, his yards had produced 1,490 ships for the U.S. maritime commission. In 1941–42, he built the only integrated steel mill on the west coast of the United States, to make steel for his shipyards.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 19, 2025 12:37 AM (CN6P7)

408 Does WWV have a transmitter on 2.5 mHz? I picked up something going "tick, tick, tick" at that spot on the dial. Radio plays; the problem is the power switch, located in the back of the tone control, is no good. And there is dust or crap in the tuning capacitor, manifested as scratchy noise as you tune the dial through one area on any of the bands. A shot of brake cleaner, and a blast with an air nozzle ought to fix that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2025 12:38 AM (npFr7)

409 I'm hard put to think of any U2 song that I've heard. I'm sure that there are some in the public consciousness that have been in the background music of my life, but I can't bring any to mind.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 19, 2025 12:38 AM (xDEVV)

410 “Very” would be an unnecessary adjective to add. Unique is singular. Unique.
Posted by: Common Tater at November 19, 2025 12:29 AM (XuiFR)
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I hate, hate, hate that so much. "Very unique." Ugh!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea
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"Quite" gets tagged along too. With "dead" and "perfect" also.

Posted by: scampydog at November 19, 2025 12:39 AM (41CYW)

411 How long did it take to build the Sphinx?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

It was apparently carved out of a natural formation, so, not long?
Posted by: Captain Obvious

But the post-construction litigation lasted a decade.
Posted by: Cicero

And after all that time, the other guy just got the nose.

Posted by: mikeski at November 19, 2025 12:40 AM (nhCoE)

412 I hate, hate, hate that so much. "Very unique." Ugh!
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“I’m in the process of …..” is another. If it’s some sort of complex, involved process, OK.

But it’s always used with some mundane task. “I’m in the process of making a peanut butter sandwich, and I’m wondering what side of the bread gets buttered?”

Posted by: Common Tater at November 19, 2025 12:40 AM (XuiFR)

413 392 Van Dieman's Land is another great U2 song. It may well be about social justice... I haven't dug too deep, but it sounds like it. But I love the song regardless
Posted by: 496 at November 19, 2025 12:24 AM (Rn6Z4)

I believe Edge sang the vocals on that one. I would have been much more interested in a solo album from Edge than from Bono.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 19, 2025 12:40 AM (jWul0)

414 And there is dust or crap in the tuning capacitor, manifested as scratchy noise as you tune the dial through one area on any of the bands
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Wow, radios still have tuning capacitors?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 19, 2025 12:41 AM (xDEVV)

415 I get the critique about 'very unique '. It is apt. Nevertheless, U2's sound is distinctive and they had some real bangers despite the linguistic pedantry

I haven't listened to them in probably 10+ years. I'm not their biggest fan. But their sound is theirs and is worthy of a listen. They were true innovators

Posted by: 496 at November 19, 2025 12:41 AM (8YzGs)

416 “I’m in the process of making a peanut butter sandwich, and I’m wondering what side of the bread gets buttered?”
Posted by: Common Tater at November 19, 2025 12:40 AM (XuiFR)
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Try to butter the side that doesn't hit the floor if you drop it.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 19, 2025 12:42 AM (xDEVV)

417
I don't know 99% of U2, but I liked "When Love Comes to Town" because it has that American rock-and-roller who as far as I'm concerned blows them off the stage.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 19, 2025 12:43 AM (QfD0o)

418 And there is dust or crap in the tuning capacitor, manifested as scratchy noise as you tune the dial through one area on any of the bands
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Wow, radios still have tuning capacitors?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 19, 2025 12:41 AM (xDEVV)

When they were built in 1956, they sure do. It is a Westinghouse "International", an AC-only table radio with three shortwave bands on it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2025 12:43 AM (npFr7)

419 Try to butter the side that doesn't hit the floor if you drop it.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea
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Damnit.

Posted by: 5 second rule at November 19, 2025 12:43 AM (41CYW)

420 "Very unique." Ugh!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea

"Quite" gets tagged along too.
Posted by: scampydog

I'll accept "quite unique" since "quite" implies dry British humor. So I hear "quite unique" as "there should be only one."

"Quite unique dress Mrs. Biden has on, wot?"

Posted by: mikeski at November 19, 2025 12:44 AM (nhCoE)

421 When they were built in 1956, they sure do. It is a Westinghouse "International", an AC-only table radio with three shortwave bands on it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2025 12:43 AM (npFr7)
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My Dad repaired TVs and other electronics, so, as a kid, I got old, junked parts to fool around with.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 19, 2025 12:44 AM (xDEVV)

422 You young kids!

I only ever heard it as the “2 Second Rule”. Maybe that was a degradation and lowering of standards

Posted by: Common Tater at November 19, 2025 12:46 AM (XuiFR)

423 This model radio:

https://tinyurl.com/mw25zrb9

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2025 12:47 AM (npFr7)

424 You young kids!

I only ever heard it as the “2 Second Rule”. Maybe that was a degradation and lowering of standards
Posted by: Common Tater at November 19, 2025 12:46 AM (XuiFR)
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I'm a Civil War reenactor, so we have the "30 minute" rule. If it hasn't crawled off or been eaten by something else, it's probably OK.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 19, 2025 12:47 AM (xDEVV)

425 417
I don't know 99% of U2, but I liked "When Love Comes to Town" because it has that American rock-and-roller who as far as I'm concerned blows them off the stage.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 19, 2025 12:43 AM (QfD0o)

BB King isn't a rock-and-roller. He's a blues man.

I did like their cover of The Saints Are Coming that they did with equally, possibly more, obnoxious Green Day at the Saints first home game after Katrina.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 19, 2025 12:47 AM (jWul0)

426 "but I liked "When Love Comes to Town" because it has that American rock-and-roller"
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Hard to go wrong with B. B. King.

Posted by: 496 at November 19, 2025 12:48 AM (hBtiT)

427 It is snowing lightly here.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2025 12:49 AM (npFr7)

428 We had a Hudson radio in the old pickup. I remember dad adjusting the tuning capacitor, it had two or three screws, for particular reception qualities.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 19, 2025 12:49 AM (CN6P7)

429 Going down to 75 tonight.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 19, 2025 12:50 AM (CN6P7)

430 It is snowing lightly here.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2025 12:49 AM (npFr7)
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I like snow, but not on days I have to go to work. I've read that the PNW is to have a cool, wet winter this season

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 19, 2025 12:51 AM (xDEVV)

431 405 Curious as to where your AO is, if you don't mind sharing, OPSEC permitting...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 19, 2025 12:08 AM (QGaXH)

Oops. dozed.

The desert southwest.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 19, 2025 12:35 AM (uQesX)

I was away too....

So you must be enjoying some of what we experienced over the weekend and into Monday...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 19, 2025 12:51 AM (QGaXH)

432 Car radios got aligned on the bench like any other radio, for sensitivity and selectivity. But they needed a final adjustment of the antenna trimmer capacitor for best results. Find a weak station at the low end of the dial around 600, tune for maximum smoke

Posted by: Common Tater at November 19, 2025 12:52 AM (XuiFR)

433 Cat Maddie is meowsering. No idea what she's on about.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 19, 2025 12:53 AM (xDEVV)

434 I've read that the PNW is to have a cool, wet winter this season
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Like the last 2 or 3 thousand, probably a safe bet!

Posted by: Common Tater at November 19, 2025 12:53 AM (XuiFR)

435

WWV operates in the high frequency (HF) portion of the radio spectrum. The station radiates 10 000 W on 5 MHz, 10 MHz, and 15 MHz; and 2500 W on 2.5 MHz and 20 MHz.

WWV has resumed broadcasting on 25 MHz on an experimental basis. The broadcast consists of the normal WWV signal heard on all other WWV frequencies, at the same level of accuracy.

Current 25 MHz Broadcast Specifications
Schedule: typically continuous. As an experimental broadcast, the 25 MHz signal may be interrupted or suspended without notice.

Radiated Power: 2.5 kW

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 19, 2025 12:54 AM (pkeXY)

436 Like the last 2 or 3 thousand, probably a safe bet!
Posted by: Common Tater at November 19, 2025 12:53 AM (XuiFR)
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I could tell you about several just in the 20 odd years I've been here that weren't so much. But I won't.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 19, 2025 12:55 AM (xDEVV)

437 We had a Hudson radio in the old pickup. I remember dad adjusting the tuning capacitor, it had two or three screws, for particular reception qualities.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 19, 2025 12:49 AM (CN6P7)

They called those screws "trimmers". If the tuning capacitor section is nominally 40 to 240 pF, the trimmer might range it from 38 to 238, or 42 to 242 pF. And those adjustments all interact. You set all the screws to get max volume on a station at 1410 kHz, and you may find reception a 610 suffers a lot.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2025 12:55 AM (npFr7)

438 418 And there is dust or crap in the tuning capacitor, manifested as scratchy noise as you tune the dial through one area on any of the bands
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Wow, radios still have tuning capacitors?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 19, 2025 12:41 AM (xDEVV)

When they were built in 1956, they sure do. It is a Westinghouse "International", an AC-only table radio with three shortwave bands on it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2025 12:43 AM (npFr7)

If memory serves from over 50 years ago, they should do an identification at the top of the hour. I believe they did broadcast on 'internationally allocated frequencies of 2.5, 5, 10, 15 and 25 megahertz providing time of day, standard time interval and other related information'

I might have listened to the station ID a few times....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 19, 2025 12:56 AM (QGaXH)

439 Roy Orbison's last song he recorded "She's a Mystery to Me" was written by Bono and Edge. Bono admits it was a response to hearing Orbison's "In Dreams" .

Joey Ramone was listening to "In A Little While" in his final days battling lymphoma.

Posted by: Rex B at November 19, 2025 12:58 AM (CzhWp)

440 So you must be enjoying some of what we experienced over the weekend and into Monday...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 19, 2025 12:51 AM (QGaXH)

Just today. Only cloudy otherwise. Still mid-70s until last night.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 19, 2025 01:01 AM (uQesX)

441 Regarding peanut butter sandwiches... back in the day my mom made peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwiches. Anyone else have them?

They were better than they sound... they really weren't bad. Nevertheless, since I've been grown ihave never made one and probably never will. Fond memories, though

Posted by: 496 at November 19, 2025 01:03 AM (EWlvz)

442
Hard to go wrong with B. B. King.
Posted by: 496

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I like the way Bono is rashing his throat into the mic as hard as he can and B.B. King is just standing back and doing the head-roll thing with a little smile while he plays the guitar like I play with a strand of my hair.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 19, 2025 01:03 AM (QfD0o)

443 So much great music, so little time.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2025 01:04 AM (cQHrm)

444 Regarding peanut butter sandwiches... back in the day my mom made peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwiches. Anyone else have them?
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Nope, but my Dad made peanut butter omelets, which we kids liked.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 19, 2025 01:04 AM (xDEVV)

445 440 So you must be enjoying some of what we experienced over the weekend and into Monday...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 19, 2025 12:51 AM (QGaXH)

Just today. Only cloudy otherwise. Still mid-70s until last night.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 19, 2025 01:01 AM (uQesX)

I went outside to move the cars around and it's downright chilly here in coastal OC. Going down to upper 40's. Snowing heavily in the local mountains where it belongs.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 19, 2025 01:05 AM (QGaXH)

446 I refurbed a really ancient Philco for a guy once, one of those Cathedral style. Real pain in the ass, because Philco didn’t use standard capacitors, they had proprietary tar-encased blocks.

Anyway when I got done, I noticed the intermediate transformers had been aligned in such a way for maximum bandwidth & fidelity, it was almost deaf on most of the dial but picked up the local station at the high end really nice, with surprisingly good tone. They must have kept it tuned to one and only one station.

Once it was all aligned according to Hoyle it was quite good at reception, but had reverted to that characteristic tinny kind of old radio sound from the 1930s. They do sound way better for voice.

I recapped a big wooden console radio for someone else, and that fucker could get you arrested when turned up loud. I think it was a Motorola. Perfect for annoying the neighbors with the 5 AM farm market reports. “June soybeans down 3 and 8th”

Posted by: Common Tater at November 19, 2025 01:06 AM (XuiFR)

447 That is a very nice radio, AOP, I'm sure that you'll have it up and running in no time.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 19, 2025 01:09 AM (0nHVk)

448 I went outside to move the cars around and it's downright chilly here in coastal OC. Going down to upper 40's. Snowing heavily in the local mountains where it belongs.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 19, 2025 01:05 AM (QGaXH)
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What, Laguna Beach? Huntington?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 19, 2025 01:09 AM (xDEVV)

449 Joey Ramone was listening to "In A Little While" in his final days battling lymphoma.

Posted by: Rex B at November 19, 2025 12:58 AM (CzhWp)
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I've never heard that song til now. It has a 'very unique' beat - I like it. There's a lot going on - I need to listen to it more to make sense of it.

Posted by: 496 at November 19, 2025 01:10 AM (xA5Rj)

450
peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwiches.

They were better than they sound...
Posted by: 496

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Well, they would have to.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 19, 2025 01:11 AM (QfD0o)

451 . It has a 'very unique' beat - I like it.
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Aaaah! It burns! It burns us!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 19, 2025 01:12 AM (xDEVV)

452 I know this is hard to believe but there is zero incentive in keeping a solar energy system on a public building operational.

In fact, as you amuse yourself with the illusion that your tax dollars are being used for a good purpose, the truth is a shocking number of these systems aren't even operational.

Maintenance costs money. It's cheaper and easier just to flip the breakers and walk away. This happens a lot.

But they are serving their purpose.

I know this is true by being involved in a statewide energy audit of schools and other public buildings. Our findings resulted in the future funding of energy audits was cut.

Posted by: pawn at November 19, 2025 01:12 AM (sPsWv)

453 >>peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwiches
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XH liked those. I took a bite of one, once. Once! Meh.

Posted by: JQ at November 19, 2025 01:12 AM (rdVOm)

454 Regarding peanut butter sandwiches... back in the day my mom made peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwiches. Anyone else have them?

They were better than they sound... they really weren't bad. Nevertheless, since I've been grown ihave never made one and probably never will. Fond memories, though
Posted by: 496 at November 19, 2025 01:03 AM (EWlvz)

All through 8 years of grade school, my lunch was either a peanut butter and apple jelly (only) sandwich or two hot dogs split sandwich. I was also an early devotee of potato chips/corn chipts on my PB&J sandwich.

In 4th grade, the other kids were making fun of me putting potato chips on my sandwich. The teacher saw what was going on, came over to my desk and said, out loud, 'You like potato chips on your sandwich? So do I. Stopped the ridicule. The little things make good teachers.

Posted by: RickZ at November 19, 2025 01:13 AM (gKDq2)

455 The “Elvis” is a sandwich that he liked, Peanut Butter, Bacon, and Banana. Grilled. Never had one. I’d probably skip the banana. Peanut butter and bacon sounds good.

Sometimes things that don’t sound right taste good. Green apple and cheddar. Mixed nuts and cheddar is filling and low carb, I picked that up when losing the fat. Doesn’t sound good, but it’s OK.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 19, 2025 01:13 AM (XuiFR)

456 Aaaah! It burns! It burns us!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 19, 2025 01:12 AM (xDEVV)
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Heh heh. Got one!

Posted by: 496 at November 19, 2025 01:13 AM (/2KcO)

457 The “Elvis” is a sandwich that he liked, Peanut Butter, Bacon, and Banana. Grilled. Never had one. I’d probably skip the banana. Peanut butter and bacon sounds good.

Sometimes things that don’t sound right taste good. Green apple and cheddar. Mixed nuts and cheddar is filling and low carb, I picked that up when losing the fat. Doesn’t sound good, but it’s OK.
Posted by: Common Tater at November 19, 2025 01:13 AM (XuiFR)

A peanut butter, buitter and sliced banana sandwich.

I wouldn't eat it now because bananas suck today.

Posted by: RickZ at November 19, 2025 01:15 AM (gKDq2)

458 I'll bet that potato chips on PB&J tastes better than PB&Mayo.

Posted by: JQ at November 19, 2025 01:16 AM (rdVOm)

459 Mixed nuts and cheddar is filling and low carb, I picked that up when losing the fat. Doesn’t sound good, but it’s OK.
Posted by: Common Tater at November 19, 2025 01:13 AM (XuiFR)
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Sounds perfectly OK to me. There are snack packs that have nuts and cheese like that. Sargento brand?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 19, 2025 01:17 AM (xDEVV)

460 When they were built in 1956, they sure do. It is a Westinghouse "International", an AC-only table radio with three shortwave bands on it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2025 12:43 AM (npFr7)

My 92 year old uncle recently gave me a reel to reel tape recorder that was made in 1956. Mint and original. He got it new. I took a peek inside and saw those nice original 1956 RCA black plate 12ax7s and 6v6s and I was soooo tempted to liberate them, but then it would probably spoil the mojo of the originality.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 19, 2025 01:18 AM (snZF9)

461 448 I went outside to move the cars around and it's downright chilly here in coastal OC. Going down to upper 40's. Snowing heavily in the local mountains where it belongs.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 19, 2025 01:05 AM (QGaXH)
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What, Laguna Beach? Huntington?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 19, 2025 01:09 AM (xDEVV)

Laguna ? What I'm made of money?? (in Mrs Wolowitz voice)

Huntington. I think I saw you wrote you grew up in Burbank?

I spent nearly 10 years in the Bendix plant on Sherman Way.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 19, 2025 01:18 AM (QGaXH)

462 Berserker: PLEASE post a photo on a future ONT of that recorder! I'm salivating.

Is it mono or stereo?

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2025 01:20 AM (cQHrm)

463 I wouldn't eat it now because bananas suck today.
Posted by: RickZ

So, pre-Cavendish? Had to be a Gros Michel, or some other kind of banana that tastes like "artificial banana flavor" still does?

Posted by: mikeski at November 19, 2025 01:21 AM (nhCoE)

464 Was reading recently, it's not real banana pudding in the South unless it has (a) banana slices (b) vanilla wafers crumbled in (c) whipped cream.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2025 01:22 AM (cQHrm)

465 Laguna ? What I'm made of money?? (in Mrs Wolowitz voice)
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Well, I was throwing it out there. The one person I knew who lived there was my psychiatrist (the hilly side, not the beachy side).

Yes, I grew up in Burbank and lived the first 37 years of my life in the Valley, but I'm hard-pressed the remember the Bendix plant.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 19, 2025 01:22 AM (xDEVV)

466 House VOTES down effort to censure Democrat Stacey Plaskett over her 2019 EPSTEIN texts

During committee work TARGETING Trump

Rep Luna BLOWS up effort to sweep Plaskett censure under the rug:

‘I was wondering… why leadership on both sides are cutting back-end deals To COVER-UP public corruption in the House’
_RT

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 19, 2025 01:24 AM (CN6P7)

467 458 I'll bet that potato chips on PB&J tastes better than PB&Mayo.

Posted by: JQ at November 19, 2025 01:16 AM (rdVOm)
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I hear you... I shudder at the sound of them. Still I remember them being not too bad. Not exactly good though, or I'd have made one at some point in the last 40 years

Posted by: 496 at November 19, 2025 01:24 AM (khVJI)

468 So, pre-Cavendish? Had to be a Gros Michel, or some other kind of banana that tastes like "artificial banana flavor" still does?
Posted by: mikeski at November 19, 2025 01:21 AM (nhCoE)

The last times I tried bananas they had no banana flavor, just tasteless. It's the same complaint I hear from people regarding tomatoes in the grocery store: Tasteless.

Posted by: RickZ at November 19, 2025 01:25 AM (gKDq2)

469 12AX7 really is a magical tube.

7199 was built from the ground up as a dedicated Hi-Fi tube by Sylvania engineers. They are getting a little spendy, so guys like to re-wire amps and things to take an el-cheapo tube. I’m like you dumbfucks, are you smarter than a Sylvania engineer? Maybe, but that’s probably not the way to bet.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 19, 2025 01:25 AM (XuiFR)

470 RickZ:
try the Roma tomatoes.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2025 01:25 AM (cQHrm)

471
In 4th grade, the other kids were making fun of me putting potato chips on my sandwich. The teacher saw what was going on, came over to my desk and said, out loud, 'You like potato chips on your sandwich? So do I. Stopped the ridicule. The little things make good teachers.
Posted by: RickZ

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Potato chips on the sandwich was for the adventurous. Then other kids tried it, and followed.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 19, 2025 01:26 AM (QfD0o)

472 I shudder at the sound of them. Still I remember them being not too bad. Not exactly good though, or I'd have made one at some point in the last 40 years
Posted by: 496
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LOL @ the things we liked when we were kids....

Great memories, though!

Posted by: JQ at November 19, 2025 01:27 AM (rdVOm)

473 Common Tater:
My dad worked for GTE. All our household TVs growing up in the 1960s through 80s were Sylvania, because the company owned 'em and he could get 'em for a good price at the company store.

Not bad quality. They also seemed to have surprisingly good sound.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2025 01:27 AM (cQHrm)

474 Here's the deal:
@MarioNawfal . 3h

HOUSE SPARES PLASKETT FROM CENSURE OVER EPSTEIN TEXTS BY 5 VOTES

Stacey Plaskett survived a Republican attempt to censure her and strip her Intelligence Committee seat over 2019 texts with Jeffrey Epstein.

The 209-214 vote saw three Republicans defect while Democrats held firm.

Plaskett: "I have sought information from confidential informants, from murderers... because I want the truth"

Ralph Norman (R-SC) argued her Epstein contact shaped oversight hearings.

Plaskett maintains he was merely a constituent and she was gathering information before his federal investigation became public.

Source: Politico / @EricLDaugh

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 19, 2025 01:27 AM (CN6P7)

475 My dad worked for GTE. All our household TVs growing up in the 1960s through 80s were Sylvania, because the company owned 'em and he could get 'em for a good price at the company store.
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Our household TVs and other electronics were Magnavox for much the same reason.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 19, 2025 01:29 AM (xDEVV)

476 465 Laguna ? What I'm made of money?? (in Mrs Wolowitz voice)
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Well, I was throwing it out there. The one person I knew who lived there was my psychiatrist (the hilly side, not the beachy side).

Yes, I grew up in Burbank and lived the first 37 years of my life in the Valley, but I'm hard-pressed the remember the Bendix plant.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 19, 2025 01:22 AM (xDEVV)

On S.W. just east of Lankershim Bl. 1930's style factory building. They built a second plant in Sylmar you could see from the freeway. They closed the Sherman Way plant in the early 90's. There's a Home Depot there now. 11600 Sherman Way

I saw your 45' 30 comment so I guess you escaped the gravitational pull of Los Angeles....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 19, 2025 01:30 AM (QGaXH)

477 Berserker: PLEASE post a photo on a future ONT of that recorder! I'm salivating.

Is it mono or stereo?

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2025 01:20 AM (cQHrm)

Not sure. It has a 3 way switch on the back marked Mono-nor-ext. There is a jack for an external speaker. Its a Webcor, and says "royal" inside when you open the lid. I think it says high fidelity on the back. I want to get it up and running because there is a tape reel in it, and according to my uncle myy great grandfathers voice is on it, and he died before I was born, so it might be interesting to hear. Of course he's probably speaking italian and I won't know a damn thing he's saying. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 19, 2025 01:30 AM (snZF9)

478 The last times I tried bananas they had no banana flavor, just tasteless. It's the same complaint I hear from people regarding tomatoes in the grocery store: Tasteless.
Posted by: RickZ

Strawberries, too.

All the grocery-store produce cultivars are

1) bred for durability for shipping, not flavor, and

B) harvested way early, so they're still not quite ripe after being shipped here from Peru.

Posted by: mikeski at November 19, 2025 01:30 AM (nhCoE)

479 Cashews too, they are all imported now. They are frigging humongous, but … they don’t have much flavor at all.

Store bought tomatoes have always sucked. Canned tomatoes aren’t much better. Is there a decent brand of canned tomatoes? They are almost not worth including. I like to make a trailer trash style goulash once in a while, just because it tastes good.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 19, 2025 01:30 AM (XuiFR)

480 Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 19, 2025 01:27
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I'm willing to allow the whole "he was my constituent" thing but she is so compromised now that there's no way she should be on the intelligence committee

Posted by: 496 at November 19, 2025 01:31 AM (1OIAD)

481 Plaskett maintains he was merely a constituent and she was gathering information before his federal investigation became public.
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So WTF is this individual?!?!?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 19, 2025 01:31 AM (xDEVV)

482 try the Roma tomatoes.
Posted by: qdpsteve
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Yes! Grocery store Roma tomatoes can still have at least a little bit of *tomato* flavor, if they're ripe.

Buy, then leave on the counter or window sill for a couple days. Better than the full-sized "baseball" tomatoes.

Posted by: JQ at November 19, 2025 01:32 AM (rdVOm)

483 I'll bet that potato chips on PB&J tastes better than PB&Mayo.
Posted by: JQ at November 19, 2025 01:16 AM (rdVOm)

With the apple jelly, the best is B-B-Q potato chips. At least I think so.

I still occasionally have a PB&Apple J with potato or corn chips. The problem, believe it or not, is finding apple jelly in the stores. Most here only carry mint apple jelly. For me, the irony of the apply jelly shortage is that I am in the second-largest apple producing state (NY).

Posted by: RickZ at November 19, 2025 01:32 AM (gKDq2)

484 I saw your 45' 30 comment so I guess you escaped the gravitational pull of Los Angeles....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 19, 2025 01:30 AM (QGaXH)
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Yeah, I'm in Portland (grimace).

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 19, 2025 01:32 AM (xDEVV)

485 Berserker, thanks. Sounds like a mono machine. "High Fidelity" stamped on machines back then, usually meant mono. Obviously could still sound fantastic. Again, please post a pic soon.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2025 01:33 AM (cQHrm)

486 All the grocery-store produce cultivars are

1) bred for durability for shipping, not flavor
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Noticeable difference when a good batch is avaliable - and they don't last long.

Posted by: scampydog at November 19, 2025 01:33 AM (41CYW)

487 JQ, I've found some cut-up Roma tomatoes with a little salt on 'em can be a tasty snack.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2025 01:33 AM (cQHrm)

488 484 I saw your 45' 30 comment so I guess you escaped the gravitational pull of Los Angeles....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 19, 2025 01:30 AM (QGaXH)
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Yeah, I'm in Portland (grimace).
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 19, 2025 01:32 AM (xDEVV)

Frying Pan to fire....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 19, 2025 01:34 AM (QGaXH)

489 By the way, try dunking your chips in ketchup. It's pretty good.

Posted by: 496 at November 19, 2025 01:34 AM (1OIAD)

490 The 209-214 vote saw three Republicans defect while Democrats held firm.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 19, 2025 01:27 AM (CN6P7)

Always with the backstabbing.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 19, 2025 01:35 AM (uQesX)

491 vanilla wafers
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2025 01:22 AM (cQHrm)

FYI: Nilla ~~Vanilla~~ Wafers are no longer made with vanilla but vanillin, artificial vanilla. The wafers now taste like crap.

Posted by: RickZ at November 19, 2025 01:35 AM (gKDq2)

492
So WTF is this individual?!?!?
Posted by: Captain Obvious

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The victim of a vicious misgendering!! Is there a reward for reporting hate crimes?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 19, 2025 01:35 AM (QfD0o)

493 Sweet dreams Horde, I've got a couple of busy days coming up and need to get some sleep.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 19, 2025 01:35 AM (0nHVk)

494 Not really a fan of ketchup, but I would consider dunking potato chips in Ro*Tel!

Posted by: JQ at November 19, 2025 01:36 AM (rdVOm)

495 RickZ, but of course. Grrrrr.
Gotta learn to bake and cook if you want things to taste really good anymore.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2025 01:36 AM (cQHrm)

496 G'night, DDS.

Posted by: scampydog at November 19, 2025 01:36 AM (41CYW)

497 'Night, Debby! See ya next time!

Posted by: JQ at November 19, 2025 01:37 AM (rdVOm)

498 My taste buds are in some ways far more sensitive than they used to be.

I've found I enjoy taking some chips (potato or tortilla, doesn't matter which), dipping 'em in straight sour cream, then adding some drops of Tabasco or other hot sauce. Tasty!

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2025 01:37 AM (cQHrm)

499 Berserker, thanks. Sounds like a mono machine. "High Fidelity" stamped on machines back then, usually meant mono. Obviously could still sound fantastic. Again, please post a pic soon.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2025 01:33 AM (cQHrm)

From what I was reading about them I think you need to used the "ext" setting and the jack to get a stereo playback, but it records only in mono. I need to research it more. Its way older than I am. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 19, 2025 01:38 AM (snZF9)

500 JQ, I've found some cut-up Roma tomatoes with a little salt on 'em can be a tasty snack.
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Rotel is pretty good straight from the can! I’ve got cro-magnon tastes though

Posted by: Common Tater at November 19, 2025 01:38 AM (XuiFR)

501 458 I'll bet that potato chips on PB&J tastes better than PB&Mayo.
Posted by: JQ
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There was a time that PB&J was incomplete without Frito's.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 19, 2025 01:39 AM (CN6P7)

502 Frying Pan to fire....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 19, 2025 01:34 AM (QGaXH)
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Not when I moved here 27 years ago...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 19, 2025 01:39 AM (xDEVV)

503 Apple jelly-- haven't seen *that* in a store since I don't know when!

Out of desperation, I've made apple jelly from bottled apple juice. Not bad. Better than none at all!

Posted by: JQ at November 19, 2025 01:40 AM (rdVOm)

504 Good Night Everyone! Thank you for a very pleasant few hours reading all the interesting comments and interacting a little.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 19, 2025 01:40 AM (QGaXH)

505 Common Tater, Rotel is really good in general for some things. :-)

Berserker, check out a site called HiFi Engine. If you register (and it's easy, and costs nothing), you can sign in and look up hundreds of manuals scanned into PDFs, for tons of old electronics, including R2R machines.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2025 01:41 AM (cQHrm)

506 That is a very nice radio, AOP, I'm sure that you'll have it up and running in no time.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 19, 2025 01:09 AM (0nHVk)

I have it playing now. Took the switch apart, and cleaned, managed to get it back together. Will put it back in its cabinet tomorrow. I don't think it was WWV I was hearing, more likely some hash from the PC on the desk here. But it picks up a few AM broadcast stations OK. Needs an outdoor antenna for good short-wave reception.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2025 01:41 AM (npFr7)

507 Ro*Tel, straight from the can, is a great easy sauce for cabbage rolls, too.

Posted by: JQ at November 19, 2025 01:42 AM (rdVOm)

508 For true arteriosclerotic delight, mix a packet of dried onion soup with sour cream. Hot sauce would be fine in there too. Or Cayenne

Posted by: Common Tater at November 19, 2025 01:42 AM (XuiFR)

509 500 !!!

Posted by: Adriane the Amused by the Little Things Critic . . . at November 19, 2025 01:42 AM (3ZUWJ)

510 Common Tater, oh of course yes. :-)
The older I get the more I discover the magic of sour cream, mayo and cream cheese. I love salsas and dips.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2025 01:43 AM (cQHrm)

511 Dang! Comments coming in quick tonight …

Posted by: Adriane the Amused by the Little Things Critic . . . at November 19, 2025 01:43 AM (3ZUWJ)

512 Ro*Tel, straight from the can, is a great easy sauce for cabbage rolls, too.
Posted by: JQ at November 19, 2025 01:42 AM (rdVOm)
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I've never had it, but have pulled plenty from the shelves. Looks like good stuff, I'll have to try it in the future. Only sticking point is that the volume is less than standard.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 19, 2025 01:43 AM (xDEVV)

513 For true arteriosclerotic delight, mix a packet of dried onion soup with sour cream.
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For God's sake, how else do you make onion dip?!?!?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 19, 2025 01:44 AM (xDEVV)

514 Apple jelly-- haven't seen *that* in a store since I don't know when!

Out of desperation, I've made apple jelly from bottled apple juice. Not bad. Better than none at all!
Posted by: JQ at November 19, 2025 01:40 AM (rdVOm)

About 10 years ago, my friend ordered me a 12-pack case of Smucker's Apple Jelly for Christmas after I told her I couldn't find any in my nearby stores (4 of them). I was a happy camper.

Posted by: RickZ at November 19, 2025 01:46 AM (gKDq2)

515 The whole idea between "sour cream and onion" potato chips was to make a chip that didn't require dip.

But, nothing beats straight classic potato chips with the actual Lipton onion dip. It always tastes best.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2025 01:46 AM (cQHrm)

516 I've never had it, but have pulled plenty from the shelves. Looks like good stuff, I'll have to try it in the future. Only sticking point is that the volume is less than standard.
Posted by: Captain Obvious
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Get the 'house brand' of diced tomatoes with green chiles-- just as good and *much* cheaper.

Posted by: JQ at November 19, 2025 01:46 AM (rdVOm)

517 Get the 'house brand' of diced tomatoes with green chiles-- just as good and *much* cheaper.
Posted by: JQ at November 19, 2025 01:46 AM (rdVOm)
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Yeah, I do that already. Kroger's brand of "chile" tomatoes is da bomb.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 19, 2025 01:47 AM (xDEVV)

518 Kent Rollins has a real good cooking channel he does, on the Tube that is You, he turned me on to Chipotle in Adobo sauce. Smoked Jalapeños in a tomato sauce w/onion and garlic. Supplied in twee little cans. Great for everything really, from Chili of course, chicken & rice, even potato casserole dishes. Should be great in omelettes too. Use with caution at first, one can will give a large bowl of red a pretty decent kick. Has more flavor than heat. That’s what I like, can’t see any reason for food to actually burn.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 19, 2025 01:50 AM (XuiFR)

519 Common Tater, Rotel is really good in general for some things. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2025 01:41 AM (cQHrm)

A classic quickie dip at home is Rotel and Velveeta, melted together in the microwave.

Personally, I make my own red bean dip. Large can of red beans refried/mashed in a non-stick pan with spices and seaonings. My take on the Frito Bean Dip in a can.

Posted by: RickZ at November 19, 2025 01:50 AM (gKDq2)

520 Way-ull, I'm turning into a pumpkin. See you all in the morning.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 19, 2025 01:50 AM (xDEVV)

521 Common Tater, yum.
I love the Chipotle peppers in adobo sauce from La Costena.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2025 01:50 AM (cQHrm)

522 There was some discussion the other night, of ranch dressing. A lot of negatives, iirc.

Mom made a simple "ranch" style dressing:

1 cup sour cream
1 cup buttermilk
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 (I think. maybe it was 1 whole) teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper -- optional

Put it all in a quart jar, close the lid & shake well.

Posted by: JQ at November 19, 2025 01:53 AM (rdVOm)

523 JQ, sounds de-lish. Thanks!
I love ranch with a ton of extra garlic added.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2025 01:53 AM (cQHrm)

524 And I'm just north of Pomona near beautiful Fontana of Kaiser Steel fame
Qdp you still around Long Beach???

Posted by: MAxIE at November 19, 2025 01:56 AM (p0Y4o)

525 MAxIE, hey! :-)
Yup. Still near LB.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2025 01:57 AM (cQHrm)

526 Yeah, I used to make Ranch. Leave out the Mayo altogether (like in the above recipe) is the only way.

I seem to remember Dill weed being part of the classic flavor though.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 19, 2025 01:57 AM (XuiFR)

527 Maryland bridge?

Maryland has awarded $6 million to We Our Us, a nonprofit led by Antoine Burton, who owes more than $200,000 in federal and state tax liens dating back to 2017, ...to “engage justice-involved youth in Baltimore City.”
...
Burton’s divorce records show his ex-wife alleged he had “multiple affairs,” hid a “tax lien against him that he failed to inform” her about, and “accrued large amounts of financial debt and intentionally hid this information.”
_FOX 45 Baltimore

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 19, 2025 01:58 AM (CN6P7)

528 G'night. Thanks Disco and Horde.

Posted by: scampydog at November 19, 2025 01:59 AM (41CYW)

529 'Night, Doggo!

Posted by: JQ at November 19, 2025 02:02 AM (rdVOm)

530 I seem to remember Dill weed being part of the classic flavor though.
Posted by: Common Tater
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Sure, add whatever you like!

I used 2 tsp garlic, but that's because I really like garlic.

Posted by: JQ at November 19, 2025 02:03 AM (rdVOm)

531 Way-ull, I'm turning into a pumpkin. See you all in the morning.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 19, 2025 01:50 AM (xDEVV)

Likewise for me. Night, all.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2025 02:06 AM (npFr7)

532 @RichardGrenell

Last February, the @nytimes mocked our stated goal to bring Christ back to Christmas.

Today, the Kennedy Center’s December programming is celebrating Christ’s birth and the Christmas Season all month long.
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@Schneider_DC

What does the @nytimes hate more, @RichardGrenell's courage or his competence?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 19, 2025 02:08 AM (CN6P7)

533 Sounds a lot like Mr. Burton ought to be “justice involved” hisself. Fucking wankers

Posted by: Common Tater at November 19, 2025 02:08 AM (XuiFR)

534 527 Maryland bridge?

Maryland has awarded $6 million to We Our Us, a nonprofit led by Antoine Burton, who owes more than $200,000 in federal and state tax liens dating back to 2017, ...to “engage justice-involved youth in Baltimore City.”
...
Burton’s divorce records show his ex-wife alleged he had “multiple affairs,” hid a “tax lien against him that he failed to inform” her about, and “accrued large amounts of financial debt and intentionally hid this information.”
_FOX 45 Baltimore
Posted by: Braenyard

youtu.be/5dxnr9fV-Ts

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 19, 2025 02:09 AM (sAmhv)

535 'Night, AOP.

And anyone else...LOL

Good night John Boy. Good night, Mary Ellen.

Posted by: JQ at November 19, 2025 02:09 AM (rdVOm)

536 Well, it wouldn’t be Ranch dressing without Dill. Or Garlic for that matter. It’s like pornography, I know it when I taste it. Er.. you know what I mean

Posted by: Common Tater at November 19, 2025 02:11 AM (XuiFR)

537 Everyone, thanks for the chat. Gonna call it a night. (And now I'm hungry.) :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2025 02:13 AM (cQHrm)

538 I'm hungry too, qdp!

LOL. G'night!

Posted by: JQ at November 19, 2025 02:15 AM (rdVOm)

539 What does the @nytimes hate more, @RichardGrenell's courage or his competence?
Posted by: Braenyard

Competence, presumably, since they lack that completely.

Posted by: mikeski at November 19, 2025 02:16 AM (nhCoE)

540 Common Tater, I think Dad didn't like dill. So Mom didn't put it in the dressing.

Ranch "style"

But, it's a good basic recipe! Just add whatever you like to the creamy base.

Posted by: JQ at November 19, 2025 02:18 AM (rdVOm)

541 Darn it. All that talk of potato/corn chips and there's none of either in this house right now.

Posted by: JQ at November 19, 2025 02:22 AM (rdVOm)

542
Today is the last date of the Beaver lunation.

The Cold Moon of the Long Nights begins tomorrow.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 19, 2025 02:30 AM (w6EFb)

543 If Grenell was DOJ heads would be rolling.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 19, 2025 02:31 AM (CN6P7)

544 I'll bring toasted & buttered bagel, cream cheese & smoked salmon to hubby tomorrow. (Poor guy, stuck with crappy institutional "food")

Tomorrow's menu is particularly yucky-- pasta dishes and/or tomato slop for both lunch and dinner. He hates pasta of all kinds *and* their crappy "marinara" sauce (which tastes like plain tomato sauce).

Every day, I have lunch with him. Tomorrow, I'll surprise him with dinner also! With mashed taters, roast beef & gravy.

Posted by: JQ at November 19, 2025 02:33 AM (rdVOm)

545
Oh, goody, Hakeem Jeffries is in the Epstein files. He invited Epstein to dinner for a fundraiser.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 19, 2025 02:34 AM (w6EFb)

546 Oh, goody, Hakeem Jeffries is in the Epstein files. He invited Epstein to dinner for a fundraiser.
Posted by: publius
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LO f'n L!

How do you suppose the Ds (and mfm) will contort themselves to absolve him?

Posted by: JQ at November 19, 2025 02:37 AM (rdVOm)

547 >> How do you suppose the Ds (and mfm) will contort themselves to absolve him?

Just pretend it didn't happen. Cover their ears, Lah-lah-lah! I can't hear you!

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 19, 2025 02:39 AM (w6EFb)

548
I'm looking forward to the Epstein and Hakeem sombrero memes.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 19, 2025 02:41 AM (w6EFb)

549 >>Just pretend it didn't happen. Cover their ears, Lah-lah-lah! I can't hear you!
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Yeah, mfm will cover it with a pillow. But *new media* will blast it from the rooftops, I hope.

I, for one, am very thankful that Elon took over the Twitspace and stopped so much censorship!

Posted by: JQ at November 19, 2025 02:43 AM (rdVOm)

550 @MAGAVoice . 9h

I am in tears. Christians are MARCHING in Muslim dominated Dearborn, Michigan. Christ is King 🙏

‘We The People’ are waking up

KEEP GOING

https://tinyurl.com/3xj6ar83

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 19, 2025 02:50 AM (CN6P7)

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