Thanksgiving Night Cafe

The hammer-headed fruitbat, known by some
(mostly me) as "the Turkey of the Night"

Just a gal riding her horse like she's late to Pellanor Fields.

CAUTION! SEXUAL CONTENT WARNING! A male hedgehog tries to stick it to a female hedgehog, and that's not easy, on account of all the sticky bits. She's not making it easy for him. Her quills are all up. I know how that story goes.

A warm welcome from a cute cat.

A lynx's cub is caught in a trap, so she asks a human to help. Good thing she didn't ask the trapper.

This is crazy! The transformation from dry to flood waters is insane pic.twitter.com/bF5NHQzQ4G
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) November 24, 2025

When your Harley Davidson engine is operating at peak, it will sound like a koala clearing its throat.

how can the cutest animal make the ugliest sound? 😂 pic.twitter.com/8qtmQAFEqv
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) November 21, 2025

A smile for your timeline.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/eV5h2U23ep
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) November 14, 2025

That’s the most rainbowish rainbow I’ve ever seen 😳🌈 pic.twitter.com/7o9JpHn1kZ
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) November 18, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 07:10 PM

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1 SPONGE!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 27, 2025 07:11 PM (xcxpd)

2 And is that Jimmy Durante in bat form?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 27, 2025 07:11 PM (xcxpd)

3 The best part of winding down the day is Allie curling up in my lap.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 27, 2025 07:13 PM (IBQGV)

4 The bat is what your Internet date looks like without a filter

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 27, 2025 07:14 PM (bfwj/)

5 3 The best part of winding down the day is Allie curling up in my lap.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 27, 2025 07:13 PM (IBQGV)

Steve McQueen used to say that too.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 27, 2025 07:14 PM (xcxpd)

6 Spec Beckstrom has passed away.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 27, 2025 07:16 PM (9501g)

7 Bats! Bats!!! Bats!!! We have bats!! On Thanksgiving!!!!

O frabjous day!!!!!!!

On behalf of the numerous chiroptophiles amongst the Commentariat, thank you Ace!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 27, 2025 07:16 PM (0sNs1)

8 That bat has to be AI, right?

* googles *

Nope. It's fer reals.

OK, one more thing to be thankful for, today. They live in Africa.

Posted by: mikeski at November 27, 2025 07:16 PM (nhCoE)

9 The bat is what your Internet date looks like without a filter
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Which is funny, because that bat has a huge honkin' filter.

Posted by: mikeski at November 27, 2025 07:17 PM (nhCoE)

10 Happy Thanksgiving Hordlings!

Now go put your Christmas tree up.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 27, 2025 07:17 PM (rJ7Hd)

11 Duncanthrax is our resident Bat Man and yes he has super powers.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 27, 2025 07:17 PM (sDNVV)

12 That's the most rainbowish rainbow I've ever seen

Dude, you can see where it ends. Go get the pot of gold already, don't just talk about it.

Posted by: mikeski at November 27, 2025 07:19 PM (nhCoE)

13
Classic Tex Avery.

The House of Tomorrow:

https://is.gd/1RFOJM

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 27, 2025 07:20 PM (aE/QX)

14 That bat has camel face.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 27, 2025 07:20 PM (zYpTz)

15 Ladies and Gentlemen ...

I give you the new face of the Demoncrat Party

The Hammerhead Fruit Bat

Posted by: browndog moving slowly at November 27, 2025 07:20 PM (3sXRv)

16 The bat is so ugly that he's cute.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 27, 2025 07:21 PM (ys6FW)

17 browndog, Happy Thanksgiving, darlin.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 27, 2025 07:21 PM (sDNVV)

18 Good evening everyone
H8 to bring bad news, NG Sarah Breckstrom has passed away

Posted by: Skip at November 27, 2025 07:22 PM (+qU29)

19 6 Spec Beckstrom has passed away.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie

😭. Terrible, absolutely terrible.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day. at November 27, 2025 07:22 PM (NFX2v)

20 Battus Nostrilus aka Harry Waxman

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 27, 2025 07:22 PM (+RaPz)

21
10 Happy Thanksgiving Hordlings!

Now go put your Christmas tree up.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 27, 2025 07:17 PM (rJ7Hd)

Tomorrow! Now will I have the energy for the house tree and the studio tree? Who knows!

Posted by: Piper at November 27, 2025 07:23 PM (OoFl2)

22 18 Good evening everyone
H8 to bring bad news, NG Sarah Breckstrom has passed away
Posted by: Skip at November 27, 2025 07

I read this, 20 years old. Bless her family right now.

Posted by: Piper at November 27, 2025 07:24 PM (OoFl2)

23 * checks Thanksgiving Bingo card *

Nope, "hedgehog todger" ain't on it.

Posted by: mikeski at November 27, 2025 07:24 PM (nhCoE)

24 17 browndog, Happy Thanksgiving, darlin.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 27, 2025 07:21 PM (sDNVV)

{{{{Ben}}}}

give all those ponies in the stable an extra helping of mash for me.

Posted by: browndog moving slowly at November 27, 2025 07:24 PM (3sXRv)

25 Fuzzy Zoeller has passed at the age of 74.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 27, 2025 07:25 PM (/HDaX)

26 Spc. Sarah Breckstrom, West Virginia Army National Guard.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 27, 2025 07:25 PM (+RaPz)

27 >>>This is crazy! The transformation from dry to flood waters is insane

He says it wasn't the plan. But then again, they brought boats along, so I'm thinking it was the plan.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 27, 2025 07:26 PM (syz1S)

28 "When your Harley Davidson engine is operating at peak, it will sound like a koala clearing its throat."

One of my bulldogs sounds a bit like that when he wants something.

And when they're excited, their panting sounds like diesel trucks idling.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 27, 2025 07:27 PM (zYpTz)

29 May God comfort the family of Spc. Breckstrom. What a horrible Thanksgiving day for them.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 27, 2025 07:27 PM (ys6FW)

30 A male hedgehog tries to stick it to a female hedgehog, and that's not easy, on account of all the sticky bits.
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I think porcupines got it worse...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 27, 2025 07:27 PM (IBQGV)

31 I've never thought koalas were all that cute. They look fussy and finicky -- which you might expect from an animal who can eat only one thing.

Remember the Qantas TV ads with the koala complaining that the airline's fares were so low, more humans were flooding Australia? "I hate Qantas!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 27, 2025 07:27 PM (wzUl9)

32 Nope, "hedgehog todger" ain't on it.
Posted by: mikeski at November 27, 2025 07:24 PM

I now realize there are worse things than a bit of frostbite.

Posted by: Harry Sussex at November 27, 2025 07:27 PM (0sNs1)

33 Before I scrolled down, Ace, I thought your big pic there was of a horse with stunted ears.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 27, 2025 07:28 PM (wzUl9)

34 Just woke up. Cool Thanksgivings Day posts. Have to go to work tonight. Rebuilding the refinery unit that blew up at PBF Refinery Martinez here in California/Bay Area.
A few people here yell at me that refineries are closing here in California but they're still maintaining, rebuilding and restructuring. So off I go to nightshift to work at them.(I dunno don't ask Im confused about the stories at this point)

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Posted by: JROD at November 27, 2025 07:28 PM (IlL6s)

35 Before I scrolled down, Ace, I thought your big pic there was of a horse with stunted ears.

That's Doll Eyes Alex.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 27, 2025 07:29 PM (+RaPz)

36 Greetings! Hope everyone had a fine Thanksgiving.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 27, 2025 07:29 PM (v9vY1)

37 Koala sounds like Michael Moore's toilet straining after Thanksgiving.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 27, 2025 07:29 PM (sDWtc)

38 And here I thought leaf-nosed bats were ugly. The hammer-head has them beat by several wingspans.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 27, 2025 07:29 PM (wzUl9)

39 25 Fuzzy Zoeller has passed at the age of 74.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy

I saw that. I wonder if it was some kind of health issue. He was pretty good in his time. A couple of Majors, lots of regular tour wins.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 27, 2025 07:31 PM (v9vY1)

40 Re Rainbow

What does it mean?

Also re hedgehog

It does feel kind of dirty to watch.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 27, 2025 07:32 PM (bss/y)

41
Bob Newhart orders chineses food for Thanksgiving:

https://is.gd/9FLt61

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 27, 2025 07:34 PM (aE/QX)

42 Bat has a Kangaroo head

Posted by: Skip at November 27, 2025 07:36 PM (+qU29)

43 And is that Jimmy Durante in bat form?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 27, 2025

***
Banjo (Jimmy Durante, in The Man Who Came to Dinner, lasciviously eyeing Whiteside's nurse): Come to my room in half an hour, and bring some rye bread.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 27, 2025 07:36 PM (wzUl9)

44 Blessed Thanksgiving all y'all.

Go Navy!!!

Posted by: Adriane the Lack of Vacuum Critic. . . at November 27, 2025 07:37 PM (pDf4w)

45 But the killer has a wife and FIVE children living in the state of Washington. It's not their fault. 🤬
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And it's not the fault of #AfghanEvac, International Affairs,
San Diego, CA

#AfghanEvac
@afghanevac
Our allies are under attack today because of the actions of one deranged man. Those actions should not be ascribed to an entire community.
2:31 PM · Nov 27, 2025. 🤬
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78.5 Views.
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If the killer's asylum was approved, why drive across the country and ambush the National Guard in D.C.?

Or the Trump administration cancelling TPS for other Afghans & an end date for that program in 2026?

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day. at November 27, 2025 07:38 PM (NFX2v)

46 This bat, koalas, hedgehogs... God has a sense of humor, and he shares it with us.

Posted by: MkY at November 27, 2025 07:40 PM (q6tQZ)

47 I saw that. I wonder if it was some kind of health issue. He was pretty good in his time. A couple of Majors, lots of regular tour wins.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 27, 2025 07:31 PM (v9vY1)

The last 1st time Masters winner ... and using an Augusta caddie.

Posted by: browndog moving slowly at November 27, 2025 07:41 PM (3sXRv)

48 But the killer has a wife and FIVE children living in the state of Washington. It's not their fault.

No, it isn't their fault they're in Washington. We can help them get home!

Posted by: t-bird at November 27, 2025 07:42 PM (o5jAD)

49
Do You People really forget?

Fuzzy made a joke about Tiger Woods "eating fried chicken" and that was the end of Fuzzy in Golf.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 27, 2025 07:43 PM (aE/QX)

50
#AfghanEvac
@afghanevac
Our allies are under attack today because of the actions of one deranged man. Those actions should not be ascribed to an entire community.

Fuck you. Fuck them. When we "evacuate" back to their 7th century shithole, you can go with them since you love them so much.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 27, 2025 07:44 PM (QVmho)

51 49
Do You People really forget?

Fuzzy made a joke about Tiger Woods "eating fried chicken" and that was the end of Fuzzy in Golf.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 27, 2025 07:43 PM (aE/QX)

Yeah, thought of it immediately, but did not want to bring it up on the day he died.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 27, 2025 07:45 PM (bss/y)

52
If I recall correctly, Fuzzy said it in front of Tiger, and Tiger laughed.

But the jock-sniffing queer "sports journalists" couldn't take a joke.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 27, 2025 07:48 PM (aE/QX)

53
And here I thought leaf-nosed bats were ugly. The hammer-head has them beat by several wingspans.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

What's that weird looking long legged bird that shows up here from time to time?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 27, 2025 07:50 PM (pkeXY)

54 This bat, koalas, hedgehogs... God has a sense of humor, and he shares it with us.
Posted by: MkY at November 27, 2025 07:40 PM (q6tQZ)
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*** Platypus has entered the chat... ***

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 27, 2025 07:51 PM (IBQGV)

55 Yeah, thought of it immediately, but did not want to bring it up on the day he died.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 27, 2025 07:45 PM (bss/y

Unlike the media, who led with that at his death announcement.

You just cannot hate the media enough.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 27, 2025 07:52 PM (R0Sr5)

56 Dude, you can see where it ends. Go get the pot of gold already, don't just talk about it.
Posted by: mikeski
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One rainy spring day, when older bro & I were very little, we were in the car with Mom and Dad-- going to Grandma's out in the country, I suppose.

Anyway, clouds parted and there was a fine rainbow over the fields and we could see where it touched the ground! "Oh, wow! Daddy, let's go get the pot o' gold!"

Off we went, on our Quest For Gold. Dad turned down the muddy roads, this way and that, chasing the rainbow's end. Mom was excited, too, telling us how she would trick the leprechaun into looking away while we grabbed his big pot of gold.

Miss you, Mom. Miss you, Dad. Thanks for being my parents!

Posted by: JQ at November 27, 2025 07:52 PM (rdVOm)

57 Dr. Mommy, there's stuffing in my drawers.

Posted by: Joe Biden is Thanksgiving at November 27, 2025 07:55 PM (MSzW5)

58 52
If I recall correctly, Fuzzy said it in front of Tiger, and Tiger laughed.

But the jock-sniffing queer "sports journalists" couldn't take a joke.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 27, 2025 07:48 PM (aE/QX)\

Wokeness, PC behavior and scolds have been around forever.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 27, 2025 07:55 PM (xqIAL)

59 That is a fine memory JQ.

Thanks for sharing it.

Posted by: pawn at November 27, 2025 07:55 PM (sPsWv)

60 What's that weird looking long legged bird that shows up here from time to time?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

The cartoony, cute, blue-eyed one that eats baby crocodiles?

Shoebill.

Posted by: mikeski at November 27, 2025 07:56 PM (nhCoE)

61 Miss you, Mom. Miss you, Dad. Thanks for being my parents!
Posted by: JQ at November 27, 2025 07:52 PM (rdVOm)

What a great memory.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 27, 2025 07:56 PM (zYpTz)

62 And here I thought leaf-nosed bats were ugly. The hammer-head has them beat by several wingspans.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
What's that weird looking long legged bird that shows up here from time to time?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 27, 2025

***
Darned if I can remember what the trolls call themselves.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 27, 2025 07:57 PM (wzUl9)

63 I don't want to live in a multi-cultural society.

Posted by: no one at November 27, 2025 07:57 PM (GLn15)

64 Yes, Shoebill!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 27, 2025 07:59 PM (pkeXY)

65 No idea how hedgehogs have survived

Posted by: Skip at November 27, 2025 07:59 PM (+qU29)

66 Finally, something for the chiropterophiliacs in the audience!

That schnozzle looks like it could play Kenny G solos to draw in the bat cuties.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 27, 2025 08:00 PM (kpS4V)

67 Living in a village where everyone is like me would be fine.

Posted by: Skip at November 27, 2025 08:00 PM (+qU29)

68

The far-left Nation magazine used the Thanksgiving holiday to recast the Pilgrims and Puritans as “radical Protestant doomsday groups” whose “cultish” ideology, it argues, “became the foundation of American culture,” urging Americans to treat the day as “as good a time as any to begin coming to terms with the country’s radical cultish origins.”

https://t.ly/Clf4n

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 27, 2025 08:01 PM (pkeXY)

69 No idea how hedgehogs have survived
Posted by: Skip at November 27, 2025

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I wonder about them and porcupines, for similar reasons; and pandas, because they just seem to be low-energy and low-T.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 27, 2025 08:01 PM (wzUl9)

70 Happy to see that Leon's in Dearborn is still giving away free meals in gratitude for the owner living in the greatest country in the world. https://tinyurl.com/3r4jczcs

Posted by: NaughtyPine at November 27, 2025 08:01 PM (oy1iR)

71 RIP Sarah Beckstrom.

What a horrible tragedy for this family.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 27, 2025 08:02 PM (R0Sr5)

72 If pandas were sized like house cats, they'd be easy prey for everything and would now be extinct. Furry black-and-white dodos.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 27, 2025 08:02 PM (wzUl9)

73 No blah blah blah

Posted by: Dr. Varno at November 27, 2025 08:03 PM (CpIew)

74 Miss you, Mom. Miss you, Dad. Thanks for being my parents!
Posted by: JQ at November 27, 2025 07:52
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What a great memory. Thanks for sharing.

Posted by: olddog in mo at November 27, 2025 08:03 PM (bQ4nt)

75 Thinking of John Daly, don't know golfers much. Sorry for Fuzzy it was a bum rap. Only reason I know of Daly is the Tucker Carlson interview. He seemed sane, Tucker that is.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 27, 2025 08:03 PM (B9cbb)

76 Happy thanksgiving everyone!

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 27, 2025 08:03 PM (gRYBf)

77 I'm watching a Gutfeld from the other night and one of the guests is erudite, classy conservative thinker Douglas Murray. He's like Jane Goodall among the apes. He's laughing at the crude japes and jests but I bet he wonders why his agent booked him this gig. Or is he a frequent guest! Ha!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 27, 2025 08:04 PM (kpS4V)

78
radical doomsday group?

Are they talking about the global warming goblins & hoaxers??

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 27, 2025 08:04 PM (aE/QX)

79 That is a sweet memory, JQ.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 27, 2025 08:04 PM (ys6FW)

80 It's only 5pm. Not hungry yet, but all the stuff for my big ol' sloppy bacon cheeburger is ready when I am!

Or, maybe I'll just drink my dinner?

Hubby really liked his deviled eggs *and* the holiday meal that was served. Then we went outside for a smoke & spoke to son on the phone.

It was a good day.

Posted by: JQ at November 27, 2025 08:05 PM (rdVOm)

81 67 Living in a village where everyone is like me would be fine.
Posted by: Skip at November 27, 2025 08:00 PM (+qU29)
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Skip, that village would have a high wall around it and guard towers.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 27, 2025 08:06 PM (kpS4V)

82 I would tell the far left Nation Magazine to go F itself but it so often does it voluntarily that those words need not be said.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 27, 2025 08:06 PM (B9cbb)

83
He's laughing at the crude japes and jests but I bet he wonders why his agent booked him this gig. Or is he a frequent guest! Ha!
Posted by: All Hail Eris

First time, I think. And the episode was even more crude than usual, lol.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 27, 2025 08:07 PM (aE/QX)

84 71 RIP Sarah Beckstrom.

What a horrible tragedy for this family.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 27, 2025 08:02 PM (R0Sr5)
She is due a Purple Heart.

Posted by: Eromero at November 27, 2025 08:08 PM (LHPAg)

85 The "Elaan of Troyius" episode is on Trek on Heroes & Icons. A good space battle story as well as the fireworks between Kirk and Elaan (France Nuyen).

Trivia I haven't bothered to check: The interracial kiss between William Shatner and Nichelle Nichols might have been the first on network TV *between black and white.* But there had been an earlier one, with an Asian woman and a white man -- and I believe it was France Nuyen and Robert Culp (whom she later married) a year or two before the Trek scene, on I Spy.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 27, 2025 08:08 PM (wzUl9)

86 I'd always wondered where the look for the Chiropterans in Blood+ came from. Now I know it was the male hammer-headed fruit bat.

https://tinyurl.com/4786mn2u

Posted by: pookysgirl, old school anime fan at November 27, 2025 08:08 PM (Wt5PA)

87

oriental

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 27, 2025 08:09 PM (aE/QX)

88 The Nation magazine can choke on tofurkey.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 27, 2025 08:09 PM (ys6FW)

89
It was a good day.
Posted by: JQ
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👍 God bless

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 27, 2025 08:09 PM (B9cbb)

90 He's laughing at the crude japes and jests but I bet he wonders why his agent booked him this gig.

I think he has a new book out. I heard him recently on the Bookworm Room podcast.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 27, 2025 08:10 PM (olroh)

91 LOL, they're talking about college fraternities.

Murray: "You know, "Greek life" means something different where I'm from."

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 27, 2025 08:10 PM (kpS4V)

92 "In the year 1621, the Pilgrims held their first Thanksgiving feast. They invited the great Indian chief Massasoit, who brought ninety of his brave Indians and a great abundance of food. Governor William Bradford and Captain Miles Standish were honored guests. Elder William Brewster, who was a minister, said a prayer that went something like this: 'We thank God for our homes and our food and our safety in a new land. We thank God for the opportunity to create a new world for freedom and justice."" - Linus

Posted by: Piper at November 27, 2025 08:10 PM (OoFl2)

93 Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Count your blessings, don't curse them.

What a terrible day for the families of the Guardsmen in DC. It must be so hard for them.

Posted by: fd at November 27, 2025 08:11 PM (vFG9F)

94 >>>Now I know it was the male hammer-headed fruit bat.

https://tinyurl.com/4786mn2u
Posted by: pookysgirl, old school anime fan
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You're a caution.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 27, 2025 08:12 PM (B9cbb)

95 68

The far-left Nation magazine used the Thanksgiving holiday to recast the Pilgrims and Puritans as “radical Protestant doomsday groups” whose “cultish” ideology, it argues, “became the foundation of American culture,” urging Americans to treat the day as “as good a time as any to begin coming to terms with the country’s radical cultish origins.”

https://t.ly/Clf4n
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

LoL!! The Nation. I forgot they were still around. Is it online only now or are they still killing tree's with magazines?

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 27, 2025 08:12 PM (v9vY1)

96 A very good movie , The Missing had a flash flood scene like that.

The Missing >> Bone Tomahawk

Posted by: the way I see it at November 27, 2025 08:13 PM (KDPiq)

97 "high wall around it and guard towers."

Don't forget the moat and some hungry denizens.

Posted by: fd at November 27, 2025 08:14 PM (vFG9F)

98 >>Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Count your blessings, don't curse them.

>>What a terrible day for the families of the Guardsmen in DC. It must be so hard for them.

I've got a bad feeling it's going to get worse.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 27, 2025 08:15 PM (viF8m)

99 Got it to the uncomfortfull stage today.

Posted by: scampydog at November 27, 2025 08:15 PM (41CYW)

100 A Leftist American magazine publishes a hate America story? Dog bites Man.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 27, 2025 08:16 PM (KDPiq)

101 I don't think even a mother bat would love that bat.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 27, 2025 08:17 PM (XV/Pl)

102 "In the year 1621, the Pilgrims held their first Thanksgiving feast. They invited the great Indian chief Massasoit, who brought ninety of his brave Indians and a great abundance of food. . . ."
Posted by: Piper at November 27, 2025

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"Maybe Squanto made a mistake."
( -- Robert B. Parker's Spenser as he drives through an endless series of gimcrack businesses near Boston)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 27, 2025 08:17 PM (wzUl9)

103 If I recall correctly, Fuzzy said it in front of Tiger, and Tiger laughed.

i think it was about the dinner Tiger would put on as the winner of Augusta. Normal locker room stuff.

Posted by: t-bird at November 27, 2025 08:18 PM (o5jAD)

104 Did a guardsman actually stick fat boy or not?

Or, why was he on the gurney?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 27, 2025 08:18 PM (B9cbb)

105 At HuffPo: "Scientists Capture Strange Crackling Sounds On Mars"

The Army of Mars marches on, fueled by their crackling crimson bacon.

Posted by: gp at November 27, 2025 08:20 PM (4kcNT)

106
RIP Sarah Beckstrom. God has a special place for you.

Thank you for serving our country.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 27, 2025 08:20 PM (3ek7K)

107 68 The far-left Nation magazine used the Thanksgiving holiday to recast the Pilgrims and Puritans as “radical Protestant doomsday groups” whose “cultish” ideology, it argues, “became the foundation of American culture,”... - Bertram Cabot

So, the Nation believes that the Pilgrims were just basically waiting for the comet?

Posted by: Paco at November 27, 2025 08:20 PM (mADJX)

108 They should have a mix of seasoned vets with the NG.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 27, 2025 08:21 PM (B9cbb)

109 I read Nation editor Victor Navasky’s autobiography, A Matter of Opinion. It was a real eye opener. It was about as perfect a proof of Sowell’s Vision of the Anointed as you could expect.

The left is endowed with the capacity to feel nervous. It feels an obligation to provide innovative answers.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 27, 2025 08:21 PM (olroh)

110 That bat photo is technically excellent! We're talking Mapplethorpe quality here.

Posted by: gp at November 27, 2025 08:21 PM (4kcNT)

111 RIP Sarah Beckstrom.

What a horrible tragedy for this family.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 27, 2025 08:02
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Thanksgiving holiday will be very difficult for the family going forward. Prayers for them.

Posted by: olddog in mo at November 27, 2025 08:22 PM (bQ4nt)

112 Yes, the shooter got stuck in the head. The injury is visible on another photo of him on the gurney. He was also shot by another guardsman

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 27, 2025 08:22 PM (+mUZM)

113 No mag dump?

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 27, 2025 08:23 PM (z1lUe)

114 RIP Sarah Beckstrom. God has a special place for you.

Thank you for serving our country. - fourseasons

May God bless her soul and comfort her family.

And may justice be done (in the words of Caspar Gutman, "legally if possible, but, in any event, expeditiously)".

Posted by: Paco at November 27, 2025 08:24 PM (mADJX)

115 You People really forget?

Fuzzy made a joke about Tiger Woods "eating fried chicken" and that was the end of Fuzzy in Golf.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 27, 2025 07:43 PM (aE/QX

The Masters Champion from the year before gets to choose the next years Champions Dinner. That would be Tiger and Fuzzy joked he better not choose Fried Chicken or collard Greens.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 27, 2025 08:24 PM (KDPiq)

116 Okay, I looked it up. There was a kiss between an Asian woman and white man in a scene from the then-current Broadway play The World of Suzie Wong, shown on Ed Sullivan way back in 1958. The actors? William Shatner and France Nuyen. That appears, according to Wiki, to be the earliest example on TV.

The I Spy episode was indeed with France Nuyen and Robert Culp, in 1966.

So this is another example of "What everybody knows" ain't necessarily so.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 27, 2025 08:24 PM (wzUl9)

117 They could use that koala as the sound effect for an old jalopy cranking up.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 27, 2025 08:25 PM (IxQNO)

118 '"What everybody knows" ain't necessarily so.'

Everybody knows that.

Posted by: gp at November 27, 2025 08:25 PM (4kcNT)

119 I don't think even a mother bat would love that bat.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

After having to push that giant skull through her, *ahem*..... No. No, she would not.

Posted by: mikeski at November 27, 2025 08:26 PM (nhCoE)

120 I did not have hedgehog porn on my Thanksgiving Day bingo card.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 27, 2025 08:26 PM (IxQNO)

121 Hope VP Vance learns to play offense as well as he does defense.

https://tinyurl.com/3b6brnvu

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 27, 2025 08:26 PM (B9cbb)

122
Or is he a frequent guest! Ha!
Posted by: All Hail Eris

First time, I think. And the episode was even more crude than usual, lol.
Posted by: Soothsayer

He's been on before.
That show keeps getting cruder.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 27, 2025 08:26 PM (pkeXY)

123 The radical penguin doomsday groups of the mid 1800s were completely exterminated, leaving only the faux poser penguins that we know all too well today. They have assumed the mephitic mantle of true penguins, red to the core.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at November 27, 2025 08:28 PM (vFG9F)

124 @117 Mel Blanc making the sound of Jack Benny's Maxwell:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17N2g2Ryqi8

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at November 27, 2025 08:30 PM (zdLoL)

125 I want to believe the lynx video is real . . . I have my doubts

Posted by: 2009Refugee at November 27, 2025 08:30 PM (8AONa)

126 Moose in top photo gots no antlers! And what's up with the batwings???

Oh. Ohhhhh....

Posted by: JQ at November 27, 2025 08:30 PM (rdVOm)

127 They should have a mix of seasoned vets with the NG.
Posted by: Braenyard

The third guy on the scene was a Major who stopped the terrorist with just a knife. That's pretty seasoned. I wouldn't want to mess with him.

Posted by: mikeski at November 27, 2025 08:30 PM (nhCoE)

128 "William Shatner and France Nuyen."

That slut.

Posted by: Uhura at November 27, 2025 08:30 PM (vFG9F)

129 So this is another example of "What everybody knows" ain't necessarily so.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 27, 2025 08:24 PM (wzUl9)

Charlton Heston had an interracial kiss in the Omega Man.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 27, 2025 08:31 PM (KDPiq)

130 Did the NG get permission to carry or are they in cities just as sitting ducks?

Posted by: NCKate at November 27, 2025 08:32 PM (qdmYz)

131 23 * checks Thanksgiving Bingo card *
Nope, "hedgehog todger" ain't on it.
Posted by: mikeski

120 I did not have hedgehog porn on my Thanksgiving Day bingo card.
Posted by: tankdemon

Is it still "delayed Hordemind" if it's tankdemon? Or does that just make it normal Hordemind?

Posted by: mikeski at November 27, 2025 08:32 PM (nhCoE)

132 '"What everybody knows" ain't necessarily so.'
*
Everybody knows that.
Posted by: gp at November 27, 2025

***
This sounds like

Kirk: "Everything Harry Mudd tells you is a lie."

Harry Mudd: "I am lying."

What was the name of that paradox?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 27, 2025 08:33 PM (wzUl9)

133 On November 11th a Soros related group called the National Lawyers Guild produced the document at the link. 7 days later the seditious six put out their video clearly reading from a script. And yesterday an Afghan scumbag shoots 2 National Guardsmen.

Take a look at what they claim are illegal orders. Right at the top is ordering troops to assist in deportations.

https://tinyurl.com/284uam6u

Posted by: JackStraw at November 27, 2025 08:33 PM (viF8m)

134 Did the NG get permission to carry or are they in cities just as sitting ducks?
Posted by: NCKate at November 27, 2025 08:32 PM (qdmYz)

Both NG soldiers were armed. It was an ambush.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 27, 2025 08:33 PM (KDPiq)

135 Did the NG get permission to carry"

Yes.

Posted by: man at November 27, 2025 08:34 PM (XuXeR)

136
Charlton Heston had an interracial kiss in the Omega Man.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 27, 2025

***
Which was, when, 1969 or -70? It was getting to be ho-hum by then.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 27, 2025 08:34 PM (wzUl9)

137 132 Cretan?

Posted by: gp at November 27, 2025 08:35 PM (4kcNT)

138 46 This bat, koalas, hedgehogs... God has a sense of humor, and he shares it with us.
Posted by: MkY at November 27, 2025 07:40 PM (q6tQZ)

We didn't even mention the platypus.

(Old joke- An elephant, when introduced to a platypus, mentioned that he never forgot a face. "But in your case, I'd like to make an exception.)

Posted by: tankdemon at November 27, 2025 08:35 PM (IxQNO)

139 third guy on the scene was a Major who stopped the terrorist with just a knife. That's pretty seasoned. I wouldn't want to mess with him.
Posted by: mikeski at November 27, 2025 08:30 PM (nhCoE)
Bronze Star minimum for the Major, and Army Commendation Medal for the soldier who shot the jihadi.

Posted by: Eromero at November 27, 2025 08:35 PM (LHPAg)

140 Which was, when, 1969 or -70? It was getting to be ho-hum by then.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 27, 2025 08:34 PM (wzUl9)

1971

Posted by: the way I see it at November 27, 2025 08:37 PM (KDPiq)

141 One had to know the hits on drug boats was going to get in there
They need drugs to feed the masses

Posted by: Skip at November 27, 2025 08:37 PM (+qU29)

142 What was the name of that paradox?

The liar and the saint, I believe, but it has been used in many forms.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 27, 2025 08:37 PM (olroh)

143 Major should've shredded Mo

Posted by: NCKate at November 27, 2025 08:37 PM (qdmYz)

144 The link says the hammerhead bat gets up to 450 grams, but that's only about one pound. The picture of it being held by what appears to be a full sized human make makes it look a larger than that. That snout alone is probably a good six ounces.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 27, 2025 08:38 PM (IxQNO)

145 Epimenides.

Posted by: gp at November 27, 2025 08:38 PM (4kcNT)

146 115 You People really forget?

Fuzzy made a joke about Tiger Woods "eating fried chicken" and that was the end of Fuzzy in Golf.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 27, 2025 07:43 PM (aE/QX

The Masters Champion from the year before gets to choose the next years Champions Dinner. That would be Tiger and Fuzzy joked he better not choose Fried Chicken or collard Greens.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 27, 2025 08:24 PM (KDPiq)

WELL, THE ONE THING YOU WILL NOT LIKE, PRIVATE SNOWBALL, IS THAT THEY DO NOT SERVE FIRED CHICKEN AND WATERMELON ON A DAILY BASIS IN MY MESS HALL!!!

Posted by: GySgt Hartman at November 27, 2025 08:40 PM (xqIAL)

147 Charlton Heston had an interracial kiss in the Omega Man.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 27, 2025

***
The second film version of the Richard Matheson novel I am Legend. There had been an earlier one with Vincent Price called The Last Man on Earth, and then we had the recent one with Will Smith.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 27, 2025 08:40 PM (wzUl9)

148 "That snout alone is probably a good six ounces."

Looks like dual engine pod on a B-52. He seems like he'd be a good listener too. Doesn't interrupt often.

Posted by: gp at November 27, 2025 08:40 PM (4kcNT)

149 141 One had to know the hits on drug boats was going to get in there
They need drugs to feed the masses
Posted by: Skip at November 27, 2025 08:37 PM (+qU29)

Nothing is what I feel
Waiting for the drugs to make it real

Posted by: Porcupine Tree at November 27, 2025 08:41 PM (xqIAL)

150 ICE To Deport DFW Muslim American Society Official Over Terror Support And Illegal Stay

ICE arrested 54-year-old Marwan Marouf, director of public relations and fundraising for the Muslim American Society (MAS) of Dallas-Fort Worth...
Marouf was charged with lack of a valid entry document, solicitation of funds for a Tier III undesignated terrorist organization, and “material support” of terrorism,
_dallasexpress.com/ crime

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 27, 2025 08:41 PM (B9cbb)

151 Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at November 27, 2025 08:41 PM (+qU29)

152
Where's the sudden flood? Looks like Zion, but it's not Zion.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 27, 2025 08:42 PM (VWtfl)

153 G'nite Skip.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 27, 2025 08:43 PM (kpS4V)

154 There had been an earlier one with Vincent Price called The Last Man on Earth

I finally got around to watching The Last Man on Earth in about April of 2020. That was eerie. It was focused mostly on the slow emptying of the city and the arrival of the disease from the East.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 27, 2025 08:43 PM (olroh)

155 There will be an office for the protection of gun rights in the DOJ. That will be good to see.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 27, 2025 08:44 PM (xqIAL)

156 123 The radical penguin doomsday groups of the mid 1800s were completely exterminated, leaving only the faux poser penguins that we know all too well today. They have assumed the mephitic mantle of true penguins, red to the core. - Penguin Facts

The tragic victims of mindless Spheniscidacide, inspired by a charismatic but insane German-American named Rudolph Hitler who wrote a scurrilous book called My Bad Luck.

Posted by: Paco at November 27, 2025 08:44 PM (mADJX)

157 156 Ha!

Posted by: gp at November 27, 2025 08:45 PM (4kcNT)

158 I often imagine the superbats in Hunt the Wumpus look like hammerhead bats.

Then I run to my mommy because I am scared and need cuddles.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 27, 2025 08:46 PM (IxQNO)

159 "That snout alone is probably a good six ounces."

Like your mom's labia.

Posted by: nelsonmuntzlaugh at November 27, 2025 08:48 PM (N8mUY)

160 Happy Thanksgiving, all.

Drove through a rainbow once. 101 freeway outside of Camarillo. Coming out of a passing cloudburst, I see a rainbow arc about ten yards ahead. The next moment, the water kicking up from the cars ahead and beside me turned gold. Took me another second to realize what I was seeing and a few seconds later, I was out of it. The gold is there. It's there for the taking..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 27, 2025 08:48 PM (nbLIj)

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