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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 28, 2025 09:51 PM (bfwj/)
Posted by: tankdemon at November 28, 2025 09:53 PM (IxQNO)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 28, 2025 09:54 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: mindful webworker - stuffed with leftovers at November 28, 2025 09:55 PM (LaTF/)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 28, 2025 09:55 PM (uDDWT)
Hey, Yo, good evening everyone.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 28, 2025 09:57 PM (Zz+7G)
Jist cut me some slack, please.
Posted by: tankdemon at November 28, 2025 09:58 PM (IxQNO)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 28, 2025 09:58 PM (ys6FW)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 28, 2025 09:58 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 28, 2025 09:59 PM (uDDWT)
Posted by: rickb223 at November 28, 2025 10:00 PM (3k5hk)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at November 28, 2025 10:00 PM (cxFcK)
Posted by: QED Texan Grandpa-to-be at November 28, 2025 10:00 PM (sSwOV)
Posted by: TRex - Black Friday Dino at November 28, 2025 10:01 PM (cCn4/)
Calif is going to ban plastic grocery bags, and make you use paper... again...
Is there ANY enviro Green project, that has not ended up being BAD for the environment?
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 28, 2025 10:01 PM (mP0Kj)
If you do, they'll fill up with sand.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 28, 2025 10:02 PM (3k5hk)
Posted by: Tonypete at November 28, 2025 10:02 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: tankdemon at November 28, 2025 10:02 PM (IxQNO)
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 28, 2025 10:01 PM (mP0Kj)
If they bring back heavy paper grocery bags, more power to them.
They'll be paper thin.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 28, 2025 10:03 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 28, 2025 10:03 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 28, 2025 10:03 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at November 28, 2025 10:03 PM (cxFcK)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at November 28, 2025 10:00 PM (cxFcK)
Vlad Tepes, the 'original' vampire... was somehow a member of the Pope Sanctioned Order of the Dragon. An order of Knights created by the King of Hungary, Blessed by the Pope, to fight against the Saracen invasion of Europe.
So, yeah... Catholic Church Blessed Vampire... not sure how that works.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 28, 2025 10:03 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 28, 2025 10:04 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 28, 2025 10:04 PM (v9vY1)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 28, 2025 10:03 PM (XV/Pl)
When he was Ambassador to France, he would walk around Naked, taking 'Air Baths'.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 28, 2025 10:05 PM (mP0Kj)
If you do, they'll fill up with sand.
Posted by: rickb223
Reason #1 why sex on the beach is a bad idea. Add in salt water and it's a bad day for everyone.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 28, 2025 10:05 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: huerfano at November 28, 2025 10:05 PM (98kQX)
Jist cut me some slack, please.
Posted by: tankdemon at November 28, 2025 09:58 PM (IxQNO)
You rub it on your skin?
Posted by: Kindltot at November 28, 2025 10:05 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 28, 2025 10:01 PM (mP0Kj)
If they bring back heavy paper grocery bags, more power to them.
They'll be paper thin.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 28, 2025 10:03 PM (bss/y)
My local Calif Grocery store has almost always allowed you to use Paper... and they are pretty good heavy paper.
I've joked with them for years that I always choose Paper, because we are still growing trees, but aint still growing Dinosaurs.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 28, 2025 10:06 PM (mP0Kj)
What the ever-lovin'…
oh, right, right. WeirdDave ONT Friday.
YAY HAHAHA 😁
Inertia: very ow 🤕
Posted by: mindful webworker - commenter demeritas at November 28, 2025 10:06 PM (LaTF/)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 28, 2025 10:06 PM (3U2FH)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 28, 2025 10:07 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: fd at November 28, 2025 10:07 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 28, 2025 10:08 PM (mT+6a)
5 airport layover/change of plane cities.
1 born but moved at 13 months city (Jax).
What do I win?
Posted by: RickZ at November 28, 2025 10:08 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 28, 2025 10:08 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: tankdemon at November 28, 2025 10:09 PM (IxQNO)
Posted by: Dr. T at November 28, 2025 10:09 PM (jGGMD)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at November 28, 2025 10:10 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 28, 2025 09:55 PM (uDDWT)
First time that's ever been said.
Posted by: Dr. T at November 28, 2025 10:11 PM (jGGMD)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 28, 2025 09:55 PM (uDDWT)
It's right there where you left it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 28, 2025 10:11 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 28, 2025 10:11 PM (ys6FW)
Posted by: QED Texan Grandpa-to-be at November 28, 2025 10:12 PM (sSwOV)
Posted by: Kindltot at November 28, 2025 10:05 PM (rbvCR)
Maybe I should have put it in the basket.
Posted by: tankdemon at November 28, 2025 10:13 PM (IxQNO)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 28, 2025 10:03 PM (bss/y)
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Cats everywhere will rejoice!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 28, 2025 10:13 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at November 28, 2025 10:13 PM (t/66j)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at November 28, 2025 10:13 PM (/HDaX)
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 28, 2025 10:13 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: RI Red at November 28, 2025 10:13 PM (6jy2V)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 28, 2025 10:14 PM (Zz+7G)
Posted by: tankdemon
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You're going to get the hose again.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 28, 2025 10:14 PM (ys6FW)
Posted by: RI Red at November 28, 2025 10:13 PM (6jy2V)
Lived there... but that was ... damn... over 35 years ago, sure it's changed since.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 28, 2025 10:15 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 28, 2025 10:15 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: JQ at November 28, 2025 10:16 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 28, 2025 10:17 PM (47diA)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 28, 2025 10:18 PM (3U2FH)
Posted by: RI Red at November 28, 2025 10:13 PM (6jy2V)
Lived there... but that was ... damn... over 35 years ago, sure it's changed since.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 28, 2025 10:15 PM (mP0Kj)
Only thing I wanted to see in Hawaii was Pearl Harbor. But now that WD has set up a challenge, well, you know …
Posted by: RI Red at November 28, 2025 10:18 PM (6jy2V)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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That's what you say to the Japanese tourists, when they ask you "Where is the USS Arizona memorial?"
(If you're an a-hole)
Posted by: JQ at November 28, 2025 10:19 PM (rdVOm)
I must say the previous 8G model has a much more readable dial on it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 28, 2025 10:19 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 28, 2025 10:06 PM
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Hold my beer.
Posted by: John Hammond at November 28, 2025 10:19 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: tankdemon at November 28, 2025 10:20 PM (IxQNO)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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That's what you say to the Japanese tourists, when they ask you "Where is the USS Arizona memorial?"
(If you're an a-hole)
*Takes notes.*
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 28, 2025 10:20 PM (lUFok)
Wannemacher gun show.
Posted by: Oddbob at November 28, 2025 10:20 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: Kindltot at November 28, 2025 10:22 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 28, 2025 10:18 PM (3U2FH)
It's got time to live on:
https://youtu.be/qLZEVnjZS2s
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 28, 2025 10:22 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Romeo13
When food was carried in gunny sacks, gunnies were hunted to extinction.
Posted by: Green Behind The Gills at November 28, 2025 10:22 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 28, 2025 10:23 PM (CHHv1)
Plus-- Kam Swap Meet at the defunct Kamehameha drive-in location. 25 cents entry and lots of locals, selling normal things, not like the touristy stuff at Aloha Stadium.
Posted by: JQ at November 28, 2025 10:23 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 28, 2025 10:14 PM (ys6FW)
I'm Gen X, the hose was pretty much my only source of hydration from June through August from the ages of 4 to 16.
Posted by: tankdemon at November 28, 2025 10:24 PM (IxQNO)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
___________
So are we. Take us back there.
https://tinyurl.com/bdkb97u5
Posted by: Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys at November 28, 2025 10:24 PM (gf7Ez)
Posted by: Hints From Heloise at November 28, 2025 10:24 PM (oftw2)
Need someone to hip me to WTH is up with the two girlies painting their arms and embracing. The cut to the coffee drinking guy smiling approvingly furthers my confusion..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 28, 2025 10:25 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: SciVo at November 28, 2025 10:26 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: tankdemon
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Me as well. Mom said go outside and play and I did. It wasn't a bad time.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 28, 2025 10:26 PM (ys6FW)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 28, 2025 10:27 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: scampydog at November 28, 2025 10:27 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 28, 2025 10:25 PM
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If the objective was to apply a white handprint on the black shirt and a black handprint on the white shirt, they got it backwards and didn't know it.
Posted by: TRex - social media commentator at November 28, 2025 10:28 PM (cCn4/)
That truck driver may not have survived-- ugh. Scary.
But I love the doggeh "rescuing" that duck!
Cookie cutter video was interesting. I collect cookie cutters, btw.
Posted by: JQ at November 28, 2025 10:28 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: QED Texan Grandpa-to-be at November 28, 2025 10:28 PM (sSwOV)
Back to school
Ding ding dingalong
Ala Moana has everything!
Weird how you remember stuff like that, huh?
Posted by: fd at November 28, 2025 10:29 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Kindltot at November 28, 2025 10:22 PM (rbvCR)
I thought Jefferson was heavily influenced by the Virginia Declaration of Rights that George Mason wrote for the House of Burgesses when writing the Declaration of Independence, though his talent as a writer was acknowledged at the time.
Posted by: tankdemon at November 28, 2025 10:29 PM (IxQNO)
Posted by: Kindltot at November 28, 2025 10:30 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: JQ at November 28, 2025 10:31 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at November 28, 2025 10:31 PM (q3u5l)
More interesting to me, though, was ol' Vlad learned his impalement techniques from the Ottomans. Little did they know....
Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at November 28, 2025 10:31 PM (bufu1)
Posted by: tankdemon at November 28, 2025 10:02 PM (IxQNO)
The only way that there could be $1,700 worth of food would be if an entire side of beef was involved.
I'm sorry, but paying that much for a restaurant meal is just retarded.
I don't care how nice the restaurant is.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 28, 2025 10:32 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: tankdemon at November 28, 2025 10:29 PM (IxQNO)
I may have gotten that backwards, but I think Jefferson had been working the concept for a while.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 28, 2025 10:32 PM (rbvCR)
Ding ding dingalong
Ala Moana has everything!
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So iambic pentameter isn't a Hawaiian thing?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 28, 2025 10:32 PM (dyewR)
Posted by: Kindltot at November 28, 2025 10:30 PM (rbvCR)
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Don't cry for it, Argentina.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 28, 2025 10:33 PM (ZOv7s)
I'm such a lazy one... but that bacon cheeburger last night was worth the effort!
Posted by: JQ at November 28, 2025 10:33 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ "
I don't remember much more about it than the jingle, and that we did shop there some when we lived on that side of the island in Foster Village. We were gone by the 70s though.
Posted by: fd at November 28, 2025 10:33 PM (vFG9F)
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$1,725 with tip.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 28, 2025 10:33 PM (dyewR)
I have sullied my footwear in 34 of the 50 cities.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 28, 2025 10:34 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 28, 2025 10:33 PM (ZOv7s)
The GOH list is pretty thin, even for Argentina
Posted by: Kindltot at November 28, 2025 10:34 PM (rbvCR)
The only reason I would ever spend thst much money on a dinner would be to piss off Bernie Sanders.
Posted by: tankdemon at November 28, 2025 10:34 PM (IxQNO)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at November 28, 2025 10:35 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at November 28, 2025 10:35 PM (SRRAx)
Those city silhouettes look like pre-Dreadnought capital ships.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 28, 2025 10:35 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: JQ at November 28, 2025 10:36 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 28, 2025 10:36 PM (dyewR)
When food was carried in gunny sacks, gunnies were hunted to extinction.
Posted by: Green Behind The Gills
Seen any naugas lately? You know why ...
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 28, 2025 10:37 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at November 28, 2025 10:35 PM (L/fGl)
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No man would agree to that. He would remember the joke about kicking each other in the nuts.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 28, 2025 10:37 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: TRex - social media commentator at November 28, 2025 10:28 PM (cCn4/)
Thank you, TRex.
Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 28, 2025 10:37 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Cicero
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Bob Seger, is that you?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 28, 2025 10:38 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 28, 2025 10:39 PM (Z5/Ih)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 28, 2025 10:37 PM (xG4kz)
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Naugahyde is still alive and well, though, so they are out there somewhere.
My father has the real deal, a couch with fold-out bed complete with cigarette burn on one of the cushions. When you sit on it, it makes a farting noise.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 28, 2025 10:39 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Green Behind The Gills at November 28, 2025 10:22 PM (oftw2)
Strange. I would have figured that hunting a gunny would out there in "Most Dangerous Game" territory.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 28, 2025 10:39 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 28, 2025 10:40 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 28, 2025 10:40 PM (IC093)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 28, 2025 10:38 PM (XeU6L)
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I'm hearing "Beautiful Loser" more often than I used to. This means something.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 28, 2025 10:40 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Glenn Frey at November 28, 2025 10:42 PM (XeU6L)
Isn't the reindeer's name "Donder"?
"Donder und Blitzen" is thunder and lightning in Krautese.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 28, 2025 10:40 PM (xG4kz)
It is Donner, not Donder.
Posted by: tankdemon at November 28, 2025 10:43 PM (IxQNO)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 28, 2025 10:43 PM (IG3/x)
If you were in a state's Air Space on a flight, does that count as being in that State?
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 28, 2025 10:44 PM (GptnP)
Posted by: Glenn Frey at November 28, 2025 10:42 PM (XeU6L)
Then an illegal semi driver with a fake CDL ran you over.
Posted by: RickZ at November 28, 2025 10:44 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: tankdemon at November 28, 2025 10:43 PM (IxQNO)
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I think in the poem, it's "Donder."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 28, 2025 10:45 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
___________
So are we. Take us back there.
Posted by: Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys
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https://youtu.be/SwEOZtJm8pU?t=5
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 28, 2025 10:45 PM (Zz+7G)
Posted by: As in D at November 28, 2025 10:45 PM (oftw2)
Morning AM radio show that has a historian weekly as a guest -
Virtually every phrase in it was a buzz-phrase from recent English history on why they are so fvcking awesome and the freest country on Earth -
IOW, a bigger F-U than most of ever thought
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 28, 2025 10:45 PM (Z5/Ih)
"Donder und Blitzen" is thunder and lightning in Krautese.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 28, 2025 10:40 PM (xG4kz)
It is Donner, not Donder.
Posted by: tankdemon at November 28, 2025 10:43 PM (IxQNO)
Google Translate says "Donner" is Kraut, "Donder" is Butterbox.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 28, 2025 10:46 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: RickZ at November 28, 2025 10:44 PM (gKDq2)
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I mean, the State of California issued it, so it's real, but also completely fake.
Schroedinger's CDL.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 28, 2025 10:47 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 28, 2025 10:43 PM (IG3/x)
Trump's coming in late with it too. He could have done this eight months ago.
Posted by: tankdemon at November 28, 2025 10:47 PM (IxQNO)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 28, 2025 10:46 PM (IG3/x)
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Is "Dondi" the Dutch version?
And what the hell was that comic strip about?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 28, 2025 10:48 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: tankdemon at November 28, 2025 10:47 PM (IxQNO)
Trump's greatest flaw is that he dithers
Posted by: Kindltot at November 28, 2025 10:48 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 28, 2025 10:48 PM (7nrYO)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 28, 2025 10:45 PM (ZOv7s)
Wikipedia says C.L. Moore was a life-long New Yorker. The Dutch influence was still strong there back then.
Makes sense that he'd use "Donder".
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 28, 2025 10:49 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: tankdemon at November 28, 2025 10:47 PM (IxQNO)
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No, he had to wait for it ripen. The various House hearings where people either 'fessed up or took the 5th. He's much, much better than in his first term. Timing is impeccable.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 28, 2025 10:49 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 28, 2025 09:55 PM (uDDWT)
First time that's ever been said.
How long do we have to wait for TULSA spelled backwards joke?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 28, 2025 10:50 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: Leon Russell at November 28, 2025 10:50 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Kindltot at November 28, 2025 10:48 PM (rbvCR)
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Compared to such paragons of speed as George W. Bush, who never quite got around to doing jack shit for most of what he campaigned on.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 28, 2025 10:50 PM (ZOv7s)
I had always heard that Jefferson was the one to write the Declaration pretty much becaise the committe left the scut work to the nerd. Adams did say Jefferson was a better writer than he was, but he was still the low man on the totem pole and got stuck with chores while the others went out to party. (Okay, Adams didn't exactly party, but he had better things to do than waste his time dipping a quill into an inkwell.)
Posted by: tankdemon
In the miniseries "John Adams", Jefferson comes off as being mostly a disinterested prick with respect to what the others on the committee thought about his grammar and syntax.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 28, 2025 10:51 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 28, 2025 10:50 PM (a4flb)
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Wait, is this about me?
Posted by: Amanda Marcotte, seeking relevance at November 28, 2025 10:51 PM (ZOv7s)
I don't care how nice the restaurant is.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 28, 2025 10:32 PM (IG3/x)
Maybe they'll have a coupon you can use in the local PennySaver paper.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 28, 2025 10:52 PM (8QVSJ)
The runner up was the Second Amendment crowd.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 28, 2025 10:54 PM (ZOv7s)
Is "Dondi" the Dutch version?
And what the hell was that comic strip about?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
Young Marco Rubio was the standard response here a decade or so ago.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 28, 2025 10:56 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: olddog in mo at November 28, 2025 10:56 PM (bQ4nt)
lol on the Christmas towns. I was just up by Donner Pass on our gf yearly vacation. The fact they actually got that far and then some made it over that summit to safety, with basically nothing, is totally mind boggling. I just read a great bio of it by the guy who wrote The Boys in A Boat. It was called The Indifferent Stars Above. Highly recommend. It's not just an extremely well written account from start to finish. He also includes many asides that make their story even more astounding. Things about surviving hypothermia or starvation or logistics of moving a wagon train. These were extremely hearty souls. Fascinating book.
Posted by: keena at November 28, 2025 10:57 PM (xPNeT)
Posted by: Javems at November 28, 2025 10:57 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: Bulg at November 28, 2025 10:57 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 28, 2025 10:57 PM (8QVSJ)
It’s easy to burn out the filaments in a battery set, the filament voltage is only 1.5 volts, the tubes are actually pretty tough but must avoid pulling and re-installing them. A couple of the tubes are getting harder to find, 1L6 oscillator tube and they used a current regulator on the H500
A lot of guys try to lower the filament voltage and go all through these elaborate contortions to try and save the tube life. They won’t work right, however with lowered string voltage, them Zenith engineers was smart. They are designed for rugged use with substandard line voltages.
I rigged up sixty yes, 60 “AA” batteries for the plate voltage and 6 “D” cells for the filaments. Battery power is nice, get away from all that household RFI in the sticks and they really come alive.
Posted by: Common Tater at November 28, 2025 10:58 PM (Snw0w)
Posted by: NCKate at November 28, 2025 10:59 PM (sYdt/)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 28, 2025 10:54 PM (ZOv7s)
well, the options have always been between the proverbial "roofie and a train" or "have to pay my own dinner and never getting called the next day" or "accused of being unpatriotic for not voting"
Posted by: Kindltot at November 28, 2025 10:59 PM (rbvCR)
Any document signed by Sleepy Joe Biden with the Autopen, which was approximately 92% of them, is hereby terminated, and of no further force or effect. The Autopen is not allowed to be used if approval is not specifically given by the President of the United
States. The Radical Left Lunatics circling Biden around the beautiful Resolute Desk in the Oval Office took the Presidency away from him. I am hereby cancelling all Executive Orders, and anything else that was not directly signed by Crooked Joe Biden, because the people who operated the Autopen did so illegally. Joe Biden was not involved in the Autopen process and, if he says he was, he will be brought up on charges of perjury. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Posted by: rickb223 at November 28, 2025 10:59 PM (3k5hk)
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What's more impressive is that all of the survivors carried on with their lives without a lifetime of therapy or preening victimhood. They just sucked it up and moved on.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 28, 2025 11:00 PM (dyewR)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 28, 2025 11:00 PM (BYYrn)
"Hung like a turkey" is something that one never hears.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 28, 2025 11:00 PM (xG4kz)
I feel the same way as that kid with the raw turkey. BLEAH. I kept waiting for him to harf into the bird.
When we were newlyweds my husband brought home a whole chicken and asked me to carve it. Like I knew how. He later found chicken parts that were pretty strange and wth, like a wing/breast. He never asked me to do that again.
If I can help it I won't even touch raw poultry. He does and I will cook it, but I'm not filled with joy. I will pick it up with either a fork or tongs or something not touching my fingers. Then almost a 3min scrub.
The ONLY time I almost harfed while pregnant was with #1 son. I threw some nasty chicken skin towards the garbage and instead hit a cabinet and our dog ate it. I had to go outside and take deep breaths.
I have some peculiar traits, but being a supermodel he does not mind.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 28, 2025 11:00 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 28, 2025 11:03 PM (158Wx)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 28, 2025 11:03 PM (v9vY1)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 28, 2025 11:04 PM (8QVSJ)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 28, 2025 11:04 PM (v9vY1)
Posted by: Bulg at November 28, 2025 11:05 PM (77rzZ)
At least 10 of them involuntarily
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 28, 2025 11:05 PM (IC093)
Neither the sound nor the act of harfing troubles me, so the missus will sing out for me to come clean up after the dog when that occurs indoors.
Her side of the bargain is that she deals with elimination products from doggo's other end whenever such an accident occurs indoors.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 28, 2025 11:06 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: no one at November 28, 2025 11:07 PM (GLn15)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 28, 2025 11:04 PM (8QVSJ)
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The quality of whiskey was determined by its alcohol content.
You wanted the stuff that could keep powder dry.
That speaks volumes.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 28, 2025 11:07 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: no one at November 28, 2025 11:07 PM (GLn15)
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For you or for her? I don't judge.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 28, 2025 11:08 PM (ZOv7s)
Nope.
Posted by: nurse ratched
F'n convicts would do that to us. At the prison hospital, when a nurse would have to go into their room, we would have to go in also. Every now and then, one would be ill and throwing up. 🤮
Posted by: rickb223 at November 28, 2025 11:08 PM (3k5hk)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at November 28, 2025 11:09 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Bulg at November 28, 2025 11:09 PM (77rzZ)
Nope.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 28, 2025 11:03 PM (158Wx)
Males are such loud harfers. I have only harfed a few times in my entire life. A couple of stomach viruses in childhood; a norovirus type in college before the bicentennial that I gave to my brothers for our July 4th celebration in Panama City. And once after Indian food. Never to I make the noise men do.
I had Salmonella and never harfed. Passed out cold from mild diarrhea, and so the doc thought I would be fine without an antibiotic. I was not and the only time I felt better from an antibiotic in 8hrs. Cipro was scarce due to the anthrax scare in Florida...our ED had a sign that said, with symptoms, "You probably don't have anthrax but we will see you."
One son had senior night that week (marching band) and escorted me onto the football field. I look like death and by then I had a day of Cipro.
As a RN it is suctioning that grosses me out. This is due to a girl in junior high having an explosion in the cafeteria. One would assume a sinus infection. We all screamed.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 28, 2025 11:10 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 28, 2025 11:10 PM (ys6FW)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
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Who would write for the late night Morons?
Posted by: scampydog at November 28, 2025 11:13 PM (41CYW)
Baby girl conked out at 6pm right after that bottle. I wish I slept as well as she does.
I feel sure she will wake up raising heck for a bottle right this second.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 28, 2025 11:13 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: TecumsehTea at November 28, 2025 11:14 PM (+4S8X)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 28, 2025 11:10 PM (ys6FW)
LOL
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 28, 2025 11:14 PM (WONhk)
It used to be, the price of the things you bought, paid for the damn bag to put them in. Everything is fake, and gay now. Sad
Posted by: Common Tater at November 28, 2025 11:15 PM (Snw0w)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 28, 2025 11:16 PM (IC093)
Posted by: Bulg at November 28, 2025 11:16 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 28, 2025 11:17 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at November 28, 2025 11:17 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 28, 2025 11:17 PM (dyewR)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 28, 2025 11:17 PM (jc0TO)
I rigged up sixty yes, 60 “AA” batteries for the plate voltage and 6 “D” cells for the filaments. Battery power is nice, get away from all that household RFI in the sticks and they really come alive.
Posted by: Common Tater at November 28, 2025 10:58 PM (Snw0w)
Hah! I was trying to figure out a way to power one with 18650 lithium cells. Problem is, filaments take 9 volts, and two cells in series is not enough, and three is too many. Maybe the best answer? Build a switching power supply fed by a 20 volt cordless tool battery, with one output 9 volts DC, and the other 90. Build the switcher into a metal box, and shield all the leads in and out.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 28, 2025 11:17 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: fd at November 28, 2025 11:17 PM (vFG9F)
Nope.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 28, 2025 11:03 PM (158Wx)
I remember back in grade school one of the worst things was a harfing chain reaction in the cafeteria. I swear it happened damned near every day. And the smell.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 28, 2025 11:19 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: fd at November 28, 2025 11:19 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Bulg at November 28, 2025 11:16 PM
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There's a reason I'm banned from the Concord Diner on Merrick Blvd.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 28, 2025 11:19 PM (IC093)
I tend to think if he was going to sneak a joke into the Declaration of Independence it would have been at the expense of King George. Or he might have slipped his well know comments in such as: "We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately." Or "He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir," in reference to how they set up the colonies to avoid this analogy.
Posted by: Orson at November 28, 2025 11:21 PM (dIske)
Back when I lived in the Bay Area, winter weather reports often included advisories that "Snow chains are required on I-80 for vehicles intending to go over Donner Pass".
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 28, 2025 11:21 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: fd at November 28, 2025 11:21 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: no one at November 28, 2025 11:21 PM (GLn15)
If Alabama loses GA-OleMiss.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 28, 2025 11:21 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Bulg at November 28, 2025 11:21 PM (77rzZ)
It's... the smell... that got to me. Bucket o' bleach water, and stuck my nose over *that* so I didn't catch a whiff of whatever the drunkard puked up. And to sterilize the table/chair/floor/ whatever. Ugh.
Gawd.
I loved my factory job. Nobody nearby. Worked in the back corner of a building, away from the main production area.. only had to answer the phone for inter-office calls.. heaven!
Posted by: JQ at November 28, 2025 11:22 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Common Tater at November 28, 2025 11:22 PM (Snw0w)
Posted by: banana Dream
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I can still smell the sawdust stuff the janitor sprinkled whenever a kid harfed. Ewww.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 28, 2025 11:22 PM (ys6FW)
Posted by: Bulg
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No, but I remember the peppermint-scented spray that the bus drivers used.
Posted by: JQ at November 28, 2025 11:23 PM (rdVOm)
Gawd.
One thing I learned from Hollywood, Vics Vaporub on your lip or swabbed up your nostrals will cover any stench.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 28, 2025 11:23 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Bulg at November 28, 2025 11:24 PM (77rzZ)
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Vomit and banana hammocks.
Posted by: Cicero
Seeing some people in a banana hammock will induce harfing.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 28, 2025 11:24 PM (3k5hk)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 28, 2025 11:25 PM (ys6FW)
Posted by: fd at November 28, 2025 11:25 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 28, 2025 11:26 PM (pkeXY)
Anyone else remember the pink sawdust the janitor would Pur down on top of a kid’s vomit in elementary school?
Posted by: Bulg
They referred to it as "sweeping compound". You can still get it at janitorial and cleaning supplies outlets.
We have a five gallon pail filled with it in our basement. It cuts down on dust in the air as you sweep.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 28, 2025 11:26 PM (xG4kz)
It was in Ontario, Canada and the cause was listed as accidental. No charges were filed but the trucking company was fined around $10K.
Driver is legally responsible for securing his load.
Posted by: pawn at November 28, 2025 11:27 PM (sPsWv)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 28, 2025 11:27 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Bulg at November 28, 2025 11:27 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: no one at November 28, 2025 11:07 PM (GLn15)
January 1st in California was like reverse Christmas when all the new laws/taxes/fees took effect. I think last January was when they applied the 10 cent "deposit" fee for wine bottles. Nickled and dimed for every damn thing.
I never bought a shopping bag. I grabbed a bunch of free tote bags at a Vegas trade show around the time California imposed the first bag fee. I think this new ban also includes the little plastic bags in the produce section. You might want to take a few extra home with you throughout December.
One of my sincerest gratitude prayers last evening was being delivered from that dystopian government. It must not be allowed to spread!
Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 28, 2025 11:28 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 28, 2025 11:28 PM (ys6FW)
The best harf inducer I've found is overswing yaw with rudder release at a point in the sky where an aircraft, generally highly swept wing aircraft, has low or neutral duchroll with all yaw damping systems set inactive. It's the fastest way to finding if a test crewmember will wash out. Better than roller coaster and negative Gs.
Coupled yaw and roll, horizon is swinging and you are going side to side, three cycles in and everyone knows.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 28, 2025 11:28 PM (3uBP9)
I was merely going with the flow. Otherwise, I'd have written "warfed".
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 28, 2025 11:28 PM (xG4kz)
Good kitty! 💖
Posted by: JQ at November 28, 2025 11:29 PM (rdVOm)
Cats "hack up" hair balls
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 28, 2025 11:29 PM (xG4kz)
My sides hurt so much from laughing as they disposed of it.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 28, 2025 11:30 PM (KDPiq)
It was in Ontario, Canada and the cause was listed as accidental. No charges were filed but the trucking company was fined around $10K.
Driver is legally responsible for securing his load.
Posted by: pawn a
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Sad. But at least it was quick and the driver didn't suffer.
I suppose that's the best any of us could hope for, yes?
Posted by: JQ at November 28, 2025 11:30 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: fd at November 28, 2025 11:31 PM (vFG9F)
I can do a pretty evocative imitation of the series of noises that lead up to our dogs warfing up something. The missus demands that I not perform it in her presence.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 28, 2025 11:31 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Orson at November 28, 2025 11:31 PM (dIske)
The white policeman with his dog laughed at me when I asked if it was safe to go to Walgreen's two blocks away for saline for my contacts and a gallon of drinking water (I don't drink from taps when I travel, another neurosis). He sneered at my redneck self and said, "Well, it's DAYLIGHT." Like I could not tell. So my husband and I ventured off. Within one minute, and I am not lying, a moose limb ululated out of his cab at me and patched out.Then there were many hookers and druggies we crept through. Asked directions and one kind hooker told us about an alley short cut. I was going to go and my husband asked if I was crazy...NO alley. Walgreen's was an oasis of peace. Then we went back to the hotel by Penn Station and did not make eye contact with anyone. I told him I was not leaving the hotel for the two days we were there unless in a car, which was not much better.
Orlando is not on the list, either. Whoever made this list did not consult me.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 28, 2025 11:31 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 28, 2025 11:32 PM (ys6FW)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 28, 2025 11:33 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 28, 2025 11:33 PM (ys6FW)
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That’s a lot of cells! There was a feller making custom batteries for these, Jim Poitivient. They used 6 or 9 “D” cells and a shielded inverter to get both the A and B supply. Worked well. He sent me one for free, I had a website up on the T-Os and mentioned his product. He got a lot of inquiries about them, so I guess word of mouth advertising really is best.
The selenium rectifier is said to be a weak spot, if it works that might be unusual, I don’t know. Of course a modern silicon diode will work fine. A lot of people agonize over dropping resistor values with a diode, the “9 volts” for the filament string isn’t that exact, the problem with trying to tailor it too closely, or lower it, the oscillator section will drop out rendering it deaf. They are good radios, they were expensive back in the day. No FM band on the tube sets, I also like the early brushed aluminium versions. Very cool sets.
Posted by: Common Tater at November 28, 2025 11:33 PM (Snw0w)
Posted by: banana Dream - THUNDERCATS HO! at November 28, 2025 11:33 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Krebs v Carno
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Ok, I LOL'd!
Posted by: JQ at November 28, 2025 11:34 PM (rdVOm)
Stopped into the Von's in Truckee (just east of Donner Pass) after some x-c skiing, right when the first plastic bag ban/whatever began. They had no paper bags, had run out. So that was stupid.
Next day down near Reno at a Raley's not only did they have paper-or-plastic, but they had self-check lines where you could buy alcohol. I asked a cashier how they managed that, adding that of course miles away in CA it was verboten. She laughed. When alcohol was scanned, a red light lit up, and nearest cashier would look over. If young men/women involved, they'd go over and card them. If other, meh. System worked fine.
CA retardation has no theoretical limit and degrades every corner of every part of life.
Posted by: rhomboid at November 28, 2025 11:35 PM (U/Byj)
The simple act of sharing whiskey while preparing for conflicts fostered camaraderie among soldiers and hunters.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 28, 2025 11:35 PM (Zz+7G)
Posted by: Megthered at November 28, 2025 11:35 PM (3TRNo)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 28, 2025 11:36 PM (vL0rw)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 28, 2025 11:37 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: QED Texan Grandpa-to-be at November 28, 2025 11:37 PM (sSwOV)
Posted by: Bulg at November 28, 2025 11:37 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: RobertM at November 28, 2025 11:37 PM (btIS/)
When food was carried in gunny sacks, gunnies were hunted to extinction.
Posted by: Green Behind The Gills
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Good thing they didn't run out of tows.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 28, 2025 11:38 PM (Zz+7G)
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Old trick for bad neighborhoods. Clip board, sunglasses and a baseball hat. They spend the entire time you're walking by trying to determine if you are immigration, law enforcement, or Jehovah Witness canvassers. By the time they come to a decision you're down the street.
Posted by: Orson at November 28, 2025 11:39 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Bulg
I remember the smell. It was almost worse than the vomit itself.
Posted by: QED Texan Grandpa-to-be at November 28, 2025 11:39 PM (sSwOV)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 28, 2025 11:39 PM (ys6FW)
Posted by: Kindltot at November 28, 2025 11:40 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 28, 2025 11:40 PM (KDPiq)
I can completely understand the monks wanting no one see the frame. They woukd be overrun with every weirdo on the planet wanting a piece of Dracula.
Posted by: Megthered
Many here probably know that the coffin of Abraham Lincoln (and his wife) are encased in a pretty substantial quantity of concrete in Springfield, IL because several attempts to steal his bones had been thwarted up to that point and authorities decided to put an end to them.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 28, 2025 11:40 PM (xG4kz)
My sides hurt so much from laughing as they disposed of it.
Posted by: the way I see it
Leave it in there for 48 hours and you have the best crab bait ever.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 28, 2025 11:41 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Cicero
What about Timbucktu?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 28, 2025 11:41 PM (ZVgZ4)
We have a five gallon pail filled with it in our basement. It cuts down on dust in the air as you sweep.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 28, 2025 11:26 PM (xG4kz)
The stuff I remember Mr. Wilson using at my elementary school was green.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 28, 2025 11:41 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
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I was "that kid" hanging out the car window on winding roads... Thanked God when Dramamine became available OTC!
Posted by: JQ at November 28, 2025 11:41 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Frankie at November 28, 2025 11:43 PM (yrmOH)
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 28, 2025 11:41 PM (mT+6a)
Geographic Math.
Louisiana 24 hrs = 48 Seattle hrs
Posted by: the way I see it at November 28, 2025 11:43 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Megthered at November 28, 2025 11:44 PM (3TRNo)
I thought I traveled a lot for business but you guys have me beat easily . I only have 25 cities on the list.
Posted by: the way I see it
About one third of my total for cities visited were due to accompanying the missus to artsy fartsy conferences. Tampa, Portland, Phoenix and San Diego come to mind right off the bat.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 28, 2025 11:44 PM (xG4kz)
“Tossing Your Cookies”
“Praying to the Porcelain Goddess”
“Barfed” is correct, per the AOS styleguide. Writers are encouraged to review the styleguide on a regular basis and adhere to policy guidelines. Rules can be discussed but must be obeyed. Thank you for your attention to this matter
Posted by: Common Tater at November 28, 2025 11:44 PM (Snw0w)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 28, 2025 11:44 PM (Zz+7G)
The simple act of sharing whiskey while preparing for conflicts fostered camaraderie among soldiers and hunters.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others
Heh.
Loads of asian movies, before tense negotiations...
"But first, we drink... "
Four finger shots going down between shots of whiskey fifths getting empty... Usually Johnny Walker Blue, three or four bottles
"OK, let's talk"
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 28, 2025 11:45 PM (Z5/Ih)
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 28, 2025 11:46 PM (mT+6a)
We have a five gallon pail filled with it in our basement. It cuts down on dust in the air as you sweep.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison!
The material that we have it brown and has a strong scent of cedar to it. How that may change if it was applied to something else having a strong odor is an experience that I am likely not to have.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 28, 2025 11:46 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 28, 2025 11:44 PM (xG4kz)
Hah those are four I’ve not visited.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 28, 2025 11:47 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 28, 2025 11:47 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Common Tater at November 28, 2025 11:33 PM (Snw0w)
I have not dug into at all. The power cord is crisp; needs replacing. I will probably replace some capacitors, too. Not a lot of hum at all so the filter caps may be good. I assume the 1L6 is good, because it hears stations on 16 meters. Maybe someone did a recap years ago? There is a huge yellow 3-prong grounding plug on the skinny brown two-wire zip cord.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 28, 2025 11:48 PM (npFr7)
I called it Barf Mountain.
I used to get the death eyeball from my Dad in the mirror as we got close because I was always reading the maps and knew where everything was.
Posted by: pawn at November 28, 2025 11:48 PM (sPsWv)
Posted by: Megthered
Bone broth.
Very good for vitality in bedroom.
- Chinese Medicine
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 28, 2025 11:49 PM (Z5/Ih)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 28, 2025 11:50 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 28, 2025 11:50 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 28, 2025 11:50 PM (ys6FW)
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Flux capacitor > selenium rectifier
Posted by: Doc Brown at November 28, 2025 11:50 PM (dyewR)
“Tossing Your Cookies”
“Praying to the Porcelain Goddess”
Long distance phone call for Pepe Lopez
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 28, 2025 11:51 PM (Z5/Ih)
I wanted to go downhill skiing on Mt. Hood when we visited Portland many years ago, but it was only early Spring and tire chains were required had I elected to drive up to a ski hill there.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 28, 2025 11:51 PM (xG4kz)
Which means... they will have to put in place a way to distinguish citizens, vice Legal, vice illegal, people.
About damn time
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 28, 2025 11:52 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot:
One of the brand names most used was Vom-a-Sorb.
Seriously.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 28, 2025 11:53 PM (cYBz/)
I wanted to go downhill skiing on Mt. Hood when we visited Portland many years ago, but it was only early Spring and tire chains were required had I elected to drive up to a ski hill there.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 28, 2025 11:51 PM (xG4kz)
Yeah... skier here... there are ALWAYS tire chains in my vehicle... even in summer in a 4 wheel drive.
Just part of the kit, like having jumper cables and basic tools.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 28, 2025 11:53 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 28, 2025 11:53 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: mot at November 28, 2025 11:54 PM (fIPNY)
Posted by: Megthered at November 28, 2025 11:54 PM (3TRNo)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 28, 2025 11:50 PM (3uBP9)
You'll never make it in politics if you can only do 'a little spin'.
Posted by: RickZ at November 28, 2025 11:54 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Megthered
Ah yes - the Tilt-a-Hurl. . .
Posted by: Tonypete at November 28, 2025 11:55 PM (cYBz/)
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Flux capacitor > selenium rectifier
Posted by: Doc Brown at November 28, 2025 11:50 PM (dyewR)
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What about reversing the polarity of the neutron flow?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 28, 2025 11:55 PM (IBQGV)
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Democrats and you don't want to know.
Posted by: clarence at November 28, 2025 11:55 PM (GE9Fw)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 28, 2025 11:55 PM (KDPiq)
Calling Ralph on the white porcelain phone
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 28, 2025 11:55 PM (xG4kz)
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Okay, here we go.
Retch-B-Gone?
Barfkeepers Friend?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 28, 2025 11:55 PM (dyewR)
My two sisters ALWAYS got to ride in the middle seat while me and Bro had to sit all the way in back... why?
Supposedly my two sisters both got car sick... but funny... never remember them GETTING car sick.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 28, 2025 11:56 PM (mP0Kj)
Which means... they will have to put in place a way to distinguish citizens, vice Legal, vice illegal, people.
About damn time
Posted by: Romeo13
Fake / forged SSNs would be a big red flag
Only legal immigrants can get a legit SSN.
Illegals often use a Taxpayer ID. Which has legit purposes but child tax credits would not be one.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 28, 2025 11:56 PM (Z5/Ih)
So, back in the day when I still did such things, I would refer to vomiting from a hangover as “confessing to Father Hurley:”
Posted by: Bulg at November 28, 2025 11:57 PM (77rzZ)
Brands like Nilodor, Big D, or Medafor made similar versions, but to millions of former schoolkids, that exact cloying, fake-cherry-sawdust scent is instantly recognizable as “the puke powder smell.” Even today, if you open a bucket of modern vomit absorbent (like Fresh Products “Vom du Jour” or “Absorb”
, that same unmistakable aroma hits you and you’re suddenly eight years old again, standing in the cafeteria while the janitor sweeps up Tommy’s spaghetti.
AI can be wonderful.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 28, 2025 11:57 PM (cYBz/)
Get them off the road. I'm sick of hearing of another person killed by one of the precious 'undocumenteds'.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 28, 2025 11:57 PM (ys6FW)
Posted by: the way I see
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Saw dust.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 28, 2025 11:57 PM (Zz+7G)
It’s just the sound.
Nope.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 28, 2025 11:58 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Megthered at November 28, 2025 11:54 PM (3TRNo)
Me and my best friend in our early 40's, with my twins, then 10...
Disneyland... Teacups... people running the ride actually asked my kids if they were OK when we got off.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 28, 2025 11:58 PM (mP0Kj)
It was 32F by 7PM here, and now it's below 27F right at midnight. Stupid arctic air.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 29, 2025 12:00 AM (w6EFb)
Puke
Chunder (from our friends down under)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 28, 2025 11:50 PM
Laugh at the ground.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 29, 2025 12:00 AM (jc0TO)
“Tossing Your Cookies”
“Praying to the Porcelain Goddess”
"Baptizing the bushes."
Posted by: Delurker at November 29, 2025 12:01 AM (NhiOW)
We hit some turbulence on the way to ATL and the next thing you know this guy is loudly barfing his guts out into the bag.
People were laughing.
Posted by: pawn at November 29, 2025 12:02 AM (sPsWv)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 29, 2025 12:03 AM (Zz+7G)
I remember being at an amusement park with friends and one of them threw up inside the tea cup while it was spinning and others in it with him.
Damn that was an LOL mess!
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 29, 2025 12:03 AM (3U2FH)
NASA found out that space sickness and earthly bound motion sickness are two different things, and the one doesn't imply the other.
Some poor guy, whose space-sickness was so bad they named the scale after him, did not suffer any motion sickness on earth at all. He was a fighter pilot, and did all sorts of maneuvers there with no problem at all. But he got in zero-g, and he was useless.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 29, 2025 12:03 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Romeo13
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My sweet Grandmother rode the teacups at Disneyworld. She felt unwell afterwards, but rode the shuttle all the way back to our lodging before getting sick. She was a tough lady.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 29, 2025 12:03 AM (ys6FW)
Posted by: Bulg at November 29, 2025 12:04 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at November 29, 2025 12:04 AM (77rzZ)
They're making me sick.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 29, 2025 12:05 AM (0CU3H)
Posted by: Redwhiteandtrue at November 29, 2025 12:06 AM (VlOsR)
Posted by: Bulg at November 29, 2025 12:04 AM (77rzZ)
They're making me sick.
Posted by: Darrell Harris
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Has anyone blown chunks yet?
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 29, 2025 12:06 AM (ys6FW)
That wouldn't be "Barfin Jake" Garn would it?
Yes, he's kind of famous in the aerospace world.
Posted by: pawn at November 29, 2025 12:07 AM (sPsWv)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 28, 2025 11:55 PM (KDPiq)
Wow. That brings back memories.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 29, 2025 12:10 AM (0CU3H)
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 29, 2025 12:11 AM (Zz+7G)
Tossing Your Cookies
Praying to the Porcelain Goddess
Buick, Yak, Hurl, Spew,
Upchuck, Ralph, Puke, Chunder
Laugh at the ground
Baptize the bushes...
That's... that's about it.
--Bubba
Posted by: JQ at November 29, 2025 12:11 AM (rdVOm)
That's him, I couldn't even think of the name.
I think even those that get really sick rarely go over 0.1 Garns.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 29, 2025 12:12 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 29, 2025 12:12 AM (n7rxJ)
The Vomit Comet didn't faze Garn at all. He was just fine. But once he got into orbit, it was terrible.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 29, 2025 12:14 AM (w6EFb)
It makes your mouth turn green!
Comet!
It smells like listerene!
Comet!
It makes you vomit!
So have some comet and vomit
Today!
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 29, 2025 12:14 AM (mT+6a)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 29, 2025 12:14 AM (ys6FW)
Posted by: Bulg at November 29, 2025 12:14 AM (77rzZ)
Also, VOm is half of my hash...
fml
Posted by: JQ at November 29, 2025 12:15 AM (rdVOm)
-- stuff Mao said but didn't get written down
Posted by: JQ at November 29, 2025 12:17 AM (rdVOm)
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Classic, FAFO.
https://tinyurl.com/3ux6k6td
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 29, 2025 12:18 AM (Zz+7G)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 29, 2025 12:18 AM (ys6FW)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 29, 2025 12:18 AM (zMLZ6)
Uh.. they weren't as good as I remembered.
*sigh*
Too bad.
Posted by: JQ at November 29, 2025 12:19 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Redwhiteandtrue at November 29, 2025 12:20 AM (VlOsR)
They find a surprising amount of pretty valuable stuff.
Posted by: pawn at November 29, 2025 12:20 AM (sPsWv)
I had always heard that Jefferson was the one to write the Declaration pretty much becaise the committe left the scut work to the nerd. Adams did say Jefferson was a better writer than he was, but he was still the low man on the totem pole and got stuck with chores while the others went out to party. (Okay, Adams didn't exactly party, but he had better things to do than waste his time dipping a quill into an inkwell.)
Posted by: tankdemon
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I knew a Tom Paine freak who made a good case via linguistic analysis that Paine wrote the Declaration.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 29, 2025 12:21 AM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
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*groan*
Girl, I've seen stuff I will not try to explain and hope to never see again as long as I live.
And that was *before* I started playing (I won't call it "working" LOL) here!
Posted by: JQ at November 29, 2025 12:21 AM (rdVOm)
Yeah that claim got Community Noted on X. What happened (if I understand right) is that Candace herself sent this claim to the White House, and someone on staff there said “yeah we got her stupid letter.”
Not quite the earthshaking bombshell she makes it out to be.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 29, 2025 12:22 AM (3U2FH)
Also, VOm is half of my hash...
fml
Posted by: JQ at November 29, 2025 12:15 AM (rdVOm)
Last time I puked it was from Little Caesar's Pizza
Time before that was from me not cleaning the grinder before grinding chicken
Before that was mishandled bibimbap.
the time before that was Chinese food from the low-end Chinese restaurant.
Nothing like food poisoning to make you try to puke up your toenails.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 29, 2025 12:23 AM (rbvCR)
Mr. Rogers routinely used his Marine sniper skills to clear his neighborhood of riff raff
Posted by: _.-=* The More You Know at November 29, 2025 12:23 AM (ER5Yp)
Cheers!
Posted by: JQ at November 29, 2025 12:23 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: pawn at November 29, 2025 12:24 AM (sPsWv)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 29, 2025 12:24 AM (ys6FW)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 29, 2025 12:24 AM (zMLZ6)
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There was an episode of the English Antiques Road Show that featured a couple that had managed a garbage dump for years. The were showing off some of the things they found. Some of it was quite valuable.
Posted by: clarence at November 29, 2025 12:25 AM (GE9Fw)
Heya, Bulg and Mary!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 29, 2025 12:25 AM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
I almost Candace Owens’d all over the floor.
Posted by: QED Texan Grandpa-to-be at November 29, 2025 12:26 AM (sSwOV)
Posted by: Bulg at November 29, 2025 12:26 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 29, 2025 12:21 AM (n7rxJ)
The problem with that theory is that everyone who knew them both at the time agreed that Jefferson wrote it, and nobody ever challenged that. Jefferson was certainly very familiar with Paine’s writing, so it’s not surprising that he would use some of his phrases.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 29, 2025 12:26 AM (3U2FH)
Why is Roberts using Boasberg as a stalking horse to harass Trump? Because that's what the Deep State/Uniparty wants.
Pray for America. Pray that these corrupt, black-robed thugs are revealed and defeated. This cannot continue.
Posted by: Sam Adams at November 29, 2025 12:28 AM (X+xvk)
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This is a vomit thread. What comes out of Owens is from the other end.
Posted by: clarence at November 29, 2025 12:29 AM (GE9Fw)
Posted by: pawn at November 29, 2025 12:24 AM (sPsWv)
Macron's spouse could prove sex via a cheek swab. I find it odd this has not been done in spite of all the nasty letters and accusations and countersuits.
Of course you would need a full genetic workup to determine if Macron's spouse is also his father, so I doubt we will get that info.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 29, 2025 12:29 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 29, 2025 12:31 AM (mT+6a)
Posted by: clarence at November 29, 2025 12:32 AM (GE9Fw)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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And that he had previously written something very similar for Virginia.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 29, 2025 12:33 AM (Zz+7G)
You snark but I bet these conspiracy freaks have already collected DNA by any number of means and refuse to believe the results
Posted by: the way I see it at November 29, 2025 12:34 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: clarence
You are right! What an embarrassing confusion.
Posted by: QED Texan Grandpa-to-be at November 29, 2025 12:34 AM (sSwOV)
I don't mean for "black friday" deals, I mean just going to do regular stuff, besides grocery.
Went to Hdespot today, because I wanted some extra shop vac hose. Waited until afternoon, hoping to avoid the crowds.
Not bad! Got what I needed. Store was busy but not too crowded.
Posted by: JQ at November 29, 2025 12:34 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 29, 2025 12:35 AM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Sam Adams at November 29, 2025 12:36 AM (X+xvk)
This one would be a good initiation to Moron Speak.
I only understand it because I read Moron off and on for decades. I honestly don't recall, like a Clinton, when I first appeared in the past. Then popped up like a demented gopher last year.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 29, 2025 12:37 AM (WONhk)
I don't think either of them were males at some time, so no, I don't care about that. There is much to criticize Michelle Obama about as far as her air of aggrieved entitlement . Tacjking on that she's a male just tends to negate the former criticisms.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 29, 2025 12:37 AM (zMLZ6)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 29, 2025 12:38 AM (ys6FW)
When the waves are over your head and you then go into a trough, that's amore. Only time I was motion sick.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 29, 2025 12:41 AM (WONhk)
I see Airbus has issued a critical warning that about 6000 A320s have an "issue" with the flight control system getting corrupted data due to severe solar storms.
A Jet Blue flight from Cancun to Newark suddenly dropped a few thousand feet on Oct. 30. Radiation corrupted avionics data.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 29, 2025 12:44 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 29, 2025 12:35 AM (pkeXY)
For a year, there was a billboard ad just outside Boise, Idaho, urging folks driving on the interstate to visit an aviation museum in Florida.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 29, 2025 12:45 AM (8QVSJ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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This is true. She is a spoiled and entitled woman who rose to fame on the coattails of of a husband she hates, representing a country she hates. I don't like her and never have, but don't think she's a man. She's just a jerk.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 29, 2025 12:46 AM (ys6FW)
Posted by: Redwhiteandtrue at November 29, 2025 12:46 AM (VlOsR)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 29, 2025 12:47 AM (zMLZ6)
There's a highly memorable smell when one of those cooks off. Toxic, too, I guess, though I never noticed any particular ill effects.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 29, 2025 12:48 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
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Wild. I thought the Buc-ees billboards for a store 300 miles away were over the top.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 29, 2025 12:52 AM (ys6FW)
Heh. I *knew better* than to try going either place *today* but wonder if tomorrow will be any better? Will see, I guess.
Posted by: JQ at November 29, 2025 12:52 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 29, 2025 12:52 AM (npFr7)
Silver spot price as of right now is $56.67 per oz. That is 4 each pre-1965 quarters plus 4 each pre-1965 dimes. $1.40 face value. That makes each silver dime worth > $4.00 and each silver quarter > $10.00.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 29, 2025 12:55 AM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 29, 2025 12:56 AM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 29, 2025 12:48 AM (IG3/x)
Yes. Selenium rectifiers are now considered to be bad juju, because of the highly toxic fumes emitted when the magic smoke gets out. I will most likely replace the selenium in the aforementioned T/O with a silicon diode or diode bridge. A little less voltage drop, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 29, 2025 12:56 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 29, 2025 12:52 AM (ys6FW)
Wall Drug was famous for signs promoting it located hundreds of miles away, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 29, 2025 12:57 AM (npFr7)
Will bring a big slice to hubby, to go with his lunch tomorrow. With cool-whip because he likes that.
Better charge the trimmer & shaver too-- he's looking scruffy again, LOL.
Posted by: JQ at November 29, 2025 12:59 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 29, 2025 01:00 AM (ys6FW)
Silver trading was shut down for an hour last night on the Comex. The excuse used was "a cooling issue on the servers". That is an absolute bag of flaming dog shit on your front porch of an excuse.
https://youtu.be/LJBZmuv7FtQ
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 29, 2025 01:02 AM (pkeXY)
Any time I visit, he's so happy. Wish I had time to be there more!
Wish I could bring him home!!!! (alas...)
Posted by: JQ at November 29, 2025 01:02 AM (rdVOm)
Tossing Your Cookies
Praying to the Porcelain Goddess
Buick, Yak, Hurl, Spew,
Upchuck, Ralph, Puke, Chunder
Laugh at the ground
Baptize the bushes...
That's... that's about it.
--Bubba
You left out heave... but around these parts it's a dry heave.
Posted by: Guy from Arizona at November 29, 2025 01:03 AM (r6f6k)
Posted by: gp at November 29, 2025 01:04 AM (4kcNT)
Posted by: gp at November 29, 2025 01:06 AM (4kcNT)
Posted by: pookysgirl has unloaded semis before at November 29, 2025 01:08 AM (Wt5PA)
🤢🤮
https://youtu.be/G6YYTqCeDYs
And so, g'nite, y'all.💤
Posted by: mindful webworker - everybody upchucks at November 29, 2025 01:11 AM (LaTF/)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
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We got caught up in something like that on our way in. Fished that bay forever and this was new. Coming in about 2AM and the swells. When we at the bottom of the trough it was walls of water. 'Come on baby, you can get on top of this'.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 29, 2025 01:15 AM (Zz+7G)
I've barfed everywhere, man, I've barfed everywhere.
Posted by: Barfin' Johnny Cash at November 29, 2025 01:16 AM (w6EFb)
"Legal Insurrection" site :
https://tinyurl.com/p8539zpp
I'll try to post something more upbeat in the tech or prayer thread. If Im around
Good night , all
Posted by: FenelonSpije at November 29, 2025 01:18 AM (07Dw1)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 29, 2025 12:57 AM (npFr7)
Was?! Still is. Heck, we've got one in our town and we're in another state.
Posted by: pookysgirl went past there twice last month at November 29, 2025 01:18 AM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 29, 2025 01:19 AM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: JQ
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Find out the time of the big game in your area. That's the time to venture out.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 29, 2025 01:20 AM (Zz+7G)
Another spectacular shot from Andew McCarthy, this time a large area of sky around Andromeda (M31).
https://is.gd/r5MlmE
That's 350 hours of stacked exposure time. All that structure is out there, just very faint, and it takes a long time (or a yuge telescope) to gather the light to see it.
Posted by: Barfin' Johnny Cash at November 29, 2025 01:22 AM (w6EFb)
Movie is not terrible, set design and cinematography surprisingly stylish.
Posted by: LizLem at November 29, 2025 01:22 AM (gWBY1)
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 29, 2025 01:26 AM (6KcYW)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 29, 2025 12:57 AM (npFr7)
Was?! Still is. Heck, we've got one in our town and we're in another state.
Posted by: pookysgirl went past there twice last month at November 29, 2025 01:18 AM (Wt5PA)
There’s a sign pointing there in Barrow, AK.
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 29, 2025 01:27 AM (6KcYW)
Got the lil tree out, and the new wooden ornaments & the laser-cut ones that neighbors gave last year. Just enough for that lil tree.
Posted by: JQ at November 29, 2025 01:31 AM (rdVOm)
Any time I visit, he's so happy. Wish I had time to be there more!
Wish I could bring him home!!!! (alas...)
Posted by: JQ at
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If our economic system wasn't such that we pay able bodied people not to work you could afford to bring him home.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 29, 2025 01:32 AM (Zz+7G)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 29, 2025 01:32 AM (npFr7)
"It's a big club, but you ain't in it."
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 29, 2025 01:33 AM (8QVSJ)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 29, 2025 01:35 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: NCKate at November 28, 2025 10:59 PM (sYdt/)
People at the store where I work have zero shame about showing up here like they just got out of bed. Pajamas, housecoats, house slippers, etc.
A bunch of bums and slobs.
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 29, 2025 01:35 AM (6KcYW)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 29, 2025 12:57 AM (npFr7)
Mrs B was on a business trip to the netherlands. On street post/lightpole was a sign, 7800 miles to walldrug SD. She took a picture.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 29, 2025 01:37 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Braenyard
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Yeah. And if every fktarded numbnuts didn't think they deserved $20/hr, semi-skilled laborers wouldn't be demanding $40/hr to change diapers, help with household chores and give baths...
Posted by: JQ at November 29, 2025 01:38 AM (rdVOm)
We've entered the window of earliest sunset here at ~35N, 5:17PM. For the next 12 days, sunset time will be in the 5:17PM minute, with earliest technically on Dec. 5th. Sunrise time will get later by 10 minutes during that window, though.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 29, 2025 01:41 AM (w6EFb)
-- stuff Mao said but didn't get written down
Posted by: JQ at November 29, 2025 12:17 AM (rdVOm)
Go to Xinjiang Province and fix tractors,
Posted by: Mao at November 29, 2025 01:41 AM (6KcYW)
Posted by: Joyenz at November 29, 2025 01:45 AM (2F0/Y)
Yeah. And if every fktarded numbnuts didn't think they deserved $20/hr, semi-skilled laborers wouldn't be demanding $40/hr to change diapers, help with household chores and give baths...
Posted by: JQ
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That's part of how changing the dole system works. All those people at home eating Doritoes will, now, be competing with the Dodo's that think they are worth $20 for a job which will drive to price of unskilled labor down.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 29, 2025 01:45 AM (Zz+7G)
Posted by: Pete Bog at November 29, 2025 01:47 AM (lp7gs)
Posted by: Braenyard
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Heh. Very little comfort in *that*-- I don't want any of THOSE PEOPLE in MY house!!!
Hubby gets better care, right where he is. A 24/7 team, not just the *one person* I could barely afford at home, for maybe one shift per day.
If not for the dementia, I could handle his issues myself.
Posted by: JQ at November 29, 2025 01:50 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JB1000 at November 29, 2025 01:52 AM (G/zBl)
Heh. Very little comfort in *that*-- I don't want any of THOSE PEOPLE in MY house!!!
Hubby gets better care, right where he is. A 24/7 team, not just the *one person* I could barely afford at home, for maybe one shift per day.
If not for the dementia, I could handle his issues myself.
Posted by: JQ at November 2
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That's true today, but that will change with time. Integrity and responsibility is cultural and LBJ ultimately destroyed that. But cutting off the dole and having them compete will drive down the cost of entry level jobs. The plumber's helper. the gofer, McDonld's help and the cream - the trainee.
Competition will drive down entry level job cost thus driving down the overall cost of crafts, skills, and trades. We will benefit by less costly bills from these blue collar areas at the same time the culture of sloth will be attrited. It will be a benefit to everyone.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 29, 2025 02:01 AM (Zz+7G)
Of course. And if pigs start flying, I will accept that I need to walk around under a big, strong umbrella to protect myself from the falling shit. What's your point?
Posted by: Weirddave at November 29, 2025 02:03 AM (df/te)
No thanks. Only need one, not two, and I've seen how they "work"... Lah dee dah & doo dee doo... taking their sweet everlovin' time... Nope! Grandma and Grandpa might let it slide, but I'd be a freaking slave driver by comparison.
I don't wish to alienate my good neighbors, LOL. They can overpay their grandkids all day long-- I need WORKERS, not slackers.
Posted by: JQ at November 29, 2025 02:06 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 29, 2025 02:11 AM (Zz+7G)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 29, 2025 02:12 AM (Zz+7G)
Posted by: Braenyard
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Yup!
We've hired contractors for various jobs here-- concrete floor for the shop, tree removal, etc.
All cost a pretty penny, but all were very hard workers. It was my pleasure to provide cold water & Gatorade-type stuff for them. For the all-day jobs, I'd make Club Sandwiches for lunch and snacks at break times.
One time, half the tree crew showed up early, waiting for the boss & remaining crew-- so I cooked breakfast for them.
I do not mind treating employees *right*-- as long as they reciprocate.
Posted by: JQ at November 29, 2025 02:17 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 29, 2025 02:19 AM (/J488)
Posted by: JQ at November 29, 2025 02:35 AM (rdVOm)
Blame WD and that 'kid with turkey' video!
How's your night going?
Posted by: JQ at November 29, 2025 02:46 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: cat in a box at November 29, 2025 02:46 AM (cPbyj)
Posted by: scampydog at November 29, 2025 02:49 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: tankdemon at November 28, 2025 10:20 PM (IxQNO)
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I think Benjamin Franklin had a reputation for keeping busy dipping his quill, IYKWIMAITYD.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 29, 2025 02:51 AM (WtVQs)
Posted by: JQ at November 29, 2025 03:04 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 29, 2025 03:06 AM (SSEhk)
Posted by: JQ at November 29, 2025 03:10 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at November 29, 2025 03:12 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 29, 2025 02:51 AM (WtVQs)
We would know more if he could have taken selfies.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 29, 2025 03:13 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Berserker
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Ew!
Don't really want to know...
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Posted by: JQ at November 29, 2025 03:15 AM (rdVOm)
I couldn't imagine being a musician in that time. No drug laws, no gun laws, probably no drinking age, ol' Ben being the guide for the best area poon. Yeah, I wouldn't have survived. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 29, 2025 03:20 AM (snZF9)
I think musicians and entertainers were not as highly regarded back then, though...
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Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 29, 2025 03:06 AM (SSEhk)
You say that like it is a bad thing...
Ben wrote both sides of debates... literally.
He helped define electricity.
He helped getting France to help us win the Revolution.
He defined the issues that led to the revolution.
Go read about him... he was a flawed, you superior, Man (IMO)
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Posted by: Skip at November 29, 2025 03:36 AM (Ia/+0)
I think musicians and entertainers were not as highly regarded back then, though...
Posted by: JQ at November 29, 2025 03:25 AM (rdVOm)
Probably not, plus I hate violin, lol
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Posted by: Pete Bog at November 29, 2025 01:47 AM (lp7gs)
Brewers game. You can't go wrong with baseball, and they do the sausage race in the 7th.
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Posted by: Skip at November 29, 2025 03:41 AM (Ia/+0)
I expect he is an honorary moron.
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 29, 2025 03:42 AM (6Bc88)
There was also a show, I think on History channel, that excavated Ben's old house in Boston and found a ton of bones buried under it. They don't think he was a secret serial killer. They think he got cadavers delivered to his house to illegally study, and then buried them under his house after.
One of the most fascinating founding fathers by a mile, and he had stiff competition.
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Posted by: JQ at November 29, 2025 03:44 AM (rdVOm)
No , it was a young man, harfing for all he was worth, for several hours. The two adults seated next to him looked like death warmed over.
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Posted by: Skip at November 29, 2025 03:52 AM (Ia/+0)
Blame WD and that 'kid with turkey' video!
How's your night going?
Posted by: JQ at November 29, 2025 02:46 AM (rdVOm)
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The night is going fine, thank you. And the kid was trying to help. A bit concerned about the morning; i couldn't get the snowblower working, and there's a hundred foot of alley to clear between me and civilization. Have food, won't be a Donner.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 29, 2025 03:55 AM (20pGq)
I should try and hunt it down, but I remember a book/movie called "Ben and Me" where Ben Franklin had a talking mouse friend. I remember it being very charming. It sanitized Ben for the kiddos while not shying away from his flaws.
I vaguely recall that "Ben and Me" was a Disney cartoon.
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I was "that kid" hanging out the car window on winding roads... Thanked God when Dramamine became available OTC!
Posted by: JQ at November 28, 2025 11:41 PM (rdVOm)
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After a long day in the community pool, I fainted right there in front of God and everybody -- I was doing the altar boy duties at church. Heard about that for a while
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