Sunday Overnight Open Thread - November 30, 2025 [Doof]

The Sunday night ONT has arrived. Thanks for stopping by!

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I found this strangely satisfying to watch - at least 15 times in a row.

reminder that Costco sells over 6 million Pumpkin Pies a year in November and December, with a 1/3rd of those sales happening in the three days prior to Thanksgiving pic.twitter.com/7CVjxk1CFr
— Trung Phan (@TrungTPhan) November 25, 2025

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I also found this strangely satisfying to watch multiple times!

1950s drywaller.

His craft was perfected.

He could go to work in his Saturday best and leave without a speck on him.

He paid for a house, 2 cars, 4 kids with savings left over on his single paycheck.

He worked alone.

But always had work. pic.twitter.com/u13iK2VGAY
— Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) November 25, 2025

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OK - one more!

He makes rebuilding a gearbox look easy. Every step with purpose and grease everywhere. pic.twitter.com/4v0XjZ1Irp
— RWB_American (@RWB_American) November 24, 2025

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I started decorating my Christmas tree today. Actually looks perfect after just 1 ornament. What do you think?

(Yes, that's a real ornament of mine)

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This sounds like an awesome plan. Kinda would have liked to see how it would have turned out.

Two Geniuses Planned to Raise Homeless Army and Take Over an Exotic Island

An indictment filed in a Texas federal court accuses Gavin Rivers Weisenburg, 21, and Tanner Christopher Thomas, 20, of planning to recruit an army of homeless people, buy a sailboat and seize power on Gonave Island, an island off the coast of Haiti with a population of about 87,000 residents. The two young men allegedly planned to recruit homeless people from Washington, D.C. to serve as their “mercenary force” during their grand coup d’etat.
According to court files, Weisenburg and Thomas had researched Gonave Island and concluded that it had a very weak government, almost no infrastructure, and had been crippled by poverty. They concluded that it could be taken over through a brutal invasion that would eliminate the local men and turn the women and children into slaves.

Check out the whole thing. Seriously. Video segment at the link.

Maybe one of you writers could tuen this into a movie or miniseries. C'mon - do it!

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'Ette Couture

The response to my fashion segment last week was less then whelming. My good friend and fellow Club ONT boss T Rex is taking over this week's segment. He has just one thing to offer, and honestly, I think he crushed it!

Thanks, Dino!!!

Just kidding -- Piper has returned this week!

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Melania Trump's Holiday Chic
As the holiday season sweeps in, First Lady Melania Trump turned heads with festive flair. From welcoming the White House Christmas tree to pardoning turkeys in true presidential tradition, Melania's wardrobe choices over the past week have perfectly captured the spirit of glamour.

Kicking off the week on a high note, Melania greeted the arrival of the official 2025 White House Christmas Tree—a towering evergreen from Korson's Tree Farms in Michigan—with an ensemble that was holiday without veering into kitsch. She opted for a floor-length Christian Dior Palto Coat in ecru
double-sided virgin wool and angora blend felt, cinched at the waist. The real magic? Her accessories. Forzieri cashmere lined Italian leather gloves in red added a pop of seasonal cheer, a rewear from 2018. Completing the look were Manolo Blahnik BB 105 Pux Heel in a subtle tartan plaid. The look was this southern girl’s dream- holiday elegance delivered with the soft confidence of someone raised on monograms and good manners.

Transitioning seamlessly from Christmas prep to Thanksgiving tradition, Melania joined President Trump for the annual turkey pardon ceremony, where Gobble and Waddle earned their tickets to a leisurely life at North Carolina State University. FLOTUS chose an Anine Bing Leon bomber jacket in dark brown, a Ralph Lauren Collection cashmere turtleneck also in dark brown, and a Ralph Lauren Collection Mychele wool herringbone skirt finished with Christian Louboutin So Kate 105 Pumps in brown.

On Thanksgiving at Mar-a-Lago, Melania wore a Michael Kors Collection Hansen Charmeuse shirt in black and a Dolce & Gabbana Lamé Lace midi skirt. It was bold, yes, but never loud. The metallic thread glinted just enough to remind you that grace and a little daring have always been welcome companions.

If there’s one thing Melania Trump taught us this week, it’s that holiday style doesn’t have to scream louder than your Aunt Linda after two glasses of champagne—it just has to whisper while winkin’ at the camera. So grab your own belted coat, find yourself a bold red accessory, and strut into December like you’re about to decorate a 20-foot tree before lunch. Because if Melania can do it in four-inch stilettos on the White House lawn, bless it, so can we.

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Thanks, Piper - great to have you back!

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Sending the month out

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1 Tell me why baby why are you late for the ONT?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 30, 2025 10:12 PM (Y7TJ9)

2 It was a dark and spooky night…

Posted by: Piper at November 30, 2025 10:12 PM (Wmg4n)

3 st!

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at November 30, 2025 10:12 PM (v23vE)

4 Yay!

Posted by: Rex B at November 30, 2025 10:13 PM (r6f6k)

5 crudmuppets - anyway, hello Doof and ONT Horde!

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at November 30, 2025 10:13 PM (v23vE)

6 Hey everybody. Hey ONT!

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 30, 2025 10:14 PM (u0r2I)

7 Tell me why baby why are you late for the ONT?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 30, 2025 10:12 PM (Y7TJ9)

The Disco posts when he's good and ready!

Posted by: Doof at November 30, 2025 10:14 PM (QMAsf)

8 Was Axl Rose *trying* to look like John Denver in that shot of him captioning 'November Rain'?

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 30, 2025 10:15 PM (u0r2I)

9 I'm watching "Pretty Maids All In A Row", written by visionary horndog Gene Roddenberry, and there's an actress named Joy Bang.

JOY BANG.

The movie is ObjectificationPalooza. Directed by visionary horndog Roger Vadim.

It's so 70's.

There's a few Star Trek alums: James Doohan, William Campbell, costumer William Ware Theiss.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 30, 2025 10:16 PM (kpS4V)

10 Evening, Horde! Thanks Doof.

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at November 30, 2025 10:16 PM (kOluj)

11 Doof, question. Is it okay if I bring up a certain new breaking news story here?

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 30, 2025 10:16 PM (u0r2I)

12 Evening all,

We have a launch in 4 hours.

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 6-86
LC-39A - Kennedy Space Center - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: December 1, 2025
Launch Time: 2:44 a.m. EST (0744 UTC, 08:44 CET)

https://youtu.be/GU_QjtGn8b8

Posted by: Joyenz at November 30, 2025 10:16 PM (2F0/Y)

13 Better late than never. Hope everyone is doing OK.

Baby it's cold outside!

Posted by: Case at November 30, 2025 10:17 PM (5Je/N)

14 Nice ONT!

Got those November tunes in just at the last few hours!

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 30, 2025 10:17 PM (47diA)

15 Apropos of this weekend, I'm thankful that Doof didn't (really) get to do the couture segment, and that Piper did.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at November 30, 2025 10:17 PM (v23vE)

16 Whatever became of Movember?

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 30, 2025 10:17 PM (u0r2I)

17 15 Apropos of this weekend, I'm thankful that Doof didn't (really) get to do the couture segment, and that Piper did.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at November 30, 2025 10:17 PM (v23vE)

Well thank you!

Posted by: Piper at November 30, 2025 10:19 PM (Wmg4n)

18 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 30, 2025 10:19 PM (cYBz/)

19 Doof, question. Is it okay if I bring up a certain new breaking news story here?
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 30, 2025 10:16 PM (u0r2I)

A real one with a link to an actual story?

Posted by: Doof at November 30, 2025 10:20 PM (QMAsf)

20 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 30, 2025 10:20 PM (bss/y)

21

Blue Collar

https://youtu.be/rnIjkIx1Qww

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 30, 2025 10:20 PM (pkeXY)

22 Doof, yes. I'm sure I can find a link.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 30, 2025 10:20 PM (u0r2I)

23
That long pencil skirt must have a slit up the back to the knees. No one could ever sit or walk in it otherwise.

And good evening!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 30, 2025 10:20 PM (n7rxJ)

24 16 Whatever became of Movember?
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 30, 2025 10:17 PM (u0r2I)

That is every day for me, and it’s really back to reality tomorrow with the return of the 6am. With that, may we all take a moment to stare at the plaid shoes and sigh?

Posted by: Piper at November 30, 2025 10:20 PM (Wmg4n)

25 Good evening, all and sundry!

The rain predicted for today never materialized, and it may not show up tomorrow either. Cool and cloudy it is, but not rainy. I suppose that's a good thing. We'll probably have some rain soon, though.

The Killer Kittenz From Outer Space are . . . well, I don't see them right now. Which means they are in the bedroom, more than likely sitting in the open but screened window, breathing in the night stench.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 30, 2025 10:20 PM (wzUl9)

26 Melania's filling out a bit. It looks good on her.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 30, 2025 10:21 PM (Y7TJ9)

27 So, these guys planned to recruit homeless people, huh?

Why did they think the homeless are homeless? What makes them think they would be good foot soldiers? What did they expect to offer them in return in order to keep them on side?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 30, 2025 10:21 PM (bss/y)

28 Wow. When you get to the bottom of the post after reading and listening and I could have been number one.

Thank you for the ONT, Doof. Everyone ready to go back to work in the morning?

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 30, 2025 10:21 PM (mT+6a)

29 Whatever became of Movember?
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 30, 2025 10:17 PM

The FBI busted the gang.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 30, 2025 10:21 PM (jc0TO)

30 I hope everyone here had a good year.
I am grateful for all I have.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 30, 2025 10:21 PM (gbOdA)

31 Piper, hmmm.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 30, 2025 10:22 PM (u0r2I)

32 Doof, yes. I'm sure I can find a link.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 30, 2025 10:20 PM (u0r2I)

Tread carefully

Posted by: Doof at November 30, 2025 10:22 PM (QMAsf)

33 It's obscene how most media treat Melania.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 30, 2025 10:22 PM (u0r2I)

34 What did they expect to offer them in return in order to keep them on side?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 30, 2025 10:21 PM

Sex slaves, duh.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 30, 2025 10:22 PM (jc0TO)

35 As for the air shorts, I have questions. Gets rid of body moisture? What does that even mean? And 1 size fits all? I am thinking probably not.

Posted by: Piper at November 30, 2025 10:22 PM (Wmg4n)

36 I said it was a cunning plan. I didn't say it was a good one.

Posted by: Probably Baldrick at November 30, 2025 10:23 PM (P/woT)

37 Doof, here you go. If this annoys you, feel free to delete.
Looks like war is on the table with Venezuela.

Link to Fox News...

https://tinyurl.com/3e76jcj8

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 30, 2025 10:23 PM (u0r2I)

38 Someone said the ONT was late tonight.

No doubt waiting for Tankdemon to come up with an excuse.

No doubt.
https://youtu.be/6ZktNItwexo

Posted by: mindful webworker - doubtlessly at November 30, 2025 10:23 PM (LaTF/)

39 Oh joy!

Someone is trying to threadjack the Ont! Again!

*checks out*

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 30, 2025 10:24 PM (mT+6a)

40 That guy isn't hanging drywall; he's hanging gypsumboard lath, which will later be covered with a coat of plaster.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 30, 2025 10:24 PM (npFr7)

41 Hello everyone, and thanks for those who have expressed gratitude and other kind words. Glad you're here!

Posted by: Doof at November 30, 2025 10:24 PM (QMAsf)

42 Any film of that Haiti plot has got to have the pair from Dumb and Dumber as the leads.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 30, 2025 10:24 PM (3U2FH)

43 Sex slaves, duh.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 30, 2025 10:22 PM (jc0TO)

Right. But once they had taken over the island, why would they need the two knuckleheads?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 30, 2025 10:24 PM (bss/y)

44 Work? Work?

Dobie Gillis' friend, whose name I cannot remember.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 30, 2025 10:24 PM (47diA)

45 > I started decorating my Christmas tree today. Actually looks perfect after just 1 ornament.
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My wife bought the White House Christmas decorations for the 4 years of Trump's first admin.

Now... we're on #2.

There's a small, artificial tree, not specifically Christmas tree, but she has proclaimed it to be our "Trump Tree."

White House ornaments and gold trim.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 30, 2025 10:24 PM (NwnyJ)

46
may we all take a moment to stare at the plaid shoes and sigh?
Posted by: Piper

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There's never a scuff, a pill, or a single frayed thread on any of Melania's clothes. She must wear them 3 times max, or have them hand-washed. The soles of her shoes always look like it's the first time they've met the ground. It's amazing.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 30, 2025 10:24 PM (n7rxJ)

47
Lmao

Posted by: fourseasons at November 30, 2025 10:24 PM (3ek7K)

48 I'm here to save the ONT.

I have a perfect record.

Posted by: Robbie Rist at November 30, 2025 10:24 PM (oftw2)

49 I am suitably impressed with the drywaller.

Except for the nails that will turn into popped nails some months or years later.

Posted by: AB at November 30, 2025 10:25 PM (ArLSQ)

50 Right. But once they had taken over the island, why would they need the two knuckleheads?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 30, 2025 10:24 PM

Someone has to be the commissar.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 30, 2025 10:25 PM (jc0TO)

51 I did buy a Costco pumpkin pie.
It is very large and very tasty

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 30, 2025 10:25 PM (xcxpd)

52
And 1 size fits all? I am thinking probably not.
Posted by: Piper

There weren't as many fat folks back then.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 30, 2025 10:25 PM (pkeXY)

53 AOP, whaddya think that mechanical device really is? Outside my experience.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 30, 2025 10:25 PM (47diA)

54 42 Any film of that Haiti plot has got to have the pair from Dumb and Dumber as the leads.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 30, 2025 10:24 PM (3U2FH)

They are both about 40 years too old at this point, I should think.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 30, 2025 10:25 PM (bss/y)

55 Good evening Horde. Thanks Disco (and Piper)!

Posted by: TRex - interim fashion consultant dino at November 30, 2025 10:25 PM (IQ6Gq)

56 What’s the pink think on the bottom right? In the 80s image?

Posted by: banana Dream at November 30, 2025 10:25 PM (3uBP9)

57 As for the air shorts, I have questions. Gets rid of body moisture? What does that even mean? And 1 size fits all? I am thinking probably not.
Posted by: Piper

Perhaps even more idiotic than those 'Slenderama' vibrating belt machines back in the day. Why did anyone think those things were going to get rid of your fat?

Posted by: Tonypete at November 30, 2025 10:26 PM (cYBz/)

58 Dobie Gillis' friend, whose name I cannot remember.
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 30, 2025 10:24 PM (47diA)

Dammit. I hate the way my memory works. Gilligan.

Krebs? Maynard G?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 30, 2025 10:26 PM (bss/y)

59
I can't wait to see Melania's Christmas decor. I bet the edible treats are to die for.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 30, 2025 10:26 PM (n7rxJ)

60 I was an adult in the '80s, yet I don't recognize a couple of those devices in the picture. Boom box, Etch-a Sketch, rotary phone, Walkman with headphones, Rubik's Cube, Betamax tape, cassette tape, dictaphone. But what is the pink sloping thing apparently connected by cord to the device with the two red buttons, which is also connected to something that looks like a Rolodex? A gaming console of some kind?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 30, 2025 10:26 PM (wzUl9)

61 Dobie Gilis' buddy was Maynard G. Grebs

Posted by: Tonypete at November 30, 2025 10:27 PM (cYBz/)

62
Work? Work?

Dobie Gillis' friend, whose name I cannot remember.
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic

Maynard G. Krebs

The G stands for Gilligan.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 30, 2025 10:27 PM (pkeXY)

63 Dobie Gillis' friend, whose name I cannot remember.
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 30, 2025 10:24 PM (47diA)

Maynard G. Krebs, played by Bob Denver.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 30, 2025 10:27 PM (npFr7)

64 That's it, Aetius! Thanks. Your memory works better than mine.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 30, 2025 10:27 PM (47diA)

65 Ugh!

Krebs

Posted by: Tonypete at November 30, 2025 10:27 PM (cYBz/)

66 Two Geniuses Planned to Raise Homeless Army and Take Over an Exotic Island

Was that wrong? I see it as win-win several ways.

Posted by: mindful webworker - but what about the indigenous homeless? at November 30, 2025 10:28 PM (LaTF/)

67 Pic: Dark as the grave.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 30, 2025 10:28 PM (uQesX)

68 As for the air shorts, I have questions. Gets rid of body moisture? What does that even mean? And 1 size fits all? I am thinking probably not.
Posted by: Piper
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[imagines TV ad]

"Thousands of four-star reviews!"

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 30, 2025 10:28 PM (XeU6L)

69 Big Mike just released an entire coffee table book about her transcendent taste in fashion. And yet the fashion post contains not a single photo of this most elegant creature of our times.

So what gives?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 30, 2025 10:28 PM (0RiMX)

70 57 As for the air shorts, I have questions. Gets rid of body moisture? What does that even mean? And 1 size fits all? I am thinking probably not.
Posted by: Piper

Perhaps even more idiotic than those 'Slenderama' vibrating belt machines back in the day. Why did anyone think those things were going to get rid of your fat?
Posted by: Tonypete at November 30, 2025 10:26 PM (cYBz/)

You'd think those things would chafe like a bitch.

I would not want to rub a balloon with my balls to find out what that felt like.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 30, 2025 10:28 PM (bss/y)

71 Yeah, Maynard G. Krebs. That. Indeed.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 30, 2025 10:28 PM (47diA)

72
I did buy a Costco pumpkin pie.
It is very large and very tasty
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

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I made my own! Just the right size and very tasty, but I can't crimp a crust to save my life.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 30, 2025 10:28 PM (n7rxJ)

73 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 30, 2025 10:29 PM (sAmhv)

74 Enjoyed the Zach Bryan tune- hadn't heard that one yet

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at November 30, 2025 10:29 PM (kOluj)

75 Perhaps even more idiotic than those 'Slenderama' vibrating belt machines back in the day. Why did anyone think those things were going to get rid of your fat?
Posted by: Tonypete at November 30, 2025 10:26 PM (cYBz/)

Because the shook you, Tonypete. Like a Polaroid picture.

Posted by: Piper at November 30, 2025 10:29 PM (Wmg4n)

76 You could combine that fart trap from a few ONTs ago with the inflatable shorts.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 30, 2025 10:29 PM (3uBP9)

77 40 That guy isn't hanging drywall; he's hanging gypsumboard lath, which will later be covered with a coat of plaster.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

With generous dollop of asbestos, the fireproof Modern Marvel.

Posted by: Binds, Too at November 30, 2025 10:29 PM (oftw2)

78 I picture a homeless army as occupying the zone between Stripes and Dawn of the Dead.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 30, 2025 10:29 PM (0RiMX)

79 I made my own! Just the right size and very tasty, but I can't crimp a crust to save my life.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 30, 2025 10:28 PM (n7rxJ)

You are still much handier than I am in the kitchen.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 30, 2025 10:29 PM (xcxpd)

80 Okay; the cats are back out here. Stirling is sitting on the arm of the sofa next to me. Dagny is sprawled on the floor near the dinette table. It amazes me how cats can apparently be comfortable in positions that would make most humans freeze up or tear something.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 30, 2025 10:29 PM (wzUl9)

81 AOP, whaddya think that mechanical device really is? Outside my experience.
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 30, 2025 10:25 PM (47diA)

Looks like some sort of planetary drive unit, with a sprag clutch in it? Does not look automotive at all. Maybe for a tractor?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 30, 2025 10:30 PM (npFr7)

82 I bought a pair of Tecovas boots today. I'm going to exchange them tomorrow for the same boot in a wide calf size. I have fat calves and didn't know it was an option until I got home. It was very busy at the store, there was a waiting line to get in busy.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at November 30, 2025 10:30 PM (VCgbV)

83 I made my own! Just the right size and very tasty, but I can't crimp a crust to save my life.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 30, 2025 10:28 PM (n7rxJ)

I did it where it didn’t look like a pack of rabid 3 year olds helped for the first time ever this year! I am afraid I will never have a repeat performance.

Posted by: Piper at November 30, 2025 10:31 PM (Wmg4n)

84 Beaver Cleaver and Violet Rutherford walked downtown to watch the lady in the store window demonstrating the "jiggle belt".

Posted by: Then The Malt Shoppe at November 30, 2025 10:31 PM (oftw2)

85 >>>You don't know what you have until it's gone!

Sounds like something Joni Mitchell would say.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 30, 2025 10:32 PM (syz1S)

86 Dobie Gillis' friend, whose name I cannot remember.
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 30, 2025
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Maynard G. Krebs, played by Bob Denver.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 30, 2025

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Tuesday Weld and Warren Beatty were on the show occasionally too. They had satirical names I can't recall without looking them up.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 30, 2025 10:32 PM (wzUl9)

87 78 I picture a homeless army as occupying the zone between Stripes and Dawn of the Dead.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 30, 2025 10:29 PM (0RiMX)

Probably less motivated than zombies. Especially since the most likely lure these geniuses could use would be drugs... so:

1) Drugs
2) Piracy
3) Conquest
4) Sex Slaves
5) Profit!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 30, 2025 10:32 PM (bss/y)

88
>>He makes rebuilding a gearbox look easy.

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Isn't it? From the looks, you just slather on a ton of grease and stack the parts on each other like one of those Fischer-Price colored donut cones.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 30, 2025 10:32 PM (n7rxJ)

89 85 >>>You don't know what you have until it's gone!

Sounds like something Joni Mitchell would say.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 30, 2025 10:32 PM (syz1S)

Don't it always seem to go!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 30, 2025 10:32 PM (xcxpd)

90 lin-duh, it's frustrating that it can be so hard to find good wide shoes.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 30, 2025 10:33 PM (u0r2I)

91 welcoming the White House Christmas tree

Was that this year? I get a real deja voo that these were from Trump 1.0 years. Right down to thinking that marine was a lucky guy.

Posted by: mindful webworker - day jah whoo at November 30, 2025 10:33 PM (LaTF/)

92 Today was our first truly cold day here. It spit snow last night, it barely got above freezing, and the wind blew all day.

Normally this weather starts around Halloween, so I am thankful we got a month's reprieve.

I spent all day in the computer room, sitting in front of the space heater and glad I had no pressing business to attend to outside.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 30, 2025 10:33 PM (P/woT)

93 First, they need to take over Gonave island's transit system, starting with homeless powered rickshaws... then a massive transportation strike! - Newman and the K-Man

Posted by: Rex B at November 30, 2025 10:34 PM (r6f6k)

94 Good evening Horde. Thanks Disco (and Piper)!
Posted by: TRex - interim fashion consultant dino at November 30, 2025 10:25 PM (IQ6Gq)

Since you and I have now each handled the fashion segment, I think Piper should be responsible for the Wed and Thurs ONTs this week. Agree? Or at least give us a night off from our Club ONT duties and let us just be patrons for a night.

Posted by: Doof at November 30, 2025 10:34 PM (QMAsf)

95 Beaver Cleaver and Violet Rutherford walked downtown to watch the lady in the store window demonstrating the "jiggle belt".
Posted by: Then The Malt Shoppe at November 30, 2025 10:31 PM (oftw2)

Sam's Saloon in Rowley, Alberta has one of those jiggle-belt machines set up on a post near the bar. The bar is like a museum, with all kinds of old junk on the walls and ceiling, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 30, 2025 10:34 PM (npFr7)

96 I bought a pair of Tecovas boots today. I'm going to exchange them tomorrow for the same boot in a wide calf size. I have fat calves and didn't know it was an option until I got home. It was very busy at the store, there was a waiting line to get in busy.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at November 30, 2025

***
I'm planning to drive up to the one about eighty miles from me, maybe this week. It's hard to find a round toe boot at Cavender's and Boot Barn here; eight out of ten models seem to be the "wide square" toe, which I dislike.

What color and style are yours?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 30, 2025 10:34 PM (wzUl9)

97
I am afraid I will never have a repeat performance.
Posted by: Piper

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

I hate the way that happens. And don't get me started on icing a layer cake.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 30, 2025 10:34 PM (n7rxJ)

98 I think the ai that made the 80s stuff got a little confused

Posted by: banana Dream at November 30, 2025 10:34 PM (3uBP9)

99 I bought a pair of Tecovas boots today. I'm going to exchange them tomorrow for the same boot in a wide calf size.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended

I love my pair. I had to buy zipper ropers as my instep is high as hell.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 30, 2025 10:35 PM (cYBz/)

100 I liked the mobile ghetto blasters where the owners strapped on roller disco skates and shared their earth-shattering kaboombox favorites with the neighborhood.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 30, 2025 10:35 PM (kpS4V)

101 Looks like war is on the table with Venezuela.

Maduro is a scumbag who needs to be ended but I don't know how I feel about us doing it. I'd rather see us wipe out Antifa than Maduro.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 30, 2025 10:36 PM (3nLb4)

102 You don't know what you have until it's gone!

Sounds like something Joni Mitchell would say.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 30, 2025 10:32 PM (syz1S)

Or Cinderella
https://youtu.be/i28UEoLXVFQ

Posted by: Doof at November 30, 2025 10:36 PM (QMAsf)

103 The phone looks a little odd

Posted by: Kindltot at November 30, 2025 10:36 PM (rbvCR)

104 Wolfus Aurelius,
I got the Annie in brown goat skin.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at November 30, 2025 10:37 PM (VCgbV)

105 Doof: Every Rose Has Its Thorn :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 30, 2025 10:37 PM (u0r2I)

106 ; eight out of ten models seem to be the "wide square" toe, which I dislike.

What color and style are yours?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 30, 2025 10:34 PM (wzUl9)

That is because that is the in toe style right now, pointy ones are considered dated. Just hang tight, it will circle back around.

Posted by: Piper at November 30, 2025 10:37 PM (Wmg4n)

107 Maduro is a scumbag who needs to be ended but I don't know how I feel about us doing it. I'd rather see us wipe out Antifa than Maduro.
Posted by: Oddbob at November 30, 2025 10:36 PM (3nLb4)

Maduro and Antifa are connected, somehow.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 30, 2025 10:38 PM (npFr7)

108 Maybe the pink thing is a TrapperKeeper which is kinda 80s.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 30, 2025 10:38 PM (3uBP9)

109 AOP and Oddbob, yup.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 30, 2025 10:38 PM (u0r2I)

110 Maduro is a scumbag who needs to be ended but I don't know how I feel about us doing it. I'd rather see us wipe out Antifa than Maduro.
Posted by: Oddbob at November 30, 2025 10:36 PM (3nLb4)

Ok, what after Maduro? Rubble not trouble. This is my point.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 30, 2025 10:39 PM (bss/y)

111 Speaking of deja voo, I seem to recall that the drywall guy and the Michelin man shorts have been featured on this blog before.

I suppose like a good meme or old joke, there's always someone out there who has never seen it before. Young'ns. Whatcha gon' do?

Posted by: mindful webworker - 'I said ping pong balls, not...' at November 30, 2025 10:39 PM (LaTF/)

112 That is because that is the in toe style right now, pointy ones are considered dated.

Which caused me to shift to Justin work boots with rounded toes. Get off my lawn!

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 30, 2025 10:39 PM (47diA)

113 I think the ai that made the 80s stuff got a little confused
Posted by: banana Dream at November 30, 2025 10:34 PM (3uBP9)

Agree. The pink thing looks like a misshapen Trapper Keeper. Phone looks wonky. Atari console is missing some slider switches. The NES (Nintendo) looks pretty good though.

Posted by: Doof at November 30, 2025 10:39 PM (QMAsf)

114 The phone does look odd. There is a large square block protruding from what would normally be the handset cradle, and the handset is settled behind it. Plus the phone has a cord running away from it that doesn't seem to be connected to anything.

Maybe this was an AI image after all.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 30, 2025 10:39 PM (wzUl9)

115 Qpsteve,
The boot itself isn't wide, just the calf is wide.

Tonypete,
I have a high instep too.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at November 30, 2025 10:39 PM (VCgbV)

116 I'm number 2!

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 30, 2025 10:39 PM (XQo4F)

117
Beaver Cleaver and Violet Rutherford walked downtown to watch the lady in the store window demonstrating the "jiggle belt".
Posted by: Then The Malt Shoppe

She charged the drinks to her pop.
They she chewed the black gum.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 30, 2025 10:39 PM (pkeXY)

118 What's with the pic of Mordor?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 30, 2025 10:39 PM (0RiMX)

119 banana:

whenever you see anything pink in a 1980s pic, it's usually a leg warmer. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 30, 2025 10:40 PM (u0r2I)

120 Since you and I have now each handled the fashion segment, I think Piper should be responsible for the Wed and Thurs ONTs this week. Agree? Or at least give us a night off from our Club ONT duties and let us just be patrons for a night.
Posted by: Doof at November 30, 2025 10:34 PM (QMAsf

Wed is right out, I have both night classes. Unless you want the content to be the choreo for the night, one of my banger playlists you love so much for the music section, and pointers on what muscles to target, of course. Then I am all in!

Posted by: Piper at November 30, 2025 10:40 PM (Wmg4n)

121 Maduro is a scumbag who needs to be ended but I don't know how I feel about us doing it. I'd rather see us wipe out Antifa than Maduro.
Posted by: Oddbob at November 30, 2025 10:36 PM (3nLb4)

Does Antifa have oilfields sitting idle, just ripe for the plucking? I think not. Good day to you, sir!

I said good day!

Posted by: Zombie Dick Cheney at November 30, 2025 10:41 PM (P/woT)

122 Good evening morons ותודה דיסקו Piper too

Why do the clothes look different when Melania inside them?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 30, 2025 10:41 PM (BW4I7)

123 66 Two Geniuses Planned to Raise Homeless Army and Take Over an Exotic Island

Was that wrong? I see it as win-win several ways.
Posted by: mindful webworker
..........................................................
Sort of a Florida Man version of 'The Man Who Would Be King'
by Rudyard Kipling.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 30, 2025 10:41 PM (sAmhv)

124 I thought that pic of a gearbox was some sort of holiday dessert...

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 30, 2025 10:41 PM (u0r2I)

125 Remember the big theft of wine a few months ago?

That was those two guys raising a homeless army. That's how they planned to pay the troops.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 30, 2025 10:41 PM (KDPiq)

126 What's with the pic of Mordor?

Is Mount Doom hidden in the fog?

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 30, 2025 10:41 PM (47diA)

127 The phone does look odd. There is a large square block protruding from what would normally be the handset cradle, and the handset is settled behind it. Plus the phone has a cord running away from it that doesn't seem to be connected to anything.

Maybe this was an AI image after all.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 30, 2025 10:39 PM (wzUl9)

You could get a shoulder rest to attach to the handset, but the lump does not look like that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 30, 2025 10:41 PM (npFr7)

128 4 Wolfus Aurelius,
I got the Annie in brown goat skin.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at November 30, 2025

***
Nice! Is the goat soft, or do you think it will need some breaking in?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 30, 2025 10:41 PM (wzUl9)

129 I see Melania's shoes and my feet and knees just can't even...

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at November 30, 2025 10:42 PM (VCgbV)

130 I said good day!
Posted by: Zombie Dick Cheney

As we speak, Dick's chestnuts are roasting by an open fire.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 30, 2025 10:42 PM (u0r2I)

131 Venezuela has crappy sulfur oil.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 30, 2025 10:42 PM (KDPiq)

132 94 Or at least give us a night off from our Club ONT duties and let us just be patrons for a night.

Posted by: Doof at November 30, 2025 10:34 PM
***
Lemme see if there are open wobbly tables available first.

Posted by: TRex - Club ONT is more jeans than couture at November 30, 2025 10:42 PM (IQ6Gq)

133 totally rad stuff from the 80s?

Everything there now fits in your pocket in one device.

Surely someone has programmed a virtual etch-a-sketch.

Posted by: mindful webworker - more'n likely at November 30, 2025 10:43 PM (LaTF/)

134 Ah yes. The 50s or 40s drywaller. Union guy all the way. Straight D ticket in every election. Would never vote for those Rs. They were only for the rich and the corporations, not the little people.

He's the man who brought you today.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 30, 2025 10:43 PM (uQesX)

135 Nice! Is the goat soft, or do you think it will need some breaking in?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 30, 2025 10:41 PM (wzUl9)

I'm your huckleberry.

Posted by: Mohammed A. Mohammed at November 30, 2025 10:43 PM (npFr7)

136 Happy 25 Days until Christmas …

Slowly cooking off the Thanksgiving leftovers.

Posted by: Adriane the Not Enough Christmas Lights, the Planes Be Not Yet Circling the House Critic . . . at November 30, 2025 10:44 PM (3ZUWJ)

137
You could get a shoulder rest to attach to the handset, but the lump does not look like that.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I've seen a lot of phones but not one like that.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 30, 2025 10:45 PM (pkeXY)

138 I have one of those drywall hammers. I used it for some years then switched over to a drywall screw gun when they got popular that has a depth adjustment to set the screws at the right depth. Not quite as fast as nails, but better installation in the long run. BTW, I'm not sure that dude in the film is hanging drywall as we know it. Its probably what they called rock lath, its a base for plaster that replaced the older wood lath which took forever to install. The 2x4 size panels is kind of a giveaway. I ran across it a lot in the older homes. The first version had a series of 3/4" holes (approx) drilled into it to grab the undercoat of plaster, basically the "grey" rougher plaster found under the smoother white plaster top coat.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 30, 2025 10:45 PM (snZF9)

139 Venezuela has crappy sulfur oil.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 30, 2025 10:42 PM (KDPiq)

High-sulfur oil is still oil, and Texas has refineries that are tuned for it. And sulfur itself is a marketable commodity.

Posted by: Mohammed A. Mohammed at November 30, 2025 10:45 PM (npFr7)

140 This sounds like an awesome plan. Kinda would have liked to see how it would have turned out.

Two Geniuses Planned to Raise Homeless Army and Take Over an Exotic Island

Hey! Watch it. That's our turf busters.

Posted by: CIA at November 30, 2025 10:46 PM (uQesX)

141 The best thing about Leave It To Beaver was watching Miss Landers. I never had teachers that looked like that.

Posted by: Case at November 30, 2025 10:46 PM (5Je/N)

142 Wolfus,
The goat is definitely softer than the calf skin. Not sure about durability wise but I won't be wearing them every day so that's ok.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at November 30, 2025 10:46 PM (VCgbV)

143 I have a Whitehouse Christmas Card from Donald and Melania Trump. It has their signatures. Okay, the signatures might be by autopen. It was sent to me after I donated to his 2016 election. It's not like I know them personally, and hang out in Palm Beach.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 30, 2025 10:46 PM (0Htd1)

144 I think the Etch-A-Sketch was around well before the 1980s.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 30, 2025 10:46 PM (0CU3H)

145 Dan Post boots and Cody James models still offer the rounded toe, and you can get that style in Tecovas models, so it isn't gone completely. To me the wide square toe looks like a duck's foot -- hardly the image of a tough American cowboy.

I'm thinking I'll get a pair of the regular cowboy boots in a caramel color -- no exotic leather, just cowhide or goat. Distressed would be fine. If I get a black pair, a satin finish would be my preference.

My current Dan Posts are a black cherry color, and look sharp with jeans or with brown casual slacks.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 30, 2025 10:46 PM (wzUl9)

146 Venezuela has crappy sulfur oil.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 30, 2025 10:42 PM (KDPiq)

For that brimstone odor, which oddly enough I'm beginning to like.

I wonder if The Boss needs a new executive vice-president to stand behind The Throne of Skulls?

Posted by: Zombie Dick Cheney at November 30, 2025 10:46 PM (P/woT)

147 108 Maybe the pink thing is a TrapperKeeper which is kinda 80s.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 30, 2025 10:38 PM (3uBP9)

I thought so at first, but the flaps are too long.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 30, 2025 10:47 PM (bss/y)

148 I think the Etch-A-Sketch was around well before the 1980s.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 30, 2025

***
So was the cassette tape.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 30, 2025 10:47 PM (wzUl9)

149 Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 30, 2025 10:45 PM (snZF9)

The wood lathe is a pain in the ass if you're remodeling.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 30, 2025 10:47 PM (KDPiq)

150 Nice! Is the goat soft, or do you think it will need some breaking in?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 30, 2025 10:41 PM (wzUl9)

I'm your huckleberry.
Posted by: Mohammed A. Mohammed at November 30, 2025 10:43 PM (npFr7)

I can't stop laughing!!

Posted by: Doof at November 30, 2025 10:47 PM (QMAsf)

151 I am off to bed. And in case you are making a list, I wear a 37.5 in Manolo Blahniks. 🙂

Posted by: Piper at November 30, 2025 10:47 PM (Wmg4n)

152

The Etch A Sketch was introduced near the peak of the Baby Boom on July 12, 1960 for $2.99 (equivalent to $32 in 2024)

wickedpedia

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 30, 2025 10:47 PM (pkeXY)

153 AOP + Berserker = same/same. I agree with each of you.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 30, 2025 10:47 PM (47diA)

154 and there's something odd about that dial telephone.

Hey!

Somebody with a nic like mine made fourth on the sockpuppet wall of shame. I'd like to thank Pixy, HP, the cobs, and of course Elon Musk for an occasionally-persistent IP.

Posted by: mindful webworker - persistent or recurring, something like that at November 30, 2025 10:47 PM (LaTF/)

155 She opted for a floor-length Christian Dior Palto Coat in ecru double-sided virgin wool and angora blend felt, cinched at the waist.

Posted by: CIA at November 30, 2025 10:48 PM (uQesX)

156 Wolfus: cassettes go back to 1962.

Were originally called Compact Cassettes. That name later lent itself to the compact disc in 1982.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 30, 2025 10:48 PM (u0r2I)

157 She opted for a floor-length Christian Dior Palto Coat in ecru double-sided virgin wool and angora blend felt, cinched at the waist.

Double sided virgin wool??

Does that mean the ewe doesn't allow rear entry either?

Posted by: Don Lemmon at November 30, 2025 10:49 PM (uQesX)

158 150 Nice! Is the goat soft, or do you think it will need some breaking in?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 30, 2025 10:41 PM (wzUl9)

I'm your huckleberry.
Posted by: Mohammed A. Mohammed at November 30, 2025 10:43 PM (npFr7)

I can't stop laughing!!
Posted by: Doof at November 30, 2025 10:47 PM (QMAsf)

Same! This one has to make some weekly list later on.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 30, 2025 10:50 PM (0CU3H)

159

https://tinyurl.com/4snukd6y

Posted by: the Wretched Panhard at November 30, 2025 10:50 PM (N7hqt)

160 I think I know what the problem is. That is not a drawing done by a human. The weird artifacts are made by an AI who was asked to display items from the 80s. The cord on the Nintendo, the weird thing on the old phone. The trapper keeper. Etc.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 30, 2025 10:50 PM (bss/y)

161 Marine job options:

1.) Hold an umbrella for Obama while you get rained on in your full dress uniform

2.) Put out your arm to escort Melania

Lefties would pick option 1, Righties would pick option 2.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 30, 2025 10:51 PM (HlyYF)

162 If Wikipedia is correct Wichita Kansas was the test market for the TrapperKeeper in 1978. A lot of things got test marketed in Wichita. PepsiCo tested a good amount of things there for pizza and generally fast food. I guess it was seen as a good indicator of national sentiment back then.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 30, 2025 10:51 PM (3uBP9)

163 >Nice! Is the goat soft, or do you think it will need some breaking in?
----

what are we talking about here

Posted by: Don Black at November 30, 2025 10:52 PM (3Zr+X)

164 Little-known fact: Sanyo made a cassette format that was almost]/i] like a Compact Cassette, but with the holes for the capstan and the locating pins spaced differently. I got one of those machines quite cheap, and was able to relocate the pins to allow to use compact cassettes.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 30, 2025 10:52 PM (npFr7)

165 oops.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 30, 2025 10:52 PM (npFr7)

166 Love the 80s, hahaha! Melania always looks so classy, but I especially like that Dolce & Gabbana Lamé Lace midi... perfect holiday dinner party attire.

Thanks Doof and Piper!

Posted by: JQ at November 30, 2025 10:53 PM (rdVOm)

167 Continuing my complete geeking out, picked up a three pack of touch displays that have integrated ESP32 dev boards, set up a little webserver on it to serve some system pages and a news crawl to test.

The sky's the limit with these things

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 30, 2025 10:53 PM (XV/Pl)

168 One thing that doesn't match in that 80s pic is the phone.

It's a rotary phone. In the early 1980s the big thing was to have a push-button model. Was a big deal to me when our family upgraded.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 30, 2025 10:53 PM (u0r2I)

169 Are we sure that's a trapper keeper? Is that what the writing on it says?

Posted by: the way I see it at November 30, 2025 10:53 PM (KDPiq)

170 Wolfus: cassettes go back to 1962.

Were originally called Compact Cassettes. That name later lent itself to the compact disc in 1982.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 30, 2025

***
My oldest friend had an early "large format" cassette machine. It sat up high like a radio set, and the cassette itself was huge -- to contain two of the very small reel-to-reel tapes. The thing had a terrible microphone. He used it to record episodes of Trek, just the sound of course, and the playback wasn't very good. Still, it was an interesting device. When the small ones appeared in my stores, and you could play them in your car (instead of those awkward 8-Tracks), I always thought of their ancestor.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 30, 2025 10:54 PM (wzUl9)

171 my hash is all over the place

Posted by: Don Black at November 30, 2025 10:54 PM (3Zr+X)

172
I think I know what the problem is. That is not a drawing done by a human. The weird artifacts are made by an AI who was asked to display items from the 80s. The cord on the Nintendo, the weird thing on the old phone. The trapper keeper. Etc.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

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

The label on the cassette tape.

Best OE ‘80s

???

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 30, 2025 10:54 PM (n7rxJ)

173 Work? Work?

Dobie Gillis' friend, whose name I cannot remember.
Posted by: LRob in OK

In case no one else has responded to this yet:

Gilligan.
😁

Posted by: mindful webworker - based on Jughead at November 30, 2025 10:54 PM (LaTF/)

174 Same! This one has to make some weekly list later on.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 30, 2025 10:50 PM (0CU3H)

The 3 D's have made note of your recommendation

Posted by: Doof at November 30, 2025 10:54 PM (QMAsf)

175 I'm outta here. I'd like to feel like 29 x 2 when I wake up in the AM. You morons are pretty funny. Thanks.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 30, 2025 10:54 PM (47diA)

176 163 >Nice! Is the goat soft, or do you think it will need some breaking in?
----

what are we talking about here
Posted by: Don Black at November 30, 2025 10:52 PM (3Zr+X)

Heh.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 30, 2025 10:54 PM (bss/y)

177 The best thing about Leave It To Beaver was watching Miss Landers. I never had teachers that looked like that.
Posted by: Case

I did - 3rd grade teacher Mrs. Katzmann. She had a powder blue 60 Plymouth Fury convertible. She'd take me and my buddy Keith out for ice cream after school. We were too young to know exactly what she had but we knew we were interested in it.

Hubba hubba. If a teacher did that today she'd go to jail.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 30, 2025 10:54 PM (cYBz/)

178 The wood lathe is a pain in the ass if you're remodeling.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 30, 2025 10:47 PM (KDPiq)

That shit was the bane of my existence when working in the old houses. On the other hand we used to save a lot of it because the rough cut 2X4s used back then would be all different levels when you put a straight edge across them, so we used the wood lath to pack out the shallow 2x4s so the walls would be straight for sheetrock and not have any dips or waves. The wood lath varied in thickness, so it was good. You only needed to find the right thickness for whatever 2x4 you were dealing with. Basically, a puzzle of great agony. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 30, 2025 10:55 PM (snZF9)

179 AOP, kewl!
I wonder if it was an elcassette machine you purchased.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 30, 2025 10:55 PM (u0r2I)

180 Nice! Is the goat soft, or do you think it will need some breaking in?
----

what are we talking about here
Posted by: Don Black at November 30, 2025

***
Goatskin *leather*, I meant, not the actual ruminant.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 30, 2025 10:56 PM (wzUl9)

181 Wolfus, sounds like an interesting format. :-)

I can understand why a cassette for tapes was a popular craving way back when. People loved recording things but didn't enjoy winding tape through a reel-to-reel recorder.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 30, 2025 10:57 PM (u0r2I)

182 Goatskin *leather*, I meant, not the actual ruminant.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 30, 2025 10:56 PM (wzUl9)

Sure, Wolfus.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 30, 2025 10:57 PM (bss/y)

183 The first appearance of Maynard G Krebs:

http://mindfulwebworks.com/
radical/maynard-on-drugs

Posted by: mindful webworker - hipster, beatnik, proto-hippie at November 30, 2025 10:57 PM (LaTF/)

184 Thanks Doof and Piper!
Posted by: JQ at November 30, 2025 10:53 PM (rdVOm)

Howdy JQ! How's the Club's main barkeep doing tonight?

Posted by: Doof at November 30, 2025 10:57 PM (QMAsf)

185 Are we sure that's a trapper keeper? Is that what the writing on it says?
Posted by: the way I see it at November 30, 2025 10:53 PM (KDPiq)

Well, the label on the cassette does say: "BEST OE 80s"

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 30, 2025 10:57 PM (P/woT)

186 I just watched the repeat of the first golf skins game in 1983. Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Gary Player and Tom Watson were the players.

Arnold is dead, Jack is 86 , Player is 90 and Watson is 76.

Time flies .

Posted by: the way I see it at November 30, 2025 10:58 PM (KDPiq)

187 It's a rotary phone. In the early 1980s the big thing was to have a push-button model.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 30, 2025 10:53 PM (u0r2I)
-

A.k.a., "touch-tone" phones.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 30, 2025 10:58 PM (mOv6P)

188 My oldest friend had an early "large format" cassette machine. It sat up high like a radio set, and the cassette itself was huge -- to contain two of the very small reel-to-reel tapes. The thing had a terrible microphone. He used it to record episodes of Trek, just the sound of course, and the playback wasn't very good. Still, it was an interesting device. When the small ones appeared in my stores, and you could play them in your car (instead of those awkward 8-Tracks), I always thought of their ancestor.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 30, 2025 10:54 PM (wzUl9)

There were "cart" (cartridge) machines used in radio stations for playing commercials and station breaks. Larger format than VHS tapes.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 30, 2025 10:58 PM (npFr7)

189 Goatskin *leather*, I meant, not the actual ruminant.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Heh! Now I'll never look at my boots the same way!

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at November 30, 2025 10:58 PM (VCgbV)

190 How about 1980s cars and the T-tops? A buddy had an '86 Camaro.

Posted by: Rex B at November 30, 2025 10:59 PM (r6f6k)

191 "touch-tone" is the phrase I was searching for. Thanks!

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 30, 2025 10:59 PM (u0r2I)

192
The homeless would be unreliable soldiers. They might get into an argument with a tree, delaying their mission. Or clean the windshield of a jeep and demand payment. Or not respect the chain of command, e.g. hit them with a chair when they're not looking.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 30, 2025 10:59 PM (iTNuP)

193 I did have a pair of chocolate-colored goatskin cowboy boots -- picked up at a store closing sale in Denver in 1997. I wore them for many years and had them resoled as necessary, until the shoe repair shop said they could no longer resole them; it would take up too much of the upper leather and make the boots too small. I'd never heard that before.

Hated to see those boots go.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 30, 2025 11:00 PM (wzUl9)

194 There were "cart" (cartridge) machines used in radio stations for playing commercials and station breaks. Larger format than VHS tapes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 30, 2025

***
Right; I used carts all the time in radio in the '70s and even into the '90s.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 30, 2025 11:01 PM (wzUl9)

195 Well, started getting ready for the tree today. Had to move furniture and change the layout of the room. All in preparation of the berserker christmas party of the immortals. I got 2 weeks to get everything done. Sucks to be me.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 30, 2025 11:01 PM (snZF9)

196 Wolfus, I think a lot of radio stations are still using carts.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 30, 2025 11:02 PM (u0r2I)

197 My 40s house had narrow wood slats with plaster over it. And my bathroom was a raised floor with concrete poured between the wood frames. And the electric was in paper sheathed metal conduits. And the plumbing…. AAAAGH THE NIGHTMARES ARE COMING BACK!!

Posted by: banana Dream at November 30, 2025 11:02 PM (3uBP9)

198 Arnold is dead, Jack is 86 , Player is 90 and Watson is 76.

Time flies .
Posted by: the way I see it

The Knight's of Columbus 4th Degree motto is:

Tempus fugit, Memento mori

"Time flies, Remember you must die"

Nobody does death like Catholics.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 30, 2025 11:02 PM (cYBz/)

199 I had a pair of ostrich boots that I took with me when I moved to NYC. If I had ever seen Midnight Cowboy I probably would have left them in Louisiana.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 30, 2025 11:03 PM (KDPiq)

200 banana: a death trap, you say?

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 30, 2025 11:04 PM (u0r2I)

201 Nyah?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 30, 2025 11:04 PM (dnZHb)

202 Got to work out tomorrow morning, all, so I'm off to bed. Play nice and don't get caught!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 30, 2025 11:06 PM (wzUl9)

203 Why would anyone want to use DC zombies to conquer an island already full of zombies?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 30, 2025 11:06 PM (dnZHb)

204 My 40s house had narrow wood slats with plaster over it. And my bathroom was a raised floor with concrete poured between the wood frames. And the electric was in paper sheathed metal conduits. And the plumbing…. AAAAGH THE NIGHTMARES ARE COMING BACK!!

Posted by: banana Dream at November 30, 2025 11:02 PM (3uBP9)

Coming back?? That was my daily hell doing kitchens and baths in those old houses. Those bathroom floors were a riot. I love how they carved the top of the floor joists in the bathrooms into those little peaks as some kind of retarded way to retain the concrete.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 30, 2025 11:07 PM (snZF9)

205 Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 30, 2025 11:01 PM (snZF9)

I just did a marathon watching of Rock documentaries. You must have been an exception to the rule.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 30, 2025 11:08 PM (KDPiq)

206 I know Vanessa Neuman who is the go to on anything Venezuela on Fox. She is quoted all over the story above.

Jaw dropping sexy woman - was a LT girlfriend of Mick Jagger in the 80's

Posted by: Bob Crane at November 30, 2025 11:08 PM (OERWa)

207 This is one of the best things I have ever seen.

https://tinyurl.com/73y3ubt6

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 30, 2025 11:08 PM (Y7TJ9)

208 I think I know what the problem is. That is not a drawing done by a human. The weird artifacts are made by an AI who was asked to display items from the 80s. The cord on the Nintendo, the weird thing on the old phone. The trapper keeper. Etc.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

I think AI turned the earpiece 90 degrees on the phone's handset. And the cradle is missing the two springed actuators that would complete/interrupt the circuit to answer/hang up the call. Fail...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 30, 2025 11:09 PM (nbLIj)

209 Howdy, Doof!

Enjoying my night off, I am.. finished the pumpkin pie, ate my other cheeburger.. life is good!

Posted by: JQ at November 30, 2025 11:10 PM (rdVOm)

210 The carts we used in the early 80's looked almost exactly like 8 track tapes with a transparent window on top and if I recall correctly, a metal base. you could have five different versions of a commercial on one cart, just stuff it in the machine, hit the button, it played the next commercial and stopped ready-to-go for the next one. Radio was fun, but I never made much money.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 30, 2025 11:10 PM (vd6bO)

211 I just did a marathon watching of Rock documentaries. You must have been an exception to the rule.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 30, 2025 11:08 PM (KDPiq)

Explain?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 30, 2025 11:11 PM (snZF9)

212 But no one ever made a time machine out of a 1980s Camaro.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 30, 2025 11:11 PM (dnZHb)

213 Gonna take over one of them there islands where when you land on the beach with a gun people beg to be shot.

And all you gotta do with homeless is get them sober. A week at sea should do that. Add more lash and sodomy to take the edge off.

Posted by: Reforger at November 30, 2025 11:11 PM (03GBw)

214 You Don’t Know What You’ve Got (Until You Lose It) - Ral Donner 1961
https://youtu.be/EGRAMPA-5hs

What You Got (Remastered 2010)
John Lennon 1974
https://youtu.be/mC7JHVF1tsQ

Posted by: mindful webworker - among others at November 30, 2025 11:12 PM (LaTF/)

215 Don, radio never paid much because it was a job EVERYBODY wanted to do. Same problem in Hollywood. They barely have to pay new writers for scripts.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 30, 2025 11:12 PM (u0r2I)

216 Evenin’, All. Hey, FOOD!

Posted by: Bulg at November 30, 2025 11:12 PM (77rzZ)

217 Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 30, 2025 11:11 PM (snZF9)

You seem to have your shit together . Are there any bands that weren't dysfunctional?

Posted by: the way I see it at November 30, 2025 11:13 PM (KDPiq)

218 >>> I love how they carved the top of the floor joists in the bathrooms into those little peaks as some kind of retarded way to retain the concrete.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 30, 2025 11:07 PM (snZF9)

It was all a mess. And the house had been owned by the kind of people that thought they were good at DIY reno and should have really hired a pro.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 30, 2025 11:13 PM (3uBP9)

219 101 Looks like war is on the table with Venezuela.

Maduro is a scumbag who needs to be ended but I don't know how I feel about us doing it. I'd rather see us wipe out Antifa than Maduro.
Posted by: Oddbob
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Retweeted by Lara Logan@laralogan . 23h & Mike Flynn . 5hr
The CIA is still trying to control it - by pushing their assets/allies forward to replace Maduro

@GhostEzraQ . Nov 29

This isn’t just about Maduro. This is the final nail in the coffin for the CIA-black-budget narco pipeline that’s been running since the 80s.

Sinaloa, CJNG, Tren de Aragua they’re all tentacles of the SAME beast that’s been protected by rogue elements inside Langley and the Pentagon for decades.

Who do you think really armed the Venezuelan “gangs” that flooded swing states right before the election? Who flew the untraceable Gulfstreams full of product and kids out of Maturín and Maiquetía while Biden looked the other way?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 30, 2025 11:14 PM (Y7TJ9)

220 I'm not guessing what's in the future. I'm not Nostradamus, but more of Nostrapotamus. Many of my prognostications are less insightful than a pile of dung.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 30, 2025 11:14 PM (S/Y4j)

221 Anna: but they did make a Back To The Future movie starring... Eric Stoltz.

(Look it up.)
:-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 30, 2025 11:14 PM (u0r2I)

222 This is one of the best things I have ever seen.

https://tinyurl.com/73y3ubt6
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 30, 2025 11:08 PM (Y7TJ9)

LOL! Only thing better would be a 1911.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 30, 2025 11:14 PM (npFr7)

223 Another reason why Hollywood is a dead zombie unaware they are dead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1_2JehaKOw

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 30, 2025 11:15 PM (dnZHb)

224 Honestly the thing I most miss from the 80s is the somewhat sane pop culture.

No trannies
No jihadis
Hell, no Big Gay

Posted by: Pete Bootyjuice at November 30, 2025 11:15 PM (sKqQm)

225 "Touch-tone" LOL!

When my parents got their first push-button phone, it made the tones but the system was "pulse" so you still have to wait for the click-click-clicking to finish after you pushed all the buttons. (ca. mid-1970s)

Posted by: JQ at November 30, 2025 11:16 PM (rdVOm)

226 I think I know what the problem is. That is not a drawing done by a human. The weird artifacts are made by an AI who was asked to display items from the 80s. The cord on the Nintendo, the weird thing on the old phone. The trapper keeper. Etc.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

How did it miss the Colgate Pump?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 30, 2025 11:16 PM (Z5/Ih)

227 The next time sen. mark kelly is asked what illegal order? Killing to boat survivors on a life raft is illegal order and war crime.

Posted by: raimondo at November 30, 2025 11:16 PM (XX7ZU)

228 JQ: as I recall, there was a setting on the phone sometimes where you could choose whether it made the pulses or tones. Doesn't make any sense to me, but who knows.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 30, 2025 11:17 PM (u0r2I)

229 That's "two" raimondo. "Two."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 30, 2025 11:18 PM (0RiMX)

230 138 I have one of those drywall hammers. I used it for some years
--------

I have one. i

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 30, 2025 11:18 PM (Y7TJ9)

231 215 Don, radio never paid much because it was a job EVERYBODY wanted to do. Same problem in Hollywood. They barely have to pay new writers for scripts.
_-_
Yeah, I kinda fell backward into it. Living near a small town, looking tor work in the early 80's (oil boom gone bust), ran out of gas near a radio station and thought, what the hell, haven't tried that yet. They had me read some news copy on tape, then called and offered a weekend slot the next day.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 30, 2025 11:18 PM (vd6bO)

232 Don, those were the days! :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 30, 2025 11:19 PM (u0r2I)

233 Boobs!

Posted by: Bulg at November 30, 2025 11:19 PM (77rzZ)

234 Starting over.

138 I have one of those drywall hammers. I used it for some years
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I have one. It comes in handy when one is in a certain mood.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 30, 2025 11:19 PM (Y7TJ9)

235 And DCS killed the music video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvUafrp4wk0

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 30, 2025 11:19 PM (dnZHb)

236 It's not a war, dodo. It's anti-piracy action. Pirates have no rights at all. You just kill them. Same as roaches and Communists.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 30, 2025 11:20 PM (npFr7)

237 When did raimondo become an expert on the USCMJ?

Internet lawyers.

*snort*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 30, 2025 11:20 PM (0RiMX)

238 >>> Jaw dropping sexy woman - was a LT girlfriend of Mick Jagger in the 80's
Posted by: Bob Crane at November 30, 2025 11:08 PM (OERWa)

Who does the Lieutenant Girlfriend report to?

Posted by: banana Dream at November 30, 2025 11:20 PM (3uBP9)

239 Qdpsteve-- yes, there was a switch on the bottom for "tone" or "pulse"-- either way, you'd still hear the tones when you pushed the buttons.

Posted by: JQ at November 30, 2025 11:20 PM (rdVOm)

240 Who does the Lieutenant Girlfriend report to?
Posted by: banana Dream at November 30, 2025 11:20 PM (3uBP9)

The Captain's Mast?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 30, 2025 11:22 PM (npFr7)

241 Armed combatants in no recognized uniform are partisans/spies subject to summary execution in the field.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 30, 2025 11:23 PM (dnZHb)

242 We had the good pleasure of a party-line....only us and our closest neighbor, though, so not as bad as some...

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 30, 2025 11:23 PM (vd6bO)

243 The carts we used in the early 80's looked almost exactly like 8 track tapes with a transparent window on top and if I recall correctly, a metal base. you could have five different versions of a commercial on one cart, just stuff it in the machine, hit the button, it played the next commercial and stopped ready-to-go for the next one. Radio was fun, but I never made much money.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 30, 2025 11:10 PM (vd6bO)

I worked at an FM Muzak station in the early 80's and would load a handful of those carts into a carousal. Reel-reel machines had the "music" programs. There was a (silent) tone at 15 minute intervals that would stop the reel and that kicked off the first cart. Tone at the end of that cart kicked off the next, and so on, until the last one played. That tone would restart the music reel. I'd load the carousel with the next block of commercials while the music ran. It wasn't as glamorous as it sounds...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 30, 2025 11:24 PM (nbLIj)

244 "I never had teachers that looked like that."

I had one. 3rd grade. Just out of college.

Miss Qualiato.

She was a tomato.

Posted by: no one at November 30, 2025 11:24 PM (d6BF2)

245 241 Armed combatants in no recognized uniform are partisans/spies subject to summary execution in the field.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 30, 2025 11:23 PM (dnZHb)

Another quibble: arent we doing these boats in international waters?

Plus, I have yet to hear evidence? Video? Photo?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 30, 2025 11:24 PM (bss/y)

246 244 "I never had teachers that looked like that."

I had one. 3rd grade. Just out of college.

Miss Qualiato.

She was a tomato.
Posted by: no one at November 30, 2025 11:24 PM (d6BF2)

Ms Palko. 7th grade. Social studies.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 30, 2025 11:25 PM (bss/y)

247 Maduro is not the lawful president of Venezuela.
That said, there are a lot of tyrants in the world and it is not America's job to unseat them. Suppose some Cubans decide Trump is not a proper Communist so unfit to rule over us.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 30, 2025 11:25 PM (8zJKU)

248 Joe Kidd: oooo! Show business!! :-)
At least you didn't have to clean up after the elephant at the circus...

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 30, 2025 11:26 PM (u0r2I)

249 Another quibble: arent we doing these boats in international waters?

Plus, I have yet to hear evidence? Video? Photo?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 30, 2025 11:24 PM (bss/y)

Our lies are evidence!!!

Posted by: Leftists at November 30, 2025 11:26 PM (uQesX)

250 First of all it's just a Washington Post story. It was a certainty from the when the first drug boat was blown up the Left would eventually claim the US killed survivors. And unless someone on site provided that info, it's just hearsay.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 30, 2025 11:26 PM (KDPiq)

251 Suppose some Cubans decide Trump is not a proper Communist so unfit to rule over us.
Posted by: gKWVE at November 30, 2025 11:25 PM (8zJKU)

Well, I guess the cubans can join antifa and the deep state and try to remove him.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 30, 2025 11:26 PM (bss/y)

252 You seem to have your shit together . Are there any bands that weren't dysfunctional?

Posted by: the way I see it at November 30, 2025 11:13 PM (KDPiq)

In my experience? No, lol. Well there are, but just like with anything else, you got 4-5 different brains to deal with. The bands that have 5 dudes running towards the finish line are the ones that usually do ok. Still don't mean you'll succeed, but there are much less problems during the voyage. As far as the members go individually wise, thats a crap shoot. Some members are chronic fuck ups, great players who just can't get their shit together. They do things like forget their guitar cords, or straps, or extra strings, etc. Yeah I'm the asshole who always brought spare everything, so yeah I did have my shit together. In some other bands we had a few good dudes that were on top of things, other bands not so much. Some bands were a complete clusterfuck but were damn fun to play in. Its all over the map really. In the end, yeah, a good amount of bands are totally screwups.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 30, 2025 11:27 PM (snZF9)

253 It wasn't as glamorous as it sounds...
Yes, but climate-controlled beats the crap out off working in a refinery...or, what was more fun where I grew up, one of the local carbon black plants.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 30, 2025 11:27 PM (vd6bO)

254 250 First of all it's just a Washington Post story. It was a certainty from the when the first drug boat was blown up the Left would eventually claim the US killed survivors. And unless someone on site provided that info, it's just hearsay.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 30, 2025 11:26 PM (KDPiq)

They machine gunned all the survivors! I saw it!
-Casper

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 30, 2025 11:27 PM (bss/y)

255 Aetius, yeah, I was more or less thinking along those lines.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 30, 2025 11:27 PM (8zJKU)

256 227 The next time sen. mark kelly is asked what illegal order? Killing to boat survivors on a life raft is illegal order and war crime.
Posted by: raimondo a
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The rule is that we are to blame Mark Kelly's political rhetoric for the shooting of our National Guardsmen in DC.

This rule was created by Mark Kelly when his wife was shot in 2011 by a deranged lunatic for completely apolitical reasons. Kelly and the Democrats and the media blamed Sarah Palin, Andrew Breitbart, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck for the shooting.

This is the rule.
It's HIS and his party's rule

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 30, 2025 11:28 PM (Y7TJ9)

257 I wonder if the cartel worker safety guy makes them put life rafts on their boats. One of them would take up a lot of space where you could put something else, like Coke or Heroin. It's good to hear they take care of their workers though.

Posted by: Reforger at November 30, 2025 11:30 PM (03GBw)

258 Berserker, fame and fortune seem to work like a drug.
Once bands get it, everyone in the band seems to stop maturing and just freezes, developmentally.

That IMHO is sort of what happened to the Beach Boys. It's only now that people like Mike Love can look back and say, "wow, I and Brian and Dennis were really screwed up."

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 30, 2025 11:30 PM (u0r2I)

259 Urban legend, military style:

USN enlisted man, an E3, missed "duty" for the second time in a month, and was scheduled for Captain's Mast. Knew he was gonna lose a stripe, so smart-ass decided he would fix up his uniform & lowest stripe with velcro so he could remove it on-the-spot when the inevitable occured.

Mast proceeded as he'd anticipated when the Captain said "reduction in rank to E2" so our enlisted man grinned and pulled off that stripe.

"That's a neat trick, sailor. Let's see you do it again. Reduction in rank to E1"

Posted by: JQ at November 30, 2025 11:30 PM (rdVOm)

260 Oh, and those airpants? Am I to believe someone is going to have the lung capacity to inflate those things and THEN work out in them? I assume you have to put them on before inflating, yes? So she blows yours up (I know, phrasing), then you gotta somehow scooch down and...

Now I want to get a pair and make a Yootube of this. I'll need a willing assistant...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 30, 2025 11:31 PM (nbLIj)

261 Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 30, 2025 11:27 PM (snZF9)

Just for context I watched Kisstory, one on Metallica and one on Alice Cooper and his bandmates.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 30, 2025 11:31 PM (KDPiq)

262 Someone should ask Kelly if he still blames Palin et al for what happened to his wife.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 30, 2025 11:31 PM (u0r2I)

263 Listen, if we can upend the SA drug trade, end the CIA's multi-generational Op game, and save some American lives by taking out Maduro, I'm all for it.

The US has largely been derelict in SA, for f**ks sake, we're letting the commies run the f**king place, we should have beaten it into being a good ally like we did the Japanese.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 30, 2025 11:32 PM (XV/Pl)

264 Thanks for the laughs tonight, Horde, I have been putting Christmas stuff up all day and I am going to bed. My neighbor and I are hoping to get all of our shopping done tomorrow.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 30, 2025 11:32 PM (0nHVk)

265 The Haiti invaders reminded me of an old true story, back in the 70s or so there was a coup in a small African country, two SAS guys flew in commercial from Britain, went to the presidential palace, beat up the guards and took their guns, then went in and re-installed the ousted leader. Can't remember much more of the details.

Posted by: Yop at November 30, 2025 11:32 PM (RKj5x)

266 Venezuela's mistake was letting Chavez live after his first failed coup.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 30, 2025 11:33 PM (dnZHb)

267 The Haiti invaders reminded me of an old true story, back in the 70s or so there was a coup in a small African country, two SAS guys flew in commercial from Britain, went to the presidential palace, beat up the guards and took their guns, then went in and re-installed the ousted leader. Can't remember much more of the details.
Posted by: Yop at November 30, 2025 11:32 PM (RKj5x)

The Dogs of War was a really good movie.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 30, 2025 11:33 PM (KDPiq)

268 257 I wonder if the cartel worker safety guy makes them put life rafts on their boats. One of them would take up a lot of space where you could put something else, like Coke or Heroin. It's good to hear they take care of their workers though.
Posted by: Reforger at November 30, 2025 11:30 PM (03GBw)

The safety guy has to be getting frustrated with his flip sign too.

'00' Days since last lost time accident. *sigh*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 30, 2025 11:34 PM (bss/y)

269 First of all it's just a Washington Post story. It was a certainty from the when the first drug boat was blown up the Left would eventually claim the US killed survivors. And unless someone on site provided that info, it's just hearsay.
Posted by: the way I see it

See, they were surviving until their boat got blown up!
Killing survivors.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 30, 2025 11:34 PM (Z5/Ih)

270 'Night, Debby. Happy shopping tomorrow!

Posted by: JQ at November 30, 2025 11:35 PM (rdVOm)

271 Pentagon spokesman, "so you want us to leave them in water so the sharks eat them?"

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 30, 2025 11:35 PM (dnZHb)

272 >>"so you want us to leave them in water so the sharks eat them?"
----------

I... I do not have a problem with that...

Posted by: JQ at November 30, 2025 11:37 PM (rdVOm)

273 >>>The US has largely been derelict in SA, for f**ks sake, we're letting the commies run the f**king place, we should have beaten it into being a good ally like we did the Japanese.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
----

Ecuador, recently, voted to disallow a US base on its soil.
We need to make a friendly presence while driving out the
commies.

I think Guyana is looking for a friend, right now.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 30, 2025 11:38 PM (Y7TJ9)

274 274

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 30, 2025 11:38 PM (QVmho)

275
My work here is done. G'night everyone.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 30, 2025 11:39 PM (QVmho)

276 Mast proceeded as he'd anticipated when the Captain said "reduction in rank to E2" so our enlisted man grinned and pulled off that stripe.

"That's a neat trick, sailor. Let's see you do it again. Reduction in rank to E1"
Posted by: JQ

Normally, Army side, you'd unpin your PFC rank right there.
Nobody cares if you then or ever pinned on the skeeter wings.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 30, 2025 11:40 PM (Z5/Ih)

277 It was all a mess. And the house had been owned by the kind of people that thought they were good at DIY reno and should have really hired a pro.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 30, 2025 11:13 PM (3uBP9)

Oh yeah, some people can be lethal to a house. I'll never forget this one job. There wasn't even a kitchen or bath involved because we had branched out into actual restoration. This poor house. It was a beautiful 3 floor old house that had a round 3 floor corner tower. They had an electrician friend come in to do a job. When I say it looked like the 3 stooges did it, I..am ..not...frigging..kidding. Beautiful hardwood floors that had 12"X12" holes cut into them as if somebody plunged a circular saw into it. I can just hear Curly giggling while doing it. They had 2x2 wholes blasted into plaster walls where a single receptacle box hung by a wire and not anchored, and that was done in a lot of locations. We were there over a month. We had to sheetrock some entire rooms, plaster whole walls in others. We had to fit pieces of oak into the ruined floors which then needed to be sanded and refinished, and on and on. It was sickening what they did.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 30, 2025 11:42 PM (snZF9)

278 'Night, Debby. Happy shopping tomorrow!
Posted by: JQ at November 30, 2025 11:35 PM (rdVOm)

Dang, I was hoping Debby would be my willing assistant.

(Eyes JQ.. Straightens tie..)

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 30, 2025 11:46 PM (nbLIj)

279 (Eyes JQ.. Straightens tie..)
Posted by: Joe Kidd
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*switches on 'pancake' air compressor*

Say what now?

Posted by: JQ at November 30, 2025 11:49 PM (rdVOm)

280 Goodnight, All. Sleep well:

Posted by: Bulg at November 30, 2025 11:50 PM (77rzZ)

281 'Night, Bulg

Posted by: JQ at November 30, 2025 11:52 PM (rdVOm)

282 If you are more than an little curious about what is supposedly really going on in Venezuela, try the link below. It is to a substack written by a woman named Elizabeth Nickson.
If you read this and think it is believable (and the story is being picked up by other people in the alternative media), then it might explain more about what Donald Trump and his administration are trying to do. It is very interesting.

https://tinyurl.com/49ma5ab6

Posted by: Pepperidge Farms remembers at November 30, 2025 11:56 PM (13Txl)

283 273 >>>The US has largely been derelict in SA, for f**ks sake, we're letting the commies run the f**king place, we should have beaten it into being a good ally like we did the Japanese.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
----

Ecuador, recently, voted to disallow a US base on its soil.
We need to make a friendly presence while driving out the
commies.

I think Guyana is looking for a friend, right now.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 30, 2025 11:38 PM (Y7TJ9)

Sad fact is that unless you are part of NATO, the US can be a fickle ally.

The policy towards your country can drastically change every 4 years...

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 30, 2025 11:57 PM (mP0Kj)

284 *switches on 'pancake' air compressor*

Say what now?
Posted by: JQ at November 30, 2025 11:49 PM (rdVOm)

Ok, we probably should have checked the psi rating on these things..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 30, 2025 11:57 PM (nbLIj)

285 A 'pancake' air compressor works great until it turns the air into maple syrup. :-P

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 30, 2025 11:59 PM (u0r2I)

286 I am older. Remember the 80's very well.
Miss VHS, Link rescuing Princess Peach on Nintendo, mixtapes.
Boomboxes were the care that blasts music you don't want to hear. VHS

Posted by: LGBTQ+POC, ANTI RACIST HERO at December 01, 2025 12:00 AM (aRd0E)

287 Funny thing I saw tonight, as I took wheelie bin to the street...

Weird lights in the sky. It's mostly cloudy, not quite overcast, but lights were moving back & forth across the clouds. Obviously, somebody has a very bright light and was aiming it at the sky. Colors, too! Pretty cool, and fun for a kid or a *big kid* LOL.

There's a few houses and trees in between, so I can't see exactly where it came from, but I'd bet my entire life savings on that light belonging to my older brother! He was always doing stuff like that. Too bad we don't get along any more-- he could sometimes be fun to hang around with.

Posted by: JQ at December 01, 2025 12:00 AM (rdVOm)

288 Good evening Horde! Very satisfying content tonight, Disco. Read the content, but lack the PPE for the comments.

- Gotta appreciate the craftsmanship with the drywaller
- Piper Fashion >>> Dino fashion (respect the effort, however)
- Stephanie Seymour... sigh... Oooh, La, La whatababe
- The 80's: Had all those items except unidentifiable pink item in bottom right

Posted by: scampydog at December 01, 2025 12:00 AM (41CYW)

289 Sorry, VHS tapes are still transferable way better than 8 mm or miniDV. Cell phones have become a nightmare in nearly every way.

Posted by: LGBTQ+POC, ANTI RACIST HERO at December 01, 2025 12:02 AM (aRd0E)

290 269 First of all it's just a Washington Post story. It was a certainty from the when the first drug boat was blown up the Left would eventually claim the US killed survivors. And unless someone on site provided that info, it's just hearsay.
Posted by: the way I see it

But the thing is, they’re big mad because there were no survivors. What’s astounding is that they’re trying to push this like it’s some impeachable thing - but the story even as told is stupid as all get out, and it’s already falling apart more.

Start with this fact: a Hellfire missile has a killing radius of 20 meters, extending to 5O meters with shrapnel taken into account, and this was only a 30’ boat. Everyone on it was dead after the first hit, and IF there was a second shot, it was only to make sure the wreck wasn’t floating where someone else could fish some fentanyl packages out of it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 01, 2025 12:02 AM (3U2FH)

291 The pink item is a Trapper Keeper.

But the AI messed up drawing it. It was a glorified three-ring binder, not a tent.

Posted by: qdpsteve at December 01, 2025 12:02 AM (u0r2I)

292 There's a few houses and trees in between, so I can't see exactly where it came from, but I'd bet my entire life savings on that light belonging to my older brother! He was always doing stuff like that. Too bad we don't get along any more-- he could sometimes be fun to hang around with.
Posted by: JQ at December 01, 2025 12:00 AM (rdVOm)

I remember as a kid growing up in Phoenix, some of the car dealers would rent these huge skylights and whenever there was some overcast let them play all over the bottoms of the clouds. Pretty cool to watch.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 01, 2025 12:04 AM (3U2FH)

293 I found this strangely satisfying to watch

Things David French says about watching his wife be manhandled by a well-hung brute.

Posted by: Brute Squad Quarterly at December 01, 2025 12:05 AM (Z/cmS)

294 Ahhh, fabulous, the Trapper Keeper. Pink, velcro, 3 ringer. Homework secured. Never had one.

Posted by: scampydog at December 01, 2025 12:07 AM (41CYW)

295 I remember as a kid growing up in Phoenix, some of the car dealers would rent these huge skylights and whenever there was some overcast let them play all over the bottoms of the clouds. Pretty cool to watch.
Posted by: Tom Servo

People would drive for miles to find the light.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 01, 2025 12:08 AM (Z5/Ih)

296 scampydog, same here.

There were fad items in the 1980s I remember everyone having (I actually had a Members Only jacket for instance), but then others that I don't recall anyone ever really owning.

Posted by: qdpsteve at December 01, 2025 12:09 AM (u0r2I)

297 People would drive for miles to find the light.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 01, 2025 12:08 AM (Z5/Ih)

Those things were huge.

Posted by: Reforger at December 01, 2025 12:10 AM (03GBw)

298 I picture a homeless army as occupying the zone between Stripes and Dawn of the Dead.
- - - - - -
A Hobo with a Shotgun would be a more effective army...

Posted by: As not seen on TV at December 01, 2025 12:10 AM (zqi7d)

299 Ahhh, fabulous, the Trapper Keeper. Pink, velcro, 3 ringer. Homework secured. Never had one.
Posted by: scampydog

The Trapper Keeper was where you kept your Trappers.

You could by Trappers to put in your regular binder.
Those with taste for the finer things would also go for the Trapper Keeper.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 01, 2025 12:12 AM (Z5/Ih)

300 I went to elementary school in the 1980s. Everyone had a trapper keeper. If that's not true for you, you were not in elementary school in the 1980s or are a foreigner or AI chat bot.

Posted by: Hugh G. Rection at December 01, 2025 12:12 AM (mJghz)

301 Posted by: Tom Servo at December 01, 2025 12:02 AM (3U2FH)

War crime is like Climate Change... it's all dependent on what WE want to call it as an attack.

Now, if they want to quote the specific UCMJ Reg they broke? OK, But the nebulous 'War Crime' as is there is some body of Law from some Government with supremacy over the Constitution? ya... uh... no.

The closest thing is the Geneva Convention, which says it is quite OK to outright kill Terrorists, and unarmed combatants... but I don't think I've ever heard of someone being Prosecuted in US Courts, for violating the Geneva Convention.

there is apparently a 'War Crimes Act of 1996' that makes 'grave' violations of the conventions prosecutable under US law... but it never gives specifics, as to what actions are criminal... so vague as to be meaningless.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 01, 2025 12:13 AM (mP0Kj)

302 Hugh: I was in junior high 'til 1981, then high school.

I still remember the Cabbage Patch craze in 1983.

Posted by: qdpsteve at December 01, 2025 12:14 AM (u0r2I)

303 296 scampydog, same here.

There were fad items in the 1980s I remember everyone having (I actually had a Members Only jacket for instance), but then others that I don't recall anyone ever really owning.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 01, 2025 12:09 AM (u0r2I)

Pet Rock... nuff said.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 01, 2025 12:15 AM (mP0Kj)

304 Romeo13: the 'war crime/illegal order' game has been exposed at X/Twitter.

The whole idea for the Dems is to get any order issued by Trump declared illegal. Then they're going to give every soldier who followed said orders the J6 protestor treatment.

Posted by: qdpsteve at December 01, 2025 12:15 AM (u0r2I)

305 I don't believe you are qdpsteve.

Posted by: Hugh G. Rection at December 01, 2025 12:16 AM (mJghz)

306 Trapper keepers were for the rich kids. Pee-Chee folders, too.

We got plain binders and plain folders from the discount store. And made our own book covers from brown paper grocery bags.

But it was its own kind of Coolness! We could draw our own designs with colored pens & pencils.

Posted by: JQ at December 01, 2025 12:16 AM (rdVOm)

307 "If I buy you this expensive binder will you use it? Like to bring your homework home and take it back to school?"
"Yeah yeah. I want a trapper keeper."
"Okay"

Evening, first day of school.
"Where is your trapper keeper and homework?"
"Umm at school..."

Posted by: Reforger at December 01, 2025 12:18 AM (03GBw)

308
257 I wonder if the cartel worker safety guy makes them put life rafts on their boats. One of them would take up a lot of space where you could put something else, like Coke or Heroin. It's good to hear they take care of their workers though.
Posted by: Reforger at November 30, 2025 11:30 PM

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I think their safety instructions are "deliver the dope or die."

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 01, 2025 12:18 AM (azNOR)

309 301 Posted by: Tom Servo at December 01, 2025 12:02 AM (3U2FH)

War crime is like Climate Change... it's all dependent on what WE want to call it as an attack.
---

They must go through about ten checks before they can fire.
Not only that there is precedent established by past presidents.
Surely WaPo remembers the American citizens Butt Boy Barry
murdered.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 01, 2025 12:18 AM (Y7TJ9)

310 Romeo13: Hollywood believes that if *they* fell for it when they were kids, everyone else did as well.

Wish they could get it through their heads, not everyone is them and not everyone has their POV on everything in life.

Posted by: qdpsteve at December 01, 2025 12:18 AM (u0r2I)

311 Also, I believe Trapper Keepers were introduced in the 1970s.

Posted by: JQ at December 01, 2025 12:19 AM (rdVOm)

312 Last pic is AI produced. Look at the green dial phone.

Posted by: GWB at December 01, 2025 12:20 AM (OKthV)

313 JQ, yup, those things have a late 1970s vibe.

Also it seems like *everything* at that time was influenced somehow by Star Wars and that style of lettering, design, etc etc.

Posted by: qdpsteve at December 01, 2025 12:20 AM (u0r2I)

314 311 Also, I believe Trapper Keepers were introduced in the 1970s.
Posted by: JQ at December 01, 2025 12:19 AM (rdVOm)

Without looking it up I'd say 76.

Posted by: Reforger at December 01, 2025 12:21 AM (03GBw)

315 Pet Rock... nuff said.
Posted by: Romeo13
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Older sisters had those. I said, "I don't get it." Their looks were a mixture of confusion and disappointing judgment. And the ever regular, "Get out of my room!"

Posted by: scampydog at December 01, 2025 12:22 AM (41CYW)

316 The whole idea for the Dems is to get any order issued by Trump declared illegal. Then they're going to give every soldier who followed said orders the J6 protestor treatment.
Posted by: qdpsteve

Show trials with supposedly real prosecutors charging innocent people with imaginary crimes, sham judges going along with the show, ignorant juries doing what they are told.

Almost like they already said exactly what they intend to do.
As they did.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 01, 2025 12:23 AM (Z5/Ih)

317 >>> Also, I believe Trapper Keepers were introduced in the 1970s.
Posted by: JQ at December 01, 2025 12:19 AM (rdVOm)

Wichita Kansas, 1978

Posted by: banana Dream at December 01, 2025 12:24 AM (3uBP9)

318 The US is virtually putting Maduro and all associated criminal activity under siege. No airplanes in or out. No ships in or out without our OK.

Their dope and child trafficking is nil.
This may be an interesting week coming up.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 01, 2025 12:25 AM (Y7TJ9)

319
Show trials with supposedly real prosecutors charging innocent people with imaginary crimes, sham judges going along with the show, ignorant juries doing what they are told.

Almost like they already said exactly what they intend to do.
As they did.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

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

Which they would compare to the Nuremberg Trials. Thank God they're total eff-ups when it comes to adjudication these days.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 01, 2025 12:27 AM (n7rxJ)

320 I went to elementary school in the 1980s. Everyone had a trapper keeper. If that's not true for you, you were not in elementary school in the 1980s or are a foreigner or AI chat bot.

Posted by: Hugh G. Rection at December 01, 2025 12:12 AM (mJghz)

Well, you're right, I wasn't. But I do remember seeing on the school supply lists every year "PLEASE DO NOT BUY TRAPPER KEEPERS, THEY DO NOT FIT IN OUR DESKS." And it was true, Greg E. got his mom to buy him one, and it got stuck the first day of fifth grade.

Posted by: pookysgirl might have a long memory at December 01, 2025 12:27 AM (Wt5PA)

321
Well, that's a wrap for November. Meteorological winter begins.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 01, 2025 12:27 AM (w6EFb)

322 Wow.... 10 Pakistani soldiers killed when their convoy was ambushed by separatists...

Didn't have that on my bingo card.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 01, 2025 12:30 AM (mP0Kj)

323 Per Flynn, the shooter was trained by the CIA. Over there he and the others like him had handlers. They were trained and supervised. They are skilled at several types of activities.
The CIA knows who they are. Also, this shooting was a planned operation. It was not random.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 01, 2025 12:31 AM (Y7TJ9)

324 Melania does not do it for me, but -

She does understand what a pencil skirt can do. And I bet she agrees that wearing pajamas everywhere is public redefines “tacky”.

No, that’s just being a total slob.

Another thing - young people have also in some cases replaced coats with wearing a blanket. Who knew looking like a complete bum could be fashionable?

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 01, 2025 12:31 AM (4786I)

325
FREE BALUCHISTAN!!!

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 01, 2025 12:32 AM (Y7TJ9)

326 320 I went to elementary school in the 1980s. Everyone had a trapper keeper. If that's not true for you, you were not in elementary school in the 1980s or are a foreigner or AI chat bot.

Posted by: Hugh G. Rection at December 01, 2025 12:12 AM (mJghz)

I don’t think there was a moment I didn’t have one from fourth grade on. My Trapper Keeper in fourth grade was Garfield themed.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 01, 2025 12:33 AM (4786I)

327 Wow.... 10 Pakistani soldiers killed when their convoy was ambushed by separatists...

Didn't have that on my bingo card.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 01, 2025 12:30 AM (mP0Kj)

Wait, who's separating? Pakistan is already a country that was separated from another.

Posted by: pookysgirl thankfully doesn't have to pay much attention anymore at December 01, 2025 12:33 AM (Wt5PA)

328 >>>Another thing - young people have also in some cases replaced coats with wearing a blanket. Who knew looking like a complete bum could be fashionable?
Posted by: Cow Demon
----

It's just another step of many in our cultural devolution.
Seen the guys wearing cut-offs to church?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 01, 2025 12:34 AM (Y7TJ9)

329 Surely WaPo remembers the American citizens Butt Boy Barry
murdered.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 01, 2025 12:18 AM (Y7TJ9)

Insolence.

Posted by: WaPo at December 01, 2025 12:35 AM (4786I)

330 Another thing - young people have also in some cases replaced coats with wearing a blanket. Who knew looking like a complete bum could be fashionable?
Posted by: Cow Demon
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Haven't seen *that* here, yet.. But I can understand how the fad might have started-- blankets are inexpensive, compared to coats. Plus, pretty colors!

🤷‍♀️

Posted by: JQ at December 01, 2025 12:35 AM (rdVOm)

331 I went to elementary school in the 1960s. NOBODY had a trapper keeper.

Posted by: JQ at December 01, 2025 12:39 AM (rdVOm)

332 286 I am older. Remember the 80's very well.
Miss VHS, Link rescuing Princess Peach on Nintendo, mixtapes.
Boomboxes were the care that blasts music you don't want to hear. VHS
Posted by: LGBTQ+POC, ANTI RACIST HERO at December 01, 2025 12:00 AM (aRd0E)

I had a video mixtape, even. Taped videos off of a channel called “MTV”.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 01, 2025 12:39 AM (4786I)

333 The 80s were my "good old days."

Posted by: qdpsteve at December 01, 2025 12:42 AM (u0r2I)

334 Picked up an abandoned USA Today paper, from Tuesday. Don't know if it has been mentioned here, but the the very bold headline, overlying a photo of a mother and children, read:
"How The 'best dad' died in ICE custody"
Implying that ICE was somehow responsible for the death.

If you missed it, the guy was being detained, and someone shot at the ICE van, striking the detanee.

Here's headline (might squeak in the margins):
https://x.com/ukpapers/status/1993268173655654797

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 01, 2025 12:42 AM (XeU6L)

335 Mike:
There's a reason why USA Today has been dying a long, slow death.

Posted by: qdpsteve at December 01, 2025 12:43 AM (u0r2I)

336 Surely WaPo remembers the American citizens Butt Boy Barry
murdered.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others

At least they were in a foreign country at the time!

-MFM
While true. They message conveyed is misleading and inflamatory.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 01, 2025 12:45 AM (Z5/Ih)

337 There's a reason why USA Today has been dying a long, slow death.
Posted by: qdpsteve
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And taking with it the 100 or so local papers tht Gannett bought.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 01, 2025 12:46 AM (XeU6L)

338 Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 01, 2025 12:42 AM (XeU6L)

Remember the doorway video of the ICE officers shielding and herding the detainees inside while their colleagues were giving cover fire? I'm sure USA Today would still label them as monsters.

Posted by: pookysgirl, ICE ICE baby at December 01, 2025 12:47 AM (Wt5PA)

339 AOP and JQ, in case you're interested in the outcome of my snowblower problem, AOP had exactly the right solution. Thank you!

You suggested using a compound tin snips to cut through the metal wrapped tightly around the auger shaft. Fortunately, such a tool was at hand (a Wiss brand, could have been my dad's), and it worked its magic. That saved me from the big job of removing the auger.

When it wouldn't start, I thought it might have been because I tipped it back to work on it. But I recalled taking the precaution of pulling off the spark plug wire. Started right up; did the garage apron and sixty yards of alley in heavy snow. No heart attack today. :-)

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 01, 2025 12:47 AM (NOSDa)

340 263 Listen, if we can upend the SA drug trade, end the CIA's multi-generational Op game, and save some American lives by taking out Maduro, I'm all for it.

The US has largely been derelict in SA, for f**ks sake, we're letting the commies run the f**king place, we should have beaten it into being a good ally like we did the Japanese.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 30, 2025 11:32 PM (XV/Pl)

As much as I dislike the AoS Isolationist and Code Pinker set, I may sound like one here. But hear me out:
Unless Venezuela does something like invade Guyana, I would not touch the place. It is better for Maduro to be tossed organically rather than give commies and anti-Americans the propaganda gift of “well such and such is just a Yankee puppet”.
Plink their drug trade in international waters. DIME this one out as with all things.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 01, 2025 12:47 AM (4786I)

341 "Trump isn’t just closing airspace, he’s cutting the oxygen to the deep-state money laundering superhighway that’s been funding black sites, color revolutions, and child trafficking networks across the hemisphere. Land operations begin “VERY SOON.”

Translation: The white hats are moving in to seize the servers, the tunnels, and the ledgers the mockingbird media swore didn’t exist. The storm over Caracas is about to expose everything."

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 01, 2025 12:49 AM (Y7TJ9)

342 Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 01, 2025 12:47 AM

WooHoo!!!

Glad you fixed it and thanks for the update!

Posted by: JQ at December 01, 2025 12:50 AM (rdVOm)

343 And taking with it the 100 or so local papers tht Gannett bought.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 01, 2025 12:46 AM (XeU6L)

If it would take the worthless newspaper I disparagingly call the Amarillo Community Calendar with it, I’d be much appreciative. (They only have Local Fluff stories on the front page.)

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 01, 2025 12:50 AM (4786I)

344 Piper, this holiday FLOTUS Fashion installment is wonderful!

>>>She opted for a floor-length Christian Dior Palto Coat in ecru

mid-calf? (instead of floor-length)

Posted by: m at December 01, 2025 12:52 AM (RuTUS)

345
If it would take the worthless newspaper I disparagingly call the Amarillo Community Calendar with it, I’d be much appreciative. (They only have Local Fluff stories on the front page.)
Posted by: Cow Demon
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Same has happened here since Gannett bought our paper. Just fluff. I used to be a good local paper. Now, it isn't even published here.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 01, 2025 12:53 AM (XeU6L)

346 *It*

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 01, 2025 12:53 AM (XeU6L)

347 5 [277 comments] 'm'

It do be like that!

Posted by: m at December 01, 2025 12:54 AM (RuTUS)

348 Ugh. Time to cash it in. G'night all.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 01, 2025 12:54 AM (XeU6L)

349 348 Ugh. Time to cash it in. G'night all.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 01, 2025 12:54 AM (XeU6L)

(Was it something I said???)

; )

Posted by: m at December 01, 2025 12:55 AM (RuTUS)

350 This is one of the best things I have ever seen.

https://tinyurl.com/73y3ubt6

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 30, 2025 11:08 PM (Y7TJ9)
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Orange spray good.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 01, 2025 12:56 AM (mOv6P)

351 350 This is one of the best things I have ever seen.

https://tinyurl.com/73y3ubt6

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 30, 2025 11:08 PM (Y7TJ9)
-

Orange spray good.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 01, 2025 12:56 AM (mOv6P)

What is the crazy person saying?

Posted by: m at December 01, 2025 12:58 AM (RuTUS)

352 That's "two" raimondo. "Two."
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

3mustaphas3 is superior product

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qa-z73rMCM

Posted by: the Wretched Balkan Panhard at December 01, 2025 12:59 AM (N7hqt)

353 Biden's Dog: OMG that's good.

What's strange however is: is that protester even saying words? Her mouth is opening and closing like a puppet.

Posted by: qdpsteve at December 01, 2025 12:59 AM (u0r2I)

354 I think the crazy person is barking

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 01, 2025 12:59 AM (/TzNd)

355 That said, there are a lot of tyrants in the world and it is not America's job to unseat them. Suppose some Cubans decide Trump is not a proper Communist so unfit to rule over us.
Posted by: gKWVE at November 30, 2025 11:25 PM (8zJKU)

Ah, there’s my isolationist/ Code Pinker…

Some Cubans have thought that but they can’t. The end. Though you are ashamed of it, this country IS a superpower for a reason and I’d rather have US setting the rules and not the PRC.

(But look up above for what I think of Venezuela)

Peace Through Strength. DIME. Deterrence, power projection.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 01, 2025 12:59 AM (4786I)

356
The only MSM news channel (excluding Fox) to touch Tampon Tim for the Somalian Scandal was NBC. None of the lefty podcasts either.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 01, 2025 01:01 AM (n7rxJ)

357 JM, it's one of these videos that could be AI, but I'm hoping it isn't.

Posted by: qdpsteve at December 01, 2025 01:01 AM (u0r2I)

358 Orange spray good.

Posted by: Archer at December 01, 2025 01:02 AM (YGRGv)

359 Blonde, I'm shocked NYT covered it.
Apparently Tim missed a dues payment.

Posted by: qdpsteve at December 01, 2025 01:02 AM (u0r2I)

360
That said, there are a lot of tyrants in the world and it is not America's job to unseat them. Suppose some Cubans decide Trump is not a proper Communist so unfit to rule over us.
Posted by: gKWVE

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I'm sure all the Commie leaders of Cuba have decided that the US prez should go (except Obama and Biden). And every 2-bit freedom-hating country on the planet has a scheme to overthrow the U.S., probably by buddying up with China or Iran.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 01, 2025 01:04 AM (n7rxJ)

361 354 I think the crazy person is barking
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 01, 2025 12:59 AM (/TzNd)

Oh, good catch.

Posted by: m at December 01, 2025 01:04 AM (RuTUS)

362 This is the search results for DataRepublican's mentions of Venezuela:

https://tinyurl.com/4f33nzsc

It covers drugs, antifa, Marxists, Iran, Soros, color revolution, and more.

This is not ONLY about drugs. Far from it.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 01, 2025 01:04 AM (mOv6P)

363 Negotiations between the U.S. & Ukraine on Sunday focused on where the de facto border with Russia would be drawn under a peace deal. Ukrainian officials described the five-hour meeting as "difficult" and "intense" but productive.
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Europe failed on their promise to deliver arms and the US has cut Zelensky off. He's having a difficult time coming to terms with reality.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 01, 2025 01:05 AM (Y7TJ9)

364 357 JM, it's one of these videos that could be AI, but I'm hoping it isn't.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 01, 2025 01:01 AM (u0r2I)

Aww. I hope not.

Posted by: m at December 01, 2025 01:06 AM (RuTUS)

365
Blonde, I'm shocked NYT covered it.
Apparently Tim missed a dues payment.
Posted by: qdpsteve

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The Powerline boys have a theory: the NY Times article was intended for an audience of One, namely Tampon Tim. Supposedly there's a feeling that Tim will be as bad for the Dem party as Biden was and he needs to be edged out.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 01, 2025 01:06 AM (n7rxJ)

366 365 The Powerline boys have a theory: the NY Times article was intended for an audience of One, namely Tampon Tim. Supposedly there's a feeling that Tim will be as bad for the Dem party as Biden was and he needs to be edged out.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 01, 2025 01:06 AM (n7rxJ)

He is truly awful.

Posted by: m at December 01, 2025 01:10 AM (RuTUS)

367 362 This is the search results for DataRepublican's mentions of Venezuela:

https://tinyurl.com/4f33nzsc
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