Mid-Morning Art Thread

The Seeress of Prevorst
Gabriel von Max

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

2 *bonk*

Bring out yer dead!

*bonk*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

3 Seeing takes a lot out of you.

Posted by: huerfano at December 16, 2025 09:31 AM (98kQX)

4 She's dead Jim...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 09:31 AM (NwnyJ)

5 Kinda creepy.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 16, 2025 09:32 AM (mT+6a)

6 I guess there would not be much point to a Seeress of Postvorst.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 09:32 AM (vFG9F)

7 They get to stay in bed all day? I should have been a seer.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 09:32 AM (fA38o)

8 What's a Seeress?

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 16, 2025 09:33 AM (wVcYX)

9 Subject matter is beyond me, but we'll done

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 09:33 AM (sysp1)

10 She is having nasty thoughts.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 09:33 AM (Wg6v7)

11 Early AI.

"Seerees, what is today's weather forecast?"

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:33 AM (77rzZ)

12 ‘I see you bringing me a hot toddy.’
- Seeress of Prevorst

Posted by: Eromero at December 16, 2025 09:34 AM (o2ZRX)

13 What's a Seeress?"

Really? Still $20....

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:34 AM (XuXeR)

14 What's that pink blob for?

Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 09:34 AM (fPASK)

15 Wiki-

The Seeress of Prevorst" is a painting by Gabriel von Max that depicts Friederike Hauffe, a German mystic known for her alleged clairvoyance and trances. The artwork reflects themes of spirituality and the supernatural, capturing the essence of Hauffe's experiences as a somnambulist and her connection to mystical phenomena.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 16, 2025 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

16 "She's a fraud!"
-- Edgar Cayce

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:34 AM (77rzZ)

17 Maybe it's gout?

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 16, 2025 09:34 AM (/6GbT)

18 Nurse, a dose of Ivermectin, STAT!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 09:34 AM (Dv3i1)

19 A seer is a fortune teller. They can see the future. Not a single one has ever produced the lottery numbers, so it’s all bullshit.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 09:35 AM (fA38o)

20 experiences as a somnambulist and her connection to mystical phenomena."

So, nuts.

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:35 AM (XuXeR)

21 Your Lucky Numbers:
7 15 9 32 12

Posted by: Seeress of Prevorst at December 16, 2025 09:35 AM (wVcYX)

22 Wake up, little Susie, wake up

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 09:35 AM (L/fGl)

23 Did the Seeress fall asleep after writing something?

Posted by: dantesed at December 16, 2025 09:35 AM (Oy/m2)

24 Pirate's dream.....

Sunken chest.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

25 The Seeress of Prevorst - Seeress? Yes, I'd like to see the rest.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 09:35 AM (Dv3i1)

26 She was like an 19th century Alexa and you could ask her for recipes and shit.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 09:36 AM (vFG9F)

27 Beautiful painting, but what a troubled life.

Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2025 09:36 AM (NZkDE)

28 Your Lucky Numbers:
7 15 9 32 12"

1,2,3,4,5...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:36 AM (XuXeR)

29 ‘Tell that Casey fellow that I will not be able to dine with him.’
- Seeress of Prevorst

Posted by: Eromero at December 16, 2025 09:36 AM (o2ZRX)

30 Prevost makes some quality RV's.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)

31 I wonder if she would appreciate Tummy Rub Tuesday?

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 16, 2025 09:36 AM (mT+6a)

32 Carl Jung apparently lectured on this woman.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 09:37 AM (2sfNr)

33
1,2,3,4,5...
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:36 AM (XuXeR)

Why.....that's the combination to my luggage!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:37 AM (Zz0t1)

34 capturing the essence of Hauffe's experiences as a somnambulist

She's sleeping on the job. Not a subject I would have thought merited a painting.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 09:37 AM (Dv3i1)

35 a 19th-century German mystic who spent seven years suspended between life and death

Seems a shitty life.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:38 AM (Zz0t1)

36 CBD bringing us a quack, demon-possessed, witch during the Holiday season seems like a thumb in the eye.

Other more vibrant Art Threads would never do that.

Posted by: Art For the (M)asses at December 16, 2025 09:38 AM (oftw2)

37 She got a painting. I got an opera.

Posted by: Barber of Seville at December 16, 2025 09:38 AM (wVcYX)

38 Where are my keys ?!

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 09:38 AM (g47mK)

39 What's a Seeress?
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 16, 2025 09:33 AM

20 Rubles. Same as in village.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 09:38 AM (kgE5c)

40 She was in a coma.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (Zz0t1)

41 There are other Art Threads?

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (vFG9F)

42 Well, she doesn't have pink or blue hair.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (Wg6v7)

43 The subject matter is the folds in the cloth.
Reminds me of that guy who painted water.
Or the one who paints lace.

And it's been a hellava long time since anyone has been trying to hawk lace wigs here.

Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (fPASK)

44 Well done but doesn’t go with my furniture and rug.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (KDPiq)

45 As you work toward the completion of your painting, perhaps take a moment, step back, and ask yourself "Where should I place my happy little bushes?"

Remember, it's your painting.

Posted by: zombie Bob Ross at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (0sNs1)

46 Peter Max>>Gabriel von Max

Posted by: Psychedelic Sidney at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (oftw2)

47 Beautifully painted. Can't think of any place I'd hang it though.

Posted by: Tuna at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (lJ0H4)

48 Your Lucky Numbers:
7 15 9 32 12"

1,2,3,4,5...
Posted by: man

Mudskipper by a length at Aqueduct

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (77rzZ)

49 I wonder if she can levitate?

Posted by: redridinghood at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (NpAcC)

50 There's no nose ring. Wouldn't bang.

Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (fPASK)

51 20 Rubles. Same as in village"

Ja, baby!

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (XuXeR)

52 ‘Edgar, is that you? Where’s the beef?’

Posted by: Eromero at December 16, 2025 09:40 AM (o2ZRX)

53 Beware of white vans approaching your Christmas Market.

Posted by: Seeress of Prevorst at December 16, 2025 09:40 AM (R86kT)

54 Apparently this artist who paints very nice portraits had a thing for monkeys. They are in a lot of his paintings.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 09:40 AM (2sfNr)

55 a 19th-century German mystic who spent seven years suspended between life and death

-
Like working at the Post Office.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 09:40 AM (L/fGl)

56 I am the eyes of Nostrildamus, all your ways are known to me.

Posted by: The Seer at December 16, 2025 09:40 AM (oftw2)

57 I wonder if she can levitate?"

I'm sure she could get a rise out of some moron...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:41 AM (XuXeR)

58 Peter Max>>Gabriel von Max
Posted by: Psychedelic Sidney at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (oftw2)

Peter Gabriel >

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:41 AM (Zz0t1)

59 Dude, she's, like, in a coma!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 16, 2025 09:41 AM (yNJrI)

60 Other more vibrant Art Threads would never do that.
Posted by: Art For the (M)asses at December 16, 2025 09:38 AM

To be fair, are you implying that the other 'more vibrant Art Threads' presenting artworks with more vibrant colors, or that their comment sections are more vibrant?

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 16, 2025 09:41 AM (0sNs1)

61 She's got a date with Cesare the Somnambulist at midnight.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:41 AM (77rzZ)

62 I'd rather see a picture of Marie Prevost.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 09:42 AM (ufSfZ)

63 What is the square root of an isosceles triangle?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 09:42 AM (NwnyJ)

64 "The treasure on Oak Island is buried at....Arrrrgh....

Posted by: The Seeress of Prevorst at December 16, 2025 09:42 AM (kgE5c)

65
Mudskipper by a length at Aqueduct
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (77rzZ)

You asked for it..........

https://youtu.be/KIOTE8w37ZM

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:42 AM (Zz0t1)

66 Gabriel von Max: The Seeress of Prevorst

Al Gore: Global warming is serial!

Mittens Romneycare: I'm severely conservative

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 09:42 AM (sKqQm)

67 The Seeress of Prevorst
Gabriel von Max

*************

A fortune teller named Mathilda Greims
Saw the future, and told it in rhymes
"The joys of tomorrow will be tempered with sorrow,
Both Prebest and yet Prevorst of times!"

Posted by: muldoon at December 16, 2025 09:42 AM (/iMjX)

68 Where are my keys ?!"

Apfel air tag?

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:42 AM (XuXeR)

69 What is the square root of an isosceles triangle?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 09:42 AM

Green.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 09:42 AM (kgE5c)

70 Maxfield Partish>

Posted by: Eromero at December 16, 2025 09:43 AM (o2ZRX)

71 Bed looks like maple, pretty nice.

Posted by: Ashley Home Store at December 16, 2025 09:43 AM (oftw2)

72 55 a 19th-century German mystic who spent seven years suspended between life and death

-
Like working at the Post Office.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 09:40 AM (L/fGl)

LOL

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 09:43 AM (VE6XX)

73 What is the square root of an isosceles triangle?"

Cleveland.

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:44 AM (XuXeR)

74 1,2,3,4,5...
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:36 AM (XuXeR)

Why.....that's the combination to my luggage!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:37 AM (Zz0t1)
*****
Actually those were my nuclear go codes for launching ICBM's on Red States.

Posted by: President Brandon at December 16, 2025 09:44 AM (fPASK)

75 On the far bedpost is the Seeress chewing gum, losing it's flavor overnight.

Posted by: Old Man Adams at December 16, 2025 09:44 AM (oftw2)

76 Fentanyl overdose.

Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 09:45 AM (fPASK)

77 First nimrod who challenges me to make a limerick out of 'clairvoyance' gets a night in The Barrel

Posted by: muldoon at December 16, 2025 09:45 AM (/iMjX)

78 Max von Sydow >

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 16, 2025 09:45 AM (wVcYX)

79 When I said "I'd like a nightcap", this isn't what I had in mind.

Posted by: Seeress With DTs at December 16, 2025 09:46 AM (oftw2)

80

Must! Not! Fap!

Posted by: Dirty Frank at December 16, 2025 09:46 AM (KrNsD)

81 “ . … capturing the essence of Hauffe's experiences as a somnambulist and her connection to mystical phenomena.”
———

She ended up in yer bed in the morningtoo, if you left the door unlocked. It’s a miracle. What a gal!

Posted by: Common Tater at December 16, 2025 09:46 AM (9qg/U)

82 *considers asking Muldoon to use clairvoyance in a limerick*

*errs on the side of caution*

*does part to keep limericks clairvoyance free*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:46 AM (Zz0t1)

83 I'd rather see a picture of Marie Prevost.

She died from...Malnutrition and alcohol poisoning.

So she drunk herself into such a stupor she starved?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 09:46 AM (sKqQm)

84 Seeress -

'Invest in Enron stock'.

Posted by: dantesed at December 16, 2025 09:46 AM (Oy/m2)

85 Why does Oberstenfeld ring a bell ? It is famous for something ? Infamous ??

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 09:47 AM (g47mK)

86 She's probably very good in bed. Sleeps for weeks, even.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 16, 2025 09:47 AM (wVcYX)

87 "She was a dead lay......"

- - - - - - Creepy Male Nurse Guy

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:47 AM (Zz0t1)

88 Very well rendered and disturbing. I can't have disturbing art in The Man Cave no matter how good it is!

Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 16, 2025 09:47 AM (6qf1m)

89 Passed out?

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 09:47 AM (ZdaMQ)

90 Bed looks like maple, pretty nice."

"I like oak. How about you, Jimmy? You an oak man? Oak's nice..."

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:48 AM (XuXeR)

91
She died from...Malnutrition and alcohol poisoning.

So she drunk herself into such a stupor she starved?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 09:46 AM (sKqQm)

She took that whole 'liquid bread' thing to an extreme level.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:48 AM (Zz0t1)

92 wtf am I looking at

Posted by: Don Black at December 16, 2025 09:49 AM (ZxPkt)

93 Seeress -

'Invest in Enron stock'.
Posted by: dantesed at December 16, 2025 09:46 AM (Oy/m
******
Lost $900 doing that.

Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 09:49 AM (fPASK)

94 92 wtf am I looking at

Posted by: Don Black at December 16, 2025 09:49 AM (ZxPkt)

======

A computer screen, but that's not important right now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 09:49 AM (GBKbO)

95 First nimrod who challenges me to make a limerick out of 'clairvoyance' gets a night in The Barrel
Posted by: muldoon

Yes, that would be quite an annoyance!

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 16, 2025 09:50 AM (w9Wax)

96 does part to keep limericks clairvoyance free"

Doesn't rhyme with Nantucket...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:50 AM (XuXeR)

97 She's dead, Jim.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 09:51 AM (Wg6v7)

98 Okay, if you insist.

Miss Claire, a German clairvoyant
Gave the mayor sadistic enjoyment
He said, "Son of a bitch,
We can't burn the witch,
So let's drown her, to see if Claire's bouyant

Posted by: muldoon at December 16, 2025 09:51 AM (/iMjX)

99 "Does the letter 'M' mean anything to you?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 09:51 AM (vL0rw)

100 82 *considers asking Muldoon to use clairvoyance in a limerick*

*errs on the side of caution*

*does part to keep limericks clairvoyance free*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:46 AM (Zz0t1)

====

hey

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 09:51 AM (GBKbO)

101 54 Apparently this artist who paints very nice portraits had a thing for monkeys. They are in a lot of his paintings.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Cute little spider monkey would improve this painting immensely.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 16, 2025 09:52 AM (oftw2)

102 a German mystic known for her alleged clairvoyance and trances.

Well, crap. There went my ruble joke. Maybe I should read the comments first.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 09:52 AM (kgE5c)

103 99 "Does the letter 'M' mean anything to you?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 09:51 AM (vL0rw)

=====

Plant it on the back of Peter Lorre, it means one thing.

Put it on a little round candy, it means something else.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 09:52 AM (GBKbO)

104 Nimrod doesn’t mean stupid. It was used ironically in Looney Toons and everyone thinks it means stupid.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 09:52 AM (fA38o)

105 A song for the season:

https://tinyurl.com/djpu9d7b

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 09:52 AM (ufSfZ)

106 Cute little spider monkey would improve this painting immensely.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 16, 2025 09:52 AM

*eyes canvas critically*

*hefts poo*

Posted by: A spider monkey at December 16, 2025 09:53 AM (kgE5c)

107 Interesting, if rather drab, painting. Von Max's paintings are realistic. The details in the bedstead and covers and her clothes are exact. But it's her posture that makes the image so effective. Relaxed, possibly comatose, facial expression and her arms open as if to invite in whatever influences she is receiving. (To my eye there is a hint of crucifixion in the position of her hands.) It is rather haunting but not something I would hang.

Von Max did have a sardonic sense of humor. He did several paintings of monkeys as if doing human things. My favorite is a group of monkeys crowded together, titled "Monkeys as judges of art". Almost 150 years later I agree.

Posted by: JTB at December 16, 2025 09:53 AM (yTvNw)

108 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 09:52 AM

LOL!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 09:54 AM (kgE5c)

109
hey
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 09:51 AM (GBKbO)

It's what you get for sleeping in.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:54 AM (Zz0t1)

110 64k jobs created in November. Not great but also not anywhere close to the “worst economy evaaaahhhh” bullshit the msm is peddling.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 09:54 AM (udlma)

111 Nimrod doesn’t mean stupid. It was used ironically in Looney Toons and everyone thinks it means stupid.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

It meant a great hunter, after the King Nimrod mentioned in Genesis. Bugs Bunny used it ironically to refer to Elmer Fudd, usually while patting him on the head. That's why everyone who grew up with Looney Tunes sees it as meaning something like "idiot."

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:54 AM (77rzZ)

112 *considers asking Muldoon to use clairvoyance in a limerick*

*errs on the side of caution*

*does part to keep limericks clairvoyance free*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

The obvious solution is to rhyme it with annoyance... just saying.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at December 16, 2025 09:54 AM (MMj60)

113 Zoot of Anthrax > The Seeress of Prevorst

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 09:55 AM (sKqQm)

114 110 64k jobs created in November. Not great but also not anywhere close to the “worst economy evaaaahhhh” bullshit the msm is peddling.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 09:54 AM (udlma)

======

If the population is actually decreasing, what is the measure of a good jobs report?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 09:55 AM (GBKbO)

115 “The View” Wonders Where All the Hate Comes From

-
That's a head scratcher alright.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 09:55 AM (L/fGl)

116 Okay, if you insist.

Miss Claire, a German clairvoyant
Gave the mayor sadistic enjoyment
He said, "Son of a bitch,
We can't burn the witch,
So let's drown her, to see if Claire's bouyant
Posted by: muldoon at December 16, 2025 09:51 AM (/iMjX)

Wow! "Claire's buoyant" is just perfect.

Posted by: LASue at December 16, 2025 09:55 AM (nKjbR)

117 There went my ruble joke"

zwanzig marks...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:55 AM (XuXeR)

118 98 ... "Miss Claire, a German clairvoyant
Gave the mayor sadistic enjoyment
He said, "Son of a bitch,
We can't burn the witch,
So let's drown her, to see if Claire's bouyant"

Muldoon, you are brilliant! Thanks for the smile.

Posted by: JTB at December 16, 2025 09:55 AM (yTvNw)

119 Nimrod was known as a great hunter. So, Bugs Bunny called Elmer Fudd, “A real Nimrod”.

Didn’t think you were getting lessons in antiquity in Looney Toons?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 09:55 AM (fA38o)

120 The View” Wonders Where All the Hate Comes From

Out of your mouths everyday

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 09:56 AM (VE6XX)

121 Personally, I'd like to see the name "Muldoon" featured in a limerick.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:56 AM (77rzZ)

122 Hüttlenswaldschlucht > Prevorst

[nods authoritatively]

Posted by: The Sawer of H�ttlenswaldschlucht at December 16, 2025 09:56 AM (Qqd2H)

123 Huttlenswaldschlucht > Prevorst

[nods authoritatively]

Posted by: The Sawer of Huttlenswaldschlucht at December 16, 2025 09:56 AM (Qqd2H)

124 Nimrod doesn’t mean stupid. It was used ironically in Looney Toons and everyone thinks it means stupid.

Nimord the Hunter from Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations:

https://tinyurl.com/yd2sewz6

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 09:56 AM (ufSfZ)

125 36 CBD bringing us a quack, demon-possessed, witch during the Holiday season seems like a thumb in the eye.

Other more vibrant Art Threads would never do that.
Posted by: Art For the (M)asses at December 16, 2025 09:38 AM (oftw2)

Your piety knows no bounds, does it?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 16, 2025 09:56 AM (g8Ew8)

126 Put it on a little round candy, it means something else.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger

Pretty sure those are Ws in the Southern Hemisphere.

Posted by: Peruvian Petey at December 16, 2025 09:57 AM (oftw2)

127 what is the measure of a good jobs report?"

All numbers must always be increasing, ok?

/our betters

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:57 AM (XuXeR)

128 Zoot of Anthrax > The Seeress of Prevorst
Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 09:55 AM (sKqQm)

You asked for it..........

https://youtu.be/be7iNHw8QoQ

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:57 AM (Zz0t1)

129
Past 100, so.

Finn is at the vet. They'll do blood tests and an X-ray. He has never seemed to be in any distress. When I went down this morning at 5:00, there were red splotches on the floor and while I was there, he hacked up a large piece of mucus along with bloody saliva. But he walked up to the car just fine, jumped into the crate on his own and didn't exhibit any further coughing or distress on the trip.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2025 09:57 AM (tgvbd)

130 125 36 CBD bringing us a quack, demon-possessed, witch during the Holiday season seems like a thumb in the eye.

Other more vibrant Art Threads would never do that.
Posted by: Art For the (M)asses at December 16, 2025 09:38 AM (oftw2)

You're begging for fat ass on an ottoman...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 09:57 AM (VE6XX)

131 I think a second cup of coffee is indicated this morning.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 16, 2025 09:58 AM (9qg/U)

132 Didn’t think you were getting lessons in antiquity in Looney Toons?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

Practically everything I know about Wagner's operas I learned from Looney Tunes.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:58 AM (77rzZ)

133 Got the 'ol cherry pie nope on 122 for the umlaut in name field... yet it posted.

ok.

Posted by: The Sawer of Huttlenswaldschlucht at December 16, 2025 09:58 AM (Qqd2H)

134 How many eider ducks had to perish to keep this broad comfy?

Posted by: The Huge Manatee! at December 16, 2025 09:58 AM (oftw2)

135 Like the pale colors. Would hang.
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 09:58 AM (D+mpw)

136 Huttlenswaldschlucht"

gesundheit...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:59 AM (XuXeR)

137 If the population is actually decreasing, what is the measure of a good jobs report?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 09:55 AM (GBKbO)

The population isn’t decreasing. The “self deported” number is a fugazi. Even if that were legit (which it’s not) There are still millions of legal immigrants coming into the country every year.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 09:59 AM (udlma)

138 FBI Giving Congress Bombshell Memos Telling Biden DOJ It Didn’t Have Probable Cause to Raid Trump Home

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On the other hand . . .

New Memos Reveal Corruption Probe Into Clinton Foundation Was Killed: “We Were Told No by FBI HQ”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 09:59 AM (L/fGl)

139 I strike that same pose when I'm trying to convince myself to get out of bed in the morning. Though I try to divine what the day will hold, I usually find I am wrong.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at December 16, 2025 10:00 AM (MMj60)

140 I think a second cup of coffee is indicated this morning."

Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 10:00 AM (XuXeR)

141 How many eider ducks had to perish to keep this broad comfy?
Posted by: The Huge Manatee!

About a malliard, give or take.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:00 AM (77rzZ)

142 Relevant To Art Thread

We had a nice snowfall over the weekend here in the 'Nati, but this afternoon it's going to melt...

I'm reminded of Raymond Brigg's 'The Snowman' animation. I have to get a quick plug in for it, because it's just beautifully sad. Even just the original intro with the author devastates me. The Missus won't watch it, but I love it.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 16, 2025 10:00 AM (6qf1m)

143 Practically everything I know about Wagner's operas I learned from Looney Tunes.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:58 AM (77rzZ)

That was also a jab at the Nazis because they loved Wagner. There’s a lot of stuff in those cartoons that we don’t get now.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 10:01 AM (fA38o)

144 They say that the Miss was clairvoyant,
She lived between this world and that.
She proved a particular annoyance,
She really just wasn't all that.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at December 16, 2025 10:01 AM (WQDw6)

145 CBD bringing us a quack, demon-possessed, witch during the Holiday season seems like a thumb in the eye.

Other more vibrant Art Threads would never do that.
Posted by: Art
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I knew you were going to say that.

Posted by: Frederica Hauffe at December 16, 2025 10:02 AM (XeU6L)

146 71 Bed looks like maple, pretty nice.
Posted by: Ashley Home Store at December 16, 2025 09:

20 Deutsche Mark

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 16, 2025 10:02 AM (/6GbT)

147
I'm reminded of Raymond Brigg's 'The Snowman' animation. I have to get a quick plug in for it, because it's just beautifully sad. Even just the original intro with the author devastates me. The Missus won't watch it, but I love it.
Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 16, 2025 10:00 AM (6qf1m)

Love that.. Especially the music ....Of course there is no talking....

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 10:02 AM (VE6XX)

148 CBD bringing us a quack, demon-possessed, witch during the Holiday season seems like a thumb in the eye.

Other more vibrant Art Threads would never do that.
Posted by: Art
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There's always that vibrant Art Thread over at Hot Air.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 10:03 AM (Zz0t1)

149 Nazis because they loved Wagner"

What a dick!

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 10:03 AM (XuXeR)

150 Nazis because they loved Wagner"

What a dick!
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 10:03 AM (XuXeR)

Just don't go out on a boat with him.

Posted by: Zombie Natalie Wood at December 16, 2025 10:03 AM (Zz0t1)

151 Madonna recovering from her latest facelift and butt tuck.

Posted by: Waste Of Money and Time at December 16, 2025 10:04 AM (YyIMQ)

152 Holy shit, I wanted to verify my recollection that Ishmael was also a hunter, so I googled it.

Their AI is now referring to Old Testament Canaan/Israel as "ancient Palestine." Unreal.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 10:04 AM (BI5O2)

153 Speaking of witches . . .

J.K. Rowling Blasts Woke LGBTQ+ Mob After Rapists Target Dozens of Girls in Changing Rooms

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 10:04 AM (L/fGl)

154 There's always that vibrant Art Thread over at Hot Air.
Posted by: Sponge

They feature that painting of nekkid Ed Morrissey on an Ottoman a little too much, though.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:04 AM (77rzZ)

155 137 If the population is actually decreasing, what is the measure of a good jobs report?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 09:55 AM (GBKbO)

The population isn’t decreasing. The “self deported” number is a fugazi. Even if that were legit (which it’s not) There are still millions of legal immigrants coming into the country every year.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 09:59 AM (udlma)

=====

Oh, so you believe some government numbers and not others, huh?

What makes you believe the ones you do and not the ones you don't?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 10:05 AM (GBKbO)

156 It was supposed to be a buttlift and facetuck.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 10:05 AM (fA38o)

157 It was supposed to be a buttlift and facetuck.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 10:05 AM (fA38o)

Instead, she got a facelift and a buttf*ck.

Comatose........

Posted by: Zombie Natalie Wood at December 16, 2025 10:06 AM (Zz0t1)

158 I like the white clothing and pillow colors in contrast to the green blanket.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 10:06 AM (8Xy/A)

159 Hello from the Miami airport Admirals Club, enroute to St. Croix. Never been before, can't wait to check it out. It will be my first time in the Caribbean and the furthest South I've ever been.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 16, 2025 10:06 AM (Gyhh7)

160 be a buttlift and facetuck."

Where do they meet? Mid back?

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 10:06 AM (XuXeR)

161 Mr. von Max loved his minkeys

Posted by: javems at December 16, 2025 10:06 AM (8I4hW)

162 Wildly inappropriate for the Zombie Natalie.

I apologize.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 10:06 AM (Zz0t1)

163 Here is a YouTube link to The Snowman https://tinyurl.com/4yku2vnt

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:06 AM (ZdaMQ)

164 enroute to St. Croix"

Enjoy. Lovely place...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 10:07 AM (XuXeR)

165 Their AI is now referring to Old Testament Canaan/Israel as "ancient Palestine." Unreal.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 10:04 AM (BI5O2)

The Muslims were there before Islam even existed.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 10:07 AM (fA38o)

166 Hello from the Miami airport Admirals Club, enroute to St. Croix. Never been before, can't wait to check it out. It will be my first time in the Caribbean and the furthest South I've ever been.
Posted by: Lincolntf at December 16, 2025 10:06 AM (Gyhh7)

Ahoy polloi!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 10:07 AM (Zz0t1)

167 159 Hello from the Miami airport Admirals Club, enroute to St. Croix. Never been before, can't wait to check it out. It will be my first time in the Caribbean and the furthest South I've ever been.
Posted by: Lincolntf at December 16, 2025 10:06 AM (Gyhh7)

Bring us back a t-shirt!!

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:07 AM (ZdaMQ)

168 Good day, art Morons.

The Seeress: Nice work on the hands. Face seems appropriately serene. Who was she? (I'll look for the answer in comments.)

Noticing that only bit of color, the pillow or whatever, on the lower right, in a photograph such a random element on the periphery would not seem significant. In a painting, its intrusion seems an odd bit of composition. Maybe it has some significance. Maybe the artist just had some pinkish paint left on the palette after doing her face and hands?

Posted by: mindful webworker - still have to check to make sure I have the right spelling of palette at December 16, 2025 10:08 AM (lbDMw)

169 Bring us back a t-shirt!!
Posted by: Piper

Do they make a t-shirt big enough to be worn by the entire Horde at once?

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:09 AM (77rzZ)

170 Wildly inappropriate for the Zombie Natalie.

I apologize."

Why? You don't want to know what we did! 3 on 1!

/Christopher Walken...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 10:09 AM (XuXeR)

171 "I like oak. How about you, Jimmy? You an oak man? Oak's nice..."
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:48 AM

* nods and tips coffee cup *

Posted by: Winston Wolfe at December 16, 2025 10:09 AM (0sNs1)

172 We need an AI trained on AOS comments. Can Pixy make that happen?

Barrel AI, what’s is a ….?

$20, same as in town.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 10:10 AM (fA38o)

173 Ah, Natalya Zakharenko. My favorite Russian-American.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:10 AM (77rzZ)

174
Do they make a t-shirt big enough to be worn by the entire Horde at once?
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:09 AM (77rzZ)

Sure!

Posted by: Rosie O'Donnell's Mumu Emporium at December 16, 2025 10:10 AM (Zz0t1)

175 Oh, so you believe some government numbers and not others, huh?

What makes you believe the ones you do and not the ones you don't?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 10:05 AM (GBKbO)

Self deported data is all estimates based on a lot of what ifs. It’s fugazi as I said. It’s the same sort of thing Obama did with “jobs saved or created”.

Number of jobs are quantifiable.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:10 AM (udlma)

176 Noticing that only bit of color, the pillow or whatever, on the lower right, in a photograph such a random element on the periphery would not seem significant. In a painting, its intrusion seems an odd bit of composition. Maybe it has some significance. Maybe the artist just had some pinkish paint left on the palette after doing her face and hands?
Posted by: mindful webworker - still have to check to make sure I have the right spelling of palette at December 16, 2025 10:08 AM (lbDMw)

It's a subtle reminder that they're all pink on the inside.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 16, 2025 10:11 AM (g8Ew8)

177 Oh, so you believe some government numbers and not others, huh?

What makes you believe the ones you do and not the ones you don't?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 10:05 AM

The ones that make us look good and/or the ones that make Republicans look bad, duh!

Posted by: (D)emocrats & the MSM at December 16, 2025 10:11 AM (0sNs1)

178 nods and tips coffee cup *
Posted by: Winston Wolfe"

Great scene...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 10:12 AM (XuXeR)

179 Ah, Natalya Zakharenko. My favorite Russian-American"

Ensign Chekov whimpers...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 10:13 AM (XuXeR)

180 That "seer" is just the sister who figured out she wouldn't have to do chores if she was "special".

Posted by: Emmie at December 16, 2025 10:13 AM (FMtrg)

181 I'm reminded of Raymond Brigg's 'The Snowman' animation. I have to get a quick plug in for it, because it's just beautifully sad. Even just the original intro with the author devastates me. The Missus won't watch it, but I love it.
Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 16, 2025 10:00 AM (6qf1m)

I'm familiar with that, but have never seen it. I don't need more sadness in my life.

White Christmas makes me sad. I'll never be able to dance like Danny Kaye and Hollywood will never make a musical like that again.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 10:13 AM (ufSfZ)

182 175 Self deported data is all estimates based on a lot of what ifs. It’s fugazi as I said. It’s the same sort of thing Obama did with “jobs saved or created”.

Number of jobs are quantifiable.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:10 AM (udlma)

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Number of jobs are based on surveys, just like deportation numbers.

And the numbers come from multiple sources, CBPOne, BLS, and Census data.

But you do you and just assume all news of deportations are bad because they vibe wrong with you, or whatever.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 10:14 AM (GBKbO)

183 Is that the Russian contortionist?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 10:14 AM (fA38o)

184 31 I wonder if she would appreciate Tummy Rub Tuesday?
Posted by: nurse ratched at December

In your honor, Sabi, Kovu and Saijo have gotten tummy rubs and scritchies. They say thank you. 😊

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:14 AM (ZdaMQ)

185 Is that the Russian contortionist?"

Nyet.

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 10:15 AM (XuXeR)

186 What makes you believe the ones you do and not the ones you don't?

Nothing. I don't believe any of them anymore. Have not for about two decades.

Posted by: Howdy at December 16, 2025 10:15 AM (LzVl6)

187 Their AI is now referring to Old Testament Canaan/Israel as "ancient Palestine." Unreal.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
======
Stupid and ignorant people always want their thinking done for them by others whether by Googling, AI searches, YT and TikTok videos, whatever.

AI is simply doing what the programmers and the training data told it to do--lie using statistic LLM models of tokens that predict what the next word should be in a string. Train it with malicious and evil lies, that is what you get out.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 10:16 AM (WDjG6)

188
AI is simply doing what the programmers and the training data told it to do--lie using statistic LLM models of tokens that predict what the next word should be in a string. Train it with malicious and evil lies, that is what you get out.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 10:16 AM (WDjG6)

This.

There is very little, if any, I in AI.

Posted by: Rosie O'Donnell's Mumu Emporium at December 16, 2025 10:16 AM (Zz0t1)

189 to dance like Danny Kaye…
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically

There are precious few people who can. Who cares? Dance anyway. Turn the music up and dance.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:17 AM (ZdaMQ)

190 Shit.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 10:17 AM (Zz0t1)

191 We need an AI trained on AOS comments.

AI, what are boobs?

AI: Boobs, also known as "tits," "cans," cozongas," "melons,"...

(3 hours later) "sweater puppies," "calcium cannons,"..."great tracts of land"...

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:17 AM (77rzZ)

192 Number of jobs are based on surveys, just like deportation numbers.

And the numbers come from multiple sources, CBPOne, BLS, and Census data.

But you do you and just assume all news of deportations are bad because they vibe wrong with you, or whatever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
======
Amusing yourself this morning again TJM?

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 10:17 AM (WDjG6)

193 If the surgeon screwed up and actually gave Madonna a face tuck and a butt lift, she'd look like a Combine Strider.

Posted by: Gordon Freeman at December 16, 2025 10:18 AM (Qqd2H)

194 There are precious few people who can. Who cares? Dance anyway. Turn the music up and dance.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:17 AM (ZdaMQ)

https://youtu.be/hGI2d31M7Ns?t=24

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 10:18 AM (Zz0t1)

195 Number of jobs is a survey of businesses asking did you hire or fire anyone last month.

That’s different than estimating how many illegals went home.

If you truly believe 2M illegals decided to leave have at it. I guess Obama really did save 10m jobs too.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:18 AM (udlma)

196 "White Christmas makes me sad. I'll never be able to dance like Danny Kaye and Hollywood will never make a musical like that again."

How 'bout Rosemary Clooney's little number 'Love, You Did't Do Right By Me' in that movie...

Dude.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 16, 2025 10:18 AM (6qf1m)

197 >>>It meant a great hunter, after the King Nimrod mentioned in Genesis.

Nimrod the Hunter
Orion the Hunter

Nimrod = British anti-submarine aircraft
Orion = U.S. anti-submarine aircraft

There's your military trivia for the day.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 16, 2025 10:18 AM (Y1sOo)

198 Was Danny Kaye the guy that used to lean at that impossible angle? How’d they do that?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 10:18 AM (fA38o)

199 Dance anyway. Turn the music up and dance.
Posted by: Piper

I prefer singing.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:18 AM (77rzZ)

200 White Christmas makes me sad. I'll never be able to dance like Danny Kaye and Hollywood will never make a musical like that again.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 10:13 AM (ufSfZ)
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We'll have the hap-hap-happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap danced with Danny Fuckin' Kaye!

Posted by: Clark W. Griswold at December 16, 2025 10:19 AM (3BwY8)

201 Their AI is now referring to Old Testament Canaan/Israel as "ancient Palestine."

When the Romans expelled the Jews - they called it Palestinia. Out of spite.

Posted by: Howdy at December 16, 2025 10:19 AM (LzVl6)

202 This.

There is very little, if any, I in AI.
Posted by: Rosie
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The label AI itself is a lie. Simply a gussied up term for machine learning which has been around for awhile--Deep Blue beating Kasparov is an example.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 10:19 AM (WDjG6)

203 AI, what are boobs?

AI: Boobs, also known as "tits," "cans," cozongas," "melons,"...

(3 hours later) "sweater puppies," "calcium cannons,"..."great tracts of land"...
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:17 AM (77rzZ)

Fun bags, nipple cushions....

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 16, 2025 10:20 AM (g8Ew8)

204 201 Their AI is now referring to Old Testament Canaan/Israel as "ancient Palestine."

When the Romans expelled the Jews - they called it Palestinia. Out of spite.
Posted by: Howdy at December 16, 2025 10:19 AM (LzVl6)
----
Does it also refer to Jerusalem as Al Quds"?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 16, 2025 10:21 AM (36PRH)

205 Nimrod = British anti-submarine aircraft
Orion = U.S. anti-submarine aircraft

There's your military trivia for the day.
Posted by: one hour sober

Hunter Biden = anti-US graft

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:21 AM (77rzZ)

206 AI: Boobs, also known as "tits," "cans," cozongas," "melons,"...

(3 hours later) "sweater puppies," "calcium cannons,"..."great tracts of land"...
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:17 AM (77rzZ)

Fun bags, nipple cushions....
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 16, 2025 10:20 AM (g8Ew

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Hooters, jugs...

Posted by: ballistic at December 16, 2025 10:21 AM (3BwY8)

207 Netflix is releasing an animated movie called Steps in 2026, about Cinderella's stepsisters Lilith and Margot, reimagining them as misunderstood characters ... The film aims to offer a fresh, inclusive perspective on the fairy tale, proving "even so-called villains deserve a shot at happily-ever-after".
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Narcissists must really adore themselves.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 10:22 AM (qrkyB)

208 Wiki says the first recorded mention of Palestine was 5th century BC.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:22 AM (udlma)

209 In your honor, Sabi, Kovu and Saijo have gotten tummy rubs and scritchies. They say thank you. 😊
Posted by: Piper

Nice! Lucy the Fink got some quality belly this morning. And I’m not bleeding!

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 16, 2025 10:22 AM (0Ivlr)

210 @206 Jugs, Jubblies, Tatas

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 16, 2025 10:22 AM (36PRH)

211 be my first time in the Caribbean and the furthest South I've ever been.
Posted by: Lincolntf at Dec

Enjoy. It's different.

Posted by: From about That Time at December 16, 2025 10:23 AM (sl73Y)

212 Lemme Guess the two sisters will be Black and Hispanic?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:23 AM (udlma)

213 Was Danny Kaye the guy that used to lean at that impossible angle? How’d they do that?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 10:18 AM (fA38o)

Not that I'm aware of. Are you thinking of Robret Strauss? He does something like that in The Seven Year Itch

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 10:23 AM (ufSfZ)

214 AI: Boobs, also known as "tits," "cans," cozongas," "melons,"...

(3 hours later) "sweater puppies," "calcium cannons,"..."great tracts of land"...
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:17 AM (77rzZ)

Fun bags, nipple cushions....
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 16, 2025 10:20 AM (g8Ew
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Hooters, jugs...
Posted by: ballistic

Yabbos

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 10:23 AM (+x87d)

215 And now, a word from Donkey Chompers . . .

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@RepAOC
The normalization and acceptance of Islamophobia in our politics is disgusting.
Our Muslim neighbors are not Republicans’ scapegoats for antisemitic attacks and Trump’s failed policies.
We must absolutely condemn Islamophobia loudly and hold those perpetuating it accountable.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 10:23 AM (L/fGl)

216 Lemme Guess the two sisters will be Black and Hispanic?"

Trans.

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 10:24 AM (XuXeR)

217 Danny Kay was bi. Carried on an affair with Olivier.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:24 AM (77rzZ)

218 ======
Stupid and ignorant people always want their thinking done for them by others whether by Googling, AI searches, YT and TikTok videos, whatever.

------

I'll cop to "lazy," at least, if not ignorant and stupid... I was just at my desk, and didn't feel like walking my lazy ass over to the bookshelf to grab the Pentateuch.

I got what I deserved.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 10:24 AM (BI5O2)

219 AI: Boobs, also known as "tits," "cans," cozongas," "melons,"...

(3 hours later) "sweater puppies," "calcium cannons,"..."great tracts of land"...
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:17 AM (77rzZ)

Fun bags, nipple cushions....
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 16, 2025 10:20 AM (g8Ew
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Hooters, jugs...
Posted by: ballistic at December 16, 2025 10:21 AM (3BwY

In the words of Julius Caesar, "Check out the mammae on that momma!"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 10:24 AM (ufSfZ)

220 @RepAOC
The normalization and acceptance of Islamophobia in our politics is disgusting.

-

What normalization? That’s the real problem. It’s not normalized enough.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:24 AM (udlma)

221 The label AI itself is a lie. Simply a gussied up term for machine learning which has been around for awhile--Deep Blue beating Kasparov is an example.

Me - and every other better than average automation guy - have been making self-adjusting control programs since Square D rolled the first system out in the 70s.

And before that ? Electro-Mechanical systems worked since the first guy made RC and RL networks with a user adjustable potentiometer. We beat the Japs in the Pacific with that kind of fire control.

The damn machine isn't thinking. Its not smart.

Posted by: Howdy at December 16, 2025 10:24 AM (LzVl6)

222 I'm reminded of Raymond Brigg's 'The Snowman' animation.
Posted by: Bad Andrew

Looks like they had a Winter Sno-Me.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 16, 2025 10:24 AM (w9Wax)

223 >When the Romans expelled the Jews - they called it Palestinia. Out of spite.

Posted by: Howdy at December 16, 2025 10:19 AM (LzVl6)

Nobody does spite like the Romans.

Posted by: Carthage at December 16, 2025 10:25 AM (NgqoH)

224 Ancient Philistines weren't even arabs! they were a seafaring people from ..Anatolia I think who conflicted with the Jews for a thousand years and then disappeared. Online AI, Wiki, and the rest need an big enema.

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 10:25 AM (g47mK)

225 Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@RepAOC
The normalization and acceptance of Islamophobia in our politics is disgusting.
Our Muslim neighbors are not Republicans’ scapegoats for antisemitic attacks and Trump’s failed policies.
We must absolutely condemn Islamophobia loudly and hold those perpetuating it accountable.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

No, they aren't Republicans's scapegoats.
The ARE THE ACTUAL ATTACKERS.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 10:26 AM (+x87d)

226

The normalization and acceptance of Whiteophobia in our politics is disgusting.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 10:26 AM (pkeXY)

227 199 Dance anyway. Turn the music up and dance.
Posted by: Piper

I prefer singing.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025

Then sing!

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:26 AM (ZdaMQ)

228 @219 And apropos for the season, sweater puppies.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 16, 2025 10:26 AM (36PRH)

229 Ancient Philistines weren't even arabs! they were a seafaring people from ..Anatolia I think who conflicted with the Jews for a thousand years and then disappeared. Online AI, Wiki, and the rest need an big enema.
Posted by: runner

They were part of the Sea Peoples. May even have been Indo-European, at least partly.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:26 AM (77rzZ)

230 I saw Sabi, Kovu, and Saijo open for Three Dog Night at Kahunaville in '97.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 10:26 AM (NNq22)

231 191 We need an AI trained on AOS comments.

Posted by: Bulg
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AOS AI would be better than the fever swamps of reddit. You could diy it by using the released DeepSeek model and feeding it the comments as training data. Dunno if you could scrape it via scripting or whether pixy has some sort of protections against that.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 10:27 AM (WDjG6)

232 Then sing!
Posted by: Piper

Figaro, figaro, figaro!

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:27 AM (77rzZ)

233
Their AI is now referring to Old Testament Canaan/Israel as "ancient Palestine." Unreal.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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To the Left, anything prior to yesterday's NYT is 'irrelevant'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 16, 2025 10:27 AM (XeU6L)

234 They were part of the Sea Peoples"

Always wanted to order some Sea Monkeys...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 10:27 AM (XuXeR)

235
Mort or Not Mort?

Today's guest on Mort Or Not Mort is...

Mariette Hartley

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 10:28 AM (7X4Rf)

236 Romans got overrun by savages and their DNA disappeared into ruffian Italics !

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 10:28 AM (g47mK)

237 Always wanted to order some Sea Monkeys...
Posted by: man

That mama sea monkey in the comic-book ads was hawt.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:28 AM (77rzZ)

238 Classical music + cartoons?

See: 'Fantasia'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 16, 2025 10:28 AM (XeU6L)

239 There once was a chick with clairvoyance
Who looked upon cheese with abhorrence
If I coulda, I woulda
banned cheddar and gouda
said she from her villa in Florence.

Posted by: Persnickety at December 16, 2025 10:28 AM (jJdyX)

240 231 191 We need an AI trained on AOS comments.

Posted by: Bulg
========
AOS AI would be better than the fever swamps of reddit. You could diy it by using the released DeepSeek model and feeding it the comments as training data. Dunno if you could scrape it via scripting or whether pixy has some sort of protections against that.
Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 10:27 AM (WDjG6)
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Something, something... "failed policies" blah, blah, blah, "Trump".

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 16, 2025 10:28 AM (36PRH)

241 @RepAOC
The normalization and acceptance of Islamophobia in our politics is disgusting.
Our Muslim neighbors are not Republicans’ scapegoats for antisemitic attacks and Trump’s failed policies.
We must absolutely condemn Islamophobia loudly and hold those perpetuating it accountable.

Oh FFS.........

They're actually attacking, you ignorant twat.

May they come to your neighborhood, soon, and do what they do.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 10:28 AM (Zz0t1)

242 That mama sea monkey in the comic-book ads was hawt."

Mamma Mia!

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 10:30 AM (XuXeR)

243 Posted by: Persnickety at December 16, 2025 10:28 AM (jJdyX)

Very nice!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 10:30 AM (n9ltV)

244 Classical music + cartoons?

Rabbit of Seville - 1950

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 10:31 AM (+x87d)

245 They were part of the Sea Peoples. May even have been Indo-European, at least partly.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:26 AM (77rzZ)

Yes, from inscriptions and other archeological finds, it's believed they spoke a variant of old Greek. (before classical) It's also believed that they were the same as those referred to as the "Pelset" on an ancient Egyptian stele in the Nile Delta. Erected by the Pharaoh to celebrate his victory over them; it would explain why they ended up in Israel. After being finally defeated in Egypt, they moved 100 miles up the coast and set up shop.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 10:31 AM (uWKK8)

246 The truth about AI is we are doing things with it now that could barely be imagined a decade ago or even five years ago. When we say it's not "intelligent" what the hell are we comparing it to?

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 10:31 AM (qrkyB)

247 The normalization and acceptance of Whiteophobia in our politics is disgusting.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 10:26 AM (pkeXY)

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More Whiteomisia (hatred) than -phobia (fear).

And agree 1000% ... Cognitive Dissonance is not just a river in Egypt.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 10:31 AM (NNq22)

248 230 I saw Sabi, Kovu, and Saijo open for Three Dog Night at Kahunaville in '97.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 10:26 AM (NNq22)

2 Cats and a Dog. They need a better band name. Savannah, Savannah, Shiba? I will work on it.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:31 AM (ZdaMQ)

249 Ancient Philistines weren't even arabs! they were a seafaring people from ..Anatolia I think who conflicted with the Jews for a thousand years and then disappeared. Online AI, Wiki, and the rest need an big enema.
Posted by: runner

They were part of the Sea Peoples. May even have been Indo-European, at least partly.
Posted by: Bulg

Yep. Proto Greeks for some although pottery for some seems to harken as far as Sardinia IIRC.
Most modern Arab history are lies and they actively destroy pre-history because it might undermine faith in Big Mo. Who I think increasingly was like Arthur in Britain, a warlord who various disaffected Christians and pagans retroed as the founder of their religion. Explains why the Koran is a mish mash of contradicting sections and has some absurdist elements.

True Archaeology threatens the very web of foundational myths for that faith. Including the absurd claims on Jerusalem and the Dome of the Rock.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 10:31 AM (WDjG6)

250 And you said the Oz cops didn't do anything!

New York Post
@nypost
Bondi Beach hero helped disarm terrorist before police mistakenly shot him

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 10:32 AM (L/fGl)

251 If Hadrian had only kept his butt-boy at home and not brought him into Jerusalem, that whole unpleasantness might have been avoided.

But noooo. Buttigiegs gonna Buttigieg.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:32 AM (77rzZ)

252 O/T, I hate facebook. I only made an account to join the Theda Bara Fan Club and now I keep getting imbeciles wanting to 'friend' me.

Leave me alone!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 10:32 AM (ufSfZ)

253 @246 Human intelligence, which it isn't remotely capable of.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 16, 2025 10:32 AM (36PRH)

254
Seer, huh?

Suckers!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 16, 2025 10:32 AM (xG4kz)

255 Michelle Obama Says They Had Plans with Rob and Michele the Night They Were Discovered Murdered

Posted by: SMOD at December 16, 2025 10:33 AM (RHGPo)

256 After being finally defeated in Egypt, they moved 100 miles up the coast and set up shop.
Posted by: Tom Servo

I think the Egyptians even helped with that.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:34 AM (77rzZ)

257 Maybe I should start calling everything in Turkish history "ancient Iranian." I mean, it was in Achaemenid Persia, amirite? Since time doesn't matter anymore, that should be fine.

Also - there's already a convention for this - you say "...in modern-day such-and-such."

Calling it "ancient Palestine" is just deliberate deception.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 10:34 AM (BI5O2)

258
Bondi Beach hero helped disarm terrorist before police mistakenly shot him
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice!

I'm guessing that there was no "mistakenly" about it.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 16, 2025 10:34 AM (xG4kz)

259
Mort or Not Mort?

Today's guest on Mort Or Not Mort is...

Mariette Hartley

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 10:28 AM

not mort

85 years old

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 16, 2025 10:34 AM (tljrc)

260 247 The normalization and acceptance of Whiteophobia in our politics is disgusting.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot
======
Manichean Good White and Bad White bullshit meant to create a Creole society like most of Latin America.

A thin crust of pale skinned elites at the top over a society of Mestizos and indigenous peoples as workers and subjects.

In essences, the general white populations in the West are assuming the role of Native Americans in this Great Replacement Scenario.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 10:34 AM (WDjG6)

261 It's not Türkiye. It's ancient Byzantium.

Posted by: Seeress of Prevorst at December 16, 2025 10:35 AM (R86kT)

262
...and hold those perpetuating it accountable.

Oh? In what way "accountable?"

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 10:35 AM (7X4Rf)

263 Me - and every other better than average automation guy - have been making self-adjusting control programs since Square D rolled the first system out in the 70s.
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At its most basic level, PID controllers. Then came the focus on neural network simulators, genetic algorithms, neuro-fuzzy systems, etc., etc.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 16, 2025 10:35 AM (XeU6L)

264 Diagnosis: Imbalance of Bodily Humors.

Posted by: Weasel at December 16, 2025 10:35 AM (cIOlQ)

265
Mort or Not Mort?

Today's guest on Mort Or Not Mort is...

Mort Sahl

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 16, 2025 10:36 AM (xG4kz)

266 The truth about AI is we are doing things with it now that could barely be imagined a decade ago or even five years ago. When we say it's not "intelligent" what the hell are we comparing it to?

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 10:31 AM (qrkyB)

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GIGO (Garbage-In, Garbate-Out) applies to both humans and "AI."

I learned the hard way that the upside of having a relatively high IQ was no match for the downside of having a very poor EQ (Emotional Intelligence).

That latter factor will be virtually impossible for machines to acquire (IMHO).

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 10:36 AM (NNq22)

267 to grab the Pentateuch
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Is that what the kids are calling it these days?

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:37 AM (77rzZ)

268
not mort

85 years old
Posted by: AltonJackson

Correct.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 10:37 AM (7X4Rf)

269 257 Maybe I should start calling everything in Turkish history "ancient Iranian." I mean, it was in Achaemenid Persia, amirite? Since time doesn't matter anymore, that should be fine.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Something very amusing happened a few years ago, there was enough data submitted from Turkey to generate DNA markers for comparison for origins. Most of the DNA was related to Greeks--essentially most of the Turkish population is descended from Greeks, not the smidge of Turk conquerers. That leaves out Kurds of course who do not show these markers.

Caused a firestorm in Turkey it did.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 10:37 AM (WDjG6)

270
Michelle Obama Says They Had Plans with Rob and Michele the Night They Were Discovered Murdered

Posted by: SMOD at December 16, 2025 10:33 AM

two observations:

1.) Bull

&

B.) Shit

the obamas always have to find an "angle" to inject themselves favorably in to any current event

it's who they are, it's what they do

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 16, 2025 10:37 AM (tljrc)

271 It’s not pre-Colombian history anymore it’s ancient ‘Murican history.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:37 AM (udlma)

272 It's not Türkiye. It's ancient Byzantium.
Posted by: Seeress of Prevorst

Ahem.
-- The Hittites

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:38 AM (77rzZ)

273 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Interesting art. But I got nuthin'
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 10:38 AM (2WIwB)

274 $19.5 billion here. $19.5 billion there. Pretty soon it begins to add up.

Ford just axed the electric F-150 no one wants … and took a $19.5 BILLION hit 👀

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 10:38 AM (L/fGl)

275
Caused a firestorm in Turkey it did.
Posted by: whig

They thought of themselves as a nation of catchers? Was that the problem?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 16, 2025 10:38 AM (xG4kz)

276
Isn't a "phobia" a Medical Condition?

Is sandy cortez saying she wants to punish people with a medical condition? Sure sounds like it.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 10:38 AM (7X4Rf)

277 The Seeress of Prevorst
Gabriel von Max

National Gallery, Prague: The artist may be regarded as one of the founders of symbolism even in the wider European context. His early paintings strongly resonate with the late romanticism tradition.

Encyclopedia com: In part,
Hauffe, Frederica (1801-1829)
"The Seeress of Prevorst," as described in Die Seherin von Prevorst (1829) by Justinus Kerner. Hauffe was born in the village of Prevorst near Löwenstein, Wüttemburg, Germany, in 1801. She married in 1819, and from that time until her death ten years later she was bedridden, subject to various ailments. She had convulsive fits and became rigid like a corpse; in this state she was possessed by spirits. She saw clairvoyantly, made predictions, and exhibited a wide range of psychic phenomena. At one time she spoke only in verse for three days. Occasionally she reportedly saw her own double, clad in white and seated on a chair, while she was lying in bed. (More)

The bottom-line is troubled spirits of the dead came to her for help & disclosed secrets of the doings on Earth that had made them restless. She taught while in a trance state & predicted her own death. 😬

Would pass. Thanks.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 16, 2025 10:39 AM (NFX2v)

278 I learned the hard way that the upside of having a relatively high IQ was no match for the downside of having a very poor EQ (Emotional Intelligence).

That latter factor will be virtually impossible for machines to acquire (IMHO).
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 10:36 AM (NNq22)
====

So telling people, "I've done the best I can to dumb this down for you," is not effective?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 10:39 AM (BW4I7)

279 I have phobia of people who want me dead. Everyone should.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:39 AM (udlma)

280
Michelle Obama Says They Had Plans with Rob and Michele the Night They Were Discovered Murdered

Posted by: SMOD

Up next: a "candid" photo of those two love irds sharing a bowl of popcorn and watching "The American President".

FOR ROB!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 16, 2025 10:40 AM (xG4kz)

281 A phobia is an irrational fear.

Fear of Islam is well-founded and wise.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 10:41 AM (BW4I7)

282 Something very amusing happened a few years ago, there was enough data submitted from Turkey to generate DNA markers for comparison for origins. Most of the DNA was related to Greeks--essentially most of the Turkish population is descended from Greeks, not the smidge of Turk conquerers. That leaves out Kurds of course who do not show these markers.

Caused a firestorm in Turkey it did.
Posted by: whig

That should have been a surprise to exactly nobody. The Turks were too few in number to leave a huge genetic marking. Most of the Greeks in Anatolia converted to Islam to make life easier, and of course, eventually took to speaking Turkish. Thus, they became Turks, culturally speaking.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:41 AM (77rzZ)

283 It's not Türkiye. It's ancient Byzantium.

Posted by: Seeress of Prevorst at December 16, 2025 10:35 AM (R86kT)

---------------

For fans of flamenco guitar, one of my faves from Jesse Cook:

"Byzantium Underground."

youtube.com/watch?v=dTArM5WZKcg

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 10:41 AM (NNq22)

284 Michelle Obama Says They Had Plans with Rob and Michele the Night They Were Discovered Murdered

Posted by: SMOD at December 16, 2025 10:33 AM

Just like the dozens of people who claimed they had been invited over to Cielo Drive the night Sharon Tate was murdered.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 10:41 AM (ufSfZ)

285 How does it cost $18B to stop making something? Yeah there are costs to take an existing plant and retrofit it to build something else. But that’s not $19B. This is some Enron-esque type accounting to get a $19b tax write off.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:42 AM (udlma)

286 The truth about AI is we are doing things with it now that could barely be imagined a decade ago or even five years ago. When we say it's not "intelligent" what the hell are we comparing it to?

Posted by: ...
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It is a probability calculator simply using whatever tokens were developed by the frontier models. It is okay right now for non critical analysis where errors or fabrications can be spotted by experts. But imagine that happens in code developed to fly an airplane--the AI generated code creates an imaginary function and calls it midflight--computer then crashes, locks up, etc. because that function it called was non existent.

Imagine a lawyer using AI for his brief in court has a key citation to a non existent case and reasoning from its non existent opinion. By submitting it, he loses the case because the opposition and judge determine the citation is fake.

AI running traffic lights decides based on erroneous training data or some other extraneous factor like preserving safety makes it so during rush hour, each light is timed differently on main routes causing massive backups. People in ambulances die because they can't get to hospitals due to the backup.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 10:42 AM (WDjG6)

287 284 Michelle Obama Says They Had Plans with Rob and Michele the Night They Were Discovered Murdered

Posted by: SMOD at December 16, 2025 10:33 AM

And she took a couple jabs at Trump...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 10:42 AM (VE6XX)

288 The bottom-line is troubled spirits of the dead came to her for help & disclosed secrets of the doings on Earth that had made them restless. She taught while in a trance state & predicted her own death. 😬

Would pass. Thanks.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day

Good call. You do not hear from the dead, that's a lie meant to trap the unwary.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 16, 2025 10:43 AM (OUMaO)

289 She married in 1819, and from that time until her death ten years later she was bedridden, subject to various ailments.

A cynic like myself might guess that her 'varous ailments' were self-inflicted in order to keep hubby out of the marriage bed.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 10:43 AM (ufSfZ)

290 Did Rob Reiner have info on the Clintons? Just axing questions.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:43 AM (udlma)

291 oooo...

Avatar 3 review embargo lifted.

66% on RT, easily the lowest of the franchise.

It'll still make $2 billion because I don't know.

I actually think the trailers look the most interesting of the three. I'll probably check it out on streaming.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 10:43 AM (GBKbO)

292 Looks like she's missing an IV …

Posted by: Dr_No at December 16, 2025 10:43 AM (ayRl+)

293 Sparks of the divine.

Minneapolis McDonald's now has doors "locked and attended" during business hours to protect guests

-
That's convenient.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 10:43 AM (L/fGl)

294 Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes

"Why does this dude keep asking me where the coffee is? I can't waste my clairvoyance on this crap. Dude, get on your damn phone and look up the nearest Starbucks."
-- The Seeress of Prevorst

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:43 AM (77rzZ)

295 I like the mystery conveyed, not only by the painting itself, but by the title. Good selection, CBD.

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 10:43 AM (2L+MU)

296 Imagine a lawyer using AI for his brief in court has a key citation to a non existent case and reasoning from its non existent opinion. By submitting it, he loses the case because the opposition and judge determine the citation is fake.

This has already happened a few times, and lawyers got sanctioned for it. Unfortunately, there are judges doing it too...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 16, 2025 10:44 AM (OUMaO)

297
Michelle Obama Says They Had Plans with Rob and Michele the Night They Were Discovered Murdered

Posted by: SMOD at December 16, 2025 10:33 AM

And she took a couple jabs at Trump...
Posted by: It's me donna

Was her hair straightened or natural? We're judging the depth of her commitment to be true to her "natural" self.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 16, 2025 10:44 AM (xG4kz)

298 You do not hear from the dead, that's a lie meant to trap the unwary.

Jerry Garcia hardest hit.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 10:44 AM (ufSfZ)

299 If you'd had what she put up her sleeve you'd see things too.

Posted by: DaveA at December 16, 2025 10:45 AM (FhXTo)

300
tree hunnert

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 16, 2025 10:45 AM (xG4kz)

301 So telling people, "I've done the best I can to dumb this down for you," is not effective?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 10:39 AM (BW4I7)

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lol

I was never that eloquent.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 10:46 AM (NNq22)

302 two observations:

1.) Bull

&

B.) Shit

the obamas always have to find an "angle" to inject themselves favorably in to any current event

it's who they are, it's what they do
Posted by: AltonJackson

Exactly.

THIS is the only way she can get people to watch her failed podcast.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 10:46 AM (7X4Rf)

303 Michelle Obama Says They Had Plans with Rob and Michele the Night They Were Discovered Murdered

Posted by: SMOD at December 16, 2025 10:33 AM

Just like the dozens of people who claimed they had been invited over to Cielo Drive the night Sharon Tate was murdered.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression)

I was on PT-109 and told John, "Carve it on a coconut!"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 10:46 AM (L/fGl)

304 The Seeress will see you now.

Posted by: The Front Deskist at December 16, 2025 10:47 AM (0RiMX)

305 There are two camps on AI. One camp says it will revolutionize everything. The other camp is it’s all nonsense.

Like everything else in life the answer is somewhere in the middle.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:47 AM (udlma)

306 You do not hear from the dead, that's a lie meant to trap the unwary.

Jerry Garcia hardest hit.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 10:44 AM (ufSfZ)

I try all the time to get a message through. No dice.

Posted by: Harry Houdini at December 16, 2025 10:47 AM (wVcYX)

307 Just like the dozens of people who claimed they had been invited over to Cielo Drive the night Sharon Tate was murdered.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression)

Beau Biden was there, and got murdered alongside Sharon.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:47 AM (77rzZ)

308 Michelle Obama Says They Had Plans with Rob and Michele the Night They Were Discovered Murdered

Posted by: SMOD at December 16, 2025 10:33 AM

Just like the dozens of people who claimed they had been invited over to Cielo Drive the night Sharon Tate was murdered.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression)

I was on my way over to their house when the Hindenburg crashed and burned on top of me.

Posted by: Beau Biden at December 16, 2025 10:48 AM (Riz8t)

309 Just like the dozens of people who claimed they had been invited over to Cielo Drive the night Sharon Tate was murdered.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression)

Pretty much everyone alive in 1969 claims to have attend Woodstock. Lol.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:49 AM (udlma)

310 307 Just like the dozens of people who claimed they had been invited over to Cielo Drive the night Sharon Tate was murdered.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression)

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I bondo'd Steve Parent's car.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 16, 2025 10:49 AM (0RiMX)

311 Ahem.
-- The Hittites
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:38 AM (77rzZ)\

Fun fact about the Hittites - unlike most of the ancient peoples in the middle east (except Persians) they were Indo-Europeans.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 10:49 AM (uWKK8)

312 >>Just like the dozens of people who claimed they had been invited over to Cielo Drive the night Sharon Tate was murdered.

Guess you just had to 'be there,' eh?

Posted by: Jerzy Kosinski at December 16, 2025 10:50 AM (NuV6c)

313 Sparks of the divine.

Minneapolis McDonald's now has doors "locked and attended" during business hours to protect guests

-
That's convenient.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 10:43 AM (L/fGl)

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[Speaking of "AI" -- and what could go wrong?]

You'd think McDonalds would have already pioneered RoboCop Security Guards.

I mean, it's been nearly 40 years already!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 10:50 AM (NNq22)

314 James Rosen
@JamesRosenTV
EXCLUSIVE: Officials ⁦@ICEgov⁩ tell @NEWSMAX the agency has no record of stopping a car driven by the son of ⁦⁦@Ilhan⁩, as the congresswoman claimed. Acting Director Lyons called the charge a “ridiculous effort to unfairly demonize our law enforcement officers.”
4:23 PM · Dec 15, 2025
=====

So very oppressed. This woman lies like she breathes.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 10:50 AM (BW4I7)

315 @ 246 The truth about AI is we are doing things with it now that could barely be imagined a decade ago or even five years ago. When we say it's not "intelligent" what the hell are we comparing it to?
__________________________________________________

"What are we comparing it to?" … well, REALITY for one thing. Non-existent metals and compounds, legal cases that are the electronic equivalent of dope dreams, impossible medical causation(-s) and 'treatments' … need more? I got more …

Posted by: Dr_No at December 16, 2025 10:51 AM (ayRl+)

316 Fun fact about the Hittites - unlike most of the ancient peoples in the middle east (except Persians) they were Indo-Europeans.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Yep. And decipherment of their language proved De Saussure's laryngeal hypothesis correct.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:51 AM (77rzZ)

317 @73 What is the square root of an isosceles triangle?"
Cleveland.

So near, and yet so far: https://uspto.report/TM/71394481

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 16, 2025 10:51 AM (zdLoL)

318 Would

Posted by: weimdog at December 16, 2025 10:51 AM (b3GvB)

319 306
‘ You do not hear from the dead, that's a lie meant to trap the unwary.

Jerry Garcia hardest hit.

I try all the time to get a message through. No dice.
Posted by: Harry Houdini’

You commenting from beyond the grave is the height of irony, Harry.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 16, 2025 10:51 AM (jbnUc)

320 If we aren't working flat out to harden every major military asset, we're utter fools.

(Narrator: we're utter fools)

Ukraine Hits Russian Sub in First Underwater Drone Attack

https://is.gd/jedobg

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 10:51 AM (Riz8t)

321

I was at the baseball game when Lou Gehrig made his famous speech about inventing a new disease. I remember it like it was yesterday...

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 10:51 AM (7X4Rf)

322 >>Michelle Obama Says They Had Plans with Rob and Michele the Night They Were Discovered Murdered

She certainly has her own brand of #MeToo, eh?
Let's talk about me me me me, I I I ?

Posted by: Jerzy Kosinski at December 16, 2025 10:51 AM (NuV6c)

323 I saw Laryngeal Hypothesis open for The Gram Parsons Project at the Orpheum in '83.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 16, 2025 10:52 AM (0RiMX)

324 A serious nation would have deported Ilhan Omar via trebuchet several years ago.

Posted by: ballistic at December 16, 2025 10:52 AM (3BwY8)

325 295 I like the mystery conveyed, not only by the painting itself, but by the title. Good selection, CBD.
Posted by: Paco

300 comments and now you show up to brown nose?

Posted by: Wannabe Teacher's Pet at December 16, 2025 10:52 AM (oftw2)

326 Sometimes I forget I live in a quasi bubble geographically where our diversity level is very low. But when I read about guards at McDonald’s I remind myself oh yeah, that’s why I live here.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:52 AM (udlma)

327 Michele Reiner, Rob's wife, was the photographer who did the cover for "Art of the Deal."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 10:52 AM (NwnyJ)

328 You'd think McDonalds would have already pioneered RoboCop Security Guards.

I mean, it's been nearly 40 years already!
Posted by: ShainS

Mayor McCheese and Officer Big Mac were incompetent grifters.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:53 AM (77rzZ)

329 Fun fact about the Hittites - unlike most of the ancient peoples in the middle east (except Persians) they were Indo-Europeans.
Posted by: Tom Servo

I would Hittite.

*cackle*

Posted by: Hillary! at December 16, 2025 10:53 AM (w9Wax)

330 Sometimes I forget I live in a quasi bubble geographically where our diversity level is very low. But when I read about guards at McDonald’s I remind myself oh yeah, that’s why I live here.

I've lived in crappy areas, and I currently live in a very nice area. I prefer the latter, and don't apologize for it.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 10:54 AM (Riz8t)

331 >>Ukrainian navy spokesperson Dmytro Pletenchuk said the operation to hit a submarine — the most difficult target to hit — marked "another turning point" in the naval battle between Ukraine and Russia.

It's not difficult to hit when it's tied up at the pier. lol

Posted by: one hour sober at December 16, 2025 10:54 AM (Y1sOo)

332 >>EXCLUSIVE: Officials ⁦@ICEgov⁩ tell @NEWSMAX the agency has no record of stopping a car driven by the son of ⁦⁦@Ilhan⁩, as the congresswoman claimed.

Trail balloon to see if she could get riots going if/hen ICE arrives at her home?

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2025 10:54 AM (NuV6c)

333 Seth McFarlane the guy who created family guy was supposed to be on one of the 9/11
Flights. He was hung over and missed his flight.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:54 AM (udlma)

334 Ukrainian navy spokesperson Dmytro Pletenchuk said the operation to hit a submarine — the most difficult target to hit — marked "another turning point" in the naval battle between Ukraine and Russia.

It's not difficult to hit when it's tied up at the pier. lol

Yes, that's the point.
*rolls eyes*

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 10:55 AM (Riz8t)

335
The more I hear about this submarine supposebly destroyed by the ukes, the less I believe it.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 10:55 AM (7X4Rf)

336 Minneapolis McDonald's now has doors "locked and attended" during business hours to protect guests
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Somebody the other day called evidences of the past high trust society a “luxury” we have lost.

A high trust society isn’t a “luxury” or nice thing to have (albeit not really that important or, something).

Get it in your head, your society is fucking doomed without it. It ain’t a “luxury”, it is a pre-requisite to a functional civilization

Posted by: Common Tater at December 16, 2025 10:55 AM (Zh6C/)

337 @333 Riiiiight.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 16, 2025 10:56 AM (36PRH)

338 Crap........Just got a call.

FiL fell and hit his head and shoulder getting out of a chair. Looks like we're getting him a bit early for his Dr. appointments and Christmas.

Then, decisions have to be made. Tough ones.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 10:56 AM (Zz0t1)

339 Trail balloon to see if she could get riots going if/hen ICE arrives at her home?
Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2025 10:54 AM (NuV6c)
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Blatant lie because she's a brazen liar with no morals and a third-world tribal mentality?

Posted by: ballistic at December 16, 2025 10:56 AM (3BwY8)

340 FiL fell and hit his head and shoulder getting out of a chair. Looks like we're getting him a bit early for his Dr. appointments and Christmas.

Then, decisions have to be made. Tough ones.
Posted by: Sponge

Damn, Sponge. Prayer up.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:57 AM (77rzZ)

341 Damn, Sponge. Prayer up.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:57 AM (77rzZ)

Thanks. Seems we're not out of the woods yet.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 10:58 AM (Zz0t1)

342
Classical music + cartoons?

Rossini ~ William Tell Overture : The Storm

https://youtu.be/JcRuChk7Exo

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 10:58 AM (pkeXY)

343 336
‘ Get it in your head, your society is fucking doomed without it. It ain’t a “luxury”, it is a pre-requisite to a functional civilization’

Hear. Hear.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 16, 2025 10:58 AM (jbnUc)

344 159. It will be my first time in the Caribbean and the furthest South I've ever been.
Posted by: Lincolntf

Buck Island Reef National Monument was amazing years ago. It appears to still be a highly recommended side trip from St. Croix.

Have a wonderful time in the daytime; don't wander at night.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 16, 2025 10:58 AM (NFX2v)

345 Prayers, Sponge.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 10:58 AM (kgE5c)

346 >>Seth McFarlane the guy who created family guy was supposed to be on one of the 9/11
Flights. He was hung over and missed his flight.

Sadly, one of the flight attendants on the bloody flight out of Boston was *not* supposed to be on the flight, she filled in at the last minute. She was the kid of a BIL's neighbor, good friend of my nephew. It was heartbreaking.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2025 10:58 AM (NuV6c)

347 294 Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes

"Why does this dude keep asking me where the coffee is? I can't waste my clairvoyance on this crap. Dude, get on your damn phone and look up the nearest Starbucks."
-- The Seeress of Prevorst
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:43 AM (77rzZ)

Well! Starbucks sucks. I want my money back!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 10:59 AM (2WIwB)

348 340 FiL fell and hit his head and shoulder getting out of a chair. Looks like we're getting him a bit early for his Dr. appointments and Christmas.

Then, decisions have to be made. Tough ones.
Posted by: Sponge

I'll pray for you all...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 10:59 AM (VE6XX)

349 @333 Riiiiight.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 16, 2025 10:56 AM (36PRH)

He’s told the story many times. There were eyewitness accounts of him being at the airport at the gate just minutes after it took off. And he was on the flight manifest. I’m sure Candace Owens thinks he’s a Mossad agent or whatever, but it is legit by all appearances.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:59 AM (udlma)

350 The man and woman were later identified as Boris and Sofia Gurman, a Russian-Jewish couple living in Bondi. They were the first two victims of the attack.
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An old couple attacked the terrorist as he emerged from his vehicle on Campbell Parade.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 10:59 AM (CTokg)

351 Oh man, Sponge! More prayers for you and your family.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2025 11:00 AM (NuV6c)

352 Michele Reiner, Rob's wife, was the photographer who did the cover for "Art of the Deal."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 10:52 AM (NwnyJ)

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Amazing how "The Donald" was a darling of the Democrat Left before he suddenly materialized into "Literally Hitler" by running for POTUS as an R.

Remember even Oprah encouraging him to run when he was younger and presumed to be a D ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 11:00 AM (NNq22)

353 Have a wonderful time in the daytime; don't wander at night.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 16, 2025 10:58 AM (NFX2v)
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Because of the vampire pirates?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 16, 2025 11:00 AM (yNJrI)

354 340 FiL fell and hit his head and shoulder getting out of a chair. Looks like we're getting him a bit early for his Dr. appointments and Christmas.

Then, decisions have to be made. Tough ones.
Posted by: Sponge

Oh no. Prayers, sponge.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 11:01 AM (ZdaMQ)

355 Punk minkey up

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 11:02 AM (+x87d)

356
Somebody the other day called evidences of the past high trust society a “luxury” we have lost.

A high trust society isn’t a “luxury” or nice thing to have (albeit not really that important or, something).

Get it in your head, your society is fucking doomed without it. It ain’t a “luxury”, it is a pre-requisite to a functional civilization
Posted by: Common Tater
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It is as if the past is a foreign country,

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 16, 2025 11:02 AM (XeU6L)

357 Munkey!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 16, 2025 11:02 AM (yNJrI)

358 Sponge if he hit his head he should have an x-ray.

A prayer for his immediate and complete recovery.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 11:02 AM (CTokg)

359 "Christmas market ISIS 'mass terror attack' plot' foiled in Poland" @ Daily Mail

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 11:03 AM (g47mK)

360 300 comments and now you show up to brown nose? - Wannabe Teacher's Pet

Just tuned in, you insolent dog. Now, get back to the scullery.

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 11:04 AM (2L+MU)

361 Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 10:42 AM (WDjG6)

Yes but you will get there slowly.

It's less artificial intelligence and more augmented intelligence. They can't be left without oversight but they will be able to fill in gaps and slowly those gaps will get smaller. It's inevitable. Emerging technologies always look like bullshit until they dont.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 11:17 AM (qrkyB)

362 Is that a Hapsburg chin????

Posted by: Mr Wolf at December 16, 2025 11:36 AM (SOGBX)

363 @ 338 Crap........Just got a call.
FiL fell and hit his head and shoulder getting out of a chair. Looks like we're getting him a bit early for his Dr. appointments and Christmas. Then, decisions have to be made. Tough ones.
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Sorry to hear that, Sponge. Words are goin' up for your FiL. As for the decisions — yes, they are, and will be, tough ones. I hope things turn out better than the anticipation …

Posted by: Dr_No at December 16, 2025 11:39 AM (ayRl+)

364 IMO Mooch is fabricating the story about going to visit the Reiners.

She goes nowhere with Barry, unless it's to some public put-on, like the Clintons holding hands whenever they bump into each other and spot someone nearby holding a camera.

Remember Barry's black eye and bandaged hand after their chef deaded...Mooch holds a grudge.

Posted by: ju at December 16, 2025 12:02 PM (EgpoY)

365 Turn on the TV the Three Stooges is on

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 16, 2025 05:29 PM (wGqjj)

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