Overnight Open Thread [12/29/2025]

Wow. Mount Kilimanjaro is the tallest mountain on the African continent, and the tallest free-standing (whatever that means) mountain in the world.

But the damned giraffe makes the photo!

It's also linked to an excellent short story by Ernest Hemingway called The Snows of Kilimanjaro, which is a bit pompous, but still a good read. Well, Hemingway is a bit pompous. And an asshole. But his early stuff is magnificent, and he is absolutely in the top five greatest American short story writers.

And yes, I will fight you.

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30 years ago I was a pro-immigration, pro-interventionist, pro-surveillance-state idiot.

It took a long while, but I finally figured out what the founding fathers were getting at. Let's mind our own business. let people do what they would like as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else, stay out of their business, support our friends and kill our enemies.

Pretty simple when you think about it.

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom - go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!

-- Samuel Adams

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Delta Dawn, by Tanya Tucker. Yeah...good American music.
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Posted by: CBD at 10:27 PM

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1 Hello

Posted by: fourseasons at December 29, 2025 10:28 PM (3ek7K)

2 Hi

Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 29, 2025 10:28 PM (nbLIj)

3 A time for every purpose under heaven

Posted by: mindful webworker - a time to refrain from embracing at December 29, 2025 10:28 PM (dESj/)

4 EEK

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 29, 2025 10:28 PM (ahS/I)

5
Hiya CBD. Thank you.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 29, 2025 10:28 PM (3ek7K)

6 Top 10?

Posted by: Racially Ambiguous Honky at December 29, 2025 10:28 PM (zdQuL)

7 BOING!

I shouldn't even be here now.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 29, 2025 10:28 PM (USk4X)

8 the tallest free-standing (above ground level) mountain in the world.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 29, 2025 10:28 PM (/lPRQ)

9
Giraffes are so cool.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 29, 2025 10:29 PM (3ek7K)

10
the tallest free-standing (whatever that means) mountain in the world.

No guy wires.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 29, 2025 10:29 PM (pkeXY)

11 Giraffes!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 29, 2025 10:30 PM (nWPIJ)

12 Thanks CBD, glad this thread is here.

Posted by: Crusader at December 29, 2025 10:30 PM (Cjcf6)

13 I miss the rains down in Africa.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2025 10:30 PM (viF8m)

14
I like giraffes. They're one of the reliable animals at the San Diego Zoo. Darn big cats are always hiding.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 29, 2025 10:31 PM (n7rxJ)

15 8 the tallest free-standing (above ground level) mountain in the world.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 29, 2025 10:28 PM (/lPRQ)

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It's well known that Mt. Everest leans unfairly on other peaks in the Himalayas.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 29, 2025 10:31 PM (nWPIJ)

16 Wow. Mount Kilimanjaro is the tallest mountain on the African continent, and the tallest free-standing (whatever that means) mountain in the world.

But the damned giraffe makes the photo!

"Mount Kilimanjaro is twice the height of a giraffe!" -- super SMAHHHHRRT journalist

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 29, 2025 10:31 PM (ULPxl)

17 Thanks for the ONT, CBD.

I just saw this on a new site tonight:

Review Concludes CBD Not Effective Against Pain

Whaddya think, Mr D?

Posted by: LRob in OK at December 29, 2025 10:31 PM (47diA)

18 If tonight's ONT doesn't suit you
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=360797

Posted by: mindful webworker - blatts from the patts at December 29, 2025 10:31 PM (dESj/)

19 Evening, folken! It's getting chilly here and will be so for the next couple of days. A nice change from the dispiriting heat.

Today I drove up to the Tecovas store, about eighty miles NW of me, and purchased a pair of their "Earl" model in "Scotch goat," meaning the color and then the leather. I talked myself into a 9.5 size instead of a 10 because my ancient Justin Ropers are 9.5. They felt okay as I walked around in the store. But these boots, besides being heavy, are hot and uncomfortable. I wore them just now on the carpet in my place, including at my desk, and found my toes itching. My foot needs more room.

So, back I go on Wed. or Fri. to try the size 10s in the same model I passed on. Things just aren't simple, are they?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 29, 2025 10:32 PM (wzUl9)

20 I like giraffes. They're one of the reliable animals at the San Diego Zoo.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 29, 2025 10:31 PM (n7rxJ)
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Plus they're a kosher animal.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 29, 2025 10:32 PM (USk4X)

21 That is a beautiful pic up top. Thanks, CBD.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 29, 2025 10:32 PM (Q/uAJ)

22 By the way I was introduced to Hank Williams via a radio station out of Tulsa when I was about 10 years old. My musical tastes were all over the place, but one holiday weekend (likely Christmas) they played a marathon of Hank Williams tunes, and I listened to them all as I was shooting Nerf hoops in my bedroom. Even the 10 year old me understood there was something significant about those recordings.

Posted by: Crusader at December 29, 2025 10:32 PM (Cjcf6)

23 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 29, 2025 10:32 PM (cYBz/)

24 Giraffes. Why'd it have to be giraffes?

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 29, 2025 10:32 PM (jc0TO)

25 I think 'free-standing mountain' means not within a range.

Posted by: davidt at December 29, 2025 10:32 PM (Q+gd/)

26 18 If tonight's ONT doesn't suit you
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=360797
Posted by: mindful webworker - blatts from the patts at December 29, 2025 10:31 PM (dESj/)

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What are you? Some kind of commie rabble-rouser?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 29, 2025 10:32 PM (nWPIJ)

27 This seems...thrown together at the last minute.
🤔🧐

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 29, 2025 10:33 PM (VCgbV)

28 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 29, 2025 10:33 PM (lUFok)

29 25 I think 'free-standing mountain' means not within a range.
Posted by: davidt at December 29, 2025 10:32 PM (Q+gd/)

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A geographic pimple then?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 29, 2025 10:33 PM (nWPIJ)

30 Before he got famous Charlie Daniels band was hot.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 29, 2025 10:34 PM (ahS/I)

31 Meow

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at December 29, 2025 10:34 PM (w3u3d)

32 Kilimanjaro is a snow covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai “Ngùje Ngai,” the House of God. Close to the western summit there is the dried and frozen carcass of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.

Posted by: Racially Ambiguous Honky at December 29, 2025 10:34 PM (zdQuL)

33 What are you? Some kind of commie rabble-rouser?

Chick in a bikini. I'll allow it.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 29, 2025 10:34 PM (lUFok)

34 Hank was a highly skilled songwriter and a doggone good singer in his style, BUT he was greatly troubled in his daily life. My favorite in my later years is I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry.

Posted by: LRob in OK at December 29, 2025 10:35 PM (47diA)

35 Here's a good animal rescue story for a future cafe:

https://youtube.com/shorts/K12M96HjIKs

Posted by: Willowed prolly at December 29, 2025 10:35 PM (2Ez/1)

36 Mount Kilimanjaro is a volcano, yes?

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 29, 2025 10:35 PM (jc0TO)

37 Good evening morons и спасибо cbd

acepimp@geocities.com

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The email bounces back.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 29, 2025 10:35 PM (RIvkX)

38 Today I drove up to the Tecovas store, about eighty miles NW of me, and purchased a pair of their "Earl" model in "Scotch goat," meaning the color and then the leather. I talked myself into a 9.5 size instead of a 10 because my ancient Justin Ropers are 9.5. They felt okay as I walked around in the store. But these boots, besides being heavy, are hot and uncomfortable. I wore them just now on the carpet in my place, including at my desk, and found my toes itching. My foot needs more room.

So, back I go on Wed. or Fri. to try the size 10s in the same model I passed on. Things just aren't simple, are they?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I mail ordered a pair from them. The boots were beautiful but simply did not fit so I returned them with no issue. I eventually visited one of their storefronts and was fit properly. I have oddly shaped feet so a personal fitting was necessary.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 29, 2025 10:35 PM (cYBz/)

39 20 I like giraffes. They're one of the reliable animals at the San Diego Zoo.

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They're okay for a quadruped.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 29, 2025 10:35 PM (nWPIJ)

40 Giraffes. Why'd it have to be giraffes?

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 29, 2025 10:32 PM (jc0TO)
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Obligatory African big game reference:

https://youtu.be/OyXlf6b_azk

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 29, 2025 10:35 PM (USk4X)

41 the tallest free-standing (above ground level) mountain in the world.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 29, 2025

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In a memoir, Michael Crichton tells the story of his visit to Mt. Kilimanjaro, and how it is (theoretically) possible to *walk* all the way to the top. Apparently there is a trail of not too steep a grade. No climbing equipment required.

The problem turned out to be, he found, that pretty early in the ascent, the air gets thin up there. Their guides were adapted to it; he and his companions weren't. Things did not go well. He survived, but it wasn't pleasant.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 29, 2025 10:35 PM (wzUl9)

42 I recall singing Delta Dawn on the playground in the early 70s. I was not destined to be a breakout star.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 29, 2025 10:36 PM (Q/uAJ)

43 I'm afraid to try that geocities.com email address. Do those even work anymore?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 29, 2025 10:36 PM (S/Y4j)

44 Has anyone been using OpenCode terminal AI agent?

I think it's nothing short of brilliant.

It's got a planning and build system that is like nothing I've seen in the AI space.

And with all of the TUI apps that are being developed, and window managed linux setups that are terminal heavy, the future of computers may be terminal interfaces and bloated GUI's may be a thing of the past.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 29, 2025 10:36 PM (XV/Pl)

45 Knives are to be sheathed at all times unless written waiver is received by our attorneys.

Dear AOSHQ attorneys,

Please excuse my son to open-carry a plastic butterknife. To spread cream cheese on my bagel.

Posted by: mindful webworker's mom at December 29, 2025 10:36 PM (dESj/)

46 I once shot an elephant in my pajamas.

Posted by: Capt. Spalding at December 29, 2025 10:36 PM (nWPIJ)

47 Taking a short break.

~ ~ ~

To All: Have a Happy and Safe New Year's!

Next year may the lottery gods bless the Horde.

Posted by: RickZ at December 29, 2025 10:37 PM (gKDq2)

48
As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti
I seek to cure what's deep inside
Frightened of this thing that I've become

Posted by: Toto at December 29, 2025 10:37 PM (2Ez/1)

49 I miss the rains down in Africa.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2025 10:30 PM

*nods sagely*

Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 29, 2025 10:37 PM (Wnv9h)

50 And yes, I will fight you.

Chandler, Hammett, and David Drake are probably better. Leigh Bracket was probably as good. I would think that Larry Correia would be better too, but he doesn't do short stories, he is a novel author.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 29, 2025 10:37 PM (rbvCR)

51 Kilimanjaro is a snow covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai “Ngùje Ngai,” the House of God. Close to the western summit there is the dried and frozen carcass of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.

He was searching for Somali child care facilities with actual children.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 29, 2025 10:38 PM (Riz8t)

52 I mail ordered a pair from [Tecovas]. The boots were beautiful but simply did not fit so I returned them with no issue. I eventually visited one of their storefronts and was fit properly. I have oddly shaped feet so a personal fitting was necessary.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 29, 2025

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I thought I needed a snugger fit around the heel. My Dan Posts and my Justin ropers both fit perfectly and have some comfortable slip back there, and room for my toes. I guess different brands vary a bit even within the same size.

I also liked the Cartwright model in cowhide for $30 more.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 29, 2025 10:38 PM (wzUl9)

53 I recall singing Delta Dawn on the playground in the early 70s. I was not destined to be a breakout star.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 29, 2025 10:36 PM (Q/uAJ)
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You were singing the Helen Reddy version.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 29, 2025 10:38 PM (RIvkX)

54 I once shot an elephant in my pajamas.
Posted by: Capt. Spalding at December 29, 2025 10:36 PM

What was an elephant doing in your pajamas?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 29, 2025 10:38 PM (Wnv9h)

55 Evening all,

I'm still very sick. The meds that the ER doctor prescribed me did not work. I'll have to contact my GP come the new year and see how she wants me treat me. I hope it isn't more antibiotic, the ER antibiotic made me so nauseous.

Colitis is horrible. I really feel for people with IBS.

Posted by: Joyenz at December 29, 2025 10:38 PM (2F0/Y)

56 I shouldn't even be here now.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey,
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Early appointment?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 29, 2025 10:38 PM (ahS/I)

57 What was an elephant doing in your pajamas?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 29, 2025 10:38 PM (Wnv9h)
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I don't see how that's relephant.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 29, 2025 10:39 PM (USk4X)

58 Pic up top is a fake, filters, AI, photoshop, you name it. I mean it's a real photo, but highly manipulated. The original is of Britton Hill, highest point in Florida, 345 feet, with a leggy nutria in front of it.

Not quite as exotic, but still lovely.

Posted by: You Can Observe A Lot Just By Watching at December 29, 2025 10:39 PM (oftw2)

59 Chandler, Hammett, and David Drake are probably better. Leigh Bracket was probably as good. I would think that Larry Correia would be better too, but he doesn't do short stories, he is a novel author.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 29, 2025

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Dunno about Drake or even Correia, but yes on Chandler and Hammett. I'd include Dorothy Parker and Ring Lardner, too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 29, 2025 10:39 PM (wzUl9)

60 I like giraffes. They're one of the reliable animals at the San Diego Zoo.

Also an excellent unit for measuring length.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 29, 2025 10:40 PM (Riz8t)

61 Early appointment?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 29, 2025 10:38 PM (ahS/I)
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At synagogue. Fast day. Breakfast before dawn. Now gotta go.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 29, 2025 10:40 PM (USk4X)

62 It means they aren't part of a range, so it's pure relief from the ground up.

I'm sure it's pretty impressive in person.

They aren't freestanding, but the Chugach mountains near Anchorage are impressive in that way. When I first went there coming from the Colorado Rockies, I heard the tallest one wasn't even 14,000ft, so I was like "feh, that's no big deal."

But I wasn't thinking about the fact that that's counting from sea-level, without a continental watershed a mile deep beneath them, and when I actually got there I said "holy crap, these mountains are ENORMOUS."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 29, 2025 10:40 PM (BI5O2)

63 You were singing the Helen Reddy version.

Posted by: San Franpsycho

Probably. I was only a toddler.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 29, 2025 10:40 PM (Q/uAJ)

64 Number 9 … number 9 …

The streak hits 9 as the Blue and Gold beat the Blues 4-2

Doof, Jackstraw … we’re officially back

Posted by: browndog in the crease at December 29, 2025 10:41 PM (TTAGa)

65 >>I like giraffes. They're one of the reliable animals at the San Diego Zoo.

I've done a couple game drives in South Africa. Both on preserves but still very cool. They take you out early in the morning and then later in the afternoon because that's when most animals are up and eating.

First morning we left the lodge about 6 am. Pitch black. As we got on the trail we started descending a hill and there was a bunch of trees in front us and the dirt road banked hard left and downhill. The game warden stopped because game warden. Slowly a ginormous giraffe head munching leaves arose behind the trees. And another. And another. 6 in total. Just looking at us looking at them while the munched on leaves.

One of those moments I will never forget. Till I saw the baby elephant.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2025 10:41 PM (viF8m)

66
Joyenz,

I'm sorry you are still sick.

Praying for you.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 29, 2025 10:41 PM (3ek7K)

67 and the tallest free-standing (whatever that means) mountain in the world.

It means it came out of the sky, obviously.

Posted by: Jon Anderson at December 29, 2025 10:41 PM (nhCoE)

68
I eventually visited one of their storefronts and was fit properly. I have oddly shaped feet so a personal fitting was necessary.
Posted by: Tonypete

Did they have something ready to wear or did they have to make one special?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 29, 2025 10:41 PM (pkeXY)

69 I've also completed the fuel pump replacement on the Colorado. Something should have taken an hour tops has taken 3-days.

And rust really is a bitch on a 20 year old truck.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 29, 2025 10:41 PM (XV/Pl)

70 I also liked the Cartwright model in cowhide for $30 more.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Angela, Veronica, or Ben?

Posted by: Thom McCan at December 29, 2025 10:42 PM (oftw2)

71 The meds that the ER doctor prescribed me did not work. I'll have to contact my GP come the new year and see how she wants me treat me.
Posted by: Joyenz

Make sure your GP prescribes the correct size pill. You don't want them falling out.

Apologies for being a butthead.

Sorry you are feeling poorly. Colitis and IBS prove that the butt controls the entire person.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 29, 2025 10:42 PM (cYBz/)

72 Irwin might need the little blue pill...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 29, 2025 10:43 PM (ynpvh)

73 No guy wires.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 29, 2025 10:29 PM (pkeXY)

No bra straps, either.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 29, 2025 10:43 PM (8zz6B)

74 >>>as I was shooting Nerf hoops in my bedroom. Even the 10 year old me understood there was something significant about those recordings.
Posted by: Crusader
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He and Bob Wills were shunned by the Grand Old Opre. Welcomed by the Louisiana Hayride.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 29, 2025 10:43 PM (ahS/I)

75 My favorite in my later years is I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry.
Posted by: LRob in OK at December 29, 2025

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I understood he had some help on that one from Wesley and Fred Rose, his producers. Not to take anything away from him, now. This verse:

Did you ever see a robin weep
When leaves begin to die?
Like me, he's lost the will to live --
I'm so lonesome I could cry . . .

-- is superb and a credit to any songwriter.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 29, 2025 10:43 PM (wzUl9)

76 Top Pic...I give up, I can't find the sniper...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 29, 2025 10:43 PM (ynpvh)

77 Did they have something ready to wear or did they have to make one special?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

I have a monstrously high instep so, they got me into zippered ropers off the shelf. Love them.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 29, 2025 10:44 PM (cYBz/)

78 "No bra straps, either."

Now you're talking Tetons.

Posted by: Racially Ambiguous Honky at December 29, 2025 10:44 PM (zdQuL)

79 >>> 50 And yes, I will fight you.

Chandler, Hammett, and David Drake are probably better. Leigh Bracket was probably as good. I would think that Larry Correia would be better too, but he doesn't do short stories, he is a novel author.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 29, 2025 10:37 PM (rbvCR)

Correia has a few short stories out, in collections he's edited (eg MHI stuff) or participated in.

... or is that like "What Star Wars prequels?"

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 29, 2025 10:44 PM (ULPxl)

80 Did you make it to AZ, AOP? Last I saw you had worked on the suburban in Montana.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 29, 2025 10:44 PM (Q/uAJ)

81 76 Top Pic...I give up, I can't find the sniper...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 29, 2025 10:43 PM (ynpvh)

Or the kitteh.

Posted by: davidt at December 29, 2025 10:44 PM (Q+gd/)

82 Evening everyone, thx CBD
I agree that Hemingway was a great short story writer and The Sun Also Rises and For Whom the Bell Tolls are also great reads. And he was an asshole.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 29, 2025 10:45 PM (bHeYx)

83 Sadly, I can't tell if this is real or not. I choose to believe it is.

https://is.gd/2i40q8

Posted by: Archimedes at December 29, 2025 10:45 PM (Riz8t)

84 Top Pic...I give up, I can't find the sniper...
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He took the picture.

Posted by: clarence at December 29, 2025 10:45 PM (MXMX4)

85 I also liked the Cartwright model in cowhide for $30 more.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Angela, Veronica, or Ben?
Posted by: Thom McCan at December 29, 2025

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I loved Angela C. when I was twelve.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 29, 2025 10:45 PM (wzUl9)

86 78 "No bra straps, either."

Now you're talking Tetons.

Posted by: Racially Ambiguous Honky at December 29, 2025 10:44 PM (zdQuL)

Yes, but are they the Grand Tetons?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 29, 2025 10:46 PM (ynpvh)

87 Old Man and The Sea was the only Hemingway story I didn't hate.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 29, 2025 10:46 PM (BI5O2)

88 I think 'free-standing mountain' means not within a range.
Posted by: davidt at December 29, 2025 10:32 PM (Q+gd/)

Well, it's a volcano. They can pop up in many places, unconnected with the kind of tectonics that builds mountain ranges.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 29, 2025 10:46 PM (8zz6B)

89 84 Top Pic...I give up, I can't find the sniper...
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He took the picture.

Posted by: clarence at December 29, 2025 10:45 PM (MXMX4)

I'd expect crosshairs in that case...sneaky sniper.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 29, 2025 10:46 PM (ynpvh)

90 If you want to see interesting mountain news check out the eruption of Etna. People were skiing on one part of the mt while lava was pouring down the another side. Part of a ski lift was wrecked.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 29, 2025 10:47 PM (bHeYx)

91 88 I think 'free-standing mountain' means not within a range.
Posted by: davidt at December 29, 2025 10:32 PM (Q+gd/)

Well, it's a volcano. They can pop up in many places, unconnected with the kind of tectonics that builds mountain ranges.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 29, 2025 10:46 PM (8zz6B)

It's also free-range...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 29, 2025 10:47 PM (ynpvh)

92 Thanks for the Hank Williams. I became a fan fairly late in life. My favorite Hank Williams song is "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry". Country music is the best for heartbreak songs.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 29, 2025 10:47 PM (0Htd1)

93 69 I've also completed the fuel pump replacement on the Colorado. Something should have taken an hour tops has taken 3-days.

And rust really is a bitch on a 20 year old truck.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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Had to drop the tank on my 77 Suburban. Talk about a collection of everything you don't want on your face.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 29, 2025 10:48 PM (ahS/I)

94 Joyenz a prayer for complete and speedy healing

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 29, 2025 10:48 PM (RIvkX)

95 I think 'free-standing mountain' means not within a range.
Posted by: davidt at December 29, 2025 10:32 PM (Q+gd/)

Well, it's a volcano. They can pop up in many places, unconnected with the kind of tectonics that builds mountain ranges.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

And Devil's Tower is a petrified ginormous tree stump.

Fight me!!

Posted by: Tonypete at December 29, 2025 10:48 PM (cYBz/)

96 90 If you want to see interesting mountain news check out the eruption of Etna. People were skiing on one part of the mt while lava was pouring down the another side. Part of a ski lift was wrecked.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 29, 2025 10:47 PM (bHeYx)

One HELL of a ski-lift...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 29, 2025 10:48 PM (ynpvh)

97 Sadly, I can't tell if this is real or not. I choose to believe it is.
https://is.gd/2i40q8
Posted by: Archimedes

I think they photoshopped a Babylon Bee article under the NYP header.

Posted by: mikeski at December 29, 2025 10:48 PM (nhCoE)

98 13 I miss the rains down in Africa.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2025

I bless them. 😀

Posted by: Piper at December 29, 2025 10:48 PM (Wmg4n)

99 Every time I see a giraffe...which isn't often. But, every time I do see one, I think about the wild assed, unbelievable ride that must have been their evolution. What possible experiences over a massive length of time did that species get up to, to create something like that?

I think it's because their nosey and were always looking at the other animals over the shrubs. Eventually their neck started to grow...then the legs...etc. Whatever it was...they really suck at Hide-n-Seek. They used to be better.

Posted by: Orson at December 29, 2025 10:48 PM (dIske)

100 95 I think 'free-standing mountain' means not within a range.
Posted by: davidt at December 29, 2025 10:32 PM (Q+gd/)

Well, it's a volcano. They can pop up in many places, unconnected with the kind of tectonics that builds mountain ranges.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

And Devil's Tower is a petrified ginormous tree stump.

Fight me!!

Posted by: Tonypete at December 29, 2025 10:48 PM (cYBz/)

Must be one without tree rings...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 29, 2025 10:49 PM (ynpvh)

101 88 I think 'free-standing mountain' means not within a range.
Posted by: davidt at December 29, 2025 10:32 PM (Q+gd/)

Well, it's a volcano. They can pop up in many places, unconnected with the kind of tectonics that builds mountain ranges.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 29, 2025 10:46 PM (8zz6B)

It's also free-range...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Well, that's good. Keeping volcanoes in a cage is just cruel.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 29, 2025 10:49 PM (lUFok)

102 >>I agree that Hemingway was a great short story writer and The Sun Also Rises and For Whom the Bell Tolls are also great reads. And he was an asshole.

Key West near the Truman Annex would be a great place for a meetup. Some wouldn't survive but that's a price we should be willing to pay.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2025 10:50 PM (viF8m)

103 @95 probably where Cameron got the idiot idea for the world tree on Avatar

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 29, 2025 10:51 PM (bHeYx)

104 It's also free-range...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Well, that's good. Keeping volcanoes in a cage is just cruel.
Posted by: Blanco Basura

You can, though, because fire can't melt steel.

Posted by: mikeski at December 29, 2025 10:51 PM (nhCoE)

105 Old Man and The Sea was the only Hemingway story I didn't hate.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 29, 2025

***
For Whom the Bell Tolls is a weird novel. It starts out fairly high in energy, slopes down like a sagging bridge, then rises to the climax and finale. (The Gary Cooper/Ingrid Bergman film is exactly the same way.) In the middle section, everybody keeps talking about "in the milk of thy fathers" and "blowing the bridge," to the point you say, "Get on with it then!"

But the love scenes between Robert Jordan and Maria are very well done (note his technique of using "thou" and "thee" to show their intimacy), and the final scene is one of the greatest in fiction.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 29, 2025 10:51 PM (wzUl9)

106 Correia has a few short stories out, in collections he's edited (eg MHI stuff) or participated in.

... or is that like "What Star Wars prequels?"
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 29, 2025 10:44 PM (ULPxl)

They are good, but Correia does better at a slow burn and a slow roll-out punctuated by action. And he does that exceptionally well.

Drake and Correia are incredibly transparent writers, their prose does not stand in the way of the story in any way. Drake was a lawyer who did technical writing, and Correia is a recovering CPA and the experience really shows.

I liked about half of Islands in the Stream by Hemmingway, by the way.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 29, 2025 10:51 PM (rbvCR)

107 Kilimanjaro is a snow covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and

that's roughly 1,160 giraffes tall.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 29, 2025 10:51 PM (KL9cQ)

108 Key West near the Truman Annex would be a great place for a meetup. Some wouldn't survive but that's a price we should be willing to pay.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2025 10:50 PM (viF8m)

Been there, JS. And would go back again.
Of course, my liver was much younger then.

Posted by: RI Red at December 29, 2025 10:52 PM (LMRVO)

109 Did you make it to AZ, AOP? Last I saw you had worked on the suburban in Montana.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 29, 2025 10:44 PM (Q/uAJ)

Got in at 10:15 last evening. House is fine, I am fine, Suburban is fine.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 29, 2025 10:52 PM (8zz6B)

110 103 @95 probably where Cameron got the idiot idea for the world tree on Avatar

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 29, 2025 10:51 PM (bHeYx)

Oh, there are at least a few myths about ginormous world trees, Yggdrasil for example...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 29, 2025 10:52 PM (ynpvh)

111 The Old Man and the Sea was a slog. If it was half as long and a short story vs a novella it would have held my interest more.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 29, 2025 10:53 PM (bHeYx)

112 >>Every time I see a giraffe...which isn't often. But, every time I do see one, I think about the wild assed, unbelievable ride that must have been their evolution. What possible experiences over a massive length of time did that species get up to, to create something like that?

Look what they eat and where the live.

Go see them in their natural habitat. It will not only make sense it will be a trip you'll never forget.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2025 10:53 PM (viF8m)

113 @92

>>Had to drop the tank on my 77 Suburban. Talk about a collection of everything you don't want on your face.

Yeah, the 6 bolts that hold the bed on were nearly rust fused and required heat and Archimedes Lever to loosen. The lock ring was pretty much fused to the pump and the rust build up was incredible and I had to destroy the ring and do major cleanup.

The only silver lining is that none of the fuel line fittings broke or snapped.

Anyway, the Vortec Lives another day.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 29, 2025 10:53 PM (XV/Pl)

114 You know who probably has (had) some stories about Mount Kilimanjaro?

Posted by: Dark Litigator at December 29, 2025 10:55 PM (KAi1n)

115 107 Kilimanjaro is a snow covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and

that's roughly 1,160 giraffes tall.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 29, 2025 10:51 PM (KL9cQ)

5032 1/3 Herve Villechaizes

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 29, 2025 10:55 PM (ynpvh)

116 Kilimanjaro is a snow covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and

that's roughly 1,160 giraffes tall.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

5032 1/3 Herve Villechaizes
Posted by: jim

When Herve was on the mountain, he hollered - "The plain, the plain!"

Posted by: Tonypete at December 29, 2025 10:56 PM (cYBz/)

117 Thanks for the prayers guys.

Colitis and IBS prove that the butt controls the entire person.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 29, 2025 10:42 PM (cYBz/)

So true!

Posted by: Joyenz at December 29, 2025 10:57 PM (2F0/Y)

118 Mount Etna last erupted in June of this year. Why is there a ski resort on an active volcano?

Posted by: clarence at December 29, 2025 10:57 PM (MXMX4)

119 What to do when you have a hangover and a Dalek you don't remember buying? Give it to a friend to motorize and add sound.

https://youtu.be/rc9Nly-5Yj8

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 29, 2025 10:57 PM (lUFok)

120 Mamdani wants universal child care and Hochul is backing him. They read the Minnesota fraud story and say "works for us"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 29, 2025 10:57 PM (bHeYx)

121 As for Ernest's short stories, "Snows" is good, and a few of the others where something important happens. It seems to me he pioneered that "slice of life" thing which has infested modern "literature" to the point that a mainstream story nowadays in which something actually happens is vanishingly rare.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 29, 2025 10:57 PM (wzUl9)

122 >>Been there, JS. And would go back again.
Of course, my liver was much younger then.

I bet you were all decked out in your fly boy uniform and swatting away the girls like flies.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2025 10:57 PM (viF8m)

123 118 Mount Etna last erupted in June of this year. Why is there a ski resort on an active volcano?

Posted by: clarence at December 29, 2025 10:57 PM (MXMX4)

Ski Ride to Hell > Highway to Hell?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 29, 2025 10:58 PM (ynpvh)

124 The only silver lining is that none of the fuel line fittings broke or snapped.

Anyway, the Vortec Lives another day.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 29, 2025 10:53 PM (XV/Pl)

The technique is: locate fuel pump on tank. Mark out a space on truck box or on car floor. Cut out large square of metal with air chisel. Repair or replace fuel pump. Patch hole in floor by any means expedient. Welding might be a little dicey.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 29, 2025 10:58 PM (8zz6B)

125 A photo safari to Africa is on my bucket list.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 29, 2025 10:59 PM (Q/uAJ)

126 The Old Man and the Sea was a slog. If it was half as long and a short story vs a novella it would have held my interest more.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 29, 2025 10:53 PM (bHeYx)

Yeah, it was tedious.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 29, 2025 11:00 PM (8zz6B)

127 @124

>>The technique is:

Great!!!! Where were you on Sunday!!!

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 29, 2025 11:00 PM (XV/Pl)

128 Great!!!! Where were you on Sunday!!!
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 29, 2025 11:00 PM (XV/Pl)

Driving through Utah, mostly.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 29, 2025 11:01 PM (8zz6B)

129 Welding might be a little dicey.

If you've got a brother-in-law you aren't fond of, get him drunk and have HIM weld it! What's the worst could happen?

Posted by: LRob in OK at December 29, 2025 11:02 PM (47diA)

130 @118 Etna is an absolutely huge mountain. It's just under 11000 ft tall but the territory the base occupies is huge. Check out a satellite map and you will be amazed. Therefore but can be erupting in one area and quiet in another so as to ski

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 29, 2025 11:02 PM (bHeYx)

131 . . . and he is absolutely in the top five greatest American short story writers.

"For sale,
baby shoes.
Never worn."

Posted by: a.moron at December 29, 2025 11:02 PM (X5Jzz)

132 If you stack 1,160 giraffes on top of one another, they just topple over. Giraffes have a terrible sense of balance. So Kilimanjaro is more impressive.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 29, 2025 11:03 PM (KL9cQ)

133 Temps here will dip into the upper or mid-30s tonight. Which means Swamp denizens will all be panicking, trying to scrape frost off their windshields for the morning commute. Not having bought an actual ice scraper, they'll use a credit card -- or if they are really stupid, they'll pour hot water on the iced glass. Crack!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 29, 2025 11:03 PM (wzUl9)

134 Replaced my, 7/22 Wally purchased, battery for the Lawn Tractor with one from AutoZone. $70. for dinky little battery. First time I replaced it $25.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 29, 2025 11:03 PM (ahS/I)

135 129 Welding might be a little dicey.

If you've got a brother-in-law you aren't fond of, get him drunk and have HIM weld it! What's the worst could happen?
----

He survives AND you need a new truck?

Posted by: clarence at December 29, 2025 11:03 PM (MXMX4)

136 >>A photo safari to Africa is on my bucket list.

Do it. If you aren't up for a big game drive I highly recommend this place. Everything about it is amazing.

https://www.ivorytreegamelodge.com

Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2025 11:04 PM (viF8m)

137 The Partridge Family had a classic episode involving the writing of Hemingway.

Posted by: Crusader at December 29, 2025 11:04 PM (Cjcf6)

138 I loved “A Farewell to Arms.”

Posted by: Goddessoftheclassroom at December 29, 2025 11:05 PM (USyCi)

139 106 . . .
I liked about half of Islands in the Stream by Hemmingway, by the way.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 29, 2025 10:51 PM (rbvCR)
________

I preferred the half by Dolly Parton. Hemingway couldn't hold up his end of the duo. Porter would have done better.

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at December 29, 2025 11:05 PM (gf7Ez)

140 I'm not a fair judge, though. I've never particularly liked fiction and once I wasn't being forced by the State to read it, I never did again.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 29, 2025 11:06 PM (BI5O2)

141 I am guessing that Mount Kilimanjaro is not connected to other mountains or a range. Just popped up like a big volcano pimple one day and blew.

Actually I don't know if it blew or not. Probably. Or a surprise someday?

I used to get a pimple like this now and then in my distant youth or the trauma known as high school. On my chin. The only part of my face I got pimples. Yes, I was that perfect. I would let it either blow or go elsewhere but not touch it (my mother told me to leave it alone). My ex friend used to take needles to hers like a nitwit and has scars (she's evil so don't feel sorry for her).

We still need snow, by the way. Lots. My former calendars used to say, "snowed 2" pretty frequently each week as I love it so much. This year I am not even writing down "dustings" as it ticks me off so badly. There is snow in the mountains. Weak yay for hope in the New Year and into spring so we don't all die.

On the bright side I am not Somolian.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 29, 2025 11:07 PM (WONhk)

142 . Not having bought an actual ice scraper, they'll use a credit card -- or if they are really stupid, they'll pour hot water on the iced glass. Crack!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 29, 2025 11:03 PM (wzUl9)

Wolfus, I recall using a credit card a time or two to de-ice my car in Central TX. 😳 I do own one now.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 29, 2025 11:07 PM (Q/uAJ)

143 On the bright side I am not Somolian.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 29, 2025 11:07 PM (WONhk)

Semolina?

Posted by: Kindltot at December 29, 2025 11:08 PM (rbvCR)

144 The line in The Sun Also Rises about how one goes bankrupt "two ways. Gradually, the suddenly" is a great bit of writing

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 29, 2025 11:08 PM (bHeYx)

145 According to the Internet, the global giraffe population is somewhere between 117,000 and 140,000, which means that whoever is counting them isn't even trying to do a good job.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 29, 2025 11:09 PM (KL9cQ)

146 Not having bought an actual ice scraper, they'll use a credit card -- or if they are really stupid, they'll pour hot water on the iced glass. Crack!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 29, 2025 11:03 PM (wzUl9)

Wolfus, I recall using a credit card a time or two to de-ice my car in Central TX. 😳 I do own one now.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

Cassette case.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 29, 2025 11:10 PM (/lPRQ)

147 Wolfus, I recall using a credit card a time or two to de-ice my car in Central TX. 😳 I do own one now.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 29, 2025

***
Ice scrapers are thin on the ground at auto parts stores in the Deep Sweatbox of the South. I got mine before I moved to Denver from a work colleague. His wife hustled Avon products, and it turned out the catalog had a few tools like that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 29, 2025 11:10 PM (wzUl9)

148 Do it. If you aren't up for a big game drive I highly recommend this place. Everything about it is amazing.

https://www.ivorytreegamelodge.com

Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2025 11:04 PM (viF8m)

That looks amazing, thank you. Hubby wants to do a 30th anniversary trip. This would be a contender.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 29, 2025 11:11 PM (Q/uAJ)

149 According to the Internet, the global giraffe population is somewhere between 117,000 and 140,000, which means that whoever is counting them isn't even trying to do a good job.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 29, 2025 11:09 PM (KL9c

It was around 140k, but 23k vanished into Somalian "zoos."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 29, 2025 11:11 PM (BI5O2)

150 145
'the global giraffe population is somewhere between 117,000 and 140,000, which means that whoever is counting them isn't even trying to do a good job.'

They aren't hard to spot.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 29, 2025 11:12 PM (fd80v)

151 Just back from a long trip. Good to be home.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 29, 2025 11:12 PM (kd1a0)

152 "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" and A Moveable Feast were the ones that did it for me when I was first reading Hemingway. Always enjoyed his short stories more than his novels, but revisited The Sun Also Rises early this year and liked it. Need to look at some of the others again -- it's been decades.

IIRC -- Think it was in Hotchner's biography that I saw a story about Darryl Zanuck calling Hemingway long distance to ask about an alternate title for "Short Happy Life" that would be eye-catching and a bit sexy and also fit on theater marquees. Hemingway kept him waiting a good half-hour and then said, "Here it is. Short, eye-catching, will fit on any marquee in the country and as a sex symbol, you can't beat it. Got a pencil? Are you ready? F as in Fox. U as in Universal. C as in Columbia. K as in RKO. Have you got that, Darryl?" And hung up. The flick came out as The Macomber Affair. Who can say why?

Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 29, 2025 11:12 PM (q3u5l)

153 The best short stories were the letters in Penthouse Forum.

Lick me.

Posted by: Zombie John Holmes at December 29, 2025 11:12 PM (2XHCB)

154 A credit card makes a pretty effective ice scraper. Flexible enough to follow the contours of curved auto glass.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 29, 2025 11:13 PM (8zz6B)

155 Evening Horde

Go Wild, beat Vegas

Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at December 29, 2025 11:13 PM (jvxGE)

156
Mamdani wants universal child care and Hochul is backing him. They read the Minnesota fraud story and say "works for us"
Posted by: Smell the Glove

If they can make it there they can make it anywhere.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 29, 2025 11:14 PM (pkeXY)

157 Rising like an empress above the Serengeti.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 29, 2025 11:14 PM (2GVsD)

158 Ski slopes are found in odd places. Mt Hermon (now more Israeli than it was before, ahemm) has a ski resort. Gudauri in Georgia, right on the border of the historically quiet peaceful paradise of Chechnya, has a ski resort. And in Dubai there's a ski slope inside a mega-mall.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 29, 2025 11:14 PM (U/Byj)

159 138 I loved “A Farewell to Arms.”
Posted by: Goddessoftheclassroom at December 29, 2025 11:05 PM (USyCi)

That's the only book of Hemmingway's I liked as well. I bought A Moveable Feast, as I love Paris (or did before the barbarians) and French food. It is mostly a long whine about his girlfriend and sex in an empty apartment (I quit reading it and it is on the bedroom bookcase and I may or may not finish it).

I don't believe in throwing books away so I give them away to charity to bore the poors with my clothes and various other things I discard. The good books I don't keep I mail to my new DIL who likes to read.

My one feeble tie to Hemingway was finding a dusty oil painting in a thrift store in Sun Valley during covid for $18. It was signed by the first mayor of Sun Valley's wife (big whoop!) who was friends with the grouchy Hemingway. I guess they used to ski and drink together. I think he skied or I made that up.

Good night and send me some snow to perk me up! I look at the night sky, as that is as good as any prediction, with prayer. It used to mean snow if the night sky was pink. In the old days when it snowed. Like last year. My husband claims we've had winters like this

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 29, 2025 11:15 PM (WONhk)

160 A farewell to arms?

Don't tell Michelle what's her name.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 29, 2025 11:16 PM (2GVsD)

161 150 145
'the global giraffe population is somewhere between 117,000 and 140,000, which means that whoever is counting them isn't even trying to do a good job.'

They aren't hard to spot.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 29, 2025 11:12 PM (fd80v)

Ha! Someone has a fake giraffe head sticking out of a good sized laurel hedge that's on my commute.

Posted by: Rex B at December 29, 2025 11:16 PM (C9oTe)

162 I loved “A Farewell to Arms.”

Has anyone asked Michelle Fields how she feels about that book?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 29, 2025 11:16 PM (lUFok)

163 Guess it's 'bout time I headed off to bed. I'm dozing off here -- no insult to any of you, just no nap this afternoon.

Tomorrow afternoon I have a dr.'s appt., just the usual wellness visit, and Miss Linda has asked me to swing through the nearby Whole Foods to find some of the fake milk ("Malk") for which she has free coupons. It's not bad stuff if you pop a teaspoon of it into your coffee.

Wed., I'll return the boots to Tecovas or swap them for a model that fits. Thurs. & Fri.? No idea yet.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 29, 2025 11:18 PM (wzUl9)

164
Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. --Mickey Spillane

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 29, 2025 11:18 PM (XeU6L)

165 I loved “A Farewell to Arms.”

Has anyone asked Michelle Fields how she feels about that book?
Posted by: Blanco Basura

For her, not quite a page-turner.

Just saying.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 29, 2025 11:19 PM (cYBz/)

166 Great news for the USA. George and Amal Clooney have obtained French citizenship and are moving there permanently. Wonder how close their home is to a no-go zone

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 29, 2025 11:19 PM (bHeYx)

167 I'd forgotten the Macomber short story. Yes, things actually happen in it, and it moves.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 29, 2025 11:20 PM (wzUl9)

168 According to the Internet, the global giraffe population is somewhere between 117,000 and 140,000, which means that whoever is counting them isn't even trying to do a good job.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

They're sneaky bastards, though. They'll lie down and pretend to be reticulated pythons.

Posted by: a giraffe counter at December 29, 2025 11:21 PM (nhCoE)

169 Every start of winter, I have the adventure of looking for the ice scraper in my car. Now, I know I didn't look at it in April, say "I'll never need this again" and throw it away. It has to be in here somewhere.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 29, 2025 11:21 PM (2XHCB)

170 149 According to the Internet, the global giraffe population is somewhere between 117,000 and 140,000, which means that whoever is counting them isn't even trying to do a good job.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 29, 2025 11:09 PM (KL9c

It was around 140k, but 23k vanished into Somalian "zoos."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 29, 2025 11:11 PM (BI5O2)

The ones at the Venezuelan zoo also disappeared, I believe...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 29, 2025 11:21 PM (ynpvh)

171 Speaking of tall mountains…. Does Mount McKinley have that name back or is it still Denali? The Denali thing annoyed me not sure why as it’s a trivial thing but always erasing things I thought I knew…. Like BC and AD are now BCE and CE…. Really annoying; what is this common era? Common to what?? Sigh….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 29, 2025 11:21 PM (czfTj)

172 Mrs. Irwin will be singing a different tune when he's plowing her furrow over the coming new year.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 29, 2025 11:21 PM (nljXp)

173 168 According to the Internet, the global giraffe population is somewhere between 117,000 and 140,000, which means that whoever is counting them isn't even trying to do a good job.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

They're sneaky bastards, though. They'll lie down and pretend to be reticulated pythons.

Posted by: a giraffe counter at December 29, 2025 11:21 PM (nhCoE)

There'd be more, but they're always sticking their necks out...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 29, 2025 11:22 PM (ynpvh)

174 157 Rising like an empress above the Serengeti.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 29, 2025 11:14 PM (2GVsD)

"I seek to cure what's deep inside"

Thanks.This song lifts me from my need snow woes. I will never not love this song!

https://tinyurl.com/3asub92t

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 29, 2025 11:22 PM (WONhk)

175 >>Ski slopes are found in odd places. Mt Hermon (now more Israeli than it was before, ahemm) has a ski resort. Gudauri in Georgia, right on the border of the historically quiet peaceful paradise of Chechnya, has a ski resort. And in Dubai there's a ski slope inside a mega-mall.

Been to the one in Dubai.

But my favorite is one I visited in Southern Chile on an active volcano. That was different.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2025 11:22 PM (viF8m)

176 It's funny... I bet that nobody - not even the cucks who so loudly landed on their fainting couches when she was disarmed - could tell you who Michelle Fields is today.

Except here. The only thing anyone will remember her for was that ridiculous drama show, and it's only for the fun of deriding it and her.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 29, 2025 11:22 PM (BI5O2)

177 IMHO Hemingway was close to the, if not, the first "major" writer that didn't write like he was being paid by the word.

Posted by: Azjaeger at December 29, 2025 11:23 PM (3/XaG)

178 Like BC and AD are now BCE and CE…. Really annoying; what is this common era? Common to what?? Sigh….

Fight back. Use "Christian Era."

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 29, 2025 11:23 PM (lUFok)

179 Is Clooney a perv looking for an escape route? If I recall he is "friends" with Cindy Crawford's husband. Always rumored they were more than friends. They have some line of Vodka or something also.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 29, 2025 11:23 PM (Q/uAJ)

180 Our Paper of Record: https://tinyurl.com/2mz6d3r2

Posted by: Pikov Andropov at December 29, 2025 11:24 PM (y7zkd)

181 Wolfus (and Nerdy Girl), I concur re "I'm So Lonesome I could Cry", but the version that does it for me is on the "Trinity Sessions" by the Cowboy Junkies. Margo's voice is lovely, and the pedal steel fills and solo are perfectly in keeping with the sad but beautifully written lyrics.

Posted by: Cowboyneal - the Other Jewish Carpenter at December 29, 2025 11:24 PM (MRSZC)

182 Hello, Horde! 😊♥️

Will be heading to Fort Worth tomorrow after we have our traditional farewell Denny's breakfast with my BFF and her family. So incredibly glad that we were able to see each other again this year 🎄🎄🎄

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 29, 2025 11:25 PM (RiICY)

183 Have a good one, gang.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 29, 2025 11:25 PM (q3u5l)

184 >>>Speaking of tall mountains…. Does Mount McKinley have that name back or is it still Denali? The Denali thing annoyed me not sure why as it’s a trivial thing but always erasing things I thought I knew…. Like BC and AD are now BCE and CE…. Really annoying; what is this common era? Common to what?? Sigh….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt

>You can thank the JEF for that idiocy. His mark on civilization will be mocked and ridiculed for an eternity.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 29, 2025 11:25 PM (nljXp)

185 Posted by: Dark Litigator at

Hello! So good to see you! How are the kitties?

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 29, 2025 11:25 PM (IhIKR)

186 I met a guy once who’d completed the so-called 7 peaks challenge: he’d successfully climbed the tallest mountain on each continent. He started with Kilimanjaro because he said it was the easiest.. didn’t require mountaineering skills just a long hike. Everest he saved for last (of course) and he didn’t summit that one until his second try. Crazy dude…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 29, 2025 11:25 PM (czfTj)

187 The Old Man and the Sea was a slog. If it was half as long and a short story vs a novella it would have held my interest more.
Posted by: S

That is how it is with most great writers / stories, Moby Dick was more punishment than anything.

Posted by: n at December 29, 2025 11:26 PM (a1O7k)

188 Thanks.This song lifts me from my need snow woes. I will never not love this song!
https://tinyurl.com/3asub92t
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Leo's cover version is great, too.

https://youtu.be/MH9FyLsfDzw

Posted by: mikeski at December 29, 2025 11:26 PM (nhCoE)

189 Teresa, did you find your Kindle?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 29, 2025 11:26 PM (Q/uAJ)

190 Fight back. Use "Christian Era."
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 29, 2025 11:23 PM (lUFok)

Heh.

My brother is a good writer, but he had a professor who kept docking him a percentage point for using AD instead of CE.

So, in true family form, he started using "the Year of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ 1947" instead.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 29, 2025 11:27 PM (BI5O2)

191 Greetings ONT friends

Apologies for being late. I have no snappy excuse.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 29, 2025 11:27 PM (QGaXH)

192 Like BC and AD are now BCE and CE…. Really annoying; what is this common era? Common to what?? Sigh….

Fight back. Use "Christian Era."
Posted by: Blanco Basura

"2025 years since what?"

Posted by: the meme about that at December 29, 2025 11:27 PM (nhCoE)

193 Anyone else have their head stuffed with song lyrics? Its that time again at my job where they try to sell you all sorts of little insurance policies to be deducted from your paycheck. Immediately in my head started "they took me in the office and they told me very carefully \the ways that I could benefit from death and disability"

Posted by: Azjaeger at December 29, 2025 11:28 PM (3/XaG)

194
Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 29, 2025 10:37 PM (Wnv9h)

I seem to have a problem understanding words in songs - I thought the line was, "Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like its leprous above the Serengeti." I had no idea what that meant. I tried to convince myself that perhaps the songwriter was either tripping or thought he was being deep to justify such a weird phrase. (I was in high school, I think.) When I married my husband, he informed about the proper words for this and a number of other songs, shaking his head each time.

Posted by: moki at December 29, 2025 11:28 PM (wLjpr)

195 Greetings ONT friends

Apologies for being late. I have no snappy excuse.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 29, 2025 11:27 PM (QGaXH)

No worries. That's tankdemon's specialty. And he is late tonight.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 29, 2025 11:30 PM (Q/uAJ)

196 "2025 years since what?"
Posted by: the meme about that at December 29, 2025 11:27 PM (nhCoE)

Since Rome was 753 years old, silly!

Posted by: Kindltot at December 29, 2025 11:30 PM (rbvCR)

197 My brother is a good writer, but he had a professor who kept docking him a percentage point for using AD instead of CE.

So, in true family form, he started using "the Year of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ 1947" instead.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 29, 2025 11:27 PM (BI5O2)

Ha! Where can I subscribe to your brother’s newsletter?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 29, 2025 11:30 PM (czfTj)

198 Hemingway, O Henry, Steinbeck. All good.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 29, 2025 11:30 PM (2WIwB)

199 Firefox has an article on their homepage titled "Mourning Bridgette Bardeoux doesn't absolve her."

My response is this: Firefox is comprised entirely of effeminate men who would never have gotten a second of attention from a woman of the caliber of Bridgette. Further, she was right about the damage caused by Islamic invaders posing as immigrants. She doesn't need to be absolved--she was right. Every single French prosecutor who pressed charges against her for speaking the truth about Islamic invaders should be imprisoned instead.

Posted by: Crusader at December 29, 2025 11:31 PM (Cjcf6)

200
I thought the line was "rises like a leopardess"

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 29, 2025 11:31 PM (w6EFb)

201 "It took a long while, but I finally figured out what the founding fathers were getting at"

----

Exactly! As us guys get less young all we really want is to be LEFT ALONE!

Rambo First Blood was the gentle warning.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 29, 2025 11:31 PM (QGaXH)

202 I seem to have a problem understanding words in songs
Posted by: moki

It's not just you. There's even a word for misheard lyrics: mondegreens.

Posted by: mikeski uses the bathroom on the right at December 29, 2025 11:31 PM (nhCoE)

203 There's a bathroom on the right.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 29, 2025 11:33 PM (Q/uAJ)

204 Brigitte Bardot was a cast-iron bitch with more balls than any man in France. If she cut one off and gave it to Macron, they'd both have a pair.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 29, 2025 11:33 PM (BI5O2)

205
"revved up like a douche"

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 29, 2025 11:34 PM (w6EFb)

206 Nite all.

https://tinyurl.com/mwhbmdy8

Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2025 11:34 PM (viF8m)

207 Well, I am a little chilly, and more than a little sleepy. Going to crawl into bed and fire up the electric blanket. Get a nice long snooze in.

Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 29, 2025 11:35 PM (8zz6B)

208 202
Posted by: mikeski uses the bathroom on the right

203 There's a bathroom on the right.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

OK, the Hordemind timing made you 3% more scary.

Posted by: mikeski at December 29, 2025 11:35 PM (nhCoE)

209 In before the "I bless the rains down in Africa" guy.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 29, 2025 11:36 PM (wVcYX)

210 My gang of dudes took my redneck self to a Charlie Daniel's concert in college. I don't remember a lot of it, but I was there.

Which is the story of 50% of my college concerts. I had a lot of fun! is all I can say. And danced.

Blows kisses as I must sleep. I have found the best thing for any insomnia is either Martha Stewart droning on about something; or, more recently, a Christmas movie. I'm going to watch one of those now for the snow and hopefully sleep well... as I wish for all of you.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 29, 2025 11:36 PM (WONhk)

211 I seem to have a problem understanding words in songs
Posted by: moki

It's not just you. There's even a word for misheard lyrics: mondegreens.
Posted by: mikeski uses the bathroom on the right at December 29, 2025 11:31 PM (nhCoE)

I’m a preachers son; as a kid we sang a hymn in church: When the roll is called up yonder I’ll be there…. (like your name is called and you get to enter heaven)

Well I was clueless… I thought I heard the congregation singing: When the roll is called a pyonder I’ll be there….. and I thought why would they call a roll a pyonder. A roll’s a roll and a pyonder’s a pyonder….. and what’s a “pyonder” anyway??? I was confused….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 29, 2025 11:36 PM (czfTj)

212 203 There's a bathroom on the right.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 29, 2025 11:33 PM (Q/uAJ)

Yes!!! I messed that one up too! Husband ran off the road when John Anderson's Money in the Bank was on the radio, and I asked why John was coveting a passport and a Z-28? He could just get one for (then) 40 bucks. Husband just put his head on the steering wheel, doing that silent laughing thing.

Posted by: moki at December 29, 2025 11:37 PM (wLjpr)

213 Hello! So good to see you! How are the kitties?
Posted by: nurse ratched

Kitties are well, thank you. Having more fun than me but being less productive (well, aside from being cute and loving). In fact, PG is licking herself behind me. How's the PNW?

Posted by: Dark Litigator at December 29, 2025 11:38 PM (KAi1n)

214 I thought the line was, "Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like its leprous above the Serengeti."
Posted by: moki

Leprous? I don't think they've covered anything by Toto, but they did cover A-Ha!

https://youtu.be/5tUA4DhOjnQ

Posted by: mikeski at December 29, 2025 11:39 PM (nhCoE)

215 Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState

I like this version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fe11OlMiz8

Posted by: Adriane the Not Enough Christmas Lights, the Airplanes Are NOT Circling Yet Critic . . . at December 29, 2025 11:39 PM (3ZUWJ)

216 It's not just you. There's even a word for misheard lyrics: mondegreens.
Posted by: mikeski uses the bathroom on the right at December 29, 2025 11:31 PM (nhCoE)

"Excuse me, while I kiss this guy"

Posted by: Zombie Jimi Hendricks at December 29, 2025 11:39 PM (2XHCB)

217 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 29, 2025 11:39 PM (sAmhv)

218 Posted by: moki at December 29, 2025 11:37 PM (wLjpr)

Yup. I also nearly put a truck in a pond when Stranglehold by Ted Nugent came on, and my ex started singing along... "I've got to strangle old ladies..."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 29, 2025 11:40 PM (BI5O2)

219 OK, the Hordemind timing made you 3% more scary.

Posted by: mikeski at December 29, 2025 11:35 PM (nhCoE)

Lol. I try.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 29, 2025 11:40 PM (Q/uAJ)

220
It was monk named Dionysius Exiguus who fixed the year number in AD system in 525 AD. He's the one who first set that epoch, although it was adopted widely until later, Charlemagne, I think.

There is some debate if he chose that number so that leap year numbers would be exact multiple of 4 without any nasty offset to worry with, or was it just a coincidence.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 29, 2025 11:41 PM (w6EFb)

221 First time I heard that song was on the downhill run to Copperhead Bay.

Posted by: Steven Stills at December 29, 2025 11:42 PM (C9oTe)

222 I'm no "literary" "critic" but I thought Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms" was boring and repetitious. It was a love story, too, so, if you like that...

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 29, 2025 11:42 PM (v7EM2)

223 My problem with Hemingway, and authors like him, is I take what he's doing to the characters personally. Why are you dragging us through this? I know that's not fair.

In life you ask why things aren't fair and you're met with the inscrutable will of God. But in a book I can easily point directly to the author and blame him. Why? Again not fair, I concede that. I'm an easily frustrated person. Life frustrates and confuses me. I'd prefer reading that is mostly an escape from tragedy. Do I miss out on a lot of deep philosophical insight in my simpleminded diversions? Probably. Oh well.

I'll put off understanding stoicism until the hereafter. I'll have an eternity to study it then.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 29, 2025 11:42 PM (3uBP9)

224 59 -- Shirley Jackson enters the conversation.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at December 29, 2025 11:46 PM (DK5Sh)

225 >>> I seem to have a problem understanding words in songs
Posted by: moki at December 29, 2025 11:28 PM (wLjpr)

Until fairly recently, I thought Stevie was singing "like a one winged dove" and I thought it was some deep asian philosophy thing. Never even thought to question it. One winged dove, sure ok,... cool cool cool.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 29, 2025 11:48 PM (3uBP9)

226 I wish I could wear boots - well I can wear hiking boots, or army boots, or anything that laces up. But the front part of my foot is too wide to get through the ankle of any pull on boot that fits me otherwise. It’s always been a disappointment.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 29, 2025 11:48 PM (dK4kO)

227 My favorite misunderstood rock lyrics. I sent it to my brothers on their birthdays. They know I am basically harmless.

https://tinyurl.com/bdhtjaef

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 29, 2025 11:49 PM (WONhk)

228 Heh.
So a local reporter went to four Somali run day care centers in Federal Way WA. Just like Minnesota, no kids, no one willing to talk , and threats to call the police.
There are over 500 such places in the state.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 29, 2025 11:49 PM (2WIwB)

229
Interesting according to Grok, the historical evidence is it is just a coincidence that Dionysius Exiguus chose the Year 1, which he calculated was Jesus' birth, to a first year after a Julian leap year, making the year number work out nicely.

He was primarily concerned with a system for calculated the date of Easter.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 29, 2025 11:49 PM (w6EFb)

230 Someone make the mistake of putting me in charge of getting
the lyrics for a booklet used in a college senior dance. I guess they didn't know I was deaf in one ear. Until after the booklets were published.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 29, 2025 11:49 PM (AuJxW)

231 71 Colitis and IBS prove that the butt controls the entire person.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 29, 2025 10:42 PM (cYBz/)

The body parts were debating who should be boss.

The brain, eyes and stomach all had their say.

Then in a tiny squeaky voice the butt-hole spoke up.

All the other body parts laughed and laughed. The butt hole got so mad it closed up, and allowed nothing to pass.

Pretty soon, the eyes couldn't see straight, the brain couldn't think and the stomach ached.

They all agreed the butt-hole should be boss.

And that my friends explains why the boss is always an a-hole.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 29, 2025 11:50 PM (QGaXH)

232 Hold me closer, Tony Danza. See the head lice on the highway.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 29, 2025 11:50 PM (Q/uAJ)

233 Did that guy actually say that????
All that guy did was make cheap beer from what I heard ....

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom - go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!
-- Samuel Adams

Posted by: Kami Harris at December 29, 2025 11:51 PM (J9q9v)

234 all the fact checking agencies today would like to assure you the misleading social media posts that have surfaced worldwide alleging "11,000 politicians and elites" in New Zealand were granted exemptions from Covid-19 vaccination, suggesting the jabs are unsafe despite global safety data showing otherwise, is only a rumor and misrepresents the temporary exemptions that were given to politicians and elites.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 29, 2025 11:53 PM (rbvCR)

235 Reverend Blue Jeans

Posted by: Doug Heffernan at December 29, 2025 11:53 PM (XeU6L)

236 Two songs for which the lyrics are hardest to understand:

1. Blinded by the Light (written by Springsteen but performed by Mannfred Mann’s Earth Band)
2. Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven ( if there’s a bustle in your head row… what???)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 29, 2025 11:53 PM (czfTj)

237 104 It's also free-range...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Well, that's good. Keeping volcanoes in a cage is just cruel.
Posted by: Blanco Basura

You can, though, because fire can't melt steel.
Posted by: mikeski at December 29, 2025 10:51 PM (nhCoE)

Then how do they...oh never mind.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 29, 2025 11:54 PM (QGaXH)

238 I got 15 COVID Shots so far and look at me. I am mentally sharp as a pin and very healthy for having multiple STDs

Posted by: Kami Harris at December 29, 2025 11:55 PM (J9q9v)

239 109 Did you make it to AZ, AOP? Last I saw you had worked on the suburban in Montana.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 29, 2025 10:44 PM (Q/uAJ)

Got in at 10:15 last evening. House is fine, I am fine, Suburban is fine.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 29, 2025 10:52 PM (8zz6B)

Yay! Good Work!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 29, 2025 11:55 PM (QGaXH)

240 I've got two chickens to paralyze!

Also, I figured out how we can eliminate half of all improvised auto repair in this country.

We just have to get rid of all the damned Suburbans

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at December 29, 2025 11:56 PM (8WtOr)

241 Dump complains putie's house hit by Ukraine. Dump is lucky they didn't hit maralago!

Posted by: raimondo at December 29, 2025 11:57 PM (4PsrM)

242 2. Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven ( if there’s a bustle in your head row… what???)

I believe he says a "Bustle in my Hedge Row"....

Posted by: Jackson at December 29, 2025 11:57 PM (X7dyz)

243 "alligator lizards in the air"

Wait. News update

You're saying I *didn't* mishear that lyric?!

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 29, 2025 11:57 PM (5TAdl)

244 121 -- Not long after I got my start as a bookseller, I came to the conclusion that modern lit is written by lit professors for other lit professors. "I'll put your book on my required reading list if you put mine on yours."

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at December 29, 2025 11:59 PM (DK5Sh)

245 189 Teresa, did you find your Kindle?
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 29, 2025 11:26 PM (Q/uAJ)

Yes - the AirBnB lady said the cleaning crew found it! We are working out how to get it shipped to our house ASAP!

***does happy dance ***

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 29, 2025 11:59 PM (RiICY)

246 Are you really calling him "Dump?"

That's fucking stupid. Even for you. You sound like a got-damned 4 year old, you foreign dumbfuck.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 30, 2025 12:00 AM (BI5O2)

247 141 We still need snow, by the way. Lots. My former calendars used to say, "snowed 2" pretty frequently each week as I love it so much. This year I am not even writing down "dustings" as it ticks me off so badly. There is snow in the mountains. Weak yay for hope in the New Year and into spring so we don't all die.

On the bright side I am not Somolian.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 29, 2025 11:07 PM (WONhk)

May I ask 'where'?

I know I can ask but will you answer?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 30, 2025 12:00 AM (QGaXH)

248 Here's rainman droppin' a beat. Trump gets him so excited.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 30, 2025 12:00 AM (Q/uAJ)

249 You're saying I *didn't* mishear that lyric?!
Posted by: JM in Illinois

Not all potential mondegreens are. Word salads are a thing, too.

Sharp.
Distance.
How can the wind with so many around me?
I feel lost in the city.....

Posted by: re-donning Jon Anderson sock at December 30, 2025 12:01 AM (nhCoE)

250 236 Two songs for which the lyrics are hardest to understand:

Pffft Pikers

Posted by: John Fogarty at December 30, 2025 12:02 AM (8WtOr)

251 Yes - the AirBnB lady said the cleaning crew found it! We are working out how to get it shipped to our house ASAP!

***does happy dance ***

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas

Yay! Glad they found it!

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 30, 2025 12:02 AM (Q/uAJ)

252 Fairly breezy, warm 'Santa Ana' day here in southern California. From the beach I could see Santa Catalina, just 26 miles across the sea, to the west Long Beach and Palos Verdes and looking north, snow-capped peaks in the San Gabriel mountains.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 30, 2025 12:03 AM (QGaXH)

253 @GiorgiaMeloni . Dec 27

I would like to express appreciation and satisfaction with the operation, of particular complexity and importance, which enabled the arrests of nine people accused of having financed Hamas, through certain associations, self-styled charities, for over seven million euros to be carried out.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 30, 2025 12:03 AM (ahS/I)

254 But his early stuff is magnificent, and he is absolutely in the top five greatest American short story writers. And yes, I will fight you. - CBD

Well, he was no Robert Crumb.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 30, 2025 12:04 AM (HTCU3)

255 Imagine Donaldus Maximus giving this speech at the next State of the Union:

"It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonoured by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice..."

"...In the name of God, go!"

tiny.cc/220x001

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 30, 2025 12:07 AM (2XHCB)

256 Two songs for which the lyrics are hardest to understand:

1. Blinded by the Light (written by Springsteen but performed by Mannfred Mann’s Earth Band)
2. Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven ( if there’s a bustle in your head row… what???)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Louie Louie demands some respect. Even the FBI couldn't figure them out.

Posted by: The Kingsmen at December 30, 2025 12:09 AM (HTCU3)

257 sci-fi news - Amazon says they're going to start back up a Stargate series. Good chance it will suck. At least it's not netflix.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 30, 2025 12:09 AM (3uBP9)

258 I rember at scout camp in northern Arizona we really did have alligator lizards, and they looked like little alligators. And they were mean and would try to bite you if you messed with them.

So being Boy Scouts, of course we messed with them as much as possible.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 30, 2025 12:10 AM (dK4kO)

259 sci-fi news - Amazon says they're going to start back up a Stargate series. Good chance it will suck. At least it's not netflix.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 30, 2025 12:09 AM (3uBP9)

I'd have to check it out, because Stargate. It wl be disappointing aost certainly.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 30, 2025 12:13 AM (Q/uAJ)

260 Small's Jazz Club in NYC broadcasts live on Youtube from sometime in the afternoon until late into the night. It is worth your time to drop in and out.

https://www.youtube.com/live
/vM9ZOsED3ZM

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 30, 2025 12:15 AM (HTCU3)

261 sci-fi news - Amazon says they're going to start back up a Stargate series. Good chance it will suck. At least it's not netflix.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 30, 2025 12:09 AM (3uBP9)

Yay! We will be able to bitterly complain how the new TV series doesn't follow the novels based on the original series in the Sunday Book Thread!

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 30, 2025 12:15 AM (2XHCB)

262 Ah, pop song lyrics.

We'll always have "Good Morning Starshine".

((Sighs wistfully))

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at December 30, 2025 12:18 AM (8WtOr)

263 Smells Like Teen Spirit is the song I couldn’t understand the lyrics.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 30, 2025 12:18 AM (KDPiq)

264 sci-fi news - Amazon says they're going to start back up a Stargate series. Good chance it will suck. At least it's not netflix.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 30, 2025 12:09 AM (3uBP9)

Yay! We will be able to bitterly complain how the new TV series doesn't follow the novels based on the original series in the Sunday Book Thread!
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

And in the case they do follow the novels based original TV series I am confident other topics can be found to bitterly complain about.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 30, 2025 12:18 AM (HTCU3)

265 Hey there Horde. Very nice ONT, CBD, you might not cure pain, but you certainly stimulate the brain, and I need to do this.

I had a most wonderful time at a wedding this weekend, it was not hard for me to be alone because there were so many wonderful people to talk to. One of my sons was "in the wedding" too, so it was just such a happy gathering.

AOP, welcome to your winter home, I would like to get me one of those. I hate the cold now.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 30, 2025 12:20 AM (0nHVk)

266 ThePersistence @ScottPresler

Here’s how vouching works for Minnesota residential facilities:

Shukran: “I work for a residential facility. My 300 residents want to vote.”

Election Day Worker: “Show me you’re an employee.”

Shukran: “Here you go.” *Shows badge*

Election Day Worker: “All 300 can vote.”

X: https://bit.ly/3NlOIHC

So, if Shukran was an employee of a residential facility with 5,000 residents,

all Shukran has to do is prove he’s an employee of said facility

& Shukran can vouch for ALL 5,000 facility residents for the purpose of voting?

Is this correct, @grok?

Grok @grok

Yes, Minnesota Statutes 201.061, subd. 3, allows employees of residential facilities to vouch for an unlimited number of residents for proof of residence during Election Day registration, if they prove employment. Regular voters are limited to eight vouchers.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 30, 2025 12:20 AM (P5BPp)

267 It's Amazon. It will suck horribly. They'll have to go through the Stargate to the Egypt planet and then feed an orange-skinned racist Pharaoh who is oppressing space trannies to a bunch of flesh-eating scarabs or somesuch nonsense.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 30, 2025 12:21 AM (BI5O2)

268 Dionysius seems to have gotten the start date wrong since Herod the Great died in 4 BC. But it was before his death that he ordered the Massacre of the Innocents wherein all the male toddlers and younger were slaughtered in Bethlehem. Jesus was a toddler when the Magi found and worshipped Him (τό παιδίον

, and it was after their visit that the massacre occurred. The Magi were warned in a dream not to return to Herod, and Joseph was similarly warned to take Jesus and Mary and leave immediately for Egypt until Herod was dead. The expensive gifts the Magi left must have come in handy for the trip and stay in Egypt.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 30, 2025 12:23 AM (bELOb)

269 Had a 10th grade classmate assure me that then current Benny and the Jets went:
"she has electric boobs
my mom has two
you know I read it in the back of playboy....
Benny and the Jetsss......

Also could never make out the line in Cher's Gypsies Tramps and Thieves:

I was 16 he was 21
mumble mumble mumble
and papa woulda shot him if he'd knew what he'd done...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 30, 2025 12:25 AM (QGaXH)

270 I seem to have a problem understanding words in songs - I thought the line was, "Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like its leprous above the Serengeti."

Posted by: moki at December 29, 2025 11:28 PM

They come runnin' just as fast as they can
'Cause every girl crazy 'bout a shot glass man

Before I knew the name of the song, I thought these were the lyrics when I heard the song on the radio.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 30, 2025 12:25 AM (P5BPp)

271 246 Are you really calling him "Dump?"

That's fucking stupid. Even for you. You sound like a got-damned 4 year old, you foreign dumbfuck.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 30, 2025 12:00 AM (BI5O2)

----

Unfortunately, I have cherished relatives that snipe at Trump for this and that. They don't see the big picture at all. They have no idea that Western Civilization is teetering on the precipice. Kamala would've made 16 years out of 20 with a leftist President. Trump is desperately trying to save us.
.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 30, 2025 12:27 AM (ci5JR)

272 Kitties are well, thank you. Having more fun than me but being less productive (well, aside from being cute and loving). In fact, PG is licking herself behind me. How's the PNW?
Posted by: Dark Litigator

Cold. Gray. Damp.

Lucy the Fink is a slug under the Christmas Tree on her heating pad.

How is the Orange Creamsicle?

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 30, 2025 12:27 AM (IhIKR)

273 Now, the Van Allen radiation belts are "fully charged," according to space weather observer Stefan Burns. He warns that these belts of energetic particles have been building up due to repeated solar storms over the past few months.

"The next solar storm to hit could cause this plasma to precipitate downward toward the planet's upper atmosphere," Burns said.

https://tinyurl.com/5n6n6fyx

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 30, 2025 12:31 AM (ahS/I)

274 273 Now, the Van Allen radiation belts are "fully charged," according to space weather observer Stefan Burns. He warns that these belts of energetic particles have been building up due to repeated solar storms over the past few months.

"The next solar storm to hit could cause this plasma to precipitate downward toward the planet's upper atmosphere," Burns said.

https://tinyurl.com/5n6n6fyx
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 30, 2025 12:31 AM (ahS/I)

----

So, I should avoid touching doorknobs for a while?

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 30, 2025 12:34 AM (Vczv0)

275 I was 16 he was 21
mumble mumble mumble
=============
Rode with us to Memphis

I actually picked up on that one from the start. What's interesting Is that just about everybody I knew at the time, me included, thought "Olympus" in the Toto song was "a lepress". Nobody ever really thought to ask what the hell that was..

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at December 30, 2025 12:34 AM (8WtOr)

276 Brewed up some coffee today that I grew myself (non-hippie organic, and not shat through some critter. Or a hippie.)
The caffeine overload was intense, even though it was watered down. I put what was left over in some bowls and set them outside for the tree rats and trash pandas to find (-that- oughta amp them up... ;-)
Going to experiment with a lighter roast the next time...

Posted by: As not seen on TV at December 30, 2025 12:34 AM (S0STk)

277 How is the Orange Creamsicle?
Posted by: nurse ratched

Haven't seen the big fella around in a few weeks. He does this occasionally and then a month later shows up nuzzling my fingers like everything's cool. I'd love to know his story but he's the strong/silent type. My mother began donating to a community cat charity after seeing pics of him.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at December 30, 2025 12:36 AM (KAi1n)

278 273 Now, the Van Allen radiation belts are "fully charged," according to space weather observer Stefan Burns. He warns that these belts of energetic particles have been building up due to repeated solar storms over the past few months.

"The next solar storm to hit could cause this plasma to precipitate downward toward the planet's upper atmosphere," Burns said.

https://tinyurl.com/5n6n6fyx
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 30, 2025 12:31 AM (ahS/I)

Aye Carumba! that sounds bad!

Hope the brains in all the stuff in Geo is well shielded.....

Wait... Burns? Van Allen? Gracie Allen? George Burns?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 30, 2025 12:36 AM (QGaXH)

279 Brewed up some coffee today that I grew myself (non-hippie organic, and not shat through some critter. Or a hippie.) The caffeine overload was intense, even though it was watered down. I put what was left over in some bowls and set them outside for the tree rats and trash pandas to find (-that- oughta amp them up... ;-)
Going to experiment with a lighter roast the next time...
Posted by: As not seen on TV

So it went something like this?
https://x.com/i/status/2005127047052718306

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 30, 2025 12:36 AM (HTCU3)

280 DataRepublican (small r) reposted

Bad Kitty Unleashed @pepesgrandma

Columbus Ohio holds the second largest Somali community in the US.

Muckrackers visited their first daycare and there’s zero signs anyone is even there.

Muckraker.com @realmuckraker

FIRST SIGNS OF MASSIVE POTENTIAL SOMALI FRAUD IN COLUMBUS, OHIO

The first Somali-affiliated daycare facility that we knocked after landing in Columbus, Ohio today did not answer.

A neighbor across the street told us, “I’ve never seen nobody come out the building or go in the building.”

X video: https://bit.ly/3MTSs37

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 30, 2025 12:36 AM (P5BPp)

281 "a lepress". Nobody ever really thought to ask what the hell that was..
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate

A female leppo. But what's a leppo?

Posted by: Dark Litigator at December 30, 2025 12:37 AM (KAi1n)

282 sci-fi news - Amazon says they're going to start back up a Stargate series. Good chance it will suck. At least it's not netflix.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 30, 2025 12:09 AM (3uBP9)

The original series was spectacular, so of course they'll fuck it up beyond recognition. Instead of a super cute Amanda Tapping looking chick as Major Carter we'll get a bull dyke, Jackson will be a hindu, General Hammond will be a drunk who sits around base in a wife beater, Teal'c will be ruby rhod from the 5th element, or look like he just stepped off of a somali pirate ship. Colonel O'Neil will be a millenial neck beard whose son didn't just shoot himself accidentally, but shot up a school and offed himself, because guns are bad. Dr Fraiser will look like Aunt Harriet from the original batman series. How am I doing so far?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 30, 2025 12:37 AM (snZF9)

283 Evenin’, All. Happy Tuesday.

Posted by: Bulg at December 30, 2025 12:37 AM (77rzZ)

284 Three coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that erupted from the sun in recent days are expected to merge into a powerful "cannibal CME" and smash into the Earth's atmosphere on Wednesday, triggering intense geomagnetic activity that could make the northern lights visible across much of the United States.

"As many as three CMEs are approaching Earth, including today's fast-moving X5-class CME from sunspot 4274," SpaceWeatherNews wrote in a report on its website.

www.spaceweather.com/

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 30, 2025 12:40 AM (ahS/I)

285 USA!USA!USA!
This guy rocks it. Never mind that he's 104 years old.
tiny.cc/z20x001

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 30, 2025 12:42 AM (55cF/)

286 JENNINGS: "Well, some people have been held accountable. But I think in the opinion of most Republicans, not nearly enough."

Then he dropped the knockout line that landed across the country:

"And truthfully, until somebody in a position of power, until somebody in a position in Minnesota, elected position, who was in charge of administering this or having some oversight over it, goes to jail, it’s honestly never going to stop."

"Look what’s going on in blue states across the country: 9 billion in Minnesota, 70 billion in fraud in California, cooking the crime stats in Washington, D.C."

"When is someone in a position of power going to go to jail for the rampant fraud?"

"You can put all the low-level people in jail you want, but until somebody in charge goes to jail, it won’t stop!"

X video: https://bit.ly/3MX3Vii

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 30, 2025 12:42 AM (P5BPp)

287 "The next solar storm to hit could cause this plasma to precipitate downward toward the planet's upper atmosphere," Burns said.

https://tinyurl.com/5n6n6fyx
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 30, 2025 12:31 AM (ahS/I)

----

Seriously, this could be a catastrophe.
"the largest geomagnetic storm ever recorded in 1859 – a storm hundreds of times larger than “typical” solar storms – that destroyed telegraph systems in Britain and the U.S."

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 30, 2025 12:43 AM (VZZtk)

288 @286 Fraud in Ohio is rethugliKKKan run. Don't like dump would you prefer pee?

Posted by: raimondo at December 30, 2025 12:48 AM (4PsrM)

289 A copper coated, tin foil, lead lined hat I have.
Preparedness.
Had to work today my eyes won't stay open. I'm going to miss the fun. See yal tomorrow. 'night

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 30, 2025 12:49 AM (ahS/I)

290
The Grid boys assure us they've got it under control if we get a big one. The trouble is E-W running long transmission lines. A big wig woggle in Earth's magnetic field on short term scales would induce essentially a DC voltage, "big zero sequence" in the transmission lines, driving those YUGE transformers into saturation. They've got mitigation measures to break direct ground connections and put capacitance in series with the neutral ground connections to block that.

Or so they say. They have used those over the years with some high G storms.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 30, 2025 12:54 AM (w6EFb)

291 So sorry, Joyenz. Hope you have some relief soon.

Posted by: barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at December 30, 2025 12:54 AM (/rQlD)

292 What kind of pancakes do you want Rai?

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 30, 2025 12:55 AM (55cF/)

293 I'm out.

Tomorrow is another day.

It's just another day......

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 30, 2025 12:55 AM (QGaXH)

294 >> the largest geomagnetic storm ever recorded in 1859

The Great Carrington Event. The induced DC field was enough to actually operate the telegraph lines without any power. There were fires and electric shocks, but some clever operators figured out to just disconnect the power and let the earth's field power the system and were able to keep things contained in some cases.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 30, 2025 12:56 AM (w6EFb)

295 Wow, commenting on the ONT seems to proceed at a really slow pace.

OK, I’ll try to quicken things up: BOOBS!

Posted by: Bulg at December 30, 2025 12:57 AM (77rzZ)

296 Don't like dump would you prefer pee?

"No Mister G. I'd prefer you die."

/ Goldfinger

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at December 30, 2025 12:57 AM (8WtOr)

297 It's just another day......

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 30, 2025 12:55 AM

Bobie Doll tells me, "Live in the moment"
Don't get too far ahead, don't live in the past
I blink my eyes and the moment is over
I guess another day has passed

But it's just another day
It's just another day
Watching girls on the street
Well, that's alright with me
And it's just another day

YouTube: https://bit.ly/4jscQVe

Posted by: John Mellencamp at December 30, 2025 12:57 AM (P5BPp)

298 295 Wow, commenting on the ONT seems to proceed at a really slow pace.

OK, I’ll try to quicken things up: BOOBS!
Posted by: Bulg at December 30, 2025 12:57 AM (77rzZ)

Annnnd I'm back....

BOOBS you say? I'm all for 'em......

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 30, 2025 12:58 AM (QGaXH)

299 Joyenz is here? Hey, Joyenz!

Posted by: Bulg at December 30, 2025 12:59 AM (77rzZ)

300 I’ll try to quicken things up: BOOBS!
Posted by: Bulg

Ypu spelled it wrong. Are you new?

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 30, 2025 12:59 AM (55cF/)

301 Seriously, this could be a catastrophe. "the largest geomagnetic storm ever recorded in 1859 – a storm hundreds of times larger than “typical” solar storms – that destroyed telegraph systems in Britain and the U.S." Posted by: JM in Illinois

If we still used telegraphs it would be problem but we don't. We should be set.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 30, 2025 01:00 AM (HTCU3)

302 297 It's just another day......

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 30, 2025 12:55 AM

Bobie Doll tells me, "Live in the moment"
Don't get too far ahead, don't live in the past
I blink my eyes and the moment is over
I guess another day has passed

But it's just another day
It's just another day
Watching girls on the street
Well, that's alright with me
And it's just another day

Posted by: John Mellencamp at December 30, 2025 12:57 AM (P5BPp)

Very good - but I was thinking McCartney:

Every day, she takes a morning bath, she wets her hair

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 30, 2025 01:04 AM (QGaXH)

303 300 Who is Ypu?

Posted by: Bulg at December 30, 2025 01:04 AM (77rzZ)

304 hOE

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 30, 2025 01:05 AM (P5BPp)

305 303 300 Who is Ypu?
Posted by: Bulg at December 30, 2025 01:04 AM (77rzZ)

Ypu!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 30, 2025 01:05 AM (QGaXH)

306
There was likely a YUGE solar storm in 755 or 755AD that was probably 20 - 50 time stronger than Carrington. We didn't have wires strung all over the planet or radio communication then. There was a huge C-14 and Be-10 spike in the record dated to then, and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle noted a red cross in the sky that year, which they attributed to some divine sign, I think.

Now, there was an even bigger storm likely around 12,400 BC. This would've been 2 orders of magnitude bigger than Carrington.

Note the timing of that, coinciding with the Younger Dryas and the impact hypothesis. This all aligns with the Erf got one hell of a smiting of some kind back then.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 30, 2025 01:05 AM (w6EFb)

307 Very good - but I was thinking McCartney:

Every day, she takes a morning bath, she wets her hair

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 30, 2025 01:04 AM

I knew that song sounded familiar. It's in "50 First Dates".

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 30, 2025 01:08 AM (P5BPp)

308 Whether older or younger, dry asses are a bad thing.
— Pete Buttigieg

Posted by: Bulg at December 30, 2025 01:10 AM (77rzZ)

309
An ongoing topic of astronomical research is about superflares. Roughly sun-sized stars, a few of them, have been observed to belch out these superflares. If the Sun did that, Erf would be toast -- extinction level event. Protons on the deck and all that.

They're trying to rule out that the Sun could ever do that. They're hopeful, but still can't say for certain it can't.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 30, 2025 01:10 AM (w6EFb)

310 306 Note the timing of that, coinciding with the Younger Dryas and the impact hypothesis. This all aligns with the Erf got one hell of a smiting of some kind back then.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 30, 2025 01:05 AM (w6EFb)

Greetings Publius

A poster on an earlier thread today asserted that because this coming Feb has 4 Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, etc that it is one that only comes around every 800+ years or so.

Several commenters pointed out that every 28 day Feb has that, and that it isn't that uncommon for Feb to begin on a Sunday.

I was wondering if the poster got half the story - maybe this Feb starts on a Sunday AND coincides with something else less common making it a 'once every 800+ years February'.

Are you aware of anything like this?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 30, 2025 01:11 AM (QGaXH)

311 When is someone in a position of power going to go to jail for the rampant fraud?

-------

Lol.

Never.

Our ruling class is so treacherous and larcenous it would make Quintus Servilius Caepio shudder.

They all MUST protect the hive.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 30, 2025 01:12 AM (BI5O2)

312 Now, there was an even bigger storm likely around 12,400 BC. This would've been 2 orders of magnitude bigger than Carrington.

Note the timing of that, coinciding with the Younger Dryas and the impact hypothesis. This all aligns with the Erf got one hell of a smiting of some kind back then.
Posted by: publius

Exactly, and proves why all the ancient technologically advanced civilizations, that built the Egyptian pyramids among other things, vanished without a trace.

Posted by: Randall Carlson at December 30, 2025 01:12 AM (HTCU3)

313 312 Exactly, and proves why all the ancient technologically advanced civilizations, that built the Egyptian pyramids among other things, vanished without a trace.
Posted by: Randall Carlson at December 30, 2025 01:12 AM (HTCU3)

Wouldn't the pyramids be 'a trace'?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 30, 2025 01:15 AM (QGaXH)

314 312 The ancient Egyptians didn’t vanish without a trace.

Posted by: Bulg at December 30, 2025 01:16 AM (77rzZ)

315 >> Are you aware of anything like this?

Nope, and I wouldn't think off the top of my head it would be that rare. Looking it up, it isn't, happening maybe once every 7 common years. It's rarer for leap years, but not that rare.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 30, 2025 01:17 AM (w6EFb)

316 A poster on an earlier thread today asserted that because this coming Feb has 4 Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, etc that it is one that only comes around every 800+ years or so. Several commenters pointed out that every 28 day Feb has that, and that it isn't that uncommon for Feb to begin on a Sunday. I was wondering if the poster got half the story - maybe this Feb starts on a Sunday AND coincides with something else less common making it a 'once every 800+ years February'.

What's a February?
Are you aware of anything like this?
Posted by: Anonymous

Posted by: Ye Olde Mayan Calendar Shoppe at December 30, 2025 01:18 AM (HTCU3)

317 303 300 Who is Ypu?
Posted by: Bulg

Bulg

Ypu spelled it wrong. Are you new?
Posted by: Sock Monkey

My editor has an ironic sense of humor.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 30, 2025 01:18 AM (55cF/)

318 Damn, sometimes the stupid here is unbelievable. The ancient Egyptians “vanishing without a trace?” AYFKM?

Posted by: Bulg at December 30, 2025 01:20 AM (77rzZ)

319 Caepio is actually a pretty solid model for an American leader. A stupid, bullheaded fool who lost a massive force, 6 or 8 full legions to a bunch of savages at Arausio, and then set up his own couriers to be murdered so he could steal a gigantic amount of plundered gold, disgracing his name forevermore.

But I guess it's not exactly right, because he was in fact disgraced, and died in exile. Here, he'd be lauded and they'd make a statue of him, and he'd probably be the country's biggest daycare operator.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 30, 2025 01:21 AM (BI5O2)

320 Ore-gone:

https://tinyurl.com/4hpywke5

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 30, 2025 01:21 AM (7ih/h)

321 Seriously, this could be a catastrophe. "the largest geomagnetic storm ever recorded in 1859 – a storm hundreds of times larger than “typical” solar storms – that destroyed telegraph systems in Britain and the U.S." Posted by: JM in Illinois

If we still used telegraphs it would be problem but we don't. We should be set.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 30, 2025 01:00 AM (HTCU3)

the 3rd world just bangs the rocks together.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 30, 2025 01:22 AM (snZF9)

322 Damn, sometimes the stupid here is unbelievable. The ancient Egyptians “vanishing without a trace?” AYFKM?

Posted by: Bulg at December 30, 2025 01:20 AM (77rzZ)
-

There's not a single one left standing.

Even the museum mummies are flat on their backs.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 30, 2025 01:22 AM (7ih/h)

323 322 LOL.

Did you get any of the snow that hit Saudi?

Posted by: Bulg at December 30, 2025 01:25 AM (77rzZ)

324 Tweaker Geographic:

https://www.youtube.com/
shorts/rmckJxDKAQk

This is my newest youtube addiction.

Posted by: garrett at December 30, 2025 01:25 AM (grNgC)

325 Damn, sometimes the stupid here is unbelievable. The ancient Egyptians “vanishing without a trace?” AYFKM?
Posted by: Bulg at December 30, 2025 01:20 AM (77rzZ)

The idea is that someone who wasn't Egyptian built them, maybe Atlanteans, to use the Greek nomenclature.

Posted by: Methos at December 30, 2025 01:25 AM (vSvIl)

326 315 >> Are you aware of anything like this?

Nope, and I wouldn't think off the top of my head it would be that rare. Looking it up, it isn't, happening maybe once every 7 common years. It's rarer for leap years, but not that rare.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 30, 2025 01:17 AM (w6EFb)

Yeah, nobody thought so on the earlier thread either. I thought you might be aware of something else that in combination with 28 day Feb starting on a Sunday would be an extremely rare event.

Thank you for answering.

Calling it a night now for real.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 30, 2025 01:26 AM (QGaXH)

327 The ancient Egyptians “vanishing without a trace?” AYFKM?
Posted by: Bulg

Just like half my socks.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 30, 2025 01:26 AM (55cF/)

328 325 Oh, yeah, Atlantis. You go with that.

Miss Owens, please pick up the white courtesy phone.

Posted by: Bulg at December 30, 2025 01:29 AM (77rzZ)

329 >>Oh, yeah, Atlantis. You go with that.

Look. I'm not saying it was Aliens...

Posted by: garrett at December 30, 2025 01:30 AM (grNgC)

330 but.

It was definitely Aliens.

Posted by: garrett at December 30, 2025 01:30 AM (grNgC)

331 328 325 Oh, yeah, Atlantis. You go with that.

Miss Owens, please pick up the white courtesy phone.
Posted by: Bulg at December 30, 2025 01:29 AM (77rzZ)

Paging Donovan; Donovan to the white courtesy phone....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 30, 2025 01:31 AM (QGaXH)

332 It was definitely Aliens.
Posted by: garrett

The proper nomenclature is LGM.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 30, 2025 01:33 AM (55cF/)

333 Who the Hell is Donovan?

Posted by: Bulg at December 30, 2025 01:33 AM (77rzZ)

334 Oh, yeah, Atlantis. You go with that.

Miss Owens, please pick up the white courtesy phone.
Posted by: Bulg at December 30, 2025 01:29 AM (77rzZ)

Ignoramus.

Posted by: Plato at December 30, 2025 01:34 AM (vSvIl)

335 333 Who the Hell is Donovan?
Posted by: Bulg at December 30, 2025 01:33 AM (77rzZ)

They call him Mellow Yellow.....quite rightly....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 30, 2025 01:34 AM (QGaXH)

336 My D&D campaign that I'm running is set in Africa. The players have begun setting up a fort in Amboseli. The Mountain is visible from there, of course. Great pic!

Posted by: Turambars phone at December 30, 2025 01:35 AM (Q0yOR)

337 Who the Hell is Donovan?
Posted by: Bulg

https://youtu.be/jkQyFrfJaqs

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 30, 2025 01:35 AM (HTCU3)

338 337 Who the Hell is Donovan?
Posted by: Bulg

https://youtu.be/jkQyFrfJaqs
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 30, 2025 01:35 AM (HTCU3)

That's a good one too. I'd forgotten about it.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 30, 2025 01:37 AM (QGaXH)

339 Thanks for the tunes as well

Posted by: Turambars phone at December 30, 2025 01:38 AM (Q0yOR)

340 "The next solar storm to hit could cause this plasma to precipitate downward toward the planet's upper atmosphere," Burns said.
https://tinyurl.com/5n6n6fyx
Posted by: Braenyard

* checks 2026 bingo card *

Well, heck. I was sure "rain of fire" would be on there.

Posted by: mikeski at December 30, 2025 01:39 AM (nhCoE)

341 Good Night!!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 30, 2025 01:40 AM (QGaXH)

342
Feb began on Sun in 2015. 2006 is 11 years after. There's a 6 - 11 alternating pattern in there somewhere, too lazy to think about it too much.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 30, 2025 01:40 AM (w6EFb)

343
2026 is 11 years after, I meant to say.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 30, 2025 01:41 AM (w6EFb)

344 TEN YEARS AFTER

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=98Q8QsEc6sI

Posted by: garrett at December 30, 2025 01:43 AM (grNgC)

345
Yep, in 2032, Feb will begin on Sunday again, 6 years from now. There's a 6 - 11 - 11 year cycle there.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 30, 2025 01:43 AM (w6EFb)

346 Did you get any of the snow that hit Saudi?

Posted by: Bulg at December 30, 2025 01:25 AM (77rzZ)
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I willowed to you yesterday. Must've missed it.

Temperatures dropped and lotsa rain and flooding.

Only snow is on Mt. Hermon, Israel's only ski resort. However, even there, not much for a ski resort. In a good year, the place would have been deeply covered by now.

Haven't had a good snow in Jerusalem in over a decade.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 30, 2025 01:46 AM (7ih/h)

347 That is a great song, Garrett

Posted by: Turambars phone at December 30, 2025 01:46 AM (Q0yOR)

348 The days of the year go in a 28-year cycle.

Posted by: Bulg at December 30, 2025 01:46 AM (77rzZ)

349 346 Thanks, BD.

Posted by: Bulg at December 30, 2025 01:49 AM (77rzZ)

350 >> The days of the year go in a 28-year cycle.

WIth the Julian calendar, yes. With Gregorian, skipping the century leap years 3 times per 400 years messes that up. 2000, however was the first century leap year since 1600, so the 28 year cycle has been going since 1900.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 30, 2025 01:49 AM (w6EFb)

351 Tiptoeing in to say aw revwahs for este noche.

Really awful online flame wars involve solar flares.

https://youtu.be/9e_L3IfxaLI

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker was here at December 30, 2025 01:50 AM (dESj/)

352 Some place I worked I had to know the Julian calendar and I never could get that right in my head. I don't remember what job or why we used it.

Posted by: Turambars phone at December 30, 2025 01:51 AM (Q0yOR)

353 Yeah - Alvin and the boys were a great band.

Posted by: garrett at December 30, 2025 01:52 AM (grNgC)

354 “30 years ago I was a pro-immigration, pro-interventionist, pro-surveillance-state idiot.”

None of us were “idiots” for believing that, we were just Americans who were proud of our Country. But our politicians and the people we trusted deceived us into swallowing this whole without questioning it. It’s ALL on them, not us and I’m proud that we saw thru their BS, turned the corner, moved on and became America First. We ended a movement and started another, and should be proud of that!

Posted by: Jerry Saves at December 30, 2025 01:53 AM (XLxzE)

355 353 thanks for that. Going on the playlist for today. I have not heard that forever.

Posted by: Turambars phone at December 30, 2025 01:53 AM (Q0yOR)

356 350 I was going off the Gregorian Calendar, yes. I haven’t yet factored the Julian non-leap-years into the cycle.

Posted by: Bulg at December 30, 2025 01:54 AM (77rzZ)

357 Thank good a famous LBGQTUVWXYZ mass murderer used our tax dollars for a good purpose!

https://tinyurl.com/3cf7zn79

Just imagine had the money gone instead to a Somali learing center.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 30, 2025 01:56 AM (7ih/h)

358
The Julian is currently behind the Gregorian by 13 days, and has been since Feb 28, 1900. It will jump to 14 in 2100.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 30, 2025 01:58 AM (w6EFb)

359 Who the Hell is Donovan?
Posted by: Bulg

They call him Mellow Yellow.....quite rightly....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

Donovan still weirds me out with that "she's my supergirl and I love her" chorus.

Because the first verse that says she's naive, and innocent, and "only 14." Maybe a 16-year-old Jeffrey Epstein hooked them up?

The album cover being portraits of little girls doesn't help.

https://youtu.be/PM5hFz_WRLk

Good song other than that. Distorted guitar work that kind of bridges the tone between earlier psych bands and the up-and-coming heavy metal bands.

Posted by: mikeski at December 30, 2025 01:59 AM (nhCoE)

360 Thanks for the ONT.

Pretty cool video. Jay Leno with a Ford WWII Jeep.

https://tinyurl.com/37ww9x9z

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 30, 2025 02:00 AM (bss/y)

361 358 Yep,

Goodnight, All. Hope Y’all sleep well.

Posted by: Bulg at December 30, 2025 02:02 AM (77rzZ)

362 Alvin Lee recorded right to his passing in 2013. Anthology is a great album and a excellent start point. One my favorites is his song "The Bluest Blues" from the album Nineteen Ninety Four which was released in, sit down, drum roll, 1994.

https://youtu.be/G1d-erufTGY

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 30, 2025 02:02 AM (HTCU3)

363 30 years ago I was a pro-immigration...
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It ain't over till it's over:

https://tinyurl.com/yrvvm5pz

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 30, 2025 02:06 AM (7ih/h)

364 Donovan is still out playing live. Same songs. He is sort of in a rut. Probably to late to change that up. From 2025...

https://youtu.be/vnojY9I6iyc?t=118

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 30, 2025 02:08 AM (HTCU3)

365 Good ONT, CBD. evening, Horde.

Posted by: scampydog at December 30, 2025 02:09 AM (41CYW)

366 Last one out of New York put out the candle:

https://tinyurl.com/mryw32yr

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 30, 2025 02:12 AM (7ih/h)

367 One last installment of Tweaker Geographic before bed:

https://www.youtube.com/
shorts/jAo5mzIj-6o

Posted by: garrett at December 30, 2025 02:13 AM (grNgC)

368 Donovan still weirds me out with that "she's my supergirl and I love her" chorus.

Because the first verse that says she's naive, and innocent, and "only 14." Maybe a 16-year-old Jeffrey Epstein hooked them up? The album cover being portraits of little girls doesn't help.

https://youtu.be/PM5hFz_WRLk

Posted by: mikeski

Go find the uncensored Blind Faith album cover if you uncomfortable is what you seek. I think the model was 13.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 30, 2025 02:14 AM (HTCU3)

369 Minn. fraud indictments:

https://tinyurl.com/bdebjrd8

It's a start.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 30, 2025 02:16 AM (7ih/h)

370 If we still used telegraphs it would be problem but we don't. We should be set.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 30, 2025 01:00 AM (HTCU3)

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True. And fiber optic cable should be good.

But modern electronics are way more delicate than it nineteenth century telegraph system. The circuits ("wires") in computer chips are a few nanometers meters apart, a separation of a few atoms. Won't take much to create a short circuit

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 30, 2025 02:18 AM (JCXyn)

371 Sorry I'm late, I had an extra $20 to spend.

(It really is the same as in town.)

Posted by: tankdemon at December 30, 2025 02:19 AM (X/nnO)

372 369 Minn. fraud indictments:

https://tinyurl.com/bdebjrd8

It's a start.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 30, 2025 02:16 AM (7ih/h)

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I won't be surprised to see many of them fleeing the country t spend their loot

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 30, 2025 02:19 AM (JCXyn)

373 Minn. fraud indictments:
https://tinyurl.com/bdebjrd8
It's a start.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

"We have charged 98 individuals in relation to fraud in Minnesota. More than 60 have pled guilty or been convicted."

Good deal.

Work your way up to the one named "Walz," plskthx.

Posted by: mikeski at December 30, 2025 02:25 AM (nhCoE)

374 Later than I guessed
I don't have a visual clock in bedroom, if I don't put on my phone I have no idea what time it is.

Posted by: Skip at December 30, 2025 02:27 AM (Ia/+0)

375 I don't have a visual clock in bedroom
Posted by: Skip

I hope you don't have an audio one in there. Makes it hard to sleep.

Posted by: "the time is now two twenty-nine" at December 30, 2025 02:29 AM (nhCoE)

376 I won't be surprised to see many of them fleeing the country t spend their loot

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 30, 2025 02:19 AM (JCXyn)
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I'm looking forward to kinetic strike videos.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 30, 2025 02:31 AM (7ih/h)

377 Way down
Below the ocean, thats where I want to be

Posted by: Skip at December 30, 2025 02:32 AM (Ia/+0)

378 Winds still howling, always brings a mess in the yard

Posted by: Skip at December 30, 2025 02:33 AM (Ia/+0)

379 No clock at all, my phone is alarm.
I don't have to be up for 2 hours so ought to try a m d sleep a bit more

Posted by: Skip at December 30, 2025 02:36 AM (Ia/+0)

380
Go find the uncensored Blind Faith album cover if you uncomfortable is what you seek. I think the model was 13.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

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

And she was the daughter of one of those musicians.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 30, 2025 02:41 AM (n7rxJ)

381 Australia. This is how it started in the UK and elsewhere in the EU:

https://tinyurl.com/8e8p67n6

We already know how it ends.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 30, 2025 02:55 AM (PD8dm)

382 Way down
Below the ocean, thats where I want to be
Posted by: Skip

I know it's not the song you're quoting, but it made me want to listen to Swimming Home.

https://youtu.be/JbQFMkTINTY

Posted by: mikeski at December 30, 2025 02:56 AM (nhCoE)

383 AI has the Minnesota Retard in Chief telling the truth.

Language warning:

https://tinyurl.com/5xfxyefn

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 30, 2025 03:01 AM (PD8dm)

384
Dammit, I got obsessed with the cycle of Feb starting on Sunday. We know that the Julian repeats every 28 years. And 6 + 11 + 11 = 28 days. The repeat of Sun starting Feb follows that, but splits one of the 11's into the sum of 6 + 5. So the cycle goes like this:

6, 5, 6, 11, and repeats (until a century Gregorian skipped leap year).

So, starting in 2026, that gives us
2026, 2032, 2037, 2043, 2054.
Then it starts over,
2054, 2060, 2065, 2071, 2082

So, Feb starts with a Sunday 5 times in 28 years, or once every 5.6 years on average.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 30, 2025 03:03 AM (w6EFb)

385 With today's woke and DEI educational system, I don't this is a fair sobriety test:

https://tinyurl.com/39f78y7s

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 30, 2025 03:06 AM (PD8dm)

386 Saudi Arabia just hit Yemen with air Strikes...

Not sure where all this is going, but it's looking more and more like 100 years war territory.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 30, 2025 03:20 AM (mP0Kj)

387 So, Feb starts with a Sunday 5 times in 28 years, or once every 5.6 years on average.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 30, 2025 03:03 AM (w6EFb)

Which is weird, you'd think it would be 1 in 7.... duh

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 30, 2025 03:21 AM (mP0Kj)

388 Exactly, and proves why all the ancient technologically advanced civilizations, that built the Egyptian pyramids among other things, vanished without a trace.
Posted by: Randall Carlson at December 30, 2025 01:12 AM (HTCU3)

I'll have what he's smoking.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 30, 2025 03:25 AM (6Bc88)

389 Sound on:

https://tinyurl.com/mr289zsc

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 30, 2025 03:26 AM (PD8dm)

390
Not sure where all this is going, but it's looking more and more like 100 years war territory.
Posted by: Romeo13

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Or, accordingly, 100 minutes.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 30, 2025 03:32 AM (n7rxJ)

391 >>>pro-surveillance-state idiot

I gotta say, surveillance catches a lot of bad guys. It's a mixed bag.

Posted by: m at December 30, 2025 03:48 AM (RuTUS)

392 390
Not sure where all this is going, but it's looking more and more like 100 years war territory.
Posted by: Romeo13

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

Or, accordingly, 100 minutes.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 30, 2025 03:32 AM (n7rxJ)

Can't talk about other services... but...

US Navy. Med looking at Russians. Somalia. Venezuela. Caribbean. China (who is getting froggy with Tawain).. still in the Persian Gulf vs. Iran.

We have less than 400 ships if ALL of them are working at any one time... which is impossible. A ship being forward deployed about 1/3 of the time? when not in Dry dock being fixed? Average.

We have too many irons in the fire. Too many fights we are picking without being able to sustain the IMO.

And too many fights, that really have nothing to do with US National Security except... we don't like that guy.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 30, 2025 03:48 AM (mP0Kj)

393 Kilimanjaro

Kill-a-man-jaro

41 the tallest free-standing (above ground level) mountain in the world.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 29, 2025

***
In a memoir, Michael Crichton tells the story of his visit to Mt. Kilimanjaro....

The problem turned out to be, he found, that pretty early in the ascent, the air gets thin up there. Their guides were adapted to it; he and his companions weren't. Things did not go well. He survived, but it wasn't pleasant.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 29, 2025 10:35 PM (wzUl9)

Posted by: m at December 30, 2025 03:58 AM (RuTUS)

394 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at December 30, 2025 04:00 AM (RuTUS)

395 Attention Horde-Mart Shoppers:

There's a NOOD light special in the electronics department on Tech News.

NOOD!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 30, 2025 04:00 AM (O7YUW)

396 Posted by: m at December 30, 2025 03:58 AM (RuTUS)

I've skied at 12,500 feet... and it is tough if you are acclimated.

19250 feet? yeah, that would be tough.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 30, 2025 04:01 AM (mP0Kj)

397
Dialogue from the forthcoming flic, "Somalitown" --

"He's my husband!"
* slap *

"I said I want the truth!"

"He's my brother!"
* slap *
"He's my husband!"
* slap *
"My brother!
* slap *
"My husband!"
* slap *

... you can figure out the rest

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 30, 2025 04:03 AM (xG4kz)

398 So very, very close to 400.

Posted by: m at December 30, 2025 04:10 AM (RuTUS)

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