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New Years Eve ONT - December 31, 2025 [TRex]
We barely understand either. It is not for a lack of trying. Was the universe created or did it emerge from a Bing Bang? If a divine creator, what does "created in the image of God" mean? If a bang, what existed before and what caused the bang? A monkey hitting random typewriter key for an infinite amount of time could type the complete works of William Shakespeare, but where did the monkey come from? At some point, randomness fails to explain life. What is the essential "spark" that gives life to raw ingredients? With life, we can observe the result post-spark. We can argue about the boundaries of "consciousness" and "sentience" and single cell organisms, but at least we can observe and discuss and draw reasonable guesses about life and what makes it different from a pet rock. Death is different. Once someone is gone, we can't get answers from them about what happened and where they are and what it is like. We don't know what to expect. Fear of the unknown is an essential human condition. The fear permeates much of our daily life. We don't like unpleasant surprises with bad outcomes. We are afraid of the dark. We are generally a risk averse species. Death is the ultimate unknown and humans have sought answers for eons. The Egyptian "Book of the Dead" is a collection of spells, prayers, and incantations written on papyrus scrolls and placed in tombs to guide the deceased's soul through the perilous journey of the underworld to achieve a blessed afterlife. Hindu reincarnation envisions an eternal loop of birth, death, and rebirth. Karma determines the future path of the soul based on actions in previous lives. Christian traditions focus on the promise of eternal life beyond our mortal existence. Faith means taking a risk to believe something we do not know based on what we think we know. As much as Christian theology revolves around the resurrection story, where did Jesus go for three days after he was crucified? The Apostles Creed says he "descended to the dead." Did he "preach to the spirits in prison?" Did he liberate Old Testament souls that believed before he existed? Did he take a few days of R&R after a busy few weeks at the office? (We will leave a discussion of purgatory for another time.) I dunno but a lot of people have spent at lot of time, energy and money trying to communicate with the great beyond. We have questions. We want to know what to expect. We want to know loved ones are OK. We are infinitely intrigued by anything we do not understand. We are afraid of the dark. And yet, a day will arrive for each of us whether we understand it or not. But we remember those whose days have come. Even if we don't understand everything about how their earthly existence, we still mourn. We mourn because we miss them. We mourn because we appreciate them. We mourn for unrealized promise. Not every story is a happy story. In some cases, we recall the carnage they caused and mourn what might have been. We mourn, in part, for ourselves because we know that we will follow someday. On this New Year's Eve, we look back and remember those among the Horde and those adjacent to the Horde who are no longer among the living. Prayers for all who mourn and who continue to come to terms with loss that does not go away. Prayers for mothers that struggle with the loss of a child before having a chance to breathe a first breath outside the womb. We also pray for those who are left to pick up the emotional and temporal pieces. We also offer prayers of strength and peace for those confronting their own mortality. May God grant you continual comfort and strength and may you feel the love and support from your Horde family. Please continue to let the Horde know if anything can be done to help. We remember the caregivers who are angels sent to comfort the afflicted and rarely signed up for the role. There is often nobody else to say thank you or provide relief when you are the last line of defense. Please continue to let the Horde know if anything can be done to help. On this New Year's Eve, we also look ahead. A flip of the calendar is cosmically arbitrary, but carries the symbolism of rebirth and the promise of new beginnings. If you are in the Northern Hemisphere, the turn of the new year also moves a step further through the darkness of winter towards the promise of spring. We do not have to be afraid of the dark. As John says, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it." There is hope in the light. I do not have all the answers. But if you pass from this life and end up in Pittsburgh, please let me know. I have questions. Here endeth the message.
These people are not Horde or Horde adjacent, but departed in 2025:
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: mindful webworker - unrecognizable at December 31, 2025 10:00 PM (dESj/)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 31, 2025 10:00 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 31, 2025 10:00 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 31, 2025 10:01 PM (6ydKt)
Does his wife know?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 31, 2025 10:01 PM (hVbrz)
Got the black-eye peas soaking. Gonna have a good luck supper tomorrow.
Happy Old Year, alla y'all.
But FLOTUS was awful pretty, too.
https://tinyurl.com/3zj3vztr
Posted by: mindful webworker - one more oops for the old year at December 31, 2025 10:01 PM (dESj/)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 31, 2025 10:01 PM (LNeRu)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 31, 2025 10:02 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 31, 2025 10:02 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 31, 2025 10:03 PM (ESVrU)
Happiest of New Year's to each and every one of you - so glad to be here to celebrate it with all of you wonderful reprobates 🥳🎊🥳🎊🥳
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 31, 2025 10:04 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 10:04 PM (wzUl9)
Thanks for the mention of my Dad.
I miss him, and Mom, but it's getting better.
You get used to it, slowly.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 31, 2025 10:04 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 31, 2025 10:04 PM (4p5Zb)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 31, 2025 10:05 PM (YlWIZ)
We have been manifestly blessed here and I pray good fortune finds it's way to your front door.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 31, 2025 10:05 PM (cYBz/)
https://is.gd/xanKz9
They project it up onto the face of the obelisk. Beginning the 250 celebration.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 31, 2025 10:06 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 31, 2025 10:06 PM (c115l)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 31, 2025 10:06 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Mark1971 at December 31, 2025 10:07 PM (CNl8/)
Here's to love
All the times that we fucked up
Here's to you
Fill the glass
'Cause the last few days have kicked my ass.
So let's give 'em hell
Wish everybody well
Here's to us
Posted by: Semper Why at December 31, 2025 10:07 PM (nKug+)
That is a lovely memorial tribute, TRex, thank you.
Condolences to the families and friends (including ourselves) of all those we've lost this year.
I love you people.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 31, 2025 10:07 PM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: PabloD at December 31, 2025 10:07 PM (tfChy)
Posted by: caf at December 31, 2025 10:07 PM (qS/Xm)
We just finished re-watching Fatman w/ Mel Gibson. It is the least likely retelling of Santa Claus in movie history -- a minimalist-noir kind of story. There is humor, but it is *not* a comedy. And it has elements of the Krampus legend in it, too. Still, fun stuff.
Heroes & Icons is running their Twilight Zone marathon. Right now there's one with Vera Miles and Martin Milner from way back in '59 or '60.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 10:07 PM (wzUl9)
To all of the Horde , thx for reading my babbling all year and being a great bunch . May you and yours have a happy and prosperous new year. May our country return to its God blessed roots
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 31, 2025 10:08 PM (zNwXb)
I'm sure I've seen a few of them commenting here. Some even posthumously.
Posted by: mikeski at December 31, 2025 10:08 PM (nhCoE)
Thanks for the listing of those lost this year. Prayers up for all those lost and the loved ones left behind.
I am holding two tickets for the Stay At Home Early Bedtime concert extravaganza. Looking forward to it!
Love the Calvin & Hobbes cartoon. Pittsburgh indeed.
Happy New Year, everyone!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 31, 2025 10:08 PM (kB9dk)
Posted by: Short Fuse at December 31, 2025 10:08 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 31, 2025 10:09 PM (m7iZ5)
Happy Old Year, alla y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - one more oops for the old year at December 31, 2025 10:01 PM (dESj/)
Dad always had bep every NYD. A few years before he passed, Mom asked if he wanted them. He said no, they never worked.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 31, 2025 10:09 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 31, 2025 10:09 PM (MZ+PY)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 31, 2025 10:09 PM (wVcYX)
We'll go dancing tomorrow night
It's cold out there, but it's warm in bed
They can dance, we'll stay home instead
Posted by: gKWVE at December 31, 2025 10:09 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 31, 2025 10:03 PM
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Sigh... Always miss one. Thanks Perfessor. Jim has been added.
Posted by: TRex at December 31, 2025 10:10 PM (IQ6Gq)
But the wind nabbed my fedora, and I am in need of suitable chapeau.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 31, 2025 10:11 PM (4p5Zb)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
Did the bep, cabbage & cornbread last year.
2025 sucked.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 31, 2025 10:11 PM (c115l)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 31, 2025 10:06 PM (kpS4V)
Grrrl, me, too! I won't last much longer, though.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 31, 2025 10:11 PM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 31, 2025 10:12 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: JQ at December 31, 2025 10:12 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 31, 2025 10:09 PM (MZ+PY)
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Considering the staggering complexity of DNA, it's impossible that life could have achieved its current state on our planet in a mere 4 billion years or so just through natural selection (i.e., random chance).
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 31, 2025 10:12 PM (ESVrU)
youtu.be/jPSnr2WMa_o
And thank you, Dino, for helping us remember everyone. I just wish we'd been able to meet Lil Pookette this side of heaven.
Posted by: pookysgirl, still struggling at December 31, 2025 10:13 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: gp at December 31, 2025 10:13 PM (GHIyr)
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at December 31, 2025 10:13 PM (jrgJz)
{{halfhourshower}}
Happy new year, wherever you are!!!
Posted by: JQ
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Agreed...and Notorious BFD......
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 31, 2025 10:14 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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And Vic didn't even make the po' boy list.
Well, when you're fucked you're fucked
and don't you forget it.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 31, 2025 10:14 PM (hVbrz)
That is a lovely memorial tribute, TRex, thank you.…
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
Concur. Reading through the list, there was the occasional gut-punch at the loss of great folks.
Posted by: mindful webworker - suddenly at December 31, 2025 10:14 PM (dESj/)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 31, 2025 10:14 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: pookysgirl, still struggling at December 31, 2025 10:15 PM (Wt5PA)
Prayers up for everyone.
Posted by: No one at December 31, 2025 10:15 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: TRex at December 31, 2025 10:10 PM (IQ6Gq)
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No problem.
BTW, for a reptile with a barely functional brain, you have some very deep thoughts about life and death.
There's just so much we don't know and can never know, though many of us have faith that there's much more out there after we're gone than we can possibly imagine.
Life is just a speedbump along the route to something much grander.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 31, 2025 10:15 PM (ESVrU)
And Lalo Schifrin? He was at the Man From U.N.C.L.E. 50th anniversary mini-convention in LA in 2014, being honored for some music work he had done for the show. He looked even then, at 82, like he was at death's door. But he lived another eleven years. Tough guy.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 10:15 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: pookysgirl, still struggling
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Us too...we pray that God holds you close and gives you comfort...
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 31, 2025 10:15 PM (IQ6Gq)
Just look at that pointy-eared Vulcan logician, if you don't believe me.
Posted by: Leonard "Bones" McCoy, MD at December 31, 2025 10:16 PM (Oubw1)
In an alternate universe somewhere, noted Astrophysicist Dr Ronald Jeremy Is preparing a talk on his "Gang Bang Theory of Universal Formation."
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 31, 2025 10:16 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
Aw, that's sad, OrangeEnt.
If I wake up in the morning, I always count that as lucky. Anything more is a blessing.
Posted by: mindful webworker - above the sod thanks to God at December 31, 2025 10:16 PM (dESj/)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 31, 2025 10:09 PM (MZ+PY)
I think it has actually been examined and shown to be impossible for a physically possible universe size and time line. I remember someone writing a paper on it over the past year.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 31, 2025 10:16 PM (3uBP9)
LOL. That is just illogical.
Posted by: No one at December 31, 2025 10:17 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 31, 2025 10:17 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: gp at December 31, 2025 10:17 PM (GHIyr)
Sending all the Horde big hugs and my prayers for a happy and healthy new year for you and all your loved ones.
Posted by: screaming in digital at December 31, 2025 10:17 PM (IONGM)
Into the future
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 31, 2025 10:17 PM (nljXp)
So, tomorrow is my birthday...yikes, 29 AGAIN!
My birthday wish is to give my best to so many of our Horde...
TiFW; sweet pookysgirl; oh my! So many of you struggling!
Many prayers and love to you all. Words fail me...
I surely hope we all have a fine New Year.
Thanks to all of our shiny new CoBs🥰...you guys kick it!
God bless and a big giant Happy New Year❣❣❣
I love youz all!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 31, 2025 10:17 PM (LNeRu)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder
The infinity is the important part. Every possibility is in there somewhere.
Think of it without requiring the actions of a monkey. Write out all of pi, 3.141592654..... in some binary representation. Then convert every 7 or 8 bits into ASCII characters. The complete works of Shakespeare are somewhere in that infinite nonrepeating decimal. Backwards, forwards, and in every possible language.
That concept only applies to "life," or other parts of reality, if the universe is infinitely old, with no starting point.
Posted by: mikeski at December 31, 2025 10:17 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Short Fuse at December 31, 2025
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Pittsburgh Scanner was slated to work on a double album with Mannheim Steamroller, but the project fell apart.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 10:18 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: pookysgirl, still struggling at December 31, 2025 10:15 PM
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Sorry to spur the waterworks, but needed you to know the Horde is wrapping its virtual arms around you.
Posted by: TRex at December 31, 2025 10:18 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Jmel at December 31, 2025 10:18 PM (bVhJi)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 31, 2025 10:18 PM (JkO4W)
I'm not sure if there's an upper age limit on Eggos, though....
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 31, 2025 10:19 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 31, 2025 10:19 PM (hVbrz)
Posted by: pookysgirl, still struggling at December 31, 2025 10:13 PM (Wt5PA)
I hadn't seen...I'm so sorry. {{{Hugs}}}
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 31, 2025 10:19 PM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 31, 2025 10:19 PM (a4flb)
God bless all, and rest in peace.
Posted by: Ib1netmon at December 31, 2025 10:19 PM (vTTFR)
Loading 2026....please standby.
Posted by: scampydog at December 31, 2025 10:20 PM (1cq+e)
LOL. That is just illogical.
Posted by: No one at December 31, 2025 10:17 PM (qFwJc)
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This seems to be a core tenet of atheism.
They get annoyed when you ask them WHY anything exists.
"It just happened" is the only explanation they can come up with.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 31, 2025 10:20 PM (ESVrU)
Stirling the big black cat is hiding from the fireworks -- not actual visible fireworks, but just the rattle and crump from them outside. He was fine about fireworks noises his first Fourth of July, when he was about five months old. But then on his first NYE, when he was ten months old, something went Zzzz! in his cat brain and he ran to hide under the bed all evening. Still does on 7/4 and 12/31 every year since.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 10:21 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: JQ at December 31, 2025 10:22 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: godel at December 31, 2025 10:22 PM (3uBP9)
LOL. That is just illogical.
Posted by: No one
In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
Posted by: zombie Terry Pratchett at December 31, 2025 10:22 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 31, 2025 10:12 PM (ESVrU)
Brett Weinstein has a new theory about this, and it might surprise you to know he agrees with you.
He does make a proposal for a mechanism that might explain this having to do with how genes are expressed and modified.
No longer being within academia, he makes his announcement on the Joe Rogan Experience - the first hour touches on this, the rest is more wide ranging
https://tinyurl.com/nkck3fj2
Posted by: Kindltot at December 31, 2025 10:22 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 31, 2025 10:22 PM (rbvCR)
"It just happened" is the only explanation they can come up with.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 31, 2025 10:20 PM (ESVrU)
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It all makes sense when you accept that God's consciousness is the most fundamental substrate of all of reality. "Nothingness" is God.
You're welcome.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 31, 2025 10:23 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Joemarine at December 31, 2025 10:23 PM (y171U)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
I tried coming up with a version for the sake of the argument, and the best that I could come up with was; " -1 + 1 = 0 " therefore something ( 1 ) comes from nothing ( 0 )... except all concepts of each value require a 'something'.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 31, 2025 10:23 PM (mlg/3)
***GROUP HUG!!!***
Posted by: JQ at December 31, 2025 10:22 PM
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You're still serving drinks, right??
Posted by: TRex - Club ONT bar is open at December 31, 2025 10:23 PM (IQ6Gq)
They get annoyed when you ask them WHY anything exists.
"It just happened" is the only explanation they can come up with.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
Out of twenty trillion planets, and we're the only one, "it just happened" is a joke.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 31, 2025 10:23 PM (c115l)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder
Yeah, it's an arguable supposition. But, eternity is a very long time. Very, very long.
Kinda like how they say every combo of numbers can be found somewhere in ℼ.
Posted by: mindful webworker - infinite monkeys and very sturdy typewriters at December 31, 2025 10:24 PM (dESj/)
Posted by: Thank The Lord Pumpkin Spice Season Is Long Gone at December 31, 2025 10:24 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 31, 2025 10:24 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 31, 2025 10:24 PM (zNwXb)
Lalo Schifrin is the composer of the iconic "Theme from Mission: Impossible," which was created for the television series that aired from 1966 to 1973.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 31, 2025 10:25 PM (pkeXY)
2025 wasn't a great year, but compared to the last four, I thought it was an improvement. Time is still relentless.
Posted by: Corona_exile_back_in_exile at December 31, 2025 10:25 PM (UE0CA)
Posted by: TRex - Club ONT bar is open
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Of course!
Just had to, um, take care of the sneezes. Yeah, sneezes, that's it..
Posted by: JQ at December 31, 2025 10:25 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 31, 2025
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He did music for Kelly's Heroes, The Beguiled, and Dirty Harry, though those were not Eastwood-directed films, and then for Sudden Impact, which was.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 10:25 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 31, 2025 10:25 PM (4p5Zb)
{{halfhourshower}}
Happy new year, wherever you are!!!
Posted by: JQ
Hey! What about me??!!
Posted by: Mrs. Calabash at December 31, 2025 10:25 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Just The Punchline at December 31, 2025 10:26 PM (wVcYX)
You're welcome.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 31, 2025 10:23 PM (JkO4W)
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Adrian Tchaikovsky's series "The Final Architects" plays around with this idea. It's a fun read and turns some of this inside out and upside down. I can't say any more without revealing some important spoilers, though.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 31, 2025 10:26 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: screaming in digital at December 31, 2025 10:17 PM (IONGM)
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Back atcha, Screamo!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 31, 2025 10:26 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: The Science! at December 31, 2025 10:26 PM (q3N/z)
For a guy with small arms and a not-so-small at all brain, this was a lovely soliloque. Nicely done my friend. 💕🦖
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 31, 2025 10:26 PM (LNeRu)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 31, 2025
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His Wiki entry has this: "It is a distinctive tune written in the uncommon 5/4 time signature. The meter (dash dash, dot dot) is Morse code for the letters M and I."
I did not know that second point!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 10:26 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at December 31, 2025 10:27 PM (Oubw1)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 31, 2025 10:23 PM (c115l)
No, the joke is the punchline, and the punchline was, "we give him chocolate and generally have some picnics and band concerts. Why, what do you do when he shows up?"
Posted by: Kindltot at December 31, 2025 10:28 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 31, 2025 10:28 PM (q3N/z)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 10:07 PM (wzUl9)
Thought I had seen every TZ episode, however there are still a few that are new to me. Someone here mentioned "Passerby" a few days ago, so I made a point to watch that today.
Posted by: Joemarine at December 31, 2025 10:28 PM (y171U)
Many years ago, I was newly sober and wrestling with coming to believe in a power greater than myself. I saw that those who did have such a belief had a great peace. I was envious of this, but I felt nothing .
So a friend of mine said to me, "Here's a suggestion: Every morning, ask God to reveal himself to you today. Then, when you go to bed, thank him for keeping you sober. And keep your eyes open for signs."
"How long will that take?"
"How the fuck should I know?? Just DO it!"
Eight months later, I got my answer. And I've known Jesus is the Son of God ever since.
Happy new year, friends.
Posted by: Beverly at December 31, 2025 10:28 PM (reMys)
For a guy with small arms and a not-so-small at all brain, this was a lovely soliloque. Nicely done my friend. 💕🦖
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 31, 2025 10:26 PM
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Thanks! Soliloque (soliloquy?) is a good scrabble word.
Posted by: TRex - dictionary dino at December 31, 2025 10:29 PM (IQ6Gq)
If I wake up in the morning, I always count that as lucky. Anything more is a blessing.
Posted by: mindful webworker - above the sod thanks to God at December 31, 2025 10:16 PM (dESj/)
I never liked them, so I don't think I missed anything. It was more of a country folk thing for his side of the family. Mom's didn't eat bep.
See what happens when you're doing multiple things at once. You get behind on the ONT comments.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 31, 2025 10:29 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: And Laa-Laa is a Teletubby at December 31, 2025 10:29 PM (oftw2)
It is better than Chex mix
Posted by: Kindltot at December 31, 2025 10:29 PM (rbvCR)
{{halfhourshower}}
Happy new year, wherever you are!!!
Posted by: JQ at December 31, 2025 10:12 PM (rdVOm)
Seconded.
Reminded of some who went missing without explanation too.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 31, 2025 10:29 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 10:29 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Joyenz at December 31, 2025 10:29 PM (2F0/Y)
LOL. That is just illogical.
Posted by: No one
In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
Posted by: zombie Terry Pratchett at December 31, 2025 10:22 PM (nhCoE)
If you consider this reality as just a 4 dimensional bubble inside a greater multidimensional reality, then it’s not illogical at all.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 31, 2025 10:30 PM (m7iZ5)
Re the Monkey typing theorem. To produce, say the exact text of Hamlet, a number of "random monkeys" equal to the number of subatomic particles in the universe typing would need about 10^(360,000) time the age of the universe to get even a decent chance.
That probability in the given age of the universe is so small as to be indistinguishable from zero.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 31, 2025 10:30 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: And Laa-Laa is a Teletubby at December 31, 2025 10:29 PM (oftw2)
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I met a chick named Lola in a bar once.
Posted by: Ray Davies at December 31, 2025 10:30 PM (JkO4W)
Think of it without requiring the actions of a monkey. Write out all of pi, 3.141592654..... in some binary representation. Then convert every 7 or 8 bits into ASCII characters. The complete works of Shakespeare are somewhere in that infinite nonrepeating decimal. Backwards, forwards, and in every possible language.
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Further, all of those versions with *one* misspelling, or two or so forth. So finding a copy (as with infinite monkey/typewriters there'll be more than one) that's actually letter perfect is going to be prohibitively difficult.
Posted by: Pam Bondi at December 31, 2025 10:30 PM (vSvIl)
Brigitte Bardot… If you have forgotten what she looked like, try this. [CBD]
I find her unforgettable.
Posted by: mindful webworker - speaking of va-voom at December 31, 2025 10:30 PM (dESj/)
Posted by: Methos at December 31, 2025 10:31 PM (vSvIl)
That would be the cosmological argument in classical apologetics.
The atheists pick from:
• The Universe is a Brute Fact (rejecting the need for a metaphysical explanation)
• Quantum Cosmology - emerged from a quantum vacuum, that is "nothing" in physics isn't absolute nothingness but a field with potential energy
• They reject a temporal framework which implies a beginning and that the universe extends beyond time and thus eternal or timeless. Causality applies only within time.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 31, 2025 10:31 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: TRex - Club ONT bar is open
>It may be time for that second whiskey. The big moment is approaching and I haven't hit the sack yet.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 31, 2025 10:31 PM (nljXp)
... and I plan on using it!
Posted by: JQ at December 31, 2025 10:31 PM (rdVOm)
“Death is swallowed up in victory.”
55“O death, where is your victory?
O death, where is your sting?”
56The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 31, 2025 10:31 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 31, 2025 10:31 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: And Laa-Laa is a Teletubby at December 31, 2025 10:29 PM (oftw2)
**********
And a national forest.
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at December 31, 2025 10:31 PM (Oubw1)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 31, 2025 10:30 PM (m7iZ5)
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Please favor us with your description of Kalabi-Yau manifolds.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 31, 2025 10:31 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Don Black at December 31, 2025 10:31 PM (ZxPkt)
I didn't expect to see my name, thank you again.
Condolences to all who have lost a loved one. May God's peace be with you.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 31, 2025 10:32 PM (igoLh)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 31, 2025 10:15 PM (ESVrU)
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Momento Mori. We will be dead much, much longer than we will be alive. Plan accordingly.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 31, 2025 10:32 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: On SSDI, Myself, But Handi-Capable! at December 31, 2025 10:32 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Joemarine at December 31, 2025 10:28 PM
It was my recommendation, I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do! And I have always noticed that it’s not often shown on the TZ marathons, and I don’t know why.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 31, 2025 10:32 PM (m7iZ5)
Can't fault the logic.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 31, 2025 10:32 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: mindful webworker - infinite monkeys and very sturdy typewriters at December 31, 2025 10:24 PM (dESj/)
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"Eternity is a long time, my friends. It's hard to imagine how long it is. Imagine yourself at the supermarket checkout line. And there's 15 people ahead of you. And each one has a full basket of groceries. And none of the items are marked. And everyone wants to pay by check. And it's the girl's first day on the job. And she doesn't speak English.
"You take a few minutes off that, and you start to get an idea of just how long eternity is."
Posted by: Emo Philips at December 31, 2025 10:32 PM (ESVrU)
https://tinyurl.com/mrxhpdkp
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 10:32 PM (wzUl9)
If that's the case we should be able to fold dimensions and travel anywhere we want pretty much instantly.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 31, 2025 10:33 PM (lUFok)
The Bang was a creation, whether it was divine or not. I suspect this is why so many astronomers have been trying to come up with alternate theories since some sort of cosmic big bang became obvious. I also suspect it was made even worse by having been formulated by a Catholic priest/physicist.
Much of the current alternative theories of the creation of the universe (a) still involve a big bang and (b) attempt to hide it with turtles all the way down.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 31, 2025 10:33 PM (EXyHK)
LOL. That is just illogical.
Posted by: No one
In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
Posted by: zombie Terry Pratchett at December 31, 2025 10:22 PM (nhCoE)
If you consider this reality as just a 4 dimensional bubble inside a greater multidimensional reality, then it’s not illogical at all.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 31, 2025 10:30 PM (m7iZ5)
In other words, our universe was squeezed into existence like toothpaste out of its tube? We're all just bits of toothpaste?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 31, 2025 10:33 PM (S/Y4j)
Or that all of the universe is a simulation - a near infinite software program.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 31, 2025 10:34 PM (a4flb)
I'm still trying to explain to the cat in the Cafe thread where the bubble came from.
Posted by: t-bird at December 31, 2025 10:34 PM (rq3mQ)
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at December 31, 2025 10:27 PM (Oubw1)
Eh. Mr. Dmlw! is building a bonfire to burn all of his OSU stuff.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 31, 2025 10:35 PM (h7ZuX)
Wife and I are home alone tonight, she watching her shows, I watching mine.
usually there's a big family get-together on her side but with one 90-something in the hospital and several younger people with awful colds - including wife - we thought better to stay home.
So youse guys are stuck wit me and my weird sense of humor. I think I get the better of that arrangement.
Let's be grateful for the blessings bestowed on us in '25 and give thanks for blessings yet to come in '26.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 31, 2025 10:35 PM (QGaXH)
It made a difference for me.
Annie Stew does good work. I aver she is one of the pillars that makes this smart military blog a community.
Thank you for mentioning me and my late wife.
This was a quite difficult holiday season.
As Astra Per Aspera
After 2025, looking for a better 2026.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 31, 2025 10:35 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 31, 2025 10:31 PM (JkO4W)
*waves hands expressively, in vaguely circular motions*
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 31, 2025 10:35 PM (m7iZ5)
I added brandy to my hot cocoa. Party plussed.
It really was darn good.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 31, 2025 10:36 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: On SSDI, Myself, But Handi-Capable!
***********
Despite bribes and "wondering", I get no previews. I find out when you find out...disappointing, right?
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 31, 2025 10:36 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 31, 2025 10:36 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 31, 2025 10:36 PM (zNwXb)
I want to second or third or fourth what TRex wrote, please don’t keep things laying on your heart. I am not in a position to speak for everyone, but I can speak for me - I promise to listen.
Posted by: Piper at December 31, 2025 10:36 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Pinto at December 31, 2025 10:36 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 31, 2025 10:36 PM (XeU6L)
Bladerunner (Blu Ray)
Probably watch some Twilight Zone episodes too. Have those on DVD.
Haven't watched them in a long while. Haven't watched any movie or TV show in a long while. My time wasteing TV blackhole usually involves racing or golf. Lots of it on, all year long.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 31, 2025 10:36 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Don Black at December 31, 2025 10:36 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
Is it better to be a bit of toothpaste, or a bit of personal lubricant?
Wrong answers only.
Posted by: mikeski at December 31, 2025 10:37 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 31, 2025 10:37 PM (zNwXb)
Posted by: Joemarine at December 31, 2025
***
With James Gregory and Joanne Linville, who would later guest-star on Trek, though not together. I know I've seen it, but it's been a long time. A ghost story set during the Civil War?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 10:37 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 31, 2025 10:38 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 31, 2025 10:38 PM (u82oZ)
Thanks for the mention of my Dad.
I miss him, and Mom, but it's getting better.
You get used to it, slowly.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 31, 2025 10:04 PM (6ydKt)
This year '26 will be 10 years since mom and dad passed within a month of each other. I miss them everyday, more so since I stopped working.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 31, 2025 10:38 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Pinto at December 31, 2025 10:36 PM (wVcYX)
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Wanna buy some pot from me?
Posted by: Professor Jennings at December 31, 2025 10:38 PM (JkO4W)
Or that all of the universe is a simulation - a near infinite software program.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 31, 2025 10:34 PM (a4flb)
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Has anyone discovered observable evidence for either of those hypotheses?
Or are they just interesting mathematical models?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 31, 2025 10:38 PM (ESVrU)
A few weeks ago I got back into playing with miniatures, first Warhammer 40k and then my proprietary fantasy system. While painting, I like music, but not just the radio, it should have a theme. Having gotten bored with the Conan The Barbarian Soundtrack, I did some Christmas carols (not good) and hit upon The Ghost and The Darkness soundtrack. Lovin' it.
My youngest joined me in a joint session of building models and painting. This is a silent but shared activity. Anyway, she remarked that it sounded very dramatic, and I realized she'd never seen the movie! I resolved to remedy that, only to realize that I no longer owned it. You see, it was so old, I owned it on VHS. So I had to go and buy the DVD. Earlier tonight we watched it. Great film, and yes, I have seen the Tsavo lions in Chicago. I told her that her eldest sister also saw them, but probably doesn't remember it. Must dig out pictures.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 31, 2025 10:38 PM (ZOv7s)
_istandforfreedom .com
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 31, 2025 10:38 PM (hVbrz)
Posted by: Piper at December 31, 2025 10:38 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
One star. Cheap Chinesium crap from Amazon.
Buy American-made auto parts.
Posted by: mikeski at December 31, 2025 10:39 PM (nhCoE)
Nothing has happened yet. We aren't really here. Only our potential is here. Past, present, and future all exist in a block, and currently only the future is occurring because there is no past, or present to represent itself.
Hope that clears it up for everyone. MORE WINE!!!!
Posted by: Orson at December 31, 2025 10:39 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 31, 2025 10:39 PM (mP0Kj)
https://tinyurl.com/mrxhpdkp
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 10:32 PM (wzUl9)
Somebody may not like that you know....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 31, 2025 10:40 PM (uQesX)
Or are they just interesting mathematical models?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 31, 2025 10:38 PM (ESVrU)
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The rules of logic are always set aside when religion comes into play. Note that "Bible scholars" demand a level of proof unknown to other types of historians. Also that a theory is treated as true by default, but thousands of years of tradition is always suspect.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 31, 2025 10:41 PM (ZOv7s)
"I do not have all the answers. But if you pass from this life and end up in Pittsburgh, please let me know. I have questions."
Ha!
Well done, Dino.
Well done.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 31, 2025 10:41 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 31, 2025 10:38 PM (u82oZ)
Exactly. Happy New Year, NaCly!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 31, 2025 10:41 PM (h7ZuX)
As Astra Per Aspera
After 2025, looking for a better 2026.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 31, 2025 10:35 PM (u82oZ)
{{{{NaCly}}}}
Much love to you, friend. Wishing you (and the Horde) a blessed New Year!
Posted by: moki at December 31, 2025 10:41 PM (wLjpr)
My cat Hexie is now performing her "kneading dance" on it.
She likes to sleep there.
I love my kitties.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 31, 2025 10:41 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: JQ at December 31, 2025 10:41 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 31, 2025 10:42 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 31, 2025 10:42 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Don Black at December 31, 2025 10:42 PM (ZxPkt)
Best of Cowboy Cooking in 2025
Cowboy Kent Rollins, and more than we usually get of his lovely wife, Shannon.
https://youtu.be/2oTpSamJmfI
2025 Year In Review...Highlights and Lowlights
Rick Beato
https://youtu.be/OTSXRcOMxpY
'Seriously?!' Most OUTRAGEOUS Laws Passed in 2025
Carl Higbie Frontline with Oklahoma's Markwayne Mullin
https://youtu.be/GeODcWYBIXI
and I'll throw this in, even though our Sen. Lankford is… less than one might wish.
Senator James Lankford's 2025 Year in Review
https://youtu.be/5Xl2sugK0gk
Posted by: mindful webworker - don't look back, just keep running at December 31, 2025 10:42 PM (dESj/)
There seems to be data at strong odds with current theory in cosmology. That means theory has to adjust. Which I am not seeing happening.
Reality is way too messy to be a simulation.
Hand of God as an explanation is looking more likely. Or someone with all the cheat codes.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 31, 2025 10:43 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 31, 2025 10:35 PM (h7ZuX)
Hold on, I've got some gear here too ...
#grrrr
Posted by: browndog remembers Rex Kern at December 31, 2025 10:44 PM (3sXRv)
Just look at that pointy-eared Vulcan logician, if you don't believe me.
Posted by: Leonard "Bones" McCoy, MD at December 31, 2025 10:16 PM (Oubw1)
Copper ion in solution is beautiful deep blue. Look at copper sulfate crystals.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 31, 2025 10:44 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 31, 2025 10:41 PM (ESVrU)
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The senior cat blasted open the doors where we were watching The Ghost and The Darkness, and curled up on my lap.
We knew she was rooting for the lions.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 31, 2025 10:44 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 31, 2025 10:44 PM (XeU6L)
While I was chatting with the sales clerks, they told me there's a dude that likes to come into Lowe's and steals the knobs off the appliances. They've caught him multiple times on camera. No apparent reason.
Though when they told me about it, I immediately thought of the subject of last night's ONT.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 31, 2025 10:45 PM (ESVrU)
I am grateful for this grey box community.
Big changes coming up for me this year. I'm looking forward to it.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 31, 2025 10:45 PM (igoLh)
I'm not sure if there's an upper age limit on Eggos, though....
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 31, 2025 10:19 PM (S/Y4j)
My 97 y.o. M-I-L likes her some Eggos with syrup. Wife says she makes her fill every little square with syrup before she'll eat it. Wife says 'old people and little kids are the same'.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 31, 2025 10:45 PM (QGaXH)
Uh... I don't wanna know. The less said, the better.
Posted by: PabloD at December 31, 2025 10:45 PM (tfChy)
What a lovely memoriam, thank you we are coming up on Rose's z'l first yahrzeit.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 31, 2025 10:45 PM (RIvkX)
https://tinyurl.com/mrxhpdkp
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025
*
Somebody may not like that you know....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 31, 2025
***
If you mean Miss Linda, she has never voiced any disapproval of my pin-up art calendars. Besides, it's not like it has actual Playboy/Penthouse nudes.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 10:45 PM (wzUl9)
Since we are using dimensions, so we have, through hypothetical complexity, a universe that doesn't require a cosmological explanation.
Now do a planet that supports life. Lets start with the Drake Equation:
N = R* x fp x ne x fl x fi x fc x L
• N = estimated number of detectable civilizations
• R* average rate of star formations in the galaxy
• fraction of stars that have planetary systems
• average # of planets per star that could support life
• fraction of those planets where life actually develops
• fraction of lfe-bearing planets with intelligent life
• fraction of civilizations that develop detectable tech
• average lifetime of such civilizations
The Drake Equation leaves out a lot of other factors.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 31, 2025 10:46 PM (a4flb)
#grrrr
Posted by: browndog remembers Rex Kern at December 31, 2025 10:44 PM (3sXRv)
*rolls the refuse cart on over....throw it in, friend.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 31, 2025 10:46 PM (h7ZuX)
There was a recent paper out purporting to disprove that we could be in a simulation. The math is way beyond me, but it was something about what is observed cannot be the product of an "algorithmic" process.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 31, 2025 10:46 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 31, 2025 10:46 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
Do you need some knobs?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 31, 2025 10:46 PM (c115l)
Posted by: Kindltot
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I refuse to ponder this.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 31, 2025 10:46 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Don Black at December 31, 2025 10:46 PM (ZxPkt)
Light years of random data viewed thru a lens in a whisper.
My bowel movements are real. Happy New Year!
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 31, 2025 10:47 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: WWF Lore at December 31, 2025 10:47 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Emo Philips
And they don't start writing the check until everything's rung up. And every one has a stack of coupons, many expired. And you really need to pee.
Posted by: mindful webworker - don't look back, just keep running at December 31, 2025 10:47 PM (dESj/)
This is somebody who knows how to party.
Or cover up a crime. But definitely one of those.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 31, 2025 10:47 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Don Black at December 31, 2025 10:47 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 31, 2025 10:47 PM (zNwXb)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 31, 2025 10:48 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: The King Of Pop Art at December 31, 2025 10:49 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK)
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Haha, so true!
Posted by: JQ at December 31, 2025 10:49 PM (rdVOm)
It's darkly amusing to watch the storylines that involve life in 1959 being just too fast paced for people to stand.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 31, 2025 10:50 PM (2XHCB)
Posted by: Don Black at December 31, 2025 10:50 PM (ZxPkt)
We knew she was rooting for the lions.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 31, 2025
***
There's been suggestions that the lions which still live in the Tsavo area, larger than most lions and with maneless males, may be direct descendants of the ancient cave lions (Panthera spelaea).
Years ago I told Linda that my then-cat Arizona, the big shaggy red tabby, had racial memories of cave lion days. She thought I was making the "cave lion" part up; she'd never heard of the creatures.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 10:50 PM (wzUl9)
Light years of random data viewed thru a lens in a whisper.
My bowel movements are real. Happy New Year!
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
Someone got into the brown acid.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 31, 2025 10:51 PM (c115l)
Posted by: PabloD at December 31, 2025 10:45 PM (tfChy)
ER nurse told me that one, when we took dad in when he had split his scalp in a fall. That was the one where my wife insisted we take the Impala because it had leather seats.
Funny, frustrating night. I miss dad.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 31, 2025 10:51 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 31, 2025 10:51 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Puddleglum,
********
1000%
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 31, 2025 10:51 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: t-bird at December 31, 2025 10:52 PM (rq3mQ)
***GROUP HUG!!!***
Posted by: JQ at December 31, 2025 10:22 PM (rdVOm)
Don't know about this 'hug' business but I wouldn't say no to a cold beer......
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 31, 2025 10:52 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Miss February Fan at December 31, 2025 10:53 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: mikeski at December 31, 2025 10:53 PM (nhCoE)
I liked Akane, she was a hoot.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 31, 2025 10:53 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: JQ at December 31, 2025 10:53 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 31, 2025 10:53 PM (u82oZ)
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Hatchet Jack, "was livin' two year in a cave up on the Musselshell with a female panther. She never did get used to him". -- Del Gue
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 31, 2025 10:53 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Kindltot
What kind of parties do you go to!!?
Posted by: Tonypete at December 31, 2025 10:54 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Miss February Fan
Or the other way 'round.
Posted by: somebody had to say it at December 31, 2025 10:54 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 31, 2025 10:54 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 10:50 PM (wzUl9)
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It's Africa. Anything is possible.
I enjoyed watching the film for the first time in a long time, and was able to recognize more of the firearms than before. Michael Douglas keeping a giant bore percussion cap pistol make sense when you realize that magnums haven't been invented yet.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 31, 2025 10:55 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 31, 2025
***
A couple of days ago? I'm pretty sure I did. I'll look.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 10:55 PM (wzUl9)
The water in small inlets near Seward, AK - amazing blue tint. Also copper I believe.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 31, 2025 10:55 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Allegheny, Monongahela, Ohio at December 31, 2025 10:55 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba
She's not dressed that way to be on the sidelines. She's dressed that way to be on camera.
Posted by: Ridgid Tools at December 31, 2025 10:55 PM (nhCoE)
Just reuse your 2015 or 2009 calendar.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 31, 2025 10:56 PM (a4flb)
Ev'ry time I see your face,
It reminds me of the places we used to go.
But all I got is a photograph
And I realize you're not coming back anymore.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 31, 2025 10:57 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Miss February Fan at December 31, 2025 10:53 PM (oftw2)
Dillon Precision does a calendar, hot chicks with guns
Posted by: Kindltot at December 31, 2025 10:58 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: KT at December 31, 2025 10:58 PM (7vIsy)
How lovely to see you. We don't often cross paths anymore...
Big prayers for you my friend. Always know you have wonderful loving friends here❣❣❣
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 31, 2025 10:58 PM (LNeRu)
Posted by: Piper at December 31, 2025 10:58 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: KT at December 31, 2025 10:59 PM (7vIsy)
Posted by: Don Black at December 31, 2025 10:31 PM (ZxPkt)
So far, going with faith and letting the science catch up has been the winning ticket....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 31, 2025 10:59 PM (QGaXH)
My brain simply jams up at the thought of eternity. Deep time scares me. Astronomers, physicists, and other such science types who calmly speak of billions of years give me the creeps. My brain simply refuses to process that concept. And neither can my poor, retarded brain accept that the entire universe just suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Someone pushed the button. But where did that "someone" come from? Again, my brain refuses to accept a "someone" with no beginning and no end. I try to be a nice person though, just in case.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at December 31, 2025 11:00 PM (DK5Sh)
https://watch.thechosen.tv/video/184683594353
When you have an hour watch it.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 31, 2025 11:00 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 31, 2025 11:00 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 31, 2025 11:00 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: LRob in OK at December 31, 2025 11:01 PM (47diA)
Perhaps the most absurd January 6th lie…
Cassidy Hutchinson claims she heard POTUS Trump grabbed the steering wheel of the beast in rage.
She’s clearly lying.
We have the texts of her and Liz Cheney setting up a call to create the lie.
Lock them up
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 31, 2025 11:01 PM (hVbrz)
Posted by: Piper at December 31, 2025 10:58 PM (p4NUW)
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I had a dream like that once. No surgery involved, just an ordinary night's sleep, but it was a dream like nothing I've ever experienced. I *know* it was not a normal dream. It felt far too real and the voice was definitely NOT coming from inside my own head.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 31, 2025 11:02 PM (ESVrU)
You are sunshine that keeps me going. May your new year be wondrous.
Turning in now.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 31, 2025 11:02 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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I've never seen a Howdah.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 31, 2025 11:02 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: But A Vapor at December 31, 2025 11:02 PM (oftw2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHW8srS0ylo
Posted by: davidt at December 31, 2025 11:03 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 31, 2025 10:54 PM (IQ6Gq)
Why am I imaging that the hairdo looks like the dinner brought to the car at the end of the Flintstones?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 31, 2025 11:03 PM (S/Y4j)
Heaven or Hell would simply be a product of our own souls
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 31, 2025 11:04 PM (0bvPF)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 31, 2025 10:36 PM (zNwXb)
"Prop me up beside the jukebox when I die.....
I want to go to heaven, I just don't want to go tonight...."
From memory, so apologies all around....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 31, 2025 11:05 PM (QGaXH)
I'm a six day Creationist, but the simulation explanation is a fairly versatile model to conceptualize the intermingling of the physical world and the spiritual world and account for the God is all without the pantheism.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 31, 2025 11:05 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 31, 2025 11:06 PM (LNeRu)
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Had something like that too, once. I just woke up feeling like God's love was permeating every cell of my being.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 31, 2025 11:06 PM (0bvPF)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 31, 2025 11:02 PM (XeU6L)
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How about a Howdy?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 31, 2025 11:06 PM (ZOv7s)
Something you might find interesting, which I do, is the theories of theoretical physicist Nikodem Poplawski. He has a sort of "fecund universes" idea, which gives a good basic for some previous hand-waving type of argument.
Basically, under the right conditions of mass and angular momentum, a black hole can birth another universe "inside" (I put inside in quotes because this doesn't work anything like 3D Newtonian intuition imagines). And then in that new universe, more black holes form, and you get an infinite chain of universe creation. One universe births many daughter universes in the ashes of the black hole collapses.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 31, 2025 11:07 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December
The voice definitely was not in my head, either, plus I was really dead. When I woke up the doctors were standing over me and they said “we really thought we lost you there”. It took awhile for that to make sense in my wooziness, where the voice was crystal clear.
Posted by: Piper at December 31, 2025 11:08 PM (p4NUW)
Hopefully it's nice and not like Pittsburg at all.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 31, 2025 11:08 PM (XV/Pl)
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I dunno. I heard Pittsburgh is pretty nice.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 31, 2025 11:09 PM (+HNx/)
And may 2026 bring many blessings to us all 💥💥🎊🎉.
🍾🍾🍸🍸🍸
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal at December 31, 2025 11:09 PM (aO42i)
https://tinyurl.com/mrxhpdkp
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 10:32 PM (wzUl9)
Somebody may not like that you know....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 31, 2025 10:40 PM (uQesX)
My favorite calendar was a daily Far Side calendar. Haven't seen them around for years. Monthly, yes. Not daily.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 31, 2025 11:09 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 31, 2025 11:10 PM (3uBP9)
"On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia."
Posted by: Epitaph of W.C. Fields at December 31, 2025 11:11 PM (2Ez/1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHW8srS0ylo
Posted by: davidt at December 31, 2025
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The corner of Bourbon and Orleans, I think. If it is, the camera is showing the block of Bourbon I grew up on, with Orleans Street to the left with the car. I'm not sure -- I haven't been down there in a long time, and I am not familiar with all the bars in that block now.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 11:12 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 31, 2025 11:12 PM (IQ6Gq)
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"We travel between the eternities" -Robert Duvall, in 'Broken Trail'
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 31, 2025 11:12 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Got Some Standards at December 31, 2025 11:12 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Tucker at December 31, 2025 11:13 PM (Tpp9k)
Dude, you got the brass ring. Take the win. But no, he had to sulk and quit. Be careful what you wish for, etc.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 31, 2025 11:13 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Got Some Standards
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Very wise, in my opinion....
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 31, 2025 11:13 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Archer at December 31, 2025 11:13 PM (YGRGv)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 31, 2025 11:14 PM (RIvkX)
"MN mom" panics after seeing "fraud is bad" in her script
X video: https://bit.ly/4sizByG
@stevenvoiceover @stevenvoiceover
BREAKING: Jim Carrey Pranks CNN & Somali-Minnesota Mom
X video: https://bit.ly/4jj40cl
End Wokeness @EndWokeness
Daycare activist covers her mouth after she slips and says "there IS fraud"
X video: https://bit.ly/3LgCnUr
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 31, 2025 11:14 PM (P5BPp)
Sometimes it's not chronological, went back to the 28th. Nothing. Pissed.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 31, 2025 11:14 PM (hVbrz)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 31, 2025 11:07 PM (w6EFb)
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Again, that's an interesting theory, but where's the experimental evidence that this actually happens?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 31, 2025 11:14 PM (ESVrU)
The resident skeptic griped that it wasn't a perfect match, being as how the stars and sun didn't come about until after the grass and trees, et al.
What I took away from it was: of all the genesis myths of human tribes, you have elder gods falling like fruit from the ancient tree, and the fox spirit breathing life into the world, or similar fantastic and turtles-all-the-way-down attempts to explain how everything came to be. And, while they may, in their time and for their people, give some comfort that origins are meaningful and life has purpose, to modern eyes, they are just fanciful nonsense, compared to the developmental progress of Genesis 1. If the sequence got a little muddled in the thousands of years of re-telling (Inerrantists just bear with me), it is still incomparably solid as explanation. Unique.
Most importantly, of course, was "In the beginning God…."😇
Posted by: mindful webworker - be fruitful and multiply at December 31, 2025 11:15 PM (dESj/)
Posted by: JQ at December 31, 2025 11:15 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at December 31, 2025 10:53 PM (rdVOm)
Now that's what I'm talkin about...thankyou!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 31, 2025 11:15 PM (QGaXH)
Daily Mail with pics of Melania and others at Mar-a-lago:
https://is.gd/LfW8D6
Judge Jeanine was also decked out to the nines.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 31, 2025 11:15 PM (w6EFb)
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Time and space are attributes experienced in our universe. Outside of it, there is no time and there is no space,
That is what "eternity" is. The absence of time and space.
So don't expect to be catching up on old times with Gramps in the afterlife while practicing new riffs on the harp.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 31, 2025 11:15 PM (+HNx/)
Because you are trying to harmonize a temporal framework with a transcendent one.
If you were to take the position that our physical life moves within a purely temporal dimension and beyond the veil to the spirit world it exists in a transcendent dimension it would resolve a number of problems.
The idea of physical death means that in this dimension you cease to function. The body is frozen since it no longer functions to convey the soul about in a series of events which happens to have locality.
The spirit, leaving the stalled car/body at the side of the road passes through the veil to the next dimension. If the spirit is alive, then eternity with the Creator, if spiritually dead, then to Outer Darkness.
People tend to think that the afterlife is just another version of what we have here absent the pain, sin and misery. Entering a different dimension is probably profoundly different, it would imply, in effect time-travel (since not bound to time). In effect you could be your own Guardian Angel as you, on your side of the veil can "go back" to when you needed prompting to do things differently.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 31, 2025 11:15 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December
Thank you! Me too, but that experience helped me get through my mama’s death. I knew where she was going was far better than where she was.
Posted by: Piper at December 31, 2025 11:15 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 31, 2025 11:16 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 31, 2025 11:16 PM (RIvkX)
Less than 3 hours to my Happy B-day.
Me and girldog, me with a cocktail, her with her cookies.
I'm surely hoping 2026 surpasses 2025.
Although, 2025 was fine enough without cacklin' Kamala and Tampon Timmy.
A very best New Year to you all.
"Here's to the year that lies ahead, let's face it with laughter instead. With humor as our guiding light, we'll tackle each day with all our might!"
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 31, 2025 11:17 PM (LNeRu)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 11:12 PM (wzUl9)
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I loved Sting's "Moon over Bourbon Street," which came out while I was in school, and then I deployed to NOLA in 2010 for da oyl spill, I thought I would find Old World Charm and also Mystery.
It smelled like urine and vomit.
One of those clubs or something came through, drinking in drill formation, but overall, I was unimpressed. The ice cream was good, though.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 31, 2025 11:18 PM (ZOv7s)
Ev'ry time I see your face,
It reminds me of the places we used to go.
But all I got is a photograph
And I realize you're not coming back anymore.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 31, 2025 10:57 PM (RIvkX)
But you're expecting me to live without you
that's not something that i'm looking forward to....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 31, 2025 11:18 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 31, 2025 11:18 PM (Q/uAJ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 31, 2025
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In my drinking days I took on too much booze of one kind or another on NYE of '84-'85, and spent the next day feeling as if I had the flu. Or, as H. Allen Smith put it, "like a moose is having a baby in your head."
That "New Year's Day" song by U2 was playing on radio then. To this day it makes me queasy.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 11:19 PM (wzUl9)
Dude, you got the brass ring. Take the win. But no, he had to sulk and quit. Be careful what you wish for, etc.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
Will you get what you want?
To be cursed with your dreams?
I hope, for your sake,
Something gets in the way.
https://youtu.be/zaxr9hnQA2U
Posted by: Marillion at December 31, 2025 11:19 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 31, 2025 11:02 PM (ESVrU)
I had a dream once that lasted a lifetime. It was when I was a teen and went to bed early with a bad stomach ache and woke up from the dream around 5 in the morning sweating. But the dream was very vivid, I aged, met a woman, got married, had a family. A whole lifetime of new stuff. But when I woke up I could feel the massive bulk of memories just evaporating and nothing I could do to hold on. The other aspect that was weird is that it was after a great calamity where the few people left were running and hiding underground from angel like creatures that weren't really angels.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 31, 2025 11:19 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 10:37 PM (wzUl9)
Yes Wolfus (if you are still here). And at 11:30PM EST, the Syfy network has my favorite TZ episode, the "Hitchhiker" with the beautiful but troubled Inger Stevens.
Posted by: Joemarine at December 31, 2025 11:19 PM (y171U)
FInd out what's inside a black hole is impossible, of course. Casual disconnection. So we'll never know. However, in Poplawski's work, in turns some variables from the mother universe get imprinted in the daughter universe. The parent black hole spin would be imparted as sort of a "preferred direction" in the daughter universe.
There is indeed evidence, still a hot and contentious issue in the field, that there is a sort of preferred direction, dubbed the "Axis of Evil". You can read on that and the evidence for and against.
Also, IIRC, Poplawski can do away the need for inflation, or at least explain the mechanism.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 31, 2025 11:20 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 31, 2025 11:20 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal at December 31, 2025 11:20 PM (aO42i)
that's not something that i'm looking forward to....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue
That song was written by George, right?
Posted by: Crackerbox Palace at December 31, 2025 11:20 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 31, 2025 11:21 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 31, 2025 11:15 PM (a4flb)
*Purgatory has entered the chat*
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 31, 2025 11:21 PM (ZOv7s)
What's interesting is the Milky Way's spin axis is indeed aligned with one of the proposed Axes of Evil. There is an apparent non-uniform distribution of galactic spin axes, but this is disputed, could be artifacts of measurements methods and all that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 31, 2025 11:21 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Piper at December 31, 2025 10:58 PM (p4NUW)
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I had a dream like that once. ...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 31, 2025 11:02 PM (ESVrU)
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YouTube has a number of videos about Near Death Experiences, which document similar events with people who flatlined yet lived. Some are impossible to dismiss, one which I remember was about a homeless man with dentures coming into the ER in an unresponsible state. They took his dentures out, revived him in a comatose state, then after a few days he came out of the coma. He asked for his dentures and none of the medical personal knew where it was.
While they were looking, a nurse came into the critical room and the patient said she knows where the dentures are. She did know since she was the one who took them out and he was asked how he knew she was the one. He said that he was out-of-body and watched the entire operation.
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at December 31, 2025 11:21 PM (bi2p/)
Posted by: JoeBar at December 31, 2025 11:21 PM (CSWVu)
It smelled like urine and vomit.
One of those clubs or something came through, drinking in drill formation, but overall, I was unimpressed. The ice cream was good, though.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 31, 2025
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It's worse now. If you get away from the French Quarter, into Mid-City, the Faubourg Marigny, or Uptown, you may find some of that Charm and Mystery. You may also find someone who wants to rob and/or kill you, so Charm and Mystery may have to take a back seat.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 11:22 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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I have an anectdote about that. I boarded my old pal of 19 years, Belmont, a male Siamese while I was away on a bike trip. When Iwent to pick him up, I asked the girl who brought him out, 'How'd he do?' She looked at me and said, 'Well, howdy-do to you too'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 31, 2025 11:22 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: banana Dream at
Oh this is really interesting and I wonder if you were being shown someone else’s memories. I dint know why or how, but really interesting.
Posted by: Piper at December 31, 2025 11:22 PM (p4NUW)
SCIENCE!1!™ denies the Global Flood which pretty much erased 1000+ years of everything, especially the original conditions at Day 7. So they look at the layers of rock in the Grand Canyon and think Origins, the Creationist looks at the exact same rocks and says millions of dead things buried in rock layers rapidly laid down by water all over the Earth.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 31, 2025 11:22 PM (a4flb)
Already sent 2025 EOY business tax file to my accountant. Onward, gubbernmint bureaucracy!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 31, 2025 11:23 PM (ZocB7)
Posted by: Piper at December 31, 2025 10:58 PM (p4NUW)
Some of my happiest memories are of driving home to Florida from college in upstate NY at Christmas, or later, looking out the window of a red-eye out of LAX and seeing the Florida coast come into view off to the right. When I think about death, I try to think about it as making one of those trips again
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 31, 2025 11:23 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Absolutely NOT. He got the message and did not drive up here. Yay!
Posted by: JQ at December 31, 2025 11:23 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 31, 2025 11:19 PM (3uBP9)
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Mine happened later, in my 20s, but the same sort of thing. Really long, involved dream, and I woke up thinking "Oh man, I have to go through all of that AGAIN?!"
But it's been better than I foresaw, so there is that.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 31, 2025 11:24 PM (ZOv7s)
So I'm taking the risk to best utilize my time for my own happiness and those I love.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 31, 2025 11:25 PM (Vh9CX)
I dreamt once that I was Daniel Jackson from Stargate SG-1. That one made no sense at all.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 31, 2025 11:25 PM (Q/uAJ)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 31, 2025 11:00 PM (CHHv1)
BC - wishing you the best in the new year!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 31, 2025 11:25 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 31, 2025 11:25 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: JoeBar at December 31, 2025 11:21 PM
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Sorry to hear. I'd add you to the list, but making edits at this point risks a tear of the AoS time-space continuum. May God give you strength and wisdom for the path ahead.
Posted by: TRex - NYE dino at December 31, 2025 11:26 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: JoeBar at December 31
I am so sorry, this must be something very heavy you are carrying. I will pray for you and for faith to get you through the parts you can’t understand.
Posted by: Piper at December 31, 2025 11:26 PM (p4NUW)
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That's a big decision. Congratulations, and good luck to you.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 31, 2025 11:26 PM (+HNx/)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025
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Yes Wolfus (if you are still here). And at 11:30PM EST, the Syfy network has my favorite TZ episode, the "Hitchhiker" with the beautiful but troubled Inger Stevens.
Posted by: Joemarine at December 31, 2025
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Still here. I'm heading off to bed in a bit. Tomorrow I plan, if it's not too chilly and windy in the early am, to work out, then grab a few things at Walmart, and take it easy for the rest of the day.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 11:26 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 31, 2025 11:25 PM (Vh9CX)
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"I could'a been a
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 31, 2025 11:27 PM (ZocB7)
So I'm taking the risk to best utilize my time for my own happiness and those I love.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at
Congratulations on your new chapter!
Posted by: Piper at December 31, 2025 11:27 PM (p4NUW)
>>Dude, you got the brass ring. Take the win. But no, he had to sulk and quit. Be careful what you wish for, etc.
His net worth is listed at over 100 million dollars, I'd say he got what he wanted.
He's one of those rare cats that stepped away and done stayed stepped away.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 31, 2025 11:27 PM (XV/Pl)
That's not all it's cracked up to be.
Posted by: Archibald Beechcroft at December 31, 2025 11:27 PM (uQesX)
So I'm taking the risk to best utilize my time for my own happiness and those I love.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 31, 2025 11:25 PM
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Congrats and best wishes!
Posted by: TRex - pre-retired dino at December 31, 2025 11:28 PM (IQ6Gq)
So I'm taking the risk to best utilize my time for my own happiness and those I love.
Congrats! Hope to catch up with you in about 9 years.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 31, 2025 11:28 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: JoeBar at December 31, 2025 11:21 PM (CSWVu)
Prayers that you will find peace.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 31, 2025 11:29 PM (Q/uAJ)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 11:22 PM (wzUl9)
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Oh, I got the full brief from a cabby who told me how clever the robbers are, and I just laughed, and said I came from Michigan, lived outside Detroit for a while, where they don't pick your pocket but just kill you and take your stuff.
I walked through the French Quarter in the morning by design, and kept my wallet in my right front pocket, as suggested.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 31, 2025 11:29 PM (ZOv7s)
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Had something like that too, once. I just woke up feeling like God's love was permeating every cell of my being.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 31, 2025 11:06 PM (0bvPF)
I've had two events occur in my life - nothing like near death or dreams - just circumstances that have me convinced someone up there loves me and is listening and looking out for me.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 31, 2025 11:29 PM (QGaXH)
I'm trying to go into my office, where it's dark. I flip the lights and nothing happens. I feel an overwhelming sense of *evil* permeating the space. This is a frequent dream I have.
However, this time, a light suddenly flashes and and I see a demonic face fleeing back into the shadows that are no longer there. The room is brightly lit.
Standing in the room are two figures, one of whom is indistinct. The other is dressed like a cable repairman. He tells me that everything is fine now and there's nothing to fear. I have a sudden instinct to *trust* him, like he's my best friend, even though I've never seen him before in my life.
The other figure is shadowy, silent, yet radiates power.
Pretty weird dream.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 31, 2025 11:29 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 31, 2025 11:25 PM (a4flb)
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Purgatory is grace.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 31, 2025 11:30 PM (ZOv7s)
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I figure I've got another 18 months to two years practicing law, then it's ADIOS. unfortunately, I won't be 56 when that happens.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 31, 2025 11:31 PM (+HNx/)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 31, 2025 11:25 PM (Vh9CX)
Congratulations!
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 31, 2025 11:31 PM (Q/uAJ)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal at December 31, 2025 11:31 PM (aO42i)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 31, 2025 11:29 PM (ESVrU)
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Well, the first was the cable guy. So that leave the pool maintenance boy.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 31, 2025 11:32 PM (ZocB7)
He's one of those rare cats that stepped away and done stayed stepped away.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 31, 2025 11:27 PM (XV/Pl)
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Did he? Is he truly happy? Does he pass the hours counting his money contentedly thinking that is all that matters?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 31, 2025 11:32 PM (ZOv7s)
I walked through the French Quarter in the morning by design, and kept my wallet in my right front pocket, as suggested.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 31, 2025
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When I was a kid, it was just The Neighborhood. Most of my grammar school classmates lived within the Quarter. There were mom-and-pop grocery stores, service businesses, a new car dealership only a few blocks away and at least three gas stations on the edges of the area. We had shopping and first-run movie theaters on Canal Street, six blocks away.
Mom always said, "The hippies coming in [ca. 1969 ] ruined the area."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 11:33 PM (wzUl9)
Sometimes it's not chronological, went back to the 28th. Nothing. Pissed.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 31, 2025 11:14 PM (hVbrz)
Hoping we are in a 'no news is good news' situation....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 31, 2025 11:33 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Piper at December 31, 2025 11:33 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 31, 2025 11:32 PM (ZOv7s)
No, I think he spends his time painting, and is relieved he doesn't have to dance to the daily demands of his editor and contract.
or so he has said.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 31, 2025 11:33 PM (rbvCR)
Whoever mentioned listening to the sound track from Ghost and the Darkness: I listened to it myself this afternoon while I was stitching. Great workout for French horns. Goldsmith always composed good music for the French horn.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at December 31, 2025 11:34 PM (DK5Sh)
See all of you next year!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 11:36 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: banana Dream
+++++
That was a Star Trek TNG episode.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 31, 2025 11:36 PM (/lPRQ)
Is there any money still in newspaper comics being that few people read newspapers?
Like Rush Limbaugh checking out when he did. Radio is dying and being replaced by podcasts.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 31, 2025 11:36 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal at December 31, 2025 11:31 PM (aO42i)
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I don't mean to be negative. Climbing up the embankment and looking at the Mighty Miss...was impressive. Nice breeze, and it's a memory that has stuck with me. There is much to admire in NOLA, but it was not what I expected.
I was there in the summer, June 2010, so the notion of there being a high of 82 and low of 82 with 99 percent humidity kind of blew my mind.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 31, 2025 11:36 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 31, 2025 11:38 PM (sAmhv)
His name is Harry Tuttle.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 31, 2025 11:38 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Piper at December 31, 2025 11:38 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 31, 2025 11:38 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 31, 2025 11:38 PM (RpSs/)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal at December 31, 2025 11:38 PM (aO42i)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 31, 2025 11:39 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 31, 2025 11:39 PM (+HNx/)
Posted by: Piper at December 31, 2025 11:38 PM (p4NUW)
Used to do that with my old hound. He loved streaking, lol
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 31, 2025 11:40 PM (Q/uAJ)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 10:37 PM (wzUl9)
Yes Wolfus (if you are still here). And at 11:30PM EST, the Syfy network has my favorite TZ episode, the "Hitchhiker" with the beautiful but troubled Inger Stevens.
Posted by: Joemarine at December 31, 2025 11:19 PM (y171U)
Also 11:30 PST. right now is 'Mirror Image' with Vera Miles
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 31, 2025 11:40 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 31, 2025 11:39 PM (Da7Vv)
Try slide film.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 31, 2025 11:41 PM (4p5Zb)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 31
This is hysterical! And glad it isn’t just me.
Posted by: Piper at December 31, 2025 11:41 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at December 31, 2025 11:34 PM (DK5Sh)
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That was me, and I was a French horn player from grade school through high school. During concert season my senior year, I switched to tuba (long story) and when I auditioned for college marching band, didn't make the cut, but they were short of trumpets that year. So despite the formative years of my life being all French horn, I have a band jacket with a trumpet patch.
But I love the French horn.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 31, 2025 11:41 PM (ZOv7s)
349 Isn't somebody's ball supposed to drop about now?
____
Moon Pie:
https://tinyurl.com/szdfbyjz
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 31, 2025 11:41 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 31, 2025 11:39 PM (+HNx/)
That's why I wear boxers, not briefs.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 31, 2025 11:42 PM (4p5Zb)
Posted by: Don Black at December 31, 2025 11:42 PM (ZxPkt)
So I'm taking the risk to best utilize my time for my own happiness and those I love.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken
Congrats!
I should out the door soon myself - target last week of March.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 31, 2025 11:42 PM (/lPRQ)
>>Did he? Is he truly happy? Does he pass the hours counting his money contentedly thinking that is all that matters?
Have no idea, he stepped away 30 years ago and has literally done no interviews, talked to no one and is essentially a ghost.
So my assumption is he is as happy and lamb.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 31, 2025 11:43 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Scottyv at December 31, 2025 11:43 PM (UZnWu)
Posted by: TRex - countdown dino at December 31, 2025 11:43 PM (IQ6Gq)
Be well, and Happy New Year!
Posted by: PabloD at December 31, 2025 11:43 PM (tfChy)
Posted by: Piper
He's a Japanese breed. That's an anime thing. You take off the limiter item and BOOOM!
.....martial arts guy takes off his 200 pounds of weighted clothing and starts flying around like he's in the Matrix, Harry-Potter-alike takes off the ring that consumes 99% of his magic power and starts blowing up cities, etc.
Posted by: mikeski-san at December 31, 2025 11:44 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at December 31, 2025 11:34 PM (DK5Sh)
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That was me, and I was a French horn player from grade school through high school. During concert season my senior year, I switched to tuba (long story) and when I auditioned for college marching band, didn't make the cut, but they were short of trumpets that year. So despite the formative years of my life being all French horn, I have a band jacket with a trumpet patch.
But I love the French horn.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
*******
Wow, I noted this comment to check out the music tomorrow. I played French Horn from middle school thru high school. Just a fabulous instrument that took me to many places and allowed me to meet many people.
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 31, 2025 11:44 PM (IQ6Gq)
My dog hates when I take her collar off😛
It's like me taking my shirt off...very uncomfortable...😐
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 31, 2025 11:44 PM (LNeRu)
https://youtu.be/gZ3eJxaRZXU
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 31, 2025 11:44 PM (lUFok)
or so he has said.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 31, 2025 11:33 PM (rbvCR)
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Watterson talked a lot during his rise, and had mean things to say about Peanuts, and then seemed to fall into the same trap.
I'm not judging, but the guy built the same sort of empire, and then seemed annoyed with his creation. The weird thing, was the he had a following. People loved his work. And yet he withdrew into a hermitage. Something is off with this.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 31, 2025 11:44 PM (ZOv7s)
Nice clear sky tonight, but the full Moon glare makes Orion look dim. Orion has just transited.
Sirius, due to a coincidence of the current epoch in the precessional cycle is almost dead on opposite the sun along the celestial equator on New Year's Eve. Thus it transits almost dead on your local apparent solar midnight. That's a good moment to ring in the local New Year.
Jupiter is close to opposition and it will be right there as well. Jupiter, Sirius, and the bright gibbous Moon will make sort of triangle with on leg passing through Orion's belt.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 31, 2025 11:45 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Don Black at December 31, 2025 11:42 PM (ZxPkt)
God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten not made, one in being with the Father. Through him all things were made.
Posted by: Nicene Creed at December 31, 2025 11:46 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Nicene Creed at December 31, 2025 11:46 PM (3uBP9)
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Sez you.
Posted by: Arias at December 31, 2025 11:47 PM (+HNx/)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal at December 31, 2025 11:47 PM (aO42i)
The main nut I had to crack was syntax highlighting in render-markdown code blocks, getting the parsers to do the injection was a bitch. but I've got it down to just c++ code injection not working. Hopefully that will be corrected shortly.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 31, 2025 11:47 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 31, 2025 11:47 PM (LNeRu)
Posted by: Don Black at December 31, 2025 11:48 PM (ZxPkt)
Now Grandmothers and Grandfathers also are frolic.
Such is the Way of our People.
Posted by: Official Novdu Informations at December 31, 2025 11:48 PM (f/3mU)
Posted by: mikeski-san at December 31, 2025 11:44 PM (nhCoE)
This is hysterical. Fireworks started again, so he is back in bed. Are you the one who has Shibas, too? I forgot who that was and I feel terrible about it!
Posted by: Piper at December 31, 2025 11:48 PM (p4NUW)
My dog hates when I take her collar off😛
It's like me taking my shirt off...very uncomfortable...😐
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December
These silly beasties!
Posted by: Piper at December 31, 2025 11:49 PM (p4NUW)
Here's to the beauty of the stars
Here's to the travellers on the open road
Here's to the dreamers in the bars
Here's to the teachers in the crowded rooms
Here's to the workers in the fields
Here's to the preachers of the sacred word
Here's to the drivers at the wheel
Here's to you my little love
With blessings from above
Now let the day begin
Here's to you my little love
With blessings from above
Now let the day begin
Let the day begin
Posted by: Pepperidge Farms remembers at December 31, 2025 11:50 PM (13Txl)
Here's to the losers in the game
Here's to the soldiers of the bitter war
Here's to the wall that bears their name
Here's to you my little love
With blessings from above
Now let the day begin
Here's to you my little love
With blessings from above
Now let the day begin
Let the day begin
Let the day begin
Let the day... start
Posted by: Pepperidge Farms remembers at December 31, 2025 11:50 PM (13Txl)
Posted by: Piper"
Bruno gets very concerned when I take his collar off and happy when I put it back on. I think it's like his security blanket.
Posted by: fd at December 31, 2025 11:50 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 31, 2025 11:44 PM (IQ6Gq)
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At the start of my sophomore year in college, the opportunity was there for me to switch back to French horn (mellophone) and I was in a quandary. It was my identity, what I had played from the start. But that would mean learning the entire pregame show from scratch and all the ra-ra music. Moreover, I was in college, this was for keeps, did I have time to waste on music practice when I needed to pass academic classes?
I stayed with trumpet. It's now something of a trivia question with my kids. But I love, really love French horn riffs.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 31, 2025 11:51 PM (ZOv7s)
Here's to the loved ones in their care
Here's to the strangers on the streets tonight
Here's to the lonely everywhere
Here's to the wisdom from the mouths of babes
Here's to the lions in the cage
Here's to the strugglers of the silent war
Here's to the closing of the age
Here's to you my little love
With blessings from above
Now let the day begin
Posted by: Pepperidge Farms remembers at December 31, 2025 11:51 PM (13Txl)
Posted by: Arias at December 31, 2025 11:47 PM (+HNx/)
Well that's the last straw, we're making a whole creed now.
Posted by: First Council of Nicaea at December 31, 2025 11:51 PM (3uBP9)
With blessings from above
Now let the day begin
Here's to you my little loves
With blessings from above
Now let the day begin
Here's to you my little loves
With blessings from above
Now let the day begin
Let the day begin
Let the day... start
Posted by: Pepperidge Farms remembers at December 31, 2025 11:51 PM (13Txl)
Posted by: Don Black at December 31, 2025 11:42 PM (ZxPkt)
Montana if we're lucky.
Secaucas, NJ if we're not.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 31, 2025 11:52 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: TRex - countdown dino
*Second prize is #twoweeks
I was doing that joke back in the 20s
Posted by: W. C. Miklos-Fields at December 31, 2025 11:52 PM (f/3mU)
Then in 1997 I was scanning through the cable channels, and there was that scene from the preview on the screen. It was a puppet, I could see the strings. That night was the first good night's sleep with no nightmares in my adult life.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 31, 2025 11:52 PM (Da7Vv)
Mrs D is watching Stranger Things. What a farce. Quite possibly the worst thing I have ever seen.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 31, 2025 11:52 PM (2WIwB)
I'm not judging, but the guy built the same sort of empire, and then seemed annoyed with his creation. The weird thing, was the he had a following. People loved his work. And yet he withdrew into a hermitage. Something is off with this.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 31, 2025 11:44 PM (ZOv7s)
The only thing I remember Waterson saying negative about Peanuts is that it became a commodity for marketing. He beleived thst once the characters start appearing in commercials and on greeting cards you lose control of them, you don't always have the freedom to do what you want because you have to keep in mind what the corporations expect. Calvin and Hobbes never did that. No commercials, no cards, not even plush toys, just the daily strip and the books of daily strip compilations (one of which Charles Shulz wrote the introduction.)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 31, 2025 11:53 PM (4p5Zb)
Wring out the old, Ring in the new!
Posted by: RI Red at December 31, 2025 11:54 PM (LMRVO)
>>> Where did God come from
Posted by: Don Black at December 31, 2025 11:42 PM (ZxPkt)
God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten not made, one in being with the Father. Through him all things were made.
Posted by: Nicene Creed
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Get it, Don? Of course the universe couldn't come from nothing -- be reasonable! But God does come from nothing -- be faithful!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 31, 2025 11:54 PM (2YF7/)
Posted by: First Council of Nicaea
We should start a band
Posted by: First Council of Nicaea afterparty at December 31, 2025 11:55 PM (f/3mU)
Greetings Publius - wish you a healthy and prosperous New Year filled with joy and laughter.
Just about there for you now - right?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 31, 2025 11:55 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Piper at December 31, 2025 11:55 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 31, 2025 11:55 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal at December 31, 2025 11:47 PM (aO42i)
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It was widely joked that we came out of our hotels and were soaked with sweat when we reached the duty station. I never went to the sandbox, so I don't know what those guys went through, but it was crazy.
One day I missed the shuttle, and I had been in NOLA for long enough that I walked to the hotel. It rained on me. It always rained. It was the same temperature of the air. It was weird. I just walked through the rain. I have no idea who people live like that.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 31, 2025 11:56 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 31, 2025 11:51 PM
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mellophone?
Is that one of those made up Dr. Seuss instruments?
Posted by: TRex - brass dino at December 31, 2025 11:56 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 31, 2025 11:52 PM (2WIwB)
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Is there something you want to share with the group?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 31, 2025 11:56 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 31, 2025 11:56 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Diogenes
I have Mister Roberts and then Ensign Pulver teed up
Posted by: Late Nite Imklos at December 31, 2025 11:56 PM (f/3mU)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 31, 2025 11:53 PM (4p5Zb)
Well, not that he monetized, no.
Posted by: Calvin peeing on the truck brand you don't like at December 31, 2025 11:56 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
It's right inside my experimental black hole gun. Now, hold still...
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 31, 2025 11:56 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal at December 31, 2025 11:57 PM (aO42i)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
************
So do I...I hope I get to play one again one day...
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 31, 2025 11:58 PM (IQ6Gq)
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A "beginning" can only occur within time. The idea of God having a beginning makes no sense if God exists outside of time. A being outside of time has no beginning or end. It simply "is" in the profoundest sense.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 31, 2025 11:58 PM (+HNx/)
Posted by: Piper
No pets here, so it wasn't me.
My family had a little terror-cross mutt when I was a little kid.
Not a typo.
Posted by: mikeski at December 31, 2025 11:58 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 31, 2025 11:58 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at December 31, 2025 11:59 PM (/rQlD)
Posted by: RI Red at January 01, 2026 12:00 AM (LMRVO)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 31, 2025 11:33 PM (QGaXH)
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Went to DDG AI and received a similar story as the original post but checking the citations (2) both were written pre-operation. Spent time there and it insisted on being incorrect.
Went to Grok (it let me in, surprise!). It said no post-operative info is available with 72 search citations.
Unverified sources, it's a cesspool out there.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 12:00 AM (hVbrz)
Posted by: tankdemon at January 01, 2026 12:00 AM (4p5Zb)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 01, 2026 12:00 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 01, 2026 12:00 AM (ESVrU)
Boom! Per EST, that is.
Some of my favorite Auld Lang Synes:
https://is.gd/rIpfea
https://is.gd/ekcXNF
The meaning of that is quite poignant. The Guy Lombardo version sort of obscures it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 01, 2026 12:00 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 01, 2026 12:00 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 01, 2026 12:00 AM (IhIKR)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 01, 2026 12:00 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 01, 2026 12:00 AM (m7iZ5)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 01, 2026 12:00 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 01, 2026 12:00 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 31, 2025 11:52 PM (2WIwB)
=====
Is there something you want to share with the group?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 31, 2025 11:56 PM (RIvkX)
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No.
I'm drinking it all.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2026 12:00 AM (2WIwB)
We had a heavy snow over Christmas/New Year holidays, back in the late 90s and I made a couple of dozen mini-snowmen. Placed them along the deck railing, evenly spaced: "manning the rails" ya know.
BF at the time, was only mildly amused. He thought they should be "anatomically correct" like Calvin's, but I reminded him of the elementary school across the street...
Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 12:01 AM (rdVOm)
Date: 01/01/2026 Local Time Zone: Eastern Standard Time (UTC-05:00:00)
Longitude: -82.17110 UTC Offset: -05:28:41 TZ Offset: -00:28:41
DUT1: 74.13120 ms Leap Seconds: 37 s DeltaT: 69.10987 s
Universal Coordinated Time: 05:00:00 UTC
Local Standard Time (TZ) : 12:00:00 AM EST
Local Mean Time : 11:31:19 PM LMT (UT1 base)
Local Apparent Solar Time : 11:27:53 PM LAST (UT1 base)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 01, 2026 12:02 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 31, 2025 11:53 PM (4p5Zb)
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That's the paradox of the thing. He wanted to be as big as Peanuts, but not as marketed, got as big, had just as many (if not more) marketing opportunities, and seemed annoyed by all of it.
Dude, you create content. You build an audience. People love your work, and want to celebrate it, and then you shut down and sulk.
What was the point? If he wanted profit-free sales, that was easily managed. If he wrote for the joy of writing, he could have donated 90 percent of his work to charity.
It's sad because he had such a great talent and made so many people happy.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 12:02 AM (ZOv7s)
Meh. Feels about the same.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 01, 2026 12:00 AM (sAmhv)
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Can you share some investment advice with those of us on the West Coast who are still in 2025?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 01, 2026 12:02 AM (+HNx/)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 01, 2026 12:02 AM (Q/uAJ)
James Gregory and Joanne Linville, who would later guest-star on Trek, though not together. I know I've seen it, but it's been a long time. A ghost story set during the Civil War?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
Yes Wolfus (if you are still here). And at 11:30PM EST, the Syfy network has my favorite TZ episode, the "Hitchhiker" with the beautiful but troubled Inger Stevens.
Posted by: Joemarine
James Gregory would go on to play Inspector Luger on Barney Miller. Leonard Strong (the hitchhiker) would go on to play The Craw on Get Smart.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 01, 2026 12:02 AM (pkeXY)
Posted by: banana Dream at January 01, 2026 12:02 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 12:03 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 12:03 AM (gqxJ9)
Posted by: mikeski at January 01, 2026 12:03 AM (nhCoE)
Boom cameras shows couples sucking face... Zooms in on a couple hairy guys slipping each other some tongue...
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 01, 2026 12:03 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Puddleglum
Narrator: That's what Puddleglum thought at first, but slowly over the course of the next day he/she/it came to realize something was drastically ... wrong.
* CUE LOUD MUSIC *
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 01, 2026 12:03 AM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at January 01, 2026 12:03 AM (DK5Sh)
Posted by: tankdemon at January 01, 2026 12:00 AM (4p5Zb)
Three hours to go!
Three hours to go!
Three hours to go!
Three hours to go!
Three hours to go!
Three hours to go!
Three hours to go!
Three hours to go!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 12:04 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal at January 01, 2026 12:04 AM (aO42i)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 01, 2026 12:04 AM (Q/uAJ)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 31, 2025 11:58 PM (IQ6Gq)
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I saved a mouthpiece for the day.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 12:04 AM (ZOv7s)
But for different reasons.
Miracles from faith are to prove the authority of God.
"miracles" in science are to get past the problem of matter ex nilo, abiogenesis and DNA the language and DNA the coding.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 01, 2026 12:04 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: tankdemon at January 01, 2026 12:05 AM (4p5Zb)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 12:05 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Orson at January 01, 2026 12:05 AM (dIske)
Posted by: Don Black
Science tries to explain all things, and thus leaves everything mysterious.
Religion leaves some things mysterious, and thus explains all things.
Posted by: or something to that effect at January 01, 2026 12:05 AM (nhCoE)
There’s a few folks out there. I supposed
There will be more as the evening progresses. Fireworks are a given.
Going to be loud.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 01, 2026 12:06 AM (IhIKR)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal at January 01, 2026 12:06 AM (aO42i)
Posted by: tankdemon at January 01, 2026 12:05 AM (4p5Zb)
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GREAT granddaughter?
You're not really 29, are you.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 01, 2026 12:06 AM (+HNx/)
Posted by: PA Dutchman at January 01, 2026 12:07 AM (h/O4U)
Posted by: exdem13 at January 01, 2026 12:07 AM (XjTSo)
Posted by: tankdemon at January 01, 2026 12:05 AM (4p5Zb)
Congratulations, great-grandpa tankdemon!
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 01, 2026 12:07 AM (Q/uAJ)
And his legacy is a window sticker on the back of a truck where Calvin is pissing on a Chevy bowtie.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 01, 2026 12:07 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: hooodathunkit at January 01, 2026 12:07 AM (wwBan)
Posted by: exdem13 at January 01, 2026 12:08 AM (XjTSo)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal at January 01, 2026 12:08 AM (aO42i)
You're not really 29, are you.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 01, 2026 12:06 AM (+HNx/)
I am almost double that. My granddaughter is third generation teen mom.
Posted by: tankdemon at January 01, 2026 12:08 AM (4p5Zb)
Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 12:01 AM (rdVOm)
Wife and I would always look for the latest C&H compilation book and take it with us to read on road trips.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 12:08 AM (QGaXH)
He was just adamant about not commercializing his work beyond publication and syndication.
Although he must get a smile whenever he gets stuck behind a car with one of them pissing Calvin bumper stickers.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 01, 2026 12:08 AM (XV/Pl)
Some people got money to (literally!) burn, I guess.
Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 12:09 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at January 01, 2026 12:03 AM (DK5Sh)
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I played French Horn in orchestra, but Mellophone in marching band. Also, dabbled in trombone, piano for the pop singers, and I play a mean Ozark Harp (I'll let you figure out what that is).
Posted by: Orson at January 01, 2026 12:09 AM (dIske)
Posted by: exdem13 at January 01, 2026 12:09 AM (XjTSo)
Posted by: tankdemon at January 01, 2026 12:05 AM
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If it is your progeny, delivery will undoubtedly be late.
Congrats!
Posted by: TRex - excuses dino at January 01, 2026 12:10 AM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at January 01, 2026 12:03 AM (DK5Sh)
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Absolutely. I loved it. My senior year in high school, I switched to tuba for concert season and it was quite the change.
In retrospect, I had a gift. That sounds arrogant, but with the benefit of hindsight, things came easy to me, but I was to lazy to recognize it. Still, it's all good. I had a ton of fund as a Spartan Trumpet, and actually can play the melody of the fight song rather than just the upbeats. It's a solid win!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 12:10 AM (ZOv7s)
* puts away "I went to the Rapture and all I left behind was this lousy t-shirt" shirt for another year *
Posted by: mikeski at January 01, 2026 12:10 AM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin
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THIS is my story, sans the guitar.....
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at January 01, 2026 12:10 AM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Bulg at January 01, 2026 12:10 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 01, 2026 12:10 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: JQ
*steps out to take a leak*
Porch, deck...terrasse or veranda don't make no difference when Nature calls
*waves over at Bubba Jr. with the one free hand, says he got more beer if I got tequila*
Posted by: Late Nite Imklos at Trailer Acres at January 01, 2026 12:10 AM (f/3mU)
these people are taking over government buildings
@MOSSADil
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39m
IRAN PROTEST | DEVELOPING INTO REVOLUTION
While we slept here in Israel, they didn’t sleep in Iran.
Reports say Iranian anti-regime protesters are chasing Islamic Regime security forces through the streets of Arak.
Posted by: Don Black at January 01, 2026 12:11 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: tankdemon at January 01, 2026 12:05 AM (4p5Zb)
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No excuse is going to cut it if you're late for that.
Posted by: Orson at January 01, 2026 12:11 AM (dIske)
Posted by: fd at January 01, 2026 12:11 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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As have I, my friend. One day....
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at January 01, 2026 12:11 AM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal at January 01, 2026 12:04 AM (aO42i)
You'd love south Florida....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 12:11 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal at January 01, 2026 12:11 AM (aO42i)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 01, 2026 12:12 AM (Q/uAJ)
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24m
🚨 IRGC FIGHTER KILLED as protesters torch IRGC headquarters in Hamedan
Reports from Iran say demonstrators set an IRGC base on fire amid escalating anti-regime unrest.
• One Basij fighter killed
• 13 security forces injured
Posted by: Don Black at January 01, 2026 12:12 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Bulg at January 01, 2026 12:12 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Orson at January 01, 2026 12:09 AM (dIske)
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*much respect*
Trombone eluded me. I've played French horn, trumpet, tuba, baritone, but never trombone. My freshman year of college I wanted to take trombone, but all the school instruments were signed out by those bastard music majors. Fuck them assholes!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 12:13 AM (ZOv7s)
Some people got money to (literally!) burn, I guess.
At one time I lived next door to a leader of a biker gang. For reasons that are not clear, I was invited to the biker bar where much alcohol was consumed.
Then they (several dozen drunk hog riders) rode to his place and decided to celebrate New Years with fireworks.
The amount of ordnance cooked off was so great that smoke was like a dense fog and the brilliance of all the fireworks was so bright the street lights turned off.
I don't know what was louder, dozens of straight pipe Harleys or the fireworks. I do know that the smell of cordite still lingered into dawn and it took a snow shovel to clear the wrappers off the street.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 01, 2026 12:13 AM (a4flb)
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4h
BREAKING — IRAN:
Multiple IRGC Basij Force bases and governorates of the Islamist regime, in Hamedan, Fars, and Khuzestan provinces have fallen into the hands of protesters, as the pro-@PahlaviReza
uprising keeps spreading after Reza Shah Pahlavi II’s call for nationwide uprising
Posted by: Don Black at January 01, 2026 12:13 AM (ZxPkt)
Some people got money to (literally!) burn, I guess.
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Here ay Little Oaxaca on the Miami they have to burn a kilo of black powder or it isn't a holiday.
Posted by: exdem13 at January 01, 2026 12:14 AM (XjTSo)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at January 01, 2026 12:14 AM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 01, 2026 12:14 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Don Black at January 01, 2026 12:11 AM (ZxPkt)
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Mrs. F. says her Israeli Christian sources say today is the last day for the mullahs.
Who knows.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 01, 2026 12:15 AM (RIvkX)
Mrs fd went to bed leaving me to finish this bottle of Asti. Anybody up for champagne pong?
Posted by: fd at January 01, 2026 12:16 AM (vFG9F)
My answer? "Just read the chart."
I can't transpose worth shit. My father, who loves music and plays lots of instruments, can't grasp that I don't have some unified understanding of music, but just a mechanical "this quals that" level of understanding.
Or as I said to the band director: "what's the fingering?"
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 12:17 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at January 01, 2026 12:17 AM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: scampydog at January 01, 2026 12:17 AM (LVaYG)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal at January 01, 2026 12:17 AM (aO42i)
Posted by: Bulg at January 01, 2026 12:17 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 12:17 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at January 01, 2026 12:17 AM (IQ6Gq)
Old joke:
Q: What is the definition of an Optimist?
A: A trombone player with a pager.
It was funny back then.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 01, 2026 12:18 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: banana Dream at January 01, 2026 12:18 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 01, 2026 12:18 AM (eZ5tL)
Posted by: Bulg at January 01, 2026 12:12 AM (77rzZ)
I'm sorry, Bulg. He was your friend, I think? That was sad.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 01, 2026 12:18 AM (Q/uAJ)
Posted by: fd at January 01, 2026 12:19 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Bulg at January 01, 2026 12:17 AM (77rzZ)
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Mean mother-frackers.
Boners do it better.
I was looking forward to my initiation, but it did not come to pass. And now I'm a grandfather, but maybe later...
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 12:19 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
Tell us about that One Time at Band Camp
Posted by: Inquiring Mind of Imklos at January 01, 2026 12:19 AM (f/3mU)
Who knows.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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I want to see those donut hat-wearing goat-smelling tyrants get the Mussolini treatment
Posted by: Don Black at January 01, 2026 12:19 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 12:17 AM (QGaXH)
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Mmm. Honey West.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 01, 2026 12:20 AM (+HNx/)
Figure I'll use that funny ticket soon: finish this drink, brush teefs & go to bed.
Imklos might take over the bartending?? I dunno...
Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 12:20 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Bulg at January 01, 2026 12:12 AM
and vic. The Great old One. Fair seas, sailor.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 12:21 AM (gqxJ9)
Posted by: scampydog at January 01, 2026 12:17 AM (LVaYG)
Dwight Yoakam singing anything is wonderful. That is a great version of that song.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 01, 2026 12:21 AM (Q/uAJ)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 12:21 AM (ZOv7s)
Anyways. Me and girldog slipped by Moose out front.
We got my wobbly table all to ourselves.
I'm guessing nurse R and Rat got hawt dates for the Eve...
JQ! One of your finest cocktails for me, and a light beer for doggo!
Geez...I'm lonely 😔....
Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 01, 2026 12:21 AM (LNeRu)
Posted by: Orson at January 01, 2026 12:09 AM (dIske)
I went to Duck Duck Go expecting Ozark Harp was another name for either a Jew's harp or a banjo. Snoopy played it in one of the Peanuts cartoons.
https://youtu.be/oCekQ8Sizqk
Posted by: tankdemon at January 01, 2026 12:22 AM (4p5Zb)
Posted by: Don Black at January 01, 2026 12:11 AM (ZxPkt)
Arak, ARiK, it's all the same......
maybe I'll have another beer....still around JQ?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 12:22 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 12:22 AM (gqxJ9)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 12:22 AM (ZOv7s)
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If you are going have a wild house party it is considered polite to invite the neighbors
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 01, 2026 12:22 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 12:23 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Bulg
There was a great ska-reggae-punk-ska band called Freedom of Expression.
The lead guy did the lead thing on...trombone.
Unable to find much on the Interwebs
Posted by: Recollections of Mind of Imklos at January 01, 2026 12:23 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: Bulg at January 01, 2026 12:24 AM (77rzZ)
I once attended a large Big Box predominantly black church in the heart of Oak Cliff (suburb of Dallas).
Went to the midnight New Year's service. As we exited a short time after midnight, the familiar ring of fireworks and firearms was in the air.
I talked to one of the DPD moonlighting as parking posse to get us in and out of there. He told me that a lot of officers will park their squad cars under overpasses during the peak of the gunfire/fireworks celebration.
Years later, I was talking to a co-worker who was redoing the roof of her Swiss Avenue home (gentrified neighborhood of historic homes) and the roofer pulled out dozens of bullets stuck in the shingles and underlying plywood.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 01, 2026 12:24 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: banana Dream at January 01, 2026 12:24 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 01, 2026 12:24 AM (+HNx/)
I'll be 82 in this new year, and cannot remember the last time I saw midnight on new year's eve.
I drink bottom shelf rye whiskey, and one of my neighborhood buds brought a $120 bottle of bourbon to the party, which I glommed onto and was sipping for over two straight hours, until after the ball dropped and the fireworks outside quieted down to pops. Yes, there is a difference, isn't there, between rotgut grain and good.
So Happy New Year to all, and may the force, whatever it may be, be with you.
Posted by: M. Gaga at January 01, 2026 12:24 AM (KiBMU)
I gotta be up early.
You goddamn kids staying up all hours SOME OF US GOT JOBS, YA KNOW!!!!! grumble grumble grumble and pull up your damn pants grumble grumble grumble
Posted by: Robert at January 01, 2026 12:24 AM (k2AiT)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal at January 01, 2026 12:25 AM (aO42i)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 12:25 AM (gqxJ9)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 01, 2026 12:25 AM (tDhJ5)
Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 12:26 AM (rdVOm)
Lucy the Fink is curled up under the tree. Which I may take down tomorrow. Meh. I’m kinda sad and lonely too. Mind if I join you?
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 01, 2026 12:26 AM (IhIKR)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 01, 2026 12:24 AM
I hope so. They have been a cancer on their people and the world.
Hopefully it will be another Trumpmas.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 12:26 AM (gqxJ9)
Posted by: Bulg at January 01, 2026 12:26 AM (77rzZ)
Setting a IRGC building on fire sounds like a great way to start the new year.
Posted by: exdem13 at January 01, 2026 12:27 AM (XjTSo)
Posted by: PoorYorick at January 01, 2026 12:27 AM (eClUY)
I'm lonely too & it just effing sucks!
Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 12:26 AM (rdVOm)
Spicy Margaritas? I am here and down with that,please.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 01, 2026 12:28 AM (Q/uAJ)
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Come join me & COMM at the wobbly table in the corner!
*brings beer for Country Gal*
Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 12:28 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Bulg at January 01, 2026 12:28 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal at January 01, 2026 12:17 AM (aO42i)
I grew up in S. Florida. I distinctly remember waking up to the radio in the summer and the announcer saying '82 degrees at 2 AM..WSHE 103.5 Miami/Fort Lauderdale...'
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 12:28 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Bulg at January 01, 2026 12:26 AM (77rzZ)
I initially read that as Ann Frank.
Time for bed, methinks.
Good night, Horde!
Posted by: Robert at January 01, 2026 12:28 AM (k2AiT)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 12:28 AM (gqxJ9)
And now midnight here per local mean time, but not yet quite true midnight.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 01, 2026 12:28 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 01, 2026 12:28 AM (lUFok)
Was this foreseen? OMG!
Posted by: M. Gaga at January 01, 2026 12:28 AM (KiBMU)
*makes PITCHER of spicy margaritas*
Now we gots a party! Come on over to the wobbly table!
Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 12:29 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 01, 2026 12:24 AM (a4flb)
I had roof damage from bullets. Roofer even showed it to me, the entry point and where it ended up. I guess it is common in some locales.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 01, 2026 12:30 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 12:30 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: PoorYorick at January 01, 2026 12:27 AM
You should comment more. I have a lurker brother so I know it's a thing but lurkers should unmask occasionally.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 12:31 AM (gqxJ9)
The lead guy did the lead thing on...trombone.
Unable to find much on the Interwebs
Posted by: Recollections of Minde of Imklos at January 01, 2026 12:23 AM (f/3mU)
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I recall a band called "Fishbone" that my classmates enjoyed. They made me a mix tape, which has not survived.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 12:31 AM (ZOv7s)
I know we love to dwell on the negative but the change not just in the US but world over the last year is remarkable. Despite all the losses and challenges 2026 is looking pretty special.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 01, 2026 12:31 AM (viF8m)
Now we gots a party! Come on over to the wobbly table!
Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 12:29 AM (rdVOm)
*brings fireworks and party hats*
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 01, 2026 12:31 AM (Q/uAJ)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at January 01, 2026 12:32 AM (DK5Sh)
Date: 01/01/2026 Local Time Zone: Eastern Standard Time (UTC-05:00:00)
Longitude: -82.17110 UTC Offset: -05:28:41 TZ Offset: -00:28:41
DUT1: 74.13120 ms Leap Seconds: 37 s DeltaT: 69.10987 s
Universal Coordinated Time: 05:32:07 UTC
Local Standard Time (TZ) : 12:32:07 AM EST
Local Mean Time : 12:03:26 AM LMT (UT1 base)
Local Apparent Solar Time : 12:00:00 AM LAST (UT1 base)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 01, 2026 12:32 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: tankdemon at January 01, 2026 12:32 AM (4p5Zb)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal
Stories? You want Stories?
Hey look, Miss. We serve hard drinks with tiny umbrellas in here for Morons who want to get drunk and comment fast, and we don't need any characters around to give the joint 'atmosphere'. We got plenty. Is that clear, or do I have to slip you a 151 Bacardi Jello shot for a convincer?
Posted by: Surly Bartender Imklos at January 01, 2026 12:32 AM (f/3mU)
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Congrats on an excellent first post. You're a shellback now!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 01, 2026 12:32 AM (+HNx/)
Was this foreseen? OMG!
Posted by: M. Gaga at January 01, 2026 12:28 AM (KiB
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Persian new year is in March. Spring equinox. Maybe the locals are impatient.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 12:33 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal at January 01, 2026 12:17 AM (aO42i)
Anonymous 'Rouge' Rouge??? LOL - Too funny! I shorten it to ARiK. Reminds me of a movie I saw recently from the 60's with Frank Sinatra - his character's name was Dingus but his native American love interest kept mispronouncing Dingus...
I hope we'll see you again on the ONT
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 12:34 AM (QGaXH)
Anyways. Me and girldog slipped by Moose out front.
We got my wobbly table all to ourselves.
I'm guessing nurse R and Rat got hawt dates for the Eve...
JQ! One of your finest cocktails for me, and a light beer for doggo!
Geez...I'm lonely 😔....
Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 01, 2026 12:21 AM (LNeRu)
I'm sitting home (well, Winter home in AJ) too. My guts were in an uproar earlier, so I decided not to go out. Feeling OK now, but it's 10:33 here, and I am laother to get dressed and go out. Sipping on a Shiner Bock, and reading the ONT, and watching youtoobs.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 12:34 AM (8zz6B)
Ok, girls, we need to get close-in for a group selfie-- for Commissar of plenty... and show him our FESTIVE LITTLE HATS!
Hahaha!
Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 12:34 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 01, 2026 12:31 AM (viF8m)
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God is not idle.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 12:34 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: 496 at January 01, 2026 12:34 AM (ouubj)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 12:31 AM (ZOv7s)
LAB was a great song with the bros when some poor guy was dumped. Always played in the car going out for a "forget about her" night.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 01, 2026 12:34 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 12:35 AM (QGaXH)
Damn, Sirius transit was just 41 seconds off true midnight. That's damn close.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 01, 2026 12:35 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JQ
*Dances the Shimmy, surreptitiously places shim under wobbly leg*
Which ruins everything
Posted by: Todd at January 01, 2026 12:35 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 01, 2026 12:35 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal at January 01, 2026 12:36 AM (aO42i)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 12:35 AM (QGaXH)
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Here too.
Posted by: Ali Khamenei at January 01, 2026 12:36 AM (+HNx/)
Posted by: banana Dream at January 01, 2026 12:34 AM (3uBP9)
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IYKYK.
A breakup favorite in my circle as well. I got dumped my senior year in high school and that was recommended therapy.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 12:37 AM (ZOv7s)
My favorite roofing story is while I had the biker gang leader on the south, on the north was a rental made into a clown house. It was rather irritating, but not as much as the hundreds of squirrels. My biker neighbor and I had a competition over time to see how many squirrels we could eliminate with our respective pellet guns.
I built a hide in the kitchen and an elevated kill zone loaded with bird seed. Got well over 40. After recording the kills I would take a shovel and trebuchet the kills over the fence and on to the roof of the clown house.
One day a roofer was on the clown house to replace the shingles. He was shocked and horrified at the pile of rotting squirrel carcasses on the roof. I was outside trying not to laugh and be serious. He surmised that the squirrels ate fruit from a poisonous tree that was leaning on the house. He just kept talking and talking about it in bewilderment.
Ok, sure. I got to go inside.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 01, 2026 12:38 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Don Black at January 01, 2026 12:38 AM (ZxPkt)
I do wish stateless would drop in and say hello. Just to let us know he’s ok.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 01, 2026 12:38 AM (IhIKR)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 01, 2026 12:38 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 01, 2026 12:38 AM (sAmhv)
I know we love to dwell on the negative but the change not just in the US but world over the last year is remarkable. Despite all the losses and challenges 2026 is looking pretty special.
Posted by: JackStraw
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I thought with the election of Trump the tension would relax. Silly boy, why in the world would they lesson? Trump is a scythe and he's a reaping.
In for a penny in for a pound, here we are.
Good evening ladies and gents I'm truly grateful to be here glad to see every one.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 12:38 AM (hVbrz)
Posted by: PoorYorick at January 01, 2026 12:27
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Thank you. Thanks for posting. Come on back. We'll leave the light on for you.
Posted by: TRex - 2026 dino at January 01, 2026 12:38 AM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Over-Nite Sensation at January 01, 2026 12:39 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal at January 01, 2026 12:40 AM (aO42i)
Yeah, "going out" for NYE just isn't what it used to be, huh?
Hope you feel better in the morning!
Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 12:40 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 01, 2026 12:38 AM (IhIKR)
I have also wondered if he is okay.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 01, 2026 12:40 AM (Q/uAJ)
Come sit with me🙂 I figured you probably had a hot date tonight!
JQ join us and bring a pitcher of tasty Margs! Some of us still got time till New Year!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 01, 2026 12:40 AM (LNeRu)
I propose we call the new year 250 AUSA or something like that. 😃
I well remember reading the final Calvin & Hobbes. It was a perfect conclusion, leaving us with C&H in happy play, and forever still with us. Still think that whenever I read it again. Watterson done good.
🎶"Maybe just a half a drink morrrre…"
Posted by: mindful webworker - what do you want to do tomorrow night, Calvin? at January 01, 2026 12:41 AM (dESj/)
Posted by: Don Black
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"We" should be taking serious notes!
Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 12:41 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: PoorYorick at January 01, 2026 12:27 AM
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow
of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath
borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how
abhorred in my imagination it is!
Couldn't resist. It's a reflex. I like the handle.
Posted by: Orson at January 01, 2026 12:41 AM (dIske)
Posted by: Norrin Radd, sojourner of the spaceways at January 01, 2026 12:41 AM (tRYqg)
Posted by: Zoltar at January 01, 2026 12:41 AM (+HNx/)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 01, 2026 12:38 AM (sAmhv)
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Boning in the boneyard.
I bet there are youtubes of them.
I had shit for audio systems, so my friends made me mix tapes, and then tapes went away. But I still remember.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 12:42 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 01, 2026 12:31 AM (Q/uAJ)
These party hats bear a striking resemblance to lamp shades.
Posted by: tankdemon at January 01, 2026 12:43 AM (4p5Zb)
Posted by: Ooo eee ooo ah ahhh at January 01, 2026 12:43 AM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Imklos, gaze firmly fixed on own shoes at January 01, 2026 12:43 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 12:43 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 01, 2026 12:21 AM (LNeRu)
I think we all are in some way.
Some of us are the types that can be lonely in a crowded room....
You used to live in Orange County - correct?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 12:44 AM (QGaXH)
Sister! Yeah baby! Let's get it on girl😜
Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 01, 2026 12:44 AM (LNeRu)
Isaiah 43:13
Happy New Year
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 12:44 AM (hVbrz)
Posted by: Imklos, gaze firmly fixed on own shoes at January 01, 2026 12:43 AM (f/3mU)
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LOL
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 12:45 AM (ZOv7s)
All children emerge after a Big Bang
Makes sense kinda
Posted by: Imklos, integration theory and practice at January 01, 2026 12:46 AM (f/3mU)
Thank you for an outstanding final 2025 ONT, Dino. My fellow Club host and just a damn good friend - much love to you, brother!
Glass raised to those we lost.
My brother Jim Sunk New Dawn - I will never forget you.
Damn, why is it so dusty in here?
Posted by: Doof at January 01, 2026 12:46 AM (QMAsf)
Anne Francis (Honey West?) now on SyFy TZ marathon on the west coast
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
Looking for a thimble?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 01, 2026 12:47 AM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Francisco Miklos-Franco. in best G. Patton voice at January 01, 2026 12:48 AM (f/3mU)
Very loud now...
West Coast TZ episode now has a very young Wm Shatner. Sign in background saying : I HAVE NOT BEEN TOLD is no excuse. Know by *Observing *Thinking * Studying * Doing
Interesting - I wonder if that was a Civil Defense thing or?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 12:48 AM (QGaXH)
Of the Walla Walla Bing Bangs?
Posted by: Ooo eee ooo ah ahhh at January 01, 2026 12:43 AM (TbWk/)
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"I'll capture her heart, singing...badda boom, bigga bangg...."
Posted by: Bing Crosby at January 01, 2026 12:49 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 01, 2026 12:49 AM (LNeRu)
https://youtu.be/geuwzBy1myY
Claire Voyant - 24 Years
https://youtu.be/vOXB4fBgg0I
iamthemorning - Too Many Years
https://youtu.be/Fe2jzZV4ytw
Posted by: mikeski at January 01, 2026 12:49 AM (nhCoE)
Posted by: JackStraw
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Cheers to that.
Posted by: scampydog at January 01, 2026 12:49 AM (LVaYG)
Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 12:49 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal at January 01, 2026 12:50 AM (aO42i)
Posted by: Francisco Miklos-Franco. in best G. Patton voice at January 01, 2026 12:48 AM (f/3mU).
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YOU DICK!!!
Posted by: Mister Spicoli at January 01, 2026 12:50 AM (ZOv7s)
Damn, why is it so dusty in here?
Posted by: Doof
Auld Lang Syne
*glass raised*
Posted by: Jim sent me books (miklos) at January 01, 2026 12:51 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal at January 01, 2026 12:52 AM (aO42i)
Honey, you can certainly virtually sit with us crazy wimminz😛
Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 01, 2026 12:49 AM (LNeRu)
Got room for another?
Posted by: Doof at January 01, 2026 12:52 AM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Badgergal at January 01, 2026 12:52 AM (cs22I)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 12:52 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 01, 2026 12:52 AM (Q/uAJ)
Posted by: Badgergal at January 01, 2026 12:54 AM (cs22I)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 01, 2026 12:49 AM (LNeRu)
Got room for another?
Posted by: Doof
How do you know that guy is the REAL Doof?
*sidles over to the lay-ties*
Posted by: Elvis and Doof Impersonator Miklos at January 01, 2026 12:55 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 01, 2026 12:55 AM (c115l)
Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 12:56 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 12:52 AM (ZOv7s)
Close enough. It's a good song, and it will be past midnight before it finishes.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 01, 2026 12:56 AM (Q/uAJ)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 01, 2026 12:52 AM (Q/uAJ)
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I also made some, in case you run out.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 01, 2026 12:56 AM (ESVrU)
" where did Jesus go for three days after he was crucified? The Apostles Creed says he "descended to the dead." Did he "preach to the spirits in prison?"
JC was dead for three days and three nights (legal requirement for death afaik). God did not die, his only begotten son did die (in obedience), God's sacrifice to save us that accepted. After that he preached to those imprisoned spirits. (He died Wednesday at sunset and arose Saturday at sunset ... had Saturday night till Sunday morning to be seen alive).
That is all.
Posted by: illiniwek at January 01, 2026 12:57 AM (vbXSk)
She seems confused because I'm not in bed with her.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 01, 2026 12:57 AM (ESVrU)
Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 12:57 AM (rdVOm)
The Big Bada-Boom.
Just a couple of minutes until the big cow chip descends from the Oklahoma City capitol spire.
Posted by: mindful webworker - multi-pass at January 01, 2026 12:58 AM (dESj/)
Date: 01/01/2026 Local Time Zone: Eastern Standard Time (UTC-05:00:00)
Longitude: -82.17110 UTC Offset: -05:28:41 TZ Offset: -00:28:41
DUT1: 74.13120 ms Leap Seconds: 37 s DeltaT: 69.10987 s
Universal Coordinated Time: 05:32:07 UTC
Local Standard Time (TZ) : 12:32:07 AM EST
Local Mean Time : 12:03:26 AM LMT (UT1 base)
Local Apparent Solar Time : 12:00:00 AM LAST (UT1 base)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 01, 2026 12:32 AM (w6EFb)
I don't think I'll make local midnight - Apparent or otherwise...
My truncated approximate location: 33.63, -117.95 per googoo maps..
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 12:58 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2026 12:58 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 01, 2026 12:59 AM (ESVrU)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 01, 2026 01:00 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 01, 2026 01:00 AM (c115l)
Posted by: mikeski at January 01, 2026 01:00 AM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Methos at January 01, 2026 01:00 AM (vSvIl)
May this New Year of our Lord 2026 bless us all ...
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal at January 01, 2026 01:00 AM (aO42i)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 01, 2026 01:01 AM (Q/uAJ)
Posted by: mindful webworker - the dirigible drops at January 01, 2026 01:01 AM (dESj/)
I pray God blesses you wonderfully in the New Year, and gives you strength to carry through all of the crap the world will throw our way.
Good night, all.
Posted by: GWB at January 01, 2026 01:01 AM (2XExk)
- - - - - -
But not a 0 (zero) anywhere. That would spoil the whole game...
Posted by: As not seen on TV at January 01, 2026 01:01 AM (l5srl)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 12:35 AM (QGaXH)
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Here too.
Posted by: Ali Khamenei at January 01, 2026 12:36 AM (+HNx/)
GOOD!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 01:02 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 01:02 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: olddog in mo at January 01, 2026 01:02 AM (bQ4nt)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal at January 01, 2026 01:03 AM (aO42i)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 01, 2026 01:03 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Badgergal
Where do you buy the cannibals? Do you have to buy a whole cannibal, or just parts?
Posted by: Inquiring Mind at January 01, 2026 01:03 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: Late Nite Copy Editor at January 01, 2026 01:05 AM (f/3mU)
Good thing the wobbly table expands! My goodness, we've got a crowd!
Happy New Year, all!
Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 01:05 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal at January 01, 2026 01:05 AM (aO42i)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 01, 2026 01:05 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 01:05 AM (jc0TO)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 01, 2026 01:05 AM (Q/uAJ)
Grab a chair & a glass and c'mon over!
*makes another pitcher of spicy margaritas*
Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 12:56 AM (rdVOm)
Thanks JQ. You ladies are the best!
Posted by: Doof at January 01, 2026 01:05 AM (QMAsf)
Posted by: JackStraw
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Heh. Had a baseball coach that used to say, "Gentlemen, any day you step on this field is a great day to be alive." I like the thought on a macro scale.
Posted by: scampydog at January 01, 2026 01:06 AM (LVaYG)
Posted by: Inquiring Mind at January 01, 2026 01:03 AM (f/3mU)
The problem with buying cannibals is that regardless of how many you start out with, you eventually only have one.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 01, 2026 01:06 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Imklos, gaze firmly fixed on own shoes at January 01, 2026 12:43 AM (f/3mU)
How do you tell an extroverted engineer from an introverted one?
Extroverted engineer stares at YOUR shoes.....
Caution: may have a foot fetish.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 01:06 AM (QGaXH)
May we live in interesting times.
May we get what we deserve
May the Prince know our names
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 01:07 AM (jc0TO)
Booms and bangs going on around us. Pretty sure that boom-boom-boom-boom-boom-boom is gunfire, not fireworks.
Daisy dog is agitated and barking loudly. That's our fireworks.
The new year is off to a roaring start.
Posted by: mindful webworker - and awaaay we go at January 01, 2026 01:07 AM (dESj/)
Posted by: Badgergal at January 01, 2026 01:07 AM (cs22I)
Posted by: JQ
You are supposed to have the pitchers.
Damn, this keg is heavy
Posted by: Late Nite Typical Imklos at January 01, 2026 01:07 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 01, 2026 01:05 AM (snZF9)
Earlier this evening I went to the local liquor (and bong, knife, and vape) store, to see if I could get a bottle of Tom Simms whiskey in memory of Jim SND. They had never heard of it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 01:08 AM (8zz6B)
It’s only 10 here
Lots and lots of cars on the street now. Going to be nuts.
Ugh.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 01, 2026 01:08 AM (+FOYs)
Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 01:08 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal at January 01, 2026 01:08 AM (aO42i)
Just glad it's not more exploding semi trucks like a few weeks ago.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 01, 2026 01:09 AM (lUFok)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 01, 2026 01:09 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 01, 2026 01:10 AM (LNeRu)
Posted by: Bulg at January 01, 2026 01:10 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Late Nite Typical Imklos
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LOL. Always so over the top... *smooch*
Thank you very much!
Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 01:10 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Badgergal at January 01, 2026 01:11 AM (cs22I)
Posted by: scampydog at January 01, 2026 01:11 AM (LVaYG)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 01, 2026 01:12 AM (Q/uAJ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 01:08 AM (8zz6B)
Jim recommended Woodford to me. Thats what I'm drinking. The ancient egyptians would say jim hotep. Jim is satisfied.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 01, 2026 01:12 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 01:12 AM (rdVOm)
The Jell-o should be ready within minutes
Have at it, Ladies
Drinks are on the house
Posted by: Late Nite Event Organizer Imklos at January 01, 2026 01:12 AM (f/3mU)
Happy New Year to all. May all of your wildest fantasies come true.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 01, 2026 01:13 AM (qwx/I)
Posted by: banana Dream at January 01, 2026 01:14 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 01:14 AM (rdVOm)
That puts you east of the PST meridian of 120W, which is 8 minutes, 12 seconds ahead of PST for your local time. Now, subtract off the EoT which is -3:27 right now, and your local true midnight will be 4 minutes, 45 seconds before midnight, or 11:55:15 PST, if I didn't botch that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 01, 2026 01:14 AM (w6EFb)
Thank you for the mention of my loss of my Dad. He was the best Dad, and taught us so many things, how to shoot, hunt, fish, start a fire, fix a car, build an airplane (or 3), love our family, respect his wife, pray to our God.
I will never be the calibre of a Moron such as Jim SND or Jack Straw, because I can only jump in late at night, in Mountain Time.
But, I've been with you since 2000 or so, after Little Green Footballs pointed to you (before he went nuts). Will be here 30 years from now God Willing.
Here's to a wonderful 2026 to all the Horde and all the Earth. Praying for the Persians tonight.
Posted by: Jimmy Doolittle at January 01, 2026 01:15 AM (MvCrO)
I guess my rep as that crazy old man is secured.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 01:15 AM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Badgergal at January 01, 2026 01:15 AM (cs22I)
I believe it means we have the ability to create. Not just offspring that are mini-versions subtly or no-so-subtly different from ourselves, but art, invention, machines, and even software programs. We are created and we create things as well, albeit less perfect things than God has created. (always room for improvement)
Posted by: slicksister at January 01, 2026 01:16 AM (3ceQJ)
The Jell-o should be ready within minutes
Posted by: Late Nite Event Organizer Imklos at January 01, 2026 01:12 AM (f/3mU)
is the Jell-O going on the Slip 'n Slide, or is it for dessert?
Posted by: tankdemon at January 01, 2026 01:16 AM (4p5Zb)
I can do that....
Saaay...why don't you join us at the wobbly table? Bring a friend.
We might have to push the other wobbly table over🥳
Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 01, 2026 01:16 AM (LNeRu)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
That makes you culpable
Posted by: Imklos sees no cause for offence at January 01, 2026 01:16 AM (f/3mU)
Nope. Never lived in Orange County. Never will. But hey, pull up a chair and join us!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 01, 2026 01:10 AM (LNeRu)
Thank you! Don't mind if I do.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 01:17 AM (QGaXH)
TING TING TING TING TING!
***raises glass***
~~~~~~"To absent friends"~~~~~~
Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 01:17 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal at January 01, 2026 01:17 AM (aO42i)
They should just tear down the actual Cotton Bowl Stadium in Fair Park. It gets used one day a year.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 01, 2026 01:18 AM (c115l)
Posted by: tankdemon
I am guessing you are new here
Posted by: Crazy Mikos' Slip 'n Slide Tzampotli Family Fun Park and Somewhat Legal Other Stuff at January 01, 2026 01:18 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: Piercello at January 01, 2026 01:19 AM (7QOuK)
Had a dad like that. Pretty smart dad.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 01, 2026 01:19 AM (viF8m)
That's it, 2026 is ruined.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 01, 2026 01:20 AM (qwx/I)
Posted by: Bulg at January 01, 2026 01:21 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal at January 01, 2026 01:21 AM (aO42i)
Posted by: National Dietetic Assoc. at January 01, 2026 01:21 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Badgergal
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Raw meat & onion sandwich on rye... hmm. Sounds pretty good actually.
METAL!
You go, Badgergal!
Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 01:21 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 01, 2026 01:14 AM (w6EFb)
I had to process telemetry data off vehicle system on UTC. And I had to correlate that with badly written pilot log scans that they keyed to local time. All over the world. Some places with and without DST and different kinds of DST. Changes from takeoff to land. Cannot overstate how much synching log to data set sucked.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 01, 2026 01:22 AM (3uBP9)
You don't even have to ask darlin'.
And of course if the other Ds are in the house, grab a chair.
I think JQ checked out, but that crazy guy behind the bar might be helpful 😒
Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 01, 2026 01:23 AM (LNeRu)
We might have to push the other wobbly table over🥳
Posted by: COMountainMarie
*wobbles over, may have been a few down the gullet*
*wobbles, but doesn't fall down*
Posted by: Imklos the Human Weeble at January 01, 2026 01:23 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: toby928(c)
https://youtu.be/pSzej4yoUwA
Posted by: mikeski at January 01, 2026 01:23 AM (nhCoE)
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You're hired! Haha, you can take over after I clock out tonight LOL.
Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 01:23 AM (rdVOm)
That puts you east of the PST meridian of 120W, which is 8 minutes, 12 seconds ahead of PST for your local time. Now, subtract off the EoT which is -3:27 right now, and your local true midnight will be 4 minutes, 45 seconds before midnight, or 11:55:15 PST, if I didn't botch that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 01, 2026 01:14 AM (w6EFb)
A devilish comment number! (666)
Actually I'm about 2 miles from that location.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 01:24 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Badgergal at January 01, 2026 01:24 AM (cs22I)
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Evening, COMM. A chair and a fresh drink to seem in order. Thanks for the invite.
Posted by: scampydog at January 01, 2026 01:24 AM (LVaYG)
The Jell-o should be ready within minutes
Posted by: Late Nite Event Organizer Imklos at January 01, 2026 01:12 AM (f/3mU)
is the Jell-O going on the Slip 'n Slide, or is it for dessert?
Posted by: tankdemon at January 01, 2026 01:16 AM (4p5Zb)
Why not both?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 01:26 AM (QGaXH)
659 Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 01, 2026 01:12 AM
It's not too soon-----
https://youtu.be/BoXu6QmxpJE
Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 01:27 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 01, 2026 12:38 AM (IhIKR)
I have also wondered if he is okay.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 01, 2026 12:40 AM (Q/uAJ)
Was I imagining things, or did Stateless actually post in the last few days?
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 01, 2026 01:28 AM (0CU3H)
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=412857
It's been a crazy year. As usual.
https://youtu.be/xP_dfxs6Hak
G'nite, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - it'll never be 2025 again at January 01, 2026 01:28 AM (dESj/)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 01, 2026 01:28 AM (0CU3H)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal at January 01, 2026 01:29 AM (aO42i)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at January 01, 2026 01:30 AM (DK5Sh)
Country Gal:
Your imagination is your only limitation! Go with the flow..
Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 01:30 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal at January 01, 2026 01:32 AM (aO42i)
Ain't that a trip though? Some poor dude somewhere would get these mints to freshin his garlic breath, be all suave, and he's suddenly just uncontrollably tooting around the ladies.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 01, 2026 01:32 AM (3uBP9)
Noood.
Year.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 01, 2026 01:28 AM (0CU3H)
Anyone calls Nood when there ain't a new thread.......
Gets a night in the box.............
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 01:32 AM (QGaXH)
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A little behind the curtain on last year's. 'Twas a scramble that evening. Everything above the Ponte Sisto bridge image was at the 11th hour.
Posted by: scampydog at January 01, 2026 01:32 AM (LVaYG)
That's close enough. Only the difference in longitude makes a difference for this local time offset.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 01, 2026 01:33 AM (w6EFb)
Hope that clears it up for everyone. MORE WINE!!!!
Posted by: Orson at December 31, 2025 10:39 PM (dIske)
THISH!
Posted by: Giles Overreach at January 01, 2026 01:34 AM (MDvLA)
Posted by: rickb223
The original Cotton Bowl was the Tulane stadium in New Orleans. That was torn down in 1981.
Some friends/roommates *acquired* part of the astroturf from the 20 yard line. That became the "floor treatment" in our apartment. We had no end of fun telling girls that we stole the 2 yard line (we got the part with the "2" on it, not the associated "0").
Posted by: Memories of a misspent Youth at January 01, 2026 01:35 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: Bulg at January 01, 2026 01:35 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: scampydog at January 01, 2026 01:35 AM (LVaYG)
Posted by: banana Dream at January 01, 2026 01:32 AM (3uBP9)
Maltitol causes gastric distress for sure. MiL always wanted sugar free candy and gum. It did not pair well with a colostomy.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 01, 2026 01:36 AM (Q/uAJ)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal at January 01, 2026 01:37 AM (aO42i)
Gets a night in the box.............
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
Of Franzia Pinot Grigio
Posted by: Night Court Judge Imklos at January 01, 2026 01:37 AM (f/3mU)
Gets a night in the box.............
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
And must eat 50 eggs.
NOW
Posted by: Cool Hand Imklos at January 01, 2026 01:40 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal at January 01, 2026 01:40 AM (aO42i)
And the EoT (equation of time) is changing pretty fast now, I see. By near midnight PST, it will be around -3:28 or a little better. So call it one second later, or 11:55:16 PM PST.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 01, 2026 01:41 AM (w6EFb)
Gets a night in the box.............
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
Of Franzia Pinot Grigio
Posted by: Night Court Judge Imklos at January 01, 2026 01:37 AM (f/3mU)
I should have socked that as 'Carr'
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 01:42 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Bulg at January 01, 2026 01:43 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 01, 2026 01:43 AM (Q/uAJ)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
I trust this man
Is probably makes sense
Hurts my brain
Posted by: Admittedly ignant Imklos at January 01, 2026 01:43 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 01, 2026 01:43 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Night Court Judge Imklos at January 01, 2026 01:45 AM (f/3mU)
Kinda like one of those heady MisHum nights🥳🎶🍺🤯💥
*hic*
Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 01, 2026 01:45 AM (LNeRu)
You'll know when to close up. There is no *set time* for locking up at this Club, except:
Tech thread posts at ~4am EST, so there's that....
Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 01:46 AM (rdVOm)
Love is the key to Heaven (and can be shared... :-)
Posted by: As not seen on TV at January 01, 2026 01:46 AM (l5srl)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal at January 01, 2026 01:47 AM (aO42i)
And the EoT (equation of time) is changing pretty fast now, I see. By near midnight PST, it will be around -3:28 or a little better. So call it one second later, or 11:55:16 PM PST.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 01, 2026 01:41 AM (w6EFb)
I might be inspecting the insides of my eyelids by then.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 01:47 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 01:48 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 01, 2026 01:05 AM (snZF9)
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To absent friends, clink.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 01:49 AM (hVbrz)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal at January 01, 2026 01:49 AM (aO42i)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 01, 2026 01:51 AM (ZocB7)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 01:51 AM (hVbrz)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal at January 01, 2026 01:51 AM (aO42i)
Posted by: JQ
from that side
hand in the tip jar
lose fingers
Posted by: Cautionary Imklos at January 01, 2026 01:51 AM (f/3mU)
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You know how well I *do* understand that, Imklos!
Don't NOBODY mess wit' da tips jar!
Ever!
Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 01:53 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal at January 01, 2026 01:55 AM (aO42i)
Posted by: scampydog
One might ask how a "youtuber" is out-journalisting professional journalists.
But you answered that with your second sentence.
Posted by: mikeski at January 01, 2026 01:56 AM (nhCoE)
Thank you!
Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 01:57 AM (rdVOm)
Pour me a Macallan 1940 - make it a double!
Meh. Just leave the bottle on the counter.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 01, 2026 01:57 AM (ZocB7)
https://tinyurl.com/2c3mdzbv
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey
He's healthy enough for three people!
Posted by: though it'd take five at January 01, 2026 01:58 AM (nhCoE)
Most Americans watched Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians big band show.
Guy Lombardo, big bands, and Canada are all gone now.
Sorry to be a Debby Downer. But...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3z52aT8lV4
Posted by: memory adides, aye me laddies and lassies at January 01, 2026 01:58 AM (f/3mU)
Love is the key to Heaven (and can be shared... :-)
Posted by: As not seen on TV at January 01, 2026 01:46 AM (l5srl)
My father in law passed peacefully and with family beside him, in our house. A few days/weeks later my wife woke me one night saying she had been awakened feeling his presence very close to her to where she had to say Dad - you're too close - I can't breathe...
She believes he came to say good bye. I can't argue.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 01:59 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: clarence at January 01, 2026 02:00 AM (MXMX4)
Posted by: mikeski at January 01, 2026 02:00 AM (nhCoE)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal
---------
It's not my call. BUT! Our host (TRex), has declared Open Bar and Free Jukebox for tonight, so...
Go For It!!!
Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 02:00 AM (rdVOm)
Meh. Just leave the bottle on the counter.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs
I wrote a whole book about that
Posted by: Whiskey Galore! by Compton McKenzie at January 01, 2026 02:01 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: scampydog at January 01, 2026 02:01 AM (LVaYG)
All that is about where the sun actually is vs where an average, the so-called mean sun is at. This is the meaning of "mean" in the old Greenwich Mean Time, which was the hour angle of the mean sun relative to the Greenwich prime meridian. The Equation of Time is just that difference between the true sun and mean sun expressed in units of time.
For "true" midnight, we want the sun to be directly underneath the meridian, the opposite of high noon.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 01, 2026 02:01 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 01, 2026 02:01 AM (Q/uAJ)
https://tinyurl.com/2c3mdzbv
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 01, 2026 01:51 AM (ZocB7)
That looks like some corn-fed beef there...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 02:01 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: clarence at January 01, 2026 02:02 AM (MXMX4)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal at January 01, 2026 02:02 AM (aO42i)
Happy New Year!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 02:04 AM (8zz6B)
And it's changing even faster than I eyeballed it, already 3:28.28 now. It's going to be well over 3:29 when midnight rolls around Californee way. So, Anonymous Rogue true midnight will be 11:55:17 or closer to :18.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 01, 2026 02:05 AM (w6EFb)
Love is the key to Heaven (and can be shared... :-)
Posted by: As not seen on TV at January 01, 2026 01:46 AM (l5srl)
My father in law passed peacefully and with family beside him, in our house. A few days/weeks later my wife woke me one night saying she had been awakened feeling his presence very close to her to where she had to say Dad - you're too close - I can't breathe...
She believes he came to say good bye. I can't argue.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 01:59 AM (QGaXH)
My mother didn't go quietly. She pops in from time to time in unmistakable ways to pull my ass from the fire. Changed my whole attitude about things, thats for sure.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 01, 2026 02:05 AM (snZF9)
Go For It!!!
Posted by: JQ
*hijacks jukebox*
You songs might come up up, but I just did the first 50
Posted by: Evil Devious late Nite DJ Imklos at January 01, 2026 02:07 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 01, 2026 02:07 AM (snZF9)
JQ
You're a kind gal. When I started posting here in 2018, I was put through the wringer...
Carrots in chili? Long bow or crossbow? There were many tests in order to qualify as a Moron. I was totally ok with it. I lurked here for a couple of years before stepping in.
Everyone has become pretty mellow since then, although trolls are not tolerated.
But, sweet, kind folks seem to always be welcome.
A good thing.
Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 01, 2026 02:08 AM (LNeRu)
@amuse 2m
TERROR: New Year's Day explosion at a bar in Crans-Montana, Switzerland's luxury ski resort.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 01, 2026 02:08 AM (mlg/3)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal at January 01, 2026 02:08 AM (aO42i)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 01, 2026 02:08 AM (2XHCB)
Posted by: MAxIE at January 01, 2026 02:08 AM (3Dvl3)
Posted by: Adriane the Critic ... at January 01, 2026 02:09 AM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: pawn at January 01, 2026 02:10 AM (Rmqfl)
To absent friends, and to all the Horde.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 01, 2026 02:10 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
Please
Get the Emergency Response Team from those Atomic Clock people in Colorado to help this man NOW
Posted by: Moderately Concerned Miklos at January 01, 2026 02:10 AM (f/3mU)
For my part, we lost a cousin-in-law, and an uncle-in-law.
But my wife found a long lost family member, and went to visit her in Vegas. So that's good.
My brother moved out to be with us from the living Hell of Colorado, and defeated his evil wife in Court. So our niece is here, too.
Work sucked, but I still have a job, and it feeds us.
My young daughter had no serious medical problems for the first time in her little life, and her speech/education are reflecting that. She's a happy little chatterbox.
My mom's dementia hasn't gotten appreciably worse, and she had a fun time hanging out for NYE, drinking champagne, and snuggling with her granddaughter.
Unfortunately, that all happened during Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve featuring Ryan Seacrest, which sucked even more cock than the name of the show so strongly suggests it would.
On balance, 2025 was a pretty kick ass year.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 01, 2026 02:11 AM (Zhwz2)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal at January 01, 2026 02:12 AM (aO42i)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 01, 2026 02:12 AM (Q/uAJ)
Violets are Blue
The New Year is Upon Us
Best Wishes to all of U
Posted by: Adriane the Critic
Roses are blue
Violets are red
Ain't Trans or nothin'
Just pickin' at you
All the Best
Posted by: Kindly Uncle Miklos at January 01, 2026 02:13 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 01, 2026 02:14 AM (2XHCB)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal at January 01, 2026 02:16 AM (aO42i)
Back in 2001, fate decreed I was to be the lone witness to the passing of a great-uncle of mine, just a little shy of his 101st birthday.
I saw him draw his last breath, and then the light go out in his eyes. At that moment, there was a profound sense of speed, something taking off at incredible speed. I jerked my head back and just started at the ceiling. It was the most profound experience of my life. My knees actually buckled at that moment.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 01, 2026 02:16 AM (w6EFb)
Could not possibly be more wrong. Faith and belief are NOT the same thing, and belief is antecedent to faith. Belief is based on information, and forms the basis for action. Faith comes from the experiences derived from acting.
There is risk of erroneous belief due to inaccurate information; but there is never risk in Faith, as it is the result of experience.
Posted by: Galt at January 01, 2026 02:16 AM (9UnaD)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
One word
Somali childcare
Posted by: Investment advisor Miklos at January 01, 2026 02:17 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal at January 01, 2026 02:17 AM (aO42i)
All youz all at the wobbly table, well, me and my good girldog will now bid you a good night.
You west coasters, hang in there. Love y'all💖💖
"Go forth into the New Year with brave heart. When fortune smiles, smile with her. When fortune frowns, smile the more, and trust in God"
Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 01, 2026 02:18 AM (LNeRu)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 01, 2026 02:19 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal
Speakin' of 'ich. I need to go to Harbor Freight for some batt'ries.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 01, 2026 02:19 AM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 01, 2026 02:05 AM (snZF9)
After my parents passed in 2016 I was a little disappointed that I detected no discernable evidence of visits. Then I realized that was consistent with how they were after I grew up. I always reached out to them, rarely the other way around.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 02:19 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Adriane the Critic ... at January 01, 2026 02:20 AM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 01, 2026 02:20 AM (Q/uAJ)
Break a leg.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 01, 2026 02:20 AM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 01, 2026 02:11 AM (Zhwz2)
Just this past sunday I met a long lost second cousin. We have the same great grandfather. She had no idea there was an entire large family on her grand father and father's side that existed. A shitload of us were there to meet her. Her father's cousins, her second cousins, etc. I never thought I would see that in my family.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 01, 2026 02:21 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Formerly youthful Miklos at January 01, 2026 02:21 AM (f/3mU)
PDT ripped Tampon Timmy and MN at the bash tonight, saying MN fraud was $18B. And then he said, CA, IL, and NY are even worse from what he's seeing.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 01, 2026 02:21 AM (w6EFb)
JQ
You're a kind gal.
-----------------------
I read that as 'JQ you're a fine girl....'
To the tune of 'Brandy'
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 02:22 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal at January 01, 2026 02:22 AM (aO42i)
Break a leg.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 01, 2026 02:20 AM (mlg/3)
Mine are wired direct. I have to change batteries in a shit ton of stuff as it is. Smoke alarm batteries is just a bridge too far. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 01, 2026 02:23 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal
Speakin' of 'ich. I need to go to Harbor Freight for some batt'ries.
Posted by: weft cut-loop
I think you can buy milk bag warmers in Wisconsin.
Pretty common.
Posted by: County agent Hank Kimball at January 01, 2026 02:23 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 02:01 AM (QGaXH)
-
Now you made me hungry. 9:23AM and I'm thinking of heading out to the butcher shop to find me something for an early brunch.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 01, 2026 02:24 AM (ZocB7)
Posted by: MAxIE at January 01, 2026 02:08 AM (3Dvl3)
Hi Neighbor
I get out your way from time to time.
I worked for about 7 years in Azusa and our first house was in Glendora.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 02:24 AM (QGaXH)
What is in our future, either within or without our own sense of control?
Do we look forward with eager anticipation or chilling apprehension?
Is that future...merely, blandly, simply...*there*?
---------
Good night, Horde. May you dream of happy times and have eager anticipation of good things to come!
Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 02:25 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal at January 01, 2026 02:27 AM (aO42i)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
All aboard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQq00lit_Fc
Posted by: Stukk Miklos somehow knows and likes at January 01, 2026 02:29 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: Tucker at January 01, 2026 02:32 AM (/CkK4)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
All aboard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQq00lit_Fc
Posted by: Stukk Miklos somehow knows and likes at January 01, 2026 02:29 AM (f/3mU)
Before I even opened the link I knew it was Anaheim, Azusa and Cucamonga but I recall seeing that as part of the Jack Benny program.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 02:33 AM (QGaXH)
Thank you Country Gal.
Happy Birthday COMM, you snuck that one past me.
publius, I experienced that same feeling when my hubs passed. He ascended someplace very rapidly, I was happy that he was going to a good place having lived through hell in his later years.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 01, 2026 02:35 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
Now see?
We can have nice things.
But try telling the kids that
Posted by: Guardedly Optimisticklos at January 01, 2026 02:38 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 01, 2026 02:38 AM (ZocB7)
May 2026 build on the better parts.
Posted by: Brother Tim, still standing at January 01, 2026 02:39 AM (FIwBs)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 01, 2026 02:39 AM (ZocB7)
My Dad would open the car door & announce ...
"All Aboard for Anaheim, Azusa and Cucamonga" complete with drawl.
I miss Dad.
Posted by: Adriane the Critic ... at January 01, 2026 02:41 AM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 01, 2026 02:42 AM (ZocB7)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 02:42 AM (hVbrz)
https://tinyurl.com/28jtf54a
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey
Second!
Posted by: mikeski at January 01, 2026 02:42 AM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Adriane the Critic ... at January 01, 2026 02:42 AM (3ZUWJ)
My Dad would open the car door & announce ...
"All Aboard for Anaheim, Azusa and Cucamonga" complete with drawl.
I miss Dad.
Posted by: Adriane the Critic ... at January 01, 2026 02:41 AM (3ZUWJ)
Sounds like a fun Dad. Complete with Dad humor.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 02:43 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 01, 2026 02:23 AM (snZF9)
I have hard-wired smoke alarms here in AJ. Had to have them to meet code. They still have 9-volt backup batteries in them. Sort of have to, right? What if the fire making the smoke is caused by a short in the panel that supplies the juice to the hard-wired detectors? But shit, they could have used a high-grade rechargeable battery, and had it on float charge via the AC line. Or use an ultracapacitor, which should last forever.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 02:44 AM (8zz6B)
I has a similar experience when my Dad passed. He was slumped in a chair he had just fallen back into and I was at his side on my knees. I can still see his face in my mind now.
Suddenly something just gripped me mentality and held me and out of nowhere the thought came to my mind that his life was flashing through his mind. I could feel it, just the enormous rush of time. It was stunning.
Posted by: pawn at January 01, 2026 02:45 AM (Rmqfl)
Posted by: Tucker at January 01, 2026 02:32 AM (/CkK4)
Allahu akbar, fellow American.
Have you considered the good news about the prophet Muhammad?
I'm just asking questions. American questions.
Posted by: American at January 01, 2026 02:47 AM (Zhwz2)
I remember going with dad to fill his big '65 Chrysler NYer at a place called 'Amos Hudson' - 28.9 in the early pre-embargo 70's.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 02:47 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Kindly Miklos warns that this Lawrence Welk from 1973 at January 01, 2026 02:47 AM (f/3mU)
I'm just asking questions. American questions.
Posted by: American at January 01, 2026 02:47 AM (Zhwz2)
-
A great American replies from the afterlife:
https://tinyurl.com/4euzscc8
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 01, 2026 02:52 AM (ZocB7)
Posted by: la logos haha Country Gal at January 01, 2026 02:53 AM (aO42i)
I am off to bed too, Horde. Happy New Year to my left coast friends, only 8 more minutes.
Happy New Year AOP.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 01, 2026 02:53 AM (0nHVk)
-
He seemed to have known a lot of Annas.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 01, 2026 02:53 AM (ZocB7)
Calvin and Hobbes are the best. I have their three volume collection.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 01, 2026 02:53 AM (jkh9b)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 01, 2026 02:55 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 02:55 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 01, 2026 02:56 AM (0nHVk)
Shoot them off anyway. Someone has always got to be the last one and you never know if your going to be around to do it , so do it now!!!
Posted by: pawn at January 01, 2026 02:58 AM (Rmqfl)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 03:00 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 01, 2026 03:00 AM (+PfCm)
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 01, 2026 03:01 AM (TVRRM)
Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2026 03:01 AM (2WIwB)
--Logan Pearsall Smith
Happy New Year to all my friends at AOS.
One of my New Year's resolutions is to post here more frequently in 2026. Pray that I keep it . . .
Posted by: DynamiteDan at January 01, 2026 03:02 AM (HBp0A)
21h
The Worst 10 'Fact' Checks Of 2025 | Alex Christy, MRC Newsbusters
https://tinyurl.com/32mhk7a8
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 01, 2026 03:04 AM (ZocB7)
"How long will that take?"
"How the fuck should I know?? Just DO it!"
Eight months later, I got my answer. And I've known Jesus is the Son of God ever since.
Happy new year, friends.
Posted by: Beverly at December 31, 2025 10:28 PM (reMys
G'mornin all ALL y'all
Posted by: OkJohn at January 01, 2026 03:05 AM (NC/it)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 01, 2026 03:07 AM (Zhwz2)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, at January 01, 2026 03:07 AM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 03:10 AM (QGaXH)
Horde is good, God is Great!
May His presence be known and felt by each of us.
Im grateful for many things, definitely including AOS.
Posted by: OkJohn at January 01, 2026 03:10 AM (NC/it)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 01, 2026 03:11 AM (Zhwz2)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 03:11 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 03:14 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: OkJohn at January 01, 2026 03:16 AM (NC/it)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 01, 2026 03:18 AM (ZocB7)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 01, 2026 02:55 AM (w6EFb)
Thank you publius. I was gone but now i'm back for a little bit. Eyes want to close....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 03:19 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 01, 2026 03:24 AM (ZocB7)
EoT was was a bit over -3:29 at the time, so your local true midnight was 11:55:18 PM PST. :-)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 01, 2026 03:25 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
It smelled like a stadium bathroom over here earlier.
Guess I should finally clean the gutters.
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