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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - March 31, 2026 [Doof]
From Moon4pics
These kids need to take some lessons from MoMe attendees. Party hard, but leave the place better than you found it! $5 Million Mansion Rented on Airbnb for Small Private Event, Vandalized by 800 Partying Teens
When Kishore Karlapudi saw his beautiful mansion in Celina, Texas, rented on Airbnb for a party of seven people, he never imagined it would be invaded and vandalised by hundreds of teenagers looking for a good time. Karlapudi doesn’t live in the mansion himself, but instead rents it out on Airbnb for passive income. He never imagined that he could become the victim of some teenagers looking for a place to stage the mother of all parties. “Somebody booked it, saying they needed the property for a party of seven people,” Kishore Karlapudi told Fox4 News. According to Celina Police Chief John Cullison, that small party of seven swelled to between 500 and 800 people after the event was advertised on social media. On the evening of March 21, police started receiving calls about a massive gathering at the mansion, followed by reports of gunshots being heard on the property. “We started getting the 911 calls with the shots fired. We also got a call that there was 10 men at the front gate, and they had guns, and they were threatening to kill someone. So, this of course amped our officers up just a bit to make sure we go inside and keep everybody safe,” Chief Cullison said. “But it wasn’t until they went inside and they actually realized how vast this party was.”More at the link, including 2 video segments. ----- Did you know there are some snakes that have an internal gauge for their level of poison? You do now! These snakes steal poison from their prey—here's how they know they have enough
Red-necked keelback snakes are highly toxic—mere drops of their pungent yellow poison could blind a mongoose and stop its heart within minutes. But the snakes don’t make that toxin themselves; rather, they steal it from the poisonous toads they eat. After a red-necked keelback (Rhabdophis subminiatus) eats a true toad (a member of the Bufonidae family), the snake’s intestines soak up the toxic bufadienolide molecules from the amphibian’s skin. The toxins are then shuttled into more than a dozen pairs of storage pockets in the snakes’ necks called nuchal glands. Then the snakes act fearless. They rise and jut their necks at mongooses and other would-be predators as if to say, “Go ahead—I dare you.” That brazen attitude doesn’t last, though. If dinner has been nontoxic recently—poison-free frogs or fish, for example—these reptiles often hurriedly slither away.Snakes are equal parts creepy and cool to me. How about you? ----- In the market for a super cool vintage car? Here's one to consider. Son Inherited Dad's 1968 Dodge Coronet R/T, Now Selling Because It Holds Too Many Memories
This Coronet spent almost its entire life with the same man who picked it up from the dealership and drove it home. It remained in the family after his passing, but the son has decided to let it go for a simple reason. It holds too many memories, so someone else must cherish the car now. That's why it's here. This Coronet R/T is looking for a new home, and while it's not a spotless specimen, it's worth knowing the car has never been restored or altered. I would still inspect it personally before making an offer to check if all of these are true, but at first glance, this Coronet just seems to check all these big boxes. Dodge offered a little something to every Coronet buyer in 1968. It started with the Coronet Deluxe, which was the most affordable configuration but also came with a six-cylinder 225 standard. A 273ci V8 unit was optional if buyers wanted a little bit more power. The Coronet 440 also started with a six, but the engine options went all the way up to the 440ci with 375 horsepower. The Coronet 500 was next with a standard 318 and more options, including the popular 383, followed by the almighty R/T. The Coronet R/T was all about the power delivered by its engine and the mix of upgrades inside the cabin, and buyers could choose either the standard 440 or the 426 Hemi. The Hemi was the engine to get if power was the main objective, but it's not a secret that this engine configuration was ridiculously expensive. It featured dual-quad carburetors and delivered 425 horsepower, so some buyers didn’t care and still ordered the engine, no matter the price. This Coronet R/T was and still is equipped with a 440ci V8 engine paired with a 4-speed manual transmission.The vehicle is up for online auction.
The top bid at the time of writing is $19,100, but it's expected to increase significantly, as the Coronet seems to get impressive attention lately. *** The car is parked in Chicago, Illinois, and if you don't want to pay more for shipping, you should be able to drive it home on its wheels.----- Hope the owner of this wallet isn't a Hordeling. There's math involved for it to be returned!
A mathematician found a wallet, He left a note in a way so only the real owner could contact him pic.twitter.com/BkXNP1ZtBM
— Math Files (@Math_files) March 30, 2026
----- Math adjacent - think you can answer this correctly?
Final Jeopardy time. No Googling… just instincts. What’s your answer? pic.twitter.com/qjpf00QdLj
— Restricted Daily (@RestrictedDaily) March 28, 2026
This is one of my favorite pseudo trick questions. Did you get it right?
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(Jump to bottom of comments)― Pablo Neruda
Whoever that is.
https://w.wiki/32oN
Posted by: mindful webworker - so much for March at March 31, 2026 10:00 PM (jrd4M)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 10:01 PM (ZwdAr)
Posted by: mindful webworker - or is that badbunny and the echoes? at March 31, 2026 10:03 PM (jrd4M)
Posted by: clarence at March 31, 2026 10:04 PM (bbCED)
Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2026 10:04 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at March 31, 2026 10:05 PM (syAfa)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 10:06 PM (ZwdAr)
Posted by: I lost on Jeopardy, baby! at March 31, 2026 10:06 PM (guCHD)
Posted by: Robert at March 31, 2026 10:07 PM (o/0R4)
Posted by: LRob in OK at March 31, 2026 10:07 PM (7D3Aa)
Ottawa will sign over all the oil and minerals to China and allow China to sue the province in court.
Posted by: Kindltot
1. Alberta doesn't recognize that court. They're independent.
2. Come get them. China can't do shit.
3. All it takes is one country to recognize their independence and it's game on. That one country would be the US.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2026 10:07 PM (Kksvc)
At least until my wife and the younger brat disabused me of this notion that they were interchangeable.
Apparently, John Mellencamp makes good music and loves Israel, while Bon Jovi is a woke cocksucker who is pretty much a junior version of Springsteen.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 31, 2026 10:07 PM (n9ltV)
Posted by: mindful webworker - a snakey kinda guy at March 31, 2026 10:07 PM (jrd4M)
But it seems preposterous to me that the state could license a physician and then have no control over the care he gives by verbal instructions.
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at March 31, 2026 06:25 PM (CKIwv)
==
Malpractice would end up wiping out the doctor with the first lung cancer patient he had.
Posted by: Black JEM at March 31, 2026 10:07 PM (UVyKP)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 31, 2026 10:08 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: tankdemon at March 31, 2026 10:09 PM (PMi3m)
I would have lost all my money on that Jeopardy question, too.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 31, 2026 10:09 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 10:01 PM (ZwdAr)
It's about space.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 31, 2026 10:10 PM (1Ff7Z)
At least until my wife and the younger brat disabused me of this notion that they were interchangeable.
Apparently, John Mellencamp makes good music and loves Israel, while Bon Jovi is a woke cocksucker who is pretty much a junior version of Springsteen.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 31, 2026 10:07 PM (n9ltV)
This is a weird judgment. Because musically John Cougar Mellencamp is basically Temu Bruce Springsteen. Politics can't save Mellencamp.
Posted by: I lost on Jeopardy, baby! at March 31, 2026 10:10 PM (guCHD)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 31, 2026 10:10 PM (ESVrU)
I don't mind snakes at all for some reason. Spiders, however...
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 31, 2026 10:11 PM (n7rxJ)
The Coronet 440 also started with a six, but the engine options went all the way up to the 440ci with 375 horsepower. The Coronet 500 was next with a standard 318 and more options, including the popular 383, followed by the almighty R/T. The Coronet R/T was all about the power delivered by its engine and the mix of upgrades inside the cabin, and buyers could choose either the standard 440 or the 426 Hemi.
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What a selection of excellent engines.
How many engine options did you have on your last purchase? How many options today?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 10:11 PM (ZwdAr)
Posted by: gKWVE at March 31, 2026 10:11 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 31, 2026 10:12 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 31, 2026 10:12 PM (1Ff7Z)
At least until my wife and the younger brat disabused me of this notion that they were interchangeable.
Apparently, John Mellencamp makes good music and loves Israel, while Bon Jovi is a woke cocksucker who is pretty much a junior version of Springsteen.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 31, 2026 10:07 PM (n9ltV)
Makes you feel good to be a New Jersey resident, don't it?!
Posted by: Doof at March 31, 2026 10:12 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 10:13 PM (ZwdAr)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 31, 2026 10:13 PM (u82oZ)
Okay, probably not.
He played with KISS. He did some guitar work on Creatures Of The Night and was the official lead guitarist on Lick It Up before leaving and doing time albums with his band Vinnie Vincent Invasion.
Hasn't done shit since.
Apparently he has a "new" (recorded in 1990) album called Guitarmageddon. Wants to sell it for $2 million.
No, really. $2,000,000 dollars. American.
Or $200,000 dollars per track.
I think Vinnie might be a bit on the crazy side.
You can find tracks on YT. I listened to part of one and it's...embarrassing. Like really really fucking bad. There's no musicality at all. It's just...awful. Check it out, though, it's worth a laugh.
Posted by: Robert at March 31, 2026 10:13 PM (qoyWV)
I think he has more names than that.
Posted by: gKWVE at March 31, 2026 10:11 PM (gKWVE)
He has such comments to show you.
Posted by: cenobite appreciator at March 31, 2026 10:13 PM (guCHD)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 10:11 PM (ZwdAr)
The car already came with an engine. Only a sucker buys new.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 31, 2026 10:13 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: LASue at March 31, 2026 10:13 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: LRob in OK at March 31, 2026 10:13 PM (7D3Aa)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at March 31, 2026 10:14 PM (+9wcF)
Of course.
They should send me all the money they bet.
Geez! What a gaggle of overconfident losers.
Posted by: mindful webworker - 1901, spaced oddity at March 31, 2026 10:14 PM (jrd4M)
*Fist bump*
We would be a very powerful Jeopardy team.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 31, 2026 10:13 PM (u82oZ)
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Probably. I do pretty well in trivia contests.
My boss has gone through the tryouts for Jeopardy. Made it past the first round or so.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 31, 2026 10:14 PM (ESVrU)
Yeah, no year 0 so 1st century AD was 0001 - 0100. The thing I don't get is why he bet more than $501.
Posted by: Oddbob at March 31, 2026 10:14 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: tankdemon
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Glad you found your way out of the miasma.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 10:14 PM (ZwdAr)
January 1, 1901
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 31, 2026 10:15 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Oddbob at March 31, 2026 10:14 PM (vTZFs)
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Greed. Overconfidence.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 31, 2026 10:15 PM (ESVrU)
the lucky winners then had to pay the $70k New Jersey taxes on that house... which they couldn't sell, because nobody is dumb enough to live in NJ who doesn't have to.
Posted by: gKWVE at March 31, 2026 10:16 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: runner at March 31, 2026 10:16 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: mindful webworker
That's "Eiko and the Bunnygirls."
Posted by: mikeski at March 31, 2026 10:16 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at March 31, 2026 10:17 PM (P5A9z)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at March 31, 2026 10:17 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 31, 2026 10:17 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: runner at March 31, 2026 10:17 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 10:14 PM (ZwdAr)
Now I'm headed to the dictionary.
Posted by: tankdemon at March 31, 2026 10:17 PM (PMi3m)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 31, 2026 10:07 PM (n9ltV)
I don't know about Bon Jovi being woke but I know he's pissed off and alienated every musician that ever mattered to his career and his voice is completely shot to shit. Still tours even if he can't sing anymore.
Posted by: Robert at March 31, 2026 10:17 PM (48E6j)
Posted by: Oddbob at March 31, 2026 10:14 PM (vTZFs)
I was particularly argumentative with people who thought Jan 1, 2000 was the first day of a new millennium.
Posted by: Doof at March 31, 2026 10:18 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: runner at March 31, 2026 10:19 PM (GD0B3)
Wait a minute. January 1 in the year 1 A.D. was the beginning of the first century, right? Okay, so... yeah. 1901. But it still doesn't seem right that all of the year 1900 would be in the 19th century.
In fact, I was probably walking around in the year 2000 thinking all, "We're in the 21st century now, woo-woo" and we weren't.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 31, 2026 10:19 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: tankdemon at March 31, 2026 10:17 PM (PMi3m)
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I hear if you read from back to front, the aardvark commits the crime instead of the zebra.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 31, 2026 10:19 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 31, 2026 10:19 PM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: runner at March 31, 2026 10:20 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 31, 2026 10:17 PM (u82oZ)
Actually, I was kind of hoping to just skip out on my own hanging entirely.
Posted by: tankdemon at March 31, 2026 10:20 PM (PMi3m)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at March 31, 2026 10:20 PM (rPgxf)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 31, 2026 10:19 PM (n7rxJ)
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There was a Seinfeld episode about this very conundrum.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 31, 2026 10:21 PM (ESVrU)
I don't care if they are non-poisonous and eat rats.
The 5' black snake of our front hedge in FL did not eat rats. It is a myth. He/she hung out there to scare me. We still had a roof rat that also missed the myth memo. He also once got in the garage with me, as I had to go out the garage door to check the mail and he was waiting for me. This was not good but he left.
We had a dry winter, lack of snow and cold weather, and I am positive it's going to be a snake filled spring and summer.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 31, 2026 10:21 PM (WONhk)
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Posted by: mindful webworker - 1901, spaced oddity at March 31, 2026 10:21 PM (jrd4M)
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Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 31, 2026 10:21 PM (ndZc7)
I think the audience was ready to fucking riot at the end. I have never heard a game show audience so pissed off. Trabek handled it as well as he could but goddamn...
Posted by: Robert at March 31, 2026 10:21 PM (48E6j)
Posted by: runner at March 31, 2026 10:16 PM (GD0B3)
So -
Twelve months in a year - January is month 01.
28-31 days in a month - First day is 01.
But 100 years in a century - First year is 00??
Posted by: Doof at March 31, 2026 10:22 PM (QMAsf)
I had the same argument at the Reflecting Pool on January 1st, 2000. Watching the fireworks launch from The Washington Monument was cool.
Bill Clinton was really tiny. And I don't know how Liz Taylor and Sophia Loren didn't catch cold. Vast tracks of uncovered land.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 31, 2026 10:22 PM (u82oZ)
Bon Jovi is a woke cocksucker who is pretty much a junior version of Springsteen
Those two suckers of cock, both of whom live in New Jersey, claimed to be farmers of ... something ... and bilked New Jersey for $$$ through tax credits, 'cause farmers.
And that's why Rick Zeoli sarcastically refers to Bruce as "Old McSpringsteen"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 31, 2026 10:22 PM (xG4kz)
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We have rattlesnakes, copperheads and coral snakes on our property. Too dry for cottonmouths. These are the venomous species. Then there are the numerous sorts of nonvenomous species we see.
I could channel Samuel L Jackson channeling Clint Eastwood.
"Get these Motherf***ing snakes off my motherf***ing lawn". But we are temperate. We only kill the venomous snakes we see in the yard.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at March 31, 2026 10:22 PM (syAfa)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 31, 2026 10:22 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: runner at March 31, 2026 10:23 PM (GD0B3)
― Pablo Neruda
Whoever that is.
https://w.wiki/32oN
Posted by: mindful webworker - so much for March at March 31, 2026 10:00 PM (jrd4M)
Pablo Neruda was the Chilean Communist poet laureate of Chile, well known for his open rhyme poems like the one against Anaconda Copper and United Fruit. He was considered for Salvador Allende's vice president, but demurred as he was dying of cancer when Allende was elected.
Personally I think his poetry sucked, but then I hate Maya Angelou as well, so perhaps I am bigoted.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2026 10:23 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: runner at March 31, 2026 10:23 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 31, 2026 10:24 PM (zZu0s)
That artwork up top is very colorful.
Sneks are creepy. No getting around it. There's a reason why generations of females in my family have been avid snake haters...
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at March 31, 2026 10:24 PM (vrNzf)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2026 10:24 PM (RIvkX)
I would not have bet it all, however.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 31, 2026 10:24 PM (WONhk)
He probably did but only one every couple of weeks and maybe none at all in the winter. If you have a rat problem, snakes are not the answer.
Posted by: Oddbob at March 31, 2026 10:24 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: runner at March 31, 2026 10:25 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 31, 2026 10:25 PM (xG4kz)
That artwork up top is very colorful.
Sneks are creepy. No getting around it. There's a reason why generations of females in my family have been avid snake haters...
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at March 31, 2026 10:24 PM (vrNzf)
Tell me more about these sneks.
Posted by: zombie sigmund freud at March 31, 2026 10:25 PM (guCHD)
Posted by: Weird Al at March 31, 2026 10:25 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
During the last week of senior year in HS, the student council held a kick ass Jeopardy Tournament. It was great fun and lasted the entire week. We had two man teams though.
Me and my buddy won the whole enchilada by crushing Final Jeopardy.
"Name three of the first class of enshrines of the Baseball HOF."
We got to take the rest of the school year off. Big deal - it was noon on our last day.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2026 10:25 PM (cYBz/)
Because that's what you want some grownup Italian dudes in diapers singing to you.
Girls amirite?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 31, 2026 10:25 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: mindful webworker - axe your primate caret phosition at March 31, 2026 10:26 PM (jrd4M)
Posted by: huerfano at March 31, 2026 10:26 PM (98kQX)
Posted by: Wally at March 31, 2026 10:27 PM (zG4BR)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2026 10:27 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at March 31, 2026 10:27 PM (rPgxf)
Posted by: runner at March 31, 2026 10:27 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: Indiana Jones at March 31, 2026 10:27 PM (D0HYP)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at March 31, 2026 10:27 PM (syAfa)
The lack of a Year Zero with the traditional AD/BC count is a problem for the arithmetic (think Julian date conversions and similar). The standard astronomical dating system sets 1BC as the year 0. So a year of N BC is the year 1 - N.
Now, when you do that, the question of when a century (or decade) begins depends on whether you start at 0 or 1, a classic off by 1 type of thing. It depends on just what convention you want to use.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 31, 2026 10:27 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: runner at March 31, 2026 10:25 PM (GD0B3)
You are really making this a hill to die on, huh?
Posted by: Doof at March 31, 2026 10:27 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: the three legged mule
Or, if in Spandau, do ballet.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2026 10:28 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Larry at March 31, 2026 10:28 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2026 10:28 PM (cYBz/)
I know this much is true.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at March 31, 2026 10:28 PM (t2oSI)
Posted by: tankdemon at March 31, 2026 10:29 PM (PMi3m)
My first thought was that they could have a tie-breaker question but then that could drag on for multiple rounds which the show format can't accommodate.
Posted by: Oddbob at March 31, 2026 10:29 PM (vTZFs)
It's the experts overriding what everyone knows... changing a definition.
It's like when they changed Pluto from a Planet, to something else... why would the beginning of a century not start at... you know... the beginning?
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 31, 2026 10:29 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at March 31, 2026 10:27 PM (syAfa)
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FUN FACT: I once had a three-episode run on Sale of the Century.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 31, 2026 10:29 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher
THE Bruce Dickinson?
Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2026 10:29 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2026 10:27 PM (RIvkX)
I sometimes wonder if you ever sleep!
Posted by: Doof at March 31, 2026 10:30 PM (QMAsf)
LMAO! President Trump’s response to the Kid Rock Army helicopter incident was PERFECT
“I didn't see it, but I'm sure they had a good time!
They probably shouldn't have been doing it, but they like Kid Rock. I like Kid Rock!
Maybe they were trying to defend him!”
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Pete Hegseth
@PeteHegseth
Thank you @KidRock.
@USArmy pilots suspension LIFTED.
No punishment. No investigation.
Carry on, patriots.
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Sweet, sweet fascism.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 31, 2026 10:30 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Archer at March 31, 2026 10:30 PM (wvc0i)
You know, I'm a sensitive guy. And I didn't take the chicks meals, either!!
Posted by: LRob in OK at March 31, 2026 10:30 PM (7D3Aa)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at March 31, 2026 10:22 PM (syAfa)
.....................................
My brother claimed he could smell cottonmouths. Which makes me want to harf and hurl. One would pop up in the lake now and then and he'd laugh at me as I'd raise my feet from the boat.
He once killed a copperhead in a flash, saw it next to my husband where he docked, told him, don't move, and crushed it's head with a large limb. Fearless man. The only snake killer I trust and he's in heaven.
I want them all dead and if they scare me I ask for their murder and my man does it for me. If I am weeding in my gardens they don't have the right to visit me until they pay property taxes. And then must wear bells to warn me if they want to live.
I don't care. It's not like there are not 1 million more waiting for me right now in the yard or extinct.
If one got in the house I guess we'd have to burn it down.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 31, 2026 10:30 PM (WONhk)
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I think they changed it back already.
Posted by: runner at March 31, 2026 10:30 PM (GD0B3)
+++
I had an encounter with a black snake in my yard a few days ago. It coiled up and was shaking it's tail like a rattlesnake. I have read about them doing that. But I had never seen one do it before. I just ran him off with a stick.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at March 31, 2026 10:31 PM (Lo97M)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 31, 2026 10:31 PM (CHHv1)
But with your birth, you start counting at zero, not one. Your first year you age is 0. You don't turn 1 until 1 year after your birth. Your age is the number of integer years you've attained.
With the AD/BC system, there is no Year 0. This would be as if you counted your age as 1 when you were born.
The Romans, with their inclusive counting system, probably thought of things this way.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 31, 2026 10:31 PM (w6EFb)
Doof! 'Ettes! 'Rons! Larry!
Actually, fuck you, Larry!
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at March 31, 2026 10:31 PM (t2oSI)
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 31, 2026 10:29 PM (mP0Kj)
Exactly. As in the FIRST year. Year 1.
A century ENDS at the (1)00th year. It doesn't BEGIN at the 1(00)th year.
Posted by: Doof at March 31, 2026 10:31 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
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FUN FACT: I once had a three-episode run on Sale of the Century.
Posted by: Cicero
Catlin Jenner was on Queen for a Day.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2026 10:31 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Doof at March 31, 2026 10:30 PM (QMAsf)
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Not the past 2 nights anyway...
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2026 10:32 PM (RIvkX)
It's the experts overriding what everyone knows... changing a definition.
"That was not 'gain of function' research, Senator!"
-- Anthony "The Sciencs" Fauci
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 31, 2026 10:32 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at March 31, 2026 10:32 PM (rPgxf)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 31, 2026 10:29 PM (JkO4W)
Ooh. Jim Perry. I liked that show. Did you win a radar range or a Chevy Cavalier?
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at March 31, 2026 10:32 PM (syAfa)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher
No, sure didn't.
Dickinson interview, you say?
Posted by: Robert at March 31, 2026 10:34 PM (48E6j)
Stealing your food's poison is cool and all, but how about stealing the entire venom-delivery system?
Blue sea dragons, a type of sea slug, eat Portuguese man-o-war. They keep entire nematocysts for self-defense..... venom, stinger, everything.
They also look like real-life Pokemon, or something an AI dreamed up.
https://is.gd/CHS7pZ
Posted by: mikeski at March 31, 2026 10:34 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 31, 2026 10:34 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: huerfano at March 31, 2026 10:26 PM (98kQX)
I'd be quite dead in there with the rattlesnake den if that happened to me.
I would leave everything and flee if I was not dead.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 31, 2026 10:34 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at March 31, 2026 10:32 PM (syAfa)
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I won a shitload of, well, shit. And I got 1099'd for all of it at some fictional retail value that nobody on Earth ever paid.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 31, 2026 10:34 PM (JkO4W)
If one got in the house I guess we'd have to burn it down.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 31, 2026 10:30 PM (WONhk)
I've been shot at... shot.. gone up the mast in a major storm... rode motorcycles over 120 MHP... cars over 160... skied double black diamond slopes for decades... walked unafraid (and stupid) through areas of foreign ports I should not have been in... got scars to prove it....
But....
Show me a snake and you will hear me squeal like a little girl.
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 31, 2026 10:34 PM (mP0Kj)
He's quite proud of that, and loves to rub it your face.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 31, 2026 10:35 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius
I understand that during the Mission Statement portion of the meeting a number of the Romans became rather agitated at the goings-on.
One of the them was so pissed off he jumped up and hollered "Oh, for Christ's sake!!"
That was uncomfortable for everyone.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2026 10:35 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: runner
Runny, do you think insistence is tantamount to correctness?
What is the first year of the first century?
Posted by: mindful webworker - this was the year that is at March 31, 2026 10:36 PM (jrd4M)
Posted by: LRob in OK at March 31, 2026 10:36 PM (7D3Aa)
Since he presumably has my ID with BD. It could be done.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 31, 2026 10:37 PM (/lPRQ)
On the other hand, there was a 3' bull snake that looked like a diamond back on the road, and she just walked up to it and picked it up behind the head and tossed it into the bushes.
I gladly got all the spiders out and taken care of for her.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2026 10:37 PM (rbvCR)
Tomorrow we are supposed to have the manned launch to the moon. Hopefully it doesn't get scrubbed again for the 100th time.
First we'll have the Artemis II tanking.
NASA - SLS Block 1 - Artemis II
Tanking - LC-39B - KSC - Space Affairs Live
Date: April 1, 2026
Time: 7:40 A.M. EDT
https://youtu.be/o6rWxk0aVOc
Laterin the evening will be the launch.
NASA - SLS Block 1 - Artemis II
LC-39B - Kennedy Space Center - Space Affairs Livestream
Launch Date Planned: April 1, 2026 (EDT)
Lift-Off Time: 6:24:00 PM EDT (222400 UTC (April 2, 00:24:00 CEST)
https://youtu.be/_owzmracVDo
Posted by: Joyenz at March 31, 2026 10:37 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: mindful webworker - this was the year that is at March 31, 2026 10:36 PM (jrd4M)
what is the first day of your birthday ?
Posted by: runner at March 31, 2026 10:37 PM (GD0B3)
I had a cousin who was 6'6" and 275 and would absolutely lose his sh*t if he walked into a cobweb.
Posted by: Oddbob at March 31, 2026 10:38 PM (vTZFs)
There, now let's stop thinking about numbers. Numbers just make everyone angry.
Posted by: Robert at March 31, 2026 10:38 PM (48E6j)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 31, 2026 10:38 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Rex B at March 31, 2026 10:38 PM (DqQS/)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 31, 2026 10:34 PM (JkO4W)
So sad trombone? And IRS aggravation. I'm glad I don't have a face or personality for TV.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at March 31, 2026 10:39 PM (syAfa)
Posted by: TecumsehTea at March 31, 2026 10:39 PM (nz1sK)
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 31, 2026 10:29 PM (mP0Kj)
Exactly. As in the FIRST year. Year 1.
A century ENDS at the (1)00th year. It doesn't BEGIN at the 1(00)th year.
Posted by: Doof at March 31, 2026 10:31 PM (QMAsf)
So Year 1 was... nothing? If BC / AD is delineated by the year Christ was born...
What the heck is Year ONE in? It would not, by your definition be in the First Century... but... how could it still be BC if Christ had been born?
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 31, 2026 10:39 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 31, 2026 10:31 PM (CHHv1)
This was a worry of mine in college. I'd bring my bike home on the plane (there were boxes for bikes) and ride country roads. I honestly worried they'd wrap themselves in the bike spikes to mess with me. They are out to get me.
I'd lift my legs for this as well (think Butch Cassidy riding bike scene).
I don't know why lifting my legs in boats and on bikes was going to work, but it was what I did. These water snakes are monsters.Huge and ugly.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 31, 2026 10:39 PM (WONhk)
https://youtu.be/7zy63bs8hEs
Along with being a highly entertaining interview with the Maiden front man, he also mentions along the way some concoction he formulated to stave off gout. Thought of you on both counts....
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at March 31, 2026 10:39 PM (rPgxf)
Posted by: Quarter Pounder at March 31, 2026 10:40 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 31, 2026 10:19 PM (Vvh2V)
He can't be as bad as Bon Jovi!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 31, 2026 10:40 PM (n9ltV)
I told my brother my girlfriend was the square root of -100. A perfect 10, but imaginary. He laughed at the irrational comment.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 31, 2026 10:40 PM (u82oZ)
25 or 6 to 4
Live at Tanglewood
July 21, 1971
The band is in peak form and Terry Kath's guitar solo is for the ages. It should be noted it is him, a Strat, a Wah-Wah pedal, and an amp. No pedal board, no effects.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 31, 2026 10:41 PM (glnUu)
We base our calendar, for right or wrong, off the birth of Christ.
If you were born on December 25, 1997 (because you're obviously 29), how many years old were you on December 28, 1997? None. Zero years old. On December 28, 0000 Jesus was zero years old. (Yes, I get the whole arbitrary birth date argument).
From December 25, 0000 until December 24, 0000, Jesus was zero years old. On December 25, 0001, Jesus was 1 year old.
There was, in fact, a year zero. Centuries begin on the zeros.
Posted by: Baron Munchausen at March 31, 2026 10:42 PM (C1NyB)
The Dodge Girl. https://tinyurl.com/3v8xf7hb
Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 31, 2026 10:43 PM (1A8DP)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at March 31, 2026 10:43 PM (vrNzf)
Along with being a highly entertaining interview with the Maiden front man, he also mentions along the way some concoction he formulated to stave off gout. Thought of you on both counts....
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at March 31, 2026 10:39 PM (rPgxf)
Oh, yeah, I had forgotten that he did that!
I never got around to watching it when it came out. :B
Thanks a bunch, man, I appreciate it!
Posted by: Robert at March 31, 2026 10:43 PM (tsUau)
Posted by: LRob in OK at March 31, 2026 10:36 PM (7D3Aa)
How are OK sneks? I've been to a rattlesnake roundup in TX. The sneks here taste like catfish. Or chicken, maybe.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at March 31, 2026 10:43 PM (syAfa)
May you be resting and smiling.
San Franpsycho, this especially applies to you.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 31, 2026 10:43 PM (u82oZ)
When Christ was born is not known. There are a lot of theories, and some interesting astronomical alignments (the meaning of the Star of Bethlehem, just what was it).
The "consensus of experts" is 6 - 4 BC, although the max range is 6 to 1 BC. There was some Star of Bethlehem conjunction theory I really liked that put it 2BC, IIRC.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 31, 2026 10:43 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: LRob in OK at March 31, 2026 10:44 PM (7D3Aa)
Ottawa will sign over all the oil and minerals to China and allow China to sue the province in court.
Posted by: Kindltot
1. Alberta doesn't recognize that court. They're independent.
2. Come get them. China can't do shit.
3. All it takes is one country to recognize their independence and it's game on. That one country would be the US.
Posted by: rickb223
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What happens if Alberta pleas to the US for cover against Canada?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 10:44 PM (ZwdAr)
So, what was the first day of the first century?
Nada, this calendar did not exist then. Which kind of suggests that the trivia question is BS too.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 31, 2026 10:45 PM (/lPRQ)
I was more concerned about the Year Zero bug, and all the work we had had to do to fix it. When the world didn't come to an end on 01/01/2000 00:00:00 GMT, I didn't give a damn what century I was in.
Still, I remember the debates over when the third millenium began. Some people got really bent out of shape over it. My feeling is, beginning a century on the zero year is OK, if you accept that the first century AD had only 99 years. Since nobody from that time is still around to complain -- and in fact, nobody from that time had any idea they were living in the first century, since the BC/AD system of numbering years was devised a few centuries later -- I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.
That being said, when a question like that comes up on a quiz, it's best to avoid the obvious answer.
Posted by: Nemo at March 31, 2026 10:45 PM (4RPgu)
Posted by: LRob in OK at March 31, 2026 10:45 PM (7D3Aa)
Posted by: LRob in OK at March 31, 2026 10:44 PM (7D3Aa)
/Pulls out his Crossbow...
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 31, 2026 10:45 PM (mP0Kj)
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not really, the one about how to boil an egg perfectly was the strangest
Posted by: runner at March 31, 2026 10:45 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 31, 2026 10:39 PM (mP0Kj)
I don't know about that - I wasn't there when Jesus was born. What I do know is that if I'm starting a new numbering system for years, I'm starting with 1, not zero. So the last year of the first century will be 100.
You start yours however you want.
Posted by: Doof at March 31, 2026 10:46 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Cow Demon at March 31, 2026 10:46 PM (hJH5n)
The reason I say this, I was hiking in the desert scrub brush near the Colorado and I “saw” this fricking huuuge diamond back before it consciously registered. It wasn’t there, and then it dissolved into a coiled snake, like a reverse hallucination. It didn’t move a millimeter, but I sure did.
Posted by: Common Tater at March 31, 2026 10:47 PM (O5ohZ)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 31, 2026 10:47 PM (BydOW)
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1, 1, 01 if you axe Jeopardy, one year after the actual century began
Posted by: runner at March 31, 2026 10:48 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: LRob in OK at March 31, 2026 10:48 PM (7D3Aa)
So, what was the first day of the first century?
Nada, this calendar did not exist then. Which kind of suggests that the trivia question is BS too.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 31, 2026 10:45 PM (/lPRQ)
Clearly the first day of the VERY first Century, would have been a Saturday!
Right after God Created Man... on Sunday he rested... On Monday he was hungover and created Womanz....
(yeah, goin straight ta hell for that one)
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 31, 2026 10:48 PM (mP0Kj)
It's been a long and annoying day except for seeing our grandchildren to give them their Easter stuff. They are going on a cruise and leaving Friday.
We could go on the cruise, too, but don't think we'd like the cruise life. I know for sure the plumbing would go out and everyone would get Norovirus if we went. So we say bon voyage and miss them instead.
It's the Norwegian line vs the Congo/Swahili line of Carnival. I also don't want to be on a ship with 3k people I don't know. There are a lot of reasons, but son, DIL and kids love it.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 31, 2026 10:49 PM (WONhk)
The Dodge Girl. https://tinyurl.com/3v8xf7hb
Posted by: JM in Illinois
Thankfully you didn't come up with Bryon Noem.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 31, 2026 10:49 PM (glnUu)
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not really, the one about how to boil an egg perfectly was the strangest
Posted by: runner at March 31, 2026 10:45 PM (GD0B3)
What am I, chopped liver?
Posted by: The Memorial Day Thread at March 31, 2026 10:49 PM (Pb/8m)
Posted by: Cow Demon at March 31, 2026 10:49 PM (hJH5n)
youtu.be/16UK99SCs84
Posted by: gKWVE at March 31, 2026 10:49 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Robert at March 31, 2026 10:43 PM (tsUau
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My pleasure! I love watching that Charismatic voice gal and I knew she liked Bruce/Maiden. However, I hadn't visited her channel in ages so I didn't realize she'd actually interviewed him.
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at March 31, 2026 10:49 PM (rPgxf)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 31, 2026 10:49 PM (1A8DP)
Posted by: LRob in OK at March 31, 2026 10:50 PM (7D3Aa)
She called me up at work convinced there was a "ball o' rattlers" rolling around in the crawl space. she was hysterical.
I told her to call an extermination company and have them come in and look for them.
When I got home all the windows in the house were open and she had her car with a shop vac hose hooked up to her exhaust and running into one of the crawl space vents.
One of the guys that she used to work with suggested it as a joke thinking she would see he was putting her on. Next big mistake, she took him seriously.
Place smelled like a bus station for a week.
Posted by: pawn at March 31, 2026 10:50 PM (qmOsv)
Posted by: runner at March 31, 2026 10:50 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: runner at March 31, 2026 10:48 PM (GD0B3)
But there is no year zero.
Posted by: Cow Demon at March 31, 2026 10:50 PM (hJH5n)
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 31, 2026 10:39 PM (mP0Kj)
I don't know about that - I wasn't there when Jesus was born. What I do know is that if I'm starting a new numbering system for years, I'm starting with 1, not zero. So the last year of the first century will be 100.
You start yours however you want.
Posted by: Doof at March 31, 2026 10:46 PM (QMAsf)
I've worked in too many industries where greater than zero, but less than ONE, was a thing.
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 31, 2026 10:51 PM (mP0Kj)
I had a cousin do that and brought shame upon our family.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2026 10:51 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Racially Ambiguous Honky at March 31, 2026 10:52 PM (zdQuL)
The guy who was leading deserved to lose. He used no strategy in deciding the dollar amount to wager.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 31, 2026 10:53 PM (syz1S)
They counted fence posts, not spaces between posts. :-)
Tomorrow would not be 1 day from now, but two. That's how they thought of things.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 31, 2026 10:53 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: LRob in OK at March 31, 2026 10:48 PM (7D3Aa)
I'll take your word for it!
Posted by: Doof at March 31, 2026 10:53 PM (QMAsf)
We base our calendar, for right or wrong, off the birth of Christ.
If you were born on December 25, 1997 (because you're obviously 29), how many years old were you on December 28, 1997? None. Zero years old. On December 28, 0000 Jesus was zero years old. (Yes, I get the whole arbitrary birth date argument).
From December 25, 0000 until December 24, 0000, Jesus was zero years old. On December 25, 0001, Jesus was 1 year old.
There was, in fact, a year zero. Centuries begin on the zeros.
Posted by: Baron Munchausen at March 31, 2026 10:42 PM (C1NyB)
We don’t even know the year Jesus was born. Kinda destroys the argument.
Take a stack of pennies. When you put the first one down, is that zero, or one?
Posted by: Cow Demon at March 31, 2026 10:54 PM (hJH5n)
Posted by: LRob in OK at March 31, 2026 10:55 PM (7D3Aa)
Posted by: LRob in OK
Did not know that. (Okeene - the name is derived from the last syllables of Cherokee and Cheyenne. How Okie is that!!)
When and where is the cow-chip throwing contest?
Posted by: mindful webworker - Okie by birth and choice at March 31, 2026 10:55 PM (jrd4M)
Posted by: Cow Demon at March 31, 2026 10:50 PM (hJH5n)
2000 is year 0, but two centuries later. 1.1.2000 is a first day of another year 0, two thousand years after the first year 0.
Posted by: runner at March 31, 2026 10:56 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 31, 2026 10:56 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: runner
What is it called when you don't answer a question, but reply with a question?
Posted by: mindful webworker - aboard the U.S.S. Evasion at March 31, 2026 10:56 PM (jrd4M)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 31, 2026 10:53 PM (syz1S)
FFS my father would do that shit watching Jeopardy! and it drove me bonkers. “You see, the guy should have bet X to maintain his position, and assuming Y was bet by…”
Posted by: Cow Demon at March 31, 2026 10:56 PM (hJH5n)
You start yours however you want.
Posted by: Doof
There are one kinds of programmer in the world; those who index their arrays from zero, and those who don't.
Posted by: mikeski counts the fenceposts at March 31, 2026 10:57 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: runner at March 31, 2026 10:57 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: gKWVE at March 31, 2026 10:58 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 31, 2026 10:58 PM (glnUu)
Posted by: Cow Demon at March 31, 2026 10:50 PM (hJH5n)
2000 is year 0, but two centuries later. 1.1.2000 is a first day of another year 0, two thousand years after the first year 0.
Posted by: runner at March 31, 2026 10:56 PM (GD0B3)
Take a stack of pennies. When you set the first one down, do you have zero pennies or one?
Posted by: Cow Demon at March 31, 2026 10:58 PM (hJH5n)
This should be the 20th century. I don't care about the ending, it should begin in the beginning. My way makes more sense.
I also think the entire month of February is dumb with Leap Year confusing things every 4yrs.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 31, 2026 10:58 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 11:00 PM (ZwdAr)
Yes, and I understand that. The point is, the calendar was started at some point. The years are named, not counted. There is a year zero. It's the first 364 days after the birth of Christ. Theoretically.
Posted by: Baron Munchausen at March 31, 2026 11:00 PM (C1NyB)
https://youtu.be/J-8Eqfn1D3A
Also, sound out my nic....
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at March 31, 2026 11:00 PM (rPgxf)
Posted by: LRob in OK at March 31, 2026 10:44 PM (7D3Aa)
/Pulls out his Crossbow...
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 31, 2026 10:45 PM (mP0Kj)
You'd have to be pretty selective to only find one strange thread on the ONT.
Posted by: tcn in AK at March 31, 2026 11:00 PM (DwqWV)
I got used to it.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at March 31, 2026 11:01 PM (syAfa)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 11:01 PM (ZwdAr)
Posted by: Cow Demon at March 31, 2026 10:56 PM (hJH5n)
heh I'm on your dad's side.
There's a reason the contestants are placing a bet on the last question. The wager is part of the game! If you don't want to take it into account, you should be watching Wheel of Fortune or something.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 31, 2026 11:02 PM (syz1S)
The reason I say this, I was hiking in the desert scrub brush near the Colorado and I “saw” this fricking huuuge diamond back before it consciously registered. It wasn’t there, and then it dissolved into a coiled snake, like a reverse hallucination. It didn’t move a millimeter, but I sure did.
Posted by: Common Tater
And since the Good Lord is a good programmer, he's big into code re-use. All the other apes and monkeys react to snakes like that, too.
Posted by: mikeski at March 31, 2026 11:02 PM (VHUov)
See the difference between ordinal and cardinal numbers.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 31, 2026 11:02 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
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Knock your shoes out before putting them on.
Shake out the linen before going to bed.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 11:03 PM (ZwdAr)
Posted by: Cow Demon at March 31, 2026 10:58 PM (hJH5n)
in Jeopardy world , you don't have pennies until you reach 100 pennies!
Posted by: runner at March 31, 2026 11:03 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: wth at March 31, 2026 11:03 PM (BT3km)
Year One, starring Jack Black and Michael Cera, is a buddy comedy following the adventures of 2 hunter-gatherers who, after being banished from their tribe, encounter Biblical characters and eventually wind up in the city of Sodom. (2009)
Title checks out.
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 31, 2026 11:04 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Baron Munchausen at March 31, 2026 11:04 PM (C1NyB)
Posted by: AnchorPoint at March 31, 2026 11:04 PM (XY7MO)
I knew an atheist who insisted Jesus was wrong when he said he would rise on the third day, because he counted Crucifixion Friday as day zero.
No matter how folks tried to explain that Friday was Day 1, Saturday was day 2, and Resurrection Sunday was the third day, he insisted on his numbering system.
I think I'll wander off for a while. I think the stupidity from the Jeopardy contestants is infectious. Like that woman who agreed we need to pay more attention to the Gays of Hormuth.
BBL, probably.
Posted by: mindful webworker - one is the onliest number at March 31, 2026 11:05 PM (jrd4M)
It’s not really a trick question. It isn’t even a math question. t’s a logic question. It’s counting up the centuries, not marking a particular numerical pattern.
My problem with the “question” is that it’s like all questions on Jeopardy. What they call the question is the answer and what they call the answer is the question. Even Trebek slipped up on the game’s terminology here because of that.
It’s about ten percent of why Wheel of Fortune is the better show.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 31, 2026 11:05 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 31, 2026 10:25 PM (xG4kz)
Blank verse for a blank mind, as obsessed with race and social standing as some Boston bluestocking member of the Mayflower Society.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2026 11:05 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: JQ at March 31, 2026 11:06 PM (rdVOm)
Shake out the linen before going to bed.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 11:03 PM (ZwdAr)
Yes sir. Hubby got scorpion stung in the bed our first summer.
Check your bath towels, also. I got stung last year. One of the buggers was in my towel. Ow.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at March 31, 2026 11:06 PM (syAfa)
Posted by: runner at March 31, 2026 11:06 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: Romeo13
My handy-dandy IBM System/370 Reference Summary (the green card - but not green. Topic for another day) shows hex values for -0 and +0.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2026 11:06 PM (cYBz/)
What are they looking for again?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 31, 2026 11:06 PM (glnUu)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 11:01 PM (ZwdAr)
Zero years old.
Also, zero years old.
Posted by: Baron Munchausen at March 31, 2026 11:06 PM (C1NyB)
Posted by: runner
What most people celebrate as their first birthday is actually their second....
What most people think of as their 29th is actually their 30th, and they are in the 30th year.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 31, 2026 11:06 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: four seasons at March 31, 2026 11:06 PM (3ek7K)
I've been shot at... shot.. gone up the mast in a major storm... rode motorcycles over 120 MHP... cars over 160... skied double black diamond slopes for decades... walked unafraid (and stupid) through areas of foreign ports I should not have been in... got scars to prove it....
But....
Show me a snake and you will hear me squeal like a little girl.
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 31, 2026 10:34 PM (mP0Kj
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You sound the the man in real life that Robert Duvall was playing in "Secondhand Lions"
Starts at 1:00 https://tinyurl.com/mrbcj5wv
Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 31, 2026 11:08 PM (u6HpF)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at March 31, 2026 11:08 PM (rPgxf)
Posted by: four seasons
I don't like living like this.
Posted by: gKWVE at March 31, 2026 11:08 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 31, 2026 11:08 PM (XV/Pl)
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start of , but yea, on 1st day of 1st birthday , you start year 2
Posted by: runner at March 31, 2026 11:09 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at March 31, 2026 11:09 PM (NYInA)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
Doctor - "You'll have to suck the venom out"
Bitee - What did the Dr. say?
Guy who called the Dr. - "He said you're gonna die."
Posted by: Just the punchline at March 31, 2026 11:09 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: stupid, smelly hippy at March 31, 2026 11:09 PM (guCHD)
Until I learned this, I was always confused about how Jesus rose on the third day.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 31, 2026 11:09 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 31, 2026 11:06 PM (glnUu)
Suckers to watch the show.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 31, 2026 11:10 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 31, 2026 11:10 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: runner
What most people celebrate as their first birthday is actually their second....
What most people think of as their 29th is actually their 30th, and they are in the 30th year.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 31, 2026 11:06 PM (/lPRQ)
I think they used to do something like that in China. Like you were 1 from the moment you were born. I think.
Posted by: The Memorial Day Thread at March 31, 2026 11:10 PM (vwOEY)
Posted by: Baron Munchausen at March 31, 2026 11:04 PM (C1NyB)
Being dismissive gets you nowhere. Bet your accountant loves you. Years and pennies are the same as they are things. You don’t get to change math and logic because you want to count something differently.
On my first birthday, it was such because I completed my first set of 365 days and when I completed the second set, I turned 2, and so on.
It’s not hard; you just want to reinvent math because “years are different” when, well, they are not. Next you will try to convince me you can in fact divide by zero.
Posted by: Cow Demon at March 31, 2026 11:10 PM (hJH5n)
Posted by: Methos at March 31, 2026 11:10 PM (vSvIl)
There was no zero in Western numbering until the Crusades, long after the establishment of the calendar.
No year zero has been a bugaboo for dendrochronology and absolute dating of specific events, like the eruption of Thera
Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2026 11:11 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at March 31, 2026 11:11 PM (syAfa)
Nope. I went to loser-land just like the three contestants, but now I'll know the answer for the next time. Thanks, Doof.
Bedtime now.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 31, 2026 11:11 PM (O7YUW)
The numbering system we currently use for years was established retroactively to establish a distinction of BC/AD. It may or may not tie exactly to the birth of Christ.
Regardless - 1 BC was the year before 1 AD. There was no year zero.
Posted by: Doof at March 31, 2026 11:11 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: runner at March 31, 2026 11:12 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: runner
I thought there was a statutory-rape court case based on this, but a quick DDGing didn't find it.
Apocryphally, a guy slept with a girl on the day before her 18th birthday, and argued she was "18 years old" and thus legal at that point.
On the day before your Xth birthday, you've lived in 365.26-times-X days, which is 1-times-X years. So on the day before your 18th birthday, you've "lived 18 years" and are 18 years old. And you're actually 18-years-and-a-day old on your 18th birthday.
I suppose a case like that really just shows that "the law is an ass," in that drawing any line where "you have personal agency only after this date" means there's a nanosecond where you don't have agency, followed by a nanosecond where you do. And your nerves don't fire fast enough for there to have been any change between those two nanoseconds. Nevermind the idea that even a full day would change a person that much. And it doesn't matter if it's having sex, signing a contract, driving a car, getting a job, or whatever "agency" you're gaining. But laws like that have to exist, so they do.
Posted by: mikeski digs out one fencepost at March 31, 2026 11:13 PM (VHUov)
That's the way we count age. You start at zero. You are not 1 year old until 1 year has passed since your birth. The AD system does not work this way. It starts at 1. This is equivalent to saying you are 1 year old at you birth. The former counts the whole number of years of your age. The latter counts which year of your life you are in.
The AD/BC sequence goes like this:
...2 BC, 1BC, 1AD, 2 AD.... There is no year zero. As I mentioned above the standard Astronomical year convention is to use 1BC as the year zero. 2BC is thus -1, 3BC is -2, etc. It makes the arithmetic work out much nicer when converting between calendar dates and counts of days since epoch (or seconds or whatever).
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 31, 2026 11:13 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at March 31, 2026 11:13 PM (syAfa)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 11:01 PM (ZwdAr)
In Europe and the Americas, or in Asia? In Asia a baby is born one year old. Same age, just different logic.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2026 11:13 PM (rbvCR)
Yes. It’s a logic question. How old is the baby in years? Zero. What year is the baby in? Its first.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 31, 2026 11:13 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher
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The whole album is a trip. LOL.
Those guys did all of their stuff with computers. Wish I'd been able to go to a concert before Florian died...
Posted by: JQ at March 31, 2026 11:13 PM (rdVOm)
What most people think of as their 29th is actually their 30th, and they are in the 30th year.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 31, 2026 11:06 PM (/lPRQ)
Again, this is not a sensible argument. You're twisting speech with facts.
If I'm born February 1,1997 (because I'm 29), this year I'm not celebrating my 29th BIRTHday. I'm celebrating the 29th anniversary of my birth.
Go back to the comment about cardinal and ordinal numbering.
For the first 364 days of your life, you are NOT one year old.
Our calendar is based on the theoretical birth of Jesus.
Posted by: Baron Munchausen at March 31, 2026 11:13 PM (C1NyB)
Also, zero years old.
Posted by: Baron Munchausen at March 31, 2026 11:06 PM (C1NyB)
I have never heard people say (baby name here) is zero years old. Might just be me.
Posted by: Cow Demon at March 31, 2026 11:14 PM (hJH5n)
Always preferred the Bon Scott era.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at March 31, 2026 11:15 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: runner at March 31, 2026 11:12 PM (GD0B3)
The calendar is perfect, it is orbital mechanics that has it wrong.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2026 11:15 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: gKWVE at March 31, 2026 11:15 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at March 31, 2026 11:15 PM (syAfa)
Posted by: runner at March 31, 2026 11:12 PM (GD0B3)
Every four years except on the 100s unless that year is divisible by four.
2100 will not have a leap year, nor will 2200 or 2300. 2400 will have a leap year.
Going backwards, 2000 had a leap year, but 1900 did not.
Posted by: Robert at March 31, 2026 11:16 PM (vwOEY)
>>I have never heard people say (baby name here) is zero years old. Might just be me.
You say, newborn, 1 week old, 1 month old, 6 months, and so on.
I think everyone needs to chill and knock back a Gimlet or two.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 31, 2026 11:16 PM (XV/Pl)
What most people think of as their 29th is actually their 30th, and they are in the 30th year.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
Because we use "birthday" as shorthand for "birthday anniversary." Your first--only--birthday is the day your were born. Your first "birthday anniversary" is a year later. Just like weddings and wedding anniversaries.
Posted by: mikeski throws rice at March 31, 2026 11:17 PM (VHUov)
You have, but not in those words. When a baby is zero years old, people speak in terms of less than a year. They use months.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 31, 2026 11:17 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 31, 2026 11:17 PM (wVcYX)
Listener submitted questions, if the panel got it wrong they would win prizes. Pretty highbrow stuff often.
Posted by: Common Tater at March 31, 2026 11:18 PM (8c30T)
>>I would never consider myself an AC/DC fan. I like them well enough. Hell, part of my teenage music soundtrack. Good party band. But damn, Whole Lotta Rosie is fucking awesome.
They are the blueprint for what a hard rock band should be.
There is a reason they sold over 200 million records and have the 2nd best selling album of all time.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 31, 2026 11:18 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2026 11:18 PM (viF8m)
That is the wrinkle in the astronomical calendar year system. Now, you could use proleptic Gregorian all the way back to time immemorial, but that would mess up historical dates before the Gregorian went into effect. Now, many countries didn't adopt it until much later (looking at you Great Britain). So they decided to used proleptic Julian before Oct 15, 1582, and Gregorian thereafter.
That puts a nasty little discontinuity in there of 10 dates that don't exist. But there's no way around this really.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 31, 2026 11:19 PM (w6EFb)
That's the only new car I ever knew my parents to buy.
Vinyl floor mats and a huge trunk.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 31, 2026 11:19 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 31, 2026 11:20 PM (1A8DP)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
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Just ask! Worst they can do is say no...
I've been lucky. Have gotten "senior discount" without even asking, because my hair turned all white by the time I was
Posted by: JQ at March 31, 2026 11:20 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2026 11:20 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: illiniwek at March 31, 2026 11:21 PM (vbXSk)
2100 will not have a leap year, nor will 2200 or 2300. 2400 will have a leap year.
Going backwards, 2000 had a leap year, but 1900 did not.
Posted by: Robert at March 31, 2026 11:16 PM (vwOEY)
Did not know this. Had to look it up. Thanks for ensmartening me!
Posted by: Doof at March 31, 2026 11:22 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Robert at March 31, 2026 11:22 PM (vwOEY)
Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2026 11:15 PM (rbvCR)
Faulty orbital mechanics caused my gigantomastia.
Posted by: Summer Robert, 28-O cups, 55 lbs on my 4' 9" frame at March 31, 2026 11:23 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2026 11:18 PM (viF8m)
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Maybe in your neck of the woods.
Posted by: Zombie Pol Pot at March 31, 2026 11:23 PM (+HNx/)
Posted by: Robert at March 31, 2026 11:22 PM (vwOEY)
Ha! Now do fiscal years!!
Posted by: Doof at March 31, 2026 11:23 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: runner at March 31, 2026 11:23 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 31, 2026 11:18 PM (XV/Pl)
I recall someone interviewing Angus Young, saying, "you have 12 albums that sound all the same."
Angus replied, "actually we have thirteen albums that all sound the same."
When I said I was not an AC/DC fan, it was more about me not having a lot of their music on vinyl, or CD. But they are a fucking icon in the rock world. I love those fucking guys.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at March 31, 2026 11:24 PM (0aYVJ)
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*turns over all the cards*
Posted by: Zombie Pol Pot at March 31, 2026 11:24 PM (+HNx/)
Posted by: illiniwek
Venomous!!
Posted by: Wesley at March 31, 2026 11:25 PM (cYBz/)
Those of you trying to invent a year 0 are missing the point. The issue isn't whether there *should be* a year 0. The issue is that the guys who put together our modern calendar *didn't* assign a year 0. It was on the order of a thousand years later before the AD/BC system was widely used.
Posted by: Methos
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What's done can be undone. I say we rejigger this whole system and set ourselves back one year so that the first year of our Lord IS the year 0. The banks and computer systems don't own us, you know.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 31, 2026 11:25 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at March 31, 2026 11:15 PM
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Buy a cup of coffee at Mickey D's.
When you're done, rinse out the cup and top and keep it in your car.
Next time you want coffee just carry it to the counter and get someone's attention. Tell them you want a free refill on a Senior Coffee and hand them the cup. They will usually do so without question.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 31, 2026 11:26 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: runner at March 31, 2026 11:26 PM (GD0B3)
ClaudeCode on the other hand does seem to have been leaked, just not by that asshole.
Posted by: gKWVE at March 31, 2026 11:27 PM (gKWVE)
This was different from the century problem. It was a pattern problem. Programmers were using the final two digits of the 1900s to indicate what part of the 1900s the date was in. When the first two digits failed to be 19, this pattern failed.
Perl had the most interesting and passive aggressive way of handling this. The language’s designers redefined the pattern to be math instead. So that the built in year value went from 99 to 100 rather than from 99 to 00. Which meant that code assuming the original pattern would start showing up as “19100” instead of “1900”.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 31, 2026 11:27 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 31, 2026 11:25 PM (n7rxJ)
*Gently taps chin with rolled up contract*
Posted by: Your Mortgage Lender at March 31, 2026 11:27 PM (vwOEY)
Time to tweak some Javascript, and have another Gimlet.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 31, 2026 11:27 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 31, 2026 11:28 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 31, 2026 11:29 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: JQ at March 31, 2026 11:20 PM (rdVOm)
I got the senior discount at Ross Dress for Less. That was 10 yeara ago. I didnt look that bad, i didnt think. The teenager at the register asked me if I wanted the senior discount. I said hell yeah.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at March 31, 2026 11:29 PM (syAfa)
Posted by: runner at March 31, 2026 11:29 PM (GD0B3)
400 year Gregorian cycle. This estimates the tropical year as 365.2425 mean solar days. Julian estimated it 365 1/4. Even then, the Hellenistic astronomer who worked out the Julian calendar, Sosigenes of Alexandria, knew that was off a smidge, but figured it was good enough for govt. work.
AS of epoch J2000 the tropical year was 365.24217 mean solar days. That's 365.2421897 ephemeris days.
And the tropical year, on this leg of the current Milankovitch cycle is getting slightly short, and day is getting longer long term. The Gregorian will be off by one day seasonally a little before expected if that all remained constant. We don't have to worry about until around the year 4000 or so.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 31, 2026 11:29 PM (w6EFb)
tinyurl.com/juwarerw
Posted by: gKWVE, living like this at March 31, 2026 11:30 PM (gKWVE)
Greetings Everyone - Sorry I'm late - I was busy trying to compose witty and erudite feedback to send in to Varney & Co.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 31, 2026 11:30 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 31, 2026 11:30 PM (+r0A9)
Regardless - 1 BC was the year before 1 AD. There was no year zero.
Posted by: Doof
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Dates are an arbitrary naming system that uses numbers, sometimes.
Sometimes math with those names works.
Sometimes it does not.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 31, 2026 11:32 PM (/lPRQ)
So easy, a caveman could do it.
That would make lib's head spin. Heh.
Posted by: AnchorPoint at March 31, 2026 11:32 PM (XY7MO)
tinyurl.com/juwarerw
Posted by: gKWVE, living like this at March 31, 2026 11:30 PM (gKWVE)
When *aren't* the Indians fucking scamming people?
Posted by: Robert at March 31, 2026 11:33 PM (vwOEY)
https://tinyurl.com/3efthza6
Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 31, 2026 11:30 PM (+r0A9)
I remember watching that on late Saturday night TV on 'Creature Feature'.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 31, 2026 11:33 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2026 11:34 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 31, 2026 11:18 PM (XV/Pl)
I recall someone interviewing Angus Young, saying, "you have 12 albums that sound all the same."
Angus replied, "actually we have thirteen albums that all sound the same."
When I said I was not an AC/DC fan, it was more about me not having a lot of their music on vinyl, or CD. But they are a fucking icon in the rock world. I love those fucking guys.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at March 31, 2026 11:24 PM (0aYVJ)
From a guitar player point of view AC/DC is great because you need so minimal gear to reproduce their tone. A gibson guitar, a PAF type pickup, and an old marshall amp. Done, no fancy toys, no crazy effects or processing. Guitar, amp, chord. Done. First real band I was ever in did a shitload of AC/DC, and all I needed was those 3 things, and as time went by and more and more metal bands became popular I found myself needing more and more shit. That AC/DC band was the lightest I ever traveled.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2026 11:34 PM (snZF9)
The tarantulas are BIG hairy spiders. And those suckers can jump. You wouldn't think it to look at them but I've seen them jump at least four feet.
Posted by: Case at March 31, 2026 11:34 PM (pvf3X)
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at March 31, 2026 11:34 PM (NYInA)
We are in the year of 2026 when we have completed 2026 we will be in the year if 2027. We measure the portions of that year in days, weeks, and months.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 11:35 PM (ZwdAr)
I have this movie. It came on a double feature DVD with The Last Man on Earth which vastly outclassed it.
I watched LMoE in May 2020 which was a surreal experience. Unlike Omega Man, Last Man on Earth focuses far more on the panic over the virus coming from the Far East.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 31, 2026 11:35 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 31, 2026 11:37 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: JM in Illinois
Wasn't the computing year zero == 1977 ?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 31, 2026 11:38 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Case at March 31, 2026 11:34 PM (pvf3X)
We've seen a few on the property. Not many. They are kinda cool. Spiders never freaked me out like sneks.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at March 31, 2026 11:38 PM (syAfa)
I think that was a malfunction of the US 'Star Wars Missile Shield.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 31, 2026 11:38 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at March 31, 2026 11:34 PM (NYInA)
On a personal level, I and everyone with a birthday late in the year have the same problem. I was born a few days before the Dec 1 cutoff for kindergarten. As a consequence I was always the smallest, youngest in my class and my age doesn't normally correspond to the year meaning most of the year I'm younger than the math would imply.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 31, 2026 11:38 PM (QGaXH)
When *aren't* the Indians fucking scamming people?
Posted by: Robert
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Hey, a fella's got to sleep sometime.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 11:38 PM (ZwdAr)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2026 11:39 PM (2JFBE)
The tarantulas are BIG hairy spiders. And those suckers can jump. You wouldn't think it to look at them but I've seen them jump at least four feet.
Posted by: Case at March 31, 2026 11:34 PM (pvf3X)
And you people think people from here should move THERE??????
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 31, 2026 11:40 PM (QGaXH)
I have this movie. It came on a double feature DVD with The Last Man on Earth which vastly outclassed it.
I watched LMoE in May 2020 which was a surreal experience. Unlike Omega Man, Last Man on Earth focuses far more on the panic over the virus coming from the Far East.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 31, 2026 11:35 PM (
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Haven't seen LMoE. It seems like Ray Milland never made any good movies after his oscar win for "The Lost Weekend."
Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 31, 2026 11:40 PM (fKTed)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2026 11:34 PM (snZF9)
My lifelong friend was a guitarist, and was in a band playing the Vegas club scene in the late 80s. They played some of their own stuff, but laced it with AC/DC and some other bands.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at March 31, 2026 11:40 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: 18-1 at March 31, 2026 11:40 PM (sKqQm)
My husband has mocked me in the past for saving and freezing the remander of tomato paste. Now I currently don't care. Sometimes I also don't recycle stuff I could. Because.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 31, 2026 11:40 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: 18-1 at March 31, 2026 11:41 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 31, 2026 11:42 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 31, 2026 11:37 PM (Cqx++)
Never.
May the wind be at your back and not through your tree.
I often wonder what NSA decodes from the ONT for their report.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 31, 2026 11:42 PM (WONhk)
--
It all winds up in the same pile or it's shipped to China where they dispose of it by dumping in the ocean.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 11:43 PM (ZwdAr)
https://youtu.be/9EYPxlW-luw
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 31, 2026 11:43 PM (S/Y4j)
"Every Time I Think of You" is "our" song! I highlight it every year on our anniversary by running a video I made years ago for my blog. Mr. TiFW is the one who picked out the song, which makes it even more special to me 💕💕💕
https://tinyurl.com/OurSongPaulAndTeresaKoch
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 31, 2026 11:44 PM (SRRAx)
I think that was a malfunction of the US 'Star Wars Missile Shield.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 31, 2026 11:38 PM (bss/y)
'On the Beach' (195
was set in Australia. Don't watch it. Everyone dies in the end. Cause was all-out nukler wah. Doesn't go into who started it but the book it's based on apparently fleshes it out more.Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 31, 2026 11:44 PM (QGaXH)
I was just reviewing the history of the AD system. It was devised by a monk named Dionysius Exiguus in what we call the year 525 AD. The Julian calendar was being used, but the year number was based on the Diocletian era numbering.
He was working out a revised method of Easter computations, and reckoned that was the 525th year since the birth of Christ. He didn't really explain how he came up with that.
Note how neat it made leap years numbers work out, evenly divisible by 4. This is equivalent to making 1BC a leap year, and then 4 AD. There is no evidence he did this on purpose, really, and it could be a happy coincidence.
Imagine how complicated it would be if there were an offset.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 31, 2026 11:45 PM (w6EFb)
*shrug*
Posted by: JQ at March 31, 2026 11:46 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at March 31, 2026 11:47 PM (0aYVJ)
Wasn't the computing year zero == 1977 ?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 31, 2026 11:38 PM (/lPRQ)
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The TRS-80, the Commodore Pet 2001, and the Apple Ii all came out in 1977. I can't recall any other year zero. The Y2K problem was that we too often used only a two digit year.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 31, 2026 11:47 PM (bJSkr)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2026 11:48 PM (snZF9)
It was brought to my attention that the Insurance Companies, in particular, State Farm, have been absolutely horrible to people that have been paying them large Premiums for years, only to find that when tragedy struck, these horrendous Companies were not there to help!
I have asked the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldin, to give me a list of the Companies who acted swiftly, courageously, and bravely in order to make their clients happy and, even more importantly, in order to fulfill their Legal obligations. Likewise, I have asked to see those Companies that were particularly bad. The names of some surprise me, but in the World in which we live, nothing really surprises me! State Farm, and others, should get their act together, and treat people fairly. The Government is looking into this matter as we speak! President DONALD J. TRUMP
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 11:49 PM (ZwdAr)
I was trying to derail the rest of the discussion with numbers and that was what I came up with for annoying me.
I figured I'd spare everyone the discussion of my weirdest SIL, an ex-nun, who once (out of no where) texted me that she had a bleeding groin mole. Thanks be to God without a photo or reason why, but she was in the tub.
I may never be the same.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 31, 2026 11:49 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 11:50 PM (ZwdAr)
Metals? yes, mostly
Plastics? meh. Don't bother.
Glass? never.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at March 31, 2026 11:47 PM (0aYVJ)
A yuuuge technical breakthrough would be a spray or a solution that you could apply to plastics to 'unzip' the long-chain molecules and break it down into it's basic C and H elements....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 31, 2026 11:50 PM (QGaXH)
And I knew the question to that one.
Posted by: GWB at March 31, 2026 11:50 PM (x9vBb)
Posted by: fourseasons at March 31, 2026 11:51 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: JM in Illinois
I was thinking at the hardware level when the clock was set, the programming converted that clock value into a conventional date format and they then kept it simple with two digits for the year.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 31, 2026 11:51 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 31, 2026 11:50 PM (QGaXH)
Hmmm, CH4... We could probably find a use for that.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 31, 2026 11:52 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: fourseasons at March 31, 2026 11:51 PM (3ek7K)
You must be new here.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at March 31, 2026 11:52 PM (0aYVJ)
This thread is the weirdest I've seen here.
Posted by: fourseasons at March 31, 2026 11:51 PM (3ek7K)
You must have missed WeirdDave's 'Sex' thread.
That was entertaining.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 31, 2026 11:53 PM (bss/y)
This thread is the weirdest I've seen here.
Posted by: fourseasons at March 31, 2026 11:51 PM (3ek7K)
I know! I love it!
We might get rain this week!!!! It doesn't matter much because then it will go straight back into summer 2mo early.
My daffodils are bleah from the lack of snow and cold weather. I feel a bit stabby about it but it is wut it is.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 31, 2026 11:53 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at March 31, 2026 11:54 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 11:54 PM (ZwdAr)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 31, 2026 11:50 PM (QGaXH)
Hmmm, CH4... We could probably find a use for that.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 31, 2026 11:52 PM (bss/y)
I already emit too much of that ....apparently.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 31, 2026 11:54 PM (QGaXH)
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Ew.
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Tomato paste was a nice try, though! Worked about as well as my techno & Uncle Ted links.
Gah!
Posted by: JQ at March 31, 2026 11:54 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 31, 2026 11:50 PM (QGaXH)
Put it in a retort, and heat it. It will de-polymerize. Best way to "recycle" plastic? Use it as fuel. It was made from fuel in the first place.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2026 11:55 PM (2JFBE)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 11:50 PM (ZwdAr)
There are good ones? My TX homeowners insurance makes me weep. If I lived a somewhere fun, like rhe coast, I d get it. But I live...closer to Austin than I enjoy.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at March 31, 2026 11:56 PM (syAfa)
Weather app for here says rain expected to end soon.
You dumbshits, it hasn't rained here in months.
Posted by: fourseasons at March 31, 2026 11:56 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: fourseasons at March 31, 2026 11:51 PM (3ek7K)
You must be new here.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at March 31, 2026 11:52 PM (0aYVJ)
As near as I can tell I've been frequenting these parts about 10 years.
This probably doesn't make the top 100....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 31, 2026 11:56 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue
Heat + Oxygen works.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 31, 2026 11:56 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
You might be thinking of the UNIX epoch..... 1/1/1970 (midnight UTC) is the start point of the UNIX clock, which counts seconds since that point in time.
It's the source of the next sort of "Y2K" problem..... 32-bit systems will run out of seconds and roll over to zero on 1/19/2038.
Posted by: mikeski at March 31, 2026 11:57 PM (VHUov)
I was just reviewing the history of the AD system.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 31, 2026 11:45 PM (w6EFb)
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Now do the event in October 1582 when Pope Gregory XIII dropped ten days out of the calendar
Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 31, 2026 11:58 PM (1kYfW)
If you enjoy Vincent Price it is worth the watch. It would probably still be a good movie without him but he makes a great demoralized scientist.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 31, 2026 11:59 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 01, 2026 12:00 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 01, 2026 12:00 AM (2JFBE)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 31, 2026 11:50 PM (QGaXH)
Put it in a retort, and heat it. It will de-polymerize. Best way to "recycle" plastic? Use it as fuel. It was made from fuel in the first place.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2026 11:55 PM (2JFBE)
I thought of that was his witty retort.....(kidding).
I did think about burning but that has problems with toxins and particles and smoke and ewwww.....at least in California.
Overall I just dislike the idea of putting these 'forever' plastics in a landfill and forgetting about them....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 01, 2026 12:01 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 31, 2026 11:40 PM (fKTed)
The Thing with Two Heads.
A horror movie, where the source of the Horror is the way the two headed monster argues with itself about racism and discrimination for the entire film.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 01, 2026 12:01 AM (ZPDpH)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 11:50 PM (ZwdAr)
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Consumer Reports does ratings of dozens of insurance companies every year or two. You might find it at your local library. The heavily advertised Progressive is one of the lowest rated; sorry, Flo.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 01, 2026 12:03 AM (ZJRmG)
Windows NT epoch is Jan 1, 1601. The first date of the first full Gregorian 400 year cycle. The system clock counts 100 ns (1/10 of microsecond) intervals since then.
To start on the first day of a 400 year Gregorian cycle makes the arithmetic a bit nicer to convert back and forth.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 01, 2026 12:03 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 31, 2026 11:58 PM (1kYfW)
He dropped the sanity clause outta his a-contract too?
Posted by: Otis B. Driftwood at April 01, 2026 12:06 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 01, 2026 12:08 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 01, 2026 12:08 AM (VVQO9)
That was to correct the seasonal drift in the Julian calendar to make the mean equinox fall on Mar. 21 (this date is the official ecclesiastical equinox for Easter purposes, not the actual astronomical event).
The Julian calendar overestimates the tropical year, and the drift works out to about 3 days per 400 years. The equinox had drifted about 10 days earlier by that time.
And note they were correcting it back to the equinox of the First Council of Nicaea (325 AD), not all the way back to the start of the Julian calendar -- this has caused some confusion.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 01, 2026 12:08 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 01, 2026 12:08 AM (ZwdAr)
Posted by: Stateless - Day 13 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at April 01, 2026 12:09 AM (Sco7b)
Pelosi Says Trump and Republicans May Hack Into Voting Machines to Rig Vote Count in 2026 Midterm Elections
I thought Nasty was adamant that 'hacking' an election was not possible when such was questioned in 2020.
And now it is just a matter of somebody (else) bothering to do it?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 01, 2026 12:11 AM (/lPRQ)
Overall I just dislike the idea of putting these 'forever' plastics in a landfill and forgetting about them....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 01, 2026 12:01 AM (QGaXH)
Polyethylene, which makes up the vast bulk of throwaway plastics, is just carbon and hydrogen. In free air, it burns sooty because it consumes all the oxygen in the air immediately in contact with the burning surface. Fuel oil burns sooty for the same reason. Burn it in a closed vessels, with forced air, and it burns clean.
The plastic you don't want to burn is PVC (vinyl) because it contains chlorine, and burning releases choking phosgene gas, COCl2, which is nasty. But an incinerator equipped with heavy-duty scrubbers should handle it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 01, 2026 12:14 AM (2JFBE)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 01, 2026 12:16 AM (ZwdAr)
And on a news network was a Jardianz (sp?) commercial. I wonder if you can pay more to be guaranteed NOT to have swelling between testicles and the anus.
Posted by: Stateless - Day 13 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at April 01, 2026 12:16 AM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 31, 2026 11:50 PM (QGaXH)
There have been a few SF stories that envision what happens when the plastic dissolver breaks containment and gets loose in the world. It is not pretty.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 01, 2026 12:17 AM (JjVZx)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 01, 2026 12:19 AM (2JFBE)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
Why doesn't Sloppy Choppers just shuffle off and suck the great big cock in the sky already? Bitch.
Posted by: Cock of the Walk at April 01, 2026 12:21 AM (lQp5O)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 01, 2026 12:16 AM (ZwdAr)
Always been on the Glowball Warming bandwagon, too. So all their testing is tainted by how much they think Product X will "destroy the planet".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 01, 2026 12:21 AM (2JFBE)
Posted by: Stateless
'taint an option...
Posted by: Cock of the Walk at April 01, 2026 12:22 AM (jiBv5)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
Why doesn't Sloppy Choppers just shuffle off and suck the great big cock in the sky already? Bitch.
Posted by: Cock of the Walk at April 01, 2026 12:21 AM (lQp5O)
I would rather she be sucking the barbed one in hell's basement.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 01, 2026 12:25 AM (snZF9)
And now it is just a matter of somebody (else) bothering to do it?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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Trump cut them off at the pass. The USPS will not process a mailed ballot without a barcode which has to match the voter ID.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 01, 2026 12:26 AM (ZwdAr)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 01, 2026 12:26 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Desinex at April 01, 2026 12:26 AM (jrgJz)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 01, 2026 12:16 AM (ZwdAr)
They went full retard pushing Obamacare . They can eat a bigly bag of you know what.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 01, 2026 12:27 AM (syAfa)
Posted by: Cock of the Walk at April 01, 2026 12:27 AM (jiBv5)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 01, 2026 12:19 AM (2JFBE)
Still, enjoy your family.
Posted by: Stateless - Day 13 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at April 01, 2026 12:27 AM (Sco7b)
Day Old News -
Pelosi Says Trump and Republicans May Hack Into Voting Machines to Rig Vote Count in 2026 Midterm Elections
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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I'm glad to hear that; it appears she's anticipating disaster.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 01, 2026 12:27 AM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 01, 2026 12:16 AM (ZwdAr)
They went full retard pushing Obamacare . They can eat a bigly bag of you know what.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 01, 2026 12:27 AM (syAfa)
Yup. There is a dude on you tube. His channel is called project farm. This guys tests everything under the sun, and in the most frigging scientific way I ever saw. He leaves nothing out and misses nothing, and conducts his tests in ways that pretty much eliminate any variables. I just watch him if I want to know whats worth a shit.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 01, 2026 12:31 AM (snZF9)
how did all three dum dums miss final jeopardy AND fuck up the betting?
Posted by: Cock of the Walk
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Well, #2 and 3 had to bet everything considering how much of a lead #1 had. Why he bet it all is another matter.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 01, 2026 12:31 AM (n7rxJ)
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Democrats; all projection, all of the time.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 01, 2026 12:32 AM (XeU6L)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oWeRSQmfAM
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 01, 2026 12:35 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Cock of the Walk at April 01, 2026 12:36 AM (jiBv5)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 01, 2026 12:26 AM (snZF9)
Congrats on your purchase. I know Jack about Harleys. But Mrs Bers is your treasure. It was nice meeting her in Corsicana.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 01, 2026 12:37 AM (syAfa)
https://tinyurl.com/3efthza6
Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 31, 2026 11:30 PM (+r0A9)
I always found it interesting that Jean Hagen - who usually played frumpy housewives - played the part of Lena Lamont in "Singing' In The Rain".
She was an absolute hoot!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at April 01, 2026 12:39 AM (SRRAx)
Consumer Reports is no longer trustworthy, it hasn't been for years. They are one part bias and one part bought and paid for.
They went full retard pushing Obamacare . They can eat a bigly bag of you know what.
They came out for "single payer" 30+ years ago.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 01, 2026 12:39 AM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 01, 2026 12:32 AM (XeU6L)
Mike, here is a bascule bridge for you, which we drove over tonight. Actually had to wait for it to lower, as a tug and barge were transiting the channel. We were too far away from it to see the action. It is a very pretty bridge:
https://www.pcl.com/ca/en/our-work/johnson-street-bridge
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 01, 2026 12:39 AM (2JFBE)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 01, 2026 12:39 AM (Vvh2V)
Speaking of equinoxes and calendars and Easter. Today, April 1, is the full moon, the first full Moon of astronomical spring. In the Injun moon naming system, which we colonists culturally appropriated (and made logical), this is the Pink Moon. It's also the Paschal Moon, the one that sets the date of Easter. Passover also begins.
Besides correcting the solar part, the Gregorian reform also corrected the lunar calendar, so the calculated full Moon corresponds to the astronomical one pretty closely, and will for some time.
The Orthodox churches still use the Julian calendar and the older lunar calendar. The full Moon there has drifted a few days from the astronomical event.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 01, 2026 12:40 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Dark Litigator at April 01, 2026 12:41 AM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Cock of the Walk at April 01, 2026 12:42 AM (jiBv5)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 01, 2026 12:42 AM (2JFBE)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 01, 2026 12:43 AM (syAfa)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 01, 2026 12:16 AM (ZwdAr)
I haven't looked at one in a long time. Is it usable as emergency toilet paper?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 01, 2026 12:44 AM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 01, 2026 12:46 AM (2JFBE)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
It's no Charmin. On the plus side, the librarian gets pissed when you give it back afterwards.
Posted by: Cock of the Walk at April 01, 2026 12:46 AM (jiBv5)
Posted by: JQ at April 01, 2026 12:50 AM (rdVOm)
Artemis II tanking decision should be around 7:45AM this morning.
I'm gonna bet they're gonna have another H2 leak, which will scrub it for today.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 01, 2026 12:51 AM (w6EFb)
Mike, here is a bascule bridge for you,
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Very interesting. I've been thinking about building an O guage model for a couple of years. The bridge that you linked to has an interesting history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_Street_Bridge
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 01, 2026 12:52 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 01, 2026 12:39 AM (
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I agree that CR endorses Leftist policies. But I haven't seen any evidence that their objective ratings are biased or paid for. I'm open to new information.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 01, 2026 12:53 AM (g6bbw)
Posted by: wth
Has it sunk yet?
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 01, 2026 12:55 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: wth
I'm betting this will be the episode where they find Captain Kidd's gold, wrapped in the lost plays of Shakespeare, inside the cargo bay of a UFO.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 01, 2026 12:59 AM (JjVZx)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 01, 2026 12:59 AM (syAfa)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 01, 2026 12:42 AM (2JFBE)
Its a heritage springer softail. I don't think they made a lot of them, because you never really see them. They are the closest thing styling wise to a 1948 panhead. Put it this way, I only ever saw one in the shop. Seen some on the road here and there over the years, but only had one come in the shop. I worked on 3 since the late 90's. I have a regular springer softail, but they are more like what a chopped panhead would look like with the 21" front wheel and smaller fenders. The heritage springer has real old world styling with the full fenders and fatter front tire. The springer front end just looks great. They stopped making springer softails in 2006.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 01, 2026 01:00 AM (snZF9)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oWeRSQmfAM
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 01, 2026 12:35 AM (
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Project farm: I watched it and bought the Power Speed vacuum that's third on his list. Amazon just delivered it today; it awaits the unboxing.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 01, 2026 01:01 AM (tLVLK)
Posted by: Cock of the Walk
I had a '96 Saturn SL2, bought new. Drove it cross-country. As I recall, there was a problem with the alternator, or something, which was fixed under warranty. Other than cabin noise, shitty turn radius, and meh A/C, it drove great. My 5'8/160# carcass fit easily into the seat and it had an amazing amount of low-end torque.
Posted by: Dark Litigator at April 01, 2026 01:01 AM (KAi1n)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 01, 2026 12:59 AM (syAfa)
But can you get them in the 128-roll packaging?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 01, 2026 01:02 AM (JjVZx)
>>I would never consider myself an AC/DC fan. I like them well enough. Hell, part of my teenage music soundtrack. Good party band. But damn, Whole Lotta Rosie is fucking awesome.
They are the blueprint for what a hard rock band should be.
There is a reason they sold over 200 million records and have the 2nd best selling album of all time.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
They were a popular band with Bon Scott. They took off in the stratosphere with Brian Johnson. Would they have done that had Bon Scott not drunk himself to death? Maybe. Sometimes a band lurks around popularity for years and then turn into the biggest thing ever, overnight. The music industry is a fickle bitch.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 01, 2026 01:04 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 01, 2026 01:06 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Dark Litigator at April 01, 2026 12:41 AM (KAi1n)
The trick to get that tone is use older non master volume marshal amps and plug into the low input and use a boss overdrive pedal. Or use a 2203 100 watt, or 2204 50 watt master model with the over drive. Priest used the old 4 input non master volume heads. Thats how they did it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 01, 2026 01:09 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: wth
I'm betting this will be the episode where they find Captain Kidd's gold, wrapped in the lost plays of Shakespeare, inside the cargo bay of a UFO.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 01, 2026 12:59 AM (JjVZx)
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I'm just amazed that the show has gone on so long. They found some trinkets, but no pot of gold.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 01, 2026 01:09 AM (/Ae+Q)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 01, 2026 01:11 AM (2JFBE)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 01, 2026 01:06 AM (sAmhv)i
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I can't get speech to text to work. Need a little help typing after my medical problems
Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 01, 2026 01:11 AM (/Ae+Q)
Posted by: wth
I'm betting this will be the episode where they find Captain Kidd's gold, wrapped in the lost plays of Shakespeare, inside the cargo bay of a UFO.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 01, 2026 12:59 AM (JjVZx)
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I'm just amazed that the show has gone on so long. They found some trinkets, but no pot of gold.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 01, 2026 01:09 AM (/Ae+Q
Bobby Dazzlers!
Posted by: Bobby Dazzler at April 01, 2026 01:11 AM (guCHD)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 01, 2026 01:01 AM (tLVLK)
Is that dude insane or what? His testing is off the chart.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 01, 2026 01:11 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 01, 2026 01:15 AM (1A8DP)
It's now April 1 here in the World's Finest Time Zone (albeit Daylight Saving adjusted). Call it 11pm instead.
Thirty-two years ago, as the clock turned over from March to April, our little family of five completed our journey in the old Suburban, moving from Chicago to Oklahoma, where we began our new life.
It was a rough transition, preceded and followed by some less-than-optimal choices, but we've never regretted leaving the Windy City behind. It was MiladyJo's birthplace; she had family there (now almost all gone or like us moved away) and with her family's support and her city wisdom, we had a pretty good fourteen years there, but the kids were becoming teens and it was 'way past time to go rural and red state.
Lots of changes in 32 years, but still happy to be here.
Posted by: mindful webworker - Oklahoma Heaven at April 01, 2026 01:15 AM (jrd4M)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 01, 2026 01:17 AM (I7nrW)
Posted by: mindful webworker - Oklahoma Heaven at April 01, 2026 01:15 AM (jrd4M)
Wise choice, Mindful!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 01, 2026 01:17 AM (2JFBE)
Nada, this calendar did not exist then. Which kind of suggests that the trivia question is BS too.
The first day of the first century was January 1 in the first year of our Lord, i.e. 1 AD, when Jesus was possibly about four years old (the start of the Christian Era was misdated by as much as 4 years). This is true whether or not anyone knew it or not. It is like saying Solomon’s Temple fell in 586 BC. How did they know it was BC? They didn’t, but that is when it fell.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 01, 2026 01:18 AM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 01, 2026 01:19 AM (2JFBE)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 01, 2026 01:21 AM (0nHVk)
Hung out a shingle as a Y2K consultant. Made BANK!
Posted by: buddhaha at April 01, 2026 01:22 AM (nwB28)
I still have the old thing. Wonder if it will boot up?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 01, 2026 01:31 AM (2JFBE)
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NYT Headlines Spinning Bush's Jobs Boom
Things People Are More Likely to Say Than "Did You Hear What Al Franken Said Yesterday?"
Signs that Paul Krugman Has Lost His Frickin' Mind
All-Time Best NBA Players, According to Senator Robert Byrd
Other Bad Things About the Jews, According to the Koran
Signs That David Letterman Just Doesn't Care Anymore
Examples of Bob Kerrey's Insufferable Racial Jackassery
Signs Andy Rooney Is Going Senile
Other Judgments Dick Clarke Made About Condi Rice Based on Her Appearance
Collective Names for Groups of People
John Kerry's Other Vietnam Super-Pets
Cool Things About the XM8 Assault Rifle
Media-Approved Facts About the Democrat Spy
Changes to Make Christianity More "Inclusive"
Secret John Kerry Senatorial Accomplishments
John Edwards Campaign Excuses
John Kerry Pick-Up Lines
Changes Liberal Senator George Michell Will Make at Disney
Torments in Dog-Hell
The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon
A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates
Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny
More Margaret Cho Abuse
Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny
Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format
John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)