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Do you know where the phrase "steal my thunder" comes from?

You might guess it has something to do with some mortal stealing Zeus' lightning bot.

It's more literal than that:

The idiom "to steal someone's thunder" originated in the early 18th century with English playwright and critic John Dennis.
The Origin Story
The Invention: In 1709, John Dennis created a new, realistic thunder-making machine (likely involving rolling sheets of tin) for his play Appius and Virginia.
The Failure: His play was not successful and closed quickly at the Drury Lane Theatre.
The Theft: Shortly after, Dennis attended a performance of Macbeth at the same theater and discovered the producers were using his thunder machine.
The Reaction: Outraged, Dennis allegedly exclaimed: "Damn them; they will not let my play run, but they steal my thunder!"

A quick video about the phrase. It's from the BBC so you know it's real. (Taps nose.)

A history of stage lightning, thunder, and rain effects.

Ghost bird look like dragon frog

Ghost Rider Halloween costume.

Ghost plane.

Slasher movie doggies.

Putting a Boston Dynamics robot dog into a dog costume. It's creepy.

Okay so this one isn't spooky, but only because it's in broad daylight with a blue sky. Try to imagine it at night with a moon hanging over it.

Snaggle-toothed snake-eel is a Democrat Congresswoman 7.

Freeway spook.

The Beryozka Ballet’s iconic ‘ghost dance’pic.twitter.com/K03UhZzLV3
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) March 14, 2026

The ghost cyclist, Surat, India pic.twitter.com/Vnk5PYAfS8
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) April 22, 2026

There is a town of 732 identical castles, Burj Al Babas, a ghost town frozen in time.

Built between 2014 and 2019 in Turkey, it was meant to be a luxury paradise.

In 2019, the developer went bankrupt, and construction stopped, leaving it abandoned
pic.twitter.com/LTNYhwZ7Hf
— Science girl (@sciencegirl) March 29, 2026

Woman: I will terrify the neighborhood as "La Llorna," the wailing ghost in white.

Dog: Not on my watch, Muchacha.

You can’t be a ghost in my area!
Go haunt somewhere else!! pic.twitter.com/aAJEfg0EWA
— The Figen (@TheFigen_) April 22, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:30 PM

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1 FOIST

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 24, 2026 07:33 PM (WONhk)

2 Evening, cafe patrons!

The video of the robot dog in a costume looks as though an alien who had never seen a real dog watched a bunch of Warners' Looney Tunes cartoons, then designed a "dog" based on that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2026 07:33 PM (+2QQb)

3 That tower and monastery looks pretty spooky even in daylight. It looks like it might easily fall on you.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2026 07:34 PM (+2QQb)

4 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at April 24, 2026 07:35 PM (Ia/+0)

5 And the ghost on the cycle, pants only , reminds me of the comic scene in The Invisible Man where Griffin (Claude Rains) terrifies the police, and we see him capering away clad only in trousers, singing, "Here we go gathering nuts in May . . ."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2026 07:36 PM (+2QQb)

6 That town of identical castles looks suspiciously like the Village from "The Prisoner."

Which one belongs to Number 6?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 24, 2026 07:39 PM (gnNyN)

7 That town of identical castles looks suspiciously like the Village from "The Prisoner."

Which one belongs to Number 6?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 24, 2026

***
"I am not a number! I am a free man!!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2026 07:40 PM (+2QQb)

8 Sidetracked by nephew & niece stopping by. Is that a sophomore mistake?

Congratulations, ChristyBlinky!

Posted by: Nazdar at April 24, 2026 07:41 PM (NcvvS)

9 I am in shock to be foist because my nutty husband distracted me.

He's been bird crazy since he discovered the bird nest in a hanging basket a week ago.Moving the plant to the garage in the event of a freeze and snow. A regular ornithologist now, you know.

Making dinner (I married someone who cooks) he is discussing pelicans who can swallow ducks whole. Then the visciousness of sibling eaglets pushing others out of the nest (these youtubes he likes because the commenters go nuts/weep due to cruelty and where is the mother eagle?).

The red finch family on the front porch and his wife may go insane soonish.

He did quit messing with the birds at least as they chirp at him in angry voices. At one point he put the hanging basket on a chain which resulted in a carnival ride for the mother bird and four eggs.

Now he's buying a new camera and I don't ask why. There is already a camera on them and no one cares but our 5yr old granddaughter. He's told her the eggs hatch in 2wks.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 24, 2026 07:41 PM (WONhk)

10 Hello cafe friends! Spooky is fun!

Are we having muffins to celebrate the theater?

Posted by: Piper at April 24, 2026 07:41 PM (Dd38x)

11 Never had a ghostly encounter.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 24, 2026 07:41 PM (kxLc1)

12 Watching Castle Keep with Burt Lancaster, haven't seen this in many years.

Posted by: Skip at April 24, 2026 07:42 PM (Ia/+0)

13 Putting a Boston Dynamics robot dog into a dog costume.

I think I would want a dragon-skin for my BD robot

Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 24, 2026 07:42 PM (a+4eV)

14 * looks around * * sniffs *

Did we make it to 100% for the week?

Thank you, Ace! Another stellar week!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 24, 2026 07:43 PM (0sNs1)

15 It would be cool if we all agreed on one day of the year, and one month, where we did spooky and ghosty stuff.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 24, 2026 07:43 PM (uUHnE)

16 Real smiles make all the difference because it show attitude beneath. Fake smiles do the uncanny valley thing and cause repulsion.
Posted by: whig at April 24, 2026 07:35 PM (E4rtv)

Willowed, but wanted to make a point. This is also the case with any woman. Kate Upto had gigantic boobs, but her smile was luminous. Anne Hathaway was always one i took similarly. Or Alyson Hannigan.

Non-miserable people look different.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 24, 2026 07:43 PM (zZu0s)

17 11 Never had a ghostly encounter.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg

we have such sights to show you

Posted by: the Zutt at April 24, 2026 07:44 PM (gKWVE)

18 If the castles were not in France perhaps we could have all bought a castle in AceWorld.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 24, 2026 07:44 PM (WONhk)

19 Dog: Not on my watch, Muchacha.

This one has me giggling hard.
That entire plan went straight to hell because of one determined puppy.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 24, 2026 07:44 PM (6ydKt)

20 15 It would be cool if we all agreed on one day of the year, and one month, where we did spooky and ghosty stuff.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April

I suggest Oct. 31st. What do you think?

Posted by: Piper at April 24, 2026 07:44 PM (Dd38x)

21 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqoyKzgkqR4

Posted by: Ghost of Turbines past at April 24, 2026 07:45 PM (jrgJz)

22 Ace! Have a great weekend!!!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 24, 2026 07:45 PM (WONhk)

23 Favorite ghost movie is The Others though The Entity was the creepiest one to me. That was one rapey ghost.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 24, 2026 07:46 PM (kxLc1)

24 Oct 31st. I'll save my story till then.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 24, 2026 07:46 PM (DIbRX)

25 It would be cool if we all agreed on one day of the year, and one month, where we did spooky and ghosty stuff.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 24, 2026 07:43 PM (uUHnE)
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Walpurgis Night (April 30) doesn't get enough love.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 24, 2026 07:46 PM (gnNyN)

26 snark aside, what a stellar bunch of links. interesting and informative. Thanks Ace!

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 24, 2026 07:46 PM (uUHnE)

27 Never had a ghostly encounter.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 24, 2026

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Nor have I. IN the French Quarter near where I lived as a kid, there's the famous LaLaurie Mansion which is supposedly haunted by the ghosts of slaves the owner, Madame LaLaurie, tortured in the attic. And there is a white stone apartment building about a block and a half from my old place which is also supposedly haunted. Never knew anybody who lived there, though.

The producers of the 1966 film Hotel w/ Rod Taylor, which was set and filmed in NO, used the exterior of the latter as a small competing hotel Taylor's character visits in one scene.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2026 07:46 PM (+2QQb)

28 Non-miserable people look different.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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True. Those of us with a melancholy disposition have different smiles indeed.

Posted by: whig at April 24, 2026 07:46 PM (E4rtv)

29 24 Oct 31st. I'll save my story till then.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 24

We need a ghost story night!

Posted by: Piper at April 24, 2026 07:47 PM (Dd38x)

30 I once saw a spiral staircase in a house that burned during the Civil War. The house is not there and I was a bit wasted and riding in my car wasting gas that Carter rationed.

That's my only ghost story, thankfully.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 24, 2026 07:47 PM (WONhk)

31 Is your muffin buttered?
Would you like us to assign someone to butter your muffin?

Excuse me (What?)
Excuse me (What?)

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 24, 2026 07:48 PM (6ydKt)

32 I bet the ghost dancers have weights in the hems in their dresses to keep them from flapping around.

Posted by: huerfano at April 24, 2026 07:48 PM (98kQX)

33 Putting a Boston Dynamics robot dog into a dog costume. It's creepy.

Nice but I was totally expecting the robodogs to sniff each other's egress ports. Missed opportunity, Boston Dynamics.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 24, 2026 07:49 PM (vTZFs)

34 Misspoke about Sydney Sweeney in the last thread.
Got the names mixed up. Was thinking of that singer who is getting broad in the beam but appealing to 12 y.o.s.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2026 07:49 PM (XAeCh)

35 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igxqp1QvxGc

Posted by: Ghost of Turbines past at April 24, 2026 07:50 PM (jrgJz)

36 i've only seen The Others and The Entity once. I've always wanted to re-watch The Others. I remember it being very creepy and atmospheric. Alas it has a twist ending which I'm not sure will hold up on a second watch. (The Sixth Sense was pretty flat on subsequent viewings.)

Posted by: ace at April 24, 2026 07:50 PM (1wjle)

37 Pretty sure our house was haunted when I was a kid. It was an old farm house (1910-ish). I would get inklings, a little notion that something was watching me; but my brother seemed far more tuned in, so to speak, to the point that he asked me to switch bedrooms. He was far more comfortable in my former room.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at April 24, 2026 07:50 PM (0aYVJ)

38 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2026 07:46 PM (+2QQb)

I stayed at the Myrtles in St Francisville with my girlfriend for the weekend. She really wanted to experience a ghost. I told her I was pretty sure she wasn't going to . We could have stayed at a lot cheaper B&B .

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 24, 2026 07:52 PM (kxLc1)

39 You ever notice that most ghosts are women? I guess they just really want to stick around at bitch about something.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 24, 2026 07:52 PM (P4bJX)

40 Snaggle-toothed snake-eel is a Democrat Congresswoman 7.
--

Maxine Waters?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2026 07:53 PM (XAeCh)

41 Wal, I visited three houses today, including one in a small town about 15 minuts' drive south of here. That one was already taken, it turned out when we got there. The third needed a LOT of work. And the first was nice, if a little . . . generic. Though I could have done things with it.

Then I found out what kind of homeowners' insurance rates I'd be paying for even a small inexpensive house like that one. I think Indiana (I checked their rates; much, much better) has suddenly moved back to the top of the rankings.

I love Kansas, the people and the roads and the weather (so far). I want to visit the western regions soon. But as for buying here, I don't think it's gonna happen.

(I blinked the first time I saw $3.99 as the price for a hamburger here. It's not big, they're the "smashed" kind, and you don't get fries without paying extra. But they are good.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2026 07:53 PM (+2QQb)

42 Anti-Ghost dog be one sharp canine,

Posted by: Eromero at April 24, 2026 07:53 PM (LHPAg)

43 >>>22 Ace! Have a great weekend!!!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

thank you! You too!

And everyone else as well.

Posted by: ace at April 24, 2026 07:53 PM (1wjle)

44 39 You ever notice that most ghosts are women?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 24, 2026 07:52 PM (P4bJX)

You weren't supposed to help her.

Posted by: that kid in The Ring at April 24, 2026 07:53 PM (gKWVE)

45 >>> snark aside, what a stellar bunch of links. interesting and informative. Thanks Ace!

thank you!

Posted by: ace at April 24, 2026 07:54 PM (1wjle)

46 Apparently, the hospital I was born in is haunted. The old St. James in Butte MT. If nothing else, the cops have to chase the tweakers out nightly. So, that's fun.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at April 24, 2026 07:54 PM (0aYVJ)

47 Posted by: ace at April 24, 2026 07:50 PM (1wjle)

The Others is cool to watch the second time to see if you should have seen the twist coming before you did.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 24, 2026 07:54 PM (kxLc1)

48 VK Arsenyev 1907: “Sometimes it happens that mountain and forest have such a cheerful and attractive appearance that one would be glad to linger there for ever. In others mountains seem surly and wild. It is a strange thing that such impressions are not purely personal and subjective, but were felt by all the men in the detachment. I tested this several times and was always convinced that it was so. That was the case here. In that spot there was an oppressive feeling in the air, something unhappy and painful, and the sensation of gloom and ill-omen was felt by us all.”

Posted by: 13times at April 24, 2026 07:54 PM (SVYPk)

49 Pretty sure our house was haunted when I was a kid. It was an old farm house (1910-ish). I would get inklings, a little notion that something was watching me; but my brother seemed far more tuned in, so to speak, to the point that he asked me to switch bedrooms. He was far more comfortable in my former room.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at April 24, 2026

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I will say that one apartment I lived in with my red tabby cat Arizona in the '80s seemed to worry him. He refused to go into the bathroom unless I was there already. I got no bad vibes . . . but the landlord told me later that the previous tenant had painted the walls black and left bits of black candle wax everywhere.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2026 07:55 PM (+2QQb)

50 I knew a girl that worked at the Myrtles and she said she saw all kinds of stuff. She did a lot of drugs, but she also saw somw things.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 24, 2026 07:55 PM (P4bJX)

51 Wolfus, talk to an insurance agent there before anything. I wonder if the price of homeowners' insurance doesn't reflect things like tornadoes.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 24, 2026 07:55 PM (rbvCR)

52 I think if I saw the person on a bridge during the day it might be a woman dressed in hijab, not Dracula. I think the videographer overreacted for dramatic effect. People who have to film themselves and post it for almost everything are for lack of a better term- overexposed.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2026 07:56 PM (GLmO1)

53 31 Is your muffin buttered?
Would you like us to assign someone to butter your muffin?

Excuse me (What?)
Excuse me (What?)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 24, 2026 07:48 PM (6ydKt)
it's ace's lost yesterday squeeze

Posted by: Eromero at April 24, 2026 07:56 PM (LHPAg)

54 Misspoke about Sydney Sweeney in the last thread.
Got the names mixed up. Was thinking of that singer who is getting broad in the beam but appealing to 12 y.o.s.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2026 07:49 PM (XAeCh)

Sabrina Carpenter? She seems retarded. And looks like a beauty pagent 13 year old.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 24, 2026 07:56 PM (zZu0s)

55 Apparently, the hospital I was born in is haunted. The old St. James in Butte MT. If nothing else, the cops have to chase the tweakers out nightly. So, that's fun.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at April 24, 2026 07:54 PM (0aYVJ)

Abandoned hospitals have to be the creepiest buildings.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 24, 2026 07:56 PM (kxLc1)

56
The Others is cool to watch the second time to see if you should have seen the twist coming before you did.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 24, 2026

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There seemed to be a subgenre of ghost films with that twist or a similar one about that time, didn't there?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2026 07:56 PM (+2QQb)

57
That Roussanou Monastery is a real place, but that Instagram link is apparently doctored AI. It's impressive enough without it:

https://is.gd/mvr9Kv

And with the Moon:

https://is.gd/ndO1mM

AI slop is everywhere now. It's getting where you can't trust anything. And the worst of it, as my favorite astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy laments, it makes people suspect real images as being AI fakes. He goes to unbelievable lengths to get fantastic real photos and then people don't believe it's real.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 24, 2026 07:56 PM (w6EFb)

58 From “The Willows by Algernon Blackwood:

Blackwood 1907: “The psychology of places, for some imaginations at least, is very vivid; for the wanderer, especially, camps have their "note" either of welcome or rejection. At first it may not always be apparent, because the busy preparations of tent and cooking prevent, but with the first pause—after supper usually—it comes and announces itself. And the note of this willow camp now became unmistakably plain to me; we were interlopers, trespassers; we were not

Posted by: 13times at April 24, 2026 07:57 PM (SVYPk)

59 >>>it's ace's lost yesterday squeeze

if she drops the kinderwhore look and goes back to her old look, I'll welcome her back.

Posted by: ace at April 24, 2026 07:57 PM (1wjle)

60 Creepiest ever would be an abandoned insane asylum.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 24, 2026 07:57 PM (DIbRX)

61 >>>58 From “The Willows by Algernon Blackwood:

would you believe I read about half of that and then stopped

i'm really bad at reading.

Posted by: ace at April 24, 2026 07:57 PM (1wjle)

62 ONE time many moons ago I told Brit Lass I thought there was a ghost in the house. Just sensed something. We take that kind of thing in stride, talk to them and welcome them. Figure they're just passing through, no need to resist. Also it's kind of funny because who really thinks they're real...?

Anyway... remember those old Panasonic cordless phones? We had one in the bedroom and that same night we were the only two in the house and laying in bed, and heard the fucker beep on the cradle out of nowhere and light up from across the room. Like it does when you take it out and put it back in the cradle. Had never happened before or since. Just weird that it happened that night.

Posted by: ... at April 24, 2026 07:57 PM (vE0+H)

63 Wolfus, talk to an insurance agent there before anything. I wonder if the price of homeowners' insurance doesn't reflect things like tornadoes.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 24, 2026

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I did call a local guy, and he won't be able to send me a quote until they can take some pics of the property -- probably not until next week.

You're probably right about the twisters.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2026 07:57 PM (+2QQb)

64 Ace. You help me laugh at the absolute absurdity of life. It's all so ridiculous. But, as Reader's Digest said, "laughter is cool and stuff."

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at April 24, 2026 07:58 PM (0aYVJ)

65 My case of canning lids has shown up!

I have some to spare, there are 1,200 lids to a case

Posted by: Kindltot at April 24, 2026 07:59 PM (rbvCR)

66 I totally saw the twist in The Other coming. Knew what was coming in Sixth Sense too, but I was primed for that.

I notice dumb little details. It's kind of my thing. Like people always wearing the same clothes and shit.

I couldn't tell you what their names were, but if they wore the same sweatshirt in every scene, I'm on it.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 24, 2026 07:59 PM (P4bJX)

67 thanks so much, Pug.

Posted by: ace at April 24, 2026 07:59 PM (1wjle)

68 I think the videographer overreacted for dramatic effect.

Yeah, that was a nothingburger. Just a dude in a costume with a GoPro fishing for... something.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 24, 2026 07:59 PM (vTZFs)

69 if she drops the kinderwhore look and goes back to her old look, I'll welcome her back.
Posted by: ace at April 24, 2026 07:57 PM (1wjle)

Have no idea who we're talking about but she looks like Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 24, 2026 08:00 PM (zZu0s)

70 >>>I think if I saw the person on a bridge during the day it might be a woman dressed in hijab, not Dracula. I think the videographer overreacted for dramatic effect.

I think it might have been AI, tbh. Seems too tall to be a real woman (or even a tall man).

Posted by: ace at April 24, 2026 08:00 PM (1wjle)

71 Hail comes along with the twisters, too.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 24, 2026 08:01 PM (rbvCR)

72 Posted by: Oddbob at April 24, 2026 07:59 PM

It was so small I didn't see the "Go Pro fishing".

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2026 08:01 PM (GLmO1)

73 i've only seen The Others and The Entity once. I've always wanted to re-watch The Others. I remember it being very creepy and atmospheric. Alas it has a twist ending which I'm not sure will hold up on a second watch. (The Sixth Sense was pretty flat on subsequent viewings.)
Posted by: ace at April 24, 2026

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I'd rewatch it, and have, to study the technique the director and writer used to lay the central concept out there in the open and yet keep it hidden until the climax. Sort of like rereading a favorite murder mystery where you remember who the killer is, but watching the technique the writer uses.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2026 08:01 PM (+2QQb)

74 osted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I think what you are doing is incredibly brave. Do you think you are going to have any culture issues? At this point in my life, leaving the south would be difficult for me, despite our bugs and weather.

Posted by: Piper at April 24, 2026 08:02 PM (Dd38x)

75 Obviously staged on LaLorna. Dog wagging it's tail is a give away.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 24, 2026 08:02 PM (zZu0s)

76 >>>Have no idea who we're talking about but she looks like Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver?

no it's the formerly hot girl from Wet Leg. "Kinderwhore" isn't the right word. She just gave herself this really weird sexually-aggressive-but-ugly look for some reason. She #DefeatedMyMaleGaze.

I should have ignored that and just given the album a listen but I'm superficial and I like hot chicks so I didn't.

Posted by: ace at April 24, 2026 08:02 PM (1wjle)

77 Hail comes along with the twisters, too.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 24, 2026

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Which is why I insist on a garage.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2026 08:02 PM (+2QQb)

78 60 Creepiest ever would be an abandoned insane asylum.
Posted by: Ben Had

You should watch Justin Long's "Accepted". That movie rolls with it.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 24, 2026 08:02 PM (gKWVE)

79 >>>75 Obviously staged on LaLorna. Dog wagging it's tail is a give away.

looking at it again it might have been a staged play... kind of looks like a stage.

Posted by: ace at April 24, 2026 08:02 PM (1wjle)

80 Abandoned hospitals have to be the creepiest buildings.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 24, 2026 07:56 PM (kxLc1)

I was a housekeeper in a hospital. One woman I worked with refused to go into one exam room, so I had to. It was creepy. Even I felt it. Turns out it was where a certain procedure was performed. IFYKWIM

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at April 24, 2026 08:03 PM (0aYVJ)

81 It was so small I didn't see the "Go Pro fishing".

You had to scroll down to the still frame in the comments. But don't bother. It's still nothing.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 24, 2026 08:03 PM (vTZFs)

82 Bananas are playing the Party Animals live now from Yankee Stadium on Youtube. All Banana games are broadcast live there.

Posted by: Yellow Journalist at April 24, 2026 08:03 PM (oftw2)

83 Ace I love this little community you've somehow brought together and nurtured. You I could really take or leave though I preferred the fifth version of you to the rest, he was cool. You're the best.

Posted by: ... at April 24, 2026 08:03 PM (vE0+H)

84 Then I found out what kind of homeowners' insurance rates I'd be paying for even a small inexpensive house like that one. I think Indiana (I checked their rates; much, much better) has suddenly moved back to the top of the rankings.

I love Kansas, the people and the roads and the weather (so far). I want to visit the western regions soon. But as for buying here, I don't think it's gonna happen.

(I blinked the first time I saw $3.99 as the price for a hamburger here. It's not big, they're the "smashed" kind, and you don't get fries without paying extra. But they are good.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2026 07:53 PM (+2QQb)

Kansas gets tornados. Some towns are in known tornado tracks, and some are not. Maybe a local insurance agency could put you som knowledge.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 24, 2026 08:04 PM (utfVc)

85 if she drops the kinderwhore look and goes back to her old look, I'll welcome her back.
Posted by: ace at April 24, 2026 07:57 PM (1wjle)
Me too, victims of bad management and bonehead advice likely.

Posted by: Eromero at April 24, 2026 08:04 PM (LHPAg)

86 I think what you are doing is incredibly brave. Do you think you are going to have any culture issues? At this point in my life, leaving the south would be difficult for me, despite our bugs and weather.
Posted by: Piper at April 24, 2026

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Thanks, Piper! No, I've never really felt I belonged in the South, even Nawlins' peculiar sorta-European version of it. Even as a kid I didn't feel "part" of it. When I went to Indiana, and now here, I felt I fitted in better. Not perfectly; I'm pretty eccentric in some ways; but much better.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2026 08:04 PM (+2QQb)

87 Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 24, 2026 07:59 PM (P

I can see that in the Sixth Sense fairly early but The Others had nothing to give it away until the husband came home.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 24, 2026 08:04 PM (kxLc1)

88 How much quim has Ace singed today, I wonder. And from what distances?

Posted by: Bulg at April 24, 2026 08:04 PM (77rzZ)

89 compare her look here

https://youtu.be/nMGMot16a6E?si=tIltqjMVXS5UIjqT

to here

https://youtu.be/MABrtSn30LU?si=evujlezEYIBj6keG

Posted by: ace at April 24, 2026 08:04 PM (1wjle)

90 would you believe I read about half of that and then stopped

i'm really bad at reading.
Posted by: ace at April 24, 2026 07:57 PM (1wjle)

It just unfolds at a slow pace. I can understand why people don't like it.

Posted by: 13times at April 24, 2026 08:05 PM (SVYPk)

91 looking at it again it might have been a staged play... kind of looks like a stage.
Posted by: ace at April 24, 2026 08:02 PM (1wjle)

My guess is it was a tourist play thing. The dog is probably owned by the guys with the camera, laughing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 24, 2026 08:05 PM (zZu0s)

92 I just want to send ace a 2 inch rare filet and a bottle of Cab.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 24, 2026 08:05 PM (DIbRX)

93 >>.It just unfolds at a slow pace. I can understand why people don't like it.

i wouldn't say I didn't like it, I was excited to read it, I just have very low focus.

Posted by: ace at April 24, 2026 08:05 PM (1wjle)

94 Kansas gets tornados. Some towns are in known tornado tracks, and some are not. Maybe a local insurance agency could put you som knowledge.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 24, 2026

***
I asked some locals, not just the real estate lady. They mostly said Salina usually was spared direct tornado hits; they tended to veer either east or west of here.

Indiana gets them too. As do AL, MS, and LA sometimes. I want a basement along with my garage!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2026 08:06 PM (+2QQb)

95 Hail comes along with the twisters, too.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 24, 2026 08:01 PM (rbvCR)

Yeah, not sure what part of Indiana but thunderstorms/flash flood would seem more of a thing. Grew up in So. Ohio and we had tornadoes but they were more rare and smaller, aside from crazy ones like Xenia 73.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 24, 2026 08:06 PM (8avO+)

96 I'd rewatch it, and have, to study the technique the director and writer used to lay the central concept out there in the open and yet keep it hidden until the climax. Sort of like rereading a favorite murder mystery where you remember who the killer is, but watching the technique the writer uses.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

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

Yeah, I do that with Christie. I read them twice.

I have been writing a bit, and I stumbled on using some of what I learned to build tension and emotion in my writing. Not sure it is same technique, but by studying you become aware and develop your own technique.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 24, 2026 08:07 PM (uUHnE)

97 65 My case of canning lids has shown up!

I have some to spare, there are 1,200 lids to a case
Posted by: Kindltot

Hope you stocked up on Mason jars before the decease of Dave Mason. RIP.

Posted by: Canned Ham at April 24, 2026 08:07 PM (oftw2)

98 Here's a cool picture of a phantom: https://lik.com/products/phantom

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at April 24, 2026 08:07 PM (V362x)

99 "Snaggle-toothed snake-eel is a Democrat Congresswoman 7."

Or James Carville's doppelganger.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at April 24, 2026 08:08 PM (oji8u)

100
I don't know if it will make any difference, but Carl DeMaio got the Voter ID initiative on California's November ballot.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 24, 2026 08:08 PM (n7rxJ)

101 Indiana gets them too. As do AL, MS, and LA sometimes. I want a basement along with my garage!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2026 08:06 PM (+2QQb)

OH too

In Ohio growing up some older neighborhoods had basements, newer and cheaper stuff, no.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 24, 2026 08:08 PM (8avO+)

102 Ghost Rider Halloween costume.

The training wheels just make the costume.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 24, 2026 08:08 PM (Wnv9h)

103 Eromero, how did your wife's first treatment go?

Posted by: TecumsehTea at April 24, 2026 08:08 PM (nz1sK)

104 That was the case here. In that spot there was an oppressive feeling in the air, something unhappy and painful, and the sensation of gloom and ill-omen was felt by us all.”

Posted by: 13times at April 24, 2026 07:54 PM (SVYPk)

Went to an estate sale in the house the deceased lived in. She was an actress and they were selling her clothes and costume jewelry. We looked for awhile and then left. My wife and I were very quiet walking down the street to the car. When we got in the car, I said "I got a very oppressive feeling that she was angry at people touching her stuff". My wife said she pictured her yelling "leave my things alone!!" Me too. Took us awhile to shake it.

Posted by: Bob...no...the other Bob. at April 24, 2026 08:09 PM (xHEy0)

105 Ghost castles in Turkey and Ghost Cities in China.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 24, 2026 08:11 PM (Cqx++)

106
Yeah, I do that with Christie. I read them twice.

I have been writing a bit, and I stumbled on using some of what I learned to build tension and emotion in my writing. Not sure it is same technique, but by studying you become aware and develop your own technique.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 24, 2026

***
You go back and see where she planted the clues, fairly enough (though Ellery Queen was better at that, with more peculiar and imaginative clues), and watch how she distracted you at that moment or buried the true clue in a mass of other data. It's fair; the clue is there; but you have to look for it.

Christie was a better writer than I used to think. I've read several of her Mary Westmacott dramatic, non-crime novels, and they remind me of Graham Greene.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2026 08:11 PM (+2QQb)

107 92 I just want to send ace a 2 inch rare filet and a bottle of Cab.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 24, 2026 08:05 PM (DIbRX)

You know me. Love ya babe.

Posted by: Bob...no...the other Bob. at April 24, 2026 08:12 PM (xHEy0)

108 Yeah, not sure what part of Indiana but thunderstorms/flash flood would seem more of a thing. Grew up in So. Ohio and we had tornadoes but they were more rare and smaller, aside from crazy ones like Xenia 73.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 24, 2026

***
I'm thinking the western edge, Terre Haute, maybe.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2026 08:12 PM (+2QQb)

109 How many simultaneous Bobs do we have right now? Two?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 24, 2026 08:12 PM (zZu0s)

110 Anyway... remember those old Panasonic cordless phones? We had one in the bedroom and that same night we were the only two in the house and laying in bed, and heard the fucker beep on the cradle out of nowhere and light up from across the room. Like it does when you take it out and put it back in the cradle. Had never happened before or since. Just weird that it happened that night.
Posted by: ... at April 24, 2026 07:57 PM (vE0+H)

I had something like that happen just last night. Computer monitor turned on across the room, tablet froze for a sec, others beeped. I figure a power glitch hit my net hub and various devices woke up to fix their networks.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 24, 2026 08:12 PM (8avO+)

111 89 compare her look here

https://youtu.be/nMGMot16a6E?si=tIltqjMVXS5UIjqT

to here

https://youtu.be/MABrtSn30LU?si=evujlezEYIBj6keG

Posted by: ace at April 24, 2026 08:04 PM (1wjle)

Never seen their live stuff, only the videos.

Pretty aggressive change there.
A lost of girls seem to want to look like Harley Quinn these days just because boys like her.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 24, 2026 08:12 PM (6ydKt)

112 How many simultaneous Bobs do we have right now? Two?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 24, 2026 08:12 PM (zZu0s)

Ba ba ba ba Bob a ran....

Posted by: Bob...no...the other Bob. at April 24, 2026 08:13 PM (xHEy0)

113 Every place that’s built above the water table should have a basement.

The house that I grew up in had a basement with four rooms. In addition to two full above-ground floors and an attic.

That house was packed full of stuff.

Posted by: Bulg at April 24, 2026 08:14 PM (77rzZ)

114 How many simultaneous Bobs do we have right now? Two?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 24, 2026 08:12 PM

I'm always here.

Posted by: Bob from NSA at April 24, 2026 08:14 PM (0sNs1)

115 I had something like that happen just last night. Computer monitor turned on across the room, tablet froze for a sec, others beeped. I figure a power glitch hit my net hub and various devices woke up to fix their networks.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 24, 2026 08:12 PM (8avO+)

Possible. But weird.

Posted by: ... at April 24, 2026 08:14 PM (vE0+H)

116
I totally saw the twist in The Other coming. Knew what was coming in Sixth Sense too, but I was primed for that.

I notice dumb little details.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe

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

I saw those twists coming, too. The thing is, it's pretty easy to tell when you're watching a "puzzle" movie -- there's so much that's not shown, you know it's all leading up to a big reveal. That can happen at about the 15-minute mark.

At that point, it's just a matter of guessing what the twist will be, and that turns out to be pretty easy if you're playing Spot The Clues.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 24, 2026 08:14 PM (n7rxJ)

117
Andrew McCarthy got this little time-lapse video of the Sun a while back:

https://is.gd/gyA8CC

That's 7 hours of observation using fancy equipment and a lot of processing skill, but all from his backyard. And note all the comments saying it's fake.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 24, 2026 08:15 PM (w6EFb)

118 How many simultaneous Bobs do we have right now? Two?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 24, 2026 08:12 PM

Me, whenever I'm in the pool.

Posted by: Robert, with no arms or legs at April 24, 2026 08:16 PM (0sNs1)

119 Pretty aggressive change there.
A lost of girls seem to want to look like Harley Quinn these days just because boys like her.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 24, 2026 08:12 PM (6ydKt)

Or, she thinks she's losing it so she is rolling in another direction- and is pissed about it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 24, 2026 08:16 PM (zZu0s)

120 Yeah, not sure what part of Indiana but thunderstorms/flash flood would seem more of a thing. Grew up in So. Ohio and we had tornadoes but they were more rare and smaller, aside from crazy ones like Xenia 73.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 24, 2026

***
I'm thinking the western edge, Terre Haute, maybe.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2026 08:12 PM (+2QQb)

I used to drive thru that area a lot going from Ohio (Cincy) to Stl Louis for college. An interesting thing is that it is near a "seam" for weather. If it was snowing down in Louisville, say it usually wasn't there, and vice versa. I could redirect friends driving from the East Coast on which route to take between the two areas. Travel times were pretty similar.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 24, 2026 08:16 PM (8avO+)

121 Ghost cycle is a bit freaking

Posted by: Skip at April 24, 2026 08:16 PM (Ia/+0)

122 Wife, son and I visited Fort Laramie some years ago. Son and I were wandering, taking photos, chatting. Wife had gone ahead, and went into the little stone jailhouse where they kept deserters before courts martial.

Suddenly we see her tear-assing out of there, pale and terrified. "Someone was in there with me!" Son and I went in, and we felt something, but not like wife did. Basically, an icky place.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at April 24, 2026 08:16 PM (0aYVJ)

123 You go back and see where she planted the clues, fairly enough (though Ellery Queen was better at that, with more peculiar and imaginative clues), and watch how she distracted you at that moment or buried the true clue in a mass of other data. It's fair; the clue is there; but you have to look for it.

Christie was a better writer than I used to think. I've read several of her Mary Westmacott dramatic, non-crime novels, and they remind me of Graham Greene.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

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

Thanks, now I have more books to put on my list. I have not read any of hers but Marple and Poirot. and I have not read Green or Queen.

If only there could be an atomic war and I would have ...Time Enough at Last.

But yeah, that's the point to see exactly how she hid the clues or made big revelations seem like she (the writer) is just filling space with small talk.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 24, 2026 08:17 PM (uUHnE)

124 I'm always here.

Posted by: Bob from NSA at April 24, 2026 08:14 PM (0sNs1)

LoL. Love this damn place.

Posted by: Bob...no...the other Bob. at April 24, 2026 08:17 PM (xHEy0)

125 58 From “The Willows by Algernon Blackwood:

would you believe I read about half of that and then stopped

i'm really bad at reading.
Posted by: ace at April 24, 2026 07:57 PM

I've been listening to a lot of YouTube audio short stories lately. The Willows keeps popping up. Maybe I should try listening to it soon.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 24, 2026 08:17 PM (Wnv9h)

126 No, homeowners insurance here reflects the possibility of hail or wind damage. And your insurance needs to be for replacement cost, not what you paid for it

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 24, 2026 08:17 PM (wOXCn)

127
Best of Breed for The Big Dummy at today's Mid-Continent KC of Tulsa show today ovef a handsome Borzoi entry. We're quite happy because this breaks a string of five shows where he failed to go Breed.

Nothing in the Group, but we'll take what we get.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 24, 2026 08:17 PM (tgvbd)

128 Everything is gay and retarded.

Posted by: Heroq at April 24, 2026 08:17 PM (q1qnK)

129 Abandoned hospitals have to be the creepiest buildings.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg

As a hospital Chaplain, I had run of the entire building except for scrub and operating rooms. Even in a working hospital, there is no creepier place than hospital basements at night.

*shudder*

Posted by: Tonypete at April 24, 2026 08:17 PM (Kyh8Y)

130 I had something like that happen just last night. Computer monitor turned on across the room, tablet froze for a sec, others beeped. I figure a power glitch hit my net hub and various devices woke up to fix their networks.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 24, 2026 08:12 PM (8avO+)

Possible. But weird.
Posted by: ... at April 24, 2026 08:14 PM (vE0+H)

Had a half day total internet dead period last weekend. Third world CA. Well, prior to this it has been pretty good to be fair.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 24, 2026 08:18 PM (8avO+)

131 I'm trying to catch up on the controversy surrounding the new Pragmata video game.

Seems a lot of people think unmarried men liking a video game involving being a father-figure type to their cute companion robot-girl while fighting off other robots is bordering on pedophilia.

Like this hasn't been a trope in video games for awhile?
The Last of Us has basically the same type of plot, only Ellie is a little older and nowhere near as pretty as this Diana character.

Can't men have anything without it being ruined by the hypocritical moral judgement of the fashionable left?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 24, 2026 08:18 PM (6ydKt)

132 103 Eromero, how did your wife's first treatment go?
Posted by: TecumsehTea at April 24, 2026 08:08 PM (nz1sK)
Thanks for asking Tea. Yesterday she had some distress, so the infusion was cut at 2 hours. Today the distress was cut off at the pass and she was able to run the 6 hour infusion straight through with no problems except butt-dragging fatigue. Hell I was tired and all I did was sit beside her.

Posted by: Eromero at April 24, 2026 08:18 PM (LHPAg)

133 When we got in the car, I said "I got a very oppressive feeling that she was angry at people touching her stuff". My wife said she pictured her yelling "leave my things alone!!" Me too. Took us awhile to shake it.
Posted by: Bob...no...the other Bob. at April 24, 2026 08:09 PM (xHEy0)

V.K Arseyev was a very sensible and grounded man and not given to flights of fancy; a Lewis and Clark type. There's something there, we just can't measure it with tools and devices.

Posted by: 13times at April 24, 2026 08:19 PM (SVYPk)

134 I used to drive thru that area a lot going from Ohio (Cincy) to Stl Louis for college. An interesting thing is that it is near a "seam" for weather.
Posted by: Oldcat

It's I70. The weather knows not to cross it for some reason.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 24, 2026 08:20 PM (Kyh8Y)

135 Can't men have anything without it being ruined by the hypocritical moral judgement of the fashionable left?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 24, 2026 08:18 PM (6ydKt)

Except in this case he is not a psychologically wounded asshole (last of US.)

I actually always thought Geralt and Ciri in Witcher 3 was a far more wholesome and healthy story.

This is ... similar.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 24, 2026 08:20 PM (zZu0s)

136 Or, she thinks she's losing it so she is rolling in another direction- and is pissed about it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 24, 2026 08:16 PM (zZu0s)

I couldn't tell you.
I'm lost trying to figure out modern ladies.
Especially neo-punk rockers from the Isle of Wight.

It's a sea of confusion out there.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 24, 2026 08:21 PM (6ydKt)

137
No matter where you move to there are risks. flooding, tornadoes and other things.'

Posted by: four seasons at April 24, 2026 08:21 PM (3ek7K)

138 And the house I grew up in was built by an undertaker. The proceedings would be held on the ground floor, while the undertaker and his family lived on the second floor.

Note, I did not find this out until I was in high school. Fortunately.

Posted by: Bulg at April 24, 2026 08:21 PM (77rzZ)

139
https://youtu.be/MABrtSn30LU?si=evujlezEYIBj6keG

Posted by: ace at April 24, 2026 08:04 PM (1wjle)

She remembered to put her underwear on! But I don’t know this is a crazy big change. Her skirt is shorter and she has pastel hair which is a big thing, she is an artist, she is going to grab on to that. Hair is hair, it grows back if you get a funky cut, you can go back to brunette tomorrow. Maybe I am missing something.

Posted by: Piper at April 24, 2026 08:21 PM (hftzA)

140 I lived in a haunted farmhouse when I was a young bachelor. I didn't know it was haunted until the neighbors down the road told me. I never saw any ghosts though, I think the "band" we had that practiced there in the spare bedroom chased them off.

That was a cool house though. Big rooms, high ceilings, a big front porch, and a old mine pit next door to ride motorcycles in.

Posted by: fd at April 24, 2026 08:21 PM (vFG9F)

141 How many simultaneous Bobs do we have right now? Two?

Not even close. Cannibal, Rancher, Farmer...

Posted by: Oddbob at April 24, 2026 08:22 PM (vTZFs)

142 No matter where you move to there are risks. flooding, tornadoes and other things.'

Posted by: four seasons at April 24, 2026 08:21 PM (3ek7K)

I decided that every place has their big disaster, and the small disaster. For CA, earthquake and fire. Ohio, floods and tornado/storms/lightning.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 24, 2026 08:22 PM (8avO+)

143 Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

When you head east, plan on a one night stay here.
Within 1 mile of the Grandview Triangle.
The Wood in the Hood.

Posted by: MkY at April 24, 2026 08:23 PM (q6tQZ)

144 I never read Willows For Algernon.

Who cares about a bunch of developmentally disabled rabbits.

Posted by: Warai-otoko gets every book confused with every other book at April 24, 2026 08:23 PM (Ot/FD)

145 Eromero, how often does she get the treatments?

We had a friend who had lymphoma, awhile back, and he is doing great. He's in his 70s now.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at April 24, 2026 08:23 PM (nz1sK)

146 Not even close. Cannibal, Rancher, Farmer...
Posted by: Oddbob

---------
we should all just change our names to "bob"
It will be simpler.

(I think this is from an old movie or comedy skit, but I don't remember anything else except one guy had different name and they made him change it. Maybe British comedy.)

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 24, 2026 08:24 PM (uUHnE)

147 "Can't men have anything without it being ruined by the hypocritical moral judgement of the fashionable left?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 24, 2026 08:18 PM (6ydKt) "

no, that would not move The Revolution forward, at all.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 24, 2026 08:24 PM (VyBeY)

148

There is no perfect place.

Posted by: four seasons at April 24, 2026 08:25 PM (3ek7K)

149 I'm in. Let's party.

Posted by: Warai-bobtoko at April 24, 2026 08:25 PM (Ot/FD)

150 129 Abandoned hospitals have to be the creepiest buildings.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg

As a hospital Chaplain, I had run of the entire building except for scrub and operating rooms. Even in a working hospital, there is no creepier place than hospital basements at night.

*shudder*
Posted by: Tonypete at April 24, 2026 08:17 PM (Kyh8Y)
I've handled maybe a hundred bodies and I can promise none have come back to talk to about the trip.

Posted by: Eromero at April 24, 2026 08:26 PM (LHPAg)

151 SpeakingOf: "Pretty aggressive change there.
A lost of girls seem to want to look like Harley Quinn these days just because boys like her."

Yeah, I don't get it either. Rainbow hair, tattoos, piercings.

In Nature, those are signs to "seek a fleeing path ASAP".

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at April 24, 2026 08:26 PM (oji8u)

152 I used to drive thru that area a lot going from Ohio (Cincy) to Stl Louis for college. An interesting thing is that it is near a "seam" for weather.
Posted by: Oldcat

It's I70. The weather knows not to cross it for some reason.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 24, 2026 08:20 PM (Kyh8Y)

Couple of times had pea-soup fogs for about 5 hours of driving before angling down I74 towards Ohio.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 24, 2026 08:26 PM (8avO+)

153 Every thread is a bob thread.

Posted by: Warai-bobtoko at April 24, 2026 08:26 PM (Ot/FD)

154 144 I never read Willows For Algernon.

Who cares about a bunch of developmentally disabled rabbits.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

-----------
Is that the one where the retard baker is friends with a mouse . Wasn't that the inspiration for Pinky and the Brain?

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 24, 2026 08:26 PM (uUHnE)

155 California was a perfect place.

Posted by: gKWVE can't have nice things at April 24, 2026 08:27 PM (gKWVE)

156 (I think this is from an old movie or comedy skit, but I don't remember anything else except one guy had different name and they made him change it. Maybe British comedy.)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 24, 2026 08:24 PM (uUHnE)

there is an a-capella musical group called the Bobs.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 24, 2026 08:27 PM (8avO+)

157 Is that the one where the retard baker is friends with a mouse . Wasn't that the inspiration for Pinky and the Brain?
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 24, 2026 08:26 PM (uUHnE)

That or Ratatouille

Posted by: Warai-bobtoko at April 24, 2026 08:27 PM (Ot/FD)

158 Old News ---
Mother of Feral NYC Teen Who Body-Slammed and Stomped 15-Year-Old Girl’s Head DEFENDS Violent Son, Claims Victim ‘Bullied’ Him After She Refused to Give Him Her Phone Number

She gives a damn argument for him to be put to death.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 24, 2026 08:28 PM (/lPRQ)

159 She gives a damn argument for him to be put to death.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 24, 2026 08:28 PM (/lPRQ)

Her too, lest she make a fucking nother one.

Posted by: Warai-bobtoko at April 24, 2026 08:29 PM (Ot/FD)

160 Watched SecWar update on Iranian ops. Gotta be opdec. No way the third floor gives the Navy credit for anything.

Drink to our last night on shore. Drink to the foam. And until we meet again here’s wishing you a happy voyage home. Anchors away

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at April 24, 2026 08:29 PM (FUvyF)

161 Every thread is a bob thread.
Posted by: Warai-bobtoko
.......

Don't forget Vagene.

Posted by: wthbob at April 24, 2026 08:29 PM (b3Yos)

162 I'm in.

Posted by: Bob Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at April 24, 2026 08:29 PM (0aYVJ)

163 Posted by: Warai-bobtoko

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(slow clap)

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at April 24, 2026 08:29 PM (uUHnE)

164 we should all just change our names to "bob"
It will be simpler.

(I think this is from an old movie or comedy skit, but I don't remember anything else except one guy had different name and they made him change it. Maybe British comedy.)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 24, 2026 08:24 PM (uUHnE)

There was a Monty Python sketch on Australian Wine Reviews where everyone was named Bruce except one guy, who was then called Bruce just to keep it clear.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 24, 2026 08:30 PM (8avO+)

165 Lots of big Bobs in the IC. They use them as honey traps.

Posted by: Bulg at April 24, 2026 08:30 PM (77rzZ)

166 158, 159, this!

Posted by: sock_rat_bob at April 24, 2026 08:31 PM (VyBeY)

167 There was a Monty Python sketch on Australian Wine Reviews where everyone was named Bruce except one guy, who was then called Bruce just to keep it clear.
Posted by: Oldcat

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Yeah, that has to be it. Thanks.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at April 24, 2026 08:32 PM (uUHnE)

168 4 more weeks on infusions (1 per week eight hours), then evaluations.

Posted by: Eromero at April 24, 2026 08:32 PM (LHPAg)

169 161, never!

Posted by: bob_rat_eez at April 24, 2026 08:32 PM (VyBeY)

170 She remembered to put her underwear on! But I don’t know this is a crazy big change. Her skirt is shorter and she has pastel hair which is a big thing, she is an artist, she is going to grab on to that. Hair is hair, it grows back if you get a funky cut, you can go back to brunette tomorrow. Maybe I am missing something.
Posted by: Piper at April 24, 2026 08:21 PM (hftzA)

I agree, that color isn't "activist pink" but is milder, so she might not be super insane.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 24, 2026 08:33 PM (8avO+)

171 >>>She remembered to put her underwear on! But I don’t know this is a crazy big change. Her skirt is shorter and she has pastel hair which is a big thing, she is an artist, she is going to grab on to that. Hair is hair, it grows back if you get a funky cut, you can go back to brunette tomorrow. Maybe I am missing something.

she's looked like this for more than a year. It's not a short-lived style change.

Posted by: ace at April 24, 2026 08:33 PM (1wjle)

172 Fine.

Posted by: Bob451AD work phone at April 24, 2026 08:33 PM (zZu0s)

173 There was a Monty Python sketch on Australian Wine Reviews where everyone was named Bruce except one guy, who was then called Bruce just to keep it clear.
Posted by: Oldcat

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Yeah, that has to be it. Thanks.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at April 24, 2026 08:32 PM (uUHnE)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNBy1D1Y0h4

Posted by: Oldcat at April 24, 2026 08:34 PM (8avO+)

174 Taylor Swift, is the singer that appeals to 12 year old girls and it's starting to look kinky - not in a good way.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2026 08:34 PM (XAeCh)

175 she's looked like this for more than a year. It's not a short-lived style change.
Posted by: ace at April 24, 2026 08:33 PM (1wjle)

Its the fake redhead? She feels angry, looking at her pictures. And not in the normal redhead fire in the eye good way.

Posted by: Bob451AD work phone at April 24, 2026 08:34 PM (zZu0s)

176 Ace, I hope that you have a great weekend.

Posted by: Bulg at April 24, 2026 08:35 PM (77rzZ)

177 So, one down and 4 to go.
Prayers up, for both of you.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at April 24, 2026 08:35 PM (nz1sK)

178 Fake redheads just kill your soul and leave it to rot on the prairie.

Posted by: Warai-bobtoko at April 24, 2026 08:35 PM (Ot/FD)

179 I have seen an in depth article on the Turkish "Castles" including the developers marketing web pages when it was still active.

On paper, and if you were the only one with a 'castle' of a particular floor plan, it wouldn't be bad. But they ALL were carbon copies of each other with bowling alley side yards in an otherwise wide open country side.
And the construction was a bit skeevy...

It was doomed to fail.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 24, 2026 08:35 PM (/lPRQ)

180 love Kansas, the people and the roads and the weather (so far). I want to visit the western regions soon. But as for buying here, I don't think it's gonna happen.

(I blinked the first time I saw $3.99 as the price for a hamburger here. It's not big, they're the "smashed" kind, and you don't get fries without paying extra. But they are good.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2026 07:53 PM (+2QQb)

Kansas gets tornados. Some towns are in known tornado tracks, and some are not. Maybe a local insurance agency could put you som knowledge.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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They have that compiled on maps online somewhere. All the NWS including strength, tracking, etc.

Posted by: whig at April 24, 2026 08:35 PM (E4rtv)

181 There's more Bobs in this Thread than there was Mish in the Previous Threads!

Posted by: garrett at April 24, 2026 08:36 PM (ytyaf)

182 The 3/11 Japanese earthquake didn't do much damage, but the tsunami? People had less than about twenty minutes to get to high ground or get washed away.

The people loitering near the small seawall.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I-Bnk_tyMW8

Very scary.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aQj2zn5Axmk

Posted by: 13times at April 24, 2026 08:36 PM (SVYPk)

183

Just fucking lovely. I never thought my daughter and granddaughter would be growing up in our country where there was a risk of their heads being slammed on the pavement because they would not give some motherfucker their phone number.

Posted by: four seasons at April 24, 2026 08:37 PM (3ek7K)

184 Thanks, now I have more books to put on my list. I have not read any of hers but Marple and Poirot. and I have not read Green or Queen.

If only there could be an atomic war and I would have ...Time Enough at Last.

But yeah, that's the point to see exactly how she hid the clues or made big revelations seem like she (the writer) is just filling space with small talk.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 24, 2026

***
Ellery Queen is definitely worth your time. Check out his classic "impossible crime" mystery, The King Is Dead.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2026 08:37 PM (+2QQb)

185 174 Taylor Swift, is the singer that appeals to 12 year old girls and it's starting to look kinky - not in a good way.

Posted by: Braenyard
========
Well, she either marries and has kids which ends the attraction for the tweeners or she becomes a vampire like Taylor Lorenz which creeps the tweeners out soon. Option three is become slutty and crazy which hasn't worked out for most former Disney child stars.

Posted by: whig at April 24, 2026 08:37 PM (E4rtv)

186 There's more Bobs in this Thread than there was Mish in the Previous Threads!
Posted by: garrett at April 24, 2026 08:36 PM (ytyaf)

If ace singes mish at 50 paces, and goes rollicking along on his Vespa, messenger bag flapping in a carefree manner, is that a moving violation?

Posted by: Bob451AD work phone at April 24, 2026 08:37 PM (zZu0s)

187 On paper, and if you were the only one with a 'castle' of a particular floor plan, it wouldn't be bad. But they ALL were carbon copies of each other with bowling alley side yards in an otherwise wide open country side.
And the construction was a bit skeevy...

It was doomed to fail.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 24, 2026 08:35 PM (/lPRQ)

OTOH, you could come home drunk to a different "wife" every night.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 24, 2026 08:38 PM (utfVc)

188 175 she's looked like this for more than a year. It's not a short-lived style change.
Posted by: ace at April 24, 2026 08:33 PM (1wjle)

Its the fake redhead? She feels angry, looking at her pictures. And not in the normal redhead fire in the eye good way.
Posted by: Bob451AD work phone at April 24, 2026 08:34 PM (zZu0s)
I didn't see the skinny little blonde in the second video. But then I didn't watch all of it.

Posted by: Eromero at April 24, 2026 08:38 PM (LHPAg)

189
she's looked like this for more than a year. It's not a short-lived style change.
Posted by: ace at April 24, 2026 08:33 PM (1wjle)

She has thick thighs. They save lives, you know.

Posted by: Piper at April 24, 2026 08:38 PM (hftzA)

190 Ellery Queen is definitely worth your time. Check out his classic "impossible crime" mystery, The King Is Dead.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Agree on Ellery Queen, the TV series with Jim Hutton was not bad either, the core writing team for it was picked up later for Murder She Wrote.
======
Separately, wish you luck on your relocation project.

Posted by: whig at April 24, 2026 08:39 PM (E4rtv)

191 We are all Bob now.

Posted by: Timebob magazine at April 24, 2026 08:39 PM (b3Yos)

192 She has thick thighs. They save lives, you know.
Posted by: Piper at April 24, 2026 08:38 PM (hftzA)

Except for Onatop.

Posted by: Bob451AD work phone at April 24, 2026 08:39 PM (zZu0s)

193 Completely off topic, but I have to share this. Went to the EBT (food stamps) office today to get our son's EBT account re-activated. Because, you know, we follow all the rules but he got denied, but that's another story. The point of this story is that I had to reapply on their computer, which I did not want to do, but I had to. I was frustrated with the staff in our conversation about what I had to do, but I headed to the stupid computer. An older black lady was sitting there, and she understood how frustrated I was (I guess), and she said, "I feel ya. Now you know how WE feel."
Uh, what? I told MrT and he said, what did that mean? I guess my white privilege was showing, or something.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at April 24, 2026 08:40 PM (nz1sK)

194 Hi, Bob!

*drink*

Posted by: Bulg at April 24, 2026 08:40 PM (77rzZ)

195 four seasons: "I never thought my daughter and granddaughter would be growing up in our country where there was a risk of their heads being slammed on the pavement because they would not give some motherfucker their phone number."

Now consider what would've happened if that girl had given that psychopath her number. She was one date away from felony rape.

That punk should be imprisoned. His filming partner, too.

Posted by: AnonyBobymousDrivel at April 24, 2026 08:41 PM (oji8u)

196 An older black lady was sitting there, and she understood how frustrated I was (I guess), and she said, "I feel ya. Now you know how WE feel."
Uh, what? I told MrT and he said, what did that mean? I guess my white privilege was showing, or something.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at April 24, 2026 08:40 PM (nz1sK)

I think she was just saying she had the same issues with the computer and found them frustrating.

Posted by: Bob451AD work phone at April 24, 2026 08:41 PM (zZu0s)

197 Ellery Queen is definitely worth your time. Check out his classic "impossible crime" mystery, The King Is Dead.

---

OK, I put that on top of my list
Thanks!

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at April 24, 2026 08:43 PM (uUHnE)

198 That punk should be imprisoned. His filming partner, too.
Posted by: AnonyBobymousDrivel
======
It will take Soros DAs and their Soros financiers going to jail before inner cities improve.

Posted by: whig at April 24, 2026 08:43 PM (E4rtv)

199 On paper, and if you were the only one with a 'castle' of a particular floor plan, it wouldn't be bad. But they ALL were carbon copies of each other with bowling alley side yards in an otherwise wide open country side.
And the construction was a bit skeevy...

It was doomed to fail.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 24, 2026 08:35 PM (/lPRQ)
---
Was the Bluth Development Company involved in any way? Sure sounds like it...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 24, 2026 08:44 PM (gnNyN)

200 Uh, what? I told MrT and he said, what did that mean? I guess my white privilege was showing, or something.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at April 24, 2026 08:40 PM (nz1sK)

I think she was just saying she had the same issues with the computer and found them frustrating.
Posted by: Bob451AD work phone at April 24, 2026 08:41 PM (zZu0s)

Correct response: "Oh, you mean fat people?"

Posted by: Warai-bobtoko at April 24, 2026 08:45 PM (Ot/FD)

201 I’m just glad that Gen. Bob Washington won our independence from King Bob III.

Posted by: Bulg at April 24, 2026 08:45 PM (77rzZ)

202 I think she was just saying she had the same issues with the computer and found them frustrating.

Maybe. I'm confused by the "we" part.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at April 24, 2026 08:45 PM (nz1sK)

203 >>If ace singes mish at 50 paces, and goes rollicking along on his Vespa, messenger bag flapping in a carefree manner, is that a moving violation?

Singing Mish cost McDonald's several million dollars in a settlement.

Posted by: garrett at April 24, 2026 08:45 PM (ytyaf)

204 I think it might have been AI, tbh. Seems too tall to be a real woman (or even a tall man).
Posted by: ace

I'd guess a mannequin

Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 24, 2026 08:45 PM (C0Nlv)

205 Singing Mish cost McDonald's several million dollars in a settlement.
Posted by: garrett at April 24, 2026 08:45 PM (ytyaf)

Tenor?

Posted by: Warai-bobtoko at April 24, 2026 08:46 PM (Ot/FD)

206 200 >>Correct response: "Oh, you mean fat people?"

lol.
Well, who you calling fat, Bub?

Posted by: TecumsehTea at April 24, 2026 08:47 PM (nz1sK)

207 Agree on Ellery Queen, the TV series with Jim Hutton was not bad either, the core writing team for it was picked up later for Murder She Wrote.
======
Separately, wish you luck on your relocation project.
Posted by: whig at April 24, 2026

***
The 1975 Hutton series was masterminded by Richard Levinson and William Link, who'd created Columbo. The producer, one Peter S. Fischer, later helmed MSW and, I hear, used some of the scripts commissioned for the EQ series on it.

I have the EQ show on DVD. It's very well done; the casting of Ellery and his father was great. The plots depended far too much on "dying message" clues (as did some of the actual Queen short-shorts), but it had the right flavor.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2026 08:47 PM (+2QQb)

208
we should all just change our names to "bob"
It will be simpler.
--------

There was a night when everyone became sven. Really.

Posted by: ... at April 24, 2026 08:48 PM (vE0+H)

209 Well off to watch some Richard Thompson concerts on you tube. They also have a late seventies era BBC show online with him and his former wife Linda performing.

Guy is still going strong at 75 as a folk rocker with a wicked sense of humor. Guitar genius too.

For a sample here is Richard Thompson and friends (most of which were in Fairport Convention), on his Hand of Kindness album.

Song is Tear Stained Letter and it rocks with great guitar soloes by Thompson on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vnk_R-1aWwI

Posted by: whig at April 24, 2026 08:48 PM (E4rtv)

210 What are Ace’s quim-singeing powers measured in parsecs?

Posted by: Bulg at April 24, 2026 08:48 PM (77rzZ)

211 There's more Bobs in this Thread than there was Mish in the Previous Threads!
Posted by: garrett at April 24, 2026 08:36 PM

He's not wrong.

Posted by: RedMindBobState at April 24, 2026 08:48 PM (Wnv9h)

212 I should go take Saijo out for his last walkies.

Posted by: Piper at April 24, 2026 08:50 PM (hftzA)

213 What are Ace’s quim-singeing powers measured in parsecs?
Posted by: Bulg at April 24, 2026 08:48 PM (77rzZ)

Hehehehe.

You said secs.

Posted by: Warai-bobtoko at April 24, 2026 08:51 PM (Ot/FD)

214 Innit funny how the Democrats seem to always be every single thing they make up out of nowhere that we are?

And none of them seem to mind.

Racist rapist violent stalking disease spreading science denying religious nut cultists who want to enslave women and molest children? Sign us up! -Somehow Also the Left

Posted by: ... at April 24, 2026 08:52 PM (vE0+H)

215 Round up all the Democrats and force march them to the middle of nowhere.

Call it the Trail of Queers.

Posted by: Warai-bobtoko at April 24, 2026 08:53 PM (Ot/FD)

216 Song is Tear Stained Letter and it rocks with great guitar soloes by Thompson on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vnk_R-1aWwI
Posted by: whig at April 24, 2026 08:48 PM (E4rtv)

Possibly Thompson's best-known and many times covered song is 1952 Vincent Black Lightning, which is a modern-day outlaw ballad of the finest kind.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 24, 2026 08:54 PM (utfVc)

217 Maybe. I'm confused by the "we" part.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at April 24, 2026 08:45 PM (nz1sK)

Probably all the people who work there. That has to be a soul crushing job.

Posted by: Bob451AD work phone at April 24, 2026 08:54 PM (AyCDG)

218 Let me try this out

Posted by: Bob Ben Had at April 24, 2026 08:54 PM (DIbRX)

219 Ben 'Bobbi' Had?

Posted by: Bob451AD work phone at April 24, 2026 08:55 PM (AyCDG)

220 Let me try this out
Posted by: Bob Ben Had at April 24, 2026 08:54 PM (DIbRX)
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And here we go...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Bob at April 24, 2026 08:55 PM (gnNyN)

221 Glenn just blew the margins at Insty.

Posted by: Bob451AD work phone at April 24, 2026 08:56 PM (AyCDG)

222 we should all just change our names to "bob"
It will be simpler.

(I think this is from an old movie or comedy skit, but I don't remember anything else except one guy had different name and they made him change it. Maybe British comedy.)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)

Captain,

That was Captain Morgan's Spiced Rum.

- Captain

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 24, 2026 08:56 PM (/lPRQ)

223 43 >>>22 Ace! Have a great weekend!!!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

thank you! You too!

And everyone else as well.
Posted by: ace at April 24, 2026 07:53 PM (1wjle)
**************

This proves he loves me best. Neener neener.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 24, 2026 08:58 PM (WONhk)

224
Parsex?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 24, 2026 08:58 PM (w6EFb)

225 Parsex?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 24, 2026 08:58 PM (w6EFb)

Parsex is what you have after 4.26 light-beers

Posted by: Warai-bobtoko at April 24, 2026 09:01 PM (Ot/FD)

226 223 *Bows in reverence to ChtistyBlinkyTheGreat.*

Posted by: Bulg at April 24, 2026 09:02 PM (77rzZ)

227 I know that conversion is factually incorrect but i also don't care because somewhere here will know it and correct me.

Posted by: Warai-bobtoko at April 24, 2026 09:02 PM (Ot/FD)

228 I want to belong.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreatandBob at April 24, 2026 09:02 PM (WONhk)

229 I think she was just saying she had the same issues with the computer and found them frustrating.

Maybe. I'm confused by the "we" part.
Posted by: TecumsehTea

Who is this "we"?
You got a gerbil in your pocket?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 24, 2026 09:03 PM (/lPRQ)

230 >> 4.26 light-beers

*applause*, that's a good 'un.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 24, 2026 09:03 PM (w6EFb)

231 'Night, ace, et al. Gonna watch "Brazil." Been a minute since I've seen this one.

Posted by: Bob Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at April 24, 2026 09:03 PM (0aYVJ)

232 228 Christy, belong to what?

Posted by: Bulg at April 24, 2026 09:05 PM (77rzZ)

233 I'm going to watch Tousi Tv because I like him.

He will probably let me down and be one of the eye a toljas, but I like him this month and this place (Ace) got me hooked. I never miss his show now.

I think this weekend EyeRan had better behave.

Carry on my wayward friends.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 24, 2026 09:06 PM (WONhk)

234 Scorsese's early film Boxcar Bertha is on TCM. I don't know what's going on, I came in late, but Barbara Hershey is lovely and there are familiar faces like John Carradine, his son David, and Bernie Casey.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2026 09:07 PM (+2QQb)

235 Gah. 3.26. Not 4.26.

Whatever. I was 66% correct. (Come at me, Wesley)

Posted by: Warai-bobtoko at April 24, 2026 09:07 PM (Ot/FD)

236 If any of you gun nuts care, Banana Ballistics guy has a new video out on his very own custom wildcat cartridge. Inspired by the new 8.6mm blackout he made a .50 cal version that uses .50 BMG projectiles.
Long video at 19 minutes...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 24, 2026 09:09 PM (/lPRQ)

237 Banana Ballistics definitely has a voice that you would not expect to come out of that face.

Posted by: Warai-bobtoko at April 24, 2026 09:10 PM (Ot/FD)

238 Few weeks ago heard Wet Leg on a modern rock radio station

Posted by: Skip at April 24, 2026 09:11 PM (Ia/+0)

239 Banana Ballistics guy has a new video out on his very own custom wildcat cartridge.

Haven't watched it but is it as dumb as it looks in the video thumbnail?

Posted by: Oddbob at April 24, 2026 09:11 PM (vTZFs)

240 His play was not successful and closed quickly at the Drury Lane

I s'pose by now all the Drury Lane jokes and comments have been made...

Posted by: Diogenes at April 24, 2026 09:12 PM (2WIwB)

241 I s'pose by now all the Drury Lane jokes and comments have been made...
Posted by: Diogenes at April 24, 2026 09:12 PM (2WIwB)

I didn't hear muffin.

Posted by: Warai-bobtoko at April 24, 2026 09:13 PM (Ot/FD)

242 I better get to bed
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at April 24, 2026 09:14 PM (Ia/+0)

243 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2026 09:07 PM (+2QQb)

In the unedited version Hershey gets nekkid.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 24, 2026 09:14 PM (kxLc1)

244 Parsex?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 24, 2026 08:58 PM (w6EFb)

When you make par and the beer girl is there. Don't get me started on getting a birdie.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 24, 2026 09:15 PM (2WIwB)

245 234 Barbara Hershey had a splendiforous rack.

Posted by: Bulg at April 24, 2026 09:16 PM (77rzZ)

246 When you make par and the beer girl is there. Don't get me started on getting a birdie.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 24, 2026 09:15 PM (2WIwB)

"All i said was 'can you help me out with my putts', and she slapped me!"

Posted by: Warai-bobtoko at April 24, 2026 09:17 PM (Ot/FD)

247 Hershey was in The Entity getting piped by a ghost.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 24, 2026 09:18 PM (kxLc1)

248
The Sean Hannity Show is great tonight. Because Sean Hannity isn't on.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 24, 2026 09:19 PM (n7rxJ)

249 >> Gah. 3.26. Not 4.26.

You were on a roll with that. We knew what you meant.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 24, 2026 09:22 PM (w6EFb)

250 Barbara Hershey reminds me of Katrina Law.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 24, 2026 09:22 PM (2WIwB)

251 250,
I have no idea who they are, lol

Posted by: four seasons at April 24, 2026 09:27 PM (3ek7K)

252 251 250,
I have no idea who they are, lol

Posted by: four seasons at April 24, 2026
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Hershey was popular in run and gun movies, in the seventy's, I think.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2026 09:31 PM (XAeCh)

253 Isn't it a little early to be clicking F5? RuhRoh, it's the weekend no one is here.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2026 09:33 PM (XAeCh)

254 OT: do I attend TX MOMe or do a little weekend trip for me and Mr Scary?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 24, 2026 09:34 PM (7JD9w)

255 spooky.

But pretty

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at April 24, 2026 09:36 PM (xcxpd)

256 Would not fuck Congressional eel

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at April 24, 2026 09:38 PM (xcxpd)

257 I have no idea who they are, lol

Posted by: four seasons at April 24, 2026
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Hershey was popular in run and gun movies, in the seventy's, I think.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2026 09:31 PM (XAeCh)

***

Law is the hottie on NCIS.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 24, 2026 09:39 PM (2WIwB)

258 239 Banana Ballistics guy has a new video out on his very own custom wildcat cartridge.

Haven't watched it but is it as dumb as it looks in the video thumbnail?
Posted by: Oddbob at April 24, 2026 09:11 PM (vTZFs)

Sorta

He does do good work on caliber comparison

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at April 24, 2026 09:41 PM (xcxpd)

259

I guess I am odd. I dont watch movies and tv shows.

When ya'll talk about them I have no clue, lol.

If I'm not reading Ace I am reading books.
Everyone has their thing.

Posted by: four seasons at April 24, 2026 09:43 PM (3ek7K)

260 228 I want to belong.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreatandBob at April 24, 2026 09:02 PM (WONhk)

You're here.

And you bring to mind Christie Brinkley. So you belong.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at April 24, 2026 09:43 PM (xcxpd)

261 254 OT: do I attend TX MOMe or do a little weekend trip for me and Mr Scary?
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 24, 2026 09:34 PM (7JD9w)

The healing power of 'and'

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at April 24, 2026 09:44 PM (xcxpd)

262 Still snowing and windy here. But the snow has changed to big wet flakes and is starting to stick to the cars and the pavement. Blech!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 24, 2026 09:45 PM (utfVc)

263 I guess I am odd. I dont watch movies and tv shows.

When ya'll talk about them I have no clue, lol.

If I'm not reading Ace I am reading books.
Everyone has their thing.

Posted by: four seasons at April 24, 2026

***
I'm lost when people talk about streaming series, or shows on HBO and other services you have to, you know, pay for.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2026 09:45 PM (+2QQb)

264 The healing power of 'and'

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at April 24, 2026 09:44 PM (xcxpd)

Most of our travels are visiting/caring for
elderly parents. Yeah, I want to have bang for our buck when we aren't tending to the olds.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 24, 2026 09:48 PM (7JD9w)

265 264 The healing power of 'and'

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at April 24, 2026 09:44 PM (xcxpd)

Most of our travels are visiting/caring for
elderly parents. Yeah, I want to have bang for our buck when we aren't tending to the olds.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 24, 2026 09:48 PM (7JD9w)

A: you are too nice

B: Spend some time on yourself

C: awwwwwww

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at April 24, 2026 09:49 PM (xcxpd)

266 Banana Ballistics guy has a new video out on his very own custom wildcat cartridge.

Haven't watched it but is it as dumb as it looks in the video thumbnail?
Posted by: Oddbob

Interesting.
Subsonic .50 based upon 50 Alaskan (turned rim to run in semi auto).
That one gun will probably the only one to ever be made.
But is you want the best subsonic short of a trebuchet it is probably it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 24, 2026 09:50 PM (/lPRQ)

267 I'm lost when people talk about streaming series, or shows on HBO and other services you have to, you know, pay for.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2026 09:45 PM (+2QQb)

Tubi.
Is free.

But yeah, I'm usually stuck when the paid services are involved.

I am glad I bought 'Little Drummer Girl' to follow TJM's Park Chan-wook's series. Damn good miniseries.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at April 24, 2026 09:51 PM (xcxpd)

268 But IF you want the best subsonic short of a trebuchet it is probably it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 24, 2026 09:52 PM (/lPRQ)

269 Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at April 24, 2026 09:49 PM (xcxpd)

We are suckas! Next year, we may do Japan. That is far from all our worries.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 24, 2026 09:54 PM (7JD9w)

270 Am I doing this right?

Posted by: Boobs at April 24, 2026 09:56 PM (vE0+H)

271 And you bring to mind Christie Brinkley. So you belong.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at April 24, 2026 09:43 PM (xcxpd)

Ha...yeah. My fake name is due to her as she was born the same year as I was (1954, a great vintage), but she's older.

I also have not had plastic surgery like her and still look pretty good, but not like her except for blonde highlights. I do wish I had kept my supermodel weight but sadly I did not (at least not Lizzo size, so there's that!).

I must have been irritated by her the day I chose my name.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 24, 2026 09:58 PM (WONhk)

272 Spooky is when Barry Soetoro and Big Mike bump into each other at the same bathhouse unexpectedly. Awkward.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 24, 2026 09:59 PM (Fbc0I)

273 I must have been irritated by her the day I chose my name.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 24, 2026 09:58 PM (WONhk)

If we were choosing handles by the people who irritate us mine would be a phone book.

Posted by: ... at April 24, 2026 10:01 PM (vE0+H)

274 ONT

It be here

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2026 10:06 PM (+2QQb)

275 270 Am I doing this right?
Posted by: Boobs at April 24, 2026 09:56 PM (vE0+H)

( . ) ( . )

Here you go

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at April 24, 2026 10:06 PM (xcxpd)

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