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Monday Overnight Open Thread - June 8, 2026 [Hour of the Wolf]
Note from the hamsters -
Mis Hum has the night off. The other ONT hosts noticed something in the seldom-monitored suggestion box. No idea how long it had been in there. Regular commenter "Hour of the Wolf" is responsible for tonight's content. Treat him as you see fit!
My first meeting with Robert the Cat (TM)
image from scientificamerican.com
No human endeavor has been more associated with mystery than the huge, ancient lion that has a human head and is seemingly resting on the rocky plateau a stroll from the great pyramids. Fortunately for Lehner, it wasn’t just a metaphor that the Sphinx is a riddle. Little was known for certain about who erected it or when, what it represented and precisely how it related to the pharaonic monuments nearby. So Lehner settled in, working for five years out of a makeshift office between the Sphinx’s colossal paws, subsisting on Nescafé and cheese sandwiches while he examined every square inch of the structure. He remembers “climbing all over the Sphinx like the Lilliputians on Gulliver, and mapping it stone by stone.” The result was a uniquely detailed picture of the statue’s worn, patched surface, which had been subjected to at least five major restoration efforts since 1,400 B.C. The research earned him a doctorate in Egyptology at Yale. Recognized today as one of the world’s leading Egyptologists and Sphinx authorities, Lehner has conducted field research at Giza during most of the 37 years since his first visit. (Hawass, his friend and frequent collaborator, is the secretary general of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities and controls access to the Sphinx, the pyramids and other government-owned sites and artifacts.) Applying his archaeological sleuthing to the surrounding two-square-mile Giza plateau with its pyramids, temples, quarries and thousands of tombs, Lehner helped confirm what others had speculated—that some parts of the Giza complex, the Sphinx included, make up a vast sacred machine designed to harness the power of the sun to sustain the earthly and divine order. And while he long ago gave up on the fabled library of Atlantis, it’s curious, in light of his early wanderings, that he finally did discover a Lost City. The Sphinx was not assembled piece by piece but was carved from a single mass of limestone exposed when workers dug a horseshoe-shaped quarry in the Giza plateau. Approximately 66 feet tall and 240 feet long, it is one of the largest and oldest monolithic statues in the world. None of the photos or sketches I’d seen prepared me for the scale. It was a humbling sensation to stand between the creature’s paws, each twice my height and longer than a city bus. I gained sudden empathy for what a mouse must feel like when cornered by a cat.
The real reason the Sphinx is next to the pyramids? The Sphinx needs a scratching post. That's why the cover stones are missing.
"Who in here was giving birth at 6 PM?" I was the only one. So, I'm like "That was me, doctor. Is everything Okay?" He replies "I'm not a doctor. I'm a WELDING ENGINEER. I came here specifically to meet the woman who RIPPED THE DAMN IRON HANDLE off the delivery chair during her contractions!"
Set 2
Set 3
Set 4
I don't care how old I get. If I'm in a store and see a toy with "Try Me" on it, I'm pushing those buttons. Remember, nobody owes you a damn thing... so stop your cry-baby whining and get over it!
Lurkers welcome to comment - there are plenty of huge ferns and hedges to hide behind tonight. Time to comment at will. Final Question: Who is Will?
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Tonypete at June 08, 2026 10:00 PM (jnTpz)
Who created the heavens,
Who is God,
Who formed the earth and made it,
Who has established it,
Who did not create it in vain,
Who formed it to be inhabited:
“I am the Lord, and there is no other.
Posted by: mindful webworker - conspicuous invisibility at June 08, 2026 10:01 PM (dn9xm)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 08, 2026 10:01 PM (uTEOj)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 10:01 PM (cW1mv)
Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 10:01 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Tonypete at June 08, 2026 10:02 PM (jnTpz)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 10:02 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: tankdemon at June 08, 2026 10:02 PM (wmV8W)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 08, 2026 10:02 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: Case at June 08, 2026 10:03 PM (+zXtV)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 08, 2026 10:04 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: LRob in OK at June 08, 2026 10:04 PM (Jr+re)
Posted by: Otto Penn at June 08, 2026 10:04 PM (sJHOI)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 08, 2026 10:05 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: LRob in OK at June 08, 2026 10:05 PM (Jr+re)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 10:05 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 10:01 PM (77rzZ)
Gone too soon. Maybe we should all wear some Dolce and Gabanna for a few days in her honor. (Or Bolce and Gadanna if all you can afford is a knock-off.)
Wouldn't it be funny if she were to be buried in a pair of jeans and a tank top?
Posted by: tankdemon at June 08, 2026 10:06 PM (wmV8W)
You're a mean old poopyhead! Waaaaaahhhhhhhh!
Posted by: Scott "Sergeant Rock" Pelley at June 08, 2026 10:06 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 10:02 PM (O0L8i)
It's an honor and a privilege. If it works well, I may try another in the future.
So, let me know what you like and hate. I'm an Software Engineer, so I'm accustomed to lots of bad feedback.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 10:06 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 08, 2026 10:06 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 08, 2026 10:07 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: tankdemon
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I really hate when that happens....
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 08, 2026 10:08 PM (IQ6Gq)
Played a decent round of golf today. It was slow going. LOTS of golfers out there and they were older than me and I ain't young. I knew it would be crowded so I just chilled. Well, tried too. It was hot. Got another tee time tomorrow morning. The vacation is rapidly coming to a close. Go back to Babylon DC on Saturday. Meh.
Posted by: Puddleglum, Greetings from Amish Country at June 08, 2026 10:08 PM (bfy6w)
Posted by: tankdemon at June 08, 2026 10:08 PM (wmV8W)
Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 10:09 PM (77rzZ)
Okay, who shot the nose off the Sphinx?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 08, 2026 10:09 PM (w6EFb)
The second may be the hardest.
The Robert Palmer should make Bulg happy.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 10:09 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 08, 2026 10:10 PM (u/oMr)
Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 10:10 PM (77rzZ)
Mediocre talent.
Smokin' hawt.
Like a Canadian Fran Drescher
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 08, 2026 10:05 PM (0aYVJ)
She's still touring so she has to be a little better than mediocre. And she's still hot.
Posted by: polynikes at June 08, 2026 10:10 PM (GseMx)
Set three of the music videos is really Bangin'!
Posted by: tankdemon at June 08, 2026 10:08 PM (wmV8W)
Set 3 is solved!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 10:10 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 08, 2026 10:12 PM (RIvkX)
One of my golfing buddies put an HVAC in his golf cart . Threw some solar panels on the cart roof also.
Posted by: polynikes at June 08, 2026 10:12 PM (GseMx)
Mediocre talent.
Smokin' hawt.
Like a Canadian Fran Drescher
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 08, 2026 10:05 PM (0aYVJ)
***
Sums it up nicely.
I'll be back in a bit.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 08, 2026 10:13 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Doof at June 08, 2026 10:13 PM (QMAsf)
Oh, and Will is my second cousin, once removed. Best not to look him directly in the eye, if you know what I mean.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 08, 2026 10:14 PM (D/6p1)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 08, 2026 10:14 PM (kYmoU)
Posted by: scampydog at June 08, 2026 10:14 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Some random seal at June 08, 2026 10:14 PM (wmV8W)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 10:14 PM (9EFgU)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 08, 2026 10:14 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 10:15 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 08, 2026 10:15 PM (Cqx++)
Mondale asked Reagan that question and it was the highlight of Mondale's otherwise rather lackluster campaign.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 08, 2026 10:16 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 10:06 PM (qx7Zg)
Well...
Boobs, guns, puns, boobs, sassy 'ettes, polite political commentary, boobs, smart military discussions, and boobs.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 08, 2026 10:16 PM (2WIwB)
You folks make my concupiscence fight with my laziness.
Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 10:17 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Doof at June 08, 2026 10:13 PM (QMAsf)
I love the use of the rules sign I sent you for Club ONT, Doof.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 10:17 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 08, 2026 10:17 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 10:17 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Tonypete at June 08, 2026 10:02 PM (jnTpz)
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I showed those to my kids a while back, pointing out that there was a time when American businesses found it profitable to attack our national enemies.
Wendy's ad agency in the 80s was lit. "Where's the beef?" and all that.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 08, 2026 10:17 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 10:17 PM (O0L8i)
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Yeah, but do you validate parking? And for that common sense thing, do you have any extra waivers laying around?
Posted by: scampydog at June 08, 2026 10:17 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 10:18 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Case at June 08, 2026 10:18 PM (+zXtV)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 10:18 PM (zZu0s)
Mondale asked Reagan that question and it was the highlight of Mondale's otherwise rather lackluster campaign.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 08, 2026 10:16 PM (RIvkX)
I thought it was Dukakis who made that reference in his own lackluster campaign. (It may have been both. Just can’t remember.)
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 08, 2026 10:18 PM (T6aVk)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 08, 2026 10:19 PM (u/oMr)
It's just an urban legend that Napoleon's troops shot of the nose of the Sphinx.
It was actually some crazy Muzzie rule back in the late 14th Century who considered it an idol.
And before that another such lunatic was going to destroy the pyramids. He started on the small one but soon gave up, as it was impossible.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 08, 2026 10:19 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Doof at June 08, 2026 10:13 PM (QMAsf)
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Must be the Season of the Witch.
Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 10:19 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 10:17 PM (O0L8i)
There are some things about Shania worth acquiring.
Posted by: Doof at June 08, 2026 10:19 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 10:18 PM (zZu0s)
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Grossly underrated show. Really hit its stride when Boxleitner was brought in. Holds up quite well.
There was no 5th season.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 08, 2026 10:20 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Puddleglum, Greetings from Amish Country at June 08, 2026 10:08 PM (bfy6w)
***
I did the driving range today and it was alright. Tee time in the morning with the Tuesday Geezer Golf group. Supposed to rain so I may skip this week.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 08, 2026 10:20 PM (2WIwB)
Okay, who shot the nose off the Sphinx?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 08, 2026 10:09 PM (w6EFb)
Napoleon, I believe.
Posted by: a.moron at June 08, 2026 10:20 PM (X5Jzz)
Shania Twain's voice is an acquired taste I haven't acquired.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 10:17 PM (O0L8i)
I think her first album was…fine. After that…meh. Can I never hear “You’re Still The One” ever again? Please?
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 08, 2026 10:20 PM (T6aVk)
Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 10:20 PM (77rzZ)
Susan Ivanova
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 08, 2026 10:17 PM (Cqx++)
Favorite quote:
https://youtu.be/-pzKg7IxhNA
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 10:20 PM (qx7Zg)
So, according to the last thread, we need to appoint a blue-ribbon commission to improve the commentary hereabouts. Please submit your suggestions and you will be entered in a raffle. First prize is a plastic can lid.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 10:21 PM (O0L8i)
As an aside, was Molly owned bybLizzie Borden?
Posted by: Some random seal at June 08, 2026 10:21 PM (wmV8W)
Posted by: Doof at June 08, 2026 10:13 PM (QMAsf)
I love the use of the rules sign I sent you for Club ONT, Doof.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 10:17 PM (qx7Zg)
We thought so, too
Posted by: The Hamsters at June 08, 2026 10:21 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: a.moron at June 08, 2026 10:20 PM (X5Jzz)
How do you know? You weren’t there!
Posted by: Ridley Scott at June 08, 2026 10:21 PM (T6aVk)
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 08, 2026 10:18 PM (T6aVk)
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No, it was Fritz. Totally sick burn. Guy carried one state.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 08, 2026 10:21 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 10:17 PM (77rzZ)
And YOU just made me run off to look up that five dollar word.
*Shakes fist*
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 08, 2026 10:21 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 08, 2026 10:09 PM (w6EFb)
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Bob Marley.
He won't admit it though.
Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 10:21 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 08, 2026 10:22 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
I thought it was Dukakis who made that reference in his own lackluster campaign. (It may have been both. Just can’t remember.)
Posted by: Cow Demon
But for the epitome of cluelessness, you'd have to get to Sargent Shriver back in '72 in a Youngstown mill bar when he shouted "Make mine a Courvoisier!"
Dude - tell me you are an out of touch Kennedy clone without telling me.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 08, 2026 10:22 PM (jnTpz)
There was no 5th season.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 08, 2026 10:20 PM (ZOv7s)
I'd say everything was great until the 4th season. That is when they screwed the pooch. The shadow war resolution was more than a bit shit/anticlimactic.
Making it a 'well both sides suck' is a cop out since you spent three seasons building this to be an apocalyptic showdown against the ultimate evil.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 10:22 PM (zZu0s)
As an aside, was Molly owned bybLizzie Borden?
Posted by: Some random seal at June 08, 2026 10:21 PM (wmV8W)
Correct!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 10:23 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: a.moron at June 08, 2026 10:20 PM (X5Jzz)
How do you know? You weren’t there!
Posted by: Ridley Scott at June 08, 2026 10:21 PM (T6aVk)
How do you know I wasn't there? You weren't there, either!
Posted by: a.moron at June 08, 2026 10:23 PM (X5Jzz)
Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 10:23 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Puddleglum, Greetings from Amish Country at June 08, 2026 10:08 PM (bfy6w)
***
I did the driving range today and it was alright. Tee time in the morning with the Tuesday Geezer Golf group. Supposed to rain so I may skip this week.
Posted by: Diogenes
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Shot an 82 on Sunday with three, three putts! Damnit!
Posted by: scampydog at June 08, 2026 10:23 PM (41CYW)
So, according to the last thread, we need to appoint a blue-ribbon commission to improve the commentary hereabouts. Please submit your suggestions and you will be entered in a raffle. First prize is a plastic can lid.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 10:21 PM (O0L8i)
Will I get extra chances in the raffle if I submit multiple suggestions? I could really use a plastic can lid.
Posted by: Some random seal at June 08, 2026 10:23 PM (wmV8W)
Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 10:23 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 10:17 PM (O0L8i)
Twain is a lot like a country version of Cher. Her first hit sounds pretty much like the last one. At least she is a hell of a lot better to look at.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 08, 2026 10:24 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 08, 2026 10:24 PM (kYmoU)
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 08, 2026 10:18 PM (T6aVk)
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No, it was Fritz. Totally sick burn. Guy carried one state.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 08, 2026 10:21 PM (ZOv7s)
Minnesota : Retarded since at least 1984. Probably longer.
Posted by: a.moron at June 08, 2026 10:24 PM (X5Jzz)
Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 10:23 PM (Fi81e)
It was in self defense.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 08, 2026 10:24 PM (T6aVk)
Posted by: polynikes at June 08, 2026 10:25 PM (GseMx)
Posted by: RandomDave at June 08, 2026 10:25 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: scampydog at June 08, 2026 10:23 PM (41CYW)
Which nine?
Haa!
Sorry. Couldn't resist. Well done!
Posted by: Diogenes at June 08, 2026 10:25 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 10:25 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 08, 2026 10:21 PM (ZOv7s)
Be nice. He also got DC.
: )
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 08, 2026 10:25 PM (T6aVk)
Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 10:26 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 08, 2026 10:22 PM (Cqx++)
Now it's a Sphinxer-upper. Hang a new nose on it, put in some luxury vinyl plank flooring, and double your investment!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 08, 2026 10:26 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 08, 2026 10:26 PM (0aYVJ)
Muhammad Sa'im al-Dahr was the one who hacked off the nose of the Sphinx. That is dated to 1378.
He was a radical cleric, which indeed sounds quite familiar.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 08, 2026 10:27 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 08, 2026 10:27 PM (+9wcF)
Please feel free to ignore this comment, as it is not meant to convey any meaningful information or showcase an Algonquin-worthy wit. There are more worthwile comments directly below this one for you to enjoy, please continue on to them at this time.
Posted by: tankdemon at June 08, 2026 10:27 PM (wmV8W)
Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 10:17 PM (77rzZ)
Can't you get those Lazy Legs off that couch, Bulgy?
Posted by: Johnny Prince at June 08, 2026 10:27 PM (1Ff7Z)
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Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale said "Where's the beef?" to his rival, Senator Gary Hart, during a televised Democratic primary debate on March 11, 1984.
Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 10:27 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: a.moron at June 08, 2026 10:23 PM (X5Jzz)
Exactly. How do people know Helen of Troy wasn’t black? I bet the Ancient Greeks had gangsta rap too.
Posted by: Christopher Nolan at June 08, 2026 10:28 PM (T6aVk)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 08, 2026 10:28 PM (kYmoU)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 08, 2026 10:22 PM (Cqx++)
Now it's a Sphinxer-upper. Hang a new nose on it, put in some luxury vinyl plank flooring, and double your investment!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 08, 2026 10:26 PM (1z8ji)
Don't forget the high-grade Formica countertops.
Posted by: a.moron at June 08, 2026 10:28 PM (X5Jzz)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 08, 2026 10:27 PM (w6EFb)
It's not like there is any other kind, is there?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 08, 2026 10:28 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 10:23 PM (77rzZ)
no man! Cuz I'm always busy. All the time. I would add a sarc tag, but, eh, I'm comfortable now.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 08, 2026 10:28 PM (0aYVJ)
Haa!
Sorry. Couldn't resist. Well done!
Posted by: Diogenes
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You caught that? Dang.
Posted by: scampydog at June 08, 2026 10:28 PM (41CYW)
Making it a 'well both sides suck' is a cop out since you spent three seasons building this to be an apocalyptic showdown against the ultimate evil.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 10:22 PM (zZu0s)
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JMS was a huge Tolkien fan, and his resolution was that the time of the Elder Races was over, and it was now time for the Younger Peoples to duke it out. The Londo storyline was superb.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 08, 2026 10:28 PM (ZOv7s)
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Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale said "Where's the beef?" to his rival, Senator Gary Hart, during a televised Democratic primary debate on March 11, 1984.
Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 10:27 PM (Fi81e)
Gotcha.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 08, 2026 10:28 PM (T6aVk)
Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 10:26 PM (Fi81e)
It was. Four years later, we found out the answer: Donna Rice.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 10:28 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 08, 2026 10:26 PM (1z8ji)
Don't forget the shiplap!
Posted by: Chip and Joanne at June 08, 2026 10:29 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: polynikes at June 08, 2026 10:29 PM (GseMx)
Don't forget the high-grade Formica countertops.
Posted by: a.moron at June 08, 2026 10:28 PM (X5Jzz)
___________
And the conversation pit in the rec room.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 10:29 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: YellowBird at June 08, 2026 10:29 PM (MEbkQ)
Posted by: Alec Baldwin at June 08, 2026 10:29 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 08, 2026 10:29 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 10:30 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 08, 2026 10:27 PM (w6EFb)
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It's funny that in a half century, D&D has never had a Cleric class built that even vaguely resembled Islam.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 08, 2026 10:30 PM (ZOv7s)
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During the 1984 Democratic primary, Senator Gary Hart ran a campaign heavily centered on the slogan of "new ideas". Mondale, the former Vice President, used the phrase—which was borrowed from a famous Wendy's fast-food commercial playing at the time—to mock Hart's proposals. Mondale argued that Hart’s broad, sweeping policy ideas were like a beefless hamburger: catchy to hear, but ultimately empty and lacking in substance.
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Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 10:30 PM (Fi81e)
Please feel free to ignore this comment, as it is not meant to convey any meaningful information or showcase an Algonquin-worthy wit. There are more worthwile comments directly below this one for you to enjoy, please continue on to them at this time.
Posted by: tankdemon at June 08, 2026 10:27 PM (wmV8W)
This is a test of the Sock Removal System. Had this been an actual comment, it would have been entertaining and had meaning. This concludes the test of the Sock Removal System.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 08, 2026 10:30 PM (T6aVk)
The lunatic who tried to destroy the Pyramids was Al-Aziz Uthman.
He started with the small one, and was woefully unequal to the task. He was going to dismantle it stone by stone, and gave up after 8 months.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 08, 2026 10:31 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Bulg at June 08, 2026 10:30 PM (77rzZ)
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Wow! That's what she said?!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 08, 2026 10:31 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 10:31 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 08, 2026 10:31 PM (ZLP/c)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 10:28 PM (qx7Zg)
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He put his beef in Rice.
Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 10:31 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: polynikes at June 08, 2026 10:32 PM (GseMx)
Posted by: Alec Baldwin at June 08, 2026 10:29 PM (/lPRQ)
That trick never works!
Posted by: Rocket J Squirrel at June 08, 2026 10:32 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Alec Baldwin at June 08, 2026 10:29 PM (/lPRQ)
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Wide right.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 08, 2026 10:32 PM (ZOv7s)
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Posted by: Axema
Which then Barky used to great effect in his 2008 campaign.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 08, 2026 10:32 PM (jnTpz)
Four years later, we found out the answer: Donna Rice.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 10:28 PM (qx7Zg)
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After that, she seems to have turned out pretty well.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 10:32 PM (O0L8i)
Getting my rod back together after the paint job. Just tedious work.
Then I discovered a brake fluid leak from (apparently) the area in front of the master cylinder. Lots of tightening of fittings and thinking. Discovered it was the fitting on the tee splitting the rear brake lines, fluid running down the body, fooling me. Unhappy, but got it fixed.
Then found a fuel leak from around the level sensor, which I am currently ignoring by lowering the fuel level (for now).
Time for a test run! Backed out of the garage and saw a trail of some fluid very near the master cylinder alignment. Nope. Somehow, somehow, I must have nicked the plastic oil pressure line and IT is leaking.
I suppose that soon I'll wind up with a water leak.
Posted by: LRob in OK at June 08, 2026 10:32 PM (Jr+re)
Urban legend, promulgated by intellectuals such as Al Sharpton, i.e., "They shot the nose off because Napoleon couldn't stand seeing a statue of a black person!"
Nappy did steal a lot of Egyptian cultural treasures, though. These liberated items still form the core of the Louvre's Egyptian collection.
Egypt has so much pharaonic art that they haven't bitched much about their losses, unlike Greece & its missing stuff, i.e., the Elgin Marbles parthenon frieze. Greece still wants that back, and it will likely succeed some day.
Posted by: mnw at June 08, 2026 10:32 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 08, 2026 10:30 PM (ZOv7s)
Even though there is a ME/Arabian Nights type D&D module. That is odd.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 08, 2026 10:32 PM (T6aVk)
Posted by: polynikes at June 08, 2026 10:32 PM (GseMx)
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Didn't she do a Playboy feature?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 08, 2026 10:32 PM (ZOv7s)
Please feel free to ignore this comment, as it is not meant to convey any meaningful information or showcase an Algonquin-worthy wit. There are more worthwile comments directly below this one for you to enjoy, please continue on to them at this time.
Posted by: tankdemon at June 08, 2026 10:27 PM (wmV8W)
This is a test of the Sock Removal System. Had this been an actual comment, it would have been entertaining and had meaning. This concludes the test of the Sock Removal System.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 08, 2026 10:30 PM (T6aVk)
*inserts DiCaprio pointing at TV with a beer in his hand*
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 08, 2026 10:33 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 08, 2026 10:29 PM (CHHv1)
Let me know if Robert the Cat enjoyed his cameo. It isn't perfect; I had to use a stunt double.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 10:33 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: 496 at June 08, 2026 10:34 PM (5OKCg)
Posted by: Case at June 08, 2026 10:34 PM (+zXtV)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 10:14 PM (9EFgU)
The director could have pribably been sued by Nagel for copyright infringement.
http://tiny.cc/9vr4101
Posted by: tankdemon at June 08, 2026 10:34 PM (wmV8W)
Posted by: RandomDave at June 08, 2026 10:25 PM (aJQbY)
Good luck.
I got fired from a bank job once. I was a teller and a lady came in and asked that I check her balance. So I pushed her. How was I to know she only had one leg?
Posted by: Diogenes at June 08, 2026 10:34 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 10:35 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 08, 2026 10:32 PM (ZOv7s)
I think you're thinking of the chick who banged the 700 club preacher.
Posted by: polynikes at June 08, 2026 10:35 PM (GseMx)
Didn't she do a Playboy feature?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 08, 2026 10:32 PM (ZOv7s)
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She turned down an interview with them. She resigned her Pharma bimbo job, reconnected with her Christian faith and got married.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 08, 2026 10:35 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Case at June 08, 2026 10:34 PM (+zXtV)
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That's because there's always a next Tuesday.
Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 10:35 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 10:26 PM (Fi81e)
It was. Four years later, we found out the answer: Donna Rice.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 10:28 PM (qx7Zg)
Rush Limbaugh's comment on the Gary Hartpence / Donna Rice / "Monkey Business" yacht imbroglio was that Hart, a supposed environmentalist, "had changed his position on off-shore drilling".
Posted by: a.moron at June 08, 2026 10:35 PM (X5Jzz)
Posted by: YellowBird at June 08, 2026 10:29 PM (MEbkQ)
Save the clock tower!
Save the clock tower!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at June 08, 2026 10:36 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 10:06 PM (qx7Zg)
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Hate the mismatched article and noun.
Posted by: Grammar Nazi Moron Abteilung at June 08, 2026 10:36 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: polynikes at June 08, 2026 10:36 PM (GseMx)
Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 10:37 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at June 08, 2026 10:37 PM (VCgbV)
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Management mentioned you didnt have a leg to stand on?
Good luck with the job, RandomDave.
Posted by: scampydog at June 08, 2026 10:37 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 08, 2026 10:38 PM (jehhT)
Posted by: polynikes at June 08, 2026 10:35 PM (GseMx)
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It was kind of axiomatic back in the day that Playboy would have nude photos of people - either dug out or done to capitalize on notoriety.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 08, 2026 10:39 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Grammar Nazi Moron Abteilung at June 08, 2026 10:36 PM (RIvkX)
Happens when I'm adding words to a sentence, especially on a tablet keyboard.
I do try to avoid Blinkenlighten text, though.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 10:39 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: mnw at June 08, 2026 10:39 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 10:27 PM (Fi81e)
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*dons dunce cap*
Posted by: Grammar Nazi Moron Abteilung at June 08, 2026 10:40 PM (RIvkX)
Yes but she refused playboy's request.
Posted by: polynikes at June 08, 2026 10:40 PM (GseMx)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 08, 2026 10:40 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: scampydog
I pulled a tee shot then pushed a follow up on one hole, promptly losing both golf balls. Made up for by finding about 7 other golf balls because nobody out on the course is any good either. I did hit two spectacular shots on 17 and 18 but made up for it by 3 putting. Yay! Shot a 96.
Posted by: Puddleglum, Greetings from Amish Country at June 08, 2026 10:41 PM (bfy6w)
Posted by: Graham Platner, Oysrerfur at June 08, 2026 10:41 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at June 08, 2026 10:37 PM (VCgbV)
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It was comedy, not a how-to guide.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 08, 2026 10:41 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: LRob in OK at June 08, 2026 10:41 PM (Jr+re)
Posted by: polynikes at June 08, 2026 10:40 PM (GseMx)
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Yeah, I looked it up after posting. Some did, some did not.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 08, 2026 10:42 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 08, 2026 10:42 PM (kYmoU)
I'll explain #4: Same concept. One for the guys, one for the Ettes. The Ettes have higher standards, so the guys in the "band" understand rhythm
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 10:42 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Puddleglum
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Can relate. Game is a torture at times. Shot a smooth 101 three weeks ago!
Posted by: scampydog at June 08, 2026 10:42 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Graham Platner, Oysrerfur at June 08, 2026 10:41 PM (6/7Fs)
Yeah, but the Mormon boys are lining up around the block.
Posted by: a.moron at June 08, 2026 10:42 PM (X5Jzz)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 08, 2026 10:42 PM (0aYVJ)
Where's Doof?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 08, 2026 10:38 PM (jehhT)
Was watching one just a little while ago. Tapehead Too has a great channel. That person has been filming shows for many years. I have an outstanding video of the 2015 Rush concert I went to in Philadelphia - recorded by "tapehead2".
Posted by: Doof at June 08, 2026 10:43 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 10:28 PM (qx7Zg)
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He put his beef in Rice.
Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 10:31 PM (Fi81e)
Aw, man - now you've got me craving Beef Tips and Rice. And dinner was 4 hours ago!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 08, 2026 10:43 PM (ZLP/c)
Posted by: Graham Platner, Oysrerfur at June 08, 2026 10:41 PM (6/7Fs)
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Wasn't the artist formerly known as Prince and formerly alive a Jehovah's Witness?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 08, 2026 10:43 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: YellowBird at June 08, 2026 10:29 PM (MEbkQ)
Yes, it is. I think the hamsters might have been hungry, and eaten the description.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 10:44 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 08, 2026 10:42 PM (0aYVJ)
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He hit his stride in the 90s. He was still good later, but the show was cluttered up with him talking about Apple shit and his latest product.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 08, 2026 10:44 PM (ZOv7s)
Making it a 'well both sides suck' is a cop out since you spent three seasons building this to be an apocalyptic showdown against the ultimate evil.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 08, 2026 10:22 PM (zZu0s)
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JMS was a huge Tolkien fan, and his resolution was that the time of the Elder Races was over, and it was now time for the Younger Peoples to duke it out. The Londo storyline was superb.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
The show was suppose to be canceled at the end of the 4th season. A 5th season did happen but it was uneven due to SURPRISE!! Fifth season! Anyway. I give them a break. They did good and it's still one of the best TV shows ever. The series finale was shot at the end of season 4. FYI.
Posted by: Puddleglum, Greetings from Amish Country at June 08, 2026 10:44 PM (bfy6w)
Posted by: scampydog
I pulled a tee shot then pushed a follow up on one hole, promptly losing both golf balls. Made up for by finding about 7 other golf balls because nobody out on the course is any good either. I did hit two spectacular shots on 17 and 18 but made up for it by 3 putting. Yay! Shot a 96.
Posted by: Puddleglum, Greetings from Amish Country at June 08, 2026 10:41 PM (bfy6w)
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3 putts suck, and not in a good way.
The course where the Geezer Golfers play is a beautiful but narrow with water everywhere and a lot of houses. I give up 4-8 strokes every round due to OB penalties. Of course this is built in sand bagging for when I go play a regular course. Then I usually win.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 08, 2026 10:45 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Puddleglum
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Can relate. Game is a torture at times. Shot a smooth 101 three weeks ago!
Posted by: scampydog at June 08, 2026 10:42 PM (41CYW
That's why they have handicaps. You guys could clean up in money games with a decent round.
Posted by: polynikes at June 08, 2026 10:46 PM (GseMx)
I have a weird brain.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not Mel Cooley at June 08, 2026 10:47 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 08, 2026 10:47 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Puddleglum, Greetings from Amish Country at June 08, 2026 10:44 PM (bfy6w)
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Correct. Back in the day, when DVDs were still in stores, I noted that the 5th Season was half the price of the other ones. I didn't buy it.
Years later, my kids whined that I didn't have the whole series, so I bought S5. I refuse to watch it. It was just too painful.
"Severed Dreams" was epic. IYKYK.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 08, 2026 10:47 PM (ZOv7s)
Runways
Drums, power music
A performer in front expressionless 'backup' models
Fun. Nice job. 👍
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 08, 2026 10:47 PM (NFX2v)
When Roth and Hagar were sort of taking turns, Van Halen was sometimes called "The Sam and Dave Show," referring to the old R & B duo... get it?
Posted by: mnw at June 08, 2026 10:47 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: mrp at June 08, 2026 10:48 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: mnw at June 08, 2026 10:47 PM (RCjYY)
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"All Dave, All Night, on DAAAVE TV!"
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 08, 2026 10:48 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: YellowBird at June 08, 2026 10:49 PM (MEbkQ)
Posted by: Archer at June 08, 2026 10:49 PM (wvc0i)
When Roth and Hagar were sort of taking turns, Van Halen was sometimes called "The Sam and Dave Show," referring to the old R & B duo... get it?
Posted by: mnw at June 08, 2026 10:47 PM (RCjYY)
Too bad they didn't record one song with both of them in the video: Soul Man.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 10:49 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 10:51 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 08, 2026 10:51 PM (ZLP/c)
Posted by: polynikes at June 08, 2026 10:51 PM (GseMx)
Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 10:52 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at June 08, 2026 10:53 PM (R86kT)
I can easily imagine that Davd Roth wasn't keen to be on the same stage as Sammy Hagar-- to avoid a one-on-one comparison.
Posted by: mnw at June 08, 2026 10:54 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at June 08, 2026 10:53 PM (R86kT)
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Well, it was most important that no professional music act celebrate this anniversary.
Racism and all.
But the Democratic party--the font of racism for hundreds of years. THAT can be redeemed. THAT is where all the cool kids hang out.
Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 10:55 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: mnw at June 08, 2026 10:54 PM (RCjYY)
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Yes, Sammy could still carry a tune.
Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 10:57 PM (Fi81e)
was a pretty decent summary of the Monkey Business froufrara.Posted by: but nothing beats 'Chappaquiddick' at June 08, 2026 10:57 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: mnw at June 08, 2026 10:32 PM (RCjYY)
The present-day Greeks are the direct descendants of the Classical Greeks, so they have an honest claim on the Greek antiquities, and it is a civilized country that won't let them get destroyed. Modern Egyptians are Arabs, and no relation the Pyramid builders. So they can go horsefuck.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 08, 2026 10:58 PM (1z8ji)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsAgGYM8_-A&list
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 08, 2026 10:59 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Archer
His daughter has an interesting YTube page about her father's artwork. I'm not even really into stuff like that but I watch. I find it interesting in spite of myself. She's cute too.
Posted by: Puddleglum, Greetings from Amish Country at June 08, 2026 10:59 PM (bfy6w)
Posted by: polynikes at June 08, 2026 10:51 PM (GseMx)
That wasn't Van Halen, was it? Just Sammy and Dave, playing separately on the same bill, alternating who went first from night to night.
Posted by: a.moron at June 08, 2026 10:59 PM (X5Jzz)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 08, 2026 10:58 PM (1z8ji)
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Sounds like you guys don't know about the Greek homos stealing everything.
Posted by: Axeman at June 08, 2026 10:59 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 08, 2026 10:19 PM (u/oMr)
Hello.
Posted by: Leon at June 08, 2026 10:59 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: mrp at June 08, 2026 10:48 PM (rj6Yv)
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Sorry about that. The totals are correct, but only for Los Angelis County. Statewide, Hilton still has a shrinking lead over Steyer.
Posted by: mrp at June 08, 2026 11:01 PM (rj6Yv)
You can put me in the lunatic woo-woo crowd that thinks the Sphinx (and maybe the Pyramids themselves) are far older than traditionally dated. The water erosion on the Sphinx is the main thing. And then there's the Younger Dryas and the astronomical alignments.
Around 12,000 years ago, when the last ice age ended and the Holocene began.
Go back to the magic date of about 10,500 BC, give or take. Due to precession of the equinoxes, the equinox was in Leo. The Sphinx would've facing it's celestial counterpart at sunrise on the equinox (or any time when the equinox point was rising). And due to procession, the constellation were quite shifted relative the pole and equator. At Giza, the bottom of Orion (Rigel and Saiph). At the moment of equinox rising, Orion was just transiting, with his feet right on the horizon.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 08, 2026 11:01 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Case at June 08, 2026 11:03 PM (+zXtV)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 11:03 PM (qx7Zg)
The White House is pushing it, and Freedom 250. PragerU is also doing a tour. And Hillsdale is teaming with the White House on historical shorts for YouTube. I’m also seeing it start cropping up in local advertising.
Some of the YouTube shows I follow are also covering it—Townsends, Tasting History.
Nothing like 1975-1976, though.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 08, 2026 11:03 PM (kYmoU)
Sammy Hagar still tours. I just recently saw an ad for his upcoming appearance in St. Louis... at a rather puny venue, compared to the glory days. On a riverboat.
Sammy made A LOT of money with his Cabo Wabo premium tequila. A LOT. Some big liquor outfit bought him out-- Skye maybe? Plus, he has a group of airport restaurants. Sammy is a capitalist!
So, he must still do live concerts because he enjoys it. Not for the dough re me.
Posted by: mnw at June 08, 2026 11:03 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Case at June 08, 2026 11:03 PM (+zXtV)
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Especially THAT one.
Posted by: mrp at June 08, 2026 11:03 PM (rj6Yv)
Around 12,000 years ago, when the last ice age ended and the Holocene began.
Go back to the magic date of about 10,500 BC, give or take. Due to precession of the equinoxes, the equinox was in Leo. The Sphinx would've facing it's celestial counterpart at sunrise on the equinox (or any time when the equinox point was rising). And due to procession, the constellation were quite shifted relative the pole and equator. At Giza, the bottom of Orion (Rigel and Saiph). At the moment of equinox rising, Orion was just transiting, with his feet right on the horizon.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 08, 2026 11:01 PM (w6EFb)
Totally this. The water erosion should be a debate ender right there.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 08, 2026 11:04 PM (snZF9)
Rush Limbaugh's comment on the Gary Hartpence / Donna Rice / "Monkey Business" yacht imbroglio was that Hart, a supposed environmentalist, "had changed his position on off-shore drilling".
Posted by: a.moron
I think he was quoting someone else. Possibly Howell Heflin.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 08, 2026 11:05 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 08, 2026 11:07 PM (Ll/Gz)
Posted by: mnw at June 08, 2026 11:07 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 08, 2026 11:04 PM (snZF9)
Wasn't it buried for a couple thousand years? Could that have had an effect on the weathering?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 08, 2026 11:08 PM (1Ff7Z)
Booyah!
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 08, 2026 11:08 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: mrp at June 08, 2026 11:09 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: gKWVE at June 08, 2026 11:09 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
With floor drain and hose bib for easy cleanup.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 08, 2026 11:10 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 08, 2026 11:07 PM (Ll/Gz)
Yet another TV show I never saw once. There's a bunch. It's so liberating not to have to carry all that cruft in my brain.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 08, 2026 11:10 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: mrp at June 08, 2026 11:09 PM (rj6Yv)
That was before automated cameras which monitor your speed and then send you a fine through the mail.
Posted by: gKWVE at June 08, 2026 11:10 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: mnw at June 08, 2026 11:11 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 11:12 PM (qx7Zg)
Zathras understand. No. Zathras not understand. But Zathras do! Zathras good at doings, not understandings.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 08, 2026 11:13 PM (Cqx++)
Stellarium (and others), loaded with JPL's DE440/441 high precision ephemerides, will easily show that spectacular alignment. Stellarium's default precession model is pretty good, but the default ephemeris (VSOP87) won't be so hot about the planets and the ecliptic of date that far back. It won't be too bad, but you need DE441 to get it right.
Back then, when Leo rose, it was sitting nearly horizontal to the horizon. The crouching Sphinx staring right at a crouching lion rising on the eastern horizon. There is a theory that the slight off linear alignment of the three pyramids corresponds to Orion's belt stars (Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka).
So, from a vantage point to the north of the complex, looking due south, at equinox rising, you'd see the pyramids right under Orion due South, with the feet walking on the horizon with the three pyramids right underneath, with Leo due east with the Sphinx staring right at it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 08, 2026 11:14 PM (w6EFb)
375 Will anyone actually do anything about this fraud or will they just complain on the internet and let Bass win? Or maybe the other woman Who didn’t even win her district? Will anything ever be done? Ever?
Posted by: AnnaS at June 08, 2026 09:24 PM (FnSbk)
Well that's the question, isn't it? We rely so heavily on organization and structure, it's a powerful thing and also a vulnerability. If the people who are responsible for fixing a problem are also in on it and a cause, then how can it be fixed? Whom does it then fall on to do something about it, and how?
Posted by: SciVo at June 08, 2026 11:14 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: mnw at June 08, 2026 11:15 PM (RCjYY)
I like "Why Can't This Be Love?" and "Love Comes Walking In."
The man could sing.
Posted by: mnw at June 08, 2026 11:11 PM (RCjYY)
My favorite song and video is "Where Eagles Fly." Not typical Sammy Hagar, but it resonates in my soul.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 11:15 PM (qx7Zg)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where's_the_beef%3F
Includes a citation of Mondale using the phrase against Hart in 1984.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 08, 2026 11:15 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 08, 2026 10:30 PM (ZOv7s)
Even though there is a ME/Arabian Nights type D&D module. That is odd.
Posted by: Cow Demon
Evil (Lawful or Chaotic) Alignment. All spells are the reciprocal - heal becomes harm, etc.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 08, 2026 11:15 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 11:12 PM (qx7Zg)
If they were doing diplomacy and commerce, where did they store the hookers?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 08, 2026 11:15 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 11:17 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: mnw at June 08, 2026 10:32 PM (RCjYY)
Melina Mercouri was the spokesperson for the Greek antiquities office, and her only account was to bug the Brits until they gave back the Elgin Marbles. She didn't succeed, obviously. But I remember hearing her speak at the Embassy, and she went on for over an hour discussing the (in the Greek's opinion) legal reasoning for returning them. She was also a very lovely lady, even when she was elderly. Aged very gracefully.
Posted by: moki at June 08, 2026 11:17 PM (wLjpr)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 08, 2026 11:17 PM (ZVgZ4)
I have a theory that it would be better celebrated with “Sestercentennial” than with “Semiquincentennial”. Just because the former is closer to bicentennial. But it could be worse. They could have gone with bisesquicentennial.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 08, 2026 11:18 PM (kYmoU)
Because not far away:
Scope Report @ScopeReport_
2h
BREAKING: Suspect arrested after attempting to behead a man in north Belfast, Northern Ireland.
I will not link to the video. If you must watch it, find it yourself.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 08, 2026 11:18 PM (ohSsM)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 08, 2026 10:51 PM (ZLP/c)
I've got a deal for you.
Posted by: Elon Musk at June 08, 2026 11:18 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: mnw at June 08, 2026 11:18 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 11:12 PM (qx7Zg)
If they were doing diplomacy and commerce, where did they store the hookers?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 08, 2026 11:15 PM (1z8ji)
That was never explained in the show. I'm sure they were available, from several species.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 11:19 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 08, 2026 11:20 PM (ZVgZ4)
These eagle-eyed fans at first thought the thumbnail was some unknown shot of Yeoman Colt, Laurel Goodwin, from the first pilot "The Cage;" until they realized her nose was too long.
I'm gonna step slowly away from the viewscreen. In fact, "viewscreen off."
Nyah.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 11:20 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 11:21 PM (2GVsD)
He truly believed that he could do and say anything he pleased and be absolutely bulletproof. It’s fun to see someone like that get taken down.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 08, 2026 11:21 PM (orF8y)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 08, 2026 11:17 PM (ZVgZ4)
-
Depends what citizens are willing to do.
"A republic, if you can keep it," said Ben Franklin.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 08, 2026 11:22 PM (ohSsM)
Greece is slowly winning the tug of war, from what I've read.
They'll be in safe hands.
Posted by: mnw at June 08, 2026 11:23 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: SciVo at June 08, 2026 11:14 PM (Sy6m/)
Civil disobedience. Strikes. Riots. Block traffic. Burn cars. Peeing into the public planters.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 08, 2026 11:23 PM (2WIwB)
I had to take twenty minutes to convince Spectrum to cancel my Internet today. Talking to someone who repeated several times that she was in south Texas. And seemed to take it very personally that I did not like Spectrum’s service or internet quality and for that reason the offer of free cell service from spectrum was not an offer that interested me.
I’m still not sure I actually succeeded. For all other home services all I would have to do is go online and cancel.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 08, 2026 11:24 PM (kYmoU)
What surprised me is that here at ~35N, Orion was not completely visible due to precession. Rigel was just below the horizon.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 08, 2026 11:24 PM (w6EFb)
Hah! With only a few days left before the opening match, there are still unsold seats. Thousands of unsold tickets total over the course of the series.
The Euros can't comprehend this.
Posted by: Elon Musk at June 08, 2026 11:25 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 11:12 PM (qx7Zg)
If they were doing diplomacy and commerce, where did they store the hookers?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 08, 2026 11:15 PM (1z8ji)
Brown sector.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 08, 2026 11:25 PM (snZF9)
Little-known rock history fact: all the dancers in the Robert Palmer video are actually males in drag.
Posted by: mindful webworker - and you can believe me because I'm always right and I never lie at June 08, 2026 11:25 PM (dn9xm)
Sad to say, nowadays they might succeed.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 08, 2026 11:25 PM (UE9Fq)
Posted by: Diogenes at June 08, 2026 11:23 PM (2WIwB)
One of these things is not like the others.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 08, 2026 11:26 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 08, 2026 11:26 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 08, 2026 11:26 PM (Cqx++)
They need to dump a few thousand in front of the next mohammedan parade, at the crest of a hill.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 11:29 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 11:12 PM (qx7Zg)
If they were doing diplomacy and commerce, where did they store the hookers?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 08, 2026 11:15 PM (1z8ji)
That was never explained in the show. I'm sure they were available, from several species.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 11:19 PM (qx7Zg)
Private Frost: Hey, I sure wouldn't mind getting some more of that Arcturian poontang! Remember that time?
Private Spunkmeyer: Yeah, Frost, but the one that you had was a male!
Private Frost: It doesn't matter when it's Arcturian, baby!
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 08, 2026 11:35 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 08, 2026 11:35 PM (0nHVk)
Posted by: GWB at June 08, 2026 11:36 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: Case at June 08, 2026 11:36 PM (+zXtV)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 08, 2026 11:26 PM (Cqx++)
They need to dump a few thousand in front of the next mohammedan parade, at the crest of a hill.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 11:29 PM (qx7Zg)
I think it should be chitlins. And pork rinds. I know, they don't roll as well.
Posted by: GWB at June 08, 2026 11:37 PM (kU0PQ)
The Euros can't comprehend this.
Posted by: Elon Musk at June 08, 2026 11:25 PM (IG3/x)
Those are all the ones Mamdani was going to buy for the suckers in NYC, the ones he was going to give away. (Until he saw how much they cost.)
Posted by: GWB at June 08, 2026 11:40 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 08, 2026 11:08 PM (1Ff7Z)
Yes, it should have slowed any weathering, if not stopped it completely while it was buried for around 5K years, off and on.
There was a period when the Sahel and Egypt got far more rain than it does now, a period called the African Humid period. Weathering and water erosion like seen at the Sphinx would have been faster then.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 08, 2026 11:41 PM (rbvCR)
RE: Elgin Marbles and air pollution:
Puts me in mind of a true (for once) story about Somerset Maugham:
He bought a Gauguin on glass in Tahiti for about $1.35. He was accused of exploiting the natives. Maugham won that argument (in my view) by explaining, "It was originally one-third of a 3-part panel. If I HADN'T bought it and shipped it home, it would be with the OTHER 2 panels-- destroyed & gone forever."
Posted by: mnw at June 08, 2026 11:42 PM (RCjYY)
It's Piper, or Piper's ghost.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 11:42 PM (qx7Zg)
Not a launch, but an introduction to the Artemis III crew.
NASA - Artemis III - Crew Introduction
Johnson Space Center, Houston - Space Affairs Live
Date: June 9, 2026
Time: 11 a.m. EDT ( 1500 UTC, 17:00 CEST)
https://youtu.be/q9SgmTRjT0k
Posted by: Joyenz at June 08, 2026 11:44 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 08, 2026 11:17 PM (ZVgZ4)
I do wonder at the legality of the Voting Rights Act
Posted by: Kindltot at June 08, 2026 11:44 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Diogenes at June 08, 2026 11:47 PM (2WIwB)
Loved the welder. I sadly never got past 8cm with our first 10# lad. I was really hoping to say lots of stuff I normally would not to my husband. Baby was not coming out the normal way as his head never engaged, so we are alive today thanks to c-sections. I would not have made a pioneer woman due to this and not surviving without AC.
I have a high pain tolerance so all I could manage was a moan now and then. I sent my dude to the waiting room to inform my mother that it was not me screaming back there.
I will never know what I was capable of vocally or in breaking his fingers and getting away with it.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 08, 2026 11:47 PM (WONhk)
Britain no longer has a Royal Navy - just the broken down, fading memory of one.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 08, 2026 11:49 PM (Ll/Gz)
_sciencedaily
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 11:50 PM (9EFgU)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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We should bring our nukes home.
That might also get the natives attention.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 11:51 PM (9EFgU)
Good job, HotW!!! You'll be a COB in no time, heh. Sorry, I'll admit I didn't try to solve the music stuff-- my mind is too fried for that today-- just enjoyed the vids/tunes!
Posted by: JQ at June 08, 2026 11:52 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 08, 2026 11:52 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: mnw at June 08, 2026 11:53 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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We should bring our nukes home.
That might also get the natives attention.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 11:51 PM (9EFgU)
Which natives? Angles, Saxons, Picts, Celts, and Normans, or the newer ones?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2026 11:53 PM (qx7Zg)
pg. 79. The Pleasures of Archeology. Karl E. Meyer. Atheneum. 1971.
Photo that is dated 1882 of Scottish troops posing with the Spinx. All that is seen in the photographs is the head and hint of the shoulders of the great stone structure.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 11:54 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Diogenes at June 08, 2026 11:23 PM (2WIwB)
California already has that, ginned up by the left, formerly with our federal tax money, and now with state-only funds, and it’s all directed against Truth, Justice, and the American Way.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 08, 2026 11:54 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 08, 2026 11:52 PM (Cqx++)
Technically, everyone expected the Spanish Armada, including Francis Drake who led the assault on Cadiz to try to break it up before it sailed
Posted by: Kindltot at June 08, 2026 11:54 PM (rbvCR)
The African humid period or Green Sahara is interesting. It correlates with the Milankovitch cycles of perihelion precessing about the seasons. When perihelion occurs in Northern summer, rather than winter as it does now, through some not-completely-understood mechanism, it throws the Sahara into a nice wet, green climate. Ice Ages can prevent that from turning back on. This cycle is about 19 - 23K years (it's shorter than the pole precession because of apsidal precession)
The last one started near the end of the Pleistocene, and turned off maybe 6000 years ago. Before that, however, I think it missed two green cycles, and the last one before last was somewhere around 70K years ago.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 08, 2026 11:54 PM (w6EFb)
Which natives? Angles, Saxons, Picts, Celts, and Normans, or the newer ones?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 08, 2026 11:55 PM (Cqx++)
Christy, my first daughter was a c-section, she just refused to do the necessary twisting and turning, she is a very independent thinker and a great kid. I was not a screamer either, I had watched enough episodes of Gunsmoke and Wagon Train to know that real women just toughed it out. That being said I was not averse to receiving any modern day medication that was offered.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 08, 2026 11:56 PM (0nHVk)
Posted by: JQ at June 08, 2026 11:56 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 11:57 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
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Thought about that. First thought was that it might put fear in the Starmer crowd and stiffen up the Angles and Saxes. If it doesn't it could backfire and give the foreigners more resolve.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 11:57 PM (9EFgU)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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We should bring our nukes home.
That might also get the natives attention.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 11:51 PM (9EFgU)
Right? No sense leaving nukes in a muslim nation.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 08, 2026 11:58 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: RandomDave at June 08, 2026 10:25 PM (aJQbY)
Praying you get it Dave, if it's one you want.
Great attitude! My eldest son was laid off a month ago and recently found a job. He found the slowness is a glut of AI resumes they have to weed through.
Hang in there and know I'm praying for you, sweetie.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 08, 2026 11:58 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: mnw at June 08, 2026 11:59 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 11:59 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: mnw at June 08, 2026 11:59 PM (RCjYY)
Which broke down, supposedly. That really must suck.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 08, 2026 11:59 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 11:59 PM (2GVsD)
I have that book.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 09, 2026 12:00 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 09, 2026 12:00 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
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Thought about that. First thought was that it might put fear in the Starmer crowd and stiffen up the Angles and Saxes. If it doesn't it could backfire and give the foreigners more resolve.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2026 11:57 PM (9EFgU)
Depends on their end goal. Is it territory and slaves, nukes, or both? I suspect it's both if possible, but they'll be satisfied if all they get is the first because the nukes are gone.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 09, 2026 12:00 AM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: mnw
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That's why he wins.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 09, 2026 12:01 AM (9EFgU)
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 09, 2026 12:01 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 09, 2026 12:01 AM (Cqx++)
Posted by: RandomDave at June 09, 2026 12:01 AM (aJQbY)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 09, 2026 12:02 AM (ZVgZ4)
Oh, crap! They sent BOTH of them?!
/s, knowing I'm out of my depth here...
Posted by: JQ at June 09, 2026 12:02 AM (rdVOm)
Cuba has experienced an earthquake tonight of the natural variety?
Hey JQ, I did yard work today, sore as can be. Yikes.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 09, 2026 12:02 AM (0nHVk)
The Gerald Ford had to leave the Gulf for a month or so because of a laundry fire, too.It happens.
Posted by: mnw at June 09, 2026 12:02 AM (RCjYY)
This has been one of the worst criminal defenses I’ve known of. Karmelo should have cut a deal.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 09, 2026 12:02 AM (orF8y)
Just getting to Cyprus and taking two weeks to do it, the destroyer suffered a freshwater shortage and had to make port.
Now that the ship is going into the warmer Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf area, we will get to see if PIP, Powerplant Improvement Program, will work when the Rolls-Royce gas turbine engine conks out.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 09, 2026 12:03 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: RandomDave at June 09, 2026 12:01 AM (aJQbY)
Not bad. The first referenced her career, and the second her role on Sunday's ONT.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 09, 2026 12:04 AM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 09, 2026 12:04 AM (2GVsD)
Oh, you poor dear-- I know the feeling!
*makes that margarita a double*
Cheers!
Posted by: JQ at June 09, 2026 12:05 AM (rdVOm)
Just getting to Cyprus and taking two weeks to do it, the destroyer suffered a freshwater shortage and had to make port.
Now that the ship is going into the warmer Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf area, we will get to see if PIP, Powerplant Improvement Program, will work when the Rolls-Royce gas turbine engine conks out.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 09, 2026 12:03 AM (2GVsD)
I here I was thinking if they sent anything it would probably have sails.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 09, 2026 12:05 AM (snZF9)
Going to make me dig out Egypt Before the Pharaohs next?
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 11:59 PM (2GVsD)
Stuff 'em under a Pyramid to recharge.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 09, 2026 12:05 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 09, 2026 12:07 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 09, 2026 12:05 AM (snZF9)
What condition is the HMS Victory in? How visible is it on radar and sonar?
Perhaps wooden sailing ships are the ultimate stealth warship.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 09, 2026 12:08 AM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 09, 2026 12:08 AM (2GVsD)
/s, knowing I'm out of my depth here...
Posted by: JQ at June 09, 2026 12:02 AM (rdVOm)
The funniest part is, you’re actually right! They only sent two ships, because that’s all they had that could be deployed. And even then, the HMS Dragon took more than a week to leave port because (seriously) the Union dock workers preparing it said they were only allowed to work 9-5 Monday through Friday, with breaks.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 09, 2026 12:08 AM (orF8y)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 09, 2026 12:09 AM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: JQ at June 09, 2026 12:09 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: mnw at June 09, 2026 12:09 AM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 09, 2026 12:10 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 08, 2026 11:56 PM (0nHVk)
********************
The main moan was when an Oriental nurse examined me with long fingernails (which I don't understand why they did not pop the gloves). That hurt. My husband said he was seconds away from pushing her. Fun times!
I finally got an epidural in the wee hours when the anesthesia guy got there, as it was not an emergency, just not going to happen. I was dehydrated and almost passed out, which caused my husband to go pale.
I made sure for the second boy I was hydrated and all was well. I possibly could have had him but there were some odds of uterine rupture and my husband said nope, not going to risk it.
Healthy babies, that's all that any mother should want. I did not care if he came out my ear.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 09, 2026 12:10 AM (WONhk)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 09, 2026 12:11 AM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: mnw at June 09, 2026 12:12 AM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Tom Servo
But Karmelo knows it was self-defense.
His own twisted idea of it anyway.
Shit talk some other dude,
if he doesn't back down, it's time for
Shit on ma dick or
Blood on ma shiv.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 09, 2026 12:13 AM (/lPRQ)
"Beats having one come out your forehead." - Zeus.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 09, 2026 12:13 AM (2GVsD)
"I unsheathed my Bowie knife and cut a path through this wall of human flesh, dragging my canoe behind me."
Posted by: Kindltot at June 09, 2026 12:13 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 09, 2026 12:14 AM (orF8y)
I called my dude, who was down in the basement. Obviously I was not that worried or I would have gone down there. He didn't answer because he was in the loo (but he did not cause the house to rock, I'm pretty sure).
We somehow survived but don't know what that was. Maybe a meteor and I'll see a burned up rose garden tomorrow.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 09, 2026 12:14 AM (WONhk)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 08, 2026 11:21 PM (2GVsD)
Yes, but they are all Kosh.
Posted by: Methos at June 09, 2026 12:14 AM (vSvIl)
He understands the concept of “yes, but make them do it.” Most Republicans give up when they know there will be overwhelming opposition—allowing the opposition the benefit both of opposing and not having to go on record as having opposed.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 09, 2026 12:15 AM (kYmoU)
I think even worse than a third world country.
Posted by: Case at June 09, 2026 12:16 AM (+zXtV)
What is it with the Horde, you start talking Babylon 5 and it takes almost an hour for someone to post the correct reply to my Vorlon joke.
My poor Horde.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 09, 2026 12:17 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 09, 2026 12:18 AM (2GVsD)
Karmelo had ANOTHER bad day today.
One of the defense witnesses recanted his story-- min front of the jury. First said, "Karmelo was surrounded." But on the stand he said, "I'm not actually sure what happened."
Posted by: mnw at June 09, 2026 12:18 AM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 09, 2026 12:19 AM (2GVsD)
Christy, my first daughter was a c-section, she just refused to do the necessary twisting and turning, she is a very independent thinker and a great kid. I was not a screamer either, I had watched enough episodes of Gunsmoke and Wagon Train to know that real women just toughed it out. That being said I was not averse to receiving any modern day medication that was offered.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 08, 2026 11:56 PM (0nHVk)
DDS
Well, I'm happy to make you one.
Into the blender:
Bacardi margarita mix
Ice
A bit of sugar
Four or five glugs of tequila
Two or three glugs of triple sec
Blend
Add more glugs of each to taste
Blend again
Pour up in margarita glasses (I do not salt the rim)
Float a generous tablespoon of cointreau on the top
Enjoy!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at June 09, 2026 12:20 AM (2WIwB)
I think even worse than a third world country.
Posted by: Case at June 09, 2026 12:16 AM (+zXtV)
Colombia has already tallied up their national Primary election that was held May 31, so yes you are right.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 09, 2026 12:20 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: circus peanut at June 09, 2026 12:21 AM (7WzpC)
Posted by: mnw at June 09, 2026 12:22 AM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 09, 2026 12:23 AM (2GVsD)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_de_dissuasion
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 09, 2026 12:23 AM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: California at June 09, 2026 12:23 AM (oq9dX)
Some years back, I liked to buy the Costco buckets of "just add a bottle of booze and put in freezer" Margarita Mix... except I'd add rum (Bacardi Silver was good) instead of tequila... Perfect, affordable, easy, lime daiquiris!
Posted by: JQ at June 09, 2026 12:24 AM (rdVOm)
That margarita recipe won't help much with labor pains, but it'll sure help set the conditions nine months earlier.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 09, 2026 12:24 AM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Axeman at June 09, 2026 12:26 AM (Fi81e)
Posted by: JQ at June 09, 2026 12:24 AM (rdVOm)
Excellent! Adapt and overcome!
Posted by: Diogenes at June 09, 2026 12:26 AM (2WIwB)
Posted by: mnw at June 09, 2026 12:22 AM (RCjYY)
331 I want a forensic audit of where those donations went.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 09, 2026 12:23 AM (2GVsD)
And any money not spent should be seized and given to the family of the murdered boy. People should never be permitted to profit from their crimes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 09, 2026 12:26 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 08, 2026 10:30 PM (ZOv7s)
********
If D&D had done this, they would have had to add all sorts of pedophilic and zoophilic spells and actions in order to get the Islamic cleric correct. My mother, if this had been done and she learned of it, would never have allowed me to buy or play D&D ever, and she would likely be haunting me from the afterlife now as well if I had insisted on playing it in adulthood.
Posted by: River Fishes at June 09, 2026 12:26 AM (aTy4b)
https://youtu.be/nQQ9kogUUuU
G'nite, y'all.💤
Posted by: mindful webworker - between the lines at June 09, 2026 12:27 AM (dn9xm)
The Green Sahara thing is driven by changes in the North African Monsoon, I was just reading. I remembered something about that. When perihelion occurs in north summer, that monsoon gets strengthened, and allows rainfall to penetrate. The obliquity and eccentricity cycles modulate that as well. Higher tilt, and closer perihelion make it even stronger.
Our little human cycles are nothing compared to these grand astronomical cycles that drive everything long term.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 09, 2026 12:27 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 09, 2026 12:28 AM (W5mpo)
*Eureka!*
Step 1-- Identify (publicly and vociferously!) as belonging to an "oppressed" group.
Step 2-- Commit some horrible crime
Step 3-- Scream "racism!!!1111!1"
Step 4-- Make BANK on Gofundme...
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Meh... needs work...
Posted by: JQ at June 09, 2026 12:31 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: mnw at June 09, 2026 12:31 AM (RCjYY)
Posted by: mnw at June 09, 2026 12:22 AM (RCjYY)
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Well, it's not like he stood on Capitol grounds at the wrong time.
He just shoved a knife through the heart of one less person to burden the Earth.
Posted by: Axeman at June 09, 2026 12:35 AM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Axeman
Yeah! He wasn't *parading* without a permit, and didn't steal a podium or anything like that....
Posted by: JQ at June 09, 2026 12:36 AM (rdVOm)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 09, 2026 12:36 AM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: River Fishes at June 09, 2026 12:26 AM (aTy4b)
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Summoning the Men of Al Zut would not be a parent pleaser.
Posted by: Axeman at June 09, 2026 12:37 AM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair
The math was easier.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 09, 2026 12:28 AM (W5mpo)
Wasn't that about the time we were all supposed to convert to metric measurement & maths?
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 09, 2026 12:37 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: mnw at June 09, 2026 12:31 AM (RCjYY)
The few remaining Danish Greenlanders may have begged to differ.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 09, 2026 12:39 AM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Anna Puma
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They should set Karmelo down and fry him. Yes.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 09, 2026 12:39 AM (9EFgU)
If interested, you can find various attempts at maps of the Green Sahara period. There were many lakes and rivers. The biggest one is Megalake Chad, which was larger than the Caspian Sea.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 09, 2026 12:39 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Anna Puma
Incompetent defense?!?
Have you seen our client?
Posted by: the defense at June 09, 2026 12:40 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: Axeman at June 09, 2026 12:40 AM (Fi81e)
Posted by: publius
Also the official title of the biggest jackass in Minnesota.
Posted by: mikeski at June 09, 2026 12:41 AM (VHUov)
Most were held between the early 17th and early 19th centuries during the period known as the Little Ice Age, when the river froze over most often,
_wiki
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 09, 2026 12:43 AM (9EFgU)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 09, 2026 12:43 AM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 09, 2026 12:46 AM (9EFgU)
*Eureka!*
Step 1-- Identify (publicly and vociferously!) as belonging to an "oppressed" group.
Step 2-- Commit some horrible crime
Step 3-- Scream "racism!!!1111!1"
Step 4-- Make BANK on Gofundme...
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Meh... needs work...
Posted by: JQ at June 09, 2026 12:31 AM (rdVOm)
Well yeah, for one thing you're going to need a NASA level tanning booth.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 09, 2026 12:46 AM (snZF9)
There was a perihelion in England in 1461, which created the optical illusion that three were suns in the sky.
Edward of York's army was sore afraid, but Edward explained that the three suns were the trinity, & that it was a FAVORABLE omen.
Posted by: mnw at June 09, 2026 12:46 AM (RCjYY)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 09, 2026 12:43 AM (ZVgZ4)
Do they still do that whole hung, drawn, and quartered thing down there?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 09, 2026 12:47 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 08, 2026 11:17 PM (ZVgZ4)
That is by design, because each state (then colony) rightly feared the others would force their ways and mores on them if they could. You couldn't get Catholic Maryland to sign on to a Federation that had the power to declare Papism a Heresy.
And this is not a bad thing. Imagine if California and New York could force corruption on everyone everywhere.
Posted by: SciVo at June 09, 2026 12:47 AM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 09, 2026 12:48 AM (9EFgU)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 09, 2026 12:39 AM (9EFgU)
Something in a nice tire fire.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 09, 2026 12:48 AM (snZF9)
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They were busy hanging Baptists on pikes.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 09, 2026 12:49 AM (9EFgU)
This has been one of the worst criminal defenses I’ve known of.
Posted by: Tom Servo
Isn't that exactly how to play this one?
"If the facts are not on your side, argue the law."
"If the law is not on your side, argue the facts."
"If neither is on your side, yell and pound the table with your fist."
Posted by: mikeski at June 09, 2026 12:49 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 09, 2026 12:47 AM (snZF9)
Least they could do would be to hold the hanging in the town square. Barbecue afterwards.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 09, 2026 12:50 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: raimondo at June 09, 2026 12:50 AM (1xVw5)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 09, 2026 12:50 AM (0nHVk)
Please to explain, raimondo, how basketball can turn into[/i[ shit?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 09, 2026 12:52 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: mnw at June 09, 2026 12:18 AM (RCjYY)
He apparently didn’t know there’s some cell phone video of the scene inside the tent just before the stabbing. He testified that Karmello was surrounded and felt threatened, the prosecutor played the cell phone video and asked “what part of that was he surrounded in?” And the “witness” had to say “uuhh, I guess he wasn’t.”
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 09, 2026 12:52 AM (orF8y)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 09, 2026 12:52 AM (1z8ji)
That's a parhelion, the fancy word for sun dog. Perihelion is when, in this case, the earth is closest to the sun. Aphelion is the opposite.
The roots are both Greek Homo. "Peri-" meaning near, while "par" means "beside".
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 09, 2026 12:52 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 09, 2026 12:54 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: mnw at June 09, 2026 12:22 AM (RCjYY)
Near as I can figure, his family is encouraging this mook to sabotage his own defense to keep the gravy train going.
Not that I have any sympathy for him, but you gotta wonder what's gonna happen when he realizes that Big Mama wanted him to go to the pen so the money spigot wouldn't shut off.
Posted by: Elon Musk at June 09, 2026 12:54 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: mnw at June 09, 2026 12:54 AM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
*sigh*
Yeah. I need to apply for a grant. Study how much UV it takes to turn my skin *one shade* darker... Probably take a lethal amount, for me to claim POC status.
---Back to the ol' drawing board...
Posted by: JQ at June 09, 2026 12:54 AM (rdVOm)
Btw Jupiter and Venus were nice together tonight.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 09, 2026 12:56 AM (orF8y)
363 Collin County is the second richest and probably one of the most liberal counties in TX. It's where Dallas money retreats after work.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 09, 2026 12:48 AM (9EFgU)
I have always had contempt for the "socially liberal, fiscally conservative." No, you're basically self-loathing and working against yourself. Might as well be Jewish. And the funny thing is, if you look at the stats, they marry at rates very against the mores they propound.
Posted by: SciVo at June 09, 2026 12:57 AM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Diogenes
One of these things is not like the others.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
Yeah! Strikes hit the private sector, not the government.
Posted by: mikeski thinks that's the one at June 09, 2026 12:57 AM (VHUov)
*sigh*
Yeah. I need to apply for a grant. Study how much UV it takes to turn my skin *one shade* darker... Probably take a lethal amount, for me to claim POC status.
---Back to the ol' drawing board...
Posted by: JQ at June 09, 2026 12:54 AM (rdVOm)
Oooh, I know. You're an albino from the congo. Protected status, speaking tours, book signings, the works. The gravy train would be massive.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 09, 2026 12:58 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: mnw at June 09, 2026 12:58 AM (RCjYY)
Posted by: JQ at June 09, 2026 12:58 AM (rdVOm)
It was too cloudy here to see anything. I was really bummed out. It's been cloudy at sunset here for well over a week. I missed the whole nightly approach as Venus got higher and higher to close in on Jupiter.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 09, 2026 12:59 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: SciVo at June 09, 2026 12:57 AM (Sy6m/)
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Yeah, Arnie Nanny-banginator said that, and then he funded almost everything the liberals asked for.
Posted by: Axeman at June 09, 2026 01:01 AM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Berserker
LMAO! Would need to get pink (?) contact lenses to pull it off, but that's a heckuva idea!!
Wait... albino... you saw the "aloha" pic I sent last year, didn't you?
Posted by: JQ at June 09, 2026 01:02 AM (rdVOm)
Btw Jupiter and Venus were nice together tonight.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 09, 2026 12:56 AM (orF8y)
Well, have you ever been out where there's no lights? And when was the last time you didn't have a smartphone?
Posted by: SciVo at June 09, 2026 01:02 AM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: JQ at June 09, 2026 01:02 AM (rdVOm)
Uh, no. No clue what that is.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 09, 2026 01:03 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Elon Musk
Ghetto Lottery
He down with the struggle.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 09, 2026 01:03 AM (/lPRQ)
The parhelion was likely much brighter than it is now.
Posted by: mnw at June 09, 2026 01:04 AM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Axeman at June 09, 2026 01:05 AM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 09, 2026 12:56 AM (orF8y)
I just went out and looked at the sky. Two bright objects in the west. One, I assume, is Venus, the other, much dimmer, was at about 8:00 relative to Venus, and about one thumb's angular distance away.
Cool thing. While I was gawping at the sky, a Great Horned owl swooped down over the yard, made a U-turn above me, and flew up and perched on a power pole by the road frontage. I hooted at it, but got no reply.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 09, 2026 01:05 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Axeman at June 09, 2026 12:37 AM (Fi81e)
Do they wear colorful, stylish, and oversized suits that have high-waisted, wide-legged, tight-cuffed, pegged trousers and a long coat with wide lapels and wide padded shoulders?
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 09, 2026 01:05 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Berserker
Whew!
Not really... I sent a pic to TRex for Jim SND's "aloha attire tribute" last year. Told him it was okay to share with Morons at the actual memorial, day before TxMoMeX
Clue: my hair IS white! But I'm not albino.
Posted by: JQ at June 09, 2026 01:07 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 09, 2026 01:07 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 09, 2026 01:05 AM (wVcYX)
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They are well-endowed men of dark complexion and immense sexual appetite who rode The Prophet all night until he had trouble sitting and walking.
It's in the literature.
Posted by: Axeman at June 09, 2026 01:08 AM (Fi81e)
@aeberman12 - 7h
The global oil system has offset almost 90% of Hormuz barrels
17.5 mmb/d has been offset with bypass pipelines, reduced Chinese imports, increased US export, SPR releases & demand destruction
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 09, 2026 01:08 AM (9EFgU)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 09, 2026 01:08 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 09, 2026 01:09 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 09, 2026 01:05 AM (wVcYX)
I don't know, but a Brahmin in a zoot suit is an elite Jeet with a reet pleat.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 09, 2026 01:09 AM (1z8ji)
No problem at all, I just wanted to make it clear that perihelion is a different phenomenon.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 09, 2026 01:10 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: anon at June 09, 2026 01:10 AM (dSco/)
Pollux and Castor, the Twins of Gemini, are also pretty close to Jupiter and Venus.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 09, 2026 01:11 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius
Also a pretty good Leprous album.
https://youtu.be/85drl9-lqRU
https://youtu.be/8jZddRE_iHg
https://youtu.be/hOMSRmfcvag
https://youtu.be/QKmaG5f9Zsg
Posted by: mikeski at June 09, 2026 01:11 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: Axeman at June 09, 2026 01:11 AM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Fredo Corleone at June 09, 2026 01:12 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Diogenes at June 08, 2026 11:23 PM (2WIwB)
To be clear, I am Vantablack-pilled. Beyond dark. But I genuinely, sincerely do not believe that will work.
There is the concept of the "amenable authority". And the authorities that we have want more power, not less, where we want them to have less. So they are not amenable to us, where they were amenable to others.
So the question remains: what is to be done? And the answer would probably get you on a watchlist, frankly.
Posted by: SciVo at June 09, 2026 01:12 AM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Anna Puma
Dang. That's gotta be top o' the heap
How
Posted by: JQ at June 09, 2026 01:12 AM (rdVOm)
Need help.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 09, 2026 01:13 AM (9EFgU)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 09, 2026 01:09 AM (1z8ji)
+1 LOL
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 09, 2026 01:13 AM (wVcYX)
Yeah, that Miranda. The one who said "Yeah, that's her" when placed in a lineup for potential identification by a rape victim.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 09, 2026 01:14 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 09, 2026 01:05 AM (wVcYX)
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They are well-endowed men of dark complexion and immense sexual appetite who rode The Prophet all night until he had trouble sitting and walking.
It's in the literature.
Posted by: Axeman
====
IOW,
Yes.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 09, 2026 01:14 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Skip at June 09, 2026 01:17 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
I am recommending you for the Order Of Muldoon, with shamrock clusters.
Posted by: mikeski at June 09, 2026 01:19 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: Axeman at June 09, 2026 01:19 AM (Fi81e)
Posted by: SciVo at June 09, 2026 01:21 AM (Sy6m/)
They were only about 3,000 apart after yesterday’s drop.
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ROLOL
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 09, 2026 01:21 AM (9EFgU)
First Man of al-Zutt: Man, this Wadi al-Rummah water is warm.
Second Man of al-Zutt: Yeah, and long, too!
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 09, 2026 01:24 AM (wVcYX)
She's a Democratic Socialist, and she bought the WHOLE package of commie bullzh*t.
Probably the only candidate who makes Bass look good by comparison. I assume the Pratt voters will either stay home or vote for Bass. ABN: Anybody but Nithya.
Posted by: mnw at June 09, 2026 01:26 AM (RCjYY)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 09, 2026 01:27 AM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 09, 2026 01:29 AM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: mnw at June 09, 2026 01:29 AM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 09, 2026 01:30 AM (2GVsD)
The best times to see the Moon in daylight is generally around the 1st and 3rd quarters.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 09, 2026 01:31 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: mnw at June 09, 2026 01:32 AM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 08, 2026 11:26 PM (Cqx++)
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You know who else lost a marble?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 09, 2026 01:35 AM (LJCmn)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 08, 2026 11:26 PM (Cqx++)
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You know who else lost a marble?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 09, 2026 01:35 AM (LJCmn)
Starmer?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 09, 2026 01:36 AM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Axeman at June 09, 2026 01:36 AM (Fi81e)
Posted by: JQ at June 09, 2026 01:37 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 09, 2026 01:37 AM (ZVgZ4)
And the clock tower in Milwaukee isn't computer generated.
Posted by: mnw at June 09, 2026 01:41 AM (RCjYY)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 09, 2026 01:44 AM (ZVgZ4)
: Iranian leadership loses contact with Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei.
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MISSING SUPREME LEADER? 1 day ago
Communication lines between Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei and senior Iranian officials have reportedly been disrupted since Sunday night,
_theyeshivaworld.com
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He died again?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 09, 2026 01:49 AM (9EFgU)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 09, 2026 01:50 AM (ZVgZ4)
WHY do you think they put telescopes at places such as Mt. Palomar? Because there is almost no urban air pollution there. You can see celestial objects better when there's no air pollution, right?
In the Middle Ages there was no air pollution anywhere. So the moon appeared brighter.
Posted by: mnw at June 09, 2026 01:54 AM (RCjYY)
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