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Thursday Overnight Open Thread - June 11, 2026 [Doof]

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From Aestethics


Howdy Hordelings! It's time for the Thursday night ONT. Content provided for those who care. Open thread, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?

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America - F*ck Yeah!


The King would be proud

Elvis Presley’s Graceland Unveils Big Plans For ‘All-American’ 4th of July Event

Elvis Presley‘s Graceland is getting ready to have a major celebration this 4th of July.

In honor of America’s upcoming 250th anniversary, Graceland is hosting an “All-American Weekend” from July 3 to July 5, where fans will be able to see Elvis’ iconic Memphis estate like never before as it getes lit up in red, white and blue.

According to the official Graceland website, this year’s fourth of July celebration will include include two “electrifying” concerts, including a performance from The Dreamboats, who are slated to “bring their electrifying, high-energy celebration of 1950s and ’60s rock ‘n’ roll to the Graceland Soundstage for a night that will have you on your feet from the first note.”

There will also be a tribute concert from Jimmy Holmes and Patt Dunn, who are expected to “bring Elvis’ greatest hits to life — from rock ‘n’ roll classics to unforgettable ballads and Vegas-era favorites.”

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Oh No - They hate us so much

USA flag booed before World Cup 2026 opening game in Mexico City

The United States flag appeared to be met with loud boos and jeers before the opening game of the World Cup in Mexico City.

Ahead of the big kick-off between Mexico and South Africa, the flags of all 48 teams participating in this summer’s tournament were paraded onto the pitch.

The final three flags to take to the pitch were those of the three North American co-hosts, the United States, Canada and Mexico.

However, there was a marked change in atmosphere when the United States were introduced and their flag was displayed on the stadium’s big screen.

From jubilant roars, the noise of the crowd shifted, with loud boos audible as the flag of the United States was brought forward.

First of all, it's a field not a pitch. Secondly, go fuck yourselves.



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DJ Doof - Inspired By The Horde Edition

From today's art thread

Boat drinks!
Posted by: Zombie Jimmy Buffett at June 11, 2026 09:54 AM (wVcYX)

On a crystal ship!
Posted by: Zombie Jim Morrison at June 11, 2026 09:55 AM (Qqh23)


"We got 80 feet of waterline nicely making way...and the Southern Cross"


- - CSN
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 11, 2026 09:57 AM (x0n13)


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OK, let's play along!

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My Rock Band name is Velvet Fire. What's yours?

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Comments

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1 first?

Posted by: The Neon Madman at June 11, 2026 10:02 PM (yNfcm)

2 Evening

Posted by: javems at June 11, 2026 10:02 PM (pVNyz)

3 Thunder Hearts

Posted by: Piper at June 11, 2026 10:02 PM (Wmg4n)

4 gotta be kidding me

Posted by: The Neon Madman at June 11, 2026 10:03 PM (yNfcm)

5 Good evening morons y gracias Disco

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 11, 2026 10:03 PM (RIvkX)

6 Lot of glass in that top photo. Would hate to wash the windows...

Posted by: Joemarine at June 11, 2026 10:04 PM (y171U)

7 Secondly, go fuck yourselves.
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Should have put that one first.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 11, 2026 10:04 PM (RIvkX)

8 Diamond fire. That's not gay at all.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 11, 2026 10:04 PM (Riz8t)

9 Kings highway Monmouth county. I have a friend who lives on that street. I go there a lot. I need to see that.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 11, 2026 10:05 PM (snZF9)

10 Well sadly, yes to styrofoam on the Coke bottle old ...

Posted by: Adriane the Paranoid Critic . . . at June 11, 2026 10:05 PM (3ZUWJ)

11 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 11, 2026 10:05 PM (+9wcF)

12 An 81-year-old Federal judge in Boston ruled that the Attorney General of Texas could not sue Act Blue in Texas state court for failing to vet donations.

Jurisdiction? Who needs jurisdiction?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 11, 2026 10:05 PM (aD4fx)

13 UFC dropped the outfits the Octagon Girls will be wearing at the White House this weekend!


Very Nice

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 11, 2026 10:06 PM (/lPRQ)

14 Thanks for the ONT, Doof . . . . I mean Velvet Fire.


Signed, Rebel Storm

Posted by: LRob in OK at June 11, 2026 10:06 PM (Jr+re)

15 Yes, I am old enough for styrofoam covered bottles.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 11, 2026 10:06 PM (RIvkX)

16 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 11, 2026 10:06 PM (ZLP/c)

17 Midnight Rockers is my rock name, but it's also a club at the local assisted living center for unruly patients who don't agree with the early bedtime.

Posted by: Orson at June 11, 2026 10:06 PM (dIske)

18 12 An 81-year-old Federal judge in Boston ruled that the Attorney General of Texas could not sue Act Blue in Texas state court for failing to vet donations.

I was unaware Boston rules the nation. GFY.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 11, 2026 10:07 PM (Riz8t)

19 "Midnight Electric Velvet Panties" would be a good name for a Zappa song.

Posted by: fd at June 11, 2026 10:07 PM (vFG9F)

20 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 11, 2026 10:07 PM (zZu0s)

21 Is Buffett's shirt old enough to be from the bar/dive/night club in east Denver 60s and 70s?

You could get drunk there and possibly get knifed, too!

Posted by: LRob in OK at June 11, 2026 10:08 PM (Jr+re)

22 I remember peeling that Styrofoam off coke bottles. Talk about a forgotten memory.

Posted by: Will Robinson at June 11, 2026 10:08 PM (zBgIx)

23 Well sadly, yes to styrofoam on the Coke bottle old ...
Posted by: Adriane the Paranoid Critic

They had those bottles in the 80s. Maybe even into the 90s? They aren't old.

Posted by: mikeski at June 11, 2026 10:08 PM (VHUov)

24 Crimson Strangers.

Posted by: davidt at June 11, 2026 10:08 PM (Q+gd/)

25 3-1 CAR after 2

Posted by: Don Black at June 11, 2026 10:08 PM (ZxPkt)

26 You know, it's a shame that the ceremony for the World Cup wasn't held in Tampico, Mexico. You can see the GULF OF AMERICA from there.

Posted by: Orson at June 11, 2026 10:09 PM (dIske)

27 The best part about styrofoam on Coke bottles was peeling it off and eating it.

Posted by: Pawl at June 11, 2026 10:09 PM (vFG9F)

28 Whatever Moron is the "Velvet Queen", fess up.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 11, 2026 10:09 PM (/lPRQ)

29 I remember styrofoam on Coke bottles!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 11, 2026 10:09 PM (ZVgZ4)

30 Woo! Love the top pic. Thanks, Doof!

Yes, I remember the styrofoam pop bottles.

DC resto vid is awesome, too!

Posted by: JQ at June 11, 2026 10:09 PM (rdVOm)

31 Willowed:
What I think is people who think alike tend to gravitate to each other. I think people are confused if they believe everyone on here is white. Because we aren’t. 😉
Posted by: Piper at June 11, 2026 09:59 PM (Wmg4n)

Never said that they were- that is why I said 'thought tribe'.

Just me, but i think 'free thought' is bullshit. It is not like we are flipping a coin on issues and who knows where it will land. Our thinking is informed and shaped by what we believe in. What we value. That is not 'free.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 11, 2026 10:10 PM (zZu0s)

32 Good evening Horde. Thanks Disco!

In case you were wondering, the T Rex DNA handbag failed to sell at auction. High bid of $150k was well short of seller hopes. No sale.

Karma.

Don't mess with dino DNA.

Posted by: TRex - octagon dino at June 11, 2026 10:10 PM (d9i2R)

33 Evenin'

No golf today. Pretty much done this trip. Lots of thunderstorms about . Going to hang out with my ancient parental units tomorrow and start packing. Head back to Babylon DC Saturday.

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at June 11, 2026 10:10 PM (Yvm8C)

34 I remember 1 cent bubblegum from a bubblegum machine.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 11, 2026 10:11 PM (ZVgZ4)

35 Crimson hearts FTW!

Posted by: JQ at June 11, 2026 10:11 PM (rdVOm)

36 "Our thinking is informed and shaped by what we believe in. What we value. That is not 'free.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone"

It's my reality and I'm sticking to it.

Posted by: Pawl at June 11, 2026 10:11 PM (vFG9F)

37 Meow

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at June 11, 2026 10:11 PM (w3u3d)

38 An 81-year-old Federal judge in Boston ruled that the Attorney General of Texas could not sue Act Blue in Texas state court for failing to vet donations.

I was unaware Boston rules the nation. GFY.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 11, 2026 10:07 PM (Riz8t)

A nice case of wtf rulings. Judicial Masters.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 11, 2026 10:11 PM (zZu0s)

39 The chart makes Rebel Rebels possible . . . . .

The chart makes Rebel Rebels possible . . . . .

signed Department of Redundancy Department.

Posted by: LRob in OK at June 11, 2026 10:11 PM (Jr+re)

40 I was unaware Boston rules the nation. GFY.

The judge (appointed by Clinton) is a Rhodes Scholar and a Harvard Law grad.

You know, one of the Elect selected to rule over us.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 11, 2026 10:11 PM (aD4fx)

41 Well they put me out on the old Kings Road
I didn't know which way to go
There was people all around wearin' funny lookin' clothes
Some boys, some girls, some I don't know

-- Tom Petty

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 11, 2026 10:11 PM (u/oMr)

42 Electric Queens?

Hard nope.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not Mel Cooley at June 11, 2026 10:12 PM (0aYVJ)

43 Mexico and the US are, uh, not friends in soccer. They think it's their sport and are mad that the US took being better at it away from them. US soccer fans think they're awfully entitled for a team that hasn't done better than we have.

If a Mexican fan boos the flag, shout 'Dos-a-cero' at them. They'll understand. Maybe want to fight too, depending on beer level, but they'll understand.

Posted by: Locarno at June 11, 2026 10:12 PM (wiYsG)

44 32 Good evening Horde. Thanks Disco!

In case you were wondering, the T Rex DNA handbag failed to sell at auction. High bid of $150k was well short of seller hopes. No sale.

Karma.

Don't mess with dino DNA.

Posted by: TRex - octagon dino at June 11, 2026 10:10 PM (d9i2R)

Am glad to hear this.

Posted by: Joemarine at June 11, 2026 10:12 PM (y171U)

45 In case you were wondering, the T Rex DNA handbag failed to sell at auction. High bid of $150k was well short of seller hopes. No sale.

Karma.

Don't mess with dino DNA.

Posted by: TRex - octagon dino at June 11, 2026 10:10 PM (d9i2R)
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Akshully...the buyer discovered the bag wouldn't hang from her little TRex arms because of the lack of shoulders.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 11, 2026 10:13 PM (2WIwB)

46 The chart makes Rebel Rebels possible . . . . .
The chart makes Rebel Rebels possible . . . . .
signed Department of Redundancy Department.
Posted by: LRob in OK

Weak! May 31st is Thunder Thunder!

Posted by: Department of Redundancy Department (not LRob's, the other one) at June 11, 2026 10:13 PM (VHUov)

47 I am so old that I remember the 6.5, 10, and 12 ounce curvy bottles being more common than cans. We used to pick up pop bottles around town and turn them in at the store for a nickel apiece.

Posted by: huerfano at June 11, 2026 10:13 PM (VJX5o)

48 If the Mexicans hate us so much, why do they keep sneaking into the country? Stay in the 3rd World hellhole you've created.

Posted by: Wally at June 11, 2026 10:13 PM (65cLN)

49 Whatever Moron is the "Velvet Queen", fess up.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 11, 2026 10:09 PM (/lPRQ)
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It's plural. Velvet Queens. Could be a punk girl band.

"Velvet Queen" would be a Queen tribute band.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 11, 2026 10:14 PM (ZOv7s)

50 Crimson Legends
We're a Village People cover band.

Posted by: wth at June 11, 2026 10:14 PM (oq9dX)

51 I'm older than that.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 11, 2026 10:14 PM (Cqx++)

52 I would like to meet some Octagon Girls and impress them with my sartorial prowess.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 11, 2026 10:14 PM (u/oMr)

53 I was watching some footage from the riots in Northern Ireland and it just looked strange to me. Then I realized what was missing. I didn't see any looting.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at June 11, 2026 10:14 PM (w/O5Q)

54 I remember 1 cent bubblegum from a bubblegum machine.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

But that was when pennies were still copper and held some intrinsic value. What, 1980ish? That's like centuries ago.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 11, 2026 10:14 PM (/lPRQ)

55 Were I the Texas AG, I would pointedly ignore such an injunction, being as Texas and Boston aren’t even in the same Federal District.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 11, 2026 10:14 PM (ZVgZ4)

56 So are any birthdays actual bands? Sept 25th gets close.....

https://youtu.be/5IfiLehLFJw

Posted by: mikeski at June 11, 2026 10:15 PM (VHUov)

57 Karma.

Don't mess with dino DNA.

Posted by: TRex - octagon dino
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Right. Reptiles besides being vicious are contagious to human beings.


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 11, 2026 10:15 PM (FJMtP)

58 40 ARC

My shirt collar stopped feeling too tight when the market closed today. You?

Posted by: mnw at June 11, 2026 10:15 PM (RCjYY)

59 Thunder Hearts
Posted by: Piper at June 11, 2026 10:02 PM (Wmg4n)

Did they play at your funeral?

Posted by: Doof at June 11, 2026 10:15 PM (QMAsf)

60 My shop class had a coke machine. 8 oz bottles for a quarter. Being a poor, I could indulge only once a week when I got my allowance. Ice cold, and so refreshing.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not Mel Cooley at June 11, 2026 10:15 PM (0aYVJ)

61 1960ish when we still used silver in most of our coinage.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 11, 2026 10:15 PM (ZVgZ4)

62 Im old enough to remember putting a dime in the coke machine and then having to move the bottle along the slot it was hanging from and then pulling it out.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 11, 2026 10:16 PM (2WIwB)

63 Midnight Rockers is my rock name, but it's also a club at the local assisted living center for unruly patients who don't agree with the early bedtime.
Posted by: Orson at June 11, 2026 10:06 PM (dIske)

Jack Armsgood is my rock name and I've led the movement to a 6:00 PM after dinner movie showing.

Posted by: LTG at June 11, 2026 10:16 PM (+ZHEV)

64 If the Mexicans hate us so much, why do they keep sneaking into the country? Stay in the 3rd World hellhole you've created.
Posted by: Wally
......

They come here to sell drugs and avocados.

Posted by: wth at June 11, 2026 10:16 PM (oq9dX)

65 Akshully...the buyer discovered the bag wouldn't hang from her little TRex arms because of the lack of shoulders.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 11, 2026 10:13 PM (2WIwB)
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Hold it in the crook of her arm like Queen Elizabeth

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 11, 2026 10:16 PM (RIvkX)

66 >In case you were wondering, the T Rex DNA handbag failed to sell at auction.
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people recognize a scam

Posted by: Don Black at June 11, 2026 10:16 PM (ZxPkt)

67 An 81-year-old Federal judge in Boston ruled that the Attorney General of Texas could not sue Act Blue in Texas state court for failing to vet donations.

I was unaware Boston rules the nation. GFY.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 11, 2026 10:07 PM (Riz8t)

A nice case of wtf rulings. Judicial Masters.
Posted by: Aetius451AD



Poor guy obviously is demented. Maybe the AG can call in a welfare check before he forgets to eat and starves to death.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 11, 2026 10:16 PM (/lPRQ)

68 What is it with the judiciary these days. We need to reinstitute public hangings.

Daily.

Seriously.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 11, 2026 10:16 PM (jehhT)

69 My rock band name is Crimson Dreamers. I don't love it, but my birthday is June 11, so that's what I've got

Posted by: 496 at June 11, 2026 10:16 PM (l3Npx)

70 I remember when Allahpundit was calling the Red Socks "Crimson Jihad" and actually funny.

That was an eternity ago.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 11, 2026 10:17 PM (ZOv7s)

71 Evening Horde thx Doof.
My name is Electric Wolves. I like it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 11, 2026 10:17 PM (6jOdA)

72 'Rebel Strangers'.

Sounds like one of them rock country western bands.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 11, 2026 10:17 PM (zZu0s)

73 Is there one of those for tranny stripper names?

Posted by: Pawl at June 11, 2026 10:17 PM (vFG9F)

74 I was pokin' around in some old stuff the other day. Guess what I found?
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.
.
.
.
.
"America's Bicentennial" Poster!!!
Declaration of Independence, surrounded by artwork depicting Revolutionary soldiers, Union & Confederate soldiers, astronauts, first cars, iron works, and pioneers.

SCORE!!!
I need to buy a poster frame for it.

Posted by: JQ at June 11, 2026 10:17 PM (rdVOm)

75 Also, kind of gay.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 11, 2026 10:17 PM (zZu0s)

76 "We got 80 feet of waterline nicely making way...and the Southern Cross"

It's kind of a special feeling
Out on the sea alone
Staring at the full moon like a lover

Posted by: JackStraw at June 11, 2026 10:17 PM (viF8m)

77 I was in a Village People cover band. We didn't play music, but you know, I think we captured the vibe of the band. And STDs. We captured a lot of those, too.

Posted by: Pete Bootyjudge at June 11, 2026 10:18 PM (65cLN)

78 1960ish when we still used silver in most of our coinage.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 11, 2026 10:15 PM (ZVgZ4)

1964 was the year with silver.

Posted by: LTG at June 11, 2026 10:18 PM (+ZHEV)

79 62 Im old enough to remember putting a dime in the coke machine and then having to move the bottle along the slot it was hanging from and then pulling it out.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 11, 2026 10:16 PM (2WIwB)

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Pfft.

Posted by: The Guy Who Used A Coat Hanger to Score An Undeserved Package of Fritos at June 11, 2026 10:18 PM (u/oMr)

80 ONT!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 11, 2026 10:18 PM (6U1c2)

81 Crimson Lightning

Posted by: Gref at June 11, 2026 10:18 PM (5rh/l)

82 Dark Lightning.

An oxymoron if I ever heard one.

In other news, now my 2nd dental implant had fallen out. The one whose absence makes me look like a gap-toothed hillbilly.

Have an appointment scheduled with my dentist on Monday. I'm getting sick of this shit, especially considering how most CU money we shelled out for all of this.

I guess it doesn't help that my teeth are basically smaller than your average cooked pea.....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 11, 2026 10:18 PM (ZLP/c)

83 Rebel Sinners.

I don't like it.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 11, 2026 10:18 PM (2WIwB)

84 Can't go wrong with CCR.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 11, 2026 10:18 PM (2WIwB)

85 Today I learned that Doof's birthday is one day off from mine!

Posted by: pookysgirl has had blizzards and Blizzards on her birthday at June 11, 2026 10:18 PM (Wt5PA)

86 Poor guy obviously is demented. Maybe the AG can call in a welfare check before he forgets to eat and starves to death.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 11, 2026 10:16 PM (/lPRQ)
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I forget which legal dude noted this on X, but the predictable result of all this nonsense will be to severely curtail judicial power. It's self-limiting. There will be zero discretion left because they abused all of it.

Too bad.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 11, 2026 10:19 PM (ZOv7s)

87 My shirt collar stopped feeling too tight when the market closed today. You?

I try to ignore day-to-day stock market fluctuations.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 11, 2026 10:19 PM (aD4fx)

88 Did the WWE run those dresses by Piper for review?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2026 10:19 PM (2GVsD)

89 I remember hunting for glass bottles to redeem for pocket change, back when that pocket change could actually buy something.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 11, 2026 10:20 PM (ZVgZ4)

90 Rebel Sinners.

I don't like it.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 11, 2026 10:18 PM (2WIwB)

A Dixie Chicks Tribute band.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 11, 2026 10:20 PM (zZu0s)

91 Sunset Renegades. That's kind of cool...
His is Rebel Renegades, which is sort of redundant.

Some of us are thick glass Coke bottles with the bottling plant's name on the bottom old.

Posted by: sal at June 11, 2026 10:20 PM (f+FmA)

92 What we value. That is not 'free.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD work

The last part wasn’t directed at you. I am sorry you took it that way. And if we go tribal, this is a good group to do that with. We are resourceful!

Posted by: Piper at June 11, 2026 10:20 PM (Wmg4n)

93 I was pokin' around in some old stuff the other day. Guess what I found?
.
.
.
.
.
.
"America's Bicentennial" Poster!!!
Declaration of Independence, surrounded by artwork depicting Revolutionary soldiers, Union & Confederate soldiers, astronauts, first cars, iron works, and pioneers.

SCORE!!!
I need to buy a poster frame for it.
Posted by: JQ at June 11, 2026 10:17 PM (rdVOm)

Please send me a good photo! Use the email at the end of the content. We need to get that photo into a thread!

Posted by: Doof at June 11, 2026 10:20 PM (QMAsf)

94 An 81-year-old Federal judge in Boston ruled that the Attorney General of Texas could not sue Act Blue in Texas state court for failing to vet donations.

I was unaware Boston rules the nation. GFY.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 11, 2026 10:07 PM (Riz8t)

Somewhere in boston an 81 year old Alzheimer's patient escaped, stole a bathrobe from bed bath and beyond, and is pretending to be a judge.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 11, 2026 10:20 PM (snZF9)

95 1964 the last year with silver I should have said.

Posted by: LTG at June 11, 2026 10:20 PM (+ZHEV)

96 Golf report!
Was able to get out today with an old college buddy and play Whispering Firs at McChord AFB. Shot a tidy 92 on what is a beautiful day here.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 11, 2026 10:21 PM (2WIwB)

97 I'm watching this guy explain planetary gears, and the suspense is killing me: when is he going to get his tie caught or finger mangled in that scary peter-pinching lab demo model? These things are more complex than I imagined. To defeat the gear, we must first understand the gear.
youtube.com/watch?v=9sPi7DEbyI0

Posted by: gp at June 11, 2026 10:21 PM (Jr5Lq)

98 88 Did the WWE run those dresses by Piper for review?
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2026 10:19

Clearly that answer is no. I was about to ask who the octagon girls were, but I was afraid of the potential backlash.

Posted by: Piper at June 11, 2026 10:21 PM (Wmg4n)

99
Im old enough to remember putting a dime in the coke machine and then having to move the bottle along the slot it was hanging from and then pulling it out.
Posted by: Diogenes

If you had a bottle opener and a straw...

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 11, 2026 10:21 PM (Cqx++)

100 "Dark Lightning.

An oxymoron if I ever heard one."

How about "Dark Fire"? Also known as "Cold Ashes".

Posted by: fd at June 11, 2026 10:21 PM (vFG9F)

101 Judicial rulings will be completely ignored due to these juvenile antics.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2026 10:21 PM (2GVsD)

102 69 My rock band name is Crimson Dreamers. I don't love it, but my birthday is June 11, so that's what I've got
Posted by: 496 at June 11, 2026 10:16 PM (l3Npx)

Happy Birthday! 🎉💐💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 11, 2026 10:21 PM (ZLP/c)

103 Mexico and the US are, uh, not friends in soccer. They think it's their sport and are mad that the US took being better at it away from them. US soccer fans think they're awfully entitled for a team that hasn't done better than we have.

If a Mexican fan boos the flag, shout 'Dos-a-cero' at them. They'll understand. Maybe want to fight too, depending on beer level, but they'll understand.
Posted by: Locarno
====

How about "Verde Dil Dos" and toss them a big green one?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 11, 2026 10:21 PM (/lPRQ)

104 I was watching some footage from the riots in Northern Ireland and it just looked strange to me. Then I realized what was missing. I didn't see any looting.

It's **very** well-organized - the old traditions haven't died out completely.

No word on whether they've taken out the offices of Belfast's immigration lawyers, as had been suggested online.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 11, 2026 10:22 PM (aD4fx)

105 >>Im old enough to remember putting a dime in the coke machine and then having to move the bottle along the slot it was hanging from and then pulling it out.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 11, 2026 10:16 PM

My aunt's store in the Middle of Nowhere, New Mexico had one of the chest type Coke boxes that held water at about 38F and you slid them along the rack to hang them in the water. So cold. Best Cokes ever.

Posted by: huerfano at June 11, 2026 10:22 PM (VJX5o)

106 Did the WWE run those dresses by Piper for review?
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2026 10:19 PM (2GVsD)

UFC - not WWE. Yuuuuge difference!

Posted by: Doof at June 11, 2026 10:22 PM (QMAsf)

107 {TiFW}

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 11, 2026 10:23 PM (RIvkX)

108 My rock band name is Crimson Dreamers. I don't love it, but my birthday is June 11, so that's what I've got
Posted by: 496 at June 11, 2026

Well.... HAPPY BIRFDAY!!!

*Cheers!*

Posted by: JQ at June 11, 2026 10:23 PM (rdVOm)

109 Thank you MR. Doof for content.

Greetings Horde and Lurkers (and Lurch...? who remembers Lurch? You rang......?)

If you watch Varney and Co tomorrow on Fox Bidness at about 11:45 Eastern they do viewer comment submittals. I sent a couple in this week, let's see if I get lucky..

Will check back in later...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 11, 2026 10:23 PM (QGaXH)

110
"Dark Sinners"
Sounds like an 80's garage band.

Posted by: YIKES! at June 11, 2026 10:23 PM (OgWfa)

111 Rebel Sinners.

I don't like it.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 11, 2026 10:18 PM (2WIwB)
---
It's very gay.

I refuse to accept it as valid. Not well thought out.

If I formed a band, it would be Christian Metal. Theophantic Glory Cloud. (h/t Lord of Spirits podcast before it jumped the shark)

Long Live Death would be a good one as well.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 11, 2026 10:23 PM (ZOv7s)

112 UFC - not WWE. Yuuuuge difference!
Posted by: Doof

Like the difference between football and soccer!

Posted by: mikeski at June 11, 2026 10:23 PM (VHUov)

113 Rebel Sinners.

I don't like it.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 11, 2026 10:18 PM (2WIwB)

A Dixie Chicks Tribute band.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 11, 2026 10:20 PM (zZu0s)

***

I would of thought Rebel Beyotches for them.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 11, 2026 10:24 PM (2WIwB)

114 The storm is here.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 11, 2026 10:24 PM (ZOv7s)

115
On the White House Lawn for July 4 2026

Virtual 3-D Elvis and James Brown

Other nominations?

Posted by: Eventful Miklos at June 11, 2026 10:24 PM (6VErX)

116 Clearly that answer is no. I was about to ask who the octagon girls were, but I was afraid of the potential backlash.
Posted by: Piper at June 11, 2026 10:21 PM (Wmg4n)

UFC fights are held in an octagon shaped ring. The octagon girls walk around strutting their stuff holding up number cards before each round. It's a wonderful thing!

Posted by: Doof at June 11, 2026 10:25 PM (QMAsf)

117 Please send me a good photo! Use the email at the end of the content. We need to get that photo into a thread!
Posted by: Doof

You bet I will!

Soon as I get it into a frame... it's been rolled up for 50 years and won't lay out flat without persuasion.

Posted by: JQ at June 11, 2026 10:25 PM (rdVOm)

118 PS: I'm Diamonds Hearts

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 11, 2026 10:25 PM (QGaXH)

119 Huge if you are fan of either.

Now me, the difference between a BF 109F-4/Trop and a Bf 109F-4/Z is an important distinction.

The differences between a Bf 109G-10 built at Regensberg, WNR, or Erla are real minute details if the Werke Nr is not visible.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2026 10:25 PM (2GVsD)

120 Neon hearts? That sucks. Me and Sean Connery, both.

Definitely remember stryofoam on glass bottles of Coke, and being really happy the gas station HAD a vending machine, with a horizontal glass top and glass bottles hung vertically inside. The Dr. Pepper was coooold....

And my dad having to know his license plate# when he paid for gas with his credit card. I still remember Texas JCW-497 blue 76 Buick Le Sabre.

Posted by: Sloucho at June 11, 2026 10:25 PM (dS2e+)

121 "Dark Sinners"
Sounds like an 80's garage band.
Posted by: YIKES!

And sounds like you named the band when you first got together, at the age of 13.

Posted by: chuunibyou ain't just for the Japanese at June 11, 2026 10:26 PM (VHUov)

122 Some more news out of CA:

Massive fire guts 1 million square medical supply warehouse in Tracy, CA

youtu.be/h7g21wMmBHU

Big smoky fire, indeed.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 11, 2026 10:26 PM (rv0XX)

123 1964 was the year with silver.

…the last year with silver.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 11, 2026 10:26 PM (ZVgZ4)

124 The South African player kicked out of the game today was named 'Sphepholo Sitole'. That is a moved letter H away from greatness, or at least amusement.

Posted by: Locarno at June 11, 2026 10:26 PM (wiYsG)

125 Top story at insty. They better watch out, didnt keir promise to charge them with thought crime or something?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 11, 2026 10:26 PM (zZu0s)

126 Remember styrofoam Coke bottles?

Are you kidding?

I saw the Doors live in concert at Roosevelt Univ in Chicago!

Posted by: mnw at June 11, 2026 10:26 PM (RCjYY)

127 Dark Lightning.

An oxymoron if I ever heard one.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 11, 2026 10:18 PM (ZLP/c)

What do you call bolts of dark energy, then? In a fantasy setting, of course.

Posted by: pookysgirl needs to go feed Wee Pooky at June 11, 2026 10:27 PM (Wt5PA)

128 PS: I'm Diamonds Hearts
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

Your cover band, the Club Spades, got run out of town on suspicions of racism.

Posted by: mikeski at June 11, 2026 10:27 PM (VHUov)

129 Please send me a good photo! Use the email at the end of the content. We need to get that photo into a thread!
Posted by: Doof

that boy done let us down

seemed nice

Posted by: Captain and crew of the USS Trump at June 11, 2026 10:27 PM (6VErX)

130 . So cold. Best Cokes ever.
Posted by: huerfano at June 11, 2026 10:22 PM (VJX5o)


I agree!
And in the summer, when you popped the cap, the coke at the top of the bottle would freeze. Great stuff!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at June 11, 2026 10:27 PM (2WIwB)

131 " Midnight Thunder" sounds like the aftereffects of a visit to taco bell.

Posted by: fd at June 11, 2026 10:28 PM (vFG9F)

132 My aunt's store in the Middle of Nowhere, New Mexico had one of the chest type Coke boxes that held water at about 38F and you slid them along the rack to hang them in the water. So cold. Best Cokes ever.
Posted by: huerfano at June 11, 2026 10:22 PM (VJX5o)

Reminds me of a place I'd get a beer from after like four hours of fishing in hot weather.

It seemed like nothing could be that cold without freezing.

Best beer I've had to this day.

Posted by: LTG at June 11, 2026 10:28 PM (+ZHEV)

133 Diamond Angels sounds like an a'capella singing group with too many sopranos.

Posted by: huerfano at June 11, 2026 10:28 PM (VJX5o)

134 UFC girls could beat me up a little if they promise to kiss it and make it feel better.

Posted by: wth at June 11, 2026 10:28 PM (oq9dX)

135 Report: John Cornyn has announced he will not campaign for Republican Senate Nominee Ken Paxton for the November General Election
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Good

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 11, 2026 10:29 PM (FJMtP)

136 Does anyone remember bubblegum machines? I think they switched at some point to taking quarters, but by that time I was out of my bubblegum phase.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 11, 2026 10:29 PM (ZVgZ4)

137 1976. I was 10 years old, a kid in Cody Wyoming. John Wayne was the grand marshal of the Cody Stampede parade. The Cody Stampede was always a big event, but that year was brilliant.

I am not feeling the same sense of America now. My son and his wife are gonna be here for Independence Day, but I am already preparing for something to go sideways.

Maybe I'm just old. But I am not comfortable in crowds.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not Mel Cooley at June 11, 2026 10:29 PM (0aYVJ)

138 Report: John Cornyn has announced he will not campaign for Republican Senate Nominee Ken Paxton for the November General Election

He'll be campaigning for Kamala in 2028.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 11, 2026 10:30 PM (aD4fx)

139 that boy done let us down

seemed nice
Posted by: Captain and crew of the USS Trump at June 11, 2026 10:27 PM (6VErX)

Haha!! You are clever. I'll dig that photo out soon - I promise!

Posted by: Doof at June 11, 2026 10:30 PM (QMAsf)

140 I had an Aunt who was Electric Revolution. She lived to enjoy 24 birthdays. RIP Aunt Margaret!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 11, 2026 10:30 PM (QGaXH)

141 Mexico City isn't well regarded by most Mexicans; it's full of commies.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 11, 2026 10:30 PM (gKWVE)

142 A Dixie Chicks Tribute band.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 11, 2026 10:20 PM (zZu0s)

Hi! I'm Penny ZeDay, and this is Heidi Inches and Madam Zapple! Come see our show!

Posted by: The Trixie Dicks at June 11, 2026 10:31 PM (w/O5Q)

143 I don't know what the fu*k the people at the World Cup were bitching about. It's not like we did air strikes against Mexico City. It was Iran that we blasted. Anyway, is the World Cup soccer or something? Like most Americans I don't give a fu*k about soccer, so I wouldn't really know.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 11, 2026 10:31 PM (0Htd1)

144 Cortes' poll numbers weren't great in Mexico City in 1521 either.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 11, 2026 10:31 PM (gKWVE)

145 Cornyn

Sore loser. much?

He could've not campaigned for Paxton just as easily without announcing it.

Posted by: mnw at June 11, 2026 10:31 PM (RCjYY)

146 Mexico City is also doing a Venice, sinking.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2026 10:31 PM (2GVsD)

147 Best beer I've had to this day.
Posted by: LTG

Beer straight from the garden hose was the best

Posted by: Miklos tries telling the kids that at June 11, 2026 10:32 PM (6VErX)

148 Most of the band names are right up there with "Night Ranger".

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 11, 2026 10:32 PM (/lPRQ)

149 The Neon Junkies - rock with a good bit of country-western

Just had a great late dinner. Daughter's beef stew over rice, and, appropriately, corn on the cob. How did you celebrate National Corn on the Cob day?

https://bit.ly/natl-corn-day

I like the patriotic intersection using the red stripes for the crosswalks. Nicely done. Also great to see the DC clean-up images. Hope we can continue that, everywhere.

The Octagon girls: Okay, I thought Pres Trump was just into the sport side of things, but now I see…

Posted by: mindful webworker - saaaa-LUTE! at June 11, 2026 10:32 PM (dn9xm)

150 Rebel Angels?

Ne Uni-chan, does that sound good to you?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2026 10:32 PM (2GVsD)

151 143 I don't know what the fu*k the people at the World Cup were bitching about. It's not like we did air strikes against Mexico City. It was Iran that we blasted. Anyway, is the World Cup soccer or something? Like most Americans I don't give a fu*k about soccer, so I wouldn't really know.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 11, 2026 10:31 PM (0Htd1)


America envy.

Posted by: Gref at June 11, 2026 10:33 PM (5rh/l)

152 I was watching some footage from the riots in Northern Ireland and it just looked strange to me. Then I realized what was missing. I didn't see any looting.


That is a great observation.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 11, 2026 10:33 PM (2WIwB)

153 Elvis Presley‘s Graceland is getting ready to have a major celebration this 4th of July.
......


Keep an eye out for the old fat guy in the back wearing chrome shades.

Posted by: wth at June 11, 2026 10:33 PM (oq9dX)

154 118 PS: I'm Diamonds Hearts
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 11, 2026 10:25 PM (QGaXH)

same here.

But I knew we had the same birthday from last year.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 11, 2026 10:33 PM (P1Z3D)

155 The ones booing in Mexico City are mad they can't sneak across the border.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2026 10:33 PM (2GVsD)

156 Diamond kings. Thats not a fucking band name, thats a brooklyn goomba street gang name. That whole list is fucking gay.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 11, 2026 10:33 PM (snZF9)

157 Maybe those people in Mexico who booed were just in a lousy mood because they had the runny poops from eating Mexican food.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 11, 2026 10:34 PM (0Htd1)

158 "Beer straight from the garden hose was the best
Posted by: Miklos tries telling the kids"

From the tap on the wall at a convenience store into a plastic gallon jug.

Posted by: fd at June 11, 2026 10:34 PM (vFG9F)

159 131 " Midnight Thunder" sounds like the aftereffects of a visit to taco bell.
Posted by: fd at June 11, 2026 10:28 PM (vFG9F)

Wait a second. Wasn't that Tim Walz's Scout Camp nickname?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at June 11, 2026 10:34 PM (w/O5Q)

160
What's on YOUR mind tonight?

Oughtn't the question be "What's YOUR mind on tonight?"

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 11, 2026 10:34 PM (ixS3i)

161 145 Cornyn

Sore loser. much?

He could've not campaigned for Paxton just as easily without announcing it.
Posted by: mnw at June 11, 2026 10:31 PM (RCjYY)

Actually, he may have added a couple of points to Paxton's final percentage.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 11, 2026 10:35 PM (P1Z3D)

162 What's on YOUR mind tonight?

Pure energy.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2026 10:35 PM (2GVsD)

163 118 PS: I'm Diamonds Hearts
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 11, 2026 10:25 PM (QGaXH)

HA! My wife is 'Dark Storm'! Totally appropriate !!!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 11, 2026 10:35 PM (QGaXH)

164 My rock band name is Crimson Dreamers. I don't love it, but my birthday is June 11, so that's what I've got
Posted by: 496 at June 11, 2026 10:16 PM (l3Npx)

Happy Birthday! 🎉💐💕
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth

Happy Birthday!

If the word for the 11th had been "Glory," you could have been in a real band.

https://youtu.be/iZqjMq6bLj0

Posted by: mikeski at June 11, 2026 10:35 PM (VHUov)

165 "That whole list is fucking gay.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division"

Now wait a minute!

Posted by: Neon Wolves at June 11, 2026 10:36 PM (vFG9F)

166 Does anyone remember bubblegum machines? I think they switched at some point to taking quarters, but by that time I was out of my bubblegum phase.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 11, 2026 10:29 PM (ZVgZ4)

When I was a kid the bubble gum machines I think were mostly for nickels.

Then it went mostly to the plastic bubble things for a quarter..

Posted by: LTG at June 11, 2026 10:36 PM (+ZHEV)

167 Hatred of the U.S. seems to vary directly with the desire to move here.

Posted by: mnw at June 11, 2026 10:36 PM (RCjYY)

168
UFC dropped the outfits the Octagon Girls will be wearing at the White House this weekend!

Remember, the rejoinder to the howls of outrage from the statists is, "You miss the bare breasted transgender freaks brought to the White House by Joe Biden, do you?"

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 11, 2026 10:36 PM (ixS3i)

169 Diamond kings. Thats not a fucking band name, thats a brooklyn goomba street gang name. That whole list is fucking gay.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 11, 2026 10:33 PM (snZF9)

The Van Buren Boys would fuck their shit up.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not Mel Cooley at June 11, 2026 10:36 PM (0aYVJ)

170 Oughtn't the question be "What's YOUR mind on tonight?"
Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)

Polymarket ONT betting says-

Boobs

Posted by: Miklos reports, you decide to drink that or not at June 11, 2026 10:36 PM (6VErX)

171 ThePersistence @ScottPresler
Just had a conversation with Senator John Cornyn at the airport.
I was very gracious & asked him to pass the SAVE America Act.

Senator John Cornyn @JohnCornyn
Grifter
Jun 11, 2026 · 11:07 PM UTC

Cornyn sucks.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 11, 2026 10:36 PM (gKWVE)

172 Coryn had to pull one last Cartman move before he flounced into his political coffin.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2026 10:37 PM (2GVsD)

173 154 118 PS: I'm Diamonds Hearts
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 11, 2026 10:25 PM (QGaXH)

same here.

But I knew we had the same birthday from last year.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 11, 2026 10:33 PM (P1Z3D)

I remember too!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 11, 2026 10:37 PM (QGaXH)

174
The United States flag appeared to be met with loud boos and jeers before the opening game of the World Cup in Mexico City.

------

They're mad. A lot of bogus U.S. government payouts to them have been cut, and their relatives can't sneak over the border anymore.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 11, 2026 10:37 PM (biznJ)

175 The Mexicans are mad because we took most of our southwest from them, and beat them up proper for it, too. We already had a good bit of it in Texas. They also sold us southern Arizona in the Gadsen Purchase, because needed for railroads. And that was after the war!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 11, 2026 10:37 PM (ZVgZ4)

176 The Van Buren Boys would fuck their shit up.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not Mel Cooley

Nobody fukk wif Old Kinderhook

Posted by: Miklos does the OK sign at June 11, 2026 10:38 PM (6VErX)

177 Ah. I see George Floyd was an October 22nd baby.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 11, 2026 10:38 PM (BI5O2)

178 'Twas never a CSN fan, but I do like the Southern Cross. A nice song.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not Mel Cooley at June 11, 2026 10:38 PM (0aYVJ)

179
My rock band name is "Byte Mie"

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 11, 2026 10:38 PM (ixS3i)

180 Paula Abdul, "Cold Hearted Snake"

That is so the oyster farmer from Maine

https://youtu.be/o7aShcmEksw

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2026 10:38 PM (2GVsD)

181 Welp, the tornado siren stopped about 15 minutes ago, and I'm not dead from a tornado, so that's good.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 11, 2026 10:38 PM (0Htd1)

182 68 What is it with the judiciary these days. We need to reinstitute public hangings.

Daily.

Seriously.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Select judges first?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 11, 2026 10:38 PM (FJMtP)

183 "Does anyone remember bubblegum machines?"

Scales to weigh yourself. They took a nickel IIRC.

Posted by: gp at June 11, 2026 10:39 PM (Jr5Lq)

184 1976. I was 10 years old, a kid in Cody Wyoming. John Wayne was the grand marshal of the Cody Stampede parade. The Cody Stampede was always a big event, but that year was brilliant.


10 in '76.
Makes you one of the 'punk kids' around here...

And makes us both more than 30 years younger than the demented judge. Hope my mind holds up better than his at that age.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 11, 2026 10:39 PM (/lPRQ)

185 They had those bottles in the 80s. Maybe even into the 90s? They aren't old.
Posted by: mikeski

Well (counts on fingers and toes), 1990 was a third of a century ago. Hard as that may be to believe for some of us.

Posted by: mindful webworker - seems like it was only yesterday that at June 11, 2026 10:39 PM (dn9xm)

186

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — A Bloomington man told police he’d been disassembling his handgun while drinking Jim Beam whiskey when the loaded firearm discharged and punched through his dining room wall.

Next door, his neighbor was peacefully crocheting in her living room when the bullet struck her in the arm. Fortunately, the projectile had lost most of its velocity and didn’t break skin, though it did cause her pain.

The Bloomington Police Department arrested Kaleb Ford, 21, of Bloomington on Tuesday. He was charged in Monroe County court with criminal recklessness, a Level 5 felony.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 11, 2026 10:40 PM (Cqx++)

187
Styrofoam on a Soda Bottle

Big Styrofoam may never recover from having lost that sweet, sweet gig

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 11, 2026 10:40 PM (ixS3i)

188 I remember Bubblegum Crisis, does that count?

Nyah.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2026 10:40 PM (2GVsD)

189 'Twas never a CSN fan, but I do like the Southern Cross. A nice song.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not Mel Cooley at June 11, 2026 10:38 PM (0aYVJ)

Yeah its a good one. I wouldn't change the station if it was playing.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 11, 2026 10:40 PM (snZF9)

190 From the tap on the wall at a convenience store into a plastic gallon jug.
Posted by: fd

THAT'S the America I remember

Posted by: Miklos notes that raising the drinking age is coorrelated with stupid shit since at June 11, 2026 10:41 PM (6VErX)

191 A hanging judge could be read more than one way.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 11, 2026 10:41 PM (ZVgZ4)

192 Happy Birthday, 496!

Posted by: Piper at June 11, 2026 10:41 PM (Wmg4n)

193 My grampa's band would have been the Rebel Outlaws.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 11, 2026 10:41 PM (qx7Zg)

194 How about some metal band names? Like "Skull Slayer" and "Mega Kill"?

Wait.Are those already band names?

Posted by: fd at June 11, 2026 10:42 PM (vFG9F)

195 Best beer I've had to this day.
Posted by: LTG

Beer straight from the garden hose was the best
Posted by: Miklos tries telling the kids that


The beer you drink from a dirty old funnel (1 quart capacity min.) and a chunk of garden hose. AKA Beer Bong

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 11, 2026 10:42 PM (/lPRQ)

196 Mackoniyum X is my rap name.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 11, 2026 10:42 PM (BI5O2)

197 76 "We got 80 feet of waterline nicely making way...and the Southern Cross"

It's kind of a special feeling
Out on the sea alone
Staring at the full moon like a lover
Posted by: JackStraw
---

Crosby was a sailor, his boat, The Mayan.
Think he wrote that song on it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 11, 2026 10:42 PM (FJMtP)

198 Ah. I see George Floyd was an October 22nd baby.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 11, 2026 10:38 PM (BI5O2)

Might be a National Holiday soon.

Much like MLK.

Would be just as justified.

Posted by: LTG at June 11, 2026 10:43 PM (+ZHEV)

199 34 I remember 1 cent bubblegum from a bubblegum machine.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 11, 2026 10:11 PM (ZVgZ4)

I remember a pack of cigarettes for 50c from a machine and gas for 43.9 from the Cumberland Farms stores in SE Florida

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 11, 2026 10:43 PM (QGaXH)

200 I weighed myself on one of those machines once. It read more or less what our less accurate spring scale said at home, so it was a one-off.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 11, 2026 10:43 PM (ZVgZ4)

201 "Does anyone remember bubblegum machines?"

Vacuum tube testing machines.

Posted by: JQ at June 11, 2026 10:43 PM (rdVOm)

202 Glad you are safe, Nerdygirl.

Posted by: Piper at June 11, 2026 10:43 PM (Wmg4n)

203 Midnight Vipers

Posted by: AlmostYuman at June 11, 2026 10:43 PM (xEtvN)

204 18 cents for a hamburger!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 11, 2026 10:44 PM (ZVgZ4)

205 I don't think I'd charge Kaleb Ford with a felony, but his peepee is in dire need of whacking.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 11, 2026 10:44 PM (gKWVE)

206 The Mexicans are mad because we took most of our southwest from them, and beat them up proper for it, too. We already had a good bit of it in Texas. They also sold us southern Arizona in the Gadsen Purchase, because needed for railroads. And that was after the war!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 11, 2026 10:37 PM (ZVgZ4)

Furthermore, when you stole half our country, you took the half with all the paved roads!

Posted by: Mad Mexicans Everywhere at June 11, 2026 10:45 PM (rv0XX)

207 I built electronics using vacuum tube technology!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 11, 2026 10:45 PM (ZVgZ4)

208 I caught the bus up to the Port Authority in NYC on NJ 35 when taking a pass out of Ft Monmouth. IIRC, the "Kings Highway" was just a cross street on 35, nothing fancy. I remember this because there was a bus stop there, and I thought the name was a bit ridiculous.

Posted by: buddhaha at June 11, 2026 10:45 PM (uyNHw)

209 FUN FACT

Styrofoam ™ is a patented and trademarked material used exclusively in the building and construction trades.

That $3 cooler or cup from the Qwiky Mart may not be legally called Styrofoam.

Posted by: Miklos is pulling no legs here at June 11, 2026 10:46 PM (6VErX)

210 23 Well sadly, yes to styrofoam on the Coke bottle old ...
Posted by: Adriane the Paranoid Critic

They had those bottles in the 80s. Maybe even into the 90s? They aren't old.

Posted by: mikeski at June 11, 2026 10:08 PM (VHUov)

This. Anyone else remember when 10oz glass bottles with crimped on caps that required an opener were standard? The king-sized 16oz bottles were for special occasions only.

Posted by: a.moron at June 11, 2026 10:46 PM (X5Jzz)

211 To defeat the gear, we must first understand the gear.
youtube.com/watch?v=9sPi7DEbyI0
Posted by: gp
--

To understand the input shaft one must understand the input member.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 11, 2026 10:46 PM (FJMtP)

212 Juke boxes where the mechanical arm pulled out the record you selected.

Posted by: mnw at June 11, 2026 10:46 PM (RCjYY)

213 Meanwhile also in Boston, eco-activists welded themselves to a pink car to protest fossil fuels. Boston FD had to use saws to cut them lose.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2026 10:47 PM (2GVsD)

214 Yeah, a lot of that southwest was Comancheria, so it’s not like the Mexicans ever really controlled it anyway. Taking out the Comanches was necessary before we could develop the territory.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 11, 2026 10:48 PM (ZVgZ4)

215 To understand the input shaft one must understand the input member.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 11, 2026 10:46 PM

Please to be sitting, and The Paolo, he will be explaining...

Posted by: Paolo at June 11, 2026 10:49 PM (Wnv9h)

216 166 Does anyone remember bubblegum machines? I think they switched at some point to taking quarters, but by that time I was out of my bubblegum phase.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 11, 2026 10:29 PM (ZVgZ4)

When I was a kid the bubble gum machines I think were mostly for nickels.

Then it went mostly to the plastic bubble things for a quarter..
Posted by: LTG
---

Peanuts, twist the knob and get a hand full of peanuts.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 11, 2026 10:49 PM (FJMtP)

217 >>Crosby was a sailor, his boat, The Mayan.

Yes he was. He also wrote Wooden Ships around that time.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 11, 2026 10:49 PM (viF8m)

218 Meanwhile also in Boston, eco-activists welded themselves to a pink car to protest fossil fuels. Boston FD had to use saws to cut them lose.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Not very "eco" if they're weldable. I'm 100% organic.

Posted by: mikeski at June 11, 2026 10:49 PM (VHUov)

219 Some comments in the Cafe had me thinking. If enough morons are in the doghouse, they could send fashion pictures of their wives to Piper for a fashion set, to show off just how lovely they are. Somebody could include that in a Sunday dog/doghouse ONT.

^ Somebody -> me? Doof? Someone courageous?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 11, 2026 10:49 PM (qx7Zg)

220 210 23 Well sadly, yes to styrofoam on the Coke bottle old ...
Posted by: Adriane the Paranoid Critic

They had those bottles in the 80s. Maybe even into the 90s? They aren't old.

Posted by: mikeski at June 11, 2026 10:08 PM (VHUov)

This. Anyone else remember when 10oz glass bottles with crimped on caps that required an opener were standard? The king-sized 16oz bottles were for special occasions only.

Posted by: a.moron at June 11, 2026 10:46 PM (X5Jzz)


Yup. And beer cans you needed a can opener for were standard in those days.

Posted by: Gref at June 11, 2026 10:49 PM (5rh/l)

221 Are those CCR lyrics correct? I always heard "memories and Elvis are playing in the band". Which makes at least as much sense as tambourines and elephants.

Posted by: PaleRider at June 11, 2026 10:50 PM (PV+Zw)

222 Bacon double cheeseburger meal with
fries and coke from Burger King for
I'm pretty sure, like three dollars.

And it tasted way better than anything
you will get now.

Posted by: LTG at June 11, 2026 10:50 PM (+ZHEV)

223 I'm 100% organic.
Posted by: mikeski

OK, I've got a few replacement teeth. I'm almost 100% organic.

Posted by: mikeski at June 11, 2026 10:50 PM (VHUov)

224 Evening all,

We have a launch in the morning.

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 10-54
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: June 12, 2026
Launch Time: 8:27 a.m. EDT (1227 UTC, 14:27 CEST)

https://youtu.be/fT2eKalCAc8

Posted by: Joyenz at June 11, 2026 10:50 PM (2F0/Y)

225 AKA Beer Bong
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

Now see?

We do have specific examples of Superior American Technology

The Beer Bong was another innovation from NASA in the early days of gravity tests

Posted by: Miklos vaguely remembers at June 11, 2026 10:50 PM (6VErX)

226 I generally use a grinder or ziz wheel to remove welds.

Posted by: fd at June 11, 2026 10:51 PM (vFG9F)

227 Evening, horde. Celebrating my sister's birthday tomorrow! ("Crimson Mavericks"?.... well, she always was one to go her own way....... but crimson is not her color.)

Posted by: RandomDave (of the Rebel Riders, apparently) at June 11, 2026 10:51 PM (aJQbY)

228 Meanwhile also in Boston, eco-activists welded themselves to a pink car to protest fossil fuels. Boston FD had to use saws to cut them lose.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2026 10:47 PM

Oh, sure...on a day when I'm working from home and I can't just walk outside and laugh at them. Rude!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 11, 2026 10:51 PM (Wnv9h)

229
Is there one of those for tranny stripper names?
Posted by: Pawl

I think that one is:

Your first name is the name of the street on which you lived as a child

Your last name is the name of your first pet

'Twas "Beaudoin Bowser" wut kept me outta the trade.

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 11, 2026 10:51 PM (ixS3i)

230 And now we got Beer Pong

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2026 10:51 PM (2GVsD)

231 172 Coryn had to pull one last Cartman move before he flounced into his political coffin.
Posted by: Anna Puma
---

Being a shill for K Street is not going to pay as well as in the past.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 11, 2026 10:51 PM (FJMtP)

232 OK, I've got a few replacement teeth. I'm almost 100% organic.
Posted by: mikeski

Organic, ceramic

S'okay

Posted by: Carbon based Miklos at June 11, 2026 10:51 PM (6VErX)

233 SpaceX IPO tomorrow also.

Posted by: mnw at June 11, 2026 10:52 PM (RCjYY)

234 Meanwhile also in Boston, eco-activists welded themselves to a pink car to protest fossil fuels. Boston FD had to use saws to cut them lose.
Posted by: Anna Puma

You have my sword.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 11, 2026 10:52 PM (gKWVE)

235 Meanwhile also in Boston, eco-activists welded themselves to a pink car to protest fossil fuels. Boston FD had to use saws to cut them lose.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2026 10:47 PM (2GVsD)

Did they cut them free before or after towing the car? I hope it was after the car was already in the impound yard, and out of traffic.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 11, 2026 10:52 PM (qx7Zg)

236 >>>You may think you're old but are you styrofoam on a coke bottle old?

>They don't still do that? I probably haven't had a soda pop since then.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 11, 2026 10:52 PM (SRceu)

237 Meanwhile also in Boston, eco-activists welded themselves to a pink car to protest fossil fuels. Boston FD had to use saws to cut them lose.
Posted by: Anna Puma

You have my sword.
Posted by: gKWVE at June 11, 2026 10:52 PM

And my axe!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 11, 2026 10:53 PM (Wnv9h)

238 74 I was pokin' around in some old stuff the other day. Guess what I found?
.
.
.
.
.
.
"America's Bicentennial" Poster!!!
Declaration of Independence, surrounded by artwork depicting Revolutionary soldiers, Union & Confederate soldiers, astronauts, first cars, iron works, and pioneers.

SCORE!!!
I need to buy a poster frame for it.
Posted by: JQ at June 11, 2026 10:17 PM (rdVOm)

All I have is a dumb ol' Nixon/Agnew bumper sticker from the '72 election. I was going to put it in the back window of my truck along with the 1971 Florida license plate that's already there but my wife gave me that look....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 11, 2026 10:54 PM (QGaXH)

239 "Did they cut them free before or after towing the car? I hope it was after the car was already in the impound yard, and out of traffic.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf"

I was hoping they hauled the car off with a bunch of amputated hands and arms hanging off of it.

Posted by: fd at June 11, 2026 10:54 PM (vFG9F)

240 201 "Does anyone remember bubblegum machines?"

-------

Does anybody remember laughter?

Posted by: Robert Plant at June 11, 2026 10:54 PM (u/oMr)

241 18 cents for a hamburger!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit


Perhaps I may recompense on Tuesday?

I which case I shall have two

Posted by: Miklos wonders if the Wimpy System also works in crypto at June 11, 2026 10:55 PM (6VErX)

242 Tom Servo IS a gumball machine.

Posted by: fd at June 11, 2026 10:55 PM (vFG9F)

243 Gorgeous pic Doof! Prayers continue for you and your fam. Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Iris at June 11, 2026 10:56 PM (286+n)

244 >>Which makes at least as much sense as tambourines and elephants.

How bizarre.

https://tinyurl.com/yw7yphb8

Posted by: JackStraw at June 11, 2026 10:56 PM (viF8m)

245 What a beautiful image.

Tow truck towing a pink car and all these idiots are trying ot keep up because they are welded to the car.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2026 10:57 PM (2GVsD)

246 "Does anybody remember laughter?
Posted by: Robert Plant"

I barely remember you.

Posted by: fd at June 11, 2026 10:57 PM (vFG9F)

247 There was a Planters Peanuts brand store in the town I grew up near. They had a rack of those machines like gumball dispensers, but for various nuts. Some were a nickel, others a dime or quarter. About a handfull.

But the real deal was the counter where you could get warm, freshly roasted and salted nuts by the pound.

The salted pecans.... OMG

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 11, 2026 10:57 PM (jehhT)

248 116 UFC fights are held in an octagon shaped ring. The octagon girls walk around strutting their stuff holding up number cards before each round. It's a wonderful thing!
Posted by: Doof at June 11, 2026 10:25 PM (QMAsf)

Truly we are a great and blessed country to have such things!!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 11, 2026 10:57 PM (QGaXH)

249 From the tap on the wall at a convenience store into a plastic gallon jug.
Posted by: fd

THAT'S the America I remember
Posted by: Miklos notes that raising the drinking age is coorrelated with stupid shit


In the fall our grocery had a wooden barrel to dispense apple cider into your own jug. Fermentation was on you, and then putting the jug into a snow bank to get slushy, skim off the ice crystals, instant hard cider (after a few weeks).

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 11, 2026 10:57 PM (/lPRQ)

250 If you want to have good food today you going to have to make it yourself.

It isn't hard to do.

But getting it from fast food places has become hit and miss.

Best to go at peak rush times and hope for the best.

Posted by: LTG at June 11, 2026 10:58 PM (+ZHEV)

251 Some comments in the Cafe had me thinking. If enough morons are in the doghouse, they could send fashion pictures of their wives to Piper for a fashion set, to show off just how lovely they are. Somebody could include that in a Sunday dog/doghouse ONT.


Bwahahahaha!!!!
*deep breath*
Bwahahahahah!!!
Like Mrs D would allow that.
Now...the neighbor's wife...

Posted by: Diogenes at June 11, 2026 10:59 PM (2WIwB)

252 Pug - there's a street here in town named Van Buren and I crack up every time I see it thinking of Seinfeld.

Posted by: 496 at June 11, 2026 10:59 PM (sOtuf)

253 And now we got Beer Pong
Posted by: Anna Puma

Child

We had beer pong and thumper etc. as long ago as the ancient 80s.

Sometimes I have to remind the Youngs that " I was probably drunk before you were born"

Posted by: Miklos suspects their parents too at June 11, 2026 10:59 PM (6VErX)

254 Midnight Angels😦

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 11, 2026 11:00 PM (uTEOj)

255 Meanwhile also in Boston, eco-activists welded themselves to a pink car to protest fossil fuels. Boston FD had to use saws to cut them lose.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Real Irish Firemen would have lit the car on fire and rolled it downhill.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 11, 2026 11:01 PM (/lPRQ)

256 "Midnight Angels"

Gone at Sunrise.

Posted by: fd at June 11, 2026 11:01 PM (vFG9F)

257 Midnight Angels😦
Posted by: COMountainMarie

A New Year bebeh!

Posted by: mikeski at June 11, 2026 11:01 PM (VHUov)

258 Soda pop, there’s a question for you: what do you call a generic carbonated soft drink in your neck of the woods. In south Georgia it’s a coke: what kind of coke do you want? A Nehi Grape.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 11, 2026 11:01 PM (ZVgZ4)

259 Some comments in the Cafe had me thinking. If enough morons are in the doghouse, they could send fashion pictures of their wives to Piper for a fashion set, to show off just how lovely they are. Somebody could include that in a Sunday dog/doghouse ONT.


Bwahahahaha!!!!
*deep breath*
Bwahahahahah!!!
Like Mrs D would allow that.
Now...the neighbor's wife...
Posted by: Diogenes at June 11, 2026 10:59 PM (2WIwB)

I'm single, everyone - if that comment didn't make it blindingly obvious.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 11, 2026 11:01 PM (qx7Zg)

260 I remember the Bazooka bubblegum pieces that were wrapped, and had an unfunny comic.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 11, 2026 11:01 PM (0Htd1)

261 Dark Lightening.
Yes, I remember styrofoam on glass soda bottles

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at June 11, 2026 11:01 PM (VCgbV)

262 Does anybody remember laughter?

Not really.

Posted by: A rather unhappy person at June 11, 2026 11:01 PM (TbWk/)

263
Which makes at least as much sense as tambourines and elephants.

Me, I'd wonder who were "all the happy creatures dancing on the lawn"?

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 11, 2026 11:02 PM (ixS3i)

264 "Does anyone remember bubblegum machines?"

Guys pushing carts selling produce, sharpening knives.
Wax sticks full of sugar water. Jawbreakers. Chum gum.
Coal deliveries for the apt building furnace.
Mickey Mouse ears; there's a pic of me, yes.
Garbage trucks with team of four burly guys with double-edged axes.
Cars with squalo antennas.
Leaf burning still allowed in city.

Posted by: gp at June 11, 2026 11:02 PM (Jr5Lq)

265 Meanwhile also in Boston, eco-activists welded themselves to a pink car to protest fossil fuels. Boston FD had to use saws to cut them lose.
Posted by: Anna Puma


I would walk up to them, take their picture, and then tell them that if I could not get my grandkid to the hospital in time, they'd see me again.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 11, 2026 11:03 PM (2WIwB)

266 248 116 UFC fights are held in an octagon shaped ring. The octagon girls walk around strutting their stuff holding up number cards before each round. It's a wonderful thing!
Posted by: Doof at June 11, 2026 10:25 PM (QMAsf)

Truly we are a great and blessed country to have such things!!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 11, 2026 10:57 PM (QGaXH)

----------

Just one minute there.

Posted by: Judge Meleke Meleke Kalani Au'u at June 11, 2026 11:03 PM (u/oMr)

267 I had a Mickey Mouse wrist watch.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 11, 2026 11:03 PM (ZVgZ4)

268 Velvet Thunder?

Sounds like an octogenarian lounge singer with a flatulence problem.

Posted by: JB1000 at June 11, 2026 11:04 PM (HpBN2)

269 Midnight Angels😦
Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 11, 2026 11:00 PM (uTEOj)

Midnight Angel reminded of Pat Benatar lol.

Posted by: LTG at June 11, 2026 11:04 PM (+ZHEV)

270 Pug - there's a street here in town named Van Buren and I crack up every time I see it thinking of Seinfeld.
Posted by: 496 at June 11, 2026 10:59 PM (sOtuf)

"Seinfeld" was often grating, but it was also sometimes brilliant. It really was an odd show. So many great one-off quotations, as seen on this here venue.

"I'm out!"

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not Mel Cooley at June 11, 2026 11:04 PM (0aYVJ)

271 I had a Mickey Mouse trap. Caught him too. And his peeps.

Posted by: fd at June 11, 2026 11:05 PM (vFG9F)

272 Im old enough to remember putting a dime in the coke machine and then having to move the bottle along the slot it was hanging from and then pulling it out.
Posted by: Diogenes

My folks had one of those, with the guard unlocked. It was in the middle room of the bathhouse by the pool here on the ranch. Kept stocked with all the best; I had a thing for Grape soda. Or Dr Pepper (original formula). From the long-gone local bottling plant. Sometimes had to shuffle bottles around in the slots to get what you want.

Since they tore the pool and bathhouse down after Dad died in '68, I think it's been gathering dust out in the metal shed (as opposed to the old cement shed). We'll be hauling it out and dusting it off one of these days, see if it still works.

Every summer here in Oklahoma, especially days like today, I miss that great old swimming pool.

Posted by: mindful webworker - childhood passes all too quickly at June 11, 2026 11:05 PM (dn9xm)

273 Your first name is the name of the street on which you lived as a child

Your last name is the name of your first pet

'Twas "Beaudoin Bowser" wut kept me outta the trade.
Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison!
===

Majestic Brutus

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 11, 2026 11:05 PM (/lPRQ)

274 Why did your garbage men have double edged axes? Ours didn’t.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 11, 2026 11:05 PM (ZVgZ4)

275 Does anyone remember laughter?

After Richard Pryor started performing, Steve Martin claimed to be "the funniest man in the world! OK, funniest white man."

Posted by: mnw at June 11, 2026 11:05 PM (RCjYY)

276 >>> 213 Meanwhile also in Boston, eco-activists welded themselves to a pink car to protest fossil fuels. Boston FD had to use saws to cut them lose.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2026 10:47 PM (2GVsD)

They should have dumped the car and the attached retards into the Harbor.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 11, 2026 11:06 PM (R+iUD)

277 And now we got Beer Pong
Posted by: Anna Puma

====

Boooo!

Quarter Bounce with glass baby bottle as the goal.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 11, 2026 11:06 PM (/lPRQ)

278 Your first name is the name of the street on which you lived as a child

Your last name is the name of your first pet

Joliet Rex, eh, kinda meh.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 11, 2026 11:07 PM (ZVgZ4)

279 274 They'd pick up anything back then. They could destroy a chest of drawer or sofa in 30 secs. These days, they won't even take a f'n mattress or TV set; it's so pathetic. One guy per truck with a robot claw.

Posted by: gp at June 11, 2026 11:07 PM (Jr5Lq)

280 219 Some comments in the Cafe had me thinking. If enough morons are in the doghouse, they could send fashion pictures of their wives to Piper for a fashion set, to show off just how lovely they are. Somebody could include that in a Sunday dog/doghouse ONT.

^ Somebody -> me? Doof? Someone courageous?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 11

Okay, so I understand…well, I am not sure I understand. Would it be a gallery of beautiful wives? Would we be suggesting outfits like do this, not that? Because that could potentially get dicey. lol.

Posted by: Piper at June 11, 2026 11:08 PM (Wmg4n)

281 Look where you live. Look at our insane, end-of-the-line political life. Look at our bonkers, haywire institutions. Look at your corrupt, clownish rulers, and so forth.

You'd have to have a heart of stone not to laugh at this place. It's like if Franz Kafka decided to write a screwball comedy.

There is more than enough to laugh at, it's just not lighthearted comedy.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 11, 2026 11:08 PM (BI5O2)

282 Now I have to wonder on that soccer vs football meme. Are the soccer fans the plastic soldiers? English novels I read led me to believe that soccer hooligans are much more violent than american football fans who largely sit politely in their seats. Although I can't picture football fans as chess.

Posted by: PaleRider at June 11, 2026 11:09 PM (PV+Zw)

283 Carbonated soft drinks are properly called "pop". Calling them a "soda", or a "soft drink" makes you sound pretentious.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 11, 2026 11:09 PM (0Htd1)

284 I'm reminiscing circa 1957 BTW. International Geophysical Year and Sputnik made some of us into STEM geeks.

Posted by: gp at June 11, 2026 11:09 PM (Jr5Lq)

285 I still laugh, plenty of things are funny. I even get a laugh from the postings on this site, now and again.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 11, 2026 11:10 PM (ZVgZ4)

286 276 >>> 213 Meanwhile also in Boston, eco-activists welded themselves to a pink car to protest fossil fuels. Boston FD had to use saws to cut them lose.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2026 10:47 PM (2GVsD)

They should have dumped the car and the attached retards into the Harbor.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 11, 2026 11:06 PM (R+iUD)

No, someone should have gone for a high speed drive.

Snowflake finally came in. She's fixed but out being late is how she ended up being a teen Mom. Well, it was a contributing factor.

There were 2 orange cats in my front yard. I have water on the porch for Snowflake and her Mom Starry. Crazy neighbour with the cat traps may be busy.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 11, 2026 11:10 PM (Sco7b)

287 >> Calling them a "soda", or a "soft drink" makes you sound pretentious.

We just say "drank" here in redneck.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 11, 2026 11:10 PM (w6EFb)

288 Richard Pryor started performing, Steve Martin claimed to be "the funniest man in the world! OK, funniest white man."
Posted by: mnw at June 11, 2026 11:05 PM (RCjYY)

Never was a big fan of Steve Martin.

And not Chevey Chase either.

Or Bill Murray.

I thought they all kind of sucked.

Posted by: LTG at June 11, 2026 11:11 PM (+ZHEV)

289 281 Well put.

Posted by: gp at June 11, 2026 11:11 PM (Jr5Lq)

290 >>Some comments in the Cafe had me thinking. If enough morons are in the doghouse, they could send fashion pictures of their wives to Piper for a fashion set, to show off just how lovely they are. Somebody could include that in a Sunday dog/doghouse ONT.

Seems like kind of a long shot that in a place where nobody even uses their real name their wives are going to want their pictures posted.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 11, 2026 11:11 PM (viF8m)

291 Why did your garbage men have double edged axes? Ours didn’t.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit


To protect their cargo from rampaging Haitians and Somolis.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 11, 2026 11:13 PM (/lPRQ)

292 Thanks, Doof!

My rock and roll band is Thunder Sinners.

I love the soccer vs football meme! Lol.

I once played with those little plastic Army men with my brother. We dug elaborate caves in one part of the yard for them. The soil has a lot of Yazoo clay running through it, so we'd take some time off to make little bowls and be Indians.

No wars between us at the time and unsure who we were fighting.

However, when I was six years old on a trip to the NC and Virginia mountains and DC on the backseat window ledge (as who needs seatbelts), I learned tragically that the North won the Civil War. My brother had the blue Yanks and I had Confederate grey men.Because as oldest I won at everything. I said, "Start the war" and after skirmishes I said I won. My father crushed me when he told me otherwise.

I am sure I said, "You are kidding me" as this is how most of our conversations went.

I have never been the same.

Dream On:

https://tinyurl.com/3a2br4sp

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 11, 2026 11:13 PM (WONhk)

293 "Seems like kind of a long shot that in a place where nobody even uses their real name their wives are going to want their pictures posted"

Just don't tell them. What could go wrong?

Posted by: fd at June 11, 2026 11:13 PM (vFG9F)

294 Seems like kind of a long shot that in a place where nobody even uses their real name their wives are going to want their pictures posted.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 11, 2026 11:11 PM (viF8m)

This, in spades!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 11, 2026 11:14 PM (ZVgZ4)

295 Your first name is the name of the street on which you lived as a child

Your last name is the name of your first pet

***

17th Bitch???

Posted by: Diogenes at June 11, 2026 11:15 PM (2WIwB)

296 Arf!

Posted by: Sandy at June 11, 2026 11:15 PM (u/oMr)

297 Arf!

Did Lassie fall into the well?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2026 11:17 PM (2GVsD)

298 Football hooligans are an endangered species in Britain, what with surveillance cameras & the 'Net.

The police share pictures.

Posted by: mnw at June 11, 2026 11:17 PM (RCjYY)

299 >>>Soda pop, there’s a question for you: what do you call a generic carbonated soft drink in your neck of the woods. In south Georgia it’s a coke: what kind of coke do you want? A Nehi Grape.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

>I usually call it a soda pop to cover all bases. Some of these back woods regions call it a coke.

Many places just go with pop, or go with just soda.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 11, 2026 11:17 PM (SRceu)

300 @295...Morningside Frisky would be our first doggie who sounds like a hooker

Morningside Snowflake...a white cat

Morningside Petey...a parakeet who pecked us

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 11, 2026 11:18 PM (WONhk)

301 She-who-is-cute calls it 'cola', I've never cleaved to one denomination over the others on the 'what do you call it' wars. But as an Oklahoman, of course I drink Dr. Pepper when I can.

Posted by: RandomDave (of the Rebel Riders, apparently) at June 11, 2026 11:18 PM (aJQbY)

302
Tree hunnert!

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 11, 2026 11:18 PM (ixS3i)

303 Seems like kind of a long shot that in a place where nobody even uses their real name their wives are going to want their pictures posted.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 11, 2026 11:11 PM (viF8m)

I know my bride would not.

although she thinks highly of the Horde, having met many via two CO Morondezvous's and a TXMOME.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not Mel Cooley at June 11, 2026 11:18 PM (0aYVJ)

304 Poor guy obviously is demented. Maybe the AG can call in a welfare check before he forgets to eat and starves to death.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 11, 2026 10:16 PM (/lPRQ)

Lord help us all. That is probably going to be the next form of SWATing soon.
"Can you check on gramps? He seemed unfocused yesterday and hasn't answered his phone all day. Do you think he had a stroke?"

Posted by: Kindltot at June 11, 2026 11:18 PM (rbvCR)

305 >>Just don't tell them. What could go wrong?

How much time you got?

Posted by: JackStraw at June 11, 2026 11:18 PM (viF8m)

306 Kabalevsky longhair music.
youtube.com/watch?v=D--FZ2gkNOo

Posted by: gp at June 11, 2026 11:18 PM (Jr5Lq)

307 Carbonated soft drinks are properly called "pop". Calling them a "soda", or a "soft drink" makes you sound pretentious.
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 11, 2026 11:09 PM (0Htd1)

Or you could use the catchall coke.

Unless you've had a coke from a "soda machine" in the 1970's you really have no idea how good it can taste.

What you're getting now?

Nothing like it.

Posted by: LTG at June 11, 2026 11:20 PM (+ZHEV)

308 Umm, Timmy.

Timmy fell into the well.

Again

*eyeroll*

Posted by: Sandy at June 11, 2026 11:20 PM (u/oMr)

309 I'm only 29 but I remember a cola called Like. Don't know why it existed but it did.
https://tinyurl.com/2vum3y44

Posted by: average brit at June 11, 2026 11:20 PM (diia5)

310 Okay, so I understand…well, I am not sure I understand. Would it be a gallery of beautiful wives? Would we be suggesting outfits like do this, not that? Because that could potentially get dicey. lol.
Posted by: Piper at June 11, 2026 11:08 PM (Wmg4n)

The photos would have to be suitable if seen in a day care, of course. Beyond that, the lady in the photo selects the clothing. The description should include where the clothes came from, or the collection, so the ladies who read that section can add pieces they like.

We already established that the Ettes and the wives of Morons and lurkers are beautiful, so that won't be a problem. I suspect most are better looking than high fashion models.

Perhaps it would also fit into a Celestial Bodies ONT, like the content I sent Doof.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 11, 2026 11:20 PM (qx7Zg)

311 Clearly that answer is no. I was about to ask who the octagon girls were, but I was afraid of the potential backlash.
Posted by: Piper at June 11, 2026 10:21 PM (Wmg4n)

Something to do with Minecraft, I think.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 11, 2026 11:21 PM (rbvCR)

312 Life is like a "soda machine" in the 1970's. You never knew what you were going to get.

Posted by: gp at June 11, 2026 11:21 PM (Jr5Lq)

313 @310 ... or it's a bad idea, and is best forgotten.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 11, 2026 11:22 PM (qx7Zg)

314 I grew up in Ohio and called the beverage "pop" but went to college in St. Louis and was hounded into calling it "soda". But I still say "pop bottles".

Posted by: Iris at June 11, 2026 11:22 PM (286+n)

315 How about "Verde Dil Dos" and toss them a big green one?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 11, 2026 10:21 PM (/lPRQ)

That will mean little to them. Try, "verde consoladores" instead.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 11, 2026 11:22 PM (rbvCR)

316 Seems like kind of a long shot that in a place where nobody even uses their real name their wives are going to want their pictures posted.
Posted by: JackStraw

How would anyone know if the pic was of our real wife?

Posted by: Tonypete at June 11, 2026 11:22 PM (LZxDN)

317 I remember a pack of cigarettes for 50c from a machine and gas for 43.9 from the Cumberland Farms stores in SE Florida
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
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I remember a pack.of cigarettes for a quarter, and there were three pennies inside the cellophane wrapper, because it was 22¢. That was a 2¢ premium over the drugstore price of 20¢.

Posted by: buddhaha at June 11, 2026 11:23 PM (uyNHw)

318 237 Meanwhile also in Boston, eco-activists welded themselves to a pink car to protest fossil fuels. Boston FD had to use saws to cut them lose.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Why didn't they leave them there and deport them to El Salvador with the car? I hear Gitmo is nearly empty as well. Plenty of room.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 11, 2026 11:23 PM (WONhk)

319 314 I grew up in Ohio and called the beverage "pop" but went to college in St. Louis and was hounded into calling it "soda". But I still say "pop bottles".
Posted by: Iris at June 11, 2026 11:22 PM (286+n)

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I hear Dickinson girls are fast. How should I act? What should I say?

Posted by: Flounder at June 11, 2026 11:24 PM (u/oMr)

320 253 And now we got Beer Pong
Posted by: Anna Puma

Child

We had beer pong and thumper etc. as long ago as the ancient 80s.

Sometimes I have to remind the Youngs that " I was probably drunk before you were born"

Posted by: Miklos suspects their parents too at June 11, 2026 10:59 PM (6VErX)

Funny, I tell the youngns' you were born BECAUSE I was drunk....hic'

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 11, 2026 11:24 PM (QGaXH)

321 Okay, so I understand…well, I am not sure I understand. Would it be a gallery of beautiful wives? Would we be suggesting outfits like do this, not that? Because that could potentially get dicey. lol.
Posted by: Piper

Wives?

"Fashion Show" Central Florida, August 1st. Free Admission?
www.florida-fiesta.com/


Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 11, 2026 11:24 PM (/lPRQ)

322
In my youthful days in Upper Michigan, it was "pop" and "pop bottles".

Alas, the "soda" and "soda bottles" mindworms have infected me in the years since then.

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 11, 2026 11:25 PM (ixS3i)

323 Your first name is the name of the street on which you lived as a child

Your last name is the name of your first pet


"Roosevelt Snowball"?

Sounds like either a pimp or a guard for the mid '70s New York Knicks.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 11, 2026 11:25 PM (LZxDN)

324 We have a launch in the morning.
SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 10-54…
Posted by: Joyenz

SpaceX IPO tomorrow also.
Posted by: mnw

Wait to see how the launch goes before investing…

Posted by: mindful webworker - boom or bust at June 11, 2026 11:25 PM (dn9xm)

325 Apparently, my rock band name is "Crimson Strangers."

Better than Moon Moon, I guess.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 11, 2026 11:25 PM (amcLV)

326 209 FUN FACT

Styrofoam ™ is a patented and trademarked material used exclusively in the building and construction trades.

That $3 cooler or cup from the Qwiky Mart may not be legally called Styrofoam.
Posted by: Miklos is pulling no legs here at June 11, 2026 10:46 PM (6VErX)

That ship done sailed ...

Posted by: Kleenex, Xerox, Coke at June 11, 2026 11:26 PM (3sXRv)

327 Pearl bombs and smoke pellets.
S&H Green Stamps.
The roar from Wrigley crowds in the afternoons.
Reasonable safety in streets and public transit.
TVs with bad vert and horiz hold.
Passably good public schools.

Posted by: gp at June 11, 2026 11:26 PM (Jr5Lq)

328 I built electronics using vacuum tube technology!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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I designed a vacuum tube 4-20 mA driver for an alarm.circuit on a klystron driven microwave transmitter.

.... in a snowstorm, uphill, both ways!

Posted by: buddhaha at June 11, 2026 11:27 PM (uyNHw)

329 Mexico City isn't well regarded by most Mexicans; it's full of commies Chilangos.

FIFY

Posted by: Kindltot at June 11, 2026 11:27 PM (rbvCR)

330 "Does anyone remember bubblegum machines?"

Vacuum tube testing machines.

Posted by: JQ at June 11, 2026 10:43 PM (rdVOm)

I would love to get my hands on one of those testers. I probably have over 100 vintage preamp tubes in my stash because all of my guitar amps use tubes. I keep my eye out for certain tubes and keep hording them, so it would be nice to weed out the duds.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 11, 2026 11:27 PM (snZF9)

331
Well, AI has come through in an area where it could really move the needle!

AI-assisted stripper names generator

https://www.aifornames.com/stripper-name-generator

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 11, 2026 11:27 PM (ixS3i)

332 Posted by: Kleenex, Xerox, Coke
-----

Zipper

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 11, 2026 11:28 PM (XeU6L)

333 November 10th could only be a girl band.

Posted by: polynikes at June 11, 2026 11:28 PM (GseMx)

334 TVs with bad vert and horiz hold.
---------
I was the wizard of vertical hold.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 11, 2026 11:28 PM (amcLV)

335 @334, "that's what she said"

Posted by: RandomDave (of the Rebel Riders, apparently) at June 11, 2026 11:29 PM (aJQbY)

336 Good night, sleep well!

Posted by: Piper at June 11, 2026 11:29 PM (OoFl2)

337 Mexico City had violent protests in front of the soccer stadium.

Posted by: polynikes at June 11, 2026 11:29 PM (GseMx)

338 Aluminum Christmas trees with Color Wheel!
Profoundly smelly cigar stores with smut mags and cigarette loads.

Posted by: gp at June 11, 2026 11:29 PM (Jr5Lq)

339 Roller skates that clamped to the bottom of your shoes and quickly tore the sole off.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 11, 2026 11:30 PM (2WIwB)

340 It was kind of fun peeling the styrfoam of of a bottle of Coke.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 11, 2026 11:30 PM (GOveb)

341 I would love to get my hands on one of those testers. I probably have over 100 vintage preamp tubes in my stash because all of my guitar amps use tubes. I keep my eye out for certain tubes and keep hording them, so it would be nice to weed out the duds.
Posted by: Berserker

If I ever see one at some yard sale or 2nd hand store, I will gather info and notify you via "blogmail"!

Posted by: JQ at June 11, 2026 11:30 PM (rdVOm)

342 SpaceX IPO tomorrow also.
Posted by: mnw

Wait to see how the launch goes before investing…

Posted by: mindful webworker - boom or bust at June 11, 2026 11:25 PM (dn9xm)

Yeah, good luck with that. We spent all week trying to get ready to get some. Oh, you don't have $50,000 in an account? Oh so sorry, the ones that do get first dibs, and maybe if any of the "limited" shares are left over it goes into a lottery system for you peons.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 11, 2026 11:30 PM (snZF9)

343 >>How would anyone know if the pic was of our real wife?

Good point.

Here's mine. I think her outfit is kinda dated but she insists on it.

https://tinyurl.com/33r27jcs

Posted by: JackStraw at June 11, 2026 11:30 PM (viF8m)

344 339 Roller skates that clamped to the bottom of your shoes and quickly tore the sole off.

--------

My soul was torn off in my early twenties.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 11, 2026 11:31 PM (u/oMr)

345 Roller skates that clamped to the bottom of your shoes and quickly tore the sole off.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 11, 2026 11:30 PM (2WIwB)
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Johnny Seven O. M. A. (One Man Army)

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 11, 2026 11:31 PM (amcLV)

346 Zipper
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Band-Aid, Q-Tip, ChapStick, Post-it note, Scotch Tape, Ziploc

Posted by: Tonypete at June 11, 2026 11:32 PM (LZxDN)

347 Bers

Geez, $50k? Gotta be rich to get richer. The game is rigged.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2026 11:32 PM (2GVsD)

348 "I was the wizard of vertical hold."

During Mercury, the school custodian would wheel in and operate the TV so we kids could watch the blastoffs. Pic would start to roll, and the teacher wanted to get the custodian to fix it, and every kids' hands went up. One giant step in youth tech literacy.

Posted by: gp at June 11, 2026 11:32 PM (Jr5Lq)

349 Cheapest cigarettes I remember was like 50 cents a pack.

I remember it because I can still remember people saying I will never pay a dollar a pack.

I'll quit before then.

Posted by: LTG at June 11, 2026 11:32 PM (+ZHEV)

350 Eric von Zipper?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2026 11:33 PM (2GVsD)

351 Meanwhile also in Boston, eco-activists welded themselves to a pink car to protest fossil fuels. Boston FD had to use saws to cut them lose.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2026 10:47 PM (2GVsD)

Shoot, just pick the whole damned thing with a forklift, move it to another spot out of the way and ask them if there would be anyone they would like called to cut them free. Then post a webcam to make sure they aren't abused by the street people.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 11, 2026 11:33 PM (rbvCR)

352
Mexico City isn't well regarded by most Mexicans; it's... full of commies Chilangos.

...visibly sinking by inches every year as its past history as a swamp and the draining of its underlying aquifers is fostering its subsidence.

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 11, 2026 11:33 PM (ixS3i)

353 If I ever see one at some yard sale or 2nd hand store, I will gather info and notify you via "blogmail"!

Posted by: JQ at June 11, 2026 11:30 PM (rdVOm)

Cool!

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 11, 2026 11:33 PM (snZF9)

354 You got a brand set of roller skates, I got a brand new key.

Posted by: Melanie at June 11, 2026 11:33 PM (u/oMr)

355 Roller skates that clamped to the bottom of your shoes and quickly tore the sole off.
Posted by: Diogenes

Those lousy metal skates! Rattling down the sidewalk (while the setscrew worked loose, until...) *wham!* one would come off & I'd slam down onto the concrete. OUCH! Got a calcium deposit on my sternum, from the cracked rib...knocked the wind out of me.

Posted by: JQ at June 11, 2026 11:33 PM (rdVOm)

356 It's simple. I ask for a Coke. Never called it pop or soda as it's Coca-cola.

I did now and then drink and Orange Crush.

I honestly do not recall styrofoam Cokes. I also barely remember what I had for dinner yesterday as until this week there was a ton of stress for six weeks.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 11, 2026 11:33 PM (WONhk)

357 Steel Storm. Which sounds more like a porn name than a band name. If I had ever started a band, which was unlikely because all I play is the stereo and I can't sing, I would have called it Nervous Trees. I appreciate Crosby as a musician but he probably liked sailing cause it was harder to get arrested out in the ocean

Posted by: Azjaeger at June 11, 2026 11:34 PM (3/XaG)

358
Tomorrow will be the earliest sunrise for me at ~35N, and those up to about 40N.

The Equation of Time will zero around midnight give or take tomorrow, as well. So, on the 13th, if the need arises you can set your watch by the sun without correction. Well, for local mean time. You need to know your longitude to convert to standard time zone time.

The other night, we 29 yr olds were bitching about the young 'uns have no clue about the sky and its motions. I wonder how many would have any idea about setting a clock by the sun....

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 11, 2026 11:34 PM (w6EFb)

359 My husband's rock name is Wild Rebels and I am jealous. He's from Long Island and won't appreciate it.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 11, 2026 11:35 PM (WONhk)

360 Bers

Geez, $50k? Gotta be rich to get richer. The game is rigged.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2026 11:32 PM (2GVsD)

I'm not kidding, Mrs B was ready to start drinking. She was dealing with this shit all week. Rigged is an understatement.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 11, 2026 11:35 PM (snZF9)

361 >>How would anyone know if the pic was of our real wife?

Good point.

Here's mine. I think her outfit is kinda dated but she insists on it.

https://tinyurl.com/33r27jcs
Posted by: JackStraw


Looks like Zombie.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 11, 2026 11:35 PM (/lPRQ)

362 307 Carbonated soft drinks are properly called "pop". Calling them a "soda", or a "soft drink" makes you sound pretentious.
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 11, 2026 11:09 PM (0Htd1)

I had a friend from Mobile, Alabama who called them "cold beverages" in the sweet Southern lilt. It made my Texan "y'all want a coke? Okay which kind?" sound downright trashy.

Posted by: moki at June 11, 2026 11:35 PM (wLjpr)

363 During Mercury, the school custodian would wheel in and operate the TV so we kids could watch the blastoffs. Pic would start to roll, and the teacher wanted to get the custodian to fix it, and every kids' hands went up. One giant step in youth tech literacy.
Posted by: gp at June 11, 2026 11:32 PM (Jr5Lq)
--------
I could play those wheels like Jimmy Valentine with a safe.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 11, 2026 11:36 PM (amcLV)

364 SpaceX IPO tomorrow also.
Posted by: mnw

Wait to see how the launch goes before investing…

Posted by: mindful webworker - boom or bust at June 11, 2026 11:25 PM (dn9xm)

Yeah, good luck with that. We spent all week trying to get ready to get some. Oh, you don't have $50,000 in an account? Oh so sorry, the ones that do get first dibs, and maybe if any of the "limited" shares are left over it goes into a lottery system for you peons.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 11, 2026 11:30 PM (snZF9)

Pick up some on the inevitable drop. Last major IPO, Cerebras, peaked at $386, then drifted to $196 before heading up again. That's a tidy profit.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 11, 2026 11:36 PM (dK+Kv)

365 I don't drink them anymore but I just called them by their name when I did. I'll have a Coke or a Dr Pepper or a 7up.

Posted by: polynikes at June 11, 2026 11:36 PM (GseMx)

366 Roller skates?

how about some Dire Straits?

https://youtu.be/W16Szy__gBY

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2026 11:37 PM (2GVsD)

367 Roller skates that clamped to the bottom of your shoes and quickly tore the sole off.
Posted by: Diogenes

Those lousy metal skates! Rattling down the sidewalk (while the setscrew worked loose, until...) *wham!* one would come off & I'd slam down onto the concrete. OUCH! Got a calcium deposit on my sternum, from the cracked rib...knocked the wind out of me.

Posted by: JQ at June 11, 2026 11:33 PM (rdVOm)

Those were frigging terrible. I remember the girls having those and you could hear them 100 yards away. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 11, 2026 11:37 PM (snZF9)

368 >> SpaceX IPO tomorrow

Initial Polar Orbit?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 11, 2026 11:37 PM (w6EFb)

369 Initial Public Offering?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 11, 2026 11:38 PM (GOveb)

370 Coke bottle? I'm older, I'm 60z glass bottle sold in a vending machine like this, for that price:
https://tinyurl.com/bdech4sr

Posted by: Pikov Andropov at June 11, 2026 11:38 PM (y7zkd)

371 Those were frigging terrible. I remember the girls having those and you could hear them 100 yards away. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 11, 2026 11:37 PM (snZF9)

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Heh.

Posted by: The Paolo at June 11, 2026 11:38 PM (u/oMr)

372 Then post a webcam to make sure for pay-per-view as they aren't abused by the street people.
FIFY

Posted by: RandomDave (of the Rebel Riders, apparently) at June 11, 2026 11:39 PM (aJQbY)

373 Carbonated soft drinks are properly called "pop". Calling them a "soda", or a "soft drink" makes you sound pretentious.
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 11, 2026 11:09 PM (0Htd1)

Gaseosas

Posted by: Kindltot at June 11, 2026 11:39 PM (rbvCR)

374 Trump says he intends to deport Iranians to the Central African Republic.

No joke.

Posted by: mnw at June 11, 2026 11:40 PM (RCjYY)

375 Lord help us all. That is probably going to be the next form of SWATing soon.
"Can you check on gramps? He seemed unfocused yesterday and hasn't answered his phone all day. Do you think he had a stroke?"
Posted by: Kindltot


Here in God's Waiting Room, they are usually already expired by time anybody checks.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 11, 2026 11:40 PM (/lPRQ)

376 whoops, missed an edit:
Then post a webcam to make sure for pay-per-view as they aren't abused by the street people.

Posted by: RandomDave (of the Rebel Riders, apparently) at June 11, 2026 11:40 PM (aJQbY)

377 I don't drink them anymore but I just called them by their name when I did. I'll have a Coke or a Dr Pepper or a 7up.
Posted by: polynikes at June 11, 2026 11:36 PM (GseMx)

There really isn't anything like Coke.

There's a reason it's still around.

Not exactly like it was, but pretty close.

Posted by: LTG at June 11, 2026 11:40 PM (+ZHEV)

378 Speaking of flavored drinks anyone remember fizzies tablets?

Posted by: polynikes at June 11, 2026 11:41 PM (GseMx)

379 The preliminary design for the Global War on Terror Memorial has been announced.

Guess what? Another fucking crescent.

This needs to get stomped on hard before construction begins.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 11, 2026 11:42 PM (IG3/x)

380 378 Speaking of flavored drinks anyone remember fizzies tablets?
Posted by: polynikes at June 11, 2026 11:41 PM (GseMx)

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What are you, a communist?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 11, 2026 11:42 PM (u/oMr)

381 In my youthful days in Upper Michigan, it was "pop" and "pop bottles".

Alas, the "soda" and "soda bottles" mindworms have infected me in the years since then.
Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars



You have Faygo Red Pop ?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 11, 2026 11:42 PM (/lPRQ)

382 I was in a parking lot today turning tricks and saw this:

A mother pulled up, sort of trashy looking woman who takes no pride in herself (but, hey, I can't help it if I do and would not be caught dead without trying or mascara) got out of her car in front of me. Then a daughter got out in red/black flannel pj's and a hoodie. It was 80 degrees. A more normal daughter got out in jeans and a tee shirt. What on earth? It was 3pm and flannel girl looked like she just rolled out of bed.

I said to my husband I don't get it. Why don't people care what they look like anymore? Is it because I'm Southern? What on earth? He doesn't know, either.

In reality I'd taken my husband to the doctor for an appt and was in the car listening to rock with the AC on to irritate anyone who is liberal and might notice.

I also saw my very first gigantic yellow swallotail butterfly today (which I write down in my calendar). Because.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 11, 2026 11:42 PM (WONhk)

383 Speaking of flavored drinks anyone remember fizzies tablets?
Posted by: polynikes

Yes! They were great! Until... "cyclamates" were found to cause cancer. I'm DOOMED!

Posted by: JQ at June 11, 2026 11:43 PM (rdVOm)

384 I had completely forgotten about the styrofoam wrap around the Coke bottle. Pepsi did that as well. Glass bottles are far superior to any other drink container.

Posted by: PabloD at June 11, 2026 11:44 PM (K1RVP)

385 > Got a calcium deposit on my sternum, from the cracked rib...knocked the wind out of me.

Posted by: JQ at June 11, 2026 11:33 PM (rdVOm)

Oh, I've got a brand new pair of roller skates
You got a brand new orthopedic surgeon....

Wait: there's something wrong with the scansion.

Posted by: Melanie at June 11, 2026 11:44 PM (IG3/x)

386 How IPOs work, sometimes:

1) Irresistible story and/or charismatic executive.
2) IPO is set up with several insiders already granted percentage ownership of company shares.
3) IPO opens at retail, immediately chased to the sky by enchantment with the story.
4) At the peak, most or all of the insiders sell.
5) Sad trombone.

Sometimes.

Posted by: gp at June 11, 2026 11:44 PM (Jr5Lq)

387 364 Flounder

Don't throw rocks at me... but I suspect they did you a favor.

Posted by: mnw at June 11, 2026 11:44 PM (RCjYY)

388 Yes! They were great! Until... "cyclamates" were found to cause cancer. I'm DOOMED!
Posted by: JQ at June 11, 2026 11:43 PM (rdVOm

The challenge was to just put one on your tongue and let it do what it do.

Posted by: polynikes at June 11, 2026 11:45 PM (GseMx)

389 As an apology for the crazy fashion idea, I offer puppy yoga.

https://youtube.com/shorts/yMGvg4izXv8

The music is annoying, but the puppies are cute.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 11, 2026 11:45 PM (qx7Zg)

390 358 253 And now we got Beer Pong
Posted by: Anna Puma

Child

We had beer pong and thumper etc. as long ago as the ancient 80s.

Sometimes I have to remind the Youngs that " I was probably drunk before you were born"

Posted by: Miklos suspects their parents too at June 11, 2026 10:59 PM (6VErX)

Much appreciated publius

I'm at 33.6539....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 11, 2026 11:46 PM (QGaXH)

391 Trump says he intends to deport Iranians to the Central African Republic.

No joke.
Posted by: mnw at June 11, 2026 11:40 PM (RCjYY)

Hope it's before he gets his "DEAL" with them.

Much as I him, this Iran thing is starting to be ridiculous.

Posted by: LTG at June 11, 2026 11:46 PM (+ZHEV)

392 Vacuum tube testing machines.

Posted by: JQ at June 11, 2026 10:43 PM (rdVOm)

I would love to get my hands on one of those testers. I probably have over 100 vintage preamp tubes in my stash because all of my guitar amps use tubes. I keep my eye out for certain tubes and keep hording them, so it would be nice to weed out the duds.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division


I had to look on the web because they had one in the mom-pop drugstore when I was in school. Big floor display model with the tubes for sale in slots below the "test bed".

They got a bunch on eBay. Didn't see the floor display model though.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 11, 2026 11:46 PM (/lPRQ)

393 Speaking of flavored drinks anyone remember fizzies tablets?
Posted by: polynikes

Yes! They were great! Until... "cyclamates" were found to cause cancer. I'm DOOMED!

Posted by: JQ at June 11, 2026 11:43 PM (rdVOm)

Efferdent for kids. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 11, 2026 11:46 PM (snZF9)

394 Wait: there's something wrong with the scansion.
Posted by: Melanie

Hah! And it REALLY HURT because I had that stoopid f@cking skate key on a string around my neck & landed on it.

Posted by: JQ at June 11, 2026 11:46 PM (rdVOm)

395
I got a hot rod Ford, and a two dollar bill
And I know a spot right over the hill
There's soda pop and the dancing's free
So if you wanna have fun, come along with me

_Hank Williams, 1951

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 11, 2026 11:47 PM (FJMtP)

396 Just me, but i think 'free thought' is bullshit. It is not like we are flipping a coin on issues and who knows where it will land. Our thinking is informed and shaped by what we believe in. What we value. That is not 'free.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD

You have a misguided notion of what "free thought" means. The phrase was coined in an age where, in many cases, you were not "free" to think unapproved thoughts, kinda like being a Democrat today.

Posted by: Pikov Andropov at June 11, 2026 11:47 PM (y7zkd)

397 > You have Faygo Red Pop ?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 11, 2026 11:42 PM (/lPRQ)

Vess > Shasta > Faygo in the off-brand fizz water hierarchy.


It is known.


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 11, 2026 11:47 PM (IG3/x)

398 Better than Moon Moon, I guess.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 11, 2026 11:25 PM (amcLV)

We determined a few years ago that one of our dogs, is, indeed, Moon Moon. She lives up to it daily.

Just now she got excited, ran around a corner and smacked her ass into the wall at full speed. Didn't miss a beat.

Took her three days to figure out how to use the doggie door, even with her sister showing her how it works.

So, we have Moon Moon, the live version (tm).

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 11, 2026 11:47 PM (bl07w)

399 "They got a bunch on eBay" They come up on qrz.com once in a while too. If a hamfest comes to your burg, there might be some for sale, and if not, there will def be tube-heads there who can get you one quick.

Posted by: gp at June 11, 2026 11:49 PM (Jr5Lq)

400 Got a calcium deposit on my sternum, from the cracked rib...knocked the wind out of me.

Posted by: JQ at June 11, 2026 11:33 PM (rdVOm)

Those were frigging terrible. I remember the girls having those and you could hear them 100 yards away. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 11, 2026 11:37 PM (snZF9)
********
In the early '90's I got roller blades for Christmas for me and my boys. I had a vision of the great legs that summer at the beach for me.

I had forgotten how to skate. It was rather pitiful Christmas Day in FL with a movie recording us trying on the sidewalk. I fell once only vs sons. Filmed.

You can hear my parents and husband laughing when I fell. I caught myself with my hand and managed to fx a bit of my elbow. It is recorded of me flapping my arm around til I felt a pop and said that feels better...til it got like Popeye's arm overnight. A wee fx and I needed a sling and gave the rollerblades to a friend.

My father then decided to teach one son with one skate and holding onto him. Which does not make a bit of sense and the entire video is hilarious.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 11, 2026 11:49 PM (WONhk)

401
God's Waiting Room

I refer to any attempt by the missus to put down a deposit for a place in one of the oldsters' bide-a-wee shelters as "God's waiting rooms".

I have not the slightest interest in hanging out in a facility populated almost exclusively with folks of our generation.

There's a big reason we welcomed graduating from high school and that reason is we were at last free of the folks who had been the bane of our existence for twelve long years.

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 11, 2026 11:49 PM (ixS3i)

402 Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 11, 2026 11:47 PM (IG3/x)

I recognize Shasta but not the other two.

Posted by: polynikes at June 11, 2026 11:49 PM (GseMx)

403 You know, you should never answer those meme questions honestly. It speaks well of your character that you just see some silly harmless fun, but the criminal mind sees an identity theft tool for eliciting the answers to your security questions, that they can use to reset your password if they can guess your account name and where you have it.

Posted by: SciVo at June 11, 2026 11:49 PM (Sy6m/)

404 Yore cheatin' heart
Will tell on yooo

Posted by: Also Hank Williams at June 11, 2026 11:49 PM (u/oMr)

405 My part of Canada. It's pop.

Cheapest cigarettes - Popeye Candy Cigarettes. Loved those.

My friends' cat Snowflake is here in my lap now in my chair. She's so cute.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 11, 2026 11:49 PM (Sco7b)

406 Flounder

Don't throw rocks at me... but I suspect they did you a favor.

Posted by: mnw at June 11, 2026 11:44 PM (RCjYY)

OK.

*pulls hair*

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 11, 2026 11:49 PM (dK+Kv)

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