Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - July 14, 2026 [Doof]

Storming The Bastille!

Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Tuesday ONT. Happy Bastille Day to those who celebrate. Did you bring cake for everyone?

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Have you seen the bridge?

Why truckers say the Gordie Howe bridge changes everything

After years of construction, months of anticipation, and one very public delay, the Gordie Howe International Bridge finally has an opening date – and Canada’s trucking industry says it can’t come soon enough.
The long-awaited crossing between Windsor and Detroit will open to traffic on July 27 after Canada, Michigan, and the U.S. government reached an agreement following weeks of behind-the-scenes negotiations over toll revenue and governance.
For Stephen Laskowski, president and CEO of the Ontario Trucking Association and Canadian Trucking Alliance, the impact stretches far beyond truck drivers.
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Instead of navigating city traffic and multiple traffic lights, trucks will head straight to a modern border plaza designed to speed up inspections, particularly for agri-food shipments.
The result, he said, is faster crossings, better security, and lower operating costs.
The trucking industry estimates companies could save anywhere from $20,000 to $100,000 annually, depending on the size of their fleet and how often they cross the border.
Laskowski also believes having another major international crossing competing for commercial traffic will benefit the entire industry.
Competition, he said, drives efficiency.

Seems like the truckers should have just said "it'll be a beauty, eh?"

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Where's that confounded bridge?

Cape Cod bridges project clears major hurdle with federal approval

The Cape Bridges project reached a major milestone this week when the Federal Highway Administration approved the project’s final Environmental Impact Statement and issued a formal go-ahead.
The action marks the first time that the Highway Administration has approved such a final statement for a roadway project in Massachusetts since 1991 and marks a significant step forward, according to a June 30 press release from the governor’s office. The state Department of Transportation is in charge of the project to replace the Sagamore and Bourne bridges.

These new bridges will be used by the staff en route to/from the Northern Command of Doof Enterprises. There is an internal betting pool as to whether or not the Key Bridge near the Mid-Atlantic Command of Doof Enterprises will rebuilt before one or both of the Cape bridges.

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This sound was a huge part of my pre-teen years!

A beautiful sound… pic.twitter.com/SC1Y5s3M1x
— I❤️Nostalgia '𝕏' (@Ilovenostalgia) July 12, 2026

Did kids really wander around the front seat of vehicles in the early 60's?

Imagine surviving and even thriving after being strapped into a $1.88 Sears, “hope harness” only to grow up and get blamed for everything by generations after you. #boomers

* Sears Catalog, 1961. pic.twitter.com/JUqtt5WP6I
— Lloyd Legalist (@LloydLegalist) July 11, 2026

Retro technology

Tv sure has changed hasn’t it? pic.twitter.com/4xn45k2d9W
— Johnny Midnight ⚡️ (@its_The_Dr) July 9, 2026

Do you remember this?

Today in 1979, Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park goes off the rails when fans storm the field as local DJ Steve Dahl detonates records in the outfield. Chicago police arrest 39 and the White Sox forfeit the nightcap of a doubleheader with the Tigers. pic.twitter.com/VmznitIB4c
— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) July 12, 2026

[In retrospect, Disco Doof does not look favorably upon this]

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Lots of bands should have been bigger than they were. Go ahead and let me know who you think of. I definitely think Montrose fits the bill.

The 1970s band Sammy Hagar wanted to be “the American Led Zeppelin

“Montrose – we were about to explode,” he reflected to Guitar Player. “We were gonna be the American Led Zeppelin, and he couldn’t take it. I don’t know what it was. He was afraid of success. He’d sit there in the studio holding his face like, ‘Oh God, what are we gonna do?’ I’m like, ‘Fuck, let’s jam! Let’s make some music.’”
Ronnie Montrose was one of the most in-demand session men in rock, having laid down guitar parts for the likes of Van Morrison, Edgar Winter, Herbie Hancock, and Boz Scaggs. Fancying his own project, he formed his namesake band in 1973 with a young Hagar behind the mic, cut the Montrose and Paper Money LPs before Hagar was fired, precipitating his solo career. Such fraught relationships with his band members and the routine dismissal of new recruits would scupper whatever momentum Montrose had enjoyed.
“I’ve never seen a guy like that,” Hagar added. “He fired everybody. The second you had one smidgen of success with him, he broke up the band.”
Montrose would continue without Hagar, but the hard rock explosion they promised was never realised, their founding guitarist smoothing the sound to a funkier direction with Bob James fronting the new style while Van Halen was conquering the Billboard charts. A string of solo albums would follow across the 1990s before he sadly took his own life in 2012.

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1 ONT requires extraordinary suspension of disbelief.

Posted by: mindful webworker - ordering a cafe black at July 14, 2026 10:01 PM (ci8WY)

2 Fourth

Posted by: lin-duh at July 14, 2026 10:01 PM (RWoFI)

3 rst

Posted by: Reforger at July 14, 2026 10:01 PM (/Hx86)

4 Hi Doof!

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 14, 2026 10:01 PM (rxv4u)

5 Bomba Looo

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 14, 2026 10:01 PM (59EWv)

6 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 14, 2026 10:01 PM (VmkSV)

7 Happy Bastille Day to those who celebrate.

Would it be inappropriate to congratulate them on their WC performance?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 14, 2026 10:03 PM (ExV1e)

8 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 14, 2026 10:03 PM (zZu0s)

9 Stormed the bastille and all they found was a leftover sandwich and an empty bottle of wine.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 14, 2026 10:04 PM (1Ff7Z)

10 Hi Doof!
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 14, 2026 10:01 PM (rxv4u)

*waves toward the PNW*

Posted by: Doof at July 14, 2026 10:04 PM (QLC6i)

11 Bastille Day includes cake?

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at July 14, 2026 10:04 PM (XfIK1)

12 Did kids really wander around the front seat of vehicles in the erly 60's?

All over the car.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 14, 2026 10:05 PM (ExV1e)

13 Lewis' dad is a good American

Posted by: Diogenes at July 14, 2026 10:05 PM (2WIwB)

14 Suspension bridges, swingin' brotha. And, as a driver, have you ever considered that those boxes tracker trucks pull are actually just big sails?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 14, 2026 10:05 PM (59EWv)

15 That kid has only one toe!

Posted by: man at July 14, 2026 10:05 PM (7VniJ)

16 How could Doof not put this up?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT1gmKUoqbY

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 14, 2026 10:05 PM (DZ9Lv)

17 Disco Demolition Night had nothing on Ten Cent Beer Night at Cleveland Stadium in '74.

The game was forfeited to the Texas Rangers (the only forfeit in MLB history due to fan behavior).

Posted by: Tonypete at July 14, 2026 10:05 PM (VmkSV)

18 Good evening Horde and thanks Disco!

Swell ONT content!

Posted by: TRex - bad motor scooter dino at July 14, 2026 10:06 PM (XfIK1)

19 Bastille Day includes cake?
Posted by: The Grateful
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They have no bread.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 14, 2026 10:06 PM (XeU6L)

20 Bastille Day includes cake?
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at July 14, 2026 10:04 PM (XfIK1)

Yup - let them eat it!

Posted by: Doof at July 14, 2026 10:06 PM (QLC6i)

21 Bastille Day, liberals should study up before shooting off their mouths.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 14, 2026 10:07 PM (59EWv)

22 All over the car"

The rear parcel shelf was prized territory...

Posted by: man at July 14, 2026 10:07 PM (7VniJ)

23 Bastille Day - actually had French Toast for breakfast.

With maple syrup. And powdered sugar.

Made in the style my late oldest brother once made for us. MiladyJo said, "showing how obsessive I am about food, I finally made it after intending to for fifty years."

She keeps our relationship fresh!

Posted by: mindful webworker - LOTS of maple syrup at July 14, 2026 10:07 PM (ci8WY)

24 Nice ONT, Doof! Thanks!

Posted by: LRob in OK at July 14, 2026 10:07 PM (Jr+re)

25 How could Doof not put this up?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT1gmKUoqbY
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 14, 2026 10:05 PM (DZ9Lv)

Different version behind the top photo

Posted by: Doof at July 14, 2026 10:07 PM (QLC6i)

26 ONT requires extraordinary suspension of disbelief.
Posted by: mindful webworker - ordering a cafe black at July 14, 2026 10:01 PM (ci8WY)

I know it's hard to believe but...there really was a Disco Inferno.

Posted by: Nerd Herd at July 14, 2026 10:08 PM (NZPfR)

27 Good evening Horde and thanks Disco!

Swell ONT content!
Posted by: TRex - bad motor scooter dino at July 14, 2026 10:06 PM (XfIK1)

I was expecting "undemolished dino"

Posted by: Doof at July 14, 2026 10:08 PM (QLC6i)

28
Rush; Is that a Lone Star or a pentagram?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 14, 2026 10:09 PM (J7HCx)

29 Every time I read some Moron say it's Taco Tuesday, I pass that along to MiladyJo. Jocularly.

Guess what we had for dinner! Yup.🌮🌮

Posted by: mindful webworker - with chicken and cherry salsa at July 14, 2026 10:09 PM (ci8WY)

30 Bastille Day, liberals should study up before shooting off their mouths.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 14, 2026 10:07 PM (59EWv)

They are too clueless to even understand that.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 14, 2026 10:10 PM (2WIwB)

31 I know it's hard to believe but...there really was a Disco Inferno.
Posted by: Nerd Herd at July 14, 2026 10:08 PM (NZPfR)

And he lost to a girl.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 14, 2026 10:10 PM (1Ff7Z)

32 Hello! I celebrated by watching the French lose to Spain.

Posted by: Piper at July 14, 2026 10:11 PM (pZEOD)

33 Did kids really wander around the front seat of vehicles in the erly 60's?

All over the car.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

They stopped by age 11, I guess, since the bondage gear from Sears says "for 1 to 10-year-olds."

Posted by: mikeski at July 14, 2026 10:11 PM (VHUov)

34 And in other news from Nashville, a former (woman) police officer is off the force after she admitted to serious departmental violations, including conduct unbecoming an officer, stemming from inappropriate sexual activity while on duty. In a middle school's parking lot. Multiple times.

The other cop hasn't been named yet. But he did flush 18 years seniority down the drain.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 14, 2026 10:11 PM (VmkSV)

35 Bastille Day includes cake?
Posted by: The Grateful
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They have no bread.
Posted by: Mike Hammer,
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Then cake it is! Who am I to argue with Marie Antoinette (or whomever is reported to have said it)...

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at July 14, 2026 10:11 PM (XfIK1)

36 Nice ONT, Doof! Thanks!
Posted by: LRob in OK at July 14, 2026 10:07 PM (Jr+re)

YW!

Posted by: Doof at July 14, 2026 10:12 PM (QLC6i)

37 I was expecting "undemolished dino"

Posted by: Doof at July 14, 2026 10:08 PM
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When someone next asks me about my day, I shall respond that I'm "undemolished, thank you for asking."

Posted by: TRex - American Led Zeppelin dino at July 14, 2026 10:13 PM (XfIK1)

38 Hello! I celebrated by watching the French lose to Spain.
Posted by: Piper at July 14, 2026 10:11 PM (pZEOD)

So no more MMM Bop?

Posted by: Doof at July 14, 2026 10:13 PM (QLC6i)

39 Bastille Day

Should I be disappointed there's no 1812 Overture for this?

Posted by: Diogenes at July 14, 2026 10:14 PM (2WIwB)

40 Internal Affairs (HA!!) used the cops own pictures, videos and texts to confirm the tawdry conduct.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 14, 2026 10:14 PM (VmkSV)

41 So, the Buffalo NY school story gets better. Check out this reference: "Richard Nigro, president of the Buffalo Teachers Federation"

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Posted by: man at July 14, 2026 10:14 PM (7VniJ)

42 This article link on Fox right now:

Tyrus and paleontologist test T. rex speed myths with new evidence

Posted by: LRob in OK at July 14, 2026 10:15 PM (Jr+re)

43 38 Hello! I celebrated by watching the French lose to Spain.
Posted by: Piper at July 14, 2026 10:11 PM (pZEOD)

So no more MMM Bop?
Posted by: Doof

Ummm..sure!

Posted by: Piper at July 14, 2026 10:16 PM (p4NUW)

44 Good evening morons enbedankt Doofus

Happy Bastille Day to those who celebrate. Did you bring cake for everyone?
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No French.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 14, 2026 10:17 PM (RIvkX)

45 Someone left the cake out in the rain.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 14, 2026 10:17 PM (Cqx++)

46 I doubt the Cape Cod bridges will be built before I'm dead. I've seen this story in Massachusetts before.

But even if they are the bigger problem remains. Cape Cod is already too crowded and has been since I was in high school. Making it easier to get more people onto the Cape is not gonna fix that problem.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 14, 2026 10:17 PM (viF8m)

47 I think one of the stadiums had 25c Beer Night combined with handing out free bats? Those little mini-bats, about the size of a nightstick.

What could go wrong?

Posted by: Common Tater at July 14, 2026 10:17 PM (3pMUQ)

48 33 Did kids really wander around the front seat of vehicles in the erly 60's?

All over the car.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Lay upon the back window shelf and watch the sky go by.
Cars were made for people back then.
Today you conform to the car back then
they built the car for your comfort.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 14, 2026 10:19 PM (J7HCx)

49 Different version behind the top photo
Posted by: Doof

I love watching old live shots of rock bands from back in the day.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 14, 2026 10:19 PM (DZ9Lv)

50 When someone next asks me about my day, I shall respond that I'm "undemolished, thank you for asking."
Posted by: TRex - American Led Zeppelin dino at July 14, 2026 10:13 PM (XfIK1)

I offer an alternative - "I have emerged undemolished!"

Posted by: Doof at July 14, 2026 10:19 PM (QLC6i)

51 Bastille Day
Should I be disappointed there's no 1812 Overture for this?
Posted by: Diogenes

Related?

https://youtu.be/f4En-2FfOgA

Posted by: mikeski at July 14, 2026 10:19 PM (VHUov)

52 My auto-strap harness has a dildo attached in front.

Posted by: Rosie O'Donnell at July 14, 2026 10:20 PM (u/oMr)

53 Two bands that should have been bigger acts:

POCO - The number of great musicians who went played with that group. Their record label let them down ...

Michael Stanley Band - Never could break out of the Cleveland / Rust Belt straightjacket. Again, anothe band where the record label didn't back them they way the should have.

Posted by: browndog says woof at July 14, 2026 10:20 PM (3sXRv)

54 Auto-strap for front seat tots:

"Also use as walking harness"!?!?!?

Nobody really did that back in the day, that I knew of.

Posted by: mindful webworker - time traveler from the 1950s at July 14, 2026 10:20 PM (ci8WY)

55
Note the new hash tonight. I'm baby sitting my mother at the nursing home the first night this time. I want to make sure all the getting out of bed out of her head tendency is gone. It appears to bed.

They told me this was not allowed at all. Nope, nope, nope. But, well, they couldn't force me to leave. If they needed to do that, they'd have to call the cops, and unless I was doing something that warranted being arrested, well they wouldn't call said cops.

And they added there's no official visiting hours, so....

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley at July 14, 2026 10:21 PM (iKvf9)

56 >>I think one of the stadiums had 25c Beer Night combined with handing out free bats? Those little mini-bats, about the size of a nightstick.

>>What could go wrong?

Heh. They used to give those out occasionally at Red Sox games for promotions. Even when we were kids we'd be like, are these people nuts?

Posted by: JackStraw at July 14, 2026 10:21 PM (viF8m)

57 The way I read it, “Cake” in this reference referred to the scrapings or residue remainder in large bread pans in bakeries. Probably thrown out. Not what modern bread usage means by “Cake”.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 14, 2026 10:21 PM (3pMUQ)

58 But even if they are the bigger problem remains. Cape Cod is already too crowded and has been since I was in high school. Making it easier to get more people onto the Cape is not gonna fix that problem.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 14, 2026 10:17 PM (viF8m)

And it might flip over, too! -Rep. Hank Johnson

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 14, 2026 10:22 PM (+EWjf)

59 33 Did kids really wander around the front seat of vehicles in the erly 60's?

I had an "older" neighbor who allowed all the kids in the 'hood to pile into the back of his Toyota HiLux for a trip to the beach. He was like 15.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 14, 2026 10:22 PM (u/oMr)

60 Bands that should have been bigger. Where do I start?

Shadows Fall
Savatage
Iced Earth
Agent Steel
Nevermore
Metal Church

Okay, this falls into a pretty specific genre. But still. I stand by this list.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, All Erudite and Stuff at July 14, 2026 10:22 PM (0aYVJ)

61 What was the first color TV series?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 14, 2026 10:22 PM (aOqrc)

62 I was wondering why the last pic didn't have a mystery click. Coulda been Duran Duran's "Girls on Film."

But then, it also coulda been The Chainsmokers "#Selfie," so no mystery click is the correct choice.

Posted by: mikeski at July 14, 2026 10:22 PM (VHUov)

63 47 I think one of the stadiums had 25c Beer Night combined with handing out free bats? Those little mini-bats, about the size of a nightstick.

What could go wrong?

Posted by: Common Tater
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They had two dollar bleacher night. Friend drove a taxi, Taxis entered the parking area free and parked free. So, two bucks and 25¢ beer. What are you going to do?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 14, 2026 10:22 PM (J7HCx)

64 I doubt the Cape Cod bridges will be built before I'm dead. I've seen this story in Massachusetts before.

But even if they are the bigger problem remains. Cape Cod is already too crowded and has been since I was in high school. Making it easier to get more people onto the Cape is not gonna fix that problem.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 14, 2026 10:17 PM (viF8m)

I enjoy coming up here in the off-season. However - this time I brought my golf clubs. There are quite a few courses up here!

Posted by: Doof at July 14, 2026 10:23 PM (QLC6i)

65
If our Common Tater is here, we can talk Apollo 8-balls, gimbals, and reference frames if you're still interested.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley at July 14, 2026 10:23 PM (iKvf9)

66 So no more MMM Bop?
Posted by: Doof

Ok, I hate you right now. I have Hanson going through my head now.

*types* *deletes*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 14, 2026 10:23 PM (zZu0s)

67 Anyone else ever get the reacharound smack in the head from the front seat?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 14, 2026 10:23 PM (RIvkX)

68 I think one of the stadiums had 25c Beer Night combined with handing out free bats? Those little mini-bats, about the size of a nightstick.

What could go wrong?
Posted by: Common Tater at July 14, 2026 10:17 PM

Heh.
I remember when Seattle had free baseballs for the first 10,000 thru the gates.
Yeah. That lasted until the first shitty call.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 14, 2026 10:23 PM (2WIwB)

69 And in other news from Nashville, a former (woman) police officer is off the force after she admitted to serious departmental violations, including conduct unbecoming an officer, stemming from inappropriate sexual activity while on duty. In a middle school's parking lot. Multiple times.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 14, 2026 10:11 PM (VmkSV)
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*** Sir Psycho Sexy was unavailable for comment ***

Posted by: Red Hot Chili Peppers at July 14, 2026 10:23 PM (FZ29D)

70 Bands that should have been bigger. Where do I start?

Shadows Fall
Savatage
Iced Earth
Agent Steel
Nevermore
Metal Church

Okay, this falls into a pretty specific genre. But still. I stand by this list.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

Kinda sad that Savatage did make it big.

.....after they became Trans-Siberian Orchestra.

Posted by: mikeski at July 14, 2026 10:23 PM (VHUov)

71 42 Tyrus and paleontologist test T. rex speed myths with new evidence

Posted by: LRob in OK at July 14, 2026 10:15 PM
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My speed is no myth. My undemolished emergence is proof.

Posted by: TRex - speedy dino at July 14, 2026 10:24 PM (XfIK1)

72 17 Disco Demolition Night had nothing on Ten Cent Beer Night at Cleveland Stadium in '74.

The game was forfeited to the Texas Rangers (the only forfeit in MLB history due to fan behavior).
Posted by: Tonypete at July 14, 2026 10:05 PM (VmkSV)

I was in attendance

Sat in the lower deck behind home plate with 8 of my classmates.

We just had bough a case of Stroh's just before all hell broke loose with Billy Martin charging out of the dugout to defend Jeff Burroughs.

Had seriously thought of streaking the field, but chickened out ...

Posted by: browndog says woof at July 14, 2026 10:24 PM (3sXRv)

73 Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 14, 2026 10:24 PM (wVcYX)

74 What was the first color TV series?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 14, 2026 10:22 PM (aOqrc)

Wouldn't know. Our first color TV set was in the late 1970s.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, All Erudite and Stuff at July 14, 2026 10:25 PM (0aYVJ)

75 I had an "older" neighbor who allowed all the kids in the 'hood to pile into the back of his Toyota HiLux for a trip to the beach. He was like 15.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
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Ridden hundreds of miles in the bed of pickups.
It was quite common.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 14, 2026 10:25 PM (J7HCx)

76 Bands that should have been bigger -

King's X
The Alarm

Posted by: Doof at July 14, 2026 10:25 PM (QLC6i)

77 Anyone else ever get the reacharound smack in the head from the front seat?

Nope, but I did hear "If I have to stop this car . . . . " a few times. She never stopped. Heh!

Posted by: LRob in OK at July 14, 2026 10:25 PM (Jr+re)

78 They told me this was not allowed at all. Nope, nope, nope. But, well, they couldn't force me to leave. If they needed to do that, they'd have to call the cops, and unless I was doing something that warranted being arrested, well they wouldn't call said cops.

And they added there's no official visiting hours, so....
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley at July 14, 2026 10:21 PM (iKvf9)

This really puts a crimp into our "No-pants Naughty Nightshift Nurses" lifestyle.

Posted by: The Naughty Nightshift Nurses at July 14, 2026 10:26 PM (+EWjf)

79 Those TV'S back in the day were expensive. I don't think we got a color TV until 1968. Dad wanted to watch his football team in color. Only had 4 channels to watch. The big three and an independent channel.

Posted by: Case at July 14, 2026 10:26 PM (IY9No)

80 Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.
Posted by: Count de Monet

And anemoia never was.

Posted by: mikeski at July 14, 2026 10:26 PM (VHUov)

81 *puts on hat*

Posted by: Perry the Platypus at July 14, 2026 10:26 PM (+0Wk3)

82 Did kids really wander around the front seat of vehicles in the early 60's?

Yes, and without tethers! I know, I was there! Related phenomenon: it was years after shoulder and lap belts were standard that my mother finally got out of the habit of sticking her arm out to keep us from lurching forward at sudden stops.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 14, 2026 10:26 PM (aOqrc)

83 Bands that should have been bigger -

Harry Reid's exercise band

Posted by: Archimedes at July 14, 2026 10:27 PM (Riz8t)

84 Coolest bridge I've been on: Vasco de Gama bridge in Lisbon. 17 kilometers long.

Posted by: wth at July 14, 2026 10:27 PM (oq9dX)

85 I know you all know this but please cut of your parents, uncle, or aunties wall phone.
It is 2000% scam.
And with you people come up with a code word or phrase.
I have no issue in bombing a scam center.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 14, 2026 10:27 PM (/+uur)

86 “Bonanza” might not have been the first, but they pulled out all the stops. Every scene practically had reds, blues, greens, purples, yellows.

If you just paid $500 for a goddamned TV, why, I want to see some fucking color, dammit. “Bonanza” was the way you did that.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 14, 2026 10:27 PM (3pMUQ)

87 Nice ONT, Doof! Thanks.

That Instagram Dad cracked me up!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 14, 2026 10:27 PM (D/6p1)

88 The backseat was usually free roam even in the 80s. Stations wagons. Truck beds.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 14, 2026 10:27 PM (zZu0s)

89 *puts on hat*
Posted by: Perry the Platypus at July 14, 2026 10:26 PM (+0Wk3)

A platypus commenter?

PERRY the platypus commenter!

Posted by: Doof at July 14, 2026 10:27 PM (QLC6i)

90 The Place de la Bastille now has no remnants of the actual Bastille but there is a pillar sort of monument there. There is also a weekly farmers market behind it and a McDonalds right there on the side street.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 14, 2026 10:28 PM (u/oMr)

91 Tonypete @34: Ain't no p*ssy worth flushing away a career.

Posted by: Butch at July 14, 2026 10:28 PM (98xTj)

92 I was born in 1965. The arcade was a second home to me. I still love quarters. I also loved Bailey Quarters of WKRP, but that's a different story.

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at July 14, 2026 10:28 PM (ZAfEX)

93 And in other news from Nashville, a former (woman) police officer is off the force after she admitted to serious departmental violations, including conduct unbecoming an officer, stemming from inappropriate sexual activity while on duty. In a middle school's parking lot. Multiple times.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 14, 2026 10:11 PM (VmkSV)
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Sheesh.
My middle school sex ed was out of a book. No practical exercises at all.
I am sadz.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 14, 2026 10:28 PM (2WIwB)

94 Disco Inferno is in my personal Top 25.

There's a 9 minute version too.

Posted by: Don Black at July 14, 2026 10:29 PM (ZxPkt)

95 Kinda sad that Savatage did make it big.

.....after they became Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
Posted by: mikeski at July 14, 2026 10:23 PM (VHUov)

I like TSO, but Criss Oliva was a fucking virtuoso. Killed by a drunk driver, 30 years old. His wife died a few years later, having never fully recovered from her injuries. His brother Jon had his own issues afterward. Mourning.

Man, I fucking love Savatage.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, All Erudite and Stuff at July 14, 2026 10:29 PM (0aYVJ)

96 publius, absolutely no reason you cannot sit with her.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 14, 2026 10:30 PM (RIvkX)

97 Bands that should have been bigger -

"Red Rider, later known as Tom Cochrane & Red Rider, is a Canadian rock band popular in the 1980s. While they achieved significant success in Canada, the band never had a song in the top 40 in the United States, although "Lunatic Fringe" from their second album, 1981's As Far as Siam, became popular on US album-oriented rock radio Continued in Wikipedia"

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 14, 2026 10:30 PM (+EWjf)

98 I was born in 1965. The arcade was a second home to me. I still love quarters. I also loved Bailey Quarters of WKRP, but that's a different story.

Pffft.

Honey West > Bailey Quarters

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 14, 2026 10:30 PM (u/oMr)

99 I didn't see Missile Command in the arcade video. That was my favorite.

Posted by: Don Black at July 14, 2026 10:30 PM (ZxPkt)

100 Zebra.

Cool band. I have one album. On vinyl.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, All Erudite and Stuff at July 14, 2026 10:30 PM (0aYVJ)

101 There's a nightstick joke in there somewhere or, alternately, "It's the fuzz!"

Posted by: Tonypete at July 14, 2026 10:31 PM (VmkSV)

102 90 The Place de la Bastille now has no remnants of the actual Bastille but there is a pillar sort of monument there.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 14, 2026 10:28 PM
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Been a few years, but isn't there an outline of the original perimeter on the ground traced in stone? Much like the path of the Berlin wall in Berlin, Germany?

Posted by: TRex - memory challenged dino at July 14, 2026 10:31 PM (XfIK1)

103 Disney’s Wonderful World of Color was, of course, in color. It started in 1961, but I bet there was something before that.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 14, 2026 10:31 PM (aOqrc)

104 Publius, I still don’t understand what the horizon on the Apollo 8 ball was referencing.

On the LM, it makes sense for the lunar surface.

But the CM, what good would it do them?

Posted by: Common Tater at July 14, 2026 10:31 PM (3pMUQ)

105 For some reason I have a Rush song playing in my head right now.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, All Erudite and Stuff at July 14, 2026 10:32 PM (0aYVJ)

106 >>I enjoy coming up here in the off-season. However - this time I brought my golf clubs. There are quite a few courses up here!

There are a bunch. And the off-season on the Cape is very underrated.

I was never a very good golfer but I did some work golf events at different course there over the years. If you are ever up there during the Christmas season take a ferry ride to Nantucket. They really do a nice Christmas season.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 14, 2026 10:32 PM (viF8m)

107 Honey West > Bailey Quarters
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 14, 2026 10:30 PM (u/oMr)

Anne Francis peaked when she filmed "Forbidden Planet.

It was all downhill from there ...

Posted by: browndog says woof at July 14, 2026 10:32 PM (3sXRv)

108 Yeah, and remember to explain this like I’m 5

Posted by: Common Tater at July 14, 2026 10:32 PM (3pMUQ)

109 The sounds of Donkey Kong, Space Invaders, and Missile Command.

Then off in the corner is a console yelling, "run cowards! I live!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 14, 2026 10:32 PM (2GVsD)

110 We didn't have arcades. We had two pinballs at the bar. One at the pizza place. One at the laundromat.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 14, 2026 10:32 PM (RIvkX)

111 My speed is no myth. My undemolished emergence is proof.
Posted by: TRex - speedy dino at July 14, 2026 10:24 PM (XfIK1)

Especially when The Grateful is angry?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 14, 2026 10:32 PM (qx7Zg)

112 Disney’s Wonderful World of Color was, of course, in color. It started in 1961, but I bet there was something before that.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 14, 2026 10:31 PM (aOqrc)

Disney's Dismal World of Depressing Grayscale

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 14, 2026 10:32 PM (u/oMr)

113 A key from the Bastille was presented to George Washington, and is, as far as I know, still at Mt. Vernon.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 14, 2026 10:33 PM (aOqrc)

114 Did you bring cake for everyone?

We started doing fellowship dinners at church, sometimes on feast days - just to have a reason to get together. We were going to do one (maybe) on the Feast of the Martyrdom of John the Baptist. I wanted to do a cake on a silver platter - head-shaped.

For some reason we didn't manage to get that fellowship dinner together. /sigh/

I should have planned for Bastille Day. Could still be apropos....

Posted by: GWB at July 14, 2026 10:33 PM (kU0PQ)

115 So, Ronnie Montrose basically committed suicide... on the advice of his accountant?

Posted by: mnw at July 14, 2026 10:33 PM (RCjYY)

116 Regarding the television and what if it had recorded everything watched on it, there are so many wonderful shows that are lost forever because they were aired live or just not saved. I’d love to see some of Eddie Doucette’s Chicago cooking shows from the fifties, but even the much later Galloping Gourmet episodes from the sixties are only available in bits and pieces from people who happened to video tape them and then not throw out the tapes.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 14, 2026 10:33 PM (kYmoU)

117 Geezer Golf follow up
Had a good round today but my buddy had a fall. He's a lot older and he slipped on a chip shot near a pond. Damn near fell in. He'll be out for a few weeks. Meanwhile I'm nursing a bottle of wine while it nurses me after sprinting 70 yards to get him up and secured.
Golf be hard...yo!

Posted by: Diogenes at July 14, 2026 10:33 PM (2WIwB)

118 You have to have a frame of reference to make sense of your motion. It can be arbitrary, but it is necessary, especially since everything was inertial dead reconning

Posted by: Kindltot at July 14, 2026 10:34 PM (rbvCR)

119 If you are ever up there during the Christmas season take a ferry ride to Nantucket. They really do a nice Christmas season.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 14, 2026 10:32 PM (viF8m)

Will keep that in mind - thanks!

Posted by: Doof at July 14, 2026 10:34 PM (QLC6i)

120 Publius, I still don’t understand what the horizon on the Apollo 8 ball was referencing.

On the LM, it makes sense for the lunar surface.

But the CM, what good would it do them?
Posted by: Common Tater at July 14, 2026 10:31 PM (3pMUQ)

I think Mike Collins explained it pretty well in his book. But, I am not a smart man. I got like half of it.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, All Erudite and Stuff at July 14, 2026 10:35 PM (0aYVJ)

121 Sheesh.
My middle school sex ed was out of a book. No practical exercises at all.
I am sadz.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 14, 2026 10:28 PM (2WIwB)

The 2-dimensional line drawings of a lady's reproductive bits were of no practical use at all later on. I felt like a new 2nd LT with a map and compass on a field exercise. Lost and bewildered.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 14, 2026 10:35 PM (wVcYX)

122 113 A key from the Bastille was presented to George Washington, and is, as far as I know, still at Mt. Vernon.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 14, 2026 10:33 PM
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Excellent piece of historical trivia.

Posted by: TRex - keymaster dino at July 14, 2026 10:35 PM (XfIK1)

123 Yes, and without tethers! I know, I was there! Related phenomenon: it was years after shoulder and lap belts were standard that my mother finally got out of the habit of sticking her arm out to keep us from lurching forward at sudden stops.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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Caught my navigator like that. He was very appreciative.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 14, 2026 10:36 PM (J7HCx)

124 117 Geezer Golf follow up
Had a good round today but my buddy had a fall. He's a lot older and he slipped on a chip shot near a pond. Damn near fell in. He'll be out for a few weeks. Meanwhile I'm nursing a bottle of wine while it nurses me after sprinting 70 yards to get him up and secured.
Golf be hard...yo!
Posted by: Diogenes at July

This is awful. And I am really trying not laugh.

Posted by: Piper at July 14, 2026 10:36 PM (p4NUW)

125 The reason there hasn't been any federally funded transportation projects in MA since 1991 is that was when "The Big Dig" began. It was supposed to take 7 years and cost less than 3 billion. Instead it took 16 years and cost almost 15 billion - and a good third to half of that money went to graft or was outright stolen.
I guess it took this long for people to forget that.

Posted by: Chemist at July 14, 2026 10:36 PM (6qXCU)

126 Dare I pull Buzz Aldrin's book off the shelf, see what Dr. Rendevous had to say about CSM/LM navigation systems?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 14, 2026 10:36 PM (2GVsD)

127 Heard this Appalachian Rule on YouTube.

If your out at night, and hear something rustling behind you, don't look and keep running.

It's Bigfoot, and he wants to ask about your car's extended warranty.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 14, 2026 10:37 PM (qx7Zg)

128 Golf be hard...yo!
Posted by: Diogenes at July

This is awful. And I am really trying not laugh.
Posted by: Piper at July 14, 2026 10:36 PM (p4NUW)
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Pics?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 14, 2026 10:37 PM (RIvkX)

129 The 2-dimensional line drawings of a lady's reproductive bits were of no practical use at all later on. I felt like a new 2nd LT with a map and compass on a field exercise. Lost and bewildered.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 14, 2026 10:35 PM (wVcYX)

That is an apt description.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 14, 2026 10:37 PM (2WIwB)

130 When I was young, early 60s, we had a color set. Then we were poor and had black and white until the early 70s. I went to college in the mid 70s with a small BW set. The dorm had a common room with a color set, but you had to watch what everyone else was watching.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 14, 2026 10:38 PM (aOqrc)

131 Family cars in the fifties and early sixties had no seatbelts, and I never once saw any kind of harness that held the toddler in place. There also weren't baby car seats.
Babies and really young toddlers sat in mom's lap. Also toddlers pretty much bounced around in the back seat.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 14, 2026 10:38 PM (0Htd1)

132 Ooh, there's no bread, let them eat cake
There's no end to what they'll take
Flaunt the fruits of noble birth
wash the salt into the earth

And they're marching to Bastille day
The guillotine will claim her bloody prize
free the dungeons of the innocent
The king will kneel and let his kingdom rise

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 14, 2026 10:38 PM (S41Gd)

133 What everyone needs, a life size silicone love doll of Frieren.

https://youtu.be/uoeU9fI98uk

NOT.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 14, 2026 10:38 PM (2GVsD)

134 I fell out the back door of the car my dad owned, I was around 5 years old. After daddy picked me up off the street he advised me to never tell mom. I never did.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 14, 2026 10:38 PM (2NHgQ)

135 The Auto Strap for Kids was the second commie imposition into happy American family life.It was designed to prevent a loving parent to use the stop short arm thus preventing human contact. The first was imposed by the Pillow Tag police also a commie group when the Do Not Remove under Penalty of the Law pillow tags were read by innocent grammar school kids..
Fucking heartless Bastids!!1

Posted by: Joe Schmo from the Alamo at July 14, 2026 10:38 PM (rjFy0)

136
Dad's a giver!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 14, 2026 10:38 PM (ixS3i)

137 My middle school sex ed was out of a book. No practical exercises at all.
I am sadz.
Posted by: Diogenes

The 2-dimensional line drawings of a lady's reproductive bits were of no practical use at all later on. I felt like a new 2nd LT with a map and compass on a field exercise. Lost and bewildered.
Posted by: Count de Monet

Related:

https://youtu.be/Z9CMOMgPb00

Posted by: mikeski at July 14, 2026 10:39 PM (VHUov)

138 117 Geezer Golf follow up
Had a good round today but my buddy had a fall. He's a lot older and he slipped on a chip shot near a pond. Damn near fell in. He'll be out for a few weeks. Meanwhile I'm nursing a bottle of wine while it nurses me after sprinting 70 yards to get him up and secured.
Golf be hard...yo!

Posted by: Diogenes
----

As one approaches elder years a best exercise is practicing getting up off the floor. It uses most muscles and demands strength and coordination. Do 5 a day.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 14, 2026 10:40 PM (J7HCx)

139 I'm baby sitting my mother at the nursing home…
Posted by: publius

Hope she's still doing better.

When she fell and got banged up, then got better mentally, was this another testimonial to the efficaciousness of percussive maintenance?🙄

Posted by: mindful webworker needs a good whomp up'side the haid hisself at July 14, 2026 10:40 PM (ci8WY)

140 I think this is the highest I've ever been on the top ten list...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 14, 2026 10:40 PM (sKqQm)

141 A cruel trick of fate that Les Bleus shot craps on Bastille Day, n'est pas?

Quelle horrible.

Posted by: mnw at July 14, 2026 10:41 PM (RCjYY)

142 Family cars in the fifties and early sixties had no seatbelts, and I never once saw any kind of harness that held the toddler in place. There also weren't baby car seats.
Babies and really young toddlers sat in mom's lap. Also toddlers pretty much bounced around in the back seat.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 14, 2026 10:38 PM (0Htd1)

For me I think dad said they had a cloth basket type of bassinet, for the front floorboards with my mom.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 14, 2026 10:41 PM (rbvCR)

143 I never did.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 14, 2026 10:38 PM (2NHgQ)
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So you held it over his head for 40 years?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 14, 2026 10:41 PM (RIvkX)

144 What everyone needs, a life size silicone love doll of Frieren.
https://youtu.be/uoeU9fI98uk

NOT.

Posted by: Anna Puma

Seriously.

Fern, maybe.....

Posted by: mikeski regrets this comment at July 14, 2026 10:41 PM (VHUov)

145 Never had seatbelts when I was a kid. They came out with those later and even then you didn't have to wear them. Of course later on they made it a law.

Posted by: Case at July 14, 2026 10:41 PM (IY9No)

146 My folks had a big old Rambler station wagon. Brother and I liked the way-back. sisters liked the back seat. On long overnight trips we would being in our sleeping bags in the way-back. Dad was a chain-smoking, coffee-drinking Marine. He did not sleep, as far as I know. Mom would be curled up next to him on the bench seat.

Lord, I miss my parents.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, All Erudite and Stuff at July 14, 2026 10:42 PM (0aYVJ)

147 131 Family cars in the fifties and early sixties had no seatbelts, and I never once saw any kind of harness that held the toddler in place. There also weren't baby car seats.
Babies and really young toddlers sat in mom's lap. Also toddlers pretty much bounced around in the back seat.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 14, 2026 10:38 PM (0Htd1)

Yeah well a mothers arms were a pretty good child restraint No?

Posted by: Joe Schmo from the Alamo at July 14, 2026 10:42 PM (rjFy0)

148 That was one of the best features of the station wagon, it was a playroom slash mosh pit on wheels back there.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 14, 2026 10:42 PM (RIvkX)

149 Ha! I think it’s because of the Collins book I got to wondering. I’m re-reading it (Carrying the Fire). He was a clever articulate kind of guy, that didn’t really come through with the official persona.
———

There are quite a few old time radio programs that are largely available today only because they were recorded to disk and mailed overseas for military broadcasts on AFRTS.

One of the more popular (I guess) radio programs of all time was “Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons” and ran for over 20 years, but less than 50 episodes are extant.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 14, 2026 10:43 PM (3pMUQ)

150 Mikeski

Are you holding out for the Eris Greyrat and Nina Falcion dolls?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 14, 2026 10:43 PM (2GVsD)

151 How could Doof not put this up?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT1gmKUoqbY

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 14, 2026 10:05 PM (DZ9Lv)

Good job. I had to scan the frigging comments to see if anybody posted a Rush bastille day vid before I did.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 14, 2026 10:44 PM (S41Gd)

152 Golf be hard...yo!
Posted by: Diogenes at July

This is awful. And I am really trying not laugh.
Posted by: Piper at July 14, 2026 10:36 PM (p4NUW)
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Pics?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 14, 2026

***

I've got pics of my buddy's hand and blood soaked towel.
And pics of my empty bottle of wine...well once I finish it.
Not sure how to post them though.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 14, 2026 10:44 PM (2WIwB)

153 I think this is the highest I've ever been on the top ten list...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 14, 2026 10:40 PM (sKqQm)

It's not a good feeling, is it.

One week many many many moons ago I made the top spot because I had had surgery and was convalescing that week. It probably happened once or twice since, but not sure. At that point in 2010 I don't think I had ever even been on the list.

Posted by: ... at July 14, 2026 10:44 PM (vE0+H)

154 >>As one approaches elder years a best exercise is practicing getting up off the floor. It uses most muscles and demands strength and coordination. Do 5 a day.

I had a great PT guy after my second spine surgery. He showed me a great move that makes getting off the floor a whole lot easier.

You're right, it's something everyone should practice doing cause falling is inevitable.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 14, 2026 10:44 PM (viF8m)

155 77 Anyone else ever get the reacharound smack in the head from the front seat?

Nope, but I did hear "If I have to stop this car . . . . " a few times. She never stopped. Heh!
Posted by: LRob in OK

Whiffleball bat waved wildly into the back of the family wagon.

My brother and I stopped fighting immediately and laughed hysterically, making dad all the more furious.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 14, 2026 10:45 PM (LdAYY)

156 DDG Search Assist

The first commercially sponsored television program to be broadcast in color was "Premiere," which aired on June 25, 1951, on CBS. This variety show marked a significant step in the introduction of color television.
- Wikipedia

Posted by: mindful webworker - remember the little "color at July 14, 2026 10:45 PM (ci8WY)

157 Family cars in the fifties and early sixties had no seatbelts, and I never once saw any kind of harness that held the toddler in place. There also weren't baby car seats.
Babies and really young toddlers sat in mom's lap. Also toddlers pretty much bounced around in the back seat.
Posted by: nerdygirl

The early 70s car seats that were just metal frames that hung off the top edge of the front seat.

All the padding and protection of the kiddie seat in a grocery cart, and it put Junior up high enough to fly through the windshield rather than bonking his head on the dash.....

Posted by: babbeh mikeski sat in one of those at July 14, 2026 10:46 PM (VHUov)

158 As one approaches elder years a best exercise is practicing getting up off the floor. It uses most muscles and demands strength and coordination. Do 5 a day.
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I’m gonna start drinking Beer again for this! Great idea

Posted by: Common Tater at July 14, 2026 10:46 PM (3pMUQ)

159 18-1, 383 comments?

One week many yahrens ago, I had 1,800+ comments. Sven had over 2,000.

Aim to do better.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 14, 2026 10:46 PM (2GVsD)

160 We had 5 kids and drove Suburbans a lot. We sort of aged out the middle three in a coupla years and kept the last Burb a few more years. The number five guy was only about 7 and when we travelled, he insisted on the very back seat with the middle seat folded down. He pretended to NOT hear his mother on the road.

While the middle three were around, they had constant "He touched me" and "Can I move somewhere else" stuff going on all the time. There were stern chats during stops.

Posted by: LRob in OK at July 14, 2026 10:47 PM (Jr+re)

161 >> I still don’t understand what the horizon on the Apollo 8 ball was referencing.

I went over this with Grok (which is great for this kind of specific thing), to make sure I had it straight in my head.

Their local reference frame was inertial and "aligned with the fixed stars" frame (Mr. Einstein and spacetime curvature ignored as they are vanishingly small here). This frame was called the "Basic Reference Coordinate System" strangely enough and was very, very close to the standard astronomical frame know as ECI. X axis points to the equinox and the Z axis is aligned with the earth's pole.

So, your 8-ball horizon would be the equatorial plane of the Erf.

The origin of that was the center of the Erf but they switched to the Moon's center when the spacecraft entered the lunar sphere of influence. But the XYZ axes maintained the ECI like alignment.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley at July 14, 2026 10:47 PM (iKvf9)

162 Girthy ONT. Thanks, Doof!

>>Did kids really wander around the front seat of vehicles in the early 60's?

Not us, nosirree... Mom put us in harness similar to that ad. Front seat, yes. Wander around, no.

Bonus! Harness and tether attached to laundry line would keep a tot within reach while Mom pinned up the wash.

Posted by: JQ at July 14, 2026 10:47 PM (rdVOm)

163 I was having a thought today...there is a lot of discussion on the "affordability crises" and while there are parts of it around people wanting too much for too little work there is a really serious problem here. I have a decent job and I look at prices and blanch.

The answer from the tiktokiots is...raise the minimum wage! Or...have the government give people more money by taxing whoever they don't like this week.

But costs aren't supposed to be going up...they are supposed to be going down. Look at TVs. You can buy a TV better then the best TV 20 years ago for 1/5th the price and in modern Bidenbux no less!

This is the same progression everything you buy should have gone through over the last 20 years. Why hasn't it? Well...government. Everything government gets involved with explodes in cost and then of course the cost of that government further spikes costs via inflation.

So the answer? STOP THE SPENDING. Let's have a few years with no cash transfers outside of SS at the state or federal level. You want someone to be able to live ok off a McDs salary? You'll get it. Just like what happened with TVs but now with everything.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 14, 2026 10:47 PM (sKqQm)

164 I'm old enough to remember sitting in the back of the station wagon and rolling around when an uncle or aunt took a turn a bit too fast...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 14, 2026 10:48 PM (sKqQm)

165 One week many yahrens ago

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 14, 2026 10:46 PM (2GVsD)

That was weird. Horde mind or

Posted by: ... at July 14, 2026 10:49 PM (vE0+H)

166 One of the first songs Pooky put on for our trip was "Love Liberty Disco" by the Newsboys.

Posted by: pookysgirl, stretching out after a long day in the car at July 14, 2026 10:49 PM (cibwl)

167 Is everyone asleep already?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 14, 2026 10:49 PM (sKqQm)

168 I had a great PT guy after my second spine surgery. He showed me a great move that makes getting off the floor a whole lot easier.

You're right, it's something everyone should practice doing cause falling is inevitable.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 14, 2026 10:44 PM

How about getting up on the edge of the 9th green?

Posted by: Diogenes at July 14, 2026 10:49 PM (2WIwB)

169 77 Anyone else ever get the reacharound smack in the head from the front seat?

Nope, but I did hear "If I have to stop this car . . . . " a few times. She never stopped. Heh!
Posted by: LRob in OK

And the ever popular, “I’m giving you til the count of 3”.

Posted by: TxAnn at July 14, 2026 10:50 PM (SjAWL)

170 What everyone needs, a life size silicone love doll of Frieren.

https://youtu.be/uoeU9fI98uk

NOT.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 14, 2026 10:38 PM (2GVsD)

Could be worse. Could be Chainsmoker Cat.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 14, 2026 10:51 PM (+EWjf)

171 Sex Ed? Hell, I was looking at Playboy when I was ten. Someone was always sneaking their Dad's Playboy out to show their friends.

Posted by: Case at July 14, 2026 10:51 PM (IY9No)

172 One week many yahrens ago

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 14, 2026 10:46 PM (2GVsD)

That was weird. Horde mind or
Posted by: ... at July 14, 2026 10:49 PM (vE0+H)

I spent a lifetime one summer at Ft Sill OK.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 14, 2026 10:51 PM (2WIwB)

173 Publius, just thrilled to read your Mother's update. And you sit by her side, if you are not interfering with her care then there is no reason you have to leave.

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at July 14, 2026 10:51 PM (XfIK1)

174 Premiere," which aired on June 25, 1951, on CBS.
——-

Maybe in New York or LA?

1967 was kind of the watershed year, when many many sitcoms and programs and news affiliates started filming & broadcasting in color. I vaguely recall my parents, who were not poor, getting a new Color television for one of the Apollo missions.

My college professor auntie treated television like some weird affliction. She had it on a roll cart, stuffed in a guest room, an expensive high quality B/W job, that was only wheeled out for special occasions or something.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 14, 2026 10:52 PM (3pMUQ)

175 What everyone needs, a life size silicone love doll of Frieren.

Just wait until Japan makes ones of these that move and talk...and have working lower parts.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 14, 2026 10:52 PM (sKqQm)

176 Re: Bands that should have been bigger... Budgie

Posted by: Taft at July 14, 2026 10:53 PM (VFFUY)

177 Family cars in the fifties and early sixties had no seatbelts, and I never once saw any kind of harness that held the toddler in place. There also weren't baby car seats.
Babies and really young toddlers sat in mom's lap. Also toddlers pretty much bounced around in the back seat.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 14, 2026 10:38 PM (0Htd1)

Yeah, and those lovely GM X-frame cars of the late 50s/early 60s made sure those toddlers were converted to a pink mist in a head on accident.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 14, 2026 10:53 PM (S41Gd)

178
An Italian takes Zoohoo Mamadani to task for not including Little Italy on a map of NYC neighborhoods (salty and hilarious language)

https://youtube.com/shorts/9APyiuzmN6g

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 14, 2026 10:54 PM (ixS3i)

179 Pretty girl cooks
she's a keeper
https://tinyurl.com/bdfvxejx

Posted by: Don Black at July 14, 2026 10:54 PM (ZxPkt)

180
Yep, they let me know without saying that it would be all right as long as I didn't disturb the other residents, but it was against official facility policy.

They couldn't tell me it was okay directly but had to use the wink and nod tactics.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley at July 14, 2026 10:54 PM (iKvf9)

181 toddlers were converted to a pink mist

I almost hate to mention the Signal 30 films of the fifties and sixties. Your comment reminded me.

Posted by: LRob in OK at July 14, 2026 10:54 PM (Jr+re)

182 "With maple syrup. And powdered sugar."

-------

As God intended

Posted by: 496 at July 14, 2026 10:55 PM (szbjN)

183 On road trips I usually just surf the radio stations. It's mostly the same, classic rock, country, Jack FM, Bob FM. etc. Sometimes I'll catch small town announcements about things like fairs, quilting bees, craft shows, obituaries. It's a hoot.

Bend, Oregon has a really good rock station. old school AOR music. Sometimes you hit the jackpot.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, All Erudite and Stuff at July 14, 2026 10:55 PM (0aYVJ)

184 Sexy girl cooking is an interesting genre of videos.

I can't say I get many recipes on line so its not exactly in my wheelhouse, and while a number of the women in my life do they aren't going to like getting that recipe from a woman with her boobs hanging out...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 14, 2026 10:56 PM (sKqQm)

185 Pretty girl cooks
she's a keeper
https://tinyurl.com/bdfvxejx
Posted by: Don Black

The poor thing needs to monetize that channel. She can only afford one button.....

Posted by: mikeski may be missing the points at July 14, 2026 10:56 PM (VHUov)

186 Pretty girl cooks
she's a keeper
https://tinyurl.com/bdfvxejx
Posted by: Don Black at July 14, 2026 10:54 PM (ZxPkt)

Before I sign up for that, what's her wine cellar like???

Posted by: Diogenes at July 14, 2026 10:56 PM (2WIwB)

187 Blood-soaked towel
Wine
Golf

This checks out.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 14, 2026 10:56 PM (RIvkX)

188 Honey West > Bailey Quarters

Never saw Honey West.

But Penny (Sky) King gave me feelings I didn't understand at that age. (As with Annette.)

Posted by: mindful webworker - time traveler from a past millennium at July 14, 2026 10:58 PM (ci8WY)

189 What could possibly go wrong?

There is sunken Liberty ship, SS Richard Montgomery, which has been sitting in the Thames estuary since 1944 with its masts sticking above the water as if warning passing ships to steer well clear.

And ships are well advised to steer clear as the wreck contains some 1,400 tonnes of explosives aboard that have never been removed.

Now the British are going forward with a daft scheme to cut away the masts and display them ashore. The same masts which are a big clue to other ships to stay out of the exclusion zone.

What could go wrong? The Francis Scott Key bridge fiasco would like to have word with the British.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 14, 2026 10:58 PM (2GVsD)

190 Blood-soaked towel
Wine
Golf

This checks out.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 14, 2026

Yeah.
Kind of a weird day on the course.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 14, 2026 10:58 PM (2WIwB)

191 >>Yeah, and those lovely GM X-frame cars of the late 50s/early 60s made sure those toddlers were converted to a pink mist in a head on accident.
-------

Reminds me of the 1990s crash-test dummy PSAs for child safety seats:

"...your 'Little Pumpkin' would be nothing but Squash!"

Posted by: JQ at July 14, 2026 10:59 PM (rdVOm)

192 RE: key to the Bastille:

Le Marseillaise was originally entitled "Chant de guerre pour l'armee du Rhin."

"Le Marseillaise" is a bit catchier.

Posted by: mnw at July 14, 2026 10:59 PM (RCjYY)

193 Every one of you bastards over the age of 29 shoul d practice getting up from the floor DAILY. SEVERAL TIMES A DAY. it may save your life. If you can’t do it, you’re fucked. So figure it out. Do it. DO IT TODAY.

I will personally come and kick your ass of you don’t.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 14, 2026 11:00 PM (7KluB)

194 My cousin had a drunken rollover in a golf cart and broke his leg in 3 places.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 14, 2026 11:00 PM (RIvkX)

195 Honey West > Bailey Quarters

Never saw Honey West.

But Penny (Sky) King gave me feelings I didn't understand at that age. (As with Annette.)
Posted by: mindful webworker - time traveler from a past millennium at July 14, 2026 10:58 PM (ci8WY)

Connie Hines (Mr Ed).
My tummy felt weird.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 14, 2026 11:00 PM (2WIwB)

196 No love for Yani? How about Easygoing Anal Angel?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 14, 2026 11:01 PM (2GVsD)

197 Yeah well a mothers arms were a pretty good child restraint No?
Posted by: Joe Schmo from the Alamo
We had 6 kids in my family and we all survived. Also, we had a small farm and my dad had a pickup truck. We could ride around the farm in the bed of the truck. That was fun, very bouncy.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 14, 2026 11:01 PM (0Htd1)

198 Every one of you bastards over the age of 29 shoul d practice getting up from the floor DAILY. SEVERAL TIMES A DAY.

Will we have exercise periods at the TxMoMe? With potential ass-kickings?

Posted by: LRob in OK at July 14, 2026 11:01 PM (Jr+re)

199 And ships are well advised to steer clear as the wreck contains some 1,400 tonnes of explosives aboard that have never been removed.

Now the British are going forward with a daft scheme to cut away the masts and display them ashore. The same masts which are a big clue to other ships to stay out of the exclusion zone.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Give 'em all a map with "hic sunt kaboomes" written on it about there.

Posted by: mikeski at July 14, 2026 11:01 PM (VHUov)

200 Every one of you bastards over the age of 29 shoul d practice getting up from the floor DAILY. SEVERAL TIMES A DAY. it may save your life. If you can’t do it, you’re fucked. So figure it out. Do it. DO IT TODAY.

I will personally come and kick your ass of you don’t.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 14, 2026 11:00 PM (7KluB)

Oooooo!!!
You're place or mine???

Posted by: Diogenes at July 14, 2026 11:02 PM (2WIwB)

201 We had a TV like that one pictured: I have a vague recollection of the moon landing on it, but more that our parents let us make a puppet theatere out of the old TV box. No idea what they did with the glass tube.

Posted by: Iris at July 14, 2026 11:02 PM (286+n)

202 How are you going to put your arm around your girlfriend while taking her home after school?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 14, 2026 11:02 PM (J7HCx)

203 148 That was one of the best features of the station wagon, it was a playroom slash mosh pit on wheels back there.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
You could make faces at the driver of the car behind yours.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 14, 2026 11:02 PM (0Htd1)

204 One of the Colombian news outlets, NTN24, says that Cuba has at least 300 Russian drones capable of reaching the US.

So there is always something

Posted by: Kindltot at July 14, 2026 11:02 PM (rbvCR)

205 You could make faces at the driver of the car behind yours.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 14, 2026 11:02 PM (0Htd1)
===

We would give the "peace" sign to hippies and then go nuts when they gave it back.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 14, 2026 11:03 PM (RIvkX)

206 Every one of you bastards over the age of 29 shoul d practice getting up from the floor DAILY. SEVERAL TIMES A DAY. it may save your life. If you can’t do it, you’re fucked. So figure it out. Do it. DO IT TODAY.

I will personally come and kick your ass of you don’t.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 14, 2026 11:00 PM (7KluB)

Does this include standing up from a cross legged seat on the ground with no hands?

Posted by: Kindltot at July 14, 2026 11:04 PM (rbvCR)

207 There's a photo of me in one of those canvas seats with metal hooks that hung over the front seat. ca early '50s.

One night at the drive-in, my little sister poured a bag of popcorn down the heater vents up behind the back seat.
Hilarity did not ensue when Mom turned the heater on for the ride home...

Posted by: sal at July 14, 2026 11:04 PM (f+FmA)

208 Give 'em all a map with "hic sunt kaboomes" written on it about there.

It is the EU and UK, so the warning in all 50 languages would cover the map.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 14, 2026 11:05 PM (2GVsD)

209 Pretty girl cooks
she's a keeper
https://tinyurl.com/bdfvxejx
Posted by: Don Black at July 14, 2026 10:54 PM (ZxPkt)

I like her flair, but I think she occasionally slipped into an American accent. But her Italian accent was molto bene.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 14, 2026 11:05 PM (ZVgZ4)

210 Was it worth the internet destroying everything so we could get titty cook videos, not sure. But I'm also not not sure.

Posted by: ... at July 14, 2026 11:05 PM (vE0+H)

211 Pretty girl cooks
she's a keeper
https://tinyurl.com/bdfvxejx
Posted by: Don Black at July 14, 2026 10:54 PM (ZxPkt)

Before I sign up for that, what's her wine cellar like???
Posted by: Diogenes at July 14, 2026 10:56 PM (2WIwB)

Is that a new euphemism?

Posted by: Nerd Herd at July 14, 2026 11:05 PM (NZPfR)

212 And ships are well advised to steer clear as the wreck contains some 1,400 tonnes of explosives aboard that have never been removed.

Now the British are going forward with a daft scheme to cut away the masts and display them ashore. The same masts which are a big clue to other ships to stay out of the exclusion zone.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Give 'em all a map with "hic sunt kaboomes" written on it about there.
Posted by: mikeski at July 14, 2026 11:01 PM (VHUov)

Any bets that the first ship to hit it is a Royal Navy boomer, and it's nukes go Kaboom?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 14, 2026 11:06 PM (qx7Zg)

213
192 Le Marseillaise was originally entitled "Chant de guerre pour l'armee

Posted by: mnw at July 14, 2026 10:59 PM (RCjYY)

I took 4 years of French in jr/sr high and for the final in yr 3, we had to stand in the hall with the teacher and sing Le Marseillaise. To this day, nigh on 50 years later, I can remember about 75% of it.

Posted by: TxAnn at July 14, 2026 11:06 PM (SjAWL)

214 Evening, Horde. For once I had... well, not tacos, but home-made burritos for Taco Tuesday. Fried the beef, mixed the sauce and spices in, fried the finished burritos (beef and cheese) until they were just a little smokey inside. Delicious!

Posted by: RandomDave at July 14, 2026 11:07 PM (aJQbY)

215 Any bets that the first ship to hit it is a Royal Navy boomer, and it's nukes go Kaboom?

Itony would be HMS Prince of Wales.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 14, 2026 11:08 PM (2GVsD)

216 DO IT TODAY.

But, seriously, my younger sister who has some physical limitations, let her husband go to bed on one end of their house, went out into the cool evening on the deck to do something with some rugs she washed that day, fell and broke her elbow. Could NOT get onto her feet and her husband could not hear her. She shuffled on her side the length of the house to wake him. I was literally speechless when she told me. "Younger" in this case means 70+ years old.

Posted by: LRob in OK at July 14, 2026 11:08 PM (Jr+re)

217 >>How about getting up on the edge of the 9th green?

Yea, there too. When I was young and playing lots of sports I didn't think anything about getting up off the ground. Didn't really require much thinking. But it definitely is a bit different as I get older and stiffer.

And I don't want to be like a tortoise and rely on Leon to flip me over.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 14, 2026 11:09 PM (viF8m)

218 One of the Colombian news outlets, NTN24, says that Cuba has at least 300 Russian drones capable of reaching the US.

So there is always something
Posted by: Kindltot at July 14, 2026 11:02 PM (rbvCR)

Russia ceased supporting Cuba a long time ago. Why would they give (or sell) the Cubans drones?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 14, 2026 11:10 PM (1z8ji)

219 OTOH, free-roaming in the back seat allowed a young Count, standing on the back seat and holding on to the back of the front bench seat, to watch Mom navigate down a steep, snow-covered icy hill. There was a 4-way intersection at the bottom with a car approaching from the left. Neither car was gonna be able to stop.

Calculating the geometry and physics involved in my still-developing brain, I dove to the 2nd row floorboard and turned so that my back and head were against the back of the front seat, arching over the transmission hump.

Wham!

Both cars were pretty messed up, but not totaled. I was unscathed. My Mom and the other driver were bruised and had bloodied noses and lips.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 14, 2026 11:10 PM (wVcYX)

220 She's on X. I follow.

Posted by: Don Black at July 14, 2026 11:10 PM (ZxPkt)

221
Oldest of 5 kids. We had the station wagon with the 3rd seat that faced backwards. Always a fight about who sat back there.

Finally mom had enough and we would draw straws.

First rest stop we changed seats.

It was so cool riding backwards.

Posted by: four seasons at July 14, 2026 11:10 PM (/QHx4)

222 I just laid down on the floor and got back up. It wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be. But I did it. Someone mentioned a trick he had learned from his PT instructor that made it easier but didn’t say what it was. Anybody know enough to elaborate or point to a YT video?

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

223 Bastille:

Thomas Paine was imprisoned there after being sentenced to die. The jailers put a chalk mark on the outside of the cell doors for those scheduled for the guillotine.

Paine writes that they omitted him because his cell door was open, & so they didn't notice the chalk mark. No problem. Just correct the mistake on the following day.

That night, Robespierre fell. Thus, Paine writes, his life was saved.

Posted by: mnw at July 14, 2026 11:11 PM (RCjYY)

224 68 I think one of the stadiums had 25c Beer Night combined with handing out free bats? Those little mini-bats, about the size of a nightstick.

What could go wrong?
Posted by: Common Tater at July 14, 2026 10:17 PM

Heh.
I remember when Seattle had free baseballs for the first 10,000 thru the gates.
Yeah. That lasted until the first shitty call.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 14, 2026 10:23 PM (2WIwB)

Bat Day at Yankee Stadium. Little wooden nightsticks given to randos in the South Bronx.

Yeah, that wasn't such a bright idea. Probably best that they ended it.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 14, 2026 11:12 PM (TgFUA)

225 No love for Yani? How about Easygoing Anal Angel?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 14, 2026 11:01 PM (2GVsD)

The next episode of Chainsmoker Cat airs on Thursday. To my embarrassment, I look forward to seeing it, just to see what happens next.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 14, 2026 11:12 PM (+EWjf)

226 OK, nurse, I just did one rep for ya! Yer welcome!!

Posted by: LRob in OK at July 14, 2026 11:12 PM (Jr+re)

227 I have such a hard time trying to pronounce anything in French. German? Fine. Spanish? All good. French? Naw. Just pronounce some of the vowels and consonants, not all ot them.

Gaelic is ever worse. How is Slainthe pronounced slawnchuh?

Why is Thomas Meagher's name pronounced Marr?

I am the worst Irishman ever.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, All Erudite and Stuff at July 14, 2026 11:12 PM (0aYVJ)

228 Reminds me of the 1990s crash-test dummy PSAs for child safety seats:

"...your 'Little Pumpkin' would be nothing but Squash!"
Posted by: JQ

I'm just warped enough that I laughed at that.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 14, 2026 11:12 PM (0Htd1)

229 193> Every one of you bastards over the age of 29 should practice getting up from the floor DAILY. SEVERAL TIMES A DAY.

Some of us do, in the form of a Turkish Get Up with 25# dumbbell for reps.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 14, 2026 11:12 PM (a4flb)

230 Top 5?
Missed it by THAT much...

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 14, 2026 11:13 PM (2Ez/1)

231 The next episode of Chainsmoker Cat airs on Thursday. To my embarrassment, I look forward to seeing it, just to see what happens next.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

"Morbid curiosity" is a thing. "Hatewatching" is a thing.

I think some anime exist only because of these things.

Posted by: mikeski at July 14, 2026 11:13 PM (VHUov)

232 Every one of you bastards over the age of 29 shoul d practice getting up from the floor DAILY. SEVERAL TIMES A DAY.

Will we have exercise periods at the TxMoMe? With potential ass-kickings?
Posted by: LRob in OK at July 14, 2026 11:01 PM (Jr+re)

Mandatory PT sessions, I fear.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 14, 2026 11:14 PM (wVcYX)

233 213 TxAnn

Very cool.

Posted by: mnw at July 14, 2026 11:14 PM (RCjYY)

234 The last season of The Lone Ranger was in color (1956-57)

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

235
More clarification on the 8-ball horizon. The Basic Reference Coordinate System, very close to modern ECI, was the master inertial frame. At any time, the current alignment of the IMU might vary. The particular alignment in use at any time was dubbed the REFSMMAT, "Reference to Stable Member Matrix". This was a rotation matrix, 3D, which described the relative rotation to the BRCF.

So, the 8-ball horizon, would be whatever happened to be the XY plane of the given REFSMMAT.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley at July 14, 2026 11:15 PM (iKvf9)

236 I do not jump up off the floor like I ustadcould, but I make it work. A lot of grunting. But I do admit I need to step up my game. Being 60 has been eye-opening.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, All Erudite and Stuff at July 14, 2026 11:15 PM (0aYVJ)

237 I just laid down on the floor and got back up. It wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be. But I did it. Someone mentioned a trick he had learned from his PT instructor that made it easier but didn’t say what it was. Anybody know enough to elaborate or point to a YT video?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 14, 2026 11:11 PM (ZVgZ4)

An able-bodied helper with a hoist?

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 14, 2026 11:15 PM (wVcYX)

238 I've run across a few videos of left of center people discussing how the black death improved the lives of European workers because the number of them declined.

And then those same people arguing that of course importing millions of foreigners to the US will have no impact on the salaries of American workers...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 14, 2026 11:15 PM (sKqQm)

239 221
Oldest of 5 kids. We had the station wagon with the 3rd seat that faced backwards. Always a fight about who sat back there.
Posted by: four seasons at July 14, 2026 11:10 PM (/QHx4)

What, you didn't "call it"? That's how we did it in our family- also five kids.

Posted by: sal at July 14, 2026 11:15 PM (f+FmA)

240 In 2 days, SpaceX is planning a Falcon 9 launch from Vandenberg and a Starship launch from Starbase, about 90 minutes apart.

Should be interesting.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 14, 2026 11:16 PM (qx7Zg)

241 Being 60 has been eye-opening.

I barely remember being 60.......

Posted by: LRob in OK at July 14, 2026 11:16 PM (Jr+re)

242 >>Anybody know enough to elaborate or point to a YT video?

Get yourself on your hands and knees. Pick one leg, whichever is your stronger and better balance leg and move from your knee to your foot. Put the hand on the side of that leg on your knee and support yourself with your foot and the opposite hand that is still on the floor. Then move your other leg from your knee to your foot so now you are crouching on both feet. Then stand up.

Practice that a few times a day until it become second nature.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 14, 2026 11:17 PM (viF8m)

243
sal,

A fight would happen, lol.

We took a lot of road trips.

Posted by: four seasons at July 14, 2026 11:17 PM (/QHx4)

244 My aunt had one of those massive Ford station wagons

the cargo area behind the 2nd row had floor panels that would fold out and make 2 small bench seats facing each other.

the faux wood panels on the sides
I miss giant American cars

Posted by: Don Black at July 14, 2026 11:18 PM (ZxPkt)

245 Without checking, I was pretty sure it was Bastille Day. I made sure to see the very spot my first trip to Paris in 1999 and felt it was not deserving of me. I'm not sure what I expected.

Today I had (x 3 million it feels like) a skin biopsy due to my vast history of skin cancer for now most of my life. Which is nothing compared to what others face.

The only good thing about it is seeing the freaks of people who are at this university hospital, walking the halls. I saw one tattoo "visitor" with a man who looked worse than her...and she had at least 3 septum cattle rings. A group of med students walked by saying, "they are dropping like flies." They did not come from the door where I'd be called.

The MD, RN and ARNP told me I was delightful to meet. I asked my husband later if they were mocking me and he said, no, that I am very entertaining.

I have no idea what I yammered about as when under a tiny bit of stress things flow. I am used to biopsies and would rather not be there, but I am a delightful patient to meet.

Heaven knows compared to the freaks I saw in the hallways I would agree with them. They are probably a lot stupider than me as well.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 14, 2026 11:19 PM (hzuYO)

246 I will find you. And I will kick your asses.

Get
Up
Off
The
Floor.

If you can’t you’re in a LOT of trouble. Learn you can do it before you need to.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 14, 2026 11:19 PM (Wh2D7)

247 When we moved here, the old ladies' after Mass lunch bunch asked me how old I was after a few weeks.
I told them and they were like "65? Oh, that's adorable."
I understand what they mean now...

Posted by: sal at July 14, 2026 11:19 PM (f+FmA)

248 My aunt had one of those massive Ford station wagons

the cargo area behind the 2nd row had floor panels that would fold out and make 2 small bench seats facing each other.

the faux wood panels on the sides
I miss giant American cars
Posted by: Don Black at July 14, 2026 11:18 PM (ZxPkt)

Could they handle being rammed by a Bison?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 14, 2026 11:19 PM (qx7Zg)

249 I am at my most limber when I wake up with a leg cramp.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, All Erudite and Stuff at July 14, 2026 11:20 PM (0aYVJ)

250
Then move your other leg from your knee to your foot so now you are crouching on both feet.

That's the Hokey Pokey!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 14, 2026 11:21 PM (Cqx++)

251 nurse, I think AOP and I spend some time most days getting under and out from under cars. The vehicle just over your head adds a degree of difficulty!

Posted by: LRob in OK at July 14, 2026 11:22 PM (Jr+re)

252 And then those same people arguing that of course importing millions of foreigners to the US will have no impact on the salaries of American workers...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 14, 2026 11:15 PM (sKqQm)

There is a fine line between having no central belief system at all, and just lying to people about what it is.

Posted by: ... at July 14, 2026 11:22 PM (vE0+H)

253 204 One of the Colombian news outlets, NTN24, says that Cuba has at least 300 Russian drones capable of reaching the US.

So there is always something

Posted by: Kindltot
---

Just like old times.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 14, 2026 11:22 PM (J7HCx)

254 Skiing when I was younger has prepared me for getting up off the floor. When you lay in the snow with skis attached to your boots, you figured out how to maneuver your legs and feet, and get your center of gravity (butt) into a position where you can get up.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 14, 2026 11:22 PM (0Htd1)

255 La Marseillaise Is a very bloody song. If you know enough French you know. They even have a children’s version that they teach to little kids. They learn the original when they are older. Still the singing of La Marseillaise in Ric’s Cafe is a very stirring scene in Casablanca: it’s why they shut down Ric’s, you know, due to gambling. “Your winnings, sir,” “Thank you”.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 14, 2026 11:22 PM (ZVgZ4)

256 I will find you. And I will kick your asses.

Get
Up
Off
The
Floor.

If you can’t you’re in a LOT of trouble. Learn you can do it before you need to.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 14, 2026 11:19 PM (Wh2D7)

Else the Bacon Wenches at the TXMOME will point at you and state loudly, "No bacon for you.!"

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 14, 2026 11:22 PM (wVcYX)

257 >>My aunt had one of those massive Ford station wagons

>>the cargo area behind the 2nd row had floor panels that would fold out and make 2 small bench seats facing each other.

>>the faux wood panels on the sides
I miss giant American cars

We had one of those. We had a couple different Griswold family trucksters, faux wood paneling of course, including a Pontiac Bonneville 455 which I eventually inherited when it was well into beater territory.

I could pack 6 guys, 8 in a pinch, and enough gear to last us a weekend on Cape Cod among other road trips. Great car. Like driving a battleship but damn we had fun with that beast.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 14, 2026 11:23 PM (viF8m)

258 I will personally come and kick your ass of you don’t.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 14, 2026 11:00 PM (7KluB)

Oooooo!!!
You're place or mine???

Posted by: Diogenes at July 14, 2026 11:02 PM (2WIwB)

I will never understand men's penchant for masochism.

Posted by: pookysgirl has been told that she's cute when she's angry at July 14, 2026 11:23 PM (cibwl)

259
A cool thing when we took road trips was stopping somewhere to have a picnic. Parents did not have the money to stop and eat at a restaurant. There weren't fast food places back in the olden days.

It used to be safe to pull over where there were picnic tables to picnic and kids could run around.

Posted by: four seasons at July 14, 2026 11:24 PM (/QHx4)

260 TxAnn

When I was in HS, I once asked my young woman French teacher if she could translate a line in a book I was reading-- something De Gaulle said to Gen. Massu, upon greeting him at the airport.

My French teacher said she couldn't translate. Odd, So I took it to the German teacher. He laughed.

"Alors Massu. Toujours con?"

Posted by: mnw at July 14, 2026 11:24 PM (RCjYY)

261 nurse, I think AOP and I spend some time most days getting under and out from under cars. The vehicle just over your head adds a degree of difficulty!

Posted by: LRob in OK at July 14, 2026 11:22 PM (Jr+re)

I hope you roll out from beneath it before you try to get up!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 14, 2026 11:24 PM (ZVgZ4)

262 I am at my most limber when I wake up with a leg cramp.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

Ain't THAT the truth! BTDT, hate it.

Calf cramp so strong I can barely straighten it out; need to apply full weight on heel, sometimes requires a bit of bouncing to accomplish. Fortunately, these happen rarely.

Posted by: JQ at July 14, 2026 11:25 PM (rdVOm)

263 Could they handle being rammed by a Bison?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
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Depends on your definition of handle.
You would survive. You would be able to drive away. You would pay the body shop a shit ton of money.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 14, 2026 11:25 PM (J7HCx)

264 I will never understand men's penchant for masochism.
Posted by: pookysgirl

Chicks dig scars?

Posted by: mikeski at July 14, 2026 11:25 PM (VHUov)

265 I hope you roll out from beneath it before you try to get up!

Sliiiide out!!

Posted by: LRob in OK at July 14, 2026 11:25 PM (Jr+re)

266 nurse, I think AOP and I spend some time most days getting under and out from under cars. The vehicle just over your head adds a degree of difficulty!

Posted by: LRob in OK at July 14, 2026 11:22 PM (Jr+re)

I'm not on the ground, or floor, every day, but those days when I have to get down there once, it's usually several times.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 14, 2026 11:25 PM (1z8ji)

267 255 Nemo

Yes, a brilliant scene.

Posted by: mnw at July 14, 2026 11:26 PM (RCjYY)

268 I did not have a harness in the car or on a leash as a child. Pretty weird the leash was good for a 10yr old! My sons would have bit through the leash like little pit bulls. What on earth?

Instead I had an ejector car seat with a plastic steering wheel. I also used to stand in the back of my mother's red Pontiac convertible and at stop lights warn others that my mother was driving and to get out of the way (I was said to be 2yrs old). My parents did not care if I was ejected.

My husband (same age) was a wicked toddler who would rock his crib to the dresser and climb down and apparently wake everyone. There was some sort of straight jacket for toddler's cribs and his horrible parents used one on him. In spite of them he's the best of the litter in all ways.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 14, 2026 11:26 PM (hzuYO)

269 Get yourself on your hands and knees. Pick one leg, whichever is your stronger and better balance leg and move from your knee to your foot. Put the hand on the side of that leg on your knee and support yourself with your foot and the opposite hand that is still on the floor. Then move your other leg from your knee to your foot so now you are crouching on both feet. Then stand up.

Practice that a few times a day until it become second nature.
Posted by: JackStraw

Just tried this. Much easier than I thought it would be!

THANK YOU, JackStraw!!!

Posted by: JQ at July 14, 2026 11:27 PM (rdVOm)

270 That lovely girl shows you do not need bodacious ta-ta's to be gorgeous and equally how personality goes a much longer way than many will admit

Posted by: ... at July 14, 2026 11:27 PM (vE0+H)

271 I'm not on the ground, or floor, every day, but those days when I have to get down there once, it's usually several times.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

When she is, how you say, in the mood, it is a trial, no?

Posted by: Paolo at July 14, 2026 11:27 PM (VHUov)

272 Calf cramp so strong I can barely straighten it out; need to apply full weight on heel, sometimes requires a bit of bouncing to accomplish. Fortunately, these happen rarely.
Posted by: JQ

Magnesium oil

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 14, 2026 11:27 PM (D5/Cc)

273 Good evening, Horde. Thanks for the ONT, Disco.

Posted by: scampydog at July 14, 2026 11:28 PM (41CYW)

274
Meh.

Maybe when they're done celebrating their underwhelming, symbolic little jailbreak they can all go ahead and ritualistically burn themselves in a nationwide auto-da-fé as an act of contrition for their excesses in the Vendeé.

Might as well celebrate the salient point of the Revolution, after all.

They can go ahead and fuel the pyre with all existing copies of the sheet music for the Marsellaise, for good measure. Their subsequent insults against and G-d and man alike in the modern era and their pitiful submission to Islam warrant the execration of their national memory.

*spits*

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 14, 2026 11:28 PM (BI5O2)

275 The growing trend on youtube is younger generation know-it-alls making fun of Generation X. There was one the other day where this nose ringed, long haired, eyebrow pierced genius was making fun of Generation X for being too stupid to have anything other than maps for directions. I got blocked for my comment:

"Hi there Mr. Pin Cushion. Let's have a history lesson. GPS was invented by the Dept. of Defense in...(drum roll)...1973 by everyone's favorite, Generation X. We did so with your generation in mind. You guys have a tendency to get lost coming up the basement stairs to get to you parent's kitchen. Generation X, also, invented child-proof bottle tops with your generation in mind. Although, for entertainment purposes, we didn't put them on the Tide Pod containers. We wanted to see what your generation would do. You didn't disappoint.

Posted by: Orson at July 14, 2026 11:29 PM (dIske)

276 >>A cool thing when we took road trips was stopping somewhere to have a picnic. Parents did not have the money to stop and eat at a restaurant. There weren't fast food places back in the olden days.

We always did that. It wasn't just a money thing, we loved it. Rest areas used to be a lot nicer and we would drive to places like the Adirondacks or the coast for family trips. The whole point was to be outside and see the area. We would look for a place with a nice view and stop and have a picnic lunch. It was part of the trip.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 14, 2026 11:29 PM (viF8m)

277 "Alors Massu. Toujours con?"
Posted by: mnw at July 14, 2026 11:24 PM (RCjYY)

Quelle connerie! That’s a word that the French a lot more than we English speakers do with the equivalent English word. They use it so much that it’s no more offensive than saying $h!t in English.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 14, 2026 11:30 PM (ZVgZ4)

278 1968 Firebird. My first car. Got it in 1973. Loved that car. (It had seat belts). Didn't like the color so I had it painted candy apple red. Kept it for five years. My oldest brother bought it from me. So I upgraded to a 1975 red Firebird. Lot of good times back then. But you get older and worry a lot more and life gets more serious. Fun gets put on back burner.

Posted by: Case at July 14, 2026 11:31 PM (IY9No)

279 I have slept on the floor for decades. I just can't sleep in a bed. I get daily practice getting up off the floor.

Posted by: 496 at July 14, 2026 11:31 PM (Ehi8B)

280 "Alors Massu. Toujours con?"
Posted by: mnw at July 14, 2026 11:24 PM (RCjYY)

C’est drole! 😁 (I don’t know how to put the accent circumflex over the o). Je suis technologically challenged.

Posted by: TxAnn at July 14, 2026 11:32 PM (SjAWL)

281 Chicks dig scars?

Posted by: mikeski at July 14, 2026 11:25 PM (VHUov)

Not really. When we were dating and Pooky told me that he had a burn mark on his backside from falling asleep too close to a space heater when he was three, I should've taken that as my cue to run.

Posted by: pookysgirl failed her Wisdom check there at July 14, 2026 11:32 PM (cibwl)

282 >>THANK YOU, JackStraw!!!

You're very welcome but don't thank me. Thank my awesome PT guy. My parts don't bend like they used to and he showed me that and it made it so much easier.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 14, 2026 11:32 PM (viF8m)

283 ô

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 14, 2026 11:32 PM (BI5O2)

284 Posted by: Orson at July 14, 2026 11:29 PM (dIske)

Awesome response. +1

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 14, 2026 11:33 PM (wVcYX)

285 It used to be safe to pull over where there were picnic tables to picnic and kids could run around.

Many rest stops along the highways are still very nice and seem safe. Others not so much. A couple of years ago I happened to be driving east from El Paso on I10 and the sun came up in an absolutely beautiful sunrise in the middle of nowhere in Texas just as I came upon a rest stop. I pulled over and the ground was covered in trash. I quickly got my photo and left, a little worried about running over something that might puncture a tire.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 14, 2026 11:33 PM (kYmoU)

286 I got blocked for my comment:

"Hi there Mr. Pin Cushion. Let's have a history lesson. GPS was invented by the Dept. of Defense in...(drum roll)...1973 by everyone's favorite, Generation X.

See, you got blocked for saying "by" rather than "during."

Unless GPS was invented by an eight-year-old.

Posted by: mikeski of Generation X at July 14, 2026 11:33 PM (VHUov)

287 Evenin’, again, All.

Posted by: Bulg at July 14, 2026 11:34 PM (77rzZ)

288 Posted by: pookysgirl failed her Wisdom check there

I laughed!

Posted by: mikeski at July 14, 2026 11:34 PM (VHUov)

289 Gotta quit for the evening. Thanks again for the ONT, Doof and thanks to all the horde for entertainment and knowledge!

Posted by: LRob in OK at July 14, 2026 11:35 PM (Jr+re)

290 Wake up calf crap or anytime. Sciatic nerve.
Isometric exercise. Visualize and do. Pull the navel to the spine as close as possible, tighten, hold for 10. Repeat ten times. Do it before arising in the morning. It also helps to draw the knees up before beginning. Do it while driving. While walking is advanced.

While driving hold the wheel at 3 & 9 pressing hands toward each other then do the isometric.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 14, 2026 11:35 PM (J7HCx)

291 Thanks Jack Straw, that was more or less how I got back up. Good to know I’m doing it right.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 14, 2026 11:36 PM (ZVgZ4)

292 280 TxAnn

I don't either. I can't even put the little accent mark in Spanish.

Please don't explain how to do it, Horde. Like trying to teach a pig to sing.

Posted by: mnw at July 14, 2026 11:36 PM (RCjYY)

293 I will never understand men's penchant for masochism.

Posted by: pookysgirl has been told that she's cute when she's angry at July 14, 2026 11:23 PM (cibwl)

So... I'm going to let you in on a little secret.

It's mostly not appropriate for men to talk about the things they really like and want to do so "beat me up mommy" works as something of a publicly acceptable substitute.

This is not to say that stuff doesn't exist, it quite obviously does. But I'm saying it may appear a little more widespread and common than real statistics would indicate, and that's my guess why.

Posted by: ... at July 14, 2026 11:36 PM (vE0+H)

294 "There was some sort of straight jacket for toddler's cribs and his horrible parents used one on him."

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My younger brother was awful. My folks used the harness but he kept busting out of it. They tried everything. Finally the pediatrician, with a slightly worried expression, said "I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think you need to secure a top on his crib." They basically made a cage. He's a great guy now though!

Posted by: 496 at July 14, 2026 11:36 PM (Ehi8B)

295 I suggested the "crib topper" (yes, it's a cage) for my escape artist daughter, but my wife was horrified, so I let it lie.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 14, 2026 11:39 PM (BI5O2)

296 Hello.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 14, 2026 11:39 PM (CHHv1)

297 >>They basically made a cage. He's a great guy now though!

Well he's just an excitable boy.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 14, 2026 11:40 PM (viF8m)

298 Hurts so good.
Sometimes love don't feel like it should.
You make it hurt so good.

Posted by: mnw at July 14, 2026 11:40 PM (RCjYY)

299 See, you got blocked for saying "by" rather than "during."

Unless GPS was invented by an eight-year-old.
Posted by: mikeski of Generation X at July 14, 2026 11:33 PM (VHUov)

________________________________

I'm generation x....I was stringing tennis racquets in a family owned pro shop since I was seven. I paid taxes...that makes me a contributor to the defense fund. I therebye make claim that Generation X was included in invention of GPS.

Posted by: Orson at July 14, 2026 11:41 PM (dIske)

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