Mid-Morning Art Thread

The rocks of Belle-Ile
Claude Monet

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 09:30 AM (2YhKe)

2 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at July 22, 2026 09:30 AM (drzUA)

3 Fuzzy wuzzy was a bear.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 09:30 AM (2YhKe)

4 Rocky

Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 09:30 AM (1g3xS)

5 Angry sea

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 22, 2026 09:30 AM (jehhT)

6 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 22, 2026 09:30 AM (ZANHd)

7 Bulg will be disappointed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 09:30 AM (2YhKe)

8 SPONGE!!!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 22, 2026 09:30 AM (ZANHd)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 09:31 AM (2YhKe)

9 Lovely. Thanks!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 22, 2026 09:31 AM (pOTTH)

10 Hey Sponge!

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 22, 2026 09:31 AM (5aQBy)

11 If you crash onto those rocks, they won't be a Beautiful Isle, I can tell ya that!
( -- Jonas Grumby)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2026 09:31 AM (wzUl9)

12 Purty
Would hang
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 09:31 AM (sMkB+)

13 No boobs. No dog. Not art.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 22, 2026 09:31 AM (SGXju)

14 Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 22, 2026 09:31 AM (5aQBy)

*hugs*

Survive the weather Ok?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 09:32 AM (2YhKe)

15 Rocks? More like blobs. This is the first Monet I have seen that I do not know what it is and do not care for.

Posted by: huerfano at July 22, 2026 09:32 AM (VJX5o)

16 I love Monet.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 22, 2026 09:33 AM (NpAcC)

17 7 Eh, no boobs, but it’s still better than the discussion on the last thread.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 09:33 AM (77rzZ)

18 *consults Google Maps*

Title checks out.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 22, 2026 09:33 AM (ZANHd)

19 The sea was angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at July 22, 2026 09:33 AM (2Ez/1)

20 My peeps!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 22, 2026 09:34 AM (wVcYX)

21 Theoretically I would love an ocean shore painting but IMHO this one is not well executed. It looks all blurry! Is that intentional on the part of the artist?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 22, 2026 09:34 AM (gZZCh)

22 16 I love Monet.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 22, 2026 09:33 AM

Be sure to count it.

Posted by: So sez a fellow commenter at July 22, 2026 09:34 AM (2Ez/1)

23 Who was angrier that day? The rocks or the ocean?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2026 09:35 AM (FZ29D)

24 For some reason "craggy" comes to mind when viewing today's offal. I don't even know what a crag is.

Posted by: Simple Tastes at July 22, 2026 09:35 AM (JM9I6)

25 Ah, Monet before he lost his eyesight completely!

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2026 09:35 AM (T2w7I)

26 Theoretically I would love an ocean shore painting but IMHO this one is not well executed. It looks all blurry! Is that intentional on the part of the artist?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 22, 2026

***
He hadn't gone to see the America's Best eyewear people about glasses yet.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2026 09:35 AM (wzUl9)

27 I should like this, but I just don’t care for Impressionism.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 09:36 AM (77rzZ)

28 Picture looks like a Grade B LSD trip. Buy the good stuff.

Posted by: Blue Boy at July 22, 2026 09:36 AM (JM9I6)

29 Western on TV. Print so scratched it looks like it's raining.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 22, 2026 09:36 AM (SGXju)

30 Lacks perspective.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2026 09:37 AM (JvZF+)

31 The middle rock looks like the head of a dead bison.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 22, 2026 09:37 AM (NpAcC)

32 That is weak

Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2026 09:37 AM (ccLZe)

33
No dog. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 22, 2026 09:37 AM (O0L8i)

34 We could have helped!

Posted by: Warby Parker! at July 22, 2026 09:37 AM (JM9I6)

35 B+

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 22, 2026 09:38 AM (tAI1y)

36
That is weak

Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2026 09:37 AM (ccLZe)

_____________

The rocks are weak? You're weak!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 22, 2026 09:38 AM (O0L8i)

37 I don’t even know what a crag is.

You’re just bluffing about that.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 09:38 AM (77rzZ)

38
Eh, no boobs, but it’s still better than the discussion on the last thread.
Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 09:33 AM (77rzZ)

Do you think those rocks are collecting SS or on Medicare yet?

Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2026 09:38 AM (iJfKG)

39 Gerbils tunnel through those rocks.

Posted by: Uniting The Threads at July 22, 2026 09:39 AM (JM9I6)

40 *hugs*

Survive the weather Ok?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 09:32 AM (2YhKe)
___

I pretty much stayed indoors, sucking up the A/C.

Will be out and about today though, since it's much cooler and less humid. Only low 80s today.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 22, 2026 09:40 AM (5aQBy)

41 Sorry, unimpressed.

Posted by: davidt at July 22, 2026 09:40 AM (Q+gd/)

42
Not a lot you can say about this kind of painting.

...

...

Did monet throw any dead bodies off these cliffs?

Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2026 09:40 AM (iJfKG)

43 Very blotchy

when Impressionists just phone it in

Posted by: Don Black at July 22, 2026 09:40 AM (ZxPkt)

44 I love Monet.
Posted by: redridinghood

Monet for nothing, chicks for free

Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 09:41 AM (1g3xS)

45 Pass on this one. It does not rock.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 22, 2026 09:41 AM (sl73Y)

46 I think he mailed it in.

"You said you'd have this done in a week!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 09:41 AM (2YhKe)

47 I don’t even know what a crag is.

You’re just bluffing about that.
Posted by: Bulg

Pining for the fjords.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 09:43 AM (1g3xS)

48 39 Gerbils tunnel through those rocks.
Posted by: Uniting The Threads at July 22, 2026 09:39 AM

We won't take it for granite.

Posted by: Oh, no... at July 22, 2026 09:43 AM (2Ez/1)

49 Phoned, mailed.......whatever.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 09:43 AM (2YhKe)

50 I think he mailed it in.

"You said you'd have this done in a week!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 09:41 AM (2YhKe)

I know I've made some very poor paintings recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the artwork.

Posted by: Claude Monet at July 22, 2026 09:44 AM (wVcYX)

51 The rocks look gneiss.

Posted by: Groan at July 22, 2026 09:45 AM (2Ez/1)

52 The rocks look gneiss.

I don’t give a schist.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 09:46 AM (77rzZ)

53 Rock on!!

Posted by: dantesed at July 22, 2026 09:46 AM (Oy/m2)

54 I love Monet.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 22, 2026 09:33 AM

Be sure to count it.
Posted by: So sez a fellow commenter
__________

Fun fact: Tommy James got "Mony Mony" from a Mutual of New York sign that had a dollar sign in the O.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 22, 2026 09:47 AM (XvL8K)

55 I'm sittin' on the rock of the bay
Watching the tide roll away
Ooh, I'm just sittin' on the rock of the bay
Wastin' time

*scritch*

No, no, that's not quite it. Hmmm. *ponders*

Posted by: Otis Redding at July 22, 2026 09:49 AM (wVcYX)

56
Fun fact: Tommy James got "Mony Mony" from a Mutual of New York sign that had a dollar sign in the O.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 22, 2026 09:47 AM (XvL8K)

They're just pissed off Billy Idol did it better.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 09:50 AM (2YhKe)

57 Think this would be interesting to see in person but wouldn't hang.

It's blurry rocks and blurry sea - doesn't spark the imagination the way some other impressionist painting do, such as Child Hassam's coastal NE paintings.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2026 09:50 AM (X8xt3)

58 Well, this didn't work. I know he's famous, but I don't think it was for this one.

Posted by: t-bird at July 22, 2026 09:51 AM (vhFJq)

59 Don't want no hostile suburbanites on my Belle Isle

Posted by: Zombie Mayor Coleman Young at July 22, 2026 09:51 AM (6iwAu)

60 We won't take it for granite.
Posted by: Oh, no...

Let's all be gneiss and end this now.

Posted by: Boulder Dash! at July 22, 2026 09:53 AM (JM9I6)

61 The middle rock looks like the head of a dead bison.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 22, 2026

***
The one just to the right of center? It does. Or like a hairy monster, say King Kong, about to encircle and seize the blog just ahead of it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2026 09:53 AM (wzUl9)

62 I see a bear.

Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026 09:54 AM (MWfyi)

63 >>We won't take it for granite.

>>Let's all be gneiss and end this now.

Yeah, hard to lava the rock puns!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2026 09:54 AM (X8xt3)

64 Rocks? Looks more like a low-budget mutant blob monster.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 22, 2026 09:54 AM (rlne1)

65 I thought this looked like forest on the cliffs, not rocks.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2026 09:54 AM (wzUl9)

66 Hey! That's where I proposed to the wife!

Posted by: Henny Youngman at July 22, 2026 09:54 AM (IWfdg)

67 Are you ready to rock?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 09:54 AM (sKqQm)

68 They're just pissed off Billy Idol did it better.
Posted by: Sponge
__________

But he wasn't sporting a cool Nehru jacket.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 22, 2026 09:55 AM (XvL8K)

69 I see a bear.
Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026

***
What's ursine?
(-- overheard in bars in the '70s)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2026 09:55 AM (wzUl9)

70 60 We won't take it for granite.
Posted by: Oh, no...

Let's all be gneiss and end this now.
Posted by: Boulder Dash! at July 22, 2026 09:53 AM

It's lava at first sight.

Posted by: Ugh at July 22, 2026 09:55 AM (2Ez/1)

71 "No Diving"

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 22, 2026 09:56 AM (jehhT)

72 68 Where’s the Casbah?

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 09:56 AM (77rzZ)

73 It looks like it is pouncing on the remains of Timothy Treadwell.

Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026 09:56 AM (MWfyi)

74 It's no White Cliffs of Dover.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 22, 2026 09:56 AM (wVcYX)

75 >>I know I've made some very poor paintings recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the artwork.

Who said painting was easy monet?
He was working hard for the cash, yo!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2026 09:56 AM (X8xt3)

76 gerbil's you say?

Posted by: richard gere at July 22, 2026 09:56 AM (R11M+)

77 I really like the way Monet caught the texture of rock and water. The color choices making them up is interesting. The dark, supposedly immovable, rock contrasts with the lighter, fluid water but both have elements of each other. Light marks in the rock and darker in the water. The brush work adds to the differences, straight for the rock versus curved for the water. It's like there is a connection between them even as they are at war. The sky at the top is almost incidental. It is literally above the conflict.

In many ways I'm more intrigued by the technique than the scene. Seeing it in person would be interesting.

Posted by: JTB at July 22, 2026 09:56 AM (yTvNw)

78 For those who came to rock

I salute you!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2026 09:56 AM (X8xt3)

79 Is this supposed to be good? It looks like it was painted with a sponge.

Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026 09:57 AM (MWfyi)

80 Hadrian Claude mailed that in
Throw some blotchy paint on a canvis and call it a sea scape

Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2026 09:57 AM (ccLZe)

81 Ross and Alexander could paint something much more attractive in a little more than 20 minutes.

Posted by: Happy Bush at July 22, 2026 09:57 AM (JM9I6)

82 And that Morty.
I'll tell you, that old guy's full of life.
He was convinced Monet was nearsighted. - The close talker from Seinfeld

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 22, 2026 09:58 AM (cq1gA)

83 Is this supposed to be good? It looks like it was painted with a sponge.
Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026 09:57 AM (MWfyi)

Shouldn't it say 'first' somewhere then?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2026 09:58 AM (ExV1e)

84 63 >>We won't take it for granite.

>>Let's all be gneiss and end this now.

Yeah, hard to lava the rock puns!
Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2026 09:54 AM

>Looks like we've hit rock bottom.

Posted by: But keep digging at July 22, 2026 09:58 AM (2Ez/1)

85 " I really like the way Monet caught the texture of rock and water. "

*cleans glasses*

*looks again*

*makes appointment with optometrist*

Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026 09:58 AM (MWfyi)

86 >>>Looks like we've hit rock bottom.

Miner point: not all of us have!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2026 09:59 AM (X8xt3)

87 What's Up, Chuck? - a limerick

There once was a lad from Belle Isle
Who was swallowed by a river crocodile
The outcome was in question
'Til the croc got indigestion
Then we knew he'd be back in a while

Posted by: muldoon at July 22, 2026 09:59 AM (I0N4X)

88 Looks like a good spot for teens to gather discretely and watch the submarine races.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 22, 2026 10:00 AM (wVcYX)

89 I like it... But I'm a fan of the French Impressionists...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 22, 2026 10:00 AM (FtULh)

90 Some of these rock puns are pretty igneousnious.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 10:00 AM (77rzZ)

91 87 What's Up, Chuck? - a limerick
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User safety tip: avoid the lettuce.

Posted by: It's explosive at July 22, 2026 10:01 AM (2Ez/1)

92 Looks like it was painted with Bob Ross' Afro.

Posted by: Pubic Television at July 22, 2026 10:01 AM (JM9I6)

93 All artist Claudes are good.

Posted by: Oglebay at July 22, 2026 10:01 AM (2ap+5)

94 >>Some of these rock puns are pretty igneousnious.

Shale we continue?

Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2026 10:02 AM (X8xt3)

95 84 that's so igneous it's aggregating.

Posted by: cmeat at July 22, 2026 10:02 AM (R11M+)

96 Rock puns are Bio-Tite!

Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026 10:02 AM (MWfyi)

97 Is it true that Impressionists favorite song is "Monet, Monet"?

Asking for the dog and 'happy little bush' fans amongst us.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 22, 2026 10:02 AM (0sNs1)

98 Out: This city was built on rock and roll

In: This coastline was built on rock and...rock.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 10:03 AM (sKqQm)

99 90 Some of these rock puns are pretty igneousnious.
Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 10:00 AM

Wonder what's slated for tomorrow...

Posted by: Make it stop! at July 22, 2026 10:03 AM (2Ez/1)

100 87it's the stuff i have occassion to wipe off of my boots from time to time.

Posted by: cmeat at July 22, 2026 10:03 AM (R11M+)

101 Claude was an old barber in my hometown who worked at the County Seat Barber Shop.

Posted by: No Artist, Either at July 22, 2026 10:03 AM (JM9I6)

102 I love Monet.

Hey, me too! We should go to Starbucks!

Posted by: Frito Pendejo at July 22, 2026 10:04 AM (sKqQm)

103 No one would call this painting gorge-ous.
Not peak Monet.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2026 10:04 AM (X8xt3)

104 So I'm reading the most amusing thread I have in a while.

The topic is about ICE killing the illegal that tried to run them down and someone brough up Killdozer and the lefties are trying to come up with a reason why shooting him was (D)ifferent and...failing.

Posted by: Frito Pendejo at July 22, 2026 10:05 AM (sKqQm)

105 "50 I think he mailed it in."
+++

This was during my sedimentary phase.

Posted by: Monet at July 22, 2026 10:06 AM (2Ez/1)

106 ". . . I got a rock."

Posted by: Charlie Brown on Halloween at July 22, 2026 10:06 AM (JCLJi)

107 I saw Bob Ross' Afro open for Leo Sayer in '75.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 22, 2026 10:06 AM (XvL8K)

108 I wonder how many quartz are in that ocean.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 10:06 AM (77rzZ)

109 Not being one of his better works, Monet considered this rock painting semi-precious.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2026 10:07 AM (X8xt3)

110 don't buy pears. buy two minus.

Posted by: cmeat at July 22, 2026 10:07 AM (R11M+)

111 >>The topic is about ICE killing the illegal that tried to run them down and someone brough up Killdozer and the lefties are trying to come up with a reason why shooting him was (D)ifferent and...failing.

LOVE it!!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2026 10:08 AM (X8xt3)

112 The orange in the sky complements the color of the sea, hence the glow.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 10:08 AM (v5XIn)

113 What's ursine?
(-- overheard in bars in the '70s)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2026 09:55 AM

Sorry, it's unlisted.

- heard in a Mel Brooks movie in the 70s.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 22, 2026 10:09 AM (ZANHd)

114 109 Not being one of his better works, Monet considered this rock painting semi-precious.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2026 10:07 AM

You have to marble at the beauty of it.

Posted by: Puh-leeze! at July 22, 2026 10:09 AM (2Ez/1)

115 104 i saw killdozer open for mastodon on goose island.
killdozer also classic big black.

Posted by: cmeat at July 22, 2026 10:09 AM (R11M+)

116 Some of these rock puns are pretty igneousnious.
You must be stoned.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 22, 2026 10:10 AM (tw5K6)

117 Not being one of his better works, Monet considered this rock painting semi-precious.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2026 10:07 AM (X8xt3)

Actually he said it was hard.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 10:10 AM (v5XIn)

118 Now we’ve gotta bear ursine puns, too?

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 10:10 AM (77rzZ)

119 >>You have to marble at the beauty of it.

. . . or make it the butte of the joke!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2026 10:10 AM (X8xt3)

120 107 oh, yeah- the richard simmons' special event.

Posted by: cmeat at July 22, 2026 10:11 AM (R11M+)

121 This painting is a classic.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 10:11 AM (v5XIn)

122 Where’s the Casbah?
Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 09:56 AM

Algiers. But that's not important right now.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 22, 2026 10:12 AM (ZANHd)

123 I admire the way he mixed the blues with the rock.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 10:12 AM (v5XIn)

124 I saw Low-Budget Mutant Blob Monster open for Janis Joplin in Fiddler's Green. in '83.

Posted by: muldoon at July 22, 2026 10:12 AM (I0N4X)

125 . . . or make it the butte of the joke!

Of quartz!

Posted by: Bum-tiss at July 22, 2026 10:13 AM (2Ez/1)

126 I admire the way he mixed the blues with the rock.
Posted by: ...

*********

Thanks, man

Posted by: Eric Clapto at July 22, 2026 10:13 AM (I0N4X)

127 Well, this doesn't sound good.

OpenAI Pauses Deployment of New Model Due to Repeated “Escapes”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 22, 2026 10:13 AM (ndZc7)

128 Speaking of gerbils . . .

White House Slams Richard Gere over USAID: “Slush Fund for Radical Left Activists … Funding Bull****”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 22, 2026 10:14 AM (ndZc7)

129 >>I admire the way he mixed the blues with the rock.

"A kindred spirit!"
-- Johnny Cash

Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2026 10:14 AM (X8xt3)

130 You just know Lizzy is going to die an old s-punster.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 10:15 AM (v5XIn)

131 126 ha.

Posted by: cmeat at July 22, 2026 10:15 AM (R11M+)

132 Mamdani’s Netanyahu Threats May Have Broken The Law, NY Rep Says

The Rep warned that Mamdani’s anti-Israel grandstanding crosses the line from political posturing into potential criminal misconduct.

In a scathing letter to the state’s top prosecutor, Democrat state Assembly Member Simcha Eichenstein warned that Mamdani’s anti-Israel grandstanding crosses the line from political posturing into potential criminal official misconduct.

https://tinyurl.com/45pp4d42

Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 10:15 AM (1g3xS)

133 Eric Clapto?

/truncated sock fail

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at July 22, 2026 10:15 AM (I0N4X)

134 Daily Mail headline: Family's heroic dog fights off bear that charged at 6-year-old boy in shocking video

*watches video*

lol, nope.

Bear was running away with the dog close on its ass when the two animals crossed the driveway where the little boy happened to be standing about 20 feet away.
The bear was not charging at the the little boy.

And I wouldn't call it a "fight" either. It was a single nip from behind by the dog to the bear's hindquarters and that was it.

Clickbait got me.

Posted by: one hour sober at July 22, 2026 10:15 AM (J4Dwc)

135 >>You just know Lizzy is going to die an old s-punster.

Hey now!!

OK, must stop procrastinating, have a great day!!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2026 10:16 AM (X8xt3)

136 223 I admire the way he mixed the blues with the rock.

Come see me.

Posted by: The Natchez Trace Parkway at July 22, 2026 10:17 AM (2Ez/1)

137 Clickbait got me.

Posted by: one hour sober at July 22, 2026 10:15 AM (J4Dwc)

The internet gradually evolved from thing that wastes a person's time into thing that intentionally wastes a person's time. I enjoyed it the first way so much more.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 10:17 AM (v5XIn)

138 NEW: MANPADS ALERT issued at LaGuardia Airport in NYC tonight amid reports of a man armed a PORTABLE ROCKET LAUNCHER at Terminal C

Incoming flights were warned to “USE EXTREME CAUTION” by Air Traffic Control

https://tinyurl.com/36mzr5td

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 22, 2026 10:17 AM (5aQBy)

139

{{{SMH}}}

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 10:19 AM (v5XIn)

140 I wanted to jump into the rock puns, but I guess it's slate.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at July 22, 2026 10:19 AM (w/O5Q)

141 135 we shale sea.

Posted by: cmeat at July 22, 2026 10:20 AM (R11M+)

142 There is no evodence of voter fraud by illegals.

Ok, there is some evidence but it is a minor problem. Bad, but not terrible.

Well, voter fraud committed by illegal coyers may be widespread but let me explain why it is a good thing...

https://tinyurl.com/53p26w9d

Posted by: Democrat Hacktivist Media at July 22, 2026 10:20 AM (HN+yX)

143 OK, can we talk about chicks now?

Clay Travis
@ClayTravis
Sophie Cunningham just became one of the first current American female pro athletes to come out against men playing in women’s sports in an @espn profile article. Good for her. Rock star. Many others should follow. She’s the anti-Megan Rapinoe.

-
They're calling her the MAGA Barbie. They think it's an insult.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 22, 2026 10:20 AM (ndZc7)

144 I wanted to jump into the rock puns, but I guess it's slate.
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at July 22, 2026 10:19 AM (w/O5Q)

It's never too slate...

Posted by: Boswell at July 22, 2026 10:20 AM (NTVPI)

145 Alga on rocks...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 22, 2026 10:21 AM (l3cgK)

146 it's no piece of cake, but i want my pyrite.

Posted by: cmeat at July 22, 2026 10:21 AM (R11M+)

147 Hey Ellipsis!

I'm just wondering how a commercial pilot avoids being hit with a missile while on approach to La Guardia.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 22, 2026 10:21 AM (5aQBy)

148 NEW: MANPADS ALERT issued at LaGuardia Airport in NYC tonight amid reports of a man armed a PORTABLE ROCKET LAUNCHER at Terminal C

Incoming flights were warned to “USE EXTREME CAUTION” by Air Traffic Control

https://tinyurl.com/36mzr5td
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy
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So TSA didn't have a problem with checking him through?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 22, 2026 10:22 AM (XvL8K)

149 144 I wanted to jump into the rock puns, but I guess it's slate.
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at July 22, 2026 10:19 AM (w/O5Q)

It's never too slate...
Posted by: Boswell at July 22, 2026 10:20 AM (NTVPI)

Agate what you're saying.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at July 22, 2026 10:22 AM (w/O5Q)

150 take the tide pool challenge.

Posted by: cmeat at July 22, 2026 10:23 AM (R11M+)

151 OK, can we talk about chicks now?

Clay Travis
@ClayTravis
Sophie Cunningham just became one of the first current American female pro athletes to come out against men playing in women’s sports in an @espn profile article. Good for her. Rock star. Many others should follow. She’s the anti-Megan Rapinoe.

They're calling her the MAGA Barbie. They think it's an insult.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

*Riley Gaines has entered the chat.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 10:23 AM (1g3xS)

152 149 my sediments exactly.

Posted by: cmeat at July 22, 2026 10:24 AM (R11M+)

153 a man armed a PORTABLE ROCKET LAUNCHER "

What kind of man? Don't they have a description of his shirt?

Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026 10:24 AM (MWfyi)

154 NEW: MANPADS ALERT issued at LaGuardia Airport in NYC tonight amid reports of a man armed a PORTABLE ROCKET LAUNCHER at Terminal C

Incoming flights were warned to “USE EXTREME CAUTION” by Air Traffic Control

https://tinyurl.com/36mzr5td
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy
_____________

So TSA didn't have a problem with checking him through?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

He's probably a goatfucker. They'll just wave them thru.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 10:24 AM (1g3xS)

155 Claude Monet --> Claude Hirst --> Clifton neighborhood of Cincy --> Allman Bros live at ludlow garage

Posted by: Oglebay at July 22, 2026 10:25 AM (2ap+5)

156 Guess airline pilots will have to learn combat takeoffs/landings.

The passengers will love those.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 22, 2026 10:25 AM (5aQBy)

157 a man armed a PORTABLE ROCKET LAUNCHER "

What kind of man? Don't they have a description of his shirt?
Posted by: fd

One that doesn't like bacon AND does like little boys.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 10:26 AM (1g3xS)

158 Speaking of rocks I have new respect for The Clash… Rock the Casbah was a diss of the Iranian mullahs!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 22, 2026 10:26 AM (+gA9j)

159 >It's never too slate...

Hurry before the thread metamorphs into something else.

Posted by: Bazinga at July 22, 2026 10:27 AM (2Ez/1)

160 If I’m gonna use a rock as a weapon, I’m gonna use a taltical basalt rifle.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 10:27 AM (77rzZ)

161 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
"My name is Dina Nina. Trans woman, live in poverty, and I want to legalize weed!" (Real campaign ad)

https://tinyurl.com/yc43nv6z

-
Video of butch tranny at link.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 22, 2026 10:28 AM (ndZc7)

162 138 NEW: MANPADS ALERT issued at LaGuardia Airport in NYC tonight amid reports of a man armed a PORTABLE ROCKET LAUNCHER at Terminal C
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I was wondering what happened to Bruce Cockburn

Posted by: Oglebay at July 22, 2026 10:28 AM (2ap+5)

163 Guess airline pilots will have to learn combat takeoffs/landings.

The passengers will love those.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy

Hit the end of the runway, pull the stick back, and go straight up for 50,000 feet.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 10:28 AM (1g3xS)

164 "Rock the Casbah was a diss of the Iranian mullahs!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt "

Sheikhs and Jews, living together!

Posted by: It's the End Times! at July 22, 2026 10:29 AM (MWfyi)

165 >Shale we continue?

Posted by: Lizzy
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I have a whole slate ready to go

Posted by: Don Black at July 22, 2026 10:29 AM (ZxPkt)

166
a man armed a PORTABLE ROCKET LAUNCHER "

What kind of man? Don't they have a description of his shirt?
Posted by: fd

And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 22, 2026 10:31 AM (Cqx++)

167 It wasn't me!

OpenAI says their system hacked into another AI company on its own 😬

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 22, 2026 10:32 AM (ndZc7)

168 Rolls Royce Engine Engineers:

Ok. We have to come up with after burners for our 777 engines. We need them by last week.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 10:32 AM (1g3xS)

169 I wanted to jump into the rock puns, but I guess it's slate.
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at July 22, 2026 10:19 AM (w/O5Q)

It's never too slate...
Posted by: Boswell

I marble at all these rock puns.

Posted by: Tuna at July 22, 2026 10:32 AM (lJ0H4)

170 Wasn’t Fred Flinstone’s boss a Mr Slate?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 22, 2026 10:36 AM (+gA9j)

171 a man armed a PORTABLE ROCKET LAUNCHER "

What kind of man? Don't they have a description of his shirt?
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He can't be a man because he doesn't smoke the same cigarettes as me...

Posted by: Mick J at July 22, 2026 10:36 AM (TN0g+)

172 Fred Flintstone worked for Mr. Slate.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 22, 2026 10:37 AM (Cqx++)

173 170 Yep.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 10:37 AM (77rzZ)

174 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Took some real stones to paint that picture.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 22, 2026 10:38 AM (2WIwB)

175 all these trannies running for office -- I thought we were erasing them, or running them down in the street and killing them, or something. Isn't that what they are constantly telling us?
If we are doing that, why are there so freaking many of them?

Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 22, 2026 10:39 AM (FGA9/)

176 So TSA didn't have a problem with checking him through?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

Pretty sure TSA does not have checkpoints located on the ramp outside the terminal buildings.

Posted by: one hour sober at July 22, 2026 10:41 AM (J4Dwc)

177 In a scathing letter to the state’s top prosecutor, Democrat state Assembly Member Simcha Eichenstein warned that Mamdani’s anti-Israel grandstanding crosses the line from political posturing into potential criminal official misconduct.

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Oh my a scathing letter!!!! Well that will surely stop Mamdani in his tracks.

BTW Simcha, why are you a member of a party whose official position is your extermination? Can’t fix stupid.

It’s hil

Posted by: Silliness at July 22, 2026 10:41 AM (GEtfQ)

178 172 Fred Flintstone worked for Mr. Slate.

In the town of Bedrock.

Posted by: Yabba Dabba at July 22, 2026 10:43 AM (2Ez/1)

179 Can y’all pumice not to make any more rock puns?

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 10:43 AM (77rzZ)

180 Hmm, its needs some leftist bodies strewn around the base of the rocks when TDS finally killed their will to live.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 22, 2026 10:43 AM (S41Gd)

181 Now I’ve got the Flintstones theme song in my head.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 10:44 AM (77rzZ)

182 The Sirens are gatherd on the cliffs
Their numbers growing hourly
The captain has set fire to the mast
And soon to follow any sanity.

The lunatics pretend to dance
I crawl into the hull
To await my fate
Tie myself to the mast

When you are hung on the rocks
Do you stand by your captain
Or go ashore with the natives

Posted by: Reforger at July 22, 2026 10:44 AM (PjoLk)

183 French Impressionists: the boy-bands of the art world.

Posted by: front toward enemy at July 22, 2026 10:45 AM (TIizU)

184 That is my least favorite Monet painting ever.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at July 22, 2026 10:45 AM (wGerL)

185 If you must eat fruits and vegetables, stock to the hydroponics

Posted by: Oglebay at July 22, 2026 10:45 AM (l6UsA)

186 We are proud to announce that Pete Mitchell has just joined us as a 777 pilot.

Posted by: United Airlines at July 22, 2026 10:47 AM (GEtfQ)

187 Fred Flintstone worked for Mr. Slate.

In the town of Bedrock.
Posted by: Yabba Dabba
____________

Twitch! Twitch!

Posted by: Rock Roll at July 22, 2026 10:47 AM (XvL8K)

188 OpenAI says their system hacked into another AI company on its own 😬

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 22, 2026 10:32 AM (ndZc7)

Isn't that conveeeenient

Posted by: The Church Lady at July 22, 2026 10:48 AM (v5XIn)

189 Good morning! This is nice, would definitely hang, but I like Monet.

Posted by: Piper at July 22, 2026 10:48 AM (hftzA)

190 184 That is my least favorite Monet painting ever.

Some say it's a total gem.

Posted by: Rock solid opinion at July 22, 2026 10:49 AM (2Ez/1)

191 That is my least favorite Monet painting ever.

Some say it's a total gem.
Posted by: Rock solid opinion

It's a diamond in the rough.

Posted by: Tuna at July 22, 2026 10:50 AM (lJ0H4)

192 I'm looking at a myrtle, shrouded in mist, and ladylike rain.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 22, 2026 10:50 AM (BI5O2)

193 Brit Lass granddad worked on Rolls Royce engine designs. Don't know how she didn't end up with that Royce Money

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 10:50 AM (v5XIn)

194 I would not think of these as rocks. I would lichen them to heaps of moss.

Posted by: And not the psycho Scientologist actress either at July 22, 2026 10:51 AM (TbWk/)

195 184 That is my least favorite Monet painting ever.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at July 22, 2026 10:45 AM

I think it rocks! Granite, some may have different opinions.

Posted by: Piper at July 22, 2026 10:51 AM (hftzA)

196 189 Good morning! This is nice, would definitely hang, but I like Monet.
Posted by: Piper at July 22, 2026 10:48 AM (hftzA)

I'm completely baroque, I have no Monet.

Posted by: Art puns! Getcher art puns! at July 22, 2026 10:53 AM (TbWk/)

197 The rain blew off the mist. It was nice while it lasted. For about 90 seconds.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 22, 2026 10:53 AM (BI5O2)

198 162 "some sonofabitch would die!"

Posted by: cmeat at July 22, 2026 10:53 AM (R11M+)

199 Greetin's, group. G'day, CBD.

The sky is nice. The sea is pretty. The "rocks" look like piles of spinach. Needs a dog. Or something.

Monet: What, this? It's just what I do when I don't care what I'm painting.

Mas cafe!

Posted by: mindful webworker - channeling Gloria Grahame at July 22, 2026 10:54 AM (M5tgA)

200 The "rocks" look like piles of spinach.

Worse: kale.

Posted by: SILENCE! I KALE YOOUUU!! at July 22, 2026 10:55 AM (TbWk/)

201 Scylla and Charybdis!

Posted by: m at July 22, 2026 10:56 AM (faghi)

202 Like most famous, or successful artists, Monet's "technique" was his, and his alone until other's copied it. Doing it first is what made him "famous."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 22, 2026 10:56 AM (jehhT)

203 Monet: What, this? It's just what I do when I don't care what I'm painting.

Perhaps you were stoned.

Posted by: Duuuude at July 22, 2026 10:57 AM (2Ez/1)

204 201 Scylla and Charybdis!
Posted by: m at July 22, 2026 10:56 AM (faghi)

My favorite box wine!

Posted by: Basic AWFL at July 22, 2026 10:57 AM (TbWk/)

205 77 I really like the way Monet caught the texture of rock and water. The color choices making them up is interesting. The dark, supposedly immovable, rock contrasts with the lighter, fluid water but both have elements of each other. Light marks in the rock and darker in the water. The brush work adds to the differences, straight for the rock versus curved for the water. It's like there is a connection between them even as they are at war. The sky at the top is almost incidental. It is literally above the conflict.

In many ways I'm more intrigued by the technique than the scene. Seeing it in person would be interesting.
Posted by: JTB at July 22, 2026 09:56 AM (yTvNw)

This was a very useful guide for me in observing the painting.

Posted by: m at July 22, 2026 10:57 AM (faghi)

206 I'm guessing Rocket Man jumped the fence and was hiding out on the tarmac.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 22, 2026 10:57 AM (gKWVE)

207 Disney cuts another 1000 jobs including several at ESPN. This is Disney's 3rd round of layoffs in 2026.

Lrn 2 Kode Bitches

Posted by: Thats A Shame at July 22, 2026 10:58 AM (GEtfQ)

208 "Charyb dis."

--your local street-smart thug

Posted by: m at July 22, 2026 10:58 AM (faghi)

209 My favorite box wine!
Posted by: Basic AWFL at July 22, 2026 10:57 AM

I'm right here in the cabinet!

Posted by: Box of cheap New Zealand Chardonnay at July 22, 2026 10:59 AM (2Ez/1)

210 Fun fact, my earliest ancestor in the new world was Alexander Le Borgne de Belle Isle. He was governor of Acadia. A less distant in time ancestor was William Baliles, a "doctor" and captain in the Union Army. A more relative in time but still distant cousin was Gerald Baliles, governor of Virginia.

Le Borgne was a prisoner of the English for a time, so he didn't travel to Louisiana. The family made it's way down the Appalachian chain all the way into north Georgia where my father met another royal line: the Bruces.

Likely none of that lineage is actually mine, as we don't track our family name from the mother as other more intelligent people are known to do.

Posted by: meh at July 22, 2026 11:00 AM (zZxsY)

211 206 I'm guessing Rocket Man jumped the fence and was hiding out on the tarmac.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 22, 2026 10:57 AM (gKWVE)

Saying now it wasn’t credible so no rocket man at all. But holy smokes what are we doing here! The pilot didn’t know what a manpad was. I am actually not sure why I do, now that I think about it.

Posted by: Piper at July 22, 2026 11:00 AM (Dd38x)

212 I guess it's out of view, in the painting, exactly where the ship set ground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle.

Posted by: m at July 22, 2026 11:00 AM (faghi)

213 212 I guess it's out of view, in the painting, exactly where the ship set ground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle.
Posted by: m at July 22, 2026 11:00 AM (faghi)

It was only a three-hour tour!

Posted by: USS Minnow at July 22, 2026 11:02 AM (TbWk/)

214 207 Disney cuts another 1000 jobs including several at ESPN. This is Disney's 3rd round of layoffs in 2026.

Lrn 2 Kode Bitches
Posted by: Thats A Shame at July 22, 2026 10:58 AM (GEtfQ)
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Just a matter of time before Goofy is found homeless, living on the mean streets.

Posted by: WisRich at July 22, 2026 11:03 AM (G0vdT)

215 Andy Biggus Dickus is the Republican nominee for AZ Gov.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 22, 2026 11:03 AM (gKWVE)

216 Rant up

Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 11:03 AM (1g3xS)

217 187 flintstone flop.

Posted by: cmeat at July 22, 2026 11:05 AM (R11M+)

218 >>I'm guessing Rocket Man jumped the fence and was hiding out on the tarmac.

There was no Rocket Man. The report was deemed non-credible.

What's somewhat alarming to me is that apparently neither pilot knew what a MANPAD alert is. ALPA has periodically addressed the threat from MANPADs for a few decades now.

Posted by: one hour sober at July 22, 2026 11:06 AM (J4Dwc)

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