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Thursday 7/23/26 ONT in the Doghouse [Hour of the Wolf]
Source: Charles M. Schulz Museum
People have conflicting theories. Literal Origins: The Doghouse as a Symbol of Disfavor
The term “doghouse” has been part of the English language since at least the mid-1500s, referring to a shelter for dogs. In the late 19th century, the term evolved to describe the backyard structure for a single dog. The figurative use of “in the doghouse,” meaning to be in temporary disgrace, emerged by 1932.Earliest Printed Record: Winsor McCay’s Comic Strip
The earliest known printed use of “in the doghouse” in its idiomatic sense appears in Winsor McCay’s comic strip Dream of the Rarebit Fiend between 1904 and 1905. This predates the 1926 glossary Criminalese by J.J. Finerty, which defines “in dog house” as “in disfavor.Maritime Theory: Sailors’ Punishment Quarters
Another theory suggests that the idiom originated in the 19th century when sailors slept in small huts on a ship’s deck, referred to as “dog houses.” Punished sailors were made to sleep in these cramped, uncomfortable spaces, leading to the association of “being in the doghouse” with being in trouble.Source, and some other theories: theidioms.com Today's Funnies
Two rabbits were being chased by a pack of hungry wolves. The wolves chased the rabbits into a thicket. After a few minutes, one rabbit turned to the other and said,
"Well, do you want to make a run for it, or should we stay here for a few days and out number them?"
She said it rang a bell, but she wasn't sure if it was there or not.
And one candidate I'm considering for 2028.
Today's Poll
Your opinion only, not your dog's, please. Mine is D.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)― Marilyn Monroe
Posted by: mindful webworker - man v beast at July 23, 2026 10:00 PM (M5tgA)
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at July 23, 2026 10:00 PM (B2pWp)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 10:00 PM (51ygH)
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 10:01 PM (vE0+H)
Do y'all even CARE about the Earth and climate change??
I'm so outta here.
Posted by: Al Gore at July 23, 2026 10:02 PM (JLqL/)
Posted by: Al Gore at July 23, 2026 10:02 PM (JLqL/)
https://youtu.be/Twivg7GkYts
Posted by: mindful webworker - true story at July 23, 2026 10:02 PM (M5tgA)
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 10:03 PM (Dd38x)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 23, 2026 10:03 PM (2WIwB)
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Posted by: mikeski at July 23, 2026 10:03 PM (VHUov)
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Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 23, 2026 10:04 PM (syz1S)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 23, 2026 10:04 PM (ok2JK)
Posted by: Safe at Home OrangeEnt at July 23, 2026 10:04 PM (1Ff7Z)
I seem to have missed all the Snoopy things today
Posted by: Don Black at July 23, 2026 10:04 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: scampydog at July 23, 2026 10:05 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 23, 2026 10:05 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Piper
I'm not sure it's a whole genre. Seems to be just the one band.
Or two, if you count Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr.
Posted by: mikeski at July 23, 2026 10:05 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 10:06 PM (oUopv)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 23, 2026 10:06 PM (BI5O2)
Oh that's right. It turns out you can just say things.
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 10:06 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 23, 2026 10:04
Whatever could you be referring to? We have never seen this ONT! Not at all! Ever! Especially on a Tuesday!
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 10:06 PM (Dd38x)
Posted by: lin-duh at July 23, 2026 10:06 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: scampydog at July 23, 2026 10:05 PM (41CYW)
You're welcome. I tried to include something for everyone, but missed Robert the Cat.
Hopefully Piper and Bulg both enjoy the yoga video....
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 23, 2026 10:07 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Piper
I'm not sure it's a whole genre. Seems to be just the one band.
Or two, if you count Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr.
Posted by: mikeski
The Royal Guardsmen
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 10:07 PM (oUopv)
Posted by: mikeski at July 23, 2026 10:07 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 10:03 PM (Dd38x)
Hour of the Wolf bringing good content! You might have some competition for Doof Enterprises employee of the month.
Posted by: Doof at July 23, 2026 10:07 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Derak at July 23, 2026 10:07 PM (bixZP)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 23, 2026 10:08 PM (D/6p1)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 23, 2026 10:08 PM (ok2JK)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 23, 2026 10:08 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Piper
Dounds like there's a two day delay in the afterlife. Since this is Thursday.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 10:08 PM (oUopv)
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 10:03 PM (Dd38x)
Vince Guaraldi Trio
https://tinyurl.com/387hspk8
https://tinyurl.com/bd6zuch5
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at July 23, 2026 10:08 PM (w/O5Q)
Posted by: mindful webworker - life is like a box of melted chocolates at July 23, 2026 10:08 PM (M5tgA)
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 10:08 PM (Dd38x)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 23, 2026 10:04
Whatever could you be referring to? We have never seen this ONT! Not at all! Ever! Especially on a Tuesday!
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 10:06 PM (Dd38x)
It sounds like Piper got snoopy earlier this week.
If she's Snoopy, what does that make J? Woodstock, Charlie Brown, or Linus?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 23, 2026 10:08 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Chocoholic at July 23, 2026 10:10 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Born Free at July 23, 2026 10:10 PM (raD1m)
Posted by: t-bird at July 23, 2026 10:10 PM (oSFyF)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 23, 2026 10:10 PM (WL2lA)
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 23, 2026 10:10 PM (ftFVW)
Now I want to watch The Blue Max.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 23, 2026 10:10 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 23, 2026 10:10 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 23, 2026 10:11 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Ducks for Trump at July 23, 2026 10:11 PM (oq9dX)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 23, 2026 10:11 PM (D/6p1)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 23, 2026 10:11 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 23, 2026 10:11 PM (ok2JK)
Posted by: 496 at July 23, 2026 10:11 PM (sOtuf)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 23, 2026 10:11 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: mnw at July 23, 2026 10:12 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 10:12 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 23, 2026 10:12 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: huerfano at July 23, 2026 10:12 PM (VJX5o)
Posted by: wth at July 23, 2026 10:13 PM (oq9dX)
Posted by: huerfano at July 23, 2026 10:13 PM (VJX5o)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 23, 2026 10:13 PM (ExV1e)
It is 9 fucking 13
will someone rid me of these beast
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 10:13 PM (/+uur)
Well, hey, I know how we can fix this sort of thing before it gets to shooting...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2026 10:14 PM (sKqQm)
Bite into the expensive chocolate, get a mouthful of sawdust. Bleh.
Posted by: mikeski
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::fistbump::
Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 10:14 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Case at July 23, 2026 10:14 PM (bqIVz)
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 23, 2026 10:15 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: davidt at July 23, 2026 10:15 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Big Porker at July 23, 2026 10:15 PM (0jsOz)
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 10:15 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: From about That Time at July 23, 2026 10:15 PM (a89qc)
It sounds like Piper got snoopy earlier this week.
If she's Snoopy, what does that make J? Woodstock, Charlie Brown, or Linus?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 23, 2026 10:08 PM (qx7Zg
Oh gosh, definitely not Charlie Brown. Hmmm. I don’t know that he fits a character, really.
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 10:16 PM (Dd38x)
Posted by: 496 at July 23, 2026 10:11 PM (sOtuf)
You definitely didn't see it on Tuesday when I was copy/pasting content into the thread builder and accidentally pasted it over my own live thread. Nope - definitely not.
Posted by: Doof at July 23, 2026 10:16 PM (QMAsf)
Now I want to watch The Blue Max.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 23, 2026 10:10 PM (2WIwB)
Flyboys... may go watch it.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 23, 2026 10:16 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 23, 2026 10:16 PM (WL2lA)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 23, 2026 10:16 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 23, 2026 10:16 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: DPICM at July 23, 2026 10:17 PM (zweKz)
Posted by: mindful webworker
Oh so that's what the kids are calling it these days!
Posted by: Tonypete at July 23, 2026 10:17 PM (6x1Uq)
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 10:17 PM (/+uur)
And the shelter on a drilling rig where the driller's console and the geolograph are located, is called the doghouse. When I was working in the patch, my dog Pogo would climb all the stairs to the doghouse at mealtimes, and mooch off the crew. I had several toolpushers tell me, "you know, when your dog is on the lease, the crew are on their best behavior."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 10:17 PM (1z8ji)
I watched The Blue Max a long time ago. I thought it was really clunky, fwiw. It doesn't even give good Ursula Andres.
She's still alive at age 92, btw.
Posted by: mnw at July 23, 2026 10:17 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: huerfano at July 23, 2026 10:12 PM (VJX5o)
Over under on which pops first...
Los A earthquake, or Bay Area... we're due.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 23, 2026 10:18 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 23, 2026 10:18 PM (WL2lA)
Posted by: Barack Obama at July 23, 2026 10:18 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 23, 2026 10:18 PM (YoT4f)
Caramel
Toffee
are all inedible
Posted by: vmom
How can someone be exactly right and exactly wrong in the same post? Caramels are yum.
Posted by: mikeski at July 23, 2026 10:18 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at July 23, 2026 10:18 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: mnw at July 23, 2026 10:19 PM (RCjYY)
I do LOVE the dog who looks like Gregg Allman.
Cheers, y'all!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 23, 2026 10:19 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 23, 2026 10:19 PM (ok2JK)
The Apollo 10 crew named the command module Charlie Brown, and the lunar module Snoopy.
Snoopy was set off in a heliocentric orbit, where it was well, went on eternal patrol you might say. In 2019, some astronomers think they might have found it:
https://t.ly/Btvfm
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 23, 2026 10:19 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 23, 2026 10:20 PM (s2K/A)
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 23, 2026 10:16 PM (0Htd1)
It should have been built in Martha's Vineyard. It would have worked so well on a small island just offshore, with a big rotating light and a fog horn.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 23, 2026 10:20 PM (qx7Zg)
Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 10:20 PM (oUopv)
.......
Hey, it created one permanent job. Cobweb Guy.
Posted by: wth at July 23, 2026 10:20 PM (oq9dX)
The MaCoys
https://t.ly/obESo
Some pretty fine dancing there btw.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 23, 2026 10:20 PM (6x1Uq)
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 23, 2026 10:16 PM (0Htd1)
The Left's schtick is to try to destroy what is good.
So, they redefine beauty... they redefine what is a Man... they redefine what is a Woman...
They redefine right from wrong, good from evil...
Because if you cannot even define an actual problem, then you can't fix it.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 23, 2026 10:20 PM (mP0Kj)
She's still alive at age 92, btw.
Posted by: mnw at July 23, 2026 10:17 PM (RCjYY)
Ursula Andress made young Diogenes feel funny inside.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 23, 2026 10:20 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 10:21 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 10:21 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 10:22 PM (51ygH)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 23, 2026 10:23 PM (+9wcF)
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 10:23 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: Safe at Home OrangeEnt
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Prolly in the basement.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 10:23 PM (51ygH)
Posted by: Safe at Home OrangeEnt
You can get Russell Stover chocolates that are all creams. No nuts, and no toffee.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 23, 2026 10:23 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
It would be the world's ugliest lighthouse, and second place wouldn't be close.
It belongs on the island with the rest of Alcatraz.
Posted by: mikeski at July 23, 2026 10:23 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: TxAnn at July 23, 2026 10:23 PM (SjAWL)
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 23, 2026 10:16 PM (0Htd1)
No, it's meant to be an insult to anyone who gazes upon it. It intentionally defies critique. It is criticism itself. An entirely godless soulless structure. Leftists are very very bizarre people.
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 10:23 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 23, 2026 10:24 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 23, 2026 10:19 PM (ok2JK)
Where is he? I haven’t seen him on X either.
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 10:25 PM (Dd38x)
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 10:23 PM (vE0+H)
The Vogon poetry of architecture
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 23, 2026 10:25 PM (7gFa4)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 23, 2026 10:26 PM (YoT4f)
He got ran over
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 10:26 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 10:23 PM (vE0+H)
Calling it a Nazi flak tower is an insult to the architects of Nazi flak towers. They at least had some symmetry to them.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 10:26 PM (1z8ji)
Les was a cool guy. Taught me a lot.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 23, 2026 10:26 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: H at July 23, 2026 10:26 PM (27rXu)
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 10:27 PM (/+uur)
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22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American
Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute
shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive,
meaningless art."
--excerpt from the Congressional Record at:
ecjones.org/1963_Communist_Goals.pdf
Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 10:27 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 10:06 PM (Dd38x)
HA! Thanks for the heads up. I just went and read Tuesday's for a fresh one (to me).
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 23, 2026 10:27 PM (syz1S)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 23, 2026 10:19 PM (ok2JK)
Where is he? I haven’t seen him on X either.
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 10:25 PM (Dd38x)
I thought I saw him post once last night. Nothing out of the ordinary.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 23, 2026 10:27 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 10:25 PM (Dd38x)
He popped in here earlier today.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 10:27 PM (1z8ji)
PERFECT
(or should I say PREFECT)
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 10:27 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 23, 2026 10:27 PM (7gFa4)
Loud talking, fighting inside (grudges wait for Saturday afternoon), sitting with dirty pants on bunks, or failing to return pop bottles earns time in the DOG HOUSE.
"Any man don't keep order spends a night in....the DOG HOUSE."
Posted by: Orson at July 23, 2026 10:27 PM (dIske)
Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 10:28 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: huerfano
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Read somewhere that there are big faults all over TX but the deep clay is moist which lubricates the slide.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI3pne1IbWM
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 10:28 PM (51ygH)
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 10:28 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: wth at July 23, 2026 10:28 PM (oq9dX)
But Democrats are very concerned some "extremists" might be taking over
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 10:28 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 23, 2026 10:23 PM (0Htd1)
I like a Heath every once in a while. Toffee should be crunchy. I can see how it wouldn't work in a truffle shape.
Posted by: Safe at Home OrangeEnt at July 23, 2026 10:28 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at July 23, 2026 10:29 PM (MYQ7F)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI3pne1IbWM
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 10:28 PM (51ygH)
There are big faults everywhere, but only a small fraction are active. Some have not moved in a billion years.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 10:30 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Doof at July 23, 2026 10:16 PM (QMAsf)
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Your efforts, as always, are very much appreciated!
Posted by: 496 at July 23, 2026 10:30 PM (sOtuf)
Posted by: mikeski
Caramels are good if they are the soft, gooey kind.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 23, 2026 10:31 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at July 23, 2026 10:31 PM (QaH55)
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 10:28 PM
Yes.
Their *concern* is duly noted. LOL.
Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 10:31 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 23, 2026 10:32 PM (S41Gd)
Posted by: Don Black at July 23, 2026 10:33 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 23, 2026 10:34 PM (SwCxT)
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 10:34 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: huerfano at July 23, 2026 10:36 PM (VJX5o)
Posted by: President Emeritus! at July 23, 2026 10:36 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Don Black at July 23, 2026 10:36 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: From about That Time at July 23, 2026 10:37 PM (a89qc)
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 10:23 PM (vE0+H)
Calling it a Nazi flak tower is an insult to the architects of Nazi flak towers. They at least had some symmetry to them.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 10:26 PM (1z8ji)
It looks like buildings you see on planets in the video game . Nothing good comes out of those either.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 23, 2026 10:37 PM (S41Gd)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy6uLfermPU
Posted by: Reno_NV_Dave at July 23, 2026 10:37 PM (yXKEQ)
Posted by: Don Black at July 23, 2026 10:36 PM (ZxPkt)
Whitman Sampler used to have that.
Posted by: TxAnn at July 23, 2026 10:38 PM (SjAWL)
Posted by: VW Drivel at July 23, 2026 10:38 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 23, 2026 10:13 PM (ExV1e)
Inspector: Number five: Ram's Bladder Cup. (beat) Now, what sort of confectionery is that?
Mr. Hilton: Oh, we use only the finest juicy chunks of fresh Cornish Ram's bladder, emptied, steamed, flavoured with sesame seeds, whipped into a fondue, and garnished with lark's vomit.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 23, 2026 10:38 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 23, 2026 10:38 PM (S41Gd)
Definitely D
Posted by: Raymond Babbitt at July 23, 2026 10:38 PM (TTAGa)
Posted by: Don Black
The earthquake must have rearranged them.
Posted by: mikeski at July 23, 2026 10:38 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 10:38 PM (51ygH)
Carnegie did not force you to buy the books.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 10:39 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 23, 2026 10:39 PM (S41Gd)
Most likely the bear got hooked on meth and was trying to steal some copper to sell for scrap and feed his nasty habit far away from home so his neighbors wouldn't come looking to kick his ass when the power went out.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 23, 2026 10:39 PM (+9wcF)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 10:38 PM (51ygH)
Drugs are less addicting.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 23, 2026 10:40 PM (S41Gd)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 23, 2026 10:04
Whatever could you be referring to? We have never seen this ONT! Not at all! Ever! Especially on a Tuesday!
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 10:06 PM (Dd38x)
It sounds like Piper got snoopy earlier this week.
If she's Snoopy, what does that make J? Woodstock, Charlie Brown, or Linus?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 23, 2026 10:08 PM (qx7Zg)
I think we've got Charlie Brown covered, here on this blog already.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 23, 2026 10:40 PM (0CU3H)
Of that group, I can't say I have one that I disliked. The tequila one did make my eyes water a little, however.
Posted by: Orson at July 23, 2026 10:41 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 10:28 PM (51ygH)
There are big faults everywhere, but only a small fraction are active. Some have not moved in a billion years.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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You know what you did to cause the fault.
Posted by: Mother Earth at July 23, 2026 10:41 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 10:03 PM (Dd38x)
Hour of the Wolf bringing good content! You might have some competition for Doof Enterprises employee of the month.
Posted by: Doof at July 23, 2026 10:07 PM (QMAsf)
I am not giving him my parking spot.
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 10:41 PM (Dd38x)
Posted by: Safe at Home OrangeEnt
I don't normally like toffee, but I knew a woman who would make homemade chocolate covered toffee for Christmas gifts. It was incredible, you could tell that it was made with real butter. The flavor was just so much better than commercial stuff, like a Heath bar. If you like a Heath bar, you would love the homemade stuff.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 23, 2026 10:42 PM (0Htd1)
We got lost due to construction in Laramie trying to find their Chick-fil-A, and wound up on the campus of the University of Wyoming. We saw mule deer grazing on their practice football field, haha! We also saw the nicest parking garage I've ever seen on the edge of campus. It almost looked like a castle made of sandstone.
Posted by: pookysgirl will be sad to leave Wyoming at July 23, 2026 10:42 PM (DuDKq)
Most likely the bear got hooked on meth and was trying to steal some copper to sell for scrap and feed his nasty habit far away from home so his neighbors wouldn't come looking to kick his ass when the power went out.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 23, 2026 10:39 PM (+9wcF)
I thought that was an AI video
https://tinyurl.com/8tsz8rke
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at July 23, 2026 10:43 PM (w/O5Q)
Not nearly enough, not nearly enough.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 23, 2026 10:43 PM (kdtv/)
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 10:43 PM (/+uur)
My favorite piece of clothing in my whole young world!
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 23, 2026 10:44 PM (T2w7I)
Posted by: DPICM
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Dentists everywhere prefer toffee Good money maker for them--pulls fillings right out of the teeth.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 10:44 PM (E4rtv)
https://tinyurl.com/fs5jxev9
Posted by: Ex Rex Reede
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I don't think Hank did it that way.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 10:44 PM (51ygH)
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 10:41 PM (Dd38x)
I thought you had cats guarding it. For some reason, though, both dogs and cats seem to like me. It's people that give me trouble.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 23, 2026 10:45 PM (qx7Zg)
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Candy Coated Communism, part one million. Are you ready for this bs for the next two plus years?
So now commies invented libraries. What a fucking retard spouting retard shit, scripted specifically for the dumbest of retards among us to zombify within.
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 10:45 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: How To Make Friends at July 23, 2026 10:47 PM (JM9I6)
Here's one of the iconic Apollo 10, Snoopy photos:
https://t.ly/oXRZu
There's a story behind that. The gal there is Jayme Flowers (later Coplin), who was Gordon Cooper's secretary. She and Gene Cernan had a thing going on. Well, not *that* kind of thing, but they clowned around. Gene told her to give a him something and he'd carry it around the Moon for her as a souvenir.
So she got that giant stuffed Snoopy as a gag that that was she wanted him to carry along. The result was these photos, which occurred with Gene after Stafford in the above photo, from a Reddit thread:
https://t.ly/JlcEN
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 23, 2026 10:47 PM (w6EFb)
Dentists everywhere prefer toffee Good money maker for them--pulls fillings right out of the teeth.
Posted by: whig
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Jolly Rancher enters the chat.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 10:47 PM (51ygH)
I think it might have been MP4 (and if it wasn't, apologies to him) who said that Snoopy was the downfall of "Peanuts." And I've come to agree with that.
"Peanuts" was about how flawed characters dealt with their flaws, and how they became real by doing so. While Charlie Brown never won at anything, but it never dented his determination to continue. While he would despair over his outcomes, he would never allow his failures to consume him.
Snoopy, on the other hand, was a perpetual winner who was never disappointed and was admired by all. He was the breakout character for the strip, and it's certainly understandable that Schulz would capitalize on him.
I just never liked Snoopy that much after realizing that. Sorry.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 23, 2026 10:47 PM (CHHv1)
The sick thing is they want us to argue and set out our case for why they are wrong. They want us to burn brain cells and ink and pixels proving every angle about why they are wrong. As if they aren't already hyper aware of why they are wrong.
I will never forget when Romney made some proposal in 2012 during the election and Obama actually had the front to make a speech and lecture Romney that with a "government" program like what Romney was suggesting, the government doesn't pay for any of it. "The people do. The taxpayers."
They love doing this stuff. They love it.
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 10:47 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: huerfano at July 23, 2026 10:36 PM (VJX5o)
Pookette is struggling with the concept of Wyoming being filled with a whole lotta nothin'. I was gobsmacked that they water their hayfields here! Back in Iowa, the hayfields are mowed probably at least three times a year with no irrigation necessary.
Posted by: pookysgirl does not live in a desert at July 23, 2026 10:48 PM (DuDKq)
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 23, 2026 10:42 PM (0Htd1)
It's the preservatives and additives that make machine made taste less good than handmade.
Posted by: Safe at Home OrangeEnt at July 23, 2026 10:48 PM (1Ff7Z)
Your opinion only, not your dog's, please. Mine is D.
Totally the nasty coconut one. Roach poison.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at July 23, 2026 10:48 PM (QVmho)
Yeah, she changed the lock on my back door
Now my key, it won't fit no more
Move it on over
Rock it on over
Move over little dog, a big old dog is movin' in
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 23, 2026 10:48 PM (T2w7I)
Posted by: ...
Don't think ole Ben Franklin was a commie and he founded the Library Company of Philadelphia for books. Andrew Carnegie was a filthy capitalist but funded libraries across the US.
Commies prefer to burn books rather than build libraries stocking badthink books.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 10:49 PM (E4rtv)
Mamdani on the free lending library: a new idea that no-one could've imagined until recently
Except that Cosimo Medici established his free lending library circa 1450
Posted by: mnw at July 23, 2026 10:49 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 23, 2026 10:47 PM
Most beagles are very humble.
Posted by: huerfano at July 23, 2026 10:49 PM (VJX5o)
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 10:39 PM (/+uur)
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Actually, in a way they do. Most funds for public libraries come from county property taxes....which is a pet peave of mine. Public libraries should be all donations. I see it as something very similar to PBS and NPR. You could argue that it improves the quality of living in the area by offering potentially free education and resources. I would argue that it is a 1st world luxury.
Fire Companies is a non-starter. It is a public safety organization and a necessity. It is no different from a paved road in a philosophical sense.
Posted by: Orson at July 23, 2026 10:50 PM (dIske)
Posted by: LASue at July 23, 2026 10:50 PM (mFhj8)
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 10:44 PM (E4rtv)
My brother was eating a Black Cow (cousin of the Slo-Poke) back in the day and it literally pulled a filling out.
Posted by: TxAnn at July 23, 2026 10:50 PM (SjAWL)
Posted by: ...
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Celebrating satanically via lies and inversions of truth. Mick should have named his song, Sympathy for the Democrats.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 10:50 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
It's your animal magnetism, obviously.
Posted by: mikeski at July 23, 2026 10:50 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Frankie at July 23, 2026 10:50 PM (+z1Lr)
Posted by: pookysgirl does not live in a desert at July 23, 2026 10:48 PM (DuDKq)
When you drive across Wyoming at night, you don't see nothing out there, except Sinclair.
Posted by: Safe at Home OrangeEnt at July 23, 2026 10:51 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: polynikes at July 23, 2026 10:51 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 23, 2026 10:51 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: TxAnn
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Only thing better for dentists are Jolly Ranchers-guaranteed to glue teeth together when they don't break off chunks of a tooth.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 10:51 PM (E4rtv)
How you been. I got the sense today you were in worse pain than usual. Day ending in Y, I know. Anyway sending best wishes.
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 10:52 PM (vE0+H)
The average salary for a Library Director in Harris County, Texas is approximately $79,260 per year, with a typical pay range between $62,597 and $101,476 annually. Top earners can make up to $125,940.
hahahaha
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 10:52 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 10:53 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 23, 2026 10:53 PM (T2w7I)
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Candy Coated Communism, part one million. Are you ready for this bs for the next two plus years?
So now commies invented libraries. What a fucking retard spouting retard shit, scripted specifically for the dumbest of retards among us to zombify within.
Posted by: ... at July 23
Libraries, fire stations. It's called free associations, guaranteed in one of those early listings of constitutional things.
Don't think communists are big on this.
Posted by: From about That Time at July 23, 2026 10:53 PM (a89qc)
Posted by: polynikes at July 23, 2026 10:54 PM (KC5Lt)
And for terrible chocolates, the cherry cordial. Second worst is rasperry. To my taste bbuds, fruit and chocolate don't mix.
Posted by: buddhaha at July 23, 2026 10:54 PM (cBDov)
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 10:53 PM (vE0+H)
Commies built the sun. That's why it's red at the end of the day; it's disguise has burned off.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 23, 2026 10:54 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Tom Servo
Where is the Old Madrid fault?
*Oh grok. . . *
Posted by: Tonypete at July 23, 2026 10:55 PM (6x1Uq)
Posted by: r hennigantx
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But you know what he did? He built some architecturally beautiful buildings to house those books.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 10:55 PM (51ygH)
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 23, 2026 10:51 PM (0Htd1)
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That sounds nice, but it seems to me the alcohol would likely evaporate during cooking. The one's I got, they somehow figured out how to create a lining within the chocolate which sealed just short of a half of shot of pure goodness. The chocolate was pretty high quality as well. They didn't last long.
Posted by: Orson at July 23, 2026 10:55 PM (dIske)
Snoopy, on the other hand, was a perpetual winner who was never disappointed and was admired by all. He was the breakout character for the strip, and it's certainly understandable that Schulz would capitalize on him.
I just never liked Snoopy that much after realizing that. Sorry.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
If you did not add Snoopy into Peanuts for a little joy, the strip would have been equivalent to a Dostoevsky novel--Crime and Punishment.
Dogs bring a bit of joy and innocence even into the darkest hours of a human. So too did Snoopy as he gave heart to Charlie Brown to try again from demonstrating it is not a sin to be glad you are alive.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 10:56 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 10:56 PM (/+uur)
Most libraries were built by one of the biggest capitalists in history.
Posted by: polynikes at July 23, 2026 10:56 PM (KC5Lt)
The pronunciation of "Madrid" in New Madrid is different as well.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 23, 2026 10:56 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 23, 2026 10:57 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: whig
Jolly Rancher enters the chat.
Posted by: Braenyard
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Jolly Rancher and Molar Crown have left the chat.
Posted by: mikeski at July 23, 2026 10:57 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Orson at July 23, 2026 10:55 PM (dIske)
Another fine use for Flex-Seal!
Posted by: Phil Swift at July 23, 2026 10:58 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: polynikes at July 23, 2026 10:58 PM (KC5Lt)
Snoopy, on the other hand, was a perpetual winner who was never disappointed and was admired by all. He was the breakout character for the strip, and it's certainly understandable that Schulz would capitalize on him.
I just never liked Snoopy that much after realizing that. Sorry.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
Now do Curious George (the little shit). Destructive little asshole that was never held responsible for any of his theft, vandalism, and B&E.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 23, 2026 10:58 PM (6x1Uq)
Posted by: Piper
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I'm not sure it's a whole genre. Seems to be just the one band.
Or two, if you count Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr.
Posted by: mikeski
****
The Royal Guardsmen
Posted by: rickb223
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I'm sure that there are licensing issues involved with centering your music around a copyrighted character. Once the RG did the first song, no one else wanted to get in a negotiation.
Posted by: buddhaha at July 23, 2026 10:59 PM (cBDov)
Posted by: Tom Servo
Failed rift zone in the North American plate. Some argue that it is a dying fault, others do not. The huge amount of sediment in the Mississippi River Valley is what makes it so potent for destruction. Shakes like a bowl of jelly with liquefaction etc.
You can still see sand blows yards in diameters all through the Eastern part of Arkansas from the New Madrid fault. As a kid, I could remember occasionally farmers digging up logs of cypress that fell during the earthquakes and were buried under the muck after. Cypress is one of the few woods that does not rot much at all due to water exposure.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:00 PM (E4rtv)
A little bit rebellious but mostly free.
Being in the house means the house owns you.
On the house means you can survive.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 11:00 PM (/+uur)
Mining, research, forward staging.
Clean fusion, desalination, calorie independence.
Welfare, Medicaid, Balkinization, programmed racial and class-envy systemic destruction, intellectual capacity assassination, serfdom, slavery, genocide ona scale unimaginable...
Heinlein, you magnificent bastard. Bet you're glad you're dead...
Posted by: Just Sayin at July 23, 2026 11:01 PM (sgKnS)
The pronunciation of "Madrid" in New Madrid is different as well.
Posted by: publius
Right next to Cairo IL and also pronounced different than Cairo Egypt. Pronounced like the Karo syrup.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:01 PM (E4rtv)
I will indulge in some peanut M&Ms now and again, or a Payday bar.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 23, 2026 11:02 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: I gotta ask at July 23, 2026 11:02 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 23, 2026 10:54 PM (qx7Zg)
Nice
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 11:02 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: PabloD at July 23, 2026 11:02 PM (9eWA/)
Posted by: buddhaha
I will pray for you. No one is beyond help.
Posted by: The Crystal Cathedral. at July 23, 2026 11:02 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 23, 2026 11:03 PM (6x1Uq)
When the Medici family started lending their books out for free, printing had not been invented.
But the Medicis lent their books to scholars at no charge, so that they could be copied & studied. Copying by hand was the closest thing they had to printing back then.
And the Medicis were by no means Democratic Socialists.
Posted by: mnw at July 23, 2026 11:03 PM (RCjYY)
The average salary for a Library Director in Harris County, Texas is approximately $79,260 per year, with a typical pay range between $62,597 and $101,476 annually. Top earners can make up to $125,940.
hahahaha
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 10:52 PM (/+uur)
As a state employed slug, I make more than this. But I bet those folks work less than I do. Hell, I'd bet that any work they do is "work." I wonder what it would take to get hired on there.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 23, 2026 11:03 PM (gKT4z)
G is usually the one I try hardest to avoid. Though, anymore, any of them that are excessively sticky inside are not enjoyable. (Ummm, fudge is NEVER excessively sticky.)
Posted by: GWB at July 23, 2026 11:03 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
Blue hair and pushing pron and tranny books to kindergarteners.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 23, 2026 11:04 PM (6x1Uq)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
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Probably have to learn to direct homeless weirdos to the best fetish pron sites that the library's internet can reach.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:05 PM (E4rtv)
Most libraries were built by one of the biggest capitalists in history.
Posted by: polynikes at July 23, 2026 10:56 PM (KC5Lt)
you could feed the chillrens for the cost of the books
you could give the pregnant abortions
I hate people that tell millionaires and billionaires how to spend their money.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 11:05 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 10:41 PM (Dd38x)
I thought you had cats guarding it. For some reason, though, both dogs and cats seem to like me. It's people that give me trouble.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 23, 2026 10:45 PM
The cats are much better guards than Saijo. He is very much an every man for himself kinda guy.
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 11:05 PM (Dd38x)
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 23, 2026 11:05 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: PabloD
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I take it you don't like fruit in your cookies.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:06 PM (E4rtv)
Maybe not the *best* Ursula Andress, but certainly not *bad* Ursula Andsress.
Any naked Ursula Andress is good Ursula Andress.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 23, 2026 11:06 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: huerfano at July 23, 2026 11:06 PM (VJX5o)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
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Probably have to learn to direct homeless weirdos to the best fetish pron sites that the library's internet can reach.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:05 PM (E4rtv)
I'm overqualified!
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 23, 2026 11:06 PM (gKT4z)
Posted by: Radar Love at July 23, 2026 11:06 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: publius
I've always been fascinated by the New Madrid fault. I read "The Frontiersmen", which is a semi-fictional account featuring Simon Kenton. Tecumseh is a large part of the story, and he predicted the great New Madrid quakes.
That was a truly terrifying event. The blessing being the land was pretty sparsely populated at the time.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 23, 2026 11:06 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: whig
But if they find a library some capitalist built, they'll fight tooth and nail to make sure the kid's section has the appropriate books, like Gender Queer and Heather Has Two Mommies.
Posted by: mikeski at July 23, 2026 11:07 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Braenyard
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Hundreds of them, sometimes in unlikely places. Here's a state by state list:
https://shorturl.at/XQLd2
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 23, 2026 11:07 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Mamdani at July 23, 2026 11:07 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Jen the original at July 23, 2026 11:07 PM (EiUt/)
I remember when the librarian was a much older woman: kindly, discreet, unattractive.
We didn't know anything about her private life.
We didn't want to know anything about her private life.
She didn't have a private life.
While you're thinking about that, think about this: The library closes at five o'clock, no exceptions. This is your final warning. Got that, kewpie-doll?
Posted by: Lt. Bookman at July 23, 2026 11:07 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 11:07 PM (Dd38x)
you could give the pregnant abortions
I hate people that tell millionaires and billionaires how to spend their money.
Posted by: r hennigantx
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It could also buy yards and yards of duct tape to shut up leftists and bind them to telephone poles.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:07 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: GWB at July 23, 2026 11:03 PM (kU0PQ)
Tell me about it!
Posted by: Kamala at July 23, 2026 11:08 PM (vE0+H)
Choppers.
Posted by: Gary Burghoff at July 23, 2026 11:08 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
Wonder how them people pronounce Sakkaliner
Posted by: Miklos, rejoicing on the banks of the Saluda at July 23, 2026 11:08 PM (sxR7k)
Posted by: Phil Swift at July 23, 2026 11:08 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Jen the original
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Ted Cruz made the comment today on X that he expected Mamdani to take Schumer's senate seat and AOC to run for Prezzie.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:08 PM (E4rtv)
To me, the greatest candy bar in history is the Chase Candy Company Cherry Mash, which has cherry fondant filling encased in a chocolate and peanut shell.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 23, 2026 11:08 PM (qpyNK)
Except that Cosimo Medici established his free lending library circa 1450
Posted by: mnw at July 23, 2026 10:49 PM
A mere 500 + years off. Probably counts as 'right' in Mamdami's commie world
Posted by: LASue at July 23, 2026 11:08 PM (mFhj8)
I think they estimate that 1811 New Madrid quake at 7.0 - 8.0.
I think there are very small little quakes at that fault all the time?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 23, 2026 11:09 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 10:56 PM (/+uur)
Which reminds me of the Twilight Zone episode where book lover Burgess Meredith survives a nuclear apocalypse, finds a library only to have his glasses break.
Posted by: TxAnn at July 23, 2026 11:09 PM (SjAWL)
Posted by: I gotta ask at July 23, 2026 11:02 PM
I do. Have you seen the price of books? I can't afford my habit.
Posted by: huerfano at July 23, 2026 11:09 PM (VJX5o)
Posted by: mikeski
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And make sure there are gloryholes in the gender neutral bathrooms.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:09 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Nazdar at July 23, 2026 11:09 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Orson
One of my uncles would keep some Grand Marnier-filled chocolates on hand. Kids get a little to rowdy? *Uncle C's Knockout Drops* to the rescue!
Probly would be frowned upon, these days....
Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 11:09 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Kamala at July 23, 2026 11:08 PM (vE0+H)
Like you even remember when you still had a cherry, Kammi.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 23, 2026 11:09 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Jen the original at July 23, 2026 11:07 PM (EiUt/)
Yes. Today he announced a pied-à-terre tax for those with 2nd homes in NYC over $5M.
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 11:09 PM (Dd38x)
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:00 PM (E4rtv)
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Son went to FSU and said there was a guy in one of his computer science class whose father owned a huge amt of land along swampy ground. Country FL boy. Their business (or bidness?) was taking ancient cypress that had been underwater to be milled into fancy furniture and built their entire house with this cypress. I think I have that right.
Lynyrd Skynyrd
https://tinyurl.com/458cj64f
Trippy, man. I was listening to Foreigner's "Cold as Ice" and remembered that song as I wrote that sentence.
I must be trilingal/tri-brained something or other.
My brain is a juke box sometimes, among other things we won't discuss.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 23, 2026 11:09 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: whig
Americans have traditionally been a very practical people.
Posted by: Miklos, looking at 3M stock at July 23, 2026 11:10 PM (sxR7k)
Posted by: publius
Right next to Cairo IL and also pronounced different than Cairo Egypt. Pronounced like the Karo syrup.
Posted by: whig
New Prague, MN, rhymes with "plague," not with "frog."
Posted by: mikeski at July 23, 2026 11:10 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Jen the original at July 23, 2026 11:10 PM (EiUt/)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
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Quick...how does the Dewey Decimal System work?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 23, 2026 11:10 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Mamdani at July 23, 2026 11:07 PM
I don't trust anyone who smiles as much as that asshole. Or is a Muslim.
Posted by: huerfano at July 23, 2026 11:11 PM (VJX5o)
https://shorturl.at/XQLd2
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 23, 2026 11:07 PM (XeU6L)
There is a Carnegie Library in Vancouver, B.C. On Main Street.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 11:11 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 23, 2026 11:11 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: whig
Americans have traditionally been a very practical people.
Posted by: Miklos, looking at 3M stock at July 23, 2026 11:10 PM (sxR7k)
We meet at dawn. Put me down on the list to help.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 23, 2026 11:11 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
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Quick...how does the Dewey Decimal System work?
Posted by: Mike
I'm pretty sure that's white supremacy, bruv. Books end up where they belong.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 23, 2026 11:11 PM (gKT4z)
See how he responds.
Posted by: Orson at July 23, 2026 11:12 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 23, 2026 11:12 PM (ibDUx)
I think they estimate that 1811 New Madrid quake at 7.0 - 8.0.
I think there are very small little quakes at that fault all the time?
Posted by: publius
Three big quakes 1811-1812 that have been around mid 7.0's after changing their initial guesses at magnitude. A strong one in the late 1890's. Most recent was a 4 point something that I felt as a little kid living in NE Arkansas at the time. Centered on Marked Tree Arkansas.
Lots of smaller ones mostly unfelt and deep with a few reminding people now and again a fault is sleeping there.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:12 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 23, 2026 11:09 PM (w6EFb)
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Yes, there are.
You can feel them in southern MO/southern IL.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 23, 2026 11:12 PM (IMPuq)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 23, 2026 11:13 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Jen the original at July 23, 2026 11:07 PM (EiUt/)
Note how the national spokespeople kind of come and go. Romney disappeared. Cheney disappeared. Bernie shows up every four years. Clinton hangs around. The Obamas hang around. Hunter *Biden* has "appeared".
The script has to be fed through people that are well known (a well known last name helps a LOT) or have a novel presence.
Mamdani was an op from the word go, and now he's gonna be one of the main spokespeople for candy coated communism as they ramp up the operation to wherever they plan to move us post Trump.
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 11:13 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:12 PM (E4rtv)
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Yep.
Very disconcerting.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 23, 2026 11:14 PM (IMPuq)
Probly would be frowned upon, these days....
Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 11:09 PM (rdVOm)
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That's awesome. I wonder how Nyquil tastes with chocolate.
Posted by: Orson at July 23, 2026 11:14 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Obscure library trivia for 200, Alex at July 23, 2026 11:14 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Jen the original
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New York and California are sad unfunny jokes nowadays and I can see why you feel that way.
DSA are sort of like Heath Ledger's Joker.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:14 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
*checks*
You have been volunteered for the Tar and Feathering Team
Posted by: Miklos, with Official Clipboard at July 23, 2026 11:14 PM (sxR7k)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 23, 2026 11:14 PM (SwCxT)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 11:15 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Jen the original at July 23, 2026 11:07 PM (EiUt/)
Yes. Today he announced a pied-à-terre tax for those with 2nd homes in NYC over $5M.
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 11:09 PM (Dd38x)
***********
Mandingo wants to be Emperor of the World.
That smile of his is pure evil. A villian from a cartoon.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 23, 2026 11:15 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 23, 2026 11:10 PM (XeU6L)
Well, you make sure that all applicants to be your library students include their measurements along with their photographs.
Then you rate them on hotness. No students below an 8.9 need apply.
Dewey was a cad, even by the standards of the era.
Posted by: Melvil Dewey at July 23, 2026 11:16 PM (qpyNK)
Very disconcerting.
Posted by: SMH
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Descriptions of the 1811-1812 shocks are pretty apocalyptic.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:16 PM (E4rtv)
I've never had a bad experience with one, ever. I never saw a derelict there. The librarians are unfailingly courteous, too.
Mine has a policy of throwing anyone who tries to access pron offline. Spare me, "How do YOU know? Ha Ha" There are printed rules about using the 'Net.
Also they have adult literacy classes there, and lots of similar programs.
Posted by: mnw at July 23, 2026 11:16 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Miklos, hygrometer in use at July 23, 2026 11:16 PM (sxR7k)
Posted by: Case at July 23, 2026 11:17 PM (bqIVz)
+++++++
Yu know about the cup sizes?
Posted by: Frank Costanza at July 23, 2026 11:17 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: huerfano at July 23, 2026 11:11 PM (VJX5o)
Or is a communist.
Posted by: Melvil Dewey at July 23, 2026 11:18 PM (qpyNK)
It could also buy yards and yards of duct tape to shut up leftists and bind them to telephone poles.
Posted by: whig
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There is a fellow down in Mexico that calls himself Batman.
He catches motorcycle thiefs and duct tapes them to telephone poles next to the bike. Then writes the word, thief, across their forehead.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 11:18 PM (51ygH)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
If there's no room on the shelf, round up?
Posted by: mikeski at July 23, 2026 11:18 PM (VHUov)
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That they are.
What would happen now, even more so.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 23, 2026 11:18 PM (IMPuq)
You must live in a red area.
Libraries in most of the blue areas are filled up with masturbating drunks who shoot drugs in the toilets.
Which is still better than "Drag Queen Story Hour".
Posted by: Melvil Dewey at July 23, 2026 11:19 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
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Bring ropes and torches.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 23, 2026 11:19 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Miklos, hygrometer in use at July 23, 2026 11:16 PM (sxR7k)
That's what I call taking a shower with Ashley
Posted by: Joe Biden at July 23, 2026 11:19 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Zombie Rock Hudson at July 23, 2026 11:19 PM (6x1Uq)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 23, 2026 11:20 PM (NnhvP)
Humilarity, as this redneck gal here (long gone) used to pronounce it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 23, 2026 11:21 PM (w6EFb)
I've never had a bad experience with one, ever. I never saw a derelict there. The librarians are unfailingly courteous, too.
Mine has a policy of throwing anyone who tries to access pron offline. Spare me, "How do YOU know? Ha Ha" There are printed rules about using the 'Net.
Also they have adult literacy classes there, and lots of similar programs.
Posted by: mnw
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My university library for my doctorate had a piece of shit 'homeless' person decide to torch it by lighting off papers in government documents section. Massive fire and smoke damage--fortunately I already had my dissertation data and references when it happened.
Most urban libraries have significant problems with mentally ill, homeless, and perverts using the libraries for their rest and recreation.
The US is not as it was in a helluva lot of places.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:21 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Peeps and candy corn at July 23, 2026 11:21 PM (2Ez/1)
Now do wet bulb temp.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 23, 2026 11:21 PM (w6EFb)
He catches motorcycle thiefs and duct tapes them to telephone poles next to the bike. Then writes the word, thief, across their forehead.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 11:18 PM (51ygH)
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Did that in Iraq just for funsies.
But on cots instead of telephone poles.
And crude drawings of penises on foreheads instead of the word 'thief'.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 23, 2026 11:22 PM (IMPuq)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 23, 2026 11:22 PM (JvZF+)
Having access to the Big University Research Liberry for $50 certainly saves bookshelf space.
Maybe other university liberries have the same?
Posted by: Miklos, reading at or above his Grade Level at July 23, 2026 11:23 PM (sxR7k)
Posted by: Miklos, with Official Clipboard at July 23, 2026 11:14 PM (sxR7k)
*************
That's in NC, right? I once briefly had a long distance romance with a Tar Heel Frat boy from UNC. Met him at Mardi Gras in college one spring trip to NOLA. He was smitten with this redneck and wrote me at the dorm and called sometimes (shared payphone). As I never dated it encouraged the dorm that I was not totally weird.
He showed up on our farm one day and alarmed my mother, then went to the college (junior college convent across the street from my HS). He found out pretty quickly after dinner than I was a good girl and he was a gentleman about it. I don't know why he thought otherwise. Who traveled far for basically not a lot with a friend (who apparently scored with someone I knew. I was oblivious to everything that she was a loose girl).
Anyway, it will take airtravel to NC but I'll be there! My husband will be confused but I'll bring him as well! "Honey, we have to fly to NC tomorrow," and try explaining Morons. But once he figures out why he'll be in and approve. (I can talk him into anything). XXXX
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 23, 2026 11:23 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: Orson
Eww. Probably not so good.
Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 11:23 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: SMH
Art grant AWARDED
Posted by: The National Endowment at July 23, 2026 11:24 PM (sxR7k)
He catches motorcycle thiefs and duct tapes them to telephone poles next to the bike. Then writes the word, thief, across their forehead.
Posted by: Braenyard
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Read that, I approve. We could be very creative with judicious applications of duct tape. For example, doing so to these dash and diners--duct tape them on a lamppost near their dine and dash restaurant as a warning for the others.
Stocks were designed mostly to shame miscreants without the expense of locking them up and feeding them three square meals a day, recreation, etc. Need to bring that back.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:24 PM (E4rtv)
Details that have emerged: this "woman" is an ugly tranny.
My speculation: guys shows up for his date with this "woman" and declined to continue after seeing that it was a dude.
Whereupon the psycho tranny shot him.
We'll see if my theory plays out.
"She" must've been using a fake picture or something. There's not enough tequila in the world to convince someone that "she" is a woman.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 23, 2026 11:24 PM (qpyNK)
Will Netflix borscht this?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2026 11:25 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 23, 2026 11:25 PM (hzuYO)
What would happen now, even more so.
Posted by: SMH
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Reelfoot Lake in Tennessee is an example along with the Mississippi reported as running backwards. Old Testament stuff.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:25 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Orson
Eww. Probably not so good.
Posted by: JQ
Skittles
Posted by: Prpl Drank at July 23, 2026 11:25 PM (sxR7k)
Posted by: whig
+++
Jolly Rancher enters the chat.
Posted by: Braenyard
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Corn Nuts enters to a fanfare, and kicks Toffee and Jolly Rancher out of the way.
Posted by: buddhaha at July 23, 2026 11:26 PM (cBDov)
Is this persyn a Senate candidate in Maine?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2026 11:26 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Braenyard
They are all around Austin.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 23, 2026 11:27 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2026 11:27 PM (2GVsD)
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[recoils in horror]
Brother Miklos is a Sandlapper, not a Tarheel.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 23, 2026 11:28 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: buddhaha
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I even hate the smell of Corn Nuts. Nasty things.
Funyuns, on the other hand, despite removal of all skin in the mouth, are quite tasty.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:28 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 23, 2026 11:20 PM (NnhvP)
Send it all my way, please! . Its my absolute favorite
Posted by: LASue at July 23, 2026 11:29 PM (mFhj8)
Posted by: Orson
Drink enough nyquil and you won't even taste the chocolate.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:29 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2026 11:26 PM (2GVsD)
Certainly fits the pattern insofar as deceptive advertising goes. That should be a capital offence for trannies.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 11:29 PM (1z8ji)
301 There is a fellow down in Mexico that calls himself Batman.
He catches motorcycle thiefs and duct tapes them to telephone poles next to the bike. Then writes the word, thief, across their forehead.”
He should call himself El Guano.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 23, 2026 11:30 PM (T2w7I)
Posted by: whig
+++
Jolly Rancher enters the chat.
Posted by: Braenyard
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Corn Nuts enters to a fanfare, and kicks Toffee and Jolly Rancher out of the way.
Posted by: buddhaha
You people just lame
Posted by: Stuckey's Peanut Brittle at July 23, 2026 11:30 PM (sxR7k)
Back when I could walk a lot better, I did one-on-one adult literacy tutoring. In that capacity, I went to some libraries in not very prosperous places. They weren't any different than the nice library I use, as far as I could tell.
Posted by: mnw at July 23, 2026 11:30 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Sophisticated Diner at July 23, 2026 11:30 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: whig
Or substitute Jagermeister-- at least it doesn't contain acetaminophen.
Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 11:31 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 23, 2026 11:31 PM (qpyNK)
Details that have emerged: this "woman" is an ugly tranny.
My speculation: guys shows up for his date with this "woman" and declined to continue after seeing that it was a dude.
Whereupon the psycho tranny shot him.
We'll see if my theory plays out.
"She" must've been using a fake picture or something. There's not enough tequila in the world to convince someone that "she" is a woman.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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How exactly do you write a country song about something like this?
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:31 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2026 11:31 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Sophisticated Diner at July 23, 2026 11:30 PM (JM9I6)
Beet sugar, chalk, and despair. But mostly despair.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 11:32 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Sophisticated Diner at July 23, 2026 11:30 PM
Sugar, foam rubber and disappointment.
Posted by: huerfano at July 23, 2026 11:32 PM (VJX5o)
Posted by: Sophisticated Diner
Dust bunnies and melted yellow-orange crayons.
Not Crayola. Some off brand from the dollar store.
Posted by: mikeski at July 23, 2026 11:32 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: JQ
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Heh. That always tasted like licorice to me and I can't stand licorice. Only way I could drink it was so cold that you could not taste it much.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:32 PM (E4rtv)
https://shorturl.at/XQLd2
Posted by: Mike Hammer
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The original is in John Fettermsn's Braddock,PA
Posted by: buddhaha at July 23, 2026 11:33 PM (cBDov)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
*respectful bow from a lowly lowlander to Mike of the Mountain People*
Posted by: Miklos owns land that is basically just sand at July 23, 2026 11:33 PM (sxR7k)
Posted by: Sophisticated Diner
Stale, ground up and dyed four year old Marshmallow Peeps?
Posted by: Tonypete at July 23, 2026 11:33 PM (6x1Uq)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2026 11:33 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Cooter Brown. at July 23, 2026 11:33 PM (JM9I6)
The US is not as it was in a helluva lot of places.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:21 PM (E4rtv)
**********
At a library near the med center I was once chased out of the loo by a troll woman lunatic. Before it got REALLY bad with homeless. It was her home, she said. I then went to the beach town library and, once, had a bedbug in the pocket of a book (identified by my husband). Then I debated microwaving the books due to potential bugs, but put them on the dash in the sun instead (FL...hot).
Now I order from Amazon and my husband frets over a bookcase in our bedroom about once a year as "it was not built for all these books...that I have not read." I tell him it will be fine.
I have a pervy library story! A former co-worker of my dude's had a deal of placing his "member" in a slot after removing a book. The books faced each other and lady on the other side would have a surprise! His wife divorced him and I think he moved to Texas.
I was shocked then laughed wildly when he told me this. I know I am going to hell, but try to be good.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 23, 2026 11:33 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 11:34 PM (rdVOm)
https://youtu.be/Twivg7GkYts
Posted by: mindful webworker - true story at July 23, 2026 10:02 PM (M5tgA)
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6:30AM here. I'm usually in dreamland when the ONT comes out. That's the first thing that came to mind.
So what present did HOTW give his wife for her birthday/anniversary? Post your theories, morons.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 23, 2026 11:34 PM (RkR9o)
Posted by: Sophisticated Diner at July 23, 2026 11:30 PM (JM9I6)
Beet sugar, chalk, and despair. But mostly despair.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Cracker Jacks>Peeps>Circus Peanuts
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:34 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:31 PM (E4rtv)
You Ain’t Woman Enough by Loretta Lynn?
Posted by: TxAnn at July 23, 2026 11:34 PM (SjAWL)
Some songs would be a lot better without the heavy orchestration, often sappy.
https://youtu.be/o5gtVoA2upU
G'nite, y'all.💤
Posted by: mindful webworker - old and sappy at July 23, 2026 11:35 PM (M5tgA)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy6uLfermPU
Posted by: Reno_NV_Dave at July 23, 2026 10:37 PM (yXKEQ)
I’m going with “Spring Surprise” being the worst.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 23, 2026 11:35 PM (wWU6x)
Posted by: whig
"The button on the jukebox was XY...."
Posted by: David Allen Miklos at July 23, 2026 11:35 PM (sxR7k)
Posted by: Cooter Brown. at July 23, 2026 11:33 PM (JM9I6)
Plus the belladonna alkaloids.
There's a reason medieval witches used that shit in their "flying ointment".
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 23, 2026 11:36 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
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Never change. The Lord himself is quite a comedian.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:36 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Sophisticated Diner
Marshmelons, artificial colors, artificial flavors. Surprisingly, the ones I looked at didn't include preservatives.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 23, 2026 11:36 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2026 11:36 PM (77rzZ)
Artificially flavoured expanding foam.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2026 11:31 PM (2GVsD)
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I have never had one! They look like cadever toes!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 23, 2026 11:36 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: whig
Definitely has the *ICK* factor. Won't ever drink it again.
Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 11:36 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Kinky Miklos-Friedman at July 23, 2026 11:37 PM (sxR7k)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 23, 2026 11:37 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:36 PM (E4rtv)
I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 23, 2026 11:37 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2026 11:38 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 23, 2026 11:36 PM (hzuYO)
And that's not even close to the most offensive toe-related candy name.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 23, 2026 11:38 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:31 PM (E4rtv)
You Ain’t Woman Enough by Loretta Lynn?
Posted by: TxAnn at July 23, 2026 11:34 PM (SjAWL)
You Ain't Woman Enough For This Man.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 23, 2026 11:38 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
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The artificial preservatives are sulfuric acid and the artificial flavor is arsenic coated pressure treated sawdust. Same as Twinkies and they will be present long after we are all gone.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:39 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2026 11:39 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Trio at July 23, 2026 11:39 PM (sxR7k)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
"Short stories are two stacks over."
Posted by: the likely response at July 23, 2026 11:39 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2026 11:40 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Cooter Brown. at July 23, 2026 11:33 PM (JM9I6)
*************
This was my college cure!
I noticed in the '80's it mostly made me hallucinate and feel weird and stopped. Stuff makes me hyper vs sleepy.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 23, 2026 11:40 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 23, 2026 11:38 PM (qpyNK
Just leave us out of it.
Posted by: Brazil Nuts at July 23, 2026 11:41 PM (T2w7I)
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:31 PM (E4rtv)
You Ain’t Woman Enough by Loretta Lynn?
Posted by: TxAnn at July 23, 2026 11:34 PM (SjAWL)
You Ain't Woman Enough For This Man.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
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San Francisco by Morning?
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:41 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 23, 2026 11:41 PM (gKT4z)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2026 11:41 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 23, 2026 11:42 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2026 11:42 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: whig
And it burns burns burns
The Ring of Fire
The Ring of Fire
Posted by: Miklos hopes Johnny is laughing at July 23, 2026 11:43 PM (sxR7k)
The Ring of Fire
The Ring of Fire
Posted by: Miklos
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Golf Clap. Heh.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:43 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: mnw at July 23, 2026 11:44 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Kramer at July 23, 2026 11:44 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
The ones that would have been peanut-butter flavored, if they weren't bland? A piece of taffy dried to a Mohs scale 5, or so?
Yeah, those were brutal.
I baited a mousetrap with one, and the mouse gave me the finger.
Posted by: mikeski at July 23, 2026 11:44 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2026 11:44 PM (77rzZ)
"in the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord;
in the desert make straight a highway for our God"
Posted by: gKWVE at July 23, 2026 11:45 PM (gKWVE)
I declare, some of those NASA '60s secretary and other geek girls are sort of hot in a nerdy librarian kind of way. Here's Jim Lovell's secretary seeing him off on Apollo 13:
https://t.ly/A4xUp
She reminds of some TV character back in the day I can't quite place.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 23, 2026 11:45 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 23, 2026 11:45 PM (wWU6x)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 23, 2026 11:47 PM (wWU6x)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 23, 2026 11:45 PM (w6EFb)
Looks rather like Barbara "Agent 99" Feldon.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 23, 2026 11:47 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 23, 2026 11:45 PM (wWU6x)
Emetics are "medicine", for some values of "medicine".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 11:47 PM (1z8ji)
Of course, that could just be my diabetes talking…
Posted by: Bulg
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Pretty much and now most of the milk chocolate is now emulsified vegetable oil. Literally flexible Hershey bars. Reese's descendant called out Reeses over their substituting vile concoctions for cocoa butter in their chocolate.
Now all of chocolate tastes like stale Easter Bunny and other such obnoxious 'treats' did.
But, there is a funny bit by Jean Shepard in "In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash". Same book that the Christmas Story came from. In it, Jean describes the delights and dangers of candy in the Depression. Funny guy he was.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:48 PM (E4rtv)
"Short stories are two stacks over."
Posted by: the likely response at July 23, 2026 11:39 PM (VHUov)
**************
LOL
I told my husband I would have beaten it with a book for his own surprise. Especially once he came to and realized I was married to a co-worker as he was hauled out with the EMT's and police.
From what I remember he was a tiny nerdy guy but his wife seemed fairly normal.
I also once worked with a perv pediatrician.Big group. Worked around baby son's kindergarten hours and weekends in the newborn nursery at the med center.
He'd left the practice and one day the nursery director told me he'd been arrested with a number of charges. I had to sit down and was wut? Attempted rape, kidnapping and guns.
I then remembered a few perv 0530 crank calls and knew the voice, as he said my name, but couldn't place it til then. He knew I'd answer the phone vs dude because that was when they'd call me off if they did not need me. Lawsie.
The calls stopped when I mentioned the calls at the ped office and having Bell South trace them. It was him!
He was arrested, in prison, his RN wife did not believe the charges until he tried to run over her with his car.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 23, 2026 11:48 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 23, 2026 11:47 PM (qpyNK)
Who was a stone hottie. What became of her?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 11:48 PM (1z8ji)
The Ring of Fire
The Ring of Fire
Posted by: Miklos hopes Johnny is laughing at July 23, 2026 11:43 PM (sxR7k)
The Preparation H song!
I sat down on a burning ring of fire
I went down, down, down
And the flames went higher
And it burns, burns, burns
The ring of fire, the ring of fire
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 23, 2026 11:48 PM (T2w7I)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 23, 2026 11:49 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 23, 2026 11:49 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Anna Puma
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You Don't Even Know What's Between My Legs.
Apologies to Mr. David Allen Coe and his songwriter, Mr. Steve Goodman, both RIP.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:50 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 23, 2026 11:50 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Sophisticated Diner
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Not every ingredient, but I can guarantee that the #1 is high fructose corn syrup.
Posted by: buddhaha at July 23, 2026 11:51 PM (cBDov)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Was still alive a few years ago. But I think she retired from acting long ago.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:51 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:41 PM (E4rtv)
Or the lesser known flip side of Stand By Your Man by legend Tammy Wynette, Stand By Your Trans.
Posted by: TxAnn at July 23, 2026 11:52 PM (SjAWL)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 11:48 PM (1z8ji)
Still alive. 93 years old.
Wikipedia says she hooked up with her producer after divorcing her junkie husband, Lucien Verdoux-Feldon.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 23, 2026 11:52 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Close enough for Jaegermeister to imitate syrup of ipecac if you consume enough of it. Nasty hangover from it too.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:53 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 23, 2026 11:38 PM (qpyNK
Just leave us out of it.
Posted by: Brazil Nuts at July 23, 2026 11:41 PM (T2w7I)
************
Why I read here. Goodnight you crazy people!
Caught Up in You
38 Special
https://tinyurl.com/4726x9cu
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 23, 2026 11:54 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: TxAnn
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You win best in Thread.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:54 PM (E4rtv)
I thought from the beginning that there was something like this going on, what with the Mossad infiltration of Iran as it is, that we should just air drop gun after gun after gun.
Project/mission/mission Carpetbagger was a defined expansion of a previous mission, I think it's still technically off the records but not classified of just dropping weapons down into the "resistence.
Link to summary of "operation carpetbagger" https://tinyurl.com/OperationCarpetbagger
but before that, there was another experimental operation where the allies, along with bombs, would finish their runs and just drop handguns, with a single load of ammunition. All of a sudden, there were personal arms all over the place, with only a single load. So yeah, it's not a war armament, but it's enough to destabilize the enemy, while also allowing coordination against an enemy if enough people are armed with enough to capture more weapons and ammo.
We should have been bombing the fuck out of Iran, and just airdropping guns left and right.
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 23, 2026 11:54 PM (pxyHa)
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:56 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 23, 2026 11:57 PM (CHHv1)
You'd swallow the antimony pill, immediately puke it up, then the pill could be recovered for reuse.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 23, 2026 11:58 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Case at July 23, 2026 11:59 PM (bqIVz)
Don't bomb to destroy, bomb with the love of self defense.k
The Buff can deliver a lot of freedom in 6 cylinder packages.
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 23, 2026 11:59 PM (pxyHa)
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 23, 2026 11:54 PM (pxyHa)
Yup, all the confiscated gang banger weapons and ammo from the US should be dumped into iran. Fuck melting them down, give them to the resistance so they can melt down their leaders instead.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 24, 2026 12:00 AM (S41Gd)
Posted by: Miklos is Copascetic at July 24, 2026 12:01 AM (sxR7k)
Well my wife and kid are Australian, so, not in a big hurry to come back. Besides, as my wife says, "He's an American, and not just that, a Marine, he carries his Freedom with him."
Which is TRUE.
Though I get exhausted with how BITCH the politics is down here. Outright propoganda every day.
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 24, 2026 12:01 AM (pxyHa)
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 23, 2026 11:54 PM (pxyHa)
There’s a sad possibility that the loyal Shiite civilians outnumber the would be rebellious citizens. True regime change probably requires a civil war with millions of casualties, and no outside force wants to be involved in that tragedy.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 24, 2026 12:02 AM (T2w7I)
I honestly thought something like this had already happened.
we have done it twice, but not this time? why not?
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 24, 2026 12:03 AM (pxyHa)
But he left all the books to her.
Chaucer!
Rabelais!
Bal-zc!
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 24, 2026 12:04 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 23, 2026 11:54 PM (pxyHa)
There’s a sad possibility that the loyal Shiite civilians outnumber the would be rebellious citizens. True regime change probably requires a civil war with millions of casualties, and no outside force wants to be involved in that tragedy.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 24, 2026 12:02 AM (T2w7I)
This is my "fuck" face, do you see it? because I don't have it, and I definitely don't have a spare to give.
They let it happen (with the help of Carter) Let them clean it up, while we keep making a mess.
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 24, 2026 12:05 AM (pxyHa)
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 24, 2026 12:06 AM (pxyHa)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 12:06 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Miklos develops a sudden lisp at July 24, 2026 12:08 AM (sxR7k)
The Buff can deliver a lot of freedom in 6 cylinder packages.
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 23, 2026 11:59 PM (pxyHa)
Find out what calibers of pistol ammo are readily available to the regime thugs in Iran, and drop pistols chambered in something else. So that dropped pistols that fall into the hands of the regime thugs add only marginally to their firepower. Same pistol falling into the hands of a resistance fighter vastly increases his firepower.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2026 12:08 AM (1z8ji)
Here's another iconic photo of a NASA geek girl, Margaret Hamilton. She's standing next to the source code listing for the Apollo Guidance Computer:
https://t.ly/79vW8
I say NASA girl, but she worked for what was then the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory. That was founded by Charles Stark Draper, the father of inertial guidance. She went on to found a couple of software companies.
That source code was all in assembler, and the computer was a custom built one, with a unique instruction set, of course. There was one instruction that just dubbed "Fred's instruction" or whatever his name was. He requested a specialized instruction that would make some task much easier, and got it. It was only used a few times, but it was worth it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 12:08 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at July 24, 2026 12:10 AM (DK5Sh)
Posted by: wickedpinto
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Sorry to hear that but glad that you and your family are thriving otherwise.
Rarely on the ONT myself but tonight, had the computer on and thought why not. The dog memes lured me in.
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2026 12:10 AM (E4rtv)
That Margaret Hamilton is not be confused with actress Margaret Hamilton, who was the Wicked Witch of the West.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 12:10 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Count de Monet
Say it Ball Sack and it will be on the blue haired librarian's Recommended list for Story Time
Posted by: Miklos, sadly but truthfully at July 24, 2026 12:10 AM (sxR7k)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 24, 2026 12:02 AM (T2w7I)
As long as most of the dead are muslims, I fail to see the downside.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2026 12:10 AM (1z8ji)
The regime has closed all the cafes in Tehran, according to Iran International.* This is new.
We would call them coffee shops, I think. The regime doesn't want there to be places where citizens can meet and talk.
* an excellent source for war news
Posted by: mnw at July 24, 2026 12:11 AM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Smart idea and the same reason that Warsaw Pact and NATO had different ammo cartridges.
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2026 12:11 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 24, 2026 12:11 AM (Swy+8)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 12:12 AM (77rzZ)
https://t.ly/79vW8
Mo of dat White Supremancy
Posted by: Ladies of Color from NASA at July 24, 2026 12:13 AM (sxR7k)
https://sniplinks.in/FFMpSb
Goes to Wikipedia.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 24, 2026 12:13 AM (wWU6x)
Posted by: Count de Monet
Say it Ball Sack and it will be on the blue haired librarian's Recommended list for Story Time
Posted by: Miklos, sadly but truthfully at July 24, 2026 12:10 AM (sxR7k)
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Just don't mention Dumb-Ass even though he wrote The Count of Monte Cristo.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 24, 2026 12:13 AM (Swy+8)
we have done it twice, but not this time? why not?
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 24, 2026 12:03 AM (pxyHa)
I wish I had an answer. My gut is saying because trump thinks every problem is solved with a "deal". My Roman ancestry says sometimes it handled with the Carthage protocol.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 24, 2026 12:13 AM (S41Gd)
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 24, 2026 12:13 AM (pxyHa)
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Wonder how many Kb's of object code that produced
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 24, 2026 12:15 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Cicero
Wait for the reboot of the Man in the Iron Mask
Posted by: Miklos can only imagine, and won't at July 24, 2026 12:15 AM (sxR7k)
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 24, 2026 12:13 AM (pxyHa)
A desirable goal, but like unachievable in practice.
It's Friday morning in Tehran. Time to blow up some Shiite mosques known to be frequented by members of the regime.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2026 12:18 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2026 12:18 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 23, 2026 11:45 PM (w6EFb)
Looks kinda like Edna Mode from The Incredibles
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 24, 2026 12:19 AM (SRRAx)
And a MUCH less irritating voice than Billie Burke.
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 12:20 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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There may well be loyal Shite civilians, but they're nowhere near the majority. Any regime that has a Secret Police is one that can be toppled, and the larger Secret Police, the more vulnerable.
The Shah had the Savak , which was primarily aimed at the Commies, but which would indiscriminately scoop up anyone making the slightest anti-Shah comment, and he was overthrown by a combination of commies, idealists and religious nuts. The IRGC is many times the size of the Savak and even more hated. If the bombing can seriously degrade the IRGC, the mullahs are out.
Posted by: buddhaha at July 24, 2026 12:21 AM (cBDov)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 24, 2026 12:21 AM (XeU6L)
Before Margaret went to work on that MIT guidance job, she worked with Ed Norton Lorenz, the discoverer of Chaos Theory. He was meterologist/mathematician who discovered that from early weather prediction model code. They had saved some intermediate during a run to restart later, but the saved values were rounded for storage, and that produced entirely different results.
Margaret was working for him on that software in 1961.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 12:22 AM (w6EFb)
That's fucked.
Brit Lass was getting some such calls to her business where he would breathe down the phone on her and then one on a Saturday night where he left a message and... "finished" on it.
A few weeks later he called during the day and she picked up as she had done before, only this time she said "you forgot to hide your number, you dozy bastard, I have it right here" and she read out the name of the company he was calling from and began to read out the number. He hung up and calls stopped.
Until about six months later when the idiot called again and she immediately said "you again?" and the name of the company again, and reminded him he'd already forgotten to hide the number once, at which point he hung up again, and the calls ceased permanently. Local construction company.
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 12:23 AM (vE0+H)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 24, 2026 12:24 AM (wWU6x)
60,000 lines
Posted by: Mike Hammer,
"uh, Mr. Kranz.....Todd just knocked all the punch cards off the table..."
Posted by: Miklos regrets to report at July 24, 2026 12:25 AM (sxR7k)
The core ROM memory of the Apollo computer was about 72KB. It used 16-bit word size, but 1 bit was a parity bit.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 12:25 AM (w6EFb)
60,000 lines
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Back in about that day, we used to feel that 10 lines a day of bug-free code was nominal.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 24, 2026 12:26 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 24, 2026 12:26 AM (ibDUx)
It's very good to see you around.
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 12:28 AM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Fuzzy Logic at July 24, 2026 12:28 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 12:29 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 23, 2026 11:54 PM (pxyHa)
Apparently right now we are paying off all the shipping companies that the IRGC forces are targeting with assets seized from where the IRGC had stowed it in the Gulf States banking systems.
That is how you make shipping insurance work!
Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2026 12:30 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: publius
So 15 useful bits, so octal instead of hexadecimal for shorthand.
Posted by: mikeski at July 24, 2026 12:30 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: frammish at July 24, 2026 12:30 AM (rcENI)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 12:29 AM (77rzZ)
Like a Red Wedding?
Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2026 12:30 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 24, 2026 12:06 AM (pxyHa)
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This kind of goes without saying.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2026 12:31 AM (JvZF+)
A few weeks later he called during the day and she picked up as she had done before, only this time she said "you forgot to hide your number, you dozy bastard, I have it right here" and she read out the name of the company he was calling from and began to read out the number. He hung up and calls stopped.
Until about six months later when the idiot called again and she immediately said "you again?" and the name of the company again, and reminded him he'd already forgotten to hide the number once, at which point he hung up again, and the calls ceased permanently. Local construction company.
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 12:23 AM (vE0+H)
Have you considered raping him? Not in a gay way, but to show dominance.
Posted by: Graham Platner at July 24, 2026 12:31 AM (GVeZJ)
One of my fathers best friends was a Kurdish Iranian.
He hates Iran, well, hated, he's dead now, but hated the current rule, then again, he was "I am a Kurd" I think he was in a defined line of royalty because he had money and his name was "Amir Huschang Baghurpor" which means Prince, Huschang, but anyways. Though Huschang , who we called huchang because, "You ain't a prince, you are barely a dude" . . anyways.
There are sunni kurds, and non practicing kurds, there are zoroastrians, who my father wrote one of his Phillosphy post grad essays about because one of his best friends was an Iranian Kurd, who would tell him stories. I know for myself a number of secular Iranians.
Iran used to be a modern nation until Carter, the french and the fraud kohmenei subjugated a nation 4 times larger than their number through terror.
IN FACT.
Random fact. When I enlisted in The USMC, I was in The Marine Corps at one time, I don't know if I mentioned, I was slated to be an intel analyst or linguist, because I was qulified in my testing, 0212, and 0214 ? It's been a long time I can't remember the specific MOS designations, what with it having been 30
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 24, 2026 12:32 AM (pxyHa)
I would be surprised if he and Elon haven't had a few talks
Posted by: Miklos so suspects at July 24, 2026 12:32 AM (sxR7k)
Posted by: frammish at July 24, 2026 12:32 AM (rcENI)
Gary Burghoff played Charlie Brown in the off-Broadway show "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown". They are both little blockheads.
Posted by: Radar Love
You're a Good Man, Albert Brown
https://youtu.be/9BrIGQ4Rbps
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 24, 2026 12:33 AM (Cqx++)
Posted by: wickedpinto
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The evergreen Schwartzkopf comment
'Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion'
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 24, 2026 12:33 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: wickedpinto
This kind of goes without saying.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
You know what else goes without saying?
Posted by: mikeski at July 24, 2026 12:33 AM (VHUov)
Back to post 34.
Posted by: Goatweed at July 24, 2026 12:34 AM (jK3NL)
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 24, 2026 12:06 AM (pxyHa)
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This kind of goes without saying.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2026 12:31 AM (JvZF+)
Why not have the French invade Iran? If they want to tell the world how to fight a war, they need to show that they know what they're talking about.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 24, 2026 12:34 AM (qx7Zg)
My Dill platoon thought I was some better than them dork who got to skate easy and shit because I was constantly testing, then I did the pre intel check, and it was Huschang, my fathers friendship with huschang that kept me from being in the 0200 family, instead I ended up with the 2800 group.
And STILL got the clearance!
I don't mind, I loved all my time in The Corps, even the bad parts, the bad parts (court-martial) made me better.
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 24, 2026 12:34 AM (pxyHa)
Posted by: Graham Platner at July 24, 2026 12:31 AM (GVeZJ)
It's practically all I've ever thought about since the day I heard him finish have I overshared
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 12:34 AM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Goatweed at July 24, 2026 12:35 AM (jK3NL)
Posted by: mikeski at July 24, 2026 12:33 AM (VHUov)
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Never talk about Fight Club?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2026 12:36 AM (JvZF+)
"Stand By Your Man" by Tammy Wynette
Wasn't that one of Hillary Clinton's favorite songs?
Posted by: Case at July 23, 2026 11:59 PM (bqIVz)
Hillary Clinton is the reigning World Champ of Cucks. How many times you think she's seen Bill cheat on her? It's way North of fifty.
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at July 24, 2026 12:36 AM (w/O5Q)
There was a Block I and Block II version of the AGC. Block I was used for the ill-fated Apollo 1, and then the unscrewed Apollo 4 and 6 Saturn V tests. Block II was used for all flights afterward.
Block II contained that special requested instruction, called "EDRUPT", or "Ed's Interrupt". It acted like an interrupt in some ways, but wasn't a real interrupt.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 12:36 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Bulg
A Genuine Made in the USA set of Groucho Marx glasses with the nose and moustache are hard to come by these days. None of that cheap Chinese crap.
You can borrow mine though
Posted by: Miklos has some snappy one liners around here somewhere at July 24, 2026 12:37 AM (sxR7k)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 24, 2026 12:34 AM (qx7Zg)
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Well, they kicked our ass
Posted by: Greenpeace at July 24, 2026 12:37 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 24, 2026 12:38 AM (CHHv1)
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 24, 2026 12:38 AM (pxyHa)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 12:39 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
>Nowadays, all we write is buggy code. Seems like my system wants to reboot every night. The os, the browser, virus protection, the support apps. I spend more time logging in thru security than being productive. Fucking IT geeks run wild.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 24, 2026 12:40 AM (SwCxT)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 24, 2026 12:40 AM (qx7Zg)
Wow. The AGC contained a sophisticated interpreter for a virtual machine that had a more complex pseudo-instruction set. The navigational routines used this, and it provided double precision floating point, both scalar and vector, and even Matrix*vector instructions.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 12:41 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 12:42 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 12:42 AM (77rzZ)
Heh. The software on the AGC for the command module for the lunar missions was called "COLOSSUS". The LM had its own AGC, and the package for that was called "LUMINARY".
One of Margaret's main things with this was trying to predict the kind of human error the astronauts would be likely to make interacting with the system, and how to best mitigate against that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 12:45 AM (w6EFb)
Those virtual machine psuedo-instructions took on average 24 ms for the AGC to execute.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 12:48 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 24, 2026 12:48 AM (qx7Zg)
1) declare victory and cut and run. That’s what the MOU was looking like, but thank heaven that Trump wouldn’t go through with it.
2) continue bombing like we are now, and count on the constant degradation them. Could work, or it could just become another forever war.
3) go truly massive and break down all the structures that support a society. When you face a military force that is extremely resilient, then neutralize the civilian population that supports it.
The third option is the only one that can result in victory, but it requires killing a whole lot more people than we’ve been willing to so far.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 24, 2026 12:48 AM (T2w7I)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 12:52 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 24, 2026 12:58 AM (DZ9Lv)
It is 9 fucking 13
will someone rid me of these beast
Posted by: r hennigantx
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Take up playing the violin (even if you don't know how, which is better) and sit outside. You can torment them for hours. With any luck, you can drive the dogs crazy enough to eat their owners... ;-)
Posted by: As Not Seen On TV at July 24, 2026 12:58 AM (YrUo/)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 24, 2026 12:59 AM (DZ9Lv)
No, it wasn't, but it's funny. I got Cm'd for "abuse" It's complicated, I told the story here a few times, basically a woman was blowing a married guy in my toilet during a hurricane in Oki. I needed to take a piss, I called her a whore and him a fuck up, because he was married, and about to process out. It turned into a thing, because the guy felt guilty and walked away from my fury, reasonable. I just wanna take a piss and i'm walking into what I thought was an inappropriate situation. Especially because I knew the guys situation. He's married, and he's risking it for a blowjob, from a whore.
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 24, 2026 01:01 AM (pxyHa)
I said to my friends, and to here, "I don't want anything to do with this." everyone is like "Oh it's cool, she's cool" and shit. . .NO, NO NO NO NO
I said, "What if she's a whore?" I said it in front of her, I said, "not that you are, but what if you are and he thinks that?" meaning her husband who was my SNCOIC Barnum.
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 24, 2026 01:06 AM (pxyHa)
Posted by: huerfano at July 23, 2026 10:13 PM (VJX5o)
I dislike nougat because it reminds me of coconut. I was horrified to learn that it is mutilated almond. I like cisalmond plain and love it coated in dark chocolate, but even the highest-quality transcoconut leaves me ambivalent or conflicted at best. It's like the wigger of candy; it's bad enough to be what you're not, but why emulate something worse?
Posted by: SciVo at July 24, 2026 01:07 AM (Sy6m/)
_-_
Careful, though. 15 minutes a day of focused practice, and in a couple of years you'll pretty much be worth listening to.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 24, 2026 01:10 AM (j13NH)
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at July 24, 2026 12:36 AM (w/O5Q)
Hell, I think she and Bill have probably shared each other's sloppy seconds more than once.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 24, 2026 01:10 AM (qpyNK)
But she also talked to her "husband" a few times every week, who was going to be my SNCOIC and talked about all of us, me mostly about how mean we were when she picked us up at a club designed for catching pussy.
I caught most of it, but that fucking cunt made a point, because he ended up becoming a First Sgt, I don't get it.
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 24, 2026 01:11 AM (pxyHa)
ME in particular because I told his wife, "You are a Marine wife, and you are fucking another Marine, You are fucking all of us."
She didn't tell her cuck husband what I actually said, she just said I was really offensive.
So, I had a cloud over me the entire time I was in "The Fleet" as we say, and I fucked up, Oh, yeah I fucked up, don't get me wrong, but it was made into a CM because of that cuck's defense of his whore wife,and his political connections within the MOS that got me the CM.
I plead to what I was guilty of 18 counts of disrespect, 18 counts of refusal to obey a lawful order, with comment (they weren't lawful orders, so I entered a comment in the plea, but in the Marines lawful orders are fungeable) a couple counts of verbal assault, one count of "sexual assault" I did not touch the person I called her a worthless bitch, while pointing at her and saying I didn't want her to ever touch me. Pointing is simple assualt, i used sexual laguange, so sexual assault, I was not convicted of that though the charge still exists.
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 24, 2026 01:16 AM (pxyHa)
Mustafa Dayib Ali.
Yeah. "Twin Cities man".
Who just happens to have been born in Somalia.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 24, 2026 01:16 AM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Judge James Gion at July 24, 2026 01:24 AM (DZ9Lv)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2026 01:28 AM (1z8ji)
1) declare victory and cut and run. That’s what the MOU was looking like, but thank heaven that Trump wouldn’t go through with it.
2) continue bombing like we are now, and count on the constant degradation them. Could work, or it could just become another forever war.
3) go truly massive and break down all the structures that support a society. When you face a military force that is extremely resilient, then neutralize the civilian population that supports it.
The third option is the only one that can result in victory, but it requires killing a whole lot more people than we’ve been willing to so far.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 24, 2026 12:48 AM (T2w7I)
On number 2, does it have to be a forever war? There's a whole lotta plans to bypass Hormuz and maybe in a couple of years it's not needed and they can rot.
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at July 24, 2026 01:29 AM (w/O5Q)
It is 9 fucking 13
will someone rid me of these beast
Posted by: r hennigantx
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A more subtle approach would be to get a dog whistle and get the dogs to respond to it, train them to do things. Your own little psychological warfare program. And you can be the silent neighbor the whole time... ;-)
p.s. It doesn't work at all with cats...
Posted by: As Not Seen On TV at July 24, 2026 01:30 AM (EH0wv)
It is 9 fucking 13
will someone rid me of these beast
Posted by: r hennigantx
Have you considered raping them? Not in a gay way, but to show dominance.
Posted by: Graham Platner at July 24, 2026 01:33 AM (qi2kW)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 01:36 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2026 01:39 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 01:39 AM (77rzZ)
Just feeling so grateful for this place every night, pour myself a night cap and learn about so many things, Cheers Horde.
JQ, I hope that you survive the heat, do you need a cold drink?
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 24, 2026 01:46 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 01:48 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: P-Hustle at July 24, 2026 01:50 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 24, 2026 01:53 AM (ibDUx)
I get sentenced, I lose my money, and I spend 30 days in brigg, and it wasn't surprising. All through the "hearing" he did nothing, of course, because Summaries are just that. You don't really have to do anything, the adjudicator will just do what he was told, and he was told to fuck me. So he did, and I didn't care, because he might have the rank but he don't have the balls, (it's recorded in my page 14)
He stands up, The funniest thing is that the two people who were to escort me to the brigg after judgment were my friends.
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 24, 2026 01:54 AM (pxyHa)
Anyway, I worked early days & long shifts, so wasn't thrilled to hear doggo all night. One night, I was sleeping soundly until the jerk put out his dog for the night's disruption at ~2am.
I went to the window and shouted: AW, SHUDDUP! as loudly as I could. Doggo was let back in. Ugh. At least the asshoe got the message.
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 01:56 AM (rdVOm)
FUCKING ROLLERCOSTER, and a lot of times miserable, but still, other than my time with my wife and kid, the best time of my life.
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 24, 2026 01:56 AM (pxyHa)
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 01:58 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 24, 2026 01:59 AM (pxyHa)
It is 9 fucking 13
will someone rid me of these beast
Posted by: r hennigantx
Have you considered raping them? Not in a gay way, but to show dominance.
Posted by: Graham Platner at July 24, 2026 01:33 AM (qi2kW)
Nice. Well, not, but.
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 02:03 AM (faghi)
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 02:03 AM (rdVOm)
They way I got it was funny as hell. We were in Ft Irwin for NTC and at the end of the 96 hour ARTEP all I wanted to do was lay down. I found an excuse to in an F16 flying over which was the enemy. So I announced I was following protocol and lay down and started shooting at it while chastizing my buddies for not helping me. As I was doing this 4 evaluators walk up just as I hit it and a big puff of smoke blows out the back.
I jump up yelling "I fukin hit it! I did that!" everybody is all "bullshit" Well I did. There was a big to do and I was the only one shooting at the time.
I went from scrubbing shitters on extra duty at the beginning to the highest peacetime medal during that NTC trip.
Posted by: Reforger at July 24, 2026 02:11 AM (gE8mJ)
The
Every summer, we get a few days or weeks of misery heat. Just the way it is.
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 02:11 AM (rdVOm)
Swamp coolers don't work worth shit with water in the air.
Posted by: Reforger at July 24, 2026 02:16 AM (gE8mJ)
Then he smoked with a buddy, hahaha, but then... same # came up the following week! Oh sh!t, but I don't believe all samples were tested because nothing came of it.
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 02:17 AM (rdVOm)
LOL. Similar here, except a/c unit pulls the water out of the air, leaks it onto the tray below & then it evaporates... then gets pulled out of the air again next day.
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 02:19 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Reforger at July 24, 2026 02:21 AM (gE8mJ)
_-_
Careful, though. 15 minutes a day of focused practice, and in a couple of years you'll pretty much be worth listening to.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 24, 2026 01:10 AM (j13NH)
I did a stint repairing violins. I soon arrived the conclusion that if you spend a lifetime practicing you won't sound like 2 cats fucking. What a horrible instrument in the wrong hands. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 24, 2026 02:24 AM (S41Gd)
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 02:25 AM (rdVOm)
Great stories wickedpinto and Reforger, I raise my last sip to you both.
JQ, stay cool!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 24, 2026 02:27 AM (ibDUx)
Which is what led to the coming up hot in the US. They actually did do a trip every month with bottles. I didn't think they did.
Posted by: Reforger at July 24, 2026 02:28 AM (gE8mJ)
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 02:30 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 02:32 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 24, 2026 02:33 AM (S41Gd)
Posted by: Reforger at July 24, 2026 02:33 AM (gE8mJ)
Posted by: Reforger at July 24, 2026 02:39 AM (gE8mJ)
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 02:43 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 24, 2026 02:57 AM (DZ9Lv)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 24, 2026 03:00 AM (DZ9Lv)
What ails people?
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 03:09 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 23, 2026 11:45 PM (gKWVE)
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Sabbath starts slightly before sunset. So, maybe in Australia. 10:10AM here in northern Israel. Cooking to do!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 24, 2026 03:09 AM (D0X9e)
Won't mow the weeds until some cooler day next week.
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 03:13 AM (rdVOm)
OROFINO [Idaho]—The Clearwater County Sheriff's Office provided a formal notice of our intent not to renew and to terminate their agreement for the Flock Safety camera system, effective September 22, 2026, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the contract governing non-renewal and/or termination for convenience.
After evaluating the program during its implementation, the Clearwater County Sheriff's Office has determined that it does not meet the operational needs and priorities of their agency to justify its continued cost. As a result, they have elected to discontinue participation in the program.
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 03:20 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: TxAnn at July 23, 2026 10:23 PM (SjAWL)
"Ten, 20, 30, 40, 50 or more." 🎶
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 03:31 AM (faghi)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 24, 2026 03:34 AM (D0X9e)
Posted by: m
My best friend had the 45. We listened to it almost every day! And "Windy"
Everyone knows it's Windy!!! bump bump bump bump...
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 03:38 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 03:09 AM (rdVOm)
MPAI, laziness and The Deservening. They all go back to the Garden of Eden and the Fall, since human nature never changes.
Most People Are Idiots. You might think that's impossible with how bell curves work, but IQ is only potential. Most people don't even use the brains God gave them.
Every cheater has the same reason: "I *deserve* it." Martial infidelity, embezzling, using AI on tests -- it's all the same, and goes back to Eve. She *deserved* to have the Knowledge of Good and Evil, and decide for herself what was right. To this day, The Deservening is the source of much evil.
Adam, however, was a lazy git who had the opposite failing. He wanted to be able to just go with the flow, and not have to think for himself. Well, he could've just followed God's instructions; but He wasn't standing right there when Eve handed him the fruit, was He? (Spoiler: it was Adam who wasn't thinking of Him, not the other way around.) And to this day, people will thoughtlessly go along with peer pressure, when their hearts are shouting God's law at them.
This has all happened before, and it will all happen again.
Posted by: SciVo at July 24, 2026 03:45 AM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 03:51 AM (rdVOm)
Carnegie did not force you to buy the books.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 10:39 PM (/+uur)
The false choice argument of Socialism. Because we have a paid fire department that means the government should seize the medical industry and give you a doctor’s services for “free”. Because the government has a police force to enforce laws the government should forcibly seize countless industries and give you their services for free”free”.
It’s a false choice: Statism/Socialism or anarchy.
I wonder if this dummy has any idea how much of the United States is covered by the protection of VFDs.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2026 03:54 AM (pKv0r)
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 03:55 AM (rdVOm)
I just never liked Snoopy that much after realizing that. Sorry.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 23, 2026 10:47 PM (CHHv1)
Snoopy was and is our fantasies. That’s it.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2026 03:56 AM (pKv0r)
Posted by: Orson at July 23, 2026 10:50 PM (dIske)
And even so, many of them operate for free…unless you donate money to them or attend one of their fundraisers.
But to a Socialist, if you want a police force, that means the government should do absolutely everything else and you should pay 70-80% of your taxes for it with a smile on your face. Socialism or anarchy, that is their argument.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2026 04:00 AM (pKv0r)
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 03:55 AM (rdVOm)
Volunteer Fire Departments
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2026 04:00 AM (pKv0r)
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2026 04:00 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2026 04:01 AM (pKv0r)
Yeah, the commie argument is all or nothing, really. You either want mommy gubmint or orphanhood.
Given the choice, I'd take anarchy. Easier to sort out, imo.
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 04:03 AM (rdVOm)
I eventually realized that the recurring pattern was the Daughters of Eve recapitulating her original sin, the Sons of Adam recapitulating his, and both going to great lengths to avoid God's curse. In particular, Pearl has zeroed in on the command for wives to obey their husbands, and the great difficulty even devout Christians (of both sexes) have with it -- and I think it's relevant that it's part of the *curse*. Both Adam and Eve would *hate* that.
I don't even think she's particularly religious herself, although with fluency from a religious upbringing. But her s***-stirring ends up pointing at eternal truths.
Posted by: SciVo at July 24, 2026 04:05 AM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2026 04:01 AM (pKv0r)
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There's a cure for that:
https://youtu.be/G2uCNd1AVJo
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 24, 2026 04:05 AM (D0X9e)
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 04:10 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: m
My best friend had the 45. We listened to it almost every day! And "Windy"
Everyone knows it's Windy!!! bump bump bump bump...
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 03:38 AM (rdVOm)
new earworm!
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 04:22 AM (faghi)
Everyone knows it's Windy!!! bump bump bump bump...
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 03:38 AM (rdVOm)
new earworm!
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 04:22 AM (faghi)
In some of the lyrics, she's like the female version of a Greek god of wind.
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 04:28 AM (faghi)
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 04:30 AM (faghi)
Posted by: DinsdalePiranha at July 24, 2026 04:32 AM (EjK1h)
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 24, 2026 04:56 AM (pxyHa)
Posted by: raimondo at July 24, 2026 05:02 AM (Ql+6U)
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2026 06:31 AM (8l6/L)
But I thought you wrote: "I got a little nookie earlier today, so tonight I'm in the doghouse."
It might be worth being in the doghouse if you got a little nookie earlier today.
Posted by: Ralph at July 24, 2026 10:47 AM (8WZD4)
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