Reject Rescues Cafe

Richard Bernabe

Adopting a rejected four-day-old lamb.

Saving a sickly baby goat rejected by his mom. Don't worry, she gets better.

"Hakuna Matada, f***face!"

Training the cutest little baby attack dog.

Adopting an orphaned kitten off the street.

More of the baby elephant playing with his toy, a bike tire.

Lion wants the elephant to know that she's the apex predator here and the elephant says go f*** yourself in the face, Karen.

Woman helps injured porcupine while she's convalescing.

Dog tries to corral an escaped cow.

Orphaned raccoons follow a 19-year-old horse home.

The band Rush used to feature an introduction by Count Floyd. I can't understand why there aren't more female Rush fans.

She wanted to photograph the snow leopard she had raised and then released into its habitat to document the reintroduction... but the leopard in its natural habitat was "surprising”. pic.twitter.com/GwMR9mx8pV
— Gabriele Corno (@Gabriele_Corno) August 10, 2026

A couple of days ago I posted a colorized film of NYC in the 1940s.

This one is from the thirties.

Elephant reunited with its family..🐘😊 pic.twitter.com/Yaep3rdt6q
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) August 11, 2026

Friends come in all shapes and sizes..🐎🐾🐕😍 pic.twitter.com/td33tvV9Xq
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) August 11, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:30 PM

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1 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at August 11, 2026 07:33 PM (Ia/+0)

2 Sponge? Blade?

Posted by: Auspex at August 11, 2026 07:34 PM (Y8DZL)

3 Good evening, Skip. How’s Trix?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 11, 2026 07:35 PM (RK3Ss)

4 The band Rush used to feature an introduction by Count Floyd. I can't understand why there aren't more female Rush fans.

I saw that a couple of times, Count Floyd on the giant video screen. They also had Bob and Doug Mackenzie and some other Canadian celebs I can't remember. And they'd show their South Park appearance.

Posted by: Delurker at August 11, 2026 07:38 PM (2Drhq)

5 Sponge? Blade?

Need something hard and you have Moron rock-paper-scissors.

The Paulo?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 11, 2026 07:38 PM (RK3Ss)

6 Woohoo! Cafe!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 11, 2026 07:39 PM (VyBeY)

7 Still fighting off Mgid every once in awhile

Posted by: Skip at August 11, 2026 07:40 PM (Ia/+0)

8 I like elephants.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 11, 2026 07:41 PM (zZu0s)

9 You can tell that snow leopard's a native of the alpine, 'cause he sure wants to be mountin'.

Posted by: Delurker at August 11, 2026 07:41 PM (2Drhq)

10 I think I posted this painting before but it's the only one I had that somewhat matched the subject of one of the cafe videos. See nic.

Posted by: polynikes at August 11, 2026 07:41 PM (bvDnE)

11 Been a few music threads tthat the Etts are not Rush fans

Posted by: Skip at August 11, 2026 07:41 PM (Ia/+0)

12 King Floyd > Count Floyd

Posted by: Groove Me Baby! at August 11, 2026 07:41 PM (G5vcO)

13 King Floyd

Groovy.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 11, 2026 07:43 PM (RK3Ss)

14 Rush has also used South Park and Jerry Stiller for intros.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 11, 2026 07:43 PM (CNl8/)

15 polynikes that is awesome

Posted by: Skip at August 11, 2026 07:43 PM (Ia/+0)

16 Counts Rule, Barons drool!

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 11, 2026 07:44 PM (wVcYX)

17

Wow polynikes!! Beautiful

Posted by: four seasons at August 11, 2026 07:45 PM (/QHx4)

18 Allie the Calico Kitty Cat (the *other* cutest little cat of them all) and Chloe the Bengal Klutz are getting to know one another by chasing each other around the house.

Allie is currently playing the role of "predator" and Chloe is the "prey."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 11, 2026 07:46 PM (FZ29D)

19 That Rush video -- what were the 3D glasses for?

Posted by: Emmie at August 11, 2026 07:46 PM (OlzlW)

20 The snow leopard vid looked like AI.

Posted by: polynikes at August 11, 2026 07:47 PM (bvDnE)

21
Well, it's gonna be Darlin and either Ralph Norman or Russell Fry.

Fuckin' Mark Sanford is pulling 4th statewide, winning Charleston, and coming in second down there close. No chance he'll make the runoff, but still, after the Appalachian Trail and all that, he's still pulling votes.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 11, 2026 07:48 PM (w6EFb)

22 4 The band Rush used to feature an introduction by Count Floyd. I can't understand why there aren't more female Rush fans.

I saw that a couple of times, Count Floyd on the giant video screen. They also had Bob and Doug Mackenzie and some other Canadian celebs I can't remember. And they'd show their South Park appearance.

Posted by: Delurker
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Men and women are different and have different tastes on average across a lot of entertainment. Rush fans are a particular demographic of males and some females that like what Rush offers-intelligent lyrics, stellar musicianship, and a long career in music.

Others may like Taylor Swift. The two are not the same.

Posted by: whig at August 11, 2026 07:49 PM (E4rtv)

23 nice painting, polynikes!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 11, 2026 07:49 PM (VyBeY)

24 >>>I think I posted this painting before but it's the only one I had that somewhat matched the subject of one of the cafe videos. See nic.
Posted by: polynikes at August 11, 2026 07:41 PM (bvDnE)
*****
Amazing work polynikes, thank you for sharing.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at August 11, 2026 07:49 PM (21GCO)

25 Fuckin' Mark Sanford is pulling 4th statewide, winning Charleston, and coming in second down there close. No chance he'll make the runoff, but still, after the Appalachian Trail and all that, he's still pulling votes.
Posted by: publius
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That douchebag needs to be permanently flushed from politics. Has the political instincts of a rock.

Posted by: whig at August 11, 2026 07:50 PM (E4rtv)

26 There were two lady Rush fans in the late 70s, early 80s. Sadly one has passed away and the other is in Assisted Living.

Posted by: Joan Lunden For A Place For Mom at August 11, 2026 07:50 PM (JM9I6)

27 I've been to a ton of Prog band live shows and they're all sausage fests. I've seen YES countless times and they draw fewer females than Rush.

Posted by: Delurker at August 11, 2026 07:51 PM (2Drhq)

28 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/liQddCqCDY0

Neil Peart gives advice if your girlfriend hates Rush

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 11, 2026 07:51 PM (CNl8/)

29 Allie the Calico Kitty Cat (the *other* cutest little cat of them all) and Chloe the Bengal Klutz are getting to know one another by chasing each other around the house.

Allie is currently playing the role of "predator" and Chloe is the "prey."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 11, 2026 07:46 PM (FZ29D)

Mine will often swap sides when they get to one end of the house, and chase back to the first side.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 11, 2026 07:52 PM (uhVAy)

30

We lived in SC during the Sanford crap.

He has no shame. Go away

Posted by: four seasons at August 11, 2026 07:52 PM (/QHx4)

31 I can't understand why there aren't more female Rush fans.

Women like cats. Why would they want to listen to a cat being strangled?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 11, 2026 07:52 PM (ExV1e)

32 20 The snow leopard vid looked like AI.
Posted by: polynikes at August 11, 2026 07:47 PM (bvDnE)
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*dons monocle*
I concur.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 11, 2026 07:52 PM (HM3K9)

33
That Rush video -- what were the 3D glasses for?
Posted by: Emmie

Count Floyd showed 3D movies on Monster Chiller Horror Theater (an SCTV bit)

Posted by: Gabriel Peters at August 11, 2026 07:52 PM (Cqx++)

34 My mom collected Elephant figurines. It became easy to buy her gifts for Christmas, birthdays, Mother's Days , etc.

When she passed I had about 200 high quality elephant figurines and another hundred that were nice but not really worth anything. I could have sold the good ones on the intertubes but I'm lazy so I brought them to an antique shop for consignment sale. it's been a year and sold about half of them. Deal was 60/40. Wish I wasn't lazy.

Posted by: polynikes at August 11, 2026 07:53 PM (bvDnE)

35 Says it right up front: snow leopard video made with AI.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 11, 2026 07:53 PM (ZVgZ4)

36 Elephant! One of my favorite animals. Especially the baby ones.

Posted by: Case at August 11, 2026 07:53 PM (fV9m3)

37
Had a crown fall off my tooth. Scheduled to have it fixed tomorrow morning.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 11, 2026 07:53 PM (O0L8i)

38 "Why would they want to listen to a cat being strangled?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic"

👍!

Posted by: fd at August 11, 2026 07:54 PM (MWfyi)

39 Rush sucks.

Geddy Lee sounds like a cat being strangled.

Hate hate hate

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 11, 2026 07:54 PM (yEz+x)

40 Reminder, tweets by "Gabriele Corno" use unrelated but visually similar snippets to create fictitious narratives.

Posted by: Born Free at August 11, 2026 07:55 PM (raD1m)

41 Thanks for the nice feed back.

Posted by: polynikes at August 11, 2026 07:55 PM (bvDnE)

42 NY from the thirties.

And it hasn't been that clean since.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 11, 2026 07:55 PM (vOxCS)

43 I would like Rush more if it wasn't for the singing.

Posted by: fd at August 11, 2026 07:56 PM (MWfyi)

44 Who names an elephant Richard?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 11, 2026 07:56 PM (Ot/FD)

45 Pot roast, carnivore style.

Posted by: Eromero at August 11, 2026 07:56 PM (UYYJi)

46
Here in Greenville, Sanford is pulling 3rd, ahead of Fry, which surprises me. Norman has lead signficantly, 40%, with Darline 2nd at 22%. But just 17% of the votes are in.

Statewide, about 20% are in.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 11, 2026 07:56 PM (w6EFb)

47
Had a crown fall off my tooth. Scheduled to have it fixed tomorrow morning.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Hope there's enough tooth left to hold the crown.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 11, 2026 07:56 PM (Cqx++)

48 Count Floyd showed 3D movies on Monster Chiller Horror Theater (an SCTV bit)
Posted by: Gabriel Peters at August 11, 2026 07:52 PM (Cqx++

I thought there was going to be something during the song that the glasses would be used for.

Posted by: Emmie at August 11, 2026 07:56 PM (OlzlW)

49 19 That Rush video -- what were the 3D glasses for?
Posted by: Emmie

Count Floyd was always hawking the 3-D glasses, just send $26.
How else are you going to appreciate 3-D House of Stewardesses?

Posted by: Canadian Dollars Or 'Murican? at August 11, 2026 07:57 PM (JM9I6)

50 Check the snow leopard video on X. The video is captioned: made with AI.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 11, 2026 07:57 PM (ZVgZ4)

51 I voted for Norman this morning.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 11, 2026 07:57 PM (bWZYx)

52 Geddy Lee had at least one visit to The Great White North.

Posted by: Edith Prickley at August 11, 2026 07:58 PM (JM9I6)

53 ays it right up front: snow leopard video made with AI.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 11, 2026 07:53 PM (ZVgZ4)

Me no see

Posted by: polynikes at August 11, 2026 07:58 PM (bvDnE)

54 Heh

Shoulda read the comments before commenting. Oh well.

Shoot me.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 11, 2026 07:58 PM (yEz+x)

55 Everyone's a critic.

Posted by: Ai Wei-Wei at August 11, 2026 07:58 PM (Ot/FD)

56 Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez splits from fiancé Riley Roberts. -TMZ

She's available, boys.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 11, 2026 07:58 PM (CNl8/)

57 25 Fuckin' Mark Sanford is pulling 4th
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Did they throw him and his lover out of Argentina?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 11, 2026 07:58 PM (vOxCS)

58 Youtube is full of AI generated crap now.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 11, 2026 07:59 PM (Cqx++)

59 Shoot me.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 11, 2026 07:58 PM (yEz+x)

Bang.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 11, 2026 07:59 PM (ExV1e)

60 Rush fans are a particular demographic of males and some females that like what Rush offers-intelligent lyrics, stellar musicianship, and a long career in music.

Others may like Taylor Swift. The two are not the same.
Posted by: whig at August 11, 2026 07:49 PM (E4rtv)

OK, lol, but there are other kinds, than just those two.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 11, 2026 07:59 PM (zYpTz)

61 "The good news is i'm spending all your money on freezing my eggs.

The bad news is you still can't fertilize them."

Oof. Fuckin' hell, Sandy. Way to kick a guy in the nuts.

At least she can't get alimony from the poor dipshit.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 11, 2026 08:00 PM (Ot/FD)

62 Had a crown fall off my tooth. Scheduled to have it fixed tomorrow morning.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Clean it. Super Glue Gel. Bite Down. Done.

Posted by: Saved A Bundle at August 11, 2026 08:00 PM (JM9I6)

63 My mom collected Elephant figurines. It became easy to buy her gifts for Christmas, birthdays, Mother's Days , etc.

When she passed I had about 200 high quality elephant figurines and another hundred that were nice but not really worth anything. I could have sold the good ones on the intertubes but I'm lazy so I brought them to an antique shop for consignment sale. it's been a year and sold about half of them. Deal was 60/40. Wish I wasn't lazy.
Posted by: polynikes at August 11, 2026 07:53 PM (bvDnE)

If you haven't done so already, take a gander at Nick Fox's YT channel, Millennial Inheritance. 377 videos of situations like yours.
https://tinyurl.com/Nick-Fox-YT

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 11, 2026 08:00 PM (wVcYX)

64 I like that an elephant's finishing attack move is, "proceed forward".

Posted by: banana Dream at August 11, 2026 08:00 PM (3uBP9)

65 56 Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez splits from fiancé Riley Roberts. -TMZ
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He left her a long time ago. She was interfering with his love life.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 11, 2026 08:00 PM (vOxCS)

66
Fuckin' Mark Sanford is pulling 4th
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Did they throw him and his lover out of Argentina?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others

He ought to move to Los Angeles and buy a junkyard.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 11, 2026 08:01 PM (Cqx++)

67
New York in the 1930s. Needs more homeless encampments, squeegee guys and "street artists".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 11, 2026 08:01 PM (O0L8i)

68 It doesn't say AI if you watch the vid direct from aos. At least from what I says.

Posted by: polynikes at August 11, 2026 08:01 PM (bvDnE)

69 There's probably some type of female that likes Rush AND Taylor Swift. Take caution though, and be sure to check the eyes.

Posted by: fd at August 11, 2026 08:01 PM (MWfyi)

70 Rush fans are a particular demographic of males and some females that like what Rush offers-intelligent lyrics, stellar musicianship, and a long career in music.

So... kind of like Babymetal if the girls in Babymetal were unattractive, didn't do a choreo routine to metal, and the lead singer were painful to listen to.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 11, 2026 08:02 PM (ExV1e)

71 62 Had a crown fall off my tooth. Scheduled to have it fixed tomorrow morning.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Clean it. Super Glue Gel. Bite Down. Done.
Posted by: Saved A Bundle at August 11, 2026 08:00 PM (JM9I6)

And the money you save can go towards treating your crippling mandible infection!

Hooray!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 11, 2026 08:02 PM (Ot/FD)

72 60 Rush fans are a particular demographic of males and some females that like what Rush offers-intelligent lyrics, stellar musicianship, and a long career in music.

Others may like Taylor Swift. The two are not the same.
Posted by: whig
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But neither represent what one would call mature music.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 11, 2026 08:02 PM (vOxCS)

73
He called off the engagement with the Argentine Firecracker way back. Didn't last.

He's still single, ladies.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 11, 2026 08:02 PM (w6EFb)

74 Geddy Lee's nose is even more impressive viewed with 3-D glasses.

Posted by: Nostrildamus.. at August 11, 2026 08:02 PM (JM9I6)

75 Posted by: Count de Monet at August 11, 2026 08:00 PM (wVcYX)

Thanks for the info.

Posted by: polynikes at August 11, 2026 08:02 PM (bvDnE)

76 Clean it. Super Glue Gel. Bite Down. Done.
Posted by: Saved A Bundle at August 11, 2026 08:00 PM (JM9I6)

You can buy dental glue at most pharmacies. Not too expensive. I'd still see the dentist, though.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 11, 2026 08:03 PM (ExV1e)

77 There's probably some type of female that likes Rush AND Taylor Swift. Take caution though, and be sure to check the eyes.
Posted by: fd at August 11, 2026 08:01 PM (MWfyi)

Don't Touch Me !

Posted by: polynikes at August 11, 2026 08:03 PM (bvDnE)

78 I had a crown come off a tooth. I got some stuff from a drugstore to put it on temporarily. Told my dentist about it and he laughed and said "So you're a dentist now". Didn't do anything with it. It held for ten years. It's the same cement they use.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 11, 2026 08:04 PM (bkuEU)

79 He said "baby the juice ain't worth the squeeze" and she said "that's alright baby I hate juice. Free Palestine!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 11, 2026 08:04 PM (Ot/FD)

80 4 The band Rush used to feature an introduction by Count Floyd. I can't understand why there aren't more female Rush fans.

I saw that a couple of times, Count Floyd on the giant video screen. They also had Bob and Doug Mackenzie and some other Canadian celebs I can't remember. And they'd show their South Park appearance.

Posted by: Delurker at August 11, 2026 07:38 PM (2Drhq)

They counted seven one time at a concert. It was a record.

The shortest line to the women’s restroom at any public event or facility has been and always will be at a Rush concert.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 11, 2026 08:04 PM (4g5V+)

81 "I can't understand why there aren't more female Rush fans."

Chicks aren't big into going from 7/4 to 4/4 to 6/8 to 13/8 to 5/4 to... in one song. Girls just wanna have fun, not do natural science.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 11, 2026 08:04 PM (DZ9Lv)

82 And the money you save can go towards treating your crippling mandible infection!

Hooray!
Posted by: Warai-otoko

I said clean it!

Posted by: Safety Patrol at August 11, 2026 08:04 PM (JM9I6)

83
Geddy Lee's nose is even more impressive viewed with 3-D glasses.
Posted by: Nostrildamus..

Looks like Angine de Poitrine.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 11, 2026 08:05 PM (Cqx++)

84 I said clean it!
Posted by: Safety Patrol at August 11, 2026 08:04 PM (JM9I6)

Swished it under the faucet and everything

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 11, 2026 08:05 PM (Ot/FD)

85 Walmart, Walgreens, etc sell tooth kits that allow you to put an airtight, functioning (you can chew and drink) cover over that exposed tooth.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 11, 2026 08:05 PM (vOxCS)

86 66
Fuckin' Mark Sanford is pulling 4th
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Did they throw him and his lover out of Argentina?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others

He ought to move to Los Angeles and buy a junkyard.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 11, 2026 08:01 PM (Cqx++)

Yeah, except he’s a little too pale.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 11, 2026 08:05 PM (4g5V+)

87 I could not name a Rush song and I can't stand Taylor Swift. Last modern group I really listened to is "Dire Straits".

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 11, 2026 08:05 PM (Tgq0P)

88 Youtube is full of AI generated crap now.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 11, 2026 07:59 PM (Cqx++)

Somebody ought to start a video-sharing site, and call it TrueTube. No AI permitted at all. No ads, and no "monetizing". You post a video, and it gets a million views? You get, get this, fuck all. You want to to use a portion of your video time to sell merch, beg for donations, or promote a sponsor, fine, do that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 11, 2026 08:06 PM (1z8ji)

89 You can't really dance to Rush, just move around like a spaz, so I suppose that might have something to do with it.

Posted by: fd at August 11, 2026 08:07 PM (MWfyi)

90 43 I would like Rush more if it wasn't for the singing.
Posted by: fd at August 11, 2026 07:56 PM (MWfyi)

I don't like a lot of the compositions. Yes, they are musically complex, and I can appreciate that. But a lot of Rush music is awkward ear worms (lookin' at you, Free Will, Tom Sawyer, and others). They are not melodic nor pleasant to have in my head.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 11, 2026 08:07 PM (zYpTz)

91 Funny. Hadrian is wed to Her Majesty, yet he has the crown.

Posted by: The Royal Jools at August 11, 2026 08:07 PM (JM9I6)

92 Somebody ought to start a video-sharing site, and call it TrueTube. No AI permitted at all. No ads, and no "monetizing". You post a video, and it gets a million views? You get, get this, fuck all. You want to to use a portion of your video time to sell merch, beg for donations, or promote a sponsor, fine, do that.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 11, 2026 08:06 PM (1z8ji)

How would you pay for developing the site, policing that there was no AI or pedo stuff, and paying for the bandwidth?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 11, 2026 08:07 PM (ExV1e)

93 89 You can't really dance to Rush, just move around like a spaz, so I suppose that might have something to do with it.
Posted by: fd at August 11, 2026 08:07 PM (MWfyi)

Eh, that's how I dance to everything.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 11, 2026 08:08 PM (Ot/FD)

94 As a friend of mine once told me, the day Rush is appreciated will come a few years after the last surviving member of the band dies.

They will be loved only when they are gone. (H/t, Nightwish)

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 11, 2026 08:08 PM (4g5V+)

95 Looks like Angine de Poitrine.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 11, 2026 08:05 PM (Cqx++)

Is that "extra gravy" or "extra cheese curds" on the fries?

Posted by: Kindltot at August 11, 2026 08:09 PM (rbvCR)

96 I bet a chick could belt out rush lyrics pretty well, right in their upper soprano. Or, a chick Rush cover band. Get some altos and mezzos in there.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 11, 2026 08:09 PM (3uBP9)

97 But a lot of Rush music is awkward ear worms (lookin' at you, Free Will, Tom Sawyer, and others). They are not melodic nor pleasant to have in my head.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!

Those are two of Rush's best songs. The fills in Tom Sawyer are classic. And how can you not love a song about choosing bathyspheres?

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 11, 2026 08:09 PM (DZ9Lv)

98 Wow, polynikes.

That’s really cool. Do you sell any of your work?

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 11, 2026 08:10 PM (yEz+x)

99 I have to get up extra eary
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at August 11, 2026 08:10 PM (Ia/+0)

100 I had a crown come off a tooth. I got some stuff from a drugstore to put it on temporarily. Told my dentist about it and he laughed and said "So you're a dentist now". Didn't do anything with it. It held for ten years. It's the same cement they use.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

I don't think they use cement anymore. Last time I had a crown put on they used an adhesive that required some kind of light wand to cure it.

Posted by: Tuna at August 11, 2026 08:10 PM (lJ0H4)

101 96 I bet a chick could belt out rush lyrics pretty well, right in their upper soprano. Or, a chick Rush cover band. Get some altos and mezzos in there.
Posted by: banana Dream at August 11, 2026 08:09 PM (3uBP9)

All female Rush cover band?

What are they called, "I'm just getting my makeup on stop yelling"?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 11, 2026 08:11 PM (Ot/FD)

102
They will be loved only when they are gone. (H/t, Nightwish)

Posted by: Cow Demon
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And loved that they are gone.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 11, 2026 08:11 PM (vOxCS)

103 How would you pay for developing the site, policing that there was no AI or pedo stuff, and paying for the bandwidth?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 11, 2026 08:07 PM (ExV1e)

Volume.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 11, 2026 08:11 PM (1z8ji)

104 She's available, boys.
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 11, 2026 07:58 PM (CNl8/)

I’d have to drink three six packs just to look at her face (h/t, Anthrax).

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 11, 2026 08:11 PM (4g5V+)

105 Those are two of Rush's best songs. The fills in Tom Sawyer are classic. And how can you not love a song about choosing bathyspheres?
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 11, 2026 08:09 PM (DZ9Lv)

I didn't say they're not good. I just don't find them pleasant to listen to. And then those weird tunes stick in my head, and I can't get them out, and it's 3 am and I still can't sleep because of them. That's all.

Dire Straits definitely more my speed, Fen.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 11, 2026 08:13 PM (zYpTz)

106 100 I had a crown come off a tooth. I got some stuff from a drugstore to put it on temporarily. Told my dentist about it and he laughed and said "So you're a dentist now". Didn't do anything with it. It held for ten years. It's the same cement they use.
Posted by: Notsothoreau
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It was a week and a half before my appointment.
By the time I had the appointment I was thinking, 'and I'm paying how much for this?'.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 11, 2026 08:13 PM (vOxCS)

107 I bet a chick could belt out rush lyrics pretty well, right in their upper soprano. Or, a chick Rush cover band. Get some altos and mezzos in there.
Posted by: banana Dream

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fFGdl3_k0Q

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 11, 2026 08:13 PM (DZ9Lv)

108
Norman and Fry remain neck and neck for 2nd place with about 32% of statewide votes in.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 11, 2026 08:13 PM (w6EFb)

109 I've been to a ton of Prog band live shows and they're all sausage fests. I've seen YES countless times and they draw fewer females than Rush.
Posted by: Delurker

Dream Theater, same. The few gals there all had their "I'm here with my boyfriend and he owes me one now" faces on.

Posted by: mikeski at August 11, 2026 08:14 PM (VHUov)

110 59 Shoot me.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 11, 2026 07:58 PM (yEz+x)

Bang.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Missed.

Fundamentals.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 11, 2026 08:15 PM (yEz+x)

111 And loved that they are gone.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 11, 2026 08:11 PM (vOxCS)

You will listen to them at that point, and then say “This is awesome! When are they going on tour?” I’ll be nearby to tell you the truth: no more. They came, they dropped a ton of genius music, and left, and now are off the mortal coil. All that we have left are the recordings and the memories of those who appreciated them while they were here.

At which point the tears start to flow.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 11, 2026 08:15 PM (4g5V+)

112 I like that an elephant's finishing attack move is, "proceed forward".
Posted by: banana Dream

Elephant used Freakin' Big!

It's super effective!

Posted by: mikeski at August 11, 2026 08:17 PM (VHUov)

113 Missed.

Fundamentals.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 11, 2026 08:15 PM (yEz+x)

That's fair. I should practice more.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 11, 2026 08:19 PM (ExV1e)

114 AOC is available now?

Posted by: Sir Mix-A-Lot at August 11, 2026 08:19 PM (Q+gd/)

115 "Dance, Dance, Dance" is a song by the American rock band the Beach Boys from their 1965 album Beach Boys Today! Written by Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson, and Mike Love, it was first issued as a single in October 1964, backed with "The Warmth of the Sun".

"Dance, Dance, Dance" marked Carl's first recognized writing contribution to a Beach Boys single, his contribution being the song's primary guitar riff and solo.

"Dance, Dance, Dance" was composed by Brian and Carl Wilson, while the lyrics were written by Brian and Mike Love. Although many pop songs raise their key at the start of a final chorus, "Dance, Dance, Dance" subverts this convention by modulating in the middle of the verse.

As performed by The Fendertones, a quality father & son Beach Boys tribute band.
https://youtu.be/I3vs06IhjIo

Chicks are dancing their balls off to this one.

Posted by: Count de Monet copies Wiki at August 11, 2026 08:19 PM (wVcYX)

116 Rush was initially at least a serious stoner/pothead band.
A little more cerebral than the Zeppelin or later AC/DC crew.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 11, 2026 08:19 PM (/TJTM)

117 You will listen to them at that point, and then say “This is awesome! When are they going on tour?” I’ll be nearby to tell you the truth: no more. They came, they dropped a ton of genius music, and left, and now are off the mortal coil. All that we have left are the recordings and the memories of those who appreciated them while they were here.

At which point the tears start to flow.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 11, 2026 08:15 PM (4g5V+)

You have a rich fantasy life.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 11, 2026 08:20 PM (ExV1e)

118

U tube has a video of a cat running a black bear out of a yard in BC.

Pretty cool cat.

Posted by: four seasons at August 11, 2026 08:20 PM (/QHx4)

119
Elephant used Freakin' Big!

It's super effective!
Posted by: mikeski

Quantity has a quality of its own.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 11, 2026 08:21 PM (Cqx++)

120 Damn I thought I joined a Nickleback bashing thread but it's only Rush.

Posted by: polynikes at August 11, 2026 08:21 PM (bvDnE)

121 That’s really cool. Do you sell any of your work?
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 11, 2026 08:10 PM (yEz+x)

I do but I don't market it.

Posted by: polynikes at August 11, 2026 08:22 PM (bvDnE)

122 "Rush was initially at least a serious stoner/pothead band."

Then Alex and Geddy found coke. I think Neil stayed with the pot. He was the cerebral one.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 11, 2026 08:22 PM (DZ9Lv)

123 107 I bet a chick could belt out rush lyrics pretty well, right in their upper soprano. Or, a chick Rush cover band. Get some altos and mezzos in there.
Posted by: banana Dream

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fFGdl3_k0Q

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal
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Cheeky.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 11, 2026 08:23 PM (vOxCS)

124 Exactly 250 years ago to the day (August 10), King George III of Great Britain found out that the American colonies, through the Continental Congress, had declared themselves free and independent states.

fucking wankers
go kill them

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 11, 2026 08:24 PM (/+uur)

125 I don't think they use cement anymore. Last time I had a crown put on they used an adhesive that required some kind of light wand to cure it.
Posted by: Tuna at August 11, 2026 08:10 PM (lJ0H4)
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Dental adhesive is pretty amazing stuff. According to my dentist, it actually forms a chemical bond with your tooth enamel. The downside is if a filling becomes cracked, that will take away some of the tooth enamel with it.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 11, 2026 08:25 PM (FZ29D)

126 Quantity has a quality of its own.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 11, 2026 08:21 PM (Cqx++)

I believe Bulg would agree.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 11, 2026 08:25 PM (wVcYX)

127 Hilldog or K George

“When subjects, forgetting the duties of obedience and gratitude, presume to arraign their lawful Sovereign before the tribunal of their own passions, it becomes necessary—not for the vindication of authority, which stands secure in God’s ordinance—but for the instruction of the misled and the correction of error, that the Crown should speak plainly,”

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 11, 2026 08:25 PM (/+uur)

128 Orphaned kitten is adorable and ( although I'm
Not interested in dating her ) the girl is cute too.

Our kitten is hilarious but exhausting . He's clearly never been used to living in a house before although he knows about a litter box. . I just came into a room and he hopped out of a bag on the floor. It started me .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 11, 2026 08:25 PM (DzHyO)

129 Oh no!

TMZ
@TMZ
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez splits from fiancé Riley Roberts.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 11, 2026 08:26 PM (ndZc7)

130 By that, I meant the fans. Every pothead longhair had a "Rush" T-shirt, it was practically a uniform.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 11, 2026 08:27 PM (/TJTM)

131 56 Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez splits from fiancé Riley Roberts. -TMZ

She's available, boys.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 11, 2026 07:58 PM (CNl8/)

I married crazy once, long ago. Not doing it again.

I saw this coming when I noticed that she was freezing eggs and not embryos. Keeping her options open.

Or maybe he's had enough of her shit and took a hike.

Posted by: a.moron at August 11, 2026 08:27 PM (X5Jzz)

132 “When subjects, forgetting the duties of obedience and gratitude, presume to arraign their lawful Sovereign before the tribunal of their own passions, it becomes necessary—not for the vindication of authority, which stands secure in God’s ordinance—but for the instruction of the misled and the correction of error, that the Crown should speak plainly,”
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 11, 2026 08:25 PM (/+uur)

Six years later...

"They say to blow it out your ass, Your Majesty." -- General Charles Cornwallis

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 11, 2026 08:28 PM (ExV1e)

133 Or maybe he's had enough of her shit and took a hike.

Posted by: a.moron

Hope he fixed her garbage disposal before taking a hike.

Posted by: Waste King at August 11, 2026 08:29 PM (JM9I6)

134 62 Had a crown fall off my tooth. Scheduled to have it fixed tomorrow morning.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Clean it. Super Glue Gel. Bite Down. Done.

Posted by: Saved A Bundle at August 11, 2026 08:00 PM (JM9I6)

I'm as much a "Mr FixIt" as anyone, and a cheap bastard too, but I wouldn't consider doing that.

Posted by: a.moron at August 11, 2026 08:29 PM (X5Jzz)

135 Our kitten is hilarious but exhausting . He's clearly never been used to living in a house before although he knows about a litter box. . I just came into a room and he hopped out of a bag on the floor. It started me .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 11, 2026 08:25 PM (DzHyO)
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It doesn't take long for cats to figure out the litter box.

Chloe found a suitable litter box within minutes of arriving at my home.

Of course, she'd been holding it in for seven hours in my car until that point, so that may have had something to do with it.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 11, 2026 08:29 PM (FZ29D)

136 Or maybe he's had enough of her shit and took a hike.

Posted by: a.moron at August 11, 2026 08:27 PM (X5Jzz)
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That would be my guess. How long had they been engaged? More than a year? Two years?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 11, 2026 08:31 PM (FZ29D)

137 84 I said clean it!
Posted by: Safety Patrol at August 11, 2026 08:04 PM (JM9I6)

Swished it under the faucet and everything

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 11, 2026 08:05 PM (Ot/FD)

Swish some Everclear around in your mouth first, then swallow the Everclear for "pain management".

Posted by: a.moron at August 11, 2026 08:32 PM (X5Jzz)

138 Rush is an acquired taste. I get why some people really dislike them.

But as a general rule, women have a pretty juvenile taste in music. My wife is an exception, she has good taste. Most of the women I've ever known are stuck with a 14yo's musical palate. They want something with a beat you can dance to, and pop lyrics that aren't too challenging.

Where a man might want a nice musical bourbon, they want some 99 bananas.

Sorry, not sorry. It is what it is.

*prepares for incoming*

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 11, 2026 08:33 PM (sU/8L)

139 Catering Cart-Gate.

Seth Abramson
@SethAbramson
Here’s a NYT image of the President of the United States fleeing Turkey *inside an airport catering cart* as he leaves members of his own staff and the entire White House traveling press pool to die in a warned-of Iranian military attack over Turkey
Impeach this m*therfucker now

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 11, 2026 08:33 PM (ndZc7)

140

Fuck off Seth

Posted by: four seasons at August 11, 2026 08:34 PM (/QHx4)

141 Dentists been messing with us for generations. Every visit they say "Bite down". Any idiot knows that only the lower mandible moves, biting up is correct.

Posted by: Moose Jaw, SK at August 11, 2026 08:34 PM (JM9I6)

142 Dental adhesive is pretty amazing stuff. According to my dentist, it actually forms a chemical bond with your tooth enamel. The downside is if a filling becomes cracked, that will take away some of the tooth enamel with it.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

21st century dentistry. Can't beat it.

Posted by: Tuna at August 11, 2026 08:34 PM (lJ0H4)

143 AoC freezing eggs is to motherhood what 2 dudes going to Moms and Margaritas first day of kids in school is to fatherhood.

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 11, 2026 08:34 PM (/+uur)

144 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 11, 2026 08:29

Good for Chloe. Glad she got some relief It's a nice name too!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 11, 2026 08:34 PM (DzHyO)

145 Swish some Everclear around in your mouth first, then swallow the Everclear for "pain management".
Posted by: a.moron

=====

Better listen to him, Flounder. He's in pre-med

Posted by: 2009Refugee at August 11, 2026 08:35 PM (4HoLg)

146 Dentists been messing with us for generations. Every visit they say "Bite down". Any idiot knows that only the lower mandible moves, biting up is correct.
Posted by: Moose Jaw, SK at August 11, 2026 08:34 PM (JM9I6)

Glorified barbers, they is.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 11, 2026 08:36 PM (wVcYX)

147 Yeah, the light thing dentists use is a scam. It's just to drive up the bill. Don't fall for it.

Posted by: Tried And True 3M Adhesives at August 11, 2026 08:36 PM (JM9I6)

148 Enes Kanter Freedom said on Tuesday he’s officially begun his “transition” to a WNBA player

He will be the 4th or 5th most manly looking player in the WNBA

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 11, 2026 08:36 PM (/+uur)

149 21st century dentistry. Can't beat it.
Posted by: Tuna at August 11, 2026 08:34 PM (lJ0H4)
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It really is amazing.

I had to get a root canal not that long ago.

Barely felt a thing. The procedure was amazing. Over and done with in about 15 minutes.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 11, 2026 08:36 PM (FZ29D)

150 Seth Abramson needs a fainting couch .

How dare Trump be surrounded by SS agents and pulled from the stage while gun fire was erupting leaving his staff and audience to die !!

Posted by: polynikes at August 11, 2026 08:37 PM (bvDnE)

151
This race, minus Darline, is pure regional politics. Ralph Norman is taking the upstate and Fry is taking his district, with Darline roughly second.

Sanford is the spoiler in the Low Country, with that spoilage bleeding up into the Midlands a bit. Norman and Fry are sort of tied below Darline and Sanford.

So, the 2nd place winner will be the Upstate vs the Pee Dee balance of votes for their guy.

If Sanford wasn't in, the Low Country and Midlands could've still split the vote between Norman and Fry, but they could've swung if they wanted to.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 11, 2026 08:37 PM (w6EFb)

152 *sigh

No raptors...

Posted by: runner at August 11, 2026 08:37 PM (g47mK)

153 As performed by The Fendertones, a quality father & son Beach Boys tribute band.
https://youtu.be/I3vs06IhjIo

10 out of 10 ... well done !

Posted by: browndog says woof at August 11, 2026 08:37 PM (3sXRv)

154 I...may be permanently scarred now. Browsing Reddit, there was an ad with a cute Asian woman in underwear rolling around on a bed. TomBoyX underwear...a little weird, because she doesn't look like a tomboy, but whatever.

Wait...it says it's "tucking" underwear, tested on "tucking" models?!?!?!?

🤮

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 11, 2026 08:38 PM (d8zZq)

155 Hi friends!

Posted by: Piper at August 11, 2026 08:39 PM (ZdaMQ)

156
56% of the vote in, and I'm gonna bet it's gonna be Norman who takes 2nd, so the run-off will be Darline and Norman.

I'm halfway gonna think Norman may just win that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 11, 2026 08:39 PM (w6EFb)

157 Evenin’, All.

Snow leopards are frickin’ awesome.

Posted by: Bulg at August 11, 2026 08:40 PM (77rzZ)

158 141 Dentists been messing with us for generations. Every visit they say "Bite down". Any idiot knows that only the lower mandible moves, biting up is correct.

Posted by: Moose Jaw, SK at August 11, 2026 08:34 PM (JM9I6)

I'll try to remember to correct my dentist next time I see him.

Posted by: a.moron at August 11, 2026 08:40 PM (X5Jzz)

159 155 Hey, Piper!

Posted by: Bulg at August 11, 2026 08:41 PM (77rzZ)

160 >>>
Wait...it says it's "tucking" underwear, tested on "tucking" models?!?!?!?

🤮

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brough
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Maid in Thailand.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 11, 2026 08:42 PM (vOxCS)

161 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty wasn't that good as a story but the cinematography was up there as the best I've ever scene. The Snow Leopard scene towards the end was good.

Posted by: polynikes at August 11, 2026 08:43 PM (KC5Lt)

162 DSA It is our turn to try it now
Will you lie and cheat yes
Will you let criminals kill citizens yes
Will you end policing of criminals killing citizens yes
Will you take property without courts yes
Will you end civil rights yes

Seems to be a great plan.

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 11, 2026 08:43 PM (/+uur)

163
Her Majesty has a BCOA board meeting right now. She asked me to pick up some liquor for her when I made a run out this afternoon.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 11, 2026 08:43 PM (O0L8i)

164 I mean, where will the eventual successor band find a cat that can withstand that kind of torture.

The thing is Gaddy Lee's voice just kills me. It is so sharp as to be almost tonal to my ear. The thing is when I listen to a cover of a song, I still hear his fucking voice in my head.

Its like Sean Hannity or Ben Shapiro. Nope, cant listen to it.

Dont like it. No sir. But you can enjoy it all you like.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 11, 2026 08:45 PM (zZu0s)

165

One of the jr high boys next door is selling raffle tickets for guns. The money benefits the local youth football league. We bought several.

Wyoming!! What a great state.

Posted by: four seasons at August 11, 2026 08:47 PM (/QHx4)

166 Wait...it says it's "tucking" underwear, tested on "tucking" models?!?!?!?

🤮
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 11, 2026 08:38 PM (d8zZq)

*cue Crying Game music*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 11, 2026 08:47 PM (zZu0s)

167 142 Dental adhesive is pretty amazing stuff. According to my dentist, it actually forms a chemical bond with your tooth enamel. The downside is if a filling becomes cracked, that will take away some of the tooth enamel with it.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

21st century dentistry. Can't beat it.

Posted by: Tuna at August 11, 2026 08:34 PM (lJ0H4)

Modern dentistry is one of the many reasons I feel blessed to have been born in the second half of the twentieth century.

Along with indoor plumbing, the vast and varied availability of food, modern medicine, vaccines, modern transportation and communications, and a hundred other things that make our daily lives infinitely better than just a couple of generations ago.

We are truly blessed to be alive today.

Posted by: a.moron at August 11, 2026 08:47 PM (X5Jzz)

168
And they've called it, Darline and Norman in the runoff.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 11, 2026 08:48 PM (w6EFb)

169 If the Three Stooges and W.C. Fields could do a credible job as a dentist, it can't be all that hard.

Posted by: Dr. I.B. Yankem, DDS at August 11, 2026 08:48 PM (JM9I6)

170 145 Swish some Everclear around in your mouth first, then swallow the Everclear for "pain management".
Posted by: a.moron

=====

Better listen to him, Flounder. He's in pre-med

Posted by: 2009Refugee at August 11, 2026 08:35 PM (4HoLg)

I though I was pre-law?

Posted by: a.moron at August 11, 2026 08:48 PM (X5Jzz)

171 166 Wait...it says it's "tucking" underwear, tested on "tucking" models?!?!?!?

🤮
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 11, 2026 08:38 PM (d8zZq)

*cue Crying Game music*
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Lola. L O L A Lola....

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at the local karaoke bar at August 11, 2026 08:49 PM (d8zZq)

172 I like Norman's chances.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 11, 2026 08:50 PM (bWZYx)

173
Lola. L O L A Lola....
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at the local karaoke bar at August 11, 2026 08:49 PM (d8zZq)

'Tastes just like cherry cola'

Iirc the lyrics correctly.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 11, 2026 08:51 PM (zZu0s)

174 Wait...it says it's "tucking" underwear, tested on "tucking" models?!?!?!?

🤮
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 11, 2026 08:38 PM (d8zZq)
---
This is why the rest of us stay safely inside the boundaries of AoSHQ.

Once we step outside the blog, there's no telling what horrors we'll face!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 11, 2026 08:51 PM (FZ29D)

175 Her Majesty has a BCOA board meeting right now. She asked me to pick up some liquor for her when I made a run out this afternoon.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

LOL. What did you buy her?

Posted by: Tuna at August 11, 2026 08:51 PM (lJ0H4)

176 Better listen to him, Flounder. He's in pre-med

Posted by: 2009Refugee at August 11, 2026 08:35 PM (4HoLg)

I though I was pre-law?
Posted by: a.moron

It's all fine as long as you aren't pre-diabetic.

Posted by: Wilford Brimley at August 11, 2026 08:51 PM (d8zZq)

177 I can't understand why there ~~aren't more female~~ are any Rush fans.

FIFY.

Posted by: Big Penguin at August 11, 2026 08:52 PM (epk1g)

178 LOL. What did you buy her?
Posted by: Tuna

ValuRight.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 11, 2026 08:52 PM (bWZYx)

179 Modern dentistry is one of the many reasons I feel blessed to have been born in the second half of the twentieth century.

Along with indoor plumbing, the vast and varied availability of food, modern medicine, vaccines, modern transportation and communications, and a hundred other things that make our daily lives infinitely better than just a couple of generations ago.

We are truly blessed to be alive today.

Posted by: a.moron
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Conveniences almost beyond imagination.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 11, 2026 08:52 PM (XeU6L)

180 178 LOL. What did you buy her?
Posted by: Tuna

ValuRight.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

That's not what the ladies like!

Posted by: Boone's Farm, Bartels and James, White Claw, etc at August 11, 2026 08:53 PM (d8zZq)

181 But neither represent what one would call mature music.

Posted by: Braenyard

Depends on what you call mature, I cannot stand opera singing for example--I can appreciate the raw talent needed to sing like that at volume but I don't care to listen to it. Not too fond of cRAP either but I can see why others like it. Techno bores me.

Other than that, I can listen to Sousa marches, classical in whatever format, jazz although some of the bebop is not my favorite, rock, pop, country, even folk music. So mature is simply a term in the case of music is what I like is mature and what I don't like is immature.

FWIW, classical piano trained as a yute for years--hands too small to be a great pianist though. So I played boogie woogie when teacher was outside the room.

Posted by: whig at August 11, 2026 08:54 PM (E4rtv)

182 YD,
I love NeilYoung, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty

Their voices are not optimal. The music and lyrics are.

But I just can’t get past Geddy Lee. It’s so bad.

I love love love Billy Bragg and Wilco.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 11, 2026 08:55 PM (zFqBN)

183 Edgar Buchanan (Uncle Joe, movin' kinda' slow) was a dentist.

Posted by: So Was His Wife at August 11, 2026 08:57 PM (JM9I6)

184 So I played boogie woogie when teacher was outside the room.
Posted by: whig at August 11, 2026 08:54 PM

Boogie-woogie has some dedicated fans in Europe. I ran into a guy from Amsterdam once who talked my ear off after somehow I revealed I knew a little about it. He said he's not alone, and apparently Germany and some of the Scandis harbor some, too.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 11, 2026 08:59 PM (0sNs1)

185 168
And they've called it, Darline and Norman in the runoff.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb)
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Did my brother take care of you?
I'm my brother's keeper.
I'll take care of you.
_Love, Darline

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 11, 2026 09:00 PM (vOxCS)

186 Dont like it. No sir. But you can enjoy it all you like.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Saw them at their popular peak at a couple of shows. Great shows--one of them used the soon to be banned festival seating aka sort it on the floor as there were no seats (Nashville in 82-3 I think).

Back in those 70's to 80's days, tickets were affordable for yutes, lots of bands touring, and you did not have to be a billionaire to get good seats--just queue up. Ticketmaster and the assorted scum with their own computerized scalping ruined concert music. The money was there so Ticketmaster and bands still relevant enough to draw people set up perfect price discrimination using the scalper's model.

That outpriced it for the fans while catering to the social and money snobs there to be seen with the best seats.

Posted by: whig at August 11, 2026 09:00 PM (E4rtv)

187 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reportedly secretly split from her longtime fiancé years before she decided to freeze her eggs.

The controversial New York congresswoman broke up with Riley Roberts and called off their engagement almost two years ago.

Ocasio-Cortez and Roberts met when they were both undergraduates at Boston University.

The two were last pictured together at the 2021 Met Gala, and Ocasio-Cortez announced their engagement the following year.

But about 18 months ago, the engagement was suddenly called off, according to Leigh Ann Caldwell, the chief Washington correspondent for Puck News.

It is unclear what may have led up to the split, but insiders have said Ocasio-Cortez stopped wearing her engagement ring in the months before they decided not to get married.

The news comes as Ocasio-Cortez announced that she is in the process of freezing her eggs and documenting the process.

Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at August 11, 2026 09:02 PM (0sNs1)

188 Boogie-woogie has some dedicated fans in Europe. I ran into a guy from Amsterdam once who talked my ear off after somehow I revealed I knew a little about it. He said he's not alone, and apparently Germany and some of the Scandis harbor some, too.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Haven't played in years as moving constantly early on, you can't really tote a piano along. But I still get a kick out of ragtime, boogie woogie, zydeco and the Louisiana N'awlins pianists like Professor Longhair and Dr. John.

Posted by: whig at August 11, 2026 09:03 PM (E4rtv)

189 > It is unclear what may have led up to the split

She got tired as serving as a beard for that pudgy little Birkenstock-wearing manlet.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 11, 2026 09:03 PM (IG3/x)

190
Here's a local station page with a heat map type display of county results, and that shows the regional dynamic at play:

https://t.ly/g3f0X

Norman big in the upstate, Fry big in the Pee Dee, and Darline in the Midlands and everywhere else, with Sanford being the Low Country spoiler. Darline did pull ahead of Sanford by a little in Charleston.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 11, 2026 09:03 PM (w6EFb)

191
Hubby and I are old, we have no idea about popular music. The grandkids are here a couple of times a week and they listen to stuff that sounds like shit. We don't care, we are happy they are here.

Posted by: four seasons at August 11, 2026 09:03 PM (/QHx4)

192 It's all fine as long as you aren't pre-diabetic.
Posted by: Wilford Brimley

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If you're the real wilford Brimley, say 'die-uh-bee-tees'

Posted by: 2009Refugee at August 11, 2026 09:03 PM (4HoLg)

193 FWIW, classical piano trained as a yute for years--hands too small to be a great pianist though. So I played boogie woogie when teacher was outside the room.
Posted by: whig at August 11, 2026 08:54 PM (E4rtv)

Didja have a cartoon mouse help you out?
https://youtu.be/fZtk2IgK644

Rhapsody Rabbit

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 11, 2026 09:04 PM (wVcYX)

194 I missed the thread earlier about Talarico's fake republican supporters, but it meshes with a feel I get about Talarico's entire campaign - it's all fake! The supporters are fake, the polls are fake, the candidate is fake, nothing about it is real in any sense. It's all a big op.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 11, 2026 09:04 PM (edUvp)

195 By the way, Sandy... I'm sure Elon would be happy to give you a kid. Remember when you two were flirting on Twiter (as it was then)?

You wouldn't be the first crazy bitch he's knocked up.

At least he's rich enough to avoid most of the consequences of sticking it in crazy.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 11, 2026 09:05 PM (IG3/x)

196 This is as close as I ever get to a Rush argument:

I love them. A huge part of the soundtrack of my youth. Colossally talented musicians (Geddy's singing aside).

Analog Kid was me as a bored teenager. Prolly my favorite Rush song. I also love Losing It, from the same album.

That is all.

Carry on.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 11, 2026 09:06 PM (0aYVJ)

197 We are truly blessed to be alive today.

Posted by: a.moron at August 11, 2026 08:47 PM (X5Jzz)

We could live in far more joyful times if the Left weren't such hateful cocksuckers and the Right weren't such pussy traitors. I can't believe I had the fortune to grow up in the 80's and 90's and therefore know for certain all their commie race and class bullshit is just retarded lies. People got along a lot better before the Left stuck their snout into everyone's anus.

Posted by: ... at August 11, 2026 09:06 PM (vE0+H)

198 Conveniences almost beyond imagination.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 11, 2026 08:52 PM (XeU6L)

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But but but slavery, man!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 11, 2026 09:06 PM (/wPHZ)

199 That outpriced it for the fans while catering to the social and money snobs there to be seen with the best seats.
Posted by: whig

Tickets to the Sept. 3, 1977 concert at Englishtown Raceway in NJ featuring the Grateful Dead, NRPS, and the Marshall Tucker Band were $10. Fourteen hours of live music for ten bucks.

Posted by: Kinda Hot And Humid, But Great Fun at August 11, 2026 09:06 PM (JM9I6)

200 My husband is explaining martial arts to me. I piss him off by calling everything karate.

Posted by: nckate at August 11, 2026 09:06 PM (enNUy)

201 200 My husband is explaining martial arts to me. I piss him off by calling everything karate.
Posted by: nckate at August 11, 2026 09:06 PM (enNUy)

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The joke's on you. Everybody was kung fu fighting.

Posted by: Carl Douglas at August 11, 2026 09:07 PM (/wPHZ)

202 My husband is explaining martial arts to me. I piss him off by calling everything karate.
Posted by: nckate

Amp it up. Call it all "Pedant-style Kung Fu."

Posted by: mikeski at August 11, 2026 09:08 PM (VHUov)

203 It is unclear what may have led up to the split
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I think it was a classic case of who gives a shit.

Posted by: ... at August 11, 2026 09:08 PM (vE0+H)

204 182 YD,
I love NeilYoung, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty

Their voices are not optimal. The music and lyrics are.

But I just can’t get past Geddy Lee. It’s so bad.

I love love love Billy Bragg and Wilco.
Posted by: nurse ratched

You might like Fairport Convention (had Sandy Denny in it and Richard Thompson among others)--look up her version of Where Does the Time Go (she is also on a couple of Led Zep songs). Richard and Linda Thompson were married for a time and put out some stellar music in the 70's to the early 80's. And Richard is still trucking along even now.

And Richard has a puckish sense of humor

Here he is presenting live, one of the songs he covers in 800 years of Music tour (started as a pure folkie and then became something).

Posted it earlier but you might get a kick out of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4WGsMplGxU

FWIW, Fenelon, he lives now part time in New Jersey but originally Scottish. Plays clean music safe for all ages.

Posted by: whig at August 11, 2026 09:08 PM (E4rtv)

205 The news comes as Ocasio-Cortez announced that she is in the process of freezing her eggs and documenting the process.

I'm okay with her not successfully reproducing, and leading many of her fellow travelers along the same path to genetic oblivion.

Or, I'm willing to take one for the team and breed with her. Won't tell her about the vasectomy until it's too late!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 11, 2026 09:09 PM (d8zZq)

206 200 My husband is explaining martial arts to me. I piss him off by calling everything karate.
Posted by: nckate at August 11, 2026 09:06 PM (enNUy)

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The joke's on you. Everybody was kung fu fighting.
Posted by: Carl Douglas at August 11, 2026 09:07 PM (/wPHZ)

Repeatedly ask him which one is Bruce Lee. He'll love you for it.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 11, 2026 09:09 PM (wVcYX)

207 Haven't played in years as moving constantly early on, you can't really tote a piano along. But I still get a kick out of ragtime, boogie woogie, zydeco and the Louisiana N'awlins pianists like Professor Longhair and Dr. John.
Posted by: whig at August 11, 2026 09:03 PM (E4rtv)

I had a dear grandmother, long since passed away, who was a very quiet homemaker, stereotypical 40's and 50's housewife who took care of the family. Never learned to read music.

And yet if Grandpa could talk her into it, she could sit down and play ragtime on the piano, all off the top of her head, no sheet music, that would make any bar crowd stand up and cheer! She never explained, she'd just say "well it's in my head."

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 11, 2026 09:09 PM (edUvp)

208 Tickets to the Sept. 3, 1977 concert at Englishtown Raceway in NJ featuring the Grateful Dead, NRPS, and the Marshall Tucker Band were $10. Fourteen hours of live music for ten bucks.
Posted by: Kinda Hot And Humid

I've been cleaning up basement over time and came across my stash of old ticket stubs to concerts. Highest was in the early 90's for Billy Joel in Memphis at about 20 bucks after taxes and ticketmaster. Most were between 8-14 bucks though.

Posted by: whig at August 11, 2026 09:10 PM (E4rtv)

209

AOC's beard is lucky he got away alive. Maybe he did not like the idea he might be the First Pussyman.

Posted by: four seasons at August 11, 2026 09:10 PM (/QHx4)

210 Are we talking the Great Pee Dee River, or The Little Pee Dee River?

Posted by: Low Country Louie at August 11, 2026 09:10 PM (JM9I6)

211 The two were last pictured together at the 2021 Met Gala, and Ocasio-Cortez announced their engagement the following year.

But about 18 months ago, the engagement was suddenly called off, according to Leigh Ann Caldwell, the chief Washington correspondent for Puck News.

It is unclear what may have led up to the split, but insiders have said Ocasio-Cortez stopped wearing her engagement ring in the months before they decided not to get married.

So, "last pictured together" in 2021.

Engaged in 2022.

Disengaged in 2025?

If that's true..... If the paparazzi can't get one picture of you together in 3 years, and you're dating a camera whore like AOC, then you were never her fiance, dude. You were a convenient excuse to brush off all the guys who just wanted to date her.

Posted by: mikeski at August 11, 2026 09:10 PM (VHUov)

212 AOC's beard is lucky he got away alive. Maybe he did not like the idea he might be the First Pussyman.

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Cuck Consort

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 11, 2026 09:11 PM (/wPHZ)

213 If that's true..... If the paparazzi can't get one picture of you together in 3 years, and you're dating a camera whore like AOC, then you were never her fiance, dude. You were a convenient excuse to brush off all the guys who just wanted to date her.
Posted by: mikeski at August 11, 2026 09:10 PM (VHUov)

Now do Talaricos GF

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 11, 2026 09:11 PM (/+uur)

214 Ocasio-Cortez and Roberts met when they were both undergraduates at Boston University...It is unclear what may have led up to the split...

She went from being an undergrad with no prospects to a congresswoman with national office ambition and thought she could do/deserved better? Doesn't seem too difficult to understand (except why she waited this long if she's considering children).

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 11, 2026 09:13 PM (d8zZq)

215 200 My husband is explaining martial arts to me. I piss him off by calling everything karate.
Posted by: nckate at August 11, 2026 09:06 PM (enNUy)

Ask him is there is a better Karate movie than fistful of yen!

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 11, 2026 09:13 PM (/+uur)

216 I love love love Billy Bragg and Wilco.
Posted by: nurse ratched

I swear mention Billy Bragg to Brit Lass and she will go on for the next hour at least. An hour!

That or Thatcher breaking the working class by selling them their council houses at a discount and offering them the promise of a VCR. I joke that that's all she's gonna go on about if heaven forfend she ever becomes demented.

But now of course she's gun totin' red-blooded neo-nazified geraldo nose-breaking ultra MAGA.

Posted by: ... at August 11, 2026 09:13 PM (vE0+H)

217 213 If that's true..... If the paparazzi can't get one picture of you together in 3 years, and you're dating a camera whore like AOC, then you were never her fiance, dude. You were a convenient excuse to brush off all the guys who just wanted to date her.
Posted by: mikeski at August 11, 2026 09:10 PM (VHUov)

Now do Talaricos GF

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 11, 2026 09:11 PM (/+uur)

You wouldn't know her, she goes to a different school. In Canada.

Posted by: a.moron at August 11, 2026 09:14 PM (X5Jzz)

218 And yet if Grandpa could talk her into it, she could sit down and play ragtime on the piano, all off the top of her head, no sheet music, that would make any bar crowd stand up and cheer! She never explained, she'd just say "well it's in my head."
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Piano in the home used to be the live entertainment for a lot of people. I could read music and still can despite years since doing it but I am in awe of those that can do what your grandmother did. I had to work up for the yearly show that my piano teacher put us through. I had strong hands so she put me playing modern composers with crashing chords--Bartok, Persichetti, etc. rather than something like DeBussy, Bach, or Mozart. Did decent on waltz accompaniments too.

Came across the old recital programs cleaning up as well. About the digitize the lot but may make a memory box out of the ticket stubs.

Posted by: whig at August 11, 2026 09:14 PM (E4rtv)

219 Freezing eggs at 35 is like getting car insurance when it has 100k on the clock.

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 11, 2026 09:14 PM (/+uur)

220 Tickets for all the big names were between $5.50 and $7.50 back in the day at the Hippodrome in flyover country.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 11, 2026 09:14 PM (lYuPF)

221 Posted it earlier but you might get a kick out of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4WGsMplGxU

FWIW, Fenelon, he lives now part time in New Jersey but originally Scottish. Plays clean music safe for all ages.
Posted by: whig at August 11, 2026 09:08 PM (E4rtv)

I always like Fairport Convention!
It reminds me I played some Jethro Tull for my 12 year old grandson, and he said "yeah that's pretty cool, they're kind of a pirate band aren't they?"

And I said "yeah, I hadn't thought of that but you're right, they're a Pirate Band."

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 11, 2026 09:15 PM (edUvp)

222 You wouldn't know her, she goes to a different school. In Canada.

Posted by: a.moron at August 11, 2026 09:14 PM (X5Jzz)

Georgia

Georgia Glass

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 11, 2026 09:15 PM (/+uur)

223 @204: Posted by: whig at August 11, 2026 09:08 PM (E4rtv)
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Whig, Fairport Convention is a favorite of mine. I listen to them often. Sandy Denny's voice is sweet.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at August 11, 2026 09:16 PM (21GCO)

224 >>>She went from being an undergrad with no prospects to a congresswoman with national office ambition and thought she could do/deserved better? Doesn't seem too difficult to understand (except why she waited this long if she's considering children).

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar
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She has no intention to have a child. She's splitting the difference, getting attention and riding the fence between abortion advocates and women who have or will have children.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 11, 2026 09:17 PM (vOxCS)

225 When I was a teen, we could sometimes scrape up enough money for concert tickets by collecting soda bottles and aluminum cans.

You'd need a pickup load to do that nowadays.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 11, 2026 09:17 PM (IG3/x)

226 Freezing her eggs and keeping them frozen ain't carbon neutral.

Posted by: davidt at August 11, 2026 09:18 PM (Q+gd/)

227 “Allegheny County Elections Division Manager David Voye said Allegheny County does not have a system to verify citizenship for voters.”

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 11, 2026 09:19 PM (/+uur)

228
I don't know who would be the worst president. Kamala or AOC.

It is scary to think about.

Posted by: four seasons at August 11, 2026 09:19 PM (/QHx4)

229 In 1920 more than 20% of Americans could play the piano.

Posted by: No Radio, Few Recordings at August 11, 2026 09:19 PM (JM9I6)

230 225 When I was a teen, we could sometimes scrape up enough money for concert tickets by collecting soda bottles and aluminum cans.

You'd need a pickup load to do that nowadays.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Attending concerts is a human right! Under a DSA administration, all concert tickets are free, as well as refreshments, including mind-altering substances!

Posted by: New DSA platform plank at August 11, 2026 09:20 PM (d8zZq)

231 Leggo my Eggo

Posted by: AoC at August 11, 2026 09:20 PM (/+uur)

232 I always like Fairport Convention!
It reminds me I played some Jethro Tull for my 12 year old grandson, and he said "yeah that's pretty cool, they're kind of a pirate band aren't they?"

And I said "yeah, I hadn't thought of that but you're right, they're a Pirate Band."
Posted by: Tom Servo

Heh. Richard Thompson got a call from Playboy about what he could contribute to a project of the top popular music from the 1000's onwards. He started to do some research as he was already well acquainted with a lot of really old English and Scottish folksongs from playing them for years. Never heard another word from Playboy but decided to cut an album with some of his chums and then tour. You can listen to the whole album on Youtube (about 26 songs).

Live concert of him with band playing the songs on the album is here. About 1 hour 47 minutes on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDZdU-snqTs&t=88s
Seminar in musicology and Thompson is noted for his wry commentary during the concert on the songs.

Posted by: whig at August 11, 2026 09:21 PM (E4rtv)

233 Like the elephant photo. Lately I've been thinking about getting back into B&W film (i.e. not digital) photography after laying it aside for college some 40 years ago.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 11, 2026 09:21 PM (vTZFs)

234 What? It's defrosting?

Posted by: A.O.C. at August 11, 2026 09:22 PM (Q+gd/)

235 Whig, Fairport Convention is a favorite of mine. I listen to them often. Sandy Denny's voice is sweet.
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly
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Beautiful in fact. Sandy and Richard along with the rest of Fairport Convention were driving to a gig and crashed---killed a band member and I think Thompson's girlfriend. And that worsened Denny's mental state.

Posted by: whig at August 11, 2026 09:23 PM (E4rtv)

236
When I was a teen, we could sometimes scrape up enough money for concert tickets by collecting soda bottles and aluminum cans.

You'd need a pickup load to do that nowadays.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Tickets used to cost the same as an LP.
Then a CD.
Then a whole sound system.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 11, 2026 09:23 PM (Cqx++)

237 Who would want to inseminate or fertilize AOC other than the Hee Haw donkeys? She thinks mighty highly of herself.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 11, 2026 09:23 PM (tvdD1)

238 229 In 1920 more than 20% of Americans could play the piano.
Posted by: No Radio, Few Recordings at August 11, 2026 09:19 PM (JM9I6)

Left arm was crushed under a 1977 Cordoba and after about 5 hours no surgery the doc (Suchter was his name) put it back together thru traction.
I asked will I be able to play the piano and he said NO!
I said great I am a violinist.

Posted by: AoC at August 11, 2026 09:24 PM (/+uur)

239 I think can and bottle fees, the redemption was 5c or 10c as far back as the 1960s, wasn't it?

If they adjusted these for inflation it would be a buck or so, no? That way a feller could go collect beer cans again, to see Rush

Posted by: Common Tater at August 11, 2026 09:24 PM (lYuPF)

240 You'd need a pickup load to do that nowadays.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

There are plenty of crappy local bands you can see for peanuts in your community!

Funny enough, while perusing the local events calendar in Hawaii, there are a BUNCH of ancient bands playing. Fleetwood Mac, Air Supply, The Four Tops, Journey...it's like a musical retirement home!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 11, 2026 09:24 PM (d8zZq)

241 off

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 11, 2026 09:24 PM (/+uur)

242
We live two blocks from the middle school. The football team is there practicing. It is great to hear. They aren't practicing the gay football, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at August 11, 2026 09:24 PM (/QHx4)

243 234 What? It's defrosting?
Posted by: A.O.C. at August 11, 2026 09:22

Just a temporary power outage in this third world hell hole that you helped create.

Posted by: Rex B at August 11, 2026 09:25 PM (R0XxO)

244 From the previous thread:

145 Ok, this might sound odd. Hasan looks ofd. His upper body when he is standing looks really off. Like not right. Awkward not right. Is he wearing a bullet proof vest under the shirt?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 11, 2026 07:19 PM (zZu0s)

I don't know exactly, but as an anchor baby raised abroad, he will always be awkward. When other kids were learning how to relate to people, he was a spoiled fat rich Turkish little boy on a pony (there's a photo).

Women can sense weakness, and both Bridget Phetasy and Shoe0nhead have called out Piker's "fat kid energy." No matter that he grew up and hit the gym, on the inside, he will always be that fat kid on a pony.

Posted by: SciVo at August 11, 2026 09:25 PM (Sy6m/)

245 237 Who would want to inseminate or fertilize AOC other than the Hee Haw donkeys? She thinks mighty highly of herself.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 11, 2026 09:23 PM (tvdD1)

I dunno, probably half the Morons here would step up to do the deed, as long as it was one and done and they didn't have to stick around and talk to her.

Let's face it, most dudes don't have real high standards, and she seems doable, as long as you don't have to spend time with her.

Posted by: a.moron at August 11, 2026 09:28 PM (X5Jzz)

246 >>>Beautiful in fact. Sandy and Richard along with the rest of Fairport Convention were driving to a gig and crashed---killed a band member and I think Thompson's girlfriend. And that worsened Denny's mental state.
Posted by: whig at August 11, 2026 09:23 PM (E4rtv)
****
Did not know that, sad story for such talented artists.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at August 11, 2026 09:28 PM (21GCO)

247 I don't know who would be the worst president. Kamala or AOC.

It is scary to think about.

Posted by: four seasons at August 11, 2026 09:19 PM (/QHx4)
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I don't think we need to worry about either possibility just yet...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 11, 2026 09:28 PM (FZ29D)

248 Are we talking the Great Pee Dee River, or The Little Pee Dee River?
Posted by: Low Country Louie
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Didyou knwthat Stehen Foster originally wrote the song as 'Way Down Upon the Pee Dee River'? S'true. He never actually even saw the Suwannee River.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 11, 2026 09:29 PM (XeU6L)

249 So Muhammedans got no game.
Other than hate and violence.

We have the chance to walk away. We have oil and gas.
We have power.
Maybe the smart game in Iran is to say fuck you and provide help to build pipelines.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 11, 2026 09:29 PM (/+uur)

250 AOC has begun the process of becoming a potato. I give her 10 years tops.

Posted by: steevy at August 11, 2026 09:29 PM (YwEeS)

251 Damned space bar is getting flaky.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 11, 2026 09:30 PM (XeU6L)

252 Crikey. My typing skills have gone to hell.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 11, 2026 09:31 PM (XeU6L)

253 So they get 12 eggs
6 will die in the freeze
3 will never IVF
last 3 will take 10% of time (35 YO has less than 15% conceiving with real sex).

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 11, 2026 09:31 PM (/+uur)

254 239 I think can and bottle fees, the redemption was 5c or 10c as far back as the 1960s, wasn't it?

If they adjusted these for inflation it would be a buck or so, no? That way a feller could go collect beer cans again, to see Rush

Posted by: Common Tater at August 11, 2026 09:24 PM (lYuPF)

I remember it being a nickle back in the '60s when I was collecting them. Those were returnable/reusable glass bottles that went back to the bottler to be washed and refilled, not the "recyclable" plastic crap we have today.

Posted by: a.moron at August 11, 2026 09:31 PM (X5Jzz)

255 Richard's comeback album after he and his wife Linda broke up in 1980 or so is the fantastic reunion with a lot of his Fairport Convention mates on Hand of Kindness.

"Tear Stained Letter " is probably his closest to a hit. A zydeco artists put it on the charts in country in the 80's with Judge Reinhold in the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vnk_R-1aWwI

Scorching guitar solo x2 in it. And lyrics are funny as heck. This starts and ends fast.

Posted by: whig at August 11, 2026 09:32 PM (E4rtv)

256 Chinese rocket explodes less than 90 seconds after liftoff

no more yanky my wanky donger need food

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 11, 2026 09:33 PM (/+uur)

257 I dunno, probably half the Morons here would step up to do the deed, as long as it was one and done and they didn't have to stick around and talk to her.

Let's face it, most dudes don't have real high standards, and she seems doable, as long as you don't have to spend time with her.
Posted by: a.moron
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A couple of years ago, you only had to wait until the bar closed.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 11, 2026 09:33 PM (XeU6L)

258 Kansas was about 14 bucks in 1977

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 11, 2026 09:34 PM (/+uur)

259 256 Chinese rocket explodes less than 90 seconds after liftoff

no more yanky my wanky donger need food

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 11, 2026 09:33 PM (/+uur)

Appears they don't export all the Yang Poon.

Posted by: a.moron at August 11, 2026 09:34 PM (X5Jzz)

260 Chinese rocket explodes less than 90 seconds after liftoff

no more yanky my wanky donger need food
Posted by: rhennigantx
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Yang boom.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 11, 2026 09:34 PM (XeU6L)

261 If Caitlin Clark needs protectors and enforcers on the court, these 'girls' would do a terrific job.

https://tinyurl.com/y59f3nrp

Posted by: Gref at August 11, 2026 09:35 PM (5rh/l)

262 David Crowley
DEM 79,062 42.3%
Francesca Hong
DEM 72,879 39%

cheat coming

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 11, 2026 09:35 PM (/+uur)

263

Maybe Hunter will fertilize her eggs. Can you imagine how crazy that child would be?

Posted by: four seasons at August 11, 2026 09:36 PM (/QHx4)

264 If Caitlin Clark needs protectors and enforcers on the court, these 'girls' would do a terrific job.

https://tinyurl.com/y59f3nrp
Posted by: Gref
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rofl

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 11, 2026 09:36 PM (XeU6L)

265 Hansen Sisters

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 11, 2026 09:36 PM (/+uur)

266 Those were returnable/reusable glass bottles that went back to the bottler to be washed and refilled, not the "recyclable" plastic crap we have today
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The redemption fees (purchase tax really) are intended to prevent litter. Nothing more. I'm just pointing out these haven't been adjusted to keep up with monetary inflation.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 11, 2026 09:36 PM (lYuPF)

267 Did not know that, sad story for such talented artists.
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly

Touring is a hard life and back then, Fairport was just scrimping along and fighting for fans in an extremely crowded British music scene. Thompson was one of the few that spent all his time doing music and avoided the excessive drinking and drugs that came around playing the pub circuit at 1-3 in the morning.

In an interview, he noted at the time (late sixties) that he saw all the names in rock etc. pass through the audience for the band as they were just winding down from doing their own shows and did not want to go home.

Posted by: whig at August 11, 2026 09:36 PM (E4rtv)

268 So, I guess this is a good thing

@libsoftiktok 4m
Rep John Larson (D-CT) shrieked like an unhinged maniac that ICE agents are "the SS" and "Gestapo"

He just lost his primary.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 11, 2026 09:36 PM (diia5)

269 Had a keyboard with the space bar going out. At first there was one spot that would always work, then you had to hit it hard, then hit it several times and possibly a space or none or several.
That's when I went to Walmart and bought a $10 onn..
Wireless.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 11, 2026 09:37 PM (vOxCS)

270 "Tear Stained Letter " is probably his closest to a hit. A zydeco artists put it on the charts in country in the 80's with Judge Reinhold in the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vnk_R-1aWwI

Scorching guitar solo x2 in it. And lyrics are funny as heck. This starts and ends fast.
Posted by: whig at August 11, 2026 09:32 PM (E4rtv)

My favorite Richard Thompson song is "1952 Vincent Black Lightning" a modern classic outlaw ballad, which has been covered by many artists.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 11, 2026 09:37 PM (1z8ji)

271 214 Ocasio-Cortez and Roberts met when they were both undergraduates at Boston University...It is unclear what may have led up to the split...

She went from being an undergrad with no prospects to a congresswoman with national office ambition and thought she could do/deserved better? Doesn't seem too difficult to understand (except why she waited this long if she's considering children).

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 11, 2026 09:13 PM (d8zZq)

She's going to run for President. She won't have cred with the idiots if she's still hooked-up with a red-haired white guy. It's as simple as that.

Posted by: Gref at August 11, 2026 09:38 PM (5rh/l)

272 229 In 1920 more than 20% of Americans could play the piano.
Posted by: No Radio, Few Recordings

In modern America, over 20% of Democrat men have played the skin flute.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 11, 2026 09:38 PM (d8zZq)

273 I made a trade today and hit my number
Come to Whiskey Wednesday tomorrow and I will by a round

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 11, 2026 09:39 PM (/+uur)

274

Gref,

That makes perfect sense.

Posted by: four seasons at August 11, 2026 09:40 PM (/QHx4)

275 She's going to run for President. She won't have cred with the idiots if she's still hooked-up ....

Yup. It has that ... odor to it. Everything is so fake, and gay.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 11, 2026 09:41 PM (lYuPF)

276 >>>In an interview, he noted at the time (late sixties) that he saw all the names in rock etc. pass through the audience for the band as they were just winding down from doing their own shows and did not want to go home.
Posted by: whig at August 11, 2026 09:36 PM (E4rtv)
*****
What an amazing time to be alive for musicians, I can't even imagine what that must have been like.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at August 11, 2026 09:41 PM (21GCO)

277 My favorite Richard Thompson song is "1952 Vincent Black Lightning" a modern classic outlaw ballad, which has been covered by many artists.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Thompson moves from singing comedy, to heartwrenching, with ease. And he plays a helluva guitar acoustic or electric.

Guy is still touring in his late 70's and having fun at it from all appearances.

Posted by: whig at August 11, 2026 09:41 PM (E4rtv)

278 262 David Crowley
DEM 79,062 42.3%
Francesca Hong
DEM 72,879 39%

cheat coming

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 11, 2026 09:35 PM (/+uur)

Ballot 'discovery' and vote counting will continue in Madison as long as it takes to give Hong a safe lead.

Posted by: Gref at August 11, 2026 09:41 PM (5rh/l)

279 Chinese rocket explodes less than 90 seconds after liftoff

no more yanky my wanky donger need food
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 11, 2026 09:33 PM (/+uur)

That's never happened to me before.

Posted by: CNSA at August 11, 2026 09:42 PM (wVcYX)

280 Had a keyboard with the space bar going out. At first there was one spot that would always work, then you had to hit it hard, then hit it several times and possibly a space or none or several.
That's when I went to Walmart and bought a $10 onn..
Wireless.

Posted by: Braenyard
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Good advice, but this is laptop and desk space (a TV tray) is a consideration.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 11, 2026 09:42 PM (XeU6L)

281
I wonder how many Chicom rocket scientists will become organ donors over this?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 11, 2026 09:42 PM (w6EFb)

282 I used to shoot feet and feet of tripanX Kodak.
It was a great film and we did cool things in high school.
I shot every color shot in my HS Senior yearbook (we used a cheap fuji slide film) and about 15% of the BW.

I like framing pics.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/3hNDGrrSrnkGcUz8A

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 11, 2026 09:43 PM (/+uur)

283 The photographer with the snow leopard looks a lot like Tulsi Gabbard.

Posted by: Decaf at August 11, 2026 09:45 PM (ZNpJk)

284 What an amazing time to be alive for musicians, I can't even imagine what that must have been like.
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly

IRRC, Jimi Hendrix was at one, Who, Rolling Stones, Clapton, Faces, and a bunch of others.

Probably a remnant of that time is one of the 1000 years of songs that Thompson covers is one by Pete Townshend and the Who--A Legal Matter.

Small country, dance and music hall tradition so plenty of venues, and based in London, you could do cheap tours and still return to home base in a reasonable tour. US was and still is a LOT harder to tour than UK was.

Posted by: whig at August 11, 2026 09:45 PM (E4rtv)

285 Who would want to inseminate or fertilize AOC other than the Hee Haw donkeys?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 11, 2026 09:23 PM

Dude. If it's that, or going back to Morocco, I'm your huckleberry.

Posted by: The Moroccan Donkey at August 11, 2026 09:45 PM (0sNs1)

286 Is Hong really gonna follow the same pattern at the jihadist? HUGE lead in the polling and then a "close" win?

That suggests either the establishment cheating and *failing* for their own candidate (highly unlikely) or the polls being totally fake, and the cheating occurring for the bigger leftard, making it naturally close and no one questions it because they lead so big in the fake polling. Something to keep an eye on.

Posted by: ... at August 11, 2026 09:46 PM (vE0+H)

287 another

https://photos.app.goo.gl/ZfLYvdtZ7tP1fhmv9

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 11, 2026 09:47 PM (/+uur)

288 I like framing pics.

Posted by: rhennigantx
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I didn't do it!

Posted by: Framed pic at August 11, 2026 09:47 PM (XeU6L)

289 Holy crap. Imagine having explosive diarrhea for 30 years!

From Deadline.

The Daily Show has been on the air for 30 years, and the production is celebrating by looking back at the audition tapes from some of its most famous correspondents.

Over the years, the Comedy Central late-night news satire show has seen many comedians on screen, and their audition clips prove why they were chosen to be part of the “best f**king news team.”

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 11, 2026 09:49 PM (Sco7b)

290 Rufus, you would probably like the songs that Richard and his ex wife Linda did. Some beautiful albums--Shoot out the Lights and I Want to See The Bright Lights Tonight are fantastic and still in print.
--Standout songs from these albums are Wall of Death (carnival ride), I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight (humorous), and Calvary Cross, (long tour de force featuring guitars and a fearsome vocal by Thompson).

There were at least two earlier albums that are more experimental as Richard became involved in Sufism and mysticism and that was in part why Linda and him broke up eventually.

Posted by: whig at August 11, 2026 09:51 PM (E4rtv)

291 > If they adjusted these for inflation it would be a buck or so, no? That way a feller could go collect beer cans again, to see Rush
Posted by: Common Tater at August 11, 2026 09:24 PM (lYuPF)

There was an old farmer where I lived who liked to party, and by party I mean having 30 or 40 people in his yard drinking. You could drive by there and if you heard music and saw a crowd, you could just stop in. ID? What ID?

Needless to say, he had a lot of empty beer cans from this.

He was dumping them in a gully that'd formed in a 40 acre field some distance from the house, presumably in an attempt to check erosion.

Finding that was like finding a friggin' goldmine for a bunch of teens.

I wonder if he ever noticed that the gully somehow never seemed to fill up.

Not that he would likely have given much of a shit if he did. He was one of the most laid-back old timers I've ever met.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 11, 2026 09:51 PM (IG3/x)

292 Hong Kong Floozy would have been such a nice punchline during election season. We just should have kept our powder dry for a couple weeks.

Posted by: ted Torgerson at August 11, 2026 09:54 PM (R86kT)

293 A patient I saw today is the great aunt of Jimi Hendrix.

Sweet lady.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 11, 2026 09:54 PM (yEz+x)

294 293 A patient I saw today is the great aunt of Jimi Hendrix.

Sweet lady.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 11, 2026 09:54 PM (yEz+x)

Was she 110 years old?

Posted by: ted Torgerson at August 11, 2026 09:56 PM (R86kT)

295 No. She is not.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 11, 2026 09:58 PM (yEz+x)

296 Usually, for celestial phenomena, we get overcast. Or cold. Or cold and overcast. Tonight & tomorrow, the Perseids, best meteor shower of the year, peaks. No (New) Moon, clear skies, warm night (better than that January shower) - could be good. Glad to be out in the country (albeit not as much country as this place used to be).🤠

Posted by: mindful webworker - Swift-Tuttle's gift to us at August 11, 2026 09:58 PM (9wnX8)

297 @290: Posted by: whig at August 11, 2026 09:51 PM (E4rtv)
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Thank you Whig, I'll check them out. Much appreciated.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at August 11, 2026 10:00 PM (21GCO)

298
It would be a phenomen if we got rain here in SW Wyoming.

This weather year has been very strange.

Posted by: four seasons at August 11, 2026 10:00 PM (/QHx4)

299 Bro and friends were partying in his backyard, and one of them had wife & little daughter along.. they had moved out of town, so stayed at bro's place overnight.

Next morning, lil girl looked at the backyard, full of empty cans!

"Daddy! Daddy, look! What's that?!"

"The Beer Fairy came, honey. Isn't that great?"

Posted by: JQ at August 11, 2026 10:00 PM (rdVOm)

300
Lol JQ

Posted by: four seasons at August 11, 2026 10:01 PM (/QHx4)

301 Nothing yet.

But there are 2 vegetables that can help me cut my belly fat!!

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 11, 2026 10:01 PM (Sco7b)

302 Surely there's an ONT in here somewhere!

*shakes blog*

Posted by: mindful webworker - soon says 8-ball at August 11, 2026 10:04 PM (9wnX8)

303
Patience Prudence

Posted by: four seasons at August 11, 2026 10:05 PM (/QHx4)

304
The cobloggers do this free. Why? I don't know. Good people.

Posted by: four seasons at August 11, 2026 10:07 PM (/QHx4)

305 La belle, she is broke.

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

306 NOOD ONT

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 11, 2026 10:11 PM (Sco7b)

307 Hubby & I had an aluminum can event...

We both were pop drinkers, and saved cans for recycling. Had bags and bags full of empties on the back porch.

Until doggo found and played with them (!), dragging them one by one into the yard and playing while we were at work.

Came home to see... hundreds of pop cans strewn about the yard, LOL!

Neighbor said she was quite entertained, watching it all unfold.

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

308 Last rain we got here was at the end of June. And it was cold rain. The high was 59 (the day we had our surveyors department BBQ - heh). Since then, bupkis. Upper 90s, and smoke. So much smoke. the Big Grass fire in the Owyhee is over 555,000 acres now.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 11, 2026 10:11 PM (0aYVJ)

309 LAST!!!!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 11, 2026 10:12 PM (0aYVJ)

310 The ONT finally fell out
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=420926

Posted by: mindful webworker - available now at August 11, 2026 10:12 PM (9wnX8)

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