Thursday Overnight Open Thread

Thursday Overnight Open Thread - September 3, 2026

Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Thursday ONT! Mixed bag of content for those who care. Open thread, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?

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Hey Ryan Reynolds - STFU

Not sure what's worse -- the way he speaks (ya know, like, like, like, ya know) or what he says.

Ryan Reynolds says ’80s nostalgia “paves over all the trauma” of the “tumultuous” decade:

“The 80s was a brutal, brutal time for people. It was a fucking mess and people forget that. It was a tremendous strife. Socio political tensions everywhere. We were still pretty fresh off… pic.twitter.com/CvNE3KLfff
— Variety (@Variety) September 2, 2026

Seriously, dude - shut up. The 80s were awesome, and you're not.

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New Mexico Man >>>> Florida Man

At least in this particular situation. Man Rolls Up to Police Station With Pickup Truck Full of Torn Up Flock Cameras

While most of the vandals ripping down automatic license plate readers prefer to go incognito, an Albuquerque character named Jevon Martinez isn’t afraid to show his face.
Weeks after Bernalillo county officials cancelled their contract with the controversial surveillance company Flock earlier this year, Martinez noticed the automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) were still up. In a series of videos posted on social media and flagged by KOB4, Martinez filmed himself tearing the camera towers down in order to return them to their rightful owners.
“Since [Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department] is busy — I know BCSO is busy, everyone who works for BCSO, I know you guys are busy, so I went ahead and helped you out,” Martinez says while driving his pickup truck, the bed of which is notably full of ALPR parts.
“We got a bunch of these bad boys,” he says in another video, showing off a truck bed stuffed to the brim with tower parts. “Let’s see how much I can get in one day. That’s gonna be the challenge for everyone out there.”
Playing the helpful citizen, Martinez drove his literal truckload of ALPR bits directly to the Sheriff’s department, where he was promptly taken into custody.

Here is the man himself

Man claims to have taken down every Flock camera in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, moments before he was arrested.

In a video shared on social media, Jevon Martinez said he was on his way to dropping off all the cameras at the sheriff's office.

Martinez claimed that the… pic.twitter.com/qQeD6Z9Wcm
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 3, 2026

OK Florida Man - you're still awesome. Flock cameras must be pulled from Florida state roads within 30 days, DeSantis orders

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He's been workin' on the railroad

Engineer retires at age 89 after 60 years on heritage railroads

On Aug. 23, 2026, Don Young put in his last day as a steam locomotive engineer — 60 years after his first such day. On that Sunday, he ran four trips aboard the Delaware River Railroad Excursions’ Chinese-built 2-8-2 No. 142 between Phillipsburg and Riegelsville, N.J., a total of a little under 70 miles. When he climbed down from the cab after putting No. 142 away in the railroad’s shop at a few minutes before 7 p.m., an era in heritage railroading ended. At age 89, Don had decided not to renew his federal engineer’s license, which expired that day; he’ll have no more 5 a.m. alarms to wake to.
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Born in Baltimore in 1937, Young grew up chasing Maryland & Pennsylvania steam trains on his bicycle. After graduating from high school and a stint in U.S. Navy submarine service, he earned a degree as a metallurgical engineer and hired on with Bethlehem Steel; he retired from a successor firm in 2012, at age 75. Over the course of his career, he worked at the Sparrows Point (Baltimore) mill and three in Pennsylvania – Bethlehem, Fairless, and Steelton; all have closed. In his retirement, Young has volunteered at the National Museum of Industrial History in Bethlehem, where you will still find him one day each week leading tours of the cold blast furnaces where he and his colleagues made high-quality alloy and tool steel.
For the past 40 years, Don has traveled the world, visiting 40-odd countries and seeing operating steam in all of them except Luxembourg and Iceland. In many of those places — including Poland, China, and Cuba — he rode in steam locomotives and ran them.

Not related, yet somehow related

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AI is a Moron?

This is wild… AI just cooked up an entire trailer for *Titty Killer 6: Tits of Mars* and it’s somehow both hilarious and unsettlingly polished.
Blonde astronauts sprinting through red-lit corridors, getting yeeted onto the Martian surface, the whole “we keep sending sororities to space” bit… it’s peak absurd B-movie energy, but the lighting, camera moves, and editing look legit.
If this is what AI can already spit out, the movie industry is about to get completely flipped. Studios better start adapting fast because the barrier to making this level of nonsense just dropped to zero.

This is wild… AI just cooked up an entire trailer for *Titty Killer 6: Tits of Mars* and it’s somehow both hilarious and unsettlingly polished.

Blonde astronauts sprinting through red-lit corridors, getting yeeted onto the Martian surface, the whole “we keep sending sororities… pic.twitter.com/ZSNV1Q8ff4
— DIVINITY (@Exxcellent_01) August 31, 2026

On the subject of boobs - Sydney Sweeney knows how to make money - she smartly opened a lingerie company

Here's another real and spectacular Sydney link for you. You're welcome!

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A Dutch knight?

Arise, Sir AVH: Alex Van Halen knighted in the Netherlands for his part in writing a “remarkable chapter in the history of rock music.”

Alex Van Halen has been knighted – or at least given the equivalent honour – in the Netherlands.
The drummer spent the first nine years of his life in the country, before his family moved to California in 1962. But the Dutch government certainly hasn’t forgotten the Van Halen brothers’ roots.
The honour, the Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion (Ridder in de Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw), is one of the country’s highest civilian honours and is only given to those who have made “extraordinary contributions” to Dutch society and culture.

Some AVH for ya

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DJ Doof - Random Stuff Edition

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Tonight's ONT brought to you by 2 out of 3 max

pic.twitter.com/tx4uYEOR4F
— Jones Plantation (@JonesPlantation) September 2, 2026

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Another semi-whelming production from Doof Enterprises, LLC. Somewhat whelming? Sorta whelming? Do we really want to know?

Your feedback may or may not be very important to Doof Enterprises. Follow Mr. Doof on X @doof2112 or do the email thing – doof2112 at proton dot me.

Posted by: Doof at 10:00 PM

Comments

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1 Just another Thursday ONT.

Yay.

Posted by: mindful webworker - stormy weathering at September 03, 2026 10:00 PM (Cl/mc)

2 ‘n Thangs

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 03, 2026 10:00 PM (WY+aP)

3 3 day weekend eve! Howdy Horde!

Posted by: Iris at September 03, 2026 10:01 PM (286+n)

4
Doof needs a pay raise.

Thanks Doof for all you do.

Posted by: four seasons at September 03, 2026 10:01 PM (/QHx4)

5 It's THURSDAY!!!

Posted by: runner at September 03, 2026 10:01 PM (g47mK)

6 Good evening good people. I pray all is well in the Hordian Universe.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 03, 2026 10:01 PM (HaopY)

7 Yo, Doof! Howdy, Horde.

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at September 03, 2026 10:03 PM (JqJBt)

8 Do Have to watch the video to hear what Ryan Reynolds is saying? can someone summarize please?

Posted by: Iris at September 03, 2026 10:03 PM (286+n)

9 Good evening Horde. Thanks Disco!

Love the Zoo. Good stuff.

Posted by: TRex - legally enjoined dino at September 03, 2026 10:03 PM (di687)

10 Doof gets 2,000,000 Iranian Rial raise! NO! make it 2,500,000 Rials ! Good job!

--Management

Posted by: runner at September 03, 2026 10:03 PM (g47mK)

11 Sponge!

Good evening, Horde! I've got an interview with another company tomorrow afternoon. And a line on a possible job in IN. Continued prayers greatly appreciated - may God make the way known:
Guide my feet, Lord, that I may walk the right path
Guide my hands, Lord, that I may do good work
Guide my tongue, Lord, that I may speak with wisdom
Guide my mind, Lord, that I may think with clarity
Guide my heart, Lord, that I may love unreservedly
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And may the right job appear, and the wrong ones fall away.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 03, 2026 10:04 PM (aJQbY)

12
Jevon Martinez, if anyone deserves a GoFundMe page he does.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 03, 2026 10:05 PM (WY+aP)

13 Doof needs a pay raise.

Thanks Doof for all you do.

Posted by: four seasons at September 03, 2026 10:01 PM (/QHx4)

I approve this message!

Posted by: Doof at September 03, 2026 10:06 PM (QLC6i)

14 How many big-ass catfish are waiting in that top pic for some fool to try noodling them?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 03, 2026 10:06 PM (1Ff7Z)

15 Nice ONT, Doof! Thanks!

Posted by: LRob in OK at September 03, 2026 10:06 PM (Jr+re)

16 Yo, Doof! Howdy, Horde.
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at September 03, 2026 10:03 PM (JqJBt)

Howdy, MKC!

Posted by: Doof at September 03, 2026 10:06 PM (QLC6i)

17 Animal Magnetism was the last of vintage Scorpions. Blackout was fifty-fifty, then they went pop metal.

Uli Roth Scorpions is best Scorpions.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at September 03, 2026 10:06 PM (0aYVJ)

18 I'm still looking for this morning's Art Thread.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 03, 2026 10:06 PM (4Je4D)

19

Doof,

Seriously, you have stepped up and are doing so many posts.

We appreciate you!!

Posted by: four seasons at September 03, 2026 10:07 PM (/QHx4)

20
>>>Engineer retires at age 89 after 60 years on heritage railroads

So he's a quitter.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 03, 2026 10:07 PM (syz1S)

21 Good evening Horde. Thanks Disco!

Love the Zoo. Good stuff.
Posted by: TRex - legally enjoined dino at September 03, 2026 10:03 PM (di687)

Dino loves The Zoo? Just visiting, I hope!

Posted by: Doof at September 03, 2026 10:07 PM (QLC6i)

22 Midnight Snack.

Posted by: Barrel at September 03, 2026 10:08 PM (Q+gd/)

23 At least in this particular situation. Man Rolls Up to Police Station With Pickup Truck Full of Torn Up Flock Cameras

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I'm starting to think we're witnessing the birth of a major social movement here.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 03, 2026 10:08 PM (4Je4D)

24 8 Do Have to watch the video to hear what Ryan Reynolds is saying? can someone summarize please?
Posted by: Iris at September 03, 2026 10:03 PM (286+n)

It was mostly: blah blah blah so um blah blah.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 03, 2026 10:09 PM (Ntshk)

25 What AI can do to animation and music?

Skybrows - "Zuckerwars" which is 13 minutes long.

https://youtu.be/xo7dO3bgySY

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 03, 2026 10:09 PM (2GVsD)

26 13 Doof needs a pay raise.

Thanks Doof for all you do.

Posted by: four seasons at September 03, 2026 10:01 PM (/QHx4)

I approve this message!
Posted by: Doof at September 03, 2026 10:06 PM (QLC6i)

Okay, we'll ask Ace to double your pay.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 03, 2026 10:10 PM (Ntshk)

27 Now you know how we feel about trail cams.

Posted by: Critters at September 03, 2026 10:10 PM (Q+gd/)

28 I totally dig Flock guy.....more of us,,,well... you know😜

Posted by: COMM at September 03, 2026 10:10 PM (hJKeX)

29 Thanks, Doof, for the ONT. Some good music tonight.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 03, 2026 10:10 PM (aJQbY)

30 Klaus Meine is the best metal vocalist in rock.

CHANGE MY MIND

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 03, 2026 10:12 PM (4Je4D)

31 Scariest thing about the 80s? Drinking a Tab in the back seat of the Montego? Thanks for the ONT, Disco.

Posted by: scampydog at September 03, 2026 10:12 PM (41CYW)

32
Alex Van Halen has been knighted – or at least given the equivalent honour – in the Netherlands.

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We should ratify the Titles of Nobility Amendment:

If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive or retain, any title of nobility or honour, or shall, without the consent of Congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office or emolument of any kind whatever, from any emperor, king, prince or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them, or either of them.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2026 10:12 PM (eRlcH)

33 "And who's the other that's singing in Van Halen?"

Bowling For Soup - 1985

Posted by: pookysgirl also wants to know when Ozzy became an actor at September 03, 2026 10:12 PM (Wt5PA)

34 I'm impressed with the career of the steam loco engineer. As a yute, I was invited to ride in the cab of locomotive by my great uncle who worked for the RR and they had some sort of special steam excursion. At the appointed time, my Grammi and I stood at the appointed crossing where Uncle Max would stop and pick me up. Uncle Max and his mighty machine huffed and puffed up and stopped. For whatever reason, he blew out one of the cylinders which engulfed Grammi and I. It scared me so badly that I peed myself and promptly ran into a cornfield to hide. Time and trains wait for no man so Uncle eventually had to leave without me.

Of all the regrets in life I might have, that one is the heaviest.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 03, 2026 10:12 PM (HaopY)

35 Good luck RandomDave!

Posted by: Tonypete at September 03, 2026 10:13 PM (HaopY)

36 Yes, thank you Doof for really stepping up the COB bench. Hope you have the specialty bourbon compensation plan!

Posted by: Iris at September 03, 2026 10:13 PM (286+n)

37 Doof,

Seriously, you have stepped up and are doing so many posts.

We appreciate you!!

Posted by: four seasons at September 03, 2026 10:07 PM (/QHx4)

Thanks for the kind words!

Posted by: Doof at September 03, 2026 10:13 PM (QLC6i)

38 Alex Van Halen has been knighted – or at least given the equivalent honour – in the Netherlands.

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So riding on the coattails of your dead brother is worth a knighthood?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 03, 2026 10:13 PM (4Je4D)

39 Love the Zoo. Good stuff.
Posted by: TRex - legally enjoined dino at September 03, 2026 10:03 PM (di687)

Dino loves The Zoo? Just visiting, I hope!
Posted by: Doof
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Doggo loves the Zoo, too.

Posted by: scampydog at September 03, 2026 10:14 PM (41CYW)

40 Wild. I actually had to sign myself In again...Like of never been here for 10 years...WTF?!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 03, 2026 10:14 PM (hJKeX)

41 31 Scariest thing about the 80s? Drinking a Tab in the back seat of the Montego? Thanks for the ONT, Disco.
Posted by: scampydog at September 03, 2026 10:12 PM
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Maybe the Club ONT bar will stock Tab this week.

Posted by: TRex - TRO dino at September 03, 2026 10:14 PM (di687)

42 I hereby award Jevon Martinez the Presidential Medal of Freedom and title of Duke of Albuquerque

Posted by: President Miklos J. Trump at September 03, 2026 10:15 PM (4RYRd)

43
Wild. I actually had to sign myself In again...Like of never been here for 10 years...WTF?!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 03, 2026 10:14 PM (hJKeX)

__________

*yells to back room*

She got through again, boys!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2026 10:15 PM (eRlcH)

44 Maybe the Club ONT bar will stock Tab this week.
Posted by: TRex - TRO dino at September 03, 2026 10:14 PM (di687)

Did you forget about the RC in the back of the fridge?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 03, 2026 10:15 PM (1Ff7Z)

45 Yes, thank you Doof for really stepping up the COB bench. Hope you have the specialty bourbon compensation plan!
Posted by: Iris at September 03, 2026 10:13 PM (286+n)

Valu rite aint all that bad!

Posted by: Doof at September 03, 2026 10:15 PM (QLC6i)

46 41 31 Scariest thing about the 80s? Drinking a Tab in the back seat of the Montego? Thanks

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The kool kids were all sitting in the back of a Mitsubishi Montero.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 03, 2026 10:16 PM (4Je4D)

47
Doof has done absolutely not bad.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2026 10:16 PM (eRlcH)

48 Wild. I actually had to sign myself In again...Like of never been here for 10 years...WTF?!
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If you clear your cache, inadvertently or not, you lose your sign in. Some restarts or updates will do it sometimes.

Posted by: clarence at September 03, 2026 10:16 PM (NFldd)

49 Of all the regrets in life I might have, that one is the heaviest.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 03, 2026 10:12 PM (HaopY)

We took the boy to see Thomas the Tank Engine at the Railroad Museum in Green Bay when the boy was about four. Walking up to the facility, the full-sized Thomas rolled very slowly past, and blew the horn. The boy jumped so fast behind me and started shaking.

He recovered quickly, though, so credit to him. We went in to the event, and most of the clientele was under 3 feet tall, and every so serious about their heroes. It took him a good three weeks to get over how exciting it all was.

Also, we stayed at a hotel across the river from the museum, so when we crossed the bridge we told him it was the Island of Sodor....

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 03, 2026 10:17 PM (Ntshk)

50 Marco says it should be "Duque de Albuquerque"...classy...good idea Marco

Posted by: President Miklos J. Trump at September 03, 2026 10:17 PM (4RYRd)

51 Oh... that's the Deadpool guy? So, he's not just a dick onscreen?

Posted by: GWB at September 03, 2026 10:17 PM (kU0PQ)

52 47
Doof has done absolutely not bad.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2026 10:16 PM (eRlcH)

I know I'm downright whelmed.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 03, 2026 10:18 PM (Ntshk)

53 Scariest thing about the 80s? Drinking a Tab in the back seat of the Montego? Thanks for the ONT, Disco.
Posted by: scampydog at September 03, 2026 10:12 PM

Howdy Doggo!

Posted by: Doof at September 03, 2026 10:18 PM (QLC6i)

54 Stacy's mom has got it goin' on.

Posted by: Fountains of Wayne at September 03, 2026 10:19 PM (4Je4D)

55

I would love for Miklos to do a post. It would be hilarious.

Posted by: four seasons at September 03, 2026 10:19 PM (/QHx4)

56 Sees *Titty Killer 6: Tits of Mars* .

Sigh...

*kicks AI download of Big Boobs From Buffalo under the table*

Posted by: Diogenes at September 03, 2026 10:19 PM (2WIwB)

57 Ryan Reynolds, old man who yells at skye.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 03, 2026 10:19 PM (2GVsD)

58 Doof has done absolutely not bad.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Yes, he has scored well enough to avoid the weekly shame meeting.

Posted by: scampydog at September 03, 2026 10:19 PM (41CYW)

59 Doof has done absolutely not bad.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2026 10:16 PM (eRlcH)

I know I'm downright whelmed.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 03, 2026 10:18 PM (Ntshk)

2 more not unsatisfied customers!

Posted by: Doof at September 03, 2026 10:19 PM (QLC6i)

60 Titty Killer 6: Tits of Mars... I would go see that.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 03, 2026 10:20 PM (S41Gd)

61 Maybe the Club ONT bar will stock Tab this week.
Posted by: TRex - TRO dino

Cans look kinda sunbaked, but there's some back there.

Posted by: Todd fukked off, so Miklos did inventory. Thanks Todd at September 03, 2026 10:20 PM (4RYRd)

62 I think I can sum up Ryan Reynolds' claims about the 80's in a totally 80's way:

BOGUS!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 03, 2026 10:20 PM (O7YUW)

63 44 Maybe the Club ONT bar will stock Tab this week.
Posted by: TRex - TRO dino at September 03, 2026 10:14 PM (di687)

Did you forget about the RC in the back of the fridge?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 03, 2026 10:15 PM
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We have both kinds of music: country AND western.

Posted by: TRex - restocking dino at September 03, 2026 10:20 PM (di687)

64 Titty Killer 6: Tits of Mars... I would go see that.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

IMAX

Posted by: Cineaste Mikleuse at September 03, 2026 10:20 PM (4RYRd)

65 Anybody listen to Shinedown around here? Opinions?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 03, 2026 10:21 PM (4Je4D)

66 Yeesh, someone over on Tensor I will not follow - JayLow

Lots of mammaries.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 03, 2026 10:22 PM (2GVsD)

67 Thanks for the more-than-semi-whelming ONT, Doof!

Great story on the locomotive engineer. Hope he enjoys a long and fruitful retirement.

Great photo up top. Very calming.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 03, 2026 10:22 PM (D/6p1)

68 Get your ass to Mars!

Posted by: Total Recall at September 03, 2026 10:23 PM (PE5pE)

69 66 Yeesh, someone over on Tensor I will not follow - JayLow

Lots of mammaries.

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*drops plate*

Wait. Wut?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 03, 2026 10:23 PM (4Je4D)

70 I guess I'm not sure....seems like my COMM name got hijacked..can this happen?
It's me though you guys, dammit!! 🤪

Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 03, 2026 10:23 PM (hJKeX)

71 “The 80s was a brutal, brutal time for people.

But enough about the Soviet Union.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 03, 2026 10:24 PM (4NO2D)

72 68 Get your ass to Mars!
Posted by: Total Recall at September 03, 2026 10:23 PM (PE5pE)

I think they were boobs. I'm pretty sure. You should probably go back and check to be certain.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 03, 2026 10:24 PM (Ntshk)

73 2 more not unsatisfied customers!
Posted by: Doof

Comrade Doof is award Stakhanov Medal for Exceeding of Expectations according to Plan

Please now for accept

Posted by: Party Comrade Magda of Regional Soviet CoBmittee at September 03, 2026 10:24 PM (4RYRd)

74

Anyone grilling muzzies this weekend?

Better start marinating them now.

Posted by: four seasons at September 03, 2026 10:24 PM (/QHx4)

75 71 “The 80s was a brutal, brutal time for people.

But enough about the Soviet Union.

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I wore the Angels Flight pants. I know.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 03, 2026 10:24 PM (4Je4D)

76 Yeesh, someone over on Tensor I will not follow - JayLow

Lots of mammaries.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 03, 2026 10:22 PM (2GVsD)

JayLow, you say? Lemme look.

Thanks for the mammaries.....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 03, 2026 10:25 PM (1Ff7Z)

77 That'll do, Doof.

That'll do.

Posted by: Farmer Hoggett at September 03, 2026 10:25 PM (wVcYX)

78 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

CT Scan tomorrow; not expecting any surprises, but prayers always welcomed.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at September 03, 2026 10:25 PM (SRRAx)

79 Thanks for the mammaries.....

I lobbed up Bob Hope for that one earlier this week - no takers. Rookies!

Posted by: LRob in OK at September 03, 2026 10:26 PM (Jr+re)

80 Thank you Ron DeSantis for banning flock cameras on all Florida state highways.
Now if we could somehow get rid of the rest of them that are all over town. Florida man gotta step up.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at September 03, 2026 10:26 PM (Lo97M)

81 Sex-crazed ex-NJ cop abused 11 firefighters under guise of training — used mechanical device to ‘hog-tie’ trainee

Note to self:
Do not get hog tied and buttfucked during training.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 03, 2026 10:26 PM (/+uur)

82 Ambrosia Mystery Click. Nicely done, Disco.

Posted by: scampydog at September 03, 2026 10:26 PM (41CYW)

83 Thanks for the mammaries.....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 03, 2026 10:25 PM (1Ff7Z)

Definitely a weirdo.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 03, 2026 10:27 PM (1Ff7Z)

84 I think I can sum up Ryan Reynolds' claims about the 80's in a totally 80's way:

BOGUS!
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 03, 2026 10:20 PM (O7YUW)

Concur. He's blowing it out his ass. Born in 1976, this Canadian has no clue how great the 80's were. Regan as president, iran hostages released. No more gas lines. A rebuilt military. A good economy.
OK, 80's hair. I'll grant that. But the rest? Awesome!

Posted by: Diogenes at September 03, 2026 10:27 PM (2WIwB)

85 78 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

CT Scan tomorrow; not expecting any surprises, but prayers always welcomed.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at September 03, 2026 10:25 PM (SRRAx)

Had that a couple weeks ago, when I cracked my head in a fall. Turned out just fine so I'm gonna assume yours will too.

Prayers up.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 03, 2026 10:28 PM (Ntshk)

86 Anyone grilling muzzies this weekend?

Better start marinating them now.
Posted by: four seasons

Cover liberally with bacon fat.
-- Zombie General Pershing

Posted by: Tonypete at September 03, 2026 10:28 PM (HaopY)

87 Hello, ONT dwellers!

Posted by: Piper at September 03, 2026 10:28 PM (ZdaMQ)

88 I guess I'm not sure....seems like my COMM name got hijacked..can this happen?
It's me though you guys, dammit!! 🤪

Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 03, 2026 10:23 PM (hJKeX)

Howdy COMM! Let me know if you run into any problems.

Posted by: Doof at September 03, 2026 10:28 PM (QLC6i)

89 Ya think so also Orante Ent?

Yeah, weird the squick out. They liked one of my woman with hot rod car images so went to look what they did. o.O;

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 03, 2026 10:28 PM (2GVsD)

90 I greatly dislike Ryan Reynolds for many reasons other than he can't act and is one dimensional.

The video tonight gave me two recoils.

What is that rolled up flannel snot rag on your throat? Is this a trend he's trying to set as a deflection from marrying an equally narcissistic weirdo? It looks very stupid, Ryan. I don't understand the point of this unless you are hiding a large zit or worse. Maybe a goiter?

Secondly, he's wearing eye concealer makeup like a ghey. I know this as it's reflecting light and also applied with a trowel. Real men don't or should not do this, Ryan.

You look lame, Ryan.

Aging is making your beady eyes somehow closer together, which is not attractive on anyone.

Go burn down another elementary school, that you thought was hilarious. I think you got way too many atomic wedgies in school and your emotional maturity stopped at that point.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 03, 2026 10:29 PM (hzuYO)

91 OK, 80's hair. I'll grant that. But the rest? Awesome!
Posted by: Diogenes at September 03, 2026 10:27 PM (2WIwB)

Those shoulder pads still give me horrible flashbacks.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 03, 2026 10:29 PM (Ntshk)

92 The 80's sucked.

Posted by: Nicolae Ceausescu at September 03, 2026 10:29 PM (4NO2D)

93 So there was a black dude in pe circa 1973 that would come up behind and hump you.
He did that to me once.
So next time I just bent over and he did too.
I threw him over my shoulders to the ground.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 03, 2026 10:29 PM (/+uur)

94 I wore the Angels Flight pants. I know.
Posted by: Cicero

Oh look at you Mister Rich Kid

Posted by: Miklos mom sewed his OPs and Jams by hand from burlap sacks after double shifts in the coal mine at September 03, 2026 10:29 PM (4RYRd)

95
Well, Ryan Reynolds is trying to push some retarded movie about a SR-71 pilot who gets shot down over Russia in the 80's and Kenneth Brannah rescues him cause he's an "Merica lovin' dude and not even in any alternative reality can the the scenario be close to plausible and it's pretty obvious he's high and disinterested giving the interview, so...

Sorry I wasted the brain cells trashing it.

Posted by: Auspex at September 03, 2026 10:30 PM (Y8DZL)

96 Ambrosia Mystery Click. Nicely done, Disco.
Posted by: scampydog at September 03, 2026 10:26 PM (41CYW)

*grins and nods*

Posted by: Doof at September 03, 2026 10:30 PM (QLC6i)

97 I lobbed up Bob Hope for that one earlier this week - no takers. Rookies!
Posted by: LRob in OK at September 03, 2026 10:26 PM (Jr+re)

There was a discussion of ski noses earlier in that Clancy? trial thread.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 03, 2026 10:30 PM (1Ff7Z)

98 Hello, ONT dwellers!
Posted by: Piper at September 03, 2026 10:28 PM (ZdaMQ)

Yo!

Posted by: Doof at September 03, 2026 10:31 PM (QLC6i)

99 I don't recall having any problems in the '80's, Ryan, you weasel.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 03, 2026 10:31 PM (hzuYO)

100 36 Yes, thank you Doof for really stepping up the COB bench. Hope you have the specialty bourbon compensation plan!
Posted by: Iris at September 03, 2026 10:13

I agree, Doof. You really are doing a lot. And I am not even angling for employee of the year because I know that is already on the bag.

Posted by: Piper at September 03, 2026 10:32 PM (ZdaMQ)

101 30 Klaus Meine is the best metal vocalist in rock.

CHANGE MY MIND
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 03, 2026 10:12 PM (4Je4D)

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Knowing the strength of Horde opinions, I doubt I'll change your mind. But I hereby present a couple of strong candidates for that same title:

https://youtu.be/i-6jntlAWJs

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at September 03, 2026 10:32 PM (kOluj)

102 43-year-old college freshman busted for alleged sex attack in dorm in his first week of school

duh!

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 03, 2026 10:32 PM (/+uur)

103 Ryan Reynolds is out of his fucking mind. The 80's were a frigging blast. Oh thats right, he was born in 1976. Yeah, while the rest of us were driving muscle cars, hitting the music venues, and banging big hair chicks like it was free he was stuck in his playpen eating his silly putty.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 03, 2026 10:32 PM (S41Gd)

104 Yeah, weird the squick out. They liked one of my woman with hot rod car images so went to look what they did. o.O;
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 03, 2026 10:28 PM (2GVsD)

Some weird fetishes that person has. Ain't going back. Hope the poster can't tell I visited. I neither liked or favorited anything there. Mighta lingered on a pic or two....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 03, 2026 10:33 PM (1Ff7Z)

105 @84/Diogenes: "OK, 80's hair. I'll grant that. But the rest? Awesome!"

I dunno man, there were some chicks in the 80's who could rock that hairstyle, and they generally were also the ones that would totally rock your world.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 03, 2026 10:33 PM (O7YUW)

106 Since people want to argue of the historical hotness of Maria B or lack therein I would submit Exhibit A:

https://short.do/5wyU7g

Posted by: ... at September 03, 2026 10:33 PM (vE0+H)

107 80's: Awesome arcade games, movies, music, and food. If I had a time machine, I'd blast back to 1983 so fast it'd make your head spin.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 03, 2026 10:34 PM (O7YUW)

108
The 80s were awesome!

How I long for those days.

Posted by: four seasons at September 03, 2026 10:34 PM (/QHx4)

109 80 Thank you Ron DeSantis for banning flock cameras on all Florida state highways.
Now if we could somehow get rid of the rest of them that are all over town. Florida man gotta step up.

Posted by: Florida Peasant
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He could have made a federal case out of it.
But he didn't.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 03, 2026 10:34 PM (WY+aP)

110 TiFW
Giant prayers love. Today I had to have my latest mammogram. Not sure yet how it will go. I'm hoping for the best. Already had one surgery...gosh...hoping for not another. You, my dear, are the best inspiration💕❤️

Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 03, 2026 10:34 PM (hJKeX)

111 10 Doof gets 2,000,000 Iranian Rial raise! NO! make it 2,500,000 Rials ! Good job!

--Management
Posted by: runner at September 03, 2026 10:03 PM (g47mK)

IS that enough to upgrade his membership from Cardboard, to BalsaWood?

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 03, 2026 10:34 PM (mP0Kj)

112 The 80's sucked.
Posted by: Nicolae Ceausescu

Oh honey, most of it was nice

Posted by: Elena Ceaucescu, Romania's Sweetheart and Large Brained Person at September 03, 2026 10:35 PM (4RYRd)

113 If I were 25 now, I bet I'd think these were good times.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 03, 2026 10:35 PM (4NO2D)

114 Reynolds is out of his fucking mind. The 80's were a frigging blast. Oh thats right, he was born in 1976. Yeah, while the rest of us were driving muscle cars, hitting the music venues, and banging big hair chicks like it was free he was stuck in his playpen eating his silly putty.

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You can shit in your diaper or you can hit on big hair chicks. You can't do both.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 03, 2026 10:35 PM (4Je4D)

115 108
The 80s were awesome!

How I long for those days.

Posted by: four seasons at September 03, 2026 10:34 PM (/QHx4)

I've considered running for public office, so I could find out what the heck I did during the 80's.

Much of it is a blur...

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 03, 2026 10:35 PM (mP0Kj)

116 I think the disco "music" of the 80s was not so good. Just an opinion . . . . . otherwise a good time!

Posted by: LRob in OK at September 03, 2026 10:35 PM (Jr+re)

117 I still think k the flock hysteria is an op, probably Chinese. Related to data center hysteria. They both started at the same time and came out of nowhere.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 03, 2026 10:36 PM (vxvws)

118 Disco was dead by the eighties.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 03, 2026 10:36 PM (4Je4D)

119 113 If I were 25 now, I bet I'd think these were good times.
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 03, 2026 10:35 PM (4NO2D)

Yeah.... uh... may want to go talk to some young Men out there...

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 03, 2026 10:36 PM (mP0Kj)

120 Green Card wait for some immigrants is now 179 years — after Trump imposed tough limits

gooder

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 03, 2026 10:36 PM (/+uur)

121 105 @84/Diogenes: "OK, 80's hair. I'll grant that. But the rest? Awesome!"

I dunno man, there were some chicks in the 80's who could rock that hairstyle, and they generally were also the ones that would totally rock your world.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 03, 2026 10:33 PM (O7YUW)

***

Not denying that, but...damn! On the upside, after a dip in the Jacuzzi, who cared???

Posted by: Diogenes at September 03, 2026 10:37 PM (2WIwB)

122

Romeo,

LOL

There are some things we don't need to remember.

It was fun though

Posted by: four seasons at September 03, 2026 10:37 PM (/QHx4)

123 And may the right job appear, and the wrong ones fall away.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 03, 2026 10:04 PM (aJQbY)

I hope that turns into great news for you!
I've spent this week back among the employed, finally.

Working with NCIS. Remote for now. So, no head slaps for now:
https://shorturl.fm/qEmHP

Posted by: GWB at September 03, 2026 10:37 PM (kU0PQ)

124 Disco was dead by the eighties.

Not in Europe which is where I spent some years.

Posted by: LRob in OK at September 03, 2026 10:37 PM (Jr+re)

125 I agree, Doof. You really are doing a lot. And I am not even angling for employee of the year because I know that is already on the bag.
Posted by: Piper at September 03, 2026 10:32 PM (ZdaMQ)

There is still almost 1/3 of the year left. Some new-hire may bring an extra amount of whelm!

Posted by: Doof at September 03, 2026 10:37 PM (QLC6i)

126 84/Diogenes: "OK, 80's hair. I'll grant that. But the rest? Awesome!"

I dunno man, there were some chicks in the 80's who could rock that hairstyle, and they generally were also the ones that would totally rock your world.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant
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I did like the ladies hairstyle with that big 'ol banana hair clip.

Posted by: scampydog at September 03, 2026 10:37 PM (41CYW)

127 Foreign-Born Population Drops by Nearly 3 Million Under Trump

harder

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 03, 2026 10:38 PM (/+uur)

128 103 Ryan Reynolds is out of his fucking mind. The 80's were a frigging blast. Oh thats right, he was born in 1976. Yeah, while the rest of us were driving muscle cars, hitting the music venues, and banging big hair chicks like it was free he was stuck in his playpen eating his silly putty.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Wait a minute…I am a little older than Mr. Reynolds. I thought you were there with us…

Posted by: Piper at September 03, 2026 10:38 PM (ZdaMQ)

129
Saturn continues to amaze. It's got those spectacular rings, and then the north pole has the peculiar hexagon structure that has persisted for years and years.

Now, a decagon structure has formed at the south pole:
https://t.ly/-5dLO

That thing started developing around 2023, apparently. It wasn't there when Cassini was there. Cassini got all sorts of photos of the hexagon:
https://t.ly/5Ya1s

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 03, 2026 10:39 PM (w6EFb)

130 Klaus Meine, definitely one of the best ever. But Bruce Dickinson is my personal favorite. Corey Taylor is up there as well.

As always, it's subjective. YMMV.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at September 03, 2026 10:39 PM (0aYVJ)

131 OK, 80's hair. I'll grant that. But the rest? Awesome!
Posted by: Diogenes

Objection

Posted by: in the 80s Miklos had hair at September 03, 2026 10:40 PM (4RYRd)

132
There is still almost 1/3 of the year left. Some new-hire may bring an extra amount of whelm!
Posted by: Doof at September 03, 2026 10:37 PM

They will never be me.

Posted by: Piper at September 03, 2026 10:40 PM (ZdaMQ)

133 127 Foreign-Born Population Drops by Nearly 3 Million Under Trump

Totally unrelated and purely coincidental, crime has plummeted in that time as well.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 03, 2026 10:41 PM (vxvws)

134 132.

Oh my goodness, my straight face lasted 3 seconds. 🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: Piper at September 03, 2026 10:41 PM (ZdaMQ)

135 I think the disco "music" of the 80s was not so good. Just an opinion . . . . . otherwise a good time!

Posted by: LRob in OK at September 03, 2026 10:35 PM (Jr+re)

Around here there was no 80's disco. Metal took over the clubs, shot disco dead, and we drank out it's dead fucking skull.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 03, 2026 10:41 PM (S41Gd)

136 Cassini got all sorts of photos of the hexagon:
https://t.ly/5Ya1s
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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Interesting stuff. Thanks publius.

Posted by: scampydog at September 03, 2026 10:42 PM (41CYW)

137 Ryan Reynolds the notebook guy or the other Ryan? I always get them mixed up.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 03, 2026 10:42 PM (vxvws)

138 Disco was dead by the eighties.

Not in Europe which is where I spent some years.
Posted by: LRob in OK at September 03, 2026 10:37 PM (Jr+re)

Or ABBA. Walking (later I may have stumbled a bit) through Oktoberfest in Munich in '89 and it was a throwback to the 70's.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 03, 2026 10:42 PM (2WIwB)

139 Thanks, Doof, for the ONT.

I like Ambrosia. Easy listenin'

I like this one:

I Keep Holding On to Yesterday 1975

https://tinyurl.com/5nuefkxy

One year before my life changed with the dude I'm still hanging out with. We're going to celebrate our first date the end of the month (late Sept 1976). Not partying like 50yrs ago but close!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 03, 2026 10:43 PM (hzuYO)

140 Thanks for the ONT Doof! Yes, I hope you got a decent raise with your recent promotion.

Prayers up, for all who need them. Looks like quite a list tonight...

Posted by: JQ at September 03, 2026 10:43 PM (rdVOm)

141 80's hair! We called the curling iron bangs the "College Park poof" in honor of the Univ of MD.

At one point in the 80s I had a short curly perm on top with a "small tail" hidden in the back.

Posted by: Iris at September 03, 2026 10:43 PM (286+n)

142 At one point in the 80s I had a short curly perm on top with a "small tail" hidden in the back

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Woof.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 03, 2026 10:44 PM (4Je4D)

143 We have both kinds of music: country AND western.
Posted by: TRex - restocking dino at September 03, 2026 10:20 PM (di687)

Nope.

There are only two kinds of music: Pink Floyd, and everything else.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 03, 2026 10:44 PM (rM9us)

144 Class of '84 here (high school). I think the 80s were pretty good. Cycloptic Mr. shitbag canuck is delusional to think the 80s sucked. Far more placid and harmonious than what we are seeing now.

Martha Quinn on MTV. I smugly rest my case.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at September 03, 2026 10:44 PM (0aYVJ)

145 Today I had to have my latest mammogram. Not sure yet how it will go. I'm hoping for the best. Already had one surgery...gosh...hoping for not another. You, my dear, are the best inspiration💕❤️

Posted by: COMountainMarie
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All the best to you.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 03, 2026 10:45 PM (WY+aP)

146 I really like the New Mexico man. Gorgeous eyes.

I'd help him if he asked.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 03, 2026 10:45 PM (hzuYO)

147 130 Klaus Meine, definitely one of the best ever. But Bruce Dickinson is my personal favorite. Corey Taylor is up there as well.

As always, it's subjective. YMMV.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at September 03, 2026 10:39 PM (0aYVJ)

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*fist bump*

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at September 03, 2026 10:45 PM (kOluj)

148 The 80s were awesome!
How I long for those days.

Word! Big hair, AquaNet clouds in the woman's restrooms damn near down to the floor and kisses that tasted like wine coolers, cigarettes, and attitude changing from maybe to hell yes, why not?

Posted by: Tonypete at September 03, 2026 10:46 PM (HaopY)

149 I think I will always love this song

https://youtu.be/5HI_xFQWiYU

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 03, 2026 10:46 PM (2GVsD)

150 >>> Police comply but say cameras help solve crimes

So does having a cop tied to your ass every minute you are outside in public, the fact that having technology make constant surveillance cheap does not make it just.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 03, 2026 10:46 PM (7uQFL)

151 Do any of you mooks have any idea how many artists have covered Midnight Special?

It's astonishing!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 03, 2026 10:47 PM (4Je4D)

152 80's: Solid Gold and Stacey Keach lost a series because he was caught with cocaine.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 03, 2026 10:48 PM (WY+aP)

153 I think the disco "music" of the 80s was not so good. Just an opinion . . . . . otherwise a good time!

Posted by: LRob in OK at September 03, 2026 10:35 PM (Jr+re)

Then there was young Lieutenant Diogenes and his buds walking into a German bar one night and teaching everyone there how to do The Hustle.
Good times...good times...

Posted by: Diogenes at September 03, 2026 10:48 PM (2WIwB)

154 148 The 80s were awesome!
How I long for those days.

Word! Big hair, AquaNet clouds in the woman's restrooms damn near down to the floor and kisses that tasted like wine coolers, cigarettes, and attitude changing from maybe to hell yes, why not?
Posted by: Tonypete at September 03, 2026 10:46 PM (HaopY)

In the early 80's I had 9 Live music venues, and 5 'discoes' (canned music dance places) within 10 miles of me.

I now live in the same house I did then... there is... 1.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 03, 2026 10:48 PM (mP0Kj)

155 Around here there was no 80's disco. Metal took over the clubs, shot disco dead, and we drank out it's dead fucking skull.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 03, 2026 10:41 PM (S41Gd)

As much as I cut my teeth on 80s pop, by the end of the 80s I turned to metal. Helped, in large part, by Headbanger’s Ball and the pearl clutchers who assured all of us that metal was scary, and dangerous, with its lyrics about sex, drugs, violence, and SATAN WORSHIP.

Basically all society did back then was give every potential green light a teenage boy needs. “Hmmm. WHY is metal so scary and dangerous??! I better go find out…” : )

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 03, 2026 10:48 PM (rM9us)

156 I was an 80s kid.

Part of the last group of kids who went out all day rode bikes etc and came home at dark. No school shootings either.

Great era to grow up in.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 03, 2026 10:48 PM (vxvws)

157 133 127 Foreign-Born Population Drops by Nearly 3 Million Under Trump

Totally unrelated and purely coincidental, crime has plummeted in that time as well.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 03, 2026 10:41 PM (vxvws)

Hey! My mother is an evil foreign born…

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 03, 2026 10:50 PM (rM9us)

158 Anna Puma,

I took a look.

I was not impressed.

I like natural, not bolt-ons, and some of the other themes were just... I've seen worse, I mean, the internet exists, but it didn't thrill, y'know? And the uncanny valley....

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 03, 2026 10:51 PM (aJQbY)

159 Do any of you mooks have any idea

Mooks don't have any ideas. That's what makes us mooks.

Posted by: Mooklos at September 03, 2026 10:52 PM (4RYRd)

160 117 I still think k the flock hysteria is an op, probably Chinese. Related to data center hysteria. They both started at the same time and came out of nowhere.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 03, 2026 10:36 PM (vxvws)

Pervasive surveillance is unAmerican. No hysteria is needed.

And if the public doesn't trust pervasive surveillance or AI datacenters, who can blame them? What institution hasn't completely forfeit the public's trust at this point?

People keep talking about how all opposition is Chinese op. Funny how that talking point emerged out of the ether just like any other astroturf.

I'm a little tired of hearing how if I don't allow myself to be herded into support for "x," the terrorists win.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 03, 2026 10:52 PM (scxGg)

161 teaching everyone there how to do The Hustle.
Good times...good times...
——-

Do you remember that instrumental called “Popcorn”? Don’t lie to us. We can tell.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 03, 2026 10:52 PM (zom6H)

162 Wait a minute…I am a little older than Mr. Reynolds. I thought you were there with us…

Posted by: Piper at September 03, 2026 10:38 PM (ZdaMQ)

Probably not. I started gigging in the metal clubs in 1980. I took full advantage of the entire 80's and barely lived to tell about it. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 03, 2026 10:53 PM (S41Gd)

163 Hey! My mother is an evil foreign born…
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 03, 2026 10:50 PM (rM9us)

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New Mexico isn't foreign.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 03, 2026 10:53 PM (4Je4D)

164
Here's a recreation of that hexagon pattern in the lab:
https://t.ly/5lw6w

First video I could find. It's caused by differential rotation of a fluid, and they set that with water in cylindrical tank set up where they can spin the inner and outer parts at different speeds.

These polygons naturally come out of that. With different values of the speeds and other variables, you can get anything from triangles, to squares, and on.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 03, 2026 10:53 PM (w6EFb)

165 I now live in the same house I did then... there is... 1.
Posted by: Romeo13

then 18

now 21

Posted by: the drinking age at September 03, 2026 10:53 PM (4RYRd)

166 Congrats, GWB!

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 03, 2026 10:54 PM (aJQbY)

167 It's a mixed bag alright, but it's semi-coherent, well, maybe partially coherent.

Posted by: Arbiter of Good Taste at September 03, 2026 10:54 PM (Fn+3X)

168 I grew up in the 1980s. It was a great time to be a kid/teenager.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 03, 2026 10:54 PM (rM9us)

169 I had layered hair with sort of bangs, but still long in the '80's. I could still wear a French braid to work in the newborn nursery.

I wanted "The Rachel" from friends in the early '90's. Went to a new hairstylist and made the horrific mistake of asking for a shag, thinking, sort of, that's what she had.

I got a shag and my hair is thick. To a man and sons the first thing they said when they saw me later was: "Why did you do that?" It was traumatic. I wept later in our bedroom bad. The top layer was only about 2" long and it was very curly (as that is what my hair does if I don't correct it).

Women loved it. My men hated it and never, ever again. It remains an inch below my shoulders, blunt with blonde highlights. I may do this forever as it's easy. I don't care that I am olde.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 03, 2026 10:55 PM (hzuYO)

170 For a while, I thought the blog name would have to be changed to CBD of Spades. Now, I'm thinking, Doof of Spades. Ace who?

Posted by: mindful webworker - Doof of Club ONTs? at September 03, 2026 10:55 PM (Cl/mc)

171 I peed in the lake up top. I'm up to 38 states now.

Posted by: Pleased As Punch at September 03, 2026 10:56 PM (Fn+3X)

172 Basically all society did back then was give every potential green light a teenage boy needs. “Hmmm. WHY is metal so scary and dangerous??! I better go find out…” : )

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 03, 2026 10:48 PM (rM9us)

And then they discovered the chicks. When chicks were chicks and dressed like it. It..was..glorious.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 03, 2026 10:56 PM (S41Gd)

173 Maybe the Club ONT bar will stock Tab this week.
Posted by: TRex - TRO dino at September 03, 2026 10:14 PM (di687)

Did you forget about the RC in the back of the fridge?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 03, 2026 10:15 PM
***
We have both kinds of music: country AND western.
Posted by: TRex - restocking dino at September 03, 2026 10:20 PM (di687)

Now you just need both kinds of Mountain Dew - with sugar, and from the still.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 03, 2026 10:56 PM (qx7Zg)

174 Doof - you should at least demand a key to the executive washroom

Posted by: 496 at September 03, 2026 10:56 PM (0K2fJ)

175
I look back on the 80s like I look back on the 60s, 70s, 90s, 00s 10s and 20s: a time I wish to forget.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2026 10:57 PM (eRlcH)

176 165 I now live in the same house I did then... there is... 1.
Posted by: Romeo13

then 18

now 21
Posted by: the drinking age at September 03, 2026 10:53 PM (4RYRd)

Was always 21 here... but people went out instead of sitting on their phones.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 03, 2026 10:59 PM (mP0Kj)

177 What ton my mind tonight?

(Tilts head. Shakes. Silence. No pebbles or rocks.)

I got nothin'.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 03, 2026 10:59 PM (qx7Zg)

178 160 117 I still think k the flock hysteria is an op, probably Chinese. Related to data center hysteria. They both started at the same time and came out of nowhere.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 03, 2026 10:36 PM (vxvws)

So I’m just programmed by the PRC at particular times? That’s a pretty disrespectful way to be dismissive of one’s argument, no?

I found it odious when Amarillo announced the installment of ALPRs around town. You weren’t there, but I was and am pissed off about that.

Maybe you want to live in a surveillance state where the police are in fact the Stasi. I don’t.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 03, 2026 10:59 PM (rM9us)

179

In the 70's and 80's my kids were free range They had lots of adventures which in today's climate hubby and I would be arrested.

Posted by: four seasons at September 03, 2026 10:59 PM (/QHx4)

180 171 I peed in the lake up top. I'm up to 38 states now.
Posted by: Pleased As Punch at September 03, 2026 10:56 PM (Fn+3X)

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Congrats to you and that world-class bladder of yours.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 03, 2026 11:00 PM (4Je4D)

181 I found it odious when Amarillo announced the installment of ALPRs around town. You weren’t there, but I was and am pissed off about that.

Maybe you want to live in a surveillance state where the police are in fact the Stasi. I don’t.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 03, 2026 10:59 PM (rM9us)

AI... Flock Cameras... drones now carrying weapons... and...

It was just a couple years ago they wanted us to carry Covid cards.

If power exists, it will eventually be abused.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 03, 2026 11:01 PM (mP0Kj)

182 Did not watch the Ryan Reynolds video.

Put up a video of Mark Ruffalo so I can not care about that also.

Now HERE are videos worth watching

Dolly visits the Playhouse and sings a duet
https://youtu.be/76tE_rKCwT8

Dolly visits the Captain (who seems to be suffering some sort of breakdown) and sings Crackerjack
https://youtu.be/BTSmGFa_vtA

Posted by: mindful webworker - Dolly by golly at September 03, 2026 11:01 PM (Cl/mc)

183 @175...Hadrian, why?

I've had a blast.

I may request that on my mausoleum drawer or whatever it's called. I'd say the '70's and '80's were my prime decades. No regrets and a lot of fun and rock and roll.

Granted, this particular week has not been great, but that's life in the nut house.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 03, 2026 11:01 PM (hzuYO)

184 Silly Putty wasn't bad, but Play-Doh was much tastier. The blue was my fave.

Posted by: Petey Pica at September 03, 2026 11:02 PM (Fn+3X)

185 For a while, I thought the blog name would have to be changed to CBD of Spades. Now, I'm thinking, Doof of Spades. Ace who?
Posted by: mindful webworker - Doof of Club ONTs? at September 03, 2026 10:55 PM (Cl/mc)

I'm not in the same league as either of those guys

Posted by: Doof at September 03, 2026 11:03 PM (QLC6i)

186 @182...mindful webworker...I think I read last night after you signed off that you met your wife around 1976?

Great year for meeting your mate (or it was for me).

Also a great year for music. Can't complain. College was a hard road but I had a lot of fun when I could.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 03, 2026 11:04 PM (hzuYO)

187
If power exists, it will eventually be abused.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 03, 2026 11:01 PM (mP0Kj)

__________

And that's my objection. It's the Camel's Nose.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2026 11:06 PM (eRlcH)

188 Secondly, he's wearing eye concealer makeup like a ghey. I know this as it's reflecting light and also applied with a trowel. Real men don't or should not do this, Ryan.
I think that men have to apply make up heavily because of the whiskers.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 03, 2026 11:07 PM (0Htd1)

189 I'm not in the same league as either of those guys
Posted by: Doof

ONT East or ONT West?

Posted by: miklos South at September 03, 2026 11:07 PM (4RYRd)

190 COMM--

By "signing in," I presume you mean you had to re-enter the name, email, and (optional) URL fields to comment?

IIANM, those fields are stored in a cookie. If for some reason you erase cookies, those fields are blanked.

Those fields also get blanked if you use certain characters, say a semi-colon or double-quote mark in the name fields - and I don't recall what all else. Because, Pixy.

Doesn't mean anyone has hijacked your identity.

Anyone can enter anyone else's regular nic, though, but that's a AoS bannable offense.

This should have all been explained in the AoSHQ guidebook you got with your membership card.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Pixy no fixy at September 03, 2026 11:07 PM (Cl/mc)

191
To evil habits' earliest wile
Lend neither ear, no glance, nor smile.
Choke the dark fountain ere it flows,
Nor e'en admit the Camel's Nose.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2026 11:08 PM (eRlcH)

192 Silly Putty wasn't bad, but Play-Doh was much tastier. The blue was my fave.

Posted by: Petey Pica at September 03, 2026 11:02 PM (Fn+3X)
-

Were we separated at birth?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 03, 2026 11:08 PM (gsBYv)

193

Living in a small town, 2500 pop, it's amazing how many people have the Ring Cameras.

Yes it is a small town but you go to get your mail at the post office since we don't have home delivery and you get all the scoop. Anywhere you go here you hear the gossip.

I've wondered what the hell the people are looking at with the cameras. I get it if you live in are where there is high crime, sketchy people.

Posted by: four seasons at September 03, 2026 11:10 PM (/QHx4)

194 Nor e'en admit the Camel's Nose.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Ok

It...it's fine

Posted by: William Wordsworth (cool poet name, huh?) at September 03, 2026 11:12 PM (4RYRd)

195 Purely an aside, but I find it interesting that, for all of her popularity with certain women, Gloria Steinem's passing is REALLY far down on the Daily Mail's front page today.

Apparently she was surrounded by "some of those who loved her".

Yeah, but no children.....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at September 03, 2026 11:12 PM (SRRAx)

196 I've wondered what the hell the people are looking at with the cameras. I get it if you live in are where there is high crime, sketchy people.

Posted by: four seasons
---

The Jones have one, we need one too.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 03, 2026 11:13 PM (WY+aP)

197

Braenyard,

Bingo

Posted by: four seasons at September 03, 2026 11:14 PM (/QHx4)

198 Gosh....
I stepped out for a couple of minutes...
I lost the plot...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 03, 2026 11:16 PM (hJKeX)

199

We don't have a stoplight here, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at September 03, 2026 11:17 PM (/QHx4)

200
@175...Hadrian, why?

____________

Because I've been an idiot most of my life. If I look back, I feel nothing but shame at all the stupid things I did or said and whoch now can't be made good. My energies are devoted to forgetting.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2026 11:17 PM (eRlcH)

201 Gloria Steinem was a CIA plant.

that's not a pun

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 03, 2026 11:17 PM (WY+aP)

202 I've wondered what the hell the people are looking at with the cameras. I get it if you live in are where there is high crime, sketchy people.

Posted by: four seasons

Sometimes, very sketchy people go to the boonies to hide out. Or to expand their 'enterprises'...

Lil bro lives in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere, and sees shady characters "passing through" frequently.

When seconds count, the cops are hours away!

Posted by: JQ at September 03, 2026 11:18 PM (rdVOm)

203

Hadrian,

Please let it go. Most of us have done things we don't want to remember.

Enjoy life unless you are hiding from the law, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at September 03, 2026 11:18 PM (/QHx4)

204 I miss the 80s. Both sets of grandparents were alive. The world made sense. Ronald Reagan was like a protective guardian. And even though the commies were out there, we did not worry too much about getting nuked.

Fuck off, Ryan Reynolds.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 03, 2026 11:18 PM (Y/06r)

205 I grew up in the 70's, real rock music, halter tops, mini skirts, patched jeans, girls getting into bars way underage, the Brothers (local Hell's Angels) on the highways, and the Butcher Baker hunting and killing girls my age. It was a wild ride.

College at the very end of the 70's into the 80's, and then off to the job market. I didn't have a lot of time to mess around in the 80's, really. Left home at 17 and never looked back. Lots of really fast life changes, and always the need to support myself. But there was nothing wrong with the 80's. No racism that I remember, no real sexism either, except the stupid kind that was easily overcome with a smart mouth and smarter behavior.

My hair didn't do big, but those shoulder pads on the suits... It was better when I moved back up here, so no more suits. Mini skirts, hard hats and steel toed construction boots! I was totally in my element! Lol.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 03, 2026 11:19 PM (Ntshk)

206 There was a discussion of ski noses earlier in that Clancy? trial thread.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 03, 2026 10:30 PM (1Ff7Z)

********
Missed that one. She certainly does not have a ski jump nose. More of a beak with birds of prey eyeballs. Her pupils are super dilated and I wonder what she's on now to control her murdering arse.

I saw the video today of the ED doc's testimony. She did not fling herself out the window, but more of a less dramatic slide down the roof. I'll bet she was not counting on how severe her back injury would be with her superficial (MD's words) cuts to her throat and wrists.

I still think she did this because she hated her husband, as that's how many of these seem to go.

I do hope she does not wheel free. The jury should have been sequestered to prevent the filming by that Karen who fell into her son's grave (I did not read how).

Well, goodnight and have a pleasant tomorrow. Fly high but not down your roof.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 03, 2026 11:19 PM (hzuYO)

207 I always wanted to play with Serious Putty when I was in the .mil but it wasn’t in my wheelhouse.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 03, 2026 11:19 PM (zom6H)

208
How did Clancy end up paralyzed? I missed that part of the story.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2026 11:21 PM (eRlcH)

209 Titty Killer 6: Tits of Mars had a nice showing.

I'm looking forward to Titty Killer 7: Tits in the Lunar Space Station.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 03, 2026 11:21 PM (C/aDH)

210 After she murdered her children she jumped out a second story window. Too bad she didn't fucking die.

Evil Bitch

Posted by: four seasons at September 03, 2026 11:22 PM (/QHx4)

211 Evenin'

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Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 03, 2026 11:24 PM (BW+Gb)

212 If power exists, it will eventually be abused.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 03, 2026 11:01 PM (mP0Kj)

__________

And that's my objection. It's the Camel's Nose.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2026 11:06 PM (eRlcH)

Which is why the Founders set everything up as they did: limited power and throw da bums out regularly.

But we failed to pass that along adequately for some reason.

Posted by: GWB at September 03, 2026 11:24 PM (kU0PQ)

213 Because I've been an idiot most of my life. If I look back, I feel nothing but shame at all the stupid things I did or said and whoch now can't be made good. My energies are devoted to forgetting.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2026 11:17 PM (eRlcH)

********
Well, you seem nice to me. No point of living with regrets so erase them. Write them down and burn the page.

I don't want to offend you by also letting go through prayer. It works.

I wish I'd been better at times but it all worked out. Not a perfect mother or wife but our sons thrived with their crazy mother. My husband still likes me.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 03, 2026 11:25 PM (hzuYO)

214 >>>After she murdered her children she jumped out a second story window. Too bad she didn't fucking die.

Evil Bitch

Posted by: four seasons

>Why did they bring her back? Time for a coffee break.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 03, 2026 11:26 PM (C/aDH)

215 Gloria Steinem's passing is REALLY far down on the Daily Mail's front page today.

Apparently she was surrounded by "some of those who loved her".

So, the rest didn't love her enough to show up. Given the current news about how a lot of women are responding to Lindsey Clancy strangling her kids, I especially hate feminists today. I hope Gloria rots in hell.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 03, 2026 11:26 PM (0Htd1)

216 Good evening morons y gracias Disco

I have suffered a bad Billy Joel earworm the last several days, and I was never even a big fan.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 03, 2026 11:26 PM (RIvkX)

217 If you don't slit your wrists from palm of hand toward your elbow, you ain't gonna die. Cross cutting won't "cut" it....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 03, 2026 11:27 PM (1Ff7Z)

218 I peed in the lake up top. I'm up to 38 states now.
Posted by: Pleased As Punch at September 03, 2026 10:56 PM (Fn+3X)

Well, my personal best for plugged toilet is the 22nd floor.
*buffs nails on lapel*

Posted by: Diogenes at September 03, 2026 11:28 PM (2WIwB)

219 Because I've been an idiot most of my life. If I look back, I feel nothing but shame at all the stupid things I did or said and whoch now can't be made good. My energies are devoted to forgetting.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2026 11:17 PM (eRlcH)

C'mon, yer Catholic. You know better. Confess the icky stuff, and forgive the rest. Dragging that luggage is only going to ruin the rest of your life. DON'T do the stupid shit again, and move the heck on. Wise people only got that way by making a shit-ton of mistakes and learning from them. So, be wise.

And pet some dogs, y'know? They don't care one iota what happened back then.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 03, 2026 11:29 PM (Ntshk)

220 208
How did Clancy end up paralyzed? I missed that part of the story.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2026 11:21 PM (eRlcH)
****
She lamely superficially cut her wrists and neck after murdering her 3 children, which did nothing as far as bleeding out; and decided to jump out a second floor window. Which I even know typically does not kill you unless you land on your head or neck on concrete. She somehow fx her thoracic vertebra and is paralyzed from the waist down.

I think she wanted to dive through the window but it was too small, looked like a bathroom window. This part she did not plan well nor research.

I want her locked up somewhere for life with her tubes tied.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 03, 2026 11:29 PM (hzuYO)

221 I want her locked up somewhere for life with her tubes tied.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 03, 2026 11:29 PM (hzuYO)

Breathing tubes, you mean?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 03, 2026 11:30 PM (1Ff7Z)

222
So, the rest didn't love her enough to show up.

__________

She was an ancient relic. Feminism moved well beyond her and has now become truly frightening. She lit the match and was immolated in the fire.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2026 11:30 PM (eRlcH)

223 I think if I were a serial killer going to all the trouble of traveling to Mars, and successfully killing co-ed after co-ed with no one knowing who I was, I WOULDN'T want to be known (or deserve to be known) as the Titty Killer.

First off, he might like titties, and hold nothing against them at all (insert bad joke here). He may just have a problem with N-ASS-A's selection process and is trying to make that point obvious. Or he may be frustrated with having nowhere to park his bicycle, and anticipates these Sororitynauts being buried face up, thus allowing convenient bike parking without using a kickstand.

So much open for interpretation in that Trailer.

Posted by: Orson at September 03, 2026 11:34 PM (dIske)

224 This should have all been explained in the AoSHQ guidebook you got with your membership card.
Posted by: mindful webworker - Pixy no fixy at September

We digitized the handbook to make it easier to update, but no one will click on the link.

Posted by: Piper at September 03, 2026 11:34 PM (ZdaMQ)

225 mindful webworker...I think I read last night after you signed off that you met your wife around 1976?…
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

We met in college in Wisconsin in Spring of '73. Then I dropped out and stupidly failed to take her with me. Finally talked her into coming to Oklahoma in '74. (Oct 1 anniv coming up.) She was on her way to visit a sister in California. Never got there.. Didn't get officially hitched until 1980, though. And started a family. As it should be. Folks above talking about the 1980s, well, we were busy with the babies.

What a long, strange trip it's been!

Posted by: mindful webworker - Pixy no fixy at September 03, 2026 11:34 PM (Cl/mc)

226 And even though the commies were out there, we did not worry too much about getting nuked.

Fuck off, Ryan Reynolds.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
I was a kid during the Cuban Missile Crisis. At school we were told that if there was an attack, we were told to sit under our desks. The Reagan era was wonderful by comparison. We can thank the republicans for the fall of the Soviet Union, which probably bothers commie actors.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 03, 2026 11:35 PM (0Htd1)

227 I want her locked up somewhere for life with her tubes tied.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 03, 2026 11:29 PM (hzuYO)

She needs to be locked up where she has no access whatsoever to children, ever. I cannot in good conscience wish she were in hell, but she needs to pay for premeditated murder, which is exactly what she did. Nobody can convince me she was crazy--crazy people are not able to plan all the angles and get away with that. And she showed no remorse after the act. She asked for a lawyer. Horrid. That kind of psychopathy is not fixable.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 03, 2026 11:35 PM (Ntshk)

228 190 By "signing in," I presume you mean you had to re-enter the name, email, and (optional) URL fields to comment?

Yes. I've used my name/nic for this many years...I guess I've gotten lazy about the interwebz...
I also guess I mostly don't give a f...
I'm still here...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 03, 2026 11:35 PM (hJKeX)

229
C'mon, yer Catholic. You know better. Confess the icky stuff, and forgive the rest.

__________

Oh yes, I know I'm a screwup and not a monster. And now that I've almost gotten to my three score and ten, I feel more serene. Saying the Rosary every day helps.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2026 11:36 PM (eRlcH)

230
Marie,
Same thing happened to me. Some kind of update.

Posted by: four seasons at September 03, 2026 11:37 PM (/QHx4)

231 We digitized the handbook to make it easier to update, but no one will click on the link.
Posted by: Piper at September 03, 2026 11:34 PM (ZdaMQ)

We should probably have appended it to the Horde Cookbook, just in case.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 03, 2026 11:37 PM (Ntshk)

232 208
How did Clancy end up paralyzed? I missed that part of the story.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2026 11:21 PM

She jumped out of a second story window. She did end up in cardiac arrest at the hospital from blood loss, but she was revived.

Posted by: Piper at September 03, 2026 11:37 PM (ZdaMQ)

233 Yay! Hash changed and my post didn't get nuked! Small victories.

I liked the 80s. Rust Belt kid. Entered 1980 a 11 year old, left 1989 as a 20 year old E-2 in the USAF. Western PA wasn't exactly the cutting edge of culture but it was ok. Listened to WDVE out of Pittsburgh, cruised around a lot with friends who had way cooler cars. My Mom's barely functioning 1981 K-Car was, uh, adventurous. With a good tail wind, it might get over 60mph, then the engine shut off. Ah Chrysler, bless your heart.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 03, 2026 11:38 PM (BW+Gb)

234 We should probably have appended it to the Horde Cookbook, just in case.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 03, 2026

Ohhh…we should drop that suggestion in the suggestions box!

Posted by: Piper at September 03, 2026 11:38 PM (ZdaMQ)

235
It would have been lamer if she jumped from a first story window.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2026 11:38 PM (eRlcH)

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