Wednesday Night ONT - September 30, 2026 [TRex]

Good evening Horde! The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety. The bar is open and fully stocked. Step up and place your order.

Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. It is the last day of September after all.

If you're a troll, go away.

This is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Please.

Remember blog etiquette - if you are the second commenter, you get the honor of alerting those in the prior post. If you are the first, you get to bask in the temporary glory of victory. If you are third, we still love you.

[Top photo: Inglewood, California]

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ONT Department of Pet Care

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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ONT Sign of the Times

You would think one room would be sufficient to observe the ladies' room, but apparently many are needed.

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ONT Department of Nostalgia

It is truly amazing what lurks out there on the interweb:

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ONT Department of Alcohol Science

I had no idea that this kind of thing was a sub-genre on YouTube. Is this what happens when gas gets expensive? Apparently so. Warning: once you watch one video, your entire YouTube feed gets filled with similar videos. (I feel sorry for the YouTube or NSA employee tasked with tracking my YouTube algorithm.)

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ONT Department of the Far Side

Everyone has probably seen this before, but I stumbled across it this week. I hadn't seen it for a while and it still made me laugh.

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ONT Department of Public Art

The Basketball Tree, functional sculpture by Alexandre Arechea, located in Biidaasige Park in Toronto.

I'm sure there is some deeper meaning that only the truly insightful can fully appreciate, but I like seeing a bit of whimsy and interaction in public art. It would take a while to figure out which hoop to aim for, but the odds of sinking a basket would improve!

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Mandatory Maiden

Bruce Dickinson sings the US National Anthem before the Steelers football game (with helicopter flyover):

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Niche YouTube Channel of the Week

Tonight's feature is a YouTube channel called Current Concept. The host does not give his real name, but is very handy and I love his dry sense of humor. His channel description is bang on accurate: "Engineering ish projects being made and tested. I'll even throw some jokes in there every now and then to keep em entertaining. This channel is my excuse to build dumb ideas that I've got."

Belt fed potato cannon? Done. Saw blade launcher? Done. Banana gun? Done. Robot knife thrower? Done. Rocket powered shoes? Done. You get the idea.

It is clever and a little crazy without being outright dumb or stupid clickbait.

The channel has over 205,000 subscribers. A few videos have gotten over a million views but most are in the tens or hundreds of thousands. Posting is about once a month(ish). I don't get the sense that this is a full time job.

I may have posted it on the blog before, but my favorite is the belt fed potato cannon video.

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Pittsburgh Scanner

The Pittsburgh police scanner is an internet treasure. Thank you people of Pittsburgh and thank you Pittsburgh scanner!

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Old school Sammy Hagar for the big ONT finish:

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Public service reminder: the left lane is for passing, not cruising. If you are driving in the left lane with a line of cars stacked behind you, you're doing it wrong. Sammy would agree. Correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com where it will be promptly sorted and processed. Are you lurking ????

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1 Pastrami!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 30, 2026 10:00 PM (LtCD9)

2 "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
— Mahatma Gandhi

Why those with cognitive dissonance are so unhappy.

Posted by: mindful webworker - we'll always have ~~twitter~~ at September 30, 2026 10:00 PM (xRCm7)

3 huey

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 10:00 PM (JS6jE)

4 Sunset 95624

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 30, 2026 10:01 PM (LtCD9)

5 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 30, 2026 10:01 PM (ktgTW)

6 Not first or second!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2026 10:02 PM (NnhvP)

7 This means I don't have to tell anyone, right??

Posted by: Dr. T at September 30, 2026 10:02 PM (lHPJf)

8 Bruce Dickinson sings the US National Anthem before the Steelers football game . . .

Is this 'THE' Bruce Dickinson?

Posted by: Tonypete at September 30, 2026 10:02 PM (ktgTW)

9 Good evening Katz and Kittiez!
Hi Mr. Rex!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 30, 2026 10:02 PM (jCKWs)

10 So...Big Donut invades the blog....

I've been there!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 30, 2026 10:03 PM (QGaXH)

11 I mighta got Firts, but I was busy preparing beverages and getting some chips to go with this fine sandwich Milady has prepared. I knew I'd be cutting it close. But, you know, priorities.

Posted by: mindful webworker - sometimes it just turns out that way at September 30, 2026 10:03 PM (xRCm7)

12 You would think one room would be sufficient to observe the ladies' room, but apparently many are needed.

Are you kidding? Even with thousands of observation rooms, we'll never know what a woman is.

Posted by: K. B. Jackson at September 30, 2026 10:03 PM (VHUov)

13 I knew I'd be cutting it close. But, you know, priorities.
Posted by: mindful webworker

I'd like to set my priorities but there are some things I'd like to do first.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 30, 2026 10:04 PM (ktgTW)

14 Burl Ives: One of the influences that filled my youth with terror. Like Clarabelle the Clown.

Posted by: mindful webworker - traumatized at September 30, 2026 10:05 PM (xRCm7)

15 Are you kidding? Even with thousands of observation rooms, we'll never know what a woman is.
Posted by: K. B. Jackson

Is it not true when determining the sex of a baby in utero, it is the lack of a certain thing that leads one to say it's a girl?

Posted by: Tonypete at September 30, 2026 10:06 PM (ktgTW)

16 Evenin'

Pittsburgh Penguins 6 - Filthy Flyers 0. Nice way to start the season. I'm not holding my breath on a 6th Stanley Cup. I'm not even sure about the playoffs.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 30, 2026 10:06 PM (pLaQB)

17 Warning: once you watch one video, your entire YouTube feed gets filled with similar videos.

If that happens, go to youtube.com/feed/history and remove the offending videos from your watch history.

Also quite useful if you click one of my youtube music links.

Posted by: mikeski at September 30, 2026 10:07 PM (VHUov)

18 And it's another Wednesday, last of September. And it's the same. The same. The same.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 30, 2026 10:09 PM (CHHv1)

19
*squares papers on podium*
*assumes serious expression*

Good evening, Hordians.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 10:09 PM (eRlcH)

20 Pittsburgh Scanner..... a car abandoned at the end of the street for five years? How was it not towed already to make way for the snowplow? Does it not snow in Pittsburgh?

Posted by: mikeski at September 30, 2026 10:10 PM (VHUov)

21 One of Pike's lawyers is driving an emergency appeal to the Tennessee Supreme Court. Says she needs "medical care".

I can't begin to rationalize this idiocy.

Posted by: jen the original at September 30, 2026 10:10 PM (EiUt/)

22 Brianna Lyman is on Gutfeld now.
Insanely pretty.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 30, 2026 10:10 PM (Sco7b)

23 if you are the second commenter, you get the honor of alerting those in the prior post.

Wait, that's a rule? I thought I made that up, once, back one day when I got a Firts.

Well, okay, dutifully done.

Posted by: mindful webworker - but I don't like it. :P at September 30, 2026 10:11 PM (xRCm7)

24 I was more than ready to see the back of August, but where the heck did September go?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 30, 2026 10:12 PM (t/Q8n)

25 Pictured Randy's Donuts courtesy of Mayor James T. Butts (true fact) authorized it to be changed for the Electric State cameo of Cosmo Donut.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/28591041847208484

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYjzK3P7AOU
..by Disney.. Doing the Jobs that Humans don't want to...
The Robots Rebel Against The Humans Movie Clip

LET'S GO BRANDON!
.. as long as Humanity remains in control...(from the vid)
...Mr. Peanut signs peace treaty.

History Repeats, first as Tragedy, then as FARCE!

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at September 30, 2026 10:12 PM (eLKbV)

26 Is it not true when determining the sex of a baby in utero, it is the lack of a certain thing that leads one to say it's a girl?

Posted by: Tonypete
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Sometimes worded in the fashion that the male forms after what is indetermined or determined female.
It sprouts.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 10:12 PM (JS6jE)

27 Spock could play a mean multi-dimensional basketball.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 30, 2026 10:12 PM (Cqx++)

28 Left lane campers get the trebuchet, immediately.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 10:12 PM (oqH4h)

29
if you are the second commenter, you get the honor of alerting those in the prior post.

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I'm not commenting, I'm sojourning.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 10:12 PM (eRlcH)

30
Is this 'THE' Bruce Dickinson?
Posted by: Tonypete

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You may have heard me in such songs as "Hatch Valley Green Chile" and "Multipurpose Paper"!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 10:12 PM (mmrXZ)

31 Thank you, TRex!

Posted by: Piper at September 30, 2026 10:13 PM (Dd38x)

32 Is there a Heisenberg uncertainty principle of knowing what a woman is? Like if we know what a woman is with total certainty, we can’t know at all what she will become?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 30, 2026 10:13 PM (PY8/y)

33 Is there a Heisenberg uncertainty principle of knowing what a woman is? Like if we know what a woman is with total certainty, we can’t know at all what she will become?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 30, 2026 10:13 PM (PY8/y)

No; we know what a woman is, but we have no idea what she's thinking.

Posted by: Dr. T at September 30, 2026 10:14 PM (lHPJf)

34 32 Is there a Heisenberg uncertainty principle of knowing what a woman is? Like if we know what a woman is with total certainty, we can’t know at all what she will become?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 30, 2026 10:13 PM (PY8/y)
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Close. The second part is knowing what she really wants.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 10:14 PM (oqH4h)

35 Pittsburgh Scanner
South Side. East Carson Street. Caller says that someone wearing a uniform that says "Security" on the back is currently beating someone's ass. The only problem is that their building doesn't have a security guard.

You've got a freelance pro bono security guard and you're bitching about it? Some people's kids, I tell ya.....

Posted by: mikeski at September 30, 2026 10:14 PM (VHUov)

36 Security Guards at concerts, events in Norway, have a simple word-VAKT-on the back of their shirts. Means watch or guard. I just like the look of it.

Posted by: Simple Sam at September 30, 2026 10:14 PM (Fn+3X)

37 One of Pike's lawyers is driving an emergency appeal to the Tennessee Supreme Court. Says she needs "medical care".

I can't begin to rationalize this idiocy.
Posted by: jen the original at September 30, 2026 10:10 PM (EiUt/)
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What's the point of executing someone if they are at less than their absolute peak physical conditioning?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 30, 2026 10:15 PM (FZ29D)

38 Fall allergies in full bloom.

Killmenow.

I’m miserable. My face feels like it’s six inches in front of my head. FML.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 30, 2026 10:15 PM (yEz+x)

39 Good evening, everyone!

Screening call seemed to go well. Interview tomorrow around lunch, then another interview Friday morning. And next week I get to drive 8-9 hours each way for an in-person interview....

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 30, 2026 10:15 PM (aJQbY)

40
Is it possible to have a thread where women are not disparaged?

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 10:15 PM (/QHx4)

41
Close. The second part is knowing what she really wants.
Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 10:14 PM (oqH4h)

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If you don't, I'm not going to tell you.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 10:15 PM (eRlcH)

42 Welcome October! The only thing, all these political ads. They are everywhere. The mute button on my remote is going to get a workout.

Posted by: Case at September 30, 2026 10:15 PM (9+0gc)

43 9 Good evening Katz and Kittiez!
Hi Mr. Rex!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 30, 2026 10:02 PM
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Howdy COMM!
There should be fresh donuts waiting for you at the wobbly table.

Posted by: TRex - not Bruce Dickinson dino at September 30, 2026 10:16 PM (XfIK1)

44 Spock could play a mean multi-dimensional basketball.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 30, 2026 10:12 PM (Cqx++)

Your agonizer, please.
- Bearded Spock

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 30, 2026 10:16 PM (PY8/y)

45
Is it possible to have a thread where women are not disparaged?

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 10:15 PM (/QHx4)

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*checks book of statutes*

No

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 10:16 PM (eRlcH)

46 If you don't, I'm not going to tell you.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 10:15 PM (eRlcH)
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Clearly!

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 10:16 PM (oqH4h)

47 31 Thank you, TRex!
Posted by: Piper at September 30, 2026 10:13 PM
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You're welcome and good evening!

Posted by: TRex - not Burl Ives dino at September 30, 2026 10:17 PM (XfIK1)

48 8 Bruce Dickinson sings the US National Anthem before the Steelers football game . . .

Is this 'THE' Bruce Dickinson?
Posted by: Tonypete at September 30, 2026 10:02 PM (ktgTW)

Pfft mon amis ...

Posted by: Roger Doucet at September 30, 2026 10:17 PM (oCio0)

49
Is it possible to have a thread where women are not disparaged?

Posted by: four seasons

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Sigh.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 10:17 PM (mmrXZ)

50
What's the point of executing someone if they are at less than their absolute peak physical conditioning?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Paths of Glory

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 30, 2026 10:18 PM (Cqx++)

51 The fact that TRex can produce such wonderful ONT content solo like this with such short, withered arms is inspirational to me.

Posted by: Michelle Fields Farewell To Arms at September 30, 2026 10:18 PM (Fn+3X)

52 I ran a '61 VW on windshield washer antifreeze once. It ran very poorly; had to pull the choke all the way out. If Pinto guy had had a manual choke carburetor, he could have made it run on some of those alcoholic concoctions.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 10:18 PM (C6xWR)

53 39 Good evening, everyone!

Screening call seemed to go well. Interview tomorrow around lunch, then another interview Friday morning. And next week I get to drive 8-9 hours each way for an in-person interview....
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 30, 2026 10:15 PM (aJQbY)
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Blessings, man. You got this.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 10:18 PM (oqH4h)

54 Bruce.

Iron Maiden was the first show I ever saw, Somewhere in Time. Glendale, AZ. 1987.

I love my Dad, but he really had a hatred for those rock-n-roll shows. I missed out on Kansas (the Monolith tour) and Rush (Signals). He was certain I would become one of those potheads you hear about. Still not a pothead, despite all kinds of metal bands I've seen live.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw from the Mountains at September 30, 2026 10:18 PM (0aYVJ)

55 >>>Says she needs "medical care".

I can't begin to rationalize this idiocy.

Posted by: jen the original
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Lawyers have no shame. They are only in it for the money.
Second mortgage for the lake home, yacht, beamer.
A man's gotta make a buck.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 10:18 PM (JS6jE)

56 And the damn Yankees are putting the hurt on the BoSox.

8-1 bottom of the 6th

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 30, 2026 10:19 PM (yEz+x)

57 Not knowing what a women is, is mocking the left, not disparaging women.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 30, 2026 10:19 PM (PY8/y)

58
And the damn Yankees are putting the hurt on the BoSox.

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Two of the most assholic fan bases in baseball.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 10:20 PM (eRlcH)

59 I think everyone is wondering when Piper last ate a donut.

Posted by: Probably 5 years, Here at September 30, 2026 10:20 PM (Fn+3X)

60 What's the point of executing someone if they are at less than their absolute peak physical conditioning?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 30, 2026 10:15 PM (FZ29D)

The Count likes everyone to be 'ealthy before they're broken.

Posted by: The albino at September 30, 2026 10:21 PM (TbWk/)

61 we have no idea what she's thinking.
Posted by: Dr. T

The second part is knowing what she really wants.
Posted by: ballistic

In both cases she doesn't know either.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2026 10:21 PM (NnhvP)

62 Planning lunch with two classmates in the next two weeks is tiresome. I'm ready to form a committee but don't think they would get the joke. I gave them the dates I am available & someone better make a decision before I take over.

Pretty sure one is a flaming liberal and I hope she does not bring up politics or covid. The other is one of my roommates & I don't worry about her.

I'd like to know where one girl is I told to shut up during a break of State Boards. Which is not like me and I snapped like a lunatic from stress and diarrhea (low potassium). We were all freaking out about answers to one question and she said something stupid and I cracked. Would apologize.

At the time (Civil War Era) we had to take boards out of the city in a crappy old college lecture hall. Spend two nights in a hotel with three of my best friends (two are the lunch friends). We were seriously insane. Either stressing or laughing hysterically.

An old proctor fell down on the wood floors behind me with a thud during one test. We were told not to look up for any reason. 100 student nurses didn't look up. Friends later asked if I tripped her. Nope! She had those old oxford nun shoes and they slipped.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 10:21 PM (hzuYO)

63 And the damn Yankees are putting the hurt on the BoSox.

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Two of the most assholic fan bases in baseball.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Yet, both cheat less than the ASStros!

Posted by: Beats On Trash Can!! at September 30, 2026 10:22 PM (Fn+3X)

64 43

YUM!😛

Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 30, 2026 10:22 PM (jCKWs)

65 Honest question...who in this thread is disparaging women?

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 10:22 PM (oqH4h)

66 I’m miserable. My face feels like it’s six inches in front of my head. FML.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 30, 2026 10:15 PM (yEz+x)

cetrizine and a sinus wash.

Grandpa said that when he was a kid in Tacoma his aunt used to swim in Puget sound and rinse her sinuses out that way when her allergies were bad in the summer. I don't suggest this today,

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2026 10:22 PM (rbvCR)

67 >> once you watch one video, your entire YouTube feed gets filled with similar videos.

I'm noticing this "algorithm" at work with me, and I get suspicious. I think Youtube tends to push certain content if you give it the slightest excuse. That is, if you watch some content about topic X, it then starts throwing "content similar to X" at you, but of a particular slant or bent.

And I think there's some way people pay or otherwise get the "algorithm" to boost their content.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 30, 2026 10:23 PM (w6EFb)

68 What was the alcohol content of that windshield washer antifreeze, AOP?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 30, 2026 10:23 PM (PY8/y)

69 39 Good evening, everyone!

Screening call seemed to go well. Interview tomorrow around lunch, then another interview Friday morning. And next week I get to drive 8-9 hours each way for an in-person interview....
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 30, 2026 10:15 PM (aJQbY)

Hope you get the best one!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 10:23 PM (hzuYO)

70 54 Bruce.

Iron Maiden was the first show I ever saw, Somewhere in Time. Glendale, AZ. 1987.

I love my Dad, but he really had a hatred for those rock-n-roll shows. I missed out on Kansas (the Monolith tour) and Rush (Signals). He was certain I would become one of those potheads you hear about. Still not a pothead, despite all kinds of metal bands I've seen live.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw from the Mountains at September 30, 2026 10:18 PM (0aYVJ)

Yeah, but you're on a dangerous trajectory.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 30, 2026 10:23 PM (BHTo4)

71 Brianna Lyman is on Gutfeld now.
Insanely pretty."

Well, he's a decent looking guy, but...

/oh

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 10:23 PM (pfXMo)

72 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 30, 2026 10:23 PM (zZu0s)

73 for those who are picky about spelling, "cetirizine"

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2026 10:24 PM (rbvCR)

74
Yet, both cheat less than the ASStros!
Posted by: Beats On Trash Can!! at September 30, 2026 10:22 PM (Fn+3X)

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Derisive laughter all around. Sure, the Dodgers and Yankees were using electronic stuff as well, but MLB sure as hell wasn't going to go after them. So it was the Astros that were made an example of.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 10:24 PM (eRlcH)

75 the damn Yankees are putting the hurt on the BoSox.

8-1 bottom of the 6th
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 30, 2026 10:19 PM (yEz+x)

The only one of these miniseries that have been competitive is Philly Atlanta.

Posted by: LTG at September 30, 2026 10:25 PM (X18m9)

76 WTH is this world coming to when we have to import limeys to sing our national anthem?

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at September 30, 2026 10:25 PM (lfNXu)

77 It is obvious some people are paying to promote certain videos very broadly, or I never would see such content, having no interest in it on YouTube.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 30, 2026 10:25 PM (PY8/y)

78 And the damn Yankees are putting the hurt on the BoSox.

__________

Two of the most assholic fan bases in baseball.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

This is correct.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 10:25 PM (xxBSa)

79 72 Thanks for the ONT.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 30, 2026
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You're welcome!

Posted by: TRex - playoff umpire dino at September 30, 2026 10:25 PM (XfIK1)

80 It ran very poorly; had to pull the choke all the way out"

There's just not enough BTUs in a given volume of alcohol vs petrol...

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 10:26 PM (pfXMo)

81
What about the marachi group at a game a couple of days ago?

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 10:26 PM (/QHx4)

82 Thanks for the dandy ONT, T Rex!

Those whacky folks in Pittsburgh! I love the thought of small children taking over the streets with their bikes and big wheels!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 30, 2026 10:26 PM (D/6p1)

83 What about the marachi group at a game a couple of days ago?"

They were just checking on Jose, and could he see?

/

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 10:27 PM (pfXMo)

84 One thing I take solace in is that the CO Rockies are mathematically eliminated from the playoffs on opening day.

As for the Vikings, I have to wait for the playoffs to be disappointed.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw from the Mountains at September 30, 2026 10:27 PM (0aYVJ)

85 One of Pike's lawyers is driving an emergency appeal to the Tennessee Supreme Court. Says she needs "medical care".

I can't begin to rationalize this idiocy.
Posted by: jen the original at September 30, 2026 10:10 PM (EiUt/)

Lethal injection shouldn't take hours. Get on a saline drip. Introduce some ketamine, get them all gooned up. When they are nice and happy, a few cc's of potassium cyanide solution. Heart stops dead. Game over in under ten minute.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 10:27 PM (C6xWR)

86 the astros played like a bunch of limp wristed queens, but I don't know if that comment counts as disparaging women

Posted by: 88C+u at September 30, 2026 10:28 PM (88C+u)

87 I love the thought of small children taking over the streets with their bikes and big wheels!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 30, 2026 10:26 PM
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Happy chaos. Big wheels are awesome.

Posted by: TRex - tricycle dino at September 30, 2026 10:28 PM (XfIK1)

88 Lethal injection shouldn't take hours"

.22 LR. Takes no time at all

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 10:29 PM (pfXMo)

89 Rumor has it that Big Donut later sold its real estate to a truck tire place, who later sold it to a bordello called The Glory Hole.

The rooftop donut structure was used by all of them.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 30, 2026 10:30 PM (wpRMV)

90 the damn Yankees are putting the hurt on the BoSox.

8-1 bottom of the 6th
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 30, 2026 10:19 PM (yEz+x)

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Switched to the Padres game. At least my niece is at that game.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 30, 2026 10:30 PM (2WIwB)

91 Names for the Pittsburgh scanner's bike and Big Wheel gang populated by toddlers and kindergartners?

Little Rascals is taken.

Sippy Cup Cyclones?
Knee-high Nightriders?

Posted by: Orson at September 30, 2026 10:30 PM (dIske)

92 Anon. Rogue, is that donut place in Manhattan Beach, or Hermosa? A while back I drove past it, was definitely in one of those beach communities.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 30, 2026 10:30 PM (U/Byj)

93 WTH is this world coming to when we have to import limeys to sing our national anthem?
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at September 30, 2026 10:25 PM (lfNXu)

We're doing him a favor. If he sang his national anthem back home, he'd probably go to prison for hate speech.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at September 30, 2026 10:30 PM (vSvIl)

94 I'm noticing this "algorithm" at work with me, and I get suspicious. I think Youtube tends to push certain content if you give it the slightest excuse. That is, if you watch some content about topic X, it then starts throwing "content similar to X" at you, but of a particular slant or bent.

And I think there's some way people pay or otherwise get the "algorithm" to boost their content.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 30, 2026 10:23 PM (w6EFb)
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Yeah man, you have to curate your feed. Anything you click, like, comment, interact with, or otherwise touch...you get more of it, and it can snowball quickly.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 10:31 PM (oqH4h)

95 Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
— Mahatma Gandhi
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That might be the biggest load of rubbish I have ever heard.

So if I trap you in a 3x3 cell and you think "I have to try and get out of here", you say, "Fuck I have to try and get out of here" and you pound the fuck out of the bars and floor and ceiling to try and get out, you are "happy"? What a dumbass.

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 10:32 PM (vE0+H)

96 Those whacky folks in Pittsburgh! I love the thought of small children taking over the streets with their bikes and big wheels!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient

Don't blame the caller a bit. You have to nip it in the bud!

Posted by: Deputy Fife at September 30, 2026 10:32 PM (Fn+3X)

97 What was the alcohol content of that windshield washer antifreeze, AOP?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 30, 2026 10:23 PM (PY8/y)

It was concentrate, so maybe 90%. Agreed that BTU's of alcohol is low, car will run, but needs a much richer mixture than a normally-tuned carb will support. Hence the choke. Also, in my case, the VW engine was already warmed up. The 8 ounce bottle of ww antifreeze got me to an open gas station.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 10:32 PM (C6xWR)

98 So if I trap you in a 3x3 cell and you think "I have to try and get out of here", you say, "Fuck I have to try and get out of here" and you pound the fuck out of the bars and floor and ceiling to try and get out, you are "happy"? What a dumbass

---------

For real happiness, take up rick chiseling.

Posted by: Andy Dufresne at September 30, 2026 10:33 PM (wpRMV)

99 Ah, Inglewood CA. I was born there. It's changed quite a bit since then. I haven't been back, and at this point, I wouldn't DARE go back.

Yeah, changed.

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at September 30, 2026 10:33 PM (Zli+D)

100 Thanks for the ONT. I do want to hang out with the Pittsburgh scanner person.

In the ED cops would arrive with the dregs of society and were pretty funny dudes. As were EMT's and ED docs and nurses. You have to be a bit insane to work in that environment, especially on weekends, full moons, or pick a day, any day. Sometimes horribly sad, so the insanity balanced it out other times.

The docs used to love to have me lose my cool by making me laugh inappropriately. To see if they could. I loved them all. There were always seven docs on at a time I had to deal with, plus PA's and ARNP's and the rest of the staff. If they every got me going I'd have to evacuate through the ambulance bay to laugh outside.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 10:33 PM (hzuYO)

101 91 Names for the Pittsburgh scanner's bike and Big Wheel gang populated by toddlers and kindergartners?

Little Rascals is taken.

Sippy Cup Cyclones?
Knee-high Nightriders?
Posted by: Orson at September 30, 2026 10:30 PM (dIske)
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Heck's Angels

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 10:33 PM (oqH4h)

102 Or Rock Chiseling. Whatevz.

Posted by: Andy Dufresne at September 30, 2026 10:33 PM (wpRMV)

103 Good evening morons ותודה, דינו!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 10:33 PM (RIvkX)

104 22 Brianna Lyman is on Gutfeld now.
Insanely pretty.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 30, 2026 10:10 PM (Sco7b)

Hubba Hubba!

Enjoying the Montgomery Wards Store music. Back in the day we referred to MW as 'Monkey Warts' because we couldn't and still can't call anything by its proper name if there's a good, mocking humiliating substitute.

That's how we roll......

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 30, 2026 10:33 PM (QGaXH)

105 82 Thanks for the dandy ONT, T Rex!

Those whacky folks in Pittsburgh! I love the thought of small children taking over the streets with their bikes and big wheels!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient

It's just like 'The Warriors'!! CAN YOU DIG IT!!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 30, 2026 10:34 PM (pLaQB)

106 So if I trap you in a 3x3 cell and you think "I have to try and get out of here", you say, "Fuck I have to try and get out of here" and you pound the fuck out of the bars and floor and ceiling to try and get out, you are "happy"? What a dumbass

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For real happiness, take up rick chiseling.
Posted by: Andy Dufresne at September 30, 2026 10:33 PM (wpRMV)

***

HEEEEYYYYYY!!!!

Posted by: Rick at September 30, 2026 10:35 PM (2WIwB)

107
The hijacker is a religious extremist who refuses to shake hands with women, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 10:35 PM (/QHx4)

108 Ol' Mahatma gave Joe Biden a run for his money, 'cept he didn't bathe very often.

Posted by: Young Stuff at September 30, 2026 10:35 PM (Fn+3X)

109 Lethal injection shouldn't take hours"

.22 LR. Takes no time at all
Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 10:29 PM (pfXMo)

A single .22 LR bullet, if not properly placed, might not kill at all.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 30, 2026 10:35 PM (PY8/y)

110 but needs a much richer mixture than a normally-tuned carb will support. "

And really messes with EFI systems. And O2 sensors...

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 10:36 PM (pfXMo)

111 95 Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
— Mahatma Gandhi
_____________________________

Also, Mahatma Gandihi

"Phewwww, close one (wipes brow). I can't believe they bought it. Sleeping naked with my teenage grandniece was ok as long as they keep buying the 'testing my personal discipline" spiel."

Posted by: Orson at September 30, 2026 10:36 PM (dIske)

112 I think it’s amazing to hear foreigners celebrate our national anthem. They honor our country by coming out and recognizing what an opportunity they have been given.

And then there’s Rosanne Barr. Jeepers.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 30, 2026 10:36 PM (yEz+x)

113 f they every got me going I'd have to evacuate through the ambulance bay to laugh outside.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Will you be attending a Mome?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2026 10:36 PM (NnhvP)

114
That might be the biggest load of rubbish I have ever heard.

___________

There's more where that came from with him. "It costs a lot of money to keep Gandhi in poverty."

The yawning gap between the Indians self-regard and their accomplishments is matched only by the Irish.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 10:36 PM (eRlcH)

115 Gandhi was a self-aggrandizing toolbag.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 10:37 PM (oqH4h)

116 Honest question...who in this thread is disparaging women?
Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 10:22 PM (oqH4h)
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Only in mah heart.

Posted by: Jimmah Carter at September 30, 2026 10:38 PM (RIvkX)

117 The yawning gap between the Indians self-regard and their accomplishments is matched only by the Irish."

This will end well.

*grabs popcorn

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 10:38 PM (pfXMo)

118 Only in mah heart.
Posted by: Jimmah Carter"

Hey, look - there's a rabbit.

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 10:38 PM (pfXMo)

119 13 f they every got me going I'd have to evacuate through the ambulance bay to laugh outside.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Will you be attending a Mome?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2026 10:36 PM (NnhvP)
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Only in spirit, honey. I wish I could but then I'd have to explain you all to the dude I am married to. We don't travel as much as we used to. I'm sure it's a lot of fun and it would be great to put names to faces.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 10:39 PM (hzuYO)

120 And really messes with EFI systems. And O2 sensors...
Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 10:36 PM (pfXMo)

Flex-fuel vehicles, which are certainly EFI, can run E85, no problem. Of course, booze is too precious to waste on cars; use Chanel #5 instead.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 10:39 PM (C6xWR)

121 May I discuss mah malaise now?

Posted by: Jimmah Carter at September 30, 2026 10:40 PM (RIvkX)

122 The yawning gap between the Indians self-regard and their accomplishments is matched only by the Irish."

*slowly backs out of thread*

Posted by: Dr. T at September 30, 2026 10:40 PM (lHPJf)

123 Yeah, women are tricky. If someone brought in donuts, muffins, or pastries to work, they cut them in half, so as to appear not piggish. Then go back three times, always having a half. Like the calories don't add up.

Posted by: 90% Half-Mental at September 30, 2026 10:41 PM (Fn+3X)

124 The yawning gap between the Indians self-regard and their accomplishments is matched only by the Irish."

This will end well.

*grabs popcorn
Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 10:38 PM (pfXMo)

***

Be careful. When you see the red dot, they're recording.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 30, 2026 10:41 PM (2WIwB)

125 Flex-fuel vehicles, which are certainly EFI, can run E85, no problem. Of course, booze is too precious to waste on cars; use Chanel #5 instead.

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Mouthwash makes for sweet-smelling exhaust.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 30, 2026 10:41 PM (wpRMV)

126 We're doing him a favor. If he sang his national anthem back home, he'd probably go to prison for hate speech.
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at September 30, 2026 10:30 PM (vSvIl)

You said it brother! (Or sister -- not looking to disparage anyone...)

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at September 30, 2026 10:42 PM (lfNXu)

127
Like the calories don't add up.
Posted by: 90% Half-Mental at September 30, 2026 10:41 PM (Fn+3X)

__________

When you cut one in half, all the calories drain out. This is Settled Science.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 10:42 PM (eRlcH)

128 Gandhi also slept with multiple naked teenage girls in his bed, to "test his purity". Yeah, you betcha Mohandas.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 10:42 PM (qlLNh)

129 I wonder if the Universal Building Code has standards for giant roof donuts.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 30, 2026 10:42 PM (wpRMV)

130 Swell ONT tonight. Thanks TRex

Posted by: 496 at September 30, 2026 10:43 PM (aadd2)

131 I'm sure it's a lot of fun and it would be great to put names to faces.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 10:39 PM (hzuYO)
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Don't ruin the fantasy. Also, I look amazing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 10:43 PM (RIvkX)

132
I wonder if the Universal Building Code has standards for giant roof donuts.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 30, 2026 10:42 PM (wpRMV)

__________

It's in the Glazing section.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 10:43 PM (eRlcH)

133 I thought I saw that Inglewatts had undergone hispanification (like gentrification, but at lower prices, and much better food). Only times I've been there were to play at the Fabulous Forum (teenage hockey). Yes, the ice was terrible, just almost all pro rinks were in that era.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 30, 2026 10:43 PM (U/Byj)

134 Gandhi also slept with multiple naked teenage girls in his bed, to "test his purity". Yeah, you betcha Mohandas.

Didn't he also drink piss?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 10:44 PM (xxBSa)

135 Only in spirit, honey. I wish I could but then I'd have to explain you all to the dude I am married to. We don't travel as much as we used to. I'm sure it's a lot of fun and it would be great to put names to faces.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 10:39 PM (hzuYO)

You could just do what I did last year and bring your spouse with minimal introduction to the Horde mind.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at September 30, 2026 10:44 PM (xVpNO)

136 First time I remember hearing Can't Drive 55 was in a strip club in Orlando in the 80's, trying to get this half-Italian half-Japanese stripper to go home with me. That worked out about as well as you would expect. The song brings back fond memories, though.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at September 30, 2026 10:44 PM (QaH55)

137 The yawning gap between the Indians self-regard and their accomplishments is matched only by the Irish."

Huh!

Guess I could'a done better.

Posted by: Thomas Meagher at September 30, 2026 10:44 PM (0aYVJ)

138 > Gandhi also slept with multiple naked teenage girls in his bed, to "test his purity". Yeah, you betcha Mohandas.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 10:42 PM (qlLNh)

At least they were all over 18.

Mao liked 'em around 6 or 7, so he even had Mohammad beat there.

I'm imagining myself performing this "purity test".

"Oh, darn! Failed the test again last night! Oh, well. We'll have to give it another shot tonight."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 10:45 PM (qlLNh)

139
Yeah, Gandhi seems like any of these crazy nutters that make Youtube videos about the aliens and their chakras and harmonic convergence and all that lunacy.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 30, 2026 10:46 PM (w6EFb)

140 The Russian guys at Garage 54 did a very entertaining video, running a Toyota Camry on various solvents bought at the Russki equivalent of a Home Depot store. They did 0 -100 km/h acceleration runs on a closed road. Some products made the car faster than gasoline, by a second or two. And some ran OK, but the engine pinged like a mofo. They stated that retuning the car to suit the octane rating of the "fuel" would have gained them better times.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 10:46 PM (C6xWR)

141 Didn't he also drink piss?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026
10:44 PM (xxBSa)

I don't know about him specifically, but yeah, that's something that people in India do "for their health".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 10:46 PM (qlLNh)

142 vehicles, which are certainly EFI, can run E85, no problem."

Unless reduced power is a problem...

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 10:47 PM (pfXMo)

143 89 Rumor has it that Big Donut later sold its real estate to a truck tire place, who later sold it to a bordello called The Glory Hole.

The rooftop donut structure was used by all of them.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 30, 2026 10:30 PM (wpRMV)

What's the terms of the lease?

Posted by: Dr. Richard B. Thickdigit Cosmetic Proctology Clinic and Spa at September 30, 2026 10:47 PM (r7+Q7)

144 @21

>>I can't begin to rationalize this idiocy.

The idiocy is the restriction on what drugs are allowed, this is why these executions take too long and have complications.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2026 10:47 PM (XV/Pl)

145 Rumor has it that Big Donut later sold its real estate to a truck tire place, who later sold it to a bordello called The Glory Hole.

The rooftop donut structure was used by all of them.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 30, 2026 10:30 PM (wpRMV)

What's the terms of the lease?
Posted by: Dr. Richard B. Thickdigit Cosmetic Proctology Clinic and Spa at September 30, 2026 10:47 PM (r7+Q7)
***

I sense a bidding war...

Posted by: Viagra Blow Up Gorilla Ad Campaign at September 30, 2026 10:49 PM (2WIwB)

146 150 grain lead injections are a proven, inexpensive, and sure-fire technique in capital punishment. Didn't SC just adopt firing squad option? Does UT still have it?

Posted by: rhomboid at September 30, 2026 10:50 PM (U/Byj)

147 Whatever the Irish can accomplish, a Scot can do.

Posted by: At Half-Price at September 30, 2026 10:50 PM (Fn+3X)

148 Top photo reminded me of the movie Sex Drive. Really good teen movie.

Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 10:50 PM (KC5Lt)

149 I have gotten donuts from the Big Donut!
Yes, it is in Ingle-Watts. Slightly north of LAX.
Couldn’t pay me enough to try that again now, if it’s even still open…

Posted by: Gunslinger at September 30, 2026 10:50 PM (N91F8)

150 A single .22 LR bullet, if not properly placed, might not kill at all.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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Sundry clandestine services made gooduse of silenced High Standard Model B's (and variants).

"The suppressed High Standard HDM/S pistols remained in CIA and special force’s inventories well into the 1990s and a number probably are still retained today."

https://shorturl.at/lmyF8

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 30, 2026 10:51 PM (XeU6L)

151 The hijacker is a religious extremist who refuses to shake hands with women, lol.
Posted by: four seasons

Eww. Cootie shot!

Posted by: 88C+u at September 30, 2026 10:51 PM (88C+u)

152 A single .22 LR bullet, if not properly placed, might not kill at all.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 30, 2026 10:35 PM (PY8/y)

We concur! Which is why we use multiple shots, to make sure.

Posted by: The Mossad at September 30, 2026 10:51 PM (t/Q8n)

153 I was a mystery to the ED docs because I never hit on them, being married and a lady (plus two teen boys).

I knew one nurse who transferred from a medical floor to catch a doc to marry. It was obvious. She did, but not the one she wanted.

She wanted an Italian/American gorgeous dude. Who I admired altho they all were a decade younger. I was standing at the door of one room, looking at a man's monitors. He'd arrived in a full code after mixing Viagra with heart meds and coded during the act with his wife.

This doc comes over to me and said, "Well, it's a fine way to go, isn't it?" Which nearly did me in and I had to leave to the ambulance bay again. They knew what I was doing if I left that crazy madhouse.

We endured about two weeks of on top of "normal" ED noices a jackhammer making the trauma units bigger. That was fun taking calls: "Wut?" During one of those days the triage RN came to tell the docs of a woman who had chest pains because a frog bit her hemorrhoid. This caused unusual snorting/crying/laughing from me due to all the stress and noise.

One doc would always follow me outside. I guess to make sure I was not running away.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 10:53 PM (hzuYO)

154 Math Warning - (but too good not to convey)

Stan Ulam once won a Tennis match with Enrico Fermi, 6–4.

Fermi, however, refused to concede. He pointed out that the difference between the two scores was less than the square root of the sum of the scores, 3.17.

This is a shorthand method used by statisticians to determine whether a result is significant or within the limits of measurement error.

Ulam found Fermi’s response at once ridiculous and adorable and continued to play tennis with his competitive friend.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 30, 2026 10:53 PM (SK57M)

155 Unless reduced power is a problem...
Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 10:47 PM (pfXMo)

Well, if you tune the engine to burn E85, it may have some reduction in power, but it will burn a lot more to get normal power levels. They used to run straight alcohol fuel in some racing classes. Very high octane rating, so they could run big compression.

The bad thing about alcohol is not that it's a bad fuel, but that we are being forced to use an alcohol blend for the spurious reason of "climate change".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 10:53 PM (C6xWR)

156 Evening all,

We have a creweed launch tomorrow.

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - SpaceX Crew-13
Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: October 1, 2026
Launch Time: 11:10 a.m. EDT (1510 UTC, 17:10 CEST)

https://youtu.be/1msZNHGAbWc

Posted by: Joyenz at September 30, 2026 10:53 PM (2F0/Y)

157
Happy New Year!

For Mars. Today is the Martian vernal equinox.

This is tropical year 39 for Mars. They started counting Martian years back in the '50s, and did define a Year Zero, which started in May of 1953 some time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 30, 2026 10:54 PM (w6EFb)

158 WTH is this world coming to when we have to import limeys to sing our national anthem?
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at September 30, 2026 10:25 PM (lfNXu)

Well the music is from an English pup song.

Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 10:54 PM (KC5Lt)

159 Studebaker built their stripper Scotsman model in 57-58.
Nash-Rambler straight six was known as the Flying Scot.
Fred MacMurray was a millionaire cheapskate.

Posted by: Frugal Freda at September 30, 2026 10:54 PM (Fn+3X)

160 *busy trimming eyelashes*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 10:55 PM (RIvkX)

161 141 Didn't he also drink piss?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026
10:44 PM (xxBSa)

I don't know about him specifically, but yeah, that's something that people in India do "for their health".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 10:46 PM (qlLNh)

Lots of enemas, too. So I read. For the health...

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at September 30, 2026 10:55 PM (QaH55)

162 Fermi, however, refused to concede. He pointed out that the difference between the two scores was less than the square root of the sum of the scores, 3.17.

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How childish.

Posted by: J. Von Neumann at September 30, 2026 10:55 PM (wpRMV)

163 That might be the biggest load of rubbish I have ever heard.…What a dumbass.
Posted by: ...

Heh. There's many a way to take just about anything. A simple one-liner is like poetic shorthand, and is not attempting to add every qualifier and caveat. Commandments, Beatitudes, Bill of Rights are all arguable for the argumentative.

My older brother (RIP) once had me read from the Tao t Ching, and with each saying he would offer up counter-statements and refutations. Main thing he proved was that he had quite a negative, disagreeable, and contentious mind. Which was no surprise.

Be of good cheer!🫤

Posted by: mindful webworker - who am I to disagree at September 30, 2026 10:56 PM (xRCm7)

164 150 grain lead injections are a proven, inexpensive, and sure-fire technique in capital punishment. Didn't SC just adopt firing squad option? Does UT still have it?

Posted by: rhomboid at September 30, 2026 10:50 PM (U/Byj)

Idaho did. IIRC, the mandated ammo is .308 Win, with 110 grain varmint loads.

Posted by: The Mossad at September 30, 2026 10:56 PM (t/Q8n)

165 I recall a similar place (big donut on top) in Hermosa or Manhattan Beach, not Inglewood.

Inglewood was home base for production of P-51s and B-25s during The Big One. There's still an airstrip alongside some warehouses along one of the state highways (90-something) running through the area, probably a remnant of that era.

As far as the eye could see during the war that whole area around LAX was warplane production (a lot of it under suspended camouflage fake "suburb" scenes). Nobody these days knows this, it's like it never happened. Even though much of the 24-hour operations of restaurants and other small businesses in LA have their origin in that era as well (3 shifts).

Posted by: rhomboid at September 30, 2026 10:56 PM (U/Byj)

166 A single .22 LR bullet, if not properly placed, might not kill at all.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 30, 2026 10:35 PM (PY8/y)

We concur! Which is why we use multiple shots, to make sure.
Posted by: The Mossad at September 30, 2026 10:51 PM (t/Q8n)

Two in the pump house, one in the junction box.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 30, 2026 10:57 PM (2WIwB)

167 78 And the damn Yankees are putting the hurt on the BoSox.

__________

Two of the most assholic fan bases in baseball.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

This is correct.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 10:25 PM (xxBSa)

And the nicest fans in baseball? My vote is for the Cardinals.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 30, 2026 10:57 PM (0CU3H)

168 They used to run straight alcohol fuel in some racing classes. Very high octane rating, so they could run big compression."

And use a lot more fuel.

Tradeoffs everywhere...

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 10:57 PM (pfXMo)

169 Something I didn't know until today:

Remember cab-over semis? The cab would tilt up to get at the engine.

You don't see them much any more because the regulations changed. They used to restrict the total length of tractor + trailer. At some point they changed to restrict only the length of the trailer.

That's why the cab-over design went away. More annoying to work on the engine, while no longer offering any legal benefit.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 10:58 PM (qlLNh)

170 Colorado Rockies don't have fans, they have victims

Posted by: 88C+u at September 30, 2026 10:58 PM (88C+u)

171 And the nicest fans in baseball? My vote is for the Cardinals.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 30, 2026 10:57 PM (0CU3H)

Mid West niceness is a meme.

Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 10:58 PM (KC5Lt)

172 When they are nice and happy, a few cc's of potassium cyanide solution. Heart stops dead. Game over in under ten minute.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
--

They do it in CA every day.
They could hire a junkie. He could show them at half the price.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 10:58 PM (JS6jE)

173
And the nicest fans in baseball? My vote is for the Cardinals.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 30, 2026 10:57 PM (0CU3H)

___________

I agree. Knowledgeable and appreciative of good play from either team.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 10:59 PM (eRlcH)

174 162 Fermi, however, refused to concede. He pointed out that the difference between the two scores was less than the square root of the sum of the scores, 3.17.

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How childish.
Posted by: J. Von Neumann at September 30, 2026 10:55 PM (wpRMV)

As far as I'm concerned, they're tied.

Posted by: Paul Erdos at September 30, 2026 11:02 PM (0CU3H)

175 Remember cab-over semis? The cab would tilt up to get at the engine."

And rode rough as hell.

(Mrs' dad was part owner of a small trucking firm. Heck of a guy)

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 11:02 PM (pfXMo)

176
I shudder to think what Godel would do if he got into that scoring calculus.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 30, 2026 11:03 PM (w6EFb)

177

I read a lot of British books. One thing that has me confused is when they say women "fell pregnant."

Wth, did you accidentally fall on his weiner?

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 11:03 PM (/QHx4)

178 I shudder to think what Godel would do if he got into that scoring calculus.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 30, 2026 11:03 PM (w6EFb)

He never showed for that game with Vladimir and Estragon.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 11:04 PM (C6xWR)

179 No one seems to know what is going on with the Pike execution. An Ambulance appeared behind the tent area where Pike’s victims parents were going to speak.

Posted by: Jen the original at September 30, 2026 11:04 PM (EiUt/)

180
A bullet would have been quicker and cheaper.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 11:05 PM (/QHx4)

181 >> He never showed for that game with Vladimir and Estragon.

Heh.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 30, 2026 11:06 PM (w6EFb)

182 117 The yawning gap between the Indians self-regard and their accomplishments is matched only by the Irish."

This will end well.

*grabs popcorn
Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 10:38 PM (pfXMo)

We'll have naan of that.

Posted by: Curry favor elsewhere at September 30, 2026 11:06 PM (TbWk/)

183 The bad thing about alcohol is not that it's a bad fuel, but that we are being forced to use an alcohol blend for the spurious reason of "climate change".

Its about raising octane levels in gasoline.

From the beginning 1920ish to 1970s in the US, Tetraethyl Lead proved to be an extremely effective octane booster, cheap and provided valve-seat protection. Problem is that is highly toxic, widespread lead contamination and broke catalytic converters. Not so much "Climate" but simple Smog and Pollution.

Aromatics like Benzene, Toluene and Xylene. Toluene, used in drag racing is highly effective octane booster but all (BTX/BTEX) are carcinogenic and expensive.

So along comes Oxygenates and MTBE until the 2000s, cheap, excellent octane boost, compatible with unleaded systems, but fuel leaks created contaminated groundwater and a little bit would wreck drinking water.

So we get Ethanol which is cheap, has high octane, "renewable", cleaner and doesn't wreck groundwater. Doesn't require bandwidth out of regular petrol refineries which is important since we are closing refineries and have no capacity headroom.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 30, 2026 11:07 PM (NzX/y)

184 we are being forced to use an alcohol blend for the spurious reason of "global warming"
——

No, oxygenate has been a federal requirement for many decades. Nothing to do with that. Long before global warming was even a gleam in AlGore’s eye.

Formerly MTBE was used for the oxygenate, but it contaminates ground water, very persistent. Alcohol is the replacement or substitute.

The real question though. Why oxygenated gasoline?

Near as I can figure, it (mostly) is a matter of “the solution to pollution is dilution”. I believe originally it may have been one of those CARB mandates.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 30, 2026 11:07 PM (CLXqj)

185 I shudder to think what Godel would do if he got into that scoring calculus.
Posted by: publius
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Incomplete! Incomplete!

(clears throat)
"Gödel's completeness theorem is a fundamental theorem in mathematical logic that establishes a correspondence between semantic truth and syntactic provability in first-order logic."

Posted by: Kurt at September 30, 2026 11:07 PM (XeU6L)

186 My father hated the dam Yankees. Little did he know I'd marry one in the future. A Cardinals and then Braves man. He saw them both.

I never liked baseball or golf (too slow) and he loved them and wanted me to get a golf scholarship. I do wish I'd played with him once as he would have enjoyed me throwing all the balls and clubs when I sucked at it. A good tantrum is cathartic.

My dude likes the Yankees and NY Giants. He was shocked out of his mind during one of my brother's basketball games when Daddy and I showed our sportsmanship by yelling at the refs. He said it's like I become a werewolf. I told him I was raised in the SEC and college games since kindergarten. It's the way it is.

When FSU (where one son went,the other to UF) played Duke I became rabidly insane with son one game. We both got in trouble and once I came very close to being famous for killing Coach K as he went under the balcony and I was yelling at him til I was hoarse. The refs beat us by one point. Son and I were in trouble that night with his Dad and gf but it was totally worth it.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 11:08 PM (hzuYO)

187 That's why the cab-over design went away. More annoying to work on the engine, while no longer offering any legal benefit.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Cab-overs are still widely used in Europe, mostly because the roads are smaller and it's easier to turn around and such.

Posted by: The Old Country at September 30, 2026 11:08 PM (Fn+3X)

188 Whatever’s goin on with the Pike execution, I know it wouldn’t have happened with a firing squad.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 30, 2026 11:09 PM (fuM78)

189
Do the executioners have a union? Cheaper using a bullet than having to pay all of the "necessary" people.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 11:10 PM (/QHx4)

190 148 Top photo reminded me of the movie Sex Drive. Really good teen movie.

Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 10:50 PM
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I work with two younger guys and they convinced me to watch it about a year ago. I didn't think it was all that great, but that Amish gal was a complete knockout. I liked her

Posted by: 496 at September 30, 2026 11:10 PM (aadd2)

191 The hijacker is a religious extremist who refuses to shake hands with women, lol.

I'd be too afraid to shake hands with a woman nowadays. They might revoke their consent a week later then bring battery and attempted kidnapping charges.

Posted by: I FELT VIOLATED at September 30, 2026 11:10 PM (TbWk/)

192 They both lost and won . ----Schrödinger

Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 11:10 PM (KC5Lt)

193
There are some funny stories about Godel and Einstein. Godel, a master of "pure logic" to make Mr. Spock proud, was also bat shit crazy.

They used to go on long walks on the Princeton campus, seemingly deep in discussion. People wondered just what ponderous things they were talking about.

It was probably something along the lines of "Hey, did you see the rack on that new coed?" "Dat ass, doh!"

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 30, 2026 11:10 PM (w6EFb)

194 No one seems to know what is going on with the Pike execution. An Ambulance appeared behind the tent area where Pike’s victims parents were going to speak.

When is Trump going to send that Muslim Fort Hood Mass Murderer to hell? Nidal Hasan has no more appeals, since spring of last year the only thing stopping him from being strapped to the table is Trump getting over his inability to deal out punishment to monsters.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 30, 2026 11:11 PM (NzX/y)

195 "Were I to die at this moment, 'want of frigates!' would be stamped on my heart."
_Vice-Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a frigate gap.

The Navy's 2026 shipbuilding plan plans a fleet of 66 frigates. By 2031, two Constellation-class frigates are to be completed at the Marinette, Wisc. shipyard and a modified U.S. Coast Guard National Security Cutter at the Ingalls, Miss. shipyard.

But to meet the Navy's goal, a sustained delivery of more than three frigates per year will be needed by 2037. ... and the plan all along was to have two frigate-producing shipyards.
_ RealClearDefense

https://tinyurl.com/y5z93u24

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 11:11 PM (JS6jE)

196 Posted by: 496 at September 30, 2026 11:10 PM (aadd2

I thought it was hilarious. I really liked Seth Green's sarcastic Amish character.

Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 11:12 PM (KC5Lt)

197 The whole world went to crap when we removed Platformate.

Posted by: Your Shell Answer Man! at September 30, 2026 11:12 PM (Fn+3X)

198
TbWk/,

Just pay a hooker no problem.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 11:12 PM (/QHx4)

199 Posted by: rhomboid at September 30, 2026 10:56 PM (U/Byj)

Yes. Lockheed in Burbank had an impressive camo net cover. Look it up. It’s…again, quite impressive.
The airstrip they loaded completed planes from, is now Burbank Airport.

And Hawthorne was another assembly facility that had its own airstrip. My mother-in-law worked there, and had an unbelievable story about a giant jet, that mistook that airstrip for LAX. No chance of success, and the crank-up of its engines to avoid a big fail, was heard for miles of neighborhoods close to there. She lived on Imperial Highway…

Posted by: Gunslinger at September 30, 2026 11:14 PM (N91F8)

200 I googled up the Amish girl's name: Alice Greczyn. Hubba x2

Posted by: 496 at September 30, 2026 11:14 PM (aadd2)

201 1 August 1798: The French 74-gunner La Spartiate, her mainmast split, sends sailors in the rigging crashing over the side, joining their comrades flailing in the briny.

In the left-center background, the chaotic scene is illuminated by the explosion of the French flagship l’Orient. Nelson’s decisive victory at the Battle of the Nile led to the disintegration of Napoleon’s army in Egypt.
But victory came only on the heels of a confused and uncertain sea chase.
_Mather Brow

image:
https://tinyurl.com/yb6mzcn5

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 11:15 PM (JS6jE)

202 n

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 11:15 PM (JS6jE)

203 We almost move to the Burbank area when my dad worked for Lockheed. He decided not to move to CA because of the hippies. This was in late 60's.

Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 11:16 PM (KC5Lt)

204 I figured quoting Ghandi would be putting up a target for Hordelings. Did not disappoint.

😜

Just thinking: What's worse, a troll who is so bad the banhammer falls swiftly and surely, or $#!+-stirrers who aren't (at first, anyway) quite disruptive enough to delete?

Anyone who thinks I might be talking about you, no, I mean that other guy.

🤢

I'm never sure when I run across some "oldie" that I've never heard before, is it really an obscure oldie or is it SI (as Professor Trump calls it)?

https://youtu.be/EM-yNaE8xmU

G'nite, y'all.💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - and that's all from this corner at September 30, 2026 11:16 PM (xRCm7)

205 Constellation class was cancelled, just two lead ships to be built. Another gigantic charlie foxtrot in USN shipbuilding. And it was even designed to be quicker to develop and produce, for the first time using an off-the-shelf foreign design as the baseline. Oops. NAVSEA effed up even that simplified approach.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 30, 2026 11:16 PM (U/Byj)

206 >>Mid West niceness is a meme.

And not true. Until Trump sent in the National Guard, Memphis Tennessee, not NYC or Seattle or even LA, had the highest violent crime rate in the country.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 11:16 PM (viF8m)

207 I've read about executions that are cancelled or something because they can't hit a vein. I guess I should volunteer as a vein expert as I could start an IV blindfolded. I mean, dude, do they let people in off the streets?

I often want to start an IV in Meagain's Harkle's forehead vein. I have never seen anyone with one of those and wonder what caused it. Botox? Filler? Being a yacht girl? Scrotum Head Harry? It's weird to pop out like that.

The subreddit I read about her is hilarious and I am so glad reddit changed their minds about having to register. That was a sad couple of weeks for me.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 11:17 PM (hzuYO)

208 The real question though. Why oxygenated gasoline?

Higher compression engines require higher octane to prevent detonation or "knock".

You want 400hp out of 3.0L engine? You get turbos or super chargers that skyrocket compression ratios.

That is why if you operate a vehicle that requires premium fuel and you feed it the same crap you feed your lawnmower, the power drops off dramatically and the computer starts throwing codes.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 30, 2026 11:17 PM (xE0sV)

209
Commodore Decker sure made a mess of the Constellation.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 30, 2026 11:18 PM (w6EFb)

210 Posted by: 496 at September 30, 2026 11:14 PM (aadd2)

Super cute/pretty face but she did need an extra sammich or two.

Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 11:18 PM (KC5Lt)

211 Certainly didn't spend any time in Burbank in the 60s, but would bet a lot of quatloos it wasn't exactly brimming with hippies. More like homemakers in dresses with hairdos and men in white short-sleeve shirts, pocket protectors, and black glasses, with buzz haircuts.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 30, 2026 11:19 PM (U/Byj)

212 Polynikes - it was an ok movie. Seth Green was a high point in it. I confess I should have had a couple more martinis on on board before starting it

Posted by: 496 at September 30, 2026 11:20 PM (aadd2)

213 I've read about executions that are cancelled or something because they can't hit a vein.

Pretty easy to hit a vein with 00 Buck in a 3" hull through a 12ga.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 30, 2026 11:20 PM (xE0sV)

214 Near as I can figure, it (mostly) is a matter of “the solution to pollution is dilution”. I believe originally it may have been one of those CARB mandates.

Posted by: Common Tater
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Not to worry, there's plenty of corn, just keep the Chinese away from it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 11:21 PM (JS6jE)

215 Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 11:16 PM (viF8m)

You're like the msm and don't identify the people the National Guard were having to target. And California or NY or Illinois wouldn't allow Trump to send in the NG.

Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 11:22 PM (KC5Lt)

216 Memphis Tennessee
——

Yeah… Well, Memphis is …. Um. You know… different, Jack, shall we say, in some respects. Ya think?

Posted by: Common Tater at September 30, 2026 11:23 PM (A8EHn)

217 The true first is to see the new thread, notify the prior thread and then get the first on the new one. In that order.

Difficult to do, but worth it for a Gentleman.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 11:23 PM (Y/06r)

218
I hate corn unless it is corn on the cob grilled.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 11:23 PM (/QHx4)

219 Beautiful downtown Burbank...

youtu.be/kAH5ZhIs9Js

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 11:24 PM (rdVOm)

220 They'll dress the bums as St. bernards, I guess

@nypost 6h
A massive Swiss Christmas village is coming to Santa Monica - complete with Alpine chalets and melted cheese

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 30, 2026 11:24 PM (nEUC6)

221
Yay! JQ is here.😀😀

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 11:25 PM (/QHx4)

222 213 I've read about executions that are cancelled or something because they can't hit a vein.

Pretty easy to hit a vein with 00 Buck in a 3" hull through a 12ga.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 30, 2026 11:20 PM (xE0sV)

You're so vein,
Bet you think this injection is 'bout you.

Posted by: Golden Moldies at September 30, 2026 11:25 PM (BHTo4)

223 Higher compression engines require higher octane to prevent detonation or "knock".
——-

Federal regs require Oxygenated gasoline.

Has absolutely nothing to do with octane whatsoever

Posted by: Common Tater at September 30, 2026 11:25 PM (/g2Ya)

224 Hi, four seasons!

Thank you for the warm welcome!

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 11:26 PM (rdVOm)

225
JQ,

You are very welcome!! You rock!!

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 11:27 PM (/QHx4)

226 I have always used mid grade and a gas treatment every 6 months. Have no idea if it made a difference. Just something I started with my first new car and never stopped.

Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 11:28 PM (KC5Lt)

227 >>You're like the msm and don't identify the people the National Guard were having to target. And California or NY or Illinois wouldn't allow Trump to send in the NG.

I'm stating a fact. I'm not saying that everyone who lives near crime ridden shit holes like Memphis or Houston or NYC or LA or Boston, you know, the coastal places that get trashed here daily, is a criminal or is responsible or they should all leave their homes.

I'm saying factually the place with the highest violent crime rate until Trump sent the National Guard to deal with it was Memphis. Draw your own conclusions.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 11:29 PM (viF8m)

228
Is the evil bitch dead yet?

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 11:29 PM (/QHx4)

229 224 Hi, four seasons!

Thank you for the warm welcome!
Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 11:26 PM (rdVOm)

225
JQ,

You are very welcome!! You rock!!

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 11:27 PM (/QHx4)
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Now that I know four seasons is a chick, this is hawt.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 11:30 PM (RIvkX)

230 Read that Pike is still alive and snoring. Two doses of penobarbital. After, and get this, doctors determined her veins and bloodwork? were fine and she'd have no pain. Wth? She deserves pain. All deserve pain after they are sentenced to die for killing others.

I read that penobarbital is questionable (no kidding) and causes pulmonary edema. Well, boo hoo.

Put a pillow on her head or shoot draino up her vein while the curtains are closed! I should be in charge!

I always thought potassium was in the IV to stop the heart painfully. What a freaking circus.

Goodnight. I will probably dream about serial killers now.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 11:30 PM (hzuYO)

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