Wednesday Night ONT - October 7, 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.

If you're a troll, go away.

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

Early morning activity planned here, so won't be around much in the ONT comments tonight. Please don't make a mess of the place. The cleaning charge is horrific. JQ is in charge and will rule with an iron fist.

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ONT Department of Science and History

You had me at "Radioactive Dinosaurs."

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ONT Food Content

Spaghetti in a bucket from Little Ceasars. Not sure...real or AI?

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ONT Department of Feline Food Fashion

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ONT Department of Science News

Whisky to be aged in space for first time in university satellite project

Engineers in Scotland and Japan are planning to put Scotch on a rocket in 2028, sending a satellite containing samples of whisky and its base ingredients on a five-year mission to orbit the Earth.
It is hoped the frequent changes between extreme heat and freezing cold experienced by the whisky as it rotates the planet every 90 minutes could speed up the maturation process.
This could potentially open the door to future production of space-aged whisky, which the scientist behind the project expects to have "very bold" flavours as a result of its unusual journey.

Funny. My university experience did not involve launching rockets to age alcohol.

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Mandatory Maiden

Iron Maiden released its ninth studio album in 1992 titled "Fear of the Dark." The song "Fear of the Dark" was written by bassist Steve Harris. It was the twelfth and final track on the album. I'm not a musician or a music critic but it is in a different class than the other eleven. I scrolled through the rest of the album thinking that a deep cut might be fun to feature and kept coming back to "Fear of the Dark."

The song has become a staple of Iron Maiden's live shows. It has a mix of tempo, the crowd sings along, and Dickinson adds a theatrical flair. It is metal, but there is nothing else like it. It is unmistakably Maiden. It is over seven minutes of pure energy. It isn't just a song - it is an event.

I had initially planned to include a clip from Metallica shows at the Las Vegas sphere for this part of the content but the clips I saw didn't resonate with me. Impressive visuals and nothing about the music was objectionable, but it felt like Metallica was providing the soundtrack for a movie which was inserted between the crowd and the band.

I have likely included Fear of the Dark before and probably will again. I make no apologies. Anyway, here is Iron Maiden playing Fear of the Dark live in Brazil in 2017 - twenty five years after the song's 1992 release:

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Niche YouTube Channel of the Week

Tonight's feature is a YouTube channel called Burls Art. The sole and exclusive purpose of the channel is showing crazy ways to build guitars. Yes, it has a little shock value but the workmanship and visibility into the process earns it a place in the content. It is a business rather than a hobby. He also builds commissioned guitars.

The host does not give his real name. The channel has over 784k subscribers. Several videos have attracted millions of views. Posting frequency is about three to five a year. I'm not qualified to opine on the quality of the guitars as musical instruments or art, but I'm mostly fascinated that someone can sustain a single YouTube channel dedicated solely to making guitars.

One man's trash is another man's treasure? Playing metal with metal?

This guitar sold for $4,800.

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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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Stone cold crazy for the big ONT finish:

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Correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com where it will be promptly sorted and processed. Are you lurking ????

Posted by: Open Blogger at 10:00 PM

Comments

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1 Hooray Hooray

The ONT is here!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 07, 2026 10:00 PM (QGaXH)

2 Ya, know, turn on the keyboard first.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 07, 2026 10:01 PM (VQ0bX)

3 Pussy Tacos?

The mind wobbles.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 07, 2026 10:01 PM (ptJRT)

4 St

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at October 07, 2026 10:01 PM (kOluj)

5 Howdy Dino- nice mystery click! Go Big Red....

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at October 07, 2026 10:02 PM (kOluj)

6 And the weirdo out in California walks away with a First.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 07, 2026 10:02 PM (QGaXH)

7 I have blueberry coffee cake in the oven.

Posted by: Don Black at October 07, 2026 10:03 PM (ZxPkt)

8 Star TRex: The Primeval Generation

whut?

Evenin', all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - voting pleasant at October 07, 2026 10:03 PM (uhtpA)

9 Engineers in Scotland and Japan are planning to put Scotch on a rocket in 2028, sending a satellite containing samples of whisky and its base ingredients on a five-year mission to orbit the Earth.

It is hoped the frequent changes between extreme heat and freezing cold experienced by the whisky as it rotates the planet every 90 minutes could speed up the maturation process.

I can answer that without going to space.

Balcones Distilling ages its whiskies for notably short periods, often as little as 2 years or less, due to the rapid maturation caused by Texas’s intense heat and wide temperature swings.

This climate forces barrels to "breathe" more frequently than in cooler regions, accelerating extraction and allowing the distillery to release spirits with deep flavor profiles much faster than traditional methods.

The whiskey that they age only 24 months has won numerous awards.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 07, 2026 10:03 PM (ExV1e)

10 Harvest season up top pic with an excellent mystery click. Thanks for the ONT, Dino.

Posted by: scampydog on the road at October 07, 2026 10:04 PM (keC+P)

11 Pussy Tacos?
The mind wobbles.
Posted by: Tonypete

THE SHIRT IS FUNNY BECAUSE TACO CAT IS A PALINDROME.

Posted by: BEN ROFLCOPTER at October 07, 2026 10:04 PM (VHUov)

12 If you're a troll, go away.

Crap!

Posted by: Fin the Troll at October 07, 2026 10:04 PM (1Ff7Z)

13 Wow

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 07, 2026 10:04 PM (LOvBA)

14 Good evening morons e grazie Dino

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 07, 2026 10:04 PM (RIvkX)

15 That's not particularly funny, BEN, but that is probably what they were aiming for.

Posted by: mikeski at October 07, 2026 10:05 PM (VHUov)

16 Holy cow you little armed manly man!
Thanks Mr T🦖!
Happy hump day evening....
And hey! Hello wonderful Horde!
💕💕💕💕

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 07, 2026 10:05 PM (jCKWs)

17 Wonderful picture up top, but I may have to bale early on this thread.

Posted by: Willie Windrower at October 07, 2026 10:05 PM (EdP2u)

18 Just in time for a change of pace, the Wednesday ONT.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 07, 2026 10:05 PM (sl73Y)

19 Mmm. Purritos.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 07, 2026 10:05 PM (wpRMV)

20 So, Scotland is too cold to actually make great whiskey?

LOL

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 07, 2026 10:05 PM (LOvBA)

21 T-Rex, bringing it!

Love the musical choices.

Greeting Horde!

Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at October 07, 2026 10:05 PM (K7v1x)

22 Nice ONT, TRex. Thanks!

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 07, 2026 10:06 PM (Jr+re)

23 So, Scotland is too cold to actually make great whiskey?

No, it just takes longer.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 07, 2026 10:07 PM (ExV1e)

24 Pittsburgh Scanner
Downtown. Penn Ave. Caller says a dude in a purple suit is walking around with a bag filled with toys. Caller thought that was weird.

Santa is way early, and caller is colorblind.

Or shrooms.

One or the other.

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

25 Dude walking around in a purple suit with a bag of toys...

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What?

Posted by: Huggy Bear at October 07, 2026 10:07 PM (RIvkX)

26 Up the Irons!

Buddy and I pooled our money together and ordered the first Iron Maiden album via Gibson's drug store (which was kind of a Woolworth type store). When it arrived, the Far Side style matronly lady looked at it and sniffed, then handed it over.

We were cutting edge metal heads in that small Wyoming town.

First concert I ever saw was Maiden on their Somewhere in Time tour, in Glendale AZ, 1987.

\m/ \m/

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 07, 2026 10:08 PM (0aYVJ)

27 Godzilla! Not dead, therefore not radioactive?

Posted by: Rex B at October 07, 2026 10:08 PM (6lvzU)

28 10 Harvest season up top pic with an excellent mystery click. Thanks for the ONT, Dino.
Posted by: scampydog on the road at October 07, 2026 10:04 PM
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Doggo!

Posted by: TRex - farmer dino at October 07, 2026 10:08 PM (XfIK1)

29 Little help, please. What is the humor around the street closures for an ambulance run?

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 07, 2026 10:08 PM (Jr+re)

30
Mmm. Purritos.
Posted by: Cicero

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Catacos.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 07, 2026 10:08 PM (XJ22o)

31 Wonderful picture up top, but I may have to bale early on this thread.
Posted by: Willie Windrower
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Best not to combine too many commitments.

Posted by: scampydog on the road at October 07, 2026 10:08 PM (keC+P)

32 I think I'll try one of those red-headed Yolandas.

Posted by: Sen. Geary at October 07, 2026 10:09 PM (wpRMV)

33 "Whisky to be aged in space"

I'm sure they were totally sober when they came up with this idea.

Posted by: mindful webworker - we'll give it a... shot at October 07, 2026 10:09 PM (uhtpA)

34 Thanks Mr T🦖!
Happy hump day evening....
Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 07, 2026 10:05 PM
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Howdy COMM!

Posted by: TRex - hump day dino at October 07, 2026 10:09 PM (XfIK1)

35 America's oldest Natural History Museum at Drexel in Philly just closed. There might be a fossil glut soon. Opened in 1812.

Posted by: Old Fossil, Myself at October 07, 2026 10:09 PM (EdP2u)

36
Little help, please. What is the humor around the street closures for an ambulance run?
Posted by: LRob in OK

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It seems a little odd in the era of sirens.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 07, 2026 10:09 PM (XJ22o)

37 "Whisky to be aged in space"

They are obviously engineers/scientists and NOT economics majors.

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 07, 2026 10:10 PM (Jr+re)

38 But I have instant gratification issues.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 07, 2026 10:10 PM (LOvBA)

39 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 07, 2026 10:10 PM (sAmhv)

40 Pittsburgh Scanner
Larmier. Kelly Street. Caller says that two neighbors are having a BBQ sauce and baby powder fight.

That's not a fight, it's foreplay.

One party seems to have gotten a steel folding chair.

Oh. Well, still fitty-fitty, maybe.

Posted by: mikeski at October 07, 2026 10:11 PM (VHUov)

41 When I rent an AirBnB, I expect roof privileges. No Pittsburgh cop is going to change my mind.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at October 07, 2026 10:11 PM (syz1S)

42 Doggo!
Posted by: TRex - farmer dino
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'Evening, farmer Dino. Had to repair a John Deere over the weekend. Not AOP worthy repair, but reattaching a compression fitting may have resulted in a bit of of puffed chest.

Posted by: scampydog on the road at October 07, 2026 10:11 PM (keC+P)

43 All Scotch tastes like iodine.

Posted by: Archie Bunker, 1972 at October 07, 2026 10:11 PM (EdP2u)

44 and Mandatory Maiden?!? LOVE Fear of the Dark.... great description of the song! We're not worthy!

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at October 07, 2026 10:12 PM (kOluj)

45 Little help, please. What is the humor around the street closures for an ambulance run?
Posted by: LRob in OK

I'll go with maybe a copy and paste error. Dunno.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 07, 2026 10:12 PM (9tX4s)

46 29 Little help, please. What is the humor around the street closures for an ambulance run?
Posted by: LRob in OK at October 07, 2026 10:08 PM
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Less humor and more an affirmation of good people doing good things amidst the madness.

Btw, good evening Sir!

Posted by: TRex - lights and bells dino at October 07, 2026 10:12 PM (XfIK1)

47 OK. Spaghetti in a bucket....I would have to be soooo stoned...
And I haven't smoked dope in decades.
Good freakin' grief...Although....maybe some good cheese😗...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 07, 2026 10:12 PM (jCKWs)

48 43 All Scotch tastes like iodine.

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Oh for peats sake.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 07, 2026 10:12 PM (wpRMV)

49 Less humor and more an affirmation of good people doing good things amidst the madness.

Okie doke!

Ready for the MoMe?

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 07, 2026 10:13 PM (Jr+re)

50 Iron maiden...fucking metal as it should be.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 07, 2026 10:13 PM (vzuC7)

51 >>>she escaped from a wedding

lol

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at October 07, 2026 10:13 PM (syz1S)

52 Regarding the top photo. I love how farmers here in Idaho creatively utilize all the arable land, creating curvy lines around the lava and basalt upthrusts, and following slopes. It's very beautiful. As an artist, I love it.

Pretty fucking happy that we moved here.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 07, 2026 10:14 PM (0aYVJ)

53 50 Iron maiden...fucking metal as it should be.

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Is that slogan trademarked?

Posted by: Acme Aluminum Dildos, Inc. at October 07, 2026 10:14 PM (wpRMV)

54 Ready for the MoMe?
Posted by: LRob in OK at October 07, 2026 10:13 PM
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Ready and aiming. Preparing to fire.

Posted by: TRex - fundamental dino at October 07, 2026 10:14 PM (XfIK1)

55 Iron maiden...fucking metal as it should be.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads
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Yep.

Posted by: scampydog on the road at October 07, 2026 10:15 PM (keC+P)

56 Thank you for ONT, Mr. TRex!

Not a particularly big fan of Fe Maiden but enjoyed the music anyways.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 07, 2026 10:15 PM (QGaXH)

57 COMM!

So good to see you are posting. Hope you and your homestead are ok.

Thank you Dino for the awesome thread. Love the Queen at the end!

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 07, 2026 10:15 PM (yEz+x)

58 "Whisky to be aged in space"

I'm sure they were totally sober when they came up with this idea.
Posted by: mindful webworker

There's that "Jefferson's Ocean" bourbon, where they put the barrels on ships and haul them around the seven seas while they age. I guess the sloshing is supposed to help? It's pretty good stuff, but probably in the Food Thread's "too much money for what it is" category.

Jefferson's Starship here is just trying to be one louder.

And it better as f**k be named that if it makes it to market.

Posted by: mikeski at October 07, 2026 10:16 PM (VHUov)

59 "Dude walking around in a purple suit with a bag of toys..."

The toys aren't green, are they?

Posted by: WNBA at October 07, 2026 10:17 PM (Q+gd/)

60 I watched the new 4K of "Forbidden Planet." It looks great, and Robby is a lot of fun. Leslie Neilson is kind of stiff, which described him pretty well until "Airplane." And the music and effects are great.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 07, 2026 10:19 PM (CHHv1)

61 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 07, 2026 10:19 PM (+9wcF)

62 It makes me sad...there should be more Doggo🐶🐶!!!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 07, 2026 10:19 PM (jCKWs)

63 Many decades ago, I moved from Colorado to Portland, Maine but did not plan well financially. My Colorado bank had money and I thought I could just open an account in Maine and the money would just magically appear. Nope. I took several days and, in the meantime, I had no money for food for several days. Finally, the money came and I bought a bucket of spaghetti similar to the Little Caesar's bucket above. I sat on a bus stop bench and ate it in the rain. Nothing was ever so good.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 07, 2026 10:21 PM (ndZc7)

64 59 "Dude walking around in a purple suit with a bag of toys..."

The toys aren't green, are they?
Posted by: WNBA at October 07, 2026 10:17 PM (Q+gd/)

Dinosaur or Teletubby?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 07, 2026 10:21 PM (QGaXH)

65 Keep your paws off my old minivan! And quit lookin'!

Posted by: Asstrovanner at October 07, 2026 10:21 PM (EdP2u)

66 I agree COMM, we need more Doggo in the ONTs

Posted by: The Grateful at October 07, 2026 10:21 PM (XfIK1)

67 It makes me sad...there should be more Doggo🐶🐶!!!
Posted by: COMountainMarie
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Well thank you, COMM. Work life is a bit silly - time alligator for another few months.

Posted by: scampydog on the road at October 07, 2026 10:21 PM (keC+P)

68 THE SHIRT IS FUNNY BECAUSE TACO CAT IS A PALINDROME.
Posted by: BEN ROFLCOPTER at October 07, 2026 10:04 PM (VHUov)

So, if an aerodrome is an area used for aircraft, and a velodrome is a racecourse for bicycles, shouldn't a Palindrome be a place to store Michael Palin?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 07, 2026 10:23 PM (1Ff7Z)

69 31 Wonderful picture up top, but I may have to bale early on this thread.
Posted by: Willie Windrower
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Best not to combine too many commitments.
Posted by: scampydog on the road at October 07, 2026 10:08 PM (keC+P)

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Enough of this rakish behavior!

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at October 07, 2026 10:23 PM (kOluj)

70 days and, in the meantime, I had no money for food for several days. Finally, the money came and I bought a bucket of spaghetti similar to the Little Caesar's bucket above. I sat on a bus stop bench and ate it in the rain. Nothing was ever so good.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

That movie should have been filmed in black and white, Fellini style.

Posted by: I'm Hearing The Soundtrack In My Head at October 07, 2026 10:23 PM (EdP2u)

71 Work life is a bit silly

But here ya get the dental and I've heard the 401k payouts are stupendous . . . . . . . .

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 07, 2026 10:24 PM (Jr+re)

72 Thanks, T Rex, for the Wednesday Night ONT!

That Pittsburgh scanner gets crazy sometimes, and today is one of those times...

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at October 07, 2026 10:24 PM (D/6p1)

73 Posted by: COMountainMarie

Fire update please!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 07, 2026 10:24 PM (NnhvP)

74 Evening, TRex and ONT Horde. Watched the dinosaur video. Presenter was a little shy on why dinosaur bones may be radioactive (mammoth bones, too). Bones contain carbon-based organic material. Carbon can reduce oxidized uranium minerals transported in ground water, and cause them to replace other minerals in the bone. On the Colorado Plateau, entire petrified logs have been found, replaced by yellow uranium minerals.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 07, 2026 10:25 PM (i9VX2)

75 Wonderful picture up top, but I may have to bale early on this thread.
Posted by: Willie Windrower
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Best not to combine too many commitments.
Posted by: scampydog on the road at October 07, 2026 10:08 PM (keC+P)
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Enough of this rakish behavior!
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher
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Just cultivating boundaries.

Posted by: scampydog on the road at October 07, 2026 10:26 PM (keC+P)

76 It's kinda funny that Leslie Nielsen acted for decades before anyone knew he was funny.

Posted by: Better Late Than Never at October 07, 2026 10:27 PM (EdP2u)

77 57 nurse

We're hangin' here...had a fire yesterday just over the hill approximately 4 + miles. It took us about 30 minutes to get our shit together to evacuate. A very good practice. Luckily the fire was contained quickly. Ya always gotta be prepared.

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 07, 2026 10:27 PM (jCKWs)

78 How did that person know I had a bag full of toys??

Posted by: mindful webworker in a purple suit at October 07, 2026 10:27 PM (uhtpA)

79 72 Thanks, T Rex, for the Wednesday Night ONT!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at October 07, 2026 10:24 PM
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Vielen Dank!

Posted by: TRex - danke dino at October 07, 2026 10:27 PM (XfIK1)

80 Wonderful picture up top, but I may have to bale early on this thread.
Posted by: Willie Windrower

Best not to combine too many commitments.
Posted by: scampydog

Enough of this rakish behavior!
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher

Just cultivating boundaries.
Posted by: scampydog

Mind the puns, or someone'll give you a threshing.

Posted by: mikeski at October 07, 2026 10:28 PM (VHUov)

81 So I'm about two hours into the follow up to Disco Elysium, No Parade: For Dead Spies, and I do not not like the protagonist you play as, it's a female spy named Cascade, she looks like Jodi Whitaker and sounds like Marge Simpson's sister with a gravely, 4 pack a day voice.

Aesthetically and visually it's comparable, game mechanics are slightly different, there is no thought cabinet, the inner monologue is not to the same caliber as Elysium, it's bigger game world but overall, it's a pale comparison.

For instance, the Secret of Monkey Island II: LeChuck's Revenge, was leaps and bounds better than the 1st game, which was a great game itself.

I'll finish this game, but I'm dissapointed.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 07, 2026 10:28 PM (XV/Pl)

82 Just cultivating boundaries.
Posted by: scampydog on the road at October 07, 2026 10:26 PM (keC+P)

Just make sure the rest of us can glean something from the prior puns.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 07, 2026 10:28 PM (1Ff7Z)

83 Klobuchar is now calling for "anti-terrorism investments" after the FBI foiled a terrorism plot against the Mall of America.

The Dems are on the ropes in Minnesota.

Posted by: mrp at October 07, 2026 10:29 PM (rj6Yv)

84 It's kinda funny that Leslie Nielsen acted for decades before anyone knew he was funny.
Posted by: Better Late Than Never at October 07, 2026 10:27 PM (EdP2u)

Right?

See also, Lloyd Bridges.

PUDDING?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 07, 2026 10:29 PM (0aYVJ)

85 @76

>>It's kinda funny that Leslie Nielsen acted for decades before anyone knew he was funny.

Well, before Airplane, he wasn't a comedic actor.

And let's be real, pretty much everything he did after Airplane was essentially Airplane.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 07, 2026 10:29 PM (XV/Pl)

86 TRex! next week!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 07, 2026 10:30 PM (NnhvP)

87
Klobuchar is now calling for "anti-terrorism investments" after the FBI foiled a terrorism plot against the Mall of America.

Posted by: mrp

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She's really ahead of the game, isn't she?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 07, 2026 10:30 PM (XJ22o)

88 Wonderful picture up top, but I may have to bale early on this thread.
Posted by: Willie Windrower

Best not to combine too many commitments.
Posted by: scampydog

Enough of this rakish behavior!
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher

Just cultivating boundaries.
Posted by: scampydog

Mind the puns, or someone'll give you a threshing.
Posted by: mikeski
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That's fair. Best not to sow what one cannot reap.

Posted by: scampydog on the road at October 07, 2026 10:30 PM (keC+P)

89 Looks like Alfalfa up top. I can tell it's not Buckwheat.

Posted by: Or Farina at October 07, 2026 10:30 PM (EdP2u)

90 Posted by: COMountainMarie

Glad to hear!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 07, 2026 10:32 PM (NnhvP)

91 Wonderful picture up top, but I may have to bale early on this thread.
Posted by: Willie Windrower

Best not to combine too many commitments.
Posted by: scampydog

Enough of this rakish behavior!
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher

Just cultivating boundaries.
Posted by: scampydog

Mind the puns, or someone'll give you a threshing
Posted by: mikeski
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That's fair. Best not to sow what one cannot reap.

Like the farmer above will soon be doing, you all are stacking it a little deep.

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 07, 2026 10:32 PM (Jr+re)

92 86 TRex! next week!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 07, 2026 10:30 PM
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Yessir!

Posted by: TRex - radioactive dino at October 07, 2026 10:32 PM (XfIK1)

93 Wonderful picture up top, but I may have to bale early on this thread.
Posted by: Willie Windrower

Best not to combine too many commitments.
Posted by: scampydog

Enough of this rakish behavior!
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher

Just cultivating boundaries.
Posted by: scampydog

Mind the puns, or someone'll give you a threshing.
Posted by: mikeski
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That's fair. Best not to sow what one cannot reap.

You guys are too funny, ho, ho, ho...

Posted by: Some Rat at October 07, 2026 10:32 PM (BJzO2)

94 "anti-terrorism investments"

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Donk politicians must be required to go to talk like an asshole boot camp.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 07, 2026 10:33 PM (ndZc7)

95 Live Maiden is always the best Maiden. Eddie approves.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at October 07, 2026 10:33 PM (kvLZQ)

96 Evening all,

We have the SpaceX Crew 12 splashdown in the morning.

SpaceX/NASA - SpaceX Crew-12
Deorbit Burn & Splashdown Pacific Ocean
Date: October 8, 2026
Splashdown: 8:34 a.m. PDT (1534 UTC, 17:34 CEST)

https://youtu.be/5JLug2btUnw

Posted by: Joyenz at October 07, 2026 10:34 PM (2F0/Y)

97 Yep, still lurking. Thanks for the Journey!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at October 07, 2026 10:34 PM (D/6p1)

98 37 "Whisky to be aged in space"

They are obviously engineers/scientists and NOT economics majors.
Posted by: LRob in OK at October 07, 2026 10:10 PM (Jr+re)

I wonder what the radiation in space might do to it. Will it ferment correctly? What happens to the taste?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 07, 2026 10:35 PM (qx7Zg)

99 37 "Whisky to be aged in space"

They are obviously engineers/scientists and NOT economics majors.
Posted by: LRob in OK at October 07, 2026 10:10 PM (Jr+re)

When spending other people's money on ourselves, people tend to maximize quality while ignoring price. If they had been spending their own money on something for someone else, they'd minimize price and be less concerned with quality.

Posted by: Milton Friedman at October 07, 2026 10:35 PM (r7+Q7)

100
See also, Lloyd Bridges.

Posted by: Pug Mahon

I'll bet he kicks himself for turning down being Capt 'Kirk'!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 07, 2026 10:35 PM (NnhvP)

101 Well, before Airplane, he wasn't a comedic actor.

And let's be real, pretty much everything he did after Airplane was essentially Airplane.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

"We need a stone-faced guy to never laugh in this comic movie with nine jokes every minute." So they got a guy who played mob thugs.

Perfect casting.

Leslie had an astounding acting career based on his ability to never re"act" to anything.

Posted by: mikeski at October 07, 2026 10:36 PM (VHUov)

102 Looks like Alfalfa up top. I can tell it's not Buckwheat.
Posted by: Or Farina at October 07, 2026 10:30 PM (EdP2u)

Sorghum was cast, but all her scenes were cut and she never returned to the set.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 07, 2026 10:37 PM (wVcYX)

103 83 Klobuchar is now calling for "anti-terrorism investments" after the FBI foiled a terrorism plot against the Mall of America.
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Klobuchar with a comb, that's terroristic.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 07, 2026 10:37 PM (VQ0bX)

104 Wonderful picture up top, but I may have to bale early on this thread.
Posted by: Willie Windrower
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Best not to combine too many commitments.
Posted by: scampydog on the road at October 07, 2026 10:08 PM (keC+P)
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Enough of this rakish behavior!
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher
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Just cultivating boundaries.
Posted by: scampydog on the road at October 07, 2026 10:26 PM (keC+P)

The scything comments are cutting down the crop of puns.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 07, 2026 10:37 PM (qx7Zg)

105 Both Ron Palillo and Robert Hegyes had college degrees in drama, including Shakespearean experience, but people only remember them as Arnold Horshack and Juan Epstein. Both died in 2012, which I find very suspicious.

Posted by: PrincipalWoodman May Have Been Involved. at October 07, 2026 10:39 PM (EdP2u)

106 73 fire update

The evacuation has been lifted. All is good for now. But, very dry for this time of year!
Keeping go-bags ready. An awful decision - if I have to beat feet from here, I have to let my chicken loose to fend for her own....other things that hurt my heart...
Can't wait for snow....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 07, 2026 10:39 PM (jCKWs)

107 Rat!

You bastard!

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 07, 2026 10:40 PM (tslp2)

108 I have one of these right here in this basement:

https://tinyurl.com/ympuzdan

And I have some mosasaur bone, and ammonite fragments, too. It never occurred to me that they might be radioactive, but I have the means to check it. That Precision Scintillator was introduced in 1954, and it has acorn tubes in it, invented during WWII for proximity fuses. It would be right at home in that Forbidden Planet movie. I have the Scintillator, the manual, the calibration source, and the leather case. I did load it up with batteries once, and it worked just fine. The sensor is a large crystal of sodium iodide, coupled to a photomultiplier tube. A gamma ray passes through the crystal, causing a faint flash of light, which is picked up by the photomultiplier tube, and amplified thousands of time, resulting in a current pulse: a "count".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 07, 2026 10:41 PM (i9VX2)

109 Cotton was Stymie's little brother.

Posted by: Never Came To Harlem, Though at October 07, 2026 10:41 PM (EdP2u)

110 Seems the Flat Earthers have now been over taken by the rebirth of the fake moon landing conspiracy .

These people vote.

Posted by: polynikes at October 07, 2026 10:42 PM (KC5Lt)

111 They only remember Gabriel Kaplan as Mr. Kotter

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 07, 2026 10:42 PM (RIvkX)

112 First concert I ever saw was Maiden on their Somewhere in Time tour, in Glendale AZ, 1987.

\m/ \m/
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx
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Was in Glendale in 87 too. No maiden. Sad.

Posted by: scampydog on the road at October 07, 2026 10:42 PM (keC+P)

113 The wanna be MN terrorist was an anchor baby.

Shocked I am.

Posted by: polynikes at October 07, 2026 10:44 PM (KC5Lt)

114 The UK DM has two different stories of motherhood tonight:

1) A petite fashionista, apparently living well near Dallas, Texas from photos of her house and poses, stabs her tall husband in the forehead and then her two sweet children, ages 3yrs and 10months early Tues morning. Due to Clancyitis aka post partum depression. Right. The babies thankfully will live after being stabbed in the chest and abdomen after her husband called 911. EMT's said she wanted to kill herself. Officers said this changed when they appeared and she wanted a lawyer. Another for the growing list. Demons walk among us.

2) A young mother in Ohio fought Stage 4, 2B triple negative breast cancer and a double mastectomy when her first daughter was 1yrs old (now 9yrs old). She then developed headaches and a brain tumor metastasis and kept fighting with partial brain radiation and a PARP inhibitor for BRCA mutations to stop the tumor's growth with no active disease. In 2023 she conceived naturally and was able to have a second baby girl, 22mo old. She said, "My life with these kids is messy and perfect and I love it."

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 07, 2026 10:45 PM (hzuYO)

115 Both Ron Palillo and Robert Hegyes had college degrees in drama, including Shakespearean experience, but people only remember them as Arnold Horshack and Juan Epstein. Both died in 2012, which I find very suspicious.
Posted by: PrincipalWoodman May Have Been Involved. at October 07, 2026 10:39 PM (EdP2u)

Very sad, really. Because, even as a kid, I loathed Welcome Back, Kotter.

They are part of the woefully underappreciated, along with Jim Varney.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 07, 2026 10:45 PM (0aYVJ)

116 nurse ratched

Nurse! How are you, one day removed from your birthday!?

Posted by: Some Rat at October 07, 2026 10:46 PM (BJzO2)

117 Keeping go-bags ready. An awful decision - if I have to beat feet from here, I have to let my chicken loose to fend for her own....other things that hurt my heart...
Can't wait for snow....
Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 07, 2026 10:39 PM (jCKWs)
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That has got to be a pretty high ambient level of stress.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 07, 2026 10:46 PM (RIvkX)

118 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 07, 2026 10:46 PM (zZu0s)

119 Alternative to the hidden link: Make Hay

https://tinyurl.com/msbhhfvt

Posted by: Pikov Andropov at October 07, 2026 10:46 PM (y7zkd)

120
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 07, 2026 10:45 PM (0aYVJ)
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Up your nose with a rubber hose!

Posted by: The Sweathogs at October 07, 2026 10:47 PM (RIvkX)

121 107

Yeah! Like she said!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 07, 2026 10:47 PM (jCKWs)

122 Looks like Alfalfa up top. I can tell it's not Buckwheat.
Posted by: Or Farina at October 07, 2026 10:30 PM (EdP2u)

Or Darla!

Posted by: Fish Tacos at October 07, 2026 10:47 PM (zZu0s)

123 Just cultivating boundaries.
Posted by: scampydog on the road at October 07, 2026 10:26 PM (keC+P)

The implement in the top pic is a swather of some kind. Well, a John Deere swather, by the color of it. I have not seen swathers that do a triple swath before. I suspect the crop is some kind of green feed, like alfalfa?

Here, they often swath grain or canola, let it dry in the swath for few days, and then combine it. But weather lately has been good, so mostly straight combining is being done.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 07, 2026 10:47 PM (i9VX2)

124 A lot of people didn't like queen for obvious reasons, but they were a tight band and very innovative. Great talent.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at October 07, 2026 10:49 PM (kvLZQ)

125 Marie, good to hear things are improving. If you have to release the chicken, any chance of arming it?

Posted by: Some Rat at October 07, 2026 10:49 PM (BJzO2)

126 Looks like Alfalfa up top. I can tell it's not Buckwheat.
Posted by: Or Farina at October 07, 2026 10:30 PM (EdP2u)

Sorghum was cast, but all her scenes were cut and she never returned to the set.
Posted by: Count de Monet
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LOL.

Posted by: scampydog on the road at October 07, 2026 10:49 PM (keC+P)

127 I have never seen a bbq sauce and baby powder fight! I been missin’ out!

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 07, 2026 10:49 PM (B0Z3q)

128 Also remember Palillo from Friday the Thirteenth III.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 07, 2026 10:50 PM (9tX4s)

129 I remember when they use to bale hay, now they roll hay and they started doing that for cotton now. These huge rolls of hay and cotton were on display across the fields today. The hay will be used by the cattle ranchers to feed their stock for the winter, the cotton will be loaded onto trucks and sent to markets. Cotton is still King in Alabama, because that is the money crop.But raising cattle is catching up with cotton, beef is high priced now. It's funny how a field of cotton looks like a field of snow while it's 80 degrees outside.

Posted by: Case at October 07, 2026 10:50 PM (ROPCF)

130 I have never seen a bbq sauce and baby powder fight!

Maybe we can set something up at the TxMoMe. You know - Friday evening around supper time.

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 07, 2026 10:51 PM (Jr+re)

131 Kaplan starred in another TV series 1981-82, Lewis and Clark. A fish out of water type deal as a New Yorker who moves to Luckenbach, TX to open a C&W club with Guich Koock. Didn't catch on, ran for 13 episodes. A couple Sweathogs guested on it. Kaplan was also team captain on Battle of the Network Stars for the ABC team for a couple years.

Posted by: Poker Player, Too at October 07, 2026 10:51 PM (EdP2u)

132 I have never seen a bbq sauce and baby powder fight! I been missin’ out!
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 07, 2026 10:49 PM (B0Z3q)

Zombies! Light a fire under them, and tasty, tasty zombies!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 07, 2026 10:51 PM (i9VX2)

133 Just read about Phil Collins recent interview. Guess I have to add him to the Lefty douchebag list. Was sort of a surprise since how big his interest was with all things Alamo.

Posted by: polynikes at October 07, 2026 10:51 PM (KC5Lt)

134 Good night, horde! Early start required tomorrow.

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 07, 2026 10:53 PM (Jr+re)

135 117

Yep. I get very attached to my critters. But what do I do? Carry the girl in a box? Gosh...I don't actually know 🐓?..

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 07, 2026 10:53 PM (jCKWs)

136 Downtown Penn. Ave: Caller says a dude in a purple suit is walking around with a bag filled with toys. Caller thought that was weird.

____________________________

Ole Saint Nick's younger, more hip, and questionably employed step-brother....aka... "Cashmere Carlos". He doesn't drive a sleigh, but has a rather impressive 1976 Chevy Impala with gold plated fenders, and a reindeer head hood ornament decked out with a red LED nose.

Posted by: Orson at October 07, 2026 10:53 PM (dIske)

137 I remember when they use to bale hay, now they roll hay and they started doing that for cotton now. These huge rolls of hay and cotton were on display across the fields today. The hay will be used by the cattle ranchers to feed their stock for the winter, the cotton will be loaded onto trucks and sent to markets. Cotton is still King in Alabama, because that is the money crop.But raising cattle is catching up with cotton, beef is high priced now. It's funny how a field of cotton looks like a field of snow while it's 80 degrees outside.
Posted by: Case at October 07, 2026 10:50 PM (ROPCF)

They grow a fair bit of cotton in Arizona around Florence and Coolidge, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 07, 2026 10:53 PM (i9VX2)

138 A couple Sweathogs guested on it. Kaplan was also team captain on Battle of the Network Stars for the ABC team for a couple years.
Posted by: Poker Player, Too at October 07, 2026 10:51 PM (EdP2u)
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It was in our contract.

Posted by: The Sweathogs at October 07, 2026 10:54 PM (RIvkX)

139 Darla Hood died of sepsis after an appendectomy at age 49 or so.

Posted by: She Didn't Like Alfalfa, Nobody Did at October 07, 2026 10:54 PM (EdP2u)

140 "This climate forces barrels to "breathe" more frequently than in cooler regions, accelerating extraction and allowing the distillery to release spirits with deep flavor profiles much faster than traditional methods. "

So they're sending barrels into space?

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at October 07, 2026 10:55 PM (w6EFb)

141 Here, they often swath grain or canola, let it dry in the swath for few days, and then combine it. But weather lately has been good, so mostly straight combining is being done.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 07, 2026 10:47 PM (i9VX2)

My painting of a Canola field. see nic

Posted by: polynikes at October 07, 2026 10:55 PM (KC5Lt)

142 Yep. I get very attached to my critters. But what do I do? Carry the girl in a box? Gosh...I don't actually know 🐓?..
Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 07, 2026 10:53 PM (jCKWs)

Put her in a hatbox. She can't be very heavy. What's a henway, anyhow?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 07, 2026 10:55 PM (i9VX2)

143 "Klobuchar is now calling for "anti-terrorism investments" after the FBI foiled a terrorism plot against the Mall of America."

Klobuchar sounds like a cartoonish Klingon bad guy/gal, from the animated series.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at October 07, 2026 10:56 PM (Fv808)

144 This climate forces barrels to "breathe" more frequently than in cooler regions, accelerating extraction and allowing the distillery to release spirits with deep flavor profiles much faster than traditional methods. "

So they're sending barrels into space?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
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Natural barrel progression post Niagra Falls testing.

Posted by: scampydog on the road at October 07, 2026 10:56 PM (keC+P)

145 Rat!

Jeebus, I’m old.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 07, 2026 10:56 PM (XFI3v)

146 Hope RandomDave had an easy drive to his job interview.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 07, 2026 10:56 PM (RIvkX)

147 The roadside on Rt. 64 going west toward Rocky Mount, NC is littered with cotton scraps through most of the winter.

Posted by: Flatlander at October 07, 2026 10:57 PM (EdP2u)

148 Ever seen The Boy in the Plastic Bubble? Awful, awful TV movie. Robert Reid spent the whole time implying "I'm not gay, you're the one who's gay"

Travolta was also, totes not gay, in his little 70s style shorts.

Ralph Bellamy lent the film a nicely prim, but masculine vibe.

But the chick was a gall-dang smoke-show.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 07, 2026 10:57 PM (0aYVJ)

149 My painting of a Canola field. see nic
Posted by: polynikes at October 07, 2026 10:55 PM (KC5Lt)
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I really love this.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 07, 2026 10:58 PM (RIvkX)

150 Iron fist? Moi?

*chuckles; dons velvet glove*

Well, I am my mother's daughter...

Howdy, horde!

Thanks for the ONT, TRex!

Posted by: JQ at October 07, 2026 10:58 PM (rdVOm)

151 Did anyone see the Babylon Bee's suggestion for executing Hasan? The Hasan Bomb?

https://tinyurl.com/3d4kjvnx

Now THAT I'd pay to watch!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 07, 2026 10:58 PM (qx7Zg)

152 My painting of a Canola field. see nic
Posted by: polynikes at October 07, 2026 10:55 PM (KC5Lt)

Nice! If that building were tan stucco with a green metal roof. it would look a lot like stately Peon Manor when the field next door was sown in Canola. It was barley this year. Not my land next door!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 07, 2026 10:59 PM (i9VX2)

153 If someone asked which Moron would have a radiation detection device we would all know the answer.

Posted by: Innate Knowledge at October 07, 2026 11:00 PM (EdP2u)

154 I remember feeling “that’s it?” after getting hold of fear of the Dark soon after the release. But the title track is awesome.

Be Quick or be Dead is another banger off that album. Opening track. The Apparition is another good one.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 07, 2026 11:00 PM (XUHiS)

155 Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 07, 2026 10:57 PM (0aYVJ)

Travolta dated his tv movie mom for a long time up to when she died.

Posted by: polynikes at October 07, 2026 11:00 PM (KC5Lt)

156 125 Rat

Already taken care of. You'd be surprised how many lovely chicken armored vests are available! And oh my gosh! A hen AK!
They are so cute🤣
My girl will be ok - unless that friggin' fox with the machine gun shows up...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 07, 2026 11:00 PM (jCKWs)

157 I really need t be in bed, but stopped in to say hi quickly! The warnings here have started. Cat 1 or 2. Let’s hope it’s more 1 than 2.

Posted by: Piper at October 07, 2026 11:00 PM (ZdaMQ)

158 Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 07, 2026 10:58 PM (RIvkX)

Thanks

Posted by: polynikes at October 07, 2026 11:01 PM (KC5Lt)

159 Happy belated, Nurse. And good to see you in the comments, Rat.

Posted by: scampydog on the road at October 07, 2026 11:01 PM (keC+P)

160 Kaplan also played Groucho in a TV movie.

Posted by: Cigar And All at October 07, 2026 11:01 PM (EdP2u)

161 Already taken care of. You'd be surprised how many lovely chicken armored vests are available! And oh my gosh! A hen AK!
They are so cute🤣
My girl will be ok - unless that friggin' fox with the machine gun shows up...
Posted by: COMountainMarie

Heh! Love this, well played!

Posted by: Some Rat at October 07, 2026 11:02 PM (BJzO2)

162 Kaplan also played Groucho in a TV movie.
Posted by: Cigar And All at October 07, 2026 11:01 PM (EdP2u)

His Groucho was better than Alda's.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 07, 2026 11:03 PM (0aYVJ)

163 Cat 1 or 2. Let’s hope it’s more 1 than 2.
Posted by: Piper at October 07, 2026 11:00 PM (ZdaMQ)

Cat 1, Tigger be her name, is snoozing on the desk behind the monitor. There is no Cat 2.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 07, 2026 11:03 PM (i9VX2)

164 Nurse, you young sprite. Ya got a long way to go just to catch up to old farts like me...

Posted by: Some Rat at October 07, 2026 11:05 PM (BJzO2)

165 There were a couple of canola fields on the hill south of my place, between fields of other (green) stuff this Spring. Pretty patchwork!

The view changes with the seasons. Was alternating colors throughout Summer, at various stages of growth/ maturity/ harvest/ tilling under. It's all green now, with cover crops for Winter.

Posted by: JQ at October 07, 2026 11:06 PM (rdVOm)

166 I really need t be in bed, but stopped in to say hi quickly! The warnings here have started. Cat 1 or 2. Let’s hope it’s more 1 than 2.
Posted by: Piper at October 07, 2026 11:00 PM (ZdaMQ)

Hunker down, and be safe.

But it's weird how little I have heard about this one. Usually it's all over the media. I guess it might not fit in with the agenda or something.

Again, stay safe, hunker down.

Heh. Hunker is a funny word.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 07, 2026 11:06 PM (0aYVJ)

167 The Canola Field painting is very nice, really captures the look. It isn't planted often around here (Far Eastern NC), but it looks cool when someone does it. Rotating soybeans and corn is the norm.

Posted by: Tarnation! at October 07, 2026 11:06 PM (EdP2u)

168 scampydog

Looking forward to chatting all things with you and our beloved Horde!

Posted by: Some Rat at October 07, 2026 11:07 PM (BJzO2)

169 Kaplan also played Groucho in a TV movie.
Posted by: Cigar And All at October 07, 2026 11:01 PM (EdP2u)

Him and that damn cigar!

Posted by: Moanica at October 07, 2026 11:08 PM (1Ff7Z)

170 The Bubble Boy Seinfeld episode was fun.

Posted by: Moops! at October 07, 2026 11:09 PM (EdP2u)

171 Canola fields are actually Rapeseed fields. Rapeseed Oil not a very marketable name.

Posted by: polynikes at October 07, 2026 11:10 PM (KC5Lt)

172 I really need t be in bed, but stopped in to say hi quickly! The warnings here have started. Cat 1 or 2. Let’s hope it’s more 1 than 2.
Posted by: Piper at October 07, 2026 11:00 PM (ZdaMQ)

As destructive as 1 politician, or 2?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 07, 2026 11:10 PM (qx7Zg)

173 3 Pussy Tacos?

The mind wobbles.
Posted by: Tonypete at October 07, 2026 10:01 PM (ptJRT)

IIRC, Lindsay Lohan once dated the young founder/owner of the Pink Taco restaurant chain. Everyone was like, "Tacky," and also, "Figures."

Posted by: SciVo at October 07, 2026 11:11 PM (ke3zm)

174 Winter Wheat is a nice swath of green when everything is brown, dormant in the winter, too, forgot that one.

Posted by: Tarnation!! at October 07, 2026 11:11 PM (EdP2u)

175 Klobuchar is now calling for "anti-terrorism investments"
Posted by: mrp

what you wanted: throw all the goatfuckers out
what you'd settle for: outlaw the democrat party
what you'll get: cash payments to goatfuckers to not commit terrorism

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at October 07, 2026 11:12 PM (2Lx7t)

176 Holy smokes! I just invented a new drink, and it's actually not that bad. Poured a shot of vodka into a tumbler, added eggnog. Whoops! Not enough eggnog, glass only half full. Top it off with kinda flat cola. Kind of a creamy caramel taste, maybe a hint of butterscotch.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 07, 2026 11:12 PM (i9VX2)

177 They plant a lot of Rapeseed around the Cornell campus.

Posted by: I Love New York! at October 07, 2026 11:13 PM (EdP2u)

178 Canola fields are actually Rapeseed fields. Rapeseed Oil not a very marketable name.
Posted by: polynikes at October 07, 2026 11:10 PM (KC5Lt)
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I always use Extra Virgin Rapeseed Oil.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 07, 2026 11:13 PM (RIvkX)

179 The Bubble Boy Seinfeld episode was fun.
Posted by: Moops! at October 07, 2026 11:09 PM (EdP2u)

I love the moment when Bubble Boy's dad was talking about his son, and Elaine is welling up and hands a napkin to Jerry, and he uses it to clean off his mouth. I LOL'ed

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 07, 2026 11:14 PM (0aYVJ)

180 Poured a shot of vodka into a tumbler, added eggnog. Whoops! Not enough eggnog, glass only half full. Top it off with kinda flat cola. Kind of a creamy caramel taste, maybe a hint of butterscotch.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 07, 2026 11:12 PM (i9VX2)
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Nah, just milk and Pepsi please.

Posted by: LaVerne DiFazio at October 07, 2026 11:15 PM (RIvkX)

181 AOP - what do you call that drink? A Yellow Russian? A Scrambled Russian? Maybe a Leningrad Bulldog?

Posted by: PabloD at October 07, 2026 11:15 PM (OXSZa)

182 They only remember Gabriel Kaplan as Mr. Kotter
Posted by: San Franpsycho

That was a poorly-conceived spoof of the original Klingon series with Gabriel K'Plan as General Kotter.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at October 07, 2026 11:16 PM (Fv808)

183
Yankees eliminated. At home, which makes it even more delicious.

Hope the guy who interfered with Volpe's fly ball sleeps well.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 07, 2026 11:16 PM (eRlcH)

184 re: Iron Maiden

So, if you haven't seen "28 Years Later: The Bone Temple" You don't really get it, but there is a significant scene preceding the final conflict. It was the entirety of "The Number of the Beast." and I laughed my ass off for how ridiculous it seemed while still being appropriate for the moment, and then I laughed even more because what made it so ridiculous and so appropriate is that I liked Iron Maiden, I liked them when I was a kid, when they were one of the major instruments of youthful rebellion and FUCK YOU ROCK! And realized. . . _I'm_ a Maiden Fan!! That's what we look like now rocking out in the car.

Posted by: wickedpinto at October 07, 2026 11:16 PM (kVIWl)

185 Occurds to me it's parting of the wheys time.

Tomorrow will probably arrive. Sleep should help.

https://youtu.be/qW9mZLnQ7Yc

G'nite, y'all.💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - time traveler from a previous century at October 07, 2026 11:16 PM (uhtpA)

186 I guess it's time for sleeping...

Rest now, panic tomorrow....

Love you wonderful pals❤️❤️

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 07, 2026 11:18 PM (jCKWs)

187 Just read about Phil Collins recent interview. Guess I have to add him to the Lefty douchebag list. Was sort of a surprise since how big his interest was with all things Alamo.
Posted by: polynikes

He called us fat slobs with guns. Or some such shit. He can go horsefuck.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 07, 2026 11:18 PM (9tX4s)

188 Canola fields are actually Rapeseed fields. Rapeseed Oil not a very marketable name.
Posted by: polynikes at October 07, 2026 11:10 PM (KC5Lt)

Canola is a cultivar of rapeseed (which is a relative of mustard). Rapeseed oil contained too much erucic acid to be palatable, but had industrial uses. By good old selective breeding, Canadian agribusiness was able to create a rapeseed so low in erucic acid that the oil was palatable, and fit to cook with. Hence "Canola". It's really striking to see a field of canola next to a field of flax, with its blue flowers.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 07, 2026 11:18 PM (i9VX2)

189 176 Holy smokes! I just invented a new drink, and it's actually not that bad. Poured a shot of vodka into a tumbler, added eggnog. Whoops! Not enough eggnog, glass only half full. Top it off with kinda flat cola. Kind of a creamy caramel taste, maybe a hint of butterscotch.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

What will be the name when you bring it to market? Michael Savage's son Russ invented Rock Star energy drink and wasgoing around to bodegas, selling it out of his station wagon. Eventually sold it to Pepsi for $3.85 Billion.

Posted by: Russ Weiner at October 07, 2026 11:18 PM (EdP2u)

190 I can't imagine drinking Pepsi and Vodka .

Posted by: polynikes at October 07, 2026 11:19 PM (KC5Lt)

191 I can't imagine drinking Pepsi and Vodka .
Posted by: polynikes at October 07, 2026 11:19 PM (KC5Lt)
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When I was in the USSR they were ubiquitous.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 07, 2026 11:21 PM (RIvkX)

192 AOP - what do you call that drink? A Yellow Russian? A Scrambled Russian? Maybe a Leningrad Bulldog?
Posted by: PabloD at October 07, 2026 11:15 PM (OXSZa)

A Cloaca Libre?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 07, 2026 11:21 PM (i9VX2)

193 Yankees eliminated. At home, which makes it even more delicious.

Hope the guy who interfered with Volpe's fly ball sleeps well.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

It's a good day.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 07, 2026 11:21 PM (9tX4s)

194 @167.-Tarnation

Yeah, rotating crops is a good thing. To plant the same crop year after year will make the soil poor. You need to let the soil retain the nutrients it needs and help build those nutrients back up. So farmers rotate crops to keep good soil.

Posted by: Case at October 07, 2026 11:23 PM (ROPCF)

195 Franpsycho when you were in the USSR did you guys and your Russian friends drink the standard cheap 3-ruble stuff? I mostly checked out on the drinking, but some of my group would get Stolichnaya at the Beriozka to share with our russki acquaintances.

USSR was a Pepsi country (as opposed to a Coke country). Actually don't recall seeing Pepsi, but do recall orange Fanta being for sale a few times. A line, of course.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 07, 2026 11:23 PM (U/Byj)

196 176 AOP

oh my! Yum!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 07, 2026 11:25 PM (jCKWs)

197 Yeah, rotating crops is a good thing. To plant the same crop year after year will make the soil poor. You need to let the soil retain the nutrients it needs and help build those nutrients back up. So farmers rotate crops to keep good soil.
Posted by: Case at October 07, 2026 11:23 PM (ROPCF)

Plant a legume like field peas, to put nitrogen back in the soil.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 07, 2026 11:25 PM (i9VX2)

198 194 @167.-Tarnation

Yeah, rotating crops is a good thing. To plant the same crop year after year will make the soil poor. You need to let the soil retain the nutrients it needs and help build those nutrients back up. So farmers rotate crops to keep good soil.

A concept that WHITES celebrate and share and utilize while growing food. While it was an accidental habit over time, supposedly with the Mennonites was actually defined by a BLACK MAN! who also whites celebrate, and almost never gets a day of recognition during Black History Month. Apparently only SOME blacks, like the ones who don't accomplish anything but inciting riots.

Posted by: wickedpinto at October 07, 2026 11:26 PM (kVIWl)

199 LOL

Movie reactors trying to watch Wicked City Shinjuku, if you had not watched the movie yourself you would have almost no clues as there is so much blurring going on.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 07, 2026 11:26 PM (2GVsD)

200 I use "defined" in a scientific sense. Maybe should have said, "described" or "demonstrated scientifically, etc etc.

Posted by: wickedpinto at October 07, 2026 11:27 PM (kVIWl)

201 Too bad about Phil Collins... I liked his music, both solo and with Genesis.

"Shut up and just sing/play!"

And he's a limey. Fk what he thinks about U.S. politics!

Posted by: JQ at October 07, 2026 11:28 PM (rdVOm)

202 142 Put her in a hatbox. She can't be very heavy. What's a henway, anyhow?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 07, 2026 10:55 PM (i9VX2)

Fun with conversions:

1 Henway = 1/1000 Steinway

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 07, 2026 11:28 PM (QGaXH)

203 When I had cash I would get Stoli but more often just the cheap stuff. I liked a Pepsi chaser, some liked the Orange Fanta. I also liked pickle juice.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 07, 2026 11:28 PM (RIvkX)

204 I'm home, didja miss me?

If you did, take shooting classes at the MoMe!

I think I represented myself well. I also feel like the job isn't the best fit I've interviewed for recently. I pray that if it's where God wants me, they give me a firm offer, and I pray that if it's not where He wants me, that they *don't* give me a firm offer. I should hear one way or the other by Halloween.

Posted by: RandomDave at October 07, 2026 11:30 PM (aJQbY)

205 Phil Collins wrote "Susudio"

I think we all understand how awful this is.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 07, 2026 11:31 PM (RIvkX)

206 When I had cash I would get Stoli but more often just the cheap stuff. I liked a Pepsi chaser, some liked the Orange Fanta. I also liked pickle juice.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 07, 2026 11:28 PM (RIvkX)

You might want to try Pinnacle Whipped Cream vodka, mixed with fresh-squeezed orange juice. Tastes just like an Orange Julius. It's pretty cheap vodka, won't break the bank to try it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 07, 2026 11:31 PM (i9VX2)

207
A few fields near me that were left fallow for a few years were tilled recently, so we'll see what goes in next spring.

I haven't seen soybeans planted around here for quite a while. Largely, it's corn or rice, occasionally sorghum. But over in Fort Bend county, you'll see cotton.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 07, 2026 11:32 PM (eRlcH)

208 Fanta was invented in Germany in 1940.

Posted by: Legacy From Hitler! at October 07, 2026 11:32 PM (EdP2u)

209 Hope RandomDave had an easy drive to his job interview.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 07, 2026 10:56 PM (RIvkX)

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 07, 2026 11:32 PM (RIvkX)

210 I think we all understand how awful this is.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 07, 2026 11:31 PM (RIvkX)

Yes s s s s!

Posted by: Gollum at October 07, 2026 11:33 PM (i9VX2)

211 Never liked Phil Collins "(It's no fun being an) Illegal Alien" song. Especially the line about "over the border, there lies the Promised Land
Where everything comes easy, you just hold out your hand."

And Peter Gabriel was the better half in Genesis.

Posted by: Rex B at October 07, 2026 11:34 PM (4hwuX)

212 San Franpsycho - the drive each way was actually quite nice, just too long. Low traffic except in in the largest cities along the way.

Posted by: RandomDave at October 07, 2026 11:35 PM (aJQbY)

213 But over in Fort Bend county, you'll see cotton.

When them cotton bolls get rotten
You can't pick very much cotton

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 07, 2026 11:36 PM (4Je4D)

214 >>>He called us fat slobs with guns. Or some such shit. He can go horsefuck.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
---

Ain't diversity great? Phil, don't call us
when they're hitting your caboose.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 07, 2026 11:37 PM (VQ0bX)

215
If someone asked which Moron would have a radiation detection device we would all know the answer.
Posted by: Innate Knowledge

He has to stay out of the gamma rays. He might Hulk up.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 07, 2026 11:43 PM (Cqx++)

216
Flat cola + vodka + eggnog = creamy caramel taste, maybe a hint of butterscotch.

Call it a

Mellow Russian
Glasnost
Czar's Omelet

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 07, 2026 11:44 PM (XJ22o)

217 One of my Friends in the Corps came from money, he was from Marin County, that says how well off his family was, not super money but money. One of the reasons we bonded was first, I was a damn near psychopath, willing to do damn near anything for a story, he could get me. He said a number of times I reminded him of his dad, because while his family is from money, his dad wanted to be a normal working class guy, and he did a good job at his fraud, but at the same time, he recognized things.

One of those things was QUALITY! And my friend found it funny when we went to his family house for New Years, and his dad opens the licquor cabinet and there was 2 of everything, but he said, something that I said almost verbatim. "Stoli straight, everything else for mixing, Beam for mixing, Don't touch my Livet." Because I just happened to be a Livet guy.

It's even more funny because his dad kinda hated me, but his mom absolutely loved me. I guess it's true about people who share characteristics are more likely to find the flaws in each other because we recognize our own.

Posted by: wickedpinto at October 07, 2026 11:45 PM (kVIWl)

218 I may have grown up in the city but both my Grandfather's were farmers, they explained why they did what they did. They raised their families by farming. Back in those days it was really hard work. Made me appreciate what they went through to get by. I live in the countryside now and love it except for the real hot summers, but I can always find some shade.🙂

Posted by: Case at October 07, 2026 11:45 PM (ROPCF)

219 My older brother has a Geiger counter. Asked him to bring it over to my former house because there was a *mutant* iris in the garden & I wanted to know if there was some radioactive explanation. Turned out: no, just a random strange growth habit/mutation.

Posted by: JQ at October 07, 2026 11:47 PM (rdVOm)

220 218 I live in the countryside now and love it except for the real hot summers,

For me when I lived near dirt farms it was the smell of Wyrmcast fertilizer. Innoffensive in general, but on a hot day, jesus christ it fills the entire cabin of your car, or if you are dumb enough to leave the window in your place open, your entire apartment.

Cattle, There are always chickens, and there is more than one of them next to eachother, so the fucking Cocks Crowing isn't film thing or a quaint tale. It's FUCKING PIERCING AND MAKES YOU WANT TO STAB A PUPPY!

Posted by: wickedpinto at October 07, 2026 11:50 PM (kVIWl)

221 129 I remember when they use to bale hay, now they roll hay and they started doing that for cotton now. These huge rolls of hay and cotton were on display across the fields today. The hay will be used by the cattle ranchers to feed their stock for the winter, the cotton will be loaded onto trucks and sent to markets. Cotton is still King in Alabama, because that is the money crop.But raising cattle is catching up with cotton, beef is high priced now. It's funny how a field of cotton looks like a field of snow while it's 80 degrees outside.
Posted by: Case at October 07, 2026 10:50 PM (ROPCF)

During our RV odyssey in August we saw many fields with rolls of, I guess, hay? Being city folk we wondered what they did with them. We thought perhaps winter feed for livestock? Your post above seems to confirm our conjecture.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 07, 2026 11:51 PM (QGaXH)

222
MAKES YOU WANT TO STAB A PUPPY!
Posted by: wickedpinto

And that's an entirely different sound. Altogether.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 07, 2026 11:52 PM (Cqx++)

223 And bedding, particularly for the cattle that's isolated for lameness, I learned that from HoofGP.

Posted by: wickedpinto at October 07, 2026 11:53 PM (kVIWl)

224 Bertram, Well played. Well played.

Posted by: wickedpinto at October 07, 2026 11:54 PM (kVIWl)

225 Would a young Phil Collins make a dent in the music industry these days? That has to be a brutal way to make a living.

A lot of the young actresses from the kids' shows - no blacks and no gays - are all around 20 years old now. Many of them are still working but a lot of them are also working putting out music. And they're talented and pretty but still....

Olivia Rodrigo is doing amazingly well.

You'll probably hear of Kylie Cantrell in a few more years. She was on 'The Masked Singer.'

But still. Deciding to get out of the Hollywood meat grinder to go into music....The best to all of them.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 07, 2026 11:55 PM (Sco7b)

226
I remember when they use to bale hay, now they roll hay and they started doing that for cotton now.

___________

You can buy bales of hay just about anywhere. One of the more fun things is to introduce puppies to a bale of hay. Puppy crack. They jump on it, play king of the mountain, tear off flakes and shake them, and burrow through it. It all gets spread out and they sleep exhausted in it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 07, 2026 11:56 PM (eRlcH)

227 ...Cocks Crowing isn't film thing or a quaint tale. It's FUCKING PIERCING AND MAKES YOU WANT TO STAB A PUPPY!
Posted by: wickedpinto

No kidding! One neighbor had chickens and that &^($@^%%&* rooster started up before dawn every single day... and crowed most of the day... Told hubby I was gonna kidnap that fk'ing bird & do a disappearing act on it. He stopped me, dammit.

Posted by: JQ at October 07, 2026 11:57 PM (rdVOm)

228 >>>Turned out: no, just a random strange growth habit/mutation.

Posted by: JQ
---

Breed up a new strain.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 07, 2026 11:57 PM (VQ0bX)

229 Huh? Both Marjoe Gortner and Eva Marie Saint kicked this week. Wonder who's number three?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 08, 2026 12:00 AM (1Ff7Z)

230 Breed up a new strain.
Posted by: Braenyard

I left that one clump behind when I moved in with hubby. It only did the weird thing that one year. Wish I could find the picture, it was bizarre looking!

Posted by: JQ at October 08, 2026 12:02 AM (rdVOm)

231
One neighbor had chickens and that &^($@^%%&* rooster started up before dawn every single day...

__________

Roosters are asshoe. They're lucky each day they don't get their necks wrung.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 08, 2026 12:03 AM (eRlcH)

232 192 Greetings hordlings - from your "Old Asia Hand" Publius Redux in Singapore. Things remain hot and hazy here. Will be back home in Texas in November - hopefully I can see some folks when there.

I am flying in specifically to vote in the election btw - and staying through Thanksgiving.

Did I see, btw, that Talarico had disappeared for 10 days? is this accurate - if so - wth? It's a month before the election.

Posted by: Publius Redux at October 08, 2026 12:03 AM (Gu66x)

233 Did I see, btw, that Talarico had disappeared for 10 days? is this accurate - if so - wth? It's a month before the election.
Posted by: Publius Redux

T'Freako *claims* to have the flu.

Posted by: JQ at October 08, 2026 12:04 AM (rdVOm)

234
Bald, bearded Trump looks as badass as hell.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 08, 2026 12:05 AM (eRlcH)

235 Ronnie Schell passed on in June, age 94. I didn't realize it until today. He had the distinction of being America's "slowest rising comic" since 1959.

Posted by: RIP Duke Slater at October 08, 2026 12:07 AM (EdP2u)

236 151 Did anyone see the Babylon Bee's suggestion for executing Hasan? The Hasan Bomb?

https://tinyurl.com/3d4kjvnx

Now THAT I'd pay to watch!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 07, 2026 10:58 PM (qx7Zg)

If he were beheaded it would be called the Hasan Chop.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 08, 2026 12:10 AM (0CU3H)

237 Just watched Furiosa. I have to say I liked it a lot more than Fury Road. I assume I'm in the minority.

Posted by: polynikes at October 08, 2026 12:10 AM (KC5Lt)

238 @220-wickedpinto

Pretty quiet where I live. I only have three acres but I'm right in the middle of it. Living in the city was constant noise, and terrible traffic. You had to learn what areas to stay away from. Always had to watch your back. No, I don't miss city living. Also everyone around here is armed, and there is very little crime. I wonder why?🙂

Posted by: Case at October 08, 2026 12:10 AM (ROPCF)

239 In elementary school, my brother brought home a chick that had been hatched in an incubator in class. Turned out to be a rooster and started crowing at 4 AM. It disappeared one day and my Dad said it had a stroke. Dad grew up on a farm in Norway and knew how to handle things like that.

Posted by: The Alarm Clock at 5:30 AM Was Bad Enough at October 08, 2026 12:13 AM (EdP2u)

240 Heh, from deadline

Just as so many big-name rock acts are on farewell tours, at least one is making a live comeback. Ending what was billed as a permanent vacation from the concert stage, Aerosmith on Wednesday announced a pair of shows set for October 29 and November 1 at the Hollywood Bowl — with a little help from a lot of friends

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at October 08, 2026 12:17 AM (Sco7b)

241

You are my wife.
Good bye city life!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 08, 2026 12:18 AM (Cqx++)

242 236 151 Did anyone see the Babylon Bee's suggestion for executing Hasan? The Hasan Bomb?

https://tinyurl.com/3d4kjvnx

Now THAT I'd pay to watch!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
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The British had a method of execution whereby they would tie a man across the muzzle of a cannon. Blown asunder. Gell on the ground, limbs over there and there and the head somewhere.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 08, 2026 12:21 AM (VQ0bX)

243 Roosters are asshoe. They're lucky each day they don't get their necks wrung.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 08, 2026 12:03 AM (eRlcH)

Dude across the street from me has a bunch. Out of nowhere. One day they were all over his lawn. I see them in the street, in my driveway, all over. The houses are set back far enough to where you barely hear them when you're outside. Still, I don't mind being around the corner from farms, just not in my frigging yard. One was walking up my driveway exploring. It saw me standing in the garage and started walking faster. I started one of the bikes quick. He changed his mind. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 08, 2026 12:25 AM (vzuC7)

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