Monday Night ONT - November 9, 2026 [TRex]

Good evening Horde. Welcome to the Monday overnight thread. The bar is open and the refrigerator has been freshly re-stocked with Rootbeer.

Welcome to the Monday night ONT which means vintage overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. Pants are optional. Trolls prohibited. This ONT is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Fauci is still fair game.

[Top photo: Herald Square, 34th and Broadway, Manhattan - Berenice Abbott photo - 1936]

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The Monday ONT has dialed up the wayback machine with very random results. This is the 1930s New York edition (with public domain photos courtesy of the New York Public Library).

Will the Monday ONT always have a wayback machine theme? I'm a dinosaur with a small brain and short arms. I can barely tie my shoes. Don't make me predict what the future holds.

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Horn & Hardart Automat at 977 Eighth Avenue in Manhattan (between West 57th and 58th Streets near Columbus Circle) - Berenice Abbott photo - 1936.

Horn & Hardart introduced the Automat concept (originally German) to the U.S. in Philadelphia in 1902 and to New York in 1912 (first at Times Square). The chain grew into the world's largest restaurant company at its peak. The last New York Automat closed in 1991.

The building with the Automat at 977 Eighth Avenue no longer exists.

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Blossom Restaurant, 103 Bowery, Lower Manhattan (between Grand and Hester Streets) - Berenice Abbott photo - 1935.

20261028-barberBlossom Restaurant103 Bowery1935.jpg

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Broome Street, Numbers 504-506, Manhattan (northwest corner of Broome Street and West Broadway in what is now SoHo) - Berenice Abbott photo - 1935.

20261028-BroomeStreet Nos504-5061935.jpg

The buildings no longer exist.

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Fulton Street Dock: Manhattan Skyline (or Fulton Street Dock, Looking West, Manhattan / from Pier 17) - Berenice Abbott photo - 1935.

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Gasoline Station, Tenth Avenue and 29th Street, Manhattan (what is now the Chelsea / Hudson Yards neighborhood of Manhattan) - Berenice Abbott photo - 1935.

20261028-GasStationTenth Avenueand29th Street1935.jpg

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A & P, Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, 246 Third Avenue (between East 20th and 21st Streets) - Berenice Abbott photo - 1936.

20261028-Great AtlanticPacific Tea Co.246Third Avenue1936.jpg

The store occupied the ground floor of a tenement at 246 Third Avenue, one block east of Gramercy Park. At the time, A&P was the world's largest grocery chain (about 15,500 stores nationwide by 1937, including 119 in Manhattan). Looks to be a bagel shop today.

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Frank Lava, Gunsmith, 6 Centre Market Place, Manhattan (between Broome and Grand Streets near the Lower East Side / Little Italy / Chinatown area) - Berenice Abbott - 1937.

20261028-gunsmith6Centre MarketPlace1937.jpg

A number of gun shops once lined the street. They were neighbors to the massive Police Headquarters across the way at 240 Centre Street. The business was founded around 1850 (by Eli Parker). Frank Lava was a third-generation owner who continued operating it into the 1960s.

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Jefferson Market Court, Southwest corner of Sixth Avenue and West 10th Street, Manhattan - Berenice Abbott photo - 1935.

The courthouse ceased judicial use in 1945 and faced possible demolition. It was adapted as a New York Public Library branch, reopening in 1967. It remains the Jefferson Market Library at 425 Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue). The Sixth Avenue El was demolished in 1939.

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Mori's Restaurant, 144 Bleecker Street, Manhattan - Berenice Abbott photo - 1935.

Placido Mori, an Italian immigrant from Florence, opened the Italian restaurant in Greenwich Village in 1883/1884. It grew from a small bar and eatery into a well-known spot that survived Prohibition and the early Depression. In 1920, Mori bought the adjoining building and added a unified facade with columns and penthouse. Mori died in 1927. The restaurant closed in 1937 and the corporation filed for bankruptcy in early 1938.

Today, it looks like the ground floor has a stationary/shipping store and cannabis dispensary with apartments above. The columns at ground level remain.

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Newsstand, East 32nd Street and Third Avenue, Manhattan - Berenice Abbott photo - 1935.

20261028-Newsstand32nd StreetandThird Avenue1935.jpg

Zoom in on some of the magazines:

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Park Avenue and 39th Street, Manhattan - Berenice Abbott photo - 1936

Visible towers include (from left to right) 10 East 40th Street, 22 East 40th Street, the Murray Hill Building, the Lefcourt Colonial Building, and the Lincoln Building.

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Who was Berenice Abbott?

(July 17, 1898 - December 9, 1991) - American photographer that grew up in Ohio before moving to New York City. She moved to Paris in 1921 to study sculpture. In 1923, Man Ray hired her as his darkroom assistant. He taught her photography and she quickly developed her own skills. She opened a portrait studio in 1926 and gained recognition for sharp, psychologically revealing portraits of writers, artists, and expatriates. She met Eugene Atget and, after his death in 1927, acquired a large portion of his negatives and prints, rescuing them from obscurity and later promoting his documentary work in Paris.

She returned to New York in 1929. She received support in 1935 from the Federal Art Project (part of the WPA). She produced roughly 300 photographs for the project. A selection appeared in the 1939 book "Changing New York" which is where the photos for this post come from. The work is regarded as a major documentary record of Depression-era New York.

From the 1940s onward she focused on scientific photography, inventing ways to visualize physical phenomena (magnetism, motion, etc.) and illustrating physics textbooks and popular books, including work for MIT. She wrote guides such as "A Guide to Better Photography" in 1941. In the 1960s she moved permanently to rural Monson, Maine.

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Comments

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1 Yeet!

Posted by: nurse ratched. at November 09, 2026 10:00 PM (yEz+x)

2 Not foist.

Posted by: GWB at November 09, 2026 10:00 PM (kU0PQ)

3 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 09, 2026 10:01 PM (+9wcF)

4 cool photos, only NYC though

Posted by: runner at November 09, 2026 10:02 PM (AKptf)

5 the Automat concept
Pretty much what some restaurants tried to do during with Covid, with QR codes and no waiters. They even put it in sterile little boxes for you.

Posted by: GWB at November 09, 2026 10:02 PM (kU0PQ)

6 Lovely photos, thanks TRex. For the gas station one, thank you for NOT including one where you could read the prices per gallon.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 09, 2026 10:03 PM (CHHv1)

7 Might be 1st!

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - General "Lame Duck" Retreat is my president at November 09, 2026 10:03 PM (wcyKn)

8 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 09, 2026 10:04 PM (L/8vZ)

9 The Seahawks got a win and QB problem.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - General at November 09, 2026 10:05 PM (wcyKn)

10 Fauci is still fair game

That Fauci bastard, if I could get my hands on that louse, there'd be Hell to pay. Let's throw him in the river!

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 09, 2026 10:05 PM (CHHv1)

11 On her blog Sarah Hoyt makes a convincing case for fraud in the recent election:

https://accordingtohoyt.com/2026/11/09/
lets-talk-about-fraud/

The question, if you believe there was overwhelming fraud (I do ), is what to do about it. I think the Left wants Trump to question the election so that they can further a Color Revolution (you’re soaking in it! ).

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 09, 2026 10:05 PM (ZVgZ4)

12 6 Lovely photos, thanks TRex.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 09, 2026 10:03 PM
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You're welcome BC!

Posted by: TRex - time machine dino at November 09, 2026 10:05 PM (XfIK1)

13 Some bittersweet photos for those of us who spent our childhood and young adult life around NYC. A shadow of what an amazing place it was back then.

Thanks.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 09, 2026 10:07 PM (viF8m)

14 Thanks for the name Horn and Hardart, TRex. I couldn't remember the name months ago relating a trip to NYC in 1964. That was the name of the joint!

Posted by: LRob in OK at November 09, 2026 10:07 PM (47diA)

15 Ugh. Lame Duck Don went soft on deporting illegals today. The GOPe had a collective boner.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - General "Lame Duck" Retreat is my president at November 09, 2026 10:07 PM (wcyKn)

16 Interesting photos. Well done.

Posted by: Don Black at November 09, 2026 10:08 PM (ZxPkt)

17 Darnold has been hurt a lot this season.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 09, 2026 10:08 PM (X8vlu)

18 I still remember how much fun it was to look at a whole row of new magazines, not knowing what wonders you might find hidden there. Those days are gone, I find that even places like Walgreens are dropping their magazine racks.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 09, 2026 10:09 PM (f/1aL)

19 Those days are gone, I find that even places like Walgreens are dropping their magazine racks.
Posted by: Tom Servo

If my recent experience is the norm, I can tell you why mag racks are being pulled out: One of the last mags I picked up was $13.

For one damn magazine.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 09, 2026 10:11 PM (L/8vZ)

20 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 09, 2026 10:11 PM (sAmhv)

21 Holy cow! Amazing photos of the Worlds Fair.

I never went to one. Wish I had. I have a flyer for the Seattle worlds fair in 1962. Before I was born.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at November 09, 2026 10:12 PM (h66YK)

22 Lovely photos, thanks TRex. For the gas station one, thank you for NOT including one where you could read the prices per gallon.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 09, 2026 10:03 PM (CHHv1)

You saw the butter at 37¢ a pound, though, right?

Posted by: GWB at November 09, 2026 10:12 PM (kU0PQ)

23 Pants are optional.
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Way ahead of ya!

There's a nifty little documentary called "The Automat" all about those Horn and Hardart vend-o-ramas:

https://tinyurl.com/bd3s4yus

I saw it on TCM.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 09, 2026 10:12 PM (kpS4V)

24 It's interesting how some of the pictures have buildings with such a modern look and others are very dated styles.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 09, 2026 10:12 PM (1Ff7Z)

25 My high school had those awful Horn & Hardart type food dispensers in the cafeteria. It was like being a chicken at Knotts Berry Farm.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2026 10:13 PM (ENc66)

26 The store occupied the ground floor of a tenement at 246 Third Avenue, one block east of Gramercy Park. At the time, A&P was the world's largest grocery chain (about 15,500 stores nationwide by 1937, including 119 in Manhattan).

My Dad grew up during the Depression, and told us about the price of chocolate being a nickel for half a pound...then again, wages were low too.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 09, 2026 10:13 PM (l3cgK)

27 Happy-ish Monday all y'all ...

Posted by: Adriane the Practical Critic . . . at November 09, 2026 10:14 PM (3ZUWJ)

28 They have a similar operation at airports in Europe. Pret A Manger they call it, or some such shit.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2026 10:14 PM (ENc66)

29 Amazing photos of the World's Fair.

And that's the primary reason a bunch of Oklahoma Boy Scouts were in NY in 1964! Thanks, nurse.

Posted by: LRob in OK at November 09, 2026 10:15 PM (47diA)

30 Good evening morons y gracias Dino

Eating at Horn & Hardart was like a buffet and a pinball parlor mixed in one.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 09, 2026 10:15 PM (RIvkX)

31 When newspapers where still a thing, a trip to a great newsstand for the Sunday papers, and then off to a cafe for coffee and a pastry was a quiet delight.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - General Lame Duck Retreat is my president at November 09, 2026 10:15 PM (wcyKn)

32 How does the food get in those little boxes??

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 09, 2026 10:16 PM (RIvkX)

33 I never went to one. Wish I had. I have a flyer for the Seattle worlds fair in 1962. Before I was born.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at November 09, 2026 10:12 PM (h66YK)

You missed Spokane? Do you know Liberty Lake?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 09, 2026 10:16 PM (1Ff7Z)

34 Apparently squeezing ketchup into a cup of hot water at the automat was a thing for poor starving students and secretaries. I laughed when I saw it on "That Girl"* but Mom said she did that too.

*in the Precambrian

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 09, 2026 10:16 PM (kpS4V)

35 There are still a couple of gun shops in NYC. I was in one in the Bronx last year.

Posted just because NY...
My maternal grandfather was a mason and worked on the Chrysler Building. He was killed in a hit and run in 1930 on his way home from work. Left a wife and five daughters in the middle of the depression.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at November 09, 2026 10:16 PM (3ImbR)

36 That Fauci bastard, if I could get my hands on that louse, there'd be Hell to pay. Let's throw him in the river!
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
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Considering the zOnt theme this evening, I am assuming the East River.

Thanks for the INT, Dino. A lot of clicking and zooming!

Posted by: scampydog at November 09, 2026 10:17 PM (41CYW)

37 Phone. Typos. Whatever.

Posted by: scampydog at November 09, 2026 10:17 PM (41CYW)

38 Sunday papers?

https://youtu.be/YDPVMUI4g0w

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 09, 2026 10:17 PM (+9wcF)

39 It's interesting how some of the pictures have buildings with such a modern look and others are very dated styles.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

The reason why architecture students flock to Pittsburgh.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 09, 2026 10:17 PM (X8vlu)

40 Thanks for a swell ONT, T Rex! Love those old photos and a glimpse into life as it was back then.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 09, 2026 10:18 PM (qdXw3)

41 Those days are gone, I find that even places like Walgreens are dropping their magazine racks.

Like newspapers, magazines are an obsolete format.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 09, 2026 10:18 PM (Riz8t)

42 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 09, 2026 10:19 PM (QX8aE)

43 I miss magazines being cheap entertainment. My local Barnes & Noble has a good spread but as noted, magazines are damned expensive now.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 09, 2026 10:19 PM (kpS4V)

44 Those days are gone, I find that even places like Walgreens are dropping their magazine racks.

Like newspapers, magazines are an obsolete format.

My dentist and doctor offices now have no magazines. Everyone just sits hunched over their phones.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 09, 2026 10:20 PM (Riz8t)

45 Friend's uncle was a nickel thrower at Horn & Hardart.

https://tinyurl.com/4r426s6m

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at November 09, 2026 10:20 PM (3ImbR)

46 Good evening Horde. Thanks for being here.

Posted by: TRex - automat dino at November 09, 2026 10:21 PM (XfIK1)

47 the Past is another country.

Also fuck NYC.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 09, 2026 10:21 PM (s1VwS)

48 It's a Small World After All.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 09, 2026 10:21 PM (viF8m)

49 I love the lurid covers, like True Detective.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 09, 2026 10:22 PM (kpS4V)

50 Evening, TRex, and ONT Horde!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2026 10:23 PM (yky4J)

51 the Past is another country.

Also fuck NYC.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Endorsed.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 09, 2026 10:23 PM (X8vlu)

52 32 How does the food get in those little boxes??
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 09, 2026 10:16 PM (RIvkX)

Magic.

(or the people behind the wall in the kitchen put it there)

It really is the first fast food.

Never had any Horn & Hardart, I wonder if the food was any good?

Their coffee must have been decent because they used to sell it by the tin in grocery stores for a long time.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 09, 2026 10:23 PM (6ydKt)

53 >>Also fuck NYC.

Could be worse. Could be Seattle.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 09, 2026 10:24 PM (viF8m)

54 Note the lack of "Diversity" on those magazine covers.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 09, 2026 10:24 PM (FZzOq)

55 43 I miss magazines being cheap entertainment. My local Barnes & Noble has a good spread but as noted, magazines are damned expensive now.

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I like the modern National Geographics that give a dime-store account of some random periods of history, usually involving Romans. They make good toilet reading for a year or more.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2026 10:24 PM (ENc66)

56
Pictures of a foreign country I have no intention of visiting.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 09, 2026 10:25 PM (eRlcH)

57 Hey.

I love Seattle.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at November 09, 2026 10:25 PM (W2u7f)

58 Younger son was studying something about NYC in 7th grade.

My snooty MIL was visiting and he was asking about her childhood, etc. She was raised with 7 siblings in a brownstone in Queens. They had a postage sized back yard, was part of the discussion.

Son innocently asked if this was a tenement and I nearly laughed out loud at her expression. Her mother's family were very wealthy. She said, "Indeed not!"

I spent most of my in-laws visits in FL drinking a LOT of gin at the strike of 5pm, their customary cocktail hour they never missed and I never knew about til I met them. I was the first girl their son ever brought home for dinner.

Have no doubt whatsoever they didn't like the idea of their wayward son (I had nothing to do with that) marrying me. Altho I was a RN with manners and brought good looking genes into the pool.

The Southern Presbyterian part bugged them, no doubt. They got used to me and our wedding was very nice. They preferred my parents to the other's spouse's parents.

When I worked in the newborn nursery my coworkers loved it when they came as my MIL was OCD and drove me insane. She once got on all fours to peer under the fridge and inform me of dust.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 09, 2026 10:26 PM (hzuYO)

59 It was industrial scale cafeteria food. At the time, that stuff was not bad. Most of it made on site.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 09, 2026 10:26 PM (RIvkX)

60 >>>Never had any Horn & Hardart, I wonder if the food was any good?
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Mac & cheese and chicken pot pies were good. Desserts were good too.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at November 09, 2026 10:26 PM (3ImbR)

61 >>I love Seattle.

Oh sorry, I thought we were doing that thing where we shit on were everyone else grew up.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 09, 2026 10:27 PM (viF8m)

62 Sore as a mofo but the upper part of porch is complete.

Now have to frame up the footing for the landing deck, and then do the stairs.

Frame up tomorrow, mix and pour on Wednesday, build the landing on Friday, railings and stairs on Sat and Sunday.

Having a nice bourbon and sour patch gummies and updating the ACad drawings to reflect as-built conditions.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 09, 2026 10:28 PM (XV/Pl)

63 I love Seattle.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at November 09, 2026 10:25 PM (W2u7f)

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Yeah. I hear that Katie Wilson is doing a bang-up job with it.

*SNORT*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2026 10:28 PM (ENc66)

64 My wife was born in the City and they have deep connections to the place.

I always thought it was cool in the way cats are cool. Neat, but not for me.

Posted by: Mayor Pete at November 09, 2026 10:28 PM (oqH4h)

65 Quoth Chappelle on Saturday, from the stage of Madison Square Garden: “I mean look, ever since that guy Charlie Kirk got murdered … and I shouldn’t say this publicly, but I feel better.”

It appears very hard to dip your toe into Nazi control and not come out a lover of death.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 09, 2026 10:28 PM (/+uur)

66 I like the modern National Geographics that give a dime-store account of some random periods of history, usually involving Romans. They make good toilet reading for a year or more.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2026 10:24 PM (ENc66)
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The good (throne) standard is History Magazine. Slick paper, good writing. You can learn a lot in one sitting.

Nat Geo has been woke for a while (mostly climate fearmongering) and Smithsonian is a crime.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 09, 2026 10:29 PM (kpS4V)

67 Seattle is New York, by and by....

Posted by: Rex B at November 09, 2026 10:30 PM (sdSI9)

68 During the mid to late 1950s Seattle was figuratively and literally on the edge of North America. The Civic-Business peeps had it in their head it was one most important and overlooked places in the USA. With that in mind they cooked up the Seattle's World's Fair and it went on to attract about 10 million visitors.

That fair set the course of Seattle's transformation into world class city over the next 50 years. Unfortunately, the blue haired communists took over around 2010 and managed to foobar everything in 15 years.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - General Lame Duck Retreat is my president at November 09, 2026 10:30 PM (wcyKn)

69 Cafeteria-style restaurants have all but disappeared. The last one we had was a K&W Cafeteria that closed up 15 years ago.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 09, 2026 10:30 PM (6ydKt)

70 Scandalous Coca Cola ad!

Posted by: Piper at November 09, 2026 10:30 PM (ZdaMQ)

71 Also fuck NYC.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 09, 2026 10:21 PM (s1VwS)

You seem nice.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 09, 2026 10:30 PM (k5CNB)

72 I was born in Seattle.

Dad moved us to Dallas TX when I was 2. Graduated from high school there.

Went to college and graduated from the UW. Lived here ever since. Does that count?

Posted by: nurse ratched. at November 09, 2026 10:32 PM (W2u7f)

73 Nobody wants to fuck Akron. 😢

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 09, 2026 10:32 PM (kpS4V)

74 Quoth Chappelle on Saturday, from the stage of Madison Square Garden: “I mean look, ever since that guy Charlie Kirk got murdered … and I shouldn’t say this publicly, but I feel better.”

It appears very hard to dip your toe into Nazi control and not come out a lover of death.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 09, 2026 10:28 PM (/+uur)

It would not break my heart if every single shitmaggot who takes delight in the murder of Charlie Kirk got raging ass cancer, and died screaming in agony.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2026 10:33 PM (yky4J)

75 You missed Spokane? Do you know Liberty Lake?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 09, 2026 10:16 PM (1Ff7Z)

I've spent many a summer's day at the grounds there by the Spokane Falls.

Riding the carousel, eating on the grass. Being with extended family.

Posted by: GWB at November 09, 2026 10:33 PM (kU0PQ)

76 Evening, horde!

Subbing again tomorrow (the school asked me rather than wait for volunteers!).

No word on the interview from last week. No news is better than bad news...

Praying for good job news soon and praying for the Horde to have a good week, among all the other usual subjects of prayer for me.

Posted by: RandomDave at November 09, 2026 10:33 PM (aJQbY)

77 My dentist and doctor offices now have no magazines. Everyone just sits hunched over their phones.
Posted by: Archimedes

Even when they still have magazines.

Why kill off brain cells reading People when you could read Horde comments?

Posted by: mikeski at November 09, 2026 10:34 PM (VHUov)

78 Whatever.

My mother and grandmother were both born here.

I love Seattle.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at November 09, 2026 10:34 PM (W2u7f)

79 Dad moved us to Dallas TX when I was 2. Graduated from high school there.

Went to college and graduated from the UW. Lived here ever since. Does that count?
Posted by: nurse ratched. at November 09, 2026 10:32 PM (W2u7f)

No, since you grew up in Dallas we have to shit on Dallas now.

In a pinch we can just make fun of the Cowboys.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 09, 2026 10:34 PM (6ydKt)

80 Also, Doof, the mention of rootbeer at the top reminds me - Mom makes great root beer cookies

I need to ~~steal~~ copy the recipe...

Posted by: RandomDave at November 09, 2026 10:34 PM (aJQbY)

81 Also fuck NYC.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 09, 2026 10:21 PM (s1VwS)

You seem nice.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 09, 2026 10:30 PM (k5CNB)
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Must be from Jersey. Which exit?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 09, 2026 10:35 PM (RIvkX)

82 The “Des Moines man” who shot two McDonald’s employees over a wrong order is Hassan Mohamed, a Somali citizen from Kenya

Des Moines is a town on the Serengeti

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 09, 2026 10:35 PM (/+uur)

83 >I love Seattle.

Oh sorry, I thought we were doing that thing where we shit on were everyone else grew up.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 09, 2026 10:27 PM (viF8m)

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Can't shit on Sultan (WA). Best Huck Finn boyhood evah!

Posted by: Diogenes at November 09, 2026 10:35 PM (2WIwB)

84 What movies are you showing, RandomDave?

That's what substitute teachers do, right?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 09, 2026 10:35 PM (kpS4V)

85 During the mid to late 1950s Seattle was figuratively and literally on the edge of North America. The Civic-Business peeps had it in their head it was one most important and overlooked places in the USA. With that in mind they cooked up the Seattle's World's Fair and it went on to attract about 10 million visitors.

That fair set the course of Seattle's transformation into world class city over the next 50 years. Unfortunately, the blue haired communists took over around 2010 and managed to foobar everything in 15 years.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - General Lame Duck Retreat is my president at November 09, 2026 10:30 PM (wcyKn)

I went to the Seattle World's Fair in '62 as a kid. We stayed in a cabin on board an old ocean liner, the Dominion Monarch, moored at the pier in Seattle. Ship was an old tub.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2026 10:36 PM (yky4J)

86 I love that I live in a town with a Main Street and shops where people still walk, though you have to watch out for a zooming golf cart now and then.

Posted by: Piper at November 09, 2026 10:36 PM (ZdaMQ)

87 I think the only automat I've seen was the one in "Dark City." If you had mind powers ("tuning") it was pretty cheap eats.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 09, 2026 10:37 PM (CHHv1)

88 On yesterday's Gun Thread I noted that I had forgone a pistol purchase so I could buy reloading primers instead. Today I got an email from powdervalley.com announcing a primer sale.

Lo and behold, when I plugged my order in, the total was almost exactly the price of the pistol I was going to buy. I believe this to be A Sign From Above.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 09, 2026 10:37 PM (FZzOq)

89 77 My dentist and doctor offices now have no magazines. Everyone just sits hunched over their phones.
Posted by: Archimedes

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You rich guys with your "dentists".

Last abscessed tooth I had, I paid a hobo to extract it. With a rock.

Cost me a bumper of Olde English 800.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2026 10:38 PM (ENc66)

90
Some bittersweet photos for those of us who spent our childhood and young adult life around NYC. A shadow of what an amazing place it was back then.

Posted by: JackStraw

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I grew up on the west coast, but I still feel a sense of loss when I see those photos. I scroll past them as fast as I can.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 09, 2026 10:38 PM (XJ22o)

91 Seattle would be a wonderful place if they could get rid of the communists and anarchists.

Space Needle, scenic places, Sleepless in Seattle, Frasier, home of Microsoft, for better or worse.

I wouldn’t mind living there if it wasn’t turning into Seattle Soviet.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 09, 2026 10:38 PM (6ydKt)

92 "The store occupied the ground floor of a tenement at 246 Third Avenue, one block east of Gramercy Park. At the time, A&P was the world's largest grocery chain (about 15,500 stores nationwide by 1937, including 119 in Manhattan). Looks to be a bagel shop today."

Marc Levinson (author of a great book called The Box - the history of the shipping container) wrote an equally fantastic book about the history of A&P. It really was the Walmart of its day, and a pioneer of what became (in fact, it really was) the supermarket.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 09, 2026 10:39 PM (0CU3H)

93 Apropos of nothing, a certain 'Ravi Ravi' has been arrested by our local LEO for attempted theft and assorted computer crimes while trying to pick up $50,000 cash from an targeted elder at a local golf course restaurant. The FBI and ICE are also involved in the case. Ravi is a resident of CA.

What a dumb shit. My town is as white as they come (Census figures claims 0.6% non-white. I honestly only know of two black families and no Dot, not feather, Indians. This guy stood out as soon as he crossed the county line.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 09, 2026 10:39 PM (L/8vZ)

94
You rich guys with your "dentists".

Last abscessed tooth I had, I paid a hobo to extract it. With a rock.

Cost me a bumper of Olde English 800.
Posted by: Cicero

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People in my part of the country go to TJ. I know someone who had a nightmarish experience, someone who had a half-nightmarish experience because her dentist didn't give her enough pain reliever for after her root canal.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 09, 2026 10:40 PM (XJ22o)

95 Nobody wants to fuck Akron. 😢
Posted by: All Hail Eris

Odd, considering it (was) the rubber capital of the world.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 09, 2026 10:41 PM (L/8vZ)

96 Odd, considering it (was) the rubber capital of the world.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 09, 2026 10:41 PM (L/8vZ)

Well, Goodyear B limp.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2026 10:42 PM (yky4J)

97 The Battle of Mogadishu took place in 1993. It should have been a warning to never let anyone from Somali into the USA. A few years later the Minnesota Lutherans decided to commit national suicide by importing them wholesale. And just like that we now have Islamic grifters looting the country and for extra credit they are getting elected to Congress. "Nice country, if you can keep it."

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - General Lame Duck Retreat is my president at November 09, 2026 10:43 PM (wcyKn)

98 @22 [Bela Lugosi voice] "I never eat...butter."

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 09, 2026 10:43 PM (CHHv1)

99 A woman left for work one morning, then realized she'd left some papers at home and turned around.

She was shocked to look in the window and see her husband having coffee with an attractive young woman. She'd suspected he might be having an affair, but never dreamed he'd have the gall to bring the Other Woman into their home.

She burst through the kitchen door, prepared to start screaming. Her husband quickly said, "Now, now, Diane... before you go off, she's here to see you, not me."

The woman calmed down a bit.

"Hi, I'm Diane. What can I do for you?"

"Hi, Diane, I'm Cindy. I'm your boyfriend's wife."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 09, 2026 10:43 PM (qlLNh)

100 What turned out to be much harder than making the film was finding anyone willing to show it.

“Generation COVID” begins streaming on SalemNow November 13.

They now tend bar, wait tables, and Uber.
But the 1 or 2 I know from rich families are near their PhD and MBA. What happened?
If you had the balls to push your kid (and teacher) in COVID they got great one on one schooling.
Everyone else, hahahahaha

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 09, 2026 10:43 PM (/+uur)

101 No, since you grew up in Dallas we have to shit on Dallas now.

In a pinch we can just make fun of the Cowboys.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Lance Rentzel was asked if he wanted to be traded to the Browns. He said, "Nope, I'd rather stick it out in Dallas."

HeyOhhhhh!! C'mon people! This is my 'A' stuff!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 09, 2026 10:44 PM (L/8vZ)

102 Willoughby! Next stop Willoughby!

Posted by: Count de Monet, your conductor to The Twilight Zone at November 09, 2026 10:44 PM (wVcYX)

103 Well,
Texas just went blue.

May as well love where you live. And I do.

I saw a pod of orcas yesterday. And not the land whale types.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at November 09, 2026 10:45 PM (yEz+x)

104 I love that I live in a town with a Main Street and shops where people still walk, though you have to watch out for a zooming golf cart now and then.

Posted by: Piper

Same here. We only have 3 traffic lights downtown to boot.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 09, 2026 10:46 PM (L/8vZ)

105 102 Willoughby! Next stop Willoughby!
Posted by: Count de Monet, your conductor to The Twilight Zone at November 09, 2026 10:44 PM (wVcYX)

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*cue "In a New York Minute"*

Posted by: Don Henley at November 09, 2026 10:46 PM (ENc66)

106 Ann Page Ketchup. Haven't heard that brand name in 50 years.

Posted by: Joemarine at November 09, 2026 10:46 PM (y171U)

107 I saw a pod of orcas yesterday. And not the land whale types. Posted by: nurse ratched

I saw a Pod of Orcas open for a Flock of Seagulls at the Seattle Coliseum.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - General Lame Duck Retreat is my president at November 09, 2026 10:47 PM (wcyKn)

108 You rich guys with your "dentists".

Last abscessed tooth I had, I paid a hobo to extract it. With a rock.

Cost me a bumper of Olde English 800.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2026 10:38 PM (ENc66)

I saw a documentary where a dude knocked his tooth out with a skate.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 09, 2026 10:47 PM (/+uur)

109 My dentist and doctor offices now have no magazines. Everyone just sits hunched over their phones.
Posted by: Archimedes

Heh. One of my funnier moments in Desert Storm. I busted a tooth during a scud attack. My sergeant took me to the field hospital dental clinic. I'm sitting there waiting to get seen and pick up some magazines. I checked the dates and they were all 4-5 years old. I laughed (as best I could) and asked if they saved them for deployments?
Absolutely! was the answer. Before they deployed, the docs and nurses gathered up all the oldest magazines they could find. No idea wby but it was quite funny.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 09, 2026 10:47 PM (2WIwB)

110 Same here. We only have 3 traffic lights downtown to boot.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 09, 2026 10:46 PM (L/8vZ)

Heh. The town nearest to me that has traffic lights is Olds, Alberta, and it is a full 35 miles away.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2026 10:48 PM (yky4J)

111
Crossing back even into New Jersey (!!!) I feel like I'm returning to America.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 09, 2026 10:49 PM (eRlcH)

112 Magazines peaked LONG ago.

It was a glorious run, from the beginning (1910s maybe?) up until the 1970s or 1980s).

There was a very clear demarcation or compartmentalization for subjects, crafts, hobbies, whatever.

Advertising budgets allowed full content articles and they hired subject matter experts and taught them how to write - or had Editors (remember those?).

By the 1990s magazines became very thin, both physically, and thin on content. The World Wide Web made “content creators” who basically did everything for free. No printing or postage costs.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 09, 2026 10:50 PM (eEPa7)

113 When I worked in the newborn nursery my coworkers loved it when they came as my MIL was OCD and drove me insane. She once got on all fours to peer under the fridge and inform me of dust.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 09, 2026 10:26 PM (hzuYO)

Honey, that is not dust. It is a fine layer of floor protectant.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 09, 2026 10:50 PM (5WPt1)

114 >>I grew up on the west coast, but I still feel a sense of loss when I see those photos. I scroll past them as fast as I can.

I honestly have the opposite reaction. They bring back so many memories and while I know the world has moved on I want to try and bring back some of the spirit that created them.

There's no reason we can't have a time where everyone felt safe and kids didn't have to come home before dinner without fear if we want it and keep fighting for it.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 09, 2026 10:50 PM (viF8m)

115 I was a Cowboys fan when I was a little girl. Say next to Roger Staubach’s daughter in high school Spanish class.

(She wasn’t particularly bright)

Posted by: nurse ratched. at November 09, 2026 10:51 PM (yEz+x)

116 Crossing back even into New Jersey (!!!) I feel like I'm returning to America.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 09, 2026 10:49 PM (eRlcH)

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Who says you can't go home.

Posted by: Bon Jovi at November 09, 2026 10:51 PM (ENc66)

117 Willoughby is pretty nice

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 09, 2026 10:52 PM (HSV4t)

118 I was born in Seattle.

Dad moved us to Dallas TX when I was 2. Graduated from high school there.

Went to college and graduated from the UW. Lived here ever since. Does that count?
Posted by: nurse ratched. at November 09, 2026 10:32 PM (W2u7f)

Where, specifically, in Dallas, Nurse? (If you don't mind saying.) I grew up in Arlington, Euless, and Grapevine as Dad moved up in the world.

Posted by: GWB at November 09, 2026 10:52 PM (kU0PQ)

119 Las Cruces, NM, based on photos I have seen, had a lovely early 20th century downtown. In the 1960s some lunatic urban planners convinced the city to destroy its walkability by imposing a covered car mall downtown that encouraged people to drive by DT. Plus they wiped out about 20% of the buildings. It is still trying to recover.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - General Lame Duck Retreat is my president at November 09, 2026 10:54 PM (wcyKn)

120 I would like to make a correction to the ONT:
I live in the best place.

I have always lived in the best place, quite simply because I am there.

In the site of my birth there is a sign with the date and a baby photo of me.

In the 150yr old house where two of my classmates lived upstairs, and I had the lower floor apt, it is seriously registered as a historic house. Not because of that neighborhood of history, nay. Because I lived there.

Everyplace,and I am not bullsharting about this, I have lived has been beautiful and I have had a blast living freely. Lucky to have lived on a cattle ranch, the Atlantic beach, and the Rocky mountains. It's all very good.

I hope this ends the war of roses. Home is where the farht is.

Carry on.

Oh, and thanks, T-Rex for the ONT.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 09, 2026 10:54 PM (hzuYO)

121 117 Willoughby is pretty nice
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 09, 2026 10:52 PM (HSV4t)

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It has a bandstand and everything.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2026 10:54 PM (ENc66)

122 That Fauci bastard, if I could get my hands on that louse, there'd be Hell to pay. Let's throw him in the river!
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
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Considering the zOnt theme this evening, I am assuming the East River.

Thanks for the INT, Dino. A lot of clicking and zooming!
Posted by: scampydog at November 09, 2026 10:17 PM (41CYW)

I'd suggest throwing him into the Love Canal, but I think they cleaned it up.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 09, 2026 10:55 PM (qx7Zg)

123 And I remember going to the Texas State Fair.

Holy SHIT! The wooden roller coaster was goung to fall down at any moment.

Amd the car show was awesome.

Amd BiG TEX.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at November 09, 2026 10:55 PM (yEz+x)

124 New Yorkers decided automats are too civilized and it's better to have someone escort your goods to a register after liberating them from behind plexiglass.

Posted by: mea culpa at November 09, 2026 10:55 PM (iN6fC)

125 affordability

When Trump 2.0 was sworn in, inflation was 3%. A year later, in December 2025, it was 2.7%. Trump’s inflation rate is roughly half of Biden’s at the same point, the core rate is the lowest in five years, and the spike is about energy, tied to a war that will eventually end. Biden had 21 straight months above 5%. Trump hasn’t had one.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 09, 2026 10:56 PM (/+uur)

126 I should say, hiring a generic “writer” full time (who doesn’t really understand the subject particularly well) is another nail in the magazine coffin.

The loss of advertising revenue, I suppose, they couldn’t make it pencil out, no way no how. the 1950s and 1960s were the peak Magazine era, I think. Energy costs, monetary inflation, dollar devaluations did a lot of things in during the 1970s

Posted by: Common Tater at November 09, 2026 10:57 PM (eEPa7)

127 Going out on a limb.

What's one of the more dangerous things to do to a strange woman?

Tucker blouse into her pants.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 09, 2026 10:57 PM (qx7Zg)

128 Eris,

If they allotted movies at least it would be something

Truly, the school system is on my prayer list.

Posted by: RandomDave at November 09, 2026 10:58 PM (aJQbY)

129 The Minnesota State Fair was amazing and still is if you don't mind the non-zero chance you might end up in a gun fight between the roving Somali Youth ~~Gangs~~ Clubs.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - General Lame Duck Retreat is my president at November 09, 2026 10:58 PM (wcyKn)

130 GWB

I grew up in east Dallas. St Pius X was our parish. I graduated from Ursuline

Community center was Harry Stone.
Swam at Lakewood where my dad was a member.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at November 09, 2026 10:59 PM (yEz+x)

131 There are a ton of magazines at the repair shop I've taken my phone to have a new screen installed.

Posted by: Rex B at November 09, 2026 11:00 PM (sdSI9)

132 I was a Cowboys fan when I was a little girl. Say next to Roger Staubach’s daughter in high school Spanish class.

(She wasn’t particularly bright)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at November 09, 2026 10:51 PM (yEz+x)

LOL. But Staubach, himself, was a pretty good guy.
I got to meet him a couple of times - once in elementary school, and once at my mom's job. (She knew lots of interesting locals because the guy who owned the company was a local bigwig.)

Posted by: GWB at November 09, 2026 11:00 PM (kU0PQ)

133 Eris,

If they allotted movies at least it would be something

Truly, the school system is on my prayer list.
Posted by: RandomDave at November 09, 2026 10:58 PM (aJQbY)

Show something educational, like "Blood on the Highway." That's one of the movies they used to show in drivers ed, right?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 09, 2026 11:00 PM (qx7Zg)

134 Well, I am going to go to the next room, and play with radios for a bit. Put together an "A" battery eliminator for an old farm radio, and the sucker hums like a mofo.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2026 11:01 PM (yky4J)

135
Last abscessed tooth I had, I paid a hobo to extract it. With a rock.

Cost me a bumper of Olde English 800.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2026 10:38 PM (ENc66)

When we lived in Saudi, we paid for medical care with booze. Husband had severe TMJ, saw a US maxillofacial surgeon and had a custom mouth guard made for a bottle of Johnny Black. I had an MRI for Crown and a few packs of bacon.

Posted by: Moki at November 09, 2026 11:01 PM (wLjpr)

136 My local Barnes & Noble has a good spread but as noted, magazines are damned expensive now.

My writers group meets at a Starbucks in a Barnes & Noble. I occasionally browse through the magazines. Still some interesting ones out there, especially firearms related, but a lot of “magazines” appear to be one-off expensive specials about a particular person.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 09, 2026 11:02 PM (kYmoU)

137 Request permission to come back aboard, Cap'n.

Two weeks ago I made a small, dumb joke on the ONT, which cob MH took badly, apparently personally.

That was bad enough, but he added that he was 'sick of [my] $#!+,' suggesting I had some history of giving him $#!+ or somehow stirring $#!+ on the board, or something, which was news to me. (And then our respected and loved cob emeritius retired, again. Hm.)

I may not be one of the gold-card Morons, nor have any expertise to contribute, nor even be noticed if I'm around or not, but I had thought I have been around long enough, and jocularly enough, to be understood as a harmless cardboard-card Moron in fair if not good standing.

This accusation dampened my enjoyment of the blog, expecially in participating (about which I've always been shy almost to the point of paranoia), so I took a two-week lurk break.

If I ever seem to be giving anyone grief, I didn't mean it. "I meant the other way" as the punchline goes.

Sorry to burden the ONT with this. Nuff said.

Posted by: mindful webworker - I waited for past comment 100! :) at November 09, 2026 11:02 PM (7DFkG)

138 I wonder if Abbot ever crossed paths with Stanely Kubrick while both were snapping pictures?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 09, 2026 11:03 PM (2GVsD)

139 Is there some holiday going on, both yesterday and today? I've heard/am hearing a lot of fireworks in my AO, and I have no idea why,

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 09, 2026 11:03 PM (qx7Zg)

140 "I graduated from Ursuline"

I used to play Ursuline in field hockey, basketball and track when I was in school - Trinity Valley

Posted by: Moki at November 09, 2026 11:03 PM (wLjpr)

141 Magazines focusing on World War II costing $18 at B&N?

Dude, the Internet.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 09, 2026 11:04 PM (2GVsD)

142 > Blood on the Highway.

The Beavis and Butthead parody version was "Bloody Mess Behind the Wheel".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 09, 2026 11:05 PM (qlLNh)

143 Holy
Cow!

Moki!

Posted by: nurse ratched. at November 09, 2026 11:05 PM (yEz+x)

144 Nov 11th is Wednesday

Poppies.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 09, 2026 11:05 PM (2GVsD)

145 Please tell me that the Ursuline team was called the Bears.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 09, 2026 11:06 PM (qlLNh)

146 Can you imagine the crap memory care staff will have to deal with when Trans people get Alzheimer's, and wonder where their dick went?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 09, 2026 11:06 PM (qx7Zg)

147 Howdy horde!

Thanks for the trip down memory lane, TRex... (Not my memories, but interesting old pictures anyway.)

Posted by: JQ at November 09, 2026 11:06 PM (rdVOm)

148 >>Sorry to burden the ONT with this. Nuff said.

Welcome back.

I've always enjoyed your comments.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 09, 2026 11:06 PM (viF8m)

149 Crossing back even into New Jersey (!!!) I feel like I'm returning to America.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 09, 2026 10:49 PM (eRlcH)

you know, not for nothing, but there's a reason every state around jersey charges a toll to enter but not leave....

Posted by: SturmToddler at November 09, 2026 11:07 PM (3PgqR)

150 I had an MRI for Crown and a few packs of bacon.
Posted by: Moki at November 09, 2026 11:01 PM (wLjpr)

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To be fair, that's a lot better than Medicare reimbursement rates. That would cost you a case of Jack Daniels in the states.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2026 11:08 PM (ENc66)

151 mindful webworker: for what it's worth, I've never seen you say something offensive.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 09, 2026 11:09 PM (qlLNh)

152 It's raining, but at least I got the leaves raked before the rain started. Whew!

Posted by: JQ at November 09, 2026 11:09 PM (rdVOm)

153 mindful webworker: for what it's worth, I've never seen you say something offensive.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Seconded.

Posted by: JQ at November 09, 2026 11:10 PM (rdVOm)

154 I grew up in east Dallas. St Pius X was our parish. I graduated from Ursuline

Community center was Harry Stone.
Swam at Lakewood where my dad was a member.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at November 09, 2026 10:59 PM (yEz+x)

Cool. I appreciate you sharing.
I would have gone to Trinity High School if we hadn't moved to Grapevine. I cannot imagine having gone to a high school the size of most community college campuses. Ugh.

Posted by: GWB at November 09, 2026 11:10 PM (kU0PQ)

155 Sorry to burden the ONT with this. Nuff said.
Posted by: mindful webworker - I waited for past comment 100!

at November 09, 2026 11:02 PM (7DFkG)

Glad you came back.

Posted by: GWB at November 09, 2026 11:12 PM (kU0PQ)

156 I have been going through Medicare plans in detail today. The goal was to figure out which plan to sign up for. The only thing I know for sure at this moment is the more you know about Medicare plans you have no really don't know what is actually covered. What you do know when certainty is what's not covered. As for the deductible amounts , in and out of network, they fall into three groups: That's going to hurt, I'm going to have to sell a kidney if anything goes wrong, and It would be easier to commit suicide.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - General Lame Duck Retreat is my president at November 09, 2026 11:15 PM (9141e)

157 GWB

My class was just over 100 girls.

Campus has grown a bit since the mid 80s.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at November 09, 2026 11:15 PM (yEz+x)

158 I remember one of the old-time pulp fiction editors talking about how the lurid color covers were by far the most expensive part of the magazine. The pulp paper inside was shit, and the writers got paid pennies. All the money, such as it was, went into the covers. These were gang-printed on large sheets, then cut apart for use.

The owner of the pulp chain he worked for kept brooding because there was a blank slot on thw large sheet, and one day told the editor that he was now also the editor of a romance magazine (or western, or detective, or science fiction, or whatever it was... I forget).

No extra pay, of course.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 09, 2026 11:16 PM (qlLNh)

159 I need to do my Medicare D, too. I'm going to keep the same one unless I notice any drastic changes. So far they've paid for everything I need without too much trouble, so why mess with success, right?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 09, 2026 11:18 PM (qlLNh)

160 Rodrigo

Yes. The Ursuline Bears.

I loved my high school. Didn’t do much more than go to class. Gymnastics was out in Ft Worth.

Another story. Blood and tears and exhaustion and excellence.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at November 09, 2026 11:19 PM (yEz+x)

161 Could be worse. Could be Seattle.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 09, 2026 10:24 PM (viF8m)

Portland and Seattle used to be fun towns to visit.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 09, 2026 11:20 PM (rbvCR)

162 Hilarious discussion on X - the poor oppressed graduate students of Harvard are on strike.

One of them posted that the stipend paid graduate students was so low that they had to live with roommates.

Who knew that being able to have your own place in one of the most expensive cities in the US while you were a graduate student was a fundamental human right?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 09, 2026 11:23 PM (aD4fx)

163 Portland and Seattle used to be fun towns to visit.
Posted by: Kindltot

I visited Powell's Books once. I wish I could do so again, but not too safe anymore.

Posted by: Adriane the Practical Critic . . . at November 09, 2026 11:24 PM (3ZUWJ)

164 Here's a question to consider.

How many of the (D) elected officials will be in prison during the next election?

Seems like a handful are already facing charges. If this continues, perhaps Congress won't be able to do any work, because they can't reach a quorum due to prosecutions and prison terms.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 09, 2026 11:27 PM (qx7Zg)

165 Hilarious discussion on X - the poor oppressed graduate students of Harvard are on strike.

One of them posted that the stipend paid graduate students was so low that they had to live with roommates.

Who knew that being able to have your own place in one of the most expensive cities in the US while you were a graduate student was a fundamental human right?
Posted by: The ARC of History!

TIL Harvard students are so insufferable that they can't even stand each other.

Posted by: mikeski at November 09, 2026 11:27 PM (VHUov)

166 Hilarious discussion on X - the poor oppressed graduate students of Harvard are on strike.

One of them posted that the stipend paid graduate students was so low that they had to live with roommates.

Who knew that being able to have your own place in one of the most expensive cities in the US while you were a graduate student was a fundamental human right?
Posted by: The ARC of History!

TIL Harvard students are so insufferable that they can't even stand each other.
Posted by: mikeski at November 09, 2026 11:27 PM (VHUov)

The tenured (ten-yeared) students are probably worse.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 09, 2026 11:29 PM (qx7Zg)

167 Anna Puma,

At least the local schools are honoring the day (by closing), and there's some local events the evening before and day of.

Posted by: RandomDave at November 09, 2026 11:29 PM (aJQbY)

168 >>Portland and Seattle used to be fun towns to visit.

Of course they were. You should have seen Boston in the 70s and 80s. Aside from everything else the music scene was off the hook. And anyone who missed how amazing NYC was back then, well you missed something special.

We've had a lot taken from us. Gonna have a lot more unless we start saying enough.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 09, 2026 11:29 PM (viF8m)

169 146 Can you imagine the crap memory care staff will have to deal with when Trans people get Alzheimer's, and wonder where their dick went?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 09, 2026 11:06 PM (qx7Zg)

*******
This gives me something fun to think about. Lol.

Thank you!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 09, 2026 11:30 PM (hzuYO)

170 nurse, the horde turns out to be a small world!!!

Posted by: Moki at November 09, 2026 11:31 PM (wLjpr)

171 TIL Harvard students are so insufferable that they can't even stand each other.

A quarter of the membership of the United Auto Workers are now in education, and the largest and fastest growing part of the group is graduate students.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 09, 2026 11:31 PM (aD4fx)

172 Full color printing is always more expensive than one or two colors because the CMYK process is a lot more work involved. Four plates have to be made and then it’s four passes through the press that must be kept in line perfectly or it looks like crap. Glossy paper is also a bit more expensive, as well as the ink.

The process has gotten a lot cheaper over the years due to better technology but it still isn’t cheap

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 09, 2026 11:32 PM (6ydKt)

173 How do you ask someone if they went to Harvard?

You don’t have to: they’ll tell you!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 09, 2026 11:34 PM (ZVgZ4)

174 The tenured (ten-yeared) students are probably worse.

Berkeley has a limit on how many years graduate students can teach.

I knew a perpetual graduate student at Berkeley who finally exceeded the time limit, but his teaching ratings were the best in the department, so they made him a lecturer.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 09, 2026 11:35 PM (aD4fx)

175
To be fair, that's a lot better than Medicare reimbursement rates. That would cost you a case of Jack Daniels in the states.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2026 11:08 PM (ENc66)

Its what the young folks embracing the communism don't seem to understand: supply and demand-

but its going to hit them in the behind good and hard sooner than they think

Posted by: Moki at November 09, 2026 11:35 PM (wLjpr)

176 GWB

My class was just over 100 girls.

The pillow fights must have been epic.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2026 11:36 PM (4Je4D)

177 How do you ask someone if they went to Harvard?

You don’t have to: they’ll tell you!

I had a Boss From Hell who had both undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard, and frequently met new people in the course of business.

Her staff had a game where we timed how long it took her to mention Harvard.

Generally under a minute.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 09, 2026 11:37 PM (aD4fx)

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