Saturday Night Club ONT - November 7, 2026 [Disco & Dino]

Welcome to Club ONT - a whelming collaboration of The Disco and The Dino.

Open thread - bar is open, too. Come in in, grab a drink or 2. Or 3. Keep it light and friendly. The Moose is outside enjoying the crisp fall weather but always ready for action.

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Saturday Night Jokes and Other Funnies

Two ladies were walking home from the bar, they had to pee and cut through the cemetery to save time, but couldn’t hold it. One used her panties to wipe, the other grabbed a ribbon of a nearby wreath.

The next morning their husbands were talking in the yard.

One says “I think my wife is having an affair. She came home last night and her panties were missing.”

The other man says “That’s nothing. My wife had a ribbon taped to her ass that read from the men at fire house 9, we’ll never forget you!”

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A woman was convinced her husband was having an affair with the maid, so she decided to set a trap.

One evening, she suddenly sent the maid home for the weekend without telling her husband.

That night, after they went to bed, her husband gave his usual excuse.

“Excuse me, dear. My stomach is bothering me,” he said before heading to the bathroom.

The wife immediately got out of bed and slipped into the maid’s bed. She turned off the lights and waited.

When her husband returned, he quietly climbed into bed and wasted no time. He had his way with her without saying a word.

When he finished and was still catching his breath, the wife said, “You didn’t expect to find me in this bed, did you?”

She then switched on the light.

“No, ma’am,” replied the gardener.

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Drink of the Night

Tonight we drew the 8 of Hearts from our deck of playing card cocktails

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Club ONT Department of Coming Attractions

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Club ONT Department of Geography

Fun facts:

1) Cleveland, Ohio is only two miles further west than Jacksonville, Florida.

2) Most of South America (especially Brazil and the eastern half of the continent) is east of the entire US East Coast. The extreme western edge of South America (Peru) aligns with Jacksonville, Florida.

3) All of Florida is south of California. Florida's northernmost point is roughly 100 miles south of California's southern border.

4) The long western stretch of the Canada-U.S. border follows the 49th parallel. The Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport actually lies almost exactly on the 49th parallel. In other words, every part of Europe north of Paris is further north than any part of the US mainland.

5) Calgary is only 32 miles south of London. All of Ireland is north of Calgary.

6) Both Los Angeles and San Diego, California are further east than Reno, Nevada.

7) Rome, Italy is the same latitude as Chicago, Illinois.

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Club ONT Department of Customer Service

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Club ONT Jukebox

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Top 10ish Comments of the Week

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So THAT'S why the Moose out Front drives a vehicle with Maine license plates. We've been wondering about that!

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1 00ga

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 07, 2026 10:01 PM (Cqx++)

2 🪩 🦖

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 07, 2026 10:01 PM (kpS4V)

3 Willowed: Believe Patrick McGoohan was an early choice for Bond but he turned it down.

Damn shame -- he'd have been terrific. Can't see him doing all the quips, though; he'd have played it more serious.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at November 07, 2026

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He was offered the role, partly because of his turn as John Drake in the Secret Agent/Danger Man series that preceded the first Bond film. But Patrick objected to Bond's womanizing.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 07, 2026 10:01 PM (56Qyq)

4 THE ONT !

Posted by: Case at November 07, 2026 10:02 PM (En+fz)

5 Sorry I'm late, my shoelace had a tricky knot in it and I was waiting for Alexander the Great to take care of it

Posted by: tankdemon at November 07, 2026 10:02 PM (2RJDy)

6 Woof!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 07, 2026 10:05 PM (vBZcw)

7 Connecticut: Tick
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Spoon!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 07, 2026 10:05 PM (kpS4V)

8 Hola, Hall.

Posted by: Bulg at November 07, 2026 10:05 PM (77rzZ)

9
Yes, it's amazing just how far east South America is. My Southern latitude equivalent along my meridian is in the Pacific.

And indeed, just how far north London and the UK is amazing. That's the Gulf stream current at work.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 07, 2026 10:05 PM (w6EFb)

10 Keep her frozen. Worst Christmas Song Ever. Even worse than Christmas Shoes.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 07, 2026 10:06 PM (1Ff7Z)

11 I'm in CA and I saw at least six sea lions today. So the map checks out.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 07, 2026 10:07 PM (vBZcw)

12 Da fuq is a "pizza rat" ?

Oh, and good evening good people ...

Posted by: browndog says woof at November 07, 2026 10:07 PM (oCio0)

13
There's a story that Patrick McGoohan (4x Columbo murderer) was offered the role of Columbo in the late '70s to replace Peter Falk. McGoohan was offended, told them to go F themselves, as there is only one Columbo. Period. Amen.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 07, 2026 10:07 PM (w6EFb)

14 troll turd 6Xg+m at the end of the Pet Thread

Posted by: quick! to the COBmobile! at November 07, 2026 10:07 PM (PgV1+)

15 Brazil geography trivia

Brazil's northernmost point is closer to every single country in the Americas (including the United States and Canada) than it is to Brazil's own southernmost point.

And its easternmost point is closer to Africa than to its westernmost point.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at November 07, 2026 10:08 PM (qWvvZ)

16 Started in on the meat and potatoes of the front porch rebuild today, am pretty far along with beams and joists, started applying the butyl tape, cut all of the cross pieces and blocking need blocking for the picture frame border, which I'll start on tomorrow.

If it doesn't rain next week, will probably finish by Friday.

All in all, saving 12k dollars doing it myself.

Which I didn't really want to do, but some estimates I got were offensive, hence why I'm doing it myself.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 07, 2026 10:08 PM (XV/Pl)

17 Holy cow! Lookit this ONT! Howdy Dzs! And scamp, wherever you are....
Oh yeah! Lotza Horde!❣️💕

Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 07, 2026 10:09 PM (96kpa)

18 On the other hand, I saw no scorpions, mountain goats, blue hens or wolverines. The map holds.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 07, 2026 10:10 PM (vBZcw)

19 >>> 12 Da fuq is a "pizza rat" ?

Oh, and good evening good people ...

Posted by: browndog says woof at November 07, 2026 10:07 PM (oCio0)

We like pizza.

Posted by: pizza rats at November 07, 2026 10:11 PM (PgV1+)

20 Wait a minute — how did comments go from, like 136 to. like, 8?

I suspect commenter fraud.

Posted by: Bulg at November 07, 2026 10:12 PM (77rzZ)

21 We like pizza.
Posted by: pizza rats at November 07, 2026 10:11 PM (PgV1+)

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Stay in your lane.

Posted by: Pizza Pottos at November 07, 2026 10:12 PM (vBZcw)

22 Good evening! Hurricanes are terrible. Here, NOLA, doesn’t matter.
May I have an iced tea, please?

Posted by: Piper at November 07, 2026 10:12 PM (ZdaMQ)

23 Loved the geography info. Amazing, isn't it, how high on the "shoulder" of the Earth Europe is, even France and Germany. The upper reaches of Norway, Sweden, and Finland, I think, are within the Arctic Circle, or very close to it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 07, 2026 10:12 PM (56Qyq)

24
Today was the 4th cross-quarter day, the halfway point between the fall equinox and the winter solstice. The "solar season" scheme would mark this the start of winter. This centers the seasons on the equinoxes and solstices, and is the best for counting insolation.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 07, 2026 10:12 PM (w6EFb)

25 He was offered the role, partly because of his turn as John Drake in the Secret Agent/Danger Man series that preceded the first Bond film. But Patrick objected to Bond's womanizing.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 07, 2026 10:01 PM (56Qyq)

Didn't want to do any romantic scenes because he though it wrong as he was married.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 07, 2026 10:13 PM (1Ff7Z)

26 Da fuq is a "pizza rat" ?

Oh, and good evening good people ...

Posted by: browndog says woof at November 07, 2026 10:07 PM (oCio0)

From wiki:
"Pizza Rat is an Internet meme based around a viral video of a brown rat carrying a slice of pizza down the steps of a New York City Subway station in Manhattan. The video was first uploaded to Instagram on September 21, 2015, and a copy was uploaded to YouTube later. As of September 2023, the YouTube video had more than 12.35 million views."

Posted by: Doof at November 07, 2026 10:13 PM (QMAsf)

27
Another long, hard day. Worked as a steward at today's show from 8:00 to 2:00. Came home, ran the dogs out, went to Mass, came home, had something to eat and fell asleep in my armchair.

The judge was very complimentary about my work and said I'd been a big help. Meanwhile, in another ring, Her Majesty, who was stewarding in another ring, was sharply rebuked by the judge for pointing out that someone was ineligible to compete in that class. Of course, HM turned out to be absolutely correct.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 07, 2026 10:13 PM (eRlcH)

28 >>> 10 Keep her frozen. Worst Christmas Song Ever. Even worse than Christmas Shoes.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 07, 2026 10:06 PM (1Ff7Z)

Oh yeah?

Posted by: feeeeed the WOOORLD at November 07, 2026 10:14 PM (PgV1+)

29 Posted by: quick! to the COBmobile

Have you seen the COBmobile?

Posted by: Piper at November 07, 2026 10:14 PM (ZdaMQ)

30 There is no Bigfoot here in WA.

It’s Sasquatch.

Jeepers.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at November 07, 2026 10:15 PM (TPLET)

31 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 07, 2026 10:15 PM (Iz+f5)

32 Happy Saturday Horde, I went out to dinner with my neighbors, it seems like it should be midnight, I may not be here too long.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 07, 2026 10:15 PM (ibDUx)

33 Evening, Horde!

Not much to say. Praying that the coming week is better for everyone and that I get positive results from last week's interview.

I've seen the first joke before, but the second is new to me.

Posted by: RandomDave at November 07, 2026 10:16 PM (iVjhf)

34 holy smokes. I usually chime in just in time to kill the thread!

Posted by: Jimmy Doolittle at November 07, 2026 10:16 PM (mkPTt)

35 In late hobby news, the watch I ordered from Michigan arrived! And it is beautiful. Or it would be -- if it had the right dial. Everything else matches, but the dial is not the one I wanted and thought I'd chosen. And the watch was running after 48 hours in transit, which I think even a fully-wound handwinding watch would not be.

I think the company in Germany mistakenly put an auto model with this dial into a box intended for the handwinder I wanted, and the Michigan shop didn't know. Well, I'll get in touch with them on Monday about an exchange.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 07, 2026 10:16 PM (56Qyq)

36 The Rebels are not having a good time this evening.

Posted by: Piper at November 07, 2026 10:17 PM (ZdaMQ)

37 NC animal should be the skeeter

Posted by: NCKate at November 07, 2026 10:17 PM (enNUy)

38 Lousy-ana animal ought to be the mosquito or the cockroach.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 07, 2026 10:18 PM (56Qyq)

39 In grade school they taught us the badger is WI's state animal because of the lead miners in the SE part of the state.

Posted by: davidt at November 07, 2026 10:19 PM (Q+gd/)

40 I think the company in Germany mistakenly put an auto model with this dial into a box intended for the handwinder I wanted, and the Michigan shop didn't know. Well, I'll get in touch with them on Monday about an exchange.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 07, 2026 10:16 PM (56Qyq)

Probably too late to do anything about it now, Wolfus. Time waits for no man.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 07, 2026 10:19 PM (1Ff7Z)

41 Thanks for the ONT.
Gateway Pundit - nothing will happen.

President Trump Amplifies Explosive “15% Band” Analysis Exposing Democrats’ Algorithmic Pattern in 2026 Midterms by ‘TruthIsFreedom’ Following Gateway Pundit Reports — For Every 1,000 Trump Votes, 150 Shifted to Democrats Across the Map

Snowflakes outside. She can stay. I'm tired. Her Mom Starry stays out all nights.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106.5 years old - puppy at heart at November 07, 2026 10:19 PM (Sco7b)

42 “Rat pizza is a violation of our cultural norms,”
— Newark

Posted by: Bulg at November 07, 2026 10:19 PM (77rzZ)

43 Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 07, 2026 10:13 PM (1Ff7Z)

Not only was McGoohan married he was married for 57 years and a devoted Roman Catholic.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 07, 2026 10:20 PM (JrHfD)

44 The Rebels are not having a good time this evening.
Posted by: Piper at November 07, 2026 10:17 PM (ZdaMQ)

Sadly, they did on Tuesday.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 07, 2026 10:20 PM (1Ff7Z)

45 Sorry I'm late, my shoelace had a tricky knot in it and I was waiting for Alexander the Great to take care of it
Posted by: tankdemon

In a rather convoluted way, you asked for it!

https://youtu.be/DK_ejIDTGqg

Posted by: mikeski at November 07, 2026 10:20 PM (VHUov)

46 Probably too late to do anything about it now, Wolfus. Time waits for no man.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 07, 2026 10:19 PM (1Ff7Z)

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Yep. Tempus fuckit.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 07, 2026 10:20 PM (vBZcw)

47 38 Lousy-ana animal ought to be the mosquito or the cockroach.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November

Palmetto Bug. We are in the south, sir. 😂. Ours is a mosquito on an alligator that just ate a catfish.

Posted by: Piper at November 07, 2026 10:20 PM (ZdaMQ)

48 "Honey? Which do you want on the pizza, rat or anchovies?"

Posted by: davidt at November 07, 2026 10:21 PM (Q+gd/)

49 Happy Saturday Horde, I went out to dinner with my neighbors, it seems like it should be midnight, I may not be here too long.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

Please don't go - I just made cappuccino.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 07, 2026 10:21 PM (L/8vZ)

50 44 The Rebels are not having a good time this evening.
Posted by: Piper at November 07, 2026 10:17 PM (ZdaMQ)

Sadly, they did on Tuesday.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 07, 2026

Am I still allowed to say Go Dawgs? Because Go Dawgs!

Posted by: Piper at November 07, 2026 10:22 PM (ZdaMQ)

51 Mid summer in Britain was fun! Drink all day in the sun (which made appearances while I was stationed there. Your welcome, UK), go to the clubs in the still very light evening. Stumbled out of clubs at 0300, ate coin flip who knows what vendor food, got back to the base by about 0430 and it was starting to bet bright again. It was dark at that time of the year for a couple of hours at 0100-0300. Good times. My liver survived, somehow.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 07, 2026 10:22 PM (Iz+f5)

52 @36-Piper
The Rebels are not having a good time this evening.

LSU's big money coach didn't either.

Posted by: Case at November 07, 2026 10:23 PM (En+fz)

53 52 @36-Piper
The Rebels are not having a good time this evening.

LSU's big money coach didn't either.
Posted by: Case at November 07, 20

Saw that. Oopsie!

Posted by: Piper at November 07, 2026 10:24 PM (ZdaMQ)

54 I hate Kiffen, but I also hate Alabama. Still glad Kiffen lost.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 07, 2026 10:24 PM (Iz+f5)

55 Evening, D&D, and the ONT Horde!

It was a beautiful Indian Summer day here, so I loaded the big Generac generator and the big zero-steer mower on the car trailer, strapped them down, threw buddy's ancient Browning Auto-5 in the back of the 'burb, and drove 60 miles to deliver all three. Temp got up to 55F here. Sweltering, for November. Had a good drive, no snags at all. Gassed up for $1.32 per liter (down bigly from last week), went on into Calgary to buy a couple of sale items at Princess Auto, and then wended my way home.

Anyway, that's three chores off the to-do list.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 07, 2026 10:24 PM (yky4J)

56 Palmetto Bug. We are in the south, sir. 😂. Ours is a mosquito on an alligator that just ate a catfish.
Posted by: Piper at November 07, 2026 10:20 PM (ZdaMQ)

South Carolina Palmetto Bugs are the only bugs that truly scared me. I think one was big enough to put a saddle on.

Posted by: Doof at November 07, 2026 10:24 PM (QMAsf)

57 Keep her frozen. Worst Christmas Song Ever. Even worse than Christmas Shoes.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Oh yeah?
Posted by: feeeeed the WOOORLD

Pikers. Undefeated for 73 years!

Posted by: Gayla Peevey & the Hippopotamusses at November 07, 2026 10:24 PM (VHUov)

58 54 I hate Kiffen, but I also hate Alabama. Still glad Kiffen lost.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 07, 2026 10

Are you J posting from the backyard?

Posted by: Piper at November 07, 2026 10:25 PM (ZdaMQ)

59 Am I still allowed to say Go Dawgs? Because Go Dawgs!
Posted by: Piper at November 07, 2026 10:22 PM (ZdaMQ)

Only if they're racing each other.

Do you like my hat?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 07, 2026 10:25 PM (1Ff7Z)

60 Good evening morons and Слава Двоим!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 07, 2026 10:25 PM (RIvkX)

61 Carey is known for this "All I Want for Christmas Is You"? There's another song with that title done by a local group called Vince Vance and the Valiants, and it's quite good. Wiki says there was a lawsuit, and Andy Stone of VV&tV said his version was written five years before Carey did hers.

The lyrics for VV's song are different from Carey's, though they express the same basic ideas.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 07, 2026 10:26 PM (56Qyq)

62 I saw a movie called Greta and it had a lot of movie logic silliness but the thing that just left me chuckling is...

[spoilers]

Chloe Moretz, 21 years old and fit, was repeatedly too physically afraid of 65 year old Isabelle Huppert to just...knock her down, take her keys, and leave

Posted by: 18-1 at November 07, 2026 10:26 PM (sKqQm)

63 The Twilight Zone episode "Eye of the Beholder" is just finishing on MeTV. This the one with Elly May and the pig people.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 07, 2026 10:26 PM (w6EFb)

64 USAF/Army are having a pretty good tussle. Close game, 4th Qt. 24-21, USAF.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 07, 2026 10:27 PM (Iz+f5)

65 In case anyone hasn't posted this yet.
youtube of New York's pizza rat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPXUG8q4jKU

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 07, 2026 10:27 PM (0Htd1)

66 USAF/Army are having a pretty good tussle. Close game, 4th Qt. 24-21, USAF.
Posted by: Puddleglum

It's all fun and games until CAS is vectored in.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 07, 2026 10:28 PM (L/8vZ)

67 The black flies in New Hampshire are no joke.

If you compare them to say wasps you'll be surprised at how much more capable of biting you the flies are...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 07, 2026 10:28 PM (sKqQm)

68 I think the company in Germany mistakenly put an auto model with this dial into a box intended for the handwinder I wanted, and the Michigan shop didn't know. Well, I'll get in touch with them on Monday about an exchange.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 07, 2026 10:16 PM (56Qyq)

Is this a new watch, or a vintage one?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 07, 2026 10:28 PM (yky4J)

69 45 In a rather convoluted way, you asked for it!

https://youtu.be/DK_ejIDTGqg
Posted by: mikeski at November 07, 2026 10:20 PM (VHUov)

I am reiterating my request that Club ONT allow mikeski to guest DJ sometime.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 07, 2026 10:28 PM (2RJDy)

70 In case anyone hasn't posted this yet.
youtube of New York's pizza rat.

I saw a squirrel with a bagel once.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 07, 2026 10:28 PM (sKqQm)

71 I think the company in Germany mistakenly put an auto model with this dial into a box intended for the handwinder I wanted, and the Michigan shop didn't know. Well, I'll get in touch with them on Monday about an exchange.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 07, 2026
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Probably too late to do anything about it now, Wolfus. Time waits for no man.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 07, 2026

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Just *watch* me!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 07, 2026 10:29 PM (56Qyq)

72 Pikers. Undefeated for 73 years!
Posted by: Gayla Peevey & the Hippopotamusses at November 07, 2026 10:24 PM (VHUov)

By the by, I haven't heard that on the radio for the last few years. Hope I keep that streak alive. Incidentally, the Christmas music started today on the local station.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 07, 2026 10:29 PM (1Ff7Z)

73 Notre Dame and Miami beating the crap out of each other. Good game.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 07, 2026 10:29 PM (viF8m)

74 I've seen turkeys in MA, seagulls in RI, black flies in NH, cows in VT but no moose in Maine yet.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 07, 2026 10:30 PM (sKqQm)

75 I saw a squirrel with a bagel once.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 07, 2026 10:28 PM (sKqQm)

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Ever seen a seagull swallow a wiener in one gulp?

Posted by: Mayor Pete Buttglug at November 07, 2026 10:30 PM (vBZcw)

76 LOL Tonypete!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 07, 2026 10:30 PM (ibDUx)

77 Pennsylvania - Ground Hog. There are lots of them. Could have put deer there to.

Virginia - Wild Pony? Odd.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 07, 2026 10:30 PM (Iz+f5)

78 Yeah.
'You are like a hurricane'...so said Neil Young's song...'spit'....Nice cocktail. But, dickhead singstress🤫
Thanks for a tasty refreshment Ds!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 07, 2026 10:31 PM (96kpa)

79
Ever seen a seagull swallow a wiener in one gulp?

Every night after a win.

Posted by: Some Seattle Seahawks player at November 07, 2026 10:31 PM (sKqQm)

80 Club ONT Department of Geography
Fun facts:
2) Most of South America is east of the entire US East Coast. The extreme western edge of South America (Peru) aligns with Jacksonville, Florida.

Related, and kind of obvious on the map:

If you traverse the Panama Canal from the Atlantic side to Pacific side, you are traveling eastwards, not westwards.

Posted by: mikeski at November 07, 2026 10:31 PM (VHUov)

81 "Honey? Which do you want on the pizza, rat or anchovies?"
Posted by: davidt at November 07, 2026 10:21 PM (Q+gd/)

Rat on your pizza? Luxury! Why, in my day...

Posted by: Four Yorkshiremen, just warming up at November 07, 2026 10:31 PM (FZzOq)

82 54 I hate Kiffen, but I also hate Alabama. Still glad Kiffen lost.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 07, 2026 10:24 PM (Iz+f5)

If you hate Alabama and want to see Saban get got, find the panel where Shane Gillis cracks a joke about Alabama paying players while he was there.

edit: in fact, here:

https://tinyurl.com/wfev7r3y

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at November 07, 2026 10:31 PM (r7+Q7)

83 The signs for the blowout were there. But much of the right refused to pay attention.

Last year NJ and VA swung left by 15 vs 2021. There were a couple of Texas state reps races that went Dem which had been GOP for decades. There was that TN special election which went +30 gop in 2024 and only was won +9 earlier this year. Another couple of special elections in Florida with similar massive swings to Demo days.

Each of these things were dismissed as no big deal. Turns out it was one of a big deal after all.

Not to mention how virtually every single poll showed 30-35% support for the Iran war.

But we’ll ignore all that and claim fraud in every state and every county? Come on.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at November 07, 2026 10:31 PM (qWvvZ)

84 What you lot goin' on about, then?

Posted by: Savage Henry, still gaining acceptance at November 07, 2026 10:32 PM (ZxPkt)

85 I've seen turkeys in MA, seagulls in RI, black flies in NH, cows in VT but no moose in Maine yet.
Posted by: 18-1

Apparently, Ducks were seen in Ohio this afternoon too.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 07, 2026 10:32 PM (L/8vZ)

86 I think the company in Germany mistakenly put an auto model with this dial into a box intended for the handwinder I wanted, and the Michigan shop didn't know. Well, I'll get in touch with them on Monday about an exchange.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 07, 2026
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Is this a new watch, or a vintage one?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 07, 2026

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Brand new, a Laco. Apparently Laco, founded 101 years ago, was one of the companies that supplied pilot watches to the Luftwaffe, and they still make models with the same look and feel.

The Michigan shop's website, and that of Laco, show the model I ordered as having the dial I wanted -- not the one that showed up. The box and even the instruction manual indicate it was the model I ordered. But the watch has a Type A dial (numbers and hands only), not the Type B with an inner time ring. Somebody scroooed up, and it wasn't me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 07, 2026 10:32 PM (56Qyq)

87 Yeah.
'You are like a hurricane'...so said Neil Young's song...'spit'....Nice cocktail. But, dickhead singstress🤫
Thanks for a tasty refreshment Ds!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 07, 2026 10:31 PM (96kpa)

Howdy COMM!

Posted by: Doof at November 07, 2026 10:32 PM (QMAsf)

88 I've seen turkeys in MA, seagulls in RI, black flies in NH, cows in VT but no moose in Maine yet.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 07, 2026 10:30 PM (sKqQm)

I have seen turkeys in B.C., and I believe they can be found in the southernmost parts of Alberta and Saskatchewan, too. And B.C. and Alberta are well-provided with Elk, Mountain goats, and Bighorn sheep. And Moose. Have them in my own 'hood. And antelope, too, at times.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 07, 2026 10:34 PM (yky4J)

89 Not only was McGoohan married he was married for 57 years and a devoted Roman Catholic.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 07, 2026 10:20 PM (JrHfD)

Admirable. There's one current actor who won't kiss in movies or tv either, but I can't remember the name.

I wonder what his reasoning was to take the role in Braveheart? I mean, he murdered someone in the picture.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 07, 2026 10:34 PM (1Ff7Z)

90 South Carolina Palmetto Bugs are the only bugs that truly scared me. I think one was big enough to put a saddle on.
Posted by: Doof

Florida and Texas laugh. And then the Caribbean nations laugh at us.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 07, 2026 10:34 PM (X8vlu)

91 But the watch has a Type A dial (numbers and hands only), not the Type B with an inner time ring. Somebody scroooed up, and it wasn't me.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 07, 2026 10:32 PM (56Qyq)

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Face it. This isn't the hill to dial on.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 07, 2026 10:34 PM (vBZcw)

92
If you traverse the Panama Canal from the Atlantic side to Pacific side, you are traveling eastwards, not westwards.
Posted by: mikeski at November 07, 2026

***
Same thing with the Greater New Orleans Bridge. Going to the West Bank, you are driving east, and vice versa. No wonder I'm the only person in this town who understands the four cardinal directions.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 07, 2026 10:34 PM (56Qyq)

93 "Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106.5 years old - puppy at heart at November 07, 2026 10:19 PM (Sco7b)" Well I hope folks don't pin hopes "they will find that various models of vote tabulation machines were tampered with."

I would very much like to have someone call 100 to 1000 Trump voters in one of these 15% blue swing states who don't often vote in mid-term elections but voted in this election and poll them on "who did you vote for and why". I have no evidence but I'm positive the Dems turn in lots of ballots that are ostensibly from people who did not vote. Probably the only hope to diminish that kind of cheating is to convince AWFLs that some future NAZI is going to check how they have voted in the past with mail-in, drop-box, ballots so we should return to in-person voting.

Posted by: PaleRider at November 07, 2026 10:35 PM (PV+Zw)

94
But we’ll ignore all that and claim fraud in every state and every county? Come on.

The numbers posted are verging on impossible to believe.

But the level of fraud required to do this would be massive and even in the red states no one caught them?

Going into the election I argued there is no way any one, no matter how ignorant of politics, was going to vote for the "we need to eliminate fossil fuels" party because they were upset the price of gas went back up to Biden levels.

But...honestly...that seems more likely then 2020 level fraud to me, at least right now.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 07, 2026 10:35 PM (sKqQm)

95 From wiki:
"Pizza Rat is an Internet meme based around a viral video of a brown rat carrying a slice of pizza down the steps of a New York City Subway station in Manhattan. The video was first uploaded to Instagram on September 21, 2015, and a copy was uploaded to YouTube later. As of September 2023, the YouTube video had more than 12.35 million views."
Posted by: Doof at November 07, 2026 10:13 PM (QMAsf)
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I rode the NYC subway for years and then Philadelphia's. The biggest subway rat I ever saw was at the 37th and Sansome it was the size of a large cat.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 07, 2026 10:35 PM (RIvkX)

96 Admirable. There's one current actor who won't kiss in movies or tv either, but I can't remember the name.

Posted by: OrangeEnt

Neal McDonough.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 07, 2026 10:35 PM (L/8vZ)

97 Ever seen a seagull swallow a wiener in one gulp?
Posted by: Mayor Pete Buttglug at November 07, 2026 10:30 PM (vBZcw)

We need to breed a 12-foot seagull, and turn it loose on Scott Wiener, then.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 07, 2026 10:37 PM (yky4J)

98 The Twilight Zone episode "Eye of the Beholder" is just finishing on MeTV. This the one with Elly May and the pig people.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 07, 2026

***
I'm so old I saw that one when it was new, and remember the shock of the surprise ending to this day.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 07, 2026 10:37 PM (56Qyq)

99 I rode the NYC subway for years and then Philadelphia's. The biggest subway rat I ever saw was at the 37th and Sansome it was the size of a large cat.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 07, 2026 10:35 PM (RIvkX)

I saw a similar sized one in Boston about 20 or so years ago. Under the platform across the tracks from us while we were waiting for the T.

Posted by: Doof at November 07, 2026 10:38 PM (QMAsf)

100 publius, Rascally Mr. Miley, that was one of the first Twilight Zone episodes I saw as a child. My favorite episode was the one with William Shatner looking out of the airplane window and a monster looked back at him. After seeing that, I was afraid to look out of my bedroom window at night.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 07, 2026 10:39 PM (0Htd1)

101 I am reiterating my request that Club ONT allow mikeski to guest DJ sometime.
Posted by: tankdemon

It would keep the dancing to a minimum. 5/4 time FTW!

Posted by: mikeski at November 07, 2026 10:39 PM (VHUov)

102
Good evening, all. I've got Play Misty for Me on the tube.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 07, 2026 10:40 PM (XJ22o)

103 Admirable. There's one current actor who won't kiss in movies or tv either, but I can't remember the name.

Posted by: OrangeEnt

Neal McDonough.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 07, 2026 10:35 PM (L/8vZ)

Incredible actor and an awesome guy. Absolutely loved him as Robert Quarles in S3 of Justified.

Posted by: Doof at November 07, 2026 10:40 PM (QMAsf)

104 63 The Twilight Zone episode "Eye of the Beholder" is just finishing on MeTV. This the one with Elly May and the pig people.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 07, 2026 10:26 PM (w6EFb)

I can never see a picture of Chelsea Clinton without thinking of that episode.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 07, 2026 10:40 PM (2RJDy)

105
Arctic Circle map:
https://t.ly/5GzoQ

You see Sweden, Norway, and Finland extend well above it. The top of Iceland gets close, but misses it by a little bit.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 07, 2026 10:40 PM (w6EFb)

106 >>But...honestly...that seems more likely then 2020 level fraud to me, at least right now.

We really have two elections now. Election day everyone focuses on. Almost nobody looks at what goes on in early voting not to mention new voter registration.

Talarico got more early votes than Paxton got votes on election day. Fraud doesn't always mean voting machines.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 07, 2026 10:41 PM (viF8m)

107 62 I saw a movie called Greta
Posted by: 18-1

Was it a horror movie about that troll from Norway?

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 07, 2026 10:41 PM (0Htd1)

108 Neal McDonough.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 07, 2026 10:35 PM (L/8vZ)

Thanks. Couldn't recall a name because I usually don't watch modern stuff.

Last movie I watched online was McQ. Last theater movie was Young Washington.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 07, 2026 10:42 PM (1Ff7Z)

109 The good news is that you can purchase advertising time to ensure your message gets to the (clean handed) Moron Horde.

_________________________

I don't think this is a good idea. (*whispers*...there are people in here who put carrots in chili)

Posted by: Orson at November 07, 2026 10:42 PM (dIske)

110 I think Sandy Cocazio Ortez wants an Hurricane over here!

Posted by: Piper at November 07, 2026 10:42 PM (ZdaMQ)

111
I don't think this is a good idea. (*whispers*...there are people in here who put carrots in chili)
Posted by: Orson at November 07, 2026 10:42

And…..beans! *high pitched scream in the background*

Posted by: Piper at November 07, 2026 10:42 PM (ZdaMQ)

112
I wonder what his reasoning was to take the role in Braveheart? I mean, he murdered someone in the picture.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

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He probably didn't have to sink a knife into a guy's back for an onscreen murder. Whereas he would have to put his mouth on a girl's mouth for an onscreen kiss.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 07, 2026 10:43 PM (XJ22o)

113 Posted by: Doof at November 07, 2026 10:13 PM (QMAsf)

Thank you good sir ...

***tips cap***

Posted by: browndog says woof at November 07, 2026 10:43 PM (oCio0)

114 Poland hasn't settled down.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 07, 2026 10:44 PM (C0oZI)

115 99 I rode the NYC subway for years and then Philadelphia's. The biggest subway rat I ever saw was at the 37th and Sansome it was the size of a large cat.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 07, 2026 10:35 PM (RIvkX)

I saw a similar sized one in Boston about 20 or so years ago. Under the platform across the tracks from us while we were waiting for the T.
Posted by: Doof at November 07, 2026 10:38 PM (QMAsf)

_________________________

The best is when there are flooding rains (especially in Manhattan). You're not going to see a football sized rat most of the time. But, you are going to see many many many rats everywhere. Fun Fact: A lot of midtown restaurants will shut down after a flood not because of the rain....but because the rats coming up out of the cellars.

Posted by: Orson at November 07, 2026 10:44 PM (dIske)

116 My favorite episode was the one with William Shatner looking out of the airplane window and a monster looked back at him. After seeing that, I was afraid to look out of my bedroom window at night.
Posted by: nerdygirl at November 07, 2026

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Based on a story by Richard (I Am Legend) Matheson, and written by him for the show. RM knew how to ratchet up the tension in a scene. See his "Enemy Within" episode of Trek and the famous final portion of Trilogy of Terror w/ Karen Black. (That script was also based on several of his stories which appeared in Playboy.)

Shatner gives a fine performance in that TZ: dramatic but never over-the-top. Those who think he always overacts need to see his earlier TV and movie work. He was restrained and powerful, and you can't take your eyes off him.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 07, 2026 10:44 PM (56Qyq)

117 I rode the NYC subway for years and then Philadelphia's. The biggest subway rat I ever saw was at the 37th and Sansome it was the size of a large cat.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 07, 2026 10:35 PM (RIvkX)

I saw a similar sized one in Boston about 20 or so years ago. Under the platform across the tracks from us while we were waiting for the T.
Posted by: Doof at November 07, 2026 10:38 PM (QMAsf)

Cities with rat-infested subways need to hire teams of rat hunters to patrol the subways. Give them AR-15 type carbines chambered in 9 mm, and use cartridges loaded with snake shot. They could have little electric scooters fitted with wheels that would ride a rail, and of course would have wearable radios to alert them of approaching trains. Fit the guns with night-vision gear.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 07, 2026 10:45 PM (yky4J)

118 He probably didn't have to sink a knife into a guy's back for an onscreen murder. Whereas he would have to put his mouth on a girl's mouth for an onscreen kiss.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 07, 2026 10:43 PM (XJ22o)

Well, he pushed a guy out a window, so, could have been his reasoning.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 07, 2026 10:45 PM (1Ff7Z)

119 Admirable. There's one current actor who won't kiss in movies or tv either, but I can't remember the name.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Neal McDonough.
Posted by: Tonypete

So if the script calls for it, there's a jump cut and some stunt lips step in?

Or, nowadays, they just replace him with AI for the scene. I feel sorry for the actress that has to convincingly kiss nothing in front of the green screen, though.

Posted by: mikeski at November 07, 2026 10:45 PM (VHUov)

120
The Twilight Zone episode "Eye of the Beholder" is just finishing on MeTV. This the one with Elly May and the pig people.
Posted by: publius

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I saw someone once who -- either her plastic surgery was that messed up or she had some awful disease -- but she looked like one of those pig people. I WORKED at not staring.

Plastic surgery was suspect because this was in Beverly Hills.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 07, 2026 10:45 PM (XJ22o)

121 Biggest problem with the subways isn't the rats but the other people on the trains...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 07, 2026 10:45 PM (sKqQm)

122
Due to the Milankovitch cycles, we're on the decreasing leg of the 41K year axial tilt cycle, which varies from 22.1 to 24.5 degrees.

Thus the Tropic lines and the arctic circle lines are retreating at roughly 50' per year.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 07, 2026 10:45 PM (w6EFb)

123 89 I wonder what his reasoning was to take the role in Braveheart? I mean, he murdered someone in the picture.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 07, 2026 10:34 PM (1Ff7Z)

You can fake an on-screen stabbing or shooting, but the actors actually kiss in those make-out scenes.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 07, 2026 10:46 PM (2RJDy)

124 Posted by: nerdygirl at November 07, 2026 10:27 PM (0Htd1)

Metro Area speaking for all of NY State.

Another day ending in "y" ...

Posted by: browndog says woof at November 07, 2026 10:47 PM (oCio0)

125 >> Plastic surgery was suspect because this was in Beverly Hills.

She would've been a raving beauty in the Twilight Zone, then. Maybe that's who actually does the plastic surgery. A Pig Person doctor.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 07, 2026 10:47 PM (w6EFb)

126 92
If you traverse the Panama Canal from the Atlantic side to Pacific side, you are traveling eastwards, not westwards.
Posted by: mikeski at November 07, 2026

***

tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick,

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 07, 2026 10:47 PM (C0oZI)

127 I've seen turkeys in MA, seagulls in RI, black flies in NH, cows in VT but no moose in Maine yet.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 07, 2026 10:30 PM (sKqQm)

Last night I had a momma and a grown up baby moose just outside eating some yummy trees. Yeah...you don't just 'shoo' them away. I tried firing a couple of rounds near, not at them. They didn't give a very much of a f*ck. Kept eating my little trees.
Next year, I'm gonna wonder how good moose will taste🙂

Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 07, 2026 10:47 PM (96kpa)

128 He was restrained and powerful, and you can't take your eyes off him.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 07, 2026 10:44 PM (56Qyq)

He knows how to get attention. He knows how to act. Even Walter Koenig said so. Also, in one of those Star Trek books, the writers mentioned how he could take over the screen and make you look at him.

He didn't overact in that Nero Wolfe pilot he was in.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 07, 2026 10:47 PM (1Ff7Z)

129 Who ya gonna call?

RATBUSTERS!!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 07, 2026 10:47 PM (vBZcw)

130 We really have two elections now. Election day everyone focuses on. Almost nobody looks at what goes on in early voting not to mention new voter registration.

Talarico got more early votes than Paxton got votes on election day. Fraud doesn't always mean voting machines.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 07, 2026 10:41 PM (viF8m)

In the recent Alberta independence referendum, more than 92% of the mail-in ballots were "remain", and also in favor of more immigration. Definitely some skullduggery there.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 07, 2026 10:48 PM (yky4J)

131 I have had bushes, shrubs, and even some tree sapplings disappear from my property overnight but that's deer (I've seen them) not moose.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 07, 2026 10:48 PM (sKqQm)

132 10 Keep her frozen. Worst Christmas Song Ever. Even worse than Christmas Shoes.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 07, 2026 10:06 PM (1Ff7Z)

It's a catchy song, but it's not a Christmas Song.

Why? Because unless you're Mariah Carey, you can't sing to it. A good Christmas song must be one that any group of people can sing and it still sounds good. George Michael's Last Christmas is almost as bad. The problem with that song is that there's one verse that just keeps repeating itself over and over. Oh, and George Michael was a great singer himself, and you can't sing that song as a group - just a solo. And no average solo singer can match George.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 07, 2026 10:48 PM (0CU3H)

133 Another article gave AI all these vote totals and it spouted out 1 in a trillion odds.

With all the money the US spends, why wouldn't people cheat to control that. And if not having actual people count votes, verify identity, etc .... fraud.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106.5 years old - puppy at heart at November 07, 2026 10:49 PM (Sco7b)

134 63 The Twilight Zone episode "Eye of the Beholder" is just finishing on MeTV. This the one with Elly May and the pig people.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 07, 2026 10:26 PM (w6EFb)

Who was that democrat politician, IIRC from New York, who had a pig nose? I think his name started with S.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 07, 2026 10:49 PM (0Htd1)

135 @94

>>But...honestly...that seems more likely then 2020 level fraud to me, at least right now.

Since election day no longer exists and there are numerous methodologies for registering, ballot stuffing, ballot harvesting and curing of ballots, and now most ballots are cast before the actual election day, our elections are essentially invalid.

They're still counting in Alaska and the Donk looks like she is going to win, the Cali GOP congressional delegation has been wiped out, and all over the country, if the vote totals are to be believed, the country has now shifted socialist.

We're in a tough spot, and we have a decade long slog just to get back to status quo.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 07, 2026 10:49 PM (XV/Pl)

136 "Alligator in a pool" Oh, Florida, always entertaining!

Posted by: pookysgirl agrees with the pig selection at November 07, 2026 10:49 PM (Wt5PA)

137
And now, the Twilight Zone episode with the masks in one. You now the one where the dying old geezer makes his sorry family wear the masks that reflect their true selves in order to get their inheritance.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 07, 2026 10:50 PM (w6EFb)

138
My favorite TZ was the one about the mannequins. I first saw it as a kid and I was terrified. Then fascinated.

Yeeeeeears later, I was about to settle in for an episode of TZ with a roommate, and he said "Eyah, that show just copies Hitchcock, nothing much to it." The MANNEQUIN episode came on! That haunting final voiceover, "Just how normal are we? Just who are the people we nod our hellos to as we pass on the street?" Roommate admitted it was good.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 07, 2026 10:50 PM (XJ22o)

139 Wikipedia says Big Foot and Sasquatch are two different names for the same cryptid, if he exists:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfoot

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 07, 2026 10:50 PM (ZVgZ4)

140 Or, nowadays, they just replace him with AI for the scene. I feel sorry for the actress that has to convincingly kiss nothing in front of the green screen, though.
Posted by: mikeski at November 07, 2026 10:45 PM (VHUov)

Or just have her kiss the Incredible Hulk in front of a green screen.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 07, 2026 10:50 PM (yky4J)

141 It's a catchy song, but it's not a Christmas Song.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 07, 2026 10:48 PM (0CU3H)

We could make a list of non-Christmas Christmas songs.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 07, 2026 10:51 PM (1Ff7Z)

142 37th and Sansome is a subway-surface line so no platform. I was kind of face-to-face with this thing. Very memorable even though it was over 40 years ago.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 07, 2026 10:51 PM (RIvkX)

143 Thus the Tropic lines and the arctic circle lines are retreating at roughly 50' per year.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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Retreat, retreat: Things I've never heard before.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 07, 2026 10:51 PM (C0oZI)

144 >> "Eyah, that show just copies Hitchcock, nothing much to it."

Did he also think Shakespeare was a bore because he just wrote in cliches?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 07, 2026 10:52 PM (w6EFb)

145 139 Wikipedia says Big Foot and Sasquatch are two different names for the same cryptid, if he exists:

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I'm told this to my shoe shine guy yeti still doubts me.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 07, 2026 10:52 PM (vBZcw)

146 I'm told this to my shoe shine guy yeti still doubts me.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 07, 2026 10:52 PM (vBZcw)

Where does Samsquanch fit in?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 07, 2026 10:53 PM (yky4J)

147 Neil Young was mentioned earlier.

Yeah, I get it he's a bad person.

But since he's going to keep being brought up, I just wanted to go on record. I don't "get" his acoustic adoration. "Harvest" is terrible to me. If you gave me a copy of it, I'd give it away at my earliest convenience.

But...damn... his electric playing is...amazing. Yeah, he could never compete with Clapton, or Van Halen, or Malmsteen. But what he could do is *emote*. I present to you his live version of "Like a Hurricane":

https://tinyurl.com/Like-a-Hurricane

Posted by: Crusader at November 07, 2026 10:53 PM (Cjcf6)

148 I'm told this to my shoe shine guy yeti still doubts me.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 07, 2026 10:52 PM (vBZcw)

Himalaya odds agin it?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 07, 2026 10:53 PM (1Ff7Z)

149 >>In the recent Alberta independence referendum, more than 92% of the mail-in ballots were "remain", and also in favor of more immigration. Definitely some skullduggery there.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
___

Election fraud, it's not only a USA thing. Chairman Xi thinks it should be universal.

Why don't we bomb Tehran and Peking at the same time?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 07, 2026 10:55 PM (C0oZI)

150 He didn't overact in that Nero Wolfe pilot he was in.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 07, 2026

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He did not, and he would have made a fine Archie in a series with a decent budget and writing that reflected Stout's true characters. When I reread a scene from a Wolfe now, I can see the young Bill Shatner carrying the dialog off brilliantly.

(Full disclosure: I've been a big Shatner fan for many years, including his Twilight Zone appearances.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 07, 2026 10:56 PM (56Qyq)

151
The Erf's tilt will bottom out around the year 11,800 AD.

This and the other cycles, like decreasing eccentricity all point to cooling, not warming, of course.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 07, 2026 10:56 PM (w6EFb)

152 Second joke is very droll

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 07, 2026 10:58 PM (dE3DB)

153 My favorite TZ is when Billy Mumy plays the all-powerful god-child.

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

154 (Full disclosure: I've been a big Shatner fan for many years, including his Twilight Zone appearances.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 07, 2026 10:56 PM (56Qyq)

Even in Big Bad Mama?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 07, 2026 10:59 PM (1Ff7Z)

155 A good Christmas song must be one that any group of people can sing and it still sounds good. . . .
Posted by: Darrell Harris

*Chet's nuts roasting on an open fire. . . .*

"Damnit Tonypete!! Get your sorry ass down to the Dean of Students!"

iirc, my punishment was to stand at the wall staring at the thermometer for 30 seconds or some such to ensure it didn't move. The Dean loathed the choir director.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 07, 2026 10:59 PM (L/8vZ)

156 Musk has a bid in to buy more land down in Boca Chica.
Hinajosa asks that the state put that on hold until after
the new elected are sworn in.

Puts envelope to forehead and perceives Musk moving major operations to Louisiana and Florida. Operations will remain in Vandenberg for at least two years.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 07, 2026 10:59 PM (C0oZI)

157 Who was that democrat politician, IIRC from New York, who had a pig nose? I think his name started with S.
Posted by: nerdygirl at November 07, 2026 10:49 PM (0Htd1)

Cucky Schemer, or the like, I think. Certainly didn’t know how to grill a burger, IIRC.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 07, 2026 10:59 PM (ZVgZ4)

158 Good evening, all. I've got Play Misty for Me on the tube.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Watched 'Richard Jewell' tonight. I was living in Atlanta at the time of the bombing, and so followed things. It's a damned shame that the Atlanta Constitution Journal wasn't sued into the ground.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 07, 2026 10:59 PM (XeU6L)

159 151
The Erf's tilt will bottom out around the year 11,800 AD.
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I CAN'T WAIT THAT LONG!!!

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 07, 2026 11:00 PM (C0oZI)

160 Neil Young worst concert ever. Ever.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 07, 2026 11:01 PM (RIvkX)

161 My favorite TZ is when Billy Mumy plays the all-powerful god-child.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 07, 2026 10:58 PM (RIvkX)

Shows the cowardice of adults. But, it would be against the writing code to dispatch a kid.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 07, 2026 11:01 PM (1Ff7Z)

162 Posted by: JackStraw at November 07, 2026 10:41 PM (viF8m)

Hey, I commented earlier, but on a dead thread so I don't know if you saw it.

I got an ad on youtube that was straight up "Trump is Putin's puppet" earlier today. I've never seen it before and I think it's pretty curious that someone's funding "political" messaging like that after the election is over. That sort of thing might be something to keep an eye on.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at November 07, 2026 11:02 PM (vSvIl)

163 And now, the Twilight Zone episode with the masks in one. You now the one where the dying old geezer makes his sorry family wear the masks that reflect their true selves in order to get their inheritance.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 07, 2026

***
Serling himself wrote that one. As he did quite a few of the show's classics . . . and its stinkers. Fortunately he had writers like George Clayton Johnson and Richard Matheson he could rely on, and the show adapted written short stories by those guys and others as well. The magazine market was waning even then, but in the late '50s and early '60s a prolific author could still make a living writing and selling short fiction; and if he sold a short to TV or a novel to the movies, he was really doing well. (Or a novel to TV -- John D. MacDonald did it at least once, with a novel of his being adapted to the Run For Your Life series.)

The TV shows and movies profited as well.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 07, 2026 11:02 PM (56Qyq)

164 I am feeling sick to my stomach. I just read on Faceplant that my little East Tenn. county somehow voted for a Democrat state representative.

This, in a county of 25,000 souls who voted 80% for President Trump in the last election. WTF???

I thought I was (relatively) safe here....

sigh

Posted by: Beverly at November 07, 2026 11:03 PM (reMys)

165 Some songs are just anti-Christmas

Posted by: Grandma's Confused Coroner at November 07, 2026 11:03 PM (2RJDy)

166 It's a damned shame that the Atlanta Constitution Journal wasn't sued into the ground.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
---

It is possible that the American people become fed up with the
BS they have been feeding us and turn around on them.
_It's time

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 07, 2026 11:03 PM (C0oZI)

167 Even though I enjoyed TZ, I really liked The Outer Limits episodes.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 07, 2026 11:03 PM (L/8vZ)

168 (Full disclosure: I've been a big Shatner fan for many years, including his Twilight Zone appearances.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 07, 2026
*
Even in Big Bad Mama?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 07, 2026

***
Don't think I've ever seen that. Thus my admiration for him remains intact.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 07, 2026 11:04 PM (56Qyq)

169 They're still counting in Alaska and the Donk looks like she is going to win, the Cali GOP congressional delegation has been wiped out, and all over the country, if the vote totals are to be believed, the country has now shifted socialist.

We're in a tough spot, and we have a decade long slog just to get back to status quo.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 07, 2026 10:49 PM (XV/Pl)

Honey, nobody knows how Alaska is going to turn out. Still waiting for several precincts in the Bush to have their ballots counted, and then we do the RCV voodoo, which makes no sense unless you are all in on the donk cheat. Both Sullivan and Peltola are claiming their wins, but waiting, like the rest of us, to be told by whomever gets laid or paid or however they determine the winner.

Honestly, it's black magic.

Voting up here with RCV is a waste of time and energy.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 07, 2026 11:04 PM (5WPt1)

170 We could make a list of non-Christmas Christmas songs.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

I've got several of those in my Christmas playlist.

Yuki Kajiura - Winter
https://youtu.be/xrk4d0UEfL8

Tirill - Winter Roses
https://youtu.be/cpUp2QCz50Y

Kokia - Candle in the Heart
https://youtu.be/6A8QwNLXSYY

Posted by: mikeski at November 07, 2026 11:04 PM (VHUov)

171 157 Who was that democrat politician, IIRC from New York, who had a pig nose? I think his name started with S.
Posted by: nerdygirl at November 07, 2026 10:49 PM (0Htd1)

Cucky Schemer, or the like, I think. Certainly didn’t know how to grill a burger, IIRC.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 07, 2026 10:59 PM (ZVgZ4)

Not a senator, but a congressman. Not from NY, but from CA.

I present to you...

Henry Waxman.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 07, 2026 11:04 PM (0CU3H)

172 This, in a county of 25,000 souls who voted 80% for President Trump in the last election. WTF???

I thought I was (relatively) safe here....

sigh
Posted by: Beverly at November 07, 2026 11:03 PM (reMys)

It ain't who votes, or how, but who counts those votes.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 07, 2026 11:05 PM (5WPt1)

173 >>..."Trump is Putin's puppet" earlier today. I've never seen it before and I think it's pretty curious that someone's funding "political" messaging like that after the election is over. That sort of thing might be something to keep an eye on.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account
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Something's coming?
_Bring it

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 07, 2026 11:05 PM (C0oZI)

174 I got an ad on youtube that was straight up "Trump is Putin's puppet" earlier today. I've never seen it before and I think it's pretty curious that someone's funding "political" messaging like that after the election is over. That sort of thing might be something to keep an eye on.
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at November 07, 2026 11:02 PM (vSvIl)
=====
I saw that. Sponsored by "Brave for America" iirc

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 07, 2026 11:06 PM (RIvkX)

175 I think all electronic voting systems are open to easy hacking, hence easy fraud. I know you can still cheat with paper ballots, but at least you have to be willing to burn a church to the ground (LBJ, first election to the senate, had just enough people vote for him to put him over his opponent, and the voters were kind enough to line up to vote in alphabetical order, to boot! Seemed a little odd on election night, so they locked the ballots up in the local church to re-examine in the morning. Quite a shame that little old church burned to ashes overnight with the ballots, too! Hello, Senator Johnson! ).

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

176 >>In the recent Alberta independence referendum, more than 92% of the mail-in ballots were "remain", and also in favor of more immigration. Definitely some skullduggery there.

Many states don't require proof of citizenship to register to vote. Texas passed a law requiring proof of citizenship to register in 2025 but the law doesn't take effect until 2027.. Between 2022 and 2004 2.9 million people registered to vote in Texas. In those same years over 20 million people registered to vote in states that don't require proof of citizenship.

DataRepublican recently put out a piece detailng a billion, with a bi, dollar campaign run by NGOs to get out the vote for Democrats.

Not all fraud is done by manipulating voting machines. Some is using our lax voting laws against us. Thanks Thune.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 07, 2026 11:08 PM (viF8m)

177 Puts envelope to forehead and perceives Musk moving major operations to Louisiana and Florida. Operations will remain in Vandenberg for at least two years.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 07, 2026 10:59 PM (C0oZI)

I've suggested before, that Musk ought to simply buy Cuba. Simply buy out/pay off the present Communist nomenklatura to retire to some remote country and live a life of quiet luxury, after handing off control of the country to a Politburo of Musk's appointees. The people there are used to having no say in things; why would they complain, especially if the economy got stronger, and they got jobs, and food, and electricity, and gasoline again? Eventually write a Constitution, and hold a plebiscite to ratify it, and let Cuba become a proper country, say after 20 years of being Elon's satrapy.

It just might work.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 07, 2026 11:09 PM (yky4J)

178 Waxman is unfortunate looking, as my grandmother would say

Posted by: NCKate at November 07, 2026 11:09 PM (enNUy)

179 Anyone buy six cases of bottled water today?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 07, 2026 11:09 PM (1Ff7Z)

180 I think it was Neal McDonough who had the great interview with the American Veterans Center about Buck Compton (he played him in Band of Brothers). Think several of the actors from the series have interviews there, and some elsewhere, As I recall almost every one said that job, and getting to know the vets they played, affected or changed their lives.

Joe Something-ello who played Eugen Sledge in The Pacific has a great interview at that site (on UToob). Guy seems very squared away. Had grandfather in the war. Felt great responsibility to the legacy of the guys portrayed. I was impressed. Indeed not all actors are mindless idiots.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 07, 2026 11:10 PM (U/Byj)

181 Time for me to shuffle off to the Pillow World, I think. A workout tomorrow morning -- it should be cool -- then I'll have breakfast with the Book Thread to start off my Sunday.

The Killer Kittenz From Outer Space, aka The Murderfluffs, are galloping around. This is their morning and play time.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 07, 2026 11:10 PM (56Qyq)

182 ...Honestly, it's black magic.

...

Posted by: tcn in AK
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That's what I've been saying.
_ Xi

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 07, 2026 11:11 PM (C0oZI)

183
The Miami thugs lose 31-24. So at least the week ends on a happy note.

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

184 It's a damned shame that the Atlanta Constitution Journal wasn't sued into the ground.
----

Perhaps.

But man, if you had seen their sports section from the 1970s you would have thought you were in heaven!

Posted by: Crusader at November 07, 2026 11:11 PM (Cjcf6)

185 I saw a similar sized one in Boston about 20 or so years ago. Under the platform across the tracks from us while we were waiting for the T.
Doof

Same. In my town just outside Boston, I was walking home one lovely late evening. Saw a critter i thought was a doggie. Nope. A rat...
Oh.

Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 07, 2026 11:13 PM (96kpa)

186 164 I am feeling sick to my stomach. I just read on Faceplant that my little East Tenn. county somehow voted for a Democrat state representative.

This, in a county of 25,000 souls who voted 80% for President Trump in the last election. WTF???

I thought I was (relatively) safe here....

sigh
Posted by: Beverly at November 07, 2026 11:03 PM (reMys)

Fraud is an equal opportunity employer. I had surgery for an ulcer last year and these last 4 days have resurrected it.
*slides a tall glass of Maalox down to Beverly with a Pepto chaser*

Posted by: TxAnn at November 07, 2026 11:13 PM (itAg7)

187 Last night I had a momma and a grown up baby moose just outside eating some yummy trees. Yeah...you don't just 'shoo' them away. I tried firing a couple of rounds near, not at them. They didn't give a very much of a f*ck. Kept eating my little trees.
Next year, I'm gonna wonder how good moose will taste🙂
Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 07, 2026 10:47 PM (96kpa)

Up here, if you plant baby trees, you put a frame up with chicken wire, from about 3 feet to about 6 feet, around it to keep the moose away from it. When my son was small, he asked grandpa why he had such high fences, and of course grandpa told him they had giant rabbits. Talk about a freaked out kid!

The moose this year have cleaned out my raspberries, which is fine, because I cut them down to the ground in the spring and they still grow seven feet tall. Got a mama and her twin yearlings, who behave just like teenagers. She often has to come get them to move on, and the kinda argue with them.

Fun to watch.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 07, 2026 11:13 PM (5WPt1)

188 My favorite TZ is when Billy Mumy plays the all-powerful god-child.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 07, 2026

***
From the short story by Jerome Bixby, whose work we also know from Trek.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 07, 2026 11:14 PM (56Qyq)

189 We could make a list of non-Christmas Christmas songs.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 07, 2026 10:51 PM (1Ff7Z)

The Love Theme from the movie "Die Hard" always chokes me up.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 07, 2026 11:14 PM (FZzOq)

190 ..Honestly, it's black magic.

...

Posted by: tcn in AK

That's "magic of color"!! Please!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 07, 2026 11:14 PM (L/8vZ)

191 11 I'm in CA and I saw at least six sea lions today. So the map checks out.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 07, 2026 10:07 PM (vBZcw)

Although they're kinda hard to spot in the desert parts...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 07, 2026 11:14 PM (l3cgK)

192 They're still counting in Alaska and...
----

Its criminal. A first world country's election shouldn't be subject to such shenanigans.

Back when Jimmah Carter had a tiny bit of his soul still not devoted to the Devil, he would have declared such an election practice to be a problem.

Posted by: Crusader at November 07, 2026 11:15 PM (Cjcf6)

193 Hey!
{{{{Nurse}}}! {{{{DDS}}}😆😆😆

Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 07, 2026 11:16 PM (96kpa)

194 Darrell you beat me to it. Waxman. Yes. "Unfortunate looking". And unfortunate thinking, as I recall.

Tell me this idiotic unconstitutional RCV crap is going away? Wasn't it on the ballot in AK? And - propositions don't have RCV, right?? (lol)

Just today was talking with a buddy about the baffling Dem vote increase (40%) since last mid-term. Has to be a multiple of the all-time record increase. How TF does that happen? JackStraw thanks for that tidbit - we were pondering how the GOP, that had oodles of $$ while the Dems were low-cash this cycle, could produce a tiny fraction of the Dems' turnout. NGOs could help explain it.

Though I still find a 40% delta on votes cast almost impossible to believe. I know something about elections and voting macro data and that kind of increase (or decrease) basically is unheard of in any circumstance.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 07, 2026 11:16 PM (U/Byj)

195 UGA hath woneth

Posted by: Piper at November 07, 2026 11:16 PM (ZdaMQ)

196 Big raindrops
Pouring sideways and the wind is hooting.

Local flooding due to leaves clogging the storm drains.

Power outages. Smells lovely. Window open.

I love where I live.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at November 07, 2026 11:16 PM (hnU4t)

197 Hey everyone! Don't forget the bike ride in Philly tomorrow! You'll wish you had crawled through broken glass to get there!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 07, 2026 11:17 PM (1Ff7Z)

198 "We're in a tough spot, and we have a decade long slog just to get back to status quo."

Exactly my darkest worry. It's such an unserious, screwed up country. With so many collapsed or nearly collapsed institutions. The most pernicious of which, the judiciary, will now likely not see any improvement for a long time. Sickening.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 07, 2026 11:17 PM (U/Byj)

199 This election doesn’t pas the smell test, as far as I am concerned. You should check out the video “Let My People Go” which came out after the 2020 swindle. It puts out a pretty good reconstruction of the electronic side of cheating in that election. See this link:

https://shorturl.ly/2Y4sk

Goes to YouTube.

“2000 Mules” showed how easy it was manipulate mail-in ballots, but if you can interfere with the counting, it doesn’t matter what the ballots say.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 07, 2026 11:17 PM (ZVgZ4)

200 Although they're kinda hard to spot in the desert parts...
Posted by: jim
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Graboids

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 07, 2026 11:19 PM (XeU6L)

201 Yup, it's Waxman.
Thank you, Darrell Harris. It drives me crazy when I can't think of something like that.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 07, 2026 11:19 PM (0Htd1)

202 >>Same. In my town just outside Boston, I was walking home one lovely late evening. Saw a critter i thought was a doggie. Nope. A rat...
Oh.

I lived in Boston during the Big Dig. For those who don't know the area it's right next to Boston Harbor. The construction disturbed the water rats and they moved into the city.

For a few years the prowled the city after dark. Walking home at night you had to keep your head on a swivel.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 07, 2026 11:19 PM (viF8m)

203 The people there are used to having no say in things; why would they complain, especially if the economy got stronger, and they got jobs, and food, and electricity, and gasoline again? Eventually write a Constitution, and hold a plebiscite to ratify it, and let Cuba become a proper country, say after 20 years of being Elon's satrapy.

It just might work.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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A huge statue of Elon at Havana's harbor entrance.
Welcome to Cuba; watch the rockets,
enjoy the entertainment, now go home.

https://youtu.be/YsarXhY4b98&t=46

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 07, 2026 11:19 PM (C0oZI)

204 OrangeEnt, nice.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 07, 2026 11:21 PM (U/Byj)

205 Thank you, Darrell Harris. It drives me crazy when I can't think of something like that.
Posted by: nerdygirl
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You're not going to enjoy aging.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 07, 2026 11:21 PM (XeU6L)

206 It's a Saturday. Those who care, do. Those who don't, do not.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 07, 2026 11:21 PM (CHHv1)

207 196 nurse

I so often envy you girl!❣️

Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 07, 2026 11:23 PM (96kpa)

208 So a presumably Republican county in East Tennessee was in on the Democrat fraud?

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at November 07, 2026 11:23 PM (qWvvZ)

209 Random thought:

I just saw a bit of "Young Frankenstien" and a Star Trek episode. Teri Garr was beautiful.

Posted by: Crusader at November 07, 2026 11:23 PM (Cjcf6)

210 Back when Jimmah Carter had a tiny bit of his soul still not devoted to the Devil, he would have declared such an election practice to be a problem.
Posted by: Crusader at November 07, 2026 11:15 PM (Cjcf6)

Only in third world countries. JC never had the audacity to look for election fraud in the USA. Heavens, if he had looked here, he might have found some, on his side!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 07, 2026 11:24 PM (ZVgZ4)

211 187 Last night I had a momma and a grown up baby moose just outside eating some yummy trees. Yeah...you don't just 'shoo' them away. I tried firing a couple of rounds near, not at them. They didn't give a very much of a f*ck. Kept eating my little trees.
Next year, I'm gonna wonder how good moose will taste🙂
Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 07, 2026 10:47 PM (96kpa)
_____________________________

Grab yourself one of those pocket sized air horns. I used to use them all the time up in NH for Moose (but also the errant bear that wandered up).

Posted by: Orson at November 07, 2026 11:29 PM (dIske)

212 Somebody loan me a dime
I need to call old times, used to be...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RTh5t8yEqI

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 07, 2026 11:32 PM (C0oZI)

213 https://youtu.be/YsarXhY4b98&t=46
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 07, 2026 11:19 PM (C0oZI)

Nice tune. Boz is sort of pigeon-holed as "blue-eyed soul", but that song is really smooth jazz.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 07, 2026 11:32 PM (yky4J)

214 >>Though I still find a 40% delta on votes cast almost impossible to believe. I know something about elections and voting macro data and that kind of increase (or decrease) basically is unheard of in any circumstance.

We do a lot of ra ra stuff around elections and just assume our people will turn out to vote. Democrats don't do that. They organize, learn the laws and how they can exploit them to their benefit and have a ton of money behind them to make it happen.

We get a guy like Scott Presler and think we have it covered. The left has an army of Scott Preslers and a ton of money behind them. Gutting USAID was a big win for us but there are dozens of other foundations, billionaires and foreign sources of money being poured into the NGOs that are still going strong. And they are funding the Democrat turn out machine because Democrats in office send the money back to them.

We are a bunch of amateurs going up against pros. We better get that figured out cause they are playing a completely different game.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 07, 2026 11:34 PM (viF8m)

215 Everyone is saying a shift as big as this week has never happened.

But it has. 2008 Obama wins VA by 6. In 2009 a Republican wins the VA governor by 20. Obama won NJ by 16, in 2009 Chris Christie won the NJ governor race.

Obama wins Illinois by 25 in 2008 a Republican wins the senate race in Illinois in 2010. Scott Brown won in Mass in early 2010, barely a year after Obama won Mass by 30.

This stuff does happen.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at November 07, 2026 11:35 PM (qWvvZ)

216 This stuff does happen.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at November 07, 2026 11:35 PM (qWvvZ)

Outliers always happen. When outliers become the norm, suspect shenanigans.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 07, 2026 11:37 PM (yky4J)

217 the infidelity joke is the bomb

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at November 07, 2026 11:37 PM (n0DpO)

218 My favorite TZ is when Billy Mumy plays the all-powerful god-child.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 07, 2026 10:58 PM (RIvkX)

Shows the cowardice of adults. But, it would be against the writing code to dispatch a kid.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 07, 2026 11:01 PM (1Ff7Z)

IIRC, in the original short story, the doctor who delivered him tried to kill him on the spot. That’s why the world just ends at the edge of town. We don’t know if the boy just separated the town from the rest of the universe, or if he just destroyed everything else.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 07, 2026 11:38 PM (ZVgZ4)

219 Are outliers pervasive and systemic?

Posted by: NCKate at November 07, 2026 11:40 PM (enNUy)

220 We do a lot of ra ra stuff around elections and just assume our people will turn out to vote. Democrats don't do that. They organize, learn the laws and how they can exploit them to their benefit and have a ton of money behind them to make it happen.

—

I had several Dems show up at my door on behalf of their people running. Not a single Republican door knocker. Granted it’s a “safe” Republican seat. But Texas was too, until it wasn’t.

The left will fight to win in the deepest of red areas because they play the long game. It took 30 years to turn Texas blue.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at November 07, 2026 11:40 PM (qWvvZ)

221 178 Waxman is unfortunate looking, as my grandmother would say
Posted by: NCKate at November 07, 2026 11:09 PM (enNUy)

He was killin' it when Phantom of the Opera was big.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at November 07, 2026 11:40 PM (r7+Q7)

222 Howdy, horde. Happy Caturday!

Thanks for the ONT, 2D's.

Posted by: JQ at November 07, 2026 11:42 PM (rdVOm)

223 IIRC, in the original short story, the doctor who delivered him tried to kill him on the spot. That’s why the world just ends at the edge of town. We don’t know if the boy just separated the town from the rest of the universe, or if he just destroyed everything else.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 07, 2026 11:38 PM (ZVgZ4)

Interesting.

I've thought about writing a story where some group of hotshot teens get involved with criminal goings on and all get killed because they're not as smart as the criminal gang is. You know, an anti-Hardy Boys or something, but society wouldn't allow a story like that to be written.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 07, 2026 11:42 PM (1Ff7Z)

224 Outliers always happen. When outliers become the norm, suspect shenanigans.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 07, 2026 11:37 PM (yky4J)

2009 and 2010 was full of these examples. 2010 was a massive GOP year where republicans won in all sorts of places they don’t normally win. IIRC 900 state house/senate seats flipped that year, many of them hadn’t been Republican for decades if ever.

That’s what a wave election is like.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at November 07, 2026 11:44 PM (qWvvZ)

225 It was warm & dry here today, so I raked leaves. They haven't all fallen yet, so must keep up each week or I'll be buried in them.

Posted by: JQ at November 07, 2026 11:45 PM (rdVOm)

226 We are a bunch of amateurs going up against pros. We better get that figured out cause they are playing a completely different game.
---

We could start by addressing the obvious, and holding EVERY single one who signed on to the obvious accountable:

* WHY did we not pass the SAVE Act? We had the numbers, we just had a handful of very powerful REPUBLICANS that jerked off at night to fighting Trump. Thune should be forced to caucus with the democrats. We don't need "Republicans" like that literal SELL-OUT.

* WHY did the REPUBLICAN senate never recess? IF they had for even a single day, Trump could have put dozens of Federal judges in place that we'd all like to have.

EVERY SINGLE "Republican" Senator who gavelled even a single "nobody's here" session should be asked point-blank "Why didn't you let the Senate go into recess so President Trump could appoint Federal judges?".

Posted by: Crusader at November 07, 2026 11:46 PM (Cjcf6)

227 >>>We are a bunch of amateurs going up against pros. We better get that figured out cause they are playing a completely different game.

Posted by: JackStraw
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2020 verified China printed 200,000 US vote acceptable IDs.
As of 2025 there are 600,000 'undocumented aliens' in Harris County (Houston), now do Dallas County, Bexar County and all of those border counties. - Then do the anomalous rest of the US.

It's not math.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 07, 2026 11:47 PM (C0oZI)

228 Here’s what I remember from “Let My People Go”: the cheat doesn’t have to be local. The voting machines are hooked up to the internet, despite assertions to the contrary, and the vote can be manipulated remotely as the election is going on. Really, check out the link -

https://shorturl.ly/2Y4sk

Mind you, the movie is presented in full and is quite long.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 07, 2026 11:48 PM (ZVgZ4)

229 Other than Fetterman there are no DINOs. Even Fetterman isn’t really one he still votes with the Dems 95%.

We always have 3-5 “Republicans” who are effectively Democrats. Our side is never really a majority, Dems always control the senate.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at November 07, 2026 11:48 PM (qWvvZ)

230 Dems always cheat. Of course.

But are we really now saying 100 rural Texas counties that all shifted left were also in on the steal? Because that’s what the accusation is.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at November 07, 2026 11:51 PM (qWvvZ)

231 I remember the truck loads of pre-voted ballots pulling up in Baltimore, I think, at 2 in the morning, back in 2020. Apparently printed in China, with the votes already on them.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 07, 2026 11:52 PM (ZVgZ4)

232 Great day in the North Woods. 8 of us in camp. Saw 49 deer today as a group. 1 caterpillar got a concussion. It made the mistake of walking across SiL's hand. Niece had a squirrel run through her stand - twice. She was not pleased. Nor was the squirrel. A fork buck walked by my nephew, lifted it's tail, and farted - now known as the Gassy Fork. Brisket for dinner and washed down with adult beverages.
Thanks for the ONT, D's.

Posted by: scampydog at November 07, 2026 11:53 PM (LVaYG)

233 I cut down all the limbs the pole saw could reach before the leaves fell. Dragged them to the curb for pickup.
Lawn tractor has an amendment to its grass exhaust in the form of a flap that can be lowered thus forcing the leaves to take a couple of extra laps around the blades. The balance is blown as a scarf around the tree trunks.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 07, 2026 11:53 PM (C0oZI)

234 We always have 3-5 “Republicans” who are effectively Democrats. Our side is never really a majority, Dems always control the senate.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez
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If we had a Nancy Pelosi what would she do with those 3-5 Republicans?
_3/4" galvanized

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 07, 2026 11:55 PM (C0oZI)

235 The cheat doesn’t have to be local! The electronic voting machines are hooked up to the internet! See my note and link at 228.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 07, 2026 11:56 PM (ZVgZ4)

236 >>But are we really now saying 100 rural Texas counties that all shifted left were also in on the steal? Because that’s what the accusation is.

Stop focusing on things like voting machines and corrupt election officials. They absolutely exist in some areas but obviously not in all.

Again, Texas registered nearly 3 million new voters between 2022 and 2024. And none of them were required to prove citizenship. Texas has something like 5 million illegals, probably more. Illegals are not eligible to vote. But they do and it's fraud.

Fraud comes in many forms not just electronic voting machines. There's a well financed army of NGOs that aren't reported on dedicated to making this stuff happen.

Unless of course you think Talarico and Hinojosa truly represent Texas voters and people are just so angry over a temporary spike in gas prices they voted for people who want the worst for them.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 07, 2026 11:59 PM (viF8m)

237 The VA/NJ/MA (remember Scott Brown) examples really aren't comparable, as they're off-year elections (not even years).

2010 was indeed an earthquake, down even to county level. But had nothing resembling this week for the Senate. 1980 probably was comparable for the Senate. And indeed 1980 had every reason to be a giant wave election, national circumstances were as bad as they've been since WWII.

Today? Middling positive, overall, slowly improving economy with select items (crime, border) *massively* improved over just 2 years ago. Nothing resembling 1980.

Anyway, I don't think a 40% increase in votes has been seen before. In prez cycles, an ambitious goal is to boost your vote by 5% (was involved in one such). 40%? Seems insane. Haven't bothered to check, but assume some election geeks will be laying out all the relevant context and details soon.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 07, 2026 11:59 PM (U/Byj)

238 >>>But are we really now saying 100 rural Texas counties that all shifted left were also in on the steal? Because that’s what the accusation is.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez
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No. That's not the accusation, at all.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 08, 2026 12:01 AM (C0oZI)

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