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Overnight Open Thread (3-30-2015)

Quote of the Day I

But the robots get better every year, while the workers stay the same. Or, perhaps, get worse.

-- Instapundit on minimum wage increase demands versus robotic automation

Quote of the Day II

Ashe Schow asks: "With all the attention being paid to college-aged social justice warriors and microagressions, one has to ask: What happens when all these delicate snowflakes enter the workforce?"  To which I answer: What makes you think that these delicate snowflakes will enter the workforce? - Oh, I'm sure that many of them will end up doing some sort of retail, at least in the states that don't institute a $15 minimum wage.  But there are plenty of qualified people out there who either did not get infected with the current madness sweeping our campuses, or else they got over it.  Easy enough to give them the job.

-- Moe Lane on dealing with problematical employees

Quote of the Day III

The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.

-- PJ O'Rourke

Quote of the Day IV

The only advantage to being a middle-aged man is that when you put on a jacket and tie, you're the Scary Dad. Never mind that no one has had an actually scary dad since 1966. The visceral fear remains.

-- PJ O'Rourke

Quote of the Day V

Ostendo primo conditionem hominum extra societatem civilem (quam conditionem appellare liceat statum naturae) aliam non esse quam bellum omnium contra omnes; atque in eo bello jus esse omnibus in omnia.

I demonstrate in the first place, that the state of men without civil society (which state we may properly call the state of nature) is nothing else but a mere war of all against all; and in that war all men have equal right unto all things.

-- Thomas Hobbes in Leviathan

Why Public Words Matter

From an interview with Natan Sharansky:

I was already a longtime prisoner when Ronald Reagan was elected. I didn't know much about him, and I can't say I remember having heard much about him. None of us in the Gulag knew much, and I actually knew less than most because I spent so much time in private punishment cells, where for months at a time you were totally isolated. Our first indication that Ronald Reagan might well be the key figure in our struggle, the struggle of all people fighting against tyranny, came from the ferocious denunciations of him that appeared more frequently in the official Soviet press. Now, all Soviets were experts in the art of "reading between the lines," and of course us dissidents, we were the professors of this high art form. In fact, we were so good at reading between the lines, we almost could piece together events as they really happened by what the authorities were not telling us. What they did not tell us was as important as what they did tell us, if not even more important.

We had very mixed feelings at first. Remember, we accepted it as a given that Jimmy Carter was the world's great human rights advocate. Only later, after we saw what words without action can mean, did it occur to us that words were all he could offer. But to his credit, it was Jimmy Carter who insisted on keeping the issue in the international spotlight. Remember, prior to him, no one seemed willing to offer even words. All we knew about Reagan was that he was a poorly regarded actor, and after living for so long in an Orwellian world where play-acting was all we ever experienced from our own leaders, the very fact that Reagan was an actor, I will say, left us far more concerned than encouraged at first.

Q: Were there any particular Reagan moments that you can recall being sources of strength or encouragement to you and your colleagues?

I have to laugh. People who take freedom for granted, Ronald Reagan for granted, always ask such questions. Of course! It was the great brilliant moment when we learned that Ronald Reagan had proclaimed the Soviet Union an Evil Empire before the entire world. There was a long list of all the Western leaders who had lined up to condemn the evil Reagan for daring to call the great Soviet Union an evil empire right next to the front-page story about this dangerous, terrible man who wanted to take the world back to the dark days of the Cold War. This was the moment. It was the brightest, most glorious day. Finally a spade had been called a spade. Finally, Orwell's Newspeak was dead. President Reagan had from that moment made it impossible for anyone in the West to continue closing their eyes to the real nature of the Soviet Union.

It was one of the most important, freedom-affirming declarations, and we all instantly knew it. For us, that was the moment that really marked the end for them, and the beginning for us. The lie had been exposed and could never, ever be untold now. This was the end of Lenin's "Great October Bolshevik Revolution" and the beginning of a new revolution, a freedom revolution--Reagan's Revolution.

We were all in and out of punishment cells so often--me more than most--that we developed our own tapping language to communicate with each other between the walls. A secret code. We had to develop new communication methods to pass on this great, impossible news. We even used the toilets to tap on.

Leaked Report Reveals EU's 40-Point Plan to Force Israel's Hand

They hate you - they really, really hate you.

What If We Gave a War and Everyone Came

Bellum omnium contra omnes edition.

China Still Can't Frack

Fracking is hard - because you need more than just oil in the ground.

But that only tells half the story, because even before the oil price crash Beijing was struggling mightily to catch up to the U.S. shale boom. Much of China's shale gas is locked away in remote regions that lack the necessary infrastructure (roads, for example) to support large drilling operations. China also has a very real water shortage problem, which compounded with the relatively complex stratigraphy has stunted its push to tap its shale.

Beijing lays claim to the world's largest shale gas reserves and third-largest shale oil reserves. Yet, as countries like Poland, Lithuania, Romania, South Africa, and the UK are all learning, simply possessing the resource isn't enough. The American energy renaissance has not come gift-wrapped; rather it has been a product of a great number of favorable factors and innovative efforts.

Tools of the Patriarchy XIV: Clapping

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Illiterate Dumbass Afghans Murder Woman Over Shop Selling Magic Rocks

Vikings: Metrosexual Warriors?

They liked to rape and pillage and look pretty while doing it.

Genderflect: When Starbucks "Race Together" Just Doesn't Cover All Your PC Needs

Supersessionism and All That

"Supersede" is a synonym for "replace".  Supersession is a Christian theological term referring to a specific replacement-namely, the replacement of God's covenant with Israel by a new covenant (new "testament") with the Church. Put differently, the Church of Christ is the new Israel. Supersessionism is the doctrine that this replacement has in fact occurred. Theologians like long words, especially if they derive from Greek or (in this case) Latin. If you like "supersessionism", how about "anti-supersessionism"? Which, logically enough, means the rejection of the replacement doctrine.

Celebrity Yearbook Photos

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The Yahoo AoSHQ group - it's got electrolytes.

And my twitter thang.

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1 First

Posted by: The Nevada Hat at March 30, 2015 09:50 PM (0Ew3K)

2 CNN is running a special. Showdown in Indiana
It's the end of the world as they know it and they don't feel fine.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 30, 2015 09:51 PM (W5DcG)

3 There Were Gay Orgies in Mecca?

One things the Progressives are hell bent on is ret-conning the past to fit their delusional narrative. Based on the idea of "Kyriarchy," all the problems in the world are the cause of a small cabal of straight White cis-gendered X-tian males. For this to work, it would mean that every civilization outside of the "White" Western Civilization (which apparently stole everything from everyone else, because "evil"), recognized homosexuality at being normal and acceptable, was run by a Matriarchy™, didn't recognize the existence of "gender", &c.

More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=8718

Posted by: The Political Hat at March 30, 2015 09:51 PM (0Ew3K)

4 Corgis called.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2015 09:52 PM (t43dZ)

5 Evening morons. How fares the horde?

Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at March 30, 2015 09:52 PM (B9k3v)

6 Maet...what the hell? You put in way more work into this than usual. I expect you to get back to the appropriate 'don't give a fuck' level in the near future.

Posted by: Grant Dossetto at March 30, 2015 09:53 PM (vTHH6)

7 Sup, ONT?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 30, 2015 09:53 PM (iWlfa)

8 I hate this post.

Posted by: eleven at March 30, 2015 09:53 PM (MDgS8)

9 You'd think a Matriarchy would be really familiar with the concept of gender since we're the ones who raise the children.

I call absolute bullshit on any mother who claims that no gender deference exist. My two year old was using Lincoln Logs as baby dolls this afternoon.

Posted by: Lauren at March 30, 2015 09:54 PM (MYCIw)

10 The ginger cj thinks he's the batman of the news media

Posted by: phoenixgirl at March 30, 2015 09:54 PM (u8GsB)

11 I'm the scary dad you don't want to meet when you mess with my kids. I'm also the scary dad to my kids when their behavior is less than acceptable.

Guys that want to be their kids bff aren't doing them any favors.

Posted by: fairweatherbill at March 30, 2015 09:54 PM (xrURQ)

12 Hey everybody. Had two interviews today and have another tomorrow morning, so things are looking up a bit again.

In the meantime:

If you look for it, sometimes there *is* a bit of justice in the world. (Even Rawstory admits the guy's a harasser.)

"Ex-CFO who lost job after berating Chick-Fil-A employee now lives on food stamps"

http://tinyurl.com/oezhqf4

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 30, 2015 09:55 PM (elbY7)

13 Early!

Call Greg!

Posted by: Rosemary Lehmberg at March 30, 2015 09:55 PM (9BRsg)

14
Is that Dabney Coleman?

I hate Dabney Coleman.

Posted by: eleven at March 30, 2015 09:56 PM (MDgS8)

15 Is that last photo the aftermath of the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan?

Posted by: Boots at March 30, 2015 09:56 PM (l9mF2)

16 Bam bas bat, Bamus Batis Bant

That's all I got from 4 yrs of Latin

Posted by: Navin R Johnson at March 30, 2015 09:57 PM (7cZhk)

17 So.Much.Content. I have a feeling if Jimmy Fallon were to grow a mustache today, it would still look like that picture.

Posted by: no good deed at March 30, 2015 09:57 PM (ZKGnj)

18 Celeb pic is whoever that guy is that's doing the Tonight Show now. Jimmy......?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 30, 2015 09:57 PM (iWlfa)

19 Fallon, that's it.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 30, 2015 09:58 PM (iWlfa)

20 I hate Jimmy Fallon.

Posted by: eleven at March 30, 2015 09:58 PM (MDgS8)

21 I thought Supersession was one of those John Mayall albums.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 30, 2015 09:58 PM (W5DcG)

22 Thanks Maet!

Posted by: dartist at March 30, 2015 09:58 PM (ahBY0)

23 Superstition - Stevie Wonder

Posted by: Boots at March 30, 2015 09:58 PM (l9mF2)

24 Israel should tell the EU to GTFO.

Posted by: Lauren at March 30, 2015 09:58 PM (MYCIw)

25 So tonight I tried watching St. Vincent. I quit when Vin / Bill Murray withdrew $2700 from his "grandson's" bank-account to bet on the track.

Maybe I'm getting old, but I'm finding it less easy these days to watch people wallow in the mud.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 30, 2015 09:58 PM (AVEe1)

26 Crap.
Have fun gang.

Posted by: teej at March 30, 2015 09:59 PM (Cel0r)

27 Jimmy Fallon: proof that while some fads come and go, being a tool lasts forever.

Posted by: Deep Thought by Jack Handey at March 30, 2015 09:59 PM (yRwC8)

28 Holy fuck has the left come unglued over this RFRA.

It has been fun to watch them twist themselves into a circle when they find out that the Federal RFRA was introduced by Chuck Schummer and signed by Billy Jeff.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at March 30, 2015 09:59 PM (+Fae7)

29 "CNN is running a special. Showdown in Indiana"

So it seems that all good leftists are expected to strictly boycott anything having to do with Indiana over this very mild law, whereby a baker may refuse to bake a cake for a gay marriage. Don't travel there! Don't buy products from Indiana businesses! Shun the bigots!

But how about the far worse case of a different state which had dared pass a ballot initiative _completely outlawing_ gay marriage, until told they couldn't do so by a federal judge? Should not the tourist and business boycotts of that state be far more severe and punitive?

Oh! Wait! The state in question is Commiefornia. Where a bunch of the nation's leftists actually live and work.

Guess what? When the left's economic interests stand to be impaired by such boycotts, no one on the left calls for such boycotts. Funny, that.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 30, 2015 10:01 PM (noWW6)

30 Fallon sucks.

Tonight on Jimmy Kimmel, Van Halen. I'll watch that.

Posted by: fairweatherbill at March 30, 2015 10:01 PM (FviSe)

31 The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews. -- PJ O'Rourke

Assuming they were both taking economics courses, the A student started a hedge-fund and ripped off the C student's town government. Now the C student's restaurant is in the ghetto. And he can't sell it.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo does birmingham at March 30, 2015 10:01 PM (AVEe1)

32 I thought the picture of Fallon was Tim Curry, oh well.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 30, 2015 10:01 PM (GDulk)

33 Man. Julia Roberts had a horse mouth in high school as well.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at March 30, 2015 10:01 PM (Wo9OY)

34 CNN reporting Dennis Hopper has died.

http://cnn.it/1ErJorb

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2015 10:02 PM (t43dZ)

35 The SJWs should be the most worried about robot automation. As a complete hack in code I could write one for that for a drone.

Posted by: Robinson at March 30, 2015 10:02 PM (W2Cji)

36 5 Evening morons. How fares the horde?

Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at March 30, 2015 09:52 PM (B9k3v)


Hmmm.... maybe we need to start a monthly...

State of the Horde! thread....

Kinda like the State of the Union was supposed to be... ie a recap of how we were doing... not a laundry list of wants and desires...

Posted by: BB Wolf at March 30, 2015 10:02 PM (qh617)

37 ONT! I thought I sensed a disturbance in the farce as my latest comment went up on the previous.

Back in a bit to see what Sir Maet has done to us this time.

Posted by: mindful webworker - pulled thread at March 30, 2015 10:02 PM (ACs58)

38
I don't hate Jimmy Kimmel.

That would be like hating cardboard.

I *null* Jimmy Kimmel.

Posted by: eleven at March 30, 2015 10:02 PM (MDgS8)

39 >>The ginger cj thinks he's the batman of the news media

I'm always taken aback when I stumble into someone I follow on twitter who follows (and appears to like) that turd.

Posted by: Y-not at March 30, 2015 10:02 PM (9BRsg)

40 I am planning on using SJW's to feed the hungry...

Posted by: Friend Computer at March 30, 2015 10:03 PM (SFpiC)

41 In an effort to reduce microagressions, please remember to use your jazz hands this evening.

Posted by: The Insane Among Us at March 30, 2015 10:04 PM (Dwehj)

42 It has been fun to watch them twist themselves into a circle when they find out that the Federal RFRA was introduced by Chuck Schummer and signed by Billy Jeff.

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If by twist into a circle you mean they totally ignore that and still scream HOMOPHOBIA,...... Then,yes...that.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 30, 2015 10:04 PM (JmjOe)

43 CNN reporting Dennis Hopper has died.

Check the date on that article.

Posted by: dartist at March 30, 2015 10:04 PM (ahBY0)

44
I thought Dennis Hopper was already pinin for the fjords.

Fun Dennis Hopper factoid. He hit on my girlfriend at a karaoke bar.

Posted by: eleven at March 30, 2015 10:04 PM (MDgS8)

45 Fuck Jimmy Faalon. About as funny as prostate cancer. Smug little fucker.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 30, 2015 10:04 PM (ucDmr)

46 34 CNN reporting Dennis Hopper has died.
http://cnn.it/1ErJorb
Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2015 10:02 PM (t43dZ)


So like Franco then.

Posted by: Maetenloch at March 30, 2015 10:04 PM (pAlYe)

47 "
Is that last photo the aftermath of the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan?



Posted by: Boots"

Yep. And that SS agent was packing a micro Uzi.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at March 30, 2015 10:04 PM (Wo9OY)

48 15, yes that is the Reagan assassination attempt. At the time some talking head was making a big deal about an SS agent carrying an Uzi. Another tool.

Posted by: fairweatherbill at March 30, 2015 10:04 PM (o/3Hk)

49 "Honey, I forgot to duck..." - President Ronald Reagan, speaking to Nancy at the hospital.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2015 10:04 PM (F2IAQ)

50 Check the date on that article.


Posted by: dartist at March 30, 2015 10:04 PM (ahBY0)
oh, deja vu!

Posted by: Peaches at March 30, 2015 10:05 PM (EgOr3)

51
dubbing them sjw's was a miscalculation -- they kinda embraced the title

shoulda called them SJN -- social justice nags

Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at March 30, 2015 10:05 PM (FRLeJ)

52 CNN reporting Dennis Hopper has died.
Check the date on that article.



Shit. Sorry. Phone-fu sucks. Screen too tiny.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2015 10:05 PM (t43dZ)

53 Good finger discipline by the SS guys.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2015 10:05 PM (F2IAQ)

54 Has anyone seen this story about the Down Syndrome student who was asked to take the varsity letter off his letter jacket?

Of course, the story they are running with is he was told not to wear the jacket at all, which isn't true. He was asked to remove the varsity letter from it, as he is not a varsity athlete.

http://tinyurl.com/q9crlxn

Thoughts?

Posted by: Tickled Pink at March 30, 2015 10:05 PM (FNlbs)

55 Jeff Golbloom is also still dead.

Posted by: eleven at March 30, 2015 10:05 PM (MDgS8)

56 The Chinese may not know how to fcak but there sure are a lot of them fro some reason.

Posted by: RioBravo at March 30, 2015 10:06 PM (NUqwG)

57 34 CNN reporting Dennis Hopper has died.

http://cnn.it/1ErJorb
Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2015 10:02 PM (t43dZ)

He's been dead for five years.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 30, 2015 10:06 PM (mx5oN)

58 Today was my first day of physical therapy! The assessment hurt, but the exercises weren't too bad and the electrostatic therapy and ice felt nice at the end. There's a park next to it for Pookette to play in, so she had a blast. Now, if Pooky's plane would stop trying to catch fire, it would be a good day.

Posted by: pookysgirl on the road to recovery at March 30, 2015 10:06 PM (MKXiS)

59 See that guy with the uzi? If they could not get the pres clear and locate the active gunman hiding in the crowd, he sprays the crowd with gunfire.
So standing in the back may not be such a bad thing.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 30, 2015 10:07 PM (F0Cog)

60 25 So tonight I tried watching St. Vincent. I quit when Vin / Bill Murray withdrew $2700 from his "grandson's" bank-account to bet on the track.

Maybe I'm getting old, but I'm finding it less easy these days to watch people wallow in the mud.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 30, 2015 09:58 PM (AVEe1)


Ever since I had an employee whose father drained his son's bank accounts, I don't find any "entertainment" in things like that.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at March 30, 2015 10:07 PM (+Fae7)

61 "It has been fun to watch them twist themselves into a circle when they find out that the Federal RFRA was introduced by Chuck Schummer and signed by Billy Jeff."

Oh, yes. Quite hilarious to see them arguing against their former selves.

I've come to the realization, somewhat belatedly, that the left doesn't believe in anything. They have no core values. They seek only to destroy, and they value nothing aside from political expediency.

Thus they see no contradiction in whining for 15 years that they will never ever force someone to participate in a gay marriage, and then turning around and whining that people aren't being forced to participate in a gay marriage.

In their minds, they are working towards the goal of destruction, and as long as they're succeeding, they don't care about the argument.

But because of this, they can't argue. They have no ethical or moral base, and so they jump around to a million different unrelated points to hide the fact that they are basically zombies.

There's no point trying to debate them except to highlight their idiocy for others. They will never learn because they are incapable of thought. They flutter to the next tactic without a second thought. A mindless pile of goo infecting more and more people as it grows.

Posted by: Lauren at March 30, 2015 10:07 PM (MYCIw)

62 "Check the date on that article."


What the Hell's that about?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 30, 2015 10:07 PM (iWlfa)

63 He's been dead for five years.


Yeah. Saw that.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2015 10:07 PM (t43dZ)

64 Ah. The good old days when I admired the Secret Service.

Posted by: Tuna at March 30, 2015 10:07 PM (JSovD)

65 The problem with Jimmy Fallon besides being an overall mediocre talent is quite possibly the worst interviewer I've ever witnessed.

He will not just shut the hell up and let his guest get out a single complete sentence before insinuating himself into whatever the interviewee is talking about.

He's like the unCarson.

Horrible, horrible host.

Posted by: Kreplach at March 30, 2015 10:08 PM (0fmtZ)

66 "Good finger discipline by the SS guys.

Posted by: Mike Hammer"

That's what the South American hookers said....

And Hammer, I saw your post from last night's ONT. A meetup here in Asheville sounds great.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at March 30, 2015 10:09 PM (Wo9OY)

67 "Check the date on that article."


What the Hell's that about?


Popped up on my Fb feed. Went to the link, print was too tiny on the phone to read the date.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2015 10:09 PM (t43dZ)

68 I still can't quite believe that the nation that elected Ronald Reagan 2x also elected Barky 2x as well.

Posted by: Boots at March 30, 2015 10:09 PM (l9mF2)

69 He's been dead for five years.
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Is he still dead?

Posted by: RioBravo at March 30, 2015 10:09 PM (NUqwG)

70 The kinda interesting thing on the Hopper is dead link. I care so little I assumed it was current and didn't click the link.

Posted by: Robinson at March 30, 2015 10:09 PM (W2Cji)

71 Goddam.


Meagan Fox has been hot since the day she was born.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 30, 2015 10:10 PM (iWlfa)

72 So.... I get to order a smoked ham sammich at the Kosher deli now.... Right?

Posted by: fixerupper at March 30, 2015 10:10 PM (JmjOe)

73 I still can't quite believe that the nation that elected Ronald Reagan 2x also elected Barky 2x as well.

Posted by: Boots at March 30, 2015 10:09 PM (l9mF2)
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Same country. Not the same nation?

Posted by: RioBravo at March 30, 2015 10:10 PM (NUqwG)

74 "The only advantage of being a middle age man is that when you put a jacket and tie you're the scary Dad."

I am the scary Dad. No jacket or tie required. I usually wear an NRA hat and give them the "Daddy talk".

I used to get those back in the day. It's much better being on the other end.

'Would you like to see my gun collection?

See my daughter over there that I love?

If you F her, I will F you up bad and you will get to see a portion of my gun collection for a brief , fleeting moment.

Any questions?

Have a nice date, no drinking or drugs and be back by 10 or else."



Posted by: The Walking Dude at March 30, 2015 10:10 PM (LffmZ)

75 Hell, I'd forgot he died.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 30, 2015 10:11 PM (iWlfa)

76 Matt Damon and Jimmy Fallon looked liked douches even back then.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 30, 2015 10:11 PM (F0Cog)

77 Have they named the NSA gate ram guys yet? You know these guys shot at the cops first and one has a lengthy criminal record. NSA was even warned the day before the attack. Why wont they name them

Posted by: ThunderB, Shapeshifter at March 30, 2015 10:11 PM (zOTsN)

78
Meagan Fox id hot fo sho.

Gotta ignore the hammer thumbs tho.

And the idiot tattoo.

Posted by: eleven at March 30, 2015 10:11 PM (MDgS8)

79 What the Hell's that about?

It's an old article and the screen on his phone is too small to see the date. We might be in the same age group.

Posted by: dartist at March 30, 2015 10:11 PM (ahBY0)

80 71 Goddam.


Meagan Fox has been hot since the day she was born.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 30, 2015 10:10 PM (iWlfa)

That wasn't creepy or anything...

Posted by: Insomniac at March 30, 2015 10:11 PM (mx5oN)

81 Popped up on my Fb feed. Went to the link, print was too tiny on the phone to read the date.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2015 10:09 PM (t43dZ)
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It is for reasons like this that I believe cell phones have introduced too much stress into society.

Posted by: RioBravo at March 30, 2015 10:11 PM (NUqwG)

82 My husband used to be the scary dad, but then he had to shave his beard for his new job and now he looks 12.

Now he's the stealthy scary dad.

Posted by: Lauren at March 30, 2015 10:12 PM (MYCIw)

83 "Our first indication that Ronald Reagan might well be the key figure in our struggle, the struggle of all people fighting against tyranny, came from the ferocious denunciations of him that appeared more frequently in the official Soviet press."

I will never cease to love the epic own-goal by the Soviet propaganda apparatchiks during the Reagan years, when Pravda and Izvestia and Tass all shouted to ordinary Soviet people about how terrible life was for ordinary American people under capitalism. Why, the elderly in the USA were so badly off they had been forced to eat cat food!

Upon hearing which, millions of ordinary Soviets, who had a hard time just obtaining basic things like bread that wasn't moldy and shoes that fit properly, quietly thought to themselves, "Wait, in capitalist America, they are so rich there is special food just for cats? What a country!"

Posted by: torquewrench at March 30, 2015 10:12 PM (noWW6)

84
I wonder if Robin Williams is willing to do a Mork and Mindy reunion..

Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at March 30, 2015 10:12 PM (FRLeJ)

85
68 I still can't quite believe that the nation that elected Ronald Reagan 2x also elected Barky 2x as well.

Posted by: Boots at March 30, 2015

Many of the people who voted for Regan twice are dead, and those who voted for TFG twice weren't alive

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 30, 2015 10:12 PM (u/Asb)

86 I still can't quite believe that the nation that elected Ronald Reagan 2x also elected Barky 2x as well.

Proof positive of devolution.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 30, 2015 10:12 PM (W5DcG)

87 'Lo, 'rons....

Posted by: Dr. Leonard at March 30, 2015 10:13 PM (T1005)

88 69 He's been dead for five years.
--------
Is he still dead?
Posted by: RioBravo at March 30, 2015 10:09 PM (NUqwG)

As far as I know. I haven't seen any reports of him shambling along the streets of LA trying to eat people's brains.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 30, 2015 10:13 PM (mx5oN)

89 "I wonder if Robin Williams is willing to do a Mork and Mindy reunion.."


Heh.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 30, 2015 10:13 PM (iWlfa)

90 With all the attention being paid to college-aged social justice warriors and microagressions, one has to ask: What happens when all these delicate snowflakes enter the workforce?"

Easy. They'll work for Starbucks and drive away all the customers with their sanctimonious babbling about racism. And we'll go buy our over-priced coffee somewhere else. McD's coffee is pretty good.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 30, 2015 10:14 PM (agnOR)

91 "That wasn't creepy or anything..."



No, not at all.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 30, 2015 10:14 PM (iWlfa)

92 @61

The problem is that at this point, is it has permeated the mainstream consciousness, for the worse. Most people don't even know, nor care, that this particular law is on the books in many other states. Most people don't even know, nor care, that there is a federal law that states nearly the same thing, and that it was signed into law by their hero Billy Jeff Clinton.

So, we can prove this, that, and the other till the cows come home. Perception is reality in this case. People are going to believe what they are going to believe. I really don't think there is anything that could come out, that would make those people change their minds.

Posted by: Tickled Pink at March 30, 2015 10:14 PM (FNlbs)

93 "He will not just shut the hell up and let his guest get out a single complete sentence before insinuating himself into whatever the interviewee is talking about."

Ah, yes, the medical condition known as "O'Reilly's Disease".

Posted by: torquewrench at March 30, 2015 10:14 PM (noWW6)

94 82 My husband used to be the scary dad, but then he had to shave his beard for his new job and now he looks 12.

Now he's the stealthy scary dad.
Posted by: Lauren at March 30, 2015 10:12 PM (MYCIw)

Heh. That's me. I look young despite being *cough cough* years old. And I will bleed anybody who hurts my kids.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 30, 2015 10:14 PM (mx5oN)

95 >>Is he still dead?

Posted by: RioBravo


We're not sure. He keeps voting for democrats.

Posted by: Aviator at March 30, 2015 10:14 PM (sQzB6)

96 If by twist into a circle you mean they totally ignore that and still scream HOMOPHOBIA,...... Then,yes...that.
Posted by: fixerupper at March 30, 2015 10:04 PM (JmjOe)


Lot's of "but, but, buts"

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at March 30, 2015 10:14 PM (+Fae7)

97 It's an old article and the screen on his phone is too small to see the date. We might be in the same age group.


LOL. Circa '62.
Sorry all.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2015 10:14 PM (t43dZ)

98 So I have in my possession a Ronald Reagan and Family paper doll book that we found while going through my grandparents' belongings after their deaths.

Grandma was a democrat, but she loved her some Ronnie.

Posted by: Lauren at March 30, 2015 10:14 PM (MYCIw)

99 I missed the Harry Reid thread, but I'm convinced his story is bullshit and easily disproven.

I read his account: the exercise band "snapped" causing him to be "flung" in to a filing cabinet.

Here's the thing. When an exercise band snaps or even comes untied from whatever its anchored to, that would happen while you're putting pressure on it by pulling on it, right?

And if it snapped, Harry would have been expected to fall backwards, correct? Yet he broke 4 ribs on the front of his body. And if the band did snap and he accidentally punched himself in the face or the band hit him in the eye to the point where he had to have reconstructive surgery (and, according to his office, suffered from a concussion), how strong is this 75 year old guy?

An elastic exercise band wouldn't be able to break the bones around an eye socket, and if it was his fist, wouldn't we expect him to had injured that and probably broken a bone or two in his hands / fingers?

After all, face bones are much stronger than finger bones.

Someone should do a dramatic reconstruction video of Harry Reids account of his accident to show how ridiculous it is.

Posted by: mynewhandle at March 30, 2015 10:15 PM (AkOaV)

100 Dang. I thought the photo was Texas Bell Tower...

Posted by: Adriane the History Critic ... at March 30, 2015 10:15 PM (nSOh+)

101 We are now reporting that King Tutankhamun has passed away quietly in Egypt this evening.

Posted by: CNN at March 30, 2015 10:15 PM (Dwehj)

102 That wasn't creepy or anything..."



No, not at all.


Posted by: Ricardo Kill
*********************

Seemed fine to me.

Posted by: Roman Polanski at March 30, 2015 10:16 PM (F0Cog)

103 Posted by: mynewhandle at March 30, 2015 10:15 PM (AkOaV)

Yup. If an exercise band snaps back it stings like a bitch but it doesn't break bones.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 30, 2015 10:16 PM (mx5oN)

104 Way too much content

Posted by: guy who's never satisfied at March 30, 2015 10:17 PM (KG0mU)

105 My dad was the ultimate scary dad. Wore a pinstripe suit and never smiled. Some of my brothers friends made up a story that we had to move to Minneapolis from Detroit because of some Mob deal. No one questioned that story.

Posted by: Robinson at March 30, 2015 10:17 PM (W2Cji)

106
Fracking is hard - because you need more than just oil in the ground.



And because:

Tower Of Power - Only So Much Oil in the Ground

https://youtu.be/uRNqleXEoFw

Great song.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 30, 2015 10:17 PM (kdS6q)

107 "
We are now reporting that King Tutankhamun has passed away quietly in Egypt this evening."


He died so young.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 30, 2015 10:17 PM (iWlfa)

108 We are now reporting that King Tutankhamun has passed away quietly in Egypt this evening.
Posted by: CNN



I see AoSHQ's Comedy Club is up and running.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2015 10:17 PM (t43dZ)

109 LOL. Circa '62.

Sorry all.

I feel your pain brother.

Posted by: dartist at March 30, 2015 10:18 PM (ahBY0)

110 >>> He will not just shut the hell up and let his guest get out a single complete sentence before insinuating himself into whatever the interviewee is talking about.
Posted by: Kreplach at March 30, 2015 10:08 PM (0fmtZ)

Yeah, basically another Brian Williams. He's also annoyingly hyper like Robin Williams used to be when he wasn't dead.

Posted by: L, Elle at March 30, 2015 10:18 PM (2x3L+)

111 Yeah, Reid's story is bullshit.


Somebody got to him.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 30, 2015 10:18 PM (iWlfa)

112 107 "
We are now reporting that King Tutankhamun has passed away quietly in Egypt this evening."


He died so young.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 30, 2015 10:17 PM (iWlfa)

Still here, bitchez!

Posted by: Abe Vigoda at March 30, 2015 10:18 PM (mx5oN)

113
Or the version on Sooooooul Train:

Tower Of Power "Only So Much Oil In The Ground" [Soul Train 1975]

https://youtu.be/NdddOtnptpo

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 30, 2015 10:18 PM (kdS6q)

114 Have they named the NSA gate ram guys yet?

That's what I'm waiting for, ThunderB.

Posted by: no good deed at March 30, 2015 10:18 PM (ZKGnj)

115 Is Franco still dead? Aint heard much about him lately.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 30, 2015 10:19 PM (ucDmr)

116 @82 Lauren,

"he had to shave his beard and now he looks 12."

I just grew a beard. If I had some middle east garb on I would like a terrorist. But with the jeans I look like a biker (which I'm not), a refugee from ZZ Top, or a backwoods redneck (which I am). It just adds to the scary Daddy "effect".

Posted by: The Walking Dude at March 30, 2015 10:19 PM (LffmZ)

117 This whole business against Indiana is an example of the "2 minute hate".

Illinois, right next door, has the same law in effect, but it was passed back in the '90's when the federal law passed.

And now the little runt mayor of Chicago is running ads touting Illinois over Indiana because, those hoosiers are haters.

Posted by: Boots at March 30, 2015 10:19 PM (l9mF2)

118 Yeah, Reid's story is bullshit.


Somebody got to him.


Posted by: Ricardo Kill

***
Did he have any prize racing horses? No? Well that explains it.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 30, 2015 10:19 PM (F0Cog)

119 Thank you thank you.
V! Count 'em: V! Q's OtD

Posted by: JohnnyBoy at March 30, 2015 10:19 PM (KG0mU)

120 Yep. And that SS agent was packing a micro Uzi.
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at March 30, 2015 10:04 PM (Wo9OY)

Micro Uzi, micro aggression, micro brewery. FUCK everything is micro I want grande size

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 30, 2015 10:20 PM (u/Asb)

121 Hoooooorde!!!

How goes it?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 30, 2015 10:20 PM (GEICT)

122 Have they named the NSA gate ram guys yet?



Bob "Daisy" Jones & Tim "Bernadette" Smith.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2015 10:20 PM (t43dZ)

123 Posted by: Insomniac at March 30, 2015 10:16 PM (mx5oN)

I mean I've had my ass kicked a few times, and I've kicked other peoples asses a few times, I have a pretty good idea of how much force is required to break bones around an eye socket.

And the answer is a fuckton. Like the guy who hit you most likely has to have pins put in to his knuckles because he just broke half the bones in his hand.

That's WAY more pressure then I'd (as a young guy who works out) ever exert on an exercise band, and would ever be ABLE to exert on an exercise band.

I don't buy the mafia thing either though... My guess is it was something mundane but embarrassing. He got drunk and fell face first up the stairs or something and was so inebriated his reflexes were too slow for him to throw his hands out to catch himself.

Posted by: mynewhandle at March 30, 2015 10:20 PM (AkOaV)

124 Still here

Posted by: Abe Vigoda at March 30, 2015 10:20 PM (zOTsN)

125 >>Yeah, Reid's story is bullshit.

Somebody got to him.


Hey. The guy fell down and I caught him. With my fist. Several times. Then I helped him up. With my foot. In his ribs.

Posted by: Guido at March 30, 2015 10:20 PM (sQzB6)

126 Our local paper, a shamelessly, proudly, Progressive rag ( a Gannett publication) ran this cartoon today. Progs everywhere will applaud it of course, not understanding that Obama is NOT the 'Commander' of anyone other than the armed forces.

I will not comment on the title of the cartoon.
http://tinyurl.com/pzclqwg


Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2015 10:20 PM (F2IAQ)

127 I attended my second funeral in two weeks today. A lively woman who was as kind as the day is long. Her grandson gave the eulogy and asked that everyone stand and give her a standing ovation. So heartfelt and wonderful.
Could you imagine if everyone did jazz hands?

This world has become ridiculous.

Posted by: mpfs at March 30, 2015 10:20 PM (si/E8)

128 Dennis Hopper is still dead, lying on that highway next to Peter Fonda, but Abe Vigoda is alive.

http://www.abevigoda.com/

Posted by: mindful webworker - Elton John status unclear at March 30, 2015 10:21 PM (ACs58)

129 Bob "Daisy" Jones & Tim "Bernadette" Smith.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2015 10:20 PM (t43dZ)
-----
They were upset by the hatin' Hoosiers.

Posted by: RioBravo at March 30, 2015 10:21 PM (NUqwG)

130 54
I read that as a mother trying to make her child feel proud of himself. That what mothers do. Not a big deal and now blown completely out of proportion. Now everyone has hurt feelings and axes to grind in the social media.

Posted by: Tuna at March 30, 2015 10:21 PM (JSovD)

131
"Only So Much Oil in the Ground"

Such a prophetic song!

Ranks up there with "Age of Aquarius"

But it do funk!

Posted by: JohnnyBoy at March 30, 2015 10:21 PM (KG0mU)

132 I find your lack of faith in my vital bodily lubricants disturbing, Citizens.

Posted by: Friend Computer at March 30, 2015 10:21 PM (SFpiC)

133 "I just grew a beard. If I had some middle east garb
on I would like a terrorist. But with the jeans I look like a biker
(which I'm not), a refugee from ZZ Top, or a backwoods redneck (which I
am). It just adds to the scary Daddy "effect".





Posted by: The Walking Dude"

I had a beard once. Someone told me it made me look like Hank Williams Jr., so I shaved it off the next day.....

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at March 30, 2015 10:21 PM (Wo9OY)

134 85
Many of the people who voted for Regan twice are dead, and those who voted for TFG twice weren't alive

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 30, 2015 10:12 PM (u/Asb)



The same people who voted for Reagan twice voted for Obama twice.

They just weren't aware of it, being dead and all.

Posted by: rickl at March 30, 2015 10:21 PM (sdi6R)

135 And the answer is a fuckton. Like the guy who hit you most likely has to have pins put in to his knuckles because he just broke half the bones in his hand.
------------------

Always go for the soft parts.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2015 10:22 PM (F2IAQ)

136 Speaking of Robin Williams, it looks like the wife and kids are fighting over his clothes and things. No link because who gives a shit.

Posted by: dartist at March 30, 2015 10:22 PM (ahBY0)

137
115 Is Franco still dead? Aint heard much about him lately.
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 30, 2015 1

How was the play Mrs. Lincoln?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 30, 2015 10:22 PM (u/Asb)

138 Kim Kardashian is the only who looks very different in her high school picture. Man, her surgeon is something else.

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at March 30, 2015 10:23 PM (1UKDk)

139 AshevilleRobert - Did you see my note re Grayfox last night?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2015 10:23 PM (F2IAQ)

140 20 I hate Jimmy Fallon.
Posted by: eleven at March 30, 2015 09:58 PM (MDgS


I stopped watching late night talk shows, with the exception of Craig Ferguson occasionally, a long time ago. It isn't just that they target conservatives, it's that they're so patronizing about it. What's particularly galling is that a good share of their "jokes" about conservatives aren't the least bit funny. The jokes aren't there to be funny, they're there to drive home a political agenda.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 30, 2015 10:23 PM (agnOR)

141 Ynot

Me too!!!! (I follow because I'm waiting for the final meltdown)

Posted by: phoenixgirl at March 30, 2015 10:23 PM (u8GsB)

142 Yes, it takes a fuckton of force to break an eye socket.

Posted by: Tony "Fuckton" LaCosa at March 30, 2015 10:23 PM (KG0mU)

143 Also not dead

Posted by: Betty white at March 30, 2015 10:23 PM (zOTsN)

144 "Hey. The guy fell down and I caught him. With my fist. Several times. Then I helped him up. With my foot. In his ribs."


That was very nice of you, Guido, helping out an old man like that.


Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 30, 2015 10:23 PM (iWlfa)

145 Yes, it takes a fuckton of force to break an eye socket.




Or a normal punch with brass knuckles.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2015 10:24 PM (t43dZ)

146 Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2015 10:22 PM (F2IAQ)

Yeah. But a punch to the nose leaves a VERY distinct raccoon eye look.

Posted by: mynewhandle at March 30, 2015 10:24 PM (AkOaV)

147 >>Me too!!!! (I follow because I'm waiting for the final meltdown)

He's so creepy. I bet he has bad breath, too.

Posted by: Y-not at March 30, 2015 10:24 PM (9BRsg)

148 "Speaking of Robin Williams, it looks like the wife and kids are fighting
over his clothes and things. No link because who gives a shit."


Heh.


Maybe some small insight into why he said "Fcuk this" and offed himself.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 30, 2015 10:25 PM (iWlfa)

149 I've got one on you Robinson. My dad was a funeral director. You hurt my daughters they'll never find your body. He meant it. God, I loved that man.

Posted by: mpfs at March 30, 2015 10:25 PM (si/E8)

150 "AshevilleRobert - Did you see my note re Grayfox last night?

Posted by: Mike Hammer"

Yes, I mentioned that upthread when I responded to your Secret Service comment. Meetup sounds great.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at March 30, 2015 10:25 PM (Wo9OY)

151 I find your lack of faith in my vital bodily lubricants disturbing, Citizens. Posted by: Friend Computer

Oh, you saw "Her" too.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo contemplates the abyss at March 30, 2015 10:25 PM (AVEe1)

152 123 Ya'll just don't understand. Exercise band broke when he was fapping in the stairwell, with the band looped around his neck for oxygen deprivation. Standing on one foot to add to the excitement. Being smacked in the face by the band handle and falling down the stairs explains everything.

Posted by: Edmund Burke's Shade, stranded with the fruits and nuts in Krazyfornia at March 30, 2015 10:25 PM (cmBvC)

153 Hey! Hey! I, I, I, I'm alive as as well...I...don't see anybody, um, even, even noticing that.

Posted by: Jeff Goldblum at March 30, 2015 10:25 PM (mx5oN)

154 136
Didn't you know it would come down to that. 3 wives with children by 2 of them. Lots of bad feelings and grabby hands.

Posted by: Tuna at March 30, 2015 10:25 PM (JSovD)

155 If by twist into a circle you mean they totally ignore that and still scream HOMOPHOBIA,...... Then,yes...that.

Saw some "but other states have a law is the new global warming isn't real because it's snowing" on the Twitter.

FFS.

Posted by: HR finally drinking a beer at March 30, 2015 10:25 PM (rHXGG)

156
Instapundit on minimum wage increase demands versus robotic automation




Libertarian lawyer with lifetime tenure at a university run on government checks, who uses unpaid graduate students in his research, lectures everybody else on free labor markets.

Indeed.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 30, 2015 10:25 PM (kdS6q)

157 Kim Kardashian is the only who looks very different in her high school picture.

Yeah, I didn't recognize Paris Hilton either. I'm kind of proud of that.

Posted by: no good deed at March 30, 2015 10:26 PM (ZKGnj)

158 Old joke told by comedian Buddy Hackett. Frank Sinatra saved his life on night. He told his guys they could stop punching Hackett

Posted by: Betty white at March 30, 2015 10:26 PM (zOTsN)

159 The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

Posted by: Cro-Magnon Man at March 30, 2015 10:26 PM (Dwehj)

160 Yes, it takes a fuckton of force to break an eye socket.

Or a normal punch with brass knuckles.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2015 10:24 PM (t43dZ)


...or a very motivated 9 year old...

Posted by: Free Candy Van! at March 30, 2015 10:26 PM (0Ew3K)

161 "Someone told me it made me look like Hank Williams Jr., so I shaved it off the next day....."

Afraid of rowdy friends attacking?

My husband looked like a viking with his beard. He's really, really blonde, but his beard is a bit red. He also grew his hair out on a lark for the past year or so, so it really completed the look. The funny part is that he had his driver's license renewed during that time period, so now it looks like he stole his big brother's license or something.

Posted by: Lauren at March 30, 2015 10:26 PM (MYCIw)

162 Or a normal punch with brass knuckles.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2015 10:24 PM (t43dZ)

Well, yeah, if you bring brass knuckles in to the equation or even something like a glass beer bottle, anything is possible. Broken faces, broken ribs, broken Senate careers...

But fists alone? More specifically, Harrys hand as it snapped back due to a faulty elastic band? Eh...

Posted by: mynewhandle at March 30, 2015 10:27 PM (AkOaV)

163
All I know is this country has gone to total shit since Johnny Carson left the tonite show....

Posted by: fixerupper at March 30, 2015 10:27 PM (JmjOe)

164 138 Kim Kardashian is the only who looks very different in her high school picture. Man, her surgeon is something else.
------------------------------------------------

At least she isn't using Michael Jackson's surgeon. Or anesthesiologist.

Posted by: Boots at March 30, 2015 10:27 PM (l9mF2)

165 "Our local paper, a shamelessly, proudly, Progressive
rag ( a Gannett publication) ...


Posted by: Mike Hammer"

And a few days ago they had an article about how the emergency room at the local hospital was losing millions. Nowhere in the article were the words "Illegal" or "Undocumented".

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at March 30, 2015 10:27 PM (Wo9OY)

166

Yeah, I didn't recognize Paris Hilton either. I'm kind of proud of that.

----

I'm proud of that, too.

Posted by: Paris Hilton's Surgeon at March 30, 2015 10:27 PM (1UKDk)

167 Ah, I shoulda searched to see if I was beat to the punchline.

Still here, bitchez!
Posted by: Abe Vigoda at March 30, 2015 10:18 PM

Posted by: mindful webworker - oot oot eet eet at March 30, 2015 10:27 PM (ACs58)

168 Evening all. I found out today that my primary car has developed 2 holes in the intake manifold. Not the gasket, the actual manifold.

How in the bloody hell is that even possible?

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 30, 2015 10:28 PM (3F6F8)

169 I find it funny that my workplace's overseas offices are taking Good Friday off as a holiday ... but not the US.

They're not even Christian countries, for crying out loud ... (but are ex-British colonies).

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at March 30, 2015 10:28 PM (0NdlF)

170 Yes, I mentioned that upthread when I responded to your Secret Service comment. Meetup sounds great.
Posted by: AshevilleRobert
-----------------

Haven't tried to contact him yet, and not sure what part of town he resides in, so we'll see. Maybe a Sat. morning coffee.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2015 10:28 PM (F2IAQ)

171 >>That was very nice of you, Guido, helping out an old man like that.


Sometimes I help old ladies across the street too.
If they want to go or not.

Posted by: Guido at March 30, 2015 10:28 PM (sQzB6)

172 Instapundit on minimum wage increase demands versus robotic automation


Libertarian lawyer with lifetime tenure at a university run on government checks, who uses unpaid graduate students in his research, lectures everybody else on free labor markets.

Indeed.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 30, 2015 10:25 PM (kdS6q)


Я твой слуга.

Я твой работник.

Posted by: Graduate Students Everywhere at March 30, 2015 10:28 PM (0Ew3K)

173 158
You know I'm sure I rember him telling that one on Johnny Carson. Yes, I'm that old that I remember when comedians were actually funny.

Posted by: Tuna at March 30, 2015 10:28 PM (JSovD)

174 I seriously thought they used a preschool picture of Paris as a joke, since she actually dropped out super young (I want to say eighth or ninth grade, but not sure)

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at March 30, 2015 10:29 PM (1UKDk)

175 How in the bloody hell is that even possible?
Posted by: ManWithNoParty
----------------

Many are plastic(!) these days. Is yours?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2015 10:29 PM (F2IAQ)

176 Well, yeah, if you bring brass knuckles in to the equation or even something like a glass beer bottle, anything is possible. Broken faces, broken ribs, broken Senate careers...

But fists alone? More specifically, Harrys hand as it snapped back due to a faulty elastic band?
Eh...



Hillary is well known for chunking glass ashtrays. Maybe Reid said he wouldn't back her run, she flipped, trashed him, then threatened to drop a dime if he didn't retire?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2015 10:30 PM (t43dZ)

177 Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 30, 2015 10:28 PM (3F6F

Rust?

I don't know, it's not atypical. I've replaced a few manifolds in my time.

Posted by: mynewhandle at March 30, 2015 10:30 PM (AkOaV)

178 I understand that if you have a roll of quarters in your hand when you hit someone in the face the damage is a bit more intense. I forget where I heard this.

Posted by: fairweatherbill at March 30, 2015 10:30 PM (w1pz5)

179 168
Exercise bands?

Posted by: Tuna at March 30, 2015 10:30 PM (JSovD)

180 @172


Can't copy and paste the Cyrillic. And ampersands.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 30, 2015 10:31 PM (iWlfa)

181 I stopped watching late night talk shows, with the exception of Craig Ferguson occasionally, a long time ago. It isn't just that they target conservatives, it's that they're so patronizing about it. What's particularly galling is that a good share of their "jokes" about conservatives aren't the least bit funny. The jokes aren't there to be funny, they're there to drive home a political agenda.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 30, 2015 10:23 PM

It isn't just the politics. Ferguson is entertaining. The others aren't. Ferguson will get guests, wing it during the segment and usually manages to bring the funny. He doesn't go with the usual angle, he'll let them plug whatever their latest thing is for a minute, then it's something weird or funny that he knows you are interested in hearing about.

Posted by: otho at March 30, 2015 10:31 PM (tBSrv)

182 Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2015 10:30 PM (t43dZ)

I don't know if the Hillary beats Harry up at New Years Eve Rager angle makes a ton of sense to me...

Now, if it were BILL and this happened, yeah, totally buy it.

Posted by: mynewhandle at March 30, 2015 10:31 PM (AkOaV)

183 "Evening all. I found out today that my primary car
has developed 2 holes in the intake manifold. Not the gasket, the actual
manifold.



How in the bloody hell is that even possible?

Posted by: ManWithNoParty"

Manifold weevils.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at March 30, 2015 10:31 PM (Wo9OY)

184 168 Evening all. I found out today that my primary car has developed 2 holes in the intake manifold. Not the gasket, the actual manifold.

How in the bloody hell is that even possible?
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 30, 2015 10:28 PM (3F6F

Time for a second look?
I've never heard of this but I will admit not a mechanic

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 30, 2015 10:31 PM (U2utM)

185 Y-not he's not right in the head

Posted by: phoenixgirl at March 30, 2015 10:31 PM (u8GsB)

186 My thoughts on the Down syndrome story above. First seems like a first amendment issue. Two publis school administrators suck. Three, that principle is an asshole. Four, the world sucks often.

Posted by: SH at March 30, 2015 10:31 PM (lZhjO)

187 I've replaced a few manifolds in my time.

You will take the manifolds I give you.

Posted by: grisha perelman at March 30, 2015 10:32 PM (AVEe1)

188 178 I understand that if you have a roll of quarters in your hand when you hit someone in the face the damage is a bit more intense. I forget where I heard this.
Posted by: fairweatherbill at March 30, 2015 10:30 PM (w1pz5)

I think that's a movie trope.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 30, 2015 10:32 PM (mx5oN)

189 " I found out today that my primary car

has developed 2 holes in the intake manifold"


What kind of car?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 30, 2015 10:32 PM (iWlfa)

190 Posted by: fairweatherbill at March 30, 2015 10:30 PM (w1pz5)

It supports your fingers so it hurts you (the hitter) less which allows you to hit the hittee harder. In theory. I don't know how well it works, and it sounds like an alternative way to break some fingers.

Posted by: mynewhandle at March 30, 2015 10:32 PM (AkOaV)

191 How the hell did that partial sock get there?

Posted by: cthulhu at March 30, 2015 10:32 PM (T1005)

192 34 CNN reporting Dennis Hopper has died
-------------------------
Still kickin', bitches

Posted by: Abe Vigoda at March 30, 2015 10:33 PM (idmwx)

193 "Haven't tried to contact him yet, and not sure what part of town he resides in, so we'll see. Maybe a Sat. morning coffee.

Posted by: Mike Hammer"

You can let me know at boycottchina1 at gmail com

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at March 30, 2015 10:33 PM (Wo9OY)

194 I understand that if you have a roll of quarters in your hand when you hit someone in the face the damage is a bit more intense. I forget where I heard this.

People trying to sell you a roll of quarters for $15?

Posted by: Adriane the Fiscal Policy Critic ... at March 30, 2015 10:33 PM (nSOh+)

195 I'm sure I'm not the only one here who has spent more years in shitty bars than they care to admit but you'll break your hand breaking an eye socket without some help from something harder.

Posted by: dartist at March 30, 2015 10:33 PM (ahBY0)

196 Evening all. I found out today that my primary car has developed 2 holes in the intake manifold. Not the gasket, the actual manifold.
How in the bloody hell is that even possible?
Posted by: ManWithNoParty


Weak casting? Thin spots. Age.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2015 10:33 PM (t43dZ)

197 188 178 I understand that if you have a roll of quarters in your hand when you hit someone in the face the damage is a bit more intense. I forget where I heard this.

Posted by: fairweatherbill at March 30, 2015 10:30 PM (w1pz5)

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I think that's a movie trope.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 30, 2015 10:32 PM (mx5oN)


It's actually true. Buddy of mine got hit by a guy with a roll of quarters in his fist. It broke his jaw in two places.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 30, 2015 10:34 PM (GEICT)

198 168: Ethanol.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 30, 2015 10:34 PM (ucDmr)

199 92
@61



The problem is that at this point, is it has permeated the
mainstream consciousness, for the worse. Most people don't even know,
nor care, that this particular law is on the books in many other states.
Most people don't even know, nor care, that there is a federal law that
states nearly the same thing, and that it was signed into law by their
hero Billy Jeff Clinton.



So, we can prove this, that, and the other till the cows come home.
Perception is reality in this case. People are going to believe what
they are going to believe. I really don't think there is anything that
could come out, that would make those people change their minds.

Posted by: Tickled Pink at March 30, 2015 10:14 PM (FNlbs)


Actually, it sounds like NPR is doing a rear-guard action for the SJW on this "well, it's true that this was a big Dem thing with Clinton and Schumer, but this time it's different....."

Posted by: cthulhu at March 30, 2015 10:34 PM (T1005)

200 181
Ferguson was also really proud to be an American citizen. He is hilarious, I miss his show. I loved Geoff his sidekick.

Posted by: mpfs at March 30, 2015 10:34 PM (si/E8)

201 I understand that if you have a roll of quarters in your hand when you hit someone in the face the damage is a bit more intense. I forget where I heard this.
Posted by: fairweatherbill at March 30, 2015 10:30 PM (w1pz5)


A Harley crank pin works wonders.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2015 10:34 PM (FMbng)

202 AshvilleRobert - Got it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2015 10:35 PM (F2IAQ)

203 But who will weep for the llamas?

Posted by: filbert at March 30, 2015 10:35 PM (h6Mpm)

204 Posted by: dartist at March 30, 2015 10:33 PM (ahBY0)

Yeah, without a doubt.

And if a 75 year old was getting so aggressive with his elastic band that it broke with such force that he punched himself in the eye socket and broke 4 bones and required reconstructive surgery, wouldn't we expect his hand to be in even worse shape?

Posted by: mynewhandle at March 30, 2015 10:35 PM (AkOaV)

205 Evening all. I found out today that my primary car
has developed 2 holes in the intake manifold. Not the gasket, the actual
manifold.



How in the bloody hell is that even possible?

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 30, 2015 10:28 PM (3F6F


Gas vampires. They are evil. Put a clove of garlic in your tank, and paint a cross on the air filter.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2015 10:35 PM (eenKj)

206 I forget where I heard this.

Stephen King, "The Eye of the Dragon" mentioned this. Not to say that King hadn't, himself, spent some time in shitty bars by this point.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 30, 2015 10:35 PM (AVEe1)

207 It's actually true. Buddy of mine got hit by a guy with a roll of quarters in his fist. It broke his jaw in two places.

Ow!

Posted by: Insomniac at March 30, 2015 10:35 PM (mx5oN)

208 Wasn't Harry Reid all involved in the MLB & NFL business as a senator? Aren't his kids plaintiff attorneys? No lawsuit threats, etc? It doesn't seem right

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 30, 2015 10:36 PM (U2utM)

209 Ricardo Kill: "Can't copy and paste the Cyrillic."

You need http://bit.ly/pixyize to convert Unicode...

Ricardo Kill: "And ampersands."

Never mind.

Posted by: mindful webworker - #twoyears at March 30, 2015 10:36 PM (ACs58)

210 "
168: Ethanol."


Heard of Eth' eating rubber and plastic parts. But a manifold?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 30, 2015 10:36 PM (iWlfa)

211 so is there a reason all those yearbook photos look as if they were taken in the 50s?


I guess damon's yearbook photo solves the question about whether or not his wife is a beard.


megan fox is by far the cutest in the batch. Glad she did not pose with her hand on her face or anywhere we could see her jacked up thumb.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 30, 2015 10:36 PM (gsfK5)

212 Dennis Hopper was one of the OK ones, for the most part.
R.I.P.

Posted by: A judgmental poster at March 30, 2015 10:37 PM (KG0mU)

213
I've come to the realization, somewhat belatedly, that the left doesn't believe in anything. They have no core values. They seek only to destroy, and they value nothing aside from political expediency.


Posted by: Lauren at March 30, 2015 10:07 PM (MYCIw)








Preach it, sister.

As I've been saying years, there's a reason that Che left Cuba so soon after the Revolution. He realized that it was a lot more fun to blow up trains as opposed to making them run on time.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 30, 2015 10:37 PM (ynQIy)

214 In a sane world the gov of state x would not need to ban state travel to state y, because it would never be authorized in the first place.

Posted by: SH at March 30, 2015 10:38 PM (lZhjO)

215 A Harley crank pin works wonders.
Posted by: Berserker
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And...., you find them by the roadside!

Posted by: Triumph rider at March 30, 2015 10:38 PM (F2IAQ)

216 Ow!
Posted by: Insomniac at March 30, 2015 10:35 PM (mx5oN)



Yup. Got sucker punched.

College. Bunch of guys mouthing off at each other at a bar, then in the front yard of a house.

All over a girl of course. My buddy makes some disparaging sarcastic remark about the girl. He says he remembers hearing "That's my sister you son of a bitch!" and then the cops were shaking him awake.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 30, 2015 10:38 PM (GEICT)

217 A Harley crank pin works wonders.
Posted by: Berserker
------
And...., you find them by the roadside!
Posted by: Triumph rider



Ouch.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2015 10:39 PM (t43dZ)

218 >>>It's actually true. Buddy of mine got hit by a guy with a roll of quarters in his fist. It broke his jaw in two places.

Yeah, that one's true. Not saying how I know.

And good evening horde.

Posted by: DC in River City at March 30, 2015 10:39 PM (e+1S5)

219 Frickin' Big Mike.

The Mike episode a few weeks ago was awesome. Tonight he's carrying on.

Loveable good/bad guy.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 30, 2015 10:39 PM (iWlfa)

220 54 Has anyone seen this story about the Down Syndrome student who was asked to take the varsity letter off his letter jacket?

Of course, the story they are running with is he was told not to wear the jacket at all, which isn't true. He was asked to remove the varsity letter from it, as he is not a varsity athlete.

http://tinyurl.com/q9crlxn

Thoughts?
Posted by: Tickled Pink at March 30, 2015 10:05 PM (FNlbs)


I used to think that letting kids like that was okay, but now it's gotten to the point where it is expected.

I've gotten surprised that they haven't started giving out letters for phs ed classes. I mean, if you played basketball in PE, it's the same as playing a school 2 hours away in front of several thousand people.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at March 30, 2015 10:39 PM (+Fae7)

221 Many are plastic(!) these days. Is yours?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2015 10:29 PM (F2IAQ)

******

It is, but holes are at the top of the intake right after the hose that comes in from the air filter. This is not exactly a wear point as nothing touches it. I JB Welded them tonight, will see if it works in the morning. Also pulled neg battery cable to make sure ECM zeros out.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 30, 2015 10:39 PM (XrHO0)

222 Roll of quarters works. Oilfield bars I've seen guys with short chunks of sucker rod do the same thing.

Posted by: fairweatherbill at March 30, 2015 10:39 PM (Wlght)

223 Dennis hopper was discriminated as the town drunk in Hoosiers.

Posted by: SH at March 30, 2015 10:39 PM (lZhjO)

224 Evening all. I found out today that my primary car
has developed 2 holes in the intake manifold. Not the gasket, the actual
manifold.



How in the bloody hell is that even possible?

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 30, 2015 10:28 PM (3F6F


Is it a plastic manifold? They do exist from what I hear.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2015 10:39 PM (FMbng)

225 Ewww cycle wars

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 30, 2015 10:39 PM (U2utM)

226 All over a girl of course. My buddy makes some disparaging sarcastic remark about the girl. He says he remembers hearing "That's my sister you son of a bitch!" and then the cops were shaking him awake.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 30, 2015 10:38 PM (GEICT)

he got sucker punched by his uncle?

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 30, 2015 10:40 PM (gsfK5)

227 210: Alot of manifolds are composites now. Who knows. I won't use that shit in anything I own. It is fucking evil. It turns to water over time. It is shit. Thanks Iowa.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 30, 2015 10:40 PM (ucDmr)

228 186
Indeed. The school admin should have had a short conversation with the complaining mother that the Down Syndrome kid's mom was trying to make her kid feel good about himself and how about a little kindness and understanding. Really, with all the things wrong with the world today how does this little gesture really affect your child's accomplishments?

Posted by: Tuna at March 30, 2015 10:40 PM (JSovD)

229
221 ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise

ECM? Your vehicle has Electronic Counter Measures?

That is TOO cool!

Posted by: A judgmental poster at March 30, 2015 10:42 PM (KG0mU)

230 It's actually true. Buddy of mine got hit by a guy with a roll of quarters in his fist. It broke his jaw in two places.

Jaws are easier to break than heads. Remember, there are bones on the outside of those quarters you're holding. I read that in a book that was in a gun case that was in a canoe that got tipped over in a storm on a lake one time.

Posted by: dartist at March 30, 2015 10:42 PM (ahBY0)

231 133
"I just grew a beard. If I had some middle east garb

on I would like a terrorist. But with the jeans I look like a biker

(which I'm not), a refugee from ZZ Top, or a backwoods redneck (which I

am). It just adds to the scary Daddy "effect".









Posted by: The Walking Dude"

I had a beard once. Someone told me it made me look like Hank Williams Jr., so I shaved it off the next day.....


Posted by: AshevilleRobert at March 30, 2015 10:21 PM (Wo9OY)


Occasionally, I'll let the beard grow out some....but, just at the same time it starts to get annoyingly itchy, it also reminds me of how blotchy it's coloration is and how much its patchiness makes me look like I've got radiation sickness....

Today was one of those days.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 30, 2015 10:42 PM (T1005)

232 Speaking of Down Syndrome, here's a sweet video of a young man singing He Stopped Loving Her Today with his uncle who has Down Syndrome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LR3xo9L3v4

Posted by: Lauren at March 30, 2015 10:42 PM (MYCIw)

233 167 Ah, I shoulda searched to see if I was beat to the punchline.
----------
Me, too. I thought I did, but missed it.

I should've gone with:

34 CNN reporting Dennis Hopper has died
----------
No. He's only mostly dead.

Posted by: Miracle Max at March 30, 2015 10:42 PM (idmwx)

234 Of course, the story they are running with is he was told not to wear the jacket at all, which isn't true. He was asked to remove the varsity letter from it, as he is not a varsity athlete.



Yeah, well if I want to wear a letter I didn't earn I will. That principle is a dick and should be mocked mercilessly.

Posted by: SH at March 30, 2015 10:42 PM (lZhjO)

235 "Upon hearing which, millions of ordinary Soviets,
who had a hard time just obtaining basic things like bread that wasn't
moldy and shoes that fit properly, quietly thought to themselves, "Wait,
in capitalist America, they are so rich there is special food just for
cats? What a country!"



Posted by: torquewrench at March 30, 2015 10:12 PM (noWW6)"
The same thing happened earlier with the release of "The Grapes of Wrath"
All these Russians were thinking "Poor Americans can drive half a continent from Oklahoma to California?"

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at March 30, 2015 10:43 PM (V70Uh)

236 ECM? Your vehicle has Electronic Counter Measures?

That is TOO cool!
Posted by: A judgmental poster at March 30, 2015 10:42 PM (KG0mU)

*****

*Shrugs* It's just how I roll.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 30, 2015 10:43 PM (3F6F8)

237 Plastic frigging intake manifolds. What the hell is wrong with humanity?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2015 10:43 PM (FMbng)

238
Jack Reacher breaks bones with his bare hands all the time.

Not Tom Cruise, I mean the REAL Jack Reacher.

Posted by: JohnnyBoy at March 30, 2015 10:44 PM (KG0mU)

239 why would a mom get him a letter jacket with a letter? she hadda know better. as nice as kids are I am sure it was commented on in an unpleasant manner by his classmates.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 30, 2015 10:44 PM (gsfK5)

240 CNN reporting Dennis Hopper has died


This just in: Dennis Hopper's been dead for about 5 years.

Posted by: tu3031 at March 30, 2015 10:44 PM (EDYaR)

241 Who the hell keeps track of dead celebrities?

Posted by: JohnnyBoy at March 30, 2015 10:45 PM (KG0mU)

242 To this day, Peter Fonda thinks he was a hero in "Easy Rider" .

Dennis Hopper knew that they were both dirtbags.


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at March 30, 2015 10:45 PM (V70Uh)

243 Posted by: dartist at March 30, 2015 10:42 PM (ahBY0)

One of my cop buddies has joked in the past that the old school cops used to beat up suspects with phone books since the book apparently dissipates the energy enough that it still hurts a lot but doesn't leave a bruise.

Not sure if it's true or not or where he heard it from, or if the cops in his town were actually doing that.

Posted by: mynewhandle at March 30, 2015 10:45 PM (AkOaV)

244 couldn't someone have gotten the kid a job as waterboy or something that would make him part of a team and eventually earn him a letter?

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 30, 2015 10:45 PM (gsfK5)

245 This is not exactly a wear point as nothing touches it. I JB Welded them tonight, will see if it works in the morning. Also pulled neg battery cable to make sure ECM zeros out.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty
----------------

That's what I would have tried. Otherwise...., new manifold. I'm sure it's easy to get to...., I mean just a few dozen wires/hoses/crap/fuel lines all over it.

*longs for the days when there was just a carb and distributor *

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2015 10:45 PM (F2IAQ)

246 If no one mention this, Micro Uzis didn't come on the scene until about '86. It was a Mini Uzi (introduced in '80) , which the SS agent was using in the action photo.

Unless he was one of them there time-traveling government agents.

Posted by: David Rappaport at March 30, 2015 10:46 PM (PWIBc)

247 Posted by: dartist at March 30, 2015 10:42 PM (ahBY0)

One of my cop buddies has joked in the past that the old school cops used to beat up suspects with phone books since the book apparently dissipates the energy enough that it still hurts a lot but doesn't leave a bruise.

Not sure if it's true or not or where he heard it from, or if the cops in his town were actually doing that.
Posted by: mynewhandle at March 30, 2015 10:45 PM (AkOaV)

all you need is a sack of oranges.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 30, 2015 10:46 PM (gsfK5)

248 I've come to the realization, somewhat belatedly, that the left doesn't believe in anything. They have no core values. They seek only to destroy, and they value nothing aside from political expediency.

They just want to control our lives.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 30, 2015 10:46 PM (agnOR)

249 why would a mom get him a letter jacket with a letter? she hadda know better. as nice as kids are I am sure it was commented on in an unpleasant manner by his classmates.



Prbly because it made her son feel good. Some kids are dicks too and mock. Most are probably nice and thought it cool. But the kids who mock are just that kids. The principle is supposed to be an adult. Hes a dick.

Posted by: SH at March 30, 2015 10:47 PM (lZhjO)

250
A Harley crank pin works wonders.
Posted by: Berserker
------
And...., you find them by the roadside!
Posted by: Triumph rider










Made me think of an old HD magazine ad, showed a giant blow-up balloon of a Harley at Sturgis (like a Macy's Parade balloon), with crowds of people around it. The caption read "at least this one doesn't leak oil".

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 30, 2015 10:47 PM (ynQIy)

251 Not sure if it's true or not or where he heard it from, or if the cops in his town were actually doing that.

Posted by: mynewhandle at March 30, 2015 10:45 PM (AkOaV)



Sock full of sand

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 30, 2015 10:47 PM (GEICT)

252 Indiana wants me . Lord I can't go back there.

Posted by: Tim Cook's SJW at March 30, 2015 10:47 PM (W5DcG)

253 Posted by: yankeefifth at March 30, 2015 10:46 PM (gsfK5)

Well, at the very least I think we can surprise that it wasn't the crooked cops who beat Harry Reid up, since they would be smart enough to not leave any obvious marks on him and force him to make up a stupid story about an elastic band.

Posted by: mynewhandle at March 30, 2015 10:47 PM (AkOaV)

254 Not sure if it's true or not or where he heard it from, or if the cops in his town were actually doing that.
Posted by: mynewhandle
-----------------------------

Soft leather pouch, #8 shot.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2015 10:47 PM (F2IAQ)

255 all you need is a sack of oranges.
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 30, 2015 10:46

A healthy beat down

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 30, 2015 10:48 PM (U2utM)

256 I was told there would be no Latin.

Posted by: Jim in Virginia at March 30, 2015 10:48 PM (Y4gyP)

257 237: my dad had a Bonneville, the only metal in the engine compartment were the block and heads and their assemblies. The rest of it, not so much.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 30, 2015 10:48 PM (ucDmr)

258 All these Russians were thinking "Poor Americans can drive half a continent from Oklahoma to California?"



It's closer to Los Angeles from El Paso than it it from El Paso to Texarkana.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2015 10:48 PM (t43dZ)

259 Rubber, not plastic, hoses.


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at March 30, 2015 10:48 PM (V70Uh)

260 How in the bloody hell is that even possible?

Posted by: ManWithNoParty"

>>Manifold weevils.
>>Posted by: AshevilleRobert at March 30, 2015 10:31 PM


*clears throat*
Rust Monsters

It's like I don't even know you people any more. smdh

Posted by: Y-not knows her D&D monsters at March 30, 2015 10:48 PM (9BRsg)

261 couldn't someone have gotten the kid a job as waterboy or something that would make him part of a team and eventually earn him a letter


Why the fuck does he need to. Who the fuck is the principle to say that he can't wear - earned or not.

Posted by: SH at March 30, 2015 10:49 PM (lZhjO)

262 The left's one true god is Power.

They worship it, they crave it, it is their highest and only value.

Posted by: filbert at March 30, 2015 10:49 PM (h6Mpm)

263 "Unless he was one of them there time-traveling government agents."


Was it an Ingram?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 30, 2015 10:49 PM (iWlfa)

264 239 why would a mom get him a letter jacket with a letter? she hadda know better. as nice as kids are I am sure it was commented on in an unpleasant manner by his classmates.

---

Probably not, honestly. If it was an ordinary peer, they would comment, but even most high schoolers don't have it in them to pick on a kid with obvious special needs like DS about his jacket.

That kind of assholery takes a Booster Club Mom.

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at March 30, 2015 10:49 PM (1UKDk)

265 They are about equidistant.


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at March 30, 2015 10:49 PM (V70Uh)

266 A healthy beat down
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 30, 2015 10:48 PM (U2utM)

Good point. It would be Michelle Obama approved.

And upon further reflection, phone books probably wouldn't work, because who the hell still has phone books? ...And I sure as hell wouldn't hit someone with my $600 iPhone.

Posted by: mynewhandle at March 30, 2015 10:49 PM (AkOaV)

267 85
68 I still can't quite believe that the nation that elected Ronald Reagan 2x also elected Barky 2x as well.

Posted by: Boots at March 30, 2015


The lefty indoctrination in the public schools and the universities has been successful.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 30, 2015 10:50 PM (agnOR)

268
Did anyone else look at that SS/Uzi guy and think "Tactical Saturday Night Fever"?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 30, 2015 10:50 PM (ynQIy)

269 That's what I would have tried. Otherwise...., new manifold. I'm sure it's easy to get to...., I mean just a few dozen wires/hoses/crap/fuel lines all over it.

*longs for the days when there was just a carb and distributor *
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2015 10:45 PM (F2IAQ)

******

Yep. This is an 04 Taurus in otherwise outstanding condition with low miles for age. Ford Dealer wanted $1200.00 for the part and $480.00 for labor.

Yeah, about that.....no.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 30, 2015 10:50 PM (XrHO0)

270 Just had a wonderful early birthday dinner with wife and one of the college age daughters at a terrific Nola seafood place . Oysters on the half shell, drum, hush puppies, fried bread , chocolate cheesecake .
Life is good.

Posted by: Jim in Virginia at March 30, 2015 10:50 PM (Y4gyP)

271 all you need is a sack of oranges.


Sock with bars of soap. Prison trick. Have seen it in action.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2015 10:51 PM (t43dZ)

272 That kind of assholery takes a Booster Club Mom.



According to the article it took a prick publi school administrator.

Posted by: SH at March 30, 2015 10:51 PM (lZhjO)

273 Ford Dealer wanted $1200.00 for the part and $480.00 for labor.

Yeah, about that.....no.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 30, 2015 10:50 PM (XrHO0)

Ouch.

Posted by: mynewhandle at March 30, 2015 10:51 PM (AkOaV)

274 253
Whoever beat him up probably gave him the elastic band story too because I don't think Harry could think that one up by himself.

Posted by: Tuna at March 30, 2015 10:51 PM (JSovD)

275 Prbly because it made her son feel good. Some kids are dicks too and mock. Most are probably nice and thought it cool. But the kids who mock are just that kids. The principle is supposed to be an adult. Hes a dick.
Posted by: SH at March 30, 2015 10:47 PM (lZhjO)

I am fine with giving him a helping hand and making him a part of a team but you have to earn the letter. I am sure he is not getting straight As to make him feel good.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 30, 2015 10:51 PM (gsfK5)

276 "Rust Monsters"


Around Salt Lake, sure.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 30, 2015 10:51 PM (iWlfa)

277 So the New host of the daily show does is an anti Semitic.

Trevornoah: Almost bumped a Jewish kid crossing the road. He didn't look b4 crossing but I still would hav felt so bad in my german car!

Trevornoah: Messi gets the ball and the real players try foul him, but Messi doesn't go down easy, just like jewish chicks. ElClasico

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 30, 2015 10:51 PM (CxEX+)

278 You spend 23 hours driving from San Diego to El Paso and another 23 hours driving across Texas.


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at March 30, 2015 10:51 PM (V70Uh)

279 Prison trick. Have seen it in action.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2015 10:51 PM (t43dZ)

Oh yeah? Did she REALLY look 18 or was that just something you said to the judge?

Posted by: mynewhandle at March 30, 2015 10:52 PM (AkOaV)

280 Grampa Jimbo: "The same thing happened earlier with the release of 'The Grapes of Wrath' - All these Russians were thinking 'Poor Americans can drive half a continent from Oklahoma to California?'"

The propagandists lived well enough they didn't know how the proles would view it? Or they believed their own propaganda and thought the proles were all well off?

Reminds me of Ill Presidente pretending to be jus' like reg'lar folks, talking about the price of arugula at Whole Foods.

Posted by: mindful webworker - reader between the lines at March 30, 2015 10:52 PM (ACs58)

281 Why the fuck does he need to. Who the fuck is the principle to say that he can't wear - earned or not.
Posted by: SH at March 30, 2015

That's their job. Tell the kid who blew his knee out playing football that the special needs kid is his equal

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 30, 2015 10:53 PM (U2utM)

282 I am fine with giving him a helping hand and making him a part of a team but you have to earn the letter.



Really? Says who? What other outerwear decisions are being made by the principle?

Posted by: SH at March 30, 2015 10:53 PM (lZhjO)

283 Posted by: Tuna at March 30, 2015 10:51 PM (JSovD)

His story sounds like someone panicked and made up a stupid story for the paramedics and then got stuck with it.

Posted by: mynewhandle at March 30, 2015 10:53 PM (AkOaV)

284 They've been using plastic under the hood for ages. Had a plastic valve cover on my '85 Jeep CJ7 (straight six).

Melted when I had a small engine bay fire.

Posted by: shredded chi at March 30, 2015 10:53 PM (idmwx)

285 So, that Taurus:

I threw a Massey-Ferguson diesel in mine. Only issue was the tranny (But aren't they always)?

Posted by: guy that lies about virtually everything at March 30, 2015 10:53 PM (KG0mU)

286 You spend 23 hours driving from San Diego to El Paso and another 23 hours driving across Texas.
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at March 30, 2015 10:51 PM (V70Uh)


El Paso to Beaumont is 12 hours.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 30, 2015 10:53 PM (y5n9M)

287 his is not exactly a wear point as nothing touches it. I JB Welded them tonight, will see if it works in the morning. Also pulled neg battery cable to make sure ECM zeros out.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty

-----

What vehicle? Check your CATs.... Sometimes when they go bad... They can restrict exhaust flow, dumping it into your EGR, raising temps, resulting in burn thru on a plastic manifold. Its not misfiring too perchance?

Posted by: fixerupper at March 30, 2015 10:54 PM (JmjOe)

288 Or rather "Poor Americans own a Ford truck?"


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at March 30, 2015 10:54 PM (V70Uh)

289 @Maet,

Good article on supercessionism. The idea that Christians replaced Israel in God's order of things is quite possibly the worst heresy to ever enter the church and has resulted in horrible suffering for the Jewish people for some 1,700 years.

Author Joel Richardson recently released an important book titled, "When A Jew Rules the World: What the Bible Really Says about Israel in the Plan of God." There are plenty of resources about the history of Jewish persecution, but most of it is pretty dry history.

Richardson outlines the history of supercessionism, how it hurt Jews and hardened the hearts of Christians, and why it is important for Christians to love and support the Jews.

http://astore.amazon.com/aoshq-20/detail/1938067711

Posted by: Michael the Hobbit at March 30, 2015 10:54 PM (0RdKg)

290 @ 168

What make car? A GM?

Posted by: irongrampa at March 30, 2015 10:54 PM (jeCnD)

291 Why the fuck does he need to. Who the fuck is the principle to say that he can't wear - earned or not.
Posted by: SH at March 30, 2015 10:49 PM (lZhjO)


well, jacket or letter? anyone who wants to is able to get the jacket. you have to earn the letter. I knew some guys who actually worked hard for a letter and did not get it until their senior letter.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 30, 2015 10:54 PM (gsfK5)

292 Posted by: SH at March 30, 2015 10:53 PM (lZhjO)

PrinciPAL

Because the principal is your pal.

Principles are what the left lacks. But they more than make it up with principals and other propagandists!

Posted by: Spelling Nazi at March 30, 2015 10:54 PM (AkOaV)

293 Ford Dealer wanted $1200.00 for the part and $480.00 for labor.
---------------------

That would pay for a metric f*ck ton of JB Weld. You could seal up the entire engine compartment.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2015 10:54 PM (F2IAQ)

294 One of my cop buddies has joked in the past that the old school cops
used to beat up suspects with phone books since the book apparently
dissipates the energy enough that it still hurts a lot but doesn't leave
a bruise.

I'm "only" 62 and when we were in our teens we knew we would get a real ass kickin if we pushed it too far. I had an Irish buddy ( God rest his soul) who would come back from St. Patty's Day every year bailed out and beat puffy from the parade in Chicago. Cops didn't tolerate any shit and it worked. Maybe they should go back to older days today.

Posted by: dartist at March 30, 2015 10:54 PM (ahBY0)

295 You know this is the Horde when half a dozen of us look at that pic and the first thing we comment about is the Uzi and which type it is....

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at March 30, 2015 10:54 PM (Wo9OY)

296 "and another 23 hours driving across Texas."

I still think Texas is just trolling people by putting that El Paso sign up at the LA border.

Posted by: Lauren at March 30, 2015 10:54 PM (MYCIw)

297 255 all you need is a sack of oranges.
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 30, 2015 10:46

A healthy beat down
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 30, 2015 10:48 PM (U2utM)

An asswhuppin' that's high in fiber and Vitamin C.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 30, 2015 10:54 PM (mx5oN)

298 "You spend 23 hours driving from San Diego to El Paso and another 23 hours driving across Texas."



Being in El Paso means Cali' is a day trip.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 30, 2015 10:55 PM (iWlfa)

299 Oh yeah? Did she REALLY look 18 or was that just something you said to the judge?



Guard. Many moons ago. Slick thing? Grab the toe of the sock, sling your arm, weapon falls apart. No evidence.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2015 10:55 PM (t43dZ)

300 280 Grampa Jimbo: "The same thing happened earlier with the release of 'The Grapes of Wrath' - All these Russians were thinking 'Poor Americans can drive half a continent from Oklahoma to California?'"

The propagandists lived well enough they didn't know how the proles would view it? Or they believed their own propaganda and thought the proles were all well off?

Reminds me of Ill Presidente pretending to be jus' like reg'lar folks, talking about the price of arugula at Whole Foods.
Posted by: mindful webworker - reader between the lines at March 30, 2015 10:52 PM (ACs5
I remember a story of how the USSR said that people here were so desperate for food they were eating dog food.
The Soviet people could not believe that we made food just for dogs

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 30, 2015 10:55 PM (CxEX+)

301 Posted by: yankeefifth at March 30, 2015 10:54 PM (gsfK5)

I think the larger point is that the high school is not the military, you don't "earn pins" and if the kid wants to wear a varsity letter with every sport on it, the principal shouldn't be in any position to tell him he can't.

Posted by: mynewhandle at March 30, 2015 10:55 PM (AkOaV)

302 It helps that the speed limit in New Mexico is 75 while the speed limit in Texas is 65.

Texas isn't all that big. It just takes longer to get across it because of the stupid law.


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at March 30, 2015 10:56 PM (V70Uh)

303 all you need is a sack of oranges.


Sock with bars of soap. Prison trick. Have seen it in action.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2015 10:51 PM (t43dZ)




huh, did not have you figured as an ex-con. or is it con?




Posted by: yankeefifth at March 30, 2015 10:56 PM (gsfK5)

304 " ...And I sure as hell wouldn't hit someone with my $600 iPhone."

Only if it's encased in the combat ready clamshell.

Posted by: Tuna at March 30, 2015 10:56 PM (JSovD)

305 Yep. This is an 04 Taurus in otherwise outstanding condition with low miles for age. Ford Dealer wanted $1200.00 for the part and $480.00 for labor.

Yeah, about that.....no.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 30, 2015 10:50 PM (XrHO0)


Oh yeah, they can press it in their ass. I can't see the jb weld not working on that. Especially if its a tiny hole.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2015 10:56 PM (FMbng)

306 That's their job. Tell the kid who blew his knee out playing football that the special needs kid is his equal



I'm surprised at your comment there. My problem is twofold. One, if this were a non DS child, I could get behind the idea that ye didn't earn it, though I'm still not sure why the principle should make that decision. First amendment and such. But two this is a DS child and the principles reaction is quite dickish.

Posted by: SH at March 30, 2015 10:56 PM (lZhjO)

307 Was it an Ingram?

Laura Ingraham wasn't there.

I was.

Posted by: Captain Brian Williams, Time Traveling SS Agent at March 30, 2015 10:57 PM (PWIBc)

308 Tell the kid who blew his knee out playing football that the special needs kid is his equal

He'll get the same diploma the kids taking AP math get. Jocks can suck it up like everyone else.

Posted by: HR trinkt Bier at March 30, 2015 10:57 PM (rHXGG)

309 Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2015 10:55 PM (t43dZ)

ha, no shit.

my old neighbor was a prison guard. he retired really young with a (ahem) "back disability" from some encounter with a prisoner.

He spent most of his days in the driveway working on his motorcycle and crawling underneath an old car he was restoring.

Seemed nice.

But yeah, being a prison guard must suck.

Posted by: mynewhandle at March 30, 2015 10:57 PM (AkOaV)

310 Really? Says who? What other outerwear decisions are being made by the principle?
Posted by: SH at March 30, 2015 10:53 PM (lZhjO)

******

Going to build a little Strawman to drive home a point here.

Are you OK with someone who has never served in the Military buying the uniform and medals of someone who did to walk around with?

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 30, 2015 10:57 PM (cIoI4)

311 "It helps that the speed limit in New Mexico is 75 while the speed limit in Texas is 65."


75 in many places. 80-85 in places out west.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 30, 2015 10:58 PM (iWlfa)

312 Things must have changed, for the better.


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at March 30, 2015 10:58 PM (V70Uh)

313 I think the larger point is that the high school is not the military, you don't "earn pins" and if the kid wants to wear a varsity letter with every sport on it, the principal shouldn't be in any position to tell him he can't.
Posted by: mynewhandle at March 30, 2015 10:55 PM (AkOaV)

yeah you do earn letters. you only get them if you make the team and play a certain amount of time.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 30, 2015 10:58 PM (gsfK5)

314 Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at March 30, 2015 10:56 PM (V70Uh)

Are you sure about that?

I remember driving through Texas and thinking, "holy shit this is the highest I've ever seen a speed limit" which would seem to me that it must have been above 65.

Posted by: mynewhandle at March 30, 2015 10:59 PM (AkOaV)

315 Texas isn't all that big. It just takes longer to get across it because of the stupid law.



Most freeways are 75. 80 & 85 in West Texas.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2015 10:59 PM (t43dZ)

316 I'm lost on the story about the letter jacket.

Did the mom simply go out and buy the jacket and the letter? Cause I'm not real cool with that. You work hard and earn that shit.

Now, I've seen lots and lots and lots of stories where HS teams take in special needs classmates and make them part of the team and all that goes along with it. I'm fine with that. Team makes the decision? No problemo.

The thing here is, there's no way to not look like a dick. You're taking away something from a DS kid that makes him happy and isn't really hurting anyone.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 30, 2015 10:59 PM (GEICT)

317 Grampa Jimbo,

It depends on where. 75 is the speed on I-35, unless going through cities.

I-10 in West Texas, it's 85.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 30, 2015 10:59 PM (OsWis)

318 302 It helps that the speed limit in New Mexico is 75 while the speed limit in Texas is 65.

Texas isn't all that big. It just takes longer to get across it because of the stupid law.


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at March 30, 2015 10:56 PM (V70Uh)

The Speed limit in TX is 85 on the toll roads,

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 30, 2015 10:59 PM (CxEX+)

319 Yeah my rants against the dick principal would have been better if I had spelled it correctly. My point still stands.

Mynewhandle is right.

Posted by: SH at March 30, 2015 10:59 PM (lZhjO)

320 255
all you need is a sack of oranges.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 30, 2015 10:46



A healthy beat down

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 30, 2015 10:48 PM (U2utM)


After the beat-down, you drop the oranges and say, "have some orange juice -- it'll make you feel better."

Posted by: cthulhu at March 30, 2015 10:59 PM (T1005)

321 Tell the kid who blew his knee out playing football that the special needs kid is his equal

He'll get the same diploma the kids taking AP math get. Jocks can suck it up like everyone else.
Posted by: HR trinkt Bier at March 30, 2015 10:57 PM (rHXGG)



you only get the diploma for graduating, you only get the letter for the activity. no activity no letter.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 30, 2015 11:00 PM (gsfK5)

322 Why the fuck does he need to. Who the fuck is the principle to say that he can't wear - earned or not.
Posted by: SH at March 30, 2015 10:49 PM (lZhjO)


A letter is an award given by the school. If someone who did not earn a letter decides to wear that award at the school, then the school can ask them to remove that letter. That is what the principal did.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at March 30, 2015 11:00 PM (+Fae7)

323 ECM? Your vehicle has Electronic Counter Measures?



That is TOO cool!

Posted by: A judgmental poster at March 30, 2015 10:42 PM (KG0mU)



*****



*Shrugs* It's just how I roll.


Where the heck are you driving that you need to avoid a missile's target radar lock?

And if you do need it, I hope you've got flares for the heat seekers.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 30, 2015 11:00 PM (UVfht)

324 Posted by: yankeefifth at March 30, 2015 10:58 PM (gsfK5)

Yeah, but...

Okay, try this on.

Could the kid wear that jacket around town without any repercussions?

yes, definitely.

So why does the principal then get to say, "you are barred from wearing that jacket in school" just because the kid didnt earn the silly letter "on the field."

It would be like if he wore a karate black belt to school while never having attained black belt status. Could the principal say, "you're only a green belt (or whatever), so you can only wear the green belt to school, not the black belt?"

Like what makes a principal the arbiter of these things? Varsity letters have no legal meaning, they're just little trophies.

Posted by: mynewhandle at March 30, 2015 11:01 PM (AkOaV)

325 306 That's their job. Tell the kid who blew his knee out playing football that the special needs kid is his equal

---

If he needs to look at the DS kid's jacket to know which one of them is varsity and which one isn't, we've got bigger problems.

It's a jacket! The DS kid isn't getting the scholarship opportunities, experience and actual recognition. He's getting a jacket, which his mother paid for.

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at March 30, 2015 11:01 PM (1UKDk)

326 Are you OK with someone who has never served in the Military buying the uniform and medals of someone who did to walk around with?



Please don't tell me we are equating HS letters with military medals.

Posted by: SH at March 30, 2015 11:01 PM (lZhjO)

327 On the Toll RD in TX I would go 95 and people would still pass me

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 30, 2015 11:01 PM (CxEX+)

328 269
That's what I would have tried. Otherwise...., new manifold. I'm sure
it's easy to get to...., I mean just a few dozen wires/hoses/crap/fuel
lines all over it.



*longs for the days when there was just a carb and distributor *

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2015 10:45 PM (F2IAQ)



******



Yep. This is an 04 Taurus in otherwise outstanding condition with
low miles for age. Ford Dealer wanted $1200.00 for the part and $480.00
for labor.



Yeah, about that.....no.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 30, 2015 10:50 PM (XrHO0)


Pick-and-Pull.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 30, 2015 11:02 PM (T1005)

329 Evening horde.

Ok, reading up thread.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 30, 2015 11:02 PM (XAFOu)

330 319 Yeah my rants against the dick principal would have been better if I had spelled it correctly. My point still stands.

Mynewhandle is right.
Posted by: SH at March 30, 2015 10:59 PM (lZhjO

I take it you didn't Letter on the spelling team?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 30, 2015 11:02 PM (U2utM)

331 Jimbo must drive slow

Posted by: Pedantic Joe, Buff for life at March 30, 2015 11:02 PM (PhNHa)

332 ""It helps that the speed limit in New Mexico is 75 while the speed limit in Texas is 65."

75 in many places. 80-85 in places out west.


Posted by: Ricardo Kill"

That cop that passed me in Houston must have thought the limit was 110. At dusk and he wasn't running any lights at all.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at March 30, 2015 11:02 PM (Wo9OY)

333 Like what makes a principal the arbiter of these things?

Posted by: mynewhandle at March 30, 2015 11:01 PM (AkOaV)



Uhhh...the fact that he's head of school and it's an issue of a school sponsored sport and school issued letter.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 30, 2015 11:03 PM (GEICT)

334 I was driving on 130 one night and was literally the only person on the road. I looked down and realized I was going 95. In my minivan.

Ah, Texas.

Posted by: Lauren at March 30, 2015 11:03 PM (MYCIw)

335
I take it you didn't Letter on the spelling team?



Touche

Posted by: SH at March 30, 2015 11:04 PM (lZhjO)

336 Yeah, but...

Okay, try this on.

Could the kid wear that jacket around town without any repercussions?

yes, definitely.

So why does the principal then get to say, "you are barred from wearing that jacket in school" just because the kid didnt earn the silly letter "on the field."

It would be like if he wore a karate black belt to school while never having attained black belt status. Could the principal say, "you're only a green belt (or whatever), so you can only wear the green belt to school, not the black belt?"

Like what makes a principal the arbiter of these things? Varsity letters have no legal meaning, they're just little trophies.
Posted by: mynewhandle at March 30, 2015 11:01 PM (AkOaV)



I am fine with him wearing the jacket, I am saying the letter is not deserved. anyone can buy the jacket and some guys do buy a jacket and wear it until they letter and sew their letter on.

when I was in hs if a similar situation had arisen we would have gotten into a position where he could earn a letter. it is bad enough we have a generation of people coming up who did not keep score in games. now everyone gets a letter even if they do not participate?

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 30, 2015 11:04 PM (gsfK5)

337 You're taking away something from a DS kid that makes him happy and isn't really hurting anyone.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 30, 2015 10:59 PM (GEICT)

Exactly.

And I have a hard time believing his classmates were giving him shit for it. At that age. Sounds like something a vengeful adult would do... Maybe the mom had some words with the principal or another administrator in the past?

Again, it's not like he was dressing up in an Army uniform with patches and medals pretending to be a war hero. It's a silly meaningless letter sewed on to a jacket that will be thrown in a closet and only dragged out every 10 years within 5 minutes of graduating high school.

Posted by: mynewhandle at March 30, 2015 11:04 PM (AkOaV)

338 Please don't tell me we are equating HS letters with military medals.
Posted by: SH at March 30, 2015 11:01 PM (lZhjO)

*****

You selectively edited out the part where I said I was going to build a Strawman to make a point.

Answer the question.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 30, 2015 11:04 PM (3F6F8)

339 "That cop that passed me in Houston must have thought the limit was 110. At dusk and he wasn't running any lights at all."


I saw the sign last year that said "85 MPH" and thought "WTF."


And there were people leaving us in their dust.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 30, 2015 11:05 PM (iWlfa)

340 If he needs to look at the DS kid's jacket to know which one of them is varsity and which one isn't, we've got bigger problems.

It's a jacket! The DS kid isn't getting the scholarship opportunities, experience and actual recognition. He's getting a jacket, which his mother paid for.
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone

Well then there all on the national honor society then. We talk about individuality and Merritt around here until it's some little handicap child. The fuckin kid didn't earn a letter and shouldn't wearing. Pretty simple

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 30, 2015 11:05 PM (U2utM)

341 Posted by: yankeefifth at March 30, 2015 11:04 PM (gsfK5)

Okay, we all agree that it's not deserved.

But does that mean the principal can make him remove it? I don't see how a varsity letter has any legal standing. It's literally a giant letter sewed on to a jacket.

Posted by: mynewhandle at March 30, 2015 11:05 PM (AkOaV)

342 I'm lost on the story about the letter jacket. Did the mom simply go out and buy the jacket and the letter? Cause I'm not real cool with that. You work hard and earn that shit.

He plays on a special needs basketball team.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 30, 2015 11:05 PM (y5n9M)

343 What vehicle? Check your CATs.... Sometimes when they go bad... They
can restrict exhaust flow, dumping it into your EGR, raising temps,
resulting in burn thru on a plastic manifold. Its not misfiring too
perchance?>>>

If it is a back-pressure problem from the CAT Drill a small hole in front of the CAT. Then when the system is at temp inject water through the hole. The Cat is a ceramic it will shatter and your can then empty the CAT relieving the backpressure.

Posted by: Robinson at March 30, 2015 11:05 PM (W2Cji)

344 Kim Kardashian looked much better as a little Armenian girl. Megan Fox really was a Fox. Plastic surgery ruined both of them.

Posted by: JoeF. at March 30, 2015 11:06 PM (8HGb7)

345 Good evening, Horde.

What's the executive summary tonight? I'm too lazy tired to read all the comments.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread (Face For Radio, Voice For Print) at March 30, 2015 11:06 PM (rJUlF)

346
re: 2004 Taurus - Them "pinholes":

My original intake has melted pinholes around the PCV port- this is the same area where EGR gasses are released into the intake. Obviously, excessive EGR gasses are being released for some reason, resulting in excessive temperatures. I noticed tonight that inside the original intake manifold there is far more massive melting damage. The replacement manifold appears to have the same damage. Only a couple pinholes show so far, but the interior damage appears pretty extensive from the PCV fitting hole.

http://www.fordtaurus.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5t=1528

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 30, 2015 11:06 PM (kdS6q)

347 Nobody likey my earlier linky??

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 30, 2015 11:06 PM (elbY7)

348 284
They've been using plastic under the hood for ages. Had a plastic valve cover on my '85 Jeep CJ7 (straight six).



Melted when I had a small engine bay fire.

Posted by: shredded chi at March 30, 2015 10:53 PM (idmwx)


I had a 1979 Mustang (yeah, I'm sorry too....) that ate valve cover gaskets like candy -- they used a metal for the valve covers that had radically different thermal expansion characteristics from the heads, and heating/cooling would saw the gasket apart. I can just imagine how that works with plastic.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 30, 2015 11:06 PM (T1005)

349 All this talk about a DS child who wore a letter...

Ummm, peaked in High School Rob Lowe comes to mind.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 30, 2015 11:06 PM (XAFOu)

350 I saw the sign last year that said "85 MPH" and thought "WTF."
And there were people leaving us in their dust.



The hard part is knowing where it's enforced and where it's just a suggestion.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2015 11:06 PM (t43dZ)

351 338 Please don't tell me we are equating HS letters with military medals.
Posted by: SH at March 30, 2015 11:01 PM (lZhjO)

*****

You selectively edited out the part where I said I was going to build a Strawman to make a point.

Answer the question.



Sorry. Misread your post. I'll blame the iPhone and my selective focus.

Do I believe that a non military person can wear medals. Yes I do. First amendment.

Posted by: SH at March 30, 2015 11:06 PM (lZhjO)

352 Pick-and-Pull.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 30, 2015 11:02 PM (T1005)

*****

You bet. JB Weld for now. Already found a used parts place that has an excellent rated part for $190.00.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 30, 2015 11:07 PM (XrHO0)

353 Looks like the crowd's startin' t' get runk and drowdy. That's the cue for this young feller to avoid "exercise equipment injuries" and exit stage right. Anyway, the morning thread comes pretty early here in the middle of the country. Hate to miss Vic's news when it's hot. (Providing he's not AWOL.)

Good night, Gracies.

Posted by: mindful webworker - beyond the farthest star at March 30, 2015 11:07 PM (ACs58)

354 Many (most) trucking companies these days have governed rigs. 65MPH.

The independents. They can haul ass.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 30, 2015 11:07 PM (iWlfa)

355 You do know what 'carries quarters' means, don't you?

Posted by: Some Dude at March 30, 2015 11:07 PM (SFpiC)

356
344 Kim Kardashian looked much better as a little Armenian girl. Megan Fox really was a Fox. Plastic surgery ruined both of them.

Posted by: JoeF. at March 30, 2015 11:06 PM (8HGb7)

And to be honest, I take such, such, such guilty pleasure when plastic surgery for vanity goes horribly wrong.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 30, 2015 11:08 PM (XAFOu)

357 I know some of the 231 ci engine Buicks had a problem with the intakes failing and leaking coolant into places you did not want.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 30, 2015 11:08 PM (F0Cog)

358 351,

First Amendment doesn't protect them from being curbstomped, though.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 30, 2015 11:08 PM (OsWis)

359 Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 30, 2015 11:03 PM (GEICT)

But a principal of a public school is telling a kid he can't sew one of 26 letters on to his jacket, even though other kids can, because it's considered an "honor" at that school.

It just seems... wrong to me.

I understand that the kid should not be wearing it, but if a case like this ever went to court, how do you think it would be resolved?

Imagine, if you will, a transgendered bi racial SJW wearing a varsity letter on his jacket in protest because the football team wouldnt let him (her) play football due to her biological gender... then the principal says, "hey, toots, you didn't earn that letter. Take it off." and she ends up saying no and getting suspended and suing the school.

Who would win?

Posted by: mynewhandle at March 30, 2015 11:09 PM (AkOaV)

360 Many (most) trucking companies these days have governed rigs. 65MPH.

The independents. They can haul ass.



And the trucks up from Mexico. They just have problems stopping.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2015 11:09 PM (t43dZ)

361 First Amendment doesn't protect them from being curbstomped, though.


No it does not.

Posted by: SH at March 30, 2015 11:09 PM (lZhjO)

362 Does anyone else not get how the letter, the piece of fabric, is such a big deal? When you play a real varsity sport or get into the National Honor Society, the point is the experience and the opportunities, not the piece of fabric. Those don't go away when a kid with obvious disabilities wears an identical piece of fabric.

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at March 30, 2015 11:09 PM (1UKDk)

363 If everyone can go buy their own jacket and their own letter without having earned it, doesn't lettering cease to mean anything in terms of accomplishment? Why would this be good. Put aside the sympathy for a child with Downs. It seems like advocating this diminishes the entire point of earning recognition for hard work.

Posted by: L, Elle at March 30, 2015 11:09 PM (KB6If)

364 The manifold. Aluminum alloy, cast iron, or plastic?

The first two are affected by the after effects of ethanol in the gas. Ethanol absorbs water from the air. High air flow velocities in the manifold transform the water micro-droplets into a highly erosive water blaster. And after the motor is shut off, the remaining water happily feeds the corrosion in the areas already pitted while the engine had been running.

In time, it eats it's way through the metal.

The plastic manifolds? The ethanol itself attacks the plastic. Depending on the composition of the plastic, it could be direct erosion, or with other polymers, it could become embrittled in reaction to the ethanol.

Thank the Iowa voters and their damned Corn Caucuses for this crap.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 30, 2015 11:09 PM (RzZOc)

365
Good night, Gracies.

Posted by: mindful webworker - beyond the farthest star at March 30, 2015 11:07 PM (ACs58

Pussy.

Kidding mindful, have a good night.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 30, 2015 11:10 PM (XAFOu)

366 Why doesnt the school set a fund drive and get him a big 'R' for his jacket?
They did itfor me!

Posted by: MUMR at March 30, 2015 11:10 PM (SFpiC)

367 If anyone is to blame it is the DS kids mom. She shoulda explained how and why letters are handed out and not made everyone else deal with the problem.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 30, 2015 11:10 PM (gsfK5)

368 345 Good evening, Horde.

What's the executive summary tonight? I'm too lazy tired to read all the comments.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread (Face For Radio, Voice For Print) at March

Dennis hopper is still dead
Snowflakes may or may not wear a letter on a letter jacket
Ford Taurus manifolds are shit
Harry Reids story doesn't ad up

Carry on Captn

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 30, 2015 11:10 PM (U2utM)

369 Oh, for f**k's sake. I got drunk and gave the whiny, little bastard a beat down. You have no idea what it's like when congress is in recess and the annoying little creep comes home. I can't get him out of the house by sending him to visit the neighbors because they've all decided that they don't want him around their kids.

Well, it backfired. Oh, and that thing from someone upthread about how you can't hit him hard enough to break the eye-socket, without breaking bones in your hand? Bash him with a Sunbeam blender. It does the trick.

Posted by: Mrs. Hairy Reed at March 30, 2015 11:10 PM (agnOR)

370 "Good evening, Horde.
What's the executive summary tonight? I'm too lazy tired to read all the comments.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread"

Manifold Destiny, Viking Beards, Mini/Micro Uzi's, Speed Limits in Cactus Land, and Sports.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at March 30, 2015 11:10 PM (Wo9OY)

371 You're taking away something from a DS kid that makes him happy and isn't really hurting anyone.

Exactly. And give the kid a trophy and a signed ball. He probably won't take your place on the team and it might might a lasting impression on him or her. Wtf, over.

Posted by: dartist at March 30, 2015 11:10 PM (ahBY0)

372 "The hard part is knowing where it's enforced and where it's just a suggestion."



Yeah, sorta. We came back up 20 from Pecos. HiPo wasn't a big problem. You slowed down in town, but, just stayed with everyone else.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 30, 2015 11:11 PM (iWlfa)

373 Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2015 11:06 PM (t43dZ)

I don't think I'd need to speed in an 85 MPH zone.

I think I'd be nervous going 85, because I'd feel like it was some kind of trick.

Around here, most highways are 55 mph. We get excited for the few that are 65 mph zones.

Posted by: mynewhandle at March 30, 2015 11:11 PM (AkOaV)

374 >>>Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 30, 2015 10:59 PM

This is very well said. No real good outcome. I agree if the team is cool with it, then it's cool. But one of my buddies played football all four years, couldn't wear a letter because he never started.

That was the standard, and he adhered to it. Fair or not.

I also just can get much outrage up about it.

Posted by: DC in River City at March 30, 2015 11:11 PM (e+1S5)

375 My sister has DS. It would not have been right for her to wear a letter when she didn't earn it. That being said, there are other ways to earn a letter rather than be a varsity athlete.

Posted by: The Letter-Hat at March 30, 2015 11:11 PM (0Ew3K)

376 Robinson, that sounds like a horrible idea and questionable advice. Modern cars run better with cats intact.

Posted by: Pedantic Joe, Buff for life at March 30, 2015 11:12 PM (PhNHa)

377 But a principal of a public school is telling a kid he can't sew one of 26 letters on to his jacket, even though other kids can, because it's considered an "honor" at that school.

It just seems... wrong to me.

I understand that the kid should not be wearing it, but if a case like this ever went to court, how do you think it would be resolved?

Imagine, if you will, a transgendered bi racial SJW wearing a varsity letter on his jacket in protest because the football team wouldnt let him (her) play football due to her biological gender... then the principal says, "hey, toots, you didn't earn that letter. Take it off." and she ends up saying no and getting suspended and suing the school.

Who would win?
Posted by: mynewhandle at March 30, 2015 11:09 PM (AkOaV)



You're making this far too complicated.

Letters aren't awarded as an honor. Letters are earned through years played. The "honor" comes from the work put in. The letter is representative of that.

*shrug*

To me it's simple, if you don't meet the requirements, you don't get the letter.

Now, like I said, there's no good way to handle this beyond letting it go. You look like a dick if you insist the DS kid give up the letter/jacket.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 30, 2015 11:12 PM (GEICT)

378
JB Weld for now.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty



From the Taurus forum post above, if they're talking about the same problem you have, looks like there's a rather more significant design issue or underlying problem.

Bad cat? *shudders*

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 30, 2015 11:12 PM (kdS6q)

379 "Good evening, Horde.

What's the executive summary tonight? I'm too lazy tired to read all the comments.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread"


Manifold Destiny, Viking Beards, Mini/Micro Uzi's, Speed Limits in Cactus Land, and Sports.
Posted by: AshevilleRobert


Golf clap.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2015 11:12 PM (t43dZ)

380 "And the trucks up from Mexico. They just have problems stopping."


Heh. They eased that old inspection and shit rule.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 30, 2015 11:12 PM (iWlfa)

381 It's weird driving on an 85 mph highway because people still drive the standard 5 over, but suddenly that's going really fucking fast.

Posted by: Lauren at March 30, 2015 11:12 PM (MYCIw)

382 Well. It's been almost ten years since I last drove though Texas. The Rick Perry years appear have been good.

But seriously, there was a time when you left NM and entered Texas and the speed limit dropped 10 mph. For the whole effing way.

Yeah, driving through west Texas at 65 mph. Good times.


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at March 30, 2015 11:13 PM (V70Uh)

383 First Amendment doesn't protect them from being curbstomped, though.

This is what brings me back. The 'ettes and their genteel way of saying what needs to be said.

Kudos, madam.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 30, 2015 11:13 PM (UVfht)

384 It seems like the simplest solution is to have a letter that kids who play on the special needs team (like this kid did) can earn. Hell, get the special needs kids to have an asterisk by their letter if that's really necessary.

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at March 30, 2015 11:14 PM (1UKDk)

385 364: Thanks for the vindication Jim. By the way, fuck Iowa.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 30, 2015 11:14 PM (ucDmr)

386 If it is a back-pressure problem from the CAT Drill a small hole in front of the CAT. Then when the system is at temp inject water through the hole. The Cat is a ceramic it will shatter and your can then empty the CAT relieving the backpressure.
Posted by: Robinson at March 30, 2015 11:05 PM (W2Cji)

******

Unfortunately I live in an emissions check area, otherwise my CC would have been gone long ago. Cat may very well be the culprit ultimately.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 30, 2015 11:14 PM (cIoI4)

387 To me it's simple, if you don't meet the requirements, you don't get the letter.

Now, like I said, there's no good way to handle this beyond letting it go. You look like a dick if you insist the DS kid give up the letter/jacket.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 30, 2015 11:12 PM (GEICT)



so get him a spot and get him a letter for doing anything. he will be better and happier if he has the experience of earning the letter. you can letter in nearly anything. make him robe manager for the choir.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 30, 2015 11:14 PM (gsfK5)

388 Posted by: L, Elle at March 30, 2015 11:09 PM (KB6If)

Letters already mean nothing.

Absolutely meaningless. Just a letter sewed on to a jacket. I got mine in skiing. yes, skiing. (then in football a year later). Half my school had one.

I never mention it on my resume. No one has ever asked about my letter status.

I don't even know where my varsity jacket is it, and don't care. It definitely wouldn't fit anyways.

Posted by: mynewhandle at March 30, 2015 11:14 PM (AkOaV)

389
347 Nobody likey my earlier linky??
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 30, 2015 11:06 PM (elbY7)

How much earlier?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 30, 2015 11:14 PM (U2utM)

390 heh, thanks BB.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 30, 2015 11:14 PM (OsWis)

391 This is very well said. No real good outcome. I agree if the team is cool with it, then it's cool. But one of my buddies played football all four years, couldn't wear a letter because he never started. That was the standard, and he adhered to it. Fair or not. I also just can get much outrage up about it.

Posted by: DC in River City at March 30, 2015 11:11 PM

Huh? "Never Started"? Does this mean he was never in the starting, kick off line up? I thought gridiron had different teams for stuff... or, did he practice with the team, but never actually played a match?

Posted by: otho at March 30, 2015 11:14 PM (tBSrv)

392 136 Speaking of Robin Williams, it looks like the wife and kids are fighting over his clothes and things. No link because who gives a shit.
Posted by: dartist at March 30, 2015 10:22 PM (ahBY0)


Ain't love grand.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 30, 2015 11:15 PM (agnOR)

393 First Amendment doesn't protect them from being curbstomped, though.

This is what brings me back. The 'ettes and their genteel way of saying what needs to be said.

Kudos, madam.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 30, 2015 11:13 PM (UVfht)



I think he should have to earn the letter but I am not in with curbstomping him for not taking it off. wtf?

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 30, 2015 11:15 PM (gsfK5)

394 367 If anyone is to blame it is the DS kids mom. She shoulda explained how and why letters are handed out and not made everyone else deal with the problem.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 30, 2015 11:10 PM (gsfK5)

No, it's the ( being nice here) woman who protested against it since her special snowflake whoe is loved by all and will save humankind by the grace of his presence had a letter.

Fuck her and her special snowflake who will fail in life.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 30, 2015 11:16 PM (XAFOu)

395 On the downs kid with the letter jacket. Who the fuck made the stink to make him remove it? Dam if your varsity kid is mixed up for a kid with downs syndrome they're gonna have problems graduating college. You got bigger fish to fry.

Posted by: Robinson at March 30, 2015 11:16 PM (W2Cji)

396 yankeefifth,

For stolen valor, not a DS kid with a letter.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 30, 2015 11:16 PM (OsWis)

397 " don't think I'd need to speed in an 85 MPH zone.



I think I'd be nervous going 85, because I'd feel like it was some kind of trick."



Heh. I feel like I'm hauling ass at 70. You pump it to 85 in the left lane and you're getting blown it makes you think "what in the Hell."

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 30, 2015 11:16 PM (iWlfa)

398 "Oh yeah, they can press it in their ass. I can't see the jb weld not working on that."

Some of these wunderkind plastic intake manifolds are made out of glass-reinforced nylon. JB Weld actually doesn't stick too well to certain materials, and that's one.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 30, 2015 11:16 PM (noWW6)

399 This is very well said. No real good outcome. I agree if the team is cool with it, then it's cool. But one of my buddies played football all four years, couldn't wear a letter because he never started. That was the standard, and he adhered to it. Fair or not. I also just can get much outrage up about it.

Posted by: DC in River City at March 30, 2015 11:11 PM



DC!


I knew guys in a similar position that attended every practice and every game and never lettered.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 30, 2015 11:17 PM (gsfK5)

400 388 Posted by: L, Elle at March 30, 2015 11:09 PM (KB6If)

Letters already mean nothing.

Absolutely meaningless. Just a letter sewed on to a jacket. I got mine in skiing. yes, skiing. (then in football a year later). Half my school had one.

I never mention it on my resume. No one has ever asked about my letter status.

I don't even know where my varsity jacket is it, and don't care. It definitely wouldn't fit anyways.


---

I earned letters in cheerleading and debate. Yelling AND arguing. Multi-talented I am.

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at March 30, 2015 11:17 PM (1UKDk)

401 You look like a dick if you insist the DS kid give up the letter/jacket.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 30, 2015 11:12 PM (GEICT)

Yeah, that's probably the best summary of this whole stupid situation.

I really don't give a shit if they let the kid wear the letter or not at the end of the day.

I just am sympathetic for people who have to deal with little petty tyrants who thrive on making other peoples lives miserable. Speaking of which, I need to head to the DMV this week to register my car. :-\

Posted by: mynewhandle at March 30, 2015 11:17 PM (AkOaV)

402 Gotta say I'm surprised so many are so passionate about HS letters. I stand by my opinion that the principal was and prbly is a dick. But enough for tonight.

Posted by: SH at March 30, 2015 11:17 PM (lZhjO)

403
385 364: Thanks for the vindication Jim. By the way, fuck Iowa.
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 30, 2015 11:14 PM (ucDmr)

Our state ain't much better in the ethanol scam

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 30, 2015 11:18 PM (U2utM)

404 SH,

yeah he was.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 30, 2015 11:18 PM (OsWis)

405 398: Some kind of exotic epoxy may work. Maybe.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 30, 2015 11:18 PM (ucDmr)

406 If it is a back-pressure problem from the CAT Drill a small hole in front of the CAT. Then when the system is at temp inject water through the hole. The Cat is a ceramic it will shatter and your can then empty the CAT relieving the backpressure.
Posted by: Robinson
----------------------------

Expect a visit from our well-armed agents. You might want to lock your dog up.

Posted by: The EPA at March 30, 2015 11:18 PM (F2IAQ)

407 Heh. I feel like I'm hauling ass at 70. You pump it to 85 in the left lane and you're getting blown it makes you think "what in the Hell."



My Ford Ranger has a "sweet spot". 68 mph. Any more or less and it drinks gas.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2015 11:18 PM (t43dZ)

408 You mean I could have just gone out and bought a letter and a jacket?

All these decades I thought that only the coach/school could buy the letter to give to the athlete as an award for merit.


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at March 30, 2015 11:18 PM (V70Uh)

409 yankeefifth,

For stolen valor, not a DS kid with a letter.
Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 30, 2015 11:16 PM (OsWis)

Yeah I know. I find deliberately misunderstanding things lightens it up, especially at dinner parties.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 30, 2015 11:18 PM (gsfK5)

410 Letters already mean nothing.

Absolutely meaningless. Just a letter sewed on to a jacket. I got mine in skiing. yes, skiing. (then in football a year later). Half my school had one.

I never mention it on my resume. No one has ever asked about my letter status.

I don't even know where my varsity jacket is it, and don't care. It definitely wouldn't fit anyways.

Posted by: mynewhandle at March 30, 2015 11:14 PM (AkOaV)


Bullfuckingshit.

It might have meant nothing to you, but to some of us it was representative of the hard work and effort we put into something.

For me, for us on the baseball team, it meant we were out on the field sweating our asses off 6 days a week, practicing and playing. Spring Break? We spent it working on the field to make sure it was properly maintained.

Effort and dedication should mean something. It did to us. The letter itself? Just cloth and stitches. Meaningless. What the letter stood for? Something altogether different and worthwhile.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 30, 2015 11:19 PM (GEICT)

411 403 : True that. We do suck when it comes to that.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 30, 2015 11:19 PM (ucDmr)

412 I don't get the big deal about letters, but some feel as passionate about them as I do about shitbags wearing medals or uniforms that they didn't earn.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 30, 2015 11:19 PM (OsWis)

413 398: Some kind of exotic epoxy may work. Maybe.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo

Dark epoxy?

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 30, 2015 11:19 PM (F0Cog)

414 409,

haha

Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 30, 2015 11:20 PM (OsWis)

415 For cryin' out loud. Who the hell cares if a mom over compensates a little and gets her Down's Syndrome kid a jacket with a letter on it? How does this threaten the accomplishments of the athletes who earned them. Really?
Social media like Facebook and Twitter make crap like this seem like the very end of the world.

Posted by: Tuna at March 30, 2015 11:20 PM (JSovD)

416 My daughter got a letter in women's crew, in college.

Yeah. That's right. She's buff.


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at March 30, 2015 11:20 PM (V70Uh)

417 Most DS kids don't last much past their twenties.

I wouldn't begrudge him the dam letter.

Posted by: JohnnyBoy at March 30, 2015 11:20 PM (KG0mU)

418 >>> Letters already mean nothing.
Posted by: mynewhandle at March 30, 2015 11:14 PM (AkOaV)

YMMV, but this wasn't my experience. It was pretty hard to earn a letter in my HS and it was a motivating factor for alot of kids. Maybe items nothing to you now as an adult, but ithat doesn't mean it's meaningless to everyone. Again, YMMV.

I'm actually surprised that letter jackets are still a thing. I haven't seen a kid wearing one in ages. It seems like a retro thing to me like poodle skirts.

Posted by: L, Elle at March 30, 2015 11:22 PM (KB6If)

419 413: Don't know. Last time I used it, my dad was still around. I didn't pay attention.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 30, 2015 11:22 PM (ucDmr)

420
392 136 Speaking of Robin Williams, it looks like the wife and kids are fighting over his clothes and things. No link because who gives a shit.
Posted by: dartist at March 30, 2015 10:22 PM (ahBY0)

Ain't love grand.
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 30, 2015 11:15 PM (agnOR)

Types
Deletes
Types
Deletes oh never mind

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 30, 2015 11:22 PM (U2utM)

421 Australian clerk sends out Obummer's passporrt number and VISA info by mistake.

http://tinyurl.com/o6h2d3l

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at March 30, 2015 11:22 PM (Wo9OY)

422 Most DS kids don't last much past their twenties.

I wouldn't begrudge him the dam letter.

Posted by: JohnnyBoy at March 30, 2015 11:20 PM (KG0mU)


Not true. Most can easily grow to a natural old age.

Posted by: The Letter-Hat at March 30, 2015 11:22 PM (0Ew3K)

423 So, it's a free speech thing. Just as any asshole can claim to be a Medal of Honor recipient, any retard can claim to be a stellar athlete.

OK. I'm done. Good night.


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at March 30, 2015 11:22 PM (V70Uh)

424 *contemplates selling his letter sweater*

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2015 11:22 PM (F2IAQ)

425 I linked this last night, and I have to do it again. This is an astoundingly good article:

AWOL from the Summer of Love

https://tinyurl.com/nudk9z5


In 1966, Bob Dylan was a superstar. He was making groundbreaking rock music, the likes of which no one had ever heard before.

Then he had a motorcycle accident and dropped off the face of the earth.

Meanwhile, other rock musicians went on to create psychedelic music and acid rock.

In 1967, Dylan got together with some friends, and recorded some music privately that was never intended to be released to the public. They explored folk, blues, country, and gospel styles, and created a new synthesis. Their music had nothing whatsoever to do with what was popular at the time.

But aside from one mumbled aside about burning draft cards, nowhere in the hours of recordings Dylan made with The Band is there the slightest mention of the concerns of the 1960s - peace, race, revolution, psychedelia. Their collective secession from the fuss of the sixties astonished the English guitarist Eric Clapton when he went to visit them: "It became quite obvious to me I was on a different planet to these guys," Clapton recalled in a 2004 interview. "I had an Afghan jacket and curly hair and pink trousers. They looked like The Hole in the Wall Gang."

Posted by: rickl at March 30, 2015 11:23 PM (sdi6R)

426 "My Ford Ranger has a "sweet spot". 68 mph. Any more or less and it drinks gas."



The sister's Eco-Boost is impressive. The GM 5.3 variable does well okay.



Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 30, 2015 11:23 PM (iWlfa)

427 Australian clerk sends out Obummer's passporrt number and VISA info by mistake.

http://tinyurl.com/o6h2d3l


Posted by: AshevilleRobert
***

That's a droning

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 30, 2015 11:23 PM (F0Cog)

428 Oh, thanks for the correction, Mr. Hat.

Posted by: JohnnyBoy at March 30, 2015 11:24 PM (KG0mU)

429 If the equipment manager gets a Letter the Letter doesn't mean dick to anyone so who cares.

Posted by: Robinson at March 30, 2015 11:24 PM (W2Cji)

430 Some kind of exotic epoxy may work. Maybe.
---------------------

Made from unicorn droppings.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2015 11:24 PM (F2IAQ)

431 I am not sure why this is even a point of contention, especially here. Let the guy wear the jacket but help him earn a letter. Why even start down the slippery slope of debasing the letters? If you help him earn a letter it will be much more useful and meaningful to him.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 30, 2015 11:24 PM (gsfK5)

432 I lettered in...


Oh Mickey, you're so fine
You're so fine you blow my mind, hey Mickey,
Hey Mickey
Oh Mickey, you're so fine
You're so fine you blow my mind, hey Mickey,
Hey Mickey
Oh Mickey, you're so fine
You're so fine you blow my mind, hey Mickey,
Hey Mickey
Oh Mickey, you're so fine
You're so fine you blow my mind, hey Mickey,

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 30, 2015 11:24 PM (XAFOu)

433 I'm actually surprised that letter jackets are still a thing. I haven't seen a kid wearing one in ages. It seems like a retro thing to me like poodle skirts.

---

I don't think they really are much of a thing, which is probably coloring my opinion of the situation. They were kind of a silly thing when I was in school.

Besides, what about all the girls wearing their boyfriend's letter jackets? Do you think Asst. Principal Butthurt makes them take off their OMG Unearned Letters?

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at March 30, 2015 11:24 PM (1UKDk)

434 >>> For cryin' out loud. Who the hell cares if a mom over compensates a little and gets her Down's Syndrome kid a jacket with a letter on it?
Posted by: Tuna at March 30, 2015 11:20 PM (JSovD)

Lol. And shush. Arguing about pointless stupid shit is what we do best.

Posted by: L, Elle at March 30, 2015 11:25 PM (KB6If)

435 427,

As we DVs say, let the fuck fuck games begin!

Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 30, 2015 11:25 PM (OsWis)

436 431 I am not sure why this is even a point of contention, especially here. Let the guy wear the jacket but help him earn a letter. Why even start down the slippery slope of debasing the letters? If you help him earn a letter it will be much more useful and meaningful to him.

---

The thing is, he did play a sport. He played on his school district sponsored team for special needs kids. That should be enough to earn him a letter.

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at March 30, 2015 11:26 PM (1UKDk)

437 If whatever the heck publicist for that school's first thought wasn't "hey, why don't we make this kid an honorary member and have a picture of the team standing with him for the news," then I'd bet the phrase "I didn't see this coming" is used all-too-often in their life.

That's not to say the answer is always "do what will be least ugly on the news," but when it comes to disabled kids and school honors, as many have said, stingy makes you look like a dick.

It's like Star Wars Kid (hang with me here). If he'd held a press conference, laughed nervously and said, "yeah, that was pretty embarrassing," he probably would have been a nerd hero. Instead, threats, lawsuits, therapists, all-around angst.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 30, 2015 11:26 PM (bLnSU)

438 If the equipment manager gets a Letter the Letter doesn't mean dick to anyone so who cares.
Posted by: Robinson at March 30, 2015 11:24 PM (W2Cji)

which goes to indicate the value people place on lettering. if some guy is willing to show up day after day and do such a job so he can earn a letter then you should not be giving them away as participation awards or less. he is showing dedication, commitment, team spirit.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 30, 2015 11:26 PM (gsfK5)

439 Arguing about pointless stupid shit is what we do best.
Posted by: L, Elle
---------------

No it isn't.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2015 11:27 PM (F2IAQ)

440 Manifold comment II.

Go to O'Reiley's, and buy their replacement manifold. I had to get one for my former Crown Vic, and they'd engineered it with allow castings where all the hoses joined the manifold.

The plastic heater hose neck had broke on my factory unit. The O'Reiley's unit was vastly superior, and should have been OEM since the advent of the 4.6 Modular engine.

'Bout $175-ish, but that was about four years ago.

Sold the car with 208,000 miles on it, and still running strong.




Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 30, 2015 11:27 PM (RzZOc)

441 which goes to indicate the value people place on lettering. if some guy is willing to show up day after day and do such a job so he can earn a letter then you should not be giving them away as participation awards or less. he is showing dedication, commitment, team spirit.

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But he did show all that on the special needs team.

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at March 30, 2015 11:27 PM (1UKDk)

442 My 1975 Dodge pickup had a sweet spot too. You could haul horses or nothing at any speed. Still got 10MPG. But it also never failed in doing anything you needed it to do.

Posted by: Robinson at March 30, 2015 11:28 PM (W2Cji)

443 439 Arguing about pointless stupid shit is what we do best.
Posted by: L, Elle
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No it isn't.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2015 11:27 PM (F2IAQ)



You're both wrong. Morons. It's the pointed stupid shit that we argue about.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 30, 2015 11:28 PM (GEICT)

444 Arguing about pointless stupid shit is what we do best.

Posted by: L, Elle

---------------



No it isn't.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.


I'll get the popcorn.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 30, 2015 11:28 PM (UVfht)

445 The thing is, he did play a sport. He played on his school district sponsored team for special needs kids. That should be enough to earn him a letter.
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at March 30, 2015 11:26 PM (1UKDk)

Our hs had an intramural basketball league for the 100 guys that wanted to play on the team but did not make the cut. anyone would have loved to have played on the team and lettered doing so but did not . none wore a letter for basketball.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 30, 2015 11:29 PM (gsfK5)

446 Some of these wunderkind plastic intake manifolds are made out of glass-reinforced nylon. JB Weld actually doesn't stick too well to certain materials, and that's one.
Posted by: torquewrench at March 30, 2015 11:16 PM (noWW6)

***

I roughed the surface with a wire brush and used a paint prep pad on the area prior to application. When applied, holes were filled along with a flat topping above the hole. Think nail/nail head. Since the pressure on this comes from suction, this should hold fine...for a time at least.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 30, 2015 11:29 PM (XrHO0)

447 434
Do tell.

Posted by: Tuna at March 30, 2015 11:29 PM (JSovD)

448 I'll get the popcorn.

---

I believe Doritos and Mountain Dew are the only acceptable snacks for pointless argumentation.

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at March 30, 2015 11:29 PM (1UKDk)

449 Just looking at the stories over at Drudge makes my head hurt and blood pressure spike. Someone stop the spinning..... I want to get off.

Posted by: Genghis Cohen at March 30, 2015 11:29 PM (fLKzW)

450 1963 movie: Soldier in the Rain, Steve McQueen and Jackie Gleason, from a novel by William Goldman, in the book there's a fight in a bar and, as best I can recall, the villain slips rolls of quarters into his fists and it's considered a very nasty thing to do.

Posted by: yoptvoimat at March 30, 2015 11:30 PM (Q4sxC)

451 um... yeah.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 30, 2015 11:30 PM (JBzwC)

452 But he did show all that on the special needs team.
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at March 30, 2015 11:27 PM (1UKDk)


so get him a letter for the intramural team he played on.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 30, 2015 11:30 PM (gsfK5)

453
Kelley and several others in the audience at the North High School lecture hall wore black T-shirts emblazoned with #givethemletters, the social media hashtag that has unified the movement in support of special-needs athletes.



God I hate the #hashtivism era.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 30, 2015 11:31 PM (kdS6q)

454
For cryin' out loud. Who the hell cares if a mom over compensates a
little and gets her Down's Syndrome kid a jacket with a letter on it?
How does this threaten the accomplishments of the athletes who earned
them. Really?

Social media like Facebook and Twitter make crap like this seem like the very end of the world.

Agree. I kinda think that maybe some of those kids accomplish more, considering skills they started with, than a kid that could put out the street light a block away at 10.

Posted by: dartist at March 30, 2015 11:31 PM (ahBY0)

455 444: This will be good. Just to piss off half the morons here, I don't care about letter jackets and shit. I remember the assholes that got them. Shallow pricks the lot of em. Trash away.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 30, 2015 11:31 PM (ucDmr)

456 I believe Doritos and Mountain Dew are the only acceptable snacks for pointless argumentation.
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at March 30

No they are not

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 30, 2015 11:31 PM (U2utM)

457 People actually wore letter jackets at my high school. I always thought they were gaudy, but hey to each his own. At least our colors weren't awful.

Posted by: Lauren at March 30, 2015 11:31 PM (MYCIw)

458 The fucking kid has Downs syndrome. Just be fucking happy your kid doesn't.

Posted by: Robinson at March 30, 2015 11:31 PM (W2Cji)

459 Bullfuckingshit.

It might have meant nothing to you, but to some of us it was representative of the hard work and effort we put into something.

For me, for us on the baseball team, it meant we were out on the field sweating our asses off 6 days a week, practicing and playing. Spring Break? We spent it working on the field to make sure it was properly maintained.

Effort and dedication should mean something. It did to us. The letter itself? Just cloth and stitches. Meaningless. What the letter stood for? Something altogether different and worthwhile.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 30, 2015 11:19 PM (GEICT)


Yep. We who played football got to start about August 1 with 2 a days in 95-100 degree heat with pads and helmets that made it feel about 30 degrees hotter.

But if it's no big deal to those who earned it, then the schools should just make everyone a member of the National Honor Society. I mean, it's just a silly little award and a silly little piece of cloth that they can wear at graduation that ends up on the bottom of their closet 5 minutes after graduation.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at March 30, 2015 11:32 PM (+Fae7)

460 Types
Deletes
Types
Deletes

is what I should have said.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 30, 2015 11:32 PM (bLnSU)

461 Alright, shit, I should have been in bed an hour ago.

Night Morons.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 30, 2015 11:32 PM (GEICT)

462 >>> 439 Arguing about pointless stupid shit is what we do best.
Posted by: L, Elle
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No it isn't.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2015 11:27 PM (F2IAQ)

Oh yeah, I forgot. We're awesome at giving appliance repair advice. We're great at that.

Actually, people are great at praying for others in need and helping others during hard times. We do have exceptional commenters. I don't understand why this subject is hitting raw nerves.

Posted by: L, Elle at March 30, 2015 11:32 PM (KB6If)

463 Think nail/nail head. Since the pressure on this comes from suction, this should hold fine...for a time at least.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty
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Surface prep is everything. Good job.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2015 11:32 PM (F2IAQ)

464
Bullshit.

You know what a roll of quarters was worth in 1963?

Posted by: JohnnyBoy at March 30, 2015 11:33 PM (KG0mU)

465 I believe Doritos and Mountain Dew are the only acceptable snacks for pointless argumentation.

Fine, Doritos it is. Now, which flavor?

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 30, 2015 11:33 PM (UVfht)

466 The only argument left to have is Nacho Cheese or Cool Ranch.

And the right answer is do obvious it's not even funny

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at March 30, 2015 11:33 PM (1UKDk)

467 Alright, shit, I should have been in bed an hour ago.
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No you shouldn't.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2015 11:33 PM (F2IAQ)

468 The only argument left to have is Nacho Cheese or Cool Ranch.



And the right answer is do obvious it's not even funny


Green Chile and Lime.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 30, 2015 11:34 PM (UVfht)

469 $25.00?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2015 11:34 PM (F2IAQ)

470 #1095;#1090;#1086; #1101;#1090;#1086; #1090;#1072;#1082;#1086;#1077; #1087;#1088;#1072;#1074;#1076;#1072;? #8211; #1055;#1086;#1085;#1090;#1080;#1081; #1055;#1080;#1083;#1072;#1090;

Just checking to see if that link at 209 works.

Posted by: Trotsky w/an icepick in his head at March 30, 2015 11:34 PM (LaZ5x)

471 No you shouldn't.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2015 11:33 PM (F2IAQ)



*strangles Hammer with a letterman jacket*

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 30, 2015 11:34 PM (GEICT)

472
The thing is, he did play a sport. He played on his school district sponsored team for special needs kids. That should be enough to earn him a letter.
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone


Currently, East High awards letters to students who participate on special-needs basketball and soccer teams, but the letter looks different from the one awarded to varsity athletes.

He can get a letter, just not the letter his mother bought for him. From a light googling, it looks like the kid didn't even meet the standards for the special needs letter, based on participation and such. Hence, the purchase.

Frankly sounds like a whiny Mom.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 30, 2015 11:34 PM (kdS6q)

473 Oops. $10.00

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2015 11:35 PM (F2IAQ)

474
466 The only argument left to have is Nacho Cheese or Cool Ranch.

And the right answer is do obvious it's not even funny
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at March 30

Diet Dew & Hanover onion & mustard pretzel bisc

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 30, 2015 11:35 PM (U2utM)

475 The jocks, however, were pissed that the school decided to let you letter in band or choir or whatever if you reached the highest level. Y'all are reminding me why I graduated a year early to escape the idiocy.

Posted by: Lauren at March 30, 2015 11:35 PM (MYCIw)

476 Bout $175-ish, but that was about four years ago.

Sold the car with 208,000 miles on it, and still running strong.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at March 30, 2015 11:27 PM (RzZOc)

*****

They were my first stop. They do not carry it. Anywhere. Nationwide.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 30, 2015 11:35 PM (3F6F8)

477 I still wear my Letter Jackets as I am out making Boatloads of Benjamins

Posted by: Mr. Poo Poo at March 30, 2015 11:35 PM (fLKzW)

478 I art not a fan of letters.

Posted by: Hester Prinn at March 30, 2015 11:35 PM (JBzwC)

479 Time to call it a night. Have fun!

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at March 30, 2015 11:35 PM (Wo9OY)

480 *strangles Hammer with a letterman jacket*
Posted by: BC
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You're too young to remember The Lettermen

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2015 11:36 PM (F2IAQ)

481 2 >>> 439 Arguing about pointless stupid shit is what we do best.
Posted by: L, Elle
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No it isn't.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2015 11:27 PM (F2IAQ)

Yes it is. Dummy. Hitler.

Posted by: please dont squeeze the soothie at March 30, 2015 11:36 PM (FRLeJ)

482 Oops. $10.00

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2015 11:35 PM

No, it's not.

Posted by: otho at March 30, 2015 11:36 PM (tBSrv)

483 Chavez the Hugo

Remind me that we should drink a few beers with that old man MH sometime.

Posted by: dartist at March 30, 2015 11:36 PM (ahBY0)

484 ": Mr. Poo Poo "

*snicker*

Posted by: Lauren at March 30, 2015 11:36 PM (MYCIw)

485 A roll of quarters and a pillowcase is priceless (in prison).

Posted by: Robinson at March 30, 2015 11:36 PM (W2Cji)

486 Hi MH.

I'm in the top 100 comments, I believe.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 30, 2015 11:36 PM (elbY7)

487 In fact I was #12.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 30, 2015 11:37 PM (elbY7)

488 483: Will do. But he's not as old as me. Sounds like fun.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 30, 2015 11:37 PM (ucDmr)

489 Hi MH.

I'm in the top 100 comments, I believe.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 30, 2015 11:36 PM (elbY7)

so whatta you want a fucking letter?

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 30, 2015 11:38 PM (gsfK5)

490

I'm in the top 100 comments, I believe.

----

Yay! Have a letter!


Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at March 30, 2015 11:38 PM (1UKDk)

491 arrgh, no (that was supposed to be Cyrillic)





Posted by: Trotsky w/an icepick in his head at March 30, 2015 11:38 PM (LaZ5x)

492 Ah..is this the right room for an Argument?

Posted by: Sister Sestina at March 30, 2015 11:38 PM (fjP++)

493 In fact I was #12.
Posted by: qdpsteve
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Piker

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2015 11:38 PM (F2IAQ)

494 qdpsteve, hope all is well with you sir.

Posted by: JohnnyBoy at March 30, 2015 11:38 PM (KG0mU)

495 DS kid got a letter.

Leader of the free world got a Nobel.

Perspective folks.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 30, 2015 11:38 PM (XAFOu)

496 >>> . Y'all are reminding me why I graduated a year early to escape the idiocy.
Posted by: Lauren at March 30, 2015 11:35 PM (MYCIw)

Same here! I couldn't wait to GTFO of HS and away from my parents. Finished early too.

Posted by: L, Elle at March 30, 2015 11:38 PM (KB6If)

497 Ah..is this the right room for an Argument?
Posted by: Sister
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Abuse

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2015 11:38 PM (F2IAQ)

498 492 Ah..is this the right room for an Argument?

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No!

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at March 30, 2015 11:38 PM (1UKDk)

499 A roll of quarters and a pillowcase is priceless (in prison).
Posted by: Robinson at March 30, 2015 11:36 PM (W2Cji)


in prison that is a multitool.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 30, 2015 11:38 PM (gsfK5)

500 *strangles Hammer with a letterman jacket*

His liquor cabinet is empty Hammer, it's ok.

Posted by: dartist at March 30, 2015 11:39 PM (ahBY0)

501 My son's school bought and awarded letters. Kids usually never wore them because they didn't want the jackets. So around here the wearing of isn't done much.

Posted by: NCKate at March 30, 2015 11:39 PM (oPS4J)

502 arrgh, no (that was supposed to be Cyrillic)
Posted by: Trotsky
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* puts away decoder ring *

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2015 11:39 PM (F2IAQ)

503
Bullshit. You know what a roll of quarters was worth in 1963?
Posted by: JohnnyBoy



Ur Mom?

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 30, 2015 11:39 PM (kdS6q)

504 OK OK, maybe it was a roll of nickles in 1963, I don't have a copy of the book at hand to search.

Posted by: yoptvoimat at March 30, 2015 11:40 PM (Q4sxC)

505 Okay fine, I'll try another linky in the meantime.

I know it'll continue to destroy my conservative credentials, but I actually enjoy the movie "Kinky Boots." Thought it was cute and a little clever.

Anyway it ended with this fantastic song by the died-way-too-young Kirsty MacColl, called "In These Shoes?" I bet the Moronettes here will especially like it.

(For added enjoyment: when you're nearing the end of the song, imagine the guy she says "let's do it" to is the Democrat of your choice. Dingy Harry, perhaps? Heh heh...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qoivS9nbrc

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 30, 2015 11:40 PM (elbY7)

506
492
Ah..is this the right room for an Argument?


Longbows vs. crossbows?

Down the hall, on the left.

Posted by: Wylie Coyote at March 30, 2015 11:40 PM (FlRtG)

507 Ah..is this the right room for an Argument?

Posted by: Sister Sestina at March 30, 2015 11:38 PM

I've already told you once.

Posted by: otho at March 30, 2015 11:40 PM (tBSrv)

508 Posted by: AshevilleRobert at March 30, 2015 11:22 PM (Wo9OY)

I wonder if anyone flipped back a couple of pages looking for a Pakistan entry stamp...

... I kid, I kid, I'm sure THAT passport has gone the way of Hillarys Emails and the Dodo bird.

Posted by: mynewhandle at March 30, 2015 11:40 PM (AkOaV)

509 Harry Reid recommended this clinic, he had some Being-Hit-On-the-Head lessons a few months back...

Posted by: Sister Sestina at March 30, 2015 11:41 PM (fjP++)

510 MWNP. Bummer on O'Reiley's not having it.

So, here's what you do before you install a new or salvage one.

Get some thin-wall stainless tubing, that'll friction-fit into the PCV neck in question. Very thin wall, and very tight fit.

Get a plumber to flare one end of the stainless, so that it'll stop further entry into the PCV neck. The outer diameter of the flare should be exactly the same as the O.D. of the intake neck, or a hundredth or so less. File it in place, if need be.

For a sterling fit, heat up the new manifold on a stove top for a while. Get it good and hot.

After you've formed the stainless insert, pop that baby into the freezer for an hour.

The manifold will expand, the stainless will shrink. It ought to drop right in, but when they both resume room temerpature, the interference fit will be as good as a weld.

And now, your new manifold won't have any interior pitting or erosion problems, 'evermore.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 30, 2015 11:41 PM (RzZOc)

511 Don't need no stinkin' letter folks, thanks.

JohnnyBoy, things are still going okay. Not homeless yet. ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 30, 2015 11:41 PM (elbY7)

512 "Same here! I couldn't wait to GTFO of HS and away from my parents. Finished early too."

I got lucky because my school made graduating early really easy if you were on the honors path. All you had to do was take English 3 and 4 at the same time assuming you hadn't failed anything along the way. They changed that a few years after I graduated because too many of us were escaping their indoctrination centers.

The only time this decision backfired on me was when I wasn't even invited to my 10 year reunion. Oh well.

Posted by: Lauren at March 30, 2015 11:42 PM (MYCIw)

513 >>> so whatta you want a fucking letter?
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 30, 2015 11:38 PM (gsfK5)

Lol! This is the only thing that made me laugh today. Thanks for that. I had such a shitty day. Ace's Harry Reid post helped me out too.

Posted by: L, Elle at March 30, 2015 11:42 PM (KB6If)

514 soap + pillowcases...

= awesome (if incredibly cruel) scene in "Full Metal Jacket."

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 30, 2015 11:42 PM (elbY7)

515 So the new host of the Daily Show. I don't really care, but it's sign of where we are. It's gonna get worse

Posted by: Betty white at March 30, 2015 11:43 PM (zOTsN)

516 For a sterling fit, heat up the new manifold on a stove top for a while. Get it good and hot.
---------------------------

May be a bad idea if you have a gas range.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2015 11:43 PM (F2IAQ)

517 Qdpsteve. Great news about the interviews.

As far as the CFo guy goes. He's paid, now we're paying him not too work. Can't tell me that bastard can't find some kind of work, oh yeah it's all beneath him

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 30, 2015 11:44 PM (U2utM)

518 So, I found out something today. As anyone who has met me can attest, I'm not exactly GQ material -- but, as my hair was getting to Albert Einstein length and the days are definitely warmer, I went in to get a haircut.




As usual, I just go to Supercuts. I'd go to "Joe's Sheep Shearing" if there was one nearby, but things are too urbanized around here for that. There used to be a local chain that I'd go to, but they folded.



So I go to Supercuts and there are the usual bunch of folks cutting hair and the usual impediments to me feeling comfortable (disclose your name, phone number, email address, social security number, date-of-birth, sexual preference, primary bank, criminal record, etc. and we'll put you on the list for the next available stylist.....). So, I put down "Cthulhu X; 408-555-1212; GFY@noway.com; 321-54-9876; 3/29/15; yes; First National Bank of Zimbabwe; not yet" and stand around, bombarded with demands that I load their Supercuts App which will allow them to track my GPS information in real time until I get another device.



Anyhoo -- shortly afterward, my name is called and I'm shocked to find that I'd drawn a cute young Vietnamese lady.....normally I get Quasimodo in a tutu and they keep stroking my arm while they ask me how I want my hair cut.



So she's wetting down my unruly mop and starts talking about how I want my hair cut, and I explain that it's getting into summer and I don't need the insulation.....so "shorter" would be good. And then she asks if I part my hair on my left and if she should cut it that way or cut it evenly. And I say, "yes, yes -- parted on the left."




And, then, thinking about it a little bit, I'm like -- "what do you mean by that?" And she shows me -- my hair had previously been cut about 3" longer on the left side of my bald spot than it was on the right.




That's right -- if you're going bald and don't watch them, Supercuts will silently give you a comb-over without asking. I watched my dad extend and extend his comb-over until there were a scant three hairs bridging the six-inch gap....and I swore that I'd never go that route. And here, without even asking me, they'd gone on doing that to me for years.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 30, 2015 11:44 PM (T1005)

519 Ah..is this the right room for an Argument?
Posted by: Sister Sestina at March 30, 2015 11:38 PM (fjP++)

******

Depends. What is your position on the High School Athletic Lettering system?

You have one shot at the right answer.....

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 30, 2015 11:44 PM (cIoI4)

520 Ace's Harry Reid post helped me out too.
Posted by: L, Elle
--------------------------

Sad, isn't it..., that a photo of a beaten old guy would actually raise my spirits?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2015 11:45 PM (F2IAQ)

521 I lettered in Cross country Sking in HS. Never bothered to buy the letter or the jacket since just showing up was all you needed to do. I was middle out of the 4 people on the team. I liked the sport and the competition but it was neither a sport or competition in 1978 where I grew up.

Posted by: Robinson at March 30, 2015 11:45 PM (W2Cji)

522 Lol! This is the only thing that made me laugh today. Thanks for that. I had such a shitty day. Ace's Harry Reid post helped me out too.
Posted by: L, Elle at March 30, 2015 11:42 PM (KB6If)


glad I could be of service. at least my day was not a total waste.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 30, 2015 11:45 PM (gsfK5)

523 197-188-178
It's a roll of nickels. Edward G Robinson uses nickel roll to KO a witness at a trial that denied he could be knocked out. It could be a scale issue, he had small hands.
Saw it as a kid and was eager to acquire a roll for self defense on the school playground. Like an idiot, spent every nickel on baseball cards which were thrown out.

Posted by: Man from Wazzustan at March 30, 2015 11:46 PM (uPxUo)

524 cthulhu,

So you're telling us they gave you a courtesy comb over?

Posted by: Lauren at March 30, 2015 11:46 PM (MYCIw)

525 I want to apologize about commenting on the Letter issue with the DS child. I should've developed my opinion after Mr. Moo Moo chimed in. Whatever position he would've taken would be wrong

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 30, 2015 11:47 PM (U2utM)

526 I lettered in Cross country Sking in HS. Never bothered to buy the letter or the jacket since just showing up was all you needed to do. I was middle out of the 4 people on the team. I liked the sport and the competition but it was neither a sport or competition in 1978 where I grew up.
Posted by: Robinson at March 30, 2015 11:45 PM (W2Cji)



I attended a big hs and were were state champs in a number of sports during my time there. it was really competitive to make any of our teams.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 30, 2015 11:47 PM (gsfK5)

527 Posted by: cthulhu at March 30, 2015 11:44 PM (T1005)

Well, good for them.

I don't want to know if I'm going bald or not, I'd appreciate them keeping me in the dark and just doing their thing.

I, too, go to super cuts, by the way.

Posted by: mynewhandle at March 30, 2015 11:48 PM (AkOaV)

528 I had my letter. I guess it was a lot of work, but since the vast majority of the team were burnouts and got roasted every day on the way to the practice field we more or less whistled while we worked.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2015 11:48 PM (FMbng)

529 Like an idiot, spent every nickel on baseball cards which were thrown out.
Posted by: Man
--------------

I pissed away my Mercury-Head dime collection on honey buns.

* silently weeps *

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2015 11:48 PM (F2IAQ)

530 The only time this decision backfired on me was when I wasn't even invited to my 10 year reunion. Oh well.

You won't care by your 20th, 30th or more. I'm glad to have enough good friends to nearly fill one hand. And I'm lucky.

Posted by: dartist at March 30, 2015 11:49 PM (ahBY0)

531 Old movie (1980s?)... commie a-hole actor Sean Penn is in jail and about to be jumped, he grabs his pillow case, goes to a pop machine, buys a few cans, pops them in the pillow case and proceeds to whale on his attackers.

Posted by: yoptvoimat at March 30, 2015 11:49 PM (Q4sxC)

532 What's the big deal? We give out letters all the time.

Posted by: Seaseme Street at March 30, 2015 11:49 PM (JBzwC)

533 >>> Sad, isn't it..., that a photo of a beaten old guy would actually raise my spirits?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2015 11:45 PM (F2IAQ)

Now, when you put it like that, it doesn't sound like such a good thing anymore. Thanks, Hammer, you killjoy.

Idk if it's intentional or not, but I found Ace's semi-serious indignation over the whole exercise band affair funny.

Posted by: L, Elle at March 30, 2015 11:50 PM (KB6If)

534 Posted by: yoptvoimat at March 30, 2015 11:49 PM (Q4sxC)

Soda cans would definitely leave a mark.

I'm back to the phone book idea.

Posted by: mynewhandle at March 30, 2015 11:50 PM (AkOaV)

535 Let's all come together and agree about something...

Public school teachers are a bunch of bitches who don't actually GAF about their students.

(Yeah, I've been having an even more pointless debate on charter schools with public school teachers)

Posted by: Lauren at March 30, 2015 11:50 PM (MYCIw)

536 The only time this decision backfired on me was when I wasn't even invited to my 10 year reunion. Oh well.

You won't care by your 20th, 30th or more. I'm glad to have enough good friends to nearly fill one hand. And I'm lucky.
Posted by: dartist at March 30, 2015 11:49 PM (ahBY0)


I have never gone to any of mine but I have seen pictures. it is kinda sad. some of our cutest girls grew up to be lunch ladies.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 30, 2015 11:50 PM (gsfK5)

537 Sad, isn't it..., that a photo of a beaten old guy would actually raise my spirits?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2015 11

No not the beaten man. The fact that Karma sometimes exist

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 30, 2015 11:51 PM (U2utM)

538 Posted by: dartist at March 30, 2015 11:49 PM (ahBY0)

I've never been invited to a high school reunion.

The class president (who apparently organizes these things) was, uh, introduced to harry reids exercise bands when I caught him with my then - girlfriend, and he's held it against me since.

Ah, youth...

Posted by: mynewhandle at March 30, 2015 11:52 PM (AkOaV)

539 As far as the Letter Jacket is concerned..... Ummm.... I don't know anything about it other than that kid will never make the money I make in just ONE YEAR in his whole retarded lifetime. Let him have the jacket.

Posted by: Mr. Poo Poo at March 30, 2015 11:52 PM (fLKzW)

540 Never understood High School reunions. I have friends from HS I keep in touch with. Why do I want to meet with all the people that hated me and I hated back?

Posted by: Robinson at March 30, 2015 11:52 PM (W2Cji)

541 "some of our cutest girls grew up to be lunch ladies."

The wonder(?) of facebook means you already know what everyone is up to so it's even more pointless to go to them. That's actually how I found out about mine. Guy I know posts a picture "Having so much fun at our reunion!"

Oh, I see.

Posted by: Lauren at March 30, 2015 11:52 PM (MYCIw)

542 You guys need to mind your own business if you know what's good for you, capiche?

Posted by: Reid's Elastic Band at March 30, 2015 11:53 PM (+4uXG)

543 reid's exercise band story is not entirely untrue. from what I hear someone tied one end around his waist, another around a weight machine, stretched him back a let him go. 10 or 11 times.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 30, 2015 11:53 PM (gsfK5)

544 I attended a class C school. It was Class C because there were no lower designations, I do not believe.

85 students total, 1st through 12th grade. You hit 7th grade, you started playing something. I don't remember anyone who didn't letter.


Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2015 11:53 PM (F2IAQ)

545 And here, without even asking me, they'd gone on doing that to me for years.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 30, 2015 11:44 PM (T1005)

*******

I actually parted my hair down the center for decades. Then, during a particularly hot,summer about 5 years ago I decided on a military cut. #2 Clippers on top, #1 on sides. High and tight. Ex hated it, so I knew it was a good move. Been that way ever since, although the forehead growth is more noticeable.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 30, 2015 11:53 PM (3F6F8)

546 I pissed away my Mercury-Head dime collection on honey buns.



* silently weeps *

I don't even want to say what I did with my Buffalo Head nickels then...

Posted by: dartist at March 30, 2015 11:53 PM (ahBY0)

547 Posted by: Lauren at March 30, 2015 11:50 PM (MYCIw)

Just tell them charter schools exist to get the handful of kids who actually want to do well and have supportive parent(s) out of shitty schools full of shitty teachers and shitty administrators who union rules make it impossible to fire.

That usually ends any debate with teacher union types. And they appreciate your honesty.

Posted by: mynewhandle at March 30, 2015 11:53 PM (AkOaV)

548 In a younger, more innocent and genteel time, the optimal solution to the Wichita letter jacket issue would be the school's star quarterback (or other equivalent) saying "Shoot, here, have MY letter jacket!"

Posted by: filbert at March 30, 2015 11:54 PM (h6Mpm)

549 464


Bullshit.



You know what a roll of quarters was worth in 1963?





Posted by: JohnnyBoy at March 30, 2015 11:33 PM (KG0mU)


A roll of 1962 quarters (face value $10) would be worth $119.60 today at melt value. They were 90% silver and 10% copper.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 30, 2015 11:54 PM (T1005)

550 543 reid's exercise band story is not entirely untrue. from what I hear someone tied one end around his waist, another around a weight machine, stretched him back a let him go. 10 or 11 times.
Posted by: yankeefifth at March

The old accidentally shot him in the back 16-17x routine

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 30, 2015 11:55 PM (U2utM)

551

No not the beaten man. The fact that Karma sometimes exist

... and, while usually known for run over dogma, sometimes it becomes corporeal.

Posted by: Arbalest at March 30, 2015 11:55 PM (FlRtG)

552 I saw Reids Elastic Band open for Electric Light Orchestra AT MY GRADUATION PARTY BECAUSE I'M SO FUCKING RICH

Posted by: Mr. Poo Poo at March 30, 2015 11:55 PM (fLKzW)

553 Funny. I had Harry Reid's neighbor in my boat this week.

Says Reid told him the same story re: excercising band.

Posted by: Garrett at March 30, 2015 11:55 PM (YN5AI)

554 Why do I want to meet with all the people that hated me and I hated back?
Posted by: Robinson
-----------------

Ours is very congenial...., lots of alcohol. Paunchy guys who discuss their knee replacements and digestive tracts.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2015 11:55 PM (F2IAQ)

555 552,

Heh.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 30, 2015 11:55 PM (OsWis)

556 That's right -- if you're going bald and don't watch them, Supercuts will silently give you a comb-over without asking.

Supercuts or whatever chain preceded them in that area had a stylist that "knew" better than you what kind of haircut you wanted. Gave my brother Loco a Rod Stewart spiky cut. Loco being, well, loco, went out that same night, got hammered, and had his friends shave his head.

They did a better job than the "pro", didn't even nick his ears.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 30, 2015 11:55 PM (UVfht)

557 Posted by: Lauren at March 30, 2015 11:52 PM (MYCIw)

The greatest thing about deleting my facebook a few years ago is that I no longer have to pretend to give a shit about what people are up to.

I run in to people and they say, "oh did you hear about joe dickfor?! He's getting divorced!" and I say, "oh, nope. Had no idea he was even married. I got rid of facebook a while ago, so ..." and they usually look at me like I have a cock growing out of my forehead and that kind of ends the stupid bullshit conversation. Which is perfect.

Posted by: mynewhandle at March 30, 2015 11:56 PM (AkOaV)

558 "That usually ends any debate with teacher union types. And they appreciate your honesty."

Oh, I did. They're response was "those kids would do well anywhere and Charter schools take our moooonnnnney"

Posted by: Lauren at March 30, 2015 11:56 PM (MYCIw)

559 A roll of 1962 quarters (face value $10) would be worth $119.60 today at melt value. They were 90% silver and 10% copper.
Posted by: cthulhu
---------------------

No doubt..., but that wasn't the question.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2015 11:57 PM (F2IAQ)

560 Uh- oh was Moo hanging around today?

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at March 30, 2015 11:57 PM (1UKDk)

561 New Daily Show host.

Trevor Noah Verified account @Trevornoah
I apologise. RT @biscuit_of_rage: @Trevornoah correction Muslims don't hate Jews. Jews hate Muslims.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 30, 2015 11:57 PM (ZPrif)

562 That usually ends any debate with teacher union types. And they appreciate your honesty.
Posted by: mynewhandle

I see you live in Never-Never Land

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 30, 2015 11:57 PM (U2utM)

563 No doubt..., but that wasn't the question.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2015 11:57 PM

Yes, it was.

Posted by: otho at March 30, 2015 11:57 PM (tBSrv)

564 Haircut lore:

I used to get my hair cut at the TGF in Texas City, TX. It was next door to the Kroger, and all in all not a bad place in a blue collar town.

The lass who cut my hair, gets it exactly right, which isn't easy to do. I have wavy hair, with a very sharp turn at the wave angles. Not softly flowing wavy hair, but a hard break wave.

If it's not cut right, or if I let it go a week or two longer than "time for a haircut", I end up looking like Buckwheat doing a bad Einstein impression.

Anyway, my haircuttress, being an entrepreneur, very highly talented, trained and qualified, quits TGF, and sets up shop in a back room of a men's barber shop.

Directly in the heart of the 'hood, in the shadow of the refineries in Texas City.

Needless to say, I'm the only cracka' whut goes in there. Been going in there for the past five years, and she's been cutting my hair for ten years.

As you might imagine, I've enjoyed some rather interesting conversations there. The whole Trayvon thing, from beginning to end, and then some.

I've never had a problem there, and I may have opened an eye or two. Made a friend for sure, and have sat n' enjoyed a cigar out front with some of the clientele.

At least I don't have a bald spot with which to contend. Not bad for hitting 57 this coming Sunday, what?



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 30, 2015 11:58 PM (RzZOc)

565 553 Funny. I had Harry Reid's neighbor in my boat this week.

Says Reid told him the same story re: excercising band.
Posted by: Garrett at March 30, 2015 11:55 PM (YN5AI)

"Yeah, so I says to the guy 'hey, is this here your rubber band?' and then I wrapped it around my knuckles and I punched the old fuck in the face. Fuckin' prick, ya know?"

Posted by: mynewhandle at March 30, 2015 11:58 PM (AkOaV)

566 I think everybody should get a 25,000 dollar voucher for their HS Graduation Party.

Posted by: GarrettWest at March 30, 2015 11:58 PM (YN5AI)

567 and they usually look at me like I have a cock growing out of my
forehead and that kind of ends the stupid bullshit conversation.>>>

Do they stare at it and make weird sucking noises?

Posted by: Robinson at March 30, 2015 11:59 PM (W2Cji)

568 >>> Ours is very congenial...., lots of alcohol. Paunchy guys who discuss their knee replacements and digestive tracts.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2015 11:55 PM (F2IAQ)

That's so hot. At least you still have a sense of humor, Mr. Hammer. Once I stop being able to laugh at myself and the world around me, I'll know it's over.

Posted by: L, Elle at March 31, 2015 12:00 AM (KB6If)

569 I see you live in Never-Never Land
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 30, 2015 11:57 PM (U2utM)

Oh yeah, I should have included some sort of punchline...

..."then they call you a fascist nazi and organize a hate session against you on twitter"

Posted by: mynewhandle at March 31, 2015 12:00 AM (AkOaV)

570 Uh- oh was Moo hanging around today?
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at March 30, 2015 11:57 PM (1UKDk)

****

See the first Ace apathetic post. To be fair, he showed up after being named a few times, kinda like Beetlegeuse.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 31, 2015 12:01 AM (3F6F8)

571 New Daily Show host wants to put y'all some knowledge -- the Nazis didn't mean untermensch in a bad way.

Well, ok then.

Trevor Noah Verified account @Trevornoah
@papa_action actually juden means Jew in German. It's not derogatory. And untermensch means lower class person. These are not racial slurs

Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 31, 2015 12:01 AM (ZPrif)

572
560 Uh- oh was Moo hanging around today?
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at March

Oh yes he was. Every time you almost forget about the pos he shows up.

Him and Nip were throwing their wealth about. It was fun

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 31, 2015 12:01 AM (U2utM)

573 so whatta you want a fucking letter?


Posted by: yankeefifth



"Give me an F !"

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....lost in America at March 31, 2015 12:01 AM (+1T7c)

574 Uh- oh was Moo hanging around today?
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at March 30, 2015 11:57 PM (1UKDk)
************
Talking about my taxes baby. I paid more in Taxes than the Gross Domestic Product of French Guyana!

Posted by: Mr. Poo Poo at March 31, 2015 12:01 AM (fLKzW)

575 They did a better job than the "pro", didn't even nick his ears.

My Godfather and then a guy from the old neighborhood gave me "regular boys" haircuts almost until I went into the Army. You know the rest of that story.

Posted by: dartist at March 31, 2015 12:02 AM (ahBY0)

576 524
cthulhu,



So you're telling us they gave you a courtesy comb over?

Posted by: Lauren at March 30, 2015 11:46 PM (MYCIw)


Something like that.....I feel abused. Betrayed. I should see if Eric Holder will protect the civil rights of People of Baldness. Maybe I should start a hashtag.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2015 12:02 AM (T1005)

577 Posted by: Lauren at March 30, 2015 11:56 PM (MYCIw)

Well it's not like we don't have 60 years of evidence to the contrary...

but, whatever, i don't care.

The people who would benefit the most from charter schools vote overwhelmingly D, the people who pay property taxes in those cities that support the schools vote overwhelmingly D, and the people who hate poor kids going to better schools vote overwhelmingly D.

So fuck em all.

Posted by: mynewhandle at March 31, 2015 12:02 AM (AkOaV)

578 MH, thanks and good points.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 31, 2015 12:03 AM (elbY7)

579

Him and Nip were throwing their wealth about. It was fun

---

One of these days, someone is going to have to lock those two into a room with jwest.

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at March 31, 2015 12:03 AM (1UKDk)

580 Dunno, I got asked if I was going to the 10 year reunion and I basically said that I hated those bastards 10 years ago and I didn't think I wanted to see them now.
I haven't had a single invite in the last 20 years, apparently word got out.

Stupid incestuous inbred Fcuks. And I grew up with them

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2015 12:03 AM (t//F+)

581 I make a Shitload of Money!

Posted by: Mr. Poo Poo at March 31, 2015 12:04 AM (fLKzW)

582 Things that suck about ipads:

By the time you finish pecking out a comment on the AoSHQ ONT and posting it, the discussion has moved on.

To Haircuts I Have Known.

I hate all the things.

Posted by: filbert at March 31, 2015 12:04 AM (h6Mpm)

583 I suppose Aus Rotten is German for 'all around good people', too.

Posted by: Garrett at March 31, 2015 12:04 AM (YN5AI)

584 579 Or maybe ace will just ban one of them again. And he'll come back under a third name.

Posted by: NCKate at March 31, 2015 12:04 AM (oPS4J)

585 Egyptian beer kegs from around 3000BC discovered in Tel Aviv

http://tinyurl.com/o5z3ty6

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 31, 2015 12:04 AM (rSBBR)

586 Steaming piles of cash..... Steaming

Posted by: Mr. Poo Poo at March 31, 2015 12:05 AM (fLKzW)

587 Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 31, 2015 12:01 AM (ZPrif)

Both are true(ish) statements.

Juden has no negative connotation auf Deutsche.

Just like how Negro has no negative connotation in Spanish, and Schwarzer has no negative connotation in Yiddish.

But, you know, when you say them in English with the surrounding words also in English... ehh, depends on who the audience is I guess.

Posted by: mynewhandle at March 31, 2015 12:05 AM (AkOaV)

588 Him and Nip were throwing their wealth about. It was fun
Posted by: Misanthropic
---------------
jwest would have made it a Trifecta.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 31, 2015 12:05 AM (F2IAQ)

589 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 31, 2015 12:04 AM (rSBBR)

I'd tap that...

Posted by: mynewhandle at March 31, 2015 12:05 AM (AkOaV)

590
->>>Oh yeah, I should have included some sort of punchline

I did something almost as revolting endearing myself to them. You don't have money? Just take the retired teachers off of your health care plan. I can't retire at age 55 and expect my old employer to pay until I'm Medicare ready.


Yeah it all about the kids, who never grew up.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 31, 2015 12:05 AM (U2utM)

591 582 Things that suck about ipads:

By the time you finish pecking out a comment on the AoSHQ ONT and posting it, the discussion has moved on.

To Haircuts I Have Known.

I hate all the things.

----

You get used to it after a while.

Posted by: Jenny Used To Hate Her Phone at March 31, 2015 12:05 AM (1UKDk)

592 Sphinx IPA?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 31, 2015 12:06 AM (F2IAQ)

593 The best Stylist I ever went to was 90 years old and funny as hell. I was getting buzz cuts at the time so fairly simple. But when he brought out the straight razor to clean up it got your attention.

Posted by: Robinson at March 31, 2015 12:07 AM (W2Cji)

594 jwest would have made it a Trifecta.


Trifecta, that's the word. My mind kept throwing out "defecta".

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 31, 2015 12:07 AM (UVfht)

595 >>One of these days, someone is going to have to lock those two into a room with jwest.

Menage a boobs.

Posted by: Aviator at March 31, 2015 12:07 AM (sQzB6)

596
579

Him and Nip were throwing their wealth about. It was fun

---

One of these days, someone is going to have to lock those two into a room with jwest.
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at March 31, 2015 12:03 AM (1UKDk)

Pay Per View that shit.

Posted by: eman at March 31, 2015 12:07 AM (MQEz6)

597 But the robots get better every year, while the workers stay the same. Or, perhaps, get worse.



-- Instapundit on minimum wage increase demands versus robotic automation



That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.


-- Wooderson on high school girls (Dazed and Confused)

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 31, 2015 12:07 AM (JO9+V)

598 Him and Nip were throwing their wealth about. It was fun
Posted by: Misanthropic
---------------
jwest would have made it a Trifecta.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 31, 2015 12:05 AM (F2IAQ)

****

Twas an awesome display of tiny weenies vying for the top weenie spot. Not sure if Jwest had the chops.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 31, 2015 12:08 AM (XrHO0)

599 Finding somebody good to cut your hair when you have long hair and plan on keeping it long can be a pain. Chicks like to get all kinds of Michelangelo and turn you into "their" idea of a dude, and its usually something some former boyfriend of theirs had, or something they humped in a bar.

I have way better results with a tattooed metal chick with a bone in her nose that don't read cosmo.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 12:08 AM (FMbng)

600
Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2015 12:02 AM (T1005)

#growsbackin2weeks

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 31, 2015 12:08 AM (U2utM)

601 Egyptians partying like no one else - the Drunken Sekhmet Festival

http://advice.bemoor.com/advice.php?id=433

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 31, 2015 12:08 AM (rSBBR)

602 Lots of ettes in here, tonight.

Which reminds me, it's that time of year, again . By which i mean it's time to re-calibrate those light meters, ladies.

Posted by: Garrett at March 31, 2015 12:09 AM (YN5AI)

603 I make a Shitload of Money!

Posted by: Mr. Poo Poo>>>

I make more!

Posted by: Harry Reied at March 31, 2015 12:09 AM (W2Cji)

604 I feel like we could separate Moo Moo from some of his millions by concocting a fictional anti-socon PAC.

Posted by: Lauren at March 31, 2015 12:09 AM (MYCIw)

605 Twas an awesome display of tiny weenies vying for the top weenie spot. Not sure if Jwest had the chops.
Posted by: Man
---------------

Did Nip play the Porsche 930 card?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 31, 2015 12:10 AM (F2IAQ)

606 Talk about entrepreneurial barbers, there's one in my complex who looks like he's running his business - or at least a sideline - on the balcony of his condo. I'll go out at night to pick up mail at the communal boxes and see his balcony light on, a guy in a chair placed in front of a wall mirror (!) and him industriously snipping away. Technically wrong according to the HOA strictures, but it does make me smile.

Posted by: Sister Sestina at March 31, 2015 12:10 AM (fjP++)

607 I have way better results with a tattooed metal chick with a bone in her nose that don't read cosmo.

I've found what gets me the results I want is, "Just make it look like I'm not homeless."

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 31, 2015 12:10 AM (UVfht)

608 I feel like we could separate Moo Moo from some of his millions by concocting a fictional anti-socon PAC.
Posted by: Lauren
-----------------------

*snap*
Hell of an idea.

Posted by: Stop the SoCons PAC at March 31, 2015 12:11 AM (F2IAQ)

609 Yeah it all about the kids, who never grew up.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 31, 2015 12:05 AM (U2utM)

Uh, yeah.

I used to be in government sales and deal with schools.

Look at a schools' budget sometime.

Look where the vast, overwhelming majority of the money goes.

Not even to "educators" (they're not "teachers" anymore), but to enough "administrators" to run a decent sized federal agency.

And that's replicated in every small town and every school district in America. Thousands and thousands of adults who get paid to go to school every day, yet don't teach or do ... anything we would describe as "work".

And that's without even getting in to the teachers and their lavish pay and benefits for what is essentially a 20-year long part-time contract babysitting gig that continues to pay you until you die.

Posted by: mynewhandle at March 31, 2015 12:11 AM (AkOaV)

610 Finding somebody good to cut your hair when you have long hair and plan on keeping it long can be a pain. Chicks like to get all kinds of Michelangelo and turn you into "their" idea of a dude, and its usually something some former boyfriend of theirs had, or something they humped in a bar. I have way better results with a tattooed metal chick with a bone in her nose that don't read cosmo.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 12:08 AM

Don't bother anymore, here. Fuck it.

Posted by: otho at March 31, 2015 12:12 AM (tBSrv)

611 SAC PAC - Stop All SoCons Political Action Committee

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 31, 2015 12:12 AM (rSBBR)

612 Hey MH, good to see you.

Posted by: dartist at March 31, 2015 12:12 AM (ahBY0)

613 So I cancelled my membership to Angie's List today.

I don't even consider myself a social conservative but if a company wants to stick its nose in hot button political issues, it better be prepared for some backlash.

Posted by: Kal at March 31, 2015 12:12 AM (GjcK8)

614 I remember once getting my haircut from my wife's "Stylist". He ended up giving me some sort of fucked up "Ceasar" haircut that he wanted me to blow dry and comb forward toward my face.... The only thing I was missing was a Wreath to wear around my head. Needless to say that was the last time that Chuck.. er I mean CHARLES cut my hair. It was pretty funny actually

Posted by: Genghis Cohen at March 31, 2015 12:12 AM (fLKzW)

615 Mr Moo Moo either needs a new tax preparer or has not donated enough to the DNC/RNC and gotten some sweet,sweet tax breaks.
Need to pick up the game, Comrade Moo Moo.

Posted by: Man from Wazzustan at March 31, 2015 12:13 AM (uPxUo)

616 I've found what gets me the results I want is, "Just make it look like I'm not homeless."

Hah, Mine is "Make it so people don't laugh at me"

Posted by: dartist at March 31, 2015 12:14 AM (ahBY0)

617 612 Hey MH, good to see you.
Posted by: dartist at March 31, 2015

You too DA. Won't be long you'll be up to Gil's Landing

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 31, 2015 12:14 AM (U2utM)

618 I feel like we could separate Moo Moo from some of his millions by concocting a fictional anti-socon PAC.
Posted by: Lauren at March 31, 2015 12:09 AM (MYCIw)

*******

I suspect He is a thousandaire.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 31, 2015 12:14 AM (cIoI4)

619 Thousands and thousands of adults who get paid to go to school every day, yet don't teach or do ... anything we would describe as "work".
--------------------

And 'Superintendents' have become a migratory class. They stay somewhere long enough to bail with a parachute, often because people want to get the hell rid of them, then mosey on to the next parachute.

Posted by: Stop the SoCons PAC at March 31, 2015 12:14 AM (F2IAQ)

620 Monday Night ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/582640306425884672

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/582640835294007296

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/582641428297318400

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/582641915159547904

Posted by: kbdabear at March 31, 2015 12:14 AM (GrXXa)

621 I am a great haircutter. Look for me on Amazon.

Posted by: Flow Bee at March 31, 2015 12:15 AM (W2Cji)

622 Yeah, Moo's super rich. Cause all the super rich guys have tons of free time to troll blog comments. It's a thing with the yacht set.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 31, 2015 12:15 AM (ZPrif)

623 When I was in college there was a hot stripper who gave haircuts that lived in my apartment complex. She's dress up in her stripper outfits and cut your hair for $25. It was like a haircut and a lap dance rolled into one awesome package.

Posted by: Garrett at March 31, 2015 12:15 AM (YN5AI)

624 Hah, Mine is "Make it so people don't laugh at me"

I'm used to that.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 31, 2015 12:15 AM (UVfht)

625 444: This will be good. Just to piss off half the morons here, I don't care about letter jackets and shit. I remember the assholes that got them. Shallow pricks the lot of em. Trash away.
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 30, 2015 11:31 PM

Ya know, to meet you in person you wouldn't realize you are such a shit-stirrer here. LOL

F... the popcorn, I'm gonna go get some leftover pot roast while I keep reading. Yum.

Posted by: Farmer at March 31, 2015 12:16 AM (o/90i)

626 618
I feel like we could separate Moo Moo from some of his millions by concocting a fictional anti-socon PAC.

Posted by: Lauren at March 31, 2015 12:09 AM (MYCIw)



*******



I suspect He is a thousandaire.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 31, 2015 12:14 AM (cIoI4)


I suspect that all it takes to separate him from his millions is to wake him up.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2015 12:17 AM (T1005)

627
611 SAC PAC - Stop All SoCons Political Action Committee
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 31

Mr. Moo Moo chairman, owner, creator

Guranteed to piss off everyone on the right who is religious, christian, Jooish, on and on

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 31, 2015 12:17 AM (U2utM)

628 You too DA. Won't be long you'll be up to Gil's Landing

My buddies' wife is making him stay for Easter. He'll be going up with a ham sammich in his pocket shortly after. Walleye are hitting on the river they say.

Posted by: dartist at March 31, 2015 12:17 AM (ahBY0)

629 enough of this letter stuff, I am gonna get some Zs.



night all.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 31, 2015 12:18 AM (gsfK5)

630 Angie's List is being sued because they suppressed bad reviews of advertisers.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 31, 2015 12:18 AM (CxEX+)

631 You are a Great American, kdbabear!

Posted by: Sean Hannity at March 31, 2015 12:18 AM (YN5AI)

632 Did Nip play the Porsche 930 card?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 31, 2015 12:10 AM (F2IAQ)

*****

Naahhh. He topped it by talking about the staff that looks after his cash as their only gig, in regards to taxes. May be true, dunno. Weird to discuss on a blog though.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 31, 2015 12:18 AM (3F6F8)

633 Hector can be the COO

Posted by: Lauren at March 31, 2015 12:18 AM (MYCIw)

634 Just search "School superintendent resigns". You'll be astonished by the results; 'after two years', 'after four years', etc.

Posted by: Stop the SoCons PAC at March 31, 2015 12:18 AM (F2IAQ)

635 I like to get my head shaved but the kids say it makes me look like Curly from the Three Stooges. So I tell the gal at the Hack and Slash to cut my hair so I don't look like I am getting ready for Electroshock Therapy. The last few gals had no idea what I was talking about

Posted by: Genghis Cohen at March 31, 2015 12:19 AM (fLKzW)

636 There was a place in town where for a short time a woman barber wore pretty much stripper outfits and served beer.

The barber I go to was pretty sour about the whole thing.

She gave horrible haircuts, and when the unfortunate ones who got lousy haircuts came by to ask if the real barber could clean it up, he told them to come back in a week or two.

He's a borderline prick, but he does do a good haircut.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2015 12:19 AM (t//F+)

637 Posted by: Stop the SoCons PAC at March 31, 2015 12:14 AM (F2IAQ)

Not just the administrators, though.

In my (previous) state, they had an AWESOME system for teachers wherein the state guaranteed and managed all pensions and wherein your tenure followed you throughout the state. In other words, towns negotiated pay and pensions, but the state guaranteed it, ran the fund, and paid you out. So you start in a low paying town with high benefits, then at year 15 jump to a higher paying town with lower benefits, get out in 20 with your high benefits from the low paying town -- because the "formula" the STATE used to devise your check is to go by the per centage of income guaranteed when you first got tenured, yet average your last 3 years salaries (which were earned in the "high paying" town).

Confusing?
Well, the teachers figured it out and they all make out like fucking bandits, so it can't be that hard to understand. Maybe I'm just bad at explain.

Posted by: mynewhandle at March 31, 2015 12:20 AM (AkOaV)

638 COO or KOOK?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 31, 2015 12:20 AM (rSBBR)

639 I remember once getting my haircut from my wife's "Stylist". He ended up giving me some sort of fucked up "Ceasar" haircut that he wanted me to blow dry and comb forward toward my face.... The only thing I was missing was a Wreath to wear around my head. Needless to say that was the last time that Chuck.. er I mean CHARLES cut my hair. It was pretty funny actually

Posted by: Genghis Cohen at March 31, 2015 12:12 AM (fLKzW)


Yeah, I don't let dudes touch my hair. I don't need them cutting it so it looks like their boyfriend Ramone.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 12:20 AM (FMbng)

640 Guranteed to piss off everyone on the right who is religious, christian, Jooish, on and on
Posted by: Misanthropic
-----------------

Doesn't ski at Aspen, not Country Club member, doesn't own Philippe Patek watches....

Posted by: Stop the SoCons PAC at March 31, 2015 12:21 AM (F2IAQ)

641
611 SAC PAC - Stop All SoCons Political Action Committee
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 31

The gal that cuts my wife's hair cuts mine. My barber croaked a year and a half a go. She does a fine job keeping, the eye brows, ear and neck hair areas in check, $12

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 31, 2015 12:21 AM (U2utM)

642 >>>> Yeah, Moo's super rich. Cause all the super rich guys have tons of free time to troll blog comments. It's a thing with the yacht set.
Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 31, 2015 12:15 AM (ZPrif)

I used to think Moo was lying about stuff, but he has put out enough stuff about himself that isn't particularly flattering. Like his wife and all her friends being LIVs and that's how he knows everything bc of that.

Posted by: L, Elle at March 31, 2015 12:21 AM (KB6If)

643 Anna, how you doin?

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2015 12:21 AM (t//F+)

644 I have a whole roll of quarters in my bladder... funny story...

Posted by: MUMR at March 31, 2015 12:22 AM (SFpiC)

645 >>Yeah, I don't let dudes touch my hair. I don't need them cutting it so it looks like their boyfriend Ramone.


It looked great in the Unskinny Bop video, if you don't mind my saying so.

Posted by: Garrett at March 31, 2015 12:22 AM (YN5AI)

646 Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 31, 2015 12:18 AM (3F6F

Wait, are you seriously trying to tell us that you DON'T have a staff to watch your bundles of cash?

What a fucking piker.

How do you make it rain at a strip club then? Throw quarters?

Posted by: mynewhandle at March 31, 2015 12:23 AM (AkOaV)

647 It looked great in the Unskinny Bop video, if you don't mind my saying so.

Posted by: Garrett at March 31, 2015 12:22 AM (YN5AI)


da fuck band is that?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 12:23 AM (FMbng)

648 Distracting myself.

Still no sign of Roo. Vet has received no calls of found cats. Neighbor says he has not seen Roo. About out of nooks and crannies to search unless I take a bulldozer to the back lot.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 31, 2015 12:24 AM (rSBBR)

649 Anna - Sorry to hear that. Still hoping.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 31, 2015 12:25 AM (F2IAQ)

650 "Throw quarters?"

Please stop!

Posted by: Bruised Strippers at March 31, 2015 12:25 AM (MYCIw)

651 Like you even have to ask, CC.

Posted by: Garrett at March 31, 2015 12:25 AM (YN5AI)

652 About out of nooks and crannies to search unless I take a bulldozer to the back lot.

Posted by: Anna Puma


Have you thought about stuffing a fake mouse full of cat nip and tying it to the end of a fishing line?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 31, 2015 12:26 AM (JBzwC)

653 Wait, are you seriously trying to tell us that you DON'T have a staff to watch your bundles of cash?

What a fucking piker.

How do you make it rain at a strip club then? Throw quarters?
Posted by: mynewhandle at March 31, 2015 12:23 AM (AkOaV)

*****

Shit, I have an 18 y/o daughter. Ruined strip clubs for me forever, it has.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 31, 2015 12:26 AM (3F6F8)

654 The gal that cuts my wife's hair cuts mine. My barber croaked a year and
a half a go. She does a fine job keeping, the eye brows, ear and neck
hair areas in check, $12

And some of them like to lean over in a certain way that makes you want to give them a bigger tip. Eye brows dude?

Posted by: dartist at March 31, 2015 12:26 AM (ahBY0)

655 628 You too DA. Won't be long you'll be up to Gil's Landing

My buddies' wife is making him stay for Easter. He'll be going up with a ham sammich in his pocket shortly after. Walleye are hitting on the river they say.
Posted by: dartist at March 31, 2015 12:17 AM (ahBY0)

Not this spring but next year walleye run or white bass run lets do it. I have 16.75 ' boat Yamaha 90hp bells whistles

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 31, 2015 12:26 AM (U2utM)

656 The haircut I like best is a Flatop. Since no one does those anymore I just cut my own with a Whal.

Just need to look clean at work not fashionable.

Posted by: Robinson at March 31, 2015 12:27 AM (W2Cji)

657 Distracting myself.Still no sign of Roo. Vet has received no calls of found cats. Neighbor says he has not seen Roo. About out of nooks and crannies to search unless I take a bulldozer to the back lot.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 31, 2015 12:24 AM

Just the closest one? If it is, check further afield. Also, check with the council re animals.

Posted by: otho at March 31, 2015 12:28 AM (tBSrv)

658 DA yes eye brows, I look like a fucking Russian supreme leader.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 31, 2015 12:28 AM (U2utM)

659 Hi Guys, late to the thread, just got back from bowling (badly). Cooth, as far as haircuts go, I gave up years ago. Now I just have a Norelco and shave my head every other day. Thirty years ago I would have been labeled a Neo-Nazi, but now that so many are doing it, it's a nothing burger. Now I just look like a cue ball with big ears.
I'm not saying that I have big ears, but when I was a kid my Dad said I looked like a taxi cab going down main street with the back doors open. Scarred me for life, it did.

Posted by: Old Blue at March 31, 2015 12:28 AM (9iR5/)

660 First quarter moon for the walleye bite. The guys fishing them on the Missouri a couple weeks back were slaying them from 11 - 3 am.

Posted by: Garrett at March 31, 2015 12:29 AM (YN5AI)

661 And some of them like to lean over in a certain way that makes you want to give them a bigger tip. Eye brows dude?


Posted by: dartist at March 31, 2015 12:26 AM (ahBY0)


My dentist had a fairly hot assistant that loved leaning over you to reach for things and drag her boobehs across your face. Sad day when she left.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 12:29 AM (FMbng)

662 SAC PAC - Stop All SoCons Political Action Committee

Wasn't that what No Labels and/or The Coffee party was supposed to be?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 31, 2015 12:29 AM (W5DcG)

663 Take care of yourself too, Anna.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2015 12:29 AM (t//F+)

664 Not this spring but next year walleye run or white bass run lets do it. I have 16.75 ' boat Yamaha 90hp bells whistles

Nice. God willing and the creek don't rise, I'm buying the buzz.

Posted by: dartist at March 31, 2015 12:30 AM (ahBY0)

665 The Eebil?

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 31, 2015 12:30 AM (3F6F8)

666 Hi Guys, late to the thread, just got back from bowling (badly). Cooth, as far as haircuts go, I gave up years ago. Now I just have a Norelco and shave my head every other day. Thirty years ago I would have been labeled a Neo-Nazi, but now that so many are doing it, it's a nothing burger. Now I just look like a cue ball with big ears.

Posted by: Old Blue at March 31, 2015 12:28 AM (9iR5/)


I can't do bald. I would freak.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 12:31 AM (FMbng)

667 So close....

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 31, 2015 12:31 AM (3F6F8)

668 Well, I've got a cooler full of trout that aren't going to fillet themselves.

Later, morons.

Posted by: Garrett at March 31, 2015 12:33 AM (YN5AI)

669 Oh shit..shit. I hit the evil number while talking about not wanting to do bald. I think I doomed myself.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 12:33 AM (FMbng)

670 Moo Moo told me he keeps his money in his mom's basement.

Along with his WOW setup, and his cheesy-poofs.

Posted by: MUMR at March 31, 2015 12:34 AM (SFpiC)

671 Well, I've got a cooler full of trout that aren't going to fillet themselves.

Later, morons.
Posted by: Garrett at March 31, 2015 12:33 AM (YN5AI)

*****

I like those kind better than the fileted kind.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 31, 2015 12:35 AM (cIoI4)

672 628 You too DA. Won't be long you'll be up to Gil's Landing

My buddies' wife is making him stay for Easter. He'll be going up with a ham sammich in his pocket shortly after. Walleye are hitting on the river they say.
Posted by: dartist at March 31, 2015 12:17 AM (ahBY0)

I make the jigs abandoned the buZ baits j/k.

Setterguy2014at Gmail thingy

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 31, 2015 12:35 AM (U2utM)

673 Congrats, Berserker, on grabbing the magik number.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 31, 2015 12:35 AM (UVfht)

674 Well, I've got a cooler full of trout that aren't going to fillet themselves.

Later, morons.

Posted by: Garrett at March 31, 2015 12:33 AM (YN5AI)


Kinky...

Posted by: Troy McClure at March 31, 2015 12:35 AM (0Ew3K)

675 I must say, although I worry when the wife travels for business, getting to live like a reckless asshole for a bit has its merits.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 12:35 AM (FMbng)

676 A 16.75' boat with a 90hp. Holy crap I thought I had more motor than I needed with 25HP 0n a 16'.

But in 1972 a 90HP would have sunk a 16' boat so it never hurts to hang the most the boat will take.

Posted by: Robinson at March 31, 2015 12:36 AM (W2Cji)

677 Oh shit..shit. I hit the evil number while talking about not wanting to do bald. I think I doomed myself.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 12:33 AM (FMbng)

****

Good evening Mr. Clean. Can I help you?

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 31, 2015 12:37 AM (cIoI4)

678 671 Well, I've got a cooler full of trout that aren't going to fillet themselves.

Later, morons.
Posted by: Garrett at March 31, 2015 12:33 AM (YN5AI)

*****

I like those kind better than the fileted kind.

So you gut em & rinse em

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 31, 2015 12:37 AM (U2utM)

679 I've had shitty haircuts from barbers, and decent ones. I've had shitty haircuts from 'salon stylists,' and good ones.

The key is find the one that does a decent job, and training him/her. Meaning, you stick with that person and remember or write down what you don't/ do like.
"It grew out too fast on the sides", or "can't part it right" - whatever. Just write it down and take the note to the same dude/gal again, and correct it. Bonus points if you know the razor setting for the back. (F'ing ask if they don't tell you first time.)

They'll push product if they're a 'salon stylist' ; just buy it once and beg off later. The barber won't of course, but he'll expect you come in more regular like. Do that as well if that's your preference.

Key is to make sure you know what works for you and repeat the event regularly. Oh, and tip 25% if you think you can 'train' the barber/stylist if the first cut is decent.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 31, 2015 12:37 AM (JBzwC)

680 I always wanted a flattop haircut as a kid but the Ol' Man wouldn't have it. Joined the Army and got the same damn thing. Now, alas it cain't be done.

Posted by: dartist at March 31, 2015 12:37 AM (ahBY0)

681 Congrats, Berserker, on grabbing the magik number.


Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 31, 2015 12:35 AM (UVfht)


I wasn't even paying attention to it, and I probably jinxed myself talking about going bald when I hit it. Satan is a prick like that.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 12:38 AM (FMbng)

682 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 31, 2015 12:24 AM (rSBBR)

So sorry Roo is still missing, Anna.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 31, 2015 12:39 AM (DXzRD)

683
676 A 16.75' boat with a 90hp. Holy crap I thought I had more motor than I needed with 25HP 0n a 16'.

But in 1972 a 90HP would have sunk a 16' boat so it never hurts to hang the most the boat will take.
Posted by: Robinson at March 31, 2015 12:36 AM (W2Cji)

Technically my boat would have no larger thanan 80 on it. I bought a 90 and put 70 deals on it. Zoom zoom little girl cruises

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 31, 2015 12:39 AM (U2utM)

684 Good evening Mr. Clean. Can I help you?

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 31, 2015 12:37 AM (cIoI4)


yeah not happening. I'll go see ol' Doc Bosley before that. I swear to Christ I would.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 12:40 AM (FMbng)

685 669
Oh shit..shit. I hit the evil number while talking about not wanting to do bald. I think I doomed myself.





Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 12:33 AM (FMbng)---------Yep. Now you're going to look like me. An egg with big ears.
So yes, you're doomed. Sorry Bud.


Posted by: Old Blue at March 31, 2015 12:41 AM (9iR5/)

686 Yep. This is an 04 Taurus in otherwise outstanding
condition with low miles for age. Ford Dealer wanted $1200.00 for the
part and $480.00 for labor.



Yeah, about that.....no.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 30, 2015 10:50 PM (XrHO0)


Pick and Pull is your friend.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2015 12:41 AM (eenKj)

687 Technically my boat would have no larger thanan 80 on it. I bought a 90 and put 70 deals on it. Zoom zoom little girl cruises
Posted by: Misanthropic
------------------

Hold it...., the engine HP is regulated by law?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 31, 2015 12:42 AM (F2IAQ)

688
681 Congrats, Berserker, on grabbing the magik number.


Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 31, 2015 12:35 AM (UVfht)


I wasn't even paying attention to it, and I probably jinxed myself talking about going bald when I hit it. Satan is a prick like that.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 12:38 AM (FMbng)


Its just a myth that I pay attention to numbers like that....

I have the NSA do it for me....

Posted by: Satan at March 31, 2015 12:43 AM (qh617)

689 Technically my boat would have no larger thanan 80 on it. I bought a 90 and put 70 deals on it. Zoom zoom little girl cruises>>>

I was more remarking on the fact a 16' boat today can take a 90 HP motor. I fish small lakes so the 25 HP is all I need. But I get why some need more on the big lakes and chains.

Posted by: Robinson at March 31, 2015 12:43 AM (W2Cji)

690 I wasn't even paying attention to it, and I probably jinxed myself
talking about going bald when I hit it. Satan is a prick like that.


Could be worse. Alopecia.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 31, 2015 12:44 AM (UVfht)

691 yeah not happening. I'll go see ol' Doc Bosley before that. I swear to Christ I would.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 12:40 AM (FMbng)

*****

Ehhhh, as I mentioned, mine gets a high and tight. I have grown about 2 inches of forehead in the last 10 years, but seem to be holding there. I no longer have a shit to give about the perceptions of others.

At 52, this is very liberating.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 31, 2015 12:45 AM (cIoI4)

692 Oh shit..shit. I hit the evil number while talking about not wanting to do bald. I think I doomed myself.



You mean domed. Chrome domed.


(says the pot)

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 31, 2015 12:46 AM (JO9+V)

693 Technically my boat would have no larger thanan 80 on it. I bought a 90 and put 70 deals on it. Zoom zoom little girl cruises

What make boat? A 90 will skedaddle a 16' but haven't I seen 150s on them, or maybe they're bigger boats. Hey I'm a fib.

Posted by: dartist at March 31, 2015 12:46 AM (ahBY0)

694 Hold it...., the engine HP is regulated by law?>>>

You haven't been paying attention for the last 30 years have you?

Posted by: Robinson at March 31, 2015 12:46 AM (W2Cji)

695 659
Hi Guys, late to the thread, just got back from bowling (badly). Cooth,
as far as haircuts go, I gave up years ago. Now I just have a Norelco
and shave my head every other day. Thirty years ago I would have been
labeled a Neo-Nazi, but now that so many are doing it, it's a nothing
burger. Now I just look like a cue ball with big ears.
I'm not saying
that I have big ears, but when I was a kid my Dad said I looked like a
taxi cab going down main street with the back doors open. Scarred me for
life, it did.


Posted by: Old Blue at March 31, 2015 12:28 AM (9iR5/)


Flow-bee was mentioned earlier....it'd cost about the same as two years' worth of haircuts..... I don't see myself going the full razor ("never go full razor....") or even a flat-top, but I could see a 2-3" flow-bee working.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2015 12:47 AM (T1005)

696 You haven't been paying attention for the last 30 years have you?
Posted by: Robinson
-------------

Apparently not. All my experience was 'run what you brung'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 31, 2015 12:48 AM (F2IAQ)

697 661
And some of them like to lean over in a certain way that makes you want to give them a bigger tip. Eye brows dude?





Posted by: dartist at March 31, 2015 12:26 AM (ahBY0)





My dentist had a fairly hot assistant that loved leaning over you to
reach for things and drag her boobehs across your face. Sad day when
she left.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 12:29 AM (FMbng)


Some women just like and understand men, and want them to be happy.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2015 12:48 AM (T1005)

698 My 16' is aluminum so those fiberglass bass boats probably handle the bigger motors better.

Posted by: Robinson at March 31, 2015 12:49 AM (W2Cji)

699 697,

Hooah.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 31, 2015 12:49 AM (OsWis)

700 I didn't work today,been ill since mid Saturday felt I might have had strep throat, I don't, back to work tomorrow

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 31, 2015 12:49 AM (U2utM)

701
Ehhhh, as I mentioned, mine gets a high and tight. I have grown about 2 inches of forehead in the last 10 years, but seem to be holding there. I no longer have a shit to give about the perceptions of others.

At 52, this is very liberating.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 31, 2015 12:45 AM (cIoI4)


yeah, I can't do that. I'm not ready to be put out to pasture yet, and for me that means doing time in the Viking metal band Oldenbald.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 12:49 AM (FMbng)

702
Why do we need hair on our heads anyway?

Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at March 31, 2015 12:50 AM (FRLeJ)

703 What make boat? A 90 will skedaddle a 16' but haven't I seen 150s on them, or maybe they're bigger boats. Hey I'm a fib.
Posted by: dartist at March 31, 2015 12:46 AM (ahBY0)

*****

Shit, here in GA I have seen 16' Bass boats with twin 150s. Totally insane, but they hit the fishin' hole they want first.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 31, 2015 12:50 AM (cIoI4)

704 *sigh* How nice is it to have a pub buddy of a different race ( he's black ) that you can just TALK about stuff with? He's conservative, which helps, but here's how it went.

I came out to have a beer, sat down and started working on a project. Suddenly someone is looming over me. It's Ed. "We don't like your kind in this bar"

"Fuck you asshole, white lives matter"

Big laugh, handshakes, hugs, animated conversation. He called JEF in 2012. I paid off the bet in beer but he never let's me forget it. Arguments about elections ( did Biden fail to deliver Delaware in 2008? iPad to the rescue "you can embiggen it all you want Ed, it ain't getting any redder"), electability, Cruz, Reagan, natural born citizen, Obama's race as a factor in the GOPe's lack of resistance, tons of stuff.

Great conversation. Great fun. Great friendship. Great drinks. Everything race relations in America SHOULD be, but isn't in this post racial wonderland we live in now.

I needed that.

Posted by: Weirddave at March 31, 2015 12:50 AM (7TK5d)

705
If everyone was naturally hairless, it would then be less desirable to have hair like, say, Fabio, yes?

Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at March 31, 2015 12:51 AM (FRLeJ)

706 Hope you feel better soon, MH. I was ill a few weeks ago.

Being sick sucks.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 31, 2015 12:51 AM (OsWis)

707 Are you OK with someone who has never served in the
Military buying the uniform and medals of someone who did to walk around
with?

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 30, 2015 10:57 PM (cIoI4)


If you were in the military, you put your life on the line in service of your country to earn those medals.

A "letter" in high school? Mostly means you capitalized on your own God-given talent for your own self-aggrandizement and to get pussy. But mostly to get pussy.

It's a false analogy.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2015 12:52 AM (eenKj)

708 684 Good evening Mr. Clean. Can I help you?

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 31, 2015 12:37 AM (cIoI4)


yeah not happening. I'll go see ol' Doc Bosley before that. I swear to Christ I would.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 12:40 AM (FMbng)


==========================


Would seem to me a Dragonshead be scaly, not hairy.....the hair being reserved for the bearshirt.

Posted by: Sister Sestina at March 31, 2015 12:52 AM (fjP++)

709 Why do we need hair on our heads anyway?

'Cause it just wouldn't be right to have all that long hair growing out of your back.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 31, 2015 12:52 AM (UVfht)

710 Apparently not. All my experience was 'run what you brung'.>>>

The DNR guy will read that tag on your boat and ticket you if what you run exceeds what it says. Though they will also ticket you for all kinds of other stuff if it makes you smile. So WTF.

Posted by: Robinson at March 31, 2015 12:53 AM (W2Cji)

711 BRB.

Time for the "Lesbian Bear Storm" show...

Posted by: 政治的な帽子 ~ クマ at March 31, 2015 12:53 AM (0Ew3K)

712 Cool story, WD.

Fortunately, it is in many places.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 31, 2015 12:54 AM (OsWis)

713 If everyone was naturally hairless, it would then be less desirable to have hair like, say, Fabio, yes?

Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc.


Perhaps, but differentiation is a thing unto itself. We instinctively look for things that vary with in a range. So eyebrows would be the play that captures the conscious.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 31, 2015 12:54 AM (JBzwC)

714
differentiation

Is this a real word?

Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at March 31, 2015 12:56 AM (FRLeJ)

715 If everyone was naturally hairless, it would then be less desirable to have hair like, say, Fabio, yes?

Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at March 31, 2015 12:51 AM (FRLeJ)


Hell, my hair is longer than his and *I* wouldn't want Fabio hair. That homo side part he's sporting with length like that is teh gay.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 12:56 AM (FMbng)

716 Or spectacular hooting.

Like on a blog.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 31, 2015 12:56 AM (JBzwC)

717 yeah, I can't do that. I'm not ready to be put out to pasture yet, and for me that means doing time in the Viking metal band Oldenbald.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 12:49 AM (FMbng)

*****

Not sure if you meant I was out to pasture by that comment, and also not too concerned if you did.

Getting to where you want to be and not sweating the small stuff has been the greatest part middle age for me.

My lawn. Off it, you will get.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 31, 2015 12:56 AM (XrHO0)

718
You make a good point, though. It is remarkable how much people look alike when their heads are shaved.

Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at March 31, 2015 12:57 AM (FRLeJ)

719 699
697,



Hooah.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 31, 2015 12:49 AM (OsWis)


Yeah, it's amazing how that only works one way, though.....you dry-hump a woman's leg in a friendly way to try to cheer her up a bit, and it causes no end of bother.

Er, so I've heard....

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2015 12:57 AM (T1005)

720 Posted by: Weirddave at March 31, 2015 12:50 AM (7TK5d)

Yeah. In my experience, most people of any race are cool like that one on one.

It's only when you get the SJW's and the race hustlers in front of the microphone that you get divisiveness.

Posted by: mynewhandle at March 31, 2015 12:57 AM (AkOaV)

721 Yeah, I've been shaving my head for about two years now. All I can say is that I'm aerodynamic and waterproof. I paid $65.00 for the Norelco. I used to pay $30.00 every two weeks to get my hair buzzed. The thing I miss the most is getting all the trimming around my ears and eyebrows. Now I kind of look like an egg with ears and eyebrows like Thufor from Dune.
Kind of interesting that the older I got, the more I started growing hair in the oddest places. Ears, nose, shoulders, eyebrows.
It must be gravity. Instead of hair growing on my head, it seems to have migrated south. Has to be gravity.

Posted by: Old Blue at March 31, 2015 12:58 AM (9iR5/)

722 Heh cooth.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 31, 2015 12:58 AM (OsWis)

723 You make a good point, though. It is remarkable how much people look alike when their heads are shaved.



Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at March 31, 2015 12:57 AM (FRLeJ)


THX1138

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 12:58 AM (FMbng)

724
Which naturally follows this question: Is Vin Diesel a homosexual?

Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at March 31, 2015 12:58 AM (FRLeJ)

725
THX1138

or Fringe.

Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at March 31, 2015 12:59 AM (FRLeJ)

726 Is this a real word?

Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc.


Yes, in fact it is. It's not even an Ace-logism.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 31, 2015 12:59 AM (JBzwC)

727 Boot camp and Basic Training.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 31, 2015 12:59 AM (OsWis)

728 Why do we need hair on our heads anyway?

If you have ever hit your head on something you'd know why. I won't even talk about getting whacked on that little fucking button of ball hats.

Posted by: dartist at March 31, 2015 01:00 AM (ahBY0)

729 702


Why do we need hair on our heads anyway?

Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at March 31, 2015 12:50 AM (FRLeJ)


Actually, I have the answer for that -- having initially thought I could dive Monterey Bay (48 degrees) without a wetsuit hood. You need insulation and a sunscreen there, so you grow it.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2015 01:00 AM (T1005)

730 Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at March 31, 2015 12:58 AM (FRLeJ)

Nah, he's probably just balding badly.

As they say, balding is not a choice. Bald is.

Posted by: mynewhandle at March 31, 2015 01:00 AM (AkOaV)

731 If you were in the military, you put your life on the line in service of your country to earn those medals.

A "letter" in high school? Mostly means you capitalized on your own God-given talent for your own self-aggrandizement and to get pussy. But mostly to get pussy.

It's a false analogy.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2015 12:52 AM (eenKj)

****

Dude, you are late to the thread and Not yet up to speed. I mentioned that I was going to build a Strawman to make a point. That was edited out in the post you responded to. Ya kinda need to get current before commenting, IMO.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 31, 2015 01:01 AM (3F6F8)

732 Nil Butron is a pud.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at March 31, 2015 01:01 AM (TF10X)

733 Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 31, 2015 01:01 AM (3F6F

When you build men of straw, you risk the wrath of men with flame throwers.

Posted by: ancient chinese proverb at March 31, 2015 01:02 AM (AkOaV)

734 Bra', I'm lettered!

Posted by: The Hill Over Looking Your HS at March 31, 2015 01:02 AM (JBzwC)

735 Whatever you do, don't let Mitt Romney cut your hair!!!

Posted by: Mitt's zombie bullying victim at March 31, 2015 01:04 AM (CZexX)

736 The thing I miss the most is getting all the trimming around my ears and eyebrows.>>>

I miss the young women paying attention to me too now that I cut my own hair. But since the strip club price is about the same as a haircut I figure it works out.

Posted by: Robinson at March 31, 2015 01:04 AM (W2Cji)

737 I didn't work today,been ill since mid Saturday felt I might have had strep throat, I don't, back to work tomorrow
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 31, 2015 12:49 AM

Bummer MH. Be well tomorrow.

Posted by: Farmer at March 31, 2015 01:05 AM (o/90i)

738 Did you ever see a guy wearing a letter man's jacket when he was 25? Man, that is so sad.

Posted by: fairweatherbill at March 31, 2015 01:06 AM (o/3Hk)

739 Which naturally follows this question: Is Vin Diesel a homosexual?
>>>

Ask him and tell us what he says.

Posted by: Robinson at March 31, 2015 01:07 AM (W2Cji)

740 Ah, THX 1138.

When George Lucas was an Angry Young Man.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 31, 2015 01:07 AM (elbY7)

741 Ah, THX 1138. When George Lucas was an Angry Young Man.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 31, 2015 01:07 AM

Pre-neck.

Posted by: otho at March 31, 2015 01:10 AM (tBSrv)

742 How the hell is it midnight already. Good night hoarde.

May your day be all that your last fortune cookie told you it would be.

Posted by: Robinson at March 31, 2015 01:11 AM (W2Cji)

743 A 16 ft. aluminum jon boat, with standard width and gunwales is usually a 25 hp hull. They make wide body jons with deeper gunnel's that'll handle 40 horse.

Go up to a 16 ft. Bayliner runabout, and that's into the 70 to 90 hp range, and being a Bayliner, about a five year transom life. It's a far heavier hull with a deep-vee profile, so it needs more power than the lightweight johnboat.

Then, there are some 16 ft. serious boats that are built like tanks. Early Chaparrals are up to a half-inch thick of solid fiberglass, with a semi tri-hull design. Weigh a ton. 125 hp isn't out of line on those.

Thing is, usually the manufacturer has a placard on the hull, including the serial number, which states how many HP the boat is rated for. It's a Govt' requirement to have the placard, but the Govt' doesn't determine the HP ratings. They just insist that the manufacturer take the liability for the rating.

Corporations, being conservative, are not stating the max power that their hulls can take. There's a bit of fudge factor there.

Weight of the engine is more of a factor than the HP produced. If your transom is nearly swamped just due to the weight of the engine, then find a lighter engine.

But yeah, you can over-HP a boat, too. I had a 12 ft thin fiberglass boat, barely more than a rowboat. 20 hp on the back of that would give just under 27 mph, and I riveted a trim tab onto the starboard transom, just to keep the prop torque from twisting the hull onto it's right side under full power.

Boats are fun, boating is fun. But do be careful. Anything out on the water tends to be very unforgiving of mistakes, miscalculations, accidents and pure fkupups.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 31, 2015 01:12 AM (RzZOc)

744 Funny thing is, my beard is grey and my thinning head hair is like it always was. My brother asked me if I dyed it. I'm gonna ride it out the way it goes. I have a full head of hair on the inside.

Posted by: dartist at March 31, 2015 01:12 AM (ahBY0)

745 693 Technically my boat would have no larger thanan 80 on it. I bought a 90 and put 70 deals on it. Zoom zoom little girl cruises

What make boat? A 90 will skedaddle a 16' but haven't I seen 150s on them, or maybe they're bigger boats. Hey I'm a fib.
Posted by: dartist at March 31, 2015 12:46 AM (ahBY0)

My bot/motor has been checked by mn DNR, wi dnr and Ontario DNR. Neither of them noticed that a 90 hp motor was being camofalaughrd by 70 mph stickers.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 31, 2015 01:13 AM (U2utM)

746 704
*sigh* How nice is it to have a pub buddy of a different race ( he's
black ) that you can just TALK about stuff with? He's conservative,
which helps, but here's how it went.



I came out to have a beer, sat down and started working on a
project. Suddenly someone is looming over me. It's Ed. "We don't like
your kind in this bar"



"Fuck you asshole, white lives matter"



Big laugh, handshakes, hugs, animated conversation. He called JEF in
2012. I paid off the bet in beer but he never let's me forget it.
Arguments about elections ( did Biden fail to deliver Delaware in 2008?
iPad to the rescue "you can embiggen it all you want Ed, it ain't
getting any redder"), electability, Cruz, Reagan, natural born citizen,
Obama's race as a factor in the GOPe's lack of resistance, tons of
stuff.



Great conversation. Great fun. Great friendship. Great drinks.
Everything race relations in America SHOULD be, but isn't in this post
racial wonderland we live in now.



I needed that.

Posted by: Weirddave at March 31, 2015 12:50 AM (7TK5d)


Years ago, I would have been a little crossways with you about that. I didn't want to "have a pub buddy of a different race", because race factored so little into things I cared about. If we were talking about Roger, I'd talk about the quality fish he was breeding, how he would come up with very insightful and tricky questions when we had an expert at our meetings, how I looked to him as a resource for good advice. And, after we talked about these things and you said, "great, I need to meet this guy!", I'd say "he's over at that table" -- and, then, to clarify, say either, "he's the short guy", "he's the guy in the blue sweater", "he's sitting at this end of the table", or "he's the black guy" -- with equal emphasis in each case.

But today, with constant examples like the JEF and his grifter consort, Eric Holder, the perjurin' townspeople of Ferguson, Al Sharpton, and the like.....it's nice to be reminded that Fantasyland on the Potomac doesn't represent race in the real world.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2015 01:13 AM (T1005)

747
I'm more depressed about the wrinkles around my eyes.

Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at March 31, 2015 01:15 AM (FRLeJ)

748 728
Why do we need hair on our heads anyway?

If you have ever hit
your head on something you'd know why. I won't even talk about getting
whacked on that little fucking button of ball hats.


Posted by: dartist at March 31, 2015 01:00 AM (ahBY0)

Oh, yeah -- and a cushion. I walked into a cabinet door today, you would think I might've remembered that.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2015 01:16 AM (T1005)

749 No ending for a show like cyborg lesbian bears...

Posted by: 政治的な帽子 ~ クマ at March 31, 2015 01:18 AM (0Ew3K)

750 My bot/motor has been checked by mn DNR, wi dnr and Ontario DNR. Neither
of them noticed that a 90 hp motor was being camofalaughrd by 70 mph
stickers.

I didn't know they fcuked with you guys like that. I thought you could put whatever motor you wanted on your boat. I do know not to fcuk with the DNR though.

Posted by: dartist at March 31, 2015 01:18 AM (ahBY0)

751 737 I didn't work today,been ill since mid Saturday felt I might have had strep throat, I don't, back to work tomorrow
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 31, 2015 12:49 AM

Bummer MH. Be well tomorrow.
Posted by: Farmer at March 31, 2015 01:05 AM (o/90i)

Thanks farmer. Got lucky on timing a week earlier I couldn't have made our partyb

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 31, 2015 01:19 AM (U2utM)

752 I'm more depressed about the wrinkles around my eyes.

It shows you know. Everyone is wondering what's up with that shit.

Posted by: dartist at March 31, 2015 01:21 AM (ahBY0)

753 Hey hope you nc maroons have a coffee clutch gathering. No bars to clothes per wisconsinq momee

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 31, 2015 01:22 AM (U2utM)

754
What's the word? Thunderbird
What's the price? Fifty twice
What's the action? Satisfaction

A poem taught to me by RJ Gavin.

Posted by: Ira Weatheral at March 31, 2015 01:22 AM (qry2M)

755 Night all.

Here is "Never Satisfied" by Judas Priest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvLmpXXPDB8

Posted by: The Political Hat at March 31, 2015 01:22 AM (0Ew3K)

756 752
I'm more depressed about the wrinkles around my eyes.

It shows you know. Everyone is wondering what's up with that shit.


Posted by: dartist at March 31, 2015 01:21 AM (ahBY0)


Everyone says mine look like "laugh lines", but I know.....they're from squinting.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2015 01:23 AM (T1005)

757 I'm more depressed about the wrinkles around my eyes.

Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc.


Eat more things with hyaluronic acid.
tinyurl.com/yqz2fu

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 31, 2015 01:23 AM (JBzwC)

758 Everyone says mine look like "laugh lines", but I know.....they're from squinting.

Just kidding, you write like you're smiling.

Posted by: dartist at March 31, 2015 01:26 AM (ahBY0)

759 In a younger, more innocent and genteel time, the
optimal solution to the Wichita letter jacket issue would be the
school's star quarterback (or other equivalent) saying "Shoot, here,
have MY letter jacket!"

Posted by: filbert at March 30, 2015 11:54 PM (h6Mpm)


^^^this^^^

And perhaps the team could have made a position for him. Ball inflation tech?


I had a distant cousin who was Down's Syndrome. As a young child, I was often frightened by Mike (real name) because he was loud and boisterous, but with a genuinely kind soul. Ultimately, he got a job as a towel boy at the MARC (Mens Athletic and Recreational Club) in Vancouver, which was a hangout for the movers and shakers in the Howe Street stock market scene. This was long before any "ghey" connotations to such a club were heard of, BTW.

Mike became a fixture there, and was quite beloved by the clientele, who were mostly big wheels in the market. It was a sad day when he died in his early thirties of congenital heart disease.

Mike Barrett, RIP.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2015 01:26 AM (eenKj)

760 What's the word? Thunderbird

What's the price? Fifty twice

What's the action? Satisfaction



A poem taught to me by RJ Gavin.

That is bait hanging there.

Posted by: dartist at March 31, 2015 01:27 AM (ahBY0)

761 Boats.
When the Sea Ray got to expensive to wet-slip and even take out on some he weekends, Dad sold it & eventually got a 17' bass boat (brand?)
Had a Suzuki 115 with quad Mikuni carbs on it. That little thing would practically stand up when you got into it!

Haircuts?
Been doing my own for about five years now with it$10 clippers. Way overdue for cut, actually. And new clippers.
Meh. Hats are cheap.

Moo & Nip Sip.
So glad I don't make the time to read the days threads often lately. They both make my eyes roll far enough back to cause a headache.

Race.
I don't frequent bars that have the blacks in them. That's just crazy, man! Do you actually use the same bathroom?!?

Posted by: shredded chi at March 31, 2015 01:29 AM (idmwx)

762 heh

Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 31, 2015 01:30 AM (OsWis)

763 758
Everyone says mine look like "laugh lines", but I know.....they're from squinting.

Just kidding, you write like you're smiling.


Posted by: dartist at March 31, 2015 01:26 AM (ahBY0)


Would that be me or Soothsayer?

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2015 01:31 AM (T1005)

764
Bait? Bait?

It's true.

Happened at the top of the stands at a high school
football game in 1966.

Posted by: Ira Weatheral at March 31, 2015 01:32 AM (qry2M)

765 761
Haircuts?

Been doing my own for about five years now with it$10 clippers. Way overdue for cut, actually. And new clippers.

Meh. Hats are cheap.






Race.

I don't frequent bars that have the blacks in them. That's just crazy, man! Do you actually use the same bathroom?!?

Posted by: shredded chi at March 31, 2015 01:29 AM (idmwx)


Yeah....if I tried to cut my own hair, I'd better have a backup career as an Impressionist painter.

They have bars in Norfolk with more than one bathroom???

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2015 01:34 AM (T1005)

766 3 There Were Gay Orgies in Mecca?

One things the Progressives are hell bent on is ret-conning the past to fit their delusional narrative. Based on the idea of "Kyriarchy," all the problems in the world are the cause of a small cabal of straight White cis-gendered X-tian males. For this to work, it would mean that every civilization outside of the "White" Western Civilization (which apparently stole everything from everyone else, because "evil"), recognized homosexuality at being normal and acceptable, was run by a Matriarchy, didn't recognize the existence of "gender", etc.

More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=8718


I'm ashamed to say that I was totally in agreement with the beginnings of this movement, back when I was young and stupid, and no one had any idea just how extreme and dangerous it would become.

I totally accepted the worldview originally promulgated by Marija Gimbutas, a Lithuanian archaeologist who claimed that all of human society was matriarchal and peaceful until the rise of a specific tribe of cruel manly patriarchal war-loving masculine man-dudes we now call "the Indo-Europeans." Emanating from what in now the Ukraine/southern Russia, they spread the concept of patriarchy wherever they went, conquering and raping, and turning the idyllic peaceful woman-worshipping human beings of the world into bloodthirsty male-god worshippers.

Really, it all seemed to make so much sense, and explained everything...until I found out that it was all total bullshit. Her theory was based on selective rejection of inconvenient evidence -- such as that pre-Indo-European cultures were just as violent (if not more violent) than later cultures, even if the pre-IndoEuropeans' primary deities were female deities. (And there's not any actual evidence for that, either, now we realize.)

Anyway, it took well over a decade of unquestioningly accepting the "fact" that early humans worshipped goddesses and that they therefore were peaceful and non-hierarchical, before I got me some actual knowledge and woke up from my reverie.

But the activists/students in your comment/post -- they are a generation or two down Delusion Road; not only do they not know the real facts, but their professors don't know the real facts either.

The madness has ossified. The cement of Leftist Mass Mania has hardened and cannot be reshaped. The only solution now is the Jackhammer of Reality.

Brace yourself for the Ugly Times.

Posted by: zombie at March 31, 2015 01:34 AM (K4YiS)

767
Nip is okay.

We're all equals here. We are all equally annoying and interesting. When you start thinking you're one of the better commenters here at AoS and other people suck it means you need to step back and remember that all we're doing here is making dumb comments that don't mean a hill of beans in the big scheme.

Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at March 31, 2015 01:35 AM (FRLeJ)

768 Yeah, I don't let dudes touch my hair. I don't need them cutting it so it looks like their boyfriend Ramone.





Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 12:20 AM (FMbng)



Last two haircuts I've had were done right here in Apache Junction. Done right, with a lather neck shave, and $15.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2015 01:37 AM (eenKj)

769 Condolences, Anna. My Claws would sometimes go on "sabbaticals" and be gone for days at a time, and then show up, in fine fettle, and demand to be fed. So don't give up hope.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2015 01:40 AM (eenKj)

770 We're all equals here. We are all equally annoying and interesting. When you start thinking you're one of the better commenters here at AoS and other people suck it means you need to step back and remember that all we're doing here is making dumb comments that don't mean a hill of beans in the big scheme.

And you're gonna get on that keyboard and you're gonna type. Cause you belong on that keyboard. So here's looking at you, moron.

Posted by: Adriane the Critic ... at March 31, 2015 01:40 AM (nSOh+)

771 Would that be me or Soothsayer?

Well, I'd have to say that I enjoy both of what you two write, along with many others. I owe you and one other a beer for some cancer info that was discouraged in here as well. If I didn't thank you at the time I apologize. It made a huge positive difference to me and my gf. Thank you.

Posted by: dartist at March 31, 2015 01:42 AM (ahBY0)

772 Last two haircuts I've had were done right here in Apache Junction. Done right, with a lather neck shave, and $15.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


It's that cheap because they are just practicing with a high aim.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 31, 2015 01:46 AM (JBzwC)

773 Posted by: zombie at March 31, 2015 01:34 AM (K4YiS)



Given your family background, I'm not surprised at all to find that you started with a whackjob narrative.....but it's not just that the current activists/students are two+ generations down Delusion Road -- they got there by following roadsigns put up by Gramscians.



One of the things that had a great deal of influence in my life was taking a class in American History -- I forget when, maybe 7th grade -- and thinking, "this makes no sense, whatsoever." It was just about where a handful of American colonists could prevail over the British Empire because of Crispus Attucks.



So, I started reading about the conflict from the European side.....and soon became aware that there were massive waves of power and contention world-wide that dominated that period of time. Looking at those the way my textbooks did was like taking a sheet of printer paper, using a hole-punch to punch ten holes in it, and laying it over the text of this blog....then mislabeling whatever showed-through.



But it was all completely intentional.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2015 01:47 AM (T1005)

774 We're all equals here. We are all equally annoying and interesting. When you start thinking you're one of the better commenters here at AoS and other people suck it means you need to step back and remember that all we're doing here is making dumb comments that don't mean a hill of beans in the big scheme.

Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at March 31, 2015 01:35 AM (FRLeJ)


Probably why I only do around 10 posts a day. That's about all I need to say nothing useful. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 01:48 AM (FMbng)

775 Dude, you are late to the thread and Not yet up to
speed. I mentioned that I was going to build a Strawman to make a point.
That was edited out in the post you responded to. Ya kinda need to get
current before commenting, IMO.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 31, 2015 01:01 AM (3F6F


Yeah, I know you were building a straw man, but somebody had to burn it down. I think we are on the same page: stolen valor =/= unearned HS letter.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2015 01:49 AM (eenKj)

776 Distracting myself.Still no sign of Roo. Vet has received no calls of found cats. Neighbor says he has not seen Roo. About out of nooks and crannies to search unless I take a bulldozer to the back lot.

HTHs.

The stepson found a dog and posted it on a site called neighborhoods or some such. You enter a zip code and they share you into an electronic bulletin board for that zip code. Found the dog's owner in a day or 2 ...

I'm not a social media person, so not sure of the details. I can get them for you though. Missing kittehs make you old before your time.

Posted by: Adriane the Critic ... at March 31, 2015 01:49 AM (nSOh+)

777
OK
My barber story,
Joe, was my barber back when RJ Gavin was teaching me poetry.
I went to Joe because after getting yelled at by my dad
to "go get your hair cut! you look like a girl!", I found that Joe would cut my hair minimally, but he asked for my buck in advance, and then he would walk across the street to the 'Spot Cafe' and spend it on a couple of shots, then come back and snip around a bit.
This always struck me as peculiar.

Posted by: Ira Weatheral at March 31, 2015 01:50 AM (qry2M)

778 Yeah....if I tried to cut my own hair, I'd better have a backup career as an Impressionist painter.

They have bars in Norfolk with more than one bathroom???

Posted by: cthulhu
-------------------------
Yeah, I started cutting my own to save cash. Actually had the ex do it once after I tightened up the son one day. Then I went to pool league that NOGHT, and four different people asked "wtf happened to your head?"
I finished her hackjob the next day, and have been doing it ever since.

Norfolk bar bathrooms? Dude, I can show you a couple places where you wouldn't say they even had ONE bathroom.
went in one that had no running water. Seriously. Three urinals on the wall - all filled with ice.
It smelled like I imagine The Barrel does after a particularly raucous weekend.
When I asked the bartender how I was supposed to wash my hands, she looked at me like I was speaking Peruvian.
I checked the women's, no water, and it smelled even worse...

Posted by: shredded chi at March 31, 2015 01:50 AM (idmwx)

779 771
Would that be me or Soothsayer?

Well, I'd have to say that I
enjoy both of what you two write, along with many others. I owe you and
one other a beer for some cancer info that was discouraged in here as
well. If I didn't thank you at the time I apologize. It made a huge
positive difference to me and my gf. Thank you.


Posted by: dartist at March 31, 2015 01:42 AM (ahBY0)


Thank you. And I'm pleased to have been of good service.


I have to confess, however, @763 was really just an attempt to keep the thread going.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2015 01:50 AM (T1005)

780 778
Yeah....if I tried to cut my own hair, I'd better have a backup career as an Impressionist painter.



They have bars in Norfolk with more than one bathroom???



Posted by: cthulhu

-------------------------

Yeah, I started cutting my own to save cash. Actually had the ex do
it once after I tightened up the son one day. Then I went to pool league
that NOGHT, and four different people asked "wtf happened to your
head?"

I finished her hackjob the next day, and have been doing it ever since.



Norfolk bar bathrooms? Dude, I can show you a couple places where you wouldn't say they even had ONE bathroom.

went in one that had no running water. Seriously. Three urinals on the wall - all filled with ice.

It smelled like I imagine The Barrel does after a particularly raucous weekend.

When I asked the bartender how I was supposed to wash my hands, she looked at me like I was speaking Peruvian.

I checked the women's, no water, and it smelled even worse...

Posted by: shredded chi at March 31, 2015 01:50 AM (idmwx)


You can probably get used to anything, but I had enough of trying to do shit in the mirror when I changed the power door-lock widget in my car -- and when you're talking about cutting my own hair......I didn't even realize how bald I was until I was at Maker Faire under a camera-equipped crane with a godson and wondered, "who the hell is that bald guy standing next to Bryce?!?"

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2015 01:56 AM (T1005)

781 But the activists/students in your comment/post -- they are a generation or two down Delusion Road; not only do they not know the real facts, but their professors don't know the real facts either.
The madness has ossified. The cement of Leftist Mass Mania has hardened and cannot be reshaped. The only solution now is the Jackhammer of Reality.
Brace yourself for the Ugly Times.

Posted by: zombie at March 31, 2015 01:34 AM

Thanks z. That's a great explanation of insane thinking and historical BS.

I used to not understand, as I grew up in Midwest in a fairly sane time. The older I get the more I understand the crazies. Maybe that's not a good sign?

You know that the evil English white folks gave the peaceful Indians blankets full of smallpox. NOT

Posted by: Farmer at March 31, 2015 02:00 AM (o/90i)

782 "who the hell is that bald guy standing next to Bryce?!?"

Posted by: cthulhu
-------------------------
And "And why is he wearing my favorite Cthulhu t-shirt?"

Posted by: shredded chi at March 31, 2015 02:02 AM (HNj0s)

783
Yeah, I was surprised too when I first saw my 2 inch diameter 'thin' [he means bald. ed.] area. I think I might try the shaved, billiard cue look.

Pros? Cons?

Posted by: Ira Weatheral at March 31, 2015 02:02 AM (qry2M)

784 I can't do bald. I would freak.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 12:31 AM (FMbng)

====I tried freaking. It was time consuming and didn't grow one damn hair.

Posted by: jc at March 31, 2015 02:05 AM (iRJ+A)

785 I have to confess, however, @763 was really just an attempt to keep the thread going.

Sorry I didn't catch that, I got into the red again. Maybe it can be said that as trivial as this thing can sound, a lot of help and info can be had in here for those in need. A glass of red up from me to random acts of kindness. A virtue I admire greatly.

Posted by: dartist at March 31, 2015 02:05 AM (ahBY0)

786 SNL clip had me in tears by the end...

Posted by: Brian Williams at March 31, 2015 02:07 AM (+lb5s)

787 Oh boy, I killed the thread. Come on you fuckers, no one wants to fight me or drink a shot.?

Posted by: dartist at March 31, 2015 02:13 AM (ahBY0)

788 777


OK

My barber story,

Joe, was my barber back when RJ Gavin was teaching me poetry.

I went to Joe because after getting yelled at by my dad

to "go get your hair cut! you look like a girl!", I found that Joe
would cut my hair minimally, but he asked for my buck in advance, and
then he would walk across the street to the 'Spot Cafe' and spend it on a
couple of shots, then come back and snip around a bit.

This always struck me as peculiar.



Posted by: Ira Weatheral at March 31, 2015 01:50 AM (qry2M)

====maybe he was afraid of your hair.

Posted by: jc at March 31, 2015 02:13 AM (iRJ+A)

789 I checked the women's, no water, and it smelled even worse...
Posted by: shredded chi at March 31, 2015 01:50 AM

Reminds me of a dive bar I went to when I first moved here in 1980. Friend from college had moved to town and we went there to play the new game of Pong!

The bartendress was about 300 lbs, in the middle of the afternoon some one-armed drunk was sleeping on the bar and there was a huge pile of beertab chains in the corner, several feet high.

Good times, good times.

Posted by: Farmer at March 31, 2015 02:16 AM (o/90i)

790
Oh, plus also, I think Maet gave us lots of topics to chew on, but we somehow got stuck on only one topic.

I dunno, maybe less is more?

(absolutely NOT a criticism of of our most highly regarded ONT author)

But morons being morons we can't hold more than one or two topics in our tiny, hateful, backwards-thinking (conservative) widdle heads.

"If I only had a brain"

I'm not sure about what I just typed, just stream of "Hop Nosh-ishness)

Posted by: Ira Weatheral at March 31, 2015 02:17 AM (qry2M)

791 Evening all. I found out today that my primary car
has developed 2 holes in the intake manifold. Not the gasket, the actual manifold.

Manifold Destiny

Posted by: Corgi what ain't a Poi dog at March 31, 2015 02:21 AM (dZGNV)

792
787
Oh boy, I killed the thread. Come on you fuckers, no one wants to fight me or drink a shot.?

I'll chug an IPA.
Fucker.

Posted by: Ira Weatheral at March 31, 2015 02:22 AM (qry2M)

793 But morons being morons we can't hold more than one or two topics in our tiny, hateful, backwards-thinking (conservative) widdle heads.

Posted by: Ira Weatheral


Um, A. because it's Ace's blog that has an open comment format, and B. because Maety is used to the open comment format.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 31, 2015 02:22 AM (JBzwC)

794 Oh boy, I killed the thread. Come on you fuckers, no one wants to fight me or drink a shot.?
Posted by: dartist at March 31, 2015 02:13 AM

Heck, I'll hoist a glass of red to your previous post to kindness shown here.

Very true.

Posted by: Farmer at March 31, 2015 02:24 AM (o/90i)

795 782
"who the hell is that bald guy standing next to Bryce?!?"



Posted by: cthulhu

-------------------------

And "And why is he wearing my favorite Cthulhu t-shirt?"

Posted by: shredded chi at March 31, 2015 02:02 AM (HNj0s)


Hah!

So, just to share.....I make it a point to meet Morons wearing Cthulhu-themed t-shirts. After all, I have a few. But, while some are pretty direct references (e.g. http://tinyurl.com/ob749kb ), some references are a bit more subtle (e.g. http://tinyurl.com/obx4jsx )....

So, when I met up with Vendette, I was wearing http://tinyurl.com/q63hexk -- and one of her coworkers actually "got it"!!!!

Now for the deeply geeky part (which, to be fair, I don't know if the coworker totally grokked)..... Cthulhu, of course, is an extraterrestrial transdimensional being and -- as such -- has a name that isn't really designed for 4D earthlings to pronounce. It's not really suited at all for the standard "vocal chords and lips" paradigm favored by humans.


So, there has come to be a variety of favored pronunciations among Cthulhu enthusiasts -- http://tinyurl.com/poqrmss -- but the more casual ones tend to lean more toward ease-of-use....and sound roughly like "cathulhu" or even "cooth".

So, the joke of the shirt is -- if you're going to pronounce it "cathulhu", what's it gonna look like?

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2015 02:24 AM (T1005)

796 I'll chug an IPA.

Fucker.

Lol, I would, but I don't know what an IPA is. Carry on.

Posted by: dartist at March 31, 2015 02:26 AM (ahBY0)

797 "The only advantage to being a middle-aged man is that when you put on a jacket and tie, you're the Scary Dad."

I wanted to be a Beautiful Mom. Something seems to have gone wrong. Shouldn't I at least get points for effort? Don't leave me, Kris!

Posted by: Bruce Jenner at March 31, 2015 02:26 AM (XrHO0)

798 Hey Farmer, sorry I missed buying you a beer as well..Maybe next time.

Posted by: dartist at March 31, 2015 02:29 AM (ahBY0)

799 Dartist,
I just did a shot of Red Stag with you. You liked it, btw.
And if anyone has painkillers or muscle r elaxers to share, I have a shot for you also...

Posted by: shredded chi at March 31, 2015 02:29 AM (HNj0s)

800 Who Killed the Thread? "I" said dartist. "I'm really a thread killing artist! I killed the Thread."

Who Killed the Thread? "I" said Farmer. "No one suspects, cause I'm such a charmer. I killed the Thread."

Posted by: Adriane the Thread Critic ... at March 31, 2015 02:29 AM (nSOh+)

801 796
I'll chug an IPA.


Fucker.

Lol, I would, but I don't know what an IPA is. Carry on.


Posted by: dartist at March 31, 2015 02:26 AM (ahBY0)


IPAs would never be as popular as they are, if they weren't a sign of rebellion against American "cardboard beers" pre-deregulation.




Technically, they are highly-hopped, light ales fermented to a high level of alcohol. They were originally created in England to ship to India -- the high levels of hops and alcohol helped preserve them during their long, warm journey.



Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2015 02:30 AM (T1005)

802 Years ago, I would have been a little crossways with you about that. I didn't want to "have a pub buddy of a different race", because race factored so little into things I cared about. If we were talking about Roger, I'd talk about the quality fish he was breeding, how he would come up with very insightful and tricky questions when we had an expert at our meetings, how I looked to him as a resource for good advice. And, after we talked about these things and you said, "great, I need to meet this guy!", I'd say "he's over at that table" -- and, then, to clarify, say either, "he's the short guy", "he's the guy in the blue sweater", "he's sitting at this end of the table", or "he's the black guy" -- with equal emphasis in each case.

But today, with constant examples like the JEF and his grifter consort, Eric Holder, the perjurin' townspeople of Ferguson, Al Sharpton, and the like.....it's nice to be reminded that Fantasyland on the Potomac doesn't represent race in the real world.


I may have stated it badly, but that was kinda my point. Race exists, and we can acknowledge that, and joke and tease each other about it, but ultimately it doesn't matter, we're both Americans, we're both people, equally valuable and important. That's the way it should be, and that's the road we as a country were on before the race baiters derailed us for their own personal profit. It was nice to go back into the world as it should be for a convivial evening.

Posted by: Weirddave at March 31, 2015 02:31 AM (WvS3w)

803 800
Who Killed the Thread? "I" said dartist. "I'm really a thread killing artist! I killed the Thread."



Who Killed the Thread? "I" said Farmer. "No one suspects, cause I'm such a charmer. I killed the Thread."





Posted by: Adriane the Thread Critic ... at March 31, 2015 02:29 AM (nSOh+)


Keep going....

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2015 02:31 AM (T1005)

804 Who Killed the Thread? "I" said weft cut-loop. "It's vital signs will droop. I killed the Thread."

Posted by: Adriane the Thread Critic ... at March 31, 2015 02:32 AM (nSOh+)

805 Um, A. because it's Ace's blog that has an open comment format, and B. because Maety is used to the open comment format.
..............

I just think that Maet worked up a little sweat trying to give us a panoply of directions to tangent off to and we seem to have blown off that sweat.

I guess maybe that that 'letter sweater' topic raise a lot of hackles, and a seemingly 50-50 split on the issue...

Tomorrow is another day.

Posted by: Ira Weatheral at March 31, 2015 02:33 AM (qry2M)

806 The thread never dies off, it just goes that point where the chairs are up on the tables except for the few the sleeping drunks are in.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 02:34 AM (FMbng)

807 Who Killed the Thread? "I" said Weirddave. "I'll pound it 'til it wants to cave. I killed the Thread."

Posted by: Adriane the Thread Critic ... at March 31, 2015 02:34 AM (nSOh+)

808 Lol, I would, but I don't know what an IPA is. Carry on.
Posted by: dartist at March 31, 2015 02:26 AM

You're showing your age d and IL location, both of which are around mine. Something I Pale Ale, these young'uns like that.

Heck they should have young and poor in IL and had to drink Red, White and Blue, Buckhorn and other such prominent beers.

In college it was a big deal that you could get Leinie's down here, 12 bottles for 1.99 and you got 12 cents back if you returned the bottles.

Posted by: Farmer at March 31, 2015 02:34 AM (o/90i)

809 Who Killed the Thread? "I" said Berserker-Dragonheads Division. "On its obituary I'll pour derision. I killed the Thread."

Posted by: Adriane the Thread Critic ... at March 31, 2015 02:36 AM (nSOh+)

810
Dartist,

I just did a shot of Red Stag with you. You liked it, btw.

And if anyone has painkillers or muscle r elaxers to share, I have a shot for you also...

Spooky, and tonight is your lucky night because I found some oxy laxers for you in exchange. Let me know, thanks.

Posted by: dartist at March 31, 2015 02:37 AM (ahBY0)

811 Who Killed the Thread? "I" said Ira Weatheral. "Its been long time gonna fall. I killed the Thread."

Posted by: Adriane the Thread Critic ... at March 31, 2015 02:37 AM (nSOh+)

812 I am threadacus.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 02:39 AM (FMbng)

813 Who Killed the Thread? "I" said shredded chil. "Look! it was him or me! I killed the Thread."

Posted by: Adriane the Thread Critic ... at March 31, 2015 02:39 AM (nSOh+)

814 Posted by: Adriane the Thread Critic ... at March 31, 2015 02:36 AM (nSOh+)

*ahem*

Posted by: Methos at March 31, 2015 02:39 AM (ZbV+0)

815 Posted by: Adriane the Thread Critic ... at March 31, 2015 02:29 AM

LOL, I'm almost done here, but I have been known to slay threads stone cold dead. I suspect some others may keep on keeping on here when I quit soon.

Work tomorrow, and the newsletter is dumped back on me. Anyone here want to write my hist soc newletter for me?

WAIT, what did I say? Nevermind.

Posted by: Farmer at March 31, 2015 02:39 AM (o/90i)

816
I said the sparrow, with my bow and arrow.

Posted by: Ira Weatheral at March 31, 2015 02:40 AM (qry2M)

817 "In fact, we were so good at reading between the lines, we almost could piece together events as they really happened by what the authorities were not telling us. What they did not tell us was as important as what they did tell us, if not even more important."

That's the scariest quote of all. Which of us here does not know that same feeling, reading the MFM?

Posted by: Pajama Boy Hayes-Maddow at March 31, 2015 02:42 AM (cIoI4)

818 Ooh, ooh, me next, Adriane, me next!

Posted by: Annoying Orange at March 31, 2015 02:43 AM (CZexX)

819 For SMFH - I'm guessing that you're still lurking.


You should probably pay those parking tickets...

http://i57.tinypic.com/2u6ijhx.jpg

Posted by: shredded chi at March 31, 2015 02:43 AM (HNj0s)

820 Who Killed the Thread? "I" said Bruce Jenner. "But it was after a 3 day bender. I killed the Thread."

Posted by: Adriane the Thread Critic ... at March 31, 2015 02:43 AM (nSOh+)

821 Heck they should have young and poor in IL and had to drink Red, White and Blue, Buckhorn and other such prominent beers.

Well Sir, we actually had a drive thru to buy Red, White And Blue..I think it would be my pleasure to buy you one as well.

Posted by: dartist at March 31, 2015 02:43 AM (ahBY0)

822 Ira Weatheral at March 31, 2015 02:40 AM (qry2M)

: -))

Posted by: Adriane the Thread Critic ... at March 31, 2015 02:44 AM (nSOh+)

823 Who Killed the Thread? "I" said Methos. "And without a drop of pathos! I killed the Thread."

Posted by: Adriane the Thread Critic ... at March 31, 2015 02:45 AM (nSOh+)

824 Birds of a feather suffer high altitude/high speed compressor stalls due to wind shear and/or vortex shedding off a mountain together.

http://tinyurl.com/ogypy4f

But don't say THAT on the BC or the NANNY STATE will send you to your room for a timeout!!

Posted by: MachiasPrivateer at March 31, 2015 02:45 AM (EMi53)

825 817,

That jumped out at me also, especially considering finding out yesterday that George Orwell was a student of none other than Aldous Huxley.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 31, 2015 02:45 AM (OsWis)

826 819,

Heh.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 31, 2015 02:47 AM (OsWis)

827 Who Killed the Thread? "I" said cooth. "But at 823 posts, it did fight nail and tooth. I killed the Thread."

Posted by: Adriane the Thread Critic ... at March 31, 2015 02:48 AM (nSOh+)

828 802
Years ago, I would have been a little crossways with you about that. I
didn't want to "have a pub buddy of a different race", because race
factored so little into things I cared about. If we were talking about
Roger, I'd talk about the quality fish he was breeding, how he would
come up with very insightful and tricky questions when we had an expert
at our meetings, how I looked to him as a resource for good advice. And,
after we talked about these things and you said, "great, I need to meet
this guy!", I'd say "he's over at that table" -- and, then, to clarify,
say either, "he's the short guy", "he's the guy in the blue sweater",
"he's sitting at this end of the table", or "he's the black guy" -- with
equal emphasis in each case.



But today, with constant examples like the JEF and his grifter
consort, Eric Holder, the perjurin' townspeople of Ferguson, Al
Sharpton, and the like.....it's nice to be reminded that Fantasyland on
the Potomac doesn't represent race in the real world.



I may have stated it badly, but that was kinda my point. Race
exists, and we can acknowledge that, and joke and tease each other about
it, but ultimately it doesn't matter, we're both Americans, we're both
people, equally valuable and important. That's the way it should be, and
that's the road we as a country were on before the race baiters
derailed us for their own personal profit. It was nice to go back into
the world as it should be for a convivial evening.

Posted by: Weirddave at March 31, 2015 02:31 AM (WvS3w)


No, you stated it fine.....it's just, growing up in California, I was pretty oblivious. While I knew that it would be bad for me if I went to Watts, it didn't occur to me that there would be a racist element to that danger -- after all, the Watts Towers were built by Sabato Rodia, an Italian immigrant. Maybe I'd be a target if I didn't capisce....

Reminds me of when I had to execute a substantial layoff [about 12 from 40 people] in Silicon Valley in the early 90s (I was the Controller). Somebody commented that post-layoff, we wouldn't have any blacks working at the company any more. I eventually had to ask to learn who he was talking about. It isn't the first thing I focus on, not really in the top ten, and it's sometimes too easy for me to miss.



Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2015 02:48 AM (T1005)

829
Another poet I know, from "The Living Dead Band" wrote:

I'm a bohunk from Pittsburgh,
I drink Iron City beer,
My daddy's a foreman,
And we don't like queers.

Name of the tune is "Foundry Joe"

I denounce myself

Posted by: Ira Weatheral at March 31, 2015 02:48 AM (qry2M)

830 *applauds*

*looks at clock and collapses in a heap*

Posted by: Methos at March 31, 2015 02:49 AM (ZbV+0)

831 813
Who Killed the Thread? "I" said shredded chil. "Look! it was him or me! I killed the Thread."

Posted by: Adriane the Thread Critic ... at March 31, 2015 02:39 AM (nSOh+)


I am enjoying all of these, but this one got an audible giggle.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2015 02:50 AM (T1005)

832 Who killed the thread? "I" said Bruce Jenner. "To my genitals' fate I will send her. I killed the thread."

Posted by: Bruce Jenner at March 31, 2015 02:52 AM (XrHO0)

833 robert killed the thread with his secret chicken tortilla soup death ray.

Posted by: jc at March 31, 2015 02:52 AM (iRJ+A)

834 832,

*wipes screen*

Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 31, 2015 02:52 AM (OsWis)

835 Applause, applause!!!



Adriane, a work of art -- a thing of living beauty!




And funny as hell.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2015 02:54 AM (T1005)

836 Who Killed the Thread? "I" said Annoying O. "This thing has got to go! I killed the Thread."

Posted by: Adriane the Thread Critic ... at March 31, 2015 02:54 AM (nSOh+)

837 So I have been obsessed for a year or so thinking I may have a child (now a few decades old). I had been told I was not the father many years ago, and assumed I wasn't. I found pics of her tonight. She looks like a mixture of me and her mom. I was shocked. Maybe it is a coincidence, but there are some physical which are the same.

Posted by: Baldy at March 31, 2015 02:55 AM (sEXjW)

838 **golf clap**

Well played.

Posted by: Annoying Orange at March 31, 2015 02:56 AM (CZexX)

839
Are you sure he's done?

I think he's just getting warmed up.

Posted by: Ira Weatheral at March 31, 2015 02:56 AM (qry2M)

840 Bruce Jenner at March 31, 2015 02:52 AM (XrHO0)

: -)

I almost wrote 'and I'll sing of the deed in tenor" but then ... nah ... maybe not.

Posted by: Adriane the Thread Critic ... at March 31, 2015 02:57 AM (nSOh+)

841 837
So I have been obsessed for a year or so thinking I may have a child
(now a few decades old). I had been told I was not the father many years
ago, and assumed I wasn't. I found pics of her tonight. She looks like a
mixture of me and her mom. I was shocked. Maybe it is a coincidence,
but there are some physical which are the same.


Posted by: Baldy at March 31, 2015 02:55 AM (sEXjW)


I'm sure you're aware of some of the dangers involved. What are you thinking about?

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2015 02:58 AM (T1005)

842 Adriane,

That would have worked also.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 31, 2015 02:59 AM (OsWis)

843 jc at March 31, 2015 02:52 AM (iRJ+A)

jc, how you be?

Posted by: Adriane the Thread Critic ... at March 31, 2015 02:59 AM (nSOh+)

844 What's the good word,
Thunderbird.
What's the price?
30 twice.

Whoever tried to kill it, it won't die easily. Takes a bit to laugh at 2 AM.

Posted by: dartist at March 31, 2015 02:59 AM (ahBY0)

845 A minefield, cooth.

Best of luck, whatever you do, Baldy.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 31, 2015 03:00 AM (OsWis)

846 Posted by: Annoying Orange at March 31, 2015 02:43 AM (CZexX)

Who killed the thread? "I", said the Annoying Orange. "With an icepick and a chloroform sponge! I killed the thread!"

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at March 31, 2015 03:00 AM (J+mig)

847 I was laughing my ass off at the outrage directed at the Arizona rep who advocated mandatory church attendance knowing that Barry and I had mandatory chapel at Punahou.

Posted by: Corgi what ain't a Poi dog at March 31, 2015 03:02 AM (dZGNV)

848 Maybe it is a coincidence, but there are some physical which are the same.

My uncle and his step father shared thick black hair and olive skin and many people took them for father and son, despite different nationalities...

Posted by: Adriane the Thread Critic ... at March 31, 2015 03:02 AM (nSOh+)

849 heh...that's a term I haven't heard in a while...poi dog.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 31, 2015 03:03 AM (OsWis)

850 **looks at all the fun name rhyming going on**

**runs off sobbing**


Posted by: Mr. Mxyztplk at March 31, 2015 03:04 AM (CZexX)

851 I would say Adriane won the internet. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 03:04 AM (FMbng)

852
Pondering

Posted by: Ira Weatheral at March 31, 2015 03:04 AM (qry2M)

853 Today, the term "poi dog" is most often used to refer to mixed breed dogs, but also attribute specific characteristics to Poi dogs, including the ability to eat anything, a strong will, and a unique appearance composed of different breeds. The term "poi dog" is also colloquially used to describe people of mixed Hawaiian-Anglo heritage, although the more common term in use is hapa.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 31, 2015 03:05 AM (OsWis)

854 "Our first indication that Ronald Reagan might well be the key figure in our struggle, the struggle of all people fighting against tyranny, came from the ferocious denunciations of him that appeared more frequently in the official Soviet press. Now, all Soviets were experts in the art of "reading between the lines," and of course us dissidents, we were the professors of this high art form. In fact, we were so good at reading between the lines, we almost could piece together events as they really happened by what the authorities were not telling us. What they did not tell us was as important as what they did tell us, if not even more important."

Who me? All I said was Rahm Emanuel is a "ballerina school dropout". Neither Fernando Bujones nor Patrick Swayze dropped out of the Joffrey Ballet School, like he did.

Posted by: MachiasPrivateer at March 31, 2015 03:05 AM (EMi53)

855 Who killed the thread? "I", said the Annoying Orange. "With an icepick and a chloroform sponge! I killed the thread!"

"The Sky Is Falling, the sky is falling" as Henny Penny ran from the sponge.

Posted by: dartist at March 31, 2015 03:07 AM (ahBY0)

856 845
A minefield, cooth.



Best of luck, whatever you do, Baldy.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 31, 2015 03:00 AM (OsWis)


Yeah, I know. And I'm trying to increase his luck by having him hash things out with the Horde before putting thought into action.


Baldy -- measure twice, cut once.....and think things through with the Horde before you do anything.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2015 03:08 AM (T1005)

857 Mr. Mxyztplk at March 31, 2015 03:04 AM (CZexX)

We can work something out!!!

Posted by: Iqaqa laziqikaqika kwaze kwaqhawaka uqhoqhoqha at March 31, 2015 03:08 AM (nSOh+)

858
The sky is burning

Posted by: Ira Weatheral at March 31, 2015 03:08 AM (qry2M)

859 843
jc at March 31, 2015 02:52 AM (iRJ+A)



jc, how you be?

Posted by: Adriane the Thread Critic ... at March 31, 2015 02:59 AM (nSOh+)

===having some interesting days. my sciatica went away until a week ago today and then I was lifting something not very heavy and it all came back at once. sux big time. I hate it.

I am dragging my ass thru the work world without giving a darn about any of it. I have decided to quit, I just need to choose when.

I am playing in 3 bands cuz I don't know how to say no. But one of them will end on 4/22 forever. Apparently none of them can actually hear so it seems to be working out OK.
The newest incarnation of the handrail from hell is once again in the final wrap stage. The bottom is wrapped -- 2 sides and a top left to go and then file to shape, route in the grips, sand, finish and mount. So, it is maybe 1/2 done.
and I miss missus jc and still talk to her every day.
How are you?

Posted by: jc at March 31, 2015 03:09 AM (iRJ+A)

860 849
heh...that's a term I haven't heard in a while...poi dog.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 31, 2015 03:03 AM (OsWis)


Do NOT be lookin' at Tucker when you say that! He's a friend of mine.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2015 03:09 AM (T1005)

861
we can work it out

Posted by: Ira Weatheral at March 31, 2015 03:09 AM (qry2M)

862 hehe cooth

Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 31, 2015 03:10 AM (OsWis)

863
poi dog
Koi fish

What difference does it make!!!!11!1!

Posted by: Ira Weatheral at March 31, 2015 03:12 AM (qry2M)

864 859
843

jc at March 31, 2015 02:52 AM (iRJ+A)





jc, how you be?



Posted by: Adriane the Thread Critic ... at March 31, 2015 02:59 AM (nSOh+)

===having
some interesting days. my sciatica went away until a week ago today and
then I was lifting something not very heavy and it all came back at
once. sux big time. I hate it.

I am dragging my ass thru the work
world without giving a darn about any of it. I have decided to quit, I
just need to choose when.

I am playing in 3 bands cuz I don't
know how to say no. But one of them will end on 4/22 forever. Apparently
none of them can actually hear so it seems to be working out OK.
The
newest incarnation of the handrail from hell is once again in the final
wrap stage. The bottom is wrapped -- 2 sides and a top left to go and
then file to shape, route in the grips, sand, finish and mount. So, it
is maybe 1/2 done.
and I miss missus jc and still talk to her every day.
How are you?


Posted by: jc at March 31, 2015 03:09 AM (iRJ+A)


Keep on keepin' on, dude. I've been biting my tongue, not meaning to pry, for weeks. I'm just glad every time I see you here, hoping that the Horde's power of healing continues.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2015 03:13 AM (T1005)

865 Is Wretchard the Cat okay? Subotai reports that the umlats no longer work in the PJM editor.

Posted by: MachiasPrivateer at March 31, 2015 03:14 AM (EMi53)

866 848 Maybe it is a coincidence, but there are some physical which are the same. 
----------
My uncle and his step father shared thick black hair and olive skin and many people took them for father and son, despite different nationalities...

Posted by: Adriane the Thread Critic
-------------------------
Can't tell you how many times I heard " he looks just like you!" from people talking about my ex's son. I treated him as my own, and called him such, but didn't meet him until he was 3.
I always chalked it up to them just being nice or making small talk.

Good luck, Baldy.

Posted by: shredded chi at March 31, 2015 03:14 AM (HNj0s)

867 Well, they'll stone you when you're tryin' to be so good
They'll stone you just like they said they would
They'll stone you when you're tryin' to go home
They'll stone you when you're there all alone
But I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must get stoned

Well, they'll stone you when you're walkin' on the street
They'll stone you when you're tryin' to keep your seat
They'll stone you when you're walkin' on the floor
They'll stone you when you're walkin' to the door
But I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must get stoned

They'll stone you when you're at the breakfast table
They'll stone you when you are young and able
They'll stone you when you're tryin' to make a buck
They'll stone you and then they'll say, good luck
Yeah but I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must get stoned

Well, they'll stone you and say that it's the end
Then they'll stone you and then they'll come back again
They'll stone you when you're riding in your car
They'll stone you when you're playing your guitar
Yes but I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must get stoned, alright

Well, they'll stone you when you are all alone
They'll stone you when you are walkin' home
They'll stone you and then say, they're all brave
They'll stone you when you're send down in your grave
But I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must get stoned

Posted by: Ira Weatheral at March 31, 2015 03:16 AM (qry2M)

868 I am playing in 3 bands cuz I don't know how to say no. But one of them will end on 4/22 forever. Apparently none of them can actually hear so it seems to be working out OK.


Posted by: jc at March 31, 2015 03:09 AM (iRJ+A)


Shit man.. 3??. I'm in the middle of 2 and I'm ready to bite out the ceiling. The tubes in my amps have been burning like the flame on Kennedy's grave. They burn as we speak.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 03:18 AM (FMbng)

869
Wretchard the Cat is mighty fine, Mr Privateer

Posted by: Ira Weatheral at March 31, 2015 03:18 AM (qry2M)

870 Mmmm. I love poi dogs.



Very tasty.

Posted by: SCOAMF at March 31, 2015 03:20 AM (CZexX)

871 Posted by: jc at March 31, 2015 03:09 AM

Best of luck w/ the sciatica, hope this is short lived. And keep talking to the Mrs., she is still here in your heart.

Posted by: Farmer at March 31, 2015 03:21 AM (o/90i)

872 862
hehe cooth

Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 31, 2015 03:10 AM (OsWis)


Reminds me of....was it last Easter? Chi's mom had packed him off with a bunch of goodies from a family feast, and Chi got back to find that Tucker had snarfed 80% of 'em and was actually physically stretched.

So, we're talking about this, and I comment, "well, now you know he can get up on the counter...." And Chi goes -- "SON of a BITCH...." and disappears for a bit.

Good times, good times.....

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2015 03:22 AM (T1005)

873 870,

That may be truer than you think...heh.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 31, 2015 03:22 AM (OsWis)

874 872,

LOL!

Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 31, 2015 03:23 AM (OsWis)

875 Hay fever wearing me out. The hubby thinks it might be sleep apnea so he wants me to go in for a sleep study.

The Arts Festival money & paperwork is wrapping up. About 10 bills take 80% of the phone calls.

Had to adopt a new class schedule and that was herding cats, But hopefully a free Sunday will facilitate work on the new old house.

And finally, something I haven't said since this is the horde ... I'm learning how to blow glass!

One of things I've always wanted to do.

8 week class. Practiced jack folds for getting the glass off the pipes last week. Got a heat sleeve and ned to get some colored lenses. Eyes not as young as the used to be.

I had a great friend who was always encouraging me to be creative. She was very artistic. And sometimes I'll see something and say "hey, what do you think? and realize she ... um ... isn't going to answer in the usual way.

She would be happy about the glass blowing class though. She was a very 'don't let life pass you by' kind of person.

Hope the handrail from heck gets back under control
: -)

Posted by: Adriane the Critic ... at March 31, 2015 03:23 AM (nSOh+)

876 865
Is Wretchard the Cat okay? Subotai reports that the umlats no longer work in the PJM editor.

Posted by: MachiasPrivateer at March 31, 2015 03:14 AM (EMi53)


PJM took a serious downward lurch when they CF'd their comments. I go there to read the regulars and nothing more.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2015 03:24 AM (T1005)

877
Mr. Berserker:

I've perhaps been there,
perhaps done that.

Playing gigs was what kept me sane.

Twin reverbs were the cat's pajamas back in days of yore

Posted by: Ira Weatheral at March 31, 2015 03:24 AM (qry2M)

878 Do NOT be lookin' at Tucker when you say that! He's a friend of mine.

Posted by: cthulhu
-------------------------
Heh. Your friend is currently doing his best impression of a day-old corpse.
Sleeping on his back with all four legs straight up in the air like he's in full rigor mortis, and his tongue is hanging out to boot.
I actually just reached over to check for a pulse...

Posted by: shredded chi at March 31, 2015 03:24 AM (HNj0s)

879 Niters Adriane,

Thanks for making me spew good rum on my computer screen.

Oh, and you should know better than to mention blowing anything around the 'rons...

Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 31, 2015 03:26 AM (OsWis)

880 868
I am playing in 3 bands cuz I don't know how to say no. But one of them
will end on 4/22 forever. Apparently none of them can actually hear so
it seems to be working out OK.





Posted by: jc at March 31, 2015 03:09 AM (iRJ+A)





Shit man.. 3??. I'm in the middle of 2 and I'm ready to bite out the
ceiling. The tubes in my amps have been burning like the flame on
Kennedy's grave. They burn as we speak.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 03:18 AM (FMbng)

====It's even stupider than you think. I have to be ready to play a bunch of rhythm changes stuff in the style of Miles, Coltrane, Adderly, etc. along with some latin jazz by 4/22 and I never played most of this stuff before. I am drowning while dog-paddling as fast as I can go. My only hope is that this group seems willing to play it slow enough for me to stand a chance.


I need Navybrat to give me a mind meld big time.

Posted by: jc at March 31, 2015 03:27 AM (iRJ+A)

881 875
Hay fever wearing me out. The hubby thinks it might be sleep apnea so he wants me to go in for a sleep study.



The Arts Festival money paperwork is wrapping up. About 10 bills take 80% of the phone calls.



Had to adopt a new class schedule and that was herding cats, But
hopefully a free Sunday will facilitate work on the new old house.



And finally, something I haven't said since this is the horde ... I'm learning how to blow glass!



One of things I've always wanted to do.



8 week class. Practiced jack folds for getting the glass off the
pipes last week. Got a heat sleeve and ned to get some colored lenses.
Eyes not as young as the used to be.



I had a great friend who was always encouraging me to be creative.
She was very artistic. And sometimes I'll see something and say "hey,
what do you think? and realize she ... um ... isn't going to answer in
the usual way.



She would be happy about the glass blowing class though. She was a very 'don't let life pass you by' kind of person.



Hope the handrail from heck gets back under control

: -)

Posted by: Adriane the Critic ... at March 31, 2015 03:23 AM (nSOh+)


What's your neck size?

They'll tell you that it's about physical conditioning and BMI and neck position and all sorts of BS....I have heard that 60% of NFL linebackers have OSA -- and they do daily drills to ensure their necks are solid.

And I can personally assure you -- diagnosed OSA isn't nearly as frightening as undiagnosed OSA.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2015 03:29 AM (T1005)

882 G'night, SMFH. Take care.

Posted by: Adriane the Critic ... at March 31, 2015 03:31 AM (nSOh+)

883 878
Do NOT be lookin' at Tucker when you say that! He's a friend of mine.



Posted by: cthulhu

-------------------------

Heh. Your friend is currently doing his best impression of a day-old corpse.

Sleeping on his back with all four legs straight up in the air like
he's in full rigor mortis, and his tongue is hanging out to boot.

I actually just reached over to check for a pulse...

Posted by: shredded chi at March 31, 2015 03:24 AM (HNj0s)


Did he raid your leftovers again?

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2015 03:31 AM (T1005)

884 Twin reverbs were the cat's pajamas back in days of yore

Posted by: Ira Weatheral at March 31, 2015 03:24 AM (qry2M)


Yeah that's when things were a little easier. Amps got a little bigger over the years. Now we recreate Stonehenge with them. I still have 2 of my father's fender amps, an old tweed and a blackface. I like plugging into them occasionally.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 03:32 AM (FMbng)

885 What's your neck size?

less than 17 in ... but not sure.

I thought that if it was OSA, it would have shown up much earlier in life.

But then, we have never! had a hay fever and allergy season like this one.

Posted by: Adriane the Critic ... at March 31, 2015 03:36 AM (nSOh+)

886 884
Twin reverbs were the cat's pajamas back in days of yore



Posted by: Ira Weatheral at March 31, 2015 03:24 AM (qry2M)





Yeah that's when things were a little easier. Amps got a little
bigger over the years. Now we recreate Stonehenge with them. I still
have 2 of my father's fender amps, an old tweed and a blackface. I like
plugging into them occasionally.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 03:32 AM (FMbng)


Do you have any thoughts on the modeling amps, like Line6?

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2015 03:36 AM (T1005)

887
I have a bitch named Hillary. Half Australian Cattle Dog,
Half German Shepard Dog

Also a fine dog named Molly ('cause she's a McNab)

And a Tuxedo cat named Romeo.

Posted by: Ira Weatheral at March 31, 2015 03:36 AM (qry2M)

888 It's even stupider than you think. I have to be ready to play a bunch of rhythm changes stuff in the style of Miles, Coltrane, Adderly, etc. along with some latin jazz by 4/22 and I never played most of this stuff before. I am drowning while dog-paddling as fast as I can go. My only hope is that this group seems willing to play it slow enough for me to stand a chance.


I need Navybrat to give me a mind meld big time.


Posted by: jc at March 31, 2015 03:27 AM (iRJ+A)


You know, that's why I stuck with one genre, so I can master one. I would be totally fucking lost with other music. It would be ugly. If I woke up in a jazz band I would just start laughing like tom hanks at his bathtub in money pit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 03:36 AM (FMbng)

889 I would just start laughing like tom hanks at his bathtub in money pit.

in the new old house, I worry a lot about a flame in the wall tracing the light bulb back to the switch.

Posted by: Adriane the Architecture Critic ... at March 31, 2015 03:40 AM (nSOh+)

890 885
What's your neck size?



less than 17 in ... but not sure.



I thought that if it was OSA, it would have shown up much earlier in life.



But then, we have never! had a hay fever and allergy season like this one.





Posted by: Adriane the Critic ... at March 31, 2015 03:36 AM (nSOh+)


I remember in High School, I had math class right after lunch -- and used to get razzed for snoring. Loudly. Obnoxiously.......and, then, I'd go on to score well on the tests (didn't hurt that both mom and pop had BS in math, and that mom was a Professor of Mathematics).

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2015 03:40 AM (T1005)

891 yeah verily.

The hubby has had it since early 20s ...

I snore but never remember gasping myself awake like he did before the CPAP / Bi PAP ...

But, like you said. Find out & take care of it. I'd rather not be this tired all the time.

Posted by: Adriane the Architecture Critic ... at March 31, 2015 03:43 AM (nSOh+)

892 I'm concerned about Anna Puma regarding the Roo situation.



I'm somewhat less concerned about Roo, 'cause I think Roo knows......and is making feline peace with it.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2015 03:45 AM (T1005)

893
You know, that's why I stuck with one genre, so I
can master one. I would be totally fucking lost with other music. It
would be ugly. If I woke up in a jazz band I would just start laughing
like tom hanks at his bathtub in money pit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 03:36 AM (FMbng)

=====
I understand. Somehow I got it in my head that I wanted to be a more complete player. I think it might be good for me in lots of ways, but the sense of needing training wheels again is certainly unsettling.

But you know -- if you know a lick, you know a lick -- the question is: will I know when and where to play it?

Posted by: jc at March 31, 2015 03:46 AM (iRJ+A)

894 Did he raid your leftovers again?

Posted by: cthulhu
-------------------------
Heh. No, but it was a really pretty day, so he was probably out back chasing his shadow for hours on end - I was at work for 10 or 12 hours.

Did I ever tell you about him eating a pound of raw ground beef? He was about six months old. Swelled up to the size of a Fiat, and didn't eat for days.
Pro tip: never leave a dog in a car for 60 seconds with raw meat.

Posted by: shredded chi at March 31, 2015 03:52 AM (HNj0s)

895 891
yeah verily.



The hubby has had it since early 20s ...



I snore but never remember gasping myself awake like he did before the CPAP / Bi PAP ...



But, like you said. Find out take care of it. I'd rather not be this tired all the time.

Posted by: Adriane the Architecture Critic ... at March 31, 2015 03:43 AM (nSOh+)


Just for fun and games....are you taking any B vitamins or statins?

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2015 03:53 AM (T1005)

896 894
Did he raid your leftovers again?



Posted by: cthulhu

-------------------------

Heh. No, but it was a really pretty day, so he was probably out back
chasing his shadow for hours on end - I was at work for 10 or 12 hours.



Did I ever tell you about him eating a pound of raw ground beef? He
was about six months old. Swelled up to the size of a Fiat, and didn't
eat for days.

Pro tip: never leave a dog in a car for 60 seconds with raw meat.

Posted by: shredded chi at March 31, 2015 03:52 AM (HNj0s)


Did he at least look guilty?

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2015 03:55 AM (T1005)

897 I take a multi-vitamin. No statins ...

cranberry, D, fish oil. Airborne.

Posted by: Adriane the Architecture Critic ... at March 31, 2015 03:56 AM (nSOh+)

898 Pro tip: never leave a dog in a car for 60 seconds with raw meat.

Never put shrimp alfredo on the table and back to the kitchen for silverware ...
: -)

Posted by: Adriane the Architecture Critic ... at March 31, 2015 03:57 AM (nSOh+)

899
Yeah, I gave up Rock 'n Rollin back in '77.
The tipping point was when we somehow got a gig in New Jersey ON CHRISTMAS EVE but it got CANCELLED (had to drive from OHIO) We got a room at a scuzzy motel, five of us, plus two roadies. and I got to sleep on the floor. Snow blew through the huge crack under the door, and sort of blew on my face all night.

That morning I made my decision to fug it all and got my first job in the computer industry, after giving the boys some time to come up with a replacement.

One of the funniest things, that even today elicits unbelieving guffaws, was the fact that the two roadies names were (and I shit you not) Bruce SHAMPOO and Jeff HARE geddet? shampoo and hair. UNbelieveable but true

Posted by: Ira Weatheral at March 31, 2015 03:57 AM (qry2M)

900 I understand. Somehow I got it in my head that I wanted to be a more complete player.

The hubby is branching out with some rockabilly.

Posted by: Adriane the Architecture Critic ... at March 31, 2015 03:59 AM (nSOh+)

901 Yeah, I gave up Rock 'n Rollin back in '77 ... /i]

that's cold, man ...

Posted by: Adriane the Music Critic ... at March 31, 2015 04:00 AM (nSOh+)

902 Oy!

Rose are red,
Violets are blue,
I'm out like a light,
At 902 ..

Posted by: Adriane the Music Critic ... at March 31, 2015 04:00 AM (nSOh+)

903 Do you have any thoughts on the modeling amps, like Line6?


Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2015 03:36 AM (T1005)




Well I have some of their stuff. Its actually pretty cool. It does depend on what you are going to do with it. For a dude messing around home the stuff is great, Its like one stop shopping, you got all the food groups. The 75 watt combo amp they make right now is pretty cool, the 30 isn't bad either. I do know they make half stack type amps, and they are supposed to be real good.

Personally, nothing replaces the sheer horsepower of tube amps. I have regular rack units for effects and would rather use my tube amps before any modeling amp, but if I was just a home player looking to have a shitload of stuff at my fingers the line 6 stuff does a shitload of things. You do have to really set up your presets though and you will be tweaking them for awhile, but once you get them set up you'll have some cool shit happening.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 04:01 AM (FMbng)

904 Do you have any thoughts on the modeling amps, like Line6?

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2015 03:36 AM (T1005)

You didn't ask me but....I've had a line 6....they're pretty neat for home use....I've got a fender mustang now....wouldn't gig w/it.

Posted by: BignJames at March 31, 2015 04:03 AM (j7iSn)

905 900
I understand. Somehow I got it in my head that I wanted to be a more complete player.



The hubby is branching out with some rockabilly.

Posted by: Adriane the Architecture Critic ... at March 31, 2015 03:59 AM (nSOh+)

====is he doing good?

Posted by: jc at March 31, 2015 04:06 AM (iRJ+A)

906
that's cold, man ...
You bet you're bippy it was cold...

Posted by: Ira Weatheral at March 31, 2015 04:06 AM (qry2M)

907 897
I take a multi-vitamin. No statins ...



cranberry, D, fish oil. Airborne.

Posted by: Adriane the Architecture Critic ... at March 31, 2015 03:56 AM (nSOh+)


See if taking a hard-core B (like a B-50) doesn't perk you up in about 2 weeks. If it doesn't, there's not much of an investment.....but if it does, it tends to make a larger difference than you'd expect.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2015 04:06 AM (T1005)

908 you're - your ugh

Posted by: Ira Weatheral at March 31, 2015 04:11 AM (qry2M)

909 that's cold, man ...
You bet you're bippy it was cold...
Posted by: Ira Weatheral


Quite a round trip.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 31, 2015 04:12 AM (JBzwC)

910 ====is he doing good?
Posted by: jc at March 31, 2015 04:06 AM (iRJ+A)


1st practice last Sunday, so not sure.

He plays with one of guys in a different band, so I'm thinking it might gel better than with a group of complete strangers ...

His rule is "no wives, look what Yoko did to the Beatles" so I stay out of it : -))

Posted by: Adriane the Music Critic ... at March 31, 2015 04:12 AM (nSOh+)

911 See if taking a hard-core B (like a B-50) doesn't perk you up in about 2 weeks. If it doesn't, there's not much of an investment.....but if it does, it tends to make a larger difference than you'd expect.

can do. As many trips as we've taken to Walgreens they know us by sight these days ...
: -)

Posted by: Adriane the Music Critic ... at March 31, 2015 04:13 AM (nSOh+)

912 I understand. Somehow I got it in my head that I wanted to be a more complete player. I think it might be good for me in lots of ways, but the sense of needing training wheels again is certainly unsettling.

But you know -- if you know a lick, you know a lick -- the question is: will I know when and where to play it?


Posted by: jc at March 31, 2015 03:46 AM (iRJ+A)

I used to have those arguments with myself. Then I came to terms with what I am. I'm a metal guitar player, and in that genre I'm yoda level. Whenever I try to branch out some else suffers. I did classical for some years and it started screwing up my picking hand, so when I would pick up the electric I would start dropping the pick, and I never..drop..the..pick. I said screw it. I need to stick in my natural realm.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 04:15 AM (FMbng)

913 His rule is "no wives, look what Yoko did to the Beatles" so I stay out of it : -))

Posted by: Adriane the Music Critic ... at March 31, 2015 04:12 AM (nSOh+)


yes grasshopper, do listen to your hubby. It might not be you, but it will be one of the other wives. There is always one..one of the girlfriends or wives. Its like a prime directive, its there to protect everyone. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 04:21 AM (FMbng)

914 current status of THFH.



http://tinypic.com/r/a405n6/8

Posted by: jc at March 31, 2015 04:29 AM (iRJ+A)

915 914
current status of THFH.



http://tinypic.com/r/a405n6/8


Posted by: jc at March 31, 2015 04:29 AM (iRJ+A)



OMG!!!! It's tilted your whole shop onto its side!!!!

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2015 04:42 AM (T1005)

916
Hey-o

Good night and good luck!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu7d2DpgDIk

Posted by: Ira Weatheral at March 31, 2015 04:42 AM (qry2M)

917
OMG!!!! It's tilted your whole shop onto its side!!!!


Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2015 04:42 AM (T1005)


=====
it's possessed. I think it might conjure up Linda Blair.

Posted by: jc at March 31, 2015 04:46 AM (iRJ+A)

918 Needs more clamps.

Posted by: Jean at March 31, 2015 04:47 AM (ztOda)

919 Can never have enough clamps. Its one of the mysteries of the universe. You buy more and more clamps, yet you always need more, so you buy some more thinking now you got it, and then you end up needing more anyway.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 04:51 AM (FMbng)

920 As the robots get better the republican party will have to do a better job of stoping citizens from voting!

Posted by: captain*arizona at March 31, 2015 04:52 AM (qz3/D)

921 919
Can never have enough clamps. Its one of the mysteries of the universe.
You buy more and more clamps, yet you always need more, so you buy some
more thinking now you got it, and then you end up needing more anyway.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 04:51 AM (FMbng)


I think that may be headed toward a clamp singularity, where the structure of the universe collapses into an infinity of clamps.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2015 04:55 AM (T1005)

922 Needs more clamps.
Posted by: Jean


troll on scene, call for pd

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 31, 2015 04:55 AM (JBzwC)

923 I think that may be headed toward a clamp singularity, where the structure of the universe collapses into an infinity of clamps.


Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2015 04:55 AM (T1005)


....with a head twisted 180 degrees around spewing pea soup.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2015 04:56 AM (T1005)

924 I think that may be headed toward a clamp singularity, where the structure of the universe collapses into an infinity of clamps.


Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2015 04:55 AM (T1005)


No shit man. Sometimes I have so many clamps on a guitar I swear its going to squeeze it into nothingness.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 04:57 AM (FMbng)

925 922
Needs more clamps.

Posted by: Jean



troll on scene, call for pd

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 31, 2015 04:55 AM (JBzwC)


=====norm will take care of this heresy as soon as he finds ---

these ........ safety glasses ......

Posted by: jc at March 31, 2015 04:58 AM (iRJ+A)

926
these ........ safety glasses ......
Posted by: jc


*bio smock*

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 31, 2015 04:59 AM (JBzwC)

927 No shit man. Sometimes I have so many clamps on a guitar I swear its going to squeeze it into nothingness.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 04:57 AM (FMbng)


=====
I appreciated this guys approach to clamping.

https://youtu.be/m0yYHh9goI0

Posted by: jc at March 31, 2015 05:00 AM (iRJ+A)

928 Some asshole is attempting to calm us.

What an ...

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 31, 2015 05:02 AM (JBzwC)

929 I appreciated this guys approach to clamping.

https://youtu.be/m0yYHh9goI0


Posted by: jc at March 31, 2015 05:00 AM (iRJ+A)


Too funny. I have every tool in that vid including the side bender. I the same exact methods.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 05:05 AM (FMbng)

930 Too funny. I have every tool in that vid including the side bender. I the same exact methods.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 05:05 AM (FMbng)

====do you keep your blades that sharp? I am thinking that he really knows the right way to tune up a plane.

Posted by: jc at March 31, 2015 05:07 AM (iRJ+A)

931 Enter Etuu-Tuu to tell us how many he has purchased to fandango us all.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 31, 2015 05:08 AM (JBzwC)

932 Ehh, my 50 Shades of Grey sock didn't work

Posted by: Jean at March 31, 2015 05:10 AM (ztOda)

933 ====do you keep your blades that sharp? I am thinking that he really knows the right way to tune up a plane.


Posted by: jc at March 31, 2015 05:07 AM (iRJ+A)


Definitely. They have to be that sharp. You need that wood to come off clean or else you are fucked. I have a really good sharpener I use for all the plane blades and chisels. I keep them like razors.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 05:10 AM (FMbng)

934 Definitely. They have to be that sharp. You need
that wood to come off clean or else you are fucked. I have a really good
sharpener I use for all the plane blades and chisels. I keep them like
razors.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 05:10 AM (FMbng)

===I always struggle with that. keeping a plane is great working condition is really frustrating for me.

we have also been resorting to building our own planes to work on THFH cuz there are so many radii and undulations where running a router is a bitch. made a few plane and gouge blades out of old carbide circular saw blades. so-so, but getting better at it.

Posted by: jc at March 31, 2015 05:16 AM (iRJ+A)

935 g-damn, I can watch 100 hours of guitar mfng.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 31, 2015 05:19 AM (JBzwC)

936 I sure am looking forward to the super-duper Iran deal today. ... It will be today, right? ... No more delays or anything, no extensions, no double-talk, right? ... Barack, come on man, we're counting on you, and on that Lerch fella that you sent to do the talking, to get this deal done for us so that we can stop laying awake all night worrying about Iran's Navy (and how long it would take Israel to sink it)!

Posted by: goon at March 31, 2015 05:22 AM (A53Jp)

937 g-damn, I can watch 100 hours of guitar mfng.


Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 31, 2015 05:19 AM (JBzwC)


It takes 200 hours to make one, so at 100 you would only see half.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 05:25 AM (FMbng)

938 It takes 200 hours to make one, so at 100 you would only see half.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads


*sanding my boole*

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 31, 2015 05:27 AM (JBzwC)

939 I always struggle with that. keeping a plane is great working condition is really frustrating for me.

Posted by: jc at March 31, 2015 05:16 AM (iRJ+A)


I have a bunch of planes, so I picked a few of each size and set them up to do basically one thing. They are set up for different depths of cut, and I always do a test pass on a piece of scrap to make sure the blade is square with the cutting surface. The mouth adjustment is critical too. I'm also using old bailey planes. Most are around 80- 100 years old, the oldest being 1874. I don't think I'm using anything much newer than the 1930's. You set those suckers up and they stay good.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 05:33 AM (FMbng)

940 I'm also using old bailey planes. Most are around 80- 100 years old, the
oldest being 1874. I don't think I'm using anything much newer than the
1930's. You set those suckers up and they stay good.



=====

where would I find those? I see guys with walls covered with old planes but I have no idea where to get them.

Posted by: jc at March 31, 2015 05:38 AM (iRJ+A)

941 There used to be a yahoo group dedicated to finding and trading them

Posted by: Jean at March 31, 2015 05:39 AM (ztOda)

942 Yeah that's another thing ebay fucked up. I used to grab those old bailey planes for $10-20 each with some really nice ones with full never reshrapened blades maybe hitting $30-40. Last I looked I saw junk going for $30-40.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 05:39 AM (FMbng)

943 where would I find those? I see guys with walls covered with old planes but I have no idea where to get them.


Posted by: jc at March 31, 2015 05:38 AM (iRJ+A)


Yeah I would be one of those guys. I think I have 50-60 of them. Ebay always has tons of them, but you do need to know what to look for and what to actually pay. You see some that have very slight surface rust going for $20 with a full blade and that's a steal, because those can be cleaned up nice. The other thing is "type", basically every era has a type number, type 1, type 2, etc all the way up to maybe type 19 being the last of any good ones. You normally would stay below type 16. that's the last of the good ones. Type 17 are the war era planes when brass and hardwoods were rationed, so there are no Brazilian rosewood handles or brass fittings. Ebay is flooded with them.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 05:45 AM (FMbng)

944 Heres a good example. I believe this is a type 11, made around 1910. it looks in pretty nice shape. I'm guessing it will hit $40-50.



http://tinyurl.com/p7hcavg

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 05:51 AM (FMbng)

945 I appreciated this guys approach to clamping.

https://youtu.be/m0yYHh9goI0
Posted by: jc at March 31, 2015 05:00 AM (iRJ+A)


Such a humbling experience to watch someone do that kind of "real" and tedious and demanding work. Plays nice too. Thanks for the link.

Posted by: goon at March 31, 2015 05:51 AM (A53Jp)

946 944
Heres a good example. I believe this is a type 11, made around 1910. it
looks in pretty nice shape. I'm guessing it will hit $40-50.







http://tinyurl.com/p7hcavg

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 05:51 AM (FMbng)

=====cool. thanks. do you have any profile planes with beads, roundovers, etc.?

Posted by: jc at March 31, 2015 05:55 AM (iRJ+A)

947 =====cool. thanks. do you have any profile planes with beads, roundovers, etc.?


Posted by: jc at March 31, 2015 05:55 AM (iRJ+A)


I have some old molding planes if that's what you mean. Those narrow wood ones with the blades shaped to cut details on moldings. I have an old gutter plane too. Amazing the shit dudes had to make by hand.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 05:59 AM (FMbng)

948 Here is a really good guide that explains the types and goes into detail about each type for identification. worth its weight in gold if you're going to be shopping for some old planes.


http://www.hyperkitten.com/tools/stanley_bench_plane/type_study.php#Type 1

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2015 06:03 AM (FMbng)

949 Thanks much Bers. Gotta go. CYA.

Posted by: jc at March 31, 2015 06:08 AM (iRJ+A)

950

NOOD!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 31, 2015 06:11 AM (St6BJ)

951 "Give me an F !"

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....lost in America at March 31, 2015 12:01 AM (+1T7c)


You missed a few letters. Oh, and you owe me royalties.

Posted by: Country Joe And The Fish at March 31, 2015 06:16 AM (NjliE)

952 I was probably wishful thinking after I found more pics of her, now I don't know

Posted by: Baldy at March 31, 2015 10:09 AM (sEXjW)

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