On This Date.....[CBD]

...in 1899, J S Thurman patented the motor-driven vacuum cleaner.

His next words were, "Now that you have so much time, go make me a sammich."

Open Thread.....

Posted by: Open Blogger at 11:19 AM

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1 FRIST?

Posted by: chemjeff at October 03, 2015 11:20 AM (uZNvH)

Posted by: Bruce at October 03, 2015 11:21 AM (8ikIW)

3 Did you ever see those hand pump vacumns? Awful. You had to pump it like an accordion.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 03, 2015 11:24 AM (iQIUe)

4
Have you seen my manual driven sybian?

Posted by: Senora Huma Danger at October 03, 2015 11:25 AM (OiFtZ)

5 I vaccum in the nude. Being a Feminist I've been vacuumed at Planned parenthood. Pile on haters!

Posted by: Lena Dunham at October 03, 2015 11:25 AM (9qvXj)

6 Crap. Meant to type
Then he invented Sports Central.

Hey, a cold beer would wash down this sammich pretty good.

Posted by: Bruce at October 03, 2015 11:25 AM (8ikIW)

7
Stop making fun of my name and telling cooter jokes.

Posted by: Joe Bob Cooter, Lions QB Coach at October 03, 2015 11:26 AM (OiFtZ)

8 Note what is buried in all this media frenzy?

Stuff like Iran, EPA acting like barbarians inside the gates of American civilization, JEF hating Israel, the Muslim invasion of Europe?

Well timed.

Why yes, I do have a stunning aluminum fedora on. Why do you ask?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 03, 2015 11:28 AM (u82oZ)

9 Daisy cleans up after a "costume party" at Dildon Abbey.

So hard to find discreet help these days. She's a treasure.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sowing Discord and Reaping Inter-Office Bitchery at October 03, 2015 11:28 AM (jR7Wy)

10 The sammich quote is hilarious.

Go dawgs!

Posted by: BacktoGA at October 03, 2015 11:29 AM (/22Vh)

11
Has anyone seen my bitch Kerry after last nights party?

Posted by: Sergey Lavrov at October 03, 2015 11:30 AM (OiFtZ)

12 I am loving the Arts and Crafts decor in the photo.

Posted by: Sal at October 03, 2015 11:30 AM (MRX6w)

13 I'll make you a sammich when you get off your lazy ass and make me some actual content.

Posted by: Mrs. J S Thurman at October 03, 2015 11:31 AM (uBIfu)

14
I'll have a BLT on toast with potato chips and a beer. Don't tell my family.

Posted by: Ahmad Mohammad, Clock Boy at October 03, 2015 11:32 AM (OiFtZ)

15 That vacuum came with an attatchment to cure 'female hysteria'. I treated women manually until my hands were calloused. Then I got into the cereal business.

Posted by: Dr. Kellogg at October 03, 2015 11:33 AM (9qvXj)

16
Do you believe these shorts make my ass look fat?

Posted by: Meggy McCain at October 03, 2015 11:34 AM (OiFtZ)

17 Ah man! I really hate TFG:

A team from the U.S. Defense Department will visit both a state and a federal prison in Colorado to assess their possible use for housing detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, senior U.S. officials said Friday.

Thanks for wanting to make my state a target for terror attacks/jail breaks.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 03, 2015 11:34 AM (NOIQH)

18
I don't answer questions about blobs of tissue.

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi, D-CA at October 03, 2015 11:36 AM (OiFtZ)

19 His next words were, "Now that you have so much time, go make me a sammich."
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Gunning for funniest COB, I see, CBD.

Posted by: Chi at October 03, 2015 11:36 AM (RLCmM)

20 Wot, up to 20 and no one's said "That sucks" yet?

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 03, 2015 11:37 AM (xq1UY)

21 using teh vacuum

killing teh spiders

Posted by: eman at October 03, 2015 11:37 AM (MQEz6)

22 And cats the world over let out a long, mournful howl.

Posted by: Lincolntf at October 03, 2015 11:37 AM (2cS/G)

23
I've used a vacuum on my best friends cock and he loved the air suck.

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi, D-CA at October 03, 2015 11:38 AM (OiFtZ)

24 Why yes, I do have a stunning aluminum fedora on. Why do you ask?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 03, 2015 11:28 AM (u82oZ)

Here, let me add a matching foil scarf to your ensemble:

http://tinyurl.com/p9rmhjz

Posted by: Country Singer at October 03, 2015 11:39 AM (nL0sw)

25 Roll Tide!

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 03, 2015 11:40 AM (LUgeY)

26 Then you have to remember, this was before sliced bread. So making the sammich was also a soul-destroying chore. Involving deadly weaponry.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 03, 2015 11:40 AM (xq1UY)

27 Plenty of sucktion in the Lincoln Bedroom! Thanks suckers!

Posted by: Reggie in Love! at October 03, 2015 11:41 AM (9qvXj)

28 I don't know how many may recognise the handle (from misc other sites, including the one run by Jarles Chonson before it jumped the shark), but a longtime blog friend lost the battle with the big C this week. Rest in peace Realwest.

McGyver, Out

Posted by: McGyver at October 03, 2015 11:41 AM (6hAG+)

29 Drizzly day for the game.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at October 03, 2015 11:41 AM (GdFQh)

30 I've used a vacuum on my best friends cock and he loved the air suck.
Posted by: Nancy Pelosi, D-CA at October 03, 2015 11:38 AM (OiFtZ)

Preferring that to your mouth isn't what I'd call a ringing endorsement of the vacuum, Nancy.

Posted by: jwpaine, otherized for your protection at October 03, 2015 11:41 AM (wKcQA)

31 "The bloody thing makes all Hell's noise!

I'll not be usin' it!"

-Daisy at the pub the day before.

Posted by: eman at October 03, 2015 11:41 AM (MQEz6)

32

Notice the woman of the house in not doing the vacuuming. A lady in a hat is doing that. I need a lady in a hat.

Posted by: grammie winger, waiting for the trumpets at October 03, 2015 11:42 AM (dFi94)

33 Backwards Boy, now I know where the name comes from...

Posted by: BacktoGA at October 03, 2015 11:42 AM (/22Vh)

34

a longtime blog friend lost the battle with the big C this week. Rest in peace Realwest.

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Oh no. He was such a sweet gentleman. Thank you for letting us know.

Posted by: grammie winger, waiting for the trumpets at October 03, 2015 11:43 AM (dFi94)

35 Wow. Slow day. I checked in. Built a building. Came back and still in the 20's.

Posted by: Trumpnado at October 03, 2015 11:43 AM (/Vs1e)

36 Good point, Grammie. It's a chicken-and-egg thing whether modern household appliances put an end to "domestic help" or the lack of help made the market for the machinery. In the 20's it was still normal as anything for a lower middle class family to have a maid.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 03, 2015 11:44 AM (xq1UY)

37 If it's not a Dyson, it's nothing.

Posted by: Reed Richards at October 03, 2015 11:44 AM (iIVyq)

38 That sucks

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 03, 2015 11:45 AM (mxCgt)

39 The Feds should enroll the Gitmo detainees at UC Boulder. It'd be cheaper, the collective IQ of UCB would improve, and the political culture there would be unaffected.

Posted by: jwpaine, otherized for your protection at October 03, 2015 11:45 AM (wKcQA)

40 Go dawgs!
Posted by: BacktoGA at October 03, 2015 11:29 AM (/22Vh)

****

Roll Tide!

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at October 03, 2015 11:45 AM (1eYr7)

41 Why the hell did they vacuum the walls back then?

Posted by: All Teh Meh at October 03, 2015 11:46 AM (VviqM)

42 >> Have you seen my manual driven sybian?

I'm thinking one could do a great job faking up some old Roman images of a saddle with a movable sort of device attached to a hand-crank operated by a couple slaves...

Posted by: JEM at October 03, 2015 11:47 AM (o+SC1)

43 Slow day. I checked in. Built a building. Came back and still in the 20's.
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I invented the digital clock this morning.

Posted by: Ahmed at October 03, 2015 11:47 AM (mxCgt)

44 28 I don't know how many may recognise the handle (from misc other sites, including the one run by Jarles Chonson before it jumped the shark), but a longtime blog friend lost the battle with the big C this week. Rest in peace Realwest.

McGyver, Out
Posted by: McGyver at October 03, 2015 11:41 AM (6hAG+)

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Sorry to hear that, McGyver.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 03, 2015 11:48 AM (iQIUe)

45 In the 20's it was still normal as anything for a lower middle class family to have a maid.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 03, 2015 11:44 AM (xq1UY)
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My mom grew up with a nanny, and my grandparents were anything but well-off. Far from it. My mom tells stories about her nanny sometimes. The saddest one is, her nanny loved to take my mom to the park. It was the only way the nanny was allowed into it. The park was for whites only, but if you were a nanny, you could go in with the child in your care. It's hard for me to imagine things like that now.

Posted by: grammie winger, waiting for the trumpets at October 03, 2015 11:49 AM (dFi94)

46 Man i love October weekends, yard work is light, college football on saturday, pro football on sunday, and lots of baseball and beer in between.

Posted by: All Teh Meh at October 03, 2015 11:49 AM (VviqM)

47 I invented the digital clock this morning with a hammer.
Posted by: Ahmed at October 03, 2015 11:47 AM (mxCgt)

Corrected for accuracy.

Posted by: jwpaine, otherized for your protection at October 03, 2015 11:49 AM (wKcQA)

48 Why the hell did they vacuum the walls back then?

Posted by: All Teh Meh at October 03, 2015 11:46 AM (VviqM)
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creepy crawling critters

Posted by: grammie winger, waiting for the trumpets at October 03, 2015 11:50 AM (dFi94)

49 I invented the digital clock this morning with a hammer.
Posted by: Ahmed at October 03, 2015 11:47 AM (mxCgt)

Corrected for accuracy.
Posted by: jwpaine
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It was accomplished with a single stroke.

Posted by: Ahmed at October 03, 2015 11:51 AM (mxCgt)

50 23 It really was amazing, Nance......and now that I'll have all this spare time on my hands....

*gets a weird grin and eyes start welling up*

Posted by: John Boehner at October 03, 2015 11:52 AM (cVvbj)

51 Reposted from the morning thread, because it's relevant here:

Boy, I really need one of these. Look how spotless that floor is! I wonder if she can operate a vacuum?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIhikj3U7yY

(Hat tip Adriane in the ONT.)

Posted by: rickl at October 03, 2015 11:53 AM (sdi6R)

52 @41 You don't vacuum your walls?

When they mentioned Colorado, I right away thought of Buena (pronouced "Byoona")Vista. Hell of a pen there. Really cruel, because it's on a little sliver of desert mesa between two stunning mountain ranges. Greatest view in the world, and you ain't goin nowhere. Also, for about 8 months of the year, your chances of surviving after escape would be about the same as in Runaway Train. So, mean.

Other'n that, I suspect ByoonaVista is a hell of a town and a great place to live.

Might also consider the uplands of Cotopaxi, right off US50, where unscrupulous land agents settled hundreds of east European Jews on worked-out mining claims almost above the tree line. The survivors became some of the wealthiest leading citizens of Denver, but plenty didn't survive.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 03, 2015 11:53 AM (xq1UY)

53 creepy crawling critters
Posted by: grammie winger, waiting for the trumpets at October 03, 2015 11:50 AM (dFi94)

Ahh, much like today then.

Posted by: All Teh Meh at October 03, 2015 11:54 AM (VviqM)

54 Why the hell did they vacuum the walls back then?

Soot from the candles, oil lamps, gas lamps, etc., I imagine.

Posted by: Grey Fox at October 03, 2015 11:55 AM (bZ7mE)

55
It must be a fetish thing otherwise why would films have the female star vacuuming naked? It's so gratuitous. Housework is housework. It is not sexy time.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 03, 2015 11:56 AM (iQIUe)

56 @55 You must be the joy-killingest killjoy in the history of killjoy-ism.
"We do not wish to be reconciled with you, Sir. We hate you, Sir."

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 03, 2015 11:59 AM (xq1UY)

57 Well, wife is joining me for the trip to the movies. Still haven't decided which to see. The Martian might be sold out, first weekend, rainy as fuck, so Black Mass might be our only option.

Posted by: Lincolntf at October 03, 2015 12:00 PM (2cS/G)

58 I submit for your approval: http://bit.ly/1GpR75U

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 03, 2015 12:00 PM (PMlgt)

59 Housework is housework. It is not sexy time.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 03, 2015 11:56 AM (iQIUe)

You shut your whore mouth!

Posted by: French Maid Outfit Manufacturers and Retailers Association at October 03, 2015 12:02 PM (nL0sw)

60 HISTORY ALERT: walls were vacuumed to remove the soot from burning coal to heat the house. My Grandmother did it every week well into the '50s/early '60s. I still remember when they switched from coal to nat gas.

Posted by: oldgeezer at October 03, 2015 12:04 PM (4pPcl)

61 This thread is slower than Hillary's internal email investigation

Posted by: BacktoGA at October 03, 2015 12:06 PM (/22Vh)

62 Soot from the candles, oil lamps, gas lamps, etc., I imagine.

HISTORY ALERT: walls were vacuumed to remove the soot from burning coal to heat the house.

Interesting, i had no idea.

Posted by: All Teh Meh at October 03, 2015 12:08 PM (VviqM)

63 So, now the Pope didn't meet with Davis? Why were the intertubes going goofy last week because he did?

Who could be lying to us? Davis? The Pope?? The media???

Can I choose all of the above?

Posted by: Bruce at October 03, 2015 12:10 PM (8ikIW)

64 play doh was originally a putty to remove soot stains from wallpaper. When that market was drying up the owners SIL teacher said "this stuff is great for kiddie art and crafts" She also came up with the name play doh according to the History Channel bit on it.

Posted by: PaleRider at October 03, 2015 12:10 PM (iA/+T)

65 Eh, guess i'll watch my Horns get their asses kicked.

*sigh*

Posted by: naturalfake at October 03, 2015 12:11 PM (KUa85)

66 A team from the U.S. Defense Department will visit both a state and a federal prison in Colorado to assess their possible use for housing detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, senior U.S. officials said Friday.

Wasn't there a law passed expressly forbidding the transfer of Gitmo prisoners to the US?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 03, 2015 12:11 PM (rwI+c)

67 using teh vacuum

killing teh spiders

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The other day Rush mentioned a story about two college roommates. Sex wasn't specified but, please Lord, let them be girls. They saw a mouse and called the police. Amazingly, the cops came and killed the mouse. They then sought counseling for the trauma caused by seeing a mouse.

So, chicks or the modern male?

Posted by: The Great White Snark at October 03, 2015 12:11 PM (TgIjP)

68 RIP realwest. Emailed back and forth with him in the day.
Even set him up with a second account when the writing was on the wall. Not sure if he ever used it to go out in a blaze of glory. Lost interest in all things lfg after getting banned four or five times.

He banned the guy who brought him a story that was linked to in the new york times. Did I mention Chas Johnstown is a snake? Water over dam.

Posted by: se pa moron at October 03, 2015 12:11 PM (sI4OA)

69 Cobwebs will pile up if you don't vacuum walls & ceilings in a house with no central air. Especially if you keep the windows open most of the year.
Ask me how I know.

Posted by: Chi at October 03, 2015 12:12 PM (RLCmM)

70 63 So, now the Pope didn't meet with Davis? Why were the intertubes going goofy last week because he did?

Posted by: Bruce at October 03, 2015 12:10 PM (8ikIW)

No, he did meet with her, but now he apparently regrets it or else didn't know who she was.

Posted by: rickl at October 03, 2015 12:12 PM (sdi6R)

71 TD Missou

Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 03, 2015 12:13 PM (rwI+c)

72 I don't know about nekkid housework, but I do think the female on field football reporters should wear a bikini. Just to make up for that annoying voice telling me crap I don't need to hear.

If I wanted that, I'd listen to the wife.

Posted by: Bruce at October 03, 2015 12:13 PM (8ikIW)

73 Poor Bahamas, Joaquin has just hung there and hammered on them. Not hearing much about it in the media, I guess if its not killing a lot of folks in a backwards country or hitting the U.S. a storm is not news.

Posted by: PaleRider at October 03, 2015 12:14 PM (iA/+T)

74 There's some old ay-uh New England humor about wind that just stays in one place and blows. It's not a funny notion if you've ever been next to a tornado, or hunkered under a stalled hurricane-force front. It happens. And, it sucks.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 03, 2015 12:16 PM (xq1UY)

75 I heard that two cargo ships have been lost in this storm. That seems unprecedented in my living memory.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 03, 2015 12:16 PM (rwI+c)

76 Yes, I would not want a Cat 3 hurricane just sitting on top of me for days and not going anywhere.

Posted by: rickl at October 03, 2015 12:16 PM (sdi6R)

77 This thread is slower than Hillary's internal ~~email investigation~~ organs
Posted by: BacktoGA

***

FIFY

Posted by: Clinton family gastroenterologist at October 03, 2015 12:16 PM (NeFrd)

78 Have you seen my manual driven sybian?

Posted by: Senora Huma Danger

Meh, it's just recumbent bike exercise machine with a reciprocating piston.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at October 03, 2015 12:17 PM (NaeCR)

79 I remember realwest from the site that shall not be named because the crazy person who runs it googles himself constantly, shame to hear about his passing.

Posted by: All Teh Meh at October 03, 2015 12:17 PM (VviqM)

80 72 I don't know about nekkid housework, but I do think the female on field football reporters should wear a bikini. Just to make up for that annoying voice telling me crap I don't need to hear.

If I wanted that, I'd listen to the wife.

Posted by: Bruce at October 03, 2015 12:13 PM (8ikIW)

Funny how media keeps shoving 'experts' who have never done it, down our throats...

Women sportscasters talking about NFL football.

Business wonks, who if they were any good at business, would be doing business vice talking about others doing business.

But my favorite is 'military analysts' who never served...

Posted by: BB Wolf at October 03, 2015 12:17 PM (qh617)

81 56
@55 You must be the joy-killingest killjoy in the history of killjoy-ism.
"We do not wish to be reconciled with you, Sir. We hate you, Sir."

I see someone else has recently rewatched Episode 8 of the War of General Southern Peevishness and Refusal to do Their Own Damn Housework.

Posted by: pep at October 03, 2015 12:18 PM (LAe3v)

82 Wasn't there a law passed expressly forbidding the transfer of Gitmo prisoners to the US?

Posted by: Grump928

I AM THE LAW!!

Posted by: Judge Dred Barack Obama at October 03, 2015 12:19 PM (+1T7c)

83 Why the hell did they vacuum the walls back then?
Posted by: All Teh Meh at October 03, 2015 11:46 AM (VviqM)

coal, peat, and wood heat puts out a lot of ash, dust and soot, as does acetylene lighting (we called the torch soot "carbon critters" in the shop, when your Oxy mix was poor)
Also, fly ash from any factories and if you lived in the country or unpaved streets there is a lot of dust kicked up.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 03, 2015 12:19 PM (3pRHP)

84 So, now the Pope didn't meet with Davis? Why were the intertubes going goofy last week because he did?

Who could be lying to us? Davis? The Pope?? The media???

Can I choose all of the above?

"They" are saying he also met with a same sex couple, and he didn't know what he was doing when he met with Davis.....Also a man who married his dog, a cat, and Hillary /sac See, the Pope is one of use after all!

Posted by: Colin at October 03, 2015 12:19 PM (Espnc)

85 Funny how media keeps shoving 'experts' who have never done it, down our throats...

Women sportscasters talking about NFL football.

Business wonks, who if they were any good at business, would be doing business vice talking about others doing business.

But my favorite is 'military analysts' who never served...

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Didja see who's being considered for Secretary of Education? The one, the only, Bill Ayers!

Makes sense in the era of Ahmad the Clockmaker, I guess.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at October 03, 2015 12:20 PM (TgIjP)

86 I'm thinking one could do a great job faking up some
old Roman images of a saddle with a movable sort of device attached to a
hand-crank operated by a couple slaves...
Posted by: JEM at October 03, 2015 11:47 AM (o+SC1)

I am imagining something between a bronze stirrup pump and the Antithykera device. *shudders*

Posted by: Kindltot at October 03, 2015 12:21 PM (3pRHP)

87 77 thank you?

Posted by: BacktoGA at October 03, 2015 12:21 PM (/22Vh)

88 The other day Rush mentioned a story about two college roommates. Sex
wasn't specified but, please Lord, let them be girls. They saw a mouse
and called the police. Amazingly, the cops came and killed the mouse.
They then sought counseling for the trauma caused by seeing a mouse.

So, chicks or the modern male?

When pepdaughter#3 was at William and Mary, she was awakened one night at 3am by a woman banging on her dorm door. When pd3 inquired what the hell, the woman informed her that there had been "a mouse sighting". They moved all the kids into a hotel the next day, while the building was searched for the rogue rodent, which was never found.

I kid you not.

Posted by: pep at October 03, 2015 12:22 PM (LAe3v)

89 See, the easy availability of cheap human labor held back Roman technical innovation. Perfect example, why use a slave-driven sybian, when you had two slaves right there? And they were just as likely Sybian slaves, anyway. Sibarian. Sybarite. You know.

There's been a couple of insightful, if straight-as-a-string, essays written on how what may seem asexual or anti-sexual attitudes in the New Testament really reflected the degraded state of sexuality under the slave empires. Sexuality certainly was not imagined as an ennobling means of self-expression in that world.

Also, their vacuum cleaners had gutta-percha hoses. And smelt of garum.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 03, 2015 12:24 PM (xq1UY)

90 Also, their vacuum cleaners had gutta-percha hoses. And smelt of garum.

Posted by: Stringer Davis

Is it true that they made a sound like "myrhhhhhhh"?

Posted by: pep at October 03, 2015 12:25 PM (LAe3v)

91 But my favorite is 'military analysts' who never served...
Posted by: BB Wolf at October 03, 2015 12:17 PM (qh617)

Hey!

Posted by: Rearaldo Givera at October 03, 2015 12:25 PM (3pRHP)

92 >>> So, chicks or the modern male?

My wife is made of sterner stuff, though misguided. She once rescued the world's dumbest mouse from our cats and put it out in the snow.

Kittehs want to play, then have a snack.

Posted by: fluffy at October 03, 2015 12:26 PM (2iV3X)

93 God grief; If you live in an old house you tend to get mice sometimes. Nobody of either gender freaks out and usually the cats track the mouse/mice down and dispatch the critter(s).

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 03, 2015 12:27 PM (cgZPg)

94 FUN FACT: The motor-driven vacuum cleaner was thought to be a huge improvement over the earlier ferret-driven models.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 03, 2015 12:28 PM (ham8J)

95 You should only freak out when the cat dumps a chipmunk in the middle of the bedroom and expects you to catch and play with it for him.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 03, 2015 12:29 PM (3pRHP)

96 No, he did meet with her, but now he apparently regrets it or else didn't know who she was.

Pope #HeadUpHisAss I

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 03, 2015 12:29 PM (ham8J)

97 God grief; If you live in an old house you tend to
get mice sometimes. Nobody of either gender freaks out and usually the
cats track the mouse/mice down and dispatch the critter(s).

Posted by: FenelonSpoke

At the end of August, I set the traps in the basement for the little buggers. After 20 years and sealing up any opening outside and inside I can find, they still get in. Peanut butter works great. Every morning I check my "trap line". I get about 10 per year. They stop coming around when the snow starts flying. If they haven't found a warm shelter by then, they're dead.

Posted by: Bruce at October 03, 2015 12:30 PM (8ikIW)

98 >> why use a slave-driven sybian, when you had two slaves right there?

'Cause maybe your husband knew you too well and did the eunuch thing to anyone you brought into the house?

If someone offered you the chance to go back in time, would you take a truckload of vibrators? You could make a fortune, but you'd better get out of town before they realize they need batteries.

Think of how you could incent the acceleration of technology. They need to recharge their toys, so they need electricity. They need fossil fuels and combustion powerplants to generate electricity. And so on. Just pop back every year or so with the next set of plans.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, after all.

Posted by: JEM at October 03, 2015 12:30 PM (o+SC1)

99 But my favorite is 'military analysts' who never served...

I am skilled in the arts of war.

Posted by: Anderson Cooper at October 03, 2015 12:31 PM (ham8J)

100 To anser my own question, not a law per se. The 2010 defense authorization had an amendment forbidding any money to be spent to close or transfer prisoners from Gitmo. Since we've been in the world of Continuing Resolutions since then, I don't know if it still applies or not.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 03, 2015 12:31 PM (rwI+c)

101 If you live in an old house you tend to
get mice sometimes.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Had one here the other day. the closest thing handy was the 10/22, so I butt stroked him and tossed him out the door.

Posted by: Country Singer at October 03, 2015 12:31 PM (nL0sw)

102 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 03, 2015 12:27 PM (cgZPg)

I'd rather have mice than cats.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 03, 2015 12:31 PM (Zu3d9)

103 Oh, wonderful, Bill Ayers thinks that he would be a great candidate for the Secretary of Education.

If that man falls down an open manhole cover and never comes back up the world would be a better place.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 03, 2015 12:32 PM (cgZPg)

104 I am the very model of the Modern military analyst.

Posted by: Shep Smith at October 03, 2015 12:32 PM (ham8J)

105 >> FUN FACT: The motor-driven vacuum cleaner was thought
>> to be a huge improvement over the earlier ferret-driven
>> models.

And a dozen slave girls sucking with all their might were far too valuable for other purposes to sacrifice to the Hoover role.

Posted by: JEM at October 03, 2015 12:32 PM (o+SC1)

106 And a dozen slave girls sucking with all their might were far too valuable for other purposes to sacrifice to the Hoover role.

Posted by: JEM

Was that before or after the invention of the golf ball?

Posted by: Bruce at October 03, 2015 12:33 PM (8ikIW)

107 Pope has been having all sorts of problems.

Meeting with a proponent for Argentina's claim for the Falklands and posing with a poster about it (walked back, didn't know what it was gets lots of gifts)

Meeting with Evo Morales, president of Bolivia, and accepting a crucifix made of a hammer and a sickle (walked back, didn't know what it was gets a lot of gifts and this one was special because it was made by a dead priest)

Posing and presenting a sermon in front of a giant poster of Che (walked back, oops, didn't realize it was there and the Castros reserved the venue)

It is almost as if he is either really clueless about protocol and image, or is afraid to state his position.

I bet this pope is really mad when he reads about these things in the newspapers!

Posted by: Kindltot at October 03, 2015 12:34 PM (3pRHP)

108 Screw this post.

Posted by: The cat at October 03, 2015 12:36 PM (NB7me)

109 Meh.

Posted by: cthulhu at October 03, 2015 12:36 PM (EzgxV)

110 One would expect the Vicar of Christ to be able to make himself understood.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 03, 2015 12:36 PM (rwI+c)

111 Once I lived in an old house that was converted into apartments. I didn't have any mice at all; then all of a sudden the place was full of them. I think a pregnant female must have gotten in.

I was trying to catch one on the kitchen counter in a jar when I saw another one just sitting on the floor next to the refrigerator with an accusatory look: "What are you doing to my brother?"

It was totes adorbs. I was all like, "Aww, I'm sorry. I just want you all to leave."

I bought some live traps and released them outside, then found a couple of openings where they might have gotten in and sealed them up. I never had a problem after that.

But I will never forget that one just sitting there looking at me.

Posted by: rickl at October 03, 2015 12:37 PM (sdi6R)

112 Bill Ayers would be a wonderful candidate for landfill.

Now, the fact that Ayers has not spent the last thirty years communing with earthworms may not have given us the Persian Candidate, but a broader application of capital punishment to politically-connected domestic terrorists could not have hurt.

Posted by: JEM at October 03, 2015 12:37 PM (o+SC1)

113 Ferrets, not a joke. Back when "chimbleys" ran all the hell over through houses, sweeps used ferrets to snake the wires through that would then pull brushes.

People who don't like ferrets call them "snakes with fur." I had on once, actually he found me, and I liked him fine. When they like you, they bite, so, not for kids.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 03, 2015 12:38 PM (xq1UY)

114 And once again. Caught flatfooted that suddenly colleges across the country decided that they were going to play some football games on Saturday at noon without warning.

Posted by: buzzion at October 03, 2015 12:39 PM (zt+N6)

115 102
I'd rather have mice than cats.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 03, 2015 12:31 PM (Zu3d9)

My house is currently mice-free, but is infested with cats. Well, two of them anyway.

Posted by: rickl at October 03, 2015 12:40 PM (sdi6R)

116 I bet this pope is really mad when he reads about these things in the newspapers!

Posted by: Kindltot

Tell me about it.

XOX

JEF

Posted by: Bruce at October 03, 2015 12:40 PM (8ikIW)

117 t is almost as if he is either really clueless about protocol and image, or is afraid to state his position.

I bet this pope is really mad when he reads about these things in the newspapers!
Posted by: Kindltot at October 03, 2015 12:34 PM (3pRHP)

==========
I dont think he is clueless since he was a bishop in Argetina during the 70s.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 03, 2015 12:41 PM (iQIUe)

118
A dedicated researcher (don't look at me) who looked at dates on which new sandwiches were introduced and plotted them vs time would, I'm sure, see a distinct inflection point and rise in the number of new varities of sammiches after this date.

"He freed our wimmins to realize their full potential"

J. S. Thurman, we salute you and civilization thanks you!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 03, 2015 12:42 PM (VLTL9)

119 We had an infestation in my apartment. They were eating grass seed in a neighbor's basement and had gnawed through to all the other units. The population exploded. We found droppings in the kitchen beneath the stove and some died in the walls. The stench is horrid.

The no-kill policy goes out the window when you are infested, I'll tell you that.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at October 03, 2015 12:43 PM (YQA13)

120 The question is moot.

Posted by: $18,151,013,867,116.33 at October 03, 2015 12:43 PM (rwI+c)

121
Posted by: buzzion at October 03, 2015 12:39 PM (zt+N6)

Here lies buzzion, taken from us far too soon by flat feet.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 03, 2015 12:44 PM (VLTL9)

122 110 One would expect the Vicar of Christ to be able to make himself understood.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 03, 2015 12:36 PM (rwI+c)

You try making sense as a decades-long celibate 70 year old.

Posted by: First-Rate Political Hack at October 03, 2015 12:44 PM (4pTOn)

123 >> Was that before or after the invention of the golf ball?

I'm envisioning another one of those Roman illustrations, you have a conical sort of dust collector, a hose on the top inlet, a bin on the bottom, and a manifold with about a hundred slave girls sucking on the side.

The best performers get promoted.

Posted by: JEM at October 03, 2015 12:44 PM (o+SC1)

124 The no-kill policy goes out the window when you are infested, I'll tell you that.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk

The wife had me doing the no kill. Then one day a mouse ran across the floor and over her foot.

"Get the little bastards" she says.

Posted by: Bruce at October 03, 2015 12:45 PM (8ikIW)

125 As always I predict the teams with the most "student" athlete felons will be victorious.

Posted by: Monsieur Mew Mew at October 03, 2015 12:45 PM (0LHZx)

126 Good for Ben Carson:

http://tinyurl.com/p48ozyp

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 03, 2015 12:45 PM (cgZPg)

127 Who do you have to suck to get an elbow thread around here?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 03, 2015 12:46 PM (LUgeY)

128 Posted by: Kindltot at October 03, 2015 12:34 PM (3pRHP)
==================================

Oh my. Lots of walking backward going on there.

Peter walked on water, well, for a few steps anyway. But he was headed forward, towards Jesus, at the time.

I'm not quite certain where Francis is headed.

Posted by: grammie winger, waiting for the trumpets at October 03, 2015 12:46 PM (dFi94)

129 His next words were, "Now that you have so much time, go make me a sammich."

After oral sex is just assumed right?

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at October 03, 2015 12:46 PM (AC0lD)

130 What we need is a bit more information about the individuals the current Liberation Theology Pope has surrounded himself with.

Then we can begin to identify who's pulling which chains.

Posted by: JEM at October 03, 2015 12:46 PM (o+SC1)

131 127
Who do you have to suck to get an elbow thread around here?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 03, 2015 12:46 PM (LUgeY)
Hi there!

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at October 03, 2015 12:47 PM (uZNvH)

132 What's it take to get an elbow thread around this joint?

Posted by: Burn the Witch at October 03, 2015 12:47 PM (Wckf4)

133 Damn, BB beat me.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at October 03, 2015 12:48 PM (Wckf4)

134 >>> The wife had me doing the no kill.

What is wrong with her??

Posted by: teh kittehs at October 03, 2015 12:48 PM (2iV3X)

135 123
I'm envisioning another one of those Roman illustrations, you have a conical sort of dust collector, a hose on the top inlet, a bin on the bottom, and a manifold with about a hundred slave girls sucking on the side.

The best performers get promoted.
Posted by: JEM at October 03, 2015 12:44 PM (o+SC1)

Wait. I thought the Founding Fathers invented slavery.

Posted by: SJW at October 03, 2015 12:48 PM (sdi6R)

136 124 The no-kill policy goes out the window when you are infested, I'll tell you that.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk

The wife had me doing the no kill. Then one day a mouse ran across the floor and over her foot.

"Get the little bastards" she says.
Posted by: Bruce at October 03, 2015 12:45 PM (8ikIW)

My wife was the same. I think you discover quickly that mice aren't cute little micro-humans. They are dumb things that shit while they run and track that shit everywhere they go.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at October 03, 2015 12:49 PM (YQA13)

137 >> "Get the little bastards" she says.

We ain't no-kill here.

Bucket of Tomco bait, amazed Amazon could even ship it to California.

Got a lovely sweet dog who was sprayed by a skunk as a puppy, he chases squirrels for sport and never catches them but if he catches a skunk there's a twenty-foot radius of skunk parts to clean up, and he stays outside for three days.

Posted by: JEM at October 03, 2015 12:50 PM (o+SC1)

138 Wait. I thought the Founding Fathers invented slavery.

Posted by: SJW

They invented slaves of color. Before that it was blonde blue eyed Swedish chicks who liked to be spanked...and gingers.

Posted by: Bruce at October 03, 2015 12:50 PM (8ikIW)

139
127 Who do you have to suck to get an elbow thread around here?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 03, 2015 12:46 PM (LUgeY)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg8jOwvsUNM

The question that echoes in the collective consciousness of the Horde: Was it worth it?

Posted by: First-Rate Political Hack at October 03, 2015 12:50 PM (4pTOn)

140 I had mice in the garage a few years ago. They never made it inside the house luckily. What I did was get a tall bucket, put food in there, they'd get into the bucket but couldn't get out. So every morning I'd take the bucket and walk about 300 feet down the road empty the bucket. After a couple of days the number of mice in the bucket started getting smaller and after about 3 weeks there were none left.

Posted by: Monsieur Mew Mew at October 03, 2015 12:51 PM (0LHZx)

141 @119 Gosh thanks for the reminder. I still have some seed bags open in the barn.
My house isn't "that old" (huffily), but we're at-grade, and that means a field mouse or two every fall. They've never established a colony, so I don't consider it TEOTWAWKI. I used to hurry up and set traps so that mousin' ferret wouldn't get to them first. You don't want to see what a ferret does to its prey.

Years ago, city/county had a trash incinerator about 3/4 mile away. It was supposed to be anthracite-fired and was the marvel of the age when new. First time a tax levy didn't pass, they went to brown coal, then finally just casually tossed a match in the pile once in a while. So, there were rats under a lot of garage floors and dog houses. Dad got pissed one day, and poured a warren full of wash-gas and tetched her off. Horrible nightmare scene of scurrying burning screaming rats.

And when they finally tore the damned thing down, they all vanished.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 03, 2015 12:51 PM (xq1UY)

142

I am the very model of the Modern military analyst.

Posted by: Shep Smith

Don't question my credentials. I attended Command and General STAFF College at Ole Miss with a couple of my best buds. Or something.

Posted by: Miss Shepard Smith at October 03, 2015 12:51 PM (OiFtZ)

143 I think if you had a maid in 1899 you possibly had other servants, in which case wouldn't tell them to make you a sandwich. You'd say "Could you please have cook some see me?" and cook would make you a sandwich. In large house with lots of servants, the servants has prescribed duties which didn't overlap

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 03, 2015 12:51 PM (cgZPg)

144 93 God grief; If you live in an old house you tend to get mice sometimes. Nobody of either gender freaks out and usually the cats track the mouse/mice down and dispatch the critter(s).
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 03, 2015 12:27 PM (cgZPg)
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In an old house out in the country you get mice, chipmunks (thanks kitties), raccoons, possums, snakes (thanks kitties), and birds. I suppose it's the closest thing a cat does that approaches gainful employment or payment of rent so we never complained too much.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sowing Discord and Reaping Inter-Office Bitchery at October 03, 2015 12:51 PM (jR7Wy)

145

The no-kill policy goes out the window when you are infested, I'll tell you that.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at October 03, 2015 12:43 PM (YQA13)

They move indoors here when the weather gets cooler. The one I got last night was a bleeder.

You sh*t where I cook, you die.

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at October 03, 2015 12:52 PM (yxw0r)

146 Modern Man uses a Dyson, bitches.

Posted by: blaster at October 03, 2015 12:52 PM (2Ocf1)

147 >> I think if you had a maid in 1899 you possibly had other
>> servants, in which case wouldn't tell them to make you a
>> sandwich.

"Come make me a sandwich"

"Sir, I'll get someone from the kitchen for you."

"No, I don't think you understand. Bring the baby oil and the downstairs maid, and make me a sandwich."

"Oh..."

Posted by: JEM at October 03, 2015 12:55 PM (o+SC1)

148 The no-kill policy goes out the window when you are infested, I'll tell you that.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at October 03, 2015 12:43 PM (YQA13)
A friend of mine was about to buy a house here, but the deal foundered on termites. The owner - a California liberal, natch - wanted the house treated with some citrus shit to "encourage the termites to move elsewhere." I'm not making this up.

My buddy - also a chemist - wanted them gassed dead dead dead.
Neither side would budge, and so the deal fell through.

Ah, California.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at October 03, 2015 12:56 PM (oKE6c)

149 It beats as it sweeps as it cleans!

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 03, 2015 12:56 PM (JO9+V)

150 >>> You don't want to see what a ferret does to its prey.

They don't devour in a few bites?

Posted by: fluffy at October 03, 2015 12:56 PM (2iV3X)

151 That's me trying to vacuum Zombie Eleanor Roosevelt off of the Lincoln Bedroom wall. Out, damned spot. Out, I say!

Posted by: Ready For Hillary!!11!! at October 03, 2015 12:57 PM (Dwehj)

152 More Stumpy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkgp7yFxMZI&feature=youtu.be&t=327

Posted by: First-Rate Political Hack at October 03, 2015 12:58 PM (4pTOn)

153 A few days ago I clicked a link here, and the story mentioned (not what the link was about) a murder I'd forgotten about. I knew the broad outlines at the time - it got a lot of press - and I basically said Wow that's awful, shook my head and went on about my day. Now I'm reminded of it, I read some more and learn some details, and I can't get it out of my mind.

I've read an awful lot about human cruelty in one form or another, both on vast scale and one-on-one. I thought I was beyond being shocked by terrible things people can do. Lots and lots of tragedies and atrocities have happened since this one, 20+ years ago. But I can't seem to put this aside. I turn it over and over in the day, and it wakes me up at night.

Posted by: JPS at October 03, 2015 12:58 PM (5neDe)

154 . I turn it over and over in the day, and it wakes me up at night.
Posted by: JPS at October 03, 2015 12:58 PM (5neDe)

What was it?

Posted by: First-Rate Political Hack at October 03, 2015 12:59 PM (4pTOn)

155 >>> The owner - a California liberal, natch - wanted the house treated with some citrus shit to "encourage the termites to move elsewhere." I'm not making this up.

That's what you do with Japanese beetles, or so I hear. The traps are excellent lures, but not so good at killing, so you give them to your neighbors.

Posted by: fluffy at October 03, 2015 01:00 PM (2iV3X)

156 @150 They are vampirical. They can kill animals much larger than themselves (rabbits, prairie dogs) by just latching on with their inward-sloping razor sharp teeth and sucking them dry. You can't shake them off. So when a ferret is done with a mouse, there is a little ball of dry fur and bones, like what an owl coughs up.

Maybe pet-shop-bred blondies can't do that. Mine was a blackfoot.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 03, 2015 01:00 PM (xq1UY)

157
They invented slaves of color. Before that it was blonde blue eyed Swedish chicks who liked to be spanked...and gingers.

Posted by: Bruce at October 03, 2015 12:50 PM (8ikIW)

Proof positive that not all change is good.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at October 03, 2015 01:00 PM (oKE6c)

158 The other day Rush mentioned a story about two college roommates. Sex wasn't specified but, please Lord, let them be girls. They saw a mouse and called the police. Amazingly, the cops came and killed the mouse. They then sought counseling for the trauma caused by seeing a mouse.

So, chicks or the modern male?

Posted by: The Great White Snark at October 03, 2015 12:11 PM (TgIjP)

Yup...most likely after momma and dada drove them to campus, got them settled in, pay out the waazoo for everything then patted the little darlings on the head before they left. 18 year olds are the new 5 year old.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at October 03, 2015 01:02 PM (ej1L0)

159 Mice in the garage is bad news especially if you have an electric service panel there. I opened mine up one time (four screws) to take a look. Sure enough some mouse had made a nice comfy home inside with all sorts of comfortable but highly flammable stuff. Now I keep mouse poison in the garage year round and pop the service panel cover in December after the initial fall onslaught is over and take a look.

I'm convinced that many 'electrical fires' are because of mice. They all seem to occur in the winter when the electrons are flying through the box and warming it up. But the evidence gets destroyed in the fire.

This is one example of kill them before they kill you.

Posted by: se pa moron at October 03, 2015 01:03 PM (sI4OA)

160 155 >>> The owner - a California liberal, natch - wanted the house treated with some citrus shit to "encourage the termites to move elsewhere." I'm not making this up.

That's what you do with Japanese beetles, or so I hear. The traps are excellent lures, but not so good at killing, so you give them to your neighbors.

Posted by: fluffy at October 03, 2015 01:00 PM (2iV3X)

We don't have Japanese beetles here, but as you point out, even if her crap worked, it would only move the termites to the neighbors.

Besides which, who bets the structural integrity of his house on some New Age crap that's probably an aphrodisiac for the goddamned termites? Gas 'em, I say. That's why God gave us sulfuryl fluoride.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at October 03, 2015 01:03 PM (oKE6c)

161 Amazingly, the cops came and killed the mouse.

Then they said, "Got any dogs you wanna get rid of?"

Posted by: rickl at October 03, 2015 01:04 PM (sdi6R)

162 So, chicks or the modern male?

Posted by: The Great White Snark at October 03, 2015 12:11 PM (TgIjP)

What's the difference?

Posted by: Jay Guevara at October 03, 2015 01:05 PM (oKE6c)

163 162 So, chicks or the modern male?

Posted by: The Great White Snark at October 03, 2015 12:11 PM (TgIjP)

What's the difference?
Posted by: Jay Guevara at October 03, 2015 01:05 PM (oKE6c)

Um, do I have to draw you a picture?

Posted by: rickl at October 03, 2015 01:06 PM (sdi6R)

164 Yup...most likely after momma and dada drove them to
campus, got them settled in, pay out the waazoo for everything then
patted the little darlings on the head before they left. 18 year olds
are the new 5 year old.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at October 03, 2015 01:02 PM (ej1L0)

Then the darlings went off to a feminist meeting on female empowerment.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at October 03, 2015 01:06 PM (oKE6c)

165 Um, do I have to draw you a picture?

Posted by: rickl at October 03, 2015 01:06 PM (sdi6R)

Apart from personal plumbing, it's a pretty fine distinction methinks.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at October 03, 2015 01:06 PM (oKE6c)

166 >>> Besides which, who bets the structural integrity of his house on some New Age crap that's probably an aphrodisiac for the goddamned termites? Gas 'em, I say. That's why God gave us sulfuryl fluoride.

Some insects just need killiin'.

Posted by: fluffy at October 03, 2015 01:06 PM (2iV3X)

167 Guessing vacuum the walls was because wall paper was a cloth covering holding lots of dust, mites, cobwebs.

Posted by: Skip at October 03, 2015 01:08 PM (HbCsM)

168 28
I don't know how many may recognise the handle (from misc other sites,
including the one run by Jarles Chonson before it jumped the shark), but
a longtime blog friend lost the battle with the big C this week. Rest
in peace Realwest.

McGyver, Out

Posted by: McGyver at October 03, 2015 11:41 AM (6hAG+)

wow.....rest in peace realwest....

Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at October 03, 2015 01:08 PM (0O7c5)

169 i toured the daly mansion in hamilton, montana this summer and saw a vacuum quite similar. big old thing and heavy! made entirely of metal.

marcus daly was one of the three "copper kings" but made his money in other mining too. partnered with george hearst, william randolph's dad.

they mention daly in the deadwood series. when al and adams are trying to outwit george hearst.

Posted by: north and judd at October 03, 2015 01:09 PM (0z/89)

170 Yup...most likely after momma and dada drove them to

campus, got them settled in, pay out the waazoo for everything then

patted the little darlings on the head before they left. 18 year olds

are the new 5 year old.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at October 03, 2015 01:02 PM (ej1L0)

Then the darlings went off to a feminist meeting on female empowerment.

Posted by: Jay Guevara

Not pepdaughter #3. She has a way of looking at you and saying "you're an idiot".

Posted by: pep at October 03, 2015 01:10 PM (LAe3v)

171 There's been some spectacular fatal accidents with "tent'n'vent" fumigations lately. One was in an island paradise vacation rental, another, just a house. Because Moron, I am suspicious of news-management on this, or, could it be untrained applicators? I don't believe the chemicals involved have changed, but, please enlighten. Could be EPA saved the world again, like with DDT.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 03, 2015 01:10 PM (xq1UY)

172 The wife had me doing the no kill. Then one day a mouse ran across the floor and over her foot.

"Get the little bastards" she says.

Posted by: Bruce at October 03, 2015 12:45 PM (8ikIW)

I was buying mouse traps and saw some new-fangled ones that are "no see, no kill" - the mouse goes in, a door snaps shut behind him, and then you do whatever you do with the now-laden trap. (I expect that purchasers just discard the trap and try not to think about the mouse experiencing an Edgar Allan Poe demise.)

All of which entirely defeats the purpose, IMO. I don't another problem - namely, what to do with a live mouse in the trap - I want the bastard dead, and I want to eyeball him to make sure that he is in fact dead.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at October 03, 2015 01:11 PM (oKE6c)

173 There's been some spectacular fatal accidents with "tent'n'vent" fumigations lately.

Burrito night then bed?

Posted by: pep at October 03, 2015 01:11 PM (LAe3v)

174 All of which entirely defeats the purpose, IMO. I don't another
problem - namely, what to do with a live mouse in the trap - I want the
bastard dead, and I want to eyeball him to make sure that he is in fact
dead.

Posted by: Jay Guevara

The world has not, in fact, invented a superior mouse trap. The old kind works instantaneously, and is easy to set up and work.

I don't want to persuade the thing, I want him dead.

Posted by: pep at October 03, 2015 01:14 PM (LAe3v)

175 @173 If that worked, termites would have been extinct in this hemisphere a century ago. No, they produce way more methane than we do. Enough, some say, to be a measurable GW component. And some others say, an alternative energy source.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 03, 2015 01:14 PM (xq1UY)

176 Both of my grandmothers despised baking. Of course, that was a necessity and an all-day labor-intensive project when they were growing up. When the younger of my grandmothers discovered 'baking' mixes she would do some cakes -- to effusive praise. Her favorites of the new-fangled inventions were 'paper' diapers and plastic liners for bottles. She spent a lot of time with great-grandchildren thanks to those inventions and had a blast with them.

Posted by: mustbequantum at October 03, 2015 01:14 PM (MIKMs)

177 I want the bastard dead, and I want to eyeball him to make sure that he is in fact dead.

Posted by: Jay Guevara

I use the grey clothespin kind that Victor makes. Easy to bait, easy to release the dead, usually just open it again and put it back in place. Plus they don't make the mouse bleed out (it seems) like the older wire ones do.

Posted by: Bruce at October 03, 2015 01:14 PM (8ikIW)

178 171 There's been some spectacular fatal accidents with "tent'n'vent" fumigations lately.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 03, 2015 01:10 PM (xq1UY)

You're God-damned right.

Posted by: Walter White at October 03, 2015 01:14 PM (4pTOn)

179 Fun Fact:

J S Thurman invented the motor-driven vacuum cleaner so women could kill spiders themselves and leave the menfolk alone.

Posted by: Fritz at October 03, 2015 01:14 PM (3tjn4)

180 Women sportscasters talking about NFL football.
Posted by: The Great White Snark at October 03, 2015 12:20 PM (TgIjP)

Tell me about it...they got some broad doing the Michigan State Penitentiary Felons vs. Purdue Kids Who Actually Attend Class. Horrible.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at October 03, 2015 01:14 PM (ej1L0)

181 The world has not, in fact, invented a superior mouse trap. The old kind works instantaneously, and is easy to set up and work.

I don't want to persuade the thing, I want him dead.

Posted by: pep at October 03, 2015 01:14 PM (LAe3v)

Yep. I don't want an encounter group with the damned thing. I want him on the Muslim plan.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at October 03, 2015 01:17 PM (oKE6c)

182 Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 03, 2015 01:10 PM (xq1UY)

well yeah, you get idiots in there applying deadly chemicals, bad things happen

Posted by: chemjeff at October 03, 2015 01:17 PM (uZNvH)

183 Tell me about it...they got some broad doing the
Michigan State Penitentiary Felons vs. Purdue Kids Who Actually Attend
Class. Horrible.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy

She sounds like she has bigger balls then the JEF.

Probably a nice person. I just don't like her voice calling a game.

Posted by: Bruce at October 03, 2015 01:18 PM (8ikIW)

184 Despite Emerson's bromide about the world beating pathways, the inventor of the improved spring mousetrap didn't make much from it. Bumming around Yerp in search of things to invent, he bumped into a school chum at a trade show who told him "If you want to get rich, invent a more efficient way for these Europeans to kill each other. It's all they care about."

And so Hiram Maxim invented the machine gun.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 03, 2015 01:18 PM (xq1UY)

185 Elbows?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM_ftZCI0o8

Posted by: Kindltot at October 03, 2015 01:19 PM (3pRHP)

186 well yeah, you get idiots in there ~~applying deadly chemicals~~, bad things happen

Posted by: chemjeff at October 03, 2015 01:17 PM (uZNvH)

True generally, including government.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at October 03, 2015 01:19 PM (oKE6c)

187 I don't want to persuade the thing, I want him dead.

I worked with a hippie gal a few years back who said all critters deserve to live. I axed "Even if they carry diseases?" I did not get a reply.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 03, 2015 01:20 PM (LUgeY)

188 I worked with a hippie gal a few years back who said
all critters deserve to live. I axed "Even if they carry diseases?" I
did not get a reply.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 03, 2015 01:20 PM (LUgeY)

What about tapeworms, guinea worms and schistosomiasis?

Posted by: Kindltot at October 03, 2015 01:23 PM (3pRHP)

189 My mouse infestation was localized and temporary, so I caught them in live traps and released them outside. I'm sure that if it was an ongoing problem I would have become more hard-nosed about it.

Like centipedes. There isn't anything the least bit cute about them. I keep flyswatters handy. Not for flies, which I don't get much of, but for centipedes, which I seem to get a lot of for some reason. I've sealed up every opening I can find, but they still get in somehow. There was one in my kitchen sink this morning. The big ones are about the size of a mouse.

Posted by: rickl at October 03, 2015 01:24 PM (sdi6R)

190 "But my favorite is 'military analysts' who never served... "

Wait till you meet the current secretary of the Army. He is simply fabulous.

Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at October 03, 2015 01:24 PM (ze/SF)

191 I VACUUM THE WALLS!

WITH MY LOVE!

Posted by: Bill Clinton, screaming from the Outer Darkness at October 03, 2015 01:24 PM (vd4oB)

192

Women broadcasting football games is stupid. No one should broadcast a sport that they have never played.

Posted by: grammie winger, waiting for the trumpets at October 03, 2015 01:24 PM (dFi94)

193 There was one in my kitchen sink this morning. The big ones are about the size of a mouse.

Posted by: rickl

That's a big Twinkie.

Posted by: pep at October 03, 2015 01:25 PM (LAe3v)

194 What about tapeworms, guinea worms and schistosomiasis?

If she wants a pet, that's OK with me.

She was nice and her brother and I were buds but she wasn't terribly bright.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 03, 2015 01:25 PM (LUgeY)

195 >>The world has not, in fact, invented a superior mouse trap

Small bucket of anti-freeze (1/2 full), coke can, wire hangar, peanut butter and a thin slice of cedar shake for a ramp.

Fold can in half.
Pierce with wire hanger, and suspend the can over the center of the bucket (making sure it can spin freely.)
Dab Peanut Bitter on the outside edges of the can.
Secure the ramp to the edge of the bucket.

Gets every last one of the bastards.

Posted by: Ron Cadillac at October 03, 2015 01:25 PM (+EUst)

196 Women broadcasting football games is stupid. No one should broadcast a sport that they have never played.

Given that I find watching TV sports excruciatingly boring, I'll settle for dilettante eye candy that is appropriately dressed, IYKWIMAITYD.

Posted by: pep at October 03, 2015 01:27 PM (LAe3v)

197 @183 Bruce

"Probably a nice person. I just don't like her voice calling a game."

Gack. I thought it was just me. I turned it to mute and let the game play in the background. If I wanted to here a lesbian ramble, I would go to a gay bar.

Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at October 03, 2015 01:27 PM (ze/SF)

198 Random stuff...

The Storm has finally moved away from my friends on Long Island, Bahamas. Two friends are waiting Nassau hoping to catch a freighter home. I hope it isn't the one that's lost, but I think the name "faro" sounds familiar. Local reports and photos stopped coming about 30 hours ago, probably due to power loss. Worried about them.

Looked at the photos of the Umpqua victims. White, white and more white with one girl who appears white-Asian mixed. This explains why anti-gun talk is the only coverage.

Posted by: Meremortal at October 03, 2015 01:27 PM (hTqVx)

199 And all without lawyers, resolutions, and 60 nation coalitions

No hashtags though, so I suppose it's bound to fail to beat ISIS

RUSSIAN AIR FORCE POUNDS 50 ISIS TARGETS

http://tinyurl.com/oxkdrps

Posted by: kbdabear at October 03, 2015 01:27 PM (GrXXa)

200 My wife is a retired nurse. In her career she has touched things that would make me retch buuuut when we've caught a mouse its my job to get rid of the little dead critter.
She's a farm girl but mice freak her out.

Posted by: Northernlurker at October 03, 2015 01:27 PM (tMrac)

201 probably not how to clean a wine stain, even if your husband's mom told you this ultimate household tip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwHHhUcM6eI

Posted by: Kindltot at October 03, 2015 01:28 PM (3pRHP)

202 189
Centipedes make me levitate.

Mice, on the other hand, are cute; not that I'm against disposing of them. But I did have a pet mouse once; very sweet and would come when called. Had to rescue her from our cat once. The kids chased our poor cat around until she dropped the mouse. The little thing was completely unharmed and lived for another two years.

Posted by: California Girl at October 03, 2015 01:28 PM (l+qoZ)

203 @187 Fifth amendment.

OK football commentary. Late-middle-age maintenance manager at wife's "shop," passing through a break area, some maintainer asks her what she thinks of this-or-that team's chances on such-and-such. And other dude goes, She's a woman, what the eff would she know about football?

And it got so deathly quiet in there for a minute. 40 years ago she was the QB of the Troopers, women's professional team. She had a perfect season. In percentages, she's the winningest quarterback in the history of pro ball.

Yeah it's fun to watch a game with her, but it's mostly yelling and cussing like anybody else. Wouldn't care to hear her call the game.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 03, 2015 01:28 PM (xq1UY)

204 i guess i'm the exact opposite of those no kill chicks.
i once shut a mouse up in an old suitcase and didn't open it back up until it was a dried up corpse. and i used a vacuum hose to get rid of a tarantula in my room. covered the hose with gray tape to make sure it didn't get out.

Posted by: north and judd at October 03, 2015 01:30 PM (0z/89)

205 201
probably not how to clean a wine stain, even if your husband's mom told you this ultimate household tip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwHHhUcM6eI

Posted by: Kindltot

The Germans: what a madcap, whimsical lot they are.

Posted by: pep at October 03, 2015 01:32 PM (LAe3v)

206 I follow the Curtis LeMay strategy for mice.

Bait all over the fucking place.

Repeat until no more mouse turds.

Re the skunks I'm torn between letting boy-dog take them out and just hoping they go away because I don't want to be scrubbing him down every two weeks.

Raccoons don't come around as long as I let the dogs have an open door to the yard two or three nights a week.

Posted by: JEM at October 03, 2015 01:33 PM (o+SC1)

207 202
Centipedes make me levitate.

Posted by: California Girl at October 03, 2015 01:28 PM (l+qoZ)

Same here. That's a good way to put it.

Did you see my mouse story at #111?

Posted by: rickl at October 03, 2015 01:34 PM (sdi6R)

208 We have elbows. I repeat, we have elbows.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 03, 2015 01:35 PM (LUgeY)

209 207
Such a cute story about the cute critters. When I was a kid I lived out in the boondocks and we had mice frequently. I remember stepping out of the tub and being about a foot away from a little mouse. Being such a girly-girl, I let out a terrific scream which frightened the poor little thing away. I felt bad about scaring it so. It would be easier to kill them off if they looked more like centipedes.

Posted by: California Girl at October 03, 2015 01:38 PM (l+qoZ)

210 208
We have elbows. I repeat, we have elbows.

I don't know who did what to get those, but I swear it wasn't me!

Posted by: California Girl at October 03, 2015 01:39 PM (l+qoZ)

211 Rest in peace Realwest.

McGyver, Out

Posted by: McGyver at October 03, 2015 11:41 AM (6hAG+)

Goodness, that's a nic from the past.

I liked Realwest.

God bless him and RIP.

Posted by: Donna&&&&V. (brandisher of ampersands) at October 03, 2015 01:39 PM (P8951)

212
Sidebar:

Charles CW Cooke kicks Halperin's ass.

Mika dives in to rescue Halperin and sounds even more stupid and neurotic than Halperin.

Cooke challenges these airheaded simpletons to simply state what policy changes/implementations will solve the problem of gun violence. And they can't do it. AND IT KILLS THEM.

Watching these nanny-state pseudo-intellectual bobbleheads utterly fail to produce a single intelligible noise beyond screeching "DO SOMETHING" like some borderline, narcissistic, psychopath bunny-boiler being told "No" was indeed, a real pleasure.

Most excellent. Thanks for that, Charles.

Posted by: Mortimer at October 03, 2015 01:40 PM (0dcbp)

213 and willowed

Posted by: Mortimer at October 03, 2015 01:42 PM (0dcbp)

214 Centipides are the worst. I hate them more than spiders. When I see those things scurrying across a room with their 5 million legs I want to puke.

Posted by: Donna&&&&V. (brandisher of ampersands) at October 03, 2015 01:46 PM (P8951)

215 Bug-A-Salt is the greatest thing for centipedes. Works great on flies and mosquitoes too. Plus it's fun!

Growing up in NY, I always hated roaches; though they were the absolute worst. Then I moved to "the country" and was introduced to centipedes. What the hell was God thinking?!?

Posted by: IrishEi at October 03, 2015 01:47 PM (E6RIJ)

216 215

Growing up in NY, I always hated roaches; though they were the
absolute worst. Then I moved to "the country" and was introduced to
centipedes. What the hell was God thinking?!?

I never met a centipede until I started working in an urban setting. Never saw one at all in the "country." As far as asking God what He's thinking, I ask Him that A Lot about a lot of different things (and people). Including centipedes. :>

Posted by: California Girl at October 03, 2015 01:51 PM (l+qoZ)

217 Bah! The more women were freed from the dreary, the worse things got, until finally they decided it was all so easy they don't even need to do it. Bitch and moan, but no nothing of how hard it really used to be, or really is? Should never have spoiled them!

Posted by: Doom at October 03, 2015 01:56 PM (7RdIv)

218 California Girl: I was just being a wise guy. By "the country," I was referring to the suburbs of New Jersey. (Had a long back and forth about NYC and the Jersey Shore in the last thread)

Posted by: IrishEi at October 03, 2015 01:56 PM (E6RIJ)

219 BTW Football thread up.

Posted by: IrishEi at October 03, 2015 01:56 PM (E6RIJ)

220 @192 Women broadcasting football games is stupid. No one should broadcast a sport that they have never played.
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So what you're saying is that they should hire players from the Lingerie League to handle their football reporting?

Posted by: junior at October 03, 2015 02:00 PM (PVi+Q)

221 I don't know how many may recognise the handle (from misc other sites, including the one run by Jarles Chonson before it jumped the shark), but a longtime blog friend lost the battle with the big C this week. Rest in peace Realwest.

McGyver, Out

Posted by: McGyver at October 03, 2015 11:41 AM (6hAG+)

Sad news, indeed. I remember Realwest. Fair winds, RW.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 03, 2015 02:37 PM (0yhH4)

222 First-Rate Political Hack, #154:

Didn't mean to ignore you; I had to run. It was from the pictures with creepy back stories. If you don't know the story of James Bulger (not to be confused with the Boston gangster), I urge you not to look it up.

Posted by: JPS at October 03, 2015 03:02 PM (5neDe)

223 Would a rose by any other name smell so sweet?

http://tinyurl.com/qglm857

Posted by: The Great White Snark at October 03, 2015 03:14 PM (Nwg0u)

224 "Sad news, indeed. I remember Realwest. Fair winds, RW."

Same here.

Shit.

Cancer sucks.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 03, 2015 07:19 PM (VPLuQ)

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