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Happy New Year, you guys. Good luck to everyone.

Posted by: rdbrewer at 08:19 AM




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1 Ech!

Posted by: HH at January 01, 2016 08:20 AM (DrCtv)

2 Was taking compost out

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2016 08:21 AM (C1Suc)

3 And centered.

Posted by: HH at January 01, 2016 08:21 AM (DrCtv)

4 Missed it by a minute, comment blocks have changed?

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2016 08:22 AM (C1Suc)

5 Well, Happy New Year Horde!

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2016 08:23 AM (C1Suc)

6 Happy New Year to The Horde. Here's hoping it will be better than 2015.

One resolution, maybe: re-reading most of Shakespeare.

Posted by: JTB at January 01, 2016 08:23 AM (FvdPb)

7 Good morning!

Let's smile and be happy and strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 01, 2016 08:23 AM (u82oZ)

8 I turn 40 in five days. The big birthday my dad promised he would see. He lied. I am already depressed.

Posted by: Jmel at January 01, 2016 08:24 AM (15vyA)

9 We are very centered today.

Not you Al. That is not code for Chakra.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 01, 2016 08:24 AM (u82oZ)

10 Mornin' Horde. May all your 2016s be better than the 2016s you're expecting!

Yeah, I know, tall order. Gotta try!

---

Center yourself

And meet the day

And soon good things

Are on your way!

~Moron-Shave~

Posted by: Brother Cavil, hither and yon at January 01, 2016 08:24 AM (m9V0o)

11 Soylent Green starting right now on TCM.

Posted by: steevy at January 01, 2016 08:24 AM (8HTq1)

12 The missing ingredients:

Bacon,
Onion,
Jalapenos,
Garlic.


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at January 01, 2016 08:25 AM (1ijHg)

13 RD, Thanks for all the beautiful and interesting paintings last year. I hope you continue them.

And thanks for the photo up top. We are baking a ham today and some black eyed peas would go great with it. I appreciate the reminder.

Posted by: JTB at January 01, 2016 08:26 AM (FvdPb)

14 Dennis Prager tells many a university English major won't ever be required to read Shakespeare in the new progressive era, old white guy has nothing of value to teach.

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2016 08:27 AM (C1Suc)

15 Is this the Center For World Peas?

Posted by: freaked at January 01, 2016 08:27 AM (BO/km)

16 btw, I just started soaking my black-eye peas. 4 hours is enough. It doesn't have to be overnight. I will NEVER eat canned peas again.


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at January 01, 2016 08:27 AM (1ijHg)

17 Hopefully this will start a new thread. Garbanzo beans is no way to start the new year.

Posted by: willow surrogate at January 01, 2016 08:27 AM (fbovC)

18 Having a cold is a sucky way to start the year. However, Happy New Year to all!!

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 01, 2016 08:27 AM (JO9+V)

19 Watched Shape of thing to come, and was looking for EMT and thought I could sneak out to dump compost and get back for Soyent Green and still beat top comment on the new thread.

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2016 08:29 AM (C1Suc)

20 Hopefully this will start a new thread.

We just started this one!

Posted by: Brother Cavil, hither and yon at January 01, 2016 08:30 AM (m9V0o)

21 Well I hope this isn't permanent.

Posted by: Weasel at January 01, 2016 08:30 AM (e3bId)

22 Rdbrewer, thank you for a year of great art.

I appreciate the paintings and artists chosen.


We can get too wrapped up in politics. There is a wider world out there to enjoy.

I'm inspired to see more art galleries.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 01, 2016 08:31 AM (u82oZ)

23 Forgot the peas yesterday. Red beans will have to do.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 01, 2016 08:31 AM (NVM8q)

24 Is that fava beans?

*fetches chianti*



No. 1 Son and I actually watched that movie last night. I did not hold up well. Funny what can be the most popular thing at a time and in retrospect not so much.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 01, 2016 08:32 AM (1xUj/)

25 Around here beans with pork is the perfect start of the New Year.
And would love to p point out today is my dad's birthday, didn't get anything but will see him at my sister's later this afternoon.

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2016 08:33 AM (C1Suc)

26 Sexy Elizabeth Montgomery Twilight Zone episode just starting on SyFy channel.

Posted by: Urban Achiever at January 01, 2016 08:33 AM (BNLDZ)

27 "This is the day the Lord has made.
Let us rejoice and be glad in it!"

~ Psalm 118:24



Happy New Year Hordelings! I resolve in 2016 to be thankful and to have good posture. So thank you, rdbrewer, for the endless tree paintings, and I shall sit up a little straighter to examine them for snipers.

Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 01, 2016 08:33 AM (dFi94)

28 We're all Centrists now!

Posted by: Oldbuffalo at January 01, 2016 08:33 AM (/pOl7)

29 Soylent Green was the future the left feared,or the future the left wanted?

Posted by: steevy at January 01, 2016 08:33 AM (8HTq1)

30 I It did not hold up well.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 01, 2016 08:34 AM (1xUj/)

31 26 Actually,it's one I've never seen with Lee Marvin and Lee Van Cleef.

Posted by: steevy at January 01, 2016 08:35 AM (8HTq1)

32 Steevy both I'm afraid

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2016 08:36 AM (C1Suc)

33 Happy New Year and good morning!

and.. wtf is that? a bowl of beans.. but.. wtf?

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 01, 2016 08:37 AM (UpGcq)

34 Frozen black-eye peas for the impulsive!
First tried them last night... maybe an hour start to finish?
Render fat back (salt pork) or bacon...
Caramelize onions. Toss in whatever other goodies you fancy.
Beans, water, wait.

Posted by: MarkY at January 01, 2016 08:39 AM (Wr3tz)

35 This is so stupid I just have to repeat it...

BO tells Seinfeld "Many world leaders insane"

I suppose we can start calling Congress the "Insane Clown Posse"?

Posted by: freaked at January 01, 2016 08:39 AM (BO/km)

36 We are the centrists, between the totalitarian on the left and the totalitarian on the right according to lefties who tried to separate themselves from the Nazis.

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2016 08:39 AM (C1Suc)

37 Speaking of Black Eyed Peas, Fergie looked particularly deliscious last night.

She must of had serious work done.

Posted by: Kreplach at January 01, 2016 08:39 AM (WVvzl)

38 @31

And Roscoe P. Coaltrain.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 01, 2016 08:40 AM (8TME0)

39 AOSHQ...now with more lefting...

Posted by: Mr. Wizard at January 01, 2016 08:40 AM (hCdMd)

40 Beans?!

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 01, 2016 08:41 AM (/f6Nd)

41 I can't get pictures of Fergie pissing herself on stage during a concert out of my head, never found the mind bleach to do that.

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2016 08:42 AM (C1Suc)

42 Actually,it's one I've never seen with Lee Marvin and Lee Van Cleef.
Posted by: steevy


Must be airing on different time zones. Hopefully it will be up soon where you are.

Posted by: Urban Achiever at January 01, 2016 08:43 AM (BNLDZ)

43 Fergie looked particularly delicious last night.

Posted by: Kreplach

Several years ago her intake form from an STD clinic was leaked and she had contracted EVERYTHING ....including syph...

Posted by: Mr. Wizard at January 01, 2016 08:43 AM (hCdMd)

44 Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 01, 2016 08:37 AM (UpGcq)

Black-eyed peas! Not beans, toootally different, well...at least sort of. After all, they're called "peas" so that means they have to be different, right?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 01, 2016 08:43 AM (GDulk)

45 "and.. wtf is that? a bowl of beans.. but.. wtf?"


Black-eye peas are a New Year's Day tradition in many places in the country. They are de-lish.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 01, 2016 08:43 AM (SU4xA)

46 42 I guess it was on here already.Too bad,she is hot in that one.

Posted by: steevy at January 01, 2016 08:44 AM (8HTq1)

47 Saw that Alabama won yesterday 38-0. Wow. I figured they would win but thought it would be a close game.

Posted by: HH at January 01, 2016 08:44 AM (DrCtv)

48 43 So,your saying to double bag it?

Posted by: steevy at January 01, 2016 08:45 AM (8HTq1)

49 Happy New Years 2016 to the Horde! The only group that's collectively made me laugh at least once a day since 2007. I can't...just can't...eat the black eyed peas, but I will be surrounded by them today with lots of family, so my I think my luck will runneth over just by proximity to the bean itself.

I can't imagine what fate hold for America this year. I think it's going to be a really bumpy ride. I'll be optimistic and believe that it will usher in a brand new, patriotic country this fall and that all the grifters in DC will be washed out to sea.


Posted by: Lady in Black....sigh at January 01, 2016 08:46 AM (pVkEV)

50 Happy New Year, Horde! This year my black-eyed peas recipe is Cowboy Caviar. Black-eyed peas, green pepper, jalapenos, corn, red pepper, balsamic vinegar, little sugar. Yummy.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 01, 2016 08:46 AM (c/3OG)

51 48...I'm figuring dip yourself in latex first...

Posted by: Mr. Wizard at January 01, 2016 08:47 AM (hCdMd)

52
The Obama administration will delay planned sanctions on Irans ballistic missile program, the Wall Street Journal reported late Thursday. Reports had emerged Wednesday that the Treasury Department would levy sanctions in the wake of Irans missile testing in October and November.

The administration has faced pressure to sanction Iran for its missile tests, with many arguing that if the country got away with the missile tests, it would embolden leaders to ignore the nuclear deal.

The Hill



Thanks Thom!

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 01, 2016 08:47 AM (kdS6q)

53 HNY! y'all!

Posted by: ceraphym at January 01, 2016 08:47 AM (MAniv)

54 My family's tradition was to put a dime in the black-eyed peas. Whoever found it in their bowl got all the luck. Is that just a Texas thing?

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at January 01, 2016 08:48 AM (NSxCS)

55 Actually,it's one I've never seen with Lee Marvin and Lee Van Cleef.

Good episode.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at January 01, 2016 08:48 AM (oVJmc)

56 Edward G.Robinson was almost deaf by the time he made Soylent .Charlton Heston was the only one he told he was really dying.

Posted by: steevy at January 01, 2016 08:49 AM (8HTq1)

57 Fergie looked particularly delicious last night.


I'm so old that only means the Duchess of York to me.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at January 01, 2016 08:50 AM (oVJmc)

58 arggg

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!*, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value *some restr at January 01, 2016 08:50 AM (rwI+c)

59 Mmmm!!! Me gusto! Guacamole! You guys scoff, but beans are good source of protein. It's very healthy. Stupid anglos. Iam proud Mexican, you gringos. Yipah! Lots of fun. Why you no join me? We are all Mexican, some day my friends. We taste the guacamole bean together, eh?

Posted by: Jeb Bush at January 01, 2016 08:50 AM (7EHW6)

60 Re-elect Santini poster in background

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2016 08:51 AM (C1Suc)

61 So this is what tomorrow looks like. I'm not impressed.


Also: Bruce Jenner is not a woman. He will never be a woman. He can have his junk surgically removed, he can shave his fake tits twice a day, he can wear pretty dresses. He'll still be a man.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at January 01, 2016 08:51 AM (0IhFx)

62 Never heard of a black-eyed pea tradition for New Years Day. The only tradition I've been aware of involved being hung over and surly.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at January 01, 2016 08:52 AM (oVJmc)

63 @54

Don't recall the dime thing.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 01, 2016 08:52 AM (6yWDk)

64
The administration has faced pressure to sanction Iran for its missile tests, with many arguing that if the country got away with the missile tests, it would embolden leaders to ignore the nuclear deal.

The Hill




They could nuke something off the face of the earth and Prezzy Pansy wouldn't do a thing.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 01, 2016 08:54 AM (45oDG)

65 Mrs SOB is originally from Connecticut and doesn't hold with the Southern tradition of blackeyed peas, greens, and hawg jowls (OK, usually I substituted ham) for New Years Day. I keep telling her that's why we have no luck, but she doesn't listen. damn stubborn yankees

Posted by: That SOB Van Owen at January 01, 2016 08:55 AM (J0jXd)

66 " We taste the guacamole bean together, eh?"


Is there really any wonder you're at 3% and falling, Yeb?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 01, 2016 08:55 AM (6yWDk)

67 I am transracial nexus like Michael Jackson. Black-White. But this time I am Brown-White I am the one. I love Rubio like a Brother but I have more experience, eisdom.

Posted by: Jeb Bush at January 01, 2016 08:55 AM (7EHW6)

68 The administration has faced pressure to sanction Iran for its missile
tests, with many arguing that if the country got away with the missile
tests, it would embolden leaders to ignore the nuclear deal.


They got everything they wanted up front.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at January 01, 2016 08:56 AM (oVJmc)

69 Dennis Prager tells many a university English major won't ever be required to read Shakespeare in the new progressive era, old white guy has nothing of value to teach.

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2016 08:27 AM (C1Suc)



I'm sure Shakespeare is full of microaggressions. Better to let the idiots learn nothing except mindless leftist propaganda

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 01, 2016 08:56 AM (45oDG)

70 Black-eyed peas for luck and cabbage for money on New Year's Day...never heard of the dime thing though.

Posted by: no good deed at January 01, 2016 08:56 AM (GgxVX)

71 Happy New Year Horde.

I am in a magnanimous mood and will be kind and understanding....well for the next 5 minutes, then all bets are off!

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 01, 2016 08:57 AM (DUoqb)

72 Re-elect Santini poster in background

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2016 08:51 AM (C1Suc)



You're looking at Bull Meechum now, and this is the eye of the storm!

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 01, 2016 08:58 AM (45oDG)

73 Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at January 01, 2016 08:52 AM (oVJmc)

Didn't know about it until after I got married. Father-in-law was raised in Sheridan, WY but apparently at least one of *his* parents was raised in MO and had passed on the tradition. We eat them at the in-laws, but since we're home I had completely forgotten. Would have gone well with the steak last night if I'd thought of it.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 01, 2016 08:58 AM (GDulk)

74 Dennis Prager tells many a university English major won't ever be required to read Shakespeare in the new progressive era, old white guy has nothing of value to teach.

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2016 08:27 AM (C1Suc)



I'm sure Shakespeare is full of microaggressions. Better to let the idiots learn nothing except mindless leftist propaganda
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 01, 2016 08:56 AM (45oDG)

Well on that I agree....better to read Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn and maybe Gone With The Wind.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 01, 2016 08:58 AM (DUoqb)

75 It has to be a silver dime!

Posted by: Ron Paul at January 01, 2016 08:59 AM (1ijHg)

76 To those of you who resolved not to make any resolutions; you've already broken that resolution.

Posted by: An Observation at January 01, 2016 08:59 AM (NmQMd)

77
And a favorite New Years tradition, the Mirror's review of all the drunken slaterns a-guttering on British streets:

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/new-years-eve-2015-carnage-7101160

Scroll down and View Gallery

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 01, 2016 09:00 AM (kdS6q)

78 It's a Good Life on right now.That's the creepy kid with godlike power.

Posted by: steevy at January 01, 2016 09:00 AM (8HTq1)

79 Don't you know you never, EVER put money in your mouth?! It's been in the hands of millions and you don't know where those hands have been. Money is filthy!

Posted by: Your Mother at January 01, 2016 09:00 AM (pVkEV)

80 It's COLLARD greens, not "collared" greens.

Someone doesn't read much.

Posted by: Pat Downing at January 01, 2016 09:00 AM (SJ184)

81 morning all
happy new year!
what is with the bowl of nuts?

Posted by: chemjeff at January 01, 2016 09:01 AM (uZNvH)

82 Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, who is pushing for executive powers, cites Hitlers Germany as an example of an effective presidential system, in comments broadcast by Turkish media on Friday.


Fredo's bestest friend....Gonna be a long last year

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 01, 2016 09:01 AM (DUoqb)

83 This movie ( Soyent Green) is definitely a leftists wet dream

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2016 09:02 AM (C1Suc)

84 Happy New Year to all you freedom fighters ...

Black eyed peas for luck on New Year's Day?
along with cabbage I guess ... for prosperity?

I like the black eyed pea as in "we Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch". That seems to be the choice we have now ... fight for liberty or just switch to PC Commie ... in the long run ... we're all dead. But we can leave something good behind maybe.

Dubai had fireworks to ring in the new year ... didn't get much coverage so far. Terror, or just a bunch of drunken Saudis that can't hold their liquor?



Posted by: Illiniwek at January 01, 2016 09:02 AM (5Gpe2)

85 Being a Texan family since 1785,.... the Black Eye Pea thing happened after the Civil War in 1868...in East Texas... It was a bad winter but everyone's Black Eye Peas worked.... It was all many folks had to eat at new years and then 1868 was a banner year for everyone's gardens so it got around that eating them for new years day was good luck...

Today is Menudo and Eggs
Ham Enchiladas, bacon fried potatoes and beans
Black Eye Peas and Tamales

Posted by: Mr. Wizard at January 01, 2016 09:04 AM (hCdMd)

86 BO tells Seinfeld "Many world leaders insane"

====

Barry's the only sane anchor in this raging sea of insanity

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at January 01, 2016 09:04 AM (Cq0oW)

87 83 Santini is most certainly a Democrat.Though I'm sore the go along to get along Republicans fell in line to get their share of the spoils.

Posted by: steevy at January 01, 2016 09:05 AM (8HTq1)

88 Today is Menudo and Eggs
===================


What is Menudo?

Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 01, 2016 09:05 AM (dFi94)

89 88 Wasn't it a Puerto Rican boy band?

Posted by: steevy at January 01, 2016 09:06 AM (8HTq1)

90 Oh, black-eyed peas
got it

Posted by: chemjeff at January 01, 2016 09:06 AM (uZNvH)

91 BO tells Seinfeld "Many world leaders insane"

====

Barry's the only sane anchor in this raging sea of insanity
Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at January 01, 2016 09:04 AM (Cq0oW)


Only sane leader
Smartest man in the room

Anyone else see a pattern here?

Oh and the asshole also joked about being able to call a Nuclear Sub...again using the US Military as a prop...fuckin cock sucking POS mother fucker!

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 01, 2016 09:07 AM (DUoqb)

92 What is Menudo?


A boy band from a while back.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 01, 2016 09:07 AM (1xUj/)

93 Summer or global warming, Heston says it's over 90 out there

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2016 09:07 AM (C1Suc)

94 93 Right in the beginning they say summer all the time,greenhouse effect,world is burning up.Convo between Thorn and Saul.

Posted by: steevy at January 01, 2016 09:08 AM (8HTq1)

95 Hi Skip, how is your eye this morning?

Posted by: chemjeff at January 01, 2016 09:09 AM (uZNvH)

96 2 Dead 3 wounded at Bar in Tel Aviv Central.

Not sure yet if terror or mafia?

Sigh

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 01, 2016 09:09 AM (DUoqb)

97 Dear friends nice Jewish mother, who moved from Brooklyn to east Texas sixty years ago, makes black eyed peas for New Years. It's called Texas Caviar

Posted by: ThunderB at January 01, 2016 09:09 AM (zOTsN)

98 57 Fergie looked particularly delicious last night.


I'm so old that only means the Duchess of York to me.


Same here; and the comments that followed were REALLY shocking viewed from that perspective!

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at January 01, 2016 09:09 AM (gjLib)

99 93 I think the doomsayers were predicting warming than they switched to an ice age and than of course ,back to warming.

Posted by: steevy at January 01, 2016 09:11 AM (8HTq1)

100 "Ham Enchiladas, bacon fried potatoes and beans "



Have never heard of ham enchiladas. Sounds......interesting.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 01, 2016 09:11 AM (38whV)

101 Now they cover all their bases with "Change" or even "Chaos".

Posted by: steevy at January 01, 2016 09:11 AM (8HTq1)

102 Hopefully this will fart a new thread

fixed!

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 01, 2016 09:12 AM (6FqZa)

103
Meanwhile, on CNN's New Year Eve coverage -- and recall they're nominally a news network -- this:

Kathy Griffin and Anderson Cooper, two icons of the gay scene, oversaw festivities. They started off with a skit in which the two of them in bed, Griffin unwilling to change out of her comfort clothes.

Griffin then asked Cooper for his relationship hall pass,who he'd be allowed to cheat with. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was mentioned, followed by Olympic skier Gus Kenworthy.

Deadline.com

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 01, 2016 09:12 AM (kdS6q)

104 NGU - how was the wedding last night? Good food?

Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 01, 2016 09:13 AM (dFi94)

105 they look like those worms in a tequila bottle.

I agree with number 1; ech.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger 1.0 and All That at January 01, 2016 09:13 AM (Xo1Rt)

106 OK.. never heard of this tradition before.. tradition up here is anything that relieves the hangover!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 01, 2016 09:13 AM (UpGcq)

107 Sore and the ointment makes my eye blurry (and quick eye chart says it's the better one) and a little light sensitive. Will have to go to eye doctor Monday, need to haven't gone in 15 years.

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2016 09:14 AM (C1Suc)

108 103 Hey but that Donald Trump is crude and vulgar.

Posted by: steevy at January 01, 2016 09:14 AM (8HTq1)

109 Well start the year at 21,200 words on new story. Start of week was at 17,300. So progress.

Still need to have that 'friendly' talk written up between the Feds and one of my characters. The searching and seeing the devastation to be written. Might make it to the ending I am envisioning. And I can't seem to escape having nuns pop up in my stories.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 01, 2016 09:14 AM (OEWRk)

110 At the time of filming a ice age was being predicted

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2016 09:15 AM (C1Suc)

111 Yeah. Rdbrewer; stick to paintings. This vegetable stuff is not your forte.

That said, you do do good with the paintings. Sometimes very enlightening and always a surprise.

Thanks. Happy New year.

Remember this is the Traitor in Chiefs last year. So buckle up it's gonna be a bumpy ride.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger 1.0 and All That at January 01, 2016 09:15 AM (Xo1Rt)

112 NGU - how was the wedding last night? Good food?
Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 01, 2016 09:13 AM (dFi94

The audourbs were amazing...Steak, Lamchops, Cornbeef and Pastrami, Clams Oysters , Baked clams, Lox, all sorts of pastas, fresh fruit and veggies ( not that anyone wasted time with them), and all sorts of other foods to many to remember.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 01, 2016 09:16 AM (DUoqb)

113 Thought a dime in the black eyed peas was a southern thing.

Posted by: Weasel at January 01, 2016 09:16 AM (e3bId)

114 110 Yeah but when Harrison wrote the book it was probably warming.

Posted by: steevy at January 01, 2016 09:16 AM (8HTq1)

115

Meanwhile, on CNN's New Year Eve coverage -- and recall they're nominally a news network --


Well, they're obviously not a comedy network.

Except when Blitzer's on.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at January 01, 2016 09:16 AM (oVJmc)

116 Happy New Year, o Moron Horde, from the Outer Darkness. Thank you all for making 2015 tolerable, and here's hoping 2016 will be better...or at least one of my SMODs will finally make an appearance...

Posted by: The Oort Cloud - Source of all SMODs at January 01, 2016 09:16 AM (AYY6Y)

117 Father-in-law was raised in Sheridan, WY but apparently at least one of
*his* parents was raised in MO and had passed on the tradition.


Heh. Lived all my life in MO and never heard of it. Perhaps I'm culturally sheltered.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at January 01, 2016 09:18 AM (oVJmc)

118 88 Today is Menudo and Eggs
===================


What is Menudo?

----

Tasty, and that's all you should probably know

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at January 01, 2016 09:18 AM (qnaBe)

119 Anna:

That is why I could never write. I have the vocabulary and the ideas but I'm just too lazy.

That's too much like work. Which as I understand it, means I'm not a natural writer cause it's supposed to like force itself out of you; you HAVE to write.

Me, I could take it or leave it so I left it.

I'm here from the Andromeda Galaxy on vacay so don't tell me I have to be "productive" and shit.

Someone's got to be the spectator.

Happy New years. Now get back to work.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger 1.0 and All That at January 01, 2016 09:18 AM (Xo1Rt)

120 re: CNN

MTV, when was the last time they played a music video?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 01, 2016 09:18 AM (OEWRk)

121 In the book though Soylent Green was not people though.

Posted by: steevy at January 01, 2016 09:18 AM (8HTq1)

122 " This vegetable stuff is not your forte."



It's a legume.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 01, 2016 09:19 AM (IMBqY)

123 The last quarter of a Bourbon Pecan Pie is now safely tucked away in my belly.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 01, 2016 09:20 AM (JO9+V)

124 Menudo is tripe, cow stomach


I will stick to black eyed peas

Posted by: ThunderB at January 01, 2016 09:20 AM (zOTsN)

125 If it didn't once have a face, it's a vegetable. Or an egg.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger 1.0 and All That at January 01, 2016 09:20 AM (Xo1Rt)

126 Happy New Beans everyone!

I mean happy new year!

May 2016 bring you joy, ammo, and lots of good books!

Posted by: @votermom at January 01, 2016 09:20 AM (cbfNE)

127 Or as the UN calls them - pulses.

Well Bitter Clinger write a tour guide to the Andromeda Galaxy. Notes of caution about the dreaded Deminos-Spastic spawn who want to roll unwary tourists. And such.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 01, 2016 09:21 AM (OEWRk)

128 Pork usually with sauerkraut and mashies is what I know as a New Year tradition.
When I was in England the English woman whose house we had a little party made one of my crew mates go out and knock to come back in at midnight

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2016 09:21 AM (C1Suc)

129 This time of year is Pork heavy for traditional Texicans
It's the freshest meat this time of year...
Menudo is Pig's Feet, Beans and Red Chilies
Ham Enchiladas is Ham, Queso Fresco, Green Chilies and a Green Gravy

Posted by: Mr. Wizard at January 01, 2016 09:22 AM (hCdMd)

130 Around here we eat sauerkraut and pork for good luck in the new year.
But it didn't work last year, so I'll have to try something different.

Posted by: kraki at January 01, 2016 09:22 AM (TNa9O)

131 >>>Never heard of a black-eyed pea tradition for New Years Day. The only tradition I've been aware of involved being hung over and surly.
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at January 01, 2016 08:52 AM (oVJmc)

Black eyed peas, cornbread and greens. Although I'm skipping the greens this year.

That Alabama score is fab. May the sec beat the hell out of everyone this year, because it's so fun to watch.

Posted by: Lea at January 01, 2016 09:22 AM (vmMMi)

132 *le sigh*

Improper weapons safety.

http://www.ufunk.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Icons-Unmasked-Alex-Solis-14.jpg

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 01, 2016 09:22 AM (OEWRk)

133 I'll be back,need to make some breakfast.

Posted by: steevy at January 01, 2016 09:24 AM (8HTq1)

134 happy new year! wash in silver!

Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at January 01, 2016 09:24 AM (0O7c5)

135 The New Year's food tradition I know is to eat a certain number of round fruits - grapes, clementines, etc..I think it's something to do with luck or prosperity.

Our family NY tradition is to sleep in late.Dunno why my body won't respect tradition.

Posted by: @votermom at January 01, 2016 09:25 AM (cbfNE)

136 Happy New Year PG.

Mega tonight is $80 million cash. The PB is $205 million cash tomorrow.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 01, 2016 09:25 AM (OEWRk)

137 New Year's Eve to my Norwegian mother was....lutefisk

Posted by: ThunderB at January 01, 2016 09:27 AM (zOTsN)

138 "Ham Enchiladas is Ham, Queso Fresco, Green Chilies and a Green Gravy"


Now, you mean green enchilada sauce, right? Sorta like Italicans calling tomato sauce "gravy."

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 01, 2016 09:28 AM (0NfEr)

139 Soylent Groin is parts of people.

I thought the British discovered a way to fertiluze eggs without sperm? Can we declare men to be unnecessary yet? Are we going to allow men to exist, like auto factory workers when we already have robot replacements? Will 2016 finally be the Dawn of the male-free world?

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at January 01, 2016 09:28 AM (7EHW6)

140 Anna that reminds me, I gotta enter the hgtv dreamhouse sweepstakes

Posted by: @votermom at January 01, 2016 09:28 AM (cbfNE)

141 I, for one, would just prefer to go to bed on NYE, but somehow I married someone who is an absolute junkie for having people over and sitting up all hours.

We had several neighbor families over last night, the adults stayed up playing Cards Against Humanity while the kids climbed the walls. One 22-month-old went steadily through my house and got into absolutely everything.

The only thing that made it at all tolerable for me was the wife gave me leave to dig out some of my old video game consoles (Atari, NES, SNES) so I finally got to try out some of the cartridges I'd acquired since the last time I got them all out.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at January 01, 2016 09:29 AM (oVJmc)

142 "Soylent Green" had to be one of the last roles for Joseph Cotton too.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at January 01, 2016 09:30 AM (1ijHg)

143 Someone mentioning salt pork (fatback) upthread has made me nostalgic for Dad's (only?) recipe, pigs in blankets.

Now, I know there are lots of interpretations of pig in blankets. There's hot dogs baked in dough, cabbage stuffed with rice and sausage, and some others. This is Dad's, so I will presume it was a New Hampshire thing.

You slice the salt pork and rend out all the fat, leaving crisp bits of fried fat. You pour an egg batter into the hot fat and as it's cooking you drop the crisp bits into the batter.

Dad always served it with mashed potatoes and carrots. Apparently this tradition was important.

We only had it when Mom was out of town for a few days because she claimed to hate the smell of it all so much.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 01, 2016 09:30 AM (1xUj/)

144 When I was in England the English woman whose house we had a little party made one of my crew mates go out and knock to come back in at midnight

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2016 09:21 AM (C1Suc)
-------------------
English/Scottish "first-foot" tradition; your first visitor of the year tells you what sort of luck you'll have. "Tall, dark, and handsome" is lucky.

Posted by: mikeski at January 01, 2016 09:30 AM (hAtXl)

145 There are still good dogs, sweet children, good food, beautiful country. We will outlast them. We will endeavor to persevere

Posted by: ThunderB at January 01, 2016 09:30 AM (zOTsN)

146 Cards against humanity is hilarious. My 90 year old mother played it and she is shameless. Nothing like hearing a tiny elderly woman saying those things. Laughed so hard I cried

Posted by: ThunderB at January 01, 2016 09:33 AM (zOTsN)

147 g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 01, 2016 09:33 AM (KCxzN)

148 "Dad always served it with mashed potatoes and carrots"

Sounds like Bubble and Squeak.


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at January 01, 2016 09:33 AM (1ijHg)

149 Mrs SOB is originally from Connecticut and doesn't hold with the Southern tradition of blackeyed peas, greens, and hawg jowls (OK, usually I substituted ham) for New Years Day. I keep telling her that's why we have no luck, but she doesn't listen. damn stubborn yankees
Posted by: That SOB Van Owen at January 01, 2016 08:55 AM (J0jXd)

Try neck bones too....tender bite sized morsels you peel off and let fall into your peas. Cheap too.

Happy New Year!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 01, 2016 09:34 AM (ej1L0)

150 Good luck on that VoterMom.

ThunderB, did she get Jazz Hands, Michael Jackson, and ???

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 01, 2016 09:34 AM (OEWRk)

151 Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at January 01, 2016 08:52 AM (oVJmc)

I think they were from Lake of the Ozarks area. When living in MO I noticed there's a significant difference between the northern and southern parts of the state.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 01, 2016 09:35 AM (GDulk)

152 You must imagine prim little old lady voice with perfect diction

"For my next trick, I will pull three penises out of Keanu Reeves"

That was my dear mother's contribution. I nearly choked with laughter

Posted by: ThunderB at January 01, 2016 09:36 AM (zOTsN)

153 *snicker*

Darth Disney to Lando Lucas, "Pray tell I don't change the deal further."

Lando Lucas, "Okay messa sorry, you's a nots white slavers."

And I denounce myself.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 01, 2016 09:38 AM (OEWRk)

154 Them peas look nekkid without some buttered cornbread.

HNY, y'all.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 01, 2016 09:38 AM (LUgeY)

155 First post of the New Year!

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at January 01, 2016 09:38 AM (/ciMI)

156 E.G.R. is experiencing the future of Obama care.

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2016 09:39 AM (C1Suc)

157 ThunderB,

Bwahahahahahahahha

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 01, 2016 09:39 AM (OEWRk)

158 Last evening we saw the tanker carrying the first US crude oil export in 40 years head out into the Gulf from Corpus Christi. The port is already building new facilities to handle the exported oil, as well as the ships coming through the Panama Canal expansion, so more jobs here.

Posted by: stace at January 01, 2016 09:39 AM (ux+5c)

159 Barry's the only sane anchor in this raging sea of insanity
Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich


Barry isn't insane. He's a two bit shitster trying to con you out of your metrocard. He's the loudmouthed bum on the subway trying to guilt you out of a few bucks for the consequences of his actions. He's a third rate shitty urban bum who is only able to afford his suit because enough people were self loathing enough to vote for him.

Posted by: Hezekiah at January 01, 2016 09:40 AM (7EHW6)

160 Dang, so close.

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at January 01, 2016 09:40 AM (/ciMI)

161 Posted by: @votermom at January 01, 2016 09:25 AM (cbfNE)

I wonder if the round fruit thing is an Asian tradition. It seems like I heard the Japanese do somerhing similar at some point in the year. Anna Puma would probably know for sure.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 01, 2016 09:40 AM (GDulk)

162 Posted by: ThunderB at January 01, 2016 09:36 AM (zOTsN)


--

coffee almost met tablet screen

Posted by: @votermom at January 01, 2016 09:41 AM (cbfNE)

163 159 And he's a fuckhead. Don't forget that part.

Posted by: Weasel at January 01, 2016 09:41 AM (e3bId)

164 First post of the New Year!
Posted by: Turd Ferguson



*shoots Turd Ferguson in the kneecap*


Sorry, it's an ancient HQ tradition dating back to early 2016 to shoot the first firster.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 01, 2016 09:42 AM (1xUj/)

165 I come from a long line of uppity inappropriate women

Posted by: ThunderB at January 01, 2016 09:42 AM (zOTsN)

166 That Alabama score is fab. May the sec beat the hell out of everyone this year, because it's so fun to watch.

That game was a work of football art by one of the masters.

My Beloved Crimson Tide will have their hands full with the Clemson Tigger's running QB.

For a little while.

In the first quarter.

For about three minutes.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 01, 2016 09:42 AM (LUgeY)

167 Polliwog'ette, you are thinking of this tradition

http://preview.tinyurl.com/jl3eel9

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 01, 2016 09:43 AM (OEWRk)

168 Shooting the first Firster? Thank god I was waylaid to #2

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2016 09:43 AM (C1Suc)

169 >>The port is already building new facilities to handle the exported oil, as well as the ships coming through the Panama Canal expansion, so more jobs here.

Was hoping that would help to make it easy for hubby to find a job, but not working so far.

Our SA plans fell through slowly and painfully.

Posted by: Mama AJ at January 01, 2016 09:44 AM (nXeSu)

170 I come from a long line of uppity inappropriate women

Posted by: ThunderB at January 01, 2016 09:42 AM (zOTsN)

Related to my Wife?

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Old and Unimproved. at January 01, 2016 09:44 AM (WVsWD)

171 I wonder if the round fruit thing is an Asian tradition. It seems like I heard the Japanese do somerhing similar at some point in the year. Anna Puma would probably know for sure.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 01, 2016 09:40 AM (GDulk)

--

I think it is. The ancient maiden auntie who made us do it said it was Chinese. She died with a large amount of savings despite being just a schoolteacher so it probably worked.

Posted by: @votermom at January 01, 2016 09:44 AM (cbfNE)

172 *shoots Turd Ferguson in the kneecap*


Sorry, it's an ancient HQ tradition dating back to early 2016 to shoot the first firster.
Posted by: Bandersnatch

And who am I to stand against tradition?

Get it? "Stand?"
*writhes on ground clutching knee"

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at January 01, 2016 09:44 AM (/ciMI)

173 Happy New Year all! This place kept my sanity intact in 2015. I suspect I will need more in 2016, what with Prezy Momjeans working diligently to leave his reign in a blaze of glory!

Posted by: AnnaS at January 01, 2016 09:46 AM (P+I7L)

174 Pig's feet? I thought menudo was cow's stomach..

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 01, 2016 09:46 AM (UpGcq)

175 Posted by: Anna Puma at January 01, 2016 09:43 AM (OEWRk)

That'd be the one, and it's even for their New Year so it looks like my guess is at least reasonable.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 01, 2016 09:47 AM (GDulk)

176 HH is the dead person walking until the hit man finds them,
Or Kreplach as first of year

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2016 09:47 AM (C1Suc)

177 For anyone who doesn't like black-eyed peas for New Years try a Texas caviar recipe. Or Hopping John. The peas for luck is a good tradition but I was always more interested in the greens brings mo' money! Being from a cash poor family as a kid the money part was very important.

Posted by: Lester at January 01, 2016 09:48 AM (2UPXV)

178 >>Get it? "Stand?"
*writhes on ground clutching knee"
Posted by: Turd Ferguson

Sigh
*shoots punster in other knee*

Posted by: Aviator at January 01, 2016 09:48 AM (c7vUv)

179 "I come from a long line of uppity inappropriate women"

And that's okay. Always thought uppity, inappropriate women were alright. To a degree, of course.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 01, 2016 09:48 AM (zC/u/)

180 Pig's feet? I thought menudo was cow's stomach..

No, no, no, they're some Latin pop music group...

...who should still be boiled.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 01, 2016 09:48 AM (LUgeY)

181 Turd, yew fishin' in da wrong pond with that crappy pun.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 01, 2016 09:48 AM (OEWRk)

182 Happy New Year to you! Hello from Way Down Here

Well I'm back posting but still on the phone as it's still party time at Chez Aussie - now 2nd January and we have friends here for drinkies I

Watching a Led Zeppelin dvd of course when the bubbly sets in

Looking forward to posting every day and even hitting the wall of shame one day!

Posted by: aussie at January 01, 2016 09:49 AM (9Flzd)

183 G'Morning, Horde, and Happy New Year.

Still fighting this cold.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 01, 2016 09:49 AM (ptqRm)

184 175 Posted by: Anna Puma at January 01, 2016 09:43 AM (OEWRk)

what's the round things on a skewer?

Posted by: @votermom at January 01, 2016 09:49 AM (cbfNE)

185 Overpopulation is a leftist bugaboo since the 1900's

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2016 09:49 AM (C1Suc)

186 Happy New Year Horde!

Having my black-eyed peas and cornbread for good luck.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 01, 2016 09:49 AM (jR7Wy)

187 Hope you get to feeling better VIA.

So did B'more have more room to destroy things last night?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 01, 2016 09:49 AM (OEWRk)

188 Happy New Year Aussie!

Posted by: ThunderB at January 01, 2016 09:50 AM (zOTsN)

189 Sigh
*shoots punster in other knee*
Posted by: Aviator

Now I really don't have a leg to stand on.

*whimpers in pain*

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at January 01, 2016 09:50 AM (/ciMI)

190 aussie!

Happy Upside Down New Year.

You still owe us pajama pictures.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 01, 2016 09:50 AM (1xUj/)

191 Hey aussie!

I'm still waiting for those lottery numbers you always have, you being from the future and all.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 01, 2016 09:51 AM (LUgeY)

192 Damn, we're awefully shooty this NYD.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 01, 2016 09:51 AM (zC/u/)

193 VoterMom, the skewer should have dried persimmons on it.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 01, 2016 09:52 AM (OEWRk)

194 Turd, yew fishin' in da wrong pond with that crappy pun.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Let minnow where the right pond is, Anna.

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at January 01, 2016 09:52 AM (/ciMI)

195 Mummers have started there March down Broad street

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2016 09:52 AM (C1Suc)

196 Now I really don't have a leg to stand on.
*whimpers in pain*
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at January 01, 2016 09:50 AM (/ciMI)

What?......no third leg? We'll excuse you while you whip it out.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 01, 2016 09:52 AM (ej1L0)

197 Was hoping that would help to make it easy for hubby to find a job, but not working so far.

Our SA plans fell through slowly and painfully.
Posted by: Mama AJ at January 01, 2016 09:44 AM (nXeSu)

Damn sorry to hear that, Mama AJ. I guess the oil price has cooled the hot job market. What type of field is he looking to work in?

Posted by: stace at January 01, 2016 09:52 AM (ux+5c)

198 Hey Skip, how's the eye?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 01, 2016 09:53 AM (LUgeY)

199 Did you go out last night All Hail Eris in your space cat-suit to waylay the unwary revelers in the wee hours of the morning as they staggered back home?

Nyah?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 01, 2016 09:53 AM (OEWRk)

200 aussie!

May every traffic light turn green as you approach.

(My new secular blessing)

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 01, 2016 09:53 AM (u82oZ)

201 Hi aussie!

Posted by: chemjeff at January 01, 2016 09:54 AM (uZNvH)

202 "So did B'more have more room to destroy things last night?"

Was actually relatively quiet.
No shootings.
No protests.

Crowd at the Inner Harbor for the fireworks seemed smaller then previous years from what you could see by the TV news coverage.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 01, 2016 09:54 AM (ptqRm)

203 Top of the morning to ya, chemjeff.

May your year be all + 6.022 x 10^²³.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 01, 2016 09:55 AM (u82oZ)

204 Darned Pixy

2nd try:

Top of the morning to ya, chemjeff.

May your year be all + 6.022 x 10^23.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 01, 2016 09:56 AM (u82oZ)

205 Happy New Year, aussie!

You shouldn't be so shy.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 01, 2016 09:56 AM (Ao0kO)

206 Happy New Year to all the Horde!

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living... at January 01, 2016 09:56 AM (tEDMc)

207 198 - Back at 107, I explained
Other place I go to has feature you can look up past comments, not saying it's needed here

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2016 09:56 AM (C1Suc)

208 Happy New Year Morons and Ettes!!!!

May this year be the best of all for you.

It's important in trying times to keep your body, soul and mind well-tuned and in the best shape you can.

Be the rock for your family. Someone needs to do the job and it might as well be you.

Enjoy the good times when they come.

To that end:

Soon three racks of St Louis style ribs will hit the BBQ to become utterly delicious.

So, there's football and good food and drinks ahead.

Right now, we're watching the Japanese Red and White New Year's special which is always fun.

Again the Happiest of New Years to you all.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 01, 2016 09:57 AM (KUa85)

209 206 the guy that moves pianos for a living

Yes.

Happy New Year to all the Horde, ships at sea, and book readers everywhere!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 01, 2016 09:58 AM (u82oZ)

210 When I was in England the English woman whose house we had a little party made one of my crew mates go out and knock to come back in at midnight
Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2016 09:21 AM (C1Suc)
---
When I was in England I was employed as the first-foot, the dark-haired stranger who knocks and enters first at midnight.

They were all a bunch of tow-heads and needed some swarthy spice.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 01, 2016 09:58 AM (jR7Wy)

211 185 Overpopulation is a leftist bugaboo since the 1900's
Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2016 09:49 AM (C1Suc)

--

That's because it's such a convenient rationale for their favorite hobby of mass murder.

Posted by: @votermom at January 01, 2016 09:58 AM (cbfNE)

212 >> What type of field is he looking to work in?

He did logistics in the military, so he'd be pretty useful to a lot of people.

But getting that foot in the door, ya know.

Posted by: Mama AJ at January 01, 2016 09:59 AM (nXeSu)

213 >>Sigh
*shoots punster in other knee*
Posted by: Aviator

Now I really don't have a leg to stand on.

*whimpers in pain*
Posted by: Turd Ferguson

Dude.
We're going to have to split the difference with the placement of the next round.

Posted by: Aviator at January 01, 2016 09:59 AM (c7vUv)

214 Mummers have started there March down Broad streetPosted by: Skip at January 01, 2016 09:52 AM


Never understood the appeal. I like all kinds of music with rap and string band being the soul exceptions.

It grates on my nerves.

Posted by: free range jihadist at January 01, 2016 09:59 AM (fbovC)

215 Chemjeff another reason to get a cat, my comment #898 on the ONT

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2016 10:00 AM (C1Suc)

216 Morning, Glories!

Milady and I stayed up late, for us old poots. Drank egg nog and watched half of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," which I would say I hadn't seen since it was in theaters, re-release in 1963 says iMDB. Milady has never seen it.

Would've slept later this morning, but the year was calling me, saying, "get on with it!" Or, maybe it was that darn yeller cat.

Haven't had our black-eye peas yet today, but last thing Milady did last night was put 'em on to soak.

Good luck for everyone in 2016, and God bless y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - is it 2017 yet? at January 01, 2016 10:00 AM (mf0wg)

217 "the guy that moves pianos for a living"


You been long out too. How are you?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 01, 2016 10:00 AM (Ao0kO)

218 All Hail Eris is that your DJ name - Swarthy Spice?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 01, 2016 10:01 AM (OEWRk)

219 199 Did you go out last night All Hail Eris in your space cat-suit to waylay the unwary revelers in the wee hours of the morning as they staggered back home?

Nyah?
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 01, 2016 09:53 AM (OEWRk)
---
That's what I'll tell my friends at work, but in reality I got up around ten and realized that yeah, nah, it's gonna be a quiet pantsless NYE.

But I'll powder up the catsuit next year!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 01, 2016 10:01 AM (jR7Wy)

220 almost out of power but too fun to pass up


I'm looking at a 3d printer called The peachy printer, costing a hundred bux. i think its software is linux ish

from a description
The object you want to print must first become a 3D model in Blender. The software we wrote as an add on to blender takes the data from that 3D model and translates it into an audio waveform


so, being linux ish... got me thinking if I could pipe in say Sympathy For The Devil and see what pops out...


BBL

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at January 01, 2016 10:01 AM (Cq0oW)

221 I've been putting off prepping a bunch of rifle brass for weeks. Today is the day.

Posted by: Weasel at January 01, 2016 10:02 AM (e3bId)

222 I missed it - what happened to your eye, Skip - injury or infection?
Hope it heals quickly either way.

Posted by: @votermom at January 01, 2016 10:02 AM (cbfNE)

223 Posted by: Mama AJ at January 01, 2016 09:59 AM (nXeSu)

Yep. people around here love to hire vets, but so often it helps to know someone who knows someone too. Best of luck to y'all in the new year. I know something will work for you.

Posted by: stace at January 01, 2016 10:03 AM (ux+5c)

224 As I wrote also on overnight thread,
Was looking for origins of Mummers, only thing I found was a site Mr Mummer who wrote it started as a Swedish tradition centuries ago.
Tolstoy writes a episode in War and Peace the main characters get dressed up in costume and go sleigh riding raising all kinds of mischief

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2016 10:03 AM (C1Suc)

225 Crowd at the Inner Harbor for the fireworks seemed smaller then previous years from what you could see by the TV news coverage.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 01, 2016 09:54 AM (ptqRm)

Some of my family left here (upstate NY) for Towson. They usually go to the inner harbor in Baltimore, But decided not this year...I think 1 was killed about 2 hours into the New Year?

Posted by: Colin at January 01, 2016 10:04 AM (T3Tpd)

226 When will Hitler discover the Eagles fired Chip Kelly?

Posted by: Asscheeks of Saturn at January 01, 2016 10:04 AM (msVAP)

227 Happy new year too Thunderb!

Hello Bander snatch - I promise when winter rolls around in June I'll send pajamas pictures!

Hello Backwards Boy your future lottery numbers will be posted this year for sure I'll post our winning numbers if you want xx

Posted by: aussie at January 01, 2016 10:04 AM (9Flzd)

228 Well here is a costume suggestion All Hail Eris that will suffice for cosplay I bet.

http://www.e2046.com/product/Nene/23105/

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 01, 2016 10:04 AM (OEWRk)

229 Eye comment back at 107, sore

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2016 10:04 AM (C1Suc)

230 I will pray that your husband finds a great job soon, Mama AJ

Posted by: @votermom at January 01, 2016 10:05 AM (cbfNE)

231 A man was found critically wounded on Weitzman Street in north Tel Aviv, apparently after being shot. He has been evacuated to hospital. The man's identity and the background to the incident are not known.


????

Related to the shooting in Central Tel Aviv?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 01, 2016 10:05 AM (DUoqb)

232 "I think 1 was killed about 2 hours into the New Year?"

I didn't see it in the overnights.

Will keep an eye out for it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 01, 2016 10:05 AM (ptqRm)

233 Waiting for commics to do a Eagles Chip Kelly farce

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2016 10:06 AM (C1Suc)

234 Dude.
We're going to have to split the difference with the placement of the next round.
Posted by: Aviator

A...banana split?

*tries to stem the blood loss*

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at January 01, 2016 10:06 AM (/ciMI)

235 "I've been putting off prepping a bunch of rifle brass for weeks. Today is the day."

Make it so. May be a lot of shooting to come.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 01, 2016 10:06 AM (LhUD1)

236

Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai rushed to the scene of the shooting attack on Friday on the jam-packed Dizengoff Street and told assembled media there that "this appears to be a terrorist attack motivated by nationalism."


Maybe, but let's wait...however that shooting in northern Tel Aviv in conjunction with this is suspicious

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 01, 2016 10:07 AM (DUoqb)

237 Anna Puma

May your writing go smoothly and the nuns take charge of the situation.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 01, 2016 10:07 AM (u82oZ)

238 Happy New Year! I really should drink champagne more often.

Does anybody know the John Derbyshire quote about how Communism forces people to repeat lies, the more outrageous the better, as a means of degrading and controlling them? Someone reposts it here periodically, but my search-fu is weak.

Posted by: rickl at January 01, 2016 10:07 AM (sdi6R)

239 Watching live News on TV from Tel Aviv right now

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 01, 2016 10:08 AM (DUoqb)

240 It's nice to see so many 'rons who survived amateur night last night.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

or as happy as you can make. Don't let the little stuff get you down; this too shall pass.

Posted by: Hank at January 01, 2016 10:08 AM (AqfcR)

241 Nevergiveup, Hand Salute. Ready, Two.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 01, 2016 10:08 AM (u82oZ)

242 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGKt85m9NCs

Hitler discovers its 2016 short one today

Posted by: Colin at January 01, 2016 10:09 AM (T3Tpd)

243 235 Agreed, but this is for a match coming up in February.

Posted by: Weasel at January 01, 2016 10:09 AM (e3bId)

244 Salty Dog - 'nuns take charge'

Phrasing. Nuns with the steel-edge rulers glaring at students, "You will write in cursive one hundred times 'I will not throw food during lunch.' Is that clear?"

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 01, 2016 10:09 AM (OEWRk)

245 "this appears to be a terrorist attack motivated by nationalism."



Palestinian, no less. No?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 01, 2016 10:09 AM (LhUD1)

246 226 When will Hitler discover the Eagles fired Chip Kelly?Posted by: Asscheeks of Saturn at January 01, 2016 10:04 AM


That would be funny. Strangest year ever for Eagles. Good individual talent but could only get it together as a team occasionally.

I think it was the right move. He never should have made some of the personnel moves he made.

Posted by: free range jihadist at January 01, 2016 10:10 AM (fbovC)

247 In the past few minutes armed police have surrounded a nearby building and have sealed off the area as they move in on the suspect.

Residents have been warned to stay indoors.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 01, 2016 10:10 AM (DUoqb)

248 Oh and the asshole also joked about being able to call a Nuclear Sub..

C'mon wouldn't it be great to call the Saudi Ambassador into the White House with "Rock the Casbah" blaring and a boomer captain just sitting there in the room.

Posted by: DaveA at January 01, 2016 10:10 AM (DL2i+)

249 Skip, our eye doc always recommends warm compresses when anyone gets eye infections.
But you shpuld definitely go see an eye doc.
A couple weeks ago my kid just started complaining that her eye hurt and felt like there was something in it. After a couple of days of no other symptoms but still feeling it we went and there was a tiny speck of something embedded in her cornea.
*shudder*
anyway eye doc took ot out with tweezers and gave her eye drops and she was fine in 12 hours.
He said it's pretty common.

Posted by: @votermom at January 01, 2016 10:10 AM (cbfNE)

250 Whole eye injury thread starts maybe around 5pm yesterday not long after Ace stared his New Year thread, a work injury that a piece of metal got in my eye but didn't really know it until rubbing and trying to figure what was in there kept getting worse by hour.

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2016 10:10 AM (C1Suc)

251 Thanks, y'all.

Posted by: Mama AJ at January 01, 2016 10:10 AM (nXeSu)

252 Palestinian, no less. No?
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 01, 2016 10:09 AM (LhUD1)

they have NOT caught the guy yet...so far it's only speculation

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 01, 2016 10:11 AM (DUoqb)

253 I don't follow football much myself, but I don't know of any Eagles fans who supported Kelly. Don't let the doorknob hit you in the butt on your way out, dude.

Posted by: rickl at January 01, 2016 10:12 AM (sdi6R)

254 So far today I've had to rescue the cat from the top of the cockatiel's cage (he'd knocked off the blanket he lays on up there and couldn't move without putting a paw through the cage) and dropped my Kindle Fire onto my jaw point first. I hope that isn't a sign of things to come.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 01, 2016 10:12 AM (GDulk)

255 It could be a Jewish nut-job from one of the sects that don't believe Israel should exist. But they live in Israel, much like all the Liberals who hate the US but never leave.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 01, 2016 10:12 AM (OEWRk)

256 Nevergiveup - yea, shelter in place yadda yadda, yadda.
Well I guess I wouldn't mind that order, I have lots of alcohol, guns and ammo. I could fight a zombie apocalypse for awhile.

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2016 10:13 AM (C1Suc)

257 Uh-huh.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 01, 2016 10:14 AM (0WCMD)

258 I'm doing alright RK.

I haven't had a lot of computer time lately because of work. On top of the Christmas rush we have been short handed at the store so I have been too whupped when I get home to surf much.

I hope you and yours are doing okay.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living... at January 01, 2016 10:14 AM (tEDMc)

259 Say what you may about Chip Kelly but he singlehandedly accomplished what entire teams could not... stopped Demarco Murray from gaining yards.

Posted by: free range jihadist at January 01, 2016 10:14 AM (fbovC)

260 I hope your day gets far better Polliwog'ette.

I should get to writing some more. Job search thing also. Plus food. Already fed cats and did dishes.

And please, anyone who has not bought Golden Isis yet, start the New Year with a new book purchase.

http://astore.amazon.com/aoshq-20/detail/B014BTSEYO

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 01, 2016 10:15 AM (OEWRk)

261 Ok everyone here is dancing to some rock and roll legends
It's after 2am on the 2nd of January and how do I get our guests to go home?

Love all my friends but sort of wishing they would go home!

2.20am !!! Bed time!

Posted by: aussie at January 01, 2016 10:15 AM (9Flzd)

262 It could be a Jewish nut-job from one of the sects that don't believe Israel should exist. But they live in Israel, much like all the Liberals who hate the US but never leave.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 01, 2016 10:12 AM (OEWRk)

Nah I doubt that... 'probably" terror or if not...it was a gay bar/restaurant. Could also be mafia related but that is looking less likely

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 01, 2016 10:15 AM (DUoqb)

263 Nevergiveup - yea, shelter in place yadda yadda, yadda.
Well I guess I wouldn't mind that order, I have lots of alcohol, guns and ammo. I could fight a zombie apocalypse for awhile.
Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2016 10:13 AM (C1Suc)

Yeah in Israel it is not really shelter in place... MANY people have guns and KNOW how to use them

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 01, 2016 10:16 AM (DUoqb)

264 When will Hitler discover the Eagles fired Chip Kelly?

Posted by: Asscheeks of Saturn at January 01, 2016 10:04 AM (msVAP)



Well, to be fair-

None of the songs he wrote were ever worth a damn.


It was pretty much all Don Henley and Glenn Frey.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 01, 2016 10:16 AM (KUa85)

265 so far it's only speculation...

As far as we know, it's just a bad attempt at a viral marketing stunt to promote a new halal lunch truck called The Aloha Snackbar

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 01, 2016 10:17 AM (KCxzN)

266 and how do I get our guests to go home?

Two Words:

Yoko Ono

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 01, 2016 10:19 AM (KCxzN)

267 much like all the Liberals who hate the US but never leave.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 01, 2016 10:12 AM (OEWRk)
----
Or the libs who think the US is a force for tyranny and injustice in the world, yet 1) join the service to pay off college debt, and 2) now work for said government.

And yes I know people like that.

A gunny and I discussed these one-term-and-out types and he said he would do away with the bennies. When you give them money for education, he said, you get the types who only sign up for the college money. I'm not sure I agree with that 100% but I can see his point.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 01, 2016 10:19 AM (jR7Wy)

268 Chip was getting very despised, since it happened I've heard maybe three callers to sports talk radio that thought he should have been given another year.
Someone dreamed up if the Eagles loose Sunday vrs the G'nts they have to play a London game against the Rams next season.
Fly Eagles fly, on the road to London town
Fly Eagles fly, let the Gints score 1,2,3
Cheap shots high, cheap shots low
And watch the penalty flags fly
Fly Eagles fly, on the road to London town
E.A.G.L.E.S, Eagles!
Looking could get us as low as 6th place in draft, winning may lead to 16. I want a qb and Sam Bradford gone

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2016 10:20 AM (C1Suc)

269 261
Ok everyone here is dancing to some rock and roll legends

It's after 2am on the 2nd of January and how do I get our guests to go home?



Love all my friends but sort of wishing they would go home!



2.20am !!! Bed time!

Posted by: aussie at January 01, 2016 10:15 AM (9Flzd)

try putting on some Yoko Ono?

Posted by: chemjeff at January 01, 2016 10:21 AM (uZNvH)

270 Pappy O'Daniel: Fergie... I'm so old that only means the Duchess of York to me.

Yeah, I had no idea who they're talking about, either. What's old got to do with it? Yeah, I'm in my ummpitieth decade, but it's just unfamiliarity with some corner of culture. Proudly, usually.

Posted by: mindful webworker - when I get older, losing my hair, many years from now... at January 01, 2016 10:22 AM (mf0wg)

271 I've read in Israel stories of unarmed citizens taking weapons off armed security who froze up and charging into the fray

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2016 10:23 AM (C1Suc)

272 The nuclear option: Yoko Ono sings Katy Perry's "Fireworks":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrJz9Dh5MsM

There are no words - literally!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 01, 2016 10:23 AM (jR7Wy)

273 Dave at Buffalo Roam: My family's tradition was to put a dime in the black-eyed peas. Whoever found it in their bowl got all the luck. Is that just a Texas thing?

Hate to break it to you, that's not even a Texas thing.

Sure hope the dime gets washed thoroughly beforehand. Eew.

Chi-Town Jerry: ...wtf is that? a bowl of beans..

Pappy O'Daniel: Never heard of a black-eyed pea tradition for New Years Day...

Mostly a S'uthron thing. Milady, native Chicagoan, her first new years in Oklahoma, was asked if we were having black-eye peas for luck for New Year's Day. She'd never heard of it. I don't think my mom was big on it. But Milady picked up on it immediately, and her delicious recipe is our annual tradition.

Posted by: mindful webworker - make your own luck at January 01, 2016 10:23 AM (mf0wg)

274 I've read in Israel stories of unarmed citizens taking weapons off armed security who froze up and charging into the fray
Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2016 10:23 AM (C1Suc)

????

I never heard of that. Armed Security in Israel are pretty much all Vets

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 01, 2016 10:24 AM (DUoqb)

275 Does anybody have any pointers on how to search the site for past comments? I know how to do searches on individual threads, but I'm lost when it comes to finding something when I don't know what thread it's on.

Posted by: rickl at January 01, 2016 10:25 AM (sdi6R)

276 "I hope you and yours are doing okay."


Doing okay, matters be they may. Glad to hear from you, piano mover.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 01, 2016 10:25 AM (Me3jo)

277 Unusual I'm sure but veteran soldiers can freeze up, maybe wounded also.

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2016 10:26 AM (C1Suc)

278 Israeli police have sealed off thoroughfares in central Tel Aviv in what appears to be a door-to-door search for the gunman that killed at least two people and wounded seven others just moments earlier.

Authorities have blocked off Ibn Gabirol and Arlozorov Streets to traffic. Residents who live in these areas are escorted to their homes by police.

In new closed-circuit footage that has emerged in recent hours, the suspect is seen calmly buying vegetables in a store adjacent to the bar that was the primary recipient of a hail of bullets fired from what appears to be a semiautomatic rifle.

The clip shows the suspect, a bespectacled man dressed in black with a backpack who appears no older than 30, purchasing vegetables in a nutritional supplement shop just near a bar.



The gunman is seen calmly putting back the vegetables he picked out, opening his backpack, and then producing a semiautomatic rifle. He then begins to fire indiscriminately.

The footage seems to complement an earlier clip shot from inside a nearby bar, where patrons are seen hurriedly scrambling while the gunman can be discerned outside while emptying his magazine.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 01, 2016 10:27 AM (DUoqb)

279 Salty dog, thank you

Skip, don't know if that is a persuasive case or not

Posted by: chemjeff at January 01, 2016 10:28 AM (uZNvH)

280 Other place I go you can look up authors of threads, comments by person, titles of threads. But it is a specific website

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2016 10:29 AM (C1Suc)

281 Whoever did this shooting in Tel Aviv planned it..He goes into a store to buy something and then walks to the front of the store next to the pub to put his purchase in his bag pack but pulls a gun out instead and leaves the back pack.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 01, 2016 10:29 AM (DUoqb)

282 31 26 Actually,it's one I've never seen with Lee Marvin and Lee Van Cleef.

Posted by: steevy at January 01, 2016 08:35 AM (8HTq1)

Two of the better "Lees." For the record, I prefer their work over that of Lee Greenwood, Lee Iacocca, Lee Majors, and especially Lee Harvey Oswald.

Posted by: Slappy at January 01, 2016 10:30 AM (KS+qL)

283 266. AltonJackson. Thanks the place is rocking to Rock around the clock

Yoko Ono - no one here would hear - now we're dancing to Need your loving by Ronnie Hawkins

OK I'll just get more bubbles for me and the girls - the blokes are happy with X X X X Lager

I'll never get to bed

Everly Brothers now

Posted by: aussie at January 01, 2016 10:30 AM (9Flzd)

284 >>>There are no words - literally!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 01, 2016 10:23 AM (jR7Wy)

Why does anyone let her near a mic?

Posted by: Lea at January 01, 2016 10:30 AM (vmMMi)

285 e nuclear option: Yoko Ono sings Katy Perry's Fireworks:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrJz9Dh5MsM



There are no words - literally!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 01, 2016 10:23 AM (jR7Wy)





She sounds like a flooded engine attempting to start. (best comment)

Posted by: Colin at January 01, 2016 10:31 AM (T3Tpd)

286 To start this new year out right, here's some Milo:
http://tinyurl.com/o5wsf6n

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 01, 2016 10:31 AM (6FqZa)

287 Armed Security in Israel are pretty much all Vets

Isn't everybody, including the 'unarmed civilians'?

Posted by: t-bird at January 01, 2016 10:31 AM (J3phO)

288 Chemjeff you might be right, I have to go down to the basement and clean up blood trails.

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2016 10:32 AM (C1Suc)

289 "The footage seems to complement an earlier clip shot from inside a nearby bar, where patrons are seen hurriedly scrambling while the gunman can be discerned outside while emptying his magazine. "


Um, are Israeli police moving in and locating the bastard?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 01, 2016 10:32 AM (zX2s1)

290 Wait, powder up the cat suit?

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living... at January 01, 2016 10:32 AM (tEDMc)

291 Armed Security in Israel are pretty much all Vets

Isn't everybody, including the 'unarmed civilians'?
Posted by: t-bird at January 01, 2016 10:31 AM (J3phO)

No- most, but not all- people get exemptions for many reasons, and all Vets are not "Combat" Vets..just like here in the US, Many in the Military are support Troops.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 01, 2016 10:34 AM (DUoqb)

292 You should add that to your nick, All Hail Eris, Literate Savage, in her Powdered Cat Suit.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living... at January 01, 2016 10:34 AM (tEDMc)

293 Does anybody know the John Derbyshire quote about how Communism forces people to repeat lies, the more outrageous the better, as a means of degrading and controlling them?

Dalrymple, not Derbyshire: "In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better." There's more but that should do to start you on your googling

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 01, 2016 10:34 AM (6FqZa)

294 Um, are Israeli police moving in and locating the bastard?
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 01, 2016 10:32 AM (zX2s1)


yes but Tel Aviv is a huge crowded city..Easy to hide in plain site or in a rat hole somewhere

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 01, 2016 10:35 AM (DUoqb)

295
There are a couple of Israeli twitter accounts who really stick it to palis and leftys:

https://twitter.com/shim_rational

https://twitter.com/zahwa123

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 01, 2016 10:36 AM (iQIUe)

296 B'Gal noticed something that I missed in last night's Bama Blowout of MSU.

It is this: Crimson Tide QB Jacob Coker (who is probably a relatively close cousin since he hails from my hometown) sounds eerily like Elvis.

Click on the first video of the postgame presser.

http://tinyurl.com/zraye8n

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 01, 2016 10:36 AM (LUgeY)

297 285
e nuclear option: Yoko Ono sings Katy Perry's Fireworks:





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrJz9Dh5MsM





There are no words - literally!



Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 01, 2016 10:23 AM (jR7Wy)






She sounds like a flooded engine attempting to start. (best comment)


Posted by: Colin at January 01, 2016 10:31 AM (T3Tpd)

holy crap, what IS that?

Posted by: chemjeff at January 01, 2016 10:36 AM (uZNvH)

298 A pretty good Lee Marvin movie that I'd never seen before but saw recently is-

"The Emperor of the North"

also, with Ernest Borgnine - who could really play one mean sonuvabitch.

It's set in the Depression with Marvin as a hobo rail-rider and Borgnine as the brutal conductor who just is not having that.

Well-made, great acting. Check it out if you have the chance.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 01, 2016 10:37 AM (KUa85)

299 rickl, on google you could try site:acecomments.mu.nu stuffyouarelookingfor

haven't tried it but it should work

Posted by: @votermom at January 01, 2016 10:38 AM (cbfNE)

300 This will probably get willowed, but here goes:

Good riddance 1943, it's finally 1944!!


Jan 1, 1944 - The EZ Dog Diaries
1944 blew in with high wind and the first snow of the winter. Cold. Little action. All the Bn Cos came to Brig 1500 for a bit of New Year cheer.


I think he means all the battalion commanding officers (C.O.s), but am not sure.
I'm also hoping Dad was at brigade HQ rather than in the "brig" for some unnamed New Year's Eve indiscretion.


As 1944 opens, the Allies are continuing their slow advance up the Liri Valley and largely stymied all along the Gustav Line. Pressure is mounting for an amphibious landing further up the coast, to put pressure on the German right flank and threaten cutting of supply routes from the north. Winston Churchill is a big advocate of this plan- Operation Shingle.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 01, 2016 10:38 AM (NeFrd)

301 269 Chem Jeff

No Yoko Ono has set foot in this residence ever

Now I'm sorry because our guests are now falling all over Bo Diddly and Road Runner

Now I know that I'm going to be up all night - -our guests are having a great time

Posted by: aussie at January 01, 2016 10:40 AM (9Flzd)

302 @294 Goddam fucker.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 01, 2016 10:40 AM (hnfdc)

303 I'm also hoping Dad was at brigade HQ rather than in the "brig" for some unnamed New Year's Eve indiscretion.

--

if he was anything like you, he might have been in the brig for some verry punny drunken witticisms to an officer...

Posted by: @votermom at January 01, 2016 10:40 AM (cbfNE)

304 ...(who is probably a relatively close cousin since he hails from my hometown)...
Posted by Backwards Boy



*****


Heh.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 01, 2016 10:41 AM (NeFrd)

305 293
Dalrymple, not Derbyshire: "In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better."

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 01, 2016 10:34 AM (6FqZa)


Thanks! No wonder I couldn't find it.

Posted by: rickl at January 01, 2016 10:41 AM (sdi6R)

306 299 that should be on the same line

Posted by: @votermom at January 01, 2016 10:42 AM (cbfNE)

307
Tuvia Tenenbom Is an israeli author and playwright who also pulls no punches and the left hates him for it:

http://goo.gl/fhkVhk

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 01, 2016 10:43 AM (iQIUe)

308 Once I got the name right, it came up right away. Funny, that.

http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/67950.Theodore_Dalrymple

Posted by: rickl at January 01, 2016 10:44 AM (sdi6R)

309 if he was anything like you, he might have been in the brig for some verry punny drunken witticisms to an officer...

Posted by: @votermom

****

I owe him my appreciation of language and puns, but he was not a drinking man.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 01, 2016 10:44 AM (NeFrd)

310 She sounds like a flooded engine attempting to start. (best comment)
----

Posted by: Colin at January 01, 2016 10:31 AM (T3Tpd)
Must disagree. Best comment was "Had to rest my fingers on alt tab in case someone came into my room and heard me watching an 80 year old Asian woman faking orgasms"

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 01, 2016 10:45 AM (jR7Wy)

311 Happy Fappy New Year!

272 The nuclear option: Yoko Ono sings Katy Perry's "Fireworks":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrJz9Dh5MsM

There are no words - literally!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 01, 2016 10:23 AM (jR7Wy)

I made it three seconds into her godawful caterwauling. And people voluntarily subject themselves to that, too! Must be masochists. Or deaf. Or deaf masochists.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 01, 2016 10:45 AM (kpqmD)

312 Happy New Year, all!

Those beans don't look so good....

Posted by: Lizzy at January 01, 2016 10:46 AM (NOIQH)

313 Ernest Borgnine was the Brian Dennehy of his generation.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 01, 2016 10:46 AM (NeFrd)

314 Are we willowed yet

Jerry Lee Lewis is wowing my guests right now - luckily my lounge room is big with wood floors great for rock and roll

Bed is just a mirage

Posted by: aussie at January 01, 2016 10:47 AM (9Flzd)

315 I owe him my appreciation of language and puns, but he was not a drinking man.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 01, 2016 10:44 AM (NeFrd)

could be second hand ingestion via fumes
is there an ICD for that?

Posted by: @votermom at January 01, 2016 10:48 AM (cbfNE)

316 313
Ernest Borgnine was the Brian Dennehy of his generation.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 01, 2016 10:46 AM (NeFrd)

he was awesome ....loved him in marty

Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at January 01, 2016 10:48 AM (0O7c5)

317 Good to see aussie on the monitor again.

Glad Skip's eye survived 2015.

Posted by: mindful webworker - 2016 is off and running at January 01, 2016 10:50 AM (mf0wg)

318 Ernest Borgnine was great in Ice Station Zebra in his roll as the submarine

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 01, 2016 10:50 AM (KCxzN)

319 Bed is just a mirage
Posted by: aussie at January 01, 2016 10:47 AM (9Flzd)
----
This would be a nifty song title.

And Happy New Year, Aussie! Great to "see" you again!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 01, 2016 10:51 AM (jR7Wy)

320 318 Ernest Borgnine was great in Ice Station Zebra in his roll as the submarine
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 01, 2016 10:50 AM (KCxzN)
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Well let's not forget Orson Wells' masterful turn as the Ice Station!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 01, 2016 10:52 AM (jR7Wy)

321 310 She sounds like a flooded engine attempting to start. (best comment)
----

Posted by: Colin at January 01, 2016 10:31 AM (T3Tpd)
Must disagree. Best comment was "Had to rest my fingers on alt tab in case someone came into my room and heard me watching an 80 year old Asian woman faking orgasms"
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 01, 2016 10:45 AM (jR7Wy)


John Lennon was one of the biggest celebrities in the world when he met her. He could have had his pick of women.

Think about that. She must have been one hella lay.

Posted by: rickl at January 01, 2016 10:53 AM (sdi6R)

322 Think about that. She must have been one hella lay.
Posted by: rickl at January 01, 2016 10:53 AM (sdi6R)

I'd rather not

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 01, 2016 10:54 AM (DUoqb)

323 "Good to see aussie on the monitor again."


That gal is awesome.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 01, 2016 10:54 AM (ZH6FE)

324 Ernest Borgnine was the Brian Dennehy of his generation.


Phaw!

I played Brian Dennehy.


Acting, bitchez!

Posted by: Zombie Ernest Borgnine at January 01, 2016 10:55 AM (KUa85)

325 H. R. 4269 "To regulate assault weapons, to ensure that the right to keep and bear arms is not unlimited, and for other purposes."

By 'regulate' they mean 'ban'.
Stock up on your 'assault weapons' now.

This one is much worse than the defunct ban.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at January 01, 2016 10:57 AM (T78UI)

326 Is there a new thread yet

Don't leave me alone here *sulk*

I want to go to bed and I have a house full of old and young rockers
Chuck Berry now

When will i ever get to see bed

Bo Diddly now

Posted by: aussie at January 01, 2016 10:58 AM (9Flzd)

327 Thanks for the continuing WW2 diary, Seamus.

Thanks for ... most of ... the interesting links, Anna.

Posted by: mindful webworker - 2016 is off already at January 01, 2016 10:58 AM (mf0wg)

328 ((aussi)) they say what you do on the 1st day of the year sets the tone for the rest of the year......you will not be sleeping in 2016.......

Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at January 01, 2016 10:59 AM (0O7c5)

329 Aaand the New Years Day program from the Music Hall of the Musikverein Vienna kicks off with...The United Nations March.

This isn't going to be one of those years, is it?

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 01, 2016 10:59 AM (xq1UY)

330 John Lennon was one of the biggest celebrities in the world when he met her. He could have had his pick of women.

Think about that. She must have been one hella lay.


I dunno. Based on his later "musical" (and photographic) adventures, he probably thought she was charming, witty, and a great singer.

My theory is that the John Lennon who was in the Beatles was kidnapped by aliens and replaced with a soulless pod person sometime around 1969. Paul and George knew it wasn't the real John, but they went along to keep the gravy train rolling.

Posted by: Snoodling Hero Emeritus at January 01, 2016 11:00 AM (k9qR4)

331 All you horde gamers out there, I have an invitation to you!

At 11:00 PST, the annual Gnaked Gnew Years Gnome Run takes place on World of Warcraft! Each year, my buddies and brothers and I put on a loony gnome event wherein we create level 1 gnomes, cast aside all our gear, and run through implausible and deadly zones to a distant land leaping about and acting goofy.

In past years, we've run through Northrend, we've run through Outlands, and this year we're going back to the original runs of the event: Gnomeregan south through Stranglethorn Vale, on a ship over to Ratchet, and north, finally ending up in one of those great big hot tubs in Darnassus in some temple or other!

The server we're running on is "Sentinels" and we'll have a guild built and tabards to hand out. Come join the fun!

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 01, 2016 11:00 AM (39g3+)

332
Eeee Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Click! Click! Click!

Eeeee! aaaaaaa! Clutta! Clutta! Clooooooooo!

Click!

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!

Ei! Ei! Ei !

EI!!!

Eeeeeeeeeee!!!

Click!

Click!

EEEE!.....Eeeeeee.....eee....e

Posted by: Dolphin Sings Yoko Ono's Greatest Hits at January 01, 2016 11:02 AM (KUa85)

333 Yeah the Beatles went to hell right after Stu Sutcliffe died. Don't even get me started on Brian Jones and his Rolling Stones.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 01, 2016 11:03 AM (xq1UY)

334 "I think they were from Lake of the Ozarks area. When living in MO I
noticed there's a significant difference between the northern and
southern parts of the state."

My mom (from right next to NE MO) visited me in my "outreach year" in middle of Arkansas one year way back. She asked directions on the way and said at first she was sure they were speaking another language. And we know how to speak hick up here, and she was married to a Missourian from what he called "Indian country", NE MO in the hills. lol Ozarks area is nice.

Posted by: Illiniwek at January 01, 2016 11:03 AM (5Gpe2)

335 Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 01, 2016 11:00 AM (39g3+)

Sound hilarious, but the kids and I have all let our subscriptions lapse .

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 01, 2016 11:04 AM (GDulk)

336 Hippo Gnu Bear, hordelings!

Posted by: Y-not on the phone at January 01, 2016 11:04 AM (t5zYU)

337 That would be a nifty song title.


Wish, something, command, something else....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjqG5pNExKs

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 01, 2016 11:05 AM (LUgeY)

338 Posted by: Dolphin Sings Yoko Ono's Greatest Hits at January 01, 2016 11:02 AM (KUa85)

Aaaand the first threadwinner of 2016!

Posted by: rickl at January 01, 2016 11:05 AM (sdi6R)

339
Bloody hell!

I'm dead.

Welp, no more drugs and young poon for me....

...

...

...

Bugger.

Posted by: Brian Jones Upon Discovering that he'd Drowned at January 01, 2016 11:05 AM (KUa85)

340 Oklahoma had more earthquakes last year than all the rest of the continental US combined.

And we're off to a good start in the new year.

...magnitude ...4.2... centered five miles northeast of Edmond at 5:39 a.m. At one point, the city of Edmond reported 4,400 customers were without power following the earthquake.

Out-of-town son lives in Edmond. I'm betting he slept right through it. Again.

Posted by: mindful webworker - rock n roll at January 01, 2016 11:06 AM (mf0wg)

341 Ernest Borgnine was the Brian Dennehy of his generation.

There was a time of about 10-20 years when Michael Caine was in every movie made. Or at least it seemed that way. The film PCU makes fun of that.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 01, 2016 11:06 AM (39g3+)

342 At least the dolphin can sing in key.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living... at January 01, 2016 11:09 AM (tEDMc)

343 Thanks to all of you dear people who have seen me back

Happy New Year to you all

Posting every day from now on

Striving for the Wall of Shame

Meanwhile how to move people out of here at 3.1 5am

Posted by: aussie at January 01, 2016 11:09 AM (9Flzd)

344 WoW is F2P up to level 20, right?

Posted by: Top.Man. at January 01, 2016 11:09 AM (w+lDM)

345 There was a time of about 10-20 years when Michael Caine was in every movie made. Or at least it seemed that way. The film PCU makes fun of that.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 01, 2016 11:06 AM (39g3+)



Bloody 'ell!!!

Look, it's not like I'd fookin' star in any fookin' fing.

It's not like, I'd star in some cheap 'orror remake bit of dross,

Now would I, sunshine?

Posted by: Michael Caine on the set of "The Hand" at January 01, 2016 11:10 AM (KUa85)

346 Missouri is the most cosmopolitan state in the union. The confluence of east and west, north and south, settled by people speaking almost every European language and willing to give you the coat off their back if you're really in need while expecting you to mind your own damn business if you're not.

What do they get for that? To be the butt of jokes throughout the nation (and I was totally guilty of that myself before moving there).

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 01, 2016 11:10 AM (GDulk)

347 Sound hilarious, but the kids and I have all let our subscriptions lapse .

aww I'm all alone on that server then.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 01, 2016 11:10 AM (39g3+)

348
Ben Hartman @Benhartman
In video looks like whats called in Israel a homemde "Karl Gustav" submachine gun. Police seize these all the time in Arab sector, West Bank

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 01, 2016 11:10 AM (DUoqb)

349 There's a book out by one of the guys that worked for the Beatles. He went to school with George. He talks about Yoko stalking John and John calling her all sorts of names. Then John comes back from a weekend with her totally changed. I suspect a combination of drugs and mind games. It reminded me of how people get sucked into cults.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 01, 2016 11:12 AM (Lqy/e)

350 Woke up with a dead oil burner, fortunately it only needed a re-start, which I accomplished after pumping out the cellar so I could get to the unit. So, my hassle for the year is already over, smooth sailing for the next 364 days, right?

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 01, 2016 11:12 AM (2cS/G)

351 Posted by: Top.Man. at January 01, 2016 11:09 AM (w+lDM)

Can't join a guild though. It used to be that after buying a subscription you could no longer do f2p on that account but I rhink they changed that last year.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 01, 2016 11:13 AM (GDulk)

352 There's a book out by one of the guys that worked for the Beatles. He went to school with George. He talks about Yoko stalking John and John calling her all sorts of names. Then John comes back from a weekend with her totally changed. I suspect a combination of drugs and mind games. It reminded me of how people get sucked into cults.


FIFY.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 01, 2016 11:14 AM (KUa85)

353 Better than Yoko:
https://youtu.be/ED5WVDNTBxA

Posted by: Snoodling Hero Emeritus at January 01, 2016 11:15 AM (k9qR4)

354 WoW is F2P up to level 20, right?

I know you can do that, but I do not know what it takes to get an account setup. Significant downloads to start up.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 01, 2016 11:15 AM (39g3+)

355 Oh and it's pretty common knowledge now that Brian Jones was murdered. The guy that did it claimed to hear a death bed confession from another guy, but evidence points to him as the perp. There's an interesting post on it from the guy that was their road manager. He has a blog and I found it from a search on Brian jones murdered.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 01, 2016 11:15 AM (Lqy/e)

356 [Gun Thread!] One may speculate how rump machine guns in West Bank got nicknamed "Karl Gustav," name usually reserved for the Saab(!)/Bofors recoilless rifle...[/Gun Thread!]

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 01, 2016 11:16 AM (xq1UY)

357 ooh very pretty Tel Aviv Police spokesperson

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 01, 2016 11:17 AM (DUoqb)

358 Well crap I think I busted my Internet radio box

Posted by: chemjeff at January 01, 2016 11:18 AM (uZNvH)

359 Jesus, the entire Vienna Philharmoniker is whistling.
Honest to god, you've never heard anything like this.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 01, 2016 11:19 AM (xq1UY)

360 355 Oh and it's pretty common knowledge now that Brian Jones was murdered. The guy that did it claimed to hear a death bed confession from another guy, but evidence points to him as the perp. There's an interesting post on it from the guy that was their road manager. He has a blog and I found it from a search on Brian jones murdered.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 01, 2016 11:15 AM (Lqy/e)


I haven't really studied it in detail, but the story I heard was that it was horseplay in a swimming pool that went bad.

Posted by: rickl at January 01, 2016 11:19 AM (sdi6R)

361 So, my hassle for the year is already over, smooth sailing for the next 364 days, right?


"It's been pre-disastered. We're gonna be safe here."

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

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 01, 2016 11:19 AM (LUgeY)

362 Happy New Years 'rons & 'ettes!

http://politicalhat.com/?p=10796

Posted by: The Political Hat at January 01, 2016 11:20 AM (vBeA5)

363 it was horseplay in a swimming pool that went bad.

But, mostly...oh, shit, just insert any XX Cent. "cultural reference" here.
And in a way, isn't this the story of FDR?

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 01, 2016 11:21 AM (xq1UY)

364 Carl Gustav/M45

http://tinyurl.com/mohmd7y

They are the guns that the centurions carried in the Bread and Circuses episode of ST:ToS.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living... at January 01, 2016 11:23 AM (tEDMc)

365 You know I liked him okay on M*A*S*H but I can't get worked up over Wayne Rogers dying. Maybe because he was an even more insufferable leftist feeb than Alda on the show.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 01, 2016 11:23 AM (39g3+)

366 353
Better than Yoko:

https://youtu.be/ED5WVDNTBxA

I managed about 30 seconds of it. It would be great to see her and Yoko do a duet because each would probably be giving the other dirty looks because "you're so bad."

Posted by: Greench at January 01, 2016 11:24 AM (sYX+h)

367 Just throwing this out here.

http://s415.photobucket.com/user/codetoad/media/Detroit.jpg.html

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Old and Unimproved. at January 01, 2016 11:24 AM (WVsWD)

368 Carl Gustav/M45

http://tinyurl.com/mohmd7y

They are the guns that the centurions carried in the Bread and Circuses episode of ST:ToS.
Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living... at January 01, 2016 11:23 AM (tEDMc)

Yup..First reports said it was an M16 but it did not look like an M16... Looks more like a Gustav/M45 and the palis are known to use them

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 01, 2016 11:26 AM (DUoqb)

369 Here comes Uncle Sam again with the same old bag of beans. The local chief's on the radio
He's got some hungry mouths to feed
Goin’ back to Alcatraz

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 01, 2016 11:26 AM (FkBIv)

370 220
so, being linux ish... got me thinking if I could pipe in say Sympathy For The Devil [to a 3D printer] and see what pops out...

Don't know about that, but I used to amuse myself occasionally by hooking up my Walkman to an X/Y oscilloscope.


Posted by: Anachronda at January 01, 2016 11:26 AM (eejPc)

371 CT: I think you're confusing Wayne Rogers with Mike Farrell.

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 01, 2016 11:27 AM (KCxzN)

372 Yoko and Bjork really need to do a duet.

Posted by: rickl at January 01, 2016 11:29 AM (sdi6R)

373 >>>>the palis are known to use them<<<<

There's not a lot of parts, looks like any decent machine shop could turn one out.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living... at January 01, 2016 11:29 AM (tEDMc)

374 CT: I think you're confusing Wayne Rogers with Mike Farrell.
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 01, 2016 11:27 AM (KCxzN)


Well they are both WHITE after all.

Power to the People!

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 01, 2016 11:29 AM (DUoqb)

375 365 You know I liked him okay on M*A*S*H but I can't get worked up over Wayne Rogers dying. Maybe because he was an even more insufferable leftist feeb than Alda on the show.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 01, 2016 11:23 AM (39g3+)


Wait a minute, Rogers was a leftist? I hadn't heard this. Are you sure you're not confusing him with Mike Farrell (B J Hunnicut)?

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 01, 2016 11:29 AM (Ba/+D)

376 And by "really need" I mean "Oh God, no!"

Posted by: rickl at January 01, 2016 11:29 AM (sdi6R)

377 I managed to read 100 books on Goodreads this year. Problem is, I cheated a little. I was adding old books I've read in the past, then noticed that they were counting toward books I've read in 2015. I think I actually read around 75, which is my goal for this year.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 01, 2016 11:30 AM (39g3+)

378 350
So, my hassle for the year is already over, smooth sailing for the
next 364 365 days, right?


Leap year. And apparently not.

Posted by: Anachronda at January 01, 2016 11:30 AM (eejPc)

379 Wait a minute, Rogers was a leftist? I hadn't heard this. Are you sure you're not confusing him with Mike Farrell (B J Hunnicut)?

Yeah, you're right I am. Hunnicutt was insufferable. I wanted to cave his whining, weeping face in.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 01, 2016 11:31 AM (39g3+)

380 I think Rogers left the show because he didn't like the Alan Alda liberal propaganda love fest direction it was going.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living... at January 01, 2016 11:31 AM (tEDMc)

381 Sam Cutler is the ex managers name. There were two women there when it happened but they didn't talk about it until recently. Lots of fishy things happened immediately after his death, like money and other things stolen.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 01, 2016 11:31 AM (Lqy/e)

382 .....you see...it was that fookin' album.

That goddam fing!

I tried to stop the 'orror I knew was coming.

I begged him....

I begged Brian not to release it

But.....he just laughed at me...

....he...went ahead and released....

*shudders*

Brian Jones Presents the Pipes of Pan at Joujouka

*gags*

So, I killed him.

I killed him....

but it's was too late.

....

....

The genie was out of the bottle, doncha see?

....

....

No Brian Jones. No Zamfir.

No. Brian Jones.

No Zamfir.

I was too late.

Brian released Zamfir upon the world.

ZAAAAAAAAMMMMMFFIIIIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRR!!!!!

*sobs*

*dies*

Posted by: Brian Jones' Murderer's Death Bed Confession at January 01, 2016 11:32 AM (KUa85)

383 367 Just throwing this out here.

http://s415.photobucket.com/user/codetoad/media/Detroit.jpg.html


Ladies and gentlemen, 'rons and 'ettes, behold the triumph of 3 generations of progressive politics.

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 01, 2016 11:32 AM (Ba/+D)

384 This isn't the hill of beans to die on.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 01, 2016 11:32 AM (wZtOw)

385 Yoko and Bjork really need to do a duet.

Bjork can actually sing, though. She's really weird but not Yoko wierd. I think she's part elf.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 01, 2016 11:33 AM (39g3+)

386 Marvin Game in early days

My guests are going nuts

I think I will just go to bed and nobody will notice

People still love old fashioned rock and roll # all ages we have *young* people here!

Posted by: aussie at January 01, 2016 11:33 AM (9Flzd)

387 Yeah, the Stones were glad to be rid of him. I saw him in the band, when they did their first tour to the US.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 01, 2016 11:34 AM (Lqy/e)

388 Hunnicutt was insufferable. I wanted to cave his whining, weeping face in.

I think there's a very long line for this, and I'm ahead of you.

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 01, 2016 11:35 AM (Ba/+D)

389 Wayne Rogers had retired from acting and was on a lot of Fox financial programs as he had become an investment guy. Apparently, did pretty well, too.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at January 01, 2016 11:36 AM (oVJmc)

390 My Hebrew sucks but I "Think" some pali terrorist org. just took credit of the attack in Tel Aviv

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 01, 2016 11:36 AM (DUoqb)

391 Hi aussie, I've been missing you on the book thread. Stop by some time and say hi.

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 01, 2016 11:37 AM (Ba/+D)

392 Just throwing this out here.



http://s415.photobucket.com/user/codetoad/media/Detroit.jpg.html

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Old and Unimproved. at January 01, 2016 11:24 AM (WVsWD)

Great picture, note at the ad at the bottom, you can make the pic into a greeting card......eeekkkkk

Posted by: Colin at January 01, 2016 11:37 AM (T3Tpd)

393 Yay, I found some peach schnapps. Anyone up for Mimosas?

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 01, 2016 11:37 AM (c/3OG)

394 Hi, aussie. I will be seeing some of your countrymen on Jan. 5th. The U-18 Australian Men's Basketball team is doing a tour of the region, and playing a local powerhouse high school on Tuesday. I'd wish them luck, they're going up against a beast of a player, Edirice "Bam" Adebayo, who is averaging 32 points and 21 rebounds a game. Gonna be quite a show, I hope.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 01, 2016 11:37 AM (2cS/G)

395 387 Yeah, the Stones were glad to be rid of him. I saw him in the band, when they did their first tour to the US.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 01, 2016 11:34 AM (Lqy/e)


Wasn't he one of the band's founders? I thought he was supposed to be pretty good.

Were there disagreements about the band's musical direction? I think Jones was more into traditional blues.

Posted by: rickl at January 01, 2016 11:37 AM (sdi6R)

396 Watching one of those girl ghetto fights videos, they never fight one on one. It's always several ganging up on one person, who isnt the original aggressor. What trash.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 01, 2016 11:37 AM (iQIUe)

397 aussie has the original "First World Problem" here. Oz, what a place. You start a party and cannot get it to end. Is it any wonder that we Yanks are only marginally welcome unless in USMC greens? If the visas didn't expire, you'd never come home.

You know you can't handle another Tooth's Sheaf when you can't pronounce it well enough to order another one.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 01, 2016 11:38 AM (xq1UY)

398 Hunnicutt was insufferable. I wanted to cave his whining, weeping face in.

--------

I think there's a very long line for this, and I'm ahead of you.
Posted by: OregonMuse at January 01, 2016 11:35 AM (Ba/+D)


Looking back on it, they made a big deal of the fact that the guy was loyal to his wife. Like "hey, we're Hollywood, we're going to show you this strange and rare beast!"

Posted by: BurtTC at January 01, 2016 11:38 AM (Dj0WE)

399 People still love old fashioned rock and roll # all ages we have *young* people here!

My Little G'Dette (age: 10 Earth years) walked into the living room while Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock was playing on the radio the other day.

"Ooh, I like that song."

There may be hope yet.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 01, 2016 11:38 AM (LUgeY)

400 Wayne Rogers is dead??

And Alan Alda still lives. There is no justice in this cold indifferent universe.

Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie! with purchase of commentor of equal or greater value at January 01, 2016 11:39 AM (evdj2)

401 Oh, I just remembered that it's time for the New Year reset of all the AoSIgnore commenters. My annual Jubilee, as it were.


Some of youse guys aren't going to last an hour though.

Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie! with purchase of commentor of equal or greater value at January 01, 2016 11:41 AM (evdj2)

402 The wierd thing is, Zamfir is actually really good on that silly pipe. Its not bad. Just nothing I could take a full album of listening to.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 01, 2016 11:41 AM (39g3+)

403 Wayne Rogers is dead??

And Alan Alda still lives. There is no justice in this cold indifferent universe.
Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie! with purchase of commentor of equal or greater value at January 01, 2016 11:39 AM (evdj2)


Sadly, that was my second thought too. And Jimmy Carter is living it up, cancer-free these days.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 01, 2016 11:42 AM (Dj0WE)

404 399

There is. I made sure my kids were exposed to music from many decades. Now they're just as likely to listen to something from the 50s or 60s as more contemporary stuff.

Also, the radio station I work for plays classic hits mainly from the 70s and 80s. It always surprises me how many people in their 20s and 30s say they listen to us.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at January 01, 2016 11:42 AM (RrDm2)

405 My Little G'Dette (age: 10 Earth years) walked into the living room while Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock was playing on the radio the other day.
"Ooh, I like that song."
There may be hope yet.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 01, 2016 11:38 AM (LUgeY)


My music grad daughter (age 26) loves the classic old music from the 60s, particularly the vocal groups. Also Motown. She says today's bands don't sing 4-part harmony like that any more.

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 01, 2016 11:43 AM (Ba/+D)

406 Natalie Cole died?

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 01, 2016 11:43 AM (iQIUe)

407 Yay, I found some peach schnapps. Anyone up for Mimosas?

But wait, that's not, um, what you make mimosas with...

...(suddenly remembers where he is) WTH, how much you got?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 01, 2016 11:43 AM (LUgeY)

408 "Oh and the asshole also joked about being able to call a Nuclear
Sub... again using the US Military as a prop...fuckin cock sucking POS
mother fucker!"

Barky cracks jokes like this, while the commanders of the actual submarine force have been consistently reporting that the USN does not have enough hulls in service even to cover all of their requested peacetime missions, much less in a shooting war, and the gap in deployable capability widens steadily every year until the end of the 2020 decade.

While we're joking here about eating black-eyed peas, this administration has eaten the seed corn.

Posted by: torquewrench at January 01, 2016 11:44 AM (noWW6)

409 Yay, I found some peach schnapps. Anyone up for Mimosas?
One up on you, old man. Mixed the first batch at 5 AM.

Were there disagreements about the band's musical direction?
Why the hell not. There still are.

My Hebrew sucks
If mine had, I'd have married her.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 01, 2016 11:45 AM (xq1UY)

410 391 Oregon Muse

Hi and I will see on the book thread - back after a little break although I've read every single book thread this past year
Happy New Year to and your family !

Posted by: aussie at January 01, 2016 11:45 AM (hXujT)

411 Posted by: torquewrench

Is it odd that I always read your nic as Torquemada?

Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie! with purchase of commentor of equal or greater value at January 01, 2016 11:45 AM (evdj2)

412 Happy New Year

Is it 633 already?

Posted by: ISIS at January 01, 2016 11:45 AM (Z58Xa)

413
The wierd thing is, Zamfir is actually really good on that silly pipe.
Its not bad. Just nothing I could take a full album of listening to.


On that note, the other day I found a Christmas record at the thrift store, by...

....Max Headroom.

Fortunately, only a 45, not a full album.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at January 01, 2016 11:46 AM (oVJmc)

414 Christopher - I'm in, created a green-haired Gnome monk named Valurite on the Sentinels server. I'll see you at 11:00 PST at Gnomeregan if real life doesn't get in the way.

Posted by: Top.Man. at January 01, 2016 11:47 AM (w+lDM)

415 401 Oh, I just remembered that it's time for the New Year reset of all the AoSIgnore commenters. My annual Jubilee, as it were.


Some of youse guys aren't going to last an hour though.
Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie! with purchase of commentor of equal or greater value at January 01, 2016 11:41 AM (evdj2)


I've been on the internet for about 20 years, and I've never, ever put anybody on "ignore", even at sites where it's easy to do with a click of a button.

It's a small point of pride with me. Call it my contribution to freedom of speech.

Posted by: rickl at January 01, 2016 11:47 AM (sdi6R)

416 Two-year-old girl tragically dies just two days after Christmas from eating a battery smaller than a dime

===========
Something to be careful about.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 01, 2016 11:47 AM (iQIUe)

417 394 Lincolnton
Hi there and go the Aussies OI OI OI

*SORRY*

Posted by: aussie at January 01, 2016 11:49 AM (hXujT)

418 ...(suddenly remembers where he is) WTH, how much you got?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 01, 2016 11:43


3 bottles of champagne, 1 bottle schnapps, and 1/2 gallon OJ. Fresh strawberries for some color if so inclined.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 01, 2016 11:49 AM (c/3OG)

419 It's a small point of pride with me. Call it my contribution to freedom of speech.


I put them on ignore as my contribution to freedom of association.

Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie! with purchase of commentor of equal or greater value at January 01, 2016 11:50 AM (evdj2)

420 405
My music grad daughter (age 26) loves the classic old music from the 60s, particularly the vocal groups. Also Motown. She says today's bands don't sing 4-part harmony like that any more.
Posted by: OregonMuse at January 01, 2016 11:43 AM (Ba/+D)


You've turned her on to Postmodern Jukebox, right?

Posted by: rickl at January 01, 2016 11:50 AM (sdi6R)

421 According to "Old Gods Almost Dead," every time the Stones played "Satisfaction" Brian Jones would play "Popeye the Sailor Man."

He just wanted to play old blues songs, and when Jagger and Richards started writing songs he thought they were going commercial and didn't want to do that.

According to the book, Jones and pianist Ian Stewart formed the band. Their manager made Stewart quit because of his looks, though he stayed with them as a sideman until his death.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 01, 2016 11:50 AM (wZtOw)

422 Collard greens and black-eyed peas.
New Year's Day Southern Tradition.

Eat peas for more coin this year.
Eat greens for more dollars this year.
(Corn bread with both)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU_S3bTgt4k

Posted by: Shirley Q Liquor at January 01, 2016 11:50 AM (aUQgu)

423 The wierd thing is, Zamfir is actually really good on that silly pipe.

Its not bad. Just nothing I could take a full album of listening to.

For me, a lot of music fall into that can't listen to for more then an hour.
Dixieland
Fusion Jazz
Blues
Mariachi
Asian music at the Chinese restaurant

Posted by: Bruce at January 01, 2016 11:50 AM (8ikIW)

424 419 It's a small point of pride with me. Call it my contribution to freedom of speech.


I put them on ignore as my contribution to freedom of association.
Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie! with purchase of commentor of equal or greater value at January 01, 2016 11:50 AM (evdj2)


Good rejoinder. *fistbump*

Posted by: rickl at January 01, 2016 11:50 AM (sdi6R)

425 *fistbump*

Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie! with purchase of commentor of equal or greater value at January 01, 2016 11:51 AM (evdj2)

426 "Dalrymple, not Derbyshire"

An easily understandable confusion, however. Both brilliant and both originally sons of Britain.

Posted by: torquewrench at January 01, 2016 11:52 AM (noWW6)

427 Hey, remember when you guys shot my kneecaps earlier? Over a pun? That was funny--it really floored me.

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at January 01, 2016 11:53 AM (/ciMI)

428 Reggie says Barry plays a mean skin flute.

Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at January 01, 2016 11:53 AM (22uju)

429 I'm in, created a green-haired Gnome monk named Valurite on the Sentinels server.

MOARR we must have more 'rons!!!!

...wait...

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 01, 2016 11:53 AM (39g3+)

430 One up on you, old man. Mixed the first batch at 5 AM.


Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 01, 2016 11:45 AM (xq1UY)
Had to wait until family got asses out of bed. So, I started at 5a with Coffee and Kahlua.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 01, 2016 11:54 AM (c/3OG)

431 "Is it odd that I always read your nic as Torquemada?"

No one expects the Mechanical Inquisition!!!

Our chief weapons are fear, surprise, and inebriation.

Posted by: torquewrench at January 01, 2016 11:54 AM (noWW6)

432 No problem, aussie. If I do color for the game, I'll be sure to throw in a quick "OI,OI,OI!" when the Australian team does something impressive.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 01, 2016 11:54 AM (2cS/G)

433 Happy New Year to and your family !
Posted by: aussie at January 01, 2016 11:45 AM (hXujT)


And the same to you and yours, aussie!

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 01, 2016 11:55 AM (Ba/+D)

434 Our chief weapons are fear, surprise, and inebriation.



Posted by: torquewrench

And surprise at our inebriation.


Posted by: Bruce at January 01, 2016 11:55 AM (8ikIW)

435 Happy New Year horde.

Pork, kielbasa and sauerkraut tonight for good luck in 2016.

We're gonna need it.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at January 01, 2016 11:56 AM (hlMPp)

436 You've turned her on to Postmodern Jukebox, right?

Posted by: rickl at January 01, 2016 11:50 AM (sdi6R)


No... I've never heard of it. What is it?

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 01, 2016 11:56 AM (Ba/+D)

437 @430 Well all right then. Credit where due.

Came home from Hawaii yesterday, did not give a thought to the fact that I'd properly cleansed the fridge before leaving. New Years breakfast, no milk or eggs? God bless Howdie Holmes and his (grandmother's) Jiffy Baking Mix Company. Chocolate muffins made with peach yogurt and sour cream, came out great. And, fast-defrosted Wright's bacon. With Asti and orange juice. Gonna be a great year.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 01, 2016 11:58 AM (xq1UY)

438 For me, a lot of music fall into that can't listen to for more then an hour.
Dixieland
Fusion Jazz
Blues
Mariachi
Asian music at the Chinese restaurant


Pretty much anything on the radio. Though I did used to listen to quite a lot of WFMU. They call themselves freeform radio, and boy do they ever mean it. A buddy of mine used to listen to 'em when he lived in NYC, and says that one day the DJ thought it would be a good idea to read the phone book. So he did. For three hours.

Posted by: Snoodling Hero Emeritus at January 01, 2016 11:59 AM (k9qR4)

439 Stringer Davis
first time world problem

Two of our lovely guests have just hopped onto the coffee table to dance *teenagers*

Of course the bubbles have helped get them dancing on my coffee table at 4am

Also music James Brown (not a great fan)
Now for a bit of the wonderful Ray Charles this will get them off the coffee table

Posted by: aussie at January 01, 2016 12:01 PM (hXujT)

440 aussie oh dear, hope that your guests don't destroy your furniture!

Posted by: chemjeff at January 01, 2016 12:03 PM (uZNvH)

441 Stringer,

I did not know the New Year's Gala was on before tonight. What was the whistling piece? (and God save us from ANYTHING related to the UN in the concert hall)

Posted by: Brunnhilde at January 01, 2016 12:03 PM (epLS9)

442 8
I turn 40 in five days. The big birthday my dad promised he would see. He lied. I am already depressed.

Posted by: Jmel at January 01, 2016 08:24 AM (15vyA)

When you see 60, you remember how great 40 was.

Just think when Vic turned 40, we had just gotten our independence.

Posted by: Nip Sip at January 01, 2016 12:03 PM (jJRIy)

443 NewYear's breakfast at casa Lowell is under way. Mimosas and Bloody Mary's are made. Bacon is cooking making the house smell wonderful. Eggs Benedict coming right up.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 01, 2016 12:04 PM (kTF2Z)

444 For me, a lot of music fall into that can't listen to for more then an hour.
Dixieland
Fusion Jazz
Blues
Mariachi
Asian music at the Chinese restaurant


Blues? You couldn't listen to Stevie Ray Vaughan for more than an hour? Eric Clapton? Allman Brothers? Buddy Guy?

For shame...

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 01, 2016 12:04 PM (LUgeY)

445 Jones pulled the original band together. And he was a talented musician. But he had a Dr Jekyl/Mr Hyde personality and was one of those people that should have stayed away from drugs. Acid is not kind to some folks and he seemed to have spiraled out of control on it.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 01, 2016 12:05 PM (Lqy/e)

446 432 Lincolntf

Good onya mate !

Posted by: aussie at January 01, 2016 12:05 PM (hXujT)

447 Just think when Vic turned 40, we had just gotten our independence.


From Babylon.

Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie! with purchase of commentor of equal or greater value at January 01, 2016 12:06 PM (evdj2)

448 Pork, kielbasa and sauerkraut tonight for good luck in 2016.

That sounds good...

Apparently here you're supposed to eat lentils, because they're shaped like coins, but neither of us like them so we're having some round pastas filled with mushrooms.

I'm not sure if we're supposed to eat the marzipan toadstools and "good luck pigs" or if they're like American crappy fruitcake and we just pass them back and forth for years. They're cute, though.

Posted by: HR trinken trinken trinken at January 01, 2016 12:06 PM (vn2q2)

449 @422

Don't forget the Ham hocks.

Posted by: Nip Sip at January 01, 2016 12:06 PM (jJRIy)

450 Created a female Gnome named Poliette. Warlock with green hair in an "up-do" and huge earrings.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 01, 2016 12:06 PM (GDulk)

451 436 You've turned her on to Postmodern Jukebox, right?

Posted by: rickl at January 01, 2016 11:50 AM (sdi6R)

No... I've never heard of it. What is it?
Posted by: OregonMuse at January 01, 2016 11:56 AM (Ba/+D)


I can't believe that. Their songs have been linked here many times. They do modern songs in traditional musical styles. Their inventiveness is amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXYWDtXbBB0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ3BAF_15yQ

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



And that is just of the top of my head. They have tons of stuff on YouTube.

Posted by: rickl at January 01, 2016 12:06 PM (sdi6R)

452 Blues? You couldn't listen to Stevie Ray Vaughan for more than an hour? Eric Clapton? Allman Brothers? Buddy Guy?



For shame...

Nope, I like it. After about an hour I've tuned them out. As a trumpet player I love watching a Mariachi band. I appreciate the abilities of the players. After a while...Meh

Posted by: Bruce at January 01, 2016 12:07 PM (8ikIW)

453 RIP Natalie Cole.
Wow, I played in her pick up orchestras a couple of times.

Posted by: navybrat at January 01, 2016 12:07 PM (Xodlv)

454 Since it's a holiday, decided to pour myself a beer.

Hoppy New Years everyone!

Posted by: HH at January 01, 2016 12:07 PM (DrCtv)

455 Acid is not kind to some folks and he seemed to have spiraled out of control on it.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 01, 2016 12:05 PM (Lqy/e)


Tell me about it.

Posted by: Syd Barrett at January 01, 2016 12:08 PM (Ba/+D)

456 Yeah, rickl, I have that problem too; last time I was looking for that quote I thought it was Vaclav Havel .....

The Dalrymple quote, in full:

"In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of
communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate;
and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced
to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when
they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense
of probity. To assent to obvious lies is...in some small way to become evil oneself.
One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of
emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness,
it has the same effect and is intended to."

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 01, 2016 12:09 PM (erRNA)

457 And what are collard greens? Poor man's spinach?

I like spinach, but never acquired taste for collard greens.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 01, 2016 12:10 PM (c/3OG)

458 John Lennon grew up with tragic parental abandonment issues. His father left England for New Zealand. His mother was a floozy who died young. He got raised by relatives. Yoko became the Mother Who Would Never Leave Him.

And isn't this the story of Obama?

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 01, 2016 12:10 PM (rs5De)

459 433 Oregon Muse
Looking forward to contributing to your great thread

Now still into ancient times - fascinating as always

Posted by: aussie at January 01, 2016 12:10 PM (hXujT)

460 I can't believe that. Their songs have been linked here many times. They do modern songs in traditional musical styles. Their inventiveness is amazing.

Apparently, I haven't been paying attention, but thanks for the PJ links. I will make sure daughter has a listen.

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 01, 2016 12:11 PM (Ba/+D)

461 Christopher Taylor

What is your name on Sentinels so I can friend you?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 01, 2016 12:12 PM (GDulk)

462 Blues? You couldn't listen to Stevie Ray Vaughan for more than an hour? Eric Clapton? Allman Brothers? Buddy Guy?

Don't forget the Wiggles! And if you're into hardcore techno, I'm pretty sure Elmo has a few albums out too.

Posted by: Snoodling Hero Emeritus at January 01, 2016 12:12 PM (k9qR4)

463
Blues? You couldn't listen to Stevie Ray Vaughan for more than an hour? Eric Clapton? Allman Brothers? Buddy Guy?


Yeah, I could listen to blues all day, and often have.

And what are collard greens? Poor man's spinach?

Basically, yeah. Its poor folks picking the green leafy stuff off plants such as collards, and boiling them with lard or bacon, onions, etc. But they are really, really good.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 01, 2016 12:13 PM (39g3+)

464 Cannot listen to modern music for more than 10 to 15 minutes. To my ears it is incredibly abbreviated and with no more than a tiny idea expressed, like a tv jingle. I can only listen to music written between 1800 and 1911. Was there awful music written then? Yes: I don't listen to that either. Am I a music snob? Maybe. My husband says absolutely (and rolls his eyes).

Posted by: Brunnhilde at January 01, 2016 12:13 PM (epLS9)

465 405
My music grad daughter (age 26) loves the classic old music from the 60s, particularly the vocal groups. Also Motown. She says today's bands don't sing 4-part harmony like that any more.
Posted by: OregonMuse at January 01, 2016 11:43 AM (Ba/+D)


--------------------


Introduce her to the 50's song, "Till The End of Time".

Posted by: Soona at January 01, 2016 12:13 PM (Fmupd)

466 Nood...

Posted by: HH at January 01, 2016 12:13 PM (DrCtv)

467 RWC...pork and kraut here too...with a heaping helping of mashed potatoes!

Posted by: Clarney at January 01, 2016 12:13 PM (dgO4h)

468 Nude Something Something Thread

Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie! with purchase of commentor of equal or greater value at January 01, 2016 12:14 PM (evdj2)

469 Clarney

Oh yeah. Forgot about the taters.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at January 01, 2016 12:18 PM (hlMPp)

470 I'm into geriatric rock myself.

Taking the kids 2 c AC/DC on Feb. 20th. All their concerts sell out the day they go on sale.

Some lineup changes, though. Malcolm Young is in a nursing home due to senile dementia, & their drummer (Rudd) is serving a one-year sentence of home confinement in New Zealand for solicitation of murder.

Lead singer is 68.

Posted by: mnw at January 01, 2016 12:19 PM (sUh98)

471 @441 the whistling piece was "Viennese Maidens."

Public radio stations play the WGBH Boston feed (pre-NPR) of Vienna at 11 AM every New Years Day. I never watched the TV because (1)Cronkite and (2) the many voices of the translations are so effing cool.

And the greeting, at the end, to "All good friends of Austria everywhere." Followed by the Radetsky, what in Yerp is called a cavalry march and the US a circus march, a march written for horses, with the sound of hobnails on cobblestones. A mild and friendly...threat. The Caliph thought he could take Vienna. The Caliph was wrong.

"A sound we all hate to hear, but sooner or later it's bound to happen" (WOPR, do you remember that local reference from NWOH?)

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 01, 2016 12:21 PM (xq1UY)

472
How about we work in an updated form of this resolution?

Resolved, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.

Posted by: Richard Henry Lee at January 01, 2016 12:21 PM (BK3ZS)

473 Thanks to rdbrewer for great work on the sidebar for this site during 2015.

Posted by: Born Free at January 01, 2016 12:22 PM (rNRrW)

474 Taking the kids 2 c AC/DC on Feb. 20th. All their concerts sell out the day they go on sale.

Saw a really neato t-shirt online the other day: an image of Nikola Tesla next to one of Thomas Edison.

Below it said "AC/DC"

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 01, 2016 12:23 PM (LUgeY)

475 Lucky meal we have: Hoppin' John, collards (Emeril recipe),cornbread and pecan pie.

Happy, healthy, prosperous and safe New Year, Morons! xoxo

Posted by: ChristyBlinky, aging supermodel Redneck Queen at January 01, 2016 12:24 PM (7lqMl)

476 447
Just think when Vic turned 40, we had just gotten our independence.





From Babylon.

Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie! with purchase of commentor of
equal or greater value at January 01, 2016 12:06 PM (evdj2)

LOL!

Posted by: Nip Sip at January 01, 2016 12:27 PM (jJRIy)

477 Pork, kielbasa and sauerkraut tonight for good luck in 2016.


Sure to dissipate the bad humors of 2015 into the air. Cleansing in preparation for 2015.

(I think I was trying to be polite.)

Posted by: mustbequantum at January 01, 2016 12:29 PM (MIKMs)

478 Milady is up! I told her, good, because the black-eye peas she put on to soak last night won't cook themselves.

Told her Grampa Jimbo says you only need to soak 'em 4 hours, not overnight. (Adding, yeah, but you gotta wait four hours with that method versus sleeping through it.)

Milady replies, well, there's always the quick-soak method: Bring the peas and water to a boil, boil for about two minutes, cover tightly, turn off heat, and let soak for an hour.

FYI for those of y'all who forgot to set 'em to soak overnight.

Posted by: mindful webworker - and corn bread! at January 01, 2016 12:30 PM (mf0wg)

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