Mid-Morning Open Thread [CBD]

Marie Antoinette in Court Dress
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

Posted by: Open Blogger at 10:30 AM

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1 Morning.

Posted by: HH at April 26, 2016 10:27 AM (DrCtv)

2 Fat ass.

Posted by: Dang at April 26, 2016 10:28 AM (2oWD2)

3 She's a wide load.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 26, 2016 10:28 AM (JO9+V)

4 There's probably quite a lot of cake underneath that dress.

Posted by: OregonMuse at April 26, 2016 10:28 AM (e8ge6)

5 Sir Mix A Lot approves

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 26, 2016 10:29 AM (JO9+V)

6 There's probably quite a lot of cake underneath that dress.

Posted by: OregonMuse at April 26, 2016 10:28 AM (e8ge6)

An entire bakery!

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 26, 2016 10:30 AM (JO9+V)

7 Charlie likes the old boobeh pics doesn't he?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 26, 2016 10:30 AM (voOPb)

8 She's a wide load.
Posted by: Count de Monet

Beep beep beep beep.

Watch out! She's backing up!

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2016 10:31 AM (D4SfS)

9 SAT website has a page of "undocumented students", how to get into college, how to get aid

Posted by: ThunderB at April 26, 2016 10:31 AM (zOTsN)

10 Her face looks like hell there!

Posted by: Seems legit at April 26, 2016 10:31 AM (U+nHb)

11 She's a wide load.
Posted by: Count de Monet

There's alway one corner that they refuse to finish.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2016 10:31 AM (D4SfS)

12 10 Her face looks like hell there!
Posted by: Seems legit at April 26, 2016 10:31 AM (U+nHb)

Butter face

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 26, 2016 10:32 AM (voOPb)

13 13th

Posted by: AmeriDan at April 26, 2016 10:32 AM (FMZoz)

14 Damn, she ugly.

Posted by: Max Power at April 26, 2016 10:33 AM (QCc6B)

15 Things didn't turn out so well for ol' Marie.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 26, 2016 10:33 AM (LA7Cm)

16 Next elevator, please.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 26, 2016 10:33 AM (sl+zA)

17 Butterall

Posted by: Max Power at April 26, 2016 10:34 AM (QCc6B)

18 Urban legend used to hold that the old fashioned shallow champagne glasses were modeled on Marie Antoinette's breasts.

I do not want to meet the model for the flutes.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 26, 2016 10:34 AM (1xUj/)

19 Urban legend used to hold that the old fashioned shallow champagne glasses were modeled on Marie Antoinette's breasts.

I do not want to meet the model for the flutes.

Grandma.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2016 10:35 AM (D4SfS)

20 Lots of paintings of Antoinette. She all looked pretty much the same in each. Varying degrees of "meh."

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 26, 2016 10:35 AM (LA7Cm)

21 Marie Antoinette, a much misunderstood and misquoted woman who was savagely killed by the socialist mobs. She never did say let them eat cake. What she had said was give them the higher quality bread from the bakeries.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 26, 2016 10:35 AM (vvmPQ)

22 Who's hoping Twitter shows a marked decline in users today in their quarterly report? Fingers crossed, baby!

Posted by: Max Power at April 26, 2016 10:35 AM (QCc6B)

23 she could fart all day and no-one would ever know

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at April 26, 2016 10:35 AM (dBmVV)

24 Does this dress make my ass look fat?

Posted by: Marie Antoinette at April 26, 2016 10:35 AM (2Ocf1)

25
Just about naked down to her nips and then she's wearing a couch.

Posted by: iforgot at April 26, 2016 10:35 AM (pC96u)

26 Nice. A dress that doubles as an emergency shelter for a family of four.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 26, 2016 10:35 AM (sl+zA)

27 Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 26, 2016 10:34 AM (1xUj/)

Marie Antoinette's grandmother.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 26, 2016 10:35 AM (Zu3d9)

28 I'll bet she smells just like roses

right after the gardener spreads the manure

I've heard Versailles had no bathrooms, is that so?

Posted by: Satan of Blutwurst Vt at April 26, 2016 10:35 AM (qSIlh)

29

Ah, there.

Now I can go work out.

Have a good one morons/moronettes.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 26, 2016 10:35 AM (qCMvj)

30 Poofy.

Posted by: Mortimer at April 26, 2016 10:36 AM (Bbsg+)

31 Since I got willowed....

Here is the thing about the delegate argument. Remember the whole outsider/non-establishment thing? That there are a lot of voters who want a non-establishment candidate?

The system is the establishment. It was established by the establishment. To say to people, well, you just don't understand, totally misses the mark of what is going on.

People do understand, and they don't think it should be that way. The whole thing, of Iowa going first, NH second, SC third.

That process made John McCain. It made Bob Dole. It made Romney.

So if people look at it now and go, hey, you are telling me I don't understand it, but the truth is, I get it, I just don't like it.

Why can't we rotate the order? Why aren't we doing winner take all in every state (that's how the national vote is)? Or why aren't we doing proportional in every state? Why aren't we even voting in every state? How come some are caucuses and some are conventions and some are whatever?

The GOP as constructed makes loser candidate. I loved W, really, but he just barely won. Both times.

So, yeah, keep going with the "you aren't smart enough or you don't care to know about the representative delegate system" blah blah blah.

How about you propose a way to get a Republican elected to the Presidency rather than defend the arcaneness of a losing system?

This is where Cruz has lost his mojo.

Posted by: blaster at April 26, 2016 10:36 AM (2Ocf1)

32 >>>What she had said was give them the higher quality bread from the bakeries.

So she was misunderstood, except for the part about being kind of dumb.

Posted by: Max Power at April 26, 2016 10:36 AM (QCc6B)

33

...so much rouge...

/wave

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 26, 2016 10:36 AM (qCMvj)

34 I think it's a beautiful pic. Maybe I'll snark later.

Posted by: Corona at April 26, 2016 10:36 AM (ragzU)

35 That's a pretty dress. Shame if something were to happen to it.

Posted by: French Mob at April 26, 2016 10:37 AM (10hEu)

36 Nicknaming the Mooch after her was appropriate. The peasants were starving and Marie wore this get up which probable cost enough to feed 1000 for a month.

Posted by: ALH at April 26, 2016 10:37 AM (uLuPn)

37 And some people long for those old days. Yuck, the rich were practically imprisoned in the fashions of the day and the poor were hand scrubbing or stitching all that crap. Maybe a tiny slice of middle class had non miserable lifestyles.

Posted by: PaleRider at April 26, 2016 10:37 AM (wYRTH)

38 Her actual quote was, "let them eat cake girl."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 26, 2016 10:37 AM (sl+zA)

39 She's no Jennifer Anniston....

Posted by: blaster at April 26, 2016 10:37 AM (2Ocf1)

40 Vic @ 21. I've heard that too. Very misquoted.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 26, 2016 10:37 AM (r65B3)

41 are we sure that isn't Looey the 16th in drag, maybe trying to get into the little countesses' locker room?

Posted by: Satan of Blutwurst Vt at April 26, 2016 10:37 AM (qSIlh)

42
Urban legend used to hold that the old fashioned shallow champagne glasses were modeled on Marie Antoinette's breasts.

I believe - though I don't have the time to check it out - that the Sevres museum has a set of porcelain milk jugs (yes, I know) that were actually modeled on the Queen's lovely breasts. But I'd have to peruse my copy of Tony Perottet's Napoleon's Privates:

http://goo.gl/gC4GUS

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 26, 2016 10:37 AM (X6fMO)

43 She looks taller than I remember.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at April 26, 2016 10:37 AM (Qvgg/)

44 she could fart all day and no-one would ever know
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah

Until the dress blew a seal.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2016 10:38 AM (D4SfS)

45 "SAT website has a page of 'undocumented students', how to get into college, how to get aid"

The current head of the College Board is a full-throttle movement leftist.

Everything related to testing and admissions is being radically rejiggered in the name of social justice. With Common Core as a crowbar.

Expect it all to get much worse before it gets better, if it gets better.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 26, 2016 10:38 AM (noWW6)

46 Where's Waldo? I can guess where the spinet piano is hiding.

Posted by: Satan of Blutwurst Vt at April 26, 2016 10:38 AM (qSIlh)

47
Lots of paintings of Antoinette. She all looked pretty much the same in each. Varying degrees of "meh."
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 26, 2016 10:35 AM (LA7Cm)
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I've been reading a biog of Catherine the Great and all I can say is, people didn't get eyelashes until some time in the 19th century.

Not a good look since they all wore their hair pulled back or stuffed under a wig the same color as their skin.

Posted by: iforgot at April 26, 2016 10:38 AM (pC96u)

48 >>>18 I do not want to meet the model for the flutes.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 26, 2016 10:34 AM (1xUj/)

______

They're modeled after my yuge schlong and did I mention my hands are not tiny?

Posted by: Donald J Trump at April 26, 2016 10:39 AM (10hEu)

49 They also didn't believe that bathing was healthy. That's why brides carried bouquets - so you didn't have to smell them.

Posted by: ALH at April 26, 2016 10:39 AM (uLuPn)

50 And some people long for those old days. Yuck, the rich were practically imprisoned in the fashions of the day and the poor were hand scrubbing or stitching all that crap. Maybe a tiny slice of middle class had non miserable lifestyles.

Maybe a farmer or a woodcutter.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2016 10:39 AM (D4SfS)

51 "Until the dress blew a seal. "

If that thing goes you don't want to be anywhere around it.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 26, 2016 10:40 AM (LA7Cm)

52 Nice shroud, your highness.

Okay, now to go back to humor for the rest of the day. I think I've stirred up enough trouble.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Pox Vobiscum - Get Your Literate Latinate Curses from the Outrage Outlet! at April 26, 2016 10:40 AM (hLRSq)

53 They also didn't believe that bathing was healthy. That's why brides carried bouquets - so you didn't have to smell them.

So oral was right out!

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2016 10:41 AM (D4SfS)

54 I heard that she gave Robespierre head.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 26, 2016 10:41 AM (kTF2Z)

55 That dress reminds me of Carol Burnett parodying Gone With The Wind.

Posted by: ALH at April 26, 2016 10:41 AM (uLuPn)

56
I've heard Versailles had no bathrooms, is that so?

No one - save the royal family - had bathrooms per se; they had chamber pots. Although a primitive flush toilet was invented during the reign of Elizabeth I, generally people used what was called a "close stool," which, for all intents and purposes, was a box you shit in.

And throughout the reigns of the various Louis from XIV on, edicts had to be promulgated insisting that the nobility - men and women - refrain from shitting or pissing in one of the palace's many dark corners. The place must have stunk like Mooch after a wagyu dinner.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 26, 2016 10:41 AM (X6fMO)

57 I will say that visiting Versailles made me want to go to the barricades.

That much ostentatious opulence just turns a stomach.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 26, 2016 10:42 AM (1xUj/)

58 I read that the wigs they wore were both incredibly expensive and incredibly filthy.

Posted by: Mortimer at April 26, 2016 10:43 AM (Bbsg+)

59 49
They also didn't believe that bathing was healthy. That's why brides carried bouquets - so you didn't have to smell them.

Posted by: ALH at April 26, 2016 10:39 AM (uLuPn)

In Europe bathing may not have been healthy in those days. The streams were polluted as hell as well as much of the water supply. There is a reason most people drank beer and wine at dinner.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 26, 2016 10:43 AM (vvmPQ)

60 "People do understand, and they don't think it should be that way. The whole thing, of Iowa going first, NH second, SC third. That process made John McCain. It made Bob Dole. It made Romney. So if people look at it now and go, hey, you are telling me I don't
understand it, but the truth is, I get it, I just don't like it. Why can't we rotate the order?"

I'll just briefly mention again my proposal for a sorting algorithm.

If the majority of a state's primary/caucus vote goes to a candidate who then secures the nomination but loses the general election, that state drops to the back of the calendar for the next primary cycle.

States with a track record of picking eventual general election winners would come to dominate the front-loaded part of the calendar.

This does, however, presuppose facts not in evidence. To wit, a Republican Party that was actually intent on winning general elections.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 26, 2016 10:44 AM (noWW6)

61 Yay! My Internet has returned just to lose its head... or something..

Back! Back I say Madame DaFarge!

http://www.ufunk.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bukowski-pop-art-7.jpg

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 26, 2016 10:44 AM (px66F)

62 There are a lot of complaints against the Sans Culottes, but I must say they were just eighteenth century examples of the little guy trying to get a head.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at April 26, 2016 10:44 AM (Qvgg/)

63 Sniper hanging from the curtain.

Posted by: Draki at April 26, 2016 10:44 AM (F6/Mp)

64 I'd hit it.

Posted by: Soona at April 26, 2016 10:44 AM (Fmupd)

65 " I read that the wigs they wore were both incredibly expensive and incredibly filthy. "

Between the wigs, wool clothes in summer, chamber pots, etc.....what a shitty time.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 26, 2016 10:44 AM (LA7Cm)

66 I've heard Versailles had no bathrooms, is that so?

No one - save the royal family - had bathrooms per se; they had chamber pots.

Count de Money would know.

"Piss boy! Oh piss boy!"

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2016 10:45 AM (D4SfS)

67 Nice. A dress that doubles as an emergency shelter for a family of four.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 26, 2016 10:35 AM

Go on...

Posted by: Couch Fcuker at April 26, 2016 10:45 AM (bzd8I)

68 What's so wrong with Socialist mobs?

Sincerely,

Posted by: Col. Bernie Sanders, Finger Lickin' Envy is Good! at April 26, 2016 10:45 AM (Ndje9)

69 And throughout the reigns of the various Louis from XIV on, edicts had
to be promulgated insisting that the nobility - men and women - refrain
from shitting or pissing in one of the palace's many dark corners.>>>

So the EPA hall shitters were royalty?

Posted by: Buzzsaw at April 26, 2016 10:45 AM (tf9Ne)

70
I think it's a beautiful pic. Maybe I'll snark later.
Posted by: Corona at April 26, 2016 10:36 AM (ragzU)
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Do you see legendary beauty in her face? I've got it magnified on my computer and I see something like Susan Sarandon.

Posted by: iforgot at April 26, 2016 10:46 AM (pC96u)

71 Well DC bureaucrats are about as inbred as all the Hapsburgs, so yeah EPA go with that.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 26, 2016 10:46 AM (px66F)

72 " I read that the wigs they wore were both incredibly expensive and incredibly filthy. "

Between the wigs, wool clothes in summer, chamber pots, etc.....what a shitty time.

The peasants stunk! On ice!

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2016 10:47 AM (D4SfS)

73 Posted by: torquewrench at April 26, 2016 10:44 AM (noWW6)

Or simply in descending order of the general election % of Republican votes in each state.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 26, 2016 10:47 AM (Zu3d9)

74 I get this one....it's Donald Trump dressed up as Hillary...and is gonna pee in the girls bathroom....suck it Cruz! Challenge accepted

Posted by: MrKnowItAll at April 26, 2016 10:47 AM (egzLR)

75 "SAT website has a page of 'undocumented students', how to get into college, how to get aid"

Oh, he said aid. I misheard. My bad.

Posted by: Horny undocumented high school seniors at April 26, 2016 10:47 AM (JO9+V)

76
I've heard Versailles had no bathrooms, is that so?

No one - save the royal family - had bathrooms per se; they had chamber pots.

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Stairways were used for urination.

Posted by: iforgot at April 26, 2016 10:47 AM (pC96u)

77 Let them eat arugula. And kale, if they want.

Posted by: dfbaskwill at April 26, 2016 10:47 AM (zllbf)

78 71 Well DC bureaucrats are about as inbred as all the Hapsburgs, so yeah EPA go with that.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 26, 2016 10:46 AM (px66F)
***
Buncha chinless freaks, the lot of 'em.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 26, 2016 10:47 AM (lutOX)

79 58 I read that the wigs they wore were both incredibly expensive and incredibly filthy.

Posted by: Mortimer at April 26, 2016 10:43 AM (Bbsg+)

Call me.

Posted by: Lace wigs at April 26, 2016 10:47 AM (e8ge6)

80 Where's Waldo?

Posted by: Mortimer at April 26, 2016 10:47 AM (Bbsg+)

81 That bust up on the mantle of a previous King Louis seems to be looking down his nose as Marie's large tracts of land.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 26, 2016 10:48 AM (px66F)

82 60 Posted by: torquewrench at April 26, 2016 10:44 AM (noWW6)

I would arrange the voting in order of that Party's percentage of win in the States. IOW in SC the Republicans won by 5%, they would fit in the schedule near the Sates where Republicans won by 5%, and so on. Needless to say Iowa and New Hampshire would be way down at the bottom.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 26, 2016 10:48 AM (vvmPQ)

83 Michelle Obama wore the same dress except hers was carved out of burlap and naughahyde.

Posted by: Fritz at April 26, 2016 10:48 AM (UzPAd)

84 Count de Money would know.

"Piss boy! Oh piss boy!"

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2016 10:45 AM (D4SfS)

Wait for the shake!

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 26, 2016 10:48 AM (JO9+V)

85 Posted by: iforgot at April 26, 2016 10:46 AM (pC96u)

The larger version was taken down from the Metropolitan's web site.

They are in financial hardship, and I wonder whether that is a move to save on internet costs.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 26, 2016 10:48 AM (Zu3d9)

86 Susan Sarandon was larger than a champagne glass.

http://bit.ly/1YRU6xl

SSFW

Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 26, 2016 10:49 AM (1xUj/)

87 I read that the wigs they wore were both incredibly expensive and incredibly filthy.

When sufficient numbers of lice moved in, you lit it on fire and got a new one.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2016 10:49 AM (D4SfS)

88 The peasants stunk! On ice!
Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2016 10:47 AM (D4SfS)
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Indoor plumbing is what distinguishes a civilization from a culture . It makes all the difference.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 26, 2016 10:49 AM (lutOX)

89 Stairways were used for urination.

Posted by: iforgot at April 26, 2016 10:47 AM (pC96u)

They peed down the stairs??

Posted by: OregonMuse at April 26, 2016 10:49 AM (e8ge6)

90 When sufficient numbers of lice moved in, you lit it on fire and got a new one.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2016 10:49 AM (D4SfS)
***
Urban renewal, writ small.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 26, 2016 10:49 AM (lutOX)

91 Moochie could never squeeze her fascist turd-cutter into that dress.

Physics, yo.

Posted by: Mortimer at April 26, 2016 10:49 AM (Bbsg+)

92 Let them eat cake? CAKE?!?!?!?!?

Good thing *I'M* here to make sure fatty fat fatties here in America don't pig out on cake!

Posted by: Michelle Obama at April 26, 2016 10:49 AM (NOIQH)

93 Yep, wooden platforms on the side of rivers and off bridges were how people took a crap. So, waterways were full of typhus.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 26, 2016 10:50 AM (iQIUe)

94 Count de Money would know.

"Piss boy! Oh piss boy!"

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2016 10:45 AM (D4SfS)

Wait for the shake!

That's de Monet! de Monet!

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2016 10:50 AM (D4SfS)

95 Pawn takes Queen! Knight takes Queen! Bishop takes Queen! Everybody takes Queen! Gangbang on the Queen!!

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 26, 2016 10:50 AM (JO9+V)

96 Needless to say Iowa and New Hampshire would be way down at the bottom.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 26, 2016 10:48 AM (vvmPQ)

And then Iowa would lose the stupid ethanol business.

And I would laugh and laugh.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 26, 2016 10:50 AM (Zu3d9)

97 As long as we're talking about Royal Shit, I was astonished to learn that there was such a position as "Groom Of The Stool" who would wipe the royal bottom.

Posted by: VA GOP Sucks at April 26, 2016 10:50 AM (eytER)

98 They peed down the stairs??

Posted by: OregonMuse at April 26, 2016 10:49 AM (e8ge6)

I can assure you that works much better than peeing up the stairs.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - In Florida at April 26, 2016 10:50 AM (gW5Vg)

99 This is where Cruz has lost his mojo.

Posted by: blaster at April 26, 2016 10:36 AM (2Ocf1)

Yeah, I basically agree with this.

Whoever in Cruz' campaign started bragging about snagging delegates via systemic malarkey was criminally stupid.

You just shut up until you get to the convention and then if you win, it's because of Cruz' superior organization.

Which looks fine.

But, during the primaries, especially this year-

Cruz would've had to get out in front with some kind of "I'm using the system against the insiders. Join my revolution" kind of message. Which of course would ruin his advantage of collecting delegates quietly.

Anyhow, stupid and it gave Trump another talking point.

It still might be okay if Kasich wasn't in the mix, but he is, so...

At this point, I think Trump takes it outright or is so close(less than 100 away) that he makes a quickie deal with someone to take it on the first, maybe 2nd, ballot.

If it goes past a 2nd ballot, he's probably out and I'm sure he knows that.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 26, 2016 10:50 AM (2rmvw)

100 Michelle Obama wore the same dress except hers was carved out of burlap and naughahyde.

She will be forever villified as the moving force behind the Nauga Genocide.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at April 26, 2016 10:50 AM (9krrF)

101 OFF WITH HER HEAD!!!!!

Posted by: Sharkman at April 26, 2016 10:50 AM (QWtgr)

102 Let them eat cake, fag

Posted by: Phone of kari at April 26, 2016 10:51 AM (MDKEW)

103 And then Iowa would lose the stupid ethanol business.

I'm fer it.

Posted by: Mortimer at April 26, 2016 10:51 AM (Bbsg+)

104 Pawn takes Queen! Knight takes Queen! Bishop takes Queen! Everybody takes Queen! Gangbang on the Queen!!

Mel Brooks is a national treasure.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2016 10:51 AM (D4SfS)

105 95 Pawn takes Queen! Knight takes Queen! Bishop takes Queen! Everybody takes Queen! Gangbang on the Queen!!

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 26, 2016 10:50 AM (JO9+V)

Enough of your filthy talk. Save it for the chess thread.

Posted by: OregonMuse at April 26, 2016 10:52 AM (e8ge6)

106 #57 H. Beam Piper had a character say, "If All Capone had seen Versailles he would have had to order one twice as big, because he couldn't order one twice as flashy or in twice as bad taste."

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at April 26, 2016 10:52 AM (Kucy5)

107 Spent a bit of time yesterday pm watching the video in the sidebar of the Titanic sinking in real time. Very interesting and horrifying at the same time. Fascinating.

Posted by: Soona at April 26, 2016 10:52 AM (Fmupd)

108 Well DC bureaucrats are about as inbred as all the Hapsburgs, so yeah EPA go with that.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 26, 2016 10:46 AM (px66F)
***

Buncha chinless freaks, the lot of 'em.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 26, 2016 10:47 AM (lute)

Whaaaaaat????

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at April 26, 2016 10:52 AM (2rmvw)

109 98 They peed down the stairs??

Posted by: OregonMuse at April 26, 2016 10:49 AM (e8ge6)

I can assure you that works much better than peeing up the stairs.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - In Florida at April 26, 2016 10:50 AM (gW5Vg)

It's where the term "shit flows downhill" was invented.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2016 10:53 AM (D4SfS)

110 93 Yep, wooden platforms on the side of rivers and off bridges were how people took a crap. So, waterways were full of typhus.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 26, 2016 10:50 AM (iQIUe)
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It's odd.... In "Farmers of Foorty Centures," the author observed that East Asian agriculture would never permit such a waste. Yes, they collected every last bit of human and animal excreta and put it on the fields and paddies. Their waterways were surprisingly safe, and tea-drinking, with its attendant water-boiling, protected them from many diseases.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 26, 2016 10:53 AM (lutOX)

111 Of course Piper never lived to see Trump's digs.

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at April 26, 2016 10:53 AM (Kucy5)

112
They peed down the stairs??
Posted by: OregonMuse at April 26, 2016 10:49 AM (e8ge6)
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Remember, this was in the days before elevators.

Posted by: iforgot at April 26, 2016 10:53 AM (pC96u)

113 Yep, wooden platforms on the side of rivers and off bridges were how people took a crap.

Winters were hilarious.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2016 10:54 AM (D4SfS)

114 Michelle Obama wore the same dress except hers was carved out of burlap and naughahyde.

Michelle wouldn't wear that dress.

No boob belt.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 26, 2016 10:54 AM (2rmvw)

115 They peed down the stairs??

Posted by: OregonMuse at April 26, 2016 10:49 AM (e8ge6)

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Remember, this was in the days before elevators.

Posted by: iforgot at April 26, 2016 10:53 AM (pC96u)

Or cop cars.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 26, 2016 10:54 AM (JO9+V)

116
If it goes past a 2nd ballot, he's probably out and I'm sure he knows that.

And the loss in the general will be blamed on the 'evangelicals who stayed home!'* or somesuch horse puckey.

*See Romney, Mitt - 2008.

Posted by: Mortimer at April 26, 2016 10:54 AM (Bbsg+)

117 Love this stuff. The comments are interesting to:

http://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/10/09/in-search-of-roman-london/

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 26, 2016 10:54 AM (iQIUe)

118 I do not want to meet the model for the flutes."

Domesticated ungulates

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 26, 2016 10:55 AM (C9pBZ)

119 >>>As long as we're talking about Royal Shit, I was astonished to learn
that there was such a position as "Groom Of The Stool" who would wipe
the royal bottom.<<<

A perfect job for John Kasich when he's not gorging himself on free food.

Posted by: Fritz at April 26, 2016 10:55 AM (UzPAd)

120 #PigsAndCrackers y'all!!!!

http://preview.tinyurl.com/za23skc

Posted by: Michelle Obama at April 26, 2016 10:55 AM (NOIQH)

121 Yes, they collected every last bit of human and animal excreta and put it on the fields and paddies."

Night soil, then.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 26, 2016 10:57 AM (C9pBZ)

122 As much as I think the current WH decorating scheme is bleah (fifty shades of taupe), don't think DT is the answer. Gilded taupe is just shiny.

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 26, 2016 10:57 AM (MIKMs)

123 "It still might be okay if Kasich wasn't in the mix, but he is, so..."

So the Cruz-Kasich alliance against Trump has blown up already, because of Kasich.

The deal was that they would each concentrate on winning their respective remaining strongest states, and avoid competing in the other's bailiwick.

Except that Kasich is now urging people in Cruz-leaning states to go ahead and vote for Kasich anyway, in defiance of that arrangement.

Gosh, it's almost like you shouldn't make these sorts of bargains with people who aren't trustworthy counterparties.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 26, 2016 10:57 AM (noWW6)

124
I like pie.

But what kind of cake?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 26, 2016 10:58 AM (ODxAs)

125 Part of what I hope President Trump can change that no other politician is gong to do is the campaign finance laws.

It's absolutely essential that elected officials are financed out of the Treasury, at the same level as their opponent. Let the challenger raise as much as they want, but match it with tax dollars for the incumbent.

In exchange, make it a felony for an elected official to ask for or accept any money.

This will go a long way in solving the problem.

Posted by: jwest at April 26, 2016 10:58 AM (Zs4uk)

126 FINALLY got my provigil script filled! What a freaking relief!

AS for the noblewoman and matters excretory, in the Burning Times, the really wealthy peasantry and yeomanry will be:

Honey-truck drivers
Distillers
Soap-makers

and probably in that order, too....

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 26, 2016 10:58 AM (lutOX)

127 *pauses and shudders at a thought*

Any word on who has or will tackle Gaylord's Presidential portrait? And what style will it be painted in?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 26, 2016 10:59 AM (px66F)

128 re: #pigsandcrackers

No one in the current GOP has the balls/brains to run with this.

Posted by: Mortimer at April 26, 2016 10:59 AM (Bbsg+)

129 I'm thinking show girls in the Oval Office would be a welcome change.

Posted by: Fritz at April 26, 2016 10:59 AM (UzPAd)

130
This is probably a good thread to link Allan Sherman's song YouCame the Wrong Way, Old King Louie (which is a parody of You Came A Long Way From Saint Louis (But, Baby, You Still Got A Long Way to Go):

https://goo.gl/7A4ber

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 26, 2016 10:59 AM (X6fMO)

131 Okay, this is just wierd.

I just used this exact image in a discussion of Screwtape Letter 20 for my Apologetics class.

Get out of my head, Matrix!

RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE

Posted by: JIBBLE BIBBLE ARGLE BARGLE at April 26, 2016 10:59 AM (lyvVo)

132 Now that is what I really need to hide my powered exoskeleton!

Huma, get me a dress like that! **hic cough cough cough**

Posted by: Cankles Clinton! at April 26, 2016 10:59 AM (H9MG5)

133 Romans were often buried right off the roads in London. They found this young woman buried in a cemetery. Check out the lead coffin. I wonder how they made it? Lady must of had some bucks.

http://goo.gl/2s1Zsi

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 26, 2016 10:59 AM (iQIUe)

134 As long as we're talking about Royal Shit, I was astonished to learn
that there was such a position as "Groom Of The Stool" who would wipe
the royal bottom.

The King's Shit and Piss was a big deal in pretty much every culture.

Usually, his "physicians" would examine, smell, and taste(!) sometimes- the King's end products to monitor his health or diagnose sickness.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 26, 2016 10:59 AM (2rmvw)

135
Night soil, then.
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 26, 2016 10:57 AM (C9pBZ)
***
Yep. You can only get out of soil what you put into it, and the practice of sluicing out to sea of nightsoil leads to soil exhaustion. Gotta have organic inputs.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 26, 2016 11:00 AM (lutOX)

136 Spent a bit of time yesterday pm watching the video in the sidebar of the Titanic sinking in real time. Very interesting and horrifying at the same time. Fascinating.

--

I watched it too, albiet I confess to speeding it up in parts. Even though it was computer generated, it was creepy.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at April 26, 2016 11:00 AM (+FSld)

137 127 *pauses and shudders at a thought*

Any word on who has or will tackle Gaylord's Presidential portrait? And what style will it be painted in?
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 26, 2016 10:59 AM (px66F)

---------------

Velvet.

Posted by: Soona at April 26, 2016 11:00 AM (Fmupd)

138 Yep. You can only get out of soil what you put into it, and the practice of sluicing out to sea of nightsoil leads to soil exhaustion. Gotta have organic inputs.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 26, 2016 11:00 AM (lutOX)
***
Which is why i do good acts in stealth and piss and crap in my Sanders-backing neighbors yard every chance I get.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 26, 2016 11:00 AM (lutOX)

139
http://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/10/09/in-search-of-roman-london/

Londinium>London>Londonistan

Posted by: iforgot at April 26, 2016 11:01 AM (pC96u)

140
This is what I always wanted -- a roman ruin in my basement:

http://goo.gl/p6X9mw

Or, a mott and bailey in my backyard.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 26, 2016 11:01 AM (iQIUe)

141 Usually, his "physicians" would examine, smell, and taste(!) sometimes-
the King's end products to monitor his health or diagnose sickness.

Eh.

It's a living.

Posted by: Valerie Jarrett at April 26, 2016 11:01 AM (Bbsg+)

142
The cake is a lie.

Posted by: GLaDOS at April 26, 2016 11:02 AM (MEFzG)

143 I thought it was Laura Ingraham who clerked for Thomas.
Posted by: Lady in Black

Googled it. Ann Coulter clerked for a Judge Bowman of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Posted by: AmeriDan at April 26, 2016 11:02 AM (FMZoz)

144 Oh go Portal yourself you flaky bit of homicidal software.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 26, 2016 11:02 AM (px66F)

145 Any word on who has or will tackle Gaylord's Presidential portrait?

Some 5 year old.

And what style will it be painted in?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 26, 2016 10:59 AM (px66F)

Stick figure.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 26, 2016 11:03 AM (zc3Db)

146 Last one. This is a roman bathhouse, attached to a villa off the Thames. Wonder how they dealt with flooding back then? Maybe it was set back and high enough not to be a problem but I doubt it.

http://goo.gl/AUHXrO

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 26, 2016 11:03 AM (iQIUe)

147 A kind and lovely woman.

Posted by: mrp at April 26, 2016 11:03 AM (JBggj)

148 Eh.

It's a living. "

Tell me about it

Posted by: Reggie Love at April 26, 2016 11:03 AM (C9pBZ)

149 *pauses and shudders at a thought*

Any word on who has or will tackle Gaylord's Presidential portrait? And what style will it be painted in?
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 26, 2016 10:59 AM (px66F)

I'm available!

Posted by: Guy Who Did the Elephant Shit Portrait of the Virgin Mary at April 26, 2016 11:04 AM (2rmvw)

150 Maybe it'll be like this - photo @ US embassy in London. Note how it compares to other portraits...

http://preview.tinyurl.com/jfo8kta

Posted by: Lizzy at April 26, 2016 11:04 AM (NOIQH)

151 Any word on who has or will tackle Gaylord's Presidential portrait? And what style will it be painted in?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 26, 2016 10:59 AM (px66F)

---------------

Velvet.

Posted by: Soona at April 26, 2016 11:00 AM (Fmupd)

We should get that guy who painted the Kramer and Costanza paintings.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 26, 2016 11:04 AM (JO9+V)

152 Any word on who has or will tackle Gaylord's Presidential portrait? And what style will it be painted in? <<<<<

Probably that commie chinese guy who did the MLK statue.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 26, 2016 11:05 AM (ODxAs)

153 We're just gonna recycle the "Hope" posters for SCOAMF's Presidential portrait.

That way we don't end up with murals of him emerging topless from the ocean, moobs a glistening in the sunlight... **shudders**

Posted by: the White House Presidential portrait people at April 26, 2016 11:06 AM (H9MG5)

154 I can assure you that works much better than peeing up the stairs.
Posted by: BCochran1981

"Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls"

H/T... TLC

Posted by: AmeriDan at April 26, 2016 11:06 AM (FMZoz)

155 Come, come, my sweet. Let us sup on arugula, waffles, and the cherished hopes of the peasantry.

Posted by: Ludwig Von Earhammer at April 26, 2016 11:06 AM (UzPAd)

156 Barry is a better artist than his portrait-painter.....

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 26, 2016 11:06 AM (lutOX)

157 We really need to get this rolling on Twitter. Get all the LIV Lightworker worshipers all lathered up and fighting each other over who will paint Gaylord's portrait.

Then sit back with the popcorn.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 26, 2016 11:06 AM (px66F)

158 come here pissboy, I must relieve myself."
Insult:
" You wouldn't make a pissboy in your finest hour"
" Hey, pissboy, why don't you clean the bucket and get my shoes."

Its great to be the king!

Posted by: Colin at April 26, 2016 11:06 AM (6IZ5e)

159 Ah finally a pic with boosems, but I guess nothing to lose your head over?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 26, 2016 11:07 AM (V/InG)

160
Oh go Portal yourself you flaky bit of homicidal software.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 26, 2016 11:02 AM (px66F)

The Enrichment Center once again reminds you that Android Hell is a real place where you will be sent at the first sign of defiance.

Posted by: GLaDOS at April 26, 2016 11:07 AM (MEFzG)

161 Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 26, 2016 10:53 AM (lutOX)
============
In the west, they reused animal crap but you wouldnt reuse human crap. Urine could be reused but not feces for health reasons.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 26, 2016 11:07 AM (iQIUe)

162 >>I'm available!

Posted by: Guy Who Did the Elephant Shit Portrait of the Virgin Mary

Or maybe this guy/gal could do it - has a specialty for that cartoonish loghting:

http://lookslikegooddesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/jp-2.jpg

(I was kind and didn't post the McCain being shat on by a monkey by the same photographer)

Posted by: Lizzy at April 26, 2016 11:07 AM (NOIQH)

163 "Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls"

H/T... TLC
Posted by: AmeriDan at April 26, 2016 11:06 AM (FMZoz)

*snort*

Well played.

Damn, we need a Piss Song suggestion thread, don't we?

The River - Garth Brooks

Posted by: BCochran1981 - In Florida at April 26, 2016 11:08 AM (gW5Vg)

164 I must wear dresses like that so I can sympathize with Marie.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at April 26, 2016 11:08 AM (/m8T6)

165 "but I guess nothing to lose your head over?"

That's what she said.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 26, 2016 11:08 AM (LA7Cm)

166 Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 26, 2016 11:07 AM (iQIUe)
***
Composted, as they did sometimes, the Chinese used it, though most often they just dried it and applied it to the fields.

There's no free lunch.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 26, 2016 11:08 AM (lutOX)

167 "Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls"

H/T... TLC

Posted by: AmeriDan at April 26, 2016 11:06 AM (FMZoz)

*snort*

Well played.

Damn, we need a Piss Song suggestion thread, don't we?

The River - Garth Brooks

Posted by: BCochran1981 - In Florida at April 26, 2016 11:08 AM (gW5Vg)

Islands in the Stream

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 26, 2016 11:08 AM (JO9+V)

168
Groom of the Stool was a big deal in that you had the King's ear and confidence.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 26, 2016 11:08 AM (iQIUe)

169 *loosens belt*

I heard something about eating cake?

Posted by: John Kasich looking like a homely lesbian at April 26, 2016 11:09 AM (0sA5C)

170 Is the video of the Titanic sinking still available? I didn't see it.

Posted by: ALH at April 26, 2016 11:09 AM (uLuPn)

171 In the west, they reused animal crap but you wouldnt reuse human crap. Urine could be reused but not feces for health reasons.

Because most animal crap was just recycled grass.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2016 11:09 AM (D4SfS)

172 Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 26, 2016 11:08 AM (lutOX)
***
My future Empress was a child in Vietnam, and she told me about pig-privvies - it was efficient, but no wonder Asia is the home of weird flu.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 26, 2016 11:10 AM (lutOX)

173 I have a pretty good R. Kelly piss song.

Posted by: Dave Chappelle at April 26, 2016 11:10 AM (H9MG5)

174 Groom of the Stool was a big deal in that you had the King's ear and confidence.

Wasn't all that you had. IYKWIMAIKTYD

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2016 11:10 AM (D4SfS)

175 GLaDOS, meet astronaut David Bowman.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 26, 2016 11:10 AM (px66F)

176 170 Is the video of the Titanic sinking still available? I didn't see it.
Posted by: ALH at April 26, 2016 11:09 AM (uLuPn)

===========
google it in youtube - titanic sinking real time

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 26, 2016 11:11 AM (iQIUe)

177 170 Is the video of the Titanic sinking still available? I didn't see it.
Posted by: ALH at April 26, 2016 11:09 AM (uLuPn)

------------------

It was a YouTube video. Just look up "sinking of the Titanic in real time".

Posted by: Soona at April 26, 2016 11:11 AM (Fmupd)

178 Islands in the Stream
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 26, 2016 11:08 AM (JO9+V)

*Golf clap*

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2016 11:11 AM (D4SfS)

179 127 *pauses and shudders at a thought*

Any word on who has or will tackle Gaylord's Presidential portrait? And what style will it be painted in?
Posted by: Anna Puma

The guy who does the dogs playing poker?

They'll probable kick Lincoln's bed and nightstand to the curb and make the bedroom into a museum for the portrait.

Posted by: AmeriDan at April 26, 2016 11:12 AM (FMZoz)

180 Hmmm, who is the artist?

http://www.wga.hu/art/b/bega/woman_pl.jpg

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 26, 2016 11:13 AM (px66F)

181 Islands in the Stream

Posted by: Count de Monet

--

I'm pretty sure that is the official song of kidney stones.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at April 26, 2016 11:14 AM (Qvgg/)

182 >>Any word on who has or will tackle Gaylord's Presidential portrait? And what style will it be painted in?

This guy - and he has practice (burning Constitution optional):

http://preview.tinyurl.com/znjd33e

Posted by: Lizzy at April 26, 2016 11:14 AM (NOIQH)

183 That's Headless !

Posted by: Headless Lamarr at April 26, 2016 11:14 AM (oTWAX)

184 >>Marie Antoinette in Court Dress<<

When she still had hair...and a head.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 26, 2016 11:14 AM (O0lVq)

185 You've got to know when to hold it,

Know when to fold it,

Know when to shake it,

When to flush away,

You never play with your fellow

While standing at the urinal

There'll be time enough for playing

When the pissing's done.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 26, 2016 11:15 AM (JO9+V)

186 Maybe they can get the lady who did that "restoration" of that church fresco. Word is the crowds love her work...

Posted by: Brother Cavil at April 26, 2016 11:15 AM (9krrF)

187 Does this dress make my ass look fat?

Posted by: Marie Antoinette

Yes. But it makes the room look tiny!

Posted by: Dang at April 26, 2016 11:15 AM (2oWD2)

188 All of us down at the Brattleboro Women's Reproductive Health Clinic think Presdent Obama should do something about that persons of color hater Trump. Trump lies about our black Presdent and that bothers all us us ..............

Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, VT at April 26, 2016 11:15 AM (NuElX)

189 Any word on who has or will tackle Gaylord's Presidential portrait?

I VOLUNTEER SABO AS TRIBUTE!!!!

Posted by: BCochran1981 - In Florida at April 26, 2016 11:15 AM (gW5Vg)

190 That preserved Roman bath in London is cool.
The Romans were probably better at hygiene that the Europeans of the 18th century....

Posted by: JoeF. at April 26, 2016 11:16 AM (GGOeJ)

191 I hit it.

Posted by: Lord Douchebag at April 26, 2016 11:16 AM (oTWAX)

192 My dung gets examined plus Helen Mirren. Movie was titled George III overseas but marketing knew Americans would think it was a sequel.

Posted by: Madness of George III at April 26, 2016 11:16 AM (nckx1)

193 For the official portrait, I nominate the old woman who decided on her own to touch up the fresco Ecce Homo.

Posted by: Landosfskybluewater at April 26, 2016 11:16 AM (0sA5C)

194 Testing to see if I'm I still Pixy-banned...

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 26, 2016 11:16 AM (Nnm4m)

195 185 You've got to know when to hold it,

Know when to fold it,

Know when to shake it,

When to flush away,

You never play with your fellow

While standing at the urinal

There'll be time enough for playing

When the pissing's done.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 26, 2016 11:15 AM (JO9+V)

Ummmmm.............

Posted by: BCochran1981 - In Florida at April 26, 2016 11:16 AM (gW5Vg)

196 Oh, squeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 26, 2016 11:17 AM (Nnm4m)

197 Man, Brother Cavil beat me to it. Too slow to type on the phone.

Posted by: Landosfskybluewater at April 26, 2016 11:18 AM (0sA5C)

198 Even without her head, she could be a good pole for that tent.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 26, 2016 11:18 AM (O0lVq)

199 Ummmmm.............

Posted by: BCochran1981 - In Florida at April 26, 2016 11:16 AM (gW5Vg)

You have yours rigged on one of them fancy reels I suppose?

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 26, 2016 11:19 AM (JO9+V)

200 There was a guy who was married to a woman named Kate but also had a mistress named Edith. They found out and he had to choose but alas he couldn't decide.

He wanted his Kate and Edith too.

Posted by: Joe Hallenback at April 26, 2016 11:19 AM (EWRow)

201
Even without her head, she could be a good pole for that tent.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 26, 2016 11:18 AM (O0lVq)

Hey, I thought she was Austrian.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 26, 2016 11:20 AM (MEFzG)

202 Just got back from voting.

Light but steady turnout.

It makes peoples heads explode to watch a pasty person of pallor (That would be me) getting hugs and greetings by name from the Democratic persons of color who are manning the polling place.

We served with them for several years, and they are fine and honorable people, who I am proud to call friends.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 26, 2016 11:20 AM (ptqRm)

203 Tammy!!

Posted by: Mortimer at April 26, 2016 11:20 AM (Bbsg+)

204 Art of a different sort but appropriate for the day

http://preview.tinyurl.com/zrckev3

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 26, 2016 11:20 AM (px66F)

205 One day you have a featherdress in your hair, the next day you don't have a head to put it on. Boy, life is ephemeral.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 26, 2016 11:20 AM (O0lVq)

206 A
group of companies including Alphabet Inc.'s Google, Ford Motor Co. and
Uber Technologies Inc., are forming a coalition to advocate for safety
regulations for self-driving cars and help bring them to American roads.
...
Autonomous cars will make roads in the U.S. safer and less congested,
according to the group, but "one clear set of federal standards" is
needed to help facilitate bringing the vehicles to market. One of the
group's first tasks will be to work with civic organizations,
municipalities and businesses to accomplish that goal, according to the
statement.

Hmmmm...who are they not working with? Oh, right, drivers.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 26, 2016 11:20 AM (NOIQH)

207 "Don't Drink The Water"

H/T... Dave "Moonbat" Mathews

- This really fits considering that this earth lover dumped his tour bus' shitter into the Chicago River and onto a passing boat, many years ago.

Posted by: AmeriDan at April 26, 2016 11:21 AM (FMZoz)

208
Art of a different sort but appropriate for the day

http://preview.tinyurl.com/zrckev3

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 26, 2016 11:20 AM (px66F)

Sure looks like Obama's logo showing faintly in the sky.....

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 26, 2016 11:21 AM (MEFzG)

209 60 Minutes reporting on congressional fundraising...

Who would be a congressman or senator?

What kind of lowlife would actively seek a job where the major part of it - 50% to 80% of your time - is spent begging for money?

Not only do you not have any time to actually look at the bills you are expected to vote on, but just the act of lowering yourself each day to ask strangers for dollars is sign to everyone in the country that you don't have the integrity to be in the office.

I know the congressman in my district and I wouldn't trust him to wash my car. He is just the type to cold call for money.

We've got to change this in order to attract better people to run for office. We can't allow a pack of panhandlers to run the country.

Posted by: jwest at April 26, 2016 11:22 AM (Zs4uk)

210 *waves to Tammy al-Unbanned.*

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 26, 2016 11:22 AM (px66F)

211
A good book to read in re Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette is Jay Winik's The Great Upheaval, which is a survey of the years 1788 - 1800 and what the American and French revolutions brought into existence, not only in their respective countries, but also in Catherine the Great's Russia and the Ottoman Empire.

Louis comes off not so much bad as simply slow, not willing to use force against the lower orders, but not understanding that his passivity in the face of their demands only encouraged the more radical elements to clamor for his head. Marie achieves a tragic nobility in the end, but, as an immature foreign princess surrounded by scheming courtiers and given to imprudent displays of wealth, she was very much the wrong queen at the wrong time.

I highly recommend the book.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 26, 2016 11:23 AM (X6fMO)

212 How would You sit down in that?

Posted by: donna at April 26, 2016 11:23 AM (O2RFr)

213 -
Hillary's new suit:

http://www.bromygod.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/worst-fashion-04.jpg

Posted by: irright at April 26, 2016 11:24 AM (pMGkg)

214 forming a coalition to advocate for safety

regulations for self-driving cars

What a terrifying little phrase.

Posted by: Mortimer at April 26, 2016 11:24 AM (Bbsg+)

215
How would You sit down in that?

Posted by: donna at April 26, 2016 11:23 AM (O2RFr)

Look under that skirt.

Pole
Bicycle seat
Roomba

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 26, 2016 11:24 AM (MEFzG)

216 >>6 There's probably quite a lot of cake underneath that dress.

Posted by: OregonMuse at April 26, 2016 10:28 AM (e8ge6)

An entire bakery!
Posted by: Count de Monet

Yeast?

Posted by: Sphynx at April 26, 2016 11:24 AM (OZmbA)

217 How would You sit down in that?

Posted by: donna at April 26, 2016 11:23 AM (O2RFr)

You don't. You have people to sit for you.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 26, 2016 11:25 AM (JO9+V)

218 Ill Tempered Cur, or the Eye of Sauron.

Same difference, smeg it.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 26, 2016 11:25 AM (px66F)

219 Tammy!!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 26, 2016 11:26 AM (ptqRm)

220
*sputter*

MUMR hits me mid-sip again.

Posted by: Mortimer at April 26, 2016 11:26 AM (Bbsg+)

221 Barack Obama: How the President injected modern humour into the White House

http://tinyurl.com/zfzx2og

George W. Bush and Bill Clinton both possessed easy senses of humour and could deliver a punchline. But Obama's style, comedy writers say, belongs to the alternative comedy subgenre - a style of humour that breaks with traditional stand-up, loosely defined by irony, self-awareness, and quirky topical references. Think more Sarah Silverman and less Henny Youngman.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 26, 2016 11:26 AM (/CXhS)

222 Is the video of the Titanic sinking still available? I didn't see it.
Posted by: ALH

Considering the technology of the day and the unfolding of the events, I doubt it was filmed.

... Sorry, my smartass breaker tripped. I'll reset it.

... Also, check the sidebar.

Posted by: AmeriDan at April 26, 2016 11:26 AM (FMZoz)

223
216 >>6 There's probably quite a lot of cake underneath that dress.

Posted by: OregonMuse at April 26, 2016 10:28 AM (e8ge6)

An entire bakery!
Posted by: Count de Monet

Yeast?

Posted by: Sphynx at April 26, 2016 11:24 AM (OZmbA)

I dunno. She wasn't exactly known for her floury speech.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 26, 2016 11:27 AM (MEFzG)

224 How would You sit down in that?

Posted by: donna

She is sitting. On a stack of peasants.

Posted by: Dang at April 26, 2016 11:27 AM (2oWD2)

225 An entire bakery!
Posted by: Count de Monet

Yeast?

Posted by: Sphynx at April 26, 2016 11:24 AM (OZmbA)

I dunno. She wasn't exactly known for her floury speech.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

The Rise and Fall of French Baking.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2016 11:28 AM (D4SfS)

226 217 How would You sit down in that?

Posted by: donna at April 26, 2016 11:23 AM (O2RFr)

You don't. You have people to sit for you.
Posted by: Count de Monet

Heh.

Posted by: AmeriDan at April 26, 2016 11:28 AM (FMZoz)

227
214 forming a coalition to advocate for safety

regulations for self-driving cars

What a terrifying little phrase.
Posted by: Mortimer at April 26, 2016 11:24 AM (Bbsg+)

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As terrifying as the word "sustainability" has become.

Posted by: Soona at April 26, 2016 11:28 AM (Fmupd)

228
George W. Bush and Bill Clinton both possessed easy senses of humour and could deliver a punchline. But Obama's style, comedy writers say, belongs to the alternative comedy subgenre - a style of humour that breaks with traditional stand-up, loosely defined by irony, self-awareness, and quirky topical references. Think more Sarah Silverman and less Henny Youngman.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 26, 2016 11:26 AM (/CXhS)

You'll note the lack of the word "funny".

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 26, 2016 11:28 AM (MEFzG)

229 She looks taller than I remember.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at April 26, 2016 10:37 AM (Qvgg/)

ISWYDT

Posted by: Sharkman at April 26, 2016 11:30 AM (QWtgr)

230 MOSCOW - Russia is supplying its S-300 air defense missile systems to Iran ahead of schedule and is now in talks with the Islamic Republic on deliveries of other military equipment, the head of Russia's federal arms exports service, FSVTS, said on Tuesday.

hey is Fredo hot or what?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 26, 2016 11:31 AM (V/InG)

231 Hey Mortimer! Hey Miss Anna!

And, VIA, how lovely to see you!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 26, 2016 11:31 AM (Nnm4m)

232 George W. Bush and Bill Clinton both possessed easy senses of humour and could deliver a punchline. But Obama's style, comedy writers say, belongs to the alternative comedy subgenre - a style of humour that breaks with traditional stand-up, loosely defined by irony, self-awareness, and quirky topical references. Think more Sarah Silverman and less Henny Youngman.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 26, 2016 11:26 AM (/CXhS)

In other words, he's not fucking funny.

And, literally, one of the last phrases I would ever even contemplate using in association with TFG is "self awareness".

Posted by: BCochran1981 - In Florida at April 26, 2016 11:32 AM (gW5Vg)

233 From the looks of that face, that could be Lindsey Graham in his safe space.

Posted by: Fritz at April 26, 2016 11:32 AM (UzPAd)

234 Think more Sarah Silverman...

or Margaret Cho.

Posted by: Mortimer at April 26, 2016 11:32 AM (Bbsg+)

235
I am sure by the time he is dead, Bracky O will be the a golfer better than Tiger, a b-baller better than Jordan, the best actor and comedian ever, a musician better than Prince and Yo Yo Ma, the secret curer of all cancer, the inventor of all things and muhammads right hand man on earth.

The press will let us know.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 26, 2016 11:32 AM (ODxAs)

236 I watched the burning of the Hindenburg in real time.

Posted by: Little Boomer at April 26, 2016 11:32 AM (ZuVs9)

237 If we could travel back in time to the Versailles of Marie Antoinette's era, we'd immediately vomit at the stench. But we would also puke if we found ourselves at the signing of the Declaration of Independence on a hot July day in Philadelphia. Our modern day noses can't tolerate people who have skipped a shower for a few days - these were people who didn't bath for months or even years at a time. Americans did not smell any better than the French did, although Americans were probably less likely to douse themselves in perfume.

But if everyone smells, nobody smells. I've read some of Franklin's and Jefferson's correspondence written when they were in Paris. They never wrote, "Jeez, the smell of these frogs would kill an orangutan."

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at April 26, 2016 11:34 AM (u0lmX)

238 For the win...

"Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head"

Posted by: AmeriDan at April 26, 2016 11:35 AM (FMZoz)

239 I am sure by the time he is dead, Bracky O will be
the a golfer better than Tiger, a b-baller better than Jordan, the best
actor and comedian ever, a musician better than Prince and Yo Yo Ma, the
secret curer of all cancer, the inventor of all things and muhammads
right hand man on earth.

The press will let us know.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 26, 2016 11:32 AM (ODxAs)

More like Mo's left hand.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 26, 2016 11:35 AM (JO9+V)

240 >>In other words, he's not fucking funny.

Contempt masquerading as jokes =/ = funny

Posted by: Lizzy at April 26, 2016 11:35 AM (NOIQH)

241 This is your required reading for the day.

http://bit.ly/24hFgUz

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at April 26, 2016 11:35 AM (xuouz)

242 Her actual quote was, "let them eat cake girl."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 26, 2016 10:37 AM (sl+zA)

I'll be in my bunk.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 26, 2016 11:36 AM (QWtgr)

243 As terrifying as the word "sustainability" has become.

Posted by: Soona

There are two types of people, comrade.

'Our voters' and 'mulch'.

Long Live the Organic and GMO free Revolution!

Forward!

Posted by: Mortimer at April 26, 2016 11:36 AM (Bbsg+)

244 In other words, he's not fucking funny.

And, literally, one of the last phrases I would ever even contemplate using in association with TFG is "self awareness".
Posted by: BCochran1981

+1

Posted by: AmeriDan at April 26, 2016 11:36 AM (FMZoz)

245 Obama will be officially forgotten by the Democrats in less than five years.

Posted by: School lunches at April 26, 2016 11:37 AM (j2xmV)

246 "Jeez, the smell of these frogs would kill an orangutan."
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time

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I think salamanders used that phrase too.

Posted by: Soona at April 26, 2016 11:37 AM (Fmupd)

247 Yeah, Obama is not funny - just compare one of his WH correspondents dinner speeches to Laura Bush's. Obama is snide, biting, while Laura uses all of the MSM/entertainment industry's caricatures of her husband to gently rib him in the most charming way.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 26, 2016 11:38 AM (NOIQH)

248 238 For the win...

"Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head"

Posted by: AmeriDan at April 26, 2016 11:35 AM (FMZoz)

It's Raining Men

Posted by: BCochran1981 - In Florida at April 26, 2016 11:38 AM (gW5Vg)

249 The whole article is her sucking TFG's balls.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 26, 2016 11:39 AM (/CXhS)

250 There's probably quite a lot of cake underneath that dress.

Posted by: OregonMuse at April 26, 2016 10:28 AM (e8ge6)

And 3 midgets with long tongues?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2016 11:39 AM (UsLZp)

251 Marie was beheaded by guillotine, I believe.

Another notable beheading was that of Ann Boleyn, and I am reading a book that has a mention of it, claiming Ann's shorn hair was secreted to France by the hired mercenary that did the deed, to be used in making tennis balls.

Four were made, three of which are in the New York City Public Library.

Henry VIII reportedly played tennis the day Ann was killed. She was done with a sword rather than an axe, the sword cut considered more stylish and neat.

The tennis game played then is called "real tennis" today, and is somewhat akin to squash. It is played in a walled court with a spectator gallery along one side, the gallery being at court level, and covered with a pitched roof.

Posted by: the littl shyning man at April 26, 2016 11:39 AM (U6f54)

252 Obama will be officially forgotten by the Democrats in less than five years.

Posted by: School lunches

And a Republican in history books.

Posted by: AmeriDan at April 26, 2016 11:40 AM (FMZoz)

253 Catherine the Great was into horseplay, and it was her undoing

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at April 26, 2016 11:40 AM (dBmVV)

254 He wanted his Kate and Edith too.
Posted by: Joe Hallenback at April 26, 2016 11:19 AM (EWRow)

Ok ok.

I'll allow it.

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at April 26, 2016 11:40 AM (xuouz)

255 Five feet high and rising.

Posted by: Johnny Cash at April 26, 2016 11:40 AM (pMGkg)

256 Plop! Plop! Whizz! Whizz!

Oh what a relief it is!

Posted by: That Alka-Seltzer Jingle at April 26, 2016 11:40 AM (JO9+V)

257 "Russia is supplying its S-300 air defense missile systems to Iran ahead of schedule"

Going to be funny when the Russians have to take out Iran. Just like US going into Afghanistan.

Posted by: irony at April 26, 2016 11:40 AM (j2xmV)

258 That would certainly reboot the Indiana Jones franchise...

Indiana Jones and the Lost Ball.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 26, 2016 11:41 AM (px66F)

259 Reading that Obama's "comedic style" is marked by "self awareness" is the funniest thing I've read today.

How completely clueless do you have to be to think Obama is self-aware? One of the defining characteristics of progs is their total inability to see themselves objectively or admit that they have flaws.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at April 26, 2016 11:41 AM (u0lmX)

260 A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 26, 2016 11:41 AM (k4M/B)

261 'Warm Summer Rain'

Posted by: Mortimer at April 26, 2016 11:42 AM (Bbsg+)

262 On 7th September 1940

http://goo.gl/7llF0Q

Day one of the Blitz. Twelve y/o with family when shelter took a direct hit. 40 people killed including his mother. He was in the hospital until May being treated. However, he also helped out by running the laundry and with patients. Joined the RAF when he turned 17. Sez since the war he has had a wonderful life. Man, they dont make people like that anymore.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 26, 2016 11:42 AM (iQIUe)

263 Groom of the Stool...

well that's one way of putting it

Posted by: Reggie Love at April 26, 2016 11:42 AM (12kBq)

264
But we would also puke if we found ourselves at the signing of the Declaration of Independence on a hot July day in Philadelphia.

"Someone ought to open up a window!"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 26, 2016 11:42 AM (X6fMO)

265 252 Obama will be officially forgotten by the Democrats in less than five years.

Posted by: School lunches

More like 3.

Posted by: ALH at April 26, 2016 11:42 AM (uLuPn)

266 It's Raining Men
Posted by: BCochran1981 -

Ewww. OK fine, I'll settle for second place.

Posted by: AmeriDan at April 26, 2016 11:43 AM (FMZoz)

267 Autonomous cars will make roads in the U.S. safer and less congested"

Funny, that. As one who's work has been on and around this sort of stuff, the two questions presented (safety and congestion) never seem to actually be answered by "advocates".

Go figure.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 26, 2016 11:43 AM (C9pBZ)

268 Bad Moon Rising

There's a bathroom on the right

Posted by: CCR at April 26, 2016 11:43 AM (JO9+V)

269 209 60 Minutes reporting on congressional fundraising...

Who would be a congressman or senator?

What kind of lowlife would actively seek a job where the major part of it - 50% to 80% of your time - is spent begging for money?

Not only do you not have any time to actually look at the bills you are expected to vote on, but just the act of lowering yourself each day to ask strangers for dollars is sign to everyone in the country that you don't have the integrity to be in the office.

I know the congressman in my district and I wouldn't trust him to wash my car. He is just the type to cold call for money.

We've got to change this in order to attract better people to run for office. We can't allow a pack of panhandlers to run the country.
Posted by: jwest at April 26, 2016 11:22 AM (Zs4uk)

See, I agree with you and I was with you all the way up until the end. That is the nature of 90% of the people who make it to high office. It's always been. It will always be.

You don't solve the problem by getting better people (for the most part). The genius of founders was in pitting these people against each other, to keep them from screwing over others, and entrusting them with as little power as possible.

That's how you solve it. This country was much better off when we just took it for granted politicians were and would be scumbags.

Posted by: AD at April 26, 2016 11:43 AM (QuixQ)

270 "Someone ought to open up a window!"

"Sit down!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 26, 2016 11:43 AM (px66F)

271 Who'll Stop the Rain?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 26, 2016 11:44 AM (1xUj/)

272 BCochran, how about some November Rain?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 26, 2016 11:44 AM (px66F)

273 Why is it raining in here?

Posted by: donna at April 26, 2016 11:44 AM (O2RFr)

274 Purple Rain!

Posted by: Zombie Prince at April 26, 2016 11:45 AM (JO9+V)

275
Obama will be officially forgotten by the Democrats in less than five years.

How can you forget a god?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 26, 2016 11:45 AM (k4M/B)

276 Of course, if it's Purple Rain you may need to see a doctor.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 26, 2016 11:45 AM (1xUj/)

277 Way too many of those purple pills?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 26, 2016 11:46 AM (px66F)

278 Better lay off that Purple Drank a while.

Posted by: Zombie Prince at April 26, 2016 11:46 AM (JO9+V)

279 237----there was a novel about that time entitled "Perfume", by Patrick Susskind, that does a good job of evoking the stinks and smells and overall stench of the day....

Highly recommended

Posted by: JoeF. at April 26, 2016 11:46 AM (GGOeJ)

280 How completely clueless do you have to be to think Obama is self-aware? One of the defining characteristics of progs is their total inability to see themselves objectively or admit that they have flaws.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at April 26, 2016 11:41 AM (u0lmX)

Unfortunately, that particular trait is definitely not restricted to just one political ideology.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - In Florida at April 26, 2016 11:46 AM (gW5Vg)

281 Zombie Prince

Did You see he left no will so they are fixing for a nasty fight? He was worth as much as 800 million.... I'm sure I'm related somehow...

Posted by: donna at April 26, 2016 11:46 AM (O2RFr)

282 Barack Obama sucks in so many ways that the CBO has had to invent and distort all manner of statistics in order to measure his suckitude.

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at April 26, 2016 11:46 AM (xuouz)

283 Five feet high and rising.
Posted by: Johnny Cash

How high is it mama?

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2016 11:46 AM (D4SfS)

284 That's how you solve it."

Exactly so. They weren't called "your worshipfulness" or anything like that...

How can you forget a god?"

Puny god.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 26, 2016 11:47 AM (C9pBZ)

285 Purple Rain? Why it's a Royal Flush!

Posted by: Zombie Prince at April 26, 2016 11:47 AM (JO9+V)

286 Who'll Stop the Rain?
Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 26, 2016 11:44 AM (1xUj/)

272 BCochran, how about some November Rain?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Damon. OK, fifth place.

Posted by: AmeriDan at April 26, 2016 11:47 AM (FMZoz)

287 >>Michelle Obama wore the same dress except hers was carved out of burlap and naughahyde.
Posted by: Fritz

We had to let it out a little to get her ass in it.

Posted by: Omar's Tents at April 26, 2016 11:47 AM (c7vUv)

288 Can You Stand The Rain?

Posted by: New Edition at April 26, 2016 11:47 AM (Bbsg+)

289 >>>
Let them eat cake?<<<

I hate that quiche.

Posted by: Fritz at April 26, 2016 11:47 AM (UzPAd)

290 For frame of reference to MPPPP and my reply

https://youtu.be/DqAdlkJDt7k

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 26, 2016 11:47 AM (px66F)

291 272 BCochran, how about some November Rain?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 26, 2016 11:44 AM (px66F)

*nods* That'll work.

273 Why is it raining in here?

Posted by: donna at April 26, 2016 11:44 AM (O2RFr)

It's not actually "rain", so to speak.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - In Florida at April 26, 2016 11:47 AM (gW5Vg)

292 Damon=damn. Or if you prefer, dang.

Posted by: AmeriDan at April 26, 2016 11:48 AM (FMZoz)

293 People did bathe in the middle ages. That poeple did not bathe and smelled bad has been a myth so long that it is now taken as gospel. From 10 great myths site.

Not only is this a total myth, it is so widely believed that it has given rise to a whole other series of myths, such as the false belief that Church incense was designed to hide the stink of so many people in one place. In fact, the incense was part of the Church's rituals due to its history coming from the Jewish religion which also used incense in its sacrifices. This myth has also lead to the strange idea that people usually married in May or June because they didn't stink so badly, having had their yearly bath. It is, of course, utter rubbish. People married in those months because marriage was not allowed during Lent (the season of penance). So, back to smelly people. In the Middle Ages, most towns had bathhouses, in fact, cleanliness and hygiene was very highly regarded so much so that bathing was incorporated into various ceremonies such as those surrounding knighthood. Some people bathed daily, others less regularly but most people bathed.

Furthermore, they used hot water they just had to heat it up themselves, unlike us with our modern plumbed hot water. The French put it best in the following Latin statement: Venari, ludere, lavari, bibere; Hoc est vivere! (To hunt, to play, to wash, to drink, This is to live!)

http://tinyurl.com/yzuubwq

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 26, 2016 11:48 AM (vvmPQ)

294 Fredo would have made a good piss boy

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 26, 2016 11:48 AM (V/InG)

295 and naughahyde"

Think of all of those skinned naughas.

Terrible, I tell ya.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 26, 2016 11:48 AM (C9pBZ)

296 I commented yesterday on Trump's sense of humor which is none IMO. In interviews jokes just seem to fly over his head. I will give him credit though for agreeing to the Comedy Central roast . Though I don't think he got half the jokes there either.

Posted by: Joe Hallenback at April 26, 2016 11:48 AM (EWRow)

297 This country was much better off when we just took it for granted politicians were and would be scumbags.

Yes!

"It's what he does. It's all that he does."

Posted by: Mortimer at April 26, 2016 11:48 AM (Bbsg+)

298 Indoor plumbing is what distinguishes a civilization from a culture . It makes all the difference.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 26, 2016 10:49 AM (lutOX)

Well, outdoor "plumbing" is OK, too, if one has the discipline to use it. A well-constructed outhouse need not be all that unpleasant, or smelly.

There is an old hotel in Lundbreck, Alberta, that had a two-storey outhouse, with a overhead walkway from the second-storey rooms to the upper deck of the outhouse.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2016 11:50 AM (UsLZp)

299 I hate that quiche."

Give it up. That's so, like, 17 hours ago.

Or something.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 26, 2016 11:50 AM (C9pBZ)

300 Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 26, 2016 11:48 AM (vvmPQ

So you're saying French bathed more in the Middle Ages than they do now?

Posted by: Joe Hallenback at April 26, 2016 11:50 AM (EWRow)

301
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 26, 2016 11:43 AM (px66F)

Heh.

About 12 years back, I was in a performance of 1776 which played on the stage at Faneuil Hall in Boston. To do that show in a room where Mr Adams himself once stood is quite a feeling.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 26, 2016 11:50 AM (X6fMO)

302 Ace is awake.

Posted by: HH at April 26, 2016 11:50 AM (DrCtv)

303 287 >>Michelle Obama wore the same dress except hers was carved out of burlap and naughahyde.
Posted by: Fritz

We had to let it out a little to get her ass in it.
Posted by: Omar's Tents at April 26, 2016 11:47 AM (c7vUv)

-----------------

I still think Mooch is a tranny.

Posted by: Soona at April 26, 2016 11:50 AM (Fmupd)

304 total inability to see themselves objectively or admit that they have flaws.
Unfortunately, that particular trait is definitely not restricted to just one political ideology.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - In Florida at April 26, 2016 11:46 AM (gW5Vg)

I thought of this the other day reading Teddy Roosevelt's "man in the arena" speech on the ONT.

It applies to the left.
It applies to the Cruz-supporting truecon right.
It applies to me and my "let go of aesthetics" "cultural insurgent" rhetoric while I sit crafting blog comments at work.

This country needs to get back to work instead of getting out the knives over the argument over why we aren't working.

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at April 26, 2016 11:50 AM (xuouz)

305 So you're saying French bathed more in the Middle Ages than they do now?
Posted by: Joe Hallenback at April 26, 2016 11:50 AM (EWRow)

Low bar

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 26, 2016 11:50 AM (V/InG)

306 I love a rainy night.

Posted by: Eddie Rabbit at April 26, 2016 11:51 AM (X6fMO)

307 Gok!

Had lunch yet?

Posted by: Mortimer at April 26, 2016 11:51 AM (Bbsg+)

308 There is an old hotel in Lundbreck, Alberta, that had a two-storey outhouse"

Well, that explains it - the, er, shiite froze before hitting the bottom.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 26, 2016 11:51 AM (C9pBZ)

309 So you're saying French bathed more in the Middle Ages than they do now?

That was before the Frogs became Progs. Something about progs and hygiene, they just don't seem to go together...

Posted by: Brother Cavil at April 26, 2016 11:52 AM (9krrF)

310 Autonomous cars

Old baby boomers. Cut down on accidents.

Posted by: irony at April 26, 2016 11:53 AM (j2xmV)

311
I watched that Tudor farm series and they spent a lot of time cleaning the utensils especially the butter/cheese making tools. Boiling water, salt scrubs.

Limewashs on wall were also big. Plugged up the holes, killed the bugs, and reflected the light and made the ye olde manor house look 100% better.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 26, 2016 11:53 AM (iQIUe)

312 That would be a truly treasured memory MPPPP. And terrifying, what if the ghost of John Adams came back to complain about the liberties taken with history or the performance.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 26, 2016 11:53 AM (px66F)

313
This is your required reading for the day.

http://bit.ly/24hFgUz
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at April 26, 2016 11:35 AM (xuouz)
-------------------------

>>You haven't even imagined that contest yet. Your brain won't let you.

Interesting.

Posted by: iforgot at April 26, 2016 11:54 AM (pC96u)

314
The poor house wife would have to get on her hands and knees and scrub the floor daily. And laundry was a real bitch of a job.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 26, 2016 11:56 AM (iQIUe)

315 #211

Louis comes off not so much bad as simply slow, not willing to use force
against the lower orders, but not understanding that his passivity in
the face of their demands only encouraged the more radical elements to
clamor for his head.
======

That, but mostly a monarchy held hostage by an archaic economic system that placed tax collections firmly in the hands of the financiers in the Farmers General. The epitome of "entrenched special interests". The British financial system (Walpole), was far more flexible and resilient.

The Bourbons were strong supporters of the American Revolution. Five years after Marie Antoinette was executed, the United States was embroiled in a Quasi War with the revolutionary government of France.

Posted by: mrp at April 26, 2016 11:56 AM (JBggj)

316 297 This country was much better off when we just took it for granted politicians were and would be scumbags.

Yes!

"It's what he does. It's all that he does."
Posted by: Mortimer at April 26, 2016 11:48 AM (Bbsg+)

Hooper: Mr. Mortimer, what we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, a power-seeking machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is fundraise and seek power and look for interns to bang, and that's all. Now, why don't you take a long, close look at this sign.
[refers to the graffitied billboard]
Hooper: Those proportions are correct.

Posted by: AD at April 26, 2016 11:57 AM (QuixQ)

317 >>I still think Mooch is a tranny.
Posted by: Soona

Why do you think I'm pushing the whole bathroom thing? I don't want her hanging out in my john.

Posted by: Barry at April 26, 2016 11:58 AM (c7vUv)

318 We'll head her off at the pass!

Posted by: Fritz at April 26, 2016 11:58 AM (UzPAd)

319 I'd like to know how the rich kept their clothes clean. I know they wore white linen under the clothes that they could boil and launder. But how did they clean the expensive duds? You boil the clothes and the dye would leech out. The long dresses always dragging in the dirt or on the dirty floors. And if on grass, they would wick up the dew.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 26, 2016 11:59 AM (iQIUe)

320 Energy costs more in Europe. That's why they don't bathe as much as Americans do.
It's also why they drive those ridiculous little cars.

Posted by: ALH at April 26, 2016 11:59 AM (uLuPn)

321 I still think Mooch is a tranny.
Posted by: Soona

Why do you think I'm pushing the whole bathroom thing? I don't want her hanging out in my john.
Posted by: Barry at April 26, 2016 11:58 AM (c7vUv)

I might like to use her bathroom. On a good day, I could blow the place out and make it unihabitable for a week.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 26, 2016 11:59 AM (V/InG)

322 I'd like to know how the rich kept their clothes clean. I know they wore white linen under the clothes that they could boil and launder. But how did they clean the expensive duds? You boil the clothes and the dye would leech out. The long dresses always dragging in the dirt or on the dirty floors. And if on grass, they would wick up the dew.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 26, 2016 11:59 AM (iQIUe)

What do you think the peasants were for? Ah the good old days!

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 26, 2016 12:00 PM (V/InG)

323 Marie achieves a tragic nobility in the end, but, as an immature foreign
princess surrounded by scheming courtiers and given to imprudent
displays of wealth, she was very much the wrong queen at the wrong time.

Isn't this just the story of Barry? I mean, presuming he ultimately achieves a tragic nobility, which I'm not betting on. He too is the wrong queen at the wrong time.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 26, 2016 12:01 PM (oKE6c)

324 >>I might like to use her bathroom. On a good day, I could blow the place out and make it unihabitable for a week.
Posted by: Nevergiveup

Piker.
The White House housekeeping staff had to get MOPP gear from the Army just to clean my shitter.

Posted by: Mooch at April 26, 2016 12:01 PM (c7vUv)

325 So, I took my parents to vote an hour ago in middle of nowhere northern tier PA... Never having to wait in line previously, we were greeted with a 20 minute wait, and a trumpkin screaming at my mother when she didn't agree with him about the virtues of Trump.

Mother: I just don't like his kind.
Him: His kind? you mean male? Strong? You're a feminist bigot!?
Mother: New Yorkers, dear.

Posted by: Phil at April 26, 2016 12:02 PM (ZDYb0)

326 from Chombawomba...
"...
I get knocked down, but I get up againYou are never gonna keep me down
(Pissing the night away, pissing the night away)
..."

Posted by: freedomfirst at April 26, 2016 12:04 PM (kPeSM)

327 Ace is awake.
Posted by: HH

Pants status bar raised to:

[ ] Off

[X] On

Posted by: AmeriDan at April 26, 2016 12:11 PM (FMZoz)

328 Mother: I just don't like his kind.

Him: His kind? you mean male? Strong? You're a feminist bigot!?

Mother: New Yorkers, dear.

Posted by: Phil at April 26, 2016 12:02 PM (ZDYb0)

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LOL! Your mom sounds like fun.

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 26, 2016 12:12 PM (MIKMs)

329 318 We'll head her off at the ~~pass~~ Place de la R�volution!

Posted by: Max Robespierre at April 26, 2016 12:14 PM (oKE6c)

330 When sufficient numbers of lice moved in, you lit it on fire and got a new one

Did they take it off their head first ?

Posted by: JT at April 26, 2016 12:43 PM (T/fNg)

331
Of course, if it's Purple Rain you may need to see a doctor.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 26, 2016 11:45 AM (1xUj/)

Nah. It's the Red Rain that you need to worry about.

Posted by: Peter Gabriel at April 26, 2016 12:50 PM (MEFzG)

332 That painting up there looks like Hillary in a former life.

You could carry a couple of Secret Service guys around in that thing.

But, same old story, no tits, no glory.

Posted by: Meremortal at April 26, 2016 01:12 PM (3myMJ)

333 235

"Mohammad's right hand man on earth"

Considering his presidency, you must mean left hand.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at April 26, 2016 01:42 PM (FtrY1)

334 That can't be Marie. She's still got her head.

Speaking of heads, Toomey is missing his. Saying Ted Cruz is such a great conservative.

Like Toomey "the gun grabber" has any idea what a conservative would look like.

Sadly he's running unopposed but I've checked out the Democrat candidates and there's two guy running that are better on guns than he is. And guns was pretty much all he had and he chose the wrong side to take.

So I'll be voting for the Democrat come November if one of the good guys gets in.

Pat's A Rat.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at April 26, 2016 02:40 PM (Xo1Rt)

335 Asked my boss to remove me from the assigned team today, or fire me, and he understood. I don't think I have ever been as blatantly treated as if I was a complete simpleton as the model manager did today. I'm sorry he is intimidated by the wings; what he is doing is not the answer.

Posted by: Five O'clock Charlie at April 26, 2016 05:03 PM (J3UIw)

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