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October 21st, 1805 [CBD]
Trafalgar
Some video game.....
No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.Trafalgar was the first battle I learned about in depth. I had a few of those hard-bound "young adult" histories that I would buy at E.J. Korvette. Not much more than a flowery recitation of the plan of battle followed by lots and lots of action. I was eight...it was great, especially when I began to realize exactly what a British victory did for the world. HMS Victory, Nelson's flagship, is a 104 gun first rater, and is the flagship of the First Sea Lord of the British navy. Notice the present tense? She is still commissioned, 257 years after her keel was laid. For those of you who dislike recognizing one of the great naval victories in history, here is a link to a performance that might be more your speed.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at October 21, 2016 09:45 AM (1diNY)
Posted by: Defenestratus at October 21, 2016 09:45 AM (e8+zH)
Posted by: Oedipus at October 21, 2016 09:47 AM (CXLVd)
Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at October 21, 2016 09:48 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: fixerupper at October 21, 2016 09:49 AM (8XRCm)
Posted by: Bruce at October 21, 2016 09:49 AM (8ikIW)
Messages that would never be sent now.
Damn, how far we've all fallen.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, deplorably down with Eph 6:12-13 at October 21, 2016 09:49 AM (9krrF)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 21, 2016 09:49 AM (J+eG2)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at October 21, 2016 09:49 AM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: CrotcheyOldJarhead at October 21, 2016 09:49 AM (+DiO8)
Posted by: Dirks Strewn at October 21, 2016 09:49 AM (kfcYC)
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at October 21, 2016 09:50 AM (1diNY)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, deplorably down with Eph 6:12-13 at October 21, 2016 09:50 AM (9krrF)
Posted by: JEM at October 21, 2016 09:50 AM (TppKb)
I have to say, when Banana Splits Guy announced "Nood Squid" I wondered what the heck? I'm glad to see it wasn't Japanese tentacle porn, as I had feared.
Posted by: bluebell at October 21, 2016 09:51 AM (uHcnA)
389
What scares me the most is that this election has basically given these
idiots all the confidence they need to do ANYTHING in the proggy
playbook their little hearts desire. They finally showed their true
colors, admitted collusion and corruption and people STILL look to vote
her into office.
In other words, they now know there are at
least enough people in this country to either agree with them or not
care enough to stop them. With what I've seen of Obama (never thought
this country would even sniff socialist healthcare), I am doubly worried
by what's STILL in the prog playbook.
Open borders and gun control will be in the queue first. A study was done on how many people want to migrate to the US.
165 million people responded absolutely.
165 million new neighbors. All on the government tit, supported by your new 75% tax bracket.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 21, 2016 09:51 AM (2PHKP)
Posted by: Mortimer, deplorable at October 21, 2016 09:51 AM (zu88C)
Messages that would never be sent now.
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Oh .... the message is still sent.
The duty is now to give up your flat, work to fund benifits, and give up your wives and daughter carnally to the Mohammedan Occupiers.
Posted by: fixerupper at October 21, 2016 09:52 AM (8XRCm)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_of_the_Fisherman%27s_Wife
Very NSFW.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Imperatrix Siculus at October 21, 2016 09:52 AM (EnKk6)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, deplorably down with Eph 6:12-13 at October 21, 2016 09:52 AM (9krrF)
Posted by: Bruce at October 21, 2016 09:52 AM (8ikIW)
Posted by: rickb223 at October 21, 2016 09:53 AM (I1MCJ)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, deplorably down with Eph 6:12-13 at October 21, 2016 09:53 AM (9krrF)
Posted by: bluebell at October 21, 2016 09:54 AM (uHcnA)
Posted by: Locke Common at October 21, 2016 09:54 AM (OlGsT)
Posted by: IC at October 21, 2016 09:54 AM (gcme+)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at October 21, 2016 09:49 AM (Nwg0u)
XTC had a song called "I'd Like That," with the lyric I'll be your Nelson / If you'll be my Hamilton"
BTW, was anybody else having trouble loading the HQ this morning?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 21, 2016 09:54 AM (X6fMO)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Imperatrix Siculus at October 21, 2016 09:52 AM (EnKk6)
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I thought "Its Wiki.... how bad can it be?"
I clicked.
I was wrong.
Posted by: fixerupper at October 21, 2016 09:54 AM (8XRCm)
Posted by: josephistan at October 21, 2016 09:54 AM (7HtZB)
Posted by: Little Mrs Spellcheck at October 21, 2016 09:55 AM (zoAQI)
Posted by: rickb223
Great store for it's time. They had everything. A great record section too.
Posted by: Bruce at October 21, 2016 09:55 AM (8ikIW)
Posted by: willow at October 21, 2016 09:55 AM (R7cwD)
Posted by: ajmojo at October 21, 2016 09:55 AM (1H9ox)
I really like these navy battle scenes and the literature about them: Aubrey, Hornblower, etc., as well as colonial and early American naval engagements. Dramatic and exciting, especially since I don't have to live through them.
Posted by: JTB at October 21, 2016 09:55 AM (V+03K)
Posted by: Locke Common at October 21, 2016 09:55 AM (OlGsT)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 21, 2016 09:54 AM (X6fMO)
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Kinda spotty.
I get the Service Not Available message occasionally on refresh.
DoS attacks going on though out Algores Interwebs today.
Posted by: fixerupper at October 21, 2016 09:55 AM (8XRCm)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_of_the_Fisherman%27s_Wife
Very NSFW.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Imperatrix Siculus at October 21, 2016 09:52 AM (EnKk6)
So THAT'S where tentacle pron came from!
Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at October 21, 2016 09:56 AM (RD7QR)
Messages that would never be sent now.
NOW IS THE TIME FOR ALL GOOD MEN TO COME TO THE AID OF THEIR COUNTRY.
Oh, sorry. Wrong class.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 21, 2016 09:57 AM (I1MCJ)
Posted by: ajmojo at October 21, 2016 09:57 AM (1H9ox)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at October 21, 2016 09:49 AM
Nonsense! England knows Lady Hamilton is a virgin. Cut off my arm and poke out my eye if I'm wrong!
Posted by: Lord Nelson at October 21, 2016 09:57 AM (bzd8I)
Posted by: StrawMan at October 21, 2016 09:57 AM (h6BP/)
Posted by: fixerupper at October 21, 2016 09:49 AM (8XRCm)
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C'mon, you've been around here long enough to know better. Heck, even I've been around here long enough to know better.
Posted by: bluebell at October 21, 2016 09:57 AM (uHcnA)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 21, 2016 09:58 AM (J+eG2)
Posted by: ajmojo at October 21, 2016 09:58 AM (1H9ox)
Oh, sorry. Wrong class.>>>
THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE LAZY DOG
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 21, 2016 09:59 AM (tf9Ne)
Posted by: illiniwek at October 21, 2016 09:59 AM (O2rG1)
Okay, new game. Who isn't a sniper.
Posted by: Bruce
The sniper already got Nelson.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, deplorably down with Eph 6:12-13 at October 21, 2016 09:50 AM (9krrF)
And Nelson was enough of a badass that he STILL kicked Frog ass before dying.....back when the Frogs were pretty badassed themselves.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 21, 2016 10:00 AM (XWkhW)
Don't worry. God has already stopped them. Pray that you and yours aren't collateral damage. US is going through what the USSR went through.
Posted by: Ok at October 21, 2016 10:00 AM (8cftc)
Now I wouldn't vote for Trump if the elite disapprove of him, oh the horrors of it all........NYT seems to think this is awful...
Posted by: Colin at October 21, 2016 10:00 AM (9FAf7)
We're one good economic downturn away from patient people ready to lose their crap and violently clean house...
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at October 21, 2016 10:00 AM (2L42J)
This is painting depicts how it looks when Hillary removes her pantsuit.
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Uggggg!!!!! Brain Bleach stat.
Heres a plate cleanser. Also NSFW
http://tinyurl.com/jygtevd
Posted by: fixerupper at October 21, 2016 10:00 AM (8XRCm)
I've recently begun thinking more in terms of what the fallout of a Hillary election will be. Any prognosticators care to chime in?
2018: Republicans campaign for the House and Senate promising firm, unwavering opposition to Hillary's SCOTUS appointments, open borders immigration policy, and single payer health plan.
2019: Republican Congressional majorities approve Hillary's SCOTUS Appointments and fully fund her immigration and health care agenda.
Posted by: V the K at October 21, 2016 10:01 AM (O7MnT)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, deplorably down with Eph 6:12-13 at October 21, 2016 09:52 AM (9krrF)
No, you are correct.
Nelson wrote one thing, but the signal officer (or seaman...I don't remember) told him that substituting "expects" for "confides" would make it much easier to send.....
So the message to the fleet was exactly what you wrote.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 21, 2016 10:01 AM (Zu3d9)
"For a naval barrage to be well done,
A broadside will send them to hell, son!
But always remember
To shiver their timbers!"
(Words of wisdom from Admiral Lord Nelson)
Posted by: Muldoon at October 21, 2016 10:02 AM (lHb9q)
>> class ships.
Every now and then history (and sometimes mankind) produces something so perfect, so beautiful...and so completely irrelevant and obsolete.
The Iowas were artistry in armor, but largely useless for the war they were built for, and in terms of what they were used for over the next forty years (shooting up shoreside pillboxes) any of their three slower classes of predecessors would have done as well.
Posted by: JEM at October 21, 2016 10:02 AM (TppKb)
Rise from defeat, and lift th' exulting voice:
The prince of ocean, Albion's brightest star,
Bronte's dread lord, that thunderbolt of war,
Whose haughty ship, with blazing flag unfurled,
Bore Britain's glory round the subject world,
With storm and battle shook each hostile shore;
Nelson, your scourge, your terror is no more!
Posted by: ajmojo at October 21, 2016 10:03 AM (1H9ox)
My Latin is rusty, Eris, but if I'm reading your nic right, perhaps this is something that might interest you?
http://bit.ly/2esPL4n
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 21, 2016 10:03 AM (X6fMO)
Posted by: sinalco the deplorable at October 21, 2016 10:03 AM (WavOX)
Posted by: ajmojo at October 21, 2016 10:03 AM (1H9ox)
Posted by: V the K at October 21, 2016 10:03 AM (O7MnT)
Fire Ships would make a great thread some night. Or the Gunboat War.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 21, 2016 10:04 AM (H5rtT)
Morecambe and Wise - "Nelson and Lady Hamilton at Trafalgar"
with the incredibly pneumatic Fenella Fielding:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6ZVfmvRwb8
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 21, 2016 10:04 AM (kdS6q)
AND...putting whitener in black coffee...I shouldn't even have to explain that one to you...unless you're RACIST!
Posted by: Axeman at October 21, 2016 10:04 AM (2mC6G)
Most discussions overemphasize the unorthodox formation by not looking at the rationale for it. The real point was engaging as fast as possible, in a manner such that the allies could not avoid decisive action. The order of battle was essentially the order of sailing; no time wasted on forming an ideal battle order. (That used was not what the famous memorandum described, but did follow the memo's principles.)
Just remember, a man who will cheat on his wife will betray his country. Or so we have been assured.
Engage the enemy more closely.
Posted by: George LeS at October 21, 2016 10:05 AM (+TcCF)
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Thanks, Mr. Macca Bean.
Just more evidence getting out to the masses.
Sh1t's getting real.
Posted by: Mortimer, deplorable at October 21, 2016 10:05 AM (zu88C)
Posted by: StrawMan at October 21, 2016 09:57 AM (h6BP/)
About that...
Posted by: Zombie Phillip II at October 21, 2016 10:05 AM (7HtZB)
2019: Republican Congressional majorities approve Hillary's SCOTUS Appointments and fully fund her immigration and health care agenda.
But, didn't you hear the Maverick saying that the GOP would unify to block Hillary! SCOTUS Appointments.
And if there is one thing I know, I know when John McCain says something conservative during an election cycle, you can take that to the bank.
Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at October 21, 2016 10:06 AM (xq8JO)
Posted by: Kindltot at October 21, 2016 10:06 AM (lPUaT)
Young boy's historical stuff is exactly the sort of thing I look for to give my young son.
Posted by: Mordineus at October 21, 2016 10:07 AM (7zw1/)
Posted by: Miles Cowperthwaite at October 21, 2016 10:07 AM (VndSC)
Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at October 21, 2016 10:06 AM (xq8JO)
Or a savings and loan.
Posted by: josephistan at October 21, 2016 10:07 AM (7HtZB)
Here's something that's sure to annoy ya
And your umbilical paranoia
Every time without fail
A hula hoop with a nail
Is the ultimate navel destroyer!
Posted by: Muldoon at October 21, 2016 10:07 AM (lHb9q)
Posted by: Mortimer, deplorable at October 21, 2016 10:07 AM (zu88C)
>> GOP would unify to block Hillary! SCOTUS
>> Appointments.
The silence of the lambs.
Posted by: JEM at October 21, 2016 10:08 AM (TppKb)
She doesn't seem to have aged well (but then, neither have I).
Here's a pic of her for the leg aficionado:
http://bit.ly/2eAx8u7
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 21, 2016 10:08 AM (X6fMO)
With the sound down though... and an ad as a buffer, so... I was spared.
Posted by: BurtTC at October 21, 2016 10:08 AM (TOk1P)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 21, 2016 09:58 AM (J+eG2)
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Great museum!
I laughed at the portrait of Rickover looking at me (me!) with utter disdain. Measured and found wanting. Imagine being interviewed by him.
If you're in the area, visit the Annapolis Bookstore, which is heaven for collectors of antique tomes:
https://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/the-annapolis-bookstore-annapolis
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Imperatrix Siculus at October 21, 2016 10:08 AM (EnKk6)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at October 21, 2016 10:08 AM (VdICR)
Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at October 21, 2016 10:08 AM (RD7QR)
E.J. Korvette. An el cheap department store chain in the NYC are, now long gone.
Eight Jewish KOR-ean VET-erans.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 21, 2016 10:09 AM (9P3OG)
Posted by: Mortimer, deplorable at October 21, 2016 10:09 AM (zu88C)
El chep = El Cheap-O
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 21, 2016 10:09 AM (9P3OG)
Posted by: Colin at October 21, 2016 10:09 AM (9FAf7)
Posted by: josephistan at October 21, 2016 10:10 AM (7HtZB)
Posted by: Mordineus at October 21, 2016 10:07 AM (7zw1/)
I have no idea whether these sorts of books are still published (and I have a sneaking suspicion that they aren't). Maybe asking on the Book Thread this Sunday.....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 21, 2016 10:10 AM (Zu3d9)
I fully expected you to say it included the "proper pronoun" usage for you and your colleagues.
Posted by: Roy at October 21, 2016 10:10 AM (VndSC)
Sad to say, the present Royal Navy is only one-fifteenth the size it was in Nelson's day.
For those who are interested, a 21-minute video of the 2005 Trafalgar reenactment is here:
http://tinyurl.com/hpu4bme
Posted by: Basement Cat at October 21, 2016 10:10 AM (3C9q2)
our election while at the same time calling Trump insane for trying to
suggest that our elections can be rigged.
Only now, in this brief window in time, could any of this shit make sense to half of the brain dead idiots of this country.
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In the mind of the leftist, it makes perfect sense.
See, the Russians are trying to rig the election for Trump.
That's bad.
But, there is no voter fraud committed by the Democrats in the US.
So, Trump is lying.
To be clear:
The Democrats--who live here, control nearly all the cities and who would directly benefit from rigging an election, ARE NOT trying to rig the election.
But, the Russians--who don't live here, don't control a single process related to the election and can't directly benefit from the election, ARE trying to rig the election.
Trump is lying.
Therefore, it makes sense to complain about the Russians rigging the election while also complaining about Trump saying the election is being rigged.
Also: what level of insanity is it to complain about the Russians trying to rig the election through the Wikileaks--as though what is being revealed doesn't matter? The Russians are trying to rig the election by . . . telling the Americans the truth?
Posted by: RoyalOil at October 21, 2016 10:10 AM (e2Rx3)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at October 21, 2016 10:10 AM (VdICR)
Posted by: fixerupper at October 21, 2016 09:49 AM (8XRCm)
Yes.
Yes it was.
Thank you for noticing!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 21, 2016 10:11 AM (Zu3d9)
It is to laugh.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at October 21, 2016 10:11 AM (3YCo8)
Posted by: ajmojo at October 21, 2016 10:11 AM (1H9ox)
Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at October 21, 2016 10:08 AM (RD7QR)
Was that a warning from HR?
Posted by: josephistan at October 21, 2016 10:12 AM (7HtZB)
http://bit.ly/2esPL4n
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 21, 2016 10:03 AM (X6fMO)
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Oh, I would love to visit the ancestral sod! So many cultures converging on this one spot.
I myself am an enigmatic island.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Imperatrix Siculus at October 21, 2016 10:12 AM (EnKk6)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 21, 2016 10:09 AM (9P3OG)
Cheap books and cheap records!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 21, 2016 10:12 AM (Zu3d9)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at October 21, 2016 10:12 AM (VdICR)
Some video game.....<<<
Trafrogger. That the game where you have to get the little frog across traffic without getting squished?
Posted by: just some LIV at October 21, 2016 10:12 AM (X/Cr2)
Posted by: bluebell at October 21, 2016 10:13 AM (uHcnA)
Posted by: Muldoon at October 21, 2016 10:13 AM (lHb9q)
related to the election and can't directly benefit from the election,
ARE trying to rig the election.
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Yeah.
They didn't want any technology secrets, military secrets, or to rig Wall Street algos to make phat stacks.
They wanted to rig the election.
Yeah.
Posted by: Mortimer, deplorable at October 21, 2016 10:14 AM (zu88C)
________________________
He's not a perfect candidate, but at least he's fighting and trying to win.
Not like so many others we could name.
Trump for the win!
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at October 21, 2016 10:14 AM (4rh2D)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 21, 2016 10:09 AM (9P3OG)
Cheap books and cheap records!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 21, 2016 10:12 AM (Zu3d9)
Korvette's was so bargain basement they made Alexander's look like Bergdorf-Goodman.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 21, 2016 10:14 AM (9P3OG)
Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at October 21, 2016 10:14 AM (xq8JO)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at October 21, 2016 10:14 AM (3YCo8)
Posted by: ScoggDog at October 21, 2016 10:14 AM (RKJF2)
Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at October 21, 2016 10:08 AM (RD7QR)
Was that a warning from HR?
Posted by: josephistan at October 21, 2016 10:12 AM (7HtZB)
Yes, a couple of key roads are going to be blocked for security. Luckily I arrive at the crack of dawn so I can leave before the closures.
Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at October 21, 2016 10:14 AM (RD7QR)
--All Hail Eris
I talked to a guy who was! If you can believe it, he did not like Rickover.
One his key techniques was to draw you out about your interests, hobbies, what was most important to you -- and then demand that you give them up.
Indispensable man -- but perverse in that respect. "Not a people person."
And yet, his people accomplished, eh, a thing or two.
Flip side, LeMay, who in his nasty miserable prick way did a lot for his forces' families, and in the garage was a genuinely nice guy. Couple of odd ducks.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 21, 2016 10:14 AM (H5rtT)
He is running for re-election and is trying to convince conservatives that he is totes cool with them.
Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at October 21, 2016 10:15 AM (xq8JO)
Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at October 21, 2016 10:06 AM (xq8JO)
__________________________
Yes, so long as you understand that your deposit will disappear immediately after the election, and will not re-appear for another six years.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at October 21, 2016 10:15 AM (4rh2D)
It would be an interesting exercise to determine how the British cultivated their officer class if only to replicate those aspects oftheir programmethat produced such leaders.
Posted by: troyriser at October 21, 2016 10:15 AM (cCEFD)
And they are in the tops.
Posted by: Kindltot
Like the one that got Nelson was...
Posted by: Brother Cavil, deplorably down with Eph 6:12-13 at October 21, 2016 10:16 AM (9krrF)
They didn't want any technology secrets, military secrets, or to rig Wall Street algos to make phat stacks.
They wanted to rig the election.
Yeah.
...
Nope. After Steven Segal got all fat they were looking for a way to rejuvenate their national youth exercise program and figured Hillary would have some great yoga routines they could co opt.
Posted by: ajmojo at October 21, 2016 10:16 AM (1H9ox)
It is Henty and better. And worse.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 21, 2016 10:16 AM (lPUaT)
I don't want to know how you know so much strange shit like that, do I ?
Posted by: ScoggDog at October 21, 2016 10:14 AM (RKJF2)
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By going to art museums, dear boy! Continuous self-improvement/Kaizen.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Imperatrix Siculus at October 21, 2016 10:17 AM (EnKk6)
Posted by: Sam In Va at October 21, 2016 10:17 AM (bNi5D)
>> Hillary's SCOTUS nominations
a fucking DNA-in-yur-mouth lie
Posted by: JEM at October 21, 2016 10:17 AM (TppKb)
Posted by: troyriser at October 21, 2016 10:15 AM (cCEFD)
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Caning.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Imperatrix Siculus at October 21, 2016 10:17 AM (EnKk6)
Hillary's SCOTUS nominations I would wager that his motivation is merely
to signal that it's totes okay to vote for Hillary over Trump, (i.e.
"We can protect you from her") not because he's opposed to Hillary
becoming President.
Posted by: Muldoon at October 21, 2016 10:13 AM (lHb9q)<<<
My friendsh, we'd have nothing to fear from Hillary Clinton in the White House.
Posted by: Juan McLame, wondering how much the Lincoln bedroom will cost this time at October 21, 2016 10:18 AM (X/Cr2)
FOX Business News
Posted by: Mortimer, deplorable at October 21, 2016 10:18 AM (zu88C)
If only dueling was legal.
******
Flintlocks held sideways, gangsta style, at dawn.
Posted by: Muldoon at October 21, 2016 10:18 AM (lHb9q)
Posted by: troyriser at October 21, 2016 10:15 AM (cCEFD)
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Caning.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Imperatrix Siculus at October 21, 2016 10:17 AM (EnKk6)
With some buggery thrown in for good measure.
Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at October 21, 2016 10:18 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: ScoggDog at October 21, 2016 10:18 AM (RKJF2)
Posted by: Muldoon at October 21, 2016 10:13 AM (lHb9q)
McCain disgusts me like no other.
I expect craven self-interest from the Dems, and am never surprised when I get it from Republicans.
But McCain is a special breed of slime. At the risk of provoking the ire of many, I would suggest that his time spent as a POW be examined more carefully. Yes, he honored the code, but so did most other men in his position. He is no more a hero than everyone else in the Hanoi Hilton, and judging by the next 45 years, less of a hero than most.....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 21, 2016 10:18 AM (Zu3d9)
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The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at October 21, 2016 10:19 AM (Nwg0u)
There's around 20 in total, and I burned through the first 12 or so in about 2 months. They are as engrossing as anything I've ever read.
Posted by: Sam In Va at October 21, 2016 10:19 AM (bNi5D)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 21, 2016 10:19 AM (7/ORs)
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean (Make deplorable adorable again!) at October 21, 2016 10:20 AM (4ng05)
I have a W.T. Grant window fan, all metal, that must date back 50 years and still running. Grant's was a similar discounter.
Posted by: Little Mrs Spellcheck at October 21, 2016 10:20 AM (zoAQI)
Posted by: ajmojo at October 21, 2016 10:20 AM (1H9ox)
Posted by: ScoggDog at October 21, 2016 10:21 AM (RKJF2)
Posted by: Puddin Head at October 21, 2016 10:21 AM (vV/gB)
Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 21, 2016 10:21 AM (H5rtT)
>>>
Will Bugs Bunny be calling their Square Dance?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtkflEaeGjo
Hillbilly Hare
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 21, 2016 10:22 AM (tf9Ne)
Posted by: ScoggDog at October 21, 2016 10:22 AM (RKJF2)
Discussions are now taking place that suggest that Podesta fell for a phishing scam and was NOT hacked by Russians.
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean (Make deplorable adorable again!) at October 21, 2016 10:20 AM (4ng05)
You'd think civil servants would have Viagra supplied free...
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at October 21, 2016 10:22 AM (2L42J)
Yikes:
http://video.foxnews.com/v/
5176811193001/
spidey-sense-jumping-spiders-
use-leg-hairs-to-hear/
?playlist_id=2827720506001
#sp=show-clips
Posted by: DaveA at October 21, 2016 10:23 AM (8J/Te)
Posted by: Skookumchuk at October 21, 2016 10:23 AM (x1f/0)
Jeebus, the English don't do battle anymore, they've all become Harry
Potter and waive wands and cast spells. Oddly, America does the same.
What is a Hashtag other than a Harry Potter Wish? I blame Harry Potter
for pretty much all of today's suck.
Posted by: Puddin Head at October 21, 2016 10:21 AM (vV/gB)
Dr. Who runs....because guns are bad....
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at October 21, 2016 10:24 AM (2L42J)
https://tinyurl.com/jpylaey
The media HAS to report a huge spread in the polls in favor of Hillary, or the unaware and compliant citizenry may begin to suspect something.
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean (Make deplorable adorable again!) at October 21, 2016 10:24 AM (4ng05)
"Flash in the pan"
Anybody remember "You'd better hold your muzzle up, your candy's falling out"?
Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 21, 2016 10:24 AM (H5rtT)
Posted by: Monica Lewinsky at October 21, 2016 10:24 AM (1H9ox)
Novel concept, that. Ironic that the Workers' Party abandoned their most powerful line of attack in favor of
Gurrl Power fauxrage.
Posted by: kallisto at October 21, 2016 10:25 AM (nNdYv)
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at October 21, 2016 10:25 AM (1diNY)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 21, 2016 10:26 AM (EnGQE)
Dr. Who runs....because guns are bad....
Posted by: Stateless Infidel
And THEN they changed his sonic screwdriver to sonic glasses, because they hate me. I used to watch the show with my son, who is a major Whovian, but I just can't with the sunglasses shit.
Posted by: Scout at October 21, 2016 10:26 AM (ukad2)
I have a W.T. Grant window fan, all metal, that must date back 50 years and still running. Grant's was a similar discounter.
Posted by: Little Mrs Spellcheck at October 21, 2016 10:20 AM (zoAQI)
Completely gone from my mind until CBD mentioned it here. You might also recall Gimbel's from the famed Macy's/Gimbel's rivalry (portrayed in "Miracle on 34th Street") as well Abraham & Strauss. Both also long, long extinct.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 21, 2016 10:26 AM (9P3OG)
The left has many broken narratives, but they keep the confusion at full speed ahead, so people can't focus on the crimes being exposed. Coherent narratives can be exposed, they prefer chaos and diversion. Peak manufactured chaos only needs to last 18 more days.
Hopefully team Trump have very pointed ads timed right, since they have much less money. But they have a lot of money and social media, and social outrage favors Trump the outsider.
Posted by: illiniwek at October 21, 2016 10:26 AM (O2rG1)
Posted by: Eric E. at October 21, 2016 10:26 AM (GtLz7)
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Yeah. I heard that he would ask a prospective officer if he would sacrifice his family life for submarine duty. "Of course!" the man replied, hoping to gain points. What kind of man would be so heartless?! Not good material! Next! The next man might answer "No, I could not forsake my family for my career", and Hyman would berate him for having no sense of duty.
Just liked dicking with people.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Imperatrix Siculus at October 21, 2016 10:26 AM (EnKk6)
Trump complaining about Hillz actually sending out thugs and committing vote fraud: Unamerican and completely beyond the pale.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at October 21, 2016 10:26 AM (Nwg0u)
I was chief Diversity Ofgicer aboard the USS Harvey Milk.
Wow.
Yeah no kidding son. I still wake up in the middle of the night sometimes tbinking: if I'd only filed TTP 9M only a little bit sooner, maybe five minutes sooner, there are transgendered persons of color who'd be on full disability benefits right now.
But don't get me going on that -ahem. Just gotta look forward and do what zir can.
Posted by: Xnycpeasant at October 21, 2016 10:27 AM (szQGH)
...
Doing the work yourself or having it done?
Posted by: ajmojo at October 21, 2016 10:27 AM (1H9ox)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at October 21, 2016 10:19 AM (Nwg0u)
that's a common misconception. Waterloo is actually in Belgium.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 21, 2016 10:27 AM (lPUaT)
https://tinyurl.com/jueqnml
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean (Make deplorable adorable again!) at October 21, 2016 10:28 AM (4ng05)
The interesting thing is there wasn't really much of a system, and such as there was seems to have broken all the rules we think should apply. N A M Rodger has some good coverage of this in The Wooden World and in Command of the Ocean.
But the navy started them young. One of the many great things about O'Brien's Aubreyad is the portrayal of what an intelligent man is like, having very little education outside professional naval science. This is highlighted in contrast with the highly educated Maturin. (I confess I've been through the whole series 3 times; Mauritius command 6.)
The army was different in many ways. For one thing, it drew (on average) from people higher on the social scale, and got them later.
Posted by: George LeS at October 21, 2016 10:28 AM (+TcCF)
Posted by: Bob Ross at October 21, 2016 10:28 AM (iFgwk)
Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 21, 2016 10:29 AM (H5rtT)
Trafalgar, spelled backwards, is Raglafart. Hmm, has Moron connotations.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 21, 2016 10:29 AM (9P3OG)
From wikileaks
https://pbs.tw___.com/media/CvTEUK3WcAAp89V.jpg:large
Posted by: spypeach at October 21, 2016 10:30 AM (nyYhO)
...
Wrong. It's a mid-sized town in Iowa.
Posted by: ajmojo at October 21, 2016 10:30 AM (1H9ox)
Wellington thought and said that the British soldier was the scum of the earth. (But he never wasted their lives, as so many other British generals did...)
Nelson loved his men. And they loved him back....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 21, 2016 10:30 AM (Zu3d9)
*****
If you arrive late to the games at Eton the bluchers will already be filled and you'll have to stand out behind the end zone.
Posted by: Muldoon at October 21, 2016 10:31 AM (lHb9q)
Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 21, 2016 10:31 AM (H5rtT)
Trafalgar, spelled backwards, is Raglafart. Hmm, has Moron connotations.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 21, 2016 10:29 AM (9P3OG)
You've gotta watch out for ragla, that stuff goes straight through you.
Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at October 21, 2016 10:31 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 21, 2016 10:31 AM (tf9Ne)
Posted by: Lizzy at October 21, 2016 10:32 AM (NOIQH)
Posted by: ajmojo at October 21, 2016 10:30 AM (1H9ox)
Oh. please.
It's a town in upstate NY, on the Finger Lakes.
It must have been immensely difficult to get all of those troops there!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 21, 2016 10:32 AM (Zu3d9)
Posted by: Still Deplorable Agent Cooper at October 21, 2016 10:33 AM (1zARK)
A real POS traitor - Edison Miller
http://annapuna.blogspot.com/2010/10/gov-moonbeams-traitor.html
A real hero or two - Mike Christian and Leo Thorness
http://annapuna.blogspot.com/2006/11/mike-and-his-flags.html
A guy with a bone to pick with McCain - Philip Neal Butler
http://annapuna.blogspot.com/2008/09/e-tu-brute.html
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 21, 2016 10:33 AM (7/ORs)
Reporting in today from the Texas State Fair where I hope to eat myself into a fried food stupor.
Fried butter, here I come!
Posted by: Country Boy - Deplorable and proud of it at October 21, 2016 10:33 AM (Q6/bf)
Posted by: the Village People at October 21, 2016 10:33 AM (mBYZv)
Wellington and Blucher both have boots named after them. Not coincidence.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 21, 2016 10:34 AM (H5rtT)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 21, 2016 10:34 AM (AetST)
http://tinyurl.com/zfvqq25
Posted by: josephistan at October 21, 2016 10:34 AM (7HtZB)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
I showed her the plane truth. The seventh plane to be exact.
You're welcome
Posted by: Satan understands bureaucracy at October 21, 2016 10:34 AM (326rv)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Imperatrix Siculus at October 21, 2016 10:26 AM (EnKk6)
I think he was selecting people for slots in a pressure vessel, under pressure, filled with stressed sailors living with no margin for errors, with a near critical nuke pile as a bunk-mate; that they were playing blindfolded chicken with the Russians while staying ready to fight a nuclear war was an added bonus.
Anyone who wouldn't be arrogant and combative enough to face down and admiral might not be up to the pressure.
He might have just liked dicking with people too, but I like database entry and research, so I might also be a good pick for my job.
In the end you have to judge by results.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 21, 2016 10:35 AM (lPUaT)
I would highly recommend the Hornblower series of books for your son. The A&E film version was also very good.
Google "Hornblower" to find the proper order for reading the books.
Posted by: Whoratio at October 21, 2016 10:35 AM (xBVkj)
Efforts to restore our historic downtown have struggled for 20 years, but Breitbart and Loesch and Gateway Pundit ... others were there for a tea party rally years back (2010?), known for a Lincoln Douglas debate.
Posted by: illiniwek at October 21, 2016 10:35 AM (O2rG1)
Posted by: Evilpens at October 21, 2016 10:35 AM (y3aQB)
Posted by: Dirks Strewn at October 21, 2016 10:35 AM (kfcYC)
Posted by: ajmojo at October 21, 2016 10:27 AM (1H9ox)
Having it done, most of the issues at this point are beyond my skill level. I have a shop that I trust and just asked them to look at it and laid out the general concept (don't want him to be eating major repair costs for at least another 15-30k miles), let me know the damage.
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at October 21, 2016 10:36 AM (1diNY)
Probably already answered or commented upon but there was one signal flag for "expects" but "confides" would have had to have been spelled out with individual-letter signal flags.
Posted by: andycanuck at October 21, 2016 10:36 AM (FP3TD)
Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at October 21, 2016 10:31 AM (RD7QR)
Plus I recall Obarky lamenting the cost of ragla in a speech once.
Posted by: Pug Mahon of the Clan Deplorable at October 21, 2016 10:36 AM (RwwCT)
Posted by: Lizzy
Hmmm. A CYA piece? Or is e thinking that Trump has a shot?
Posted by: Satan understands bureaucracy at October 21, 2016 10:36 AM (326rv)
Posted by: USS Zumwalt at October 21, 2016 10:36 AM (mBYZv)
Buchanan nails it.
The establishment is horrified at the Donald's defiance because, deep
within its soul, it fears that the people for whom Trump speaks no
longer accept its political legitimacy or moral authority.
It may rule and run the country, and may rig the system through mass
immigration and a mammoth welfare state so that Middle America is never
again able to elect one of its own. But that establishment, disconnected
from the people it rules, senses, rightly, that it is unloved and even
detested.
Posted by: Mortimer, deplorable at October 21, 2016 10:38 AM (zu88C)
Posted by: Lizzy
Hmmm. A CYA piece? Or is e thinking that Trump has a shot?
Posted by: Satan understands bureaucracy at October 21, 2016 10:36 AM (326rv)
He probably needs a new meth supplier.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 21, 2016 10:38 AM (X6fMO)
glasses, because they hate me. I used to watch the show with my son,
who is a major Whovian, but I just can't with the sunglasses shit.
Posted by: Scout at October 21, 2016 10:26 AM
Meh. It all went to hell after Tom Baker, anyway. Discuss.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 21, 2016 10:39 AM (bzd8I)
This is an interesting story re: Catholic church and refugee resettlement.
http://gatesofvienna.net/2016/10/
arlington-refugee-resettlement-no-questions-answered-no-reporting-allowed/
Posted by: Lizzy at October 21, 2016 10:39 AM (NOIQH)
histories that I would buy at E.J. Korvette
There a name I haven't heard in 40 years.
It's a name I had not heard before now.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 21, 2016 10:40 AM (IqV8l)
https://tinyurl.com/h3m6lbb
Hillary! Now new & improved! More lies! More scandal! Just what any formerly great, now struggling, heavily indebted country needs! Call to see how even YOU can get your next unindicted criminal president - TODAY.
Call 1 - 800 - YUR - FUKD
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean (Make deplorable adorable again!) at October 21, 2016 10:40 AM (4ng05)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at October 21, 2016 10:41 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Dang at October 21, 2016 10:41 AM (8b+oT)
from the people it rules, senses, rightly, that it is unloved and even
detested.
At least some of them may just now be realizing it would have been better to work with the Tea Party instead of demonizing them as neo-Nazis. Welcome to the monster *you* created, jerks!
Posted by: Lizzy at October 21, 2016 10:42 AM (NOIQH)
Some scholarship suggests that Nelson may have said "Kismet, Hardy." Nelson was familiar with Egypt, and it's not uncommon for sailors to pick up bits of language in foreign ports. "Kismet" (fate/destiny) would've been a very reasonable thing for him to have said, though the OED (as authoritative as you can get without being infallible) records the first use of "kismet" in English usage in 1847, some time after Nelson's death.
Jury appears to still be out. Nelson fans may enjoy the novel "Losing Nelson" by Barry Unsworth. I really enjoyed it.
Posted by: General Zod at October 21, 2016 10:42 AM (Bdeb0)
Yet the MSM and Establishment tell us that we should be afraid of a President Trump who just wants to talk with Putin.
Posted by: Mortimer, deplorable at October 21, 2016 10:42 AM (zu88C)
Posted by: Basement Cat at October 21, 2016 10:42 AM (3C9q2)
AN ESTABLISHMENT IN PANIC
Pat Buchanan: Ruling class fears the people won't accept its political legitimacy
Posted by: Evilpens at October 21, 2016 10:43 AM (y3aQB)
======
Absolutely.
It's a keeper.
Our political-media establishment is the reincarnation of King George III .
Posted by: Mortimer, deplorable at October 21, 2016 10:45 AM (zu88C)
Fall into the hands of God, not into the hands of Spain!'
Posted by: Grump928(c) at October 21, 2016 10:45 AM (QQ+il)
Congrats to CBD-- Insty just linked to the post.
Posted by: Basement Cat at October 21, 2016 10:42 AM (3C9q2)
For some reason he doesn't use my full nic.
I have no idea why.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 21, 2016 10:45 AM (Zu3d9)
I currently has a large amount of money in a Swiss bank account i would donate to the Hilllaary Foundation but I need a small loan to pay back Swiss taxes to access the account. Pleas click this link to aid me. Thank you much, Ncomo Nblowmi
Posted by: former nigerian finance minister at October 21, 2016 10:45 AM (FP3TD)
FOX Business News
Posted by: Mortimer, deplorable at October 21, 2016 10:18 AM (zu88C)
How can people be worried about jobs and livelihoods? We have 0% unemployment. It's never been better in Barry's economic golden age. Soooo many jobs that they can't fill them. There must be about 94 million of those jobs.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at October 21, 2016 10:46 AM (493sH)
http://tinyurl.com/jygtevd
Posted by: fixerupper at October 21, 2016 10:00 AM (8XRCm)
You people are cruel. IMO that's a "flattering" rendition of the Hilldebeast.
Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at October 21, 2016 10:46 AM (BcNLK)
Posted by: Grump928(c) at October 21, 2016 10:46 AM (QQ+il)
*Especially* through the comparatively weak stern...
Posted by: General Zod at October 21, 2016 10:46 AM (Bdeb0)
And why the heck is a Kindle version almost sixteen dollars?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Imperatrix Siculus at October 21, 2016 10:46 AM (EnKk6)
Posted by: naturalfake at October 21, 2016 10:46 AM (0cMkb)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 21, 2016 10:47 AM (7/ORs)
Posted by: ScoggDog at October 21, 2016 10:21 AM (RKJF2)
That's what this painting needs. More sodomy.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at October 21, 2016 10:47 AM (IheRu)
Posted by: andycanuck at October 21, 2016 10:36 AM (FP3TD)
Thanks!
I am dredging this stuff out of my memory.....I might have to go to my mom's house and check whether she kept any of my childhood books.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 21, 2016 10:48 AM (Zu3d9)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llamabutcher at October 21, 2016 10:48 AM (nlNi7)
Posted by: Satan understands bureaucracy at October 21, 2016 10:36 AM (326rv)
I'm thinking Williamson might have had a genuine Road To Damascus moment. I know I did. It comes down to this: Hillary Clintonis genuinely evil by any traditional definition of the term, almost cartoony in her malevolence and spite. The way she treats those she considers beneath her, such as the Secret Service agents committed by oath to protect her, is tip of the iceberg stuff. Imagine her as POTUS.
Donald Trump, on the other hand, may be crass, boorish and grandiose, but for all that he's genuine. He really believes in America--almost as much as he believes in himself. He may not be a paragon of Christian virtue, but he isn't evil. He means well.
Posted by: troyriser at October 21, 2016 10:48 AM (cCEFD)
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Right? For that price it should be read aloud by a hologram of Rickover.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Imperatrix Siculus at October 21, 2016 10:49 AM (EnKk6)
Just sayin.
Posted by: Still Deplorable Agent Cooper
And this admirable admiral:
http://tinyurl.com/jpjs6o2
Posted by: Brother Cavil, deplorably down with Eph 6:12-13 at October 21, 2016 10:49 AM (9krrF)
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at October 21, 2016 10:25 AM (1diNY)
Good for you. I've been doing the same thing lately as kind of a hobby. As a big "Wheeler Dealer" fan, I enjoy getting an old project car and fixing it up. Once done, it's more fun to give it away to someone who needs it than to try to sell it.
Posted by: jwest at October 21, 2016 10:49 AM (Zs4uk)
Posted by: naturalfake at October 21, 2016 10:49 AM (0cMkb)
Not nautical, but historical, Johnny Tremain was a go-to when I was little.
And why the heck is a Kindle version almost sixteen dollars?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Imperatrix Siculus at October 21, 2016 10:46 AM (EnKk6)
Someone's got to pay for all the abysmal OCR...
Posted by: hogmartin at October 21, 2016 10:49 AM (8nWyX)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 21, 2016 10:50 AM (7/ORs)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 21, 2016 10:50 AM (AetST)
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 21, 2016 10:50 AM (WE5/U)
, survivor of the Trafalgar battle, being towed into port. According to a recent poll in Britain, it was voted the nation's favorite painting in 2005. Considerable symbolism in the movie.Posted by: General Zod at October 21, 2016 10:50 AM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 21, 2016 10:51 AM (BK3ZS)
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at October 21, 2016 10:51 AM (UW05t)
Posted by: General Zod at October 21, 2016 10:51 AM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: naturalfake at October 21, 2016 10:46 AM (0cMkb)
I thought his wife's name is Sharon
Posted by: TheQuietMan at October 21, 2016 10:51 AM (493sH)
reports those miserable, fat, Belgian bastards have bulldozed the famous
farmhouse at Quatre Bras to make room for apartment construction.
(Sorry, can't linky from my phone.)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llamabutcher
That sucks. I'm currently reading a first hand account of the battle by a British Dragoon.
Posted by: Dang at October 21, 2016 10:51 AM (8b+oT)
Posted by: Evilpens at October 21, 2016 10:51 AM (y3aQB)
Anyway:
Who I'm voting for, and why
by Charles "Wheels" Krauthammer
Paul Ryan or Ben Sasse. Two weeks to decide.
http://tinyurl.com/hk692jz
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 21, 2016 10:52 AM (kdS6q)
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I might be misremembering, but wasn't there a Disney movie on Johnny Tremain? I seem to remember him hurting his hand when molten metal was being poured into a mold...?
We saw it in class when I were a wee lassy.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Imperatrix Siculus at October 21, 2016 10:52 AM (EnKk6)
If you have a few minutes, will you shoot me an e-mail at:
nynjmeet at optimum dot net
Thanks.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 21, 2016 10:53 AM (Zu3d9)
Fuckwit Ryan brokers deal to sell the internet:
https://tinyurl.com/j6c7zr2
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean (Make deplorable adorable again!) at October 21, 2016 10:53 AM (4ng05)
That's what this painting needs. More sodomy.
____________________________
Hector!! Get your sorry ass in here,, they need you for some kinda' painting! Stupid turd ball...
Posted by: Hectors' mom at October 21, 2016 10:53 AM (HSmrB)
Kurt Russell was Johnny Tremain, no?
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 21, 2016 10:53 AM (WE5/U)
Russkis want Trump because he will be hamstrung by the media and easy to outfox. Like any other R. Posted by: Ray Van Dune at October 21, 2016 10:51 AM (UW05t)
There's a job waiting for the kind of piercing, unassailable intellect that you bring to the discourse. Your nation needs you, eat a dick, and the intelligentsia of our nation's capital needs you.
Posted by: General Zod at October 21, 2016 10:53 AM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: Walt Disney at October 21, 2016 10:54 AM (8b+oT)
Posted by: Dirks Strewn
If so, they have a moral duty to interfere with those operations by any means at their disposal.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, deplorably down with Eph 6:12-13 at October 21, 2016 10:54 AM (9krrF)
According to what poll?
Or is it just one guy's opinion with zero data to back it up?
I thought 2012 was bizarre with the poll unskewing hilarity, but this year with Trump supporters relying on lawn signs and rally size and the mysterious millions and millions of voters who will pop up on Election Day takes the cake.
Election night will be hilarious when, as usual, the polls are right and Hillary is declared the winner immediately in FL and NC.
What will you say? It was voter fraud on a galactic scale?
Posted by: Poll man at October 21, 2016 10:54 AM (2XJ6r)
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 21, 2016 10:54 AM (WE5/U)
Posted by: bluebell at October 21, 2016 10:54 AM (uHcnA)
Posted by: troyriser at October 21, 2016 10:48 AM (cCEFD)
Hillary = Madame Mao.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at October 21, 2016 10:54 AM (IheRu)
Posted by: Lance Justison at October 21, 2016 10:54 AM (oDE+c)
Question of the day:
Why don't people ride zebras?
Zebras are the lefty progtards of the animal kingdom. IOW, they're too dumb.
Posted by: sinalco the deplorable at October 21, 2016 10:55 AM (WavOX)
"Skyfall" is J.M.W. Turner's rendering of the HMS Temeraire ("The
Fighting Temeraire Being Tugged To Her Last Berth To Be Broken Up," 183
, survivor of the Trafalgar battle, being towed into port. According to
a recent poll in Britain, it was voted the nation's favorite painting
in 2005. Considerable symbolism in the movie.
Posted by: General Zod at October 21, 2016 10:50 AM
I was given a book about the Temeraire not long ago. Still need to really get stuck into it, though. Maybe over the winter...
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 21, 2016 10:55 AM (bzd8I)
What will you say? It was voter fraud on a galactic scale?
Posted by: Poll man
We'll say you're a dunce troll?
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 21, 2016 10:55 AM (WE5/U)
movie on Johnny Tremain? I seem to remember him hurting his hand when
molten metal was being poured into a mold...?
We saw it in class when I were a wee lassy. Posted by: All Hail Eris, Imperatrix Siculus at October 21, 2016 10:52 AM (EnKk6)
Read the book when I was a kid with the flu. "Johnny Tremain" and another, "Guns For Watie," a YA western. Can't believe I remember those two titles, thanks for the memories!
Posted by: General Zod at October 21, 2016 10:55 AM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 21, 2016 10:56 AM (H5rtT)
Posted by: Evilpens at October 21, 2016 10:56 AM (y3aQB)
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Is this the future of the US?
MOAR mass immigrations for the wimmenz and chirrens!
Posted by: Mortimer, deplorable at October 21, 2016 10:56 AM (zu88C)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 21, 2016 10:58 AM (AetST)
Posted by: General Zod at October 21, 2016 10:59 AM (Bdeb0)
Maybe Heinlein was half-right. The USA collapses under the weight of welfare and illegal immigration and all the smart, productive people hightail to Argentina.
Posted by: V the K at October 21, 2016 10:59 AM (O7MnT)
We need new agencies to deal with all this corruption. Multi-Millionaire politicians who didn't have two fuckin dimes to rub together when they first took office, Hell they OWED their left Nut to the loan when they took office and Now they're Millionaires? How do you do that without taking Bribe Money??I dunno, you tell me. there,I feel a little better now. Don't get me started about what happens if Our Gurl Takes first prize.
Posted by: firefirefireinExile at October 21, 2016 10:59 AM (of67s)
Posted by: Hectors' mom at October 21, 2016 10:59 AM (HSmrB)
Where the hell we gonna go?
That's sort of one of the key ideas in Reagan's the "Shining City on the Hill" speech.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 21, 2016 10:59 AM (J+eG2)
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I wonder if those are German Germans or fresh new Islamo-Nazi Germans deploying around the globe?
Posted by: Dang at October 21, 2016 10:59 AM (8b+oT)
1.5 million Germans leaving Germany.
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Is this the future of the US?
Oh Jesus. You mean they're coming here?
Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 21, 2016 10:59 AM (H5rtT)
Until just recently and still may be the case, Germans were the largest group of immigrants to the USA.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 21, 2016 11:00 AM (AetST)
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I wish we could settle them in the Midwest. Think of the boon they'd be to the craft brewing, precision machinery, and leather goods industries!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Imperatrix Siculus at October 21, 2016 11:00 AM (EnKk6)
Posted by: Sheena, Queen of the Jungle at October 21, 2016 11:00 AM (QQ+il)
Posted by: MTF at October 21, 2016 11:01 AM (/m8T6)
movie on Johnny Tremain? I seem to remember him hurting his hand when
molten metal was being poured into a mold...?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Imperatrix Siculus at October 21, 2016 10:52 AM (EnKk6)
Cool! They should call it "Johnny Deformed"!
Posted by: Bart Simpson at October 21, 2016 11:01 AM (7HtZB)
Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 21, 2016 11:02 AM (H5rtT)
Posted by: ajmojo at October 21, 2016 11:02 AM (1H9ox)
Posted by: Killerdog at October 21, 2016 11:02 AM (wwOpQ)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 21, 2016 11:02 AM (J+eG2)
Posted by: General Zod at October 21, 2016 10:59 AM (Bdeb0)
That's the book on which I did a book report in 4th grade, and brought my father's Spencer Repeating Rifle in as a prop.
Those were the days!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 21, 2016 11:03 AM (Zu3d9)
Cool! They should call it "Johnny Deformed"!
Posted by: Bart Simpson at October 21, 2016 11:01 AM (7HtZB)
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Obligatory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtJNCR4iJpc
Japanese tourists: "It's the Curies! We must flee!"
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Imperatrix Siculus at October 21, 2016 11:03 AM (EnKk6)
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For that matter, the Gregory Peck movie is good, too.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at October 21, 2016 11:03 AM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 21, 2016 11:02 AM (H5rtT)
:golf clap:
Posted by: hogmartin at October 21, 2016 11:03 AM (8nWyX)
Posted by: Revenant at October 21, 2016 11:04 AM (3DSAh)
You might enjoy this article on Trump which echoes your feelings From American Thinker:
http://tinyurl.com/zmyr5uk
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 21, 2016 11:04 AM (EnGQE)
Posted by: Grump928(c) at October 21, 2016 11:05 AM (QQ+il)
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I wish we could settle them in the Midwest. Think of the boon they'd be to the craft brewing, precision machinery, and leather goods industries!
Curiously, I am in need of a good buggy whip!
Posted by: rickb223 at October 21, 2016 11:05 AM (I1MCJ)
Army guys can look to heroic moments like Washington crossing the Delaware, the Alamo, Bastogne and such, but even I must tip my cap to the Navy and the Battle off Samar when Task Force Taffy 3 engaged the Navy of Japan. No greater mismatch in naval history. Pure courage and daring in the face of overwhelming force.
Awesome!
Posted by: Deplorable Diogenes at October 21, 2016 11:05 AM (0tfLf)
Posted by: JT at October 21, 2016 11:05 AM (GdBvh)
boorish and grandiose, but for all that he's genuine. He really believes
in America--almost as much as he believes in himself. He may not be a
paragon of Christian virtue, but he isn't evil. He means well.
Posted by: troyriser at October 21, 2016 10:48 AM (cCEFD)
I would rather hear the rough truth than pretty lies.
Posted by: Agent Cooper at October 21, 2016 11:05 AM (1zARK)
Given how many people who threatened Hillary's ascendancy based on what they know have turned up dead, think it's important they not end up dead in their bathroom due to unspecified causes, or dropping barbels on their neck, or getting beaten and shot in the back in a DC park....
Posted by: Lizzy at October 21, 2016 11:06 AM (NOIQH)
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Is this the future of the US?
MOAR mass immigrations for the wimmenz and chirrens!
Where would we go? The moon? Texas? Obama hates America and has done his best over the past 8 years to turn it into just another shabby socialist shithole.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at October 21, 2016 11:06 AM (IheRu)
Posted by: tubal at October 21, 2016 11:07 AM (d6TTt)
1.5 million Germans leaving Germany.
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I wish we could settle them in the Midwest. Think of the boon
they'd be to the craft brewing, precision machinery, and leather goods
industries!>>>
They will feel right at home in this Midwestern town.
http://stiftungsfest.org/
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 21, 2016 11:07 AM (tf9Ne)
Posted by: Lizzy
So die trying to stop this disaster, or live with the knowledge you stood by and watched.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't...
Posted by: Brother Cavil, deplorably down with Eph 6:12-13 at October 21, 2016 11:07 AM (9krrF)
I know Country Boy has said he emailed him a few days ago, but hadn't heard back. It's very worrisome.
Ricardo, if you're lurking, please know I'm praying for you and if you can, please drop in to say hi.
Posted by: bluebell at October 21, 2016 11:07 AM (uHcnA)
http://tinyurl.com/jpjs6o2
Posted by: Brother Cavil, deplorably down with Eph 6:12-13 at October 21, 2016 10:49 AM (9krrF)
See? This guy knows what I'm talking about.
Posted by: Agent Cooper - Epic Level Deplorable Prestige Class at October 21, 2016 11:07 AM (1zARK)
Posted by: Stringer Davis
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Beer, BMW's, Big Boobed Blonde Babes...
Total chaos!
I really don't know where they are going. Brexit was mentioned so maybe they are heading to GB.
Posted by: Mortimer, deplorable at October 21, 2016 11:08 AM (zu88C)
I might be misremembering, but wasn't there a Disney movie on Johnny Tremain? I seem to remember him hurting his hand when molten metal was being poured into a mold...?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Imperatrix Siculus at October 21, 2016 10:52 AM (EnKk6)
We called it, "Johnny's Remains".
I'm still crushed that it took a Monty Python sketch to demonstrate the possibility of "A Sale of Two Titties", which we also had to read in school back in the day.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 21, 2016 11:08 AM (BK3ZS)
Posted by: Agent Cooper at October 21, 2016 11:05 AM (1zARK)
Hillary's lies aren't even pretty. They look like a giant oven mitt.
Oh wait, I thought you meant her clothes.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at October 21, 2016 11:08 AM (IheRu)
Posted by: StrawMan at October 21, 2016 09:57 AM (h6BP/)
I always wondered why Spanish gets a pass on the oppressor-occupier European language list. I'd have a smidgeon of respect for La Raza if they made a big push to dump Spanish in favor of native dialects as they existed in 1492.
Posted by: JuJuBee at October 21, 2016 11:08 AM (kma8f)
Oh, I think they're determined to get the truth out - I just worry for their safety!
Posted by: Lizzy at October 21, 2016 11:08 AM (NOIQH)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Imperatrix Siculus at October 21, 2016 11:00 AM (EnKk6)
And Oktoberfest girls
Posted by: TheQuietMan at October 21, 2016 11:09 AM (493sH)
Posted by: Still Working on My Permanent Handle, So To Speak at October 21, 2016 11:09 AM (zke7T)
Yes . Even though the Battle of Thermopylae is one of the most inspiring battles the subsequent victory at sea by the Greeks at Battle of Salamis is almost as inspiring and more important.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 21, 2016 11:09 AM (AetST)
He is running for re-election and is trying to convince conservatives that he is totes cool with them.
Posted by: Mallamutt
****
Vote for me. I promise I won't pull the football away this time.
Posted by: Tilikum KAW at October 21, 2016 11:10 AM (0x/TW)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
I haven't watched any of the older doctors. We stared watching with the Christopher Eccelston reboot. Are they good? My memory from channel surfing as a kid was that the sets always looked cheesy.
(I have to admit I really liked the 9th - 11th doctors, even though I know that goes against the general thought of the hardcore fans. I thought Matt Smith was highly amusing, and I loved the Amy Pond episodes.)
Posted by: Scout at October 21, 2016 11:10 AM (ukad2)
Men shall sing, til time and tides are done, of the deeds of the Johnson and the Hoel.
Beavis?
Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 21, 2016 11:11 AM (H5rtT)
CNN might have just aired the fakest news skit ever this morning.
That awful Costello woman is in a diner in Ohio, which just happens to be loaded with Clinton campaign staffers and guess what?
She just so happens to find a couple of regular Ohians who are voting for hillary clinton. The wife describes herself as "a woman of faith," whatever that means. And her husband, just a regular Ohioan, was undecided until the debate when Trump said he'd "sabotage the Democratic voting process."
The husband sounded like he rehearsed his reasons because they sounded exactly like all the Media's concerns yesterday in a nice neat little package.
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 21, 2016 11:11 AM (WE5/U)
http://stiftungsfest.org/
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 21, 2016 11:07 AM (tf9Ne)
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My neck o' the Midwest was Kraut/Polack-intensive, with a smattering of various swarthies.
We could always set them up in Frankenmuth and make it a walled enclave.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Imperatrix Siculus at October 21, 2016 11:12 AM (EnKk6)
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at October 21, 2016 11:12 AM (jgPSP)
CNBC - Telemundo Chairman on the election. Well this ought to be as non-biased as it gets. Oh looky - power of the Latino voter. Better pander to them and give them everything they want.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at October 21, 2016 11:12 AM (493sH)
I guess I missed this story.
Posted by: Grump928(c) at October 21, 2016 11:13 AM (QQ+il)
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 21, 2016 11:14 AM (WE5/U)
for hillary clinton. The wife describes herself as "a woman of faith,"
whatever that means. And her husband, just a regular Ohioan, was
undecided until the debate when Trump said he'd "sabotage the Democratic
voting process."
The wife is a long-time activist for Planned Parenthood and the husband has been active in the local Democrat party for a few decades. Their oldest daughter, a journalism major who interned at NBC last summer, volunteers on the Hillary! campaign.
Just a guess
All of Hillary's "Everyday Americans" that she met with when she kicked off her campaign were totally connected, true-blue party people.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 21, 2016 11:14 AM (NOIQH)
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at October 21, 2016 11:12 AM (jgPSP)
He's hitting all the battleground states, then. He's supposed to appear here in SE PA at 4:30.
Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at October 21, 2016 11:14 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 21, 2016 11:00 AM (AetST)
The numbers I have seen do not support that. I have linked to immigration related sites that say since Obama took office he is abusing the asylum laws to let in millions of third world welfare drones. We are now letting in 2M new Democrat voters a year. 200,000 of those are muzzies from the ME and he is increasing those.
Our insane asylum laws need to a complete rewrite. And remember back to that German couple who applied for asylum so they could home school their children which Germany does not allow. They were denied and were being deported up until the outcry nationwide made them change their mind. It was going to cost the Democrats some votes.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at October 21, 2016 11:14 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Simon and Deplorable Garfunkle at October 21, 2016 11:15 AM (BcNLK)
The husband sounded like he rehearsed his reasons because they sounded exactly like all the Media's concerns yesterday in a nice neat little package.
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 21, 2016 11:11 AM (WE5/U)
Right, and if any reporter actually bothered to ask some questions about who these people are and how they came to be there, I'll bet you 400 quatloos that it would turn out that they're both some sort of Democratic Party activists or even maybe "community organizers" and that the Hillary campaign arranged for them to be sitting there at that precise moment.
It's all staged, it's all faked.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at October 21, 2016 11:15 AM (IheRu)
Posted by: Seems legit at October 21, 2016 11:15 AM (U+nHb)
...so long as neither is making bunny ears behind the other's head...
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/24205
Posted by: spypeach at October 21, 2016 11:16 AM (nyYhO)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at October 21, 2016 11:16 AM (mpXpK)
And vicious. Which in no way impairs your metaphor.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at October 21, 2016 11:16 AM (GDulk)
It's all staged, it's all faked.
It takes a potemkin village to drag the beast over the finish line.
Posted by: Satan understands bureaucracy at October 21, 2016 11:16 AM (326rv)
Posted by: Make America Great Again at October 21, 2016 11:16 AM (2oRt7)
Time Warner and AT/T talking merger.
That would complete the construction of the Dem's Death Star.
Posted by: Mortimer, deplorable at October 21, 2016 11:17 AM (zu88C)
Now the Telemundo Chairman is talking about their programming. A lot of over the top dramas and all of their comedies are Benny Hill in Spanish.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at October 21, 2016 11:17 AM (493sH)
Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 21, 2016 11:18 AM (H5rtT)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at October 21, 2016 11:18 AM (oNTHo)
Posted by: Rory at October 21, 2016 11:19 AM (A9I+K)
Multi-player, and the last I heard, it's still in alpha. I haven't played it myself, but I've watched quite a few livestreams.
Posted by: mrp at October 21, 2016 11:19 AM (JBggj)
Posted by: Jane D'oh, Deplorable Redneck Queen at October 21, 2016 11:19 AM (928Aa)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at October 21, 2016 11:18 AM (oNTHo)
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I'm betting you could get an NEA grant for that performance.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Imperatrix Siculus at October 21, 2016 11:20 AM (EnKk6)
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Trivia from the Napoleonic Wars.
When the French invaded Spain, they proposed they did so to raise Spain out of the tyranny of the Dark Ages into a new Age of Enlightenment. One Spaniard who bought this line of Hillaryous crap was a young police commander, Fernando Sor. When the whole enlightenment thing didn't work out, Sor found it advisable to emmigrate to France not wishing to discuss his past. He moved to Paris where he developed his avocation to a profession. He became a great composer, teacher, and virtuoso of the classical guitar.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at October 21, 2016 11:20 AM (Nwg0u)
In Naomi Novik's series set in a Napoleonic War that includes dragons as air support, the main dragon is named Temeraire because his egg was captured as a prize from a French ship. Learning that there was an actual ship by that name is very interesting.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at October 21, 2016 11:21 AM (GDulk)
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if she was dick punched it would be a Bill Clinton rally
Posted by: Rick in SK at October 21, 2016 11:21 AM (/CIN4)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Imperatrix Siculus at October 21, 2016 11:21 AM (EnKk6)
Why don't people ride zebras?
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 21, 2016 10:50 AM (WE5/U)
They may look exactly like horses but they have the temperament of Hillary dealing with SS agents. They're not tameable, they're unpredictable and downright mean. Ditto for African elephants, you can't ride those either, unlike the Asian ones.
Posted by: JuJuBee at October 21, 2016 11:21 AM (kma8f)
Posted by: Muldoon at October 21, 2016 10:18 AM (lHb9q)
Hand grenades, in a phone booth. For the chilluns.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 21, 2016 11:22 AM (CUYn5)
Posted by: Mortimer, deplorable at October 21, 2016 11:22 AM (zu88C)
The early ones are a bit cheesy, set-wise. By the 3rd and 4th Doctors they got better. Mostly. I recall the Baker years as being criticized as too dark and scary for kids. I loved them. Plus, you could tell Baker was having fun with it.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 21, 2016 11:22 AM (bzd8I)
I haven't watched any of the older doctors. We stared watching with the Christopher Eccelston reboot. Are they good? My memory from channel surfing as a kid was that the sets always looked cheesy.
If your main concern is special effects then you probably won't like the original series.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 21, 2016 11:22 AM (IqV8l)
People assume from my surname that it's German. It's actually Swiss.
My ancestors were actually dumb enough to leave Switzerland.
Posted by: V the K at October 21, 2016 11:22 AM (O7MnT)
Posted by: Revenant at October 21, 2016 11:22 AM (3DSAh)
They may look exactly like horses but they have the temperament of Hillary dealing with SS agents. They're not tameable, they're unpredictable and downright mean. Ditto for African elephants, you can't ride those either, unlike the Asian ones.
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any filly can be broken and rode, you just need the proper "touch"
Posted by: Bill Clinton at October 21, 2016 11:23 AM (/CIN4)
Ditto for African elephants, you can't ride those either, unlike the Asian ones.
I learned something today. Thanks, AoS Hodors!
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 21, 2016 11:24 AM (WE5/U)
Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at October 21, 2016 11:24 AM (RD7QR)
Hillary and Gore hate each other.
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NEWS FLASH
Hillary hates everyone
Posted by: Rick in SK at October 21, 2016 11:24 AM (/CIN4)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at October 21, 2016 11:18 AM (oNTHo)
I read that as "the flat of my shiksa" at first.
Still kind of giggling about it.
Posted by: hogmartin at October 21, 2016 11:25 AM (8nWyX)
Maybe Heinlein was half-right. The USA collapses under the weight of welfare and illegal immigration and all the smart, productive people hightail to Argentina.
Posted by: V the K at October 21, 2016 10:59 AM
Hillary will get us blasted into Farnham's Freehold.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 21, 2016 11:25 AM (IqV8l)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 21, 2016 10:39 AM (bzd8I)
Agreed.
If your main concern is special effects then you probably won't like the original series.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 21, 2016 11:22 AM (IqV8l)
Part of the charm of the original series was the 3 pound budget and every planet was the same rock quarry
Posted by: TheQuietMan at October 21, 2016 11:25 AM (493sH)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 21, 2016 11:22 AM (bzd8I)
You know what Tom Baker also did? In the 1980s, the BBC did a television series of the first 4 Narnia books. Tom Baker was in the 4th one, playing Puddleglum. He was absolutely brilliant. He had the Puddleglum character down perfectly. I've always admired him for that.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at October 21, 2016 11:26 AM (IheRu)
The early ones are a bit cheesy, set-wise. By the 3rd and 4th Doctors they got better. Mostly. I recall the Baker years as being criticized as too dark and scary for kids. I loved them. Plus, you could tell Baker was having fun with it.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 21, 2016 11:22 AM (bzd8I)
When Netflix first came out, I got a few of the Tom Baker DVDs. Based on that, they recommended "Magic Mike" for me. Then I rented some 70s cop movies. They recommended Barbra Streisand movies. Netflix's algorithm apparently thought I was gay.
Posted by: josephistan at October 21, 2016 11:26 AM (7HtZB)
If your main concern is special effects then you probably won't like the original series.
Also, if you don't like good acting and stories that won't insult your adult-intelligence, you won't like the old Doctor Whos.
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 21, 2016 11:26 AM (WE5/U)
Compared to others, we're great. Neighborhood still looks like a war zone.
In husband news, he's still in pain, but is being a very agreeable patient. I think the news that the doctor isn't sure his hand will heal, has freaked him out.
I'm worn out.
Posted by: Jane D'oh, Deplorable Redneck Queen at October 21, 2016 11:26 AM (928Aa)
'The Leisure Hive' was the DW attempt to raise the quality of spfx to 'American Standards.' They fell a little short.
https://youtu.be/MtcSw2BHBMc
But Romana was always nice to look at.
Posted by: V the K at October 21, 2016 11:27 AM (O7MnT)
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There wasn't enough Salami for everyone?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at October 21, 2016 11:27 AM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at October 21, 2016 11:25 AM (493sH)
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It was Britain's Vasquez Rocks.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Imperatrix Siculus at October 21, 2016 11:27 AM (EnKk6)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at October 21, 2016 11:27 AM (mpXpK)
IKR? Don't want to speak English, but bitterly clinging to the language of the conquistadores.
p.s. - I saw your post about your mom's Christmas party. This year I plan to honor her by serving up a pitcher of Brandy Alexanders!
Cheers
Posted by: kallisto at October 21, 2016 11:27 AM (nNdYv)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 21, 2016 11:25 AM (IqV8l)
Is that anything like Hope's Rolo?
Posted by: josephistan at October 21, 2016 11:27 AM (7HtZB)
Oh, Carol Costello.
Who referred to the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act as having been "signed into law" by Michelle Obama.
Good thing we have smart teevee people to keep us backward bitter clingers up to speed on the facts.
Posted by: torquewrench at October 21, 2016 11:27 AM (noWW6)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at October 21, 2016 11:27 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: V the K
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My elderly, proud veteran father said something similar last week. Only substitute "Russia" for "Switzerland."
I think he was joking. But not certain.
Posted by: Furious George at October 21, 2016 11:28 AM (dYw0K)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 21, 2016 11:28 AM (7/ORs)
I'm looking at all the shit coming out about hillary and I see no way she could effectively govern. And I don't mean she could not govern to effect, I mean govern at all.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 21, 2016 11:28 AM (ODxAs)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at October 21, 2016 11:25 AM
Comic Relief did a great spoof of it back around '99 or '00. Rowan Atkinson, Hugh Grant, Jim Braodbent and Joanna Lumley as the Doctors. It's on YouTube, iirc. Search 'The Curse of Fatal Death'.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 21, 2016 11:28 AM (bzd8I)
I'm looking at all the shit coming out about hillary and I see no way she could effectively govern. And I don't mean she could not govern to effect, I mean govern at all.
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thats what the depends are for
Posted by: Rick in SK at October 21, 2016 11:29 AM (/CIN4)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at October 21, 2016 11:29 AM (Nwg0u)
Not a hot enough place in hell for Obama and his merry quislings in the Pentagon.
Posted by: Jane D'oh, Deplorable Redneck Queen at October 21, 2016 11:29 AM (928Aa)
Posted by: Revenant at October 21, 2016 11:22 AM (3DSAh)
I think a lot of people hate her. Some of this stuff reads like a soap opera.
Posted by: spypeach at October 21, 2016 11:29 AM (nyYhO)
So, we do the DNA test, and she's a significant percentage Italian. Mad as hell. How could this happen? I point out that Switzerland has three parts, and she practically breaks down in tears.
If these recreational DNA tests turn out to have any flaws, there's gonna be some extremely heartfelt lawsuiting. Kilts and lederhosen will be flying.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 21, 2016 11:30 AM (H5rtT)
Posted by: Rick in SK at October 21, 2016 11:30 AM (/CIN4)
Wow. Nicely put.
And so Orwellian.
Posted by: the deplorable sock_rat_eez, stay calm and carry on at October 21, 2016 11:30 AM (Z8DIA)
And I don't mean she could not govern to effect, I mean govern at all.
The Republicans will have no problem whatsoever helping her move things along. In fact, the Republicans will be tripping over their own feet to get to the cameras to be the first to congratulate Hillary on her victory and pledge their fealty to her.
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 21, 2016 11:31 AM (WE5/U)
Road To Damascus moment. I know I did. It comes down to this: Hillary
Clintonis genuinely evil by any traditional definition of the term,
almost cartoony in her malevolence and spite. The way she treats those
she considers beneath her, such as the Secret Service agents committed
by oath to protect her, is tip of the iceberg stuff. Imagine her as
POTUS.
Posted by: troyriser at October 21, 2016 10:48 AM (cCEFD)
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I'm laughing, thinking about the marriage advice thread from last night. My guess is that Hill was just as contemptuous of serving people and clerks before he married her.
Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at October 21, 2016 11:31 AM (BcNLK)
BBC did a television series of the first 4 Narnia books. Tom Baker was
in the 4th one, playing Puddleglum. He was absolutely brilliant. He had
the Puddleglum character down perfectly. I've always admired him for
that.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at October 21, 2016 11:26 AM
He was good in that. I also liked his cameo as Capt. Redbeard Rum in Blackadder II. "A second rate seaman, but a first rate second course".
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 21, 2016 11:31 AM (bzd8I)
heh. My wife went to the store, decided to pick up a Natl. Enquirer. She has never bought one before in her life.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 21, 2016 11:31 AM (ODxAs)
I'm looking at all the shit coming out about hillary and I see no way she could effectively govern. And I don't mean she could not govern to effect, I mean govern at all.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 21, 2016 11:28 AM (ODxAs)
There is a difference between Govern, and Rule....
Posted by: Don Quixote at October 21, 2016 11:31 AM (qf6WZ)
Cheers
Posted by: kallisto at October 21, 2016 11:27 AM (nNdYv)
Thanks, Kallisto. Don't forget to try the Brandy Alexander Pie that was posted in 2014, either Nov or Dec. It's really good. It's my go-to New Year's Eve dessert.
Posted by: JuJuBee at October 21, 2016 11:31 AM (kma8f)
No looka atta me!!
Posted by: Guido the Milkman at October 21, 2016 11:32 AM (nNdYv)
Posted by: Rick in SK at October 21, 2016 11:32 AM (/CIN4)
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 21, 2016 11:33 AM (WE5/U)
Ditto for African elephants, you can't ride those either, unlike the Asian ones.
Sooo...where did Hannibal get HIS elephants?
Posted by: Agent Cooper - Epic Level Deplorable Prestige Class at October 21, 2016 11:33 AM (1zARK)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 21, 2016 11:33 AM (7/ORs)
There was a piece from the London _Telegraph_ by a journo embedded with the Kurdish forces near Mosul. She describes looking through binoculars at the American special forces, far ahead of the Kurdish front lines, calling artillery strikes.
They're supposed to be "advisors" showing the locals what to do. They're not supposed to be in combat. Forward artillery control is combat by any reasonable measure.
Posted by: torquewrench at October 21, 2016 11:33 AM (noWW6)
Baker DVDs. Based on that, they recommended "Magic Mike" for me. Then I
rented some 70s cop movies. They recommended Barbra Streisand movies.
Netflix's algorithm apparently thought I was gay. Posted by: josephistan at October 21, 2016 11:26 AM (7HtZB)
Same phenomenon, different platform: I'll pick a youtube video to watch--something a little obscure--and let it keep "running," i.e., going on to automatically play the next related video, etc. Two hours later, you can come back to find yourself in some pretty weird waters...one time started with a lecture on lit modernity, then got to advisory documentary on candirus in the Amazon by way of Wm. S. Burroughs. Odd.
Posted by: General Zod at October 21, 2016 11:34 AM (Bdeb0)
You know, it is...
No. You don't want to know.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 21, 2016 11:34 AM (H5rtT)
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at October 21, 2016 11:26 AM (IheRu)
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I loved Puddleglum! He was such a wonderful character. Considered a flibberdegibbet by other Marshwiggles.
I may have to check this out as The Silver Chair is my favorite of the series. I wonder if they will ever do another Narnia movie. Scrubb's transformation from nasty bilious coward to decent young man is one of YA literature's great moments. Eustace and Jill were a great team.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Imperatrix Siculus at October 21, 2016 11:34 AM (EnKk6)
Posted by: phoenixgirl, gird up your loins, this is not the time to go wobbly at October 21, 2016 11:34 AM (0O7c5)
Posted by: Rick in SK at October 21, 2016 11:34 AM (/CIN4)
Posted by: V the K at October 21, 2016 11:27 AM (O7MnT)
Mary Tamm was. I saw her in person in the mid 80. She was absolutely beautiful.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at October 21, 2016 11:35 AM (493sH)
They made up for that with really well-written stories.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 21, 2016 11:35 AM (DuH+r)
Why don't people ride zebras?
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 21, 2016 10:50 AM (WE5/U)
Because the sniper would get you. You'd be easily spotted.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 21, 2016 11:36 AM (CUYn5)
is it just me or is ALL CAPS GUY missing in action today?
Posted by: Rick in SK at October 21, 2016 11:32 AM (/CIN4)
_______________________________
He's busy,, I've got him jackin-off the homeless for Hillary! Madge will be by soon to give him a break...
Posted by: Hectors' mom at October 21, 2016 11:36 AM (HSmrB)
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In Soviet America, Donkey ride you.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at October 21, 2016 11:36 AM (Nwg0u)
I always watch my old Doctor Whos like I'm watching a stage play -- the cheap sets and effects don't bother me.
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 21, 2016 11:37 AM (WE5/U)
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Y'all going to get fucked by the donkey soon enough
Posted by: Rick in SK at October 21, 2016 11:37 AM (/CIN4)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at October 21, 2016 11:37 AM (oNTHo)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 21, 2016 11:37 AM (7/ORs)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 21, 2016 11:37 AM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Grump928(c) at October 21, 2016 11:38 AM (QQ+il)
Sooo...where did Hannibal get HIS elephants?
eBay?
Posted by: rickb223 at October 21, 2016 11:38 AM (I1MCJ)
Posted by: Rick in SK at October 21, 2016 11:32 AM (/CIN4)
Ace may have gotten around to banning his ass permanently.
With extreme prejudice.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at October 21, 2016 11:38 AM (IheRu)
Kinda the feeling I get when I look towards DC.
Posted by: the deplorable sock_rat_eez, stay calm and carry on at October 21, 2016 11:39 AM (Z8DIA)
Never watched any.
Heard of it.
If I were to check it out, would I start at the beginning?
Does it build on itself?
Posted by: tubal at October 21, 2016 11:39 AM (d6TTt)
Admiral Nelson was known as a "poor sailor." Was constantly seasick.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 21, 2016 11:40 AM (H5rtT)
Why don't people ride zebras?
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 21, 2016 10:50 AM (WE5/U)
Because the sniper would get you. You'd be easily spotted.
Wear black pants and a ref shirt!
Posted by: rickb223 at October 21, 2016 11:40 AM (I1MCJ)
Eccleston, I think he's now a bouncer at the White Hart.
Actually, he's great in Leftovers.
And was good for a few episodes in the very dark and gorey Fortitude.
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 21, 2016 11:40 AM (WE5/U)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Imperatrix Siculus at October 21, 2016 11:40 AM (EnKk6)
A zorse is the offspring of a zebra stallion and a horse mare. This cross is also called a zebrula, zebrule, or zebra mule. The rarer reverse pairing is sometimes called a horbra, hebra, zebrinny or zebret. Like most other animal hybrids, the zorse is sterile.
A zony is the offspring of a zebra stallion and a pony mare. Medium-sized pony mares are preferred to produce riding zonies, but zebras have been crossed with smaller pony breeds such as the Shetland, resulting in so-called "Zetlands".
You may now continue.
Posted by: @SOEarpiece at October 21, 2016 11:40 AM (QQ+il)
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 21, 2016 11:31 AM (WE5/U)
Hillary to Kaine: "I granted McConnell a weekly pegging from Huma. Ryan turned for much, much less."
Posted by: Country Singer at October 21, 2016 11:41 AM (uiwCw)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llamabutcher at October 21, 2016 11:41 AM (nlNi7)
My ancestors were Hugonauts... expelled from France in 1680's (about)... went to England... but England did not like them.... ended up in Tortuga... then eventually what would become America...
Posted by: Don Quixote at October 21, 2016 11:41 AM (qf6WZ)
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According to wikipedia, his elephants may have been from Syria, which were a breed of Asian elephants. There were more breeds & species of elphants in the ancient world than there are today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_elephant
Posted by: josephistan at October 21, 2016 11:41 AM (7HtZB)
now the message would be, "The Caliphate-to-be feels that every xe or xir should maintain their balance"
Posted by: Billy Occam at October 21, 2016 11:41 AM (/542q)
Later taters!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Imperatrix Siculus at October 21, 2016 11:40 AM (EnKk6)
I may have to check later and see if they did a horse and his boy..
Posted by: Lea at October 21, 2016 11:41 AM (lIU4e)
Another bit of Dr. Who irony. Tom Baker has had a great career after
being typecast as the Doctor. Eccleston, I think he's now a bouncer at
the White Hart. Posted by: Anna Puma at October 21, 2016 11:37 AM (7/ORs)
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Baker always looked like Tim Curry to me -- and similar acting chops. Romana #1 was one of the better companions. Brigadier was always good, too. Haven't seen much of the current Dr, but what little I've seen seems to go back to cranky grandpa Hartnell.
Posted by: mustbequantum at October 21, 2016 11:42 AM (MIKMs)
Posted by: deplorable Jewells45 at October 21, 2016 11:42 AM (zRZaJ)
....I am happy to fire someone for leaking whether they did or they didn't just to make the point, but let's try to get through the next few days...
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/24675
Posted by: spypeach at October 21, 2016 11:42 AM (nyYhO)
The late Auberon Waugh, during his compulsory military service, managed somehow to shoot himself completely through the chest while handling a light machine gun.
As he lay there waiting for the medics, he turned to his sergeant standing nearby, and, doing his best Nelson impression, murmured "Kiss me, Chudleigh".
Waugh recovered from his wounds. But as he said, the sergeant had failed to appreciate the historical allusion, and "thereafter regarded me with extreme caution".
Posted by: torquewrench at October 21, 2016 11:42 AM (noWW6)
Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 21, 2016 11:42 AM (H5rtT)
They made up for that with really well-written stories.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 21, 2016 11:35 AM (DuH+r)
If you want to see a modern-day equivalent of this, check out 'Occupied', a Norwegian TV series available on Netflix. It looks like it was filmed on old-school videotape, and you think it's going to be cheesy as heck, but the acting is good and the story is very well written.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at October 21, 2016 11:42 AM (IheRu)
Posted by: john kerry at October 21, 2016 11:42 AM (FP3TD)
First Doctor was a serious chap.
Second Doctor was a cranky person.
Third Doctor had a theatrical flair about him and knew some kung-fu
Fourth Doctor, Tom Baker, tended to be an over the top man-child.
Fifth Doctor was a Preppie in tennis attire.
After that it went really downhill.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 21, 2016 11:43 AM (7/ORs)
True story:
Last Friday I was driving in Salem, MA and noticed someone painted up a large electrical box to look like the TARDIS.
The young punk in the car with me, (probably 30) had no idea what Doctor Who was. Never heard of it. I was shocked and appalled.
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 21, 2016 11:43 AM (WE5/U)
Sooo...where did Hannibal get HIS elephants?
eBay?
Posted by: rickb223 at October 21, 2016 11:38 AM (I1MCJ)
They were H1Bs from India....
Posted by: Don Quixote at October 21, 2016 11:43 AM (qf6WZ)
Posted by: Evilpens at October 21, 2016 11:43 AM (y3aQB)
Posted by: cbd's grandma at October 21, 2016 11:43 AM (FP3TD)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 21, 2016 11:44 AM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Lea at October 21, 2016 11:41 AM (lIU4e)
If you're talking about the 80s 'Narnia' series from the BBC, I can definitively tell you that they did not.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at October 21, 2016 11:44 AM (IheRu)
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I don't know. We've got surrender elephants, lying elephants, thieving elephants, backstabbing elephants . . . .
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at October 21, 2016 11:44 AM (Nwg0u)
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I take offence to that!
Posted by: Chelsea at October 21, 2016 11:44 AM (/CIN4)
Posted by: Don Quixote at October 21, 2016 11:43 AM (qf6WZ)
And all named "Jeff".
Posted by: tubal at October 21, 2016 11:44 AM (d6TTt)
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut-In. at October 21, 2016 11:45 AM (CPk08)
in 1680's (about)... went to England... but England did not like
them.... ended up in Tortuga... then eventually what would become
America...
Posted by: Don Quixote at October 21, 2016 11:41 AM (qf6WZ)
Hugenot....just sayin'
Posted by: BignJames at October 21, 2016 11:45 AM (9RGU3)
Zebroid is the generic name for all zebra hybrids. The different hybrids are generally named using a portmanteau of the sire's name and the dam's name. There is generally no distinction made as to which zebra species is used. Many times when zebras are crossbred, they develop some form of dwarfism. Breeding of different branches of the equine family, which does not occur in the wild, generally results in infertile offspring. The combination of sire and dam also affects the offspring phenotype.
A zorse is the offspring of a zebra stallion and a horse mare. This cross is also called a zebrula, zebrule, or zebra mule. The rarer reverse pairing is sometimes called a horbra, hebra, zebrinny or zebret. Like most other animal hybrids, the zorse is sterile.
A zony is the offspring of a zebra stallion and a pony mare. Medium-sized pony mares are preferred to produce riding zonies, but zebras have been crossed with smaller pony breeds such as the Shetland, resulting in so-called "Zetlands".
What, no "zonkey?"
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 21, 2016 11:45 AM (WE5/U)
Sooo...where did Hannibal get HIS elephants?
eBay?
Posted by: rickb223 at October 21, 2016 11:38 AM (I1MCJ)
My first assumption is some wild adventure involving Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, Injun Joe, and several large rafts on the Mississippi.
Posted by: BurtTC at October 21, 2016 11:46 AM (TOk1P)
Posted by: deplorable Jewells45 at October 21, 2016 11:42 AM (zRZaJ)
Yeah. *If* the hand heals (whatever that means). He'll have to have therapy for a year.
It's going to be a long recovery.
Posted by: Jane D'oh, Deplorable Redneck Queen at October 21, 2016 11:46 AM (928Aa)
Posted by: tubal at October 21, 2016 11:46 AM (d6TTt)
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at October 21, 2016 11:44 AM (IheRu)
Too bad. Thanks.
I don't think anyone is going to make that one now!
Posted by: Lea at October 21, 2016 11:46 AM (lIU4e)
I'm using this as my email sig. TY!
Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at October 21, 2016 11:47 AM (BcNLK)
Posted by: joey biden at October 21, 2016 11:47 AM (FP3TD)
What do you feed them - Screaming Yellow Zonkers?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 21, 2016 11:47 AM (X6fMO)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 21, 2016 11:47 AM (DuH+r)
Posted by: deplorable donna at October 21, 2016 11:47 AM (O2RFr)
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The vast majority had died after the first battle. I think he had two left or something.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at October 21, 2016 11:47 AM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: BignJames at October 21, 2016 11:45 AM (9RGU3)
or Huguenots.... spelling was a bit fluid back then...
Posted by: Don Quixote at October 21, 2016 11:48 AM (qf6WZ)
After that it went really downhill.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 21, 2016 11:43 AM (7/ORs)
It was cricket attire and it went downhill when John Nathan Turner took over. After he died there were stories of him trying to pick up young guys at Dr Who conventions.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at October 21, 2016 11:48 AM (493sH)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 21, 2016 11:48 AM (7/ORs)
Posted by: BignJames at October 21, 2016 11:48 AM (9RGU3)
Hugenot....just sayin'
Posted by: BignJames at October 21, 2016 11:45 AM (9RGU3)
Heh... pedantry aside, what with all this elephant talk, I'm picturing Jason and the Hugonauts bringing elephants over from Siam. On the Hugo, of course.
Posted by: BurtTC at October 21, 2016 11:48 AM (TOk1P)
Class action suit for every sucker who bought solar panels, a Prius or lost their coal mining job due to Al's fear mongering?
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at October 21, 2016 11:49 AM (ej1L0)
Huguenots. But I like the sound of Hugonaut. A Victor Hugo Argonaut?
It would be a fun name at a Sad Puppies SFCon. Could start something!
I think a lot of Huguenots who ended up in Canada backslid to RC after a few generations. That's the story my mother's family told, anyway. About 1666 for us.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 21, 2016 11:49 AM (H5rtT)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 21, 2016 11:47 AM (DuH+r)
So I'll try again.
If I started watching Doctor Who, is the best thing starting from the beginning, year one, episode one?
Do they have a plot that builds on itself, episode to episode?
Posted by: tubal at October 21, 2016 11:50 AM (d6TTt)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at October 21, 2016 11:50 AM (GDulk)
Posted by: Scotty doesn't, No at October 21, 2016 11:50 AM (s37xU)
Posted by: joey biden at October 21, 2016 11:47 AM (FP3TD)
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I remember you in the audience...
Posted by: Hectors' mom at October 21, 2016 11:50 AM (HSmrB)
Posted by: BignJames at October 21, 2016 11:48 AM (9RGU3)
Heh. I laughed. Thanks.
Posted by: tubal at October 21, 2016 11:50 AM (d6TTt)
Posted by: Don Quixote at October 21, 2016 11:48 AM (qf6WZ)
I've probably mentioned this before, but the translation I am STILL slogging through, of your namesake, the translator seems to be very very good at her work, but lacks a sense of humor. Which is ironic, because...
Anyhoo, yeah, some of Cervantes humor is based on misstatements and even misspellings, that any respectable translator should realize was par for course at the time.
Posted by: BurtTC at October 21, 2016 11:51 AM (TOk1P)
Posted by: Hectors' mom at October 21, 2016 11:50 AM (HSmrB)
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that would be the day Hector was conceived
Posted by: Rick in SK at October 21, 2016 11:51 AM (/CIN4)
Posted by: rickb223 at October 21, 2016 11:52 AM (I1MCJ)
Posted by: By : BeckoningChasm
Thanks. Give them a shot.
Posted by: tubal at October 21, 2016 11:52 AM (d6TTt)
Judicial Watch Uncovers Emails to Bryan Pagliano That Hillary Clinton Couldn't Recall Sending
Posted by: Evilpens at October 21, 2016 11:53 AM (y3aQB)
Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 21, 2016 11:53 AM (H5rtT)
Posted by: firefirefireinExile at October 21, 2016 11:53 AM (of67s)
Posted by: JuJuBee at October 21, 2016 11:53 AM (kma8f)
The first one I saw was "Talons of Weng Chiang" with Tom Baker. It still holds up well today, though it's very politically incorrect.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 21, 2016 11:53 AM (DuH+r)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette
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Shoot low, Sheriff. I think he's ridin' a Shetland.
Posted by: Bob Wills at October 21, 2016 11:53 AM (dYw0K)
Posted by: Country Singer at October 21, 2016 11:54 AM (uiwCw)
Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 21, 2016 11:49 AM (H5rtT)
Yeah.... we're really not sure... this is all family mythology at this point...
One source says 1665... another says during the purges in the 1680s....
Both are firm about there being 5 Brothers who left....
Posted by: Don Quixote at October 21, 2016 11:54 AM (qf6WZ)
Story-wise, we get into a bit of a wicket. The old shows were about 30 minutes long and it would take a couple or four episodes to tell that one story. Only rarely would there be a longer story arc.
Since the reboot with Eccleston each show is an hour long and sometimes the whole over-arching story arc is not resolved in even one season.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 21, 2016 11:54 AM (7/ORs)
Posted by: torquewrench at October 21, 2016 11:42 AM (noWW6)
Both Waughs were funny and both were rabidly anti-American. A pity, actually.
Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at October 21, 2016 11:55 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: RebeccaH at October 21, 2016 11:55 AM (M3i0T)
Do they have a plot that builds on itself, episode to episode?
Posted by: tubal at October 21, 2016 11:50 AM (d6TTt)
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Start with the modern reboot, with the 9th Doctor. If you like that, continue on with the next few Doctors. Each season has stand alone episodes, as well as interconnected arcs. If you like it all, then try to track down the earlier years, especially with Tom Baker as the 4th Doctor.
Posted by: josephistan at October 21, 2016 11:55 AM (7HtZB)
If I started watching Doctor Who, is the best thing starting from the beginning, year one, episode one?
Do they have a plot that builds on itself, episode to episode?
Posted by: tubal at October 21, 2016 11:50 AM (d6TTt)
Not really. But watching it in order helps with keeping up with companions who come and go. The first few seasons the pacing can be really slow. Also a number of Hartnell and Troughton episodes the tapes were wiped (with a cloth) clean to be reused to film other shows so a number of episodes don't exist any more. Yes, I was a big Who nerd.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at October 21, 2016 11:56 AM (493sH)
If I started watching Doctor Who, is the best thing starting from the beginning, year one, episode one?
Most of the the first few seasons with the first and second doctor have been destroyed.
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 21, 2016 11:57 AM (WE5/U)
Posted by: Bryan at October 21, 2016 11:57 AM (4o7KQ)
After about mid-way with the 2nd doctor, the series is intact, I think.
There are a few random intact episodes for the first doctor still preserved, though.
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 21, 2016 11:59 AM (WE5/U)
Possible that a big wikileaks counterstrike release is coming.
Posted by: Revenant at October 21, 2016 12:03 PM (3DSAh)
At least I'm set for any winter snowstorms.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Imperatrix Siculus at October 21, 2016 12:03 PM (EnKk6)
Posted by: Th3o More at October 21, 2016 12:04 PM (6P8V8)
It would be a fun name at a Sad Puppies SFCon. Could start something!
Or a worthy author denied recognition by SJWs: Hugo-not.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, deplorably down with Eph 6:12-13 at October 21, 2016 12:10 PM (9krrF)
With a Thompson gun for hire, fighting to be done
The deal was made in Denmark on a dark and stormy day
So he set out for Biafra to join the bloody fray
Through sixty-six and seven they fought the Congo war
Fingers on their triggers, knee-deep in gore
For days and nights they battled the Bantu to their knees
They killed to earn their living and to help out the Congolese
Roland the Thompson gunner...
His comrades fought beside him - Van Owen and the rest
But of all the Thompson gunners Roland was the best
So the CIA decided they wanted Roland dead
That son-of-a-bitch Van Owen blew off Roland's head
Roland the headless Thompson gunner (Time, time, time, for another peaceful war)
Norway's bravest son (But time stands still for Roland 'til he evens up the score)
They can still see his headless body stalking through the night
In the muzzle flash of Roland's Thompson gun
In the muzzle flash of Roland's Thompson gun
Roland searched the continent for the man who'd done him in
He found him in Mombassa in a barroom drinking gin
Roland aimed his Thompson gun - he didn't say a word
But he blew Van Owen's body from there to Johannesburg
Roland the headless Thompson gunner...
The eternal Thompson gunner, still wandering through the night
Now it's ten years later but he still keeps up the fight
In Ireland, in Lebanon, in Palestine and Berkeley
Patty Hearst heard the burst of Roland's Thompson gun
And bought it
Posted by: undocumented white hat at October 21, 2016 12:13 PM (e8kgV)
Posted by: NukemHill at October 21, 2016 12:28 PM (ra7SF)
our election while at the same time calling Trump insane for trying to
suggest that our elections can be rigged.
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Well summed.
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