Sunday Overnight Open Thread (6/25/17) Rusty Edition

(Here's hoping this isn't the entire ONT)

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Quotes of The Day

Quote I

A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking. Earl Wilson

Quote II

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. Steve Jobs

Quote III

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. Samuel Johnson

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Quite frankly I would feel safer if law abiding citizens carried or had easy access to a firearm. Ohio State House and Chamber of Commerce battle over gun possession.

Business groups are fighting an Ohio Senate proposal that will open them up to civil lawsuits by employees and others who bring handguns on to company property.
“For us this isn’t a concealed carry issue as much as this is an employer rights issue,” said Chris Kershner, vice president, public policy & economic development for the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce.

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From my backyard. The Founding Fathers continue to ~~roll~~ SPIN in their graves.

In 2004, Murr and her siblings sought to sell one of two parcels of land that had been in the family for decades. Murr's parents bought the land in the 1960s, built a cabin on one parcel, and left the other parcel undeveloped as a long-term investment.
The family attempted to sell the vacant parcel to pay for renovations to the cabin, but were prevented from doing so by regulations restricting the use of land along rivers like the St. Croix approved by the state in the 1980s, long after the purchase of both lots.
Those regulations effectively gutted the value of the Murrs' property. The property was appraised at $400,000 before the Murrs tried to sell it. When the family came to the county, now the only eligible buyer, the county offered $40,000.

The ONT certainly hopes that POTUS Trump gets to replace Anthony Kennedy, sooner rather than later.

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The Fed. What is it good for? Apparently causing recessions.

While the answer to the first part remains elusive, and to Goldman it is still relatively low, the answer for the second part is clear: in the post WW2, virtually every recession (and depression) was caused by the Fed.
Goldman starts with a historical overview of the causes of recessions. Looking at 33 US recessions since the 1850s, it finds that while many pre-WW2 recessions originated in the financial sector, most post-WW2 recessions were caused by monetary policy tightening and oil shocks and, and sentiment-driven swings in borrowing and investment led to recessions in both eras. A similar IMF study of the key contributors to 122 advanced economy recessions shows that even before 2008, financial crises were a fairly common source of modern recessions too.

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The ONT Musical Interlude

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BECAUSE. That's why.

June 25, 2009, Michael Jackson died at the age of 50, after suffering heart failure at his home in Beverly Hills. The eighth child of the Jackson family, he debuted with his brothers as a member of The Jackson 5 in 1964. Jackson is credited for transforming the music video into an art form and a promotional tool, four of his solo albums are among the world's best-selling records: Off the Wall (1979), Bad (1987), Dangerous (1991) and HIStory (1995), while his 1982 Thriller is the world's best-selling record of all time with sales of over 50 million. via thisdayinmusic.com

1945, Born on this day, Carly Simon, US singer, songwriter, (1973 UK No.3 and US No.1 single 'You're So Vain', 1974 US No.5 single with James Taylor 'Mockingbird'). In 2015, after keeping quiet for more than 40 years, Carly Simon admitted that 'You're So Vain' was about Warren Beatty, but only one verse of it. Simon said the other verses were about two other men. via thisdayinmusic.com

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What's that old saying about Socialism? The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. Uncle Bernie and his money grubbing wife continue to dip their toes into hot water.

eff Weaver, Sanders' longtime top political adviser who heads Sanders' political organization, Our Revolution, confirms to Politico Magazine that Bernie and Jane Sanders have lawyered up. The couple has retained Rich Cassidy, a well-connected Burlington attorney and Sanders devotee, and Larry Robbins, the renowned Washington-based defense attorney who has represented I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby and disgraced former Rep. Bill Jefferson, to represent Jane Sanders in the matter.
Now, President Donald Trump's Justice Department is handling an investigation that will proceed at the discretion of a U.S. attorney of Vermont that Trump has yet to appoint.

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The FCC is opening up the way for internet in areas without internet service. OneWeb to launch over 700 satellites.

FCC chairman Ajit Pai has released a statement announcing that the commission has granted OneWeb approval for US market access to launch a network of internet-beaming satellites into orbit. OneWeb, which is backed in part by Richard Branson, has been working on providing broadband internet via satellite since 2000, when it acquired the satellite spectrum formerly owned by SkyBridge.
OneWeb plans to launch a constellation of 720 low-Earth orbit satellites using non-geostationary satellite orbit (NGSO) technology in order to provide global, high-speed broadband. The company’s goal has far-reaching implications, and would provide internet to rural and hard-to-reach areas that currently have little access to internet connectivity. Additionally, OneWeb has a targets of “connecting every unconnected school” by 2022, and “bridging the digital divide” by 2027.

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HOLY SHIT! Important discovery or just a pile of crap?

Archaeologists excavating at an ancient Viking settlement in southeast Denmark thought they were dealing with a typical country town from the Middle Ages. Then a single toilet changed everything.
Museum of Southeastern Denmark archaeology researcher Anna Beck was digging up what she thought was a semi-subterranean workshop, only to find that she was knee-deep in... yeah, you guessed it. She'd found a layer of medieval poop.

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When you think of Canada, what do you think of? Hockey? Funny bacon? SCTV? Snipers?

Crushing a record previously held by a British sniper, a Canadian special forces member now holds the title title for the longest confirmed kill. Measured at 3,450 meters, or approximately 2.2 miles, the member of the Joint Task Force 2 killed an Islamic State insurgent in Iraq using a McMillan TAC-50 rifle. For obvious reasons, officials are not releasing the name of the soldier, but say that the shot was “confirmed by video and other data”. Now that’s a LiveLeak video I want to see,

Me too!

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World War I still haunts France over 100 years later. The Red Zone is still a No-Go.

The Zone Rouge (Red Zone) is a region near Verdun, France spanning some 460 square miles of mostly virgin forest – at least on the surface. It’s teeming with history, making it a major tourist attraction and a source of income for locals – yet no one lives there and nothing is built there.
Despite its draw, access is restricted because not everyone who goes in comes out alive. If they do, there’s no guarantee that they’ll do so with all of their limbs intact. Of those who do come out (whole or otherwise), death sometimes takes a while to catch up.

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What is your state known for? The most impactful inventions.

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Will the Moron Cookbook feature this? Baking in your car.

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Sexually active old people seem to be smarter.

A new study suggests that when old people do sex, it is also good. Maybe even more good. The researchers behind a new study already knew that increased mental, social, and physical activity is associated with less cognitive decline. So, they posit, seeing as sex consists of mental, social, and physical activity, more sexing must also mean better thinking.

Hey Honey, do you want be smarter and healthier?

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He was quickly captured. Why? Genius Award Winner.

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Someone. Someone loves you. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

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Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by Buyer Beware.

Notice: Posted with permission by AceCorp, LLC. No worthwhile animals were destroyed in the making of the ONT.

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Weekly commenter stats 6-25-2017

Top 10 commenters:
1 [511 comments] 'Insomniac' [71.80 posts/day]
2 [379 comments] 'Under Fire'
3 [377 comments] 'Steve and Cold Bear'
4 [371 comments] 'bluebell - mangiamo!'
5 [347 comments] 'Village Idiot's Apprentice '
6 [343 comments] 'Vic We Have No Party'
7 [315 comments] 'J.J. Sefton'
8 [311 comments] 'rickb223'
9 [311 comments] 'Deplorable Jay Guevara'
10 [299 comments] 'yankeefifth'

Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
1 [94 names] 'Under Fire' [13.21 unique names/day]
2 [74 names] 'Steve and Cold Bear'
3 [51 names] 'bicentennialguy'
4 [46 names] 'The Political Hat'
5 [44 names] 'Duncanthrax'
6 [41 names] 'Bertram Cabot, Jr.'
7 [36 names] 'Notorious BFD'
8 [34 names] 'Insomniac'
9 [30 names] 'Adirondack Patriot'
10 [29 names] 'tu3031'

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 09:45 PM

Comments

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1 who cares about first

Posted by: Lemmiwinks and his flaming boner of winning at June 25, 2017 09:35 PM (WwFyb)

2 Not me.

Posted by: Peaches at June 25, 2017 09:35 PM (EgOr3)

3 Great ONT, Mis! Still working on it and lmao.

Posted by: Peaches at June 25, 2017 09:36 PM (EgOr3)

4 Already?? Well... hey everyone!

Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at June 25, 2017 09:37 PM (CNHr1)

5 Nope!

Posted by: Tonypete at June 25, 2017 09:37 PM (tr2D7)

6 Night all!

Posted by: Unsure if deplorable, covfefe moron at June 25, 2017 09:38 PM (Eynls)

7 Here is the "News of the Week" compilation of the news .

http://politicalhat.com/?p=13587

Posted by: The Political Hat at June 25, 2017 09:38 PM (vBeA5)

8 ULULULULULULULULUL! There is no more beautiful sound than the MisHum call to prayer.

Posted by: Achmed Mohammed at June 25, 2017 09:40 PM (xAvrH)

9 Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

Steve Jobs

Okay Steve. Most people will never do great work of any sort - which is just the nature of "great work" - so I don't think it's a good idea to tell most people that they will just never be satisfied. That's not how things work for most people. Settling is a large part of the facts of life for the great majority of people. Don't shit on them just to make yourself feel better. You had billions. You should have just been happy enough with that.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 25, 2017 09:40 PM (rZ+mb)

10 Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. Samuel Johnson

C.S. Lewis said something similar, I believe in Mere Christianity. Something like, love is an act of the will, don't sit around trying to manufacture phony feelings within yourself.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 25, 2017 09:42 PM (xAvrH)

11 Jacko touched a lot of people.

Posted by: Roman Polanski at June 25, 2017 09:42 PM (GsAUU)

12 Sexually active old people seem to be smarter.
A new study suggests that when old people do sex, it is also good. Maybe even more good. The researchers behind a new study already knew that increased mental, social, and physical activity is associated with less cognitive decline. So, they posit, seeing as sex consists of mental, social, and physical activity, more sexing must also mean better thinking.

The median IQ in The Villages must be around 165 then.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 25, 2017 09:42 PM (0mRoj)

13 Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 25, 2017 09:40 PM (rZ+mb)

Wow.. I was just having this conversation this afternoon with my SIL. Most of us are not lucky enough to have a job we love.

Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at June 25, 2017 09:43 PM (CNHr1)

14
You ONT is full of mistaks.

Posted by: otho at June 25, 2017 09:43 PM (lmIoG)

15 I estimate half of the guys and gals that I work with are in violation of our company's edict that legal CCW permit holders (Ohio) can NOT keep a weapon in their car while in a company parking lot.

Bastards

Posted by: Tonypete at June 25, 2017 09:43 PM (tr2D7)

16 Kindness, fondness - whatever it takes.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at June 25, 2017 09:43 PM (Id9+8)

17 Time to haul out the Glenlivet 18, in honor of the SpaceX doubleheader this weekend. *clink*

Posted by: rickl at June 25, 2017 09:44 PM (sdi6R)

18 I'm number one. By a lot. I need to get a life. Maybe I can get one at the second-hand life store.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 25, 2017 09:44 PM (0mRoj)

19 Can't stop laughing at that last photo!

Posted by: josephistan at June 25, 2017 09:44 PM (ANIFC)

20 Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 25, 2017 09:40 PM (rZ+mb)

I would add to that Steve Jobs nonsense that, no matter what you are doing, you're going to feel a whole lot better about yourself if you do it well.

Posted by: Peaches at June 25, 2017 09:44 PM (EgOr3)

21 g'evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 25, 2017 09:44 PM (KCxzN)

22 The median IQ in The Villages must be around 165 then.
Posted by: Insomniac at June 25, 2017 09:42 PM (0mRoj)

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Or, that's the number of doses of penicillin dispensed daily. Tough call.

Posted by: GOULD at June 25, 2017 09:44 PM (QoDdh)

23 15 I estimate half of the guys and gals that I work with are in violation of our company's edict that legal CCW permit holders (Ohio) can NOT keep a weapon in their car while in a company parking lot.

Bastards

Posted by: Tonypete at June 25, 2017 09:43 PM (tr2D7)

Who's going to know?

Posted by: Insomniac at June 25, 2017 09:45 PM (0mRoj)

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I estimate half of the guys and gals that I work with are in violation
of our company's edict that legal CCW permit holders (Ohio) can NOT keep
a weapon in their car while in a company parking lot.

Bastards

Posted by: Tonypete at June 25, 2017 09:43 PM (tr2D7)

Of course - they should be on their persons.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at June 25, 2017 09:45 PM (Id9+8)

25 What is your state known for? The most impactful inventions.

--Linky no worky.

Posted by: Roman Polanski at June 25, 2017 09:45 PM (GsAUU)

26 /paedo sock

Posted by: logprof, with added covfefe and Macedonian content at June 25, 2017 09:45 PM (GsAUU)

27 --Linky no worky.

Posted by: Roman Polanski at June 25, 2017 09:45 PM (GsAUU)
Yeah, me, too. And I wanted to see it.

Posted by: Peaches at June 25, 2017 09:45 PM (EgOr3)

28 The median IQ in The Villages must be around 165 then.
Posted by: Insomniac
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I wouldn't bet on it. I have an old HS buddy who is a gerontologist practicing in The Villages. His patients' most frequent complaints are STDs.

Ewwwwww.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 25, 2017 09:47 PM (tr2D7)

29 Yeah, me, too. And I wanted to see it.
Posted by: Peaches at June 25, 2017 09:45 PM (EgOr3)

--Heh, Mis Hum kinda called his own shot with the rusty truck pic.

Posted by: logprof, with added covfefe and Macedonian content at June 25, 2017 09:47 PM (GsAUU)

30 Yeah, me, too. And I wanted to see it.
Posted by: Peaches at June

Peaches, click the link. when you get to the page go to the address bar and eliminate the " at the end of the address and refresh

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 25, 2017 09:47 PM (0wem/)

31 When MJ died he was first taken UCLA Medical. UCLA demanded he be taken elsewhere: 'we're a hospital not a circus.' LA Sheriff Dept sent a choppa.

Posted by: Death Flight at June 25, 2017 09:47 PM (bc2Lc)

32 Nice old pickup rotting out in the field. Oh wait, that's Obama's legacy.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at June 25, 2017 09:47 PM (aMlLZ)

33 I'm number one. By a lot. I need to get a life. Maybe I can get one at the second-hand life store.
Posted by: Insomniac at June 25, 2017 09:44 PM (0mRoj)
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I can't believe I'm not number one. I've been posting like a monkey on crack, "encouraging" people to submit recipes.

But it's working, because we have 400 recipes so far! Wheeeeeeee!

Posted by: bluebell ~ Eat, post, love at June 25, 2017 09:47 PM (sBOL1)

34 Today is the anniversary of the death of Gen. Geo. Armstrong "where the hell did all them dam injuns come from???" Custer.

A genocidal idiot, last in his class at West Point.

Covered himself and the USA in shame, to this very day.

Posted by: navybrat at June 25, 2017 09:47 PM (w7KSn)

35 Of course - they should be on their persons.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at June 25, 2017 09:45 PM (Id9+

Yup. I carry everywhere it's not statutorily prohibited to do so. And sometimes I'm...flexible on that.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 25, 2017 09:47 PM (0mRoj)

36 Carly Simon was hawt in that sweater.

Posted by: Eromero at June 25, 2017 09:48 PM (zLDYs)

37 27 --Linky no worky.

Posted by: Roman Polanski at June 25, 2017 09:45 PM (GsAUU)
Yeah, me, too. And I wanted to see it.
Posted by: Peaches at June 25, 2017 09:45 PM (EgOr3)

Leave one damn " out of the formatting and you end up with unhappy customers.

Sorry folks

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 25, 2017 09:48 PM (ZTRlp)

38 9 Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

Steve Jobs

Okay Steve. Most people will never do great work of any sort - which is just the nature of "great work" - so I don't think it's a good idea to tell most people that they will just never be satisfied. That's not how things work for most people. Settling is a large part of the facts of life for the great majority of people. Don't shit on them just to make yourself feel better. You had billions. You should have just been happy enough with that.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 25, 2017 09:40 PM (rZ+mb)

That's something that the GOP, until Trump, didn't get. They played up the spirit of entrepreneurship, which is a good thing, but forgot that the vast majority of people won't and don't live their dreams, they just punch a clock 9-5 if they're lucky.

Posted by: josephistan at June 25, 2017 09:48 PM (ANIFC)

39 Shamed by you English?

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 25, 2017 09:48 PM (VdICR)

40 -Heh, Mis Hum kinda called his own shot with the rusty truck pic.

Posted by: logprof, with added covfefe and Macedonian content at June 25, 2017 09:47 PM (GsAUU)
I love that picture!

Posted by: Peaches at June 25, 2017 09:48 PM (EgOr3)

41 I wouldn't bet on it. I have an old HS buddy who is a gerontologist practicing in The Villages. His patients' most frequent complaints are STDs.

Ewwwwww.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 25, 2017 09:47 PM (tr2D7)

They're some randy old bastards up in there.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 25, 2017 09:49 PM (0mRoj)

42 Wow.. I was just having this conversation this afternoon with my SIL. Most of us are not lucky enough to have a job we love.
Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at June 25, 2017 09:43 PM (CNHr1)

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I have had a job I love for 28 years. I am giving it up early to consult some next year and travel/goof off because I love the wife much more than the job.

Posted by: GOULD at June 25, 2017 09:49 PM (QoDdh)

43 How fitting, that the outhouse story links to arse-technica.

Posted by: Spellchecker at June 25, 2017 09:49 PM (0m0zi)

44 So bluebell is from Bombay. There's gonna be some great curries and chutneys in the Cookbook!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 25, 2017 09:49 PM (DMUuz)

45 Erev tov lekholam!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at June 25, 2017 09:49 PM (e9G8E)

46 45 Erev tov lekholam!
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at June 25, 2017 09:49 PM (e9G8E)

Gesundheit.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 25, 2017 09:50 PM (0mRoj)

47 *waves*

Hi Horde!

Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at June 25, 2017 09:50 PM (/o9Qk)

48 Steve Jobs telling people to do what they love to do is really rich. What Jobs loved doing was fucking over people and making money doing it. And he was a control freak. You worshiped Jobs or you worked somewhere else.

Apple products are over priced and proprietary. You can't do anything with apple hardware but what Jobs permits. You can't run anything but apple software on apple hardware, and you can't run apple software on anything but apple hardware.

Outsourcing? Where do you think apple hardware is made?

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at June 25, 2017 09:50 PM (m9X4Y)

49 I'm still laughing at that photo!

Posted by: josephistan at June 25, 2017 09:52 PM (ANIFC)

50 Yup. I carry everywhere it's not statutorily prohibited to do so. And sometimes I'm...flexible on that.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 25, 2017 09:47 PM (0mRoj)

It's really a shame you're allergic to cats.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at June 25, 2017 09:52 PM (Id9+8)

51 47 *waves*

Hi Horde!
Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at June 25, 2017 09:50 PM (/o9Qk)

Whoa whoa whoa, careful with that prod!

Posted by: Insomniac at June 25, 2017 09:52 PM (0mRoj)

52 A young friend of mine spent almost a year with his mom at The Villages.

Posted by: Peaches at June 25, 2017 09:52 PM (EgOr3)

53 When you think of Canada, what do you think of? Hockey? Funny bacon? SCTV? Snipers?

Their bacon isn't funny. It's boring pseudo-bacon. It's just ham.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 25, 2017 09:52 PM (xAvrH)

54 ULULULULULULULULUL! There is no more beautiful sound than the MisHum call to prayer.
Posted by: Achmed Mohammed at June 25, 2017 09:40 PM (xAvrH)

Your ululation is tickling my uvula.

Posted by: bergerbilder at June 25, 2017 09:53 PM (lIZQs)

55 Sunday Swimwear ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/879016848473436160

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/879016941914140672

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/879017033731649536

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/879017143605526529

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/879017260681109504

Posted by: kbdabear at June 25, 2017 09:53 PM (AOrEZ)

56 11 Jacko touched a lot of people.
Posted by: Roman Polanski at June 25, 2017 09:42 PM (GsAUU)

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Roll em up, we have a winner.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at June 25, 2017 09:53 PM (/BP7d)

57 I'm not sure if those Inventions by State are any more reliable than most of the other X by State pages.

Camouflage is Virginia's? 1978?

That's the entry for the home state of Thomas Jefferson??

Posted by: logprof, with added covfefe and Macedonian content at June 25, 2017 09:53 PM (GsAUU)

58 52 A young friend of mine spent almost a year with his mom at The Villages.
Posted by: Peaches at June 25, 2017 09:52 PM (EgOr3)

He was neck-deep in MILF then.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 25, 2017 09:54 PM (0mRoj)

59 You can't run anything but apple software on apple hardware, and you can't run apple software on anything but apple hardware.

Outsourcing? Where do you think apple hardware is made?
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at June 25, 2017 09:50 PM (m9X4Y)

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I'm a Windoze guy by Corporate edict, but know that you can any Windows programs on Macs using something like Bootcamp.

Posted by: GOULD at June 25, 2017 09:54 PM (QoDdh)

60 World War I still haunts France over 100 years later. The Red Zone is still a No-Go.

"No-go"? They should rehome all their Muzzies there.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 25, 2017 09:54 PM (xAvrH)

61 Star Trek Beyond is dull and stupid. It is easily the worst of the three Chris Pine movies, and I feel mislead that it got 81% rating.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 25, 2017 09:54 PM (VdICR)

62 Welcome back, MisHum! So good to have you home.

That WI real estate story is maddening. Kennedy needs to go.

A Virginian invented camouflage? Cool.

No Arizona weird cooking methods in our cookbook, yet.

Posted by: bluebell ~ Eat, post, love at June 25, 2017 09:54 PM (sBOL1)

63 He was neck-deep in MILF then.
Posted by: Insomniac at June

well, GILF of GGILF

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 25, 2017 09:54 PM (0wem/)

64 50 Yup. I carry everywhere it's not statutorily prohibited to do so. And sometimes I'm...flexible on that.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 25, 2017 09:47 PM (0mRoj)

It's really a shame you're allergic to cats.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at June 25, 2017 09:52 PM (Id9+

Ain't it?

Posted by: Insomniac at June 25, 2017 09:54 PM (0mRoj)

65 More Sunday Swimwear ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/879017347893350400

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/879017440864342016

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/879017529833914368

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/879017615221547009

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/879017710251909120

Posted by: kbdabear at June 25, 2017 09:54 PM (AOrEZ)

66 I put my head in a fishbowl, JK an astronaut.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at June 25, 2017 09:54 PM (6Ll1u)

67 Shamed by you blog?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2017 09:54 PM (IqV8l)

68 The advice from Steve Jobs sounds like one of those "How To Think Like A Billionaire" things where Step 1 is "Acquire A Billion Dollars".

I had a job that I loved. 40 US patents. I was considered one of the leading experts in the field. Research in that field disappeared almost overnight. I was dispensed with like a used kleenex. Took another job in a non-related area, a big pay cut and a financially-devastating relocation.

It's good to be the king. Fuck you, Steve Jobs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2017 09:55 PM (6FRey)

69 63 He was neck-deep in MILF then.
Posted by: Insomniac at June

well, GILF of GGILF
Posted by: yankeefifth at June 25, 2017 09:54 PM (0wem/)

Yeah, guess you're right.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 25, 2017 09:55 PM (0mRoj)

70 A fucking fire hydrant.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 25, 2017 09:55 PM (89T5c)

71 Whoa whoa whoa, careful with that prod!

Posted by: Insomniac at June 25, 2017 09:52 PM (0mRoj)

Whoops sorry. I know we don't want any Sanity flying aimlessly around on the ONT!

Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at June 25, 2017 09:55 PM (/o9Qk)

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Posted by: bluebell ~ Eat, post, love at June 25, 2017 09:54 PM (sBOL1)

Thanks ~~Julia~~ Bluebell

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 25, 2017 09:56 PM (ZTRlp)

73 Whoops sorry. I know we don't want any Sanity flying aimlessly around on the ONT!
Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at June 25, 2017 09:55 PM (/o9Qk)
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It might run into the Viking toilet.

Posted by: bluebell ~ Eat, post, love at June 25, 2017 09:56 PM (sBOL1)

74 The Fed. What is it good for? Apparently causing recessions.

Actually, Congress is to blame. THey are the idiots who set the rules of the Fed. The Fed, if charged with the only duty real duty it is ever supposed to have - to protect the stability of the currency - there would never be any problems with it. But Congress decided to give the Fed political duties and allow it to attack the stability of the currency (literally - as inflation is the default target of the Fed, with a standing ovation from Congress). Because of this bullshit I can't really hld the Fed, itself, responsible for the shit it does. It never should have been allowed to do this stuff.

... but the feral government loves to spend more money than it has and once Nixon totally released the dollar from any connection to gold ... it was all over.

Now, even with the Fed maintaining a stable currency there would still be recessions and depressions. That is life. Nothing is smooth. But you can't fight what is natural. You have to just understand that that's how things are ... and will always be.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 25, 2017 09:56 PM (rZ+mb)

75 He was neck-deep in MILF then.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 25, 2017 09:54 PM (0mRoj)
He's completely gay. They were on him from all sides. Said the younger people in the area are all on crack.

Posted by: Peaches at June 25, 2017 09:57 PM (EgOr3)

76 Yeah, MisHum, it's lame, I know. I'm running out of ideas. Might have to go back to some of the older ones.

Posted by: bluebell ~ Eat, post, love at June 25, 2017 09:57 PM (sBOL1)

77 I was dispensed with like a used kleenex. Took
another job in a non-related area, a big pay cut and a
financially-devastating relocation.

It's good to be the king. Fuck you, Steve Jobs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2017 09:55 PM (6FRey)

I was also dispensed with like a used kleenex. Makes no difference how valuable we were in a relative way. I may not have insurance again until I'm 65.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at June 25, 2017 09:58 PM (Id9+8)

78 Camouflage is Virginia's? 1978?

That's the entry for the home state of Thomas Jefferson??
Posted by: logprof, with added covfefe and Macedonian content at June 25, 2017 09:53 PM (GsAUU)

Virginia didn't invent f**king slaves...

Posted by: The Brown Sugar Hat at June 25, 2017 09:58 PM (vBeA5)

79 75 He was neck-deep in MILF then.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 25, 2017 09:54 PM (0mRoj)
He's completely gay. They were on him from all sides. Said the younger people in the area are all on crack.
Posted by: Peaches at June 25, 2017 09:57 PM (EgOr3)

Good. God.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 25, 2017 09:58 PM (0mRoj)

80 >>Sexually active old people seem to be smarter.

Well, yea.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2017 09:59 PM (/tuJf)

81 Hey sonny, how bout some shuffleboard and then a rusty trombone?

Posted by: Villages GILF, disease free-maybe at June 25, 2017 09:59 PM (89T5c)

82 Those long isolated winters out on the plains can bring on the crazy. How could a flatlander invent the ski lift? There's noplace to lift to in the whole state.

Posted by: Cornhusker Crazy at June 25, 2017 09:59 PM (0m0zi)

83 Shamed by you blog?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2017 09:54 PM

If me let Mishum help me could poof read.

Posted by: otho at June 25, 2017 09:59 PM (lmIoG)

84 That's the same as my dad's truck which he never finished restoring. I consider bringing it out here to finish the job, but I don't have as much skill as he did.

Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2017 09:59 PM (HwVbl)

85 I had a job that I loved. 40 US patents. I was considered one of the leading experts in the field. Research in that field disappeared almost overnight. I was dispensed with like a used kleenex. Took another job in a non-related area, a big pay cut and a financially-devastating relocation.

Sounds like a divorce...

Posted by: Insomniac at June 25, 2017 10:00 PM (0mRoj)

86 He was neck-deep in MILF then.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 25, 2017 09:54 PM (0mRoj)
He's completely gay. They were on him from all sides. Said the younger people in the area are all on crack.
Posted by: Peaches at June 25, 2017 09:57 PM (EgOr3)

Good. God.
Posted by: Insomniac at June

well, GILf and GGILF work either way.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 25, 2017 10:00 PM (0wem/)

87 From the Danish Viking article:

"We know from cultures the world over that the treatment of feces is surrounded by complicated cultural and social rules and taboos. From toilet culture, you can learn a lot about the norms and rules of that particular society... "

So, what will the complicated cultural and social rules and taboos about The Barrel say to digital archeologists of the future?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 25, 2017 10:00 PM (DMUuz)

88 70 A fucking fire hydrant.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 25, 2017 09:55 PM (89T5c)

--LMAO, which state?

Posted by: logprof, with added covfefe and Macedonian content at June 25, 2017 10:00 PM (GsAUU)

89 I've punched a clock for close to 50 years. I actually did find something I loved. Being creative and being my own boss. It may take off, it may not but I'm betting it will because so far I think it's done pretty damn well. With a little help from my friends

Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at June 25, 2017 10:00 PM (CNHr1)

90 81 Hey sonny, how bout some shuffleboard and then a rusty trombone?
Posted by: Villages GILF, disease free-maybe at June 25, 2017 09:59 PM (89T5c)

Disease free my ass.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 25, 2017 10:01 PM (0mRoj)

91 I'm not so sure that The Fed causes recession, but the idea the the economy can be 'managed' by our betters is PR BS. Financial derivatives come to mind.

I never understood the point of interest rates swaps. Makes no sense to me. Hedging, I get, swaps, no.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at June 25, 2017 10:01 PM (m9X4Y)

92 Spring was never waiting for us, girl
it ran one step ahead
as we followed in the dance
between the parted pages and were pressed
in love's hot fevered iron
like a striped pair of pants

MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
all the sweet green icing flowing down
someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'cause it took so long to bake it
and I'll never have that recipe again
oh no

I recall the yellow cotton dress
foaming like a wave
on the ground around your knees
the birds like tender babies in your hands
and the old men playing checkers by the trees

MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
all the sweet, green icing flowing down
someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'cause it took so long to bake it
and I'll never have that recipe again
oh no

there will be another song for me for I will sing it
there will be another dream for me, someone will bring it
I will drink the wine while it is warm and never let you catch me looking at the sun
and after all the loves of my life
oh after all the loves of my life, you'll still be the one

I will take my life into my hands and I will use it
I will win the worship in their eyes and I will lose it
I will have the things that I desire and my passion flow like rivers through the sky
and after all the loves of my life
oh, after all the loves of my life
I'll be thinking of you and wondering why

[Batman dance instrumental section]

MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
all the sweet, green icing flowing down
someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'cause it took so long to bake it
and I'll never have that recipe again
oh nooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 25, 2017 10:01 PM (eMKNe)

93 PA, logprof.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 25, 2017 10:01 PM (89T5c)

94 Posted by: otho at June 25, 2017 09:59 PM (lmIoG)

***Snorts***

Thanks otho.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 25, 2017 10:01 PM (ZTRlp)

95 Face it, unless you're happily self-employed to your company you aren't anything more than a cost. Your job is to succeed in the confidence trick that you're worth more to the company than you cost.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2017 10:02 PM (6FRey)

96 @68

1. Acquire $1B
2. ???
3. Profit!

OK, now I'm out of here for Riyal.

Posted by: Unsure if deplorable, covfefe moron at June 25, 2017 10:02 PM (Eynls)

97 Shamed by you blog?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2017 09:54 PM

If me let Mishum help me could poof read.
Posted by: otho at June 25, 2017 09:59 PM (lmIoG)
---------

I can't stop laughing at this. I love this place.

Posted by: bluebell ~ Eat, post, love at June 25, 2017 10:02 PM (sBOL1)

98 If Family Guy were British.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=xEmx1RYo1QU

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at June 25, 2017 10:02 PM (Nwg0u)

99 HOLY SHIT! Important discovery or just a pile of crap?

Bullshit. Wouldn't the fæces have biodegraded over the course of 1000 years? I find it hard to believe there was any left. Since she was "knee deep" in it, obviously it wasn't petrified. Maybe some Muslim squatters had taken up residence there recently.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 25, 2017 10:03 PM (xAvrH)

100 Disease free my ass.
Posted by: Insomniac
----
Right you are Insomniac - I don't think I'm going out on a limb here thinking there may be a causal connection between the ass and disease.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 25, 2017 10:04 PM (tr2D7)

101 Archaeologists excavating at an ancient Viking settlement in southeast Denmark thought they were dealing with a typical country town from the Middle Ages. Then a single toilet changed everything.

There was only one single toilet in the whole country of France up until 1978 (and they continued to use magazines and newspapers for toilet paper until 2003). Before that ... all I can tell you is it was not wise to stand too long in the corners of French rooms ...

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 25, 2017 10:04 PM (rZ+mb)

102 Bluebell.... sent in a recipe during ye olde foode threade.

"Porky Pigchops".

You have the option of using it as the final recipe in the book, and ending with...."ebdbdbd....That's All, Folks!"

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 25, 2017 10:04 PM (v5iqM)

103 Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June

so are you Steve or Cold Bear? Is this one of those shared nics like the shared email accounts couples have?

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 25, 2017 10:04 PM (0wem/)

104 Is it just me, or does it seem like there is a lot of fascination with poop lately. The news seems to be full of it. Everywhere you go, there it is.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at June 25, 2017 10:04 PM (m9X4Y)

105 Virginia didn't invent f**king slaves...
Posted by: The Brown Sugar Hat at June 25, 2017 09:58 PM (vBeA5)

--Heh. They called getting it on with black chicks "nutmegging" back then.

For TJ there was no doubt an emotional attachment to Sally Jennings since she was the half-sister of his deceased wife and probably bore a resemblance.

Posted by: logprof, with added covfefe and Macedonian content at June 25, 2017 10:04 PM (GsAUU)

106 --LMAO, which state?

Posted by: logprof, with added covfefe and Macedonian content at June 25, 2017 10:00 PM (GsAUU)
Colorado was tampons. That's the only one that really stuck in my mind.

Posted by: Peaches at June 25, 2017 10:04 PM (EgOr3)

107
The relationship between sex and intelligence is a complex one. On the one hand, intelligence correlates with sex drive and "trying new things", it goes negative with promiscuity and frequency.

so dumb = slutty, but boring
smart = kinkier but less

But it's so complex that's not the long and short of it by far.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 25, 2017 10:04 PM (8O3HH)

108 93 PA, logprof.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 25, 2017 10:01 PM (89T5c)

--Those lists are so friggin' useless . . . and yet I still click on them.

Posted by: logprof, with added covfefe and Macedonian content at June 25, 2017 10:05 PM (GsAUU)

109 Colorado was tampons. That's the only one that really stuck in my mind.
Posted by: Peaches at June

not the worst place to have it stuck.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 25, 2017 10:05 PM (0wem/)

110 Am I out before 100? Love you guys but I should sleep. And sleep. And sleep.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at June 25, 2017 10:05 PM (Id9+8)

111 I'm trying to overcome my Econ education, so I'm a bit resistant to the idea that the Federal Reserve is the primary cause of a recession. I can see the idea that as of late the tools the Fed relies on have become largely ineffective. Typically if the money supply is insufficient, increasing it is a tool to prevent recessions...but we can only push that string so much before it won't work. It's only really good for specific situations and not as a band aid to offset job-killing policies from other parts of the government.

Kind of scattered in my thoughts.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at June 25, 2017 10:06 PM (tVWQB)

112 Sexuality seniors describes me and the Missues. Early 70s and we still bump uglies 2 or 3 times a week. You're so vain perfectly describes the messiah. Jane Fonda's bucket list of f *cking Che, the sadistic murder, was such a missed opportunity.

Posted by: colfax mingo at June 25, 2017 10:06 PM (qJ+iT)

113 I retired over 20 years ago but I work because I like to. And besides Mrs. E lets me keep what I earn now. Of course she is 'in charge" of all my retired pay

Posted by: Eromero at June 25, 2017 10:06 PM (zLDYs)

114 Thank you, Jim - I will see it tomorrow when Weasel pulls the recipes off for me. I look forward to it.

Posted by: bluebell ~ Eat, post, love at June 25, 2017 10:06 PM (sBOL1)

115 Ok, speaking of hygiene, I read where the Vikings had worms, intestinal parasites, and the Viking long houses were biological hazard sites. Speaking of poop.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at June 25, 2017 10:06 PM (m9X4Y)

116 a constellation of 720 low-Earth orbit satellites

Sounds like horseshit to me. The latency on those things is going to be awful.

Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2017 10:07 PM (HwVbl)

117 Sounds like a divorce...

Posted by: Insomniac at June 25, 2017 10:00 PM (0mRoj)

Let's put it this way, I'll have to die in the harness, assuming they don't shoot me first.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2017 10:07 PM (ghQg8)

118 What time tomorrow does Kennedy announce his retirement? And will Ginsburg even make it down to breakfast?

Posted by: Inkwiring Mynd at June 25, 2017 10:08 PM (qYCgM)

119 But it's so complex that's not the long and short of it by far.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 25, 2017 10:04 PM

So carpet vs. hardwood is a factor, too?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 25, 2017 10:08 PM (DMUuz)

120 95 Face it, unless you're happily self-employed to your company you aren't anything more than a cost. Your job is to succeed in the confidence trick that you're worth more to the company than you cost.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2017 10:02 PM (6FRey)

And hope that if you ARE an expert, in a technical field... you can somehow remain an expert...

Hell.... I wrote tech manuals and procedures for equipment and technologies that no longer even exist...

Technology seems to have about a 5 year life now.... so you need to become an expert on the new crap... then you have about 4 years before its outmoded... and you have to start the cycle all over again...

Posted by: Don Q., at June 25, 2017 10:08 PM (NgKpN)

121 109 Colorado was tampons. That's the only one that really stuck in my mind.
Posted by: Peaches at June

not the worst place to have it stuck.
Posted by: yankeefifth at June 25, 2017 10:05 PM (0wem/)

--LMAO, remember the chick with the tampon earrings?

Posted by: logprof, with added covfefe and Macedonian content at June 25, 2017 10:09 PM (GsAUU)

122 9 You had billions. You should have just been happy enough with that.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 25, 2017 09:40 PM (rZ+mb)

Well, I was a weird guy, so no. But not so weird that I didn't have a pancreas.

Anyway, where I screwed up is that thinking my extraordinary life, and the way it fitted into my extraordinary talents, put me in a position to give advice to everyone else. I've been trying to haunt celebrities to tell them about my revelation, but they won't listen. Gwynneth told me to put marbles into a body part I didn't even have when I was alive!

Posted by: Zombie Steve Jobs at June 25, 2017 10:09 PM (iMxBJ)

123 95 Face it, unless you're happily self-employed to your company you aren't anything more than a cost. Your job is to succeed in the confidence trick that you're worth more to the company than you cost.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2017 10:02 PM (6FRey)

And hope that if you ARE an expert, in a technical field... you can somehow remain an expert...

Hell.... I wrote tech manuals and procedures for equipment and technologies that no longer even exist...

Technology seems to have about a 5 year life now.... so you need to become an expert on the new crap... then you have about 4 years before its outmoded... and you have to start the cycle all over again...
Posted by: Don Q., at June

well, relationships work well too. My first boss was fired for five minutes, until his clients let the firm know they were taking their business wherever he moved.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 25, 2017 10:09 PM (0wem/)

124 Gwynneth told me to put marbles into a body part I didn't even have when I was alive!

Posted by: Zombie Steve Jobs at June 25, 2017 10:09 PM (iMxBJ)
Try steaming it open. We'll wait.

Posted by: Peaches at June 25, 2017 10:10 PM (EgOr3)

125
The Fed famously has a Dual Mandate, price stability and maximum employment.

Those two are a conflict. There's a third "mandate" as well, "moderate of long term interest rates". Which of course, would conflict directly with the first.

Of course, in reality, the Fed can do whatever the fuck it wants. Congress are idiots, they don't understand it, and no federal judge would either.

This was clear by their behavior during the Crisis/Crash of '08, where they violated pretty much no question, the law governing them.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 25, 2017 10:10 PM (8O3HH)

126 so are you Steve or Cold Bear?

Say 'Steve and Cold Bear' out loud to yourself and I think you'll understand the nic.

Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2017 10:10 PM (HwVbl)

127 Even if you are self employed, you rely on your clients, especially your steady ones.

Posted by: navybrat at June 25, 2017 10:10 PM (w7KSn)

128 115 Ok, speaking of hygiene, I read where the Vikings had worms, intestinal parasites, and the Viking long houses were biological hazard sites. Speaking of poop.
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at June 25, 2017 10:06 PM (m9X4Y)

And yet, we persisted.

Posted by: Zombie Vikings at June 25, 2017 10:10 PM (iMxBJ)

129 "OneWeb plans to launch a constellation of 720 low-Earth orbit satellites using non-geostationary satellite orbit (NGSO) technology in order to provide global, high-speed broadband."

What an excellent vector for Internet surveillance...

Posted by: Apostate at June 25, 2017 10:10 PM (n1dE4)

130 39 Shamed by you English?

-
Contact Kieth Richards and learn to talk good!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at June 25, 2017 10:11 PM (Nwg0u)

131 LMAO, remember the chick with the tampon earrings?
Posted by: logprof, with added covfefe and Macedonian content at June

heh, yep.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 25, 2017 10:11 PM (0wem/)

132 Skandia,

Lets not speak of viking poop unless its frozen. But if global warming thaws it lots of gasoline, matches, and followed by bleach will be required.

Posted by: colfax mingo at June 25, 2017 10:11 PM (qJ+iT)

133 Okay, you all passed the mental health test.

Hey everybody.

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 25, 2017 10:11 PM (eMKNe)

134 Ugh I have the munchies. Come here, crunchy Cheetos.

Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at June 25, 2017 10:11 PM (/o9Qk)

135 And no, I ain't shamed my Engliss.

My penis size OTOH...

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 25, 2017 10:11 PM (eMKNe)

136 Say 'Steve and Cold Bear' out loud to yourself and I think you'll understand the nic.
Posted by: t-bird at June

that is a lot of work.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 25, 2017 10:12 PM (0wem/)

137 Bullshit. Wouldn't the f�ces have biodegraded over the course of 1000 years? I find it hard to believe there was any left. Since she was "knee deep" in it, obviously it wasn't petrified. Maybe some Muslim squatters had taken up residence there recently.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 25, 2017 10:03 PM (xAvrH)

Oh.... crap... she found our secret outhouse!

1. Secret outhouse to store poop...
2?
3. Profit!

Posted by: Dirty Underpants Gnomes at June 25, 2017 10:12 PM (NgKpN)

138 And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking
***
Very few people get to do a job they love. The advice you should only "settle for a job you love" is just wrong.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2017 10:12 PM (aZq03)

139 Good evening.

Posted by: Robert at June 25, 2017 10:13 PM (mknWS)

140 People don't usually get to do the job they love.

That's why the paycheck had to be invented.

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 25, 2017 10:14 PM (eMKNe)

141 >>He's completely gay. They were on him from all sides. Said the younger people in the area are all on crack.

Posted by: Peaches

Apparently the older ones are too.

Posted by: Aviator at June 25, 2017 10:14 PM (/Nite)

142 I'll have to die in the harness, assuming they don't shoot me first.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2017 10:07 PM (ghQg

That ain't all it's cracked up to be...

Posted by: Catherine the Great at June 25, 2017 10:15 PM (vBeA5)

143 I've had jobs I liked and some not so much. My take is that as long as I like my colleagues, the work can be bearable even if grinding. Heck, that's pretty much the case with my current gig.

Posted by: logprof, with added covfefe and Macedonian content at June 25, 2017 10:15 PM (GsAUU)

144 That hilarious English ad is from some publication from San Diego County - probably northern, as the area code in one adjacent ad and references to Poway and Escondido suggest.

But there's something interesting here. Who is targeted by such an ad? As in - which group/s aspire to have excellent English? I'm assuming that non-native speakers of some sort are targeted. The predominant linguistic minority, typically, exhibits little concern about having perfect English - ahemm. So I'm guessing Asian immigrants.

Yeah, lots of speculation there. But not baseless.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 25, 2017 10:15 PM (v9gSJ)

145 ***Snorts***

Thanks otho.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 25, 2017 10:01 PM

You write like a college you let me examine you log. It big log needs a hand.

Posted by: otho at June 25, 2017 10:16 PM (lmIoG)

146 Lets not speak of viking poop unless its frozen. But if global warming thaws it lots of gasoline, matches, and followed by bleach will be required.
Posted by: colfax mingo at June 25, 2017 10:11 PM

I thought it was a bit of a stretch to extrapolate from that one site excavated, to all Vikings everywhere. I don't remember if it was more than one site. Part of the article was how the intestinal parasites weaken the hosts, yet the Viking had a reputation for being big, strong, hardy fighters.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at June 25, 2017 10:16 PM (m9X4Y)

147 Imagine the archaeology interns, laboriously brushing every bit of the dirt and dust off of the preserved Viking poop.

Posted by: Splunge at June 25, 2017 10:16 PM (iMxBJ)

148 Michael Jackson died at the age of 50, after suffering [artificially induced]heart failure at his home in Beverly Hills.

FIFY

Posted by: Bill R. at June 25, 2017 10:16 PM (IuYIh)

149 --and spesaking of, time to hit the hay early.

Good night good Horde!

Posted by: logprof, with added covfefe and Macedonian content at June 25, 2017 10:16 PM (GsAUU)

150 Shamed by you English?

But wait! There's more!

http://tinyurl.com/6elbap

Posted by: tu3031 at June 25, 2017 10:16 PM (qJhUV)

151 When did "customers" start being called "clients"?

Posted by: rickl at June 25, 2017 10:18 PM (sdi6R)

152 I am a devoted and unyielding metalhead. Heavy fucking metal all the way, yo!

But I do have Michael Jackson's Off The Wall, Thriller, Bad and Dangerous. They're really really good albums. Thriller is pretty goddamned outstanding.

Yes, it's pop. It's fucking dance music. BUT! It's really well written music overall. Lots of pop tarts make a lot of ho-hum done to death music as an excuse to show off their dance skills but Jackson seems to have had a knack for, if not songwriting, understanding how important it is overall. They are very listenable albums.

Posted by: Robert also loves Vincent Price's narration BOIIII!!!!!! at June 25, 2017 10:18 PM (mknWS)

153 so are you Steve or Cold Bear? Is this one of those shared nics like the shared email accounts couples have?
Posted by: yankeefifth

No, just me. It's just a distortion of Steven Colbert. I would never marry a bear. I'm surprised Leonardo DiCaprio is still alive.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 25, 2017 10:18 PM (xAvrH)

154 150 http://tinyurl.com/6elbap
Posted by: tu3031 at June 25, 2017 10:16 PM (qJhUV)

Oh, that is completely awesome. "Learn you the more about words and use them how to your ideas, form and express."

This would make a good laminated poster.

Posted by: Splunge at June 25, 2017 10:19 PM (iMxBJ)

155 Kind of like how it wasn't Mary And Barry who were co-mayors of DC?

Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at June 25, 2017 10:19 PM (PFy0L)

156 138 And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking
***
Very few people get to do a job they love. The advice you should only "settle for a job you love" is just wrong.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2017 10:12 PM (aZq03)

Yep. Almost nobody gets to do what they love for a living.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 25, 2017 10:20 PM (0mRoj)

157 Customers and clients, a difference without a distinction, likely.

Posted by: navybrat at June 25, 2017 10:20 PM (w7KSn)

158 So I googled it via yahoo ... um, anyway.

Comes right up ScienceNordic.com, dated 2015

Not sure how reliable the site might be

http://preview.tinyurl.com/ycvwazm2

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at June 25, 2017 10:20 PM (m9X4Y)

159 My job...without my work bestie, I would loathe going in every day. At least I have someone to commiserate with. It's still pretty much shit but could be so much better with competent management.

Oh well.

Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at June 25, 2017 10:21 PM (/o9Qk)

160 That's a 49 Ford pickup up there.

I had a sweet one in the early 70s. AOP would have appreciated the work done before I paid the princely sum of $450 for it. The body was straight, no rust, and brush painted red. It had a Chevy 283 hooked by converter to the original La Salle tranny. No heater, but I was young and could get away with it in Texas.

Dual exhaust with Smitty Steelpacks, best exhaust note and rack-back I have ever heard. Guys would follow me into parking lots to ask about them.

Posted by: Meremortal at June 25, 2017 10:22 PM (3myMJ)

161 @107: Forwarded that to the wife.

Posted by: Apostate at June 25, 2017 10:23 PM (n1dE4)

162 I think that there is no such job as one without a bad day every now and then.

Posted by: navybrat at June 25, 2017 10:23 PM (w7KSn)

163 162 I think that there is no such job as one without a bad day every now and then.
Posted by: navybrat at June 25, 2017 10:23 PM (w7KSn)

When the bad days outnumber the good days, then it's time to move on if you can.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 25, 2017 10:24 PM (0mRoj)

164 And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Great advice, Steve! Pay us, everybody, while we do what we love!

Posted by: Evergreen State College Class of 2017 at June 25, 2017 10:24 PM (kCDOM)

165 Steve Jobs was completely and totally full of shit. No accountant or HR person or business analyst said in high school, hey , I wanna do THAT. But there are a lot of important, necessary jobs that are impossible to love. And yet they pay well enough and get you by. Get a f- ing hobby you love or better yet, love and support your family instead of wailing about self f-ing fulfillment. F- you Steve Jobs. Arrogant one in a billion useless perspective. Totally destructive.

Posted by: Fat man in teh baftub at June 25, 2017 10:24 PM (u/Jym)

166
Customer is someone who buys goods and services.

A client is one who engages the services of a professional.

That is the Webster distinction but there is some overlap.

Business who call their customers clients are trying to jazz it up and make their customers think they are more special.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 25, 2017 10:24 PM (8O3HH)

167 Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 25, 2017 10:10 PM (8O3HH)

The "maximum employment" mandate by Congress is such a total hunk of shit ... that no one with even a grade school education can take that seriously. Every Congress that lets that stand is equally guilty for the disaster that is the Fed.

And the Fed has specifically, and very vocally, been anti-price stability for many, many decades. The Fed has operated with a target inflation rate, which is anti-price stability in itself, but it argues that it needs this for the "maximum employment" bullshit.

Of course, this is all built around the economic myth that a stable currency inhibits economic growth. I don't know why so many people take this seriously - and accept it. It's just outright horseshit. Deflation doesn't kill an economy. 2% deflation is no worse than 2% inflation.

The tech industry has been a highly deflationary industry since its inception ... but people keep buying tech products like crazy. There used to be the argument that, since 6 months from any purchase of a computer you are able to get a computer that's twice as powerful for half the price, that people would put off buying computers. But that didn't happen. People buy them, even with the deflationary knowledge, because that technological deflation is just part of the environment and no one even gives it a second thought. But that is the grand argument the Fed constantly makes about the "evil" of deflation, in general terms. It's nutty and only the most gullible would believe it. The sad part is that that shows us that a huge percentage of this population (and the "intelligentsia") are as gullible as they come.

Congress really needs to do its job and set the Fed straight. The Fed's only purpose (and only real function) is to protect the integrity of the dollar.

And another thing about the Fed ... the way people are put on the Fed is insane. Seats reserved for labor?? WTFFF? It seems that so many of the people populating the Fed don't even know jack shit about monetary systems. That has to stop.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 25, 2017 10:25 PM (rZ+mb)

168 Going through boxes in the attic of Ms Kinetic's house she inherited from her dad, we found two front-age sections, Chicago Tribune, 1963, Kennedy assassination and funeral.

If you were over the age of maybe 10 or 12 then, you remember exactly where you were when you heard about it, and who brought you the news. You also remember the funeral, the riderless horse, reversed boots in the stirrups, Jackie, the kids, the flame at Arlington, the shock, the solemnities, the mourning.

Two things came to mind seeing the king sized headlines on these 54-year old papers.

The first was, does anyone display front pages of papers that reported this horrific event? Even after all this time, is this "assassination porn," and thus should stay in its box or trunk, and not framed and hung on the wall?

The second is, what would happen today if The Donald was killed the same way, in public, his blood and brains splashed on his wife, the whole thing on film? JFK was killed in Texas, this one would be in NYC or San Francisco.

In '63 there were no cheers, no laughing, no one said he had it coming.

In this far-different USA we now inhabit, what would happen?

I think we all know, and I don't know whether to be frightened, sad, or just disgusted.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at June 25, 2017 10:26 PM (WpPbD)

169 well, lots of people quit trying to find their preferred job. some sort of trade between work and play. seems they decide the job is tolerable and allows them to do things they like so good enough.

some people are miserable trying to get the preferred job they never get.

neither is necessarily better or worse.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 25, 2017 10:26 PM (0wem/)

170 My red zone is no go when you see open and weeping sores or bumps around it.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at June 25, 2017 10:26 PM (0sA5C)

171 167 The tech industry has been a highly deflationary industry since its inception ... but people keep buying tech products like crazy.

Are you not conflating monetary deflation with technological progress? The second seems wonderful, the first bad.

Posted by: Splunge at June 25, 2017 10:28 PM (iMxBJ)

172 Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

That's why I need to run again in 2020! I love politics sexually.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at June 25, 2017 10:28 PM (xAvrH)

173 I think that there is no such job as one without a bad day every now and then.
Posted by: navybrat at June

well, even steve jobs had bad says.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 25, 2017 10:28 PM (0wem/)

174 the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking

In other words, I *should* drive a bulldozer thru downtown Palo Alto. Because I just might like it!

Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2017 10:29 PM (kCDOM)

175 Eleventy zillion humanities Ph.Ds trying to find tenure-track positions say Steve Jobs is full of shit.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2017 10:30 PM (QuP08)

176 I was having this conversation the other day about dream jobs and the jobs we currently have now.

I think if you presented the option to people of the job they have now, or another job.....I think a large majority of people would pick the other job.

The problem is rarely do any of us get that dream job, that perfect opportunity. My best friend did, and she LOVES her job. Loves it, and she is SO happy. But usually, "moving on" means moving on from a job you aren't totally happy in, to an unknown job that you may not be totally happy in either.

Posted by: Tickled Pink at June 25, 2017 10:30 PM (smD62)

177 well, even steve jobs had bad says.
Posted by: yankeefifth at June 25, 2017 10:28 PM (0wem/)

That time he had no clean black turtlenecks?

Posted by: Robert also loves Vincent Price's narration BOIIII!!!!!! at June 25, 2017 10:30 PM (mknWS)

178 "A client is one who engages the services of a professional."

That's me. The pro. The guy you call when everything is going tits up.

Posted by: navybrat at June 25, 2017 10:30 PM (w7KSn)

179 "well, even steve jobs had bad says."

Oh FFS!

Posted by: The Chicken at June 25, 2017 10:30 PM (3myMJ)

180 well, in fairness, jobs says the only way to be "truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work." Truly satisfied is a pretty high standard.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 25, 2017 10:30 PM (0wem/)

181 166
Customer is someone who buys goods and services.

A client is one who engages the services of a professional.

That is the Webster distinction but there is some overlap.

Business who call their customers clients are trying to jazz it up and make their customers think they are more special.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 25, 2017 10:24 PM (8O3HH)

OK, that makes sense.

I'm old-fashioned. I still call my customers customers.

And note that I said "old-fashioned" instead of "old school", which is more newfangled.

Posted by: rickl at June 25, 2017 10:30 PM (sdi6R)

182 some people are miserable trying to get the preferred job they never get.

On the other hand, that's why Hollywood has so many waiters and waitresses. Just waiting for their break!

Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2017 10:31 PM (kCDOM)

183 Goatwhore - Chaos Arcane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4leSeCTZdU

Posted by: Robert at June 25, 2017 10:31 PM (mknWS)

184 175 Eleventy zillion humanities Ph.Ds trying to find tenure-track positions say Steve Jobs is full of shit.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2017 10:30 PM (QuP0

Doesn't reduce the schadenfreude any, though.

Posted by: Splunge at June 25, 2017 10:31 PM (iMxBJ)

185 "A client is one who engages the services of a professional."

Indeed, it is...

Posted by: Hugh Grant at June 25, 2017 10:32 PM (kCDOM)

186 That time he had no clean black turtlenecks?
Posted by: Robert also loves Vincent Price's narration BOIIII!!!!!! at June

first time he left Apple, Next computer, lots of shit went wrong.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 25, 2017 10:32 PM (0wem/)

187 well, in fairness, jobs says the only way to be "truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work." Truly satisfied is a pretty high standard.
Posted by: yankeefifth at June 25, 2017 10:30 PM (0wem/)

High class hookers with rich clientele?

Posted by: Robert at June 25, 2017 10:33 PM (mknWS)

188 Speaking of dream jobs, this one babe in a beret gave a dreamy job.

Posted by: Billy Jeff at June 25, 2017 10:33 PM (XoldI)

189 On the other hand, that's why Hollywood has so many waiters and waitresses. Just waiting for their break!
Posted by: t-bird at June

yep

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 25, 2017 10:33 PM (0wem/)

190 And sometimes.....you never have good days.

Posted by: Amy Schumer's leather pants at June 25, 2017 10:33 PM (0sA5C)

191 >> Indeed, it is...

The ladies of Singapore's Orchard Towers, known as the "Four Floors of Whores", agree.

The Four Floors was from last night's ONT. I'd never heard of that.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 25, 2017 10:34 PM (8O3HH)

192 In one's younger years, make money as best as you can, then save and invest wisely, and enjoy the golden years.

Posted by: colfax mingo at June 25, 2017 10:34 PM (qJ+iT)

193 Goatwhore

How you doin'?

Posted by: Al Queda fighter at June 25, 2017 10:34 PM (vBeA5)

194 High class hookers with rich clientele?
Posted by: Robert at June

well just making the point that truly satisfied is a really high bar. no one is going to be truly satisfied if they hate their job.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 25, 2017 10:35 PM (0wem/)

195 Was recently offered $44k a year to get a PhD; post-graduation salary supposedly >$100k. Seriously considering it. Wife thinks I'm crazy.

But it's gonna be 3 more years, I'm in my mid-30s, and I'm not that enamored with research. On the other hand, it's not costing me anything.

Posted by: Apostate at June 25, 2017 10:35 PM (n1dE4)

196 191 The Four Floors was from last night's ONT. I'd never heard of that.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 25, 2017 10:34 PM (8O3HH)

Good save.

Posted by: Splunge at June 25, 2017 10:35 PM (iMxBJ)

197 In one's younger years, make money as best as you can, then save and invest wisely, and enjoy the golden years.
Posted by: colfax mingo at June 25, 2017 10:34 PM (qJ+iT)

So...get drunk, high and laid?

Posted by: Fuckin' Kids These Days at June 25, 2017 10:35 PM (mknWS)

198 Are you not conflating monetary deflation with technological progress? The second seems wonderful, the first bad.

Posted by: Splunge at June 25, 2017 10:28 PM (iMxBJ)

They are very closely related and the arguments for both are the same. Technological advancements make for economic deflation in tech products. The Fed talks about general monetary deflation which makes for economic deflation across a broad spectrum of products. The tech example cuts to the core of the argument and is accurate and illustrative.

The Fed (and most people) don't seem to understand that it isn't really the static inflation or deflation rate that makes a difference. Whatever it is, people get used to it and continue on with their lives. What is destructive are serious changes in the rate - whether inflationary or deflationary. It is during times when these rates are changing that people alter their usual behavior. But once the rate settles (no matter where it settles at, within reason) people just get used to it and act as they usually do. But static mild deflation is no more dangerous than static mild inflation. The deflation in the tech industry is, of course, anything but mild, but that hasn't changed anyone's behavior. No one says ... "I'm not going to buy this computer because there will be a better one in 6 months" because they know that they would say the exact same thing in 6 months, so it doesn't even exist as an issue. The same is true of investors in an environment of static mild deflation.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 25, 2017 10:35 PM (rZ+mb)

199 The Steve Jobs quote is something I wish my constitution allowed me to do.

I've lived a 35 year nightmare of working a job I absolutely hate. I blame my warped sense of responsibility and aversion to debt and owing people.

My job did provide me knowledge that helped my family tremendously in a few life altering situations which I otherwise wouldn't likely have obtained. I got that going for me.

Posted by: Jack Sock at June 25, 2017 10:36 PM (IDPbH)

200 Was recently offered $44k a year to get a PhD; post-graduation salary supposedly >$100k. Seriously considering it. Wife thinks I'm crazy.

But it's gonna be 3 more years, I'm in my mid-30s, and I'm not that enamored with research. On the other hand, it's not costing me anything.
Posted by: Apostate at June

well, the opportunity to earn more than $44k per year for three years.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 25, 2017 10:36 PM (0wem/)

201 "On the other hand, it's not costing me anything."

Except time and effort, that is. Looong hours.

Posted by: Apostate at June 25, 2017 10:37 PM (n1dE4)

202 I no longer live to work, I work to live. I find that more than satisfactory.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at June 25, 2017 10:38 PM (17QyB)

203 i had a boos once say "isn't this fun?" (we were sitting around discussing market forces and changes in our field [pharmacy)

i said "no, if it was fun, we'd be sitting around in shorts and t-shirts, drinking beer while we're doing it...

there;s a reason they call it "w*rk" and have to pay you to show up...

if it was fun, they could charge you admission to show up, or at least assess a cover charge and a 2 drink minimum/

w*rk is what you do so you can afford to do the things you want in your off time...

or, at a more basic level, what you do so you can survive.

everything else is touchy feelie bullshit.

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 25, 2017 10:38 PM (qeqxZ)

204 Amy Shumer's leather pants!?!?!!!

Egads, the stink is what only trannies want to smell to make them XY to XX wymen from Yemen.

Posted by: colfax mingo at June 25, 2017 10:39 PM (qJ+iT)

205 So....if you should only settle for jobs you love....and liberals tell us illegals are the only ones that will clean our toilets, does this mean that they think central Americans dream of cleaning up their shit?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2017 10:39 PM (aZq03)

206 I posted before reading the comments. Should have realized that subject would have been 'popular'.

Posted by: Jack Sock at June 25, 2017 10:39 PM (IDPbH)

207 Was recently offered $44k a year to get a PhD; post-graduation salary supposedly >$100k. Seriously considering it. Wife thinks I'm crazy.

No guarantee of anything after 3 years.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2017 10:39 PM (FU97j)

208 So....if you should only settle for jobs you love....and liberals tell us illegals are the only ones that will clean our toilets, does this mean that they think central Americans dream of cleaning up their shit?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2017 10:39 PM (aZq03)

LOL.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 25, 2017 10:39 PM (rZ+mb)

209 As said above, how well you get along with your co-workers may be more important than how much you like your work.

Work you enjoy + co-workers you like = dream job.

Work you don't enjoy + co-workers you don't like = nightmare.

Work you enjoy + co-workers you don't like = not so good.

Work you don't enjoy + co-workers you like = not so bad.

Posted by: davidt at June 25, 2017 10:40 PM (XoldI)

210 198 The same is true of investors in an environment of static mild deflation.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 25, 2017 10:35 PM (rZ+mb)

Either I have not understood, or I do not agree. The stagnation of money movement over the 2008-2016 years strikes me as a testament to the power of actual deflation. If you can't make money, why not just sit there, and wait for better times? Technology is useful in the short term, even if you know better things are coming. 0.25% interest rates in return for increased risk, are not.

Posted by: Splunge at June 25, 2017 10:40 PM (iMxBJ)

211 I love my job. I just hate the fucking idiots I have to deal with in doing my job.

Posted by: Country Singer at June 25, 2017 10:41 PM (yzxic)

212 This thread isn't about you.

Posted by: Carly Simon at June 25, 2017 10:42 PM (xAvrH)

213 13 Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 25, 2017 09:40 PM (rZ+mb)

Wow.. I was just having this conversation this afternoon with my SIL. Most of us are not lucky enough to have a job we love.
Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at June 25, 2017 09:43 PM

I will be forever grateful that my father took a job he didn't like and kept at it even when he grew to hate it, so we could grow up in a safe place and in a real house. He also worked strange hours so we could have him home for dinner.

My siblings and I consider a job good if we like our co-workers. I had a lousy job that paid well enough to send me to college so I could get a job I really like (and occasionally love). My sis works in a manufacturing place and she likes her co-workers; much better than the "great" job in finance with jerks. Both my brothers have changed jobs because they couldn't deal with mentally-ill bosses (the only way I can describe the bizarre behavior).

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 25, 2017 10:42 PM (hQWkm)

214 well just making the point that truly satisfied is a really high bar. no one is going to be truly satisfied if they hate their job.
Posted by: yankeefifth at June 25, 2017 10:35 PM (0wem/)

I wonder if that's proportional to how time consuming and demanding that job is. I'm guessing most people can clock out and leave their job behind and not care while focusing on most every other aspect of their lives.

Now if you hated your job but if you had a hot woman with tig ole bitties...

Posted by: Robert hates his broken G key at June 25, 2017 10:42 PM (mknWS)

215 @195

Wow congrats, it wouldn't even be a question for me.

As to my dream job...well my dream job is to be a homemaker, but other than that...

my dream job is a work from home mindless data entry type job. I know it sounds crazy, and I am vastly overeducated and overqualified for it. But, to be able to work in my PJs....anytime I want...if I wake up at 2 am, and can't sleep, I can work. Or I could work extra some days, and have longer weekends. The flexibility would be ideal. But, mainly, for me, the idea of having something that won't cause me or other people grief is the gold standard. Not having to bring home things (even just mentally) from work. Not having to deal with sucky sucky people most days...perfect.

Posted by: Tickled Pink at June 25, 2017 10:42 PM (smD62)

216 I like what I do, I don't like my job.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 25, 2017 10:43 PM (LTHVh)

217 It only took a couple of jobs before I decided the secret was to avoid jobs and do business.

Posted by: Meremortal at June 25, 2017 10:44 PM (3myMJ)

218 The Fed. What is it good for? Apparently causing recessions

Anyone that claims to be pro-markets and supports the Fed needs to find a neck-sized wrench to loosen their sphincter that has obviously restricted blood flow to their cranium.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 25, 2017 10:44 PM (udajc)

219 I'd say use what you like or love to inform your decision, including "will the money I earn allow me to do what I love, or find out what I love?" but to just come home and say "honey, I'm going to be a professional golfer!" is daft advice.

That being said, I'm going to be an astronaut. And a pro football player.

Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2017 10:45 PM (kCDOM)

220 Time for bed. Goodnight, all.

Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at June 25, 2017 10:45 PM (/o9Qk)

221 One of the funniest comments I heard from someone about a dead end job was:

They pay me just enough to keep me from quitting and I work just hard enough to keep from being fired.

Posted by: Jack Sock at June 25, 2017 10:46 PM (IDPbH)

222 The stagnation of money movement over the 2008-2016 years

I don't think that is true.

Stock market indices are at all time record highs. High dollar items are setting record prices. It is only cheap commodities that are resistant to higher prices because the people who buy cheap can't afford any price increase. Look at automobiles.

My standard price inflation gauge is Excedrin in the 250 capsule size. When I first started buying that size in 2000 it was just less than ten bucks, now it is over fifteen. I've tried buying generics, but they don't seem to work for me. Maybe it's the placebo effect, but I keep paying the price because, otherwise, I hurt.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at June 25, 2017 10:46 PM (m9X4Y)

223 In one's younger years, make money as best as you can, then save and invest wisely, and enjoy the golden years.
---
NOW you tell me...

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 25, 2017 10:46 PM (qeqxZ)

224 I'm talented at currency speculation, but my true passion is stirring shit up.

Posted by: George Soros at June 25, 2017 10:46 PM (xAvrH)

225 Work you don't enjoy + co-workers you like = not so bad.
Posted by: davidt at June 25, 2017 10:40 PM (XoldI)

I like my coworkers enough I bake them shit.

I just baked some lemon poppyseed doughnuts.

One of my coworkers I wouldn't mind making the mother of my children.

Posted by: Robert hates his broken G key at June 25, 2017 10:48 PM (mknWS)

226 Russian comment from back in the Soviet days:

they pretend to pay us and we pretend to w*rk.

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 25, 2017 10:49 PM (qeqxZ)

227 Fuckin Kids,

No just grow the fuck up and get it done. BTW, I enjoyed my work, construction trade. Made good money, invested wisely. Worth 1 million in terms of real estate and 2 million plus in paper assests. Not bad for a farm boy with no over rated degree. Grow the fuck up. Get real. Its not complicated, but common sense is required.

Posted by: colfax mingo at June 25, 2017 10:49 PM (qJ+iT)

228 For the Paolo, it is not work.

Posted by: Paolo at June 25, 2017 10:49 PM (tr2D7)

229 Okay, I really ought to be in bed.

Good night!

Posted by: Robert hates his broken G key at June 25, 2017 10:49 PM (mknWS)

230 195 Was recently offered $44k a year to get a PhD; post-graduation salary supposedly >$100k. Seriously considering it. Wife thinks I'm crazy.

But it's gonna be 3 more years, I'm in my mid-30s, and I'm not that enamored with research. On the other hand, it's not costing me anything.
Posted by: Apostate at June 25, 2017 10:35 PM

When I went back to school, I realized it would take me about 3 years to finish a 2-year program and I'd be "old" compared to classmates. My late, great honey asked me, "How old will you be if you DON'T do it, and how will you feel about it then?" My job wasn't even the full-on crapfest it became, but I wanted out.

On the other hand, a brother turned down an opportunity because the benefits didn't outweigh the time and trouble.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 25, 2017 10:49 PM (hQWkm)

231 "No guarantee of anything after 3 years."

It's a pipeline into a well-established organization. I'm basically being head-hunted. So yeah, not literally guaranteed, but I don't think they'll be paying me $132k and giving me a PhD that they paid for to go somewhere else. But if they do... *shrug*

"Wow congrats, it wouldn't even be a question for me."

Thanks. It's weird because it'll be my 6th academic degree and 2nd doctorate. Wife wants to settle somewhere and quit moving, forever. I could do that now with a moderate professional salary, but the work here is boooring.

Turns out aircraft software maintenance isn't very exciting. Who knew?

Posted by: Apostate at June 25, 2017 10:50 PM (n1dE4)

232 One for the road...

Byzantine - Justinian Code

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxr6qfSYKLo

Thrash metal like GAWD intended!

Posted by: Robert hates his broken G key at June 25, 2017 10:50 PM (mknWS)

233 pretty sure MJ died in Lost Angels, not BH.

Hombely Hills (sp?), IIRC, is BH *adjacent*.

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 25, 2017 10:51 PM (qeqxZ)

234 222 The stagnation of money movement over the 2008-2016 years

I don't think that is true.

Stock market indices are at all time record highs. High dollar items are setting record prices. It is only cheap commodities that are resistant to higher prices because the people who buy cheap can't afford any price increase. Look at automobiles.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at June 25, 2017 10:46 PM (m9X4Y)

I think the sentence you quoted from me is exactly true. I also think what you said is exactly true. This stuff is complicated, and I don't have a complete handle on it. But I could do a better job of sorting it out a bit if I had more energy tonight. Perhaps another time.

Posted by: Splunge at June 25, 2017 10:51 PM (iMxBJ)

235 After flying a bit this week- to the source of our nation's misery- it struck me how many, many, many jobs just have a single qualification: you must be humanoid. If you have no skills at all but can follow a few directions, there must be 100 million jobs out there.

Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2017 10:51 PM (kCDOM)

236 If a gasoline tanker truck turns over near you do not run to the truck to get free gasoline.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2017 10:52 PM (IqV8l)

237 9 Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

Steve Jobs

Okay Steve. Most people will never do great work of any sort - which is just the nature of "great work" - so I don't think it's a good idea to tell most people that they will just never be satisfied. That's not how things work for most people. Settling is a large part of the facts of life for the great majority of people. Don't shit on them just to make yourself feel better. You had billions. You should have just been happy enough with that.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair

As long as I don't hate my job, I'm fine.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 25, 2017 10:53 PM (pY+s4)

238 Good night, guys and dolls.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 25, 2017 10:53 PM (hQWkm)

239 Either I have not understood, or I do not agree. The stagnation of money movement over the 2008-2016 years strikes me as a testament to the power of actual deflation.

The stagnation of those years had nothing to do with monetary deflation. It had to do with Barky and the left's propensity to stagnate any economy it has any control over. Stagnation is the end-goal of all leftist policies and those years are a pretty clear illustration of that.

If you can't make money, why not just sit there, and wait for better times? Technology is useful in the short term, even if you know better things are coming. 0.25% interest rates in return for increased risk, are not.

Posted by: Splunge at June 25, 2017 10:40 PM (iMxBJ)

But, interestingly, there was still tons of money moving into low interest vehicles (and even negative interest instruments, which shows you how fucked up things were). But those interest rates were not due to any actual deflation. They were a construct of the government and central bank policies, which were working so hard to kill the economy. They weren't real and there's nothing you can learn from them as pertains to actual economic or monetary issues.

Yes, low interest rates weaken the desire, or perceived need, to deposit money in the bank. It makes the banks earn their money rather than just being the recipients of a political push to force people to keep their money in them. But ... this is why we have all of a sudden had so many of these government and lefty types proposing to do away with actual physical cash and to force everyone to keep all their money in a bank, so that they can institute "negative interest rates" which is the most insane idea ever broached in finance.

And just creating inflation on purpose (just by printing money) in order to force people to puke out their stashes of cash (as they actually argue) is just crazy. It doesn't help the economy at all ... any more than your clutch going out on you and having your motor running at 5000 rpms while you're only moving along 4 mph really helps your perception of how the car is driving.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 25, 2017 10:53 PM (rZ+mb)

240 Evenin' everyone.

Is that top pic AOP's spare parts bin?

Posted by: Blanco Basura at June 25, 2017 10:53 PM (IcT7t)

241 My dream job was to be a worker at a day care center.

Posted by: Michael Jackson at June 25, 2017 10:54 PM (xAvrH)

242 While IANAL I do work in land development and what I think is going on with that Wisconsin case is that the government is taking a veeeerrry broad interpretation of a common practice.
Basically, if you have two or more contiguous lots and one or more are considered non-buildable then the non-conforming lot(s) will be merged with the nearest conforming lot.
The dirty trick is to change the regulations to render a property unbuildable without public input/hearings, and/or in a targeted manner.

And no disrespect to the Murrs, but there are hundreds of New Jersey property owners who literally lost millions of dollars in property values when the Highlands Act was jammed through.

To his credit Christie has been trying to find ways to change it, but the deep blue legislature isn't having any of it. I don't think it's entirely a coincidence that the areas most affected tend to vote republican and the beneficiaries are democrats.

Posted by: random ~~lurker~~ commenter at June 25, 2017 10:54 PM (dab45)

243
You can look at what the Fed did with the monetary diarrhea as leading to a very specific type of inflation. The propping up of prices of the stock market, bad debt, and other worthless shit out there.

The realization of the worthlessness of it was about to cause a Big Reset. So, continue the Big Lie was what they had to do.

There is general inflation, they just play games with the CPI and similar to hide it, and believe their own cooked numbers. They're getting high on their supply.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 25, 2017 10:54 PM (8O3HH)

244 Aww, oglaf did one for the moronettes this week
http://oglaf.com/princessparty/

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at June 25, 2017 10:56 PM (6FqZa)

245 244 Aww, oglaf did one for the moronettes this week
http://oglaf.com/princessparty/
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at June 25, 2017 10:56 PM (6FqZa)

Uh, is this one x-rated?

Posted by: Insomniac at June 25, 2017 10:57 PM (0mRoj)

246 Insomniac: no, a lot of Oglaf *is* x-rated, but if I link a specific page here it's SFW.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at June 25, 2017 11:00 PM (6FqZa)

247 I'm surprised that anybody can quote Steve Jobs on any topic with any seriousness. The man appears to have been a total ass who may have perjured himself in a paternity case when he filed an affidavit claiming he was impotent. Frankly, you don't get much lower than that.

It appears he did eventually reconcile with his daughter but I suspect that is more to her willingness to forgive than anything to do with him.

Posted by: WarEagle82 at June 25, 2017 11:00 PM (xUc0d)

248 I guess I'm really lucky. I like my job.

I never set out to do this, but I've been in the same job since 1990. It's a good fit for me.

Posted by: rickl at June 25, 2017 11:01 PM (sdi6R)

249

Nipple Tweaker for the Victoria's Secret shows sound likes a fun job.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 25, 2017 11:02 PM (8O3HH)

250 Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 25, 2017 10:54 PM (8O3HH)

I think the Fed has been trying to create Banks that are too big to fail.... where they would be guaranteed government intervention...

TARP money was primarily used by larger banks, to buy up smaller banks....

Note, the Fed Res Board members are primarily voted on by .... Banks who own 'stock' in the Fed Res System... the same banks that were given no interest loans to buy up smaller banks... and who get a Dividend from the stock they hold in the Fed Res Bank itself...

Note, the Fed Res balance sheet is now 4.3 TRILLION dollars... In the year 2000 it was right around 600 billion.

Posted by: Don Q. at June 25, 2017 11:04 PM (NgKpN)

251 "Nipple Tweaker for the Victoria's Secret shows sound likes a fun job."

A species of fluffer.

Posted by: Apostate at June 25, 2017 11:04 PM (n1dE4)

252 **scans room for AOP**

Hmm. Nope, not here.

Anybody else ever have to reinstall the trunk torsion bars/springs into an '87(ish) Buick GN or G-body?

Posted by: an indifferent penguin at June 25, 2017 11:04 PM (rxW5j)

253 Steve Jobs would have survivorship bias, to give such impractical advice.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 25, 2017 11:05 PM (VdICR)

254 >>>If a gasoline tanker truck turns over near you do not run to the truck to get free gasoline.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2017 10:52 PM (IqV8l)<<<

That there is crazy talk!

Posted by: Florida Man at June 25, 2017 11:06 PM (rxW5j)

255 And no disrespect to the Murrs, but there are hundreds of New Jersey property owners who literally lost millions of dollars in property values when the Highlands Act was jammed through.

To his credit Christie has been trying to find ways to change it, but the deep blue legislature isn't having any of it. I don't think it's entirely a coincidence that the areas most affected tend to vote republican and the beneficiaries are democrats.
Posted by: random lurker commenter at June 25, 2017 10:54 PM (dab45)

the lots were ACRES in size.... most houses sit on less than 1/4 acre now days...

Posted by: Don Q. at June 25, 2017 11:06 PM (NgKpN)

256 >>So....if you should only settle for jobs you
love....and liberals tell us illegals are the only ones that will clean
our toilets, does this mean that they think central Americans dream of
cleaning up their shit?

Posted by: 18-1

Liberals think everyone dreams of cleaning up their shit.

Posted by: Aviator at June 25, 2017 11:07 PM (/Nite)

257 And I would also add that the policy over the past 8 years of the feral government borrowing (and spending) round about 8% of GDP every friggin year is something pretty much unheard of in our history. Outside of a couple of years of major war that sort of thing has never been approached. No economy will ever get itself together with a government that is operating like that. 8% of GDP borrowed (printed up) and then spent in the economy to claim a whopping 2% of GDP "growth" ... that the sort of shit you only read about in trashy novels. That has been the most animating economic factor of the past 8+ years. The zero and negative interest rates were designed only to allow that to continue. None of it had anything to do with actual economics ... and the minute that government spending stops, whatever it was supporting will immediately stop and appear as if it had never even been around (which is the basic nature and uselessness of most government spending).

Through all this, and the myriad strangling policies, this economy hasn't had a chance to do anything. It's pretty much been kept in a government-induced coma.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 25, 2017 11:07 PM (rZ+mb)

258 I guess I'm really lucky. I like my job.
I never set out to do this, but I've been in the same job since 1990. It's a good fit for me.
Posted by: rickl at June 25, 2017 11:01 PM (sdi6R)
******
The life of a Gigolo

Posted by: L, Elle at June 25, 2017 11:07 PM (Rsi2C)

259 Ron Paul got one thing right, end the FR's control. In fact hang them high on Jekkyl Island. Post it on youtube. Then repeal the 17th.

Posted by: colfax mingo at June 25, 2017 11:08 PM (qJ+iT)

260

When I was a kid, there was a rupture in one of the three pipelines that run through around. The result was massive tidal pools of good #2 diesel fuel.

Now, my father and some others went out to see and talk to the pipeline people who were surveying the damage. One brought up "sneaking down here one night and pumping up some of that fuel".

The pipeline guy say, "No, you can't do that. But if you do, don't smoke". And then he gave detailed instructions on just how he would do it if he were going to do the forbidden thing.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 25, 2017 11:08 PM (8O3HH)

261 250 Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 25, 2017 10:54 PM (8O3HH)

I think the Fed has been trying to create Banks that are too big to fail.... where they would be guaranteed government intervention...

TARP money was primarily used by larger banks, to buy up smaller banks....

Note, the Fed Res Board members are primarily voted on by .... Banks who own 'stock' in the Fed Res System... the same banks that were given no interest loans to buy up smaller banks... and who get a Dividend from the stock they hold in the Fed Res Bank itself...

Note, the Fed Res balance sheet is now 4.3 TRILLION dollars... In the year 2000 it was right around 600 billion.

Posted by: Don Q. at June 25, 2017 11:04 PM (NgKpN)

Well stated.

And when it inevitably falls apart, most people will blame "capitalism" and demand more socialism. It's as predictable as the sunrise.

Posted by: rickl at June 25, 2017 11:08 PM (sdi6R)

262 "If a gasoline tanker truck turns over near you..."

Shee-eet, that's the only way you can GET any gas!

Posted by: Toecutter at June 25, 2017 11:09 PM (3myMJ)

263 What am I? Chopped liver?

Posted by: Steve Wozniak at June 25, 2017 11:09 PM (xAvrH)

264 They must have been smoking in Pakistan.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2017 11:10 PM (IqV8l)

265 What am I? Chopped liver?

Posted by: Steve Wozniak at June 25, 2017 11:09 PM (xAvrH)

After those gay cadillac commercials we're not really sure what you are.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 25, 2017 11:10 PM (rZ+mb)

266 Oh oh oh! I figured out how Dr Venkman got the Thorazine which he used on ~~Dana~~ Zuul.

Dana got jumped by a hell beast from Uruk in her fridge, so went to the shrink. The shrink prescribed her the Thorazine. Then Dana was about to take some of that, and decided - fuck this, I'm not crazy, but NOW whom I gonna call?

So she still had that stuff in her medicine-cabinet.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at June 25, 2017 11:11 PM (6FqZa)

267 247 I'm surprised that anybody can quote Steve Jobs on any topic with any seriousness. The man appears to have been a total ass who may have perjured himself in a paternity case when he filed an affidavit claiming he was impotent. Frankly, you don't get much lower than that.

It appears he did eventually reconcile with his daughter but I suspect that is more to her willingness to forgive than anything to do with him.
Posted by: WarEagle82 at June 25, 2017 11:00 PM (xUc0d)

I think the chance to inherit a couple of billions of dollars helped her to be a little more willing than someone whose dad was a janitor.

Posted by: Ashley Judds' Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac, the Deplorable at June 25, 2017 11:11 PM (1JnAL)

268 What am I? Chopped liver?
Posted by: Steve Wozniak

Shaddap and invent us the iJetpack!

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 25, 2017 11:13 PM (eMKNe)

269 Farrah Fawcett had the misfortune of dying on the same day as MJ

Posted by: Al Bundy at June 25, 2017 11:15 PM (rF2KB)

270
Jetpackamerica.com

One tiny draw back, a long extension cord, and it only works over water.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at June 25, 2017 11:15 PM (m9X4Y)

271 Jetpackamerica.com

One tiny draw back, a long extension cord, and it only works over water.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at June 25, 2017 11:15 PM (m9X4Y)

So you have to keep pissing to keep yourself aloft?

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 25, 2017 11:16 PM (rZ+mb)

272 the lots were ACRES in size.... most houses sit on less than 1/4 acre now days...
Posted by: Don Q. at June 25, 2017 11:06 PM
(NgKpN)

not sure whose lots you're referring to, but regardless, if property that was once subdividable loses that characteristic then that's a taking. There were a lot of sizable properties in NJ that only a single small dwellingwill be permitted, and obtaining permits for that house will cost a bundle

Posted by: random ~~lurker~~ commenter at June 25, 2017 11:17 PM (dab45)

273 the Fed was put in place in response to the panic of 1893 which was caused by both failure of congressional backed railroad bonds and the fixing of the Treasury's pricing of silver in dollars.

The Fed ever since has tried to balance business cycles caused by wildly fluctuating interest rates and devaluation of the dollar by making the dollar a fiat currency to manipulated at will.
This causes hyperinflation in 100% of all economies that have tried this, starting with Kublai Khan's adoption of paper money

Governments love fiat currencies because they make all the money their own, to be played with at will, and by printing new money they can take value from the public without actually having to shake the public down for the funds. People like Enron Adviser Paul Krugman feel all virtuous about this as "the inefficiencies caused" are for a good purpose. Inefficiencies being what he calls recessions and destruction of wealth for those who are not good close personal friends to people like Paul Krugman, ex Enron adviser.

Now, if you would like to read about a classic example of fiat currencies turning hyper inflationary you could read this short book,

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6949
Fiat Money Inflation in France: How it Came, What it Brought, and How it Ended, by Andrew Dickson White

This readable book by one of the leading lights of of the intellectual left describes how this happens about every time - Weimar Germany, Argentia, you name it.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2017 11:18 PM (mkDpn)

274 >>>Jetpackamerica.com

One tiny draw back, a long extension cord, and it only works over water. Posted by: Skandia Recluse at June 25, 2017 11:15 PM (m9X4Y)

So you have to keep pissing to keep yourself aloft?
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 25, 2017 11:16 PM (rZ+mb)<<<

Sounds easy enough. Huma, get me a jetpack, and a lot more booze.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton, who will never be President at June 25, 2017 11:19 PM (rxW5j)

275 We do better than Apple! We invent jetpack that runs purely on battery power. Whole thing no bigger than size of the palm of your hand.

Only glitch is, battery explodes while you're flying in the air.

Posted by: Samsung Galaxy Jetpack Division at June 25, 2017 11:20 PM (eMKNe)

276 If you have no skills at all but can follow a few directions, there must be 100 million jobs out there.
Posted by: t-bird
-----------

Yeah, but you have to show up at work, on time and straight.

"80% of life is showing up." - Woody Allen

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 25, 2017 11:21 PM (OdK9v)

277 >> A species of fluffer.

Even more fun might be a pussy primper. I, no a friend of mine watched one of those "behind the scenes" things of a photo shoot, and you wouldn't believe the care and detail given to that.

They want to get that thing just right.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 25, 2017 11:22 PM (8O3HH)

278 The photo IS kind of what I think AOP's west 40 might look like.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 25, 2017 11:22 PM (OdK9v)

279 L,Elle!

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 25, 2017 11:29 PM (0wem/)

280 Love those 49-51 Ford series cars and pickups. A guy I know has one in a beach town in the Mid Atlantic. Drives it all around, lots of rust, never garaged. Still gets around well.

Posted by: RM at June 25, 2017 11:31 PM (eP+dt)

281 Made a salsa with jalapenos and red chili peppers from the garden, along with some onions and garlic. Super hot and delicious but my whole body feels like it is on fire from the cutting and cooking. That was almost three hours ago and my hands are still burning. Not worth the pain.

Posted by: Ripley at June 25, 2017 11:31 PM (NbRJx)

282 275 We do better than Apple! We invent jetpack that runs purely on battery power. Whole thing no bigger than size of the palm of your hand.

Only glitch is, battery explodes while you're flying in the air.
Posted by: Samsung Galaxy Jetpack Division at June 25, 2017 11:20 PM (eMKNe)

We do it better.

Only glitch is that mid flight it stops to install an update.

Posted by: Microsoft Windows Jetpack Division at June 25, 2017 11:33 PM (1JnAL)

283 In fact hang them high on Jekkyl Island. Post it on youtube. Then repeal the 17th.
Posted by: colfax mingo
----------

heh. I have a copy of this, in much better condition than this: http://tinyurl.com/ybazbabo

Most valuable book that I own. The membership list of the club reads like a Who's Who of American industry.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 25, 2017 11:35 PM (OdK9v)

284 >>>We do better than Apple! We invent jetpack that runs
purely on battery power. Whole thing no bigger than size of the palm of
your hand.

Only glitch is, battery explodes while you're flying in the air.

Posted by: Samsung Galaxy Jetpack Division at June 25, 2017 11:20 PM (eMKNe)

We do it better.

Only glitch is that mid flight it stops to install an update.
Posted by: Microsoft Windows Jetpack Division at June 25, 2017 11:33 PM (1JnAL)<<<

Vee do it better.

In Soviet Russia, jet pack you.

Posted by: Soviet Russia Jetpack Division at June 25, 2017 11:35 PM (rxW5j)

285 So my neighbor I mentioned several weeks back, the one who bought the Maserati. The Maserati has not been around for a while and she has been bumping around in her Volvo. So I found myself on the elevator with her and asked where the Maserati was. She has decided to have it painted yellow. Brand new factory fresh Maserati and she is having it painted. Sigh.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 25, 2017 11:36 PM (0wem/)

286 Dogs fed their meat and buttermilk and put up for the evening. Up at 5:00 AM to start it all again. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2017 11:36 PM (QuP08)

287 >>>We do better than Apple! We invent jetpack that runs purely on battery
power. Whole thing no bigger than size of the palm of your hand.

Only glitch is, battery explodes while you're flying in the air.

Posted by: Samsung Galaxy Jetpack Division at June 25, 2017 11:20 PM (eMKNe)<<<

Wanna team up?

Posted by: Tesla Motors Jetpack Division at June 25, 2017 11:37 PM (rxW5j)

288 We do it better.
Only glitch is that mid flight it stops to install an update.
Posted by: Microsoft Windows Jetpack Division

And then Clippy pops up:

"It looks like you're plunging to your certain death. Need help?

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 25, 2017 11:37 PM (eMKNe)

289 Made a salsa with jalapenos and red chili peppers from the garden, along with some onions and garlic. Super hot and delicious but my whole body feels like it is on fire from the cutting and cooking. That was almost three hours ago and my hands are still burning. Not worth the pain.
Posted by: Ripley at June

heh. you should pour vegetable oil over them.

use the food processor when you do it next time.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 25, 2017 11:37 PM (0wem/)

290 Made a salsa with jalapenos and red chili peppers from the garden, along
with some onions and garlic. Super hot and delicious but my whole body
feels like it is on fire from the cutting and cooking. That was almost
three hours ago and my hands are still burning. Not worth the pain.

At least you remembered to wash your hands before going to the bathroom.

If you hadn't, you wouldn't be here telling us about it.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at June 25, 2017 11:38 PM (IcT7t)

291 Love those 49-51 Ford series cars and pickups. A guy I know has one in a beach town in the Mid Atlantic. Drives it all around, lots of rust, never garaged. Still gets around well.
Posted by: RM
---------

Neighbor has a a Model A pickup. Unrestored barn find. Engine has been rebuilt, but otherwise it's pretty ratty. I love to hear the thing motoring by.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 25, 2017 11:38 PM (OdK9v)

292 We do it better.
Only glitch is that mid flight it stops to install an update.
Posted by: Microsoft Windows Jetpack Division

And then Clippy pops up:

"It looks like you're plunging to your certain death. Need help?
Posted by: qdpsteve at June 25, 2017 11:37 PM (eMKNe)

And then Cortanna pops up and suggests searching for attorneys that specialize in wills and estate planning.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at June 25, 2017 11:39 PM (m9X4Y)

293
Dogs fed their meat and buttermilk and put up for the evening.

How can you have your buttermilk if you don't eat your meat?

Posted by: Pink Floyd at June 25, 2017 11:40 PM (IqV8l)

294 After Apple invents the iJetpack, Siri will be there to lecture you when things go wrong.

iJetpack user: "Siri, help me!!! Something's wrong!! I'm falling fast!!"

Siri: "If you had bothered to read the manual, it clearly indicated that the weight limit for your model of iJetpack is 200 pounds. You are 210 pounds. Tell your troubles to someone else, fatty."

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 25, 2017 11:41 PM (eMKNe)

295 >> A species of fluffer.

Fluffer is a Family not a Species.

They're a type of Soft-Mouthed Weasel.

Posted by: garrett at June 25, 2017 11:41 PM (eNC1o)

296 Those dogs are gonna become cow-killers. Mark my words.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 25, 2017 11:41 PM (OdK9v)

297 Hey Y. Just emailed you back about Vegas.
And also booknlass. You here? Emailed you back too. Someone tell her if I have to get outta here and she isn't here

Posted by: L, Elle at June 25, 2017 11:43 PM (Rsi2C)

298 Skandia, LOL. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 25, 2017 11:43 PM (eMKNe)

299 Stevie: Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
--------------------------------

That's helpful like...

Hall of Fame Inductee: If you work and practice hard you can be here someday.

Politician: If you study hard you might not end up in Iraq.

Posted by: RioBravo at June 25, 2017 11:43 PM (OmhcY)

300 Hey Y. Just emailed you back about Vegas.
And also booknlass. You here? Emailed you back too. Someone tell her if I have to get outta here and she isn't here
Posted by: L, Elle at June

Ok, thanks.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 25, 2017 11:46 PM (0wem/)

301 >>>Most impactful inventions:

Colorado --- The Tampon
Dr. Earle Haas

I wonder if all the white male-hating feminists realize that a white male invented the tampon for them.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at June 25, 2017 11:47 PM (7A4qQ)

302 After Apple invents the iJetpack
--------------------
If I am not mistaken, Tim Cook has already perfected the iPackFudge

Posted by: RioBravo at June 25, 2017 11:47 PM (OmhcY)

303 Lots of luzs to be had whenever one sees a variation of "Queers for Palestine". Unless you're homosexual and have to live a secret live in "Palestine".

ALTERNATIVE CHICAGO PRIDE EVENT 'INCLUSIVE' TO ALL, EXCEPT JEWS

http://tinyurl.com/y87tvkfh

Posted by: Thrawn at June 25, 2017 11:47 PM (E/ibL)

304 >>I wonder if all the white male-hating feminists realize that a white male invented the tampon for them.

It was probably was his wife's idea to add the string, though.

Posted by: garrett at June 25, 2017 11:47 PM (eNC1o)

305 Picture worthy of a thousand snorts: Canada's PM Justin Trudeau wears Ramadan-themed socks to "church" service before Gay Pride parade:

https://twitter.com/cselley/status/879037625457356801/photo/1

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 25, 2017 11:47 PM (XUcIQ)

306 >>>After Apple invents the iJetpack, Siri will be there to lecture you when things go wrong.

iJetpack user: "Siri, help me!!! Something's wrong!! I'm falling fast!!"

Siri: "If you had bothered to read the manual, it clearly indicated
that the weight limit for your model of iJetpack is 200 pounds. You are
210 pounds. Tell your troubles to someone else, fatty."

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 25, 2017 11:41 PM (eMKNe)<<<

And we removed the connection port that you used to plug the flight controls into. They didn't fit the design aesthetic, and the new wireless ones are just as good. And if you lose them, please feel free to spend another 160 dollars for another set.

Posted by: Apple iJetpack Division at June 25, 2017 11:48 PM (rxW5j)

307 294 After Apple invents the iJetpack, Siri will be there to lecture you when things go wrong.

iJetpack user: "Siri, help me!!! Something's wrong!! I'm falling fast!!"

Siri: "If you had bothered to read the manual, it clearly indicated that the weight limit for your model of iJetpack is 200 pounds. You are 210 pounds. Tell your troubles to someone else, fatty."
Posted by: qdpsteve at June 25, 2017 11:41 PM (eMKNe)

I don't understand that question.

Posted by: Alexa at June 25, 2017 11:48 PM (1JnAL)

308

You know what I invented?

Posted by: Earl of Douchebag at June 25, 2017 11:50 PM (8O3HH)

309 Hi! What did I miss?

Posted by: Muldoon at June 25, 2017 11:51 PM (mvenn)

310 306 >>>After Apple invents the iJetpack, Siri will be there to lecture you when things go wrong.

iJetpack user: "Siri, help me!!! Something's wrong!! I'm falling fast!!"

Siri: "If you had bothered to read the manual, it clearly indicated
that the weight limit for your model of iJetpack is 200 pounds. You are
210 pounds. Tell your troubles to someone else, fatty."

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 25, 2017 11:41 PM (eMKNe)

And we removed the connection port that you used to plug the flight controls into. They didn't fit the design aesthetic, and the new wireless ones are just as good. And if you lose them, please feel free to spend another 160 dollars for another set.
Posted by: Apple iJetpack Division at June 25, 2017 11:48 PM (rxW5j)

Screw all of you. We're telling Obama on all of you!!!!!

Posted by: Google at June 25, 2017 11:51 PM (1JnAL)

311 ALTERNATIVE CHICAGO PRIDE EVENT 'INCLUSIVE' TO ALL, EXCEPT JEWS

http://tinyurl.com/y87tvkfh

Posted by: Thrawn at June 25, 2017 11:47 PM (E/ibL)

*Sheds tear of joy*

I am so proud!

Posted by: Ernst Röhm at June 25, 2017 11:51 PM (vBeA5)

312 Yup everybody. Then there's Google's jetpack.

It works great... until it doesn't, when it drops you 3,000 feet to your demise.

Then it automatically sells and transmits all of your sensitive financial and personal information to identity thieves in Russia.

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 25, 2017 11:54 PM (eMKNe)

313 The SC case is not as Mis Hum presented it, at least according to some article I read -- The land and cabin were ONE parcel, and they wanted to subdivide it to sell off the extra land and use those proceeds for cabin repairs.

And the county said No to splitting the parcel. And the libs plus Kennedy on the SC said that was up to the county.

Imho, the states and the feds have far too much say as to what you can do with your land, but that's just me.

And I'm really hoping the rumors of Kennedy goin' bye-bye are true.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 25, 2017 11:54 PM (6jaju)

314 That's a fine reputation you have there, Justice Kennedy. Hate to see it be destroyed if you retire before we tell you to.

Posted by: Deep State at June 25, 2017 11:55 PM (qYCgM)

315 say, how are you doing, because I am a potato.

https://youtu.be/oNjPHcIzQkM

Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2017 11:57 PM (mkDpn)

316 You know what I invented?
Posted by: Earl of Douchebag

The scissor jack?

Posted by: Blanco Basura at June 26, 2017 12:03 AM (IcT7t)

317
Replace Kennedy with Kennedy from FBN.

Now that Dems shot their wad on Gorsuch, Trump ought to be able to get Pryor through. Or an even more right winger.

Wait, I forgot. Susan Collins. Lisa "Box of Rocks" Murkowski. ANd Rand Paul might well decide to be a dick.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 26, 2017 12:05 AM (8O3HH)

318 Geeze the weather is great here. Clear, low 50's tonight.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 26, 2017 12:08 AM (OdK9v)

319 So I found myself on the elevator with her and asked where the
Maserati was. She has decided to have it painted yellow. Brand new
factory fresh Maserati and she is having it painted. Sigh.
---
i've just started the process of buying a 1961 Weatherby FN action rifle...

one reason it was within my price range is that, somewhere back in time Bubba the Gun Smite replaced the original stock with a thumb hole one.

at least he had the good sense to dye the fore-end black, to replicate the original ebony wood, but really?

i'm currently in search of a period correct stock.

either way, i have a South Gate Weatherby in 300 Weatherby.

now, how to afford ammo?

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 26, 2017 12:08 AM (qeqxZ)

320 So some white guy invented tampons....big deal.
I wonder who invented the "menstral cup"?

Oh, bluebell...you cracked me up with this -BarleyClown'sBilbo

Posted by: lin-duh fell at June 26, 2017 12:09 AM (kufk0)

321 the cookbook stuff in the sidebar is getting hilarious.

CBD, no doubt

Posted by: concrete girl at June 26, 2017 12:10 AM (EqvVS)

322 Geeze the weather is great here. Clear, low 50's tonight.

We're sitting at about 103 right now, hoping to get as low as 86 overnight.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at June 26, 2017 12:11 AM (IcT7t)

323 166
Customer is someone who buys goods and services.

A client is one who engages the services of a professional.

That is the Webster distinction but there is some overlap.

Business who call their customers clients are trying to jazz it up and make their customers think they are more special.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 25, 2017 10:24 PM (8O3HH)

++++

Businesses whose customers are other businesses (b2b) tend to call those other businesses "clients".

You may be right about them wanting to make them feel special. After all, they aren't just run of the mill regular customers, they too are in business!

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 26, 2017 12:12 AM (WzbqD)

324 Geeze the weather is great here. Clear, low 50's tonight.

We're sitting at about 103 right now, hoping to get as low as 86 overnight.
Posted by: Blanco Basura
-----------

Do not recall...you're out west?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 26, 2017 12:13 AM (OdK9v)

325 A fucking fire hydrant.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 25, 2017 09:55 PM (89T5c)

A lot of those entries on that list are weird, and read like they were written by foreigner with a poor command of English. A fire hydrant "transports" water? More like the water main "transports" the water, but the hydrant dispenses it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2017 12:13 AM (XUcIQ)

326 if our customers would just go away and leave us alone, we could get some w*rk done.

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 26, 2017 12:15 AM (qeqxZ)

327 A fucking fire hydrant.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
-----------

Hey, the dogs in my neighborhood think it was a hell of an invention.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 26, 2017 12:15 AM (OdK9v)

328 >>>Wait, I forgot. Susan Collins. Lisa "Box of Rocks" Murkowski. ANd Rand Paul might well decide to be a dick.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 26, 2017 12:05 AM (8O3HH)<<<

Hey, hey, hey. You forgetting someone?!

Posted by: Juan McCain at June 26, 2017 12:16 AM (rxW5j)

329 Pryor got burned with coke, and Jackson got burned with Pepsi!

Posted by: just the punchline at June 26, 2017 12:17 AM (nlbfN)

330 Do not recall...you're out west?

Phoenix metro. It's kind of like Death Valley, but without the charm.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at June 26, 2017 12:17 AM (IcT7t)

331 it was 111 at the Burbank Air Port just before 1500 local.

then something broke, and there was a breeze and a significant drop in temp...

by 1700, in was 82, dropping and breezy.

not cool now, but tolerable.

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 26, 2017 12:19 AM (qeqxZ)

332

I wish the damned Army would tell time like everyone else.

Posted by: Col. Henry Blake at June 26, 2017 12:21 AM (8O3HH)

333 Evening all.

Posted by: Country Boy at June 26, 2017 12:23 AM (Jcg9Q)

334 Is that AOPs backyard

Posted by: Jean at June 26, 2017 12:25 AM (9TU00)

335 I cleaned the potty today. I hadn't heard I needed to learn Spanish first

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at June 26, 2017 12:26 AM (6FqZa)

336 the cookbook stuff in the sidebar is getting hilarious.

CBD, no doubt

Posted by: concrete girl at June 26, 2017 12:10 AM (EqvVS)
Why . . . that dirty rat!!!

Posted by: Peaches at June 26, 2017 12:27 AM (EgOr3)

337 Is that top pic AOP's spare parts bin?

Posted by: Blanco Basura at June 25, 2017 10:53 PM (IcT7t)

I'm not a ford guy, but that could be a farm in Alberta, going by the poplar shelter belt.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2017 12:30 AM (XUcIQ)

338 Peruvia kicked Argentia's ass too right after it beat Gernamy in '76.

Posted by: andycanuck #CNNisISIS at June 26, 2017 12:31 AM (nlbfN)

339 I cleaned the potty today. I hadn't heard I needed to learn Spanish first

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at June 26, 2017 12:26 AM (6FqZa

Por que se mean en el piso, no saben porque hay una taza?

Posted by: Kindltot at June 26, 2017 12:33 AM (mkDpn)

340 **scans room for AOP**

Hmm. Nope, not here.

Anybody else ever have to reinstall the trunk torsion bars/springs into an '87(ish) Buick GN or G-body?

Posted by: an indifferent penguin at June 25, 2017 11:04 PM (rxW5j)

I have installed trunk torsion springs on some cars, but not on any of those. Check Youtube.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2017 12:34 AM (XUcIQ)

341 I'm not a ford guy, but that could be a farm in Alberta, going by the poplar shelter belt.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
----------

Are there unpoplar shelter belts?
The question had to be asked.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 26, 2017 12:36 AM (OdK9v)

342 >>>I have installed trunk torsion springs on some cars, but not on any of those. Check Youtube.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2017 12:34 AM (XUcIQ)<<<

Yeah. There's one on there for G-bodies where the guy custom made an install tool out of a piece of pipe. Have to see if we can whip up something like that to work.

Thanks.

Posted by: an indifferent penguin at June 26, 2017 12:37 AM (rxW5j)

343 Would it not be poetic justice to see Bernie in orange instead of crooked Hillary?

First the Gods make mad those whom they would destroy.

Posted by: torabora at June 26, 2017 12:38 AM (sC1Nc)

344 The photo IS kind of what I think AOP's west 40 might look like.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 25, 2017 11:22 PM (OdK9v)

You are not far off the mark.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2017 12:38 AM (XUcIQ)

345 The G-body torsion springs. Brute force:

http://tinyurl.com/yd4avwkh

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 26, 2017 12:39 AM (OdK9v)

346 Are there unpoplar shelter belts?
The question had to be asked.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 26, 2017 12:36 AM (OdK9v)

My shelter belt is caragana and box elder. And I was trimming it in a few spots today. Lopping off limbs that had fallen over, mostly.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2017 12:47 AM (XUcIQ)

347 Finally home...yeah!

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at June 26, 2017 12:52 AM (mMeIQ)

348
Are there unpoplar shelter belts?

The one with the onion.

Posted by: Abe Simpson at June 26, 2017 01:04 AM (IqV8l)

349 I live in California, what' you call the Midwest has always baffled me, I call it it back east.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at June 26, 2017 01:09 AM (6Ll1u)

350 I am shocked that the COC is inanely and pathetically mind numbingly wrong about something.

Posted by: John Marston at June 26, 2017 01:12 AM (SkuXa)

351 The COC is known for delivering unwise advice

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at June 26, 2017 01:15 AM (6FqZa)

352 Wouldn't it be ironic if Crazy Bernie died in a prison infirmary.

Posted by: torabora at June 26, 2017 01:19 AM (sC1Nc)

353 Well, I am mighty tired tonight. Going to hit the sack. Night, all.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2017 01:29 AM (XUcIQ)

354 Got a 911 call re: howling drunk in the woods. Again.

Posted by: Chappaqua PD at June 26, 2017 01:39 AM (bc2Lc)

355 Pixy is probably in a good mood now. Best to kindly ask for anything now while you can...

Posted by: The Magical Hat at June 26, 2017 01:40 AM (vBeA5)

356 Posted by: Chappaqua PD at June 26, 2017 01:39 AM (bc2Lc)

Shhh!!

I'm chasing Leo.

Posted by: Rapey Bear at June 26, 2017 01:40 AM (sf2BM)

357 Wouldn't it be ironic if Crazy Bernie died in a prison infirmary.
Posted by: torabora

Can Bernie himself really be charged with anything? I think it's mainly about his wife committing fraud when she was administrator of some college..

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 26, 2017 01:49 AM (xAvrH)

358 If Michael Jackson's prosthetic nose could be taken from his grave, I wonder how much it would sell for on ebay.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 26, 2017 02:00 AM (xAvrH)

359 Wouldn't it be ironic if Crazy Bernie died in a prison infirmary. Posted by: torabora at June 26, 2017 01:19 AM (sC1Nc)

Once again put up in someone else's house.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 26, 2017 02:10 AM (VdICR)

360 Super hot and delicious but my whole body feels like it is on fire from the cutting and cooking. That was almost three hours ago and my hands are still burning. Not worth the pain.
Posted by: Ripley at June 25, 2017 11:31 PM (NbRJx)

Tomorrow, when your fingernails feel like they have been smashed with a hammer, you will realize that the pain has only just begun. (No need to mention....)

Posted by: bergerbilder at June 26, 2017 02:19 AM (lIZQs)

361 ALTERNATIVE CHICAGO PRIDE EVENT 'INCLUSIVE' TO ALL, EXCEPT JEWS

http://tinyurl.com/y87tvkfh

Posted by: Thrawn

More of the left devouring itself. Pass the popcorn.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 26, 2017 02:19 AM (xAvrH)

362 Sam the K

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px4OYPxhQGk

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 26, 2017 02:29 AM (5wiY1)

363 Quiet night.

Posted by: buzzion at June 26, 2017 02:37 AM (cAnNx)

364
363 Quiet night.

Too quiet...

Posted by: Spun and Murky at June 26, 2017 02:42 AM (4DCSq)

365 Okay, here's an argument for NY BBQ over TX BBQ -- (DM)

A late night barbecue party in a Harlem park turned violent when seven people were shot Saturday night. Officers were called to a large crowd at a barbecue in Morningside Park.

If you prefer bullets flyin' at your BBQs, NY >> TX

****************

There's another article at DM where an American has been charged with scamming 3 Nigerians on green cards for around $650k.

Poetic justice by the barrel.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 26, 2017 02:43 AM (6jaju)

366 357 Wouldn't it be ironic if Crazy Bernie died in a prison infirmary.
Posted by: torabora

Can Bernie himself really be charged with anything? I think it's mainly about his wife committing fraud when she was administrator of some college..
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 26, 2017 01:49 AM (xAvrH)
*************
Looks like accusations Bernie practiced influence peddling. As in you better give my woman her big fat loan if you don't want the bank examiners crawling up your ass. Yeah, I can see him practicing to be a dictator of the proletariat.

Posted by: torabora at June 26, 2017 02:44 AM (RrJF7)

367 364
363 Quiet night.

Too quiet...
Posted by: Spun and Murky

There is a Rick & Morty marathon on Cartoon Network.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 26, 2017 02:45 AM (pY+s4)

368 There is a Rick Morty marathon on Cartoon Network.

Doesn't sound like anything for the spank bank.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at June 26, 2017 02:46 AM (IcT7t)

369 368 There is a Rick Morty marathon on Cartoon Network.

Doesn't sound like anything for the spank bank.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at June 26, 2017 02:46 AM (IcT7t

Let's not be hasty here.

Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald at June 26, 2017 02:49 AM (cAnNx)

370
There is a Rick & Morty marathon on Cartoon Network.

Posted by: Puddleglum

Don't know what Rick & Morty is, but switched over.

Conditional thanks!

Posted by: Spun and Murky at June 26, 2017 02:51 AM (4DCSq)

371 Too quiet...

Posted by: Spun and Murky

There is a Rick & Morty marathon on Cartoon Network.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 26, 2017 02:45 AM (pY+s4)

Also the finale of Little Witch Academia, a favorite of Pixy.

Posted by: Not-so-little Hat Academia at June 26, 2017 02:53 AM (vBeA5)

372 Nat Geo channel has Afghani war footage live recorded during fire fights. Pretty interesting, if you have never been in a fire fight.

Posted by: bergerbilder at June 26, 2017 02:55 AM (lIZQs)

373
Hah! Double middle finger salutes in the future.

How have I missed this?

Posted by: Spun and Murky at June 26, 2017 02:59 AM (4DCSq)

374
Also the finale of Little Witch Academia, a favorite of Pixy.

And where might I find that, Hat?

Posted by: Spun and Murky at June 26, 2017 03:05 AM (4DCSq)

375 G'night everyone.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at June 26, 2017 03:05 AM (IcT7t)

376 Also, a mini South Park marathon on Comedy Channel. The downside to that are the unwatchable commercials for the other shows on that network. I think South Park is the only thing keeping the network alive.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 26, 2017 03:09 AM (pY+s4)

377
Night, BB.

Posted by: Spun and Murky at June 26, 2017 03:10 AM (4DCSq)

378
Hundreds of channels available on my Dish, but I only regularly watch maybe a dozen.

Time to seriously look at Sling...

Posted by: Spun and Murky at June 26, 2017 03:16 AM (4DCSq)

379 Also the finale of Little Witch Academia, a favorite of Pixy.

And where might I find that, Hat?

Posted by: Spun and Murky at June 26, 2017 03:05 AM (4DCSq)

http://asenshi.moe

Posted by: The Triskelian Hat at June 26, 2017 03:23 AM (vBeA5)

380 I've got a couple of recipes that I totes invented, and need to post to the Cookbook; hopefully I will git er dun.

I've had an exceedingly hectic last 3 weeks; my post counts here will back this up, though tonite's excuse is excessive CH3-CH2OH consumption.

We've had Biblical levels of rain here on the MS Coast for the last 40 days, and my Ark is now where's near ready.

This week's tourist event was Scrapin' The Coast, where a bunch of low ridin' autos come down to show they can't afford to run over a pebble in the roads. Budddn buddnn.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 26, 2017 03:29 AM (6jaju)

381
http://asenshi.moe

Posted by: The Triskelian Hat

I'm still, at my enfeebled age, expanding my horizons.

Anime, thus far, befuddles me.

Thanks?

Posted by: Spun and Murky at June 26, 2017 03:42 AM (4DCSq)

382
Swing shift beckons from beyond a respite of blessed unconsciousness.

Good night, Bunky. Good night, Onyx. Good night, my sweet, sweet Gretchen...

Posted by: Spun and Murky at June 26, 2017 04:01 AM (4DCSq)

383 Just passing by. Interesting. I wonder why we ask little kids what they want to be when they grow up. Yes, the answers are interesting and sometimes fun for both the kid and the person asking. It's just a little weird. Have a good night .

Posted by: gracepc at June 26, 2017 04:08 AM (OU4q6)

384 Customer is someone who buys goods and services.

A client is one who engages the services of a professional.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 25, 2017 10:24 PM (8O3HH)

Hookers have customers; escorts have clients.

Posted by: RickZ at June 26, 2017 04:19 AM (OFItL)

385 Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip at June 26, 2017 04:20 AM (Ot7+c)

386
Hey, Skip.

I really enjoyed the Baku race yesterday.

It was almost like a NASCAR race!

Posted by: Spun and Murky at June 26, 2017 04:29 AM (4DCSq)

387 Just passing by. Interesting. I wonder why we ask little kids what they want to be when they grow up. Yes, the answers are interesting and sometimes fun for both the kid and the person asking. It's just a little weird. Have a good night .

Posted by: gracepc

We do it so that we know if we should start giving them hormone therapy and puberty blockers.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at June 26, 2017 04:34 AM (xAvrH)

388 That was the most bizarre F-1 race I might have ever seen

Posted by: Skip at June 26, 2017 04:44 AM (Ot7+c)

389 Has anyone answered why the Russians in their right mind would have wanted Trump instead of Hillary who was putty in their hands and basically on the Russian payroll?

Posted by: Skip at June 26, 2017 05:00 AM (Ot7+c)

390 Because hillzebub was going to prove her chops by starting a war with Russia. You think Vlad the Invader would have put up with that no fly zone over Syria that she wanted to impose?

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at June 26, 2017 05:27 AM (sf2BM)

391 Kaboom and covfefe. They do go together.

https://pbs.tw___.com/media/DDF3XeUXoAE9iLQ.jpg

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at June 26, 2017 05:36 AM (sf2BM)

392 Test.

https://pbs.twIMG.com/media/DDF3XeUXoAE9iLQ.jpg

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 26, 2017 05:40 AM (xAvrH)

393 Burned by Pixy

IMG

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at June 26, 2017 05:45 AM (sf2BM)

394 Couldn't Putin blackmail Hillary into doing whatver he wanted? Maybe he knew that media would run interference for her, so she couldn't be. Bottom line, if it turned out the Russians did hack the election, my response would be, "Thank you".

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 26, 2017 05:46 AM (xAvrH)

395 Kind of hard to blackmail someone when they are flinging bullets, arty shells, and and bombs your way.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at June 26, 2017 05:54 AM (sf2BM)

396 Burned by Pixy
IMG
Posted by: Tim in Illinois at June 26, 2017 05:45 AM (sf2BM)

It's a funny story why IMG is okay, lower case not okay. Almost a decade ago now, a couple of us figured out that in HTML there's a command for a background i m a g e command that would fill the box with a pattern, even a picture. One picture posted, which I can neither confirm nor deny creating, was of Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter walking side by side, hand in hand. A lot of folks were offended by it -- I'm not sure why. Shortly thereafter Pixy figured out how to stop us.

Also, I guess pictures eat up a lot of storage space, which cost Ace money, so that was part of the issue. This was long before Ace put up any advertisements.

I'm not even sure you can use the word image in a sentence.

Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at June 26, 2017 06:00 AM (PduNE)

397 Jobs is wrong

As long as it's legal and you can tolerate it, do what pays you the most.

Outside of that elf, on Rudolph, you ever meet a kid who wanted to be a dentist? A coal miner? An actuary?

Jobs was too stupid to see that over 90% of the people who worked for him did it only for the money, and not to take his abuse .

Posted by: RobM1981 at June 26, 2017 06:14 AM (VVBN7)

398 >>>One picture posted, which I can neither confirm nor deny creating, was of Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter walking side by side, hand in hand.

Ebony and Ivory live forever in perfect infamy.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 26, 2017 06:15 AM (xAvrH)

399 Screw Trump! Where's my screwdriver? The double.

Posted by: Hillary 2020! at June 26, 2017 06:19 AM (bc2Lc)

400 G'morning, all.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 26, 2017 06:19 AM (J+eG2)

401 387 Just passing by. Interesting. I wonder why we ask little kids what they want to be when they grow up. Yes, the answers are interesting and sometimes fun for both the kid and the person asking.

My eldest niece became fascinated with nurses at a very young age while visiting the hospital when her grandmother, my mom, had a hip replaced. Afterwards, throughout her childhood, whenever she was asked what she wanted to be when she grew up she'd say "a nurse!."

Next year she graduates from nursing school.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at June 26, 2017 06:28 AM (ul9CR)

402 "Just passing by. Interesting. I wonder why we ask little kids what they want to be when they grow up. Yes, the answers are interesting and sometimes fun for both the kid and the person asking. ""

I wanna be at IHOP

Posted by: Lil' Rachel Corrie at June 26, 2017 06:32 AM (J+eG2)

403 BRB

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 26, 2017 06:34 AM (J+eG2)

404 I wanna be at IHOP
Posted by: Lil' Rachel Corrie at June 26, 2017 06:32 AM (J+eG2)

I heard your favorite album was Head East's "Flat as a Pancake."

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at June 26, 2017 06:35 AM (ul9CR)

405 Before you go to that protest, Corrie, have a few cans of spinach.

Posted by: Chelsea Clinton at June 26, 2017 06:39 AM (xAvrH)

406 Morning, Horde.

Posted by: fluffy at June 26, 2017 06:41 AM (jw2Xw)

407 I heard your favorite album was Head East's "Flat as a Pancake."

Whoa! Flashbacks.
Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2017 06:43 AM (FeRav)

408 Mornin' all
happy Monday

Posted by: wing at June 26, 2017 06:50 AM (Ohl7S)

409 I'm surprised Rachel didn't die at the hands of the Palestinians she was protesting on behalf of.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 26, 2017 06:51 AM (xAvrH)

410 "Jobs is wrong"

My belief is that he said "wow" at passing because he realized that all his lasting accomplishments were social not technical. Telepathy is better technology than texting. But texting gives the illusion that a sender has control over the distribution list.

Jobs was a tool used by God. I think Jobs was given his last name to make multiple puns. Same as Mudd.

Posted by: Mudd at June 26, 2017 06:58 AM (cfHE9)

411 Nood

Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2017 07:01 AM (FeRav)

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