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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (11/21/17)

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Quotes of The Day

Quote I

We see soldiers in the media as sort of faceless characters, or sometimes just as the front of the conflict when unfortunately service in Israel isn’t a choice.” Mayan Toledano

Quote II

""Also in business environments, rubbing your penis against people — known as Frotteurism, in case you’re wondering — masturbating in front of them, or even showing your penis is wrong and humiliating and possibly illegal,

In fact, doing these things in almost all environments is wrong and possibly illegal." Charles Blow

Quote III

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Falling into the category of, You Can't Make This Shit Up. Our betters continue deficit spending on "Environmental Justice."

The Environmental Protection Agency is spending $1.2 million on "environmental justice."

The agency will award 10 grants to nonprofit organizations and religious groups, according to a grant announcement released earlier this month.

"EPA defines ‘environmental justice' as the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin or income with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies," the announcement states. "Fair treatment means that no one group of people, including racial, ethnic, or socioeconomic groups, should bear a disproportionate share of the negative environmental consequences resulting from industrial, municipal, and commercial operations or the execution of federal, state, local, and tribal environmental programs and policies."

Thanks a lot Richard M. Nixon.

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On a lighter note, Boys will be boys 'til their peckers weigh a pound. Yeah, I remember that one from my first boss 45 years ago.

The Navy has confirmed that one of its aircrews stationed at Whidbey Island was responsible for skydrawing a crude penis above Okanogan County in Washington state. A lot of people in the area took pictures of the wiener (that must have been an awesome ride home on the school bus), and the Navy is investigating further, saying "The Navy holds its aircrew to the highest standards and we find this absolutely unacceptable, of zero training value [Editor's Note: that's debatable] and we are holding the crew accountable." Wow, so apparently this is frowned upon. Just not in my book. In my book that is ear-to-ear smiled upon and an omen of good fortune and a bountiful harvest.

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Heartbreaking. Just. F*cking. Gut wrenching. Homelessness has struck the college professor ranks.

With the rising costs of higher education, it makes sense that instructors would be making a decent wage. Unfortunately, in many cases you'd be wrong. Colleges and universities have historically used a tenure system in which faculty are offered tenure-track jobs, appointments with a great salary and benefits that allow them to teach and produce research and ultimately become permanent faculty once they've demonstrated their scholarship.

More and more, institutions of higher learning are moving toward hiring adjunct or contingent faculty members. Teaching just one or two classes per semester, these temporary faculty rely on incredibly small stipends and have no job security at all. Some are even homeless.

If you can't make a living as a teacher educator there is something wrong with you.

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Ambition. Drive. Zeal. Meet Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Beach. If not Morons then definitely a motion to make them members of the Horde.

In the quiet Canadian village of Horning’s Mills, 100 km north of Toronto, lies the 12.5-acre homestead of Bruce and Jean Beach. On the surface, the land appears to be a typical rural property, but buried deep under those green fields is the largest private nuclear fallout shelter in North America- The Ark Two.

Bruce Beach’s famous nuclear shelter measures a staggering 10,000 square feet, and is primarily made up of 42 old school busses encased in concrete and buried under 14 feet into the ground. The Ark Two was designed to accommodate 500 people for several months and is equipped with everything you could possibly need to survive, from giant supplies of food, a private well, full plumbing, redundant fuel generators, to a dentist’s chair and even a daycare.

Photos and a video accompany the story.

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Don't criticize us while you subsidize us. The NFL comes out against the GOP Tax plan. Poor little spoiled rotten millionaires might have to pay for their own damn stadiums.

The NFL has come out against House Republicans’ tax cut bill, putting the league out on a political limb even as it deals with the fallout from national anthem protests.
Other big pro sports leagues are staying out of the fight, but a spokesman for the National Football League said teams don’t want to lose a special tax break that allows them to use tax-free bonds to build stadiums.

The NFL says it deserves the break because new stadiums create jobs.

Just ask the people of St. Louis and San Diego to mention but just a few on how that is working out.

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You know things aren't going to work out well when you and your spouse can't decide on a name for your spawn child. Judge tells off father on using girl's preferred name.

Mr Justice Baker said the man and woman had argued over what the girl’s name should be since she was born. He said the girl, who lived with her mother, had been registered with two names when born. Her mother opted to use one name, which she liked, and her father the other.

Throughout her life the parents have been at loggerheads over the issue of the child’s name,’ the judge said. ‘The father has persisted in calling her (one name) whereas the mother has preferred (another) and as she has grown older the child has herself indicated a preference for (her mother’s choice)’.


OK class, what is The ONT rule? Don't stick.........


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The ONT Musical Interlude



November 21, 1980, Don Henley was arrested after a naked 16-year old girl was found at his home in Los Angeles suffering from a drug over-dose, he received a $2,000 fine with two years probation. via thisdayinmusic.com

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November 21, 1981, Queen and David Bowie were at No.1 in the UK with Under Pressure. They recorded the song together when both acts were working in a German recording studio. It was David Bowie's first released collaboration with another recording artist. via thisdayinmusic.com


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My guess is Jay Guevara, Rhomboid, Caligirl & some other CA Morons don't obey these traffic signs.

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Nothing to be thankful for? Just when are our past sins forgiven?

It’s that time of year again; one can smell the pumpkin pies, the turkeys, and the celebrities signaling their virtue at the expense of American traditions.

Big Bang Theory actress Mayim Bialik posted a video to Youtube on November 16 explaining the 4 reasons why she doesn’t like Thanksgiving. Buried underneath the milder complaints of “eating copious amounts of food” and the proximity of Thanksgiving to the Jewish traditional version of Thanksgiving, Bialik brought up a ridiculous reason to loathe an American holiday:

“History is written by the winners. I grew up coloring pictures of pilgrims and indigenous people -- we called them Indians when I was a child -- having this beautiful Thanksgiving together. The truth is, European invaders came to this land, took it from the indigenous people, raped, pillaged, gave them all sorts of diseases, called it their own, and desecrated a culture. It is one of the grossest examples of genocide in recent history and much as I don’t want to think about that, it’s really hard for me not to think about that when I think about Thanksgiving.”

Me? I'm thankful I don't watch TV or know this self-centered bitch.


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As my youngest child would say, It sucks to suck.

Months after her infamous photo shoot with the bloody decapitated head of a fake President Donald Trump, comedian Kathy Griffin is now claiming she is in the “middle of a Hollywood blacklist.”

In a new video posted on YouTube, Griffin claimed she is still “getting a lot of online hate from trolls who think I've lost my mind” following her controversial anti-Trump stunt.

“Don't be too hard on me. I'm fully in the middle of a Hollywood blacklist,” Griffin said. “I just want you guys to know, when I get home, I do not have one single day of paid work in front of me.”

For every action there is a reaction.


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Charles Manson is rotting in hell. Meet Diane Lake, a former Manson family member who testified against him.


Fourteen-year-old Dianne Lake didn’t rebel against her parents in the late 1960s as so many of the era’s youth did. She conformed to their wishes—by joining the Manson Family, whose demonic leader, Charles Manson, died Sunday at 83.

Introducing her to marijuana in eighth grade, opening their home to a crowd akin to Penelope’s suitors (one of whom absconded with their daughter for a nude photo session), turning her loose at Wavy Gravy’s Hog Farm, where she met a couple who made themselves a trio, and pulling Dianne from school so that the family could live a nomadic existence in a bread truck, Ma and Pa Lake made home a place where the heart wasn’t. When Lake’s dad, tripping on LSD, sawed down the legs on her dining room table because it told him that it wanted to be shorter, some other voice encouraged Dianne to find another family.

She writes in her new book, Member of the Family, that she found the father she had been looking for in Manson, a 34-year-old, guitar-picking ex-convict whose musical lessons came via Ma Barker’s confederate Alvin Karpis—the only FBI Public Enemy #1 taken alive—and whose philosophy came from diverse sources, including Scientology, Dale Carnegie, the Bible, and Adolf Hitler. Lake’s parents encouraged Manson to look out for her and gave their blessing to her defection from their family to his. “The actual contrast couldn’t have been clearer: My actual family didn’t seem to care one way or the other about what happened to me so long as I wasn’t causing any problems for them,” Lake writes. “My new family, however, clearly felt I was supposed to be with them.”

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Principle, sometimes you just have to stand up for what you believe in.

During the gasoline shortage of 1979, New York state ordered a $7 minimum purchase of gas at stations, to stop people topping up. Frank Makara's tank would only hold $5.05 woth of gas, but he had to pay the full $7 minimum anyway. Outraged, he sued the BP station that charged him the $7, and took his suit all the way to the supreme court... which refused to hear the case. He ended up spending over $100 to try to recover $1.95.


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Playing engineer, Choo-Choo. Genius Award Winner.


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The world is evil, the world isn't fair, but just once in awhile all of that can be forgotten especially in Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.


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Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 10:06 PM




Comments

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1 is the loneliest number

Posted by: Final Arbiter of Reality at November 21, 2017 10:04 PM (3pGfC)

2 This ONT is dedicated to Biblical Proportions.

Posted by: Atlantic Coast at November 21, 2017 10:04 PM (cu8/f)

3 2

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 21, 2017 10:04 PM (BoMuO)

4 damn.. 4th maybe.. uh..

Posted by: Jewells45can handle your jewels at November 21, 2017 10:04 PM (CNHr1)

5 Is this the overnight old man balls thread?

Posted by: Miklos at November 21, 2017 10:04 PM (zCyNd)

6 lol.. I think I have this figured out.

Posted by: Jewells45can handle your jewels at November 21, 2017 10:04 PM (CNHr1)

7 Thirst!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 21, 2017 10:04 PM (e9G8E)

8 Every normal man
must be tempted at times
to wipe the spit from his hands,
let go of his flagpole,
and begin sledding thrits.
-H.L. Frenken

Posted by: mindful webworker and the weary weather at November 21, 2017 10:05 PM (NU2/k)

9 One of Chad Vachter's prized possessions was a thousand-dollar AR-15 assault rifle. After seeing the growing number of mass shootings in the country, Vachter said he was fed up and decided to take a hammer to his gun, destroying it.

Destroy it before it escapes and goes on a killing spree! I don't throw the word hero around lightly but....this guy.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 21, 2017 10:05 PM (BoMuO)

10 Is this the overnight old man balls thread?

Posted by: Miklos at November 21, 2017 10:04 PM (zCyNd)



Not hot, but loveable.

Posted by: Atlantic Coast at November 21, 2017 10:06 PM (cu8/f)

11 Posted by: mindful webworker and the weary weather at November 21, 2017 10:05 PM (NU2/k)

That's not how this works! That's not how any of this works!

Posted by: Jewells45can handle your jewels at November 21, 2017 10:06 PM (CNHr1)

12 Cleanup richard spenser, last thread. Nehky

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 21, 2017 10:07 PM (tbOMB)

13 If rubbing my penis against people is wrong, I don't want to be right...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 21, 2017 10:07 PM (e9G8E)

14 I don't sled thrits but I've been know to spray thrips.

Posted by: Atlantic Coast at November 21, 2017 10:07 PM (cu8/f)

15 I just hit some Thai Take-Out like it was Tuesday.

Posted by: garrett at November 21, 2017 10:08 PM (lgWNz)

16 Hash for cleanup is N3hky.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 21, 2017 10:08 PM (tbOMB)

17 Earth-shaking profundity there in that quote from a guy named Blow.

I mean . . . his name is . . . BLOW.

You know?

Posted by: filbert at November 21, 2017 10:08 PM (ivAiA)

18 Prayers? Anyone? Anyone? Taking prayer requests now.

Of Biblical, or even lesser proportions.

Posted by: Atlantic Coast at November 21, 2017 10:08 PM (cu8/f)

19 Where the hell is everyone?

Posted by: Atlantic Coast at November 21, 2017 10:09 PM (cu8/f)

20 Excuse me. Mind if I squeeze your ass?

Posted by: Charlie Rose at November 21, 2017 10:09 PM (+0jcH)

21 No sexual shenanigans here right?

Posted by: IC at November 21, 2017 10:10 PM (gcme+)

22 Top ten here?

Posted by: Farmer - 2017 GNAMM Survivor at November 21, 2017 10:10 PM (yJ1e6)

23 The Day of the Turkey is nearly upon us.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 21, 2017 10:10 PM (+0jcH)

24 No sexual shenanigans here right?

Posted by: IC at November 21, 2017 10:10 PM (gcme+)

Not anymore.

Posted by: Atlantic Coast at November 21, 2017 10:10 PM (cu8/f)

25 No sexual shenanigans here right?
Posted by: IC at November 21, 2017 10:10 PM (gcme+)



They're always after me lucky charm.

Posted by: The Leprechaun at November 21, 2017 10:11 PM (+0jcH)

26 Good grief, where is everyone? A rare occasion I'm actually actually able to hang around on the ONT. I'm usually too tired and have to work in the morning but since I'm slowly being eliminated from my job I have a 5 day break.

Posted by: Jewells45can handle your jewels at November 21, 2017 10:12 PM (CNHr1)

27 And another fun, eclectic ONT - Thanks again, MisHum!

And that last sign's not wrong.

Hey Horde!

So, my blog's been nominated for HealthLine's 2017 Most Loved Health Blogs contest (we're a previous award winner).

Voting's now open - We would really appreciate your support.

Thanks, and Happy Thanksgiving!

Vote here: http://wshe.es/Xt0OwePH

Baby Sister Update follows.

Posted by: ibguy at November 21, 2017 10:12 PM (vUcdz)

28 I'm into the rare Giant Leprechauns.

Posted by: Atlantic Coast at November 21, 2017 10:12 PM (cu8/f)

29 He ended up spending over $100 to try to recover $1.95.


$100? His lawyer was a chump.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 21, 2017 10:13 PM (+0jcH)

30 Good grief, where is everyone? A rare occasion I'm actually actually able to hang around on the ONT. I'm usually too tired and have to work in the morning but since I'm slowly being eliminated from my job I have a 5 day break.
Posted by: Jewells45can handle your jewels at November 21, 2017 10:12 PM (CNHr1)


Must be that Anti-Nood Coalition that's been agitating for Noodity in Pubic Areas.

Posted by: filbert at November 21, 2017 10:13 PM (ivAiA)

31 Charles Blow, with penetrating insight [insert Beavis and Butt-Head laughter] as always.

"possibly"

And that assclown makes more money than I do.

Posted by: logprof at November 21, 2017 10:13 PM (GsAUU)

32 If anyone would like to get rid of their "assault rifle" I will gladly rid you of the menace.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 21, 2017 10:13 PM (BoMuO)

33 That story in the sidebar, with the chick in the sexual relationship with the gay couple, I just want to say, she's not that hot. That is all.

Posted by: Pete in TX at November 21, 2017 10:13 PM (2RBkF)

34 I'm usually too tired and have to work in the morning but since I'm slowly being eliminated from my job I have a 5 day break.

Posted by: Jewells45can handle your jewels at November 21, 2017 10:12 PM (CNHr1)

I have a 4-day break coming up. One of those unpaid ones, of course.

Posted by: Atlantic Coast at November 21, 2017 10:13 PM (cu8/f)

35 That is one gnarly looking wave.

Posted by: davidt at November 21, 2017 10:14 PM (cGz5Q)

36 Baby Sister Update

Saturday was Joyce's birthday. Here's Roni with how that went:

"Joyce's birthday weekend has come to an end, with the departure of her dear Minnesota friends, Lisa and Lynne. It continues to be a privilege for me to meet all of Joyce's friends from her past and to share stories and for us all to realize that Joyce is still "Joyce"!

I think that I am going to miss Lisa and Lynne just as much as Joyce is. The weekend was absolutely amazing and magical in every way. We had pedicures, we dined, we had birthday cake (twice), we shopped and then shopped some more, we danced on the Square, we had a sleepover and we told story after story .

Amazingly, Joyce's function continues to improve day by day and her memory and word finding are great. One of the best weekends that I've ever had sharing and making memories with new friends. And of course, Jessica was with us for all of the festivities!

The key to Joyce's happiness is to keep her occupied and to shower her with affection (which is very easy for most of us). Happy birthday, Joyce!"

Thanks so much, Roni!

[Horde: To my fellow Hordelings, thank you all in advance for your prayers and well-wishes for my sister and her family]

Posted by: ibguy at November 21, 2017 10:14 PM (vUcdz)

37 Other big pro sports leagues are staying out of the fight, but a spokesman for the National Football League said teams don't want to lose a special tax break that allows them to use tax-free bonds to build stadiums.

Fuck those guys. Free shit army in custom suits.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at November 21, 2017 10:14 PM (NWiLs)

38 Really tired of all the grabbing, groping stories. The only outcome I see is the logical one where women cover themselves in a full burka and stay at home unless accompanied by a male family member. Or, perhaps, they could learn to haul off and slug the guy, then stomp out the door. Also, quit meeting dubious men in hotel rooms, and quit dressing like ho's.

Posted by: BarcelonaCarmen at November 21, 2017 10:15 PM (RHjCR)

39 22... Farmer,

Saw your invitation the other day (too late to respond) to get together. We aren't likely to get up to Wisconsin for a long time. (I have more surgeries coming up.) But if you and Jules are out this way in northern Virginia, please let us know. We would love to meet you both and share a nice meal.

Posted by: JTB at November 21, 2017 10:15 PM (V+03K)

40 @#$%%! Pixy!

Posted by: josephistan at November 21, 2017 10:15 PM (ANIFC)

41 >>November 21, 1980, Don Henley was arrested after a naked 16-year old girl was found at his home in Los Angeles suffering from a drug over-dose, he received a $2,000 fine with two years probation.


The End of Innocence, indeed.

Posted by: garrett at November 21, 2017 10:15 PM (lgWNz)

42 Other big pro sports leagues are staying out of the fight, but a spokesman for the National Football League said teams don't want to lose a special tax break that allows them to use tax-free bonds to build stadiums.

Fuck those guys. Free shit army in custom suits.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at November 21, 2017 10:14 PM (NWiLs)


Fuck those guys in particular.

Posted by: filbert at November 21, 2017 10:15 PM (ivAiA)

43 November 21, 1981, Queen and David Bowie were at No.1 in the UK with Under Pressure. They recorded the song together when both acts were working in a German recording studio. It was David Bowie's first released collaboration with another recording artist. via thisdayinmusic.com


And I'm very glad they did. Amazing song.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at November 21, 2017 10:16 PM (NWiLs)

44 Sav-Mor? Is that the Val-U-Rite distillery outlet?

Posted by: Brother Cavil, this space for rent! Call 1-800-MORON-AD for details! at November 21, 2017 10:16 PM (lLeln)

45 Nice gnarly thick tube pic.

Posted by: Duke of Righteous WTF? at November 21, 2017 10:16 PM (T71PA)

46 41 >>November 21, 1980, Don Henley was arrested after a naked 16-year old girl was found at his home in Los Angeles suffering from a drug over-dose, he received a $2,000 fine with two years probation.


The End of Innocence, indeed.
Posted by: garrett at November 21, 2017 10:15 PM (lgWNz)


Forgiveness.

Posted by: Bruce Jenner at November 21, 2017 10:17 PM (3/sUh)

47 Hmm. Photoshoot of IDF chicks casually hanging about, huh. Where do I sign up for a tough assignment like that?

Posted by: just a Moron with a shitty DSLR at November 21, 2017 10:17 PM (wpC7C)

48 It was a bad day with Mom & Dad tonight. This too, shall pass.

Horde Prayer List to follow.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at November 21, 2017 10:17 PM (Ckg4U)

49 Also in business environments, rubbing your penis against people known as Frotteurism, in case youre wondering masturbating in front of them, or even showing your penis is wrong and humiliating and possibly illegal,
In fact, doing these things in almost all environments is wrong and possibly illegal. Charles Blow


Let me guess. Orientation for new members of the Detroit Public Schools Board of Education?

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 21, 2017 10:17 PM (+lVUW)

50 Repeal of the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961 seems like a good idea, and well-earned.

Posted by: Miklos anti-trust Molnar at November 21, 2017 10:18 PM (zCyNd)

51 Thanks for the ONT, Mis Hum.

I'm digging bigtime into the pot roast left overs, I may pass out soon, this is too good..

Posted by: Farmer - 2017 GNAMM Survivor at November 21, 2017 10:18 PM (yJ1e6)

52 Wonderful news about Joyce, ibguy. Prayers for her and her loved ones, as always.

Posted by: Atlantic Coast at November 21, 2017 10:19 PM (cu8/f)

53 California drivers told to 'breathe' with positive road signs

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YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Dreaming of a White Privilege at November 21, 2017 10:19 PM (+y/Ru)

54 "The Navy holds its aircrew to the highest standards and we find this absolutely unacceptable, of zero training value [Editor's Note: that's debatable] and we are holding the crew accountable."


Absolutely no sky-peckers. It's right there in the UCMJ.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 21, 2017 10:19 PM (+0jcH)

55 Homely Mayim Bialik's saving grace was that she might be intelligent. Thank you for disabusing me of that naive notion.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 21, 2017 10:19 PM (tbOMB)

56 >>Frotteurism


Aren't The Frotteurists in the English Premier League?

From Tottenheim I think.


Posted by: garrett at November 21, 2017 10:19 PM (lgWNz)

57 I have a 4-day break coming up. One of those unpaid ones, of course.
Posted by: Atlantic Coast at November 21, 2017 10:13 PM (cu8/f)

-------

I have the same 4 day break coming up, but will have to in reality work 10 hours day for three of them to make for refusing to touch work e-mail, work phone or office voice mail Thursday.

The joys of working in management for a South Korean company at the end of the fiscal and calendar year.

Posted by: Side draft at November 21, 2017 10:19 PM (BgC3U)

58 Ibguy--how lovely that Joyce had a great birthday, surrounded by family and friends. Prayers continue.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at November 21, 2017 10:19 PM (TdMsT)

59 Looking at the photo accompanying the Frank Makara story, it appears that it was not the case that his car's gas tank could not hold more than $5.05 worth of gas; it was that his car's tank was not sufficiently empty to take entire seven-dollar minimum fill. In short, he was precisely the sort of "needless topper-upper" that the NYS regulation was ostensibly aimed at.


Dumbass should have siphoned about $2.50 worth of gas out of his car's tank to fill his lawn mower jerry can, and then gone to fill up his car. If the system conspires against you, learn how to game it!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2017 10:19 PM (oPNmq)

60 33 That story in the sidebar, with the chick in the sexual relationship with the gay couple, I just want to say, she's not that hot. That is all.
Posted by: Pete in TX at November 21, 2017 10:13 PM (2RBkF)

Two gay dudes and a chick? Huh?

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at November 21, 2017 10:19 PM (NWiLs)

61 Gah, I was under the impression that Mayim Bialik was one of the few rational people in Hollywood. Nobody better tell me Danica McKellar is actually a moonbat either.

Likewise I just flipped past Savage's show on AM radio for the first time in about 12 years and stopped to listen for a few seconds. Am I misremembering from back in the day*? Wasn't he shouty and entertaining at one point instead of shouty and completely wrong about basic facts?

Posted by: hogmartin at November 21, 2017 10:20 PM (y87Qq)

62 [Horde: To my fellow Hordelings, thank you all in advance for your prayers and well-wishes for my sister and her family]
Posted by: ibguy at November 21, 2017 10:14 PM (vUcdz)

--All good news is welcome. We are not alone.

Posted by: logprof at November 21, 2017 10:20 PM (GsAUU)

63 37 Other big pro sports leagues are staying out of the fight, but a spokesman for the National Football League said teams don't want to lose a special tax break that allows them to use tax-free bonds to build stadiums.

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The NFL: pampered sociopaths playing for bloated plutocrats in a stadium full of drunken yahoos. What's not to love?

Posted by: Vlad the Impaler, whittling away like mad. at November 21, 2017 10:20 PM (/9hg/)

64 So Don Henley did worse things than Judge Moore is merely accused of. But one is beloved by our betters and the other isn't fit to be seen in public.

Posted by: josephistan at November 21, 2017 10:20 PM (ANIFC)

65 Aren't The Frotteurists in the English Premier League?


I thought they made fancy cheese.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 21, 2017 10:20 PM (+0jcH)

66 I have about 2 pounds of girthy penis. No really, I do. I try to keep a towel on in the locker room so you other guys just don't go home and eat a pistol.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at November 21, 2017 10:20 PM (3BFzK)

67 The next story I want to hear about Kathy Griffin is when she's arrested for giving blow jobs behind the dumpster at the homeless shelter.

Posted by: tu3031 at November 21, 2017 10:20 PM (O5Q3r)

68 Thanks for the ONT, Mrs. Human.

Day 11 of ham. Ham and bean soup. Again.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 21, 2017 10:21 PM (tbOMB)

69 66 I have about 2 pounds of girthy penis

Me too! It's all in the freezer, though.

Posted by: Jeffrey Dahmer at November 21, 2017 10:21 PM (NWiLs)

70 Re: Mayim Balik - remember when everyone didn't have a bug up their ass about everything?

Posted by: josephistan at November 21, 2017 10:22 PM (ANIFC)

71 It was a bad day with Mom & Dad tonight. This too, shall pass.

Horde Prayer List to follow.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at November 21, 2017 10:17 PM (Ckg4U)


So sorry to hear that, Slapweasel. I will add you to mine.

Posted by: Atlantic Coast at November 21, 2017 10:22 PM (cu8/f)

72 The next story I want to hear about Kathy Griffin is when she's arrested for giving blow jobs behind the dumpster at the homeless shelter.
Posted by: tu3031 at November 21, 2017 10:20 PM (O5Q3r)


Five more minutes and you can slap the cuffs on her, officer.

Posted by: A Hobo at November 21, 2017 10:22 PM (+0jcH)

73 Dumbass should have siphoned about $2.50 worth of gas out of his car's tank to fill his lawn mower jerry can, and then gone to fill up his car. If the system conspires against you, learn how to game it!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2017 10:19 PM (oPNmq)

I agree with you about the gaming AOP. But, leave it to NY to be a true Nanny State.

Posted by: Bruce Jenner at November 21, 2017 10:22 PM (3/sUh)

74 Once I get home from Thanksgiving (at brother's in ATL, FINALLY!) I'm making a nice big pot of chili. Because I can and I want it. (And it will provide several days' meals...)

Posted by: Brother Cavil, this space for rent! Call 1-800-MORON-AD for details! at November 21, 2017 10:22 PM (lLeln)

75 >> Once I get home from Thanksgiving (at brother's in ATL, FINALLY!) I'm making a nice big pot of chili. Because I can and I want it.


Don't forget the Carrots.

Posted by: garrett at November 21, 2017 10:22 PM (lgWNz)

76
That story in the sidebar, with the chick in the sexual relationship
with the gay couple, I just want to say, she's not that hot. That is
all.

Posted by: Pete in TX at November 21, 2017 10:13 PM (2RBkF)

Not too bright, either. Doubling her chances of getting AIDS.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2017 10:22 PM (oPNmq)

77 Two gay dudes and a chick? Huh?

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at November 21, 2017 10:19 PM (NWiLs)


She provides commentary?

Posted by: dogfish at November 21, 2017 10:23 PM (BXd3l)

78 Homelessness has struck the college professor ranks.

Well, since they're so highly educated and valuable, I'm sure they'll be able to find good jobs outside the universities.
I mean, who doesn't want to hire a xim or xer with a gender studies degree?

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 21, 2017 10:23 PM (+lVUW)

79 Absolutely no sky-peckers. It's right there in the UCMJ.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 21, 2017 10:19 PM (+0jcH)

{{{sky-peckers}}}

Posted by: Atlantic Coast at November 21, 2017 10:23 PM (cu8/f)

80 Don't forget the Carrots.
Posted by: garrett


I'll save those for the stew I'll make later...

Posted by: Brother Cavil, this space for rent! Call 1-800-MORON-AD for details! at November 21, 2017 10:23 PM (lLeln)

81 >> I have about 2 pounds of girthy penis


African or European?

Posted by: garrett at November 21, 2017 10:23 PM (lgWNz)

82 >>Two gay dudes and a chick? Huh?


Someone has to vacuum up those fudge buttons.

Posted by: garrett at November 21, 2017 10:24 PM (lgWNz)

83 I am sincerely grateful to those who have said prayers on my behalf. On days like this, I revert to helping others and passing along their Prayer Requests to the faithful and loving members of AoSHQ.

Instead of going into detail, I'd much rather make sure that my injury is turned to pardon.

-Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace.

AoSHQ Prayer List

Vic- Return of cancer.

ReneeTX- Terminal brain cancer.

Booknlass- Relationship with Daughter.

Just wondering- Sister, Lisa, has a brain tumor.

Christopher Taylor- Health and depression.

Lin-duh fell- My FIL passed away 9/27/17. Could use the prayers for my husband finding a job.

Blacksheep- Stage 2 prostate cancer.

Weirddave and Gingy- Gingy's father passing away.

Alexthechick- Father's dementia.

Molly K- Neice killed by elderly driver.

Donna V- Bills to be paid and alcoholic Brother.

Gushka- Infection after being bitten by her horse. Her friends' mental health after returning from battle.

TonyPete- Friends' terminal diagnosis, Wife's, (Renee), terminal illness.

bergerbuilder- Multiple strokes, out of hospital at end of September.

Chi- Friend's passing, (Lewis), after battle with cancer.

huerfano- Father's recovery from heart failure.

The Oort Cloud- Thalassemia, genetic blood disorder, complicated my hemolytic anemia. "Given" two years by doctor.

Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing- Job issues.

Hopped up on Something- Immediate Family member with cancer. Bone pain without opioids, Hospital Policy.

Publius- Rheumatoid arthritis, severe pain during flare-ups.

Cannibal Bob- Two brothers in law. 1. Brain tumor hospice soon.
2. Just diagnosed cancer around heart and in aorta. Biopsy taken. Stage 3.
3. Cousin just completed 5 rounds of chemo for cancer in abdomen. Reoccurance firm many years ago.

Insomniac- 1) That my autoimmune disorder will stay under control. 2) That the work situation I have will continue to come together and grow.

Oregon Muse- Shoulder replacement and recovery.

Slapweasel- Father's dementia and Mother's attitude.

Jane D'oh- My husband's elderly aunt, (89), who was admitted to the hospital 11/20/17 with pneumonia. She has COPD, is a lung cancer survivor.

USNtakim- My MIL, (73), is going in for surgery 11/22/17 for bowel re-sectioning. Please pray for her and her family.

Iron Mike Golf- My grandsons. Safety and peace for them.

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

Might God find you all and find you well. Please allow His light to shine upon the darkness and guide you to love, hope and joy.

*Amen*

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at November 21, 2017 10:24 PM (Ckg4U)

84 Homelessness has struck the college professor ranks.

Well, since they're so highly educated and valuable, I'm sure they'll be able to find good jobs outside the universities.



There's an opening blowing hobos behind the dumpster now that Kathy Griffin has been arrested.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 21, 2017 10:24 PM (+0jcH)

85 77 Two gay dudes and a chick? Huh?

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at November 21, 2017 10:19 PM (NWiLs)


She provides commentary?
Posted by: dogfish at November 21, 2017 10:23 PM (BXd3l)

Blow by blow

Posted by: josephistan at November 21, 2017 10:24 PM (ANIFC)

86 Hippies are dying.

Posted by: Chief One-Tear at November 21, 2017 10:24 PM (Sv2/X)

87 The NFL says it deserves the break because new stadiums create jobs.

In American Republic 2.0, anyone who says he deserves something for some unspecified reason is immediately dragged outside and shot, because in my experience anyone who says he "deserves" something deserves a swift kick in the butt, at a minimum.

I call it the "it's for the children" principle.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 21, 2017 10:24 PM (YqDXo)

88 Two gay dudes and a chick? Huh?

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at November 21, 2017 10:19 PM (NWiLs)


Ball washer?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at November 21, 2017 10:25 PM (aMlLZ)

89 NaCly, finally found it after a good bit of scrolling.

Would have been easier just to say teej is a musician (for certain definitions of musician) and yet leads a boring life.

If you've left us for the evening I'll catch ya in the morning.

Posted by: teej at November 21, 2017 10:25 PM (RQEuo)

90 >>Two gay dudes and a chick? Huh?

Making sammiches, of course.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 21, 2017 10:25 PM (tbOMB)

91 I have about 2 pounds of girthy penis





African or European?

Posted by: garrett at November 21, 2017 10:23 PM (lgWNz)

Back to last night's kolbasz/kielbasa discussion?

Posted by: Miklos does a mean Molnar at November 21, 2017 10:25 PM (zCyNd)

92 It was David Bowie's first released collaboration with another recording artist. via thisdayinmusic.com


Oh, I don't know. Not sure if it was released but he collaborated with Bing Crosby on a Christmas song in 1977.

Posted by: Bill R. at November 21, 2017 10:25 PM (IuYIh)

93 Two gay dudes and a chick? Huh?

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at November 21, 2017 10:19 PM (NWiLs)

aka, community theater

Posted by: josephistan at November 21, 2017 10:26 PM (ANIFC)

94 Well, I do get paid for turkey day and Friday so it's not a total loss but I'm being edged out of my job.. well someone thinks he's edging me out. A talk with the boss will set things straight. I will go when I want to go. Plan is.. next summer to reduce my hours, start collecting my SS, do some shows and then 2019..I'm done except for my business which I hope by then will let me just quit the 9-5.

Posted by: Jewells45can handle your jewels at November 21, 2017 10:26 PM (CNHr1)

95 Homelessness has struck the college professor ranks.

Make $650,000 for teaching one class a week at Harvard! Ask me how!

Posted by: Sen. Lizzie Bear Warren at November 21, 2017 10:26 PM (O5Q3r)

96 remember when everyone didn't have a bug up their ass about everything?

Posted by: josephistan at November 21, 2017 10:22 PM (ANIFC)



*sigh*

Posted by: Atlantic Coast at November 21, 2017 10:26 PM (cu8/f)

97 Government subsidized circuses ain't nothing new. Nor is government dispensed food.

All paid for with taxes, of course. Old/New, New/Old, etc, etc...

Posted by: Zombie Nero at November 21, 2017 10:27 PM (cGz5Q)

98 The most dangerous place in the world to be is between Michaele and the girthy penis bar.

Posted by: Barak Obama at November 21, 2017 10:27 PM (3BFzK)

99 remember when everyone didn't have a bug up their ass about everything?



Posted by: josephistan at November 21, 2017 10:22 PM (ANIFC)



Good times.

Posted by: the bug at November 21, 2017 10:27 PM (zCyNd)

100
Farmer:

Are you still here?

Posted by: IrishEi at November 21, 2017 10:28 PM (HiDrR)

101 Speaking of Bruce Beach, if Treaudope GTFO and you visit Ottawa, the Diefenbunker (officially the Canadian Cold War Mueum IIRC) is fun to visit. There was even a vault in it to hold the gold bars of the CIBC.

Posted by: logprof at November 21, 2017 10:28 PM (GsAUU)

102 33 That story in the sidebar, with the chick in the sexual relationship with the gay couple, I just want to say, she's not that hot. That is all.

Posted by: Pete in TX at November 21, 2017 10:13 PM (2RBkF)

++++

Fag hags usually aren't.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 21, 2017 10:28 PM (pvjTE)

103 -Posted by: ibguy at November 21, 2017 10:14 PM (vUcdz)

Thank you for your inspirational updates.

Tonight, they brought tears to my eyes.

God bless Joyce and all who surround her with Love.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at November 21, 2017 10:28 PM (Ckg4U)

104 The Grey Cup is on Nov 26th for those needing a pro football boycott fix.

Posted by: Alabaster Jones at November 21, 2017 10:29 PM (2DOZq)

105 I agree with you about the gaming AOP. But, leave it to NY to be a true Nanny State.

Posted by: Bruce Jenner at November 21, 2017 10:22 PM (3/sUh)

If Makara wanted to fight it on principle, he should have found a car which had a gas tank so small that it could never accept the state-mandated minimum fill for its engine size. Maybe a Crosley?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2017 10:29 PM (oPNmq)

106 That story in the sidebar, with the chick in the sexual relationship with the gay couple, I just want to say, she's not that hot. That is all.

Posted by: Pete in TX at November 21, 2017 10:13 PM (2RBkF)

++++

Fag hags usually aren't.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 21, 2017 10:28 PM (pvjTE)


yeah they don't want a hot one turning them straight. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at November 21, 2017 10:29 PM (aMlLZ)

107 That story in the sidebar, with the chick in the sexual relationship with the gay couple, I just want to say, she's not that hot. That is all.


Good lord, does she know where those dicks have been?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 21, 2017 10:29 PM (+0jcH)

108 Over the past few days I have seen one person on the various FB military groups I belong to that called the Navy pilots "unprofessional". That would give them an approximate 99.9% approval rating among us enlisted or former enlisted people. Of course in those circles the drawing of dicks is about as prevalent as the old Kilroy Was Here drawings of previous wars.

Posted by: Bill R. at November 21, 2017 10:29 PM (IuYIh)

109 The Day of the Turkey is nearly upon us.

-
This time it's personal.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Dreaming of a White Privilege at November 21, 2017 10:30 PM (+y/Ru)

110 In American Republic 2.0, anyone who says he deserves something for some unspecified reason is immediately dragged outside and shot, because in my experience anyone who says he "deserves" something deserves a swift kick in the butt, at a minimum.

I call it the "it's for the children" principle.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 21, 2017 10:24 PM (YqDXo)


I agree. Entitlement breeds ingratitude and unhappiness.

Posted by: Atlantic Coast at November 21, 2017 10:30 PM (cu8/f)

111 November 21, 1980, Don Henley was arrested after a naked 16-year old girl was found at his home in Los Angeles suffering from a drug over-dose, he received a $2,000 fine with two years probation. via thisdayinmusic.com

Look for that to blow up in his face bigly again in the next couple of months. There was another girl there, 15 at the time, who was also drugged and raped by Henley. Henley liked to take Polariods of the girls he had over (this wasn't the first time) and this girl managed to snag a few despite the (corrupt, natch) police helping him keep the charges down to that slap on the wrist. She's apparently now the wife of a prominent CA Republican politician and has been getting her case together with the Polaroids as evidence.

BTW, Henley's song "Dirty Laundry" was about this incident and how he felt that he was being unfairly dragged through the mud.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at November 21, 2017 10:30 PM (2kiKp)

112 Mayim Balik, for supposedly being smart, is a shallow bint.

Posted by: logprof at November 21, 2017 10:30 PM (GsAUU)

113 Two pounds of girthy penis? I'm in, I mean it's in.

Posted by: Hope Solo at November 21, 2017 10:30 PM (3BFzK)

114 Throwing Stones now, pretty great

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at November 21, 2017 10:31 PM (PUmDY)

115 Thanks for the ONT.

I wonder if Beach ever played Fallout? Although it came out 16-17 years after he completed his bunker.

I wonder if Fallout was influenced by Beach?

Great story on the Holocaust survivor finding his nephew. Socialism sucks.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at November 21, 2017 10:31 PM (JNqRY)

116 The truth is, European invaders came to this land, took it from the indigenous people, raped, pillaged, gave them all sorts of diseases, called it their own, and desecrated a culture.

Um, before the evil Europeans came, the various Indian groups were doing all these things to each other. Just like various European countries were doing these things to each other.

Why is it that liberals are so stupidly naive about how the world works?

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 21, 2017 10:32 PM (+lVUW)

117 filbert

Answered your 654 on the last thread.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 21, 2017 10:32 PM (hyuyC)

118 I woke up in love this morning,
I woke up in love this morning!
Went to sleep with you on my mind.
David Cassidy RIP

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2017 10:32 PM (EZebt)

119 113
Two pounds of girthy penis? I'm in, I mean it's in.


Posted by: Hope Solo at November 21, 2017 10:30 PM (3BFzK)

-------
Me too!

Posted by: Shep Smith at November 21, 2017 10:32 PM (3BFzK)

120 107 That story in the sidebar, with the chick in the sexual relationship with the gay couple, I just want to say, she's not that hot. That is all.


Good lord, does she know where those dicks have been?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 21, 2017 10:29 PM (+0jcH)

"Dude, your dick tastes like shit!"

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at November 21, 2017 10:32 PM (NWiLs)

121 I'd read that that Griffin woman has just sold her Hollywood mansion, "Wings", for a nice profit, even after lowereing the price substantially...

I wish I could ask her if loosing her fame and fortune was worth it...

Still, like tu3031 said above, let this be the last we hear of qxyzer for a long time!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 21, 2017 10:32 PM (e9G8E)

122 >>Throwing Stones now,


What show?

Posted by: garrett at November 21, 2017 10:32 PM (lgWNz)

123 BTW, Henley's song "Dirty Laundry" was about this incident and how he felt that he was being unfairly dragged through the mud.


You dork a few 15 year-old girls and suddenly everybody has an opinion.

Posted by: Roman Polanski at November 21, 2017 10:32 PM (+0jcH)

124 85 77 Two gay dudes and a chick? Huh?

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at November 21, 2017 10:19 PM (NWiLs)


She provides commentary?
Posted by: dogfish at November 21, 2017 10:23 PM (BXd3l)

Blow by blow
Posted by: josephistan at November 21, 2017 10:24 PM (ANIFC)

A lot of you folks thank me every night.

I return the "Thanks" for the laughs you provide me. Thanks again!

Posted by: Bruce Jenner at November 21, 2017 10:32 PM (3/sUh)

125 88 Two gay dudes and a chick? Huh?

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at November 21, 2017 10:19 PM (NWiLs)


Ball washer?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at November 21, 2017 10:25 PM (aMlLZ)

++++

Reminds me of a Ray Donovan episode. Title: A Mouth is a Mouth.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 21, 2017 10:32 PM (pvjTE)

126 Why does the homely Jewish girl think I am the slightest bit interested in why she doesn't like Thanksgiving? Feel free to sit in the dark and starve if it makes you feel better.

Posted by: tu3031 at November 21, 2017 10:33 PM (O5Q3r)

127 ...In fact, doing these things in almost all environments is wrong and possibly illegal." Charles Blow

Now you fucking tell me!

Posted by: H.W. at November 21, 2017 10:33 PM (wf3RQ)

128 I feel sorry for Bialik's kids. They're going to be either so screwed up as adults, or they'll go full Moron, which as well all know, is just a better kind of screwed up.

(I say that because both God and I know I'm a mess.)

Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Alleged Deplorable at November 21, 2017 10:33 PM (rJUlF)

129 yeah they don't want a hot one turning them straight. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at November 21, 2017 10:29 PM (aMlLZ)


I've been accused of being a Converter.

But I convert bi into gay. Ha!

Posted by: Atlantic Coast at November 21, 2017 10:33 PM (cu8/f)

130 22... Farmer,

Saw your invitation the other day (too late to respond) to get together. We aren't likely to get up to Wisconsin for a long time. (I have more surgeries coming up.) But if you and Jules are out this way in northern Virginia, please let us know. We would love to meet you both and share a nice meal.
Posted by: JTB at November 21, 2017 10:15

Will do, we'd like to get out that way, but actually have a couple of surgeries in our future also. We do sound like some old farts, LOL.

Posted by: Farmer - 2017 GNAMM Survivor at November 21, 2017 10:33 PM (yJ1e6)

131 Good night all. Gonna have a cookie and a glass of milk. Don't judge me!!! Stay safe ya'll.

Posted by: Jewells45can handle your jewels at November 21, 2017 10:33 PM (CNHr1)

132 She provides commentary?
Posted by: dogfish at November 21, 2017 10:23 PM


Since both dudes are owners of PPs, it would have to be play-by-play commentary, not color.

I denounce myself.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 21, 2017 10:33 PM (DMUuz)

133 Me too!
Posted by: Shep Smith at November 21, 2017 10:32 PM (3BFzK)


* scribbles on notepad *

So that's two for corned beef?

Posted by: hogmartin at November 21, 2017 10:33 PM (y87Qq)

134 We see soldiers in the media as sort of faceless characters, or sometimes just as the front of the conflict when unfortunately service in Israel isn't a choice." Mayan Toledano

She only photographed the cute soldiers (and some hot ones). That was nice of her. Not sure what the mandatory service had to do with anything (even so, something like half of young Israelis now make their way out of mandatory army service).

Also, people tend to use "faceless" a lot when they really mean "nameless", or the more standard, "anonymous".

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 21, 2017 10:33 PM (8gDQu)

135 "Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky

This quote is particularly helpful and pertinent tonight.

Thank You, Misanthropic Humanitarian.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at November 21, 2017 10:33 PM (Ckg4U)

136 A friend of my daughter.. 35-40 yrs old.. falls into that poor professor category..

She cannot get a full-time position and they will only pay her on a per-hour lectured basis.. not accounting for student connect time, etc..

They really are treating them like slave labor, with really shitty per hour wages and no bennies.

Of course, my solution is : why the fuck would you put up with those conditions??? But the supply of people willing to work for a pittance seems to be in abundance.. supply and demand strikes again!

more and more schools are going to this model, MisHum...

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 21, 2017 10:34 PM (5tSKk)

137 97 Government subsidized circuses ain't nothing new. Nor is government dispensed food.

All paid for with taxes, of course. Old/New, New/Old, etc, etc...
Posted by: Zombie Nero at November 21, 2017 10:27 PM (cGz5Q)

Never ends well.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at November 21, 2017 10:34 PM (NWiLs)

138 G'Night, Jewells.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at November 21, 2017 10:34 PM (Ckg4U)

139 Why is it that liberals are so stupidly naive about how the world works?

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 21, 2017 10:32 PM (+lVUW)


Because they were born stupid and naïve, its why they're liberal.

Chicken and the egg thing. Which came first, the stupid or the liberal.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at November 21, 2017 10:34 PM (aMlLZ)

140 Side-dish for your Thanksgiving spread:

http://www.engrish.com/2017/11/peelicious/

Posted by: mindful webworker just meandering around at November 21, 2017 10:34 PM (NU2/k)

141 >>The next story I want to hear about Kathy Griffin is when she's arrested
for giving blow jobs behind the dumpster at the homeless shelter.

I didn't know she had a promotion coming up.

Posted by: Aviator at November 21, 2017 10:34 PM (2cuLk)

142 Evening Horde! LadyL!

Making an effort to not follow all the perv stories from our betters.

Trying to keep a lid on the blood pressure you know.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 21, 2017 10:35 PM (tr2D7)

143 A step daughter ask her step dad if she can borrow the car tonight. Step dad says sure but I'l need a BJer. She thinks what the hell and starts on it. She says "That tastes like shit!" Step dad says "Oh that's right your brother has the car."

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at November 21, 2017 10:35 PM (3BFzK)

144 The NFL says it deserves the break because new stadiums create jobs.


*citation needed

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 21, 2017 10:35 PM (BoMuO)

145 off damn bruce jenner sock

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 21, 2017 10:36 PM (3/sUh)

146 "The Day of the Turkey is nearly upon us."

-
"This time it's personal."
-Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Dreaming of a White Privilege at November 21, 2017 10:30 PM (+y/Ru)

*HAH!*

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at November 21, 2017 10:36 PM (Ckg4U)

147 (I say that because both God and I know I'm a mess.)

Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Alleged Deplorable at November 21, 2017 10:33 PM (rJUlF)


You're a Moron. We're all Morons.

Posted by: Atlantic Coast at November 21, 2017 10:36 PM (cu8/f)

148 Catch a wave, and you're sitting on top of the world.

Posted by: The Beach Boys at November 21, 2017 10:36 PM (DMUuz)

149 teej,

Thank you. Saw your reply.

Have a great night everyone. Yes, even the Irish . THanks for all the great posts.

May tomorrow be better, and remember how sweet the laughter is that a Horde commenter gave to you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 21, 2017 10:36 PM (hyuyC)

150 So that's two for corned beef?
Posted by: hogmartin at November 21, 2017 10:33 PM (y87Qq)

Cornhole beef. Different meat.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 21, 2017 10:37 PM (tbOMB)

151 144 The NFL says it deserves the break because new stadiums create jobs.


*citation needed
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 21, 2017 10:35 PM (BoMuO)

Factories create better jobs than concession stand attendant and ticket takers.

Posted by: Alabaster Jones at November 21, 2017 10:37 PM (2DOZq)

152 >>"The Day of the Turkey is nearly upon us."


When is Whacking Day this year?

Posted by: Harvey Weinstein at November 21, 2017 10:37 PM (lgWNz)

153 104 The Grey Cup is on Nov 26th for those needing a pro football boycott fix.
Posted by: Alabaster Jones at November 21, 2017 10:29 PM (2DOZq)

--Of course the Blue Bombers sucked it up.

I gotta root against the Stamps.

Posted by: logprof at November 21, 2017 10:38 PM (GsAUU)

154 A step daughter ask her step dad if she can borrow the car tonight. Step dad says sure but I'l need a BJer. She thinks what the hell and starts on it. She says "That tastes like shit!" Step dad says "Oh that's right your brother has the car."
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at November 21, 2017 10:35 PM (3BFzK)

-------

I was actually going to tell that joke, but thought I better not. Here of all places.

WTH is wrong with me?!

Posted by: Side draft at November 21, 2017 10:38 PM (BgC3U)

155 They really are treating them like slave labor, with really shitty per hour wages and no bennies.

Of course, my solution is : why the fuck would you put up with those conditions??? But the supply of people willing to work for a pittance seems to be in abundance.. supply and demand strikes again!

more and more schools are going to this model, MisHum...

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 21, 2017 10:34 PM (5tSKk)



Apparently moral preening has high caloric value.

Posted by: Atlantic Coast at November 21, 2017 10:38 PM (cu8/f)

156 When is Whacking Day this year?

=============

Everyday is Whacking Day.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at November 21, 2017 10:39 PM (3BFzK)

157 The truth is, European invaders came to this land, took it from the indigenous people, raped, pillaged, gave them all sorts of diseases, called it their own, and desecrated a culture.

LOL.

The truth actually is that there are more Indians alive in the Western Hemisphere than there ever would have been if the Europeans hadn't come here and civilized the place. The Indians weren't making any headway on their own. They weren't very mobile and had only managed to very sparsely populate the continents. Now, there are so many millions more Indians than there would have been if there had never been contact.

As to desecrating their cultures ... I like cannibalistic, heart-ripping cultures to be desecrated. They are abominations.

Per diseases ... the Euros had just been hit with a real biological attack of the Black Plague - from the Mongols catapulting disease ridden bodies over the walls of Cafa - that killed over a third of Europe. What was Europe's reaction to that? The Enlightenment.

And the Indians sent syphilis to Europe - making sex extra-deadly ... so I call it a tie on the whole disease exchange.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 21, 2017 10:39 PM (8gDQu)

158
The NFL: pampered sociopaths playing for bloated plutocrats in a stadium full of drunken yahoos. What's not to love?
Posted by: Vlad the Impaler, whittling away like mad. at November 21, 2017 10:20 PM (/9hg/)

===
That's gold, right there.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2017 10:39 PM (EZebt)

159 Farmer!

Saw your comment yesterday about the egg creams you had on a visit to NYC and how much you enjoyed them.

You realize, of course, that you can make your own at home. The chocolate syrup used is U-Bet, which is available on Amazon if your supermarket doesn't carry it. Or you can use any flavor syrup of your choice.

Pour a couple ounces of milk into a glass. Add syrup. Then fill glass with seltzer and stir.

Posted by: IrishEi at November 21, 2017 10:39 PM (HiDrR)

160 more and more schools are going to this model, MisHum...
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 21, 2017 10:34 PM (5tSKk)

A lesson in economics that should have been taught in school.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 21, 2017 10:39 PM (tbOMB)

161 A friend of my daughter.. 35-40 yrs old.. falls into that poor professor category..

She cannot get a full-time position and they will only pay her on a per-hour lectured basis.. not accounting for student connect time, etc..

They really are treating them like slave labor, with really shitty per hour wages and no bennies.


Every major university has "intellectual groupies" who hang around, desperately yearning to be called "professor" on the slightest of pretexts. It's pathetic. No shit professors are polite and courteous toward them, but recognize that they're no more professors than the guys who throw batting practice to MLB teams are MLB players.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 21, 2017 10:40 PM (YqDXo)

162 remember when everyone didn't have a bug up their ass about everything?

How are the Elites going to keep the proles agitated with that attitude?


Posted by: Charlie Rose at November 21, 2017 10:40 PM (oVJmc)

163 'Tother night, someone posted a link to this

US Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) Lands at Langley!

http://bit.ly/2zY8SQc

Fake news? Nothing burger? I expected something more.

And what about all those sealed indictments? Wasn't Monday morning supposed to be significant?

Or did I just imagine all that?

Posted by: mindful webworker, sipping wine thoughtfully and looking wise at November 21, 2017 10:41 PM (NU2/k)

164 These perv stories are prepping the battleground of the war on women for the next female presidential candidate.

Kamala will accuse her sugar-daddy, what's-his-name.

Posted by: davidt at November 21, 2017 10:41 PM (cGz5Q)

165 more and more schools are going to this model, MisHum...
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 21, 2017 10:34 PM (5tSKk)

If she is that age and that poor she is too stupid to be educating people.

I remember being in my 30s working 2 jobs to make ends meet. And no my pride didn't prevent me from doing that.

College campuses are loaded with money. If you can't make a living I'm sorry. NOT

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 21, 2017 10:41 PM (3/sUh)

166 142 Evening Horde! LadyL!

Making an effort to not follow all the perv stories from our betters.

Trying to keep a lid on the blood pressure you know.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 21, 2017 10:35 PM (tr2D7)

Good evening. I haven't had time to follow much, but what I've heard about all the hoisted petards has left me in a state of bliss.

Stay well.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at November 21, 2017 10:41 PM (TdMsT)

167 I thought it has been repeatedly proven that stadiums do not bring economic prosperity, and big events like the Super Bowl incur huge debts on the city.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 21, 2017 10:41 PM (BoMuO)

168 (I say that because both God and I know I'm a mess.)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Alleged Deplorable at November 21, 2017 10:33 PM (rJUlF)

--Welcome to the party, pal!

Oh, and just wait until you read my novel.

(But first I need to finish that damn thing.)

Posted by: logprof at November 21, 2017 10:42 PM (GsAUU)

169 Did somebody mention "girthy penis"?

Posted by: Amy Schumer at November 21, 2017 10:42 PM (3BFzK)

170 Every major university has "intellectual groupies" who hang around, desperately yearning to be called "professor" on the slightest of pretexts. It's pathetic. No shit professors are polite and courteous toward them, but recognize that they're no more professors than the guys who throw batting practice to MLB teams are MLB players.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 21, 2017 10:40 PM (YqDXo)


As in Barky's "Adjunct Lecturer" position that the media tried to spin into some sort of Professorship. LOL. It was the work of a glorified grad student.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 21, 2017 10:42 PM (8gDQu)

171 So I guess it will be buried in Thanksgiving Weekend when the Mickey Mouse Sports Network shitcans their talking heads?

Posted by: logprof at November 21, 2017 10:43 PM (GsAUU)

172 83 Slap

Thanks for the prayer list, and so sorry to hear about your parent issues. May they (and you) find a path to healing.

Would you also mind adding my sister Joyce to the list? Glioblastoma, but doing okay right now.

Posted by: ibguy at November 21, 2017 10:43 PM (vUcdz)

173 Did somebody mention "girthy penis"?


Posted by: Amy Schumer at November 21, 2017 10:42 PM (3BFzK)


yeah but they weren't talking about you. They said girthy penis, not girthy chick with a penis.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at November 21, 2017 10:44 PM (aMlLZ)

174 ...In fact, doing these things in almost all environments is wrong and possibly illegal." Charles Blow

Hey, Beavis. His name is...Blow! heheheheheh ...heheheheheheh...heheheheheheh,..

Posted by: Butthead at November 21, 2017 10:45 PM (O5Q3r)

175 Hey Amy, keep the tip.

Posted by: That Guy with Leprosy at November 21, 2017 10:45 PM (3BFzK)

176 You're a Moron. We're all Morons.
Posted by: Atlantic Coast at November 21, 2017 10:36 PM (cu8/f)


The Moron Horde is a great bunch of people. They literally saved my life a few years ago.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Alleged Deplorable at November 21, 2017 10:45 PM (rJUlF)

177 Factories create better jobs than concession stand attendant and ticket takers.

Posted by: Alabaster Jones at November 21, 2017 10:37 PM (2DOZq)

True, dat. I say much the same thing when treehuggers try to shut mining, or logging, or petroleum development, and whine, "but tourism will provide many jobs". Yeah, riiiight! And for every decent-paying job as a head chef, or a hotel manager, there will 40 minimum-wage jobs as chambermaids or dishwashers. Not everyone gets to be the buff dude steering the Zodiac filled with goggling Asians down the rapids in the Stikine River.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2017 10:46 PM (oPNmq)

178 I recently found out that one of my ancestors was cited in journal of some public official in Easton PA.
At the end of the French and Indian War (~1787), various Indian tribes were brought to Easton PA to sign peace treaties, officially ending the war.
It seems my relative was a 'spirits maker' and had gotten some of the Indians so inebriated that it made negotiating difficult.

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at November 21, 2017 10:46 PM (e8kgV)

179 Go easy on John Conyers.

He's touched a lot of people.

Posted by: Roman Polanski at November 21, 2017 10:46 PM (GsAUU)

180 167 I thought it has been repeatedly proven that stadiums do not bring economic prosperity, and big events like the Super Bowl incur huge debts on the city.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 21, 2017 10:41 PM (BoMuO)

I think hosting a super bowl would be an economic boost to a city.

Existing stadium, so there is nothing to build say as in the olympics. 2 weeks of extra security, but a lot of food, liquor, car rental, motel tax to name but a few sources of income coming in.

but.....i could be wrong.
And quite frankly i really don't care

My town of 500 will never host one.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 21, 2017 10:47 PM (3/sUh)

181 I know the rent is in arrears, the dog has not been fed in years, it's even worse than it appears, it's all right are great lyrics.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at November 21, 2017 10:47 PM (PUmDY)

182 My female secret service agents are so impressed with my girthy penis they don't want to watch me swim naked.

Posted by: Joe Biden at November 21, 2017 10:47 PM (3BFzK)

183 He's touched a lot of people.
Posted by: Roman Polanski at November 21, 2017 10:46 PM (GsAUU)


Government is just the things we dosexual assault victims we pay into silence together.

Posted by: hogmartin at November 21, 2017 10:47 PM (y87Qq)

184 136 A friend of my daughter.. 35-40 yrs old.. falls into that poor professor category..

She cannot get a full-time position and they will only pay her on a per-hour lectured basis.. not accounting for student connect time, etc..

They really are treating them like slave labor, with really shitty per hour wages and no bennies.
-------

A guy we recently hired in my company was an adjunct who left for those reasons. Now he's in pharma.

Posted by: josephistan at November 21, 2017 10:48 PM (ANIFC)

185 160 more and more schools are going to this model, MisHum...
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 21, 2017 10:34 PM (5tSKk)

A lesson in economics that should have been taught in school.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 21, 2017 10:39 PM (tbOMB)


Actually, I think the schools DID understand economics. They're getting a person to stand in front of a lecture theater for peanuts. Neither students nor parents have any idea what that person's qualifications are. Many retards think that their retarded progeny should be taught by Nobel Laureates, thereby proving 1) that they're retarded, 2) that they don't know that teaching ability does not necessarily correlate with research ability, 3) that to be effective the intellect of the teacher need only be marginally be higher than those of the students, 4) that the intellect of a Nobel Laureate may well NOT be higher than that of the students, 5) that Nobel Laureates typically don't teach undergraduate classes, 6) that notwithstanding the above Nobel Laureates are much more valuable to universities to bring in money, rather than teaching pimply retarded undergraduates, and 7) if the Nobel Laureate is of the first rank intellectually, and teaches at the corresponding level, precisely zero of the undergraduates will have any idea what he's talking about.

Apart from that, it's a good idea.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 21, 2017 10:48 PM (YqDXo)

186 More and more, institutions of higher learning are moving toward hiring adjunct or contingent faculty members. Teaching just one or two classes per semester, these temporary faculty rely on incredibly small stipends and have no job security at all. Some are even homeless.

*****

Any adjunct who depends on this salary to live is an idiot.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 21, 2017 10:48 PM (0tfLf)

187 And what about all those sealed indictments? Wasn't Monday morning supposed to be significant?

Or did I just imagine all that?

Posted by: mindful webworker, sipping wine thoughtfully and looking wise at November 21, 2017 10:41 PM (NU2/k)


I heard those sealed indictments are MS-13 gang members.

But I do have high hopes for a searing Congressional scandal as these sealed records of sexual misconduct become unsealed. That will be a Christmas gift to remember.

I can dream, can't I?

Posted by: Atlantic Coast at November 21, 2017 10:48 PM (cu8/f)

188 I'm a college teacher, but without the Doctorate. Masters in Composition and Rhetoric. Since '93 I've experienced the part-time adjunct, no benefits blues.

So I have found other ways to make ends meet. From selling on ebay to the post office.

Add to the mix the hatred of conservatives and the pervasive leftist/communist/sociology dominance in adademics, and it's a lose/lose proposition.

But why would you put people like me down? I don't get it.

Posted by: booknlass at November 21, 2017 10:48 PM (9mZIr)

189
I saw Sky Peckers open for Jefferson Airplane at the Philmont.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 21, 2017 10:48 PM (IqV8l)

190 My bad, ibguy. I only partially copied and pasted the list. chalk it up to Human Error.

AoSHQ Prayer List

Farmer- Friend lost his mother, aged 93. She was ready to go, just a couple of yrs ago lost her youngest child, her only daughter to cancer.

Rickl- Lung cancer.

Redc1c4- Employment

Fox2!- Bloodwork and colonoscopy

Abby- Father has passed. Children have ex-communicated.

Carol- Her Brother's eventual passing.

kbdabear- Mother's dementia.

CaliGirl- Mom's boyfriend Arthur has cancer.

Grump928(c)- Mother, Sally Jo, fell and broke her hip.

Hrothgar- Son killed in accident.

Ritabootoo- Someone who may have colon cancer.

Fenelon Spoke- Supervisor, "D's", Brother had a stroke and is in hospice. Husband's job search. Son acting out in a disturbing manner.

RedMindBlueState- Cousin Agnes, who's too weak for the heart surgery she needs, and whose condition is deteriorating rapidly.

Dr. Strangepork- Friend may have had a stroke.

Bebe's boobs destroy- In a fight over the house with her Sister.

Neil- Back

Jo Anne- Left leg.

Mindful webworker- Premature Grandchild.

Patty- Alcoholic husband.

ibguy- Sister's brain cancer, (gioblastoma).

pookysgirl- Husband's suicide attempt and mental health.

Jade Sea- Husband's cancer

tcn- husband's possible lung tumor and swollen lymph nodes.

Moron Pundit- Father-in-law's heart surgery.

junior- Employment

Duke Lowell- Son in need of healing.

Miley- Future employment, big move, Friend Melonie's cracked ribs. Mother's cellulitis of leg.

Captain Whitebread- Future employment. Mother needs stent; may not be well enough for it.

Jinx- Mother's passing.

Emmie- Relationship with Daughter.

Vic- Return of cancer.

ReneeTX- Terminal brain cancer.

Booknlass- Relationship with Daughter.

Just wondering- Sister, Lisa, has a brain tumor.

Christopher Taylor- Health and depression.

Lin-duh fell- My FIL passed away 9/27/17. Could use the prayers for my husband finding a job.

Blacksheep- Stage 2 prostate cancer.

Weirddave and Gingy- Gingy's father passing away.

Alexthechick- Father's dementia.

Molly K- Neice killed by elderly driver.

Donna V- Bills to be paid and alcoholic Brother.

Gushka- Infection after being bitten by her horse. Her friends' mental health after returning from battle.

TonyPete- Friends' terminal diagnosis, Wife's, (Renee), terminal illness.

bergerbuilder- Multiple strokes, out of hospital at end of September.

Chi- Friend's passing, (Lewis), after battle with cancer.

huerfano- Father's recovery from heart failure.

The Oort Cloud- Thalassemia, genetic blood disorder, complicated my hemolytic anemia. "Given" two years by doctor.

Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing- Job issues.

Hopped up on Something- Immediate Family member with cancer. Bone pain without opioids, Hospital Policy.

Publius- Rheumatoid arthritis, severe pain during flare-ups.

Cannibal Bob- Two brothers in law. 1. Brain tumor hospice soon.
2. Just diagnosed cancer around heart and in aorta. Biopsy taken. Stage 3.
3. Cousin just completed 5 rounds of chemo for cancer in abdomen. Reoccurance firm many years ago.

Insomniac- 1) That my autoimmune disorder will stay under control. 2) That the work situation I have will continue to come together and grow.

Oregon Muse- Shoulder replacement and recovery.

Slapweasel- Father's dementia and Mother's attitude.

Jane D'oh- My husband's elderly aunt, (89), who was admitted to the hospital 11/20/17 with pneumonia. She has COPD, is a lung cancer survivor.

USNtakim- My MIL, (73), is going in for surgery 11/22/17 for bowel re-sectioning. Please pray for her and her family.

Iron Mike Golf- My grandsons. Safety and peace for them.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at November 21, 2017 10:49 PM (Ckg4U)

191

Yippie yi ooh
Yippie yi yay
Ghost peckers in the sky

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at November 21, 2017 10:49 PM (T/KY7)

192 My female secret service agents are so impressed with my girthy penis they don't want to watch me swim naked.


Posted by: Joe Biden at November 21, 2017 10:47 PM (3BFzK)


They just don't want to see your gelatinous harpoon scared belly.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at November 21, 2017 10:49 PM (aMlLZ)

193 The NFL says it deserves the break because new stadiums create jobs.

I thought it was evil for companies to get special treatment. OH! You mean other companies.

Posted by: t-bird at November 21, 2017 10:49 PM (Sv2/X)

194 67 The next story I want to hear about Kathy Griffin is when she's arrested for giving blow jobs behind the dumpster at the homeless shelter.
Posted by: tu3031


That press conference she did was probably more entertaining than her stand up comedy. Talk about batshit crazy. Then you had Alred's daughter, the lawyer, standing next to her nodding her head up and down like a bobble head.

Law schools should use that mess in law school classes about why you should never let a client near a microphone.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 21, 2017 10:49 PM (+lVUW)

195 189. Ghost peckers in the sky.
Yippee -kai-yo! Yippee -kai- yay!

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 21, 2017 10:50 PM (fA1SL)

196 I think hosting a super bowl would be an economic boost to a city.

Existing stadium, so there is nothing to build say as in the olympics. 2 weeks of extra security, but a lot of food, liquor, car rental, motel tax to name but a few sources of income coming in.

but.....i could be wrong.
And quite frankly i really don't care

My town of 500 will never host one.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 21, 2017 10:47 PM (3/sUh)


I doubt any one-shot events are all that helpful for a city. Maybe for one that regularly handles large events - so it's not really just a one-shot but one in a line - but I don't think it helps any place that doesn't regularly have such events. Having to handle huge capacity for just one thing and then have it gone doesn't tend to work out well.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 21, 2017 10:50 PM (8gDQu)

197 It was a bad day with Mom & Dad tonight. This too, shall pass.
Horde Prayer List to follow.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at November 21, 2017 10:17

Hope tomorrow w/ the folks will be better, I pray.

Thanks for posting the prayer list. No need to add my friend, just wanted to mention Marty lost his mother yesterday. He's been the support and Mom just wanted to die since her youngest child, dau. died of breast cancere

Hope Morons can help him get over this loss.

Posted by: Farmer - 2017 GNAMM Survivor at November 21, 2017 10:50 PM (yJ1e6)

198 it's not a girthy penis, it's a tax.

Posted by: John Roberts at November 21, 2017 10:51 PM (3BFzK)

199 The Moron Horde is a great bunch of people. They literally saved my life a few years ago.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Alleged Deplorable at November 21, 2017 10:45 PM (rJUlF

That's because you're good people Cpt.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 21, 2017 10:51 PM (3/sUh)

200 Every major university has "intellectual groupies" who hang around,
desperately yearning to be called "professor" on the slightest of
pretexts. It's pathetic. No shit professors are polite and courteous
toward them, but recognize that they're no more professors than the guys
who throw batting practice to MLB teams are MLB players.

What they need to do is tweet something like "The planet would be better off if we started killing off all white men". Or " Toxic white male patriarchy is the reason I live in my car."
Next stop: Cal-Berkeley!!!

Posted by: tu3031 at November 21, 2017 10:51 PM (O5Q3r)

201 199. Well, amd the Horde is strictly 'blood in, blood out.'

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 21, 2017 10:52 PM (fA1SL)

202 Yippie yi ooh
Yippie yi yay
Ghost peckers in the sky
Posted by: In Vino Veritits at November 21, 2017 10:49 PM (T/KY7)

Yippee Yeah,
there'll be no wedding bells,
for today!

Posted by: Tex Ritter at November 21, 2017 10:52 PM (JNqRY)

203 Groups like this are amazing. I belong to a closed FB group of members of my profession. One member, who is an American doctor running a clinic in Chad with his wife and father made a frantic post yesterday. Two of his kids were bit by a cat infected with rabies. Rabies is universally fatal if not treated. He spent 2 days trying to locate the vaccine. Nothing in Chad, Cameroon, or Kenya. The American embassy in Chad had a supply, but refused to release it to him, an American. He made his post to our group asking for help. Within 12 hours we started a GoFundMe to raise money to fly him and his kids to France. A few members had connections with congress and State and were able to get the embassy to release the vaccine. Kids saved. Now the GoFundMe has 20K that is going to help this man buy equipment for his clinic. I would imagine the same result would be had with the Horde. This is what America is. Not the rest of this shit we talk about every day.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 21, 2017 10:52 PM (BoMuO)

204 As in Barky's "Adjunct Lecturer" position that the media tried to spin into some sort of Professorship. LOL. It was the work of a glorified grad student.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 21, 2017 10:42 PM (8gDQu)


Exactly. "He's a Constitutional scholar!"

No. He was a dog's body who was pushed in front of a class of retards who paid full freight for this glorified elevator operator to pontificate to them while real professors got on with their research/scholarship that would win them and their universities prestige.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 21, 2017 10:52 PM (YqDXo)

205 Posted by: ibguy at November 21, 2017 10:14 PM (vUcdz)

What a wonderful birthday Joyce had. She has wonderful friends.

Continued prayers.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 21, 2017 10:52 PM (Ri/rl)

206 It seems my relative was a 'spirits maker' and had gotten some of the Indians so inebriated that it made negotiating difficult.
Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at November 21, 2017 10:46 PM (e8kgV)

That's moroning, old school.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 21, 2017 10:53 PM (tbOMB)

207 Farmer:
Are you still here?
Posted by: IrishEi at November 21, 2017 10:28

Yes, but not for long. One more glass of wine.

Posted by: Farmer - 2017 GNAMM Survivor at November 21, 2017 10:53 PM (yJ1e6)

208 Please copy the Prayer List for when I am not available.

Additions, corrections and added prayers can be sent to the email in my Nic.

Please copy and paste others' Prayer Requests and send them to homemadegravy71 at the hooya.com.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at November 21, 2017 10:53 PM (Ckg4U)

209 190 Slap

No worries, my friend.

Heckuva list there - Thank You for putting it together and sharing it with us.

Posted by: ibguy at November 21, 2017 10:53 PM (vUcdz)

210 Fried chicken tastes great but it's not good for you. Exercise is good for you as long as you don't overdo it. Cigarettes can give you emphysema. Shooting yourself in the head will kill you.

Posted by: Charles Blow at November 21, 2017 10:53 PM (SkuXa)

211

Or did I just imagine all that?

Posted by: mindful webworker, sipping wine thoughtfully and looking wise at November 21, 2017 10:41 PM (NU2/k)


I heard those sealed indictments are MS-13 gang members.

But I do have high hopes for a searing Congressional scandal as these sealed records of sexual misconduct become unsealed. That will be a Christmas gift to remember.

I can dream, can't I?
Posted by: Atlantic Coast at November 21, 2017 10:48 PM (cu8/f)


It is a beautiful dream.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at November 21, 2017 10:54 PM (TdMsT)

212 Did anyone else notice how gaunt B.J. Clinton looks nowadays?



Hey Bill, this song is for you:

https://youtu.be/0O6IqJAsW0g

Posted by: logprof at November 21, 2017 10:54 PM (GsAUU)

213 >>It seems my relative was a 'spirits maker' and had gotten some of the Indians so inebriated that it made negotiating difficult.



And, How.

Posted by: Hung Over Indian Chief at November 21, 2017 10:55 PM (lgWNz)

214 212. Bill got the slims. FVP gots the kuru. Chubble gots teh stoopid. Hell of a clan.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 21, 2017 10:55 PM (fA1SL)

215 I saw the prayer list, and need to update it.

Mom had the stent put in over a month ago. She's doing well.

I'm still employed at the radio station, but while prices on about everything have gone up over the last several years, my salary hasn't. It's been really tight lately, but I'm looking at side jobs to get extra money. I did some website updates recently for clients, and I'm investigating getting the equipment I need to DJ at weddings and other events.

If you wish, pray that Mom's health remains stable and that my financial needs are provided for.

Thanks, y'all.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Alleged Deplorable at November 21, 2017 10:55 PM (rJUlF)

216 The NFL says it deserves the break because new stadiums create jobs.

So do broken windows.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 21, 2017 10:55 PM (8gDQu)

217 Miyam Bialik is supposed to be supersmart. But I've never met a liberal smart enough to understand that people should be judged by the standards of their times.

Or that, say, those Indians were doomed. Whichever peoples from a civilization numerous enough to have all the nasty herd diseases who came first were going to kill them off.

Posted by: Jb at November 21, 2017 10:55 PM (1vsiQ)

218 More and more, institutions of higher learning are moving toward hiring adjunct or contingent faculty members. Teaching just one or two classes per semester, these temporary faculty rely on incredibly small stipends and have no job security at all. Some are even homeless.



Where is the fucking tuition money going then?

Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2017 10:56 PM (f/e+k)

219 >>>Having to handle huge capacity for just one thing and then have it gone doesn't tend to work out well.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 21, 2017 10:50 PM (8gDQu

If you look at most of the cities that host the SB they have a stadium that is used for the SB, various college bowl games, regular nfl games and other events. Most of them are warm weather cities. I would think that SB is a money maker.

Infrastructure is in place, lodging, restaurants are present. But, like i said, not biggie one way or the other.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 21, 2017 10:56 PM (3/sUh)

220 Where is the fucking tuition money going then?
Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2017 10:56 PM (f/e+k)


The climbing wall, lazy river ride, and segregated dorms.

Posted by: hogmartin at November 21, 2017 10:56 PM (y87Qq)

221 Slapweasel, hope you see this one. (3rd times the charm?)

You can take our premie concerns off the list. Prayers for our grandbaby were answered Jul 31. Now a hearty almost-4mo little guy.

Wouldn't mind if you substituted Milady (MJ)-- longstanding health difficulty. (Would love to have that decades-old prayer answered.)

Thanks for the list posting & maintenance!

Posted by: mindful webworker - family, man at November 21, 2017 10:56 PM (NU2/k)

222
I'm a college teacher, but without the Doctorate. Masters in Composition
and Rhetoric. Since '93 I've experienced the part-time adjunct, no
benefits blues.



So I have found other ways to make ends meet. From selling on ebay to the post office.



Add to the mix the hatred of conservatives and the pervasive
leftist/communist/sociology dominance in adademics, and it's a lose/lose
proposition.



But why would you put people like me down? I don't get it.





Posted by: booknlass at November 21, 2017 10:48 PM (9mZIr)

They are putting people like you down. You are working the ed game part-time, and know there's not a living in it, so you also pursue side jobs.

The people being put down are those who think their minor academic standing entitles them to tenure and a free ride, and whine when they don't get it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2017 10:57 PM (oPNmq)

223 "Did anyone else notice how gaunt B.J. Clinton looks nowadays? ""




Like this?

http://iotwreport.com/captain-pike-actually-looks-better/

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at November 21, 2017 10:57 PM (aMlLZ)

224 Thank you for the update, Captain Whitebread.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at November 21, 2017 10:57 PM (Ckg4U)

225 er, NOT putting people like you down Sorry, finger-fault.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2017 10:57 PM (oPNmq)

226 Not to mention all of the Felons the NFL keeps off the streets every Sunday.

Posted by: garrett at November 21, 2017 10:58 PM (lgWNz)

227 Where is the fucking tuition money going then?

Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2017 10:56 PM (f/e+k)


Sports teams and coach salaries, totally worthless departments, buildings named for idiots (developed by friends of the administration), and administration pay.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 21, 2017 10:58 PM (8gDQu)

228 I wished I prayed, when I see that prayer list. I can only offer my thoughts and well-wishes.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 21, 2017 10:58 PM (tbOMB)

229 Where is the fucking tuition money going then?


Admin. The Assistant Dean of Indigenous People's Awareness can't buy her Volvo with love.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 21, 2017 10:58 PM (BoMuO)

230 Where is the fucking tuition money going then?
Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2017 10:56 PM (f/e+k)

---------

Their "endowment"/ slush funds.

Posted by: Side draft at November 21, 2017 10:59 PM (BgC3U)

231 Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at November 21, 2017 10:49 PM (Ckg4U)

Thank you Slapweasel for compiling the list.

Prayers up for the horde.

Also Slap, Jane broke her foot.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 21, 2017 10:59 PM (Ri/rl)

232 At my law school, a stupid SEC school, you had to either write or grade on to the law journal and never would get on by election.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at November 21, 2017 10:59 PM (PUmDY)

233 >>Where is the fucking tuition money going then?


Butt Sexx Seminars

Posted by: garrett at November 21, 2017 10:59 PM (lgWNz)

234 111: She's apparently now the wife of a prominent CA Republican politician and has been getting her case together with the Polaroids as evidence.


Theres no such animal. They are extinct.

Posted by: LASue at November 21, 2017 10:59 PM (hZ+us)

235
Of course, my solution is : why the fuck would
you put up with those conditions??? But the supply of people willing to
work for a pittance seems to be in abundance.. supply and demand strikes
again!

more and more schools are going to this model, MisHum...
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 21, 2017 10:34 PM (5tSKk)


Well, those Keynsian and General Equilibrium based economics profs have a wonderful opportunity to explore the rigors of marginal utility in real-time!

Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2017 11:00 PM (2K6fY)

236 AOP, thanks for the answer.

Posted by: booknlass at November 21, 2017 11:01 PM (9mZIr)

237 Where is the fucking tuition money going then?
Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2017 10:56 PM (f/e+k)

Those safe spaces aren't going to safe themselves.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 21, 2017 11:01 PM (tbOMB)

238 Captain and Mindful...

Your Prayer Requests have been updated.

I'll post them ASAP.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at November 21, 2017 11:02 PM (Ckg4U)

239 Did anyone else notice how gaunt B.J. Clinton looks nowadays?

He looked awful on the campaign trail, but staying away from Hillary seems to have done him good. America's favorite rapist looked pretty "normal" as he polluted the F1 grid with his odious presence in Austin a few weeks back.

Posted by: an unpleasant surprise, watching F1 and seeing that d*ckhead onscreen at November 21, 2017 11:02 PM (wpC7C)

240 Every time I see something on Don Henley, I think of Dennis Leary:

"Don Henley wants to tell me how to vote? I don't fucking think so!"

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at November 21, 2017 11:02 PM (JNqRY)

241 Cali, LadyLibertarian, Atlantic Coast (and others I've missed - not intentional!):

Thank you all for your continued blessings, they mean a lot.

And yes, she has built up an amazing group of people who love her and elevate her. There's no way that where she is now would have been possible absent them, and prayers.

Posted by: ibguy at November 21, 2017 11:02 PM (vUcdz)

242 Canadian Army's answer to the US Navy dick drawers.

http://bit.ly/2mOXf9k

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Dreaming of a White Privilege at November 21, 2017 11:02 PM (+y/Ru)

243
AOP, thanks for the answer.





Posted by: booknlass at November 21, 2017 11:01 PM (9mZIr)

You are not a whiner. You are a resourceful go-getter.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2017 11:02 PM (oPNmq)

244 Where is the fucking tuition money going then?

Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2017 10:56 PM (f/e+k)

Wouldn't you like to know?

Posted by: the Dean of Diversity at November 21, 2017 11:03 PM (cu8/f)

245 Is Bialik that guy on The Producers?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 21, 2017 11:03 PM (IqV8l)

246 188 I'm a college teacher, but without the Doctorate. Masters in Composition and Rhetoric. Since '93 I've experienced the part-time adjunct, no benefits blues.

So I have found other ways to make ends meet. From selling on ebay to the post office.

Add to the mix the hatred of conservatives and the pervasive leftist/communist/sociology dominance in adademics, and it's a lose/lose proposition.

But why would you put people like me down? I don't get it.

Posted by: booknlass at November 21, 2017 10:48 PM (9mZIr)


We're not putting you down. You've put yourself down by undervaluing yourself. The question is, why put up with that shit? It's the intellectual equivalent of being a lichen, growing on stone and hanging on for dear life at the precarious edge of existence. Why don't they pay you half as much? Because they don't think that they could get away with it, i.e., hire people of appropriate skill.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 21, 2017 11:03 PM (YqDXo)

247 He looked awful on the campaign trail, but staying away from Hillary seems to have done him good. America's favorite rapist looked pretty "normal" as he polluted the F1 grid with his odious presence in Austin a few weeks back.


Posted by: an unpleasant surprise, watching F1 and seeing that d*ckhead onscreen at November 21, 2017 11:02 PM (wpC7C)


Hillary was using him as a blood bag.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at November 21, 2017 11:03 PM (aMlLZ)

248 Hillary status: still not President.

I took a "Sessions" at 5 PM and woke up at 9 PM. Looks like I'll be up for awhile.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 21, 2017 11:03 PM (6FqZa)

249 Of course, my solution is : why the fuck would you put up with those conditions??? But the supply of people willing to work for a pittance seems to be in abundance.. supply and demand strikes again!

more and more schools are going to this model, MisHum...

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 21, 2017 10:34 PM (5tSKk)


I taught as an adjunct for a few years. I thought the pay was okay, especially considering that the job didn't require much work. The real downside was that you couldn't teach more than a few classes at any one place (rules for limiting the hours of adjuncts) so I had to teach at a few places. But it wasn't bad and left me a lot of time to do things I wanted to do.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 21, 2017 11:04 PM (8gDQu)

250 "Also Slap, Jane broke her foot."
-Posted by: CaliGirl at November 21, 2017 10:59 PM (Ri/rl)

She never requested a prayer for that, but I'll add it on your behalf.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at November 21, 2017 11:04 PM (Ckg4U)

251 Posted by: booknlass at November 21, 2017 10:48 PM (9mZIr)

If you thought I was putting you down I apologize. That was not my intention.

You are teaching and working on the side to make ends meet. You are not demanding an entitlement and living in your car as the subject of the story is.

I just can't accept that any person who is smart enough to teach has to be homeless.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 21, 2017 11:04 PM (3/sUh)

252 In what sense are people who migrated across the land bridge from Siberia, in several waves, more indigenous than those who migrated here from Europe on ships? Does traveling by land and ice, walking, make you more native than traveling by water?

No humans originated in the Americas. No humans originated in Europe or Asia either IFAIK. All are "out of Africa" and even those in Africa now are recent immigrants for the most part. We all traveled here from somewhere else.

Now about the oh so lovely "cultures" of the stone age peoples who were here when the Europeans arrived Missy, study a bit and see how things got much better after the Europeans arrived even with all the warfare and slaughter. It was worse before.

And just so you know, I'm an American mutt with more Indian blood than that Masshole bitch Senator I bet you love.

Posted by: geoffb at November 21, 2017 11:04 PM (zOpu5)

253 I think she played Blossom.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at November 21, 2017 11:04 PM (PUmDY)

254 242 Canadian Army's answer to the US Navy dick drawers.

http://bit.ly/2mOXf9k
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Dreaming of a White Privilege at November 21, 2017 11:02 PM (+y/Ru)

--There is no Canadian Army.

It's the Canadian Armed Forces, combined.

What a bunch of Canuckaphobes here.

Posted by: logprof at November 21, 2017 11:05 PM (GsAUU)

255 I didn't want to be part time, though; I wanted to be a professor someday. that dream died.

and Primordial's got it right: the money's going to administration. the university, as you all know, is a soviet, and the constant is the administration.

the adjuncts are the draft horses.

Posted by: booknlass at November 21, 2017 11:06 PM (9mZIr)

256 Where is the fucking tuition money going then?

Hookers and blow, but I repeat myself.

Posted by: Dr Charlie Sheen, PHD at November 21, 2017 11:06 PM (cGz5Q)

257 >>We all traveled here from somewhere else.


Nanoo - Nanoo

Posted by: Mork at November 21, 2017 11:06 PM (lgWNz)

258 242 Canadian Army's answer to the US Navy dick drawers.


Fire Penis. 2.4million units of penicillin in the ass will take care of that.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 21, 2017 11:07 PM (BoMuO)

259 No humans originated in the Americas.

True.

No humans originated in Europe or Asia either IFAIK. All are "out of Africa" and even those in Africa now are recent immigrants for the most part. We all traveled here from somewhere else.

Posted by: geoffb at November 21, 2017 11:04 PM (zOpu5)


That theory is in its death throes, these days.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 21, 2017 11:07 PM (8gDQu)

260 We all traveled here from somewhere else.


I was born here. I am indigenous.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 21, 2017 11:07 PM (BoMuO)

261 But why would you put people like me down? I don't get it.

Posted by: booknlass at November 21, 2017 10:48 PM (9mZIr)

Not putting you or anyone down. I applaud your perseverance in a difficult situation. Economics of my job were a bitch, the last eight years. I stuck it out.

Economics of higher education are getting it from all sides.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 21, 2017 11:08 PM (tbOMB)

262 253 I think she played Blossom.
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at November 21, 2017 11:04 PM (PUmDY)

--Six gave me a case of the Tents back in the day.

Posted by: logprof at November 21, 2017 11:08 PM (GsAUU)

263
Well, I was able to post tonight. Might actually make two tonight. You know how I joked I was going to be paying for my sins with by having to deal with my father?

Well, I must be one hell of a sinner. Maybe I must make amends for every ficus fouling incident over my whole life or something.

I mean, how to put this. Even with my mother at her worst, when she was bat-shit crazy, out of her ever-lovin' mind, she was nothing compared to Dear Ol' Dad.

He's cantankerous. Crotchety. Bad attitude. Ill tempered. Mean. Irritable. Grouchy. Grumpy. Resentful. Stubborn.

I may just take a notion and go running through the woods screaming.

Last night was something else. He ended up on the bathroom floor, and I couldn't get him up. My mother tried to help, but she doesn't have the strength to add much.

It's a long story, and one that involved much shit and the cleaning of it -- also piss --, but I finally got him up and back into the bed. He was so worn out, he went to sleep and didn't give a peep until morning.

He seems to be asleep now, but at any time, it could be another 5-alarm shit storm.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at November 21, 2017 11:08 PM (8O3HH)

264 They just don't want to see your gelatinous harpoon scared belly.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at November 21, 2017 10:49 PM (aMlLZ)

Yeah. I doubt they can even see Joe's weinie.

Posted by: Donna&&&&V baby, it's cold outside at November 21, 2017 11:09 PM (P8951)

265 Was The Partridge Family supposed to be a thinly veiled pastiche of The Cowsills?

Posted by: broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter at November 21, 2017 11:10 PM (uuwor)

266 264 They just don't want to see your gelatinous harpoon scared belly.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at November 21, 2017 10:49 PM (aMlLZ)

Yeah. I doubt they can even see Joe's weinie.
Posted by: Donna&&&&V baby, it's cold outside at November 21, 2017 11:09 PM (P8951)

--The Onion article with Slow Joe in the cut-offs was pure gold.

Posted by: logprof at November 21, 2017 11:10 PM (GsAUU)

267 They are putting people like you down. You are working the ed game part-time, and know there's not a living in it, so you also pursue side jobs.

The people being put down are those who think their minor academic standing entitles them to tenure and a free ride, and whine when they don't get it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2017 10:57 PM (oPNmq)



This.

But it's also worth than that. The people they hire know, in their heart of hearts, that they're never going to get tenure. So what are universities offering these folks? Shitty pay, shitty working circumstances, BUT ... specious prestige. The people they're hosing can go to parties and say "I teach at Bow-Wow Academy," and people will nod in respect, incorrectly assuming they're talking with a legitimate faculty member.

THAT'S what they're getting instead of pay and actual prestige. In short, they're being played.

There's nothing magical about being a professor. Nothing. Trust me.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 21, 2017 11:10 PM (YqDXo)

268 She never requested a prayer for that, but I'll add it on your behalf.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at November 21, 2017 11:04 PM (Ckg4U)

You're right she didn't ask for prayers, but I think she can use them. It sounds like she's in pain.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 21, 2017 11:10 PM (Ri/rl)

269 >>He's cantankerous. Crotchety. Bad attitude. Ill tempered. Mean. Irritable. Grouchy. Grumpy. Resentful. Stubborn.


Insomniac is your Dad?

Posted by: garrett at November 21, 2017 11:10 PM (lgWNz)

270 Like Sarah Jessica Parker in the 90s.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at November 21, 2017 11:10 PM (PUmDY)

271 thank you again, AOP

Misanthrope, thanks for writing with me about it. I see what you mean. At the community college I see that most people working at the information desk, the bookstore, the 'student center' are on their phones, wearing headphones, just wanting a cush job and doing nothing. They never want to leave school

I'm with you. i don't respect that either.

Posted by: booknlass at November 21, 2017 11:11 PM (9mZIr)

272 Don't be too hard on me. I'm fully in the middle of a Hollywood blacklist, Griffin said. I just want you guys to know, when I get home, I do not have one single day of paid work in front of me.

------

Suffer.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 21, 2017 11:11 PM (t5m5e)

273 He's cantankerous. Crotchety. Bad attitude. Ill tempered. Mean. Irritable. Grouchy. Grumpy. Resentful. Stubborn.
---
I thought there were only seven dwarfs.

Seriously, you're a hell of a guy to deal with this. Good on you.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 21, 2017 11:11 PM (tr2D7)

274 For the gunners this may be news:

The U.S. Army Is Selling Some of Its Most Powerful Guns (and You Can Buy One)

The .45 ACP M1911A1...

Army to transfer a cache of small arms and ammo no longer actively issued for military serviceto the government-sponsored Civilian Marksmanship Program, including the M1911 and M1911A1 pistols, the M1 Garand, and .22 rimfire rifles.

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Share with a friend.

Posted by: gNewt at November 21, 2017 11:11 PM (TD9KB)

275 Where is the fucking tuition money going then?

Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2017 10:56 PM (f/e+k)

++++

More administrators. Someone has to develop new diversity guidelines. And then make sure they are adhered to.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 21, 2017 11:11 PM (pvjTE)

276 269. Dude! What did Publius do to deserve a crack like that?

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 21, 2017 11:12 PM (fA1SL)

277 What again, was the setting that causes quotation marks to crash comments?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 21, 2017 11:12 PM (t5m5e)

278 I end up on academic twitter a lot. Actually it's mostly hbd*chick and Razib Khan, who are the two best rightist anthropologist / historians, maybe the only two.

So, hey, timesaver since I'm not on twitter all day.

Someone there posted a comment about classical-era teachers and their slaves. The comments lit up with dark jokes about whether their latin title was 'adjuncti'

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 21, 2017 11:13 PM (6FqZa)

279
"He's cantankerous. Crotchety. Bad attitude. Ill tempered. Mean. Irritable. Grouchy. Grumpy. Resentful. Stubborn.

I may just take a notion and go running through the woods screaming.

Last night was something else. He ended up on the bathroom floor, and I couldn't get him up. My mother tried to help, but she doesn't have the strength to add much.

It's a long story, and one that involved much shit and the cleaning of it -- also piss --, but I finally got him up and back into the bed. He was so worn out, he went to sleep and didn't give a peep until morning.

He seems to be asleep now, but at any time, it could be another 5-alarm shit storm.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at November 21, 2017 11:08 PM (8O3HH) "

I'm sure it won't help in the moment, but remember, you got to spend a lot of wonderful (I'm assuming a bit here) decades with him. It could have gone the other way - you could be like me, where neither parent make it to my 16th birthday.

(Of course now I'm dealing with my aging grandparents, so who have really been surrogate parents, but so far for ages 85 and 87 they're in remarkable health, both mentally and physically)

Posted by: broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter at November 21, 2017 11:13 PM (uuwor)

280 Posted by: booknlass at November 21, 2017 11:11 PM (9mZIr)

I appreciate the response, perhaps an extra ration of Rory for you down the road?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 21, 2017 11:13 PM (3/sUh)

281 Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at November 21, 2017 11:08 PM (8O3HH)

I'm so sorry publius, words are inadequate.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 21, 2017 11:13 PM (Ri/rl)

282 270 Like Sarah Jessica Parker in the 90s.
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at November 21, 2017 11:10 PM (PUmDY)

--Quite the filly.

Posted by: logprof at November 21, 2017 11:14 PM (GsAUU)

283 265. Was The Partridge Family supposed to be a thinly veiled pastiche of The Cowsills?
Posted by: broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter at November 21, 2017 11:10 PM (uuwor)

Yep but with better looking kids.

Posted by: LASue at November 21, 2017 11:14 PM (hZ+us)

284 Hard to imagine the nonsense that would have resulted from Sanders/Clinton free college proposals.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at November 21, 2017 11:14 PM (PUmDY)

285 He seems to be asleep now, but at any time, it could be another 5-alarm shit storm.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at
******************

A controlled diet may help with this.

Posted by: gNewt at November 21, 2017 11:14 PM (TD9KB)

286 Look for that to blow up in his face bigly again in
the next couple of months. There was another girl there, 15 at the time,
who was also drugged and raped by Henley. Henley liked to take
Polariods of the girls he had over (this wasn't the first time) and this
girl managed to snag a few despite the (corrupt, natch) police helping
him keep the charges down to that slap on the wrist. She's apparently
now the wife of a prominent CA Republican politician and has been
getting her case together with the Polaroids as evidence.



BTW, Henley's song "Dirty Laundry" was about this incident and how he felt that he was being unfairly dragged through the mud.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at November 21, 2017 10:30 PM (2kiKp)


CrazyDaysAndNights reader?

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at November 21, 2017 11:15 PM (1JnAL)

287 >>What did Publius do to deserve a crack like that?


Publius?

I was cracking on Insomniac in the hopes of giving Publius a chuckle...because Insomniac plays at being all of those things on occasion.

Posted by: garrett at November 21, 2017 11:15 PM (lgWNz)

288 This world where men hump the ficus, show their naughty bits, grope women and rape the interns is a world in which I always suspected it was there, but I didn't want to let it in to my world.

But, here it is, crashing in to my world like the cowboys messing up Dom Delouise' French Mistake scene from "Blazing Saddles".

I am aghast, really. I worked in academia for many years and many the trollop offered herself to me, said she would do anything for a passing grade. Anything? I asked. Yes.

Study.

That was my advice. And get your leg off my desk.

It's really simple. Any time something like this comes up in my life I consider it to be a test of conscience. Like finding a wallet with cash on the street.

God is testing you. Will you let God down?

But then, I fear God. Many don't.

Posted by: navybrat at November 21, 2017 11:16 PM (w7KSn)

289 I'm out of Africa. Have to go to the store tomorrow.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 21, 2017 11:16 PM (IqV8l)

290 287. Heh....so was I.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 21, 2017 11:16 PM (fA1SL)

291
Thanks all. There's a window where I can take a shower, now. I'll try to post back, if I have the time.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at November 21, 2017 11:16 PM (8O3HH)

292 I have heard Henley is an ass, but wow.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at November 21, 2017 11:16 PM (PUmDY)

293
Where is the fucking tuition money going then?
Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2017 10:56 PM (f/e+k)


The sports programs, building bigger buildings, the retirement fund for full tenured staff, sufficient salaries to attract those "hero" administrators to be hand picked because they were the best at something, and stipends for politicians' makework and ceremonial positions because a politician need that extra cashflow to make sure the universities have more money from the tax revenues each biennium.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2017 11:17 PM (2K6fY)

294 Research has found European Mitochondrial DNA in the North American Ojibwa tribes, indicating some early migration from Europe to America, probably along the southern edge of the northern icecap during the latter part of glacial period(s).

We don't hear much about it for the same reason they shut down research on 100.00 year old Kenniwick Man in the Pacific Northwest.

The Narrative must be sustained.

Posted by: davidt at November 21, 2017 11:17 PM (cGz5Q)

295 280

All Right! you know how to treat this rockin' girl.

big grin

Posted by: booknlass at November 21, 2017 11:17 PM (9mZIr)

296
I worked in academia for many years and many the trollop offered herself to me, said she would do anything for a passing grade. Anything? I asked. Yes.

Study.


Eiger Sanction

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 21, 2017 11:17 PM (IqV8l)

297 >>Publius?

I was cracking on Insomniac in the hopes of giving Publius a chuckle

-----------

Yes, you gave me a chuckle, and I think Uncle Palp was joking as well. I mean, how dare you accuse me of being related to Insomniac, hah, hah?

Love you Insomniac. Not long time, but, love ya', brother.

Now, to the showers I go.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at November 21, 2017 11:19 PM (8O3HH)

298 No humans originated in Europe or Asia either IFAIK. All are "out of Africa" and even those in Africa now are recent immigrants for the most part. We all traveled here from somewhere else.

Posted by: geoffb at November 21, 2017 11:04 PM (zOpu5)

That theory is in its death throes, these days.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair


There was a yuuge Out Of Africa moment in 70000 BC or so, but there are serious questions about where and when the Neanders and Denisovans and "Other" came from.

Some researchers have been wondering about the Mediterranean. Some humanoid bones have been found in Morocco from 200000 years ago. Still Africa, technically, but historically more connected with Spain, Sicily etc.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 21, 2017 11:19 PM (6FqZa)

299 Sounds awful Publius. Too late for your situation, but for others: long term care insurance. You don't want to make the choice between liquidating assets to pay for good care or declaring poverty and letting medicaid pay, or struggle to do it yourself (or your kids). The last two years of my grandmothers life, my parents took care of her. It was a daily struggle.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 21, 2017 11:20 PM (BoMuO)

300 275 Where is the fucking tuition money going then?

Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2017 10:56 PM (f/e+k)

++++

More administrators. Someone has to develop new diversity guidelines. And then make sure they are adhered to.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 21, 2017 11:11 PM (pvjTE)

That and ultra-fancy, dorms, studen unions, sports facilities,..., The student union at my old school was quite basic - a lounge area, a cafeteria, and a bar in the basement (really! the drinking age was 18 then).

I was in the union they have now a few years ago. it was like the lobby of a fancy hotel - a fireplace, lots of plush sofas, much fancier food (no bar these days).

And dorm rooms have also gone upscale. Forget the boards and bricks and plastic milk cartons we used as book cases.

For many of these kids, I imagine that if they manage to get a job that enables them to move out of mom's basement, their first apartment will be a letdown compared to college.

When I hear millenials bitch about their loans and talk about how college in Europe is free, I remind them that the Euro students are not living in luxe dorms and those universities don't have semi-pro sports teams either.

Posted by: Donna&&&&V baby, it's cold outside at November 21, 2017 11:20 PM (P8951)

301 Research has found European Mitochondrial DNA in the North American Ojibwa tribes, indicating some early migration from Europe to America, probably along the southern edge of the northern icecap during the latter part of glacial period(s).

We don't hear much about it for the same reason they shut down research on 100.00 year old Kenniwick Man in the Pacific Northwest.

The Narrative must be sustained.

Posted by: davidt
*************************

They brought their dogs with them and when they got here they ate all the horses and mastodons.

Posted by: gNewt at November 21, 2017 11:20 PM (TD9KB)

302 298. So, annunaki confirmed?

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 21, 2017 11:21 PM (fA1SL)

303 The high end of pay for an adjunct position is $750/mo per course. Average is closer to $500/mo/course. I make... significantly less than that teaching English and humanities at a small conservative Christian college, which is why I'm still translating and editing and selling my art on CafePress and have just launched an Etsy shop, and why I'm probably not going to get my next book finished this year, either.

Yes, six part-time jobs, and I'm still barely keeping the lights on working from home in a town with a far lower cost of living than most college towns have.

And the thing is, I didn't have much choice. I graduated with my PhD and two years of non-ac experience in 2009. The editing job I had been promised was eliminated before I could even receive an official offer. There were no academic jobs in my field, and all the non-ac jobs were in places like NYC and/or required either two years' experience and no more than an MA or a PhD and five years' experience. By the time tenure-track jobs started opening up again, my health had deteriorated to the point that I couldn't hack four classes per semester plus committee work plus "publish or perish" nonsense. At least BCF allows me to teach from home and doesn't force me to teach the course with the hardest workload of all, freshman comp.

Sorry, MisHum. You're painting with way too broad a brush on this one.

Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at November 21, 2017 11:21 PM (3032H)

304 He seems to be asleep now, but at any time, it could be another 5-alarm shit storm.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at November 21, 2017 11:08 PM (8O3HH)

Depends.

All right, I joke, but isn't that what adult incontinence garments are for, minimizing the cleanup chores?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2017 11:21 PM (oPNmq)

305 Nothing against real teachers/profs here, but Prof Obama and that Univ. of Missouri teacher shows how much garbage that is.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at November 21, 2017 11:21 PM (PUmDY)

306 Posted by: navybrat at November 21, 2017 11:16 PM (w7KSn)

--Heh, a prof of mine had a tet-a-tet with a student:

"I really need an A in this class."

"Oh really?"

"Yeah, badly."

"So are you free Saturday from 5-8?"

"Oh yeah."

"Then study!!!"

--Maybe a legend rather than a genuine anecdote, but still rings true.

Posted by: logprof at November 21, 2017 11:22 PM (GsAUU)

307 Research has found European Mitochondrial DNA in the North American Ojibwa tribes,

No, they didn't. They found Central Eurasian mtDNA lineage X2a. In the late 1990s they were wondering if it was "European" but now they understand it's not.

I'm all ears about how I'm a servant of The Narrative though.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 21, 2017 11:22 PM (6FqZa)

308 Hard to imagine the nonsense that would have resulted from Sanders/Clinton free college proposals.
--

I know several people who were waiting with baited breath for Obama to simply forgive ALL college debt.

They were convinced he was going to do this.

Of course, they also got their news from John Stewart.

Posted by: Vyx at November 21, 2017 11:22 PM (aT+Bx)

309 When I go back to work next week I'll have to check the HR handbook to see if Frotteurism is specifically prohibited.

Posted by: Dave (in MA) at November 21, 2017 11:22 PM (/JyEh)

310 Farmer:

See my #159.

Posted by: IrishEi at November 21, 2017 11:23 PM (HiDrR)

311 I thought they made fancy cheese.Maybe if they don't wash regularly.

Posted by: Dave (in MA) at November 21, 2017 11:23 PM (/JyEh)

312 I mean, I'd boff any willing young co-ed taking one of my classes, I just wouldn't give it any weight when determining a final grade.

Is that wrong of me?

Posted by: broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter at November 21, 2017 11:23 PM (uuwor)

313 There was a yuuge Out Of Africa moment in 70000 BC or so, but there are serious questions about where and when the Neanders and Denisovans and "Other" came from.

Some researchers have been wondering about the Mediterranean. Some humanoid bones have been found in Morocco from 200000 years ago. Still Africa, technically, but historically more connected with Spain, Sicily etc.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 21, 2017 11:19 PM (6FqZa)

Duh, aliens!!!!

Posted by: Giorgio Tsoukalis at November 21, 2017 11:24 PM (GsAUU)

314 >>>No, they didn't. They found Central Eurasian mtDNA lineage X2a. In the
late 1990s they were wondering if it was "European" but now they
understand it's not.

Thank You for the correction.

Posted by: davidt at November 21, 2017 11:24 PM (cGz5Q)

315 So, annunaki confirmed?
--

That's what we're hoping for!

Posted by: Ancient Alien Producers at November 21, 2017 11:24 PM (aT+Bx)

316 When I was in med school, I was told my $50k tuition was only 5% of the cost to educate me for the year. The other 95% came from the state and "taxes" the school imposed on research grants the professors were awarded from the NIH and other government sources. And by the way, we are increasing your tuition $5000 next year.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 21, 2017 11:25 PM (BoMuO)

317 Isn't Charles Blow a pillow-biter?

NTTAWWT

Posted by: Giorgio Tsoukalis at November 21, 2017 11:25 PM (GsAUU)

318 /ALIENS!!! sock

Posted by: logprof at November 21, 2017 11:26 PM (GsAUU)

319 sorry about getting snippy, davidt.

I got into flamewars with the White Right about the Solutrean Hypothesis when it was a thing. They wuz kangs from da Norf.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 21, 2017 11:26 PM (6FqZa)

320 When I hear millenials bitch about their loans and talk about how college in Europe is free, I remind them that the Euro students are not living in luxe dorms and those universities don't have semi-pro sports teams either.
Posted by: Donna&&&&V baby, it's cold outside at November 21, 2017 11:20 PM (P8951)


They should see the accommodations in European colleges. They're much like those at Gordon Conferences - scientific conferences for invited elite researchers - which are routinely held in prep schools in the Northeast, where the living accommodations are ... Spartan. Nobody complains.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 21, 2017 11:26 PM (YqDXo)

321 All this talk of mitochondrial this and Eurasian that got me wondering, so did one of those Ancestry DNA tests.

Came back negative.

Posted by: ibguy at November 21, 2017 11:26 PM (vUcdz)

322
Sorry, MisHum. You're painting with way too broad a brush on this one.
Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at November 21, 2017 11:21 PM (3032H)

Did you read the article?

If you're qualified to teach at a college or a university then you are qualified to teach at a HS or lower grade school. You or the homeless babe may not want to teach at HS. But teaching at a HS sure as hell beats living out of your car.

Isn't teaching suppose to be about the students and not the teacher's ego?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 21, 2017 11:27 PM (3/sUh)

323 CBS says the most important thing an organization must do is ensure a safe, professional workplace.

Ok, that is important. In the case of a business I'd say the most important thing is to make money.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 21, 2017 11:27 PM (4ErVI)

324 >>When I was in med school, I was told my $50k tuition was only 5% of the cost to educate me for the year.



That sounds like Nancy Pelosi type math, to me.

Posted by: garrett at November 21, 2017 11:27 PM (lgWNz)

325 Some researchers have been wondering about the
Mediterranean. Some humanoid bones have been found in Morocco from
200000 years ago. Still Africa, technically, but historically more
connected with Spain, Sicily etc.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 21, 2017 11:19 PM (6FqZa)

Much of the Mediterranean Sea was dry land 'round about the time that early humans were developing. Possibly some of them got established in what was probably lush land around the salt lakes in the deepest part of the basin. I know villages have been discerned on the sea bed south of France.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2017 11:28 PM (oPNmq)

326 University sports program can pay for themselves. Especially the popular men's programs at large universities. Football, basketball, etc. I think it makes sense for the programs that are self sustaining. Of course, Title IX requires that universities that have men's programs also have women's programs. But, women's sports are seldom profitable. So the men's programs have to carry the weight for both.

Where it doesn't make sense is at smaller schools that don't have either the funding nor the public interest in supporting the sports with their money. Those programs should be ended. University should be about education and anything that takes resources away from that goal should be terminated.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 21, 2017 11:28 PM (pvjTE)

327 The other 95% came from the state and "taxes" the school imposed on research grants the professors were awarded from the NIH and other government sources.

Which is why adjuncts are not highly valued. Faculty in the sciences, engineering, and medicine bring in beaucoup bucks that cover the operating costs of the university. Those in the humanities, most of the social sciences, and adjuncts bring in bupkis.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 21, 2017 11:29 PM (YqDXo)

328 321. DNA negative, you say?

You're in the desert, ibguy. You look down and see a tortoise......

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 21, 2017 11:29 PM (fA1SL)

329 254 242 Canadian Army's answer to the US Navy dick drawers.

http://bit.ly/2mOXf9k
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Dreaming of a White Privilege at November 21, 2017 11:02 PM (+y/Ru)

--There is no Canadian Army.

It's the Canadian Armed Forces, combined.

What a bunch of Canuckaphobes here.
Posted by: logprof


Well, any country that would disband their airborne...

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at November 21, 2017 11:29 PM (di1hb)

330 Okay, serious question for the Horde.

I know, we don't do serious well. I might be one of the worst offenders. But I'm feeling lucid, so I'll go for it.

At the company I work at, I was the Staff Accountant. Been doing it since the end of February, so about 9 months. I came into the job with no financial/accounting background and I think I've done a pretty good job so far.

Our CFO, my supervisor, is leaving. In his place is going to be a much older guy, a consultant, sort of a turn-around specialist. He's very buttoned-down, very by the books. I think it's a positive change.

However - I've just been doing what I was taught to do. The outgoing CFO called it a 'band-aid' approach. It was keeping the disease at bay, but it was making any real forward progress. I'm not the 'Accounting Manager'; not sure it mean much beyond a slight raise, those since our new CFO is a 1099 employee, I am our primary AP and AR contact.

My company is willing to send me back to school to get a Masters of Accountancy. But with my schedule, that would take years.

Does anyone know of a good research - Kahn Academy, a specific textbook, a series of lectures - that would be a quick crash course on Accounting 101?

Posted by: broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter at November 21, 2017 11:29 PM (uuwor)

331 University sports program can pay for themselves. Especially the popular men's programs at large universities. Football, basketball, etc. I think it makes sense for the programs that are self sustaining./i]

Realistically, the top 20 schools' athletic programs make money. The rest ... not so much.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 21, 2017 11:30 PM (YqDXo)

332 All this wandering about between Continents on Land Bridges and Ice shelves...

shouldn't we have called them Meanderthals

Posted by: garrett at November 21, 2017 11:30 PM (lgWNz)

333 What is the Soultrain Hypothesis?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 21, 2017 11:30 PM (IqV8l)

334 328 Palp

Well, it *is* turtles all the way down....

(With apologies to Mitch McConnell. Not)

Posted by: ibguy at November 21, 2017 11:30 PM (vUcdz)

335 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_history_of_indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 21, 2017 11:30 PM (e9G8E)

336 325 Some researchers have been wondering about the
Mediterranean. Some humanoid bones have been found in Morocco from
200000 years ago. Still Africa, technically, but historically more
connected with Spain, Sicily etc.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 21, 2017 11:19 PM (6FqZa)

Much of the Mediterranean Sea was dry land 'round about the time that early humans were developing. Possibly some of them got established in what was probably lush land around the salt lakes in the deepest part of the basin. I know villages have been discerned on the sea bed south of France.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2017 11:28 PM (oPNmq)

It really is amazing how the earth changes over time. If you go far enough back there were oceans that don't exist now. Oceans. That just blows the mind.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 21, 2017 11:31 PM (4ErVI)

337 Elisabeth G. Wolfe --- your story shows how it is, and I'd like to compliment you on your perseverance, your creative spark, and your courage. I wish you stamina, raises, and some ease along the way!

Take care.

Posted by: booknlass at November 21, 2017 11:31 PM (9mZIr)

338 Bleh, typos all over the place.

*it wasn't making any real forward progress

*not sure it means much beyond

*I'm now the 'Accounting Manager'

*a good resource

Posted by: broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter at November 21, 2017 11:32 PM (uuwor)

339 332 garrett

/golf clap

Posted by: ibguy at November 21, 2017 11:32 PM (vUcdz)

340 You can get that liquor store sign as a t-shirt:
https://preview.tinyurl.com/yaqqtdxv

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 21, 2017 11:32 PM (0ReGO)

341 If you're qualified to teach at a college or a university then you are qualified to teach at a HS or lower grade school.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 21, 2017 11:27 PM (3/sUh)


Uh ... not "qualified" in the legal sense. The teachers' union has a hammerlock on public school jobs. I don't know about all states but in most you can't teach in a public K-12 without a bullshit education certificate. Not hard to get but it costs time and money and the coursework is guaranteed to drive anyone with a brain absolutely bonkers. It doesn't matter if you taught university courses for 40 years; the public high schools and elementary schools won't you let teach without a certificate in Bullshit.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 21, 2017 11:32 PM (8gDQu)

342 332 All this wandering about between Continents on Land Bridges and Ice shelves...

shouldn't we have called them Meanderthals
Posted by: garrett at November 21, 2017 11:30 PM (lgWNz)

--Wokka wokka wokka!

Posted by: logprof at November 21, 2017 11:32 PM (GsAUU)

343 Land bridge from Libya to Sicily?

Posted by: gNewt at November 21, 2017 11:33 PM (TD9KB)

344 342 logprof

I read that as "wodka, wodka,wodka"

Hunh.

Posted by: ibguy at November 21, 2017 11:34 PM (vUcdz)

345 was in the union they have now a few years ago. it was like the lobby of a fancy hotel - a fireplace, lots of plush sofas, much fancier food (no bar these days).

IU was on a building boom a few years ago. The buildings are architectural masterpieces. They spent $1 BILLION building a new hospital that is essentially the county general/ uninsured/ obamacare hospital. Glass and stainless steel, fountains, original artwork, atriums. Why not scale back to half a billion and spend the other half on equipment/ patient care? Different pots of money. Government grants for the building, government grants for the equipment.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 21, 2017 11:34 PM (BoMuO)

346 Does anyone know of a good research - Kahn Academy, a specific textbook, a series of lectures - that would be a quick crash course on Accounting 101?
Posted by: broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter at November 21, 2017 11:29 PM (uuwor)


Dunno whether Khan Academy offers anything of the kind, but a low-tech solution is the college outline series. I once attended an intensive week-long course at Wharton on finance and accounting for the non-financial professional, which gave me a basic understanding. The question is, would that suffice for your needs?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 21, 2017 11:34 PM (YqDXo)

347 344 342 logprof

I read that as "wodka, wodka,wodka"

Hunh.
Posted by: ibguy at November 21, 2017 11:34 PM (vUcdz)

--Heh.

Wessels.

Posted by: logprof at November 21, 2017 11:34 PM (GsAUU)

348 344. Pollak status - confirmed!

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 21, 2017 11:35 PM (fA1SL)

349 Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 21, 2017 11:30 PM (e9G8E

--------

Thanks, baby.

*Lights one up*.



Posted by: The Margins at November 21, 2017 11:35 PM (BgC3U)

350 I am always delighted to encounter a 'poor Indians wiped out by vicious Europeans who introduced smallpox and other diseases to North America' lecture. I get to send them madly scurrying to their Google devices when I give them a brief into to microbiology, biology and history.

Kircher and van Leeuwenhoeck discover 'animacules' while exploring with their home-built microscopes in the middle to late 1600s.

Pasteur and Koch develop the science of bacteriology in the 1870s.

So how did 18th century Europeans know to deliberately infect Indians with European diseases in the 1700s?

Medical science was still arguing about the need for aseptic surgery in the early 1900s.

Posted by: Lurking Cynic at November 21, 2017 11:35 PM (6TMcS)

351 I love how Haitians don't want to go back. The Clinton Foundation was making it a better place!

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at November 21, 2017 11:35 PM (PUmDY)

352 If you're qualified to teach at a college or a university then you are qualified to teach at a HS or lower grade school.

Not in Texas, you're not. You might--*might*--be able to get emergency certification if the school district reallytruly needs you, but eventually you still have to jump through the hoops of proper certification, which (if I remember my cousin's disastrous experience correctly) includes getting a mentor who will tell you the precise phrasing of the answers you need to give on the standardized testing and whatnot. Expectations placed on HS teachers are even more insane than at the college level, and that's not counting CommieCore and, for those of us with compromised immune systems, the pervasive problem of Other People's Germs.

It's truly not as easy as you think it is.

Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at November 21, 2017 11:36 PM (3032H)

353
Max and Aida went in for surgery at the vet's today, Max to become Maxine, Aida to have some fatty tumors removed. Both are now home and resting comfortably (at least no vocal complaints).

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2017 11:36 PM (IFMRo)

354 343 gNewt

No, silly, land bridge from the West Bank to Gaza.

Geeze, Louise!

-Vox

Posted by: ibguy at November 21, 2017 11:36 PM (vUcdz)

355 Much of the Mediterranean Sea was dry land 'round about the time that early humans were developing. Possibly some of them got established in what was probably lush land around the salt lakes in the deepest part of the basin. I know villages have been discerned on the sea bed south of France.


So you are saying the early humans caused global warming that melted the icecaps and flooded what is now the Mediterranean Sea?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 21, 2017 11:36 PM (BoMuO)

356 the public high schools and elementary schools won't you let teach without a certificate in Bullshit.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair

The Ed. degree was more than I could bear.

But I hold a Substitute Teaching License. It cost me, in the state of good old Illinois, 250 smackeroos.

Posted by: booknlass at November 21, 2017 11:37 PM (9mZIr)

357 Guns N Boobs ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/933037690626420738

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/933037777486254081

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/933037873493954566

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/933037965743460352

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/933038087927750656

Posted by: kbdabear at November 21, 2017 11:37 PM (eh0Va)

358 CrazyDaysAndNights reader?

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at November 21, 2017 11:15 PM (1JnAL)

Yep. Found it last week, and that was one of the recent posts that day.

Also that the DOJ was going to sue to stop the Time Warner merger.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at November 21, 2017 11:37 PM (2kiKp)

359 Thanks, booknlass, and same to you.

Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at November 21, 2017 11:38 PM (3032H)

360 I blew teh margins?

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 21, 2017 11:38 PM (e9G8E)

361 Much of the Mediterranean Sea was dry land 'round about the time that early humans were developing. Possibly some of them got established in what was probably lush land around the salt lakes in the deepest part of the basin. I know villages have been discerned on the sea bed south of France.

Some have speculated that "The Flood" re Noah's Ark occurred when the Atlantic finally breached the Straits of Gibraltar. No idea how plausible that is, but it's fascinating speculation.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 21, 2017 11:38 PM (YqDXo)

362 More Guns N Boobs ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/933038191388610561

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/933038283088695297

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/933038415897153536

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/933038505336373248

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/933038605731287040

Posted by: kbdabear at November 21, 2017 11:38 PM (eh0Va)

363 Ok, that is important. In the case of a business I'd say the most important thing is to make money.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 21, 2017 11:27 PM (4ErVI)


And reduce the exposure to unforseen economic risks . . . Like getting slapped with 15 harassment and rape charges because Senior VPs were using the middle management as a dating pool.

And ensure future success of the organization through intelligent and forward looking hiring and promotion policies. . . instead of promoting secretaries and the not so competent to upper management because they preform well under a desk and might otherwise talk.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2017 11:38 PM (2K6fY)

364 Anyone else find amazon echo commercials really, really annoying?

Posted by: josephistan at November 21, 2017 11:38 PM (ANIFC)

365 So you are saying the early humans caused global warming that melted the icecaps and flooded what is now the Mediterranean Sea?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 21, 2017 11:36 PM (BoMuO)

Climate change also got you Donald Trump!

Posted by: Washington Post at November 21, 2017 11:38 PM (GsAUU)

366 There must be some accounting courses available on-line. If any of the traditional "paper-pusher" occupations was more suited to on-line training, I can't think of one. In old magazines, I'd always see ads for correspondence courses in accounting.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2017 11:38 PM (oPNmq)

367 Didn't Bowie record "Fame" with John Lennon?

Posted by: tankdemon at November 21, 2017 11:39 PM (j3kC7)

368 Off for a nap good friends. I'm trying those Breathe-Rite things to see if I can sleep better thru the night.

Be well,
T

Posted by: Farmer - 2017 GNAMM Survivor at November 21, 2017 11:39 PM (yJ1e6)

369 Not in Texas, you're not.



Texas certainly has some throwbacks to its Blue days. Most military docs I worked with got licensed in other states because it is so difficult and costly to get a medical license in TX. But if they wanted to moonlight outside of their military job, they had to jump through the hoops.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 21, 2017 11:39 PM (BoMuO)

370 I blew teh margins?
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 21, 2017 11:38 PM (e9G8E

---------

Yeah, baby. Thanks again.

Posted by: The Margins at November 21, 2017 11:40 PM (BgC3U)

371 standardized testing and whatnot. Expectations placed on HS teachers are even more insane than at the college level, and that's not counting CommieCore and, for those of us with compromised immune systems, the pervasive problem of Other People's Germs.

It's truly not as easy as you think it is.

Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at
****************************

So, you actually must do something. Damn this world is cold.

You should run for the Senate. Harry Reid remodeled that building to protect them from *other peoples*.

Posted by: gNewt at November 21, 2017 11:41 PM (TD9KB)

372 357 Guns N Boobs ONT Compliance Pics

--kbd, she comes with her own gun rack!

Posted by: Washington Post at November 21, 2017 11:41 PM (GsAUU)

373 One of my favorite Soul Train performances...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YYooJOWH_60

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at November 21, 2017 11:42 PM (PUmDY)

374 I feel so cheap and dirty...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 21, 2017 11:42 PM (e9G8E)

375 It's truly not as easy as you think it is.
Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at November 21, 2017 11:36 PM (3032H)

Well, there are other states than Texas. WI for one doesn't have quite the rigid rules you mentioned.

And what it boils down to, if you want to do something, then you can make it happen. Nothing is given to anyone.

And I stand by my original statement, there is no excuse for the center of the story to be living the life she is.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 21, 2017 11:42 PM (3/sUh)

376 yes.

Bowie. Lennon. Fame.

Posted by: garrett at November 21, 2017 11:42 PM (lgWNz)

377 Ms Wolfe is probably the last person who needs anyone (let alone moi) white-knighting her, but I think folks should be like Francis and lighten up.

Posted by: ibguy at November 21, 2017 11:43 PM (vUcdz)

378 Uh ... not "qualified" in the legal sense. The teachers' union has a hammerlock on public school jobs. I don't know about all states but in most you can't teach in a public K-12 without a bullshit education certificate. Not hard to get but it costs time and money and the coursework is guaranteed to drive anyone with a brain absolutely bonkers. It doesn't matter if you taught university courses for 40 years; the public high schools and elementary schools won't you let teach without a certificate in Bullshit.


Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 21, 2017 11:32 PM



I can attest to this. I gave it a shot. The bullshit that involved in an "education qual" for HS was soul destroying. They told us straight up they didn't want "teachers", but community shepherds and PC mind molders. Part child minder, part kommissar. I couldn't finish it. It was mind blowingly bad. A couple of the staff pleaded with me to continue (they must have seen something possibly "old school" of value) but, I couldn't hack it. I had signed on to be a fucking teacher, not some bullshiut something or other that I couldn't even wrap my head around.

Posted by: otho at November 21, 2017 11:44 PM (qGuLD)

379 So you are saying the early humans caused global warming that melted the icecaps and flooded what is now the Mediterranean Sea?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 21, 2017 11:36 PM (BoMuO)

The Med ceased being a dry depression when the Straits of Gibraltar opened up. There may have been more than one open/close cycle there, IIRC. Must have been quite a sight: huge cataract of green sea water rushing in, whales frolicking in the surf...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2017 11:44 PM (oPNmq)

380 /Jeff Bezos Blog

Posted by: logprof at November 21, 2017 11:44 PM (GsAUU)

381 Does anyone know of a good research - Kahn Academy, a specific textbook, a series of lectures - that would be a quick crash course on Accounting 101?
Posted by: broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter at November 21, 2017 11:29 PM (uuwor)

tons of online courses / youtube lectures / etc.

If you want to go old school, I'd pick up a managerial accounting textbook used on amazon or even an accounting 101 book.

I dont know, accounting is really easy. Debits and Credits. Addition and Subtraction. Double Entry.

All you really need to know.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 21, 2017 11:44 PM (wmaTe)

382 In a former life I was the NSA Whidbey account manager for my IT firm, #2 in the US at the time. This story made me smile when I heard it on the local news. When I saw the crude rendition I wondered what the outrage was about.

Posted by: Pike Place Pete at November 21, 2017 11:44 PM (QbqVr)

383 One of my favorite and most touching WWII stories from an old Red Army friend. Berlin. He's taking shelter in a cellar and comes face to face with a German. They're both armed, both scared, both seeking safety and rest for a short while. Hand signs and they lower their weapons and sit in the dark. He shares a cig with his new friend, who shares a little bottle of schnapps.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 21, 2017 11:45 PM (fA1SL)

384 379 AOP

I'm a frolicker.

- Zombie John Pinette

Posted by: ibguy at November 21, 2017 11:45 PM (vUcdz)

385 >>>sorry about getting snippy, davidt.

LOL, I was just thinking to myself how people get kinda grumpy this time of year.

Posted by: Max Power at November 21, 2017 11:45 PM (q177U)

386 361,
"Some have speculated that "The Flood" re Noah's Ark occurred when the
Atlantic finally breached the Straits of Gibraltar. No idea how
plausible that is, but it's fascinating speculation."


I thought that happened long before humans were around there but, (must search some I guess.)

Posted by: geoffb at November 21, 2017 11:46 PM (zOpu5)

387 Substitute teaching, that's somewhere between a firing squad and one's first night doing stand up comedy.

Posted by: gNewt at November 21, 2017 11:46 PM (TD9KB)

388 The Teaching Company always has good quality information. They may have something on Accounting.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at November 21, 2017 11:46 PM (IDhUW)

389 gNewt, I'm not at all sure how to take that comment. My mom's a librarian. She has a stronger immune system than I have and uses hand sanitizer every chance she gets throughout the workday, and she's still always catching infections from her patrons. My not wanting to spend half the school year unable to function because of catching every germ that's floating around the halls has nothing to do with Our Betters In Washington (feh!) not wanting to mingle with the hoi polloi.

Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at November 21, 2017 11:46 PM (3032H)

390 Bowie did lots with Iggy Pop way back when.

I think they recorded some music, too.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2017 11:46 PM (2K6fY)

391 The Ed. degree was more than I could bear.

Posted by: booknlass at November 21, 2017 11:37 PM (9mZIr)


I hear you.

I had this conversation with a Chinese guy back when I was in grad school. It was the early 90s and academic jobs for Math PhDs weren't very abundant back then. Lots of people were getting their degrees and having no luck finding positions. So, the CHinese guy said to me, "No problem. If they can't get a university position they can teach high school." I told him that that was a nice thought but it just wasn't how things work here. A PhD in Math doesn't "qualify" one to teach math to 5th graders. He was a bit perplexed but I told him that, as a commie, he should understand that.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 21, 2017 11:47 PM (8gDQu)

392 383. In the quiet, they found a few hours' peace and rest. After a while, Anatoli heard the German sort of snoring. He rose, quietly, and beat the man's head in with a hunk of masonry, so as not to make any noise.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 21, 2017 11:47 PM (fA1SL)

393 The good citerzens of Brattleboro want to wish Presdent and Micheal Obama a Happy Thanksgiverin. We still love you and miss you. Please run for Presdnt again so we can get rid of that idiot TRump !!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro at November 21, 2017 11:47 PM (u54O2)

394 If you want to go old school, I'd pick up a managerial accounting textbook used on amazon or even an accounting 101 book.

I dont know, accounting is really easy. Debits and Credits. Addition and Subtraction. Double Entry.

All you really need to know.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 21, 2017 11:44 PM (wmaTe)


You just have to keep your books straight. One for the legitimate business, and one for other business.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 21, 2017 11:48 PM (BoMuO)

395 If you want to go old school, I'd pick up a managerial accounting textbook used on amazon or even an accounting 101 book.

I dont know, accounting is really easy. Debits and Credits. Addition and Subtraction. Double Entry.

All you really need to know.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 21, 2017 11:44 PM (wmaTe)

------!-

Base level accounting? Sure.

If you want to work your way into Finance, which is where the money is, totally different skill and training set.

Posted by: Side draft at November 21, 2017 11:49 PM (BgC3U)

396 So, you actually must do something. Damn this world is cold.

Posted by: gNewt at November 21, 2017 11:41 PM (TD9KB)


Being forced to take bullshit education courses is "doing something" the same way digging a hole and then filling it back in is "doing something" ... only the education courses are less constructive.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 21, 2017 11:49 PM (8gDQu)

397 You just have to keep your books straight. One for the legitimate business, and one for other business.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 21, 2017 11:48 PM (BoMuO)

Truth.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 21, 2017 11:49 PM (wmaTe)

398 I'll take ibuy's advice after linking this.

https://tinyurl.com/y9jutav7

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 21, 2017 11:49 PM (3/sUh)

399 394 Cat

https://youtu.be/1cYOcrom8WE

(Classic Newhart)

Posted by: ibguy at November 21, 2017 11:49 PM (vUcdz)

400 OK class, what is The ONT rule? Don't stick.........


*****


...your chewing gum on the underside of Grandma's dining table?




Good evening all. What did I miss?

Posted by: Muldoon at November 21, 2017 11:49 PM (wPiJc)

401 >>>392
383. In the quiet, they found a few hours' peace and rest. After a
while, Anatoli heard the German sort of snoring. He rose, quietly, and
beat the man's head in with a hunk of masonry, so as not to make any
noise.



Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 21, 2017 11:47 PM (fA1SL)

I was hoping this tale had a happy ending...


Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 21, 2017 11:50 PM (e9G8E)

402 Base level accounting? Sure.

If you want to work your way into Finance, which is where the money is, totally different skill and training set.

Posted by: Side draft at November 21, 2017 11:49 PM (BgC3U)

Yes, then you need to learn finance, not accounting. Also fairly straightforward, but a little more math.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 21, 2017 11:50 PM (wmaTe)

403 Some have speculated that "The Flood" re Noah's Ark occurred when the Atlantic finally breached the Straits of Gibraltar. No idea how plausible that is, but it's fascinating speculation.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 21, 2017 11:38 PM (YqDXo)


With the last Ice Age ending seas were rising precipitously all over. There was A LOT of water.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 21, 2017 11:50 PM (8gDQu)

404 401. I said the same thing to Anatoli when he told me the story. 'It was a happy ending. I survived.'

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 21, 2017 11:51 PM (fA1SL)

405 "Some have speculated that "The Flood" re Noah's Ark occurred when the
Atlantic finally breached the Straits of Gibraltar. No idea how
plausible that is, but it's fascinating speculation."


It was that or when the Bosporus opened up and created the Black Sea

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 21, 2017 11:51 PM (BoMuO)

406 398 MisHum

Heh.

Posted by: ibguy at November 21, 2017 11:51 PM (vUcdz)

407 With the last Ice Age ending seas were rising precipitously all over. There was A LOT of water.


Those damn humans. Create fire, melt the glaciers.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 21, 2017 11:52 PM (BoMuO)

408 I don't know if Bowie/Lennon ever performed Fame. I know Lennon cowrote it.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at November 21, 2017 11:52 PM (PUmDY)

409 Pelosi is already talking about well of course Conyers should get an ethics hearing.

From a body that hasn't ever convicted or charged anyone with anything. Acquittals all around!

At this point we either burn the motherfucker down or set up another government to police the government we already have.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 21, 2017 11:53 PM (4ErVI)

410 With the last Ice Age ending seas were rising precipitously all over. There was A LOT of water.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 21, 2017 11:50 PM (8gDQu)

Global Warming!!!!!!!!111!!!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at November 21, 2017 11:53 PM (JNqRY)

411 Thanks, ibguy.

MisHum, did you miss the part about the five other part-time jobs I'm working and my not being healthy enough to teach HS, even if I got a job offer in WI that would make it worth my while to move that far and put up with the winters that far north? I have TRIED to find other work, believe me, but so far, every door has closed except the position I have and the freelance clients I've held onto.

Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at November 21, 2017 11:53 PM (3032H)

412 It was that or when the Bosporus opened up and created the Black Sea

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 21, 2017 11:51 PM (BoMuO)


Right. Not the Straits of Gibraltar.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 21, 2017 11:53 PM (8gDQu)

413 387 Substitute teaching, that's somewhere between a firing squad and one's first night doing stand up comedy.
Posted by: gNewt


You put that very well. You've done it then?

Posted by: booknlass at November 21, 2017 11:55 PM (9mZIr)

414 Yes, then you need to learn finance, not accounting. Also fairly straightforward, but a little more math.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 21, 2017 11:50 PM (wmaTe)

--------

These days it is anything but straightforward. There are more twists than a pigs tail.

Can you define "Mezannine Financing", and how it all works?

Posted by: Side draft at November 21, 2017 11:55 PM (BgC3U)

415
After a while, Anatoli heard the German sort of snoring. He rose, quietly, and beat the man's head in with a hunk of masonry, so as not to make any noise.

Snoopy and the Red Baron Christmas.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 21, 2017 11:55 PM (IqV8l)

416 Can you define "Mezannine Financing", and how it all works?

Posted by: Side draft at November 21, 2017 11:55 PM (BgC3U)


I could but it's a bit bazaar.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 21, 2017 11:56 PM (8gDQu)

417 Yes, then you need to learn finance, not accounting.


This is where I explain that I am not too bright.

I did an MBA. I had a liberal arts degree, so I didn't really know anything MBAish, but I knew I wanted to be a finance major because it was the 80s and NYC and the cool kids did finance.

So, first semester before you're allowed to take any finance courses you have to take a 6 credit accounting course. I hated it. Accounting was stupid. Also I wasn't here to learn accounting, I was here to learn finance because finance is for the cool kids.

Of course, next semester when I get to take finance it turns out that all of the numbers come from accounting, so I basically had to go back and teach myself the accounting.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at November 21, 2017 11:56 PM (gIRsn)

418 405 "Some have speculated that "The Flood" re Noah's Ark occurred when the
Atlantic finally breached the Straits of Gibraltar. No idea how
plausible that is, but it's fascinating speculation."


It was that or when the Bosporus opened up and created the Black Sea
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 21, 2017 11:51 PM (BoMuO)



Maybe it was when the first allegations of sexual harassment surfaced ...

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 21, 2017 11:56 PM (YqDXo)

419 I'd read the biblical deluge was caused when Lake Agassiz (in Canadia) drained suddenly into Hudson Bay and thence into the Atlantic, disrupting the Gulf Stream and triggering the Younger Dryas climate catastrope c. 12,000 years ago... That, and aliens...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 21, 2017 11:56 PM (e9G8E)

420 It was that or when the Bosporus opened up and created the Black Sea

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 21, 2017 11:51 PM (BoMuO)

I prefer to call it the Strait of Constantinople, personally.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 21, 2017 11:56 PM (wmaTe)

421 G'Night, Horde!

*static*

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at November 21, 2017 11:57 PM (Ckg4U)

422 The suggestion that syphilis was sent to Europe via Columbus's crew is simple - but possibly wrong.

A growing body of evidence suggests that it had been around European civilization much longer than that. Hippocrates described a disease path that may have been syphilis. Many of the biblical and medieval 'lepers' suffered symptoms that may have been, instead, syphilis. Many skeletal remains from Pompeii and Roman catacombs show syphilitic-like osteo damage.

These studies have raised the hypothesis that personality and character changes many historical persons displayed beginning in their early 50s may be the onset of syphilitic dementia.

Yellow Fever, however, was probably first encountered by Europeans in the New World.

Posted by: Lurking Cynic at November 21, 2017 11:57 PM (6TMcS)

423 Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at November 21, 2017 11:53 PM (3032H)

No Elisabeth I didn't miss the part you are working hard and not living in your car.



Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 21, 2017 11:57 PM (3/sUh)

424 415. Yeah....Russian-style. Lord, that war made savages of men.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 21, 2017 11:57 PM (fA1SL)

425 I read that as "wodka, wodka,wodka"


*****

I had a lecturer in microbiology inform the class one day that "Wiruses make you womit."

Posted by: Muldoon at November 21, 2017 11:58 PM (wPiJc)

426 A PhD in Math doesn't "qualify" one to teach math to 5th graders.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair

it's that creeping Kafkaesque bureaucracy/ long march

common sense is so uncommon

Posted by: booknlass at November 21, 2017 11:58 PM (9mZIr)

427 Max and Aida went in for surgery at the vet's today, Max to become Maxine, Aida to have some fatty tumors removed. Both are now home and resting comfortably (at least no vocal complaints).
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Glad to hear your pets are home and recovering nicely. What was the determining factor(s) in the fatty tumor removal? My GSD has one on the muscle tissue on his hind leg that I'm thinking should be removed.

Posted by: viking at November 21, 2017 11:58 PM (6y/kW)

428 Being forced to take bullshit education courses is "doing something" the same way digging a hole and then filling it back in is "doing something" ... only the education courses are less constructive.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 21, 2017 11:49 PM (8gDQu)
**************************

The context here is to have a teaching job or not to have a teaching job. If you are a college prof without a college all that's necessary to do is apply for a temp certificate and verify you are taking classes.
That's job, work, a check every two weeks. Then you can get on with you life instead of whining you are a college prof and can't get a job. Sorry I've no sympathy.

Sitting around bitching that education classes suck is not a job it's sitting around.

Posted by: gNewt at November 21, 2017 11:58 PM (TD9KB)

429 Posted by: Bandersnatch at November 21, 2017 11:56 PM (gIRsn)

I, too, have an MBA. I found accounting easy (but had been exposed to it in HS and college), and finance... less easy, but only because my statistics skills weren't / aren't really up to par. but not super difficult.

Can you define "Mezannine Financing", and how it all works?

Posted by: Side draft at November 21, 2017 11:55 PM (BgC3U)

I could certainly google it if you'd like.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 21, 2017 11:58 PM (wmaTe)

430 teej!
As usual, we have all the timing of a French farce. I left the last thread for my Tuesday Must-see TV.

Will check back here tonight.

Posted by: Shopgirl: #raisedRoyal at November 21, 2017 11:59 PM (C8sF1)

431 Lennon's voice is heard interjecting the falsetto "Fame" throughout the song.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fame_%28David_Bowie_song%29

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 22, 2017 12:00 AM (FUu/Z)

432 Sitting around bitching that education classes suck is not a job it's sitting around.

Posted by: gNewt at November 21, 2017 11:58 PM (TD9KB)


It's not "sitting around"; it's a hobby.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 22, 2017 12:00 AM (8gDQu)

433 Watson's "Great Divide" points out that there are flood myths in almost every nonAfrican culture on the planet. He thinks, because there were floods on some very important shorelines after the Ice Age. Sundaland, Beringia, Med, Black Sea . . .

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 22, 2017 12:00 AM (6FqZa)

434 You put that very well. You've done it then?

Posted by: booknlass
***********************

Yes mam.

Posted by: gNewt at November 22, 2017 12:00 AM (TD9KB)

435 gNewt, did you bring a hip flask?

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 22, 2017 12:03 AM (6FqZa)

436 gNewt, I'm happy to say three of my part time jobs have given me more hours, so I've not needed to substitute at all this school year.

And today the owner of the quilt shop where I've worked since late summer told me she wants to hire me full time.

Great news! But I'll stay with the P.O. as well, since they offer good insurance for 80 a month, even to part-timers.

Posted by: booknlass at November 22, 2017 12:04 AM (9mZIr)

437 I could certainly google it if you'd like.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 21, 2017 11:58 PM (wmaTe)

-----

I will take that as a "no" and simply move forward. I hope you have a good night and a great Holiday with family and friends.

Posted by: Side draft at November 22, 2017 12:05 AM (BgC3U)

438 Elisabeth, I did miss the part about you working.
I apologize for being so brusk.

You may be interested in private tutoring. My cousin did it online and said it paid well.

Posted by: gNewt at November 22, 2017 12:06 AM (TD9KB)

439 So Mr. WDS just finished his pate of turkey hearts and livers and I am chopping vegetables. Woohoo! Can't wait for Thursday.

And we will be celebrating our first anniversary

Posted by: westminsterdogshow........GNAMM ette at November 22, 2017 12:06 AM (mMeIQ)

440 Bowie on Soul Train was very fantastic.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at November 22, 2017 12:07 AM (PUmDY)

441 439 So Mr. WDS just finished his pate of turkey hearts and livers and I am chopping vegetables. Woohoo! Can't wait for Thursday.

And we will be celebrating our first anniversary
Posted by: westminsterdogshow........GNAMM ette at November 22, 2017 12:06 AM (mMeIQ


Eventually the magic wears off

Posted by: The husband who no longer looks both ways when crossing the street at November 22, 2017 12:07 AM (3/sUh)

442 So sad about David Cassidy. Weird that his TV "mom" has outlived him.

Dayan HaEmet.

Posted by: ibguy at November 22, 2017 12:07 AM (vUcdz)

443 Sorry if I'm overly defensive, gang. Hanging on by your fingernails for eight years and change does tend to make the nerves a bit raw.

I do want to say thanks to MisHum for the ONTs, though. I normally enjoy them; this one just got to me.

And with that, I'm out. Nitol.

Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at November 22, 2017 12:07 AM (3032H)

444 congratulations, westminster!! happy for you. I enjoy your joy!

Posted by: booknlass at November 22, 2017 12:08 AM (9mZIr)

445 I really like the quote of Fyodor Dostoevsky. He certainly had enough troubles in his life to be able to speak authentically about finding joy in life despite that. Great writer too. Rad several months ago, "In the House of the Dead". Grim book but even in that there are glimpses of joy too.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2017 12:08 AM (8+Ozj)

446 439 WDS

Mazel tov!

Posted by: ibguy at November 22, 2017 12:08 AM (vUcdz)

447 goodnight Elisabeth

Posted by: booknlass at November 22, 2017 12:09 AM (9mZIr)

448 In 'Titan', Chernow reported that Rockefeller's greatest asset was his meticulous book-keeping and accounting. He kept a daily log of his personal expenses well into his old age and monitored his companies through his accounting skills.

Posted by: Lurking Cynic at November 22, 2017 12:09 AM (6TMcS)

449 Evenin Horde of Thankfulness.....

All the BEST to all the Ron's and Ette's here at this Magnificent Bastion of Freedom.

That silly nitwit Mayim...(a kinder, gentler description, heh).....I've been confronted with her type of "reason" before.....and I simply answer, "So tell me about your time in Africa combating Boko Haram....."

Reality is the Best bubble-bursting tool available.

If only curing Libtard was so simple.......yet,

Not that it makes a difference......but the compilation of their inane responses will be Youtube GOLD for the 4 minutes it lasts before being censored.

It's "legal" Cervidae huntin season here in the Kingdom.....so between reining in the visitin Royal Courts inebriated antics on the Can-Ams, Zip Lines, etc, etc.....The ONT is a somewhat, HA, sane refuge.....

Glad y'all are here!

Posted by: Hillbillyking at November 22, 2017 12:09 AM (HVt0H)

450 gNewt

No, silly, land bridge from the West Bank to Gaza.

Geeze, Louise!

-Vox

Posted by: ibguy a
*********************

We got some tanks for that bridge.

Posted by: Moshe at November 22, 2017 12:09 AM (TD9KB)

451 Oh, ent me?

Posted by: Johnny at November 22, 2017 12:10 AM (kUotE)

452 Brazile predicts 25 Dem presidential candidates in 2020.

https://twitter.com/DRUDGE_REPORT/status/933159580925751297

17 was bad enough in 2016. What will they have 10 hour debates so that each, including the 5 questioners, has 15 minutes of fame?

Posted by: geoffb at November 22, 2017 12:11 AM (zOpu5)

453 Booknlass, ibguy thank you!

Husband who ever you are f off

Posted by: westminsterdogshow........GNAMM ette at November 22, 2017 12:11 AM (mMeIQ)

454 I will take that as a "no" and simply move forward. I hope you have a good night and a great Holiday with family and friends.
Posted by: Side draft at November 22, 2017 12:05 AM (BgC3U)

?

Thanks, you too, I guess.

(did I miss something?)

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 22, 2017 12:12 AM (wmaTe)

455 "Dunno whether Khan Academy offers anything of the kind, but a low-tech solution is the college outline series. I once attended an intensive week-long course at Wharton on finance and accounting for the non-financial professional, which gave me a basic understanding. The question is, would that suffice for your needs?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 21, 2017 11:34 PM (YqDXo) "

Since he's still there to have the reins, I think a surface level understanding of best accounting practices would suffice. It's not sink or swim because I have the new guy as a life raft, but I need to be doing things on my own, and the way I was taught by the outgoing guy is clearly inefficient.

I would bet just a summer semester at a place like Wharton (or even Weatherhead in my own backyard) would do the trick if I took the right courses and really applied myself to learning the material.

Posted by: broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter at November 22, 2017 12:12 AM (uuwor)

456 >> Depends.

All right, I joke, but isn't that what adult incontinence garments are for, minimizing the cleanup chores?

---------

I'm back. AoP, remember you asked.

Yes, he's wearing the adult diapers. Well, as they explained to me at the nursing home, for diplomatic reasons, "we" don't say diapers, we say briefs. Now, before this, wearing that, and he needed to, was a great insult to his dignity. He reacted to the suggestion as though you'd slapped him in the face.

And he's beyond the simple Depends and the products they carry at the drug stores and so forth. They are not adequate to the task. He needs the heavy duty kind which you have to get from a medical supply. The nursing home gave us a bunch and instructions on where and how to order them. Which reminds me, I'd better put an order in right now.

The trouble is, they get full, and with an uncooperative patient who is in denial. Then you've got to get them off an on.

I will give details if you like. But they ain't pretty.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at November 22, 2017 12:12 AM (8O3HH)

457 Henley's song Misanthropic Humanitarian posted above is truly artful. listening to it, driving down a midwestern highway, being able to see a freight train in its entirety, chugging throught the fall landscape, enabled me to cry some about my divorce, and heal some.

That modicum of joy Dostoyevski wrote about reminds me that there's good in the worst of us. and Henley's song is magnificent. period.

Posted by: booknlass at November 22, 2017 12:13 AM (9mZIr)

458 Henley is a scumbag.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at November 22, 2017 12:15 AM (PUmDY)

459 Those aides in nursing homes are overworked and underpaid...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 22, 2017 12:15 AM (e9G8E)

460 Oh, just popping back in to say: thanks for the apology and suggestion, gNewt. I got burned out on tutoring for Smarthinking a few years back, which I quit when I discovered that it paid PhDs about the same as being a greeter at Walmart, but I might consider tutoring again when better options are available.

Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at November 22, 2017 12:15 AM (3032H)

461 "I dont know, accounting is really easy. Debits and Credits. Addition and Subtraction. Double Entry.



All you really need to know.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 21, 2017 11:44 PM (wmaTe)"
The day-to-day stuff I've been doing has been beyond easy. I wasn't even a particularly good math student in HS and College and it's been a cakewalk. With this new guy, I feel like he's ramping things up to the next level.Nothing shady - it's all still above board - just generating more useful, more accurate, and more timely reports.

Posted by: broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter at November 22, 2017 12:16 AM (uuwor)

462 453 Booknlass, ibguy thank you!

Husband who ever you are f off
Posted by: westminsterdogshow........GNAMM ette at November 22, 2017 12:11 AM (mMeIQ)

Really?

///

Posted by: The husband who no longer looks both ways when crossing the street and is a Cob at November 22, 2017 12:16 AM (3/sUh)

463 439 So Mr. WDS just finished his pate of turkey hearts and livers and I am chopping vegetables. Woohoo! Can't wait for Thursday.

And we will be celebrating our first anniversary
Posted by: westminsterdogshow........GNAMM ette at November 22, 2017 12:06 AM (mMeIQ)

Congrats, WDS. Many happy returns.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at November 22, 2017 12:17 AM (JNqRY)

464 From thecrimson.com

https://preview.tinyurl.com/ycrmwjad

"In 1988, my twenty-six-year-old father jumped off a train in the middle of Hungary with nothing but the clothes on his back.
[. . . ]
Roughly 100 million people died at the hands of the ideology my parents escaped. They cannot tell their story. We owe it to them to recognize that this ideology is not a fad, and their deaths are not a joke."

Posted by: Kindltot at November 22, 2017 12:17 AM (2K6fY)

465 The trouble is, they get full, and with an uncooperative patient who is in denial. Then you've got to get them off an on.



I will give details if you like. But they ain't pretty.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at November 22, 2017 12:12 AM (8O3HH)

Spare me the details, publius. Hopefully, the denial will pass, and your father will appreciate what is being done for him, and will cooperate.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2017 12:17 AM (oPNmq)

466 Ohhh. Enn, Tea!

Posted by: Johnny at November 22, 2017 12:18 AM (kUotE)

467 yay dog show !

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 22, 2017 12:19 AM (6FqZa)

468 461. Sounds like you need to shut that guy down pdq, before things get outta hand.
Now, for a thing like this, ya need to know a guy to talk to about these things.

* zips up tracksuit. *

You ain't wearin' a wire, are ya?

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 22, 2017 12:19 AM (fA1SL)

469 Wow. Successfully teaching high school is so easy it requires no specialized training.
Gee that sounds amazing. Anything else you've never done that you'd like to talk out yer ass about?

Posted by: MAxIE at November 22, 2017 12:19 AM (9TR2V)

470 Owen-Tea!

Posted by: Johnny at November 22, 2017 12:20 AM (kUotE)

471 "Base level accounting? Sure.

If you want to work your way into Finance, which is where the money is, totally different skill and training set.

Posted by: Side draft at November 21, 2017 11:49 PM (BgC3U) "

I'm perfectly fine being a paper pusher. One of the things that helps me sleep at night is that our company isn't really pulling any shady accounting tricks - I'd feel complicit, even though all I'm doing is cobbling together the books.

Long story short, I have no interest in the world of high finance. To be perfectly honesty, I don't have much interest in accounting, but it's the gig they gave me, and I'm not going to be like every other flighty millennial who jets after a few months because he isn't doing exactly what he wants.

Posted by: broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter at November 22, 2017 12:20 AM (uuwor)

472 So Mr. WDS just finished his pate of turkey hearts and livers and I am chopping vegetables. Woohoo! Can't wait for Thursday.



And we will be celebrating our first anniversary

Posted by: westminsterdogshow........GNAMM ette at November 22, 2017 12:06 AM (mMeIQ)

Happy anniversary, WDS! I think MisHum is just pulling your leg, there.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2017 12:21 AM (oPNmq)

473 I dont know, accounting is really easy. Debits and Credits. Addition and Subtraction. Double Entry.



All you really need to know.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 21, 2017 11:44 PM (wmaTe)


I don't do any accounting but I would imagine that there's a bit more to it. Not everything has an actual value, today, and you would have to be working a lot of that out - well, someone would. From assumed future payments, to present value of semi-liquid assets, to the value of contracts in process ...

I don't know, maybe they calculate the present values of those things elsewhere in the corporation but those calculations are anything but simple or straightforward.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 22, 2017 12:21 AM (8gDQu)

474 K sorry, I'll shut up.

Posted by: Johnny at November 22, 2017 12:21 AM (kUotE)

475 I feel for the people who get their PhDs and there there are no jobs available and then end being adjuncts , which pays abysmally, and as Jay noted above-they are treated abysmally by the colleges. I know a number of quite bright, very well meaning people in this situation of having to have several part time jobs because of this, to make ends meet.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2017 12:22 AM (8+Ozj)

476 464. Its encouraging, to see that this is still out there and that people remember.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 22, 2017 12:22 AM (fA1SL)

477 So Mr. WDS just finished his pate of turkey hearts and livers and I am chopping vegetable

I read that and I initially thought with the turkey hearts mentioned Mr. WDS was the name of your dog. LOL Sorry; I'm think I partially asleep.


Congratulations on your anniversary!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2017 12:24 AM (8+Ozj)

478 All that being said, if anyone at the Horde owns a company that needs a Staff Accountant who is willing to work for well under market value in exchange for on the job training/continuing education, let's just say I'm not averse to hanging my shingle out.

Posted by: broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter at November 22, 2017 12:24 AM (uuwor)

479 Babalu blog is a very good site, and leads to gems like that.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 22, 2017 12:25 AM (2K6fY)

480 Wow. Successfully teaching high school is so easy it requires no specialized training.

LOL. You think that Education Departments offer some sort of useful "specialized training"? Ha.

Gee that sounds amazing. Anything else you've never done that you'd like to talk out yer ass about?

Posted by: MAxIE at November 22, 2017 12:19 AM (9TR2V)


Go find the average GRE scores for intended Education grads and then tell me about "talking out yer ass".

They are the lowest of ANY field. THE LOWEST. The education students score even worse on the math section of the GREs than the friggin literature grads. That's pretty friggin pathetic. And you thin that group of retards are giving and getting some sort of specialized training? LOL.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 22, 2017 12:25 AM (8gDQu)

481 Its encouraging, to see that this is still out there and that people remember.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 22, 2017 12:22 AM (fA1SL)

Many of us got to meet people who escaped from behind the Iron Curtain. I got to meet a Holocaust survivor, too, with his camp tattoo still quite legible.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2017 12:25 AM (oPNmq)

482 456,
"And he's beyond the simple Depends and the products they carry at the
drug stores and so forth. They are not adequate to the task. He needs
the heavy duty kind which you have to get from a medical supply."


From what I've seen, wheelchair bound wife has worn them for 16 years, American made "depends" type briefs are designed to hold only a little urine and be changed often because the main market is nursing homes and hospitals which have people to do that. European brands are made for working people who are incontinent and want something that holds a days worth. That's urine.

Nothing is good for the other which gets real messy to clean up but has to be done as soon as it happens.


Sorry if this offends anyone. And sorry you have to deal with the problems publius.

Posted by: geoffb at November 22, 2017 12:25 AM (zOpu5)

483 Pate, like pate with an acute accent "e?"

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at November 22, 2017 12:26 AM (PUmDY)

484 I don't do any accounting but I would imagine that there's a bit more to it. Not everything has an actual value, today, and you would have to be working a lot of that out - well, someone would. From assumed future payments, to present value of semi-liquid assets, to the value of contracts in process ...

I don't know, maybe they calculate the present values of those things elsewhere in the corporation but those calculations are anything but simple or straightforward.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 22, 2017 12:21 AM (8gDQu)


With no disrespect intended toward anyone, my zeroth order take was that accounting was like half-assed thermodynamics convolved with more than a bit of wishful thinking/willful ignorance. Historical values? Really?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 22, 2017 12:26 AM (YqDXo)

485 hi Fenelon, how are you tonight?


Mark Steyn guest hosting Tucker. now that's a substitute I like

Posted by: booknlass at November 22, 2017 12:26 AM (9mZIr)

486 Owen-Tea was pretty funny though.

Posted by: Johnny at November 22, 2017 12:27 AM (kUotE)

487 With no disrespect intended toward anyone, my zeroth order take was that accounting was like half-assed thermodynamics convolved with more than a bit of wishful thinking/willful ignorance. Historical values? Really?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 22, 2017 12:26 AM (YqDXo)

Jeez. I had never seen the word 'convolved' before! Knew it by context, but looked it up to be sure. Thanks, Jay.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at November 22, 2017 12:29 AM (JNqRY)

488 Rumor has it that the other victim in the Henley story is about to go public with the real story, including (allegedly) polaroids.

Posted by: elliot at November 22, 2017 12:29 AM (egWri)

489 Mayim Bialik and others like her don't seem to understand what the Thanksgiving holiday is about.
Dostoyevsky does.



Posted by: Margarita DeVille at November 22, 2017 12:30 AM (0jtPF)

490 "I don't know, maybe they calculate the present
values of those things elsewhere in the corporation but those
calculations are anything but simple or straightforward.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 22, 2017 12:21 AM (8gDQu)"Pretty much, yeah. EBITDA is easy for the most part, with a few kinks thrown in.Then you throw in the ITDA part (Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization)There's also some shit with how you calculate inventory, especially if it's on the water, since we're a company heavily reliant on ocean freight

Posted by: broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter at November 22, 2017 12:30 AM (uuwor)

491 hi Fenelon, how are you tonight?

Thanks for asking

I was exhausted and feel asleep in my clothes at 8:00 EST and just woke up in a complete sweat. Lyme Disease stinks.

I think Mark Steyn is someone I could easily have a crush on! I always prefer him to Rush-although when Rush does his little mimicry of people as the voice of Bill Clinton or Obama, I laugh

How are you?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2017 12:30 AM (8+Ozj)

492 So Mr. WDS just finished his pate of turkey hearts and livers and I am chopping vegetable


Congratulations on your anniversary!


*******

Hell, congratulations on getting him to choke down a plate of innards. That right there is an accomplishment of great worthiness.

Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 12:30 AM (wPiJc)

493 But why would you put people like me down? I don't get it.

Posted by: booknlass
************************

No one here is putting you down.

You are doing what you want to do the way you want to do it. That's the Moron way.

Posted by: gNewt at November 22, 2017 12:31 AM (TD9KB)

494 Mis Hum ......if that was you it wasn't very nice

Posted by: westminsterdogshow........GNAMM ette at November 22, 2017 12:31 AM (mMeIQ)

495 Paté

Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 12:32 AM (wPiJc)

496 With no disrespect intended toward anyone, my zeroth order take was that accounting was like half-assed thermodynamics convolved with more than a bit of wishful thinking/willful ignorance. Historical values? Really?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 22, 2017 12:26 AM (YqDXo)


Again, this may not be within the realm of accounting but if you're holding a bunch of convertible bonds on your books then calculating the present value of those bonds is a very difficult problem that is not even solved, at this point. But, even with the substandard solutions that exist there are some pretty heavy mathematics involved - at least for those at the forefront of research in this. The canned solutions for use on the job are probably not much to go through but if one is learning why there are such canned solutions it can get a bit rough, I think.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 22, 2017 12:32 AM (8gDQu)

497 Hell, congratulations on getting him to choke down a plate of innards. That right there is an accomplishment of great worthiness.
Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 12:30 AM (wPiJc

First it's innards
Next it's putting the toilet seat down
Then the failure to look both ways when crossing the street.

But.....in all seriousness Mrs. WDS, Happy Anniversary and many, many more.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 22, 2017 12:34 AM (3/sUh)

498 "Attends" (the institutional version of common "Depends") will hold over a liter of urine...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 22, 2017 12:34 AM (e9G8E)

499 475 Fenelon

Both daughters are in STEM-related PhD programs (not that I'm braggin'), both have *emphatically* stated that there's no way their staying in academia.

Good on them.

Posted by: ibguy at November 22, 2017 12:34 AM (vUcdz)

500 Rumor has it that the other victim in the Henley
story is about to go public with the real story, including (allegedly)
polaroids.

Posted by: elliot at November 22, 2017 12:29 AM (egWri)

And none of the Millennials will believe it, because they have never seen an actual Polaroid camera.
Although I was at a party a few weeks ago, and this little girl about 6 years old was running around with what looked like a "Strawberry Shortcake" camera, taking pictures of people, and dammit, a little wallet-size color print popped out of the top of the thing. Just like a Polaroid. Maybe what was old is new again?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2017 12:34 AM (oPNmq)

501 496. TLDR - Loot the petty cash AFTER you've sold all fittings, fixtures, and equipment on Craigslist, then torch the joint and flee to Paraguay.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 22, 2017 12:35 AM (fA1SL)

502 Kindltot @12:17 - Thank-you.

This was in the Harvard Crimson. This article and the comments suggest to me that there may be hope yet - even in the ranks of the Roman"elite academia".

Posted by: Lurking Cynic at November 22, 2017 12:35 AM (6TMcS)

503 >> Hopefully, the denial will pass, and your father will appreciate what is being done for him, and will cooperate.

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

It will likely take some time, and I'm hopeful, but won't be holding my breath.

The psychology of his behavior is quite simple really. He's be fiercely independent, strong willed, and his own boss for his entire life. Large and in charge. That is coming to an end, and his independence is gone. To everything there is a season, etc.

He cannot accept it, and is in denial. Big time. Anger is a defense mechanism that keeps him from having to deal with the fact that he can't take care of himself, and needs help with the most intimate things.

It's very irrational, insanely so, but that's the way the human mind works a lot of times.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at November 22, 2017 12:35 AM (8O3HH)

504 404, 401

A slightly more uplifting tale.

https://youtu.be/oGwZ0pakhHE

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 22, 2017 12:35 AM (tbOMB)

505 Posted by: Margarita DeVille at November 22, 2017 12:30 AM (0jtPF)

Mayim Balik is great supporter of Israel. She may live there or did live there; I have to give her that. She also has spoken up for the virtues of modesty. Aside from this I think she swallows a lot of the left wing talking points.

My sense is that people who have suffered a lot-as did D-(I cannot spell his name off the top of my head) are more inclined to be grateful. It also helps with some people if they have a religious perspective. I think Balik does have a religious indoctrinated by left think.perspective so I think she's just a young person

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2017 12:36 AM (8+Ozj)

506 Roman ???? whereinell did that appear from?

Posted by: Lurking Cynic at November 22, 2017 12:36 AM (6TMcS)

507 500. Fuji Instax, I think.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 22, 2017 12:37 AM (fA1SL)

508 494 Mis Hum ......if that was you it wasn't very nice
Posted by: westminsterdogshow........GNAMM ette at November 22, 2017 12:31 AM (mMeIQ)

It was me and I apologize the humor wasn't appreciated.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 22, 2017 12:37 AM (3/sUh)

509 Roman ???? whereinell did that appear from?

Posted by: Lurking Cynic at November 22, 2017 12:36 AM (6TMcS)

From the gloamin, obviously.

Posted by: zombie Robbie Burns at November 22, 2017 12:38 AM (oPNmq)

510 Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at November 22, 2017 12:35 AM (8O3HH)

I'm sorry. I've seen it in a number of fiercely independent seniors in the congregations which I have served. It is often very hard on caregivers and I know that you have your own significant health challenges.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2017 12:39 AM (8+Ozj)

511 EBITDA is easy for the most part, with a few kinks thrown in.

Posted by: broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter at November 22, 2017 12:30 AM (uuwor)


EBITDA was just getting popular when I was trading options. THey loved using it for the tech companies because they didn't make any money. Personally, I always thought it was kind of bullshit. I understood the idea of tracking the underlying cash flow and its growth but the things they were ignoring were structural pieces of the company and its finances - sort of how they take random things out of the CPI if they don't like it. My biggest problem was that they had a handful of valuation methods and they would pick and choose which valuation method to use to get a specific valuation for a company that they wanted. That's a bit of a fraudulent tactic, to my mind.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 22, 2017 12:39 AM (8gDQu)

512 Thanks Fenolon!

And yes cosmic charlie that is pate with the e....but I can't do it from my phone

Posted by: westminsterdogshow........GNAMM ette at November 22, 2017 12:40 AM (mMeIQ)

513 I think Balik does have a religious indoctrinated by left think.perspective so I think she's just a young person

Wow. That was c complete mess of a sentence

Meant "I think Balik does have a religious perspective, but I think she's just a young person indoctrinated by left wing think in a number of areas.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2017 12:41 AM (8+Ozj)

514 >> American made "depends" type briefs are designed
>> to hold only a little urine and be changed often

Indeed.

>> Nothing is good for the other which gets real messy
>> to clean up but has to be done as soon as it
>> happens.

Double indeed.

The ones we got from the nursing home, the industrial capacity and strength ones, will hold an amazing amount of liquid. I was blown away by how heavy they were after being "filled", and just how much volume of urine that was.

And of course, the other. Yes, cleaned up immediately.

They warned about diaper rash. And yep, that happened quickly, and we were prepared. The baby products, such as "Desitin" work very well. It got it under control quickly.

Of course, he did not appreciate me and my mother applying it. Denied he needed anything and that we were just doing to humilate him.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at November 22, 2017 12:41 AM (8O3HH)

515 Consolidated Whippletree has nowhere to go but up!

Posted by: every market analyst, ever at November 22, 2017 12:41 AM (oPNmq)

516 Fenelon, Rush makes me laugh too, and so does Mark Steyn. And i like when Tucker laughs at these doofi on his show.

what I think is funny is that Steyn's photographs are so sexy, but when he's talking or singing, he becomes like a brother.

I hope you heal up soon. it's no fun to be sick, I know. My son was just diagnosed with cyclic vomiting syndrome. a couple times in the ER and two nights in the hospital.

But I'm fine. moving kinda slow in the cold.

Posted by: booknlass at November 22, 2017 12:41 AM (9mZIr)

517 511. 'In order to be a wise and complete analyst, one must embrace.....a larger view of valuations.'

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 22, 2017 12:42 AM (fA1SL)

518 Nice to see you Shopgirl. Don't know why I like you, but I do.

Posted by: Johnny at November 22, 2017 12:42 AM (kUotE)

519 Posted by: booknlass at November 22, 2017 12:41 AM (9mZIr)

I'm sorry about your son and his troubles. How old is he?.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2017 12:43 AM (8+Ozj)

520 "EBITDA was just getting popular when I was trading options. THey loved using it for the tech companies because they didn't make any money. Personally, I always thought it was kind of bullshit. I understood the idea of tracking the underlying cash flow and its growth but the things they were ignoring were structural pieces of the company and its finances - sort of how they take random things out of the CPI if they don't like it. My biggest problem was that they had a handful of valuation methods and they would pick and choose which valuation method to use to get a specific valuation for a company that they wanted. That's a bit of a fraudulent tactic, to my mind.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 22, 2017 12:39 AM (8gDQu) "

Luckily weren't nor publicly traded or doing any mergers/acquisitions so our valuation (which I think was wildly optimistic) has really only mattered for what kind of loan we could snag.

Trust me, at heart I'm a lot more potential. What's our revenue, what's our COGS, what's our operating expenses, what's our functional cash flow - that's mainly what I care about.

Posted by: broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter at November 22, 2017 12:43 AM (uuwor)

521 EBITDA is ... well, it's the key to the universe. It lets you compare how companies are actually doing irrespective of their financing choices (debt/no debt) etc.

they had a handful of valuation methods and they would pick and choose which valuation method to use to get a specific valuation for a company that they wanted.

In what circumstances do you mean "they" were doing this?

I can justify any sort of valuation on paper but the only one that matters is what someone is willing to pay.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at November 22, 2017 12:45 AM (gIRsn)

522 514. Boudreaux's makes a very good paste/ointment that can help with that. (Father of three - it saved my sanity.)

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 22, 2017 12:46 AM (fA1SL)

523 In August of '87, I hired on as a $5/hr telemarketer with a major industrial company which had just bought a smaller, yet still regionally major company here in Texas.

Eight months later, I found myself working directly for the President of this Fortune 1000, NYSE listed firm.

And enjoyed eight more years of increasing success, with a final FY 95 at operations consuming only 97.12% of budgeted expenses, yielding 107.61% of sales quota.

That's a $1.34 million operating budget, and you can do the math as to the sales.

Whereupon I was kicked to the curb Golden Parachute, in that the forced retirement of my boss left his Step Brother (the C.E.O.) to also absorb and assume the President title.

Those two hated one another, so everyone that worked for the retiring President got the axe.

Knowing this was on the horizon, I negotiated the Parachute with the outgoing President, and shielded myself with it at the very end.

More unpleasant, was that I had to go downstairs to my department, assemble the 58 employees, and break the news to them that they had all been fired on the spot, per C.E.O.'s directive.

So vindictive he, that he closed the entire department, out of spite to his brother in law.

Here's the rub.

You've built up a record good enough to be listed in Who's Who of Professionals in '94, founded the largest single-city trade association of it's kind in the nation, had two different Mayors of San Antonio as keynote for functions you'd arranged.

And you've but a High School Diploma.

Guess what? Your resume is toilet paper to any given H.R. department.

But unlike that college lecturer, I've managed to avoid sleeping in my car.

Far from it. Go figure.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 22, 2017 12:47 AM (QzJWU)

524 As some of you have seen we do a huge thanksgiving open house.....we just used to throw out the offal.....until Mr WDS'S nephew came to visit. He taught him how to make pate and the tradition was born

Bth......if you are still around.....invitation is open

Posted by: westminsterdogshow........GNAMM ette at November 22, 2017 12:47 AM (mMeIQ)

525 Don Henley was a abuser too? Man, that is awful. Like his music.

It might be easier to have a list of people who didn't abuse/rape anyone. Good grief!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2017 12:48 AM (8+Ozj)

526 Actually, adjuncts do make a pittance, and I know that in Alaska (at least UAA) getting a tenure track position is not happening, not for a long time because the people there already tend to stay there until retirement.

BUT I'm wondering why she doesn't get a job as a teacher during the day, or even as a substitute, which in some places pays quite well. She could do mornings and/or afternoons and then evenings at the university, or some other combo. Maybe I don't know enough about her area, but it seems as if she's not looking into all her options, or else maybe she likes sleeping in her car.

Posted by: Lisl at November 22, 2017 12:48 AM (OAB5z)

527 fourninetythree

gNewt, you're being sweet to me. thank you.

Posted by: booknlass at November 22, 2017 12:48 AM (9mZIr)

528 498,
"Attends" (the institutional version of common "Depends") will hold over a liter of urine...


I was talking about these which have that capacity too.

Abri-Flex http://tinyurl.com/y9pvv7t3

Tranquility http://tinyurl.com/y9pvv7t3


Posted by: geoffb at November 22, 2017 12:49 AM (zOpu5)

529 Woo hoo! Time to paté like it's 1999!!

Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 12:49 AM (wPiJc)

530
392 383. In the quiet, they found a few hours' peace and rest. After a while, Anatoli heard the German sort of snoring. He rose, quietly, and beat the man's head in with a hunk of masonry, so as not to make any noise.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 21, 2017 11:47 PM (fA1SL)

"Never trust a Commie!"

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at November 22, 2017 12:50 AM (e1mEI)

531 505
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2017 12:36 AM (8+Ozj)
-------------------------
Yes, Mayim is .... multi-faceted.
She has a mind of her own and is a practicing Jew.

Her comments annoy me because they are so run-of-the-mill left-wing and ignorant. Perhaps I expect more from her!



Posted by: Margarita DeVille at November 22, 2017 12:50 AM (0jtPF)

532 dog show: thanks. Do you have email ?

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 22, 2017 12:50 AM (6FqZa)

533 529 Woo hoo! Time to paté like it's 1999!!
Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 12:49 AM (wPiJc)

That crackered me up

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 22, 2017 12:51 AM (3/sUh)

534 Hey Muldoon what's it called when a cow has an abortion?

Posted by: Johnny at November 22, 2017 12:52 AM (kUotE)

535 Fenelon, my son is twenty-four.

I had him when I was five. heh.

Posted by: booknlass at November 22, 2017 12:53 AM (9mZIr)

536 OK class, what is The ONT rule? Don't stick.........

... your pecker in a pickle cutter.

I stole that one from LBJ. I love that Texas lingo.

Posted by: gp at November 22, 2017 12:53 AM (mk9aG)

537 Jim: email me or call me at the 0-000X number over the holiday

i can't find your new # and emails have failed.

Posted by: redc1c4 at November 22, 2017 12:53 AM (dlZr1)

538 534. That's known as a slunk, Johnny.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 22, 2017 12:54 AM (fA1SL)

539 495 Paté
Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 12:32 AM (wPiJc)
------------------------
Whoa.
Well, la-de-la.
Look at the show-off with the fancy accents!

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at November 22, 2017 12:54 AM (0jtPF)

540
Although I was at a party a few weeks ago, and this little girl about 6 years old was running around with what looked like a "Strawberry Shortcake" camera, taking pictures of people, and dammit, a little wallet-size color print popped out of the top of the thing. Just like a Polaroid. Maybe what was old is new again?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


What's old is new?

http://tinyurl.com/ydf89ps5

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 22, 2017 12:54 AM (IqV8l)

541 @478....

Bro,

Substitute Emperor in the nic for the King.... at the g mail....

Parlay.

Posted by: Hillbillyking at November 22, 2017 12:54 AM (HVt0H)

542 Posted by: booknlass at November 22, 2017 12:53 AM (9mZIr)

LOL. Having spent nights overnight in the hospital I know that is very stressful. can they give something to help treat your son.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2017 12:54 AM (8+Ozj)

543 The Revolution are playing the Tabernacle in Feb..

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at November 22, 2017 12:55 AM (PUmDY)

544 534 Hey Muldoon what's it called when a cow has an abortion?
Posted by: Johnny at November 22, 2017 12:52 AM (kUotE)

De Calfinated?

Posted by: Don Q. at November 22, 2017 12:55 AM (NgKpN)

545 535 Fenelon, my son is twenty-four.

I had him when I was five. heh.
Posted by: booknlass at November 22, 2017 12:53 AM (9mZIr)
-------------------------
Pfft.
I had my oldest when I was a newborn!!!

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at November 22, 2017 12:55 AM (0jtPF)

546 Decaffeinated

Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 12:56 AM (wPiJc)

547 Don Henley was a abuser too? Man, that is awful. Like his music.

It might be easier to have a list of people who didn't abuse/rape anyone. Good grief!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2017 12:48 AM (8+Ozj)


Dudes like that are creeps. If you're a musician there is no frigging way on this planet you need to screw around with young chicks. Yeah, it seems all ages will throw themselves at you, I have seen it, but only a slime ball goes for the young ones, because it just isn't frigging necessary. Its just uncool on a lot of levels, with a big side dose of stupid.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at November 22, 2017 12:57 AM (aMlLZ)

548 538 unless 'slunk' means an old lame joke, I think you're WRONG!

Posted by: Johnny at November 22, 2017 12:57 AM (kUotE)

549 I'm annoyed that Dallas has a highway named after LBJ. I even have to cross it ever so often.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 22, 2017 12:58 AM (rnAwa)

550 546 Yes, De-Calf is the correct answer. The judges will accept it. Thanks for playing.

Posted by: Johnny at November 22, 2017 12:58 AM (kUotE)

551 only a slime ball goes for the young ones, because it just isn't frigging necessary

Perhaps you missed the part about the pile of cocaine.

Posted by: don henley at November 22, 2017 12:58 AM (6FqZa)

552 Fen, I have seen him get much more serious about finding a personal doctor, and he has an appt. Yes, he's taking potassium, and I believe he will learn to manage the problem. I've seen it compared to migraines.

Posted by: booknlass at November 22, 2017 12:58 AM (9mZIr)

553 Griffin paid $10.5MM for a house just over a year ago. Wouldn't it be sad if her "blacklisting" made it hard to make payments?

https://preview.tinyurl.com/z3csp5o

Posted by: bonhomme at November 22, 2017 12:59 AM (zGsgt)

554 EBITDA is ... well, it's the key to the universe. It lets you compare how companies are actually doing irrespective of their financing choices (debt/no debt) etc.

Financing is a key part of a company. For many companies, debt financing is the foundation they are built on.

they had a handful of valuation methods and they would pick and choose which valuation method to use to get a specific valuation for a company that they wanted.

In what circumstances do you mean "they" were doing this?


"They" being the analysts.

I can justify any sort of valuation on paper but the only one that matters is what someone is willing to pay.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at November 22, 2017 12:45 AM (gIRsn)


Not exactly. I have no problem with people taking the money of stupid investors who don't do their own due diligence but I still see the cherry-picking of valuation models to be intellectual fraud. True measurements are supposed to be as objective as possible.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 22, 2017 12:59 AM (8gDQu)

555 There is a cute photo of sea lion pups on the bing homepage. For some reason a voice in my head keeps saying: "Be careful, they're quite deadly."

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at November 22, 2017 01:00 AM (JNqRY)

556 Jim: email me or call me at the 0-000X number over the holiday

i can't find your new # and emails have failed.


Posted by: redc1c4 at November 22, 2017 12:53 AM (dlZr1)




Will dig out the email. Phone self updates the system, and ruins itself. Lather, rinse, repeat.




Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 22, 2017 01:00 AM (QzJWU)

557 I had my oldest when I was a newborn!!!
Posted by: Margarita DeVille

That's Incredible!!

Posted by: booknlass at November 22, 2017 01:00 AM (9mZIr)

558 548. There's nothing funny about the substitution of slunks for veal, Johnny. Fraud in the cattle industry is not a joking matter.
'This message brought to you by the Texas Cattlemen's Association. Beef - say nice things about it or they'll never find your body.'

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 22, 2017 01:00 AM (fA1SL)

559 Posted by: booknlass at November 22, 2017 12:58 AM (9mZIr)

Glad he is seeing someone.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2017 01:00 AM (8+Ozj)

560 End of the Innocence.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at November 22, 2017 01:01 AM (PUmDY)

561 'This message brought to you by the Texas Cattlemen's Association. Beef - say nice things about it or they'll never find your body.'
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 22, 2017 01:00 AM (fA1SL)

Sam Elliot should cut that commercial.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at November 22, 2017 01:02 AM (JNqRY)

Posted by: yankeefifth at November 22, 2017 01:02 AM (MTjB1)

563 Randy Quaid played a pretty good LBJ.

Posted by: gp at November 22, 2017 01:02 AM (mk9aG)

564 well then

Posted by: yankeefifth at November 22, 2017 01:03 AM (MTjB1)

565 Randy Quaid played a pretty good LBJ.

Posted by: gp at November




in independence day?

Posted by: yankeefifth at November 22, 2017 01:03 AM (MTjB1)

566
Hey Muldoon what's it called when a cow has an abortion?

Posted by: Johnny at November 22, 2017 12:52 AM (kUotE)

Pre-veal. (denounces self)

Posted by: every market analyst, ever at November 22, 2017 01:03 AM (oPNmq)

567 561. Not a bad idea.....

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 22, 2017 01:04 AM (fA1SL)

568 Hey Muldoon what's it called when a cow has an abortion?



Posted by: Johnny at November 22, 2017 12:52 AM (kUotE)

Pre-veal. (denounces self)


Decalfination.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at November 22, 2017 01:04 AM (IcT7t)

569 I have a friend from school whose gf was seduced/allegedly impregnated by Don Henley. Classy

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at November 22, 2017 01:07 AM (PUmDY)

570 WDS!

Posted by: yankeefifth at November 22, 2017 01:08 AM (MTjB1)

571 Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at November 22, 2017 12:41 AM (8O3HH)


I did the same for my wife but put one of those pads inside the Depends. Not sure if that would work for a man. Eventually the home care nurse had to put a catheter in. Biggest problem with a woman are UTI's. Worst time of my life but the experience taught me patience and compassion.

Posted by: Bill R. at November 22, 2017 01:08 AM (IuYIh)

572 Why do cows have hooves instead of feet?

Posted by: Johnny at November 22, 2017 01:08 AM (kUotE)

573 Hillbilly, sent you a follow-up email. Interested to at least say what else is out there.''

Posted by: broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter at November 22, 2017 01:09 AM (uuwor)

574 I have a friend from school whose gf was seduced/allegedly impregnated by Don Henley. Classy

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at November 22, 2017 01:07 AM (PUmDY)

I think there was a movie about that: Where Eagles Dare.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2017 01:09 AM (oPNmq)

575 I watched the Kathy Griffon shitshow. Her hair is short and she looks like an aging Pee Wee Herman. She says she doesn't have any work lined up after this. And she refuses the small cheap gigs.

There's a lesson here, but I couldn't tell you what it is.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 22, 2017 01:09 AM (rnAwa)

576 She wasn't a minor, but close.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at November 22, 2017 01:09 AM (PUmDY)

577 Y5!

Posted by: westminsterdogshow........GNAMM ette at November 22, 2017 01:10 AM (mMeIQ)

578 eeeee. late again to bed. alarm in 7 hours.

I wish you all a happy day tomorrow, getting ready for Tanks.

Posted by: booknlass at November 22, 2017 01:10 AM (9mZIr)

579 Posted by: yankeefifth at November 22, 2017 01:02 AM (MTjB1)


*****


^^^^^
This! X1000

Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 01:10 AM (wPiJc)

580 So you know, as far as I am concerned everyone in the entire state of Colorado owes me blowjob. Morons and Moronettes will be receiving their waiver in the mail. Do not give it to someone you love like your mom or dad because you will have to have it when I show up at your door to collect. No waiver get on your knees.

Posted by: yankeefifth at November 22, 2017 01:11 AM (MTjB1)

581 Randy Quaid played a pretty good LBJ.
Posted by: gp at November

in independence day?
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 22, 2017 01:03 AM (MTjB1)


Nice. "Get off my plane!"

Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 22, 2017 01:11 AM (rnAwa)

582 >>>572 Why do cows have hooves instead of feet?
Posted by: Johnny at November 22, 2017 01:08 AM (kUotE)

not sure about that, but the cow on my plate, next to the mashed potatoes and broccoli and carrots, is mighty tasty.

Posted by: rich at November 22, 2017 01:11 AM (rYW/M)

583 Y5.....whatt!

Posted by: westminsterdogshow........GNAMM ette at November 22, 2017 01:12 AM (mMeIQ)

584 Expect things to improve now that I am on the Empress of Westminster's side of the moat, protected from the barbarians and savages in broomfield, superior, and louisville.

Posted by: yankeefifth at November 22, 2017 01:13 AM (MTjB1)

585 I moved to Colorado unpacked then had to repack and move 5 weeks later.

Posted by: yankeefifth at November 22, 2017 01:14 AM (MTjB1)

586 Johnny! *blushes furiously*

Backatcha.

Posted by: Shopgirl: #raisedRoyal at November 22, 2017 01:14 AM (C8sF1)

587 Y5.....whatt!

Posted by: westminsterdogshow........GNAMM ette at November




Don't worry, your whole family gets waivers.

Posted by: yankeefifth at November 22, 2017 01:15 AM (MTjB1)

588 WMDS email sent

Posted by: don henley at November 22, 2017 01:15 AM (6FqZa)

589 Oh Y5....you poor thing

Posted by: westminsterdogshow........GNAMM ette at November 22, 2017 01:15 AM (mMeIQ)

590 gahh! I meant me. Don Henley BETTER NOT show up

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 22, 2017 01:16 AM (6FqZa)

591 Moved 5000 pounds of stuff, literally, from Thursday to Sunday 5am. Literally by myself. Not even counting the numerous times I moved each box.

Posted by: yankeefifth at November 22, 2017 01:17 AM (MTjB1)

592 580 So you know, as far as I am concerned everyone in the entire state of Colorado owes me blowjob. Morons and Moronettes will be receiving their waiver in the mail. Do not give it to someone you love like your mom or dad because you will have to have it when I show up at your door to collect. No waiver get on your knees.
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 22, 2017 01:11 AM (MTjB1)

Well... Hello. I just happen to be in Boulder...

Posted by: Shep Smith at November 22, 2017 01:18 AM (JNqRY)

593 yankeefifth: moving from place to place, yeah, I did a lot of that when I first moved here in 2010.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 22, 2017 01:19 AM (6FqZa)

594 Well... Hello. I just happen to be in Boulder...

Posted by: Shep Smith at November




yeah, yeah, I gave your waiver to charlie rose and weinstein.

Posted by: yankeefifth at November 22, 2017 01:19 AM (MTjB1)

595 yankeefifth: moving from place to place, yeah, I did a lot of that when I first moved here in 2010.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November




well, this was not planned or intended, solely the result of insane neighbors who may or may not have been related to the property manager.

Posted by: yankeefifth at November 22, 2017 01:20 AM (MTjB1)

596 I read that too fast and thought it said don't give the blowjob to your Mom or Dad, which in the first instance is impractical and the second is just wrong.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at November 22, 2017 01:20 AM (gIRsn)

597 may be nothing I hate more than moving. were I on Mt St. Helens before it blew I would have stayed with that crazy guy. Would have made it though.

Posted by: yankeefifth at November 22, 2017 01:21 AM (MTjB1)

598 Bth you socker you

Posted by: westminsterdogshow........GNAMM ette at November 22, 2017 01:22 AM (mMeIQ)

599 One of the trickiest things for a financial accounting student to learn is calculating the net present value of blowjob futures.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2017 01:22 AM (oPNmq)

600 I read that too fast and thought it said don't give
the blowjob to your Mom or Dad, which in the first instance is
impractical and the second is just wrong.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at November




but mostly impractical.

Posted by: yankeefifth at November 22, 2017 01:23 AM (MTjB1)

601 596. No, not really. It's like a futures contract on commodities. There's a secondary market.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 22, 2017 01:23 AM (fA1SL)

602 G'Night, Ev'ry-Buddy!

*static*

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at November 22, 2017 01:24 AM (Ckg4U)

603 Kathy Griffin might be listing her beejers on the NYSE soon

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 22, 2017 01:24 AM (6FqZa)

604 599. * fistbump *

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 22, 2017 01:25 AM (fA1SL)

605 586 *smooch*

For those who tried and tried to get my joke -

...Because they lactose!

Bwahaha! Get it? LACK-TOES? Bwahaha!

Where the hell is Ben?

Posted by: Johnny at November 22, 2017 01:25 AM (kUotE)

606 Kathy Griffin might be listing her beejers on the NYSE soon

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 22, 2017 01:24 AM (6FqZa)

With her looks, the only thing she could market on would be technique.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2017 01:27 AM (oPNmq)

607 someone ran a story about some programmer that was going to become an internets millionaire overnight when some company went public. his exgirlfriend called him up and offered him a blowjob every day forever for one million dollars.

Posted by: yankeefifth at November 22, 2017 01:27 AM (MTjB1)

608 Mayim Bialik will appear in a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, overwhelmingly, super-duper, collossal fantastically special episode of Blossom...

Posted by: CatchThirtyThr33 at November 22, 2017 01:27 AM (3NJT9)

609 605. Past his bedtime, Johnny. Judging by these Highlights wheezes, past yours, as well.

My lawn & all that.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 22, 2017 01:27 AM (fA1SL)

610 Posted by: Johnny at November 22, 2017 01:25 AM (kUotE)

ha.

IT IS FUNNY BECAUSE A HOOF ISN'T A TOE!!!!

Posted by: rich at November 22, 2017 01:28 AM (rYW/M)

611 Bwahaha! Get it? LACK-TOES? Bwahaha!



Where the hell is Ben?

Posted by: Johnny at November 22, 2017 01:25 AM (kUotE)

No, they don't. Cows have two toes. Horses have one. On a perfootal basis, of course.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2017 01:29 AM (oPNmq)

612 I know this is unfair but I am unable to take anything some guy called Charles Blow says seriously.

Posted by: Northernlurker, the lurkingest lurker of the north. Still proudly lurking. at November 22, 2017 01:29 AM (nBr1j)

613 anyone want a Celebration, a Sierra Nevada IPA ... pouring a round!

Posted by: rich at November 22, 2017 01:30 AM (rYW/M)

614 Geez tough crowd

Posted by: Johnny at November 22, 2017 01:30 AM (kUotE)

615 anyone want a Celebration, a Sierra Nevada IPA ... pouring a round!

Posted by: rich at November 22, 2017 01:30 AM (rYW/M)

Sure. It was wash down my eggnog with rum in it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2017 01:30 AM (oPNmq)

616 612 I know this is unfair but I am unable to take anything some guy called Charles Blow says seriously.

Posted by: Northernlurker, the lurkingest lurker of the north. Still proudly lurking. at November 22, 2017 01:29 AM (nBr1j)


Yeah. Now CharlieBownsDildo. That's a name you can trust.

Posted by: buzzion - guess my sign at November 22, 2017 01:31 AM (cAnNx)

617 On the issue of taxpayer funded stadiums...in Detroit, hockey fans are a bit pissed that the stadium they were sold on, the one promised in various detailed construction plans and public displays, with many features and claimed conveniences that for some reason didn't make it into the actual final product now have zero recourse. Turns out, the various corrupt Detroit city council (go figure) members that were paid off to pitch the lies to the citizens couldn't care less now that the stadium was built on the cheap both inside and out. One of the most glaring features missing was a hi-tech LED roof lighting system that instead is now just a large plain Little Caesars billboard advertisement.

And you know the owners laughed all the way to the bank knowing what rubes those suckers are.

Posted by: MSTisdale at November 22, 2017 01:31 AM (xHVD5)

618
I know this is unfair but I am unable to take anything some guy called Charles Blow says seriously.

Posted by: Northernlurker, the lurkingest lurker of the north. Still proudly lurking. at November 22, 2017 01:29 AM (nBr1j)

His brother Joseph is the educated member of the family.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2017 01:32 AM (oPNmq)

619 ha.

IT IS FUNNY BECAUSE A HOOF ISN'T A TOE!!!!



Posted by: rich at November 22, 2017 01:28 AM (rYW/M)




Actually, it IS. A hoof is basically one giant toenail.

Do you even biology, bro?

Or do you just crash your feet into furniture in the dark, and then call a toe truck?


/smartass




Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 22, 2017 01:32 AM (QzJWU)

620 IT'S FUNNY CAUSE YOU GUYS SUCK

Posted by: NOT BEN ROTHLISBERGER at November 22, 2017 01:32 AM (kUotE)

621 611. IT'S EVEN BETTER THAT THIS DISTINCTION IS MADE USING A HORSE AS A CONTRARY INSTANCE, AS IT ALSO EXPLAINS CERTAIN ELEMENTS OF LEVITICAL LAW REGARDING CLEAN AND UNCLEAN ANIMALS. -BEN ROETHLISBERGERSTEINBERGOVSKY

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 22, 2017 01:33 AM (fA1SL)

622 599 One of the trickiest things for a financial accounting student to learn is calculating the net present value of blowjob futures.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2017 01:22 AM (oPNmq)

BJ futures are always going up- until they go down.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at November 22, 2017 01:33 AM (JNqRY)

623 Who the heck is shep Smith?

Posted by: westminsterdogshow........GNAMM ette at November 22, 2017 01:34 AM (mMeIQ)

624 Horses are Unitoeians.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2017 01:35 AM (oPNmq)

625 623 Who the heck is shep Smith?
Posted by: westminsterdogshow........GNAMM ette at November 22, 2017 01:34 AM (mMeIQ)

Star of his local 'alternative lifestyle' bar.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at November 22, 2017 01:35 AM (JNqRY)

626 My Favorite Things

♫♪♫
Fondling and grabbing and pinching and rubbing
nuzzling and teasing and even dry humping
groping and squeezing and tweaking those tits
These are a few of my favorite bits.

Pawing and mauling and feeling and mashing
Titty keelhauling and genital flashing
Fapping and grappling and fumbling with buns
These are a few of my favorite ones!

When the dog bites, when the bee stings
When I'm feeling sad
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I don't feel....so bad!

Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 01:36 AM (wPiJc)

627 623. Nephew of Liberace, who rejected him when he was a child for being an hysterical fag. Embittered, Shep vowed revenge, and went into TV 'journalism' to prove his utter depravity.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 22, 2017 01:36 AM (fA1SL)

628 Who the heck is shep Smith?

Posted by: westminsterdogshow........GNAMM ette at November 22, 2017 01:34 AM (mMeIQ)

Well, he is not Sheb Wooley:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx47qrH1GRs

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2017 01:37 AM (oPNmq)

629 Shep Smith is a TV guy who makes a lot of stupid pronouncements on air and has a short emotional fuse.

It's assumed on the HQ that he's following the Anderson Cooper route of being a little light in the loafers, in the sense of Fred Astaire dancing on the surface of the asteroid 2 Pallas.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 22, 2017 01:38 AM (6FqZa)

630 572 Why do cows have hooves instead of feet?

Posted by: Johnny at November 22, 2017 01:08 AM (kUotE)



"It'll behoove ya to care for your uvula"

Posted by: SNL 1978 at November 22, 2017 01:38 AM (zCyNd)

631 *claps*

Posted by: Liesl Von Trapp at November 22, 2017 01:39 AM (kUotE)

632 As I look him up on Google, it seems that Shep has recently disgraced himself reporting on Uranium One.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 22, 2017 01:39 AM (6FqZa)

633 Did you hear about the squab who parked in a no-parking zone?


Pigeon towed.

Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 01:40 AM (wPiJc)

634 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2017 01:30 AM (oPNmq)

pour ...

Posted by: Jim at November 22, 2017 01:32 AM (QzJWU)

drink! knew I'd screw that up. the cow on my plate was delicious though.

Posted by: rich at November 22, 2017 01:41 AM (rYW/M)

635 Pigeon towed.

Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 01:40 AM (wPiJc)

That dovetails nicely with song in 628.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2017 01:41 AM (oPNmq)

636 When the dog bites, when the bee stings

When I'm feeling sad

I simply remember my favorite things

And then I don't feel....so bad!

Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 01:36 AM (wPiJc)

How much are the dues for this very special club?

Posted by: Miklos needs a hobby at November 22, 2017 01:41 AM (zCyNd)

637 631. *claps*
****
1) penicillin will clear that right up;
2) traps are gay, as is well-known.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 22, 2017 01:42 AM (fA1SL)

638 huh, so Shep came out last September... surprising very few. 'I Didn't Think I Was In', as he told the University of Mississippi. Report at HuffPo.

Virginia Donald could have found this information useful before wasting six years of her life married to this colon commando 1987-93

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 22, 2017 01:43 AM (6FqZa)

639 Remember kids-Olde English 800 IS THE POWER!

Posted by: Miklos needs a drink at November 22, 2017 01:44 AM (zCyNd)

640 Shep Smith reminds be of this other Sucker of Cock who posts at another blog. I'll call him Appalled.

Posted by: rich at November 22, 2017 01:44 AM (rYW/M)

641 I'm to the snoozer, y'all.

Hasta la nite nite, Horde!




Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 22, 2017 01:44 AM (QzJWU)

642 638. 'Colon commando' is now added to inventory.
'Chutney ferret,' 'backlot gardener, ' 'uphill skier,' ponce, bender, nancy, & etc - there's a new boss in town.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 22, 2017 01:45 AM (fA1SL)

643 It's assumed on the HQ that he's following the
Anderson Cooper route of being a little light in the loafers, in the
sense of Fred Astaire dancing on the surface of the asteroid 2 Pallas.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November




not so much assumed since he came out as gay.

Posted by: yankeefifth at November 22, 2017 01:47 AM (MTjB1)

644 Hasta la nite nite, Horde!


******


Later Jim!

Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 01:47 AM (wPiJc)

645 to this colon commando 1987-93
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 22, 2017 01:43 AM (6FqZa)

And, stolen. Nice turn of phrase.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at November 22, 2017 01:47 AM (JNqRY)

646 Actually couldn't get the various video/pics whatever of the Glendale street signs to open in any of my 28 browsers, but whatever. Instead of the dopey "positive" crap on those signs, I have some alternatives that CA drivers definitely need more (esp. in LA, which is far more intense than most of the state).


Instead of "Relax" - how about "Hey Dumbass, Don't Fucking Tailgate Everyone at High Speed, Constantly".


Instead of "Breathe" - how about "Hey Airhead, Stop Accelerating up to Stop Signs and Red Lights at Ridiculous Speeds". (or, we could fix the "Breathe" sign by appending " ..... and When You Reach the end of Exhaling, Squeeze the Trigger")




Or

Posted by: rhomboid at November 22, 2017 01:48 AM (QDnY+)

647 Wait just a cotton-pickin' minute. You're telling me that Shepherd Smith is a homosexual?


Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 01:49 AM (wPiJc)

648 And, stolen. Nice turn of phrase.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at November 22, 2017 01:47 AM (JNqRY)

Slightly higher rank than "rump ranger"?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2017 01:49 AM (oPNmq)

649
Yep, Sheppie has gushed that he's living with the man he loves. Bless his little heart.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at November 22, 2017 01:50 AM (8O3HH)

650 227 Where is the fucking tuition money going then?

Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2017 10:56 PM (f/e+k)

Sports teams and coach salaries, totally worthless departments, buildings named for idiots (developed by friends of the administration), and administration pay.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 21, 2017 10:58 PM (8gDQu

Not to mention massive school bureaucracies.

I've got a master's...I suppose I could go through to a Ph.D. But I have no desire to. Why? Because it will limit me to teaching (fat chance, there are NO jobs for what I would want to do), take 7 years off of life, and in the end, besides people addressing me as "doctor", what's the payoff for the massive amounts of money put into it?

Posted by: CatchThirtyThr33 at November 22, 2017 01:50 AM (3NJT9)

651 Westminsterdogshow,
Congrats on your first anniversary! And many more. Our next will be our 35th and each year has gotten better. My only regret is we didn't get married sooner.

BTW, that turkey gibblets pate is great. I usually just fry them up and eat hem with warm buttered pita bread. Delish!

Posted by: JTB at November 22, 2017 01:50 AM (V+03K)

652 647 Wait just a cotton-pickin' minute. You're telling me that Shepherd Smith is a homosexual?

Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 01:49 AM (wPiJc)

*shakes magic 8-ball*

Signs point to 'Duh!'

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at November 22, 2017 01:51 AM (JNqRY)

653 Mayim Bialak is not just an actress, you know. She'll have you know.
She has a PhD from UCLA. So you can't blame her attitude on Hollywood.
And it's in Stemitude, too.

The hardest thing to take about Henley's little love stories is something about the Eagles that was played up by Rolling Stone and played down pretty hard in their various later biographies: they were the most overtly party-partisan political of any pop group, including the really radical acid-rockers. They would call in their swing support to Dem national conventions, and so on.

The Eagles created a notional future politics in which your rock band would be like your 200-member European parliamentary party, playing coalitions like three-headliner festival concerts. And people took this seriously, once. Citizen Wenner sure as hell did.

Now it turns out that the only scene more depraved than the politicos and their corporate-crony pedo-islanders were the rockers, with their corporate-crony pedo-islanders, and yes, the twain did indeed meet.

No wonder all the formerly young people are so pissed off at themselves, and taking it out on anybody within swing range. God forbid they'd have to change their musical tastes and buying habits, just because it turns out their idols were phonies and they've been sold down the river.

This happens to every generation that has a generational identity. Just now there are more of them, and they are in an awful mood. Dangerous to be around, really.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at November 22, 2017 01:51 AM (H5rtT)

654 647. We always knew he was a fag. But then we learned he was gay.
I imagine a lot of them are ashamed and afraid of being lumped in with Shep.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 22, 2017 01:51 AM (fA1SL)

655 Slightly higher rank than "rump ranger"?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2017 01:49 AM (oPNmq)

But 'Butt Pirate' has a long and historic provenance- a storied tradition.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at November 22, 2017 01:52 AM (JNqRY)

656 that douchebag is still prattling on about the pussy tape ...

... Conyers flying in cooch while his wife cools her broom in jail ...

... Rose whipping out his rosebud in front of any honey who catches his eye ...

... Franken ... fucking gross ...

OUR ELITES! OUR BETTERS!


Posted by: rich at November 22, 2017 01:52 AM (rYW/M)

657 anyone want a Celebration, a Sierra Nevada IPA ... pouring a round!

Posted by: rich at November 22, 2017 01:30 AM (rYW/M)
---
they're small...

i'll take 6.

Posted by: redc1c4 at November 22, 2017 01:54 AM (dlZr1)

658 That rum and eggnog was so good, I believe I will have another. It's "Holiday Eggnog", says so right on the carton.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2017 01:55 AM (oPNmq)

659 656. 'Cools her broom' - also expropriated.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 22, 2017 01:56 AM (fA1SL)

660 I'm shocked! Shocked to find out there is drinking going on in this establishment!!


I'll have a refill of Crown Royal if you please.

Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 01:56 AM (wPiJc)

661 But 'Butt Pirate' has a long and historic provenance- a storied tradition.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at November 22, 2017 01:52 AM (JNqRY)

'Fudge Packer' always a go-to

Posted by: Analpundit at November 22, 2017 01:57 AM (wf3RQ)

662 * ponders a line of MAGA riding crops for suburban soccer moms' date night *

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 22, 2017 01:57 AM (fA1SL)

663 661. Amateur proctologist

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 22, 2017 01:58 AM (fA1SL)

664 Post of thw beast soon.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 22, 2017 01:59 AM (fA1SL)

665 and the race to 666 is on....

Posted by: redc1c4 at November 22, 2017 01:59 AM (dlZr1)

666 But not yet

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 22, 2017 01:59 AM (fA1SL)

667 Praise Kek! And Pepe, his prophet, memes be upon him!

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 22, 2017 02:00 AM (fA1SL)

668 JTB... Thank you for the kind comment. We have been together for 14 years but last year decided to make it official

Glad you have had so many years together

Posted by: westminsterdogshow........GNAMM ette at November 22, 2017 02:01 AM (mMeIQ)

669 All right, I'll stop subjecting you to my dorkyness.

Thanks for being here, Horde. Have a great night.

Posted by: Johnny at November 22, 2017 02:02 AM (kUotE)

670 And with that victory, I retire.
But not before without thanking Alhut alazim.
All hail Blue Whale! Krill be unto his name.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 22, 2017 02:02 AM (fA1SL)

671 >>>i'll take 6.
Posted by: redc1c4 at November 22, 2017 01:54 AM (dlZr1)

I broke into the strategic beer reserve tonight ... pouring ... pouring

Posted by: rich at November 22, 2017 02:04 AM (rYW/M)

672 If you're qualified to teach at a college or a university then you are qualified to teach at a HS or lower grade school. You or the homeless babe may not want to teach at HS. But teaching at a HS sure as hell beats living out of your car.

Isn't teaching suppose to be about the students and not the teacher's ego?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 21, 2017 11:27 PM (3/sUh)

Just speaking for myself - I would never teach HS level. Simply put, I hated HS and have no desire to relive HS every single day of my adult life. (And I could, quite easily. All I would need to do is to go about getting a teaching license by taking the requisite education classes and so on.)

Posted by: CatchThirtyThr33 at November 22, 2017 02:04 AM (3NJT9)

673 >>>666 But not yet
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 22, 2017 01:59 AM (fA1SL)

So Close.

Posted by: Ole' Scratch at November 22, 2017 02:05 AM (rYW/M)

674 when I get the stuff I am working on I am going to teach hs. much more important to teach hs kids well.

Posted by: yankeefifth at November 22, 2017 02:05 AM (MTjB1)

675 Flor de Cana rum. How can they make it so good, and sell it so cheap?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2017 02:06 AM (oPNmq)

676 Just speaking for myself - I would never teach HS
level. Simply put, I hated HS and have no desire to relive HS every
single day of my adult life. (And I could, quite easily. All I would
need to do is to go about getting a teaching license by taking the
requisite education classes and so on.)

Posted by: CatchThirtyThr33 at November




wow, how much time did you spend gargling toilet juice?

Posted by: yankeefifth at November 22, 2017 02:06 AM (MTjB1)

677 Colorado seems to be well-represented tonight.


I don't recall any Wyoming Morons, though I may be mistaken.

Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 02:07 AM (wPiJc)

678 Night Johnny.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at November 22, 2017 02:07 AM (JNqRY)

679 I don't recall any Wyoming Morons, though I may be mistaken.

Posted by: Muldoon at November




everyone in wyoming is a moron.

Posted by: yankeefifth at November 22, 2017 02:08 AM (MTjB1)

680 poof.

Posted by: rich at November 22, 2017 02:08 AM (rYW/M)

681 everyone in wyoming is a moron.


****


But 'cept for my uncle Dean. He was a vet.

The type that takes care of sick animals.

Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 02:09 AM (wPiJc)

682 Aetius451AD

Posted by: Johnny at November 22, 2017 02:09 AM (kUotE)

683 The Yellowstone Supervolcano has honorary Moron status, so there's that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2017 02:09 AM (oPNmq)

684 ever notice you pick up different lingo when you move somewhere new? Since moving to Westminster I keep saying "dagnabbit" instead of my usual blue flame of vulgarity.

Posted by: yankeefifth at November 22, 2017 02:11 AM (MTjB1)

685 The Yellowstone Supervolcano


****


What's the deal with that thing? An exurban legend, or the real McCoy?

Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 02:12 AM (wPiJc)

686 Yellowstone Supervolcano is big and bad but probably won't do anything in the next 10000 years.

The Cascadia Fault, on the other hand, means Portland is boned.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 22, 2017 02:15 AM (6FqZa)

687 ever notice you pick up different lingo when you move somewhere new?


******

I'm a midwest and Colorado boy.
I went to school in New Orleans mumblety three years ago. Ever since I still say "y'all" pretty regularly.

Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 02:15 AM (wPiJc)

688 the Sucker of Cock Appalled upped his game though and brought up the ALL-RED lawsuit that a former contestant on "The Apprentice" has filed, working its way through the corrupt New York justice system. It is not for pussy grabbing or anything like that ... no ... it is defamation and damages measured in the thousands of dollars.

THE BIGGEST STORY EVER. BIGGER THAN ROSE'S COCK AND RUSSIAGATE. A FUCKING MATRYOSHKA DOLL OF SCANDAL.

FINALLY.

Posted by: rich at November 22, 2017 02:16 AM (rYW/M)

689 So the penis pilot, is he going to be forced to draw a vag to even things up?

Posted by: yankeefifth at November 22, 2017 02:18 AM (MTjB1)

690 I went to school in New Orleans mumblety three years ago. Ever since I still say "y'all" pretty regularly.

Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 02:15 AM (wPiJc)
Where y'at!

Posted by: Miklos from the Irish Channel at November 22, 2017 02:18 AM (zCyNd)

691 FINALLY.
Posted by: rich


Dude. Chill.

Posted by: a chihuahua that fell in a fire ant nest at November 22, 2017 02:18 AM (6FqZa)

692 Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 22, 2017 02:15 AM (6FqZa)

Seattle too ... pretty much the whole Pacific Northwest coast from Canada to Southern Oregon.

Posted by: rich at November 22, 2017 02:19 AM (rYW/M)

693 Oy.

Posted by: Adriane ... at November 22, 2017 02:19 AM (AoK0a)

694 Posted by: a chihuahua that fell in a fire ant nest at November 22, 2017 02:18 AM (6FqZa)

okay.

Posted by: rich at November 22, 2017 02:20 AM (rYW/M)

695 What's the deal with that thing? An exurban legend, or the real McCoy?

Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 02:12 AM (wPiJc)

Personally, I think it's just a trendy, scary name for a mantle plume. Basically a convection cell in the mantle that brings a flow of hotter material up to splash on the underside of the crust. If the crust at that point develops weak spots, an episode of volcanic activity results. Those plumes move. Or the continents move relative to the plumes. That same plume gave rise to the Peace River Arch, a basement high of granite intrusions in northwest Alberta, which has no surface expression, but is well-recognized in the subsurface from well logs. I have held granite cuttings from it in my own hand. Red granite, it is, just like you see in Arizona. Later, that plume moved, and gave rise to the Sweetgrass Arch, on the Alberta/Montana border. That one created some granite knobs that stick up out of the plains, known as the Sweetgrass Hills. Next stop, yellowstone, and it's been hanging there a while.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2017 02:21 AM (oPNmq)

696 Where y'at!


******


Ninth Ward!


My lexicon now includes Jam-ba-ly-ya, Eh-too-fay and ribbons and rice.

Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 02:21 AM (wPiJc)

697 the penis pilot, is he --Y5

HE?
The Fleet has carefully avoided gendered language in this matter.
There is no reason to assume that the "reverse-Kilroy" was not done by a female member of the Aviators' Guild. It would be "in character."
Then there are 50-some other gender identifications, too, if you swing that way.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at November 22, 2017 02:22 AM (H5rtT)

698 red mercury

Posted by: yankeefifth at November 22, 2017 02:23 AM (MTjB1)

699 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2017 02:21 AM (oPNmq)

****


That's awesome. You never disappoint.



Although, for all I know you're just babbling BS. (just kidding)

Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 02:23 AM (wPiJc)

700 What's the deal with that thing? An exurban legend, or the real McCoy?

Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 02:12 AM (wPiJc)

The real deal. It seems to erupt about every 650,000 years and is overdue. It's a hot spot where the crust seems to move over a vent much like the Hawaiian islands. It's a giant caldera and when it decides to go off, it's real mofo. It would change the climate, pretty much destroy the breadbasket of America, and bring on climate change the likes of which even God hasn't seen. They've found animals that died in Nebraska from breathing the ash the last time it happened. The ash crystallized in their lungs and stopped them from breathing. A slow painful death. The amount of ash put out by the caldera would collapse building from Cheyenne to maybe Des Moines.

Posted by: Old Blue at November 22, 2017 02:23 AM (gEvQ8)

701 ribbons and rice.


Heh.

Posted by: Miklos prefers Mandina's gumbo at November 22, 2017 02:24 AM (zCyNd)

702 My lexicon now includes Jam-ba-ly-ya, Eh-too-fay and ribbons and rice.
Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 02:21 AM (wPiJc)


Y'all forgots da Boudin!

Posted by: Justin Wilson at November 22, 2017 02:24 AM (wf3RQ)

703 HEY GUYS!

Posted by: Exclamation Mark at November 22, 2017 02:24 AM (kUotE)

704 Ok. Sorry. G'night.

Posted by: Johnny at November 22, 2017 02:25 AM (kUotE)

705 AOP-

I joke, but my dad was pretty well-versed in geologic type stuff. On road trips he used to pull to the side of the road and point out layers of this and that in the landscape. I never picked up any of that knowledge.

Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 02:25 AM (wPiJc)

706 Old Blue at November 22, 2017 02:23 AM (gEvQ

So 'Not Fun' is what you're saying ...

Posted by: Adriane the Geology Critic ... at November 22, 2017 02:27 AM (AoK0a)

707 Y'all forgots da Boudin!


*****


Boo-Dan!

Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 02:28 AM (wPiJc)

708 And the Cascadia fault (subduction zone fault) will be a real population killer if and when it lets loose. Pretty much everything from Northern California to Vancouver will be toast.

Posted by: Old Blue at November 22, 2017 02:28 AM (gEvQ8)

709 My condolences to Y5 for the asshole neighbors. i had neighbors so bad that i almost moved out of state to be near Ben Had. True Story.

instead i put of a Trumpy wall and installed cameras to observe the property line. It helped but finally had to get City Hall involved. they had no water or electric and it seems the sanitary provisions were not ... wonderful. they called to have bees removed from a tree and the city inspector noticed they were doing unpermitted work. then he went inside and saw buckets of sewage being used as toilets.


that was that. problem solved. they told on themselves.


Posted by: Gushka can has scary kittys what want hugs at November 22, 2017 02:29 AM (9G8jN)

710 So is the epicenter of the Caldera in northwest Wyoming? Would an eruption wipe me out here in Grand Jct? Cause I figure it's better to go out in the initial blast, rather than linger on the periphery.

Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 02:29 AM (wPiJc)

711 So 'Not Fun' is what you're saying ...

Posted by: Adriane the Geology Critic ... at November 22, 2017 02:27 AM (AoK0a)

Yeah, pretty much. Imagine trying to shovel tons of ash off your roof to keep it from collapsing. 24 hours a day for weeks on end.

Posted by: Old Blue at November 22, 2017 02:30 AM (gEvQ8)

712 I joke, but my dad was pretty well-versed in
geologic type stuff. On road trips he used to pull to the side of the
road and point out layers of this and that in the landscape. I never
picked up any of that knowledge.

Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 02:25 AM (wPiJc)

Well, In Colorado, the roadside geology is right there. Here in Alberta, you have to look for it, a little, outside of the Rocky Mountains, where it's in your face. If I drive a dozen miles, or dig down a hundred-odd feet, I can be in the upper Cretaceous, and meet up with the remains of T. Rex.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2017 02:30 AM (oPNmq)

713 if anyone is interested BBC did a docudrama called Supervolcano, about the Yellowstone caldera, which aired on Discovery. pretty good since I can remember it -mostly for the Governor of Wyoming having an Oxbridge accent.

Posted by: rich at November 22, 2017 02:31 AM (rYW/M)

714
The real deal. It seems to erupt about every
650,000 years and is overdue. It's a hot spot where the crust seems to
move over a vent much like the Hawaiian islands. It's a giant caldera
and when it decides to go off, it's real mofo. It would change the
climate, pretty much destroy the breadbasket of America, and bring on
climate change the likes of which even God hasn't seen. They've found
animals that died in Nebraska from breathing the ash the last time it
happened. The ash crystallized in their lungs and stopped them from
breathing. A slow painful death. The amount of ash put out by the
caldera would collapse building from Cheyenne to maybe Des Moines.


Posted by: Old Blue at November 22, 2017 02:23 AM (gEvQ
so what youre saying is if it goes off we dont have to worry about our penny-ante earthquakes here in California?

Posted by: Gushka can has scary kittys what want hugs at November 22, 2017 02:32 AM (9G8jN)

715 My lexicon now includes Jam-ba-ly-ya, Eh-too-fay and ribbons and rice.

Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 02:21 AM (wPiJc)
---
but not Abita?

/me throws flag

Posted by: redc1c4 at November 22, 2017 02:32 AM (dlZr1)

716 I can be in the upper Cretaceous, and meet up with the remains of T. Rex.


******

Heh. One of the local Pediatric practices here is called Dinosaur Junction Pediatrics (Dino Peds for short). Lots of dinosaur stuff around here, of which I remain largely ignorant.

Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 02:33 AM (wPiJc)

717 but not Abita?


****


Que?

Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 02:33 AM (wPiJc)

718 Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 02:29 AM (wPiJc)

the usgs site has a section dedicated to Yellowstone.

Posted by: rich at November 22, 2017 02:34 AM (rYW/M)

719 Cause I figure it's better to go out in the initial blast, rather than linger on the periphery.

Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 02:29 AM (wPiJc)

You should be ok in the initial blast. But you would want to move south and west due to the jet stream winds. Mexico would be overwhelmed with the number of illegal immigrants getting out of the blast zone.

Posted by: Old Blue at November 22, 2017 02:34 AM (gEvQ8)

720
You should be ok in the initial blast. But you
would want to move south and west due to the jet stream winds. Mexico
would be overwhelmed with the number of illegal immigrants getting out
of the blast zone.


Posted by: Old Blue at November 22, 2017 02:34 AM (gEvQ

as a So Cal resident, i find that hilarious. also kinda fitting.






















Posted by: Gushka can has scary kittys what want hugs at November 22, 2017 02:35 AM (9G8jN)

721 so what youre saying is if it goes off we dont have to worry about our penny-ante earthquakes here in California?


Posted by: Gushka can has scary kittys what want hugs at November 22, 2017 02:32 AM (9G8jN)

I'm not sure how the Cascadia fault and the San Andreas fault are connected. Both are fault lines where the North American plates come into contact with the Pacific plates. It could be an either or kind of thing. If one goes, will the other go? I don't know.

Posted by: Old Blue at November 22, 2017 02:38 AM (gEvQ8)

722 Road trips are the most fun about having a little geological background.
Most places, you can pull over on a ridge, look down into a valley, and have a fair-to-middling notion of the bigger things that have happened there over the last few million years.

They tell me this can lead on to fortune. So far all I've used it for is regaling the younger scouts. I'm in glacial scour country, and that shit was like last week.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at November 22, 2017 02:41 AM (H5rtT)

723 Que?

Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 02:33 AM (wPiJc)
---
https://abita.com/

really?

if so, i'm honored, even if surprised.

Posted by: redc1c4 at November 22, 2017 02:42 AM (dlZr1)

724 usgs cascadia ...

https://tinyurl.com/yb5vx4pr

YIKES!!!

Posted by: rich at November 22, 2017 02:42 AM (rYW/M)

725 513 I think Balik does have a religious indoctrinated by left think.perspective so I think she's just a young person

Wow. That was c complete mess of a sentence

Meant "I think Balik does have a religious perspective, but I think she's just a young person indoctrinated by left wing think in a number of areas.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2017 12:41 AM (8+Ozj)

Like me, Miss Bialik was born in the Year of "Physical Graffiti" and "Wish You Were Here". So no, she's not young.

Or, if considered young, she is certainly old enough to know better, and one presumes, certainly wise enough to avoid falling into the trap of being an ingrate. She definitely sounds like an ingrate to me.

But never fear, I'm sure we'll see her in an EXTREMELY SPECIAL episode of "Blossom" soon. (ALL the episodes of "Blossom" were some degree of "very special", no?)

Posted by: CatchThirtyThr33 at November 22, 2017 02:43 AM (3NJT9)

726 I gotta put my favorite mares down tomorrow morning. shes got tumors in her chest and her breathing is obstructed, and now her swallow has also been kinda affected. I was letting it slide, due to my health issues as she was still fat and happy, but then last week she lost the frog in her left front, it just sloughed off and exposed the sensitive sole of her foot. ok. one problem or the other i could manage with sick self and sick mom, but not both at once.


i am going to have a sad thanksgiving. She was a particular favorite of everyone. Including me. Always a lady, always a beauty. Put great kids on the ground. but i dont want her to suffer. So here we go. i need to go to bed, but i cant sleep. I am glad to see you guys, my friends in your little grey boxes, talking Geology tonight. It helps.

Posted by: Gushka can has scary kittys what want hugs at November 22, 2017 02:43 AM (9G8jN)

727 Gushie,

Take care, hon ...

Posted by: Adriane the Geology Critic ... at November 22, 2017 02:46 AM (AoK0a)

728 Abita- a beer. Ah, that rings a bell.


Vague recollections. It's been a while. I have more memory of Dixie. The joke was that Dixie started out high up on the Mississippi as Schlitz, peed out and became Old Milwaukee, peed out again to become Budweiser, peed out again to become Busch, and finally peed out and recycled into Dixie.

Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 02:48 AM (wPiJc)

729 God bless, Gushka. Always hurts to lose our 4-legged friends. I really hope they'll be waiting for us in Heaven.

Posted by: Johnny at November 22, 2017 02:49 AM (kUotE)

730 Gushka, somewhere in those late Cretaceous caves, a first-artist scratched color paintings, "to win a simple Viceroy's praise." And those were pictures of the dearest things in this world he could imagine, you and your horses.

I will be thinking of you.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at November 22, 2017 02:50 AM (H5rtT)

731 Godspeed Gushka's mare.

Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 02:52 AM (wPiJc)

732 Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 02:48 AM (wPiJc)


Hey-Dixie was good beer! I used to buy cases of longnecks direct from the brewery on Tulane Avenue. They had a keg at the loading dock for refreshment while waiting for the cases, which arrived at a leisurely pace.

Posted by: Miklos wishes he could still buy Dixie at November 22, 2017 02:54 AM (zCyNd)

733 730
Gushka, somewhere in those late Cretaceous caves, a first-artist
scratched color paintings, "to win a simple Viceroy's praise." And those
were pictures of the dearest things in this world he could imagine, you
and your horses.

I will be thinking of you.


Posted by: Stringer Davis at November 22, 2017 02:50 AM (H5rtT)























i could just hug you right now. My sweet mare looks just like those paintings. Thank you all for your kind words. i have had a world of shit dumped on me, these last few weeks. Soul deep sorrow. This horse was my person to hug, or talk to when things got rough, not seeing her will suck.

knowing the Horde loves me is a great good thing.

Posted by: Gushka can has scary kittys what want hugs at November 22, 2017 02:54 AM (9G8jN)

734 Well, I'm knackered. Thanks for letting me play here, folks. Good night all.


Endeavor to persevere.

Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 02:55 AM (wPiJc)

735 Sorry to hear that Gushka. She'll get to go, surrounded by people who love her. All in all, not a bad way to go.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at November 22, 2017 02:56 AM (JNqRY)

736 Night Muldoon.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at November 22, 2017 02:58 AM (JNqRY)

737 ...My sweet mare looks just like those paintings...
Posted by: Gushka can has scary kittys what want hugs at November 22, 2017 02:54 AM (9G8jN)

Very touching memory. Thank you for sharing.

Posted by: texcat at November 22, 2017 03:00 AM (wf3RQ)

738 Believe it or not, the Horde has held me together over the last few months, too. We're here for you, you Moron.

Goodnight, Muldoon, glad to have you back.

BTW, I saw Juan de Fuca open for the Cascadia Subduction Zone..... Ok, never mind. Sorry.

Posted by: Johnny at November 22, 2017 03:00 AM (kUotE)

739 735
Sorry to hear that Gushka. She'll get to go, surrounded by people who love her. All in all, not a bad way to go.



Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at November 22, 2017 02:56 AM (JNqRY)

nope its not. And my friend who does it gives them a bump of barbiturate before the big scary shot so they feel euphoria and complete relaxation before they drift off. its painless and i have seen them relax and look relieved as we do it. My vet says hes jealous they get such a good humane death offered to them, when his wife suffered horribly with the cancer.

mostly i feel terrible for myself. I am going to miss her like HELL, and thats not fun on top of slow-motion losing a momma and dealing with health issues, and other personal sadnesses.

Posted by: Gushka can has scary kittys what want hugs at November 22, 2017 03:04 AM (9G8jN)

740 n

Posted by: yankeefifth at November 22, 2017 03:12 AM (MTjB1)

741 Gushka it all seems to come at you all at once, doesn't it?

Stay strong.

Posted by: Johnny at November 22, 2017 03:16 AM (kUotE)

742 The battle of life is usually fought uphill.

Posted by: Johnny at November 22, 2017 03:19 AM (kUotE)

743 "the proximity of Thanksgiving to the Jewish traditional version of Thanksgiving"

Huh? I'm Jewish, not observant now but my family belonged to a synagogue, I was Bar Mitzvahed etc. and I don't know WTF she is talking about. The most similar Jewish holiday I can think of is Sukkot (kind of a harvest festival) but that is two months earlier. Thanksgiving is near Hanukkah but it is also near Christmas, so what? We had typical Thanksgiving dinners with our Jewish relatives and no one ever brought up anything like this.

Posted by: FOAF at November 22, 2017 03:31 AM (p0JMG)

744 742 Yes it is

Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2017 03:39 AM (aC6Sd)

745 Right up until starts to go downhill.

Posted by: redc1c4 at November 22, 2017 03:53 AM (dlZr1)

746 Huh? I'm Jewish, not observant now but my family belonged to a synagogue, I was Bar Mitzvahed etc. and I don't know WTF she is talking about. The most similar Jewish holiday I can think of is Sukkot (kind of a harvest festival) but that is two months earlier. Thanksgiving is near Hanukkah but it is also near Christmas, so what? We had typical Thanksgiving dinners with our Jewish relatives and no one ever brought up anything like this.
Posted by: FOAF at November 22, 2017 03:31 AM (p0JMG)

To me Thanksgiving has always been more of a secular, or at least non-denominational or religious specific holiday. Thank whomever, whether it be God (whichever), your family (whomever), your pets (whatever) for the blessings and good things of the past year.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at November 22, 2017 03:55 AM (JNqRY)

747
wow, how much time did you spend gargling toilet juice?
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 22, 2017 02:06 AM (MTjB1)

Zero. But HS sucked.

Posted by: CatchThirtyThr33 at November 22, 2017 03:55 AM (3NJT9)

748 Gushka's pony
😢

Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2017 03:56 AM (aC6Sd)

749 Excellent content and videos and beautiful ocean view on top.

Posted by: Suzanne at November 22, 2017 04:07 AM (FJrl0)

750 >>>Nothing to be thankful for? Just when are our past sins forgiven?

More accurate would be "When will we stop being blamed for past sins committed by other people?" By all means, I think liberals who idealize primitive tribes and feel a malaise from living in this society should join a primitive tribe.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at November 22, 2017 04:14 AM (/qEW2)

751 Ocean pictures always make me think of Victory at Sea

Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2017 04:19 AM (aC6Sd)

752 &ccomma;

Posted by: Shopgirl: #raisedRoyal at November 22, 2017 04:20 AM (C8sF1)

753 Crap. Just sneaking in to try something.

Gone now.

Posted by: Shopgirl: #raisedRoyal at November 22, 2017 04:21 AM (C8sF1)

754 If liberals had any holidays, I'd like to say, "Instead of celebrating, you should reflect with shame upon the recent sex scandals, the destruction of inner cities, the abortions, the massacres by communist dictators, etc." But they don't have any holidays.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at November 22, 2017 04:26 AM (/qEW2)

755
Comma, comma, comma chameleon?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 22, 2017 04:34 AM (8LLk2)

756 Test ⸴ test ⸲ test ⹁ test.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at November 22, 2017 04:34 AM (/qEW2)

757
The moment when you go from the article posting page to its comments page, the display goes wide on you and you think, "Margins' blown!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 22, 2017 04:36 AM (8LLk2)

758
Posted by: FOAF at November 22, 2017 03:31 AM (p0JMG)


Begin with "not a deep thinker" as you consider what she wrote. That she did not name the purported Jewish holiday is a tell.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 22, 2017 04:42 AM (8LLk2)

759 no-pasaran.blogspot.com

The sexual revolution is eating it's own as they always do

Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2017 04:57 AM (aC6Sd)

760 I suppose now we will hear that Thanksgiving should be renamed: "Death of Natives Day", "Rape and Pillage day", or just turkey day....
I been reading that the whites who invaded didn't have the wonderful togetherness and all sit down for a big feast like I learned in school. At least that is probably taught in schools now.

Posted by: Colin at November 22, 2017 05:27 AM (NnQHP)

761 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 22, 2017 05:34 AM (hyuyC)

762 Gushka

Prayers ascending for your favorite confidante and pony, and that your heart heals from the experience. Which I know it will, because you are indomitable. But faster than usual please?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 22, 2017 05:37 AM (hyuyC)

763 Sitting here shelling pistachios for dinner, what fun. But it will be worth it (I hope) when I grind some up, add bread crumbs and some grated Parmigiano Reggiano cheese to make a crust for chicken cutlets. With boneless chicken breasts at $1.99 a pound, that I sliced into cutlets, my dinner was decided for me. I just hate the prep.

Posted by: RickZ at November 22, 2017 05:44 AM (yGnl0)

764 Finally got down here.
Read a bit upthread.
Morning NaCly.
Response up top. In the 30's, give or take, I think.

Posted by: teej at November 22, 2017 05:52 AM (RQEuo)

765 And I see someone took good care of the margins last night.

Hope the EMT gets here, well, E.

Posted by: teej at November 22, 2017 05:56 AM (RQEuo)

766 teej, I use command-F then type or copy a nic. saves time. And at my age, 29 ++ varoius anniversaries of 29, they're not making more of it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 22, 2017 05:59 AM (hyuyC)

767 mmmm

biscuits and sausage gravy

Posted by: Stoic Lee at November 22, 2017 06:03 AM (4XCge)

768 teej, I answered your #89 with my #149 before I nodded off. So we do communicate, after a fashion. Now you and shopgirl, on the other hand ...

My KSU-OSU /ISU comment responses were # 637 and #647 at the end of the previous thread.

Have a great day. BBL.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 22, 2017 06:04 AM (hyuyC)

769 I almost wonder if she thinks I ignored her some mornings back.
Doesn't know me well enough yet if so.

I'll check for your reply up there,, and pray the EMT gets here soon.

And dang, it was in the 80's?
Sorry about that chief.

Posted by: teej at November 22, 2017 06:10 AM (RQEuo)

770 So universities are serving as testbeds for the economic model they plan to impose on the rest of us ?
What a surprise.

G'mornin' Horde !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 22, 2017 06:11 AM (Ktb8D)

771

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at November 22, 2017 06:42 AM (pYqXv)

772 Today's Customer Appreciation Day Special: Absolut Vodka 20% Off! Limited to 2 bottles/customer. Sorry, Hillary.

Posted by: Chappaqua Wine & Spirits at November 22, 2017 06:52 AM (bc2Lc)

773 JJ up

Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2017 06:57 AM (f/e+k)

774 G'morning, all.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 22, 2017 06:57 AM (EyPfd)

775 In the spirit of Thanksgiving-a devotional from the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews:

http://tinyurl.com/yccw9usc

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2017 06:59 AM (8+Ozj)

776 Sitting here shelling pistachios for dinner, what fun. But it will be worth it (I hope) when I grind some up, add bread crumbs and some grated Parmigiano Reggiano cheese to make a crust for chicken cutlets. With boneless chicken breasts at $1.99 a pound, that I sliced into cutlets, my dinner was decided for me. I just hate the prep.
Posted by: RickZ

How do you get the nuts to stick

Posted by: Jean at November 22, 2017 07:05 AM (5tF+O)

777 The real deal. It seems to erupt about every
650,000 years and is overdue. It's a hot spot where the crust seems to
move over a vent much like the Hawaiian islands. It's a giant caldera
and when it decides to go off, it's real mofo. It would change the
climate, pretty much destroy the breadbasket of America, and bring on
climate change the likes of which even God hasn't seen. They've found
animals that died in Nebraska from breathing the ash the last time it
happened. The ash crystallized in their lungs and stopped them from
breathing. A slow painful death. The amount of ash put out by the
caldera would collapse building from Cheyenne to maybe Des Moines.


Posted by: Old Blue at November 22, 2017 02:23 AM (gEvQ
so what youre saying is if it goes off we dont have to worry about our penny-ante earthquakes here in California?
Posted by: Gushka

That Ash basically created America's breadbasket.

Posted by: Jean at November 22, 2017 07:09 AM (5tF+O)

778 How do you get the nuts to stick

Posted by: Jean at November 22, 2017 07:05 AM (5tF+O)

Sorry, went shopping. Hope you read this.

I do the flour dredge, shake off and let get tacky, following by an egg dip, then into the bread crumbs mixed with the ground nuts and grated cheese. In other words, a typical breading station.

Posted by: RickZ at November 22, 2017 07:25 AM (yGnl0)

779
"Just ask the people of St. Louis "

Heh. As I recall, they'll be paying the bonds on that boondoggle until 2022, or maybe it's 2024? worse, the local MLS soccer squad wants to use bond money to, wait for it, build a soccer stadium.

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie at November 22, 2017 10:19 AM (1hM1d)

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