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Saturday Overnight Open Thread (1/6/18 ) No Smiley Edition

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(Welcome to The ONT)

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Fortunately, I have never lived in HOA. And hopefully I never will. Nothing like living in a little Cuba or North Korea.

Marine Corps veteran and his wife are fighting their Texas homeowners association after the group refused to allow them to fly their American and Marine Corps flags outside their home.

Cpl. Michael Pereira, who served three tours in Iraq from 2002 to 2009, moved into a Kingdom Heights subdivision in Rosenberg, Texas ,about two months ago with his wife.


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(No. Not really.)

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LMAO, the law of unintended consequences. Or how money doesn't grow on trees. Economics 101, the government way.

A basic fact of economics for businesses of all sizes is that when certain costs go up, like employee wages, other costs must be reduced in order for the businesses to retain a similar profit margin as was maintained before the changes.

Thus, we see that in response to a mandatory hike of the minimum wage in the Canadian province of Ontario, a franchisee of the popular Tim Hortons coffee chain has chosen to reduce certain employee benefits in response to higher labor costs rather than lay off any of their workers, according to The Washington Times.

The franchise owners, Jeri Horton-Joyce and Ron Joyce Jr. — daughter and son-in-law of founder Tim Horton — let their employees know in a letter that some of their benefits had been cut in response to the minimum wage rising by $2.40, an unfortunate but necessary unintended consequence of the mandatory pay raise.

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Would you like to live to 104? If you do, you might want to take a tip from Theresa Rowley.

A woman who has made it to the age of 104 swears that the secret to longevity is drinking Diet Coke every day.

Theresa Rowley, from Grand Rapids, Michigan, celebrated her birthday with a cake on January 1.
'When I was 100, I thought I'd never be 104,' she told WZZM. 'Then I turn 101, and nothing happens... Here I am 104, and still nothing happens.'

The care home resident has revealed she consumes at least one can of the soda a day.
'I drink it because I like it,' she explained. 'I'm going shopping Wednesday, and I need more Diet Coke. I have a bag full of empty Diet Coke cans that I need to return to buy more Diet Coke.'
Diet Coke was launched in the US in 1982 – when Illinois-born Ms Rowley would have been 68.

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The State of Ohio no longer to sell Valu-Rite.

WTF!?!


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America. You are forced to bake a cake for a gay couple. But if you want to name your food wagon, Wandering Dago, you can't. Until now.

A federal court says it was unconstitutional for New York state officials to ban a food truck called the “Wandering Dago” from the Capitol complex in Albany.

The owners of the food truck sued the state in 2013 after being denied access because the word “dago” is generally understood to be a slur on Italians. The truck operators said it was a tribute to their ancestors.

The Wandering Dago also sued the New York Racing Association after being banned from Saratoga Race Course. The association reached a $68,500 settlement with the truck’s owners in January 2015.

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While we are on the food kick. A perfectly fine breakfast draws the ire of a bunch of assholes.

A team of rural police officers have been criticised for posting a picture of their cooked breakfast on Twitter because it might upset vegans. Members of the North Wales Rural Crime Team wanted to support local farmers after the NFU of Wales hosted a ‘farmhouse breakfast’ campaign.

So they posted some delicious looking sausages, bacon and eggs on their Twitter page. The team has previously been praised for its pioneering use of social media to highlight rural campaign.

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MacGyver, alive and well. Well sort of.


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Using the best Jeff Foxworthy impression, If you use a cardboard box and a lawn tractor as a snow plow you might be a Redneck.

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It's winter, it gets cold. And then there is Al Gore.

When you hear “global warming” what do you imagine? First, you probably think of Al Gore (or ManBearPig, if you’re into that.) Next, you likely imagine rising temperatures that cause melting ice caps, rising water, and buildings floating in the water.

According to Al Gore, global warming doesn’t just mean “warming.” In fact, it can mean bitterly cold temperatures as well! How’s that for a leap in logic? No wonder they switched to “climate change.” Even liberals might begin to question the veracity of the global warming myth if it meant they were also hot and cold.

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The ONT Musical Interlude


January 6, 1973, Carly Simon's 'You're So Vain', (with Mick Jagger on backing vocals), started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart. In 2015, after keeping quiet for more than 40 years, Carly Simon admitted that 'You're So Vain' was about Warren Beatty, but only one verse of it. Simon said the other verses were about two other men. via thisdayinmusic.com

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January 6, 2006, American soul, jazz, singer Lou Rawls died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. The 72-year-old, Grammy-winning artist had been battling lung cancer. Rawls who released more than 60 albums, sold more than 40 million records, had the 1976 US No.2 and UK No.10 single 'You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine'. via thisdayinmusic.com

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Someone missed the call for "Cash For Clunkers".


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All of us who have reached age 29 have had a bad day or two. Hopefully not as bad as these.

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Speeding = Not good
Eluding police = Really not good
Eluding police while drunk = Really, really not good
Open intoxicants & drugs in the car = really, really, really not good
Dead body in car = Genius Award Winner.

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Highway Patrol officials found a dead woman wrapped in a blanket in an SUV stopped after a high-speed chase with a drunken driver from California, a trooper said in a court affidavit filed Tuesday.

A state court complaint says 30-year-old Tosten Walsh Lommen, of Santa Cruz, faces charges including aggravated eluding and drunken driving. Attorney General Marty Jackley’s office said in a statement that state authorities are investigating the “suspicious death” after the woman’s body was found during a search of the vehicle Lommen was driving.


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Part Feel Good Story of The Day and Genius Award Winner rolled into one.

The Polk County Sheriff’s Office is commending a Winter Haven man for alerting authorities about a drunk driver on New Year’s Eve — but the caller ended up being the one arrested on DUI charges.

Michael Lester, 39, called 911 shortly before 9 p.m. to report that he was driving drunk “all over Winter Haven,” according to a call released by authorities Friday.

“I dunno. I’m drunk. I don’t know where I’m at,” he said when a dispatcher asked for his location.

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Comments

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1 Monkey on Crack

Posted by: Monkey on Crack at January 06, 2018 09:56 PM (/RYJz)

2 Firstus!

Posted by: westminsterdogshow........GNAMM ette at January 06, 2018 09:56 PM (mMeIQ)

3 Italicans!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at January 06, 2018 09:57 PM (e9G8E)

4 Dang it Monkey on Crack!

Posted by: westminsterdogshow........GNAMM ette at January 06, 2018 09:57 PM (mMeIQ)

5 And Thirst!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at January 06, 2018 09:57 PM (e9G8E)

6 You know, I think the morons here are a little short on culture. Perhaps Rudyard Kiplings advice on foreign policy and paying your enemies could help with that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiibaTCMXBs&index=19&list=PLW-4X-flRYwBhRHy01hK_oUqJsncivTF5

Posted by: Zaklog the Great at January 06, 2018 09:58 PM (aKvfY)

7 3 Italicans!
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at January 06, 2018 09:57 PM (e9G8E)

What you talkin' 'bout Willis?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 06, 2018 09:58 PM (3/sUh)

8 Good evening horde. Rum n coke

Posted by: Zeera at January 06, 2018 09:59 PM (E2lfY)

9 Everybody knows in the second life
we all come back sooner or later
as anything from a pussy cat
to a man-eating alligator


Well you all may think my story
is more fiction than it's fact
But believe it or not
my mother dear
decided she'd come back
As a car


She's my very own guiding star
A nineteen twenty-eight porter
That's my mother dear
She helps me through
everything I do
and I'm so glad she's here.


*sniffle* *wipes tear away*

The greatest religious science-fiction show ever, so underappreciated.

Mr Ed and My Favorite Martian didn't hold a candle to it.

RIP Jerry Van Dyke

Posted by: mindful webworker - honk at January 06, 2018 10:00 PM (NU2/k)

10 But Canada has that health care thing going on so there's that.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 06, 2018 10:00 PM (IqV8l)

11 Nice save, there, MisHum!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at January 06, 2018 10:00 PM (e9G8E)

12 En Fuego!

Posted by: That Guy Who Says, "En Fuego!" at January 06, 2018 10:00 PM (avSZz)

13 Also, Slap Shot is coming on.

TRADE ME RIGHT F***ING NOW!

Posted by: Blutarksi-esque 0.0 at January 06, 2018 10:00 PM (+Tibp)

14
That estate planning thing above is making me think.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at January 06, 2018 10:01 PM (8O3HH)

15 Thanks for the ONT.

I thought Dago was a slur against the Spaniards?

I am mostly italian, so no foul.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2018 10:01 PM (ycWCI)

16 Above zero for the next 5 days; a welcome relief!

Posted by: Zeera at January 06, 2018 10:02 PM (E2lfY)

17 Valu-Rite verbotten in Ohio?

I am lost in the wilderness. I'm not sure my constitution can take the good stuff.

I gotta get out of the place, if it's the last thing I ever do.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 06, 2018 10:02 PM (tr2D7)

18 Sorry,, the HOA is in the right here. If you dont like hoa rules dint buy a house in an hoa. The rules are clearly stated in the cc&rs.

And what if the nezt guy wants 5 flag poles?

Posted by: #neverskankles at January 06, 2018 10:02 PM (uFri0)

19 What legal standing do these HOAs have? I can understand actual zoning laws being enforced by the city or whatever, but what gives them the right?

Posted by: josephistan at January 06, 2018 10:02 PM (ANIFC)

20 Breakfast...Full English (or, Full Welsh)... missing the HP sauce. Also needs stewed tomatoes and mushrooms.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 06, 2018 10:02 PM (T1c3o)

21 I was wondering where that toy box went.

Nice ONT!

Posted by: ALH at January 06, 2018 10:02 PM (fjf5L)

22
Gutfled just introduced Rob O'Neil as the "man who made Bid Lade truly hole-y".

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at January 06, 2018 10:03 PM (8O3HH)

23 When Al Gore dies, his headstone will read ...

"Dying is part of Living" - BearManPig

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at January 06, 2018 10:03 PM (e8kgV)

24 I was wondering where that toy box went.

I think we can all take an educated guess as to where it's been

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 06, 2018 10:03 PM (6FqZa)

25 Just an observation after a few days on the road:

Finger Eleven Paralyzer = Zeppelin Trampled Underfoot = Franz Ferdinand Take Me Out

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 06, 2018 10:03 PM (T1c3o)

26 Titans won, eh?

Posted by: Walter Freeman at January 06, 2018 10:04 PM (I/iGu)

27 The big propellors on helicopters, dago, 'wop wop wop'... And the little propellors, dago 'guinea guinea guinea'!

I'll show myself out...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at January 06, 2018 10:04 PM (e9G8E)

28 A woman who has made it to the age of 104 swears that the secret to longevity is drinking Diet Coke every day.

Diet Coke hasn't even been around more than 20 years, or so.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 06, 2018 10:04 PM (8gDQu)

29 Also, Arctic Monkeys kick ass. When asked by Algore to participate in some climate change event, they told him to blow it out his ample ass.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 06, 2018 10:05 PM (T1c3o)

30
Those are some nice, plump sausages in that picture.

The full Celtic/Anglo-Saxon cooked breakfast: there's a reason we've dominated the world. How can anyone conquer anything on just buttered rolls in the morning?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 06, 2018 10:05 PM (IHpm3)

31 What gives Hoas the right? Uhm that whole contract thingy every member signs.

Posted by: #neverskankles at January 06, 2018 10:05 PM (uFri0)

32 28 A woman who has made it to the age of 104 swears that the secret to longevity is drinking Diet Coke every day.

Diet Coke hasn't even been around more than 20 years, or so.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 06, 2018 10:04 PM (8gDQu)

1982, per wikipedia.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2018 10:05 PM (ycWCI)

33
I think we can all take an educated guess as to where it's been
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 06, 2018 10:03 PM (6FqZa)

Don't judge

Posted by: ALH at January 06, 2018 10:06 PM (fjf5L)

34 Whining about HOA rules is like moving next to the airport and whining about plane noise.

Posted by: #neverskankles at January 06, 2018 10:06 PM (uFri0)

35 Or maybe she means: drink and do whatever the heck you want. God will call you home in his own darn time.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2018 10:07 PM (ycWCI)

36 19 What legal standing do these HOAs have? I can understand actual zoning laws being enforced by the city or whatever, but what gives them the right?

Posted by: josephistan at January 06, 2018 10:02 PM (ANIFC)


The restrictions come with the property. By buying the property, you agree to abide by them.

If you ever invest in real property for housing, a CC&R and HOA helps keep the neighborhood (and thus property values) higher.

Posted by: The Real Hat at January 06, 2018 10:07 PM (itfg0)

37 Ev ning, Horde

Posted by: fluffy at January 06, 2018 10:07 PM (cHbmY)

38 1982, per wikipedia.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2018 10:05 PM (ycWCI)


Per the article, if I had bothered reading the next couple of paragraphs

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 06, 2018 10:07 PM (8gDQu)

39 A woman who has made it to the age of 104 swears that the secret to longevity is drinking Diet Coke every day.

Diet Coke is my drug of choice.

And M&M's.

Posted by: ALH at January 06, 2018 10:07 PM (fjf5L)

40 Duke is going down!
*fingers crossed*

Posted by: Hands at January 06, 2018 10:08 PM (EzdLW)

41 And people say Trump is crazy for drinking Diet Coke

Posted by: josephistan at January 06, 2018 10:09 PM (ANIFC)

42 ONT Content richness? You're soaking in it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 06, 2018 10:09 PM (c8EhQ)

43 40 Duke is going down!
*fingers crossed*
Posted by: Hands at January 06, 2018 10:08 PM (EzdLW)

Hah! They took one of his lungs and he'd still kick your ass!

Wait. What?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2018 10:09 PM (ycWCI)

44 Global warming is all things to all people.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, The Persistence! at January 06, 2018 10:09 PM (+y/Ru)

45
Yep, I do indeed need to do some estate planning. If something unexpected were to happen, the family doesn't need to be going through my shit and find my "collection".

Nor shit like, oh, the "Eva Lovia Wonder Butt Fleshlight".

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at January 06, 2018 10:10 PM (8O3HH)

46
Vegans don't care about animals, they're just another group that wants to punish you for your normalcy.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 06, 2018 10:10 PM (LpZxl)

47 Tab must've been Diet Coke lady's gateway beverage.

Posted by: Hands at January 06, 2018 10:10 PM (EzdLW)

48 39 A woman who has made it to the age of 104 swears that the secret to longevity is drinking Diet Coke every day.

Diet Coke is my drug of choice.

And M&M's.
Posted by: ALH at January 06, 2018 10:07 PM (fjf5L)

Diet Pepsi and Folgers Half-Caf coffee.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 06, 2018 10:10 PM (3/sUh)

49

"We've replaced Gwen's Folger's Crystals with red hot volcanic sand... lets see if she notices..."

Posted by: In Vino Veritits in a Pike Chair Beep-Beep at January 06, 2018 10:10 PM (T/KY7)

50 Yep, I do indeed need to do some estate planning. If something unexpected were to happen, the family doesn't need to be going through my shit and find my "collection".

Nor shit like, oh, the "Eva Lovia Wonder Butt Fleshlight".
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at January 06, 2018 10:10 PM (8O3HH)

Hah! Reminds me of the Man Show skit about a company that when you within minutes will be ransacking your place 'sanitizing it' to avoid those awkward post mortem moments.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2018 10:11 PM (ycWCI)

51 39. Diet coke & m&m's?

That shit is bad for ya!

* lights smoke, washes down MDMA with vodka *

Gotta take care od your health, man.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at January 06, 2018 10:11 PM (7X1gf)

52 This whole global warming thing is even worse than first thought.

We know it can cause extremes of heat, and cold, as well as flooding, hurricanes, etc.

But the latest research shows that Climate Change could cause temperatures to remain relatively constant. This is greatly feared by climate scientist because it could reduce awareness and create apathy among the public.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at January 06, 2018 10:11 PM (LWu6U)

53
Off to feed the mutts. Later.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 06, 2018 10:12 PM (LpZxl)

54 Back in the day......we had a homeowner who sued us as the builder. Bought a house that backed to a golf course. Sued for golf balls hitting there house and they won!

Posted by: westminsterdogshow........GNAMM ette at January 06, 2018 10:12 PM (mMeIQ)

55 Speaking of basic facts of economics, the Venezuelan food shortage is over!

Venezuela supermarkets besieged after govt forces price cuts...

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, The Persistence! at January 06, 2018 10:12 PM (+y/Ru)

56 30
Those are some nice, plump sausages in that picture.

The full Celtic/Anglo-Saxon cooked breakfast: there's a reason we've dominated the world. How can anyone conquer anything on just buttered rolls in the morning?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 06, 2018 10:05 PM (IHpm3)

Nothing says break fast than a gob of fucking tofu beans or whatever.


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Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 06, 2018 10:12 PM (3/sUh)

57 NC State Wolfpack close to scoring 100 vs Blue Devils. Under a minute.

Posted by: Hands at January 06, 2018 10:13 PM (EzdLW)

58 What gives Hoas the right? Uhm that whole contract thingy every member signs.
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Solution: Never sign a gestapo hoa contract.

Posted by: Methos and 82,455 other people want Last Jedi eliminated from star wars canon at January 06, 2018 10:13 PM (XQvuQ)

59 Misanthropic Humanitarian & josephistan

The HOA covenants, signed without reading at most closings, spell out the boundaries of the permissible.

I was a HOA President for 5 two-year terms. In Reston, the planned community. Liberal Control Freak heaven.

I wanted my property values to go up and I wanted to not be an asshole. So I stepped up. I sold at the tip-top of the market, and made people's lives better. I kept others from being assholes over me, like the process obsessed hill rats.

The HOA provided trash pickup, street lighting , common grounds, a playground, and parking lot & sidewalk maintenance.

After that experience, I was much more conservative.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 06, 2018 10:13 PM (hyuyC)

60 I drank regular coke pretty much every day since I was a teenager. About five years ago I found out I was Type 2 so I got rid of all the sugar in my life that I could. I tried Diet Coke for a couple weeks and found I couldn't stand it. Now my go-to drink is Diet Dr. Pepper, unless Captain Morgan comes visiting.

Posted by: Bill R. at January 06, 2018 10:13 PM (IuYIh)

61 I am inspired by the Coke Lady, may she live to be 100!....um, never mind. 120?

Posted by: CN at January 06, 2018 10:13 PM (5gaNQ)

62 Electric Light Orchestra > Adele

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 06, 2018 10:13 PM (rnAwa)

63
Those are some nice, plump sausages in that picture.


Phrasi-- aww, nevermind, it's Saturday night.

Posted by: Hands at January 06, 2018 10:14 PM (EzdLW)

64 Mmmmm, HP Sauce.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at January 06, 2018 10:14 PM (ukzXL)

65 Diet Pepsi and Folgers Half-Caf coffee.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 06, 2018 10:10 PM (3/sUh)

This is Georgia, the home of Coca-Cola, so it's hard to find Pepsi, but when I go someplace that carries Pepsi products instead of Coke, I drink water or unsweet tea.

Posted by: ALH at January 06, 2018 10:14 PM (fjf5L)

66 New Years Resolution is to start listening to XM 35, 36 and 37 so that I can keep up on the current stuff, and not just fall back on 34, 38, 39.

XM 17 is a good channel for the Gen Xers.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 06, 2018 10:15 PM (T1c3o)

67 Ultimate snackage is Dr. Pepper with a Snickers. IMHO. YHO may vary.

Posted by: Monkey on Crack at January 06, 2018 10:15 PM (/RYJz)

68 And Georgia beat Alabama today.






(in hoops, anyway)

Posted by: Hands at January 06, 2018 10:15 PM (EzdLW)

69 In this particular case [Pereira] installed two 20 [foot-long] flag
poles [sic] on both sides of his driveway (one on each side) without
first submitting the plans or seeking approval, Sears said. The
problem is that one of the poles is in a utility easement, both poles
are within the 25 [feet] building setback line and the restrictions (and
Texas Property Code
) only allow for the installation of one flag pole.



Um, the Marine veteran is clearly in the wrong. Also, had he submitted plans to the Architectural Committee first, they might have explained to him all of that in their disapproval reply and invited him to correct and resubmit. He's gonna lose because the Texas Property Code was amended to allow ONE flagpole on the property flying ONE flag at a time - US Flag or TX State Flag or Military Branch flag.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 06, 2018 10:16 PM (QLvwG)

70 Was looking at real estate websites near Dallas (sigh...... someday!) and I was glad the listing disclosed if there was an HOA so I could avoid it. I already went through base housing, so I don't need any more nonsense and selective enforcement of said nonsense.

Posted by: pookysgirl at January 06, 2018 10:17 PM (XKZwp)

71 I think the Marine is picking a fight. He put one of the flag poles on an easement. They will allow him to keep the pole that is on his property.

Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 06, 2018 10:17 PM (2DOZq)

72 Estate planning? How about cleaning your friend's father's house where her deadbeat sister had been "living" (really she'd been sleeping at her boyfriend's house 5-6 nights a week and trashing her father's house), and finding a plastic gas station bag full to the brim of sex toys. Sex toys that appeared to not have been cleaned. Possibly ever. And that was some of the least disgusting stuff we found in that house... shudder.

Posted by: deepelemblues at January 06, 2018 10:17 PM (osJSG)

73 Hey Buckeyes, c'mon across the Ohio River 'cause we got it all!

Posted by: Bluegrass Boozatorium at January 06, 2018 10:17 PM (bc2Lc)

74 Did I hear that Tyrus wants to host Trump's fake news awards? I'd watch it.

Posted by: Hands at January 06, 2018 10:18 PM (EzdLW)

75 Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 06, 2018 10:13 PM (hyuyC)


I've sat as a village board trustee
I've been on the zoning board.
I've sat on a Bd of Education
Just to name a few of the things I've been involved in over the years.

Most people in any type of governmental/regulatory organization are power hungry assholes. From the lowly HOA to the halls of Congress.

From knowing your views, you were an exception to the rule.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 06, 2018 10:18 PM (3/sUh)

76 The owners of the food truck sued the state in 2013 after being denied access because the word "dago" is generally understood to be a slur on Italians. The truck operators said it was a tribute to their ancestors.

I thought ethnic types were allowed to 'claim' their slurs.

A team of rural police officers have been criticised for posting a picture of their cooked breakfast on Twitter because it might upset vegans.

And the 'heckler's veto' shit has GOT to end. With prejudice.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at January 06, 2018 10:18 PM (oVJmc)

77 *adds vegans to the free helicopter rides list*

Posted by: Barak Hussien Obama, hiding in an Iranian well at January 06, 2018 10:19 PM (Qe84+)

78 please use the correct scientifical terms:
Global Warming if it's even a bit warmer than usual
Climate Change if it's a little colder or snowier than usual

Posted by: mallfly of the Lammermoor at January 06, 2018 10:19 PM (ILitO)

79 Just watched the first episode of "Pop Team Epic".

It is equal parts drugs, ADHD, s**tposting, drugs, trolling, drugs, and also a bit of drugs*.

* No drugs in the show, since they'd all been used up by the creators and presumably by people wanting to watch the show...

Posted by: 政治的な帽子 at January 06, 2018 10:19 PM (itfg0)

80 They assumed rural policing is easy.

Posted by: Frank Butterman at January 06, 2018 10:19 PM (T1c3o)

81 Chin don

(has coke and pizza for lunch) (It is lunch here.)

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at January 06, 2018 10:19 PM (LWu6U)

82 66 New Years Resolution is to start listening to XM 35, 36 and 37 so that I can keep up on the current stuff, and not just fall back on 34, 38, 39.

XM 17 is a good channel for the Gen Xers.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 06, 2018 10:15 PM (T1c3o)

Listen to 27, you'll enjoy it.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 06, 2018 10:20 PM (3/sUh)

83 72 Estate planning? How about cleaning your friend's father's house where her deadbeat sister had been "living" (really she'd been sleeping at her boyfriend's house 5-6 nights a week and trashing her father's house), and finding a plastic gas station bag full to the brim of sex toys. Sex toys that appeared to not have been cleaned. Possibly ever. And that was some of the least disgusting stuff we found in that house... shudder.
Posted by: deepelemblues at January 06, 2018 10:17 PM (osJSG)

Go on....

Posted by: Barak Hussien Obama, hiding in an Iranian well at January 06, 2018 10:20 PM (Qe84+)

84 We have the basic package on Direct TV.
Guess we need to upgrade so we can get the Gorilla Channel.

Posted by: ALH at January 06, 2018 10:21 PM (fjf5L)

85 Imma gonna hav'ta disagree with JMP on Death Wish 2. It wasn't that bad. Now DW3, that's a different story.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at January 06, 2018 10:21 PM (w+Jhj)

86 Most California HOAs ban clothes lines. That's right.
Solar powered clothes drying is prohibited. Property values!!!

Posted by: PhilDirt at January 06, 2018 10:21 PM (rbEYh)

87 86 Most California HOAs ban clothes lines. That's right.
Solar powered clothes drying is prohibited. Property values!!!
Posted by: PhilDirt at January 06, 2018 10:21 PM (rbEYh)

You might think you were in the midwest or something!

Posted by: Snobish Jackholes ltd. at January 06, 2018 10:22 PM (ycWCI)

88
This deadbeat sister sounds like my kind of gal. One with standards low enough to take me.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at January 06, 2018 10:22 PM (8O3HH)

89 88
This deadbeat sister sounds like my kind of gal. One with standards low enough to take me.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at January 06, 2018 10:22 PM (8O3HH)

Ahem, she did not say whom the sex toys were FOR...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2018 10:24 PM (ycWCI)

90 Misanthropic Humanitarian,

I was an asshole to the several deadbeats that did not pay for services for over 5 years. I foreclosed on them. Alas, we were behind a lot of other people holding their other debts, so we did not clear a dime. We got new paying owners, however.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 06, 2018 10:24 PM (hyuyC)

91 So I looked at the "Alcohols Banned in Ohio" article since it is my state. Its a bit misleading, even the article is a bit incorrect. Stupid? Yes absolutely. You can't get full strength Everclear in Ohio for instance. The article writer makes it sound like ALL Flavored Vodkas are being banned. But you go looking through the list and its Smirnoff Root Beer Float, Smirnoff Pear, Absolut Cilantro, Skyy Vanilla Bean, Skyy Grape, and others like that. They're not getting rid of Strawberry or Orange flavored Vodkas which I bet are more popular types of flavored vodkas.

I'd actually be more pissed about the apparent removal of some of the sizes of Captain Morgan Tattoo, and Admiral Nelson Rum than the flavored vodka you maybe try once and never buy again.

Posted by: buzzion at January 06, 2018 10:24 PM (cAnNx)

92 @82 ... true dat!

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 06, 2018 10:26 PM (T1c3o)

93 That Marine article had over 7,000 comments?!

After reading the article, it sounds like a total HOA rules about the flagpole issue. HOAs are notorious for pissing people off.

But for once, I actually do not think it was about the American flag.

Posted by: Professor Chaos 2018 aka gorilla gumdrop at January 06, 2018 10:26 PM (25nrF)

94 Another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody...

Posted by: Insomniac - Meet the New Year, same as the old year at January 06, 2018 10:26 PM (NWiLs)

95 72 Estate planning? How about cleaning your friend's father's house where her deadbeat sister had been "living" (really she'd been sleeping at her boyfriend's house 5-6 nights a week and trashing her father's house), and finding a plastic gas station bag full to the brim of sex toys. Sex toys that appeared to not have been cleaned. Possibly ever. And that was some of the least disgusting stuff we found in that house... shudder.
Posted by: deepelemblues at January 06, 2018 10:17 PM (osJSG)

Decades ago, in my youth, I worked for a moving company. We got a pack and move for a really nice house in the suburbs, where the parents had been living in the new city and left the 18 year old daughter alone for the summer. Rather than let the dog out to do it's business, it was obvious that the dog had just been put in the basement.

Since my job for the morning was to pack everything in the basement, I packed everything in the basement. Mostly Christmas decorations. Mostly.

Posted by: I ain't telling at January 06, 2018 10:26 PM (tMFgx)

96 75 Misanthropic Humanitarian

That's a lot of experience. I'm sure you did a power of good.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 06, 2018 10:27 PM (hyuyC)

97 No Smiley Edition

++++

Heh. I was looking forward to a full year of exuberant ONT greetings.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 06, 2018 10:27 PM (pvjTE)

98 15
I thought Dago was a slur against the Spaniards?

I am mostly italian, so no foul.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2018 10:01 PM (ycWCI)
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I don't know but for some reason I thought that Dago and Wop both were from Spanish ----the Spanish name "Diego" and adjective/noun "guapo," handsome/dandy.

IIRC, the story was that southern Italians and Sicilians picked up the words from the Spanish, who ruled the Kingdom of Naples and Sicily for quite a while.

Whether the usages began as an Italian slur against the Spaniards or as N Italian slur against S Italians, they were adopted in S Italian slang and thus came to the US.
Something like that.
I think.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 06, 2018 10:28 PM (0jtPF)

99 Here is my observation on HOAs.

The smaller the government the more intrusive and dictatorial it becomes. Part of the reason for this is that a National Government potentially has the entire country from which to choose its members. An HOA only has one neighborhood. And, the people you get in HOAs generally are all the frustrated, small minded, leftist pricks who want to run your life - who then get to f*ck with you personally - through their position in the HOA.


Posted by: An Observation at January 06, 2018 10:28 PM (Y7pP/)

100 I packed everything in the basement. Mostly Christmas decorations. Mostly.

Funny.

Posted by: ALH at January 06, 2018 10:28 PM (fjf5L)

101 I get the gorilla channel. I pirate it off the White House feed.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 06, 2018 10:28 PM (KP5rU)

102 90 Misanthropic Humanitarian,

I was an asshole to the several deadbeats that did not pay for services for over 5 years. I foreclosed on them. Alas, we were behind a lot of other people holding their other debts, so we did not clear a dime. We got new paying owners, however.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 06, 2018 10:24 PM (hyuyC)

There is a difference between being a power hungry asshole to someone who is just doing their gig.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 06, 2018 10:29 PM (3/sUh)

103 An Observation

That is why I stepped up, to avoid that experience. It did give me plenty of stories, however. Good times, good times.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 06, 2018 10:30 PM (hyuyC)

104 , and finding a plastic gas station bag full to the brim of sex toys. Sex toys that appeared to not have been cleaned. Possibly ever.



I do not scream or run from spiders. I would scream and run outta the house on encountering that...probably gagging. Then call some waste disposal service. You are a better person than me, Xanadu.

Posted by: Professor Chaos 2018 aka gorilla gumdrop at January 06, 2018 10:30 PM (25nrF)

105 How can anyone conquer anything on just buttered rolls in the morning?

You do mean margarine and croissants, don't you?

Posted by: Euro Effetes at January 06, 2018 10:30 PM (clYld)

106 You're nothing unless you've smuggled a corned beef sandwich into space.

Only hero's do that.

Or John Young. RIP

Posted by: Deplorable Redneck Bitter Clinger at January 06, 2018 10:30 PM (iiixZ)

107 I don't know but for some reason I thought that Dago and Wop both were from Spanish ----the Spanish name "Diego" and adjective/noun "guapo," handsome/dandy.

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Do they not teach basic ethnic slurs in school these days?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, The Persistence! at January 06, 2018 10:31 PM (+y/Ru)

108 Willowed comment about James Cagney:

Lots of people leaned Left in the 30s and 40s into the 50s. It looked to be the right thing for the common man.

But then it was like we had run a series of experiments and always got the same outcome.

To support Communism today (and the gateway drug of Socialism) you have to be blind or Highly Overeducated.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 06, 2018 10:31 PM (pV/54)

109 39- diet coke (or coke zero, which I prefer) and M and M's is the breakfast of champions. Or at least it was when I was young. Now it's unsweetened oatmeal with blueberries, cinnamon and salted pecans and black coffee. But I really miss the M and M's. (sigh)

Posted by: moki at January 06, 2018 10:31 PM (V+V48)

110 I was an asshole to the several deadbeats that did
not pay for services for over 5 years. I foreclosed on them. Alas, we
were behind a lot of other people holding their other debts, so we did
not clear a dime. We got new paying owners, however.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 06, 2018 10:24 PM (hyuyC)


Yes. HOA foreclosure on a home for non-payment of Maintenance Fees is a stop loss measure. The HOA rarely gets the accumulated unpaid fees, interest, and legal expenses back, but it stops the bleeding and results in a new (hopefully responsible) homeowner. If a homeowner ain't paying their Maint Fees, they likely as not are not paying their property taxes or mortgage payments either. So bankruptcy and/or foreclosure by the bank or tax assessor usually happen first and they are first in line (ahead of the HOAs) for recovery.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 06, 2018 10:32 PM (QLvwG)

111 How can anyone conquer anything on just buttered rolls in the morning?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 06, 2018 10:05 PM (IHpm3)

Pull em apart and put sausage gravy on em? Mmmmmm. Show me the country you want, honey.

Posted by: The South at January 06, 2018 10:32 PM (ycWCI)

112 106: John Young was the man. R.I. P.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 06, 2018 10:32 PM (KP5rU)

113 Whether the usages began as an Italian slur against the Spaniards or as N
Italian slur against S Italians, they were adopted in S Italian slang
and thus came to the US.

Something like that.

I think.



There are a lot of Italian names in families in Spain; many Italians went to Spain to help the Spanish drive the Moors out, and wound up staying there. Many who returned brought Spanish brides back to Italy.

Posted by: An Observation at January 06, 2018 10:32 PM (Y7pP/)

114 MisHum, I take it my email was too "out there" for you? It's okay, I understand that my husband is quite odd.

Posted by: pookysgirl at January 06, 2018 10:32 PM (XKZwp)

115 Someone really needs to put together a paper showing that global warming could cause temperatures to stay the same. Base it on modeling and math.

Then get quotes saying how this could cause even more problems because of apathy, and push it out as a troll on the left.

I am sure enough would bite to cause luls.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at January 06, 2018 10:33 PM (LWu6U)

116 19 What legal standing do these HOAs have? I can understand actual zoning laws being enforced by the city or whatever, but what gives them the right?

Posted by: josephistan at January 06, 2018 10:02 PM (ANIFC)


That monster from the X-Files.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at January 06, 2018 10:33 PM (2kiKp)

117 Evening Horde. I think I chipped a nipple.

Posted by: CSMBigBird at January 06, 2018 10:33 PM (xInes)

118 Living to be 104 years old drinking Diet Coke?! Donny Two Scoops will live forever!

*spent my birthday in Pajamas binging on Netflix and Starz and then ate too much at Cheesecake Factory. It was a good day!*

Posted by: Jmel at January 06, 2018 10:34 PM (OBx9M)

119 To support Communism today (and the gateway drug of Socialism) you have to be blind or Highly Overeducated.

-
Or just plain out of your mind.

Bernie Sanders@SenSanders
I'm not sure why President Trump wants to shut down the government over an $18 billion wall that no one wants, isn't needed and Mexico won't pay for. What the American people want, overwhelmingly, is to provide legal protection and a path toward citizenship for 800,000 Dreamers.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, The Persistence! at January 06, 2018 10:34 PM (+y/Ru)

120 Can I get the Gorilla Channel instead of ESPN? Well then cancel my cable!

Posted by: t-bird at January 06, 2018 10:34 PM (clYld)

121 117 Evening Horde. I think I chipped a nipple.
Posted by: CSMBigBird at January 06, 2018 10:33 PM (xInes)

Watch out, branding irons and maxipads will follow...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2018 10:35 PM (ycWCI)

122
And the ranks of the men who walked on the Moon dwindles by one more.

He flew the first Space Shuttle. He set some sort of heart rate record, on the low end. His heart rate, sitting up on top of the thing, it's first flight, was lower than the guys in Mission Control.

He had ridden two Saturn Vs, Apollo 10 and 16.

Cool customer, he was.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at January 06, 2018 10:35 PM (8O3HH)

123 108 Ignoramus

Exactly.

146 years of incessant failure. Cultural and / or ethnic diversity does not matter. Always a failure, no matter how skilled a populace or how rich a country.

To believe otherwise is to be uneducated and unable to learn from a reality-based universe.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 06, 2018 10:35 PM (hyuyC)

124 HOAs generally are a plot by lawyers to steal houses from old people who can't afford the fees.

Posted by: An Observation at January 06, 2018 10:35 PM (Y7pP/)

125 Someone took an MP3 of Michael Mann talking, and applied the data to his model. A hockey stick was produced.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 06, 2018 10:36 PM (rnAwa)

126 What legal standing do these HOAs have? I can understand actual zoning laws being enforced by the city or whatever, but what gives them the right?

Posted by: josephistan at January 06, 2018 10:02 PM (ANIFC)

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Sign, sign, everywhere a sign
Blockin' out the scenery, breakin' my mind
Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign?

Posted by: The Five Man Electrical Band at January 06, 2018 10:37 PM (c8EhQ)

127 Man, Lou Rawls voice was luscious.

Posted by: Professor Chaos 2018 aka gorilla gumdrop at January 06, 2018 10:37 PM (25nrF)

128 119 To support Communism today (and the gateway drug of Socialism) you have to be blind or Highly Overeducated.

-
Or just plain out of your mind.

Bernie Sanders@SenSanders
I'm not sure why President Trump wants to shut down the government over an $18 billion wall that no one wants, isn't needed and Mexico won't pay for. What the American people want, overwhelmingly, is to provide legal protection and a path toward citizenship for 800,000 Dreamers.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, The Persistence! at January 06, 2018 10:34 PM (+y/Ru)

No.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 06, 2018 10:37 PM (3/sUh)

129 19 What legal standing do these HOAs have? I can understand actual zoning laws being enforced by the city or whatever, but what gives them the right?

Posted by: josephistan at January 06, 2018 10:02 PM (ANIFC)

++++

Contract law. You have to sign on the dotted line before you can buy a property in an HOA.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 06, 2018 10:37 PM (FUu/Z)

130 From U.S. News:

"So, what do I, as a psychologist, think of this trend where schools are banning best friends?" asks Greenberg. "I have thought about it long and hard, and I say bring it on."

Yeah, if the government wanted you to have a best friend, they'd issue you one!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, The Persistence! at January 06, 2018 10:37 PM (+y/Ru)

131 What legal standing do these HOAs have?

Iirc, their power is in the covenants of the land you bought. Open-ended evil, if you ask me.

Posted by: t-bird at January 06, 2018 10:37 PM (clYld)

132 Too Hot? Global Warming. Too Cold? Global Warming. Too Many Hurricanes? Global Warming. Very Few Hurricanes? Global Warming. Floods? Global Warming. Droughts? Global Warming. Earthquakes? Global Warming. Solar Storms? Global Warming. Can't find your car keys? Global Warming

Posted by: buzzion at January 06, 2018 10:38 PM (cAnNx)

133 I could really learn to hate Bernie Sanders.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 06, 2018 10:38 PM (rnAwa)

134

As a group, We are less than our Forefathers.

Posted by: In Vino Veritits in a Pike Chair Beep-Beep at January 06, 2018 10:38 PM (T/KY7)

135 HOA's - back in the 80's I had a townhouse in Woodbridge VA. Every place had a dogwood tree in the front yard. Mine died. As did others. No biggie I thought, I'll just replant another one.

Oh hell no! It's gotta' be from the "approved" tree nursery, and "installed" by professionals at my expense. 200 dollars. The tree was $19.99.

Upon it's sale, I poured gas on that fucker.

Posted by: Deplorable Redneck Bitter Clinger at January 06, 2018 10:38 PM (iiixZ)

136 133 I could really learn to hate Bernie Sanders.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 06, 2018 10:38 PM (rnAwa)

Too late.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2018 10:39 PM (ycWCI)

137 124 HOAs generally are a plot by lawyers to steal houses from old people who can't afford the fees.

Posted by: An Observation at January 06, 2018 10:35 PM (Y7pP/)
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Hah!

Early in my career I represented HOAs pretty regularly. Some of those owners were batshit crazy.

I never got a house out of the deal either.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 06, 2018 10:39 PM (c8EhQ)

138 ByronYork@ByronYork
Yale psychiatrist who briefed Hill Dems wants to physically restrain President Trump, force him to submit to evaluation, declare him unfit for office. But she worries: 'This really will look like a coup.'

When the SS tries to intervene, just say, "Stand back! I'm a psychiatrist!"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, The Persistence! at January 06, 2018 10:40 PM (+y/Ru)

139
I do not want to live anywhere near the sort of people who are in favor of HOA. I've had some peripheral dealings with these types, and even that was enough to make me mad enough to just shit.

We would not get along. At all.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at January 06, 2018 10:41 PM (8O3HH)

140 ''diet coke (or coke zero, which I prefer) and M and M's is the breakfast of champions. Or at least it was when I was young. Now it's unsweetened oatmeal with blueberries, cinnamon and salted pecans and black coffee. But I really miss the M and M's. (sigh)''

The breakfast of champions at my place of employment is definitely Mountain Dew and a package of mini blueberry muffins.

Posted by: Tuna at January 06, 2018 10:41 PM (jm1YL)

141 Question for all the libs:

If global warming causes global cooling, then what is the problem?


Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 06, 2018 10:41 PM (h1jJh)

142 117
Evening Horde. I think I chipped a nipple.

***

I've chipped in a few birdies in my time

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 06, 2018 10:43 PM (h1jJh)

143 Wop: With Out Papers

Ellis Island acronym.

Posted by: pogomip at January 06, 2018 10:43 PM (3j+dq)

144 ''HOA's - back in the 80's I had a townhouse in Woodbridge VA. Every place had a dogwood tree in the front yard. Mine died. As did others. No biggie I thought, I'll just replant another one.

Oh hell no! It's gotta' be from the "approved" tree nursery, and "installed" by professionals at my expense. 200 dollars. The tree was $19.99.

Upon it's sale, I poured gas on that fucker. '

HOAs are all run by mini Hitlers/Stalins

Posted by: Tuna at January 06, 2018 10:43 PM (jm1YL)

145 And, the people you get in HOAs generally are all
the frustrated, small minded, leftist pricks who want to run your life -
who then get to f*ck with you personally - through their position in
the HOA.

Posted by: An Observation at January 06, 2018 10:28 PM (Y7pP/)


Am mindful that there are exceptions. Like my HOA. Self-managed by homeowners. Good people doing a difficult job balancing The Rules vs individual situations. Time and again new homeowners bring over distrust and wrath at their previous HOA, usually run by a third party for-profit management company, and have to be talked through what they didn't know.

Did I mention that I'm prepping for our HOA's Annual Members Meeting this Monday night?

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 06, 2018 10:43 PM (QLvwG)

146 Feels like a Sunday Night.

Posted by: Barak Hussien Obama, hiding in an Iranian well at January 06, 2018 10:43 PM (Qe84+)

147 138 ByronYork@ByronYork
Yale psychiatrist who briefed Hill Dems wants to physically restrain President Trump, force him to submit to evaluation, declare him unfit for office. But she worries: 'This really will look like a coup.'

When the SS tries to intervene, just say, "Stand back! I'm a psychiatrist!"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, The Persistence! at January 06, 2018 10:40 PM (+y/Ru)

I'd pay good money to watch the hilarity that would most assuredly ensue.

Posted by: Insomniac - Meet the New Year, same as the old year at January 06, 2018 10:43 PM (NWiLs)

148 Evening Horde. I think I chipped a nipple.

Chipped nipples on toast. Yummy.

Posted by: Insomniac - Meet the New Year, same as the old year at January 06, 2018 10:44 PM (NWiLs)

149 Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at January 06, 2018 10:41 PM (8O3HH)

Lucky for you and them you can choose to live somewhere without an HOA.

Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 06, 2018 10:45 PM (2DOZq)

150 138 ByronYork@ByronYork
Yale psychiatrist who briefed Hill Dems wants to physically restrain President Trump, force him to submit to evaluation, declare him unfit for office. But she worries: 'This really will look like a coup.'

When the SS tries to intervene, just say, "Stand back! I'm a psychiatrist!"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, The Persistence! at January 06, 2018 10:40 PM (+y/Ru)

Straight Out of the USSR Playbook.

Posted by: Barak Hussien Obama, hiding in an Iranian well at January 06, 2018 10:45 PM (Qe84+)

151 Back in the day......we had a homeowner who sued us as the builder. Bought a house that backed to a golf course. Sued for golf balls hitting there house and they won!
Posted by: westminsterdogshow........GNAMM ette at January 06, 2018 10:12 PM (mMeIQ)



How did they win? Nevermind, this is like the lady who won against McDonald's when she spilled her hot coffee. We've been off the rails ever since.

Posted by: Professor Chaos 2018 aka gorilla gumdrop at January 06, 2018 10:45 PM (25nrF)

152 An HOA only has one neighborhood. And, the people you get in HOAs generally are all the frustrated, small minded, leftist pricks who want to run your life - who then get to f*ck with you personally - through their position in the HOA.

Posted by: An Observation
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Not a counterpoint, but the smaller the organization, the more visible the people at the levers. That is one of the problems with big government, just numerous agencies and faceless unidentifiable bureaucrats intruding on our lives.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 06, 2018 10:45 PM (9tO1t)

153 No! No! Let me go! HE'S the crazy one!!

Posted by: Coup Psychiatrist at January 06, 2018 10:45 PM (FdNEK)

154 141 Question for all the libs:

If global warming causes global cooling, then what is the problem?


Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 06, 2018 10:41 PM (h1jJh)

The problem is you people keep questioning us when we tell you what to do!!! You should just say, "Thank you, person of superior intellect and morality, for your wisdom."

Posted by: The Faculty Lounge at January 06, 2018 10:46 PM (tMFgx)

155 I was vaguely aware of HOAs before I bought this house (see aforementioned X-Files episode), and I was firmly against buying into one just to avoid the extra bullshit.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at January 06, 2018 10:46 PM (2kiKp)

156
HOAs are all run by mini Hitlers/Stalins

Posted by: Tuna at January 06, 2018 10:43 PM (jm1YL)



Moo Moo and jwest are both big fans of HOAs

Posted by: buzzion at January 06, 2018 10:47 PM (cAnNx)

157 John Young

A man among men. *Hand Salute*. Ready, Two.

May he reach Fiddler's Green at the end of the path.

*Sings somberly*

Eternal Father, King of birth,
Who didst create the heaven and earth,
And bid the planets and the sun
Their own appointed orbits run;
O hear us when we seek thy grace
For those who soar through outer space.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 06, 2018 10:47 PM (hyuyC)

158 How dies Bernie Sanders know what 800,000 Americans want? Did he call every single one of them?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 06, 2018 10:47 PM (8+Ozj)

159 Are there HOA's out there trying to enforce actions that aren't part of the HOA rules ? I don't understand.

Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 06, 2018 10:47 PM (2DOZq)

160 No, the HOAs are created by Lawyers who see the potential to steal houses from the elderly in a neighborhood.

One of them tried to replace our neighborhood Civic Club with an HOA. I pointed out in the Civic Club meeting to discuss it what he was doing - and it got voted down. What I said was "Ask him if he is interested in forming an HOA without the power to foreclose." It was apparent to everyone that he wasn't and why he wasn't.




Posted by: An Observation at January 06, 2018 10:48 PM (Y7pP/)

161 Biegert said he smelled alcohol, and a breath test found Lommen had a blood alcohol level of 0.142, which is above the DUI threshold of 0.08. Officials allegedly found a growler that smelled of alcohol and prescription bottles in the SUV.

++++

Learn something new everyday.

growler (plural growlers)

(informal, Canada, US, Australia) A kind of jug used to carry beer (in current usage, a 2-liter or 64-ounce container with or without a handle; sometimes extended to similarly shaped 32-ounce jug, but not bottles).


https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=growler

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 06, 2018 10:48 PM (pvjTE)

162 HOA's are mini socialist/dictatorial enclaves run by dick weeds with delusions of grandeur.

This is why I now live on 5 acres surrounded by cows. Or something.

Posted by: Deplorable Redneck Bitter Clinger at January 06, 2018 10:48 PM (iiixZ)

163 I'd pay good money to watch the hilarity that would most assuredly ensue.
Posted by: Insomniac - Meet the New Year, same as the old year at January 06, 2018 10:43 PM (NWiLs)

Hopefully the SS shoots straight.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 06, 2018 10:49 PM (3/sUh)

164 That X-File episode about the HOA was before it's time.

Posted by: Barak Hussien Obama, hiding in an Iranian well at January 06, 2018 10:50 PM (Qe84+)

165 Moo Moo and jwest are both big fans of HOAs

Posted by: buzzion at January 06, 2018 10:47 PM (cAnNx)


What about Chemjeff?

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at January 06, 2018 10:50 PM (2kiKp)

166 One of them tried to replace our neighborhood Civic Club with an HOA. I pointed out in the Civic Club meeting to discuss it what he was doing - and it got voted down. What I said was "Ask him if he is interested in forming an HOA without the power to foreclose." It was apparent to everyone that he wasn't and why he wasn't.

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How would you form an HOA where one didn't exist before?Every owner in the tract would have to grant a covenant that runs with the land and start paying a monthly assessment. Why would someone agree to this?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 06, 2018 10:50 PM (c8EhQ)

167 This is why I now live on 5 acres surrounded by cows. Or something.
Posted by: Deplorable Redneck Bitter Clinger at January 06, 2018 10:48 PM (iiixZ)

How did you get lodging on the campus of Vassar?

Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at January 06, 2018 10:51 PM (tMFgx)

168 Trump would be running the mental institution in 2 days. He would leave with a better Cabinet as well.

Posted by: Barak Hussien Obama, hiding in an Iranian well at January 06, 2018 10:52 PM (Qe84+)

169 You know who else liked HOAs?

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 06, 2018 10:52 PM (QLvwG)

170 The next lib that spouts off about global warming needs to be dick punched with a spiked glove.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at January 06, 2018 10:52 PM (aMlLZ)

171 167 This is why I now live on 5 acres surrounded by cows. Or something.
Posted by: Deplorable Redneck Bitter Clinger at January 06, 2018 10:48 PM (iiixZ)

How did you get lodging on the campus of Vassar?
Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at January 06, 2018 10:51 PM (tMFgx)

It's possible since Vassar had a nine hole golf course at one time. Don't know if it's still there.

Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 06, 2018 10:53 PM (2DOZq)

172 Real breakfast of champions is hookers and blow.

Posted by: CSMBigBird at January 06, 2018 10:53 PM (xInes)

173 167 This is why I now live on 5 acres surrounded by cows. Or something.
Posted by: Deplorable Redneck Bitter Clinger at January 06, 2018 10:48 PM (iiixZ)

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I'd give them what they want.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 06, 2018 10:54 PM (c8EhQ)

174 I live in a HOA, for the time being. Fortunately, most of the busybodies that were on the board have croaked, and nobody else that lives here wants to go to the trouble of being on it.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at January 06, 2018 10:54 PM (w+Jhj)

175
From U.S. News:
"So, what do I, as a psychologist, think of this trend where schools are banning best friends?" asks Greenberg. "I have thought about it long and hard, and I say bring it on."



Wow. I've seen stories like this in recent years. That friends are a bad thing for kids, exclusionary, etc.


"The convicted prisoner had to learn that his worst guilt out in freedom had been his attempt somehow to get together or unite with others by any route but the Party organizer, the trade-union organizer, or the administration."

-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1, Part 1

Posted by: Hands at January 06, 2018 10:54 PM (EzdLW)

176 174 I live in a HOA, for the time being. Fortunately, most of the busybodies that were on the board have croaked, and nobody else that lives here wants to go to the trouble of being on it.

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A power vacuum? What's stopping you from declaring yourself the tract caudillo?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 06, 2018 10:55 PM (c8EhQ)

177 I'm sorry. You cannot decide somewhat is unfit for the Presidency ,declare that they're mentally ill and remove them from office because you didn't vote for them, don't like their policies and think tweeting is a low class form of communication. The fact http she even recognizes that this would be regarded as a coup shows that she even knows it's beyond the pale/ The Dr. wasn't upset by Hillary having seizures or having to be thrown into the medical wagon?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 06, 2018 10:56 PM (8+Ozj)

178 145 Count de Monet

Good luck at your meeting. May you get the threshold of owners needed.

A Self-managed by Homeowners HOA is the best of all possible HOA worlds. Most of the discontent is removed with home-owners in direct control. I call it full-contact democracy.

Management companies are too remote and rigid to make the HOA work smoothly. And they are tightly focused on the money coming in and the reserve fund, not the owners.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 06, 2018 10:56 PM (hyuyC)

179 This is why I now live on 5 acres surrounded by cows. Or something.
Posted by: Deplorable Redneck Bitter Clinger at January 06, 2018 10:48 PM (iiixZ)

If everything goes right, in a year and a half, we will be living in the middle of 11 acres, which is wooded at the end of a dead end road. We can't see any neighbors.

Its almost heaven.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 06, 2018 10:57 PM (3/sUh)

180 115 Someone really needs to put together a paper showing that global warming could cause temperatures to stay the same. Base it on modeling and math.

Then get quotes saying how this could cause even more problems because of apathy, and push it out as a troll on the left.

I am sure enough would bite to cause luls.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at January 06, 2018 10:33 PM (LWu6U)


I think it would be disastrous for temperature to stop fluctuating, kinda like trying to ride a bicycle perfectly upright at all times. Or walking without your weight shifting. Or only inhaling and never exhaling.

Posted by: Emmie -- please, no public display of insanity at January 06, 2018 10:57 PM (/A+Cl)

181
HOA covenants should be treated like pre-nup agreements: "I had no idea what I was signing and I was pressured, Your Honor."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 06, 2018 10:57 PM (AXfWK)

182 Unless you live out in the sticks, and there is nothing wrong with that at all, it's increasingly difficult to find a neighborhood or development that doesn't have an HOA.

Posted by: Insomniac - Meet the New Year, same as the old year at January 06, 2018 10:57 PM (NWiLs)

183 Sorry,, the HOA is in the right here. If you dont like hoa rules dint buy a house in an hoa. The rules are clearly stated in the cc&rs.

I have successfully and happily lived in a townhouse in an HOA community since 1985. I bought it, knowing the rules and was fine with the idea of the limitations imposed. I love the fact that I have not raked a leaf in over 32 yrs. Hours after the snow stopped last Thursday (over 7 inches) the street was shoveled and the side walks all the way up to my front steps were cleared
My HOA has a professional manager but also has a Board of Directors where issues can be addressed. HOA may not be for everyone but it works for a few of us.

Posted by: arieswoman at January 06, 2018 10:57 PM (fwWWI)

184 A power vacuum? What's stopping you from declaring yourself the tract caudillo?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 06, 2018 10:55 PM (c8EhQ)

The title 'El Guapo' would be more intimidating.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 06, 2018 10:57 PM (QLvwG)

185 181
HOA covenants should be treated like pre-nup agreements: "I had no idea what I was signing and I was pressured, Your Honor."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 06, 2018 10:57 PM (AXfWK)

That only works for women.

Posted by: Insomniac - Meet the New Year, same as the old year at January 06, 2018 10:58 PM (NWiLs)

186 Sorry -meant street was plowed!

Posted by: arieswoman at January 06, 2018 10:58 PM (fwWWI)

187 live in a HOA, for the time being. Fortunately, most of the busybodies that were on the board have croaked

That made me laugh. Maybe it's because i have a fever

I would not do well in an HOA. Of course if i had to live there I would, but I'm sure my political signs would not be allowed.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 06, 2018 10:58 PM (8+Ozj)

188 What kind of sick freak can look at eggs, bacon, and sausages and not want to chow down?
Those sausages look damn good.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 06, 2018 10:59 PM (+lVUW)

189
I'd like to be dictator of an HOA with a bunch of real snooty snobs, just to have fun.

I'd decree that every yard had to have an old rusty pickup on blocks in the front lawn. Then I'd try to figure out what their worst fears or being low class were, and then force them to do that.

Clothes line, say, mandatory in the front yard. And there must always be unmentionables hanging out on them. At all times.

And the most garish and tacky shit all over the place.

I think I could drive them all insane.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at January 06, 2018 10:59 PM (8O3HH)

190 "A Self-managed by Homeowners HOA is the best of all possible HOA worlds.
Most of the discontent is removed with home-owners in direct
control. I call it full-contact democracy."

That's what we have. The first few boards were dominated by old childless single women. They have mostly passed away and now it's somewhat better.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at January 06, 2018 10:59 PM (w+Jhj)

191 188 What kind of sick freak can look at eggs, bacon, and sausages and not want to chow down?
Those sausages look damn good.
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 06, 2018 10:59 PM (+lVUW)

Right? That whole spread looks fantastic.

Posted by: Insomniac - Meet the New Year, same as the old year at January 06, 2018 11:00 PM (NWiLs)

192
Learn something new everyday.

growler (plural growlers)
---------

*?*

Uh... http://www.acebeergrowler.com/

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 06, 2018 11:01 PM (5OO3x)

193 179 This is why I now live on 5 acres surrounded by cows. Or something.
Posted by: Deplorable Redneck Bitter Clinger at January 06, 2018 10:48 PM (iiixZ)

If everything goes right, in a year and a half, we will be living in the middle of 11 acres, which is wooded at the end of a dead end road. We can't see any neighbors.

Its almost heaven.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 06, 2018 10:57 PM (3/sUh)

Should you be so fortunate, I'm going to have to suggest you install a few "One Way" street signs pointing away from your house.

Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at January 06, 2018 11:01 PM (tMFgx)

194 184. I see that you do not have a plethora of pinatas......

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at January 06, 2018 11:01 PM (fA1SL)

195 190 "A Self-managed by Homeowners HOA is the best of all possible HOA worlds.
Most of the discontent is removed with home-owners in direct
control. I call it full-contact democracy."

That's what we have. The first few boards were dominated by old childless single women. They have mostly passed away and now it's somewhat better.
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at January 06, 2018 10:59 PM (w+Jhj)

I'm sure they had very lax rules regarding cats.

Posted by: Insomniac - Meet the New Year, same as the old year at January 06, 2018 11:01 PM (NWiLs)

196 170: Berserker, or, a bottle rocket in their ureathra. That would work too.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 06, 2018 11:01 PM (KP5rU)

197 >>>Its almost heaven

when you achieve your dream, it is.

Posted by: concrete girl at January 06, 2018 11:01 PM (nBzBk)

198 How would you form an HOA where one didn't exist before?Every owner in
the tract would have to grant a covenant that runs with the land and
start paying a monthly assessment. Why would someone agree to this?


Have you ever heard of Majority Rules? Had the Civic Club vote gone in his favor my 80 something mother would have been forced into the new HOA.

Posted by: An Observation at January 06, 2018 11:02 PM (Y7pP/)

199 194 184. I see that you do not have a plethora of pinatas......

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at January 06, 2018 11:01 PM (fA1SL)

For some, shyness might be their El Guapo. For others, it might be a lack of education. For us, El Guapo is a big ugly Mexican who wants to kill us.

Posted by: Insomniac - Meet the New Year, same as the old year at January 06, 2018 11:02 PM (NWiLs)

200 They should take another breakfast picture of vegetarian sausage, vegetarian bacon and vegetarian scramble eggs.( do they make vegetarian egg substitute?)

Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 06, 2018 11:02 PM (2DOZq)

201
That's what we have. The first few boards were dominated by old childless single women. They have mostly passed away and now it's somewhat better.
Posted by: AshevilleRobert
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I just casually mention to new Commissioners that I know where the bodies are buried.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 06, 2018 11:03 PM (5OO3x)

202 Its almost heaven.

West Virginia?

Posted by: Insomniac - Meet the New Year, same as the old year at January 06, 2018 11:03 PM (NWiLs)

203 Sorry. Pinatas are forbidden under Article 8, section 5 of the CC&Rs.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 06, 2018 11:03 PM (c8EhQ)

204 179. Where I grew up, you did NOT go down into a hollow where you didn't know people, and the folks at the end of the hollow were always given a wide berth.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at January 06, 2018 11:03 PM (fA1SL)

205 The beans do look out of place in that pic though.

Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 06, 2018 11:04 PM (2DOZq)

206 "I'm sure they had very lax rules regarding cats.

Posted by: Insomniac"

They were mostly like this Monty Python sketch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO3iUYnQeSE

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at January 06, 2018 11:04 PM (w+Jhj)

207 So the government schools are going to forbid best friends now. Hah! All they can do is forbid the words.

You want to eliminate snowflake pain? How about forbidding dating in high school? Forbidding girlfriends and boyfriends makes just as much sense as forbidding best friends.

And this from the same clowns always barking about loooving anyone you want to loooove.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 06, 2018 11:04 PM (0jtPF)

208 204 179. Where I grew up, you did NOT go down into a hollow where you didn't know people, and the folks at the end of the hollow were always given a wide berth.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at January 06, 2018 11:03 PM (fA1SL)

I thought the proper term was "holler."

Posted by: Insomniac - Meet the New Year, same as the old year at January 06, 2018 11:05 PM (NWiLs)

209 Have you ever heard of Majority Rules? Had the Civic Club vote gone in his favor my 80 something mother would have been forced into the new HOA.

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Your mom would have been deprived of her property rights by majority vote of her neighbors?

Nope.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 06, 2018 11:05 PM (c8EhQ)

210 Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at January 06, 2018 10:59 PM (8O3HH)

There was a house about three miles from me that had the worst collection of Christmas lights i have ever seen. They were all over their lawn, about 100 of them-reindeer, and blinking Santas and smiling elves and Huge told timey Christmas lights that went off and on. I admired their energy to put all that up and they must have had Christmas Spirit, but they were obviously NOT in a HOA

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 06, 2018 11:05 PM (8+Ozj)

211 Count de Monet



Good luck at your meeting. May you get the threshold of owners needed.



A Self-managed by Homeowners HOA is the best of all possible HOA
worlds. Most of the discontent is removed with home-owners in direct
control. I call it full-contact democracy.



Management companies are too remote and rigid to make the HOA work
smoothly. And they are tightly focused on the money coming in and the
reserve fund, not the owners.





Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 06, 2018 10:56 PM (hyuyC)

Thank you. We have, with the concerted efforts by several non-HOA Trustee homeowners, acquired sufficient proxies to ensure we have an official quorum (just 10%) of Members to have an election of Trustees and to vote on other matters.
A self-managed HOA is the best possible arrangement, BUT!!! It takes good homeowners willing to serve their neighbors. Like Pres. Reagan said we are always just one generation away from losing freedom and liberty, our HOA is always just one election away from being replaced by a 3rd party for-profit management company.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 06, 2018 11:05 PM (QLvwG)

212 Have you ever heard of Majority Rules? Had the Civic Club vote gone in his favor my 80 something mother would have been forced into the new HOA.

It would have had to be unanimous.

Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 06, 2018 11:05 PM (2DOZq)

213 208. That is the local dialect, yes. As a courtesy to flat-landers, I translated.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at January 06, 2018 11:06 PM (fA1SL)

214 >>>How dies Bernie Sanders know what 800,000 Americans want? Did he call every single one of them?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 06, 2018 10:47 PM (8+Ozj)<<<

I know they don't want choices in deodorant.


One scent is more than enough.

Posted by: Col. Comrade Sanders at January 06, 2018 11:06 PM (wiLVK)

215 Sign, sign, everywhere a sign
Blockin' out the scenery, breakin' my mind
Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign?

The only sign in the HOA where I live is to pick up after your pet. Yes, pets are allowed-cats and dogs with no size restrictions.

Posted by: arieswoman at January 06, 2018 11:06 PM (fwWWI)

216 Posted by: NaCly Dog >>> The HOA provided trash pickup, street lighting , common grounds, a playground, and parking lot sidewalk maintenance.



I don't get it. Trash pickup, street plowing, playgrounds, etc. That is all included in my city taxes. Are people in HOA communities paying twice, like folks who send their kids to private schools?

There are a few HOA neighborhoods in my area, but it is not the norm. I'd never buy a home in one. I don't care what color my neighbor paints his house and I hope he leaves me the hell alone as well.

Posted by: cfo mom at January 06, 2018 11:06 PM (RfzVr)

217 200 Roc

>> vegetarian scramble

They do:

Mrs ibguy and I had brunch today at a fun place that offered tofu as a scrambled egg substitute.

I passed.

Posted by: ibguy at January 06, 2018 11:06 PM (vUcdz)

218 "Where I grew up, you did NOT go down into a hollow
where you didn't know people, and the folks at the end of the hollow
were always given a wide berth.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at January 06, 2018 11:03 PM (fA1SL)



I thought the proper term was "holler."

Posted by: Insomniac"

Yep. A Holler.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at January 06, 2018 11:07 PM (w+Jhj)

219
The only sign in the HOA where I live is to pick up after your pet. Yes, pets are allowed-cats and dogs with no size restrictions.
Posted by: arieswoman at January 06, 2018 11:06 PM (fwWWI)

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Why all the hate on pot-bellied pigs?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 06, 2018 11:07 PM (c8EhQ)

220 Wouldn't you love to be the house just right next to the HOA. And just at random do shit that they forbid.

Posted by: buzzion at January 06, 2018 11:07 PM (cAnNx)

221 179 This is why I now live on 5 acres surrounded by cows. Or something.
Posted by: Deplorable Redneck Bitter Clinger at January 06, 2018 10:48 PM (iiixZ)

If everything goes right, in a year and a half, we will be living in the middle of 11 acres, which is wooded at the end of a dead end road. We can't see any neighbors.

Its almost heaven.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 06, 2018 10:57 PM (3/sUh)

That is heaven. Congrats you made it.

Posted by: Barak Hussien Obama, hiding in an Iranian well at January 06, 2018 11:08 PM (Qe84+)

222 Posted by: ibguy at January 06, 2018 11:06 PM (vUcdz)

Sounds terrible.

Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 06, 2018 11:08 PM (2DOZq)

223 Have a wonderful evening everyone. May your night be serene.

Some last thoughts on HOAs.

If you have jerks in your HOA, run it yourself. The time commitment does not have to be oppressive. Especially with a local & talented board. Carve out home-owners autonomy in the governing docs. The 3 Ps of running a HOA are Parking, Pets, and People.

And always try to have fun. If it's not so fun, well, maybe you get a good story out of it.

Goodnight, good people.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 06, 2018 11:08 PM (hyuyC)

224 Posted by: buzzion at January 06, 2018 11:07 PM (cAnNx)

LOL.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 06, 2018 11:08 PM (8+Ozj)

225 222 Roc

I'm sure it was.

After all, "tofu" is Japanese for "whale snot."

Posted by: ibguy at January 06, 2018 11:09 PM (vUcdz)

226 And the most garish and tacky shit all over the place.

I think I could drive them all insane.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear

Chili pepper Xmas lights all year

Posted by: Jean at January 06, 2018 11:10 PM (yM/Yl)

227 217 200 Roc

>> vegetarian scramble

They do:

Mrs ibguy and I had brunch today at a fun place that offered tofu as a scrambled egg substitute.

I passed.
Posted by: ibguy at January 06, 2018 11:06 PM (vUcdz)


Whew......ibguy gets to keep his Moron and Man card for another breakfast.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 06, 2018 11:10 PM (3/sUh)

228
Wouldn't you love to be the house just right next to the HOA. And just at random do shit that they forbid.

Posted by: buzzion


Hadrian Associates Lead Smelting LLC

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 06, 2018 11:10 PM (AXfWK)

229 *?*

Uh... http://www.acebeergrowler.com/

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 06, 2018 11:01 PM (5OO3x)

++++

I guess I've lived a sheltered life. Never heard of them before. Maybe because I just buy name brand beer from the supermarket. Nothing against craft beers, I've just never gone out of my way to experiment with them.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 06, 2018 11:10 PM (pvjTE)

230 I'm sorry. You cannot decide somewhat is unfit for the Presidency ,declare that they're mentally ill and remove them from office because you didn't vote for them, don't like their policies and think tweeting is a low class form of communication.

-
There was a Twitter spat a few days ago in which some moonbat accused a Republican politician of being a Confederate. (If not for my Oldtimers, I could remember who the moonbat celebrity and the politician were.) He responded that had he been alive during the Civil War, as a Republican, he wouldn't bave been a Confederate. Moonbat replied that everybody knows that the Donks and the Rethugs switched sides on race during the 60s and now the Donks are nothing like the Confederates. Yeah, if you ignore the acts that they're race obsessed anticonstitutionalists who think they're justified in using violence to overthrow the results of a presidential election they didn't like for fear their ability to live well off the labor of others would be impaired, there's hardly any similarity at all.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, The Persistence! at January 06, 2018 11:11 PM (+y/Ru)

231 228. Uncle Palpatine's Rendering and Animal By-Product Works. - As seen on 60 Minutes

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at January 06, 2018 11:11 PM (fA1SL)

232 Your mom would have been deprived of her property rights by majority vote of her neighbors?



Nope.


Yep, did you have any choice about being governed by your City, County, or State governments? Same thing. There were lawyers all over Houston who were pulling that scam, and they all got away with it.

People fought them and lost in court.

Posted by: An Observation at January 06, 2018 11:11 PM (Y7pP/)

233 138 ByronYork@ByronYork
Yale psychiatrist who briefed Hill Dems wants to physically restrain President Trump, force him to submit to evaluation, declare him unfit for office. But she worries: 'This really will look like a coup.'

When the SS tries to intervene, just say, "Stand back! I'm a psychiatrist!"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, The Persistence! at January 06, 2018 10:40 PM (+y/Ru


She's just gonna wave her own mental illness around so everybody can see it.

Posted by: Emmie -- please, no public display of insanity at January 06, 2018 11:12 PM (/A+Cl)

234

And I see the Rosanne re-boot coming later this spring has a 9 year-old cross dressing boy as one of the mains.

Of course.

They are at pains to point out that he's not a tranny, just derives gratification from wearing girls clothing.

Of course.

You will be MADE to care...

Posted by: In Vino Veritits in a Pike Chair Beep-Beep at January 06, 2018 11:12 PM (T/KY7)

235 Wouldn't you love to be the house just right next to the HOA. And just at random do shit that they forbid.
Posted by: buzzion at January 06, 2018 11:07 PM (cAnNx)

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A herd of plastic cows on the lawn would give a friendly rural feel, yet also be easy to clean.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 06, 2018 11:12 PM (c8EhQ)

236 >>>Its almost heaven.
West Virginia?

i like that song. it's peaceful

Posted by: concrete girl at January 06, 2018 11:12 PM (nBzBk)

237 229 *?*

Uh... http://www.acebeergrowler.com/

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 06, 2018 11:01 PM (5OO3x)

++++

I guess I've lived a sheltered life. Never heard of them before. Maybe because I just buy name brand beer from the supermarket. Nothing against craft beers, I've just never gone out of my way to experiment with them.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 06, 2018 11:10 PM (pvjTE)


I first heard of them 2-3 years ago. My future son in law is a home brewer. I just call them big ass bottles

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 06, 2018 11:12 PM (3/sUh)

238 Unless you live out in the sticks, and there is nothing wrong with that at all, it's increasingly difficult to find a neighborhood or development that doesn't have an HOA.
Posted by: Insomniac - Meet the New Year, same as the old year at January 06, 2018 10:57 PM (NWiLs)


I'd think that would non HOA homes more valuable.

Last time I bought a house I told the agent to not even show me listings in an HOA. Agent had to show us one anyway because it met all our wishes and wife agreed. Yup, perfect, except the HOA so I offered significantly lower than list and explained burden of HOAs (dues, paying landscaping to meet reqs, etc.) and directed agent to tell them the low offer is because its in an HOA.
Agent said it was insulting...

Posted by: Burnt Toast at January 06, 2018 11:13 PM (Eu5eZ)

239
231
Both Proud TrumpCo Enterprises

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 06, 2018 11:13 PM (8IZDE)

240 My moms neighborhood was one of the very few that didn't get conned by the smooth sales job of "Protecting property values".

Posted by: An Observation at January 06, 2018 11:13 PM (Y7pP/)

241 cfo mom

Our HOA was not in a town or city. It was one of a number of other HOAs embedded in a planned community (a much bigger HOA in the suburbs).

Goodnight.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 06, 2018 11:14 PM (hyuyC)

242 I don't get it. Trash pickup, street plowing,
playgrounds, etc. That is all included in my city taxes. Are people in
HOA communities paying twice, like folks who send their kids to private
schools?

Posted by: cfo mom at January 06, 2018 11:06 PM (RfzVr)


Good question. No. For those of us who live in the unincorporated part of the county, there is no city to provide those services. Neither does the county. So our HOA provides garbage pickup, street lighting, security, and mosquito spraying in addition to maintaining all the common areas and amenities.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 06, 2018 11:14 PM (QLvwG)

243 Yep, did you have any choice about being governed by your City, County, or State governments? Same thing. There were lawyers all over Houston who were pulling that scam, and they all got away with it.

People fought

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A group of neighbors is not the government. Your moms neighbors cannot vote her into an HOA.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 06, 2018 11:14 PM (c8EhQ)

244 I'd pay good money to watch the hilarity that would most assuredly ensue.
Posted by: Insomniac - Meet the New Year, same as the old year at January 06, 2018 10:43 PM (NWiLs)

And then call the coroner, not the ambulance service, for clean up.

Posted by: Fox2! at January 06, 2018 11:14 PM (brIR5)

245 227 MisHum

Thank you, sir

It wasn't actually a total virtue signaling place: I had a bowl of beef/chicken soup (stock?) fortified with tumeric that was absolutely fantastic.

And some of the best coffee (covfefe?) I've ever had.

Posted by: ibguy at January 06, 2018 11:14 PM (vUcdz)

246 Grammar, Not-See:
It is NOT pedantic to insist on a difference between "defuse" and "diffuse."
Any of you "Literacy? It's a CHOICE" types want to diffuse bombs in my neighborhood, let me get a goddam-good head start.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 06, 2018 11:15 PM (H5rtT)

247 234: I will be made to give zero fucks about not watching stupid, demented, shit. I don't care if the shitshow is full of trannies, fat people, stupid bumblefucks, who gives a shit?

Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 06, 2018 11:15 PM (KP5rU)

248 Agent said it was insulting...
Posted by: Burnt Toast at January 06, 2018 11:13 PM (Eu5eZ)

Well then maybe the agent should have listened to you.

I'm fed up with some of the Customer Service I've been experiencing as of late.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 06, 2018 11:16 PM (3/sUh)

249 236. The Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia - also very good:
https://youtu.be/7vl5N4ndHv0

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at January 06, 2018 11:16 PM (fA1SL)

250

Society is the frog. The immersive multimedia is the pan of water.

Individual frogs escape. The gaggle of frogs, especially the younger ones, cook.

Posted by: In Vino Veritits in a Pike Chair Beep-Beep at January 06, 2018 11:17 PM (T/KY7)

251 Yale psychiatrist who briefed Hill Dems wants to physically restrain
President Trump, force him to submit to evaluation, declare him unfit
for office. But she worries: 'This really will look like a coup.'


The fascinating part is that she has absolutely no clue that the rest of us can see how utterly insane she is.


Posted by: An Observation at January 06, 2018 11:18 PM (Y7pP/)

252 Why all the hate on pot-bellied pigs?

Ha! I have seen anyone walk one through the neighborhood but it most likely would be allowed. My next door neighbor is President of the Board. He is a big libertarian -his attitude is live and let live unless it impedes on someone else or endangers property or person. It takes a lot of residents to complain about some silly issue for him to take action. The Board meet quarterly so issues and complaints can be heard at that time.

Posted by: arieswoman at January 06, 2018 11:18 PM (fwWWI)

253 The Frogs are coming back vs the Jayhawks.

Posted by: Hands at January 06, 2018 11:19 PM (EzdLW)

254 i see americas' most beloved sheep is dropping another giant turd. thanks, meryl. now, go get harveys' fucking shinebox.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 06, 2018 11:19 PM (KP5rU)

255 251 Yale psychiatrist who briefed Hill Dems wants to physically restrain
President Trump, force him to submit to evaluation, declare him unfit
for office. But she worries: 'This really will look like a coup.'

The fascinating part is that she has absolutely no clue that the rest of us can see how utterly insane she is. fucking nuts she is.


Posted by: An Observation at January 06, 2018 11:18 PM (Y7pP/


FIFY

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 06, 2018 11:19 PM (3/sUh)

256 Re the house of the edge of the HOA:

Two words: chicken coops. And a fan to blow the smell in their direction.

And invite a bunch of hillbillies over for a pickin' and grinnin' session. Attire should be overalls, straw hats. And lots of chewing tobacco.

And lots of fiddle playin'. With hoots of "Hee-haw!" all the time.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at January 06, 2018 11:20 PM (8O3HH)

257 234

And I see the Rosanne re-boot coming later this spring has a 9 year-old cross dressing boy as one of the mains.

Of course.

They are at pains to point out that he's not a tranny, just derives gratification from wearing girls clothing.

Of course.

You will be MADE to care...

Posted by: In Vino Veritits in a Pike Chair Beep-Beep at January 06, 2018 11:12 PM (T/KY7)

++++

My bet would be the show fails. Roseanne has pissed off the left by being pro-Trump. But, I would guess that most pro-Trump people are not down with trannies of any stripe, but especially with 9 yo boys being encouraged to travel down that road. Certainly nothing to laugh about.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 06, 2018 11:20 PM (FUu/Z)

258 I'd never live in an HOA by choice, but for our coastal vacation condo, the HOA has been great. The few rules are reasonable.
One of the condo owners is the stereotypical old crank with too much time on his hands, but he's not on the board, although he'd like to be.
The board is a group of competent conservative men who've been rockstars in the days since Harvey hit our building.

As soon as people were allowed back on the island, they hit the ground running with the insurance adjusters, then hired the best demo and construction contractors, as well as architects who specialize in rebuilding high rises with hurricane damage. I can't say enough good about them.

Posted by: stace at January 06, 2018 11:20 PM (6HFDU)

259 You gotta physically restrain someone to run a psych evaluation on them?

Posted by: davidt at January 06, 2018 11:21 PM (FdNEK)

260 My bet would be the show fails. Roseanne has pissed off the left by being pro-Trump. But, I would guess that most pro-Trump people are not down with trannies of any stripe, but especially with 9 yo boys being encouraged to travel down that road. Certainly nothing to laugh about.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 06, 2018 11:20 PM (FUu/Z)

Her 1st showed sucked 20 years ago, doesn't sound like it has gotten any better.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 06, 2018 11:21 PM (3/sUh)

261
259 You gotta physically restrain someone to run a psych evaluation on them?
Posted by: davidt at January 06, 2018 11:21 PM (FdNEK)

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Normal people won't look at inkblots voluntarily.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 06, 2018 11:22 PM (c8EhQ)

262 The scariest part of the Yale psychiatrist story isn't her being crazy but the fact that she is briefing Capitol Hill Democrats.

Posted by: Hands at January 06, 2018 11:23 PM (EzdLW)

263 From the last thread:

771

SCTV: Towering Inferno

https://youtu.be/dyfDEQJIgRY
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 06, 2018 09:38 PM (IqV8l)



I just watched the whole thing.

Posted by: rickl at January 06, 2018 11:23 PM (sdi6R)

264 261
259 You gotta physically restrain someone to run a psych evaluation on them?
Posted by: davidt at January 06, 2018 11:21 PM (FdNEK)

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Normal people won't look at inkblots voluntarily.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 06, 2018 11:22 PM (c8EhQ)

I'm not locked in here with you. YOU'RE LOCKED IN HERE WITH ME!

Posted by: Rorshach at January 06, 2018 11:24 PM (NWiLs)

265 I just watched the whole thing.
Posted by: rickl

Me too. Just awesome.

Posted by: Blutarksi-esque 0.0 at January 06, 2018 11:24 PM (+Tibp)

266 I'm just glad my new sports season viewing has started. Tournament of Champions for golf this week and the Australian Open for tennis next week.

Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 06, 2018 11:25 PM (2DOZq)

267 Posted by: Hands at January 06, 2018 11:23 PM (EzdLW)

Yes it is. Are they gonna pay immense amounts of money to have someone in the SS kidnap Trump and do this?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 06, 2018 11:25 PM (8+Ozj)

268 A group of neighbors is not the government. Your moms neighbors cannot vote her into an HOA.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 06, 2018 11:14 PM (c8EhQ)


they can make her bake a gay cake. why can't they make her pay a third party to yell at for not having green enough grass?

Posted by: Burnt Toast at January 06, 2018 11:26 PM (Eu5eZ)

269 Some HOA in Colorado are upwards of $400. That's insane!

Posted by: westminsterdogshow........GNAMM ette at January 06, 2018 11:26 PM (mMeIQ)

270 Almost heaven, West Virginia

Say, I wonder what this button does?

Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh

Sploosh

Posted by: Zombie John Denver at January 06, 2018 11:26 PM (gC2IV)

271 And I see the Rosanne re-boot coming later this spring has a 9 year-old cross dressing boy as one of the mains.
----------------

Is his name Jacob?

Posted by: Sara Hoffman at January 06, 2018 11:27 PM (9tO1t)

272 A group of neighbors is not the government. Your moms neighbors cannot vote her into an HOA.

It happened to tens of thousands of people in Houston who had HOAs imposed on them. Sorry - you are just wrong.

Posted by: An Observation at January 06, 2018 11:27 PM (Y7pP/)

273 One amazing observation from being a Trustee on our HOA.

People lie. They lie in writing and to your face. Bald-faced unashamed Bill Clinton red-faced finger wagging 'I did not have sex with that woman . . . Monica Lewinsky' level lying.

It's breathtaking at times. Like something freshly shorn.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 06, 2018 11:27 PM (QLvwG)

274 Regarding "McGyver" link: you don't "diffuse" mines; you "de-fuse" them. Or "de-fuze", for those that swing that way.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 06, 2018 11:27 PM (sD2WN)

275 When we were selling my late MIL's house I interviewed three real estate agents. One, who is well known in our area was just the kind of person cut out to be head of an HOA. We were looking out the back kitchen window and I jokingly said to her that it was good we had a privacy fence 'cause the next door neighbors yard was full of all kinds of junk.

She seriously wanted me to call the city on them. About shit that is in their yard, that I can barely see, that is not drawing vermin or anything - just untidy. Yeah, I'm gonna call the city on people I don't even live near.

Needless to say, I did not hire that bi+@#.

Posted by: cfo mom at January 06, 2018 11:27 PM (RfzVr)

276 Her 1st showed sucked 20 years ago, doesn't sound like it has gotten any better.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 06, 2018 11:21 PM (3/sUh)

++++

I really liked the first few seasons of her show. Funny as hell. But, it lost the way after season 4 or so.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 06, 2018 11:28 PM (FUu/Z)

277 A Scottish grandfather screamed blue murder when his Amazon Echo could not understand his accent – leaving his grandson in hysterics.

https://tinyurl.com/ydz8zble


Left me in hysterics too.

Posted by: Professor Chaos 2018 aka gorilla gumdrop at January 06, 2018 11:28 PM (25nrF)

278 Rum. Cola. Deal with it.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 06, 2018 11:28 PM (cu8/f)

279 The scariest part of the Yale psychiatrist story isn't her being crazy but the fact that she is briefing Capitol Hill Democrats.
Posted by: Hands
--------------

Dammit, missed a chance to throw a net over the whole bunch.

Posted by: Guy in a white suit at January 06, 2018 11:29 PM (5OO3x)

280 Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 06, 2018 11:28 PM (FUu/Z)

It was George Clooney that you liked. Admit it.

Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 06, 2018 11:29 PM (2DOZq)

281 As soon as people were allowed back on the island,
they hit the ground running with the insurance adjusters, then hired the
best demo and construction contractors, as well as architects who
specialize in rebuilding high rises with hurricane damage. I can't say
enough good about them.

Posted by: stace at January 06, 2018 11:20 PM (6HFDU)

Bet they would appreciate some homemade brownies at their next board meeting. Just saying.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 06, 2018 11:29 PM (QLvwG)

282 This Yale shrink - I join with her family, friends, and colleagues in hoping that she is found, safe and well, and can get the treatment she needs.

*heh*

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at January 06, 2018 11:30 PM (fA1SL)

283 You always see the outrageous HOA stories, especially if there is a veteran and a flag involved -- though if you want to be a Philly lawyer about it, most flag regs are clearly expressed, and the veterans are willfully violating an agreement they did sign on to. They don't care to challenge the rule at a meeting, is all.

I just don't see much difference between an HOA that gets taken over by the very odd, and living in most incorporated towns or cities. You get some campaign going on, and your erstwhile enemies have zoning and land use, extreme views on health side-effects and climate, tax valuation, and eminent domain to use on you, without even moving on to shunning, fire-bombs and suits at common law. Other people are just dangerous to have around, is all. Bills of rights are malleable as time goes by, and attitudes mutate.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 06, 2018 11:30 PM (H5rtT)

284 The greatest religious science-fiction show ever, so underappreciated.

Mr Ed and My Favorite Martian didn't hold a candle to it.

RIP Jerry Van Dyke

Posted by: mindful webworker - honk at January 06, 2018 10:00 PM (NU2/k)

Growing up in that era, and watching those shows when new on TV, I would rank Mr. Ed #1, My Favorite Martian #2, and My Mother the Car as distant #3. They just tried too hard.

And Mr. Ed was sponsored by Studebaker, so there's that, too. And they used Studebaker cars in the show.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 06, 2018 11:31 PM (sD2WN)

285 >>>249
thnx Uncle
i have always liked emmylou's voice. the way it cracks is unique.

Posted by: concrete girl at January 06, 2018 11:31 PM (nBzBk)

286 266 I'm just glad my new sports season viewing has started. Tournament of Champions for golf this week and the Australian Open for tennis next week.
Posted by: Roc Ingersol



Maui does look lovely. I looked up what it would cost to play a round of golf at Kapula. $299 if your a guest at the resort. A bit steep for me.

Posted by: Puddleglum at January 06, 2018 11:32 PM (MQeu/)

287 It happened to tens of thousands of people in Houston who had HOAs imposed on them. Sorry - you are just wrong.



Posted by: An Observation at January 06, 2018 11:27 PM (Y7pP/)

I don't take the Chronicle or watch local HOU TV news. When was this and do you have a link or search terms? I'd like to find out more.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 06, 2018 11:32 PM (QLvwG)

288 Beer. Deal with it.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 06, 2018 11:32 PM (Ckg4U)

289 Trump has driven them mad.

Posted by: ALH at January 06, 2018 11:33 PM (fjf5L)

290 It was George Clooney that you liked. Admit it.

Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 06, 2018 11:29 PM (2DOZq)

++++

Heh. I will admit to liking Clooney as an actor even though he is a lefty douche. But, I don't even he would brag about his acting in Roseanne. He is better at drama than comedy.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 06, 2018 11:34 PM (FUu/Z)

291 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 06, 2018 11:31 PM (sD2WN)

I still laugh just thinking about it. Mr Ed sliding into home plate at Dodger stadium.

Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 06, 2018 11:34 PM (2DOZq)

292 289
Trump has driven them mad.

Posted by: ALH at January 06, 2018 11:33 PM (fjf5L)

Ain't it grand?

Posted by: davidt at January 06, 2018 11:34 PM (FdNEK)

293 288 Beer. Deal with it.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 06, 2018 11:32 PM (Ckg4U)

Well it certainly isn't vodka in your wonderful state.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 06, 2018 11:34 PM (3/sUh)

294 I have feeling that this is going to be the "Vote to Impeach Trump" midterms. if the Dems are not explicitly running on that it will be the subtext.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 06, 2018 11:35 PM (8+Ozj)

295 You gotta physically restrain someone to run a psych evaluation on them?

-
If they resist, it means they're nuts.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, The Persistence! at January 06, 2018 11:35 PM (+y/Ru)

296 If you ever invest in real property for housing, a CC&R and HOA helps keep the neighborhood (and thus property values) higher.

Posted by: The Real Hat at January 06, 2018 10:07 PM (itfg0)

HOA members will never have the pleasure of having a cool guy like me as a neighbor. Poor bastards.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 06, 2018 11:35 PM (sD2WN)

297 The beans do look out of place in that pic though.
Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 06, 2018 11:04

Not a all. When we were in England all the English breakfasts had baked beans. Actually pretty good, tho not as good as Jules.

Posted by: Farmer at January 06, 2018 11:35 PM (yJ1e6)

298 Trump has driven them mad.
Posted by: ALH
------------

Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.

Posted by: Prometheus at January 06, 2018 11:36 PM (nBBdT)

299 286: that should be Kapalua golf. Kapula is probably a curse word in Hawaiian.

Posted by: Puddleglum at January 06, 2018 11:36 PM (MQeu/)

300 And Insomniac.......I for one am getting tired of your shtick......if you don't like how life is treating you.....do something to change it! We have all offered to help!

Posted by: westminsterdogshow........GNAMM ette at January 06, 2018 11:37 PM (mMeIQ)

301 The scariest part of the Yale psychiatrist story isn't her being crazy but the fact that she is briefing Capitol Hill Democrats.

-
Synergy!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, The Persistence! at January 06, 2018 11:37 PM (+y/Ru)

302 A question about HOAs. Can the rules be changed at any time by a vote and all of a sudden what was OK, becomes forbidden?

I don't think I would ever risk that. At least in our city, if a law or ordinance changes, you are grandfathered in as far as zoning.

Posted by: cfo mom at January 06, 2018 11:37 PM (RfzVr)

303 "Well it certainly isn't vodka in your wonderful state."
-Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 06, 2018 11:34 PM (3/sUh)

Meh... I'm a beer dude.

*cheers!*

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 06, 2018 11:37 PM (Ckg4U)

304 I was just reading about astronaut John Young, who died yesterday at age 87.

He flew four different space vehicles: Gemini, Apollo Command Module, Apollo Lunar Module, and Space Shuttle. I don't know for sure, but I don't think anybody else did that. RIP, sir.

Posted by: rickl at January 06, 2018 11:37 PM (sdi6R)

305 This was back in the late 1980s or early 90s it caused such a stink that some of the laws regulating HOAs in Texas got changed as a result.

Posted by: An Observation at January 06, 2018 11:37 PM (Y7pP/)

306 285. Any time. That song captures the 'feel' of the state quite well, I think.

(Yeah. WV & coal country is very much a Four Yorkshiremen kinda place. Example? Charles Bronson went to work in a coal mine after his father was killed mining. Thousands of such stories in WV and elsewhere. )

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at January 06, 2018 11:37 PM (fA1SL)

307 *clink!*

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 06, 2018 11:37 PM (Ckg4U)

308
If everything goes right, in a year and a half, we will be living in the middle of 11 acres, which is wooded at the end of a dead end road. We can't see any neighbors.

Its almost heaven.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 06, 2018 10:57 PM (3/sUh)

Sounds like the song...

Almost heaven, West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountain, Shenandoah River
Life is old there, older than the trees
Younger than the mountains
Growing like the breeze

Take me home,
Country Roads
To the place
I belong...

Posted by: Professor Chaos 2018 aka gorilla gumdrop at January 06, 2018 11:38 PM (25nrF)

309 The breakfast looks tasty, Your So Vain is every progressive woman's lament, Lou had a great voice, democrats are dumb and baptized my Uncle Karl. MAGA!

Posted by: colfax mingo at January 06, 2018 11:38 PM (C8LGv)

310 Be aware that Houston doesn't have zoning - so the laws about HOAs were different here than most places.

Posted by: An Observation at January 06, 2018 11:38 PM (Y7pP/)

311 299 286: that should be Kapalua golf. Kapula is probably a curse word in Hawaiian.
Posted by: Puddleglum at January 06, 2018 11:36 PM (MQeu/)

Yeah the green fee a bit steep. Not one of my favorite courses.

Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 06, 2018 11:39 PM (2DOZq)

312 How goes it Horde? Counting down the days until pitchers and catchers report, Slap
I get my new laptop on Weds. That will be a relief. I've been mainly lurking because posting on my phone is a pain in the ass

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&V my laptop died at January 06, 2018 11:39 PM (L6WxG)

313
Bet they would appreciate some homemade brownies at their next board meeting. Just saying.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 06, 2018 11:29 PM (QLvwG)

Good idea. I dont even know which city they meet in now that the building's been gutted and there are so few places to stay in on the island, but I could find out.

Posted by: stace at January 06, 2018 11:39 PM (6HFDU)

314 Beans are part of an English breakfast. Sorry, no. Beans belong next to a plate of smoked ribs or brisket.

Posted by: fly gal at January 06, 2018 11:40 PM (TTcxy)

315 *clink*

Posted by: rickl at January 06, 2018 11:40 PM (sdi6R)

316 297 The beans do look out of place in that pic though.
Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 06, 2018 11:04

Not a all. When we were in England all the English breakfasts had baked beans. Actually pretty good, tho not as good as Jules.
Posted by: Farmer



I was stationed over in the UK and traveled around a bit. I stayed in the B&B's and those English breakfasts were common and tasty. I liked them. Even the baked beans.

Posted by: Puddleglum at January 06, 2018 11:40 PM (MQeu/)

317 Didn't they bring back Will & Grace too?
But is anyone watching it?!?

Pathetic.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 06, 2018 11:40 PM (0jtPF)

318 -Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&V my laptop died at January 06, 2018 11:39 PM (L6WxG)

Feb 12th-15th!

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 06, 2018 11:40 PM (Ckg4U)

319 KLINK!!!!!!

Posted by: Maj. Hochstetter at January 06, 2018 11:41 PM (c8EhQ)

320 289 Trump has driven them mad.
Posted by: ALH at January 06, 2018 11:33 PM (fjf5L)

And parked them in the looney tunes garage

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 06, 2018 11:41 PM (3/sUh)

321 SLAP!

Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 06, 2018 11:42 PM (KP5rU)

322 I piss and moan about this every Saturday night. Here's tonight's complaint. Austin City Lmits. Who the hell are these non-melodic, monotonic moaners, and why the f*ck does anyone listen to them?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 06, 2018 11:42 PM (w1zJX)

323 CHAVEZ!!!

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 06, 2018 11:42 PM (Ckg4U)

324 HOGAN!!!

Posted by: Col. Klink at January 06, 2018 11:42 PM (c8EhQ)

325 It's like the Salem Witch Trials.

There is nothing new under the sun, that's for sure.

Posted by: ALH at January 06, 2018 11:43 PM (fjf5L)

326 GILLIGAN!

Posted by: Skipper at January 06, 2018 11:43 PM (+Tibp)

327 LADY!!!!

Posted by: Jerry Lewis at January 06, 2018 11:43 PM (c8EhQ)

328
And parked them in the looney tunes garage
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 06, 2018 11:41 PM (3/sUh)

ISWYDT.

Posted by: ALH at January 06, 2018 11:44 PM (fjf5L)

329 Posted by: Farmer at January 06, 2018 11:35 PM (yJ1e6)

Didn't realize the pic was from Britain. As a red blooded American I still say out of place unless you are on a cattle drive.

Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 06, 2018 11:44 PM (2DOZq)

330 303 "Well it certainly isn't vodka in your wonderful state."
-Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 06, 2018 11:34 PM (3/sUh)

Meh... I'm a beer dude.

*cheers!*
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 06, 2018 11:37 PM (Ckg4U)

First they came for the valu-rite and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a valu-rite drinker

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 06, 2018 11:45 PM (3/sUh)

331 Arnold!

Posted by: Lisa Douglas at January 06, 2018 11:45 PM (w1zJX)

332 322 I piss and moan about this every Saturday night. Here's tonight's complaint. Austin City Lmits. Who the hell are these non-melodic, monotonic moaners, and why the f*ck does anyone listen to them?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 06, 2018 11:42 PM (w1zJX)

++++

Counterpoint.

https://youtu.be/wrVY3ynMlI8

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 06, 2018 11:46 PM (pvjTE)

333 317 Didn't they bring back Will & Grace too?
But is anyone watching it?!?

Pathetic.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille



According to all of the commercials on our Progressive Network, yes. EVERYBODY IN THE UNIVERSE IS WATCHING WILL & GRACE!!! And if your not, you are a HATER and will be tracked down and sent to the..........oh, wait. Hillary isn't the President.

Posted by: NBC at January 06, 2018 11:46 PM (MQeu/)

334 Posted by: westminsterdogshow........GNAMM ette at January 06, 2018 11:37 PM (mMeIQ)


Don't know what brought that on, but you are of course welcome to scroll past and disregard anything I say you find disagreeable.

Posted by: Insomniac - Meet the New Year, same as the old year at January 06, 2018 11:46 PM (NWiLs)

335 when a dispatcher asked for his location.
I'm sitting down and facing forward.

Posted by: andycanuck at January 06, 2018 11:46 PM (QCX64)

336 322 I piss and moan about this every Saturday night. Here's tonight's complaint. Austin City Lmits. Who the hell are these non-melodic, monotonic moaners, and why the f*ck does anyone listen to them?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 06, 2018 11:42 PM (w1zJX)

Who do you have?

In an hour there is some guy named Father John Misty.
Never heard of him, is he some RCC seminary drop out who liked the movie, "Play Misty For Me"?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 06, 2018 11:46 PM (3/sUh)

337 I forget who said you can eat well in England if you have breakfast 3 times a day.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&V my laptop died at January 06, 2018 11:47 PM (L6WxG)

338 There is no substitue for medium rare lamb. Deal with it or cry bitter tears.

Posted by: colfax mingo at January 06, 2018 11:47 PM (C8LGv)

339 Counterpoint.

https://youtu.be/wrVY3ynMlI8
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous
-----

That was ten years ago, or so. Go watch now.

Posted by: Lisa Douglas at January 06, 2018 11:48 PM (w1zJX)

340 337 I forget who said you can eat well in England if you have breakfast 3 times a day.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&V my laptop died at January 06, 2018 11:47 PM (L6WxG)

--------

I think that was Plutarch.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 06, 2018 11:48 PM (c8EhQ)

341 The only English breakfast staple I don't like is blood pudding.

Posted by: Northernlurker-ish at January 06, 2018 11:48 PM (nBr1j)

342 "First they came for the valu-rite and I did not speak out.
Because I was not a valu-rite drinker.
"
-Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 06, 2018 11:45 PM (3/sUh)

I will defend all booze to the End of Days. For when they come for one of us, they come for us all.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 06, 2018 11:48 PM (Ckg4U)

343 322; Because most people have no class? I tried watching it once, woke up in the er, with both wrists slit.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 06, 2018 11:48 PM (KP5rU)

344 Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 06, 2018 11:46 PM (pvjTE)

1991 wasn't exactly yesterday

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 06, 2018 11:48 PM (3/sUh)

345 There is no substitue for medium rare lamb. Deal with it or cry bitter tears.
Posted by: colfax mingo
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Mint sauce? Mint jelly?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 06, 2018 11:49 PM (w1zJX)

346 330 303 Well it certainly isn't vodka in your wonderful state.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 06, 2018 11:34 PM (3/sUh)

Meh... I'm a beer dude.

*cheers!*
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 06, 2018 11:37 PM (Ckg4U)

First they came for the valu-rite and I did not speak out -
Because I was not a valu-rite drinker
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 06, 2018 11:45 PM (3/sUh)

I've become convinced that cheap vodka is just rubbing alcohol in a liquor bottle and given an ersatz Russian name.

Posted by: Insomniac - Meet the New Year, same as the old year at January 06, 2018 11:50 PM (NWiLs)

347 I've been watching the car karaoke episodes on YouTube. Even with the singers I don't really like they are pretty good.
I have not watched his late night talk show but James Corden seems pretty talented.

Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 06, 2018 11:50 PM (2DOZq)

348 We collect blood from the lambs we slaughter... blood sausage is a treat. Can't cook with blood or marrow best to stay out of the kitchen.

Posted by: colfax mingo at January 06, 2018 11:51 PM (C8LGv)

349 This was back in the late 1980s or early 90s it
caused such a stink that some of the laws regulating HOAs in Texas got
changed as a result.



Posted by: An Observation at January 06, 2018 11:37 PM (Y7pP/)


Did you mean the forced annexation of Kingwood by the City of Houston? That is the only event spurring big changes to the Texas Property Code in the 1990s that I can find. Not the same thing as what you were describing as HOAs taking over communities without their consent.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 06, 2018 11:51 PM (QLvwG)

350 Lou's version of "Tobacco Road" is awesome.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at January 06, 2018 11:51 PM (Ndje9)

351 "We tried to tell them" when Ohio so-called privatized the liquor stores a couple of decades ago. Used to have uniformed counter clerks, and the display bottles were locked in the cases, sometimes behind bars. You had to fill out a little requisition form with the stub pencil provided, and the clerk brought your order out from the stockroom. Very Volstead-Acty.

Folks just presumed, when those guys lost their jobs, that we'd entered the new age. But the inventory and warehousing remained in the hands of those who, like the guy we had to deal with when we tried to get a permit to brew for market, considered "Control" to be the important word in Liquor Control Board.

I used to have to make a couple of surreptitious trips to Indiana and Michigan every year to keep up the stock of odd things I'd learned to love. For a while there was on-line ordering, but I lost my Illinois supplier last year because of some new interpretation of state tax reciprocity. No problem with wine, but real liquor and liqueurs, they're not for us folk.

I don't drink Absolut's ninty-leven flavoured wodkas because of "In An Absolut World" map showing Mexico holding the West, up to Montana. But that's me. When they announced that 100 or so brands were going on close-out sale, we made a little list and dutifully drove to the licensed shoppe that Kroger had spent a million to get from my Eastern-Rite Catholic "Arab" chums.

And of the 100 brands, they had about half a dozen.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 06, 2018 11:51 PM (H5rtT)

352 Learn something new everyday.

growler (plural growlers)

(informal, Canada, US, Australia) A kind of jug used to carry beer (in current usage, a 2-liter or 64-ounce container with or without a handle; sometimes extended to similarly shaped 32-ounce jug, but not bottles).

https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=growler

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 06, 2018 10:48 PM (pvjTE)

I am familiar with the term, having gone to brew pubs here in Arizona. Just got back from the "Beer Research Institute" as a matter of fact. I had never heard the term used in Canada, and had to ask, the first time I heard it here. Of course, I live in Alberta, which is sort of civilized.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 06, 2018 11:52 PM (sD2WN)

353 Beer. Deal with it.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 06, 2018 11:32 PM (Ckg4U)




Fuck that. Beer is for washing down dinner.

BOURBON is whut iz sipped (neat) in the couple hours before snoozetime.

*CHEERS!*




Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 06, 2018 11:52 PM (QzJWU)

354 Just our luck, Eagles will have to play the defending Super Bowl champion Atlanta Falcons in a week.

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at January 06, 2018 11:53 PM (vChNs)

355 354: Falcons were never super bowl champions.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 06, 2018 11:54 PM (KP5rU)

356 340 337 I forget who said you can eat well in England if you have breakfast 3 times a day.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&V my laptop died at January 06, 2018 11:47 PM (L6WxG)

--------

I think that was Plutarch.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 06, 2018 11:48 PM (c8EhQ)

----

Hannibal Lecter

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at January 06, 2018 11:54 PM (vChNs)

357 That was ten years ago, or so. Go watch now.

Posted by: Lisa Douglas at January 06, 2018 11:48 PM (w1zJX)

++++

More like 26.

I used to watch that show all the time, or at least check in at the beginning to see if I wanted to watch. But, it's been many a year since I did that.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 06, 2018 11:55 PM (FUu/Z)

358 Mike Hammer,

Olive puree with a touch of capers. The salt compliments the meat elegantly.

Posted by: colfax mingo at January 06, 2018 11:55 PM (C8LGv)

359 Kateurday ONT Compliance Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtc5QYTRAP0

Posted by: kbdabear at January 06, 2018 11:56 PM (eh0Va)

360 WILLLMAAA!

Posted by: Fred at January 06, 2018 11:56 PM (vChNs)

361 Cheers, Jim!

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 06, 2018 11:56 PM (cu8/f)

362 @ AOP

I am familiar with the term, having gone to brew pubs here in Arizona. Just got back from the "Beer Research Institute" as a matter of fact. I had never heard the term used in Canada, and had to ask, the first time I heard it here. Of course, I live in Alberta, which is sort of civilized.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 06, 2018 11:52 PM (sD2WN)




Earlier this week, I had to deal with a group of five customers here on the Island... tourists from Ontario, Canada.

Every last one of them, a Gun Fearing Wussie, aghast at the Texas Gun & Freedom culture.

You in Alberta ARE, indeed, civilized. Honorary Texans, most of ya.

But that totalitarian group of Fwench speaking surrender monkeys you've got a couple three thousand miles to your East?

They are not our bretheren.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 06, 2018 11:56 PM (QzJWU)

363 We never ate lamb when I was growing up. I think I was about 24 the first time I had it. I love it. The best lamb I ever had was grilled leg of lamb my late bil made for Easter About 10 years ago. It was some of the best meat I ever had. When you can remember a meal a decade later you know it was good

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&V my laptop died at January 06, 2018 11:57 PM (L6WxG)

364 Heh. Eleven Saudi princes staged a sit-in protest to cuts in their 'allowances' covering utilities, etc. Eleven Saudi princes got arrested:

https://tinyurl.com/y8q3ktkt

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at January 06, 2018 11:59 PM (fA1SL)

365 *pours Miley a very full rocks glass o' bourbon through the USB*


NOT to be consumed as a "shooter!".


Cheers!



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 07, 2018 12:00 AM (QzJWU)

366 LUCY!

Posted by: Ricky at January 07, 2018 12:00 AM (QLvwG)

367 355 354: Falcons were never super bowl champions.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 06, 2018 11:54 PM (KP5rU)

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i remember, it was 28-3 with 17 minutes to play and do I went to bed. Did I miss something?

Posted by: Fred at January 07, 2018 12:00 AM (vChNs)

368 156 You know who else was a big fan of reporting on other people?

Posted by: MAxIE at January 07, 2018 12:00 AM (9TR2V)

369 PYLE!

Posted by: Sgt. Carter at January 07, 2018 12:01 AM (w+Jhj)

370 KHHHHHAAAANNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Kirk at January 07, 2018 12:02 AM (vChNs)

371 NOT to be consumed as a "shooter!".


Cheers!



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 07, 2018 12:00 AM (QzJWU)



I would never! Thanks, Jim!

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 07, 2018 12:02 AM (cu8/f)

372 368 156 You know who else was a big fan of reporting on other people?
Posted by: MAxIE at January 07, 2018 12:00 AM (9TR2V)

My baby brother?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 07, 2018 12:02 AM (3/sUh)

373 JEANIE!!

Posted by: Major Nelson at January 07, 2018 12:03 AM (QLvwG)

374 PRIVATE PYLE!

Posted by: Sgt. Hartman at January 07, 2018 12:03 AM (vChNs)

375 Newman.

Posted by: Jerry at January 07, 2018 12:04 AM (TTcxy)

376 Norm!!!

Posted by: The Bar at January 07, 2018 12:04 AM (2DOZq)

377 HIRSH!!!

Posted by: Lilian Carlson at January 07, 2018 12:05 AM (vChNs)

378 363,

IMO the only red meat that comes close to lamb is duck. We raise 4 ducks a year for the table. Wife makes a nice, slightly spicy, pear chuney to garnish the duck breasts. Yummy.

Posted by: colfax mingo at January 07, 2018 12:05 AM (C8LGv)

379 Piggy!

Posted by: Kermit at January 07, 2018 12:05 AM (/A+Cl)

380 SAM!

Posted by: Darrin Stevens at January 07, 2018 12:05 AM (8O3HH)

381 You had to fill out a little requisition form with the stub pencil
provided, and the clerk brought your order out from the stockroom.

Ontario used to be like that for alcohol too [LCBO] although with your orders just taken from a stockroom and not kept behind glass or bars.

Posted by: andycanuck at January 07, 2018 12:05 AM (QCX64)

382 It'sa gettin late. Still mighty chilly out there.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at January 07, 2018 12:05 AM (w+Jhj)

383 To the moon, Alice!

Posted by: Ralph Cramdon at January 07, 2018 12:05 AM (TTcxy)

384 This place seems ideal for the hippy millennial

http://wildabundance.net/about-us/

Uh, oh! Fly in the ointment, they teach slaughter/butchering. Which leads to :

Close ‘Wild Abundance’ farm down! There's not such …
There is no such thing as "humane slaughter." (1581 signatures on petition)

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 07, 2018 12:06 AM (nBBdT)

385 BARNEY!

Posted by: Andy Taylor at January 07, 2018 12:06 AM (8O3HH)

386 Oliver!

Posted by: Lisa Douglas at January 07, 2018 12:06 AM (QLvwG)

387 "Growler" doesn't ring a bell for me either, AOP. Maybe it's a Maritimer thing?

Posted by: andycanuck at January 07, 2018 12:07 AM (QCX64)

388 PYLE!
Posted by: Sgt. Carter
-----------

The winner.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 07, 2018 12:07 AM (nBBdT)

389 Kazoo!

Posted by: Fred Flinstone at January 07, 2018 12:07 AM (QLvwG)

390 WEEZY!

Posted by: George Jefferson at January 07, 2018 12:08 AM (8O3HH)

391 JETSON!!

Posted by: Mr. Spacely at January 07, 2018 12:08 AM (QLvwG)

392 Adrienne!

Posted by: Rocky at January 07, 2018 12:08 AM (rnAwa)

393 BARNEY!

Posted by: Andy Taylor at January 07, 2018 12:06 AM (8O3HH)

Ange!

Posted by: Barney at January 07, 2018 12:08 AM (cu8/f)

394 Hello, Clarice.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at January 07, 2018 12:08 AM (fA1SL)

395 It'sa gettin late. Still mighty chilly out there.
Posted by: AshevilleRobert
---

Just broke into single digits here.
9.9 deg.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 07, 2018 12:09 AM (nBBdT)

396 ZARDOZ!

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at January 07, 2018 12:09 AM (fA1SL)

397 JANE!

Posted by: Jetson at January 07, 2018 12:09 AM (TTcxy)

398 Smithers!

Posted by: Mr. Burns at January 07, 2018 12:09 AM (QLvwG)

399
Oh, Rob!

Posted by: Laura Petrie at January 07, 2018 12:10 AM (8O3HH)

400 I'm coming, Elizabeth!

Posted by: andycanuck at January 07, 2018 12:10 AM (QCX64)

401 Duck and lamb? Colfax I want to have dinner at your house! The only bad duck I ever had was wild duck a friend shot which tasted like fish. Turned me off wild duck.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&V my laptop died at January 07, 2018 12:10 AM (L6WxG)

402
MCCLOUD!

Posted by: Chief Clifford at January 07, 2018 12:10 AM (8O3HH)

403 ADRIANE!!!

Posted by: Rocky Balboa at January 07, 2018 12:10 AM (Ckg4U)

404
CISCO!

Posted by: Pancho at January 07, 2018 12:11 AM (nBBdT)

405 You big dummy!

Posted by: andycanuck at January 07, 2018 12:11 AM (QCX64)

406 Artemus!

Posted by: James West at January 07, 2018 12:11 AM (QzJWU)

407 HARVEY!! STOP IT!!

Posted by: Ficus at January 07, 2018 12:11 AM (MQeu/)

408 I piss and moan about this every Saturday night. Here's tonight's complaint. Austin City Lmits. Who the hell are these non-melodic, monotonic moaners, and why the f*ck does anyone listen to them?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 06, 2018 11:42 PM (w1zJX)

Here, something to soothe the ears. Toni Price, "The Richest One". I am sure she's been on ACL, too:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo0oRiEooog

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 07, 2018 12:11 AM (sD2WN)

409 With regard to the censoring of the name "Wandering Dago", this madness has been building for quite some time. Back in the 70s, a teacher on Long Island was arrested for spray painting the street signs for "Guinea Woods Road", on the grounds that "guinea" was an anti-Italian slur. Which it is, but it's also many other things, including an old British monetary unit (21 shillings) and a bird. But no matter: the signs offended him, so they had to go.

Back then, the guy got jail. Now he's running the government.

Posted by: Brown Line at January 07, 2018 12:11 AM (S6ArX)

410 Jack!

Posted by: Janet and Chrissy at January 07, 2018 12:11 AM (QLvwG)

411 Max! Max! - Norma Desmond

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at January 07, 2018 12:11 AM (fA1SL)

412 Greetings:

Vegans says you ??? Well...

So, a couple of weeks back I'm in the checkout line at the local Safeway and the woman in front of me has the whole conveyor covered without a bit of meat in sight.

So, I give the checkout guy the high sign and say, "You know Safeway ought to have a separate checkout line for vegetarians." In my moment of pause, the woman turns to me and smiles. So, I continue, "Then I wouldn't have to worry about their vegetables touching my meat."

Posted by: 11B40 at January 07, 2018 12:11 AM (evgyj)

413
Yoohoo, Stanley! I'm in my nightie.....

Posted by: Mrs. Roper at January 07, 2018 12:12 AM (8O3HH)

414 372 368 156 You know who else was a big fan of reporting on other people?
Posted by: MAxIE at January 07, 2018 12:00 AM (9TR2V)

My baby brother?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 07, 2018 12:02 AM (3/sUh)

Heh. That's everybody's baby brother. Born narcs they are.

Posted by: Insomniac - Meet the New Year, same as the old year at January 07, 2018 12:12 AM (NWiLs)

415 STELLA!!!!

Posted by: Stanley at January 07, 2018 12:12 AM (L6WxG)

416 ACE!

Posted by: Ikea Shelving at January 07, 2018 12:12 AM (QzJWU)

417 YOGI!!

Posted by: Ranger Smith at January 07, 2018 12:13 AM (QLvwG)

418 "Hah! Reminds me of the Man Show skit about a company that when you
within minutes will be ransacking your place 'sanitizing it' to avoid
those awkward post mortem moments."

Like they did for JFK after Marilyn Monroe died.

Posted by: Brown Line at January 07, 2018 12:13 AM (S6ArX)

419 /sock

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 07, 2018 12:14 AM (rnAwa)

420 Harvey! STOP IT!!!

Posted by: Elwood P. Dowd at January 07, 2018 12:14 AM (QCX64)

421 HAMMER!

Posted by: Capt. Trunk at January 07, 2018 12:14 AM (TTcxy)

422 Morty!

Posted by: Rick at January 07, 2018 12:14 AM (NWiLs)

423 BEEEEP

Posted by: Capt. Christopher Pike at January 07, 2018 12:14 AM (c8EhQ)

424 DUMBASS!


Red Foreman

Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 07, 2018 12:14 AM (KP5rU)

425 HUMA!!!

Posted by: Hillary at January 07, 2018 12:15 AM (vChNs)

426 POTSIE!

Posted by: Everyone at January 07, 2018 12:15 AM (QLvwG)

427 Mister Roberts!!

Posted by: Captain Morton at January 07, 2018 12:15 AM (2DOZq)

428 If you can not differenciat between the smell of chicken, pig, or cattle shit you are not a farm boy or girl. IOw get out of flyover country, we don't want your here.

Posted by: colfax mingo at January 07, 2018 12:15 AM (C8LGv)

429 MENDOZAAAAAA!

https://youtu.be/BzjfrdcN1Z8

Posted by: McBain at January 07, 2018 12:15 AM (rnAwa)

430 John!!!!

Posted by: Marsha at January 07, 2018 12:15 AM (itfg0)

431 Like they did for JFK after Marilyn Monroe died.

Posted by: Brown Line
------------

Vince Foster's office.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 07, 2018 12:15 AM (5OO3x)

432 Faster, Harvey! FASTER!!!

Posted by: Elwood P. Dowd at January 07, 2018 12:16 AM (QCX64)

433 Marsha!!!

Posted by: John at January 07, 2018 12:16 AM (itfg0)

434 Mr. Grant!

Posted by: Mary at January 07, 2018 12:16 AM (QLvwG)

435
Oh, Lou!

Posted by: Sue Ann Nivens at January 07, 2018 12:17 AM (8O3HH)

436 BULLWINKLE!

Posted by: Rocky at January 07, 2018 12:17 AM (5OO3x)

437 Willlmaaaaaaaa

Posted by: Fred Flintstone at January 07, 2018 12:17 AM (NgKpN)

438 EVERYONE!!

Posted by: Norman Stansfield at January 07, 2018 12:17 AM (2DOZq)

439 So... what do you fuckers want to talk about?

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 07, 2018 12:17 AM (Ckg4U)

440 TED!

Posted by: Mr. Grant at January 07, 2018 12:18 AM (8O3HH)

441 Marcia! Marcia! Marcia!

Posted by: Jan at January 07, 2018 12:18 AM (QCX64)

442 Brutus?

Posted by: Julius at January 07, 2018 12:18 AM (sdi6R)

443 439 So... what do you fuckers want to talk about?
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 07, 2018 12:17 AM (Ckg4U)

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What do you know about homeowners associations?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 07, 2018 12:19 AM (c8EhQ)

444 Captain!

Posted by: Yeoman Rand at January 07, 2018 12:19 AM (QLvwG)

445 I vote we feed the vegans to the homeless and make clothes and shoes from their hides. This is not any more extreme than veganism.

Posted by: Monk at January 07, 2018 12:19 AM (g4lFK)

446
Butter

Posted by: Parkay at January 07, 2018 12:19 AM (5OO3x)

447 Oh.... Ollie....

Posted by: Laurel at January 07, 2018 12:19 AM (NgKpN)

448 HOAs suck hairy moose cocks.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 07, 2018 12:19 AM (cu8/f)

449 Hi Jim!

Posted by: westminsterdogshow........GNAMM ette at January 07, 2018 12:19 AM (mMeIQ)

450 More from the psychiatric coup members:

"We believe that he is now further unraveling in ways that contribute to his belligerent nuclear threats... We urge that those around him, and our elected representatives in genera, take urgent steps to restrain his behavior and head off the potential nuclear catastrophe that endangers not only Korea and the United States but all of humankind."


So no mention of Whoa Fat's threats - only the response by Trump is dangerous. These people are truly certifiable.


Posted by: An Observation at January 07, 2018 12:19 AM (eC3CM)

451 Alice!

Posted by: Ralph Crandem at January 07, 2018 12:20 AM (2DOZq)

452 Faster, "mom"!!! Faster!!!

Posted by: Greg Brady at January 07, 2018 12:20 AM (QCX64)

453 Abbott!!

Posted by: That Guy at January 07, 2018 12:20 AM (QLvwG)

454 >> HOAs suck hairy moose cocks.

Go on.

Posted by: Shep Smith at January 07, 2018 12:20 AM (8O3HH)

455 448 HOAs suck hairy moose cocks.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 07, 2018 12:19 AM (cu8/f)

---------

I will put that down as a no vote.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 07, 2018 12:20 AM (c8EhQ)

456 Dad!

Posted by: Greg Brady at January 07, 2018 12:21 AM (QLvwG)

457 Dumbass!!

Posted by: Kramden at January 07, 2018 12:21 AM (2DOZq)

458 Kill those fucking kulak exploiters!!!

Posted by: Mr Grant at January 07, 2018 12:21 AM (QCX64)

459 HOAs suck hairy moose cocks.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 07, 2018 12:19 AM (cu8/f)




HOAs are hairy cow mooses. This is but the natural order of things.

Posted by: Jim at January 07, 2018 12:21 AM (QzJWU)

460 New Marlborough MA

-4 and heading down with clearing skies

More wood in the Jotuls

Posted by: sofa saver at January 07, 2018 12:21 AM (4u7kU)

461
ANGEL!

Posted by: Jim Rockford at January 07, 2018 12:21 AM (8O3HH)

462 Buttercup?

Posted by: Weasley at January 07, 2018 12:21 AM (NgKpN)

463 452 Faster, "mom"!!! Faster!!!
Posted by: Greg Brady at January 07, 2018 12:20 AM (QCX64)

---------

Greg took the whole MILF thing a little too literally.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 07, 2018 12:21 AM (c8EhQ)

464 439: Pretty sure anything other than rocket surgery is off the table. Maybe a spelling contest?

Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 07, 2018 12:21 AM (KP5rU)

465 "What do you know about homeowners associations?"
-Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 07, 2018 12:19 AM (c8EhQ)

Little Fifedoms established to assert control over a minority of homeowners? I know nothing of the sort.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 07, 2018 12:21 AM (Ckg4U)

466 *SMACK!*

DAMMIT, TINA!

Posted by: Ike at January 07, 2018 12:22 AM (QzJWU)

467 450 More from the psychiatric coup members:

"We believe that he is now further unraveling in ways that contribute to his belligerent nuclear threats... We urge that those around him, and our elected representatives in genera, take urgent steps to restrain his behavior and head off the potential nuclear catastrophe that endangers not only Korea and the United States but all of humankind."


So no mention of Whoa Fat's threats - only the response by Trump is dangerous. These people are truly certifiable.


Posted by: An Observation at January 07, 2018 12:19 AM (eC3CM)


Is Genera a micro nation for our Overloards? Is it dronable?

Posted by: Monk at January 07, 2018 12:22 AM (g4lFK)

468
Hey, hey, Ralphie boy!

Posted by: Ed Norton at January 07, 2018 12:22 AM (8O3HH)

469 Little Fifedoms established to assert control over a minority of homeowners? I know nothing of the sort.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 07, 2018 12:21 AM (Ckg4U)

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Right. An entire tract of homeowners playing simple woodwind instruments.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 07, 2018 12:23 AM (c8EhQ)

470 You bitch, Mr Spock!

Posted by: janice 'the molester' lester in capt kirk's body at January 07, 2018 12:23 AM (QCX64)

471 Gilligan!!!!!

Posted by: The Skipper.... at January 07, 2018 12:23 AM (NgKpN)

472 Mr. Drysdale!

Posted by: Jane Hathaway at January 07, 2018 12:23 AM (QLvwG)

473 >> Greg took the whole MILF thing a little too literally.

I would've been there for him. But no, he liked girls.

Posted by: Mike Brady at January 07, 2018 12:23 AM (8O3HH)

474 PDJT is surrounded by Generals'.

Posted by: because he's an idiot at January 07, 2018 12:24 AM (t182E)

475 no one memes like us

Posted by: Hillary at January 07, 2018 12:24 AM (vChNs)

476
Ellie May!

Posted by: publius, at the ficus at January 07, 2018 12:24 AM (8O3HH)

477 You bitch!!!

Posted by: mr sulu at January 07, 2018 12:24 AM (QCX64)

478 Mrs. Drysdale!

Posted by: Jethro Bodine at January 07, 2018 12:25 AM (QLvwG)

479 Right. An entire tract of homeowners playing simple woodwind instruments.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 07, 2018 12:23 AM (c8EhQ)

You need drums, too.


And swynets. Gotta have swynets.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 07, 2018 12:25 AM (sD2WN)

480 (40Yup, I gave up on ACL a long time ago. Wow, just checked it, looks like Jim Morrison in his grandmas slippers. Mute button.

Posted by: Burger Chef at January 07, 2018 12:25 AM (RuIsu)

481 *Populates a large percentage of the world's population*

Posted by: Ghingas Khan at January 07, 2018 12:25 AM (itfg0)

482
Ooooh, Jethro!

Posted by: Miss Jane, at the ficus at January 07, 2018 12:25 AM (8O3HH)

483 "Right. An entire tract of homeowners playing simple woodwind instruments."
-Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 07, 2018 12:23 AM (c8EhQ)

*HAH!*

Feifdoms, even... LOL!

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 07, 2018 12:26 AM (Ckg4U)

484 Melania might be for sale!?

Posted by: So at January 07, 2018 12:26 AM (t182E)

485 Sounds cold back east.

Posted by: Very Unstable Semi-Genius, AKA rhomboid at January 07, 2018 12:26 AM (Dhcvl)

486 Some mood music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8jOhqOsouM

Posted by: Gromagnon Orgasm at January 07, 2018 12:26 AM (itfg0)

487 Oh... Rocky....

Posted by: dr. Frankenfurter at January 07, 2018 12:28 AM (NgKpN)

488 Chief O'Hara!

Posted by: Commissioner Gordon at January 07, 2018 12:28 AM (QLvwG)

489 marksist

Posted by: God I hate these f*ck'n at January 07, 2018 12:29 AM (t182E)

490 This has been a Quinn Martin production.

Posted by: an announcer at January 07, 2018 12:30 AM (QCX64)

491 Parker!

Posted by: J. Jonah Jameson at January 07, 2018 12:30 AM (QLvwG)

492 "Forward progress", my butt.




I hate everything.

Posted by: Shopgirl: #ForwardProgressMyButt at January 07, 2018 12:30 AM (txuuE)

493 448 HOAs suck hairy moose cocks.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 07, 2018 12:19 AM (cu8/f)

++++

By choice.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 07, 2018 12:30 AM (pvjTE)

494 MEOW!?...

Posted by: the song of my people at January 07, 2018 12:32 AM (t182E)

495 /sock off

Leon: The Professional. Gary Oldman is amazing

https://youtu.be/mX-qK4qG2EY

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 07, 2018 12:33 AM (rnAwa)

496 Sounds cold back east.

Posted by: Very Unstable Semi-Genius, AKA rhomboid at January 07, 2018 12:26 AM (Dhcvl)

Seems like every decade or so, there is a big cold spell hits the Eastern Seaboard, and the news is full of images of ice-coated oranges on Florida trees, and breathless announcements are made of the "unprecedented" winter storm. For those 'rons and 'ettes toughing it out in the cold, you have my sympathy. But it is a recurring weather pattern.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 07, 2018 12:33 AM (sD2WN)

497 HAY GUYSE WAT IS GOIN ON IN THIS THREAD

Posted by: hogmartin at January 07, 2018 12:33 AM (y87Qq)

498 Sparta!!!!!!!

Posted by: Leonidas at January 07, 2018 12:33 AM (NgKpN)

499 2b
5b
6a
10a

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 07, 2018 12:33 AM (QLvwG)

500 Hey, where all da white wimmen at?

Posted by: Sheriff Bart at January 07, 2018 12:34 AM (c8EhQ)

501 Ashley!

Posted by: Scarlett at January 07, 2018 12:34 AM (L6WxG)

502 Edith!

Posted by: Archie at January 07, 2018 12:35 AM (sD2WN)

503 499 2b
5b
6a
10a

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 07, 2018 12:33 AM (QLvwG)


4 2 9 15 20 29 10 15 19 20 17 13 10 23 29 11 10 17 25 5 25 3 28 9 21 23 13 11 5 25 2 30

Posted by: The Cryptonomic Hat at January 07, 2018 12:35 AM (itfg0)

504 I kill you later.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 07, 2018 12:35 AM (c8EhQ)

505 Just got done rewatching Soldier. Still a good movie although the special effects... do not hold up.

Here's one to remember: Connie Nielsen.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 07, 2018 12:35 AM (ycWCI)

506 I saw Petty Fiefdoms open for Kamalot at the Gasparilla Music Festival in '93.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 07, 2018 12:36 AM (rnAwa)

507 4 2 9 15 20 29 10 15 19 20 17 13 10 23 29 11 10 17 25 5 25 3 28 9 21 23 13 11 5 25 2 30

Posted by: The Cryptonomic Hat at January 07, 2018 12:35 AM (itfg0)


kbdabear did not post that many Saturday sideboob pics!

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 07, 2018 12:37 AM (QLvwG)

508 Goodnight, horde!

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&V my laptop died at January 07, 2018 12:37 AM (L6WxG)

509 HAY GUYSE WAT IS GOIN ON IN THIS THREAD

Posted by: hogmartin at January 07, 2018 12:33 AM (y87Qq)


I don't know. I'm scared.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 07, 2018 12:38 AM (cu8/f)

510 Night Donna of the Ampersands.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 07, 2018 12:38 AM (ycWCI)

511 G'Night, DonnaV of the ampersands.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 07, 2018 12:39 AM (Ckg4U)

512 Here's one to remember: Connie Nielsen.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 07, 2018 12:35 AM (ycWCI)

I knew a girl by that name in sixth grade. She was well-endowed for a 12 year-old. And got knocked up, too (not by me, dammit). I later became a good friend of her father.

Posted by: Archie at January 07, 2018 12:39 AM (sD2WN)

513 A can a day of Diet Coke will lead to a long life?

I drink about six cans of it per day, so I must be looking at a lifespan of 500 years.

Posted by: Sasquatch the Original trans-Wookie at January 07, 2018 12:39 AM (xt9TQ)

514 Off, bunker-sock.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 07, 2018 12:39 AM (sD2WN)

515 kbdabear did not post that many Saturday sideboob pics!

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 07, 2018 12:37 AM (QLvwG)

Speaking of which, I posted them on my twitter feed about 45 minutes ago

Posted by: kbdabear at January 07, 2018 12:40 AM (eh0Va)

516 482
Ooooh, Jethro!
Posted by: Miss Jane, at the ficus at January 07, 2018 12:25 AM (8O3HH)


Actually, I think Miss Jane would have been more interested in Ellie May, IYKWIM.

Posted by: rickl at January 07, 2018 12:40 AM (sdi6R)

517
Sounds cold back east.
Posted by: Very Unstable Semi-Genius
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Wisconsin hiker with a cue-ball head
Wishing he was home in a Wiscosin bed
Fifteen feet of snow in the East
Colder then a welldigger's ass

Posted by: Tom Waits at January 07, 2018 12:40 AM (nBBdT)

518 !

Posted by: A Mime at January 07, 2018 12:41 AM (c8EhQ)

519 >> kbdabear did not post that many Saturday sideboob
>> pics!

Oh, forgot to check. Yep, Sideboob, preceded by Underboob. And callipygian, too.

Posted by: publius, at the ficus at January 07, 2018 12:41 AM (8O3HH)

520 I drink about six cans of it per day, so I must be looking at a lifespan of 500 years.

Posted by: Sasquatch the Original trans-Wookie at January 07, 2018 12:39 AM (xt9TQ)

If the Soviet embalmers had had access to Diet Coke, old Lenin would still be daisy-fresh today.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 07, 2018 12:41 AM (sD2WN)

521 @495....

Bigtime Agreed BC......

I don't know if it was "method" actin......But His "juiced" scenes are truly sublime.

Ol' Oldman is an EXCEPTIONAL actor.

I thoroughly enjoy his Evilness in The Fifth Element, .....among so many quality performances.

Evenin Horde of Toboggans......hope y'all are All toasty at the homesteads......

Posted by: Hillbillyking at January 07, 2018 12:41 AM (JGzeX)

522 4 2 9 15 20 29 10 15 19 20 17 13 10 23 29 11 10 17 25 5 25 3 28 9 21 23 13 11 5 25 2 30
Posted by: The Cryptonomic Hat at January 07, 2018 12:35 AM (itfg0)


I used to be obsessed with codes. Did you know one of the easiest methods of getting random number tables is to use a printed phonebook?

Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2018 12:41 AM (2K6fY)

523 Hello, gloved one.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 07, 2018 12:42 AM (cu8/f)

524 4 2 9 15 20 29 10 15 19 20 17 13 10 23 29 11 10 17 25 5 25 3 28 9 21 23 13 11 5 25 2 30

Posted by: The Cryptonomic Hat
-----------

I was told that no Enigma machine would be required for this thread.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 07, 2018 12:42 AM (5OO3x)

525
Your Grace!

Posted by: publius, the Gloveless Poperin Pear at January 07, 2018 12:43 AM (8O3HH)

526 4 2 9 15 20 29 10 15 19 20 17 13 10 23 29 11 10 17 25 5 25 3 28 9 21 23 13 11 5 25 2 30
Posted by: The Cryptonomic Hat at January 07, 2018 12:35 AM (itfg0)


BESURETODRINKYOUROVALTINE

Is that it?

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 07, 2018 12:43 AM (QLvwG)

527 So...

Trumps a moron?!

Posted by: the song of my people at January 07, 2018 12:44 AM (t182E)

528 Your Grace!

Posted by: publius, the Gloveless Poperin Pear at January 07, 2018 12:43 AM (8O3HH)

Hello, sweetheart!

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 07, 2018 12:45 AM (cu8/f)

529 Trumps a moron?!
Posted by: the song of my people at January 07, 2018 12:44 AM (t182E)


Who cares. We have buttocks and bacon to talk about!

Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2018 12:45 AM (2K6fY)

530 The Marine flag story is another "ZOMG, America h8rs!" BS headline. They aren't disallowing his flag flying, they're unhappy with the TWO flagpoles he put up. And it sounds a lot like the HOA is right. At least one of them violates city code, it sounds like.

I get really tired of the BS outrage crap from the other side. Why are "we" engaging in it, too? Yes, this is Fake News, based on the bogus headline and the bogus butthurt over it.
*SMDH*

Posted by: GWB at January 07, 2018 12:45 AM (zhQGz)

531 Back from the dog park. They keep that thing open until 10:30 PM!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at January 07, 2018 12:46 AM (IcT7t)

532 Beaver!

Posted by: Wally Cleaver at January 07, 2018 12:46 AM (QLvwG)

533 I thoroughly enjoy his Evilness in The Fifth Element, .....among so many quality performances.

Evenin Horde of Toboggans......hope y'all are All toasty at the homesteads......

Posted by: Hillbillyking at January 07, 2018 12:41 AM (JGzeX)

Me too, I loved him in that.

Toasted nicely here.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 07, 2018 12:47 AM (cu8/f)

534 I used to be obsessed with codes. Did you know one of the easiest methods of getting random number tables is to use a printed phonebook?
Posted by: Kindltot
-------------

Robert R. Coveyou - The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 07, 2018 12:47 AM (5OO3x)

535 I used to be obsessed with codes. Did you know one of the easiest methods of getting random number tables is to use a printed phonebook?
Posted by: Kindltot
-------

*?*

WTH is a 'printed phone book'?

Posted by: A Millennial at January 07, 2018 12:50 AM (c/EDo)

536 >> Hello, sweetheart!

:blushes:

Posted by: publius, the Gloveless Poperin Pear at January 07, 2018 12:50 AM (8O3HH)

537 Well, I got both my "Arizona cars" started and moved today. Got the TR6 started up, and backed out of the garage, no problem. That made way for the 1960 Studebaker Lark, which I'd had on the battery charger for several hours. I carefully primed the carburetor, and it started just about instantly, and filled the garage with a dense cloud of blue smoke (rings not seated in a freshly-"overhauled" engine).

Drove the Lark outside, noted the tires were low, so turned it around, back partly into the garage, and fired up my air compressor and aired up the tires. Started it again, and remarkably, no blue smoke, and it idled really smooth. Maybe it burned off all its oil? Parked behind the gate in the side yard. Now I can get at the rafters in the garage to add sisters to them, which was the main object of the exercise.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 07, 2018 12:51 AM (sD2WN)

538 I was never a fan of sit-coms, so I don't know much about Jerry Van Dyke's roles in them. But he was out and about as a stand-up storyteller back in the day when Cosby and Newhart were new, and you used to hear him once in a while on the Monitor Radio Network, along with Nichols and May.

And he told this one corn-pone, shaggy-dog story, so well, and there's only a couple of us left who'd even get it. There was this tough sheriff in a small town, and he didn't get on a-tall with one of Jerry's relatives. They had a sign at the city limits that said "Close exhaust cut-outs," and he pulled this guy over because he didn't think his exhaust cut-out was closed.

"But I don't even have an exhaust cut-out," was the defense.
"Well, get one," the sheriff said.
And that's the joke. If you don't know how an exhaust cut-out works, it's not even. But I can remember our town having that sign. It's decades ago, now, but whenever I think of an exhaust cut-out, I remember ol' Jerry.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 07, 2018 12:51 AM (H5rtT)

539 Gorilla Channel, not ESPN. Life is good.

Posted by: FIIGMO at January 07, 2018 12:51 AM (E+qJE)

540 Dennis!

Posted by: Mr. Wilson at January 07, 2018 12:51 AM (QLvwG)

541 Brit Hume burns a AGW tool: https://tinyurl.com/yb7g9k26

Posted by: Sasquatch the Original trans-Wookie at January 07, 2018 12:52 AM (xt9TQ)

542 Robert R. Coveyou - The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 07, 2018 12:47 AM (5OO3x)


There is a group of computer technicians that are filming a thousand lava lamps and running the images through some processing program to generate random numbers.

Actually the secret is, since there are groups and people that can break most any code with sufficient effort, send out lots of stuff that looks like code that is just random number tables.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2018 12:52 AM (2K6fY)

543 Mitchell!

Posted by: Mr. Wilson at January 07, 2018 12:53 AM (QLvwG)

544 Lick my wild cherry brain.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 07, 2018 12:55 AM (cu8/f)

545 Yes, Ma'am.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 07, 2018 12:56 AM (Ckg4U)

546 More to the right. That feels good.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 07, 2018 12:56 AM (cu8/f)

547 4 2 9 15 20 29 10 15 19 20 17 13 10 23 29 11 10 17 25 5 25 3 28 9 21 23 13 11 5 25 2 30
Posted by: The Cryptonomic Hat at January 07, 2018 12:35 AM (itfg0)


I thought it was just a cutesy simple substitution cipher for a fun-loving ONT hijink but those 29s and 28 and 30 are berustling mine jimmies now.

Jerk.

Posted by: hogmartin at January 07, 2018 12:57 AM (y87Qq)

548 I went and saw Jumaji, and it was cute. Too cute at some points.

I have decided that Dwayne Johnson can actually act, and that Jack Black might be able to.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2018 12:58 AM (2K6fY)

549 @533.....

Royalty has its privileges Queen M. ;-)


Posted by: Hillbillyking at January 07, 2018 12:58 AM (JGzeX)

550 Florida is freezing! Anybody have inside info on Orange Juice futures?

Posted by: Duke and Duke at January 07, 2018 12:59 AM (e1mEI)

551
The Groom of the Vestibule, I am.

Posted by: publius, the Gloveless Poperin Pear at January 07, 2018 12:59 AM (8O3HH)

552 It do, HBK!

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 07, 2018 01:00 AM (cu8/f)

553 So has the weather channel naked the cold snap yet. If not, I'm sure the Horde has some suggestions.

Posted by: Pete Seria at January 07, 2018 01:00 AM (2WfB0)

554 Kbdabear has some fine looking wimminz on his twitter feed as per usual.

Posted by: Insomniac - Meet the New Year, same as the old year at January 07, 2018 01:00 AM (NWiLs)

555
Florida is freezing! Anybody have inside info on Orange Juice futures?

Posted by: Duke and Duke at January 07, 2018 12:59 AM (e1mEI)























---
ask Anita Bryant.

Posted by: redc1c4 at January 07, 2018 01:01 AM (YR6XW)

556 The Groom of the Vestibule, I am.

Posted by: publius, the Gloveless Poperin Pear at January 07, 2018 12:59 AM (8O3HH)

It should be well-groomed, as befits a duchess.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 07, 2018 01:01 AM (cu8/f)

557 553 So has the weather channel naked the cold snap yet. If not, I'm sure the Horde has some suggestions.
Posted by: Pete Seria at January 07, 2018 01:00 AM (2WfB0)

How does one naked a cold snap?

Posted by: Insomniac - Meet the New Year, same as the old year at January 07, 2018 01:01 AM (NWiLs)

558 Absolut Cilantro,

Posted by: buzzion at January 06, 2018 10:24 PM (cAnNx)

**Cilantro**?!?!? WTF?

Alcohol shouldn't be regulated by the state, generally. But you have to draw the line _somewhere_.

Posted by: GWB at January 07, 2018 01:01 AM (zhQGz)

559 Named, sorry.

Posted by: Pete Seria at January 07, 2018 01:02 AM (2WfB0)

560 Florida is freezing! Anybody have inside info on Orange Juice futures?



Posted by: Duke and Duke at January 07, 2018 12:59 AM (e1mEI)


Not again!

Posted by: Clarence Beeks at January 07, 2018 01:02 AM (QLvwG)

561 Hey that Welsh Police breakfast looked good, but it sure wasn't the "full English"! Where were the roasted tomatoes? Where was the Heinz baked beans? Where was the blood pudding? I might have liked a kipper or two as well. May as well tick off the vegans good and proper.

Posted by: Comanche Voter at January 07, 2018 01:02 AM (Sda6L)

562 547 4 2 9 15 20 29 10 15 19 20 17 13 10 23 29 11 10 17 25 5 25 3 28 9 21 23 13 11 5 25 2 30
Posted by: The Cryptonomic Hat at January 07, 2018 12:35 AM (itfg0)

I thought it was just a cutesy simple substitution cipher for a fun-loving ONT hijink but those 29s and 28 and 30 are berustling mine jimmies now.

Jerk.
Posted by: hogmartin at January 07, 2018 12:57 AM (y87Qq)


Me too. I started substituting letters, then I was like, "Wait, 29?" So I gave up.

Posted by: rickl at January 07, 2018 01:03 AM (sdi6R)

563 Cold Snap Brutus

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 07, 2018 01:04 AM (cu8/f)

564 557
How does one naked a cold snap?
Posted by: Insomniac - Meet the New Year, same as the old year at January 07, 2018 01:01 AM (NWiLs)


And why would one want to?

Posted by: rickl at January 07, 2018 01:04 AM (sdi6R)

565 Mother!

Posted by: Samantha Stevens at January 07, 2018 01:04 AM (25nrF)

566 "A perfectly fine breakfast draws the ire of a bunch of assholes."

Those sauges are nothing compared to what Barky had up his rectum. I remember someone crammed dildo far up his arse and I had to call my spouse BarneyF and Dr. Dean because it was stuck so far up. Barky was buzzing for three days.

Posted by: jReadyButt at January 07, 2018 01:04 AM (ErzGf)

567 >> How does one naked a cold snap?

I'm thinking "snow bunnies".

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at January 07, 2018 01:04 AM (8O3HH)

568 This is not the first time the Democrats have used psychiatric slander against a political opponent. In the 1964 election 1000 psychiatrists joined in saying Goldwater was unqualified to be president for psychiatric reasons. Goldwater sued the magazine that published that tripe and won the suit contributing to the magazine's demise.

Posted by: An Observation at January 07, 2018 01:04 AM (eC3CM)

569 Two Cold Snaps Up and a Twirl

Posted by: Insomniac - Meet the New Year, same as the old year at January 07, 2018 01:05 AM (NWiLs)

570 Posted by: moki at January 06, 2018 10:31 PM (V+V4

Why can't you put the M&Ms in the oatmeal?

Posted by: GWB at January 07, 2018 01:06 AM (zhQGz)

571 I'm thinking "snow bunnies".
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at January 07, 2018 01:04 AM (8O3HH)

I fully support this.

Posted by: Insomniac - Meet the New Year, same as the old year at January 07, 2018 01:06 AM (NWiLs)

572 I'm thinking Hillary would be a good name for a cold wave. But perhaps a big too late obvious.

Posted by: Pete Seria at January 07, 2018 01:06 AM (2WfB0)

573 >> It should be well-groomed, as befits a duchess.

Her Grace must merely pull the cord to ring the bell, and the grooms come a-runnin'.

Posted by: publius, the Gloveless Poperin Pear at January 07, 2018 01:06 AM (8O3HH)

574 Trump needs to sue not only Dr. Lee but Yale and CNN for malicious slander - he'll win all 3 suits.

Posted by: An Observation at January 07, 2018 01:07 AM (eC3CM)

575 >> Mother!

That was a terrible movie.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at January 07, 2018 01:07 AM (8O3HH)

576 Damned auto correct is going on wild tonight

Posted by: Pete Seria at January 07, 2018 01:07 AM (2WfB0)

577 572 I'm thinking Hillary would be a good name for a cold wave. But perhaps a big too late obvious.
Posted by: Pete Seria at January 07, 2018 01:06 AM (2WfB0)

How about OHMIGODWEREALLGONNADIE? In keeping with current climate hysteria.

Posted by: Insomniac - Meet the New Year, same as the old year at January 07, 2018 01:08 AM (NWiLs)

578 If only, publius!

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 07, 2018 01:08 AM (cu8/f)

579 Or call it a Gore-easter.

Posted by: Insomniac - Meet the New Year, same as the old year at January 07, 2018 01:09 AM (NWiLs)

580 How about OHMIGODWEREALLGONNADIE? In keeping with current climate hysteria.

Posted by: Insomniac - Meet the New Year, same as the old year at January 07, 2018 01:08 AM (NWiLs)

This just in: polar bears wearing Bermuda shorts and Ray-Bans have been seen killing sharks in Florida waters.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 07, 2018 01:10 AM (sD2WN)

581 574 Trump needs to sue not only Dr. Lee but Yale and CNN for malicious slander - he'll win all 3 suits.

Posted by: An Observation at January 07, 2018 01:07 AM (eC3CM)


Nuke it from orbit.

It's the only way to be sure.

Posted by: The Nukular Hat at January 07, 2018 01:12 AM (itfg0)

582 This just in: polar bears wearing Bermuda shorts and Ray-Bans have been seen killing sharks in Florida waters.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 07, 2018 01:10 AM (sD2WN)

If they're wearing Bermuda shorts they must be retired and playing golf.

Posted by: Insomniac - Meet the New Year, same as the old year at January 07, 2018 01:12 AM (NWiLs)

583 Robot!


Posted by: Will Robinson at January 07, 2018 01:12 AM (25nrF)

584 >> I fully support this.

https://preview.tinyurl.com/ycl3wxcn

https://preview.tinyurl.com/yb3wllfx

https://preview.tinyurl.com/y98zlmoy

Posted by: publius, at the ficus at January 07, 2018 01:13 AM (8O3HH)

585 Posted by: publius, at the ficus at January 07, 2018 01:13 AM (8O3HH)


Sweet baby Jesus.

Posted by: Insomniac - Meet the New Year, same as the old year at January 07, 2018 01:14 AM (NWiLs)

586 381 You had to fill out a little requisition form with the stub pencil
provided, and the clerk brought your order out from the stockroom.


Sounds like Service Merchandise

Posted by: Chuck C at January 07, 2018 01:15 AM (0V2ki)

587 https://preview.tinyurl.com/y98zlmoy

Posted by: publius, at the ficus at January 07, 2018 01:13 AM (8O3HH)

Snowbunnies.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 07, 2018 01:15 AM (sD2WN)

588 I am not clicking on those links.

Has the number thing been solved?

Posted by: Will Robinson at January 07, 2018 01:16 AM (25nrF)

589 It's 4 here, and supposed to go down to 0 tonight. I've got the kitchen faucet dripping slowly, because that pipe has been known to freeze in the past.

I realize that these temperatures are balmy compared to some parts of the continent.

Posted by: rickl at January 07, 2018 01:16 AM (sdi6R)

590 So...

Trumps a moron?!


He checks up on his favorite gorilla every morning as well.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 07, 2018 01:17 AM (rnAwa)

591 >> Sweet baby Jesus.

He wouldn't approve of what I have in mind, I fear.

Posted by: publius, with a red devil on his shoulder at January 07, 2018 01:17 AM (8O3HH)

592 >> I am not clicking on those links.

There's no danger, Will Robinson.

Well, maybe danger to your ficus, but you'll be fine.

Posted by: publius, with a red devil on his shoulder at January 07, 2018 01:18 AM (8O3HH)

593 I realize that these temperatures are balmy compared to some parts of the continent.

Posted by: rickl at January 07, 2018 01:16 AM (sdi6R)

That "leave the tap dripping" definitely does work. Speaking from experience here.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 07, 2018 01:19 AM (sD2WN)

594 590 So...

Trumps a moron?!

He checks up on his favorite gorilla every morning as well.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 07, 2018 01:17 AM (rnAwa)


It would be awesome if he commented on the gorilla thread.

Posted by: rickl at January 07, 2018 01:20 AM (sdi6R)

595 >> leave the tap dripping

:cough: ...dripping taps... :wheeze:

Must. not. type.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at January 07, 2018 01:22 AM (8O3HH)

596 Has the number thing been solved?
Posted by: Will Robinson at January 07, 2018 01:16 AM (25nrF)


It isn't likely to be simple 1 to 1 substitution, just spitballing from the frequency distribution. Well it could be, but odds are not good. Might be polyalphabetic.

Posted by: hogmartin at January 07, 2018 01:22 AM (y87Qq)

597 Posted by: publius, at the ficus at January 07, 2018 01:13 AM (8O3HH)

Touche! A riposte:

https://tinyurl.com/y7u7ou5w


Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 07, 2018 01:23 AM (ycWCI)

598 Touche! A riposte:

https://tinyurl.com/y7u7ou5w


Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 07, 2018 01:23 AM (ycWCI)

Vast tracts....of land.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 07, 2018 01:26 AM (sD2WN)

599 Smith!

Posted by: Major West at January 07, 2018 01:27 AM (QLvwG)

600 He was using only using a simple polyphonetically grouped 20-square-digit key transposed in boustrophedonic form with multiple nulls.

Posted by: Austin Milbarge at January 07, 2018 01:28 AM (QLvwG)

601 Help me out y'all....

What's KdDaBear's Twitter handle.....

The link in the comment goes to the AoS non function screen.....

And, (granted I'm somewhat inebriated).....I can't find a KdEtc on the Twitter....

Just Tryin to see what the "side boob exceptional" y'all talk in about....

Posted by: Hillbillyking at January 07, 2018 01:29 AM (JGzeX)

602 >> Touche! A riposte:

Those hang nicely. That says something about a wall. Hottest walls.

Build that damn wall, baby! Drill, baby drill.

And it includes the name, Denise Milani.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at January 07, 2018 01:29 AM (8O3HH)

603 Posted by: Austin Milbarge at January 07, 2018 01:28 AM (QLvwG)

But with a tube amp, so you get that warm analog tone.

Posted by: hogmartin at January 07, 2018 01:30 AM (y87Qq)

604 No Smiley Edition - and you're gonna have to plunk that space in there all year long!

(Happy 201

Posted by: mindful webworker is back in for an inning at January 07, 2018 01:30 AM (lQn8Y)

605 Don!

Posted by: Judy Robinson at January 07, 2018 01:30 AM (QLvwG)

606 Try this:

https://twitter.com/kbdabear

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 07, 2018 01:31 AM (QLvwG)

607 I'm so old, when I was a boy, the Dead Sea was just "sick".

Posted by: navybrat, my head hurts at January 07, 2018 01:31 AM (w7KSn)

608 But with a tube amp, so you get that warm analog tone.

Posted by: hogmartin at January 07, 2018 01:30 AM (y87Qq)

It's got to be '45 triodes in the power stage, too. None of those new-fangled pentodes.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 07, 2018 01:31 AM (sD2WN)

609 And it includes the name, Denise Milani.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at January 07, 2018 01:29 AM (8O3HH)

Aye. And since you are more a fan of the... back acreage(?):
https://tinyurl.com/y9e939fc

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 07, 2018 01:31 AM (ycWCI)

610 >> Help me out y'all....

What's KdDaBear's Twitter handle.....

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https://twitter.com/kbdabear?lang=en

Now, to the left at the top, under his avatar/logo/whatever, you will see some thumbnails. Click on the first one.

Now, (assuming it works with your browser), you'll have sideboob, underboob, and "casual Friday" galore. Click the arrows.

Grab your ficus, put it close by, and enjoy.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at January 07, 2018 01:33 AM (8O3HH)

611 Hey, SlapHappy. Did you ever call our friend this morning?

Posted by: Bob Dylan and the banned at January 07, 2018 01:33 AM (AC5mA)

612 End government subsidies for Ohio pube farmers!

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 07, 2018 01:34 AM (cu8/f)

613 . Started it again, and remarkably, no blue smoke, and it idled really smooth.
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Sometimes, leak-down around valve stems after sitting for an extended period.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 07, 2018 01:36 AM (9tO1t)

614 "Hey, SlapHappy. Did you ever call our friend this morning?"
-Posted by: Bob Dylan and the banned at January 07, 2018 01:33 AM (AC5mA)

Yes. No answer.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 07, 2018 01:36 AM (Ckg4U)

615 >>https://tinyurl.com/y9e939fc

:sucks air through teeth:
:grunts:
:stomps foot:

Oh my dear Lord. I think I felt something pop.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at January 07, 2018 01:37 AM (8O3HH)

616 still here!?

Posted by: the song of my people at January 07, 2018 01:38 AM (t182E)

617 Frost-proof cocks. The proper answer to the problem.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 07, 2018 01:38 AM (c/EDo)

618 But with a tube amp, so you get that warm analog tone.
Posted by: hogmartin
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AKA 'distortion'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 07, 2018 01:40 AM (c/EDo)

619 >> still here!?

Yes, I'm here, but I'm sort of ... occupied ... at the moment.

I'm pulling my cord and ringing my little bell, but no Maid of the Frenulum has come yet. Maybe she's asleep. I'll ring again.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at January 07, 2018 01:40 AM (8O3HH)

620 It could be Baudot-Murray, which would account for the characters above 26. But it's not a direct translation and the first two characters are control characters anyway so this smells like a blind alley.

A little hint here, Hat? Or did you just implant this f'ng thing in my brain and go off to a peaceful untroubled sleep?

Posted by: hogmartin at January 07, 2018 01:40 AM (y87Qq)

621 But it is a recurring weather pattern.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 07, 2018 12:33 AM (sD2WN)

Well, the TV weather guy said tonight that the weather pattern in our neck of the woods hadn't occurred (recurred??) in 55 years ...It was effin' cold.
Just sayin'

Posted by: StillLurking at January 07, 2018 01:40 AM (lIf/3)

622 >>End government subsidies for Ohio pube farmers!

They need a good waxin'.

Posted by: publius, the Perpetually Gloveless Poperin Pear at January 07, 2018 01:41 AM (8O3HH)

623 I think I felt something pop

If you heard it,
you may be doing it wrong...



or
not.

Posted by: mindful webworker lurking loudly at January 07, 2018 01:41 AM (lQn8Y)

624 That sucks. He'll love to hear your voice.
I'm apparently still in Robitussin land - just woke up for the fourth time today...

Posted by: Bob Dylan and the banned at January 07, 2018 01:42 AM (AC5mA)

625 The Crab Nebula is an expanding gas cloud caused by a supernova that was visible to the naked eye in 1054.

The nebula was first seen with a telescope in the 1700s. Since then, it has been extensively studied and photographed. It is iconic.

Here is a time-lapse movie of pictures taken by the same telescope during the last 10 years:

https://www.astrobin.com/full/327338/0/

This is a reminder that when we see photos of stars and galaxies, they may look static, but they are constantly in motion. It's just that the motion is barely perceptible over a human lifetime.

Posted by: rickl at January 07, 2018 01:44 AM (sdi6R)

626 You rang?

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 07, 2018 01:45 AM (cu8/f)

627 Didja ever at like a party have someone shout out your name, and then as you're about to answer, "What?" you realize no one there knows you by that name.

It's like almost waving back at that pretty girl until you realize she was only waving at someone behind you.

Not exactly related
https://youtu.be/dFmecXCCcRw

Posted by: mindful webworker - hopeless romantic at January 07, 2018 01:45 AM (lQn8Y)

628 >> You rang?

:types with frenetic fury:
:decorously deletes:

Yes, I'm ringing, you might say.

Posted by: publius, the Perpetually Gloveless Poperin Pear at January 07, 2018 01:50 AM (8O3HH)

629 "...an expanding gas cloud" aka Al Gore.

Posted by: fly gal at January 07, 2018 01:51 AM (TTcxy)

630 This is a reminder that when we see photos of stars and galaxies, they may look static, but they are constantly in motion. It's just that the motion is barely perceptible over a human lifetime.

Posted by: rickl at January 07, 2018 01:44 AM (sdi6R)


Another fun thing to think about: those are pictures of what the nebula looked like around the 5th millennium BC. Topics of discussion around the ONT at the time: agriculture, whether it will ever catch on. Inhabiting settlements, pro/con (jury's still out on that one).

Posted by: hogmartin at January 07, 2018 01:51 AM (y87Qq)

631 End government subsidies for Ohio pube farmers!
Posted by: MIley

Increase funding for relocation of Persian Landing Strips!

Posted by: Monk at January 07, 2018 01:52 AM (g4lFK)

632 Sometimes, leak-down around valve stems after sitting for an extended period.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 07, 2018 01:36 AM (9tO1t)

I am familiar with that. Usually burns off after less than a minute goes by. This car is an oddball. As a 1960 Lark, it should have had the 170" flathead six, but a prior owner installed a 1963 OHV six, which makes a bit more power, but which is prone to cracking heads. I'm not a big fan of that engine. But the one in the Lark was stuck solid; would not move at all. And I didn't have a flattie to put in there. So I took and old OHV six I had in the barn, and built a "beater" engine out of entirely used parts, save for a few gaskets. Honed the cylinders real well, picked pistons that were in decent condtion. Piston rings, I deglazed each one with a drum sander on a Dremel tool. Hand-picked and Plasti-gaged bearings. Ground all the valves by hand. Test-ran in an old chassis, and it ran smooth with no knocks. I was hoping the rings would seat themselves, but had no real expectation that they would. Hauled it down to AZ last year, and installed it in the Lark, and got it fired up. Smoked steadily, the little I ran it.

I don't really think it burned off 5 quarts of oil in less than an hour's total run time, but who knows? I plan to do the brakes on the car to make it roadworthy, then insure it and plate it, and take it out on the road to break in the rings, and see what happens.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 07, 2018 01:52 AM (sD2WN)

633 Decorous deletion is classy.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 07, 2018 01:53 AM (cu8/f)

634 Sabotage


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__zoCMZVN9w

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 07, 2018 01:58 AM (cu8/f)

635 Hey everybody.

Sorry I missed the movie thread, but my journey discovering classic movies continues. Tonight was "White Heat." Also not bad. Top o' the world, ma!

Tomorrow night: "The Wild Bunch."

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 07, 2018 02:01 AM (eMKNe)

636 It would be awesome if he commented on the gorilla thread.
Posted by: rickl at January 07, 2018 01:20 AM (sdi6R)
____________________

"So I've come to know some really wonderful gorillas in the great state of Kentucky. Really beautiful gorillas, believe me. They have the best throwing technique I've ever seen--as good as if not better than Nolan Ryan. Just terrific..Look out, Mitch. That's all I'm going to say."

Posted by: fly gal at January 07, 2018 02:03 AM (TTcxy)

637
Apropos of nothing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g93mz_eZ5N4

Posted by: publius, the Perpetually Gloveless Poperin Pear at January 07, 2018 02:04 AM (8O3HH)

638 Watching Airplane!

"Joey, ever hang around a gymnasium?"

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 07, 2018 02:04 AM (ycWCI)

639 I don't really think it burned off 5 quarts of oil in less than an hour's total run time, but who knows? I plan to do the brakes on the car to make it roadworthy, then insure it and plate it, and take it out on the road to break in the rings, and see what happens.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 07, 2018 01:52 AM (sD2WN)


Not sure If read things wrong, but did you say you used used rings that you cleaned with a dremel tool???

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at January 07, 2018 02:04 AM (aMlLZ)

640 * keels over & passes out *

* with last conscious thought, sets pocket-rifling defense tazers to maximum *

* z *

Posted by: mindful webworker - the retiring type at January 07, 2018 02:04 AM (lQn8Y)

641 "Tell your old man to drag Walton in the near up and down for 45 minutes!"

Most of the jokes are timeless, but that might be lost on some folks. Also Kareem Abdul Jabar.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 07, 2018 02:05 AM (ycWCI)

642
And I may soon be this in fix:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDny6qzfIr8

And if Hank, Jr. ain't your cup of ... tea, try the original Zevon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP5Xv7QqXiM

Posted by: publius, the Perpetually Gloveless Poperin Pear at January 07, 2018 02:08 AM (8O3HH)

643 Posted by: mindful webworker - hopeless romantic at January 07, 2018 01:45 AM (lQn8Y)

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never happened...i knew the pretty girl was not waving at me.

she barely knew i existed, just enough to know i wasn't in her income range.

Posted by: redc1c4 at January 07, 2018 02:08 AM (YR6XW)

644 "That's Lieutenant Herowitz. Thinks he's Ethel Murman."
*Ethel Murman sings*
"War is Hell."

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 07, 2018 02:09 AM (ycWCI)

645 Not sure If read things wrong, but did you say you used used rings that you cleaned with a dremel tool???

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at January 07, 2018 02:04 AM (aMlLZ)

Not just any used rings; I picked ones that still had some spring to them.

Consider it to to be an experiment. If I get 10,000 miles out of this engine, I will be delighted. It's never going to be a daily driver.

I have to say, this cobbled-together engine sure runs smooth and quiet.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 07, 2018 02:09 AM (sD2WN)

646 And if Hank, Jr. ain't your cup of ... tea, try the original Zevon

HAH!!!!!!!!!
;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 07, 2018 02:10 AM (eMKNe)

647 (quoting the Zevon song, btw)

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 07, 2018 02:10 AM (eMKNe)

648 So Trump needs to give a video speech with a tv behind him incidentally. And there needs to be gorillas fighting on the tv. I think that is a little too on the nose, but if he did something like that I would declare him grand master Troll of the universe, in addition to being god-emperor of the cherry-blossom throne.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 07, 2018 02:14 AM (rnAwa)

649 FB friend talking about the olden days about ham radio.

Ah yes, ham radio. The spot back in the 70s where folks would talk turkey about their political beefs.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 07, 2018 02:15 AM (eMKNe)

650 the shit has hit the fan...

Posted by: redc1c4 at January 07, 2018 02:16 AM (YR6XW)

651 So Trump needs to give a video speech with a tv behind him incidentally. And there needs to be gorillas fighting on the tv. I think that is a little too on the nose, but if he did something like that I would declare him grand master Troll of the universe, in addition to being god-emperor of the cherry-blossom throne.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 07, 2018 02:14 AM (rnAwa)

Steve Bannon and Corey Lewandoski in gorilla suits, with Corey whaling on Steve with Michelle Fields' severed arm.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 07, 2018 02:17 AM (sD2WN)

652
Dad get me outta this! HAH!

Note Hank Jr changed it to "gambling in Las Vegas" from Zevon's original Havana. With the glorious revolution gone on for so many years, I don't guess too many would've remembered Havana as the gambling hub it was.

Posted by: publius, the Perpetually Gloveless Poperin Pear at January 07, 2018 02:17 AM (8O3HH)

653 Silver!!!!!!!

Posted by: lone ranger at January 07, 2018 02:18 AM (11H2y)

654 The problem with old condos is central air systems (among others things). Say, if on an early morning hour of oh, say right now, the emergency boilers shut down. That means my thermostat says its heating but its not. Just blowing room temperature. I.E. cool. Its ok though, its 8 degrees outside. I saw in the email I just got that an engineer is on the way. In the mean time I'll pull out my tiny little space heater and cover up in a blanket. Maybe watching golf in Maui, where is looks lovely and warm will help a little.

Posted by: Puddleglum at January 07, 2018 02:20 AM (MQeu/)

655 Ah yes, ham radio. The spot back in the 70s where folks would talk turkey about their political beefs.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 07, 2018 02:15 AM (eMKNe)

Back in the day, Ham radio operators didn't usually talk politics. It wasn't exactly forbidden, but it was understood that a ham license wasn't a broadcasting license. Hams tended to talk about their radio gear, most commonly.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 07, 2018 02:21 AM (sD2WN)

656 I know he's out of favor nowadays, but back in the 1960s, Bill Cosby had a hilarious bit about the Lone Ranger and Tonto.

It basically went: "It's always the same thing. The Lone Ranger sends Tonto into town and they beat the crap out of him. 'Nice to see you again, Tonto! Bam! Bam!' Then the Lone Ranger asks Tonto, 'did you get the message when you went into town?' 'Yes kemosabe, I got the message.' 'What did it say?' 'It say, Tonto no go to town!'"

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 07, 2018 02:21 AM (eMKNe)

657 AOP, I can imagine.

Plus, people were more sensible then about that stuff IMHO.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 07, 2018 02:23 AM (eMKNe)

658 Silver!!!!!!!

Posted by: lone ranger at January 07, 2018 02:18 AM (11H2y)


Gold!!

Posted by: Billy Devane at January 07, 2018 02:24 AM (RABk/)

659 Uranium!!!

Posted by: Hillary at January 07, 2018 02:24 AM (sD2WN)

660 Cake!

Posted by: Lena Dunham, on the crapper at January 07, 2018 02:25 AM (8O3HH)

661 499 2b
5b
6a
10a

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 07, 2018 12:33 AM (QLvwG)

4 2 9 15 20 29 10 15 19 20 17 13 10 23 29 11 10 17 25 5 25 3 28 9 21 23 13 11 5 25 2 30
Posted by: The Cryptonomic Hat at January 07, 2018 12:35 AM (itfg0)

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A little hint here, Hat? Or did you just implant this f'ng thing in my brain and go off to a peaceful untroubled sleep?
Posted by: hogmartin at January 07, 2018 01:40 AM (y87Qq)
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Ya know, when you press on sets of those numbers in the original post, it gives you the option to "open InCall service". I have no clue what that means, and I didn't follow through with it.

Posted by: Will Robinson at January 07, 2018 02:25 AM (25nrF)

662 Speaking of gold, watched Treasure of the Sierra Madre last night.

Pretty good.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 07, 2018 02:25 AM (eMKNe)

663 Dammit Will Robinson.

Posted by: Professor Chaos aka gg at January 07, 2018 02:26 AM (25nrF)

664 don't get me started on HOAs

Posted by: redc1c4 at January 07, 2018 02:27 AM (YR6XW)

665 Ya know, when you press on sets of those numbers in the original post, it gives you the option to "open InCall service".
Will Robinson at January 07, 2018 02:25 AM (25nrF)


I just tried that and it just left smudges on my TV screen. Press harder, yeah?

Posted by: hogmartin at January 07, 2018 02:28 AM (y87Qq)

666 that's the one thing we will avoid IF we move to Texas.||

Posted by: redc1c4 at January 07, 2018 02:28 AM (YR6XW)

667 I live near Cerritos in California, where the whole town is basically an HOA.

For years there's been "Cerritos Colors," where you are supposedly only allowed to paint your house those shades. Don't know if they still enforce it, however.

Also, a Toys 'R' Us opened there in 1972, and legend has it that the city harassed them for years because of the backwards 'R' in their logo. (Cerritos actually had a law on the books that all public signage must use proper English.) Finally sometime in the late 1990s, the store threatened to move out of town because they were so sick of it, at which point the city finally backed off and shut up about it. Last I heard, the 'R' is still backwards in their sign. ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 07, 2018 02:30 AM (eMKNe)

668 @hogmartin

I'm on an ipad. Maybe with a mouse you click on it. Whatever you would do to open a new tab.

Posted by: Professor Chaos aka gg at January 07, 2018 02:31 AM (25nrF)

669 Okay, i followed through and it gives an option to call a phone number. But that seems weird. I don't know if it is just a software thing and has nothing to do with those numbers he listed.

Why they are in red though...when the first 2 aren't...don't know what that's about.

He should have left the answer with MisHum or something. Tosser.

Posted by: Professor Chaos aka gg at January 07, 2018 02:35 AM (25nrF)

670 Has to be a software thing my iPad is reading. B/c no phone number is that frickin' long. Not 16 numbers.

Posted by: Professor Chaos aka gg at January 07, 2018 02:38 AM (25nrF)

671 @606....

Thank Ya Count....

Appreciated.

Posted by: Hillbillyking at January 07, 2018 02:39 AM (JGzeX)

672 He should have left the answer with MisHum or something. Tosser.

Posted by: Professor Chaos aka gg at January 07, 2018 02:35 AM (25nrF)

No offence intended to Hat, but I just ignore that crypto stuff when it pops up. Just isn't my bag.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 07, 2018 02:40 AM (sD2WN)

673 I watched another SCTV episode. It's time to go to bed now, but I will leave you with this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V7awhunsdw

Posted by: rickl at January 07, 2018 02:41 AM (sdi6R)

674 Night rickl.

Posted by: Professor Chaos aka gg at January 07, 2018 02:42 AM (25nrF)

675
Last I heard, the 'R' is still backwards in their sign.


It was as of December 23, when I had to go to Cerritos Town Center to do some last-minute Christmas shopping.

Posted by: David, Internet Deplorable at January 07, 2018 02:42 AM (avSZz)

676 gg, it's just WebKit detecting possible numbers and rendering them as links to call.

https://preview.tinyurl.com/y9295kfb

Posted by: hogmartin at January 07, 2018 02:44 AM (y87Qq)

677 ...I just ignore that crypto stuff when it pops up.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 07, 2018 02:40 AM (sD2WN)


You lucky mf'er.

Posted by: hogmartin at January 07, 2018 02:48 AM (y87Qq)

678 I just ignore that crypto stuff when it pops up.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 07, 2018 02:40 AM (sD2WN)

You lucky mf'er.
Posted by: hogmartin at January 07, 2018 02:48 AM (y87Qq)


LOL
And yea about the web kit.

Ya know, I bet there are online Cipher calculators of some kind...or crypto. This is in no way in my wheel house, but just an idea.

Posted by: Professor Chaos aka gg at January 07, 2018 02:56 AM (25nrF)

679 Well, 0100 here. Time to hit the sack. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 07, 2018 02:56 AM (sD2WN)

680 Gotta love these new Taco Bell commercials that openly mock all the secret gubmint stuff.

And on that note, I'm calling it a night. Not much chat but that's my fault as I came in really late. Thanks everyone and happy Sunday!

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 07, 2018 02:58 AM (eMKNe)

681 Ya know, I bet there are online Cipher calculators of some kind...or crypto. This is in no way in my wheel house, but just an idea.
Posted by: Professor Chaos aka gg at January 07, 2018 02:56 AM (25nrF)


https://tinyurl.com/y7grfn87

('nite, AOP)

Posted by: hogmartin at January 07, 2018 02:59 AM (y87Qq)

682 Not just any used rings; I picked ones that still had some spring to them.

Consider it to to be an experiment. If I get 10,000 miles out of this engine, I will be delighted. It's never going to be a daily driver.

I have to say, this cobbled-together engine sure runs smooth and quiet.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 07, 2018 02:09 AM (sD2WN)

Hell of an experiment. Usually its not a good idea to recompress rings, not to mention they have a good chance of not being perfectly round because of wear on the thrust faces. Got me curious though to see how it all works long term. If I ever pulled that stunt the Harley gods would kill me in my sleep. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at January 07, 2018 03:00 AM (aMlLZ)

683 Ya know, I bet there are online Cipher calculators of some kind...or crypto. This is in no way in my wheel house, but just an idea.
Posted by: Professor Chaos aka gg at January 07, 2018 02:56 AM (25nrF)

https://tinyurl.com/y7grfn87

('nite, AOP)
Posted by: hogmartin at January 07, 2018 02:59 AM (y87Qq)


Bwahahahahahahahahaha.
It did cross my mind...after I hit post. So I kinda saw that coming. You are gonna need to kick Crypto Hat's ass.

Posted by: Professor Chaos aka gg at January 07, 2018 03:05 AM (25nrF)

684 Wasn't trying to be snippy of course, I just f'n love that movie =)

I might as well let queue it up since I'm obviously not getting any sleep tonight anyway.

Posted by: hogmartin at January 07, 2018 03:07 AM (y87Qq)

685 Wasn't trying to be snippy of course, I just f'n love that movie =)

I might as well let queue it up since I'm obviously not getting any sleep tonight anyway.
Posted by: hogmartin at January 07, 2018 03:07 AM (y87Qq)


I totally get it. I have looked in amazement at people offering obvious avenues of action...and bitten back snarky replies. It's like, "Omg, do you think I'm a monkey? Do you think I wouldn't have thought of that?" *eyeroll*

Posted by: Professor Chaos aka gg at January 07, 2018 03:12 AM (25nrF)

686
I looked at Hat's post:
I count 18 distinct values.
6 are used once, 10 are used twice, and 3 are used thrice.
There are no doubles and only one pair (5 25).

As mentioned previously, some of the values exceed the number of letters, so a substitution cipher is unlikely.

It looks like the answer is obvious and likely known to many, but the data set is so small that the meaning cannot be deduced.

Posted by: Arbalest at January 07, 2018 03:13 AM (FlRtG)

687 So siked 2018 women march is coming to Vegas
Look for me
im Gonna be the only anti pussy hat girl
I will wear a moron tshirt

Posted by: lousagirl at January 07, 2018 03:19 AM (PmCoA)

688 Posted by: Arbalest at January 07, 2018 03:13 AM (FlRtG)



Thank you good person.

And good night to all, and to all a good night! ��

Posted by: Professor Chaos aka gg at January 07, 2018 03:26 AM (25nrF)

689 lousagirl -- I'm curious about this "anti-pussy hat" you'll be sporting. Unless you have a design in mind, I'm thinking in a pinch: buy a stuffed cat, and tie it to your head, and see how many of those college girls get the joke.

Posted by: Shopgirl: #ForwardProgressMyButt at January 07, 2018 03:33 AM (txuuE)

690 I like it Shopgirl

Posted by: lousagirl at January 07, 2018 03:34 AM (PmCoA)

691 I so glad its coming to Vegas
I might be the only pro President Trump girl there, but I dont give a damn

Posted by: lousagirl at January 07, 2018 03:40 AM (PmCoA)

692 Shopgirl , you will know me

Posted by: lousagirl at January 07, 2018 03:43 AM (PmCoA)

693 Anybody have inside info on Orange Juice futures?

Options are long on frozen vs fresh.

Posted by: pogomip at January 07, 2018 03:53 AM (3j+dq)

694 I might be the only pro President Trump girl there, but I dont give a damn

Posted by: lousagirl at January 07, 2018 03:40 AM (PmCoA)


Thank Gaia for the Founders giving us Americans/Yanks/Yanquis the right to not give a damn. Makes us the envy of the world, it does. Also the main reason to get out of that Den of Thieves On Turtle Bay, giving them an eviction notice in the process.

Concerned human-engineering globalist: "But . . . but, what will the rest of the world think?"

Bloody Yank: "I don't give a damn."

Trump is America's "I Don't Give A Damn" Imperial Troll and I absolutely love it.

(For the first time in a long, long time, I got the presidential winner correct from the get-go, when he came down the escalator in Trump Tower and announced his candidacy. I just knew Trump would make a better than decent president, after the losers we've endured for decades, if not probably one of the better ones. But I had no idea he would be this good. Giving us Deplorables a voice, a fighter to take on all comers without needlessly and cringingly backtracking. Trump: The "I Don't Give A Damn" President. /There are worse ways to go down in US/World History. *cough* Iran 'Deal' *cough*)

Posted by: RickZ at January 07, 2018 03:56 AM (RABk/)

695 As I wrote a week ago I hardly need alarms anymore for 4am, except today I don't have to get up at 4am

Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2018 04:07 AM (aC6Sd)

696 Our son just delivered their new baby girl, 1.5 hours after first contraction, at home, in bed. No time for a run to hospital. We arrived 14 minutes after dad cut cord, 11 minutes after ambulance arrived.

Son in shock, but able to drive self to hospital. Mom, baby fine. EMTs all smiles. We are here to tend to big sis, age two, who is sound asleep on this icy cold Chicago night.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at January 07, 2018 04:53 AM (t/7gr)

697 >>>So they posted some delicious looking sausages, bacon and eggs on their Twitter page.

Actually, I side with the vegans on this one. That is NOT bacon. Real bacon is made from the belly of the pig, but the UK and Canada insist on calling their counterfeit cut from the back of the pig "bacon".

Posted by: Bear phone at January 07, 2018 04:56 AM (0BFUD)

698 Congrats, Les! *passes cigar through USB*.

Posted by: Bear phone at January 07, 2018 04:58 AM (0BFUD)

699 Delivery at home in bed is better than the floor at the 7-11.

They named her Marilyn Elizabeth. I cannot go back to sleep.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at January 07, 2018 05:03 AM (t/7gr)

700 Have you checked 7-11's corporate home page for their policies?

They might give you a free slurpee for delivering a baby on their floor.


Meanwhile, congratulations to the Kinetics!

Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 07, 2018 05:10 AM (f1Id8)

701 We stripped the bedding and padding, and I will truck all to the coin laundry where they have big machines. The new baby made a little mess in the king sized bed.

We have forgiven her for that.

It is all kind of exciting. Sort of like the Oregon trail, 1853, except electricity. The babies come when they are ready, not when we are.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at January 07, 2018 05:18 AM (t/7gr)

702
2° Fahrenheit here. 100 year record broken? Nope. Record low of 4° set three years ago.

Suck it, AlGore.

Posted by: Acme Trucking Enterprises, White Truck Division at January 07, 2018 05:19 AM (2FqvZ)

703
The glaciers are simultaneously receding and advancing in AlGores universe.

Yet they questions Trumps mental facilities.

Posted by: Acme Trucking Enterprises, White Truck Division at January 07, 2018 05:24 AM (2FqvZ)

704 Pretty badass. Although humans have been giving birth for thousands of years without the aid of hospitals, and we somehow still managed to survive.

Posted by: Bear phone at January 07, 2018 05:24 AM (0BFUD)

705 >>>2° Fahrenheit here. 100 year record broken? Nope. Record low of 4° set three years ago.


I will intercede for you by praying to the Polar Vortex for mercy. But you must promise me that if the temperature rises by Monday that you will repent and take vows to live a more eco friendly existence. Ye stiffnecked, hardheated people, this is your final warning!

Posted by: Al Gore at January 07, 2018 05:31 AM (0BFUD)

706 Son said two firemen helped him, but that he was the hands-on dad.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at January 07, 2018 05:33 AM (t/7gr)

707 Ye stiffnecked, hardheated people, this is your final warning!

Posted by: Al Gore at January 07, 2018 05:31 AM (0BFUD)


Hey, Al, who are softheated people? Those who warm themselves by Bic lighter?

Posted by: RickZ at January 07, 2018 05:36 AM (RABk/)

708 I would have gotten plastic sheeting and put it on the bed if I thought of it first

Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2018 05:38 AM (aC6Sd)

709 2018 is shaping up as the hottest year ever. Multiple high temperature records set this week in central and southern Arizona. Record highs here balance out all the record lows elsewhere in the country. Algore was right all along!

Just you wait - after the current weather becomes a memory the records will be quietly updated to "prove" global warmening.

Posted by: Carpe Manana at January 07, 2018 05:39 AM (6+W54)

710 I feel very insecure about my manhood in this time of Trump!

Posted by: Balless Bill Kristol the 3rd at January 07, 2018 05:45 AM (yhf6w)

711 Been laying here almost 2 hrs, guess I ought to go make the coffee

Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2018 05:49 AM (aC6Sd)

712 >>>I would have gotten plastic sheeting and put it on the bed if I thought of it first


Yeah, I've heard the first few times a newborn defecates it's, uh, "different".

Posted by: Bear phone at January 07, 2018 05:50 AM (0BFUD)

713 Why do all of you want to make my sexual relationship with David Brock, over the last six years, such an issue?

Posted by: Balless Bill Kristol the 3rd at January 07, 2018 05:50 AM (yhf6w)

714 EMT is NOOD

Posted by: Bruce at January 07, 2018 05:57 AM (8ikIW)

715 I will wear a moron tshirt


Posted by: lousagirl at January 07, 2018 03:19 AM (PmCoA)
--
like this?
https://www.zazzle.com/deployable_deplorable_vets_
for_trump_t_shirt-235412087184495350

i need to order a few more

and wave a cookbook, instead of the little red book too!

Posted by: redc1c4 at January 07, 2018 06:10 AM (Cfv4x)

716 I'm anti-HOA and a combat veteran Marine myself, and that Marine in Texas is 100% in the wrong and also just plain being a dick. He's legally wrong by violating three state codes and he's morally wrong by playing the entitled veteran after being asked to fix it.

Also, this statement made my eyes roll so hard I might have whiplash: "If they're going to take them down, it's going to be a fight to take them down, and no one fights harder than a veteran combat Marine," Pereira said.

Posted by: RedStick at January 07, 2018 07:12 AM (qTcA9)

717 Hunky Bill's was shut down in Canada when I was younger. Hunky was a pejorative for Hungarian, in case you were wondering.

Posted by: Heresolong at January 07, 2018 01:11 PM (K+rrH)

718 When you've heard Lou, you haaaavvvve heard it allll.

Posted by: Otto Zilch at January 07, 2018 09:55 PM (U2esv)

719 >>Lou's version of "Tobacco Road" is awesome.

And the rap (and I mean "rap session" rap, not Grandmaster Flash rap) preceding it sets the stage.

Better still is his "Bye Bye Blackbird" on the Century Plaza album, and "World of Trouble" with the streetcorner hustler's story preceding it.

Posted by: Otto Zilch at January 07, 2018 10:02 PM (U2esv)

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