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Sunday Overnight Open Thread (2/18/18 )

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(The Tropical ONT)


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The Quotes of The Day


Quote I

"Corrupt politicians make the other 10 percent look bad" - Henry Kissinger

Quote II

Perhaps it will force the realization that every environmental issue facing the world can be traced to the ever-multiplying, ever-demanding, human biomass that has subverted the natural-selection process and is consuming the planet to death.Steve Meyer

Quote III

"We see from the research that actually, when consumers are given this information, they actually can make lower-calorie choices, and restaurants can also come out with lower-calorie options," Colin Schwartz

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Thank you gutless Republicans. Now Idaho is a sanctuary state.

It’s barely been two weeks since Idaho regulators said they would allow the sale of health insurance that doesn’t meet all of the Affordable Care Act’s requirements — a controversial step some experts said would likely draw legal scrutiny and, potentially, federal fines for any insurer that jumped in.

And on Wednesday, Blue Cross of Idaho unveiled a menu of new health plans that break with federal health law rules in several ways, including setting premiums based on applicants’ health.


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You get what you pay for. Stop farting or I will turn this plane around.

A pilot was forced to make an emergency landing after a row caused by a passenger who refused to stop farting.

The passenger apparently kept breaking wind on board a Transavia Airlines flight from Dubai to Amsterdam Schiphol last weekend. Do your hair and nails really keep growing after you die?

The two Dutchmen sitting next to him didn’t take very well to his flatulence, but the unashamed man was apparently not put off and refused to hold back.

Members of the crew on the Dutch low-cost airline were apparently less than sympathetic and refused to do anything about it.


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Are congressional democrats guilty of creating the 11th Commandment? Thou Shalt Not Have Fun!!!


HERE COME THE FEDS —
US Senator demands review of loot box policies, citing potential harm
New Hampshire’s Hassan says FTC action may be necessary if industry doesn’t respond.

God forbid they fix Obamacare, the national debt or the broken V.A. system.

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Perhaps the class should have been called "Cultural Studies That Will Invade Your Safe Space". Students walk out on class.

You'd think that students who sign up for a class on "Cultural Freedoms: Hate Speech, Blasphemy, and Pornography" might have understood what they were getting themselves into.

But no, several students in Lawrence Rosen's Princeton anthropology class walked out last week, and made formal complaints, after Rosen provided examples of supposedly offensive speech. Among other things, the instructor asked which was worse: a white man punching a black man in the face, or a white man using the N-word. Rosen, who is Jewish, used the actual slur several times.

*****

What is a Rube Goldberg machine?

A Rube Goldberg machine relies on a series of chain reactions that perform complicated feats to perform a simple task.


A compilation of different machines.


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Peanuts, The Far Side,
Calvin & Hobbes, whatever happened to the strip and its creator.

In November of 1995 and at only 38 years old, Watterson announced his retirement from creating Calvin and Hobbes comics, stating publicly,

I will be stopping Calvin and Hobbes at the end of the year. This was not a recent or an easy decision, and I leave with some sadness. My interests have shifted however, and I believe I’ve done what I can do within the constraints of daily deadlines and small panels. I am eager to work at a more thoughtful pace, with fewer artistic compromises. I have not yet decided on future projects…

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The Parkland shooter has economic victims. Mom & Pop gun store which sold gun closes its doors.


The owners of the gun shop where Parkland, Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz legally bought his AR-15 rifle closed their business indefinitely on Friday, according to the New York Daily News. The couple has also thrown its support behind more restrictive gun control legislation.

Michael and Lisa Morrison, who owned Sunrise Tactical Supplies, said in a statement provided by their lawyer that they were “shocked and mortified” after the shooting.

I suspect their lives are going to be a nightmare with law suits over the next several years. The F.B.I will have sovereign immunity.

*****


The ONT Musical Interlude



February 1966, Beach Boy Brian Wilson recorded the future classic song 'Good Vibrations', which went on to become the band's third US number-one hit. As a child, his mother told him that dogs could pick up "vibrations" from people, so that the dog would bark at "bad vibrations" Wilson turned this into the general idea for the song.


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February 18, 1933, Born on this day, Yoko Ono, Japanese artist, singer, poet, author and peace activist and wife of John Lennon. Ono moved to New York City from Tokyo aged 14 and first met John Lennon in London in 1966, the couple married in 1969. via thisdayinmusic.com

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February 18, 1953, Born on this day, Robbie Bachman from Bachman Turner Overdrive who had the 1974 US No.1 & UK No.2 single 'You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet'. via thisdayinmusic.com

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No need for Tort Reform is there? California woman sues to have Big Foot recognized as a real critter.


Could Bigfoot be in Big Bear?

Crestline resident Claudia Ackley isn’t sure, but she is certain she and her daughters encountered three of the hirsute bipeds while hiking on a trail in Lake Arrowhead last March.

It was dusk, between 6:30 and 7 p.m., on March 27, to be exact. Ackley and her 11- and 14-year-old daughters were hiking the winding trail when Ackley’s daughters, several yards ahead, froze in their tracks, gazing wide-eyed at a large, shadowy figure braced in a pine tree. Ackley ran to her daughters to see what they were staring at.

“I ran into a Sasquatch – a Bigfoot. We were face to face,” said Ackley, 46. “He was 30 feet up in the tree.”

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Concerned about urethral stricture? Maybe you should get a car.

Cyclists will be happy to hear they don’t have to worry about erectile dysfunction but there may still be other problems, according to a new study.

But research from the University of California-San Francisco showed cyclists were no more likely to have sexual and urinary problems than runners or swimmers.

*****

Wonder what runs through one's head? Oh Shit!!!!

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The failure to plan on her part constituted an arrest on theirs. Genius Award Winner.

Drunk woman shows up to her public drunkenness hearing, held on DUI warrant: police

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This isn't my idea of an insurance policy, but it still is Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

From out of the ashes: Couple that lost everything in Fort McMurray wildfire wins million-dollar lottery
The fire was one of those terrible things, Bill Pendergast says, that happens — but it never happens to you. And same with the lottery


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Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by "Oh Shit!" moments.

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Weekly commenter stats for week of 2-18-2018

Top 10 commenters:
1 [727 comments] 'Insomniac' [102.10 posts/day]
2 [564 comments] 'Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii'
3 [369 comments] 'willow'
4 [347 comments] 'Deplorable Jay Guevara'
5 [328 comments] 'Mike Hammer, etc., etc.'
6 [308 comments] 'Nevergiveup'
7 [295 comments] '--- .-. /-. --- -'
8 [276 comments] 'Under Fire'
9 [271 comments] 'ScoggDog'
10 [270 comments] 'J.J. Sefton'

Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
1 [56 names] 'Surfperch' [7.87 unique names/day]
2 [50 names] 'Duncanthrax'
3 [45 names] 'Rick in SK'
4 [45 names] 'Shemp!'
5 [43 names] 'Insomniac'
6 [40 names] 'Hands'
7 [34 names] 'Bertram Cabot, Jr.'
8 [32 names] 'Cloyd Freud, Unemployed'
9 [31 names] 'Under Fire'
10 [31 names] 'The Political Hat'


Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 09:55 PM




Comments

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1 good sunday

Posted by: concrete girl at February 18, 2018 09:55 PM (SJBL7)

2 Thir#383t!

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at February 18, 2018 09:55 PM (e9G8E)

3 Nope. Still no oarlocks.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 18, 2018 09:55 PM (9SkN+)

4 Good night

Posted by: Mr Mxyzptlk at February 18, 2018 09:55 PM (GWVcB)

5 Yeah, Verily!

Posted by: Adriane the Critic ... at February 18, 2018 09:55 PM (AoK0a)

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

http://politicalhat.com/?p=14447

Posted by: The Political Hat at February 18, 2018 09:55 PM (itfg0)

7 Secondst!

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at February 18, 2018 09:56 PM (e9G8E)

8 Watching '13 Reasons Why' and I'm on #10 which I think is welcoming me to Clay`s tape

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 18, 2018 09:56 PM (6FqZa)

9 This post appears to be entirely devoid of Candirus.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 18, 2018 09:56 PM (9SkN+)

10 They worked with muscle, air, earth, water, and fire. For centuries, they were almost magicians of a kind. Longfellow offers a tribute to the blacksmith.

https://tinyurl.com/y9yy6vzl

Posted by: Zaklog the Great at February 18, 2018 09:56 PM (2Z1zB)

11 ONT, Yay!

Posted by: SJW Hrothgar at February 18, 2018 09:56 PM (gwPgz)

12
Breaking News: Turns out 'Big Air' is not a farting competition.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 18, 2018 09:57 PM (r+sAi)

13 The legend of Yoko is being perpetuated by the HQ, sad to say. If it weren't for the ONT her audience would be limited to small, captive groups of pretentious aging hipsters in art galleries.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 18, 2018 09:59 PM (9SkN+)

14 Anyone else hear anything new on this:

Skirmish in Beijing over the nuclear football

http://bit.ly/2EBqncD

Posted by: The Nukular Hat at February 18, 2018 10:00 PM (itfg0)

15 Sniff.

I'll miss you gun thread.

So who saw Black Panther? I did and it was...ok. Some good, some bad, not as bad as could have been.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 18, 2018 10:00 PM (xJa6I)

16 Members of the crew on the Dutch low-cost airline were apparently less than sympathetic and refused to do anything about it.

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If you want the fart-free experience, you will have to upgrade.

Posted by: Transavia Airlines at February 18, 2018 10:01 PM (pvjTE)

17 thank you.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 18, 2018 10:02 PM (KP5rU)

18 Now THIS is what #Treason looks like. #NeverTrumpers soliciting foreign money to undercut the President! #BillKristol http://keywiki.org/Alliance_for_Securing_Democracy

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at February 18, 2018 10:02 PM (Pby3z)

19 If you want the fart-free experience, you will have to upgrade.
Posted by: Transavia Airlines at February 18, 2018 10:01 PM (pvjTE)

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Gaseous emissions are strictly prohibited in Business Class.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 18, 2018 10:02 PM (9SkN+)

20 Good thing the boat was there, else the tree would have fallen over.

Posted by: hogmartin at February 18, 2018 10:03 PM (y87Qq)

21 Yay, stayed off the Wall of Shame.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 18, 2018 10:03 PM (QLvwG)

22 Loot box item has no link?

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 18, 2018 10:03 PM (pvjTE)

23 new health plans that break with federal health law rules in several
ways, including setting premiums based on applicants' health.

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That is such a weird sentence.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Take a Wakanda Wild Side With the Black Pander at February 18, 2018 10:03 PM (ks6bw)

24 I was more of a Bloom County fan than Calvin. I never got how popular it was. Of course, then Bloom County pulled the same thing and became a once a week thing that was weak sauce.

Posted by: zibbly wibbly at February 18, 2018 10:04 PM (V3U1L)

25 BTW, Great content as usual!

Posted by: SJW Hrothgar at February 18, 2018 10:04 PM (gwPgz)

26 Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "Trump Force One".

Posted by: Mega at February 18, 2018 10:05 PM (rv0Fo)

27 Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 18, 2018 10:02 PM (9SkN+)
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How about Odoriferous Emanations ?

Posted by: DeploraBOT at February 18, 2018 10:05 PM (y3aQB)

28 I thought that boat sank last night.

Posted by: rickl at February 18, 2018 10:06 PM (sdi6R)

29 the gun thread is not for amateurs, i'm an amatuer, therefore, an outsider. i was dressed down for an opinion on shit, fuck the gun thread.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 18, 2018 10:06 PM (KP5rU)

30 "The passenger apparently kept breaking wind on board a Transavia Airlines flight from Dubai to Amsterdam Schiphol last weekend. Do your hair and nails really keep growing after you die?"

o_O

Posted by: hogmartin at February 18, 2018 10:06 PM (y87Qq)

31 I should have to re-evaluate my fondness for the classic and oh-so-classy long 's'...

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at February 18, 2018 10:07 PM (e9G8E)

32 I was a big fan of Bloom County and Calvin and Hobbes. And even Doonsbury, before I understood what was being indoctrinated.

The problem is, Berkley Breathed is a dick. And Bill Watterson has integrity.

I still read Calvin and Hobbes strips to this day, and I still love them. Got the huge hardcovers with all of 'em.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 18, 2018 10:07 PM (xJa6I)

33 Among other things, the instructor asked which was worse: a white man punching a black man in the face, or a white man using the N-word. Rosen, who is Jewish, used the actual slur several times.

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*gasp* You man he didn't use "N-word", like a 6 year old telling on his brother to his parents for saying the "F-word".

In a university classroom?!?!

I guess we are lucky that someone told on him.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 18, 2018 10:07 PM (pvjTE)

34 That's the boat that the Professor couldn't fix.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 18, 2018 10:08 PM (9SkN+)

35 I read that there is even less to the Mueller indictment that we could have thought. It seems that a pair of reporters from a Russian Business magazine published their findings of the "Russian Troll Factory" which had all the information.

But the Russian reporters are a little confused about the indictment. Because they are saying that it seems that Mueller just lists every name that they know about. They know for a fact that some of the names on this list only worked for the troll factory for a little bit of time. Some never worked past 2014.

So very much of this was known back 5 months ago. They seem to have indicted any name they knew about, and some of these names never meddled in the actual election cycle.

Nobody has come up with a decent rationale for why the Attorney General of the United States had to recuse himself for this--or what damage was done that we immediately needed a special prosecutor to investigate this.

Posted by: Axebot at February 18, 2018 10:08 PM (JhE5a)

36 29 the gun thread is not for amateurs, i'm an amatuer, therefore, an outsider. i was dressed down for an opinion on shit, fuck the gun thread.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 18, 2018 10:06 PM (KP5rU)

Wait, what?

Someone was dressing you down?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 18, 2018 10:08 PM (xJa6I)

37 So I stopped watching NASCAR about 15 years ago, maybe more.

I just saw that Danica Patrick chose to retire after driving in almost 200 races and never winning a single race.

Is that common? Does someone get to keep a driver's seat, sponsorships, etc. by never winning even one time over many, many years, or was it just blatant sexism because vaginas aren't expected to drive as well as the cut-throat SOBs who wonder if they'll lose their ride after a couple of down seasons?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Take a Wakanda Wild Side With the Black Pander at February 18, 2018 10:09 PM (ks6bw)

38 What is a Rube Goldberg machine?

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The federal budget process.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 18, 2018 10:09 PM (pvjTE)

39 There were 90 people who worked for the troll factory during this time. 13 are named.

Posted by: Axebot at February 18, 2018 10:09 PM (JhE5a)

40 The legend of Yoko is being perpetuated by the HQ, sad to say. If it weren't for the ONT her audience would be limited to small, captive groups of pretentious aging hipsters in art galleries.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 18, 2018 09:59 PM


What are these art galleries you speak of?

Posted by: Intragalactic Yoko Ono Appreciation Society at February 18, 2018 10:09 PM (DMUuz)

41 What the hell is a loot box?

Posted by: tu3031 at February 18, 2018 10:09 PM (O5Q3r)

42 The latest chant to be considered racist is 'Basketball, Basketball, Basketball ' directed at a black NHL player.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 18, 2018 10:09 PM (2DOZq)

43 36 29 the gun thread is not for amateurs, i'm an amatuer, therefore, an outsider. i was dressed down for an opinion on shit, fuck the gun thread.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 18, 2018 10:06 PM (KP5rU)

Wait, what?

Someone was dressing you down?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 18, 2018 10:08 PM (xJa6I)

That wasn't my intention. I was trying to agree with you.

My 'typing and deleting' was me try to avoid some salty likely-bannable stuff about gun grabbers.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 18, 2018 10:09 PM (xJa6I)

44 US Senator demands review of loot box policies, citing potential harm
New Hampshires Hassan says FTC action may be necessary if industry doesnt respond.


What is a loot box?

Posted by: nerdygirl at February 18, 2018 10:09 PM (+lVUW)

45 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg

Posted by: Axebot at February 18, 2018 10:10 PM (JhE5a)

46 36; happens every fuckin day!

Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 18, 2018 10:10 PM (KP5rU)

47 Steve Meyer can go horsefuck. What a preening, sanctimonious, hypocritical ass.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 18, 2018 10:10 PM (NWiLs)

48 So very much of this was known back 5 months ago. They seem to have indicted any name they knew about, and some of these names never meddled in the actual election cycle.

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Mueller is just trying to keep his name in the news. He almost indicted Yakov Smirnov.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 18, 2018 10:10 PM (9SkN+)

49

30 feet up in a tree it's easy to see Bigfoot and me.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 18, 2018 10:10 PM (IqV8l)

50 46 36; happens every fuckin day!
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 18, 2018 10:10 PM (KP5rU)

if I fucked up, I'm sorry man.
I value your snark and opinion a lot.

I am not at my best in the comment format.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 18, 2018 10:11 PM (xJa6I)

51 I guess if Colorado and others can decide federal marijuana laws don't apply to their states, then I suppose Idaho can do the same with health care plans.


Posted by: Malcolm Tent at February 18, 2018 10:11 PM (TUkHv)

52 What the hell is a loot box?

A box for your loot.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at February 18, 2018 10:11 PM (IcT7t)

53 And, as one of the vorld leaders in pushi by for a New Vorld Order, Kissinger knows.

"Good Vibrations"
Great tune.

Posted by: teej at February 18, 2018 10:12 PM (9razJ)

54 Wells Fargo strong box.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 18, 2018 10:12 PM (IqV8l)

55 Do your hair and nails really keep growing after you die?

Only if you don't carefully read MisHum's ONT content.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 18, 2018 10:12 PM (DMUuz)

56 43: Dude, I may have misunderstood. Sorry.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 18, 2018 10:12 PM (KP5rU)

57 44 US Senator demands review of loot box policies, citing potential harm
New Hampshires Hassan says FTC action may be necessary if industry doesnt respond.

What is a loot box?
Posted by: nerdygirl at February 18, 2018 10:09 PM (+lVUW)

The new Star Wars game had in-game 'boxes' you could buy with real money. And you sorta kinda had to buy them if you wanted to unlock the popular characters in it.

Some Hawaiians decided to threaten anti-trust regulations over it and the publisher pushed 'pause' on the whole loot box thing.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 18, 2018 10:12 PM (xJa6I)

58 19 If you want the fart-free experience, you will have to upgrade.
Posted by: Transavia Airlines at February 18, 2018 10:01 PM (pvjTE)
Gaseous emissions are strictly prohibited in Business Class.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero)


What kind of selfish bastard eats cabbage before a flight? Imagine what this guy's wife puts up with.

Posted by: nerdygirl at February 18, 2018 10:13 PM (+lVUW)

59 Hello, Horde!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at February 18, 2018 10:13 PM (uDcBt)

60 ""Corrupt politicians make the other 10 percent look bad" - Henry Kissinger"

You never needed any help looking bad, Henry you POS.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at February 18, 2018 10:13 PM (w+Jhj)

61 Do your hair and nails really keep growing after you die?"

o_O
Posted by: hogmartin at February 18, 2018 10:06 PM (y87Qq)
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Yeah, that stood out to me too. I got nuthin'.

Posted by: bluebell at February 18, 2018 10:13 PM (kNasr)

62 Russian "troll factory"! So... Nested kewpie dolls with embedded microphones?

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at February 18, 2018 10:13 PM (e9G8E)

63 Posted by: Insomniac at February 18, 2018 10:10 PM (NWiLs)

I was hoping someone called him out

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 18, 2018 10:13 PM (3/sUh)

64 Sunday Swimwear ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/965280809535131650

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/965280892947193863

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/965280988057219072

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/965281086778630145

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/965281183058808832

Posted by: kbdabear at February 18, 2018 10:14 PM (eh0Va)

65 Watching the movie "Brokedown Palace". At one point Claire Danes' character calls Thailand a sh*thole.

I demand that she denounce herself!

Posted by: Hands at February 18, 2018 10:15 PM (EzdLW)

66 I hope this economic competition with health insurance thing doesn't catch on... That would be disastrous.

Posted by: Carpe Mish at February 18, 2018 10:15 PM (RZD58)

67 More Sunday Swimwear ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/965281354064781312

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/965281452379246593

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/965281553206177797

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/965281662044164098

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/965281769430843392

Posted by: kbdabear at February 18, 2018 10:15 PM (eh0Va)

68 62. Is not a factory so much as a mill, comrade.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 18, 2018 10:15 PM (fA1SL)

69 Only if you don't carefully read MisHum's ONT content.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 18, 2018 10:12 PM (DMUuz)


I know it's a link to another article that got copypasted into the pull quote, but I like to imagine MH inserting little easter eggs into the text.

Or maybe MH's wife and kids sneaking "help, I'm trapped in an ONT content sweatshop" messages in.

Posted by: hogmartin at February 18, 2018 10:15 PM (y87Qq)

70 A loot box is a virtual box purchased within a video game that contains a randomized assortment of items (or "loot"). You purchase them within the game. Sometimes you can only purchase them using currency earned within the game. Sometimes you can purchase them using real world currency.

And when the latter happens, you're arguably talking about gambling.

Posted by: junior at February 18, 2018 10:15 PM (VwdDc)

71 Gaseous emissions are strictly prohibited in Business Class.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 18, 2018 10:02 PM (9SkN+)

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Not when I fly them in the front of the bus. If I have an issue, I will go up to the restroom. Otherwise, occasional flatulence may occur.

Average human passes gas 13x/day. On a 4 hour flight, guess what?

Posted by: Calm Mentor at February 18, 2018 10:15 PM (/zp4x)

72 The person most responsible for the recent school shooting, no all school shootings are the sick fucks that pulled the trigger. Not the guns not any other damn thing. It all comes down to the decision to kill. Nobody else pulled the trigger nobody else made the sick evil demented fuckedup decision to plan and carry out murder. Every single shooting has had an evil sick person behind the trigger.

Posted by: USNtakim prfoundly deplorable! at February 18, 2018 10:16 PM (0OmEj)

73 Even More Sunday Swimwear ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/965281933864394752

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/965282116845043712

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/965282201733599235

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/965282283883302913

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/965282408517066754

Posted by: kbdabear at February 18, 2018 10:16 PM (eh0Va)

74 What is a Rube Goldberg machine?




75% of the Harleys I see after their shit for brain owners try and play mechanic.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at February 18, 2018 10:16 PM (aMlLZ)

75 Ooooh, now Bill Pullman's character just referred to the Thai prison as a sh*thole.

Posted by: Hands at February 18, 2018 10:17 PM (EzdLW)

76
But no, several students in Lawrence Rosen's Princeton anthropology class walked out last week, and made formal complaints, after Rosen provided examples of supposedly offensive speech. Among other things, the instructor asked which was worse: a white man punching a black man in the face, or a white man using the N-word. Rosen, who is Jewish, used the actual slur several times.

Arrrrgh. What a bunch of sniveling crybaby pussified little fags. Our future leaders and HR directors.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 18, 2018 10:17 PM (NWiLs)

77 Good for Idaho... health insurance is not a place where the feds have constitutional supremacy.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at February 18, 2018 10:17 PM (FTXAT)

78 The article about Bill Watterston was nice.

I'm the same age as him, and I also wanted to be an astronaut, but I'm terrified climbing more than three steps up a ladder.

Posted by: rickl at February 18, 2018 10:17 PM (sdi6R)

79 Do any swimsuit models not have store bought?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 18, 2018 10:18 PM (2DOZq)

80
A comment at a classical music site I read:

"A responsible parent would not bring his kids to the US at all, where they have a high chance of being murdered or be introduced to drugs by other kids. American kids are messed up like their parents and can be dangerous."

My reply:

"A responsible parent would not bring his kids to Europe, where they have a high chance of being murdered by Muslim immigrants or be infected by lunatic political philosophies or the rampant Jew hate that have been the hallmarks of that now-decrepit place."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 18, 2018 10:18 PM (knRdz)

81 Sometimes you can purchase them using real world currency.

And when the latter happens, you're arguably talking about gambling.
Posted by: junior at February 18, 2018 10:15 PM (VwdDc)


That's the thing I don't get - microtransaction games have had stuff like that since forever. Buy a Pointy Stick of Hitting Mans +3 for $0.99! $1.49 for an Enchanted Fancy Hat!

Is it the random element that makes it "gambling"?

Posted by: hogmartin at February 18, 2018 10:18 PM (y87Qq)

82 Hey Horde!

Just a quick drive by to thank MisHum for another amazing ONT.

Texted and spoke with Joyce this weekend. I need to compose an update, but also to discuss her domestic situation (which sucks).

Probably tomorrow.

Posted by: ibguy at February 18, 2018 10:18 PM (vUcdz)

83 Holy sh*t. Unless I'm reading wrong, with the exception of one race in Japan in 2008, Danica has lost every single race she's entered in well over a decade of professional racing.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Take a Wakanda Wild Side With the Black Pander at February 18, 2018 10:18 PM (ks6bw)

84
Not when I fly them in the front of the bus. If I have an issue, I will go up to the restroom. Otherwise, occasional flatulence may occur.

Average human passes gas 13x/day. On a 4 hour flight, guess what?
Posted by: Calm Mentor at February 18, 2018 10:15 PM (/zp4x)

----------

Well, YOU may fart on a four hour flight. I make the 15 hour trek from LAX to Hong Kong twice a year, and NO FARTING.

it's a matter of professionalism.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 18, 2018 10:18 PM (9SkN+)

85 So who saw Black Panther? I did and it was...ok. Some good, some bad, not as bad as could have been.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 18, 2018 10:00 PM (xJa6I)


Two things:

You are racist, unless your rating is GOAT.

You are culturally insensitive for interloping into a racially safe space so soon after the film's release. White's should wait for the DVD or Netflix.

Posted by: Malcolm Tent at February 18, 2018 10:19 PM (TUkHv)

86 76. Recent advances in the fields of AI and unmanned aerial vehicles bring the days of fully automated physical removal ever closer.
Heh.....a blizzard of snowflakes, so to speak.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 18, 2018 10:19 PM (fA1SL)

87 So very much of this was known back 5 months ago. They seem to have indicted any name they knew about, and some of these names never meddled in the actual election cycle.

Welp, they had to come up with SOMETHING to justify the millions of dollars they spent on this travesty.

Posted by: nerdygirl at February 18, 2018 10:19 PM (+lVUW)

88 74 What is a Rube Goldberg machine?

75% of the Harleys I see after their shit for brain owners try and play mechanic.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at February 18, 2018 10:16 PM (aMlLZ)

My philosophy is that everyone here has a job to do and a living to make. That's why I hire shit done.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 18, 2018 10:19 PM (3/sUh)

89 A loot box is a virtual box purchased within a video game that contains a randomized assortment of items (or "loot"). You purchase them within the game. Sometimes you can only purchase them using currency earned within the game. Sometimes you can purchase them using real world currency.

And when the latter happens, you're arguably talking about gambling.


Posted by: junior at February 18, 2018 10:15 PM (VwdDc)


It is gambling, no 2 ways about it, and its fucked up. In the game destiny you use real money to buy "silver", and you spend that silver on loot boxes hoping to get certain items that are random. I heard of people spending $100 to get a stupid helmet. You're not getting a pre determined item, you're buying a chance at something. Its gambling, and they prey on the kids that need to feel special.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at February 18, 2018 10:20 PM (aMlLZ)

90
Members of the crew on the Dutch low-cost airline were apparently less than sympathetic and refused to do anything about it.

Thank you for flying Dutch Oven Airlines!



Posted by: kbdabear at February 18, 2018 10:20 PM (eh0Va)

91 Someday, farting will be an Olympic sport. Heterosexual men will dominate.

Posted by: Splunge at February 18, 2018 10:20 PM (Vb4BV)

92 Mueller is just trying to keep his name in the news. He almost indicted Yakov Smirnov.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 18, 2018 10:10 PM (9SkN+)


In Soviet America...

Posted by: Yakov Smirnov at February 18, 2018 10:20 PM (itfg0)

93 48 Mueller is just trying to keep his name in the news. He almost indicted Yakov Smirnov.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 18, 2018 10:10 PM (9SkN+)


If only it had been Yoko Ono. Maybe those screams were coded messages for deep-cover Russian spies.

Posted by: Splunge at February 18, 2018 10:22 PM (Vb4BV)

94 Well, YOU may fart on a four hour flight. I make the 15 hour trek from LAX to Hong Kong twice a year, and NO FARTING.

I don't know about that guy in 24D. He burps a lot and his breath smells like shit!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at February 18, 2018 10:22 PM (IcT7t)

95 It is gambling, no 2 ways about it, and its fucked up. In the game destiny you use real money to buy "silver", and you spend that silver on loot boxes hoping to get certain items that are random. I heard of people spending $100 to get a stupid helmet. You're not getting a pre determined item, you're buying a chance at something. Its gambling, and they prey on the kids that need to feel special.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at February 18, 2018 10:20 PM (aMlLZ)

As an off-and-on gamer, shit like this pisses me off, as do games larded up with microtransactions. You want me to pay $60 for a new release, then try to nickel and dime me to death if I want to complete it? Fuck that shit.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 18, 2018 10:23 PM (NWiLs)

96 "What is a loot box?

Posted by: nerdygirl"

That is where your Social Security payments dedicated to your retirement are safely stored.

Posted by: Ripley at February 18, 2018 10:23 PM (NbRJx)

97 A loot box is a virtual box purchased within a video game that contains a
randomized assortment of items (or "loot"). You purchase them within
the game. Sometimes you can only purchase them using currency earned
within the game. Sometimes you can purchase them using real world
currency.

Well, I can certainly see why a genius US senator like Maggie Hassan is concerned about THAT! I think the time has come for "common sense" loot box legislation!

Posted by: tu3031 at February 18, 2018 10:23 PM (O5Q3r)

98 75% of the Harleys I see after their shit for brain owners try and play mechanic.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at February 18, 2018 10:16 PM (aMlLZ)

*******
I confess!Tried to turn a Sportster into a cafe racer... But, hey, it was, shall we say, unique!

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at February 18, 2018 10:23 PM (e9G8E)

99 Is it the random element that makes it "gambling"?
Posted by: hogmartin


That's the premise.

It's not gambling because virtual items have no value. It's code. It's a string of fucking alpha-numerics.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 18, 2018 10:23 PM (KXVP7)

100 91. Slavs survive on cabbage, dairy, and booze. We'll take all gold medals.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 18, 2018 10:24 PM (fA1SL)

101 89 It is gambling, no 2 ways about it, and its fucked up. In the game destiny you use real money to buy "silver", and you spend that silver on loot boxes hoping to get certain items that are random. I heard of people spending $100 to get a stupid helmet. You're not getting a pre determined item, you're buying a chance at something. Its gambling, and they prey on the kids that need to feel special.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at February 18, 2018 10:20 PM (aMlLZ)


It sounds like that dream of every Utopian, a tax on stupidity.

Posted by: Splunge at February 18, 2018 10:24 PM (Vb4BV)

102 Why do all articles I read about the flight incident say "refused to stop farting".

If you have a bad enough case of gas, can you just STOP farting? Is it really a "refusal"?

Posted by: Axebot at February 18, 2018 10:25 PM (JhE5a)

103 There's nothing like a lurid sunset with a silhouette of a palm tree to get my motor running.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 18, 2018 10:25 PM (cu8/f)

104 85 So who saw Black Panther? I did and it was...ok. Some good, some bad, not as bad as could have been.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 18, 2018 10:00 PM (xJa6I)


Two things:

You are racist, unless your rating is GOAT.

You are culturally insensitive for interloping into a racially safe space so soon after the film's release. White's should wait for the DVD or Netflix.
Posted by: Malcolm Tent at February 18, 2018 10:19 PM (TUkHv)

I'm ok with being called racist and culturally insensitive. My culture raided coastal France and England and we did not have lids in our lips.

So did you like it?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 18, 2018 10:25 PM (xJa6I)

105 You know who else emitted flatus regularly?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 18, 2018 10:25 PM (DMUuz)

106 Thank you, Mr. Humanitarian, for two things, no, three:

1) the reassuring song behind the tropical paradise pic

2) BTO!

3) that passionate essay intro to the gun thread.

I think you're awesome.

Posted by: booknlass at February 18, 2018 10:25 PM (bjSMX)

107 Activision Blizzard made $4B+ from microtransactions, mostly lootboxes, in 2017...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_o1qFdck7A

Posted by: davidt at February 18, 2018 10:25 PM (djCea)

108
If you have a bad enough case of gas, can you just STOP farting? Is it really a "refusal"?
Posted by: Axebot at February 18, 2018 10:25 PM (JhE5a)

---------

There's farting, and then there's aggravated farting.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 18, 2018 10:26 PM (9SkN+)

109 As an off-and-on gamer, shit like this pisses me off, as do games larded up with microtransactions. You want me to pay $60 for a new release, then try to nickel and dime me to death if I want to complete it? Fuck that shit.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 18, 2018 10:23 PM (NWiLs)


Yeah that's crap. I think they call that pay to win, or some shit. At least with destiny you can't buy weapons, so there is no pay to win crap. I heard about other games that are just insane with that shit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at February 18, 2018 10:26 PM (aMlLZ)

110
My philosophy is that everyone here has a job to do and a living to make. That's why I hire shit done.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 18, 2018 10:19 PM (3/sUh)


Had a couple of large, hideous, dying palm trees in front of the house. My choices were: 1) cut them down myself and not impossibly die in the process, or 2) bring someone in.

I chose 2. In less than three hours they cut them down, cut them up, carried them away and ground the stumps. Cost: $750.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 18, 2018 10:26 PM (knRdz)

111 I was, and am, a big Calvin Hobbes fan.. you either get it or you don't..

The snowmen series is classic..

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at February 18, 2018 10:26 PM (5tSKk)

112 Clip-ons and rear sets on a blockhead 883... I did that!

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at February 18, 2018 10:27 PM (e9G8E)

113 @81 Is it the random element that makes it "gambling"?
----------------

Yes.

If you can buy something and know exactly what you're getting, then it's a straight up purchase - just like buying a book from Amazon. It's the randomization that potentially puts this afoul of the law.

Posted by: junior at February 18, 2018 10:27 PM (VwdDc)

114 103; Miley, should see an F-16 at sunrise tearing up the sky in full afterburner! Pure sex.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 18, 2018 10:27 PM (KP5rU)

115 It's not gambling because virtual items have no value. It's code. It's a string of fucking alpha-numerics.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 18, 2018 10:23 PM (KXVP7)


Why, hello there.

Posted by: BitCoin at February 18, 2018 10:27 PM (itfg0)

116 CNN thinks the Russki bots are like Pearl Harbor:

David Rutz
@DavidRutz
My favorite thing that happened on TV today was @brianstelter fretting that a Fox News person would spin that @ktumulty compared Russian election interference to Pearl Harbor...

after she compared Russian election interference to Pearl Harbor.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Broke, Woke, Toke, Joke at February 18, 2018 10:27 PM (+y/Ru)

117 There's nothing like a lurid sunset with a silhouette of a palm tree to get my motor running.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 18, 2018 10:25 PM


And then you head out on the highway, looking for adventure in whatever comes your way?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 18, 2018 10:27 PM (DMUuz)

118 @kbdabear

Bless you, those D cups runneth over....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 18, 2018 10:27 PM (xJa6I)

119 109. * raises hand *
My most recent gaming experiences have none of that. Okay, it was C&C Red Alert, buy still.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 18, 2018 10:27 PM (fA1SL)

120 Well, YOU may fart on a four hour flight. I make the 15 hour trek from LAX to Hong Kong twice a year, and NO FARTING.

it's a matter of professionalism.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 18, 2018 10:18 PM (9SkN+)

------

I congratulate you on your self control. I kinda roll with nature and all.

Be well.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at February 18, 2018 10:27 PM (/zp4x)

121 I'm ok with being called racist and culturally insensitive. My culture raided coastal France and England and we did not have lids in our lips.

So did you like it?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 18, 2018 10:25 PM (xJa6I)


It was Meh.

Posted by: Malcolm Tent at February 18, 2018 10:28 PM (TUkHv)

122 I used to work in an office where one guy would walk by others' desks and intentionally crop dust them. He thought it was hilarious. Some people are like that.

Posted by: Hands at February 18, 2018 10:28 PM (EzdLW)

123 You know who else emitted flatus regularly?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 18, 2018 10:25 PM (DMUuz)
---
He had bad intestinal cramps, until his doctor, hired specifically for his history of improving digestion, secretly injected the strict vegetarian Hitler with fermented (rotting) pig guts.

He always feared being discovered.

Posted by: Axebot at February 18, 2018 10:28 PM (JhE5a)

124 "Human biomass" sounds like the ultimate collectivist term. No individuals, just one huge undesirable unit.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at February 18, 2018 10:29 PM (0d7ks)

125 Maybe this is a radical idea that no one has thought of, but when I'm on a long flight, and I need to pass gas, I wait and do it in the rest room.

Posted by: Splunge at February 18, 2018 10:29 PM (Vb4BV)

126 Moar cowbell, bitchez.

Posted by: Fritz at February 18, 2018 10:30 PM (bJ0w+)

127 Holy sh*t. Unless I'm reading wrong, with the
exception of one race in Japan in 2008, Danica has lost every single
race she's entered in well over a decade of professional racing.


Posted by: Moron Robb
............
But she has bazillions in endorsements.. this world is eff'n crazy...

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at February 18, 2018 10:30 PM (5tSKk)

128 Nope. Still no oarlocks.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 18, 2018 09:55 PM (9SkN+)


*paws through drawer of random items*
What am I going to do with these oarlock keys?

Posted by: Bert G aka Country Singer at February 18, 2018 10:30 PM (yzxic)

129 Gaseous emissions are strictly prohibited in Business Class.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 18, 2018 10:02 PM (9SkN+)

I remember getting my first F-16 ride. When the pilot was briefing me he mentioned that during the flight I would probably get the urge to fart often as gas would build in my stomach. Then he said, if you get the urge, let er rip. We can't smell them anyway as we'll be wearing oxygen masks.

Posted by: Bill R. at February 18, 2018 10:30 PM (IuYIh)

130 Holy sh*t. Unless I'm reading wrong, with the exception of one race in Japan in 2008, Danica has lost every single race she's entered in well over a decade of professional racing.

power of the pussy, ftw

Posted by: free tibet, with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at February 18, 2018 10:30 PM (CL76w)

131 127 Holy sh*t. Unless I'm reading wrong, with the
exception of one race in Japan in 2008, Danica has lost every single
race she's entered in well over a decade of professional racing.
Posted by: Moron Robb
............
But she has bazillions in endorsements.. this world is eff'n crazy...
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at February 18, 2018 10:30 PM (5tSKk)


Never saw a picture of the lady, eh?

Posted by: Splunge at February 18, 2018 10:31 PM (Vb4BV)

132
What is a Rube Goldberg machine?

Mouse trap game

https://tinyurl.com/y9yuj77e


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_Trap_(game)

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 18, 2018 10:31 PM (IqV8l)

133 @119 Okay, it was C&C Red Alert, buy still.
------------------

Fun game.

^_^

Posted by: junior at February 18, 2018 10:31 PM (VwdDc)

134 119 109. * raises hand *
My most recent gaming experiences have none of that. Okay, it was C&C Red Alert, buy still.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 18, 2018 10:27 PM (fA1SL)

Dude...

Posted by: Insomniac at February 18, 2018 10:31 PM (NWiLs)

135 121 I'm ok with being called racist and culturally insensitive. My culture raided coastal France and England and we did not have lids in our lips.

So did you like it?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 18, 2018 10:25 PM (xJa6I)


It was Meh.
Posted by: Malcolm Tent at February 18, 2018 10:28 PM (TUkHv)

Fair enough. I liked the character interactions, the fight coreography was sub-par.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 18, 2018 10:31 PM (xJa6I)

136 Watched Fergie sing the National anthem at the NBA game. She was terrible.

Posted by: Jmel at February 18, 2018 10:31 PM (OeWgo)

137 Posted by: booknlass at February 18, 2018 10:25 PM (bjSMX

You're too kind.

I'm glad that I had a trifecta.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 18, 2018 10:32 PM (3/sUh)

138 I know Anna Kournikova. Danica Patrick, you are no Anna Kournikova.

Posted by: Malcolm Tent at February 18, 2018 10:32 PM (TUkHv)

139 I used to work in an office where one guy would walk by others' desks and intentionally crop dust them. He thought it was hilarious. Some people are like that.

Posted by: Hands at February 18, 2018 10:28 PM (EzdLW)


crop dust..lol

I'm so stealing that.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at February 18, 2018 10:32 PM (aMlLZ)

140 There's farting, and then there's aggravated artistic farting.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 18, 2018 10:26 PM


FIFY.

Posted by: Joseph Pujol at February 18, 2018 10:32 PM (DMUuz)

141 @136 Watched Fergie sing the National anthem at the NBA game. She was terrible.
------------------------

The media agrees with you.

When even the media claims that your performance was not in any way an edgy avante garde work of modern art, but was instead out and out horrible, then you know it sucked.

^^;;

Posted by: junior at February 18, 2018 10:33 PM (VwdDc)

142 what Berserker said. The gaming industry is sick. The "AAA Games" are big and splashy, and come out with little opposition in that market, and this allows them to exploit the suckers buying them. The 'loot boxes' which encourage gambling by underage gamers are a big case in point.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 18, 2018 10:33 PM (6FqZa)

143 Imma go out on a limb here and assume Patrick's wrenches and pit crew were men...

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at February 18, 2018 10:33 PM (e9G8E)

144 Danica Patrick is Aaron Rodgers' current squeeze.

Posted by: davidt at February 18, 2018 10:33 PM (djCea)

145 134. Old ways are best ways.
And has Tim Curry threatening to escape to the moon. What more you can want?

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 18, 2018 10:33 PM (fA1SL)

146 Oh, look!!! FIGURE SKATING!!!

Posted by: tu3031 at February 18, 2018 10:34 PM (O5Q3r)

147 Danica Patrick? I'd hit it. In a six-car pileup.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 18, 2018 10:34 PM (NWiLs)

148 the gun thread is not for amateurs, i'm an amatuer,
therefore, an outsider. i was dressed down for an opinion on shit, fuck
the gun thread.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 18, 2018 10:06 PM (KP5rU)
---
i missed the whole thread... what was this about?

that's not like the gub threads i know...

Posted by: redc1c4 at February 18, 2018 10:34 PM (vwf8z)

149
Holy sh*t. Unless I'm reading wrong, with the exception of one race in Japan in 2008, Danica has lost every single race she's entered in well over a decade of professional racing.

The Hillary Clinton of professional racing.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 18, 2018 10:34 PM (NO2uW)

150 I remember getting my first F-16 ride. When the pilot was briefing me he mentioned that during the flight I would probably get the urge to fart often as gas would build in my stomach.
Posted by: Bill R. at February 18, 2018 10:30 PM (IuYIh)


Same with decompressing on the way up from a dive.

Posted by: hogmartin at February 18, 2018 10:34 PM (y87Qq)

151 I got nothing.

Posted by: Danica Patrik at February 18, 2018 10:35 PM (g4lFK)

152 The new Star Wars game had in-game 'boxes' you could buy with real money. And you sorta kinda had to buy them if you wanted to unlock the popular characters in it.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards


Thanks for the explanation. I'm not into gaming, but I thought this was common.

Posted by: nerdygirl at February 18, 2018 10:35 PM (+lVUW)

153 131 127 Holy sh*t. Unless I'm reading wrong, with the
exception of one race in Japan in 2008, Danica has lost every single
race she's entered in well over a decade of professional racing.
Posted by: Moron Robb
............
But she has bazillions in endorsements.. this world is eff'n crazy...
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at February 18, 2018 10:30 PM (5tSKk)

Never saw a picture of the lady, eh?
Posted by: Splunge at February 18, 2018 10:31 PM (Vb4BV)


Wonder how her valve jobs are?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 18, 2018 10:35 PM (3/sUh)

154
The Hillary Clinton of professional racing.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 18, 2018 10:34 PM (NO2uW)

--------

But Hillary Clinton was ugly. Big difference.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 18, 2018 10:35 PM (9SkN+)

155 48 Mueller is just trying to keep his name in the news. He almost indicted Yakov Smirnov.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 18, 2018 10:10 PM (9SkN+)



If only it had been Yoko Ono. Maybe those screams were coded messages for deep-cover Russian spies.

Posted by: Splunge at February 18, 2018 10:22 PM (Vb4BV)

If Mueller is going to make up the crime of expressing an opinion about America election, there are many non-citizen progtard actors who lectured us throughout that he can indict... and since they are actually in the US, he might have a chance of actually arresting them.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at February 18, 2018 10:35 PM (FTXAT)

156 Danica *might* be a 6 or low 7 in most places down here in the South.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Take a Wakanda Wild Side With the Black Pander at February 18, 2018 10:35 PM (ks6bw)

157 Your Grace, we are blessed.

How are your shiftless, backward, hillbillies in Loudoun County doing? Is Ashburn still a soulless, Metro-curious, particleboard heaven?
And Brambleton sex-obsessed with that male genital-shaped park?

Today's snark provided by Restonian dot com, blog of the mauve-colored New Town.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 18, 2018 10:35 PM (hyuyC)

158 Danica Patrick is Aaron Rodgers' current squeeze.
Posted by: davidt at February 18, 2018 10:33 PM (djCea)

I'm an expensive beard.

Posted by: Danica Patrik at February 18, 2018 10:35 PM (g4lFK)

159 farting will be an Olympic sport. Heterosexual men will dominate.
Posted by: Splunge


Until the girl with colitis walks by. As the Beatles sang about

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 18, 2018 10:36 PM (6FqZa)

160 145 134. Old ways are best ways.
And has Tim Curry threatening to escape to the moon. What more you can want?
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 18, 2018 10:33 PM (fA1SL)

Don't get me wrong, I love C&C. But still...

Posted by: Insomniac at February 18, 2018 10:36 PM (NWiLs)

161 to the ever-multiplying, ever-demanding, human biomass that has subverted the natural-selection process [...] Steve Meyer

That IS the natural selection process, Einstein.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 18, 2018 10:37 PM (8gDQu)

162 what Berserker said. The gaming industry is sick. The "AAA Games" are big and splashy, and come out with little opposition in that market, and this allows them to exploit the suckers buying them. The 'loot boxes' which encourage gambling by underage gamers are a big case in point.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 18, 2018 10:33 PM (6FqZa)


That's just what it is, gambling by underage kids. I was gob smacked over the money these kids would spend hoping to get some set of armor, or helmet. Around Halloween time in destiny 1 there were masks you can get for doing activities. There was one mask, a skull mask, and it was the only mask that had movement, as in the jaw would move and chatter the teeth. You "could" try to get one in a loot box and holy shit the kids were going nuts trying to get it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at February 18, 2018 10:38 PM (aMlLZ)

163 Same with decompressing on the way up from a dive.
Posted by: hogmartin at February 18, 2018 10:34 PM


Don't ascend any faster than your smallest bubbles.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 18, 2018 10:38 PM (DMUuz)

164 127 Holy sh*t. Unless I'm reading wrong, with the
exception of one race in Japan in 2008, Danica has lost every single
race she's entered in well over a decade of professional racing.


Posted by: Moron Robb


Sounds like she should go into politics.

Posted by: rickl at February 18, 2018 10:39 PM (sdi6R)

165 What the hell is a loot box?
---
A box for your loot.
---
Reporter Mitch Ohnstad:
Why do you rob banks?

Bank Robber Willie Sutton:
Because that's where the money is!

Posted by: Pogomip at February 18, 2018 10:39 PM (yT9jk)

166 Lootboxes are both effectively gambling and outright ruin the actual gameplay experience unless they are cosmetic only. When tied to progression the companies do everything they can to outright force you to buy the boxes in order to compete. This is most obvious with EA's Ultimate Team system.

The reason that they're getting in trouble now is because EA was moronic enough to take a game that would primarily be played by children and turn the lootbox progression mechanic up to eleven. The ESRB, being either a bunch of spineless cowards or just morons, did not do the job they were crated for and rate the game AO for gambling. This would have kept the government out of it. Instead they decided to ignore it.

Posted by: ravenshrike at February 18, 2018 10:39 PM (xh8Fr)

167 160. I mean, there are a few others now and then, but for a real game - a legit work of professionals - that's the newest.
This is NOT professional, but great fun, and is free. Am not made of rubles, blyat!
https://youtu.be/pVYrumoOhEQ

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 18, 2018 10:40 PM (fA1SL)

168 I remember getting my first F-16 ride. When the pilot was briefing me he mentioned that during the flight I would probably get the urge to fart often as gas would build in my stomach.

-
I know pilots of the Me-163 Komet rocket plane, that took off nearly straight up, had a strictly controlled diet to reduce gas.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Broke, Woke, Toke, Joke at February 18, 2018 10:40 PM (+y/Ru)

169 It would be fun to hear professional fymynists explain how Danica advanced women by being unable to win and still keeping big time sponsors, though.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Take a Wakanda Wild Side With the Black Pander at February 18, 2018 10:40 PM (ks6bw)

170 February 18, 1933, Born on this day, Yoko Ono, Japanese artist, singer, poet, author and peace activist and wife of John Lennon.

And stunningly unsuccessful in all of those pursuits, save the last.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 18, 2018 10:41 PM (8gDQu)

171 156 Danica *might* be a 6 or low 7 in most places down here in the South.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Take a Wakanda Wild Side With the Black Pander at February 18, 2018 10:35 PM (ks6bw)

I even have the ink to prove I am a 6.

http://www.popstartats.com/buzz/pop-celebs-american- flag-tats/

Posted by: Danica Patrik at February 18, 2018 10:41 PM (g4lFK)

172 Don't ascend any faster than your smallest bubbles.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 18, 2018 10:38 PM (DMUuz)


We found the farter!

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 18, 2018 10:41 PM (8gDQu)

173 MH, I was listening to some Jimmy Buffet the last couple of days, especially my favorite: "Son of a Son of a Sailor". That beautiful top photo seems so appropriate. Thanks.

Posted by: JTB at February 18, 2018 10:42 PM (V+03K)

174 Never saw a picture of the lady, eh?

Posted by: Splunge at February 18, 2018 10:31 PM (Vb4BV)

............

Well, of course that's why she is rolling in endorsements..

Used to be the person had some accomplishments, though.. especially a sports personality.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at February 18, 2018 10:42 PM (5tSKk)

175 When I was stationed at Luke AFB, AZ there was a sign on the flight line kitchen that aircrew should not eat hamburgers. Since Luke was an f-16 training base where pilots learned to fly the jet, I wondered why they posted it. Turns out the hamburger they used had soy product in it and it could make a pilot sick or give him gas. The instructor pilots laughed at it as they already had enough hours flying that nothing would make them sick. But the upgrade pilots obeyed the sign as they would be the ones who cleaned up their own puke in the cockpit. Crewchiefs could not be ordered to do that.

Posted by: Bill R. at February 18, 2018 10:42 PM (IuYIh)

176 ...human biomass that has subverted the natural-selection process and is consuming the planet to death.

Human Biomass - a useful term for the death cult left. It justifies abortion, euthanasia and whatever else their twisted souls can conjure. Biomass reduces people to nothing more that the London fatburg.

Disgusting.

Posted by: DR.WTF? at February 18, 2018 10:42 PM (T71PA)

177 164; Danica accomplished something with her vag. Good for her. The rest of us morons throw rocks.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 18, 2018 10:42 PM (KP5rU)

178 Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at February 18, 2018 10:38 PM (aMlLZ)

I've regularly played two multiplayer video games in my life. One recently shut down. The other has practically turned into "pay to win" with the most effective and powerful items hidden in lockboxes that you have to pay for, and the chance you get anything useful is slim and none. No thanks.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at February 18, 2018 10:42 PM (0d7ks)

179 re the ratings board, i am going with spineless cowards and, also, possibly corrupt. EA is the big pig in the pen on account it has killed and devoured so many of the little pigs.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 18, 2018 10:43 PM (6FqZa)

180 135 121 I'm ok with being called racist and culturally insensitive. My culture raided coastal France and England and we did not have lids in our lips.

So did you like it?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 18, 2018 10:25 PM (xJa6I)


It was Meh.
Posted by: Malcolm Tent at February 18, 2018 10:28 PM (TUkHv)

Fair enough. I liked the character interactions, the fight coreography was sub-par.


I wouldn't call it bad, but it wasn't epic either.

It got slow and tiresome for a bit in the middle (I nodded off for a second until my girlfriend elbowed me in the ribs).

Posted by: Malcolm Tent at February 18, 2018 10:43 PM (TUkHv)

181 My high school football team went to state in '74 and their theme song was

you ain't seen nothing yet.

Posted by: booknlass at February 18, 2018 10:43 PM (bjSMX)

182 Good evening.

Posted by: Robert at February 18, 2018 10:44 PM (ayUOl)

183 "And when the latter happens, you're arguably talking about gambling.

Posted by: junior"

Doesn't Amazon do basically the same thing? They have a mystery box that you buy for X dollars, and it could have anything in it. I've seen various B+M stores do this as well.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at February 18, 2018 10:44 PM (w+Jhj)

184 sorry, did i mention i dislike EA? for taking over Visceral and Bioware, and totally shitting all over Dead Space and Mass Effect respectively.

yeah, I guess I'm mad, bro.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 18, 2018 10:44 PM (6FqZa)

185 "A responsible parent would not bring his kids to Europe, where they have a high chance of being murdered by Muslim immigrants or be infected by lunatic political philosophies or the rampant Jew hate that have been the hallmarks of that now-decrepit place."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh


Love it. However, you left out muzzie rape.

Posted by: nerdygirl at February 18, 2018 10:44 PM (+lVUW)

186 Good Sunday evening, Horde. It was a good day for me. Reached a sort of a milestone on my house reno here in AJ, and had a nice BBQ dinner at a friend's place, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 18, 2018 10:45 PM (Dbv1R)

187 Danica Patrick is a 1.

If ScoggDog never accomplishes anything else in his life, at least he gave us the binary scale, which is so much better than the 1-10 scale.

Posted by: rickl at February 18, 2018 10:45 PM (sdi6R)

188 @179 EA is the big pig in the pen on account it has killed and devoured so many of the little pigs.
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It's kinda funny, really. Waaaaay back in the day, EA was a neat little indy company that made goofy but fun games like MULE.

Posted by: junior at February 18, 2018 10:45 PM (VwdDc)

189 MH, I was listening to some Jimmy Buffet the last couple of days, especially my favorite: "Son of a Son of a Sailor". That beautiful top photo seems so appropriate. Thanks.
Posted by: JTB at February 18, 2018 10:42 PM (V+03K)

Love that song. Lately, with winter going on and on I've been listening to Boat Drinks along with my personal favorite A Pirate Looks At Forty, even though I'm looking way back at 40 these days.

Posted by: Bill R. at February 18, 2018 10:46 PM (IuYIh)

190 Hadrian the Seventh,

Also, he might want to look into the alcoholism issues of British youth.

Posted by: nerdygirl at February 18, 2018 10:46 PM (+lVUW)

191 wayyyy back in the day EA gave us the Starflight games. Still the best space-exploration games ever made.

gotta go check my lawn again ...

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 18, 2018 10:47 PM (6FqZa)

192 Hey everybody.

Wish AOSHQ worked like Billboard and had a "Bubbling Under The Top 10" board. Bet I'd place most weeks...

Posted by: qdpsteve at February 18, 2018 10:47 PM (eMKNe)

193 I've regularly played two multiplayer video games in my life. One recently shut down. The other has practically turned into "pay to win" with the most effective and powerful items hidden in lockboxes that you have to pay for, and the chance you get anything useful is slim and none. No thanks.


Posted by: Captain Whitebread at February 18, 2018 10:42 PM (0d7ks)


Yeah that's crap. I never spent a dime on shit like that. The only multiplayer games I do is Destiny, and elder scrolls online. Destiny has no pay to win, BUT, they push that god forsaken PVP shit by putting some of the better stuff there, or at least making you play it to finish certain quests. I won't do it. Activision is a fucking cancer.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at February 18, 2018 10:47 PM (aMlLZ)

194 @184 sorry, did i mention i dislike EA? for taking over Visceral and Bioware, and totally shitting all over Dead Space and Mass Effect respectively.
----------------------

I'm still angry at them over Origin.

Richard Garriott later said that EA literally had no clue how to run any sort of company that didn't have a new product coming out every year (i.e. how the sports video game franchises work).

Posted by: junior at February 18, 2018 10:47 PM (VwdDc)

195 If you want the fart-free experience, you will have to upgrade.

Posted by: Transavia Airlines at February 18, 2018 10:01 PM (pvjTE)

Sometimes, a person gets gas, and they just have to fart. Ain't no holding it back.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 18, 2018 10:48 PM (Dbv1R)

196 Wanna see what 'loot box' looks like? GoOgle 'Stormy Daniels' and 'Karen McDougal'...

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at February 18, 2018 10:48 PM (e9G8E)

197 wayyyy back in the day EA gave us the Starflight games. Still the best space-exploration games ever made.

gotta go check my lawn again ...
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 18, 2018 10:47 PM (6FqZa)


Also: Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer.

Posted by: hogmartin at February 18, 2018 10:48 PM (y87Qq)

198 192 Hey everybody.

Wish AOSHQ worked like Billboard and had a "Bubbling Under The Top 10" board. Bet I'd place most weeks...
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 18, 2018 10:47 PM (eMKNe)

Wish the AoSHQ had a cafeteria and health insurance, but you can't miss what you never had

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 18, 2018 10:49 PM (3/sUh)

199
I never understand why these human biomass people just don't kill themselves and save the planet.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 18, 2018 10:49 PM (r+sAi)

200 sorry, did i mention i dislike EA? for taking over Visceral and Bioware, and totally shitting all over Dead Space and Mass Effect respectively.

yeah, I guess I'm mad, bro.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 18, 2018 10:44 PM (6FqZa)


yeah mass effect really went to shit, didn't it?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at February 18, 2018 10:49 PM (aMlLZ)

201 good evening, AOP. Thanks for posting the link to that song by Slim Harpo the other night. you know the great obscure ones.

where'd you learn so much about music?

Posted by: booknlass at February 18, 2018 10:49 PM (bjSMX)

202 @191 wayyyy back in the day EA gave us the Starflight games. Still the best space-exploration games ever made.
------------------

Star Control II was better.



Basically took the best parts of Starflight, added in the much better combat system from Star Control, and some hilariously great writing.

Posted by: junior at February 18, 2018 10:49 PM (VwdDc)

203 personally, i find the state mandated calorie counts on fast food menus very helpful.

it makes sure i get my maximum caloric value for my fast food dollar.

pretty sure that's *NOT* what the fascists in Sacramento had in mind, but they're stupid.

Posted by: redc1c4 at February 18, 2018 10:50 PM (vwf8z)

204 If you want the fart-free experience, you will have to upgrade.
Posted by: Transavia Airlines at February 18, 2018 10:01 PM (pvjTE)

LOL. TV Land runs a late-night ad for a service that will supposedly hook you up with 'Low Price Airlines,' and the pieces are a hoot. "You won't believe how much money you saved!"

Yeah, and you also won't believe:

- Such ugly stewardesses are allowed to exist
- How many stops you have to make to get to your destination
- How old and decrepit the planes you're commuting on are

Posted by: qdpsteve at February 18, 2018 10:50 PM (eMKNe)

205 To be clear, I'm not throwing rocks at Danica. Her vagina took her far, and good for her. I'm just wondering if continually losing for a decade with better equipment, trainers, press, etc. than almost everyone else is proving the GRRL POWER point or doing the exact opposite.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Take a Wakanda Wild Side With the Black Pander at February 18, 2018 10:51 PM (ks6bw)

206 Calvin & Hobbes. Realtor, Bill Watterson, was an outstanding creator. Also. He was an ass.

The guy made a bunch of huge fucking demands of his syndicate and they got newspaper publishers to bend over backwards just for his strip and then he declared that he was too good for the industry, took his ball and went home.

Also he didn't like comic book artists for some reason. Mind you he was younger than guys like Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, two guys alone that made Watterson look like a rank amateur. Bill Seinkewicz was fucking blowing minds, but Watterson still looked down on all of them. Jim Steranko...oh, fuck it, tons of goddamn artists out there and Watterson shit all over them.

Loved Calvin & Hobbes. Watterson...meh.

Posted by: Robert at February 18, 2018 10:51 PM (ayUOl)

207 Wish the AoSHQ had a cafeteria

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 18, 2018 10:49 PM (3/sUh)


I think... I think maybe this is not so good idea.

Posted by: hogmartin at February 18, 2018 10:51 PM (y87Qq)

208 Also: Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer.

Posted by: hogmartin at February 18, 2018 10:48 PM (y87Qq)


To this day I still wonder what Yeager though about being turned into a magical bunnygirl who flies around in her panties...

Posted by: The Strike Hat at February 18, 2018 10:51 PM (itfg0)

209
Wish AOSHQ worked like Billboard and had a "Bubbling Under The Top 10" board. Bet I'd place most weeks...
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 18, 2018 10:47 PM



This week's sockpuppet list was all bunched up -- where was Miklos? He's usually way out in front at #1.

Posted by: Hands at February 18, 2018 10:51 PM (EzdLW)

210 I used to like EA games, but that was way back with those attack helicopter games they made, like jungle strike, dessert strike, etc. I can't remember what other games they made back in the day.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at February 18, 2018 10:52 PM (aMlLZ)

211 "We see from the research that actually, when consumers are given this information, they actually can make lower-calorie choices, and restaurants can also come out with lower-calorie options," Colin Schwartz

All research that I've ever seen basically shows that no one pays attention to this crap. I can't even understand how this shit ever got mandated.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 18, 2018 10:52 PM (8gDQu)

212 Kirov, reporting!

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 18, 2018 10:52 PM (fA1SL)

213 video games and farting. this is truely shitting in high cotton. i totally denounce myself.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 18, 2018 10:53 PM (KP5rU)

214 Wish the AoSHQ had a cafeteria
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 18, 2018 10:49 PM (3/sUh)


Mmm, roadkill casserole and slightly dipped-in pudding! All you can eat!

Posted by: qdpsteve at February 18, 2018 10:54 PM (eMKNe)

215 To be clear, I'm not throwing rocks at Danica. Her vagina took her far, and good for her. I'm just wondering if continually losing for a decade with better equipment, trainers, press, etc. than almost everyone else is proving the GRRL POWER point or doing the exact opposite.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Take a Wakanda Wild Side With the Black Pander at February 18, 2018 10:51 PM (ks6bw)


At least the girl in drag racing actually won a whole bunch.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 18, 2018 10:54 PM (8gDQu)

216 "sorry, did i mention i dislike EA? for taking over
Visceral and Bioware, and totally shitting all over Dead Space and Mass
Effect respectively.



yeah, I guess I'm mad, bro.



Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 18, 2018 10:44 PM (6FqZa)





yeah mass effect really went to shit, didn't it?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison"

I really loved the Neverwinter Nights series. They don't make games like that anymore. I mean, the first person games like Skyrim are fine, but I never finished it. I got almost to the end and then I found out my saves had been bugged and I would have to go back a LONG way in the story and start again and I said "Screw it".

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at February 18, 2018 10:55 PM (w+Jhj)

217 I've never played it, but I understand that "Kerbal Space Program" is pretty good.

Posted by: rickl at February 18, 2018 10:55 PM (sdi6R)

218 they actually can make lower-calorie choices, and restaurants can also come out with lower-calorie options," Colin Schwartz

---

Subtle and very well done. Yes, consumers CAN make lower calorie choices, and restaurants CAN come out with lower calorie options.

Not that they would or will, but they CAN. Yes, indeed. They certainly COULD, you busybody jerk.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Take a Wakanda Wild Side With the Black Pander at February 18, 2018 10:55 PM (ks6bw)

219 I never understand why these human biomass people just don't kill themselves and save the planet.


You have to0 understand, there's too many of you, but there's just the right amount of them.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 18, 2018 10:55 PM (yQpMk)

220 167 160. I mean, there are a few others now and then, but for a real game - a legit work of professionals - that's the newest.
This is NOT professional, but great fun, and is free. Am not made of rubles, blyat!
https://youtu.be/pVYrumoOhEQ

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 18, 2018 10:40 PM (fA1SL)

What the hell did I just watch?

Posted by: Insomniac at February 18, 2018 10:56 PM (NWiLs)

221
Its Gerbil Space Program, dummy.

Posted by: Richard Gere at February 18, 2018 10:56 PM (r+sAi)

222 Is Yoko Ono living proof that we did not drop enough atom bombs on Japan?

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at February 18, 2018 10:56 PM (vChNs)

223 Calvin and Hobbes realtor?

Really, autocorrect?

Really?

Really.

Posted by: Robert at February 18, 2018 10:56 PM (ayUOl)

224 Bill Watterson?

I know that Charles Schulz wasn't an 'ass,' but I've read he hated hearing from his syndicate; he always figured it was bad news, would rarely take their calls, and would only get back to them when he was good and ready.

Thank God that United Media had the sense to give him ownership of Peanuts in the 1970s/80s, because otherwise, Schulz himself said he probably would have quit.

Posted by: qdpsteve at February 18, 2018 10:56 PM (eMKNe)

225 Posted by: rickl at February 18, 2018 10:55 PM (sdi6R)

A couple 'Rons have. I think it was Anachronda who played it a lot a couple of years ago when we had the gaming thread active.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 18, 2018 10:56 PM (rp9xB)

226 every environmental issue facing the world can be traced to the ever-multiplying, ever-demanding, human biomass that has subverted the natural-selection process and is consuming the planet to death.

Yeah, I mean look at that top picture!

Posted by: t-bird at February 18, 2018 10:57 PM (+y0ym)

227 220. Perhaps you'd prefer 'Soviet Border Guard' simulation game?

https://youtu.be/CY2osbMdff4

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 18, 2018 10:57 PM (fA1SL)

228 @217 I've never played it, but I understand that "Kerbal Space Program" is pretty good.
----------------------------

Probably the best thing about Kerbal Space Program is that it's getting kids interested in rocket science. The game forces you to look at things like orbital mechanics, fuel, etc... to safely put your passenger(s) in orbit. Kids figure that stuff out, and then decide that they want to learn more about it.

Posted by: junior at February 18, 2018 10:58 PM (VwdDc)

229 I've never played it, but I understand that "Kerbal Space Program" is pretty good.
Posted by: rickl at February 18, 2018 10:55 PM (sdi6R)


Woooo doggie. Play dat game.

https://xkcd.com/1356/

Posted by: hogmartin at February 18, 2018 10:58 PM (y87Qq)

230 What I do enjoy about calorie counts at restaurants is that it exposes some of the marketing genius behind various menu items.

Particularly, I enjoy seeing the calorie counts on salads topped with fried chicken, bacon pieces, cheese and eggs and served with loads of ranch dressing or honey mustard. It's 1200 calories, but hey, "I'm eating healthy"!

Posted by: Malcolm Tent at February 18, 2018 10:58 PM (TUkHv)

231 Posted by: Moron Robbie - Take a Wakanda Wild Side With the Black Pander at February 18, 2018 10:51 PM (ks6bw)


She sure did have some spectacular wrecks over the years!

Posted by: Bill R. at February 18, 2018 10:58 PM (IuYIh)

232
Doesn't Amazon do basically the same thing? They have a mystery box that you buy for X dollars, and it could have anything in it. I've seen various B+M stores do this as well.
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at February 18, 2018 10:44 PM (w+Jhj)

---

guess what's in my mystery box

Posted by: S FLuke at February 18, 2018 10:58 PM (vChNs)

233
Some stupid little fool raving Trump has blood on his hands over the Florida shooting.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 18, 2018 10:58 PM (Sy5Xc)

234 And of course, PBM games back before home PC's took off, and days spent setting up Squad Leader scenarios with my brother.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at February 18, 2018 10:58 PM (w+Jhj)

235 Love it. However, you left out muzzie rape.
Posted by: nerdygirl at February 18, 2018 10:44 PM (+lVUW)


---

maybe he doesn't like muzzie rape

Posted by: S FLuke at February 18, 2018 10:59 PM (vChNs)

236 USA-Finland chick hockey coming up on NBCSN.

Posted by: tu3031 at February 18, 2018 10:59 PM (O5Q3r)

237 230 What I do enjoy about calorie counts at restaurants is that it exposes some of the marketing genius behind various menu items.


Charge me per calorie already!

Posted by: Cicero kaboom kid at February 18, 2018 10:59 PM (JHQiJ)

238
What the hell did I just watch?
Posted by: Insomniac at February 18, 2018 10:56 PM (NWiLs)


Russian bots fucking with our election?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 18, 2018 10:59 PM (3/sUh)

239 guess what's in my mystery box
Posted by: S FLuke at February 18, 2018 10:58 PM (vChNs)


Is it his wife's head?

I bet it's his wife's head.

Posted by: hogmartin at February 18, 2018 11:00 PM (y87Qq)

240 guess what's in my mystery box
Posted by: S FLuke at February 18, 2018 10:58 PM (vChNs)

A life of pain and suffering?

Posted by: DR.WTF? at February 18, 2018 11:00 PM (T71PA)

241 Malcolm, there was a joke in an old episode of Mary Tyler Moore's show, going back to the 1970s, about that. I believe it went something like:

Mary: "I guess the chef salad is probably good."
Rhoda: "I'd bet so too! Did you see the size of that chef?!"

Posted by: qdpsteve at February 18, 2018 11:00 PM (eMKNe)

242 @227 Perhaps you'd prefer 'Soviet Border Guard' simulation game?

https://youtu.be/CY2osbMdff4
-------------------

Ah, Papers Please!

Great game. Though I don't think I've ever played past Day 5 or so.

Posted by: junior at February 18, 2018 11:00 PM (VwdDc)

243 I can't decide which is greater proof of a wasted life. Appearing on the top commenter lists, or NOT appearing on the top commenter lists.

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at February 18, 2018 11:00 PM (vChNs)

244 There's nothing like a lurid sunset with a silhouette of a palm tree to get my motor running.


Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 18, 2018 10:25 PM (cu8/f)

The sunset this evening here in Apache Junction was just stunning. Clouds all illuminated orange on their underside. I snagged a couple of pictures with my phone.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 18, 2018 11:00 PM (Dbv1R)

245 Shirley (Cha Cha) Muldowney, NHRA drag racer. John Forces' daughter Brittany, many others. Made it on their own accomplishments. No pussy advantage given

Posted by: free tibet, with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at February 18, 2018 11:01 PM (CL76w)

246 Human Biomass

-
Maybe your Orkin guy take care of that. Either him or the pool guy.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Broke, Woke, Toke, Joke at February 18, 2018 11:01 PM (+y/Ru)

247 "every environmental issue facing the world can be
traced to the ever-multiplying, ever-demanding, human biomass that has
subverted the natural-selection process and is consuming the planet to
death.



Posted by: t-bird"

Except for the illegal alien biomass. They are exempt from environmental guilt.

Posted by: Ripley at February 18, 2018 11:01 PM (NbRJx)

248 At least the girl in drag racing actually won a whole bunch.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 18, 2018 10:54 PM (8gDQu)

Shirley Muldowney? I worked with her son for awhile. He was the best welder I've ever seen but he was a drunk.

Posted by: Bill R. at February 18, 2018 11:01 PM (IuYIh)

249
USA-Finland chick hockey coming up on NBCSN.

Posted by: tu3031 at February 18, 2018 10:59 PM (O5Q3r)


Yay! Slow, dull hockey! Grrrl power!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 18, 2018 11:01 PM (Sy5Xc)

250 236 USA-Finland chick hockey coming up on NBCSN.
Posted by: tu3031 at February 18, 2018 10:59 PM (O5Q3r)

I suppose that's healthier than taking Ambien

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 18, 2018 11:02 PM (3/sUh)

251 To be clear, I'm not throwing rocks at Danica. Her vagina took her far, and good for her. I'm just wondering if continually losing for a decade with better equipment, trainers, press, etc. than almost everyone else is proving the GRRL POWER point or doing the exact opposite.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Take a Wakanda Wild Side With the Black Pander at February 18, 2018 10:51 PM (ks6bw)

-----------

She attracted sponsors, GoDaddy chief among them. That was her draw. Apparently, that draw waned.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at February 18, 2018 11:02 PM (/zp4x)

252 242. It is an odd one, innit?

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 18, 2018 11:03 PM (fA1SL)

253 Oh my dear Kerbal.

I carefully planned that rocket. Working backward in seven stages that would get you from ersatz Earth to the ersatz Moon and back. Ear-shattering heavy lifters to shake gravity's grip and pierce the thick atmosphere. Tiny maneuvering thrusters to gently guide you home,and it was perfect. You deserved a ticker-tape parade, Kerbal.

But I forgot to install a parachute.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 18, 2018 11:03 PM (rnAwa)

254 I can't decide which is greater proof of a wasted life

Meh. I already got a mirror here

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 18, 2018 11:03 PM (6FqZa)

255 Perhaps you'd prefer 'Soviet Border Guard' simulation game?

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 18, 2018 10:57 PM (fA1SL)


The old text-based interactive fiction stuff was fun.

https://stoatnet.org/rotors.mp4

Posted by: hogmartin at February 18, 2018 11:03 PM (y87Qq)

256 Wish the AoSHQ had a cafeteria

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you misspelled bar

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at February 18, 2018 11:05 PM (vChNs)

257 yeah mass effect really went to shit, didn't it?

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it's now biomass effect.

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at February 18, 2018 11:05 PM (vChNs)

258 AOSHQ tried a bar.

Ran out of 3 months' worth of inventory in 2 days.

Posted by: qdpsteve at February 18, 2018 11:05 PM (eMKNe)

259 Speaking of drag racing, it is unseen by the "elites" how some of the most "macho" things are really egalitarian.

Posted by: free tibet, with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at February 18, 2018 11:05 PM (CL76w)

260 I know that Charles Schulz wasn't an 'ass,' but I've read he hated hearing from his syndicate; he always figured it was bad news, would rarely take their calls, and would only get back to them when he was good and ready.

Thank God that United Media had the sense to give him ownership of Peanuts in the 1970s/80s, because otherwise, Schulz himself said he probably would have quit.
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 18, 2018 10:56 PM (eMKNe)

One of these days I'm gonna find out what the appeal of Peanuts was really all about. I just...never got it. I kinda liked the cartoons well enough when I was a kid, but otherwise I was never crazy for it.

What I under stand is that all the best strips were the early ones that never get reprinted in the "Classic Peanuts" strips that get printed. One day. One day I'll find out the truth.

Posted by: Robert takin his comics all serious n shit at February 18, 2018 11:05 PM (ayUOl)

261 241 Malcolm, there was a joke in an old episode of Mary Tyler Moore's show, going back to the 1970s, about that. I believe it went something like:

Mary: "I guess the chef salad is probably good."
Rhoda: "I'd bet so too! Did you see the size of that chef?!"
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 18, 2018 11:00 PM (eMKNe)


I remember that!

Too many years in the restaurant industry has left me jaded towards the average consumer.

My favorite patron is the Double BaconCheeseburger w/ chili-cheese fries and......a Diet Coke.

Posted by: Malcolm Tent at February 18, 2018 11:06 PM (TUkHv)

262 Do car dealerships who sell cars that cause multiple fatality pile ups get "mortified" and close their business?

Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2018 11:06 PM (LiyEm)

263 244 There's nothing like a lurid sunset with a silhouette of a palm tree to get my motor running.


Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 18, 2018 10:25 PM (cu8/f)


Fetch me a coconut, already.

Posted by: Guy lounging under coconut palm at February 18, 2018 11:06 PM (JHQiJ)

264 @252 It is an odd one, innit?
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I wouldn't have thought that it would work. But it does. And, of course, there's the political undertones through the whole thing about the absurdity of the Communist regimes.

And then there's the old guy who shows up every day with incredibly obvious and increasingly absurd fake passports.

Posted by: junior at February 18, 2018 11:06 PM (VwdDc)

265 So, the sale bin had some stuff for $3: Bacardi Torched Cherry, 70 proof, 375ml.

Hmm. Goes well in Cherry Coke, which I normally can't tolerate (too sweet).

Verdict: Cherry Rum adds more cherryness, less sweet, absolutely no bite.

Posted by: Pogomip at February 18, 2018 11:07 PM (yT9jk)

266 Robert, the appeal of Peanuts, for me, was a hero-- Charlie Brown-- who had just as much trouble getting through life, even as a *child,* as I did.

And as I grew up and found out things didn't necessarily get any easier, that led to a newfound respect for what Schulz was doing.

I understand that not even Peanuts was everyone's cup of tea, but I personally give Charles Schulz credit for really helping me get through my whole life, as if he were a personal friend of mine. I'm not kidding, it meant that much to me.

Posted by: qdpsteve at February 18, 2018 11:07 PM (eMKNe)

267 I never understand why these human biomass people just don't kill themselves and save the planet.

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It's the same thing everywhere else you find the breed. It's all about control, and probably the biggest reason we can never have a peaceful separation.

If everyone who was worried about Obamcare just pooled 2% of their wages/wealth, all the 5M or whatever uninsured could've had insurance paid for. If they stop driving their cars, running their AC, etc., then all the goals of forcing reduced power, consumption, etc. on 100% of the population would be immediately achieved.

But it doesn't matter that much to them. They're Muslims at heart, and they just can't stand knowing you're not a believer (or at least being forced to pray).

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Take a Wakanda Wild Side With the Black Pander at February 18, 2018 11:07 PM (ks6bw)

268 262 Do car dealerships who sell cars that cause multiple fatality pile ups get "mortified" and close their business?

Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2018 11:06 PM (LiyEm)


Heh.

Posted by: Liquor Store Owner at February 18, 2018 11:08 PM (JHQiJ)

269 240 guess what's in my mystery box
Posted by: S FLuke at February 18, 2018 10:58 PM (vChNs)

A life of pain and suffering?

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there are surprisingly few wrong answers

Posted by: S FLuke at February 18, 2018 11:08 PM (vChNs)

270 So, the sale bin had some stuff for $3: Bacardi Torched Cherry, 70 proof, 375ml.

Hmm. Goes well in Cherry Coke, which I normally can't tolerate (too sweet).

Verdict: Cherry Rum adds more cherryness, less sweet, absolutely no bite.


Makes a great Cherry Bomb shot, if you can handle Red Bull.

Posted by: Malcolm Tent at February 18, 2018 11:08 PM (TUkHv)

271 110: Had a couple of large, hideous, dying palm trees in front of the house. My choices were: 1) cut them down myself and not impossibly die in the process, or 2) bring someone in.

I chose 2. In less than three hours they cut them down, cut them up, carried them away and ground the stumps. Cost: $750.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 18, 2018 10:26 PM (knRdz)


Best of both options: A friend of mine paid a company to cut down an overgrown palm tree. One of the workers was killed when the growth collapsed on him.

Posted by: Scientist Captain at February 18, 2018 11:08 PM (IY+td)

272 Wheres the damn skiing ???

Posted by: REDACTED at February 18, 2018 11:08 PM (VWsDy)

273 Malcolm, glad you remember it too. :-)

The original draft of my script for Teenagers, Lies and Videotape had a joke like that, but I edited it out. Realized it didn't really help move the story forward.

Posted by: qdpsteve at February 18, 2018 11:09 PM (eMKNe)

274 Shirley (Cha Cha) Muldowney, NHRA drag racer. John Forces' daughter Brittany, many others. Made it on their own accomplishments. No pussy advantage given

Posted by: free tibet, with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at February 18, 2018 11:01 PM (CL76w)


I was thinking of the Coletta lady. I always confuse her name with her husband's. She was the national champion (or whatever the big championship is) a couple of years, wasn't she?

Thanks for the info on the others. I knew that I had heard of a few other women racing too, but I wasn't really sure.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 18, 2018 11:10 PM (8gDQu)

275 Miley, should see an F-16 at sunrise tearing up the sky in full afterburner! Pure sex.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 18, 2018 10:27 PM (KP5rU)


You know the rule, Chavez - pics, or it didn't happen.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 18, 2018 11:10 PM (cu8/f)

276 A gun is a tool,no better and no worse than the man that uses it.
Shane(both the movieand the novel by Jck Schaefer)

Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2018 11:10 PM (LiyEm)

277 268 262 Do car dealerships who sell cars that cause multiple fatality pile ups get "mortified" and close their business?

Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2018 11:06 PM (LiyEm)

As a holder of a sizable block of F, I hope not

Posted by: REDACTED at February 18, 2018 11:10 PM (VWsDy)

278 269 240 guess what's in my mystery box
Posted by: S FLuke at February 18, 2018 10:58 PM (vChNs)


Al Capone's loot?

Posted by: Geraldo at February 18, 2018 11:10 PM (JHQiJ)

279 I haven't played it, but it looks like "Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes" is one of the most clever games I've ever seen. Watch some videos on the youtubes if you haven't seen it.

An on-topic aside: I also really despise that we're moving to a time when games aren't bought anymore. My kids have an ipad and it's disturbing how many games are ad-only, especially when parents have little control over the ads being shown.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Take a Wakanda Wild Side With the Black Pander at February 18, 2018 11:11 PM (ks6bw)

280 Did someone say... games?

Hoping I can play a poker tourney at Pechanga next month...

Posted by: qdpsteve at February 18, 2018 11:12 PM (eMKNe)

281 What I under stand is that all the best strips were the early ones that never get reprinted in the "Classic Peanuts" strips that get printed. One day. One day I'll find out the truth.
Posted by: Robert takin his comics all serious n shit at February 18, 2018 11:05 PM (ayUOl)

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YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!

Posted by: Col. Nathan Schultz at February 18, 2018 11:12 PM (vChNs)

282
Perhaps it will force the realization that every environmental issue facing the world can be traced to the ever-multiplying, ever-demanding, human biomass that has subverted the natural-selection process and is consuming the planet to death. Steve Meyer



**AHEM**

Posted by: Volcanoes at February 18, 2018 11:13 PM (EzdLW)

283 Ran out of 3 months' worth of inventory in 2 days.
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 18, 2018 11:05 PM (eMKNe)

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canoe accident?

Posted by: buzzaw90 at February 18, 2018 11:13 PM (vChNs)

284 Pojer should be banned vpbecause Wild Bill Hickock got shot in the head while playing it.

Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2018 11:13 PM (LiyEm)

285 244 There's nothing like a lurid sunset with a silhouette of a palm tree to get my motor running.

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head out on the highway

Posted by: buzzaw90 at February 18, 2018 11:14 PM (vChNs)

286 What the fuck is pojer?

Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2018 11:14 PM (LiyEm)

287 Posted by: qdpsteve at February 18, 2018 11:07 PM (eMKNe)

So it's a, like, "ya had to be there," kinda things? Read it as a kid but *really* appreciate it as an adult?

I can dig it.

Posted by: Robert takin his comics all serious n shit at February 18, 2018 11:14 PM (ayUOl)

288
Perhaps it will force the realization that every environmental issue facing the world can be traced to the ever-multiplying, ever-demanding, human biomass that has subverted the natural-selection process and is consuming the planet to death. Steve Meyer



What am I, chopped liver?

Posted by: The Sun - I have spots at February 18, 2018 11:14 PM (EzdLW)

289 264. That's an aspect of the Soviet system that escapes notice, by and large. It was as if they'd picked up The Castle & The Trial and said, 'Nu, pochemu nyet?'
It explains adequately much of the strangeness of late-Soviet and post-Soviet life. The entire nation was insane and was also humoring each other while everyone knew it was a con from the word 'go.'

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 18, 2018 11:15 PM (fA1SL)

290 What the fuck is pojer?

Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2018 11:14 PM (LiyEm)


The Slavic version.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 18, 2018 11:15 PM (8gDQu)

291 Robert, re the early strips, I believe that the Peanuts website allows you to read *every* strip Schulz ever did, if you want to.

All you need to do is enter in a 1950s date. The strip started on October 2, 1950.

It was interesting to see how things evolved. Even Schulz seemed to have an "angry young man" phase, where he was making some pretty pointed commentary about things. One of my favorites is an early Sunday strip where Charlie Brown goes to the drugstore to buy some comics, and as he's standing in front of the newsstand, Chuck exclaims "what a beautiful gory layout!" EVERY comic book, meanwhile, has a title like: "Blood," "Kill," "Thug," "Fight," "Crime," "Murder"...

Posted by: qdpsteve at February 18, 2018 11:15 PM (eMKNe)

292
Perhaps it will force the realization that every environmental issue facing the world can be traced to the ever-multiplying, ever-demanding, human biomass that has subverted the natural-selection process and is consuming the planet to death. Steve Meyer



Who? Who? What about us?

Posted by: Those bigger owls (not loggers) that kill spotted owls at February 18, 2018 11:16 PM (EzdLW)

293 buzzsaw, horrible swallowing accidents...

Posted by: qdpsteve at February 18, 2018 11:16 PM (eMKNe)

294 291 Yeah,violence in horror comics became a cause celebre in the 50's ,led to the Comics Code and the death of horror comics and their publishers.

Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2018 11:16 PM (LiyEm)

295 Robert, there you go, you get it. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at February 18, 2018 11:16 PM (eMKNe)

296
**AHEM**
Posted by: Volcanoes at February 18, 2018 11:13 PM (EzdLW)

Posted by: Robert takin hiss all serious n shit at February 18, 2018 11:16 PM (ayUOl)

297 290. Slav poker is pretending to be secret police while trying to figure out who is secret police.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 18, 2018 11:16 PM (fA1SL)

298 I never wanted to be in such a shambolic thread...

I... I
want to be... A LUMBERJACK!

Leaping from tree to tree as
they float down the mighty rivers of British Columbia with my best
girl by my side...

The Larch! The Pine! The Mighty Sequoia! The Palm tree...

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at February 18, 2018 11:17 PM (e9G8E)

299
**AHEM**
Posted by: Volcanoes at February 18, 2018 11:13 PM (EzdLW)

Bitch please.

Posted by: Sweet Meteor O'Death at February 18, 2018 11:17 PM (ayUOl)

300 Factoid:Marvel made vampire blood green in comics like Tomb of Dracula because of Comic Code restrictions on shoeingblood.

Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2018 11:17 PM (LiyEm)

301 Perhaps it will force the realization that every environmental issue facing the world can be traced to the ever-multiplying, ever-demanding, human biomass that has subverted the natural-selection process and is consuming the planet to death. Steve Meyer
**AHEM**
Posted by: Volcanoes
Harrumph! Solar Cycle 24, new minimum.

Posted by: Pogomip at February 18, 2018 11:17 PM (yT9jk)

302
Perhaps it will force the realization that every environmental issue facing the world can be traced to the ever-multiplying, ever-demanding, human biomass that has subverted the natural-selection process and is consuming the planet to death. Steve Meyer


Can't give me any credit for the smoke from naturally-occurring forest fires, can you? What a douche.

Posted by: Lightning at February 18, 2018 11:18 PM (EzdLW)

303 I'll show myself out...

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at February 18, 2018 11:18 PM (e9G8E)

304 Sock fail.

Posted by: Robert climbs slowly into the barrel at February 18, 2018 11:18 PM (ayUOl)

305 276 A gun is a tool,no better and no worse than the man that uses it.
Shane(both the movieand the novel by Jck Schaefer)

Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2018 11:10 PM (LiyEm)


I command you to pick me up and slaughter women, persons of color (especially Dreamers), LGBTQLELWTFBBQ, and otherkin!!1!

Posted by: A gun, according to the Left at February 18, 2018 11:18 PM (itfg0)

306 294 291 Yeah,violence in horror comics became a cause celebre in the 50's ,led to the Comics Code and the death of horror comics and their publishers.
Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2018 11:16 PM (LiyEm)

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I think those issues where Jughead imprisoned Veronica in his garage and tortured her with his stinky hat really pushed things past the breaking point.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 18, 2018 11:19 PM (9SkN+)

307 Leftist hatred of humanity unites them.

Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2018 11:19 PM (LiyEm)

308 Call me crazy, but I think some on the left have been beginning to "get" the 2nd Amendment.

Look at the Pink Pistols.

Posted by: qdpsteve at February 18, 2018 11:19 PM (eMKNe)

309 Wheres the damn skiing ???

YOU'LL GET FIGURE SKATING AND LIKE IT!!!

Posted by: NBC at February 18, 2018 11:19 PM (O5Q3r)

310 an antidote to Yoko's screaming, found by entering Slim Harpo into yewtub

https://tinyurl.com/yc7qxfgb

Vashti Bunyan, Train Song

look up haunting in the dictionary and it plays this song

Posted by: booknlass at February 18, 2018 11:20 PM (bjSMX)

311 I fucking hate Ice skating with no possibility of a fight breaking out

Posted by: REDACTED at February 18, 2018 11:21 PM (VWsDy)

312 Make it stop.
(Every guy forced to watch figure skating by their wife or girlfriend)

Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2018 11:21 PM (LiyEm)

313 good evening, AOP. Thanks for posting the link to that song by Slim Harpo the other night. you know the great obscure ones.



where'd you learn so much about music?





Posted by: booknlass at February 18, 2018 10:49 PM (bjSMX)

Thanks, booknlass. I really don't know a lot about music; I'm just a fan with eclectic tastes. I listened to CKUA, Alberta's public radio network, which was and is, mostly music, but ceased being a paid supporter when they drifted too far into political correctness. But that turned me on to a lot of blues, jazz, and folk, and classical.
And I went to the blues clubs, whenever I could, and got to meet some of those great old performers, many now passed on. Never got to hear Slim Harpo live, though.
And nowadays, I listen a lot on line to WWOZ, out of New Orleans. www.wwoz.org If you want to check it out, try the Gentilly, Jr. show, which runs three hours starting at 6:00 P.M. Mondays, New Orleans time. He plays a mix of jazz, blues, RB, folk, and old-timey country, and stuff that falls in the cracks between. He is a fine disc jockey. I can highly recommend the show. And the show right after it is a gem, too. And they mostly leave the politics alone.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 18, 2018 11:21 PM (Dbv1R)

314 311 I fucking hate Ice skating with no possibility of a fight breaking out
Posted by: REDACTED at February 18, 2018 11:21 PM (VWsDy)

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Do bitchslap fights count?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 18, 2018 11:21 PM (9SkN+)

315 Wheres the damn skiing ???

Posted by: REDACTED at February 18, 2018 11:08 PM (VWsDy)


Why? You have a yen to watch NBC declare somebody the gold medal winner and leave the coverage when there are only 42 more skiers to go?

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 18, 2018 11:21 PM (8gDQu)

316 Posted by: A gun, according to the Left at February 18, 2018 11:18 PM (itfg0)

The sexism (and racism) of the anti-gun crowd is astounding. They have a very narrow mental image of gun owners and apparently no ability to expand that view even given evidence. And when you have an owner like the black lady who recently was supposed to give a talk, they are so unable to process the discordance that they get the talk canceled instead of finding out *why* the opposite of their view is actually happening.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 18, 2018 11:22 PM (rp9xB)

317 "Nu, pochemu nyet?" = "Well, why not?"...

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at February 18, 2018 11:22 PM (e9G8E)

318 At least this year I haven't ever heard from Bob Costas and his latest bout of frostbite in his groin.

Posted by: qdpsteve at February 18, 2018 11:22 PM (eMKNe)

319 242 @227 Perhaps you'd prefer 'Soviet Border Guard' simulation game?

https://youtu.be/CY2osbMdff4
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Ah, Papers Please!

Great game. Though I don't think I've ever played past Day 5 or so.
Posted by: junior at February 18, 2018 11:00 PM (VwdDc)

I like the idea of it. But it felt too much like work.

I prefer killing bandits and commies in my games.

Helps me relax.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 18, 2018 11:22 PM (xJa6I)

320 Wish I was dead. Probably happen soon

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 18, 2018 11:22 PM (l9m7l)

321 I think those issues where Jughead imprisoned Veronica in his garage and tortured her with his stinky hat really pushed things past the breaking point.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 18, 2018 11:19 PM (9SkN+)

Does anyone remember the issue where Reggie drugs and date-rapes Betty?

Oh, wait, cuz I haven't submitted that script to Archie yet.

Posted by: Robert climbs slowly into the barrel at February 18, 2018 11:23 PM (ayUOl)

322 317. Konyechna.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 18, 2018 11:23 PM (fA1SL)

323 6 am comes early. Night horde..

Posted by: Malcolm Tent at February 18, 2018 11:24 PM (TUkHv)

324 Do bitchslap fights count?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 18, 2018 11:21 PM (9SkN+)

At this point, I'll take anything I can get. A pair of tits falling out would suffice

Posted by: REDACTED at February 18, 2018 11:24 PM (VWsDy)

325 It was interesting to see how things evolved. Even Schulz seemed to have an "angry young man" phase, where he was making some pretty pointed commentary about things. One of my favorites is an early Sunday strip where Charlie Brown goes to the drugstore to buy some comics, and as he's standing in front of the newsstand, Chuck exclaims "what a beautiful gory layout!" EVERY comic book, meanwhile, has a title like: "Blood," "Kill," "Thug," "Fight," "Crime," "Murder"...
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 18, 2018 11:15 PM (eMKNe)

Now that sounds pretty cool, dude.

Posted by: Robert climbs slowly into the barrel at February 18, 2018 11:24 PM (ayUOl)

326 That Rube Goldberg was mind boggling.

But wait, there are twenty five more!

I need a cigarette after that and I don't smoke.



Posted by: Skandia Recluse at February 18, 2018 11:24 PM (roQNm)

327 The place is half empty for chick hockey. I guess spending your vacation freezing your ass off in Korea for two weeks is a tough sell.

Posted by: NBC at February 18, 2018 11:24 PM (O5Q3r)

328 At this point, I'll take anything I can get. A pair of tits falling out would suffice
Posted by: REDACTED at February 18, 2018 11:24 PM (VWsDy)

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IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THERE ARE NO TITS IN COUPLES FIGURE SKATING

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at February 18, 2018 11:25 PM (9SkN+)

329 311 I fucking hate Ice skating with no possibility of a fight breaking out

Posted by: REDACTED at February 18, 2018 11:21 PM (VWsDy)


Word.

Posted by: Tonya Harding at February 18, 2018 11:25 PM (itfg0)

330 312 Make it stop.
(Every guy forced to watch figure skating by their wife or girlfriend)
Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2018 11:21 PM (LiyEm)

My wife is now watching and trying to engage me in a convo about it. NO FUCKING WAY

Posted by: REDACTED at February 18, 2018 11:26 PM (VWsDy)

331 Twitter cat fight. Amy Siskind (who?) called Trump supporters traitors and Kirstie Alley (at least I know who she is, does that make me old?) told her to stop being an idiot.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 18, 2018 11:26 PM (rp9xB)

332 @316 The sexism (and racism) of the anti-gun crowd is astounding. They have a very narrow mental image of gun owners and apparently no ability to expand that view even given evidence.
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Sexism and racism are always allowed when the targets are "rednecks" (or the nearest similar stand-in). And any examples of possible targets who aren't "rednecks" are blithely ignored by those who commit the aforementioned offenses. It's a cognitive break.

Posted by: junior at February 18, 2018 11:26 PM (VwdDc)

333 312 Make it stop.
(Every guy forced to watch figure skating by their wife or girlfriend)
Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2018 11:21 PM (LiyEm)

I dunno. Those chicks got some nice hineys.

There was that one Russian girl who skated as Sailor Moon. I'd fight her by moonlight.

Posted by: Robert climbs slowly into the barrel at February 18, 2018 11:27 PM (ayUOl)

334 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THERE ARE NO TITS IN COUPLES FIGURE SKATING
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at February 18, 2018 11:25 PM (9SkN+)

Nor balls

Posted by: REDACTED at February 18, 2018 11:27 PM (VWsDy)

335 331 Twitter cat fight. Amy Siskind (who?) called Trump supporters traitors and Kirstie Alley (at least I know who she is, does that make me old?) told her to stop being an idiot.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 18, 2018 11:26 PM (rp9xB)

Maybe Kirstie will sit on her

Yeah, yeah I denounce myself

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 18, 2018 11:27 PM (3/sUh)

336 I'd fight her by moonlight.
Posted by: Robert climbs slowly into the barrel at February 18, 2018 11:27 PM (ayUOl)

That sounded better in my head. Now it just looks retarded.

I need a drink.

But I'm out.

Fuck me...

Posted by: Robert climbs slowly into the barrel at February 18, 2018 11:27 PM (ayUOl)

337 @324 At this point, I'll take anything I can get. A pair of tits falling out would suffice
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Nearly did have that, actually. One of the women (an American skating for South Korea; can't remember her name off the top of my head) in the pairs suffered a wardrobe malfunction. The back of her outfit broke, and she realized that if she brought her arms together (as she was supposed to do at several points in her routine) it would cause her top to fall off.

She managed to modify her routine and avoid that happening.

Posted by: junior at February 18, 2018 11:28 PM (VwdDc)

338 215:At least the girl in drag racing actually won a whole bunch.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair



NHRA has had several gals in its history who have won championships.

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 18, 2018 11:28 PM (pY+s4)

339 Posted by: Robert climbs slowly into the barrel at February 18, 2018 11:27 PM (ayUOl)

Hineys ??

Posted by: REDACTED at February 18, 2018 11:29 PM (VWsDy)

340
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THERE ARE NO TITS IN COUPLES FIGURE SKATING

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at February 18, 2018 11:25 PM (9SkN+)



Nor balls

GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY and...GAY!

Posted by: NBC at February 18, 2018 11:29 PM (O5Q3r)

341 Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 18, 2018 11:27 PM (3/sUh)

I know. Sounds like she has 'Ette potential though.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 18, 2018 11:29 PM (rp9xB)

342 The place is half empty for chick hockey. I guess spending your vacation freezing your ass off in Korea for two weeks is a tough sell.

Posted by: NBC at February 18, 2018 11:24 PM (O5Q3r)


Outside of the Olympics, who ever even heard of girl ice hockey?

I think they have female freestyle wrestling in the summer olympics - I'm not sure but I think I saw something about it. Where the hell do they find participants for sports that don't have more than 27 people doing it in any given year?

It's like the men's field hockey team in the summer olympics. I saw that and couldn't understand where they found guys in America playing field hockey. Now, sure ... they can just go grab a bunch of trannies, but how they used to put these teams together years ago was something of a mystery. A lot of cold calling, I guess ...

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 18, 2018 11:30 PM (8gDQu)

343 Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 18, 2018 11:29 PM (rp9xB)

Promising

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 18, 2018 11:30 PM (3/sUh)

344 Do car dealerships who sell cars that cause multiple fatality pile ups get "mortified" and close their business?

Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2018 11:06 PM (LiyEm)

Methinks gunshop owners are simply trying to make the best of a bad situation. If they stayed open, they would be the target of crazies for years. So they close up, make a statemeent, not so much in favor of more gun controls as in favor of better reporting of nut cases. Some virtue-signaling.
Shut the store down in that location. Maybe operate out of a garage for a year for a few close friends, then re-open in another location under a new business name.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 18, 2018 11:30 PM (Dbv1R)

345
I was a big fan of Bloom County and Calvin and Hobbes. And even Doonsbury, before I understood what was being indoctrinated.

The problem is, Berkley Breathed is a dick. And Bill Watterson has integrity.

I still read Calvin and Hobbes strips to this day, and I still love them. Got the huge hardcovers with all of 'em.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 18, 2018 10:07 PM (xJa6I)






I was a Bloom County fan as well, my girlfriend gave me a stuffed Bill the Cat for my birthday one year. I have a photo of me getting onto a C141 in Egypt with Bill's head sticking up out of my ruck. The company first sergeant jumped my shit for that stunt.

But I read BC now, and frankly it's dated, and irrelevant. Forgettable. And Breathed's drawing style is just a pale imitation of Doonesbury.

One of the best parts of Calvin and Hobbes was that Watterson would draw with actual perspective, especially in the Sunday strips. And the fantasy strips were incredible. Always wanted more of the Tracer Bullet strips, but Watterson found it really difficult to do the noirish artwork and write the stories so that they weren't too cliche'd.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 18, 2018 11:30 PM (eXA4G)

346 Wow, what a vast wasteland the Olympics are today. Figure skating and curling (some hockey earlier in the day). There must be also paint-drying and grass-growing events occurring, but they're not on the live-feed schedule.


What would be great would be some foreign national broadcaster that's taking all the feeds and linking them on their website. So, like a TV network ourselves, we could just tap into whatever we want to see. NBC has provided quite a few feeds for real sports so far, but would be nice to have them all.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 18, 2018 11:31 PM (QDnY+)

347 * looks around *
This ONT needs Slav mafiya ballad in xardbas style.
Murka, my brothers

https://youtu.be/opJNktULqD8

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 18, 2018 11:31 PM (fA1SL)

348 Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
1 [56 names] 'Surfperch' [7.87 unique names/day]

Top of the wall!

Posted by: Surfperch the puppet master at February 18, 2018 11:32 PM (b0MCs)

349 What would it take to get me to watch the Winter Olympics?

Dress *everyone* up in a female figure skating outfit. Even the guys. ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at February 18, 2018 11:32 PM (eMKNe)

350 Hi all, how's things going?

Enjoyed a day off, first in 8. Warm day coming tomorrow in N IL. Yay.

Posted by: Farmer at February 18, 2018 11:33 PM (yJ1e6)

351 207 Wish the AoSHQ had a cafeteria

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 18, 2018 10:49 PM (3/sUh)

I think... I think maybe this is not so good idea.

Posted by: hogmartin at February 18, 2018 10:51 PM (y87Qq)

++++

He didn't mean *us*. He's dreaming about something for him and the rest of the cobs. Like Google has a cafeteria for its employees, not every moron that types something in a search box.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 18, 2018 11:34 PM (pvjTE)

352 We are the 90%!

Posted by: Corrupt Politicians at February 18, 2018 11:34 PM (b0MCs)

353 Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 18, 2018 11:30 PM (8gDQu)

High School & Dividion 1-3 NCAA have girls hockey

Title iX and all

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 18, 2018 11:34 PM (3/sUh)

354 This ice dancing is so exciting I've entered a coma.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 18, 2018 11:35 PM (9SkN+)

355 AOP, I've seen Buddy Guy at the Davenport Iowa levee, and talked to him backstage, since it was outside and he was just sitting in a pickup truck. On my 30th birthday, I saw James Cotton, who you probably know played harmonica for Muddy Waters, at the Orpheum in Galesburg, IL.

Afterward, I saw Cotton driving away from the gig by himself in an old green LTD. He made a right, heading for the interstate, probably going home to Chicago.

Posted by: booknlass at February 18, 2018 11:35 PM (bjSMX)

356 Posted by: Surfperch the puppet master at February 18, 2018 11:32 PM (b0MCs)

Congrats

Posted by: REDACTED at February 18, 2018 11:35 PM (VWsDy)

357 Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 18, 2018 11:30 PM (eXA4G)

Bloom County

Ya know Breathed is till doing it?

I read that a lot when I was a kid. Well, I read it cuz my mother read it. Most of it went right over my head. Probably didn't help that I skimmed a lot of it. I remember it being weirdly dark. And that one guy in the sunglasses...in his underwear a lot? I think? Bill D. Cat was awesome, though.

Posted by: Robert *ACK* at February 18, 2018 11:35 PM (ayUOl)

358 There's nothing like a lurid sunset with a silhouette of a palm tree to get my motor running.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 18, 2018 10:25 PM



And then you head out on the highway, looking for adventure in whatever comes your way?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 18, 2018 10:27 PM (DMUuz)

Exactly.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 18, 2018 11:36 PM (cu8/f)

359 High School & Dividion 1-3 NCAA have girls hockey

Title iX and all

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 18, 2018 11:34 PM (3/sUh)


Most high schools don't even have boys ice hockey. And how many girls are actually playing ice hockey at the places that offer it, anyway? I can't imagine it's that many.

And, as should always be stressed, Title IX needs to be repealed and the original bill burnt to a crisp (along with its sponsors and supporters).

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 18, 2018 11:36 PM (8gDQu)

360 What would it take to get me to watch the Winter Olympics?

Dress *everyone* up in a female figure skating outfit. Even the guys. ;-)


Every time I start to think that I've got issues, I can count on you to make me feel "normal" again.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at February 18, 2018 11:36 PM (IcT7t)

361 Blanco, you're welcome!

Posted by: qdpsteve at February 18, 2018 11:37 PM (eMKNe)

362
At least this year I haven't ever heard from Bob Costas and his latest bout of frostbite in his groin.
Posted by: qdpsteve


Pink eye down low?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 18, 2018 11:37 PM (IqV8l)

363 Nobody cares about women's hockey ,well that's not fair,I'm sure it has as many dedicated fans as the WNBA....

Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2018 11:37 PM (LiyEm)

364 Is Thor ghey in real life? He really seems to be punching down with Miley Cyrus. Is she his beard?

Posted by: Monk at February 18, 2018 11:37 PM (g4lFK)

365 Amy Siskind (who?) called Trump supporters traitors

Isn't everyone who stands for the Anthem, Amy? We're also Nazi supporters of Israel. And murderous pro-lifers. And racist in our color-blindness.

Bad, bad, bad!

Posted by: t-bird at February 18, 2018 11:37 PM (Cmp0w)

366 I believe in HS girls can play on the boys ice hockey team.

Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2018 11:38 PM (LiyEm)

367 Bertram, you don't wanna know what's pink down there...

Posted by: qdpsteve at February 18, 2018 11:38 PM (eMKNe)

368 Nobody cares about women's hockey ,well that's not fair,I'm sure it has as many dedicated fans as the WNBA....
Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2018 11:37 PM (LiyEm)

--------

It did but their car ran off the road during a trip to the lumberjack shirt store.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 18, 2018 11:38 PM (9SkN+)

369
144 Danica Patrick is Aaron Rodgers' current squeeze.
Posted by: davidt at February 18, 2018 10:33 PM (djCea)

Thought that was a F-150.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at February 18, 2018 11:39 PM (e1mEI)

370 US Chicks 2 - Finnish Chicks 0. End of 1
I think I'll find out who won in the morning.

Posted by: tu3031 at February 18, 2018 11:39 PM (O5Q3r)

371 I still have all my calvin and hobbes books.

best strip ever.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 18, 2018 11:39 PM (V2Yro)

372 320 Wish I was dead. Probably happen soon
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 18, 2018 11:22 PM

We all will be. Don't let the bastards get you down. Enjoy the sunsets,like AOP described. Mine are in Montana so too damn much snow right now, but the blue sky is beautiful. Don't live for someone else. live for you and the coming glorious morning. I'm go___ to death valley in a couple of weeks to play golf and drive into the desert to look at the sky.Can't wait!

Posted by: free tibet, with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at February 18, 2018 11:39 PM (CL76w)

373 Miley is rough looking and has a little girl body besides being a walking STD...

Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2018 11:40 PM (LiyEm)

374 Enjoyed a day off, first in 8. Warm day coming tomorrow in N IL. Yay.
Posted by: Farmer
===
Ah. Mud Season!

Posted by: Pogomip at February 18, 2018 11:40 PM (yT9jk)

375 @357 Bloom County

Ya know Breathed is till doing it?
--------------------

Restarted it, actually. The strip had lapsed for a long time, but he restarted it around the time of the election.

Posted by: junior at February 18, 2018 11:40 PM (VwdDc)

376 211 "We see from the research that actually, when consumers are given this information, they actually can make lower-calorie choices, and restaurants can also come out with lower-calorie options," Colin Schwartz

All research that I've ever seen basically shows that no one pays attention to this crap. I can't even understand how this shit ever got mandated.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 18, 2018 10:52 PM (8gDQu)

++++

What especially funny is listening to those who fret that it isn't working. That is, people aren't making the "right" choices. I think it was self-described right-leaning libertarian Megan McArdle who wrote a piece from that prospective.

I guess we will have to hope that our government comes up with some other way to "convince" us to make the choices we're supposed to make.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 18, 2018 11:40 PM (pvjTE)

377 AOP, I've seen Buddy Guy at the Davenport Iowa
levee, and talked to him backstage, since it was outside and he was just
sitting in a pickup truck. On my 30th birthday, I saw James Cotton, who
you probably know played harmonica for Muddy Waters, at the Orpheum in
Galesburg, IL.



Afterward, I saw Cotton driving away from the gig by himself in an
old green LTD. He made a right, heading for the interstate, probably
going home to Chicago.





Posted by: booknlass at February 18, 2018 11:35 PM (bjSMX)

Well, If you shook hands with James Cotton or Buddy Guy, you shook hands with a guy who had shaken mine, (or would subsequently). I got to meet both Buddy, and his touring partner, harp player Junior Wells.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 18, 2018 11:41 PM (Dbv1R)

378 Miley is rough looking and has a little girl body besides being a walking STD...

All the tats are a nice touch too.

Posted by: tu3031 at February 18, 2018 11:41 PM (O5Q3r)

379
Bloom County

Ya know Breathed is till doing it?

Posted by: Robert *ACK* at February 18, 2018 11:35 PM (ayUOl)






As Bloom County or as Outland?

*pulls up wiki*

Well, whaddaya know. Didn't know he'd started it up again.

Like I said. Irrelevant.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 18, 2018 11:42 PM (eXA4G)

380 Miley is rough looking and has a little girl body besides being a walking STD...

?! Ah, now I get it. The disaster of a daughter, Miley.

Posted by: t-bird at February 18, 2018 11:42 PM (OnpLR)

381 Trump taunting Oprah on Twitter.

Posted by: Jmel at February 18, 2018 11:42 PM (OeWgo)

382 Farmer, I'm glad you had a day off!

it was nice today downstate a bit from you, but I was a little puny today.

just stayed in and did some puttering around.

it was my day off, too, after 6 days working.

Posted by: booknlass at February 18, 2018 11:43 PM (bjSMX)

383 @376 I think it was self-described right-leaning libertarian Megan McArdle who wrote a piece from that prospective.
--------------------

Eh...

From what I've seen, McArdle's a mix of prog and libertarian. Yes, I know that in theory those two things aren't supposed to play well. But that's how I'd describe her. She has her statist tendencies, but she also has a lot of areas that she would prefer the state to not get involved in.

Posted by: junior at February 18, 2018 11:43 PM (VwdDc)

384 The left has ruined everything.Comic books,sports,movies,books,tv shows.Every fucking thing.

Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2018 11:43 PM (LiyEm)

385 I was privileged to enjoy many encounters with Soviet border guards (progranichniki), at airports mostly - passport control.


There was a pathetic toughness and swagger to them, only case of pathetic power I've ever seen. Their sense of inferiority just oozed from their grim expressions. But I probably knew/understood a lot more about them, their system, their history, the situation, then most travellers - which made it that much harder to not crack up. Laughter probably wouldn't have gone over well.



Posted by: rhomboid at February 18, 2018 11:44 PM (QDnY+)

386 The left has ruined everything.Comic books,sports,movies,books,tv shows.Every fucking thing.

Take a look at that top picture again.

Posted by: t-bird at February 18, 2018 11:44 PM (OnpLR)

387 I saw Buddy Guy at his club in Chicago a couple of years ago- fun night , but I think he was hammered. Way gross too, which is saying something for me.

Posted by: free tibet, with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at February 18, 2018 11:44 PM (CL76w)

388 I think Johnny Weir needs to up his HEY I'M GHEYYYYY!!! game.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 18, 2018 11:44 PM (9SkN+)

389 Restarted it, actually. The strip had lapsed for a long time, but he restarted it around the time of the election.
Posted by: junior at February 18, 2018 11:40 PM (VwdDc)

Whoops, yeah, restarted is more accurate.

Shit, he never leaves it alone for long though, does he?

Bloom County, Outland, Opus, back to Bloom County...the endless cycle of *ack*.

Posted by: Robert *ACK* at February 18, 2018 11:45 PM (ayUOl)

390
The left has ruined everything.Comic books,sports,movies,books,tv shows.Every fucking thing.
Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2018 11:43 PM (LiyEm)






Oh c'mon. That's hardly fair. They're really really good at terror, murder, slavery, torture and genocide.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 18, 2018 11:45 PM (eXA4G)

391 Aw, i didn't shake hands with Buddy. But he gave me his card after he signed it. Invited me to his club when I go to Chicago.

but i've never gone!

Posted by: booknlass at February 18, 2018 11:45 PM (bjSMX)

392 I saw Buddy Guy at his club in Chicago a couple of
years ago- fun night , but I think he was hammered. Way gross too,
which is saying something for me.

Posted by: free tibet, with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at February 18, 2018 11:44 PM (CL76w)

My memories of Buddy Guy date back to the '90's, when his tours would hit Calgary about once a year. He was always classy when there.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 18, 2018 11:47 PM (Dbv1R)

393 That sunset is so "pretty" because of all the greenhouse gases in the air.
The Left ruing a picture of a sunrise

Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2018 11:47 PM (LiyEm)

394 319, 242, @227 Perhaps you'd prefer 'Soviet Border Guard' simulation game?


https://youtu.be/CY2osbMdff4


They could spice it up by adding the other Soviet border post that is 5 miles inside the border and has a fake other nation's border post, manned by Russians in the uniforms of the other nation down the road a bit. Much fun when the escapee thinks he's made it out only to discover he's got a new 25 year term in the camps added on. Or he gets shot.




Posted by: geoffb at February 18, 2018 11:47 PM (zOpu5)

395 392 I saw Buddy Guy at his club in Chicago a couple of
years ago- fun night , but I think he was hammered. Way gross too,
which is saying something for me.

Posted by: free tibet, with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at February 18, 2018 11:44 PM (CL76w)

My memories of Buddy Guy date back to the '90's, when his tours would hit Calga
ry about once a year. He was always classy when there.

Yeah,it seemed like it was a bit of an after thought. He's been around a long time.

Posted by: free tibet, with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at February 18, 2018 11:49 PM (CL76w)

396
I was privileged to enjoy many encounters with Soviet border guards (progranichniki), at airports mostly - passport control.


There was a pathetic toughness and swagger to them, only case of pathetic power I've ever seen. Their sense of inferiority just oozed from their grim expressions. But I probably knew/understood a lot more about them, their system, their history, the situation, then most travellers - which made it that much harder to not crack up. Laughter probably wouldn't have gone over well.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 18, 2018 11:44 PM (QDnY+)








Heh. In the movie Child 44 (kind of meh film, but shows the Soviets as the monsters they are), there's a scene where Noomi Rapace and Tom Hardy are being hunted by the authorities and they're watching the guards at a train station to see who's being sloppy while checking papers.

She figures out that one of the guards looking at papers is illiterate.....

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 18, 2018 11:49 PM (eXA4G)

397 Today's Daytona 500 was the first one I've watched in a few years. Had to go to work in the middle of it but saw the beginning and the end. Restrictor plates suck and are going to get somebody (s) killed. Kind of neat to see Cars #3 and #43 finish 1 and 2.

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 18, 2018 11:50 PM (pY+s4)

398 oh, and I forgot: I've seen Robert Cray and Jonny Lang, both at the Adler Theater in the cities.


Love Jonny Lang. phenomenal man

Posted by: booknlass at February 18, 2018 11:50 PM (bjSMX)

399
...the endless cycle of *ack*.

That would be Cathy

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 18, 2018 11:50 PM (IqV8l)

400 385. Of all the East Bloc border and passport control agents he'd dealt with, my uncle liked the Jugos and the Czechs best of all. They were, in his experience, decent men in a bad job in a terrible regime. The Soviets were the worst - he said you could smell the poverty and resentment coming off them in waves of impotent rage.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 18, 2018 11:50 PM (fA1SL)

401 Ah. Mud Season!
Posted by: Pogomip at February 18, 2018 11:40

Indeed, but it means Spring!

Posted by: Farmer at February 18, 2018 11:50 PM (yJ1e6)

402 ''364 Is Thor ghey in real life? He really seems to be punching down with Miley Cyrus. Is she his beard?''

Wrong brother. Thor is married and has a bunch of kids. I know this because I check out ''The Daily Mail'' once in a while. I like to keep on top of these things.

Posted by: Tuna at February 18, 2018 11:51 PM (jm1YL)

403 Every fucking thing.
Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2018 11:43 PM (LiyEm)

On my Twatter, a couple of people were kvetching about there being a lot of racism and misogyny in death metal. Like..shit, I guess I missed it thru all the grunting and squealing and screeching? Fuck these people.

Posted by: Robert *ACK* at February 18, 2018 11:51 PM (ayUOl)

404 One of the many joys of Soviet, ex-Soviet, and authoritarian regimes
generally is exit customs. Only time I've ever done anything like it,
but once when an Azeri exit customs guy was trying shake me down over
one of my rugs (clearly not an antique, clearly nothing for exit customs
to worry about), I started to raise a stir (in Russian). He
immediately backed off and looked around nervously.


But unfortunately I only started buying rugs in the later 90s. Baku's an oil town, so got real western $$$$ very early in the post-Soviet era. At that time, with everything new, the local and regional economies having evaporated into thin air overnight, and the stock of good rugs much larger, people made out like bandits. By the time I finally started buying the screaming bargains were gone - though I did just fine by world standards for what I got.


Posted by: rhomboid at February 18, 2018 11:52 PM (QDnY+)

405 No way am I clicking on that Oh No Yoko video.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at February 18, 2018 11:52 PM (6W470)

406 My NY cousin made me want to buy an AR when he said "no one needs to own an AR15". He got pissed when I said "no one NEEDS to own a car like your Porshe that goes 160+ mph. Because speed kills more than guns. After that he typed in Caps. Whoa. Rearly mad. Lol.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at February 18, 2018 11:53 PM (70cRb)

407 404. Those exit dudes trashed my uncle's two cameras and about a dozen rolls of film, cut up the coat he'd bought there, amd very nearly ruined a good astrakhan. Because Brezhnev.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 18, 2018 11:55 PM (fA1SL)

408 Is Thor ghey in real life? He really seems to be punching down with Miley Cyrus. Is she his beard?''

Wrong brother. Thor is married and has a bunch of kids. I know this because I check out ''The Daily Mail'' once in a while. I like to keep on top of these things.
Posted by: Tuna at February 18, 2018 11:51 PM (jm1YL)

The Hunger Games brother.. She is definitely his beard. Thor doesn't seem like a degenerate. Little bro does. Thanks for clearing that up.

Posted by: Monk at February 18, 2018 11:55 PM (g4lFK)

409 The Hunger Games brother.. She is definitely his
beard. Thor doesn't seem like a degenerate. Little bro does. Thanks for
clearing that up.

Posted by: Monk at February 18, 2018 11:55 PM (g4lFK)

So not real people, then?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2018 12:00 AM (Dbv1R)

410 College women field hockey > Women's ice hockey

Posted by: Monk at February 19, 2018 12:01 AM (g4lFK)

411 Wow, the ONT is dying already?

Quick, someone post something with tits, or guns...

Oh,p fuck this, if you want something done you gotta do it yourself.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s_mJ-4a1DcI

Posted by: Robert *ACK* at February 19, 2018 12:01 AM (ayUOl)

412 AoP, did Studebaker make pick-up trucks? Saw an old silver truck with rounded cab and small rear window at a local place with Studebaker on the gate.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at February 19, 2018 12:02 AM (6W470)

413 Anna, studs baker did make trucks. Not a demand to restore them because most were basket cases to begin with.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at February 19, 2018 12:03 AM (WaVQv)

414 AoP, did Studebaker make pick-up trucks? Saw an old silver truck with
rounded cab and small rear window at a local place with Studebaker on
the gate.


http://bit.ly/2EFwsov

Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at February 19, 2018 12:04 AM (IcT7t)

415 I'm out. I have a lot of shit to destroy with a baseball bat to get out some aggression.

Night.

Posted by: Monk at February 19, 2018 12:04 AM (g4lFK)

416 There were waves of rumors that Brezhnev when I was in the USSR the first time. At my suggestion, our group adopted some code for discussing the topic. We'd say "Yuri said he heard a rumor that Eyebrows bought the farm last week". Our minder, who lived in our dorm and was with us on all group trips/events, never broke that code - she had no idea.


I clearly remember enjoying her silent rage when we did our just-arrived bus tour of Tallinn, Estonia (even then, a beautiful spot). The local guide - with a very practiced bad accent to her Russian - mentioned nothing Soviet or Russian in describing everything we saw. "This new office complex, built with Finnish labor" ...... "this medical research lab, with investment from Sweden", etc.


Yeah, the fragility of the Soviet clown car was not hard to see even at a cursory glance.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 19, 2018 12:06 AM (QDnY+)

417 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a8McssXlXb0

Posted by: Robert *ACK* at February 19, 2018 12:06 AM (ayUOl)

418 Updating 15 of 28...

Posted by: RUSSIAN BOT at February 19, 2018 12:07 AM (b0MCs)

419 Well, AOP's certainly the expert, but I do know Studebaker at least made *some* trucks.


Made nifty platforms for Katyusha rocket launchers on the eastern front.


Posted by: rhomboid at February 19, 2018 12:07 AM (QDnY+)

420 "rumors that Brezhnev had died", should been

Posted by: rhomboid at February 19, 2018 12:08 AM (QDnY+)

421 Lights fading...

Posted by: The ONT at February 19, 2018 12:09 AM (b0MCs)

422 I think Studebaker pickups were some of the best looking pickups ever built. Love that link you posted.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 19, 2018 12:10 AM (V2Yro)

423 Stop farting or I will turn this plane around.
------------
I've related here before the story of the time that I had a large dinner of cabbage-stuffed squab in Paris...before boarding a plane for a six hour flight to the states. I chose poorly.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 19, 2018 12:12 AM (7ThJ3)

424 I've related here before the story of the time that I had a large dinner
of cabbage-stuffed squab in Paris...before boarding a plane for a six
hour flight to the states. I chose poorly.


At least you didn't chase it down with a bag of sugar free gummy bears.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at February 19, 2018 12:13 AM (IcT7t)

425 416. He never got up into the Baltic, my uncle. He did say the worst place he'd ever seen was Bulgaria. And considering the East Bloc shitholes he'd been in, that was saying something.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 19, 2018 12:13 AM (fA1SL)

426 That bogged down jeep picture - I remember watching a guy with a D7 working on grading an oilfield location, years ago. He got into some little underground spring that bogged his cat down, one you couldn't see on the surface. The D7 started to sink, but he figured hell, I'll just go back and forth and work my way out. If he had stopped when it just started any truck there could have given him a winch out - but he didn't quit trying until both treads were completely under the mud, and the only thing left above ground was the cab he was sitting in.

For everyone except him, that was a damn funny sight.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 19, 2018 12:13 AM (V2Yro)

427 Well, AOP's certainly the expert, but I do know Studebaker at least made *some* trucks.
-----------

Da. Many, many trucks.

Posted by: Ungrateful Shit Stalin at February 19, 2018 12:13 AM (7ThJ3)

428 425. Romania was a close second. He said 'Romania combines all the worst elements of the Soviets with the insanity of the Italians. And gypsies.'

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 19, 2018 12:20 AM (fA1SL)

429 Two guys that I went to high school with each drove Studie pick-ups. One was bright yellow, we called it The Canary.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 19, 2018 12:21 AM (w1zJX)

430 bummer about the DIY link being bad.

i thought i downloaded a screen cap of the original poast, where the idiot described his device.

he bought a pipe at Home Depot, heated one end up then pounded it flat, using nuts and something else to kinda make rivets...

then he filled it up with black powder, stuffed a ball bearing in, touched a lit match to the fuse hole, and was amazed when it blew up on him and started a fire...

no one was kind to him in the comments.

Posted by: redc1c4 at February 19, 2018 12:21 AM (Dkm+q)

431

Many trucks on Ix, new trucks.

Posted by: Guildmaster at February 19, 2018 12:22 AM (IqV8l)

432 Many trucks on Ix, new trucks.

Posted by: Guildmaster at February 19, 2018 12:22 AM (IqV8l)


*Takes notes*

Posted by: Bene Gesserit at February 19, 2018 12:23 AM (itfg0)

433 much of Mueller's indictment is a recycling of an article in Russian Business Magazine from last October.

article in the treehouse.

Posted by: booknlass at February 19, 2018 12:23 AM (bjSMX)

434 AoP, did Studebaker make pick-up trucks? Saw an old silver truck with

rounded cab and small rear window at a local place with Studebaker on

the gate.

http://bit.ly/2EFwsov

Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at February 19, 2018 12:04 AM (IcT7t)

Heh. That beige critter at the top right is a Hudson pickup, not a Studebaker Coupe Express. The Coupe Express was much more styled. Even the box was styled.

Anna, there were four series of Studebaker pickups offered, between the late pre-War years, and the end of truck production in 1964. Starting with the aforementioned Coupe Express, which was built on a car chassis, and was highly styled, and offered 1937 through 1939. Succeeded by the M series, which was a purpose-built pickup from the frame up, and also offered as medium and heavy trucks. The Studebaker US6 used a modified M-series cab. M-series trucks were offered through 1948, and were succeeded by the 2R series, much more modern-looking, with hidden running boards. The truck you describe is probably one such. The 2R series continued unchanged through 1953, and got a bit of makeover in 1954, adopting a one-piece windshield. The basic cab remained unchanged until 1964, although grilles and hoods did change. In 1961, they ceased to use this "C-cab" for pickups, and adopted the "T-cab", which was derived from the Lark 4-door sedan. T-cab pickups were all called Champs, and could be had as half or three-quarter ton. They are pretty square-looking.
Probably more than you wanted to know. And restoration parts are readily available for all models.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2018 12:23 AM (Dbv1R)

435 431. Better than the trucks on D'Troyt.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 19, 2018 12:23 AM (fA1SL)

436 Well I guess it was a Studebaker truck after all. It was nice and clean looking.

*pops Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket in.*

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at February 19, 2018 12:23 AM (6W470)

437 I remember watching a guy with a D7 working on grading an oilfield location, years ago.
--------------

I watched a guy move his excavator out on an area of swamp that he was filling. I remember thinking, "That's gonna sink". Sure enough, it did, and damn near rolled onto its side. Lucky for him there was a big Cat on the site too drag him out.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 19, 2018 12:25 AM (7ThJ3)

438 Sometimes lurking feels like being the person sitting at the end of the bar, staring into my drink and just eavesdropping on everyone else's conversations.
So... hi all.

Posted by: sugar plum fairy #176-671 at February 19, 2018 12:29 AM (eauMe)

439 * eats last of onion, pickled garlic and cheese long since gone *

Sigh.....out of zakuski.

* cracks open vodka *

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 19, 2018 12:29 AM (fA1SL)

440 Da. Many, many trucks.

Posted by: Ungrateful Shit Stalin at February 19, 2018 12:13 AM (7ThJ3)

Actually, Stalin did express gratitude for the Lend Lease Studebakers. He sent The Studebaker Corporation a large album of photographs of their trucks performing amazing feats, like bridging rivers on cables, etc.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2018 12:29 AM (Dbv1R)

441 438. Hai! Now buy us a round, ya cheap bastard.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 19, 2018 12:31 AM (fA1SL)

442 he bought a pipe at Home Depot, heated one end up then pounded it flat, using nuts and something else to kinda make rivets...

then
he filled it up with black powder, stuffed a ball bearing in, touched a
lit match to the fuse hole, and was amazed when it blew up on him and
started a fire...

no one was kind to him in the comments.


Posted by: redc1c4 at February 19, 2018 12:21 AM (Dkm+q)

That's doing it the hard way. Pipe caps exist, and they can be found in the same aisle at Home Depot that the pipe is at.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2018 12:32 AM (Dbv1R)

443 442. The fougasse is not intended for direct initiation.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 19, 2018 12:33 AM (fA1SL)

444 That's doing it the hard way. Pipe caps exist, and they can be found in the same aisle at Home Depot that the pipe is at.


Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2018 12:32 AM (Dbv1R)[/]


I'd far prefer that he continue to do it the Hard Way.

Sometimes, Darwin needs to catch an easy break.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at February 19, 2018 12:36 AM (QzJWU)

445 Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 19, 2018 12:33 AM (fA1SL)

Huh? The fancy bread isn't intended for direct initiation? I'm more lost than usual by your comment.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 19, 2018 12:36 AM (rp9xB)

446 AOP, that's interesting about the Soviet "thank you" document to Studebaker.


In listening to various broadcasts from the time, I'm sure I heard some official Soviet statements in which "help from our allies" was prominently mentioned. Think it was in Stalin's first national radio address in July 1941, and also in Levitan's/Radio Moscow's reading of the official victory announcement in May 1945. Have to go back and review those to confirm.



Posted by: rhomboid at February 19, 2018 12:36 AM (QDnY+)

447 The fougasse is not intended for direct initiation.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 19, 2018 12:33 AM (fA1SL)

Say what?

Posted by: Guy on Dutch airliner at February 19, 2018 12:37 AM (Dbv1R)

448 445. Wait.....it's an improvised directional mine AND a fancy bread?

This changes everything.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 19, 2018 12:37 AM (fA1SL)

449 Of all the East Bloc border and passport control
agents he'd dealt with, my uncle liked the Jugos and the Czechs best of
all. They were, in his experience, decent men in a bad job in a terrible
regime. The Soviets were the worst - he said you could smell the
poverty and resentment coming off them in waves of impotent rage.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 18, 2018 11:50 PM (fA1SL)


My favorite story about Czech border guards was about a three man party patrolling a stretch of wire, when one of the privates punched the non-com in the face and hared off to the fence. The non-com straightened up and got punched by the other private who also sprinted off towards the fence.
The non-com looked at his rifle, tossed it aside and ran off to the German border too.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 19, 2018 12:38 AM (2K6fY)

450 Actually, Stalin did express gratitude for the Lend Lease Studebakers. He sent The Studebaker Corporation a large album of photographs of their trucks performing amazing feats, like bridging rivers on cables, etc.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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I will grudgingly acknowledge a moment of gratitude on his part. Grudgingly.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 19, 2018 12:39 AM (FJXGr)

451 No photos of truck delivering prisoners to gulags?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 19, 2018 12:40 AM (IqV8l)

452 449. Ha! Them bohunks......

The Czechs, he told me, were more interested in shooting the shit and smoking up his fine Marlboros than anything he had in his car or his paperwork. Good guys, he said. Jugo militsia were even better - when they found him lost in the countryside, they rode with him to his destination because the maps were all wrong.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 19, 2018 12:41 AM (fA1SL)

453 Anna, besides being really creepy, Boston Dynamics is prototyping Pierson Puppeteers.

https://youtu.be/fUyU3lKzoio

Posted by: Kindltot at February 19, 2018 12:44 AM (2K6fY)

454 Speaking of Rube Goldbergs, lately I've developed an interest in bascule bridges. In looking about at images, I ran across this:

http://tinyurl.com/yboh5axk

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 19, 2018 12:45 AM (w1zJX)

455 Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 19, 2018 12:37 AM (fA1SL)

When I highlighted and googled the word it came back as a French bread related to the Italian focaccia and often made into leaf or tree shapes.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 19, 2018 12:50 AM (rp9xB)

456 455. Huh. The things the ONT teaches us. I've only ever thought of fougasse as an improvised directional mine. I wonder how that usage came to be.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 19, 2018 12:51 AM (fA1SL)

457 The Scots.

I think it is the rain and the mutton. And bad liquor. It makes them all mad.


https://youtu.be/OIcNlTo3w9g

Posted by: Kindltot at February 19, 2018 12:53 AM (2K6fY)

458 I will grudgingly acknowledge a moment of gratitude on his part. Grudgingly.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 19, 2018 12:39 AM (FJXGr)

I am sure the "gratitude" occurred at a time when Stalin found it useful to be gracious. I think most of the Russians who used the trucks were told they were made in secret factories east of the Urals.
I tried to find an online picure of the album, without success. But it exists, and can be seen in the Studebaker National Museum in south Bend.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2018 12:54 AM (Dbv1R)

459 Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 19, 2018 12:51 AM (fA1SL)

And that certainly makes a whole lot more sense in context. I have to look up terms you use a lot (always be learning, right?) so I figured there must be another meaning.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 19, 2018 12:57 AM (rp9xB)

460 " The design was reminiscent of a weapon dating from late medieval times called a fougasse: a hollow in which was placed a barrel of gunpowder covered by rocks, the explosives to be detonated by a fuse at an opportune moment. "

That's all I got.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 19, 2018 12:58 AM (nBBdT)

461 459. Huh....it's a weird world, innit? On the one hand, you've got a person who knows fougasse only as a mine. On the other, there's a mass of people what know it as fancy bread. And both are correct.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 19, 2018 12:59 AM (fA1SL)

462 'fore I go to bed, Polliwog, I posted a response to your musing about destructible currencies in the book thread this morning.


Posted by: Kindltot at February 19, 2018 01:00 AM (2K6fY)

463 Sometimes lurking feels like being the person sitting at the end of the bar, staring into my drink and just eavesdropping on everyone else's conversations.
So... hi all.
Posted by: sugar plum fairy #176-671 at February 19, 2018 12:29 AM

Do join in sugar plum fairy. I lurked for yrs before posting. These are good folks.

I've met a few IRL and they are cool. Speak up some more.


Posted by: Farmer at February 19, 2018 01:01 AM (yJ1e6)

464 Is the plural of Fougasse "Fugazi"?

Posted by: Kindltot at February 19, 2018 01:01 AM (2K6fY)

465 464. Ha!

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 19, 2018 01:01 AM (fA1SL)

466 I'm trying, again, to be better about waking up early so I guess I should call it a night.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 19, 2018 01:01 AM (rp9xB)

467 sugar plum fairy..... .especially Farmer is good people

Posted by: westminsterdogshow........GNAMM ette at February 19, 2018 01:02 AM (mMeIQ)

468 The Scots.
I think it is the rain and the mutton. And bad liquor. It makes them all mad.

https://youtu.be/OIcNlTo3w9g
Posted by: Kindltot
===
I know- they drive on the wrong side of the road even when sober!

Posted by: Pogomip at February 19, 2018 01:03 AM (9S2zk)

469 Posted by: Kindltot at February 19, 2018 01:00 AM (2K6fY)

Thank you, I saw that. As I feared, I don't think I understood much of it. Sometimes my curiosity outstrips my capacity.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 19, 2018 01:03 AM (rp9xB)

470 Becalmed, we were, in the Fougasso Sea. A dank miasma held low over the oily swells. The crew were loath to use the head chains, from fear of the flying Candiru fish, the only living creatures in that vast, fetid expanse, save for the...aaarrgh! Get it off me!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2018 01:06 AM (Dbv1R)

471 470. Bwaah! Utterly perfect.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 19, 2018 01:08 AM (fA1SL)

472 Does anyone remember the issue where Reggie drugs and date-rapes Betty?

Oh, wait, cuz I haven't submitted that script to Archie yet.
Posted by: Robert climbs slowly into the barrel at February 18, 2018 11:23 PM (ayUOl)


They're planning that for next season of Riverdale.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at February 19, 2018 01:09 AM (Tnhbr)

473 There is a swell little old guy who lives in Bryan, Ohio who spent about half the war driving Studebaker US6 trucks from Iran to Leningrad. He was a little bit in demand for a few years, and did a neat presentation that was a sort of travelogue.

They had a "TKD" (totally knocked-down) re-assembly shop on the Gulf of Oman, staffed by Army engineers who had all been in ASTP, the high-intensity officer training program for collegians, until it was cancelled. There was a cruiser kept in port for AA and as a security base, and it was so hot that they had to run the pumps and spray down the upper works with seawater all day, just to keep the magazines at a safe temperature. Walking on the deck in daylight would soften the soles of your shoes enough to stick to the deck, yet tribal types who went aboard to trade were barefoot, and that impressed him.

The drive north was far enough from the lines that he never felt he was in a war zone, but the handover to the Soviets was on the frozen lake outside the city, and that could get dicey. The hardest part was a jeep ride back to get the next batch.

When the mission ended, they were bound home through Suez until their CO volunteered them for the invasion of southern France, and they got to serve under Patton for the rest of the war.

So much for the basket case trucks that Studebaker never built.
Another time we might discuss the Burma Road an the Alcan Highway.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at February 19, 2018 01:10 AM (H5rtT)

474 I remember it being weirdly dark. And that one guy in the sunglasses...in his underwear a lot? I think? Bill D. Cat was awesome, though.

Steve Dallas. Womanizer and ambulance chasing lawyer. Awesome.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at February 19, 2018 01:10 AM (Tnhbr)

475 470. And that brings to mind the All-Purpose Film Noir Fishing Story, from Lady From Shanghai:

https://youtu.be/GTQx-WuZW-M

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 19, 2018 01:11 AM (fA1SL)

476 >>>Do your hair and nails really keep growing after you die?

Lace wigs, is that you?

Posted by: m at February 19, 2018 01:12 AM (VKsXm)

477 Having to manually update via FTP due to bad checksum from auto-update...

Posted by: The Blogging Hat at February 19, 2018 01:12 AM (itfg0)

478 from fear of the flying Candiru fish
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No doubt someone is feverishly working in a gene-splicing lab to create the free range flying Candiru fish.

We'll have to go back to wearing codpieces.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 19, 2018 01:15 AM (y3sT9)

479
From what I've seen, McArdle's a mix of prog and libertarian. Yes, I know that in theory those two things aren't supposed to play well. But that's how I'd describe her. She has her statist tendencies, but she also has a lot of areas that she would prefer the state to not get involved in.

Posted by: junior at February 18, 2018 11:43 PM (VwdDc)


McMegan is socially liberal, but is able to acknowledge that she's a product of growing up on the East Coast in NYC and DC. While she's libertarian leaning, she also tends to view it as impractical, and thus sometimes reflexively leans left in response.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at February 19, 2018 01:16 AM (Tnhbr)

480 We'll have to go back to wearing codpieces.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 19, 2018 01:15 AM (y3sT9)

Failing that, pollock pads.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2018 01:18 AM (Dbv1R)

481 long frustrating day.... moar tomorrow.

best i get some Zs, i think...

hasta, y'all!

Posted by: redc1c4 at February 19, 2018 01:18 AM (Dkm+q)

482 Time for me to call it a night, too. Lots to do tomorrow. Good night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2018 01:20 AM (Dbv1R)

483 388 I think Johnny Weir needs to up his HEY I'M GHEYYYYY!!! game

Wait.. he's gay? Totally didn't see that.

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at February 19, 2018 01:20 AM (3JQ/p)

484 480. Izzat that Polish body armour from the gub thread?

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 19, 2018 01:21 AM (fA1SL)

485 AOP, on July 3, 1941, Stalin addressed his country for the first time since the German invasion. Via radio.


Pertinent passages:


"In this war of liberation we shall not be alone. In this great war we shall have loyal allies in the peoples of Europe and America ...... Our war for the freedom of our country will merge with the struggle of the peoples of Europe and America ..... It will be a united front of peoples standing for freedom and against enslavement and threats of enslavement by Hitler's fascist armies.

In this connection the historic utterance of the British Prime Minister Churchill regarding aid to the Soviet Union and the declaration of the United States Government signifying its readiness to render aid to our country, which can only evoke a feeling of gratitude in the hearts of the peoples of the Soviet Union, are fully comprehensible and symptomatic."


Yes - this was primarily a pep talk, given as German forces were rampaging across the Baltics, western Belorussia, and western Ukraine. Quite an interesting speech, overall, in which a lot of historical references were used to bolster the case for confidence even as the news was grim. And a very interesting defense of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.


As with so much else in the USSR, there were many things that were universally known and never or rarely spoken of, and western aid during the war fits in that category.


Posted by: rhomboid at February 19, 2018 01:21 AM (QDnY+)

486 485. 'This is about us, isn't it?' - Hundreds of millions of tons of American wheat what kept the Reds from starving for 80 years

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 19, 2018 01:23 AM (fA1SL)

487 Stringer, now THAT's an interesting story. The Iran route for Lend-Lease. One of the subsidiary objectives of the Germans' drive on the Caucasus - which was hopelessly beyond their means, probably - was to break that link.


Would like to learn much more about that. Including the actual route. Assume it was to Baku, then by barge across the Caspian up to Russia, or by road through the more passable terrain found on the Azeri side of the Caucasus (compared to the Armenia/Georgia route).

Posted by: rhomboid at February 19, 2018 01:27 AM (QDnY+)

488 Would like to learn much more about that. Including the actual route. Assume it was to Baku, then by barge across the Caspian up to Russia, or by road through the more passable terrain found on the Azeri side of the Caucasus (compared to the Armenia/Georgia route).
Posted by: rhomboid
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Persian Corridor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Corridor

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 19, 2018 01:31 AM (7ThJ3)

489 Goodnight all, hope everyone had a great weekend and that it gets to continue tomorrow. Thanks for the chat.

Posted by: qdpsteve at February 19, 2018 01:35 AM (eMKNe)

490 Thanks Mike. I find that sometimes I'll get my initial book references from a wiki entry like that, and branch out from there.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 19, 2018 01:35 AM (QDnY+)

491 In Soviet Galveston, Sunk New Dawn drags down typing sailor to fitful sleep.

Pity, the man breaks free from Davy Jones' grasp, only by his grace of havingk much to work on tomorrow.

Next time though...next...time....


Evil lurking gavestongrad commissar sonovobitch.



Fvcking night greetings, Hordlinks!

Posted by: Jim at February 19, 2018 01:38 AM (QzJWU)

492 Profoundish thoughtly thing at this hour:

Lace wigs ads died out not long after I got on board here.

For some time I read it as Lace Wings

... which actually made more sense...

Posted by: mindful webworker - pro foundly at February 19, 2018 01:42 AM (xzezz)

493 Night all.

Here is "Beggar's Need" by Electric Citizen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BeJyMtzXVo

Posted by: The Political Hat at February 19, 2018 01:47 AM (itfg0)

494 >>>262 Do car dealerships who sell cars that cause multiple fatality pile ups get "mortified" and close their business?
Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2018 11:06 PM (LiyEm)

Good point.

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Posted by: full lace wigs at February 19, 2018 02:08 AM (SbrMG)

496 Posted by: full lace wigs at February 19, 2018 02:08 AM (SbrMG)

That was a blast from the past. Now dig up one of the womens handbag ads

Posted by: Exile at February 19, 2018 02:17 AM (Fikbq)

497 Some stupid little fool raving Trump has blood on his hands over the Florida shooting.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh


You're going to have to be more specific; that describes 80% of the internet.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 19, 2018 02:46 AM (KXVP7)

498 Heh....by the many arms of Vishnu, the Indians were giving to Trudeau the sick burn if having a deputy minister of agriculture meet him when he arrived.
Also, see the pictures of him with his wife and her children at the Taj Mahal. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5405491/amp/Trudeau-family-larks-Diana-bench-Taj-Mahal.html

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 19, 2018 03:02 AM (fA1SL)

499 * kicks ONT in ribs. Takes its watch and rummages thru its pockets for cash & smokes. Takes cheapo Huawei phone, checks for 'good pics, ' finds none. Smashes phone. Spots large filling. Reaches for tool-bag and channel-locks. *

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 19, 2018 03:05 AM (fA1SL)

500 Thankfully all my dental work was done in east germany.

Posted by: Exile at February 19, 2018 03:17 AM (Fikbq)

501 Born on this day, Robbie Bachman from Bachman Turner Overdrive who had the 1974 US No.1 & UK No.2 single 'You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet'.


It's Michele now. That's how you ought to refer to her. I look forward to working with her once I'm elected.

Posted by: Sen. Manning at February 19, 2018 03:18 AM (2835Q)

502 "I ran into a Sasquatch - a Bigfoot. We were face to face," said Ackley, 46. "He was 30 feet up in the tree."


They didn't believe Ackley about the Whisperer in Darkness either, until it was too late.

Posted by: H. P. Lovecraft at February 19, 2018 03:41 AM (2835Q)

503 Who needs a stinking alarm?

Posted by: Skip at February 19, 2018 03:43 AM (aC6Sd)

504 I just learned that two massive hydrogen bombs air burst on Mars destroyed the planet and the civilization there.

Posted by: Exile at February 19, 2018 03:46 AM (Fikbq)

505
09:00 Coordinated Universal Time

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at February 19, 2018 03:54 AM (roQNm)

506 Some people are looking into Mueller 's collusion Russians, the calls they had for rallies brought in the ten of people. The ads were of cartoon quality. Tennessee Republicans complained about tje fake website and no one from web did anything about it.
This is one big smoke screen by Mueller.

Posted by: Skip at February 19, 2018 03:56 AM (aC6Sd)

507 09:00 Coordinated Universal Time
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at February 19, 2018 03:54 AM (roQNm)



If ace of spades were moving at or near the speed of light, its clocks would necessarily be slower compared to your frame of reference.

Posted by: Neil DeGrasse Tyson at February 19, 2018 04:14 AM (2835Q)

508 Yes, Justine Turdeau. What a silly excuse for PM of Canada, an accomplished former snowboard instructor and substitute teacher.

Described by one student- "What I remember most about him was was the day 9/11 occurred. Whereas ever other teacher continued their lesson as if nothing happened, he told us he wasn't going to teach French. Instead, he wanted to talk about the global ramifications from that event and had an open discussion as to how we thought and felt about the whole situation. He also reminded us not judge a group based on the actions of a few extremists."

Fvcking Canucks. Remember- Majority are Pro-Islamist, Anti-American.

Don't ever turn your back to them. And yes, I have family on both sides of that border.

Sad, disappointing. Bigly.

Posted by: Pogomip at February 19, 2018 04:16 AM (SbrMG)

509 Good morning horde, and have a great day everyone.

Posted by: Skip at February 19, 2018 04:54 AM (aC6Sd)

510 *poke*.

Posted by: Russian nanobot at February 19, 2018 05:01 AM (2835Q)

511
312 Make it stop.
(Every guy forced to watch figure skating by their wife or girlfriend)
Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2018 11:21 PM (LiyEm)


That's funny - those are the same three words that I kept saying in reference to the discomfort I was feeling during my heart attack.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 19, 2018 05:33 AM (pNxlR)

512 Well, this is a fine kettle of fish. Do we have some cornbread?

Posted by: Eromero at February 19, 2018 05:46 AM (zLDYs)

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at February 19, 2018 05:47 AM (mpXpK)

514 Fvcking Canucks. Remember- Majority are Pro-Islamist, Anti-American.

Don't ever turn your back to them. And yes, I have family on both sides of that border.

----

don't i have to turn my back to either the Canadians or the Mexicans? Maybe i need to move to Alaska.

Posted by: buzzaw90 at February 19, 2018 05:48 AM (vChNs)

515 512 Well, this is a fine kettle of fish. Do we have some cornbread?
Posted by: Eromero at February 19, 2018 05:46 AM (zLDYs)

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of course not. everyone ignored the fish and ate the cornbread. now in a carb coma.

Posted by: buzzaw90 at February 19, 2018 05:50 AM (vChNs)

516
Common sense loot box controls ... whatever.

Where are socialist sleezeball Bernie Sanders' brain-addled rants about the proliferation of too many varieties of state-sponsored lottery games?

"You don't necessarily need a choice of 47 Scratch and Win games or of 15 Mega-Millions-like games when children are hungry in this country."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 19, 2018 05:53 AM (pNxlR)

517
Don't i have to turn my back to either the Canadians or the Mexicans? Maybe i need to move to Alaska.
Posted by: buzzaw90 at February 19, 2018 05:48 AM (vChNs)


Turn your back to Europe and fart. Apparently that has a certain "come hither" appeal over there.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 19, 2018 05:55 AM (pNxlR)

518 I don't travel by air anymore since I retired, seems like I must be missing something...screaming kids, screaming government workers, etc. I remember the old days of ash trays in the arm rest, magazines handed out....

Posted by: Colin at February 19, 2018 06:05 AM (RlDG4)

519 "I don't travel by air anymore since I retired, seems like I must be missing something..."

Now you have to pay extra to avoid non stop flatulence.

Posted by: Exile at February 19, 2018 06:09 AM (Fikbq)

520 G'morning, all.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 19, 2018 06:19 AM (EyPfd)

521 Good morning!

Let's smile and be happy and strike fear in the heart of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 19, 2018 06:21 AM (hyuyC)

522 I don't have to go to work today, but here I am, at the usual waking time.

Top of the morning to ya VIA.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 19, 2018 06:22 AM (hyuyC)

523 I bet I could cunt punt Johnny Weir farther than you can.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at February 19, 2018 06:26 AM (6Ll1u)

524 Colin

You forgot the close embrace by your new friends in the TSA. and the arbitrary carry-on rules. Security theater.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 19, 2018 06:27 AM (hyuyC)

525 "Top of the morning to ya VIA."

G'morning Salty.


Hey, stupid question that went through my mind yesterday while scraping paint.....


Now that the Russian meddling charges are out, I thought I saw where the Charlottesville pro-Hillary protests were actually put together by the Russians.

Is it a long reach, or a short hop to begin to believe that the Antifa movement, so predominant at the protest is actually a Russian construct?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 19, 2018 06:27 AM (EyPfd)

526 "I bet I could cunt punt Johnny Weir farther than you can."


I wonder if he could stick the landing.

It would be fabulous.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 19, 2018 06:29 AM (EyPfd)

527 Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)

State Lotteries are a replacement for hope to the downtrodden. Church was better, but can not have that.

Plus they are lessons in probability to the masses.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 19, 2018 06:29 AM (hyuyC)

528 Village Idiot's Apprentice

The Charlottesville Antifa movement should be investigated by a competent intelligence agency to find where the money came from.

It was certainly inspired by classic Soviet agit-prop techniques. My take is that it was home grown, because those Soviet tactics have been internalized by the organizers over the years. The groups involved had Soros money. How much other money is unknown.

DoD has all the footage, but it has not been released to the public. A National Guard unit set up recording devices in a nearby 2nd story building, ISTR. Lots of curious actions that make reasoned people want answers. Alas, they are under a media pillow.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 19, 2018 06:37 AM (hyuyC)

529 Most all the states promote gambling now. Which is just another tax on all hope to get rich. Bernie is upset because their are so many choices, oh I forgot he is a Socialist, which means you have one choice.

Posted by: Colin at February 19, 2018 06:39 AM (RlDG4)

530 So if most of the guy skaters are gay, how many of the girls aren't?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at February 19, 2018 06:40 AM (6Ll1u)

531 Tinfoilbaby

Ask Paulo. He knows.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 19, 2018 06:43 AM (hyuyC)

532 He also reminded us not judge a group based on the actions of a few extremists

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Unless it's gun related. Then we have a moral obligation to do just that.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Take a Wakanda Wild Side With the Black Pander at February 19, 2018 06:44 AM (ks6bw)

533 Alas, they are under a media pillow.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 19, 2018 06:37 AM (hyuyC)

This morning it all Trump hate...blood on his hands stuff. They could care less about Charlottesville.

Posted by: Colin at February 19, 2018 06:44 AM (RlDG4)

534 Stop teachers from debauching children. Abolish Public Schools.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 19, 2018 06:45 AM (hyuyC)

535 Colin.

I don't watch. Probably best for my health and decision making.

At some point, self-defense is involved. And my wife has promised me, numerous times, that she will not visit me in prison.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 19, 2018 06:47 AM (hyuyC)

536 Speaking of Charlottesville, did charges get placed?

Posted by: Jean at February 19, 2018 06:48 AM (Evje3)

537 Jean

On the driver, yes.
DNK about others.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 19, 2018 06:49 AM (hyuyC)

538 At some point, self-defense is involved. And my wife has promised me, numerous times, that she will not visit me in prison.





Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 19, 2018 06:47 AM (hyuyC)

Same here, I don't watch or listen to the news much anymore. All the news I get is selective, off the internet. I haven't looked at the CNN website in a long time. I do look at the local Gannett paper and the Chicago/Baltimore Tribune, to see what shit they are pushing.

Posted by: Colin at February 19, 2018 06:51 AM (RlDG4)

539 I'll start my chore list now.

Have a serene day everyone. May every sale be a good one, and driving in parking lots be stress free.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 19, 2018 06:51 AM (hyuyC)

540 While working, just listen to the soothing sounds of Yoko Ono Screaming....

Posted by: Colin at February 19, 2018 06:54 AM (RlDG4)

541 Shouldn't the women's march and me too be boycotting the ice skating thing? That Gurls gonna pick up that guy over her head any time now and spin him around.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at February 19, 2018 06:55 AM (6Ll1u)

542 *stands on Second Turnbuckle*

*shows Championship Belt to crowd*

Top Ten in Comments baby.

Sure ... somewhat less than Top Ten in Quality. But the numbers don't lie. And Quantity has a Quality all its own.

Woo !!!

Posted by: ScoggDog at February 19, 2018 07:01 AM (fiGNd)

543 Hey ScoggDog, I'm watching ice-skating and no women's outfits have fallen off.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at February 19, 2018 07:13 AM (6Ll1u)

544 Last?

Posted by: Shoeless guy at February 19, 2018 07:13 AM (kfVpE)

545 544>> Nope.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 19, 2018 07:14 AM (YYYb4)

546 Not saying that NBC's Olympic coverage has been lame...
But, Decades has had a wonderful 'Facts of Life' series binge watch all weekend.


And the Sunday paper had a lot of coupons to cut out.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 19, 2018 07:15 AM (EyPfd)

547 Where'd everybody go?

Posted by: Cowboy Blobert at February 19, 2018 07:16 AM (0CeRG)

548 Hey ScoggDog, I'm watching ice-skating and no women's outfits have fallen off.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at February 19, 2018 07:13 AM (6Ll1u)

Maybe another way to up the TV ratings, have the outfits fall off. But I'm betting they would show the men's outfits falling off first.

Posted by: Colin at February 19, 2018 07:17 AM (RlDG4)

549 Tropical ONT, how nice!

We have seen geese flying North all week-end long.

Phil the Groundhog was wrong this year.

Posted by: ALH at February 19, 2018 07:17 AM (O6yAf)

550 Checks JJ timecard.

Nope, he hasn't punched in yet. Does JJ get federal holidays off?

Posted by: Bruce at February 19, 2018 07:18 AM (8ikIW)

551 And the Sunday paper had a lot of coupons to cut out.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 19, 2018 07:15 AM (EyPfd)

The only thing I miss about getting the print edition of the local paper....

Posted by: Colin at February 19, 2018 07:18 AM (RlDG4)

552 "Phil the Groundhog was wrong this year. "

I thought he had changed his stage name to AlGore.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 19, 2018 07:18 AM (EyPfd)

553 This is the worst trip I've ever been on.

Posted by: grammie winger - God Loves You, Don't Be Stupid, at February 19, 2018 07:19 AM (fD4nI)

554 This is the worst trip I've ever been on.

Por que?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 19, 2018 07:20 AM (YYYb4)

555 Morning all

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 19, 2018 07:20 AM (5y11N)

556 This is the worst trip I've ever been on.
Posted by: grammie winger

Then all you can do is Hoist up the John-B sail....

Posted by: Bruce at February 19, 2018 07:21 AM (8ikIW)

557 I believe that the sound a woman's costume makes before it comes off is K-Pop.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at February 19, 2018 07:21 AM (6Ll1u)

558 Speaking as a well adjusted boat, I am very pleased with tonight's photo.

Posted by: goon at February 19, 2018 07:22 AM (EaQ6/)

559
Cultural appropriation of a Bahama traditional folk song this early in the morning??!!!

Posted by: Leftist Backpacker at February 19, 2018 07:23 AM (2FqvZ)

560 Presidents Day ... all AoS commenters must be presidents, and are taking the day off ... pretty quiet around here.

Maybe President JJ will show up soon.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 19, 2018 07:25 AM (bT8Z4)

561 Por que?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 19, 2018 07:20 AM (YYYb4)


Sheriff John Stone - why don't you leave me alone?

Posted by: grammie winger - God Loves You, Don't Be Stupid, at February 19, 2018 07:26 AM (fD4nI)

562 Cultural appropriation of a Bahama traditional folk song this early in the morning??!!!
Posted by: Leftist Backpacker

We're sorry. We didn't mean to have fun....Whatever you do don't take my kale away...PLease!!!

Posted by: Bruce at February 19, 2018 07:26 AM (8ikIW)

563 Mueller has locked the blog finding Ace is a Russian agent.

Posted by: MAGA at February 19, 2018 07:27 AM (LnOh3)

564 If I am in the topd 10 c0mmenters, it must have been a slow week

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 19, 2018 07:27 AM (5y11N)

565 Interesting abut President's Day.

We were at the local Post Office on Friday, and Mrs VIA wished the two USPS workers a happy President's Day.

Both of them replied/implied that with this President, there was nothing to celebrate.


Didn't have the heart to tell them that the holiday had nothing to do with the current President.

Nothing but the best, and brightest.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 19, 2018 07:28 AM (EyPfd)

566 553 This is the worst trip I've ever been on.
Posted by: grammie winger - God Loves You, Don't Be Stupid, at February 19, 2018 07:19 AM (fD4nI)

-----

Hopped up on goofballs agains? Pink ones, yellow one?

Posted by: MAGA at February 19, 2018 07:28 AM (LnOh3)

567 I can sense a battle between newspapers and local mailings of coupons in my mailbox. Newspapers don't want to loose those Sunday coupons, or they would loose even more subscribers. Along with car dealers who buy most of the print advertising.

Posted by: Colin at February 19, 2018 07:28 AM (RlDG4)

568 I did see this AM that YaHOooOOo news is upset that Trump! has also had the time to berate the chuckleheads on the collusion thing instead of Trump! just sticking with the Florida shooting.

Posted by: Bruce at February 19, 2018 07:29 AM (8ikIW)

569 Nothing but the best, and brightest.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 19, 2018 07:28 AM (EyPfd)

Which is why, amongst other reasons, The US Post Office will out of business or drastically different 10 years from now. Fully automated maybe?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 19, 2018 07:29 AM (5y11N)

570 I remember when there used to be two holidays, but thank god the government employees got a day off now.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at February 19, 2018 07:29 AM (6Ll1u)

571 After agreeing to an offer to work for NBC, Adam Rippon decided overnight that he would rather remain as an Olympian and has declined.

When Rippon and his team realized he would have to relinquish his official Olympic standing, give up his Olympic credential, move out of Team USA Housing and not be allowed to march in the closing ceremony, he changed his mind and turned down NBC.

Gag me

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 19, 2018 07:32 AM (5y11N)

572 Does J.J. work for the Feds? Or does he just have appendicitis? How dare he be late for an unpaid volunteer job.

Posted by: grammie winger - God Loves You, Don't Be Stupid, at February 19, 2018 07:32 AM (fD4nI)

573 It use to bug me that government workers/school kids got Veterans day off. And I had to work like any other day....

Posted by: Colin at February 19, 2018 07:33 AM (RlDG4)

574 After agreeing to an offer to work for NBC, Adam Rippon decided overnight that he would rather remain as an Olympian and has declined.

When Rippon and his team realized he would have to relinquish his official Olympic standing, give up his Olympic credential, move out of Team USA Housing and not be allowed to march in the closing ceremony, he changed his mind and turned down NBC.

Gag me
Posted by: Nevergiveup


Plus snapping towels at Rokers saggy ass in the NBC locker room wouldn't be as much fun....after day 3

Posted by: Bruce at February 19, 2018 07:33 AM (8ikIW)

575 RE: the article about the gunshop owners - "In reaction to the revelation that Cruz was a troubled, racist, and radicalized young man...." I must have missed that part. What has come out that he was a racist and was radicalized? I thought that the white supremacist stuff was not true and as to the radicalizaition by who or what?

Posted by: KWDreaming at February 19, 2018 07:34 AM (mBmTz)

576 JJ is awake. ANd Nood and very LInky today!!

Posted by: Bruce at February 19, 2018 07:35 AM (8ikIW)

577 Now Trump has done it. He sent out some Tweets criticizing The Oprah.

He is screwed You do not criticize the LIV's Queen Bee.

Posted by: Ripley at February 19, 2018 07:35 AM (MxEKc)

578 nood !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/365 at February 19, 2018 07:37 AM (H0hPC)

579 Presidents Day

or Presidents' Day

does the day belong to the presidents, or is it more like "Christmas Day"? I mentally over it for half a second while typing and left off the apostrophe, on review see it printed both ways.
Mueller needs to hire an extra mob lawyer to get to the bottom of this.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 19, 2018 07:38 AM (bT8Z4)

580 This is the worst trip I've ever been on.
Posted by: grammie winger - God Loves You, Don't Be Stupid, at February 19, 2018 07:19 AM


So hoist up the John B.'s sails

Posted by: The Kingston Trio at February 19, 2018 09:07 AM (DMUuz)

581 "Peanuts, The Far Side, Calvin & Hobbes, whatever happened to the strip and its creator."

Take Peanuts off that list - Schulz may be dead but they're still running the strip - and add Piranha Club.

Posted by: aelfheld at February 19, 2018 01:06 PM (IxDhF)

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