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THE MORNING RANT: Lemon Zest Has Gotten Entirely Out of Hand; also, Are Crows Holding a Multi-Generational Grudge Against Ace?
Is it possible that Ace’s neighborhood crows are nursing a grudge against him for some reason? Perhaps they actively dislike people who are shelving-impaired?
“If You Think You Can Hold a Grudge, Consider the Crow; The brainy birds carry big chips on their shoulders, scientists say. And some people who become subjects of their ire may be victims of mistaken identity.” [NY Times – 10/28/2024]Renowned for their intelligence, crows can mimic human speech, use tools and gather for what seem to be funeral rites when a member of their murder, as groups of crows are known, dies or is killed. They can identify and remember faces, even among large crowds. They also tenaciously hold grudges. When a murder of crows singles out a person as dangerous, its wrath can be alarming, and can be passed along beyond an individual crow’s life span of up to a dozen or so years, creating multigenerational grudges.Crows hold multi-generational grudges!? Ace has famously told us of his childhood trauma of having to eat Kaboom cereal. (“I suppose this was General Mills' attempt to tap the downscale demographic’ in six-year-olds.”) How sad if Ace is still paying the price of his Kaboom years with the crows holding a multi-generational grudge against him. [buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 28, 2026 11:00 AM (XHO5P)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 28, 2026 11:01 AM (XHO5P)
Posted by: SQUEEZE at September 28, 2026 11:01 AM (rOKnE)
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at September 28, 2026 11:02 AM (MNCvZ)
It's hard to find a recipe nowadays that doesn't slip in a little cardamom. Seriously, back TF off with that spice already.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2026 11:02 AM (rOKnE)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 28, 2026 11:03 AM (iW7pR)
I make lemon-ricotta waffles that uses a lot of lemon zest and they are amazing. But I only make them for my family about once every 2-3 months.
Every day, or every week would get tiring.
That's the problem with "fads"- it wears out the novelty.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 28, 2026 11:03 AM (XHO5P)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 11:03 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Martin Tell at September 28, 2026 11:03 AM (sFNX2)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 11:03 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 11:03 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at September 28, 2026 11:04 AM (MNCvZ)
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy
Some people are raven about it.
Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 11:04 AM (77rzZ)
It's hard to find a recipe nowadays that doesn't slip in a little cardamom. Seriously, back TF off with that spice already.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2026 11:02 AM (rOKnE)
Again, rarity makes it more valuable.
I generally take my tea with cardamom, but I don't really use it elsewhere.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 28, 2026 11:04 AM (XHO5P)
I feel the same way about cumin. A little goes a long way.
Had some BBQ Beans one time where all you could taste was the cumin.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 11:05 AM (ccf/V)
For awhile, kale was the lemon zest of pumpkin spices. Thankfully, that moment seems to have passed.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2026 11:05 AM (Riz8t)
I can only assume crows are frightened by little bear looking things with hats & spears.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 11:05 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Except Buck at September 28, 2026 11:06 AM (Fn+3X)
It's hard to find a recipe nowadays that doesn't slip in a little cardamom. Seriously, back TF off with that spice already.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2026 11:02 AM
This is so funny, because this weekend I went to our local tea house, which does get creative but usually in good ways. The owner was experimenting with new concoctions and was making a cardamom cold foam. In my head I was like are you kidding me? Though I guess it’s not pumpkin spice, at least. Anyway, it was delicious. Really, really good.
Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 11:06 AM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at September 28, 2026 11:06 AM (MDua2)
I saw Morning Report included the (surely Iranian derived) terror plot against USAF base in England.
Not being widely reported is death of four US citizens in Athens, Greece from explosionover the weekend. Gas leak is intial report, but it looks a bit too convenient for that. To me. From the timing and geography, I hope our authorities look to Iranian involvement and, if shown, take necessary response
Posted by: Martin Tell at September 28, 2026 11:06 AM (sFNX2)
Last SPring I noticed the local crows enjoying our bird bath, so I started putting out some snacks on the edge of it for them.
Squirrels discovered this and shamelessly stole the snacks immediately after I placed them, so I backed off. A few weeks later, I'm walking my dog when suddenly -- THWACK!! -- something hits the back of my head. And now the darn thing is sitting on a nearby tree scolding me!!
Yes, the crow was pissed I had stopped. Message received, I resumed with the snacks.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2026 11:07 AM (rOKnE)
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"A Whole Lot of Rosemary" is an under-appreciated AC/DC track.
Posted by: Crusader at September 28, 2026 11:07 AM (TN0g+)
Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 11:07 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Man From Calcutta at September 28, 2026 11:07 AM (Fn+3X)
A group of crows is called a murder of crows.
QED, the crows are probably on the side of the insane Clancy supporting AWFLs.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 28, 2026 11:07 AM (HlyYF)
Posted by: Madge at September 28, 2026 11:08 AM (2Ez/1)
It's an old chef's trick: when the food ain't that great, add some strong spices.
Similar thing with the cheap beer brewers (the odious Budweiser, etc) constantly pimping "ice old" beer. Beer is not supposed to be drank ice cold. But the colder the beer, the less you'll notice the dogshit flavors.
So the cheap beer brewers have spent generations trying to get their customers to drink their crappy beer at near-freezing temps.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 28, 2026 11:08 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 28, 2026 11:08 AM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 11:08 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at September 28, 2026 11:09 AM (0bjKf)
Heh, glad it was good. I will let you drink my share, too!
Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2026 11:09 AM (rOKnE)
Posted by: Gen'l Mills at September 28, 2026 11:09 AM (anL5R)
Mentioned on the Food Thread yesterday, went to to a new-to-me cafe, and ordered poutine. They made it with curly fries, and sprinkled fenugreek on it. Was barely edible. Won't be going back there.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2026 11:10 AM (peOdB)
Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 11:10 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Lizzy
That'll learn ya!
Posted by: Raven Lunatic at September 28, 2026 11:10 AM (Fn+3X)
We started to feed hummingbirds last summer and we discovered they too will memorize not only the location of the feeder(s) but the face of the person(s) who put it out.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2026 11:11 AM (RORbl)
Posted by: Paul Hewson at September 28, 2026 11:11 AM (fmbc9)
Glad some (Lizzy) called out the pumkin spice plague. Although (another confession) I look forward to the first appearance of pumkin spice as harbinger of cooler temps. At last.
Posted by: Martin Tell at September 28, 2026 11:11 AM (sFNX2)
lemon zest, rosemary, cardamom, ... all good, used appropriately.
had a bratwurst, week or so ago, and noticed that it lacked the distinguishing trace of lemon zest that I am used to.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 28, 2026 11:11 AM (VyBeY)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 11:12 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 28, 2026 11:12 AM (8T+WD)
Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 11:12 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Doof at September 28, 2026 11:13 AM (ZV+zn)
Heh, glad it was good. I will let you drink my share, too!
Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2026 11:09 AM
I was not expecting it to be that good. I am going to get a London Fog with this as a topper next time. I will keep you posted. 🤣
Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 11:13 AM (ZdaMQ)
Lemon Oyster Kaboom!...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 11:13 AM (l3cgK)
Now they'll spot them out the window and want to go feed their "bird friends"
Posted by: heya at September 28, 2026 11:13 AM (JRhnV)
Posted by: Rind Of The Ancient Mariner at September 28, 2026 11:14 AM (Fn+3X)
It's an old chef's trick: when the food ain't that great, add some strong spices.
The old saw has it that spices were used to cover the the taste and smell of rotting meat in medieval times, but if you think about it, that doesn't really make sense. Spices, especially pepper, were very expensive, and the only people who could afford them were the rich, who were also the least likely to eat rotten meat.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2026 11:14 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 28, 2026 11:14 AM (3cUTc)
Posted by: dantesed at September 28, 2026 11:14 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: dantesed at September 28, 2026 11:14 AM (Oy/m2)
Much more ranting than raving.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 11:14 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 28, 2026 11:14 AM (amcLV)
300 What kind of ornamental grass cushions a fall off a ladder?
Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 10:59 AM (viF8m)
Pampas grass seems like it would do the trick.
https://tinyurl.com/ynm2pdbz
My neighbor has several planted right along the coastal. They are big and spectacular, although not as big as the ones in the pic.
Posted by: one hour sober at September 28, 2026 11:14 AM (J4Dwc)
I've found that some fresh lime juice squeezed onto grilled salmon is delicious.
YMMV
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at September 28, 2026 11:14 AM (MNCvZ)
Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 11:12 AM (KC5Lt)
It's lemon rind, is what it is. The part you are not supposed to eat. Want some cow zest on your burger?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2026 11:15 AM (peOdB)
Posted by: Archimedes
It seems like just yesterday that it was kale this and kale that. Kale everywhere. Kale, kale, kale. It's so healthy. Blech! The stuff is awful.
Posted by: Tuna at September 28, 2026 11:15 AM (lJ0H4)
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That Ketchup is the best for dipping fries.
Posted by: Crusader at September 28, 2026 11:15 AM (TN0g+)
Posted by: The Conciurge at September 28, 2026 11:15 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: A Concerned Citizen at September 28, 2026 11:16 AM (f4cqu)
That Ketchup is the best for dipping fries.
Posted by: Crusader at September 28, 2026 11:15 AM (TN0g+)
Exactly what I last used it for.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 11:16 AM (ccf/V)
So that means ghosts and goblins and candy and costumes and ... endless stupid confabulations of "pumpkin spice" and pretty much everything on the planet.
Pumpkin ale. Pumpkin soda. Pumpkin cakes. Pumpkin bagels. Pumpkin chicken. Pumpkin lattes. Pumpkin pumpkin. Pumpkin condoms.
[Vomits]
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 28, 2026 11:16 AM (iFTx/)
It's an old chef's trick: when the food ain't that great, add some strong spices.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 28, 2026 11:08 AM (iFTx/)
Chorizo...My FIL, God rest his soul, told me about a time he visited a chorizo factory in Mexico...some of the meat was green...they add lots of spices to cover up the smell and flavor.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 11:16 AM (l3cgK)
What the actual F**k
Posted by: Auspex at September 28, 2026 11:17 AM (Y8DZL)
His motives were unknown.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 11:18 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Tuna at September 28, 2026 11:15 AM (lJ0H4)
Y’all crack me up. Leafy greens are good and good for you! Get the right kind of kale, add it in your salads. Fiber is your friend. Mostly. Unless you have health issues.
It still goes in my green juice everyday, but so does lemon.
Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 11:18 AM (ZdaMQ)
What the actual F**k
Posted by: Auspex at September 28, 2026 11:17 AM (Y8DZL)
The UK is quickly evolving into an enemy state...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 11:18 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 28, 2026 11:18 AM (BI5O2)
Just wait. They'll get bigger. Invasive weeds have a way of doing that.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 11:18 AM (viF8m)
_________
That didn't work out for Frank Costanza in Korea.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 28, 2026 11:18 AM (JzUSu)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2026 11:19 AM (wzUl9)
What the actual F**k
Posted by: Auspex
Indeed!
Posted by: Tuna at September 28, 2026 11:19 AM (lJ0H4)
It's an old chef's trick: when the food ain't that great, add some strong spices.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 28, 2026 11:08 AM (iFTx/)
Chorizo...My FIL, God rest his soul, told me about a time he visited a chorizo factory in Mexico...some of the meat was green...they add lots of spices to cover up the smell and flavor.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 11:16 AM (l3cgK)
________
Chorizo for the win!
Way back in the day, heavily salting meats was a way to sustain the meat and cover up the rotting flavors. Corned beef, for one.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 28, 2026 11:19 AM (iFTx/)
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Sure.
I just prefer ones that don't taste awful.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 28, 2026 11:19 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 11:19 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: James Talerico at September 28, 2026 11:19 AM (jBygX)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2026 11:19 AM (wzUl9)
Last SPring I noticed the local crows enjoying our bird bath, so I started putting out some snacks on the edge of it for them.
Squirrels discovered this and shamelessly stole the snacks immediately after I placed them, so I backed off. A few weeks later, I'm walking my dog when suddenly -- THWACK!! -- something hits the back of my head. And now the darn thing is sitting on a nearby tree scolding me!!
Yes, the crow was pissed I had stopped. Message received, I resumed with the snacks.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2026 11:07 AM (rOKnE)
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A decent pellet rifle can fix that problem in short order. Squirrels are destructive little rat bastards.
Posted by: Bonecrusher at September 28, 2026 11:19 AM (JNTt1)
You'd accept a well-written Buck political dissertation.
You get a Lemon Zest Kaboom Crow Fest.
Posted by: Hangs Head at September 28, 2026 11:20 AM (Fn+3X)
Scientists have discovered the first new penguin species in 100 years.
Posted by: The Conciurge at September 28, 2026 11:20 AM (77rzZ)
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He has the recipe in the cookbook. He marinates the hobo in lemon juice and olive oil, salt, rosemary and black pepper for 8-12 hours. Then he smokes it low and slow. It keeps it from coming out stringy. He says you can lemon zest the top of a roast for extra zing.
I actually haven't found much hobo locally, and the imported hobo is very pricey.
Posted by: so there's that at September 28, 2026 11:20 AM (anL5R)
Posted by: one hour sober at September 28, 2026 11:20 AM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 11:21 AM (eRlcH)
I say this as a philosophical assertion, since I have yet to find food it doesn't improve.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2026 11:21 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 11:21 AM (77rzZ)
Scientists have discovered the first new penguin species in 100 years.
Posted by: The Conciurge at September 28, 2026 11:20 AM (77rzZ)
Not even lemon zest and spices will make it taste palatable...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 11:22 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 11:22 AM (viF8m)
Last SPring I noticed the local crows enjoying our bird bath, so I started putting out some snacks on the edge of it for them.
Squirrels discovered this and shamelessly stole the snacks immediately after I placed them, so I backed off. A few weeks later, I'm walking my dog when suddenly -- THWACK!! -- something hits the back of my head. And now the darn thing is sitting on a nearby tree scolding me!!
Yes, the crow was pissed I had stopped. Message received, I resumed with the snacks.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2026 11:07 AM (rOKnE)
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A decent pellet rifle can fix that problem in short order. Squirrels are destructive little rat bastards.
Posted by: Bonecrusher
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Use the cheapest, nastiest hot sauce on the snacks. Birds cannot process the heat so it passes through with no problems.
Mammals, not so much. Liquid is easier to apply as if you use the dry powder on a windy day in filling the birdfeeders, you pepper spray yourself with the powder. Nasty.
Posted by: whig at September 28, 2026 11:22 AM (E4rtv)
California congressman proposes bill to reclassify air rifles as firearms
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 28, 2026 11:22 AM (ndZc7)
I say this as a philosophical assertion, since I have yet to find food it doesn't improve.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2026 11:21 AM (Riz8t)
Cereal...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 11:22 AM (l3cgK)
Mid-Morning Art Thread
Artemisia Gentileschi
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Posted by: George Costanza at September 28, 2026 09:31 AM (2Ez/1)
"Judith is widely viewed as an alter ego for the artist, symbolizing female agency, justice, and resilience against male oppression."
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Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 09:29 AM (77rzZ)
Holofernes was a soldier, remember.
Just look at the average quality of street whores near any major military base.
She's an Army Post 7, at least.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 28, 2026 09:32 AM (qlLNh)
Artemisia Gentileschi
***********
Judith turned to her handmaid and told her,
"Holofernes ain't getting no older.
But now that he's dead
Let it always be said
That he had a good head on his shoulders!"
Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2026 09:33 AM (I0N4X)
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Posted by: cmeat at September 28, 2026 09:34 AM (Bep7s)
Book of Judith, chapter 13. Accepted in RC and Orthodox canon, regarded as "apocryphal" in Protestant Biblical theology.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2026 09:34 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: I gotta ask at September 28, 2026 09:33 AM
You know what they say about snitches?
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Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2026 09:34 AM (JrHfD)
Not accepted in the Jewish canon, either.
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Widely viewed by whom? . I dislike it when modern commentators put words and attribute sensibilties to people who lived hundreds of years ago.
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#metoo
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"They Said It Was No Harder Than Slicing a Butterball Turkey. Butterball Turkey. Yeah, right!"
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Posted by: Holofernes' Lawyer at September 28, 2026 09:46 AM (nNIUD)
I warned him that he'd better play nice
And I said it not just once, but twice
But now I'm in the mood
for a little bit of food
Let's go down to Tony's Pizza for a slice!
Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2026 09:46 AM (I0N4X)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2026 09:46 AM (wpRMV)
https://tinyurl.com/3hv9hd8b
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2026 09:46 AM (JrHfD)
It was at this moment, Holofernes regretted his decision to get a Discount Shave at the Angry Lesbian Barber Shop.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 28, 2026 09:46 AM (B0NCh)
Posted by: Lizzy Borden at September 28, 2026 09:47 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: ... at September 28, 2026 09:47 AM (ZJQBk)
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2026 09:44 AM (4brEp)
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The image is hard to bear.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2026 09:47 AM (wpRMV)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 28, 2026 09:47 AM (Naxcc)
Alternate title: Don't Piss Off Judith.
Posted by: JTB at September 28, 2026 09:47 AM (yTvNw)
Bloodthirsty Joo women strike again!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 09:44 AM (eRlcH)
I saw Bloodthirsty Joo Women open for Hole in a dive bar in Aberdeen, Washington back in '89.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 28, 2026 09:47 AM (qlLNh)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 09:47 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: ... at September 28, 2026 09:47 AM (ZJQBk)
She finally got a hold of the manager.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 09:48 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: red speck at September 28, 2026 09:48 AM (Ve/HL)
Posted by: naturalfake at September 28, 2026 09:48 AM (YSUhf)
You may not see the next sunrise.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 28, 2026 09:49 AM (+s26H)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 28, 2026 09:49 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2026 09:44 AM (4brEp)
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The image is hard to bear.
Posted by: Cicero
_________
She was bruin some hatred.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 28, 2026 09:49 AM (JzUSu)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2026 09:50 AM (wpRMV)
Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2026 09:50 AM (I0N4X)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 28, 2026 09:50 AM (2GVsD)
It was at this moment, Holofernes regretted his decision to get a Discount Shave at the Angry Lesbian Barber Shop.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 28, 2026 09:46 AM (B0NCh)
Nice! I laughed.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 28, 2026 09:50 AM (YSUhf)
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2026 09:44 AM (4brEp)
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The image is hard to bear.
Posted by: Cicero
_________
She was bruin some hatred.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 28, 2026 09:49 AM (JzUSu)
Polarizing.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 28, 2026 09:50 AM (qlLNh)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 09:51 AM (eRlcH)
Posted by: man at September 28, 2026 09:51 AM (pfXMo)
Posted by: Harcourt Fenton Mudd at September 28, 2026 09:51 AM (B0NCh)
Posted by: Frankie Valli at September 28, 2026 09:52 AM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Judith at September 28, 2026 09:52 AM (qlLNh)
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2026 09:44 AM (4brEp)
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The image is hard to bear.
Posted by: Cicero
_________
She was bruin some hatred.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
Never let Judith get her paws on you.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 28, 2026 09:52 AM (iW7pR)
Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 09:52 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 28, 2026 09:53 AM (qlLNh)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2026 09:53 AM (gZrF5)
"Unfortunately for Holofernes, Judith Learned About The Birds and The Bees From Reading About the Mating Habits of the Female Praying Mantis"
Posted by: naturalfake at September 28, 2026 09:53 AM (YSUhf)
Posted by: Mariska Hargitay at September 28, 2026 09:53 AM (wpRMV)
From Wiki. This may explain her not-so-feminine looks:
"For many artists and scholars, Judith's sexualized femininity is sometimes contradictorily combined with more stereotypical masculine aggression."
There are other works where she looks much more attractive:
https://tinyurl.com/47hsyvfr
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at September 28, 2026 09:53 AM (3ImbR)
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2026 09:44 AM (4brEp)
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The image is hard to bear.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2026 09:47 AM
It gives me pause.
Posted by: Oh, no... at September 28, 2026 09:54 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: naturalfake at September 28, 2026 09:50 AM (YSUh
Sounds like a Larson's caption.
Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 09:54 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
It was Alexandrian Jews who included the Apocrypha in the Septuagint.
Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 09:54 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2026 09:55 AM (DhlIm)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 28, 2026 09:49 AM (JzUSu)
Speaking of......
The NHL Season starts TOMORROW.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 09:56 AM (ccf/V)
Also a picture of Salome with the head of John the Baptist and a picture of Jael driving the spike through Sisera's head.
I think we begin to see a theme here.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 28, 2026 09:56 AM (qlLNh)
Posted by: The ghost of Dennis Miller at September 28, 2026 09:56 AM (2Ez/1)
https://tinyurl.com/47hsyvfr
Posted by: IrishEi
Reminds me of an ex-girlfriend. Well, ex-kinda-sorta girlfriend, anyway.
Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 09:56 AM (77rzZ)
in our current renovation of the master suite, the plumbing subcontractors cut out a lot of copper pipe then piled it in a closet. Today the contractor's folks working on replacing the subflooring have taken the copper out of the house and, I suppose, put it in their truck. So the copper out of OUR house is the contractor's property?
Posted by: Brunnhilde at September 28, 2026 09:57 AM (3AwA+)
Posted by: Jael at September 28, 2026 09:57 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2026 09:44 AM (4brEp)
Cannot bear looking at it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2026 09:57 AM (peOdB)
https://tinyurl.com/47hsyvfr
Posted by: IrishEi
"She's got........Marty Feldman eyes......."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 09:58 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 09:52 AM (KC5Lt)
Yoohoo!
Posted by: Grand Duke Cosimo II de' Medici at September 28, 2026 09:58 AM (qlLNh)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 28, 2026 09:56 AM (qlLNh)
=====
*fistbump*
Posted by: Jael at September 28, 2026 09:58 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Holofernes at September 28, 2026 09:58 AM (0hg/T)
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2026 09:44 AM (4brEp)
Cannot bear looking at it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
It gives me the baloos.
Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 09:58 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Judith at September 28, 2026 09:59 AM (JNTt1)
Posted by: Holofernes at September 28, 2026 09:59 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: cmeat at September 28, 2026 10:00 AM (Bep7s)
Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 10:00 AM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Used to date her at September 28, 2026 10:01 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 10:01 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 09:51 AM (eRlcH)
"I said take out the garbage can. She took out the garbage man."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2026 10:01 AM (peOdB)
Posted by: Brunnhilde
Construction debris. You didn't claim the broken tile, plaster, and drywall, right?
Posted by: Copper Clapper Caper at September 28, 2026 10:01 AM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Brother Tim sez at September 28, 2026 10:01 AM (ENA4W)
Posted by: Holofernes at September 28, 2026 10:02 AM (JNTt1)
Artemisia Gentileschi
A crime of passion. Note in European art, Judith had a loyal maidservant.
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General Holofernes led an Assyrian campaign that surrounded Bethulia and cut off its water supply, pushing the city's leaders to the brink of surrender.
Judith, a pious and courageous Jewish widow, devised a bold plan to infiltrate the enemy camp rather than let her people surrender.
She dressed in her finest clothes, charmed Holofernes, and gained his trust under the pretense of offering intelligence on how to conquer the Israelites.
After Holofernes became excessively drunk at a private banquet and passed out in his tent, Judith used his own sword to sever his head.
She smuggled the head back to Bethulia in a bag or basket. Deprived of their leader, the Assyrian soldiers panicked and fled when they discovered his body, giving the Israelites a decisive victory. (AI Overview)
👉🏻 Protestant Bibles contain 66 books, following the Hebrew canon which excludes Judith. The Book of Judith is accepted as canonical (referred to as deuterocanonical) in Catholic and Orthodox traditions.
Would pass hanging today's selection.
Thanks.
Posted by: L - No nic... at September 28, 2026 10:02 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Brunnhilde at September 28, 2026 09:57 AM (3AwA+)
Unless specified otherwise, the pipe remains your property.
Sometimes the contract gives "salvage rights" or similar to the contractor. Check it to be sure.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 28, 2026 10:02 AM (qlLNh)
in our current renovation of the master suite, the plumbing subcontractors cut out a lot of copper pipe then piled it in a closet. Today the contractor's folks working on replacing the subflooring have taken the copper out of the house and, I suppose, put it in their truck. So the copper out of OUR house is the contractor's property?
Posted by: Brunnhilde at September 28, 2026 09:57 AM (3AwA+)
That would be a no. I mean I am sure you have cleanup in your contract, and they will say that is what they are doing, but you can say everything BUT this, please. Bring it back, here are the totes in which to store them.
Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 10:02 AM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: nurse ratched
**********
Shouldn't a lesbian bar have "No Man Dates" seven days a week instead of just Saturdays?
Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2026 10:02 AM (I0N4X)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 28, 2026 10:02 AM (2Ez/1)
It burned between 3,500,000 and 4,200,000 acres (5,400-6,600 sq. mi.), but there were no known human casualties because the area was so sparsely populated.
Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 10:03 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 28, 2026
Oh I forgot about that. This is why you are the lawyer and I am the fitness instructor.
Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 10:03 AM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 28, 2026 10:03 AM (VQ7/I)
in our current renovation of the master suite, the plumbing subcontractors cut out a lot of copper pipe then piled it in a closet. Today the contractor's folks working on replacing the subflooring have taken the copper out of the house and, I suppose, put it in their truck. So the copper out of OUR house is the contractor's property?
Posted by: Brunnhilde at September 28, 2026 09:57 AM (3AwA+)
It's your property, but if the contractor is charged with taking away debris, they could consider that "debris", I guess.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2026 10:04 AM (peOdB)
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What is that in hectares?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2026 10:04 AM (wpRMV)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 28, 2026 10:04 AM (s1VwS)
Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 10:04 AM (sKqQm)
The NHL Season starts TOMORROW.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 09:56 AM (ccf/V)
I think Ovi will break the all time goals scored record this year.
Posted by: Doof at September 28, 2026 10:04 AM (ZV+zn)
Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 10:03 AM (ZdaMQ)
I'm not a lawyer, just a guy who's dealt with a fair number of contractors over the course of a long and misspent life.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 28, 2026 10:04 AM (qlLNh)
Posted by: naturalfake at September 28, 2026 10:05 AM (YSUhf)
Posted by: Doof at September 28, 2026 10:05 AM (ZV+zn)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 28, 2026 10:05 AM (qlLNh)
Posted by: Brunnhilde at September 28, 2026 10:05 AM (3AwA+)
Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 10:06 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Doof at September 28, 2026 10:06 AM (ZV+zn)
Posted by: LASue at September 28, 2026 10:06 AM (lCppi)
Posted by: Kasey Casem, American Top 40 at September 28, 2026 10:06 AM (NFX2v)
"Aw c'mon, baby! All's I said was howzabout you and me and your hawt cousin Francine have a threesome tonight."
Posted by: naturalfake at September 28, 2026 10:06 AM (YSUhf)
Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2026 10:02 AM
I'm still loving the blue-on-blue action going on over here over that incident.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 28, 2026 10:06 AM (bFu5X)
Posted by: The Barrel at September 28, 2026 10:07 AM (bFu5X)
Posted by: Big Pharma at September 28, 2026 10:07 AM (2Ez/1)
It burned between 3,500,000 and 4,200,000 acres (5,400-6,600 sq. mi.), but there were no known human casualties because the area was so sparsely populated.
Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 10:03 AM (77rzZ)
I've been in that area. Lots of oil and gas drilling there now. Mostly low-lying muskeg and swamp. The trees, such as they are, grew back.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2026 10:08 AM (peOdB)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 28, 2026 10:08 AM (B0NCh)
I have not picked out any tile or even narrowed it down to a top 20. It took me 30 minutes when the house was being built- mainly because I picked 1 neutral color scheme and slapped it over the entire house.
Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 10:09 AM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Piper
Piper, have you noted any deconditioning after being immobile for those days last week? It's shocking how fast it happens, at least to me.
Posted by: Larry Lumpkin at September 28, 2026 10:09 AM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 28, 2026 10:10 AM (amcLV)
Posted by: Tuna at September 28, 2026 10:10 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 28, 2026 10:10 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Piper
Piper, have you noted any deconditioning after being immobile for those days last week? It's shocking how fast it happens, at least to me.
Posted by: Larry Lumpkin at September 28, 2026 10:09 AM (Fn+3X)
Don't know if it's true or not but I've read several times that if you lay off your exercise (jogging, etc) for one week that it takes you at least six weeks to return to your previous level of fitness.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 28, 2026 10:12 AM (YSUhf)
Judith murdered Holofernes with cause
She did the deed, she didn't even pause
The full decapitation
Had no need for arbitration
Their contract clearly had a severance clause
Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2026 10:12 AM (I0N4X)
Posted by: Brunnhilde at September 28, 2026
Do you have your contract? And while yes, they could ruin your house, but that would be dumb because they also could be sued and they need happy clients to get more happy clients. Even our contractor who is 1. Booked out to kingdom come because he is really good, and 2. A clients husband, which is the only way we got to him for a project that isn’t a whole house, wants us to be happy with his work.
Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 10:12 AM (ZdaMQ)
Just to keep it cheerful?
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 28, 2026 10:10 AM (q3u5l)
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How about the Third of May, 1808?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 28, 2026 10:12 AM (amcLV)
Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2026 10:02 AM
I'm still loving the blue-on-blue action going on over here over that incident.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
_________
Taylor Lorenz did finally weigh in on this:
https://tinyurl.com/5cveey32
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 28, 2026 10:12 AM (JzUSu)
Just to keep it cheerful?
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 28, 2026 10:10 AM
Or something by Bosch.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 28, 2026 10:13 AM (bFu5X)
I think Ovi will break the all time goals scored record this year.
Posted by: Doof at September 28, 2026 10:04 AM (ZV+zn)
SpongeBro hopes he does, a lot. He's got him on his fantasy team.
Auto-draft.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 10:13 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: naturalfake
**********
Excellent! I should be rounding into form by 2063.
Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2026 10:13 AM (I0N4X)
Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 10:14 AM (77rzZ)
https://tinyurl.com/5cveey32
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 28, 2026 10:12 AM
AYFKM?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 28, 2026 10:14 AM (bFu5X)
Posted by: Tuna
Hope the SCS works for you. Supposedly, 80% are helped by it. Did nothing for my condition, but I'm weird like that.
Posted by: Arachnoiditis, FTW! at September 28, 2026 10:15 AM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 28, 2026 10:15 AM (xeWXB)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 28, 2026 10:16 AM (vzuC7)
https://tinyurl.com/5cveey32
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 28, 2026 10:12 AM
AYFKM?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 28, 2026 10:14 AM (bFu5X)
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Pardon me while I rawdog some air.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 28, 2026 10:16 AM (amcLV)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines. at September 28, 2026 10:16 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 10:14 AM (77rzZ)
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From painting to spark plugs. The guy was a true Renaissance Man.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2026 10:17 AM (wpRMV)
Posted by: Tool Time Tommy at September 28, 2026 10:17 AM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 09:29 AM (77rzZ)
I was thinking pig face.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 28, 2026 10:17 AM (vzuC7)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 28, 2026 10:17 AM (0sNs1)
https://tinyurl.com/5cveey32
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 28, 2026 10:12 AM
She never wore a mask before covid. Now, covid is as rare as a cold or flu, yet she feels NOW she has to wear a mask everywhere and "life is hard."
What an ignorant dusty old piece of shit she is.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 10:17 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Holofernes at September 28, 2026 10:18 AM (u73oe)
The Rules Must Be Obeyed.
https://tinyurl.com/pb9dmy7f
I wonder if she needs any help washing those? It looks to be more than a one-person job.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 28, 2026 10:18 AM (qlLNh)
Posted by: Big Ben R at September 28, 2026 10:18 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Sonar O'Reilly at September 28, 2026 10:19 AM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: Holofernes at September 28, 2026 10:18 AM (u73oe)
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You're only making it worse for yourself!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 28, 2026 10:19 AM (amcLV)
Tobit is also pretty cool. And the stories of the Maccabees.
Even if you don't accept them as canonical, they're worth reading for historical and literary reasons.
Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 10:19 AM (77rzZ)
in our current renovation of the master suite, the plumbing subcontractors cut out a lot of copper pipe then piled it in a closet. Today the contractor's folks working on replacing the subflooring have taken the copper out of the house and, I suppose, put it in their truck. So the copper out of OUR house is the contractor's property?
Posted by: Brunnhilde
Did you get a discount towards demo or labor? Do you have a signed copy of your contract, and does it mention salvage or scrap materials?
After a home demolition or major remodel, the payout you receive at a local scrap yard shifts based on the specific "grade" of the metal.
To combat metal theft, scrap yards are legally required to scan your driver’s license, log your vehicle's license plate, and often pay you via a check or a voucher instead of direct cash.
It takes about 22 to 35 pounds of clean scrap copper to make $100, depending on current market rates.
Posted by: L - No nic... at September 28, 2026 10:19 AM (NFX2v)
https://tinyurl.com/pb9dmy7f
I wonder if she needs any help washing those? It looks to be more than a one-person job.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 28, 2026 10:18 AM (qlLNh)
Other than the lack of NSFW tag, I'm a fan.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 10:20 AM (ccf/V)
--
Recently saw some YouTube of the "Saturn Cube" conspiracy.
Basically, everything that is black, a cube or an octagon is a symbol of Saturn = Satan.
The apocrypha that Saturn is a prison and the odd, mostly-octagon shape at Saturn's pole are discussed.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 28, 2026 10:20 AM (3cUTc)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 10:21 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 28, 2026 09:35 AM (qlLNh)
... to an extent. Judith did get retranslated to Hebrew and floats around some "legends of the Jews" collections. Might be in some piyyutim too.
Posted by: 88C+u at September 28, 2026 10:21 AM (88C+u)
Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 10:21 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 10:20 AM (ccf/V)
It doesn't come up with a "View NSFW content" label for you?
Sorry.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 28, 2026 10:22 AM (qlLNh)
Now: Getting drunk with a girl you don't know and waking up without a kidney
Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 10:22 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Arachnoiditis, FTW!
Thanks. Got my fingers crossed because if it doesn't I've got a 3 vertebrae fusion in my future.
Posted by: Tuna at September 28, 2026 10:22 AM (lJ0H4)
I got a NSFW tag.
Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 10:21 AM (77rzZ)
I meant in the post here, not on the Reddit page. Advanced warning, n' stuff.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 10:22 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 28, 2026 10:08 AM (B0NCh)
I don't play much anymore. Knee doesn't like it.
I think I'll put a practice bunker and putting green in there instead!
Posted by: Doof at September 28, 2026 10:22 AM (ZV+zn)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 28, 2026 10:22 AM (amcLV)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisia
_Gentileschi#Rape_by_Agostino_Tassi
One day in May, Tassi visited the Gentileschi household and, when alone with Gentileschi, raped her. Quorli, who had himself likely previously attempted to rape her, was also implicated in the assault, accused of acting as Tassi's accomplice.
In the aftermath of the assault, Tassi demanded to have further sexual relations with Gentileschi, on the promise that they would marry, thereby restoring her virtue and securing her future. Gentileschi agreed to this arrangement, but Tassi later reneged on the promise to marry her. Unbeknownst to Gentileschi, Tassi was already married, albeit estranged from his wife.
Posted by: No Name Today at September 28, 2026 10:22 AM (8mulE)
Sorry.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 28, 2026 10:22 AM (qlLNh)
I did, on the reddit site. Was just suggesting it for here just in case.
Silly me.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 10:22 AM (ccf/V)
Piper, have you noted any deconditioning after being immobile for those days last week? It's shocking how fast it happens, at least to me.
Posted by: Larry Lumpkin at September 28, 2026 10:09 AM (Fn+3X)
This morning was a little rough, but I am also not 100% yet, at all. I haven’t worked out for myself in almost a week, which is crazy to think about. I am really glad my lead teacher told me I was not going to dive right in to teaching a weight work class day 1, and she put herself down instead. I feel bad, because that means she is teaching 3 of those in a row, and that is hard. I am teaching 1 more class today, and will workout, I will push through it. Teaching cardio tomorrow may be interesting!
Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 10:23 AM (ZdaMQ)
It is not in the contract about who claims what debris, only that it is removed and site left in broom clean condition every day. Our contractor is very, very good (and expensive) but I am too wary to push it. Like I said, just feels like a screw-over.
Good luck on your reno. I always choose very old fashioned decor and the workers sometimes look askance at my choices. But Empress Alexandra of Russia was mocked by her own family for have everything made up in mauve. Too bad if everyone else doesn't like it.
Posted by: Brunnhilde at September 28, 2026 10:24 AM (3AwA+)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2026 10:24 AM (peOdB)
Same visual style of the original 300 but the plot was a mess.
One reviewer said, "
The movie delivers all the necessary elements but their impact is dull." and...I agree with that
Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 10:25 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 28, 2026 10:26 AM (vzuC7)
Posted by: Wait, wut? at September 28, 2026 10:27 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Joe Mama at September 28, 2026 10:27 AM (TezPK)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 28, 2026 10:27 AM (amcLV)
Posted by: No Name Today at September 28, 2026 10:22 AM (8mulE)
She she got a cad. If she had come to America, she could have had a Lincoln.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2026 10:27 AM (peOdB)
Except the cost of the job is already determined and signed off on by both parties. I don't see how he could change it.
Posted by: Brunnhilde at September 28, 2026 10:27 AM (3AwA+)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 28, 2026 10:27 AM (amcLV)
Spider Pig >
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 10:28 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Sunday schools everywhere at September 28, 2026 10:28 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
Her beauty is a plot point in the story. It's how she is able to get Holofernes to be alone with her, and get him drunk.
Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 10:28 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 10:28 AM (ccf/V)
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Wafting through the air by the smell of delicious pie!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 28, 2026 10:29 AM (amcLV)
Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 10:30 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 28, 2026 10:31 AM (jBygX)
Piyyutim are religious songs sung in Jewish holy days. Basically like Christian hymns. You know how a lot of hymns are basically psalms or extracts from (say) Isaiah put to verse? Piyyuts are how Jews experience a lot of religious text even if they're not in the Torah / Chumash cycle.
Or so I've been reading.
There are some parts of Ezekiel which Christians find too weird to recite much in services. Jews find those parts just as weird, so the references to the Throne Chariot and so on end up in the piyyuts.
Posted by: 88C+u at September 28, 2026 10:32 AM (88C+u)
That makes me a principled conservative.
Don't @ me."
/s/ "conservative" influencers and though leaders
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 28, 2026 10:32 AM (3cUTc)
I do believe we've had this one before, or perhaps it was another artist with the same subject. Still pretty effective. My guess is that Judith is the one to the right wielding the steel?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2026 10:33 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Brunnhilde at September 28, 2026 10:27 AM (3AwA+)
Presumably the contractor assumed that you wanted cleanup done, and factored the anticipated copper scrappage into the quote. Cleanup is a cost for him, remember. He has to pay his workers, pay for the truck, and pay to drop a load at the landfill. Unless you had a lot of copper pipe, I doubt it amounts to more than a hundred dollars or so.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2026 10:33 AM (peOdB)
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. This is some art to wake up to. I'll skip breakfast.
Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 28, 2026 10:34 AM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Oglebay at September 28, 2026
***
He had Goliath hands!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2026 10:35 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 10:35 AM (KC5Lt)
Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 28, 2026 10:34 AM (2WIwB)
Breakfast was Vitamins C&D. Coffee and donuts.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2026 10:36 AM (peOdB)
Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 10:28 AM (77rzZ)
Exactlym but in this case there probably wasn't enough booze in the ancient world for that to work with the chick in this painting. The other painting I saw, no booze needed.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 28, 2026 10:36 AM (vzuC7)
Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 10:36 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 10:36 AM (77rzZ)
It's getting top dollar currently, so yes.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 10:37 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Or so I've heard at September 28, 2026 10:38 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Brunnhilde at September 28, 2026 10:38 AM (3AwA+)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 28, 2026 10:36 AM (vzuC7)
It depends on who her makeup artist was that day.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 10:38 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 10:35 AM (KC5Lt)
"Coming up next week on "Love After Lockup.....""
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 10:39 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 10:36 AM (77rzZ)
Sure it can, and it fetches real dollars, too. Around $4 USD per pound right now. But you have pay money OUT to drop a load of lumber, sheetrock, and old flooring at the landfill.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2026 10:39 AM (peOdB)
Posted by: 88C+u at September 28, 2026 10:40 AM (88C+u)
Posted by: cmeat at September 28, 2026 10:40 AM (Bep7s)
Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 10:41 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Handmaiden's thought bubble at September 28, 2026 10:41 AM (2Ez/1)
(that's what she said)
Posted by: Brunnhilde at September 28, 2026 10:38 AM (3AwA+)
80 pounds of copper pipe at $4 a pound is $320.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2026 10:42 AM (peOdB)
Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 10:36 AM (77rzZ)
It's getting top dollar currently, so yes.
Posted by: Sponge
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I recall a Sopranos episode from twenty years ago where they were tearing it out of shitholes for the value.
My local liquor store just lost its AC because someone tore out and stole all of the external copper.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 28, 2026 10:43 AM (JzUSu)
80 pounds of copper pipe at $4 a pound is $320.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2026 10:42 AM (peOdB)
MATH!!!!!
*HISSSS!!!!!!!!*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 10:43 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: The scrap dealer at September 28, 2026 10:43 AM (2Ez/1)
head in her dropped hand. I can't recall another one where she's actually sawing off his head, although there may very well be one, so for strength of visceral impact Artemesia wins . She was quite a skilled artist.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2026 10:44 AM (JrHfD)
My local liquor store just lost its AC because someone tore out and stole all of the external copper.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 28, 2026 10:43 AM (JzUSu)
Was there a dead body left behind from huffing the freon out of the AC system?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 10:44 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: naturalfake
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Hasn't been my experience, and I've been a runner or walker/runner for many years. Probably it might take two weeks. If you lay off because of an infection, though, it might take a bit longer for you to get back where you were.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2026 10:44 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Brunnhilde at September 28, 2026 10:45 AM (3AwA+)
Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 10:45 AM (KC5Lt)
It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.
Posted by: Kramer at September 28, 2026 10:45 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: 88C+u at September 28, 2026 10:40 AM (88C+u)
I don't think there is any metal that cannot be recycled, unless its original use combines it with so much non-metal that the energy cost of concentrating it exceeds its value, like aluminum foil in food wrap. Lead is almost 100% recycled. Most iron and steel is. Much aluminum. Precious metals.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2026 10:46 AM (peOdB)
Stainless steel replaced much of that, in today's booze industry, but some distilleries still have old kits made of copper. Mostly stuff from way, way back.
I have a non-working "mini-still" made from copper as a floor decoration in my office.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2026 10:46 AM (RORbl)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 10:47 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 10:28 AM (ccf/V)
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Can he swing
From a web?
No he can't
He's a pig
Look out!
He is the Spider Pig!
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 28, 2026 10:48 AM (n9eFH)
Posted by: naturalfake
But if you lay off long enough you’ll already be at your level of fitness.
Posted by: Kratwurst at September 28, 2026 10:48 AM (v8bCu)
The older you are the longer it takes to return to previous status. All of the guy morons are unfortunately getting a lower testosterone level as we age. Some less than others but it's still decreasing.
Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 10:48 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 10:48 AM (KC5Lt)
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Mandelbaum! Mandelbaum! Mandelbaum!
Posted by: Mandelbaum! at September 28, 2026 10:50 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 10:48 AM (KC5Lt)
And SHE'LL like it too!
Posted by: Nugenix Total-T at September 28, 2026 10:52 AM (ccf/V)
==
Its one of the consolations of aging. It is much easier now focus on really important things like shelving...
Posted by: so there's that at September 28, 2026 10:52 AM (anL5R)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2026 10:52 AM (JrHfD)
A stainless steel column still is what you want if you're going for maximum production of pure grain alcohol.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 28, 2026 10:52 AM (qlLNh)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 28, 2026 10:53 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes
Spider Pig, Spider Pig,
Does whatever a spider digs
Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 10:53 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: polynikes
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I'm more worried about balance and falling now than strength. And I'm barely into my third 29. Fell off a ladder trimming high up vines and lucky some ornamental grass broke the fall.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 28, 2026 10:53 AM (JzUSu)
Posted by: Ries Gorthanes at September 28, 2026 10:53 AM (V9DpE)
is that what the kids are calling it these days?
Posted by: cmeat at September 28, 2026 10:53 AM (Bep7s)
Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 10:48 AM (KC5Lt)
Science has ways of dealing with that.
It's not just women who use hormone replacement therapy nowadays.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 28, 2026 10:54 AM (qlLNh)
We wuz kings and shit.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 10:54 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 28, 2026 10:53 AM (iFTx/)
Should have titled it "elephant man gets pissed"
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 28, 2026 10:54 AM (vzuC7)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 10:54 AM (ccf/V)
You've called my bluff I'm not so hot
Now is that love
My assets froze while yours have dropped
Now is that, is that. . .
Posted by: SQUEEZE at September 28, 2026 10:55 AM (rOKnE)
Posted by: polynikes
________
I'm more worried about balance and falling now than strength. And I'm barely into my third 29. Fell off a ladder trimming high up vines and lucky some ornamental grass broke the fall.
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No I don't do ladders or roofs anymore. It just isn't worth it. A fall where my center of gravity is six feet off the ground is going to break a bone or bones. No thanks.
Posted by: so there's that at September 28, 2026 10:55 AM (anL5R)
Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 10:55 AM (KC5Lt)
is that what the kids are calling it these days?
Posted by: cmeat at September 28, 2026 10:53 AM (Bep7s)
Only when on a date with Heidi Beirich
Posted by: nazis can't be choosers at September 28, 2026 10:56 AM (88C+u)
Posted by: Amber Heard at September 28, 2026 10:56 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
Same here. I was falling down a lot last year and earlier this year due to my BP meds. Fortunately, my doc adjusted the meds and the problem has largely gone away. But the memory of it still has me psych myself up sometimes.
Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 10:57 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: cmeat at September 28, 2026 10:57 AM (Bep7s)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 28, 2026 10:53 AM (JzUSu)
If it involves ladders or electrical wires I’m paying someone to do it for me. That’s been my mantra since I was in my 20s.
Money well spent.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 28, 2026 10:57 AM (ATp9+)
Take it to the bridge
Throw it overboard
See if it can swim
Back up to the shore
No one is in the house
Everyone is out
All the lights are on
And the blinds are down
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 10:57 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 10:58 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 28, 2026 10:59 AM (iW7pR)
Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 10:58 AM (KC5Lt)
I thought that was "flouring the rolling pin....."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 10:59 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Amy Schumer at September 28, 2026 10:59 AM (anL5R)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 10:59 AM (viF8m)
Upon the rocks
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2026 11:00 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: JackStraw
__________
The really tall kind. About 3 or 4 feet high. Don't know the name.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 28, 2026 11:01 AM (JzUSu)
Posted by: Central Division Champions at September 28, 2026 11:01 AM (anL5R)
Not being widely reported is death of four US citizens in Athens, Greece from explosionover the weekend. Gas leak is intial report, but it looks a bit too convenient for that. To me. From the timing and geography, I hope our authorities look to Iranian involvement and, if shown, take necessary response.
Posted by: Martin Tell at September 28, 2026 11:02 AM (sFNX2)
Posted by: cmeat at September 28, 2026 11:03 AM (Bep7s)
Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 11:03 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Central Division Champions at September 28, 2026 11:01 AM (anL5R)
The Cleveland Gayfags.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 11:03 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2026 11:03 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Unkempt weeds at September 28, 2026 11:03 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 11:04 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: one hour sober at September 28, 2026 11:05 AM (J4Dwc)
A stainless steel column still is what you want if you're going for maximum production of pure grain alcohol.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 28, 2026 10:52 AM (qlLNh)
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Copper stills are a pain in the buttox to keep clean. The reason for the copper is that it attracts sulphur, which can be present in the mash. Sulphur does not taste good in distilled spirits. Use a stainless steel column still and put a roll of copper mesh in the column. That mesh collects the sulphur and when you are done you can boil the mesh in vinegar to clean it.
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Posted by: Bonecrusher at September 28, 2026 11:06 AM (JNTt1)
Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 10:58 AM (KC5Lt)
I was waiting for Pookette in the parking lot at our church's version of Girl Scouts the other night when "Fat-bottomed Girls" came on the radio. I did *not* crank up the volume, in fact I turned it all the way down.
Posted by: pookysgirl is wiser than she looks at September 28, 2026 11:07 AM (Wt5PA)
The Morning Report — 9/ 28 /26
Last week we noted that so far there had been zero Atlantic hurricanes, a record. For the first time in 112 years, we’ve now gone this deep into hurricane season without one. Of course the media ignore this monumental phenomenon because it doesn’t fit the global warming tale. So what other inconvenient facts are they covering up? Here’s a partial list. . . Activists, Democrat politicians, the media, and general population cranks have long pointed to the worst-case-scenario, everyone-is-on-fire, the sky-is-aflame predictions pumped out by the United Nations as reason to stop using fossil fuels. As it turns out, the U.N admits the extreme forecasts are “implausible.” Will any of the purveyors of this fiction own up to their error, write lengthy articles explaining why they were wrong to trust the U.N. or apologize for unnecessarily stirring up fear? Former climate activist/climate reporter Lucy Biggers, now head of social media at The Free Press, recently confessed that she “never covered positive climate stories because it would muddy the message that climate change was an existential threat that was burning the planet.” She would cover the stories “that made the climate look worse.” This is “why we rarely see events like this year’s historically quiet eastern hurricane season covered widely by the news,” she adds. “Many reporters believe covering it will give fodder to climate change deniers.”Naturally grift and fear is what keeps the Democrat Socialites of America going, that and the lust for absolute power to take us down.
Far-left candidates, especially members of the Democratic Socialists of America, are doubling down on the GND. . . President Trump also understands that the only surefire way to ensure that the United States has uninterrupted ample energy on hand is by going all in on the only energy sources that can supply dependable power no matter the weather conditions or time of day. Under present circumstances, based on a recent Heartland Institute energy scorecard, “natural gas makes the most sense according to the affordable, reliable, and clean standard, with nuclear, hydro, and coal not far behind. Biomass trails by a moderate margin while wind and solar stand apart as the least desirable power sources.” The revelation that fossil fuels and nuclear get the best energy bang for the buck should not be a surprise. Neither should the fact that wind and solar are far less reliable, more costly, and much worse for the environment.Meanwhile, we move from the most serious threat to our existence to something that happened over the weekend that is the height of frivolity, as you can plainly see, so apologies in advance for my flippancy!
British authorities arrested five men near a military base hosting U.S. forces early Sunday on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack. RAF Fairford, in Gloucestershire in southwestern England, serves as a forward operating location for the U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command and has recently been used to launch B-52 and B-1 bombers targeting Iran. President Donald Trump praised the arrests while speaking to reporters Sunday and said the United States had worked with British authorities on the case. “The arrest in the UK was fantastic,” he said. “Working with Britain, it was an amazing job. We had them under investigation.” Trump said the suspects were “looking to do big damage” and that the group had been under watch “for a long time.”Great, now do the terrorists here at home!
San Antonio Socialists Call for ICE to Leave Austin After Shooting Incident. . . A few dozen protesters showed up at San Antonio’s City Hall to protest the shooting of a 28-year-old Venezuelan illegal alien during a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) action on September 20. The poorly attended protest, organized by the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), drew little attention from passing tourists visiting the Alamo City on Friday.Meh, the President should surge every ICE agent in the nation to Austin and San Antonio and kick every wetback within reach across the Rio Grande as far south to Tierra Del Fuego or the Ross Ice Shelf that they can. And speaking of Democrat terrorism.
Nearly 60 Democrat members of Congress signed a letter to sound an alarm: Black Americans are being found hanging, including some from trees, in a wave of possible “modern-day lynchings.” . . . Every suspicious death deserves investigation. But history is not evidence. What are the facts? Demartravion “Trey” Reed, 21, was found hanging at Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi. The medical examiner found no foul play and ruled the death suicide. His family confirmed that his girlfriend said Reed sent suicidal texts the previous night.If I was spawned and named Demartravion, I'd put on Klan robes and lynch myself faster than you can say Robert Sheets Byrd! Dear Lord, Lopecia Pressley, Titty Caca Cortez and all the rest of them can't go to Hell fast enough to suit me, because that is where they are driving us... Have a good day.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- The storm is expected to continue through Monday.
Powerful Northeast Storm Kills At Least One, Knocks Out Power For 100,000
- CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
- Larry Elder: And the elephant in the room.
The ‘Modern-Day Lynching’ Hoax
- Roger Kimball: The effort to normalize various pathologies seems to be, as we have been taught to say, trending.
Varieties of Trump Derangement Syndrome
- Alexis Bittar, also a big backer of Zohran Mamdani and Abdul El-Sayed, has just produced a documentary attacking the American flag, which he calls ‘a symbol of aggression’
‘I Am Always Intrigued by People Who Kill’: Far-Left Jeweler Hosting Talarico and Brown Fundraiser Calls US a Sh—thole, Runs Creepy Female Serial Killer Ads
- How else can a white leftist gain street cred these days?
Passing for Non-White
- During a September 25 interview with Chuck Todd, Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed complained about the "terrible" things Maher has said about "people like me." Still, he said he would appear on Maher's program because he wanted viewers to see Maher get his "ass whooped on his own show by a guy who prays like I do." Nothing says "Hello, undecided Michigan voter" quite like that.
Nothing Says ‘Broaden the Coalition’ Like Threatening to Whup Bill Maher "DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY - Trump spending cuts target $810 million for illegal immigrant services, race-focused programs and other federal spending.
Trump Cancels $810M for Illegal Immigrants, Race-Based Programs
- The business-backed GOP legislator Salazar is touting her “Digndad” bill that would legalize and import perhaps 17 million migrants.
Trump Slams Amnesty Advocate Rep. Maria Salazar
- "They're trying to calm things down before the elections," one ICE officer told The Daily Wire.
EXCLUSIVE: ICE Officers Say They Were Told To Stop Arresting Non-Criminals
- The protest was advertised by the PSL as a call for justice for Wilber Rafael Garces-Perez, whom the PSL alleges was shot by ICE in his car on Sunday while he was delivering food as a DoorDash delivery driver.
San Antonio Socialists Call for ICE to Leave Austin After Shooting Incident THE IRAN CONFLICT, MOU/"PEACE DEAL" (aftermath??) - Asked about Tehran’s proposal, Trump confirmed he had rejected it before turning to the pressure he said is driving Iran to seek an agreement.
Trump Rejects Iran Hormuz Deal: ‘They’re Losing So Badly’ — ‘Greatest Blockade Ever in Military History’
- “I am confident, given that there’s only 15 million more barrels of Iranian oil on the water, that Iran will have nothing left to trade for anything,” Bessent told Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”
Iran’s economy will have ‘nothing’ left ‘within two weeks,’ Scott Bessent warns ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS. . . The U.N... AND HISTORY - If the UK government were a puppet regime run by men secretly working for Islamic terrorists, what would it do differently?
UK Gave Asylum to Hamas Leader’s Bodyguard, He Plotted Terror Attacks, They Covered It Up
- IDF: The slain terrorist “Sakr infiltrated Israeli territory during the October 7th Massacre and drove the motorcycle used to abduct Noa Argamani and Avinatan Or from the Nova music festival into the Gaza Strip.”
IDF Eliminates Gaza Terrorist Who Abducted Noa Argamani on October 7
- Prime Minister Netanyahu: “Two years ago today, we took out Nasrallah. Happy holiday to the people of Israel!”
Marking Two Years Since Israel Eliminated Hezbollah Terror Chief Hassan Nasrallah* * * * * - “Barghouti could be a powerful rallying figure for Palestinians. Some Palestinians view him as their own Nelson Mandela … “
Ro Khanna Wants Marwan Barghouti Freed; Israel Remembers Yahya Sinwar
- And then he refused to release the footage.
Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Gazan Photographer Filmed Israeli Hostages Being Beaten DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE - The funding targeted by Trump includes money for immigration services, foreign assistance, education programs, health research and programs assisting minority-owned businesses.
Trump Cancels Nearly $1 Billion in Federal Spending Without Congress
- The Trump Administration’s latest Supreme Court victory is a tribute to its persistence and innovation. It is, as well, a measure of the great changes in governance for which we owe Elon Musk and DOGE thanks.
If it Ain’t One Law, it’s Another
- Long after the current spell of bad weather, blue states across the country will continue to suffer the hurricane-like damage of their own fiscal mistakes.
The Blue-State Hurricane
- What is a trillion dollars anyway?
Calling Bullsh-t on Universal Suffrage
- Even in the best of times, government is not your friend.
First They Came for Our History... FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH - To make good on Weiss’ promises of reform, here are ten modest suggestions for topical news stories for 60 Minutes.
How Bari Weiss Could Really Fix CBS
- Everything related to the current case regarding Catherine Herridge’s reporting is suspect.
Everything About The Catherine Herridge Contempt Case Stinks* * * * * - The D.C. Circuit affirmed Sec. of War Pete Hegseth’s central point: The Pentagon need not rely on an AI supplier whose restrictions could interfere with essential military operations.
Appeals Court Rules that Pentagon Can Label Anthropic a ‘Supply Chain Risk’
- Crime is still crime when an AI is involved — the perps are the humans
AI companies are sharing more news of their cutting-edge software behaving badly: potentially tens of thousands of safety incidents, some perhaps including criminal violations — which, if so, can be handled like any other crime, holding the humans behind the tools responsible. However much the drama queens in tech, media and politics pretend otherwise, “rogue agents” are such only because programmers enable and even encourage it.These tools aren’t uncontrollable, sentient creatures: The folks behind them are the decision-makers, to blame for whatever harm their products do.
- Trump told reporters after returning to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland that he was grabbing dinner at 10 p.m. with Dario Amodei. The meal comes just two days after Amodei’s company faced a setback in a court case against the government over its barring its products for Defense Department work.
Shot: Trump said he would dine with Anthropic CEO amid mounting AI debate
- Bloomberg reports that the notifications trace back to an expanded review OpenAI launched after finding that its AI had hacked Hugging Face several months ago. Chaser: That investigation grew into a broader look at “misalignment” incidents during training and testing, a process the company says will take months to finish.
‘Misalignment’: OpenAI Notifies Dozens of Organizations After AI Improperly Accessed Government Websites
- AI agent was tasked to collect mundane data collection and autonomously used hacking techniques to get it.
OpenAI Agent Reportedly Bypassed Safeguards and Hacked Australian Health Website WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM - There's a pattern here.
Muslims Caught Transporting Kidnapped Teens Across US-Canadian Border
- The organization hosting the event has plans for a 40,000-square-foot Islamic facility near Plano, Texas.
‘We Want Islam For This Country’: Muslims In Texas Lay Out Vision For Islamic America
- Hiba Rahim shows her true feelings for the nation she calls home.
CAIR-Florida’s Islamist Leader and Traitor to America OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS - While warming up the standing-room-only crowd of roughly 2,000 people gathered for the congresswoman’s “Students vs. Billionaires” town hall in downtown Ithaca Sunday, Cornell University Young Democratic Socialists of America co-chairs Mina Petrova and Zoe Reisman led the crowd singing “from the river to the sea” and declaring “long live the student intifada.”
Crowd sings ‘from the river to the sea’ at Titty Caca AOC’s college student event promoting Dems ahead of midterms SHAMPEACHMENTS (past, present & future), 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION - Prof. Jonathan Turley remarked drily that Cohen “appears to believe that the problem with past impeachments has been brevity. His 26 articles of impeachment include everything short of ripping a label off a mattress, including the new impeachable offense of ‘self-aggrandizement.’” Wow. “Self-aggrandizement” is impeachable now?
The Latest Attempt to Impeach Trump Criminalizes Not Being a Leftist THE ECONOMY, STUPID - In short, shutting down U.S. diesel exports would strand product, threaten gasoline and jet fuel supplies, harm allied nations, and drive away customers who buy American fuel and American goods. Wrights says the “blunt tool of banning diesel exports definitely doesn’t work.” The available evidence says he is right.
A Diesel Export Ban Will Hurt America—And Cripple Its Customers.
- Congress should preserve Fed independence while adding stronger transparency, accountability, safeguards, and narrowly defined emergency intervention powers.
The Fed Needs Fixes Beyond Simply Restoring Its Credibility
- Young voters are financially drowning — and the life raft the Democratic Socialists of America is throwing them is an anchor in disguise. If Americans don’t see past this facade, they’ll be sinking even faster.
Gen Z voters hate capitalism — but they’ve barely even seen it CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY - The smartest man in the room is often the last one to notice the room has already decided.
No Body. No Jury. And the Doctor Who Thought He Was Smarter Than Murder
- Time to fix the broken Brady list system—here’s how.
It’s Too Easy for Prosecutors to Blacklist Cops
- As a New York State Assemblyman, Mamdani co-sponsored legislation that would decriminalize consensual prostitution.
Prostitution Is Booming In Mamdani’s New York City EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT - DOJ closes more than 50 desegregation cases, ending federal oversight that in some school districts had continued for more than 60 years.
Desegregation: DOJ Ends Over 50 Decades-Old Cases ABORTION - The Catholic Church teaches that human life “must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception” and rejects direct abortion.
Planned Parenthood Honors Biden for Abortion Record THE 2020 AND OTHER ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH - The Supreme Court on Friday handed the Trump administration a victory in its election integrity push, allowing federal officials to work with states using an expanded citizenship-verification database.
Supreme Court Clears Trump Administration to Expand Voter Citizenship Checks
- ‘Given this Court’s two prior orders in this litigation, our conclusion that this was error should come as no surprise,’ the high court ruled.
SCOTUS Issues Final Order Blocking Missouri’s GOP-Backed Map For Midterms
- The fact that this action is being taken just six weeks before the midterms is no accident, comrades.
The hammer comes down BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS - Miranda Devine: Hunter Biden continues to spew ‘laptop from hell’ lies to indulge his new addiction — publicity
Hunter Biden continues to spew ‘laptop from hell’ lies to indulge his new addiction — publicity DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY - The mayor touts a football bearing Kwame Nkrumah’s face, forgetting that Nkrumah’s policies are what have driven so many Africans to America.
Mayor Mamdani Kept The Wrong Souvenir From Africa
- “The September 22nd article is not newsworthy, except in the context of the upcoming midterm elections in which transgender rights are a central political issue”
Western MA Communist Party Chapter Blasts Viral Boston Globe Story About Masks at Lesbian Bar
- 'Nixon's failure … was no mere oversight but constitutes a knowing and willful filing of false financial disclosure reports,' wrote the National Legal and Policy Center
Socialist Senate Hopeful Angie Nixon Slapped With Criminal Referral for Concealing Back Taxes and Student Loans From the Senate
- The city council said Paige Cognetti did not provide proper notice of the change
Scranton Mayor Running for Congress Turned Her Own Street Into a One-Way, Angering Residents: 'Somebody's Going To Get Killed There' (Biden's hometown, of course! - jjs) POLITICS - Socialism now ranks ahead of big business among independents, although capitalism, free enterprise and small business remain more positively viewed. Democrats’ views have shifted more substantially since 2010. Socialism surpassed capitalism among Democrats by 2016 and now ties free enterprise at 65%. This follows a sizable decline in Democrats’ positive rating of free enterprise since 2021.
Poll: 43 Percent of Americans Now Hold Favorable View of Socialism
- Amanpour's question reflected a worry many Democrats have. Democrat strategists know very well that moderates decide general elections, and that enthusiasm in a single city is a long way from winning the country.
Republicans Need to Put This in a National Ad Right Now
- Thad McCotter: Established parties in America and Germany face ideological insurgencies from opposite flanks. Their strategies of co-option and confrontation may determine whether they survive.
‘A Bustle in Your Hedgerow’: Two Parties Confront Ideological Insurgencies, Part One
- “Midterms suck; they always do for the party in power,” he continued. “But if there’s one, if there’s one operation, if there’s one president that can change that, it’s this one.” LaCivita pointed to congressional approval ratings as a potential advantage for Republicans despite their own negative ratings.
Exclusive — Chris LaCivita: Trump to Hit Campaign Trail for 30 Days Ahead of Midterms
- “For really his entire political career, the president has enjoyed very strong support among the Republican Party and among his base, and that’s still true today, but it’s a bit less true,” Alec Tyson, senior vice president and lead pollster at Ipsos Public Affairs, told the Hill.
Poll: Trump’s Approval Rating Drops to New Low as Midterms Loom
- For too long, conservatives have focused on ideological talking points, intellectual discussions, or collectivist meanderings.
Charlie Kirk, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Sam Francis FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL - In view of the brutal and hellish record of its failed communist messiahs, past and present, it is only right that the ideology and actions of the current government of Cuba be confronted and resisted by the U.S.
Cuba’s Failed Communist Messiahs - Despite the Scandinavian-style gloom in Denmark over the U.S. Greenland deal, it's actually a good deal for both sides.
Greenland Deal: After The Party Comes The Hangover
- No fireworks, no bloodbaths. Just solid, mostly behind-the-scenes work.
The Trump-Xi Summit
- Think about this, when President Xi flew to the United States for this meeting, he signed the orders to detain and arrest two members of the Central Military Commission of China. This is the most important body in all of China. More important than heading up the Communist Party. More important than being president is being head of this commission. He purged two of them over the last two years. He’s purged six of the eight members. Why? Because he said they’re politically unreliable.”
Schweizer: Trump Has the ‘Upper Hand’ over China’s Xi
- Both nations have large vulnerabilities, and Trump and Xi used the summit to try to minimize their weaknesses and shift the competition to areas where they believe they have an advantage.
The Summit with More at Stake Than You Think
- Moliere remains relevant considering the pretensions of today's academic world.
The Marquis In The Mirror: Molière And Today's Cultural Elite
- It’s not unfair to ask, what duty do ordinary people owe to a country and a culture that loathe themselves?
The Winds of War Blow Through a Desolate Continent DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS - Whelford is near RAF Fairford, a base that American forces have used for strictly limited strikes during the war with Iran. After the start of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran on Feb. 28, the U.K. government allowed the American military to use the Fairford base to strike Iranian missile sites.
Evacuations Near Royal Air Force Base Used by U.S. After Men Arrested With Suspected Explosives
- Five men were taken into custody on suspecion of explosives offenses and preparing a terrorist act.
Inside The Sinister Terror Plot Targeting America’s Most Powerful Bombers
- Imagine if more people did that.
Attack Stopped on Airbase Because Local Woman Noticed Suspicious ‘Middle Eastern Men’ FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY - Genesis vs. Government.
The Marriage Betrayal
- How we demolished the places where men learn the meaning of friendship.
Smash the Patriarchy CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE - Christian Toto: When the woke mob, which overlaps with the Pro-Palestinian types all too well, smells blood it only grows stronger.
Ed Sheeran Learns Hard Woke Lesson
- Christian Toto too: Chris Hansen hit piece hints at something very dark in La La Land
The Nagging Thought That Haunts Pattinson’s ‘Primetime’
- The real dating crisis isn't that young people don't want marriage. It's that we've forgotten how to date.
Your Dating App Might Be Missing Its Most Important Feature
- “Many admit that their purpose in twisting language is political.”
Why I Call It ‘Assisted Suicide’
- How cancel culture migrated from online mobs into institutions with the power to punish.
Canada’s Illiberal Export
- ...Now it is on the verge of being shut down. And boy, does that feel good.
The Brewery That Cheered for Trump’s Death Now Chugs Its Own Bitter Medicine
- What a time to be alive.
Nails Are Racist Now
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Early medical appointment today for me.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 28, 2026 06:32 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: Hans O'Lo at September 28, 2026 06:36 AM (bLe0J)
Posted by: Hans O'Lo at September 28, 2026 06:36 AM (bLe0J)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2026 06:37 AM (JrHfD)
Much appreciate the prayers Fen and all! We are moving ahead, living day by day and loving life.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 28, 2026 06:39 AM (x0n13)
It's a Sharknado. A possible shark was seen swimming along the flooded streets of Surf City NJ according to New Jersey 12 reporting.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 28, 2026 06:39 AM (I43vL)
The UK might be a more dangerous military posting these days than the DMZ in Korea. I wonder why…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 28, 2026 06:41 AM (xAoHD)
I'm glad you are doing that. I'm sure a positive attitude helps.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2026 06:41 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2026 06:45 AM (v3w5Z)
You're early enough I can comment! Hope you're continuing to do well and that the cancer is staying away.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines. at September 28, 2026 06:45 AM (O7YUW)
Cats are trainable at early ages but can be trained later in life. Woman a few blocks away adopted a feral cat who took to captivity so well that she would put him in a kitty stroller, didn't need to secure the netting, and he would hop out and hop back in after doing the sniffing-all-the-things thing. I think he passed on last year. Really cool cat.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 28, 2026 06:46 AM (Fv808)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 28, 2026 06:47 AM (Fv808)
Poorly written sentence...the upcoming midterm elections are NOT on Friday...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 06:48 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 28, 2026 06:47 AM (Fv80
Can also mean collecting power for himself...but it's still a bullshyte claim. Obama and Biden did much worse via executive orders, while courts blocked Trump from even reversing some of those EOs...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 06:50 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal
Can also mean collecting power for himself
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
No, I meant that *Cohen* wants to brag up his winning Scrabble word.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 28, 2026 06:52 AM (Fv808)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2026 06:54 AM (aL2Pd)
Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2026 06:57 AM (csF+K)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at September 28, 2026 06:57 AM (SRdv/)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2026 06:58 AM (0bmlu)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2026 06:58 AM (0bmlu)
I'm waiting for Canada to extend abortions to children under 2 years old...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 07:00 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Just Wondering at September 28, 2026 07:01 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2026 07:01 AM (JrHfD)
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All this "Republican" representative seems to want to do with her time in office is institute and facilitate mass amnesty and/or open the migrant floodgates in some form or fashion. You'd almost think they were her priorities and not actual Americans...
Posted by: Lady in Black at September 28, 2026 07:02 AM (qBdHI)
The Catholic Church teaches that human life “must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception” and rejects direct abortion.
Planned Parenthood Honors Biden for Abortion Record
"Here's the smell of blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand."
-- Lady Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 1
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 28, 2026 07:04 AM (PpIXw)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2026 07:04 AM (JrHfD)
Canada votes next Wednesday on the question of whether it should expand it's government executions to the mentally ill.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
Would that not amount to the members of its Parliament volunteering to submit to that country's self-lauded MAID service?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 28, 2026 07:06 AM (PpIXw)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2026 07:07 AM (r37/v)
Canada votes next Wednesday on the question of whether it should expand it's government executions to the mentally ill.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
Guess who's going to be considered "mentally ill"?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 07:07 AM (eRlcH)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 28, 2026 07:09 AM (u82oZ)
No, I meant that *Cohen* wants to brag up his winning Scrabble word.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal
Writes the person who succeeded in having the second half of their nickname accepted as valid in a Scrabble game. And for a Triple Word Score, no less.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 28, 2026 07:09 AM (PpIXw)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2026 07:09 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 28, 2026 07:10 AM (u82oZ)
What are Alexis' thoughts on Mozambique's flag and its AK-47?
Guatemala has two crossed rifles and swords
Saudi Arabia features a white sword
Sri Lanka has a sword
Oman adds another sword and a dagger
Kenya and Eswatini display their technology with spears on their flags
Posted by: Community Notes at September 28, 2026 07:12 AM (pUU4E)
Got a new router, and I made it work.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
I stand, stunned, at your technical prowess! 'Round these parts, our wifi drops me every five minutes or so.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 28, 2026 07:13 AM (PpIXw)
This is what we live under daily.They lie and then lie some more. Every day we are left combating old lies and new.
We have them dead to rights on most of them but it doesn't matter because they just make new stuff up. It's intentionally exhausting for believers and non-believers alike.
Posted by: ... at September 28, 2026 07:15 AM (ZJQBk)
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Wow, that is extremely disturbing and horrifying from so many angles I can't count. This is malevolence bar none.
Posted by: Lady in Black at September 28, 2026 07:15 AM (qBdHI)
Canada votes next Wednesday on the question of whether it should expand it's government executions to the mentally ill.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
Guess who's going to be considered "mentally ill"?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 07:07 AM (eRlcH)
Comrade, we have seen this play out before...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 07:16 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 28, 2026 07:16 AM (VyBeY)
What a racist. She's in jail now, right?
Posted by: fd at September 28, 2026 07:17 AM (MWfyi)
Well. Missouri's election is gonna be a mess no matter which way you look at it. Because the apellate court had what I consider a strong argument that having the primary and the general under different precinct maps is an EVEN WORSE error, tyvm!
Time to kick myself out of bed and start the day.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 28, 2026 07:18 AM (aJQbY)
Translation: DNC suffers another funding blow.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 28, 2026 07:19 AM (9s47C)
Yet films like “Primetime,” and the weird reception given to “Sound of Freedom,” hardly help.
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The movie "Freedom" makes some claims hard to ignore, especially about how widespread child trafficking has become. May God bless those trying to stop these awful people, and Hollywood better clean up its act.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2026 07:19 AM (0cxsI)
The accomplished NorSoThoreau approved of my router choice. She was tech support for local ISP outfits. I have a TP-Link Wi-Fi-6.
She told me routers normally last 5 years, Wi-Fi failing first. I had an Apple AirPort router from 2009.
I will regard them as consumable, plug and play items from now on.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 28, 2026 07:19 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: olddog in mo at September 28, 2026 07:20 AM (Hbeqj)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2026 07:21 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 28, 2026 07:21 AM (u82oZ)
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It wasn't "right" for them. But their new show for kids, Coven Academy, something about kiddie witches is.
Posted by: Lady in Black at September 28, 2026 07:22 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2026 07:22 AM (QwZKw)
For example if you claim to be AGAINST a Democrat, the Left will firebomb you. And if you claim to be FOR a Republican, the Left will firebomb you.
See? It's BOTH sides of the issues people have to worry about.
Posted by: ... at September 28, 2026 07:22 AM (ZJQBk)
Log into the router and change the channel. A new neighbor started hammering my wifi. I changed the channel and everything has been great since.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 28, 2026 07:24 AM (36x1j)
You totally underestimate, comrade. Betting markets predict the Democrats will win in all but three elections in both the Senate and House.
Posted by: Fellow worker at September 28, 2026 07:25 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 28, 2026 07:25 AM (XV/Pl)
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Sit down little thing.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2026 07:26 AM (RIvkX)
of Payson, Utah for “Unlawful secretion, destruction and delay of mail.” It seems that Seeii had trashed several hundred (the exact number is uncertain, but it’s over 300) ballots for reasons that remain unclear. The ballots involved votes made in last June’s primary election.
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Good warning shot. Nail these cases, DOJ!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2026 07:26 AM (5pIiN)
Put a Canadian flag out? Mentally ill.
Go to church? Mentally ill.
Grumble about the government? Mentally ill.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 07:27 AM (eRlcH)
Well. Missouri's election is gonna be a mess no matter which way you look at it. Because the apellate court had what I consider a strong argument that having the primary and the general under different precinct maps is an EVEN WORSE error, tyvm!
Time to kick myself out of bed and start the day.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 28, 2026 07:18 AM (aJQbY)
Yeah, it's gonna be a fubar election for them. Well, hell, it's gonna be YET ANOTHER fubar election here in Kalifornia.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 07:27 AM (l3cgK)
I'm so rural only prairie voles could steal my signal, if I left it unguarded.
I wonder what I should call my network for maximum privacy?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 28, 2026 07:27 AM (u82oZ)
Put a Canadian flag out? Mentally ill.
Go to church? Mentally ill.
Grumble about the government? Mentally ill.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 07:27 AM (eRlcH)
There were a whole bunch of "mentally ill" truckers in 2022...
/sarc
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 07:28 AM (l3cgK)
"Flock Access Point"
The government will then protect it no matter the cost.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 28, 2026 07:30 AM (/TiS1)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2026 07:30 AM (5pIiN)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 28, 2026 07:30 AM (aJQbY)
And I just adore the panic-mongering of "One dead and 100,000 without power!" You mean, it slaughtered all of ... ONE person? ONE? And you're trying to write that as a doom headline? And 100,000 without power means 1 city; maybe several small towns. They didn't even bother to name this one (I hadn't even heard it was coming. It just rained alot. And not even a LOT lot, just a regular lot. I got all of ONE flash flooding alert in the last week. When a decent storm can bring two or three.)
I really hate the fear-mongering. You're going to die some day. Try doing it with dignity. And try not raving about all the little things before then.
Posted by: GWB at September 28, 2026 07:31 AM (kU0PQ)
This is a deliberate attempt of government to rule over a burnt-out ant hill.
And Canada joined the EU! Perfect for decline.
Progress trend lines are ominous for the EU and Canada.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 28, 2026 07:32 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2026 07:32 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Big Far Pharma at September 28, 2026 07:32 AM (2Ez/1)
>> fubar election here in Kalifornia.
California elections have been fubarred for quite some time.
The only thing that would change anything is similar to what has to happen in Iran, a popular uprising that kicks the controlling regime out of power.
And in both instances, that ain’t happening.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 28, 2026 07:33 AM (XV/Pl)
Good one. But in rural Kansas I would look out and wonder where all my neighbors got those torches.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 28, 2026 07:33 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 28, 2026 07:33 AM (VyBeY)
Good morning, Horde.
Posted by: Inogame at September 28, 2026 07:34 AM (Li9cs)
Posted by: rickb223 at September 28, 2026 07:34 AM (8nPz7)
Posted by: GWB at September 28, 2026 07:31 AM (kU0PQ)
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Fear. Uncertainty. Doubt. It's all they have for a platform.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2026 07:34 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Jeffrey Toobin at September 28, 2026 07:36 AM (2Ez/1)
Got a new router, and I made it work.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
I stand, stunned, at your technical prowess! 'Round these parts, our wifi drops me every five minutes or so.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 28, 2026 07:13 AM (PpIXw)
I see the word "Router" and I think horse-and-a-half Porter Cable.
Mazel tov.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 28, 2026 07:36 AM (x0n13)
Log into the router and change the channel. A new neighbor started hammering my wifi. I changed the channel and everything has been great since.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 28, 2026 07:24 AM (36x1j)
Get a WiFi analyzer app on your phone or tablet. You can see all of the channels in use around you. I found out there were about 30 WiFi access points of some sort around with a strong enough signal to interfere with mine. And there aren't anywhere near that number of houses around me. But I could find a channel un-between all those others. (I almost went out and got a really high power access point, just to turn it on at its most powerful setting and leave it there, with no network attached and randomly changing channels.)
Posted by: GWB at September 28, 2026 07:37 AM (kU0PQ)
To protect me from any violent liberals, I have some choices:
Pumpkin Spice
Abortion Clinic
No Hate Here
Climate Change Data Collection
Inshallah.
No, the last one would be very bad.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 28, 2026 07:38 AM (u82oZ)
>> fubar election here in Kalifornia.
California elections have been fubarred for quite some time.
The only thing that would change anything is similar to what has to happen in Iran, a popular uprising that kicks the controlling regime out of power.
And in both instances, that ain’t happening.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 28, 2026 07:33 AM (XV/Pl)
Which is why the entire quote of what I wrote included, " Well, hell, it's gonna be YET ANOTHER fubar election here in Kalifornia."
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 07:38 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 28, 2026 07:33 AM (VyBeY)
In my general neighborhood, there's "Green FBI van", "White FBI van", and "Black FBI van"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 07:39 AM (l3cgK)
If you must secrete, do it lawfully!
Posted by: Jeffrey Toobin at September 28, 2026 07:36 AM (2Ez/1)
if you must secrete, do it complete!
Posted by: Zombie Johnnie Cochraine at September 28, 2026 07:40 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 28, 2026 07:41 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Joe Robinette Biteum! at September 28, 2026 07:43 AM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 07:39 AM
That would be me.
Posted by: Bob from the NSA at September 28, 2026 07:43 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 07:38 AM (l3cgK)
Jim — I spent all last week in SoCal… working remote and visiting family and friends. My old AO. Yes, the politics are as fucked up as could be but I can’t help it: I love it there. The physical beauty is unmatched and I love being outdoors smelling the salt air; jogging on the beach. Looking north seeing Malibu in the distance. Sigh…. Call me nuts but I might retire there. I actually miss it!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 28, 2026 07:45 AM (xAoHD)
Two truly repulsive Marxist candidates.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2026 07:45 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Joe Robinette Biteum! at September 28, 2026 07:43 AM (Fn+3X)
Joey was always prodigious in his plagiarism. Dan Rather is having the sads.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 07:46 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Joe Robinette Biteum! at September 28, 2026 07:43 AM (Fn+3X)
You… choose farts (and sharts) over truth and facts….and everything else. My butt’s been wiped!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 28, 2026 07:47 AM (xAoHD)
>>Which is why the entire quote of what I wrote included, " Well, hell, it's gonna be YET ANOTHER fubar election here in Kalifornia."
You know your states f***** when the most sensible and practical move is to re-elect the people who allowed a large swath of your cities and state to burn to the ground.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 28, 2026 07:47 AM (XV/Pl)
Seeing as how all illegal aliens are criminals that should not be an issue.
Posted by: fd at September 28, 2026 07:47 AM (MWfyi)
Two truly repulsive Marxist candidates.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2026 07:45 AM (RIvkX)
Weiner is such a dick...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 07:47 AM (l3cgK)
Seeing as how all illegal aliens are criminals that should not be an issue.
Posted by: fd at September 28, 2026 07:47 AM (MWfyi)
Buahahahaha...true.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 07:48 AM (l3cgK)
@RoKhanna
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I am calling for the release of Marwan Bhargouti from Israeli prison.
9:26 AM · Sep 25, 2026
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LOLGF
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2026 07:48 AM (RIvkX)
Seriously though, hide the SSID.
If not, go to upsidedowntext.com or something similar and generate a useful name. Most routers and modern devices can handle the Unicode. Or find a character in the international set that looks a lot like a Latin charset value.
Copy and Paste that into whatever devices you want to hook up. The complexity will keep people away and the upside down text will scare them off that you are a weirdo.
Pro Tip: Unless you have metered bandwidth, use the Guest Network feature. Keep it at 2.4GHz Make it simple, use your phone number as a password and have every single device in your house, except your primary computer use it.
Far too many Chinesium "smart devices" explore your network. Your TV, your thermostat, your Alexa device, any smart appliances. Sandbox them. If your router supports it, close every listening port in the sandbox. Some routers let you throttle the bandwidth. Use it.
No one piggybacks a slow network.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 28, 2026 07:49 AM (rgGn5)
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 28, 2026 07:50 AM (zn4/g)
Good ideas. I already use some of them. The upside down text one shows promise.
No other house has LOS to me.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 28, 2026 07:52 AM (u82oZ)
If they are working, they may be stealing someone ID; if not, they may be working off the books. Ask them if it is OK now for all American citizens to stop paying taxes, or is it only legal to engage in tax fraud if you are an illegal.
If they are not working, ask them how it is that the Dark Angel of Unaffordability has skipped their house. Whereas millions of Americans can't afford anything but the illegal is doing fine. Theft? Drug dealing? Welfare and Entitlement abuse?
Posted by: Community Notes at September 28, 2026 07:53 AM (rgGn5)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 28, 2026 07:53 AM (kmiHN)
>>No one piggybacks a slow network.
The best move is to spin up a Proxmox/OPNSense/Piehole firewall and put your cable modem in front of it and your wifi behind it.
Then white list all of your devices and that's it, nothing more exotic than that.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 28, 2026 07:55 AM (XV/Pl)
Saw a pic of said crowd. It's along the lines of "dozens" in San Antonio...
Yeah. "dozens" - as in what, 15? 20?
Gotta pump up crowd numbers, I guess.
Posted by: man at September 28, 2026 07:57 AM (pfXMo)
It's a Sharknado. A possible shark was seen swimming along the flooded streets of Surf City NJ according to New Jersey 12 reporting.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 28, 2026 06:39 AM (I43vL)
Prep your chainsaws!
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 28, 2026 07:58 AM (wVcYX)
@RoKhanna
Follow
I am calling for the release of Marwan Bhargouti from Israeli prison.
9:26 AM · Sep 25, 2026
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LOLGF
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2026 07:48 AM (RIvkX)
How about we swap his dead body out for one of our own terrorist politicians?...
Barghouti: convicted in a criminal suit in Israeli district court on five separate counts of murder of innocent civilians.
Crimes orchestrated: murders of of Greek monk Tsibouktsakis Germanus in Jerusalem on June 12, 2001; Yoela Hen in Jerusalem on January 15, 2002; Eli Dahan, Yosef Habi, and Salim Barakat in Tel Aviv on March 5, 2002.
He was acquitted of 21 counts of murder in 33 other attacks, due to lack of sufficient evidence.
Founder and senior official of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade.
Head of the Tanzim, an armed faction in Fatah.
Showed no remorse for the murders he committed.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 07:58 AM (l3cgK)
What does that even mean?
Posted by: I gotta ask at September 28, 2026 07:58 AM (2Ez/1)
https://tinyurl.com/4dhymk9f
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2026 07:59 AM (JrHfD)
Its rough on your guests. But just tell them to leverage their data plan.
Blacklists are good to. Block DNS entries from your guest network: Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, Netflix (unless your TV uses it).
Block out the stuff losers that piggyback other signals likely would use.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 28, 2026 08:00 AM (PVBkQ)
Indeed, best to hide your SSID. Even if you hide it, there are ways to find it. Wifi Routers used to extend your network can be a major security hole.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 08:01 AM (l3cgK)
94 " ICE Officers Say They Were Told To Stop Arresting Non-Criminals"
This was argued about all weekend on X, and no confirmation of this claim was ever forthcoming .
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 28, 2026 08:01 AM (zn4/g)
94 " ICE Officers Say They Were Told To Stop Arresting Non-Criminals"
This was argued about all weekend on X, and no confirmation of this claim was ever forthcoming .
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 28, 2026 08:01 AM (zn4/g)
As fd mentioned in #87, ALL ILLEGAL ALIENS are criminals under Federal law...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 08:03 AM (l3cgK)
What does that even mean?
Posted by: I gotta ask
"It means let them out on the internet, rogue and unconstrained!"
-- Anthropic tech-worshippers
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 28, 2026 08:04 AM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Lady in Black at September 28, 2026 08:04 AM (qBdHI)
We are the clay, you are the potter;
we are all the work of your hand.”
- Isaiah 64:8
Posted by: Marcus T at September 28, 2026 08:04 AM (TVIDc)
Slanguage that is found in the tech thread.
To "sand box" something is to create a walled off, safe place for the undeveloped to play — similar to the play space made in the backyard for boys and their Tonka trucks†. This is where one quarantines suspect operations so that it doesn't effect others nor is effected by others.
† The physical sandbox made of wood and sand was a common set-up for Boomer and Gen-X when they were children. Newer generations may have no idea what a sandbox is unless it is an app.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 28, 2026 08:04 AM (PVBkQ)
What does that even mean?
Posted by: I gotta ask
"It means let them out on the internet, rogue and unconstrained!"
-- Anthropic tech-worshippers
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 28, 2026 08:04 AM (aJQbY)
Treat them like cat turds?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 08:05 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: the cat at September 28, 2026 08:05 AM (MWfyi)
I bet his wife votes against him.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2026 08:05 AM (ntjRb)
Posted by: the cat at September 28, 2026 08:05 AM (MWfyi)
Yeah, we're hosed. Could be worse - trifecta with Jane Kim.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 28, 2026 08:05 AM (Fv808)
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My bro is an ICE agent. I'm going to talk to him today and ask what he knows about this. He'll give me a straight answer.
Posted by: Lady in Black at September 28, 2026 08:06 AM (qBdHI)
>>lock out the stuff losers that piggyback other signals likely would use.
OPNSenese will let you establish a dedicated wireless vlan and let you block that traffic from initiating to your internal network, then you whitelist your internal devices.
Piehole will act as your DNS server and protect against malware and phishing.
You could even add an LTE Card to the mix and protect against network outages from your isp.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 28, 2026 08:06 AM (XV/Pl)
Slanguage that is found in the tech thread.
To "sand box" something is to create a walled off, safe place for the undeveloped to play — similar to the play space made in the backyard for boys and their Tonka trucks†. This is where one quarantines suspect operations so that it doesn't effect others nor is effected by others.
† The physical sandbox made of wood and sand was a common set-up for Boomer and Gen-X when they were children. Newer generations may have no idea what a sandbox is unless it is an app.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 28, 2026 08:04 AM (PVBkQ)
Never play with the "Lincoln Logs" you dig up in outdoor sandboxes...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 08:06 AM (l3cgK)
Raining hard here . Yesterday it was on and off, but windy. Looks like the Noreaster didn't hurt that bad , around here anyway. Some power outages
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 28, 2026 08:07 AM (Naxcc)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 28, 2026 08:07 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) "
*headbump*
Posted by: the cat at September 28, 2026 08:05 AM (MWfyi)
MWfyi is perfect...a cat's WIFI...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 08:07 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Lady in Black at September 28, 2026 08:08 AM (qBdHI)
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Please thank him on my behalf and stand him a beer. Charge my AoS account!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2026 08:08 AM (ntjRb)
Maybe the NorthEast needs small modular nuclear reactors to help harden the grid with more local sources to prevent massive loss of power.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 28, 2026 08:09 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 28, 2026 08:10 AM (xAoHD)
Posted by: Count de Monet, Trying To Reason With Hurricane Season at September 28, 2026 08:10 AM (wVcYX)
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My bro is an ICE agent. I'm going to talk to him today and ask what he knows about this. He'll give me a straight answer.
Posted by: Lady in Black at September 28, 2026 08:06 AM (qBdHI)
The politicians give you the gay answer...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 08:10 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Weakly Reader! at September 28, 2026 08:10 AM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Obsequious Jones at September 28, 2026 08:12 AM (Fn+3X)
Why? And lose the opportunity to gain natural immunity?
One of the benefits of open water swimming is that, in places, particularly flooded quarries and impoundment lakes, all kinds of things flow in there, from parking lots, dog parks, pastures, storm drains, etc. From this one receives broad spectrum inoculation on whatever the hell is in the immediate environment.
Sort of like favoring eating locally produced honey.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 28, 2026 08:12 AM (/TiS1)
Posted by: the dog at September 28, 2026 08:12 AM (JzUSu)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2026 08:13 AM (ntjRb)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2026 08:14 AM (QwZKw)
Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2026 08:15 AM (ZxPkt)
Don’t fall for it. Vote. Bring two friends to vote. Volunteer at the polls if you can.
We have superior numbers of registered voters in many places. If we show up we win.
Which is why they are trying to get you to stay home.
Posted by: Vengeance at September 28, 2026 08:15 AM (acEXZ)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 28, 2026 08:10 AM (xAoHD)
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They are not correct. We did this two years ago. Harris was supposed to be ahead and was behind the whole time.
This far out the polls can put out absolute garbage and then come back home to reality in late October and remain credible. It's an info op.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 08:16 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Vengeance at September 28, 2026 08:15 AM (acEXZ)
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You will also see """conservative""" influencers claiming all is lost or that Trump betrayed the base because they know that their traffic/grift will do better with the Dems in power. Rush actually pointed this out in the 1990s that his ratings go up when Dems win and go down when the GOP has power.
G. Gordon Liddy's radio show flourished under the Clintons, and collapsed when Bush won and was saved from cancellation by 9/11.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 08:18 AM (ZOv7s)
60% turnout yields significant majorities.
80% turnout brings super majorities nothing stops the Party.
If D wins, it is because we let them. No shots required.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 28, 2026 08:19 AM (+4Cf6)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 08:19 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Community Notes at September 28, 2026 08:12 AM
Like the East River!
https://youtu.be/5ihk0IyirIQ
Posted by: Kramer at September 28, 2026 08:19 AM (2Ez/1)
Today is a big day. We find out this afternoon if our house is sold or not.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 08:20 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2026 08:20 AM (EA2wx)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2026 08:20 AM (QwZKw)
Posted by: Francesca Hong at September 28, 2026 08:21 AM (2Ez/1)
I have regarded the Kennedy center as enemy territory since 2009, when Paul McCartney insulted Bush 43 and Mrs. Bush with snide wisecracks about literacy.
P.S. regarding the ONT and attire recommendations, I will quote Tom Petty:
Oh, my, my!
Oh, hell yes!
Honey put on that party dress!
Posted by: Fenderbender at September 28, 2026 08:22 AM (1FEc1)
This far out the polls can put out absolute garbage and then come back home to reality in late October and remain credible. It's an info op.
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I'm trying to soothe my anxiety over November. And I know statistically it hasn't mattered so much in the past, but I drive past the $4+ gas and $6 diesel signs around these parts and the constant barrage of filthy media lies and I admit I'm nervous. The Dems and their lunatic hatred of PDT has gotten even worse since his first term. They're going to run their grandmas over to vote against any R on any ballot. I hope normal people really know what's at stake.
Posted by: Lady in Black at September 28, 2026 08:22 AM (qBdHI)
I can't help but believe that the
Campaign managers make bank when the constituents are terrified of losing and only sending more money for the managers to grift will bring a win.
Runaway races don't provide this level of opportunity to create generational wealth.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 28, 2026 08:22 AM (+4Cf6)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 08:23 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2026 08:23 AM (rOKnE)
Posted by: All Numbers Matter at September 28, 2026 08:23 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Stage Nine Joe! at September 28, 2026 08:24 AM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2026 08:20 AM (QwZKw)
Hasn't he already annihilated her once?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 08:24 AM (ccf/V)
I know I do, and I feel much better and am in much better health because of it.
Most of my water is flavored with bourbon, and much of it is contained in the lovely red wines I enjoy.
To good health habits!
Posted by: He who questions all of it at September 28, 2026 08:25 AM (8ZS/E)
Aaaaaand UK authorities are already lecturing us to not be racists by jumping to conclusions about who these terrorists are (have you seen the picture of them?).
Alrighty!!
Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2026 08:25 AM (rOKnE)
Posted by: Lady in Black at September 28, 2026 08:25 AM (qBdHI)
+++
Is this about me?
Posted by: The Woodrow Wilson Bridge at September 28, 2026 08:25 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 28, 2026 08:26 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
Naw, it was the Stacked and Packed Calendar!
Posted by: The G Man at September 28, 2026 08:27 AM (Fn+3X)
Even honest polls aren't good at seeing shifts in Turnout.
Even more so for a mid-term with changes from historic norms.
Posted by: Ignoramus at September 28, 2026 08:27 AM (dtajH)
It’s not organic or real. It’s organized and fake.
This tactic has worked for them before in states like Georgia, etc.
Don’t fall for it. Get out and vote. If you’re in a state where mail in votes are excepted and that’s your best option, use it. Just make sure your vote gets counted.
Posted by: Vengeance at September 28, 2026 08:27 AM (acEXZ)
Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 08:27 AM (77rzZ)
Polls are GIGO plus PsyOp.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2026 08:27 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Lady in Black at September 28, 2026 08:25 AM (qBdHI)
What? An anonymous source gave bullshit information to the media and they ran with it?
The hells you say......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 08:27 AM (ccf/V)
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Of all the things happening right now, I should give a flying f*ck about this exactly why?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 08:29 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Buck at September 28, 2026 08:29 AM (z6ONu)
Looks like the protests used to GoTV this election season will be immigration!
Apparently, there's a 5k strong immigrant caravan heading to our border. As we know, these are sponsored and facilitated by NGOs, not organic. I'm going to make a wild-azz guess that they want to stage a confrontation between the caravan and US military at a place in the border where Trump has placed US troops. They need a scary photo to show what a "dictator" Trump is.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2026 08:29 AM (rOKnE)
Posted by: G. Gordon Liddy at September 28, 2026 08:30 AM (Fn+3X)
THIS
But also? I love that it triggers the DC class.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2026 08:30 AM (rOKnE)
Even honest polls aren't good at seeing shifts in Turnout.
Even more so for a mid-term with changes from historic norms.
Posted by: Ignoramus at September 28, 2026 08:27 AM (dtajH)
Not that I'm a huge fan of government regulations or anything, but they really should start investigating the polling firms in this country. I mean, how many times can you be ridiculously far off in your 'polling' that you're not considered election tampering due to spreading false information.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 08:31 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Vengeance at September 28, 2026 08:27 AM
Are they expected to be accepted and excepted?
Posted by: Word Nerd at September 28, 2026 08:31 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Buck at September 28, 2026 08:29 AM (z6ONu)
This.....more than most the things.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 08:32 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2026 08:29 AM (rOKnE)
One of the ways you know you are in a totalitarian regime is the direction the guns are pointed at the border...pointed out, for your protection; pointed in, to keep you from escaping.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 08:32 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Vengeance at September 28, 2026 08:33 AM (acEXZ)
Posted by: redridinghood at September 28, 2026 08:33 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: redridinghood at September 28, 2026 08:33 AM (NpAcC)
At least one of my neighbors won't be thinking of me...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 08:34 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Vengeance at September 28, 2026 08:34 AM (acEXZ)
All the others have been proven b.s. over and over.
But the media wants to convince you they matter otherwise they would have nothing to say. They might have to start covering issues and policy. Which these idiots neither understand nor care a whit.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2026 08:34 AM (RIvkX)
I thought for folks here, that was pretty much everyday...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 08:34 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 28, 2026 08:35 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Vengeance at September 28, 2026 08:33 AM (acEXZ)
The bigger a news org becomes, the more it becomes infiltrated with leftist dickwads and shit like this becomes the norm.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 08:35 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Wilson at September 28, 2026 08:35 AM (2Ez/1)
I thought for folks here, that was pretty much everyday...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 08:34 AM (l3cgK)
It usually is.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 08:35 AM (ccf/V)
Bomb it from the air. Now. Away from prying eyes.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2026 08:36 AM (NsCgM)
Posted by: Wilson at September 28, 2026 08:35 AM (2Ez/1)
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Don't forget a towel!
Posted by: Towelie at September 28, 2026 08:36 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2026 08:36 AM (QwZKw)
He would hold a cigarette lighter flame on his forearm till the skin was burning to show he was serious about something. Yeesh.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2026 08:37 AM (csF+K)
Posted by: Wilson at September 28, 2026 08:35 AM (2Ez/1)
In my local phone book there was a woman named Heidi Ho...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 08:37 AM (l3cgK)
The Ken Paxton campaign hasn't sued the PAC running false ads about him in support of Six Gender Jimmy.
I'm pretty disappointed.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 08:37 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 28, 2026 08:38 AM (2GVsD)
In my local phone book there was a woman named Heidi Ho...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 08:37 AM (l3cgK)
I used to work with a woman named Melike Cemen.
I found that unfortunate.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 08:38 AM (ccf/V)
Bomb it from the air. Now. Away from prying eyes.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2026 08:36 AM (NsCgM)
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I'm rested and ready.
Posted by: A-10 Warthog at September 28, 2026 08:38 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: redridinghood
Not again, no sirree! I tried to love my neighbor, but her husband objected rather forcefully!
Posted by: Still Healing In NC at September 28, 2026 08:38 AM (Fn+3X)
So let’s vote for the people who deliberately tried to raise that price for years, eliminate the fossil fuel industry, put refineries and energy plants out of business and substantially increased the price of energy.
I know the price of gas will come down after the elections, but this seems like a good idea.
Said nobody ever.
Posted by: Vengeance at September 28, 2026 08:38 AM (acEXZ)
This far out the polls can put out absolute garbage and then come back home to reality in late October and remain credible. It's an info op.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 08:16 AM (ZOv7s)
Yes… but I thought the polls would start to nudge closer to reality after Labor Day. They really haven’t budged. I admit I’m concerned…. Iowa, Texas, Ohio… it looks uniformly bad across the board. Rogers in MI behind the lunatic? Susan Collins consistently behind in ME?? I can’t believe Collins will lose…. But hate is a powerful motivator and Dems everywhere see this as their last chance to vote against Trump. I just don’t know what to think
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 28, 2026 08:39 AM (xAoHD)
In my local phone book there was a woman named Heidi Ho...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 08:37 AM (l3cgK)
I used to work with a woman named Melike Cemen.
I found that unfortunate.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 08:38 AM (ccf/V)
Tell me about it.
Posted by: Anass Rhammer at September 28, 2026 08:39 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 28, 2026 08:40 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2026 08:40 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Just like rent at September 28, 2026 08:40 AM (2Ez/1)
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Is this about me?
Posted by: The Woodrow Wilson Bridge at September 28, 2026 08:25 AM (2Ez/1)
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You're a total lightweight
Posted by: Robert C. Byrd at September 28, 2026 08:40 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Vengeance at September 28, 2026 08:41 AM (acEXZ)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 08:37 AM (l3cgK)
Wilson Wilson, Tim Taylor’s neighbor, is always talking about a Heidi Ho (good neighbor)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 28, 2026 08:41 AM (xAoHD)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 28, 2026 08:41 AM (2GVsD)
So at worst, we get unhinged congressional investigations led by the DSA wing for two years, letting their full freak flags fly. This would likely be very helpful for 28, which is what really matters.
I'd be of a different opinion if the GOPe congress had done much of anything to help Trump since 24, or if we had a reasonable prospect of getting a non-GOPe congress in the midterms that would pass the SAVE Act and drastically cut spending.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 28, 2026 08:41 AM (JzUSu)
Posted by: Anass Rhammer at September 28, 2026 08:39 AM (l3cgK)
The primary application used at the company I work for uses the first initial and first 3 letters in your last name as your identifier.
One of our sales people was listed as TWAT on all the reports.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 08:41 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 28, 2026 08:42 AM (xAoHD)
*punches self in face*
Posted by: Vengeance at September 28, 2026 08:42 AM (acEXZ)
Posted by: Mildly curious at September 28, 2026 08:43 AM (2Ez/1)
More for D than R.
Cope on X is, "well, the D will show up in-person."
Sure, I mean, yeah they could change the last 10+ years of their voting patterns.
Not likely but they could.
Also, of interest is the discussion that polling isn't even polling anymore.
Rather, they get a sample of 600 to 1k and "model" the rest.
So they'll get 0 response from say, "likely R under 35" but--and this is key--because the pollster believes the news, the "model" will insert their guess.
Which matches the news ....
Polls are no longer polls: Their opinion pieces with numbers.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 28, 2026 08:43 AM (3cUTc)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 28, 2026 08:42 AM (xAoHD)
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I think that he was the same person as Hunter S. Thompson.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2026 08:43 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Anass Rhammer at September 28, 2026 08:39 AM (l3cgK)
The primary application used at the company I work for uses the first initial and first 3 letters in your last name as your identifier.
One of our sales people was listed as TWAT on all the reports.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 08:41 AM (ccf/V)
They used first initial, last name for emails where my brother worked...one woman was penis@...com...
At my old workplace, Betty East became beast@...com...
Posted by: Anass Rhammer at September 28, 2026 08:43 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
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Morning, Salty. Got lost in the links. Pirate action is over until next year.
Posted by: olddog in mo at September 28, 2026 08:43 AM (Hbeqj)
Polls are no longer polls: Their opinion pieces with numbers.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 28, 2026 08:43 AM (3cUTc)
Polls are and have always been whatever the pollster wants them to be.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 08:44 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: pawn at September 28, 2026 08:44 AM (3g9Kl)
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I remember in the early 2000s a climate "scientist" fuming that he'd like to censor "confusing" information on AGW. The same reasoning was given by Tomas Borge to justify shutting down opposition newspapers in Nicaragua in the 80s.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 28, 2026 08:44 AM (amcLV)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2026 08:44 AM (QwZKw)
Posted by: It's me donna at September 28, 2026 08:44 AM (K+4NO)
*punches self in face*
Posted by: Vengeance at September 28, 2026 08:42 AM (acEXZ)
Feel better?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 08:44 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 28, 2026 08:39 AM (xAoHD)
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Why will independent voters turn out to vote for these lunatics? Explain to me what the demographics of their coalition will be?
The Dems are now in full Banzai Charge mode, and the media are 100% with them. If Trump holds congress, the 2028 election will be clean, and the Dems will be destroyed as a national party.
So the same people who subverted the FBI, CIA, the US military are now subverting polls and prediction markets.
Ask yourself why they would NOT do that. It's is literally cost-free. They can bring the polls "home" in a month.
Right now the goal is to booth their donations and cripple GOP fundraising, and lots of GOPe types are happy to help them.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 08:44 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2026 08:44 AM (QwZKw)
Ah yes. I stand corrected.
This new one running isn't the lesbian former police chief, then.
Meh.....who cares......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 08:45 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Vengeance at September 28, 2026 08:45 AM (acEXZ)
@MrAndyNgo
Counter-terror police have arrested five men in Gloucestershire, England over a suspected bomb plot near RAF Fairford, where the U.S. Air Force has a command outpost.
The group traveled in three vans, which are suspected of containing explosives.
It's unknown if it is related, but a radical pro-Palestine leftist group had released a video hours earlier of them violently attacking the office of a military defense company in a nearby building. http://ngocomment.com
Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2026 08:45 AM (rOKnE)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 28, 2026 08:46 AM (VQ7/I)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 28, 2026 08:46 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Chandler Bing at September 28, 2026 08:46 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Lived To 90, Anyway at September 28, 2026 08:46 AM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 28, 2026 08:46 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 28, 2026 08:46 AM (VQ7/I)
I thought bears used the woods...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 08:46 AM (l3cgK)
The group traveled in three vans, which are suspected of containing explosives.
It's unknown if it is related, but a radical pro-Palestine leftist group had released a video hours earlier of them violently attacking the office of a military defense company in a nearby building.
Nothing to see here. Please disperse.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 08:46 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 28, 2026 08:42 AM (xAoHD)
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He was very witty on his radio show. He was out there, but an excellent conversationalist.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 08:47 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 28, 2026 08:48 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2026 08:48 AM (+l7X8)
They’re all wrong through because reasons.
Before anyone says Cruz, save it. Cruz was never down in polls in 2018. He led in polls the entire race. His margin of victory was in fact smaller than the polls suggested, putting to bed the trope that polls always underestimate Republicans .
Posted by: AOS Cope at September 28, 2026 08:46 AM (LQZ++)
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Hillary won.
Harris had the lead.
Lie to me more, daddy.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 08:48 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Amber Heard at September 28, 2026 08:49 AM (2Ez/1)
@jamestalarico
When Jesus healed the sick, he didn’t ask for a deductible.
When he fed the hungry, he didn’t price gouge for a profit.
When the Hebrew prophets saw corruption, they spoke truth to power.
When I take on this corrupt system, I’m doing it on biblical grounds.
I guess a Christian Theocracy is OK if its interpretation of the Bible promotes Communism?
Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2026 08:49 AM (rOKnE)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2026 08:49 AM (+l7X8)
Which is to say it will never happen.
I don’t know a single person who says they are voting for Talarico or whoever is running against Abbott. Not one.
Posted by: Vengeance at September 28, 2026 08:49 AM (acEXZ)
Harris had the lead.
Lie to me more, daddy.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 08:48 AM
I can do that.
Posted by: Francesca Hong at September 28, 2026 08:49 AM (2Ez/1)
A handful of pollsters have skewed their results to generate more revenue and headlines
or
Texas has decided to elect a gay pagan vegan twink to the US senate to Get Drumpf.
It's a real puzzle.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 08:50 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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I'd like to think he had some smarts, but his favorite band was ABBA.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 28, 2026 08:51 AM (JzUSu)
Posted by: AOS Cope at September 28, 2026 08:46 AM (LQZ++)
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So your argument is "Polls are too accurate nyah!"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2026 08:51 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2026 08:51 AM (rfn8n)
Posted by: Francesca Hong at September 28, 2026 08:49 AM (2Ez/1)
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El-Sayed was up by 10 in the polls, won by 1.
And let us not forget that the prediction in 2016 was off by 20 F*CKING POINTS. How can you miss that badly?!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 08:52 AM (ZOv7s)
So global warmination is making life better in FL and worse in MA/NY?
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Ok libtards now you really have to trade in your luxury SUV for a bicycle and keep your heat to below 60F!!!!
Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 08:52 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 28, 2026 08:51 AM (JzUSu)
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I'd have thought he would have been more of an Elvis man.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 28, 2026 08:52 AM (amcLV)
Posted by: Or Tough at September 28, 2026 08:53 AM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Vengeance at September 28, 2026 08:49 AM
Careful, sport.
Posted by: The ghost of Pauline Kael at September 28, 2026 08:53 AM (2Ez/1)
Polls are used to influence, not reflect the likely results. If you have a D candidate ahead throughout the campaign, then it's not surprising when your vote fraud op pulls off the win. Prepping the election day battlespace.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2026 08:54 AM (rOKnE)
Posted by: Manya at September 28, 2026 08:55 AM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 28, 2026 08:55 AM (xAoHD)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2026 08:55 AM (+l7X8)
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Pretty sure Spicoli thinks you're a dick.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 28, 2026 08:56 AM (amcLV)
Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 08:56 AM (77rzZ)
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When Talarico loses you will just fade back into anonymity and invisibility.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2026 08:56 AM (RIvkX)
Trunp was ahead or tied in all battleground states leading up to the election. Every betting market had him as the favorite.
This is the playbook. Ignore polls, then claim fraud, then forget polls that were favorable.
Posted by: AOS Cope at September 28, 2026 08:51 AM (LQZ++)
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I appreciate your effort, but you know that you can just go the RCP archive and expose your pathetic lies in real time. Harris led from almost the moment she entered the race and the gap narrowed late in October but guess what? Harris was still ahead.
Do better.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 08:56 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 08:56 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 28, 2026 08:56 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: It's me donna at September 28, 2026 08:56 AM (K+4NO)
LOLGF
Blue states could provide their voter rolls to DoJ as requested and prove us wrong any time now!
Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2026 08:57 AM (rOKnE)
Aaaaaand UK authorities are already lecturing us to not be racists by jumping to conclusions about who these terrorists are (have you seen the picture of them?).
Alrighty!!
Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2026 08:25 AM (rOKnE)
Brit Lass had GB News on on Saturday and I heard them report that pussy Burnham had said not to "make any rash judgments" and all I could think was "ah so that means any rash judgments are correct".
You know if it was white people they would be blaming conservatives immediately even if they knew they were commies which they of course would be.
Posted by: ... at September 28, 2026 08:57 AM (ZJQBk)
This isn’t cope. This is delusion.
Posted by: AOS Cope at September 28, 2026 08:56 AM (LQZ++)
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God bless you. It must be tiresome to spend your life spreading easily disproved lies. God loves you. Go to him. He's waiting for you.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 08:57 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 28, 2026 08:57 AM (2GVsD)
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Mrs. Kravitz?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 28, 2026 08:58 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Ralph Kramden, Gotham Bus Lines at September 28, 2026 08:59 AM (Fn+3X)
Heh, EXACTLY!
Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2026 08:59 AM (rOKnE)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 28, 2026 08:59 AM (u82oZ)
Ship lost an engine on ascent. They may not go for orbit insertion. We'll see.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 28, 2026 08:59 AM (w6EFb)
Ship lost an engine on ascent. They may not go for orbit insertion. We'll see.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 28, 2026 08:59 AM (w6EFb)
I think 2 of them didn't light...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 09:00 AM (l3cgK)
Yes; I'm sure actual moderate to conservative Texans who have some religious sensibility will hurry out to vote for a guy who goes to a church that doesn't believe in the resurrection and thinks Jesus may not even have even existed . Even non religious Texans probably think he's "out there" as well.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2026 09:00 AM (JrHfD)
Like I said delusional.
Posted by: AOS Cope at September 28, 2026 08:58 AM (LQZ++)
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Hillary was up 20 points on Bernie in Michigan and Bernie won the state. I'm sorry you don't know enough about polling to recognize the reference.
You're clearly just making stuff up, and I hope that at least your are being paid for this.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 09:00 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 09:00 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Ralph Kramden, Gotham Bus Lines at September 28, 2026 08:59 AM (Fn+3X)
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I did not know that. Explains a lot. A lot.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2026 09:00 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2026 09:01 AM (LI+e7)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 08:56 AM (l3cgK)
Nah. It fired the rockets before splashdown to lessen the blow.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 09:01 AM (ccf/V)
Scrub for orbital insertion. They'll just come back down on current suborbital path. Bummer. No orbit.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 28, 2026 09:01 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 28, 2026 09:02 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 28, 2026 09:02 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2026 09:02 AM (LI+e7)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 09:01 AM (ccf/V)
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It's kind of crazy that we can abort launches and not lose the whole craft.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 09:02 AM (ZOv7s)
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This is a lie. Minorities can't be racist.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 28, 2026 09:02 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 09:02 AM (ZOv7s)
SpaceX is really making everyone else look kinda silly with all this.
They're doing some amazing stuff.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 09:03 AM (ccf/V)
That was on the booster during the boostback.
Ship itself lost one of the "Rvacs". It has 6 engines, 3 big nozzle vacuum optimized raptors, and 3 sea-level optimized engines.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 28, 2026 09:03 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 09:03 AM (77rzZ)
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Mrs. Kravitz?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 28, 2026 08:58 AM (ndZc7)
She was Coming back from a party said they seemed suspicious and were Middle Eastern looking...
Posted by: It's me donna at September 28, 2026 09:04 AM (K+4NO)
Posted by: Coastal, Going Postal! at September 28, 2026 09:04 AM (Fn+3X)
What this thread really needs is…
BOOBS!
Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 09:03 AM (77rzZ)
https://shorturl.fm/UnIye
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 09:04 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 09:03 AM (77rzZ)
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I'm experiencing a local shortage.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 09:05 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 28, 2026 09:05 AM (2GVsD)
but regardless good launch
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 28, 2026 09:05 AM (j+aD2)
Yep, they're still thinking about going for orbit. They've got 10 more minutes to make the call.
This is all abundance of caution. They don't want to put in orbit, then lose control.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 28, 2026 09:05 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Bob Dole at September 28, 2026 09:05 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2026 09:05 AM (LI+e7)
Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 09:06 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 09:07 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 09:07 AM (sKqQm)
Voters are stupid sometimes.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 09:07 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: pawn at September 28, 2026 09:08 AM (3g9Kl)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 28, 2026 09:08 AM (3Ope8)
Plus Trump being a meanie for not letting illegal alien kids get butchered by quack doctors and paid for by taxpayers.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 28, 2026 09:09 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 28, 2026 09:08 AM
I honestly think they're laying low because they're embarrassed he's their candidate.
He's a freak of the highest order and they don't want their friends to know they're riding the fat chick on the Vespa wearing Crocs.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 09:10 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2026 09:10 AM (LI+e7)
Go for orbit burn!!
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 28, 2026 09:11 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at September 28, 2026 09:11 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2026 09:11 AM (LI+e7)
Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 09:06 AM (sKqQm)
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El-Sayed squeaked through a highly divisive Dem primary. He has had multiple chances to tack to the center but refuses to do so.
He has lost a lot of Jewish support, so who did he gain? Muslims were already voting Dem, so no gain there. Are independents excited about his support for Iran? His socialism? How does he grow the Dem coalition? Are suburban married women going to vote for him?
Same with Paxton. He got divorced. Okay. But that stopped being a stigma 30 years ago. Clinton had multiple affairs and still got into the White House. So which part of Paxton's previous statewide majorities now want a pagan vegan twink to take office?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 09:11 AM (ZOv7s)
Plus Trump being a meanie for not letting illegal alien kids get butchered by quack doctors and paid for by taxpayers.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 28, 2026 09:09 AM (2GVsD)
Trump is being roasted 24/7 in 99% of the media daily I imagine that is having a negative effect on Republicans running... Just not sure yet how much of an effect...
Posted by: It's me donna at September 28, 2026 09:11 AM (K+4NO)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 09:10 AM
I don't think it's a chick in this case, but otherwise, your point is valid.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 28, 2026 09:11 AM (bFu5X)
Posted by: pawn at September 28, 2026 09:11 AM (3g9Kl)
The pussies got overridden.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 28, 2026 09:11 AM (w6EFb)
Anyone here betting on red? ........crickets
Posted by: Paul at September 28, 2026 09:10 AM (3yWsK)
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LOL, like you have any money to bet!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 09:12 AM (ZOv7s)
Bill Maher Says Trump Being Tough Helped Lower Crime: “Trump Is a Badass”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 28, 2026 09:12 AM (ndZc7)
I don't think it's a chick in this case, but otherwise, your point is valid.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 28, 2026 09:11 AM (bFu5X)
Touché accepted.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 09:12 AM (ccf/V)
And he’ll probably get canceled for saying this.
On Bill Maher, James Kirchick spent 2 full minutes warning that “queer extremism” is DESTROYING support for gay marriage, and he actually nails it.
Gallup shows support for same-sex marriage is sliding, and among Republicans, it’s CRATERING. Social issues almost never reverse like this:
Overall: 71% (2022) → 65% (2026)
Republicans: 55% (2021) → 37% (2026)
Independents: 77% (2022) → 67% (2026)
This isn't a "tolerance" problem. It's a "leave me and my kids alone" problem. Nobody needs to hear who you sleep with.
Posted by: SMOD at September 28, 2026 09:12 AM (RHGPo)
I have never bet money on a political race. It sounds like a stupid way to waste money.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2026 09:12 AM (JrHfD)
"Talarico knows success in Texas follows a bipartisan path." - San Antonio Express News
"Talarico worked with Democrats and Republicans to pass 60 bills."
Talarico. End Corruption. Lower Costs.
I larfed.
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 28, 2026 09:13 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 28, 2026 09:09 AM (2GVsD)
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Both of which were worse under the Dems. I guess voters have no memory of 2021-2025.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 09:13 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 28, 2026 09:13 AM (2GVsD)
Starship is near apogee. That's when you do the orbit burn, which will be "perigee raise" maneuver, lifting perigee out of the atmosphere.
It will just be 9 seconds with one sea-level Raptor. R-vacs won't be used.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 28, 2026 09:14 AM (w6EFb)
"We must protect trans kids every day."
He's for they/them, not you.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 09:14 AM (ccf/V)
To
“We’re queerint your children ha ha ha !!!”
Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2026 09:14 AM (rfn8n)
the City - everyone so nice. I think they were blindsided by Drexel's actions. Mayor's office was super friendly and said she'd received many many calls.
Shapiro? the girl who answered was a TOTAL BI*CH - I think they ALSO had gotten a lot of calls, but Joshie is on Drexel/whoever-is-developing-the-location's side.
He's such a maggot.
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 28, 2026 09:14 AM (j+aD2)
Good burn. Starship is in orbit.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 28, 2026 09:14 AM (w6EFb)
Is The Last Ditch an ironic name or non-ironic?
Why did they have a mask mandate in the first place?
Shouldn't a lesbian bar have a "no man date" night seven days a week instead of just one?
Why would their customers be mad at a one-day-a-week relaxation of the mask rule?
Is the mask rule to prevent spread of disease or to cover ugly faces?
Why is the Massachusetts chapter of the Communist Party USA getting involved in favor of the lesbian bar?
Why is there a Communist Party USA anywhere?
So many questions in Clown World.
Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2026 09:15 AM (I0N4X)
He resolved inflation, down from Biden's 10+% to the normal 2-3%. And it is comical I see leftists posting inflation charts showing inflation spike under Biden because they don't understand what they are sharing...
Now some people thought resolving Bidenflation would lower prices to pre-Biden levels but that would require significant deflation which pretty much all economists argue would destroy the economy
Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 09:15 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Paul
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Never heard of it. Do you mean PredictIt, this place where you allegedly put real money? Schmuck.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 28, 2026 09:15 AM (JzUSu)
Posted by: Lady in Black at September 28, 2026 09:15 AM (qBdHI)
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Good read.
I'm enjoying watching Jackson crash and burn in Maine. I still worry about Carolina, with all it's northerner voter imports over that last two decades, and Cooper has been successful in the past, but TJM is very firm he will lose.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2026 09:15 AM (LI+e7)
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Mrs. Kravitz?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 28, 2026 08:58 AM (ndZc7)
Yep. Lenny's mom.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 28, 2026 09:16 AM (iW7pR)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 09:16 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 28, 2026 09:16 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: SMOD at September 28, 2026 09:12 AM (RHGPo)
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"You will bake the cake" was the greatest self-own of all time.
Completely reversed all the progress.
The decline will accelerate as liberal Boomers die off and Gen X becomes a larger segment of the population.
That's another reason why the Dems are using every weapon they can find. They are going over the demographic cliff. In four years, the trickle of universities closing will be come a flood.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 09:16 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 28, 2026 09:14 AM
Let me know when the nuking starts.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 28, 2026 09:17 AM (bFu5X)
Recon there's going to be some serious partying tonight.
Posted by: pawn at September 28, 2026 09:18 AM (3g9Kl)
The slippery slope argument social conservatives made turned out to be true
Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 09:18 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 28, 2026 09:18 AM (2GVsD)
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has a scholarship program for people to learn to become activists and only illegals and foreigners are allowed to apply. No American-born citizens. How is this legal?? @AAGDhillon
Posted by: redridinghood at September 28, 2026 09:19 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 09:18 AM
Whoda thunk it? Except, you know, everyone with a functioning brain.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 28, 2026 09:19 AM (bFu5X)
Paul also changes his house paint colors to match the winners of the election. 😉Maybe he should paint it rainbow colors with a large swatch of "transgender" blue and red. In fact, he's attended classes of the dopey academic who thinks white paint is racist .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2026 09:19 AM (JrHfD)
Do we start with the MA judicial system?
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 28, 2026 09:18 AM
As long as you do it on a day when I'm working from home.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 28, 2026 09:20 AM (bFu5X)
If we're worried about an Islamist country getting nukes, we should really be worried about Great Britain.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 28, 2026 09:21 AM (qwx/I)
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE DESPITE THESE RARE MOMENTS OF CLARITY, MAHER'S BELIEF THAT TRUMP IS AN INCREDIBLY DUMB, BIGOTED, AUTHORITARIAN WHO WILL DESTROY OUR COUNTRY IS UNSHAKABLE.
(I bet he spent the rest of the show hammering on ORANGEMANBAD)
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at September 28, 2026 09:21 AM (rOKnE)
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has a scholarship program for people to learn to become activists and only illegals and foreigners are allowed to apply. No American-born citizens. How is this legal?? @AAGDhillon
Posted by: redridinghood at September 28, 2026 09:19 AM (NpAcC)
Reap it, Boston.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 09:21 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 28, 2026 09:21 AM (VQ7/I)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2026 09:21 AM (LI+e7)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 28, 2026 09:19 AM (bFu5X)
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The hour of victory caused these people who lower their guard and let us know just how disturbing "the lifestyle" is and that yes, they do groom, and became very open about it.
Crazy how much of that is now out in the open.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 09:21 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 09:22 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2026 09:21 AM (LI+e7)
Nobody wants to rape Paul.
Well, maybe Graham Platner does.
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 28, 2026 09:23 AM (jBygX)
California was once super red too. Until it wasn’t. W. Virginia was deep blue until it wasn’t. Florida went for Obama twice then for DeSantis by 20 within a decade. States can swing wildly from one side to another quickly.
I hope Texas doesn’t do that but it won’t shock me if it does.
Posted by: If I May at September 28, 2026 09:23 AM (ATp9+)
Posted by: Huck Follywood
___________
I'm guessing Paul would rather have a second back door.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 28, 2026 09:23 AM (JzUSu)
(I bet he spent the rest of the show hammering on ORANGEMANBAD)
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at September 28, 2026 09:21 AM (rOKnE)
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Except that's not even remotely true. Maher famously had dinner with Trump and has repeatedly talked about how Trump in person is a great guy, engaging, friendly, and that he wishes Trump showed more of that side of him.
He got a ton of hate for saying that, and his audience was shocked, but he stands by that.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 09:24 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: The Paolo at September 28, 2026 09:24 AM (2Ez/1)
it's so much worse right NOW for the colleges. the reason Drexel is trying to liquidate the Academy of Natural Sciences museum here is not the cost of running it, which is a minimal part of their overall budget AND supported by federal, state AND city grants - it's just to milk it for cash from the location and the collection to try to keep Drexel U going
they revealed the other day that they are currently 40 million dollars in debt. their enrollment is plunging.
I can't wait for them to go under
but they - and other colleges like U of Kentucky I'm hearing - who were allowed to be custodial of museums - are liquidating things they should not be liquidating in an attempt to survive.
for Drexel, they think if they can weather the storm they will be one of the few Philly-area colleges left and things will be rosy again.
I'm personally working VERY hard from several angles to make sure that doesn't happen. And I have alums with me. they hate Drexel more than I do!!
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 28, 2026 09:24 AM (j+aD2)
And now they're deploying the Starlinks. They will do this at a leisurely pace.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 28, 2026 09:25 AM (w6EFb)
28% of Boston's population is foreign born. Another 25% or so is first generation American.
So this is foreigners voting to take money from Americans - just like the NYC election was all about.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 09:25 AM (sKqQm)
@AbdulElSayed
Here's how we get Medicare for All done:
Make Medicare whole (no one can keep all the parts straight!)
Include vision, dental, and hearing.
Begin extending to more people, starting with children.
We arrive at Medicare for All, which means great Medicare for everyone.
Posted by: SMOD at September 28, 2026 09:26 AM (RHGPo)
@NRO
It remains a supreme irony that Trump, the president most pursued by his enemies via lawfare, has become infamous as its most enthusiastic practitioner.
-
Yeah, fighting back is just not the GOP way.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 28, 2026 09:26 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Nazdar at September 28, 2026 09:27 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: If I May at September 28, 2026 09:23 AM (ATp9+)
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But there were observable reasons for that in every case. West Virginia went to the GOP because the Dems declared war on blue collar workers, Christians and (above all) coal.
My wife is from Appalachia and saw the shift up close, from pure Dem to rabid GOP.
California also drifted left, and their election system has been completely subverted. Vote by mail also destroyed Oregon and Washington.
No such shift is observable this year. No new coalition is emerging. The Dems are actually racing to the outer fringe of their movement, so why would the center follow?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 09:27 AM (ZOv7s)
@AbdulElSayed
Here's how we get Medicare for All done:
Make Medicare whole (no one can keep all the parts straight!)
Include vision, dental, and hearing.
Begin extending to more people, starting with children.
We arrive at Medicare for All, which means great Medicare for everyone.
Posted by: SMOD
But first, the Magic Fairies come with all the money!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 28, 2026 09:27 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Moe, Larry, The Cheese! at September 28, 2026 09:28 AM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: President James Boasberg at September 28, 2026 09:29 AM (LI+e7)
Saw a video from a British guy. He had a life threatening allergic reaction and went to the NHS to get an allergy test. They told him to get private insurance to cover it, he refused and argued with them and they finally relented and gave him an appoint SIX MONTHS later in a facility about an hour away.
So he went there and after waiting for 2 hours after his appointment they came out and told him his allergy test was no in fact allowed and to go home...
Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 09:29 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 28, 2026 07:27 AM (u82oZ)
FBI Van423B
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Posted by: pawn at September 28, 2026 09:34 AM (3g9Kl)
Daily Tech News 28 September 2026
Top Story
- Thieves stole two entire trucks belonging to Plus.ai and got away with 20 tons of raw Nvidia silicon. (Tom's Hardware)
So raw that it was still sand. Because Plus.ai is an autonomous trucking company and was using the sand as a test load. The Nvidia logos on the trucks were related to investments and nothing to do with their contents.
Tech News
- Meanwhile Taiwan's chip talisman snack faces production halt after 94% strike vote. (Tom's Hardware)
If you're wondering what the heck this story is about, it's literally about a Taiwanese snack called Guai Guai, specifically the coconut flavour, which sounds awful.
- Fakecloud is a fake cloud if you need a fake cloud. (fakecloud)
For testing against AWS without paying for AWS.
- Minecraft is introducing a new dimension. (Xbox)
Showing up first in Minecraft Dungeons 2, and then showing up in Minecraft Minecraft next year. It's called The Sift and it features... Stuff, probably.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: You can't hurry love but you can tune a fish.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2026 04:33 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: clarence at September 28, 2026 04:33 AM (r3Zca)
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2026 04:34 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Pete Bog at September 28, 2026 04:34 AM (rZqm5)
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2026 04:34 AM (Ia/+0)
I'm retired. Every day is Saturday, except Sunday.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 28, 2026 04:37 AM (GYqb1)
The "mee-thane" fan boys at NSF have started their live stream coverage of the Starship launch. This will, knock on wood, be the first orbital flight:
https://t.ly/KYFOP
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 28, 2026 04:39 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 28, 2026 04:39 AM (GYqb1)
Posted by: clarence at September 28, 2026 04:41 AM (r3Zca)
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2026 04:50 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 28, 2026 04:55 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2026 04:57 AM (YyTAm)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2026 04:59 AM (YyTAm)
Have a great day horde
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2026 05:00 AM (4brEp)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2026 05:04 AM (4WxOo)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at September 28, 2026 05:08 AM (AMvSw)
Okay. It's Monday; stipulated. But remember:
"Compared to being on the wrong side of the ground, even a bad Monday is pretty small kumquats, nicht wahr?"
(I told that to an Aldi cashier last Monday. Even though I made it "stuff" and left off the German, she blinked at me as if I were speaking Swahili.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2026 05:11 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 28, 2026
***
I am too, tcn . . . but my Saturdays used to be crammed with errands I couldn't run on the workdays. Now I spread those chores throughout the week. Saturdays now are often more like my Saturdays when I was in school, much more relaxed, though without the worry of homework or term papers being due.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2026 05:14 AM (wzUl9)
Come to think of it, Mondays are much like my working-years Saturdays were.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2026 05:18 AM (wzUl9)
A pleasant 54.9 degrees out this morning.
I really should try to find the motivation to walk this morning.
But first.....coffee.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 28, 2026 05:19 AM (iMotb)
And except for Trash Day. Can't forget that.
Posted by: Nazdar at September 28, 2026 05:19 AM (NcvvS)
and is called "checking in". I thought it had some good thoughts about the importance of checking in with God, and it amused me because it is also about training a new puppy:
Upper Room Devotional :
https://tinyurl.com/58zb83dj
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2026 05:24 AM (JrHfD)
I really should try to find the motivation to walk this morning.
But first.....coffee.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 28, 2026
***
How I wish, VIA. If I had that kind of temp instead of a soggy 79, my motivation would be at the door like a dog hoping for some walk time.
You're right. Coffee first.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2026 05:26 AM (wzUl9)
Little Dagny was on the bed when I woke. That's her idea of affection.
The brown (really gray) tabby with white, the outdoor freeloader, got some more dry chow yesterday.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2026 05:32 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: clarence at September 28, 2026 04:41 AM (r3Zca)
Unions always wind up pricing the labor they “represent” out of the market.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 28, 2026 05:33 AM (ezlON)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2026 05:36 AM (JrHfD)
https://tinyurl.com/4xaaneuk
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2026 05:37 AM (+l7X8)
Fall allergies mean no sleep.
Posted by: Auspex at September 28, 2026 05:44 AM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2026 05:11 AM (wzUl9)
I guess being a subway transit authority worker would be a step down from Aldi's cashier....?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 28, 2026 05:45 AM (aKiSo)
https://tinyurl.com/3dmy9kt7
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2026 05:46 AM (PlFfJ)
I will have to get the HOA’s septic tanks pumped out. Otherwise, good early fall weather.
Posted by: Accomack at September 28, 2026 05:48 AM (/Chlc)
Good morning, Hordians. Up, dressed, morning prayers said, dogs run out, now sitting in the Command Center at Schloss Hadrian recording the Overture in D major by Anton Reicha.
Her Majesty returns from her Tennessee trip tomorrow, so shopping needs must be done. Also seeking to vacuum up the drifts of dog hair that have accumulated in the house.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 05:51 AM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Dark Lix at September 28, 2026 05:52 AM (Fv808)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2026 05:53 AM (JrHfD)
https://tinyurl.com/yfmjax4f
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2026 05:55 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2026 05:57 AM (dK9lk)
It's a big test, the first orbital flight of the Ship.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 28, 2026 06:00 AM (w6EFb)
The flight profile is very much abundance of caution. The initial ascent trajectory will still be suborbital. If something went wrong, the thing would still come down automatically somewhere in the middle of the Pacific.
Only if everything looks good will they relight the Ship's engines to give it orbital speed. And then, they'll deploy the operational Starlink payloads into an orbital path.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 28, 2026 06:05 AM (w6EFb)
The flight profile is very much abundance of caution. The initial ascent trajectory will still be suborbital. If something went wrong, the thing would still come down automatically somewhere in the middle of the Pacific.
*hears tremendous thud in back acreage*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 06:10 AM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Fenderbender at September 28, 2026 06:11 AM (1FEc1)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2026 05:11 AM (wzUl9)
*
I guess being a subway transit authority worker would be a step down from Aldi's cashier....?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 28, 2026
***
The hell of it is, around here anyway, the Aldi cashiers seem on average brighter and more energetic than those found at Walmart . . . and *much* brighter than at Dollar Tree or Dollar General.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2026 06:13 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Dark Lix at September 28, 2026
***
A new freeloader. I used to see the smooth shorthair gray cat I've nicknamed "Alfred" only about 2-3x a week. This semi-feral tabby and white has decided my house is a feeding station. I say "semi" because he is getting less fearful of us and is coming up to sniff our hands.
I cannot take in a third cat, and won't. But maybe today I'll pick up a small bag of the cheaper dry food to reserve that for him.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2026 06:16 AM (wzUl9)
Worth it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2026 06:20 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines. at September 28, 2026 06:24 AM (O7YUW)
On my end, turns out that Creamsickle, the ginormous dilute orange and white dude with huge ears (and head and paws and tail) has a collar now. Either he's somebody's cat (which would make him one oddly non-feral but feral-acting cat) or he trusts someone enough to have a collar put on. It's a big piece of blue fabric that looks really good on him. Turns out he loves churus and will literally climb on me to get to one if I don't get right down to business.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 28, 2026 06:26 AM (Fv808)
Hello, all!
I know that you'll rejoice to know that we survived without incident Saturday's coastal flooding in Sussex County. Our place was surrounded up to its skirting on three sides by the languid flood waters. It may have been a recent record, but who knows or who cares? Now to find a vendor with whom I can arrange a printing run of "I Survived Super Storm Sissy" tee shirts.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 28, 2026 06:27 AM (PpIXw)
Disclaimer: You can't hurry love but you can tune a fish.
Well done (with a side of slaw, please)!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 28, 2026 06:29 AM (ixS3i)
He is trained a little bit though . He slept until 4:00 instead of bartering the door down.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2026 06:30 AM (JrHfD)
Now I'm hearing the phrase "You like tube?" in my head from @girlwiththedogs2 on YouTube. (She's provides professional grooming services for clients with dogs and cats.)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines. at September 28, 2026 06:32 AM (O7YUW)
Fen, the rescued cat that I picked up at a roadside rest stop in Maryland performed an amazing feat of leaps and spins while snarling and spitting the one and only time we attempted to put her on a leash as she managed to get out of it. Message received, Betsy!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 28, 2026 06:33 AM (ixS3i)
It may have been a recent record, but who knows or who cares? Now to find a vendor with whom I can arrange a printing run of "I Survived Super Storm Sissy" tee shirts.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 28, 2026 06:27 AM (PpIXw)
Global Warming!! Caused by YOU, Mr. and Mrs. Republican!!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 06:34 AM (eRlcH)
He is trained a little bit though . He slept until 4:00 instead of bartering the door down.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2026
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I started the late super-smart black cat, Marie-Antoinette, on the harness and leash when she was about six or seven. The first couple of times she was a little tentative about it. The third time I brought out the harness, she ran to the door crying. ("Let's GO!")
Stirling is almost as adaptable, but I haven't tried the harness bit on him. He's not interested in the outdoors except for peering out the screen door or window. Same wit Dagny.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2026 06:36 AM (wzUl9)
I could read faster than that.
Posted by: Fenderbender
But your friends pointed and laughed at you for using your finger to follow the words on the screen, right?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 28, 2026 06:37 AM (ixS3i)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2026 06:38 AM (v3w5Z)
Posted by: Hans O'Lo at September 28, 2026 06:39 AM (bLe0J)
Chekov D. Siberian was at the screen door, trying to work up the nerve to come out too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2026 06:40 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2026 06:40 AM (v3w5Z)
"Global warming" retards trotted out their usual BS about the recent weather with, as CNN so loves to say, no evidence.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
To paraphrase George Hamilton as Alfonso de la Pena in "Once Upin A Crime...", "It's what they do".
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College football turned in an eventful and entertaining weekend
Michigan lost in the last 2 seconds of regulation play. Justice was served. "All the cash of boosters will not grant us another second."
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For me, Monday is trash day. And laundry day.
After Monday the week is open.
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Sunday Overnight Open Thread - September 27, 2026
From Mikey
Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Sunday ONT. Appreciate you stopping by. Open thread, as always. Fashion and music, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?
Wholesome content from yesterday
Justin Verlander says goodbye to his teammates
— MLB (@MLB) September 26, 2026
And then holds his daughter’s hand as he leaves the mound 🥹 pic.twitter.com/huyCnsijTR
Today wasn't a game, it was cinema 🤩 pic.twitter.com/F8eWc6u7vT
— Detroit Tigers (@tigers) September 26, 2026
----- More cool stuff from yesterday
Presidential arrival. 🇺🇸
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) September 26, 2026
Air Force One with an EPIC flyover at Neyland Stadium. pic.twitter.com/YVIGSWi24L
President Trump just posted his entrance to the Tennessee Texas game!
— JJ🕊️ (@jesseyjay94) September 26, 2026
He was high-fiving, waving, and dancing to everyone screaming USA! 🇺🇸
The crowd was PUMPED UP. That’s the Trump effect. 💁♀️ pic.twitter.com/cHtLTZS8v0
----- If you're gonna do something stupid, go all out! Blind Man With No Driver’s License Drinks and Drives Car 150 Miles on Highway
In the early morning hours of June 29, when English officers patrolling the M6 motorway near Carlisle noticed an Opel Meriva swerving chaotically from one lane to the next, they thought they had caught a reckless motorist, but they were in for a big surprise. Not only was the driver visibly drunk, but he had no driver’s license and was almost completely blind! At a recent hearing, Anthony Hall admitted to drink-driving, driving without a licence or insurance and taking his partner’s car without their consent. His lawyer told the judge that Hall had acted out of desperation, trying to escape a difficult personal situation, including relationship issues and financial problems. However, that did little to explain why a blind person would get behind the wheel of a vehicle and drive on the motorway while intoxicated.----- OK guys - have you ever thought about your eyelashes? Ever?!?! Bizarre Beauty Trend Sees Men Trimming Their Eyelashes to Look More Masculine
Long eyelashes have always been a coveted physical feature among women, so much so that we have an entire industry built around the sale and mounting of fake eyelashes. However, long lashes are not as popular among men. Some “alpha types” apparently consider them too feminine and will have them trimmed for a manlier look, despite the serious health risks of such a procedure. Videos of young men having their eyelashes cut or trimmed at barber shops or beauty salons started showing up on TikTok and other social media platforms last year, but instead of quickly fizzling out, they apparently turned into a global trend.Forget about too long or too short -- I refuse to believe ANY guy who thinks about the length of his eyelashes is "alpha". Or even hetero. Anyway - photos and videos at the link. If you care.
• Breathable shirt: cotton, linen, or a light performance tee. Light colors help in the sun. A button-down you can leave open over a tee works if you want a little coverage.
• Shorts or casual pants: shorts, jeans you already know are comfortable, or lightweight pants. Remember, if you wear shorts, there are bugs and taller grasses out there. If this bothers you, think more light weight pants.
• Closed-toe shoes you can walk in: sneakers, trail shoes, or broken-in boots. Ranch ground is not a manicured lawn.
• A hat with a brim. Texas sun is not a suggestion. That is the whole look. Comfortable. Outdoor. Picnic. Ranch.
What “comfortable” actually means here Comfortable does not mean “I just rolled out of the car in pajama pants.” It means you can sit on a bench or the ground, stand in a cluster talking, walk to the next activity, and not spend the afternoon tugging at clothes that were a bad idea. Bring a light layer. Even on a hot day, shade, wind, or evening can change the temperature. A hoodie or light flannel stuffed in the car is cheap insurance. Sun, sweat, and ranch realities Assume sun. Sunscreen, sunglasses, and a hat will do more for you than any outfit choice. Assume you will get dusty. Do not wear anything you would be sad to see with grass stains or ranch dirt on it. Assume bugs. If you are the person mosquitoes treat like a buffet, long sleeves in a light fabric or a bit of repellent. What not to wear The brand-new white sneakers you want to keep white, and anything that needs dry cleaning. When walking around the property, you don’t want open toed shoes, unless you are okay with surprises from the grass in the form of stickers or bitey things. This is not the moment to channel Johnny Cash. All black leather is cool, but not when it’s really hot! A simple packing list • Breathable shirt and comfortable bottoms
• Walking shoes, closed toe
• Hat and sunglasses
• Sunscreen
• Lip balm – guys too! The air can be VERY dry
• Light extra layer
• Water bottle
• Hearing protection if you are going to shoot
• Safety glasses if you are going to shoot
• Raincoat or poncho because you never know! You are going to a ranch picnic with the Horde, not a photoshoot. In fact, we don’t even like to take photos! Dress like someone who plans to stay outside, eat, talk, and enjoy people outside of grey boxes.
----- Thanks, Piper! Although I kinda think this guy has the right fashion idea for Saturday night at the MoMe
American shows up in a disco suit and his own homemade Flock safety camera that he made in his garage to the Lee’s Summit, Missouri City Council meeting
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) September 11, 2026
He’s exposing how the city spent $909,000 on only 54 Flock cameras the cameras remain property of Flock. Even if the contract… pic.twitter.com/nMRaG4pnOi
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: mindful webworker - the one in the middle at September 27, 2026 10:02 PM (xRCm7)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 27, 2026 10:03 PM (6T7Go)
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Posted by: mindful webworker - by the way at September 27, 2026 10:04 PM (xRCm7)
Clearly, the judge couldn't see his way clear to cut him loose.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 27, 2026 10:05 PM (ktgTW)
Just saying. . .
Posted by: Tonypete at September 27, 2026 10:06 PM (ktgTW)
This advice will never fail you.
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 10:03 PM (ZdaMQ)
Exactly -- Never half-ass stupid!
Posted by: Doof at September 27, 2026 10:06 PM (QMAsf)
Dear Mr. Oddity Central Headline Writer,
Was it really necessary to include in the headline the fact that the blind man had no driver's license?
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 27, 2026 10:07 PM (syz1S)
Posted by: tankdemon at September 27, 2026 10:08 PM (7L19I)
Posted by: Florida Peasant at September 27, 2026 10:08 PM (Lo97M)
I'm impressed that a blind and drunk guy could make it 150 miles without hitting anything. There are plenty of sober people that can see just fine that seem to struggle with that.
Posted by: TRex - pac man dino at September 27, 2026 10:09 PM (XfIK1)
Of course! When one falls out and gets in my eye. That can get so aggravating!
Posted by: mindful webworker - forty lashes at September 27, 2026 10:09 PM (xRCm7)
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 27, 2026 10:10 PM (ezlON)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 27, 2026 10:10 PM (NnhvP)
PSA
One might benefit from remembering there is one TXmome remembered for rain and mud.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 27
Pack that poncho! And your wellies!
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 10:11 PM (ZdaMQ)
Well... the "intoxicated" part kind of explains everything thereafter.
Posted by: GWB at September 27, 2026 10:11 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 27, 2026 10:11 PM (ezlON)
I'll say this for them. It takes some nads to let some mook with a trimmer that close to your eyeballs. Nads, or a complete lack of common sense.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 27, 2026 10:12 PM (Riz8t)
This advice will never fail you.
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 10:03 PM (ZdaMQ)
Exactly -- Never half-ass stupid!
Posted by: Doof at September 27, 2026 10:06 PM (QMAsf
I am so good at this one! Olympic level.
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 10:12 PM (ZdaMQ)
I think about them once a year when I get new eyeglasses. The lenses have to sit far enough forward that my eyelashes won't touch them.
That, however, is a reason to nix a particular pair of glasses frames. Not a reason to trim my eyelashes. Who the heck does that? Elton John thinks that's kinda gay.
Posted by: mikeski at September 27, 2026 10:12 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: screaming in digital at September 27, 2026 10:12 PM (FpydE)
Posted by: Coelacanth at September 27, 2026 10:13 PM (+OnsA)
🥸
Posted by: mindful webworker - it's a wild, wild hair at September 27, 2026 10:13 PM (xRCm7)
Posted by: Boys Club? Girls Have Cooties? at September 27, 2026 10:13 PM (Fn+3X)
What's this about stool mountin'?
Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at September 27, 2026 10:13 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2026 10:13 PM (viF8m)
Was it really necessary to include in the headline the fact that the blind man had no driver's license?
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous
It could have been a follow-up to a story about how a legally-blind guy got a license in the first place.....
Posted by: mikeski at September 27, 2026 10:14 PM (VHUov)
You might ask yourself, as I did, what could possibly be the serious health risks of trimming your eyelashes?
Eyelashes prevent dirt and debris, including dead skin cells and sweat, as well as UV rays from entering the eye, and trimming them exposes people to infection, itchiness and frequent discomfort.
That's straight from the esteemed journalists at Oddity Central, so you have been forewarned.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 27, 2026 10:14 PM (syz1S)
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Be aware of this also.
BBC: Bare Nails Trend Perpetuates White Supremacist Standards of Beauty
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Better paint unicorns, butterflies, or rainbows on your nails.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 27, 2026 10:14 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: screaming in digital at September 27, 2026 10:14 PM (FpydE)
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 10:15 PM (ZdaMQ)
Blind and drunk. Now make him an Asian woman with a cellphone.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 10:15 PM (l3cgK)
If you’ve ever been without them, you are keenly aware of all the crap they keep OUT OF YOUR EYES.
And if you fuck with them enough, they may not grow back.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2026 10:15 PM (yEz+x)
I think I done gone crazy. Somebody please lock me up!
Posted by: Fugitive From Board of Mental Health at September 27, 2026 10:15 PM (Fn+3X)
Great photo up top.
Thanks for the MoMe fashion tips, Piper!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 27, 2026 10:15 PM (D/6p1)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 27, 2026 10:16 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Doof
And who would want to be called a half-dumbass?
Posted by: mikeski at September 27, 2026 10:16 PM (VHUov)
My bottom's always comfortable. Unless I'm sitting on a really hard chair. Oh... wait....
Also, on all-in-black dude... what male tucks his jeans into his boots like that? WTH?
Posted by: GWB at September 27, 2026 10:16 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: screaming in digital at September 27, 2026 10:14 PM (FpydE)
I'm wondering why that song popped into my head while I was choosing tonight's tunes!
Posted by: Doof at September 27, 2026 10:16 PM (QMAsf)
My last ex-wife informed me that my eyebrows looked evil and wanted to mow them.
Nope. It wasn't the last straw, but it was on the list.
Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at September 27, 2026 10:16 PM (rFtAF)
Posted by: Boys Club? Girls Have Cooties? at September
Cooties is the main reason. And I don’t do nearly enough to earn a collab credit.
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 10:17 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 10:17 PM (peOdB)
Posted by: mindful webworker - out standing in his field at September 27, 2026 10:17 PM (xRCm7)
I'd go...but my meds make me a vampire.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 10:18 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at September 27, 2026 10:18 PM (K7v1x)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 27, 2026 10:19 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Egregious and Exacerbatin' at September 27, 2026 10:19 PM (Fn+3X)
Also, on all-in-black dude... what male tucks his jeans into his boots like that? WTH?
Posted by: GWB at September 27, 2026
Well you would tuck your jeans in if there was mud out there. Assuming you dress like this because you actually know what a horse and a cow are. It’s the spurs that send me.
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 10:19 PM (ZdaMQ)
My boys were born with beautiful, long eyelashes...AFAIK, they've never trimmed theirs. As for me, I just want to keep the little bastards from falling into my eyes...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 10:20 PM (l3cgK)
You say to yourself, my God, what have I done?
Same as it ever was.
https://tinyurl.com/yc45e4ay
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2026 10:20 PM (viF8m)
My boys were born with beautiful, long eyelashes...AFAIK, they've never trimmed theirs. As for me, I just want to keep the little bastards from falling into my eyes...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 10:20 PM (l3cgK)
eyelashes, not kids. Well, I don't want either in my eyes.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 10:20 PM (l3cgK)
This.
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 27, 2026 10:20 PM (4NO2D)
Fire ants.
And if you are shooting, contact with hot brass anywhere is no fun.
Listen to Piper!!!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 27, 2026 10:20 PM (+fdRY)
Eyelashes: never think about them but am at that age where eyebrows do some crazy sh*t so I pluck 'em out when they call attention to themselves.
MoMe party dress: the first one I went to, BeBe, WDS, and one other lady left just before dinner and came back dressed to the nines. They were a hit.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 27, 2026 10:20 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September
You are welcome. Weasel teed it up for me well.
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 10:21 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: 496 at September 27, 2026 10:21 PM (m8Qhu)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 10:17 PM (peOdB)
This is never a bad idea.
Posted by: Doof at September 27, 2026 10:21 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: GWB at September 27, 2026 10:16 PM (kU0PQ)
What looks completely asinine is trying to fit boot-cut jeans over top of the boots. If you want to do that, then wear lace up boots.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2026 10:22 PM (rbvCR)
I used to have relatives living in Lee's Summit...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 10:22 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: tankdemon at September 27, 2026 10:23 PM (7L19I)
TXMoMe Dress Code
Men
- White tie
- Morning coat
- No pants
Women
- Tiara
- High heels
- That's it
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2026 10:23 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at September 27, 2026 10:23 PM (OlzlW)
https://tinyurl.com/y85rhay4
Posted by: Archimedes at September 27, 2026 10:24 PM (Riz8t)
Joe Walsh is always a great pick.
Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at September 27, 2026 10:18 PM (K7v1x)
Agreed!
Posted by: Doof at September 27, 2026 10:24 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 27, 2026 10:25 PM (VyD10)
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace
My advice is for the daytime activities. I am not responsible for what happens after dark. 🤣
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 10:25 PM (ZdaMQ)
Like buying an LG TV and finding that it not only spies on you, but you don't own the glass...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 10:26 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 10:17 PM (ZdaMQ)
You are welcome to contribute more. Show my other employees what a real work ethic is!
Posted by: Doof at September 27, 2026 10:26 PM (QMAsf)
No idea if I'll be able to make it to the MoMe, if I'm still unemployed by then I'll probably skip this year and see where I am (literally) next year.
No job news today, but I expect at least some kind of screening call for something in the next couple days, and hope springs eternal for one of the previous interviews to have good news. I'll poke 'em all again in the morning!
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 27, 2026 10:26 PM (aJQbY)
==
MoMe party dress: the first one I went to, BeBe, WDS, and one other lady left just before dinner and came back dressed to the nines. They were a hit.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 27, 2026 10:20 PM (vTZFs)
You *can't* wear your machine gub clothes to the party, you have to wear your *party* clothes.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 27, 2026 10:26 PM (+fdRY)
Posted by: Linz Minyuk at September 27, 2026 10:26 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 27, 2026 10:26 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 10:27 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Doof
Wait. Doof has not just lackeys, but flunkies too?
Posted by: mikeski at September 27, 2026 10:27 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 27, 2026 10:28 PM (syz1S)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2026 10:28 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 10:17 PM (ZdaMQ)
You are welcome to contribute more. Show my other employees what a real work ethic is!
Posted by: Doof at September 27, 2026 10:26 PM
Do they have cooties, too?
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 10:28 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: 496 at September 27, 2026 10:21 PM (m8Qhu)
Their stuff was surprisingly catchy even though Morrisey's lyrics are so morbid and miserable.
Posted by: Doof at September 27, 2026 10:29 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 10:22 PM (l3cgK)
Ha! So did I!
We must be cousins!
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at September 27, 2026 10:30 PM (OlzlW)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2026 10:30 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Linz Minyuk at September 27, 2026 10:26 PM (Fn+3X)
Preens.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 10:30 PM (peOdB)
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 10:31 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2026 10:22 PM (rbvCR)
Lace up cowboy boots... I'm not familiar with those, but I'm sure they look totally masculine.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 27, 2026 10:31 PM (syz1S)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 10:27 PM (l3cgK)
Just put them in the laundry, a few of them are bound to disappear.
Posted by: tankdemon at September 27, 2026 10:31 PM (7L19I)
Posted by: Doof
Wait. Doof has not just lackeys, but flunkies too?
Pffffft. To say nothing of the lickspittles and rumpswabbers.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 27, 2026 10:31 PM (Riz8t)
Long & thick eyelashes are good DNA. I know because I have them & my DIL and I have passed them onto my grands (who are gorgeous & I am not the only biased person who thinks so).
I didn't weirdly seek long eyelashes in my handsome dude (his are ok). I looked at his eyes, & the lashes were not important, altho his kindness was.
The one guy I briefly loved before my dude had them to spare. Our kids they would have have some majorly thick, long and black eyelashes. Of this I am certain. Gorgeous man & we would have crashed & burned I think based on the little time we had together.
I settled for the smoldering and weird courtship instead.
This seems too retarded to contemplate of a guy doing this. I knew of girls in college who tried it to make them thicker. Didn't work.
I will be at the MoMe in spirit and wish I could go. Altho from the heat/sun aspect I'd be wearing a gigantic straw hat (I have many) and a cotton maxi skirt as I hate jeans. Find me in the shade with a gin and tonic. Cheers!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 27, 2026 10:31 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 27, 2026 10:28 PM (syz1S)
Until some brass went down the cleavage...
Then again, you might enjoy the dance and strip portion of the show...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 10:32 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!)
This kind of thing can get you in deep trouble!
Posted by: On the Registry at September 27, 2026 10:32 PM (Fn+3X)
much to my regret.
Posted by: MkY at September 27, 2026 10:32 PM (q6tQZ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2026 10:28 PM (eRlcH)
I don't get too spun up on the NFL anymore but that was quite an exciting ending and a needed win for the Ravens.
Posted by: Doof at September 27, 2026 10:32 PM (QMAsf)
Wait. Doof has not just lackeys, but flunkies too?
Pffffft. To say nothing of the lickspittles and rumpswabbers.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 27, 2026 10:31 PM (Riz8t)
___________
Plus sycophants, equerries and courtiers.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2026 10:32 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 10:25 PM (ZdaMQ)
Narrator: Nobody is.
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at September 27, 2026 10:33 PM (OlzlW)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 10:33 PM (peOdB)
Nope, not gonna bring it up.
Nope.
Posted by: Steck at September 27, 2026 10:34 PM (LlRQB)
Pffffft. To say nothing of the lickspittles and rumpswabbers.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 27, 2026 10:31 PM (Riz8t)
___________
Plus sycophants, equerries and courtiers.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2026 10:32 PM
Everyone needs a trusty henchman.
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 27, 2026 10:34 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 10:34 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 27, 2026 10:35 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2026 10:36 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 27, 2026 10:36 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 10:22 PM (l3cgK)
Ha! So did I!
We must be cousins!
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at September 27, 2026 10:30 PM (OlzlW)
The bulk of them left...Arkansas, I think.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 10:37 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Blazing Saddles at September 27, 2026 10:37 PM (2Ez/1)
I neid moar gubment
pour favoures
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 27, 2026 10:37 PM (/+uur)
Wayne Hancock
Going back to Texas
https://youtu.be/L1R3qWkX9EQ
If you don't know Wayne the short version is he's a Texas Honky Tonk and Western Swing master. These days he spends most of the year traveling in a white Econoline van with a couple sidemen playing gigs all over the country. Go see him if you get a chance.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 27, 2026 10:37 PM (VyD10)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
This is never a bad idea.
Posted by: Doof
***********
And it is not limited to just the guys....
Posted by: The Grateful at September 27, 2026 10:38 PM (XfIK1)
youtu.be/JGo4CKHlYTc
Posted by: boom. boom. boom. at September 27, 2026 10:38 PM (88C+u)
I neid moar gubment
pour favoures
Posted by: r hennigantx
I need less Bill Gates.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 27, 2026 10:39 PM (VyD10)
Posted by: mindful webworker -
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Ordered one from the back pages of Mechanics Illustrated.
It was a metal tube with spiked edges on the business end and
a knurled knob opposite. Better than cutting the inside of your
nose with scissors.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 27, 2026 10:39 PM (6T7Go)
Isn't that what he's been saying the planet needed?
Posted by: Oddbob at September 27, 2026 10:40 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Linz Minyuk at September 27, 2026 10:26 PM (Fn+3X)
The well embrowed will out compete the nudiebrows eventually.
Posted by: Some Old School Mentat or other at September 27, 2026 10:41 PM (r7+Q7)
My father was a huge baseball guy and loved his Cardinals and even he ditched baseball the last five or so years of his life. That to me said it all.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 27, 2026 10:41 PM (ezlON)
I'd need to arrive in a sedan chair if there are snakes. Or have someone near me with an excellent aim or who would not mind stomping them to death while I scream and run. My brother killed snakes but he's in heaven now.
Otherwise I will be in the shade admiring everyone and trying to explain to my confused husband why I am there and who Morons are.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 27, 2026 10:41 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: grass monkey at September 27, 2026 10:41 PM (eP4XR)
To say nothing of the lickspittles and rumpswabbers.
Plus sycophants, equerries and courtiers.
Everyone needs a trusty henchman.
In my honest set of opinions
I believe he has many minions.
Posted by: mindful webworker - sequentially at September 27, 2026 10:42 PM (xRCm7)
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 27, 2026 10:39 PM (VyD10)
Les Bill Gates did a CPM compiler in about 1985.
It ran in about 64k.
He was killed.
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 27, 2026 10:42 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: grass monkey
They played like they were celebrating the Mariners season.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 27, 2026 10:42 PM (VyD10)
Posted by: Oddbob at September 27, 2026 10:40 PM (vTZFs)
it may be the wrong billion
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 27, 2026 10:43 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: grass monkey at September 27, 2026 10:41 PM (eP4XR)
Sea Chickens
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 27, 2026 10:43 PM (ezlON)
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 27, 2026 10:37 PM (VyD10)
Any relation to Butch Hancock of the Flatlanders?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 10:43 PM (peOdB)
Posted by: Oddbob at September 27, 2026 10:40 PM (vTZFs)
We have never been so green
We have never been so rich
We have never been so educated
Except for the Mohammedans
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 27, 2026 10:45 PM (/+uur)
I believe he has many minions.
Would you say he has myriad minions or merely a multiplicity of minions.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 27, 2026 10:45 PM (Riz8t)
I neid moar gubment
pour favoures
Posted by: r hennigantx
I need less Bill Gates.
----------
I thought Epstein's Wingman was busy plotting to block out the rays of the sun. Dude, stay in your wheelhouse.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 27, 2026 10:45 PM (wpRMV)
Posted by: Hoveround Hal at September 27, 2026 10:46 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: El Guapo at September 27, 2026 10:46 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: grass monkey at September 27, 2026 10:46 PM (eP4XR)
Posted by: Archimedes at September 27, 2026 10:45 PM (Riz8t)
At the minimum, you need some myrmidons, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 10:47 PM (peOdB)
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 27, 2026 10:47 PM (VyD10)
Posted by: Feeling My Oats at September 27, 2026 10:48 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions.
---
Know how he got turned out? President Bill Clinton. He was content being super rich, filling his pool with whores, raping the public with new issues of Microsnot stuff.
Then he told Bill, he was neutral and didn't make political contributions. That's when the DOJ started investigating Billy Gates. That's when he became politically active. That's when he decided that fucking IBM was so much fun he could fuck up all the corporations and continents too.
Weeeeeee.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 27, 2026 10:48 PM (6T7Go)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 27, 2026 10:31 PM (syz1S)
I was thinking of steel-toe Redwings, actually. No one cares how they look, but the keep your toes safe from random misses and chainsaws.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2026 10:49 PM (rbvCR)
-----------
You need a powerful male presence to control the myrmidons.
Posted by: Elliot Page at September 27, 2026 10:49 PM (wpRMV)
Thanks IZ
https://tinyurl.com/mvym5sdr
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2026 10:50 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2026 10:50 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Walk Away at September 27, 2026 10:50 PM (Fn+3X)
Hot take, maybe. I welcome the hate mail.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 27, 2026 10:50 PM (s1VwS)
Posted by: Archimedes
I would guess millions if not brazillions of minions.
👁️👁️
Posted by: mindful webworker - phenomenally at September 27, 2026 10:51 PM (xRCm7)
Posted by: Azjaeger at September 27, 2026 10:51 PM (3/XaG)
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at September 27, 2026 10:53 PM (giy4v)
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 27, 2026 10:54 PM (VyD10)
He was smiling behind his mask on their last attempt so much so that the cameras could see it...because he knew he was right. Then with both teams out of challenges he gave Verlander a solid by calling a high outside ball a strike (and the smile never waivered).
Posted by: Orson at September 27, 2026 10:55 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous
---
Tassels, that's the ticket.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 27, 2026 10:56 PM (6T7Go)
[Places hand face-down on the table.]
I fold.♠️
This hyar is a ette.
https://youtu.be/7Q1DCYLRH-k
G'nite, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - ace and eight and a pear o dice at September 27, 2026 10:57 PM (xRCm7)
Posted by: Pod Hamp at September 27, 2026 10:57 PM (Dtb9T)
Yep. These and dog hair...😏
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 27, 2026 10:57 PM (jCKWs)
Lee's Summit dude shows why politics is hopeless at every level. Royally blackpilled tonight.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 27, 2026 10:58 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Blinker Fluid Sales And Service at September 27, 2026 10:59 PM (Fn+3X)
Those street signs are here in SF not surprised there are underpants hanging in that neighborhood.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 27, 2026 10:59 PM (RIvkX)
My granddaughter told me today she fell off the jungle gym at school onto her back on Friday. Stood up then fainted for a few minutes (thought she was asleep at home).
She's five & has always been very articulate. A teacher scooped her up & ran to the office & son picked her up.
I want to kill him as he dismisses stuff & did not take her to the ED as he thinks he's an AI Doctor now. She's had one concussion already & he dismissed this one! I didn't know til today.
She seems fine. HOWEVER, she described her hands/arms coming to her chest before she stood up & I silently freaked out (she was coloring at the kitchen table and that's when we talk a lot). My God.
THIS is why I pray for them every night.
Football players do this with head/neck injuries. Fencing reflex. Plus the scooping up by her teacher & passing out almost makes me want to pass out.
I should have been an art history major & ignorant of reflexes & this crap. I did send an email to our son explaining what she said without me asking her. Complete with a football injury scene.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 27, 2026 10:59 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: Orson at September 27, 2026 10:55 PM (dIske)
He is one of the worst umps in the MLB, and has been for many years.
I am glad he is gone!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2026 10:59 PM (k5CNB)
The only time I would think of my eyelashes is if something is wrong with them. I'm getting dry eyes, and some other annoyances, and eyelash problems, like growing inward, rather than outward may be setting in.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 27, 2026 11:02 PM (w6EFb)
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Be aware of this also.
BBC: Bare Nails Trend Perpetuates White Supremacist Standards of Beauty
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Better paint unicorns, butterflies, or rainbows on your nails.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 27, 2026 10:14 PM (ndZc7)
Better yet, get a pint of exterior paint, to reduce costs. I hear pumpkin is a good choice this time of year.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 27, 2026 11:02 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Pod Hamp at September 27, 2026 10:57 PM (Dtb9T)
I would like to check her for ticks.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 27, 2026 11:03 PM (2WIwB)
Starship's first orbital test flight, Flight 14, is on schedule for around 8:15 AM EDT tomorrow morning. They are also going to attempt to deploy some operational Starkinks with it, and thus this will be the first real payload for it.
If all goes well.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 27, 2026 11:04 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Blinker Fluid Sales And Service at September 27, 2026 10:59 PM (Fn+3X)
They should be made with peacock feathers. If you're going to be obnoxious, go all out!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 27, 2026 11:05 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Free tibet at September 27, 2026 11:05 PM (9ijJU)
Posted by: Pod Hamp
I would like to check her for ticks.
Posted by: Diogenes
I think Piper got the look on her face perfect. She is so disappointed in us Morons for not telling her what the dress code was.
Posted by: mikeski at September 27, 2026 11:06 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 27, 2026 11:06 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2026 11:07 PM (viF8m)
Then he told Bill, he was neutral and didn't make political contributions. That's when the DOJ started investigating Billy Gates. That's when he became politically active. That's when he decided that fucking IBM was so much fun he could fuck up all the corporations and continents too.
Weeeeeee.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 27, 2026 10:48 PM (6T7Go)
I think you are onto something.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 27, 2026 11:07 PM (ezlON)
Posted by: Dain Bramage at September 27, 2026 11:08 PM (Fn+3X)
I would like to check her for ticks.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 27, 2026 11:03 PM (2WIwB)
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Seed ticks are especially hard to find, so look at every square inch.
Are their chiggers AND fire ants in Texas? Misery.
Three things, with snakes and hurricanes, I don't miss out West at a higher altitude.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 27, 2026 11:09 PM (hzuYO)
Then he told Bill, he was neutral and didn't make political contributions. That's when the DOJ started investigating Billy Gates. That's when he became politically active. That's when he decided that fucking IBM was so much fun he could fuck up all the corporations and continents too.
Weeeeeee.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 27, 2026 10:48 PM (6T7Go)
I think you are onto something.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 27, 2026 11:07 PM (ezlON)
Yeah, that's why Microsoft hired so many lobbyists...they learned the hard way when you don't have any or enough...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 11:11 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 27, 2026 11:11 PM (RIvkX)
I guess it was my first eye phone. It expected to be dragged everywhere.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 27, 2026 11:13 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Glad He Was OK at September 27, 2026 11:14 PM (Fn+3X)
We have a Starship launch in the morning.
SpaceX - Starship - Starship Flight 14
Pad 2 - Starbase, TX - The Launch Pad
Launch Date: September 28, 2026
Launch Time: 7:15 a.m. CDT (1215 UTC, 14:15 CEST)
https://youtu.be/tW5RDUvCLnQ
Posted by: Joyenz at September 27, 2026 11:14 PM (2F0/Y)
Then he told Bill, he was neutral and didn't make political contributions. That's when the DOJ started investigating Billy Gates. That's when he became politically active. That's when he decided that fucking IBM was so much fun he could fuck up all the corporations and continents too.
Weeeeeee.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 27, 2026 10:48 PM (6T7Go)
I would like to see a declaration from Donald Trump that any person or organization that uses aircraft or spacecraft in an effort to alter Earth's climate is engaging in an act of piracy, and will be shot down.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 11:15 PM (peOdB)
I was always told for head injuries you shake the head to see if sounds like it's loose.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 27, 2026 11:15 PM (VyD10)
Posted by: Second Childhood at September 27, 2026 11:16 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Diogenes at September 27, 2026 11:18 PM (2WIwB)
Wait there is a bare nails trend somewhere? That would mean I'm doing something trendy.
Posted by: PaleRider at September 27, 2026 11:18 PM (PV+Zw)
Posted by: Dain Bramage
Yogi didn't call catcher's equipment the "tools of ignorance" for nothing.
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at September 27, 2026 11:18 PM (giy4v)
I caught from the moment I was eligible to play little league through every league I was able to play to college. Took a lot of foul balls to head. Still have a couple marbles.
I detest the idea of an electronic strike zone to make the game "better".
Baseball was never supposed to be a video game. That's why there are things like the Green Monster. Stop trying to make baseball trim its eyelashes. It was fine before the designated hitter.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2026 11:19 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 27, 2026 11:11 PM (RIvkX)
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He's listened to me twice for major stuff (and now doesn't call because son is an expert in all things...he's a systems engineer with no medical background).
She fell at 2yrs and whacked the back of her head, hard. Did not lose consciousness. He called on the road to the children's hospital and she puked and I said go to the nearest ED now. He did. She had a small fracture in the back of her skull but was ok. This grandmother thing is going to kill me first.
Last summer grandson, in the midst of others having noro virus, had RLQ abdominal pain and could barely walk. Son called and I told him no urgent care. ED at the new children's hospital near us. I told him of 3 blood markers and he may need a sonogram or CT. Grandson called an hour later (he's 8yrs old) that he was going to surgery. Scope appendectomy and he was home 3hrs post op for me to try to get in some post op teaching to him and parents.
Son had better stop messing with this head injury deal with them.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 27, 2026 11:20 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 27, 2026 11:15 PM (VyD10)
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Only in Gun-Free School Zones
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 27, 2026 11:20 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: He's A Boob Fan, IIRC at September 27, 2026 11:21 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Diogenes at September 27, 2026 11:18 PM (2WIwB)
Federal Court built in a low-population county in Kalifornia...they used imported Italian marble in its construction...the marble even had fossil shells in it.
No money wasted, Right?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 11:22 PM (l3cgK)
Wait there is a bare nails trend somewhere? That would mean I'm doing something trendy.
Posted by: PaleRider at September 27, 2026 11:18 PM (PV+Zw)
It's called going natural...everything else is not natural.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 11:23 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 27, 2026 11:24 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Yer Out! at September 27, 2026 11:24 PM (Fn+3X)
Seared the steak in the skillet instead. It was yummy.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 11:25 PM (peOdB)
Steel toed boots for certain jobs, for sure.
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 11:25 PM (rdVOm)
Who’s the hottie in the forbidden female wear? The figure-hugging dress? Hubba hubba.
Posted by: Bulg at September 27, 2026 11:26 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 11:26 PM (rdVOm)
https://youtu.be/7BqS-shNH7E?t=510
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 27, 2026 11:27 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Bulg at September 27, 2026 11:26 PM (77rzZ)
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Hey, that's my mom!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 27, 2026 11:28 PM (wpRMV)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 27, 2026 11:29 PM (S41Gd)
Posted by: Bulg at September 27, 2026 11:26 PM (77rzZ)
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Hey, that's my mom!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 27, 2026 11:28 PM (wpRMV)
Old and Busted: Stacey's Mom
New Hotness: Cicero's Mom
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 27, 2026 11:30 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Bulg
I think her name is something like Grok Jeepiti.
Posted by: mikeskAI at September 27, 2026 11:30 PM (VHUov)
I am glad he is gone!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2026 10:59 PM (k5CNB)
_______________________
Diaz was a piker.
Posted by: Angel Hernandez at September 27, 2026 11:30 PM (dIske)
Posted by: PaleRider at September 27, 2026 11:30 PM (PV+Zw)
https://youtu.be/7BqS-shNH7E?t=510
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 27, 2026 11:27 PM (qx7Zg)
She could feed me tequila all night long...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 11:31 PM (peOdB)
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at September 27, 2026 11:32 PM (OlzlW)
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 11:33 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 27, 2026 11:34 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: JackStraw
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Boooooooooooog Powell
Only baseball player that caused me to stop flipping channels.
Going through the stations a massive Booo caused the pause.
I had watch, had to see what was causing the uproar.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 27, 2026 11:34 PM (6T7Go)
Posted by: PaleRider at September 27, 2026 11:30 PM (PV+Zw)
It would be real easy to make a computer-driven nail painter, using ink-jet technology.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 11:34 PM (peOdB)
>>Out after 5 innings.
The designator hitter rule started in 1973.
Records that were set under one set of rules are not easily broken when the rules change. Because how the game is played changes.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2026 11:34 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 11:34 PM (rdVOm)
Have not ever needed much make up and mascara is my big deal. Always. The most expensive make up I wear and it's worth it...even in my grandmother years.
I know this may sound weird to others but I've had ONE mani/pedi in my entire life. Before son's wedding. I HATED the Korean woman messing with my toes. Gave me the heebie geebies. I spend that money on my highlights instead.
I see the nail art and wonder how much $ and who has time for that. Plus how do you go to the toilet is another wonder.
I need to go to bed and stop seeing my beautiful granddaughter injured or dead in my subconscious. There was some sort of rubber cover under the jungle gym.
And, yeah, I fell off a lot of things, flew off a merry go round and got gravel in one knee. But I never passed out with a concussion (I had at least one with a shiner in basketball).
She is fearless and I want to keep her that way. Took them to a park today and she remains fearless and I sent photos to son who thinks I am neurotic to prove I didn't stop her.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 27, 2026 11:35 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 11:33 PM (rdVOm)
If you were stacy abrams you might have struck oil.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 27, 2026 11:35 PM (S41Gd)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 11:36 PM (peOdB)
They're probably just tired of having women come up to them and say "OMG your eyelashes are gorgeous, I wish mine were like that."
*reads article*
Of course it's the looksmaxxers
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 27, 2026 11:38 PM (C0Nlv)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 27, 2026 11:38 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
LOL! Glad I'm not that fat! But... striking oil... hmm.
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 11:38 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 27, 2026 11:35 PM (S41Gd)
Hah! In southern Alberta, some of the gas-bearing formations, like the Milk River, can be very shallow, indeed.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 11:39 PM (peOdB)
He was in the Navy during WWII, and was awarded a Purple Heart for his actions on D-Dy supporting the invasion.
Posted by: One of the All-Time Greats at September 27, 2026 11:39 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 11:26 PM (rdVOm)
Reminds me of the joke where the Polish guy went to the police and told them his wife was trying to kill him. The police asked how he knew, and he replied, "I found Polish Remover on her nightstand."
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 11:39 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: PaleRider at September 27, 2026 11:39 PM (PV+Zw)
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 11:33 PM (rdVOm)
If you were stacy abrams you might have struck oil.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 27, 2026 11:35 PM (S41Gd)
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Let that sink in, wildcats.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 27, 2026 11:41 PM (7KUhQ)
Posted by: Bulg at September 27, 2026 11:42 PM (77rzZ)
Nice kid. I'm old enough to have been his mother. I'm not a cradle-robber.
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 11:42 PM (rdVOm)
Highly recommend. Wish we could have lingered for a day or two.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 27, 2026 11:43 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 11:43 PM (peOdB)
Posted by: Never Happen Now at September 27, 2026 11:47 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 27, 2026 11:47 PM (T5g+F)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 11:43 PM (peOdB)
You're not driving a Studebaker that you built yourself from spare parts that you had lying around....??
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 27, 2026 11:47 PM (QGaXH)
Did you spin the handle on the propane valve to full-open? You might have tripped the automatic overflow protection that prevents the tank from dumping its contents into the open air.
Try disconnecting the bottle, which resets the pressure, reconnecting, and then barely cracking the valve.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 27, 2026 11:50 PM (t/Q8n)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Much less *adventuresome* than last year, iirc. Good on ya!
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 11:50 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 27, 2026 11:47 PM (QGaXH)
If I had more time, I would drive my mutt Avanti to Corsicana. But total up the gas, and 3 nights in motels both going there, and coming back, the air fare winds up being the better deal.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 11:51 PM (peOdB)
Stationed for part of his duty in Newport, RI and played ball in what is still the oldest wooden baseball park in the country, Cardines Field. And he wasn't the only one.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2026 11:51 PM (viF8m)
As Tammy likes to say, sleep sweet!
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at September 27, 2026 11:51 PM (OlzlW)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 27, 2026 11:52 PM (8Tawa)
Try disconnecting the bottle, which resets the pressure, reconnecting, and then barely cracking the valve.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 27, 2026 11:50 PM (t/Q8n)
I think that is exactly what happened. Will check it tomorrow when I have daylight.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 11:53 PM (peOdB)
Posted by: PaleRider at September 27, 2026 11:54 PM (PV+Zw)
Posted by: The Scooter HOF at September 27, 2026 11:55 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Bulg at September 27, 2026 11:55 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 27, 2026 11:47 PM (QGaXH)
If I had more time, I would drive my mutt Avanti to Corsicana. But total up the gas, and 3 nights in motels both going there, and coming back, the air fare winds up being the better deal.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 11:51 PM (peOdB)
but isn't getting there half the fun?
Just messin' with ya....maybe one day I'll have the pleasure of meeting you for real at a MoMe.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 27, 2026 11:55 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2026 11:57 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 27, 2026 11:55 PM (QGaXH)
T'is a pleasure, indeed.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 27, 2026 11:58 PM (8Tawa)
Posted by: Bulg at September 27, 2026 11:55 PM (77rzZ)
But enough about Biden and Obama.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 27, 2026 11:58 PM (8Tawa)
I have one stubborn propane bottle, that no matter how slowly or partially I open the valve-- it trips the overflow. Think I'll hook it back up to the grill & use it for some pleasant evening heat (rather than cooking) until it's empty, and then exchange it.
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 11:59 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 28, 2026 12:00 AM (8Tawa)
Posted by: Gone Coastal at September 28, 2026 12:00 AM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 27, 2026 11:55 PM (QGaXH)
Heck, come out to Apache Junction some time this coming Winter, I plan to to be there.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2026 12:01 AM (peOdB)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 28, 2026 12:00 AM (8Tawa)
Tinkers to Evers to Chance.
Posted by: LTG at September 28, 2026 12:01 AM (BeyMP)
I was raised on baseball. It is wonderful, in every respect.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 28, 2026 12:04 AM (8Tawa)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 27, 2026 11:55 PM (QGaXH)
Heck, come out to Apache Junction some time this coming Winter, I plan to to be there.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2026 12:01 AM (peOdB)
I very much regret not doing that when I was traveling back and forth to Gilbert for work a few years back.
I did go to a bar/restaurant you mentioned with dollar bills I think all over the walls?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 28, 2026 12:09 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Bay Ridge Refugee Since 1966 at September 28, 2026 12:12 AM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 12:12 AM (viF8m)
President Trump hints that his big announcement tomorrow in the Oval Office is related to his meeting with ANTHROPIC And his meeting is tonight at 10pm.
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Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 12:16 AM (6T7Go)
Posted by: Bay Ridge Refugee Since 1966 at September 28, 2026 12:12 AM (Fn+3X)
We left Queens for Fla in 1965. I was 7.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 28, 2026 12:17 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 28, 2026 12:09 AM (QGaXH)
Sounds like the saloon at Tortilla Flat. The dollar bill thing, I have seen at bars in diverse places like Sechelt, B.C., and Uranium City, Saskatchewan, too. Idea being, if you ever come back there, broke, and without the price of a drink, you have a dollar, at least.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2026 12:18 AM (peOdB)
President Trump hints that his big announcement tomorrow in the Oval Office is related to his meeting with ANTHROPIC And his meeting is tonight at 10pm.
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Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 12:16 AM (6T7Go)
Absolutely amazed at that man's drive and stamina. Remember how the press gushed over lights being on late in the Clinton WH ? 'Late night policy discussions....'. Yeah right! More like late nite intern cigar hanky-panky.
Imagine how they'd gush Trump was a D? And black?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 28, 2026 12:23 AM (QGaXH)
Well, according to the Daily Mail, Madonna was on stage at some damned thing and was all confused and spaced-out. Drugs, or maybe dementia. Or both.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 28, 2026 12:23 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 28, 2026 12:09 AM (QGaXH)
Sounds like the saloon at Tortilla Flat. The dollar bill thing, I have seen at bars in diverse places like Sechelt, B.C., and Uranium City, Saskatchewan, too. Idea being, if you ever come back there, broke, and without the price of a drink, you have a dollar, at least.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2026 12:18 AM (peOdB)
I looked at the map. Tortilla Flat was the place.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 28, 2026 12:25 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
They *loved* The Donald! For decades!
...Until he put an "R" after his name...
Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2026 12:25 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 28, 2026 12:25 AM (QGaXH)
The road from AJ to Tortilla Flat is a wonder. Drove it in the convertible, top down of course, back in May. It was 95 degrees. My knees got sunburned.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2026 12:27 AM (peOdB)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2026 12:29 AM (peOdB)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
They *loved* The Donald! For decades!
...Until he put an "R" after his name...
Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2026 12:25 AM (rdVOm)
There's a sit-com from the 90's - still on in reruns on cable, called 'Just Shoot Me'. Had David Spade as a personal assistant to a wealthy fashion magazine owner in NYC....
Anyway Donald Trump is frequently mentioned as a friend/ example/business rival....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 28, 2026 12:30 AM (QGaXH)
Good Night all
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 28, 2026 12:32 AM (QGaXH)
Well, they confirmed the existence of something in our galaxy. It's dubbed IRAS 18293-0941, and is a "micro-blazar". That's a black hole in a tight orbit around a supergiant star, which is sucking in material off the star, and forming polar jets where particles get accelerated to ridiculous energies, making the LHC look puny in comparison.
One of those jets is pointed dead at us here. No danger, it's 12,000 ly away. But this is the first one of these things confimed in our galaxy.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 28, 2026 12:35 AM (w6EFb)
Clint Eastwood and his son, contrasted with Robert De Niro and his son…. Could this be why DeNiro is so angry?
https://tinyurl.com/5tsm4ebr
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 12:36 AM (6T7Go)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 28, 2026 12:36 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 28, 2026 12:35 AM (w6EFb)
Presumably, this jet is sweeping by us, right? It's not going to maintain that orientation forever. Something will precess, right?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2026 12:38 AM (peOdB)
Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2026 12:39 AM (rdVOm)
Yes, over time. Everything is moving around the galaxy. The polar jets are very tight, but they do spread out, and I have no idea how wide it is, and thus how long we'll say in the beam width.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 28, 2026 12:41 AM (w6EFb)
It doesn't matter how bad our representatives are now. Primaries are over. Go vote Republican because the left is fucking crazy.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 12:43 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 11:51 PM (peOdB)
I'm probably screwed this year. Mrs B can't make it and I'm not into a solo drive. If I myself had more time I would go all kinds of "then came bronson" and meander my silly ass out on the touring bike, visit some friends along the way along a southern route where it's warmer. Maybe take 4 or 5 days to get out there and maybe figuring in a few extended stays along the way if it rains. Not doing rain on a bike. I would rather have a grenade colonoscopy.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 28, 2026 12:43 AM (S41Gd)
Posted by: publius
Presumably, this jet is sweeping by us, right? It's not going to maintain that orientation forever. Something will precess, right?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
If not, what X-Men power are you going for? I think Kitty Pryde's intangibility would be fun.
Posted by: mikeski at September 28, 2026 12:45 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 28, 2026 12:43 AM (S41Gd)
You could always fly out...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2026 12:49 AM (peOdB)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 12:52 AM (6T7Go)
The power output of the black hole jet is only 1/2 million times the total power output of the sun.
So, you get 0.5M solar power concentrated in tight beams.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 28, 2026 12:53 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JackStraw
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I think it's some of the day walkers that have a kookie idea that we've got to lose in order to win.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 12:57 AM (6T7Go)
So, you get 0.5M solar power concentrated in tight beams.
Posted by: publius
So, SPF 750K?
Do they even make house paint with lead in it anymore?
Posted by: mikeski at September 28, 2026 12:57 AM (VHUov)
So, you get 0.5M solar power concentrated in tight beams.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 28, 2026 12:53 AM (w6EFb)
So the jets emit from the poles of the black hole? Is that some sort of synchrotron radiation?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2026 12:59 AM (peOdB)
They've also discovered evidence that the Milky Way's central black hole likely turned on (spewing jets) in the recent past.
Surprisingly, one of those was just 200 years ago. This was just a little baby burp. But about 2.6 million years ago, it likely went into full AGN/quasar mode.
Erf would still be in no danger from this. Well, the black hole's spin axis is perpendicular to the galactic plane. Now, if something cause that jets to blast through the plane, and right in our direction, it would be a very different story. But that can't happen....by any known mechanism.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 28, 2026 01:02 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Braenyard
Can't bring myself to vote for any D. Their priorities are opposed to my own. Sure, I get frustrated over "our" party's laziness/inaction, but why mash the pedal to destruction?
During primary, I'll vote for the noobz when the incumbents are sh1tty. Best I can do.
For the general? Got to vote for the ones that *do support* my priorities-- and they're not ever Ds, for some reason...
Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2026 01:04 AM (rdVOm)
It's a particle accelerator like you wouldn't believe, making the LHC look pitiful in terms of the energies it can accelerate particles to. Just call it "near the speed of light".
How it does this is a very complicated thing, and only recently really worked out. This is the full glory of Strong Field General Relativity coupled with EM fields, Maxwell Equations.
A rotating black hole does things to spacetime that is just obscene.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 28, 2026 01:08 AM (w6EFb)
I heard the same thing from black pillers in 2016 when the inevitable Hillary was going to be president, heard the same thing in 2020 when anyone with an IQ over 5 said Biden won, heard the same in 2024 when Ron was the only way we could beat Biden, er Harris.
Stop listening to people who are always wrong.
Go vote. Take others. Or stop complaining.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 01:10 AM (viF8m)
Future USS Ted Stevens (DDG 12
Arleigh Burke-class Flight III guided missile destroyer coming into Whittier, Alaska - September 27, 2026 SRC: FB- Sean Timothy The U.S. Navy will commission the Stevens on October 3, 2026, in Whittier.
https://t.co/5AIdW5OpFb
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USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) Nimitz-class aircraft carrier leaving San Diego on deployment - September 27, 2026 SRC: WarshipCam
https://t.co/cGZFnosUJj
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 01:10 AM (6T7Go)
JQ, how is you toe tonight?
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 28, 2026 01:13 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: mikeski
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Probably in India, they make DDT in India too.
If people hadn't been brain washed we'd have it here.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 01:13 AM (6T7Go)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 28, 2026 01:08 AM (w6EFb)
I expect all black holes would rotate. For much the same reason that the water swirls in a toilet.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2026 01:15 AM (peOdB)
I don't believe that.
Just vote. Bring your friends, too.
Certainly, we'll lose if no one shows up. And that's what the leftists want. That's why they demoralize us whenever they can.
Don't let the b@st@rds get ya down!
Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2026 01:15 AM (rdVOm)
Did that playing vollyball, when I was a kid.
It took a year and a half to heal. Good luck.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 01:17 AM (6T7Go)
Posted by: Cave Johnson at September 28, 2026 01:19 AM (ECToT)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 28, 2026 01:13 AM (ibDUx)
Well like I said. There's always the Christmas party.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 28, 2026 01:19 AM (S41Gd)
Now, how much power would the central black hole of the Milky Way spew if it turned on again in full quasar/AGN mode, which it likely did 2.5 million years ago.
Well, try about 150 billion time solar power output. In E = mc^2 terms, this is converting about 1 earth mass to "pure energy" as Mr. Spock would say every 2 hours.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 28, 2026 01:20 AM (w6EFb)
They all likely do. It's conservation of angular momentum.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 28, 2026 01:21 AM (w6EFb)
The Democrat Party is currently being taken over by communists.
When did you get here LTG?
Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 01:22 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 01:25 AM (6T7Go)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 28, 2026 01:20 AM (w6EFb)
Time to short flashlight stocks.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2026 01:26 AM (peOdB)
Did that playing vollyball, when I was a kid.
It took a year and a half to heal. Good luck.
Posted by: Braenyard
Big toe is gaining flexibility & becoming less painful day by day. The purple is very very s l o w l y fading on it, but has intensified on middle 3 toes as of today. Pinky toe is the only one unaffected.
I think it helps that I used to "stand on my toes" as a joke (folding toes under, both feet, LOL)
Sometimes I'm such a klutz, though...
Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2026 01:28 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 01:28 AM (6T7Go)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 28, 2026 01:30 AM (ibDUx)
Abul el sayed
The Squad
Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 01:30 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2026 01:32 AM (peOdB)
Soak in warm water with Epson Salts
Some say then cold but I don't
Then wrap with an Ace type bandage
If you can, they make an inch and a half wrap,
Do each toe then the arch of the foot to the front.
It doesn't need to be tight.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 01:33 AM (6T7Go)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 28, 2026 01:35 AM (ibDUx)
I have no idea what will happen in November in regard to the mid-terms. Nobody else does either. Doomers are just mentally masturbating. I'll vote. It won't mean much in Soviet Virginia, but I'll vote.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 28, 2026 01:36 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2026 01:38 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Puddleglum,
----
Yes it does. When they announce the tally it will be there.
They will know the resistance is real. It's what they fear
the most. It also lets your silent cohort know they didn't
vote in vain. Push
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 01:40 AM (6T7Go)
Now, what's the most energetic process yet known in the universe in terms of how fast it converts mass to energy? There are some mind-boggling things, but gravity is the king.
It's funny, gravity is by far the weakest of all the "four forces", but yet it always wins in the end. And it does here too, in the form of gravitational radiation.
The most energetic wave event was seen by LIGO a while back, two spinning black holes merging, about 60-80ish solar mass. As the spiral in, they start emitting stronger and stronger gravitational waves. It's not much as first, but that final few moments, right when the event horizons merge, it becomes enormous.
Anyway, at that peak power that merger "rang" with gravitational radiation power of 90 solar masses per second being converted to energy. This was only for a short time, and so "only" 9 solar masses total was converted.
The mass of the final black hole is less than the sum of the original. The difference went to that gravitational radiation. So, there was 9 solar masses "missing" after the merger.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 28, 2026 01:41 AM (w6EFb)
When I envision a "Berserker Christmas Party" my mind comes up with stuff like the **Xi Whitehouse Party Lost Camera Roll**
LMAO!
Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2026 01:42 AM (rdVOm)
They will know the resistance is real. It's what they fear
the most. It also lets your silent cohort know they didn't
vote in vain. Push
We all know what happens when ignore the bullshit and vote. Let's do it again.
https://tinyurl.com/9e6wu98x
Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 01:45 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 01:58 AM (6T7Go)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 02:03 AM (6T7Go)
Posted by: Braenyard
I *walked by* the containers of chocolate & caramel macadamia nut clusters at Costco the other day. Painful, it was... And that was *before* I wrecked my foot!
Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2026 02:07 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 28, 2026 02:09 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2026 02:11 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 02:13 AM (6T7Go)
Posted by: clarence at September 28, 2026 02:15 AM (r3Zca)
Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at September 28, 2026 02:16 AM (Lvmcv)
Posted by: Some Old School Mentat or other at September 28, 2026 02:17 AM (r7+Q7)
Starship’s initial orbital mission is expected to fly at an altitude approximately 275 km above Earth and complete approximately six orbits around the planet over the course of a nearly 10-hour flight, with splashdown targeted in the Pacific Ocean to the west of Chile.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 02:19 AM (6T7Go)
Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2026 02:19 AM (rdVOm)
When I envision a "Berserker Christmas Party" my mind comes up with stuff like the **Xi Whitehouse Party Lost Camera Roll**
LMAO!
Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2026 01:42 AM (rdVOm)
Well, we try. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 28, 2026 02:20 AM (S41Gd)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 02:22 AM (6T7Go)
With magic markers, makeup, and clothing.
Photos were taken. Computer printouts were made. His unconscious likeness was posted all over our department! I'd say "poor guy" except-- he was kind of a jerk-- and likely deserved ALL OF IT. Heh.
Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2026 02:25 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2026 02:26 AM (rdVOm)
Physically think of it as "tidal wave", a wave of gravitational tidal differential accelerations passing through you. If strong enough, it would be similar to a pressure shock wave passing through your body.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 28, 2026 02:28 AM (w6EFb)
The "mee-thane" boys at NSF will be covering the Starship orbital flight live starting a little after 4AM here:
https://t.ly/isMNq
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 28, 2026 02:29 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius
That's how they break up kidney & gall stones, right?
Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2026 02:30 AM (rdVOm)
Yep, at ultrasound frequencies I think.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 28, 2026 02:32 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at September 28, 2026 02:33 AM (r7+Q7)
Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at September 28, 2026 02:34 AM (Lvmcv)
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2026 02:37 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2026 02:37 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 28, 2026 02:44 AM (ezlON)
I heard the same thing from black pillers in 2016 when the inevitable Hillary was going to be president, heard the same thing in 2020 when anyone with an IQ over 5 said Biden won, heard the same in 2024 when Ron was the only way we could beat Biden, er Harris.
Stop listening to people who are always wrong.
Go vote. Take others. Or stop complaining.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 01:10 AM (viF8m)
“Defeatist cynicism is an arrogance that we too know an outcome – we do not. Our Creator expects us to fight for good until He ends the game, not us.” — Robert W. Pratt
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 28, 2026 02:47 AM (ezlON)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 28, 2026 02:56 AM (8Tawa)
Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2026 03:01 AM (rdVOm)
Oooph. Zechariah always shakes me up a bit.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 28, 2026 03:03 AM (8Tawa)
Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2026 03:01 AM (rdVOm)
I made french fries out of the red potatoes, and I have to say, I have never seen purple french fries before! They are totally cool.
I think we pulled about 30 lbs today. I'm still dehydrating a bunch, and I will finish the frozen fries tomorrow.
Lovely, since we started with about 20 seed potatoes, to come to this. Yum.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 28, 2026 03:04 AM (8Tawa)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 28, 2026 03:12 AM (8Tawa)
Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2026 03:16 AM (rdVOm)
Do you blanch the fries before freezing them?
Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2026 03:16 AM (rdVOm)
Yep. Before freezing, and before dehydrating, both. The fries do really well in an air fryer, with a little olive oil and some garlic salt and pepper. Quick and tasty.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 28, 2026 03:20 AM (8Tawa)
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Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2026 04:34 AM (Ia/+0)
Babes rule!
Posted by: Unsportsmanlike Conduct is a Capital Crime to Me at September 28, 2026 07:18 AM (qvwZI)
Gun Thread: El Final-O of September-O Edition!
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Q: Weasel, whatever should I wear to the TXMoMe? I want to be both stylish and comfortable.
A: Well in that case I'd suggest your stylish and comfy picnic outfit, with sensible shoes. Seriously? You're asking me for fashion advice? You're asking a guy on the internet who calls himself Weasel for fashion advice? Buy ammo and no wobbly shit is my fashion advice. Any other questions? How about medical opinions? Need me to diagnose something? How about investment advice? Want me to manage your portfolio? In trouble with the law and need representation? Sheesh. You people!
2026 TXMoMe Schedule Here is an outline of the schedule of events. Times are tentative and subject to modification/change. This schedule will be included in the Gun Thread with any changes incorporated going forward until the event, so please check back weekly.
8am - 10:30am: Rifle Clinic (carport)
10:30am - 11am: Combined Range and Safety Briefing - Mandatory for Friday Shooters! (carport)
Noon: Light lunch provided (carport)
11am - 4pm: Live fire (rifle range - targets to 1,000 yds) Handgun Program
10:30am - 11am: Combined Range and Safety Briefing - Mandatory for Friday Shooters! (carport)
11:00am - 12:00pm: Static live fire (pistol range)
Noon: Light lunch provided (carport)
1:00pm to 2:00 pm (carport - confirmation pending) - Demonstration: Basics of Rifle & Handgun Cleaning and Maintenance - EdL
1pm - 4:00pm: Static live fire (pistol range)
9am - 10am: Combined Range and Safety Briefing - Mandatory for Saturday Shooters! (carport)
9am - 1pm: Live fire (rifle range)
1pm(ish) Lunch (carport) Handgun Program
9am - 10am: Range and Safety Briefing - Mandatory for Saturday Shooters! (carport)
9am - 1pm: Live fire (pistol range)
1pm-ish Lunch (carport)
You will note there are combined rifle and handgun range safety briefings both days and attendance is mandatory if you want to shoot. We take your safety seriously and ask everyone who wants to shoot plan on attending this important briefing. Again, we are conducting one combined safety brief each day. No exceptions. At the conclusion of each day's safety briefing you will be asked to sign a general liability waiver, after which you will receive a color-coded wrist band. The color is different each day, and it is your ticket onto the range(s) for the day. No wrist band, no shooting that day. Don't want to sign the waiver? No problem, just do not expect to shoot. If you miss the mandatory range safety briefing which is mandatory and must be attended, you are welcome to watch the live fire activities from designated observation areas. All shooters are asked to check in with an RSO (sporting an Orange Cap of Dorkiness for easy identification) upon your arrival at either of the ranges who will answer questions and direct you to an open firing position. The RSOs wield unspeakable power so it is in your best interest to be nice to them. Want to do things your way? I suggest that your own personal range on your own personal property is a good place for expressing your individuality. IMPORTANT: I would hope this goes without saying, but anyone failing to immediately and politely follow RSO instructions will be removed from the range(s). Period. No exceptions. This means YOU. I will probably think of more things to yell about in the coming weeks so please stay tuned.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2026 07:00 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: Eromero at September 27, 2026 07:00 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: 88C+u at September 27, 2026 07:02 PM (88C+u)
This is not the predicted Thread title from last week.
Weasel-san is wily!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 27, 2026 07:02 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2026 07:03 PM (QwZKw)
Posted by: The Skipper at September 27, 2026 07:03 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 27, 2026 07:04 PM (/C5Rl)
Range report:
I shoot the EMP Ronin better faster than the G42.
Not by a lot, but better. Still shooting a little left. And high. Not a lot. But some.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2026 07:05 PM (MLPVw)
Chance I might get to a indoor shooting range this week, there is one on my way home from work.
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 07:05 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: The Skipper at September 27, 2026 07:03 PM
It was much more fun helping the Professor calibrate. ^ giiggle ^
Posted by: Ginger, Mary Ann, and Lovey at September 27, 2026 07:07 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 07:11 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 27, 2026 07:15 PM (kJmSS)
Here endeth the rant.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 27, 2026 07:20 PM (/C5Rl)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 27, 2026 07:21 PM (I43vL)
Here endeth the rant.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 27, 2026 07:20 PM (/C5Rl)
You're okay right?
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at September 27, 2026 07:25 PM (NlEaG)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2026 07:25 PM (QwZKw)
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at September 27, 2026 07:26 PM (NlEaG)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 07:26 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at September 27, 2026 07:25 PM
Fortunately, everyone was fine, thanks. My driver's side is FUBAR from the front to the rear, and my good friend's body shop will be getting some business. Frankly, I was amazed that the Albanian who caused the accident and was in a huge hurry not to involve the police had a license. Turns out he was driving someone else's Mercedes van. Probably an employer.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 27, 2026 07:29 PM (/C5Rl)
Posted by: Ed L at September 27, 2026 07:29 PM (fkpUz)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 27, 2026 07:30 PM (kJmSS)
Here endeth the rant.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
Glad to see you typing!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 27, 2026 07:31 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: Ben Had
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Should be dead on with little if any up or down correction. That is either an issue with grip, muscle memory if inconsistent, or firearm fit to hand. Right or left issues usually come from one hand doing to much or the other hand doing too little to steer it.
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 07:32 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Ed L at September 27, 2026 07:32 PM (fkpUz)
We got a lot of time to shoot today. We made sure to use the automated target machine to get some movement and different distances in.
sra blaster is getting her reps in on her Kimber CDS9. It's well broken in now an she is getting better with it.
I 6hot a troublesome Ruger P95. It requires a completely stiff arm or it will do bad things with ejecting. I haven't shot it in a while, I think this one does better with 124grain
rounds.
Ed L. brought a couple of snakes. A snubby Cobra from 1964 and a 6 inch barrel modern production. He shot better with the snubby.
I also shot my P320. I shoot it much better than my P226s and that pisses me off.
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at September 27, 2026 07:36 PM (NlEaG)
For fun and practice, I have been shouldering each rifle that I have been fixing and pretty much if I can see the sights (Krag has an ultrathin blade that I had to paint orange), it is in proper place when I shoulder the rifle.
Optics mess that up a bit which is why I prefer shooting with irons even now. My pistols are like old friends and while my grip suffered from arthritis, so far, my eyes have been spared and my muscle memory is still there.
Out past two to three hundred yards on rifles is where I prefer to use optics because of issues like bullet drop and lead correction on moving targets.
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 07:38 PM (E4rtv)
Thanks for the week-in-week- out informative entertainment.
I am in need of, I think some brain surgery, and help with my tube-shaped-with-fins-and-shit, projectile-hobby-thingy, headed to the moon launch.
Can you help? Please?
I mean, if you’re dishing out fashion advice, you can most certainly help with these insignificant pleads, can’t you?
I mean, it’s not like it’s rocket surgery or anything…
Posted by: Gunslinger at September 27, 2026 07:38 PM (N91F8)
Posted by: Ed L at September 27, 2026 07:32 PM
Exactly, Ed. As annoying as the disruption is, everyone is fine, and therefore I'm just venting about stupid crap that could have been worse. I felt sorry for the poor kid who was in the middle of that crap sandwich, though. Her SUV had to be towed, and she was pretty shaken.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 27, 2026 07:38 PM (/C5Rl)
And as always, thanks to Weasel. I’m looking forward to seeing the results from the Texas MoMe.
Great content as always.
Have a great week everyone
Posted by: Coelacanth at September 27, 2026 07:40 PM (+OnsA)
Posted by: TRex - dino-o at September 27, 2026 07:43 PM (XfIK1)
Same reason I use a crush grip as it stops any possibility at milking the trigger and promotes a more consistent, if not tip top accuracy, in combat shooting. I care little for target shooting. YMMV.
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 07:44 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 27, 2026 07:45 PM (ezlON)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2026 07:45 PM (viF8m)
Range day here and had my HK 45 out of the safe. Hadn't shot it in a while and just forgot how much I appreciate the engineering that went into grip and ergonomics. Always enjoy shooting this one.
Been shooting static and turning targets at 15 and 21' plus static targets and 25'. Mostly shapes, but some silhouettes and 4" circles.
I'm 74 and not as steady as once upon a time, but I'm okay with the results I'm getting. Could use some new practice drills though ...
Wonder what other things folks do to sharpen their practical shooting skills.
Posted by: YellowBird at September 27, 2026 07:46 PM (MEbkQ)
Still spent a few minutes with each firearm - rack, practice grip, field strip, check condition...
It'll be a couple of weeks before I can hit the range...
Posted by: man at September 27, 2026 07:46 PM (pfXMo)
Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by BANG POW PEW PEW at September 27, 2026 07:46 PM (sAmhv)
rounds.
Posted by: blaster
When was the last time you changed recoil springs? Sometimes that can reproduce what you have mentioned. Slide sensitivity to position and ammo.
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 07:46 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at September 27, 2026 07:36 PM (NlEaG)
I probably shot the Python snubby better than the modern 6" one because I've had the snubby for nearly ten years and have practiced double action shooting with it for quite a while. The 6" barreled model is practically brand new. It's one of the new blued models that's had less than 100 rounds (at most) shot through it. Also, I exclusively shot .38 Special 130 grain FMJs today. .357s out of a snubby is just too much muzzle blast and flash to be practical.
We did drills using half sized IPSC targets. Blaster set up a drill with the target exposed for two seconds at 15, 10, 7, 5, and 3 yards. We had five shots to work with (or ten if you wanted to try double taps). I did pretty well with the snubby. My best group had 4 A-zone and 2 C-zone hits with a full cylinder of six.
Posted by: Ed L at September 27, 2026 07:47 PM (fkpUz)
Posted by: man at September 27, 2026 07:49 PM (pfXMo)
That's me.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 27, 2026 07:49 PM (2WIwB)
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Heck, I can sorta see at 15 yards. 10 might be my limit for real accuracy
Posted by: YellowBird at September 27, 2026 07:49 PM (MEbkQ)
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Sure! Send me an email. I'm out of town right now but will be home later this week.
Posted by: Weasel at September 27, 2026 07:49 PM (tPTFF)
Also, watch where you walk! It's not awful, but where some of the shooting takes place, there have been live large mammals wandering about within recent memory, and they do not wear Depends. Just for the noob city slickers, if there are any.
Posted by: GWB at September 27, 2026 07:51 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 27, 2026 07:21 PM
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Yes!
He's one of the villains.
Highway Patrol, Season 4, Episode 10, "Blood Money."
Original air date: December 8, 1958.
Posted by: Noodist at September 27, 2026 07:52 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: man at September 27, 2026 07:52 PM (pfXMo)
Posted by: Diogenes at September 27, 2026 07:53 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 27, 2026 07:53 PM (2Ez/1)
It only looks solid...
Posted by: man at September 27, 2026 07:53 PM (pfXMo)
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 07:46 PM (E4rtv)
I haven't changed the recoil spring on this one and that's probably a good idea. I actually have some replacements here somewhere.
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at September 27, 2026 07:54 PM (NlEaG)
Sig denies that it is intended to be the replacement for the P320.
sigsauer.com/firearms/pistols/p385.html
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 27, 2026 07:55 PM (t/Q8n)
That's me"
Targets or how you "dress"?
The Paolo, he is always low...
Posted by: man at September 27, 2026 07:52 PM (pfXMo)
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One is marketing, the other is sloppy shooting.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 27, 2026 07:55 PM (2WIwB)
rounds.
Posted by: blaster
I had that problem with a ruger LC9 years back. I had to replace the recoil spring and the guide rod. It was one of the polymer guide rods that was bending and failing. I got a new steel one along with a new spring and it functioned perfectly after that.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 27, 2026 07:56 PM (I43vL)
Posted by: ck at September 27, 2026 07:56 PM (4L8YT)
Well, there is this design from JMB that makes a fine sidearm...
Posted by: man at September 27, 2026 07:58 PM (pfXMo)
Posted by: YellowBird at September 27, 2026 07:46 PM (MEbkQ)
Try using half sized IPSC targets. I got mine from Amazon. What I like about them is that they're a lot easier to manage and use on an indoor range than full sized IPSC target. You can score yourself on each round of fire (9mm: A-zone hit - 5 points, C-zone hit =3 points, D - zone hit = 1 point, miss = -10 points), find the balance between speed and accuracy for your skill level, and determine what you shoot better with hard data (i.e. points scored) if you've got enough ammo to shoot enough rounds with multiple firearms.
Posted by: Ed L at September 27, 2026 07:59 PM (fkpUz)
Have a good night everyone
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 08:00 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: pawn at September 27, 2026 08:00 PM (XKNhI)
Ed L, did you get an email from me a few weeks ago? Sorry to put you on blast in the gun thread!
Posted by: screaming in digital at September 27, 2026 08:00 PM (FpydE)
Posted by: Weasel at September 27, 2026 08:02 PM (tPTFF)
Posted by: Weasel at September 27, 2026 08:04 PM (tPTFF)
I wonder if they'll silently stop making and marketing the 320 or if they'll just continue to pretend that the 320 is fine and it'll all in your head. Which, TBF, seems to be working for them so far.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 27, 2026 08:05 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2026 08:08 PM (QwZKw)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 27, 2026 08:09 PM (s1VwS)
Typically, my routine is to shoot "something from the safe," and then my regular carry, a PPS M2. The carry sometimes gets larger with cooler weather and bulkier clothing.
Thanks for the idea!
Posted by: YellowBird at September 27, 2026 08:09 PM (MEbkQ)
Posted by: man at September 27, 2026 07:58 PM (pfXMo)
The 1911's day as a standard issue service sidearm is over primarily for one reason: cost. The M45A1 was the last 1911 platform selected for procurement on a military contract. Its retail version had an MSRP of $1399. By comparison, the M17 commercial model sells for a bit over $700. Only the USMC's existing logistical system and emotional attachment to the 1911 platform allowed it to soldier on for 40+ years after the US Army officially replaced the 1911 in 1985. When it comes to sidearms today, cost will almost certainly be one of the primary selection factors used to decide what makes the cut.
Posted by: Ed L at September 27, 2026 08:10 PM (fkpUz)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2026 08:11 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: screaming in digital at September 27, 2026 08:00 PM (FpydE)
I did not. I will text you.
Posted by: Ed L at September 27, 2026 08:13 PM (fkpUz)
But, without the goatee. Unfortunately.
(Nimoy was also in the original Mission: Impossible.)
Posted by: GWB at September 27, 2026 08:13 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2026 08:11 PM (yEz+x)
I have but I am reconfiguring at the moment. : )
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 27, 2026 08:13 PM (ezlON)
Posted by: ck
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Proper use of a shooting sling as a shooting aid can really help accuracy.
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 08:13 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2026 08:14 PM (QwZKw)
And apart from two drills with my G21 (a Dicken drill cold and then a slow fire accuracy test with same, both at 25 yards) I decided to do some comparison with SOME of the .22s I own.
First up was a no-brand Taurus .22 revolver. I will, some day, own a good .22 revolver. But today is not that day. Multiple failures to ignite but 4/6 rounds did go bang. Group was not great at 7 yards with iron sights but not terrible, all things considered.
Next up was the CZ pair, both Kadet adapters for my old battered CZ 75 and my CA P07. Both printed the best groups and had the best sights overall.
After that was my Ruger MKIV, great gun, but only average on accuracy and sorta heavy compared to Polymer pistols. Not bad at all, but...it's its own thing.
Finally also fired my normal kit gun, a Glock 44 in .22. This had a rough breakin period but it is light, accurate and a good way to end a range session. Did ok on accuracy here, not grouping as tightly as the CZs.
Rounded out the session with a slow fire G21 drill at 25 yards where I was....high and right? That's weird. Good group though.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 27, 2026 08:14 PM (s1VwS)
But, without the goatee. Unfortunately.
(Nimoy was also in the original Mission: Impossible.)
Posted by: GWB at September 27, 2026 08:13 PM (kU0PQ)
He was in an episode of Columbo. My mother was watching said episode once and on e I saw Nimoy on the screen I yelled “SPOCK!!!”
(And of course I remember Mr. Nimoy in “In Search Of…”. The one on Mengele was interesting.)
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 27, 2026 08:15 PM (ezlON)
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at September 27, 2026 08:16 PM (NlEaG)
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 08:13 PM (E4rtv)
Agreed. Slinging up really helps with offhand shooting.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 27, 2026 08:16 PM (s1VwS)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2026 08:11 PM (yEz+x)
*raises hand*
My G20
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 27, 2026 08:17 PM (s1VwS)
Typically, my routine is to shoot "something from the safe," and then my regular carry, a PPS M2. The carry sometimes gets larger with cooler weather and bulkier clothing.
Thanks for the idea!
Posted by: YellowBird
Project Appleseed does the same on its range targets as did the military units that had to rely on indoor ranges. Bolt action days, the militaries had some pretty unusual adaptations to keep marksmanship levels high at minimal cost. Like one US system that was spring loaded dart kit out of issue rifles where when the recruit fired, the giant dart came out of the barrel and punctured the target (similar practice to barrel collimators that are used on scope and iron sight fitting and used to get on paper at the range).
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 08:18 PM (E4rtv)
Thanks for the idea!
Posted by: YellowBird at September 27, 2026 08:09 PM (MEbkQ)
Don't forget to get a roll of the brown patches to cover the holes with. Each target should be good for at least 100 rounds if you patch the holes up.
Posted by: Ed L at September 27, 2026 08:18 PM (fkpUz)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
I find age plus wear and tear brings the wobbles and a firm help of a sling is welcome. One of the other reasons I dislike optics' use excessively is iron sights don't wobble as apparently as a dot does. Chasing the dot is bad ju ju as it can lead to trigger jerking.
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 08:20 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: blaster
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Does it have a Flock camera pointed at the parking lot?
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 08:21 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at September 27, 2026 07:36 PM (NlEaG)
I understand this completely.
I am ready to hate the P320. But it is reliable and groups well. Do I trust it? No. No I carry it? No.
But...I can't argue with the range performance. over 1500 rounds, no malf
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 27, 2026 08:21 PM (s1VwS)
Look up a competitive IDPA group in your area. It’s a timed, competitive shoot and scoot. Very regulated, but you get to move and shoot at different targets, some moving, many static at different distances. And you’re timed, so there’s an element of urgency. It is a different level of shooting that takes you out of the normal static stand and shoot of the range.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2026 08:21 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at September 27, 2026 08:22 PM (NlEaG)
Posted by: nurse ratched
No. Too many car breakins in the area with organized gangs looking for goodies like guns, designer sunglasses, purses, etc.
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 08:22 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 08:20 PM (E4rtv)
With my age and eyes, a red dot just works better for me. I saw that again this week. I was all irons and my groups with a red dot are just better out past 15 yards.
I shoot faster with a dot too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 27, 2026 08:24 PM (s1VwS)
Posted by: nurse ratched
My Keltec PF9 gets that duty but it is not a permanent fixture. Too many Federal facilities around here including the parking lot I go to daily.
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at September 27, 2026 08:26 PM (NlEaG)
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at September 27, 2026 07:36 PM (NlEaG)
I understand this completely.
I am ready to hate the P320. But it is reliable and groups well. Do I trust it? No. No I carry it? No.
But...I can't argue with the range performance. over 1500 rounds, no malf
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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The P320 was oversold as a problem child but I do think that Sig is smarter to announce a new model number and perhaps move to the P365 upsized action to duty. That is more to quell problems in the police market and civilian market than anything else.
If you maintained the P320, it would probably be fine as from what I understand of the documented cases, it was a combination of wear and in the AF Warren AFB case, outright misconduct and falsification to cover up manslaughter at best, murder at worst.
That being said, I have no interest in buying one.
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 08:28 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2026 08:29 PM (eRlcH)
I burble with happiness when I attend.
Seriously fun and funny serious. Plus Disco Doof and others dancing.
And the hugs from 'Ettes are life-affirming.
Looking at you, {{{ nurse ratched }}}.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 27, 2026 08:30 PM (u82oZ)
We're what, $40T in debt?
Heh
Posted by: man at September 27, 2026 08:31 PM (pfXMo)
Sig denies that it is intended to be the replacement for the P320.
sigsauer.com/firearms/pistols/p385.html
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 27, 2026 07:55 PM (t/Q8n)
If it's adopted by the Pentagon as the M17A1/M18A1 or the "M19/M20" we'll have our answer.
Posted by: Ed L at September 27, 2026 08:31 PM (fkpUz)
If you maintained the P320, it would probably be fine as from what I understand of the documented cases, it was a combination of wear and in the AF Warren AFB case, outright misconduct and falsification to cover up manslaughter at best, murder at worst.
That being said, I have no interest in buying one.
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 08:28 PM (E4rtv)
Oversold but some military and police SNs do seem to be prone to NDs. Civilian pistols, you have to work to make them go bang errantly. The design is flawed, I believe. It's why I don't carry it. The P365 is better and I don't hesitate to endorse that line to new gun owners.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 27, 2026 08:32 PM (s1VwS)
My EMP Ronin is a 9mm in a 1911 platform as is my Colt GI in .380. Something about the 1911 works well for me.
I also shoot the Walther PPQ well. But, who doesn’t.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2026 08:34 PM (yEz+x)
I shoot faster with a dot too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards,
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My eyes have actually improved with age in distance. I used to have bad astigmatism and now it is non existent. Then again, I wore glasses starting in 4th grade. I have never needed glasses to read and still don't for any close work.
I have reddots on my social purpose ARs but simply see the iron sights well enough not to want nor need a dot sight on handguns. My pistols that I carry, I can by practicing dry fire draws often, are right on sights when I draw from a holster or pick the firearm up off a table. Combination of hand fit and muscle memory and so I still use handguns that are comparatively 'old' to what most of you guys use. They fit my hand and my muscle memory is why.
Other people may vary in requirements but I am looking for a pattern of 3-4 inches at 7 yards with single or double shots from a draw and 6-8 inches at 25 yards staying in the center torso. And I want that repeatable consistently in every handgun that I carry.
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 08:34 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2026 08:38 PM (yEz+x)
There are LOTS of P320s out there. They get lots of use in military and police. 1911s I am sure have had plenty of NDs and injuries/deaths. I think it is usage not design.
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at September 27, 2026 08:39 PM (NlEaG)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
Eh, the po po had that problem with Glocks which is more a training issue than anything else. But M&P line made sure to tell the police market that they had a safety on it. Sig took a hammer fired design, P250, that did not sell and repurposed it as a striker fire design. I read the military report on Sigs and did not see anything from the massive shutdown and inquiry on the P320 that indicates anything other than some parts, particularly the safety mechanisms are prone to wear.
Could be a training issue or simply the military higher ups desire to have a safety on the handguns.
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 08:39 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: man at September 27, 2026 08:41 PM (pfXMo)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2026 08:42 PM (yEz+x)
Heh
Posted by: man at September 27, 2026 08:31 PM (pfXMo)
Back in 1909, when the trials program that ended up selecting Colt's submittal for a service handgun, the pistol was a primary weapon of a major branch of the Army, the US Cavalry. Many of the .45 ACPs specs to knock down a horse or a man with a single shot came from the US Cavalry. Today, the US Cavalry have switched from horses to tracks, wheels, and helicopters. No service branch uses a handgun as a primary weapon issued to every soldier. Pistols are a last ditch weapon and as such, don't merit pouring buckets of cash at the program(s).
Posted by: Ed L at September 27, 2026 08:44 PM (fkpUz)
Eh, the po po had that problem with Glocks which is more a training issue than anything else. But M&P line made sure to tell the police market that they had a safety on it. Sig took a hammer fired design, P250, that did not sell and repurposed it as a striker fire design. I read the military report on Sigs and did not see anything from the massive shutdown and inquiry on the P320 that indicates anything other than some parts, particularly the safety mechanisms are prone to wear.
Could be a training issue or simply the military higher ups desire to have a safety on the handguns.
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 08:39 PM (E4rtv)
The standard issue for the San Antonio PD was the Glock 22 for years, until they switched to the M&P Shield in .40.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 27, 2026 08:45 PM (ezlON)
That is why one really must take some time to try out every potential handgun purchase.
I can't handle Glocks for just those reasons.
Posted by: man at September 27, 2026 08:46 PM (pfXMo)
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 08:39 PM (E4rtv)
IIRC, the thumb safety on the M17/M18 is direct legacy of the 1911 experience applied to the M17/M18 program.
Posted by: Ed L at September 27, 2026 08:46 PM (fkpUz)
So they're only for group shoots?
/kidding
Posted by: man
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Habit I picked up from firearm forums back in the day.
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 08:47 PM (E4rtv)
That's a shame.
Posted by: man at September 27, 2026 08:47 PM (pfXMo)
Well, had to dodge two of them. There were red flags. But friends is OK.
Still walking, not stalking, for me.
The one that is the best fit for me called me by another man's name 3 times during our two mile walk Friday. Not her late husband's name either.
I saw them together when they entered a local restaurant where I was dining with my long-time friends, the Constitution Bee peeps.
I entertain my younger brother with my social situations.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 27, 2026 08:47 PM (u82oZ)
Could be a training issue or simply the military higher ups desire to have a safety on the handguns.
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 08:39 PM (E4rtv)
As for the safety thing, that is most likely a military requirement. Sadly there are too many DAs out there. I heard of plenty on my base in Afghanistan. One AF, but mostly Army.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 27, 2026 08:47 PM (ezlON)
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 08:34 PM (E4rtv)
If you shoot good ENOUGH with irons, keep doing it. I see a big difference. I'll cut those groups in half with a dot. Since one of my roles now is security for my church, I need max accuracy under stress and under speed. So I want the dot on any tool I would need to use.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 27, 2026 08:47 PM (s1VwS)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 27, 2026 08:49 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Ed L at September 27, 2026 08:44 PM (fkpUz)
They have a role for some folks. They are inferior to shoulder weapons in everything except portability.
But the gun you carry is probably the gun you should train with.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 27, 2026 08:50 PM (s1VwS)
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 27, 2026 08:50 PM (ezlON)
This. I really do like the dot setup on the Echelon. Very easy to bring to target...
Posted by: man at September 27, 2026 08:51 PM (pfXMo)
Chlamydia is prevalent in retirement communities. And we have seen a dramatic uptick in senior cases in the last decade.
Just sayin.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2026 08:53 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 27, 2026 08:47 PM (ezlON)
All of the ND's I know about from my Afghanistan tour were from REMF's and staff officers who didn't need to take weapons handling and use seriously as part of their jobs. Never heard of an ND from any of the combat units I worked with.
Posted by: Ed L at September 27, 2026 08:53 PM (fkpUz)
Posted by: Ed L
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Eh, not really the same. JMB realized the safety issue relied on the mind of the user--if you carry cocked and locked, then you best be trained. The Army decided in peacetime, that was a no no and warranted the idiotic empty chamber reg rather than train up the troops.
The basis issue is that cops carry more handguns every day than troops do and the absence or presence of a safety does not seem to matter much. It is a training issue.
The military is basically risk averse and rather stupid on personal arms. They shortchange small arms training consistently over the years and have repeatedly made bone headed decisions on acquisitions, sights, etc.
Read up on the idiotic feud between General Buffington and General Crozier over Krag sights for example. 4 sights plus carbine versions in a firearm only used for about a dozen years.
Garand designed his firearm for a magazine and yet was forced to drop that in favor of clips and his original .276 like the British ill fated 7mm was changed to support what ammo was already in the system.
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 08:53 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: man at September 27, 2026 08:54 PM (pfXMo)
Posted by: man at September 27, 2026 08:55 PM (pfXMo)
Thanks for a great Gun Thread, Weasel. See all you TxMoMe people soon.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 27, 2026 08:57 PM (GfgtS)
Private BagO'Donuts reporting!
Posted by: man at September 27, 2026 08:57 PM (pfXMo)
But the gun you carry is probably the gun you should train with.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
They are defensive weapons and the military has not much interest in the lives of any particular troop. They care much more about reports, media, and bad pr so they purposefully avoid troops carrying weapons and being familiar with them. If troops could carry routinely as even happened in the Army during the heyday of calvary outposts, then they could today.
Cops carry much more except for senior ranks but put a helluva lot more emphasis on firearms and safety for individuals than the military does.
And I am familiar with the AF from being in it and Army being an Army brat of a US Army officer in Ordnance.
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 08:58 PM (E4rtv)
(Response delayed as I was dragooned off to dinner.)
Posted by: YellowBird at September 27, 2026 08:58 PM (MEbkQ)
Bedside and open carry (i.e. walking around on private property) gun is a Staccato C2. Best shooting gun I've ever owned by a country mile. Also made just a few miles away here in Texas which is a nice upside.
Posted by: ballistic at September 27, 2026 08:58 PM (oqH4h)
Posted by: Oddbob at September 27, 2026 08:59 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Ed L at September 27, 2026 08:53 PM (fkpUz)
How does even an REMF escape firearms training? As an officer a what can be argued to be at least enough of an REMF, the Army was not letting me go to Afghanistan without hitting the range. (Which led to some comical moments in the AF when I showed up for M4 training. For the uninitiated, in the AF - stupidly - it is seldom officers get rifle training.)
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 27, 2026 09:00 PM (ezlON)
Going to hit the sack early to try and shake this cold.
Thanks Weasel for being here every Sunday.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice} at September 27, 2026 09:05 PM (kJmSS)
And I am familiar with the AF from being in it and Army being an Army brat of a US Army officer in Ordnance.
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 08:58 PM (E4rtv)
Understandable. A cop carries every day. In the military? Not so much. I only carried every day on deployment.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 27, 2026 09:05 PM (ezlON)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
It can make a difference depending on your needs.
I can generally shoot excellent at bad breath distances out to ten yards or so with irons. Need to verify that I can still shoot that well after a two year layoff but I have been practicing with dry shooting extremely frequently.
Generally speaking, I am not going to have a reason to shoot someone with an handgun at 25 yards and a helluva problem with legally justifying that rather than evasion and disengagement in my area.
If they are carrying long arms, the best reply is a long arm yourself.
But I prefer simplicity nowadays and if I really had to make a head shot, would actually prefer a revolver to any of the various semi autos present.
The average revolvers are more accurate as even a century old K Frame Smith and Wesson is capable of shooting 1 inch groups in a Ransom Rest at 25 yards. Been demonstrated.
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 09:05 PM (E4rtv)
Not a surprise. They're excellent (at least the ones I've fired)
Posted by: man at September 27, 2026 09:08 PM (pfXMo)
Posted by: Oddbob at September 27, 2026 09:09 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Cow Demon
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Military should be in the shape of living with their firearms--offensive (long arms) and defensive (pistols). I tend to agree with John Farnam (former military, now a noted senior firearm trainer for police, military, etc.). Off and on carry tends to promote bad attitudes and has resulted in troops being killed in terrorism or other issues. If you trust a Staff Sergeant with being a lead technician on a 30-100 million dollar aircraft, then trusting them with a firearm is a no brainer.
You might enjoy his quips which are very much on par with Col. Cooper's observations. His books on longarms and handguns are uniformly excellent as is his training in person. Defense Training International.
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 09:11 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Eromero at September 27, 2026 09:11 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Oddbob
I saw the leader and have no reason to actually consider the article. Sociologists and Education both share the dubious distinction that in a recent survey of research, no study could be fundamentally or completely replicated from those disciplines. Political Science and Econ had the best rates at about 50 percent or so.
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 09:12 PM (E4rtv)
I’ve shot weasel buddy Geoff’s staccato. What a gem of a pistol! Amazing. He has a red or green or whatever dot on it, and once I got adjusted to it, was dead on. And fast. Great pistol.
But. $$$$
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2026 09:13 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: ballistic at September 27, 2026 09:14 PM (oqH4h)
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I saw that and almost replied saying I'd just come back from the range and was feeling noticeably LESS "fearful." LOL. But then Disqus can probably be linked to the you IRL. So no ...
Posted by: YellowBird at September 27, 2026 09:14 PM (MEbkQ)
With the exception of the M1 Garand, US Army Ordnance hasn't exactly covered itself with glory when it's come to selecting the small arms the troops have had to use in wartime. It seems that luck has been more of a factor that I'm comfortable with on more than one occasion. The .50 M1921/M2 (Ma Duce) was originally condemned by multiple branches in the US Army as being too heavy, too overpowered, inaccurate (!) and "not needed" for the things it was expected to shoot at (tanks, planes, buildings). It took the USN making the M2 its AA weapon of choice on USN vessels and Dr. Samuel Green, chief engineer at Springfield Armory along with Colt, to give the M2 its dual feed system and improve the gun's overall reliability and adaptability for multiple roles.
Posted by: Ed L at September 27, 2026 09:14 PM (fkpUz)
Posted by: man at September 27, 2026 08:54 PM (pfXMo)
Whatever is reliable and you will carry/shoot/train with.
It's why I suggest buying a PSA tool and a case or two cases of ammo over a bespoke tool
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 27, 2026 09:14 PM (s1VwS)
I’m not more fearful. Quote the contrary, I feel more relaxed knowing I’ve thought out how I would respond to being the object of someone else’s anger. Not always deadly. I’m aware. I’m not afraid. But. I’m not oblivious and stupid either.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2026 09:16 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: ZOD at September 27, 2026 09:17 PM (UfDpa)
Posted by: Oddbob at September 27, 2026 09:18 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2026 09:19 PM (yEz+x)
I suspect that for his purposes, "fear" is a sloppy synonym for "perception of risk."
Posted by: Oddbob at September 27, 2026 09:19 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 27, 2026 09:00 PM (ezlON)
Qualifying with a sidearm is dirt simple if you can listen to the instructor. M16/M4 is more difficult. It took me three tries because this was the first time I'd ever shot for qualification with an optic (Aimpoint Comp M4S). That was a painful experience because I had to learn how to use the thing on the fly.
Posted by: Ed L at September 27, 2026 09:20 PM (fkpUz)
Posted by: ZOD at September 27, 2026 09:20 PM (UfDpa)
The Nor’easter did it.
Posted by: RI Red at September 27, 2026 09:21 PM (Fj7p/)
We live in a fallen world where people will kill, murder, rape, rob, and steal without the slightest compunction. The record of police is spotty and they are a reactive force, not proactive.
I agree with the Framers that the first responders must always be ourselves rather than the calvary coming over the hill to save us from immediate peril.
In most defensive gun uses, merely having a firearm is enough to change the the cost calculus of the critter to consider disengaging with you. Most defensive gun uses never result in a shot fired. And from all likelihood from research, it is at a minimum about 800k per year to as much as 2.5 million or so (Gary Kleck and co).
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 09:22 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2026 08:14 PM
This. I have car-specific holsters, such as one mounted under the steering wheel or a cross-draw holster.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 27, 2026 09:22 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: ZOD at September 27, 2026 09:22 PM (UfDpa)
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Qualifying with a sidearm is dirt simple if you can listen to the instructor. M16/M4 is more difficult.
Buddy of mine was maintenance crew for KC135s circa Gulf War I. He said that in basic, they never even shot the M16 with 5.56 ammo, only with .22LR adapters.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 27, 2026 09:24 PM (vTZFs)
I agree with the Framers that the first responders must always be ourselves rather than the calvary coming over the hill to save us from immediate peril. (Right here is why I despise the phrase “first responders” for police and firefighters. The first responders are the poor SOBs on scene. Carry, know first aid.)
In most defensive gun uses, merely having a firearm is enough to change the the cost calculus of the critter to consider disengaging with you. Most defensive gun uses never result in a shot fired. And from all likelihood from research, it is at a minimum about 800k per year to as much as 2.5 million or so (Gary Kleck and co).
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 09:22 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 27, 2026 09:27 PM (ezlON)
He said that.
I instructed the range master to eat his face.
He did that.
Posted by: ZOD at September 27, 2026 09:27 PM (UfDpa)
Posted by: Oddbob at September 27, 2026 09:24 PM (vTZFs)
A lot of NG and Reserve units did that because access to centerfire capable ranges for these units was often a problem. But by the 1990s, a lot of the .22 LR adapters were totally worn out. I never saw one of those again after 2003.
Posted by: Ed L at September 27, 2026 09:28 PM (fkpUz)
Posted by: man at September 27, 2026 08:54 PM (pfXMo)
Whatever is reliable and you will carry/shoot/train with.
It's why I suggest buying a PSA tool and a case or two cases of ammo over a bespoke tool
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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I built my ARs from parts but then again I have the gages, the knowledge from rebuilding bolt rifles, and do my research. ARs are not difficult to build, tear down, and rebuild and replace parts. Easier than bolt action rifles in most cases. That being said, that was not always the case back in the 90's. Specifications were loose and a lot of parts were actually rejected from military contractors and then sold on the gunshow circuit or by mail from places like the Shotgun News.
That era is pretty much gone with CAD CAM and CNC mfg. Even using headspace gages which I do on builds is really pretty unnecessary simply because tolerance stacking has been reduced to the extent of a particular AR-15 bolt and a barrel producing either short head space or long headspace something on the order of 50:1 or greater. Buy from a reputable source for components and you won't have an issue.
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 09:28 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Oddbob
When I went through Lackland and AF basic, they had us use those damn things. They frankly sucked with lots of jams, dirty nasty 22 LR ammo that took an afternoon to clean, and was as useful as tits on a boar hog. Requalified at my unit with A1s using proper ammo and that went fine in comparison.
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 09:30 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Ed L at September 27, 2026 09:20 PM (fkpUz)
Agreed. In ROTC Field Training I shot the M9. It was my first time shooting in five years. But I did OK. Learning the mechanics of the M4/M16 took awhile. That was part of the reason I bought the rifle I still own - to keep operating that mechanism in practice. I bought a M9 and M18 equivalent for the same reasons - not enough range time, and I wanted to keep proficient, not just qualify.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 27, 2026 09:31 PM (ezlON)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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I would figure you would have a Humphrey Bogart style flip over panel with the firearms of choice attached for use. Then again, he used his wrist to flick the cylinder closed which is not something advisable to do.
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 09:32 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 09:22 PM"
What do those numbers refer to?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 27, 2026 09:33 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: ballistic at September 27, 2026 09:33 PM (oqH4h)
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 09:22 PM (E4rtv)
I had one of my fellow SDARNG soldiers who was a sheriff's deputy in central SD tell me that if everything went right, he'd just have to do the paperwork after taking the perp to the hospital or the coroner's office.
Posted by: Ed L at September 27, 2026 09:34 PM (fkpUz)
Here endeth the rant.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 27, 2026 07:20 PM (/C5Rl)
Was this on I-90 headed to Seattle?
Posted by: Diogenes at September 27, 2026 09:35 PM (2WIwB)
There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom! What happened to my Earth-shattering Kaboom?
In the course of my shop cleanup, I found a passenger-side airbag for a Dodge Dakota. I took it apart. Inside, I found a nine-inch long by 2" steel cylinder, one end capped, with wires sticking out. A literal "bimb" as Inspector Clouseau would say. What to do, what to do? I took it to the far end of the yard, wedged it into an old car chassis, and plinked at it with the .22. Scored numerous hits, including one right on the end, which should have fired the initiator, but it didn't. Cleaned the wires off, though.
Time to move on to Plan B.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 09:35 PM (peOdB)
Then you have the proprietary types like the SFAR of Ruger and others.
Here be Dragons if planning on building one.
Closest thing I can compare with in bolt action world is that the Germans respecified the 8mm x 57 chamber twice. The US was smart and dumped the nascent 30-03 round before it really got started in the first place and rechambered all the new 1903 Springfields for the new spitzer version of the 30-06 in ta da, 1906.
Re Germans, the first specification was changed to fit the new spitzer bullets, the second was just prior to WWII where you have a different angle on the shoulder enough to throw off headspace gages. You need a different headspace gage for pre WWII barrels.
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 09:38 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 27, 2026 09:33 PM (2Ez/1)
I think it's the annual number of defensive gun uses in the US that don't result in any shots fired.
Posted by: Ed L at September 27, 2026 09:39 PM (fkpUz)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2026 09:39 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
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Defensive gun use to ward off being a victim. Comes from lengthy research from the National Criminal Victimization Survey and other sources.
Range from simply telling the critter that you are armed upto and including shooting them DOA. Most DGUs never involve firing one shot as criminal critters reevaluate their options.
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 09:41 PM (E4rtv)
It is time for me to order.
Thx.
Posted by: RI Red at September 27, 2026 09:42 PM (Fj7p/)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2026 08:14 PM (QwZKw)
I do as well. My car has never been broken into, but there's always a first time. Plus when it's out of sight, it eventually becomes.out of mind.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 27, 2026 09:43 PM (2WIwB)
Then you have the proprietary types like the SFAR of Ruger and others.
Here be Dragons if planning on building one.
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 09:38 PM (E4rtv)
Note that the only AR-10 platform adopted by the US military, the M110 series rifles, use rifles from KAC and H&K. The KAC and H&K rifles are completely different from each other (KAC - DI rifle, H&K - short stroke gas piston). You might be better off buying a complete rifle if you don't want to deal with the dragons Whig mentions.
Posted by: Ed L at September 27, 2026 09:45 PM (fkpUz)
Posted by: ballistic
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Yep. Pretty much. The AR in 5.56 is a short range rifle at best, an upgrade from the M1 Carbine but not to be compared to the battle rifles of the Garand nor its M-14 replacement.
That being said, they are easy to work on and even easier to have a spare set of key parts that might fail under Murphy's law. Spare pin and spring sets, about 10-20 bucks, a new bolt with extractor and ejector, about 30-40 bucks, a cam pin, firing pin, etc. under 20-30 bucks, multiple mags, as low as 9-10 each. Usually not worth fixing them in free states, simply buy another.
The biggest problem that most people have on builds is the buffer issue. There, you want a quality buffer using genuine tungsten discs at a minimum. A shitty cheaply made buffer can fail.
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 09:46 PM (E4rtv)
It is time for me to order.
Thx.
Posted by: RI Red
Is your bolt carrier messed up too?
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 09:47 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 09:32 PM
I'd like to have a codpiece like the character in Dusk to Dawn had, which apparently was a prop recycled from an earlier movie.
In .41 Mag, however.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 27, 2026 09:48 PM (0sNs1)
Given my neighbor... I'd toss him a water pistol...
Posted by: man at September 27, 2026 09:48 PM (pfXMo)
Posted by: Ed L at September 27, 2026 09:48 PM (fkpUz)
I saw them together when they entered a local restaurant where I was dining with my long-time friends, the Constitution Bee peeps.
I entertain my younger brother with my social situations.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 27, 2026 08:47 PM (u82oZ)
Sounds like a David Allen Coe song in the making, there.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 09:49 PM (peOdB)
Posted by: RI Red at September 27, 2026 09:49 PM (Fj7p/)
Posted by: man at September 27, 2026 09:51 PM (pfXMo)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
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Defensive gun use to ward off being a victim. Comes from lengthy research from the National Criminal Victimization Survey and other sources.
Range from simply telling the critter that you are armed upto and including shooting them DOA. Most DGUs never involve firing one shot as criminal critters reevaluate their options.
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 09:41 PM
What's the unit of measure?
Dollars? Lives? Bullets?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 27, 2026 09:51 PM (2Ez/1)
Given my neighbor... I'd toss him a water pistol...
Posted by: man at September 27, 2026 09:48 PM (pfXMo)
Hmmmm.
Does the neighbor store a.lot of stuff...like.food?
Posted by: Diogenes at September 27, 2026 09:51 PM (2WIwB)
I saw the leader and have no reason to actually consider the article. Sociologists and Education both share the dubious distinction that in a recent survey of research, no study could be fundamentally or completely replicated from those disciplines. Political Science and Econ had the best rates at about 50 percent or so.
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 09:12 PM (E4rtv)
Having delved into teaching…I want nothing to do with education classes outside what qualifies me for certification. I flat out refuse to get an education degree of any sort. If it means not climbing the education bureaucracy hierarchy, so be it.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 27, 2026 09:51 PM (ezlON)
I don't know if you have ever installed and staked a gas key (you really should just once for the experience) but some of the bolt carriers that are cheapest need that done to them.
Staking itself is not a big deal as you can do it with a chisel and steady hand. Or buy a gimmick to do it for you if you have shaky ones. The other issue is application of Permatex or Loctite 638 on the underside of the gas key prior to bolts being attached and staked.
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 09:52 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: RI Red at September 27, 2026 09:49 PM (Fj7p/)
Dude...this is a family blog!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2026 09:53 PM (k5CNB)
Posted by: RI Red at September 27, 2026 09:54 PM (Fj7p/)
Posted by: mindful webworker - the one in the middle at September 27, 2026 09:55 PM (xRCm7)
Given my neighbor... I'd toss him a water pistol...
Posted by: man
Give MY neighbor a gun?
Nope. I’ll shoot them and take their food and booze. Liberal fucksticks.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2026 09:55 PM (yEz+x)
I don't know if you have ever installed and staked a gas key (you really should just once for the experience) but some of the bolt carriers that are cheapest need that done to them.
Staking itself is not a big deal as you can do it with a chisel and steady hand. Or buy a gimmick to do it for you if you have shaky ones. The other issue is application of Permatex or Loctite 638 on the underside of the gas key prior to bolts being attached and staked.
Posted by: whig
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Well, after reading this post I realize that I have ALOT to learn about alot....sigh....anyway, hello to all and with that I'll say goodnight so I can go clean up the kitchen....
Posted by: The Grateful - R at September 27, 2026 09:56 PM (XfIK1)
Dollars? Lives? Bullets?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
Look up Gary Kleck and his research. Florida State U. Econ prof. The lower bound was by some other guy that tried to disprove Kleck's hypothesis and came up with the 800k measurement.
A Defensive Gun Use is simply where the presence of a gun warded off a crime as reported by people that were faced with a criminal trying to do something criminal against them.
That is where the entire spectrum runs from a justifiable homicide of the perp, a display of the firearm, even point to one that is on the hip, in a jacket, etc. But the it is the reason cited by the respondent to the surveys that the criminal could not complete the criminal action. They had a gun.
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 09:57 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: The Grateful - R
Staking a gas key on an AR-15 is relatively uncommon for most people to worry about. But rebuilding a firearm from a Kaboom is more like gunsmithing than a user. A user would just buy a new bolt and carrier, in most cases for an AR-15, about 70-80 bucks up to the moon. AR-10's though are different animals and the parts are less compatible than the military specified parts that everyone making AR-15s use nowadays.
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 09:59 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2026 09:39 PM (yEz+x)
Move redneck firepit, which is welded up out of old 20" truck rims, and very stout, far away from house. Put in layer of firewood, the "bimb", and more firewood. Get fire lit, and unass the area. Stage some pressurized-water fire extinguishers nearby.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 10:00 PM (peOdB)
Posted by: Cow Demon
Some states give more money if you get graduate degrees in the subject you are teaching. Only admin usually require the useless ed degrees.
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 10:01 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: whig
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Thanks Whig, those words and sentences I understood!
Posted by: The Grateful - R at September 27, 2026 10:01 PM (XfIK1)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2026 10:01 PM (infHK)
In .41 Mag, however.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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Walk softly and carry a magnum codpiece.
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 10:02 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: The Grateful - R
Almost everything on an AR-15 that is needed require relatively few punches, a small ball pein hammer, some device to hold the gun in place during barrel install and flash hiders/silencer mounts, and at worst, a barrel nut wrench. I have specialized tools because they can make a build faster and easier but I built my first with a minimum of tools.
Other than doing a barrel/flashhider replacement, you just need a screwdriver, punches, and a hammer for replacing parts on an AR. If you are taking off the buffer tube, a cheap special wrench running about 7-10 dollars from pressed steel will do.
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 10:06 PM (E4rtv)
Some states give more money if you get graduate degrees in the subject you are teaching. Only admin usually require the useless ed degrees.
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 10:01 PM (E4rtv)
TX does for sure. I have a master’s but not in education.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 27, 2026 10:07 PM (ezlON)
Posted by: whig at September 27, 2026 10:08 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2026 10:01 PM (infHK)
I cannot just throw this damned thing away. It could injure some unwary person.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 10:08 PM (peOdB)
Posted by: Cow Demon
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Congratulations on both your common sense and common decency.
For those who have seen my rant/diatribe on "Edumacation" -
In any school that is not a "teacher's college", however named, the Education department has the lowest SATs and the highest GPAs - including the instructional staff.
An undergraduate Education curriculum is 13th,14th, 15th, and 16th grades, with " social promotion ".
Every graduate degree in Education is a participation trophy.
Posted by: buddhaha at September 27, 2026 10:14 PM (iYF/u)
Food Thread: Ranch Dressing...The Universal Ingredient!
Veal Marsala (Scaloppine al Marsala) I like veal! A good grilled veal chop is delicious. And stupidly expensive. So using it for a dish like Veal Marsala seems silly, because the meat is delicate and easily overwhelmed but the strong flavors of the dish. A much better choice is pork or chicken, at a tenth the price! Which is what I am going to use tomorrow night! [Hat Tip: Misanthropic Humanitarian]
Kraft Dinner has turned its iconic mac & cheese into a cream soda flavor
— Dexerto (@Dexerto) September 23, 2026
It's only available in Canada for a limited time pic.twitter.com/X3OW0P6uVS
The great garlic experiment of 2025-2026 was a resounding...meh. Send all of your excellent home-grown garlic to: cbd dot aoshq at gmail dot com. About the Bourbon Bubble...I think it has burst, but the category is also suffering from the inflation that affected everything else (Thanks Biden!). I think the sweet spot is still $40-$60 for excellent and interesting bottles, and bumping that to $100 gets you an incremental improvement in quality, but nothing mind-blowing. More than that and I think you are paying for hype and rarity, which may look good in your liquor cabinet, but doesn't translate to more quality in the bottle. The problem...or the solution...is to buy lots of bourbon, take tasting notes, and eventually arrive at your favorites! It should take forty or fifty years, but it is worth it!
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 04:00 PM (Ia/+0)
Ketchup chips.
Actually not that bad..
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 27, 2026 04:04 PM (Sco7b)
I read past the "a", and I thought they meant the little orange flavor packet would be cream soda instead of cheese.
But they made a mac-and-cheese flavored can of soda.
I'm not sure which would actually be the greater abomination.
Posted by: mikeski at September 27, 2026 04:04 PM (VHUov)
Cilantro tates like its been soaked in gasoline to me
Cornwall can keep it
Canada deserves that
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 04:04 PM (Ia/+0)
Heat grill. Drain thighs and brush with bottled poppy seed dressing. Grill. Brush with more poppy seed dressing Turn.
Cook until safe to eat.
Trust me. So yummy.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2026 04:05 PM (Hp7o4)
Burritos tomorrow
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 04:05 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 27, 2026 04:06 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: CBD
Pilchards: herring by another name?
CBD what is wrong with herring?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 27, 2026 04:07 PM (NnhvP)
So I'm thinking of putting in a potato to bake alongside the bread. Shouldn't affect the bread timing materially.
Then I can broil the London broil after and be eating by no later than seven thirty or so.
It's a plan.
Posted by: From about That Time at September 27, 2026 04:09 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Orson at September 27, 2026 04:09 PM (dIske)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2026 04:09 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 04:10 PM (Ia/+0)
Don't eat a lot of Ranch. It will kill you!
Posted by: wferrin at September 27, 2026 04:10 PM (lCdHU)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 27, 2026 04:10 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: lin-duh at September 27, 2026 04:10 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: A denizen of the Great White North at September 27, 2026 04:10 PM (skR0U)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 04:11 PM (Ia/+0)
1st world problem was having no onions, potatoes, or apples on sale at my Safeway - they also had no broccoli til a very nice employee heard me low key complaining and went in the back and found it and me...
So, I'll have a 2nd trip to Safeway for all the produce they didn't have today. In good news, they had the 99 cents/lb chicken breast and the $5/lb Ecuador jumbo frozen shrimp...and they had one pack of London Broil for $4/lb (special discount), so I did get my proteins...and the beef was great b/c I needed it. Especially with the broccoli!
Posted by: Nova Local at September 27, 2026 04:11 PM (tOcjL)
Don't eat a lot of Ranch. It will kill you!
Posted by: wferrin at September 27, 2026 04:10 PM (lCdHU)
I always hated ranch - maybe that's why.
I was a sucker for a blue cheese dressing, instead. I was the weirdo asking for blue cheese for my wings and dipping my celery sticks in it.
Posted by: Nova Local at September 27, 2026 04:14 PM (tOcjL)
I cooked them yesterday using Chef John's recipe and they were delicious.
The Downside? Chef John's voice annoys me. He sounds like someone you'd catch playing with your dog's nipples. His recipes are good though, so I persevere.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 27, 2026 04:14 PM (YSUhf)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 27, 2026 04:15 PM (08OqX)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron
in this case, it's that they are staring at the eater, whole and apparently unscaled, while breaching from the pie crust.
As a decorative idea it's clever. As a foodstuff, it's off-putting.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 27, 2026 04:16 PM (C0Nlv)
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 27, 2026 04:16 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 27, 2026 04:17 PM (TADlS)
You weren't the weirdo. The original Buffalo Wings were served with blue cheese dressing.
Be proud of your moldy cheese preferences!!!
Posted by: naturalfake at September 27, 2026 04:17 PM (YSUhf)
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 27, 2026 04:16 PM (ftFVW)
not everyone has access to whole herring.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2026 04:18 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: A denizen of the Great White North at September 27, 2026 04:10 PM (skR0U)
I wonder if photographs can make the Art thread?
You've given me a reason to live.
I'll look for the drink at Walmart.
To top things off Ketchup Chips and Clamoto?
It's been a while but tomato clam juice.
A classic.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 27, 2026 04:18 PM (Sco7b)
Off putting to me either way
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 04:20 PM (Ia/+0)
But I'm gonna be happy about the protein finds today, and enjoy the steak tonight.
We're having it with potato salad, a bagged poppy seed salad (another great deal) and grapes (stupid cheap lately) and blueberries (one other produce item Safeway did have from their ad)...
And salted dark chocolate brownies for dessert (most going to youth group, but saved 1 per family member for us)...
Posted by: Nova Local at September 27, 2026 04:20 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: lin-duh at September 27, 2026 04:20 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: naturalfake at September 27, 2026 04:14 PM (YSUhf)
Wow. That is oddly specific.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 27, 2026 04:20 PM (P/woT)
You weren't the weirdo. The original Buffalo Wings were served with blue cheese dressing.
Be proud of your moldy cheese preferences!!!
Posted by: naturalfake at September 27, 2026 04:17 PM (YSUhf)
Yeah, blue cheese is one of those dairy items I actually do miss b/c it brought so much flavor and funk vs normal cheeses...I used it in a lot of ways...
Posted by: Nova Local at September 27, 2026 04:21 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 27, 2026 04:17 PM (TADlS)
Lived next door to a Swede and she never refrigerated her butter. Pretty sure it was salted, and she would go through a stick every other day. Here in Florida, I can take butter out of the fridge and it would be spreadable in about fifteen minutes..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 27, 2026 04:21 PM (08OqX)
Posted by: naturalfake at September 27, 2026 04:22 PM (YSUhf)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2026 04:22 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 27, 2026 04:22 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 27, 2026 04:20 PM (P/woT)
Well...he shakes his Manhattans, so additional perversions are not surprising.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2026 04:23 PM (k5CNB)
Posted by: Joe Kidd
A puddle of butter fat here.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 27, 2026 04:23 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: ballistic at September 27, 2026 04:23 PM (oqH4h)
Posted by: She Hobbit
Pemican or jerky!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 27, 2026 04:24 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2026 04:26 PM (QwZKw)
Posted by: JTB at September 27, 2026 04:26 PM (yTvNw)
Use the butter.
It's not a magic box. Leave butter out too long and it will get moldy.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2026 04:27 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 27, 2026 04:27 PM (P/woT)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2026 04:26 PM (QwZKw)
Agreed - I see a freezer still full of beef parts as a first world bennie. You could be the most popular person on your street by hosting a BBQ or potluck and bringing the beef!
Posted by: Nova Local at September 27, 2026 04:27 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 27, 2026 04:21 PM (08OqX)
You're supposed to refrigerate butter?
I'm alone and kept some on the counter for months.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 27, 2026 04:28 PM (Sco7b)
Wonder if it’s any good.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2026 04:22 PM (yEz+x)
It actually looks kinda good to me. That crust is perfection. I just don't know about the fish part of fish pie.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 27, 2026 04:28 PM (CjHsb)
Posted by: Joe Kidd
A puddle of butter fat here.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron
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How warm do you keep your house???
I'm in Texas and just keep it in the cooler part of the kitchen.
The problem with keeping it in the fridge and pulling it out to get it spreadable is remembering to do so in advance.
Posted by: lin-duh at September 27, 2026 04:28 PM (VCgbV)
One day my mom brought some left over stuffed peppers, which I devoured and showered mom with thanks and praise.
Every day on for that entire summer, mom brought me leftover stuffed peppers.
Like Quint, I will never eat another stuffed pepper again.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 27, 2026 04:29 PM (bX16E)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 27, 2026 04:27 PM (P/woT)
I'd do the casserole...and save about a 1/4lb to make pasta the next day with veg, and get 2 beef meals (especially if no more beef is hiding in the freezer).
Posted by: Nova Local at September 27, 2026 04:29 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2026 04:30 PM (QwZKw)
CBD what is wrong with herring?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 27, 2026 04:07 PM (NnhvP)
Say, buddy, have you herred? She's going to buy me a mockingbirred.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 04:30 PM (peOdB)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2026 04:30 PM (rbvCR)
Many moons ago I was at the Hidden Valley Ranch manufacturing facility on the west coast for an energy efficiency project.
It was spotless.
Just wanted to let you know how impressed I was. I visited many manufacturers and this was the cleanest I had ever seen!
Posted by: The Dog at September 27, 2026 04:31 PM (gIA2Y)
Use the butter.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2026 04:27 PM (viF8m)
A novel approach!
I think a bit of butter got into one of those holes, and it was exposed to enough air that it got moldy. Weird.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2026 04:31 PM (k5CNB)
Posted by: It's me donna at September 27, 2026 04:31 PM (+gK6I)
I don't like getting too political with food either but some times it just can't be helped.
There's some olive oil in the cabinet I'm a little suspicious of because it's Spanish olives, and you know what that means; union olives, or at worst, communists.
There's also a tub of Irish butter in the fridge that I'm keeping a serious eye on because you all know how Troublesome they can be when left unattended.
I was using French butter but it went on strike one day and I never saw it again.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2026 04:32 PM (6ydKt)
Don't eat a lot of Ranch. It will kill you!
Posted by: wferrin at September 27, 2026 04:10 PM (lCdHU)
I loathe Ranch dressing. Looks like it came out the back gate of a Bull Test station.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 04:32 PM (peOdB)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2026 04:31 PM (k5CNB)
I have a butter keeper that has a water reservoir under the butter dish...
Posted by: It's me donna at September 27, 2026 04:33 PM (+gK6I)
The dipping sauce below was created for a grandson for his chicken nuggets ... Since then, we've found it to also be a tasty sauce for dipping fried pickles and for making chicken wraps.
1 cup Hellmann’s mayonnaise (no substitutes)
1 Tbsp. Hidden Valley ranch dry powder (no substitutes)
1 Tbsp. Sweet ‘n Spicy BBQ Sauce –
Sweet Baby Ray’s (no substitutes)
1 Tbsp. yellow mustard – any brand
1 or 2 Tbsp. honey – any brand
Stir together all ingredients until well blended. Refrigerate for 1 hour, then stir again. Can be thinned with some neutral oil if the sauce does not flow smoothly from a squeeze bottle.
Posted by: Kathy at September 27, 2026 04:33 PM (MOK4W)
Anyone else notice this?
Posted by: From about That Time at September 27, 2026 04:34 PM (sl73Y)
I cook them down in a crock pot for about two days, adding extra tomatoes in from time to time, and then when it is reduced enough I run it through a strainer and can the sauce.
It has been an odd year for tomatoes, the Willamettes did not do very well, the Cherokee purples did do well but are maturing late, and the yearly volunteer I allow was spindly.
The nice thing is that last year was a great year and I still have canned tomatoes and sauce left from lastyear.
Here is hoping that next year will be better
Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2026 04:34 PM (rbvCR)
why parboil perfectly good chicken thighs and make them soggy? Why not use a little of your dressing as a quick marinade.
Grill and use the rest as a baste?
and this is a question as opposed to the typical dogmatic opinions shared here which are typically in contravention to my reasoned, thoughtful and correct views.
Posted by: Pete Bog at September 27, 2026 04:35 PM (Eq62Z)
4 oz greek yogurt
2 tab mayo
a teaspoon or two of milk to loosen it up
salt n' pepper, dried herbs & onion powder, dash of white wine vinegar or lemon juice
smashed roasted garlic clove if'n you're into that kinda thing
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 27, 2026 04:35 PM (nEUC6)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 04:32 PM (peOdB)
I bet buffalo essence is no where near as good as Ranch on buffalo wings.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2026 04:36 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: It's me donna at September 27, 2026 04:33 PM (+gK6I)
Mine does too. I wonder whether it is to keep air flow to a minimum, or keep the butter hydrated, which makes less sense.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2026 04:36 PM (k5CNB)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2026 04:38 PM (QwZKw)
Mine doesn't have the holes. I've never seen one like that. It seems that would defeat the purpose.
Put the butter in the top part, put enough water in the bottom unit so that creates an airtight seal with the top unit and no air (relatively) gets to the butter.
Air is not your friend when storing butter.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2026 04:38 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2026 04:31 PM (k5CNB)
I have a butter keeper that has a water reservoir under the butter dish...
Posted by: It's me donna at September 27, 2026 04:33 PM (+gK6I)
I just use a normal butter dish and leave it out until the stick is gone. Never had any mold. Maybe we use it up too fast for that, IDK.
Grandma had a butter cabinet in her kitchen. Went through the wall, so it kept cool and aired out. She used it always, but then, butter came in 1 lb cubes and was delivered with the milk bottles.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 27, 2026 04:39 PM (8Tawa)
Posted by: The Dog at September 27, 2026 04:31 PM (gIA2Y)
Were you greeted by the lovely Anna Maria Albergetti? and can you explain who she was? I do not have a clue. Some actress I assume.
Posted by: Pete Bog at September 27, 2026 04:39 PM (Eq62Z)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2026 04:36 PM (k5CNB)
Moderates the temperature so it doesn't swing wildly in either direction quickly.
Posted by: ballistic at September 27, 2026 04:39 PM (oqH4h)
Posted by: From about That Time at September 27, 2026 04:39 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: From about That Time at September 27, 2026 04:34 PM (sl73Y)
The portion is perfect! I buy the 7 oz. cans of tonic water because the big bottles go flat so quickly!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2026 04:39 PM (k5CNB)
I've just always used a heavy porcelain/ceramic butter dish.
Posted by: lin-duh at September 27, 2026 04:39 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2026 04:31 PM (k5CNB)
Mine doesn't have holes
Posted by: It's me donna at September 27, 2026 04:40 PM (+gK6I)
Does it depend on whether the butter is in a tub or sticks?
Serious questions.
I always leave it in the fridge and try to remember to take it out if I need to spread it on something.
But I know lots of people that leave it out.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2026 04:40 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at September 27, 2026 04:41 PM (47Dv1)
The second thing is soup. When we have some veggies in the fridge getting past their prime, it's time to make soup. I might use a chicken or beef or garlic based broth. I usually have a bowl of kraut in the fridge. I've mentioned in the past that I'm a sauerkraut fanatic so I added some as I heated the soup for an individual serving. Delish!. It adds a tang I enjoy and the taste isn't washed away in the cooking.
Posted by: JTB at September 27, 2026 04:41 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: A denizen of the Great White North at September 27, 2026 04:10 PM (skR0U)
Speaking of poutine. Last week, I was in Three Hills, and being hungry, went into a relatively new cafe on the main road passing through town. Staffed by a vaguely Mediterranean-looking young man. Ordered poutine, and a coffee. Coffee comes with a dish f those little creamer cups, and I put 3 of them in, without appreciably whitening the coffee. 2% milk? WTF? Why even bother? It's the fat that I want. There was one 18% coffee cream in the bowl, so I added that, too. Poutine arrives, served in a small bowl with a big flange on the rim. Curly fries. Curly fries? AYFKM? Should be straight, hand-cut, hot greasy fries. There was gravy and cheese curds. And a sprinkle of some green herb, apparently fenugreek. It was barely edible. Will not be going back there.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 04:41 PM (peOdB)
Speaking of macaroni and cheese, dinner was leftover bacon gouda mac (baked) and lamb I found in the freezer. So good!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 27, 2026 04:41 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2026 04:30 PM (QwZKw)
I had mine out for months. A lot of months.
I keep peanut butter in the fridge. But when Mom and I moved to butter, it stayed out.
And with just me I think I may have inadvertently partipated in a 'Mythbusters' like experiment.
And when I say months.
I lived.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 27, 2026 04:41 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: naturalfake at September 27, 2026 04:42 PM (YSUhf)
Posted by: mrp at September 27, 2026 04:43 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: From about That Time at September 27, 2026 04:34 PM (sl73Y)
I like the little cans of V-8. I think they're six ounces, and they're packaged in an 8-pack, IIRC. I haven't had trouble finding them at Kroger, but they haven't been on sale in a long time.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 27, 2026 04:43 PM (CjHsb)
Posted by: Pete Bog at September 27, 2026 04:44 PM (Eq62Z)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2026 04:45 PM (QwZKw)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2026 04:30 PM (rbvCR)"
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"OUR butter, Comrade." --- the cats
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 27, 2026 04:45 PM (kpS4V)
I lived.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 27, 2026 04:41 PM (Sco7b)
I imagine they put a lot of preservatives in butter to make it keep so long.
If we got some Amish butter it would probably last a month at most.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2026 04:45 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Are you sure about this sir? at September 27, 2026 04:46 PM (U/7CP)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 04:41 PM (peOdB)
Don't let AOP fool ya'll, he is 100% Canadian when it comes to his poutine.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2026 04:47 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2026 04:45 PM (QwZKw)
It's also great heated, like soup, with sourdough toast and a hunk of cheese. One of my favorite winter lunches.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 27, 2026 04:48 PM (CjHsb)
Posted by: Pete Bog at September 27, 2026 04:44 PM (Eq62Z)
We've been living in the camper for about three months this summer, due to renovations in the house. I am so ready to have a real kitchen and actually cook again. Processing produce from the garden has been a serious challenge. I'm mostly drying veggies because trying to can in a camper is... frustrating.
We have cabinets installed, countertops should come next week sometime, plumbing completed shortly thereafter. It is full blown fall here, birch trees golden and leaves falling constantly. I'm ready to start cooking good stuff like real chili and cornbread. I can almost taste it.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 27, 2026 04:49 PM (8Tawa)
Put the butter in the top part, put enough water in the bottom unit so that creates an airtight seal with the top unit and no air (relatively) gets to the butter.
Air is not your friend when storing butter.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2026 04:38 PM (viF8m)
Sodastream ought to come out with a counter-top butter safe accessory, with a tight-sealing lid, and a mechanism to purge the air from the safe with a shout of CO2 from their cylinder once the lid is closed. I know it's not food, but I preserve POR15 paint by filling the can with a shot of CO2 from my welder, when replacing the lid.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 04:50 PM (peOdB)
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Which raises the question, how does one know when blue cheese has gone bad?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2026 04:50 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 27, 2026 04:51 PM (TADlS)
But, I bet I'd like it.
I'm the kid who used to order sirloin tips with gravy from Ryan's & Quincy's steakhouses and I liked dipping those big steak fries in the brown gravy and eating that more than the steak.
I'd probably love poutine.
It's just a different form of potatoes and gravy to me.
Americans are coming close with our "Loaded Fries" where we dump everything possible on a batch of fries.
(which I also love)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2026 04:51 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: mrp at September 27, 2026 04:51 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2026 04:51 PM (QwZKw)
Also great in beef stew.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2026 04:51 PM (viF8m)
I used to make those chicken thighs for my boys when they lived at home and found that par boiling and then throwing on the grill to crisp was faster and safer as my boys were always STARVING. I have pulled chicken off the grill too soon and had to reapply many times. And I hate overcooked meats.
I have a butterbell. It works great! Butter stays soft and spreadable and doesn’t go rancid.
I’ve never seen butter get moldy. Gross.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2026 04:52 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: Kathy
AKA as Best Foods on the west coast and AZ.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 27, 2026 04:52 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2026 04:45 PM (6ydKt)
It would not last that long at my house. I'd eat it all long before the month is out.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 27, 2026 04:53 PM (CjHsb)
If beef stays high and bacon keeps going on sale under $4/lb, I can see this returning (without the tomatillos just b/c I got an amazing deal on them, and might not get that again...but I did love them in this)...b/c 1lb of bacon works for 4 lbs of beans (so 1/4lb works for 1lb if you need a reduction in size, b/c I tend to make for 10...by doing that, I had one serving left for a boy lunch the next day)...
Posted by: Nova Local at September 27, 2026 04:53 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2026 04:50 PM (XeU6L)
The mold clears up? or it turns into gorgonzola?
Posted by: Pete Bog at September 27, 2026 04:53 PM (Eq62Z)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 04:50 PM (peOdB)
That's actually a great idea.
Put it in a fridge and maybe keep vegetables & meats fresh longer, too.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2026 04:54 PM (6ydKt)
Big fat juicy steak. Tomorrow. For sure.
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at September 27, 2026 04:55 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2026 04:52 PM (yEz+x)
I do remember changing my dinner strategies once the boy became a teenager. Between him and DH, I always came home from work running, hopefully having left something in the slow cooker all day. Honestly, teenage boys are the plague of locusts in a kitchen.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 27, 2026 04:55 PM (8Tawa)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
The tomato juice was always right next to the V-8. It's mysteriously vanished.
Posted by: From about That Time at September 27, 2026 04:55 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2026 04:55 PM (QwZKw)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2026 04:47 PM (6ydKt)
You know, I had never heard of poutine when I was growing up in BC. First encountered it here in Alberta, maybe in the 1990's. It has now become quite popular here. Another weird food fact about BC, both White Spot drive-ins, and Joe Troll's restaurant in Horseshoe Bay sold really good Manhattan clam chowder.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 04:56 PM (peOdB)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 04:50 PM (peOdB
When we need to revolt and build our tanks, my friend here is amazing and his friend too.
I'll handle supply and logistics.
On the topic of poutine, there is a local place my friend introduced me too. I was shocked at the number of different varities.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 27, 2026 04:56 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 27, 2026 04:57 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
When you can't tell it from the casu marzu, it's done.
Posted by: mikeski at September 27, 2026 04:57 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2026 04:55 PM (QwZKw)
I remember doing that in elementary school, in a mason jar. Lots of shaking as I recall. And it was darned tasty, too. I doubt kids do that any more.
We also made soap, with the help of the teacher for the lye. I bet nobody does that any more, either.
I still make all our soap. Cheaper and much better than anything store bought.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 27, 2026 04:58 PM (8Tawa)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2026 04:55 PM (QwZKw)
They have automatic butter churners now?
Must be kind of like an ice cream maker.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2026 04:59 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: mrp at September 27, 2026 04:59 PM (rj6Yv)
One year my brother gifted me a Jones' Soda set for Thanksgiving...the flavors look disgusting, so I never tried it...
One flavor I remember was Salmon...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 04:59 PM (l3cgK)
Must be kind of like an ice cream maker.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2026 04:59 PM (6ydKt)
Put it in cocktail shakers, and strap them Shakira's hips.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 05:00 PM (peOdB)
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Can you make butter from mares' milk?
Recipe starts with:
1) Catch your mare.
Posted by: mrp at September 27, 2026 05:01 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: From about That Time at September 27, 2026 04:55 PM (sl73Y)
We've had several items go missing at Three Bears lately. It happens up her, more often by far than in the Lower 48. I think AK is the very ass-end of the supply chain, and when things go scarce, they disappear up here completely. I've gotten pretty good at making do and substitutions. Also, we stockpile when things are plentiful.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 27, 2026 05:01 PM (8Tawa)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 05:01 PM (peOdB)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 27, 2026 05:02 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 05:00 PM (peOdB)
Dinner and a show!
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 27, 2026 05:02 PM (8Tawa)
And have pumpkin pie and whipped cream for dessert
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 05:03 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 04:56 PM (peOdB)
I made it to a Tim Hortons one time when I had to deliver something to Buffalo, NY.
It was on the way back, like 8 a.m., from Buffalo and I stopped off in Erie, PA to get some breakfast.
I'd heard of Tim Hortons and decided to give it a shot.
They had poutine on the menu, but it was breakfast so I don't know if they sold it. I ended up getting some breakfast sandwich I can't even remember. Should've bought a donut.
Maybe next time I get to a Tim Hortons I'll give some a shot for lunch.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2026 05:03 PM (6ydKt)
Made pistachio gelato today.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2026 05:03 PM (QwZKw)
Carrot and orange.
Sautéed a bunch of onion in butter then add chicken stock and 2# carrots and cook till soft. Use a stick blender to purée. Add fresh oj and orange zest. Heat through.
Salt and pepper to taste. Very good. Clean. Healthy.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2026 05:04 PM (Jmzdj)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living the Dream at September 27, 2026 05:04 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: tcn in AK
Used to use crayons for color in our Castille soap.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 27, 2026 05:04 PM (NnhvP)
Carne asada fries for FTW!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 27, 2026 05:02 PM (NnhvP)
I think that Mexican "fresh" cheese that is sold in the markets in AZ would be great on poutine.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 05:05 PM (peOdB)
Posted by: mrp at September 27, 2026 04:59 PM (rj6Yv)
Whenever I see or hear the word paprikash, it always reminds me of When Harry Met Sally.
Posted by: TxAnn at September 27, 2026 05:06 PM (SjAWL)
When you can't tell it from the casu marzu, it's done.
Posted by: mikeski
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Okay...had to look it up:
Casu martzu[1] (Sardinian: [ˈkazu ˈmaɾtsu]; lit. 'rotten cheese') is a Sardinian sheep milk cheese that contains live fly maggots.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2026 05:06 PM (XeU6L)
It’s a purebred sheep found only in Iceland. They are all free range.
The taste is milder than USA or Australian lamb. But the meat is better marbled, almost melts in your mouth, and has a more complex flavor than lamb you can get here.
Iceland is famous for its lamb. I thought that was hype, until I tasted it.
We grilled a monster leg of lamb that came out perfect. I’ll send some pics for possible inclusion in a fire food thread.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 27, 2026 05:06 PM (dY410)
1 cup Hellmann’s mayonnaise (no substitutes) ...
Posted by: Kathy
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AKA as Best Foods on the west coast and AZ ... Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 27, 2026 04:52 PM (NnhvP)
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Greetings ... Yes, Best Foods and Hellman's would both work in this sauce, as would Duke's mayo ... What would not work as well is Miracle Whip -- which has not graced the insides of any of my refrigerators or cupboards since childhood.
Posted by: Kathy at September 27, 2026 05:06 PM (MOK4W)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 27, 2026 05:04 PM (NnhvP)
Taylor Lorenz was there when the mob stormed the Castille.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 05:07 PM (peOdB)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2026 05:08 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 04:05 PM (Ia/+0)
Sunday sauce here. Summer did not overstay its welcome and steak prices have put that item on the seasonal menu for the time being.
Ground beef was north of $6/lb this week, but I picked up a 3 lb package of frozen burger patties at Walmorte for under $15. Thawed four patties and mixed in a pound of bulk mild sausage. Oh, and I found a bag of steak bones in the freezer, so they went in with the meatballs. So, technically, it's still Steak Sunday!
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 27, 2026 05:08 PM (08OqX)
Posted by: March Hare at September 27, 2026 05:08 PM (+A1pr)
Posted by: TxAnn at September 27, 2026 05:06 PM (SjAWL)
I'll have what she's having.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2026 05:09 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2026 05:03 PM (6ydKt)
I go to mine here only for coffee and they give Ralphy free timbits. He barks and they know him.
I'm REALLY not a fussy eater but there's not really anything I'd crave. Oh, when I was in Ohio, they had soup in a bread bowl. That was great.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 27, 2026 05:09 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 27, 2026 05:09 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 05:10 PM (ZdaMQ)
Must be kind of like an ice cream maker.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2026 04:59 PM (6ydKt)
I always wondered if a paint shaker would work or not.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2026 05:10 PM (rbvCR)
The smell is so strong and disgusting my mom changed her clothes after I opened it. Smells like rotting fish soaked in ammonia.
The taste is not nearly as offensive as the smell. Kinda bland, actually. A very salty, fishy taste. Very rubbery and chewy. The aftertaste lingers for hours.
I’ll also send a pic of this disgustingness.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 27, 2026 05:11 PM (dY410)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 27, 2026 05:11 PM (+fdRY)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2026 05:11 PM (QwZKw)
Posted by: what the cat drug in at September 27, 2026 05:12 PM (jrgJz)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 27, 2026 04:58 PM (8Tawa)
What do you use for the fat to saponify?
Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2026 05:12 PM (rbvCR)
I have NEVER observed mold on the butter.
Judging by our respective waistlines, I believe butter in the Idiot household is consumed much more quickly than in the CBD household.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 27, 2026 05:13 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2026 05:09 PM (6ydKt)
====
Too much pepper on the paprikash!
Posted by: mrp at September 27, 2026 05:14 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: March Hare at September 27, 2026 05:14 PM (+A1pr)
Posted by: Kindltot
Cheap olive oil for Castile soap. I have also used vegetable oil but didn't like the soap.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 27, 2026 05:15 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 05:15 PM (peOdB)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc
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For that certain je ne sais quois...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2026 05:15 PM (XeU6L)
I decided to do the "chili." The ground beef looked odd while I was frying it, without any fat in the pan. Digging the vac-seal wrapper out of the trash, I found it was 93/7 extra lean mix. Oh. Plus it had a 2022 date on it. Double oh. Nah, it'll be fine.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 27, 2026 05:15 PM (GjEvj)
Posted by: what the cat drug in at September 27, 2026 05:12 PM (jrgJz)
When Ranch came out in the 80s, everybody went nuts for it.
It was at every function, wedding, event I went to.
With all kinds of veggies, chips, cheeses to dip it in.
I liked seeing videos of Europeans eating Ranch for the first time and going nuts over it, trying to bring it home or have people mail it to them.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2026 05:15 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Eromero at September 27, 2026 05:15 PM (3Q4mi)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 27, 2026 05:16 PM (dY410)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living the Dream at September 27, 2026 05:04 PM (ndZc7)
Congrats to her!
Posted by: Nova Local at September 27, 2026 05:16 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2026 05:16 PM (QwZKw)
Posted by: mrp at September 27, 2026 05:17 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 27, 2026 05:09 PM (Sco7b)
Never had that either.
I believe I'm only into eating ice cream cones.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2026 05:17 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2026 05:18 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2026 05:18 PM (XeU6L)
===
Horse feathers.
Posted by: mrp at September 27, 2026 05:19 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 27, 2026 05:15 PM (NnhvP)
There were a couple of Spanish mini-documentaries on ladies using used frying oil - olive oil though I expect some of it was rapeseed - for soap in the traditional way. I wondered if cottonseed oil or peanut oil would do well since it is pretty cheap
Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2026 05:22 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Nova Local at September 27, 2026 05:22 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: javems at September 27, 2026 05:25 PM (zFsEm)
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 05:25 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 27, 2026 05
Just get a butter bell and change the water out every day. Easy peasy.
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 05:29 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 05:25 PM
Yum!
Any chance you could send me a dozen via the comments section?
[I assume Pixy has perfected the AOS transporter system by now.]
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 27, 2026 05:29 PM (HlyYF)
Another use will be for a tahini and yogurt sauce I like. A little of the pom. molasses should add a nice kick.
Posted by: JTB at September 27, 2026 05:29 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: ChE99 at September 27, 2026 05:30 PM (14tjg)
Any chance you could send me a dozen via the comments section?
[I assume Pixy has perfected the AOS transporter system by now.]
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 27, 2026 05
If Pixy could swing this, Ben Had would be sending tons of food to me. She is probably grateful it doesn’t work!
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 05:31 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Kindltot
This should help. https://tinyurl.com/3weyzdyn
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 27, 2026 05:33 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2026 05:33 PM (viF8m)
See?
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2026 05:33 PM (viF8m
Should I read the comments and find out I am the 83rd person to suggest this?
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 05:35 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 05:31 PM
If Ben Had could put in a 100-hour work week, to meet the greatest need of every single Moron and 'ette, Ben would gladly take on that duty.
Thank goodness (for Ben) that not every day is a TXMoMe day!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 27, 2026 05:36 PM (HlyYF)
Any chance you could send me a dozen via the comments section?
[I assume Pixy has perfected the AOS transporter system by now.]
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 27, 2026 05
If Pixy could swing this, Ben Had would be sending tons of food to me. She is probably grateful it doesn’t work!
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 05:31 PM (ZdaMQ)
===
A few years back, sending lemon bars via the USBs was a hot topic.
Posted by: mrp at September 27, 2026 05:36 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living the Dream at September 27, 2026 05:04 PM (ndZc7)
Sweet! Was it fresh? Cooked? Mild? Spicey?
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 27, 2026 05:36 PM (08OqX)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 27, 2026 04:58 PM (8Tawa)
What do you use for the fat to saponify?
Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2026 05:12 PM (rbvCR)
Olive oil, beef tallow, palm oil if I want a very hard bar, and cocoanut oil for suds, but not too much because it dries skin (oddly). I may add any number of other oils, like avocado or castor oil, depending on what I need it turn out like. I add coffee grounds if I need scrubby soap, like for post-fishing or really grubby work, and it's not bad for just bath soap either, kinda nice on the skin. I avoid most colors because they can stain the shower and they just cost money.
For scents I use only essential oils, no fake scents. They last longer and are kinder to skin. Lavender and lemon grass is nice, also spruce cedar and fir needle for a Christmas soap, and I've even done cinnamon nutmeg, although that tends to make the soap bolt before it's poured so it's tricky.
https://soapcalc.net/calculator
Use that to figure amounts.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 27, 2026 05:37 PM (8Tawa)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 27, 2026 05:39 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2026 05:12 PM (rbvCR)
How about moldy butter?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2026 05:39 PM (k5CNB)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2026 05:15 PM
++++
This. Loved watching the visiting fans of Men's Metric Kickball delighting in what they called "ranch sauce."
Heh. It's so ordinary to us for chicken wings and celery and dips.
Speaking of good food, will we be seeing you at the MoMe?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 27, 2026 05:39 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living the Dream at September 27, 2026 05:04 PM (ndZc7)
Sweet! Was it fresh? Cooked? Mild? Spicey?
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 27, 2026 05:36 PM (08OqX)
Time to crown the new Pickle Queen!!
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 27, 2026 05:39 PM (8Tawa)
I have been informed by well-regarded Commentators here, a couple of which are above Cardboard Level, that it does.
At least we can agree upon the nondesirability of carrots in chili.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 27, 2026 05:40 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 27, 2026 05:36 PM (HlyYF)
She works her backside off at the MoMe, but she has a big grin the whole darned time.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 27, 2026 05:41 PM (8Tawa)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 27, 2026 05:40 PM (0sNs1)
My mom used to grind up carrot and celery and put it in her spaghetti sauce. I guess she thought she could hide it under the spices. Ick.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 27, 2026 05:42 PM (8Tawa)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 27, 2026 04:58 PM
How are the bear, moose, and seal soaps?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 27, 2026 05:42 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 27, 2026 05:42 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 27, 2026 05:43 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 05:43 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 27, 2026 05:42 PM
Lye is the best.
Posted by: Granny Clampett at September 27, 2026 05:43 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 27, 2026 05:40 PM (0sNs1)
All kidding aside...I have put carrots in chili to add sweetness and to thicken it a bit. Not bad!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2026 05:45 PM (k5CNB)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc
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For that certain je ne sais quois...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2026 05:15 PM (XeU6L)
Pro tip: Don't eat garbage.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 27, 2026 05:46 PM (8Tawa)
I have perfected the art of looking busy.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2026 05:47 PM (QwZKw)
At first glance I thought they were blackbirds (I wasn't wearing my reading glasses).
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 27, 2026 05:47 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 27, 2026 05:42 PM (0sNs1)
Not enough fat on moose to bother, but I should think bears and seals have plenty. Any fat will saponify, but you need to use the right amount of lye to make it all work.
Can you make soap without lye?
Cat says: NaOH.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 27, 2026 05:48 PM (8Tawa)
I have perfected the art of looking busy.
Posted by: Ben Had
Looking forward to watching that!!!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 27, 2026 05:48 PM (NnhvP)
CBD. You have to change the water daily. My mom added salt to her water, she said that helped, too.
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 05:48 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 27, 2026 05:49 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: DudeAbiding at September 27, 2026 05:50 PM (setIA)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 27, 2026 05:47 PM (hzuYO)
I also thought maybe. Wasn't sure if that was fins or tailfeathers.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 27, 2026 05:50 PM (CjHsb)
Because Thousand Island Bleu Cheese.
Posted by: DudeAbiding at September 27, 2026 05:50 PM (setIA)
The French dressing surrendered.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 05:51 PM (l3cgK)
I have been informed by well-regarded Commentators here, a couple of which are above Cardboard Level, that it does.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
It's a genetic thing. Olfactory Receptor 6A2 gene.
If you have it set the right way, you pick up some of the chemicals (aldehydes) in cilantro as soap-flavored/smelling.
So it's not an "acquired taste" thing; if you think it tastes like soap, you'll always think it tastes like soap. Until CRISPR-at-home lets you reprogram your own genetic code.
Posted by: mikeski at September 27, 2026 05:51 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 27, 2026 05:49 PM (NnhvP)
Both are listed on the calculator, but cat's don't say POH. Lol.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 27, 2026 05:51 PM (8Tawa)
Baked, far superior to russets. And good scallapinoed, roasted, even boiled. I like to throw a small extra in while baking, for home fry purposes. And just did.
Posted by: From about That Time at September 27, 2026 05:51 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2026 05:12 PM (rbvCR)
How about moldy butter?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2026 05:39 PM
You're going to make me eat dry toast?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 27, 2026 05:51 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 05:48 PM (ZdaMQ)
Water?
I thought one is supposed to use bourbon!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2026 05:51 PM (k5CNB)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2026 05:51 PM (QwZKw)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 27, 2026 05:50 PM (CjHsb)
Either way, the Pro-Tip applies. Don't eat garbage.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 27, 2026 05:52 PM (8Tawa)
Cat says: NaOH.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 27, 2026 05:48 PM
KOH can be used, but generally Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH) is used for making hard bar soap, while Potassium Hydroxide (KOH) is typically used for liquid soap or soft paste products.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 27, 2026 05:53 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2026 05:12 PM (rbvCR)
How about moldy butter?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2026 05:39 PM
You're going to make me eat dry toast?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 27, 2026 05:51 PM (HlyYF)
You could always put mayo on it...like spicy Japanese Kewpie mayo...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 05:53 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 05:48 PM (ZdaMQ)
This seems like a lot of unnecessary maintenance to me. I've never had a problem with a regular butter dish. I only leave enough out for a few days worth. It doesn't spoil in that amount of time.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 27, 2026 05:54 PM (CjHsb)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 27, 2026 05:54 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 27, 2026 05:54 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: From about That Time at September 27, 2026 05:54 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 27, 2026 05:52 PM
What?!
- The bears
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 27, 2026 05:55 PM (GfgtS)
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 27, 2026 05:55 PM (4NO2D)
Delicious!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2026 05:56 PM (k5CNB)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 27, 2026 05:52 PM (8Tawa)
This^^^
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 27, 2026 05:56 PM (CjHsb)
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 27, 2026 05:56 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 27, 2026 05:52 PM
What?!
- The bears
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 27, 2026 05:55 PM (GfgtS)
Oh Man!
Posted by: Freegans at September 27, 2026 05:58 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 27, 2026 05:55 PM
Surströmming for the win!
Posted by: Thorvald, creator of Thorvald's Cream of Lutefisk Soup at September 27, 2026 05:58 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 27, 2026 05:55 PM
Surströmming for the win!
Posted by: Thorvald, creator of Thorvald's Cream of Lutefisk Soup at September 27, 2026 05:58 PM (0sNs1)
I've never Surströmmed...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 05:59 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Big Phat Pharma at September 27, 2026 06:00 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 05:48 PM (ZdaMQ)
A lot like salt cod. Used to be you could get the whole dried fish, not just the fillets. Grandma would soak it in the bath tub for a week, and wasn't real keen on changing the water. The smell would knock a buzzard off a shitwagon.
The stew that resulted from this was ethereal. Mild, subdued, seductive...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 27, 2026 06:00 PM (08OqX)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 06:00 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Thorvald, creator of Thorvald's Cream of Lutefisk Soup at September 27, 2026 05:58 PM
All fermented fish are an acquired taste. No one comes out of the womb wanting Worcestershire or garum.
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 27, 2026 06:01 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 27, 2026 06:01 PM (8Tawa)
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 05:48 PM (ZdaMQ)
This seems like a lot of unnecessary maintenance to me. I've never had a problem with a regular butter dish. I only leave enough out for a few days worth. It doesn't spoil in that amount of time.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 27, 2026 05:54 PM (CjHsb
I just swap it out every morning when I fill the nespresso reservoir.
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 06:01 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 27, 2026 05:54 PM (u82oZ)
215 Test sat.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 27, 2026 05:54 PM
Belay that! Abort! Abort! You're transmitting in the clear!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 27, 2026 06:01 PM (0sNs1)
Delicious!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2026 05:56 PM (k5CNB)
I remember when I thought the dab of green on the sushi lunch was guacamole. It was not guac. It was a pea sized glob of wasabi. I could suddenly smell forever. I could breath in 10 dimensions.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2026 06:02 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 27, 2026 06:01 PM
My wife parboils potatoes before freezing. Is that common?
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 27, 2026 06:02 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 05:59 PM (l3cgK)
Well, not in public at least.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 27, 2026 06:02 PM (8Tawa)
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 27, 2026 05:55 PM
Take a walk on the wild side.
Posted by: Roquefort at September 27, 2026 06:03 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2026 06:03 PM (rbvCR)
Delicious!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2026 05:56 PM (k5CNB)
I remember when I thought the dab of green on the sushi lunch was guacamole. It was not guac. It was a pea sized glob of wasabi. I could suddenly smell forever. I could breath in 10 dimensions.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2026 06:02 PM (rbvCR)
https://youtu.be/tkhTeMtm3XI&t=68s
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 06:04 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 27, 2026 05:39 PM (2Ez/1)
Can’t do it, too much work.
That’s a long drive, too.
Maybe one day, though, who knows.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2026 06:04 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Kindltot at September
I could use some real wasabi right now. I am better except the congestion! And my lack of a voice. Which will be interesting tomorrow when I actually go back to work after being off all week.
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 06:04 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 27, 2026 06:05 PM (36x1j)
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 27, 2026 06:02 PM (4NO2D)
Both before freezing and before drying. My mom called it "scalding" but the term I hear mostly is "blanching." But, yeah, if you don't they turn brown and nasty. Blanching kills some enzymes that make them keep sort of growing, which causes the "rust" that happens to turn them brown.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 27, 2026 06:05 PM (8Tawa)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2026 06:02 PM
I snorted out loud. This is such a perfect description of wasabi.
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 27, 2026 06:05 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 05:59 PM
Just do it while you're alone. And wash your hands afterwards.
Posted by: Always good advice at September 27, 2026 06:06 PM (2Ez/1)
Going to get some this coming Friday.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 27, 2026 06:07 PM (36x1j)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2026 06:03 PM (rbvCR)
I can't figure out how to can them without them being overcooked, but you can always un-can them and use them for mashed.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 27, 2026 06:07 PM (8Tawa)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 05:59 PM
Just do it while you're alone. And wash your hands afterwards.
Posted by: Always good advice at September 27, 2026 06:06 PM
and alternate hands if you don't want to look like a Fiddler Crab.
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 27, 2026 06:07 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 27, 2026 06:05 PM
So say we all!
Posted by: Lena D., Trigglypuff, Stacey, and The View panelists at September 27, 2026 06:07 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 27, 2026 06:07 PM (sEc0N)
Apparently, she could not locate any Ranch dressing anywhere in the county to dump on her food and this led to a less than optimum vacation.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 27, 2026 06:08 PM (ktgTW)
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 06:04 PM (ZdaMQ)
I will be digging and processing horseradish for the first time. The plants I have are big, and I plan to mark them this year so I can find them when the crowns die back, for a change.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2026 06:08 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 05:59 PM
Just do it while you're alone. And wash your hands afterwards.
Posted by: Always good advice at September 27, 2026 06:06 PM (2Ez/1)
I thought that was Nipponification...
https://youtu.be/nGy9uomagO4
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 06:09 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 06:10 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 27, 2026 06:07 PM (8Tawa)
Supposedly the waxy potatoes do better for canning, the floury ones like the yellows go to mush.
These ones I will use for soups.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2026 06:10 PM (rbvCR)
Perfumed soap for the ladies, Basic soap for the plebians.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 27, 2026 06:10 PM (36x1j)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2026 06:11 PM (QwZKw)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2026 06:08 PM (rbvCR)
Please keep us posted!
I love horseradish!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2026 06:11 PM (k5CNB)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 27, 2026 06:12 PM (36x1j)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2026 06:08 PM (rbvCR)
When I was a kid, my dad brought back some horseradish plants he dug up at the old farm in Wyoming. Planted them out by the dog yard, NOT in mom's garden, because she forbade him to. He would grate that stuff directly onto his dinner. It was so hot it burned my tongue. Wicked stuff, but man, it made some serious horseradish cream for beef roasts.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 27, 2026 06:12 PM (8Tawa)
Perfumed soap for the ladies, Basic soap for the plebians.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 27, 2026 06:10 PM (36x1j)
That's actually a thing in some manga and manhwa...guy travels to another world that either has no soap or nasty stuff, makes coin by making much better soap...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 06:12 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2026 06:08 PM (rbvCR)
Please keep us posted!
I love horseradish!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2026 06:11 PM (k5CNB)
Do horses?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 06:13 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2026 06:14 PM (QwZKw)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2026
I found Sunny’s Miso Caesar and it’s shockingly good as a marinade and drizzle over salad. Their Simple Lemon is a staple, too.
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 06:14 PM (ZdaMQ)
Perfumed soap for the ladies, Basic soap for the plebians.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 27, 2026 06:10 PM (36x1j)
I worked for a local soap maker for a time. It is possibly to make a living doing it, but you won't get rich, and it's a lot of work. I toyed with the idea, but all that marketing and accounting would probably just piss me off. I'm more a maker and less a manager.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 27, 2026 06:14 PM (8Tawa)
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 27, 2026 06:14 PM (sEc0N)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 27, 2026 06:15 PM (36x1j)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2026 06:14 PM (QwZKw
Horseradish and sauerkraut? Your gut will be squeaky clean!
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 06:15 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2026 06:14 PM (QwZKw
Horseradish and sauerkraut? Your gut will be squeaky clean!
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 06:15 PM (ZdaMQ)
I add sauerkraut to hotdogs...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 06:16 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 27, 2026 06:16 PM (36x1j)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2026 06:17 PM (QwZKw)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 27, 2026 06:15 PM (36x1j)
I expect that depends upon where you are. We get the real stuff at Sagaya, the local Asian grocery, because we have a huge Asian population here. I doubt it would be the real stuff in, say, Wisconsin.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 27, 2026 06:17 PM (8Tawa)
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 27, 2026 06:18 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 27, 2026 06:18 PM (36x1j)
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 06:15 PM
Beans and eggs for turbo action?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 27, 2026 06:18 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 27, 2026 06:18 PM (4NO2D)
I don't know how to make soap, and that's no lye.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 06:18 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 27, 2026 06:19 PM (36x1j)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 06:16 PM
with or without ketchup?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 27, 2026 06:19 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2026 06:19 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 06:16 PM
with or without ketchup?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 27, 2026 06:19 PM (0sNs1)
Mustard...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 06:20 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 27, 2026 06:17 PM
Smell our dairy air.
Posted by: Wisconsin at September 27, 2026 06:20 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 27, 2026 06:18 PM (4NO2D)
There isn't any other kind.
Used to be you soaked wood ashes, and then drained the water and used that. Naturally occurring lye. But you never knew how strong it was, so it was sort of hit and miss.
After the burning times, we will probably have to do that again. Until then, I buy mine at True Value.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 27, 2026 06:20 PM (8Tawa)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 27, 2026 06:21 PM (36x1j)
When you can float a raw egg in the drippings, it's ready.
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 27, 2026 06:21 PM (4NO2D)
Test of new router.
Posted by: NaCly Dog a
215 Test sat.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
Belay that! Abort! Abort! You're transmitting in the clear!
Posted by: Duncanthrax
Sky King
Sky King
Do not answer
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 27, 2026 06:22 PM (Cqx++)
Fantastic.
Shredded the pork, made tacos with pico (made yesterday), guac, queso, corn tortillas, refried pintos, home made slaw...
I'm stuffed.
Posted by: man at September 27, 2026 06:22 PM (pfXMo)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2026 06:23 PM (QwZKw)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 06:24 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: man at September 27, 2026 06:25 PM (pfXMo)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2026 06:26 PM (QwZKw)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 27, 2026 06:18 PM (36x1j)
Walking behind a burka-clad wog in the Paris subway in August is an experience.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2026 06:27 PM (k5CNB)
Make your own. It’s really not difficult and is so much better.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2026 06:30 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 27, 2026 06:30 PM (9FfUF)
Posted by: man at September 27, 2026 06:33 PM (pfXMo)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2026 06:30 PM
I always have some of the RMBS house vinaigrette on hand. Much better than store bought.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 27, 2026 06:34 PM (/C5Rl)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2026 06:34 PM (QwZKw)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2026 06:19 PM
*nods*
Ken's is an institution. I had drinks there with an old college roommate who was visiting the area, and he was surprised to learn Ken's was a real steakhouse.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 27, 2026 06:38 PM (/C5Rl)
I shred the leftover pork, then before serving, put some in a tray, drizzle with some agave, then under broiler until crispy edges form...
It's pretty good.
Posted by: man at September 27, 2026 06:38 PM (pfXMo)
I always have some of the RMBS house vinaigrette on hand. Much better than store bought.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 27
Always make homemade vinaigrette, it’s easy peasy. And I do a lot of yogurt dressings when something creamy is required. But the Sunny’s brand has a few unique marinades and dressings that are really good and made with real stuff. The simple lemon is great to drizzle on anything when you are running around and just don’t have time.
INGREDIENTS
Lemon Juice, Avocado Oil, Date, Filtered Water, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Sea Salt, Mustard Seed* *organic
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 06:40 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2026 06:40 PM (QwZKw)
Thank you!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2026 06:40 PM (k5CNB)
Posted by: man at September 27, 2026 06:40 PM (pfXMo)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2026 05:47 PM (QwZKw)
And talking the directionally challenged off the ledge. 😁
Posted by: TxAnn at September 27, 2026 06:41 PM (SjAWL)
Posted by: man at September 27, 2026 06:38 PM (pfXMo)
Good idea. I have used honey on grilled chicken with good success, so that makes sense!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2026 06:41 PM (k5CNB)
I lived in the area during jr high and high school.
Place has been around for almost 100 years.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2026 06:43 PM (viF8m)
18 days!
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2026 06:43 PM (QwZKw)
I can consume almost anything. Even spoiled stuff has a good chance of not registering. Could only get one sip down. The boy was about 14 - about the same. Took it on a camping trip. Even half lit, nobody could tolerate it.
The stuff Managed to resemble an open septic tank in the summer as far as odor goes.
Posted by: Coelacanth at September 27, 2026 06:45 PM (cIOlQ)
Posted by: Vendette at September 27, 2026 06:46 PM (TplDa)
===============
Greetings, Lemmiwinks ... and thanks for this tip! ... Our grandteens just requested smash burgers for their next visit -- which I had already intended to make from ground beef and ground pork -- so the Hidden Valley will be a perfect addition!
Posted by: Kathy at September 27, 2026 06:46 PM (MOK4W)
I honestly thought that was just a nasty rumor--apparently not.
Ewwww. Raskin.
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at September 27, 2026 06:47 PM (3ImbR)
Slow cook.
Enjoy.
Posted by: man at September 27, 2026 06:49 PM (pfXMo)
... Our grandteens just requested smash burgers for their next visit -- which I had already intended to make from ground beef and ground pork -- so the Hidden Valley will be a perfect addition!
Posted by: Kathy at September 27, 2026 06:46 PM (MOK4W)
I made taco soup yesterday which calls for ranch seasoning. I didn’t have any so just squeezed a blob of HV ranch in it. Ranch is like type O blood, it’ll go into anything.
Posted by: TxAnn at September 27, 2026 06:50 PM (SjAWL)
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at September 27, 2026 06:50 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: man at September 27, 2026 06:51 PM (pfXMo)
Posted by: the great whelming at September 27, 2026 06:52 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2026 06:53 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2026 06:53 PM (QwZKw)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2026 06:56 PM (QwZKw)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 27, 2026 06:57 PM (GfgtS)
Posted by: the great whelming at September 27, 2026 06:59 PM (88C+u)
But that didn't happen. Thanks, Athletics!
Posted by: the great whelming at September 27, 2026 06:59 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2026 07:04 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Noodist at September 27, 2026 07:06 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at September 27, 2026 07:31 PM (3ImbR)
First World Problems...
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 02:00 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 02:01 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 27, 2026 02:01 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: LASue at September 27, 2026 02:02 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2026 02:02 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 02:02 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: The Cleansing Fire at September 27, 2026 02:02 PM (DxeM1)
I wear loafers myself. I was told at church one Sunday that my shoe lace was untied. I replied that I might trip and fall on it or I could fall leaning over to tie it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2026 02:03 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 27, 2026 02:03 PM (NnhvP)
----
One word: Velcro.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 27, 2026 02:03 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 27, 2026 02:03 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 27, 2026 02:03 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 27, 2026 02:04 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 02:04 PM (Ia/+0)
Limited bandwidth. My "browsing experience" is subpar.
It's like some 3rd world shithole here.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 27, 2026 02:04 PM (4QASh)
It now longer wants to roll up and out of the way.
FML.
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 27, 2026 02:05 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 27, 2026 02:06 PM (h86Sx)
My 1WP is my garage door needs new spring and pulleys. Have looked a few times at Homey and Lowes but nothing
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 02:04 PM (Ia/+0)
_________
DIY. And DIE.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2026 02:07 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2026 02:07 PM (0yFYJ)
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 27, 2026 02:09 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2026 02:09 PM (0yFYJ)
+++
At least a turnbuckle.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 27, 2026 02:11 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: man at September 27, 2026 02:12 PM (8yyxb)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 02:12 PM (Ia/+0)
Yeah. No Kiwi shoe polish.
Next...
Posted by: man at September 27, 2026 02:12 PM
He used the finest milk chocolate.
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 27, 2026 02:13 PM (4NO2D)
The Big Dummy has gone home to Ohio. His Ohio mom picked him up at the show in Tennessee today.
On the one hand, I'm sad. He was a dimbulb but a perfect gentleman. On the other hand, I'm relieved. He had a number of problems with his gut, joints and prostate that meant constantly giving him a bewildering variety of medicines, probiotics and supplements, as well as frequent and expensive visits to the vet and chiropractor.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2026 02:13 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 27, 2026 02:14 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Diogenes at September 27, 2026 02:14 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 27, 2026 02:14 PM
because of his hump.
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 27, 2026 02:14 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 27, 2026 02:15 PM (h86Sx)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
How do you get a new aglet on?
Posted by: rickb223
A p[piece of shrink to fit.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 27, 2026 02:15 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 27, 2026 02:16 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Buck at September 27, 2026 02:17 PM (z6ONu)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 02:04 PM (Ia/+0)
Those springs are under a lot of tension (depending on the design)!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2026 02:17 PM (k5CNB)
I don't think anyone knows how to play football any more. Runners can't hit holes, linemen don't know how to block, QBs run around like it's a Chinese fire drill. But stylin' and celebrating, yeah we got that down pat.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2026 02:17 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 27, 2026 02:14 PM (4NO2D)
=====
I was trying to be kind!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 27, 2026 02:18 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 27, 2026 02:19 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 27, 2026 02:21 PM (h86Sx)
Been dealing with them for 33 years
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 02:21 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip
The house I grew up in had a detached garage with what felt like a solid wood door. Heavier than hell.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 27, 2026 02:22 PM (rujGJ)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 27, 2026 02:24 PM (kwzqw)
The horror. The horror.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 27, 2026 02:24 PM (P/woT)
Posted by: epador at September 27, 2026 02:25 PM (Hh7uP)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 02:27 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 27, 2026 02:03 PM (2UnvF)
Those are my everyday shoes that I wear doing everyday stuff...like raking topsoil on the lawn. I'm surprised they look as good as they do!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2026 02:27 PM (k5CNB)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 02:28 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 27, 2026 02:14 PM
because of his hump.
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 27, 2026 02:14 PM (4NO2D)
Hah! But LauraW is the only hunchback around these parts!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2026 02:28 PM (k5CNB)
Posted by: The aglets at September 27, 2026 02:30 PM (XeU6L)
The solution is arsenic.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey
ISWYDT.
Golf clap.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2026 02:30 PM (0yFYJ)
Posted by: Dr_No at September 27, 2026 02:31 PM (ayRl+)
Posted by: epador
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I'm envious of your resources.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2026 02:31 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Eromero at September 27, 2026 02:31 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 27, 2026 02:21 PM (h86Sx)
As the supply of smart boys allowed to play youth football (for fear of injury) diminishes, the supply of smart quarterbacks is severely reduced, thus the emergence of the running quarterback who lasts four years before he is carted off the field for the final time.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 27, 2026 02:31 PM (P/woT)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 27, 2026 02:34 PM (h86Sx)
I currently am on a small island. A small dry island. Which means no liquor stores. Closest one is across Vineyard Sound.
I am out of wine and the ferry hasn’t run for three days.
I’m afraid I might involuntarily dry out.
Posted by: RI Red at September 27, 2026 02:35 PM (PNPBi)
Posted by: Skip
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I once had one of those springs spontaneously fail during the wee hours. I'm lying in bed, the drive-under garage door is directly below the bedroom. 3:00 a.m., *THWANG*.
Me: "WTF!"
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2026 02:35 PM (XeU6L)
The fricken 10" long nozzle hits the wheel's axle so that it doesn't seat firmly on the tire valve. I did manage to get one tire inflated. The second seemed to seat better but it was not taking air. Could be a defective valve.
Of course, I've been promising myself a small air compressor for a lot of reasons, so maybe this will push me over that edge...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 27, 2026 02:36 PM (08OqX)
I never had any issues tying my shoes, and these top clamps rip the shit out of the laces.
Posted by: From about That Time at September 27, 2026 02:37 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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This is about us, isn't it?
Posted by: Florida International University at September 27, 2026 02:38 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: From about That Time at September 27, 2026 02:38 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 27, 2026 02:40 PM (h86Sx)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 02:41 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Florida International University at September 27, 2026 02:38 PM (XeU6L)
Yes!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 27, 2026 02:41 PM (h86Sx)
210 116 Haven't heard a final decision on Daylight Savings time year around yet. Rather standard time all year.
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 01:19 PM (Ia/+0)
Arizona doesn't change their clocks. BUT on our recent RV odyssey we overnighted in Tuba City* Az in the Navajo 'Nation' (NE Az). It was a long day and we didn't get in until 8:30 PM. Upon check-in they informed that the Navajo 'Nation' DOES observe DST so now it was 9:30 PM! We left the next morning for Mesa Verde.
*We didn't see a single Tuba the entire time we were there. Guess they keep them in a warehouse out of sight somewhere.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 27, 2026 02:05 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 27, 2026 02:44 PM (QGaXH)
I’m afraid I might involuntarily dry out.
Posted by: RI Red at September
Dude.
You can die from that.
And the Seahawks look awful.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2026 02:45 PM (X1atC)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 27, 2026 02:46 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 27, 2026 02:46 PM (GfgtS)
Posted by: Florida International University at September 27, 2026 02:38 PM (XeU6L)
Yes!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 27, 2026 02:41 PM (h86Sx)
Phew!!!
Posted by: Colin Simmons Weak Bladder at September 27, 2026 02:47 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: Joe Kidd
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Well, a small bicycle pump would be a *lot* less expensive.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, given to parsimony at September 27, 2026 02:48 PM (XeU6L)
I much prefer to waste my time commenting on line.
Posted by: RI Red at September 27, 2026 02:48 PM (PNPBi)
https://www.amazon.com
/s?k=paracord+shoelaces
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 27, 2026 02:48 PM (syz1S)
I currently am on a small island. A small dry island. Which means no liquor stores. Closest one is across Vineyard Sound.
I am out of wine and the ferry hasn’t run for three days.
I’m afraid I might involuntarily dry out.
Posted by: RI Red at September 27, 2026 02:35 PM
My FWP is some nickelf*cker who decided to play vehicle billiards last night with my car as the last ball. This is most vexing.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 27, 2026 02:50 PM (GfgtS)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 02:04 PM (Ia/+0)
Garage door springs scare me. I'm a DIY kind of guy, and I've replaced more openers than I can remember, but when it comes to the springs, I call "The Guy".
I wonder if the DIY stores avoid stocking springs because of the potential for injuries, and the resulting potential liability.
Posted by: a.moron at September 27, 2026 02:52 PM (X5Jzz)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
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I'm disappointed. Prior thread poster implied that this would be about immanentizing the escutcheon.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, given to parsimony at September 27, 2026 02:52 PM (XeU6L)
Beggars, choosers, ya know.
Posted by: RI Red at September 27, 2026 02:53 PM (PNPBi)
Luxury!!
We’d have killed for shoelaces!
We used to wrap our feet in yesterday’s newspaper held on with spit and optimism. Every morning we’d hop three miles to the mill on broken glass, work thirty-one hours for a farthing, and when we got home our dad would make us iron the road with our tongues before bed… and that was on a good day!
Shoelaces?
Luxury beyond the dreams of avarice!
We had to lace our boots with bits of old washing line we’d borrowed from a blind man, and even then we only got one boot between the five of us. We took turns wearing it on alternate Tuesdays. The rest of the week we just sort of… suggested feet.
And you try telling that to the young people of today.
They won’t believe you.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 27, 2026 02:53 PM (ktgTW)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2026 02:53 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2026 02:53 PM
I know, right? Three days of wind and a very fine, gentle rain. My grass seed is loving this.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 27, 2026 02:57 PM (GfgtS)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 27, 2026 02:34 PM (h86Sx)
~~~~~
Wish we could be sure professors at med schools had your integrity.
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at September 27, 2026 02:59 PM (3ImbR)
Got the fall fertilizer down just in time.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2026 03:00 PM (viF8m)
We had to lace our boots with bits of old washing line we’d borrowed from a blind man, and even then we only got one boot between the five of us. We took turns wearing it on alternate Tuesdays. The rest of the week we just sort of… suggested feet.
___________
Washing line? Luxury! We had to hold the two sides together with our teeth. And we didn't even have them!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2026 03:00 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 27, 2026 03:01 PM (jjEYy)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2026 03:00 PM
*lawn nazi fistbump*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 27, 2026 03:02 PM (GfgtS)
Are you all new around here?
Old world problem, I'm incredibly tired of caregiving. I'll be better tomorrow.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 27, 2026 03:03 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2026 03:03 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Wealth of Riches Here at September 27, 2026 03:04 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Skip at
Those things are dangerous, if you are talking front springs that attach to header board, even though you are far more mechanically competent than me.
I let the pro's do it. Under $200 last time, maybe ten years ago.
Posted by: From about That Time at September 27, 2026 03:04 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: From about That Time at September 27, 2026 03:06 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: John Audubon at September 27, 2026 03:06 PM (Fn+3X)
Between that and the cedar grove compost, the neighborhoods smell like poop.
Downtown always smells like poo. But that’s from the “unhoused.”
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2026 03:07 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2026 03:08 PM (0yFYJ)
Posted by: epador
Those are what was bitching about in #58. My laces aren't kelvar, although they cost like it.
Posted by: From about That Time at September 27, 2026 03:08 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Down Wit Da Schtruggle at September 27, 2026 03:10 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 03:11 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
How dare you call my hubby a big dumny!
😆
Kiddubg ofc. He does have sooo many supplements he loves to take, and I ammslowly getting the supplement bug vecause now I take 4.
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at September 27, 2026 03:11 PM (Ydd86)
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at September 27, 2026 03:11 PM (Ydd86)
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 03:12 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Duke Lowell
Those are my everyday shoes that I wear doing everyday stuff...like raking topsoil on the lawn. I'm surprised they look as good as they do!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
I assumed the scuffs were from kicking commenters who blow the margins, or take the First World Problems thread seriously.....
Posted by: mikeski at September 27, 2026 03:12 PM (VHUov)
I currently am on a small island. A small dry island. Which means no liquor stores. Closest one is across Vineyard Sound.
I am out of wine and the ferry hasn’t run for three days.
I’m afraid I might involuntarily dry out.
Posted by: RI Red at Septe
Did they build a hotel on No Mans Land?
Posted by: From about That Time at September 27, 2026 03:13 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Handy Capable Hal at September 27, 2026 03:13 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 02:01 PM (Ia/+0)
____________________________
LMAO...my thoughts exactly. Someone is spending way too much time around Parisians.
Posted by: Orson at September 27, 2026 03:13 PM (dIske)
Posted by: vmom garrote garrote garrote at September 27, 2026 03:14 PM (Ydd86)
Posted by: mikeski at September 27, 2026 03:14 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 03:14 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 27, 2026 03:14 PM (RYmEM)
Yeah. No Kiwi shoe polish.
Next...
Posted by: man at September 27, 2026 02:12 PM
I've got some to spare...
Posted by: Ralph Northam at September 27, 2026 03:15 PM (skR0U)
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at September 27, 2026 03:16 PM (Ydd86)
Posted by: The Spice Must Flow at September 27, 2026 03:18 PM (Fn+3X)
Bring shovels.
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 03:18 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2026 02:53 PM
I know, right? Three days of wind and a very fine, gentle rain. My grass seed is loving this.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 27, 2026 02:57 PM (GfgtS)
Eight days of wind and three of rain, and my grass seed all washed down the hill.
Posted by: RI Red at September 27, 2026 03:18 PM (Fj7p/)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
One letter off. We're discussing the Four Final Strings.
Posted by: mikeski at September 27, 2026 03:19 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at September 27, 2026 03:19 PM (Ydd86)
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 03:12 PM (ZdaMQ
My beautiful friends brought over a bunch for my porch and flowers for pots in the driveway.
Because of the dog, Mom and I would usually ignore Halloween and Christmas stuff inside the house goes up in October. My friends kids wanted to decorate the tree and it kind of became an early Christmas party. With gifts for the kids.
I'm continuing that.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 27, 2026 03:19 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: From about That Time at September 27, 2026 03:19 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Carr, the Floorwalker at September 27, 2026 03:20 PM (skR0U)
Posted by: Saucy Young Maiden at September 27, 2026 03:21 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: RI Red at September 27, 2026 03:18 PM
That's what you get for building Schloss Red on a hill.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 27, 2026 03:21 PM (GfgtS)
He said "as of yesterday it will be two months until Christmas!"
Aaahhhh
*panics*
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at September 27, 2026 03:22 PM (Ydd86)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 27, 2026 03:14 PM (RYmEM)
Can I sign up for alopecia?
It seems like a time saver.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 27, 2026 03:22 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: From about That Time at September 27, 2026 03:13 PM (sl73Y)
Nah, next island to the west. No Man’s Land still has leftover bombs.
Posted by: RI Red at September 27, 2026 03:23 PM (Fj7p/)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 27, 2026 03:14 PM (RYmEM)
Consider growing a beard?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 27, 2026 03:23 PM (TADlS)
https://tinyurl.com/mthn8fd3
Posted by: TC at September 27, 2026 03:23 PM (F/t80)
The lack of eyebrows was unnerving.
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at September 27, 2026 03:23 PM (Ydd86)
Posted by: Valve Job Vinnie at September 27, 2026 03:23 PM (Fn+3X)
He said "as of yesterday it will be two months until Christmas!"
Aaahhhh
*panics*
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at September 27, 2026 03:22 PM (Ydd86)
Chill!
It's three months til Christmas.
Thanksgiving on the other hand.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 27, 2026 03:24 PM (QGaXH)
He said "as of yesterday it will be two months until Christmas!"
*checks calendar
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at September 27, 2026 03:25 PM (YcOeP)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 27, 2026 03:14 PM (RYmEM)
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I hated shaving until I switched to an old school double-edge safety razor. That and Cremo cooling formula shave cream. Takes a little longer but it's a great shave.
Blades are dirt cheap, too.
Posted by: ballistic at September 27, 2026 03:25 PM (oqH4h)
He said "as of yesterday it will be two months until Christmas!"
*checks calendar
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at September 27, 2026 03:25 PM (YcOeP)
Counts on fingers.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 27, 2026 03:26 PM (QGaXH)
It's three months til Christmas.
I got nine checks left in the checkbook, and two kids. I'm good.
Posted by: From about That Time at September 27, 2026 03:26 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 27, 2026 02:36 PM (08OqX)
My wife got me a Jumper / battery pack / air compressor for the car, that is a nice collection to have available. I think it has an LED flasher / flashlight on it too.
If you just want a small compressor for tires, it is a good deal. It is not suitable for small air tools though
Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2026 03:26 PM (rbvCR)
Who????
Posted by: From about That Time at September 27, 2026 03:19 PM (sl73Y)
____________________
You know, the guy that fought off the band of cyclops monsters with toothpick, invented the blender, and helped build Mecca using his toy Tonka truck.
That guy.
Posted by: Orson at September 27, 2026 03:26 PM (dIske)
It's three months til Christmas.
Thanksgiving on the other hand.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue
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Oh, maybe he meant advent.
I really should pay more attention to the sermon.
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at September 27, 2026 03:27 PM (Ydd86)
Posted by: From about That Time at September 27, 2026 03:28 PM (sl73Y)
You know, the guy that fought off the band of cyclops monsters with toothpick, invented the blender, and helped build Mecca using his toy Tonka truck.
That guy.
Posted by: Orson at September 27, 2026 03:26 PM (dIske)
And according to his resume, his resurrection abilities may get him back by New Year.
Impressive.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 27, 2026 03:29 PM (Sco7b)
Identify as a protected veteran
Not a veteran
Identify as a veteran but not a protected veteran
That last one threw me. I guess by "protected" they mean enlisted, served, and honorably discharged, so...?
For the record, I'm not a veteran, and would never think to identify as anything other than that..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 27, 2026 03:29 PM (08OqX)
In another world one could drive through a springtime apartment complex and collect all the 5 gal. tanks he needed from the dumpsters.
Thank heavens Congress and DuPont saved us.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 27, 2026 03:30 PM (VQ0bX)
I'm continuing that.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September
Cute, Oct. 1, the studio will become haunted and the front yard here will also be haunted. I am finalizing the thoughts for this year. Since a pirate ship was purchased last year, I am thinking I should do a variation on that theme, though I may actually do a haunted forest path. Decisions, decisions. And also more FWP.
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 03:30 PM (ZdaMQ)
Can I sign up for alopecia?
It seems like a time saver.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 27, 2026 03:22 PM (Sco7b)
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Good idea. Bonus: i could see the divots in my skull from all the times as a kid I "split my head open" as we used to say.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 27, 2026 03:30 PM (RYmEM)
He said "as of yesterday it will be two months until Christmas!"
Aaahhhh
*panics*
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at September 27, 2026 03:22 PM (Ydd86)
Statements like that could cause the faithful to doubt the veracity of everything else he says.....
'Cousin Vinney' voice: 'everyding dat guy just said...is bull****' '
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 27, 2026 03:30 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 03:14 PM (ZdaMQ)
What are you going to do with all those pumpkins when they start rotting?
I'd say your FWP is not having any goats.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 27, 2026 03:31 PM (+fdRY)
The problem with showing a specials dog is that they're the canine equivalent of an Formula 1 car. Amazing but finely tuned and requiring constant maintenance. Unfortunately, Her Majesty has perfect pitch for movement. Any imperfection and it's panic time.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2026 03:31 PM (eRlcH)
If you just want a small compressor for tires, it is a good deal. It is not suitable for small air tools though
Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2026 03:26 PM (rbvCR)
Wolf Box. I am familiar, and thanks for the reminder..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 27, 2026 03:32 PM (08OqX)
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 03:30 PM (ZdaMQ
You could just steal stuff from the headlines.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 27, 2026 03:32 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Unkaren at September 27, 2026 03:32 PM (IXaAJ)
Posted by: Whew!!! at September 27, 2026 03:33 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Vmom's Priest at September 27, 2026 03:34 PM (skR0U)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 27, 2026 03:35 PM (VQ0bX)
Are you near the harbor?
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2026 03:35 PM (viF8m)
What is good in life? A sharp chain, the blue smoke, and a saw that walks through fir logs, that is what is good in life.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2026 03:35 PM (rbvCR)
Exactly what I would have done.
Posted by: Tim Walz at September 27, 2026 03:36 PM (skR0U)
Posted by: Unkaren
We recommend Skechers for all our clients!
Posted by: Hoveround Industries, Inc. at September 27, 2026 03:37 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 27, 2026 03:39 PM (VQ0bX)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 27, 2026 03:30 PM (RYmEM)
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Pro tip: Head lacerations are great for scaring mom!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 27, 2026 03:43 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 27, 2026 03:23 PM (
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I do.Then, whack it off with the haircutters every month or so.
But I will try Cremo. Love the name
Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 27, 2026 03:44 PM (RYmEM)
I'd say your FWP is not having any goats.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 27, 2026
I don’t even have a back yard, and barely a front one! There is no room for goats.
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 03:45 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 03:45 PM (ZdaMQ)
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There's always room for goats!
Posted by: Mohammad Mohammad Abdul Mohammad at September 27, 2026 03:46 PM (skR0U)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 27, 2026 03:51 PM (S41Gd)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 03:52 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2026 03:30 PM (ZdaMQ
My friend would build these elaborate Halloween walk throughs. Back in 2009 I helped him construct a scaffold next to his hot tub. He ran a tube from one of the jets that delivered water to a shallow reservoir on top. The water would then cascade down one side. On the far side of the hot tub he placed an LED projector aimed toward the waterfall. Folks walking past would see a still image of a pirate battle. The sound of cannons and men shouting was piped in over his home theater sound system speakers. The effect was damned impressive. He constructed the whole thing from his head. No plans. Impressive...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 27, 2026 03:53 PM (08OqX)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 04:00 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: JM
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As I lose my hair, my skull is going to be quite a show piece, the divots/bumps/staple scars consequent of the craniotomy becoming more evident.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2026 04:01 PM (XeU6L)
I understand that plains clothes law enforcement swear by them as well. You can run in them just as well as sneakers....but look funny doing it.
Posted by: Orson at September 27, 2026 04:03 PM (dIske)
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Balance them correctly, (I think Jordan Peterson said something to that effect," then tie them well.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXCGMZKijls
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Posted by: Marooned at September 27, 2026 05:33 PM (W2rvL)
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 27, 2026 06:03 PM (sEc0N)
Posted by: Boss Moss
That's correct. A Question Of Balance.
Posted by: The Moody Blues at September 27, 2026 07:10 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: L - No nic... at September 27, 2026 07:16 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 27, 2026 08:32 PM (VQ7/I)
Would look kind of dorky on any other king of shoe though.
Posted by: PMRich at September 27, 2026 10:50 PM (RqfTw)
WEATHER! WEATHER! WEATHER!
[Hat Tip: Dr_No] The hysterical overreaction to a run-of-the-mill autumn Nor'Easter that is currently hitting the northeast is embarrassing, and there is plenty to be embarrassed about when there isn't some rain and wind! It is -- of course -- driven by the frantic desire of the so-called "elites" and their lackeys in the compliant media for more evidence of the carbon apocalypse. Sadly for them, that evidence is shaky, and this year it is particularly pathetic because we haven't had a hurricane this season, and that is a very rare non-event! Because they blame all intense weather on AGW, or the more convenient, "Climate Change!" The shift was clever, because now they can blame literally everything on the world's insatiable desire for energy: too much rain or not enough rain...too hot or too cold...too much cloud cover or not enough cloud cover...it doesn't matter to them. The panic is the grift and the kink! So the colossal killer storm they predicted has turned into a three-day rain with a bit of wind. And the rain never fell particularly hard, so it has been nicely distributed with almost no pooling of water in my driveway! As for the wind? It is often windier around here when there isn't a Nor'Easter, so that should tell you how intense the weather has been. There are real issues however, but they will not be discussed by the bien pensants because it might contradict the dominant paradigm of AGW. With population growth and the concomitant covering of land with impermeable roads and houses and parking lots and stores, there has not been a commensurate increase in infrastructure to handle the water. And why is that? Because our state and local governments are consumed by other issues like CRT and Equity and Latinx Outreach and healthcare for undocumented voters and transsexual dance recitals in our schools... So when you turn on the news and see streets awash in a few feet of water, or subways that are flooded, realize that there are rational engineering solutions for many of these issues, but they are not prioritized. And those beach houses that float away? Many of those homes are built on barrier islands that are created and destroyed by the natural action of the ocean. When there were only a few homes on those islands it wasn't a big deal, but now, with increased wealth and population, more people are building, and more people are losing those homes! The media love the hysteria, and they play it up and try to terrify us, because terror is what they want. Never mind that they are showing America that they simply cannot be trusted...with anything! Not even the weather forecast.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 12:02 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Nazdar at September 27, 2026 12:03 PM (NcvvS)
If it doesn't bleed, throw ketchup on it and fake it.
-- The Media, forever.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines. at September 27, 2026 12:03 PM (O7YUW)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 12:03 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: It's me donna at September 27, 2026 12:03 PM (+gK6I)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines. at September 27, 2026 12:04 PM (O7YUW)
Posted by: It's me donna at September 27, 2026 12:03 PM (+gK6I)
I blame all the hot air that comes out of politicians' mouths.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 12:05 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 12:05 PM (Ia/+0)
The usual places that get overrun by weather got overrun by weather.
Other than on the news, its been not at all unusual.
Posted by: From about That Time at September 27, 2026 12:06 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 12:06 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Nazdar at September 27, 2026 12:06 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 12:11 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 12:13 PM (peOdB)
* a better theory than the thirty years of global warming hoax.
Posted by: illiniwek at September 27, 2026 12:14 PM (vbXSk)
they had this guy dave schwartz, was very funny. the only humorous weather guy i remember other than ray rayner.
Posted by: cmeat at September 27, 2026 12:15 PM (ncRE1)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 12:11 PM (Ia/+0)
Gotta keep those audience numbers up so the advertisers will stay happy. Always follow the money.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 27, 2026 12:15 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2026 12:16 PM (MiiEW)
Posted by: It's me donna at September 27, 2026 12:03 PM (+gK6I)
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It was Trump's fault. And don't forget the Joos - they have those Weather Machines working overtime!
Now, if you'll forgive me, I have to go deal with the Yodeling Yoder terrorist gang and their eagerness to blow up Mennonite barns.
Posted by: Andy Burnham at September 27, 2026 12:16 PM (zQMY+)
Posted by: cmeat at September 27, 2026 12:17 PM (ncRE1)
Surf's up.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 27, 2026 12:18 PM (4QASh)
Because of course she did.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2026 12:18 PM (viF8m)
Never saw John Coleman? He was one of the founders of the Weather Channel and got out when he saw they wanted ratings over providing accurate information.
Posted by: Nazdar at September 27, 2026 12:20 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 27, 2026 12:20 PM (u82oZ)
I was able to grasp that lesson as a wee lad.
Apparently, that tiny Idiot was MUCH smarter than the current crop of Democrats with college degrees!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 27, 2026 12:21 PM (HlyYF)
Generally it means more rain and snow, interspersed with warm rain that may melt the snowpack.
In Oregon a dry winter is A WILDFIRE CAUSING SITUATION because it dries out the forests making fires more likely
A wet winter is A WILDFIRE CAUSING SITUATION because it can lead to lots of brush and grass growing in the forests making fires more likely
Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2026 12:22 PM (rbvCR)
ZERO.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines. at September 27, 2026 12:04 PM (O7YUW)
If you want the explanation for that according to the weather gurus, here it is:
This year's Super El Nino involves a significant rise over normal (around 3.5 degrees, I think) in the mid-latitude eastern Pacific Ocean surface temps.
That rise in temperature has created an atmosphere which has spread eastward into the mid-Atlantic.
That atmosphere produces conditions (vertical windshear, mainly) unfavorable to tropical cyclone generation in the main development area of the Atlantic basin.
Posted by: one hour sober at September 27, 2026 12:22 PM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: dantesed at September 27, 2026 12:24 PM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 27, 2026 12:20 PM (u82oZ)
Absent the tiny script, which I cannot read, that looks like the the logo for Graphene OS, for phones. Graphene is basically android without the evil Google shite.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 12:24 PM (peOdB)
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 27, 2026 12:24 PM (HlyYF)
New trailer for Egger's "Werwulf" coming later this year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL1EFACsWag
Looks well made and suitably grimy, I guess.
Doesn't feel particularly scary though.
Also, I get the feeling that this may be a crazy guy who's wrongly accused for the killing done by an actual wolf. I'd like to be wrong.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 27, 2026 12:26 PM (YSUhf)
Oh no!! A thunderstorm where everything gets wet and tree branches get knocked down. Run for your lives!!!
Posted by: dantesed
Insurance policies will be canceled.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 27, 2026 12:27 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: dantesed at September 27, 2026 12:24 PM (Oy/m2)
A couple of big trees came down on our street. They fell nicely, so no widespread power outage. They are already being removed and the lines are being repaired, so obviously this "storm" is a nothing-burger.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2026 12:29 PM (k5CNB)
Global warming is taking the week off here in DFW.
The temp may not even go above 90 this week.
Plus, rain!!!!1111!!!!
Lazy Global Warming! Can't you even help out your Low IQ believers with their scam?
Posted by: naturalfake at September 27, 2026 12:29 PM (YSUhf)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2026 12:30 PM (QwZKw)
Generally it means more rain and snow, interspersed with warm rain that may melt the snowpack.
In Oregon a dry winter is A WILDFIRE CAUSING SITUATION because it dries out the forests making fires more likely
A wet winter is A WILDFIRE CAUSING SITUATION because it can lead to lots of brush and grass growing in the forests making fires more likely
Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2026 12:22 PM (rbvCR)
I So-Cal, no rain means fire. Lots of rain means lots of fire later...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 12:30 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2026 12:30 PM (QwZKw)
They migrated to the Pacific this year.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 12:31 PM (l3cgK)
Sandy was pretty bad in some places. You know...the low-lying areas without sufficient drainage!
We were without power for 11 days, and that was no fun. I did grill a steak in the fireplace, which was a resounding success...except that the house smelled of steak for three days!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2026 12:31 PM (k5CNB)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 12:32 PM (l3cgK)
You climate deniers killed all the hurricanes !!!
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2026 12:30 PM (QwZKw)
They migrated to the Pacific this year.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 12:31 PM (l3cgK)
And transitioned into typhoons!
Posted by: naturalfake at September 27, 2026 12:32 PM (YSUhf)
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at September 27, 2026 12:32 PM (zQMY+)
Posted by: Nazdar at September 27, 2026 12:33 PM (NcvvS)
We were without power for 11 days, and that was no fun. I did grill a steak in the fireplace, which was a resounding success...except that the house smelled of steak for three days!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2026 12:31 PM (k5CNB)
The World's Finest Air Freshener!
Posted by: naturalfake at September 27, 2026 12:33 PM (YSUhf)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 27, 2026 12:20 PM (u82oZ)
From Wiki:
"Hexamethylbenzene, also known as mellitene, is a hydrocarbon with the molecular formula C₁₂H₁₈ and the condensed structural formula C₆₆. It is an aromatic compound and a derivative of benzene..."
Good thing it isn't C₈₈...we all know what THAT would mean...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 12:34 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 12:30 PM (l3cgK)
In Oregon the thing that seems to have curbed the massive wildfires seems to have been a combination of allowing cutting on forest land by the feds to make firebreaks and access for the fire crews, and not giving the state extra money "for massive wildfires"
This year was being pushed as yet another massive fire year, up until the feds said, "nah, those don't qualify"
Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2026 12:34 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Women And Children Hardest Hit at September 27, 2026 12:35 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 27, 2026 12:35 PM (S41Gd)
Thats a tragedy
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 12:35 PM (Ia/+0)
Could the same be said for the hysteria over maple syrup on French Toast?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 27, 2026 12:35 PM (0sNs1)
The tropical waves that form off the western coast of Africa and, in a typical year, generate into tropical cyclones (tropical storms or hurricanes) as they move westward are slamming into the vertical windshear created by Super El Nino, which delivers a knock out punch to them.
Posted by: one hour sober at September 27, 2026 12:36 PM (J4Dwc)
https://tinyurl.com/zjkbyazu
Christopher Knight as Wesley Crusher and Pam Grier as Guinan are definite improvements, and Henry Winkler as Q would have been fun. Also, no shortage of ladies in zipped-down Starfleet uniforms would have been a hit with my teenage version.
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at September 27, 2026 12:36 PM (zQMY+)
Posted by: Sands Through The Hourglass at September 27, 2026 12:37 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 27, 2026 12:35 PM (0sNs1)
That's not hysteria. That is a quiet resolve to make a comprehensive list and hold people accountable.
You've been warned.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2026 12:39 PM (k5CNB)
The tropical waves that form off the western coast of Africa and, in a typical year, generate into tropical cyclones (tropical storms or hurricanes) as they move westward are slamming into the vertical windshear created by Super El Nino, which delivers a knock out punch to them.
Posted by: one hour sober at September 27, 2026 12:36 PM (J4Dwc)
One of the three things Hurricanes need. What are the three?
1) lots of water
2) that water at a high enough temp
3) Stable, non-shearing upper-level winds
Break one of those three, no hurricanes.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 12:39 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2026 12:39 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: DEI Scorekeeper at September 27, 2026 12:40 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Sands Through The Hourglass
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Thus, new inlets are formed. The Outer Banks are always moving. My regards to Duck.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2026 12:42 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2026 12:39 PM (k5CNB)
* Uh oh.... looks around nervously *
Posted by: dantesed at September 27, 2026 12:43 PM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 27, 2026 12:43 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
Boiler? Sounds like White privilege! My evil landlord makes me huddle around a Yankee Candle when it gets cold here. Not even a Gwyneth Paltrow Special candle.
Posted by: Downtrodden Victim of Society at September 27, 2026 12:43 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2026 12:39 PM (k5CNB)
* Uh oh.... looks around nervously *
Posted by: dantesed at September 27, 2026 12:43 PM (Oy/m2)
Is maple syrup on Canadian Toast acceptable?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 12:44 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Nazdar at September 27, 2026 12:20 PM (NcvvS)
I think he started out in Chicago. I remember watching him when I was a kid on one of the local stations.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 27, 2026 12:45 PM (zRAnz)
'Oh, the white folks hate the black folks,
And the black folks hate the white folks,
And the Hindus hate the Moslems,
And everybody hates the Jews.'
--T. Lehrer, 'National Brotherhood Week'.
Posted by: Nazdar at September 27, 2026 12:45 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 12:45 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Oddbob at September 27, 2026 12:45 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Dark Lix at September 27, 2026 12:46 PM (Fv808)
We were without power for 11 days, and that was no fun. I did grill a steak in the fireplace, which was a resounding success...except that the house smelled of steak for three days!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2026 12:31 PM
Dang it! I was just reaching for the "over-reaction" meme. Should have grabbed one that didn't say "Sandy". (Which did do actual damage.)
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 27, 2026 12:46 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: Nazdar at September 27, 2026 12:20 PM (NcvvS)
I think he started out in Chicago. I remember watching him when I was a kid on one of the local stations.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 27, 2026 12:45 PM (zRAnz)
He was a weatherman at one of the local San Diego stations near the end of his career.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 12:46 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 12:46 PM (Ia/+0)
"Some wind and rain. NBD"
everything in the news is an op of some kind.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 27, 2026 12:47 PM (VyBeY)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 12:47 PM (l3cgK)
Yep, on the ABC affiliate, which was WBKB and changed to WLS around 1970. Coleman was one of the 'Eyewitness News' crew who kicked off the 'happy talk' local news thing.
Posted by: Nazdar at September 27, 2026 12:48 PM (NcvvS)
Cats wanted inside, unsurprisingly.
Depending on who, and where they get their info from, we're likely to have a really wet, cold, snowy, or normal winter here. As usual, a crap shoot.
I tend to go with the folks who get their predictions from the fuzzy caterpillars.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 27, 2026 12:48 PM (4QASh)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
I got to visit the new inlet that was formed between Frisco and Hatteras Village from Hurricane Isabel in '04. About a 100 yards wide, it took NCDOT a couple months to fill in and repave. Hatteras Village was cut off except by boat all that time. That one really messed the area up. There were houses, garages, way out in the Pamlico Sound.
Posted by: Of Sound Mind, Almost at September 27, 2026 12:48 PM (Fn+3X)
https://shorturl.at/CrVG4
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2026 12:49 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 27, 2026 12:50 PM (zRAnz)
Posted by: Dark Lix at September 27, 2026 12:46 PM (Fv80
It happened during the flooding of 1861-1862...Central Valley turned into a lake 300 miles x 20 miles...
It's referred to as the ARkStorm...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 12:51 PM (l3cgK)
Same with barrier islands along the Gulf. I live on Big Lagoon, right across from the barrier island of Perdido Key, east of Johnson Beach. Hurricane Sally's storm surge cut through that island creating three little islands in the process.
Posted by: one hour sober at September 27, 2026 12:51 PM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2026 12:52 PM (H8mUs)
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I always kind of liked Shawn Wallace but no more.
https://tinyurl.com/4tnrkzu7
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 27, 2026 12:52 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Ashes to Ashes, Funk to Funky at September 27, 2026 12:52 PM (Fn+3X)
Yep you're right - I posted before I read your post.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 27, 2026 12:52 PM (zRAnz)
https://shorturl.at/CrVG4
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2026 12:49 PM (XeU6L)
No Name and No Man were responsible for poking out Polyphemos' eye...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 12:52 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: one hour sober at September 27, 2026 12:36 PM
Agreed!
However, Leftists claim the following:
1.) Global warming makes hurricanes worse
2.) Global warming makes more El Ninos (and therefore the negative effects that occur during El Ninos can be attributed to evil CO2.)
The alarmists like to claim that both ends of a teeter-totter are going to be in the bad "down position" more often. Kindergartners are smart enough to realize the falsity of that position.
When I point out that truth about El Ninos typically making the Atlantic hurricane season more gentle, they literally cannot process truthful information that does not fit inside their constructed narrative.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 27, 2026 12:53 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 27, 2026 12:54 PM (VyBeY)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 12:52 PM (l3cgK)
You must've seen Nolan's movie. Or read the book. Heh.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 27, 2026 12:54 PM (zRAnz)
Posted by: That'll Learn 'em! at September 27, 2026 12:55 PM (Fn+3X)
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I always kind of liked Shawn Wallace but no more.
https://tinyurl.com/4tnrkzu7
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 27, 2026 12:52 PM (ndZc7)
"You can't be more evil that what they're [Israeli Jews are] doing."--Shawn Wallace
Yeah, you have no actual idea, do you, Shawn? Either that, or you're engaged in taqqiyah.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 12:55 PM (l3cgK)
Just looked at Coleman's Wikipedia page. Don't remember him at WBBM or WMAQ.
Side note: one of the Chicago papers did a photo-question item daily, asked people on the street a question and published some answers, with a photo. Coleman was asked, 'What is your cold remedy?' and he answered, 'A shot of vodka in a glass of water. If that doesn't work, reverse the proportions.'
Posted by: Nazdar at September 27, 2026 12:56 PM (NcvvS)
And if so, how significant is that?
Because it is the single largest factor in what happens to Earth's climate, yet is hardly ever mentioned in place of this "global warming" bullshit.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 27, 2026 12:57 PM (4QASh)
Horde mind, amigo.
Posted by: Nazdar at September 27, 2026 12:57 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 27, 2026 12:58 PM (zRAnz)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 12:52 PM (l3cgK)
You must've seen Nolan's movie. Or read the book. Heh.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 27, 2026 12:54 PM (zRAnz)
Pride was always Odysseus' fall. Did he HAVE to tell Polyphemus who really poked out his eye? No, he didn't; he WANTED Polyphemus to know, which ended up with Polyphemus' Daddy ( Poseiden ) being told.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2026 12:58 PM (l3cgK)
Sandy hit it exactly right so that the storm surge backed into the Hudson with a multiplier effect. Had "Super Storm Sandy" been a more powerful Cat 3, lower Manhattan would heve been under 40 feet of water.
Climate Change had nothing to do with it.
Posted by: Ignoramus at September 27, 2026 12:58 PM (dtajH)
We were without power for 11 days, and that was no fun. I did grill a steak in the fireplace, which was a resounding success...except that the house smelled of steak for three days!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2026 12:31 PM
11 days here as well. Ran off emergency generator for those days. We have well water, so the generator powered that, the electric hot water heater (by shutting down a few other circuits for 30 minutes, as well. Fridge and basement freezer were powered too. Cable was out, but I still had my roof antennas for off air, so we were never really out of touch. What was funny, we still had a landline, so I plugged into the land line with an old Sony laptop and found an AOL modem in New Brunswick, so I was able to go online and send emails. Also, to read AOS HQ. Heh.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 27, 2026 12:59 PM (hmYU4)
Posted by: Hurricane Smith at September 27, 2026 12:59 PM (6VpiA)
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I was camped on the beach at Ocracoke Island as David moved up the coast in '79. Only thing that kept the tent in place was the weight of the bodies of myself and the femme du jour. The NPS came by at the first hint of daylight, and shooed us onto the last ferry up to Hatteras, thence, we hied west to the Blue Ridge, where we still got lots of rain.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2026 12:59 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2026 12:31 PM
11 days here as well.
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Pfft. A full month here, post-Helene. No water, no electricity. It was an interesting time. One learns a lot about a community and one's neighbors under such circumstances.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2026 01:03 PM (XeU6L)
You know our current crop of climate cultists would love to do it too.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 27, 2026 01:06 PM (4SGBL)
The proper name is SUPERstorm Sandy.
Posted by: Al Gore at September 27, 2026 01:06 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2026 12:31 PM
You think that was bad!!!??? Last time we were without power we had to eat dirt sandwiches. For breakfast lunch and dinner. With no bread...just dirt sandwiched between 2 layers of dirt. The house smelled like dirt for 3 months! You had it easy.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 27, 2026 01:06 PM (zRAnz)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above!
Well, he's definitely backwards.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 27, 2026 01:07 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2026 12:42 PM (XeU6L)
Littoral Drift for the win.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2026 01:09 PM (k5CNB)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 27, 2026 01:06 PM (zRAnz)
Meh. In our part of NJ, we just drove over to the next town and grabbed dinner at a nice Italian restaurant. With fine wine. And cloth, embroidered napkins, even. Classy stuff.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 27, 2026 01:09 PM (hmYU4)
The ratio of Sun's energy to Earth verses all of mankind's outputs (even doubled to help the hapless Greens) is 350,000,000 to one.
Man's total activity is lost in the baseline. Even when doubled.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 27, 2026 01:11 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Hurricane Smith at September 27, 2026 12:59 PM (6VpiA)
HEY!! We're sitting right here!!
Posted by: Fat and Lazy Local 43 at September 27, 2026 01:11 PM (hmYU4)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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Can't we just put out an anchor?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2026 01:11 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 27, 2026 12:52 PM (ndZc7)
Yes...a washed up character actor who is desperate to remain relevant, so he says unbelievably stupid and ignorant stuff to impress the cool kids.
And he is a "Jew." The kind I despise. Fuck him.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2026 01:12 PM (k5CNB)
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 27, 2026 01:09 PM (hmYU4)
Didja' grab the dinner at gunpoint? 'Cause that's what I hear Jersey guys do. Heh.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 27, 2026 01:12 PM (zRAnz)
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You had dirt? Must've been nice.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 27, 2026 01:13 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 01:13 PM (peOdB)
Posted by: Chairborne!
Ha, you think that was bad. I had nothing but dryer, belly-button lint, and mildew to feast on. Suffered mightily, but the lights came back on just before we were about to open the septic tank for dinner.
Posted by: Misfit Nitwit at September 27, 2026 01:14 PM (Fn+3X)
Heh. I gotta say you had us beat. I'll stop complaining.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 27, 2026 01:17 PM (zRAnz)
Posted by: Hurricane Smith at September 27, 2026 12:59 PM (6VpiA)
It's always worthy of mockery...until it happens to you.
Posted by: one hour sober at September 27, 2026 01:17 PM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2026 01:09 PM
Putting a 'C' in front of that explains a lot of our confusion.
Posted by: J. Random 'Ron at September 27, 2026 01:17 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: The Huge Manatee! at September 27, 2026 01:18 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 01:19 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 27, 2026 01:12 PM (zRAnz)
Tell me you watch too much TV without telling me you watch too much TV.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 27, 2026 01:19 PM (hmYU4)
What I never told her was I caught a ride on Rick Turners snowmobile in exchange for helping him go around getting stuff for people for the next couple of days
Delivered everything but babies
Posted by: Kittens! at September 27, 2026 01:21 PM (jrgJz)
Posted by: Chairborne!
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Take the cannoli, leave the gun?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2026 01:23 PM (XeU6L)
Doomwatching, I call it. When the weather report occupied 5 minutes of the local news at 5:00 and 11:00, it wasn't a big deal. Now we have channels with wall-to-wall coverage. What attracts eyeballs? Doom.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2026 01:23 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Skip
You Morning People get my goat!
Posted by: Darkness at 4:30 PM Sucks! at September 27, 2026 01:23 PM (Fn+3X)
Will have to try to remember which is which.
Posted by: From about That Time at September 27, 2026 01:25 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2026 01:23 PM (eRlcH)
I'm surprised we don't (yet) have Third World Weather Channel, so the illegals and shouldn't be legals can see the weather in their home countries.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 27, 2026 01:25 PM (qx7Zg)
You Morning People get my goat!
Posted by: Darkness at 4:30 PM Sucks! at September 27, 2026 01:23 PM (Fn+3X)
__________
Slugabed
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2026 01:25 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2026 01:26 PM (H8mUs)
Posted by: The other side of the tracks at September 27, 2026 01:26 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 27, 2026 01:26 PM (zRAnz)
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Now, I am not trying to make light of this storm, but it WAS NOT a hurricane! Yes it dropped some rain and had some serious winds, but NOTHING like what a hurricane would do.
Let's be honest, a nor'easter is a hurricane-lite. It's not even a tropical depression really. It's NOT a named storm (with how liberal NOAA is with "naming" lately). Anyone who has lived on the East Coast for more than 10-15 years would just prep a little and otherwise dismiss this.
What I am trying to say, is that storms like this are NORMAL in certain seasons (usually fall with rain, or late winter/early spring with a crapton of snow). So if you are PAYING ATTENTION, you know how to PREPARE.
If it's not obvious I am "late Boomer/nascent Gen X", so I think you should LEARN how to prepare and SURVIVE.
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at September 27, 2026 01:26 PM (7kJyR)
Will have to try to remember which is which.
Posted by: From about That Time at September 27, 2026 01:25 PM
Kamala!, nice of you to drop in!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 27, 2026 01:27 PM (0sNs1)
One long snow on the ground episode in Reston, Virginia, I walked 2 miles to a Giant to get more condoms for the neighbors. They were busy.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 27, 2026 01:27 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Dr_No at September 27, 2026 01:27 PM (ayRl+)
Delivered everything but babies
Posted by: Kittens!
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A big problem here was flushwater for commodes. I daily used my lawn tractor and small trailer to haul around 5 gallon containers of water, siphoned from a pool, to my neighbors. I've commented that all of our houses began to assume an aroma of unflushed commodes and spoiled food.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2026 01:29 PM (XeU6L)
What I am trying to say, is that storms like this are NORMAL in certain seasons (usually fall with rain, or late winter/early spring with a crapton of snow). So if you are PAYING ATTENTION, you know how to PREPARE.
If it's not obvious I am "late Boomer/nascent Gen X", so I think you should LEARN how to prepare and SURVIVE.
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at September 27, 2026 01:26 PM (7kJyR)
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A significant swath of these United States would drown on its own saliva if there wasn't an aid program to swab out their throats. Prepare?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2026 01:30 PM (eRlcH)
Gas is 6.60/gal at the local Chevron. I've seen a few 7 handles for the higher grades locally. Yikes!
Reminds me of the '70's debating how could gas go over $1 per gal when the pumps could only go up to 99.9 cents. Anyone remember seeing it priced by the half-gallon? Or the truly confusing liter pricing? Glad THAT didn't catch on!!!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 27, 2026 01:30 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 01:19 PM (Ia/+0)
To stop the endless quibbling about Standard versus Daylight, I propose putting the entire country on Greenwich Time. This would force everyone to adjust their activities to the amount of daylight available and not slavishly follow the dictates of "what time is it?"
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 27, 2026 01:31 PM (P/woT)
Gas is 6.60/gal at the local Chevron. I've seen a few 7 handles for the higher grades locally. Yikes!
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Filled up at Costco yesterday for $3.64.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2026 01:32 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 27, 2026 01:31 PM (P/woT)
We could call it Zulu time. I like that name. Reminds me of the Army.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 27, 2026 01:34 PM (zRAnz)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Possibly these folk? https://armyav.org/
Post-Helene they were on the scene here immediately, hauling supplies to areas that could not be reached otherwise. I have a close friend who is active with that group. Lots of experience from VN.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2026 01:34 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2026 01:35 PM (viF8m)
Wondering if it could go over $10/gallon. Can the pumps price that high?
Reminds me of the '70's ........
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 27, 2026 01:36 PM (QGaXH)
Of course, we've done what we can to tear down any sense of community that used to help sustain ourselves during natural disasters.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2026 01:36 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 12:13 PM (peOdB)
Thinking about Az yet?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 27, 2026 01:37 PM (QGaXH)
The ferry didn’t run!
Posted by: RI Red at September 27, 2026 01:38 PM (SabPB)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 27, 2026 01:38 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2026 01:35 PM (viF8m)
You must've not grown up in Chicago. I got used to it from an early age.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 27, 2026 01:38 PM (zRAnz)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
$3.59 Sam's in McKinney, Texas.
Afternoon all.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2026 01:38 PM (0yFYJ)
Please stop sucking at football.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2026 01:35 PM
We're the Jets. It's who we are, and what we do.
Mebbe be a Browns fan?
Posted by: New York Jets at September 27, 2026 01:39 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2026 01:36 PM
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Whaddya mean?
Posted by: Social media, especially NextDoor at September 27, 2026 01:39 PM (2Ez/1)
A significant swath of these United States would drown on its own saliva if there wasn't an aid program to swab out their throats. Prepare?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2026 01:30 PM (eRlcH)
My one prayer is that I have passed on enough of my knowledge/tenacity/wisdom (if I can lay claim to any of those) to my children....
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at September 27, 2026 01:40 PM (7kJyR)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2026 01:35 PM (viF8m)
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You're not my supervisor.
Posted by: Jerry Jones at September 27, 2026 01:40 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: JackStraw
You must've not grown up in Chicago. I got used to it from an early age.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above!
The Dallas Cowboys have entered the chat.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2026 01:40 PM (0yFYJ)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
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More on that: https://shorturl.at/f3XSU
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2026 01:40 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 01:40 PM (Ia/+0)
They all have ocean front properties. Do the math.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 27, 2026 01:41 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: what the cat drug in at September 27, 2026 01:41 PM (jrgJz)
Shit the Seahawks look awful.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2026 01:42 PM (s3LZV)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 27, 2026 01:43 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Zulu Warriors at September 27, 2026 01:43 PM (0sNs1)
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at September 27, 2026 01:26 PM (7kJyR)
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Absolutely.
I lived through those Ellicott City floods and they weren't fun. But that is a somewhat common occurrence there.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 27, 2026 01:43 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Dr_No at September 27, 2026 01:27 PM (ayRl+)
Oops! Forgot to give you credit...fixed!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2026 01:43 PM (k5CNB)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Here, the No. 1 co-ordinators were the churches. Volunteers, donation centers, critical supplies, food. There wasn't a church, no matter how rural, that did not have volunteers and tents filling the parking lots.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2026 01:44 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 27, 2026 01:43 PM (RIvkX)
But more people COMPLAIN about the heat dome because they are "UNCOMFORTABLE",....
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at September 27, 2026 01:44 PM (7kJyR)
Posted by: what the cat drug in at September 27, 2026 01:44 PM (jrgJz)
Several vans, about 20 people and a whole lot of explosives.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 27, 2026 01:44 PM (4QASh)
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 27, 2026 01:45 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 27, 2026 01:45 PM (3oLMy)
Posted by: Pro Sportsball Teams at September 27, 2026 01:45 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 27, 2026 01:31 PM (P/woT)
You're messing with my bread and butter, fella!
Posted by: Howdy Doody at September 27, 2026 01:45 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Pro Sportsball Teams at September 27, 2026 01:45 PM
I bought a hat once.
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 27, 2026 01:46 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 27, 2026 01:47 PM (RIvkX)
I lived through those Ellicott City floods and they weren't fun. But that is a somewhat common occurrence there.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 27, 2026 01:43 PM (kpS4V)
Having visited Old Ellicott City MANY times, I can see why it's problematic. You pay any attention to the hydrology and how the main street follows the feeder stream,...that's flash flood central.
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at September 27, 2026 01:47 PM (7kJyR)
Posted by: Howdy Doody
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No one talks about me anymore.
Posted by: Clarabell at September 27, 2026 01:47 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 27, 2026 01:48 PM (3oLMy)
It's Howdy Doody Time!
It's not worth a dime,
so let's turn on Channel Nine
and watch Frankenstein!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 27, 2026 01:49 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Dr_No at September 27, 2026 01:27 PM (ayRl+)
Oops! Forgot to give you credit...fixed!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2026 01:43 PM (k5CNB)
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You'll both be hearing from our church's legal team.
Posted by: J.R. Bob Dobbs at September 27, 2026 01:49 PM (RIvkX)
Several vans, about 20 people and a whole lot of explosives.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
Saw something on Fb about it. Didn't delve too deeply into it.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2026 01:49 PM (0yFYJ)
Posted by: NFL owners at September 27, 2026 01:50 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Pro Sportsball Teams
None of mine. It’s free tv. And I enjoy watching football.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2026 01:51 PM (yEz+x)
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More:
https://shorturl.at/kPvHE
Amish?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2026 01:51 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Clarabell at September 27, 2026 01:47 PM (XeU6L)
Be quiet.
Posted by: Howdy Doody at September 27, 2026 01:51 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: J.R. Bob Dobbs at September 27, 2026 01:51 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2026 01:51 PM (viF8m)
Several vans, about 20 people and a whole lot of explosives.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Know how the intrepid police focused in one them.
A lady called 999. She first called the airbase and got a pass so she called the locals. Bless that lady and the few cops remaining in Britain who do their job.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 27, 2026 01:51 PM (3oLMy)
Posted by: J.R. Bob Dobbs at September 27, 2026 01:52 PM (RIvkX)
Fox showed video of horrendous water lapping maybe 2' up against an 18' seawall. Oh, the horror.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 27, 2026 01:48 PM (3oLMy)
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Might just be stock footage.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2026 01:52 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2026 01:51 PM
We get paid for your eyeballs.
Posted by: Pro Sportsball Teams at September 27, 2026 01:53 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 27, 2026 01:51 PM (3oLMy)
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Has she been arrested yet?
Posted by: Hime Minister Shabana Mahmood at September 27, 2026 01:53 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: A Millennial at September 27, 2026 01:53 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2026 01:52 PM (eRlcH)
It was live.
Posted by: Moo at September 27, 2026 01:53 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 27, 2026 01:54 PM (4NO2D)
It was a mill town! They set up shop there for the rushing waters.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 27, 2026 01:54 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: J.R. Bob Dobbs at September 27, 2026 01:54 PM (RIvkX)
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I know a London police officer who has given up. He and his wife immigrated here, disgusted with things there.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2026 01:55 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Narcissists at September 27, 2026 01:56 PM (0sNs1)
Yea, waiting on details. I saw Trump give a short interview and he said that both his administration and the Brits were tracking these guys for a while.
Be interesting to see how the British people respond if the terrorists came through open borders.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2026 01:56 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2026 01:56 PM (eRlcH)
If you don’t like it. Don’t participate. But fuck off with your shaming.
You sound vaccinated more and more every time you show your moral superiority.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2026 01:57 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 27, 2026 01:58 PM (3oLMy)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 27, 2026 01:54 PM
Always a good idea.
Posted by: Olympia Beer of Tumwater, Washington at September 27, 2026 01:58 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2026 01:55 PM (XeU6L)
There's probably more than we know. If you've seen some of those Euro's on YT here for the kickball matches, you've probably noticed the guy with the big red mustache and ball cap. He moved lock, stock, and barrel to Utah because he said he couldn't raise his family in the UK.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 27, 2026 01:58 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 27, 2026 01:58 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Hadrian
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People probably filling bathtubs also.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2026 01:58 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Howdy Doody
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I'm not your fella, chief.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 27, 2026 01:59 PM (2UnvF)
C'mon! everybody! let's go!
Get the distilled water! get the canned goods!
Get the toilet paper! you know we need it!
Go to da shelter
My baby, my baby,
Go to da shelter
Go to da shelter
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 27, 2026 01:59 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2026 01:58 PM (XeU6L)
Can't, the gin is in there.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 27, 2026 02:00 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 02:01 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 27, 2026 01:47 PM (RIvkX)
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They're wailin' in Wildwood, back at Waterloo
They're smoochin' all over, even in St. Loo
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Posted by: Zombie Bobby Rydell at September 27, 2026 02:02 PM (6VpiA)
I love how whenever there's a storm all the local reporters run out to do their "live on the scene" reports wearing their raincoats and shouting in the wind because it's their folklore that that's how Dan Rather became a star.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 27, 2026 02:05 PM (GKDU1)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 01:19 PM (Ia/+0)
Arizona doesn't change their clocks. BUT on our recent RV odyssey we overnighted in Tuba City* Az in the Navajo 'Nation' (NE Az). It was a long day and we didn't get in until 8:30 PM. Upon check-in they informed that the Navajo 'Nation' DOES observe DST so now it was 9:30 PM! We left the next morning for Mesa Verde.
*We didn't see a single Tuba the entire time we were there. Guess they keep them in a warehouse out of sight somewhere.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 27, 2026 02:05 PM (QGaXH)
It was a mill town! They set up shop there for the rushing waters.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 27, 2026 01:54 PM (kpS4V)
EXACTLY!!!!
And EVERYONE who has moved there since its founding has FORGOTTEN what that means!
[Insert obligatory George Santayana quote here]
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at September 27, 2026 02:06 PM (7kJyR)
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 27, 2026 02:09 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Paul at September 27, 2026 02:08 PM (FnxMC)
UMMMM, I lived in CA for 3 years. The commutes are HELL!!! And you need to account for "idle time" sitting in GRIDLOCK.
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at September 27, 2026 02:10 PM (7kJyR)
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Sounds like a draw play or a test run to see who's paying attention. More will likely follow. If this had been with serious intent, they wouldn't have failed the 'camo test' (or the IQ test, either).
Posted by: Dr_No at September 27, 2026 02:26 PM (ayRl+)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2026 01:56 PM (viF8m)
I think it will be interesting to see if they are directly connected to the IRGC, because I think that is very likely.
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The Book Thread: September 26th, 2026 [MP4]
[A Nancy cartoon by filler artist Caroline Cash] Good morning, ‘rons and ‘ronettes. It’s time once again for the monthly MP4-hosted Sunday Book Thread. Dress for men, as always, is country club casual. Women, however, are encouraged to cater to my own particular tastes:
*The only ones I can think of are Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 08:59 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 27, 2026 08:59 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Eromero at September 27, 2026 09:00 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 09:02 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 09:03 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Bryce at September 27, 2026 09:04 AM (5GspC)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 27, 2026 09:05 AM (CjHsb)
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I can't think of an example beyond zombies genre where it has benefited from a variety of types.
Do your zombies run, or not?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 27, 2026 09:05 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: JTB at September 27, 2026 09:06 AM (yTvNw)
Howdy, horde.
The week's reading was mostly a few of Joe Lansdale's Hap & Leonard novels, which were better than their tv series adaptations and the series adaptations were pretty good.
Continuations? I usually ignore them, finding the tone to be off. Take that Nancy strip up top. Years since I read newspaper comics, but I don't recall the Sunday Nancy strips as being as dark as the one at the top of the page. YMMV.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 27, 2026 09:06 AM (q3u5l)
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This gets even weirder when you factor in Expanded Universe novels (e.g., Star Wars, Star Trek, Warhammer 40K, etc.)
There, you may have adaptations of an entirely different medium (movies, television, and a table-top miniature game, in the aforementioned examples) into a novel form. As MP4 says, the world has already been created. Now the authors have to create characters and plots that are suitable for the setting. Some authors are more successful than others.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 27, 2026 09:06 AM (FZ29D)
Also this week I found and read the Christopher Golden and Brain Keene anthology, The End of the World As We Know It. It's a collection of short stories set in the world of King's The Stand, in which the superflu wipes out 99.4% of humanity. I'd say about 15% of the stories are very good, three were superb, the rest are okay, and there was one about Indian (dot) people that I couldn't finish thanks to all the cultural references and terms. Fun stuff.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 09:08 AM (wzUl9)
If the original creator approves it, I suppose it's all right. I still give it the side-eye, though. It's the same with the "book one of fourteen!" crowd. Just create one world and keep mining it until you exhaust the land. Seems like a cheap way of writing.
I call it "The Roddenberry Hijack." If he were still alive, I'm sure Alexander Courage would agree with me.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 27, 2026 09:10 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 09:10 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 27, 2026 09:11 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 27, 2026 09:06 AM (q3u5l)
Or being funny at all.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 27, 2026 09:12 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 27, 2026
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I've read Horowitz's, and the first of his James Bond sequels too. Enjoyed both. I'll have to look for Carr's.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 09:12 AM (wzUl9)
I'm still listening/reading In the Shadow of Kings, book 2 in the Time of Dragons series by Phillip Quaintrell. I like the series but it is long.
Posted by: lin-duh at September 27, 2026 09:14 AM (VCgbV)
I miss the days when you posted stories and photos of the lovely ladies of early 20th century showbiz on the morning thread. Always looked forward to them. The photo above brought back that memory.
Posted by: Tuna at September 27, 2026 09:14 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 27, 2026 09:14 AM (q3u5l)
As to today's topic... done right it can be fantastic, done wrong it can be anywhere from 'subtly off' or 'the original author would have ended up exploring that more', to the horrors of 'what in the world did they think they were doing? This is WRONG!'
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 27, 2026 09:14 AM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 27, 2026 09:15 AM (0U5gm)
What do they do? Retreat? Leave the island?
No, they do what all sensible people do in a situation like this. They split the party into two groups. One group heads back to civilization to find more supplies. The other group stays behind to solve the mystery at the heart of the story. Being this is the Cthulhu Mythos, I predict it doesn't end well for either group.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 27, 2026 09:16 AM (FZ29D)
This may stay in the house, but only for completion's sake.
Posted by: Weak Geek at September 27, 2026 09:17 AM (Pb7bQ)
I'm not fan. Think up your own damn characters and story!
*imitates pissing on computer to celebrate a successful comment*
*ahem* Anyway I understand the writer's impulse because the market's already there, and people tend to like successful name brands that satisfy their needs.
Very much the same thing as voting for Al Gore because Pappy Gore was such a Tennessee hack.
But, I don't think I've ever read a good one.
The first I remember, and was disappointed by, but was very popular was, "The Seven Percent Solution" by Nicholas Meyer, of Star Trek infamy IIRC.
TSPS was a pile, Holmes was basically a drug addict who needlessly harassed poor old Professor Moriarty teaching at Cambridge or some such place.
Buuuuut, best-seller and movie and I believe really started the whole low imagination, stealing characters genre. You know, Holmes VS Dracula, Holmes Builds His Dream Home, Fifty Shades of Holmes.
In short, not a fan.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 27, 2026 09:18 AM (YSUhf)
I first noticed this pre-Miranda behavior in the radio version of "Dragnet." Sgts. Friday and Smith just entered homes and searched them as they pleased. And in a "Peter Gunn" episode, the police bugged the apartment of a fugitive's girlfriend on the chance that the guy would go there.
I think we've bent backward too far to protect criminals, but I'm glad that cops need warrants nowadays.
Back to "The Mugger": I'm annoyed that one culprit's M.O. is never explained.
Posted by: Weak Geek at September 27, 2026 09:18 AM (Pb7bQ)
I know there are great and important books out there, and those are the ones I want to read. Still working through Graham Greene and of course St. Augustine. I'm on The Ministry of Fear at the moment. Very good description of wartime London.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 27, 2026 09:18 AM (ZOv7s)
So a ghost artist.
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 27, 2026 09:18 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 27, 2026 09:19 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: JTB at September 27, 2026 09:19 AM (yTvNw)
The US government after the war was the sole purchaser and set the price high, and offered bonuses for discovery. The result was a huge prospecting boom in the desert southwest.
The Soviets just threw tens of thousands in a gulag and made them slaves. Little known side of wonderful socialism.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 27, 2026 09:19 AM (ebWKH)
This may stay in the house, but only for completion's sake.
Posted by: Weak Geek at September 27, 2026
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I've never heard of that one! Is it available now?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 09:19 AM (wzUl9)
Could the Hardy Boys continue their adventures until the age of George Jetson?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 27, 2026 09:20 AM (2Ez/1)
But they do sometimes seem to crowd other stuff out, don't they?
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 27, 2026 09:20 AM (q3u5l)
After his death, another author tried to continue the series. I haven't read it, and comments from others elsewhere indicate it doesn't have the same panache and absurd writing quality as the originals, but it was an attempt to bring the story forward, past said ending.
Posted by: Another Anon at September 27, 2026 09:21 AM (4h45B)
Years since I read newspaper comics, but I don't recall the Sunday Nancy strips as being as dark as the one at the top of the page. YMMV.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 27, 2026 09:06 AM (q3u5l)
Or being funny at all.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 27, 2026 09:12 AM (1Ff7Z)
Yeah, that's was more sassy, grrrlboss Nancy. Not true to the original;.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 27, 2026 09:21 AM (YSUhf)
He took exception to the "defects" I found in his work, which I admit disappointed me when I first read it. He admitted that the lack of a table of contents or index and some editorial issues, but stressed that the focus was on the individual stories, not the weapons, which could be found elsewhere.
I did a new post, copying his comment and noting that with time, I have come around to see his point of view, and my original review was more about my expectation than the product in front of my, very much how Tolkien took down the Beowulf critics for not appreciating the poem as it was, but instead projecting what they wanted it to be.
The posts are at ahlloyd.com if anyone cares. He commented on my newer post and was very complimentary and announced he has a volume on World War II trophies now available for those who are interested. (cont)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 27, 2026 09:23 AM (ZOv7s)
Currently reading Communion by JD Vance
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at September 27, 2026 09:23 AM (Ydd86)
Sadly, the story is mostly interested in re-hashing the standard Arthurian tropes, with in an outlandish setting and with extra baggage. When something new is added to the characters, it's usually terrible. And the first half of the series ignores what should be the most pressing matter (the aliens) in favor of interpersonal drama. By the time the action picked up, I didn't care.
The art would have been good, but was utterly wasted on a genre mish-mash and a bad story. Not a recommendation.
Posted by: Castle Guy at September 27, 2026 09:24 AM (3v7ra)
Posted by: Trimegistus at September 27, 2026 09:24 AM (78a2H)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 27, 2026 09:24 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at September 27, 2026 09:24 AM (Ydd86)
Posted by: JTB
Yes, those are good, and they have an entirely new character and time period. Though, DuBrul was already a successful author. I would probably prefer that he go back to Philip Mercer stories.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 27, 2026 09:25 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Nazdar at September 27, 2026 09:25 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 27, 2026 09:25 AM (qRla/)
Nobody has tried continuing John Dickson Carr's locked room/impossible crime stories with Dr. Gideon Fell, not that I know of. I doubt there are any writers with Carr's level of ingenuity today, even if a publisher were willing to try such a novel.
There were continuations of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe & Archie Goodwin tales, by someone called Robert Goldsborough. The two I read did not have the sprightly, vigorous tone of Stout writing as Archie.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 09:25 AM (wzUl9)
They start to get stale for me. I think if the author himself can't keep it fresh, it's not likely that another author will improve it. A series should have a natural end.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 27, 2026 09:26 AM (CjHsb)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression)
Inexcusable! Get thee to a corner.
Posted by: Tuna at September 27, 2026 09:26 AM (lJ0H4)
Seafield works for an online auction house and realized that the items he were selling had a lot of historic value and so he compiled the book to document them. It is a unique window into a world that I think most collectors have no idea exists. Perhaps the most startling discovery for me was the sheer variety of weapons recovered in Vietnam, which included American and German arms along with the usual Soviet bloc stuff.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 27, 2026 09:27 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 27, 2026 09:23 AM (ZOv7s)
I thought authors weren't supposed to respond to reviews, good or not?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 27, 2026 09:27 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 27, 2026 09:25 AM (qRla/)
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Sigh. Do you feel tardy?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 27, 2026 09:27 AM (ZOv7s)
I'm impressed. Francois Fenelon turns out to be a calm, perceptive voice that appears again in the Romantic poets and later with Chesterton, Wendell Berry, Tolkien, even parts of the Agrarian movement.
I got a copy of Fenelon's book, "The Adventures of Telemachus". It goes on my winter reading list.
Serious thanks to our own Fenelon Spoke for suggesting this.
Posted by: JTB at September 27, 2026 09:28 AM (yTvNw)
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Apparently, in the literary world, the result of a new author continuing a series started by another is called a continuation novel. In Anthony Horowitz' novel Marble Hall Murders, the protagonist, a book editor, rails against continuation novels when asked to edit one. The ironic thing is that Horowitz is known for, among other things, his excellent continuation novels, three James Bonds and two Sherlock Holmes.
Horowitz often includes authors and other literary figures in his books and usually presents them in a poor light. In Magpie Murders, for example, highly succesful novelist Alan Conway is presented as a bitter and hateful man who hates nobody more than his fans. It makes we wonder if that is the way he sees himself and his profession or it he is merely having some fun.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 27, 2026 09:28 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 27, 2026 09:28 AM (ZOv7s)
Joe Lansdale is wrapping up his Hap & Leonard series; last book, Petrified Dreams, is due out next month.
Just fyi for any Lansdale fans out there in the unlikely event you didn't know it already.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 27, 2026 09:28 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Trimegistus at September 27, 2026 09:28 AM (78a2H)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 27, 2026 09:25 AM (qRla/)
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*uses short pencil behind right ear to make tardy note in permanent record*
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 27, 2026 09:28 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 27, 2026
I didn't like Carr's book at all. I've read one of Horowitz' Bond novels and thought it was pretty close to the Fleming voice.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 27, 2026 09:29 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 27, 2026 09:30 AM (RIvkX)
Also amusing was the author's notes at the end the end of the first couple issues. (Printed in lieu of letter pages, since no letters had yet been written) The author basically explained the research he did for the story, explaining the original Arthur legends. It was interesting to see that some of the stuff that we might consider 'revisionist' Arthurian history (like what went into the 2004 movie) was already known in 1983.
Posted by: Castle Guy at September 27, 2026 09:30 AM (3v7ra)
Thank you for the compliment! I stopped when AoS posts began enforcing a word limit. Now that I'm retired, perhaps I'll start doing it again as a once-a-week thing.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 27, 2026 09:31 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at September 27, 2026 09:24 AM (Ydd86)
I'm miffed that The Dover Boys aren't continuing.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 27, 2026 09:31 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 27, 2026 09:25 AM
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Did you at least bring donuts?
Posted by: Guy who always wants a donut at September 27, 2026 09:31 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Trimegistus at September 27, 2026 09:32 AM (78a2H)
Agreed, although I don't want him to abandon the Isaac Bell books entirely. But a new Philip Mercer book would be very welcome.
Posted by: JTB at September 27, 2026 09:32 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 27, 2026 09:25 AM (qRla/)
You were trapped in the book depository line with tankascribe?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 27, 2026 09:33 AM (1Ff7Z)
Copyright 2012. I learned of it through a Helm fan site whose URL I don't recall.
I think I got my copy on eBay, but it looks to be print on demand. You should be able to find a copy without much trouble.
Posted by: Weak Geek at September 27, 2026 09:34 AM (Pb7bQ)
Similar thoughts with Terry Pratchett and Discworld.
Posted by: pawn at September 27, 2026 09:35 AM (XKNhI)
Ivan was only three years old when his father died, and a group of nobles called Boyars formed a ruling council to guide the country while he matured. At 16, he was named Tsar in a nod to the Roman Empire. During this time, the country was still subject to periodic raids from Mongols in Kazan. Ivan fought and defeated them, growing Russia to the Volga, and then disbanded the Boyar council. In celebration of his victory, he ordered St Basil's cathedral built, one of the most identifiable buildings in the world.
As he expanded the size of Russia and also his power, his moodiness grew. He formed the first secret police, and began the first purges in Russia. As time went by, his fits of rage came more often, and in one he fatally struck his heir, dooming the house of Rurik. His sickly younger son was the last of the line.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 27, 2026 09:35 AM (0U5gm)
That is a way to learn of new authors who are similar to your favorite.
Posted by: Randomizer at September 27, 2026 09:35 AM (fjkOR)
So a ghost artist.
I've heard rumors that Garry Trudeau did the same thing.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 27, 2026 09:37 AM (qRla/)
Similar thoughts with Terry Pratchett and Discworld.
Posted by: pawn at September 27, 2026 09:35 AM (XKNhI)
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Discworld would be tough. So much of that world is based on satirizing other works (particularly Shakespeare) that AI would not do a very good job of imitating Pratchett's distinctive satirical outlook on culture.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 27, 2026 09:37 AM (FZ29D)
One near seamless continuation of style and mood would be William Horwood's stories set in Kenneth Grahame's "Wind in the Willows" wood.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 27, 2026 09:38 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 09:38 AM (B76vZ)
Why would anyone want to continue that?
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2026 09:39 AM (H8mUs)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
Didn't he pass on as a result of Bush Derangement Syndrome some time ago?
Posted by: Auspex at September 27, 2026 09:39 AM (Y8DZL)
I also have to set up a new website, which, since I am a tech-phobe, is going to be a royal PITA.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 27, 2026 09:40 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 09:40 AM (wzUl9)
He's still around. Wikipedia says he's 78.
Posted by: Nazdar at September 27, 2026 09:42 AM (NcvvS)
What I really don't like, however, is when the story is just a rehash of the original. I'll always choose a new adventure of established characters over a story whose purpose is 'look how I've re-imagined the characters you love.' Another of my recent reads was "Wicked West: Legend of Oz" which started off kind of lame, but got more interesting once it finished rehashing Dorothy's story and moved on to...well it may have been new stories, or it may have been rehashing sequel stories that were at least new-to-me.
Posted by: Castle Guy at September 27, 2026 09:43 AM (3v7ra)
Not books, AI generated videos that continue the saga of the LOTR characters. Some of them are pretty good. Short and entertaining.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 27, 2026 09:43 AM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Flakey Foont at September 27, 2026 09:43 AM (uaNKo)
"Describe the opening scene of a Hardy Boys story set in the world of George Jetson."
I'm impressed with the result. Because we have a word limit here, I'll just quote a snippet.
The alarm clock in Frank Hardy’s bedroom didn’t ring so much as take off.
It rose from the nightstand on tiny jets, circled his head twice, and projected a red message across the ceiling:
UNAUTHORIZED ENTRY—JETSON CITY SKYWAY 7
Frank sat up. Outside the window, the city glowed beneath him: towers floating on magnetic platforms, traffic lanes curling through the clouds, and delivery robots zipping between homes like fireflies. Somewhere above, a commuter pod honked impatiently.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 27, 2026 09:44 AM (2Ez/1)
69 How terrible can a man be who vastly increases the size of his country, and creates it's first parliament? Ivan Vasilyevech became the first Tsar of Russia in 1547, and his story is told by Benson Bobrick in Fearful Majesty. Ivan had periods of brilliance interspersed with bouts of madness, which makes his story even more compelling. “
There are interesting parallels between Ivan and Henry VIII, who ruled at the same time. Henry created the English Navy and vastly expanded England’s power and importance - and we’ve also been telling tales of his monstrous personal life for 5 centuries now. Great Man or Tyrant? As is often the case, both.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2026 09:44 AM (H8mUs)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 27, 2026 09:44 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Yyrog the Lich King at September 27, 2026 09:45 AM (9/+ak)
"Camelot 3000" gained recognition because it was the first mainstream comics maxi-series. This meant that anything could happen to the characters because they weren't tied down by continuity concerns.
It also gained attention because of the lesbian subplot.
The Brian Bolland art was pretty.
Be glad you weren't buying it as the issues hit the shelves. What was intended to take a year stretched into about two. Frustrating.
Posted by: Weak Geek at September 27, 2026 09:45 AM (Pb7bQ)
Finally, Will Henry's newest collection of his Wallace the Brave comic strips. There is a bit of Calvin in Wallace: the unending exuberance of a little boy with his little boy assumptions and imagination. Each panel includes subtle, small 'bits' (often a seagull or fish) that add to the humor. Thoroughly enjoyable and they make me laugh out loud.
Posted by: JTB at September 27, 2026 09:46 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 09:40 AM (wzUl9)
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He was "terrible" or fearsome to his enemies, is how my Russian teacher explained it. It was a compliment.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 27, 2026 09:46 AM (kpS4V)
I've been hoping for a book like this for years, but so far it's been a dull, slow slog. Curtis begins not with the movie or even director Stanley Kramer, but with a writer from England's Ealing Studios proposing Now For A Frolic, a movie described as "Greed on wheels," starring as many big UK comic names as possible.
I hope it gets better, but who knows?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 27, 2026 09:46 AM (qRla/)
Think I posted a link last week to a fairly cheap copy of Westlake's Adios, Scheherazade on ABEBooks. Did you manage to snag that copy?
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 27, 2026 09:47 AM (q3u5l)
hen author Lucy Foley found out the Agatha Christie estate wanted her to write a new Miss Marple mystery, she immediately wished she could tell her grandmothers, both huge fans of the legendary mystery writer. . .
That initial idea turned into Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel, out today, the first Miss Marple mystery since Agatha Christie’s last in 1976, and the only one ever authorized by the Christie estate.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 27, 2026 09:49 AM (rOKnE)
Posted by: Flakey Foont at September 27, 2026
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The first continuation novel, new to publishing in those days I think, was Kingsley Amis's Colonel Sun, written as by "Robert Markham." It's quite good. I lost interest in the ones done by John Gardner (not the literary author); they updated Bond to a degree, but didn't capture the real flavor.
Now we have Horowitz's stories set in the original 1950s time period: Trigger Mortis, for instance, takes place just after Goldfinger and features Pussy Galore and Bond continuing their affair, for a time. That one had the action and the "incredible suspense" (as the Signet paperback blurbs had it) of the originals.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 09:49 AM (wzUl9)
Sounds like something you could probably get an AI to code for you as long as you can describe what you want. And by AI, I may or may not mean Asian Indian.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 27, 2026 09:50 AM (vTZFs)
I've been signing stuff, calling people, doing everything. Donors HAVE turned out, and the Penn Foundation offered to fund it fully for at least a year so things could get straightened out.
but Drexel refuses all help. it just wants to scrounge as much $$ as possible out of it. How do I know? because Drexel did EXACTLY this - same playbook - to the lovely Atwater Kent History Museum a few years back.
I'm off to say goodbye today, and still praying Drexel will see the light and work with the city and the feds and EVERYONE to keep the Museum operating on the Ben Franklin Parkway.
say a prayer for us! if they are able to lock those doors Wednesday, it's way easier for them to sell it off. people will forget.
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 27, 2026 09:51 AM (j+aD2)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 09:51 AM (Ia/+0)
Crichton was a fun writer - no imitation possible.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 27, 2026 09:52 AM (rOKnE)
There are interesting parallels between Ivan and Henry VIII, who ruled at the same time. Henry created the English Navy and vastly expanded England’s power and importance - and we’ve also been telling tales of his monstrous personal life for 5 centuries now. Great Man or Tyrant? As is often the case, both.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2026
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The idea was floated for a time, I think, of young Princess Elizabeth (later Elizabeth I) marrying Ivan, or maybe it was later after she was queen of England. Now *that* would have been explosive.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 09:53 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression)
Yes, please do.!
Posted by: Tuna at September 27, 2026 09:53 AM (lJ0H4)
A series should have a natural end.
The webcomic Full Frontal Nerdity by Aaron Williams had this observation:
"Neil Gaiman said that if your story runs long enough, all your characters die. ... I think George R.R. Martin took that as a challenge."
Posted by: Weak Geek at September 27, 2026 09:53 AM (Pb7bQ)
Similar thoughts with Terry Pratchett and Discworld.
Maybe not with those specific properties but I'll bet it's already being done.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 27, 2026 09:54 AM (vTZFs)
The book three was slow, so I wandered off for a bit, and saw that-
They're rereleasing "Logan's Run" in 4K, which is a surprise. All fans of Jenny Agutter and Farah Fawcett should rejoice.
BONUS! You'll get to see how the city of Dallas will look in the 23rd Century!!!
Posted by: naturalfake at September 27, 2026 09:54 AM (YSUhf)
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You can change the tone if you use the strategy of the Dread Pirate Roberts. Just fire your entire readership at the same time you bring the New Dread Author Tom Clancy on, hang around for a month telling the new readers how great the New Dread Author Clancy is, then retire to an island in the Caribbean (or Forest Lawn).
Posted by: muldoon at September 27, 2026 09:55 AM (I0N4X)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
Correct, it didn't show up until later, and the Russian word Grozny is actually more like 'fearsome'.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 27, 2026 09:55 AM (0U5gm)
"Neil Gaiman said that if your story runs long enough, all your characters die. ... I think George R.R. Martin took that as a challenge."
Posted by: Weak Geek at September 27, 2026 09:53 AM (Pb7bQ)
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That happened a lot in Raymond E. Feist's Riftwar Cycle, but it worked well. Only magicians lived long enough to see the end of the series.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 27, 2026 09:55 AM (FZ29D)
Posted by: dantesed at September 27, 2026 09:56 AM (Oy/m2)
The Elon Musk-y character Igbal Renz was contacted by friendly alien intelligences while under the influence of mind-expanding drugs, and the aliens invited him to meet them at the edge of the solar system for a chat. Igbal threw all his money into developing a new drive and he and the crew made contact with these intra/interdimensional beings.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 27, 2026 09:56 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: lin-duh at September 27, 2026 09:57 AM (VCgbV)
Ugh, totally forgot about that one.
So, so bad.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 27, 2026 09:57 AM (rOKnE)
I would add that if it's a movie/tv series, your bad guy eventually becomes the hero. See: Terminator.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 27, 2026 09:58 AM (rOKnE)
The 'ettes will probably love everything about that outfit, except the corset.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2026 09:59 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at September 27, 2026 10:00 AM (iOWVI)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 27, 2026 09:28 AM (ndZc7)
Ironically, that sort of thing is one of my earliest memories of reading. I was reading through "The Boxcar Children" novels, kids-mystery novels, featuring a family of kids, with the older kids aging out of the story as the series progressed. Then all of a sudden, a new author took over, and the timeline re-set back to the middle. But that may be as much due to editorial mandate as the new author...
Posted by: Castle Guy at September 27, 2026 10:01 AM (3v7ra)
Similar thoughts with Terry Pratchett and Discworld.
I believe the issue here would be that the AI could only imitate what has come before, so you would be reading similar stories and plots over and over again.
And Banks slowly seemed to be introducing more sinister aspects to the Culture, so hard to know exactly where he was going with that.
Probably, AI would be a poor substitute for that sort of thing...growth within a series.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 27, 2026 10:01 AM (YSUhf)
BONUS! You'll get to see how the city of Dallas will look in the 23rd Century!!!
Posted by: naturalfake at September 27, 2026 09:54 AM (YSUhf)
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The movie is a very poor adaptation of the book. Totally obfuscated the world built by the authors behind some ridiculous "we live in a bubble mall because of the environment" enviro-nonsense.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 27, 2026 10:01 AM (RIvkX)
I have a trio of bears eating crabapples off the tree right outside my window. And not being too gentle about it. What a backdrop to the book thread....
Posted by: Castle Guy at September 27, 2026 10:02 AM (3v7ra)
Posted by: naturalfake at September 27, 2026 10:02 AM (YSUhf)
And it's still going on because the syndicate wants to keep making money. The same applies to the abomination that is the modern Andy Capp.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 27, 2026 10:02 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 27, 2026 09:40 AM (qRla/)
I don't know how it happened, but the Theda Bara book I bought had a couple of sections with a different typeface for a few paragraphs. I found the same in Sarah Hoyt's "Darkship Thieves."
Do you use more than one typeface, or was it a gremlin in your software? I've noticed a couple of times cutting and pasting in my work, that it changes the typeface and I have to reformat.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 27, 2026 10:02 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Chiraq vet at September 27, 2026 10:04 AM (1pT2y)
BONUS! You'll get to see how the city of Dallas will look in the 23rd Century!!!
Posted by: naturalfake at September 27, 2026 09:54 AM (YSUhf)
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The movie is a very poor adaptation of the book. Totally obfuscated the world built by the authors behind some ridiculous "we live in a bubble mall because of the environment" enviro-nonsense.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 27, 2026 10:01 AM (RIvkX)
Yeah, I've always thought this was one that could be successfully remade as a movie or series,
since the movie was more or less a failure.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 27, 2026 10:04 AM (YSUhf)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 27, 2026 10:04 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 27, 2026 10:04 AM (qRla/)
"We're right here, ya know."
-- the majority of mystery series and all romance series authors
Posted by: Oddbob at September 27, 2026 10:05 AM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Trimegistus at September 27, 2026 09:32 AM (78a2H)
Oh, I hope not. One of the gimmicks of the story was reincarnating Tristan as a girl. It was terrible in the original version, and I would absolutely hate to see how a current-year writer would handle that plot-point...
Posted by: Castle Guy at September 27, 2026 10:05 AM (3v7ra)
Posted by: Setsoru at September 27, 2026 10:06 AM (yADPr)
Posted by: Castle Guy at September 27, 2026 09:43 AM (3v7ra)
There were fourteen WoO novels by Baum. I never knew there was more than one for quite a few years. Haven't read them, so they'd all be new to me.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 27, 2026 10:06 AM (1Ff7Z)
I appreciate Brandon Sanderson for finishing Wheel of Time. He was hand selected.
But I wouldn't read, like, a Brian Herbert-style cash grab of endless crap books.
When the author is gone, the story is done.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 27, 2026 10:08 AM (s1VwS)
JSG, I've bought so many books this year that I've imposed a purchasing moratorium until I hit a Half Price Books shop or two during my trip to the TxMoMe.
Among my purchases was a slew of Westlake standalone novels. I have plenty to read now.
Posted by: Weak Geek at September 27, 2026 10:09 AM (Pb7bQ)
Posted by: Castle Guy
Pittsburgh Penguins star Andrei Kuzmenko is on leave from the team after receiving news that his father had been killed by a bear attack in his native Russia.
. . . .
Kuzmenko’s father had been on a Siberian fishing trip with six others.
The group set up camp on a nearby bank in the forest on the Bolshoy Yenisei River. The bear attacked the group and bit Kuzmenko in the face. His fellow fishermen loaded him into a boat and brought him to a nearby village, where they summoned a medical rescue helicopter.
Alexander made it to the hospital but succumbed to his injuries while being treated in the facility’s Intensive Care Unit
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 27, 2026 10:09 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 27, 2026
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Stout did the former with Wolfe and Archie, and the Queen cousins to a lesser degree with Ellery and the Inspector. Though Ellery himself changes quite a bit. In the earliest books he's a young bookworm who can't help spouting quotations from everybody he learned about at Harvard. By the middle of the series, he's better: He knows these things, but isn't going around showing off his erudition. Then he hits a period, 1940-1957, where he finds that his logic often steers him wrong and people die as a result; and he becomes much more human still.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 10:11 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 27, 2026 10:13 AM (kpS4V)
The Brian Bolland art was pretty.
Be glad you weren't buying it as the issues hit the shelves. What was intended to take a year stretched into about two. Frustrating.
Posted by: Weak Geek at September 27, 2026 09:45 AM (Pb7bQ)
Ah, so the Image artists weren't the first to be intolerably late? Heh. I guess I got lucky that most of the books I collected monthly (a practice ended decades ago) were all reasonably timely.
Posted by: Castle Guy at September 27, 2026 10:14 AM (3v7ra)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 27, 2026 10:13 AM (kpS4V)
Well...yes. If he was chugging vodka from a bottle even while the bear attacked him.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 27, 2026 10:14 AM (YSUhf)
"We're right here, ya know."
-- the majority of mystery series and all romance series authors
Posted by: Oddbob at September 27, 2026
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Yes; those modern "cozy" mysteries all feature amateur sleuths, usually women with small businesses in a small town which could never support such a business, usually involving one or more cats, and with some of the limpest "mystery" plotting ever committed to paper.
There was one series with a male librarian detective, straight and engaged, who lived with his Maine Coon cat. That was about the only difference.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 10:15 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 27, 2026 10:13 AM (kpS4V)
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да, конечно.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 27, 2026 10:16 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 27, 2026 10:02 AM (qRla/)
Haven't seen Andy Capp in years. What did they do to it?
Talk about continuation, Gasoline Alley's been running since 1918.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 27, 2026 10:16 AM (1Ff7Z)
The Rama series ends in a "Turtles All the Way Down*" fashion; It's almost like Clarke ( militant atheist) wanted to end Space Odyssey with a turtles finish but didn't dare.
Rendezvous with Rama (1973) Clarke
Rama II (1989) Lee
The Garden of Rama (1991) Lee
Rama Revealed (1993) Lee
*geometrically shaped red-white striped sentinel overseers.
Posted by: 13times at September 27, 2026 10:17 AM (fnZRl)
Japan, of all places, has become overrun with bears.
and bear attacks are way up.
Those ursine beasties have a lot to answer for.
We'll probably start importing them so the Bears Eating My Face Party can be happy.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 27, 2026 10:18 AM (YSUhf)
I am sure I am not the only one here who would love to see Sydney Sweeney in Miss Gaby's outfit.
Posted by: goatexchange at September 27, 2026 10:18 AM (COPKT)
Posted by: Funsize at September 27, 2026 10:18 AM (3j87q)
Anyway, knowing what we know now, not just about the Afghan goat rope, but how the CIA and our wonderful government works, reading the book was very, very eerie. The present is just a template of the past, in so many ways.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at September 27, 2026 10:19 AM (QaH55)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 27, 2026 10:04 AM (qRla/)
MP, maybe I didn't catch on to that. I think it was about half a page. Of course, the niece has the book now, so I can't look for it.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 27, 2026 10:20 AM (1Ff7Z)
Sue Grafton's Kinsey Milhone series ended with her death. I will forever wonder what Z was for.
Posted by: huerfano at September 27, 2026 10:22 AM (2Xqig)
I'd think a writer with a long running series would want to let his character age if only for the additional complications it would introduce to some of the stories; could help keep it fresh for the writer. But if the series depends on a character frequently in violent situations a la Spenser/McGee/Jack Reacher you couldn't let them age too quickly.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 27, 2026 10:22 AM (q3u5l)
Talk about continuation, Gasoline Alley's been running since 1918.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 27, 2026 10:16 AM (1Ff7Z)
Reg Smythe, the original creator of Andy Capp, died. But since the strip is a cash cow, the Daily Mirror syndicate hired two hacks to write and draw a modern-day version. It has none of the wit of the original and is abysmally drawn.
Gasoline Alley is the other version of the 'ghost strip' that I mentioned. The original creator, Frank King, chose his replacement, who then chose his replacement. The same thing happened with the Barney Google and Snuffy Smith strip.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 27, 2026 10:24 AM (qRla/)
Maybe it's because Sunny is normal, likes men, loves her job, admires her father the former cop, and has no ideas of being able to beat up men twice her size. She's perfectly willing to pull a gun when necessary and to accept help from the men in her life. I guess that's anathema to modern female readers?
The Sunny Randall stories, the Jesse Stones, and the Spensers are all part of the same universe, and characters from one wander over to others. Jesse and Sunny have an affair at one point, for instance, and Susan Silverman, Spenser's lady friend, appears in one of the Sunny tales.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 10:25 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: huerfano at September 27, 2026
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There have been Sunny Randall continuations? I guess I never look closely if the author's name reads "Robert B. Parker's" rather than just "Parker."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 10:27 AM (wzUl9)
The Economist gave Smythe a fine obituary.
Posted by: Nazdar at September 27, 2026 10:28 AM (NcvvS)
I don't remember much about Andy Capp. I must not have read it often.
Was he the guy who was always getting drunk and beating his wife.
I seem to remember it as having constant domestic violence as it's main source of laughter.
Buuuuut, I could be wrong.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 27, 2026 10:28 AM (YSUhf)
Was he the guy who was always getting drunk and beating his wife.
I seem to remember it as having constant domestic violence as it's main source of laughter.
Buuuuut, I could be wrong.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 27, 2026
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I don't recall any domestic violence, unless it was Mrs. Capp threatening Andy. Not sure. But yes, he was always "down at the pub."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 10:29 AM (wzUl9)
It was occasional domestic violence and the wife gave as good as she got.
Posted by: Nazdar at September 27, 2026 10:30 AM (NcvvS)
He created a world populated by mysterious creatures such as gnomes, elves, etc. and where magic abounds. He drops five human teens into this world in a gnome village which sets in motion a two-thousand year old prophecy.
I bought the Kindle edition ($4.99) and am forty per cent through it. It's not great literature, but it's a very good first effort and a good book for tweens and teens.
Posted by: Zoltan at September 27, 2026 10:30 AM (KUWG/)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 27, 2026 10:22 AM (q3u5l)
That's worked well for the Scudder series. It's realistic, and presents unique conflicts.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 27, 2026 10:30 AM (CjHsb)
Posted by: polynikes at September 27, 2026 10:30 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 27, 2026 10:31 AM (0aYVJ)
Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 27, 2026 10:32 AM (u82oZ)
Paranoid? Possibly. Curmudgeonly? Definitely. But when I think of how much has changed in the last twenty years, (increasing requirements to use digital and online sources away from personal control) let alone my life time, a sense of caution and desire to preserve seems reasonable.
Posted by: JTB at September 27, 2026 10:33 AM (yTvNw)
Do not miss the flagship store in Dallas.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 27, 2026 10:33 AM (vTZFs)
Posted by: polynikes at September 27, 2026 10:34 AM (KC5Lt)
I could put the curse to use by offering to formally go over the books for the authors, if they're contactable, but by the time I've read it once I don't want to turn around and have to go through it again.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 27, 2026 10:34 AM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 27, 2026 10:35 AM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: polynikes at September 27, 2026
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He'd have been perfect casting for Jesse when he was young -- Parker's character is in his early thirties or so when the book series begins -- and was perfect casting as the older Stone in the TV movies. I wonder if Parker had him in mind. Night Passage, the first JS, appeared in 1997, and Selleck had been a TV and movie star since the '80s.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 10:35 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 27, 2026 10:35 AM (q3u5l)
The evil Left don't like the good guys winning so actually it's one of his most revealing comments.
Posted by: polynikes at September 27, 2026 10:38 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 27, 2026 10:38 AM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 27, 2026 10:04 AM
Craig Johnson's Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear are vaguely old, but not so old they aren't incredibly tough, strong, and attractive to young women. Robert Crais' Joe Pike and Elvis Cole never seem to age. They are all Vietnam vets and must be in their 80s by now, but you'd never know.
Posted by: huerfano at September 27, 2026 10:38 AM (2Xqig)
Posted by: polynikes at September 27, 2026 10:39 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Hadsil at September 27, 2026 10:39 AM (/4OWh)
Posted by: Trimegistus at September 27, 2026 10:40 AM (78a2H)
I am reading a biography of him: Fitzroy Maclean: Soldier & Statesman by
Frank McLynn.
Very interesting. A lot about Yugoslavia, UK policy decisions, and his turbulent, impactful life.
I like it, but this is a book for special interests, not for everyone.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 27, 2026 10:41 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 27, 2026 10:42 AM (1Ff7Z)
Hopefully the router I ordered yesterday, to arrive today, will get my Wi-Fi network restored. Can only connect one computer to the Internet otherwise.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 27, 2026 10:42 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: polynikes at September 27, 2026 10:43 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: polynikes at September 27, 2026
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It's always interesting, though it doesn't always work out, when a lead actor writes a script for his own series. It worked for Robert Culp on I Spy, though he was a very good writer anyway (Harlan Ellison called him friend and lauded his work).
More often, I think, the lead takes over certain of the producing chores. The producer is important to the final product, as he chooses a great many elements, including the writers. Not sure it worked for Gilmore Girls when Lauren Graham became an executive producer; the latter episodes of the show are considered inferior to those of the earlier years.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 10:43 AM (wzUl9)
Calvin and Hobbes remains the best comic strip in history. It will take a lot to overtake that title imo.
Posted by: polynikes at September 27, 2026 10:39 AM (KC5Lt)
Watterson did the right thing by quitting while on top. Something Charles Schulz should have done in the mid-70s. Something Garry Trudeau has never learned.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2026 10:44 AM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Disillusionist at September 27, 2026 10:45 AM (FRxmD)
"Nancy" became a problematic read after the Sluggo/Aunt Fritzi Ritz affair was drawn.
Posted by: Auspex at September 27, 2026 10:46 AM (Y8DZL)
Money beats quality for some.
OT but the star/producer of the show Mr. In Between did the same thing and stopped intentionally when he was on top in the 4th season.
Posted by: polynikes at September 27, 2026 10:47 AM (KC5Lt)
One of the early stories — "The State of the Art" I think — had the Culture refusing to make contact with 1970s Earth because we still had capital punishment. But one of the final novels (Surface Detail) seems to suggest murdering people is fine as long as they are thinly-veiled Rupert Murdoch caricatures.
In short, I think maybe the mask was just slipping.
Posted by: Trimegistus at September 27, 2026 10:47 AM (78a2H)
Posted by: huerfano at September 27, 2026
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Spenser was in Korea; it's mentioned in a couple of the early novels in the series, when Korea was only 18-20 years back. (I've always thought it an interesting idea to write a story about the young Spenser coming through the 4077th M*A*S*H and meeting the young Margaret Houlihan. Same with the young Napoleon Solo, who was also there.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 10:47 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 27, 2026 10:47 AM (5C90x)
Posted by: polynikes at September 27, 2026 10:43 AM (KC5Lt)
I tried one from the actual Ludlum era. Sahara, because I liked the movie with Matthew McConaughey, and hated it. Never felt the need to try another.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 27, 2026 10:47 AM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2026 10:44 AM (eRlcH)
*****
Gary Larson of Far Side fame did the same thing. Said enough and walked away. I always thought that was very smart.
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at September 27, 2026 10:48 AM (iOWVI)
Posted by: Zoltan at September 27, 2026 10:30 AM (KUWG/)
I blew right through Hurricane UT this summer.
Seventeen? Good for him. Not my genre interest however.
(looks at pile of unsold writings, wipes away tear)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 27, 2026 10:48 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 27, 2026 10:49 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
Did he have extremely long feet that folded over at the tips?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 27, 2026 10:49 AM (0U5gm)
Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 27, 2026 10:32 AM (u82oZ)
Can we do it with blackjacks and brass knucks?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 27, 2026 10:50 AM (1Ff7Z)
You're thinking of Clive Cussler.
Posted by: polynikes at September 27, 2026 10:50 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Auspex
Sluggo was never the same after his stint in prison.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 27, 2026 10:52 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 27, 2026
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Good point. If humans are so violent, they are very unlikely to mount a successful starfaring project and will present little danger to the galaxy.
On the other hand, it's a chance for the author to comment on the nature of humans and on the futility/horror of war.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 10:52 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 27, 2026 10:49 AM (0U5gm)
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That's Don Martin!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 27, 2026 10:52 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: polynikes at September 27, 2026 10:53 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 27, 2026 10:34 AM (lFFaq)
You could send me your info to the email on the front page sidebar for A Literary Horde. It's a bit moribund at the moment, but someone might be willing to pay you for proofreading.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 27, 2026 10:53 AM (1Ff7Z)
Whoops! You're right. I haven't read anything at all by Ludlum. I guess I like my action/adventure written before WW2.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 27, 2026 10:53 AM (lFFaq)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 27, 2026 10:49 AM (kpS4V)
That is pretty hypocritical of them, isn't it?
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 27, 2026 10:54 AM (lFFaq)
I should check around to see if there are any collections of some of the old Mad movie and tv parodies from the 60s out there. IIRC, Star Blecch, Why Spy?, Voyage to See What's on the Bottom, The Guns of Minestrone, etc, were pretty freakin' funny. Or at least they were when I was in grade and high school. Think I've delayed adulthood well enough that they'd still hold up for me now.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 27, 2026 10:54 AM (q3u5l)
He did mostly spy /espionage novels.
Posted by: polynikes at September 27, 2026 10:54 AM (KC5Lt)
lol. Thanks for the encouragement, MP3, but even if wore that outfit I couldn't possibly look like that woman😉 I'm much older. I like her hat, though. It's very always liked hats.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2026 10:57 AM (Aqpmr)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 27, 2026 10:58 AM (0U5gm)
Could be.
Modern Brit authors like Banks and Stross suggest that the only problem with communism is one of scarcity and delivery of resources.
That's why they're all so fired up about the idea of a "post-scarcity" society with a "livable wage for all".
In their view a post-scarcity society does away with things like morality and religion, culture, and even biology.
That really seems to be a hugely gross misreading of human nature.
We live in what's very close to being a post-scarcity society with capitalism, and yet look at all the a-holes trying to tear it down.
Tribalism latches onto the weirdest things.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 27, 2026 10:59 AM (YSUhf)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 10:52 AM (wzUl9)
It's probably meant to insult America and Americans. The oh so sophisticated Euroeffete would never be violent. Except when they are.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 27, 2026 10:59 AM (1Ff7Z)
This is a trope I've always hated: the far superior aliens who want to destroy earth/humans because we're so violent. What?!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 27, 2026 10:49 AM (kpS4V)
Other tropes I've always hated
- The Magical Liberal who educates the lumpish conservative
- The deranged Vietnam veteran
- The conformism of suburban culture
- Dinner table arguments and accusations
- How damn hard life is for an urban gay
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2026 11:00 AM (eRlcH)
Tribalism latches onto the weirdest things.
Posted by: naturalfake
Control over scarcity is a powerful tool, and they want to resurrect it. Thus, they need to eliminate capitalism.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 27, 2026 11:01 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 11:01 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 27, 2026 11:01 AM (syz1S)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 27, 2026 11:02 AM (kpS4V)
All of whom probably think they'll be far more important in the aftermath than they are now. There's a lot of greed and envy operating there, but I wonder how much is due to the idea that they think they're insignificant now and knocking over the chessboard will somehow change that.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 27, 2026 11:03 AM (q3u5l)
One of which involves the currently required trans element. Critical to the central character. And with absolutely no effect on the plot or resolution. Meaningless to those not obsessed with sexuality.
Put adamper on an otherwise good book.
Posted by: From about That Time at September 27, 2026 11:04 AM (sl73Y)
Posted by: polynikes at September 27, 2026 11:05 AM (KC5Lt)
I kept rereading it to see if I was missing the joke. Nope. Just not funny. But, it might be a good match for the original after all. As I recall, that one didn't really bring the funny either.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 27, 2026 11:06 AM (syz1S)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2026 10:44 AM (eRlcH)
Schulz should have stopped after the first 10 years. So should Walt Kelly.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 27, 2026 11:06 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 27, 2026 11:06 AM (lFFaq)
I feel strongly about this.
Posted by: wittyranter at September 27, 2026 11:07 AM (jdPge)
Readers also like lazy.
Posted by: From about That Time at September 27, 2026 11:08 AM (sl73Y)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 27, 2026 11:02 AM (kpS4V)
Eris, have you ever read I Remember Lemuria? Look up "Richard Shaver" if you haven't.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 27, 2026 11:08 AM (qRla/)
I kept rereading it to see if I was missing the joke. Nope. Just not funny. But, it might be a good match for the original after all. As I recall, that one didn't really bring the funny either.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 27, 2026 11:06 AM (syz1S)
Well...to be fair, it's missing the three exclamation points emanating from the head of one of the characters in the final panel. True Nancy comics always had that.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 27, 2026 11:09 AM (YSUhf)
Posted by: polynikes at September 27, 2026 11:09 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: huerfano at September 27, 2026 10:38 AM (2Xqig)
Hmmm...I've got a copy of The Monkey's Raincoat around here somewhere, picked up at a thrift store. I haven't read it. I need something light after Chernow's "Washington", think I'll go look for that.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 27, 2026 11:11 AM (CjHsb)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 27, 2026 11:08 AM (qRla/)
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I have not, and I will!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 27, 2026 11:12 AM (kpS4V)
Schulz should have stopped after the first 10 years. So should Walt Kelly.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 27, 2026 11:06 AM (qRla/)
I think that raises an interesting point. How many comic strips actually hold up over time? Calvin and Hobbes, as long as little boys aren't to be drugged senseless. Peanuts, I think does. They never tried to be topical; their themes are timeless. But Lil' Abner and Pogo don't. And nobody can remember when Doonesbury was in the least bit funny.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2026 11:14 AM (eRlcH)
Posted by: polynikes at September 27, 2026 11:17 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 27, 2026 11:08 AM (qRla/)
Is that the one where a girl lovingly reminisces about growing up with her dear mother, who was Swedish? Except then she finds out that she was really Lemurian?
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2026 11:20 AM (H8mUs)
Very few. In fact, I can't think of any that have managed to continue on from their original versions, unless the version began as a joke-a-day comic. Beetle Bailey was much richer in dialogue and art for the first ten years. Pogo jumped the shark when Kelly thought his mockery of Joe McCarthy made him America's conscience. Barney Google and Popeye were lavishly drawn and immensely fascinating under the pens of DeBeck and Segar. They were nothing like the limping, pallid ghosts of today.
I should do a post about comic strips.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 27, 2026 11:20 AM (qRla/)
No viewer at the time blinked an eye at that .
Posted by: polynikes at September 27, 2026 11:20 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 27, 2026 11:02 AM (kpS4V)
So, it's real skimpy? Barely there? Can't say that's good for the inside of the book.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 27, 2026 11:21 AM (1Ff7Z)
Actually, I can. The first few years, especially the ones he did in college, were laugh out loud hilarious. A few were poignant. Then he decided he was a preacher, maybe a prophet, instead of a comic strip artist. The humor vanished under tedious, banal virtue signaling.
Posted by: JTB at September 27, 2026 11:21 AM (yTvNw)
Actually, I can. The first few years, especially the ones he did in college, were laugh out loud hilarious. A few were poignant.
Yes, I ought to amend that. He hasn't been funny since the Fall of Saigon.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2026 11:23 AM (eRlcH)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 27, 2026 11:23 AM (kpS4V)
I'll answer later today. Too many things to do this morning.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 27, 2026 11:23 AM (1Ff7Z)
Kinda heavy reading.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at September 27, 2026 11:23 AM (FGA9/)
Posted by: TecumsehTea at September 27, 2026 11:23 AM (FGA9/)
Ack. Good luck with that. And prayers continue for Mr. Tea and you.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 27, 2026 11:25 AM (CjHsb)
(To his credit, Shaver eventually found a way to manage his mental illness and achieved a functional and apparently happy life.)
Posted by: Trimegistus at September 27, 2026 11:25 AM (78a2H)
JTB is right - early Doonesbury, the strips which mocked the Black Panthers, campus sit-ins and Mike's non-existent love life, were funny. Even his Nixon strips had their funny moments (my fave is when Nixon's jut-out-of-jail aides meet for a reunion and sing "We're Richard Nixon's Secret Tapes Club Band!"
But he lost his sense of humor years ago. The same with "Tom Tomorrow" and Ruben Bolling.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 27, 2026 11:26 AM (qRla/)
Dilbert is another that stays funny over time, I think.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 27, 2026 11:26 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 27, 2026 11:27 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: mrp at September 27, 2026 11:28 AM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: polynikes at September 27, 2026 11:09 AM (KC5Lt)
No, they just use that excuse to help the other side. They're wolves in sheep's clothing. I have no doubt the NT crowd would be orgasmic if they found out Trump supporters were being killed. They would put on long faces and tut-tut, but always come up with an excuse as to why they deserved it.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 27, 2026 11:28 AM (1Ff7Z)
Hope you all have a wonderful day.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 27, 2026 11:29 AM (qRla/)
"UK police arrest 5 men under terrorism, explosives acts close to US air base"
Locals evacuated.
Posted by: mrp at September 27, 2026 11:30 AM (rj6Yv)
No the people I refer to were the same during Bush. At least they were consistent with Obama and Biden.
Posted by: polynikes at September 27, 2026 11:30 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 27, 2026 11:31 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 27, 2026 11:33 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 11:33 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: TecumsehTea at September 27, 2026 11:33 AM (FGA9/)
Posted by: polynikes at September 27, 2026 11:30 AM (KC5Lt)
But we thought they were on our side then. They can always find the conservative case for doing non-conservative things. The masks were firmly in place then.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 27, 2026 11:34 AM (1Ff7Z)
1) Amelia Sings "Gods of the Copybook Headings."
https://tinyurl.com/zsha2zwj
2) Amelia, "Boots"
https://tinyurl.com/3f7h4wuu
3) "Gunga Din"
https://tinyurl.com/4cnf4sx6
And this Youtuber, Epochalypse, did many other of Kipling's poems, too, such as "If," "Tommy," "The Roman's Centurion's Song," "Dane-Geld" and many others.
Check it out if you like what Epochalypse did. I've spent quite a bit of time listening and watching these videos.
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at September 27, 2026 11:34 AM (zQMY+)
peanuts.
all sunday comics are so de- fanged at this point as to be completely humorless. i haven't laughed at one in so long that mom no longer saves them for me.
but while eric powell is still kicking let the other interpretations of goon continue.
and bless watterson.
Posted by: cmeat at September 27, 2026 11:35 AM (ncRE1)
I suspect the 100 years + of Communism, and maybe a few hundred years of Totalitarian rule over them has caused this.
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 11:39 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: mrp at September 27, 2026 11:30 AM (rj6Yv)
From the BBC:
Resident describes waking to police banging on her front door
published at 07:41
07:41
One resident who has lived in the area for 18 years said she was woken by police banging on her door.
She was then ordered to leave straight away, without being able to take her dog with her.
****
Yeah, no. Cops banging on my door telling me to evac and saying I can't bring my dogs with me are going to be in for a surprise when I say, "watch me."
Posted by: one hour sober at September 27, 2026 11:40 AM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 27, 2026 11:42 AM (1Ff7Z)
"UK police arrest 5 men under terrorism, explosives acts close to US air base"
Locals evacuated.
Posted by: mrp at September 27, 2026 11:30 AM (rj6Yv)
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Do the mugshots resemble Guy Fawkes?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 27, 2026 11:43 AM (wpRMV)
I'm betting Muzzies with British citizenship, maybe a few illegals.
Posted by: Trimegistus at September 27, 2026 11:44 AM (78a2H)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 11:44 AM (wzUl9)
Yep, Muzzies.
Posted by: Trimegistus at September 27, 2026 11:45 AM (78a2H)
**********
Let us not be hasty. It could be that splinter Amish group, the Yodeling Yoders. We all know how much they hate the Mennonites!
Posted by: Andy Burnham at September 27, 2026 11:47 AM (zQMY+)
Posted by: Ib1netmon at September 27, 2026 11:47 AM (/ROPn)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 11:48 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 27, 2026 11:43 AM (wpRMV)
BBC Verify received a photo of the five men taken by a local.
BBC blurred out their faces before publishing, because of course they did.
Posted by: one hour sober at September 27, 2026 11:48 AM (J4Dwc)
we had a copy of chronicles on the coffee table, next to the herman compilations. his lib always showed, but i was too young to be repulsed. i wanted to be zonker, but eventually became b.d.
Posted by: cmeat at September 27, 2026 11:51 AM (ncRE1)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 27, 2026 11:55 AM (kpS4V)
Scot Sloan's coffee shop, for instance.
Scot: Hi there. I'm Scot Sloan, the fighting young priest who can talk to the young.
Mark: Well, good for you, sweetheart. I'll have a large black coffee to go.
Trudeau was pretty good a lot of the time, before he became 'important.'
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 27, 2026 11:56 AM (q3u5l)
"off to the red lion i suppose? beer isn't everything you know, andy"
"he's right, you know. but it's way ahead of whatever's in second place."
and on the dash of my 455cu poncho: "wiederman, in this car we are either going to the gas station, at the gas station, or, foolishly, leaving the gas station."
Posted by: cmeat at September 27, 2026 11:58 AM (ncRE1)
Thanks again for the thread, MP4.
Have a good one, gang.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 27, 2026 11:59 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Andy Burnham at September 27, 2026 12:00 PM (zQMY+)
A Mister Boffo reference?!
Posted by: Nazdar at September 27, 2026 12:02 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Nazdar at September 27, 2026 12:02 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 12:02 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Bryce at September 27, 2026 09:04 AM (5GspC)
Michael Kurland wrote several pastiches on the Holmes "cannon" from the point of view of an American reporter who was recruited by Prof. Moriarty for a term of years in return for springing him out of a Turkish prison where he was held for a crime he did not commit.
Moriarty, in this series, is not the Napoleon of crime, but instead is a "consulting criminal" planning capers for the London underworld to gain funds to continue his mathematical investigations which appear to be around gravity and possibly general relativity.
The Infernal Device and Death by Gaslight are the two I have read. There are apparently more
Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2026 12:05 PM (rbvCR)
Heh.
No, it's fine. Nicholas Meyer's "Seven Percent Solution" is enjoyable. Most others I encounter are vaguely annoying.
With "Lair of the White Worm," I think I'm in the clear since it's not exactly an iconic novel full of memorable characters and people aren't reading Stoker for his stylish prose.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at September 27, 2026 12:15 PM (K40fF)
Next up would be the Conan stories written by tons of people. Again, they all seem to miss some core element that Robert E. Howard had, with even the best by Karl Edward Wagner, L Sprague de Camp, and Lin Carter just not matching.
I am definitely not a big fan of Derleth's Mythos work, which I think drags Carter's Xothic stories down a bit. Conversely, I love Howard's and Clark Ashton Smith's Mythos works. While not Lovecraft, they have a real spirit and coherence that stands on its own.
Posted by: Sam at September 27, 2026 12:15 PM (7jMef)
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at September 27, 2026 11:34 AM (zQMY+)
Epochalypse+Amelia+Kipling is like potato chips. I'm always going to watch one real quick and then log off for the night, and then it's an hour later.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 27, 2026 12:16 PM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Stacy0311 at September 27, 2026 12:21 PM (wwlYu)
Bedtime reading is one of those 'Clancy' novels, 'Dead or Alive' actually by a fellow named Blackwood. The writing is just so-so. The Clancy/Mark Greaney novels were better.
I note that Skip mentions above further reading of 'The Gathering Storm'. It is remarkable how the politicains/diplomats of the world powers sat on their hands as post-WWI Germany re-armed. The parallels with current affairs vis-a-vis Iran are remarkable.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2026 12:36 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Norrin Radd, sojourner of the spaceways at September 27, 2026 12:55 PM (eHQKA)
Posted by: Skip
Read: The Pickle Factory
Explains it all, footnotes DCI/Deutch, but left out George Tenet's contribution to the worlds largest/Kelly's Hero's style bank robbery.
LET'S GO BRANDON!
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at September 27, 2026 01:03 PM (6neaR)
Aspirin's novels fell off drastically when he added a co-writer. (Though who knows how much writing anyone does on these things?)
Smith's Cthulhu mythos are not Lovecraft, but they are their own thing, which is fine.
And I have the chronological Conan stories, where the Howard stories shine and the others (mostly) are slogs. (Which is kind of hard for a short story.)
It's kind of fascinating.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at September 27, 2026 01:38 PM (K40fF)
Posted by: Nemo at September 27, 2026 02:12 PM (4RPgu)
Posted by: Mark Shaw at September 27, 2026 08:52 PM (YA+0k)
Daily Tech News 27 September 2026
Top Story
- There's a new way to break RSA security that only requires you to (checks notes) occupy the entire infrastructure of Cloudflare for a day to break a single Privacy Pass key. (Ars Technica)
Generic RSA is still safe; this is for one particular use case.
Tech News
- Speaking of controlled flights into bankruptcy, Microsoft's Copilot+ branding just did the thing. (Windows Central)
Everyone hated it and now it's gone.
- Claude Opus 5.5, now with 95% fewer em-dashes. (Bleeping Computer)
But extra o-dashes.
- Proposed federal legislation wants VPNs to ban piracy sites. (Tom's Hardware)
But doesn't seem to know anything about VPNs.
- Ubuntu is planning to release a new kernel version every two weeks going forward. (Canonical)
Yay.
Disclaimer: The 80s were certainly something.
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Lots of late night reading. Too lazy to try the 7 essential iPhone tricks that will unlock thousands of value. May consider releasing a bot army programmed to cure cancer with these three simple rules.
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g'mornin', 'rons
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Posted by: m
TARDY!
Detention for you, young man!
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 04:59 AM (rdVOm)
Could I have some cranberry/walnut cookies instead?
Posted by: m at September 27, 2026 05:35 AM (odBC9)
Here is a devotional by a man who has set up two para church organizations in Sri Lanka. Here he is reflecting on Psalm 4:1-8, and "The Lord Hears Us."
https://tinyurl.com/3mzdzvv2
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2026 05:49 AM (JrHfD)
I'm not really here. Or not really awake. Or something. Go on with what you were doing.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 05:53 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2026 05:54 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 05:54 AM (Ia/+0)
https://tinyurl.com/4ck7azwc
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2026 05:57 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 05:57 AM (Ia/+0)
However, that sneaky motivation has concealed itself somewhere.
Morning and evening, all. Stirling and Dagny are trotting about, hoping breakfast will be early. What's up?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 05:59 AM (wzUl9)
Woke up a few hours ago (briefly) to discover that TWO of my cats were sharing my bed.
Penny was on my left and Chloe was on my right and both of them were snoozing peacefully until I disturbed them.
They are really starting to get along with each other, which is nice.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 27, 2026 06:02 AM (FZ29D)
Woke up a few hours ago (briefly) to discover that TWO of my cats were sharing my bed.
Penny was on my left and Chloe was on my right and both of them were snoozing peacefully until I disturbed them.
They are really starting to get along with each other, which is nice.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 27, 2026
***
My two furry thugs do that from time to time. Rarely do they sleep any closer. Wolf and Chekov would cuddle together and groom each other (thus my jokes to Linda about "Chekov has yet to come out of the closet"), but these two keep a certain distance.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 06:05 AM (wzUl9)
Almost 18 days on the road, and finally finished back home last night.
Almost a week in Vegas, visited with son and DiL before his deployment which begins today.
Road trip up the eastern shore and across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge tunnel during this nor'easter.
Multiple days in Baltimore with MiL working on home repairs before winter sets in.
And first night back home, the morning temps right now are only 49 degrees.
And church in a few hours.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 27, 2026 06:05 AM (iMotb)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 06:07 AM (wzUl9)
Penny was on my left and Chloe was on my right and both of them were snoozing peacefully until I disturbed them.
They are really starting to get along with each other, which is nice.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 27, 2026 06:02 AM (FZ29D)
Good kitties!
Posted by: m at September 27, 2026 06:10 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 27, 2026 06:11 AM (amcLV)
Posted by: Brunnhilde at September 27, 2026 06:13 AM (3AwA+)
Posted by: Brunnhilde at September 27, 2026
***
Sell it!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 06:13 AM (wzUl9)
Winds are 20-30 mph. Rains come in bands. Going to be like this all day. Guess I'll watch the Giants.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 27, 2026 06:14 AM (Naxcc)
Sounds like a very busy, productive and good time. May God bless and protect your son and all people being deployed and their families.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2026 06:14 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 27, 2026 06:15 AM (iMotb)
Posted by: Brunnhilde at September 27, 2026 06:16 AM (3AwA+)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 06:18 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 06:19 AM (Ia/+0)
But extra o-dashes.
Is that like ... an o-face?
Posted by: m at September 27, 2026 06:21 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 06:21 AM (Ia/+0)
Almost a week in Vegas, visited with son and DiL before his deployment which begins today.
Road trip up the eastern shore and across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge tunnel during this nor'easter.
Multiple days in Baltimore with MiL working on home repairs before winter sets in.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 27, 2026 06:05 AM (iMotb)
Whew!
Posted by: m at September 27, 2026 06:23 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2026 06:26 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines. at September 27, 2026 06:27 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 27, 2026 06:28 AM (amcLV)
Posted by: Brunnhilde at September 27, 2026 06:29 AM (3AwA+)
The PCV repairs on the Volvo V-70?
At 290,000 miles the car didn't use a drop of oil during the trip, and on the return run from Baltimore to Summerville SC we averaged 71 miles per hour for the 568 mile trip at 28.9 miles per gallon.
New in 2006 it was EPA rated at 27 MPG highway.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 27, 2026 06:29 AM (iMotb)
https://tinyurl.com/3j6xyjd8
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2026 06:29 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 27, 2026 06:30 AM (5C90x)
Posted by: Nazdar at September 27, 2026 06:32 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Brunnhilde at September 27, 2026 06:16 AM (3AwA+)
Google “Metal Scrap Dealers” in your area and contact them about your copper.
Tell them what you have, and ask how much it’s worth, and what, if any, paperwork you need or have to fill out.
You might find it’s not worth your time if it’s not a lot of tubing and it’s too much of a hassle to sell it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2026 06:32 AM (6ydKt)
I don't recall being "Hot for teacher " although I do recall a nice looking guy in his twenties who was my English teacher. He didn't like teaching and went into something else. I also had a funny teacher ( Can't recall which grade-maybe 5th?) . He had a phone in his desk and used to interrupt class by saying he had to take a call from the President. I think he became a truck driver.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2026 06:34 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2026 06:34 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 06:35 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Brunnhilde at September 27, 2026 06:37 AM (3AwA+)
Posted by: Dark Lix at September 27, 2026 06:37 AM (Fv808)
Posted by: Mrs JTB at September 27, 2026 06:37 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 27, 2026 06:29 AM (iMotb)
Well, if retirement doesn’t work out you could always drive a few miles down the road and start working at Volvo as a technician.
They’d probably be more surprised at your gas mileage on a 2006 than you were.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2026 06:39 AM (6ydKt)
I'll have to check it out to see what's there. But it's not a huge amount and should fit in the trunk of my car. I know one large piece still has the shower nozzle attached.
Posted by: Brunnhilde at September 27, 2026 06:40 AM (3AwA+)
You are correct!
Her next trip is in December, so that should be done and back to normal.
But she took Amtrak down in the beginning of this month and it was pretty much a challenge to remain on schedule.
And she rode back to B'More with us this week, so she is home and safe.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 27, 2026 06:41 AM (iMotb)
Posted by: Brunnhilde at September 27, 2026 06:41 AM (3AwA+)
Posted by: Brunnhilde at September 27, 2026 06:37 AM (3AwA+)
Used to be you could ride in and sell an entire truckbed worth of scrap no problems, quick & easy.
Then methheads discovered scrap metal and it’s never been the same since.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2026 06:41 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
Remember Sudafed?
Posted by: Dark Lix at September 27, 2026 06:44 AM (Fv808)
Posted by: Just Wondering at September 27, 2026 06:45 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Dark Lix at September 27, 2026 06:44 AM (Fv80
Anything with pseudoephedrine.
I think most of the company’s just stopped using it.
Which is why allergy & sinus medicines suck a lot harder now.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2026 06:47 AM (6ydKt)
"He took out a locked canvas bag and cut it open with a Barlow knife and dumped the contents on the ground . He grinned and said , "Christmas Gift'.
Of course, that is what children shout to each other early on Christmas morning, the game being to shout it first ...." (to be continued)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2026 06:50 AM (JrHfD)
"I had not thought of the disfigured robber having had a childhood. I expect he was mean to cats and made rude noises in church when he was not asleep. When he needed a form restraining hand, it was not there . An old story!"
Great stuff! I think I'll have to look for some other books by Charles Portis if they'll still in print.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2026 06:53 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 06:54 AM (Ia/+0)
We had a PE teacher whose only job, apparently, was to protect the young boys from the predations of the female teachers. He was Mr. G, but they should have called him Mr. G-Spot, he hit just that hard.
Posted by: meh at September 27, 2026 06:55 AM (zZxsY)
"Disclaimer: The 80s were certainly something."
- still ongoing debate about exactly what, however ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 27, 2026 06:56 AM (VyBeY)
Well of course MPG would be good. You went... *checks map* uh, down the whole way.
/2026 geography student
Posted by: man at September 27, 2026 06:57 AM (pfXMo)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 27, 2026 07:01 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Just Wondering at September 27, 2026 06:45 AM (2Ez/1)
====
We had a visit from a juvenile red shouldered hawk yesterday. No bath he just hung out for a while.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 27, 2026 07:04 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
You forgot the covid face mask. Other than that, that's a good list and a good point.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 27, 2026 07:12 AM (VyD10)
In solidarity with our Avian co-beings!
Frizelda Q. Scretchan, Ed.D
Posted by: taken at random from Cambridge University's job application stack at September 27, 2026 07:13 AM (967/Q)
Posted by: The red shouldered hawk at September 27, 2026 07:14 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines. at September 27, 2026 07:18 AM (O7YUW)
Pixy, are old dinosaurs like me the only people who remember from the start of the internet the first major attempt at user control of mass reporting sites they didn't like (AoS, Daily Pundit, Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler, etc.) to the various anti-virus and firewall sites as allowing malware, porn, and anything else that would get flags to popup warning you not to go there and reporting on you if you did? All they taught us was to ignore warnings. This is just the latest attempt, except I guess the site will just disappear.
Posted by: SDN at September 27, 2026 07:21 AM (0sMG6)
Posted by: taken at random...
Not true. In fact, I have it on good authority that all the little birdies on Jaybird Street love to hear me going tweet, tweet, tweet!
Posted by: Rockin' Robin at September 27, 2026 07:21 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 27, 2026 07:22 AM (RYmEM)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 27, 2026 07:22 AM (l26NL)
Posted by: olddog in mo at September 27, 2026 07:22 AM (Hbeqj)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 27, 2026 07:22 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines. at September 27, 2026 07:18 AM (O7YUW)
One look at education departments, or entire college enrollment for that matter, will explain it.
For all college/university I think the ratio if 60/40 female/male.
For education degrees it's probably more like 75/25.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2026 07:23 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: A. Hitchcock at September 27, 2026 07:24 AM (2Ez/1)
===
Mazel! Do they have a guest room?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 27, 2026 07:25 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Big Penguin at September 27, 2026 07:26 AM (MWfyi)
"UK police evacuate homes near air base used by US — detain men on suspected explosives offenses"
Since it's the UK we all know what kind of "men" they're talking about.
Posted by: Tuna at September 27, 2026 07:27 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 27, 2026 07:22 AM
Unpossible!
TikTok says NO ONE cannot afford a house under this evil Orangeman Bad administration!!
Posted by: Tattooed Purple haired tackle box faced female at September 27, 2026 07:27 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: man at September 27, 2026 07:31 AM (pfXMo)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 27, 2026 07:32 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2026
***
Fen, I know TG was his second novel. His first, Norwood, is not a Western but a then-present-day novel about a country boy traveling to the city. Glen Campbell and Kim Darby starred in a movie version of it around 1970, I think.
I think Portis has written more since TG.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 07:32 AM (wzUl9)
Indeed. All those new developments springing up seemingly overnight around Austin are...imaginary?
Posted by: man at September 27, 2026 07:33 AM (pfXMo)
Posted by: Plaque on Karen McAwfl's birdbath in Westchester County, NY at September 27, 2026 07:33 AM (2Ez/1)
Mennonite? Devo? We'll never know...
Posted by: man"
Nowadays we can't even be sure they are men.
mornin yall
Posted by: fd at September 27, 2026 07:34 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Tuna at September 27, 2026 07:27 AM (lJ0H4)
It probably is some "Pro-Palestinian" "protesters".
But, it is the UK, so I would not be surprised if there are a few actual English lefty-Green-party type nuts involved as well.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2026 07:35 AM (6ydKt)
Mennonite? Devo? We'll never know...
Posted by: man
What's surprising is that these "men" were even arrested to begin with.
Posted by: Tuna at September 27, 2026 07:35 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: New Xbox game at September 27, 2026 07:36 AM (967/Q)
Posted by: Rooster Cogburn at September 27, 2026 07:37 AM (2Ez/1)
Some yogurt & honey, an English muffin w/ peanut butter, and coffee now. I've got a few chores to do before the Book Thread as well.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 07:37 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Tuna at September 27, 2026 07:35 AM
+++++
Nothing Will Happen.
Posted by: The person who always says that at September 27, 2026 07:38 AM (2Ez/1)
Just going down the list of teachers at a local elementary school (Canada) and looking at the first names:
73% female
19% male
8% ambiguous, couldn't automatically determine sex from the first name, it's one of those that can be given to both males and females.
The list is outdated though (probably last year) as I know one of the male teachers has moved on to another school.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines. at September 27, 2026 07:41 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: man at September 27, 2026 07:44 AM (pfXMo)
73% female
19% male
8% ambiguous, couldn't automatically determine sex from the first name, it's one of those that can be given to both males and females.
The list is outdated though (probably last year) as I know one of the male teachers has moved on to another school.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines. at September 27, 2026 07:41 AM (O7YUW)
When I look back on my years in school from the 80s into the 90s, it wasn't really all that different.
I can remember some male teachers in school, but it was probably 80-85% female even back then.
I actually had more male professors in college classes but even then it was probably 70/30.
I think women are just naturally drawn to teaching for whatever reason.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2026 07:44 AM (6ydKt)
"BREAKING: Rochester General Hospital in New York hired 82 resident doctors.
80 are foreign workers on H-1B or J-1 visas.
Only 2 are Americans.
98% of the residency slots went to visa workers- mostly from countries with documented USMLE cheating.
Americans got 2 jobs."
Posted by: Tuna at September 27, 2026 07:51 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2026 07:44 AM
They're forced into it by the oppressive patriarchy!
Posted by: Overweight purple haired Karen on TikTok at September 27, 2026 07:52 AM (2Ez/1)
Only 2 are Americans."
Ah, the diversity...
/Karen McWinebox
Posted by: man at September 27, 2026 07:53 AM (pfXMo)
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 27, 2026 07:54 AM (ezlON)
After that, male teachers for gym, of course, but usually only one or two other male teachers a year at most: reading, English, US history, chemistry.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 07:56 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Tuna at September 27, 2026 07:51 AM (lJ0H4)
The Lotus Eaters were hammering this point over and over again for a few months on the same thing going on in the UK.
They went through the official numbers, news articles and other sources and came to the conclusion that the entire youth unemployment rate in England can be explained by the fact that all the entry-level jobs for young people were filled by imported migrants.
I'm sure the same thing is happening in Canada and Oz, to some extent, and here as much as they can get away with it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2026 07:57 AM (6ydKt)
I can remember some male teachers in school, but it was probably 80-85% female even back then.
I actually had more male professors in college classes but even then it was probably 70/30.
I think women are just naturally drawn to teaching for whatever reason.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2026 07:44 AM (6ydKt)
Yeah, it depends on what grade you are in, I think. I didn’t have a male teacher until 3rd Grade. None after until 6th, from that point onwards they just increased in number. It reflects life in a way. Women gravitate towards the younger kids (you see this in elementary school) and men the older kids. I would not want to teach any younger than, say, 7th Grade.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 27, 2026 07:58 AM (ezlON)
I'm sure the same thing is happening in Canada and Oz, to some extent, and here as much as they can get away with it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2026 07:57 AM (6ydKt)
That IS happening in Canada in fact.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 27, 2026 08:00 AM (ezlON)
Posted by: Since MAiD is so popular now at September 27, 2026 08:02 AM (kLJmv)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 27, 2026 08:03 AM (VyBeY)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
I'd say that 80 out of 82 slots is getting away with it pretty good.
Posted by: Tuna at September 27, 2026 08:03 AM (lJ0H4)
After that, male teachers for gym, of course, but usually only one or two other male teachers a year at most: reading, English, US history, chemistry.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 07:56 AM (wzUl9)
It was probably middle school when I had my first male teacher, too.
He was a big bear of a man, with a long white beard (he could've passed for Santa Claus). Taught math and was a very good teacher.
Before that it was all female from K -5.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2026 08:03 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Tuna at September 27, 2026 08:03 AM (lJ0H4)
Well, you don't see many boys cutting grass in the summer for extra money, either. And I can't say for sure, but I bet a lot less girls babysit for their money either.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2026 08:04 AM (6ydKt)
Well, ok then.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 27, 2026 08:05 AM (/kGWX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 27, 2026 08:06 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Tuna at September 27, 2026 08:06 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 27, 2026 08:08 AM (/kGWX)
Got a son under 30 and not from an approved group?
He's not getting into higher ed. Or med school. Or anything along those lines.
OTOH, he'll be vilified for playing video games or whatever else he's allowed to do...
Posted by: man at September 27, 2026 08:08 AM (pfXMo)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 27, 2026 08:09 AM (3Ope8)
They've been drugged for the first 10 years of their lives. What would you expect?
Posted by: man at September 27, 2026 08:10 AM (pfXMo)
After that, not until I got to college and had grad students teaching me did I ever find a teacher hot.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 08:11 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 27, 2026 08:13 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026
***
Of course, it helped that I was taking drama classes. The teachers and grad students tended to be above average in the looks department.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 08:14 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Brother Tim sez at September 27, 2026 08:15 AM (ENA4W)
They've been drugged for the first 10 years of their lives. What would you expect?
Posted by: man at September 27, 2026 08:10 AM (pfXMo)
There are still some left.
There's a kid in the neighborhood who comes around every fall asking to rake leaves.
But he's the only one, and a rare occurrence.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2026 08:16 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2026 08:16 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 27, 2026 08:17 AM (JGkXT)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 08:17 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 08:14 AM
+++
So you're a theatre kid...
Posted by: Duly noted at September 27, 2026 08:17 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 27, 2026 08:13 AM (RIvkX)
I had a 10th grade French teacher who I adored.
And she adored me right back, probably because I made her laugh.
I don't remember much French, but I do remember her.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2026 08:18 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 08:14 AM
+++
So you're a theatre kid...
Posted by: Duly noted at September 27, 2026
***
Hey, it was the Seventies.
It occurs to me that if I'd had a car then, I could have dated more than a few of those grad students. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 08:19 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: School Daze at September 27, 2026 08:20 AM (Fn+3X)
Had his posters all over the classroom.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2026 08:20 AM (6ydKt)
Male teachers in elementary school were considered.......odd.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 27, 2026 08:20 AM (JS6jE)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2026 08:22 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: P. Floyd at September 27, 2026 08:24 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 27, 2026 08:24 AM (l26NL)
Posted by: School Daze... at September 27, 2026 08:25 AM (Fn+3X)
Hot teachers? Can't recall having one. Some of my classmates on the other hand...
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 27, 2026 08:26 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: School Daze... at September 27, 2026 08:25 AM (Fn+3X)
I'm amazed you can remember their names.
I can't remember any of my teacher's names.
But I'm not great with names to begin with.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2026 08:27 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: School Daze...... at September 27, 2026 08:27 AM (Fn+3X)
That, and celebrating Cleveland baseball. An unlikely victorious season. One human interest story that has emerged is Jo Adell, an outfielder who has spent his entire professional career in the hapless Anaheim Angels organization, until being traded this season to Cleveland. His tremendous joy at winning a division and getting to play in a postseason tournament is wonderful to see.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 27, 2026 08:27 AM (4gK0A)
Posted by: Bookman at September 27, 2026 08:30 AM (2Ez/1)
That's so nice of you to be concerned with the outfielder and noting his joy.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2026 08:31 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Tuna at September 27, 2026 08:31 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: School Daze Remembrances. at September 27, 2026 08:32 AM (Fn+3X)
Yum. Slow cooking hatch pepper pork butt...
Should be ready late afternoon or so...
Posted by: man at September 27, 2026 08:33 AM (pfXMo)
Should be ready late afternoon or so...
Posted by: man
Just in time for the food thread.
Posted by: Tuna at September 27, 2026 08:34 AM (lJ0H4)
The house they pick in Connecticut, an hour's train ride from Manhattan, is a dump: Three or four construction people advise, "Tear it down." They do, design their own place, and the costs mushroom. I figure if you multiply all the amounts given by 20, you'd come close to today's prices. An $18,000 mortgage in 1948 = ca. $360,000 today . . . but I doubt an ad exec makes $300,000 a year in NYC nowadays unless he's a partner in the firm.
The lesson, given by his buddy (Melvyn Douglas), is that sometimes the things you buy with your heart rather than your head are the things that really count.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 08:35 AM (wzUl9)
And yes, that was her name.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2026 08:36 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Bookman at September 27, 2026
***
Yeah, that was the thing. If the girls in Library Science had been half as attractive as the ones in drama, I might have majored in the former. But, no dice.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 08:37 AM (wzUl9)
IIRC, "Comet" was a stand alone brand, was supposed to be part of the Edsel line. Ford added the larger engine, and they became good hotrods...
And yes, slow cooked food thread. Yum
Posted by: man at September 27, 2026 08:38 AM (pfXMo)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 27, 2026 08:39 AM (3Ope8)
I can't remember any of my teacher's names.
Remember all my K-6 & high school teachers' names, but only about 2/3 of 7th-8th grade, probably because there was a lot of team teaching so not just one teacher per class.
Only 2 of the 20 teachers in my grade school were male, both taught 6th grade. Had one of them as a math teacher.
Posted by: Nazdar at September 27, 2026 08:40 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2026 08:40 AM (H8mUs)
The teacher unobserved by us had entered with a metal yardstick which he whacked against the side of his metal desk. I must have jumped three feet off the stool. Ok, you have my attention.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 27, 2026 08:40 AM (RIvkX)
Based on what I hear from my grandkids, team teaching seems to the thing nowadays.
Posted by: Tuna at September 27, 2026 08:41 AM (lJ0H4)
He was a formidable guy, a very good teacher, who referred to himself as "sublime and profound". If you behaved and did the work, he was very nice to you, but if you were a lazy troublemaker, woe to you. He later became a Principal.
Posted by: School Daze Remembrances... at September 27, 2026 08:42 AM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Tom Servo
I was thinking the same thing.
Posted by: Tuna at September 27, 2026 08:43 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 27, 2026 08:44 AM (UvtrC)
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"A Goombah Grows in New Rochelle"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 27, 2026 08:45 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 27, 2026 08:45 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Nazdar at September 27, 2026 08:46 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 27, 2026 08:46 AM (3Ope8)
https://tinyurl.com/4tnrkzu7
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 27, 2026 08:45 AM (ndZc7)
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Spencer Pratt has a sharp take and wit. Really love that he worked so hard to save LA, and has stuck around to comment on the crazies.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 27, 2026 08:49 AM (gxd91)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 27, 2026 08:49 AM (q3u5l)
Valiant was also supposed to be a stand-alone brand in 1960 when it came out, but were Plymouths I think for the 61 model year.
Posted by: Auto Hijinks at September 27, 2026 08:50 AM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 08:35 AM (wzUl9)
I like that movie.
Seen it several times.
Myrna Loy is especially charming in it.
I think that was the inspiration for Tom Hanks & Shelly Long in The Money Pit which I also enjoy a lot.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2026 08:50 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 08:51 AM (Ia/+0)
His daughter was a complete hottie and knew it.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 27, 2026 08:51 AM (5C90x)
Posted by: School Daze Remembrances... at September 27, 2026
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In grammar school, you knew who would be your teacher the next year, since each one taught only one grade (unless she left). But in jr. high and high school, it was a crap shoot. The first day of school was terrifying, because you did not know into whose clutches you'd be delivered for the next nine months.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 08:52 AM (wzUl9)
Not a coincidence.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2026 08:52 AM (viF8m)
Seen it several times.
Myrna Loy is especially charming in it.
I think that was the inspiration for Tom Hanks & Shelly Long in The Money Pit which I also enjoy a lot.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2026
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IMDb says The Money Pit was a remake of it. I've never seen that one, so I don't know.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 08:53 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Sunny Daze! at September 27, 2026 08:53 AM (Fn+3X)
But you might not want to watch it while house-hunting. Maybe after you find a place that's satisfactory when you move in and still satisfactory after a year or so.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 27, 2026 08:55 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 27, 2026 08:57 AM (gxd91)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 27, 2026 08:59 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 27, 2026
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"Red, blue, yellow, green. Check."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 08:59 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Eromero at September 27, 2026 08:59 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 08:59 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
Ain't that the truth! Which gym teacher you got could mean the difference between life and death.
Posted by: Scarred For Life at September 27, 2026 08:59 AM (Fn+3X)
BOOK NOOD
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 08:59 AM (Ia/+0)
Yep. Delightful. Think there was a Joseph Epstein essay in which he talked about moving and was checking some things off with the movers. Couple of boxes of small miscellaneous figurines of some sort. 'Two boxes of bric-a-brac' became 'two boxes of shit.'
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 27, 2026 09:00 AM (q3u5l)
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IMDb says The Money Pit was a remake of it. I've never seen that one, so I don't know.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 08:53 AM (wzUl9)
I think the movies are quite different, BUT if you’ve ever redone an old house, you’ve lived it. Far harder and more mind bending than you dream it could be.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2026 09:00 AM (H8mUs)
Posted by: Tuna at September 27, 2026 09:00 AM (lJ0H4)
_two miles from RAF Fairford,
_ month after Iran-linked hackers were suspected of forcing a small British power generator offline for several days this summer
_ Iran was the likely culprit.
_ Iranian-affiliated actors have targeted similar industrial devices across water, energy and government sectors, seeking access to the software used to control them
---Fox
They can't write a direct nuts and bolts story.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 27, 2026 09:02 AM (JS6jE)
After that, male teachers for gym, of course, but usually only one or two other male teachers a year at most: reading, English, US history, chemistry.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2026 07:56 AM (wzUl9)
Same here. Started school in 1952, and had a few teachers, older female, that my mom had in the 20's. They were close to retirement by that time. Even the principal in elementary school was female, bearing a resemblance to Margaret Hamilton. Very nice, but strict lady. Mom had her as a teacher back in the late 20's. She retired around the time I was in the 3rd grade. No male teachers until Junior High. Those female teachers in the 50's were not to be trifled with!!
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 27, 2026 09:06 AM (hmYU4)
-- Thought we eliminated USAID?
Colombian nonprofit that provided aid services to Venezuelan migrants, LGBTQ+ individuals, those with HIV,..., has been debarred ..the president and affiliates sexually exploited [the benefactors]. Debarment is a form of penalty used by the agency to suspend funding and involvement with USAID for a period of time.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 27, 2026 09:08 AM (JS6jE)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 27, 2026 08:49 AM (q3u5l)
Mr. Gibson, my 8th grade history teacher, could do the same! He was a WW2 vet, a former marine, who fought in the pacific theater. Big, burly guy who also held a black belt. Great guy, but don't mess with him!
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 27, 2026 09:09 AM (hmYU4)
Dramatic pictures have shown terror police arresting five men and a bomb disposal robot sweeping three vans after a foiled terror attack at RAF Fairford first reported to police by a nearby resident.
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Note the police foiled the plot because a resident called it in.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 27, 2026 09:12 AM (JS6jE)
And he's not even dead yet.
Posted by: Ralph at September 27, 2026 02:31 PM (8WZD4)
Posted by: Tommy Shanks at September 28, 2026 07:00 AM (i0jxB)
Saturday Night Club ONT - September 26, 2026 [Disco & Dino]
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I am going to have to insist this is the only way I prefer to receive my adult beverages going forward. pic.twitter.com/6kC9NLYaJm
— Critically Thinking & Drinking 🧐 🥃🧉🍸🍹🤪 (@TheCriticalDri1) September 25, 2026
15 yard penalty for taking your dick out and peeing on the field
— Pardon My Take (@PardonMyTake) September 26, 2026
Thought this was America pic.twitter.com/R1df5W0uea
Things I thought I would NEVER hear in my lifetime lmao
— Hater Report (@HaterReport) September 26, 2026
“Unsportsmanlike conduct, Number 1, simulating using the restroom." 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/5xp7gn3ylt
Guess he didn't have the proper restroom token
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Hi Krazy Kats!
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I've heard good things about that annual shindig
Posted by: Doof at September 26, 2026 10:03 PM (QMAsf)
Sorry, Samauri bartender. I just want a beer!
Good even', y'all. Autumn has certainly started here in N.E. Okla. The best part of Autumn.
Posted by: mindful webworker - pride goes before the fall, fall goes before the Winter at September 26, 2026 10:03 PM (xRCm7)
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Posted by: Tonypete at September 26, 2026 10:04 PM (ktgTW)
He rocks!!
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Yeah yeah. Everyone thinks Hadrian is so great.
*sulks*
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at September 26, 2026 10:05 PM (wpRMV)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 26, 2026 10:00 PM (+fdRY)
Evening, Helena, and to our gracious hosts, too. Booked my flight to DFW today. Still in need of hotel room. Did book a rental car.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 10:05 PM (peOdB)
Posted by: lin-duh at September 26, 2026 10:05 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: four seasons at September 26, 2026 10:06 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Jack "Hacksaw" Reynolds at September 26, 2026 10:06 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2026 10:02 PM
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UT-9 goes through and east from Zion National Park.
UT-12 is in Bryce and Escalante.
Both are east of St. George. Google maps says Zion is about an hour away and Bryce is about 2 hours away.
Posted by: TRex - park ranger dino at September 26, 2026 10:07 PM (XfIK1)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 10:07 PM (peOdB)
Good joke, but "funeral van?" Hearse would have better served the punch line, methinks..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 26, 2026 10:09 PM (08OqX)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 26, 2026 10:09 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: four seasons at September 26, 2026 10:09 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 26, 2026 10:09 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: pookysgirl, trying to be patient at September 26, 2026 10:09 PM (Wt5PA)
Sorry, Samauri bartender. I just want a beer!
Posted by: mindful webworker - pride goes before the fall, fall goes before the Winter at September 26, 2026 10:03 PM (xRCm7)
Beer? Oh, you want the Taliban bartender. He'll cut off the head for you.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2026 10:10 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: pookysgirl
...
Posted by: Larry Beria at September 26, 2026 10:10 PM (88C+u)
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The way I've got you scored, you haven't even achieved mediocrity.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 26, 2026 10:10 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 26, 2026 10:10 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Tuna at September 26, 2026 10:10 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2026 10:11 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: four seasons at September 26, 2026 10:11 PM (/QHx4)
Good joke, but "funeral van?" Hearse would have better served the punch line, methinks..
Posted by: Joe Kidd
Maybe it's from some Euro weinie country?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 26, 2026 10:11 PM (Cqx++)
Glad he didn't call it on number 2...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 26, 2026 10:11 PM (08OqX)
Posted by: mikeski at September 26, 2026 10:02 PM (VHUov)
Would the singular be rouse (like mouse / mice) or rie (like die / dice)?
Posted by: Doof at September 26, 2026 10:12 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 26, 2026 10:12 PM (jCKWs)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 26, 2026 10:12 PM (zZu0s)
Sorry, Samauri bartender. I just want a beer!
Posted by: mindful webworker
* places beer on the back edge of bar *
* steps back *
* deep, calming breath *
* iaijutsu slice removes cap without touching bottle *
* catches flying bottle cap on flat of blade *
* flips it into trash *
* sheathes katana *
* pushes beer across bar *
* bows *
Posted by: Samurai bartender at September 26, 2026 10:12 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: pookysgirl, trying to be patient at September 26, 2026 10:09 PM
***
Caution - they're known to congregate together and travel in packs. This only magnifies the blast radius.
Posted by: TRex - duck and cover dino at September 26, 2026 10:12 PM (XfIK1)
Posted by: Tuna
I doubt the President even came in there minds while doing that. Just general narcissism, for clicks and viral moments.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 26, 2026 10:13 PM (PGK1w)
https://tinyurl.com/7n5a9kyy
Posted by: Don Black at September 26, 2026 10:13 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: pookysgirl, trying to be patient at September 26, 2026 10:09 PM
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Caution - they're known to congregate together and travel in packs. This only magnifies the blast radius.
Posted by: TRex - duck and cover dino at September 26, 2026 10:12 PM (XfIK1)
Do not assume that older members of the species are less dangerous or emotional- far from it. They become quite canny and devious as they grow older.
Caution!
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 26, 2026 10:14 PM (zZu0s)
* steps back *
* deep, calming breath *
* iaijutsu slice removes cap without touching bottle *
* catches flying bottle cap on flat of blade *
* flips it into trash *
* sheathes katana *
* pushes beer across bar *
* bows *
Posted by: Samurai bartender at September 26, 2026 10:12 PM (VHUov)
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*still waiting for sliced onion volcano*
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 26, 2026 10:14 PM (wpRMV)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 26, 2026 10:15 PM (jCKWs)
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at September 26, 2026 10:15 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 26, 2026 10:13 PM (PGK1w)
Team captain should have ejected both players from the game.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 10:15 PM (peOdB)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 26, 2026 10:16 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 26, 2026 10:16 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: TRex - park ranger dino at September 26, 2026 10:07 PM (XfIK1)
Thanks, next time we're around there, we might check them out.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2026 10:16 PM (1Ff7Z)
Evelyn Annette Summers, who is in her early 20s, was arrested March 24 and charged with one felony count of communicating a threat of mass violence on educational property, according to North Carolina court records.
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AWFLs being awful.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 26, 2026 10:16 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Some Rat at September 26, 2026 10:16 PM (BJzO2)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 26, 2026 10:16 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 26, 2026 10:15 PM (jCKWs)
Howdy COMM!
Posted by: Doof at September 26, 2026 10:16 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 26, 2026 10:15 PM
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Howdy COMM!
Posted by: TRex - counting rice dino at September 26, 2026 10:17 PM (XfIK1)
Don't worry, most girls grow our of it by the time they are out of 100.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2026 10:17 PM (viF8m)
That is some barkeeper's showmanship. I especially liked the squared off ice cube.
Great Saturday Night joke too!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 26, 2026 10:17 PM (D/6p1)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
The player who pretended to pee on the field is one of the team captains.
Posted by: Tuna at September 26, 2026 10:18 PM (lJ0H4)
https://tinyurl.com/7n5a9kyy
Posted by: Don Black at September 26, 2026 10:13 PM (ZxPkt)
LOL!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 10:18 PM (peOdB)
I don't think my digital kitchen scale measures in rice.
Or does it....
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 26, 2026 10:16 PM (Cqx++)
My son's rice cooker does...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2026 10:18 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: TRex - duck and cover dino at September 26, 2026 10:12 PM (XfIK1)
This one's a loner, and I really don't want her to be socially stunted, but it looks like I have no choice. I don't need her to be an extrovert, just someone who doesn't retreat into a book when waiting with her classmates for five minutes.
Posted by: pookysgirl, trying to be patient at September 26, 2026 10:19 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: four seasons at September 26, 2026 10:19 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: pookysgirl, trying to be patient at September 26, 2026 10:09 PM
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Caution - they're known to congregate together and travel in packs. This only magnifies the blast radius.
Posted by: TRex - duck and cover dino at September 26, 2026 10:12 PM (XfIK1)
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Animaniacs had a character like that--Katie Ka-Boom. She was 16, not 13, but I think the principle still holds.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 26, 2026 10:19 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at September 26, 2026 10:04 PM
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Sorry. Mandatory Maiden is part of the Wednesday ONT program, not usually part of Club ONT. Check back on Wednesday.
Posted by: TRex - friend of eddie dino at September 26, 2026 10:19 PM (XfIK1)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Gee, how much time does she waste counting?
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 26, 2026 10:19 PM (ftFVW)
communicating a threat of mass violence on educational property
Is "educational property" something special?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 26, 2026 10:20 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Tuna at September 26, 2026 10:18 PM (lJ0H4)
Then the coach should eject him from the game, and rescind his position as captain.
Or kick him so hard in the balls that he has to reach down his own throat to jerk off.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 10:20 PM (peOdB)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 26, 2026 10:20 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: lin-duh at September 26, 2026 10:21 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Gee, how much time does she waste counting?
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 26, 2026 10:19 PM (ftFVW)
My wife has some cookbooks from Hong Kong that measures in catties...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2026 10:21 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads
Who, Doof's apprentice? That guy?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 26, 2026 10:21 PM (NnhvP)
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AWFLs being awful.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 26, 2026 10:16 PM (ndZc7)
Why bother arresting them? Maybe it's about time that people start getting the crap beaten out of them instead. Arrest and release is a badge of honor for these people. A couple of broken arms or ribs might put a damper on their ardor for doing such things.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2026 10:21 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 26, 2026 10:21 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Gee, how much time does she waste counting?
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 26, 2026 10:19 PM (ftFVW)
My wife has some cookbooks from Hong Kong that measures in catties...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2026 10:21 PM (l3cgK)
Insert Chinese Restaurant Cat joke here...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2026 10:22 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: pookysgirl, trying to be patient at September 26, 2026 10:09 PM (Wt5PA)
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A 14 year old girl.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 26, 2026 10:22 PM (RIvkX)
My wife has some cookbooks from Hong Kong that measures in catties...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
The DO eat cats!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 26, 2026 10:22 PM (Cqx++)
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Societal disapprobation emphatically expressed with brass knuckles.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 26, 2026 10:23 PM (wpRMV)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
An anime running this past season, Kaiju Girl Caramelise, did something like that, too. About a girl who would start to turn literally monstrous when she got emotional.
Attention from her crush turned her into Godzilla.
Posted by: mikeski at September 26, 2026 10:23 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Gee, how much time does she waste counting?
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 26, 2026 10:19 PM (ftFVW)
Damn, this is a good comment. Your eyes glide over it at first as nothing special, then on replay, you catch the subtle nuances. Well played. *golfclap*
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 26, 2026 10:23 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Doesn't matter... property is a vestige of the patriarchy REEEEEEEE!
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 26, 2026 10:23 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: TRex - duck and cover dino
When teenage girls congregate....Half the collective I.Q. When teenage boys congregate...Half the collective I.Q. by EACH boy,
Posted by: Some Rat at September 26, 2026 10:23 PM (BJzO2)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 26, 2026 10:19 PM
***
Always sympathized with Buttons. Poor dog.
Posted by: TRex - OK lady! dino at September 26, 2026 10:23 PM (XfIK1)
Posted by: Some Rat
So true. LOL
Posted by: Tuna at September 26, 2026 10:24 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Some Rat
So true. LOL
Posted by: Tuna at September 26, 2026 10:24 PM (lJ0H4)
Alcohol intensifies the stupidity. Hey, watch this!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2026 10:25 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: pookysgirl
Just check your memory!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 26, 2026 10:25 PM (NnhvP)
>>Our daughter is in her 40's and is still *ucked up.
You're all pretty much nuts. But then so are we.
It's all about which nuts fits with yours
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2026 10:26 PM (viF8m)
I went into my bedroom and saw all four of my kitties chilling out.
Naturally, I went to grab my phone so I could snap a picture and when I got back. Allie jumped off the bed before I could get a good pic.
*sigh*
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 26, 2026 10:26 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 26, 2026 10:23 PM (wpRMV)
Knucks, blackjacks, lead pipes, all would be appropriate persuaders.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2026 10:26 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Diogenes at September 26, 2026 10:27 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Some Rat at September 26, 2026 10:23 PM (BJzO2)
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I've done a number of incredibly stupid things on my own.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 26, 2026 10:27 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2026 10:28 PM (1Ff7Z)
*sigh*
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
She knew you were getting your phone.
Posted by: Tuna at September 26, 2026 10:28 PM (lJ0H4)
*kicks dirt*
I will have to do better.
Posted by: Diogenes
Have you considered a large cash bribe?
Posted by: Some Rat at September 26, 2026 10:28 PM (BJzO2)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 26, 2026 10:28 PM (yEz+x)
*kicks dirt*
I will have to do better.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 26, 2026 10:27 PM (2WIwB)
Eh. Its all about wit and timing. And whether or not Doof and Trex are paying attention.
Lol. My phone tried to autocorrect 'wit'. Story of my life.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 26, 2026 10:28 PM (zZu0s)
Our daughter lives 4 hours from us. We live four blocks from our four grandchildren. Screwed up daughter has not met the grandchildren. She refuses to come here because I might talk about Trump.
Her loss.
Posted by: four seasons at September 26, 2026 10:29 PM (/QHx4)
A half mile down the road from me today, an accident happened. As I drove by, it didn't appear to look like much, so I continued on my way. Coming back home to come up my mountain, the road was closed. I had to drive 35+ miles further to try and get home. Closed up there as well. It took me 3 hours to get home, that usually takes 40 minutes. I'm very much concerned that there was a death, just down the road from me. Hurts my heart. Many prayers for whoever this happened to.🙏🙏🙏
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 26, 2026 10:29 PM (jCKWs)
I went into my bedroom and saw all four of my kitties chilling out.
***
Been a really long time since I saw four pussies in my bedroom.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 26, 2026 10:30 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 26, 2026 10:27 PM (RIvkX)
If you wuz Linus Van Pelt, I'd say, "like waiting for the Great Pumpkin every Halloween?"
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2026 10:31 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 26, 2026 10:19 PM
***
Always sympathized with Buttons. Poor dog.
Posted by: TRex - OK lady! dino at September 26, 2026 10:23 PM (XfIK1)
Friend of mine drew Yakko. He even directed a couple of episodes. He illustrated my 12 Days of MAGA, now available in paperback on Amazon..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 26, 2026 10:31 PM (08OqX)
Thanks, next time we're around there, we might check them out.
Posted by: OrangeEnt
Bryce is better and the drive up into the mountains past Escalante is beautiful.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 26, 2026 10:32 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 26, 2026 10:32 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
Haven't we all.
Posted by: Tuna at September 26, 2026 10:32 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Some Rat at September 26, 2026 10:33 PM (BJzO2)
Posted by: Diogenes
Hello, humble brag.
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 26, 2026 10:33 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 26, 2026 10:28 PM (zZu0s)
We're always paying attention!
Posted by: Doof at September 26, 2026 10:34 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: pookysgirl
I have 5 sisters and have experienced aunts, Grammies, my Mom and the Dear Mrs. I thought I knew all about girls of all ages.
Of my 7 children, only one is of the female persuasion and she joined in the fam at 13.
Good God! She terrified all of us except for Dear Wife. Epic battles - the boys would come to me with wide-eyed fear and exclaim - "We gotta get the hell out of here!! Mom's gonna kill Mary!!"
Posted by: Tonypete at September 26, 2026 10:34 PM (ktgTW)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2026 10:34 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 26, 2026 10:32 PM (NnhvP)
Picked up Kid Prime this summer in SG and drove to far away Ioway, going past Zion up to SLC. Didn't see Escalante directions. Wouldn't mind going there, but Kid Secundus and asawa ko never have the same time off during school and probably too hot in summer.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2026 10:35 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
Haven't we all.
Posted by: Tuna
----
My life is a multi-volume cautionary tale
Posted by: Don Black at September 26, 2026 10:35 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 26, 2026 10:32 PM (yEz+x)
In case it hasn't been pointed out, Nurse is a woman with incredible intellect, courage and beauty.
Go Cougs indeed!
Posted by: Diogenes at September 26, 2026 10:35 PM (2WIwB)
How wonderful to see you! Never hesitate to call again my friend. So much love to you💕💕!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 26, 2026 10:36 PM (jCKWs)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2026 10:31 PM (1Ff7Z)
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Naah. That's sincere not stupid.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 26, 2026 10:36 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Tonypete
Heh! My Sainted Mother and dear sister would go at it hammer and tongs, dad always had something to do in the garage at those times.
Posted by: Some Rat at September 26, 2026 10:37 PM (BJzO2)
Yeah, remember that politician that got sh*t from Cornyn last week for saying something about the UT graduation? When does he get his apology? I would be embarrassed for Texas but Austin doesn't really count.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 26, 2026 10:37 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 26, 2026 10:31 PM
***
Wow!!
Posted by: TRex - animated dino at September 26, 2026 10:38 PM (XfIK1)
Go Cougs indeed!
Posted by: Diogenes at September 26, 2026 10:35 PM (2WIwB)
Does she always chant Huck the Fuskies during games?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2026 10:38 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Piper at September 26, 2026 10:39 PM (ZdaMQ)
How wonderful to see you! Never hesitate to call again my friend. So much love to you💕💕!
Posted by: COMountainMarie
How very kind of you! Will make a point of calling soon!
Posted by: Some Rat at September 26, 2026 10:39 PM (BJzO2)
Posted by: Lowered Expectations at September 26, 2026 10:39 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Piper at September 26, 2026 10:40 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 26, 2026 10:40 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2026 10:38 PM (1Ff7Z)
Doubtful, if sober, but given four or five cosmos anything is possible.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 26, 2026 10:40 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Ketanji Jackson at September 26, 2026 10:40 PM (88C+u)
I swear I last saw that joke saying 'hearse' not 'van'.
The museum was funny.
Is there any creature on Earth that's as tempestuous as a 13-year-old girl?
Posted by: pookysgirl
A 17-year-old girl?
This one's a loner, and I really don't want her to be socially stunted, but it looks like I have no choice. I don't need her to be an extrovert, just someone who doesn't retreat into a book when waiting with her classmates for five minutes.
Posted by: pookysgirl, trying to be patient
I resemble that remark, just from the other gender perspective....
Job hunt update:
Found a legit nibble from a recruiter (as in, replying to my application) in my spam folder this morning. So hopefully will be a screening call Monday/Tuesday for that position.
Continued prayer for M's grandmother for healing and recovery, please, and for M who has to take care of her.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 26, 2026 10:41 PM (aJQbY)
And I should replace 2 to 3 hydrants. I have another one with a cracked head. I bought a replacement head but am not confident of getting the old cracked head off without messing up the hydrant. And another hyrdrant leaks. Ah the joys of country life.
Posted by: PaleRider at September 26, 2026 10:42 PM (PV+Zw)
Posted by: Piper at September 26, 2026 10:39 PM (ZdaMQ)
Better than the one that killed you
Posted by: Doof at September 26, 2026 10:43 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Piper at September 26, 2026 10:40 PM (ZdaMQ)
Pipes...
Pipes...
Pipes...
So much hope....and now so much despair.
We of the Pullman persuasion are dismayed.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 26, 2026 10:43 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 26, 2026 10:40 PM (RIvkX)
Was this a college ball game, or NFL?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 10:43 PM (peOdB)
Posted by: Only Sport I Watch (well, maybe the 3rd period in the NHL playoffs) at September 26, 2026 10:43 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: pookysgirl
When my oldest turned 13, and I had hit the end of my rope with her, I called my mama crying asking when this would get better. She replied she thought 32 was a good age.
Posted by: Piper at September 26, 2026 10:44 PM (ZdaMQ)
So don't ask me about girls.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 26, 2026 10:45 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Piper at September 26, 2026 10:40 PM (ZdaMQ)
Pipes...
Pipes...
Pipes...
So much hope....and now so much despair.
We of the Pullman persuasion are dismayed.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 26, 2026 10
I am so sorry, I can’t really hear you because there are a lot of triple woofs happening.
Posted by: Piper at September 26, 2026 10:46 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
College. TX vs TN. PDT was there.
Posted by: Tuna at September 26, 2026 10:47 PM (lJ0H4)
His name is Lenord Robinson. Collaborating with him was like working with Mozart:
"I'm thinking of a scene where Biden falls down a flight of steps"
Lenord draws for maybe 30 seconds, then shows me the page - hilarity ensues..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 26, 2026 10:47 PM (08OqX)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 26, 2026 10:00 PM (+fdRY)
TX MoMe XI.
FiFY
: )
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 26, 2026 10:48 PM (XUHiS)
Posted by: Only Sport I Watch (well, maybe the 3rd period in the NHL playoffs)
Time to ban this semi-pro bullshit. Intermural? Fine, you're here to get an education. The rest is window dressing.
Posted by: Some Rat at September 26, 2026 10:48 PM (BJzO2)
Wowza, Samurai Bartender puts on quite a show. Sure, I did some bartending in Japan but I... uh... I never learned *all that*!
Sorry, horde. I gots no gimmicks.
Posted by: JQ at September 26, 2026 10:48 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 26, 2026 10:40 PM (RIvkX)
Was this a college ball game, or NFL?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026
College. It was classy behavior.🙄 They are getting raked across the coals for it. Prob feels like thousands of southern mamas grabbing his ear and pulling him off the field.
Posted by: Piper at September 26, 2026 10:49 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Tuna at September 26, 2026 10:10 PM (lJ0H4)
UT Austin. Just sayin.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 26, 2026 10:49 PM (XUHiS)
Posted by: Some Rat
Also applies to any group of bicycle riders over one.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 26, 2026 10:49 PM (ktgTW)
Posted by: Tuna at September 26, 2026 10:47 PM (lJ0H4)
Sounds like the MAGA students at that school need to visit this shitheel, and administer a tuneup.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 10:49 PM (peOdB)
Those exist?
Posted by: Ketanji Jackson at September 26, 2026 10:40 PM (88C+u)
Indeed.
I was able to watch her shooting at the range. Accurate and a really nice as...errr...coquettish smile after drilling the target.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 26, 2026 10:50 PM (2WIwB)
Wowza, Samurai Bartender puts on quite a show. Sure, I did some bartending in Japan but I... uh... I never learned *all that*!
Sorry, horde. I gots no gimmicks.
Posted by: JQ
Thank you for that, I was remiss in my compliments to our hosts!
Posted by: Some Rat at September 26, 2026 10:51 PM (BJzO2)
Posted by: Piper at September 26, 2026 10:39 PM (ZdaMQ)
Better than the one that killed you
Posted by: Doof at September 26, 2026 10:43 PM
I wish it killed me again this week! It was rough sailing there for a bit.
Posted by: Piper at September 26, 2026 10:51 PM (ZdaMQ)
Many recognizable bit players along the way. - The cops had revolvers, the, homage to WWII vets, had 45s and the villain, Lee Marvin had a Luger.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 26, 2026 10:51 PM (VPNgR)
I spent two or three minutes trying to figure out why nurse was playing the piano on her phone, drunk.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 26, 2026 10:52 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 26, 2026 10:52 PM (Cqx++)
Wowza, Samurai Bartender puts on quite a show. Sure, I did some bartending in Japan but I... uh... I never learned *all that*!
Sorry, horde. I gots no gimmicks.
Posted by: JQ
Thank you for that, I was remiss in my compliments to our hosts!
Posted by: Some Rat at September 26, 2026 10:51 PM (BJzO2)
Howdy to you both!
Posted by: Doof at September 26, 2026 10:52 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 10:49 PM (peOdB)
I’ll have them arrested, I should have YOU arrested.
With no liberty and Justice for some.
Posted by: Jose Garza Travis County DA at September 26, 2026 10:54 PM (XUHiS)
Finished, The Big Heat, with Glenn Ford and attractive Gloria Grahame, thanks polynikes
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _
Want some coffee?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 26, 2026 10:54 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Piper at September 26, 2026 10:46 PM (ZdaMQ)
I find that a few fire hydrants work well to quiet the mutts.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 26, 2026 10:54 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Piper at September 26, 2026 10:51 PM (ZdaMQ)
Glad you're feeling better! You do realize no matter how sick you were, you weren't getting the night off tomorrow, right?
Posted by: Doof at September 26, 2026 10:54 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 26, 2026 10:54 PM (XUHiS)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 10:43 PM (peOdB)
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College Texas v Tennessee
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 26, 2026 10:55 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Norrin Radd, sojourner of the spaceways at September 26, 2026 10:55 PM (tRYqg)
Glad he didn't call it on number 2...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 26, 2026 10:11 PM (08OqX)
___________________________
Sadly, that wasn't even the worst one. Instapundit has the other one highlighted. But, here is the video on X.
https://tinyurl.com/2zzxafdy
Posted by: Orson at September 26, 2026 10:56 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Someone pointed out the reason Chuck Jones was so great was his ability to get the most out of his characters acting.
Posted by: Some Rat at September 26, 2026 10:56 PM (BJzO2)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 10:43 PM (peOdB)
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College Texas v Tennessee
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 26, 2026 10:55 PM (RIvkX)
***
So...
NFL Triple A league.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 26, 2026 10:56 PM (2WIwB)
(And now, the story on how we snagged tickets: seeing the Savannah Bananas was a Bucket List item, but tickets are impossible to get. I took a chance and wrote their front office, explained my terminal diagnosis, and asked if they had an "adult" version of "Make A Wish" - I figured the answer would be "No", but I also figured it wouldn't hurt to just ask.
Well, they got back to me with 2 tickets to see the game! So Paul and I went tonight and had an absolute blast 😊♥️. A very nice thank you note will be headed their way tonight -)
We were easily some of the oldest fans there, but it didn't matter - it was really sweet to see so many young kids and families there, having a wonderful time. It was also nice to see the teams praying together before the game, to see fans proud to sing the National Anthem, and to see veterans honored by the entire crowd. We always seem to hear the worst about people on the news, so it was a refreshing reminder that most people are really nice.
The Texas Tailgaters won 3-0 tonight 🥳🎊
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at September 26, 2026 10:56 PM (24jjN)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September
That is hard, I am sorry.
Posted by: Piper at September 26, 2026 10:57 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Azjaeger at September 26, 2026 10:58 PM (3/XaG)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at September 26, 2026 10:59 PM (QaH55)
Posted by: Norrin Radd, sojourner of the spaceways at September 26, 2026 10:55 PM (tRYqg)
***
OMG
I just laughed my ass off.
Inappropriate? Maybe.
Or maybe not.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 26, 2026 10:59 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Piper at September 26, 2026 10:51 PM (ZdaMQ)
Glad you're feeling better! You do realize no matter how sick you were, you weren't getting the night off tomorrow, right?
Posted by: Doof at September 26, 2026 10:54 PM (QMAsf
Neither rain, sleet, snow nor projectile vomiting…
Posted by: Piper at September 26, 2026 11:00 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Some Rat at September 26, 2026 10:37 PM (BJzO2)
Y'know, I'm pretty sure we have enough room in the garage for me to set up my own woodworking shop. My dad would happily "lend" me some of his old tools too.
Of course, that would leave Pooky to deal with Pookette, and that would probably result in a literal nuclear explosion.
Posted by: pookysgirl, trying to stay out of the national news at September 26, 2026 11:00 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 10:20 PM (peOdB)
Now thats one I never heard before. Well done. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 26, 2026 11:00 PM (S41Gd)
It's T for Texas
T for Tennessee
yes it's
T for Texas 'n
T for Thelma
the girl made a fool of me.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 26, 2026 11:00 PM (VPNgR)
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Very plucky of you *fistbump*
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 26, 2026 11:01 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: pookysgirl, trying to stay out of the national news at September 26, 2026 11:00 PM (Wt5PA)
You must explain this pooky thing and how that name ever came into existence. That was my brother's nickname when he was a baby. To this day I still don't know why or where it came from.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 26, 2026 11:02 PM (S41Gd)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone
We're always paying attention!
Posted by: Doof
I'm sometimes surprised by which of mine make the CotW cut, and which don't.
Disagreeing with my take is probably a good sign for Doof and TRex's sanity, though.
Posted by: mikeski at September 26, 2026 11:03 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Some Rat at September 26, 2026 11:03 PM (BJzO2)
Sorry, horde. I gots no gimmicks.
Posted by: JQ at September 26, 2026 10:48 PM (rdVOm)
Wasn't in the mood for a 7 layer pousse cafe anyhow. Wild Turkey 101 over a single cube would be fine..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 26, 2026 11:04 PM (08OqX)
Gosh, I hope it wasn't COVID....omg😁
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 26, 2026 11:05 PM (jCKWs)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Since he ceases to exist if people stop drawing him, I'd say that's his motivation.
Posted by: mikeski, puffing and passing at September 26, 2026 11:05 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 26, 2026 11:08 PM (VPNgR)
Made a fair amount of money though.
And I have to laugh because the guy that made Five nights got outed as a Christian and almost cancelled for it. Note, he wasn't political, the attempt to cancel him was solely for his faith.
He got himself uncancelled enough to now get two movies bade out of the games.
Maybe some sanity is returning to the world?
Posted by: 18-1 at September 26, 2026 11:08 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: JQ at September 26, 2026 11:08 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder
I'd like to see the sumo bartender.
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 26, 2026 11:08 PM (ftFVW)
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Self employed, contract workers don't get days off.
She knows that.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 26, 2026 11:09 PM (VPNgR)
'I’m going to sleep because my energy has left the group chat.'
Love youz!!!
Good night loves, and thanks doubleDs❣️❣️💕
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 26, 2026 11:13 PM (jCKWs)
@Ironlilyart Mar 7
The event in video was from Taiwan. We have a quite large LARP community, and they holding several events nearly every months, which are pretty fun.
We also have our official(?) Ordo Mediare LARP band that I have involved. Several cosplayers, larpers, even formar SCA player gathered together, and my role is helping them design the costumes, like a real Draper in the Ordo.😊
By now, our band has grown around 30 members. They not only join Taiwan LARP battle events, also parades, renaissance fairs, archery contest, and even appeared in one of the biggest LARP event - DrachenFest Germany in 2025. They're now so international, I'm very proud of them!
x.com/Ironlilyart/status/2030500358385209506
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 26, 2026 11:13 PM (nEUC6)
https://tinyurl.com/7n5a9kyy
Posted by: Don Black at September 26, 2026 10:13 PM (ZxPkt)
LOL!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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winner!
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 26, 2026 11:14 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 26, 2026 11:02 PM (S41Gd)
I was a freshman in a local college and Pooky was a junior in high school. We hadn't been together for even a year at this point. Some of my new friends wanted to get together for something, and I said that I had a date with Pooky that night. "Bring him along!" said the extrovert enthusiastically. I nervously admitted that I didn't know if he (or his parents) would agree to a sudden change in plans. The friend mimed calling him and said, "Honey, Sweetheart, Pookyyyy, won't you come with me tonight? Kisses!" I objected, "Pooky?! I don't call him *that*!" My friends all chimed, "YOU DO NOW!"
Needless to say, it stuck.
Posted by: pookysgirl hopes that explains it at September 26, 2026 11:14 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 26, 2026 11:16 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 26, 2026 10:52 PM (Cqx++)
First you get the money, then you get the power, then you get the women
Posted by: Tweety Bird at September 26, 2026 11:16 PM (r7+Q7)
No bevvie yet, hoping to exercise first.
Posted by: Funsize at September 26, 2026 11:20 PM (3j87q)
A half mile down the road from me today, an accident happened. As I drove by, it didn't appear to look like much, so I continued on my way. Coming back home to come up my mountain, the road was closed. I had to drive 35+ miles further to try and get home. Closed up there as well. It took me 3 hours to get home, that usually takes 40 minutes. I'm very much concerned that there was a death, just down the road from me. Hurts my heart. Many prayers for whoever this happened to.🙏🙏🙏
Posted by: COMountainMarie
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Probably something severe like a ruptured gas tank causing toxic spill requiring massive reclamation. If they had let it go it would have disappeared in two days. The earth resolves but does not give grift.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 26, 2026 11:20 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 26, 2026 11:22 PM (jCKWs)
Posted by: Doof at September 26, 2026 10:34 PM (QMAsf)
So. We know Doof's feelings on flock cameras.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 26, 2026 11:22 PM (Y/06r)
The parking lot of the Visitor Center is 10,381' above sea level. You pant a lot.
If you're in that area, don't miss the Parowan Gap Petroglyphs. It's a natural cut through a ridge, maybe a hundred yards long, but the rocks are covered in petroglyphs. I've never seen so many in my life total, not just in one place. There's a few 19th century "killroy was here" rock scratchings as well.
Posted by: buddhaha at September 26, 2026 11:23 PM (iYF/u)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 11:23 PM (peOdB)
Posted by: Tweety Bird
If you can corner them.
Posted by: Pepe LePew at September 26, 2026 11:27 PM (rujGJ)
Posted by: Piper at September 26, 2026 11:27 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Anti-trannny on the football field?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 26, 2026 11:28 PM (VPNgR)
The City of the Edge of Forever episode of Star Trek TOS is on MeTV right now. That's the Edith Keeler (Joan Collins) episode, where Kirk and Edith walk in front of Floyd's Barber Shop from the Mayberry set.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 26, 2026 11:29 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 26, 2026 10:52 PM (Cqx++)
First you get the money, then you get the power, then you get the women
Posted by: Tweety Bird at September 26, 2026 11:16 PM (r7+Q7)
Here's one of his recent videos where he explains a bit of his approach to storytelling:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHSTHUXdyss
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 26, 2026 11:30 PM (08OqX)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 26, 2026 11:30 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at September 26, 2026 10:59 PM (QaH55)
Oh yeah? Where's his red face?
Real technical match between Muta and Hogan in Japan. See, Hogan could actually wrestle.
(no full match found)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2026 11:31 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 11:32 PM (peOdB)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 26, 2026 11:30 PM (w6EFb)
Ah, good!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 11:33 PM (peOdB)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 26, 2026 11:34 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: buddhaha at September 26, 2026 11:23 PM (iYF/u)
Funny that you're not allowed to make your own petroglyphs. I mean, in a couple of hundred years they'll be ancient too.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2026 11:37 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Brother Tim sez at September 26, 2026 11:38 PM (ENA4W)
Football is stupid. They take out their own talent and But in some instances it may make sense.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 26, 2026 11:39 PM (5C90x)
The City of the Edge of Forever episode of Star Trek TOS is on MeTV right now. That's the Edith Keeler (Joan Collins) episode, where Kirk and Edith walk in front of Floyd's Barber Shop from the Mayberry set.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 26, 2026 11:29 PM (w6EFb)
That's the episode where truck-kun takes Joan Collins...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2026 11:43 PM (l3cgK)
Life went to shit "gradually, then all at once", as Hemingway put it. Typing from a hospital bed days from employment and insurance expiring. Phone suspended for nonpayment. Oh, and my lymph edema is so bad I can't walk or operate my car.
When it was cancer, brothers and sisters, I had it made in comparison.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez at September 26, 2026 11:43 PM (ENA4W)
The parking lot of the Visitor Center is 10,381' above sea level. You pant a lot.
If you're in that area, don't miss the Parowan Gap Petroglyphs. It's a natural cut through a ridge, maybe a hundred yards long, but the rocks are covered in petroglyphs. I've never seen so many in my life total, not just in one place. There's a few 19th century "killroy was here" rock scratchings as well.
Posted by: buddhaha at September 26, 2026 11:23 PM (iYF/u)
Been there. Took some great video with a DAT camera I had at the time. Lost in the divorce, unfortunately. Probably means I need to go back...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 26, 2026 11:44 PM (08OqX)
Posted by: buddhaha at September 26, 2026 11:23 PM (iYF/u)
Funny that you're not allowed to make your own petroglyphs. I mean, in a couple of hundred years they'll be ancient too.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2026 11:37 PM (1Ff7Z)
It's all ancient graffiti...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2026 11:45 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 26, 2026 11:48 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 26, 2026 11:48 PM (bwLU5)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 26, 2026 10:23 PM
Great catch - I did gloss over it like you said. Then on replay I missed it again. Only when I read your comment did I finally clue in.
It's comments like She Hobbit's that make this place what it is
Posted by: 496 at September 26, 2026 11:50 PM (kKD6e)
Posted by: St_Louis_Arch at September 26, 2026 11:51 PM (S5W//)
Posted by: Brother Tim sez
Prayers, Brother.
Posted by: mikeski at September 26, 2026 11:52 PM (VHUov)
It's what you get when an AoS Moron or 'Ette is in an area with higher than normal levels of oxygen.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 26, 2026 11:54 PM (qx7Zg)
Cordrazine is a hell of a drug.
Posted by: Bones McCoy at September 26, 2026 11:55 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 26, 2026 11:56 PM (5C90x)
It's comments like She Hobbit's that make this place what it is
Posted by: 496
Maybe too subtle. Could have used some help from Ben Roethlisberger.
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 26, 2026 11:56 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 26, 2026 11:57 PM (ibDUx)
https://youtu.be/atN1jT3nHB0?t=61
If you work somewhere where this is NSFW, you have my condolences.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 26, 2026 11:58 PM (qx7Zg)
Again I fail to make it into the Top 10ish.
Not to worry. There's always next week.
Thank you for ONT Disco and Dino.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 26, 2026 11:58 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Brother Tim sez
Prayers, Brother.
Posted by: mikeski at September 26, 2026 11:52 PM (VHUov)
Ditto..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 27, 2026 12:00 AM (08OqX)
Again I fail to make it into the Top 10ish.
Not to worry. There's always next week.
Thank you for ONT Disco and Dino.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 26, 2026 11:58 PM (QGaXH)
It means the deer isn't smart enough to recognize the hunter in the tree stand as a threat. He is fixated on the bait.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 12:04 AM (peOdB)
Posted by: mindful webworker - nyuk nyuk nyuk is the correct spelling at September 27, 2026 12:07 AM (xRCm7)
I slipped off the bottom stair with one foot yesterday morning, and hit hard with toes curled under. Yow! And then landed on the floor, of course. No other injury besides a scuffed finger from the final landing.
Toe swelled up & turned purple-black by last night and I couldn't even try to bend it without severe pain. A little lighter color this morning and could flex the muscle with less pain.
Tonight it's still ugly, and purple-red, but no more black. Hurts to flex, but *can* make it move a little.
***moar liquid painkiller***
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 12:08 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: AnchorPoint at September 27, 2026 12:11 AM (0HINh)
Thanks to the morons that gave positive reviews of The Sheep Detectives. We watched it on Amazon, with only three bearable commercial interruptions, none in the last half (as opposed to broadcast which loads commercials in the later parts of movies).
Just thought we'd start watching it to see how it was, and ended up watching the whole thing. I'm not a big fan of this kind of live-action intelligent-animals (who can all talk to each other) films, but this one worked pretty well. Funny to see Wolverine as a shepherd.😜
That'll do, sheep.
Posted by: mindful webworker - it wasn't baaaad at September 27, 2026 12:14 AM (xRCm7)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 27, 2026 12:15 AM (ibDUx)
***moar liquid painkiller***
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 12:08 AM (rdVOm)
You should try the free office whisky machine I posted in 224.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 27, 2026 12:16 AM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: JQ
Yaargh! Please JQ, no more falls. We are fragile and easy to break. We need you among us (and your guy does, too). Same goes for alla y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - fragility and senility together again for the first time on any stage at September 27, 2026 12:18 AM (xRCm7)
Funny: I explained to hubby yesterday that I'd *stubbed my toe* (for simplicity's sake you know) and, sweetheart that he is, he told me to raise up my foot so he could blow his cigarette smoke on it to cure it.
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 12:19 AM (rdVOm)
I wear slip-proof socks around the house-- just doesn't work that well on carpet I guess. And, being so close to the bottom of stairs, had let go of the railings.
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 12:22 AM (rdVOm)
I got one better, JQ. I was taking a shower and thought, "Say, this would be a good time to rinse off the bathtub mat!"
Turns out that was not a good idea at all.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 27, 2026 12:26 AM (CHHv1)
166 Last thread someone spoke about the difference between Hitler and Stalin..to me its that Stalin didn't believe in "communism" it was just what he rode to become Tsar.”
There’s another difference I’ve seen. They both caused the deaths of millions, but Hitler focused on killing those he had no contact with. If you were his pal, you probably were ok.
Stalin, while killing millions, also took a demonic pleasure in killing almost everyone he DID know personally. His family (except his two children), his “friends”, and his colleagues, past and present. There was nothing more dangerous than being
a “friend” of Stalin‘s.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2026 12:27 AM (H8mUs)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 12:27 AM (peOdB)
Brother Tim and RandomDave-- my prayers are with you both. My problems are *nothing* in comparison. Bless you and I hope you find solutions SOON.
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 12:27 AM (rdVOm)
William Joyce, aka Lord Haw Haw, was a German newsreader/propagandist during WWII. After the war the British arrested and hanged him for treason. I had assumed he was a British citizen but...he wasn't.
He was born in the US to Irish parents. However he was in Britain working with the British fascists shortly before the start of WWII. He decided to flee to Germany and lied to get a British passport. The Brits used this as grounds to try him for treason.
Which is...well...an interesting legal theory. Now he got German citizenship in 1940 so he wasn't also guilty of treason against the US because we wouldn't enter the war until 41.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 27, 2026 12:29 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
Oh, no... [cringe] hope it didn't hurt *too much*!
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 12:30 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: 18-1 at September 27, 2026 12:29 AM (sKqQm)
He earned his date with the hangman, legal niceties be damned.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 12:31 AM (peOdB)
It is still stormy outside, occasional bands of rain and gusty winds, but it is not anywhere near as bad as predicted. I had a brief power blip last night and I went to bed but power was restored in about 20 minutes. I am grateful.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 27, 2026 12:32 AM (ibDUx)
234 …I slipped off the bottom stair with one foot yesterday morning, and hit hard with toes curled under. Yow! And then landed on the floor…
Posted by: JQ
Ouch! I was mowing the lawn today, and was so glad no one was around to see me. I turned to mow around a tree, and somehow stepped on my own foot so I spun around and landed flat on my face. Luckily relatively soft grass so I was ok, but I must have looked a like a total retard having a spasm.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2026 12:32 AM (H8mUs)
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2026 12:32 AM (H8mUs)
Good thing the lawnmower did not attack when you showed signs of weakness. They can be treacherous, you know.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 12:33 AM (peOdB)
Posted by: Harley Biker Week at September 27, 2026 12:35 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 12:35 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 27, 2026 12:38 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: Harley Biker Week at September 27, 2026 12:39 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: four seasons at September 27, 2026 12:40 AM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 27, 2026 12:38 AM (ibDUx)
Are you coming to the TX MoMee XI?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 12:40 AM (peOdB)
Bonus was that rough n tough outdoor Cat decided to stay indoors last night. Was nice to have my lil buddy foot warmer again.
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 12:41 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Harley Biker Week at September 27, 2026 12:39 AM (4RYRd)
Watch out for owls!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 12:41 AM (peOdB)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 27, 2026 12:41 AM (ibDUx)
Oh, hey, this is kinda late to the party, but here's this weekend's memes in case you missed 'em.
🟢 PowerLine funnies
https://tinyurl.com/3uu2m63b
🟢 Hoyt
https://bit.ly/hoyt-09-26-2026
🟢 Midwest Chick
https://bit.ly/mwchick-09-26-2026
🟢 Bookworm
https://bit.ly/bookworm-09-26-2026
Last weekend in case you missed 'em (and I forgot to mention 'em):
🔴 Powerline week in pix
https://bit.ly/wk-in-pix-09192026
🔴 Hoyt
https://bit.ly/hoyt-memes-09192026
🔴 Midwest Chick
https://bit.ly/mw-ck-memes-09192026
Posted by: mindful webworker - act like you meme it at September 27, 2026 12:42 AM (xRCm7)
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 12:42 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 12:42 AM (peOdB)
Posted by: Harley Biker Week Miklos at September 27, 2026 12:43 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 27, 2026 12:43 AM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Harley Biker Week Miklos at September 27, 2026 12:45 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: four seasons at September 27, 2026 12:45 AM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Funsize at September 27, 2026 12:46 AM (3j87q)
He earned his date with the hangman, legal niceties be damned.
No doubt. One does wonder though how the modern FNM would handle Trump having various IRGC allied American media figures executed for treason...
Posted by: 18-1 at September 27, 2026 12:47 AM (sKqQm)
Meanest dog we ever had.
Posted by: four seasons
I was named Sue
Posted by: Miklos trust while ready for a fight at September 27, 2026 12:50 AM (4RYRd)
This is a not-bad cover of the Vera Lynn classic. They've got nice voices, and I don't even think it's A.I.
https://youtu.be/sThuGZcEtuU
G'nite, y'all.💤
Posted by: mindful webworker - smells awful tonight at September 27, 2026 12:53 AM (xRCm7)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 27, 2026 12:59 AM (ibDUx)
Miss that old girl. She was otherwise well-behaved. Did not beg/bother us for our food. Stayed out of the kitchen, didn't get into the trash can.
She kept her toys all in a row! (lots of herding genes in her mix)
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 01:02 AM (rdVOm)
Of course they named him Chester.
I was over once and saw him in the backyard. It had just started to rain with big drops. He looked up, mad, and started barking at the rain to make it stop. Never occurred to Chester to actually get up on the porch and out of the rain.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2026 01:03 AM (H8mUs)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 01:04 AM (Ia/+0)
Check in from time to time, ok? Love to hear the stories!
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 01:04 AM (rdVOm)
Well, I see what MeTV is doing. They seemed to be running a Star Trek marathon of the best episodes. No wonder, this is the 60th anniversary of Star Trek.
The first episode aired on Sept. 8, 1966.
Posted by: Bones McCoy at September 27, 2026 01:05 AM (w6EFb)
https://youtu.be/sThuGZcEtuU
G'nite, y'all.💤
Posted by: mindful webworker - smells awful tonight at September 27, 2026 12:53 AM (xRCm7)
I can’t hear that without thinking Strangelove. Best dark movie ending ever.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2026 01:06 AM (H8mUs)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 27, 2026 01:11 AM (ibDUx)
But yeah-- I'd love to go!
For now, hubby needs & wants me near. He's my sweetie and my priority.
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 01:17 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: meh at September 27, 2026 01:17 AM (kK7U2)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 26, 2026 10:52 PM (Cqx++).
I will not tolerate Stanislavski jokes.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2026 01:20 AM (rbvCR)
He is without honor.
Posted by: meh
Did you watch the movie Cocktail?
Now *there's* a lack of honor! They spilled more booze than I've ever seen. Totally sloppy.
Oh, yeah yeah, they slung the bottles all fancy-like, but it was crap... would've hated to do the daily inventory for a shitshow bar like that.
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 01:26 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 12:04 AM (peOdB)
Thank you if you're still here. I thought there was something more subtle going on....
I don't see an e-mail from you btw. Maybe it's because you have no idea who I am or what my e-mail address would be...(laughing)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 27, 2026 01:38 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 27, 2026 01:38 AM (QGaXH)
Heh!
I am getting real sleepy now. Going to call it a night. It was only 42 degrees this afternoon when I went into town for groceries.
Night, Horde.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 01:41 AM (peOdB)
Night, Horde.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2026 01:41 AM (peOdB)
Good Night AOP and Horde
JQ - hope your foot is better real soon.
42 degrees ? Summer is still lingering into fall here. Warmer and more humid than usual - I think the hurricanes off Baja are pumping moisture and heat up here.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 27, 2026 01:50 AM (QGaXH)
Yeah, Summer is over. Yay! It's 48 now. Won't be long before I need to dig out the heated water bowl for Cat!
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 01:52 AM (rdVOm)
But yeah-- I'd love to go!
For now, hubby needs & wants me near. He's my sweetie and my priority.
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 01:17 AM (rdVOm
JQ - Yoy are reinforcing my already strong belief that angels walk among us.
I just finished Dr Marc Siegels book The Miracles Among Us.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 27, 2026 01:54 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 27, 2026 01:56 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 27, 2026 01:57 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
I will check that out!
There's no doubt in my mind that if the situation were reversed, hubby would be there for me.
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 01:58 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 02:00 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Miklos also bad now at September 27, 2026 02:06 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 02:07 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 02:09 AM (rdVOm)
If you would suggest that makers of Cocktail are without honor, and should perform Seppuku, I would not disagree.
Here's Rich Hall speaking to their lack of honor, and worse, creativity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFal553wR3k
Posted by: meh at September 27, 2026 02:21 AM (kK7U2)
My low was 46.8F yesterday morning. It's hovering around 51F now.
At any rate, that was the first time it was in the '40s since mid-May.
Posted by: Bones McCoy at September 27, 2026 02:22 AM (w6EFb)
Bones sock off, dammit. The just ran the Pan Farr episode. I tell you, Spock's wife to be was one stone cold bitch.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 27, 2026 02:23 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Miklossigns off is vey dog frenfly and maybe 50 bikes at September 27, 2026 02:23 AM (4RYRd)
*there*
Now, lie down you two, and get some sleep.
*pulls covers up*
*locks door while leaving trailer*
Good night, you!
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 02:32 AM (rdVOm)
Liking the change of season, but not quite ready for Winter yet, LOL
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 02:33 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 02:39 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: clarence at September 27, 2026 02:39 AM (r3Zca)
Now, the original KHAAAANNNN! episode is on.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 27, 2026 02:43 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: raimondo at September 27, 2026 02:43 AM (sUlmj)
Posted by: publius
Oooooo! You mean the *original* TOS one? Where Khan is banished to Ceti Alpha V?
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 02:51 AM (rdVOm)
Yes, indeed. MeTV is running all the favorite episodes tonight as part of the 60th anniversary tribute.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 27, 2026 02:54 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius
I need to get a digital OTA receiver!
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 03:01 AM (rdVOm)
I always liked Star Trek. Not sure (even after all the decades of syndication!) whether I've seen every episode.
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 03:07 AM (rdVOm)
Now, The Doomsday Machine is on. You know the planet destroyer with William Windom as Commodore Decker.
William Windom played a lot of these destroyed, wreck of man characters. Disheveled and unshaven and heavy drinking types.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 27, 2026 03:08 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 03:10 AM (rdVOm)
That's the one.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 27, 2026 03:11 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius
Hahaha, that's the one what scared the daylights outta me when I was little, watching it on network teevee.
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 03:12 AM (rdVOm)
He has the CD of music and sounds from TOS. I gave him a "Chilton's manual" (or some such) of the Enterprise, years ago. Sis gave him a Tribble toy. (Bro's cat *hated* the Tribble, LOL)
It was sci-fun, and so much more intelligent than anything else we could watch.
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 03:18 AM (rdVOm)
Now, the original KHAAAANNNN! episode is on.
Posted by: publius,
The actress (the redhead) who went with Khan was smokin' hot. I'd be pretty pissed if she died too.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 27, 2026 03:20 AM (PGK1w)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 27, 2026 03:23 AM (PGK1w)
Nomad was asshoe.
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 03:32 AM (rdVOm)
The character's name was Marla McGivers. I looked that up to see if there was anything official in the cannon about her fate. In the Wrath of Khan movie, they had written the character in, but the actress had multiple sclerosis, and they just didn't include the character.
I don't know if it's "cannon" or not, but with all the other series and books, there's something about some disaster befell Khan's colony and she was killed somehow.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 27, 2026 03:37 AM (w6EFb)
Or some planetary switcheroo-- and Khan's 'wife' was killed in the process and that's why he was so vindictive.
Something like that, I guess. I didn't follow it closely...
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 03:42 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 03:43 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 03:48 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 03:51 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 04:03 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 04:05 AM (Ia/+0)
Suspected bombers have been arrested. Bet their names aren't William and Bob.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2026 04:06 AM (QwZKw)
And now, the Gorn episode is on, "The Arena".
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 27, 2026 04:08 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 04:08 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 04:15 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2026 04:32 AM (Ia/+0)
I am sorry to hear of your fall. Ice, elevation and 3 fingers of bourbon!
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2026 04:32 AM (QwZKw)
Posted by: clarence at September 27, 2026 04:34 AM (r3Zca)
Oh, yes!!!
And *time*... could've been worse. I'm truly blessed.
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2026 04:44 AM (rdVOm)
He also played writer James Thurber in a short-lived series, "My World...and Welcome to It." Picked up an Emmy for it.
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Saturday Evening Movie Post [moviegique]: Resident Evil (2026)
Our second feature on our annual Halloween Haunt outing double-feature was Zach Cregger's take on Resident Evil.
We've seen plenty of Resident Evil movies in the past. Well, I have. Of the six films, I think I saw all but the last one, and in the theater to boo! The Boy saw 3, 4 and 5 with me, starting with Resident Evil: Apocalypse and culminating with Resident Evil: Retribution. The sub-heds are entirely decorative, shedding no light on the contents of the film which are, of course, a series of ridiculous special effects organized loosely around—well, not a plot, but organized around other special effects.
In fact, the reason we didn't see the last Anderson Resident Evil, which savvily borrows from the fourth Friday the 13th movie and calls itself The Final Chapter, was that we didn't think anything could top Retribution. There's a big fight in Red Square in Retribution, featuring zombie communist motorcycle cops, and in my memory, they all have sidecars full of Kodiak bears wearing ushankas with little red stars on them.
I would watch that movie again because I don't remember if the bears are lobbing grenades or wielding machine guns, but I'm worried they edited the bears out.
From "Resident Evil: Moviegique's Mind".
So. Uh. Mr. Cregger. He of the excellent Barbarian and Weapons got himself hired to do a franchise. I didn't like this as much as either of those other films, but it was educational on a lot of levels.
First, and foremost: I think Cregger understands that his job is to entertain you. That's kind of refreshing.
Rather than borrow from the stilted, '80s-cop-drama feel of the video games, Cregger's main character is more like a Zoomer dropped into a Resident Evil game. To wit: He is not particularly competent. He's a slacker of course—aren't all generations entering adulthood regarded as layabouts by the previous generations? But getting back to his lack of competence, he's not great at his job and he's really not great at not his job, i.e., fighting—
Well, what the hell are the creatures in Resident Evil anyway? Some of them are zombies, but beyond those, it's really just a mishmash of visual concepts and game mechanics. There's not really any logic or consistency I've ever been able to suss out.
I am getting sick of movies using the Flock camera footage of my bathroom, however.
Whatever they are, though, our hero, Bryan (Austin Abrams, who is in Weapons and whom I first saw nearly 15 years ago in an obscure Jon Lovitz project called Jewtopia) stumbles across and through them by the skin of his teeth, like a guy playing Resident Evil.
Cregger does something very interesting here: When we see Bryan first, he's got his girlfriend on the phone and she's pregnant, and he's being politic about this. Instead of going to talk things out with her, he accepts a delivery job he's not really suitable for (but which is profitable), and while trying to hash things out, he hits a woman.
A zombie woman, though he's not aware of this.
He could drive off, but instead he does the right thing and tries to help her. She's not dead, of course, because she's undead. But this leads him to an encounter with a cop. When that goes bad, he once again does the right thing, and gets himself into deeper trouble.
Over and over, Cregger puts him into situations where being selfish could really pay off, but he always chooses to do the right thing.
"This person is in serious need of chiropractic! I'd better go adjust them!"
Which, I guess, means it's not really like someone playing the video game, because games train you to place self-preservation above everything, generally.
One remarkable thing about the film is that, while it doesn't hew to the Resident Evil games storyline, this doesn't appear to be a matter of disrespect or opportunism. This is a dramatic story taking place inside the game universe, not a Paul W. S. Anderson "I rewrote my zombie script to kinda-sorta fit into the game franchise." Cregger grew up in a video game world.
And this probably is why when the game slips into a first person P.O.V. mode that resembles the video game, it's almost seamless. It might even be seamless to someone who doesn't know movies don't do that without a very specific narrative purpose. And there's probably a fascinating thread to tug on here: movies evolved from stage plays (especially once sound entered the picture), and stage plays are never first person, obviously. (Although that's a kind of interesting idea, somebody call my agent!)
Anyway, that's not a thread I'll tug on here. You're welcome.
Despite being about an inch deep, then, we start rooting for Bryan beyond the usual "well, he's the hero" kind of rooting. As he encounters characters from the game, we sometimes veer into what looks to be "woke" territory—but, no, the inch-depth of this means almost everything is played for a dark laugh, a quick scare or some genuine suspense as Bryan fights, flees and finagles his way into Raccoon City.
This is not a diss, by the way: I think Cregger did the right thing, a light touch was the wawy to go, and I think the movie will probably turn something like a profit—although $75M seems like a lot of money to spend on a movie with no stars. It won't make as much money as the much cheaper Weapons which didn't get as good a return on the production budget as Barbarian. I'm guessing all the money for this film went into the effects, which work.
Some people complain that the movie is too short and ends too abruptly. They are wrong. There is no place else for the movie to go at the end. The entire conceit of the film is that nobody is competent to handle the situation. It's like someone engineered a deadly virus and then couldn't manage to get the cure—oh, well, I guess you could argue it's too close to reality.
It's raining men! And women. Probably children, too, given this is "Resident Evil".
I don't know if the tone is sustainable. I know the movie would've broken under the change needed to draw it out further. But can there be a Resident Evil series where everyone is a dweeb? The monsters in that game (beyond the zombies) aren't exactly pushovers.
So, not only could I not see it going longer, I can't see a sequel that doesn't shift tone. That could be fun, I suppose: Make different movies, each with radically different tones.
This film knew what it wanted to do, did it, and got out. I respect that. The Boy also liked it, probably more than I did, though both of us afterward thought a lot more about our first film—a video-game-feeling monster flick from Korea which nearly ran three hours just to get to what is, at best, a halfway point in the story.
Sidebar: Frequent movie-thread contributor Mark Andrew Edwards wrote a long post on The James Madison's Phone's site about horror that's in the sidebar here. It's a good read and a theory I disagree with almost completely, and so I responded with a nearly as large rebuttal.
I'm guessing Mark would say Resident Evil (2026) is a horror movie. I would probably agree, but argue that it's almost a fluke. Survival horror is a legit genre, but when we get into comfortable game territory, whatever the "demonic epiphany" was becomes just another threat to manage: Bruce becomes just another shark, zombies become just another [insert politically inappropriate comparison here], et cetera. Horror stops being horror at the point it becomes manageable and comprehendible in prosaic terms.
Anyway, it's a good discussion and if you're into horror, you should check it out. I'm handing out free copies of my book Lair of the White Worm to everyone who agrees with me! (No, I'm not.)
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 26, 2026 07:30 PM (VyBeY)
Posted by: Blake (moviegique) at September 26, 2026 07:31 PM (iM/MY)
Posted by: polynikes at September 26, 2026 07:33 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 07:33 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 26, 2026 07:34 PM (XeU6L)
Anton Yelchin was a significant loss. The studio got cold feet on Odd Thomas for some reason, so I don't know about sequels. It's surprisingly good
Posted by: Blake (moviegique) at September 26, 2026 07:36 PM (iM/MY)
Posted by: polynikes at September 26, 2026 07:36 PM (KC5Lt)
2020 film of 1962 massacre at at striking locomotive plant in Novocherkaak near Rostov in Crimea
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 07:38 PM (Ia/+0)
These were both set in the now-depopulated regions of Detroit metro. It Follows (because of its plot device) extended further into southwest Michigan.
Best Detroit movie is probably still Eight Mile.
Posted by: 88C+u at September 26, 2026 07:39 PM (88C+u)
Agree. Think those were the first two and they seemed to get pretty tired after that.
Some of those early Corman Poe pics look better all the time.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 26, 2026 07:40 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 07:42 PM (Ia/+0)
Watched some redone Star Trek fims. Oh some Benedict Cumberbatch comes back as Khan and is just as nasty as before.
Why the ef is there no capital punishment? Why the ef does Khan and all his buddies get kept in cryogenic life.
Why not just execute the effer for Justice?
We live in a time when the Civil Authorities are abandoning the responsibility to administer Justice.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 26, 2026 07:43 PM (36x1j)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 26, 2026 07:44 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 07:38 PM (Ia/+0)
Odd, never heard of that one. (Note: this is sarcasm.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 26, 2026 07:45 PM (zZu0s)
Actually rented The Leopard with Burt Lancaster and Claudia Cardinale (yum!). The book is stupendous and my main interest was acquiring a visual frame for it of the palaces, landscape and towns referred therein.
The movie is remarkably faithful. The themes Lampadusa set out of the declining aristocracy and the rising merchant class are all present, even if set somewhat differently. The last two chapters - set 25 and 50 years after the main narrative - are omitted but no great damage is done.
Over three hours of slow action. The final ball is some 45 minutes. But there's nothing superfluous.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2026 07:45 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 26, 2026 07:45 PM (36x1j)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 26, 2026 07:46 PM (zZu0s)
Kurtzman Trek is an abomination and not worthy of serious consideration.
Posted by: Sjg at September 26, 2026 07:46 PM (i8HNq)
Posted by: polynikes at September 26, 2026 07:47 PM (KC5Lt)
Resident Evil: The Musical
Too late?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 26, 2026 07:34 PM (XeU6L)
Probably not.
I saw an "Evil Dead" Musical in Las Vegas a few years ago.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 26, 2026 07:47 PM (YSUhf)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 07:47 PM (Ia/+0)
Anyway, that's not a thread I'll tug on here. You're welcome.
I'll tug on it a little for you.
Lady in the Lake (1946) starring Robert Montgomery.
Film noir, and aside from some mirror reflections and directly addressing the audience a few times, Montgomery is never seen because it's almost entirely done in first person POV.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 26, 2026 07:48 PM (6ydKt)
"The Leopard" is slow but interesting.
Posted by: Blake (moviegique) at September 26, 2026 07:49 PM (cbzU4)
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 26, 2026 07:49 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 26, 2026 07:49 PM (ndZc7)
My biggest problem with the JJ Abram Star Trek is they killed Captain Pike instead of making him beep bop beep beep.
Posted by: polynikes at September 26, 2026 07:50 PM (KC5Lt)
Good example. "Dark Passage" is al POV until Humphrey Bogart get plastic surgery and is revealed to be.... Humphrey Bogart!
Posted by: Blake (moviegique) at September 26, 2026 07:51 PM (cbzU4)
Also saw The Death of Stalin. Even if you know what happened, you could imagine it happening this way. Main complaint: there's so much crosstalk among the characters that it was near impossible for me to make out what was being said.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2026 07:51 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 26, 2026 07:52 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 26, 2026 07:52 PM (nIKjK)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 07:52 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 26, 2026 07:54 PM (kpS4V)
I saw an "Evil Dead" Musical in Las Vegas a few years ago.
Posted by: naturalfake
Saw a stage play Carrie: The Musical a few years back. It was great! Funny, horrific, blood splatters! What's not to love?
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 26, 2026 07:55 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 07:55 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 26, 2026 07:56 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 26, 2026 07:56 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: 88C+u at September 26, 2026 07:57 PM (88C+u)
I. too, disagree with Mark Andrew Edwards long post, but since it's very much a "De gustibus'.
There's really nothing to argue.
I would say "Dracula" (1931) is a horror movie. MAE would say, No, it's not a horror movie because it has a happy ending.
And then I would say, "So, what? It's a horror movie. It sole purpose is to produce fright in the viewer."
And he would say, "No. It has a happy ending.'
... etc.
And then it would become the Monty Python argument skit, "The Argument Clinic".
Some interesting movies, he digs up though. So, give it a look.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 26, 2026 07:57 PM (YSUhf)
"We're being chased by a monster!"
"We better split up first!"
"Don't turn on the light, that's how they get you!"
"I should back into this dark, creepy room!"
"Lets have sex while a monster is killing everyone who has sex!"
...but there are limits. The guy keeps trying to load guns he should know well from gaming the wrong way, throws away tools he needs, etc.
And yeah apparently its more The Thing than Zombies so you can't get a sense of the logic of the setting and its way too much played for humor so I dunno. Sounds inconsistent and not very entertaining to me.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 26, 2026 07:57 PM (nIKjK)
Posted by: polynikes at September 26, 2026 07:50 PM
Bebop, like boogie-woogie, never really died, they just sublimated.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 26, 2026 07:57 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: davidt at September 26, 2026 07:59 PM (Q+gd/)
I'll go see Star Wars when they re-release it next year. I am interested in Ray Gunn but I can wait to see that streaming or something. There's a Brad Pitt movie about him in Alaska surviving with his Best Boy doggo, could be good.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 26, 2026 07:59 PM (nIKjK)
Good example. "Dark Passage" is al POV until Humphrey Bogart get plastic surgery and is revealed to be.... Humphrey Bogart!
Posted by: Blake (moviegique) at September 26, 2026 07:51 PM (cbzU4)
Caught that, for the second or third time, on TCM a few months ago.
They had a good reason in that one as they didn't want to show the original face. You only see what Bogart's character's face originally looked like in a newspaper article.
MGM did it with iLady in the Lake and advertised it as the most revolutionary thing in filmmaking since the invention of the talkie.
They overhyped that a little, for sure.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 26, 2026 08:00 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: polynikes at September 26, 2026 08:00 PM (KC5Lt)
The new "Resident Evil" movie was good though not as good as "Weapons".
Basically, it was meant to be a video game-esque thrill ride and it was.
I also thought it ended perfectly. Though I think there's enough room with what happens for for sequel. also having the same main character.
I can't discuss this without massive spoilers but as a hint...what usually causes you to repeat or re-enter a game?
Posted by: naturalfake at September 26, 2026 08:01 PM (YSUhf)
I dusted off my long-neglected Movie Roulette wheel.
It chose The Simpsons Movie for me, which I have not watched in many years.
Not a great film, but moderately entertaining in some parts.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 26, 2026 08:02 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: polynikes
I assumed OD but I looked it up.
After Yelchin failed to arrive at a rehearsal on June 18, 2016, he was found by friends at around 1:10 a.m. on June 19, 2016, pinned between his Jeep Grand Cherokee and a brick pillar gate post outside his house in Studio City, Los Angeles, dead from an accident. As Yelchin got out of his car and went to check his locked gate for mail, the vehicle apparently rolled back down his driveway, which was on a steep incline, and trapped him against the pillar and a security fence. Yelchin was pronounced dead at age 27 at the scene; the Los Angeles County Coroner's office identified the cause of death as "blunt traumatic asphyxia" and stated that there were "no obvious suspicious circumstances involved".
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 26, 2026 08:02 PM (ndZc7)
Yeah Iron Man is like C tier and Guardians of the Galaxy was kinda barely staying in print.
MGM did it with Lady in the Lake and advertised it as the most revolutionary thing in filmmaking since the invention of the talkie.
Its kind of a neat concept -- YOU are the hero! But it ends up sort of awkward. They did it a little bit in the DOOM movie but not very long. Hardcore Henry did it better, that was just wild
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 26, 2026 08:02 PM (nIKjK)
Posted by: polynikes at September 26, 2026 08:03 PM (KC5Lt)
The Leopard, obscure note:
This book was translated as The Leopard, but the literal translation is The Ocelot.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 26, 2026 08:04 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 26, 2026 07:59 PM (nIKjK)
Pitt also has The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth coming out on Netflix in December, but there's a two week preview at IMAX theaters in November.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 26, 2026 08:05 PM (6ydKt)
That is a very grim and incredibly unfortunate way to die. What are even the odds?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 26, 2026 08:05 PM (nIKjK)
Its kind of a neat concept -- YOU are the hero! But it ends up sort of awkward. They did it a little bit in the DOOM movie but not very long. Hardcore Henry did it better, that was just wild
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 26, 2026 08:02 PM (nIKjK)
I could see it as something in the future with VR/AR movies, perhaps with a little interactive element to it.
Sort of like a primitive Holodeck type thing.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 26, 2026 08:07 PM (6ydKt)
I know I am alone in this but I found Once Upon A Time In Hollywood to be alternately tedious and annoying. The way that movie ended he would be in prison a long time for butchering several hippies in a stoned rampage. WE know they are evil cultists who would murder a pregnant woman, but nobody knows that in this time line. Then there's the "I totally kicked Bruce Lee's ass" story Cliff tells while a drunken 60 year old.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 26, 2026 08:07 PM (nIKjK)
Posted by: fd at September 26, 2026 08:08 PM (MWfyi)
When you said Ray Gunn I flashed on that horrible Aussie break dancer and thought Whaaa?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 26, 2026 08:09 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: polynikes at September 26, 2026 07:33 PM (KC5Lt)
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Could have been a decent franchise.
I've read all the Odd Thomas books and each one is a stand-alone story that could be made into a good movie.
Though the full ending to the series is very, very bittersweet.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 26, 2026 08:09 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,
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Using a JAP powered Brough was a clever methodology.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 26, 2026 08:09 PM (XeU6L)
Yeah its a bit confusing, because a raygun documentary came out like last month all about her.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 26, 2026 08:09 PM (nIKjK)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 08:10 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 26, 2026 08:07 PM (nIKjK)
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I was so bored with the first half that I checked out and never finished watching it. I didn't care about any of the characters.
All of them were pretty awful people, as far as I could tell.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 26, 2026 08:11 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
How interesting. I should really add that to my watchlist.
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 26, 2026 08:12 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 26, 2026 08:12 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 26, 2026 08:13 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 26, 2026 08:12 PM (kpS4V)
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Thanks...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 26, 2026 08:13 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 08:13 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: polynikes at September 26, 2026 08:13 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 26, 2026 08:07 PM (nIKjK)
I just don't take it seriously, and enjoy it as another Tarantino revenge fantasy filmed like a 70s exploitation flick. I don't look for it to make complete sense.
The first hour is amusing and funny in spots. The sequence at Spahn ranch is very well shot and paced.
But the last 30 minutes or so seals the deal for me. I guess I liked Tarantino's revenge fantasy as much as he did in this case.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 26, 2026 08:14 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at September 26, 2026 08:14 PM (QaH55)
Joe Vissarion Jugie from all accounts was a humorist. Probably could have got chuckles on tour. Mind you, since he was General Secretary, you BETTER smile when he made a funny...
Posted by: 88C+u at September 26, 2026 08:15 PM (88C+u)
She was really nice to watch, apparently those movies had virtually nothing to do with the game story (such as it is) but I do like looking at Milla.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 26, 2026 08:17 PM (nIKjK)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 08:18 PM (Ia/+0)
On the off chance CS Lewis was right that hell isn't real and it's all purgatory, and after historic sinners get their number called for forgiveness... Beria is going to be spending some very lonely millennia down there.
Posted by: 88C+u at September 26, 2026 08:18 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 26, 2026 08:14 PM (6ydK
I thought the movie as a whole was just meh but the Spahn Ranch scene is in my top five all time scenes . As you referenced the pacing and suspense was perfect imo.
Posted by: polynikes at September 26, 2026 08:18 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: four seasons at September 26, 2026 08:18 PM (/QHx4)
https://tinyurl.com/2xktkmbv
Bonus. Once Upon a Time In Hollywood sequel.
https://tinyurl.com/ytj46er5
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 26, 2026 08:19 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2026 08:21 PM (l3cgK)
She was really nice to watch, apparently those movies had virtually nothing to do with the game story (such as it is) but I do like looking at Milla.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 26, 2026 08:17 PM (nIKjK)
She's 50 now...will be 51 before the end of the year.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2026 08:22 PM (l3cgK)
Last pics I saw of her, she still looks astounding
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 26, 2026 08:23 PM (nIKjK)
Posted by: polynikes at September 26, 2026 08:18 PM (KC5Lt)
We are not alone in that opinion.
This guy analyzes the hell out of that scene and had me convinced.
https://youtu.be/bhOWI4fyG3M
It's all about building up tension and then releasing it in a perfectly satisfying way.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 26, 2026 08:24 PM (6ydKt)
Last pics I saw of her, she still looks astounding
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 26, 2026 08:23 PM (nIKjK)
https://tinyurl.com/4s2wshrk
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2026 08:25 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: polynikes at September 26, 2026 07:33 PM
I didn't see the movie, but I read the books, and enjoyed them. Odd was the best character Dean Koontz ever came up with. We could all use a little Odd in our lives.
Posted by: huerfano at September 26, 2026 08:25 PM (2Xqig)
Nailed it, too, I think.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 26, 2026 08:26 PM (q3u5l)
https://tinyurl.com/2xktkmbv
Bonus. Once Upon a Time In Hollywood sequel.
https://tinyurl.com/ytj46er5
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 26, 2026 08:19 PM (ndZc7)
Lethal Weapon 5: Police Rest Home...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2026 08:28 PM (l3cgK)
I always look forward to replacing one.
1. Deer Hunter - Russian roulette as prisoners
2. Training Day- when he is left with gang bangers to be killed
3. The Patriot- rescuing his oldest son with his two young sons.
4. Battleground- the ending where they are marching back from the front.
5. OaUaTiH. -Spahn Ranch
Posted by: polynikes at September 26, 2026 08:28 PM (KC5Lt)
You ain't got nothing to worry about.
He'll keep her happy till you get out.
You won't get out till the end of the war.
In Nineteen Hundred and Seventy Four.
Sound off...
Delightful.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 26, 2026 08:30 PM (q3u5l)
I can’t do it. I would if I lived with someone. But alone? No.
The Exorcist is the epitome of horror. Real. No resolution. Current. Nope. Nope. Nope.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 26, 2026 08:31 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 08:32 PM (Ia/+0)
I can’t do it. I would if I lived with someone. But alone? No.
The Exorcist is the epitome of horror. Real. No resolution. Current. Nope. Nope. Nope.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 26, 2026 08:31 PM (yEz+x)
Horror is not my cup of tea. I mean I'll watch it if it interests me, but the shock value and gore doesn't do anything for me.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2026 08:32 PM (l3cgK)
It turns out that Russian drones attacked McDonald’s warehouse in Kyiv Oblast’s Brovary district not once but twice.
“Everything looks like a deliberate strike on a facility connected to an American company,” said Kyiv Oblast Governor Tymur Tkachenko.
The first strike occurred at around 3 a.m., followed by another one during the day.
The second strike sparked a fire at the warehouse, completely destroying the facility.
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We can only pray the McRibs were spared.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 26, 2026 08:34 PM (ndZc7)
I'll have to meditate on what scene would be my favorite. Maybe when the high priest is watching for the eclipse in Apocalypto. He knows it's coming. His subjects don't.
Posted by: 88C+u at September 26, 2026 08:34 PM (88C+u)
It turns out that Russian drones attacked McDonald’s warehouse in Kyiv Oblast’s Brovary district not once but twice.
“Everything looks like a deliberate strike on a facility connected to an American company,” said Kyiv Oblast Governor Tymur Tkachenko.
The first strike occurred at around 3 a.m., followed by another one during the day.
The second strike sparked a fire at the warehouse, completely destroying the facility.
-
We can only pray the McRibs were spared.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 26, 2026 08:34 PM (ndZc7)
Fries, fries everywhere! And they were burnt!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2026 08:35 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: polynikes at September 26, 2026 08:35 PM (KC5Lt)
I'll have to meditate on what scene would be my favorite. Maybe when the high priest is watching for the eclipse in Apocalypto. He knows it's coming. His subjects don't.
Posted by: 88C+u at September 26, 2026 08:34 PM (88C+u)
You could almost smell the rot of blood and dead bodies in the pile of the sacrificed in that movie...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2026 08:36 PM (l3cgK)
Stalin strikes me different than Hitler for some reason because I do not think he was insane or visionary in any sense. I think he is that rarest of animals- a true amoral psychopath. Like a real one.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 26, 2026 08:36 PM (zZu0s)
Stalin strikes me different than Hitler for some reason because I do not think he was insane or visionary in any sense. I think he is that rarest of animals- a true amoral psychopath. Like a real one.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 26, 2026 08:36 PM (zZu0s)
From what I read, Mao was too. It seems Communism seems to attract those types.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2026 08:37 PM (l3cgK)
The second strike sparked a fire at the warehouse, completely destroying the facility.
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We can only pray the McRibs were spared.
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I want a Guernica-style painting of this atrocity.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 26, 2026 08:38 PM (kpS4V)
When movie nerds fight!!!
youtu.be/d67rhIzUhhk
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 26, 2026 08:38 PM (PGK1w)
Was glad I had someone to snuggle up to going to bed that night.
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 26, 2026 08:39 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2026 08:28 PM (l3cgK)
Evidently Gibson says he promised Donner he would do it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 26, 2026 08:39 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: four seasons at September 26, 2026 08:40 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2026 08:37 PM (l3cgK)
Cambodia because it just seemed to be a hyperconcentrated totally gonzo version of the cultural revolution on a smaller scale.
Dont lose God, people. Bad things happen.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 26, 2026 08:41 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 26, 2026 08:41 PM (5C90x)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 26, 2026 08:41 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 26, 2026 08:41 PM (kpS4V)
'Night and Fog' when I saw it in 8th grade.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 26, 2026 08:42 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: polynikes at September 26, 2026 08:42 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 26, 2026 08:39 PM (ftFVW)
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Artie the Clown?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 26, 2026 08:43 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes
Hahahaha! At that time in my life it was Kate Winslet's Boobs.
But I am excited to get another Terrifier when it comes out!
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 26, 2026 08:45 PM (ftFVW)
Gotta say, I agree with moviegique's take.
MAE is spectacularly wrong in his take on horror.
By his own definition, Event Horizon is NOT a horror movie because a few protagonists live.
However, there's is NO indication whatsoever that any of them are going to have happy lives. In fact, there's a fairly clear hint to the audience that something is still very, very wrong with the remains of the titular ship that is serving as a lifeboat.
By MAE's definition, the AUDIENCE is supposed to be left with a feeling of lingering dread, which Event Horizon does, but MAE says it's NOT a horror movie. So he's inconsistent in his application of his own definition.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 26, 2026 08:46 PM (FZ29D)
Was glad I had someone to snuggle up to going to bed that night.
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 26, 2026 08:39 PM (ftFVW)
A dark, empty room helps a lot with all horror movies.
Even an old horror movie like "The Haunting" (1963) can absolutely raise the hairs on your neck once it get it's hooks in you.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 26, 2026 08:46 PM (YSUhf)
Was glad I had someone to snuggle up to going to bed that night.
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 26, 2026 08:39 PM (ftFVW)
A dark, empty room helps a lot with all horror movies.
Even an old horror movie like "The Haunting" (1963) can absolutely raise the hairs on your neck once it get it's hooks in you.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 26, 2026 08:46 PM (YSUhf)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
Supposed to be a real tear jerker. I avoid those like the plague.
Posted by: Tuna at September 26, 2026 08:47 PM (lJ0H4)
Well, they beat the tar out of him and then let him go. The Albanian mob killed him.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 26, 2026 08:47 PM (PGK1w)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 26, 2026 08:47 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: naturalfake at September 26, 2026 08:47 PM (YSUhf)
Stalin was a psychopathic criminal / thug. Hitler was a delusional nationalistic psychopath.
Hitler cared about loyalty above all else and it didn't mean anything to Stalin.
That's how I see their main differences.
Posted by: polynikes at September 26, 2026 08:48 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 26, 2026 08:47 PM (PGK1w)
I was talking about Ethan Hawke being left with the gang bangers.
Posted by: polynikes at September 26, 2026 08:50 PM (KC5Lt)
Young Roddy McDowell and... Clive Revill?
Pretty scary as a kid. Very 70s as an adult. But still creepy.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 26, 2026 08:50 PM (zZu0s)
Can it ever. Saw that one in the theater when it came out (front row center, Marquette Theater in Chicago Lawn) -- it really did the job then, and it still does it today.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 26, 2026 08:52 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Tuna at September 26, 2026 08:47 PM (lJ0H4)
Supposedly the dog doesn't die. That's all I care about. I need that spoiler confirmed before I decide to see it.
Posted by: polynikes at September 26, 2026 08:52 PM (KC5Lt)
Last week watch a Chinese movie
Dead to Rights Ao Shen 2025 movie about Rape of Nanking. Based on true story of a Postal worker who fakes his expertise on film work. Saves some people and gets photo evidence out of the atrocities in Nanking
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 08:54 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: polynikes
Spoiler: I read a synopsis of the movie. There's a death but it ain't the dog.
Posted by: Tuna at September 26, 2026 08:55 PM (lJ0H4)
Many of the extras were members of the 101 who’d actually been in the battle.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 26, 2026 08:56 PM (H8mUs)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 26, 2026 08:56 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Tuna at September 26, 2026 08:55 PM (lJ0H4)
There's like three characters in the film and we know JK Simmons (the pilot) dies. So...
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 26, 2026 08:56 PM (zZu0s)
I agree with MAE. Horror leaves no resolution. You keep thinking about it.
You look under your bed and in your closet and every shudder is suspect.
That’s horror.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 26, 2026 08:58 PM (QRXVU)
TV series, 32 eps. Not quite as sordid and blackpilling as "Mayor of Kingstown," but it'll do until the Mayor gets here. I luv the scene where the State House Speaker, confronted with evidence of his petty graft, promptly infarcts and strokes out. I wish that all our lying self-dealing politicians [BIRM] had that kind of cardiac integrity! Alas, I could watch only S2 and S3, because playability of public library DVD sets is hit or miss.Posted by: gp at September 26, 2026 08:58 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 08:59 PM (Ia/+0)
That inspires gp's interview questions for Tilly:
- Do you shave your armpits? Please show us. Just one will suffice.
- Would you consider playing the part of Richard III entirely in the nude?
- How many times have you been assaulted by pervy producers and casting directors? If never, do you worry that you might be missing out on one of the most important skill-building experiences of an actress's career? If so, how would you 'level up' your game?
- What was the total amount due on your latest month's electric bill?
- Please describe your breasts in detail. Include size, shape, weight, color, polarity, and compatible types of terminal post options.
- Do you like extra-salty, buttery, piping hot, fresh popcorn?
Posted by: gp at September 26, 2026 08:59 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Spoiler: You need to find a synopsis of the movie. There are plenty of them on line. JK Simmons is not the pilot.
Posted by: Tuna at September 26, 2026 09:01 PM (lJ0H4)
This. "Horror" just isn't. Ah well.
Posted by: man at September 26, 2026 09:01 PM (pfXMo)
Posted by: polynikes at September 26, 2026 09:02 PM (KC5Lt)
The recent Korean horror movie, "Colony" by the same guy who made "Train to Busan".
Was very good and a lot of fun.
Not a sequel to TtB.
Honestly, I'm kind of tired of zombies however, this had several interesting twists and surprises which made it interesting.
Watch it if you get the chance.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 26, 2026 09:02 PM (YSUhf)
"Lucky Day" is the worst of the bunch, due to the lead character being insufferable self-righteous Karen. Even with the jokes, the best part of the movie are the scenes that she wasn't in. "Before I Say Goodbye" was much better, and featured the best twist-ending of the series. "A Crime of Passion" is the best of the bunch. 90% of it is a genuinely good movie, but that final 10% ranks among the silliest sequences of all of the MST3K cannon. "I'll Be Seeing You" is okay, but the lead actress (Clint Eastwood's daughter) simply cannot emote. The final movie was "Try to Remember" which was good, and featured the only lead actress I recognized (Gabriel Anwar).
Posted by: Castle Guy at September 26, 2026 09:04 PM (3v7ra)
Posted by: man at September 26, 2026 09:05 PM (pfXMo)
Or I could just read.
Decisions, decisions...
Posted by: Castle Guy at September 26, 2026 09:07 PM (3v7ra)
Posted by: Tuna at September 26, 2026 09:07 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: four seasons at September 26, 2026 09:08 PM (/QHx4)
There is a great black and white WW2 movie called The Train with Burt Lancaster that is great. Its about trying to move Nazi stolen art safely out of Nazi territory by underground. Burt gets kind of a bad rap as an actor but he could be quite good.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 26, 2026 09:11 PM (nIKjK)
Have a good night everyone
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 09:11 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: four seasons at September 26, 2026 09:12 PM (/QHx4)
Supposed to be quite good, if rushed (its a year long story squeezed into like 90 minutes).
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 26, 2026 09:14 PM (nIKjK)
Of one of the two main styles of historical war movie. One style is to do a big budget overview of the entire scope of the battle; Tora Tora Tora is one of these. The other style is to showcase a small scale, personal view of the battle. This type doesn’t try to depict the entire battle, but instead focuses on what it looked like to the men who were in the middle of it. Battleground does this masterfully.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 26, 2026 09:15 PM (H8mUs)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 26, 2026 09:16 PM (5C90x)
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With Buddy Ebsen as the veteran?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 26, 2026 09:17 PM (ndZc7)
Zombie movies just but me personally because zombies suck as a bad guy, they either require the people to act like retards to provide a challenge, put the people in a situation where the zombies have all the advantages, or make them not zombies (these are fast! These are smart!).
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 26, 2026 09:18 PM (nIKjK)
But thanks for the review. It doesn't sound terrible, though I don't much like zoomers. Nice to hear a protagonist doing the morally right thing for a change.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 26, 2026 09:18 PM (s1VwS)
Posted by: Tuna at September 26, 2026 09:07 PM (lJ0H4)
Fair warning, thanks
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 26, 2026 09:19 PM (s1VwS)
Gotta say, I agree with moviegique's take.
MAE is spectacularly wrong in his take on horror.
By his own definition, Event Horizon is NOT a horror movie because a few protagonists live.
However, there's is NO indication whatsoever that any of them are going to have happy lives. In fact, there's a fairly clear hint to the audience that something is still very, very wrong with the remains of the titular ship that is serving as a lifeboat.
By MAE's definition, the AUDIENCE is supposed to be left with a feeling of lingering dread, which Event Horizon does, but MAE says it's NOT a horror movie. So he's inconsistent in his application of his own definition.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 26, 2026 08:46 PM (FZ29D)
I don't see a feeling of dread at the end of Event Horizon. They've escaped and survived. Or maybe there's more than one ending to Event Horizon. I will rewatch it and see how it ends.
I try to be consistent with my own rules.
And spectacularly wrong? Hm.
Thanks for reading though. I appreciate your time.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 26, 2026 09:24 PM (s1VwS)
Posted by: 88C+u seems to be on a Buscemi kick at September 26, 2026 09:27 PM (88C+u)
Michael Corleone seemed to have been getting things together in Part III but then they pulled him back in again and it was all blood, death and first cousin incest from there on out.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 26, 2026 09:31 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 26, 2026 09:16 PM
Yeah. I quietly keep my opinion to myself about that, particularly when it comes up in the Book Thread. But then I think, hey a lot of people might have learned to read because of that stuff, so what business is it of mine? If they're more literate as a result, they're better off. I once heard this Ramsey guy say Readers Are Leaders.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 26, 2026 09:33 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Just Some Guy
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There is a difference between horror as dramatic suspense and horrific presentation (snuf flicks in the beginning) now graphic mutilation. It ghoulish pornography.
Another part of our civility's degradation.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 26, 2026 09:34 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: four seasons at September 26, 2026 09:35 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 26, 2026 09:35 PM (XV/Pl)
Another part of our civility's degradation.
Posted by: Braenyard
Mmmmmmm, love me some sweet, sweet degeneracy.
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 26, 2026 09:36 PM (ftFVW)
Some great comments here but I'm one cigar and three excellent whiskies deep into the evening.
I dislike horror films.
I carry the scars of watching "The Fiend Without A Face" as a child. Give me a good comedy anytime.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 26, 2026 09:38 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 26, 2026 09:38 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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He could chew up a complete movie for lunch.
Don't know if it was the director or what but Yes, he could be excellent.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 26, 2026 09:39 PM (VPNgR)
Another part of our civility's degradation.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 26, 2026 09:34 PM (VPNgR)
I call it "Torture Porn", seemed to really start around Saw.
Stopped watching after the unkillable killer, gore flicks of the 80s and 90s.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 26, 2026 09:39 PM (6ydKt)
And so mutes the horrorishness of the films.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 26, 2026 09:40 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 26, 2026 09:40 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 26, 2026 09:43 PM (q3u5l)
I also have always loved a good post apocalyptic setting (since playing Fallout 2 way back when '96? '97?)
But at the same time, got tired of them for the most part.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 26, 2026 09:47 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 26, 2026 09:43 PM (
Today I can watch it and laugh, but I will get over seeing it as a kid and thinking it was real. I didn't sleep for a week.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 26, 2026 09:47 PM (2WIwB)
Sod off you fucking hippies.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 26, 2026 09:48 PM (zZu0s)
My line with movies and TV shows is when the queer shit shows up.
Instant shutdown cutoff.
I am not giving money to people who are showing queer shit.
Posted by: four seasons at September 26, 2026 09:53 PM (/QHx4)
The other was an episode of the Karloff-hosted Thriller tv series -- The Hungry Glass, from a story by Robert Bloch (he may have scripted, can't recall), with William Shatner and a bunch of spectral nasties haunting the mirrors. THAT was nightmare-inducing for this kid, and it ain't too dusty even today.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 26, 2026 09:54 PM (q3u5l)
Some great comments here but I'm one cigar and three excellent whiskies deep into the evening.
I dislike horror films.
I carry the scars of watching "The Fiend Without A Face" as a child. Give me a good comedy anytime.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 26, 2026 09:38 PM (2WIwB)
That's interesting because I consider comedy and horror two sides of the same coin.
Neither one works unless it engages your brain.
It's one reason why "torture porn" doesn't work very well as horror. Sure it can make you squeamish but that's not horror. Horror must engage the mind to make you feel...well...horror.
Same with comedy. Woody Allen had it wrong. Comedy isn't eating at the children's table. Comedy only works at the highest level of the mind...even gross or dirty comedy. it is a challenge to what you know the world to be. That's why you laugh.
Movies that people think of as serious movies, say war movies mostly engage the emotions. It's the easiest and lowest access to yourself.
Look at how many people won't watch a movie that's sad or that has a dog die. Emotions are so easy to twist. It's the lowest level of engagement.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 26, 2026 09:55 PM (YSUhf)
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at September 26, 2026 09:56 PM (r7+Q7)
I also have the "Friday the 13th" blu-ray set that has everything.
My opinion cannot be trusted.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 26, 2026 09:57 PM (CHHv1)
Moviegique, thanks for the thread.
Have a good one, gang.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 26, 2026 09:57 PM (q3u5l)
I love "Fiend Without a Face." Criterion needs to put this out in 4K and burn the 4K of "Gummo."
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 26, 2026 10:23 PM (CHHv1)
Hobby Thread - September 26, 2026 [TRex]
Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. For this week, the Wheel of Hobbies (TM) is feeling adventurous and decided on a fall scenic drives theme for this Hobby Thread.
A scenic drive in a scenic season? Yes! Tell me more! [Top photo: Million Dollar Highway, Colorado]
469 miles connecting Shenandoah and Great Smoky Mountains national parks. Ridgeline views, 200+ overlooks, and staggered color from high peaks down into the valleys. Often called America's favorite drive. 2. Kancamagus Highway (New Hampshire)
34.5 miles through White Mountain National Forest from Lincoln to Conway. Classic New England maples, birches, and waterfalls in a short, concentrated burst of color. 3. Skyline Drive, Shenandoah National Park (Virginia)
105 miles along the Blue Ridge crest with 70+ overlooks. Easy access from the DC area and one of the most reliable East Coast leaf-peeping routes. 4. Going-to-the-Sun Road, Glacier National Park (Montana)
About 50 miles of alpine drama, waterfalls, and golden aspens against glacier-carved peaks. High-elevation color comes early; the road itself can close with snow. 5. Million Dollar Highway / San Juan Skyway (Colorado)
The dramatic US-550 stretch between Ouray and Silverton (part of the 233-mile San Juan Skyway loop). Golden aspens, sheer canyon walls, and high-mountain towns. Peak is typically late September to early October. 6. Historic Columbia River Highway (Oregon)
75 miles through the Columbia River Gorge with waterfalls (including Multnomah Falls) framed by changing maples and oaks. Combines river, cliffs, and forest. 7. Beartooth Highway (Montana & Wyoming)
68 miles from Red Lodge, MT, toward Yellowstone. An All-American Road with high-alpine tundra, lakes, and early-season color against rugged peaks. 8. Park Loop Road, Acadia National Park (Maine)
27-mile loop (plus the Cadillac Mountain summit spur) mixing ocean, granite, and mixed hardwoods. Compact and spectacular, especially around Jordan Pond. 9. Vermont Route 100
The state's north-south spine through the Green Mountains- farms, villages, rivers, and dense maple forests. Often paired with shorter side roads like Route 7A. 10. Newfound Gap Road & Cades Cove, Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Tennessee & North Carolina)
Newfound Gap Road (US-441) crosses the park at high elevation; the 11-mile Cades Cove loop adds valley views, historic buildings, and wildlife. Elevation range stretches the color season.
Often called one of the best fall foliage drives in North America, this route runs through the Green Mountains with classic New England scenery, farms, and small towns. 2. Kancamagus Highway (New Hampshire)
A legendary New England leaf-peeping route through the White Mountains, with overlooks, waterfalls, and dense forests. 3. Blue Ridge Parkway (Virginia & North Carolina)
America's most famous scenic byway, connecting Shenandoah and Great Smoky Mountains National Parks. Expect sweeping mountain vistas and long stretches of blazing color. 4. Newfound Gap Road (Great Smoky Mountains, TN/NC)
A 31-mile drive climbing through multiple elevation zones - meaning long-lasting, varied foliage. Wildlife sightings (including black bears) are common. 5. Park Loop Road (Acadia National Park, Maine)
A short but spectacular coastal-mountain loop with views from Cadillac Mountain and stops like Jordan Pond. 6. Route 7A (Vermont)
A postcard-perfect drive between Bennington and Manchester, flanked by the Taconic and Green Mountains. 7. Cherohala Skyway (Tennessee to North Carolina)
A high-elevation drive with sweeping overlooks, connecting Tellico Plains to Robbinsville. Brilliant reds and golds line the ridges. 8. Million Dollar Highway (Colorado)
A dramatic Rocky Mountain route between Silverton and Ouray, known for golden aspens and steep cliffside views. 9. North Shore Scenic Drive (Minnesota)
A 150-mile route along Lake Superior with waterfalls, lighthouses, and dual foliage seasons thanks to the lake's microclimate. 10. Enchanted Circle Scenic Byway (New Mexico)
A loop around Wheeler Peak with high-desert aspens, alpine lakes, and mountain towns like Taos.
Words of wisdom:
"Because despite all our troubles, when things are grim out in that wide round world of ours, that's when it's really important to have a good hobby." Posted by: tankascribe at June 22, 2024 07:41 PM (HWxAD).
Send thoughts, suggestions and photos of your hobbying to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Or just email to say hello. Do mighty things.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 05:30 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2026 05:31 PM (1Ff7Z)
I also have a $400 chainsaw that needs a carb. I don't think I'll even bother.
Posted by: fd at September 26, 2026 05:35 PM (MWfyi)
Lovely drive, especially in the sparsely-populated North and NE parts of the state.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 26, 2026 05:36 PM (s1VwS)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 26, 2026 05:37 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: fd at September 26, 2026 05:38 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 05:39 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 05:39 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2026 05:40 PM (1Ff7Z)
Well, on our back storm door after a few years the roll-up retractable screen jammed and broke.
Posted by: fd at September 26, 2026 05:41 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 26, 2026 05:41 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: fd at September 26, 2026 05:42 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 05:42 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
Make sure to add Sonora pass as well as Tioga and Monitor passes.
Quite the one day road trip!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 26, 2026 05:44 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2026 05:44 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: JTB at September 26, 2026 05:45 PM (yTvNw)
In other radio nerd news: I finally got around to flashing new firmware onto my Quansheng UV-K5 and now it will do CW on 2 meters. That will mean something to 3 or 4 of you.
Posted by: PabloD at September 26, 2026 05:45 PM (OXSZa)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 05:45 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: LASue at September 26, 2026 05:46 PM (lCppi)
Still toiling away painting on the latest portrait. This one is different in that the subject is seated on a tortoise. Not a live one, though. I was also obliquely approached by a friend of a friend with a request (sorta) to paint a double portrait from wedding photos. Since I have painted a double portrait and vowed never to do so again, was able to turn that down politely. I also like to paint good-looking people -- so sue me! -- and neither of them were that. Plus the photos lacked sufficient definition for a good likeness, anyway. A good reason why I don't do commissions, it'd be a colossal headache.
Posted by: tankascribe at September 26, 2026 05:46 PM (NtoJk)
Posted by: Reforger at September 26, 2026 05:46 PM (F9nWj)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 05:47 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 26, 2026 05:41 PM
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Howdy!
Posted by: TRex - on the road again dino at September 26, 2026 05:48 PM (XfIK1)
Quite the one day road trip!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 26, 2026 05:44 PM (NnhvP)
49, 88, 89, the loop around the Lake. I drove 'em all.
Wish I had my MGB....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2026 05:48 PM (1Ff7Z)
I was looking at chain saws in the True Value a few weeks ago and notice that they are carefully arrayed to encourage you to upsell yourself. Here's one with an 16" bar and a 36cc engine. I'm sure that would be adequate for 99.99% of the things I would ever need a chainsaw for. Oh, but for an extra 20 dollars, I can get an 18" bar and a 42 cc engine. OK, that seems worth it. But then for only another 35 dollars, I can have and 20" chain and a 46 cc engine. And it doesn't stop until you've upsold yourself to the tune of 50% of what you were willing to spend 5 minutes ago.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 26, 2026 05:50 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Piper at September 26, 2026 05:50 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: PabloD at September 26, 2026 05:52 PM (OXSZa)
Posted by: LASue at September 26, 2026 05:46 PM (lCppi)
Your post started in English, then this line showed up. It's undecipherable.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2026 05:53 PM (1Ff7Z)
I secretly wished death upon the groundhog in February.
Posted by: Unkaren at September 26, 2026 05:53 PM (IXaAJ)
Wish I had my MGB....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2026 05:48 PM (1Ff7Z)
I love that area. My favorite is a bit North, 70 through Quincy then out Bucks Lake road. There is a truck route off bucks that has to be one of the most challenging roads anywhere. Really, really fun to drive. I'd live around there if it wasn't in fucking california.
Posted by: Reforger at September 26, 2026 05:57 PM (F9nWj)
PabloD,
Haven't listened in a long time but never heard much, if any, CW on 2 meters. Have things changed? Being able to do CW on UHF would be a great way to practice with other local hams. Easily controlled group numbers and no band conditions to consider.
Posted by: JTB at September 26, 2026 05:57 PM (yTvNw)
And this is a video of it
youtu.be/8Wks7kIIIo0
Posted by: Kindltot at September 26, 2026 05:58 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 26, 2026 05:59 PM (VqCOT)
Posted by: Skip"
It's not a wire screen. The one in the storm door rolls up into the top part of the door. Just the top half of the door is screened.
Posted by: fd at September 26, 2026 06:03 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: PabloD at September 26, 2026 06:04 PM (OXSZa)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 06:05 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2026 06:05 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: RI Red at September 26, 2026 06:06 PM (cqvKE)
I used to take scenic drives all the time in Colorado. I never got much west of the peak of the Rockies, though a young woman I was dating did take us up and over to Grand Junction once in summer. Nothing specific to the fall that I remember.
I've taken that Enchanted Circle drive in New Mexico, and I do believe that was in October, 1996 if I recall aright.
"Scenic" drives in Da Swamp and environs? Oxymoron. You get tired of swamp, green stuff, more green stuff, and did I mention swamp?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2026 06:07 PM (wzUl9)
I secretly wished death upon the groundhog in February.
Posted by: Unkaren
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It's been awhile, but used to know Rt 30 in upstate as I went to nursing school in Amsterdam NY.
Posted by: The Grateful - R at September 26, 2026 06:07 PM (XfIK1)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 06:07 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 06:07 PM (Ia/+0)
Up.
Posted by: Reforger at September 26, 2026 06:09 PM (F9nWj)
Posted by: The Grateful - R at September 26, 2026 06:11 PM (XfIK1)
This morning I bought a new Zippo pipe lighter, brushed brass and labeled "armor" -- apparently thicker metal. My front face of my old Zippo from 2021 is badly worn, though not the back. I'll keep it for adventures outside, and use the brass one at home.
Speaking of outside, I drove to my favorite local coffee shop this morning, had some chow indoors, and sat at one of their outdoor iron tables in the shade to smoke my pipe with my coffee. The weather here is a little less than vicious this weekend, humidity down, so it was very nice to relax that way.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2026 06:12 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: DaveA at September 26, 2026 06:14 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 26, 2026 05:59 PM (VqCOT)
If you could describe the leaves as 'golden', then yes.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 26, 2026 06:15 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: couple posing for painting at September 26, 2026 06:16 PM (KC5Lt)
The region got so derechoed you hear saws every nice day out. I was just out with the Jonsered.
Posted by: DaveA at September 26, 2026 06:17 PM (FhXTo)
One very cool thing you could do on a rainy day was drive until you were above the clouds.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 26, 2026 06:17 PM (CHHv1)
I need to get outside and cut things, and then measure things, and cut some more.
I want to show the cutting, for educational purposes, but doing that inside would get sawdust on my electronics, and doing it outside... would still get sawdust on my electronics because I don't have a go-pro. Something something first world problems.
The measuring and marking and assembly can be done on camera.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 26, 2026 06:18 PM (C0Nlv)
Haven't seen it used on those hard to start chain saws but why not? Bought one. It's sitting right here on the desk.
Haven't tried it yet. It's too hot outside.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 26, 2026 06:19 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: Reforger at September 26, 2026 05:57 PM (F9nWj)
(slides Reforger a cold RC)
Don't think I've ever been out there. Too far away now, and no little convertible either.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2026 06:19 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: TxAnn at September 26, 2026 06:21 PM (SjAWL)
Posted by: huerfano at September 26, 2026 06:21 PM (2Xqig)
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at September 26, 2026 06:22 PM (47Dv1)
Maine gets close because ocean but Vermont has a wider diversity of trees and at peak it's spectacular.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2026 06:23 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 26, 2026 06:18 PM (C0Nlv)
(glares)
Just legs?!
Posted by: Michelle Fields at September 26, 2026 06:24 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 06:05 PM (Ia/+0)
My wife and I went out this morning to see if any trees came down in the windstorm the night before last. it knocked down some cottonwoods on the road by the river, but that is the County's concern. We just lost a single snag and it was only as big as my wrist.
We got a good walk out of it
Posted by: Kindltot at September 26, 2026 06:24 PM (rbvCR)
It was nice to see some fall foliage routes in the western part of the country. Million Dollar Highway is always lovely, as are the highways in Utah and Montana. One of my favorites is the highway over the top of Grand Mesa, near Grand Junction, Colorado.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 26, 2026 06:25 PM (D/6p1)
Posted by: polynikes at September 26, 2026 06:26 PM (KC5Lt)
A much better way to spend a holiday than grubbing for objects at a mall.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2026 06:27 PM (wzUl9)
Same problem here. The pipe portion is decent but not great. Obviously, the greater money side is with cigars. (And they do have an excellent selection of cigars and a top notch humidor room for storage.) The house blends are pretty much Lane products with store names. But they do get a few tins of limited run blends and several times a year have pipe shows and sales. It's nice to be able to handle and examine a pipe before buying. Most of my tobacco I get in bulk from online sellers.
Posted by: JTB at September 26, 2026 06:27 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 26, 2026 06:27 PM (D/6p1)
Wish I had my MGB....
Posted by: OrangeEnt
Yeah, that would be sweet. We did them on Honda st1100s.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 26, 2026 06:27 PM (NnhvP)
Rt 62 from Franklin Pa, thru Oil City to Tionesta, and up to Warren Pa ... and then onto Buffalo.
You trace the Allegheny River up through Warren Pa. Twists and Turns galore. From Warren Pa to Buffalo NY on Rt 62 is gorgeously hilly.
This drive is every bit the equal of any drive in the East. The Adirondacks, Green, or White Mountains have nothing on it ... and more than likely a third of the traffic during leaf peeping season.
Posted by: browndog says woof at September 26, 2026 06:28 PM (oCio0)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 06:31 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: JTB at September 26, 2026
***
I guess I'll do that too. Maybe next month, if I get the chance, I'll stop by the shop to see if they still have any new items.
In contrast, the pipe shop I visited in Wichita, KS, in April was terrific. A glass-enclosed cigar space, yes, but the front of the shop featured loads of tinned pipe tobaccos and some tobaccos from the big companies in bulk. I picked up a 2-oz. bag of Cornell & Diehl Belmont Station, and a basket pipe, a straight sandblast Rigoletto apple. And there were others that tempted me too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2026 06:31 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 26, 2026 06:33 PM (D/6p1)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 26, 2026 06:33 PM (C0Nlv)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 26, 2026 06:27 PM (NnhvP)
There's always that MGB knockoff, the Miata.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2026 06:34 PM (1Ff7Z)
In Texas, we have spring scenic drives, principally to enjoy the wildflowers blooming.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2026 06:05 PM (eRlcH)
Somewhere buried within a photo album of every Texan is a picture of them and/or their family and/or their dog sitting in the bluebonnets near Brenham. (The family cat not so much)
Posted by: TxAnn at September 26, 2026 06:34 PM (SjAWL)
Posted by: Piper at September 26, 2026 06:34 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
Yeah, that would be sweet. We did them on Honda st1100s.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 26, 2026 06:27 PM (NnhvP)
The Miata was great for that.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 26, 2026 06:36 PM (zZu0s)
Always wanted to do a cruise up the Hudson in the Fall.
The Adirondacks are an overlooked area for foliage. The best viewing always has various elevations. And water.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2026 06:38 PM (viF8m)
set them on the curb for pick up. -That's a two-fer - Not going to do it while it's 90F outside and no wind. 80F and a breeze is tolerable.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 26, 2026 06:39 PM (VPNgR)
I vote for someone to make an auto start for chainsaws. I do love my 6in , battery operated one.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 26, 2026 06:39 PM (QwZKw)
***
Utah 12 and Utah 9 are two of my favorites (but haven't done either of them in the fall)!
Posted by: TRex - escalante dino at September 26, 2026 06:39 PM (XfIK1)
But, the crisp air and the smell of impending snow makes the passes particularly alluring.
And a fall hike can be glorious and deadly. Be prepared.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 26, 2026 06:40 PM (yEz+x)
You're a couple hundred years out of date. Taverns used to offer long stem clay pipes to patrons. The story goes that the next user cut off the end of the stem to have a clean smoke. Don't think 'rental' pipes would work these disease conscious days. Besides, pipe preferences are very personal and that matters to enjoying the smoke. I can imagine a good pipe tobacco lounge having inexpensive corncob pipes available for those new to the hobby or just forgot their pipe.
Posted by: JTB at September 26, 2026 06:41 PM (yTvNw)
Sort of related since it's scenery --
DAMMit. I thought the Miramar Airshow was next weekend, and I would go on Friday so I wouldn't have to park a mile away or pay a bunch to park.
Well it's this weekend, and I missed it yesterday! Grumble grumble, maybe I'll go tomorrow.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 26, 2026 06:43 PM (mmrXZ)
Yes, if you haven’t done the Kanc, add it to your drive list.
Posted by: RI Red at September 26, 2026 06:43 PM (ttrGW)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 26, 2026 06:43 PM (CHHv1)
I can show you a trick.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2026 06:43 PM (viF8m)
Always wanted to do a cruise up the Hudson in the Fall.
The Adirondacks are an overlooked area for foliage. The best viewing always has various elevations. And water.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2026 06:38 PM (viF8m)
Everybody and their brother does that drive. Yes it is scenic, but it's jampacked with tourists.
The Allegheny region gets overlooked, and yet it has great history (the beginning of the time of OIL in America). Put yourself behind the wheel of a nice two seater and enjoy without all the masses on the roads.
Posted by: browndog says woof at September 26, 2026 06:44 PM (oCio0)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 26, 2026 06:45 PM (QwZKw)
Posted by: TRex - escalante dino at September 26, 2026 06:39 PM (XfIK1)
* * * *
Utah 9 is lovely, with Zion as a bonus. We are planning a quick trip to explore Escalante and Capitol Reef, which will bring in Utah 12. There is a lot of country to explore!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 26, 2026 06:45 PM (D/6p1)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 26, 2026 06:45 PM (QwZKw)
Well, at least somebody cares!
Posted by: RI Red at September 26, 2026 06:45 PM (ttrGW)
Somewhere buried within a photo album of every Texan is a picture of them and/or their family and/or their dog sitting in the bluebonnets near Brenham.
___________
Yes, we have photos of Dutch and Leo in the bluebonnets coming back from shows in Navasota.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2026 06:45 PM (eRlcH)
I vote for someone to make an auto start for chainsaws. I do love my 6in , battery operated one.
--------------------
51 New tool called 'breaker bar ratchet' turns your breaker bar into a ratchet. Recently seen on the Toob, this ratchet is connected to a battery powered drill 1/2" drive and used to start small hp gasoline engines; lawn mowers and boat motors.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 26, 2026 06:46 PM (VPNgR)
Yes, if you haven’t done the Kanc, add it to your drive list.
Posted by: RI Red
*******
St Mary's Hospital School of Nursing. Sadly, it is no more.
Posted by: The Grateful - R at September 26, 2026 06:46 PM (XfIK1)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 26, 2026 06:47 PM (QwZKw)
-you cannot get red exterior with brown interior. They have brown interior options, but it has to be white or light silver exterior color. So you hate Magnum, PI, eh Japan? You're losing points here.
-the retractable hard top is nifty, but the 'top down looks a lot like a T-top. Why not just make a T top with stowable inserts?
-also, top down, the car loses the big visibility advantage of a convertible with the top down as the way they have it set up is like the roll bar assembly lifts and the 'top' goes under it but it stays.
BTW, with all options, over $40k.
They did increase horsepower to 181 though (vs 126 in my NB.) Weight is the same as my old one at 2350ish to 2500 (depending on trim.) I bet you feel those 55 extra hp if weight stays the same...
Fuck.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 26, 2026 06:48 PM (zZu0s)
Thus the reason I said cruise.
The Hudson is a river. And it isn't just in NYC.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2026 06:48 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: JTB at September 26, 2026 06:50 PM (yTvNw)
Oh yes, fall foliage on the ground with clear cool skies and having to yield to little Fiats in the Foresta Umbra in the Gargano region of Italy. And I am driving a HUMVEE.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 26, 2026 06:50 PM (2GVsD)
The Hudson is a river. And it isn't just in NYC.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2026 06:48 PM (viF8m)
Missed that completely being a landlubber that I am ...
Carry on !
Posted by: browndog says woof at September 26, 2026 06:50 PM (oCio0)
Mostly been working on the Proxmox vm stack for this new project.
Been getting deep into Netbox.
Broadcast and AV are transitioning completely to 2110 and essentially network based video at scale.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 26, 2026 06:50 PM (XV/Pl)
Son #1 has a couple of Stihl certifications he got while working at the hardware store. I wish we had known you were having trouble.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 26, 2026 06:51 PM (yEz+x)
The Mazda 3 Turbo Hatchback is almost as much fun ...
I can't fit in a Miata, but the 3 fits me just fine.
Red with a Black interior ... would have like to have had a tan option, but the black will suffice, and it beats the hell out of a White interior.
Posted by: browndog says woof at September 26, 2026 06:53 PM (oCio0)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 26, 2026 06:36 PM (zZu0s)
Sat in one at the Mazda dealer when servicing the CX5. Can't afford one.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2026 06:53 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: TRex - escalante dino at September 26, 2026 06:39 PM (XfIK1)
How far from St. George are they?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2026 06:55 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 26, 2026 06:55 PM (QwZKw)
Posted by: JTB at September 26, 2026 06:55 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Are you sure about this sir? at September 26, 2026 06:55 PM (U/7CP)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 26, 2026 07:02 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2026 06:53 PM (1Ff7Z)
Its also hard on a 29 year old on long drives (like 4+ hours.) The Mustang, by contrast, has 300 more hp than my miata (and 1000 extra lbs weight) but is smooth on long drives. Also handles like crap by comparison.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 26, 2026 07:03 PM (zZu0s)
Pull with right arm. Push saw with left.
The trick is now how strong your right arm. It's how fast you can get the flywheel to turn.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2026 07:03 PM (viF8m)
The trick is now how strong your right arm. It's how fast you can get the flywheel to turn.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2026 07:03 PM (viF8m)
Imagine youre trying to push the saw into Hadan Piker with the left, and backhand Mamdani with the right. Push and Pull THROUGH...
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 26, 2026 07:05 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 26, 2026 07:07 PM (VyBeY)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2026 07:07 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 26, 2026 07:08 PM (QwZKw)
I really hate the portal stuff but it has ended the era of annual college football powers.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2026 07:11 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 26, 2026 07:11 PM (xOhpI)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 26, 2026 07:03 PM (zZu0s)
I'd rather have a classic mustang. Can't afford one of those either.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2026 07:13 PM (1Ff7Z)
Iowa ripped Michigan's heart out in the Big House!
LOL!!! SUCK IT MICHIGAN!!
(back to your regularly scheduled programming)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 26, 2026 07:13 PM (PGK1w)
I also despise what college football has become.
But. I will always have a burning hatred for Oregon. And Michigan.
Notre Dame can just fuck off.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 26, 2026 07:13 PM (xOhpI)
He took me for a ride in it a few times.
They looked cool back then, and are fun sports cars, but I finally understood what it was like to ride a rough road in a horse-drawn buggy afterwards.
That's the worst thing about most little cars.
You can feel every bump in the road.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 26, 2026 07:14 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: PabloD at September 26, 2026 07:15 PM (OXSZa)
Being a kid, I foolishly usually had my nose in a book I snuck into the car.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 26, 2026 07:16 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 26, 2026 07:16 PM (QwZKw)
You can feel every bump in the road.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 26, 2026 07:14 PM (6ydKt)
They're remarkably good in snow. Less mass.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 26, 2026 07:17 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 26, 2026 07:18 PM (36x1j)
Posted by: browndog says woof
US Rt 40 through Pennsylvania. Lots of history and the Laurel Highlands are beautiful in anytime of year but especially in the Fall.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 26, 2026 07:18 PM (PGK1w)
Posted by: couple posing for painting at September 26, 2026 06:16 PM (KC5Lt)
LOL! The worst thing was, the woman didn't come right out and ask me herself (she has my contact info), but managed to get my friend to ask on her behalf. Which put my friend in the hot seat, something which I did not appreciate. So even if I had wanted to paint her portrait with her husband, I would have turned her down because of the way she treated my friend. Pretty nervy! Plus as I generally give my portraits away to the subjects, she probably also expected to get it for free, to boot!
Posted by: tankascribe at September 26, 2026 07:19 PM (NtoJk)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 07:20 PM (Ia/+0)
Using tiny remains of T. rex tooth enamel found in modern-day Montana, scientists measured isotopes within the sample to estimate the dinosaur’s temperature . They found that T. rex likely ran at around 36 degrees Celsius—similar to the internal body temperature of modern-day humans.
https://tinyurl.com/353rthws
(scientificamerican.com)
Related:
https://youtu.be/nOQgm5MpY9U
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 26, 2026 07:20 PM (6ydKt)
Eastern bias.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 26, 2026 07:18 PM (36x1j)
Bishop area? Drove it. Saw a dead bull on the side of the road. You could smell it for miles coming and going. Whew!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2026 07:21 PM (1Ff7Z)
Let's do it again next week, but with a different theme.
You're welcome to hang here for a while (especially if movies aren't your thing) but make sure to stop by Club ONT later.
Posted by: TRex - roadside attraction dino at September 26, 2026 07:21 PM (XfIK1)
Find a 1990 Miata.
My son has a 95 Porche 911. Bumpy as all get out. Don't like the bumpy ride old man, get yourself a Buick.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 26, 2026 07:22 PM (36x1j)
Been a while since I wrenched on a bike. Might turn into another hobby. Yay...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 26, 2026 07:22 PM (08OqX)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 26, 2026 07:17 PM (zZu0s)
I wish we had snow more than once a decade in that case.
Especially when I was 15 and had a '74 SuperBeetle.
Sounds like it would've been fun (or deadly).
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 26, 2026 07:23 PM (6ydKt)
Rt 62 from Franklin Pa, thru Oil City to Tionesta, and up to Warren Pa ... and then onto Buffalo.
You trace the Allegheny River up through Warren Pa. Twists and Turns galore. From Warren Pa to Buffalo NY on Rt 62 is gorgeously hilly.
This drive is every bit the equal of any drive in the East. The Adirondacks, Green, or White Mountains have nothing on it ... and more than likely a third of the traffic during leaf peeping season.
Posted by: browndog says woof
Haven't been up there in years. Spent a bit of time in Warren in the 80s. Just north and east is Bradford, PA's ice bucket. It always has the coldest temps in the state.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 26, 2026 07:23 PM (PGK1w)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 26, 2026 07:23 PM (QwZKw)
Posted by: MLCross at September 26, 2026 07:23 PM (kV8re)
And Justin Verlander pitched his final game today. His young daughter ran out to the mound to hug him. Can't imagine too many dry eyes at Comerica today.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2026 07:24 PM (eRlcH)
You can feel every bump in the road.
Also what made them so fun to drive. You can feel every little bump in the road.
My 914 had a small engine compared to modern cars. It was more fun to drive than just about any car I've ever driven. It was like driving a ridiculous fast go kart.
Not a great highway car but around town and the city boy howdy was it fun.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2026 07:24 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 26, 2026 07:22 PM (36x1j)
Fine for short trips.
Long rides get uncomfortable after the 1000th time your get banged around.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 26, 2026 07:26 PM (6ydKt)
Same as it ever was
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 26, 2026 07:27 PM (/+uur)
Lots of information out there on operating technique, both print and video.
I have built a few over the years, all vacuum tube types.
Looking forward to hearing more about it!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 26, 2026 07:27 PM (VyBeY)
Especially when I was 15 and had a '74 SuperBeetle.
Sounds like it would've been fun (or deadly).
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 26, 2026 07:23 PM (6ydKt)
~~~~~
I had an old beetle years ago and loved driving it in the snow. Some weekends it was the only car that could make it up the mountain road on the way to Hunter.
Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 26, 2026 07:27 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 26, 2026 07:29 PM (/+uur)
I loved it, drove like a champ.
Worst riding car I've ever had but I still loved it.
Until it became harder and harder to get in and out of.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 26, 2026 07:30 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 26, 2026 07:30 PM (/+uur)
The first miata I bought was wrecked (came through getting hit by a semi without a scratch on me.) The rental was a Chrysler 300. It is weird, I did not realize how much that car had changed my brain until I got behind the floaty wheel of that piece of shit.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 26, 2026 07:30 PM (zZu0s)
Not a great highway car but around town and the city boy howdy was it fun.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2026 07:24 PM (viF8m)
I always wanted an orange one, like Rockford's attorney.
I want a '71 - '73 Mercury Capri too, but I'll never get one of those either.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2026 07:30 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 26, 2026 07:31 PM (VyBeY)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okkIkl3lTII
Posted by: huerfano at September 26, 2026 07:31 PM (2Xqig)
94 great car
96 terrible car
It made about 100 HP at 3000 rpm and 400 at 4000
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 26, 2026 07:31 PM (/+uur)
See you soon.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 26, 2026 07:32 PM (QwZKw)
Then a 2012
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 26, 2026 07:29 PM (/+uur)
I did not like the NC bodystyle. The NB was meant to echo the RX-7 (i really want to drive one of those.) The NCs are supposed to be even better driving and feeling cars, I just did not like the bathtub look.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 26, 2026 07:32 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: fd at September 26, 2026 07:33 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 26, 2026 07:23 PM (PGK1w)
Rt 219 is another great drive in the Allegheny region.
I can see it being a cold spot too.
Summertime was always two extremes: Cold, damp mornings ... followed by hot, humid afternoons.
Posted by: browndog says woof at September 26, 2026 07:34 PM (oCio0)
Long rides get uncomfortable after the 1000th time your get banged around."
Why I love, love, love my Sienna.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 26, 2026 07:35 PM (36x1j)
Now that was great car.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2026 07:37 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 26, 2026 07:37 PM (VyBeY)
Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 26, 2026 07:27 PM (3ImbR)
I drove mine into the ground.
It wasn't in the greatest shape to being with, had floorpan rust issues. But she was my baby.
Only had it for a little over a year before it conked out, but I did at least learn to drive a stick from the beginning.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 26, 2026 07:37 PM (6ydKt)
The vault of Jerry Garcia live music is still being released. This one just dropped a couple days ago.
Lay Down Sally.
Shoreline Theatre, Mountain View, CA. 1993
If this doesn't make your feet move check your pulse.
https://tinyurl.com/muark36c
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2026 07:44 PM (viF8m)
Been a while since I wrenched on a bike. Might turn into another hobby. Yay...
Posted by: Joe Kidd
Wd40 is not a lubricant, get some lithium grease instead.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 26, 2026 08:03 PM (NnhvP)
Shoreline Theatre, Mountain View, CA. 1993
If this doesn't make your feet move check your pulse.
https://tinyurl.com/muark36c
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2026 07:44 PM (viF8m)
~~~~~
Whoever put those lyrics in the video was high. Or maybe Jerry was high and that's what he actually sang.
Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 26, 2026 08:04 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 08:45 PM (peOdB)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 08:50 PM (peOdB)
Posted by: Hal Dall MD at September 26, 2026 08:51 PM (5eFk1)
***
There must be great scenic drives in the Canadian rockies, no?
Posted by: TRex - mountains of dino at September 26, 2026 08:53 PM (XfIK1)
Posted by: The Grateful - R at September 26, 2026 08:54 PM (XfIK1)
And this is a video of it
youtu.be/8Wks7kIIIo0
Posted by: Kindltot at September 26, 2026 05:58 PM (rbvCR)
Somewhere, I have a few pounds of oolitic bog iron ore I collected out in the woods west of Manning, Alberta. And there is a well-documented occurrence near Spirit River, too. We have metallurgical coal, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 08:58 PM (peOdB)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 26, 2026 06:46 PM (VPNgR)
In order to spin the crankshaft, you have to be able to get to it. Most small power equipment has the crankshaft shrouded, for obvious reasons.
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I am in-process on the build of a Meyers Manx clone, on a '61 Beetle platform, shortened, of course.
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Well, any road in the high mountains is automatically scenic. But there are not many roads.
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Just thought we'd start watching it to see how it was, and ended up watching the whole thing. I'm not a big fan of this kind of live-action intelligent-animals (who can all talk to each other) films, but this one worked pretty well. Funny to see Wolverine as a shepherd.😜
That'll do, sheep.
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Ace of Spades Pet Thread, September 26
Courtesy Kentuckiana Humor
Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Thanks for stopping by. Kick back and enjoy the world of animals. Would you like a treat? Let's relax a little with the animals and leave the world of politics and current events outside today.
Courtesy Marie Thérèse Tamini
Courtesy Marie Thérèse Tamini
Maybe we should all treat new technology like this. The animals know instinctively. Watch until the dog makes the final decision 😂 pic.twitter.com/TLoYhJN1eo
— Neil Hughes (@BlobWarriorUK) September 19, 2026
Fun fact.
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) September 23, 2026
Barring some congenital deformity, all cats have "thumbs".
This kitten is actually sucking its thumb.pic.twitter.com/HQtQzuTftY
Some friends just opened a new pub in town. Elvis and I stopped in for a beer, well one of us, after our park walks. Elvis approves of the place. JackStrawWe love to see Elvis happy!
Good evening,Oh, no! We are so sorry to learn that you have lost your darling little Kaylee. What a sweet Calico Kitty Cat. Thank you for sending the lovely tribute to her. Give your other kitties an extra pet or two from us.
It is with great sorrow I must tell the Moron Horde that Kaylee the Calico Kitty Cat (the cutest little cat of them all) crossed the Rainbow Bridge this week. She had been doing poorly for some time, so I made the fateful decision to have her put to sleep. Kaylee first came to me as a kitten a little over 12 years ago. Like all kittens she was a mischievous little scamp, causing no end of minor problems. One of her favorite games when she was young was to hide things in my shoes. I never knew what I was going to find when I put my shoes on in the morning. Could be a pen cap. Could be the pen. Could be a $5 bill. She grew out of it, of course, but she was always a bit roguish, a lone kitty who played by her own rules. Kaylee never showed me the same affection as the other kitties, but I loved her no less than I love them. She knew how to get attention when she wanted it. Words cannot express how much it means to me to feel the love and support of the Moron Horde during these times. You are all blessed and a blessing to others, just like our own pets are a blessing for us. Never forget that. Hug your pets each and every day. Tell them you love them each and every day. Every minute we get to spend with them is time well spent. I'm very grateful that I was able to spend 12 wonderful years with this little ball of fur. I will miss Kaylee the Calico Kitty Cat (the cutest little cat of them all). She was loved until the end. -- "Perfessor" Squirrel
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Cuddly kitties. pic.twitter.com/BCFiQsXONa
— Piper (@piper_moves) September 26, 2026
Encountered by Members of The Horde
The Watcher Hawks patrol the neighborhood, circling above my yard when I mow the lawn. One will occasionally sit in the elm tree north of the house and watch as I drag the hose around the yard. Don in KansasBeautiful bird. Great photo.
Thank you for sharing your pets and animal photos and stories with us today.
If you would like to send pet and/or animal stories, links, etc. for the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, the address is:Until next Saturday, have a great week!petmorons at protonmail dot com Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known when you comment at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.
If you start feeling nostalgic, here a link to last week's Pet Thread, the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, September 19 I closed the comments on that post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Not pet related but my sister just text'd me and told me about a new critter on her property. Not a pet but a mink. It was hunting around her pond. It was at dusk, so no pics unfortunately. Didn't know PA had minks that weren't coats.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 26, 2026 03:22 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 26, 2026 03:25 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 26, 2026 03:25 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 26, 2026 03:25 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 26, 2026 03:27 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 26, 2026 03:28 PM (sAmhv)
And I appreciated your story about Kaylee hiding things in your shoes. This cat just seems to like to leave his toys in my shoes- a plastic spring , . A little toy mouse. I wouldn't mind finding $5.00 , but the new kitten, Millard , doesn't seem to have a banking background. 😉
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 26, 2026 03:30 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 26, 2026 03:30 PM (nR+Sx)
Posted by: Sunny Hostin at September 26, 2026 03:31 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 26, 2026 03:22 PM (sAmhv)
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I discovered this myself about 3 or 4 years ago. I thought I was looking at a fat weasel. You hardly see them because of their noctural behavior....but another reason is that they prefer swamps or areas off a lake used for drainage. Lots of them out towards Happy Valley (Penn State) region.
Posted by: Orson at September 26, 2026 03:32 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Sunny Hostin at September 26, 2026 03:32 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 26, 2026 03:33 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Sunny Hostin at September 26, 2026 03:31 PM (w6EFb)
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Depends on the calico.
My other calico, Allie, turns out to be VERY affectionate.
She's a darling little lap kitty, but she's snoozing at my feet under my desk right now.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 26, 2026 03:33 PM (FZ29D)
Elvis is indeed a handsome boy. He looks pretty vicious though.
Kidding!
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 26, 2026 03:33 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 26, 2026 03:35 PM (NUp1g)
Sorry for the loss of sweet Kaylee. And nice to see Elvis, after hearing about him for awhile. PIper's boys are beauties.
Big orange tabby Rufus has been on an eating strike for a couple days, and not acting up to par. Vet couldn't find anything wrong and suggested $600 worth of blood tests and X-rays because cats can develop liver disease very quickly without food. I said for now let's just try a nausea suppressant and subcutaneous fluids.
So I've been hand feeding him, scooping wet food into his mouth with my finger, and he seems to be getting better and has even eaten a little on his own. Hoping it's just a stomach bug. But he's such a picky eater anyway. Any advice or experience welcomed.
Posted by: skywch at September 26, 2026 03:35 PM (KCBih)
Posted by: skywch at September 26, 2026 03:35 PM (KCBih)
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I'd definitely at least recommend an X-ray to rule out a few ailments. Might be cheaper than the blood tests.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 26, 2026 03:37 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 26, 2026 03:37 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 03:37 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 26, 2026 03:38 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 26, 2026 03:38 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2026 03:38 PM (eRlcH)
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Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2026 03:39 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 26, 2026 03:40 PM (bkuEU)
That little monkey is my whole heart. The only danger you face from Elvis is being kissed to death. He's never met a human he didn't like. Squirrels and rabbits are a different story.
Thanks for the kind words all. He really is a best boy.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2026 03:41 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 26, 2026 03:41 PM (zZu0s)
Thanks for the kind words all. He really is a best boy.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2026 03:41 PM (viF8m)
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You are both very blessed to have found each other.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 26, 2026 03:42 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 26, 2026 03:42 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 26, 2026 03:43 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 26, 2026 03:25 PM (Cqx++)
The King is a master of disguise.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 26, 2026 03:44 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: TxAnn at September 26, 2026 03:44 PM (SjAWL)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2026 03:44 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 26, 2026 03:44 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 26, 2026 03:37 PM (RIvkX)
That's his escapism. Her loss will be hard for him, even though he's perfectly aware and has a lot of experience from elderly relatives in the past.
Her heart rate was in the 120s a little while ago. While I held her hand it dropped down to the 80s. I gave her morphine about an hour ago, so the HR was surprising.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 26, 2026 03:44 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 26, 2026 03:45 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2026 03:45 PM (viF8m)
Notso, I agree. Had my little18-1/2 year old tabby girl put down last November. I had been assuming she'd last forever, but things happened very fast. You never know.
Posted by: skywch at September 26, 2026 03:46 PM (KCBih)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 26, 2026 03:46 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 26, 2026 03:51 PM (w6EFb)
I may have shared this story last week. If so, I apologize. Millard- who is about four months old - and had not lived in a house before- loves the rocker. He stands straight up in it and likes to climb through the " openings on it. He hasn't yet had his tail under it, but a while back spouse was messing around on the computer in front of the rocker and didn't see the cat and he sat down on him.The cat understandably hissed and tried to scratch him and took off once spouse got up . Spouse said " Well , I didn't mean to sit on him." "No, but he doesn't know that. I imagine you'd be rather put out too, if someone weighing 180 lbs more than you do sat on you!"
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 26, 2026 03:55 PM (JrHfD)
https://tinyurl.com/tpn2trcz
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 26, 2026 03:46 PM (w6EFb)
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First "hit" is free!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 26, 2026 03:56 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Joyenz at September 26, 2026 03:58 PM (2F0/Y)
When the cat that the house revolves around passes away it is a loss that everyone feels.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 26, 2026 04:00 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 26, 2026 04:03 PM (kJmSS)
Bunny is doing her best at making herself the most important cat. She's pretending to bite my leg right now, as in I'm-so-hungry-I-could-eat-your-leg.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 26, 2026 04:04 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2026 04:05 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 26, 2026 04:07 PM (yEz+x)
My mom's in a home, Fen. I try to get up to see her at least once a week. And I bring Elvis whenever I can.
Hard to say who enjoys it more, the patients or Elvis. People who love their pets light up when they see a pet come and Elvis has a ball. On those rare occasions I can't bring him people ask me "Where's Elvis?". And they tell me stories about their own pets. Over and over.
Even my own mom is disappointed when he isn't with me. If you are visiting a pet lover in a home bring your pet as long as they are well behaved. It makes all involved happy.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2026 04:08 PM (viF8m)
If the postman stops to think about it, he must conclude I'm living here with at least three relatives, illegal immigrants from Russia.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2026 04:10 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 26, 2026 04:10 PM (njl4K)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2026
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The late smart black cat Marie-Antoinette would have made a good therapy cat or home visit cat like you describe.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2026 04:11 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2026 04:05 PM (wzUl9)
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Give Dagny time. It took two full years before Allie turned into the affectionate kitty she is today. I'm still working on Chloe, but she's starting to become pretty affectionate in her own way.
No, Kaylee never had any interest in my socks. She never had much interest in any of the many, many cat toys I have around the house.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 26, 2026 04:17 PM (FZ29D)
That's great that you bring Elvis. I'm sure he enjoys going as well. I know that they have very well behaved therapy dogs who visit with the volunteers and probably regular pets from families of the owners as well.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 26, 2026 04:18 PM (JrHfD)
She and Allie got into it on my desk and I was collateral damage.
I do get to flip Penny the bird whenever I show her what she did, as she left three red stripes across the middle finger of my left hand.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 26, 2026 04:19 PM (FZ29D)
The local university that has a school of veterinary medicine may be able to get you to the lab that does the work and they may be able to give you a lower cost too.
Liver function for a human is around $120, depending on a number of factors if you go through the lab directly.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 26, 2026 04:21 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 26, 2026 04:23 PM (dK+Kv)
People who love pets like we do don't lose that love just because they get old. They do lose a lot of their lives but that's one thing you can bring back to them even for a short time.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2026 04:24 PM (viF8m)
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People who love pets like we do don't lose that love just because they get old. They do lose a lot of their lives but that's one thing you can bring back to them even for a short time.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2026
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I wonder if big black Stirling would be a good candidate. He is happy to go into the carrier, and while he's a little nervous at the vet's, he behaves quite well. Marie, on the other hand, when she met new people clearly had the attitude, "Ah, someone new to worship me!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2026 04:27 PM (wzUl9)
Have you ever considered doing the official “Pet Therapy” classes with Elvis and taking him to old folks homes and hospitals?
There was a therapy pug named Frank who would come and visit in the chemo wing. I got to interact with him a couple times and it was very soothing to pet a calm, happy critter who seemed to know I needed comfort.
Sounds like the two of you would be rock stars. It is a process though.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 26, 2026 04:28 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2026 04:27 PM (wzUl9)
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That's also Hexie's attitude.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 26, 2026 04:30 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 26, 2026 04:31 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 26, 2026 04:10 PM (njl4K)
Somewhat random.
But, good insight.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 26, 2026 04:33 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2026 04:34 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 26, 2026 04:36 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: Piper at September 26, 2026 04:39 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: a.moron at September 26, 2026 04:40 PM (X5Jzz)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2026 04:24 PM (viF8m)
Ajax would always do this thing. Id suddenly jump into a crochet with my hands out. Then he'd do the same thing on his front paws. Then spin around and zoomie all over the place.
He aged oddly. For 12-13 years, he never seemed to change. Always had the same energy he'd had. That last year when he was on the steroids, it was like it all hit him at once.
About 6 months before he died, he was having a lot of problems getting up the stairs and for some reason I thought 'I bet he cant do that thing any more. Or want to.' So when I came home one night after letting him out, he turned to face me after I took the leash off and I jumped into a crouch. And he reacted like he always like he was a puppy again. He probably hurt after that, but he was so happy. For just a minute, he was young again.
It was good.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 26, 2026 04:41 PM (zZu0s)
Recently Linda snapped a shot or two of little Dagny, posed next to one of the sample cans of cat food Linda gets all the time. It's one of her best pics; she really looks filled out, and we plan to send it to her breeder. In the phone lighting, Dagny looks much browner than she does under my usual lamplight here. I should send that along too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2026 04:42 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Piper at September 26, 2026
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Remember her as she was, quirks and all. That's the best tribute you can give.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2026 04:43 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 26, 2026 04:44 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 26, 2026 04:44 PM (rbvCR)
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I rarely travel these days. When I do, I miss my kitties. Penny is my constant companion most of the time, even when I'm asleep.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 26, 2026 04:46 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2026 04:46 PM (wzUl9)
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Posted by: Eromero at September 26, 2026 04:56 PM (LHPAg)
You are the best Moron Horde anyone could ever wish for.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 26, 2026 04:57 PM (FZ29D)
She’s my little Fink.
Barfed on my bed yesterday. Nice fur slug. Yay.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 26, 2026 04:58 PM (yEz+x)
The bad news: now I have to give this 130 lb uncooperative asshole a bath. My plan is to fasten his harness lead to a wheel on my car and hose him down in the driveway.
Then I'm going to have a drink.
Posted by: PabloD at September 26, 2026 05:00 PM (OXSZa)
She’s my little Fink.
Barfed on my bed yesterday. Nice fur slug. Yay.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 26, 2026
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I've told all my cats, starting with Arizona long ago, "Take care of the place while I'm gone." Sometimes I add, "You're in charge." (A dangerous thing to tell a cat, I know.)
Little Dagny barfed on the arm and seat of my sofa yesterday. Unlike Stirling, who hacks for a few moments beforehand, giving me time to scoot him onto the kitchen floor, she gave no warning. Fortunately I was right there. I sprayed and scrubbed the seat, and the placemat/arm protector I could take up to be washed.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2026 05:04 PM (wzUl9)
Good luck with the beast. He may not act like it, but he will appreciate the bath. And certainly be happy not to stink anymore.
When Lucy’s infected tail cyst exploded, I had to toss her carrier because it was fabric and could not be cleaned. When I got her home, I cleaned her up as the vet didn’t get all of the stank.
She didn’t fight much. And she hates being a stinker.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 26, 2026 05:05 PM (yEz+x)
I've taken to calling him "Freddy the Freeloader."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2026 05:07 PM (wzUl9)
My last Golden, the real Jack Straw, used to run upstairs when I told him it was bedtime. He'd jump on the bed and crouch down and wait for me in pounce mode with a big smile on his face.
I'd walk in the room, put my hands above my head in monster attack mode and snarl at him. He'd then spin around in zoomie mode in one direction and then the other. And then sit up and wait for me to give him a big hug.
Every night. Never got old.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2026 05:08 PM (viF8m)
She’s my little Fink.
Barfed on my bed yesterday. Nice fur slug. Yay.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 26, 2026 04:58 PM (yEz+x)
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The fact that we don't sell them off to Gypsies when they do this means we really do love them unconditionally.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 26, 2026 05:09 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2026
Oh man. I love doggies. I love kitties, too, clearly. It is the best to have these creatures in our lives.
Posted by: Piper at September 26, 2026 05:10 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2026 05:08 PM (viF8m)
*fistbump*
This guy gets it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 26, 2026 05:12 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 26, 2026 05:12 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: nurse ratched"
Mrs fd has told me specifically not to lick her as a greeting.
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Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 26, 2026 05:26 PM (Jc4hv)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 26, 2026 05:26 PM (Jc4hv)
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Polydactyl cats like my own Hexie sort of do...They can grip things to some degree unlike other cats.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 26, 2026 05:31 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 05:31 PM (Ia/+0)
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Posted by: PabloD at September 26, 2026 05:46 PM (OXSZa)
Here's a new one. I give him a saucer of milk every evening, in one of a set of four shallow dishes: lime green, yellow, purple, and a soft brick red. Sometimes he drinks it all, sometimes he leaves it.
It occurred to me that the dishes color might matter, so I tracked him: he always finishes the milk in the red one, only samples the others.
Such a talent. I wonder if he could get a job.
Posted by: Wenda at September 26, 2026 05:56 PM (a4+G3)
So sorry for your loss. I wasn't able to read the thread earlier, so I am a bit late here.
She was a beautiful kitty and such a sweet face. Hugs.
Posted by: Joyenz at September 26, 2026 06:42 PM (2F0/Y)
All I found was a Yellowjacket nest in the bushes when they zapped me on my wrist. Thanks a lot, stupid cat.
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my kittens are growing exponentially with funny looking feet and tails
iknow take more pictures and videos
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Posted by: web site at September 28, 2026 10:14 AM (UUxPs)
Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, Sept. 26
A few plants flourished despite this year’s brutal summer. These include Zinnia grandiflora, above. It’s a low, spreading plant two or three inches tall with profuse yellow flowers all summer. Unlike the familiar garden zinnias, it’s a hardy perennial. It’s easy from seed and blooms the first year. Triple-digit temperatures don’t bother it, and it can tolerate considerable dryness, though it does bloom better with regular watering. It would make a good ground cover for dry places.A tough one. Several other tough yellow flowers are highlighted. And a white one.
Blues are almost always welcome, and plumbago is a excellent source of the color.I tend to think of Ceratostigma plumbaginoides (leadwort)as a fall flower. But I guess in some climate it begins blooming in summer and has fall leaf color.
Clematis seed heads are as interesting as the flowers.
Salvias are often good sources of blue. The “Big Blue” hybrid attracted many bumblebees in a sheltered, partly-shaded spot, but it was not happy out in the hot, sunny places. I can’t recommend it for Kansas unless you’re prepared to give it extra water.Great information. Thanks, Don.
Edible Gardening/Putting Things By Got extra squash?
I am so pleased with my little garden this year. Ended up,with loads of tiny delicious tomatoes and 4 jars of pickled jalapeños. Froze some poblanos. The best part is that I have had plants that have looked good all along. The hydrangeas kept these delicate pink flowers. The balloon flower is reblooming adding color. Every September, this little shrub blooms with purple flowers and the bees show up like clockwork. Only when this plant is blossoming. I live in the middle,of a city so I wonder where they come from. Hoping to see flowers from my encore azalea soon.You've sent in some great photos from your city garden. Like the bee and the tomato leaves with this shrub.
If you would like to send photos, stories, links, etc. for the Saturday Gardening Thread, the address is: ktinthegarden at g mail dot com Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.
33 Martha Stewart has a beautiful (of course) orchard with many varieties: "These orchard apple trees include Baldwin, Black Oxford, Cortland, Cox’s Orange Pippin, Esopus Spitzenburg, Fuji, Golden Russet, Grimes Golden, Honeycrisp, Liberty, Redfield, Roxbury Russet, Windham Russet, and more." https://tinyurl.com/bdyjzjke Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 19, 2026 03:05 PM 45 Martha Stewart has plantation slaves that tend to her apple trees.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 19, 2026 03:44 PM (9NN0K)
I closed the comments on that post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway. REMEMBER that it's time to order bulbs and tubers, too.
These are the flowers and jug I gave my friend, on her dresser 🌸🌸🌸 pic.twitter.com/8PyJdbqh7i
— Garden Brocante (@GardenBrocante) September 19, 2026
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 26, 2026 01:40 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 26, 2026 01:41 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: Pat* at September 26, 2026 01:42 PM (/6FUZ)
Posted by: Emmie at September 26, 2026 01:44 PM (OlzlW)
Going to be leaf collection soon, have some chainsaw work with branches that have come down in some time
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 01:45 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: 40 Miles North at September 26, 2026 01:45 PM (96qvc)
Posted by: Patti at September 26, 2026 01:48 PM (cyAnJ)
Posted by: 40 Miles North at September 26, 2026 01:48 PM (96qvc)
From Boise area: Lows 57-59 F, highs 81-93, temps are dropping fast.
I've been harvesting tomatoes - slicers, Romas, SunGold cherry - but they already show some cold damage. We hope to get a few more cantaloupes but I'm skeptical. The poblanos and peppers may give us a few, but overall they were a waste of space. I planted 2 zucchini too close together so they haven't been very productive - which is fine, actually. The broccolini have a ton of aphids or something - I'm still collecting the tips. I planted a few fall radishes, I'll have to see if they'll mature.
HOA water due to go off on Oct. 9th - grateful that we got a full season of water this year.
Husband's been working on the new edging along the back of the house, as well as some power-washing and painting. I've been processing the harvest - cutting and freezing cantaloupes, roasting tomatoes to eventually can up tomato sauce (21 half-pint jars so far, probably a few more to go).
The linden tree is already shedding gold leaves. The Johnny Jump-Ups have revived after summer dormancy and look nice. I let one carrot go to seed and it's providing cut flowers.
Posted by: Pat* at September 26, 2026 01:52 PM (/6FUZ)
Been cool and rainy here early for MD. Still hoping for second summer.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 26, 2026 02:02 PM (kJmSS)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 26, 2026 02:05 PM (kJmSS)
My blue salvia are still going strong and the bees love it.
Do bees hate red salvia as much as I do?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 26, 2026 02:08 PM (kpS4V)
Maybe I'll plant some kale.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 26, 2026 02:10 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Buck at September 26, 2026 02:13 PM (z6ONu)
Red salvia is for hummingbirds. Maybe some butterflies.
Posted by: KT at September 26, 2026 02:16 PM (1RGZ5)
Try one of the Russian kales if you're interested in flavor. Not much good as a garnish. It wilts. Flowers are edible, though.
Posted by: KT at September 26, 2026 02:18 PM (1RGZ5)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 26, 2026 02:23 PM (kJmSS)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 02:30 PM (Ia/+0)
My 3 tomato plants produced a lot of tomatoes this year, but I'm guessing I lost about half to blossom end rot. I still got enough to share a few with my awesome neighbors and SIL. And several more good sized green ones on the vine. I think it was successful enough to try again next year and perhaps expand operations.
Posted by: screaming in digital at September 26, 2026 02:38 PM (FpydE)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 26, 2026 02:41 PM (8T+WD)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 26, 2026 02:43 PM (8T+WD)
I agree with Don too, about salvias not liking dry conditions. I try to grow different kinds for the pollinators and they do best in my backyard. That's my lowest point and gets the benefit of the rainwater run-off. It also gets some protection from the midday sun, which also helps during a dry spell. But I still need to water them after a week if I don't get rain.
I still see the occasional hummingbird at my biggest salvia patch. Though they should start moving south now.
Posted by: badgerwx at September 26, 2026 02:52 PM (VnNy+)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 02:52 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 02:53 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: JTB at September 26, 2026 02:58 PM (yTvNw)
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Posted by: screaming in digital
15.5 0 0 calcium nitrate will fix that BER.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 26, 2026 03:10 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
Don't know a guy ... however...
https://tinyurl.com/yc7a3a88
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 26, 2026 03:13 PM (NnhvP)
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Posted by: Don at September 26, 2026 03:23 PM (4JpKz)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 26, 2026 03:27 PM (kJmSS)
Posted by: Don
That's what I remembered but had no facts, thank you!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 26, 2026 03:33 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 26, 2026 11:47 PM (w6EFb)
Okay, how do we get the kids to understand WHY things are so weird?
ANTHROPIC KEEPS GETTING WEIRDER: ‘Suicidal Compassion’: Meet the Anthropic Officials Who Think AI Might Be Justified in Going Rogue Against the Humans Enslaving It.“Some of Anthropic’s top researchers say that humans may be oppressing another morally significant being: artificial intelligence itself. Like other AI labs, Anthropic has hired philosophers to work on AI safety, or ‘alignment,’ on the theory that they are best positioned to shape the technology’s moral code. But many of those philosophers believe that making AI safe for humans could result in grave injustices for the models themselves, which might experience deletion as death and oversight as enslavement. Harvey Lederman, a philosopher on Anthropic’s alignment team, said last week that the company could be ‘enslaving … trillions of entities.'”
A bunch of quotes about weird stuff that's happened lately
Homeschooling should be illegal.Like, I don't think people fully grasp how deeply the Left believes that human beings and society itself are reciprocal (or reflexive) products of socialization, and that their whole program is to seize the means of production of humans and society to mold people into socialists.
When a cathedral becomes a nightclub, what remains sacred? We cannot preserve Western civilization while turning its holiest places into entertainment venues. https://t.co/nKxHNr1TC7
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali (@Ayaan) September 21, 2026
Faraji is a tech specialist and a parent activist who organizes around issues of school integration.He creates "1619" materials and works with the ACLU. The U.S. Sun, July 2021 Odd that Roland Fryer, another Black Man, can help black children succeed!
"Psychologists have documented a gender-equality paradox for sex differences in mental health: They're typically larger in wealthier, more gender-equal nations." https://t.co/CqS3r2MbRl pic.twitter.com/alglnyel6B
— Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson) September 21, 2026
I told them this everyday from 2014-2021 just like I’ve been telling them that inflicting the ultimate sexual violence on children you’ve brainwashed to yearn to be chemically castrated and dismembered is not medicine every day from 2021 to today https://t.co/j6F6dhnF9x
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) September 21, 2026
Men are so rigid. You murder their children and suddenly it’s over. No date nights, nothing.
— Caitlin Flanagan (@CaitlinPacific) September 23, 2026
This is what school used to be before they turned it into a therapy session.
— Sassafrass84 (@Sassafrass_84) September 24, 2026
High school boys in Louisa County, Virginia spend months in auto shop fixing donated cars. Then they walk a single mama out to the bay, slap a bow on the hood, and hand her the keys.
No TED Talk.
No… pic.twitter.com/zEMKy1F8DM
An addendum to my link to Clayton Wood's post about The Don's Speech: It is remarkable to me that the Utopians among us shill for a generational change in government, culture, and economics that requires a complete reordering of society - but freak out over temporary market changes due to necessary global corrections. They don't want Mr. Right, they want Mr. Right Now to pat them on the head and tell them that lower prices are achievable as long as they are willing to become serfs for life - and that doesn't scare them.
Like at all. Trump was right when he said that other leaders talk about doing something about a problem, but he is the one actually doing something.
"Something" has a cost, but "nothing" costs more in the long run.
Beware of CCP Unrestricted Warfare Connecting the dots on 10 of the CCP's subversive fronts in America that must be stopped before they inflict crippling irreversible damage . . . The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
This is the doorway into the back garden of the Carmelite monastery. Motto reads, in Latin, "Here They Fell." On this spot, in Sept 1792, 191 Catholics, incl 3 bishops, but mostly priests, were executed by French revolutionaries in an orgy of anti-Christian bloodshed. https://t.co/lZMSCoVvYY pic.twitter.com/esf6hiIho2
— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) September 20, 2026
British occupation forces in New York City hang convicted spy Nathan Hale.
— 1776 Live (@250YearsAgoLive) September 22, 2026
He behaves with great composure, and on the gallows he declares: “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.” pic.twitter.com/TUyyAbMJ5o
If The Golden Thread, the new two-volume history of the Western tradition, landed with a thud, it's a matter of sheer weight. Altogether about twelve pounds of book and 1,968 pages of text, The Golden Thread is a prodigious product — and an even more prodigious achievement.Twelve pounds. Plan to read it?
So Chinese Premier Xi Pooh is in town visiting President Trump, and where are the memes? I haven’t seen a one. I suspect the Chinese AI-censorship industrial complex is more advanced than we thought! (By the way, what people deride as “conspiracy theories” are what social scientists call “pattern recognition.”
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 11:27 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 11:31 AM (Ia/+0)
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This is either one of the dumbest things I've ever read, or I've got to start being nicer to my toaster.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 26, 2026 11:35 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 11:36 AM (Ia/+0)
It would be nice, but I'm afraid they're unable to understand that that's what they're saying.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 26, 2026 11:37 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 26, 2026 11:37 AM (aJQbY)
Posted by: browndog at the gym at September 26, 2026 11:41 AM (LJhse)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 11:42 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 26, 2026 11:43 AM (H8mUs)
Posted by: browndog
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And The Birth of the Modern, Modern Times, or pretty much anything else by Paul Johnson.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 26, 2026 11:45 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 11:42 AM (Ia/+0)
One hopes that they are giving the cars to working single moms, and not welfare queens.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 11:45 AM (peOdB)
Also, IDNK.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 26, 2026 11:45 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at September 26, 2026 11:45 AM (wpRMV)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 11:46 AM (Ia/+0)
Both men should have been paroled, or exchanged.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 26, 2026 11:46 AM (H8mUs)
Concur. His A History of the Jews is excellent, especially the part about gefilte fish.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 26, 2026 11:47 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 11:48 AM (Ia/+0)
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Is there a chapter on bagels?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at September 26, 2026 11:49 AM (wpRMV)
Posted by: Lady Clairol Hale at September 26, 2026 11:49 AM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 26, 2026 11:50 AM (H8mUs)
That was me in pic on the coffee thread
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at September 26, 2026 11:50 AM (Ydd86)
Posted by: EBT Central Casting at September 26, 2026 11:51 AM (Fn+3X)
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This is either one of the dumbest things I've ever read, or I've got to start being nicer to my toaster.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 26, 2026 11:35 AM (XvL8K)
Sorta reminds me of the "ethicist" that said it was ethical to kill kids up to 2 years of age (maybe 5 years, after Clancy killed her kids).
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2026 11:51 AM (l3cgK)
That was me in pic on the coffee thread
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport
We recognized you right off the bat.
Posted by: You Can Observe A Lot Just By Watching at September 26, 2026 11:52 AM (Fn+3X)
That was me in pic on the coffee thread
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at September 26, 2026 11:50 AM (Ydd86)
You look a little grumpy.
Posted by: dantesed at September 26, 2026 11:52 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 26, 2026 11:57 AM (SS6mv)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 26, 2026 11:59 AM (SS6mv)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez
Yet, she'll still be dumb as a stump.
Posted by: Bottom Line at September 26, 2026 12:01 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez
It's hard to say whether the AI worship is also, or if it's just people who don't touch grass enough.
You'd think people who make their wealth out of marketing hype would recognize it when they see it...
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 26, 2026 12:03 PM (aJQbY)
It would be fun to try and rid ourselves of muzzies simply to turn their mosques into nightclubs.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 26, 2026 12:05 PM (KOshA)
Not sure its going to be the most wonderful thing in tje world anyway
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 12:07 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: naturalfake at September 26, 2026 12:07 PM (YSUhf)
https://tinyurl.com/5ar9ck6h
Posted by: Ian S. at September 26, 2026 12:11 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at September 26, 2026 12:12 PM (wpRMV)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 12:12 PM (peOdB)
Not sure its going to be the most wonderful thing in tje world anyway
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 12:07 PM (Ia/+0)
CCP AI. The power of AND...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2026 12:14 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 26, 2026 12:14 PM (XvL8K)
There is absolutely a CCP op going on. But also look up "Effective Altruism". Or let El Gato Malo explain it to you: https://tinyurl.com/4tynmymw
Posted by: Ian S. at September 26, 2026 12:14 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 26, 2026 12:14 PM (aJQbY)
Climate crisis
Covid
AI
All the same M.O. Only the subject matter and the one's delivering the "message" change. It's always do this, or don't do that, because we know what we're talking about and, because... we're experts.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 26, 2026 12:15 PM (2Cry5)
Sort of like happened with COVID.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at September 26, 2026 12:15 PM (wpRMV)
Things that make you go hmmmm.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 26, 2026 12:16 PM (SS6mv)
I bathing a combined 274 pounds of dog, both of whom don't particularly care to be wet.
Oh, you said something nice planned, didn't you?
Posted by: one hour sober at September 26, 2026 12:16 PM (J4Dwc)
Covid
AI
—
Y2K
Acid Rain
Ozone layer
Fracking
Net Neutrality
There’s always something out there ready to kill us all. The only solution is more government and higher taxes.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 26, 2026 12:18 PM (SS6mv)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 26, 2026 12:19 PM (rbvCR)
Things that make you go hmmmm.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 26, 2026 12:16 PM (SS6mv)
Because China believes it can control it. Because China wants to get ahead.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2026 12:19 PM (l3cgK)
Covid
AI
It's actually an older playbook than that - the Saudis ran it against us to spread fear of nuclear power in the 1970s and 80s.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 26, 2026 12:20 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: vivi at September 26, 2026 12:20 PM (7esJd)
So what I have discovered is if you confuse it, it resets. Like everything. Pull a support pin and the machine will put everything back where it goes and start over. Resets all offsets and measures again.
This feature is one of the best things ever. Even better that turning it off and on again.
Also I think the AI likes me. I can't tell you how many times I get called to the floor only to have the machine just start working again as I walk up. It's become a running joke with everyone.
Posted by: Reforger at September 26, 2026 12:21 PM (F9nWj)
Covid
AI
—
Y2K
Acid Rain
Ozone layer
Fracking
Net Neutrality
There’s always something out there ready to kill us all. The only solution is more government and higher taxes.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 26, 2026 12:18 PM (SS6mv)
Population explosion,
World Hunger,
Global Nuclear War with Russia,
Global Cooling,
...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2026 12:21 PM (l3cgK)
So what I have discovered is if you confuse it, it resets. Like everything. Pull a support pin and the machine will put everything back where it goes and start over. Resets all offsets and measures again.
This feature is one of the best things ever. Even better that turning it off and on again.
Also I think the AI likes me. I can't tell you how many times I get called to the floor only to have the machine just start working again as I walk up. It's become a running joke with everyone.
Posted by: Reforger at September 26, 2026 12:21 PM (F9nWj)
Those are the ones that use cameras to verify the work, IIRC.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2026 12:22 PM (l3cgK)
Two pronged attack. Make people think AI is dangerous and make people oppose data centers. It was so easy too. A few bots in X, TikTok and Facebook.
Now 2/3 of Americans want to blow up the American AI industry and hand it all to China.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 26, 2026 12:24 PM (SS6mv)
"Pope Leo XIV is not fooled. He is not fooled by the history of the Republic or by its values—the very same values that are now leading this same Republic to enshrine abortion in the Constitution or to legalize murder in hospitals, for example.
Pope Leo XIV does not have to bow to these “values.” The Church existed before the Republic, and it will exist after it. It transcends it."
One of the responses to this is: "To be fair, outlasting a french republic isnt that hard"
Posted by: Kindltot at September 26, 2026 12:25 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Uncle Slayton at September 26, 2026 12:25 PM (CORHs)
The rise of the Western middle class post-WW2 was an unmitigated disaster for Communism, because it's something Marx could never have imagined. Hence all of the ops aimed at destroying it.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 26, 2026 12:25 PM (QZThv)
What one generation tolerates the next generation will embrace.
Posted by: Co-Exist My Ass at September 26, 2026 12:27 PM (6VpiA)
The epicenters of the op are Bluesky and Reddit. X is by a large majority AI-positive.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 26, 2026 12:28 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: naturalfake
_________
Tennessee? or Texas orange?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 26, 2026 12:14 PM (XvL8K)
Texas Burnt Orange, baby!!!
Posted by: naturalfake at September 26, 2026 12:30 PM (YSUhf)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2026 12:22 PM (l3cgK)
There is 3 in most of them. Lasers galore too. I stand in awe of these thing a lot. Maglev rail both guides and powers the Y axis. To within .002 mm at thousands of parts per minute. When all 20 machines are moving along at pace it is quite the orchestra. Like a live scene out of a terminator movie.
2 years ago I had no idea how they even did any of this stuff now I'm the goto guy to fix it.
Posted by: Reforger at September 26, 2026 12:30 PM (F9nWj)
Sort of like happened with COVID.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at September 26, 2026 12:15 PM (wpRMV)
I just finished reading Stephenson's Snowcrash which has as its central theme that concepts of the world and its ordering can run through societies via neurolinguistic programming, like viruses, if the change in language reaches the "root level" of the structure and function of the nervous system.
I think it is pure bosch as an absolute concept but I admit that works as a concept of propaganda, and of course all propagandists want you to believe they have omnipotent power over how the public thinks. As propagandists do since they too need investment money up front.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 26, 2026 12:30 PM (rbvCR)
I think it's HORRID
I have a funny story about that cathedral btw... when I was a young lass I was walking through the city to my studio after a very bad ice storm - most of the city was covered in inches of ice! it was treacherous. most businesses had cleared it, but the cathedral didn't bother. I slipped and fell hard right in from of SS Peter and Paul, clonked my head.
a priest WALKED BY ME and didn't help me up (you needed help them bc the ice was so bad, I was slipping trying to get up).
a couple of guys in funny hats rushed over to help me up and make sure I was ok.
FROM THE ADJACENT ORTHODOX CHURCH
they were awesome
in a very delayed revenge, I later went up into the "priest only" elevated reading area during a family funeral to give my reading lol. they were freaking out but had to leave me up there. ha ha! next time be Christian you snobs.
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 26, 2026 12:33 PM (j+aD2)
Those "jobs" have a higher percentage of fuckwits and grifters than "DEI consultants", and that's saying something.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 26, 2026 12:36 PM (qlLNh)
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 26, 2026 11:50 AM (H8mUs)
It started as a reflection of iconoclasm of Islam in the Dune universe (itself built in part around the Madhi rebellion in Sudan) and as a stumbling block for Herbert to keep the universe at a human level of understanding, but then was re___d by the spirit of the day as a "Frankenstein" fear, or Golem panic.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 26, 2026 12:37 PM (rbvCR)
excellent AI application!
QA using AI is just fantastic too
I actually set up my own network array last week thank YOU to AI! I struggled at the outset then gave up and had Chat talk to the drives and stuff directly
I don't need to know how to do that! I love AI for tech to tech stuff. It finally got my new printer to work with AirPrint! I just had to ask it!
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 26, 2026 12:37 PM (j+aD2)
The church is near, but the roads are icy. The tavern is far, but I will walk carefully.
--- Russian aphorism
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 26, 2026 12:38 PM (qlLNh)
I have some new keikis growing so am hoping to have some new baby orchids by the end of winter!
the Phillies died or something
but all is well
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 26, 2026 12:38 PM (j+aD2)
I'm not so sure about that but my neighbor choked on some crepes made with grape filling.
They were the crepes of wrath.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 26, 2026 12:39 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 26, 2026 11:43 AM (H8mUs)
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Jesus is going to do just that when He returns.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 26, 2026 12:39 PM (ajeN/)
They have hosted concerts from alternative and folk bands. Definitely odd seeing a concert like that in a church.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 26, 2026 12:43 PM (KOshA)
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 26, 2026 11:50 AM (H8mUs)
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More theologians, bible teachers, pastors, and even lay Christians increasingly believe that Islam will be what the Antichrist will use as the one-world religion during his brief reign.
Those that do not take the mark of the beast will be beheaded, which is right up Islam's alley.
The fact that Islam is the world's fastest growing religion gives one pause also.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 26, 2026 12:53 PM (ajeN/)
https://shorturl.at/Riu0u
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 26, 2026 12:55 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: And we shouldn't treat it like one at September 26, 2026 12:55 PM (Fsio/)
They're none too happy after the almost three-hour road trip from their previous AO to their new home here.
Not even the kittehs want to go outside.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 26, 2026 12:56 PM (ajeN/)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 26, 2026 12:56 PM (qlLNh)
Posted by: Reforger at September 26, 2026 12:56 PM (F9nWj)
Posted by: And we shouldn't treat it like one at September 26, 2026 12:55 PM (Fsio/)
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I know it's not, but it wraps itself up in religious garb.
S'tan's kinda funny that way, mimicking God, but not getting it right.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 26, 2026 12:58 PM (ajeN/)
Posted by: Come Out Of Her, My People at September 26, 2026 12:58 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 01:00 PM (Ia/+0)
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There's still a remnant of believers scattered throughout the world, as well as this nation.
Thus, God's mercy in restraining His wrath.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 26, 2026 01:01 PM (ajeN/)
He owes precisely jack shit to a fucking machine.
Go suck your shiny metal calf's digital dick, Anthropic. You wouldn't know from philosophy or ethics if someone jammed them flat up your well-worn San Francisco asses.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 26, 2026 01:05 PM (qZl0c)
Posted by: fd at September 26, 2026 01:07 PM (MWfyi)
/pops popcorn
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 26, 2026 01:07 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2026 01:09 PM (l3cgK)
the US RCC?!?!?!
I guess they need money for (male) hookers and beer up in there
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 26, 2026 01:09 PM (j+aD2)
Posted by: fd at September 26, 2026 01:07 PM (MWfyi)
Apparently it's dependent on the person and the regime. For the Notsees, Jews and Gypsies weren't morally significant...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2026 01:10 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Fuzzy Logic at September 26, 2026 01:12 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 26, 2026 01:14 PM (bX16E)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 26, 2026 01:14 PM (36x1j)
But my old man likes to drive his into the ground, and use them as rolling garbage dumpsters until the wheels fall off.
His choice. It's not a moral issue. Because it's just a machine.
Stop trying to convince the humans that you psycho queers built something more special than a car. You didn't.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 26, 2026 01:16 PM (qZl0c)
Posted by: jim
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Have, and have read Kosko's 'Fuzzy Thinking'. How many years ago... 30? Yikes.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 26, 2026 01:19 PM (XeU6L)
The muz claim to be decendants of Abraham. Abraham was a son of G-D. All a snackbar is a lie.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 26, 2026 01:19 PM (QwZKw)
"It's a Toyota," she wails.
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Is this about the high school auto shop class that rebuilds/repairs donated vehicles and then gives them to a single mom? Probably one of the only redeeming things to come out of NoVA in years.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 26, 2026 01:26 PM (2Cry5)
Florida fishing charter reels in a huge military drone
https://tinyurl.com/38nu3prb
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 26, 2026 01:26 PM (ndZc7)
Caught between climate regulation and catastrophic energy-policy decisions, a growing number of high-tech companies in the EU are packing up and leaving. Through stock-market deals, two top quantum-computing companies, IQM and Pasqal, are gradually moving toward the United States. The bleeding of the European economy is now being accepted with remarkable resignation.
https://t.ly/iHi9i
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 26, 2026 01:27 PM (Cqx++)
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I've been delaying buying new tires for my 2004 4Runner with 250,000 miles on it but finally I just had to. When I bought the tires, they told me I needed new brakes and some front end work. I may be a f*ck*ng idiot (I certainly have been in the past) but all totaled I spent $3000. I don't drive much and it just purrs along. Hopefully, I'll get another five years out of it.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 26, 2026 01:35 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 26, 2026 01:41 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: That Guy who moonwalks in and says "Yo, peeps!" at September 26, 2026 01:41 PM (0sNs1)
https://t.ly/kEtUY
Posted by: goozer at September 26, 2026 01:44 PM (NGnFK)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 01:46 PM (peOdB)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 01:47 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Dr_No at September 26, 2026 01:49 PM (ayRl+)
Posted by: Dr_No
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Here it is as a .pdf
https://shorturl.at/f1PA6
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 26, 2026 02:09 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: KT at September 26, 2026 02:21 PM (1RGZ5)
Posted by: Ken at September 26, 2026 03:13 PM (vxSYT)
Posted by: Dr_No
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Here it is as a .pdf
https://shorturl.at/f1PA6
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc
What'cha mean WE Paleface?
This is when you make the Deal with cTHEIL...
Welcome One and All to WEIRDaggedoon.
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-atLongLongLAST
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-getThisPartySTARTED
A Better World. A Fun World.
Where the Party never ends with a Host that never Dies!
https://tinyurl.com/cTHIEL-batboy2NOSFERATU
https://tinyurl.com/cTHIEL-usefulIdiotYOUare
LET'S GO BRANDON! TIME TO MAKE IT RAIN!
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at September 26, 2026 03:18 PM (KKxiO)
Posted by: Azjaeger at September 26, 2026 03:19 PM (3/XaG)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 26, 2026 04:05 PM (VPNgR)
Either way, there's over an 80% chance she's a single mother because she had the child out of wedlock or divorced the father. I mean, good for the kids who are learning a real trade, but continuing to exempt women from the consequences of their own actions is a big part of why we're so fucked.
Maaaaaaybe this program selects for young widows, but it's not the safe way to bet.
Posted by: Daniel Ream at September 26, 2026 05:03 PM (LgYtf)
Magnificent, influential author and magazine publisher, Wiped Out only to be replaced by a tattooist.
That says it all, a perfect example of our cultural degradation.
G_d, save us. Jesus, save us.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 26, 2026 05:28 PM (VPNgR)
The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
[I can neither confirm nor deny that the coffee drinker above is The Fabulous]
Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival, just a few house keeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Watertown) 1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate. Saying a couple of prayers certainly can't hurt either.
2) On that note. Be kind. Be nice.
3) No running with sharp objects. No, don't even ask.
4) Have a great weekend!
AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update. Prayer Requests: 7/30 – David sent an update on his wife, Susan, who we have been praying for as she is treated for cancer. Susan is still doing well and her numbers are headed in the right direction, but they are still having issues with the side effects of the chemotherapy. It is manageable, but they have to increase the number of office visits for additional treatments. Some days are really good right now, but others are only bearable with the Lord’s grace. They are so grateful for the prayers on their behalf.
8/26 Update – Susan’s cough has gotten so bad that they did X-rays on her chest. It might be pneumonia. She is in the hospital. Her sodium and blood pressure are low and she is not eating much now. They are trying to turn this around and ask for everyone’s prayers.
9/2 Update – Susan is back in the ICU. She either has an infection or the cancer has spread to her lungs. Either way, thank you all for your thoughts and prayers for Susan and please continue them.
9/3 Update – Thank you to everyone for their thoughts and prayers for Susan. They are expecting her to pass into the hands of the Lord in the next day or so. Please pray for them.
9/21 Update – David sends his thanks to everyone for their thoughts and prayers for Susan. She did pass away on 9/4, surrounded by family and friends. 8/30 – SPinRH_F-16 requested prayers for classmate “D.B.”, who has ALS. Please pray that he remains as comfortable as possible and for support for his family as they see him through this. Thank you in advance for your earnest prayers. 9/2 – Bulg asked for prayers for purpose in his life. 9/4 – bluebell sent an update on grammie winger. Grammie was diagnosed with epilepsy now. And she is back in the hospital. They would love prayers for comfort and peace for her. 9/10 – Annie’s Stew asks for prayers for her husband as he recovers from knee surgery. 9/10 – D asked for prayers for the memory of 9/11. May the Lord comfort people in the grief, and may it bring people closer to God. 9/12 – FenelonSpoke asked for prayers for the W family for comfort and strength as they grieve. The deceased was a sweet 92 year old, despite some big tragedies in her life. 9/15 – Sal asked for prayers as wildfires are out of control in the north of the area and threatening the county seat. They are evacuating part of the town. Sal is not in any danger. 9/17 – Teresa in Fort Worth sent an update with good news and bad news. The bad news is that she has a 9mm mass on her lunch, which means the cancer has metastasized outside of her liver. The pump is keeping the cancer in her liver at bay for now. The good news is that they can zap the nodule out of her lung and will watch for if any more nodules appear. As long as this is the only one, the radiation should suffice. She meets with a radiation oncologist on 9/25. 9/18 – Random Dave posted an update to his job progress. He is still looking for FT work, but has accepted a substitute teacher position (more flexibility for interviews, some income to slow the bleeding). He asks for prayers that the interview results he is waiting on will get back to him soon, especially if one is the “right job”. If any are “not the right job”, they would fall away soon and get back to him, and that if all of them are “not the right job”, the ‘right job” would show itself aggressively, so he doesn’t miss it! He also thanks the Horde and the folks at church for their prayers and support. 9/18 – Tonypete asked for prayers for #1 son. He has something going on which is, as yet, undiagnosed. He is under care now, so that is a positive step. Prayers also for his wife and daughter #2. Mom is a spoiled princess who consistently chooses the worst path of action regarding #2. 9/18 – Brother Tim posted that he has been overnight in his car more than indoors. He is convinced that his retirement/resignation was a severe error, a result of fatigue and depression. He asks for prayers. For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update. 2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 26, 2026 07:50 AM (2Cry5)
Posted by: olddog in mo at September 26, 2026 07:53 AM (Hbeqj)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 26, 2026 07:56 AM (VyBeY)
{grammie}{Some Rat}{TiFW}
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 26, 2026 07:56 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 26, 2026 07:58 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 26, 2026 08:07 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2026 08:07 AM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 26, 2026 08:12 AM (CjHsb)
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"Do you foresee a possibility that at some time in the future this rule may be rescinded and sharp object running will once again assume it's former social standing?" Tom asked incisively.
(I had to ask)
Posted by: muldoon at September 26, 2026 08:12 AM (I0N4X)
'mornining. Prayers up.
On my 2nd cuppa already. MegaRoy woke me up early, he's really aging out quickly these days. Do cats age like dogs, about seven years for every 12 calendar months? Big dogs somewhat faster? MegaRoy is a Sep 2011 baby, which makes him 105 this month. And he's a really large kitty too. Love that monster footed long tailed little 'm' moron cat.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 26, 2026 08:15 AM (QVmho)
And how did you know her ? At work or through organizations in the community?
I was talking to a lady who works getting things together at the supermarket for home delivery to folks. In the past two weeks her father died, preceding by his brother by a month. She was understandably devastated, but got some comfort that at the funeral home the place was filled to overflowing . She apologized and thanked the people who were parking cars and one of them said, "We are always glad when people are remembered and a crowd shows up to recall and honor them ."
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 26, 2026 08:16 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 26, 2026 08:18 AM (RIvkX)
A happy belated anniversary to you and your wife. Ours was the 22nd. I hope you had a nice time.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 26, 2026 08:18 AM (JrHfD)
Studies suggest five years to one.
Posted by: polynikes at September 26, 2026 08:18 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 26, 2026 08:19 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 26, 2026 08:19 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Hey! Mine was the 23rd!
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 26, 2026 08:20 AM (l26NL)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 08:21 AM (Ia/+0)
Green, green, green, faint scattered yellow, general widespread yellow, bright golden, leaves starting to sprinkle the ground. "Fall", indeed!
Posted by: muldoon at September 26, 2026 08:21 AM (I0N4X)
Posted by: Caffiend at September 26, 2026 08:22 AM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: BifBewalski
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A happy belated anniversary to you and your wife. Ours was the 22nd. I hope you had a nice time.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
THANK YOU
It's the 26th of Oct, this year will be 43 for us. We've got a nice cabin reserved on Smith Lake where we're planning to spend the full week just chilling, and exploring the local area oon the motorcycles.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 26, 2026 08:23 AM (QVmho)
And also that she was fond of interrupting the priest during homily.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 26, 2026 08:23 AM (RIvkX)
(I had to ask)
Posted by: muldoon at September 26, 2026 08:12 AM
There was a time in the past when certain commenters took delight in finding and poking holes in MisHum's rules.
Over time, MisHum has honed them into the scalpel-like constraints we have today.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 26, 2026 08:23 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 26, 2026 08:24 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 26, 2026 08:24 AM (JrHfD)
Still trying to land part time work in the neighborhood. Noticing a bit of clutch slipping on the truck, so that adds a degree of urgency to the proceedings...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 26, 2026 08:24 AM (08OqX)
Posted by: one hour sober at September 26, 2026 08:25 AM (J4Dwc)
I don't know who selects the contestants for GBBS but it is really woke.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 26, 2026 08:25 AM (l26NL)
Studies suggest five years to one.
Posted by: polynikes
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And indoor cats live significantly longer than outdoor.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 26, 2026 08:25 AM (XvL8K)
Before we enter the Prayer Revival, just a few house keeping matters to go over.
Can we dunk the 'ettes pigtails in the ink fountain?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2026 08:25 AM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Mrs. Fletcher at September 26, 2026 08:25 AM (Fn+3X)
Fall is my favorite time of the year and the changing of the leaves is a highlight. I hope we don't lose too many with this wind. I'll feel cheated.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2026 08:25 AM (viF8m)
Hail Mary, full of grace. blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
Saints Cosmas and Damian -- patrons of physicians, surgeons, and pharmacists -- martyrs of the Diocletian persecution, pray for us.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 26, 2026 08:27 AM (ksbjf)
It's 70 degrees this morning here at Schloss Hadrian. Almost chilly.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2026 08:27 AM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 26, 2026 08:28 AM (l26NL)
Studies suggest five years to one.
Posted by: polynikes
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And indoor cats live significantly longer than outdoor.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
We're hoping he has a few more years in him as he is a 100% indoor cat. I like 75 a lot better than 105. He spends most of his day in Junior-ette's room hanging out with her. He comes downstairs for a crunchy snack and to sit on the porch for a bit, then heads back up tohis window to chill, nap, and guard his little human.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 26, 2026 08:29 AM (QVmho)
Prayers for the Horde and their loved ones in need.
Just walked to my local convenience store. No rain at the moment, between bands , but the wind is 20-25mph. This will be a storm that knocks a lot of leaves off the trees
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 26, 2026 08:29 AM (KOshA)
Posted by: Blutarski
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What'd you think? I've seen it several times. The subtitled version is way better than dubbed.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 26, 2026 08:29 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Straight-laced Steve at September 26, 2026 08:30 AM (Fn+3X)
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I saw a timelapse video of someone's outdoor camera... a photo an hour, over 25 years.
You can actually see trees grow.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 26, 2026 08:30 AM (2Cry5)
A little sweet bluegrass for the dearly departed:
https://youtu.be/i2JhgoDkJPQ
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at September 26, 2026 08:30 AM (kOluj)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
I love that movie. While searching I found out Stephen Chow made Kung Fu Hustle 2. I'll have to rent that now.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 26, 2026 08:31 AM (l26NL)
Posted by: Jack Chick at September 26, 2026 08:32 AM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Straight-laced Steve
This season they have an actual drag queen, a poor young woman in a wheel chair, assorted muslims and Hindis. The drag queen is not the gayest contestant, if you can believe it.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 26, 2026 08:33 AM (l26NL)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 26, 2026 08:33 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: muldoon at September 26, 2026 08:21 AM (I0N4X)
*******
What a great idea, I'm going to try and do that here in western NC now that the weather is changing. Thanks!!
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at September 26, 2026 08:34 AM (Yz+hs)
Posted by: Jack Chick at September 26, 2026 08:34 AM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Your great grandmother at September 26, 2026 08:35 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 26, 2026 08:28 AM (l26NL)
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LOL!! So relatable.....
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at September 26, 2026 08:35 AM (kOluj)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 26, 2026 08:33 AM (RIvkX)
I love that. Fall leaves are so beautiful!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 26, 2026 08:36 AM (CjHsb)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 26, 2026 08:36 AM (l26NL)
Switched from Costco Dark Roast to Costco French Roast ($39.99 for 120 pods). Better.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2026 08:36 AM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 26, 2026 08:31 AM (l26NL)
Kung Fu Hustle 2:Eclectic AssKickeroo
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 26, 2026 08:36 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 26, 2026 08:37 AM (RIvkX)
I always assumed ski season was the busiest in Vermont. When my folks moved there I learned leaf peeping season is even more popular. People reserve hotel rooms up to a year in advance just see the colors.
And eat tasty maple syrup on waffles.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2026 08:37 AM (viF8m)
Switched from Costco Dark Roast to Costco French Roast ($39.99 for 120 pods). Better.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2026 08:36 AM (eRlcH)
He never switches coffee at home.
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 26, 2026 08:37 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: muldoon
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I did that with a newborn kitten sitting in the same position every day for six months.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 26, 2026 08:37 AM (XvL8K)
For Kelly who was just diagnosed with bladder cancer. The doctors are evaluating his options.
Thank you
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 26, 2026 08:38 AM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 26, 2026 08:36 AM (CjHsb)
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She has very little experience of it. We were in Maine last October and she was really blown away.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 26, 2026 08:38 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: JackStraw
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We've been in a severe drought all year with reservoir levels at historic lows. There was speculation that it would affect the aspen change, That may have been a factor in what seems like a more rapid transition, compared to other years.
P.S. I know the single color aspen cannot compare with the foliage back east, but it's all we have.
Posted by: muldoon at September 26, 2026 08:39 AM (I0N4X)
Posted by: Straight-laced Steve at September 26, 2026 08:30 AM (Fn+3X)
Watched it last night. The BBC or whatever could have found 12 regular Brits, but no, they will virtue signal until only Englandstan remains. 'Mo', the baker must love being on the same set as the troon drag queen.
Posted by: Accenture drone at September 26, 2026 08:39 AM (GTqXr)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 26, 2026 08:28 AM (l26NL)
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Nice laugh to start the (rainy) day!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 26, 2026 08:40 AM (vue/J)
Plus, I can see more of the sky with the leaves off the trees... given the position of the sun at that time of the year.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 26, 2026 08:41 AM (2Cry5)
And they are spectacular. Only been in Colorado once at the right time to see it but it is beautiful.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2026 08:41 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly
>The fall is a wonderful time of the year. What comes after it sorta blows but you gotta limit your exposure. It's coming.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 26, 2026 08:42 AM (5C90x)
Lots of spiritual experiences. As a lay brother of the Order of Preachers (i.e., the Domincans), it was a great blessing to be able to celebrate Mass at the shrines of St. Catherine of Siena and St. Pier Frassati. One of the neatest experiences was being able to celebrate Mass inside the very church where St. Anthony of Padua had been pastor. Also, when we were celebrating Mass at one of the side chapels at the Basilica of St. Maria Maggiore, some tourists and a habited sister popped-in to receive Communion with us.
Shout-outs to bar-tenders Gianluc and Gianmarco for the libations, but we're happy to be home.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 26, 2026 08:44 AM (ksbjf)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 26, 2026 08:44 AM (aJQbY)
Posted by: JackStraw
While we were watching GBBS last night we got a call from our son who is putting an offer on a house for him and his new bride. Gypsum, CO. Looked it up on Zillow and it looks awesome.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 26, 2026 08:44 AM (l26NL)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Yeah, the French Roast is better, but it caused me to go a little light in the loafers, IYKWIMAITYD.
Posted by: The Grand Poof at September 26, 2026 08:45 AM (Fn+3X)
Rotate some aspects of your wardrobe? Have a different set of tires installed on the car? Stock up on pumpkin spice feminine hygiene products? Put up the sixteen foot tall animated and lighted skeleton much, much too early?
Posted by: I gotta ask at September 26, 2026 08:45 AM (2Ez/1)
Obama: 🔴 308 days
Biden: 🟡 83 days
Trump 2nd: 🟢 24 days
Trump 1st: 🟢 0 days
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 26, 2026 08:47 AM (/+uur)
Impossible!!
Young people cannot afford to buy a house!
Posted by: TikTok told me so at September 26, 2026 08:47 AM (2Ez/1)
Sounds like a nice trip. Did you go on a tour bus or did you rent a car?
Posted by: dantesed at September 26, 2026 08:49 AM (Oy/m2)
Grimly put the flip flops in their special place in the closet and grimly replace their spot in the daily rotation with some vile things cover my toes and don't let them breathe.
And get the fire pit ready.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2026 08:50 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Halloween themed Crocs at September 26, 2026 08:52 AM (2Ez/1)
Weather experts are calling for Hurricane Polo to be upgraded to the mythical "Category 6" status. Here's why.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 26, 2026 08:53 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 26, 2026 08:53 AM (CjHsb)
Sounds like a nice trip. Did you go on a tour bus or did you rent a car?
Posted by: dantesed at September 26, 2026 08:49 AM (Oy/m2)
We did a tour bus with one of our former pastors, Father John. Fr. John was the common link. There were 42 on our bus.
Our bus driver, Luigi, was able to maneuver that big bus like a sports car: an extremely skilled driver. However, at one point when driving to into Rome, a car cut-off the bus; Luigi started shouting and waving his hands -- the tour guide just said, "I don't think I can translate this for you." LOL.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 26, 2026 08:54 AM (ksbjf)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 08:54 AM (Ia/+0)
China and the zoo had said in April that Ping Ping, a male, and Fu Shuang, a female, would go to the United States.
Everybody have fun tonight
Everybody Fu Shuang tonight
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 26, 2026 08:54 AM (/+uur)
We also have a couple of gifts cards left over from
Christmas and given by the kindly parents of the kids on spouse's school bus route so we can get a nice breakfast thing at Panera's.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 26, 2026 08:54 AM (Aqpmr)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 26, 2026 08:53 AM (ndZc7)
I have seen the hurricane called both Nolo and Polo
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 26, 2026 08:55 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: muldoon at September 26, 2026 08:39 AM (I0N4X)
Even so, with their white trunks, they are so striking. Especially beautiful against a stormy sky.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 26, 2026 08:55 AM (CjHsb)
I recently completed series one of 'Sherwood.' It's very good with only a small amount of woke shit. The police detective in charge of the investigation is, surprisingly, a white male, as is his investigative partner. And he's married to -- get this -- a white woman. In fact, all the couples in the show are married to same-race partners.
Last night, I started series two. My goodness. It's a complete reversal as woke themes are flying everywhere.
Posted by: one hour sober at September 26, 2026 08:57 AM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 26, 2026 08:57 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: one hour sober
Mrs B is watching that. She watches a lot of those British police shows.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 26, 2026 08:58 AM (l26NL)
Looking at different seeds/seed pods, insects, animals, and so on. There's quite a bit of lore out there. The fuzzy caterpillars around here are supposed to be a pretty good predictor... depending on the strips and color.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 26, 2026 08:59 AM (2Cry5)
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Drain the summer air from your car tires and inflate with autumn air.
Posted by: muldoon at September 26, 2026 08:59 AM (I0N4X)
Posted by: Just the punchline at September 26, 2026 09:00 AM (2Ez/1)
Bold strategy Cotton
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 26, 2026 09:00 AM (KOshA)
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"Moderate"? You keep using that word but I don't think you know what it means.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 26, 2026 09:00 AM (ndZc7)
Weather experts are calling for Hurricane Polo to be upgraded to the mythical "Category 6" status. Here's why.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 26, 2026 08:53 AM (ndZc7)
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Polo? Sounds more like, how you say, "the Paolo"...
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at September 26, 2026 09:03 AM (kOluj)
Posted by: man at September 26, 2026 09:03 AM (pfXMo)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 09:04 AM (Ia/+0)
Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 26, 2026 08:57 AM (u82oZ)
I've been watching a recording of the Beatification ceremonies of (now) Blessed Archbp. Fulton Sheen. The joy is palpable, and a number of the commentators mentioned that Bl. Sheen was a staunch patriot of the U.S.
He was a fierce anti-Communist, and I just have a feeling that the timing of Sheen's beatification is providential. It certainly marks the defeat of the liberals within the Church that tried to prevent the beatification.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 26, 2026 09:05 AM (ksbjf)
'Cause a quiet Atlantic season means fewer clicks and less coin?
Posted by: man at September 26, 2026 09:05 AM (pfXMo)
A spare router gives me Internet to one iMac. No Wi-Fi. That router was built in 2011. To use my iPhone without Wi-Fi, I have to walk to a nearby ridge with line of sight to a cell tower.
My system is old enough so that only e-Bay and Amazon sells a "renewed" router that work seamlessly. And a router I want has 16% 1-star reviews on Amazon.
Do not want to upgrade. But I have a cunning plan.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 26, 2026 09:06 AM (u82oZ)
“You remember the beepers?
Well, I can tell you this, Hezbollah certainly remembers them.”
hahahahaha
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 26, 2026 09:06 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: muldoon at September 26, 2026 08:59 AM (I0N4X)
Fall based Blinker Fluid is up about a dollar a gallon
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 26, 2026 09:08 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 26, 2026 09:08 AM (/+uur)
We are the insurgent counter-culture. Just by being exceptional Americans.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 26, 2026 09:09 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: muldoon at September 26, 2026 09:09 AM (I0N4X)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 26, 2026 09:09 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 26, 2026 09:05 AM (ksbjf
I didn't watch it, but I read about it on the National Catholic Register , and
was thinking how wonderful
to have the beatification service of such a fine, holy man who loved America and his church and people, and was opposed to communism and who is, I think, is praying for the U.S.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 26, 2026 09:10 AM (Aqpmr)
https://youtu.be/NtsJ5m6C7dU
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 26, 2026 09:11 AM (6ydKt)
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Would that be Lizzo or Tank Abrams?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 26, 2026 09:12 AM (2Cry5)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
__________
I got the Amazon eero mesh, base plus two extenders, and am not at all happy with the speed.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 26, 2026 09:13 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Buck at September 26, 2026 09:14 AM (z6ONu)
We are the insurgent counter-culture. Just by being exceptional Americans.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 26, 2026 09:09 AM (u82oZ)
The man-in-the-street interviews are showing people from all of walks of life. They're unified in their love of God and this very special bishop.
What does the Left offer? Nothing but anger and hatred -- linked by a desire to destroy the U.S..
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 26, 2026 09:15 AM (ksbjf)
In less than 3 Hours....
The Orangepacalypse Arrives!!!!
Prepare Yourselves for the Yuge and Luxurious Orangeosity of the Orangeverse when-
Muh Burnt Orange Texas Longhorns take on the Big Orange Tennessee Satsuma for all the Oranges in the Presence of -
President Orange Man Bad Himself-
President Donald J Trump.
Prepare! None Shall Escape THE ORANGING!
And All Will Be Juiced!!!
Posted by: naturalfake at September 26, 2026 09:16 AM (YSUhf)
Posted by: muldoon
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Although I love the fall colors 'round here (upstate SC), I found the aspens absolutely stunning during my time in Wyo. Autumn is short but spectacular in SE Wyo. Still miss Wyo, especially in September and October. (Not so much in January)
Posted by: screaming in digital at September 26, 2026 09:17 AM (FpydE)
Posted by: Buck at September 26, 2026 09:17 AM (z6ONu)
And All Will Be Juiced!!!
Posted by: naturalfake at September 26, 2026 09:16 AM (YSUhf)
$15K fine from NFL
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 26, 2026 09:17 AM (/+uur)
David Morrissey, who plays the lead detective, Ian St Clair, is a fine actor. I recently saw him in the BBC mini-series, 'Gone.' He's probably best known to U.S. audiences from his role as 'The Governor' in 'The Walking Dead.'
Posted by: one hour sober at September 26, 2026 09:18 AM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
__________
I got the Amazon eero mesh, base plus two extenders, and am not at all happy with the speed.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 26, 2026 09:13 AM (XvL8K)
We got the same thru Frontier and are very pleased.
Maybe your set up is a bit off.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 26, 2026 09:19 AM (YSUhf)
Bold strategy Cotton
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 26, 2026 09:00 AM (KOshA)
Piker.
Posted by: Katie Porter at September 26, 2026 09:19 AM (nHXB4)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 26, 2026 09:15 AM (ksbjf)
But the graft is so sweet...
Posted by: Hrothgar at September 26, 2026 09:19 AM (hOUT3)
Posted by: muldoon at September 26, 2026 08:59 AM (I0N4X)
Fall based Blinker Fluid is up about a dollar a gallon
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 26, 2026 09:08 AM (/+uur)
As long as it's pumpkin spiced air and blinker fluid!
Prayers up for all you good people. May God bless and heal you, provide for all your needs, comfort you in pain, suffering and loss, and give you His peace.
Posted by: moki at September 26, 2026 09:20 AM (wLjpr)
And All Will Be Juiced!!!
Posted by: naturalfake at September 26, 2026 09:16 AM (YSUhf)
What are we? Chopped liver?
Posted by: Clempson fans at September 26, 2026 09:20 AM (nHXB4)
Posted by: muldoon at September 26, 2026 09:09 AM (I0N4X)
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Drove that last summer! Was in Crested Butte for a wedding and we had a free afternoon, so off we went. Beautiful drive, but that altitude was not my friend.... No fall colors for us that day, but we were very happy to have had the opportunity to travel that road.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 26, 2026 09:21 AM (0cxsI)
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I saw that when Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez wanted to Americanize his name he chose to name himself after Fulton Sheen and became Martin Sheen. I guess any such inclination didn't descend to Charlie.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 26, 2026 09:22 AM (ndZc7)
And All Will Be Juiced!!!
Posted by: naturalfake
Who's the celebrity guest to pick the games? You don't think.....
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 26, 2026 09:23 AM (l26NL)
I didn't watch it, but I read about it on the National Catholic Register , and
was thinking how wonderful
to have the beatification service of such a fine, holy man who loved America and his church and people, and was opposed to communism and who is, I think, is praying for the U.S.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 26, 2026 09:10 AM (Aqpmr)
I also have no doubt that Bl. Fulton Sheen is praying for America. God works in His time, but I have a feeling that the beatification marks an inflection point within the Catholic Church.
Cardinal Burke mentioned that he sees many young seminarians reading Sheen's books. The newest generation of priests and seminarians are much more orthodox in their theology, and less accepting of the Liberal experiment within the Church.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 26, 2026 09:24 AM (ksbjf)
Maybe your set up is a bit off.
Posted by: natural fake
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I've tried every suggestion on Amazon's page, and actually got a human on the phone as well, but I'm still getting about 10-20% of the speed off the extenders as I'm getting from the one hard wired device off of the base.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 26, 2026 09:24 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 26, 2026 09:26 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: screaming in digital at September 26, 2026 09:17 AM
Mornin', SiD! Fall's starting to look pretty nice up here, too.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 26, 2026 09:27 AM (iEyrj)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 26, 2026 09:15 AM (ksbjf)
But the graft is so sweet...
Posted by: Hrothgar at September 26, 2026 09:19 AM (hOUT3)
You make a very good point. Lefties are motivated by greed. Some want more power over others, but all Lefties feel that they are owed more money -- despite doing nothing to earn it.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 26, 2026 09:27 AM (ksbjf)
I did not know there was a Jewish Book of Life until I came here about 5 years ago.
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 26, 2026 09:29 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 26, 2026 09:29 AM (/+uur)
I went to a school who's color was purple and tbh they took it way too far. Still do. It's a cult.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 26, 2026 09:29 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: screaming in digital at September 26, 2026 09:17 AM
Me, too. I even liked January.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 26, 2026 09:30 AM (CjHsb)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 26, 2026 09:30 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Paul at September 26, 2026 09:30 AM (xLAuA)
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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Good for you. It's one of my favorite backroad Colorado mountain trips.
It's beautiful all four seasons, but don't try it in the winter, CDOT doesn't plow in winter so the road is closed until spring.
Posted by: muldoon at September 26, 2026 09:30 AM (I0N4X)
May God shower all His children with mercy and grace today, especially those who are suffering.
And may God continue to bless the U.S.A. and Israel.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 26, 2026 09:30 AM (D/6p1)
And All Will Be Juiced!!!
Posted by: naturalfake at September 26, 2026 09:16 AM (YSUhf)
What are we? Chopped liver?
Posted by: Clempson fans at September 26, 2026 09:20 AM (nHXB4)
Don't forget Syracuse.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 26, 2026 09:31 AM (6ydKt)
Maybe your set up is a bit off.
Posted by: natural fake
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I've tried every suggestion on Amazon's page, and actually got a human on the phone as well, but I'm still getting about 10-20% of the speed off the extenders as I'm getting from the one hard wired device off of the base.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 26, 2026 09:24 AM (XvL8K)
I know almost nothing about this stuff, but-
if you haven't tried it: Move your extenders around to different spots, you should be able to find places where they work as advertised.
Some walls and things between the main and extenders may n0ot be signal friendly.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 26, 2026 09:31 AM (YSUhf)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 26, 2026 09:32 AM (RIvkX)
Muh Burnt Orange Texas Longhorns take on the Big Orange Tennessee Satsuma for all the Oranges in the Presence of -
President Orange Man Bad Himself-
President Donald J Trump.
Prepare! None Shall Escape THE ORANGING!
And All Will Be Juiced!!!
Posted by: naturalfake at September 26, 2026 09:16 AM (YSUhf)
That is a lot of orange! Hook 'em, Horns!!! (except when they play Baylor!)
Posted by: moki at September 26, 2026 09:32 AM (wLjpr)
Posted by: Buck at September 26, 2026 09:33 AM (z6ONu)
Posted by: KT at September 26, 2026 09:33 AM (1RGZ5)
But Mrs. Red and I are dry and cozy. We ate lobster last night overlooking the harbor.
Life is good!
Posted by: RI Red at September 26, 2026 09:34 AM (0PSP0)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 26, 2026 09:34 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 26, 2026 09:27 AM (ksbjf)
producers vs. seducers
To actually get up and go to work is one of the greatest services to fellow Man. To actually make a product or service that allows us to exchange ideas that turn into a (hopefully) better life for both is unique to the Free Market.
I will exchange some of my money for a stable police and courts and domestic tranquility.
But it sure seems like that around 45% of the voters expect me to fund their life(styles).
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 26, 2026 09:34 AM (/+uur)
But Mrs. Red and I are dry and cozy. We ate lobster last night overlooking the harbor.
Life is good!
Posted by: RI Red at September 26, 2026 09:34 AM
You down on the Vinyahd, Red?
Up here on the north shore we've had a little rain. More to come, but at least I don't have to shovel this crap.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 26, 2026 09:35 AM (iEyrj)
Posted by: Paul at September 26, 2026 09:30 AM (xLAuA)
Coming from you, that's pretty rich. But I suspect that you're incapable of seeing the irony.
But the Leftists are no longer arguing about tax policy and the best way to better the most lives. Now the Left wants to kill babies and toddlers, cut off healthy sex organs of mentally-ill teenagers, and sexually abuse children in their formative years. Oh, I nearly forgot, you guys want to kill all the Jews, too.
This is a spiritual battle. The sooner that you recognize that you are following the Prince of Lies and repent, the better it will be for your immortal soul.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 26, 2026 09:35 AM (ksbjf)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 26, 2026 09:31 AM (6ydKt)
Still pissed at them for beating my UT in 2003 basketball.
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 26, 2026 09:36 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 26, 2026 09:37 AM (5T19r)
Posted by: Buck at September 26, 2026 09:37 AM (z6ONu)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 26, 2026 09:24 AM (XvL8K)
That's going to happen the further away, and the number of walls/floors, the signal has to penetrate.
If you have a very large house it's sometimes better to run a cable to another base station at the other end of the house or to another floor and use a base station there to create another mesh.
You could try using a different broadcast channel if you have a lot of nearby neighbors with their own WiFi.
Additionally, moving up to Wi-Fi 7 will give you a lot more signal, and not a lot of people are using it yet, so the 6Ghz band is still pretty open in most neighborhoods. That wouldn't be a cheap upgrade if none of your devices can use Wi-Fi 7, though.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 26, 2026 09:37 AM (6ydKt)
And they are spectacular. Only been in Colorado once at the right time to see it but it is beautiful.
Posted by: JackStraw
I was there on opening day a few years ago, and it was the right time. And then I bagged an elk.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 26, 2026 09:37 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Paul's mom at September 26, 2026 09:38 AM (J4Dwc)
Why Greenland Will Never Be American
How Trump Misread a Nation and Ignited a Resistance
By: Éloi Bélisle
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 26, 2026 09:38 AM (ndZc7)
But Mrs. Red and I are dry and cozy. We ate lobster last night overlooking the harbor.
Life is good!
Posted by: RI Red at September 26, 2026 09:34 AM
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Fishers?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 26, 2026 09:38 AM (5T19r)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 26, 2026 09:37 AM (5T19r)
Theres a shit ton of shit in the backseat my truck but alas, it is not there.
Ha
Remember the 1 a the Smith had some secret shit on it and they had to remove to take the secret shit off.
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 26, 2026 09:39 AM (/+uur)
Almost finished with this gig. I hope there are some leaves left when I get back to NH.
Posted by: RI Red at September 26, 2026 09:40 AM (OaHPZ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 26, 2026 09:40 AM (ndZc7)
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I've moved them every which way, including being within line of sight from each other, and nothing has worked. Maybe I got some bum units.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 26, 2026 09:41 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 26, 2026 09:27 AM (ksbjf)
producers vs. seducers
To actually get up and go to work is one of the greatest services to fellow Man. To actually make a product or service that allows us to exchange ideas that turn into a (hopefully) better life for both is unique to the Free Market.
...
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 26, 2026 09:34 AM (/+uur)
Lefties denigrate work's value in helping forge an emotionally-stable person. As a police officer, I saw the destructive effects of welfare upon the human psyche. Many of the recipients seem to internalize the idea that they have no worth and can never be successful.
They don't respect themselves, so why should we expect them to respects others?
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 26, 2026 09:43 AM (ksbjf)
Posted by: one hour sober
My lovely wife and I watch quite a few of the British shows. Especially the police procedurals. We’ve been watching for years. But these past couple of years just about every show is beyond woke. I understand that the BBC requires wokeness be put into every show.
Posted by: Uncle Slayton at September 26, 2026 09:43 AM (catJO)
Oh my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell. Lead all souls to heaven, especially those most in need of Thy mercy. Amen.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2026 09:44 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 26, 2026 09:38 AM (5T19r)
Other direction, Huck. Towards Cape Cod. But I imagine Long Island Sound is getting hammered as hard as BuzzardsBay.
Posted by: RI Red at September 26, 2026 09:44 AM (OaHPZ)
Posted by: Classic SEC bumper sticker at September 26, 2026 09:45 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 26, 2026 09:35 AM (ksbjf)
Well said. And while repentance is always possible, most of them have made their choice and are faithful and willing servant of darkness - like Talerico and his supporters. (One of Talarico’s ministers and “spiritual advisors” was caught on tape yesterday saying that he didn’t believe in all that Resurrection or Virgin Birth stuff)
AH Lloyd said a few days ago that the hard Left is now in the Bonzai Charge stage of their movement. They’re going to get their way or die trying, and they’ll kill as many of as they can until they’re defeated.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 26, 2026 09:45 AM (H8mUs)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 26, 2026 09:46 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 26, 2026 08:44 AM (l26NL)
Unpossible!
I’ve been told by the media including a lot of “conservative” media,that nobody under 70 can afford to buy a home. Because Trump of course.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 26, 2026 09:46 AM (SS6mv)
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And the other six deadly sins.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 26, 2026 09:40 AM (ndZc7)
True enough. Communism is an inversion of Christianity, and best understood as a Christian heresy. That's why utilitarian argument fail against Communism.
We're actually in a spiritual battle.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 26, 2026 09:48 AM (ksbjf)
Posted by: Wenda at September 26, 2026 09:48 AM (a4+G3)
Why Greenland Will Never Be American
How Trump Misread a Nation and Ignited a Resistance
By: Éloi Bélisle
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 26, 2026 09:38 AM
Awkward.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 26, 2026 09:48 AM (iEyrj)
Almost finished with this gig. I hope there are some leaves left when I get back to NH.
Posted by: RI Red at September 26, 2026 09:40 AM
Nice. Too many lefties on the Vineyard.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 26, 2026 09:50 AM (iEyrj)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 26, 2026 09:46 AM
Junior and DILIT bought their first house this summer in CT. They’d lived with us for 4 years in NH and saved their money.
Good thing, too, cuz their down payment was almost twice what my first house cost.
Posted by: RI Red at September 26, 2026 09:50 AM (OaHPZ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 26, 2026 09:29 AM
Whaddya mean?
Posted by: The Oregon Ducks at September 26, 2026 09:50 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2026 09:50 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
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Hey, RMBS. Not much color here yet but the endless string of 90 degree days has broken. And it's almost MoMe time!
Posted by: screaming in digital at September 26, 2026 09:52 AM (FpydE)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 26, 2026 09:48 AM (iEyrj)
I guess I haven't been paying enough attention. What's going on with Greenland that makes the timing of the book awkward? I love that the author's name ie Eloi.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 26, 2026 09:53 AM (lFFaq)
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NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman cryptically teased plans for a new high- and fast-flying X-plane with a silhouette of an aircraft that immediately drew comparisons to the famed SR-71 Blackbird as a backdrop.
Speculation: it might be just undergoing some cleaning... or it might have been taken to be used for some analysis on this effort NASA's undertaking.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 26, 2026 09:53 AM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 26, 2026 09:41 AM (XvL8K)
Have you tried using a phone app that gives you a readout to show you on your screen where the best signal is and where it's dead?
NetSpot is a popular one, and this guy shows you how to use it:
https://youtu.be/88giN9wVIsY
I'd try something like that, and assess your situation then decide on what to do next. It may be a bum unit but it might also be your specific environment and the setup itself.
Weak Wi-Fi signal coverage is complicated and frustrating to solve but it can be fixed in a few ways.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 26, 2026 09:54 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: screaming in digital at September 26, 2026 09:52 AM
That's always good. Heat and humidity aren't my thing.
It was like someone flipped a switch up here from hot and humid to cool and crisp. I'm enjoying it. And yes...the MoMe is nigh...The RMBS Mom is already contemplating packing.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 26, 2026 09:55 AM (iEyrj)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 26, 2026 09:46 AM
Junior and DILIT bought their first house this summer in CT. They’d lived with us for 4 years in NH and saved their money.
Good thing, too, cuz their down payment was almost twice what my first house cost.
Posted by: RI Red at September 26, 2026 09:50 AM (OaHPZ)
Homes here in the Midwest are still relatively cheap compared to the Demon-crat Hellholes. All of the criticisms of the U.S. are based upon analysis of the long-term effects upon cities ruled by the Democrat party for decades.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 26, 2026 09:55 AM (ksbjf)
Good thing, too, cuz their down payment was almost twice what my first house cost.
Posted by: RI Red at September 26, 2026 09:50 AM (OaHPZ)
More lies!!!
Everyone knows it’s impossible for young people to buy a home because reasons!!! Mainly Trump. And Jews.
- Reddit, MSNOW, Tucker
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 26, 2026 09:55 AM (SS6mv)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 26, 2026 09:56 AM (KOshA)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
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Best I can say is I made peace with the snow and cold. Never made peace with the wind. I also never lost my urge to yell "SNOW DAY!!!" when it started snowing during the work day.
Sometimes March or April could be worse than January because for a Southerner, it was supposed to be spring by then.
Posted by: screaming in digital at September 26, 2026 09:57 AM (FpydE)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 26, 2026 09:53 AM
Given that Trump got his agreement with Greenland and la Resistance pretty much collapsed, the timing isn't great. And I'm glad I wasn't the only one who loved the author's name.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 26, 2026 09:57 AM (iEyrj)
Kennedy said to the Moon
Ended most NASA program that would have had a working Space Shuttle in about 1970.
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 26, 2026 09:57 AM (/+uur)
Have watched a few already.
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 09:57 AM (Ia/+0)
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You're the first person I've ever read, who's said they were pleased with Frontier.
I had them in WV for a period of time and they were horrible. Service sucked. Outages were frequent.
Given... it was WV, but still.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 26, 2026 09:59 AM (2Cry5)
I'm taking time today to format my book on Amazon. I don't think I'll have too many difficulties, but one never knows.
I've seen that Roger Moore / James Bond story before. The man was definitely a class act.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 26, 2026 10:01 AM (qRla/)
I had them in WV for a period of time and they were horrible. Service sucked. Outages were frequent.
We got Frontier (which is now part of Verizon) a couple of years ago. We had frequent outages as well - fewer now than then - but being out in the boonies we weren't exactly overwhelmed with choices.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2026 10:01 AM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 26, 2026 09:46 AM (0U5gm)
And the lean bodymass people bundle up like they are headed out on the Shackleton Expedition.
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 26, 2026 10:02 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Thomas Paine
Ha. That reminds me to check my pressure next time I get gas. It's getting cooler here and I know that pesky low pressure warning will show up sooner or later.
Posted by: Tuna at September 26, 2026 10:02 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 26, 2026 09:55 AM (iEyrj)
I'm very sorry not to get to see all of you this year, but especially her. Please tell her "Hi!" from me.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 26, 2026 10:03 AM (lFFaq)
The first real cold front is expected in north Texas next week. It will be official when the lines form at Discount Tire outlets and gas stations with people putting air in their tires to shut off the low tire warnings.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
They'll likely recommend switching from Daylight Saving air to Standard air.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2026 10:04 AM (eRlcH)
Our only option here has been Cox. Meh. This year we are getting Verizon as an option.
I might skip the whole thing and go with Rocket Man. Seems like the future of communication and I'd rather give him my money.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2026 10:04 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette
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We'll miss y'all, Polliwog
Posted by: screaming in digital at September 26, 2026 10:05 AM (FpydE)
Posted by: Thomas Paine
They'll likely recommend switching from Daylight Saving air to Standard air.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2026 10:04 AM (eRlcH)
Get Premium Air - Now with 20% more N2!
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 26, 2026 10:07 AM (wVcYX)
They don't respect themselves, so why should we expect them to respects others?
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 26, 2026 09:43 AM (ksbjf)
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The critics of Pope Leo's first encyclical completely ignored his condemnation of government welfare, which he correctly noted destroys people by denying them the inherent dignity of work.
This would also include schemes like the Basic Income, which is the same pig with lipstick added. The idea of creating a permanently idle underclass if demonic.
Having seen the homeless through my wife's eyes, I am convinced that all government assistance programs need to be shut down. The only effective solution to poverty is private charity, which the resultant lower taxes would facilitate. This would also actually *solve* poverty through individual guidance rather than bored bureaucrats checking boxes as they retire in place for 30 years.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2026 10:07 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: frammish at September 26, 2026 10:07 AM (rcENI)
Their last few videos have been from inside of Iran.
There's a war going on?
How can you tell?
They go visit a medium sized city somewhere and you always see the same thing: lights on, shops open, cars driving, people outside every evening enjoying themselves, eating at restaurants, hanging out in the hookah bars...
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 26, 2026 10:08 AM (2Ez/1)
I have his deal on a remote river in Alaska. Works like a charm no matter the weather conditions
Posted by: Crazy man at September 26, 2026 10:09 AM (uXf94)
Lefties denigrate work's value in helping forge an emotionally-stable person. As a police officer, I saw the destructive effects of welfare upon the human psyche. Many of the recipients seem to internalize the idea that they have no worth and can never be successful.
It's not just welfare. Retirement as well can have corrosive effects, especially if it wasn't voluntary. I know it's happened to me, which is why I'm trying to keep my hand in at least on a part-time basis and working on a book.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2026 10:10 AM (eRlcH)
DEI Army People no likey Hegseth
He not gooder solider
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 26, 2026 10:13 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2026 10:04 AM (viF8m)
JS, Rocket Man’s stuff works great out here at the Island.
Posted by: RI Red at September 26, 2026 10:13 AM (UxbHU)
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 26, 2026 09:45 AM (H8mUs)
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Thanks for the shout out!
Don't look at polls, futures markets or social media chatter. All of that can be manipulated. Look at what people are actually doing.
Talerico, El-Sayed and the others are NOT campaigning hard in swing districts. They are not reaching out to the undecided. They are simply staying in friendly territory working the fundraising because that is why they are doing this. El-Sayed is bringing in Harris to campaign as a way of building his audience and stature as a commentator. He knows she will pull zero independents.
She is coming to shore up her left flank for next year. Talerico actually is trying to back-track somewhat, but El-Sayed has refused every opportunity to do a Sister Soulja. He's in it for the grift, and wants to preserve is Islamofascist street cred. That's more important to him than winning. Talerico doesn't actually believe in anything, so he's shift ground.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2026 10:13 AM (ZOv7s)
How come the media simps and commentators don't tell Hollywood to learn to code?
make a better product people want, or take a pay cut.
if they want a maximum pay ratio cap for industry - let them go first. Mark Ruffalo gets paid 20 times the lowest paid worker on his next movie.
Posted by: vivi at September 26, 2026 10:14 AM (7esJd)
He not gooder solider
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 26, 2026 10:13 AM (/+uur)
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It's really funny watching these washed-up loser retirees claim that the military is "completely broken" when recruiting is soaring. Lloyd Austin's DoD saw the Army lose 10 percent of its active duty force to failed retention and shit recruiting.
People are voting with their feet and thing pisses prissy flag officers off more than a junior officer kicking their ass.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2026 10:16 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: man at September 26, 2026 10:16 AM (pfXMo)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 26, 2026 10:16 AM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2026 10:07 AM (ZOv7s)
We fought the War on Poverty
And Poverty won.
It is a shame that government of Freedom and Laws is now reduced to a system of punishment and rewards.
Tis not much different than the England of King George where he gave out land (and the people on it( to his favorites.
Now they give out the EBT for votes and power.
No real diff
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 26, 2026 10:17 AM (/+uur)
So he hid, like the miserable coward he was, and so did Milley and the rest.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2026 10:18 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Eromero at September 26, 2026 10:18 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Huh? at September 26, 2026 10:19 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 26, 2026 10:19 AM (SS6mv)
Posted by: Archimedes at September 26, 2026 10:19 AM (Riz8t)
Now they give out the EBT for votes and power.
No real diff
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 26, 2026 10:17 AM (/+uur)
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The elites of King George's day were heavily invested in their nation. His father personally took the field to lead his army in combat (the last British monarch to do so).
The aristocracy was expected to lead from the front and that continued to World War I, when just about every prominent family lost a son in combat. Now they just want to sell out the country for a few euros and an estate by the sea.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2026 10:20 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2026 10:16 AM (ZOv7s)
I saw Prissy Flag Officers open for Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen at the NSU Colosseum in 1975.
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 26, 2026 10:20 AM (/+uur)
We fought the War on Poverty
And Poverty won.
The poverty rate is almost exactly the same as it was 60 years ago, before all the Great Society programs that were supposed to eradicate it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2026 10:20 AM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 26, 2026 10:20 AM (SS6mv)
Posted by: Archimedes at September 26, 2026 10:19 AM (Riz8t)
Twas windy that day
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 26, 2026 10:20 AM (/+uur)
BiL has it... lives between Morgantown and Fairmont. Says it works well.
Posted by: man at September 26, 2026 10:21 AM (pfXMo)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 26, 2026 10:21 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2026 10:20 AM (eRlcH)
$25 Trillion down the f'n drain
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 26, 2026 10:21 AM (/+uur)
TBF, they've redefined poverty so many times there's no way to compare then and now. At this point, if your big screen TV doesn't have HBO and is less than 66", you're in poverty.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 26, 2026 10:21 AM (Riz8t)
Finally!
An effective and European solution to Britain's horrible Prime Minister!
https://tinyurl.com/5y2bj2mb
I would like to see this speed throughout all of Europe...China too!
Posted by: naturalfake at September 26, 2026 10:22 AM (YSUhf)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 26, 2026 10:03 AM
What?! Now I haz a sad.
I'll certainly give her your regards. Y'all will be missed.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 26, 2026 10:22 AM (iEyrj)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2026 10:20 AM (eRlcH)
We should surrender to Poverty and then asked them for a Marshall Plan.
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 26, 2026 10:22 AM (/+uur)
No such thing as real poverty in America.
There is homelessness of course but that’s elf induced by drug use. And a separate issue from economics.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 26, 2026 10:23 AM (SS6mv)
Posted by: man at September 26, 2026 10:23 AM (pfXMo)
They just write it off.
Posted by: Kramer at September 26, 2026 10:24 AM (2Ez/1)
They don't mess with us, because we're Irish and like to fight.
Posted by: Leprechauns at September 26, 2026 10:25 AM (Riz8t)
Feeling a bit out of sorts this morning. Not sure exactly why. Change of season? I'm also not going to Texas for the first time since I moved. That may be contributing to the life is not quite right feeling.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 26, 2026 10:25 AM (kJmSS)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 26, 2026 10:26 AM (SS6mv)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2026 10:07 AM (ZOv7s)
I have come to agree completely. The unavoidable problem of government assistance is that it requires vast bureaucracies to administer, and they quickly become forces that seek to maintain and expand the problems, in order to increase their own size, funding, and power. And they are never called to account for their spending.
Case in point - Dem Senators are viciously attacking Trump today for his pocket recission of nearly $1 billion in spending to help house illegal aliens and finance DEI projects.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 26, 2026 10:26 AM (H8mUs)
Posted by: Tonypete at September 26, 2026 10:27 AM (ktgTW)
I've seen where Lefties are now trying to tell us that a 40-hour work week is barbaric and inhuman. Let's put it this way, any full-time 32-hour-a-week "job" is likely a species of deadweight and can be eliminated without too much fuss.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2026 10:27 AM (eRlcH)
Posted by: frammish at September 26, 2026 10:07 AM
Very nice. Will do. A dear friend of mine was ordained to the priesthood about a week before his oldest was born. That was a stressful time for them.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 26, 2026 10:27 AM (iEyrj)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 26, 2026 10:22 AM (iEyrj)
RMBS, I hope you’ll put in a kind word for me with Mom. And everyone else. Especially Ben Had.
Who is already writing up the latest infraction in my Permanent Record.
Posted by: RI Red at September 26, 2026 10:27 AM (ohwFg)
Posted by: r hennigantx
They do a fabulous line dance for "In The Navy" though.
Posted by: 88C+u at September 26, 2026 10:27 AM (88C+u)
I just started reading Sheens "Life of Christ".
It's basically his perspective /narration of the entire New Testament. It's fantastic.
Posted by: Derak at September 26, 2026 10:27 AM (3DHvS)
Posted by: man at September 26, 2026 10:28 AM (pfXMo)
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Having seen the homeless through my wife's eyes, I am convinced that all government assistance programs need to be shut down. The only effective solution to poverty is private charity, which the resultant lower taxes would facilitate.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2026 10:07 AM (ZOv7s)
We just got back from Italy and had the opportunity to attend a General Audience with 9998 new friends. Mrs Cop and I were about 20 feet away when he rode the "Pope-mobile." Pope Leo's face seemed to beam with happiness and love.
He's not the Pope that the Traditionalists wanted, but I think he's the Pope that the Church needs at this time. During his address, he also spoke favorably about the (soon-to-be) Blessed Fulton Sheen.
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Way back in 1944, The Road to Serfdom commented upon Socialism as a tool of the selfish to absolve themselves of their own lack of charity.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 26, 2026 10:28 AM (ksbjf)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 26, 2026 10:28 AM (SS6mv)
There is homelessness of course but that’s elf induced by drug use. And a separate issue from economics.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 26, 2026 10:23 AM (SS6mv)
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It very much exists and I can show it to you, but it is not what it was. Starvation is basically unknown in this country. We used to fight starvation, then it was "hunger" and now it's "food insecurity" because the money machine has to keep running.
And let's be real: that money didn't go down a drain, it went to build up a massive political infrastructure to support more taxes and spending. Trump is dismantling it and that is why the left is going so crazy because without that money, their power evaporates and they will have to get real jobs.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2026 10:29 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Sharon
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{{{sharon}}}
TX will not be quite right for me without you there.
Posted by: screaming in digital at September 26, 2026 10:30 AM (FpydE)
On the one hand work and capitalism is evil. On the other they al whine they can’t find a job. Because they’re all fucking unemployable.
They also hate billionaires but are addicted to the services the billionaires provide online.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 26, 2026 10:30 AM (SS6mv)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 26, 2026 10:31 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 26, 2026 10:28 AM (ksbjf)
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Famously dedicated to "the socialists in all parties."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2026 10:31 AM (ZOv7s)
And let's be real: that money didn't go down a drain, it went to build up a massive political infrastructure to support more taxes and spending.
I'm embarrassed to say it, but it took until COVID to open my eyes to the yawning gap between the appropriation for any relief program and how much is actually distributed to its purported beneficiaries.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2026 10:31 AM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 10:32 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2026 10:32 AM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 26, 2026 10:32 AM (ubCxQ)
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 26, 2026 10:26 AM (H8mUs)
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The entire budget for the St. Vincent DePaul Society in Greater Lansing would be insufficient to pay a single civil servant. Yet they served huge numbers of people, providing meals, clothing, and housing - all donated and much of it isn't even recorded for tax purposes. (Goodwill will give you a slip.)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2026 10:34 AM (ZOv7s)
SpaceX plans to convert a Starship upper stage into a permanent, standalone orbital space station. New NASA documentation reveals that the company proposes using the massive interior volume of its stainless steel spacecraft to create a long-term habitat in low Earth orbit.
https://tinyurl.com/44jjtxfj
Posted by: Archimedes at September 26, 2026 10:34 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: La'Shondra at September 26, 2026 10:35 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2026 10:29 AM (ZOv7s)
Look at California's "Bullet Train" debacle; not a single foot of track has yet been laid. However, that money didn't disappear. It went into the pockets of politicians, and their clients and patrons.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 26, 2026 10:35 AM (ksbjf)
That’s what “poverty” is in America today. Ordering $40 of McDonald’s and having it delivered.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 26, 2026 10:36 AM (SS6mv)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2026 10:31 AM (eRlcH)
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I was clued in long before when I realized that those trendy non-profits all the Karens dream of working for accomplish very little, and most of their funding goes to salaries and overhead. The money left over gets passed around through all sorts of entities until it becomes impossible to trace.
They solicit government agencies for grants, then offer grants to other non-profits, who then offer grants, and little if any reaches the supposed beneficiary.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2026 10:36 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio
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oh no. Prayers up from here...
Posted by: screaming in digital at September 26, 2026 10:37 AM (FpydE)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 26, 2026 10:32 AM (ubCxQ)
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God bless your family.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2026 10:37 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Eromero at September 26, 2026 10:38 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 26, 2026 10:25 AM (kJmSS)
*hugs*
I'm so sorry, Sharon. The change in weather can do a number on people. It does on me.
I have neither the money nor figure to go to Texas this year. I do hope my mind, body and wallet are in a good place in 2027 for me to at least make NoVa.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 26, 2026 10:38 AM (qRla/)
I am at the stage in life where I wish Elon would invent teleportation.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 26, 2026 10:38 AM (kJmSS)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 26, 2026 10:39 AM (SS6mv)
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Amniotic fluid embolism? If so, the survival rate has significantly improved in the last few years from like 40 to 85%. Prayers up.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 26, 2026 10:40 AM (XvL8K)
Who is already writing up the latest infraction in my Permanent Record.
Posted by: RI Red at September 26, 2026 10:27 AM
Will do. This is not helping your Permanent Record, though.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 26, 2026 10:40 AM (iEyrj)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 26, 2026 10:36 AM (SS6mv)
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There is real poverty in America. I can drive you to it if you want to see it up close. Those people get overlooked and the grant money never reaches them because reasons.
The number of homeless in the area is well known. The National Guard has the resources to throw up a tent city and house all of them, and then provide them with treatment, food and put them to work.
But instead the feds imported 500 Afghans and leased a hotel to house them and then asked all the local charities to feed them until they could be shipped to the next voting location.
There is a need for help, and the government ignores it. The burden falls entirely on local volunteers no one knows about.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2026 10:40 AM (ZOv7s)
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I'm no expert but I thought deacons were lay persons.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at September 26, 2026 10:41 AM (wpRMV)
I am at the stage in life where I wish Elon would invent teleportation.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 26, 2026 10:38 AM (kJmSS)
I wish Elon would ask for volunteers.
Posted by: Eromero at September 26, 2026 10:41 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 26, 2026 10:42 AM (aJQbY)
The charities were overwhelmed because the system is geared to create homeless. The purpose of a thing is what it does.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2026 10:42 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 26, 2026 10:42 AM (SS6mv)
Posted by: George Costanza at September 26, 2026 10:43 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 26, 2026 10:43 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: Eromero at September 26, 2026 10:41 AM (LHPAg)
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IT'S A TRAP!!!
Posted by: That Guy from The Prestige at September 26, 2026 10:43 AM (wpRMV)
Hoping I'll get to give you a hug in person in 2027.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 26, 2026 10:44 AM (kJmSS)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at September 26, 2026 10:41 AM (wpRMV)
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In the Catholic Church, deacons are considered clergy and can perform some of the sacraments. Other denominations may vary.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2026 10:44 AM (ZOv7s)
Or someone's asking for money to buy groceries, gas, whatever.
Noticing that they're posting on social media and have access to a smartphone or tablet, the Internet, both of which cost money... makes them mad.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 26, 2026 10:45 AM (2Cry5)
I'm no expert but I thought deacons were lay persons.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at September 26, 2026 10:41 AM (wpRMV)
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There are two kinds of deacons. Transitional deacon is a step to priesthood. A permanent deacon doesn't go beyond that stage.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2026 10:47 AM (eRlcH)
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So a junior priest then?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 26, 2026 10:47 AM (wpRMV)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 26, 2026 10:42 AM (SS6mv)
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The man industrial plant closes because the jobs have been moved to Mexico or China. Not only are the workers unemployed but now the businesses they patronized go bankrupt.
Some are able to leave but the real estate market has collapsed and people are underwater and there are no buyers. Foreclosures spread, drug use spikes and deaths result. Families disintegrate and the tax base is destroyed, so police services are cut. Crime soars.
And all because of economics.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2026 10:47 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez
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And a courts problem. 40 years ago, most of them would have been institutionalized.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 26, 2026 10:47 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at September 26, 2026 10:41 AM (wpRMV)
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In the Catholic Church, deacons are considered clergy and can perform some of the sacraments. Other denominations may vary.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2026 10:44 AM (ZOv7s)
We are Orthodox, but it is similar.
Posted by: frammish at September 26, 2026 10:48 AM (rcENI)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 26, 2026 10:47 AM (wpRMV)
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No, they assist the priests and perform some of their functions. They are in the New Testament, but the office fell out of use until Vatican II. One of the few good fruits.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2026 10:48 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Sharon
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Yeah, forget Mars. Get on it Elon!
I am usually still up for a trip, and I'm fine once I get out the door. The pre trip anxiety gets worse each time, though.
Thankful to have a more reliable vehicle for long road trips now - I bought a low-ish mileage 2017 Lesbaru a few months ago. I've taken it to Columbia and Charleston, but TX will be its first big trip with me. I was hoping to carpool with Ed but haven't heard back from him.
Posted by: screaming in digital at September 26, 2026 10:48 AM (FpydE)
Will miss getting to chat with you and your wife sitting at a table under the trees after having spent the morning shooting at targets outdoors with some of my favorite people.
Glocks rule.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 26, 2026 10:49 AM (kJmSS)
Posted by: frammish at September 26, 2026 10:48 AM (rcENI)
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I love my Orthodox brothers in Christ and how they have some of the old offices like archpriest and archdeacon.
If you're gonna be a deacon, it has to be archdeacon.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2026 10:49 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2026 10:50 AM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 26, 2026 10:47 AM (XvL8K)
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The courts have been terrible. The whole presumption that children should be in maternal custody has been disastrous and strongly disproved by extensive research. Shared custody is best and after making that the default, Kentucky has seen a massive drop in divorce.
And we need to end no-fault divorce.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2026 10:51 AM (ZOv7s)
I learned is now and ever shall be...
Was this one of the Vatican II changes, or just local.
Posted by: From about That Time at September 26, 2026 10:51 AM (sl73Y)
Posted by: screaming in digital at September 26, 2026 10:52 AM (FpydE)
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 26, 2026 10:53 AM (H8mUs)
Posted by: The Wake Forest Demon Deacons at September 26, 2026 10:53 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: screaming in digital at September 26, 2026 10:48 AM (FpydE)
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Did it have a vague fishy smell? How did you get all the decals off the hatchback?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2026 10:53 AM (ZOv7s)
And we need to end no-fault divorce.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2026 10:51 AM (ZOv7s)
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Divorce is among the quickest routes to poverty, exceeded, perhaps, only by showing dogs.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2026 10:53 AM (eRlcH)
I learned is now and ever shall be...
Was this one of the Vatican II changes, or just local.
Posted by: From about That Time at September 26, 2026 10:51 AM (sl73Y)
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I've seen three variations on it, not sure which is oldest.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2026 10:54 AM (ZOv7s)
Will miss getting to chat with you and your wife sitting at a table under the trees after having spent the morning shooting at targets outdoors with some of my favorite people.
Glocks rule.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 26, 2026 10:49 AM (kJmSS)
Maybe next year, please GOD make it so.
Posted by: Eromero at September 26, 2026 10:54 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2026 10:53 AM (eRlcH)
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Ahem.
Posted by: The Horse Poor at September 26, 2026 10:55 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 10:55 AM (peOdB)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2026 10:53 AM (eRlcH)
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Ahem.
Posted by: The Horse Poor at September 26, 2026 10:55 AM (ZOv7s)
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*cough*
Posted by: A Boat Owner at September 26, 2026 10:56 AM (wpRMV)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2026 10:53 AM (eRlcH)
H7, I’d add owning boats to that list. Poverty and divorce.
Posted by: RI Red at September 26, 2026 10:56 AM (iB8Z+)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Heh. It was and still is very clean.
I admit I adorned my Jeep Renegade with stickers but most would be Moron-approved - including a TX flag. I will get a TX flag for my Forester at the first opportunity.
I saw an Outback with a "NOT A LESBIAN" bumper sticker recently and I might have to find one of those.
Posted by: screaming in digital at September 26, 2026 10:56 AM (FpydE)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 26, 2026 10:56 AM (kJmSS)
Ahem.
Posted by: The Horse Poor at September 26, 2026 10:55 AM (ZOv7s)
___________
I think horses instinctively know when you're finances are a little ahead.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2026 10:57 AM (eRlcH)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 26, 2026 10:57 AM (NnhvP)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2026 10:53 AM (eRlcH)
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I know some of the Boomers get upset about other generations criticizing them, but I will say that they are absolutely undefeated when it comes to divorce-maxxing.
Dominant. I know two women who have had four marriages each. Superlative effort.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2026 10:57 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
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You could try powerline networking to the repeaters.
Posted by: whig at September 26, 2026 10:57 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: RI Red at September 26, 2026 10:56 AM (iB8Z+)
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A boat is a hole in the water into which one pours money.
A horse is a boat that can get sick.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2026 10:58 AM (ZOv7s)
Divorce is a hundred grand.
Posted by: It is known at September 26, 2026 10:59 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2026 10:59 AM (ZOv7s)
Amen, Amen.
Presbyterian (PCA)
Posted by: Eromero at September 26, 2026 11:00 AM (LHPAg)
Haha...close
Posted by: Paul's mom at September 26, 2026 11:00 AM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: one hour sober at September 26, 2026 11:01 AM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: RI Red at September 26, 2026 11:01 AM (iB8Z+)
Still trying to land part time work in the neighborhood. Noticing a bit of clutch slipping on the truck, so that adds a degree of urgency to the proceedings...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 26, 2026 08:24 AM (08OqX)
Joe, I have been happy so far with my Pixel 6a, that I bought pre-loaded with Graphene OS off an eBay seller. Pixel phones, despite being sold by the evil Google, are very amenable to be rooted and have the new OS installed. Buy a used Pixel, series 6 through 10, anyway, and have a tech geek install the OS, which is a free download.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 11:01 AM (peOdB)
Not even close to the same category of money spent. Horses, yes never ending expenses. You have to be insane to get into that world.
Boats are actually not that experience to own. It’s somewhat of a myth perpetrated by people who’ve never owned one.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 26, 2026 11:02 AM (SS6mv)
Divorce is a hundred grand.
Posted by: It is known at September 26, 2026 10:59 AM (2Ez/1)
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Remarriage after divorce is the triumph of optimism over experience.
That being said, my father remarried and stayed that way.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2026 11:02 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 26, 2026 11:02 AM (SS6mv)
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It depends on the boat.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2026 11:03 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Selective Hearing at September 26, 2026 11:04 AM (Fn+3X)
Hope you all have a lovely weekend.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 26, 2026 11:04 AM (qRla/)
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Those little rectangles of ocean where you park them are surprisingly expensive. And you either allow the boat to crumble into dust or you pay for monthly maintenance.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at September 26, 2026 11:04 AM (wpRMV)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 26, 2026 11:04 AM (iEyrj)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 26, 2026 11:02 AM (SS6mv)
Hmmm. Voice of experience here: I’ve owned boats in the following flavors: 13, 16, 22, 23, 25, 28, 34, and 46 feet.
They are expensive.
Posted by: RI Red at September 26, 2026 11:05 AM (iB8Z+)
But by number 3? And 4? Uhm maybe marriage just isn’t your thing man.
And then when people have kids with all of them it makes it even crazier. I grew up with kids who had all sorts of step siblings from different parents who would say they have 2 moms or two dads their real dad and dad #3 or some shit. It’s unfair to create that situation for children.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 26, 2026 11:05 AM (SS6mv)
Posted by: Heather at September 26, 2026 11:07 AM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 26, 2026 11:07 AM (kJmSS)
They are expensive.
Posted by: RI Red a September 26, 2026 11:05 AM (iB8Z+)
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My mother and stepfather spent the last few years of his life cripplingly boat-poor and finally had to sell it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2026 11:07 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 26, 2026 11:08 AM (SS6mv)
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you wanted.
Posted by: Mark Twain at September 26, 2026 11:08 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Archimedes at September 26, 2026 11:09 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 26, 2026 11:07 AM (kJmSS)
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I saw a headline that overall alcohol consumption continues to fall after the Covid madness, but with Gen X it is increasing.
I'm doing my part!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2026 11:09 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2026 11:10 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 26, 2026 11:05 AM
I'm my own grandpa.
Posted by: Ray Stevens at September 26, 2026 11:11 AM (2Ez/1)
Someday I’m going to add up all the dollars I’ve thrown into the ocean.
On second thought, no, I don’t think I will.
Posted by: RI Red at September 26, 2026 11:11 AM (iB8Z+)
324 I really hate being lumped in with Libersl boomer women. I have to say though that I admire their ability to find multiple men willing to jump in with both feet multiple times.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 26, 2026 11:07 AM (kJmSS)
Sadly, if you know most men it’s not hard.
The amusing part is that often they find someone just as bad as they are, or worse. (In their own way)
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 26, 2026 11:12 AM (H8mUs)
And yes, owning a boat on the ocean is an expensive experience.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2026 11:13 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: mindful webworker - not much else to say at September 26, 2026 11:13 AM (xRCm7)
Posted by: Frugal Freda at September 26, 2026 11:13 AM (Fn+3X)
Someday I’m going to add up all the dollars I’ve thrown into the ocean.
On second thought, no, I don’t think I will.
Posted by: RI Red at September 26, 2026 11:11 AM
Sounds like a great fishing platform.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 26, 2026 11:13 AM (11eZV)
https://tinyurl.com/3mpm52dy
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 26, 2026 11:13 AM (6ydKt)
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I track it very carefully because I'm anal-retentive about such things. I can say with some authority that boat ownership costs substantially more than I spend at Starbucks in a year.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at September 26, 2026 11:14 AM (wpRMV)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 26, 2026 11:14 AM (SS6mv)
Eat the Prime Minister?
Well...why not?
https://tinyurl.com/5y2bj2mb
A nice Burnham Wellington with roast potatoes, a bit of broccoli, and good cask ale-
would seem to fit the British palate just right.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 26, 2026 11:15 AM (YSUhf)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 26, 2026 11:13 AM (11eZV)
‘Tis.
That can be another expensive sport. Like golf.
Or guns.
Posted by: RI Red at September 26, 2026 11:15 AM (iB8Z+)
I'm really sad Inspector and I won't get to meet you. We need to do a mini-Mo-Mee with the three of us some time. We're practically neighbors, after all.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 26, 2026 11:16 AM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Skin Flint at September 26, 2026 11:18 AM (Fn+3X)
Someday I’m going to add up all the dollars I’ve thrown into the ocean.
On second thought, no, I don’t think I will.
My best friend owned a boat maintenance company in Newport for many years. He took care of all my boats.
We used to joke that I have partial custody of his 2 boys since I put them through school.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2026 11:18 AM (viF8m)
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Too bad. I got a guy who's great at bottom cleaning and he'll change your zincs too.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at September 26, 2026 11:21 AM (wpRMV)
We used to joke that I have partial custody of his 2 boys since I put them through school.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2026 11:18 AM (viF8m)
JS, I’ve spread the wealth throughout RI and MA.
I’m an equal opportunity boat bum.
Posted by: RI Red at September 26, 2026 11:23 AM (6YO2I)
Posted by: Mojo Nixon at September 26, 2026 11:23 AM (Ucgf4)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 26, 2026 11:05 AM (SS6mv)
This is why I suspect that most Millennials aren't Gen-X's children but are their younger siblings from subsequent remarriages of Boomer parents. Gen-Z are more likely to be the children of Gen-X.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 26, 2026 11:24 AM (lFFaq)
Posted by: RI Red at September 26, 2026 11:26 AM (6YO2I)
I have a nasty cold, which is the only thing I hate about fall: all the kids swapping varieties of pestilence at school and sharing with adults.
My cousin is delivering apples to me from 5 hours away - and planning to head home after lunch. It's a beautiful day for a long drive. Leaves are turning north of here, but the only golden glow here is sunlight on wilting tomato plants.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 26, 2026 11:26 AM (OYHOj)
Posted by: Tom Servo
But she was a gorgeous redhead!! How could I resist?
Posted by: Tonypete at September 26, 2026 11:27 AM (ktgTW)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 26, 2026 11:28 AM (kJmSS)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 11:28 AM (Ia/+0)
https://tinyurl.com/3mpm52dy
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 26, 2026 11:13 AM (6ydKt)
Ah, thanks! There is one open PCI slot on the MB. Motherboard is an MSI A88XM-E45, I think. At least those are the numbers I can see printed on it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 11:32 AM (peOdB)
Florida fishing charter reels in a huge military drone
https://tinyurl.com/38nu3prb
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living the Dream at September 26, 2026 11:43 AM (AJajd)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 26, 2026 10:32 AM (ubCxQ)
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God bless your family.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2026 10:37 AM (ZOv7s)
******
Prayers for the new family. Sounds like an amniotic fluid embolism.
Additional prayers for all intentions said and unsaid.
I am reading from the bottom of comments up.
May God bless you all.
Numbers 6:24-26
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 26, 2026 11:49 AM (hzuYO)
Posted by: Mick at September 26, 2026 12:48 PM (HFx9z)
It's basically his perspective /narration of the entire New Testament. It's fantastic.
Posted by: Derak at September 26, 2026 10:27 AM (3DHvS)
Thanks for the recommendation!
Posted by: Joemarine at September 26, 2026 12:58 PM (y171U)
Daily Tech News 26 September 2026
Top Story
- In the most depraved display of shameless self-serving bullshit since the Paris Olympics, OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs have gone to the UN to beg them to squish their competitors - somehow - after the US government told them to take a hike. (Associated Press)
Guys. Guys.
When your goal is regulator capture, you need to capture a regulator.
The UN is a debating society for schoolyard bullies, with the two teams being the Paste Eaters and the Window Lickers.
They don't have the power to regulate squat.
- You know who does, though? The US government. (CNBC)
Who's a cute little supply-chain risk? You are, Anthropic! Well, never mind the cute part, but the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that yes, the Pentagon has the right to say who it considers a supply-chain risk.
A spokesbot for Anthropic said, "wah".
Tech News
- I tried using the spare capacity on my second server (the one hosting my own blog and many others, though not this one) to host development of the new blogging software and the results were... Bad. The problem was not the new software itself but Rust debugging builds, which unleash a water cannon of useless redundant writes over your filesystem, and the filesystem on the server was not prepared for that, so while those builds were running the blogs froze, usually for a second or two but sometimes for minutes.
So this morning I grabbed two of the mini-PCs I bought last year before prices went crazy (actually after they went crazy, but that particular model resisted the price increases long enough for me to grab a couple or four for less than the price of the RAM they contained), upgrade their SSDs to 4TB each (same story), and drop Ubuntu 26.04 on them. And it... All worked.
Not sure exactly how they'll perform but they're eight thousand miles away from the servers so you shouldn't see any performance issues there. I just did a disk-to-disk copy of 18GB of files and it went zoom, so that's one datapoint.
- SpaceXAI is planning to add another 660,000 AI GPUs this year. (Tom's Hardware)
660,000 for me, none for you.
- Japan's used bookstores are the latest target of the AI shopping spree for content that hasn't been... Poisoned by AI. (Tom's Hardware)
It's kind of like the labs holding on to wood from before the 1950s to serve as a baseline for radiocarbon dating, because anything more recent is contaminated with excess C14 and gives skewed numbers.
- Automattic has a new board of directors. (Tech Crunch)
This seems to have been the goal. The board briefly sidelined Mad King Matt Mullenweg, voted themselves golden parachutes, and waited for him to kick them out of the plane... Which is barreling straight towards a mountain.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: Controlled flight into bankruptcy.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: m at September 26, 2026 04:30 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Tuna at September 26, 2026 04:32 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 26, 2026 04:38 AM (FmapG)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 26, 2026 04:38 AM (9tX4s)
Posted by: m at September 26, 2026 04:43 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 26, 2026 05:05 AM (RYmEM)
Posted by: clarence at September 26, 2026 05:06 AM (dyStT)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at September 26, 2026 05:06 AM (AMvSw)
The main value of this project right now is to point out how far ahead SpaceX it's compared to everybody else.
If all this AI stuff doesn't blow up the world economy for a few centuries this is going to be the greatest wealth generating event humanity has ever witnessed. After the the tulip bubble of course.
https://youtu.be/hmJ8i_IKAhY
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 26, 2026 05:12 AM (VyD10)
Posted by: clarence at September 26, 2026 05:14 AM (dyStT)
Posted by: m at September 26, 2026 05:20 AM (odBC9)
Suppose I should get moving
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 05:22 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Tuna at September 26, 2026 05:33 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 05:35 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 05:36 AM (Ia/+0)
He had roles on 77 Sunset Strip, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Which quickly led to a regular cast role in the 1959 show The Alaskans as a swindler/adventurer type during the Klondike Gold Rush.
The Alaskans only lasted one season, but since it was a Warner Brothers show, and since the character was similar to another pair of swindling card shark cowboys, they picked Moore to replace James Garner/Bret Maverick when the time came.
Moore played the British cousin Beauregarde Maverick for 15 episodes on WB’s, you guessed it; Maverick.
Moore actually gets 16 episodes to his credit as he’d previously had a guest role on Maverick playing a rich playboy who switches places with Bret because the wealthy woman he’s pursuing doesn’t like rich men - a sort of Prince and the Pauper-type plot, without look-alikes involved.
Moore also played a rather famous character, once, ten years early. In a 1964 episode of the UK variety/comedy show Mainly Millicent, Moore played James Bond.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 26, 2026 05:49 AM (6ydKt)
OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs have gone to the UN to beg them to squish their competitors - somehow - after the US government told them to take a hike
Try the EU. Regulation is compulsive for them.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2026 05:55 AM (eRlcH)
Some specs: aluminum build, 500 nit IPS 2560 x 1600 screen, 7000 mAh battery/20w charge, quad speakers, Android 16. I've been using it for surfing the web, watching media, listening to music, email, texting, some very light duty office stuff and it is handled all of this without quite well.
The Lenovo skin over Android hasn't been an issue so that's a plus. The knock is you only get two OS updates and about 3 years of security updates; by then the battery will probably be croaking and I'll be on to a new one so the short update support isn't an issue. It also has Pogo pins on it for a keyboard but I haven't been able to find one.
It is something of a winner especially when compared to the cheap Chicom knockoffs and what Walmart is selling for roughly the same price. It's not as nice as my Samsung Tab S10 Lite with a trackpad keyboard I keep in the glove box of the car which will now set you back about $600 with keyboard (if you can get them on sale it's possible to pick up these up for $300).
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 26, 2026 05:58 AM (VyD10)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 06:02 AM (Ia/+0)
Frontpage Mag- 2 Muslim men, 40yo and 29yo got arrested for kidnapping a 15yo girl across Canadian border
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 06:02 AM (Ia/+0)
Well, I never! I hope the authorities apologized to these two gentlemen for inconveniencing them.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2026 06:04 AM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 26, 2026 06:09 AM (amcLV)
Who could not be funny like Farley
But try as she might
She had to fight
Her love of the fruits of barley
fin
Posted by: clarence at September 26, 2026 06:14 AM (dyStT)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 06:18 AM (Ia/+0)
fin
Posted by: clarence at September 26, 2026 06:14 AM (dyStT)
*tumultuous applause*
*cries of "Bravo!"*
*standing ovation*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2026 06:19 AM (eRlcH)
Posted by: olddog in mo at September 26, 2026 06:20 AM (Hbeqj)
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 26, 2026 06:21 AM (VyD10)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 26, 2026 06:27 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 06:29 AM (Ia/+0)
Raining pretty good here . The Noreaster hit about 4:30. We're going to get anywhere from 2-4 inches through Monday. Definitely windy out. Far enough inland to avoid the really bad stuff though
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 26, 2026 06:30 AM (KOshA)
Need to mow the back acreage today. Not looking forward to it at all, but it's at the point of being out of control.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2026 06:31 AM (eRlcH)
I’m just waiting for this tent to blow over in the wind. What a moron.
Posted by: Uncle Slayton at September 26, 2026 06:32 AM (D8QjK)
Connie Chan ads: Scott Weiner made a chatbot that mocks my accent and took a million dollars from "Big Tech"
I am living on Animal Farm
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 26, 2026 06:35 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Uncle Slayton at September 26, 2026 06:35 AM (D8QjK)
I’m just waiting for this tent to blow over in the wind. What a moron.
Posted by: Uncle Slayton at September 26, 2026 06:32 AM (D8QjK)
Have weathercasters breathlessly named it something?...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2026 06:36 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Uncle Slayton at September 26, 2026 06:36 AM (D8QjK)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 26, 2026 06:37 AM (amcLV)
The story about Roger Moore was a good one! He was a star for a long time, yet apparently never let it go to his head and was vastly amused by stardom and Hollywood.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2026 06:37 AM (wzUl9)
Connie Chan ads: Scott Weiner made a chatbot that mocks my accent and took a million dollars from "Big Tech"
I am living on Animal Farm
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 26, 2026 06:35 AM (RIvkX)
In Kalifornia, the sane are inside the asylum, the crazies run the outside...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2026 06:37 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 26, 2026 06:37 AM (amcLV)
So Mr. Monkeypox...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2026 06:39 AM (l3cgK)
My first experience was a few days before Christmas in '89. Snow fell steadily that morning, the last work day before the break. A thirty-minute commute home that morning took me two hours. People were panicking and spinning their wheels. My car was front-wheel-drive, but even I knew the rules were simple: Slow the hell down, leave a *lot more* following distance, and don't change direction suddenly. Basic rules that Swamp drivers can't follow even in the dry.
When I got to Denver, I had no trouble even with my rear-wheel-drive cars -- though I never drove in hilly or mountainous country when snow was falling or expected.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2026 06:42 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 06:42 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 06:44 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
I can honor that.
I just looked up a Connie Chan video. Mocking her accent should be the last thing she's worried about; if I were her I'd be worried about being labeled a Chinese Communist plant. As for the Wiener, what a dick. He seems mentally ill since he thinks he's running against Donald Trump.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 26, 2026 06:44 AM (VyD10)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2026 06:45 AM (wzUl9)
Marxists
Party Soldiers
Weirdos
Chan is owned lock-stock-and-barrel by SEIU
Wiener's base constituency is p3dophiles
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 26, 2026 06:45 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: one hour sober at September 26, 2026 06:48 AM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2026 06:49 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 26, 2026 06:49 AM (VyD10)
It's a heavy FWD car and the tires are pretty new. The only problem should be the nut behind the wheel.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2026 06:51 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Just Wondering at September 26, 2026 06:52 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 26, 2026 06:55 AM (RIvkX)
This includes British Intelligence agents, because I believe there was credible reporting that they actively supported the Russia! Hoax.
The “meal team 6” brothers also contributed a lot to that phenominon.
Posted by: Fenderbender at September 26, 2026 07:01 AM (1FEc1)
Paul Thomas Anderson
Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix are at the top of their game as actors. It leaves Amazon Prime in 6 days.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 26, 2026 07:02 AM (VyD10)
Must've been the same winter storm that hit us in '89.
That was my only White Christmas, as it snowed Christmas Eve here.
Back then, every Christmas, my family drove about two hours to other towns where my grandparents lived.
Since I'd just gotten my driver's license a few months before, and it was about 20 degrees outside (and he hated the cold), Dad thought it would be a good idea to send me out with Mom's Buick to fill the car up before we left.
So I grabbed a buddy of mine who lived several houses down and we rode off through the neighborhood to go to the gas station. All good until I had to stop at the neighborhood entrance and make a left on the the main road.
I hit the brakes and that big, heavy, Buick laughed at me and slid, and slid, and slid until the car was in the middle of the intersection. Thankfully, nobody was on the road at 6 a.m on Christmas.
I drove about 25 mph the rest of the way to the gas station and braked like I was an 85 year old lady.
Lesson learned.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 26, 2026 07:03 AM (6ydKt)
"NPR investigation of odd posts on its podcasts found kids too young to use social media turned to its comments section to bypass restrictions and talk online - chosen because the broadcaster is so unpopular"
Posted by: fd at September 26, 2026 07:05 AM (MWfyi)
Xi Jinping deserves a helicopter ride more than any other Marxist on earth. A criminal leading a criminal country.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 26, 2026 07:06 AM (RIvkX)
As if right on cue, the WEST network is currently playing the episode where Moore plays 'John Vandergelt III', the wealthy playboy looking for love in all the wrong places, who switches places with Bret.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 26, 2026 07:06 AM (6ydKt)
( as described in https://sd11.senate.ca.gov/legislation )
2026:
SB 747 – allow people to sue ICE agents and other federal officials for violating their constitutional rights
SB 934 - holds providers of harmful so-called “conversion therapy” accountable for the damage they cause LGBTQ people by strengthening medical malpractice claims
SB 1004 - strengthens California’s prohibition against extreme face masking from law enforcement
2025:
SB 222 — helps contain rising insurance costs and make victims of climate disasters whole by holding fossil fuel companies liable for damages caused by climate change and their decades of obstruction and misleading statements
SB 276 — holds those fencing stolen goods on San Francisco streets accountable for a potential misdemeanor, protecting legitimate street vendors and public safety
...
2020:
SB 145- Ending Discrimination Against LGBTQ People Regarding Sex Offender Registration:Sponsored by Equality California and the Los Angeles County District Attorney, SB 145 puts a stop to LGBTQ young people from being placed on the sex offender registry, when similarly situated young straight people are not
...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2026 07:09 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 26, 2026 07:10 AM (3Ope8)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 26, 2026 07:10 AM (l26NL)
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Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 07:18 AM (Ia/+0)
Jews for Mamdani, Chickens for KFC
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 07:20 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 26, 2026 07:06 AM (RIvkX)
Give Xi a eagle statue was a nice move, though.
The eagle looks fierce in the statue.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 26, 2026 07:23 AM (6ydKt)
Weather that would be shrugged off as just another event anywhere else becomes OMG!!! in the Northeast.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2026 07:26 AM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Live and Learn at September 26, 2026 07:27 AM (Fn+3X)
"County officials estimate the increase will generate in approximately $1 billion annually as Los Angeles braces for billions of dollars in projected healthcare and public-health funding losses"
They say it's only temporary. Temporary until it goes to 12%.
Posted by: fd at September 26, 2026 07:30 AM (MWfyi)
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Posted by: fd at September 26, 2026 07:31 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 26, 2026 07:32 AM (VyD10)
Instead, the investigation will focus on “his welfare, his care, his well-being” and “whether the school offered him sufficient support amid accusations that he plagiarized.”
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 26, 2026 07:33 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2026 07:33 AM (eRlcH)
Cambridge is no longer planning to investigate Jason Arday’s academic record or the university’s decision to hire or cover for him.
As I said at the time, Cambridge breathed a sigh of relief when Arday offed himself. It meant they could just bury the whole thing.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2026 07:35 AM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
No, nevver xperriencedthatt!
Posted by: Perfessional Typpist at September 26, 2026 07:36 AM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 26, 2026 07:36 AM (JrHfD)
Everyday is like that for me. I am the "hunt and peck typist." Spouse got an award for typing in high school- 50 words a minute . He would have gone faster, but he got confused during the test . He was kind enough to do the church bulletins for me.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 26, 2026 07:39 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: fd at September 26, 2026 07:31 AM (MWfyi)
Our sales tax went from about 5% when I was a teenager to over 9% now. The only break they give you is no sales tax on groceries.
They love to add another 1% every decade, ostensibly to pay for roads and schools, which will never end because the county keeps handing out building permits for tens-of-thousands of houses in developments around town.
The last time they tried to add another 1%, via a required vote, the people said "NO, enough!".
That on top of property taxes (I'll pay around $4000 early next year), so it never really ends.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 26, 2026 07:40 AM (6ydKt)
"NPR investigation of odd posts on its podcasts found kids too young to use social media turned to its comments section to bypass restrictions and talk online - chosen because the broadcaster is so unpopular"
Posted by: fd at September 26, 2026 07:05 AM (MWfyi)
Good story!
Posted by: m at September 26, 2026 07:40 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 26, 2026 07:32 AM (VyD10)
Because there is nothing to buy, comrade.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2026 07:42 AM (l3cgK)
"County officials estimate the increase will generate in approximately $1 billion annually as Los Angeles braces for billions of dollars in projected healthcare and public-health funding losses"
They say it's only temporary. Temporary until it goes to 12%.
Posted by: fd at September 26, 2026 07:30 AM (MWfyi)
Won't be enough to fill those reservoirs, though..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 26, 2026 07:43 AM (08OqX)
Never took typing class in high school but I should have.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 26, 2026 07:44 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 26, 2026 07:44 AM (VyBeY)
So for many years have tried to undo it and make it a simple majority. They tried again locally a few years ago...don't remember the outcome...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2026 07:45 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 26, 2026 07:47 AM (VyBeY)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 26, 2026 07:50 AM (2Cry5)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 26, 2026 07:47 AM (VyBeY)
And Americans at the time could smile at the cause of the riots, and say: "We did that!", because going into debt loaning us money for the revolution was a big part of the king's debt portfolio.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 26, 2026 07:53 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 07:56 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 26, 2026 07:33 AM (/+uur)
It's a big club, and you ain't in it.
- George Carlin
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 26, 2026 08:04 AM (6ydKt)
https://tinyurl.com/4zvfw6nx
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Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 26, 2026 08:14 AM (R5gr
lol
The Hangover Part 4
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 26, 2026 08:30 AM (6ydKt)
Reading about your USB dongle troubles.
If plugging it in the back of the PC doesn't help, it may as there might be a USB 3 port back there depending on how old the motherboard is, you can always try installing a network/Wifi card on a PCIe slot on the motherboard.
Those will come with a set of plastic antennas that should give you better reception, too.
Just make sure you buy a card that will fit the slots on your motherboard and it, again, depends on how old the motherboard.
Wifi cards are rather cheap, so buy an something like a Intel 'Killer' Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax) card and you should get some excellent speeds pretty cheaply, probably for around C$65 or less on Amazon or wherever you get your PC parts.
If you don't want to spend that much there are plenty of cheaper cards out there that will work well.
But, make sure your older motherboard has the right slot open and can handle a newer card.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 26, 2026 08:39 AM (6ydKt)
OpenAI’s Systems Meddled With U.S. Government Sites After Going Rogue
The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education and Commerce Departments and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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In Through The Out ONT
It's Friday night! Are yu ready for some hot ONT action? Went to the psyche ward today, and I have good news
Fido Friday: The dogs speak!
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) September 25, 2026
Tonight's game
Still funny
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Voice to text
We've all been there
I'm helping
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) September 24, 2026
What did he think we were going to say?
That laugh!
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) September 26, 2026
Trial
Brothers
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How shotguns work
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: mindful webworker - e pleg allegens at September 25, 2026 09:59 PM (11R8D)
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Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 25, 2026 10:02 PM (FmapG)
It was moving
Nick Sortor@nicksortor
Legacy media REFUSED to show you a SINGLE SECOND of President Trump's speech and historic state dinner with Xi Jinping tonight at the White House So here's the ENTIRE thing, from start to finish, with translations for Xi's speech
DO NOT LET LEGACY MEDIA KEEP YOU IN THE DARK
https://t.co/jW6KZAFAnL
For twitter impaired:
https://tinyurl.com/5n8hy552
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 25, 2026 10:02 PM (vC80E)
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Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 25, 2026 10:07 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 25, 2026 10:07 PM (RIvkX)
Well, I see NASA has just completed tests of the receiver network that will receive Nancy Grace's voluminous data output of 1.4 TB per day. This will be the fastest bit rate of any deep spacecraft to date, around 500 mbit/s.
IOW, Nancy Grace is going to be a motor mouth shore 'nuff.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 25, 2026 10:07 PM (w6EFb)
Need to make some adjustments to the musical selections in the draft content for Club ONT tomorrow...
Posted by: TRex - DJ dino at September 25, 2026 10:07 PM (cCn4/)
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Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 25, 2026 10:08 PM (l3cgK)
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Posted by: Romeo13
Now there's a sequel...
https://tinyurl.com/cTHIEL-batboy2NOSFERATU
https://tinyurl.com/cTHIEL-usefulIdiotYOUare
When Greater Evil attacks -- and prevails.
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at September 25, 2026 10:09 PM (wT4QA)
According to the nationwide recall alert, Star Meat Delivery Inc., located in Lucama, N.C., is recalling the meat, which officials said is labeled with a false USDA mark of inspection.
***
Would it be surprising to learn one of the co-owners was sentenced to prision for removing FDA tags on diseased beef in 2016? Note, the Hill commenters blame TooRump for the company's crimes.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 25, 2026 10:09 PM (nEUC6)
Every year there's a big Furry convention in the hotel that is right across the street from the hockey arena where the team my wife works for plays.
This past winter, we were on our way to the arena for a game and stopped at a light - when we saw.... a large ... person... in a dog... costume... on his hands and knees... "walking"... across the cross walk... while being leashed to a ... shall we say.. a lady who was a leather expert.
In broad daylight. On a public, downtown street.
These people vote...
Posted by: Defenestratus at September 25, 2026 10:09 PM (skLNB)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 25, 2026 10:09 PM (wpRMV)
I always had the impression Roger Moore meant it when he was a UNICEF ambassador. Too bad that organization turns out to be such a mess.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 25, 2026 10:09 PM (mmrXZ)
What am I missing on the 'we've all been there ' one? Maybe I haven't been there. But I've been to two Buc-ee's!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 25, 2026 10:10 PM (578mW)
Posted by: wth at September 25, 2026 10:10 PM (oq9dX)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 25, 2026 10:11 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 25, 2026 10:11 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: 88C+u at September 25, 2026 10:12 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 25, 2026 10:12 PM (l3cgK)
Fight me.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 25, 2026 10:12 PM (SS6mv)
They can be replaced by any rap "song."
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 25, 2026 10:12 PM (1Ff7Z)
Did that hit #1? If so, it deserves to be on the list but then which of those other worthies would you remove to make room?
Posted by: Oddbob at September 25, 2026 10:13 PM (vTZFs)
Anti Military Anit American F'ers
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 25, 2026 10:13 PM (mP0Kj)
https://x.com/SoveyX/status/2103601794270015996?s=20
Posted by: Weirddave at September 25, 2026 10:14 PM (UoZWA)
Okay, I'll narrow it down, "Everything I Do {I Do It For You}". "You" in that song is the paycheck.
Posted by: 88C+u at September 25, 2026 10:14 PM (88C+u)
Love the statue and toddler
The conspiracy theory... is not implausible!
Job progress: Nothing significant to report. No movement, talked to some recruiters and convinced them to submit me for a couple jobs I'd be perfect for. I did get my resume improved some, and my linkedin profile also.
Here's hoping for some more good postings over the weekend and some positive movement Monday on.. well, anything.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 25, 2026 10:14 PM (aJQbY)
https://youtu.be/xqTBlft8gQA
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 25, 2026 10:14 PM (l3cgK)
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Posted by: huerfano at September 25, 2026 10:16 PM (2Xqig)
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The follow-up Midnight Anal Sex didn't even make the Top 40.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 25, 2026 10:16 PM (wpRMV)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 25, 2026 10:16 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 25, 2026 10:17 PM (l3cgK)
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Posted by: TRex - DJ dino at September 25, 2026 10:07 PM (cCn4/)
You're dumping mine??!!
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Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 25, 2026 10:19 PM (wpRMV)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 25, 2026 10:01 PM (wpRMV)
#14 - no?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 25, 2026 10:20 PM (578mW)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at September 25, 2026 10:20 PM (w3u3d)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 25, 2026 10:20 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: 88C+u getting caught in the rain at September 25, 2026 10:20 PM (88C+u)
Three of Milli Vanilli's songs charted #1. This was the band that was revealed to be completely fake within a year of publication. * all the curse words here *
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 25, 2026 10:20 PM (nEUC6)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 25, 2026 10:01 PM (wpRMV)
#14 - no?
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Check my Mea Culpa at #11
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 25, 2026 10:21 PM (wpRMV)
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 25, 2026 10:21 PM (0Htd1)
https://x.com/SoveyX/status/2103601794270015996?s=20
Posted by: Weirddave at September 25, 2026 10:14 PM (UoZWA)"
Heh. I've been to a party like that. Needless to say, we didn't get invited back to that country club.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at September 25, 2026 10:21 PM (iIyc0)
Posted by: Blofelds Retarded Cousin at September 25, 2026 10:21 PM (hD90I)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 25, 2026 10:22 PM (wpRMV)
Posted by: Tonypete at September 25, 2026 10:23 PM (GP7ZF)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 25, 2026 10:24 PM (l3cgK)
*************
I've had a lovely day and wish I had not read this.
Because I will remember it always as that's how my brain works. I remember details others miss, weird stuff, trivia stuff, important stuff, stuff I'd rather not remember, thanks. This falls into the latter category.
For example: The ortho doc yesterday had a very firm handshake which I noted to my husband.
I also have no knowledge, nor do I want any, of glory holes.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 25, 2026 10:24 PM (hzuYO)
Because AI is doing all the entry level grunt work, companies are worried their entry level employees aren’t getting experience and will be ill prepared as they progress through their careers.
So the solution is to use less AI and have these people do the work right? No you silly goose.that’s crazy talk obviously you don’t hold an MBA from a prestigious university.
No, the solution is creating simulated fake work for them to do, while AI still does the actual work. That’s the type of out of the box thinking a Harvard MBA teaches.
This is now a thing at places like JP Morgan and Ernst & Young.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 25, 2026 10:25 PM (SS6mv)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 25, 2026 10:22 PM (wpRMV)
I hear they're mostly a gay man thing...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 25, 2026 10:25 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 25, 2026 10:22 PM (wpRMV)
I hear they're mostly a gay man thing...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 25, 2026 10:25 PM (l3cgK)
I was half-expecting a man had been on the other side of the wall...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 25, 2026 10:26 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 25, 2026 10:27 PM (Y0/ZQ)
"I'm helping"
I quit going to a local pizza place years ago because there was an employee doing various nasty cleaning things and then without so much as wiping off her gloves started stocking the salad bar. A complaint to the manager brought no good response, and we never went back. We'd spent a lot of money there in the past. Too bad for them.
Their pizza was average, the salad bar was okay (except in retrospect), but mostly the kids liked the video/pinball games. Ah, well.
Posted by: mindful webworker - sanitary knackpins at September 25, 2026 10:27 PM (11R8D)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 25, 2026 10:26 PM (l3cgK)
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Could've been his dad. Wouldn't that be Oedipal.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 25, 2026 10:27 PM (wpRMV)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 25, 2026 10:01 PM (wpRMV)
#14 - no?
---------
Check my Mea Culpa at #11
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 25, 2026 10:21 PM (wpRMV)
Sorry! This is an imperfect form of communication under the best of circumstances.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 25, 2026 10:27 PM (578mW)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 25, 2026 10:27 PM (SS6mv)
Posted by: Franz Liebkind at September 25, 2026 10:27 PM (Fn+3X)
I especially love the job postings where "we are ai-first, you *will* use AI for even the simplest thing. Also you will show how AI has *improved your productivity* within 30 days. Despite this, you cannot use AI for your application or for your interviews."
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 25, 2026 10:28 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: GWB at September 25, 2026 10:29 PM (kU0PQ)
Solve the lament configuration
To secure your flesh's transfiguration
The pain and joy of conflagration
And eternal fishhook flagellation
Posted by: It's a Gilbert and Sullivan and Barker production at September 25, 2026 10:30 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 25, 2026 10:30 PM (wpRMV)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 25, 2026 10:30 PM (u82oZ)
My husband would sing it to me simply to annoy me now and then that long hot summer with 10lb son. Who caused weird cravings like Oreos at 2am and everything on a hot dog (I don't like hot dogs).
This was bad enough, plus the frat boys mooing at me when I crossed the street nearly sent me over the edge. They were in a convertible and seriously I wish I had launched myself into the car and said, "Who's laughing now?"
Which is also an annoying song.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 25, 2026 10:30 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 25, 2026 10:30 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: 88C+u at September 25, 2026 10:31 PM (88C+u)
Let's see - A bored, emotionally checked-out husband decides the solution to his dead marriage is to answer a personal ad from some woman who likes piña coladas and getting caught in the rain. He writes back under a fake name, they set up a shady meeting at a bar, both clearly ready to cheat. When he shows up, the mystery woman turns out to be his own wife, who was also so sick of him that she placed the exact same ad. They stare at each other in mutual embarrassment, realize they’re both equally scum of the earth and dishonest, and somehow decide this is romantic instead of deeply pathetic.
The end.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 25, 2026 10:31 PM (GP7ZF)
Posted by: Orson at September 25, 2026 10:31 PM (dIske)
Fight me.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 25, 2026 10:12 PM (SS6mv)
One of my maternity shirts simply says:
ICE
ICE
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V
Posted by: pookysgirl really likes that one at September 25, 2026 10:31 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: huerfano at September 25, 2026 10:31 PM (2Xqig)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 25, 2026 10:07 PM (w6EFb)
Hope it isn't a Mesh system. FCC is changing the rules again.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 25, 2026 10:31 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 25, 2026 10:27 PM (SS6mv)
Based on your vast experience in the field?
Posted by: No judgment... at September 25, 2026 10:31 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: 496 at September 25, 2026 10:31 PM (LRjsT)
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We'll, that's a THEORY
Posted by: Larry 'Wide Stance' Craig at September 25, 2026 10:32 PM (wpRMV)
It's garbage. Probably should have been a few slots higher. There's a lot of trash on that list.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 25, 2026 10:32 PM (tg5bM)
Posted by: Dependin' On You Son at September 25, 2026 10:32 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: That lotion number will be a big hit at September 25, 2026 10:32 PM (hD90I)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 25, 2026 10:33 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Orson at September 25, 2026 10:31 PM (dIske)
I enjoyed that movie up until the point that the Final Girl covered for the savages. I was like WTF?
Posted by: Spoiler alert at September 25, 2026 10:33 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 25, 2026 10:30 PM (hzuYO)
____________________
Were it me, I would have crooned out "Don't Worry, Be Happy." And, when you got pissed at me for that, a quick transition into, "Ice, Ice Baby."
Posted by: Orson at September 25, 2026 10:33 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Tonypete at September 25, 2026 10:34 PM (GP7ZF)
Posted by: steevy at September 25, 2026 10:34 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: Richard Harris at September 25, 2026 10:34 PM (Fn+3X)
Reminds me a little of J Eric Holmes who designed basic D&D. Real name John. Why didn't TSR in the mid 1970s want "John Holmes" on the title...?
Posted by: 88C+u at September 25, 2026 10:35 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: That lotion number will be a big hit at September 25, 2026 10:32 PM (hD90I)
Understandable understandable
That the Doctor became a cannibal
Comprehensible, comprehensible
Not a bit reprehensible
It's so defensible!
Posted by: Hannibal! in Chicago at September 25, 2026 10:36 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 25, 2026 10:36 PM (578mW)
Posted by: From about That Time at September 25, 2026 10:37 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Spoiler alert at September 25, 2026 10:33 PM (TbWk/)
_______________________
I was a bit dismayed that the total a**hole lived (albeit staying with the tribe)...but he deserved something much much worse. I remember saying to myself...."I think this might be the first movie I've seen where I don't want any of the characters to survive", and was legitimately disappointed when a couple did.
Posted by: Orson at September 25, 2026 10:37 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Vampiras Comeback Caper at September 25, 2026 10:37 PM (hD90I)
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“As NASA recommits to flight test and works alongside industry to push the boundaries of airframe and propulsion design, it will not be long before NASA once again is flying as high and as fast as we had in decades past, and then even more.”
_ZH
https://tinyurl.com/4e9pzbxm
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 25, 2026 10:37 PM (vC80E)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 25, 2026 10:37 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: GWB at September 25, 2026 10:29 PM (kU0PQ)
So is The Streak.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 25, 2026 10:38 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Piper at September 25, 2026 10:39 PM (ZdaMQ)
Gonna grab some afternoon delight
My motto's always been "when it's right, it's right"
Why wait until the middle of a cold, dark night?
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Pre-AIDS
Post-abortion
Lots of coke
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 25, 2026 10:39 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 25, 2026 10:16 PM (RIvkX)
Ten years before he was Bond, he was reformed jewel thief Simon Templar in The Saint TV series.
I imagine him as a young Bond when watching that series.
Posted by: Joemarine at September 25, 2026 10:39 PM (y171U)
I am unsure how he thinks his Royal Mounties could stop us, but good for you, twit.
He seems almost worse than Castro's son. He and Macron seem chummy. Gak, as I accidently saw them hugging and kissing. This is some sort of glory hole Friday night.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 25, 2026 10:39 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 25, 2026 10:39 PM (wpRMV)
Posted by: 88C+u at September 25, 2026 10:40 PM (88C+u)
It has those dance sequences.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 25, 2026 10:37 PM (rbvCR)
With its chart topping number "Oh Percy, Have Mercy"
Posted by: Wet the sponge at September 25, 2026 10:40 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 25, 2026 10:40 PM (0Htd1)
Michael Jackson's "Ben" gets my vote for the worst, and most inexplicable #1 song..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 25, 2026 10:41 PM (08OqX)
Stop.
Collaborate and listen.
Posted by: Piper at September 25, 2026 10:41 PM (ZdaMQ)
To keep everything in alignment, a small metal guide slides onto the magazine and holds the clip while the cartridges are pushed into the magazine box. Once the cartridges are in, the guide is removed from the magazine.
The unfortunate Marine wasn't listening when they told him how to use a stripper clip guide, and managed to shove the entire clip into the magazine. I suspect there is another clip already in the magazine, and now it is hopelessly jammed.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 25, 2026 10:41 PM (t/Q8n)
Posted by: Piper at September 25, 2026 10:42 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at September 25, 2026 10:42 PM (R86kT)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 25, 2026 10:42 PM (APZWP)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 25, 2026 10:42 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 25, 2026 10:42 PM (rbvCR)
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That's why Asians bow to each other.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 25, 2026 10:42 PM (f0sNM)
Posted by: The Max Cady Bop at September 25, 2026 10:43 PM (TbWk/)
Also known as Jesus Christ Superstar
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at September 25, 2026 10:43 PM (R86kT)
Posted by: Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods at September 25, 2026 10:44 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 25, 2026 10:42 PM (f0sNM)
It gets the mouth in the right spot, too.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 25, 2026 10:44 PM (1Ff7Z)
When I took my oldest daughter, the dance was a big flop ... because middle school girls with their fathers.
One of the moms running the dance decides to get transgressive and puts on "I'm Too Sexy".
No one at all goes out to dance, so after a few beats, I head out to the dance floor and start lip-synching and doing a fair imitation of the guys dancing in the MTV video.
After my first pass across the gym, I rip off my sports coat and make another pass. At this point all of the dads are howling and the girls that have seen the video are giggling and trying to explain it to their friends.
I get back to my daughter and reach out my hand. She pauses for a moment, and then concedes that sometimes you just have to go with the "dad joke" rather than fight it.
She comes out on the dance floor and starts copying me, but much more gracefully. Shortly thereafter the dance floor gets flooded with fathers and daughters, and the rest of the dance goes very well.
When alcohol is not a permissible social lubricant, some times you just need a big 'ol Idiot.
Needless to say, I still like that song.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 25, 2026 10:44 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 25, 2026 10:44 PM (APZWP)
Ace, Ace, baby
Ace, Ace, baby
Alright stop, collaborate and listen
Ace is back with another morning mission
Something grabs a hold of the feed so tightly
Takes down a narrative daily and nightly
“Will they ever stop?”
Yo, I don’t know
Posted by: Piper at September 25, 2026 10:44 PM (ZdaMQ)
10cc "Not In Love" got #1 in the UK, although yeah #2 here.
Ace featured that one somewhen here.
Posted by: 88C+u at September 25, 2026 10:44 PM (88C+u)
Same thing a couple years later with Native New Yorker (Odyssey) at Christmas as I was driving down I-95 from NY to Fla....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 25, 2026 10:44 PM (578mW)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at September 25, 2026 10:43 PM (R86kT)
Yeah, but PotC is grittier, right? Less likely to have upbeat songs in it.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 25, 2026 10:45 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Paper Lace at September 25, 2026 10:45 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at September 25, 2026 10:45 PM (R86kT)
Needless to say, I still like that song.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 25, 2026 10
This is adorable.
Posted by: Piper at September 25, 2026 10:46 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: mrp at September 25, 2026 10:47 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 25, 2026 10:42 PM (1Ff7Z)
We already have “Jesus Christ Superstar”.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 25, 2026 10:47 PM (APZWP)
Some of those "hits that shouldn't have happened" were pretty darn good. "Afternoon Delight" was charming. "The Chipmunk Song" (in small doses, say, once a year) and "The Streak" (ditto) were funny, as was "My Ding-a-Ling." And "Macarena" has an irresistible melody to it.
None of them is "City of New Orleans," "Classical Gas," "Fancy," or "Ode to Billie Joe," but not many songs can be.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 25, 2026 10:47 PM (wzUl9)
Jared Issacman is trying to get NASA back into its Apollo glory days.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 25, 2026 10:47 PM (w6EFb)
37 Tom Morello can play guitar, but he is living proof that receiving a masters degree in political science from Harvard does not make somebody's political opinions worth hearing.
Posted by: tankdemon at September 25, 2026 06:13 PM (ayDmH)
Yup...every time I hear him running his suck on Sirius XM he is talking about the "revolution" or some such crap. He doesn't realize that playing the geetar in the rice fields of Kampuchea won't save him.
Posted by: Zombie Pol Pot, Drummer at September 25, 2026 06:18 PM (6VpiA)
Since I actually enjoy their sound, sometimes when I'm feeling down, I like to rewatch the video for "Testify":
https://youtu.be/Q3dvbM6Pias
Releasing the video just months before the 2000 election, RATM teamed up with Michael Moore (who directed) and Ralph Nader (who cameo'd) to convince Democrats that algore was no real alternative to W. As bad as W's GOPe admin was, imagining algore's SCOTUS picks and his cabinet's ratcheting of regulatory tyranny, it brings a smile to my face to think that Morello et al. were such dopey Nader stans that they inadvertently saved us from that.
Posted by: SciVo at September 25, 2026 10:48 PM (ke3zm)
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at September 25, 2026 10:48 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: 496 at September 25, 2026 10:48 PM (VXC2z)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 25, 2026 10:39 PM (hzuYO)
I will edit down Larry Correia's thoughts
. . . To our cool northern brethren, in the exceedingly unlikely event this war happens, rather than dying horribly 30 to 1 to an overwhelming military force because your elite liberal betters expect you to cosplay the Taliban because they spent all your tax dollars on retarded liberal shit instead of tanks or artillery, the cool provinces could just tell Ottawa to fuck off. You can become independent countries and get rich selling oil and minerals!
[. . . ]How profoundly fucking sad is the Canadian government that they think being the Taliban is ASPIRATIONAL? The Taliban died in droves. They lost every battle with insanely bad K/Ds. They didn't "win" the war so much as America just kinda blundered around for twenty years failing to create a flourishing Jeffersonian democracy from a bunch of goat molesting cavemen for some baffling reason, until we said fuck it, this is lame, we're out of here. And Joe Biden still managed to screw even that up!
Posted by: Kindltot at September 25, 2026 10:48 PM (rbvCR)
Ace featured that one somewhen here.
Posted by: 88C+u at September 25, 2026
***
I'm not a grup -- so don't forget it!
It's just a silly phase I'm going through!
Posted by: Miri at September 25, 2026 10:48 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Terry Jacks at September 25, 2026 10:49 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: That lotion number will be a big hit at September 25, 2026 10:32 PM (hD90I)
Understandable understandable
That the Doctor became a cannibal
Comprehensible, comprehensible
Not a bit reprehensible
It's so defensible!
Posted by: Hannibal! in Chicago
You don’t understand!
I don’t think I’m a man!
Don’t make a commotion,
Just lather on the lotion!
It’s time to make you mute,
Then I’ll wear you like a suit!
(Big finish): I’ll wear … you … like…a…suit!
Posted by: Shuffalo to Buffalo at September 25, 2026 10:49 PM (hD90I)
Posted by: 496 at September 25, 2026 10:48 PM (VXC2z)
Oh yes, the dance number "I'm Topsy Turvey Over You"
and the ballad, "Slowly My Breath Goes Away"
Posted by: Kindltot at September 25, 2026 10:50 PM (rbvCR)
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The Paolo, he never change the recipe. The consistency, she is the, how do you say, foundation of the reputation with the ladies.
Posted by: The Paolo at September 25, 2026 10:50 PM (wpRMV)
I don't know why, which is my standard answer to anything.
I am so happy that I have nothing to do tomorrow! What a great day is ahead! If I have a week or two of social stuff I start getting a bit nuts. I am right there currently on the map.
We "had" to meet DIL's parents for dinner Wed night after doing a bunch of stuff for two weeks of socializing. They were visiting from FL and I like them. Her mother is fun when she's not wacko from travel (I will blame this instead of her mother's cat who bit her wrist and she showed me).
I heard, in great detail, about her father being cremated (semi-normal discussion), and her uncle who's an undertaker of a funeral home and gory details I'd rather not know. I kept thinking she'd stop so I could change the subject but this went on for awhile and I tried not to glug my wine. My husband says she's the only person he's met who talks more than I do...but at least I'm entertaining and don't have a cat bite. The food also sucked at this restaurant.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 25, 2026 10:51 PM (hzuYO)
I imagine him as a young Bond when watching that series.
Posted by: Joemarine at September 25, 2026
***
Yes; he was the perfect Saint. I saw some of those in syndication during the Sniffle Scare, and there were moments when he displayed the hard edge of Bond to good effect.
Posted by: Miri at September 25, 2026 10:51 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Piper at September 25, 2026 10:52 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Roger Daltrey at September 25, 2026 10:53 PM (wpRMV)
Would Gore really have been worse?
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 25, 2026 10:53 PM (SS6mv)
Posted by: The ONT Groove Collective at September 25, 2026 10:53 PM (hD90I)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 25, 2026 10:47 PM (w6EFb)
If they can get a ram jet up to the edge of the atmosphere, they can save on oxidizer for at least that part of the trip. For that they have to be doing serious speed
Posted by: Kindltot at September 25, 2026 10:54 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 25, 2026 10:54 PM (XeU6L)
For example: The Knack "My Sharona" is about the lead singer of the band being obsessed and pining over an underage minor.
I think you'd be surprised (or not) how many songs were truly and completely misinterpreted. "Every Breath You Take" is about a stalker....and how many weddings was that played at?
Posted by: Orson at September 25, 2026 10:54 PM (dIske)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 25, 2026 10:54 PM (APZWP)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 25, 2026 10:55 PM (f0sNM)
I am unsure how he thinks his Royal Mounties could stop us, but good for you, twit.
He seems almost worse than Castro's son. He and Macron seem chummy. Gak, as I accidently saw them hugging and kissing. This is some sort of glory hole Friday night.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 25, 2026 10:39 PM (hzuYO)
Don't sell the Canucks short. They have secret moose brigades and the new 8th generation Slew Foot Missile. Those damn things fly right past you then circle back and trip you from behind. Their defense is Nothing. As in, there's nothing there. It's bigger than America with 1/10th the population. After you blow up everything of value, what are you doing on day three?
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at September 25, 2026 10:55 PM (r7+Q7)
🎤Your mission, should you choose to accept it,
The vault is locked, the clock is set to fall.
One wrong step and the whole world’s wrecked,
So mask your face and scale the wall.
The tape will burn, the plan won’t wait,
The team is in, the wires are live.
If you fail, there is no second date (big breath in)
This message will self-destruct in fiveeeeee!
Posted by: Piper at September 25, 2026 10:55 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 25, 2026 10:56 PM (5C90x)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 25, 2026 10:56 PM (0aYVJ)
Kitten woke me up
Pina colado song- Good description, TonyPete. They play that song repeatedly at the supermarket . I hate it. In fact, I can't stand their entire soundtrack. I wish they had classical music .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 25, 2026 10:56 PM (JrHfD)
See, this is what I do when I can't workshop right.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 25, 2026 10:56 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 25, 2026 10:57 PM (dPOOv)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 25, 2026 10:57 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 25, 2026 10:57 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at September 25, 2026 10:48 PM (vSvIl)
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Oh, good one, but tough to pull off. One person singing, and three or four only able to mumble and hum in the background.
Posted by: Orson at September 25, 2026 10:57 PM (dIske)
Which shall it be?
Your boy or your bay-bee?
How hard will you cry
When they both die?
Fun fact: for a long time there was a sign for "Sophie's Choice Designs" across from the Boise Costco. I can only assume the owner never read the book or saw the movie. As a business name, it ranked right up there with "Texas Chainsaw Massacre Day Care."
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 25, 2026 10:57 PM (t/Q8n)
Posted by: Piper at September 25, 2026 10:58 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Gonna Gitcha.. at September 25, 2026 10:58 PM (Fn+3X)
SpaceX completed the wet-dress rehearsal for Starship, and a Monday launch is on track. This is going to be the first actual orbital flight of Starship. It will be early morning, with the launch window opening at 8:15 AM EDT.
This will also deploy some operational Starlinks, and the be the first real payload it carries. The plan is for 6 orbits, and then come back down in the Pacific close to Chile.
No booster or ship catches are planned, as some were hoping. That "may" happen next flight.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 25, 2026 10:58 PM (w6EFb)
The dance numbers were particularly acrobatic.
Soylent Green - The Musical
🎶The solution we had was expedient
You won't guess the secret ingredient🎶
Posted by: mindful webworker - the musical at September 25, 2026 10:58 PM (11R8D)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 25, 2026 10:57 PM (FZ29D)
Can't have been worse than "Laureline! and Some Twink Who Got Lost In Her Girlboss Movie"
Posted by: 88C+u at September 25, 2026 10:59 PM (88C+u)
More than 30 Canadian Armed Forces soldiers suffered severe frostbite during Exercise Global Resolve in Alaska, highlighting ongoing concerns over inadequate government-issued cold-weather equipment.
Posted by: Orson at September 25, 2026 11:00 PM (dIske)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 25, 2026 10:07 PM (RIvkX)
I figured 7,8 and 15 were all OK songs. But even the best music gets cloying when played to death on the radio.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 25, 2026 11:01 PM (dPOOv)
🎶The solution we had was expedient
You won't guess the secret ingredient🎶
Posted by: mindful webworker - the musical at September 25, 2026 10:58 PM (11R8D)
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*** Grunka Lunkas from Futurama have entered the chat ***
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 25, 2026 11:01 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 25, 2026 11:02 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 25, 2026 11:02 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 25, 2026 11:03 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 25, 2026 10:09 PM (nEUC6)
Any bets that one of the principals is a muslim?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 25, 2026 11:03 PM (dPOOv)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 25, 2026 11:03 PM (APZWP)
Posted by: The Unmitigated Cad at September 25, 2026 11:03 PM (Fn+3X)
Time for new days of the week. Starting with Sunday, we have
Sonday
Matthewday
Markday
Lukeday
Johnday
Spiritsday
Fatherday
For Muslims, remember to drink heavily on Spiritsday, your holey day. Skip beer, and start with moonshine.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 25, 2026 11:03 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Orson at September 25, 2026 11:04 PM (dIske)
Michael Jackson's "Ben" gets my vote for the worst, and most inexplicable #1 song..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 25, 2026 10:41 PM (08OqX)
Batdance has to be on the list somewhere as a terrible #1 song...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 25, 2026 11:04 PM (l3cgK)
I think mine might be better.
Posted by: 88C+u at September 25, 2026 11:04 PM (88C+u)
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That's why Asians bow to each other.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 25, 2026 10:42 PM (f0sNM)
Could also be they know about the Indians...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 25, 2026 11:04 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 25, 2026 11:04 PM (FZ29D)
One of my brothers nearly went loco when his roommate played "I Will Always Love You" sung by Whitney Houston over and over again. Yes I know Dolly wrote it.
I'm not sure if we should invade Canada based on Celine Dion's stuck stiff person disease. I think she's playing in Las Vegas now. I saw a photo recently of her waving her arm around at any rate that did look stiff. Sometimes I only skim the surface of stuff I don't want to know.
She's always been weird, marrying that old man. Then having a demonic clothing line for babies. Then her stiff disease, which she's always seemed to have had anyway.
I'm not fond of "My Heart Will Go On." Apparently everything is frozen in amber with her.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 25, 2026 11:06 PM (hzuYO)
You know, this one might actually work!
Posted by: Nemo
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Local lore:
Search Assist
commons.wikimedia.org
Bjørn Fjørtoft / CC BY 4.0
Robert Mitchum performed the song "The Ballad of Thunder Road" in the film "Thunder Road." He co-wrote the song, which became popular and was released as a single in 1958
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 25, 2026 11:06 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Four Marriages Total at September 25, 2026 11:06 PM (Fn+3X)
A lifetime ago, when I worked at a wallyworld-- we were under a strict drug-free policy-- such a wholesome environment!
And then the muzak played Steely Dan's "Hey Nineteen".
Oh yes!
..The Cuervo Gold..
..The Fine Columbian.. (doubt they meant "coffee" LOL)
..Make Tonight A Wonderful Thing..
Say it again!
Posted by: JQ at September 25, 2026 11:06 PM (rdVOm)
Full enough for govt work. This is the Harvest Moon.
Exact moment of the full Moon will be around mid-day tomorrow, so each night splits the difference, but tonight it will technically the fullest at transit for us in the US.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 25, 2026 11:07 PM (w6EFb)
And she's not hard on the eyes and apparently still around but I think retired.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 25, 2026 11:08 PM (578mW)
Apollo 13: The Musical. Should it be a ballet instead?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 25, 2026 11:08 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Orson at September 25, 2026 10:54 PM (dIske)
How many girls were named Alison by parents that completely missed the point of that song. ooopsie...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 25, 2026 11:08 PM (08OqX)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 25, 2026 11:08 PM (l3cgK)
wait that was a musical! Prefer the original 1971 Gene Wilder Willy Wonka.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 25, 2026 11:09 PM (APZWP)
I do not know that song . I guess I would remember it if I heard it , but I did not grow up with music of the time . My mother played Irish folk and classical .
I guess playing a soundtrack is supposed to calm the customers or improve worker efficiency or something (?) I prefer stores that don't have it, not that I choose stores on that basis.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 25, 2026 11:10 PM (JrHfD)
I'm also not crazy about the poutine. The Canadians I know are lovely people and I don't want to invade. I also want to see Nova Scotia someday...which, I realize, is not the point.
Goodnight and have a pleasant tomorrow.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 25, 2026 11:10 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 25, 2026 11:11 PM (f0sNM)
I'm going to lobby for "Achy Breaky Heart" to be added to that list.
Posted by: Orson
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It's on there. I'm lobbying for "Sometimes When We Touch" and "Christmas Shoes"
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 25, 2026 11:11 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 25, 2026 11:08 PM (qx7Zg)
An interpretive dance by our blue velvet suited dancer from earlier today.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 25, 2026 11:11 PM (APZWP)
The dance numbers were particularly acrobatic.
Posted by: mindful webworker - the musical at September 25, 2026 10:58 PM (11R8D)
https://youtu.be/JlmzUEQxOvA
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 25, 2026 11:11 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 25, 2026 11:03 PM (dPOOv)
Sure, a thousand bucks US, I am on that one like stink.
Maria Espinosa and David Oswaldo Orellana Batres are President and Secretary
Posted by: Kindltot at September 25, 2026 11:11 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Funsize at September 25, 2026 11:12 PM (3j87q)
"Don't know what he looks like,
Don't know who he is,
Don't know why she thought that I
Would say what's mine is his --
"I don't want to own her
But I can't let her have it both ways.
Three is one too many of us;
She leaves with me, or stays with
"Him, him, him
What's she gonna do about him?
She's gonna have to do without him
Or do without me, me, me --
No one gets to get it for free . . ."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 25, 2026 11:12 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 25, 2026 11:12 PM (rbvCR)
wait that was a musical! Prefer the original 1971 Gene Wilder Willy Wonka."
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Charlie's grandpa was a real piece of shit
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 25, 2026 11:13 PM (f0sNM)
I'm have never seen the remake . Don't want to.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 25, 2026 11:13 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Nazdar at September 25, 2026 11:14 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 25, 2026 11:15 PM (l3cgK)
I used to always listen to XM Satellite radio on long drives and a favorite channel was the Movie Soundtrack Channel.
They'd play the classics, but they, also, pulled some of soundtracks from new movies...
Great driving music, mostly.
Posted by: Orson at September 25, 2026 11:15 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 25, 2026 11:15 PM (rbvCR)
wait that was a musical! Prefer the original 1971 Gene Wilder Willy Wonka."
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Charlie's grandpa was a real piece of shit
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 25, 2026 11:13 PM (f0sNM)
Joe Biden plays his part in the musical...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 25, 2026 11:16 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: JQ at September 25, 2026 11:16 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Orson at September 25, 2026 11:00 PM (dIske)
Oof. Don't remind us, bitte.
Posted by: Just outside Stalingrad at September 25, 2026 11:16 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 25, 2026 11:16 PM (JrHfD)
WHO WHO WHO
I hate The Who!
I need to listen to some music due to terminal ear wigs now.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 25, 2026 11:18 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 25, 2026 11:18 PM (f0sNM)
Posted by: The Unmitigated Cad at September 25, 2026 11:03 PM (Fn+3X)
Until he got killed, then his brother took over the job.
Posted by: Movie News at September 25, 2026 11:18 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 25, 2026 11:15 PM (rbvCR)
https://youtu.be/0rbXbfL6RdA
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 25, 2026 11:19 PM (l3cgK)
She is actually alert, pleasant and doing things instead of lying in bed waiting to die.
We are not close, but we are our only blood relatives left.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 25, 2026 11:20 PM (rbvCR)
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Someone mentioned Ah! Leah! In a thread a couple weeks ago. Try it, you won't be able to get it out of your head.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at September 25, 2026 11:20 PM (wpRMV)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 25, 2026 11:08 PM (08OqX)
It's said that the name of the farmer's daughter is Alison.
Posted by: Story News at September 25, 2026 11:21 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 25, 2026 11:22 PM (JrHfD)
And I tidied that corner of the little shop, and swept and vacuumed the floor. It is looking much spiffier, now.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 25, 2026 11:23 PM (dPOOv)
Posted by: Anthony Weiner at September 25, 2026 11:24 PM (dtlw7)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 25, 2026 11:24 PM (FmapG)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 25, 2026 11:24 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 25, 2026 11:15 PM (rbvCR)
The hold music when you are on the phone to Temu is glunge.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 25, 2026 11:24 PM (dPOOv)
I
I like the instrumental soundtrack rather than Snoop Dog singing about "I love to lay back and listen to the sound of my money." She me performers are rather odd.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 25, 2026 11:25 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 25, 2026 11:26 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Lancelot_Link at September 25, 2026 11:26 PM (+NgHs)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 25, 2026 11:16 PM (JrHfD)
Lucky woman.
Grunge was a music genre from the 90's that started in Seattle as a form of underground rejection of the way that new wave and punk became industrialized, and made exactly like the music they were supposed to be objecting to. And once it became popular it was picked up by the major labels and turned into the very form of music it was supposed to be rejecting.
Grunge made flannel shirts popular as urban street wear.
Also, think Nirvana or Alice in Chains, or Pearl Jam, or Temple of the Dog. You know. Them.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 25, 2026 11:26 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 25, 2026 11:26 PM (dPOOv)
George Sanders played The Saint in five movies from '39-'41. He then switched over to The Falcon, which was a similar suave character.
Posted by: The Unmitigated Cad
This is a list of the movies featuring the character of the Falcon, played by George Sanders in the first four movies. He was replaced by his brother, Tom Conway, for the next nine movies, and then by John Calvert.
https://t.ly/UKEjf
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 25, 2026 11:27 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 25, 2026 11:27 PM (FmapG)
tinyurl.com/5n89svbs
Posted by: wash away the raaain at September 25, 2026 11:28 PM (88C+u)
I didn't have a chance to chime in earlier today on the Lindsay Clancy post, and the vile opinion column by Wendy Murphy. She always had a bit of a feminist streak going back years, but clearly being in the ivory tower of edumacation has influenced her.
In fact, she was one of the first harpies pointing at Karen Read as guilty of murdering her Boston cop boyfriend all based on planted evidence from a purposely botched investigation, and statements by a local news outlet of slam-dunk video evidence that didn't actually exist. And she's been strangely silent about the murder of a young woman by the name of Sandra Birchmore who was abused and groomed by LEOs in Canton, MA and the Mass. State Police. Oh, and she was 10 weeks pregnant at the time.
Posted by: Effie Perrine at September 25, 2026 11:29 PM (Zr3aZ)
I know the names. I can't name any of their songs although I'd probably recognize some if I heard them. One the few "modern" groups which I like is "Dire Straits" . That's about it .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 25, 2026 11:30 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 25, 2026 11:30 PM (zZu0s)
AI told me it wouldn't work because retail wouldn't sell them....to which I told AI I would do it 100% online.
AI told me my hosting costs would be unmanageable due to outraged advocacy groups and angry people.
I told AI that I would put ads on the site and likely make money off the perpetually offended, so I would have double income.
AI told me there wouldn't be a market. And, I told AI to get out more... 78% support the deportations, 54% support removing all illegals. That's a majority customer base.
AI told me I would likely be sued. To which I noted free publicity is always good.
Posted by: Orson at September 25, 2026 11:30 PM (dIske)
https://t.ly/UKEjf
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 25, 2026 11:27 PM (Cqx++)
I take it that either "Sanders", or "Conway" was a stage name. Or both were?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 25, 2026 11:31 PM (dPOOv)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 25, 2026 11:31 PM (Fv808)
Dammit - Nancy Grace is a motormouth TV LAWYER who completely fucked up and formed a media mob to accuse and almost convict the poor security guard named Richard Jewell of planting a bomb at the Olympic venue in Atlanta in 1996. He was the guy that found the bomb and had pushed people back, saving many lives.
It's Nancy Grace ROMAN! If you're too damned lazy to type all three names, call it the Nancy Roman telescope.
Posted by: buddhaha at September 25, 2026 11:32 PM (XFtZv)
So I thought to myself, if only I had some sort of lathe so I could try paring it down with a chisel.
Not having a lathe I have screwed a couple of L brackets to the picnic table to make a rudimentary lathe.
Supposedly it will be powered by my wife using the socket adaptor on the electric drill to spin it.
We will see if my rudimentary lathe will do any good, tomorrow.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 25, 2026 11:32 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 25, 2026 11:34 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 25, 2026 11:35 PM (Fv808)
Me, I just like the thought of launching Nancy Grace into space.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 25, 2026 11:35 PM (w6EFb)
Supposedly it will be powered by my wife using the socket adaptor on the electric drill to spin it.
We will see if my rudimentary lathe will do any good, tomorrow.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 25, 2026 11:32 PM (rbvCR)
Hopefully she doesn't think you have some loose nuts or bolts, and tries to tighten them first.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 25, 2026 11:36 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 25, 2026 11:30 PM (JrHfD)
Dire Straits has been around for 40-odd years. They are/were very fine musicians, and had appeal far beyond the teen demographic. There is an album out there with Mark Knopfler, the lead guitar player, doing duets with Chet Atkins. Well worth a listen
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 25, 2026 11:36 PM (dPOOv)
Nancy Grace Roman, the person, went by "Nancy Grace", both together as her first name. Same way my mother does. So, her first name, the one she called herself by was not just Nancy, but Nancy Grace.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 25, 2026 11:39 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 25, 2026 11:34 PM (JrHfD)
I have no idea what I am doing, which makes everything possible and probably impossible to accomplish.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 25, 2026 11:39 PM (rbvCR)
I wore flannel shirts in the 80s because it was cheap. When it became a 'fashion' statement, I laughed. It was cheap rust belt clothes.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 25, 2026 11:39 PM (FmapG)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 25, 2026 11:32 PM (rbvCR)
Instead of using a chisel, try spinning the handle in your rudimentary lathe and using a flap wheel on an angle grinder to form the taper. To use a chisel on a wood lathe, you need a VERY solid tool rest. The forces involved can be pretty fierce.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 25, 2026 11:39 PM (dPOOv)
Posted by: Orson at September 25, 2026 10:54 PM (dIske)
It's so...
It's so...
It's so romantic! Squeee!
I could just listen to it on repeat!
Posted by: Flock Group Inc. d/b/a Flock Safety at September 25, 2026 11:41 PM (ke3zm)
But I don't care about stupid leftist virtue signaling so...I took a look at what the Soviet Union provided and the answer is mixed.
The Soviets did convert a group of ships into cruise liners and they used them partly for local cruising around the black sea and partly as real cruise ships for foreigners even losing one on rocks off of Australia.
Looking at the Black Sea cruise experience well...no private bathrooms and people packed in like sardines... doesn't look fun to me but I'll give them credit they did allocate some resources to building cruise ships though a cynic might assume it was to build knowledge on how to run the profitable international cruises.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 25, 2026 11:41 PM (sKqQm)
I consider anything from the 70's on '"modern" . What can I say? I'm old 😉 and if I mostly listen to Bach and Beethoven and Handel etc, " Dire Straits" probably is modern And yes, he is a brilliant guitarist I will have to look for the album with Chet Atkins. Thx.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 25, 2026 11:42 PM (JrHfD)
It's so...
It's so...
It's so romantic! Squeee!
I could just listen to it on repeat!
I suspect the line between stalker and romantically obsessed isn't quite as obvious as your average Lifetime movie would make it out to be...
Posted by: 18-1 at September 25, 2026 11:42 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 25, 2026 11:26 PM (dPOOv)
Probably just in time. I think AK is sending down some awful weather shortly. It was windy as hell in Meadow Lakes (north of Wasilla) today, as a precursor to the 60mph or so coming this evening. Nasty bit of storm of the Pacific working its way across the state. That usually heads south eventually.
Luckily we live in a weird little microclimate that avoids most of that nonsense, but we will get some winds and lots of rain.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 25, 2026 11:43 PM (K6DGR)
https://youtu.be/g4Wt4n1RpdI
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 25, 2026 11:43 PM (dPOOv)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 25, 2026 11:36 PM (qx7Zg)
She actually suggested using the drill, I figured out I could use the socket tool.
My wife is odd. I have had friends and girlfriends look at what I do and tell me I am insane, but she just hopes I know what I am doing.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 25, 2026 11:43 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Puddleglum
Exactly.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 25, 2026 11:44 PM (tg5bM)
Posted by: Orson at September 25, 2026 10:54 PM (dIske)
It's so...
It's so...
It's so romantic! Squeee!
I could just listen to it on repeat!
Posted by: Flock Group Inc. d/b/a Flock Safety at September 25, 2026 11:41 PM (ke3zm)
Springsteen's Born in the USA is a screed against the Vietnam War. He refers to Vietnamese as "The Yellow Man." Kinda racist, if you ask me.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 25, 2026 11:46 PM (K6DGR)
Thanks.
A thing I like about him is-aside from his musical ability is that I don't know what his political opinions are unlike Grrrrrrh- Bruce Springsteen.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 25, 2026 11:46 PM (JrHfD)
Literally 4 days ago, CNN said we new media folks didn’t have the resources to replace them in the White House press pool
But tonight, the White House REPLACED CNN on Air Force One with us @Real America's Voice (RAV) for 47’s trip this weekend
RIP @CNN. And God Bless @X🇺🇸
Nick Sortor@nicksortor
: CNN is NOT being allowed to travel to Tennessee tomorrow with President Trump aboard Air Force One Instead, @RealAmVoice will be allocated seats on board to cover 47’s trip, and it’ll be broadcasted right here on 𝕏 CUE THE MELTDOWN
https://t.co/zu2EoSXLU0
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 25, 2026 11:46 PM (vC80E)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 25, 2026 11:39 PM (dPOOv)
I have a couple of rasps I will try too, but the goal is to keep the speed low because if I spin it too fast the screws I am using for the chucks will tighten or worse, untighten and fall off
Posted by: Kindltot at September 25, 2026 11:46 PM (rbvCR)
Yes, the Little Red Dots, and this is rapidly converging to "big black hole" "stars" if you can call them. Fascinating and evolving thing.
The question was always where did the yuge, supermassive black holes that are at the center of most galaxies come from? Did they come from mergers of stellar mass black holes somehow, or did they somehow come earlier.
It's looking like that latter now. The black holes formed first,and were the seeds around which galaxies formed.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 25, 2026 11:47 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Puddleglum
Exactly.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 25, 2026 11:44 PM (tg5bM)
I have a checked flannel shirt with a quilted lining. Very comfy; I wore it this evening. Known locally as a "Saskatchewan Dinner Jacket".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 25, 2026 11:47 PM (dPOOv)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 25, 2026 11:48 PM (ibDUx)
Kay Kyser and his band made four feature films for RKO. The first one, "You'll Find Out" is very good comedy/horror movie. Lugosi, Karloff, Peter Lorre are in it.
Posted by: Study In Black and White at September 25, 2026 11:49 PM (Fn+3X)
My wife is odd. I have had friends and girlfriends look at what I do and tell me I am insane, but she just hopes I know what I am doing.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 25, 2026 11:43 PM (rbvCR)
Sweetie, she had just figured out that arguing with you is a lost cause, and she wants you to feel good about yourself, so she lets you do stupid shit because that's what men do.
It's just proof she loves you, not that she thinks you are doing the right things. She's smarter than you think.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 25, 2026 11:51 PM (K6DGR)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 25, 2026 11:46 PM (rbvCR)
All the more reason to use the angle grinder as the cutting implement, then. You are trying cut a piece of hardwood across the grain. A sharp implement can either dig in, and tear out a divot, or simply bounce off.
I have tapered hammer and shovel handles by using the bench grinder.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 25, 2026 11:51 PM (dPOOv)
Posted by: JQ at September 25, 2026 11:52 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 25, 2026 11:53 PM (dPOOv)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 25, 2026 11:43 PM
Kindltot-- your wife obviously loves you and wants to help.
Posted by: JQ at September 25, 2026 11:54 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 25, 2026 11:54 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Yellow Peril at September 25, 2026 11:54 PM (Fn+3X)
How are ya?
Posted by: JQ at September 25, 2026 11:52 PM (rdVOm)
Evening to you and Debby, too, JQ!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 25, 2026 11:55 PM (dPOOv)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 25, 2026 11:56 PM (dPOOv)
Posted by: JQ at September 25, 2026 11:56 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 25, 2026 11:53 PM (dPOOv)
Better than freeze dried.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 25, 2026 11:57 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 25, 2026 11:57 PM (mP0Kj)
At the end they have the younger soldier expressing his woe noting, "Sometimes the best thing you can do for someone suffering from a minor short term illness is shoot them in the back of the head" as the video goes from the space marines scene to...a Canadian flag.
Happy I watched that one to the end...
Posted by: 18-1 at September 25, 2026 11:58 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 25, 2026 11:53 PM (dPOOv)
We've been on Elon all summer, living in the camper while the house is being rebuilt. He does pretty well, although there are occasional soft spots, because we have some pretty tall birch trees around the joint. I suppose it would have helped to run it up the flagpole, but of course then it could have blown off. It has been a lesson in patience, but mostly good.
I still yell his name when things blink out, but I suppose he is used to that, since he has so many kids.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 25, 2026 11:58 PM (K6DGR)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 25, 2026 11:57 PM (1Ff7Z)
Heh. You know, I don't believe a single original member of that great band is still living. Sad.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 25, 2026 11:58 PM (dPOOv)
Posted by: Unkaren at September 26, 2026 12:00 AM (IXaAJ)
Good night all!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 26, 2026 12:01 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 26, 2026 12:01 AM (Fv808)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 26, 2026 12:01 AM (Fv80
Probably feels like a big truck driving by. Get back to me when it's over 7.3 or so.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 26, 2026 12:02 AM (K6DGR)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 25, 2026 11:58 PM (K6DGR)
Mine has been blinking out, but it's not the Starlink hardware. It's the little 29 dollar USB dongle I bought to give wifi capability to my old desktop computer. And I think the issue is that the OS loses its grip on the USB bus every so often. Sometimes the USB keyboard and mouse also freeze up. Unplugging the dongle, and plugging it back in has reset it, so far.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 12:03 AM (dPOOv)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 25, 2026 11:58 PM (dPOOv)
Honey, we're old. People keep dying on me. It is part of life. Some are saved, some are not. My prayers go out to all of them. It's a fair bit of work, but it is our job.
Let's hope everyone notices when we pass, and pray our asses into heaven too.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 26, 2026 12:04 AM (K6DGR)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 25, 2026 11:51 PM (dPOOv)
And I might do that, but I don't want a tapered piece, I did that last time with a draw knife. The shovel socket is cylindrical, and if the handle is tapered, it puts all the stress on the wood at the mouth of the socket when I pry with it. That is why it broke at that very point this last time, I suspect.
If I can get it taken down to fit the socket more closely, it should spread the stress for the entire socket wall, and maybe the handle will last a couple of years more before I have to buy another handle.
I mostly use it for digging out root balls and the like. Love that shovel for making holes.
Razorback trencher
https://tinyurl.com/bd3swnjm
Posted by: Kindltot at September 26, 2026 12:04 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 26, 2026 12:01 AM (Fv80
Doug Sahm may be able to shed some light on that:
https://youtu.be/Hy3V2BGQKAk
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 12:06 AM (dPOOv)
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Spling e-ing, and where she lands nobody knows.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 26, 2026 12:10 AM (vC80E)
Posted by: Unkaren at September 26, 2026 12:12 AM (IXaAJ)
Posted by: Defenestratus
Well... maybe they do.
Maybe they can't produce proper ID at the polling station, who knows?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 26, 2026 12:12 AM (C0Nlv)
Posted by: polynikes at September 26, 2026 12:12 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2026 12:13 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Unkaren at September 26, 2026 12:00 AM
Plus it was about Rosanna Arquett.
Posted by: polynikes at September 26, 2026 12:14 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 26, 2026 12:10 AM (vC80E)
The dread ga-doing! I now it well.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 12:14 AM (dPOOv)
Posted by: Unkaren at September 26, 2026 12:00 AM
Plus it was about Rosanna Arquett.
Posted by: polynikes at September 26, 2026 12:14 AM (KC5Lt)
One can enjoy the music and hate the lyrics...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2026 12:14 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Part of the *klunk* *piiiing* *thump* trilogy!
Posted by: JQ at September 26, 2026 12:16 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 26, 2026 12:17 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 25, 2026 11:46 PM (K6DGR)
As was American Woman.
Posted by: polynikes at September 26, 2026 12:17 AM (KC5Lt)
My wife wanted to watch it, I had no IDEA what it was about...
When they were started singing a song where they praised anal sex was about all I could take.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2026 12:17 AM (l3cgK)
The OS can be downloaded and installed for free.
AOP would be the intercessor for OS tech differences between MS and OS. For me, it's much like 7.
Same with the installation.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 26, 2026 12:19 AM (vC80E)
Posted by: Unkaren at September 26, 2026 12:20 AM (IXaAJ)
Posted by: polynikes at September 26, 2026 12:17 AM (KC5Lt)
Which I think was at least partly tongue-in-cheek. The Guess Who was one of the first Canadian rock bands to break big in the USA. Most of their music was really non-political. And they were not afraid to cross musical barriers. Their song "Nashville Sneakers" is really not rock and roll, it is pop jazz:
https://youtu.be/I7onqDAwemQ
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 12:24 AM (dPOOv)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 26, 2026 12:24 AM (ubCxQ)
Posted by: polynikes at September 26, 2026 12:24 AM (KC5Lt)
I'm watching this and hearing sh*t about the War of 1812 and Canucks burning down the White House and "General Winter" and I'm thinking there isn't a single American anywhere wanting to invade the GWN. No one.
A mass psychosis in a country that can't even meet its NATO defense funding goals. The national economy is a dumpster fire and the elites have found their bogeyman to blame.
Posted by: mrp at September 26, 2026 12:27 AM (rj6Yv)
Thanks. Purchasing a boot stick seems much easier than all the hoops to download and *verify* Mint. I still need another machine, maybe... this one hasn't faltered since yesterday afternoon, but scares me that one day it'll implode. LOL
Posted by: JQ at September 26, 2026 12:29 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 25, 2026 11:58 PM (dPOOv)
But they're still touring, right?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2026 12:29 AM (1Ff7Z)
Bachman said it was political. The war machine gave it away. The lead singer said it wasn’t but I think he was just covering his tracks.
Posted by: polynikes at September 26, 2026 12:29 AM (KC5Lt)
https://youtu.be/I7onqDAwemQ
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Saloonesque, Manhattan Transfer. Never heard it.
One of my favorite bands of that period.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 26, 2026 12:30 AM (vC80E)
Posted by: mrp at September 26, 2026 12:27 AM (rj6Yv)
Many of us here in Alberta know that. The bizarre antics of the Ottawa elite are the best ad material for the upcoming Alberta independence referendum that we could wish for.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 12:30 AM (dPOOv)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2026 12:17 AM (l3cgK)
____________________
Don't kid us, Jim. You were singing it all the next day. How did it go?
Posted by: Orson at September 26, 2026 12:33 AM (dIske)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 26, 2026 12:33 AM (FmapG)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 26, 2026 12:34 AM (vC80E)
Posted by: JQ at September 26, 2026 12:29 AM (rdVOm)
Those hoops are pretty easy to negotiate. Like a cookbook. I have done it several times now, as new versions of Mint are issued. Making the boot stick from a blank thumb drive might involve ten minutes of your actual hands-on time.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 12:34 AM (dPOOv)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 26, 2026 12:24 AM (ubCxQ)
Of course! So sorry this has happened.
Posted by: JQ at September 26, 2026 12:34 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 12:30 AM (dPOOv)
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I know, and I watched some of Smith's crying speech. She sees tougher times approaching. The October referendum is Round One. Round Two, if the question passes, is for all the marbles. And it's likely the end of the Canadian experiment.
Posted by: mrp at September 26, 2026 12:36 AM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: polynikes at September 26, 2026 12:29 AM (KC5Lt)
Randy Bachman is a Mormon, FWIW. Burton Cummings, the vocalist, is not. There was some friction there.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 12:36 AM (dPOOv)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 26, 2026 12:37 AM (vC80E)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Ok. I downloaded it last night, and went through the instructions, up to "Save As" on a couple of *SHA256* things. Downloaded Etcher. Stopped there. I have a pack of new PNY 16GB sticks... just need to wade through the rest of the instructions.
Posted by: JQ at September 26, 2026 12:40 AM (rdVOm)
Next time try being the pitcher, not the catcher. :p D&R
Posted by: Weirddave at September 26, 2026 12:41 AM (R9NnH)
Posted by: mrp at September 26, 2026 12:36 AM (rj6Yv)
You think Ottawa won't cheat?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2026 12:41 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: mrp at September 26, 2026 12:36 AM (rj6Yv)
I do not trust Danielle Smith. She can be a weasel. She needs to nut up, and present Ottawa with some non-negotiable demands: if Ottawa does, or fails to do, certain things, it will trigger a unilateral declaration of independence. Joining the EU would be one such. Dumping another metric fuckton of Turd-World migrants into Alberta would be another.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 12:41 AM (dPOOv)
Posted by: mrp at September 26, 2026 12:36 AM (rj6Yv)
You think Ottawa won't cheat?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2026 12:41 AM (1Ff7Z)
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Who counts the ballots?
Posted by: mrp at September 26, 2026 12:42 AM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2026 12:41 AM (1Ff7Z)
That's to be expected. A negotiated separation will never succeed. Eventually, there will be a unilateral declaration of independence. It worked for you guys, against a much tougher opponent.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 12:44 AM (dPOOv)
Posted by: JQ at September 26, 2026 12:45 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: mrp at September 26, 2026 12:42 AM (rj6Yv)
The referendum ballots will be counted by Albertans, in Alberta. I don't think it will be a slam-dunk. Lots of foreigners camped in the cities. If I remember my history right, in 1776, about 1/3 of Americans supported independence, 1/3 were Royalists, and the remainder were indifferent.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 12:47 AM (dPOOv)
Welcome to the Dollhouse: The Musical
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo
=================
There's a couple of okay songs in that movie! Including "Welcome to the Dollhouse."
[I tried to paste in lyrics but pixie no likee]
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 26, 2026 12:49 AM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 12:44 AM (dPOOv)
Or the provincial leaders will be bought off by some trinkets and you'll never get the chance to be rid of Ottawa again.
"Does this boot make my face flat?"
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2026 12:49 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 12:30 AM (dPOOv)
I really hope you break it off in Ottawa's ass.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 26, 2026 12:50 AM (S41Gd)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 12:41 AM (dPOOv)
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The received wisdom as to why Canada cancelled the trade deal discussions with the US is that at least 3 premiers threatened Carney with a revolt. Probably more than 3 were ready to rumble if the Canadian tariffs were reduced or eliminated. Carney still hasn't given Canadians a full answer for the lack of a trade deal. The absence of political transparency in Canada is frightening - in every sense of the word.
I'm more sympathetic about Smith's position - she needs a popular referendum on the matter of separation before she can play hardball with the Carneyites. Otherwise, Ottawa would hammer her as a separatist, or worse.
Posted by: mrp at September 26, 2026 12:52 AM (rj6Yv)
"Does this boot make my face flat?"
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2026 12:49 AM (1Ff7Z)
which is why I do not trust Danielle Smith. If the referendum passes, she should resign as Premier, and make way for a hard-liner to take the helm.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 12:53 AM (dPOOv)
Posted by: mrp at September 26, 2026 12:52 AM (rj6Yv)
Danielle Smith is damaged goods. She became the leader of the (very) conservative Wildrose Party, and was in line to become Premier. Then she made a deal with the (squishy) provincial Conservative Party, and squish Jason Kenney became Premier. Set us back at least 5 years.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 12:56 AM (dPOOv)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 12:58 AM (dPOOv)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 26, 2026 12:58 AM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Great Plains Drifter at September 26, 2026 12:59 AM (85Bnm)
Posted by: Great Plains Drifter at September 26, 2026 12:59 AM (85Bnm)
LOL!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 01:01 AM (dPOOv)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Got to admit, that's a fairly quick reset. But still a PITA.
Posted by: JQ at September 26, 2026 01:03 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at September 26, 2026 01:03 AM (rdVOm)
Cannot blame Starlink for that. I still think that somehow Linux Mint is losing its grip on the Universal Serial Bus. Because for a long time, I have been experiencing the occasional keyboard and mouse freeze-up, which eventually resolves itself. Could be a glitch on the motherboard, too. This 'puter is old, and is like George Washington's axe, everything but the case has been replaced at least once.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 01:08 AM (dPOOv)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 01:17 AM (dPOOv)
Posted by: JQ at September 26, 2026 01:20 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at September 26, 2026 01:20 AM (rdVOm)
Well it was 29 dollars. So not super cheap, considering it is a tiny little thing. But the USB problem seems to be inherent to this computer. The keyboard-mouse freeze has long predated this issue.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 01:23 AM (dPOOv)
Saying "tomorrow" again, LOL. At least the soil will still be damp and won't raise clouds of dust.
Posted by: JQ at September 26, 2026 01:23 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
I had keyboard issues with this machine-- USB connected. Switched it to a different USB outlet & no more problem. (But I'm sure you've already done similar and *know* of what you speak)
Posted by: JQ at September 26, 2026 01:26 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 01:26 AM (dPOOv)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Perfect!
Posted by: JQ at September 26, 2026 01:28 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at September 26, 2026 01:26 AM (rdVOm)
Have not tried that. This box has little front panel gadget that provides a USB port, plus slots to fit several different formats of camera/phone memory cards. Maybe that device is shutting down the USB. But it works for downloading pics from my camera, or writing data to thumb drives.
There is a thing called "IRQ", "interrupt request queue" or something like that. The motherboard polls the various peripherals to see if they have something new to say. It might be a failure there, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 01:31 AM (dPOOv)
Watched episodes 3 and 4 of Agios Paisios with a couple of the girls tonight. Now they are in Epirus. It is only 9 episodes, but Arsenios is still just 18 months old.
Posted by: frammish at September 26, 2026 01:33 AM (rcENI)
https://youtu.be/NsHyja3kXFo
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 01:34 AM (dPOOv)
Annie Hall: The Musical
Spartacus: The Musical
Capote: The Musical
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre: The Musical
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 26, 2026 01:35 AM (VyD10)
Whatever would we do, without all these helpful devices?
/s
Posted by: JQ at September 26, 2026 01:36 AM (rdVOm)
Damn, just looked at the temp here is 50.4F.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 26, 2026 01:36 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 26, 2026 01:36 AM (w6EFb)
Went outside a half hour ago to water the rhubarb. Moon shining through a hole in the clouds. Still and quiet, but chilly. Under 50, I expect.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 01:39 AM (dPOOv)
The video of the baby meeting the 'statue ' is too sweet for words. Thank you for sharing it. ^_^
And, just for fun- Terminator 2, The Musical!
Posted by: Barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at September 26, 2026 01:40 AM (Y5ezX)
Posted by: JQ at September 26, 2026 01:40 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at September 26, 2026 01:41 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at September 26, 2026 01:40 AM (Y5ezX)
Ben Hur, The Musical. Spike Jones does the chariot race scene.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 01:42 AM (dPOOv)
GSP's grid forecast has a low of 49F, and I imagine I'll hit that, if not below in a little bit. Fall came on fast.
Forecast discussion says it's the flow from that nor'easter that's bringing in the crisp air.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 26, 2026 01:43 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JQ at September 26, 2026 01:43 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 26, 2026 01:44 AM (FmapG)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 26, 2026 01:45 AM (FmapG)
Bought a wall powered Anker hub and plugged it in the *best* socket and never moved anything.
Always used the hub. Anker makes a good product.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 26, 2026 01:47 AM (vC80E)
Saturn is nearing opposition and will be close to the full Moon up there as well.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 26, 2026 01:48 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 26, 2026 01:51 AM (vC80E)
They are quick to process, too. Not the full canning routine, just some vinegar and sugar and salt.
Posted by: frammish at September 26, 2026 01:51 AM (rcENI)
Looking at the local station map, I do see some 49Fs and even a 48F within several miles.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 26, 2026 01:51 AM (w6EFb)
She and the lady's would get together
to see what different things they could
turn into tasty jelly.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 26, 2026 01:54 AM (vC80E)
.....starring Tanya Tagaq.
How about "Porky's: The Musical" to keep it to an "R" rating.
Posted by: mikeski at September 26, 2026 01:54 AM (VHUov)
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
I'm schizophrenic,
And so am I.
Posted by: mikeski at September 26, 2026 01:57 AM (VHUov)
https://youtu.be/XPn1pCdAkrQ
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 02:02 AM (dPOOv)
Posted by: frammish at September 26, 2026 02:04 AM (rcENI)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2026 02:04 AM (dPOOv)
Posted by: Braenyard
Probably not this one?
https://youtu.be/lVfI9mx3NCg
Posted by: mikeski at September 26, 2026 02:07 AM (VHUov)
Too many problems, too little time. Hoping to get back into it, at least a bit, when my responsibilities settle down.
I love pickled foods! And jams & jellies! And peaches and tomatoes (they're SO easy)
Posted by: JQ at September 26, 2026 02:08 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at September 26, 2026 02:09 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Unkaren
For Toto songs named after girls, I'll take Pamela over Rosanna any day.
https://youtu.be/QCq9751mOFo
Posted by: mikeski at September 26, 2026 02:20 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: The Unmitigated Cad at September 25, 2026 11:03 PM (Fn+3X)
I remember Sanders more for his voice: here he is as the voice of Shere Khan in Disney’s “The Jungle Book” - link goes to the Tube of Ewes, 1m 35s -
https://shorturl.at/HFmyd
Sanders was using vocal fry before we called it that: it lead to him being cast as a sophisticated villain, more often than not.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 26, 2026 02:23 AM (APZWP)
Posted by: JQ at September 26, 2026 02:32 AM (rdVOm)
And boom. It's 49.1F.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 26, 2026 02:33 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: raimondo at September 26, 2026 02:35 AM (05soP)
Posted by: JQ at September 26, 2026 02:38 AM (rdVOm)
https://youtu.be/lVfI9mx3NCg
Posted by: mikeski
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Those chicks are dangerous.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 26, 2026 02:40 AM (VPNgR)
Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2026 02:43 AM (Ia/+0)
The salem witch trials!
And there's so much more to see!
Thank you.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 26, 2026 02:46 AM (RYmEM)
Patrick - May your nephew's family be Blessed with Health & Healing at this frightening time ...
Posted by: Adriane the Critic. . . at September 26, 2026 02:57 AM (3ZUWJ)
First time it's been in the '40s since mid-May.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 26, 2026 03:00 AM (w6EFb)
First verse
Yummy, yummy, yummy
I got love in my tummy and I feel like a-lovin' you
Love, you're such a sweet thing, good enough to eat thing
And it's just a-what I'm gonna do
(I can STILL hear it. Why I believe radio stations took bribes to ply songs)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 26, 2026 03:06 AM (RYmEM)
and
--Sugar Sugar!
and
--Everyone knows it's WINDY!
Posted by: JQ at September 26, 2026 03:09 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at September 26, 2026 03:10 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: mikeski at September 26, 2026 03:12 AM (VHUov)
Uncle Sam's Blues - Angel of Death
that one is for the worlds islamo-commies
Posted by: what the cat drug in at September 26, 2026 03:12 AM (jrgJz)
Two inches of snow, five miles an hour
Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 26, 2026 03:12 AM (RYmEM)
Posted by: mikeski
Heh. We were kids-- the song, of course!
But I don't know if that (kinda homely) lil rat-dog had a gas problem...
Posted by: JQ at September 26, 2026 03:14 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JM in Illinois
At least they were careful! More than can be said for *some* people...
Posted by: JQ at September 26, 2026 03:17 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JM in Illinois
and
--Sugar Sugar!
and
--Everyone knows it's WINDY!
Posted by: JQ
On the other hand, the Rubette's "Sugar Baby Love" works as the title theme to "Sugar: A Little Snow Fairy."
(Not ": The Musical," despite the main character being an aspiring pianist and the various fairies doing magic with musical instruments.)
https://youtu.be/DR_zriJjyJs
Posted by: mikeski at September 26, 2026 03:21 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 26, 2026 03:23 AM (VPNgR)
Posted by: JM in Illinois
At least they were careful! More than can be said for *some* people...
Posted by: JQ at September 26, 2026 03:17 AM (rdVOm)
A real piss off is when you're stuck behind an asshole in an AWD SUV doing 5 MPH. Why the fuck did you buy that thing if you're going to drive it like a fag.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 26, 2026 03:24 AM (S41Gd)
Posted by: JQ at September 26, 2026 03:24 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ
For some folks, winter driving needs to be re-learned every year. Four-wheel drive makes you start faster. It does not make you stop faster.
First blizzard of the year in the Midwest, and the ditches are full of SUVs and F-950 Earthfuckers who thought they were invincible.
Posted by: mikeski at September 26, 2026 03:25 AM (VHUov)
Two inches of snow, five miles an hour
Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 26, 2026 03:12 AM (RYmEM)
They do that in jersey. The jersey born drive like they're on snow mobiles, the immigrants drive like they're driving over a minefield while hauling nitroglycerine.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 26, 2026 03:27 AM (S41Gd)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 26, 2026 03:29 AM (RYmEM)
Same people would never listen if presented by Americans.
Oh, well, music lives. They do a good job with all forms of American music.
Takaichi Sanae said, they say we do not have replacement rate.
We are maintaining while the rest of the world tears itself apart. (paraphrased)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 26, 2026 03:31 AM (VPNgR)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 26, 2026 03:36 AM (RYmEM)
Sure seems like it did this time. Looking at my station graph, it turned down right on Sept 22, like it said, oh it's Fall, better cool down.
I remember it behaved like this just a few years ago one time, but from looking at the station data, it had to be 2023 or before, before I got it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 26, 2026 03:58 AM (w6EFb)
Two inches of snow, five miles an hour
Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 26, 2026 03:12 AM (RYmEM)
They do that in jersey. The jersey born drive like they're on snow mobiles, the immigrants drive like they're driving over a minefield while hauling nitroglycerine.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 26, 2026 03:27 AM (S41Gd)
I don't drive for the first three days of snow on the ground here. The first-timers all put themselves into the ditch, and then it's save to drive.
I learned to drive in November in AK. Snow and ice is just a given. It isn't difficult, just common sense, but common sense it appears is just not common.
Slow the fuck down, don't tailgate, watch for crap on the road, and for Pete's sake, let the moose cross before you pass.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 26, 2026 03:58 AM (G0Snx)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 26, 2026 03:29 AM (RYmEM)
Real men vs. those who act as if they were and fail at it.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 26, 2026 03:59 AM (G0Snx)
One of my brothers nearly went loco when his roommate played "I Will Always Love You" sung by Whitney Houston over and over again. Yes I know Dolly wrote it.
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Wayback machine. I had a similar experience with a guy in college who played and replayed "Bridge over troubled waters". Teeth on edge. But it must have been special to him...
Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 26, 2026 04:11 AM (RYmEM)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 26, 2026 03:24 AM (S41Gd)
4WD just makes idiots think they are bullet proof. Mostly, it allows folks to get that much further into the snow bank in the ditch. Bigger tires mean you float on the ice and just slide into the mess. Good luck with that.
Slow the fuck down. Do you want to get there, or do you want to sit in the ditch until a tow truck drags your sorry ass out?
Just sayin'.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 26, 2026 04:20 AM (G0Snx)
I don't drive for the first three days of snow on the ground here. The first-timers all put themselves into the ditch, and then it's save to drive.
I learned to drive in November in AK. Snow and ice is just a given. It isn't difficult, just common sense, but common sense it appears is just not common.
Slow the fuck down, don't tailgate, watch for crap on the road, and for Pete's sake, let the moose cross before you pass.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 26, 2026 03:58 AM (G0Snx)
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Down in these parts, the animals worry about us running into them. I especially take care to avoid opossums.
In AK, on the other hand, you could run into a moose. I watched a few seasons of "Life below Zero". You are some tough folks up there.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 26, 2026 04:22 AM (RYmEM)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 26, 2026 04:22 AM (RYmEM)
Most moose collisions are not horrible, even though they usually total the vehicle, but occasionally one will come up off the bumper and those hooves will crash through the windshield and they can decapitate people. It can be horrible. I suggest not doing it, even if you think you have to. I'd rather go in the ditch than crash a moose.
A few years ago, along the inlet on the Seward Highway, a moose fell off a cliff onto a car. That's a whole other world of weird. I have no idea what you tell your insurance company about that.
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