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Wednesday Overnight Open Thread (8/15/18 )
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. Dalai LamaQuote II
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. Theodore RooseveltQuote III
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. Thomas Jefferson
The French = Fancy, so darn fancy.
So the Canadian health care system has problems. Why offer home health care when you can push assisted suicide?
Our ONT science lesson for this evening. The SJW brain.
"There’s not a single (US) state that I don’t ship to.”
In 2010, shortly after seeing a YouTube video of a chicken wearing what looks like a tiny diaper, New Hampshire resident Julie Baker and her daughter started making clothes for their pet chicken. Fast forward to today, their hobby has turned into a business generating about US$50,000 (AUS$67,650) a year. “Everyone wanted to know where we got them — and the orders started rolling in,” she told The Outline. “I have a lot of customers that keep their chickens in the house full-time, and they love the diapers.”
Speaking of entrepreneurship, meet two go-getter sisters. h/t ibguy
Young and in love, Think before you ink.
Notice: Posted with permission by AceCorp, LLC a subsidiary of the Ace Media Empire. The ONT is not to be confused with Shelving, Ltd.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: ALH at August 15, 2018 09:55 PM (8kkL4)
Posted by: ALH at August 15, 2018 09:55 PM (8kkL4)
Posted by: Acting Chairman Hrothgar at August 15, 2018 09:55 PM (n9EOP)
Posted by: ALH at August 15, 2018 09:55 PM (8kkL4)
Posted by: Acting Chairman Hrothgar at August 15, 2018 09:56 PM (n9EOP)
Posted by: ALH at August 15, 2018 09:57 PM (8kkL4)
Posted by: Browsing Browser at August 15, 2018 09:57 PM (y0y4n)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 15, 2018 09:57 PM (uSlc8)
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at August 15, 2018 09:57 PM (e9G8E)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 15, 2018 09:58 PM (uSlc8)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 15, 2018 09:57
I'm leaving for Maine in 5 hours. Lobster, here I come!
Posted by: Ladyl at August 15, 2018 09:58 PM (TdMsT)
I don't get invited to meetings important enough to have food. I only get to go to stupid, routine, time-wasting, but mandatory meetings.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 15, 2018 09:58 PM (LsBY9)
Posted by: Surfperch at August 15, 2018 09:58 PM (AcZtS)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, GECSPLAN, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at August 15, 2018 09:58 PM (fA1SL)
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at August 15, 2018 09:58 PM (UyvJX)
If you want to be rich, wear a saffron robe and talk shit.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 15, 2018 09:59 PM (5tT0F)
Posted by: josephistan at August 15, 2018 09:59 PM (Izzlo)
Is "mandatory meeting" a synonym for "time wasting soul sapping event"?
Posted by: Acting Chairman Hrothgar at August 15, 2018 10:00 PM (n9EOP)
Posted by: ALH at August 15, 2018 10:00 PM (8kkL4)
If you want to be rich, wear a saffron robe and talk shit.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity
Or an orange pantsuit and talk platitudes.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 15, 2018 10:00 PM (LsBY9)
"How many of the applicants are above average?"
"What should we focus on? EVERYTHING!"
"We're going to a system that makes decisions based on having all the facts."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 15, 2018 10:01 PM (5tT0F)
Posted by: Ladyl at August 15, 2018 09:58 PM (TdMsT)
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Bring it, bitch.
Posted by: A Lobster at August 15, 2018 10:01 PM (uSlc8)
You can learn all about it in my new eBook, "The Care and Feeding of Strippers, Gold Diggers and Girls with Daddy Issues". Now, then, I'll be needing a federal grant for research...
Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at August 15, 2018 10:01 PM (jp0Bv)
Posted by: 2009Refugee at August 15, 2018 10:01 PM (2xR5z)
Posted by: A Lobster at August 15, 2018 10:01 PM (uSlc
You don't have a chance, crusty.
Posted by: Ladyl at August 15, 2018 10:01 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 15, 2018 10:02 PM (6U3DW)
Posted by: auscolpyr at August 15, 2018 10:02 PM (oFsfu)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 15, 2018 10:02 PM (uSlc8)
Posted by: Surfperch at August 15, 2018 10:02 PM (AcZtS)
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Too blurry! Here's a nice crisp one.
https://angelforisrael.files.wordpress.com/
2016/05/social-justice-warrior-brain.jpg
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 15, 2018 10:03 PM (U3075)
Posted by: Braenyard at August 15, 2018 10:03 PM (pkAc3)
Posted by: Ladyl at August 15, 2018 10:01 PM (TdMsT)
Har, har, har, har
Posted by: Crusty Crab at August 15, 2018 10:03 PM (oFsfu)
In 2010, shortly after seeing a YouTube video of a chicken wearing what looks like a tiny diaper, New Hampshire resident Julie Baker and her daughter started making clothes for their pet chicken.
Fast forward to today, their hobby has turned into a business generating about US$50,000 (AUS$67,650) a year.
“Everyone wanted to know where we got them — and the orders started rolling in,” she told The Outline. “I have a lot of customers that keep their chickens in the house full-time, and they love the diapers.”
Marcy Darcy missed her golden opportunity.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 15, 2018 10:03 PM (5tT0F)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 15, 2018 10:03 PM (6U3DW)
Posted by: Acting Chairman Hrothgar at August 15, 2018 10:00 PM (n9EOP)
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Yes, with the added bonus of death by Powerpoint.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 15, 2018 10:03 PM (hoAFm)
"And now, a Power Point presentation on the progress of our next Power Point presentation. I will read all the slides out loud..."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 15, 2018 10:03 PM (LsBY9)
Posted by: Braenyard at August 15, 2018 10:03 PM (pkAc3)
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How was the wine list?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 15, 2018 10:03 PM (uSlc8)
)Posted by: ibguy at August 15, 2018 10:04 PM (vUcdz)
Posted by: auscolpyr at August 15, 2018 10:02 PM (oFsfu)
lol
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 15, 2018 10:04 PM (5jVnA)
Posted by: josephistan at August 15, 2018 10:04 PM (Izzlo)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 15, 2018 10:02 PM (uSlc
Well Hello.... Dalai...
Well Hello... Dalai...
Its so nice to see you back, where youuuu belong...
Posted by: Lois Armstrong at August 15, 2018 10:04 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: redridinghood at August 15, 2018 10:05 PM (hECVl)
If you want to be happy, fuck the Dalai Lama in the ass. Just don't tell anyone.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 15, 2018 10:05 PM (EoRCO)
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at August 15, 2018 10:05 PM (e9G8E)
They're going to put it in my account or something.
FREE MONEY! WOOHOO!
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 15, 2018 10:06 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: ALH at August 15, 2018 10:06 PM (8kkL4)
Posted by: Ladyl at August 15, 2018 10:01 PM (TdMsT)
I've been working out.
Posted by: Larry the Lobster at August 15, 2018 10:06 PM (5jVnA)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 15, 2018 10:06 PM (km8m2)
Posted by: SMOD at August 15, 2018 10:06 PM (e8kgV)
Posted by: Eromero at August 15, 2018 10:06 PM (zLDYs)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 15, 2018 10:02 PM (uSlc
And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.
Posted by: Carl at August 15, 2018 10:07 PM (oFsfu)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 15, 2018 10:03 PM (6U3DW)
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He's dancin' in the chicken slacks
He's a movin' up and back
Oh man, there ain't nothin' like
Twistin' the night away
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 15, 2018 10:07 PM (uSlc8)
"What should I absolutely NOT do while visiting the USA?"
Two common answers:
- Assume Americans are stupid.
- Bring up politics, ever.
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 15, 2018 10:07 PM (km8m2)
Posted by: 2009Refugee at August 15, 2018 10:07 PM (2xR5z)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 15, 2018 10:03 PM (6U3DW)
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Yep.
My daughter is pretty far left, but if I suggested that her chickens should wear diapers so they can coexist with the family in the house, I'd be institutionalized with a quickness.
Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 15, 2018 10:07 PM (IsEQq)
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at August 15, 2018 10:07 PM (e9G8E)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 15, 2018 10:03 PM (LsBY9)
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I made it clear at the meetings I ran that this was not acceptable. If this was their intent they could just email us the phuching thing and save us all 30-45 minutes.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 15, 2018 10:07 PM (hoAFm)
It's all fun and games until somebody goes to the morgue.
Posted by: ALH at August 15, 2018 10:07 PM (8kkL4)
Posted by: Eromero at August 15, 2018 10:08 PM (zLDYs)
Posted by: Jewells45 at August 15, 2018 10:08 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: redridinghood at August 15, 2018 10:08 PM (hECVl)
Yeah, I see the trash can looking thing, but who wants to stick his dick in a trash can besides Charlie Sheen?
Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at August 15, 2018 10:09 PM (jp0Bv)
Each candidate was rated 1-10 on efficacy, toxicity, cost, packaging, etc.
The assembled brain trust assigned numbers to each candidate on each category, then added them up to decide that the winner - by a score of 41 to 40 - would go forward.
Sure, the shit was so toxic that by the time you pulled the needle out of grandma's arm she'd have slumped to the floor, but the packaging was kick-ass.
After the meeting, the brain trust was congratulating itself on going to an "objective" decision making method.
Meanwhile, I was looking for a rafter to throw a rope over to hang myself.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 15, 2018 10:09 PM (5tT0F)
Posted by: Eromero at August 15, 2018 10:08 PM (zLDYs)
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Huh.
Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 15, 2018 10:09 PM (IsEQq)
I just love it when I'm the last of five of presentations, each scheduled for 20 minutes. 45 minutes is spent on the first three. When it's my turn, I get asked if I can get through it in five minutes because the big boys have a hard stop at 10:00.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 15, 2018 10:10 PM (LsBY9)
Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at August 15, 2018 10:09 PM (jp0Bv)
Porta-potties are close. But whoa is the person who needs a purge a number 2
Posted by: auscolpyr at August 15, 2018 10:10 PM (oFsfu)
Fixed for truth.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 15, 2018 10:10 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 15, 2018 10:11 PM (/tuJf)
They should plant a ficus on top. That would fix it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 15, 2018 10:11 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, GECSPLAN, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at August 15, 2018 10:12 PM (fA1SL)
Posted by: Eromero at August 15, 2018 10:08 PM (zLDYs)
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What? Some of us would disagree with this statement.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 15, 2018 10:12 PM (hECVl)
"What should I absolutely NOT do while visiting the USA?"
Two common answers:
- Assume Americans are stupid.
- Bring up politics, ever.
The recently sterizled Lena Dunham
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at August 15, 2018 10:12 PM (UyvJX)
Posted by: Eromero at August 15, 2018 10:08 PM (zLDYs)
Yeah, who did that song?
Posted by: clutch at August 15, 2018 10:12 PM (kiSdp)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 15, 2018 10:13 PM (EZebt)
Posted by: Eromero at August 15, 2018 10:08 PM (zLDYs)
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Good Lord, ain't that the truth. I've got the College Cheerleader ex wife to prove it.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 15, 2018 10:13 PM (hoAFm)
It has become increasingly popular to unperson individuals for wrongthink because merely holding dissenting beliefs puts one beyond the pale of social acceptability. The corollary to this, of course, is that if you set up that standard that what you do or do not allow is coincident with one's personal values, then anything not eschewed is accepted consistent with, or at least considered acceptable enough to, your moral values.
http://politicalhat.com/?p=14878
Posted by: The Political Hat at August 15, 2018 10:13 PM (itfg0)
As in most things, one can have a reasonable debate over issues. However, sometimes there is such idiocy, such as this pithy little cartoon regarding unions, that deserve... a fisking!
http://politicalhat.com/?p=14824
Posted by: The Political Hat at August 15, 2018 10:13 PM (itfg0)
Crab stuffed salmon, rice, garden veggie quick pickle salad tonight... back your plates up to the USB...
Posted by: In Vino Veritits at August 15, 2018 10:13 PM (UFLLM)
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at August 15, 2018 10:05 PM (e9G8E)
Mid coast--Camden, Rockland, Owls Head, Belfast, Pemaquid, Boothbay, Bath, etc, My twin brother has a three story house on the water in Belfast, a six-seater twin engine plane and a cabin cruiser. I'm one lucky sis.
Posted by: Ladyl at August 15, 2018 10:13 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, GECSPLAN, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at August 15, 2018 10:12 PM (fA1SL)
Uncle, you should have been given an award for that.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 15, 2018 10:14 PM (EoRCO)
Posted by: Chlamydia at August 15, 2018 10:14 PM (uSlc8)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 15, 2018 10:13 PM (EZebt)
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No.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 15, 2018 10:14 PM (hECVl)
Posted by: Fritz at August 15, 2018 10:14 PM (CdLX2)
Posted by: Eromero at August 15, 2018 10:14 PM (zLDYs)
Two common answers:
- Assume Americans are stupid.
- Bring up politics, ever.
The recently sterilized Lena Dunham
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at August 15, 2018 10:12 PM (UyvJX)
I used to get the first of those all the time when I lived in Europe.
My response: "OK, we're stupid, but we're ahead of you, and by a lot. So you must be even MORE stupid."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 15, 2018 10:14 PM (5tT0F)
Posted by: In Vino Veritits at August 15, 2018 10:13 PM (UFLLM)
Mmmmmm. Crab....
Posted by: Ladyl at August 15, 2018 10:14 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: stonecutter at August 15, 2018 10:15 PM (8oKEQ)
Posted by: Fritz at August 15, 2018 10:14 PM (CdLX2)
I've long thought the latter.
And why doesn't he go by his birth name, Zimmerman?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 15, 2018 10:15 PM (5tT0F)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 15, 2018 10:15 PM (uSlc8)
Posted by: Eromero at August 15, 2018 10:16 PM (zLDYs)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 15, 2018 10:02 PM (uSlc
The Green Manalishi > Maharishi Mahesh Yogi > Dalai Lama
Posted by: rickl at August 15, 2018 10:16 PM (sdi6R)
And, a corporate recognition for doing my goddamned job - improving processes - without spending any money. Sad.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, GECSPLAN, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at August 15, 2018 10:16 PM (fA1SL)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 15, 2018 10:17 PM (EoRCO)
The boys is all sweet
The food ain't too shabby,
An' they piss in the street
In France
Way down in France
https://tinyurl.com/pageym2
Posted by: Guy who relates everything to a Zappa song at August 15, 2018 10:17 PM (UdKB7)
I have a question: how does one square support for unions on one hand with anti-trust laws for corporations on the other hand?
I mean, apart from hitting those raising this question over the head with pipes?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 15, 2018 10:17 PM (5tT0F)
- Touch people.
- Video-record everything everywhere you go.
- Get out of the car if you're pulled over by police.
Uh, yeah...
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 15, 2018 10:17 PM (km8m2)
Posted by: stonecutter at August 15, 2018 10:15 PM (8oKEQ)
That was before Trump. Coincidence?
Posted by: ALH at August 15, 2018 10:17 PM (8kkL4)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 15, 2018 10:17 PM (CDGwz)
"How many of the applicants are above average?"
"What should we focus on? EVERYTHING!"
"We're going to a system that makes decisions based on having all the facts."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity
You left out blah blah blah paradigm.
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 15, 2018 10:17 PM (+lVUW)
People keep saying that I'll miss civilization once it collapses, but I'm starting to have doubts.
Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at August 15, 2018 10:18 PM (H5knJ)
Bring up politics, ever.
Only happened once with my co-workers when I lived in England. My response was so disproportionately savage that the subject never came up again.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 15, 2018 10:18 PM (LsBY9)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero)
Ever try to install a flushing toilet in a VW?
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 15, 2018 10:18 PM (km8m2)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 15, 2018 10:17 PM (CDGwz)
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Sarlacc's of Needles is supposed to have a great sushi bar.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 15, 2018 10:18 PM (uSlc8)
Posted by: Cap'n Billy at August 15, 2018 10:18 PM (jDF8P)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 15, 2018 10:03 PM (LsBY9)
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I made it clear at the meetings I ran that this was not acceptable. If this was their intent they could just email us the phuching thing and save us all 30-45 minutes.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 15, 2018 10:07 PM
I had a "professor" in college who read aloud the first chapter of the textbook in the first lecture. I don't know if he changed since I only attended the classes that had tests, but it was an easy class to pass, and it saved me a few hours a week.
Posted by: Chuck C at August 15, 2018 10:19 PM (YTxkQ)
Here he is talking about Robert Spencer being removed from Patreon; turns out it was MasterCard that demanded it!
https://youtu.be/jtAMTeo_GJw
Tim also brings up the possibility that some jihadist government may have threatened to ban MasterCard from operating within its borders if they didn't cut off Spencer, which is also a scary idea. Some foreign government doesn't like you? They can now pressure a credit card company to deny you basic transactions. If that's what happened, I'm guessing it was our "ally" Turkey, since they're being major-league assholes right now over an American citizen that they currently have imprisoned.
I think it's time to add credit card companies to the list of corporations that we should start considering public utilities, and regulating as such.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler, Super-Elite at August 15, 2018 10:19 PM (wSC8T)
98 I always go the middle of the desert when I want fresh lobster. Is that a bad idea?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 15, 2018 10:17 PM (CDGwz)
The way I see it--if more folks would just travel to the desert for lobster, the more lobster will be available to me on the coast.
Posted by: Ladyl at August 15, 2018 10:19 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 15, 2018 10:19 PM (EoRCO)
Posted by: Chuck C at August 15, 2018 10:20 PM (YTxkQ)
That motel looks like something from the "The Lost Room".
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 15, 2018 10:20 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: rickl at August 15, 2018 10:16 PM (sdi6R)
That's deep. But I cannot help but think of a snail.
Posted by: auscolpyr at August 15, 2018 10:20 PM (oFsfu)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 15, 2018 10:02 PM (uSlc
The Green Manalishi > Maharishi Mahesh Yogi > Dalai Lama
Posted by: rickl at August 15, 2018 10:16 PM (sdi6R)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTvKaLW5bu8
Posted by: The Green Manalishi (With The Two Pronged Hat) at August 15, 2018 10:20 PM (itfg0)
Posted by: Burger Chef at August 15, 2018 10:21 PM (RuIsu)
Posted by: RickZ at August 15, 2018 10:21 PM (8lsuS)
"If you want to be happy for the rest of your life,
Make an ugly woman your wife!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rpu84-t2dI
Couldn't find the original recorded by Roaring Lion in 1934.
Posted by: Acting Chairman Hrothgar at August 15, 2018 10:21 PM (n9EOP)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 15, 2018 10:21 PM (EZebt)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop
I know someone who has fancy chickens as pets but they keep them in a coop outdoors.
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 15, 2018 10:22 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: cfo mom at August 15, 2018 10:22 PM (RfzVr)
Posted by: Miley the Duchess at August 15, 2018 10:22 PM (txw6d)
Posted by: ALH at August 15, 2018 10:22 PM (8kkL4)
Another time waster: mandatory! online training. With little quizzes at the end that anyone with an ounce of common sense could pass.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 15, 2018 10:22 PM (LsBY9)
Posted by: Miley the Duchess at August 15, 2018 10:22 PM (txw6d)
Dahlin'!
Posted by: Ladyl at August 15, 2018 10:22 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear
Fixed it up myself! Mother showed me how.
Posted by: Norman Bates at August 15, 2018 10:22 PM (km8m2)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 15, 2018 10:22 PM (+lVUW)
*drools*
Posted by: Wile E. Coyote at August 15, 2018 10:23 PM (oFsfu)
Master card is the only Non Credit credit card...
Thus, non Haram...
Posted by: Don Q. at August 15, 2018 10:23 PM (NgKpN)
Who maintains any access to a former employers' stuff? No one, that's who.
I watched cnn today. Wowza.
unprecedented
twisted mofos. Is that the first question in the interview? Real answer and then we're sorry gtfo blasphemer or well we appreciate your blatant dishonesty, can you start doing word salad for us, say, on Monday next?
well beyond anything like topsy-turvy.
Posted by: micky at August 15, 2018 10:23 PM (dF9Lb)
Go with your first thought.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 15, 2018 10:24 PM (/tuJf)
I'm in Colorado, and looking to travel in Wyoming. NRA says this is a "green zone..." as in, I can put my guns in the trunk, lock them up, and blast away when I get to the beautiful state of Wyoming. Is this accurate?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 15, 2018 10:24 PM (UiRxW)
I liked the MREs I've eaten before, they're so dense and rich that its like a full day's meal.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 15, 2018 10:24 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 15, 2018 10:24 PM (+lVUW)
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The French won't tolerate a public urinal but entire neighborhoods full of raping muslim barbarians is hunky dory.
Got it.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 15, 2018 10:24 PM (uSlc8)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 15, 2018 10:22 PM (LsBY9)
Love my peers who insist on watching the entire 1 hour video for 4 questions that a quick internet search could answer. But again, that job is in the public sector, the lowest of the low iq wise. Including admin.
Posted by: auscolpyr at August 15, 2018 10:25 PM (oFsfu)
Posted by: Iasonas at August 15, 2018 10:26 PM (MIvRT)
Go with your first thought.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 15, 2018 10:24 PM (/tuJf)
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That would have been fine, but then he "sang" that stuff. *shudders*
Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 15, 2018 10:26 PM (hoAFm)
Burning Citroens are just so avant garde!
Posted by: Acting Chairman Hrothgar at August 15, 2018 10:26 PM (n9EOP)
Posted by: Jewells45 at August 15, 2018 10:08 PM (dUJdY)
Some place out west where the wild sun sets and the coyote bays at the moon.
Posted by: Chuck C at August 15, 2018 10:27 PM (YTxkQ)
Posted by: Chuck C at August 15, 2018 10:27 PM (YTxkQ)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 15, 2018 10:27 PM (uSlc8)
Posted by: jhawk90 at August 15, 2018 10:27 PM (v6yFw)
Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 15, 2018 10:27 PM (IsEQq)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
Check Wyoming's state slogan, Yud!:
"Wyoming: where you can shoot someone in the face and it's all nice and legal"
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 15, 2018 10:27 PM (km8m2)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, GECSPLAN, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at August 15, 2018 10:28 PM (fA1SL)
I'll be in Vegas starting tomorrow for the weekend.
Let me know if you want a beer.
Posted by: Iasonas at August 15, 2018 10:26 PM (MIvRT)
I'll be there.
As is standard, offer of a tasty beverage of your choice is outstanding.
Posted by: The Political Hat at August 15, 2018 10:29 PM (itfg0)
Why do some people cling stubbornly to life, when all that life consists of is eating Lean Cuisine while mindlessly staring at Fox News Channel, and sleeping for 16 hours a day?
My mother has become a cat, but she won't even use a litter box.
Posted by: Miley the Duchess at August 15, 2018 10:29 PM (txw6d)
The kids complained to their teacher. "WTF?!?? You couldn't afford to hire a REAL singer??" ;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 15, 2018 10:29 PM (km8m2)
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at August 15, 2018 10:29 PM (e9G8E)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 15, 2018 10:29 PM (km8m2)
They told me that too.
Posted by: Bruce Springsteen at August 15, 2018 10:30 PM (oFsfu)
Not the voice, words and music.
https://tinyurl.com/y7ctf99q
Posted by: JackStraw at August 15, 2018 10:30 PM (/tuJf)
Why do some people cling stubbornly to life, when all that life consists of is eating Lean Cuisine while mindlessly staring at Fox News Channel, and sleeping for 16 hours a day?
My mother has become a cat, but she won't even use a litter box.
Posted by: Miley the Duchess at August 15, 2018 10:29 PM (txw6d)
Miley, I'm so sorry.
Posted by: Ladyl at August 15, 2018 10:30 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Burger Chef at August 15, 2018 10:31 PM (RuIsu)
Sounds great! Do you still have the same cell number? I think I tried texting you a while back and the message failed or something.
Posted by: Iasonas at August 15, 2018 10:31 PM (MIvRT)
https://tinyurl.com/y7ctf99q
Posted by: JackStraw at August 15, 2018 10:30 PM (/tuJf)
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Oh, I know. I was actually agreeing with you.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 15, 2018 10:31 PM (hoAFm)
Posted by: jhawk90 at August 15, 2018 10:27 PM (v6yFw)
Oh--the wild blueberries. I can't wait.
Posted by: Ladyl at August 15, 2018 10:32 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 15, 2018 10:32 PM (IqV8l)
Darwin Award winners all (well, I can only hope they don't reproduce).
As one YouBoob comment stated: There is no lifeguard at the gene pool.
There are however lawyers ready to sue the transit authority for millions if sonny boy gets himself splattered all over the tracks because THEY SHOULD'VE BEEN STOPPED!!!
Posted by: tu3031 at August 15, 2018 10:32 PM (jDF8P)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 15, 2018 10:20 PM
Great series. Wish it would get another run on tv.
Posted by: otho at August 15, 2018 10:32 PM (LkFnL)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 15, 2018 10:27 PM (km8m2)
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If this is true, I'm moving to Wyoming, where the good, dependable face-shooters live.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 15, 2018 10:32 PM (UiRxW)
Posted by: Miley the Duchess at August 15, 2018 10:29 PM (txw6d)
I won't use the litter box either!
*sprays urine*
Posted by: Surfperch's Improperly Castrated Cat at August 15, 2018 10:32 PM (AcZtS)
Posted by: Burger Chef at August 15, 2018 10:31 PM (RuIsu)
We had a meeting to learn how to have better, more effective meetings.
Free bagels and coffee, though. Good, too.
Posted by: hogmartin at August 15, 2018 10:32 PM (y87Qq)
Once. After that, I actively began plotting my escape from Meeting Hell.
It turns out, getting fired isn't all that hard if you try.
Posted by: GnuBreed at August 15, 2018 10:32 PM (0ogQG)
H/T Insty
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11218
Posted by: Acting Chairman Hrothgar at August 15, 2018 10:32 PM (n9EOP)
Posted by: Surfperch at August 15, 2018 10:33 PM (AcZtS)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 15, 2018 10:34 PM (89T5c)
Posted by: In Vino Veritits at August 15, 2018 10:34 PM (UFLLM)
Why do some people cling stubbornly to life, when all that life consists of is eating Lean Cuisine while mindlessly staring at Fox News Channel, and sleeping for 16 hours a day?
My mother has become a cat, but she won't even use a litter box.
Posted by: Miley the Duchess at August 15, 2018 10:29 PM (txw6d)
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Considering the strained relationship I have with my mom, I don't have any words of wisdom, but I do feel for you.
Prayers up to you (and your few remaining nerves).
Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 15, 2018 10:35 PM (IsEQq)
But I like Dylan's, which was written for the film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.
You can tell it's written as part of a film score, with its spare lyrics.
Posted by: Les Kinetic at August 15, 2018 10:35 PM (qY6A4)
Posted by: jhawk90
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So, you avoided Narragansett beer. Smart move.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 15, 2018 10:35 PM (xSo9G)
Posted by: Surfperch at August 15, 2018 10:35 PM (AcZtS)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 15, 2018 10:34 PM (89T5c)
Actually I blame the lawyers for that one!
Posted by: Acting Chairman Hrothgar at August 15, 2018 10:35 PM (n9EOP)
"And whatever you do, NEVER pick up Queen Elizabeth II and lift her above your head"
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 15, 2018 10:36 PM (km8m2)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 15, 2018 10:34 PM (89T5c)
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We once had a 4 hour meeting like that. My big takeaway was to not keep your wallet in your back pocket while sitting.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 15, 2018 10:36 PM (hoAFm)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 15, 2018 10:34 PM (89T5c)
Do you happen to work in Bentonville, AR? *someone who fell asleep during a 2hr safety cbl*
Posted by: auscolpyr at August 15, 2018 10:36 PM (oFsfu)
Usually it's garters and stockings, or a frenchmaid outfit, or cheerleader uniform...
Posted by: The Chicken at August 15, 2018 10:37 PM (JCmKL)
Posted by: The Chicken at August 15, 2018 10:37 PM (JCmKL)
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Cock
A
Doodle Dooo, baby
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 15, 2018 10:38 PM (uSlc8)
The boss decided to host us all at a winery the night before and bought us all unlimited wine. Seeing as how 90% of us are ex or current bartenders, it got quite a bit lively.
We got a bit out of sorts at the hotel later at 4 a.m. with the help of a couple of bottles of Jager. We were holding office chair races around the hotel, through the lobby, up the elevators, etc.
Things took a turn for the worse when the hotel clerk called the police and two of my co-workers were arrested. Boss had to be called to bail them out for P.I.
The next morning the meeting line-up included a pep talk from the boss as well as a lecture by his "life coach". Several trainers sleeping, one had to vomit. Life coach seemed confused, boss was extremely pissed.
Next year, annual meeting by Skype.
Our jobs: training employees in the responsible service of alcohol.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 15, 2018 10:38 PM (+ypLs)
Posted by: The Chicken at August 15, 2018 10:38 PM (JCmKL)
https://youtu.be/5pPp3ynFUKw
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, GECSPLAN, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at August 15, 2018 10:39 PM (fA1SL)
Usually it's garters and stockings, or a frenchmaid outfit, or cheerleader uniform...
Posted by: The Chicken at August 15, 2018 10:37 PM (JCmKL)
Yeppers.
Posted by: Ernie Anastos at August 15, 2018 10:39 PM (oFsfu)
I did entertain questions from time to time when I was in a benevolent mood...
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at August 15, 2018 10:39 PM (e9G8E)
Posted by: Miley the Duchess at August 15, 2018 10:39 PM (txw6d)
*sprays urine all over the leg of Surfperch's Sofa*
Posted by: Surfperch's Improperly Castrated Cat at August 15, 2018 10:40 PM (AcZtS)
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What? You excluded the minions and henchpersons?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 15, 2018 10:40 PM (uSlc8)
Posted by: Miley the Duchess at August 15, 2018 10:40 PM (txw6d)
Posted by: Miley the Duchess at August 15, 2018 10:39 PM (txw6d)
I'm going to Maine in a bit.
Posted by: Ladyl at August 15, 2018 10:41 PM (TdMsT)
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Don't understand that.
If job requires it, it gets done on the clock.
If job doesn't require it, leave me alone.
Posted by: dDan at August 15, 2018 10:41 PM (hwYmz)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 15, 2018 10:41 PM (UiRxW)
Sounds great! Do you still have the same cell number? I think I tried texting you a while back and the message failed or something.
Posted by: Iasonas at August 15, 2018 10:31 PM (MIvRT)
Same number. Texting works fine but leaving a verbal message doesn't work.
Posted by: The Political Hat at August 15, 2018 10:41 PM (itfg0)
*sprays urine*
Posted by: Surfperch's Improperly Castrated Cat at August 15, 2018 10:32 PM (AcZtS)
This isn't funny. One of my brother's cats sprays all over the place.
Posted by: Miley the Duchess at August 15, 2018 10:41 PM (txw6d)
Can't go wrong with the Leningrad Cowboys!
Posted by: Acting Chairman Hrothgar at August 15, 2018 10:41 PM (n9EOP)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 15, 2018 10:41 PM (89T5c)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 15, 2018 10:42 PM (uDgsO)
Posted by: Grump928(c) at August 15, 2018 10:43 PM (yQpMk)
Prayers up to you (and your few remaining nerves).
Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 15, 2018 10:35 PM (IsEQq)
My narcissistic mother still inspires within me misguided urges to make her life better. I'm a sick puppy.
Posted by: Miley the Duchess at August 15, 2018 10:43 PM (txw6d)
Posted by: Ladyl at August 15, 2018 10:43 PM (TdMsT)
Nowadays, if you settle for a woman who's lower than you on the attractiveness scale, she'll just think you're not quite as cool as you seem, and that she's cooler than she thinks she is. She will actually convince herself that she's the one who settled, and that she could do so much better than being with you.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler, Super-Elite at August 15, 2018 10:43 PM (wSC8T)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 15, 2018 10:44 PM (km8m2)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, GECSPLAN, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at August 15, 2018 10:44 PM (fA1SL)
Posted by: Ladyl at August 15, 2018 10:41 PM (TdMsT)
I'm so happy for you, honey!
Posted by: Miley the Duchess at August 15, 2018 10:44 PM (txw6d)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 15, 2018 10:44 PM (km8m2)
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Administered rectally, I hope.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 15, 2018 10:44 PM (uSlc8)
Posted by: Miley the Duchess at August 15, 2018 10:43 PM (txw6d)
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Totally normal. Don't even worry about it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 15, 2018 10:44 PM (UiRxW)
The old ways are best...
too bad we refuse to learn from centuries of experience!
Posted by: Acting Chairman Hrothgar at August 15, 2018 10:44 PM (n9EOP)
Posted by: John McCain's Diaper at August 15, 2018 10:44 PM (JCmKL)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 15, 2018 10:45 PM (km8m2)
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at August 15, 2018 10:07 PM (e9G8E)
Bagwan, bag two; they're varmints, no limit.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 15, 2018 10:45 PM (LI7AQ)
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y6vqczzs
What's actually kind of unbelievable is all the writing on leftist sites about how great it still was, that it was just a sad accident. Some even say things like, "this is the very first time any progressive vegan millennial bicyclist couples from America have been horribly murdered in Tajikistan during the summer! It's a FLUKE!!" NYtimes, the jezebel sites, washpost, they're all just so very surprised, and sad, sad and surprised.
Posted by: bananadream at August 15, 2018 10:45 PM (YR7aL)
Posted by: Miley the Duchess at August 15, 2018 10:45 PM (txw6d)
Posted by: rickl at August 15, 2018 10:46 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 15, 2018 10:46 PM (km8m2)
The boss decided to host us all at a winery the night before and bought us all unlimited wine. Seeing as how 90% of us are ex or current bartenders, it got quite a bit lively.
We got a bit out of sorts at the hotel later at 4 a.m. with the help of a couple of bottles of Jager. We were holding office chair races around the hotel, through the lobby, up the elevators, etc.
Things took a turn for the worse when the hotel clerk called the police and two of my co-workers were arrested. Boss had to be called to bail them out for P.I.
The next morning the meeting line-up included a pep talk from the boss as well as a lecture by his "life coach". Several trainers sleeping, one had to vomit. Life coach seemed confused, boss was extremely pissed.
Next year, annual meeting by Skype.
Our jobs: training employees in the responsible service of alcohol.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 15, 2018 10:38 PM (+ypLs)
LMAO, Perfect
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at August 15, 2018 10:47 PM (UyvJX)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 15, 2018 10:45 PM (km8m2)
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Yeah. It's less about nutrition than about just fucking with the miserable POS.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 15, 2018 10:48 PM (uSlc8)
But I like Dylan's, which was written for the film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.
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Easy for you to say.
Posted by: Slim Pickens at August 15, 2018 10:48 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 15, 2018 10:40 PM
Well... 'minions and henchpersons' would assume some sort of active voluntary collaboration, and that isn't really my thing!
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at August 15, 2018 10:48 PM (e9G8E)
Posted by: Les Kinetic at August 15, 2018 10:48 PM (qY6A4)
They always began Friday evenings and ended at 1:00 p.m. Sunday, because why hold them during the time they actually pay you for?
Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 15, 2018 10:49 PM (hoAFm)
Yeah, I see the trash can looking thing, but who wants to stick his dick in a trash can besides Charlie Sheen?
Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at August 15, 2018 10:09 PM (jp0Bv)
Paris be stupid. Instead of paying who knows how much for those stupid "eco-pissoirs" filled with straw, they could just let a contract to provide standard porta-potties at strategic sites across the city. Then women could use them, too. Change 'em out for clean ones about 0500 every morning.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 15, 2018 10:49 PM (LI7AQ)
So what you're saying is I'm doing it wrong.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 15, 2018 10:49 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Max Power at August 15, 2018 10:49 PM (QCc6B)
Posted by: Miley the Duchess at August 15, 2018 10:41 PM (txw6d)
Sorry.
Posted by: Surfperch at August 15, 2018 10:49 PM (AcZtS)
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Was second prize still a set of steak knives?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 15, 2018 10:50 PM (uSlc8)
Posted by: Miley the Duchess at August 15, 2018 10:52 PM (txw6d)
A progressive vegetarian millennial couple (not satire) went biking across ISIS territory to show us squares how stupid our concept of "bad guys" and "terrorists" are. "Evil is a make-believe concept we've invented to deal with the complexities of fellow humans.", they wrote. You'll never believe what happened next:
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y6vqczzs
Ah yes, Simpletons Cycling
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 15, 2018 10:52 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Max Power at August 15, 2018 10:49 PM (QCc6B)
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Someone should bring in Grrrrl Jeenyuss Chelsea Clinton for a consult on this.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 15, 2018 10:52 PM (uSlc8)
Posted by: Insomniac at August 15, 2018 10:52 PM (NWiLs)
"eco-pissoirs" filled with straw, they could just let a contract to
provide standard porta-potties at strategic sites across the city. Then
women could use them, too. Change 'em out for clean ones about 0500
every morning.
They burn good like cars?
Posted by: Ahmed at August 15, 2018 10:53 PM (JCmKL)
This time I plan to do a great job, and work really hard. But back in the 1980s for a short time, I was the world's worst wedding videographer.
When the couples who hired me in the 1980s got back their VHS, the viewing usually went like this:
"Let's congratulate Bill and Jen on their wedding! Here's highlights of the blessed traditional ceremony."
Graphic: *SCENE MISSING*
"And then there was the beautiful reception! Here's some of Bill and Jen's best friends wishing them well..."
Graphic: *SCENE MISSING*
"And don't forget the incredible, heartfelt toasts! Let's go to the video clips..."
Graphic: *SCENE MISSING*
[and so on...]
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 15, 2018 10:54 PM (km8m2)
Posted by: Insomniac at August 15, 2018 10:49 PM (NWiLs)
You should move to my mom and brother's house. I'll feed you and give you your meds, if you take any. If you're good, we'll put the top down on the Mustang and go for a ride.
Posted by: Miley the Duchess at August 15, 2018 10:54 PM (txw6d)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 15, 2018 10:50 PM (uSlc
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Not even first prize. Continued employment was the participation trophy everyone got.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 15, 2018 10:54 PM (hoAFm)
Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at August 15, 2018 10:54 PM (H5knJ)
Posted by: Miley the Duchess at August 15, 2018 10:41 PM (txw6d)
Sorry.
Posted by: Surfperch at August 15, 2018 10:49 PM (AcZtS)
*Surf's cat jumps up on desk, sprays all over computer*
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 15, 2018 10:55 PM (km8m2)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear
I really liked that show - there was something very unique about it. Stands out in my mind even today.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 15, 2018 10:55 PM (V2Yro)
across ISIS territory to show us squares how stupid our concept of "bad
guys" and "terrorists" are. "Evil is a make-believe concept we've
invented to deal with the complexities of fellow humans.", they wrote.
You'll never believe what happened next:
Evil as a "concept":
[ ] Correct
[ ] Incorrect
Posted by: tu3031 at August 15, 2018 10:55 PM (jDF8P)
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I posted a nasty rejoinder to CC's nasty post. When I checked it, it showed up. When my brother checked, it didn't appear. The really do censor this shit.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 15, 2018 10:56 PM (UiRxW)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 15, 2018 10:17 PM (CDGwz)
"Hey honey, nice tits!"
Posted by: Desert Lobster at August 15, 2018 10:56 PM (LI7AQ)
I'm kind of looking forward to throwing away that litter box and never needing it again.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler, Super-Elite at August 15, 2018 10:56 PM (wSC8T)
feed you and give you your meds, if you take any. If you're good, we'll
put the top down on the Mustang and go for a ride.
Posted by: Miley the Duchess at August 15, 2018 10:54 PM
So, the drunken, naked, interstate crime spree could still happen???
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at August 15, 2018 10:56 PM (e9G8E)
Tough Mama. Yea, Garcia. They were good friends.
https://tinyurl.com/ybcc7d6e
Posted by: JackStraw at August 15, 2018 10:57 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 15, 2018 10:49 PM (LI7AQ)
They'd probably home to refugees in minutes or burning courtesy of the local youths.
Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at August 15, 2018 10:57 PM (jp0Bv)
I can't remember. Did they resolve it, or just leave it open at the end? I remember they found the actual motel where the Room had winked out of our spacetime, and the Occupant. There was the Event, which caused the Room to become what it was.
But I can't remember if it was resolved.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 15, 2018 10:57 PM (8O3HH)
It was Jimmy Soul.
I liked Ernie better.....
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 15, 2018 10:19 PM (EoRCO)
Was Jimmy Soul a calypso guy? That song was a big calypso hit in the 1950's.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 15, 2018 10:58 PM (LI7AQ)
Don't understand that.
If job requires it, it gets done on the clock.
If job doesn't require it, leave me alone.
Posted by: dDan at August 15, 2018 10:41 PM (hwYmz)
>>>This. They tried that at the place I retired from. A few people did it, but most of us were of the mind that if the company wanted it done, it would be on their dime. "You expect me to work while I am being paid and I expect to be paid while doing company business."
Posted by: cfo mom at August 15, 2018 10:58 PM (RfzVr)
Worse, she's bad to ride the clutch, from what I hear.
Our Duchess is a dirty clutch rider.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 15, 2018 10:59 PM (8O3HH)
across ISIS territory to show us squares how stupid our concept of "bad
guys" and "terrorists" are. "Evil is a make-believe concept we've
invented to deal with the complexities of fellow humans.", they wrote.
You'll never believe what happened next:
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That was the feel-good story of the week, at least as far as the smug, stupid libtard guy was concerned. I felt kind of sorry for his girlfriend though.
Say what you will about Timothy Treadwell, but at least he didn't supply a chick to be the bear's dessert.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 15, 2018 10:59 PM (uSlc8)
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This picture from the linked article https://preview.tinyurl.com/ycbjf5yc
reminds me of the couple in the Paul Shanklin video, 'In A Yugo'. http://tinyurl.com/oucjfjv
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 15, 2018 10:59 PM (CDGwz)
Going around the table, the in-house tech writers complained about the s/w engineer's changing the country codes.
Each and everyone of them. For about 30 minutes. Each.
It got to me and for my status, I said that yes, I had heard that the country codes were changing, so I called the engineer and asked what the new codes were and had updated my document already.
Dead silence.
I then got yelled at for not following the protocol of asking my manager to talk to the coder's manager to request the coder give him the new codes to give to my manager to give the codes to me.
I didn't last long at that job and was grateful ...
Posted by: Adriane the Status Meetiing from Hell Critic ... at August 15, 2018 10:59 PM (AoK0a)
Posted by: Insomniac at August 15, 2018 10:49 PM (NWiLs)
I laughed way too hard at this.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 15, 2018 11:00 PM (rnAwa)
Another time waster: mandatory! online training. With little quizzes at the end that anyone with an ounce of common sense could pass.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 15, 2018 10:22 PM (LsBY9)
Those are always fun. I especially like the ones with the videos.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 15, 2018 11:00 PM (6U3DW)
Posted by: Eromero at August 15, 2018 11:00 PM (zLDYs)
Posted by: Cicero
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Yes he did.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 15, 2018 11:01 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: cfo mom at August 15, 2018 10:58 PM (RfzVr)
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Unfortunately, that doesn't cut it at most places anymore. The Obama years gave employers great leverage in demanding more out of people for the same $.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 15, 2018 11:01 PM (hoAFm)
"Reality is that which doesn't go away when you stop believing in it." - Philip K. Dick
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 15, 2018 11:01 PM (V2Yro)
Posted by: cfo mom at August 15, 2018 10:22 PM (RfzVr)
I suspect that that poor guy will be getting a fairer shake soon, if not already. Ontario had an election, and the Demented Dyke got thrown out (convincingly) and the Ontario Conservative Party, under leader Doug Ford, has become the Provincial government. I doubt they are big fans of assisted suicide, at all.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 15, 2018 11:02 PM (LI7AQ)
Posted by: Cicero
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Yes he did.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 15, 2018 11:01 PM (CDGwz)
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It wasn't Rachel Corrie, was it?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 15, 2018 11:03 PM (uSlc8)
Posted by: Max Power at August 15, 2018 11:04 PM (QCc6B)
have been addressed with a couple of emails and maybe a five to ten
minute phone call.
It's my believe that meetings get called because extrovert manager types get lonely. You don't see us grunts, shoved 4-6 at a time into a single cubical calling meetings. No, it's the guy in his own office bored of mine sweeper that calls it.
When you dig deep enough you finally get them to say something like, "Well I just wanted to get everyone together to...". Stop, I get it, you're lonely. I'll entertain you for a short while then I need to get back to work. Would a puppet show suffice?
Posted by: bananadream at August 15, 2018 11:04 PM (YR7aL)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 15, 2018 11:04 PM (rnAwa)
The sexual harassment ones were the best. I think they were filmed by Fucking Idiot Inc.
Posted by: tu3031 at August 15, 2018 11:04 PM (jDF8P)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 15, 2018 10:22 PM (LsBY9)
Those are always fun. I especially like the ones with the videos.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 15, 2018 11:00 PM (6U3DW)
Had to do that to renew my Notary. Only it was more like cartoons. Total joke since I have been a Notary since '96. CO Sec of State. Govm't of course.
Posted by: Infidel at August 15, 2018 11:04 PM (93aYF)
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y6vqczzs
Wasn't there some dummy who did something stupid like this with bears, and got eaten?
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 15, 2018 11:05 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: Cicero
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Yes he did.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 15, 2018 11:01 PM (CDGwz)
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It wasn't Rachel Corrie, was it?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 15, 2018 11:03 PM (uSlc
Contrary to his father's disbelief he did amount to a pile of shit.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 15, 2018 11:07 PM (zvNQj)
There is supposedly a phenomenal Big Countyy/U2 duet locked in U2's vaults
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 15, 2018 11:07 PM (hw0h/)
Posted by: Cicero
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Amie Huguenard, about whom we hear nothing.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 15, 2018 11:08 PM (xSo9G)
Did not know this. Chivalry, it seems, is dead.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 15, 2018 11:08 PM (uSlc8)
But I can't remember if it was resolved."
As I recall, the protagonist (the detective) who was trying to find his daughter, who had become lost in The Room, finally met the Occupant, thinking that would solve everything. But instead, the Occupant said his life was hell, and he begged for death. He asked the Detective to kill him, but any time an Object was destroyed, a new one had to take its place. The Detective gave him his wish, but then he became the new Occupant. He was able to release his daughter, and that was how it ended.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 15, 2018 11:10 PM (V2Yro)
I concur.
"Don't do...[ slams into road, whomp, ohh] that!"
Then again, it also bears some resemblence to the motel John Carpenter used in "Vampires".
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at August 15, 2018 11:10 PM (j0Oc6)
We once had a 4 hour meeting like that. My big takeaway was to not keep your wallet in your back pocket while sitting.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 15, 2018 10:36 PM (hoAFm)
Nor your service weapon.
Posted by: Shylock at August 15, 2018 11:11 PM (brIR5)
https://tinyurl.com/y9qoz2gc
I wonder what George will say?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 15, 2018 11:11 PM (/tuJf)
Yep, I think it was mentioned up above, Timothy Treadwell. That was the first thing it reminded me of too. As a couple you can lead each other to a better place in life, or this...
Posted by: bananadream at August 15, 2018 11:11 PM (YR7aL)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, GECSPLAN, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at August 15, 2018 11:11 PM (fA1SL)
Posted by: Ahmed at August 15, 2018 10:53 PM (JCmKL)
Ill bet the fresh straw would catch fire if a burning cigarette butt were to be tossed into it. Of course, nobody smokes in Paris.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 15, 2018 11:11 PM (LI7AQ)
anymore. The Obama years gave employers great leverage in demanding more
out of people for the same $.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 15, 2018 11:01 PM (hoAFm){
Interesting. What do they do about people who do not have a computer with internet access or a smart phone? Just force them to stay after work and do the training on their own time?
Posted by: cfo mom at August 15, 2018 11:12 PM (RfzVr)
His girlfriend was afraid of bears. Smart.
He put his campsite next to the river where Salmon were jumping and food was scarce that summer.
Wow, this guy was pretty smert.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 15, 2018 11:12 PM (6U3DW)
Posted by: Shylock at August 15, 2018 11:13 PM (brIR5)
Posted by: Miley the Duchess at August 15, 2018 10:54 PM (txw6d)
I can handle the meds. Ride with the top down sounds good though.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 15, 2018 11:13 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 15, 2018 11:08 PM (uSlc
Fucking Trump.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 15, 2018 11:13 PM (5jVnA)
Thank. I think I remember that now. I remember now about the missing daughter, who disappeared when the Room reset.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 15, 2018 11:14 PM (8O3HH)
Go with your first thought.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 15, 2018 10:24 PM (/tuJf)
Nah. Go with the second thought. He was the music world's answer to PeeWee Herman.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 15, 2018 11:14 PM (5tT0F)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1029776239677112321
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1029776319704432641
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1029776403007504385
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1029776535341989888
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1029776629374087169
Posted by: kbdabear at August 15, 2018 11:14 PM (0Ntuf)
Posted by: John Brennan at August 15, 2018 11:14 PM (km8m2)
His girlfriend was afraid of bears. Smart.
He put his campsite next to the river where Salmon were jumping and food was scarce that summer.
Wow, this guy was pretty smert.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 15, 2018 11:12 PM (6U3DW)
Darwin nods.
His girlfriend wasn't smart enough to avoid being the appetizer at Chez Ursine.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 15, 2018 11:15 PM (5tT0F)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 15, 2018 11:15 PM (6U3DW)
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 15, 2018 11:13 PM (5jVnA)
LOL
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 15, 2018 11:15 PM (uSlc8)
Posted by: Bob Dylan At the Dinner Table at August 15, 2018 11:15 PM (JCmKL)
I feel naked without my security clearance!
Posted by: John Brennan
Sit down on the white ottoman.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 15, 2018 11:16 PM (IqV8l)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1029776808508571648
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1029776708742914054
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1029776899466317825
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1029776993016000512
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1029777073915797512
Posted by: kbdabear at August 15, 2018 11:16 PM (0Ntuf)
Posted by: John Brennan
All the better to be sodomized by the barbed cock of Satan, which is the fate you richly deserve, you narcissistic Islamophile commie.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 15, 2018 11:16 PM (8O3HH)
As a guy, I'm rather fond of 'Wildpinkeln' (outdoor peeing), but admittedly I generally do not relieve myself thusly in urban areas.
Posted by: Homu at August 15, 2018 11:17 PM (Dumyc)
Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at August 15, 2018 11:17 PM (H5knJ)
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y6vqczzs
Darwin nods again, and notes that they hadn't reproduced.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 15, 2018 11:17 PM (5tT0F)
Mama, won't you take this badge from me-ee-hee;
I just can't wear it, anymo-ho-orrre!
It's gettin' daaarrrk, too dark to seeyeee...
Feels like knockin' on Heaven's do-ho-oooorrrr.
Yes.
It's like I'm knocki-in'!
(ah, ah, ah, ah)
Knockin' on Heaven's do-oh-wor, yeah-eah-ah!
Ooh!
It's like I'm knocki-in'!
(ah, ah, ah, ah)
Knockin' on Heaven's doo-o-o-o-wor, ah, oh, oh, yeah!
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler, Super-Elite at August 15, 2018 11:17 PM (wSC8T)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 15, 2018 11:17 PM (+y/Ru)
I don't blame the people who are objecting to the open air urinals in Paris. I wouldn't want to see men pissing right next to Notre Dame Cathedral. They used to have enclosed pissoirs on the streets which men could use without doing it in front of the world. The ladies just had to hold it, I guess.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V. at August 15, 2018 11:17 PM (H80UQ)
Posted by: John Brennan
True fact: John Brennan naked is indistinguishable from a shaved shar pei.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 15, 2018 11:18 PM (5jVnA)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 15, 2018 11:18 PM (km8m2)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, GECSPLAN, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at August 15, 2018 11:18 PM (fA1SL)
*ok, I DO denounce myself for that one.*
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 15, 2018 11:15 PM (6U3DW)
I can bearly cope with it myself.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 15, 2018 11:18 PM (5tT0F)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 15, 2018 11:18 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V. at August 15, 2018 11:17 PM (H80UQ)
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They have ladies to hold it?
Now that's European!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 15, 2018 11:19 PM (uSlc8)
He yelled out to the guards "Hell NO! I ain't taking no bail, you don't let him give it to you! I'm staying here, this is the first good sleep I've had in 2 weeks!!!" And he stayed there.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 15, 2018 11:19 PM (V2Yro)
He put his campsite next to the river where Salmon were jumping and food was scarce that summer.
Wow, this guy was pretty smert.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 15, 2018 11:12 PM (6U3DW)
You mean...? Yes. The Czech is in the male.
Posted by: Just the Punchline at August 15, 2018 11:19 PM (LI7AQ)
Did someone mention Czechs? Where? And it's the male, this male hopefully, who is in the Czech.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 15, 2018 11:20 PM (8O3HH)
2018: Is Paris Burning?"
Doctor, Doctor, Paris Burns when I Pee!!!!"
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 15, 2018 11:20 PM (V2Yro)
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y6vqczzs
So I went to the link. I couldn't read very far into it. It's hard to believe that even vegetarians are that stupid. There's a comment from the girl's parents with a bunch of dumb platitudes about her enthusiasm, openness to new people, etc.
So there is the problem with that girl, her parents.
If I'd come up with a stupid idea like that, my parents would have made sure I knew just how stupid it was.
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 15, 2018 11:21 PM (+lVUW)
Ladies don't piss.
Ladies use the powder room. Usually, in pairs.
Posted by: Homu at August 15, 2018 11:21 PM (Dumyc)
I'm kind of looking forward to throwing away that litter box and never needing it again.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler, Super-Elite at August 15, 2018 10:56 PM (wSC8T)
Yet another reason, if any were needed, not to have cats.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 15, 2018 11:22 PM (5tT0F)
Life isn't all about STEM. The humanities are important even if they have been corrupted lately. It's why life is worth living.
Dylan is authentic genius with words and music.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 15, 2018 11:22 PM (/tuJf)
A lady doesn't fart, she poots.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 15, 2018 11:22 PM (8O3HH)
*ok, I DO denounce myself for that one.*
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 15, 2018 11:15 PM (6U3DW)
I can bearly cope with it myself.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 15, 2018 11:18 PM (5tT0F)
Well I guess we can grin and bear that.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 15, 2018 11:22 PM (zvNQj)
So there is the problem with that girl, her parents.
If I'd come up with a stupid idea like that, my parents would have made sure I knew just how stupid it was.
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 15, 2018 11:21 PM (+lVUW)
They were - note use of the past tense - like gazelles who'd seen too many Disney movies, and decided to hug it out with the lions.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 15, 2018 11:23 PM (5tT0F)
Posted by: cfo mom at August 15, 2018 11:12 PM (RfzVr)
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Don't know. I have to believe an amployee who is even a little bit up the food chain and does not have some kind of personal web access is incredibly rare any more.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 15, 2018 11:24 PM (hoAFm)
But, then try strapping some cymbals to your knees...
Posted by: backbeatbaby at August 15, 2018 11:24 PM (w7KSn)
That explains the horrible ammonia smell and rusty reloading press in there.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at August 15, 2018 11:24 PM (IcT7t)
Posted by: John Brennan at August 15, 2018 11:14 PM (km8m2)
there's a mental image no one needed
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 15, 2018 11:24 PM (hw0h/)
I have one of these on Saturday morning. What a fucking waste of my time.
Posted by: mpfs, Deplorable Goblin at August 15, 2018 11:25 PM (Mv63I)
have been addressed with a couple of emails and maybe a five to ten
minute phone call.
It's my believe that meetings get called because extrovert manager types get lonely. You don't see us grunts, shoved 4-6 at a time into a single cubical calling meetings. No, it's the guy in his own office bored of mine sweeper that calls it.
When you dig deep enough you finally get them to say something like, "Well I just wanted to get everyone together to...". Stop, I get it, you're lonely. I'll entertain you for a short while then I need to get back to work. Would a puppet show suffice?
Posted by: bananadream at August 15, 2018 11:04 PM (YR7aL)
Exactly! We updated our projects in a shared excel spreadsheet and the manager had a meeting to go over the spreadsheet. We could all read, if she had a question she could just talk to that person instead of having a party, I mean meeting, in her honor. Me and another guy started playing that folded up paper football game from grade school during the meeting, complete with field goals.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at August 15, 2018 11:25 PM (UyvJX)
If I'd come up with a stupid idea like that, my parents would have made sure I knew just how stupid it was.
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 15, 2018 11:21
Yep, I always wanted to bungi jump in my younger days. Mom and Dad said no way, not till kidlet is 18. By there was no way I was doing that shit.
Posted by: Infidel at August 15, 2018 11:25 PM (93aYF)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 15, 2018 11:25 PM (LI7AQ)
Life isn't all about STEM. The humanities are important even if they have been corrupted lately. It's why life is worth living.
Dylan is authentic genius with words and music.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 15, 2018 11:22 PM (/tuJf)
Bonus question: why did he change his working name from "Zimmerman" to "Dylan?"
Straight-up marketing, methinks. And as for his "singing," he's the staff answer to Yoko.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 15, 2018 11:25 PM (5tT0F)
But, then try strapping some cymbals to your knees...
Posted by: backbeatbaby at August 15, 2018 11:24 PM (w7KSn)
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I thought Dick Van Dyke would never learn that shit.
Posted by: Walt Disney's Frozen Head at August 15, 2018 11:25 PM (uSlc8)
Posted by: people killed by evil at August 15, 2018 11:26 PM (oAY8z)
Any of you morons ever see that movie with Ernest Borgnine chasing hobos with an eight-pound sledge hammer? The music to that movie is just god-awful, and it includes the lyrics:
"Well a man's not a train, and a train's not a man;
a man can do things that a train never can."
Truly wisdom to live by.
Posted by: gp at August 15, 2018 11:26 PM (mk9aG)
Posted by: Homu at August 15, 2018 11:27 PM (Dumyc)
Posted by: people killed by evil at August 15, 2018 11:26 PM (oAY8z)
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Normals: 1
Proggies: 0
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 15, 2018 11:27 PM (uSlc8)
Posted by: Infidel at August 15, 2018 11:28 PM (93aYF)
Posted by: Infidel at August 15, 2018 11:25 PM (93aYF)
My thought: I've parachuted, but there's no way I'd bungee jump. When you bounce up (assuming the retards did the calculations correctly, and you didn't splat on the ground), what's to stop the slack bungee from wrapping around your neck? Aka the "Albert Pierrepoint dipsy-doodle."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 15, 2018 11:28 PM (5tT0F)
Straight-up marketing, methinks. And as for his "singing," he's the staff answer to Yoko.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 15, 2018 11:25 PM (5tT0F)
He was paying tribute to Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. (and I am sure the name was more marketable to music fans than Zimmerman, although any and all fans of Bob Dylan know he was born Robert Zimmerman)
I guess the same could be said for Marion Morrison.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 15, 2018 11:29 PM (LI7AQ)
They do when I get through with 'em.
But then, I guess they aren't really ladies anymore...
Posted by: The Paolo at August 15, 2018 11:30 PM (8O3HH)
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Emperor of the North. Lee Marvin.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 15, 2018 11:30 PM (xSo9G)
Posted by: Homu at August 15, 2018 11:31 PM (Dumyc)
Posted by: Bob Dylan At the Dinner Table at August 15, 2018 11:15 PM (JCmKL)
Tom Petty interprets bob dylan:
https://tinyurl.com/ybf34ya3
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 15, 2018 11:31 PM (hw0h/)
Posted by: bananadream at August 15, 2018 11:04 PM (YR7aL)
Exactly! We updated our projects in a shared excel spreadsheet and the manager had a meeting to go over the spreadsheet. We could all read, if she had a question she could just talk to that person instead of having a party, I mean meeting, in her honor. Me and another guy started playing that folded up paper football game from grade school during the meeting, complete with field goals.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at August 15, 2018 11:25 PM (UyvJX)
The worst was meetings where everyone would show up, and no one knew who had called the meeting, or what the purpose of the meeting was. Put me in mind of showing up for shower time at Treblinka.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 15, 2018 11:31 PM (5tT0F)
Posted by: Chuck C at August 15, 2018 11:33 PM (YTxkQ)
I guess the same could be said for Marion Morrison."
Fun trivia - David Bowie was actually born Davy Jones, but when he went to get a recording contract they said "nope we already got a Davy Jones, come up with something else."
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 15, 2018 11:33 PM (V2Yro)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 15, 2018 11:29 PM (LI7AQ)
"Paying tribute?" Bullshit. He could have done that without going by "Bob Dylan." For example, he could he styled himself "Dylan Zimmerman."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 15, 2018 11:34 PM (5tT0F)
Posted by: rickl at August 15, 2018 11:34 PM (sdi6R)
Whoever he was.
Child's Christmas in Wales, many others. Much better writer than his later namesake.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 15, 2018 11:35 PM (V2Yro)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 15, 2018 11:35 PM (xSo9G)
Whoever he was.
Posted by: Chuck C at August 15, 2018 11:33 PM (YTxkQ)
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He was famous for writing poetry without vowels.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 15, 2018 11:35 PM (uSlc8)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler, Super-Elite at August 15, 2018 11:35 PM (wSC8T)
Posted by: Homu at August 15, 2018 11:27 PM (Dumyc)
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This. They "Dew".
Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 15, 2018 11:35 PM (hoAFm)
Posted by: gp at August 15, 2018 11:36 PM (mk9aG)
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V. at August 15, 2018 11:36 PM (H80UQ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 15, 2018 11:29 PM (LI7AQ)
One could have an unfortunate name, e.g. Lipschitz, or something, and choose not to go by that publically. That's fair enough.
But what's wrong with "Zimmerman?"
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 15, 2018 11:36 PM (5tT0F)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 15, 2018 11:34 PM (5tT0F)
Suit yourself. That's the officially-stated reason for his choice of stage name.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 15, 2018 11:36 PM (LI7AQ)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 15, 2018 11:31 PM (5tT0F)
At my last job managers had to hold weekly meetings. It was on their employee evaluations. But we had long term projects, so it was just going around the table:
Boss: "So... what did you do this week"
Employee: "Well, I'm working on something that takes two months, and I only started three weeks ago, so... I'm still working on it.
Boss: "Okay. Thanks. Next?"
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 15, 2018 11:36 PM (h2Bdk)
Posted by: gp at August 15, 2018 11:37 PM (mk9aG)
But what's wrong with "Zimmerman?"
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 15, 2018 11:36 PM (5tT0F)
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Too Jewish.
Posted by: Hedley Lamarr at August 15, 2018 11:37 PM (uSlc8)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 15, 2018 11:37 PM (/tuJf)
https://tinyurl.com/yc3e6v45
Is Mexico Safe? Newly Elected Congresswoman Kidnapped
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 15, 2018 11:37 PM (6U3DW)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 15, 2018 11:36 PM (5tT0F)
I'll tell you what:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykt94F5X2Bc
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 15, 2018 11:38 PM (h2Bdk)
One could have an unfortunate name, e.g. Lipschitz, or something, and choose not to go by that publically. That's fair enough. "
Actor Hal Linden was born Hal Lipschitz. No joke. He said he got "Linden" off a water tower he happened to be driving by.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 15, 2018 11:38 PM (V2Yro)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 15, 2018 11:36 PM (5tT0F)
Doesn't fit on the label of a 45.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 15, 2018 11:38 PM (LI7AQ)
Whoever he was.
Child's Christmas in Wales, many others. Much better writer than his later namesake.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 15, 2018 11:35 PM
I guess I ain't got no culture.
Posted by: Chuck C at August 15, 2018 11:38 PM (YTxkQ)
Posted by: Homu at August 15, 2018 11:39 PM (Dumyc)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler, Super-Elite at August 15, 2018 11:39 PM (wSC8T)
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V. at August 15, 2018 11:39 PM (H80UQ)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler, Super-Elite at August 15, 2018 11:35 PM (wSC8T)
My criterion: an effective meeting is one where there is a detailed agenda promulgated beforehand, with the issues and proposed courses of action laid out for discussion.
An agenda is productive if it is possible to designate a proxy to speak for one in one's absence. Otherwise, the meeting is a circle jerk.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 15, 2018 11:40 PM (5tT0F)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 15, 2018 11:31 PM (5tT0F)
Thankfully never had any of those.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at August 15, 2018 11:40 PM (UyvJX)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 15, 2018 11:36 PM (5tT0F)
Are we back to Jews again?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 15, 2018 11:40 PM (6U3DW)
Tom petty as well
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 15, 2018 11:41 PM (zvNQj)
Posted by: gp at August 15, 2018 11:41 PM (mk9aG)
Posted by: SteveOReno, I self-identify as a Moron at August 15, 2018 11:41 PM (/YjcR)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler, Super-Elite at August 15, 2018 11:39 PM (wSC8T)
Now you see, I don't blame him for Anglicizing his name beyond recognition. With a name like that, I would too.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 15, 2018 11:41 PM (5tT0F)
Posted by: Chuck C at August 15, 2018 11:38 PM (YTxkQ)
Dylan Thomas was a proto-Moron. A world-class drinker, he was.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 15, 2018 11:41 PM (LI7AQ)
He put his campsite next to the river where Salmon were jumping and food was scarce that summer.
Wow, this guy was pretty smert.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop
My dream is to take one of those combo cruise/train rides in Alaska. At least the wildlife can't eat you.
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 15, 2018 11:41 PM (+lVUW)
won'tcha dew that to me one more time...
Posted by: Homu at August 15, 2018 11:39 PM (Dumyc)
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That's good for the single ones.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 15, 2018 11:42 PM (hoAFm)
They have this thing now called "War Room" meetings. The room has a single table at bar height with no chairs. We're told that's so everyone there is intently concentrating and quickly addressing whatever is the topic of the meeting. So some guy calls a meeting specifically for the "War Room", brings in a chair just for him, and starts to go through his 50 bajillion long pp presentation!!! I wanted to laser pointer him until he glowed.
Posted by: bananadream at August 15, 2018 11:42 PM (YR7aL)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 15, 2018 11:42 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: gp at August 15, 2018 11:42 PM (mk9aG)
Posted by: bananadream at August 15, 2018 11:42 PM (YR7aL)
"Gentlemen! No fighting in the War Room!"
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 15, 2018 11:44 PM (LI7AQ)
I remember and SNL skit from way back when it was still funny. It had Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and some other singer known for unintelligible delivery all up there singing. They would talk to each other, and only they could understand each other.
Dana Carvey did Tom Petty, I think.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 15, 2018 11:44 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: gp at August 15, 2018 11:41 PM (mk9aG)
Armstrong is one of those guys who was on the leading edge of something new, so if you heard him in his day it would have been great. But by now there have been so many people who took what he did and made it a bit better he doesn't compare well.
Tolkein is the same. If he were writing today he'd be hawking books for $2.00 on kindle because he's been so imitated it would all seem trite.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 15, 2018 11:44 PM (h2Bdk)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 15, 2018 11:36 PM (LI7AQ)
It was straight-up marketing bullshit. We both know that.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 15, 2018 11:45 PM (5tT0F)
Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls
There was a youtube by the Irish girl about what she found strange when visiting Los Angeles. She said she didn't realize there were areas in America that you weren't allowed to enter. I couldn't figure out what the heck she was talking about, then she told about how she went into Compton.
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 15, 2018 11:45 PM (+lVUW)
"Now, looking ahead to next year, these are the 12 areas of high focus we will be concentrating on to ensure our success. It is critical that we succeed in all 12 high focus areas."
Not said - "These are my bonus metrics and the BOD were pretty clear that I have to hit all of them. As did my trophy wife."
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 15, 2018 11:45 PM (QLvwG)
Posted by: bananadream at August 15, 2018 11:42 PM (YR7aL)
Hahahaha. That's awesome.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 15, 2018 11:45 PM (h2Bdk)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 15, 2018 11:41 PM (+lVUW)
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The mosquitos will still take their best shot.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 15, 2018 11:46 PM (uSlc8)
Posted by: Insomniac at August 15, 2018 11:13 PM (NWiLs)
Kurt enjoys it too, if you don't mind riding around with a skeleton.
Posted by: Miley the Duchess at August 15, 2018 11:46 PM (txw6d)
Tolkein is the same. If he were writing today he'd be hawking books for $2.00 on kindle because he's been so imitated it would all seem trite.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 15, 2018 11:44 PM (h2Bdk)
He also had great longevity in a field where early death or burnout was the norm.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 15, 2018 11:46 PM (LI7AQ)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 15, 2018 11:41 PM (+lVUW)
Mrs H and I loved our first Inside Passage cruise so much we intended to do it again. My bet is you would love it!
Posted by: Hrothgar at August 15, 2018 11:47 PM (n9EOP)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 15, 2018 11:36 PM (5tT0F)
He wrote a telegram. Tried to drag Mexico, certainly not kicking and screaming, into WWI on the side of the Central Powers. Thinking about that now, maybe that would have been best. Would have allowed for a real war between Mexico and the US which would mean we wouldn't be putting up with Mexico's shit today.
But my serious WAG is Zimmerman changed his name to Dylan because Zimmerman was just too Jewish for the music industry. So my money's on Dylan dropping Zimmerman just to be ale to have a shot at a recording contract.
Posted by: RickZ at August 15, 2018 11:47 PM (8lsuS)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 15, 2018 11:45 PM (+lVUW)
Entering is easy.
Leaving, especially after dark, is more problematic.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 15, 2018 11:47 PM (5tT0F)
Kurt enjoys it too, if you don't mind riding around with a skeleton.
Posted by: Miley the Duchess at August 15, 2018 11:46 PM (txw6d)
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Kurt?
I hope that's the chauffeur.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 15, 2018 11:47 PM (uSlc8)
Borgnine was an interesting actor. He looked like just another guy on a barstool, he won an Oscar for Best Actor as a romantic lead in a love story in Marty. He played violent bad guys in numerous films, and was a comedian in McHale's Navy.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 15, 2018 11:48 PM (+y/Ru)
Since we were on our feet all day, I used to tell my coworkers as we filed into a meeting to be sure to ask every dumb question possible so as to prolong our "extra rest period".
Posted by: cfo mom at August 15, 2018 11:49 PM (RfzVr)
Our Duchess is a dirty clutch rider.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 15, 2018 10:59 PM (8O3HH)
My other, sane brother has been mansplainin' how to drive this car. I've been doing it wrong for 50 thousand miles.
Posted by: Miley the Duchess at August 15, 2018 11:49 PM (txw6d)
Posted by: RickZ at August 15, 2018 11:47 PM (8lsuS)
Yeah, Hollywood and the recording industry are both notoriously anti-Semitic.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 15, 2018 11:49 PM (5tT0F)
Here's Dana Carvey as Dylan, and David Spade as Tom Petty on a Dennis Miller weekend update segment:
https://preview.tinyurl.com/ybf34ya3
This isn't the one I was remembering, but it's good.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 15, 2018 11:49 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 15, 2018 11:46 PM (LI7AQ)
Heh. There's a line in a Jimmy Buffett song that talks about a time "when only jazz musicians were smoking marijuana". I think they were the early heroin users too.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 15, 2018 11:49 PM (h2Bdk)
Feeling misanthropic tonight
A couple of thoughts
Hope they never reproduced
I have no sympathy or empathy in their demise
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 15, 2018 11:49 PM (zvNQj)
Not seeing why this is a problem. He thought, as many artists have, that taking a stage name would make their art more acceptable at the time. Turns out they were right.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 15, 2018 11:49 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: gp at August 15, 2018 11:51 PM (mk9aG)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 15, 2018 11:45 PM (5tT0F)
Well, it has served him well. He's a wealthy man, because of it. I own a few Bob Dylan records, but only a few. Never went to a live concert. Makes me a pretty luke-warm fan, I guess, but I remember that factoid being stated, back in the '60's.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 15, 2018 11:51 PM (LI7AQ)
Not seeing why this is a problem. He thought, as many artists have, that taking a stage name would make their art more acceptable at the time. Turns out they were right.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 15, 2018 11:49 PM (/tuJf)
You gotta admit he had quite a long career for a guy who can't actually sing.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 15, 2018 11:51 PM (h2Bdk)
That's what Hedley Lamar said. Too Jewish.
"I know what, Boss, we'll ride into Rock Ridge and we'll kill the First Born in every household..."
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 15, 2018 11:51 PM (V2Yro)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 15, 2018 11:49 PM (/tuJf)
Nothing more authentic than adopting a false name to further your career as a truth-teller.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 15, 2018 11:51 PM (5tT0F)
Posted by: gp at August 15, 2018 11:52 PM (mk9aG)
An agenda is productive if it is possible to designate a proxy to speak for one in one's absence. Otherwise, the meeting is a circle jerk.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 15, 2018 11:40 PM (5tT0F)
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These were my meetings. There was a speaker timer to go along with the agenda, and God help you if you ignored it if you kept speaking after that light turned red.
The biggest challenge were those rent seekers who wanted to ask "questions", which were really off topic statements designed to extend the meetings.
The takedowns were brutal.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 15, 2018 11:52 PM (hoAFm)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 15, 2018 11:51 PM (5tT0F)
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You want authenticity? Then you want Springsteen. Now that guy's a real working man.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 15, 2018 11:53 PM (uSlc8)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 15, 2018 11:53 PM (V2Yro)
Posted by: Hrothgar at August 15, 2018 11:54 PM (n9EOP)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 15, 2018 11:51 PM (LI7AQ)
So let's see, he's the fearless sage making fearless sage pronouncements on society, but ... he's also the marketers' delight in changing his name to sell records?
Got it.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 15, 2018 11:54 PM (5tT0F)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 15, 2018 11:55 PM (xSo9G)
Farmer Bruce?
Posted by: Hrothgar at August 15, 2018 11:54 PM (n9EOP)
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He's got calluses, man.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 15, 2018 11:55 PM (uSlc8)
talks about a time "when only jazz musicians were smoking marijuana". I
think they were the early heroin users too.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 15, 2018 11:49 PM (h2Bdk)
I can name that song in two drinks.
Wish I Had A Pencil Thin Mustache
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 15, 2018 11:55 PM (QLvwG)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 15, 2018 11:55 PM (V2Yro)
Posted by: gp at August 15, 2018 11:57 PM (mk9aG)
Posted by: Cicero
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And, he operates an apiary! A real back-to-the-earth kind of guy.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 15, 2018 11:57 PM (xSo9G)
Posted by: RickZ at August 15, 2018 11:47 PM (8lsuS)
I don't think it's anti-Semitism so much as "Zimmerman" is a fairly long name, at a time when most successful pop musicians had short, snappy, one or two syllable names. Also remember how LP records were displayed, alphabetically, in the racks at record stores. Nice to be out near the front, eh?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 15, 2018 11:57 PM (LI7AQ)
You mean like Plato?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 15, 2018 11:57 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: your neighbor with a telescope at August 15, 2018 11:58 PM (jLChk)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 15, 2018 11:57 PM (xSo9G)
Is the studded chimp one of his rejects?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 15, 2018 11:58 PM (LI7AQ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 15, 2018 11:58 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 15, 2018 11:57 PM (LI7AQ)
"Z" would be at the front, too, if you work from the back. The surnames to avoid would be in the middle of the alphabet.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 15, 2018 11:59 PM (5tT0F)
Here's Dana Carvey as Dylan, and David Spade as Tom Petty on a Dennis Miller weekend update segment:
https://preview.tinyurl.com/ybf34ya3
This isn't the one I was remembering, but it's good.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 15, 2018 11:49 PM (8O3HH)
You putz, i already linked that upthread. You ducked out to "water" ficus & missed a chunk of thread.
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 15, 2018 11:59 PM (hw0h/)
Posted by: Cicero
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And, he operates an apiary! A real back-to-the-earth kind of guy.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 15, 2018 11:57 PM (xSo9G)
And he's a bee rancher, I heard, a regular McClintock.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 16, 2018 12:00 AM (QLvwG)
Since we were on our feet all day, I used to tell my coworkers as we filed into a meeting to be sure to ask every dumb question possible so as to prolong our "extra rest period".
Posted by: cfo mom at August 15, 2018 11:49 PM (RfzVr)
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Yes, I was referring to "Exempt" employees. I should have made that clear.
See me at 397 for my opinion on rent seekers. Again, this refers to exempt salaried employees.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 16, 2018 12:00 AM (hoAFm)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 15, 2018 11:51 PM (5tT0F)
Straw man alert! Bob Dylan is an entertainer. Some people read a lot more into his stuff than was meant to be taken from it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2018 12:01 AM (LI7AQ)
https://preview.tinyurl.com/ybdzdqrv
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 16, 2018 12:01 AM (CDGwz)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 16, 2018 12:01 AM (km8m2)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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You think?
Posted by: Rip Torn at August 16, 2018 12:01 AM (CDGwz)
I never got no gun advice memes from the Maharishi. I was, however, tormented by one of his followers, a very nice elderly lady, on a Greyhound bus from NYC to Phoenix, because she thought it would be nice to bring a convert with her to LA...
Posted by: Richard McEnroe at August 16, 2018 12:02 AM (utimh)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 15, 2018 11:49 PM (5tT0F)
It's not the industry heads I'm talking about.
Far too many people are in love with dead Jews, like Anne Frank. It may be sad but it's also true: Live ones piss off a lot of people.
There were always the immigrants, not just Jewish ones, who Anglicized their names to appear more 'American' to be able to have a career in their chosen endeavor.
Posted by: RickZ at August 16, 2018 12:02 AM (8lsuS)
Posted by: John Wayne at August 16, 2018 12:02 AM (CDGwz)
Posted by: Gale Storm at August 16, 2018 12:03 AM (CDGwz)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 16, 2018 12:03 AM (/tuJf)
Posted by: andycanuck at August 16, 2018 12:03 AM (Evws/)
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen.
Surprised he didn't go with calling himself Joe Springsteen. Sounds even more blue-collar.
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 16, 2018 12:04 AM (km8m2)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2018 12:01 AM (LI7AQ)
So Bob "Dylan" is purely an entertainer, much like say, Lena Dunham, with no more trenchant conclusions to be drawn from him?
Bullshit. He holds himself out as a sage, and philosopher, which, to idiots, he is.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 16, 2018 12:04 AM (5tT0F)
The CEO would always include a slide of Noah's Ark. First up on a hill, then in the rain, and finally alone on the water. With the occupants of the ark representing the lucky few that survived successive job cuts. Boy, that wasn't depressing at all. I left before the handful made land, saw the rainbow and then got ate up by a larger company.
Posted by: bananadream at August 16, 2018 12:04 AM (YR7aL)
Posted by: Gale Storm at August 16, 2018 12:05 AM (CDGwz)
https://preview.tinyurl.com/ybdzdqrv
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 16, 2018 12:01 AM (CDGwz)
They say the weapon used was a 50 year old Browning machine gun. I find that hard to believe. A Barrett rifle using .50 BMG ammo sounds more plausible.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2018 12:06 AM (LI7AQ)
Columbia had made more money that year than they wanted to, because they were looking at a bigger tax bill than they'd have preferred. So, they decided to make a movie that was sure to flop. That way they'd lose money and get back down to the tax bracket they were used to. They bought a cheap-ass script from the TV show American Playhouse, and decided to cast an unattractive middle-aged couple to star in this sure-to-be-crappy film.
Yeah, their plan backfired. Marty ended up being a huge hit! It was critically acclaimed, tore it up at the box office, and won a whole bunch of awards. Turns out regular Americans enjoy seeing people who look like them find love! Columbia ended up in an even higher tax bracket as a result.
I suspect that this event is where the idea for The Producers came from.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler, Super-Elite at August 16, 2018 12:07 AM (wSC8T)
Classical at home; youtube has every obscure composer you never heard of. In the car, jazz rips from libraries, curated for only new stuff, or old guys I haven't heard.
All the boomers I know listen to the same classic rock that they've been listening to for 50 years. They get belligerent about it. "The only good music that was ever created came about, by incredible cosmic coincidence, during my youth and early adulthood. Everything else hurts my ears. Anything older makes me feel like my square-ass parents."
Posted by: gp at August 16, 2018 12:07 AM (mk9aG)
Word for the day: Mononymously
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 16, 2018 12:07 AM (xSo9G)
Posted by: Cicero
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And, he operates an apiary! A real back-to-the-earth kind of guy.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 15, 2018 11:57 PM (xSo9G)
And he's a bee rancher, I heard, a regular McClintock.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 16, 2018 12:00 AM (QLvwG)
Hey, you ever try lassoing one of those little bastards? It's no mean feat, let me tell you.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 16, 2018 12:08 AM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Buzzion at August 16, 2018 12:09 AM (cAnNx)
Posted by: bananadream at August 16, 2018 12:04 AM (YR7aL)
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That truly was a time when the .Gov favored strong ate up the non .Gov favored week. By design.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 16, 2018 12:09 AM (hoAFm)
Posted by: andycanuck at August 16, 2018 12:10 AM (Evws/)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler, Super-Elite at August 16, 2018 12:10 AM (wSC8T)
he's the fearless sage making fearless sage pronouncements on society
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 15, 2018 11:54 PM (5tT0F)
That's how the media labeled him: "The voice of his generation". He was thoroughly sick of that shit by 1965.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m68JY-7LfpQ
Posted by: rickl at August 16, 2018 12:10 AM (sdi6R)
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I have no idea why he didn't just go with 'Wladziu'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 16, 2018 12:10 AM (xSo9G)
Posted by: The Shnoz at August 16, 2018 12:10 AM (Dumyc)
Surprised he didn't go with calling himself Joe Springsteen. Sounds even more blue-collar.
Posted by: qdpsteve
I'm surprised one of his middle names isn't Dick.
Because he is on.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at August 16, 2018 12:11 AM (S6Pax)
Posted by: colfax mingo at August 16, 2018 12:11 AM (NgPkP)
Not seeing why this is a problem. He thought, as many artists have, that taking a stage name would make their art more acceptable at the time. Turns out they were right.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 15, 2018 11:49 PM (/tuJf)
You gotta admit he had quite a long career for a guy who can't actually sing.
You don't say.
Posted by: Bruce Springsteen at August 16, 2018 12:11 AM (UyvJX)
Posted by: A simple desultory phillipic at August 16, 2018 12:11 AM (m45I2)
Posted by: Insomniac at August 16, 2018 12:08 AM (NWiLs)
The lassoing is relatively easy to learn. It's the branding of the worker bees and cutting the little balls off the drones to make them bee-steers is where it gets dicey.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 16, 2018 12:11 AM (QLvwG)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler, Super-Elite at August 16, 2018 12:11 AM (wSC8T)
Posted by: Buzzion at August 16, 2018 12:09 AM (cAnNx)
And cocaine.
Cocaine, alcohol, strippers and burritos. A modern version of 'lions, tigers and bears, oh my!'
Posted by: RickZ at August 16, 2018 12:12 AM (8lsuS)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 15, 2018 11:49 PM (5tT0F)
They are not - but they think their audiences are. Look at all the movie stars who anglicized their names in the '30's.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V. at August 16, 2018 12:13 AM (H80UQ)
You need alcohol too.
Posted by: Buzzion
And a line of coke.
And not the Diet kind.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at August 16, 2018 12:13 AM (S6Pax)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 16, 2018 12:13 AM (QLvwG)
You need alcohol too.
Posted by: Buzzion at August 16, 2018 12:09 AM (cAnNx)
What happened to the blow? Think of all the fun when realize it's full of stripper glitter just as you're snorting the line up.
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 16, 2018 12:14 AM (hw0h/)
"See that house? Back in the sixties, when I worked for Colson Company, my boss's son had a friend who lived in that house!"
"That house right there?"
"Yup, that's the house all right! Sure enough!"
Posted by: gp at August 16, 2018 12:15 AM (mk9aG)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 15, 2018 11:57 PM (LI7AQ)
Arnold Schwartzenegger got a lot of pressure from agents to change his name to something people could spell and/or remember. I wouldn't be surprised if you gave your record to a music exec in 1965 and got "Sure, we'll give you a shot... if you change your name."
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 16, 2018 12:15 AM (h2Bdk)
Posted by: gp at August 16, 2018 12:07 AM (mk9aG)
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That's me. Difference is, I realize that is my thing. I do not dump on others who feel differently.
As a guy at the tail end of the Boomers, I get really, really tired of the hasty generalizations that are hurled at it.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 16, 2018 12:16 AM (hoAFm)
Some
Rhode Islander on here was just telling me that Dylan's a "genius", so obviously I should take his derivative pseudo-folk pop songs as groundbreaking works of artistic expression, up there with Shakespeare
and Beethoven.
Posted by: somehow I don't think I will at August 16, 2018 12:16 AM (Htx6S)
You need alcohol too.
Posted by: Buzzion
And a line of coke.
And not the Diet kind.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at August 16, 2018 12:13 AM (S6Pax)
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And this chair and this paddle game,
That's all I need.
Posted by: Navin Johnson at August 16, 2018 12:16 AM (uSlc8)
Let's not dwell on the past.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 16, 2018 12:17 AM (/tuJf)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 16, 2018 12:17 AM (km8m2)
Robert Aldrich set this epic duel between the king of the hoboes versus the most sadistic of Railroad Men during the height of the Great Depression in 1933. The simple story taps into the hatred the railroad people have for the tramps. It is about one bum's aim, Lee Marvin, who is known as A No. 1, king of the hoboes, to ride the previously unridden No. 19 freight train of the murderous Shack (Ernest Borgnine).
Aldrich for the most part steers clear of the political situation in the country instead he uses these men as powerful mythic symbols, showing the oppressed versus the oppressor. Marvin is laconic, immensely proud to be a hobo, and proud enough to claim he can ride any train for free. While
Borgnine is a sadist, who sports a menacing grin and believes that the hoboes are the scum of the earth. He will sledgehammer anyone to death who thinks they can get a free ride on his train. Borgnine's claim to fame is, no one gets a free ride on his train unless they want to be dead. These two are on a collision course and their dispute can only be settled in a violent manner.
Into the picture comes a young hobo called Cigaret (Keith Carradine), who has an unmitigating gall for taking risks but has trouble telling the truth. He has no class in the beginning of the film and no class by the film's end. He forces himself on Marvin by riding along with him on No. 19. Marvin
reluctantly tries to make him into a professional hobo but the kid is a wise guy, always making a backstabbing remark as a rejoinder to anything Marvin says.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 16, 2018 12:17 AM (rnAwa)
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at August 16, 2018 12:17 AM (N1ZXu)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 15, 2018 11:49 PM (5tT0F)
They are not - but they think their audiences are. Look at all the movie stars who anglicized their names in the '30's.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V. at August 16, 2018 12:13 AM (H80UQ)
Hollywood was started and run by Jews from the east coast. I know a few people in the business and they're all secular Jews.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 16, 2018 12:17 AM (h2Bdk)
Posted by: gp at August 16, 2018 12:17 AM (mk9aG)
Posted by: shakes impotent fist at Pixy at August 16, 2018 12:18 AM (Htx6S)
As a guy at the tail end of the Boomers, I get really, really tired of the hasty generalizations that are hurled at it.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 16, 2018 12:16
This, it gets old.
Posted by: Infidel at August 16, 2018 12:18 AM (93aYF)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 16, 2018 12:17 AM (km8m2)
I didn't know that. That's his credit for Hercules in New York.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 16, 2018 12:18 AM (h2Bdk)
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 16, 2018 12:17 AM (h2Bdk)
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Goldwyn and Mayer were Jews. I'm not sure about Metro.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 16, 2018 12:19 AM (uSlc8)
"You know, I was talking to the salesman at the jewelry shop. He showed me a metal detector set-up that's guaranteed to pay for itself in two months!"
"No way, only two months?"
"Guaranteed! I was looking at the cheapo model for $1200, but he says that $8700 metal detector can't miss! You know, he says a lot of guys give up right away, because they don't find anything, and that's because they don't buy the best! You get what you pay for! He even gave me a brochure!"
"Gosh, a free brochure? Did we remember to bring your walker?"
Posted by: gp at August 16, 2018 12:19 AM (mk9aG)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 16, 2018 12:14 AM (hw0h/)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoQUFbArlK0
Posted by: The Shnoz at August 16, 2018 12:20 AM (Dumyc)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 16, 2018 12:20 AM (km8m2)
As a guy at the tail end of the Boomers, I get really, really tired of the hasty generalizations that are hurled at it.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 16, 2018 12:16
This, it gets old.
Posted by: Infidel at August 16, 2018 12:18 AM (93aYF)
And it's terribly unfair. People blame boomers for the shit show that was the '60s, but the reality is the people making all the decisions were from earlier generations.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 16, 2018 12:20 AM (h2Bdk)
Posted by: gp at August 16, 2018 12:17 AM (mk9aG)
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wut?
Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 16, 2018 12:21 AM (hoAFm)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 16, 2018 12:21 AM (rnAwa)
WTFF?
Posted by: logprof at August 16, 2018 12:22 AM (e7oj4)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 16, 2018 12:22 AM (km8m2)
You need alcohol too.
Posted by: Buzzion at August 16, 2018 12:09 AM (cAnNx)
What happened to the blow? Think of all the fun when realize it's full of stripper glitter just as you're snorting the line up.
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 16, 2018 12:14 AM (hw0h/)
Well I've never had blow. So I can't speak to that
Posted by: buzzion at August 16, 2018 12:23 AM (cAnNx)
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 16, 2018 12:20 AM (h2Bdk)
--Yeah, the Immigration Act of 1965 was not concocted by Boomers. The Greatest [sic] Generation did that.
Posted by: logprof at August 16, 2018 12:23 AM (e7oj4)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 16, 2018 12:23 AM (+lVUW)
WTFF?
Posted by: logprof at August 16, 2018 12:22 AM (e7oj4)
She must really, really like peanuts.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2018 12:23 AM (LI7AQ)
The Muslim population of the USA has DOUBLED since 9/11.
Try and wrap your head around that.
Posted by: gp at August 16, 2018 12:23 AM (mk9aG)
WTFF?
Posted by: logprof at August 16, 2018 12:22 AM (
according to breitbart they're still in. haven't met terms for release. darn, NOT
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 16, 2018 12:24 AM (hw0h/)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 16, 2018 12:13 AM (QLvwG)
What are the burritos for, or do I want to know?
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at August 16, 2018 12:24 AM (UyvJX)
I might go with weed, whites and wine, if you show me a sign
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 16, 2018 12:24 AM (nWc4E)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 16, 2018 12:25 AM (+lVUW)
Posted by: buzzion at August 16, 2018 12:23 AM (cAnNx)
Take your stripper glitter straight do you now. kinky.
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 16, 2018 12:26 AM (hw0h/)
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at August 16, 2018 12:24 AM (UyvJX)
A guy's gotta keep his strength up, you know.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2018 12:26 AM (LI7AQ)
You need alcohol too.
Posted by: Buzzion at August 16, 2018 12:09 AM (cAnNx)
What happened to the blow? Think of all the fun when realize it's full of stripper glitter just as you're snorting the line up.
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 16, 2018 12:14 AM (hw0h/)
Well I've never had blow. So I can't speak to that
Posted by: buzzion at August 16, 2018 12:23 AM (cAnNx)
--Mandatory?
https://youtu.be/_mKPCJUW2I4
Posted by: logprof at August 16, 2018 12:26 AM (e7oj4)
Judge Vizzini: Come back for trial, I really mean it!
Mohammed Fezzik Mohatmet: Here's my bond, it's one fine peanut!
Posted by: I've got nothin at August 16, 2018 12:26 AM (Htx6S)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 16, 2018 12:26 AM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 16, 2018 12:16
This, it gets old.
Posted by: Infidel at August 16, 2018 12:18 AM (93aYF)
And it's terribly unfair. People blame boomers for the shit show that was the '60s, but the reality is the people making all the decisions were from earlier generations.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 16, 2018 12:20 AM (h2Bdk)
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Yep. Not around yet to vote for SS. Blamed for Medicare/Medicaid, and Welfare although too young to vote for it.
Phuch those who blame Boomers.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 16, 2018 12:26 AM (hoAFm)
I don't feel like looking for it now but there was a 'comparative' tweet showing an oldish black guy being held on $100,000 bond/bail for something fairly trivial (as he was a longtime minor offender) the same day in N.J. if I recall correctly. So, say, minor assault and shoplifting or the like versus having a f#cking DEAD KID and abused children even if you ignore the terror-related items.
Posted by: andycanuck at August 16, 2018 12:26 AM (Evws/)
"I'd like to start a restaurant right there! A deep southern restaurant that serves food like my mom used to make!"
"I heard the restaurant business is really tough. A lot of diners failed in that exact location already."
"Nah, that's just because they don't know how to cook it right! My mom made the best cornbread with sorghum and hand-churned butter! And sage turkey stuffing! That's GOOD eating! If I cook that, it can't miss!"
"You usually don't get up until 10:30AM. You get tired just using your TV remote. There are 40 restaurants within a mile of this place. Are you sure the restaurant business is a good choice for you?"
"You just never ate good food on the farm like I did! Hey, didn't there used to be a tree over there?!?"
Posted by: gp at August 16, 2018 12:27 AM (mk9aG)
Posted by: gp at August 16, 2018 12:27 AM (mk9aG)
I imagine it's tough working as a chef by a celebrity who wants to open a restaurant, because they've got to KNOW that no matter how great a job they do, the celeb will get all the credit.
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 16, 2018 12:29 AM (km8m2)
I'll be willin', to be movin'
I've been from Tuscon to Tucumcari
Tehachapi to Tonapah ...
Posted by: Homu at August 16, 2018 12:29 AM (Dumyc)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 16, 2018 12:31 AM (nWc4E)
I don't feel like looking for it now but there was a 'comparative' tweet showing an oldish black guy being held on $100,000 bond/bail for something fairly trivial (as he was a longtime minor offender) the same day in N.J. if I recall correctly. So, say, minor assault and shoplifting or the like versus having a f#cking DEAD KID and abused children even if you ignore the terror-related items.
Posted by: andycanuck at August 16, 2018 12:26 AM (Evws/)
--Tucker also compared it to Paul Manifort, who is facing a 300+ year sentence in prison for tax evasion.
Posted by: logprof at August 16, 2018 12:31 AM (e7oj4)
Posted by: buzzion at August 16, 2018 12:23 AM (cAnNx)
Take your stripper glitter straight do you now. kinky.
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 16, 2018 12:26 AM (hw0h/)
Even as a single guy I want to avoid strippers with glitter. A couple weeks ago I mentioned this though: went to club one night that they were doing a "glow party." You know they're supposed to be wearing more neon colors, and a bunch of the girls had decided that body paint was a good idea. A dancer I was talking to mentioned how they were kind of annoyed because they weren't making much money. "It washes out, it won't stain your clothes." She was doing well because no body paint. Guys were having her spin around before a dance to see that she didn't have any on.
Clearly there weren't any girls there that night putting themselves through nursing school.
Posted by: buzzion at August 16, 2018 12:31 AM (cAnNx)
Posted by: gp at August 16, 2018 12:31 AM (mk9aG)
Posted by: gp at August 16, 2018 12:32 AM (mk9aG)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 16, 2018 12:33 AM (nWc4E)
Posted by: gp at August 16, 2018 12:27 AM (mk9aG)
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Thanks. You are now on scroll right by, young delusional grasshoppuh. Be as well as you can.
Oh....and this very important......May you live in interesting times.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 16, 2018 12:34 AM (hoAFm)
Posted by: gp at August 16, 2018 12:34 AM (mk9aG)
Posted by: your neighbor with a telescope at August 16, 2018 12:34 AM (jLChk)
Posted by: andycanuck at August 16, 2018 12:26 AM (Evws/)
--Tucker also compared it to Paul Manifort, who is facing a 300+ year sentence in prison for tax evasion.
Posted by: logprof at August 16, 2018
Someone linked a youtube vid by NBC of all places about 8 mins. long. Tour of the whole compound. Scary shit. To tired to look for it now.
Posted by: Infidel at August 16, 2018 12:34 AM (93aYF)
Posted by: gp at August 16, 2018 12:35 AM (mk9aG)
Posted by: gp
Truth in advertising dollars:
https://www.xkcd.com/988/
Posted by: mikeski at August 16, 2018 12:35 AM (P1f+c)
Posted by: gp at August 16, 2018 12:32 AM (
wow, you do toot. do you fart into a wineglass first like on south park, or huff it straight from the source?
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 16, 2018 12:36 AM (hw0h/)
Posted by: gp at August 16, 2018 12:31 AM (mk9aG)
Do they tip well?
Posted by: Insomniac at August 16, 2018 12:36 AM (NWiLs)
Posited by: gp
Ya, well, some of us learned that lesson a looooong time ago, young grasshopper.
Posted by: Homu at August 16, 2018 12:36 AM (Dumyc)
Posted by: gp at August 16, 2018 12:37 AM (mk9aG)
Posted by: gp at August 16, 2018 12:39 AM (mk9aG)
Posted by: Insomniac at August 16, 2018 12:39 AM (NWiLs)
https://www.xkcd.com/988/
Posted by: mikeski at August 16, 2018 12:35 AM (P1f+c)
Heh. Love the electric circuit diagram, too. That is a keeper.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2018 12:39 AM (LI7AQ)
Posted by: gp at August 16, 2018 12:35 AM (mk9aG)
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Well, alrighty then! Previous post rescinded.
Please explain to us exactly how the Boomers like yourself are responsible for fucking things up so badly.
Use links and provide detail. Be very specific.
*rests chin on hand* *waits*
Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 16, 2018 12:40 AM (hoAFm)
Posted by: logprof at August 16, 2018 12:31 AM (e7oj4)
Versus the normal one to three years for tax evasion. At least I think I remember that was the jail time Tucker stated.
Two Americas, just not the ones John Edwards was railing on about.
Posted by: RickZ at August 16, 2018 12:40 AM (8lsuS)
Posted by: buzzion at August 16, 2018 12:41 AM (cAnNx)
Posted by: rickl at August 16, 2018 12:41 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: gp
get off my lawn!
Posted by: Homu at August 16, 2018 12:42 AM (Dumyc)
Please check up-thread and show me where I said anything remotely like that. I did not.
Jeez I'm just riffing anyway. Trying to get a laugh. Yes, I suck.
Posted by: gp at August 16, 2018 12:42 AM (mk9aG)
Would be interested in hearing who you think is The Man.I like Bix, but you have to admit he lacked stamina.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at August 16, 2018 12:43 AM (8ZmvG)
Posted by: gp
Truth in advertising dollars:
https://www.xkcd.com/988/
Posted by: mikeski at August 16, 2018 12:35 AM (P1f+c)
I haven't been able to listen to Jingle Bell Rock without thinking of Lethal Weapon since the '80s. Some things were better back then. Mel Gibson was certainly better.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 16, 2018 12:44 AM (h2Bdk)
https://www.xkcd.com/988/
Posted by: mikeski at August 16, 2018 12:35 AM (P1f+c)
Heh. Love the electric circuit diagram, too. That is a keeper.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2018 12:39 AM (LI7AQ)
--I thought "Sleigh Ride" was from the '30s.
Posted by: logprof at August 16, 2018 12:44 AM (e7oj4)
Posted by: buzzion at August 16, 2018 12:41 AM (cAnNx)
Tim Pool?
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 16, 2018 12:45 AM (h2Bdk)
(KSDK/NBC News) - A Missouri company is apologizing and claims they were hacked after a job applicant received a rejection letter stating that candidates with "ghetto" names won't be considered.
Hermeisha Robinson received an email from Mantality Health reading: "Thank you for your interest in careers at Mantality Health. Unfortunately we do not consider candidates that have suggestive "ghetto" names. We wish the best in your career search."
"When I read the email I was just appalled," Robinson said. "I don't understand why would they not consider me? Just because of my name?"
Kevin Meuret, the owner of Mantality believes a former employee hacked the system and generated the emails from a remote website.
He said he's filed police reports in St. Louis County, Chesterfield and the state where he believes the hacking originated, and apologized to Robinson.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 16, 2018 12:45 AM (IqV8l)
Posted by: gp at August 16, 2018 12:34 AM
....
Creating good food is not that difficult, with a bit of preparation and practice.
Turning a profit off of creating good food, however, is quite a different story altogether.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 16, 2018 12:46 AM (w6Kq8)
Posted by: logprof at August 16, 2018 12:44 AM (e7oj4)
May well have been. Christmas songs are "standards" and practically all pop singers and bands take a shot at one or more of them. Easy money.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2018 12:47 AM (LI7AQ)
Posted by: Stringer Davis at August 16, 2018 12:47 AM (8ZmvG)
Posted by: buzzion at August 16, 2018 12:41 AM (cAnNx)
Tim Pool?
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 16, 2018 12:45 AM (h2Bdk
No. Patrick Soderlund.
Posted by: buzzion at August 16, 2018 12:48 AM (cAnNx)
Sleigh Ride with lyrics (Bing Crosby): 1952
So it probably belongs in the '1950s' stack.
Posted by: mikeski at August 16, 2018 12:48 AM (P1f+c)
Posted by: gp at August 16, 2018 12:42 AM (mk9aG)
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I knew we could finally agree on something.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 16, 2018 12:49 AM (hoAFm)
when i First! loaded the ONT, it was all giberish at the mast head (black diamonds galore) and blown margins, which is something i've never seen.
hit reload, and all appears ONTmal...
just me or did someone bork the blog?
Posted by: redc1c4 at August 16, 2018 12:49 AM (ifaj+)
Yeah, sometimes they were given to make a star seem less "ethnic," whether Jewish, German, Spanish, or whatever--- not a bad idea when you want to cover all kinds of roles, from the housewife in Iowa to the urban femme fatale.
But sometimes the switch had nothing to do with ethnicity concerns. Cary Grant sounds more attractive than Archibald Leach, John Wayne better than Marion Morrison.
Then there are the odd choices. I can see why Greta dropped the "Gustaffson" surname. Who wants to be known as a dirty Skandi? But where did she get the "Garbo?"
I guess it had an international feel to it and is easy to pronounce in all Euro languages, but it still strikes me as odd.
I dunno. It's a semi-interesting subject.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 16, 2018 12:49 AM (0jtPF)
Posted by: Burger Chef at August 16, 2018 12:49 AM (RuIsu)
No. Patrick Soderlund.
Posted by: buzzion at August 16, 2018 12:48 AM (cAnNx)
I was wondering if you were watching Tim Pool youtube videos, since he just put one up on that very subject.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 16, 2018 12:50 AM (h2Bdk)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Yeah, thus my comment 'totally ignorant'. 'Journalists'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 16, 2018 12:50 AM (CDGwz)
Posted by: logprof at August 16, 2018 12:44 AM (e7oj4)
I just looked up that song's history. First published in 1948 as an instrumental. The lyrics were added in 1950.
Posted by: RickZ at August 16, 2018 12:51 AM (8lsuS)
Posted by: Homu at August 16, 2018 12:51 AM (Dumyc)
No. Patrick Soderlund.
Posted by: buzzion at August 16, 2018 12:48 AM (cAnNx)
I was wondering if you were watching Tim Pool youtube videos, since he just put one up on that very subject.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 16, 2018 12:50 AM (h2Bdk)
Nah. I watched YongYea yesterday talking about the fat paycheck he's leaving with. And then The Know just now where they talked about Battlefield 5 and its slow sales and possibly connecting it to his shitting on gamers.
Posted by: buzzion at August 16, 2018 12:52 AM (cAnNx)
Posted by: buzzion at August 16, 2018 12:31 AM
You mean they lied to me?
Posted by: Chuck C at August 16, 2018 12:53 AM (YTxkQ)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 16, 2018 12:53 AM (/tuJf)
You'll note the difference between "Christmas Songs" and actual religious music. I used to hear those pop tunes more or less denounced from the pulpit, and mother didn't much hold with them. Taking Christ out of Christmas was a very real thing in those days. We were made to suffer for our own good.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at August 16, 2018 12:54 AM (8ZmvG)
542 Clearly there weren't any girls there that night putting themselves through nursing school.
Posted by: buzzion at August 16, 2018 12:31 AM
You mean they lied to me?
Posted by: Chuck C at August 16, 2018 12:53 AM (YTxkQ)
No no, I'm sure the night you were there, they were definitely hard working college girls just trying to make tuition.
Posted by: buzzion at August 16, 2018 12:54 AM (cAnNx)
Posted by: Stringer Davis at August 16, 2018 12:47 AM (8ZmvG)
--Yeah, I recalled the Steyn Song of the Week column on "Sleigh Ride." Thought it was '30s.
Oh well, blame it on my aging Gen X brain.
Posted by: logprof at August 16, 2018 12:55 AM (e7oj4)
Posted by: Burger Chef
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Yeah, the age of Aquarius screwed things up. Not our fault.
When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars
This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius
The Age of Aquarius
Aquarius! Aquarius!
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 16, 2018 12:56 AM (xSo9G)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 16, 2018 12:50 AM (CDGwz)
I doubt even a brand-new machine gun barrel would be capable of the kind of accuracy needed for a 1.5 mile kill shot. That was never in the design parameters.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2018 12:56 AM (LI7AQ)
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Become president. One Kenyan was enough, thanks.
Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at August 16, 2018 12:56 AM (2NqXo)
The Dalai Lam's an annoying douchebag. I think he gets even more annoying and more douchebaggy with each incarnation.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 16, 2018 12:57 AM (OYwKq)
Posted by: redc1c4
Happens when the hamsters are changing shifts. Union rules.
Posted by: Fuzzy, server hamsters Local 070 at August 16, 2018 12:57 AM (P1f+c)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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The 'Journalist' had no idea what a BMG is, so looked it up, and found 'Browning Machine Gun', along with design date, and went with it.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 16, 2018 01:00 AM (xSo9G)
You'll note the difference between "Christmas Songs" and actual religious music. I used to hear those pop tunes more or less denounced from the pulpit, and mother didn't much hold with them. Taking Christ out of Christmas was a very real thing in those days. We were made to suffer for our own good.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at August 16, 2018 12:54 AM (8ZmvG)
Another Drummer-Boy hater? High fives all round! I hate, hate, hate that sappy "parumpapapum" shit. So damned childish. Not to mention it's non-Scriptural.
INstrumental version is a good tune; it's the lyrics which suck.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2018 01:00 AM (LI7AQ)
This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius
The Age of Aquarius
Aquarius! Aquarius!
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
Rosie O'Donnell was singing that at the White House a couple weeks ago. Not actually IN the White House but nearby.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 16, 2018 01:00 AM (IqV8l)
I liked it when I was a kid. Today I think it sounds kind of weird and disturbing.
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 16, 2018 01:02 AM (km8m2)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
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You kid Mike Hammer, no?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 16, 2018 01:02 AM (xSo9G)
Posted by: Stewards on aero Pinochet at August 16, 2018 01:03 AM (LI7AQ)
INstrumental version is a good tune; it's the lyrics which suck.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2018 01:00 AM (LI7AQ)
--I think I found it linked in an ONT, but Cracked had a good article (back when it was good) noting that "Do You Hear What I Hear?" was a morbid song about nuclear war.
Haven't listened to that song the same way since.
Posted by: logprof at August 16, 2018 01:04 AM (e7oj4)
Posted by: Burger Chef at August 16, 2018 01:05 AM (RuIsu)
And then everybody tried to get into the act.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at August 16, 2018 01:07 AM (8ZmvG)
Posted by: buzzion at August 16, 2018 12:54 AM (cAnNx)
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Back in the day, I knew a couple of them that were very smart with their cash. One bought 5 rental properties within 2 years, and set herself up to buy more with the income from them.
Another got themselves an MBA in finance. These were the ones that were both smart and smoking hot.
Most of them are destined to wind up in a trailer park with 3 kids. Alone, as no longer any kinda hot.
These were the exceptions though. Most of them
Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 16, 2018 01:08 AM (hoAFm)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 16, 2018 01:08 AM (xSo9G)
Posted by: Burger Chef at August 16, 2018 01:05 AM (RuIsu)
Moby Grape sings Moby Dick?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2018 01:08 AM (LI7AQ)
I know comparisons are invidious, but Mis Hum has really blown out the margins tonite.
After working my way this far I fear we are at the top.
Now how to sustain it????
Seriously, congratulations to Mis Hum ------and to all the players. ARA
Posted by: Anne R. Abler at August 16, 2018 01:08 AM (lHtSG)
--I think I found it linked in an ONT, but Cracked had a good article (back when it was good) noting that "Do You Hear What I Hear?" was a morbid song about nuclear war.
Haven't listened to that song the same way since.
Posted by: logprof at August 16, 2018 01:04 AM (e7oj4)
That's because Cracked sucks ass.
Posted by: buzzion at August 16, 2018 01:09 AM (cAnNx)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Yeah, thus my comment 'totally ignorant'. 'Journalists'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 16, 2018 12:50 AM (CDGwz)
Not impossible, though. M-2 serial number 3 just came back for refurb last year. It's over 100 years old and was in use in A-stan until last year.
Apparently it needs some major work, though, so they're gonna stick it in a museum somewhere.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 16, 2018 01:09 AM (h2Bdk)
Never ceases to amaze, how the right people show up at the right times/places, and how critical that is to making things happen.
I like the author's thesis that the proximity fuse was the first and defining instance where the military, Big Science, and industry came together to raise the bar and provide a significant military advantage.
Had no idea Parsons took crates of the suckers to the Pacific and went looking for trouble to test them (at a time when there was more than enough trouble, and basically the IJN was kicking the USN's a**). And had scientists from the "lab" in a Silver Spring garage commissioned overnight to become missionaries of the new fuze.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 16, 2018 01:10 AM (QDnY+)
>> out to "water" ficus & missed a chunk of thread.
Well, exxxxxcuuuuuuUUUUUssse, me.
Listen, I have "needs". I can't be expected to read everything when I have important things I need to say. Mansplaining, it is.
:snort: Seriously, I didn't see it, and I've embarrassingly done that before.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 16, 2018 01:10 AM (8O3HH)
Posted by: buzzion at August 16, 2018 01:09 AM (cAnNx)
I used to love Cracked. It was funny. And then apparently they hired a group of SJW editors, and if there's one thing SJWs can't do it's funny.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 16, 2018 01:11 AM (h2Bdk)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 16, 2018 01:08 AM (xSo9G)
Well, Barky sure was adept at making himself the smartest person in the room by surrounding himself with nonentities.
Up our way, Justin Trudeau has done the exact same thing.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2018 01:11 AM (LI7AQ)
Posted by: Stringer Davis at August 16, 2018 01:11 AM (8ZmvG)
Does anyone remember these? the brand name?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 16, 2018 01:13 AM (2lndx)
What even is the theme for this one? Last one I heard was WWI.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 16, 2018 01:13 AM (6U3DW)
Apparently it needs some major work, though, so they're gonna stick it in a museum somewhere.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 16, 2018 01:09 AM (h2Bdk)
Oh, I don't believe "antique" machine guns aren't still viable as machine guns. But they aren't sniper rifles. I'm sure the barrel tolerances are hugely different.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2018 01:14 AM (LI7AQ)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 16, 2018 01:14 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Alligator Lizard, Somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 16, 2018 01:15 AM (Bh6pi)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 16, 2018 01:16 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 16, 2018 01:16 AM (6U3DW)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 16, 2018 01:13 AM (2lndx)
There were, and are still, I think, heat packs that work by releasing the heat of crystallization of certain salts.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2018 01:16 AM (LI7AQ)
Posted by: Alligator Lizard, Somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 16, 2018 01:15 AM (Bh6pi)
Well, as a muslim convert, he's on that team.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2018 01:18 AM (LI7AQ)
Posted by: Alligator Lizard, Somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 16, 2018 01:15 AM (Bh6pi)
Well, as a muslim convert, he's on that team.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2018 01:18 AM (LI7AQ)
Not to mention, a Communist.
Posted by: Surfperch at August 16, 2018 01:20 AM (AcZtS)
capable of the kind of accuracy needed for a 1.5 mile kill shot. That
was never in the design parameters.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2018 12:56 AM (LI7AQ)
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as an old machine gunner who's fired Ma Deuce more than once (though never in combat, saints be praised) she could definitely make a 1.5 mile kill shot.
you'd just have to fire enough rounds.
otherwise, yeah, it was a Barrett, or the ilk.
Posted by: redc1c4 at August 16, 2018 01:21 AM (ifaj+)
Posted by: Alligator Lizard, Somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 16, 2018 01:21 AM (Bh6pi)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2018 01:08 AM (LI7AQ)
Moby Grape? Even in humor, that's just so wrong. The single-album live version of 'Nantucket Sleighride' is THE best song Mountain ever produced. Didn't have the pop chart power of 'Mississippi Queen' because of its length, but it's a great song nonetheless.
Posted by: RickZ at August 16, 2018 01:22 AM (8lsuS)
Posted by: Baldy at August 16, 2018 01:22 AM (u96uC)
Posted by: Lurking Cynic at August 16, 2018 01:23 AM (LGWcZ)
Posted by: Alligator Lizard, Somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 16, 2018 01:15 AM (Bh6pi)
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Well, as a muslim convert, he's on that team.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2018 01:18 AM (LI7AQ)
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Is it not significant that back in the Cold War, when the USSR was our mortal enemy, he voted for the Soviet backed Commie, Gus Hall? And now he embraces the Islamofascists.
Gee, I get the feeling he just hates America and reflexively loves any of her enemies.
(And this clown is head of the CIA! Unbelievable.)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 16, 2018 01:23 AM (0jtPF)
Posted by: Alligator Lizard, Somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 16, 2018 01:23 AM (Bh6pi)
He easily qualifies as one of America's Unknown Great Men. As you say, the right guy, at the right time, at the right place.
The book was strongly recommended to me by an ex AF colonel, and I was lucky enough to find/snag a used copy for $3.50.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 16, 2018 01:24 AM (CDGwz)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 16, 2018 01:16 AM (QDnY+)
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arsenal rebuilds are your friend. as long as the serial number right side plate is serviceable, the rest is replaceable parts, because JMB is G8d (PBUH).
it wasn't until the very end of my alleged career that i saw M-2 that were anything other than slate grey rebuilds. (the new ones were black, more or less)
Posted by: redc1c4 at August 16, 2018 01:24 AM (ifaj+)
Posted by: Alligator Lizard, Somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 16, 2018 01:25 AM (Bh6pi)
Posted by: Alligator Lizard, Somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 16, 2018 01:26 AM (Bh6pi)
BRRRRRRT!
(okay, so that was more than 3 rounds: sue me.)
Posted by: redc1c4 at August 16, 2018 01:26 AM (ifaj+)
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I lost one of those in a canoe accident. The woodchucks around here have been less nervous ever since.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 16, 2018 01:27 AM (CDGwz)
Posted by: Alligator Lizard, Somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 16, 2018 01:21 AM (Bh6pi)
A lot of those are one-and-done. You snap an internal vial, chemicals mix, and it evolves heat for several hours. Like a glow stick, in that respect. But there were heat packs that would release heat upon being agitated, which would cause a supercooled salt solution to begin to crystallize, and release the heat of crystallization. I think they might have used sodium thiosulfate, but could be wrong on that. And they could be warmed in an oven to redissolve the crystals for another go-round.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2018 01:28 AM (LI7AQ)
573 I did not even see the trailer for Battlefield V. The grrlpower was strong with this one?
What even is the theme for this one? Last one I heard was WWI.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 16, 2018 01:13 AM (6U3DW)
It's WW2. You know, just tons of mixed gender units all over the European theater of WW2.
Posted by: buzzion at August 16, 2018 01:28 AM (cAnNx)
Posted by: Alligator Lizard, Somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 16, 2018 01:25 AM (Bh6pi)
Dude was dead before he even would have heard the shot
Posted by: Old Blue at August 16, 2018 01:29 AM (gEvQ8)
Posted by: buzzion at August 16, 2018 01:28 AM (cAnNx)
Hrm. Ok.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 16, 2018 01:30 AM (6U3DW)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
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'Target Hiroshima', Christman, for anyone interested.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 16, 2018 01:30 AM (xSo9G)
Many rifles have this characteristic, but it is pronounced in the Browning: within a few yards of the muzzle, the bullet's rifling causes it to screw out in a vortex, centered on the aimed flight path but way to hell off it. At a hundred yards (or two or even three), accuracy is best described as "approximate."
But the farther it goes, the more it screws back in, and in the 700-1000 range it's much like other non-sniper rifles of the same range -- and then it comes into its own at ranges only it can reach.
The .50 BMG round causes part of this, and so newer sniper rifles using it also do this somewhat, but the special properties of the M2 make it moreso.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at August 16, 2018 01:31 AM (8ZmvG)
Yes, as I recall they crunched when you squeezed them.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 16, 2018 01:32 AM (2lndx)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 16, 2018 01:33 AM (xSo9G)
Posted by: Old Blue at August 16, 2018 01:34 AM (gEvQ8)
Posted by: vivi at August 16, 2018 01:34 AM (11H2y)
yes, you can mount scopes these days, easier than before. your could mount Starlights back in SVN days.
sand bag the tripod, fire a few rounds to seat it into the ground, then re-sandbag, set the TandE, with fire control on "single shot", fire and adjust for range, windage and elevation, then wait patiently.
i'm sure new 50 cal barrels are of much higher specs than previously, which is why they were able to get rid of the HS and Timing gauges for her. now,
AIUI, the barrel just slides in and locks down, ready to fire.
Posted by: redc1c4 at August 16, 2018 01:34 AM (ifaj+)
Posted by: Hrothgar at August 16, 2018 01:35 AM (n9EOP)
Posted by: Lurking Cynic at August 16, 2018 01:36 AM (LGWcZ)
Posted by: Alligator Lizard, Somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 16, 2018 01:36 AM (Bh6pi)
And agreed - Parsons was one of (many) fairly unsung amazing people of WWII.
I'm only 1/3 the way into it, but the title seems a bit misleading, in the sense that there's a lot more than the Hiroshima or even the A-bomb elements to it.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 16, 2018 01:37 AM (QDnY+)
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Same with Strozk. Maybe more so. You could probably smell the sulfur fumes on his breath.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 16, 2018 01:37 AM (xSo9G)
Posted by: rhomboid
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Keep reading...and remember, Duck and Cover.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 16, 2018 01:38 AM (xSo9G)
Posted by: Burger Chef at August 16, 2018 01:40 AM (RuIsu)
Posted by: Stringer Davis at August 16, 2018 01:40 AM (8ZmvG)
Posted by: Old Blue
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That's him...but is just a tiny, tiny detail of his service.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 16, 2018 01:40 AM (xSo9G)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 16, 2018 01:41 AM (xSo9G)
#324? Well, pffft, no big deal then. Just 96 years old? For a second there I thought you were talking about an amazingly old gun, or something .....
And redc I think there is now a "quick change" barrel for the M-2, making it like the SAW. No HS to mess with. Fairly recent development, I think.
Range where I RO (tomorrow is duty day in fact) sometimes has Navy units (ship's companies, doing their qualifications) with M-2s on tripods. Next time I'll try to hang around and watch the barrel-change. Was able to watch/listen to the M-249 familiarization one day, didn't get trigger time but sort of know how to load it and change barrels.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 16, 2018 01:42 AM (QDnY+)
What's the name of the book?
Sounds like it should be sent to OM for the Book Thrrad.
Posted by: Hrothgar at August 16, 2018 01:42 AM (n9EOP)
McChristal maybe? How about the retired SEAL Admiral that used to be JSOC?
Posted by: Lurking Cynic at August 16, 2018 01:43 AM (LGWcZ)
Speaking of heat, I just saw they've discovered an exoplanet that is the hottest hot jupiter yet discovered.
KELT-9b orbits closely to a type A star (10,000K), in a tight 36 hour orbit. It's in tide lock and the day side of the planet is on the order of 4200K or so (7800F).
Atomic iron vapor is present in the atmosphere.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 16, 2018 01:44 AM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Alligator Lizard, Somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 16, 2018 01:44 AM (Bh6pi)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 16, 2018 01:37 AM (xSo9G)
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Every one of them have that chin in the air, head cocked, defiant look, ala Lois Lerner. They consider themselves above even being questioned.
And they get away with it. It is maddening, but reality.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 16, 2018 01:45 AM (hoAFm)
If only Trump knew.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 16, 2018 01:45 AM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 16, 2018 01:11 AM (h2Bdk)
--Yup.
That said, Cracked was also good before the endarkening at just being straight-out informative, without overtly shooting for funneh.
Posted by: logprof at August 16, 2018 01:45 AM (e7oj4)
Sounds like it should be sent to OM for the Book Thrrad.
Posted by: Hrothgar
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It's been mentioned on the Book Thread, by rhomboid.
'Target Hiroshima', Christman, for anyone interested.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 16, 2018 01:45 AM (xSo9G)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 16, 2018 01:45 AM (xSo9G)
Posted by: m at August 16, 2018 01:46 AM (CwOPz)
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Them there be purty words!
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 16, 2018 01:46 AM (0jtPF)
Posted by: Lurking Cynic at August 16, 2018 01:36 AM (LGWcZ)
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given the stipulation of ground mount, fixed position, sandbagged tripod W/TnE and sighted in scope?
yes it will.
on a ring or pintle mount, or on an M-1, not so much, albeit the M-1 will be the most accurate, due to more solid mounting and gunnery computer.
also, if you get ahold of specialty Barrett type match ammo for fire as single shots, they will be more accurate than Lake City bulk loaded M-2 Ball ammo, even if you fire that single shot.
Posted by: redc1c4 at August 16, 2018 01:46 AM (ifaj+)
Posted by: Old Blue at August 16, 2018 01:46 AM (gEvQ8)
I knew it was only introduced to land-based artillery (for air bursts close to the ground) during the Battle of the Bulge, but didn't know why, nearly 3 years after it was available, it was intro'd so late. Security. Over water, little fear of enemy recovery/emulation of the design. To the end it was masked by a deceptive name - VT, for "variable timing" fuse.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 16, 2018 01:48 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at August 16, 2018 01:48 AM (IcT7t)
Posted by: logprof at August 16, 2018 01:49 AM (e7oj4)
Posted by: Lurking Cynic at August 16, 2018 01:49 AM (LGWcZ)
making it like the SAW. No HS to mess with. Fairly recent development,
I think.
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oh yeah... that kit was available late 80's early 90's, IIRC.
people all over the world adopted it.
just not the DOD. at least not then.
20 years later, it's "Hey!, look what we came up with!"
assholes.
Posted by: redc1c4 at August 16, 2018 01:49 AM (ifaj+)
Yes, they work for the Government! They are Professional Members of the Eternal Bureaucracy.
That means they are Better Than You.
Posted by: Homu at August 16, 2018 01:51 AM (Dumyc)
Posted by: Burger Chef at August 16, 2018 01:52 AM (RuIsu)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2018 01:53 AM (LI7AQ)
assholes.
Posted by: redc1c4 at August 16, 2018 01:49 AM (ifaj+)
I think they look at the cost of upgrading the inventory and their brains just check out. That's what keeps coming up in the M16/M4 replacement - yes, we can field a gun that's a bit better, but the billion dollars we'd spend can be better spent somewhere else.
I'm sympathetic. Would you have traded the M777 for a SCAR?
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 16, 2018 01:54 AM (h2Bdk)
Posted by: Burger Chef at August 16, 2018 01:55 AM (RuIsu)
Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 16, 2018 01:55 AM (hoAFm)
I grew up in Norfolk, VA and started grade school in 1962. Practicing 'duck and cover' while living within a couple miles of the largest Naval military installation in the US, hence a ripe target for Soviet ICBMs, was just plain dumb. I wouldn't even have been a charcoal briquette had an actual attack occurred. 'Duck and cover' was the equivalent of putting a band aid on a leg with an amputated foot.
Posted by: RickZ at August 16, 2018 01:57 AM (8lsuS)
Posted by: rickl at August 16, 2018 02:03 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: rickl at August 16, 2018 02:04 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: rickl at August 16, 2018 02:03 AM (sdi6R)
We would have been less than a thousand yards from ground zero, so it would have been pretty useless.
Posted by: Old Blue at August 16, 2018 02:05 AM (gEvQ8)
Posted by: rickl at August 16, 2018 02:03 AM (sdi6R)
We would have been less than a thousand yards from ground zero, so it would have been pretty useless.
Posted by: Old Blue at August 16, 2018 02:05 AM (gEvQ
Bah. The Soviets didn't have anything that accurate.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 16, 2018 02:06 AM (h2Bdk)
Around 2030 it is estimated that 80% of the ON provincial budget will go to their wonderful socialized medicine. Which is why the push is on north of the border to legalize murder via the doc and there is a wider push to get Canadians to accept such immorality (a series of articles in Maclean's pushing assisted suicide, for instance).
Posted by: Catch Thirty Thr33 at August 16, 2018 02:06 AM (/0HPZ)
Bah. The Soviets didn't have anything that accurate.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 16, 2018 02:06 AM (h2Bdk)
I forget who it was who said that if the North Koreans tried to nuke Washington, DC, they'd probably end up hitting Nashville.
Posted by: rickl at August 16, 2018 02:10 AM (sdi6R)
I grew up in Norfolk, VA and started grade school in 1962. Practicing 'duck and cover' while living within a couple miles of the largest Naval military installation in the US, hence a ripe target for Soviet ICBMs, was just plain dumb. I wouldn't even have been a charcoal briquette had an actual attack occurred. 'Duck and cover' was the equivalent of putting a band aid on a leg with an amputated foot.
Posted by: RickZ at August 16, 2018 01:57 AM (8lsuS)
--Same here. Only at age 22 did I finally move away from proximity of Norfolk (you were modest --actually the largest naval base in the world)/Little Creek/Oceana, then Langley AFB/TAC and the Naval Weapons Station. My mom told us littl'uns we did not have to worry about fallout. . . .
Posted by: logprof at August 16, 2018 02:11 AM (e7oj4)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 16, 2018 01:48 AM (QDnY+)
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AFAIK, they are still called VT, although some rounds such as the old, much missed 8" howitzer had mechanical time fuses as well...
one time, at Club Bob, i sat on a east facing range, looking towar the main impact area, and watched as a gun fired single rounds that came down in said area.
the first round, hit, bounced, several times, came to a rest, then exploded.
several rounds came through singly, each one making fewer hops before exploding, until one went off just before landing.
then the firew*rks started: grey smoke and blowing dust everywhere as they battery fired.
Posted by: redc1c4 at August 16, 2018 02:12 AM (ifaj+)
Posted by: vivi at August 16, 2018 02:18 AM (11H2y)
M-60s, not FN-MAGs, except for the DATs, once they got M-1s, which was 98ish as well.
M1-IPs, replacing M-60A3s, which had replaced the M48A5s, that replace the M48A3s they had when i joined.
M113A1s until the very end as well, when A3's started hitting the line units.
ancient shit was ancient.
Posted by: redc1c4 at August 16, 2018 02:21 AM (ifaj+)
Posted by: redc1c4 at August 16, 2018 02:22 AM (ifaj+)
Posted by: mjc at August 16, 2018 02:23 AM (Pg+x7)
Posted by: vivi at August 16, 2018 02:25 AM (11H2y)
Posted by: Ladyl at August 16, 2018 02:30 AM (TdMsT)
Posted by: logprof at August 16, 2018 02:11 AM (e7oj4)
There's also NAS and NOB with the sub piers (just down from the aircraft carrier piers). (There was also Ft. Story with its DEW system of huge golf ball-looking structures.) When I was a Boy Scout, I got to go onboard a sub for a tour. I know I hit my head a few times going through hatches. I still remember what one of the bubbleheads called the vertical Polaris missile tubes in one section of the sub (where the crew would jog around for exercise): Sherwood Forest.
But yeah, I would have been atomized in any attack. The Soviets would have launched multiple missiles at such a ripe target.
Posted by: RickZ at August 16, 2018 02:31 AM (8lsuS)
Greetings from Springfield!
Hotels are weird.
Travel - it's for the young. Which I am not.
Posted by: mindful webworker - weary driver at August 16, 2018 02:38 AM (nQpdK)
Posted by: mindful webworker - weary driver at August 16, 2018 02:40 AM (nQpdK)
--Recall visiting my brother's flat in Bad News, close to
An aircraft carrier was there, moored on the James, looming over the whole neighborhood. Weird, surreal sight.
Posted by: logprof at August 16, 2018 02:41 AM (e7oj4)
Posted by: Lava Land at August 16, 2018 02:50 AM (FJrl0)
They passed out quicker than an ONT at 3 a.m.
https://tinyurl.com/ycc9te7o
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 16, 2018 02:56 AM (aE+Wq)
Posted by: X-ray at August 16, 2018 02:57 AM (kG2lj)
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 16, 2018 03:08 AM (5jVnA)
Posted by: X-ray at August 16, 2018 03:09 AM (kG2lj)
Posted by: X-ray at August 16, 2018 03:12 AM (kG2lj)
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 16, 2018 03:14 AM (5jVnA)
Posted by: Lava Land at August 16, 2018 02:50 AM (FJrl0)
Longs Drug Store where?
Posted by: m at August 16, 2018 03:14 AM (CwOPz)
Posted by: m at August 16, 2018 03:17 AM (CwOPz)
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner
Or scatter Legos around them.
Posted by: X-ray at August 16, 2018 03:18 AM (kG2lj)
Posted by: mindful webworker - weary driver at August 16, 2018 02:40 AM (nQpdK)
Sure, sure, that's what they all say. Where were you last night?
Posted by: Thread cop at August 16, 2018 03:50 AM (h2Bdk)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 16, 2018 04:00 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 16, 2018 03:08 AM (5jVnA)
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chorizo con huevos and machaca con huevos, si?
Posted by: redc1c4 at August 16, 2018 04:15 AM (l8BL3)
Posted by: Skip at August 16, 2018 04:22 AM (lxZ71)
Posted by: Skip at August 16, 2018 04:22 AM (lxZ71)
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Burn the Witch!
Posted by: CDB at August 16, 2018 04:25 AM (l8BL3)
Posted by: redc1c4 at August 16, 2018 04:26 AM (l8BL3)
Posted by: Skip at August 16, 2018 04:30 AM (lxZ71)
Posted by: Skip at August 16, 2018 04:30 AM (lxZ71)
Okay, no sausage. But bacon will make an appearance, right? Can't have that kind of breakfast without some sort of breakfast pig to go with it.
Posted by: RickZ at August 16, 2018 04:33 AM (8lsuS)
Nevertheless how anyone could not like French toast with maple syrup?
Posted by: Skip at August 16, 2018 04:38 AM (lxZ71)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at August 16, 2018 04:46 AM (j0Oc6)
Posted by: Sumdumchief at August 16, 2018 04:46 AM (hPylI)
I read Hathcock's book and even he said that shot was luck. His target was crouching by a river bank when he pulled the trigger and then the VC stood up and the round took his head off. He normally used a Remington 700 hunting rifle in .308.
Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at August 16, 2018 04:51 AM (j8rhH)
Posted by: Skip at August 16, 2018 04:38 AM (lxZ71)
I don't know, either. Just don't use that fake syrup crap, though. Gawd, that stuff's simply awful. I grew up having that but I can't eat it anymore, not after having real maple syrup.
Sometimes, I grate some orange zest into the milk/egg batter, along with a splash of vanilla and some cinnamon. Then I'll put some fresh ginger pieces into some syrup in a mug to heat in the microwave, then steep for a bit. I pour the syrup through a small strainer on top of the French toast and the requisite melting butter.
Fancy Dan French toast.
Posted by: RickZ at August 16, 2018 04:51 AM (8lsuS)
I don't get it either. What else would you put on French toast?
Posted by: clutch at August 16, 2018 04:54 AM (kiSdp)
Posted by: Skip at August 16, 2018 04:54 AM (lxZ71)
Posted by: Sumdumchief at August 16, 2018 04:59 AM (hPylI)
Posted by: RickZ at August 16, 2018 04:59 AM (8lsuS)
NeverTrumpers are dogs.
And that's being charitable.
Posted by: Kreplach at August 16, 2018 05:00 AM (kT3/m)
Posted by: Skip at August 16, 2018 05:02 AM (lxZ71)
Posted by: Sumdumchief at August 16, 2018 05:05 AM (hPylI)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 16, 2018 05:07 AM (rnAwa)
And that is the way it should be. my clearance was pulled as soon as I got out of the military.
Posted by: clutch at August 16, 2018 05:08 AM (kiSdp)
Posted by: RickZ at August 16, 2018 05:08 AM (8lsuS)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 16, 2018 05:08 AM (wYseH)
Our imaginations cannot keep up with the deprivations that the party of Satan can conceive and advance.
Its one of the defects of being law abiding and moral.
We may need to re-evaluate that.
Posted by: Kreplach at August 16, 2018 05:09 AM (kT3/m)
I don't think ever had a duck and cover drill but knew of them from commercials so could be wrong.
But saw this at Bearing Ems, trauma training and CPR.
https://tinyurl.com/ybfxv2ks
Posted by: Skip at August 16, 2018 05:09 AM (lxZ71)
Posted by: Skip at August 16, 2018 05:10 AM (lxZ71)
Posted by: Skip at August 16, 2018 05:11 AM (lxZ71)
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We don't like your kind around here...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 16, 2018 05:08 AM (wYseH)
Sorry, but I'm not into shaved carrots on top of my French toast.
Posted by: RickZ at August 16, 2018 05:11 AM (8lsuS)
Trump should EO rescinding of security clearances upon separation from all executive branch positions.
Does anyone believe that Holder was consulting with John Ashcroft on anything? Or any former Bushie?
Unlikely.
And if for some reason a former official needs to be consulted or be part of an investigation or inquiry and needs to review classified material, their clearance can be temporarily restored.
This is not rocket surgery.
Posted by: Kreplach at August 16, 2018 05:15 AM (kT3/m)
We don't like your kind around here...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 16, 2018 05:08 AM (wYseH)
By the way, there is no 's' added to the end of smelt. And they are great right out of the water, cleaned and fried up.
Posted by: clutch at August 16, 2018 05:22 AM (kiSdp)
Posted by: RickZ at August 16, 2018 05:11 AM (8lsuS)
Arugula.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 16, 2018 05:22 AM (wYseH)
Posted by: Skip at August 16, 2018 05:22 AM (lxZ71)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 16, 2018 05:25 AM (wYseH)
Posted by: Bruce at August 16, 2018 05:25 AM (8ikIW)
Posted by: clutch at August 16, 2018 05:27 AM (kiSdp)
"The problem isn't that John Brennan's security clearance was revoked, it's that John Brennan had security clearance to begin with"
Posted by: Bruce at August 16, 2018 05:28 AM (8ikIW)
The man admitted to leaking classified material to his "lawyer"
I sure do hope that turds cleareance is revoked this week at the latest.
Posted by: Kreplach at August 16, 2018 05:28 AM (kT3/m)
Posted by: Bruce at August 16, 2018 05:29 AM (8ikIW)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 16, 2018 05:25 AM (wYseH)
Smelt. The plural can be either smelts or smelt.
Posted by: RickZ at August 16, 2018 05:32 AM (8lsuS)
Maple syrup makes a better projectile than powdered sugar. Plus, maple.
Clear winner of this round.
Posted by: fluffy at August 16, 2018 05:32 AM (cHbmY)
Posted by: Gem at August 16, 2018 05:33 AM (XoAz8)
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2018 05:33 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: clutch at August 16, 2018 05:34 AM (kiSdp)
Posted by: Bruce at August 16, 2018 05:34 AM (8ikIW)
Clear winner of this round.
Posted by: fluffy
Plus the bottle will leave a mark and shrapnel with contact.
Posted by: Bruce at August 16, 2018 05:35 AM (8ikIW)
Posted by: Kreplach at August 16, 2018 05:15 AM (kT3/m)
And go find 100 or 150 leakers and put them in a place where their assholes get scared at bedtime.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2018 05:38 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 16, 2018 05:43 AM (wYseH)
Posted by: Sumdumchief at August 16, 2018 05:05 AM (hPylI)
I think the only difference is that now they actually hate you. I think Wilson and Roosevelt probably liked Americans. I think Hillary and Warren hate you.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2018 05:43 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: clutch at August 16, 2018 05:34 AM (kiSdp)
I thought that too, but I looked it up using the Merriam-Webster on-line dictionary. I was surprised as I thought smelt was like moose, both singular and plural. But English is a weird language, even for native English speakers.
Posted by: RickZ at August 16, 2018 05:45 AM (8lsuS)
Posted by: Bruce at August 16, 2018 05:35 AM (8ikIW)
If we are talking breakfast table condiment weapons I will take a quart can of blackstrap molasses.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2018 05:46 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2018 05:47 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2018 05:48 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2018 05:43 AM (JFO2v)
US Citizens Need Not Apply.
Posted by: RickZ at August 16, 2018 05:50 AM (8lsuS)
The little buggers are delicious. And RickZ, Merriam's is wrong. Nobody adds the 's' where the things live.
Posted by: clutch at August 16, 2018 05:50 AM (kiSdp)
Posted by: clutch
My buddy adds the S, of course, he's goofy. Most normal people, like me, refer to them as a 'messa" as in I'm having a messa smelt for dinner.
Posted by: Bruce at August 16, 2018 05:54 AM (8ikIW)
Posted by: clutch at August 16, 2018 05:50 AM (kiSdp)
I don't add the 's', either, and I don't live anywhere near the little bastards.
Posted by: RickZ at August 16, 2018 05:54 AM (8lsuS)
Posted by: RickZ at August 16, 2018 05:08 AM (8lsuS)
The fake news industrial complex. Te state needs permanent experts to parade in front of the stupid citizens to explain how sending a 1000 troops to some African shithole is important so they will forget the millions of disease ridden, murderous raping thugs walking across the southern borders.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2018 05:56 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: Bruce at August 16, 2018 05:56 AM (8ikIW)
Posted by: Smeagol at August 16, 2018 05:57 AM (wYseH)
Posted by: clutch at August 16, 2018 05:59 AM (kiSdp)
Posted by: Bruce at August 16, 2018 06:00 AM (8ikIW)
Let's smile and be happy and strike fear in the heart of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 16, 2018 06:01 AM (hyuyC)
Posted by: Bruce at August 16, 2018 06:02 AM (8ikIW)
We got about a quarter inch of rain last night. Not as much as I would have liked, but I'll take it.
Plus, it rained late enough so that the Cubs win was enjoyed, I hope, but 'grammie'.
Posted by: Bruce at August 16, 2018 06:03 AM (8ikIW)
Does anyone believe for a moment that the Donks would have kept quite for 5 fucking years that a GOP member of the Senate Intel committee was employing a fucking Chinese spy?
Or that they wouldn't have, at a bare minimum demanded they step down?
The GOP is a useless pile of dog shit.
Posted by: Kreplach at August 16, 2018 06:05 AM (kT3/m)
Posted by: socalcon at August 16, 2018 06:05 AM (WAnre)
I will attempt to replace my snark and cynicism with trying to help the kids. The wider school system is a failure, but that does not mean individual effort have to fail.
Caring and nurturing is not my normal demeanor, but for today I will try.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 16, 2018 06:05 AM (hyuyC)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 16, 2018 06:06 AM (hyuyC)
Posted by: Bruce at August 16, 2018 06:02 AM (8ikIW)
SJWhores are very ludite know nothings. Watch a video of them being asked about civil rights, or economy, or business and the answer will be third grade mental gymnastics trying to prove that something is not fair and that by just nudging the scales on every transaction some bureaucrat can make things fair.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2018 06:07 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: socalcon at August 16, 2018 06:08 AM (WAnre)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 16, 2018 06:08 AM (hyuyC)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 16, 2018 06:06 AM (hyuyC)
So light Robin Hoods Merry Men? Or Christmas Elves?
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2018 06:08 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 16, 2018 06:13 AM (hyuyC)
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No doubt more than one Senator employs a Chinaman spy and gets money from Chicom companies via one route or another.
Posted by: RioBravo at August 16, 2018 06:19 AM (+wjl1)
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2018 06:20 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: rhennigantx
Like a tongue twister for your fingers.
Posted by: Bruce at August 16, 2018 06:21 AM (8ikIW)
Posted by: clutch at August 16, 2018 06:25 AM (kiSdp)
Posted by: RickZ at August 16, 2018 06:26 AM (8lsuS)
Green tights at the office. That could be amusing, me wearing green tights on my hairy backside.
Posted by: fluffy at August 16, 2018 06:27 AM (cHbmY)
Posted by: Kreplach at August 16, 2018 06:28 AM (kT3/m)
Posted by: RickZ
Very strange calls again. I got one that the caller ID said 'Congo Mary'
Posted by: Bruce at August 16, 2018 06:28 AM (8ikIW)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 16, 2018 06:29 AM (m8J9w)
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2018 06:30 AM (JFO2v)
New receptionist a dummy. Can't even spell 'Jennifer.'
Posted by: Sum Ting Wong at August 16, 2018 06:30 AM (cHbmY)
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No doubt more than one Senator employs a Chinaman spy and gets money from Chicom companies via one route or another.
Posted by: RioBravo
They are ALL in on it.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 16, 2018 06:30 AM (YE6fT)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 16, 2018 06:31 AM (m8J9w)
I listened to something on the radio a few months back. EMT crew said they have had repeats on the same shift.
Posted by: fluffy at August 16, 2018 06:32 AM (cHbmY)
major legislative steps to reduce inequality of income and wealth, provide citizens with new ways to contain the power of large corporations and expand the services to which all citizens are entitled.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2018 06:34 AM (JFO2v)
Motives remain the same:
1) I am a future komisar
B) I will get (more) free shit
Posted by: fluffy at August 16, 2018 06:38 AM (cHbmY)
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2018 06:34 AM (JFO2v)
Well, the illegals get the services, too. According to the left and their judges, the illegals are entitled to our largesse. I think that's the major difference between 'the new socialism' versus the old, run-of-the-mill socialism. At least according to the Donkey Party.
Posted by: RickZ at August 16, 2018 06:39 AM (8lsuS)
Posted by: Concerned People's Front at August 16, 2018 06:43 AM (v1udk)
Posted by: TickledPink at August 16, 2018 06:46 AM (TL2pK)
Posted by: Concerned People's Front at August 16, 2018 06:43 AM (v1udk)
Go read Liawathas new bill. An Atlas Shrugged type board to help companies do the right thing.
Progressive read 1984 and Atlus to get new ideas!
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2018 06:46 AM (JFO2v)
At least six senior FBI officials involved in the Hillary Clinton email investigation have been fired or have resigned since May 2017.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2018 06:47 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: BifBewalskiBot at August 16, 2018 06:49 AM (8ZeGS)
Posted by: BifBewalskiBot at August 16, 2018 06:50 AM (8ZeGS)
I wonder how many of these people have been rescued from OD 3 or 4 or 5
times already?
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2018 06:30 AM
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There was a guy when we lived in Kentucky that got narco penned revived by either the Cops or the Ambulance guys 22 times.
It started a discussion that turned ugly over how many times is too many.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at August 16, 2018 06:50 AM (JUOKG)
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2018 06:47 AM (JFO2v)
It is . . . unprecedented as well as unexpected (but hoping for more as I'm a greedy bastard that way).
Posted by: RickZ at August 16, 2018 06:51 AM (8lsuS)
Arugula.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 16, 2018 05:22 AM (wYseH)
This always sounds like an old-fashioned car horn to me.
Posted by: m at August 16, 2018 06:51 AM (CwOPz)
https://www.gofundme.com/masterpiece-cakeshop
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 16, 2018 06:52 AM (AllCR)
Me too, on my cell phone. Probably 2X what I get it legit phone calls. I can't believe the carriers can't detect robocallers and block them.
Posted by: freaked at August 16, 2018 06:52 AM (UdKB7)
to the left and their judges, the illegals are entitled to our
largess."
Opposing being invaded and replaced by third world peasants is racist. Not wanting to pay for it is down right hateful.
Posted by: Ripley at August 16, 2018 06:53 AM (MxEKc)
Posted by: creeper at August 16, 2018 06:56 AM (zo6VT)
Posted by: Ripley at August 16, 2018 06:53 AM (MxEKc)
Well then, just call me a racist Hatey McHaterson.
Posted by: RickZ at August 16, 2018 06:56 AM (8lsuS)
Posted by: Bruce at August 16, 2018 06:57 AM (8ikIW)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 16, 2018 06:57 AM (D/yfw)
Hillary Clinton email investigation have been fired or have resigned
since May 2017.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2018 06:47 AM (JFO2v)
It is . . . unprecedented as well as unexpected (but hoping for more as I'm a greedy bastard that way).
Posted by: RickZ at August 16, 2018 06:51 AM
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It's literally never happened before, and I do not think it is even close to being over yet.
The big problem with getting any prosecutions out of this whole mess I see is that lynch passed out blanket immunity like candy at Halloween and we still don't know who all she gave it to.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at August 16, 2018 06:58 AM (JUOKG)
Posted by: freaked
Mr. Number app on the app store.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 16, 2018 07:00 AM (YE6fT)
Jonah Goldberg says "Obama never cheated on his wife and bragged about it."
I wouldnt brag about buttsex either. And blowjobs are not cheating, just ask Billy boy.
Posted by: freaked at August 16, 2018 07:02 AM (UdKB7)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 16, 2018 07:02 AM (wldC6)
This always sounds like an old-fashioned car horn to me.
Posted by: m at August 16, 2018 06:51 AM (CwOPz)
What a clever and fun comparison!.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 16, 2018 07:02 AM (AllCR)
Posted by: freaked
I use NOROBOCALs on my iPhone and it works pretty good. I use it it at home also on FIOS and it blocks most fake calls
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 16, 2018 07:03 AM (m8J9w)
Even if he had, we never would have heard about it. It'd would be flushed and sealed.
Posted by: Bruce at August 16, 2018 07:03 AM (8ikIW)
My phone runs windows and I don't even know how to add apps. I shouldn't have to either.
Posted by: freaked at August 16, 2018 07:03 AM (UdKB7)
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2018 06:30 AM (JFO2v)
We = US?
Posted by: m at August 16, 2018 07:04 AM (CwOPz)
It started a discussion that turned ugly over how many times is too many.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman
Two. 2 times is too many.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 16, 2018 07:05 AM (YE6fT)
The home phone I have Nomorobo. Works great. But you need a VOIP service
Posted by: Bruce at August 16, 2018 07:05 AM (8ikIW)
Posted by: freaked at August 16, 2018 07:05 AM (UdKB7)
So by that reasoning we should dig FDR up and hang him and his wheel chair from the highest tree? OK, I'm in
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 16, 2018 07:05 AM (m8J9w)
How about email? It seem the more I block the more I get and lately it is an avalanche. It's to the point I might start changing my address every 3 months.
Posted by: Ripley at August 16, 2018 07:06 AM (MxEKc)
Posted by: freaked at August 16, 2018 07:05 AM (UdKB7)
Stay out of Camden
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 16, 2018 07:06 AM (m8J9w)
Which one? I'm in Springfield IL. The IL State Fair is going on this week so getting a hotel room within 20 miles would be quite an accomplishment...
Posted by: Secret Square at August 16, 2018 07:06 AM (9WuX0)
Posted by: freaked at August 16, 2018 07:07 AM (UdKB7)
Posted by: freaked
The good thing is, you can still use your bullet proof vest.
Posted by: Bruce at August 16, 2018 07:07 AM (8ikIW)
WITH FEMALES.
And now you know,
The REST of the story.
Good day.
Posted by: Paul Harvey
Posted by: rickb223 at August 16, 2018 07:07 AM (YE6fT)
Posted by: freaked
That's the tough one. And not everyone has the caller ID turned onto their phones.
Posted by: Bruce at August 16, 2018 07:08 AM (8ikIW)
Is he against the cheating? Or the bragging?
Posted by: Bruce at August 16, 2018 07:09 AM (8ikIW)
Baltimore recently made Narcan available to everyone. No training. No prescription.
Just walk into any city pharmacy and get it over the counter. If you have a prescription plan, they get the money from them. If you can't afford the dose, you get it for free.
The goal was to have everyone be able to administer Narcan when and where needed.
Oddly enough, one f the most vocal opponents of the plan is the actual recovering addict community.
They claim, and I suspect rightly so, that the availability of Narcan gives the illusion of safety to one who is considering trying an opioid recreationally for the first or second time.
Remove the fear of death, and idiots are more likely try it.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 16, 2018 07:10 AM (wldC6)
Hey Jonah, you know what's worse? Politicizing intelligence or every alpha bet agency against their political opposition.
Shame on me for not putting legal sex into the same area of despotism.
Posted by: willow at August 16, 2018 07:10 AM (dPd5y)
I was going to drive my car up there but now am thinking about taking my truck to intimidate the natives.
Posted by: freaked at August 16, 2018 07:11 AM (UdKB7)
So by that reasoning we should dig FDR up and hang him and his wheel chair from the highest tree? OK, I'm in
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 16, 2018 07:05 AM (m8J9w)
Uh, what am I, chopped livar? And FDR let his mistresses live. Pikah.
Posted by: Gem at August 16, 2018 07:11 AM (XoAz8)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
Just like it's up to the gubbmint or "somebody" to figure out a way for the gay community to go bareback.
Posted by: Bruce at August 16, 2018 07:12 AM (8ikIW)
Posted by: Ripley
NEVER reply to an email telling them to "remove" you.
Oh, they will. And then they'll sell your address as a verified, live address.
Go to Yahoo. Set up a throwaway email address.
Some company claims they need an email address "for their records", give the throwaway to them.
NEVER give out your real address to anyone you don't have to.
Hell, at one time, I had half a dozen throwaway Yahoo addresses.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 16, 2018 07:12 AM (YE6fT)
Posted by: Gem at August 16, 2018 07:12 AM (XoAz8)
Posted by: Bruce at August 16, 2018 07:13 AM (8ikIW)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 16, 2018 07:13 AM (AllCR)
Posted by: freaked at August 16, 2018 07:05 AM (UdKB7)
Stay out of Camden
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 16, 2018 07:06 AM
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And Newark.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at August 16, 2018 07:14 AM (JUOKG)
What did Obama or Hillary do for any conservative causes?
besides threaten and legally harass them?
Posted by: willow at August 16, 2018 07:14 AM (dPd5y)
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at August 16, 2018 07:14 AM (H8QX8)
Posted by: freaked at August 16, 2018 07:15 AM (UdKB7)
I love the stubborness billboard photo - always have
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 16, 2018 07:16 AM (kEb8E)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
I have been on a trip to the shore with nieces and nephews. Very pretty rural areas at that time about 30 years ago.
I figured since freaked was originally going to Chicago, they weren't sending him to the area I went thru
Posted by: Bruce at August 16, 2018 07:17 AM (8ikIW)
Posted by: willow at August 16, 2018 07:17 AM (dPd5y)
We had a pretty good thing going.
Posted by: The Big John Kerry Heads of Easter Island at August 16, 2018 07:17 AM (wldC6)
Baltimore recently made Narcan available to everyone. No training. No prescription.
Just walk into any city pharmacy and get it over the counter. If you
have a prescription plan, they get the money from them. If you can't
afford the dose, you get it for free.
The goal was to have everyone be able to administer Narcan when and where needed.
Oddly enough, one f the most vocal opponents of the plan is the actual recovering addict community.
They claim, and I suspect rightly so, that the availability of
Narcan gives the illusion of safety to one who is considering trying an
opioid recreationally for the first or second time.
Remove the fear of death, and idiots are more likely try it.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 16, 2018 07:10 AM
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In Kentucky they are passing those pens out to the High Schools because the drug OD problem is so bad.
Scott and Fayette County gave them for free when we lived there to anyone who asks for one and they are not cheap. They claim it saves money in the long run but I call B$ on those claims.
I am all for saving people's lives, but when a guy OD's and is revived 22 times in a few years it's time to cut your losses.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at August 16, 2018 07:18 AM (JUOKG)
I guess it had an international feel to it and is easy to pronounce in all Euro languages, but it still strikes me as odd.
I dunno. It's a semi-interesting subject.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 16, 2018 12:49 AM (0jtPF)
Garbo changed her name in 1923, at the time of her first major film The Saga of Gosta Berling. Director Mauritz Stiller, her mentor and lover, thought she needed the change because "Gustafsson" was at the time (and probably still is, for all I know) a very common name.
Stiller was a fan of alliterative names and originally came up with "Greta Gabor" before settling on "Greta Garbo."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 16, 2018 07:18 AM (kqsXK)
Posted by: willow
Always a good idea until you brush your teeth
Posted by: Bruce at August 16, 2018 07:18 AM (8ikIW)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 16, 2018 07:19 AM (AllCR)
Posted by: vivi at August 16, 2018 07:19 AM (11H2y)
Posted by: willow at August 16, 2018 07:19 AM (dPd5y)
Or as someone phrased it earlier.
Today is the day when the press responds in unison to the President's claim that they all operate in unison.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 16, 2018 07:21 AM (wldC6)
I think so. Our local paper has a paywall though. Too bad, so sad.
Posted by: freaked at August 16, 2018 07:21 AM (UdKB7)
Can somebody tweet back to that worthless cuck, "Trump never ate a dog and bragged about it."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 16, 2018 07:21 AM (kqsXK)
Posted by: freaked at August 16, 2018 07:23 AM (UdKB7)
Posted by: willow at August 16, 2018 07:19 AM (dPd5y)
willow! come back!
Posted by: m at August 16, 2018 07:24 AM (CwOPz)
Does Obama put catsup on his dogs when he eats them?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 16, 2018 07:24 AM (wldC6)
We've been willowed by willow. This is a sign.
Posted by: freaked
Maybe there was a spider on the table
Posted by: Bruce at August 16, 2018 07:25 AM (8ikIW)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 16, 2018 07:19 AM
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And that is different from any other day how exactly?
I literally would not be able to tell any difference.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at August 16, 2018 07:25 AM (JUOKG)
Posted by: willow
willow! come back!
Posted by: m
JJ's not up yet!
Posted by: rickb223 at August 16, 2018 07:25 AM (YE6fT)
We've been willowed by willow. This is a sign.
Posted by: freaked
Maybe there was a spider on the table
Posted by: Bruce at August 16, 2018 07:25 AM (8ikIW)
A FACE-SIZED one?
Posted by: m at August 16, 2018 07:26 AM (CwOPz)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
Only when he's enjoying a White Sox game at Cominskey Park
Posted by: Bruce at August 16, 2018 07:26 AM (8ikIW)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 16, 2018 07:26 AM (wldC6)
Does Obama put catsup on his dogs when he eats them?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
Heinz 57
Posted by: rickb223 at August 16, 2018 07:26 AM (YE6fT)
Posted by: Bruce at August 16, 2018 07:25 AM (8ikIW)
A FACE-SIZED one?
Posted by: m
Yes, and it just ordered another cup
Posted by: Bruce at August 16, 2018 07:27 AM (8ikIW)
Last week I told my psychiatrist, ''I keep thinking about suicide.'' He told me from now on I have to pay in advance.
Posted by: Rodney Dangerfield at August 16, 2018 07:29 AM (LOgQ4)
A feminist professor at California State University-Fresno recently published an article lamenting that federal programs to promote responsible fatherhood among vulnerable men in fact perpetuate patriarchy, gender norms, and hegemonic masculinity.
Plus she added, the girls of responsible fathers never end up as sexworkers and the boys do not go for jobs as baristas.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2018 07:31 AM (JFO2v)
My psychiatrist told me I’m going crazy. I told him, “If you don’t mind, I’d like a second opinion.”
He said, “All right. You’re ugly too!”
Posted by: Rodney Dangerfield at August 16, 2018 07:31 AM (LOgQ4)
I remember I was so depressed I was going to jump out a window on the tenth floor. They sent a priest up to talk to me. He said, “On your mark…”
Posted by: Rodney Dangerfield at August 16, 2018 07:32 AM (LOgQ4)
Posted by: Publius Redux at August 16, 2018 07:32 AM (mvvCm)
I wonder what major political party she most closely aligns with?
[ ] Republican
[ ] Democratic-Socialist
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 16, 2018 07:33 AM (wldC6)
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 16, 2018 07:33 AM (ZQfW9)
I wonder what major political party she most closely aligns with?
I wonder if Daddy knows how much she hated him.
Posted by: John Glenn at August 16, 2018 07:34 AM (oVJmc)
I saw some bullshit about Trump hating dogs the other day.
So this week:
Trump hates dogs.
Trump doesnt understand timezones.
Trump is wreckless to remove a leakers sec clearance.
Trump used the N word.
Trump said things that upset me. (That was from Penn, avowed atheist libertarian)
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2018 07:35 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 16, 2018 07:35 AM (oVJmc)
Posted by: creeper at August 16, 2018 07:35 AM (zo6VT)
I wonder what color she dyes her hair.
On the side that she doesn't shave to a stubble.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 16, 2018 07:36 AM (wldC6)
Posted by: Burger Chef at August 16, 2018 07:37 AM (RuIsu)
I hope she didn't take the Morning Breath comment seriously.
Which reminds me...
I gotta go brush my teeth.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 16, 2018 07:38 AM (wldC6)
Posted by: never enough caffeine at August 16, 2018 07:40 AM (N3JsI)
Am I the only one who is observing a growing lack of patience among conservatives? For months it was only Dems who were mad. Now it's everybody. How does this end well?
Posted by: creeper at August 16, 2018 07:41 AM (zo6VT)
_____________
I know, it's where we first met! It's how I know how good he is, and how good he tastes!
Posted by: Jonah G at August 16, 2018 07:41 AM (fqUgw)
Posted by: creeper
It's like the kid that won't stop saying "mommy watch me" at the pool.
Finally, you snap
Posted by: Bruce at August 16, 2018 07:42 AM (8ikIW)
Posted by: Publius Redux at August 16, 2018 07:32 AM (mvvCm)
And now Matt Lewis is into some kind repub hating mode. Something to the effect that Trump and Ingraham, et al is making Repub party old, mean, and white. Guess he missed this: Rasmussen proclaimed that black approval of Trump had hit 29%
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2018 07:42 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: rhennigantx
Not after the Tom Arnold tapes!!
Oooooo We got him now!
...SJW's and Vice Channel...
Posted by: Bruce at August 16, 2018 07:43 AM (8ikIW)
Posted by: creeper at August 16, 2018 07:46 AM (zo6VT)
Posted by: creeper at August 16, 2018 07:41 AM (zo6VT)
We should be angry. This started in November of 2000 and has not stopped. Conservatives have been blamed, cursed, shot, beaten, taxed, abused, guilted, shamed, slammed, and slimed. A big old FUCK YOU to Progressives.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2018 07:47 AM (JFO2v)
Oooooo We got him now!
...SJW's and Vice Channel...
Posted by: Bruce at August 16, 2018 07:43 AM (8ikIW)
Probably just flapping and grunting of him beating off to naked pics of Roseann
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2018 07:49 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: rhennigantx
Nows there's a mental image for the brain bleach
Posted by: Bruce at August 16, 2018 07:51 AM (8ikIW)
Need more pi.
Posted by: Sons of Peter Gunn at August 16, 2018 07:52 AM (XeN7w)
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 16, 2018 07:54 AM (ZQfW9)
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2018 07:54 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 16, 2018 07:54 AM (YE6fT)
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