Tuesday Overnight Open Thread – 3/09/2021 <BR>[Buck Throckmorton]

Tuesday Overnight Open Thread – 3/09/2021
[Buck Throckmorton]

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SILENT FILM SPECIAL EFFECTS

These are pretty cool. I’ve always been more fascinated by the talents of Set Designers than of the actual actors on the set.

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TAKING A POCKET CONSTITUTION TO A MOLOTOV COCKTAIL FIGHT

I’ve made several recent posts here at AOS about the battle against cancel culture, and how some non-violent options to fight back will still require conservatives to bend our polite “peacetime principle” of doing unto others as we would have them do unto us. I received an email from “Jim D” offering his thoughts on this topic. Within his email he stated:

"We show up with our pocket Declarations of Independence and Constitution; they show up with a brick and a Molotov cocktail. How do we think subsequent conversations will go? Where is the common ground?" – Jim D.

Well put, Jim.

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WWII’s OPERATION MINCEMEAT – A VAGRANT’S CORPSE & A MASTERFUL DECEPTION

As World War II’s campaign against Hitler and Mussolini’s troops in North Africa was winding down, the Allies’ next move would be to invade the European mainland. And once the site for the invasion was determined – Sicily - what could be done to encourage Axis leaders to believe the invasion would happen elsewhere?

Ian Fleming (of James Bond fame) was part of a team that devised a brilliant plan – but executing it would be a challenge.

A body would be set adrift off the coast of Spain when tides would likely carry it ashore. The corpse would be dressed in a British uniform and false plans about an upcoming invasion of Greece would be planted on it.
This was not as easy as it sounds. A fresh corpse of a military age man had to be found. Second, a back-story needed to be created for him – one without holes. On his person (in his pockets, briefcase) had to be what the intelligence services called “litter,” the little pieces of paper, photos, ticket stubs, etc. that people usually carried and which could say much about them.
His body (inside and out) had to be in such a state that one would believe he had drowned after a shipwreck or falling overboard.

The body of a homeless Welsh vagrant named Glyndwr Michael, who died from ingesting rat poison, became Major William Martin of the Royal Marines. Major Martin’s body was found by a Spanish fisherman, and the German-friendly Spanish authorities passed along the fake intel found on his body to the German government.

In the end, Hitler diverted significant numbers of troops to both Greece and Sardinia. He withdrew seven divisions to Greece from the Eastern Front (where they could not be more needed), and sent a further ten to Yugoslavia. Even after Operation Husky, the invasion of Sicily began, Hitler believed the Allies were going to invade Greece and withdrew even more troops from the Russian front, where they had been fighting in the monumental and key Battle of Kursk.

Major Martin was buried in Huelva, Spain. After the British government revealed Major Martin’s true identity in 1998, Glyndwr Michael’s name was added to the gravestone.

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THE PROBLEM-SOLVER IN CHIEF

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WHAT’S THE MOTIVATION FOR “FINDING” A NEW SPECIES OF WHALE?

When I first read this I thought, “How cool!” Large New Whale Species Discovered in Gulf of Mexico.

But I think I recognize a familiar game played by politicized scientists. These baleen whales were known to be in the Gulf, and had previously been identified as Bryde’s Whales, a widely distributed species whose conservation status is listed as “Least Concern.” But what if you were to suddenly classify the group of whales living in the Gulf of Mexico as an all-new species?

A study detailing the discovery of Rice’s whale, published last month in the journal Marine Mammal Science, suggests there may be fewer than 100 of the new species left in the wild, instantly adding the species to the list of critically endangered species, according to a statement from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Good ol’ NOAA is at it again. They’ve been busted manipulating historical temperature records to provide fraudulent climate change charts. I’m sure we can trust them on discovering a new “sub species” of giant whales in US coastal waters.

One of the gimmicks the Fish & Wildlife Service has used to prohibit development in the Hill Country of central Texas is to classify the harvestmen (daddy long-legs) in virtually every cave as a new species. They’re the exact same arachnid, just separated by thousands of years of isolation in separate caves. I fully expect NOAA to try to suspend all oil and gas activity in the Gulf to save this newly discovered “critically endangered species.”

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FLY LIKE AN EVEL

The children in our modern, no-risk society would not believe the adventures that children of a few decades ago enjoyed. When I was in grade school, Evel Knievel was a living God to us boys.

His Snake River jump had us as excited as anything the astronauts ever did. When we were indoors, we were jumping Hot Wheels over the “canyons” between tables and kitchen counters, and when outdoors we were going airborne while riding anything on wheels.

We would build ramps out of boards, or best of all, a pile of dirt at a construction site could be shoveled and molded into a ramp. I’m not sure how we survived, but the memories are great.

Were any of y’all behaving like little Evel Knievels back in the day? What other crazy reckless things did you do that would be unimaginable to the bubble-wrapped kids of today?

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THE WISDOM OF KINKY FRIEDMAN

Kinky Friedman has had an excellent career as an author, songwriter, and band leader. His political career totaled just two unsuccessful races – for Justice of the Peace (Republican) in 1986 and for Texas Governor (Independent) in 2006. Although he lost that gubernatorial race to Rick Perry, a grateful nation enjoyed laughing along with his campaign.

Of all the Jewish cowboy philosophers out there, Kinky is my favorite. Here are some of his great quotes.

“Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest.”

“The first thing I'll do if elected is demand a recount.”

“Politics is the only field of human endeavor where the more experience you have, the worse you get.”

“If you have the choice between humble and cocky, go with cocky. There's always time to be humble later, once you've been proven horrendously, irrevocably wrong.”

“Happiness is a moving target.”

“A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life.”

“Well, I just said that Jesus and I were both Jewish and that neither of us ever had a job, we never had a home, we never married, and we traveled around the countryside irritating people.”

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MOTHER F***ER, FOOD EATER

Keanu Reeves with one of cinema’s greatest insults in River’s Edge.

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REPURPOSED TUNES

Aura Lee was published in 1861 and quickly became very popular with Civil War soldiers pining for the fair maidens back at home. Elvis Presley used the tune for his monster 1956 hit “Love Me Tender. “ Below are Elvis’ version of Love Me Tender along with a nice multi-part a capella version of Aura Lee.

Love Me Tender

Aura Lee

I’m going to request that the Co-Blogger Barbershop Quartet add Aura Lee to their repertoire.

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YOU GOT PEANUT BUTTER ON MY CHOCOLATE

Before Robby Benson and Donny Most (“Ralph Malph” became famous in the 1970s, they were bumping into each other on city streets, sharing their chocolate and peanut butter with each other. Lots of cringe here, including Robby Benson’s accent.

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TECHNOLOGIES YOU NEVER LEARNED BEFORE THEY BECAME OBSOLETE

The training for my first job out of college required that I take a course in the DOS operating system (along with all the courses specific to my job and industry.) I took all the courses except the DOS course, having learned the bare minimum DOS navigation required for me to do my job. My failure to complete the DOS training was even mentioned in one performance review as I recall. I always intended to get around to that training, but I never did. I guess it was in the mid-90s when Windows came along and I could finally stop sweating about not being trained on DOS.

A few years later, Palm Pilots (which were marketed as “personal digital assistants” became the rage. All of my peers had one except for me. They all loved that device, but all that stabbing with a stylus looked like a lot of work to me, especially since the device’s features didn’t even include a phone or email.

Since I never learned the joys of DOS or Palm Pilots, do any of y’all have any fond memories about what I missed with them?

Are there any mass-market technologies that you successfully avoided learning before they became obsolete?

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MOTIVATION
(h/t – despair.com)

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THROCKMORTON’S FIRST LAW OF LIVE MUSIC: IF THERE’S AN UPRIGHT BASS IN THE BAND, IT’S PROBABLY GOING TO BE GOOD

Lyle Lovett has a foot in many different styles, and in this song he brings ‘em all together. Western Swing, Jazz, Dancehall, Black Gospel, Big Band, and probably some other stuff too.

That’s Right You’re Not From Texas (But Texas Wants You Anyway)

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Thanks again to the horde for letting me play host tonight. Please feel free to offer any helpful feedback, insults, or tips at buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com

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1 BOOM!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at March 09, 2021 10:00 PM (Dc2NZ)

2 Ban

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 09, 2021 10:00 PM (kTF2Z)

3 MWAhahahaha!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at March 09, 2021 10:00 PM (Dc2NZ)

4 Evening everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 09, 2021 10:00 PM (Rvt88)

5 Hi Buck! Thank for the ONT!

Posted by: Doof at March 09, 2021 10:00 PM (mZUr4)

6 Najprej!

Posted by: Zettai at March 09, 2021 10:00 PM (mqBmY)

7 Not first and with a typo. Nice.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 09, 2021 10:01 PM (kTF2Z)

8 late again

Posted by: ALH, Trump is my President at March 09, 2021 10:01 PM (oUcR5)

9 Not too bad!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 09, 2021 10:01 PM (87oRe)

10 I'm not sure that Eris person is a legit first, I'm going to ask for a recount!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 09, 2021 10:02 PM (87oRe)

11 Oh, that top picture! Gorgeous! Hope everyone is doing well tonight.

Posted by: Toni at March 09, 2021 10:02 PM (/c+mq)

12 Happy-ish Tuesday Evening, all y'all ...

Posted by: Adriane the Terrifying Children's Bedtime Stories Critic ... at March 09, 2021 10:02 PM (LPnfS)

13 I did the requisite informing of lesser beings!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 09, 2021 10:03 PM (87oRe)

14

A VAGRANT'S CORPSE & A MASTERFUL DECEPTION

The Man Who Never Was

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049471

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 09, 2021 10:04 PM (63Dwl)

15 Good evening y'all

Posted by: wing at March 09, 2021 10:06 PM (JFzNN)

16 My (later generation) Palm Zire was the first mobile internet device I had (you had to buy a special expansion card to get wifi).

It was life-changing for that reason alone.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 09, 2021 10:08 PM (QE98t)

17 Imagine being famous for eating rat poison, dying, then set adrift in the ocean where your body got all gross and bloated?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 09, 2021 10:08 PM (UPoLF)

18 Thanks for the swell ONT, Buck! Always nice to see you.

That final photo is too funny, but I will bet it is accurate from the viewpoint of the driver.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Believing in America at March 09, 2021 10:08 PM (Dc9iO)

19 That is a good story about the dead guy getting promoted to Major.
Too bad he never got the pay that goes with it.

Posted by: ALH, Trump is my President at March 09, 2021 10:08 PM (oUcR5)

20 10 I'm not sure that Eris person is a legit first, I'm going to ask for a recount!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 09, 2021 10:02 PM (87oRe)
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*Supreme Court rejects recount results*

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at March 09, 2021 10:09 PM (Dc2NZ)

21 20ish?

Liberal SIL is driving me up the wall. She is sure that white men in pickups are looking to beat her up because she's Korean.

Posted by: barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at March 09, 2021 10:09 PM (NUbbl)

22 Alaska has just opened up COVID-19 vaccinations to all citizens of 16 and up, the first state in the nation to do so.

Vaccine-haters: why not just assume that we already know you're not going to get one? There's no need to inform us of that for the fiftieth time.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 09, 2021 10:10 PM (QE98t)

23 Eris's case was rejected by the Supreme Court because he had no standing.

Posted by: ALH, Trump is my President at March 09, 2021 10:10 PM (oUcR5)

24 I think you could make a Palm Pilot into a remote for your TV... or a door stop

Typically it was the door stop.

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at March 09, 2021 10:10 PM (3H9h1)

25 I just wanted to brag that I managed to retire without ever having given a PowerPoint presentation.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at March 09, 2021 10:10 PM (Dc2NZ)

26 I'm not sure that Eris person is a legit first, I'm going to ask for a recount!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 09, 2021 10:02 PM

Eris was first... By a lot!!

Posted by: Zettai at March 09, 2021 10:10 PM (mqBmY)

27 "So what did your grandpa do in the war?"

"well, funny story -- he ate some rat poison, so... you know what? Never mind."

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 09, 2021 10:11 PM (UPoLF)

28 Bringing a constitution to a molotov fight is not necessarily a bad thing, assuming we're playing the part of the French muscadins. Big thick hickory constitutions are the best, of course, but less durable wood can also work in a pinch depending on what's at hand.

Posted by: CppThis at March 09, 2021 10:11 PM (zcf1k)

29 That being said- top 'o' the evening, Horde. Hope it's been a good day, or at least a productive one.

Posted by: barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at March 09, 2021 10:11 PM (NUbbl)

30 Eris was first... By a lot!!
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By enough, Comrade Zettai...by enough.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at March 09, 2021 10:11 PM (Dc2NZ)

31 > She is sure that white men in pickups are looking to beat her up because she's Korean.

How does she not know about all the white redneck boys who married Korean women when they were in the service?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 09, 2021 10:11 PM (QE98t)

32 Off to bed, and seriously hoping I don't wake up tomorrow.

Not being critical of you, Buck. It just is.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 09, 2021 10:12 PM (l9m7l)

33 25 I just wanted to brag that I managed to retire without ever having given a PowerPoint presentation.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at March 09, 2021 10:10 PM (Dc2NZ)

I wish I could outlaw power points.

I think one of the big tech CEOs, maybe Musk, banned them.

Biggest waste of time ever. If it's something I need to see pictures of, email it to me. If it's something you need to explain to me, call me, or do an in person meeting. And if you need more then 2 visual aids, figure out a different way to explain it so that I'm not watching you read paragraphs of text off the wall.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 09, 2021 10:12 PM (UPoLF)

34 I just wanted to brag that I managed to retire without ever having given a PowerPoint presentation.

Ditto, although I did give a handful of ClarisWorks presentations.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 09, 2021 10:12 PM (2lndx)

35 Are there any mass-market technologies that you successfully avoided learning before they became obsolete?

Even though I was in the right age group when they were popular, I never owned a pager.

Posted by: Doof at March 09, 2021 10:13 PM (mZUr4)

36 Good evening, Horde!

Lovely ONT, Throckmorton! You included one of my favorite Demotivators.

Posted by: Ladyl, Insurrectionist at March 09, 2021 10:13 PM (TdMsT)

37 Greetings:

Back in the mid-'90s, Apple put out something called the "Newton" if I remember correctly. It also was one of those palm-sized gizmo. I only found out about it because I did a bunch of printing for it.

Posted by: 11B40 at March 09, 2021 10:13 PM (evgyj)

38 Good evening, Horde.

Posted by: callsign claymore at March 09, 2021 10:14 PM (QvYdQ)

39 I had a job where I was expected to give powerpoint presentations weekly. So I just did one slide, put it on the wall, gave my little sales pitch to the guys (it was channel sales, so it was all people I worked with), then cut them loose after like 10 minutes unless they had a lot of questions.

Why should I try to stretch that to 30 minutes, bore everyone in the room, and keep everyone unproductive and annoyed? I don't get that corporate mindset.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 09, 2021 10:14 PM (UPoLF)

40 Lyle Lovett is seriously underappreciated. Really enjoyed a live album he put out 20-ish years ago.

Posted by: f2000 at March 09, 2021 10:14 PM (IIUCn)

41 BeckoningChasm, anything we can do?

Posted by: barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at March 09, 2021 10:14 PM (NUbbl)

42 Never owned a pager. Never owned a cell phone until the late Mrs. Borgia was having a difficult pregnancy.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 09, 2021 10:14 PM (QE98t)

43 Liberal SIL is driving me up the wall. She is sure that white men in pickups are looking to beat her up because she's Korean.
Posted by: barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at March 09, 2021 10:09 PM (NUbbl)
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If we are so racist, why did she/ her parents/grandparents CHOOSE to come here?

Why are you here? Why am I not there?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at March 09, 2021 10:14 PM (Dc2NZ)

44 Yikes! Awesome, fat, content tonight...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at March 09, 2021 10:14 PM (cXDqc)

45 Wondering if Throckmorten knows of the band "Throckmorten" from Cleveland back in the 90's . They had a fiddle in the back I recall.

Posted by: bob frapples at March 09, 2021 10:15 PM (hNjgQ)

46 {{{Hrothgar}}}

When you're here the world seems a little saner.

Posted by: Ladyl, Insurrectionist at March 09, 2021 10:15 PM (TdMsT)

47 So, Milo's not ghey. Now what's he do?

Posted by: Iblis at March 09, 2021 10:15 PM (abOpZ)

48 > Back in the mid-'90s, Apple put out something called the "Newton" if I remember correctly.

Ahead of its time, specifically the handwriting recognition sucked.

Palm punted on that by using an alphabet of special symbols that were easier for the computer to recognize.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 09, 2021 10:16 PM (QE98t)

49 Lyle did have a face meant to be on the radio though.

Posted by: f2000 at March 09, 2021 10:16 PM (IIUCn)

50 47 So, Milo's not ghey. Now what's he do?
Posted by: Iblis at March 09, 2021 10:15 PM (abOpZ)

Divorce his husband, find a nice girl, and buy a house in the 'burbs?

....I have no idea. Does he even have an income anymore?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 09, 2021 10:16 PM (UPoLF)

51 TAKING A POCKET CONSTITUTION TO A MOLOTOV COCKTAIL FIGHT

Tire irons.

Upon legal advice, it is The Wey of Our People.

Posted by: Miklos know de weys at March 09, 2021 10:16 PM (QzkSJ)

52
Back in the mid-'90s, Apple put out something called the "Newton" if I remember correctly. It also was one of those palm-sized gizmo. I only found out about it because I did a bunch of printing for it.
Posted by: 11B40

Here's one being used on The Simpsons:

https://youtu.be/u6qxixgQJ4M

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 09, 2021 10:16 PM (63Dwl)

53 Liberal SIL is driving me up the wall. She is sure that white men in pickups are looking to beat her up because she's Korean.
Posted by: barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at March 09, 2021 10:09 PM (NUbbl)

I read that as "because she's a Karen" -- haha!

Posted by: Doof at March 09, 2021 10:17 PM (mZUr4)

54 I watch movies to see how the houses are decorated. The real star of Home Alone was that house.

Posted by: ALH, Trump is my President at March 09, 2021 10:17 PM (oUcR5)

55 Lyle Lovett was married to Julia Roberts.

Posted by: davidt at March 09, 2021 10:17 PM (5ZHS+)

56 Evel Knievel was born in the same fucking brutal town as I.

I was not the boldest of kids, but I took my bike off some sweet jumps. That crazy bastige was my hero for a long time. Why? Because I did some stupidly awesome things that helped me get over being a pussy.

God bless Robert J. Knievel.

and yes, I had that awesome Evel Knievel SST bike with the ramp.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Unassuming Gentleman at March 09, 2021 10:17 PM (x8Wzq)

57 Nokia had a telephone with Python built into it. I thought that was something but never got one. No longer even remember why. Probably price. So never learned that phone but do use Python on my current phone now that all phones are general purpose computers.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 09, 2021 10:17 PM (2lndx)

58 But what if you were to suddenly classify the group of whales living in the Gulf of Mexico as an all-new species?

With thumbs stuck firmly in lapels, yours truly said that the first day.

Posted by: Braenyard, starving the beast at March 09, 2021 10:18 PM (mWu8/)

59 Older Family Guy episode has ruined barbershop quartets for me

https://youtu.be/raniSkRLa14

Posted by: Grail Knight at March 09, 2021 10:18 PM (ybIRR)

60 So how many of you saw the Evel Knievel movie?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at March 09, 2021 10:18 PM (ZSK0i)

61 Evel was mighty, a source of great fun and wonder. I remember him doing his big stunts, which were shown on weekend TV. And he had merch! I had his toggle-pull motorcycle, and the electric toothbrush. One of my school chums whose Dad worked at Kenner had an Evel lunchbox. (I only had a Dragstrip themed one, meh.

)

Posted by: exdem13 at March 09, 2021 10:18 PM (W+kMI)

62 I learned DOS and still remember it. Made it easier to understand Linux.

Posted by: Roy at March 09, 2021 10:18 PM (Ti+Tv)

63 'I smashed a startled deer. Fcuk him cause he sure as shit startled my ass.'

Posted by: Eromero at March 09, 2021 10:19 PM (gjvwR)

64 55 Lyle Lovett was married to Julia Roberts.
Posted by: davidt at March 09, 2021 10:17 PM (5ZHS+)

Thus giving hope to ugly men everywhere.

Posted by: ALH, Trump is my President at March 09, 2021 10:19 PM (oUcR5)

65 My Grandfather was an extra for the movie Black Pirate, they hired sailors because they knew they could swim. He said that they pulled the plug of the ship and it was every man from himself. He said it was great fun and he earned some extra money.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 09, 2021 10:19 PM (dKiJG)

66 {{{Ladyl}}}

Posted by: wing at March 09, 2021 10:19 PM (JFzNN)

67 So, Milo's not ghey. Now what's he do?
Posted by: Iblis at March 09, 2021 10:15 PM (abOpZ)

Divorce his husband, find a nice girl, and buy a house in the 'burbs?

....I have no idea. Does he even have an income anymore?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 09, 2021 10:16 PM

If he didn't, he does now!

Posted by: Zettai at March 09, 2021 10:19 PM (mqBmY)

68 Eris, good question. I don't think she's always been crazy-far left, but she's definitely been there the past few years. She's lived here for around 25 years now, so I'm guessing her media diet has twisted her thinking to the point of no return.

Posted by: barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at March 09, 2021 10:19 PM (NUbbl)

69 I watch movies to see how houses are detonated.

Posted by: SMH at March 09, 2021 10:20 PM (aesIB)

70 While everyone is worrying about Bidet dumping his dogs there is a recommendation to make permanent the deployment of Army National Guard troops to DC to act as a police battalion.
https://tinyurl.com/4ayhja9p

Welcome to the Kremlin on the Potomac Comrade.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 09, 2021 10:20 PM (2sHkt)

71 Darling {{{Wing}}}

Posted by: Ladyl, Insurrectionist at March 09, 2021 10:20 PM (TdMsT)

72 21 20ish?

Liberal SIL is driving me up the wall. She is sure that white men in pickups are looking to beat her up because she's Korean.
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You know, suggesting a menu of dog stew and spicy kimchee just doesn't get the locals excited in a good way.

Posted by: exdem13 at March 09, 2021 10:20 PM (W+kMI)

73 When you're here the world seems a little saner.
Posted by: Ladyl, Insurrectionist at March 09, 2021 10:15 PM (TdMsT)

Uh oh, I must be slipping.

BTW, I too love that particular Demotivator as it inspired me to practice a nice trade for many years!

Posted by: Commissar Chairman Hrothgar ~ (@Hrothgar on GAB) at March 09, 2021 10:20 PM (87oRe)

74 I didn't even see the headline, my eyes drifted to "Sicily" and "Ian Fleming" and my subconscious filled in the rest.

It's a curse, I tell you!

Posted by: pookysgirl, with a purring cat on her keyboard at March 09, 2021 10:20 PM (XKZwp)

75 Al Pacino Approved ONT Compliance Pics

https://tinyurl.com/ywrxf2hk

https://tinyurl.com/ae3mv3yb

https://tinyurl.com/2s53brfd

https://tinyurl.com/43ar4b8a

https://tinyurl.com/s2pdef3m

Posted by: kbdabear at March 09, 2021 10:20 PM (qAR6u)

76 Motorola StarTac flip phone with the "slim" battery.

Oh yea...

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at March 09, 2021 10:20 PM (3H9h1)

77 I love Palms. The Zire 71 had this cool slider camera that you could use for stealth photos. And the programming community created some wonderful stuff.

Now that they are obsolete, I bought some of the ones I'd always wanted. The Life Drive is impressive and still works for internet if you have a router that uses WEP. But it came out as cell phones were taking off.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at March 09, 2021 10:21 PM (YynYJ)

78 Lyle Lovett was married to Julia Roberts.

Posted by: davidt at March 09, 2021 10:17 PM (5ZHS+)

Which proves that men and women are looking for very different things in mates.

Posted by: f2000 at March 09, 2021 10:21 PM (IIUCn)

79 56 Evel Knievel was born in the same fucking brutal town as I.

I was not the boldest of kids, but I took my bike off some sweet jumps. That crazy bastige was my hero for a long time. Why? Because I did some stupidly awesome things that helped me get over being a pussy.

God bless Robert J. Knievel.

and yes, I had that awesome Evel Knievel SST bike with the ramp.
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Yeah, that SST bike was great. I don't know what happened to mine; it probably had an unfortunate landing many years ago!

Posted by: exdem13 at March 09, 2021 10:22 PM (W+kMI)

80 I've been researching travel trailers all evening. We're on the hunt!

Posted by: ALH, Trump is my President at March 09, 2021 10:22 PM (oUcR5)

81 Access...it's still around apparently...

Posted by: lin-duh 27-4 at March 09, 2021 10:22 PM (UUBmN)

82 Love the top picture! The heartland of America. Sing a song about the heartland, the only place I feel at home...

Posted by: Jewells45 at March 09, 2021 10:22 PM (nxdel)

83
BTW, I too love that particular Demotivator as it inspired me to practice a nice trade for many years!
Posted by: Commissar Chairman Hrothgar ~ (@Hrothgar on GAB) at March 09, 2021 10:20 PM (87oRe)

I didn't know you worked as a consultant!

Posted by: Ladyl, Insurrectionist at March 09, 2021 10:22 PM (TdMsT)

84 Thanks for the ONT, Buck!

My wife does not appreciate it when I sing "She's No Lady" at karaoke. Maybe if I dedicate it to Meghan Markle?

Posted by: TheHoser at March 09, 2021 10:22 PM (ioRP+)

85 Because I did some stupidly awesome things that helped me get over being a pussy.

and yes, I had that awesome Evel Knievel SST bike with the ramp.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

This, too, is the story of America.

America started to go down hill when skateboards became cooler than things with gasoline engines on them.

Posted by: Miklos, claiming a Spongeific first harrumph of t'evenin' at March 09, 2021 10:22 PM (QzkSJ)

86 The Texas song was the first time I've ever heard Lyle Lovett. That man has talent. The whole ensemble was great.

Posted by: pep at March 09, 2021 10:22 PM (v16oJ)

87 Older Family Guy episode has ruined barbershop quartets for me

https://youtu.be/raniSkRLa14
Posted by: Grail Knight at March 09, 2021 10:18 PM (ybIRR)
========

Perhaps Homer Simpson and the "Be Sharps" can redeem barbershop quartets for you

https://youtu.be/CWbW1jtFQUo

Posted by: Doof at March 09, 2021 10:23 PM (mZUr4)

88 Liberal SIL is driving me up the wall. She is sure that white men in pickups are looking to beat her up because she's Korean.
Posted by: barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at March 09, 2021 10:09 PM (NUbbl)

Doesn't she know that Asians are considered white now, that way they can discriminate against them.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 09, 2021 10:23 PM (dKiJG)

89 More Al Pacino Approved ONT Compliance Pics

https://tinyurl.com/2reh9j56

https://tinyurl.com/3jzsrrev

https://tinyurl.com/f7fbya4z

https://tinyurl.com/ekhpazmx

https://tinyurl.com/3jew5jch

Posted by: kbdabear at March 09, 2021 10:23 PM (qAR6u)

90 Also, Jewells, if you you're here:

I received my wonderful jewelry right before my birthday and am currently trying to get good pix for your review. Pooky can confirm that I was squeeing as I opened the box!

Posted by: pookysgirl, with a purring cat on her keyboard at March 09, 2021 10:23 PM (XKZwp)

91 > Access...it's still around apparently...

It needs to be killed with a wooden stake, right through the hard drive.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 09, 2021 10:23 PM (QE98t)

92 doof- *snort*.

Buck, fascinating and varied selection of ONT goodies tonight. Thank you.

Posted by: barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at March 09, 2021 10:23 PM (NUbbl)

93 What are you looking for, ALH?

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at March 09, 2021 10:23 PM (YynYJ)

94 I didn't know you worked as a consultant!
Posted by: Ladyl, Insurrectionist at March 09, 2021 10:22 PM (TdMsT)

To be fair, I never called it "working"!

Posted by: Commissar Chairman Hrothgar ~ (@Hrothgar on GAB) at March 09, 2021 10:24 PM (87oRe)

95 Good evening Morons.

Posted by: Muad'dib at March 09, 2021 10:24 PM (ypulW)

96 Never owned a pager. Gave one power point show but it was at the request of that particular group.
Actually, I just did the slides for it because my partner was not a tech person at all.
It was well received and we got paid for it.
Never had a blackberry, palm pilot and never missed them.

Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at March 09, 2021 10:24 PM (z985I)

97 Liberal SIL is driving me up the wall. She is sure that white men in pickups are looking to beat her up because she's Korean.

Posted by: barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at March 09, 2021 10:09 PM (NUbbl)

It's not white men she needs to worry about. Has she heard of "the knockout game?"

Posted by: pookysgirl, with a purring cat on her keyboard at March 09, 2021 10:25 PM (XKZwp)

98 While everyone is worrying about Bidet dumping his dogs there is a recommendation to make permanent the deployment of Army National Guard troops to DC to act as a police battalion.

I wonder - the next time there's talk about reducing the size of the military - will we call and raise ?

Oh - no I don't. But I do wonder - does the UniParty ever laugh, behind closed doors with drinks in their hands, while using the tools against us that we insist on paying for ? Heh - another rhetorical question. Of course they laugh.

Posted by: Roll Me Away at March 09, 2021 10:25 PM (AQayC)

99 Al Pacino should really hit the tip jar

Posted by: Miklos, thinking momentarily of the labour theory of value at March 09, 2021 10:25 PM (QzkSJ)

100 Doesn't she know that Asians are considered white now, that way they can discriminate against them.

She probably does know and is desperately trying to convince whoever she can that she deserves victim state.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 09, 2021 10:25 PM (2lndx)

101 Yeah, that SST bike was great. I don't know what happened to mine; it probably had an unfortunate landing many years ago!
Posted by: exdem13 at March 09, 2021 10:22 PM (W+kMI)

In my particular case the bike lasted longer than the Evel figure. There may have been firecrackers involved.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Unassuming Gentleman at March 09, 2021 10:26 PM (x8Wzq)

102 To be fair, I never called it "working"!
Posted by: Commissar Chairman Hrothgar ~ (@Hrothgar on GAB) at March 09, 2021 10:24 PM (87oRe)

Ha!

Posted by: Ladyl, Insurrectionist at March 09, 2021 10:26 PM (TdMsT)

103 93 What are you looking for, ALH?
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at March 09, 2021 10:23 PM (YynYJ)

No bunkbeds and a couch, not a dinette. Double axels, and high clearance off the ground so we can get it up our steep driveway.
Also, less than 5,000 pounds.

Posted by: ALH, Trump is my President at March 09, 2021 10:26 PM (oUcR5)

104 Aww pookysgirl.. thanks so much!!! So happy that YOU are happy! Love hearing from ya'll. It makes my day.

Posted by: Jewells45 at March 09, 2021 10:26 PM (nxdel)

105 I keep going back up to visit the content..gotta say...this is one of the fattest contents I've had the pleasure to know!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at March 09, 2021 10:26 PM (cXDqc)

106 Evel Knievel, me and my brothers had every toy he put out. My brother got my son the toy motorcycle hand crank, I end up playing it more than my son.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 09, 2021 10:27 PM (dKiJG)

107 As I always say 'Like Travis and Bonham, I came from South Carolina to Texas and here is where I will make my stand.'

Posted by: Eromero at March 09, 2021 10:27 PM (gjvwR)

108 Access...it's still around apparently...

It needs to be killed with a wooden stake, right through the hard drive.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 09, 2021 10:23 PM (QE98t)

Back in the late 90's-early aughts, I used Access just enough to realize there were bugs in it that would never go away and couldn't be worked around.

We stuck with MASS11.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at March 09, 2021 10:27 PM (ZSK0i)

109 Evil Knievel was the bomb. I loved watching him. He may be why I wanted to jump off the roof. Until mom came outside.

Posted by: Infidel at March 09, 2021 10:27 PM (E0OEG)

110 Not my clowns, not my circus.

Posted by: Adult on the porch at March 09, 2021 10:28 PM (Eh7ew)

111 "The Man Who Forgot Who He Was".

Where the democrook party floated a stinker of a candidate through a faked election, replete with mental detritus, brain litter and pockets full of lies.

And of course, the MSM chorus sang the distraction songs and the GOPe fell for the Deep Fake, collecting the usual $20, the hard way.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 09, 2021 10:28 PM (QzJWU)

112 A very enjoyable selection of offerings, musical and otherwise, thanks for the ONT, Buck.
The deer drawing had me howling, LOL!

Posted by: navybrat has beans at March 09, 2021 10:28 PM (w7KSn)

113 I used to wear the company pager. The extra pay was great, until it wasn't.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at March 09, 2021 10:28 PM (2BZBZ)

114 Well, this was an amazing post. Robbie benson and great music and evil kneivel and old timey camera tricks Wonderful.

Posted by: LASue at March 09, 2021 10:29 PM (Ed8Zd)

115 Evil Knievel was the bomb. I loved watching him. He may be why I wanted to jump off the roof. Until mom came outside.
Posted by: Infidel

---

This is why you ride a bike off a cliff in Hawaii.

But yes, he was awesome.

He was such a role model.

Posted by: SMH at March 09, 2021 10:29 PM (aesIB)

116 I had a Palm for a while - my organization got one for a bunch of us and we all fooled around with them for a while but after the novelty wore off we gradually stopped using them. I mostly remember playing a game on it where you were a drug dealer in NY and you were trying to make your fortune before you got arrested or killed. Fun times.

Powerpoint presentations aren't necessarily bad, but you do have to know how to use them. If you're just reading what's on the slide then you don't know how to use them.

Posted by: Eat The Eloi at March 09, 2021 10:29 PM (RGRIY)

117
That being said- top 'o' the evening, Horde. Hope it's been a good day, or at least a productive one.
Posted by: barkingmad59

I took our gSon and gDaughter on an "adventure" that lasted over two hours this afternoon at a nearby state park. They reveled in getting outside in the sun and exploring woods, fields, stone walls and what not. Near the end of our time out and about, gDaughter asked, "I want to go on another adventure." Like, right now. I think that I am doing things right.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 09, 2021 10:29 PM (pNxlR)

118 I didn't know you worked as a consultant!
Posted by: Ladyl, Insurrectionist at March 09, 2021 10:22 PM (TdMsT)

To be fair, I never called it "working"!
Posted by: Commissar Chairman Hrothgar

A 1099 is fine
I pay the IRS
Some distress
More debt from the Left
But what's left is mine

Posted by: Miklos, who has a copy of teh IRS Guidelines right...here at March 09, 2021 10:29 PM (QzkSJ)

119 I went to work for an agency last year for 9 months that still used Access a lot. I had never heard of it before....never did quite grasp the concept of using it even after taking a "class" on it... I don't work there anymore and will probably never use it again.
Good riddance!

Posted by: lin-duh 27-4 at March 09, 2021 10:29 PM (UUBmN)

120 Al Bundy,

I caught your Chris Elliot link way late last night. Yes, funny and quite disturbing as only Chris can be.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at March 09, 2021 10:29 PM (ZSK0i)

121 The deer drawing had me howling, LOL!
Posted by: navybrat

lmao.

Posted by: Infidel at March 09, 2021 10:30 PM (E0OEG)

122 Forgot this little bit of info, the Washington DC Army National Guard is under the direct command of the President. So Joey Bidet already has the 372d Military Police battalion to secure DC with.

This verges on "Why does god need a starship?"

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 09, 2021 10:31 PM (2sHkt)

123 Powerpoint presentations aren't necessarily bad, but you do have to know how to use them. If you're just reading what's on the slide then you don't know how to use them.
Posted by: Eat The Eloi at March 09, 2021 10:29 PM (RGRIY)

They love it when you have hard copies with blanks to fill in. Keeps them awake.

Posted by: ALH, Trump is my President at March 09, 2021 10:31 PM (oUcR5)

124
I took our gSon and gDaughter on an "adventure" that lasted over two hours this afternoon at a nearby state park. They reveled in getting outside in the sun and exploring woods, fields, stone walls and what not. Near the end of our time out and about, gDaughter asked, "I want to go on another adventure." Like, right now. I think that I am doing things right.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 09, 2021 10:29 PM (pNxlR)

Sounds like fun!

Posted by: Iris at March 09, 2021 10:31 PM (YmKky)

125 > I used Access just enough to realize there were bugs in it that would never go away

Especially if there was any kind of networking involved. It's like no one at Microsoft even thought through the implications of what could happen if two people tried to change the database at the same time.

Gah!

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 09, 2021 10:31 PM (QE98t)

126 This is why you ride a bike off a cliff in Hawaii.

But yes, he was awesome.

He was such a role model.
Posted by: SMH

lol. Into the water I assume?

Posted by: Infidel at March 09, 2021 10:31 PM (E0OEG)

127 109 Evil Knievel was the bomb. I loved watching him. He may be why I wanted to jump off the roof. Until mom came outside.
Posted by: Infidel at March 09, 2021 10:27 PM (E0OEG)

I was a daredevil as a kid. In my neighborhood, a huge house was being built, and the dirt pile from the excavation was behind the house. Me, my twin and some other kids jumped from the second story of the house to the dirt pile. We were in trouble for a long time after that.

Posted by: Ladyl, Insurrectionist at March 09, 2021 10:32 PM (TdMsT)

128 I mostly remember playing a game on it where you
were a drug dealer in NY and you were trying to make your fortune before
you got arrested or killed. Fun times.

Posted by: Eat The Eloi at March 09, 2021 10:29 PM (RGRIY)

Are you sure it was a game? Has Netflix approached you for a TV series?

Posted by: pookysgirl, with a purring cat on her keyboard at March 09, 2021 10:32 PM (XKZwp)

129 Texas is free from Bologna Virus Madness tomorrow.

Come visit, Horde. You'll love it here.

And if you're ahead of us freedom-wise already (looking at you, South Dakota and Florida), I doff my hat. Well played.

Posted by: callsign claymore at March 09, 2021 10:32 PM (QvYdQ)

130
This verges on "Why does god need a starship?"
Posted by: Anna Puma

If there is intelligent life in DC, why haven't we seen it?

Posted by: Miklos Fermi, paradoxically at March 09, 2021 10:32 PM (QzkSJ)

131 River's Edge.

Crazy fooking movie. Keanu was perfect in that role. But holy hell, I have be in the right mood and half lit to watch it. It's not a happy fun film experience.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Unassuming Gentleman at March 09, 2021 10:32 PM (x8Wzq)

132 lol. Into the water I assume?
Posted by: Infidel

---

Of course.

Posted by: SMH at March 09, 2021 10:32 PM (aesIB)

133 The traffic diagram cracks me up every time.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 09, 2021 10:33 PM (2DOZq)

134 So Joey Bidet already has the 372d Military Police battalion to secure DC with.

And when the 372nd MP does EXACTLY what whomever has their hand up Joey's ass commands ?

Just like our talks about John Q. Cop - at some point - everyone is responsible for what they do for money of their own free will.

Posted by: Roll Me Away at March 09, 2021 10:33 PM (AQayC)

135 Now people are writing shit about Access...SMH. I practically built my career as a data analyst off of Excel and Access.

Posted by: Eat The Eloi at March 09, 2021 10:34 PM (RGRIY)

136
I took our gSon and gDaughter on an "adventure" that lasted over two hours this afternoon at a nearby state park. They reveled in getting outside in the sun and exploring woods, fields, stone walls and what not. Near the end of our time out and about, gDaughter asked, "I want to go on another adventure." Like, right now. I think that I am doing things right.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 09, 2021 10:29 PM (pNxlR)

You are doing a great job if your children love going on expeditions with you.

Posted by: Ladyl, Insurrectionist at March 09, 2021 10:34 PM (TdMsT)

137 Rivers Edge is AMAZING. so fun. Dennis Hopper!

anyway, I never learned Flash except maybe half-assedly

and now it's dead

hahaha screw you, Flash!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 09, 2021 10:34 PM (j9HX3)

138
Never had a pager -- my jobs never required one. My first cell phone came to me within a year of my retirement, and at my own expense.

Never did laser discs, although a BiL at the time was a big fan. Never owned an 8-track tape player. Had a typewriter long before I ever had a computer and I likely will inherit Mom's Royal typewriter.

I have two Pickett slide rules and the manuals for how to use them. With a little review, I probably can get back to top form in their use.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 09, 2021 10:34 PM (pNxlR)

139 133.

Agreed. Almost looked like a far side cartoon.

Posted by: Dwayne at March 09, 2021 10:34 PM (gtu/X)

140 Someone here had a bulletproof argument that powerpoint was unproductive and unpleasant, that they turned into a powerpoint speech that lasted an hour.

Posted by: Grail Knight at March 09, 2021 10:35 PM (ybIRR)

141 Feck!
*pounds on the door*

FEEECCCKKK!!!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Unassuming Gentleman at March 09, 2021 10:35 PM (x8Wzq)

142 Ladyl, we had the same thing growing up. Dirt hills and bikes, stealing beer from the fridge and getting silly stupid, burning ants with a magnifing glass. Smoken cigs.

Posted by: Infidel at March 09, 2021 10:35 PM (E0OEG)

143 We still get daredevils in the neighborhood. Kids on skateboards trying to be YouTube legends.
I live on about a 25 degree grade, and it goes on for about a mile, downhill.
Fortunately there is a hospital at the end of it...

Posted by: navybrat has beans at March 09, 2021 10:35 PM (w7KSn)

144 Are there any mass-market technologies that you successfully avoided learning before they became obsolete?

Yeah, Latin. It was mandatory in 7th grade in my school, but the year I advanced to 7th grade, they switched and made it mandatory in 6th grade instead. So I still get to think that "Veni, vidi, vici" is some sort of pasta dish.

Posted by: Splunge at March 09, 2021 10:35 PM (RzGcW)

145 If it was a Farside cartoon, the deer would be on the side of the road judging when to jump out while its buddies are taking bets.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 09, 2021 10:35 PM (2sHkt)

146 Me, my twin and some other kids jumped from the second story of the house to the dirt pile. We were in trouble for a long time after that.
Posted by: Ladyl, Insurrectionist at March 09, 2021 10:32 PM (TdMsT)

For some reason, I have no problem believing BOTH of those sentences to be true!

Posted by: Commissar Chairman Hrothgar ~ (@Hrothgar on GAB) at March 09, 2021 10:35 PM (87oRe)

147 Most people are just bad at public speaking. Powerpoint doesn't magically solve that. What I really hate are the meetings that require me to use the 40-slide template where at least half the slides are the same information arranged in slightly different ways.

On another note. I really wish my husband didn't always have to one-up me on feeling poorly or being sad. Like just now, I mentioned I wasn't feeling well - maybe just tired, I don't know, but my heart has been acting weird and I just generally don't feel great - and he said soberly that HE needs to go to the doctor and told me his story about not feeling well. I'll spare you the details, but WebMD would say he has cancer (based on what he told me, he's fine). And if I'm sad about something and I tell him, he immediately starts talking about how sad he is about something else.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel - Texas Morons, Support HB 1359 at March 09, 2021 10:36 PM (G6Lqs)

148 > Forgot this little bit of info, the Washington DC Army National Guard is under the direct command of the President. So Joey Bidet already has the 372d Military Police battalion to secure DC with.

There's also Marine Barracks at Eighth and I.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 09, 2021 10:36 PM (QE98t)

149 Feck!
*pounds on the door*

FEEECCCKKK!!!
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Unassuming Gentle

Would you prefer to be Feckless?

Posted by: Miklos, a mere callow youth at March 09, 2021 10:36 PM (QzkSJ)

150 I am pretty sure Crispin Glover had to be netted and tranquilized between takes.

Craziest fucking movie ever.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Unassuming Gentleman at March 09, 2021 10:36 PM (x8Wzq)

151 Older Family Guy episode has ruined barbershop quartets for me
https://youtu.be/raniSkRLa14

Posted by: Grail Knight
========

Perhaps Homer Simpson and the "Be Sharps" can redeem barbershop quartets for you
https://youtu.be/CWbW1jtFQUo

Posted by: Doof

Night Court
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2Z6LfYCTbU

Posted by: Adriane the Terrifying Children's Bedtime Stories Critic ... at March 09, 2021 10:36 PM (LPnfS)

152
For some reason, I have no problem believing BOTH of those sentences to be true!
Posted by: Commissar Chairman Hrothgar ~ (@Hrothgar on GAB) at March 09, 2021 10:35 PM (87oRe)

I tried to "be better." But it was hard.

Posted by: Ladyl, Insurrectionist at March 09, 2021 10:37 PM (TdMsT)

153
Are you sure it was a game? Has Netflix approached you for a TV series?
Posted by: pookysgirl, with a purring cat on her keyboard at March 09, 2021 10:32 PM (XKZwp)

Oh yeah, definitely a game. It was a text-only so no fancy graphics. It was like playing the stock market in a way.

Posted by: Eat The Eloi at March 09, 2021 10:37 PM (RGRIY)

154 * Hitches belt *

I have five working VCRs in my possession.

I'd bet 99.9% of the Horde don't even have one.

Posted by: Doof at March 09, 2021 10:38 PM (mZUr4)

155 If Lincoln had used Powerpoint to write the Gettysburg Address:

http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 09, 2021 10:38 PM (QE98t)

156 VTRs?

VHS or Beta?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 09, 2021 10:39 PM (2sHkt)

157 I have two Pickett slide rules and the manuals for how to use them. With a little review, I probably can get back to top form in their use.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 09, 2021 10:34 PM (pNxlR)

But have you ever seen a double precision slide rule?

I actually have one that I really should donate to the Smithsonian, even though it would perpetuate #MathPrivilege!

Posted by: Commissar Chairman Hrothgar ~ (@Hrothgar on GAB) at March 09, 2021 10:39 PM (87oRe)

158 * Hitches belt *

I have five working VCRs in my possession.

I'd bet 99.9% of the Horde don't even have one.

I have one!

yay me

I have the Rob Lowe tape still too

why? no idea

Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 09, 2021 10:39 PM (j9HX3)

159
My ex had an assignment in which equipment wear and repair data for critical process components was recorded in Digital Equipment Corporation's DATATRIEVE software product. She asked me for help in making sense of it. Luckily, I was able to glean that the stored data was almost completely crap and so I avoided having to learn anything about the DATATRIEVE product.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 09, 2021 10:39 PM (pNxlR)

160 I was a daredevil as a kid.

Posted by: Ladyl, Insurrectionist at March 09, 2021 10:32 PM (TdMsT)

I didn't believe my mom that "second child syndrome" was thing. Then I watched my brother wind up in the ER more times than I can count, his second son losing half his front teeth to a bike stunt, my sister's second son vaulting face-first into a heat vent, my other brother's second daughter also losing her front (baby) teeth to a bike stunt, and Pooky's sister's second son diving off a trampoline and nearly breaking his arm.

Yeah, I believe it now.

Posted by: pookysgirl, with a purring cat on her keyboard at March 09, 2021 10:39 PM (XKZwp)

161 Hey guys, ah, I actually meant to write that I'm really into Mexican on Mar 4. Stupid auto-correct.

Posted by: Some Qanon terrorist at March 09, 2021 10:40 PM (qlFIA)

162 142 Ladyl, we had the same thing growing up. Dirt hills and bikes, stealing beer from the fridge and getting silly stupid, burning ants with a magnifing glass. Smoken cigs.
Posted by: Infidel at March 09, 2021 10:35 PM (E0OEG)

I sure wish you had lived next door to me! I never stole stuff from garages, though--too chicken.

In my neighborhood that was called "garaging."

Posted by: Ladyl, Insurrectionist at March 09, 2021 10:40 PM (TdMsT)

163 We still get daredevils in the neighborhood. Kids on skateboards trying to be YouTube legends.

I live in the home I grew up it now. Coming down the hill on the way from work I swear I saw a little kid on a tiny mortorcycle. Maybe 6 yo on a little 80cc. Brought back a lot of memories.

Posted by: Infidel at March 09, 2021 10:40 PM (E0OEG)

164 I have five working VCRs in my possession.

I'd bet 99.9% of the Horde don't even have one.
Posted by: Doof

You are 3/5 correct.

Posted by: Miklos got all kinds of long unused crap at March 09, 2021 10:41 PM (QzkSJ)

165 I tried to "be better." But it was hard.
Posted by: Ladyl, Insurrectionist at March 09, 2021 10:37 PM (TdMsT)

Hard to hide an adventurous soul!

Posted by: Commissar Chairman Hrothgar ~ (@Hrothgar on GAB) at March 09, 2021 10:41 PM (87oRe)

166 I'd bet 99.9% of the Horde don't even have one.

Posted by: Doof at March 09, 2021 10:38 PM (mZUr4)

I gots two.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at March 09, 2021 10:41 PM (ZSK0i)

167 I have five working VCRs in my possession.
Posted by: Doof at March 09, 2021 10:38 PM (mZUr4)

Do you have a strong opinion on The Phantom Menace?

Posted by: Grail Knight at March 09, 2021 10:42 PM (ybIRR)

168 Not my clowns, not my circus.

==

Not my circus, not my monkeys.

Posted by: runner at March 09, 2021 10:42 PM (zr5Kq)

169 Is there a female equivalent of the barbershop quartet?
I've seen female duets, but I don't think I've ever seen something like a quartet.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 09, 2021 10:42 PM (qlFIA)

170
Yeah, I believe it now.
Posted by: pookysgirl, with a purring cat on her keyboard at March 09, 2021 10:39 PM (XKZwp)

Yep.

That was my younger brother, all right!

Posted by: Ladyl, Insurrectionist at March 09, 2021 10:42 PM (TdMsT)

171 @Buck, there is another set of lyrics for "Aura Lee" that predate Elvis Presley. Ladies and gentlemen, "Army Blue":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZSarO9hSKQ

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 09, 2021 10:42 PM (BMmaB)

172 Night Court
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2Z6LfYCTbU
Posted by: Adriane the Terrifying Children's Bedtime Stories Critic ... at March 09, 2021 10:36 PM (LPnfS)
===========

Nice!

How about this from Cheers...
https://youtu.be/0GSxLfPACeU

Posted by: Doof at March 09, 2021 10:42 PM (mZUr4)

173 I have five working VCRs in my possession.

I'd bet 99.9% of the Horde don't even have one.
Posted by: Doof

You are 3/5 correct.
Posted by: Miklos got all kinds of long unused crap at March 09, 2021 10:41 PM (QzkSJ)

50/50 chance that both of you are

Posted by: runner at March 09, 2021 10:43 PM (zr5Kq)

174 I'm thinking the Brit Royals are staging the whole Megan/Harry snit to stay in the headlines and be relevent, somehow.

Posted by: Auspex at March 09, 2021 10:43 PM (Xo3T0)

175 My dad loved Barbershop singing. I joined him for some years, but the style never caught me like it did him. Still, it was so awesome to get to hang out with him, doing the thing he loved so much. We did a Valentine's Day tribute to my mom one year. He sang bass in his quartet and also the local chorus. I sang tenor.

Well. Shit. Now I'm all nostalgic.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Unassuming Gentleman at March 09, 2021 10:43 PM (x8Wzq)

176 Hey everybody!

Since it's an overnight OPEN thread, I hope people won't mind if I ask another one of my questions...

How do you really get rid of roaches? I just came in the door and saw my first big 'un of the year right outside the house. (Sigh.)

I've heard if you put little hills of boric acid in various areas of your kitchen and around the perimeter of the house, that helps...

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2021 10:43 PM (L2ZTs)

177 ...into Mexican on Mar 4. Stupid auto-correct.

Posted by: Some Qanon terrorist at March 09, 2021 10:40 PM

*snort

Posted by: Zettai at March 09, 2021 10:43 PM (mqBmY)

178 Well, I'm off to bed. If you have something in your cart *cough cough* check out cuz I'm mailing orders tomorrow. Stay safe ya'll and keep praying. We'll get through this.

Posted by: Jewells45 at March 09, 2021 10:43 PM (nxdel)

179 > stealing beer from the fridge

Buddy's step-dad always kept a bottle of Old Crow or Old Granddad on hand. We had summer jobs in high school that were near his house, so we would often hit his house for lunch. We'd buy sodas from the machine at work, and top 'em off with whiskey.

Made for some interesting afternoons. Probably our productivity went to shit, but to be charitable our productivity was pretty much shit to begin with.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 09, 2021 10:43 PM (QE98t)

180 I have five working VCRs in my possession.

I'd bet 99.9% of the Horde don't even have one.
Posted by: Doof

Two.

Ladyl, only one from our own house fridge. I would've got my ass kicked from here to kingdom come if I stole from someone.

Posted by: Infidel at March 09, 2021 10:43 PM (E0OEG)

181 Oh yeah, definitely a game. It was a text-only so no fancy graphics. It was like playing the stock market in a way.

Posted by: Eat The Eloi at March 09, 2021 10:37 PM (RGRIY)

The TV series "Chuck" began with a super-spy sending his college roommate something from the text-based game "Zork," so I wouldn't be so sure!

Posted by: pookysgirl, with a purring cat on her keyboard at March 09, 2021 10:44 PM (XKZwp)

182 Vaccine-haters: why not just assume that we already know you're not going to get one? There's no need to inform us of that for the fiftieth time.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 09, 2021 10:10 PM (QE98t)

If the vaccine kills you, can I have your stuff?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2021 10:44 PM (mzC78)

183 Roaches in California are especially nasty.
They engage in aggressive panhandling!

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2021 10:44 PM (L2ZTs)

184
Definitely have a working VCR here. There may be one at our place down in Sussex County. We still have several dozen VCR tapes around that we own.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 09, 2021 10:44 PM (pNxlR)

185 Plus, isn't Oprah looking pretty squalid fat again?

Posted by: Auspex at March 09, 2021 10:44 PM (Xo3T0)

186 How do you really get rid of roaches? I just came in the door and saw my first big 'un of the year right outside the house. (Sigh.)

I've heard if you put little hills of boric acid in various areas of your kitchen and around the perimeter of the house, that helps...
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2021 10:43 PM (L2ZTs)

Gasoline and a match. Only solution, got to burn the place down.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 09, 2021 10:44 PM (UPoLF)

187 > Is there a female equivalent of the barbershop quartet?

Sweet Adelines, although I think they're usually larger groups than quartets.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 09, 2021 10:44 PM (QE98t)

188 I have two Pickett slide rules and the manuals for how to use them. With a little review, I probably can get back to top form in their use.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 09, 2021 10:34 PM (pNxlR)

But have you ever seen a double precision slide rule?

I actually have one that I really should donate to the Smithsonian, even though it would perpetuate #MathPrivilege!
Posted by: Commissar Chairman Hrothgar ~ (@Hrothgar on GAB) at March 09, 2021 10:39 PM (87oRe)

In 9th grade I had a circular slide rule. Same principle as the slip stick, but with a disk that you would wheel around. It fit in your shirt pocket.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 09, 2021 10:45 PM (BMmaB)

189 Yeah, I believe it now.
Posted by: pookysgirl, with a purring cat on her keyboard at March

That was my younger brother, all right!
Posted by: Ladyl,

BELIEVE HER NOW, AND TRUST HER LATER

Posted by: Miklos is here to PUMP YOU UP at March 09, 2021 10:45 PM (QzkSJ)

190 I have five working VCRs in my possession.

I'd bet 99.9% of the Horde don't even have one.
Posted by: Doof

---

Not a one.

But I do have a cassette player, turntable, and cd player.

Posted by: SMH at March 09, 2021 10:45 PM (aesIB)

191 the three sopranos...which is not a quartet...so they are 3/4 of a quartet

Posted by: runner at March 09, 2021 10:45 PM (zr5Kq)

192 If you're just reading what's on the slide then you don't know how to use them.

The worst I’ve seen is people at tech conferences reading jokes from a PowerPoint slide. The laughs come before the punchline.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 09, 2021 10:46 PM (2lndx)

193 Step one in fighting off roaches:

Live in a place what gots no roaches.

I live there.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Unassuming Gentleman at March 09, 2021 10:46 PM (x8Wzq)

194 159 My ex had an assignment in which equipment wear and repair data for
critical process components was recorded in Digital Equipment
Corporation's DATATRIEVE software product. She asked me for help in
making sense of it. Luckily, I was able to glean that the stored data
was almost completely crap and so I avoided having to learn anything
about the DATATRIEVE product.
yeah, well, i have so far managed to avoid learning about the SMG library (VMS screen handling; the same sort of idea as curses, but totally different).

Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at March 09, 2021 10:46 PM (5br8a)

195 169 Is there a female equivalent of the barbershop quartet?
I've seen female duets, but I don't think I've ever seen something like a quartet.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 09, 2021 10:42 PM (qlFIA)

Beauty Parlor Foursome?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 09, 2021 10:46 PM (2DOZq)

196 why would one need a VCR ??

Posted by: runner at March 09, 2021 10:46 PM (zr5Kq)

197 Hey Miklos!!!

Posted by: Ladyl, Insurrectionist at March 09, 2021 10:47 PM (TdMsT)

198 I briefly looked into the comments about the NBA and myers leonard (who turned out to be based and not kneeling for the anthem) and these animals are like "good, more culling" no wonder they're ready to cancel jesus ...there's no shelter from these savage woke fucks

Posted by: Tim Riggins at March 09, 2021 10:47 PM (sleTW)

199 I've heard if you put little hills of boric acid in various areas of your kitchen and around the perimeter of the house, that helps...

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2021 10:43 PM (L2ZTs)

https://cockroachfacts.com/diatomaceous-earth-roaches/

Posted by: Commissar Chairman Hrothgar ~ (@Hrothgar on GAB) at March 09, 2021 10:47 PM (87oRe)

200 why would one need a VCR ??

Posted by: runner at March 09, 2021 10:46 PM (zr5Kq)

Mostly to transfer over old stuff that isn't available on more modern media...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at March 09, 2021 10:47 PM (ZSK0i)

201 I never considered swimming at age 10 in the Atlantic 100 yards offshore at 1000 pm a daredevil act. It was just what we did. I never did 'dangerous' stuff until I was 19.

Posted by: Eromero at March 09, 2021 10:47 PM (gjvwR)

202 *snort
Posted by: Zettai

Z-Pap not work for me neither

Posted by: Miklos , making some noise at March 09, 2021 10:47 PM (QzkSJ)

203 qdpsteve
Boric acid around the house perimeter works very well.
I discovered it in Florida with all manners of bugs.
The flying roaches though, we had a cat that would leap from the floor to nail them in mid air.

Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at March 09, 2021 10:47 PM (z985I)

204 I'm thinking the Brit Royals are staging the whole Megan/Harry snit to stay in the headlines and be relevent, somehow.
Nah. I'm thinking they're exactly in the same boat as many here. Trying to wrap their heads around why one of their own would bring down the entire racket, and why somebody else given the inside track to the same grift would decide the same.
Sometimes people just do shit for spite. Some folks don't care if the store shelves run empty. Megan is kinda' like that.

Posted by: Roll Me Away at March 09, 2021 10:47 PM (AQayC)

205 Is there a female equivalent of the barbershop quartet?

Yes. Otherwise known as "The Andrews Sisters".

Posted by: Common Tater at March 09, 2021 10:47 PM (KQuMS)

206 The TV series "Chuck" began with a super-spy sending his college roommate something from the text-based game "Zork," so I wouldn't be so sure!
Posted by: pookysgirl, with a purring cat on her keyboard at March 09, 2021 10:44 PM (XKZwp)

Zork! Yes, I played that too - Infocom text games were pretty darn fun - until "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". God damned Babel Fish and Tea and No Tea. I don't think I've ever been more frustrated at anything before or since.
Well...maybe golf.

Posted by: Eat The Eloi at March 09, 2021 10:48 PM (RGRIY)

207 With thumbs stuck firmly in lapels, yours truly said that the first day.
Posted by: Braenyard, starving the beast at March 09, 2021 10:18 PM (mWu8/)

I recall saying the same thing, on a thread here, when that item surfaced. Or did it breach?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2021 10:48 PM (mzC78)

208 Harry, don't I know it.
Pug, that's what I thought I lived in. Sigh.

At least I didn't see it in the kitchen... it was outdoors, and I managed to stomp it. Take that PETA!

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2021 10:48 PM (L2ZTs)

209 Book: Operation Mincemeat by Ben McIntyre

Very Entertaining

Posted by: Hal Dall at March 09, 2021 10:48 PM (CNRmI)

210 > Live in a place what gots no roaches.

No roaches here either. Also, no snakes.

Sadly, the same is not true for mosquitos.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 09, 2021 10:48 PM (QE98t)

211 Hrothgar, thanks!
Winston, also thanks! And thank God we don't have the Palmettos yet (but I'm sure they're on their way).

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2021 10:49 PM (L2ZTs)

212 Vaccine-haters: why not just assume that we already know you're not going to get one? There's no need to inform us of that for the fiftieth time.

-

I think we're letting bug-land know because we're sick of hearing about it. Yeah, I'm at zero risk and I'll wait and see. thanks.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at March 09, 2021 10:49 PM (sleTW)

213
If you missed DOS, then...you probably missed...

X-COM: UFO Defense from Microprose.

Empty life have you lived.

Posted by: Sapwolf at March 09, 2021 10:49 PM (u8u1w)

214 Do you have a strong opinion on The Phantom Menace?
Posted by: Grail Knight at March 09, 2021 10:42 PM (ybIRR)
============

Just that it had the best Jedi and Sith characters of the whole series - Qui Gon and Darth Maul

Posted by: Doof at March 09, 2021 10:49 PM (mZUr4)

215 169 Is there a female equivalent of the barbershop quartet?
I've seen female duets, but I don't think I've ever seen something like a quartet.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 09, 2021 10:42 PM (qlFIA)

Yep. Cody, Wyoming had some great lady's quartets, and a very robust chorus. Mom sang with them for years.

We're a very weird barbershop intensive family.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Unassuming Gentleman at March 09, 2021 10:49 PM (x8Wzq)

216 206 The TV series "Chuck" began with a super-spy sending his college roommate something from the text-based game "Zork," so I wouldn't be so sure!
Posted by: pookysgirl, with a purring cat on her keyboard at March 09, 2021 10:44 PM (XKZwp)

Zork! Yes, I played that too - Infocom text games were pretty darn fun - until "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". God damned Babel Fish and Tea and No Tea. I don't think I've ever been more frustrated at anything before or since.
Well...maybe golf.

-

nice. infocom ruled.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at March 09, 2021 10:50 PM (sleTW)

217 Kinky Friedman also wrote a series of goofy mystery books starring himself as the detective. If you like Flashman, chances are you might like Friedman.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- Bitterly clinging to the deplorable life at March 09, 2021 10:50 PM (NL33G)

218 Oh no!
Now Nancy Pelosi is outside my house registering the roaches to vote...

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2021 10:50 PM (L2ZTs)

219 X-COM: UFO Defense from Microprose.

They remade that game pretty well recently. Had a decent storyline too.

Though the latest one "Chimera" isn't as good as the first two.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 09, 2021 10:50 PM (qlFIA)

220 How do you really get rid of roaches? I just came in the door and saw my
first big 'un of the year right outside the house. (Sigh.)

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2021 10:43 PM (L2ZTs)

Get a cat and they'll torture it to to death. I never thought my cats were sadists until that moment. The "terrible hunter" of the two even cornered a mouse last year and made it "disappear."

Posted by: pookysgirl, with a purring cat on her keyboard at March 09, 2021 10:50 PM (XKZwp)

221
Vaccine-haters: why not just assume that we already know you're not
going to get one? There's no need to inform us of that for the fiftieth
time.

Vaccine Lovers - we get pretty tired of your shit too.

Posted by: Roll Me Away at March 09, 2021 10:50 PM (AQayC)

222 Is there a female equivalent of the barbershop quartet?
I've seen female duets, but I don't think I've ever seen something like a quartet.

Posted by: 18-1

---

En Vogue Sings the National Anthem Live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPQVtmWyOa8

Posted by: SMH at March 09, 2021 10:51 PM (aesIB)

223 EA Games Archon. Bestest battle chess ever and the theme song rocked.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at March 09, 2021 10:51 PM (ZSK0i)

224 pookysgirl, we do have a cat, named Timmy.

I wouldn't mind if Tim scared them away, but I have a hunch the roaches would be more likely to boss him around.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2021 10:52 PM (L2ZTs)

225 Powerpoint presentations aren't necessarily bad, but you do have to know how to use them. If you're just reading what's on the slide then you don't know how to use them.
Posted by: Eat The Eloi at March 09, 2021 10:29 PM (RGRIY)

I have a working 8mm projector.

Posted by: ALH, Trump is my President at March 09, 2021 10:52 PM (oUcR5)

226 Anybody else ever go to Evil Knivel Days in Butte, MT?

Now that was a cultural experience.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 09, 2021 10:52 PM (U2p+3)

227 Vaccine Lovers - we get pretty tired of your shit too.

-

heya, why not also shove-uh fauci up-uh ya ass.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at March 09, 2021 10:52 PM (sleTW)

228 They didn't give me the table scraps tonight, those Motherpuppers.

Posted by: The Dog at March 09, 2021 10:52 PM (mNhhD)

229 In 9th grade I had a circular slide rule. Same principle as the slip stick, but with a disk that you would wheel around. It fit in your shirt pocket.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 09, 2021 10:45 PM (BMmaB)

I still have one of those somewhere. Got it from my father - it has the Periodic Chart on the back and a card that slides out from the middle jam-packed with all sorts of constants, conversion charts and other wonderful stuff.

Posted by: Eat The Eloi at March 09, 2021 10:52 PM (RGRIY)

230 145.

You're probably right. How you wrote your reply makes me think you have seen a farside cartoon or 3.

Posted by: Dwayne at March 09, 2021 10:52 PM (gtu/X)

231 Hey Miklos!!!
Posted by: Ladyl, Insurrectionist

Kézi csók, hölgyem

Posted by: Miklos , respectfully from across the Viennese ballroom at March 09, 2021 10:52 PM (QzkSJ)

232 X-COM: UFO Defense from Microprose.

Empty life have you lived.
Posted by: Sapwolf at March 09, 2021 10:49 PM (u8u1w)

The updated version is pretty good,

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 09, 2021 10:52 PM (dKiJG)

233 They remade that game pretty well recently. Had a decent storyline too.

Though the latest one "Chimera" isn't as good as the first two.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 09, 2021 10:50 PM (qlFIA)

Oh yeah. I have the more modern XCOM but I'm only just getting started with it.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at March 09, 2021 10:52 PM (ZSK0i)

234 213
If you missed DOS, then...you probably missed...

X-COM: UFO Defense from Microprose.

Empty life have you lived.
Posted by: Sapwolf at March 09, 2021 10:49 PM (u8u1w)\

Xcom is great.
So is Master of Orion 1

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 09, 2021 10:53 PM (yc8M+)

235
'I smashed a startled deer. Fcuk him cause he sure as shit startled my ass.'

Posted by: Eromero at March 09, 2021 10:19 PM (gjvwR)

Our new neighbors are from Texas, and about three days ago they hit a deer...in fucking New Jersey.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 09, 2021 10:53 PM (Q9lwr)

236 I have 2 working laser disc players

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 09, 2021 10:53 PM (dKiJG)

237 qdpsteve, get a pet frog. maybe two.

Posted by: runner at March 09, 2021 10:54 PM (zr5Kq)

238 215 -- Yes, the Sweet Adelines. They are a national organization and the individual groups compete against each other just like the male quartets.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- Bitterly clinging to the deplorable life at March 09, 2021 10:54 PM (NL33G)

239 Vaccine-haters: why not just assume that we already know you're not going to get one? There's no need to inform us of that for the fiftieth time. ------

Taking my mom to get the Johnson and Johnson vaccine tomorrow.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 09, 2021 10:54 PM (2DOZq)

240 I still have one of those somewhere. Got it from my father - it has the Periodic Chart on the back and a card that slides out from the middle jam-packed with all sorts of constants, conversion charts and other wonderful stuff.
Posted by: Eat The Eloi at March 09, 2021 10:52 PM (RGRIY)

Yep, that's it!

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 09, 2021 10:54 PM (BMmaB)

241 why would one need a VCR ??

Posted by: runner at March 09, 2021 10:46 PM (zr5Kq)

Mostly to transfer over old stuff that isn't available on more modern media...
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at March 09, 2021 10:47 PM (ZSK0i)
============

Exactly. I transfer stuff to DVD and/or mp4 digital files for my family and friends all the time. A lot of folks have old tapes that have never been transferred to digital. I've been working from home for almost a year now, and I multi-task quite often - digitizing photos and VHS tapes. It's my own form of bartering -- I have lots of IOUs from family and friends that I haven't called in yet!

Posted by: Doof at March 09, 2021 10:55 PM (mZUr4)

242 "It is USELESS and FUTILE for us to keep talking peace and non violence with a government whose only reply is savage attacks."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 09, 2021 10:55 PM (EZebt)

243 hello horde,

i am getting an early start on saying hi and then dozing off.

Posted by: Pete Bog at March 09, 2021 10:55 PM (Jzz++)

244 Just read that bay leaf also repels roaches.
Makes sense. I doubt insects have much use for herbal cooking. "Ugh, elderly hippies! Vamanos!!"

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2021 10:56 PM (L2ZTs)

245 Book: Operation Mincemeat by Ben McIntyre

Fake news

Posted by: Miklos, occaisional soi-disant historian at March 09, 2021 10:56 PM (QzkSJ)

246 Our new neighbors are from Texas, and about three days ago they hit a deer...in fucking New Jersey.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 09, 2021 10:53 PM (Q9lwr)

The biggest deer I ever missed was in Indiana. That corn-fed ruminant was enormous.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 09, 2021 10:56 PM (BMmaB)

247 K�zi cs�k, h�lgyem
Posted by: Miklos , respectfully from across the Viennese ballroom at March 09, 2021 10:52 PM (QzkSJ)

Dyakuyu, Miklos.

Posted by: Ladyl, Insurrectionist at March 09, 2021 10:56 PM (TdMsT)

248 Love the traffic accident diagram. I'm still chuckling.

I never tried the daredevil stuff on a bike. The full size bike I learned to ride during Eisenhower's second term served as real transportation until I got my drivers permit and it wasn't something to risk. Hot Wheels and similar came along well after that. That bike weighed a ton, had a coaster brake and one speed:, me. However, taking care of our bikes didn't keep us from jumping off the garage roof into a pile of leaves or climbing stupidly high in trees or going from sledding to the emergency room with a shoulder separation or broken arm. There are always means for kids to be stupid.

Posted by: JTB at March 09, 2021 10:56 PM (7EjX1)

249 Anybody else ever go to Evil Knivel Days in Butte, MT?

Now that was a cultural experience.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 09, 2021 10:52 PM (U2p+3)

Despite being born there, I have spent precious little time getting to know it. I love that fucked up town.

Best part is the original St. James hospital, where I was born, has caught fire at least twice, and is some kind of messed up crack house. 'Twas not my fault.

But they built a better one up the hill. It's purty.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Unassuming Gentleman at March 09, 2021 10:56 PM (x8Wzq)

250 223 EA Games Archon. Bestest battle chess ever and the theme song rocked.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at March 09, 2021 10:51 PM (ZSK0i)

I like to tell those damn kids that I'm so old I can actually remember when EA wasn't batshit evil.

Posted by: CppThis at March 09, 2021 10:56 PM (zcf1k)

251 Sure people flaunt your vocal /musical privilege

I can't carry a tune in a bucket. Had piano lessons for a wee bit as a kid. I think I peaked at Twinkle TLS.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at March 09, 2021 10:56 PM (Aashi)

252 235
'I smashed a startled deer. Fcuk him cause he sure as shit startled my ass.'

Posted by: Eromero at March 09, 2021 10:19 PM (gjvwR)

Our new neighbors are from Texas, and about three days ago they hit a deer...in fucking New Jersey.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 09, 2021 10:53 PM (Q9lwr)

I'm more interested why someone moved to NJ from Texas.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 09, 2021 10:56 PM (2DOZq)

253 I think we're letting bug-land know because we're
sick of hearing about it. Yeah, I'm at zero risk and I'll wait and see.
thanks.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at March 09, 2021 10:49 PM (sleTW)

My boss conducted an informal "poll" today to see if it was worth it for the company to provide it. I said no, he said no, and half our department has already had the Kung Flu, so our company probably won't be offering the vaccine. I let him know that I appreciate the offer, though.

Posted by: pookysgirl, with a purring cat on her keyboard at March 09, 2021 10:56 PM (XKZwp)

254 I do NOT want to hear a female Barbershop Quartet if they have a deep bass in the mix. That goes under the "that shit jus' ain't raht" tab.

Some women can be smoky n' sexy with a BIT of a deep voice, but geez, not if they sound like the bass from The Oak Ridge Boys or such.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 09, 2021 10:56 PM (QzJWU)

255 runner, tried that. Somebody kissed it and it turned into Prince Charles. That's even worse than the roaches!!

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2021 10:56 PM (L2ZTs)

256 145

I just had that adventure today with some deer...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at March 09, 2021 10:57 PM (cXDqc)

257 i am getting an early start on saying hi and then dozing off.
Posted by: Pete Bog

Gotta go so you can come back!

Posted by: Miklos, roughly translated from the original Cajun at March 09, 2021 10:57 PM (QzkSJ)

258 haha, no seriously. roach control.

Posted by: runner at March 09, 2021 10:57 PM (zr5Kq)

259 I like to tell those damn kids that I'm so old I can actually remember when EA wasn't batshit evil.

Posted by: CppThis at March 09, 2021 10:56 PM (zcf1k)

Man, that was a while ago. We were playing Archon in the dorm back in '84.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at March 09, 2021 10:58 PM (ZSK0i)

260 X-COM: UFO Defense from Microprose.

One of the greatest games ever made.

Posted by: Eisenhorn at March 09, 2021 10:58 PM (V4K2K)

261
Ay, fuchi capesta! Dead gringo all puffed up with GAS!

Posted by: Spanish Fisherman at March 09, 2021 10:58 PM (2iDSr)

262 254 I do NOT want to hear a female Barbershop Quartet if they have a deep
bass in the mix. That goes under the "that shit jus' ain't raht" tab.
battlestar galactica pilot. they wind up on a planet with an unexpected casino. singers are aliens that have four eyes and two mouths. top mouth emits normal human-type singing. bottom mouth is extreme bass.

Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at March 09, 2021 10:59 PM (5br8a)

263 I'm more interested why someone moved to NJ from Texas.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 09, 2021 10:56 PM (2DOZq)

I'm curious if they actually recognized it as a deer at first, because the Texas deer I saw when we lived there were more like oversized dogs.

Posted by: pookysgirl, with a glass of Strongbow at March 09, 2021 10:59 PM (XKZwp)

264 I'm more interested why someone moved to NJ from Texas.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 09, 2021 10:56 PM (2DOZq)

If they drink I will eventually find out. If they don't drink I don't care.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 09, 2021 10:59 PM (Q9lwr)

265 Evel lived a hard life. "Butte" and "Cultural Experience"? Hm. That's a rough town right there. Or it was anyway.

He was a pretty good showman. Wide World of Sports - they were kind enough to broadcast all his jumps. My parents were not happy, most likely because from that point on, every kid with a bike was setting up ramps and jumps. We had some pretty good hills in the back yard, and we enjoyed setting fires and generally doing all those crazy things that made us rough and tough, as young boys are supposed to be.

Evel crashing and burning and breaking all his bones probably was a good "role model". In the back of our minds, we knew we could get hurt, I think.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 09, 2021 10:59 PM (KQuMS)

266 215 -- Yes, the Sweet Adelines. They are a national organization and the individual groups compete against each other just like the male quartets.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- Bitterly clinging to the deplorable life at March 09, 2021 10:54 PM (NL33G)

Yes. thank you. I blanked on the name. But for much of my youth, barbershop singing was a huge part of my life because of my folks.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Unassuming Gentleman at March 09, 2021 10:59 PM (x8Wzq)

267 The Palm Pilot user interface was the best I've seen for scribbling notes updating calendars and the like. Too bad that jobs fellow saw the phone as an integration and the Palm team enjoyed their status as the best thing that was about to be made obsolete.

Posted by: Pete Bog at March 09, 2021 10:59 PM (Jzz++)

268 Best part is the original St. James hospital, where I was born, has caught fire at least twice, and is some kind of messed up crack house. 'Twas not my fault.

Posted by: Pug Mahon

I was down at St. James Infirmary, just to see my baby catch fire...

Posted by: Miklos, think I have heard similar at March 09, 2021 10:59 PM (QzkSJ)

269 There's a product called Roach-pruf. It's mainly boric acid. Sprinkle it around your baseboards and the inside edges of your cabinets. The roaches eat it, it swells up in their guts, and they die of terminal constipation. It's safe around pets and kids.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- Bitterly clinging to the deplorable life at March 09, 2021 10:59 PM (NL33G)

270 Vaccine-haters: why not just assume that we already know you're not
going to get one? There's no need to inform us of that for the fiftieth
time. ------

I'm going to count tomorrow. It may not be fifty - but I bet I'll get at least ten print / radio / TV / online notifications about where to get the shot. Every time - the answer is "No". That turns out to be a lot of "No". And I have to notify you - or just submit.

No plans to submit.

Posted by: Roll Me Away at March 09, 2021 10:59 PM (AQayC)

271 One thing I've learned over the years re how to deal with roaches: laugh at 'em. Yes, it kinda works.

I have a spoof version of "Surf City" that I sing...

They're gonna crawl all over the silverware
and then they're gonna laugh because they don't care!

Well now I'm goin' to roach city where it's 10 to 1
Well now I'm goin' to roach city where it's 100 to 1
Well now I'm goin' to roach city where it's 1000 to 1
Well now I'm goin' to roach city where it's a million to one, now

A million roaches for every guy!!...

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2021 11:00 PM (L2ZTs)

272 Well, we made it through hubby's first day of retirement, and we didn't kill each other!!!!!

Evening, Horde {{{hugs}}}

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - The Original Fanilow (since 1974) at March 09, 2021 11:00 PM (SRRAx)

273 Vaccine-haters: why not just assume that we already know you're not going to get one? There's no need to inform us of that for the fiftieth time.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 09, 2021 10:10 PM (QE98t)

First of all why are you calling people who don't want the COVID vaccine "vaccine haters"? This is some seriously passive aggressive shit if you are simultaneously asking people to *shut up*.

Second of all, what the shit, Rodrigo? What's with the speech controls? I assure you some people like reading a bunch of different opinions on all sides. I think people repeat themselves a lot on many subjects around here, which is no bad thing since it's easy to miss threads and comments.

BTW, I'm taking issue with your post - and not you.

Posted by: ... at March 09, 2021 11:00 PM (uEbPt)

274 Captain Josepha, thanks! I'll look for it.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2021 11:00 PM (L2ZTs)

275
I've been researching travel trailers all evening. We're on the hunt!
Posted by: ALH, Trump is my President at March 09, 2021 10:22 PM (oUcR5)

__________

Our new RV makes its debut trip tomorrow with Her Majesty taking Val, Dot and Delilah to shows in Kerrville.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 09, 2021 11:00 PM (mht8P)

276 I got two turntables and a microphone. It's where it's at!

Posted by: Beck at March 09, 2021 11:01 PM (AOmVJ)

277 For you model airplane builders who prefer WWII and 1/32d scale, Infinity Models is releasing a Curtis SB2C-4 Helldiver. Markings in kit are for White 15 of VB-16 off USS Randolph and White 207 of VB-83 off USS Essex.
https://youtu.be/hNqpRyZQA48

Bad news is, the kit included dive flaps are not perforated. Will have to do that yourself unless you buy the aftermarket PE perforated dive flaps which I am betting will cost you a hundred bucks. Drill holes or shell out $100? Decisions. Also as aftermarket items are the wing folds and the folded turtleback behind the radio-gunner.

Non folding wings on a model with an 18.6in wingspan is not a trivial matter. Basically two Helldivers will take up as much space as one HK 1/32d B-17 kit. Good luck to those who choose to accept this mission, I'm not going to be one of them.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 09, 2021 11:01 PM (2sHkt)

278 My idea of a female quartet is The Bangles.

Posted by: Eromero at March 09, 2021 11:02 PM (gjvwR)

279 I do NOT want to hear a female Barbershop Quartet if they have a deep bass in the mix. That goes under the "that shit jus' ain't raht" tab.
Some women can be smoky n' sexy with a BIT of a deep voice, but geez, not if they sound like the bass from The Oak Ridge Boys or such.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim
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En Vogue Sings the National Anthem Live (1991)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPQVtmWyOa8

No bass here.

Posted by: SMH at March 09, 2021 11:02 PM (aesIB)

280 Eromero, yup.
They even styled themselves after the Beatles a little. See their music video for "Turn To You."

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2021 11:03 PM (L2ZTs)

281 275
I've been researching travel trailers all evening. We're on the hunt!
Posted by: ALH, Trump is my President at March 09, 2021 10:22 PM (oUcR5)

__________

Our new RV makes its debut trip tomorrow with Her Majesty taking Val, Dot and Delilah to shows in Kerrville.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 09, 2021 11:00 PM (mht8P)

I was looking at Class Cs today. I want the Thor Gemini 23TW.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 09, 2021 11:03 PM (2DOZq)

282 It's not widely known, but a VCR is an excellent Hi-Fi medium for recording music, on tape, as it were. The effective tape speed, due to the rapidly spinning head is very high and will make CD quality music storage. I always found it a bit awkward for the purpose.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 09, 2021 11:03 PM (KQuMS)

283 Thanks for the many kind words. Good night all.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at March 09, 2021 11:03 PM (d9Cw3)

284 When I was singing with Dad, I sang tenor, but I would do well as a bass now, what with all the booze and parting (

. But that said, I never really caught the barbershop bug. Too much of a metal head, I guess. Still, those years were super fun. cherished memories, and whatnot.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Unassuming Gentleman at March 09, 2021 11:04 PM (x8Wzq)

285 I have never been invited to sit in with the Co-Blogger Barbershop Quartet. Who is the Basso Profundo?

Posted by: KT at March 09, 2021 11:04 PM (BVQ+1)

286 I was thinking I'd like to hang out tonight, but I'm pretty sleepy...
Loving seeing you all though!
Hugs to ladyl, and smooches to Miklos...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at March 09, 2021 11:04 PM (cXDqc)

287 259 Man, that was a while ago. We were playing Archon in the dorm back in '84.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at March 09, 2021 10:58 PM (ZSK0i)

Well okay, I'm admittedly not quite that old but I do remember them from the 90s when they were pushing stuff from Maxis, Origin etc.

Incidentally, I've noticed that there's another big round of buyouts and consolidation going on right now in the video game industry. All those little turbocharged indies that came out of the Kickstarter movement are getting snapped up by various media conglomerates and megacorps. So PC gaming is probably going to start sucking again in about 5 years, followed by a revival another 7-8 years after that.

Posted by: CppThis at March 09, 2021 11:04 PM (zcf1k)

288 Microprose made Master of Orion 2, the greatest game in the history of ever, ever.

Posted by: Grail Knight at March 09, 2021 11:05 PM (ybIRR)

289 278 My idea of a female quartet is The Bangles.
Posted by: Eromero at March 09, 2021 11:02 PM (gjvwR)

I thought you would have said The Supremes

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 09, 2021 11:05 PM (2DOZq)

290 @ Ladyl re: the dirt pile - sounds like a blast. I'd have done the same thing.

Growing up in the 70's, we had a wonderful dirt pile in our back yard that we'd play in it with tonka trucks, etc for hours and hours. A few years back I ran into a neighbor kid from back then and he said "You guys always had the best dirt pile."

I am exceedingly grateful that I grew up in a time when people actually thought like that... when people actually ranked dirt piles. Who's luckier than me?

Posted by: 496 at March 09, 2021 11:05 PM (U1eOr)

291 My idea of a female quartet is The Bangles.
Posted by: Eromero at March 09, 2021 11:02 PM (gjvwR)

the Bangles knew from harmony. I love to hear them sing. Wonderful.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Unassuming Gentleman at March 09, 2021 11:06 PM (x8Wzq)

292 My idea of a female quartet is The Bangles.
Posted by: Eromero

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They were a band.

Posted by: SMH at March 09, 2021 11:06 PM (aesIB)

293 4

Posted by: 4 at March 09, 2021 11:07 PM (KnJdm)

294 277 For you model airplane builders who prefer WWII and 1/32d scale, Infinity Models is releasing a Curtis SB2C-4 Helldiver. Markings in kit are for White 15 of VB-16 off USS Randolph and White 207 of VB-83 off USS Essex.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 09, 2021 11:01 PM (2sHkt)

Anna, did the Helldiver come after the Douglas Dauntless? IIRC the Dauntless did heavy duty at Midway

Posted by: kbdabear at March 09, 2021 11:07 PM (qAR6u)

295 290 @ Ladyl re: the dirt pile - sounds like a blast. I'd have done the same thing.

Growing up in the 70's, we had a wonderful dirt pile in our back yard that we'd play in it with tonka trucks, etc for hours and hours. A few years back I ran into a neighbor kid from back then and he said "You guys always had the best dirt pile."

I am exceedingly grateful that I grew up in a time when people actually thought like that... when people actually ranked dirt piles. Who's luckier than me?
Posted by: 496 at March 09, 2021 11:05 PM (U1eOr)

A dirt or rock pile is a kid-magnet. So many ways to have fun...

Posted by: Ladyl, Insurrectionist at March 09, 2021 11:07 PM (TdMsT)

296 My idea of a female quartet is The Bangles.
Posted by: Eromero at March 09, 2021 11:02 PM (gjvwR)

Nice!

Also acceptable -- Vixen or The Go-Go's

Posted by: Doof at March 09, 2021 11:07 PM (mZUr4)

297 I am exceedingly grateful that I grew up in a time when people actually thought like that... when people actually ranked dirt piles. Who's luckier than me?
Posted by: 496 at March 09, 2021 11:05 PM (U1eOr)

*High five*

We had an epic little green soldier battlefield. With running streams, even.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Unassuming Gentleman at March 09, 2021 11:08 PM (x8Wzq)

298 My idea of a female quartet is The Bangles.
Posted by: Eromero

Hmmm
Does Susanna Hoffs have three sisters?

Posted by: Miklos, remaining loyal to the Belinda Carlisle in her prime at March 09, 2021 11:08 PM (QzkSJ)

299
I was looking at Class Cs today. I want the Thor Gemini 23TW.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 09, 2021 11:03 PM (2DOZq)

__________

We got a 32 foot 2015 Jayco Redhawk Class C. The rear bedroom was turned into the dogatorium. The rest is so efficiently laid out that Her Majesty doesn't have to open the slide out. Tons of storage underneath for the gypsy encampment.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 09, 2021 11:08 PM (mht8P)

300 261 Ay, fuchi capesta! Dead gringo all puffed up with GAS!
ah. interaction with the flatonic aether.

Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at March 09, 2021 11:09 PM (5br8a)

301 I loved tonka trucks. I actually grew up and operated some for a paycheck back in the day.

Posted by: Infidel at March 09, 2021 11:09 PM (E0OEG)

302 Used a lot of Lotus Symphony back in the day.

Lotus. Remember them?

Posted by: Pussy Galore at March 09, 2021 11:09 PM (doAIC)

303 So PC gaming is probably going to start sucking again in about 5 years, followed by a revival another 7-8 years after that.

Posted by: CppThis at March 09, 2021 11:04 PM (zcf1k)

Nuts.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at March 09, 2021 11:09 PM (ZSK0i)

304
Powerpoint presentations aren't necessarily bad, but you do have to know how to use them. If you're just reading what's on the slide then you don't know how to use them.
Posted by: Eat The Eloi at March 09, 2021 10:29 PM (RGRIY)

This. My staff loathe my powerpoints. They are only graphics, or a graph, or a detqiled view of a product. No words to read. Forces them to know the subject matter well enough to go anywhere the veeps want whe briefed.

Posted by: BifBewalski - but the veeps love my powerpoints at March 09, 2021 11:10 PM (VcFUs)

305 I never tried the daredevil stuff on a bike.

Posted by: JTB at March 09, 2021 10:56 PM (7EjX1)

I tried a Mary Poppins out of a tree once. Once. Bitch set me up.

Posted by: 4 at March 09, 2021 11:10 PM (KnJdm)

306 Sebastian Melmoth @ 289- I confess I had impure thoughts of the Supremes. I would listen to them singing 'Baby Love' in my 64 Valiant when I was in the 10th grade.

Posted by: Eromero at March 09, 2021 11:10 PM (gjvwR)

307 There's a product called Roach-pruf. It's mainly boric acid. Sprinkle it around your baseboards and the inside edges of your cabinets. The roaches eat it, it swells up in their guts, and they die of terminal constipation. It's safe around pets and kids.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- Bitterly clinging to the deplorable life at March 09, 2021 10:59 PM (NL33G)

Boric acid does a number on ants, too. They mistake it for sugar.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2021 11:10 PM (mzC78)

308 I loved Tonka trucks. I actually grew up and operated some for a paycheck back in the day.
Posted by: Infidel

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*fistbump*

Posted by: SMH at March 09, 2021 11:10 PM (aesIB)

309 We had an epic little green soldier battlefield. With running streams, even.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Unassuming Gentleman at March 09, 2021 11:08 PM (x8Wzq)

Add BB guns, and you have the makings for an epic day.

Posted by: 4 at March 09, 2021 11:11 PM (KnJdm)

310 Oh, and databases. Sql, or rbase. If forced, ill go to oracle.

Posted by: BifBewalski - but the veeps love my powerpoints at March 09, 2021 11:11 PM (VcFUs)

311
This PowerPoint presentation will show the progress of the next PowerPoint presentation. I will now read all the slides out loud.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 09, 2021 11:11 PM (mht8P)

312 much ramp jumping and many flames from the crash n burns

Posted by: a dude in MI at March 09, 2021 11:11 PM (+I6Y/)

313 Dos games including Aces of the Deep and Caesar 2 were a lot of fun.

Posted by: Hal Dall at March 09, 2021 11:12 PM (CNRmI)

314 much ramp jumping and many flames from the crash n burns
Posted by: a dude in MI

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Yep.

Living in a crater, had many natural ramps.

Posted by: SMH at March 09, 2021 11:12 PM (aesIB)

315 One of my relatives still has a big stack of 45s. Some real classics.

Posted by: Pussy Galore at March 09, 2021 11:12 PM (doAIC)

316 I wish I had my metal Tonka trucks and crane. Best shit ever.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 09, 2021 11:12 PM (/pcNe)

317 Hmmm
Does Susanna Hoffs have three sisters?
Posted by: Miklos, remaining loyal to the Belinda Carlisle in her prime at March 09, 2021 11:08 PM (QzkSJ)

==========

You named 2 great vocalists from the 80s who each played a part in accelerating young Doof through puberty!

Posted by: Doof at March 09, 2021 11:13 PM (mZUr4)

318 I have linear feet of 33's I need to get rid of.

Posted by: Infidel at March 09, 2021 11:14 PM (E0OEG)

319 Wow Buck, epic ONT.

Those intrigulated by the Op Mincemeat story should really read one of the books on the whole topic of deception in the European theater of WWII. There are many.

Though decades old, I recall "Bodyguard of Lies" by Anthony Cave Brown to have been a good survey of the topic. Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare by Miles Gilton is another. Both books deal with more than the deception campaign, but are good intros to the truly amazing intel/decoding/deception efforts of the Allies in WWII.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 09, 2021 11:14 PM (OTzUX)

320 I think there are even a few 76's in the pile.

Posted by: Infidel at March 09, 2021 11:14 PM (E0OEG)

321
Oh no!
Now Nancy Pelosi is outside my house registering the roaches to vote...
Posted by: qdpsteve

If H.R.1 passes they will be automatically registered and their votes tallied.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 09, 2021 11:14 PM (63Dwl)

322 ...Living in a crater, had many natural ramps.

Posted by: SMH at March 09, 2021 11:12 PM

artillery shell or meteor??

Posted by: Zettai at March 09, 2021 11:14 PM (mqBmY)

323 ..No bass here. Posted by: SMH at March 09, 2021 11:02 PM (aesIB)

Thanks, sis! Sexy women singing sultrily and sexily. And, Patriotically, too! What's NOT to love, there? (answer, nothin!)

And if I had a tuneful voice, I could carry the Basso Profundo score. I can hit the notes. All of them. But seldom any of them at the right bar or time in the song, or in the same pitch as the other singers. I don't sing in the shower. Curdled water is just plain hell on the plumbing.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 09, 2021 11:14 PM (QzJWU)

324 174 I'm thinking the Brit Royals are staging the whole Megan/Harry snit to stay in the headlines and be relevent, somehow.

Posted by: Auspex at March 09, 2021 10:43 PM (Xo3T0)
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Hey, nobody's talking about Prince Andrew now, are they?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at March 09, 2021 11:15 PM (Dc2NZ)

325 AOP,

Quick status report on the repair. Couldn't get the damned pin out of the connector, so there went the easy way. But it turned out the local O'Reilly's had the connector w/pigtail, so I grabbed it. Stripped the various wires, alligator clipped them together temporarily, fired up the car and it ran beautifully.

Then, realized the wire I had for the splicing wasn't copper and I didn't know *what* it was. So, being concerned about possible longterm dissimilar metals corrosion, I ordered up some of the 22AWG copper stuff and when that gets here, I can wrap it up.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at March 09, 2021 11:15 PM (ZSK0i)

326 artillery shell or meteor??
Posted by: Zettai

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Volcanic.

Aliamanu Military Reservation, near Pearl Harbor.

Posted by: SMH at March 09, 2021 11:16 PM (aesIB)

327 I have linear feet of 33's I need to get rid of.
Posted by: Infidel at March 09, 2021 11:14 PM (E0OEG)

========

What genre of LPs are you looking to unload?

Posted by: Doof at March 09, 2021 11:16 PM (mZUr4)

328 Jesus God, if Susanna Hofts had hot sisters.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 09, 2021 11:16 PM (/pcNe)

329 Lotus symphony. There's 40 wasted CPE hours. I'd have been better off at the hotel pool than that waste of time training session

Posted by: Pete Bog at March 09, 2021 11:17 PM (Jzz++)

330 I did not like playing in dirt. I was the kid who cried in preschool because I didn't want to get my hands dirty finger painting. (The teacher: (hushed voice) "She didn't want to use the finger paints." My mom: "So let her use a brush. What the hell difference does it make?")

Posted by: Mrs. Peel - Texas Morons, Support HB 1359 at March 09, 2021 11:17 PM (G6Lqs)

331 Volcanic.

Aliamanu Military Reservation, near Pearl Harbor.
Posted by: SMH

The roadrash must have been spectacular!

Posted by: Infidel at March 09, 2021 11:17 PM (E0OEG)

332 Then, realized the wire I had for the splicing wasn't copper and I didn't know *what* it was. So, being concerned about possible longterm dissimilar metals corrosion, I ordered up some of the 22AWG copper stuff and when that gets here, I can wrap it up.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at March 09, 2021 11:15 PM (ZSK0i)

Cool beans! Great when you can forestall an "expensive" repair with some cheap parts and some DIY ingenuity.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2021 11:17 PM (mzC78)

333 I do NOT want to hear a female Barbershop Quartet if they have a deep bass in the mix. That goes under the "that shit jus' ain't raht" tab.
Posted by: Jim

Princess Vespa is heartbroken.

Posted by: mikeski at March 09, 2021 11:18 PM (P1f+c)

334 When I see some young boys out in a group by themselves - skateboards, bikes - just out there, no supervision, not even necessarily doing anything wild like we used to do, I have a tiny glimmer of hope. Tiny.

Young parents will confidently declare that "the world is so different, more dangerous now" if the topic ever comes up. Nonsense, of course. But a good window on one reason the country's swirling the drain.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 09, 2021 11:18 PM (OTzUX)

335 Jim SND @ 323- Mrs. E is getting some primo cigars from Miami for moi for St. Paddy's Day. To go with the Bushmills. Of course.

Posted by: Eromero at March 09, 2021 11:18 PM (gjvwR)

336 Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at March 09, 2021 11:15 PM (Dc2NZ)

Yeah I don't know if having the racist card played on them would be a great plan. Sounds more like an own goal.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 09, 2021 11:19 PM (2DOZq)

337 on, I ordered up some of the 22AWG copper stuff and when that gets here, I can wrap it up.

Or just take the clip off when you stop and it is theft proof

Posted by: Pete Bog at March 09, 2021 11:19 PM (Jzz++)

338 The roadrash must have been spectacular!
Posted by: Infidel

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The hills were covered with weed-infested grass...and stickers (tiny little burrs that really, really hurt.).

Posted by: SMH at March 09, 2021 11:19 PM (aesIB)

339 You named 2 great vocalists from the 80s who each played a part in accelerating young Doof through puberty!
Posted by: Doof

Accelerate?

We're talking lift off and escaping the gravitational pull of the Earth!

Posted by: Miklos, fondly recalling the careferee days of horny as hell youth at March 09, 2021 11:19 PM (QzkSJ)

340 I remember the DOS games

Descent came with my computer, so did Oregon Trail

I killed a lot of Indians and members of my own wagon train family before I died of the shits

Posted by: kbdabear at March 09, 2021 11:19 PM (qAR6u)

341 Volcanic.

Aliamanu Military Reservation, near Pearl Harbor.
Posted by: SMH at March 09, 2021 11:16 PM (aesIB)

Aa, or pahoehoe?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2021 11:20 PM (mzC78)

342 What genre of LPs are you looking to unload?
Posted by: Doof

Gah, I would have to look. From memory, lots of old country wester, opera, Elvis, Tijuana Brass, Big Band, etc., 50's to 70's maybe 40;s. Maybe some other stuff.

Posted by: Infidel at March 09, 2021 11:20 PM (E0OEG)

343 330 I did not like playing in dirt. I was the kid who cried in preschool because I didn't want to get my hands dirty finger painting. (The teacher: (hushed voice) "She didn't want to use the finger paints." My mom: "So let her use a brush. What the hell difference does it make?")
Posted by: Mrs. Peel - Texas Morons, Support HB 1359 at March 09, 2021 11:17 PM (G6Lqs)

That's hilarious!

Posted by: Eat The Eloi at March 09, 2021 11:20 PM (RGRIY)

344 But I do wonder - does the UniParty ever laugh, behind closed doors with drinks in their hands, while using the tools against us that we insist on paying for ? Heh - another rhetorical question. Of course they laugh.
Posted by: Roll Me Away at March 09, 2021 10:25 PM

Michelle said once, in a response to an interview question about what the most important thing was that got the Obama's through the day, that it was laughter.

When I read that, I knew immediately that she was telling the truth.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist (bofa/deez) at March 09, 2021 11:21 PM (OssQ4)

345 Mrs. E is getting some primo cigars from Miami for moi for St. Paddy's Day. To go with the Bushmills. Of course.
Posted by: Eromero

You two must have one hell of a pre-nup

Posted by: Miklos, thinking that people should think ahead at March 09, 2021 11:21 PM (QzkSJ)

346 Thanks BT! Great job.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * keeping my sanity in the freezer at March 09, 2021 11:21 PM (6/H7M)

347 I still bear a great many scars from the bicycle jumping days. Under a dermatologists' UV light, my harms and lower legs look like WWI battlefields after couple years of trench warfare.

Add in a few decades of construction boo-boos, motorcycle crashes and just all around oops when a wrench slips or knife backfires (don't ask), well. Truly, I've forgotten the stories that go with each. Only the spectacular and outlandish still get the telling of their tales.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 09, 2021 11:22 PM (QzJWU)

348 Young parents will confidently declare that "the world is so different, more dangerous now" if the topic ever comes up. Nonsense, of course. But a good window on one reason the country's swirling the drain.

I realized after the fact that my guiding parenting principle was trying to keep my kids from doing the stupid and dangerous shit I did. I was mostly successful. Let em find their own stupid shit

Posted by: Pete Bog at March 09, 2021 11:22 PM (Jzz++)

349 The Helldiver was supposed to replace the Dauntless. Navy said in 1939 we want this now and that two of them will fit on a standard carrier elevator with one foot of clearance all around. Curtis was over committed building P-40s so the XSB2C was built in a cow barn on a fairgrounds and it was jinxed forever by the design requirements.

Mid '43 and USS Essex, the flagship of the new class of carriers, was supposed to take the SB2C to war. But it was such a steaming pile of cr@p that the Helldivers were replaced with SBDs. Capt. J. J. Clark recommended the program to be terminated and all Helldivers turned into anchors. But the Navy persisted. By the time of the Battle of the Philippine Sea most carriers had the Helldiver. Only Lexington and Enterprise still had SBDs. The night time strike at Ozawa's retreating carriers meant 51 SB2C-1Cs were lost which hastened the arrival of the improved SB2C-3.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 09, 2021 11:24 PM (2sHkt)

350 "We show up with our pocket Declarations of Independence and Constitution; they show up with a brick and a Molotov cocktail. How do we think subsequent conversations will go? Where is the common ground?" - Jim D.

- -

OK.

What is the suggestion here?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 09, 2021 11:24 PM (wGxSf)

351 Aa, or pahoehoe?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

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paho'eho'e

Posted by: SMH at March 09, 2021 11:24 PM (aesIB)

352 Or just take the clip off when you stop and it is theft proof

Posted by: Pete Bog at March 09, 2021 11:19 PM (Jzz++)

If only. It just runs rough when you do that.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at March 09, 2021 11:25 PM (ZSK0i)

353 Posted by: Jim at March 09, 2021

Ah, yes, don't look very lady like with all the scars. I still have a piece of asphalt in my knee from Stanford Lane, in HB, CA from when I was a kid on a bike.

Posted by: Infidel at March 09, 2021 11:25 PM (E0OEG)

354 It's little now, but then it was huge.

Posted by: Infidel at March 09, 2021 11:25 PM (E0OEG)

355 Young parents will confidently declare that "the world is so different, more dangerous now" if the topic ever comes up. Nonsense, of course. But a good window on one reason the country's swirling the drain.

- -

Indeed. The world is safer, not more dangerous. I get impatient with that the same way I get when people say that things are more complicated now. No, they aren't. It's always been complicated.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 09, 2021 11:26 PM (wGxSf)

356 Add in a few decades of construction boo-boos, motorcycle crashes and just all around oops when a wrench slips or knife backfires (don't ask), well. Truly, I've forgotten the stories that go with each. Only the spectacular and outlandish still get the telling of their tales.

Jim

"I tell them. I tell the women. Every square inch tells a story. But these inches are all about you."

Posted by: Miklos, thinking Jim at the local at March 09, 2021 11:26 PM (QzkSJ)

357 Galapagos Island, a'a.

Posted by: SMH at March 09, 2021 11:27 PM (aesIB)

358 Actually, Miklos @ 345, Mrs. E holds the record for being married to me. She's been my personal best for many years now. No pre-nup, more 'War Of The Roses'? Just kidding.

Posted by: Eromero at March 09, 2021 11:27 PM (gjvwR)

359 Islands.

Posted by: SMH at March 09, 2021 11:27 PM (aesIB)

360 340 I remember the DOS games

Descent came with my computer, so did Oregon Trail

I killed a lot of Indians and members of my own wagon train family before I died of the shits
Posted by: kbdabear at March 09, 2021 11:19 PM (qAR6u)

Dysentery: worse than Hitler and Genghis Khan combined

Posted by: CppThis at March 09, 2021 11:27 PM (zcf1k)

361 Oregon Trail was a classic. My kids played it a lot. (we live 15 miles from the nearest trail ruts)

Posted by: Hal Dall at March 09, 2021 11:27 PM (CNRmI)

362 My mom: "So let her use a brush. What the hell difference does it make?")
Posted by: Mrs. Peel - Texas Morons, Support HB 1359 at March 09, 2021 11:17 PM (G6Lqs)

I can picture your Mom saying that!

(Confession: Mrs. Peel's mom and I attended the same high school - I was a year behind her; my younger sister was good friends with Mrs. Peel's aunt!)

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - The Original Fanilow (since 1974) at March 09, 2021 11:27 PM (SRRAx)

363 What is the suggestion here?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 09, 2021 11:24 PM (wGxSf)

Fire is a good first approximation.

Posted by: 4 at March 09, 2021 11:27 PM (KnJdm)

364 What genre of LPs are you looking to unload?
Posted by: Doof

Gah, I would have to look. From memory, lots of old country wester, opera, Elvis, Tijuana Brass, Big Band, etc., 50's to 70's maybe 40;s. Maybe some other stuff.
Posted by: Infidel at March 09, 2021 11:20 PM (E0OEG)
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There's a growing market for vinyl LPs. You might be able to make some coin. Seems like a lot of used record stores are popping up. At least here in the Mid-Atlantic

Posted by: Doof at March 09, 2021 11:27 PM (mZUr4)

365 Infocom text adventures.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 09, 2021 11:27 PM (wGxSf)

366
The following comments seemed like a natural pair

Every inch tells a story but these inches are all about you

It's little now, but then it was huge.

Posted by: Pete Bog at March 09, 2021 11:28 PM (Jzz++)

367 paho'eho'e
Posted by: SMH a

Mekka-lekka-hi, Mekka-hiney-ho

Posted by: Miklos, keeping his distance at March 09, 2021 11:28 PM (QzkSJ)

368 Fire is a good first approximation.

Posted by: 4 at March 09, 2021 11:27 PM (KnJdm)

Shoot 'em if they run and burn 'em if they stand.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at March 09, 2021 11:29 PM (ZSK0i)

369 Every suture tells a story story.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 09, 2021 11:29 PM (63Dwl)

370 Dysentery: worse than Hitler and Genghis Khan combined

Posted by: CppThis at March 09, 2021 11:27 PM (zcf1k)

Someone passed around a list of things from 100 years ago. In the top five causes of death? Death by diarrhea.

Posted by: 4 at March 09, 2021 11:29 PM (KnJdm)

371 ..Mrs. E is getting some primo cigars from Miami for moi for St. Paddy's Day. To go with the Bushmills. Of course. Posted by: Eromero at March 09, 2021 11:18 PM (gjvwR)

Let's be sure to sit n' enjoy a stogie or three at the TxMoMeet. WARNING: Rangemasters might be cigarifying while herding gun-toting cats.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 09, 2021 11:29 PM (QzJWU)

372 *gives Miklos the ultimate Hawaiian gift*

Have some SPAM.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 09, 2021 11:29 PM (2sHkt)

373 AOP - I do not have your email address on this machine. If you still have mine, drop me a note.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 09, 2021 11:30 PM (L47aO)

374 Someone passed around a list of things from 100 years ago. In the top five causes of death? Death by diarrhea.
Posted by: 4 at March 09, 2021 11:29 PM (KnJdm)

No shit?

(you had to know that was coming)

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2021 11:30 PM (mzC78)

375 251 Sure people flaunt your vocal /musical privilege I can't carry a tune in a bucket.

My whole family has this problem. We had to promise not to sing to get into church on Sunday!

Posted by: Pikov Andropov at March 09, 2021 11:30 PM (rt0xh)

376 By the time I was 9 I had garnered roughly 30 stitches and my first broken nose. Lucky for me my mother was an ER nurse. On occasion she would tell me to stop blubbering and rub some dirt on it. That got passed on to my kids. They survived.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * keeping my sanity in the freezer at March 09, 2021 11:30 PM (6/H7M)

377
ah. interaction with the flatonic aether.
Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at March 09, 2021 11:09 PM (5br8a)

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Plutonic, gringo. Even I know that.

Posted by: Spanish Fisherman at March 09, 2021 11:32 PM (2iDSr)

378 Humuhumunukunukuapua'a...

Posted by: Zettai at March 09, 2021 11:32 PM (mqBmY)

379 Treet aw reet.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 09, 2021 11:32 PM (63Dwl)

380 I am over the edge. How may 72 year olds eat ice cream sammiches at 2030 hours? Is it just me?

Posted by: Eromero at March 09, 2021 11:32 PM (gjvwR)

381 We had an epic little green soldier battlefield. With running streams, even.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Unassuming Gentleman at March 09, 2021 11:08 PM (x8Wzq)

Add BB guns, and you have the makings for an epic day.
Posted by: 4 at March 09, 2021 11:11 PM (KnJdm)

I am so fucking glad that I was a kid when I was. We did the best we could with our sons in the '90s. On my son's birthdays we would tell them to invite all of their friends. Our living room looked like a battlefield triage center, sometimes 15 boys on sleeping bags, but they all loved our parties. Our only rule was eat we tell you to, and stay in groups when you go outside.

Most surprising part was the other parents were okay with this.

A different time.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Unassuming Gentleman at March 09, 2021 11:33 PM (x8Wzq)

382 Have some SPAM.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Survival food, for the burning times.

FUN FACT

Spam burns at room temperature

Posted by: Miklos, still using his 101 Science Experiment Set at March 09, 2021 11:33 PM (QzkSJ)

383 .."I tell them. I tell the women. Every square inch tells a story. But these inches are all about you." Posted by: Miklos, thinking Jim at the local at March 09, 2021 11:26 PM (QzkSJ)

When they see your Square Inch, do they: { } Scream? { } Laugh? { } Cry? { } All of the Above?

And where in the HELL d'ya buy Square Condoms, anyway? /snrk

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 09, 2021 11:33 PM (QzJWU)

384 Fire is a good first approximation.
Posted by: 4

Napalm is relatively easy to make. Just saying. A friend told me.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * keeping my sanity in the freezer at March 09, 2021 11:33 PM (6/H7M)

385 I never had a broken bone.

Posted by: SMH at March 09, 2021 11:34 PM (aesIB)

386 Most useless green army men.

The stupid minesweeper guys.

Posted by: Miklos, still guessing his green army men have been recycled into gender-affirming breast implants at March 09, 2021 11:35 PM (QzkSJ)

387 Approximately 20 broken bones here, SMH. Clumsy I is, or reckless.

Posted by: Eromero at March 09, 2021 11:37 PM (gjvwR)

388 No broken bones, but stitches at 5. Stupid aunt. Whiney thing, That was before mom put her foot down on that. "get over it." or Mecurichrome (sp). Or go back outside and play.

Posted by: Infidel at March 09, 2021 11:37 PM (E0OEG)

389 The stupid minesweeper guys.

Posted by: Miklos, still guessing his green army men have been recycled into gender-affirming breast implants at March 09, 2021 11:35 PM

Hey, hey, HEY!! Those "minesweeper guys" are COMBAT(!) Engineers, the backbone of the Army!

Posted by: Zettai at March 09, 2021 11:37 PM (mqBmY)

390 AOP - I do not have your email address on this machine. If you still have mine, drop me a note.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 09, 2021 11:30 PM (L47aO)

I have it on my home machine, which has the email client, but not here, because I use Webmail.

Jim in Galveston has it though, and definitely has my blessing to pass it on to Morons and "Ettes in good standing.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2021 11:39 PM (mzC78)

391 Humuhumunukunukuapua'a...
Posted by Zettai

trmplizammapure

Posted by: Miklos, unable to recall the unique terminology at March 09, 2021 11:40 PM (QzkSJ)

392 There was a movie with Clifton Webb in it about Operation Mincemeat, or something like it. The "unknown soldier" was fictionalized as a young soldier who had died from an illness, not a vagrant.

It's a good movie.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Sexy Texas Neanderthal at March 09, 2021 11:40 PM (SRRAx)

393 Willowed from last night's ONT...

https://tinyurl.com/57zvz98v

Posted by: Al Bundy at March 09, 2021 11:40 PM (Z7toj)

394 Creepy as Hell trailer for a movie called: "Them"*.

*Not, thank the Almighty, a remake of the 50s movie about ginormous ants.

Posted by: Sharkman at March 09, 2021 11:40 PM (i4CI5)

395

By "DOS" most people really mean command line/interperter text shell. If that's what you mean, then it's alive and well. There are many of them.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 09, 2021 11:40 PM (Mzdiz)

396 In case no one noticed, Squadron.com has closed down. Apparently they went bankrupt.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 09, 2021 11:40 PM (2sHkt)

397 By "DOS" most people really mean command line/interperter text shell. If that's what you mean, then it's alive and well. There are many of them.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 09, 2021 11:40 PM (Mzdiz)

I used to be able to do that, to some extent. Never did a PowerPoint.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2021 11:42 PM (mzC78)

398

1) broken ankle -- soccer

2) broken cheekbone -- MVA

3) broken jaw -- skiing

Posted by: Zettai at March 09, 2021 11:42 PM (mqBmY)

399
Most useless green army men.
The stupid minesweeper guys.
Posted by: Miklos

Oh, I don't know...did any of your other green army men get blown up by a mine?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 09, 2021 11:44 PM (63Dwl)

400 *Not, thank the Almighty, a remake of the 50s movie about ginormous ants.
Posted by: Sharkman at March 09, 2021 11:40 PM (i4CI5)

I remember, vaguely, a movie that giant leeches, that made a burbling sound like a Ford Flathead with straight pipes, idling.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2021 11:44 PM (mzC78)

401 I used to be able to do that, to some extent. Never did a PowerPoint.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Our Power Point Training module is now available on Power Point.

Please remember to sign in using your unique password and DNA sample.

Posted by: Miklos, from Corporate at March 09, 2021 11:46 PM (QzkSJ)

402 Alright, no imposters tonight?

Posted by: Broseidon at March 09, 2021 11:46 PM (icI8A)

403 Anna, what was squadron.com?

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2021 11:46 PM (L2ZTs)

404 Imposters or pod people?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 09, 2021 11:47 PM (2sHkt)

405
I remember, vaguely, a movie that giant leeches, that made a burbling sound like a Ford Flathead with straight pipes, idling.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Attack of the Giant Leeches with Yvette Vickers.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 09, 2021 11:47 PM (63Dwl)

406 I am over the edge. How may 72 year olds eat ice cream sammiches at 2030 hours? Is it just me?
Posted by: Eromero
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This is perfectly normal. I just had two chocolate/peanut butter cookies.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 09, 2021 11:48 PM (WD9ZA)

407 Oh, I don't know...did any of your other green army men get blown up by a mine?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

With all the marbles, Wrist Rockets and BB guns, those guys never had a chance.

Posted by: Miklos, even nine years old had an innate sense of wanting beer at March 09, 2021 11:48 PM (QzkSJ)

408 ..I remember, vaguely, a movie that giant leeches, that made a burbling sound like a Ford Flathead with straight pipes, idling. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2021 11:44 PM (mzC7

They were drawn to County Probation offices and W.I.C. centers, like moths to the flame.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 09, 2021 11:48 PM (QzJWU)

409 Well Squadron started as mail order business supplying hobbyists with model kits. *pauses* Their In Action series of books started in the early 1970s.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 09, 2021 11:49 PM (2sHkt)

410 AOP - Are you in AZ now?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 09, 2021 11:49 PM (WD9ZA)

411 I am over the edge. How may 72 year olds eat ice cream sammiches at 2030 hours? Is it just me?
Posted by: Eromero
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This is perfectly normal. I just had two chocolate/peanut butter cookies.
Posted by: Mike Ham

No Nutella? Well, not Euro-homos at least.

Posted by: Miklos, at least that is settled at March 09, 2021 11:50 PM (QzkSJ)

412 No broken bones, but stitches at 5. Stupid aunt. Whiney thing, That was before mom put her foot down on that. "get over it." or Mecurichrome (sp). Or go back outside and play.
Posted by: Infidel
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Stitches when I was nine, about a dozen on the back of my head.

Those merry-go-rounds (the ones you push then jump on) can be dangerous. Especially when you're showing off and your hands slip.

Not gonna lie, I thought I was gonna die after seeing all the blood gushing from my head. I walked home with my hand holding my brains in (what I thought at the time). Little sis, who was four at the time was losing her shit. Mom rushed me to the dispensary to get stitched up.

Posted by: SMH at March 09, 2021 11:50 PM (aesIB)

413 Attack of the Giant Leeches with Yvette Vickers.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 09, 2021 11:47 PM (63Dwl)

She would make a great "Who Dis" for OM. Came to sad end.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2021 11:51 PM (mzC78)

414 Imposters or pod people?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Daywalkers

Posted by: Miklos of the ONT at March 09, 2021 11:51 PM (QzkSJ)

415 > This is some seriously passive aggressive shit if you are simultaneously asking people to *shut up*.

I'm not asking anyone to shut up. I'm merely suggesting it.

You know why? Because y'all are getting about as smug and self-righteous as the vegans.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 09, 2021 11:52 PM (QE98t)

416 Good movie about that WWII ruse from 1956 with Clifton Webb, The Man Who Never Was

Posted by: Organshoes at March 09, 2021 11:52 PM (cGJ7O)

417 AOP - Are you in AZ now?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 09, 2021 11:49 PM (WD9ZA)

Yes. I just sent an e-mail to what my flaky memory says might be your e-mail address.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2021 11:52 PM (mzC78)

418 Hey, hey, HEY!! Those "minesweeper guys" are COMBAT(!) Engineers, the backbone of the Army!
Posted by: Zettai

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*AHEM!*

Negative

Posted by: NCOs - The Actual Backbone of the Army at March 09, 2021 11:52 PM (aesIB)

419 "Willowed from last night's ONT...

https://tinyurl.com/57zvz98v
Posted by: Al Bundy at March 09, 2021 11:40 PM (Z7toj)"

Al, did you see my response to it @ post 120?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at March 09, 2021 11:52 PM (ZSK0i)

420 >> I used to be able to do that, to some extent.

Windows NT, which became XP and now Windows 10 has cmd.exe, the command interpreter. They even put a somewhat scaled down version that would run in 32-bit mode of Windows 9x. I have a version or two of that archived somewhere.

Any Win 10 will have cmd.exe lurking. MS decided to make a much fancier, more powerful command prompt which became PowerShell, and that is now up to version 7.1 They even went cross-platform with it, and there are Linux versions of Powershell. They even have a MacOS version.

When talking Linux, while there are more command interpreters than you can shake a stick out, bash (Bourne Again Shell) remains *the* shell.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 09, 2021 11:53 PM (Mzdiz)

421 So if those minesweeper soldiers failed to find a mine that then blew up your bazooka team, would that mean plastic explosives were used?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 09, 2021 11:54 PM (2sHkt)

422 ok, if you've ever had a shitty day, this shoild make you feel better...

I drive an hour to the spine center, find out what I suspected, surgery needed. Exit and have the papers in a folder near the car, they fall off the scooter and start to fly.

As I bend over the gum, money and SS card fall out of my shirt pocket. Strong wind blows it all over. I lost $40 and my new SS card. Saved $140. What a trip!

So if you think your life sucks, just be glad you didn't lose $40 today.

Posted by: Farmer at March 09, 2021 11:54 PM (55Qr6)

423 You know why? Because y'all are getting about as smug and self-righteous as the vegans.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

I do Cross-Fit

Have I told you?

Also Amway

Posted by: Sustainable Free-Range Ethically Sourced Miklos at March 09, 2021 11:54 PM (QzkSJ)

424 > Every time - the answer is "No".

Yeah? I bet I see a thousand ads a day for various things, but I don't feel the need to post about it every time I decide not to buy the new McWendy's Super Juicy Double or whatever.

Like I said: y'all are getting about as boring as the vegans. Don't want the vaccine? That's fine. It's a personal decision.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 09, 2021 11:55 PM (QE98t)

425 ...Mom rushed me to the dispensary to get stitched up.

Posted by: SMH at March 09, 2021 11:50 PM

No hot irons in Hawai'i? Lava? I'd wager you had some hot lava there just lying around!

Posted by: Zettai at March 09, 2021 11:56 PM (mqBmY)

426 I drive an hour to the spine center, find out what I suspected, surgery needed. Exit and have the papers in a folder near the car, they fall off the scooter and start to fly.

As I bend over the gum, money and SS card fall out of my shirt pocket. Strong wind blows it all over. I lost $40 and my new SS card. Saved $140. What a trip!

So if you think your life sucks, just be glad you didn't lose $40 today.
Posted by: Farmer

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Yeah, not excited about my back surgery either, but it needs to be done.

Posted by: NCOs - The Actual Backbone of the Army at March 09, 2021 11:56 PM (aesIB)

427 When talking Linux, while there are more command interpreters than you can shake a stick out, bash (Bourne Again Shell) remains *the* shell.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 09, 2021 11:53 PM (Mzdiz)

I was once quite proficient in AmigaDOS but that never quite caught on

Posted by: Pikov Andropov at March 09, 2021 11:56 PM (rt0xh)

428 So if you think your life sucks, just be glad you didn't lose $40 today.
Posted by: Farmer

Could been worse.

On the ride back they coulda asked to See Your Papers, Please

Posted by: Miklos, thinkng that they think that is the New Normal at March 09, 2021 11:56 PM (QzkSJ)

429 "Also Amway"

You bastard.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at March 09, 2021 11:56 PM (ZSK0i)

430 No hot irons in Hawai'i? Lava? I'd wager you had some hot lava there just lying around!
Posted by: Zettai

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This happened before I moved to Hawaii.

We were living in NAS Alameda in California in 1978.

My dad got stationed at Pearl in 1980, before he retired in 1983.

Posted by: NCOs - The Actual Backbone of the Army at March 09, 2021 11:58 PM (aesIB)

431 Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 09, 2021 11:55 PM (QE98t)

Yeah, I'm beginning to wonder about whether advertising is at all effective anymore.

Hell, I see most advertisements and I'm LESS likely to buy their shit because they irritated me.

Posted by: RomeQ13.. at March 09, 2021 11:58 PM (oHd/0)

432 Off NCO sock.

Posted by: SMH at March 09, 2021 11:58 PM (aesIB)

433 Al, did you see my response to it @ post 120?
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent

Sorry, I just got here, late as usual.
No I haven't seen your response, but I'll go check it out.
I realized that I posted it rather late last night after most here had gone to bed.

Posted by: Al Bundy at March 09, 2021 11:58 PM (Z7toj)

434 Don't want the vaccine? That's fine. It's a personal decision.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 09, 2021 11:55 PM (QE98t)

Like it or not, it's also become a political decision, with all too many of the vaccine proponents (not you!) falling into the "untrustworthy bastards" category.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2021 11:58 PM (mzC78)

435 Thanks to local independent TV, I saw "Tarantula" about 9 times a year in the '70's.

Posted by: klaftern at March 09, 2021 11:59 PM (RuIsu)

436 When talking Linux, while there are more command interpreters than you can shake a stick out, bash (Bourne Again Shell) remains *the* shell.
Posted by: publius

It's people like this, who know things and therefore Run the World.

I don't know such things, which is why I am nice to certain, very select, people.

Posted by: Miklos, at least of the Presbyterian Select at March 09, 2021 11:59 PM (QzkSJ)

437 Don't want the vaccine? That's fine. It's a personal decision.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

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This^

Personally, it will be a cold day in Hell before I take it.

Posted by: SMH at March 10, 2021 12:00 AM (aesIB)

438 Windows Power Shell ISE -- FTW!!

Posted by: Zettai at March 10, 2021 12:00 AM (mqBmY)

439 Like it or not, it's also become a political decision, with all too many of the vaccine proponents (not you!) falling into the "untrustworthy bastards" category.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

"My body, my choice"

Posted by: Miklos, hehe-ing like a drunk Santa at March 10, 2021 12:01 AM (QzkSJ)

440 LOL Miklos.

Posted by: SMH at March 10, 2021 12:01 AM (aesIB)

441 Additional Blond Agent,

*Thumbs-Up Emoji* to your response.

Posted by: Al Bundy at March 10, 2021 12:02 AM (Z7toj)

442 For those of you that still have not found the killer of Ashli Babbett...

https://tinyurl.com/t8bcsja6

Why have they not released the name, as they would in *ANY* other police shooting?
Just asking questions here...

Posted by: ChrisP at March 10, 2021 12:02 AM (Cn69F)

443 Yes. I just sent an e-mail to what my flaky memory says might be your e-mail address.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
---------

Yup. That's it. Replied.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 10, 2021 12:03 AM (GBHAb)

444 Miklos gets it.

After getting dragged to the clinic for blood work and told the awesome military medical system thinks they might have given me Hep C with a shot*, you really want me to trust the rocket sturgeons with a shot that includes RNA? No thanks.

*Luckily no Hep C.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2021 12:04 AM (2sHkt)

445 Like it or not, it's also become a political decision, with all too many of the vaccine proponents (not you!) falling into the "untrustworthy bastards" category.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2021 11:58 PM

^This!

Posted by: Zettai at March 10, 2021 12:04 AM (mqBmY)

446 > Like it or not, it's also become a political decision

Perhaps so, but it's not one that needs to be beaten like a dead horse.

How it usually plays out here is this:

1) Someone posts some actual vaccine-related news.
2) A dozen people jump in with "Well, I'M not getting it!"

The second part of that serves no useful purpose. It's just virtue-signaling.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 10, 2021 12:04 AM (QE98t)

447 Guy on the porch is Uncle Jim who is smoking a cigarette while finishing off the six pack before driving home.

Posted by: Ripley at March 10, 2021 12:04 AM (PTDkx)

448 Arf!

Posted by: Sandy at March 10, 2021 12:04 AM (fLVm1)

449
I am hardly an anti-vax nut, but damned if I'm gonna take this mRNA vaccine, the first one ever approved for humans. I will wait a decade or two until I see what the unknown (no one could have foreseen!) and long term effects are.

You're gonna shoot me up with some fancy concoction that hijacks my immune cells to make pieces of the virus protein antigens, which is then supposed to illicit an immune response.

Sounds like the plot of B grade sci-fi horror flick. I'll wait until the other guinea pigs have taken it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 10, 2021 12:05 AM (Mzdiz)

450 > sturgeons with a shot that includes RNA

You do know that meat or vegetable you eat "contains RNA", right?

Because it does. Seriously. Look it up.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 10, 2021 12:05 AM (QE98t)

451 "Thumbs-Up Emoji* to your response.
Posted by: Al Bundy at March 10, 2021 12:02 AM (Z7toj)"

Heh. What really raised my eyebrows was an adjacent link to Chris imitating Dave...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at March 10, 2021 12:05 AM (ZSK0i)

452 Well Squadron started as mail order business supplying hobbyists with model kits. *pauses* Their In Action series of books started in the early 1970s.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March

I'd say that nearly 90 percent of all my models came from Squadron shop during my intense modeling period. Always looked forward to their new catalog.

btw: 1/700 USS Montana arrived and the IJN aircraft carrier Taiho should arrive later this month. She should complete my IJN fleet carrier group. Still have a couple light carriers to go. Chitose and Chyoda.

Posted by: Beartooth at March 10, 2021 12:06 AM (ZN7T5)

453
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 09, 2021 11:55 PM (QE98t)

Whoa, whoa, whoa! McWendy's has a new Super Juicy Double?! Can you get that with cheese?!

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 10, 2021 12:06 AM (UPoLF)

454 Arf!

Posted by: Sandy at March 10, 2021 12:04 AM

Oh, sod off, Sandy!

Posted by: Zettai at March 10, 2021 12:06 AM (mqBmY)

455 Interesting...

8 hours ago:
Breaking News: Massive Uprising in Musan, North Korea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psmPnI77K0M

Posted by: SMH at March 10, 2021 12:07 AM (aesIB)

456 No Taiho diorama would be complete without a 1/700 scale US Fleet sub firing a torpedo at the carrier.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2021 12:07 AM (2sHkt)

457 Personally, I will not not trust anyone from the CDC etc. unless they are regulars on the ONT.

Posted by: Miklos has statistically verifiable standards at March 10, 2021 12:08 AM (QzkSJ)

458 And, sure enough, there are half a dozen people chiming in with "WELL, I'M NOT GETTING IT!"

So what? I should care about that any more than I care about what you had for breakfast why, exactly?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 10, 2021 12:08 AM (QE98t)

459 I'm not too worried about the vaccine because the US medical system includes all manner of regulatory and litigious sticks to keep Big Pharma from pushing out dodgy crap that wrecks people harder than a low-rent quack at the VA, and they wouldn't make an exception even for something like--

...oh, wait.

Posted by: CppThis at March 10, 2021 12:08 AM (zcf1k)

460 No Taiho diorama would be complete without a 1/700 scale US Fleet sub firing a torpedo at the carrier.
Posted by: Anna Puma

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I used to love making dioramas as a kid.

Posted by: SMH at March 10, 2021 12:08 AM (aesIB)

461 Oh my must comment on the diagram for deer in head lights.

DH hit a herd of moose in a snow storm two months ago. He was driving a Jeep Wrangler.

He said they all looked exactly like the diagram.

Especially the eyeballs.

Posted by: Derak at March 10, 2021 12:09 AM (k0WjC)

462
Whoa, whoa, whoa! McWendy's has a new Super Juicy Double?! Can you get that with cheese?!
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

You want RNA with that?

Posted by: Wendy O. at March 10, 2021 12:09 AM (63Dwl)

463 Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 10, 2021 12:05 AM (Mzdiz)

Yeah, I'm not anti Vaccines.

I AM Anti EXPERIMENTAL vaccines. They made us sign a waiver for one before Desert Storm... and if you did not get it you did not deploy and your career was toast.

Then... Gulf War Syndrome...

Some assembly required.

Posted by: RomeQ13.. at March 10, 2021 12:09 AM (oHd/0)

464 Anna, hmm.
Wonder if Hobby Lobby will fill in the gap for 'em.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 10, 2021 12:10 AM (L2ZTs)

465 Off NCO sock.
Posted by: SMH

THAT SOCK IS GOVERNMENT PROPERTY

Posted by: CPO Sharkey at March 10, 2021 12:10 AM (QzkSJ)

466 I seen Resident Evil and know what happens when you start playing around with these fancy pants newfangled scifi vaccines.

No sir, nuhuh!

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at March 10, 2021 12:10 AM (ZSK0i)

467 qdpsteve

https://spruebrothers.com/

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2021 12:10 AM (2sHkt)

468 I remember an incident involving some buddies, a big mud hole, a plastic model of a WWII aircraft carrier (sorry, I forget which one), and a can of gasoline kept for the lawn mower.

Good times.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 10, 2021 12:10 AM (QE98t)

469 458 And, sure enough, there are half a dozen people chiming in with "WELL, I'M NOT GETTING IT!"

So what? I should care about that any more than I care about what you had for breakfast why, exactly?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 10, 2021 12:08 AM (QE98t)

So, yer saying this entire site, is all about YOU?

Hubris much?

Posted by: RomeQ13.. at March 10, 2021 12:11 AM (oHd/0)

470 Thirst!

Posted by: redc1c4 (*OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated) at March 10, 2021 12:11 AM (fDBkG)

471 > So, yer saying this entire site, is all about YOU?

I'm not the one posturing about my personal decisions, hoss.

Hint: that would be you.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 10, 2021 12:12 AM (QE98t)

472 Why have they not released the name, as they would in *ANY* other police shooting?
Just asking questions here...
Posted by: ChrisP at March 10, 2021 12:02 AM (Cn69F)

Because she was a QAnon crazy who deserved to be killed, and hes a patriot.

Duh.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 10, 2021 12:12 AM (UPoLF)

473 Moose who took hit died at the scene. Young couple in truck behind happened to also be hunters and vet techs. DH went home to get the trailer to haul moose off the road as road kill fair game in our state.

Young couple proceeded to gut moose on side of the road. DH came back with trailer and hauled the moose outta there to safe place.

Posted by: Derak at March 10, 2021 12:12 AM (k0WjC)

474 So what? I should care about that any more than I care about what you had for breakfast why, exactly?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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We're Moron(ette)s for a reason.

Do you want to know what I had for dinner, perhaps?

Posted by: SMH at March 10, 2021 12:12 AM (aesIB)

475 Anna, thanks.

Spooky to think, someday Amazon will be bankrupt.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 10, 2021 12:12 AM (L2ZTs)

476 Hey, where all da white wimmen at?

Posted by: Sheriff Bart at March 10, 2021 12:12 AM (fLVm1)

477 No Taiho diorama would be complete without a 1/700 scale US Fleet sub firing a torpedo at the carrier.
Posted by: Anna Puma at

Trying to get the avfuel fumes not to explode gonna be a problem.

Posted by: Beartooth at March 10, 2021 12:13 AM (ZN7T5)

478 I don't get the fuss about the mRna drugs.

I got one, and my tentacles glow in the dark just like they're supposed to.

Posted by: callsign claymore at March 10, 2021 12:14 AM (QvYdQ)

479

Just don't turn into an obnoxious water closet vagrant, Rodrigo, with your vaccine advocacy, mmmkay...

Posted by: Zettai at March 10, 2021 12:14 AM (mqBmY)

480 Another question for the Horde:

Has any company, anywhere, in the history of mankind, ever done the kind of daily sales and shipping volume that Amazon does today?

I believe the closest competitors anywhere ever, are/were:
- East India Trading/Tea Company
- Sears

...but those were a long time ago, and USA/world population was also considerably less.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 10, 2021 12:15 AM (L2ZTs)

481
Let's see, I had corn on the cob (store bought, but good), a salad and some chicken in cream sauce thing that Miley makes (ask her what it's called, I forget). Ummm, good.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 10, 2021 12:15 AM (Mzdiz)

482 No Taiho diorama would be complete without a 1/700 scale US Fleet sub firing a torpedo at the carrier.
Posted by: Anna Puma at

Trying to get the avfuel fumes not to explode gonna be a problem.
Posted by: Beartooth

Just thinking about that gives me the vapors.

Posted by: Miklos on Full Blast at March 10, 2021 12:15 AM (QzkSJ)

483 Beartooth

Takom produces 1/72d scale models of Bismarck's Bruno turret and one of Yamato's turrets.

If you want something different but still WWII

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2021 12:15 AM (2sHkt)

484 I had Jell-O today.

Posted by: Joe Biden at March 10, 2021 12:15 AM (63Dwl)

485 > Just don't turn into an obnoxious water closet vagrant, Rodrigo, with your vaccine advocacy, mmmkay...

Link to me "advocating" anything?

Kthx.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 10, 2021 12:15 AM (QE98t)

486 101 Yeah, that SST bike was great. I don't know what happened to mine; it probably had an unfortunate landing many years ago!
Posted by: exdem13 at March 09, 2021 10:22 PM (W+kMI)

In my particular case the bike lasted longer than the Evel figure. There may have been firecrackers involved.
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The sad fate of many Gen X owned toys.

Posted by: exdem13 at March 10, 2021 12:16 AM (W+kMI)

487 1/700 scale, wouldn't take much 100 octane...

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2021 12:17 AM (2sHkt)

488 FUN FACT

The Damage Control Officer on the Taiho had been fired from his previous job as Chief Electrician on the USS South Dakota

Posted by: Miklos, right more often tan wrong at March 10, 2021 12:17 AM (QzkSJ)

489 The sad fate of many Gen X owned toys.
Posted by: exdem13

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yep.

Posted by: SMH sadly at March 10, 2021 12:17 AM (aesIB)

490 PILL COSBY SHIT MY PANTS!

Posted by: Joe Biden at March 10, 2021 12:17 AM (/pcNe)

491 471 > So, yer saying this entire site, is all about YOU?

I'm not the one posturing about my personal decisions, hoss.

Hint: that would be you.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 10, 2021 12:12 AM (QE98t)

No HOSS, it would be you telling other people what we can or can't talk about.

And being just a TAD bit condescending.

Posted by: RomeQ13.. at March 10, 2021 12:18 AM (oHd/0)

492 Breaking News: Massive Uprising in Musan, North Korea
https:// www.youtube.com /watch?v=psmPnI77K0M
Posted by: SMH at March 10, 2021 12:07 AM (aesIB)

Oh HELL yeah.

Posted by: Stonn at March 10, 2021 12:18 AM (4dO7K)

493 Braised chicken thighs in butter with lots of garlic on rice.

Oh yeah!

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at March 10, 2021 12:18 AM (ZSK0i)

494 I had Jell-O today.
Posted by: Joe Biden

Pudding

It was pudding

Posted by: Jill, it's OK, I'm a Doctor at March 10, 2021 12:18 AM (QzkSJ)

495 Hopefully the NORK civilians eat Kim and his entourage

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2021 12:19 AM (2sHkt)

496 DH took moose home, skinned and bled out.

What a mess.

Anywhoooo. took to local butcher after all proper papers filed. 400 pounds of meat, even though one entire hindquarter tainted and un salvageable.

After butchered, DH called up young couple and gave them half the meat.

Moose is sweeter than corn fed prime cow. Moose tenderloin was Christmas dinner for two families.

That said, Looked like diagram.

Posted by: Derak at March 10, 2021 12:19 AM (k0WjC)

497 Anyone remember the SSP cars?

They had a plastic "rip cord" deal, sort of like a cable tie. You'd thread it through a big flywheel on the car, yank it out, then the car would go like a bat out of hell.

They were a lot of fun.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 10, 2021 12:19 AM (QE98t)

498 > No HOSS, it would be you telling other people what we can or can't talk about.

Link to me "telling" anybody anything, hoss?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 10, 2021 12:20 AM (QE98t)

499 Breaking News: Massive Uprising in Musan, North Korea

WE PLOMISED MCDORRALDS

NO TLUMP

NO MCDORRALDS

Posted by: Mostly Peacecefu Korean ESL teacher Miklos at March 10, 2021 12:20 AM (QzkSJ)

500 Hopefully the NORK civilians eat Kim and his entourage
Posted by: Anna Puma

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Seems that Kim Jung Un has banned all goods from China.

Anyone caught smuggling goods from China into NK will be publicly executed.

The elites there as well as the people are starving since NK doesn't produce anything but nukes and drugs.

Posted by: SMH sadly at March 10, 2021 12:21 AM (aesIB)

501 Going to do other stuff since this thread has all the makings of a LGF vaccine thread.

Still got the survivor medal for those flame wars.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2021 12:21 AM (2sHkt)

502 Oh, and moose totaled Jeep.

It was simply bigger.

Posted by: Derak at March 10, 2021 12:22 AM (k0WjC)

503 Yesterday, Silas Hathaway turned 102 years old. He played the baby in "The Kid" (1921), which starred Charlie Chaplin.

Posted by: Baldy at March 10, 2021 12:22 AM (OLCH5)

504 WE PLOMISED MCDORRALDS
NO TLUMP
NO MCDORRALDS

Posted by: Mostly Peacecefu Korean ESL teacher Miklos

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lol

Posted by: SMH sadly at March 10, 2021 12:22 AM (aesIB)

505 Yeah, not excited about my back surgery either, but it needs to be done.
Posted by: NCOs - The Actual Backbone of the Army at March 09, 2021 11:56

Best wishes to you. We are in the same boat.

Posted by: Farmer at March 10, 2021 12:22 AM (55Qr6)

506 Takom produces 1/72d scale models of Bismarck's Bruno turret and one of Yamato's turrets.

If you want something different but still WWII
Posted by: Anna Puma at March

Thanks Anna. One of my grandsons is starting to get interested in modeling and I think the 1/72 scale would be better for him at this age. Of course, he is infatuated with the Titanic and I bought us a1/700 Titanic with mini LEDs as a joint birthday present.

Posted by: Beartooth at March 10, 2021 12:22 AM (ZN7T5)

507 You do know that meat or vegetable you eat "contains RNA", right?

Because it does. Seriously. Look it up.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 10, 2021 12:05 AM (QE98t)

Perhaps because our bodies have evolved to break down complex proteins in our stomach and digestive tract? There's Dna in food, too.

What would happen if you mainlined a mulched-up Big Mac?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2021 12:23 AM (mzC78)

508 "Oh oh, trouble in Norkydorkyland. Better nuke 'em!"
- Joe "my Depends are full again" Biden

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 10, 2021 12:23 AM (L2ZTs)

509 lol Farmer, back atcha.

Posted by: SMH sadly at March 10, 2021 12:23 AM (aesIB)

510 349 The Helldiver was supposed to replace the Dauntless. Navy said in 1939 we want this now and that two of them will fit on a standard carrier elevator with one foot of clearance all around. Curtis was over committed building P-40s so the XSB2C was built in a cow barn on a fairgrounds and it was jinxed forever by the design requirements.
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However the SB2C3 has the honor of being piloted by a future POTUS, one George H. W. Bush. I guess he felt it was good enough! Based on what you said though Anna, I see where the requirements of the A1 Skyraider came from. Never mind cramming them in, just get 1 bomb truck safely up at a time.

Posted by: exdem13 at March 10, 2021 12:24 AM (W+kMI)

511 Laters, Anna. : )

Posted by: SMH at March 10, 2021 12:24 AM (aesIB)

512 Headline at HotFart:

"If you transplant a human head, does consciousness follow?"

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 10, 2021 12:25 AM (L2ZTs)

513 478 I don't get the fuss about the mRna drugs.

I got one, and my tentacles glow in the dark just like they're supposed to.
Posted by: callsign claymore at March 10, 2021 12:14 AM (QvYdQ)

Oi, you mean there's tentacles involved with this thing? Maybe I should rethink my initial skepticism!

Posted by: CppThis at March 10, 2021 12:25 AM (zcf1k)

514 callsign, your tentacles glow but not your gonads?
Ya freak!!

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 10, 2021 12:26 AM (L2ZTs)

515 "If you transplant a human head, does consciousness follow?"

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Not up your own ass, no.

Posted by: SMH at March 10, 2021 12:26 AM (aesIB)

516 488 FUN FACT

The Damage Control Officer on the Taiho had been fired from his previous job as Chief Electrician on the USS South Dakota
Posted by: Miklos, right more often tan wrong at March 10, 2021 12:17 AM (QzkSJ)

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FUNNER FACT: The White Star Line had three Titanic-class ships -- Titanic, Britannic and Olympic. Two sank, one was involved in a major collision.

One woman was on all three ships at the time of their disaster. She survived the Titanic sinking, the Britannic sinking, and the Olympic running aground.

Spooky, no?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 10, 2021 12:26 AM (fLVm1)

517 Related to that HotFart headline, me hunchy QEII will soon be bringing back the guillotine for Meghan.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 10, 2021 12:27 AM (L2ZTs)

518 8 hours ago:
Breaking News: Massive Uprising in Musan, North Korea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psmPnI77K0M

Posted by: SMH at March 10, 2021 12:07 AM

"Yeonmi Park" is just adorbulous...

Posted by: Zettai at March 10, 2021 12:27 AM (mqBmY)

519 One woman was on all three ships at the time of their disaster. She survived the Titanic sinking, the Britannic sinking, and the Olympic running aground.

Spooky, no?
Posted by: Cicero

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The Good Lord was definitely looking out for her.
Just wasn't her time.

Posted by: SMH at March 10, 2021 12:28 AM (aesIB)

520 512 Headline at HotFart:

"If you transplant a human head, does consciousness follow?"
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 10, 2021 12:25 AM (L2ZTs)

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GFY

Posted by: Walt Disney's Frozen Head at March 10, 2021 12:28 AM (fLVm1)

521 497 Anyone remember the SSP cars?

They had a plastic "rip cord" deal, sort of like a cable tie. You'd thread it through a big flywheel on the car, yank it out, then the car would go like a bat out of hell.

They were a lot of fun.
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I had a couple of those as a kid. Even had the much-coveted smash-up derby, which took a little coordinating to have the cars meet in the middle and shed parts. Fun, fun stuff, all destined to gather dust when Star Wars happened along.

Posted by: exdem13 at March 10, 2021 12:28 AM (W+kMI)

522 I think I'm going to go to Flood Control Dam #3, turn some valves and open the spillway.
Be back in a sec.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 10, 2021 12:29 AM (qRzM/)

523 > What would happen if you mainlined a mulched-up Big Mac?

100 micrograms of it (the amount of mRNA in the Moderna vaccine)?

Nothing.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 10, 2021 12:30 AM (QE98t)

524 500 Seems that Kim Jung Un has banned all goods from China.

Anyone caught smuggling goods from China into NK will be publicly executed.
Posted by: SMH sadly at March 10, 2021 12:21 AM (aesIB)

Fatboy Kim snubbed his Chinese liege lord and managed to survive the inevitable 'ballistic diplomacy' from his handlers? That's kind of impressive, actually. Maybe the chubby one really is a sort of reformer, albeit in the hosed-up Nork sort of way.

Posted by: CppThis at March 10, 2021 12:31 AM (zcf1k)

525 WH Staffer: President Biden, there's an uprising in North Korea.

Joe: No, I had Chinese for dinner. And it didn't uprise, I shit my drawers with it.

Posted by: Landofskybluewater at March 10, 2021 12:31 AM (Geoni)

526 "We show up with our pocket Declarations of Independence and Constitution......

When you bring a 9mm. the grave is very common ground.

Posted by: Mr. America at March 10, 2021 12:31 AM (bNRc0)

527 SSP commercial:

https://tinyurl.com/sspcars

These were the later ones, with "sonic sound", but the idea is the same.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 10, 2021 12:31 AM (QE98t)

528 Related to that HotFart headline, me hunchy QEII will soon be bringing back the guillotine for Meghan.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 10, 2021 12:27 AM (L2ZTs)

They can't bring back what they never used. When there was head-chopping to be done, they had a burly guy with an axe. But the Brits moved on to hangings a long time ago.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2021 12:32 AM (mzC78)

529 Big Macs have no RNA.

Posted by: Walt Disney's Frozen Head at March 10, 2021 12:32 AM (fLVm1)

530 One woman was on all three ships at the time of their disaster. She survived the Titanic sinking, the Britannic sinking, and the Olympic running aground.

Spooky, no?
Posted by: Cicero

So.

The Unsinkable Molly Brown was out done.

Posted by: Miklos thinking tere was a Musical about ol' Molly at March 10, 2021 12:32 AM (QzkSJ)

531 One woman was on all three ships at the time of their disaster. She survived the Titanic sinking, the Britannic sinking, and the Olympic running aground.

Spooky, no?
Posted by: Cicero
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Was there parallel parking involved?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 10, 2021 12:33 AM (L47aO)

532 AOP, still not a bad idea. :-)

"Hello, Meghan? Lizzy here. Come on back to London, I'm throwing a big televised party just for you. You're certain to be the absolute center of attention!..."

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 10, 2021 12:34 AM (L2ZTs)

533 100 micrograms of it (the amount of mRNA in the Moderna vaccine)?

Nothing.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 10, 2021 12:30 AM (QE98t)

OK, you go first.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2021 12:34 AM (mzC78)

534 > Big Macs have no RNA.

All cells have RNA. Also DNA.

There are some viruses that have only RNA or DNA, but all animal and plant cells have both.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 10, 2021 12:34 AM (QE98t)

535 > OK, you go first.

Weigh out a hundred micrograms for me.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 10, 2021 12:35 AM (QE98t)

536 "Hello, Meghan? Lizzy here. Come on back to London, I'm throwing a big televised party just for you. You're certain to be the absolute center of attention!..."
Posted by: qdpsteve

With script written by Roald Dahl.

Posted by: Miklosian Suggestifications at March 10, 2021 12:36 AM (QzkSJ)

537 lol Farmer, back atcha.
Posted by: SMH sadly at March 10, 2021 12:23

Some days are just like that.

I'm really inspired by Jerry, my FIL. He just lost his wife of 67 yrs and when we left him he was going to try to finish the details. We might need to help meanwhile, but he is doing his best at almost 90.

Posted by: Farmer at March 10, 2021 12:36 AM (55Qr6)

538 All cells have RNA. Also DNA.

There are some viruses that have only RNA or DNA, but all animal and plant cells have both.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 10, 2021 12:34 AM (QE98t)

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Okay. Denatured RNA. Amino acids in a degraded polypeptide chain, at best. Not functional RNA.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 10, 2021 12:37 AM (fLVm1)

539 Tonight's topic: RNA & DNA
Tomorrow night's topic: T&A

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 10, 2021 12:37 AM (L2ZTs)

540 Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 10, 2021 12:26 AM (fLVm1)

I think it's fake news. What do you think about this conspiracy theory: the Titanic never sank, it was a gigantic insurance fraud. The ship was sailed back to Europe, repainted, had some minor cosmetic work done, and sailed out as one of her "sister" ships. No one actually died.

Some facts in favor of this theory: shipping lanes from London to NYC have been more or less the same for hundreds of years. We know the location where the Titanic sunk. Do we have any other incidents in the history of the world of not just pack ice, but an actual iceberg floating that far south?
Why didn't the lookouts have binoculars? Seems weird, no? Would be hard to do a good job as a look out without binoculars, I would think.
I'm sure others can think of other good reasons why the Titanic sinking is fake news.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 10, 2021 12:37 AM (UPoLF)

541 I'm... I'm happy to give you a little RNA if...if that's what you want, Nance. You just...just gotta bend over and bark like a dog for me.

Posted by: Joe Biden at March 10, 2021 12:37 AM (Geoni)

542 Has any company, anywhere, in the history of mankind, ever done the kind of daily sales and shipping volume that Amazon does today?

Steve, they do a massive amount, I'll agree.
They also use "contractors" to handle their shipping needs.
Twice now I've received a package from amazon that was destined for someone of which I've never heard of, and who's address doesn't even come close to mine.

Posted by: Al Bundy at March 10, 2021 12:37 AM (Z7toj)

543 Al Bundy, yup.
I think that's a major factor as to why working for Amazon is so stressful. No one else has ever seen so much volume...

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 10, 2021 12:38 AM (L2ZTs)

544
Weigh out a hundred micrograms for me.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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No problem.

[breaks out the balance beam, looks for 100 microgram weight]

Hey! Wait a minute....

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 10, 2021 12:38 AM (L47aO)

545 > Amino acids in a degraded polypeptide chain, at best. Not functional RNA.

What about the lettuce? It's still alive, dude.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 10, 2021 12:39 AM (QE98t)

546 Fatboy Kim snubbed his Chinese liege lord and managed to survive the inevitable 'ballistic diplomacy' from his handlers? That's kind of impressive, actually. Maybe the chubby one really is a sort of reformer, albeit in the hosed-up Nork sort of way.
Posted by: CppThis at March 10, 2021 12:31 AM (zcf1k)

I don't think the Chinese give a shit about that. Most of whats crossing the border is either charity from the Chinese government or peasants smuggling food and basic toiletries and stuff in exchange for, most likely, drugs.

NK closed its border due to covid, which they still claim they haven't had any cases yet as far as I know.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 10, 2021 12:40 AM (UPoLF)

547 Was there parallel parking involved?
Posted by: Mike Hammer

The Norwegian Navy lost its newest frigate months after bragging that it was navigated only by women.

https://tinyurl.com/ybablody

Posted by: Even Miklos can't make this stuff up at March 10, 2021 12:40 AM (QzkSJ)

548 The Norwegian Navy lost its newest frigate months after bragging that it was navigated only by women.

https://tinyurl.com/ybablody
Posted by: Even Miklos can't make this stuff up at March 10, 2021 12:40 AM (QzkSJ)

Oh no.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 10, 2021 12:41 AM (UPoLF)

549 All cells have RNA. Also DNA.

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My erythrocytes say, yer shittin' me, right?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 10, 2021 12:42 AM (fLVm1)

550 Minor point of order: The Brits were always more into the sword and the axe for dealing with problematic aristocrats, not so much the national razor. I know, I know, Halifax Gibbet and all that...but it was never used on Big People, and sporadically at that.

No doubt there's plenty of HEMA types that would be willing to take care of it, though. Henry VIII famously brought in a French swordsman because he wanted Anne Boleyn to get a quick, clean death, not a dozen bloody strokes by a half-drunk headsman as was unfortunately rather common at that time.

Posted by: CppThis at March 10, 2021 12:43 AM (zcf1k)

551 The Norwegian Navy lost its newest frigate months after bragging that it was navigated only by women.
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There seems to be a pattern evolving. I can't quite put my finger on it...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 10, 2021 12:43 AM (pK7cg)

552 > Has any company, anywhere, in the history of mankind, ever done the kind of daily sales and shipping volume that Amazon does today?

I think that Walmart still has them beat on sales volume.

On retail shipping volume, there's no comparison.

On the other hand, Walmart has to deal with the foot traffic from those retail customers, which is a volume scaling problem all of its own.

Someone once used the term "Walmart scale". If I remember right, it was framed as, more or less, "If some truly bizarre weird-assed customer interaction happens one time out of a million, it happens ten times a day at Walmart".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 10, 2021 12:44 AM (QE98t)

553 Now you went and made me sad. I worked for 3Com when we bought US Robotics, which made both the PalmPilot and the hottest 56k modems around. Shortly after the acquisition, I remember showing up at work one day and every employee had a brand new PalmV sitting on our chairs.

20 years later, I still want to punch that motherfucker, Bruce Claflin, in the face for ruining a brilliant company that Eric Benhamou left in ascendancy.

Posted by: red speck at March 10, 2021 12:45 AM (gS3OW)

554 Rodrigo, I always forget about Walmart. :-)
Thanks.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 10, 2021 12:45 AM (L2ZTs)

555 Weigh out a hundred micrograms for me.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 10, 2021 12:35 AM (QE98t)

I guess I could do it homeopathically. Repeatedly dilute it until maybe one of the water molecules passed under the Golden Arches while traveling in the bladder of a cocker spaniel.

My point is: we really don't know if this Moderna vaccine is safe. We don't have much data about what happens when exotic RNA is placed into the human bloodstream. If others want to risk it, fine by me. I will wait until the more traditional killed-virus vaccines hit the mainstream, if I choose to get it at all.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2021 12:45 AM (mzC78)

556 I fondly remember my first Pocket PC. It had a stylus, 5.5" screen, no phone, no WiFi, and heavy. It was about an inch thick. At the time Laridian had published one of the first Study Bibles for the Pocket PC complete with verse cross refs, hebrew/greek lookup, Unger's Bible Dictionary, plus multiple translations for extra $. It was freaking amazing. Instead of doing my Bible study with a dozen big study books spread out across my desk I could do it all my PPC.

I started bringing my toy to church on Sunday mornings. Our pastor used a Bible the size of a Buick with a zillion postit tabs sticking out while citing Bible verse numbers so fast that nobody in the congregation could keep up but me. Nobody had seen one before and I got a some dirty looks in the pews. "Hey, is that guy is playing Nintendo in church?" Heh.

Posted by: WillowViney at March 10, 2021 12:46 AM (gYAkw)

557 > My erythrocytes say, yer shittin' me, right?

Erythrocytes are more like machines than "cells". In particular, they cannot reproduce.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 10, 2021 12:46 AM (QE98t)

558 At least one of the USN destroyer accidents was associated with a catfight.

Posted by: Hal Dall at March 10, 2021 12:47 AM (CNRmI)

559 Good night, Horde, I'll try to be back in time to have breakfast with Skip and MyLifeisInsanity and JT.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 10, 2021 12:48 AM (a4EWo)

560 558 At least one of the USN destroyer accidents was associated with a catfight.
Posted by: Hal Dall at March 10, 2021 12:47 AM (CNRmI)

Yeah I think the chick at the helm wasn't talking to the chick in the engine room because they got in a fight over a guy or something.

Wasn't the main cause of the accident, but certainly didn't help.

(I'm talking about the accident where they accidentally disabled their own helm controls, not realizing they'd transferred it to another station, then forgot to get on the radio, or run up flags, or honk their horn, or do anything to let anyone around them know they lost helm control)

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 10, 2021 12:48 AM (UPoLF)

561 > My point is: we really don't know if this Moderna vaccine is safe.

That's right. We don't. But then, we don't know that anything is safe, not really.

How do you know the "safe" killed virus vaccine isn't going to cause a bad immune system reaction 20 years down the line? You don't.

But I'm going to shut up now, before someone else accuses me of "advocating" the vaccine, or, worse yet, "telling people what to do".

Good night, all.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 10, 2021 12:49 AM (QE98t)

562 Erythrocytes are more like machines than "cells". In particular, they cannot reproduce.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 10, 2021 12:46 AM (QE98t)

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Erythrocytes start out with a nucleus that contains DNA, like all eukaryotic cells. The extraordinarily complex process by which the expel their nucleus is one of the marvels of cellular biology.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 10, 2021 12:49 AM (fLVm1)

563 There seems to be a pattern evolving. I can't quite put my finger on it...
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Heh

17 dead on a breasted chest

Posted by: USS Fitzgerald, which seems Kennedy appropriate at March 10, 2021 12:50 AM (QzkSJ)

564 Don't forget, all, that DNA and RNA just created themselves randomly with absolutely no help from sentience, including the genetic code.

All just random.

/sarc

Posted by: Sharkman at March 10, 2021 12:52 AM (i4CI5)

565 y point is: we really don't know if this Moderna vaccine is safe. We don't have much data about what happens when exotic RNA is placed into the human bloodstream. If others want to risk it, fine by me. I will wait until the more traditional killed-virus vaccines hit the mainstream, if I choose to get it at all.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2021 12:45 AM (mzC7

I will add that the lure of injecting a substance that used an aborted baby from the 1970's is not what the purveyors might think it is. No thanks. I'll take my babies born and alive, thank you.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at March 10, 2021 12:53 AM (N5Tno)

566 Rodrigo, good night.

Posted by: callsign claymore at March 10, 2021 12:54 AM (QvYdQ)

567 > Erythrocytes start out with a nucleus that contains DNA, like all eukaryotic cells. The extraordinarily complex process by which the expel their nucleus is one of the marvels of cellular biology.

Indeed it is. But I'd argue that they're more like the
"husk" of a cell than a true cell after that occurs.

They don't really even do any self-repair, and of course can't reproduce. They do one simple job (carrying oxygen) until they get worn out and then they get recycled.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 10, 2021 12:54 AM (QE98t)

568 AOP, tcn and others,

all of you are making the sales pitch IMHO for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which I believe is much more traditional in nature, and getting rave reviews.

I know it's the vaccine I want.

(Now here come the people telling me I'm wrong...)
;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 10, 2021 12:55 AM (L2ZTs)

569 > I will add that the lure of injecting a substance that used an aborted baby from the 1970's

Oh, God. Not this again.

Good night.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 10, 2021 12:56 AM (QE98t)

570 Aborted babies?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 10, 2021 12:57 AM (fLVm1)

571 568 AOP, tcn and others,

all of you are making the sales pitch IMHO for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which I believe is much more traditional in nature, and getting rave reviews.

I know it's the vaccine I want.

(Now here come the people telling me I'm wrong...)
;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 10, 2021 12:55 AM (L2ZTs)

Johnson and Johnson is the worst when it comes to using aborted babies. They just can't help themselves.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at March 10, 2021 12:58 AM (N5Tno)

572 Rodrigo, you are one of the good guys, but you seem awfully touchy about this. Are you trying to convince yourself, perhaps?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2021 12:59 AM (mzC78)

573 17 dead on a breasted chest
Posted by: USS Fitzgerald,
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Yo ho, ho...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 10, 2021 01:00 AM (bk3Sg)

574 https://tinyurl.com/3yzz5prp

Article about how the vaccines are made with fetal tissue harvested from aborted babies.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at March 10, 2021 01:00 AM (N5Tno)

575 tcn, oookay.... ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 10, 2021 01:00 AM (L2ZTs)

576 Just tell me which vaccine doesn't contain added MSG!

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 10, 2021 01:01 AM (L2ZTs)

577 Now here come the people telling me I'm wrong...)
;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 10, 2021 12:55 AM (L2ZTs)

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The use of foreign mRNA to trick the ribosome into producing an antigen that will trigger the production of antibodies has been used experimentally in mice for decades. In principle it should be no different than using the proteins of a dead virus to do the same thing.

Trust me, I'm a lawyer.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 10, 2021 01:01 AM (fLVm1)

578 all of you are making the sales pitch IMHO for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which I believe is much more traditional in nature, and getting rave reviews.
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OTOH, J&J is less efficacious, it seems. I think I saw 65% effective vs. 95%

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 10, 2021 01:01 AM (bk3Sg)

579 Oh, God. Not this again.

Good night.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 10, 2021 12:56 AM (QE98t)

No, not again. Still. Sorry, but that baby was still aborted, and it isn't going to change. Do the research. Dead babies are not a good source material for living people who give half a damn.

Get over yourself. And yes, oh God. That's who we are talking about.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at March 10, 2021 01:01 AM (N5Tno)

580 I'm not asking anyone to shut up. I'm merely suggesting it.

You know why? Because y'all are getting about as smug and self-righteous as the vegans.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 09, 2021 11:52 PM (QE98t)

I'm not sure I've mentioned my personal stance on the COVID vaccine.

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2021 01:02 AM (uEbPt)

581 You know why? Because y'all are getting about as smug and self-righteous as the vegans.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 09, 2021 11:52 PM (QE98t)

Sure, because being prolife means being smug and self-righteous. Certainly. That's the ticket.

You know what is smug?

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at March 10, 2021 01:03 AM (N5Tno)

582

Which vaccine is it that makes one's genitals glow in the dark?

(Inquiring on behalf of several acquaintances...)

Posted by: Zettai at March 10, 2021 01:03 AM (mqBmY)

583 Mike, I'll check that out thanks.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 10, 2021 01:04 AM (L2ZTs)

584 I read an article about the J&J vaccine and it made it sound like it was *not* like a traditional vaccine, despite being one shot. I will have to read more on it. Or maybe someone can put me some knowledge.

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2021 01:04 AM (uEbPt)

585 The use of foreign mRNA to trick the ribosome into producing an antigen that will trigger the production of antibodies has been used experimentally in mice for decades. In principle it should be no different than using the proteins of a dead virus to do the same thing.

Trust me, I'm a lawyer.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 10, 2021 01:01 AM (fLVm1)

So, once you start that machine running, how do you turn it off?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2021 01:04 AM (mzC78)

586 Which vaccine is it that makes one's genitals glow in the dark?
(Inquiring on behalf of several acquaintances...)
Posted by: Zettai at March 10, 2021 01:03 AM (mqBmY)

I think that happens when you mix all of them, and get a double dose of the Russian vaccine with a half of bottle of vodka.

Which is my plan

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 10, 2021 01:05 AM (UPoLF)

587 Which vaccine is it that makes one's genitals glow in the dark?

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Just be sure to avoid the ones that turn your limbs into weird little flppers.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 10, 2021 01:05 AM (fLVm1)

588 Which vaccine is it that makes one's genitals glow in the dark?

(Inquiring on behalf of several acquaintances...)
Posted by: Zettai at March 10, 2021 01:03 AM (mqBmY)

I have found it is easier to carry a flashlight in my pocket, than to zip down my pants every time I need some light.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2021 01:06 AM (mzC78)

589 Hey, think of the advantages of glow-in-the-dark gonads. You'll never need a flashlight again. Just unzip!

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 10, 2021 01:06 AM (L2ZTs)

590 AOP beat me to it

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 10, 2021 01:07 AM (L2ZTs)

591

If I want to live in fear, I'll go to an airport or to an amusement park... This "pandemic" isn't it...

Posted by: Zettai at March 10, 2021 01:07 AM (mqBmY)

592 AOP beat you to it

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2021 01:07 AM (uEbPt)

593 "XYZ! I can see!"

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 10, 2021 01:07 AM (L2ZTs)

594 After I get my vaccines, I'll be walking around at night feeling like Luke Skywalker IYKWIMAITYD.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 10, 2021 01:07 AM (UPoLF)

595 Hey, think of the advantages of glow-in-the-dark gonads. You'll never need a flashlight again. Just unzip!
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 10, 2021 01:06 AM (L2ZTs)

Moths, Steve. Bloodthirsty vampire moths.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2021 01:08 AM (mzC78)

596 After I get my vaccines, I'll be walking around at night feeling like Luke Skywalker IYKWIMAITYD.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 10, 2021 01:07 AM (UPoLF)

Or possibly Baby Yoda.

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2021 01:08 AM (uEbPt)

597 Hey, think of the advantages of glow-in-the-dark gonads. You'll never need a flashlight again. Just unzip!
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 10, 2021 01:06 AM (L2ZTs)

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You could hire yourself out as the new Lighthouse of Rhodes

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 10, 2021 01:08 AM (fLVm1)

598 all of you are making the sales pitch IMHO for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which I believe is much more traditional in nature, and getting rave reviews.
I know it's the vaccine I want.
(Now here come the people telling me I'm wrong...)
;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 10, 2021 12:55 AM (L2ZTs)

If it's important to you, I think that one use aborted baby tissue. Do your own research though.

Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at March 10, 2021 01:08 AM (Rz2Nc)

599 AOP, I thought that's why you owned a gun

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 10, 2021 01:08 AM (L2ZTs)

600 Norm MacDonald: The Moth Joke

https://tinyurl.com/f87xds

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2021 01:09 AM (uEbPt)

601 Evasive, it is important to me. I'll check it out thanks.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 10, 2021 01:09 AM (L2ZTs)

602 Funny thing about that crossword doodle - there's a hidden Nazi swastika in it.

Posted by: SFGoth at March 10, 2021 01:09 AM (KAi1n)

603 Or possibly Baby Yoda.
Posted by: ... at March 10, 2021 01:08 AM (uEbPt)

Yeahh, that's probably more accurate.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 10, 2021 01:09 AM (UPoLF)

604 Cicero, what a moneymaking opportunity

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 10, 2021 01:10 AM (L2ZTs)

605 Posted by: ... at March 10, 2021 01:09 AM (uEbPt)

One of his most ridiculous bits. He is a hilarious guy.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 10, 2021 01:10 AM (UPoLF)

606

SfGoth!

Have you been relieved of your chromhidrosis affliction yet?

Posted by: Zettai at March 10, 2021 01:11 AM (mqBmY)

607 More likely white guys in pickups following her are just mad with yellow fever. They aren't likely to want to *beat* her up, IYKWIS.

Posted by: SFGoth at March 10, 2021 01:11 AM (KAi1n)

608 Norm is probably the funniest comedian alive right now. A living legend, if there is such a thing anymore.

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2021 01:12 AM (uEbPt)

609 608 Norm is probably the funniest comedian alive right now. A living legend, if there is such a thing anymore.
Posted by: ... at March 10, 2021 01:12 AM (uEbPt)

He's up there. Bill Burr and Dave Chappelle are also hilarious, but have very different styles of comedy from Norm.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 10, 2021 01:12 AM (UPoLF)

610 Zettai - not yet but my doc did take it seriously considering he saw pics of my yellow-specked hand (my hands at the time were clean since I had just used the can and washed up). He's looking for a referral who'll take my insurance. Much appreciate the enlightening.

Posted by: SFGoth at March 10, 2021 01:15 AM (KAi1n)

611 Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 10, 2021 01:12 AM (UPoLF)

The other thing is he's a genius. He has to be. It's difficult to be that funny and that intelligent at the same time, and he hides it all under this lowbrow unthinking exterior. Then you see the levels in what he just said and it's like entering the matrix.

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2021 01:15 AM (uEbPt)

612
Read the new spy thriller alien bodice ripper novel by Throck Buckmorton

Posted by: Miklos Publishing House (or shack out back) at March 10, 2021 01:15 AM (QzkSJ)

613 Norm is probably the funniest comedian alive right now. A living legend, if there is such a thing anymore.
Posted by: ... at March 10, 2021 01:12 AM (uEbPt)

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His bit about being a mass murderer and using cheese sandwiches as a lure was one of the funniest things I ever heard.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 10, 2021 01:16 AM (fLVm1)

614 The other thing is he's a genius. He has to be. It's difficult to be that funny and that intelligent at the same time, and he hides it all under this lowbrow unthinking exterior. Then you see the levels in what he just said and it's like entering the matrix.
Posted by: ... at March 10, 2021 01:15 AM (uEbPt)

yeah, clearly a very smart guy who is super quick on his feet. Which makes his dumb guy act even funnier.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 10, 2021 01:17 AM (UPoLF)

615 And I highly recommend Based on a True Story which has got to be the funniest thing I've ever read. I've always been a Norm fan so I'm probably a little biased but it constantly surprised me.

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2021 01:17 AM (uEbPt)

616 A mini glow stick! How cute.

Posted by: Count de Monet's GF at March 10, 2021 01:18 AM (4I/2K)

617 Read the new spy thriller alien bodice ripper novel by Throck Buckmorton

Posted by: Miklos Publishing House (or shack out back) at March 10, 2021 01:15 AM (QzkSJ)

No haz bodice.

Posted by: The Horta at March 10, 2021 01:18 AM (mzC78)

618 Wow, it's late! Goodnight all. Going to get her the dogs and go to bed. Time change this weekend will suck.

Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at March 10, 2021 01:19 AM (Rz2Nc)

619 His bit about being a mass murderer and using cheese sandwiches as a lure was one of the funniest things I ever heard.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 10, 2021 01:16 AM (fLVm1)

I'm not sure I've heard that one. Seems to have been disappeared by Viacom. Off to find it and sleep...

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2021 01:20 AM (uEbPt)

620 The funniest humorists are the ones who do it with a straight face (or voice).

What's up with that?

Posted by: Miklos, and why is there pie on my face at March 10, 2021 01:21 AM (QzkSJ)

621 Evasive, this weekend is a real blessing. We all get to skip a whole hour of the Biden admin!

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 10, 2021 01:21 AM (L2ZTs)

622 Oh yeah - Janice and the Shallow Grave. Got it. I forgot about the cheese sandwich.

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2021 01:23 AM (uEbPt)

623 AOP, the Malaysian vampire moth has some moves, man. Little sucker knows how to lurp up on its victim.

Posted by: callsign claymore at March 10, 2021 01:23 AM (QvYdQ)

624

Whoever invented daylight savings time never had kids...

Posted by: Zettai at March 10, 2021 01:24 AM (mqBmY)

625 Because the light was on!!

I love Norm McDonalds humor!

Posted by: Al Bundy at March 10, 2021 01:24 AM (Z7toj)

626 The funniest humorists are the ones who do it with a straight face (or voice).

What's up with that?
Posted by: Miklos, and why is there pie on my face at March 10, 2021 01:21 AM (QzkSJ)

I think the deadpan delivery allows the joke to speak for itself. You laugh because you "discover" the incongruity for yourself, rather than have it telegraphed by staged laughter.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2021 01:25 AM (mzC78)

627 The funniest humorists are the ones who do it with a straight face (or voice).

What's up with that?

Posted by: Miklos, and why is there pie on my face at March 10, 2021 01:21 AM (QzkSJ)

It's partly the feeling that you're not supposed to laugh, partly feeling that you don't *have* to laugh, and partly the fact that when someone is *trying* to be funny it's got a 90% chance of being cringe.

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2021 01:26 AM (uEbPt)

628 AOP, the Malaysian vampire moth has some moves, man. Little sucker knows how to lurp up on its victim.
Posted by: callsign claymore at March 10, 2021 01:23 AM (QvYdQ)

And those tiny fuzzy wings are completely silent.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2021 01:26 AM (mzC78)

629 What do Biden and Jen Psaki have in common? The p is always silent.

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2021 01:27 AM (uEbPt)

630 Malyasian vampire moth alien bodice ripper spies with ironic undertones for the Youth Market.

Needs...a hero character.

A Brave Transgressive person with a boat to avenge

Posted by: Miklos. already working on the film treatment at March 10, 2021 01:29 AM (QzkSJ)

631 There's never just one cockroach.

Posted by: torabora at March 10, 2021 01:29 AM (Y274z)

632 I think the deadpan delivery allows the joke to speak for itself. You laugh because you "discover" the incongruity for yourself, rather than have it telegraphed by staged laughter.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2021 01:25 AM (mzC7

Right. It takes your brain a second to realize "shit, that was a joke. Oh, and it was hilarious." Which is always funnier then being led to a punchline.

It's also why the style of "call back" jokes where you get a totally different punchline then you were expecting that ties in to a set up from earlier is so funny (Chappelle's style of humor.)

Most comedians are entirely predictable at when the punchline is coming, and their cadence in the way they tell the story or whatever builds up to a crescendo, and even if it is a kind of funny joke, you're let down by the joke, because it's never as funny as you think it's going to be. Also kind of related to why watching a comedy show on netflix is so much different then watching one in person, since everyone around you laughing signals to you that it's time to laugh, even if it's not that funny.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 10, 2021 01:30 AM (UPoLF)

633 630 Malyasian vampire moth alien bodice ripper spies with ironic undertones for the Youth Market.

Needs...a hero character.

A Brave Transgressive person with a boat to avenge
Posted by: Miklos. already working on the film treatment at March 10, 2021 01:29 AM (QzkSJ)

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What about a rock? Would a rock be good?

Posted by: The Lucasfilm Story Group at March 10, 2021 01:30 AM (fLVm1)

634 It is coming *down* right now. Hail too. I haven't seen hail here in years.

Posted by: SFGoth at March 10, 2021 01:31 AM (KAi1n)

635 Malyasian vampire moth alien bodice ripper spies with ironic undertones for the Youth Market.

Needs...a hero character.

A Brave Transgressive person with a boat to avenge
Posted by: Miklos. already working on the film treatment at March 10, 2021 01:29 AM (QzkSJ)

Milo Yiannopolis stars in, "Young Man, And The...See?"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2021 01:31 AM (mzC78)

636 Joe Rogan talks about that a lot -- how comedy shows are "SO MUCH BETTER" because you get the energy in the room.

I think he's missing the point. Watching a comedy show on TV, without a lot of crowd noise is oftentimes less funny, because you don't have the cue to laugh like you do live.

But in reality if people are not laughing at your netflix special, you're probably not that funny.

Kind of like watching any show with a laugh track when they remove the laugh track. Not funny in the least. Just dumb, canned one liners with awkward pauses in between them.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 10, 2021 01:32 AM (UPoLF)

637 torabora, I know. They always bring 10,000 of their closest friends with them.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 10, 2021 01:32 AM (L2ZTs)

638 Ian Fleming (of James Bond fame) was part of a team that devised a brilliant plan -- but executing it would be a challenge.

I don't know if anyone has mentioned it, but a really good, suspenseful movie was made in England about this story.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 10, 2021 01:33 AM (KZzsI)

639 There are some old sketches Johnny Carson used to do on the Tonight Show that should be brought back to life.

I bet Norm MacDonald could do a fantastic Floyd R. Turbo.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 10, 2021 01:34 AM (L2ZTs)

640 It is coming *down* right now. Hail too. I haven't seen hail here in years.
Posted by: SFGoth at March 10, 2021 01:31 AM (KAi1n)

We were issued a dust storm warning for about 0100 here in Apache Junction. It was quite windy earlier this evening, around sunset, but now it is nearly dead calm.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2021 01:36 AM (mzC78)

641 I remember watching SNL when Norm was the Weekend Update anchor.
He was reporting on something that the Clinton's had done (it was the '90's)
Afterwards he included, in his deadpan style, "because the Clinton's are murderers"
It was hysterical.....and now looking back, very courageous.

Posted by: Al Bundy at March 10, 2021 01:39 AM (Z7toj)

642 I met an original Monty Pythonite when they did talks at Universities (80s). Part of the contract was that they had to go at "reception" and talk to students of the appropriate Speakers Committee and drink the cheapest white wine that French ammeliorated somewhat by cheese and some form of cracker..

One pretentious twat-set said "Oh your humor is so intellectual".

The fellow looked at me (because we had been talking about the Nature of Humour)

And said "We do fart jokes, you know"

Posted by: Miklos, now for something completely different at March 10, 2021 01:40 AM (QzkSJ)

643 I remember watching SNL when Norm was the Weekend Update anchor.
He was reporting on something that the Clinton's had done (it was the '90's)
Afterwards he included, in his deadpan style, "because the Clinton's are murderers"
It was hysterical.....and now looking back, very courageous.

Posted by: Al Bundy at March 10, 2021 01:39 AM (Z7toj)

Yeah he made a lot of edgy jokes, which is why you don't see much of him on TV anymore. I think the Jewish jokes were probably the final straw, even though they were pretty tame.

He has / had his own podcast for a while though.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 10, 2021 01:44 AM (UPoLF)

644 Whats wrong with a molotov cocktail? It help win world war II! You want to close early voting on sundays because more negros vote on sundays, Voter fraud! Some texas rethugliKKKan wants to give women who have abortions the death penalty.

Posted by: raimondo at March 10, 2021 01:46 AM (V4C7p)

645 *for lack of better ONY comments, Miklos shall now fart*

*but classy, a classy fart like you wouldn't believe*

*bigly, and in the general direction of commies and other crapworthies*

Posted by: Miklos, NAOW at March 10, 2021 01:47 AM (QzkSJ)

646 Well, I am going to go to bed. Hatches here are battened, to the extent that they can be battened.

Sleep well, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2021 01:47 AM (mzC78)

647 Warren is 14% in polls obama care. it will soon be named after have civility? what jesus was born in tucsons climate is gaining blue. McSalley might with liberals lets. As for the fault of the free market has stop rioting we capitalism is where police who were chicago police were getting around in 2020 bumper 47 an in tucson. It will

Posted by: raimondo on tap at March 10, 2021 01:48 AM (QzkSJ)

648 Sleep well, Horde.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Ave, AOP

Posted by: Brother Miklos at March 10, 2021 01:49 AM (QzkSJ)

649 My Handspring (palm pilot compatible) was used primarily as an e-book reader. I spent a fair amount of time converting my favorite fanfics to read on it.

Posted by: Matt Harris at March 10, 2021 01:52 AM (UQ60D)

650 Good night, Horde. Sleep well.

Posted by: callsign claymore at March 10, 2021 01:52 AM (QvYdQ)

651

Miklos channelling Raimondo is just... Eery!

Posted by: Zettai at March 10, 2021 01:53 AM (mqBmY)

652
OK you peoples

The live MiklosCam is now ON

https://tinyurl.com/yc8c7s89

Posted by: Oh Lawd, what will I regret tomorrow at March 10, 2021 01:53 AM (QzkSJ)

653 Well it's bedtime, I picked up an AM shift for tomorrow and need to get some sleep.
I've enjoyed the short time that I've spent here tonight and I thank you all.
G'night ABA, Steve, Harry, and everybody else who makes this the best damn place on the interwebs to go to.

Posted by: Al Bundy at March 10, 2021 01:54 AM (Z7toj)

654 channelling Raimondo is just... Eery!
Posted by: Zettai

Hogmartinian Solutions

Posted by: Miklos, credit as due at March 10, 2021 01:55 AM (QzkSJ)

655 I have five working VCRs in my possession.

I'd bet 99.9% of the Horde don't even have one.
Posted by: Doof at March 09, 2021 10:38 PM

You would lose. One vcr plus a tv/vcr combo. And a laserdisc player.

Now if you had five working betamax players ...

Posted by: Chuck C at March 10, 2021 01:55 AM (awtm/)

656 "62 I learned DOS and still remember it. Made it easier to understand Linux.

Posted by: Roy at March 09, 2021 10:18 PM (Ti+Tv) "

This ... but I barely needed to learn anything, DOS strongly resembled the IBM mainframe system stuff I had used for years in college.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 10, 2021 01:55 AM (AKJpt)

657
If any of you remember, I mentioned my comical interactions with the stupid alarm/security system they installed in this house (which I didn't want, but I didn't tell them not to). I just powered it off and disabled the whole thing, cause they gave me no access codes.

I'm sure the idea is to make you have to call them, and then they'll try to make you sign up for some plan which involves some ridiculous monthly fee. No thanks.

Yesterday, I decided to research it, and see if I could get into it, reset it, etc. I powered it up, and was going to try to some possible default access codes.

Well, during that power up process, with the keypad booting itself up, the cat came in with a live mouse. I had to take care of that. During that time, the thing booted, remembered it was armed last time, and the time out ran.

The alarm went off. Loud annoying son of a bitch.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 10, 2021 01:57 AM (Mzdiz)

658 statements bot night raimondo garbled leftist late annoying

Posted by: qdpsteve wordsalad generating bot at March 10, 2021 02:00 AM (L2ZTs)

659 Loud annoying son of a bitch.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion

So, if I come to visit, nothing special.

Posted by: Down the Saluda Miklos at March 10, 2021 02:00 AM (QzkSJ)

660
Turns out the alarm required battery power to operate, so all you have to shut it up is yank the battery. When it was going off like some banshee, I briefly thought of ripping it off the wall and throwing it in a gulley.

Anyway, long story, but I got it disarmed. It was still defaulted to the master use code of, you guessed it, 1234.

The bastards did however, change the "installer code" from the default, and I think they've locked me out of programming it. There may be something else I can try, but that's what it looks like.

There is a way to reset it from scratch, but that can't be done from the touchsceen control they put in. You need one of the older style manual keypads. There is probably some way to do it on the control board itself, but they keep that close to their vest.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 10, 2021 02:01 AM (Mzdiz)

661 qdpsteve wordsalad

This kid has potential.

Posted by: Miklos, un Chien Andalou at March 10, 2021 02:01 AM (QzkSJ)

662

I do seem to recall Hogmartin doing Raimondo, now that you mention it...

Posted by: Zettai at March 10, 2021 02:02 AM (mqBmY)

663 Thanks Miklos.
Sleep gotta now. Nite all good. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 10, 2021 02:02 AM (L2ZTs)

664 g'night everyone !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 10, 2021 02:02 AM (AKJpt)

665 I watch movies to see how houses are detonated.
Posted by: SMH

1941 ?

Posted by: JT at March 10, 2021 02:03 AM (arJlL)

666

Posted by: Zettai at March 10, 2021 02:04 AM (mqBmY)

667

Posted by: Zettai at March 10, 2021 02:05 AM (mqBmY)

668 1941 ?
Posted by: JT

*glare?*

*or a face that indicates not happy with that movie*

Posted by: Miklos, on behalf of the Estae of John Belushi, Famous Albanian at March 10, 2021 02:06 AM (QzkSJ)

669 kinda like comedy / tragedy masks ?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 10, 2021 02:06 AM (AKJpt)

670 I got rid of a dozen VCRs over the last few months; my dad was somewhat of an electronics packrat and never tossed anything. I kept one that can dub to CD or vice versa. Also tossed 4 PCs, 2 laptops, 20 pounds of cabling, tube monitors. The trash truck has had to kick the lifter into overdrive to pick some of the loads up lol.

But it all brought him great joy, and I won't knock that.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 10, 2021 02:08 AM (F0YaR)

671 I knew that "Zettai" was Eeevull

Now I shall place my hand on your forehead

Posted by: Miklos "earnest" Angley, you are HEALED at March 10, 2021 02:10 AM (QzkSJ)

672
You would lose. One vcr plus a tv/vcr combo. And a laserdisc player.

Now if you had five working betamax players ...
Posted by: Chuck C
------

Yeah, we have a functioning VHS machine. BTW, there is going to be a local online auction of a laser disk collection. I've looked them over, nice stuff. It's not scheduled yet, but should be this month.

If you're interested: https://tinyurl.com/y4z5chb2

Sign up for notifications if you are. I could arrange minimum cost shipping.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 10, 2021 02:12 AM (GBHAb)

673

Last evening, I'd predicted that @TitaniaMcGrath would offer zis take in short order on the #SuperStraight phenom to hit teh innerwebz in recent days...

Well, in accordance with prophecy:

https://is.gd/superstraight_titania_mcgrath

Posted by: Zettai at March 10, 2021 02:13 AM (mqBmY)

674 I watch movies to see how houses are detonated.
Posted by: SMH
---------

*note to self: step up perimeter security*

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 10, 2021 02:14 AM (GBHAb)

675 *note to self: step up perimeter security*
Posted by: Mike Hammer,

Those "solar powered" lights from Harbor Freight are not entirely reliable.

Posted by: Miklos \, had two hogs stolen just week, only Darleen come back at March 10, 2021 02:16 AM (QzkSJ)

676

And I oop!

Let's try this again, shall we?

https://is.gd/mcgrath_titania_superstraight

Posted by: Zettai at March 10, 2021 02:17 AM (mqBmY)

677 Whilst taking a break from anti-SLAPP opposition (CA CCP sec. 425.16, FTW), I'm having an Ashkenezi plate: it's a meze plate but with gefilte fish. LOL

Posted by: SFGoth at March 10, 2021 02:20 AM (KAi1n)

678
https://is.gd/mcgrath_titania_superstraight
Posted by: Zettai

Thank you

I think that's what HR has been asking for

Posted by: Miklos, with inclusively updated resume (or CV, 'cause Euro-classier) at March 10, 2021 02:20 AM (QzkSJ)

679 Slow ONT

Don't cause me to get bored and drink

Posted by: Miklos, the police tell me I'm a fun drunk, only one felony so far at March 10, 2021 02:25 AM (QzkSJ)

680 These are the times that try men's souls

Posted by: Miklos AM at March 10, 2021 02:26 AM (QzkSJ)

681 I'm not as drink as you bored I am!

Posted by: Zettai at March 10, 2021 02:26 AM (mqBmY)

682

*wonders if "Darleen" knows Mountain Marie...

Posted by: Zettai at March 10, 2021 02:28 AM (mqBmY)

683 I'm more interested why someone moved to NJ from Texas.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

To learn to speak correct English.

Posted by: JT at March 10, 2021 02:29 AM (arJlL)

684 What gaineth a man, if he gains the World, and loses his own soul?

Posted by: Miklos AMMiklos on the way to Mepkin at March 10, 2021 02:29 AM (QzkSJ)

685 *wonders if "Darleen" knows Mountain Marie...
Posted by: Zettai

*glare, serious glare*

Posted by: Sharleen at March 10, 2021 02:31 AM (QzkSJ)

686
I watch movies to see how houses are detonated.
Posted by: SMH

Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?

https://youtu.be/nJHptWxo5CE

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 10, 2021 02:31 AM (pNxlR)

687 The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 10, 2021 02:32 AM (cGzEU)

688 I'm more interested why someone moved to NJ from Texas.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

To learn to speak correct English.
Posted by: JT

Yo, I teacha you goobah, like perfect

Posted by: The Berlitz -Stallone School of , okay like languages and ya know at March 10, 2021 02:33 AM (QzkSJ)

689 Has there ever been a president that would leave our country better off if he were dead? Since Wilson. Seriously if biden were dead we would be better off.

Posted by: USNtakim deplorable still. at March 10, 2021 02:34 AM (0OmEj)

690 Man, I could eat this stuff all night: marinated artichoke quarters, Kalamata olives, baby corn, straw mushrooms, gefilte fish, and now cold shrimp. Yeah baby!

Posted by: SFGoth at March 10, 2021 02:38 AM (KAi1n)

691 *opens door, shuffles in wearing boxer shorts and carrying large jar of peanut butter*

Well, where? Where did?....Momma Doctor Jill? Where did...where did those things go that are furry and make funny noises?

I wanted to play red rocket and then feed them peanut butter off my....WHERE ARE THEY?

Posted by: Joe Biden at March 10, 2021 02:40 AM (Geoni)

692 Man, I could eat this stuff all night: marinated artichoke quarters, Kalamata olives, baby corn, straw mushrooms, gefilte fish, and now cold shrimp. Yeah baby!
Posted by: SFGoth

*considers*

Yep.

First World Not-Problems

Posted by: Miklos, resting on the shoulders of giants at March 10, 2021 02:40 AM (QzkSJ)

693 Seriously if biden were dead we would be better off.
Posted by: USNtakim deplorable still. at March 10, 2021 02:34 AM (0OmEj)

You misspelled biden, the correct spelling is all democrats

Posted by: a dude in MI at March 10, 2021 02:41 AM (+I6Y/)

694 *opens door, carrying two leashes and collars covered in blood*

Now where in the hell is President Harr...hey Joe! What're you doing up? Just got back from walking your dogs in Ft. Marcy Park. Is Dr. Jill around?

*Joe stares blankly off into the distance*

Is your mommy home?

Joe: Momma Doctor Jill and Hunter were going back to the hardware store to play a game called "hammer and nail".

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at March 10, 2021 02:45 AM (Geoni)

695 Another band of hail working its way through. Nice!

Posted by: SFGoth at March 10, 2021 02:48 AM (KAi1n)

696 Well. we just had a big Fight out here at the Shift change.

The blue lights come and they left.

So it's all sorted out and none of DAMN BIDNIS

The Waffle House #1629 is OPEN, and y'all come!

Like we say, that Miklos is "Good on the Griddle"

Posted by: Darleem, Sharleen and Marleen, we are sisters after all, not like Praleen, the foster child at March 10, 2021 02:50 AM (QzkSJ)

697 *opens door, glances at Joe dipping his dong in peanut butter, notices Hillary*

So you can see things are getting worse.

Hillary: How can we have him give a speech on Thursday?

Super easy, barely an inconvenience. We had Swallwell grab the corpse of Roger Mudd. We're gonna prop it up in a chair in the Oval Office. Valarie Jarret will be ducked behind reading the speech. She can do a mean Joe Biden.

Posted by: Kamala Harris at March 10, 2021 02:51 AM (Geoni)

698 *opens door, walks in with a cigar in one hand, other arm wrapped around Jill Biden wearing a slutty nurse Halloween costume*

And so then I said to Moni...whoa! What's everyone doing here?

*clears throat*

Well, uh...the good doctor and I here were just, umm....walking the parapet! Taking a look around!

Posted by: Bill Clinton at March 10, 2021 02:56 AM (Geoni)

699 The Iranian Ratface's name hasn't come up much. I suspect it's Stews and Rice running the show this go round. Samantha Power's name also keeps popping up, as well as hubby Sunstein...

the shitshow must go on. Oh well.

At least Samantha looks like her long term meth usage is aging her quick. May she croak in peace.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 10, 2021 03:00 AM (F0YaR)

700 One day, the Queen and I were having a quiet lunch on the veranda. For dessert, the Queen offered me a peanut butter cup.

She said "you got your chocolate in my peanut butter".

"How dare you!", I yelled.

CHOCOLATE in your peanut butter? CHOCOLATE?

Posted by: Meghan Markle at March 10, 2021 03:02 AM (Geoni)

701 I not too long ago, absolutely incinerated a regular doing "Raimondo".

Don't DO "Raimondo".

Per Nuclear Regulatory Commission standards and recommendations.

Some targets require "Ready, FIRE! Aim", as the normal range commands.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 10, 2021 03:05 AM (QzJWU)

702 Well, uh...the good doctor and I here were just, umm....walking the parapet! Taking a look around!
Posted by: Bill Clinton

We will double the advance for "It Takes a Village"

Posted by: LeftHouse and Socialist Shuster at March 10, 2021 03:07 AM (QzkSJ)

703 701 Some targets require "Ready, FIRE! Aim", as the normal range commands.

Posted by Jim

At least my name isn't Will. The ole 'fire at Will' command is a bit of shitpantsing.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 10, 2021 03:08 AM (F0YaR)

704 Harry told me his grandmother was quite into horse racing and in fact even owned many.

Thinking I'd get into her good graces, as a gift I bought her a paperback copy of the Black Stallion.

She thanked me and then said her favorite horse book was National Velvet.

"Oh really?" I asked. I wonder why you don't prefer the BLACK stallion? She might as well have put a white hood on at that time.

Posted by: Meghan Markle at March 10, 2021 03:09 AM (Geoni)

705 CHOCOLATE in your peanut butter? CHOCOLATE?
Posted by: Meghan Markle

*strawberries with scones and clotted cream*

*Your Majesty, my dear wife of many years, as you command, I shall strangle the both with these hands, or inform the staff at the Tower*

Posted by: Prince Philip Miklos -Mountbatten , actually Greek at March 10, 2021 03:17 AM (QzkSJ)

706 *phone rings, she answers*

Hello! McClachlan residence. ASPCA? Wow! It's been a long time.

....yes, yes. We have done a lot of good...new commercial? You want me to shoot another one?

....this one is strictly rescuing animals from the Biden household? Do you have sad photos of them? You do? In the picture he's stuck his finger where??!!!!

Posted by: Sarah McClachlan at March 10, 2021 03:18 AM (Geoni)

707 Mornin'
(sips coffee)

Posted by: Puddleglum at March 10, 2021 03:20 AM (0eOh8)

708 hiya

Posted by: JT at March 10, 2021 03:20 AM (arJlL)

709 I have come to the conclusion, by many minutes on the intertubes, that a certain pezident does not have the middle name "Robinette", but instead,

"Marionette".

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 10, 2021 03:21 AM (F0YaR)

710 Hello there. I know there's been a lot of talk about me everywhere today. But let's not quibble on who bit whom, or who licked whose balls.

Life with the Bidens can be QUITE a ride. And taking a page out of Hunter Biden's book (betcha didn't know dogs could do puns), I am writing my own tell all book.

Who played Red Rocket? Who played hide the Snausage? Who shit the bed?

The answers are all here in my new autobiography, "Majorly Boned".

Posted by: Major Biden at March 10, 2021 03:24 AM (Geoni)

711 *phone rings, she answers*

A God barks

A scream for ice cream!

Posted by: Miklos, tryina poke the Eschaton with a stick I just foun out here in the yard at March 10, 2021 03:25 AM (QzkSJ)

712 C'mon!

Today is Recycling Day!

*alternate Wednesdays here*

It all goes to the landfill, but Feel Good!

https://tinyurl.com/yd5fvbub

Posted by: Miklos, Soul Brother Number 2 at March 10, 2021 03:35 AM (QzkSJ)

713 Fine.

You won't have Dick Miklos to kick around anymore.

Posted by: Miklos, Soul Brother Number 2 at March 10, 2021 03:37 AM (QzkSJ)

714 I didn't have to get up until 4am, close to work for 1 day

Posted by: Skip at March 10, 2021 03:41 AM (Cxk7w)

715 You won't have Dick Miklos to kick around anymore.
Posted by: Miklos, Soul Brother Number 2

I I have a respectable Republican cloth coat. Actually, it is a burgundy velvet smoking jacket I got on Ebay.

The dog ain't named Checkers neither

Posted by: Miklos, preparing to be Trump's Much Better VP at March 10, 2021 03:42 AM (QzkSJ)

716 Skip is now named "Skipanovich, Hero of American People's Republic"

Posted by: Miklosov Stakhanov at March 10, 2021 03:45 AM (QzkSJ)

717 I can't wait to become a Skipanovite!

Posted by: SFGoth at March 10, 2021 03:48 AM (KAi1n)

718 C'est la thread.

C'est fin.

Posted by: pretty alte to expect Miklos to do good French at March 10, 2021 03:48 AM (QzkSJ)

719 I can't wait to become a Skipanovite!
Posted by: SFGoth

Umm...You gotta work for it

Posted by: Miklos from Stalinist HR at March 10, 2021 03:50 AM (QzkSJ)

720 Legal Insurrection website changed format only for the 1st time. Anyway a few jurors have been picked for the Officer Chauvin trial. The pressure and activists will be all out to save Minneapolis from the mobs.

Posted by: Skip at March 10, 2021 03:53 AM (Cxk7w)

721
Anyway a few jurors have been picked for the Officer Chauvin trial.

Look for charges that the jury was chauvinist when they return a "not guilty" verdict.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 10, 2021 03:57 AM (pNxlR)

722 The term "chauvinist" comes from one Nicolas Chauvin.

He was famous for his loyalty to Napoleon, and after Napoleon's fall a figure of ridicule.

Any meaning in American English has been left as an exercise to non-readers.

Posted by: Miklos, who used to like the Napoleon House in the Quarters when he had money to go there at March 10, 2021 04:05 AM (QzkSJ)

723 Umm...You gotta work for it
Posted by: Miklos from Stalinist HR

You obviously don't realize how much work goes into everlasting ennui. And if I identify as a Skipanovite, you will be forced to care, Comrade G8R.

Posted by: SFGoth at March 10, 2021 04:05 AM (KAi1n)

724 Mornin', all

Posted by: My life is insanity at March 10, 2021 04:07 AM (H7uCo)

725 Man, I could eat this stuff all night: marinated
artichoke quarters, Kalamata olives, baby corn, straw mushrooms, gefilte
fish, and now cold shrimp. Yeah baby!

Posted by: SFGoth at March 10, 2021 02:38 AM (KAi1n)

---
it must be sad, not having any decent food in the house...

Posted by: redc1c4 (*OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated) at March 10, 2021 04:07 AM (fDBkG)

726 Bon Soir, mes cheres amis

https://tinyurl.com/ydxat4xs

Posted by: Miklos, c'est fin at March 10, 2021 04:08 AM (QzkSJ)

727 Snacking here, too:

Cheese n crackers. And garlic-stuffed olives.

Sodium overkill!

Posted by: JQ at March 10, 2021 04:17 AM (09wCi)

728 almost no one wants to be on that jury...

and who can blame them? the mob will be after every single one, their families and even their neighbors, all during the trial.

and, if they don't railroad him, Katy bar the door for them, Milwaukee and all all the other big cities in the US as well. Burning Summer II

Posted by: redc1c4 (*OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated) at March 10, 2021 04:23 AM (fDBkG)

729 Pointless Torture for my F-ed up knees @ 10AM, so i really gotta hit the rack...

hasta, y'all!

Posted by: redc1c4 (*OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated) at March 10, 2021 04:25 AM (fDBkG)

730 red Andrew says in the article one woman was all gung ho for it, suspecting a activist.

Posted by: Skip at March 10, 2021 04:25 AM (Cxk7w)

731 I heard a commercial or maybe a news blip yesterday about court tv (i think). Is this trial going to be televised?

Posted by: My life is insanity at March 10, 2021 04:28 AM (H7uCo)

732 I was thinking it was Thursday.

Posted by: Skip at March 10, 2021 04:29 AM (Cxk7w)

733 It might be MLii, that LI article has video of jurors, here I thought there might be total secrecy.

Posted by: Skip at March 10, 2021 04:42 AM (Cxk7w)

734 Bastard demo-rats are still trying to stomp states' rights re: right to work-- shoving another POS bill to stack the deck even further in favor of union slime-tactics...

I h8 our latest gubbermint.

Posted by: JQ at March 10, 2021 04:42 AM (09wCi)

735 http://directorblue.blogspot.com
top-20 tweets from badblue tonight
https://tinyurl.com/3yyhnmke

One prospective juror was worried he or family would be harrased.

Posted by: Skip at March 10, 2021 04:59 AM (Cxk7w)

736 I had 1 piece of dark chocolate salted caramel candy left from a tiny box of them my daughter gave me for Christmas from a local candy maker. OMGosh awesome.

Planned to enjoy it with my cup of coffee.

Came downstairs, set the chocolate down for a second on top of the coffee maker and started making the coffee. Came back to pour my cup and realized I had left the chocolate on top.

Sort of melted it but I scraped it off with a knife. Still edible!

[x]Chocolate fix

Posted by: My life is insanity at March 10, 2021 05:00 AM (H7uCo)

737 Too funny

Posted by: Skip at March 10, 2021 05:06 AM (Cxk7w)

738 MLii you do what you have to

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 10, 2021 05:09 AM (EZebt)

739 Mild morning. 52 degrees!

Saw signs of crocus and my snowdrops peeking through.

So ready for Spring.

Posted by: My life is insanity at March 10, 2021 05:09 AM (H7uCo)

740 Sa Franpsycho, definitely!

No way I was going to sacrifice that chocolate

Posted by: My life is insanity at March 10, 2021 05:10 AM (H7uCo)

741 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 10, 2021 05:11 AM (lmikk)

742 Mid 60s today, 70s tomorrow, and will be outside but in the city

Posted by: Skip at March 10, 2021 05:12 AM (Cxk7w)

743 I still have snow piles, wonder if they will last the week

Posted by: Skip at March 10, 2021 05:13 AM (Cxk7w)

744 Still snow piles here. Cooler temps this weekend, and always a possibility of snow into April and even early May.

Fingers crossed that won't happen this year

Posted by: My life is insanity at March 10, 2021 05:15 AM (H7uCo)

745 Heading out, waves to debby ds on the way out the door.

Make it a good day, all

Posted by: My life is insanity at March 10, 2021 05:17 AM (H7uCo)

746 The last of our snow piles finally gave up the ghost yesterday. Hung on a good long while.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 10, 2021 05:17 AM (lmikk)

747 A crummy commercial?

Posted by: Skip at March 10, 2021 05:24 AM (Cxk7w)

748 We get them occasionally. I always find them amusing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 10, 2021 05:25 AM (lmikk)

749 Hey if it cures everything

Posted by: Skip at March 10, 2021 05:27 AM (Cxk7w)

750 Note to self, watch the silent movie video later

Posted by: Skip at March 10, 2021 05:28 AM (Cxk7w)

751 That doctor seems to be a man of many parts: Cancer, fibroid(?), diabetic, hepatic(? not sure on usage in this context), dick AND breast enlargement. This guy does it all.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 10, 2021 05:29 AM (lmikk)

752 This guy does it all.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 10, 2021 05:29 AM (lmikk)

===

Nigerian

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 10, 2021 05:32 AM (EZebt)

753 Has to be some snake oil in it, that stuff cures it all.

Posted by: Skip at March 10, 2021 05:33 AM (Cxk7w)

754 I'm out, only 1/3 as far away today, back to far away tomorrow.
Have a great day.

Posted by: Skip at March 10, 2021 05:35 AM (Cxk7w)

755
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 10, 2021 05:36 AM (OI7l5)

756 What about dick problems, Jenny, can Dr. Ojie help with those?

Posted by: David French at March 10, 2021 05:38 AM (H5knJ)

757 757 What about dick problems, Jenny, can Dr. Ojie help with those?
Posted by: David French at March 10, 2021 05:38 AM (H5knJ)

I suspect the doctor has to have something to work with.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 10, 2021 05:39 AM (lmikk)

758 I feel like I'm sitting on the subway platform watching morons arriving and departing

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 10, 2021 05:40 AM (EZebt)

759 759 And Mel Blanc over the loudspeaker, ..now leaving for Bakersfield, Anaheim, and Koookamonga. All aboard.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at March 10, 2021 05:55 AM (I58tH)

760 morning horde

Posted by: wing at March 10, 2021 05:56 AM (JFzNN)

761 The coumo plot thickens:
https://tinyurl.com/438cn5ay

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at March 10, 2021 06:05 AM (b+v9B)

762 My guess is Andy didn't pick the right company.

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at March 10, 2021 06:08 AM (b+v9B)

763 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 10, 2021 06:16 AM (u82oZ)

764 Jamaica NYC

How can mere casino's replace the Stock Market?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 10, 2021 06:20 AM (u82oZ)

765 Still snow piles here.
Posted by: My life is insanity

Ours are almost all gone in NW IL! Happens really fast when you near 70 as we did yesterday. Now we're into the mud season.

Posted by: lizabth at March 10, 2021 06:22 AM (L3Rsz)

766 I bet those casino licenses say no Trump on them

Posted by: Jean at March 10, 2021 06:25 AM (Xih1H)

767 G'morning all.

Salty!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 10, 2021 06:25 AM (3D/fK)

768 My life is insanity

We have a Red Flag Warning. No outdoor burning. Low humidity, heat, and variable winds with gusts up to 50 knots.

We are having more grass fires get away from the landowners.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 10, 2021 06:27 AM (u82oZ)

769 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 10, 2021 06:28 AM (u82oZ)

770 On the superstraight movement:
https://tinyurl.com/yr2c575z

Posted by: lizabth at March 10, 2021 06:30 AM (L3Rsz)

771 Hope your slice of heaven is doing well. Shouldn't your son be deploying soon? Or are the deployment cycles broken?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 10, 2021 06:30 AM (u82oZ)

772 Anyone want to volunteer to make room for some migrants in their home, the Biden administration is looking for rooms. Of course you have to live near the border, but they might be willing to fly them to you home town.They will pay you 1400 dollars, but your getting that anyway as a gift from old Uncle Joe.

Posted by: Colin at March 10, 2021 06:33 AM (7r8G8)

773 "Shouldn't your son be deploying soon?"

Probably before Christmas.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 10, 2021 06:33 AM (3D/fK)

774 lizabth

Thank you for expanding my vocabulary. I'll work superstraight into a conversation today. I just updated my spellchecker.

Superstraight avoids mental illness carriers, so it's got that as well.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 10, 2021 06:34 AM (u82oZ)

775 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at March 10, 2021 06:34 AM (ju2Fy)

776 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Well, he has plenty of time then, although workups probably still suck.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 10, 2021 06:35 AM (u82oZ)

777 Looks like a Deutz Fahr tractor

Posted by: jsg at March 10, 2021 06:35 AM (93ens)

778 If the NG need's to deploy to DC to relieve the soldiers who are there. Do they get combat pay?

Posted by: Colin at March 10, 2021 06:37 AM (7r8G8)

779 Good morning Horde.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 10, 2021 06:37 AM (a4EWo)

780 I understand tha Resident Biden wishes to get rid of the gender-centric teens 'Mr President' and 'First Lady'.

Instead, they should be referred to in the more gender neutral term of 'Those two idiots in the White House'

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 10, 2021 06:37 AM (3D/fK)

781 Good morning my pretties.

Anybody else thing Vagrant Corpse would be a good name for a Dark Wave band?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at March 10, 2021 06:38 AM (Dc2NZ)

782 Colin

Only if they become the police, and clean the crime away.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 10, 2021 06:38 AM (u82oZ)

783 All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes

Seems legit. Go for it. And good morning!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 10, 2021 06:40 AM (u82oZ)

784 Welp. Time for work preps.

Have a great day, everyone.

Be that swan gliding serenely though choppy water. Never let them see the feet moving fast.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 10, 2021 06:41 AM (u82oZ)

785 >>> Note to self, watch the silent movie video later

You can just let it run in the background while doing other things.

Posted by: fluffy at March 10, 2021 06:41 AM (UnQlg)

786 Is tomorrow the day that Biden addresses the nation about something? Or did I miss it....He of course will have Kamala standing right there, ready to help him read it. Would love to screw with the teleprompter and put some genuine frontier gibberish up on the screen.

Posted by: Colin at March 10, 2021 06:43 AM (7r8G8)

787 Be safe, Salty!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 10, 2021 06:43 AM (3D/fK)

788 Do you like Sirius Chill Channel 53, and also like Trump? Then I have the answer all your Trump singing chill music needs! Bing bing bong!
https://youtu.be/eeUsJSSp4NU

Posted by: Jimco Industries at March 10, 2021 06:44 AM (buTO7)

789 Yesterday in Debate An Idiot Democrat, I got into a discussion about rising gas prices. The Idiot's excuse, after I told him he couldn't blame Trump, was that tankers were sitting offshore making the supply short. Huh? Ok, but you understand what cancelling pipelines means, right ? Increased energy costs. Nope, they should have gone around their 'sacred grounds'. Stupid ? Check.

What about the people who lost their decent union jobs working on the pipeline ?

Tough. It doesn't affect me.

Idiot Compassionate Democrat

Posted by: jsg at March 10, 2021 06:45 AM (93ens)

790 >>> Anyone want to volunteer to make room for some migrants in their home, the Biden administration is looking for rooms.

Cruise around town looking for the 'hate has no home' inclusive babble-speak signs. Tell them they won a prize!

Posted by: fluffy at March 10, 2021 06:45 AM (UnQlg)

791 Slo Joe is in no shape to give a press conference. The folks behind the curtain must be shitting their pants wondering if it will placate the rubes.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at March 10, 2021 06:48 AM (2BZBZ)

792 Next week at this time it will be dark. I am a morning person and hate the darkness at 7:30 and not sunrise at 6:30.

Posted by: Colin at March 10, 2021 06:49 AM (7r8G8)

793 I know of a house with the "hate has no home" sign. LOL

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at March 10, 2021 06:49 AM (2BZBZ)

794 So have we moved to the Kamala 'Shadow President' phase yet?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 10, 2021 06:49 AM (3D/fK)

795 TECHNOLOGIES YOU NEVER LEARNED BEFORE THEY BECAME OBSOLETE
That one is easy. I didn't have the patience to learn to write Basic.

Posted by: Sergeant Major at March 10, 2021 06:50 AM (lidPb)

796 There is something in Proverbs about arguing with a fool.

Don't bother.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at March 10, 2021 06:51 AM (2BZBZ)

797 Basic? LOL. Never formally taught it. Friend or neighbor needed help. All this shit that I was taught never to do.

GOTO hell?

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at March 10, 2021 06:53 AM (2BZBZ)

798 790 The hate has no home crowd would gladly accept Pablo and Maria, generously allowing them to sleep in the garage in exchange for some lawn care and housecleaning. They'll tell them when the coast is clear in about 7 years (standard for indentured servitude so totes legal).

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at March 10, 2021 06:54 AM (I58tH)

799 I always wonder about the guy who prompted all of the ancient sages to write the proverbs about fools. Poor guy, his witlessness is immortalized forever. Immortality, I guess- of a sort.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work phone at March 10, 2021 06:55 AM (7a6fv)

800 So, when Mr. Lincoln freed the slaves, were the indentured servants included?

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at March 10, 2021 06:55 AM (2BZBZ)

801 mornin yall

Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at March 10, 2021 07:00 AM (6Pqz7)

802 800 You know, all the 13th says is involuntary servitude. Indentured servitude usually involved a contract.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at March 10, 2021 07:01 AM (I58tH)

803 Thing is, a lot of voluntary became involuntary.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at March 10, 2021 07:02 AM (2BZBZ)

804 The first slave in America started out with a 7 year hitch. Next thing you know, he's a lifer.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at March 10, 2021 07:03 AM (2BZBZ)

805 803 Yep. Hey Pablo, your seven years are up on the contract, so you can go anytime. Of course, we have to call La Migra.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at March 10, 2021 07:04 AM (I58tH)

806 I had a Blackberry and loved the damn thing

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at March 10, 2021 07:05 AM (sVC8r)

807 Take the brick and Molotov cocktail off them.

Posted by: O ' bama s 3rd term at March 10, 2021 07:06 AM (wOVvK)

808 Good morning!

God bless each and every moron.

Posted by: Diesel Jones at March 10, 2021 07:06 AM (Vu7A1)

809 800 So, when Mr. Lincoln freed the slaves, were the indentured servants included?
Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at March 10, 2021 06:55 AM (2BZBZ)

He only freed the slaves in the Rebel states.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 10, 2021 07:07 AM (yrol0)

810 "Slo Joe is in no shape to give a press conference.
The folks behind the curtain must be shitting their pants wondering if
it will placate the rubes."

He is in serious danger of being assassinated by faux white nationalist militia.

Posted by: Ripley at March 10, 2021 07:10 AM (MxEKc)

811 "He is in serious danger of being assassinated by faux white nationalist militia."

I fear you may be right.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 10, 2021 07:11 AM (3D/fK)

812 LOL. I know. So the slaves in Maryland and Kentucky weren't freed.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at March 10, 2021 07:13 AM (2BZBZ)

813 I thought superstraight was a new ansi laser committee

Posted by: Jean at March 10, 2021 07:16 AM (Xih1H)

814 The PIN feature on the Blackberry doomed it, having the ability to largely communicate without cooection like text or iMessage was brilliant and pissed corporates and governments off alike.

Posted by: Only Context at March 10, 2021 07:16 AM (xEIoY)

815 LOL. I know. So the slaves in Maryland and Kentucky weren't freed.
Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict

Not until they amended the Constitution

Posted by: Jean at March 10, 2021 07:17 AM (Xih1H)

816 Tucker kicks the privileged princess right in her scrunt!

https://tinyurl.com/ycnyqubd

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 10, 2021 07:17 AM (yrol0)

817 Collection (archived messages) coffee time

Posted by: Only Context at March 10, 2021 07:18 AM (xEIoY)

818 A bright new morning! Sad to say, we've detected a budget issue in Medicaid, so you know what that means....

Someone has to die.

Posted by: Cuomo's budget chief at March 10, 2021 07:19 AM (Y5fDH)

819 Todays FOAD List:

Brian Fitzpatrick-PA
John Katko-NY
Chris Smith-NJ
Jeff Van Drew-NJ
Don Young-AK

Voted for the PRO bill which would essentially eliminate freelancers and the gig economy.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 10, 2021 07:19 AM (yrol0)

820 And having a tactile keypad was excellent for fat fingered types like me

Posted by: Only Context at March 10, 2021 07:19 AM (xEIoY)

821 699 The Iranian Ratface's name hasn't come up much. I suspect it's Stews and Rice running the show this go round. Samantha Power's name also keeps popping up, as well as hubby Sunstein...

the shitshow must go on. Oh well.

At least Samantha looks like her long term meth usage is aging her quick. May she croak in peace.
Posted by: GnuBreed

And Carlin

Posted by: Jean at March 10, 2021 07:22 AM (Xih1H)

822 Old timey special effects soar above CGI any day of the week.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 10, 2021 07:24 AM (O+I8R)

823 I remember the Kinkster's books always gave a prominent spot to his cats. He preferred cats over women, he said, because the cats never used the word "relationship" or asked him "where is this going?"

Posted by: Huck Follywood, registered Independent at March 10, 2021 07:25 AM (Y5fDH)

824 That Palm Pilot mention got me remembering being a kid and how absolutely gobsmacked I was when the first calculators (with their red numbers) came out. It was next to magic in my mind how it could do math! I just remember being blown away by them in grade school.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 10, 2021 07:26 AM (O+I8R)

825 Piss Hockey

REPORTER: "The number of migrants detained has tripled... Is that accurate?"

PSAKI: "Those numbers are tracked by DHS. I'm just suggesting that you talk to them..."

REPORTER: "We talked to them... They won't confirm the numbers."

PSAKI: "Ask them again... It's not our program"

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 10, 2021 07:27 AM (yrol0)

826 Psucki is a masterclass at obfuscating. It doesn't hurt that she's also a dunce.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 10, 2021 07:29 AM (O+I8R)

827 Aside from union workers in oil and gas, unions are on a roll with Biden - government now fully backs their pensions and the PRO act is a blow against right to work, especially if they organize illegals, who aren't supposed to be able to work give their status. Crazy times.

Posted by: Only Context at March 10, 2021 07:30 AM (xEIoY)

828 Zhous handlers (puppeteers) shutting down press.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 10, 2021 07:31 AM (yrol0)

829 and the URL

https://tinyurl.com/y8h75ksv

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 10, 2021 07:31 AM (yrol0)

830 Today is mask emancipation day in Tejas!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 10, 2021 07:32 AM (yrol0)

831 Posted by: Only Context at March 10, 2021 07:30 AM (xEIoY)

Unions are the first "community" organizing tool employed by the commies!

Posted by: Commissar Chairman Hrothgar ~ (@Hrothgar on GAB) at March 10, 2021 07:32 AM (87oRe)

832 "It's not our program".

It ain't the American People's "program" either. What a bunch of thoroughly odious creatures.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 10, 2021 07:33 AM (KQuMS)

833 Just found Ace's link to the bathroom tranny.

I have never felt so sure the death penalty was appropriate.

Posted by: Diesel Jones at March 10, 2021 07:34 AM (Vu7A1)

834 Biden's presss handlers sound like a kindergarten teacher calling kids in from recess. How apt.

Posted by: Only Context at March 10, 2021 07:35 AM (xEIoY)

835 After Trump cleaned up the migrant issue at the border we had a short period of peace. Now, the Fraud Administration has created a vast new surge of illegals flooding across the border. Up until two days ago the Biden people denied the existence of the problem, but last night they issued an appeal for volunteers to come help at the border. Volunteers to do what? These incompetent assholes turned border quiet into an intractable disaster in a month.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, registered Independent at March 10, 2021 07:35 AM (Y5fDH)

836 commander Adm. Phillip Davidson said China has a vast disinformation machine with a million people behind it that it uses to undermine the U.S.

fuck that we have 80 million!!

Posted by: DNC at March 10, 2021 07:36 AM (yrol0)

837 JJ

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 10, 2021 07:37 AM (yrol0)

838 Up until two days ago the Biden people denied the existence of the problem, but last night they issued an appeal for volunteers to come help at the border. Volunteers to do what? These incompetent assholes turned border quiet into an intractable disaster in a month.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, registered Independent at March 10, 2021 07:35 AM (Y5fDH)

Who with a working cortex would volunteer for that self made clusterfuck? Let DR JILL put that doctorate of edumacation to use in dealing with those misunderstood wretches.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at March 10, 2021 07:39 AM (y7DUB)

839 He is in serious danger of being assassinated by faux white nationalist militia.

Posted by: Ripley at March 10, 2021 07:10 AM (MxEKc)

The ultimate false flag operation, takes place behind barbed wire with no cameras rolling, and only verbal reports from trusted media savvy insiders!

Nah, bro'...that's just crazy talk!

Posted by: Commissar Chairman Hrothgar ~ (@Hrothgar on GAB) at March 10, 2021 07:40 AM (87oRe)

840 That could have been my accident report from hitting the deer a couple of Sundays ago.

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