Mid-Morning Art Thread

Couple with Parrot
Pieter de Hooch

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 1

Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 14, 2021 09:30 AM (LXmEi)

2 Parrot

Its what for dinner!

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 14, 2021 09:30 AM (yrol0)

3 Not terribly colorful for a parrot.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021 09:30 AM (LvTSG)

4 Its an ex-parrot.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 14, 2021 09:31 AM (VwHCD)

5 I, for one, would NOT couple with a parrot!

Posted by: Biden's Dog at December 14, 2021 09:31 AM (M+lS8)

6 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

7 Looks like a birthday present

Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 14, 2021 09:31 AM (LXmEi)

8 You sure that's not a raven?

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

9 For 200 bux I want her naked!

Posted by: The Parrot at December 14, 2021 09:31 AM (yrol0)

10 Bet she's seen a cockatoo in her day!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 14, 2021 09:31 AM (UHVv4)

11 Howdy, CBD!

"Couple with Parrot"
Ancestors of Jimmy Buffett??

Posted by: Doof at December 14, 2021 09:32 AM (mZUr4)

12 I like the chainsaw on the bottom right, what's that for?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 14, 2021 09:32 AM (QX4+f)

13 Here come the Monty Python lines!

Posted by: Biden's Dog at December 14, 2021 09:32 AM (M+lS8)

14 With a hat like that, they'll give you a bowl of soup.

Posted by: Al Cervik at December 14, 2021 09:32 AM (4I/2K)

15 8 You sure that's not a raven?
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

nevermore!

Posted by: The Raven at December 14, 2021 09:32 AM (yrol0)

16 I think he is less interested in the bird and more interested in her decolletage.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 14, 2021 09:32 AM (Q9lwr)

17 A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 14, 2021 09:32 AM (UHVv4)

18 That's a raven.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 14, 2021 09:32 AM (E8EsG)

19 He don't paint parrots pretty.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko gender fluid at December 14, 2021 09:32 AM (o8TYF)

20 Wait, that's a dead parrot.

Posted by: WisRich at December 14, 2021 09:32 AM (G0vdT)

21 Looks more like a raven than parrot

Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 14, 2021 09:32 AM (LXmEi)

22 Not bad. A little dark. Sure as hell beats a nekkid lardass on an ottoman.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 14, 2021 09:32 AM (o2MD2)

23 I like the chainsaw on the bottom right, what's that for?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 14, 2021 09:32 AM (QX4+f)

Wall mounted spiked dildo for those times when Douchy McDouchebag is "away on business."

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

24 I, for one, would NOT couple with a parrot!
Posted by: Biden's Dog at December 14, 2021 09:31 AM (M+lS

That bunny from last night's cafe might!

Posted by: Doof at December 14, 2021 09:32 AM (mZUr4)

25 Looks like Pieter is walking in on people stealing his hooch.

Posted by: Kris at December 14, 2021 09:33 AM (OyyDO)

26 Black parrot.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 14, 2021 09:33 AM (i9ZBi)

27 Odd staging. It's like the observer is hiding in a closet, peeking in on the well-to-do power couple only to find that rather than something worthy of his clandestine observation, they're looking at a damn bird.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 09:33 AM (DU+/6)

28 It appears she's feeding it booze. Couple with drunken parrot?

Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! at December 14, 2021 09:33 AM (7moj5)

29 She is contemplating whether her wine glass is half full or half empty.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 14, 2021 09:33 AM (E8EsG)

30
Pining for the fjords?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 14, 2021 09:33 AM (tc15T)

31 de Hooch? Oh yeah, the horde will have fun with this.

Posted by: dantesed at December 14, 2021 09:33 AM (88xKn)

32 How come I'm so sure that guy has a French accent?

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2021 09:33 AM (evAgx)

33 Pieter de Hooch

Trans:

Peter the Drunk

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 14, 2021 09:33 AM (yrol0)

34 Aren't you not supposed to wear hats indoors? Is the man being rude, or is that an American thing?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 09:33 AM (DU+/6)

35 If he wasn't nailed to his perch, he'd be pushing up
The daisies.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 14, 2021 09:33 AM (+PdXu)

36 Bet she's seen a cockatoo in her day!
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 14, 2021 09:31 AM (UHVv4)

Ain't mine a beaut?

Posted by: Her Swain at December 14, 2021 09:34 AM (4I/2K)

37 Damnation. This bird was supposed to be a good idea and show off my status. But what does it get me? It gets me constant cleanup and another damn feather in my wine.

Posted by: The dame in the picture at December 14, 2021 09:34 AM (DU+/6)

38 His hat is hideous.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 14, 2021 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

39 This parrot is no more and has ceased to be. It has expired and gone to meet his maker. This is a late parrot.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 14, 2021 09:35 AM (VwHCD)

40 His hat is hideous.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 14, 2021 09:34 AM (NpAcC)
++++
Well he's a guy, so...

Posted by: State Farm Customer at December 14, 2021 09:35 AM (DU+/6)

41 The sniper is in the shadows on the right, aiming his 40 watt phased plasma rifle, with cooling fins on the barrel, right at the lady's heart.

Posted by: Gref at December 14, 2021 09:35 AM (AMIL/)

42 Parrot break is over, honey. Back to mopping the floors. And I better not hear that lute!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 14, 2021 09:35 AM (UHVv4)

43 I like the gradual recession of space in this work, and that each room becomes lighter and lighter the farther you go.

Posted by: Kris at December 14, 2021 09:35 AM (OyyDO)

44 27 Odd staging. It's like the observer is hiding in a closet, peeking in on the well-to-do power couple only to find that rather than something worthy of his clandestine observation, they're looking at a damn bird.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 09:33 AM (DU+/6)

My thoughts exactly! It's as though he's putting you, the viewer, in the position of a servant hiding in the cleaning closet. Or a burglar. Or maybe we're the sniper this time.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2021 09:35 AM (evAgx)

45 Aren't you not supposed to wear hats indoors? Is the man being rude, or is that an American thing?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 09:33 AM (DU+/6)

He's a rude boy asshat.

Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Wrecker at December 14, 2021 09:36 AM (4I/2K)

46 Is she trying to get the bird drunk on wine?

Posted by: redridinghood at December 14, 2021 09:36 AM (NpAcC)

47 The artist did a hell of a job on the woman's dress. When you supersize the picture the dress really stands out.

Posted by: 496 at December 14, 2021 09:36 AM (VJsqe)

48 Mom from off canvas..."You kids quit pestering that bird!"

Posted by: BignJames at December 14, 2021 09:36 AM (AwYPR)

49 Joe Mannix. My thoughts as well. The painting doesn't need the foreground bucket and mop and the dark curtains. And thanks to tinfoilbaby I cannot unsee the chainsaw blade.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 14, 2021 09:37 AM (2NHgQ)

50 Amazing how they included 3 more parrots under her dress.

Posted by: Some Moron at December 14, 2021 09:37 AM (ESjRY)

51 The collapse of the Black Parrot Bubble wiped out the Low Countries as a world power.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 14, 2021 09:37 AM (UHVv4)

52 That parrot is pretty dark. Are there black parrots?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 14, 2021 09:37 AM (txdEq)

53 I like the chainsaw on the bottom right, what's that for?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 14, 2021 09:32 AM (QX4+f)

Wall mounted spiked dildo for those times when Douchy McDouchebag is "away on business."
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 09:32 AM

My first thought was chainsaw, too. Embiggen it. It's a lute.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 14, 2021 09:37 AM (m+jkK)

54 That's a Norwegian Black. Very rare.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 14, 2021 09:38 AM (dfRN6)

55 I, too, keep my guitar with my mop--for those time when I'm cleaning and suddenly feel the urge to break out into song.

Posted by: Kris at December 14, 2021 09:38 AM (OyyDO)

56 I'm gonna buy me a sweat stained Bogart suit
and an African parakeet.
And then I'll sit him on my shoulder
and open up my trusty old mind.
I'm gonna teach him how to fuss,
Teach him how to cuss,
And pull the cork out of a bottle of wine.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 14, 2021 09:38 AM (yrol0)

57 I don't see a chainsaw in the lower right. I see a musical instrument.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 09:38 AM (DU+/6)

58 "Not bad. A little dark. Sure as hell beats a nekkid lardass on an ottoman."

Be careful with insulting comments about the naked guy on an ottoman painting. Too may of those and it's liable to show up on tomorrow's thread.

Posted by: Tuna at December 14, 2021 09:39 AM (gLRfa)

59 Yep. Dracula parrots.

https://tinyurl.com/29nbmu35

Posted by: Kris at December 14, 2021 09:39 AM (OyyDO)

60 POC. Parrots Of Color.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 14, 2021 09:39 AM (UHVv4)

61 Polly wants WHAT?

Posted by: huerfano at December 14, 2021 09:39 AM (MzKgG)

62 I, too, keep my guitar with my mop--for those time when I'm cleaning and suddenly feel the urge to break out into song.
Posted by: Kris at December 14, 2021 09:38 AM (OyyDO)
++++
Come and see the refreshing and exciting reimagination of "Maid in Manhattan" as a musical, only on Broadway this season!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 09:39 AM (DU+/6)

63 She's trying to teach the bird to sing...Tiptoe Through the Tulips

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 14, 2021 09:39 AM (QX4+f)

64 There are obviously folks here who have never seen a chainsaw up close.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 14, 2021 09:39 AM (o2MD2)

65 And this, my friends, was how the Great Psittacosis Pandemic of 1675 began.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 14, 2021 09:40 AM (txdEq)

66 There are obviously folks here who have never seen a chainsaw up close.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 14, 2021 09:39 AM (o2MD2)
++++
I've seen a saw, and when I describe that I say that I saw a saw. When it was in action, I saw a saw sawing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 09:40 AM (DU+/6)

67 This parrot is dead.

This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! He's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! He's a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies! His metabolic processes are now history! He's off the twig! He's kicked the bucket, he's shuffled off his mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible!! THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!!

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 14, 2021 09:40 AM (Hudry)

68 What's with the bucket in the doorway? Did the maid servant decided to take the day off?

Posted by: dantesed at December 14, 2021 09:41 AM (88xKn)

69 Polly Amory - a limerick

There once was a couple named Thacker
Had a parrot and wanted to smack 'er
They offered a treat
But the bird wouldn't eat
"For the last time! I DON'T WANT A CRACKER!!"

Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2021 09:41 AM (m45I2)

70 Our little pony-tailed girl growed up to be a woman
Now she's gone in the blink of an eye
She left the suds in the bucket
And the parrot hangin' out on the line
Yahoo!

https://youtu.be/06o-EYH9svs

Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Wrecker at December 14, 2021 09:41 AM (4I/2K)

71 Looks kinda lesbianish. NTTIAWWT. When was this painted?

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 14, 2021 09:41 AM (F0YaR)

72 67 This parrot is dead.

This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! He's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! He's a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies! His metabolic processes are now history! He's off the twig! He's kicked the bucket, he's shuffled off his mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible!! THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!!
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 14, 2021 09:40 AM (Hudry)

=========

I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021 09:41 AM (LvTSG)

73 Only took 4 comments for the horde to reference the Parrot Sketch.

Well done.

Posted by: fluffy at December 14, 2021 09:41 AM (INb3o)

74 I, too, keep my guitar with my mop--for those time when I'm cleaning and suddenly feel the urge to break out into song.
Posted by: Kris at December 14, 2021 09:38 AM (OyyDO)

Better to keep it near a broom. For when your guitar gently sweeps.

Posted by: Doof at December 14, 2021 09:42 AM (mZUr4)

75 All this needs is a bottle of Mop & Glo.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 14, 2021 09:42 AM (NpAcC)

76 There are obviously folks here who have never seen a chainsaw up close.
Posted by: Xipe Totec

I've seen a saw, and when I describe that I say that I saw a saw. When it was in action, I saw a saw sawing.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

It's a miracle! The blind man picked up a hammer and saw!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2021 09:42 AM (BAKdv)

77 I'm sure the parrot is singing in the choir of the realm celestial because I can't see it.
And I'm sure the parrot salesman wanted to be a lumberjack.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, the Phillips screwdriver of the gods at December 14, 2021 09:43 AM (eGTCV)

78 Posted by: fluffy at December 14, 2021 09:41 AM (INb3o)

I was tempted to link to it instead of the larger version, but the painting is good enough that embiggening it is worthwhile....

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 14, 2021 09:43 AM (Q9lwr)

79 34 Aren't you not supposed to wear hats indoors? Is the man being rude, or is that an American thing?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 09:33 AM (DU+/6)

It's the Netherlands, in the middle of the Little Ice Age. It's ALWAYS cold, even indoors.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2021 09:43 AM (evAgx)

80 Only took 4 comments for the horde to reference the Parrot Sketch.

Well done.
Posted by: fluffy at December 14, 2021 09:41 AM

I dunno...4 comments seems kind of slow for this crowd.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 14, 2021 09:43 AM (m+jkK)

81 5 I, for one, would NOT couple with a parrot!

Posted by: Biden's Dog at December 14, 2021 09:31 AM (M+lS

Unless it was under 10 years old in parrot years. But really, your taste runs mainly towards flavorful SS security agents.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 14, 2021 09:43 AM (F0YaR)

82 Is that a lute fisking just behind the edge of the curtain?

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 14, 2021 09:43 AM (w9Wax)

83 "My parrots name is Rod Stewart because he only says the words, 'let's make it all for one'."

-funny hat guy.

Posted by: Mishdog at December 14, 2021 09:43 AM (/VWLE)

84 Better to keep it near a broom. For when your guitar gently sweeps.
Posted by: Doof at December 14, 2021 09:42 AM (mZUr4)

Groan.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 14, 2021 09:43 AM (i9ZBi)

85 Parrots are interesting birds, but they live a long time -- about the same as a human lifetime. If your folks adopted one when you were 5, say, the beast could still be demanding head scratches when you are 65.

There's a very creepy scene involving a parrot in the 1900 short story "How Love Came to Professor Guildea" (and get your minds up out of that sewer) by Robert S. Hichens. Recommended.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 14, 2021 09:44 AM (txdEq)

86 For when your guitar gently sweeps.
Posted by: Doof at December 14, 2021 09:42 AM

Nicely done.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 14, 2021 09:44 AM (m+jkK)

87 I don't see a chainsaw in the lower right. I see a musical instrument.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

******

Well, at least now we know where they stashed the lute!

Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2021 09:44 AM (m45I2)

88 "My parrots name is Rod Stewart because he only says the words, 'let's make it all for one'."

-funny hat guy.
Posted by: Mishdog at December 14, 2021

***
Better that than "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 14, 2021 09:44 AM (txdEq)

89 64 There are obviously folks here who have never seen a chainsaw up close.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 14, 2021 09:39 AM (o2MD2)

this is that extra narrow one that works so well as an attachment on your Assault Rifle 15.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2021 09:45 AM (evAgx)

90 You'll see Honey. 45 minutes at 350 and he'll be perfect!!

Posted by: Tonypete at December 14, 2021 09:45 AM (mD/uy)

91 Better to keep it near a broom. For when your guitar gently sweeps.
Posted by: Doof at December 14, 2021 09:42 AM (mZUr4)

Groan.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 14, 2021 09:43 AM (i9ZBi)

Nicely done.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 14, 2021 09:44 AM (m+jkK)

A house divided!

Posted by: Doof at December 14, 2021 09:45 AM (mZUr4)

92 Pieter de Hooch

I'm kinda fond of de hooch, meself. Pieter, not so much.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 14, 2021 09:46 AM (F0YaR)

93 A house divided!
Posted by: Doof at December 14, 2021 09:45 AM (mZUr4)
++++
Sigh. I'm always right.

Posted by: W.B. Yeats at December 14, 2021 09:46 AM (DU+/6)

94 Couple of Euroweenie Layabouts doing what they do best....not working.

Would Not Hang.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 14, 2021 09:46 AM (tMjLZ)

95 Obligatory parrot video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4abffz10ffI

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 14, 2021 09:47 AM (Y5qcH)

96 "Pieter de Hooch," huh? "Hooch" was Army soldier slang for something in Vietnam. A native hut?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 14, 2021 09:47 AM (txdEq)

97 Parroty finally comes to the Dutch Football League.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 14, 2021 09:48 AM (w9Wax)

98 LET LOOSE THE KRAKEN-PARROT!

Posted by: Dude with the hat at December 14, 2021 09:48 AM (mNhhD)

99 How do you say, "It's dah plumbah. He's come tah fix dah sink" in Dutch?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 14, 2021 09:48 AM (dfRN6)

100 Hoochie Mama

Posted by: Frank Costanza at December 14, 2021 09:48 AM (2cfUo)

101 I like the chainsaw on the bottom right, what's that for?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 14, 2021 09:32 AM (QX4+f)
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Hmmm, I think there's a song in that....

Posted by: Jackyl at December 14, 2021 09:49 AM (RrjYy)

102 I guess there really are Masters at Dutch Masters. They weren't just blowing smoke.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 14, 2021 09:49 AM (mD/uy)

103 I thought this was a Vermeer at first, but it's too dank. Seeing this really allows for the appreciation of Vermeer's skill with rendering light.

Posted by: Kris at December 14, 2021 09:49 AM (OyyDO)

104 96 "Pieter de Hooch," huh? "Hooch" was Army soldier slang for something in Vietnam. A native hut?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 14, 2021 09:47 AM (txdEq)

Hoochie Coochie Man, by Muddy Waters?

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 14, 2021 09:49 AM (F0YaR)

105 Dark and dank. Suitable for a basement or garage that leaks.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 14, 2021 09:50 AM (BFigT)

106 RAWK! FAKE NEWS! RAWK!

Posted by: Propaganda Parrot at December 14, 2021 09:51 AM (DU+/6)

107 Why are several comments getting Alderaan'ed??

Posted by: Doof at December 14, 2021 09:51 AM (mZUr4)

108 Life was simple then.

Posted by: Ziba at December 14, 2021 09:51 AM (S1hrL)

109 Skillfully painted. Pretty colors. Meh subject. Interesting artist name. Would not hang.

Posted by: G. Gnome will not comply at December 14, 2021 09:51 AM (OQcPl)

110 Bird is the word

Posted by: Brother Tim has nothing much to say, lately at December 14, 2021 09:51 AM (OUMaO)

111 By my observation hats inside is almost mandatory prior to 1800

Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 14, 2021 09:51 AM (LXmEi)

112 That hat.... seriously...

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 14, 2021 09:52 AM (fLri9)

113 Looks like the artist was painting this from inside a broom closet.

Posted by: G. Gnome will not comply at December 14, 2021 09:52 AM (OQcPl)

114 Hats indicated one's place in the world.

Posted by: klaftern at December 14, 2021 09:53 AM (taPSh)

115 Her thumb is creepy looking.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 14, 2021 09:54 AM (ZCfi+)

116 Yesterday we had undulating fields and today we have aristocrats doing a bird examination. I am guessing the theme is "slices of life from days gone by."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 09:54 AM (DU+/6)

117 That hat.... seriously...
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 14, 2021 09:52 AM (fLri9)

Yeah. It needs a big feather.

Posted by: Cavalier at December 14, 2021 09:54 AM (4I/2K)

118 Hats indicated one's place in the world.
Posted by: klaftern at December 14, 2021 09:53 AM (taPSh)

Well then, this guy isn't in a good place, at all.....

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 09:54 AM (Zz0t1)

119 Hats indicated one's place in the world.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 14, 2021 09:55 AM (fLri9)

120 80 Only took 4 comments for the horde to reference the Parrot Sketch.

Well done.
Posted by: fluffy at December 14, 2021 09:41 AM

I dunno...4 comments seems kind of slow for this crowd.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 14, 2021 09:43 AM (m+jkK)

After "First!"," "Nooded!", and " Sponge", fourth is actually the new first.

Posted by: Fox2! at December 14, 2021 09:55 AM (qyH+l)

121 Hats indicated one's place in the world.
Posted by: klaftern at December 14, 2021 09:53 AM (taPSh)
++++
Is that why the pope's hat brushes the ceiling?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 09:55 AM (DU+/6)

122 The artist paints from an almost voyeuristic perspective.

Interesting painting.

Not sure I'd hang, as it seems almost a bit creepy, like Jason is waiting in the shadows.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (RrjYy) at December 14, 2021 09:55 AM (RrjYy)

123

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 14, 2021 09:55 AM (fLri9)

124 After "First!"," "Nooded!", and " Sponge", fourth is actually the new first.
Posted by: Fox2! at December 14, 2021 09:55 AM (qyH+l)
++++
And the white house says inflation is transient.

Feh.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 09:55 AM (DU+/6)

125 In his usual unassuming way, de Hooch meant this work as a sort of self parrot-y.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2021 09:55 AM (m45I2)

126 Hey CBD heres a great pic from same Museum

https://tinyurl.com/2p874tuz

More fitting for around Xmas

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 14, 2021 09:56 AM (yrol0)

127 How did hats indicate one's place in the world?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 14, 2021 09:56 AM (fLri9)

128 Rock 'n Roll Hoochie Coo

Different painting, different artist

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 14, 2021 09:56 AM (BFigT)

129 Not sure I'd hang, as it seems almost a bit creepy, like Jason is waiting in the shadows.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (RrjYy) at December 14, 2021 09:55 AM (RrjYy)
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Given the artist's name, I'm pretty sure the setting is Camp Cristal Lake.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 09:56 AM (DU+/6)

130 Yesterday we had undulating fields and today we have aristocrats doing a bird examination. I am guessing the theme is "slices of life from days gone by."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 09:54 AM (DU+/6)

Slice(s) of life?? You asked for it!

https://youtu.be/W4O9BkTyEoQ

Posted by: Doof at December 14, 2021 09:57 AM (mZUr4)

131 I thought she was fixing the drink for him. The ewer at her feet is where she hides the pizen.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 14, 2021 09:57 AM (Bmy3R)

132 Her thumb is creepy looking.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 14, 2021 09:54 AM (ZCfi+)

Speaking of, I saw an image of Fauxcahantas on another news link site and that bitch has FREAKISHLY long thumbs.....

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 09:58 AM (Zz0t1)

133 In an apparent move to appease teachers unions, the Biden administrations Department of Education intends to repeal a Trump-era effort to collect data on sex crimes committed by teachers against their students.

The Department of Education said on Thursday that the Office for Civil Rights will not ask school districts any questions about teacher on student sexual assault allegations as part of its 2021 2022 Civil Rights Data Collection.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 14, 2021 09:58 AM (yrol0)

134 How did hats indicate one's place in the world?
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 14, 2021 09:56 AM (fLri9)

Big Hat....Pimp

Small Hat....Laborer

No Hat...Layabout

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 14, 2021 09:58 AM (tMjLZ)

135 Speaking of, I saw an image of Fauxcahantas on another news link site and that bitch has FREAKISHLY long thumbs.....
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 09:58 AM (Zz0t1)
--------------

Maybe she was a cowgirl at one point in her life?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (RrjYy) at December 14, 2021 09:58 AM (RrjYy)

136 133 In an apparent move to appease teachers unions, the Biden administrations Department of Education intends to repeal a Trump-era effort to collect data on sex crimes committed by teachers against their students.

The Department of Education said on Thursday that the Office for Civil Rights will not ask school districts any questions about teacher on student sexual assault allegations as part of its 2021 2022 Civil Rights Data Collection.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 14, 2021 09:58 AM (yrol0)

==========

It's for the children.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021 09:58 AM (LvTSG)

137 132 Speaking of, I saw an image of Fauxcahantas on another news link site and that bitch has FREAKISHLY long thumbs.....

Her people developed them as a means of digging for Prairie Crabs.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 14, 2021 09:59 AM (Bmy3R)

138 In an apparent move to appease teachers unions, the Biden administrations Department of Education intends to repeal a Trump-era effort to collect data on sex crimes committed by teachers against their students.

The Department of Education said on Thursday that the Office for Civil Rights will not ask school districts any questions about teacher on student sexual assault allegations as part of its 2021 2022 Civil Rights Data Collection.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 14, 2021 09:58 AM (yrol0)
++++
Charming.

I shall henceforth refer to teachers as "groomers" until they decide to stop acting like that's true.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 09:59 AM (DU+/6)

139 That style of hat would eventually evolve into the tricorne as turning up the brim would become standardized on the three sides.

I don't know if true but I've read that there was alot of rain in the period [global cooling!] and the tricorne shape acted as gutters for not getting the rainwater all over your head -- especially beaver-fur ones that shed the water well.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 14, 2021 09:59 AM (UHVv4)

140 Speaking of, I saw an image of Fauxcahantas on another news link site and that bitch has FREAKISHLY long thumbs.....
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021

***
She's a Pak protector?

(Nah, she's too old to make the change now. Eating the tree-of-life root would kill her.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 14, 2021 09:59 AM (txdEq)

141 ho lee fook

November producer price index rises 9.6%, sets new record.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 14, 2021 09:59 AM (yrol0)

142 I, for one, would NOT couple with a parrot!

*****

Well duh! , It's illegal to have sex with a mynah!

Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2021 09:59 AM (m45I2)

143 I think it needs more random lines and paint splatters to express the artist's rage toward the cis-gendered.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at December 14, 2021 09:59 AM (Fs5vw)

144 138 Charming.

I shall henceforth refer to teachers as "groomers" until they decide to stop acting like that's true.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 09:59 AM (DU+/6)

=========

The idea that Teachers' Unions exist to help the children is one of the Big Lies of our times. I'd like to see it die already.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021 09:59 AM (LvTSG)

145 Mmm. Burghers.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 14, 2021 09:59 AM (UHVv4)

146 This guys seems desperate. He'd do better if he played it cool.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 14, 2021 10:00 AM (4vi12)

147 Well duh! , It's illegal to have sex with a mynah!
Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2021 09:59 AM (m45I2)
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Yeah, like that ever stopped a Biden.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (RrjYy) at December 14, 2021 10:00 AM (RrjYy)

148 141 ho lee fook

November producer price index rises 9.6%, sets new record.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 14, 2021 09:59 AM (yrol0)

===========

"Why are the peasants so revolting?"
-Ron Klain

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021 10:00 AM (LvTSG)

149 Mmm. Burghers.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 14, 2021

***
Medium to well done, and dressed.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 14, 2021 10:00 AM (txdEq)

150 ho lee fook

November producer price index rises 9.6%, sets new record.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 14, 2021 09:59 AM (yrol0)
++++
When he was on the campaign trail, Biden did promise us a "dark winter." He was right.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 10:00 AM (DU+/6)

151 Breitbart:
"Bonchie," a blogger at RedState, summarized conservative reaction to Cheney's speech and the released Meadows texts:

Are we to believe that Donald Trump orchestrated "what happened on January 6th" but didn't let his own son in on it? Or that Trump didn't share his plans with any of his closest confidantes in the media? That belabors belief, especially since Meadows himself responded to those texts in agreement, noting that he was coordinating with the president on how to respond.

It is abundantly clear at this point that whatever you think of Donald Trump, what happened on January 6th was as much a surprise to him as anyone else. The idea that he hatched and led some master plan in an attempt to seize power and remain in office never made any sense given what we know. Besides, it makes even less sense when you consider that it.. didn't happen. Normally, when you want to enact a coup, you actually, you know, enact a coup. Instead, Trump denounced what occurred, even if it was a few hours later than some would have liked. He then left the White House without any objections.

Posted by: SMOD at December 14, 2021 10:00 AM (RHGPo)

152 that bitch has FREAKISHLY long thumbs.....
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 09:58 AM (Zz0t1)

I saw that too and wondered what the heck she was doing then I saw it was a thumbs down.

That was a long thumb.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 14, 2021 10:01 AM (FZzni)

153 November producer price index rises 9.6%, sets new record.

Biden economy smashes records!

Posted by: The MFM at December 14, 2021 10:01 AM (Bmy3R)

154 133 In an apparent move to appease teachers unions, the Biden administrations Department of Education intends to repeal a Trump-era effort to collect data on sex crimes committed by teachers against their students.

The Department of Education said on Thursday that the Office for Civil Rights will not ask school districts any questions about teacher on student sexual assault allegations as part of its 2021 2022 Civil Rights Data Collection.

Posted by: rhennigantx

I'm guessing public schools with union teachers only.

Posted by: davidt at December 14, 2021 10:01 AM (WoQnt)

155 "Why are the peasants so revolting?"
-Ron Klain
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021

***
"Sire! The peasants are revolting!"

"I know, I've seen 'em. Middle class is no bargain either."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 14, 2021 10:01 AM (txdEq)

156 "Why are the peasants so revolting?"
-Ron Klain
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021 10:00 AM (LvTSG)

They stink on ice!

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 14, 2021 10:01 AM (4I/2K)

157 The Pope would not be seen in public with a Pork-pie. Homburg, maybe if just running to the corner market.

Posted by: klaftern at December 14, 2021 10:01 AM (taPSh)

158 Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 14, 2021 09:58 AM (tMjLZ)

Interesting. The pope must be a pimp... ;-)

Seriously, I always thought the hat was nothing more than article of clothing suited to one's occupation. I didn't readily associate crowns and tiaras as hats.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 14, 2021 10:01 AM (fLri9)

159 I don't believe that buy is French (altho he may speak it). He's more likely Dutch. Maybe Belgian.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 14, 2021 10:02 AM (FZzni)

160 Looks like the artist was painting this from inside a broom closet.
-------------------------
What The Portraitist Saw

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 14, 2021 10:02 AM (UHVv4)

161 "slices of life from days gone by."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 09:54 AM (DU+/6)

slice of (still)life

https://tinyurl.com/5vmnbe9n

Posted by: Kris at December 14, 2021 10:02 AM (OyyDO)

162 The Liberty Daily has the Fauxcanantas freakthumb image on the lower right.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 10:02 AM (Zz0t1)

163 And what the heck is with that table cloth?

That's a very weird pattern.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 14, 2021 10:03 AM (FZzni)

164 It's too thin to be a Vermeer.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2021 10:03 AM (m45I2)

165 141 ho lee fook

November producer price index rises 9.6%, sets new record.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 14, 2021 09:59 AM (yrol0)

Yeah, but the stock market is doing great so everything's cool.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at December 14, 2021 10:03 AM (DTX3h)

166 The Liberty Daily has the Fauxcanantas freakthumb image on the lower right.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 10:02 AM (Zz0t1)

She's hung!

Posted by: Ellen DeGeneres at December 14, 2021 10:04 AM (4I/2K)

167 Pieter de Hooch

"Whiskey-dick" in Dutchian.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 14, 2021 10:04 AM (Bmy3R)

168 I don't believe that buy [andy: boy fits as well as guy!] is French (altho he may speak it). He's more likely Dutch. Maybe Belgian.
------------------
A Phlegm!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 14, 2021 10:04 AM (UHVv4)

169 Why are the peasants so revolting?

The King is a fink.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 14, 2021 10:05 AM (FZzni)

170 Come to think of it, we wouldn't want any of our current political class, or the so-called "elite," to make the change to Pak protector. We don't need them living vastly longer and having enormous physical strength. They'd get smarter, but then they'd only use that intelligence to protect their own bloodline -- either their literal family, or (if they were childless) their extended "family" in Congress or the media.

BAN TREE-OF-LIFE ROOT!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 14, 2021 10:05 AM (txdEq)

171 I think some are confusing being a figurative bigwig, literally wearing a big wig, with having a big hat.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 14, 2021 10:06 AM (UHVv4)

172 The Liberty Daily has the Fauxcanantas freakthumb image on the lower right.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 10:02 AM

I'm opposed to looking at it.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 14, 2021 10:06 AM (Bmy3R)

173 Posted by: rhennigantx at December 14, 2021 09:56 AM (yrol0)

That link goes to a dynamic page...it is cycling through the museum's art....

What painting were you touting?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 14, 2021 10:07 AM (Q9lwr)

174 Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 14, 2021 10:06 AM (UHVv4)

All hat, and no cattle...

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 14, 2021 10:07 AM (fLri9)

175 slice of (still)life

https://tinyurl.com/5vmnbe9n
Posted by: Kris at December 14, 2021

***
Wow, just what I need to see at Christmas dinner, a cow's head --! (It's beautifully done, though, Kris.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 14, 2021 10:07 AM (txdEq)

176 Maybe Belgian.

******

Aha! Hercule Parrot!

Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2021 10:07 AM (m45I2)

177 Being a door-to-door parrot salesman must have been a pretty tough gig to make a living at.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 14, 2021 10:08 AM (VxC1e)

178 Aha! Hercule Parrot!
Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2021 10:07 AM (m45I2)

That's like the third time just in this thread you've made me groan out loud.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 14, 2021 10:08 AM (dfRN6)

179 178 Aha! Hercule Parrot!
Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2021 10:07 AM (m45I2)

That's like the third time just in this thread you've made me groan out loud.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 14, 2021 10:08 AM (dfRN6)

=========

As Muldoon probably calls it: A good day.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021 10:09 AM (LvTSG)

180 "Awwk! Polly wanna cracker!"

Hey, don't look at me that way. It's Talk Like a Parrot day!

Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2021 10:09 AM (m45I2)

181 is it me or is the room in the background and the doorway or window at a different angle than the front room?

The lines are not parallel.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 14, 2021 10:09 AM (FZzni)

182 Maybe Belgian.

******
Aha! Hercule Parrot!
Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2021

***
Wasn't there a Charlie Chan mystery or movie called The Black Parrot? I know there was one called The Black Camel.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 14, 2021 10:09 AM (txdEq)

183 "Good afternoon, miss. Could I come in and demonstrate the features and benefits of this lovely bird?"

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 14, 2021 10:09 AM (VxC1e)

184 Pieter de Hooch

"Whiskey-dick" in Dutchian.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 14, 2021 10:04 AM

Sounds delish!

Posted by: Don Lemon at December 14, 2021 10:10 AM (m+jkK)

185 Stupid as it sounds, that lute is probably where it needed to be. Away from a heat source and somewhat humidified so it don't start cracking. I'm guessing that parking it near the water bucket in what looks like a broom or laundry closet wasn't accidental.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 14, 2021 10:10 AM (VwHCD)

186 What painting were you touting?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 14, 2021 10:07 AM (Q9lwr)

The sweet 8 lb Baby Jesus in the manger with the Shepherds.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 14, 2021 10:10 AM (yrol0)

187 In an apparent move to appease teachers unions, the Biden administrations Department of Education intends to repeal a Trump-era effort to collect data on sex crimes committed by teachers against their students.

The data was actually a good recruiting tool, but maybe it looks a bit too much like we're bragging.

Posted by: Teacher's Unions at December 14, 2021 10:10 AM (9Fwwf)

188 Before doing the pet thing....he was doing stand up at The Comedy Cage.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at December 14, 2021 10:11 AM (TrkA3)

189 The Black Camel.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 14, 2021 10:09 AM (txdEq)

I used to smoke Camels. I like Lucky Strikes better.

This was back before they tried to hustle the kids with Joe.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 14, 2021 10:11 AM (FZzni)

190 Being a door-to-door parrot salesman must have been a pretty tough gig to make a living at.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 14, 2021 10:08 AM (VxC1e)

Better money than selling monkeys door to door.

Posted by: Zombie Reverend Jim Jones at December 14, 2021 10:11 AM (tMjLZ)

191 "I think you'll be very happy with your purchase. Could I interest you in the extended warranty?"

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 14, 2021 10:11 AM (VxC1e)

192 Hey, don't look at me that way. It's Talk Like a Parrot day!
Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2021 10:09 AM (m45I2)

Arrrgh, I believe that is Sept 19th.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 14, 2021 10:11 AM (yrol0)

193 The sweet 8 lb Baby Jesus in the manger with the Shepherds.
Posted by: rhennigantx

"Away in a Manger" has always bugged me - 'no crib for a bed' - did anyone have a crib back then?

Posted by: Tonypete at December 14, 2021 10:12 AM (mD/uy)

194 Aha! Hercule Parrot!
Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2021 10:07 AM

I remember him being introduced as Mr. Hercules Parrot in a Sherlock Holmes parody that John Cleese and a few of the Python crowd were in.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 14, 2021 10:12 AM (m+jkK)

195 The Liberty Daily has the Fauxcanantas freakthumb image on the lower right.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 10:02 AM (Zz0t1)

She's hung!
Posted by: Ellen DeGeneres at December 14, 2021 10:04 AM (4I/2K)

That almost made me spew coffee........

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 10:12 AM (Zz0t1)

196 Wasn't there a Charlie Chan mystery or movie called The Black Parrot? I know there was one called The Black Camel.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 14, 2021

***
It was The Chinese Parrot.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 14, 2021 10:12 AM (txdEq)

197 190 Being a door-to-door parrot salesman must have been a pretty tough gig to make a living at.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 14, 2021 10:08 AM (VxC1e)

Better money than selling monkeys door to door.
Posted by: Zombie Reverend Jim Jones at December 14, 2021 10:11 AM (tMjLZ)

I have 2000 lbs of parrots and a 1000 lb load limit and needs to keep half flying all the time.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 14, 2021 10:12 AM (yrol0)

198 She turned me into a lute.

Posted by: Chainsaw at December 14, 2021 10:13 AM (WoQnt)

199 I do enjoy the art from this time and place. The style, like Vermeer, has plenty of detail and appropriate color. In this case the floor and walls show the well-made but muted browns of the comfortable set. The sheen and light silvery gown focuses the viewer's attention on the woman and the center of the painting. The room flows from her image.

I also enjoy the images of the culture these paintings show. These vignettes are like puzzles that slowly reveal more as the details are put together.

Thanks, CBD.

Posted by: JTB at December 14, 2021 10:13 AM (7EjX1)

200 She turned me into a lute.
Posted by: Chainsaw at December 14, 2021 10:13 AM

A lute?!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 14, 2021 10:13 AM (m+jkK)

201
I'm opposed to looking at it.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 14, 2021 10:06 AM (Bmy3R)

There is a dog.
He has two bones.
He runs in circles.
He drops dead.

Freedom of choice.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 10:14 AM (Zz0t1)

202 What's a lute?

Posted by: Judge Chamberlain Haller at December 14, 2021 10:14 AM (VxC1e)

203 She turned me into a lute.
Posted by: Chainsaw

Did you get better?

(I've been waiting all thread for someone to throw that out there)

Posted by: Tonypete at December 14, 2021 10:14 AM (mD/uy)

204 The reason for that weird angled peghead on lutes is so they could serve a as a hockey stick in a pinch.

Seduction of a buxom wench or a bloody hockey brawl: the well-equipped man of that era was prepared for either.

Posted by: Genuine Historical Facts at December 14, 2021 10:14 AM (bW8dp)

205 202 What's a lute?
Posted by: Judge Chamberlain Haller at December 14, 2021 10:14 AM (VxC1e)

25 bux same as downtown!

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 14, 2021 10:14 AM (yrol0)

206 200 She turned me into a lute.
Posted by: Chainsaw at December 14, 2021 10:13 AM

A lute?!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 14, 2021 10:13 AM (m+jkK)

Wull...I got frettered.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 14, 2021 10:15 AM (dfRN6)

207
"Away in a Manger" has always bugged me - 'no crib for a bed' - did anyone have a crib back then?
Posted by: Tonypete

Corn crib

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 14, 2021 10:15 AM (63Dwl)

208 "Pieces of seven! Pieces of seven!"

Posted by: Parroty Error at December 14, 2021 10:16 AM (bW8dp)

209 The Black Camel.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 14, 2021 10:09 AM (txdEq)
*
I used to smoke Camels. I like Lucky Strikes better.

This was back before they tried to hustle the kids with Joe.
Posted by: jakee308 at December 14, 2021

***
The phrase "Camel cigarettes" doesn't make me think first of the tobacco sticks, but of the chocolate candy cigs that used to be in the grocery store. Each was a thin cylinder of milk chocolate, inside a loose sleeve of white paper, so that it *looked* like a cigarette. There were also those white candy ones with a smudge of red food coloring at one end to simulate the burning ember of a lit cigarette, but those were a poor substitute.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 14, 2021 10:16 AM (txdEq)

210 MFM keen to let us know that a "38 degree day in Verkhoyansk, Russia in June 2020 certified as highest temperature ever recorded in the Arctic."

Oddly enough, the next chyron doesn't tell us about record-setting cold all over the Russian Arctic THIS early winter.

Verkhoyansk, Russia latitude: 67.6 deg. North [Arctic Circle starts at 60 deg.]
38C = 100.4F

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 14, 2021 10:16 AM (UHVv4)

211 99 How do you say, "It's dah plumbah. He's come tah fix dah sink" in Dutch?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 14, 2021 09:48 AM (dfRN6)

"Het is de loodgieter. Hier om de gootsteen te maken."

Posted by: SnailRacer at December 14, 2021 10:16 AM (Smc4W)

212 I like this song. Such a dirty sounding lute.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at December 14, 2021 10:16 AM (TrkA3)

213 Freedom of choice.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 10:14 AM (Zz0t1)

Duty Now for the Future!

Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 14, 2021 10:16 AM (Bmy3R)

214 202 What's a lute?
Posted by: Judge Chamberlain Haller at December 14, 2021 10:14 AM (VxC1e)

Lute, the burn.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 14, 2021 10:17 AM (z5Vrg)

215 *then burn

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 14, 2021 10:17 AM (z5Vrg)

216 It's lute lute lute
That makes the boys
get up and shoot.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 14, 2021 10:17 AM (FZzni)

217 >>There were also those white candy ones with a smudge of red food coloring at one end to simulate the burning ember of a lit cigarette, but those were a poor substitute.
==

I was a bubble gum cigar man myself.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at December 14, 2021 10:17 AM (O6DoG)

218 "Burn, Lute, Murder"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 14, 2021 10:17 AM (txdEq)

219 "Away in a Manger" has always bugged me - 'no crib for a bed' - did anyone have a crib back then?
Posted by: Tonypete

--------

The black wise man had a pretty dope crib.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 14, 2021 10:18 AM (VxC1e)

220 Verkhoyansk, Russia latitude: 67.6 deg. North [Arctic Circle starts at 60 deg.]
38C = 100.4F
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 14, 2021 10:16 AM (UHVv4)

Guess how far back Siberia temperature records go.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 14, 2021 10:18 AM (Y5qcH)

221 Warren, "89% of student loan holders say they aren't ready to start repaying their debt." It's like people saying to the realtor, "love the house but I wish it didn't have those pesky monthly payments!"

Posted by: Goliad's Ghosts at December 14, 2021 10:18 AM (QZ/dC)

222 The phrase "Camel cigarettes" doesn't make me think first of the tobacco sticks, but of the chocolate candy cigs that used to be in the grocery store. Each was a thin cylinder of milk chocolate, inside a loose sleeve of white paper, so that it *looked* like a cigarette. There were also those white candy ones with a smudge of red food coloring at one end to simulate the burning ember of a lit cigarette, but those were a poor substitute.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

And white fine powdered sugar that could be blown out of the stick to look like smoke.

Posted by: Chainsaw at December 14, 2021 10:18 AM (WoQnt)

223 Black Lutes Matter

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 14, 2021 10:18 AM (yrol0)

224 "There won't be snow in Africa this Christmastime"

Or, well, ever.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 14, 2021 10:18 AM (Bmy3R)

225 The sweet 8 lb Baby Jesus in the manger with the Shepherds.
Posted by: rhennigantx

"Away in a Manger" has always bugged me - 'no crib for a bed' - did anyone have a crib back then?
Posted by: Tonypete

Everybody had a crib back then. Just no Netflix and chill.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2021 10:19 AM (BAKdv)

226 > I used to smoke Camels. I like Lucky Strikes better.

Yeah, Luckies are good. Hard to find 'em nowadays, though. Same with the bare-assed Camels.

The kids today want watermelon flavored vapes and shit like that.

Same phenomenon as the frou-frou "coffee" drinks that consist of about two tablespoons of coffee and five gallons of syrup and whipped cream.

We need to go back to the days when men smoked unfiltered cigarettes, drank black coffee and rye whiskey, and ate pounds of rare steak.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 14, 2021 10:19 AM (bW8dp)

227 221 Warren, "89% of student loan holders say they aren't ready to start repaying their debt." It's like people saying to the realtor, "love the house but I wish it didn't have those pesky monthly payments!"
Posted by: Goliad's Ghosts at December 14, 2021 10:18 AM (QZ/dC)

Now do child support!

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 14, 2021 10:19 AM (yrol0)

228 /off horrific texas murder weapon

Posted by: davidt at December 14, 2021 10:19 AM (WoQnt)

229 Warren, "89% of student loan holders say they aren't ready to start repaying their debt." It's like people saying to the realtor, "love the house but I wish it didn't have those pesky monthly payments!"
Posted by: Goliad's Ghosts at December 14, 2021 10:18 AM (QZ/dC)

Fuck you! Where's my money?

Posted by: Taxpayer Mob Collection Associate at December 14, 2021 10:19 AM (4I/2K)

230 "There won't be snow in Africa this Christmastime"

Or, well, ever.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 14, 2021 10:18 AM

Another song I hate with the heat of 1,000 suns...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 14, 2021 10:20 AM (m+jkK)

231 POLLY HATE A CRACKER RAAWWK!

Posted by: BLM Propaganda Parrot at December 14, 2021 10:20 AM (XfhKA)

232 Yeah. The Arctic ice was all supposed to be gone by now. And never to be seen again.

I believe they're batting 1000 on missing every date for some event that foretells the doom of climate change.

You'd think they'd learn. Some of them are getting wise and putting the dates farther out like 30 years or so.

Ol greta went for like a decade?

Posted by: jakee308 at December 14, 2021 10:20 AM (FZzni)

233 229 Warren, "89% of student loan holders say they aren't ready to start repaying their debt." It's like people saying to the realtor, "love the house but I wish it didn't have those pesky monthly payments!"
Posted by: Goliad's Ghosts at December 14, 2021 10:18 AM (QZ/dC)

=========

Finished paying mine off a few months ago.

Of course, we had refinanced and never got the option to stop paying at all over the pandemic response.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021 10:20 AM (LvTSG)

234 Mt. Kilimanjaro has snow. If you want snow, you must go there.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 14, 2021 10:20 AM (VxC1e)

235 Warren, "89% of student loan holders say they aren't ready to start repaying their debt." It's like people saying to the realtor, "love the house but I wish it didn't have those pesky monthly payments!"
Posted by: Goliad's Ghosts at December 14, 2021 10:18 AM

Where's my money?!

Posted by: Stewie Griffin at December 14, 2021 10:20 AM (m+jkK)

236 It's lute lute lute
That makes the boys
get up and shoot.
Posted by: jakee308 at December 14, 2021 10:17 AM (FZzni)

Lute lute lute
Lute of pearl pearl pearl

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 10:20 AM (Zz0t1)

237 Reminds me of M*A*S*H and the nudie films Hawkeye would get. "Sophia, Paolo and what the Parrot saw".

Posted by: Darth Randall at December 14, 2021 10:20 AM (SoRML)

238 232 You'd think they'd learn. Some of them are getting wise and putting the dates farther out like 30 years or so.

Ol greta went for like a decade?
Posted by: jakee308 at December 14, 2021 10:20 AM (FZzni)

==========

"In a thousand years the world will be different if we don't pass the Carbon Tax!"
-Soon

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021 10:21 AM (LvTSG)

239 I'm not fond of this new hash.

Posted by: davidt at December 14, 2021 10:21 AM (WoQnt)

240 Warren, "89% of student loan holders say they aren't ready to start repaying their debt." It's like people saying to the realtor, "love the house but I wish it didn't have those pesky monthly payments!"
Posted by: Goliad's Ghosts at December 14, 2021 10:18 AM (QZ/dC)

Uh.....what? That makes no fucking sense at all. That's not how this works.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 10:21 AM (Zz0t1)

241 Warren, "89% of student loan holders say they aren't ready to start repaying their debt." It's like people saying to the realtor, "love the house but I wish it didn't have those pesky monthly payments!"
Posted by: Goliad's Ghosts at December 14, 2021 10:18 AM (QZ/dC)
++++
It's shocking how they pull out the stops to ensure the money laundering into the universities continues unfettered. The Bush 43 bankruptcy reform is a big part of this problem, since it made all student loans formally non-dischargeable in bankruptcy. It was one of the biggest giveaways to the banks and schools in history. And the solution to the problem, of course, is - as it is always is - printing up new dollars to give to them instead.

Fuck her.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 10:21 AM (DU+/6)

242 Posted by: SnailRacer at December 14, 2021 10:16 AM (Smc4W)

*waves at SnailRacer*

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 14, 2021 10:21 AM (Ez6QX)

243 89% of boat owners would prefer not to pay the slip rental.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 14, 2021 10:22 AM (VxC1e)

244 The Salvation Army is desperate for Donations, maybe just maybe calling your donors racist might have had an impact on who donates. The Left Hates you because you are a religious org, welp have fun
https://tinyurl.com/hrc44djr

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 14, 2021 10:22 AM (dKiJG)

245 Les Emmerson, who wrote "Signs" and led Five Man Electrical Band, has died at 77 after contracting Covid-19." Sounds like it might be "died with" and not "due to" despite his age.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 14, 2021 10:22 AM (UHVv4)

246 Warren, "89% of student loan holders say they aren't ready to start repaying their debt." It's like people saying to the realtor, "love the house but I wish it didn't have those pesky monthly payments!"
Posted by: Goliad's Ghosts at December 14, 2021 10:18 AM (QZ/dC)

I'm in the 11%. I'm paying mine off in full next month when the interest rates kick back in.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 14, 2021 10:23 AM (Ez6QX)

247 You'd think they'd learn. Some of them are getting wise and putting the dates farther out like 30 years or so.

Ol greta went for like a decade?
Posted by: jakee308 at December 14, 2021 10:20 AM (FZzni)
++++
It's a tough balancing act. If they go out too far into the future, no one will listen. If they stay too near-term like Scolidlocks, they're made into fools in real time. This is why 30-50 years is the sweet spot - soon enough to be worrying but not so soon that anyone will be called out for it when it all fails to pan out.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 10:23 AM (DU+/6)

248 Use the Force, Lute.

Posted by: klaftern at December 14, 2021 10:23 AM (taPSh)

249 243 89% of boat owners would prefer not to pay the slip rental.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 14, 2021 10:22 AM (VxC1e)

Let's do property taxes!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 14, 2021 10:23 AM (dfRN6)

250 >>Warren, "89% of student loan holders say they aren't ready to start repaying their debt."

I bet restaurants and coffee shops see a surge of new job applicants after the first of the year.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 14, 2021 10:23 AM (ZLI7S)

251 Verkhoyansk, Russia latitude: 67.6 deg. North [Arctic Circle starts at 60 deg.]
38C = 100.4F
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 14, 2021

***
I think the Arctic Circle begins at something more like 66 degrees -- 90 minus the earth's inclination of about 23.5 = 66.5. But this location is still in the Arctic.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 14, 2021 10:23 AM (txdEq)

252 We need to go back to the days when men smoked unfiltered cigarettes, drank black coffee and rye whiskey, and ate pounds of rare steak.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

What about the dresses?

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 14, 2021 10:23 AM (qbmV0)

253 We need to go back to the days when men smoked unfiltered cigarettes, drank black coffee and rye whiskey, and ate pounds of rare steak.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

What about the dresses?
Posted by: nurse ratched

Well, if the guys want to wear dresses, I guess that would be okay.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 14, 2021 10:24 AM (mD/uy)

254 The beginning of the Renaissance.

Holland was a very rich country.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 14, 2021 10:25 AM (FZzni)

255 250 >>Warren, "89% of student loan holders say they aren't ready to start repaying their debt."

I bet restaurants and coffee shops see a surge of new job applicants after the first of the year.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 14, 2021 10:23 AM (ZLI7S)

===========

I do wonder if this is one of the larger sources of the employment issues right now. Probably the single largest expense for many young people has been on hold for more than a year and a half. They can move home and live off their parents (or even live rent free in an apartment in some places still, I believe), so the need for income is diminished greatly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021 10:25 AM (LvTSG)

256 > The Bush 43 bankruptcy reform is a big part of this problem, since it made all student loans formally non-dischargeable in bankruptcy. It was one of the biggest giveaways to the banks and schools in history.

Then Obama bought out all the student loans, ensuring the banks collected their profit up front with no further risk.

Of course this was sold to the dipshit Dem constituents as "taking the profits away from the banks".

The taxpayers have been set up for a good hard reaming on student loans for about a decade now. I recommend lubing up, because it ain't gonna be fun. Unless you work for The Bulwark or something, and are therefore into that shit.

Dopey Joe's gonna have to do something... a lot of his votes came from student debtors who believed that he was going to make their loans Go Away. If he doesn't come through, the midterms are going to be far more brutal than they're already looking to be.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 14, 2021 10:25 AM (bW8dp)

257 The Salvation Army is desperate for Donations, maybe just maybe calling your donors racist might have had an impact on who donates. The Left Hates you because you are a religious org, welp have fun
https://tinyurl.com/hrc44djr
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 14, 2021 10:22 AM (dKiJG)
++++
The developments at the Salvation Army are hideous and leave me with a problem. I used to give generously to them every year, but now I won't. I know, I know - the bad apples at the top, your local leadership probably didn't even know about it, it's not their mission, etc. - but the cancer must be excised. If the Salvation Army had come out with, "this was a bunch of renegade communists and we've purged them from our ranks and are retracting all of this crap and excising it from our organization. We're sorry we let our guard down and we've fixed the problem" then I wouldn't be terminating my donations. They did not do that. They brushed it off with a disingenuous non-apology, so I'm finished.

Who is worth giving to?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 10:25 AM (DU+/6)

258 Small bird. Forty minutes at 350 should do it.

Posted by: creeper at December 14, 2021 10:25 AM (cTCuP)

259 We need to go back to the days when men smoked unfiltered cigarettes, drank black coffee and rye whiskey, and ate pounds of rare steak.

^^^This.

Posted by: Colon and Esophageal Cancer at December 14, 2021 10:25 AM (bA3Ln)

260 Anyone see the "Pro-choice men" ad? Says a lot about abortion. It's not always "the woman", sometimes it's someone pushing her off that cliff.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 14, 2021 10:25 AM (ONvIw)

261 We need to go back to the days when men smoked unfiltered cigarettes, drank black coffee and rye whiskey, and ate pounds of rare steak.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 14, 2021

***
Pipe smoking counts too. (Disclosure: occasional pipe smoker here)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 14, 2021 10:26 AM (txdEq)

262 What a silly WoQnt!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 14, 2021 10:26 AM (UHVv4)

263 The Salvation Army is desperate for Donations, maybe just maybe calling your donors racist might have had an impact on who donates.

The person quoted in that article doesn't mention it as even a possible factor so I guess they're not desperate enough yet.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 14, 2021 10:26 AM (nfrXX)

264 257 Who is worth giving to?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 10:25 AM (DU+/6)

=========

The Human Fund.

I'm collecting donations.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021 10:26 AM (LvTSG)

265 89% of Nordstrom's shoppers say they are not prepared to stop at the checkout register...

Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2021 10:26 AM (m45I2)

266 Lol!

"The WMO says a previous air temperature record of 99 F (37.3 C) was measured in Verkhoyansk on July 25, 1988.

The town holds the Guinness World Record for the most extreme range of temperatures, which varies from minus 90 F to the high 90s."

I'm willing to bet they don't have more than 200-300 years of temperature data. These people are scammers.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 14, 2021 10:26 AM (Y5qcH)

267 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 10:23 AM (DU+/6)

Plus the corporate press never calls them out on their failed predictions.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 14, 2021 10:26 AM (FZzni)

268 We need to go back to the days when men smoked unfiltered cigarettes, drank black coffee and rye whiskey, and ate pounds of rare steak.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

What about the dresses?
Posted by: nurse ratched

Well, if the guys want to wear dresses, I guess that would be okay.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 14, 2021 10:24 AM (mD/uy)

Stockings with seams up the back? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Wrecker at December 14, 2021 10:27 AM (4I/2K)

269 Who is worth giving to?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 10:25 AM (DU+/6)

We donated to veterans groups and LLS this year. Most of the religious groups we used to contribute too are very woke.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 14, 2021 10:27 AM (ONvIw)

270 Holland was a very rich country.

Tulips. The original Bitcoin.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 14, 2021 10:27 AM (bA3Ln)

271
Stockings with seams up the back? Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Wrecker at December 14, 2021 10:27 AM (4I/2K)

I like the way the line runs up the back of their stockings. I've always liked those kind of high heels, too.

- David Lee Roth

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 10:27 AM (Zz0t1)

272 Who is worth giving to?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

I only give locally now, in cash, to folks and orgs I know. I don't trust any of the big ones any more. My wife gives to a few prolife orgs and tries to ensure they don't have horrendous administrative fees and such.

It tough to find good places to donate to.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 14, 2021 10:28 AM (mD/uy)

273 Who is worth giving to?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!

St. Anthony's Bread for the Poor

Posted by: JT at December 14, 2021 10:28 AM (arJlL)

274 > What about the dresses?
Posted by: nurse ratched

The women did all that stuff too, and did it while wearing pretty dresses.

The last relative of my grandmother's generation passed recently. I called her an aunt, but she was actually my grandmother's sister in law. I remember visiting her and her husband as a kid. They had a cup of coffee and a cigarette permanently attached to their hands.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 14, 2021 10:29 AM (bW8dp)

275 Why do schools with huge endowments not back their own loans. Why does the government hold
The papers? So when kids default, the schools still get paid, but taxpayers get screwed? I don't get it.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 14, 2021 10:29 AM (39aJG)

276 woqnt is pretty boss - "Woke not, want not"

Posted by: Goliad's Ghosts at December 14, 2021 10:29 AM (QZ/dC)

277 My only debt, that of the car, is now paid off and those funds will stay in the bank for the near future. Everything else I pay off each month, and compared to some, my credit card expenditures are pretty small.

Unfortunately (for him, and for my finances), Chekov the Ailing Codger Cat is going to require care into the near future too. Oh, well, that's the deal when you take in a furry friend.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 14, 2021 10:29 AM (txdEq)

278
Polly want you to get off his fucking beak, you goddam colorists!

Oh, so a strong, proud Black Parrot scares you does it, you Psittaciformephobes! Fuck you! Take your Bright Multicolored Supremacy and get the fuck outta here!

Now, get me a beer and a cuttlebone and make it snappy, asshole!

Posted by: The Parrot at December 14, 2021 10:29 AM (5NkmN)

279 I've been invited to the staff party of my local microbrewery. I am not a member of the staff I just help them make money.
I think I need to stop drinking beer but not this day.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, the Phillips screwdriver of the gods at December 14, 2021 10:30 AM (eGTCV)

280 275 Why do schools with huge endowments not back their own loans. Why does the government hold
The papers? So when kids default, the schools still get paid, but taxpayers get screwed? I don't get it.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 14, 2021 10:29 AM (39aJG)

==========

Because if they use their endowments to back up loans to their own organization, they'll be on the hook for students who default on their loans because the universities are teaching people nothing of value for large sums of money.

It would cut into the graft.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021 10:30 AM (LvTSG)

281 Greetings:

I killed my Sister's canary.

I was home alone after school and thought I could teach him to perch on my finger. When I took him out of the cage he flew off in my sister's bedroom. To get control of him (Dickie Bird) I threw my sister's terrycloth robe over him. That's when he went to cuttlebone heaven. I put him back in his cage and skedaddled to the after school yard. My sister found him when she got home from school but left him there. She didn't seem much disturbed other than wanting someone to remove his remains. Dad did the honors when he got home from work. He was as close to distraught as he ever allowed himself to go.

Many years later over a couple of "balls and beers", I confessed to being the culprit. "I knew." was my Father's rejoinder.

Posted by: 11B40 at December 14, 2021 10:30 AM (uuklp)

282 Pipe smoking counts too. (Disclosure: occasional pipe smoker here)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 14, 2021 10:26 AM

*occasional pipe smoking fistbump*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 14, 2021 10:30 AM (m+jkK)

283 > Pipe smoking counts too. (Disclosure: occasional pipe smoker here)

Definitely. And a den to smoke the pipe in.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 14, 2021 10:31 AM (bW8dp)

284 Something Gary Sinise is running or affiliated with.

He's been great with vets and current military.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 14, 2021 10:31 AM (FZzni)

285 275 Why do schools with huge endowments not back their own loans. Why does the government hold
The papers? So when kids default, the schools still get paid, but taxpayers get screwed? I don't get it.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 14, 2021 10:29 AM (39aJG)

What?! Touch our slush fund????

Posted by: All the Ivies at December 14, 2021 10:31 AM (ONvIw)

286 They had a cup of coffee and a cigarette permanently attached to their hands.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 14, 2021

***
Understandable. Coffee and a mild burley pipe tobacco make a good start to a weekend morning.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 14, 2021 10:31 AM (txdEq)

287 Remember that mouthy coachman who annoyed you so? Well, I freed that witch woman from my tower, and in return, she transformed him into this squawking bird for your amusement. Happy birthday.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 14, 2021 10:31 AM (2ABQr)

288 I'm not ready to pay any of my bills or taxes. But maybe that's just me!

Posted by: t-bird at December 14, 2021 10:31 AM (AytXr)

289 Sara Bareilles - Come 'Round Soon:
https://youtu.be/9vdzb3p_bwA

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 10:32 AM (DU+/6)

290 I killed my Sister's canary.

******

Murder most fowl!

Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2021 10:32 AM (m45I2)

291 275 Why do schools with huge endowments not back their own loans. Why does the government hold
The papers? So when kids default, the schools still get paid, but taxpayers get screwed? I don't get it.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 14, 2021 10:29 AM (39aJG)

Well the prospects of getting paid on some of those useless degrees wouldn't be so good.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 14, 2021 10:33 AM (z5Vrg)

292 Kind of overdressed for just hanging out at home with their bird

Posted by: steevy at December 14, 2021 10:33 AM (CYnTg)

293 I think she does that thing tht most girls dont do.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss the Delta Variant at December 14, 2021 10:33 AM (g4Y3q)

294 I killed my Sister's canary.

******
Murder most fowl!
Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2021

***
Did you tweet about it?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 14, 2021 10:33 AM (txdEq)

295 I killed my Sister's canary.

******

Murder most fowl!
Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2021 10:32 AM (m45I2)

On a streak!

Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Wrecker at December 14, 2021 10:33 AM (4I/2K)

296 We need to go back to the days when men smoked unfiltered cigarettes, drank black coffee and rye whiskey, and ate pounds of rare steak.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

This would definitely cut our Social Security and Medicare costs.

Posted by: All the Ivies at December 14, 2021 10:33 AM (ONvIw)

297 Remember that mouthy coachman who annoyed you so? Well, I freed that witch woman from my tower, and in return, she transformed him into this squawking bird for your amusement. Happy birthday.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 14, 2021 10:31 AM (2ABQr)
++++
That's a dark take.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 10:33 AM (DU+/6)

298 Universities instantly turn into greedy Capitalists when you threaten THEIR money.

But your money? Oh sure lets blow that like five sailors on liberty in Naples.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 14, 2021 10:33 AM (pshDQ)

299 I think the Arctic Circle begins at something more like 66 degrees -- 90 minus the earth's inclination of about 23.5 = 66.5. But this location is still in the Arctic.
--------------------------
I see it IS 66 deg. Thanks for the correction.

There is a TV show here called North of 60 that was about Indians et alia in the Arctic, so I thought it started at 60 deg.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 14, 2021 10:33 AM (UHVv4)

300 Sniffy, parts of Siberia do indeed have massive temperature differences due to topography and weather patterns. Why the attitude?

Posted by: SFGoth at December 14, 2021 10:34 AM (KAi1n)

301 I worked oil rigs from 16 and every summer in college and had a job during the term as an undergraduate waiting tables. I thought I had died and gone to heaven when they paid for my graduate degree for teaching labs to undergrads and the occasional office hours. Never gonna get me there on student loan forgiveness - never.

Posted by: Goliad's Ghosts at December 14, 2021 10:34 AM (QZ/dC)

302 The Salvation Army is desperate for Donations,
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 14, 2021 10:22 AM (dKiJG)

Da! We here at the central committee have grown used to our warm, oversized offices, marked parking spaces and cozy toilets with hot and cold water.
Please give us gobs of money so we can maintain our comfortable existence while you exercise your white guilt and let us provide gruel and warm water to the lumpen proletariat!

Lenin Be Praised & Save Us Saint George Of Fentanyl...

Posted by: The Salvation Red Army at December 14, 2021 10:34 AM (tMjLZ)

303 > I bet restaurants and coffee shops see a surge of new job applicants after the first of the year.

Doubtful. With income-based repayment, it's not likely that someone with a minimum wage coffee shop job would have to pay any significant amount on their loans.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 14, 2021 10:34 AM (bW8dp)

304 Many years later over a couple of "balls and beers", I confessed to being the culprit. "I knew." was my Father's rejoinder.

Posted by: 11B40 at December 14, 2021 10:30 AM (uuklp)

8 balls?....w/dad?

Posted by: BignJames at December 14, 2021 10:34 AM (AwYPR)

305 Warren, "89% of student loan holders say they aren't ready to start repaying their debt."

...or take your order. They'll be with you in a minute.

Posted by: t-bird at December 14, 2021 10:35 AM (1vynn)

306 It would cut into the graft.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021 10:30 AM (LvTSG)

This is the main concern. Plus they'd have to look at their degree offerings and trim faculty.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 14, 2021 10:35 AM (ONvIw)

307 8 balls?....w/dad?
Posted by: BignJames at December 14, 2021 10:34 AM (AwYPR)
++++
The family that blows together, goes together.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 10:35 AM (DU+/6)

308 That's a dark take.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 10:33 AM (DU+/6)

Whatever. It's romantic.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 14, 2021 10:36 AM (2ABQr)

309 Top schools like Ivies, Duke, etc dont have a ton of student loans. Harvard for example plays 100% of tuition for students whose families earn under $100k. And then a sliding scale from there up to $250k (I think). So really only the upper crust has to pay full freight and then student loans are not really needed.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss the Delta Variant at December 14, 2021 10:36 AM (g4Y3q)

310 300 Sniffy, parts of Siberia do indeed have massive temperature differences due to topography and weather patterns. Why the attitude?
Posted by: SFGoth at December 14, 2021 10:34 AM (KAi1n)

Because they are playing it off like its "omergerd, climate change!" When it's only 0.7 C above the old record set in 1988 and the records probably don't even go back further than 300 years, which is an insignificant data set.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 14, 2021 10:36 AM (UuD2k)

311 Greetings:

In the Bronx of my youth "balls and beers" were whiskey shots with beer chasers. Never needed 8.

Posted by: 11B40 at December 14, 2021 10:36 AM (uuklp)

312 298 Universities instantly turn into greedy Capitalists when you threaten THEIR money.

But your money? Oh sure lets blow that like five sailors on liberty in Naples.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 14, 2021 10:33 AM (pshDQ)

They invest most of it, probably in companies with massive Asian presence.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 14, 2021 10:37 AM (ONvIw)

313 Warren, "89% of student loan holders say they aren't ready to start repaying their debt."

Including Pete Buttigieg's wife or husband.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, the Phillips screwdriver of the gods at December 14, 2021 10:37 AM (eGTCV)

314 8 balls?....w/dad?
Posted by: BignJames at December 14, 2021 10:34 AM (AwYPR)

Well, his dad got a bunch of his paintings sold. How else ya gonna celebrate?

Posted by: Hunter at December 14, 2021 10:37 AM (2ABQr)

315 306This is the main concern. Plus they'd have to look at their degree offerings and trim faculty.
Posted by: CN...FJB at December 14, 2021 10:35 AM (ONvIw)

=========

"No...we can't keep the Gender Studies program as it is. You either need to do it at about $5 a credit or you need to start teaching skills that lead to people being employable."

"That's racist!"

"No, Betty, it's sexist."

"Right! That's sexist!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021 10:37 AM (LvTSG)

316 "We need to go back to the days when men smoked unfiltered cigarettes, drank black coffee and rye whiskey, and ate pounds of rare steak. "

When girls were girls, and men were men.

Posted by: Archie and Edith at December 14, 2021 10:37 AM (WoQnt)

317 They invest most of it, probably in companies with massive Asian presence.
Posted by: CN...FJB at December 14, 2021 10:37 AM (ONvIw)
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And sometimes in ponzi schemes. Like when Brandeis had to sell off part of its art collection to deal with endowment shortfalls after Bernie Madoff's schemes blew up.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 10:37 AM (DU+/6)

318 Harvard has a Student Loan Department, but no loans? LOL

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 14, 2021 10:38 AM (ONvIw)

319 But your money? Oh sure lets blow that like five sailors on liberty in Naples.

Those Diversity Officers cost money. Who else is going to foot that bill other than us?

Posted by: NR Pax at December 14, 2021 10:38 AM (4olE8)

320 I didnt have much student debt but it was paid off when I was 28. I was one of those idiots who, you know, play by the rules and shit.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss the Delta Variant at December 14, 2021 10:39 AM (g4Y3q)

321 FJBs declaration that he will provide no student loan relief was just the conversation starter.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 14, 2021 10:39 AM (E8EsG)

322 sniffy, it would be difficult for Siberia to obtain records much beyond three hundred years, given that the thermometer was only invented in 1714.

Posted by: creeper at December 14, 2021 10:39 AM (cTCuP)

323 When surrounded by evil...get a room and have sex.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at December 14, 2021 10:39 AM (TrkA3)

324
Including Pete Buttigieg's wife or husband.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, the Phillips screwdriver of the gods at December 14, 2021 10:37 AM (eGTCV)

He talks like a fag and his shit's all packed.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 10:39 AM (Zz0t1)

325 318

I didnt say no loans I said not a lot.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss the Delta Variant at December 14, 2021 10:39 AM (g4Y3q)

326 My school did write its own loans. I got $5k in loans from the school. This was enough to cover about 12.5% of the total loan burden.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 10:39 AM (DU+/6)

327 Parrot: squawk....faster Rodrigo.....squawk

Husband who is NOT Rodrigo: ??

Wife: Our pooleth boy likes the parrot as welleth.

Husband: charming that the bird mimics you in your endeavors to maketh the pooleth boy work faster!!

Posted by: Jak Sucio at December 14, 2021 10:40 AM (4oclu)

328 Clayton Moore used to work at Harvard as the Loan Arranger...

Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2021 10:40 AM (m45I2)

329 Top schools like Ivies, Duke, etc dont have a ton of student loans. Harvard for example plays 100% of tuition for students whose families earn under $100k. And then a sliding scale from there up to $250k (I think). So really only the upper crust has to pay full freight and then student loans are not really needed.

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The vast majority of student loans are at mid level schools that frankly shouldn't exist.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at December 14, 2021 10:40 AM (sX1BW)

330 8 balls?....w/dad?
Posted by: BignJames at December 14, 2021 10:34 AM (AwYPR)

Eazy E fucked up and got the 8 ball rollin.....

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 10:40 AM (Zz0t1)

331 be difficult for Siberia to obtain records much beyond three hundred years, given that the thermometer was only invented in 1714.
Posted by: creeper

They can measure tree rings and calculate the average global temperature 10,000 years ago to the nearest 0.01 degree.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 14, 2021 10:41 AM (E8EsG)

332 *cues radio music*

The Loan Avenger rides again!

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 14, 2021 10:41 AM (pshDQ)

333 329

I agree. A degree from southwest northern coastal state u should not cost $100k.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss the Delta Variant at December 14, 2021 10:41 AM (g4Y3q)

334 We need to go back to the days when men smoked unfiltered cigarettes, drank black coffee and rye whiskey, and ate pounds of rare steak. "

When girls were girls, and men were men.
Posted by: Archie and Edith at December 14, 2021 10:37 AM (WoQnt)
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And small green beings from Alpha Centauri were real small green beings from Alpha Centauri.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 14, 2021 10:41 AM (DnWKq)

335 Clayton Moore used to work at Harvard as the Loan Arranger...
Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2021 10:40 AM (m45I2)

Liberal shit bank superhero.......The Loan Arranger!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 10:42 AM (Zz0t1)

336 But today, with satellites, digital readings, and mass computing, they have to revise prior year average temperatures every couple of months.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 14, 2021 10:42 AM (E8EsG)

337 Greetings:

Unfiltered ??? Started with pinching my Dad's "Lucky Strikes". There was a time when cigarette machines want 30 cents for filtered but 28 for unfiltered so Luckies and Camels came with 2 shiny pennies inside the cellophane at the bottom of the pack.

Posted by: 11B40 at December 14, 2021 10:42 AM (uuklp)

338 They can measure tree rings and calculate the average global temperature 10,000 years ago to the nearest 0.01 degree.

Assuming Dr. Mann and others have not thoroughly corrupted the data sets.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 14, 2021 10:42 AM (pshDQ)

339 322 sniffy, it would be difficult for Siberia to obtain records much beyond three hundred years, given that the thermometer was only invented in 1714.
Posted by: creeper at December 14, 2021 10:39 AM (cTCuP)

I was being generous, Siberia has seen less civilization than Africa. It's instrumented temperature records are probably woefully short.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 14, 2021 10:42 AM (UuD2k)

340 They can measure tree rings and calculate the average global temperature 10,000 years ago to the nearest 0.01 degree.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 14, 2021 10:41 AM (E8EsG)

Can they apply average global temperature to a specific area?

Posted by: creeper at December 14, 2021 10:42 AM (cTCuP)

341 There was a young lady in Exeter
And all the men threw their sex at her
To prove them all crude
She lay in the nude
While her parrot, a pervert, took pecks at her

Posted by: Scottst at December 14, 2021 10:42 AM (nEDaf)

342 > Including Pete Buttigieg's wife or husband.

Including O'CrazyHo-TittyCaca.

Who makes $174,000/year.

Just did the calculations. At the minimum wage of $7.24/hour, 40 hours/week, 52 weeks/year, the annual income would be $15,080/year. The student loan payment under either the 10% or 15% of "discretionary income" level? Zero.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 14, 2021 10:42 AM (bW8dp)

343
Can they apply average global temperature to a specific area?
Posted by: creeper at December 14, 2021 10:42 AM (cTCuP)

We can do whatever we want.

- Hockey Stick Inventor

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 10:43 AM (Zz0t1)

344 Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 14, 2021 10:41 AM (E8EsG)

Well they can make the claim but there's not many ways to actually prove it.

No way to go back and measure to be 100% certain.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 14, 2021 10:43 AM (FZzni)

345 When I was in college I lived without cable for 4 years and had a 13 inch TV with rabbit ears that got 2 channels. Today a college dorm room is like a Best Buy store. So I have a feeling just a wee bit of that student loan money is going to things other than tuition.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss the Delta Variant at December 14, 2021 10:43 AM (g4Y3q)

346 Totally OT, but, I have never been so bored

Posted by: Jamaica Queens county juror pool at December 14, 2021 10:44 AM (vY9Lp)

347 No way to go back and measure to be 100% certain.
Posted by: jakee308

It is science! Do not question science!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 14, 2021 10:44 AM (E8EsG)

348 Did someone say Science??
- Dr Mengele Fauci

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss the Delta Variant at December 14, 2021 10:45 AM (g4Y3q)

349 Even dumbass in chief gets loan forgiveness is another nail in the 22 election column.

Posted by: Goliad's Ghosts at December 14, 2021 10:45 AM (QZ/dC)

350 331 be difficult for Siberia to obtain records much beyond three hundred years, given that the thermometer was only invented in 1714.
Posted by: creeper

They can measure tree rings and calculate the average global temperature 10,000 years ago to the nearest 0.01 degree.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 14, 2021 10:41 AM (E8EsG)

I understand that there turned out to be serious issues with using ice cores to measure temperature. Can we really be so sure with the tree ring method?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 14, 2021 10:45 AM (z5Vrg)

351 We live in a country that invented the free public library system, and the internet, and concurrently managed to rook the public into subsidizing rampant government-fuelled tuition inflation, so they could have their children run them into debt attending useless colleges. It is to laugh.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 14, 2021 10:45 AM (2ABQr)

352 "My goodness Ms Sakamoto you're beautiful!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 14, 2021 10:45 AM (pshDQ)

353 There was a young lady in Exeter
And all the men threw their sex at her
To prove them all crude
She lay in the nude
While her parrot, a pervert, took pecks at her
Posted by: Scottst at December 14, 2021 10:42 AM (nEDaf)

It must be "Magic Christian" day what with this limerick and "Come and Get It" on the sidebar and all.

Everybody into the vat of poo! There's money in there!

Posted by: The Parrot at December 14, 2021 10:45 AM (5NkmN)

354 Coffin

Posted by: Goliad's Ghosts at December 14, 2021 10:45 AM (QZ/dC)

355 Winter in Siberia is colder than a well digger's a**.

Posted by: klaftern at December 14, 2021 10:45 AM (taPSh)

356 I agree. A degree from southwest northern coastal state u should not cost $100k.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss the Delta Variant at December 14, 2021 10:41 AM (g4Y3q)

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FUN FACT: You would have had a better return on your $100k if you had invested it in an S&P 500 index fund instead of going to school for that Gender Studies degree, and either way you would still be qualified to be a barista.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 14, 2021 10:46 AM (VxC1e)

357 Can they apply average global temperature to a specific area?
Posted by: creeper

It applies wherever they need it. What narrative do you need to push today?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 14, 2021 10:46 AM (E8EsG)

358 Those who got a student loan for a degree no one will pay for, wants those of us who didn't get a loan to pay for their loan?

Nah. Hard pass.
Especially when I can't apply for the job they are applying for when I have 30 years experience to their no experience fresh-out-of-college ass.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2021 10:46 AM (BAKdv)

359 I have never been so bored

Posted by: Jamaica Queens county juror pool at December 14, 2021 10:44 AM (vY9Lp)

Wear a MAGA hat tomorrow.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 14, 2021 10:46 AM (Q9lwr)

360 After the fall of the Soviet Union the thousands of temperature stations were lost. I can guess where.

Posted by: Javems at December 14, 2021 10:46 AM (AmoqO)

361
Including Pete Buttigieg's wife or husband.
Posted by: N.L. Urker

Wusband

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 14, 2021 10:46 AM (63Dwl)

362 I agree. A degree from southwest northern coastal state u should not cost $100k.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss the Delta Variant at December 14, 2021 10:41 AM (g4Y3q)

But universities are a source of "generational wealth" in the sense that they are often the family business for a great number of people. We knew families in which the members worked for the same college for 3, 4 and 5 generations. It usually started with a guy who started as a prof, then became a dean, his wife jumped into a nice salary in administration, and kids and then grandkids took administration jobs as well. This bypasses the tenure track, and eliminates the need to get a PhD, write and teach.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 14, 2021 10:46 AM (ONvIw)

363 I killed my Sister's canary.

-
When I was very young, I ate some candy used as Christmas tree ornaments and blamed it on the dog. It was the perfect crime.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 14, 2021 10:46 AM (FVME7)

364 Or wear a "Let's Go Brandon" shirt

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 14, 2021 10:47 AM (pshDQ)

365 FUN FACT: You would have had a better return on your $100k if you had invested it in an S&P 500 index fund instead of going to school for that Gender Studies degree, and either way you would still be qualified to be a barista.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 14, 2021 10:46 AM (VxC1e)

No one is going to lend you 100k to put in the stock market though.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 14, 2021 10:47 AM (z5Vrg)

366 > Nah. Hard pass.

You aren't going to get a choice.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 14, 2021 10:47 AM (bW8dp)

367 Wear a MAGA hat tomorrow.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 14, 2021 10:46 AM (Q9lwr)

lol!....srsly!

Posted by: BignJames at December 14, 2021 10:48 AM (AwYPR)

368 It isn't "your" money. It is the fed's money. Paying back $5 trillion in student debt will actually cost $0. It is basic economics!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 14, 2021 10:48 AM (E8EsG)

369 Or wear a "Let's Go Brandon" shirt
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 14, 2021 10:47 AM (pshDQ)

Or go maskless in a restaurant in Philly.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 10:48 AM (Zz0t1)

370 Off! Fake feathered nick.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 14, 2021 10:48 AM (5NkmN)

371 No one is going to lend you 100k to put in the stock market though.
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In real estate, yes.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 14, 2021 10:48 AM (4vi12)

372 351 We live in a country that invented the free public library system, and the internet, and concurrently managed to rook the public into subsidizing rampant government-fuelled tuition inflation, so they could have their children run them into debt attending useless colleges. It is to laugh.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 14, 2021 10:45 AM (2ABQr)

Kids are poor consumers, and universities hire charlatan recruiters to pull people into useless majors. They've been doing this for at least 50 years.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 14, 2021 10:49 AM (ONvIw)

373 When girls were girls, and men were men.
Posted by: Archie and Edith at December 14, 2021 10:37 AM (WoQnt)
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And small green beings from Alpha Centauri were real small green beings from Alpha Centauri.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 14, 2021 10:41 AM (DnWKq)

Hoopy!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 14, 2021 10:49 AM (dfRN6)

374 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. This reminds me. Nurse, your wood peckers are bangin' my drain pipes again!
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 14, 2021 10:49 AM (axyOa)

375 I understand that there turned out to be serious issues with using ice cores to measure temperature. Can we really be so sure with the tree ring method?
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy

Hey, it's your money. Just tell us the answers you're looking for.

Posted by: The IPCC at December 14, 2021 10:49 AM (AytXr)

376 Clayton Moore used to work at Harvard as the Loan Arranger...
Posted by: Muldoon

Gave out silver bullets.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 14, 2021 10:50 AM (FVME7)

377 The New York Times apparently calls Earth a failed planet now because America left the Paris Accords, or something.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021 10:50 AM (LvTSG)

378 368 It isn't "your" money. It is the fed's money. Paying back $5 trillion in student debt will actually cost $0. It is basic economics!
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Biden's Rock Candy Mountain can do anything. Except serve as a drool cup. That seems to be Psaki's job.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 14, 2021 10:50 AM (4vi12)

379 351 We live in a country that invented the free public library system, and the internet, and concurrently managed to rook the public into subsidizing rampant government-fuelled tuition inflation, so they could have their children run them into debt attending useless colleges. It is to laugh.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 14, 2021 10:45 AM (2ABQr)

If Americans can be sold pet rocks, they can be sold anything.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 14, 2021 10:50 AM (z5Vrg)

380 When girls were girls, and men were men.
Posted by: Archie and Edith

And sheep were nervous.

Posted by: Angus Mcgillacuddy at December 14, 2021 10:50 AM (BAKdv)

381 I'll see Kris' Vampire Parrot, and raise it with:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJl83Qhb7uU

Come back black chicken!

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at December 14, 2021 10:50 AM (BgMrQ)

382 I understand that there turned out to be serious issues with using ice cores to measure temperature. Can we really be so sure with the tree ring method?
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy

Look. It is simple. You put the data into the computer, and the computer gives you a number. That number is derived from science. You can not question the number.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 14, 2021 10:50 AM (E8EsG)

383 The New York Times apparently calls Earth a failed planet now because America left the Paris Accords, or something.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021 10:50 AM (LvTSG)

All the news that's fit to wipe your ass on after a night of beer and Taco Bell.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 10:50 AM (Zz0t1)

384 FUN FACT: You would have had a better return on your $100k if you had invested it in an S&P 500 index fund instead of going to school for that Gender Studies degree, and either way you would still be qualified to be a barista.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 14, 2021 10:46 AM (VxC1e)

If you put the $100K in in Shiba Inc cryptocurrency back in April, you'd own France by now.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 14, 2021 10:51 AM (5NkmN)

385 Samaritan's Purse is a worthwhile organization
for donations.

Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at December 14, 2021 10:51 AM (rI0Tt)

386 No one is going to lend you 100k to put in the stock market though.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 14, 2021 10:47 AM (z5Vrg)
++++
That's why you claim you're going to school, get a student loan, and then put it into the stock market.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 10:51 AM (DU+/6)

387 If Americans can be sold pet rocks, they can be sold anything.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 14, 2021 10:50 AM (z5Vrg)

Instant water.

Posted by: BignJames at December 14, 2021 10:51 AM (AwYPR)

388 And small green beings from Alpha Centauri were real small green beings from Alpha Centauri.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 14, 2021 10:41 AM (DnWKq)

Hoopy!
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 14, 2021 10:49 AM (dfRN6)
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You sass me well, frood.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 14, 2021 10:51 AM (DnWKq)

389 371 No one is going to lend you 100k to put in the stock market though.
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In real estate, yes.
Posted by: Puddin Head at December 14, 2021 10:48 AM (4vi12)

Heard this in a Grant Cardone video: A bank will lend you six figures to buy a house but will not do the same so you can buy their stock.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at December 14, 2021 10:51 AM (KbCG3)

390 Jeebus, Ford's fake rally is coming apart that shit through a goose. I guess being friends with Biden isn't working out like they thought. If GM won't suck his dick why did Ford think they were smarter than GM?

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 14, 2021 10:51 AM (4vi12)

391 The guy looks like a fugitive from the lid of a Dutch Masters cigar box.

Frankly, I am quite fond of Dutch paintings from this period. The scenes of domesticity are very calming.

Posted by: Paco at December 14, 2021 10:51 AM (njExo)

392
Instant water.
Posted by: BignJames at December 14, 2021 10:51 AM (AwYPR)

Dehydrated water. Just Add Water!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 10:52 AM (Zz0t1)

393 The New York Times apparently calls Earth a failed planet now because America left the Paris Accords, or something.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s

Well, they ought to leave.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 14, 2021 10:52 AM (FVME7)

394 Greetings:

Put myself through colleges with various combinations of driving hack in NYC, VA loans, and unemployment insurance (Nixon's recession, 65 weeks).

I had three jobs afterwards before my income recovered to school levels.

Posted by: 11B40 at December 14, 2021 10:52 AM (uuklp)

395 FFS!

shiba inc = shiba inu

Posted by: naturalfake at December 14, 2021 10:52 AM (5NkmN)

396 It is drivel like that New York Times article that makes me wish the Earth turning into a giant snowball, again, would happen right now.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 14, 2021 10:52 AM (pshDQ)

397 If Americans can be sold pet rocks, they can be sold anything.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 14, 2021 10:50 AM (z5Vrg)

Instant water.
Posted by: BignJames

Canned, dehydrated water.

Just add water.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2021 10:52 AM (BAKdv)

398 "The WMO says a previous air temperature record of 99 F (37.3 C) was measured in Verkhoyansk on July 25, 1988.

The town holds the Guinness World Record for the most extreme range of temperatures, which varies from minus 90 F to the high 90s."
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Great find, sniffybigtoe! I'll have to remember that too.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 14, 2021 10:52 AM (UHVv4)

399 beautiful plumage!

Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at December 14, 2021 10:52 AM (v3pYe)

400 It applies wherever they need it. What narrative do you need to push today?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 14, 2021 10:46 AM (E8EsG)

Ah, yes. I'd forgotten about situational science.

Posted by: creeper at December 14, 2021 10:53 AM (cTCuP)

401 No one is going to lend you 100k to put in the stock market though.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 14, 2021 10:47 AM (z5Vrg)

--------

We could maybe work somethin' out.

Posted by: Vinnie The Barber Barberino at December 14, 2021 10:53 AM (VxC1e)

402 393 The New York Times apparently calls Earth a failed planet now because America left the Paris Accords, or something.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s

Well, they ought to leave.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 14, 2021 10:52 AM (FVME7)

=========

I'm less ambitious.

I think they should move to Afghanistan. They're dedicated to fighting climate change over there, the Taliban said so.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021 10:53 AM (LvTSG)

403
I understand that there turned out to be serious issues with using ice cores to measure temperature. Can we really be so sure with the tree ring method?
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy

It's a regular tree ring circus.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 14, 2021 10:53 AM (63Dwl)

404 Earth is a "failed" planet. What grade does it have to repeat?

Posted by: Ziba at December 14, 2021 10:53 AM (S1hrL)

405 If GM won't suck his dick why did Ford think they were smarter than GM?
Posted by: Puddin Head at December 14, 2021 10:51 AM (4vi12)

GM already sucked Owebama's dick and are granted immunity by proxy.........

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 10:53 AM (Zz0t1)

406 > That's why you claim you're going to school, get a student loan, and then put it into the stock market.

Nah, the school has to confirm that you're attending and making non-failing grades.

However, I guess with remote learning you could hire someone from Pakistan or China to pretend to be you on Zoom for 50 cents an hour or something, then live large on the loan proceeds.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 14, 2021 10:53 AM (bW8dp)

407 Salvation Army needs a commercial
Wokesters we did our part. Now come to our kettles

Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 14, 2021 10:53 AM (LXmEi)

408 and concurrently managed to rook the public into subsidizing rampant government-fuelled tuition inflation, s

And the extra $300/ yr for the multiculturalism center, and the $1000/ yr administration support fee, and the $500/ yr library fee, and $350 for parking in the stadium parking lot and another $200 for a bus pass to transport you closer to your classes.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 14, 2021 10:53 AM (E8EsG)

409 If Americans can be sold pet rocks, they can be sold anything.

Oh you have no idea - Starbucks

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 14, 2021 10:53 AM (pshDQ)

410 The New York Times apparently calls Earth a failed planet now because America left the Paris Accords,

*****

"Only the data that fits, we print"

Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2021 10:53 AM (m45I2)

411 410 "Only the data that fits, we print"
Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2021 10:53 AM (m45I2)

=========

Oddly enough, I got this one.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021 10:54 AM (LvTSG)

412 That's why you claim you're going to school, get a student loan, and then put it into the stock market.
-------------------
As long as you short the market it would work.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 14, 2021 10:54 AM (4vi12)

413 Flight of the Intruder on Pluto

Posted by: steevy at December 14, 2021 10:54 AM (CYnTg)

414 The Ultimate Prophet, Priest, and King

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RaOvTaNVlg

Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at December 14, 2021 10:54 AM (mVFGK)

415 In a world where the NYT is actual reality...

Never right about anything, ever.

Ever.

Posted by: klaftern at December 14, 2021 10:54 AM (taPSh)

416 Clayton Moore used to work at Harvard as the Loan Arranger...
Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2021

***
The guy who played Tonto, Jay Silverheels? Used to be a male stripper.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 14, 2021 10:55 AM (txdEq)

417 410 The New York Times apparently calls Earth a failed planet now because America left the Paris Accords,
---------------------
Do they know that the French piss everywhere in Paris?

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 14, 2021 10:55 AM (4vi12)

418 Mrs D used to work in the shoe department at Macy's. She was my sole mate.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 14, 2021 10:55 AM (axyOa)

419
The New York Times apparently calls Earth a failed planet now because America left the Paris Accords, or something.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

How you gonna keep 'em down on the planet after they've seen Pareeeeeeeee?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 14, 2021 10:55 AM (63Dwl)

420 Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 14, 2021 10:41 AM

A most froody Guide reference.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 14, 2021 10:55 AM (m+jkK)

421 Liz Cheney reads out loud text messages sent by FNC anchors begging Meadows and Don Jr. to "do something" to stop the Insurrection.

There's a big whiff of Russia Hoax redux in all this...because 2024.

Posted by: Ziba at December 14, 2021 10:55 AM (S1hrL)

422 If Americans can be sold pet rocks, they can be sold anything.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 14, 2021 10:50 AM (z5Vrg)

Instant water.
Posted by: BignJames

Canned, dehydrated water.

Just add water.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2021 10:52 AM (BAKdv)

Perri-Air!

Posted by: President Scroob at December 14, 2021 10:55 AM (AiZBA)

423 The town holds the Guinness World Record for the most extreme range of temperatures, which varies from minus 90 F to the high 90s."
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Dress in layers.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 14, 2021 10:56 AM (DnWKq)

424 Is Stein's and Mann's lawsuit still on going?

It's been what 9 years now?

Posted by: jakee308 at December 14, 2021 10:56 AM (FZzni)

425 Murder most fowl!
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Dad knew he was a bad seed.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 14, 2021 10:56 AM (UHVv4)

426 > The guy who played Tonto, Jay Silverheels? Used to be a male stripper.

Until that white bitch Dorothy from Kansas stole his silver heels. Then he had to find an acting gig.

(yeah, they made them ruby slippers in the movie to show off their fancy new color film technology... they were silver in the book)

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 14, 2021 10:56 AM (bW8dp)

427 Sold anything...

Candy underwear
Tang
Stripper names

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at December 14, 2021 10:56 AM (TrkA3)

428 Katie Perry is selling canned air?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 14, 2021 10:56 AM (pshDQ)

429 On my official juror form, I wrote that the court shall address me as My Lord and my hobby is ZeroHedge.

Posted by: Jamaica Queens county juror pool at December 14, 2021 10:56 AM (vY9Lp)

430 Earth is a "failed" planet. What grade does it have to repeat?
Posted by: Ziba

It may be a failed planet, but where else you gonna go?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2021 10:56 AM (BAKdv)

431 Is Stein's and Mann's lawsuit still on going?

It's been what 9 years now?
Posted by: jakee308 at December 14, 2021 10:56 AM (FZzni)

The carpet is now a mountain with all the shit swept under it.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 10:57 AM (Zz0t1)

432 Katie Perry is selling canned air?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 14, 2021 10:56 AM (pshDQ)

They sell cans of oxygen at Walmart in Colorado Springs.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 10:57 AM (Zz0t1)

433 Katie Perry is selling canned air?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Sofia Vergara Canned Farts.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2021 10:57 AM (BAKdv)

434 liberal leftists are among the stingiest givers.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 14, 2021 10:58 AM (FZzni)

435 sock off

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at December 14, 2021 10:59 AM (AiZBA)

436 They sell cans of oxygen at Walmart in Colorado Springs.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 10:57 AM

Perriair.

(shamelessly stolen from Spaceballs)

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 14, 2021 10:59 AM (m+jkK)

437 liberal leftists are among the stingiest givers.
Posted by: jakee308 at December 14, 2021 10:58 AM (FZzni)

Doesn't Biden report $200 a year in charitable donations?

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 10:59 AM (Zz0t1)

438 Whatever happened to the pissoires in Paris? They reeked too much?

Posted by: Ziba at December 14, 2021 10:59 AM (S1hrL)

439 They sell cans of oxygen at Walmart in Colorado Springs.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 10:57 AM (Zz0t1)

Strong O2?...or just that 20% crap?

Posted by: BignJames at December 14, 2021 10:59 AM (AwYPR)

440 Dark Helm, "I can't breathe in this thing!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 14, 2021 10:59 AM (pshDQ)

441 Late stage study results have finally been released for Pfizer's Paxlovid, the anti-viral pill designed by the pharmaceutical giant to protect against severe COVID and death. And the results showed that the drug might be more effective than Pfizer's industry-standard vaccine at protecting against the severe illness and death caused by COVID.

The number to keep in mind: the drug reduced hospitalization and death by 89% in high-risk patients, if taken within three days of symptom onset.

-Not surprising considering it blocks the same protease as IVM.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 14, 2021 10:59 AM (E8EsG)

442 No planet in our solar system should ever receive a lower grade than a C.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 14, 2021 10:59 AM (VxC1e)

443
Steyn filed for summary judgement to have the Mann case dismissed back in January 2021. No ruling yet.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 14, 2021 10:59 AM (3l5Yq)

444 When Paltrow sold the fragrance that she said smelled like her vagina I said to myself "and just what does her vagina smell like?"

She's not that good an actress but she's a marketing genius.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 14, 2021 11:00 AM (FZzni)

445 It may be a failed planet, but where else you gonna go?
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You could join the Moon NAZIs.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 14, 2021 11:00 AM (4vi12)

446 Today's art makes me feel like a voyeur...and they aren't even doing anything good.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, load and make ready at December 14, 2021 11:00 AM (V6f9+)

447 If you go to Tibet you can buy canisters of compressed O2 in the drugstores. Purity guaranteed.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 14, 2021 11:01 AM (VxC1e)

448 446 Today's art makes me feel like a voyeur...and they aren't even doing anything good.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, load and make ready at December 14, 2021 11:00 AM (V6f9+)

========

Just wait...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021 11:01 AM (LvTSG)

449 Nood

Posted by: Furious George at December 14, 2021 11:01 AM (9vQJW)

450 nood, pain

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021 11:01 AM (LvTSG)

451
Strong O2?...or just that 20% crap?
Posted by: BignJames at December 14, 2021 10:59 AM (AwYPR)

The can I have from the trip a few years ago says "95% Pure Aviators Breathing Oxygen."

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 11:01 AM (Zz0t1)

452 Late stage study results have finally been released for Pfizer's Paxlovid, the anti-viral pill designed by the pharmaceutical giant to protect against severe COVID and death. And the results showed that the drug might be more effective than Pfizer's industry-standard vaccine at protecting against the severe illness and death caused by COVID.

The number to keep in mind: the drug reduced hospitalization and death by 89% in high-risk patients, if taken within three days of symptom onset.

-Not surprising considering it blocks the same protease as IVM.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Pfizer's newest pill = Pfizermectin.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2021 11:01 AM (BAKdv)

453 Nood y'all.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 14, 2021 11:01 AM (axyOa)

454 Routine to see 95 degree summer days and minus 25 winter days in Kazakhstan. Gulag weather peeps.

Posted by: Goliad's Ghosts at December 14, 2021 11:01 AM (QZ/dC)

455 447 If you go to Tibet you can buy canisters of compressed O2 in the drugstores. Purity guaranteed.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

On the shelf next to the cans of compressed acetylene.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 14, 2021 11:02 AM (E8EsG)

456 Not surprising considering it blocks the same protease as IVM.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 14, 2021 10:59 AM (E8EsG)
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But can be marketed at thousands of times the price of IVM.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 14, 2021 11:02 AM (DnWKq)

457

Pulling your firearm from its holster and shooting multiple rounds at fast-food workers may not result in quicker customer service this holiday season, say experts.

Not only does threatening drive-thru workers with violence not decrease wait times for orders, but studies indicate it can lead to order inaccuracies.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 14, 2021 11:02 AM (63Dwl)

458 It's a twofer for the NYT today. Last month they wrote a glowing article about "Palestinian" professor Refaat Alareer. Then they discovered some not so glowing past history.

Refaat
@itranslate123
Every minute, Israelis commit pogroms against Palestinians.
And every night is Kristallnacht in occupied Palestine.
Israel is a racist endeavour.

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Today they wrote a ho hum correction. "Had The Times done more extensive reporting on Mr. Alareer, the article would have presented a more complete picture."

https://bit.ly/3E75mAN

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 14, 2021 11:03 AM (FVME7)

459 Whatever happened to the pissoires in Paris? They reeked too much?
Posted by: Ziba at December 14, 2021

***
I thought they were called "vespasiennes"?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 14, 2021 11:05 AM (txdEq)

460 -Not surprising considering it blocks the same protease as IVM.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 14, 2021 10:59 AM (E8EsG)
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Yeah. So Pfizer's reformulated version of IVM (let's call it "Pfizermectin") is better than the "vaccine"? Who would have thought that?

How the FDA / CDC has handled potential treatments such as HQC and IVM is nothing short of grotesque. People on ventilators can still recover after IVM treatment (there was a recent case where a family member sued to give her dad IVM when he was on a vent; the hospital's delaying tactics made it look like the hospital just wanted the guy to die in the hospital. Eventually the judge forced the hospital to obey and the dad began to quickly recover after IVM was administered.)

Posted by: Revenant at December 14, 2021 11:12 AM (1JtC2)

461 "QISmaS Quch Daghajjaj."

Posted by: SMOD at December 14, 2021 11:29 AM (RHGPo)

462 I don't see any eye patches in that painting.

Posted by: GWB at December 14, 2021 05:50 PM (ZBqDw)

463 Well this one likes Ranch Dressing for his Crackers

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 14, 2021 06:37 PM (wGqjj)

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