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Monday Overnight Open Thread – 12/20/2021
If the band didn’t have an attractive female lead singer, there would need to be some good instrumentation. I hope these awesome, open-collared tuxedos didn’t distract the audience the from the dulcet music of “Sax & Sounds.”
I think “Mel, Bobbie, and Larry” were more typical of the lounge bands at the motels where my family stayed.
Lounge bands still existed the first time I went on a college-era road trip with my buddies in the ‘80s. I recall one motel lounge with two dudes in Urban Cowboy gear performing soft rock and country covers. Perhaps it was these guys, “Twice The Life.”
There’s something about “Three Bees And A Queen” (below) that appeals to me. I bet I’d like them.
More photos at the link.
While it is not unusual to find a smaller feathered creature such as a hummingbird or warbler on a wayward course, Lund said there’s no precedent for finding a Steller’s Sea Eagle in Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and certainly not Texas. “It would be like a Canadian arborist finding a palm tree growing on the tundra, or a fisherman finding a blue whale in their local pond.”
A father and son were in for a bit of a shock this past Saturday when they discovered an unlikely stowaway that had traveled with them all the way from Las Vegas to Maine. The intruder, a greater roadrunner, had spent four days in their rental van without giving itself away.
Of course, the usual method of travel for roadrunners isn’t in a moving vehicle—they typically zoom around on two legs, despite having the ability to fly.
For now, this hitchhiking roadrunner’s only threats are New England weather and another potential cross-country trip. Staffers at Avian Hill and the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife are working with contacts in Nevada to see if they can fly the bird to avoid another days-long car ride.I’m glad the roadrunner is OK. I can’t help but wonder if this might have been the result of “fowl” play involving a coyote.
What were some of the worst gifts you ever received? Or perhaps, any gifts that you came to regret giving?
In the early 19th century, bowling alleys were primarily owned by Bars and Pubs. A culture of crime and gambling became associated with it, and eventually, bowling gained a poor reputation. In 1841, Connecticut banned ownership of nine-pin lanes in an attempt to curb gambling and crime. To get around the law, players simply added one more pin, which nullified the ban and the modern game was born.Connecticut was far from the only state to ban nine-pin bowling. But only in Texas did the game survive. German-Texas bowling clubs were not gambling halls, they were social halls for families to gather, drink, and socialize.
By World War I most Texas bowling establishments, both private and commercial, had changed to tenpins. However, ninepins remained popular in predominantly German communities like Fredericksburg and New Braunfels, until the introduction of fully automated pin-setting machinery in the 1950s caused most of them to make the change as well. Those bowlers who still preferred the teamwork and camaraderie of ninepins then moved to the ninepin clubs in small outlying communities of Bexar, Comal, and Guadalupe counties.The pin-setters to this day are still children perched at the end of the lane. They set the pins up and roll the ball back to the bowler. In this photo (taken by @TracesOfTexas) you can see the boys in the background.
Here’s an interesting little news piece about nine-pin.
Asked to comment on Earl not finishing a one-mile run: “When it’s first and a mile, I won’t give it to him.”
When asked if he noticed how slowly Earl got up after being tackled: “Yep. And I noticed how slowly he went down each time, too.”
Contrasting George Rogers and Earl Campbell: “Rogers sees daylight. Campbell makes daylight.”Here are some other great quotes attributed to Bum.
”Two kinds of players ain't worth a damn: One who never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' but what he's told.”
”The harder we played, the behinder we got.”
”I don't mind people thinking I'm stupid, but I don't want to give them any proof.”
”There's two kinds of coaches, them that's been fired and them that's gonna be fired.”
If this Jello commercial is representative of the ‘80s, then that decade looked exactly like the ‘80s cliche.
Here are the Collins Kids performing half a century later, in 2007.
MERRY CHRISTMAS Y’ALL Blessings to all of you this Christmas. Here’s a little Robert Earl Keen holiday music to get you in the mood for your upcoming family gatherings.
***** Thanks to Ace, the other Cobs, and the horde for letting me play host tonight. Please feel free to offer any helpful feedback, insults, or tips at buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 20, 2021 09:58 PM (j39Fc)
Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2021 09:58 PM (mZUr4)
Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2021 09:59 PM (mZUr4)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at December 20, 2021 09:59 PM (SchxB)
Posted by: Zettai at December 20, 2021 09:59 PM (zTIYX)
Posted by: Calvin's Dad at December 20, 2021 10:00 PM (SmFPm)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at December 20, 2021 10:00 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2021 10:00 PM (mZUr4)
Posted by: Braenyard, Prince of El Salvador pooped on the Big Guy at December 20, 2021 10:00 PM (/FocL)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2021 10:01 PM (mD/uy)
Posted by: Ladyl at December 20, 2021 10:02 PM (+4oV5)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2021 10:02 PM (axyOa)
Posted by: 496 at December 20, 2021 10:02 PM (U1eOr)
May Tami rest in peace and sympathies to her family. She will be missed very much!
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at December 20, 2021 10:02 PM (/UQ/R)
Posted by: Baron Munchausen at December 20, 2021 10:04 PM (C1NyB)
Posted by: Braenyard, Prince of El Salvador pooped on the Big Guy
Bum Phillips on if there was a problem with Earl carrying the ball 30+ times a game: "No, it's not that heavy." (I may have screwed the quote up, but it's close.)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 20, 2021 10:04 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 20, 2021 10:05 PM (QU5/8)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 20, 2021 10:05 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2021 10:05 PM (gjH3l)
Absolutely. It's hard to lose one of the horde.. she was very bright, very caring and she will be missed.
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at December 20, 2021 10:06 PM (nxdel)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 20, 2021 10:06 PM (QU5/8)
Posted by: Boswell at December 20, 2021 10:06 PM (5iUNf)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at December 20, 2021 10:06 PM (b/7jm)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 20, 2021 10:05 PM (r1z5A)
You need to be far more specific!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at December 20, 2021 10:06 PM (hOUT3)
Wow...that name is familiar. Did he do an ensemble piece with Johnny Cash and a few others?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2021 10:07 PM (Q9lwr)
Ugh.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2021 10:07 PM (mD/uy)
Doesn't look like any bachelor party I attended. None of those guys are in an unholy assignation with a barnyard animal.
Posted by: Thad Cochran at December 20, 2021 10:07 PM (hQ23g)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 20, 2021 10:05 PM (r1z5A)
LOL -- next month, pay for the platinum AOSHQ membership with comment editing privileges
Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2021 10:07 PM (mZUr4)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2021 10:08 PM (axyOa)
⛄
Staying Frosty
There must've been some "magic" in
that corn-cob pipe we found,
'Cause we all saw that snowman dance
when we passed that pipe around...
Oh!
Posted by: mindful webworker - languidly lurkish at December 20, 2021 10:08 PM (zcM+Q)
Posted by: wing at December 20, 2021 10:08 PM (PlW9M)
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 20, 2021 10:08 PM (QzJWU)
Posted by: Zettai at December 20, 2021 10:08 PM (PAP1f)
...
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2021 10:07 PM (mD/uy)
Gonna remember that one!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at December 20, 2021 10:09 PM (hOUT3)
Chandler, AZ, has a tumbleweed Christmas "tree" downtown every year.
https://bit.ly/3mmb2k4
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at December 20, 2021 10:09 PM (SchxB)
My old man always said that eagles are peabrains, even by bird standards. That story seems to bear it out.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2021 10:09 PM (hQ23g)
Ex-Fox News Pundit Says Screw It And Pens Scathing Essay About Network
https://tinyurl.com/2p993buy
Posted by: anon2020 at December 20, 2021 10:09 PM (6n+8L)
guestbook/tamara-smith
Posted by: crockpot stew at December 20, 2021 10:09 PM (oSX/P)
Ugh.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2021 10:07 PM (mD/uy)
Damn! Those pictures were supposed to have been destroyed!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2021 10:10 PM (axyOa)
Yes, please.
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at December 20, 2021 10:10 PM (nxdel)
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at December 20, 2021 10:10 PM (d9Cw3)
...
Posted by: Tonypete
Hell even MRS. Right needs to be on her toes!
Posted by: Some Rat at December 20, 2021 10:11 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: Sen. Hank Johnson at December 20, 2021 10:11 PM (InMvd)
The lounges in the hotels nearest the airport were prime MILF-hunting grounds at one time
Not that I'd know anything about that
Posted by: Zettai at December 20, 2021 10:12 PM (PAP1f)
Posted by: mpfs, Merry Christmas at December 20, 2021 10:12 PM (79p/O)
https://www.cozeanfuneralhome.com
/obituary/tamara-smith
Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at December 20, 2021 10:12 PM (vcwBL)
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at December 20, 2021 10:10 PM (d9Cw3)
Hah!
I'll poke around YouTube and see if it actually happened, or if it is a product of too much bourbon...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2021 10:12 PM (Q9lwr)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Believing in America at December 20, 2021 10:13 PM (rwusL)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2021 10:13 PM (mD/uy)
Posted by: Sen. Hank Johnson at December 20, 2021 10:11 PM (InMvd)
Only if you keep the people and livestock equally distributed across the entire island, don't you understand science?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at December 20, 2021 10:13 PM (hOUT3)
May Tami rest in peace and sympathies to her family. She will be missed very much!
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at December 20, 2021 10:02 PM (/UQ/R)
{{{WDS}}}
Such very sad news... I sure will miss her.
Posted by: Ladyl at December 20, 2021 10:14 PM (+4oV5)
These things would never happen with emotionally mature adults in charge of things. However, we simply don't have that type of people in charge of our government institutions right now. This isn't going to be pushed aside easily be Psaki - she can make all the immature faces and the pouty grimaces and the snarky childlike remarks she wants - it's only going to cement the hatred the American people have for this administration and the press that is their PR Iago in all of this...
Posted by: Boswell at December 20, 2021 10:14 PM (5iUNf)
Posted by: chris+opher at December 20, 2021 10:15 PM (ckPhE)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 20, 2021 10:11 PM (r1z5A)
Preferably in killer stiletto heels...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at December 20, 2021 10:15 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2021 10:07 PM (mD/uy)
Less the specific fashion styles, this sounds just like a bar that used to be a haunt of mine as a little guy. Called the Cherry Bomb. It was attached to an economy motel off the highway in Denver.
I would hang out there because you could do *anything* there. All you had to do was "not kill someone," and they'd let you go about as you saw fit. Eventually, they shut down under pressure from the PD.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2021 10:15 PM (hQ23g)
Not that I'd know anything about that
Posted by: Zettai
Read a womans article on where to meet men...and go there.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 20, 2021 10:15 PM (r1z5A)
Well, I am completely full of shit.
I was thinking of The Highwaymen.
Cash
Kristofferson
Jennings
Nelson
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2021 10:15 PM (Q9lwr)
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at December 20, 2021 10:15 PM (d9Cw3)
Posted by: mpfs, Merry Christmas at December 20, 2021 10:16 PM (79p/O)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at December 20, 2021 10:16 PM (/UQ/R)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar
And counter flooding!
Posted by: Some Rat at December 20, 2021 10:16 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2021 10:16 PM (gjH3l)
Cash
Kristofferson
Jennings
Nelson
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2021 10:15 PM (Q9lwr)
"I was a highwayman" still gives me chills...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at December 20, 2021 10:17 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2021 10:17 PM (mD/uy)
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 20, 2021 10:18 PM (TNyrE)
I would hang out there because you could do *anything* there. All you had to do was "not kill someone," and they'd let you go about as you saw fit.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
I can smell the stale cigarette smoke and squishy, rotten carpet underfoot in the entryway.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2021 10:19 PM (mD/uy)
Posted by: davidt
Tides? Land subduction? Barometric pressure? Winds? THE OCEANS ARE RISING DAMMIT!!!
Posted by: Climate wackos everywhere at December 20, 2021 10:19 PM (r1z5A)
>>A pathetic tidbit for ace to comment on if someone can get this to him.
That article demands an old school, paragraph by paragraph fisking.
Monsieur Le Sandwich is pathetic.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 20, 2021 10:20 PM (oHeld)
I suspect they are so far up their own butts that they need the proverbial glass naval to see where they are walking, but this was such bad optics to play with a bad hand.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2021 10:20 PM (ZMraq)
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at December 20, 2021 10:20 PM (nxdel)
Posted by: anon2020 at December 20, 2021 10:09 PM (6n+8L)
LOL. Jonah breaks the news that Fox News is staffed by sad, disingenuous cucks like himself.
NEWSFLASH, Walter Krankheit: we knew that shit awhile ago. Go home and get your shinebox, fatboy.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2021 10:21 PM (hQ23g)
Posted by: Ogre at December 20, 2021 10:21 PM (jeztD)
There are apparently talks going on between the Taliban and the United States in Doha to reopen the US embassy in Kabul. (We waited twenty years after our defeat before establishing an embassy in Communist Vietnam, but since our flight from Kabul was a Great Victory, there's no need to wait before reopening the embassy.)
The United States is apparently requesting that we be allowed to station 2,000 troops at the embassy.
The Taliban minister of defense, the son of Mullah Omar, responded in a Tweet:
"If America wants 2,000 English [i.e., American] troops at its embassy in Afghanistan, we also want 2,000 Fidayeen Mujahideen [i.e., suicide bombers] from the Fateh Force at the embassy of Afghanistan in America."
They really don't seem to care about their invitations to Davos, do they?
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 20, 2021 10:21 PM (I2/tG)
Of COURSE the hotel lounge was named the "Flaming Cherry." They all had the name of a fruit in it. I remember "Tangerines" in Austin. I think I recall there being a "Wild [fruit]" at the Astroworld Hotel in Houston. "Wild Peach? perhaps. Somewhere is visited the "Prickly Pear" lounge.
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at December 20, 2021 10:21 PM (d9Cw3)
I worked in a hotel bar in Seattle. It was walking distance from my studio in the university district.
We had some really hokey bands in there. Sleezy smoking drunk off their asses... drank their payout before the second set was over... off key, falling over, ugly and painful.
Good times.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 20, 2021 10:22 PM (U2p+3)
Thanks, Buck.
And Rest in peace, Tami.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 20, 2021 10:22 PM (x8Wzq)
Posted by: muttering vikings fan at December 20, 2021 10:23 PM (gjH3l)
Sounds like the kind of place you could claim to have gotten the clap from a barstool with some plausibility.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 20, 2021 10:23 PM (QU5/8)
CHERRY BOMB DENVER, VENUE DESCRIPTION
Cherry Bomb - So it's midnight. You're still feeling it. You're still buzzed. Why go home? You don't have to. Cherry Bomb, located at 11595 W 6Th Ave, is open well after normal closing-time, so you can keep the vibe going until it's scandalously past your bedtime.
Posted by: crockpot stew at December 20, 2021 10:23 PM (oSX/P)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 20, 2021 10:21 PM (I2/tG)
Tomorrow: Biden says "OK!"
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2021 10:24 PM (6FeV1)
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at December 20, 2021 10:24 PM (nxdel)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at December 20, 2021 10:15 PM (hOUT3)
My goodness, with the stiletto heels and the bouffant, Ms. Branca is seven feet tall!!
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2021 10:24 PM (ZMraq)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2021 10:19 PM (mD/uy)
Beer and barf soaked carpet had a certain Un je ne sais quoi?"
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at December 20, 2021 10:24 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: dartist at December 20, 2021 10:24 PM (+ya+t)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2021 10:24 PM (mD/uy)
Also why does Biden keep giving his dogs military ranking names, when the only name that would be fitting for a Biden would be Dodger.
Posted by: Rbastid at December 20, 2021 10:24 PM (wTXI/)
Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at December 20, 2021 10:25 PM (vcwBL)
Posted by: crockpot stew at December 20, 2021 10:23 PM (oSX/P)
Holy shit, that's the one. Just down from Nick's. They must have re-opened, LOL.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2021 10:25 PM (hQ23g)
Posted by: Sandy at December 20, 2021 10:25 PM (VxC1e)
Good times.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 20, 2021 10:22 PM (U2p+3)
Most fun bar I went to in Seattle was Doc Maynards. In Pioneer Square. Long ago.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2021 10:25 PM (axyOa)
Posted by: Rbastid at December 20, 2021 10:24 PM (wTXI/)
Private
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2021 10:25 PM (6FeV1)
Posted by: mpfs
MEL TORME!!
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2021 10:13 PM (mD/uy)z
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You should give the Velour Fog a listen!
Posted by: Zapp Brannigan at December 20, 2021 10:26 PM (CAJOC)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 20, 2021 10:26 PM (VxC1e)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2021 10:09 PM (hQ23g)
Naw. How do you think species expand their range, or, for that matter, how do you think speciation occurs? Some individuals from every population have to pioneer new territory, or the population becomes dead-ended, and will eventually go extinct.
You get the same sort of non-thought on the West Coast, when some outfit proposes damming a river for hydro power. "Waaah! You can't put a dam on the Wanksplat River. It will wipe out the Wanksplat Chinook salmon run." What do they think happened when the last Ice Age was in full swing, and every one of those salmon rivers was a glacier of solid ice? The damn fish had to go somewhere, and I guess that was south. But they came back, as the habitat once again became available.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2021 10:27 PM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 20, 2021 10:27 PM (x8Wzq)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2021 10:25 PM (axyOa)
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Parkers Ballroom on Aurora Ave North was open when I lived out in Seattle. I kick myself for never going there.
Posted by: 496 at December 20, 2021 10:28 PM (U1eOr)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2021 10:28 PM (evAgx)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2021 10:25 PM (axyOa)
Duffy Bishop and the rhythm dogs played there often.
Great band. Omg. We danced until we fell down.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 20, 2021 10:28 PM (U2p+3)
Posted by: Dr. T at December 20, 2021 10:29 PM (Vgw1E)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 20, 2021 10:29 PM (llON8)
Posted by: Rbastid at December 20, 2021 10:24 PM (wTXI/)
Private
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2021 10:25 PM (6FeV1)
Close, but for the Bidong family Privates is more better, da?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at December 20, 2021 10:29 PM (hOUT3)
Decent bar and full of mostly obnoxious drunks.
The Comet Tavern on Capitol Hill.
Good times, indeed.
Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at December 20, 2021 10:29 PM (Abpfo)
Thank you Buck. The nine pin video was fun and Robert Earl Keen is always a Christmas song fav.
Posted by: cfo mom at December 20, 2021 10:30 PM (Q8bDL)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2021 10:25 PM (axyOa)
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Parkers Ballroom on Aurora Ave North was open when I lived out in Seattle. I kick myself for never going there.
Posted by: 496
The Zoo. Behave, leave around 9 ish, preferably AM.
Posted by: Climate wackos everywhere at December 20, 2021 10:30 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2021 10:25 PM (axyOa)
Duffy Bishop and the rhythm dogs played there often.
Great band. Omg. We danced until we fell down.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 20, 2021 10:28 PM (U2p+3)
The boob contests between the balconies were epic!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2021 10:30 PM (axyOa)
I think the quote about Earl Campbell was that Bum wouldn't give him the ball when it was third and a mile.
I know somebody who got in the local paper when they played Tyler HS and Earl Campbell was dragging him across the goal line.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at December 20, 2021 10:30 PM (BMmaB)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at December 20, 2021 10:31 PM (5p7BC)
Smashing Pumpkins too.
Damn. The 90s in Seattle were rocking.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 20, 2021 10:31 PM (U2p+3)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 20, 2021 10:31 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: Tom Servo
The ten of us routinely 'camped out' in the ford country squire wagon on the side of the PA turnpike with the semis blasting past all night. To be truthful though, I do remember it fondly. Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2021 10:31 PM (mD/uy)
Posted by: MammaB at December 20, 2021 10:32 PM (8/Bum)
Posted by: Climate wackos everywhere at December
Holy shit! The Eastlake Zoo!
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 20, 2021 10:32 PM (U2p+3)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2021 10:28 PM (evAgx)
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Did they have an Indian demonstrating the art of making totem poles?
That would be cool.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 20, 2021 10:32 PM (VxC1e)
Bill, great guy, but totally stole that.
I could, but shouldn't have to, remind that Miklos is Hungarian for Nicholas (or Nick, if you prefer).
*commences inimitable version of "Volare" that raised the roof at the Red Roof Inn and Conference Center in Valdosta*
Posted by: Miklos, just warming up, and here's one for the Ladies at December 20, 2021 10:32 PM (QzkSJ)
I'll have to make a donation for the critters she loved.
Posted by: Dr. T at December 20, 2021 10:33 PM (Vgw1E)
The rest of you fuckers are required to live long enough for me to make a MoMeet and meet you in person, dammit.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez at December 20, 2021 10:33 PM (Mooke)
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They still do, for now.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at December 20, 2021 10:31 PM (5p7BC)
When my GMC truck transmission gave it up at 75k miles, I concluded GM was done, all of GM!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at December 20, 2021 10:33 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at December 20, 2021 10:33 PM (nxdel)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 20, 2021 10:33 PM (U2p+3)
Posted by: jakee308 at December 20, 2021 10:34 PM (0st7I)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2021 10:34 PM (mD/uy)
https://www.cozeanfuneralhome.com/
obituary/tamara-smith
Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at December 20, 2021 10:12 PM (vcwBL)
Oh dear Lord. What a sweet soul.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 20, 2021 10:35 PM (x8Wzq)
Good reason to NEVER miss even a marginally accessible MoMe!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at December 20, 2021 10:35 PM (hOUT3)
"NHL players will be tested daily, and are no longer allowed to eat inside at restaurants while on the road. - REAL"
"NFL Clubs may designate up to 10 individuals as massage therapists, all of whom must wear a face shield and N95 mask. Players must wear surgical grade masks while being massaged. - REAL"
5:02 PM - Dec 20, 2021 - https://bit.ly/3pdE33i
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 20, 2021 10:35 PM (Do5/p)
Posted by: Diogenes at D
I don't know what you're talking about
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 20, 2021 10:35 PM (U2p+3)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2021 10:35 PM (vhc9+)
Good times, good times.
Posted by: PaleRider at December 20, 2021 10:35 PM (3cGpq)
We are diminished, but we can remember her and smile.
Posted by: cfo mom at December 20, 2021 10:35 PM (Q8bDL)
These were the same kind of acts that worked the lounges in the Borscht Belt hotels I worked at as a teenager.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2021 10:36 PM (EZebt)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2021 10:36 PM (hQ23g)
Posted by: CencalMike at December 20, 2021 10:37 PM (JOV2V)
obituary/tamara-smith
Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at December 20, 2021 10:12 PM (vcwBL)
For Helena and YD
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 20, 2021 10:37 PM (x8Wzq)
The Doghouse! I was sad when they tore it down.
13 Coins was the high class version of the Doghouse.
Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at December 20, 2021 10:37 PM (Abpfo)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2021 10:31 PM (mD/uy)
WUT!!!!
I can only imagine the safest place to park would have been the run out area as you left a tunnel.
Otherwise...WUT!!!
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at December 20, 2021 10:38 PM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: cfo mom at December 20, 2021 10:35 PM (Q8bDL)
This is the kind of beauty and grace that just "randomly" occurs here so often it is unbelievable...
thank you cfo mom!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at December 20, 2021 10:38 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 20, 2021 10:38 PM (m0zqP)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 20, 2021 10:38 PM (r0ADi)
Yeah, the fish biologists claim that each salmon run is specifically evolved for that specific environment, and that if all the salmon who spawn in Whatever Creek die, it will be impossible to replace them with salmon from the Next Creek Over Creek. The genetics of the two runs are just too different, you see.
OTOH, some people tossed some Sacramento River salmon into several New Zealand rivers more than a century ago, and now New Zealand has millions of salmon. Somehow, being tossed into an utterly foreign river wasn't a problem for those salmon.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 20, 2021 10:39 PM (I2/tG)
Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote
You mean the 13 Double Eagles?
Posted by: Some Rat at December 20, 2021 10:40 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2021 10:40 PM (EZebt)
Otherwise...WUT!!!
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard
It was much safer back in the 60s and early 70s. Very wide shoulders with plenty of room to park, rest and even picnic - the Turnpike Commission had picnic tables set up in many places. They removed them all over the years though.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2021 10:41 PM (mD/uy)
LOL
Posted by: a dude in MI at December 20, 2021 10:41 PM (+I6Y/)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 20, 2021 10:38 PM (r0ADi
Great. Now we gotta sit through a year of Sarah Maclachlan warbling over soft focus photos of shaking dogs with ruined sphincters....
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2021 10:42 PM (6FeV1)
The Real O'Shea. Australian husband and wife.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqOxPLv9Kog&loop=0
Posted by: Mr Gaga at December 20, 2021 10:43 PM (KiBMU)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=518zI1cLW5w
Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at December 20, 2021 10:43 PM (vcwBL)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2021 10:41 PM (mD/uy)
Ahhhh, my memory is fading. I remember the tunnels and the rest stops, but I can't fashion a glimpse of the shoulders.
There was a time when we made 3-4 trips a year Cleveland to Philly in the early 60's.
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at December 20, 2021 10:44 PM (BgMrQ)
Don't put Christmas lights on Palm Trees. Just Don't.
https://tinyurl.com/5b2rda45
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2021 10:44 PM (evAgx)
Music used to be a very very special experience, before recorded music.
Now it's everywhere, mostly bad, and we take it for granted.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 20, 2021 10:45 PM (jTmQV)
Posted by: Zettai at December 20, 2021 10:45 PM (nOLfQ)
Yeah, that's the one.
I loved sitting at the bar and eating. The cooks were hilarious. Always a show.
Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at December 20, 2021 10:47 PM (Abpfo)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 20, 2021 10:45 PM (jTmQV)
I feel sorry for the people that grew up without small venue live music!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at December 20, 2021 10:47 PM (hOUT3)
https://tinyurl.com/5b2rda45
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2021 10:44 PM (evAgx)
LOL!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2021 10:47 PM (P3gRi)
Posted by: kbdabear at December 20, 2021 10:47 PM (qAR6u)
https://tinyurl.com/5b2rda45
Posted by: Tom Servo
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lol
The Hawaiians do a much better job at decorating palm trees, from my experience.
Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at December 20, 2021 10:48 PM (vcwBL)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 20, 2021 10:48 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2021 10:44 PM
I don't get it
Posted by: Zettai at December 20, 2021 10:45 PM (nOLfQ)
I DON'T EITHER!
Posted by: BEN ROTHLESSBERGERER at December 20, 2021 10:49 PM (llON8)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar
___
Why?
I grew up without it.
Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at December 20, 2021 10:49 PM (vcwBL)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 20, 2021 10:50 PM (h1jJh)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2021 10:44 PM
I got it. All the time.
Posted by: Kamala at December 20, 2021 10:51 PM (gjH3l)
Posted by: Adriane the Critic ... at December 20, 2021 10:51 PM (okV1R)
Posted by: lowandslow at December 20, 2021 10:52 PM (4thlk)
We were a 12 pc. band and we only had one rule, no dancing. If anyone started dancing we would go into 5/4 or 11/8 or some other undanceable meter.
Talk all you want, especially during the bass solos, and yes, we had an upright bassist.
We make like 30 bucks a person for a 3 hour gig.
It was marvelous. I miss it greatly.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 20, 2021 10:52 PM (jTmQV)
>The dirty old man can't keep his hands off of other people's children FFS. There's your big RED FLAG!
Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 20, 2021 10:52 PM (r0ADi)
Don't put Christmas lights on Palm Trees. Just Don't.
https://tinyurl.com/5b2rda45
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2021 10:44 PM (evAgx)
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Joyous Secular Holiday Greetings from Your Friends at the United States Department of Transportation! Visit our offices to see our festive holiday light display. Don't forget to bring the kids along - especially the really young ones!
Posted by: Pennsyltucky at December 20, 2021 10:53 PM (lNHqD)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2021 10:44 PM
I don't get it
Posted by: Zettai at December 20, 2021 10:45 PM (nOLfQ)
Back in the early 80's there was a very controversial display that was put up on city property in downtown Buffalo:
"These figures were a pun on Planters' Mr. Peanut character, appearing to be dancing penises dressed up with a top hat and a cane."
https://tinyurl.com/5x5u2vkf
The site of said display was right at the terminus of a major artery in the city. The display was impossible to miss. The mayor had it dismantled post haste...
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at December 20, 2021 10:53 PM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 20, 2021 10:53 PM (QU5/8)
Had a good time in Misawa, Japan-- early 80s-- either live music or (mostly) a DJ every night in 2 different club buildings, several smaller bar areas within each.
Most popular "local" band consisted of active duty personnel plus local nationals... pretty good stuff!
Sometimes got has-been entertainers, doing the circuit. Like Gladys Knight. (excellent) and I don't recall the others.
Posted by: JQ, in a Christmas mood at December 20, 2021 10:53 PM (dB4Iz)
Never even saw it on a screen a single time, but the artwork on the box it came in was hilarious. And, the character was fodder for many a late-nite TV comic for a decade or more.
On the topic, a line once heard: "one of the loneliest places around is a crowded motel lounge." Rings true, that.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 20, 2021 10:54 PM (QzJWU)
I really don't like seeing members of the Horde pass on.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 20, 2021 10:54 PM (x8Wzq)
Case in point, keeping the mountain passes open for traffic and, you know, interstate commerce.
A great many of the people who drive and maintain the snowplows were fired by Gov Inslee for not getting the jab.
I expect cross state travel to suck a lot this winter.
Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at December 20, 2021 10:56 PM (Abpfo)
Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at December 20, 2021 10:57 PM (vcwBL)
2. "Guys today are toasting with IPAs, and women are toasting with Prosecco, but once upon a time the beverage was high-end beers such as Lowenbrau, at least for the guys."
I liked Michelob. I don't know why Anheuser-Busch stopped making it.
3. Bum Phillips. Earl Campbell. Dante (Dan) Pastorini. Curley Culp, Elvin Bethea, and Robert Brazile on defense. Yow! I lived in Houston for much of Bum's tenure, beginning in 1977. He was the real deal. Luv Ya Blue!
Posted by: Gref at December 20, 2021 10:57 PM (AMIL/)
Lol.
That's why I didn't leave a comment. I figured a grieving family doesn't need condolences from an ursine with testicular issues.
I also never know what to say.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 20, 2021 10:58 PM (QU5/8)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
FFS
GET OFF MY LAWN
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 20, 2021 10:58 PM (U2p+3)
I left a message on Tami's obituary site, but when I posted, the nic was one of my joke nics. I am so embarrassed. But I like to think she would like it.
I really don't like seeing members of the Horde pass on.
Posted by: Pug Mahon
Heh. Only at AoS. That's the first time I laughed today. Thanks.
And I don't handle loss well, either.
No More Dying, none of you!
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2021 10:58 PM (c8F31)
Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at December 20, 2021 10:59 PM (vcwBL)
heh. yes. I love this place.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 20, 2021 11:00 PM (x8Wzq)
If they didn't already move to a free state.
Posted by: PaleRider at December 20, 2021 11:00 PM (3cGpq)
No More Dying, none of you!
Posted by: Soothsayer
___
You are a sweetie.
Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at December 20, 2021 11:00 PM (vcwBL)
No More Dying, none of you!
Posted by: Soothsayer
^^This^^
Posted by: Some Rat at December 20, 2021 11:00 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: Bum Phillips' Hat at December 20, 2021 11:00 PM (gjH3l)
They played 6 nights a week and always got paid in cash.
This went on for years. The problem was there wasn't much attendance. A lack of customers, just a few were there at all, not nearly enough to support a 6 piece band, bartenders, wait staff, etc.
So, the band shows up one night and the entire venue is cordoned off as a crime scene by the secret service.
The cash was being printed up in the basement.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 20, 2021 11:00 PM (jTmQV)
Posted by: Rafal Gan Ganowicz at December 20, 2021 11:02 PM (DN0pc)
I agree. Most of those people are already employed and quote the state trooper from Yakima.
"Jay Inslee can kiss my ass".
And, Fuck Joe Biden.
Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at December 20, 2021 11:02 PM (Abpfo)
Posted by: Rafal Gan Ganowicz at December 20, 2021 11:02 PM (DN0pc)
Yes, she passed. There is a link to her obit up-thread a ways.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2021 11:04 PM (P3gRi)
But seriously, sidebar that thing.
For perspective: I used to do humorous (by my grotesque standards) memes and photoshops. Ace once found one funny enough to post in the sidebar. Typically, I'd get *maybe* a thousand hits on one. That time, it was middling six figures.
If even a fraction of those lurkers donate, St. Louis' strays will be farting through silk.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2021 11:04 PM (hQ23g)
Compared to Tami, my life has been but a speck. I've no offspring, not much of a legacy, and The Horde is more family than my own blood.
But, I'd be proud for most any of you to write my obit (not in any hurry, mind you!), and would like to think that both friends and enemies would attend to my passing.
The love of friends and the respect from one's enemies, ain't a bad measure of one's years on this planet.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 20, 2021 11:04 PM (QzJWU)
Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2021 11:04 PM (gjH3l)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 20, 2021 11:04 PM (a4EWo)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2021 11:05 PM (P3gRi)
No More Dying, none of you!
There goes my plan for not paying taxes.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at December 20, 2021 11:05 PM (SchxB)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 20, 2021 11:06 PM (cupoy)
Posted by: Rafal Gan Ganowicz at December 20, 2021 11:02 PM (DN0pc)
I do not know a lot, but bluebell had learned from Tami's husband that she had passed away on November 29. There are some things on the morning threads.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 20, 2021 11:06 PM (x8Wzq)
And here I am, triply unvaccinated. I'm so skeeered!
Posted by: t-bird at December 20, 2021 11:06 PM (Lt1JN)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2021 11:06 PM (c8F31)
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim
I plan on writing my own obit. And lying, lying, lying.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 20, 2021 11:07 PM (r1z5A)
I grew up without it.
Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at December 20, 2021 10:49 PM (vcwBL)
Good small bands are usually talented, like each other, and like to play for others. In a small club to me at least, you get a different feeling and relationship with the performers. YMMV
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 20, 2021 11:08 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 20, 2021 11:08 PM (jTmQV)
Posted by: Bum Phillips' Hat at December 20, 2021 11:00 PM (gjH3l)
Bum Phillips factoid: He did not wear his trademark cowboy hat during games in the Astrodome. He said his momma taught him not to wear a hat indoors.
Posted by: Gref at December 20, 2021 11:08 PM (AMIL/)
Since I don't know, I shall say, with utter confidence, that Tami died defending herself, her family, and lots of stray animals from evil Joe Biden appointees who were tracking her in some form of skulduggery. Due to Tami's noble sacrifice, many people and animals have escaped to live another day....
Yeah, not likely, but still: Tami would do something like that, so I hope she is happy in heaven.
At least she no longer worries about Brandon.
Posted by: Rafal Gan Ganowicz at December 20, 2021 11:08 PM (DN0pc)
Posted by: PabloD at December 20, 2021 11:08 PM (+0Dog)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 20, 2021 11:09 PM (x8Wzq)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 20, 2021 11:07 PM (r1z5A)
You, good sir, are a wise, man!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 20, 2021 11:09 PM (hOUT3)
I know you're being funny but my partner Karen made me promise to not die before she did.
To my utter regret and loss that's a promise I kept.
7 1/2 years she's been gone and I miss her every damn day.
So, yes. No one else dies. Ever.
At least among us.
Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at December 20, 2021 11:10 PM (Abpfo)
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at December 20, 2021 10:24
Yes indeed Jewells. so sorry for her family. Anyone know any details, I understand this was sudden?
Posted by: Farmer at December 20, 2021 11:10 PM (55Qr6)
...
The people of El Salvador won't go back to that terrible past.
_ President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele
Biden bitched and Bukele threw down copies of messages (linked in article) between US Ambassador and her aid about bribing El Salvadoran officials. Also, El Salvador went off the dollar to bitcoin. Which, per Kindltot, cuts US banks out of 3%.
https://is.gd/LAvq8p
Posted by: Braenyard, Prince of El Salvador pooped on the Big Guy at December 20, 2021 11:11 PM (/FocL)
https://is.gd/LAvq8p
Posted by: Braenyard, Prince of El Salvador pooped on the Big Guy at December 20, 2021 11:11 PM (/FocL)
Don't forget the .3% that the Big Guy automatically gets!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 20, 2021 11:13 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar
___
One of my younger daughter's friends is in a band, and I agree, watching him perform is different, in a very good way, as opposed to concerts by some big-name performer.
Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at December 20, 2021 11:13 PM (vcwBL)
Someone commented today that you could trust that the links Tami posted would be interesting (and SFW). I keep 'bookmarks' pages, muchly gleaned from AoS, and I know I would h/t Tami far more than anyone else.
Stunned that she's gone, and so suddenly.
😞
Posted by: mindful webworker // links page at December 20, 2021 11:14 PM (zcM+Q)
https://is.gd/LAvq8p
Posted by: Braenyard, Prince of El Salvador pooped on the Big Guy at December 20, 2021 11:11 PM (/FocL)
I expect the U.S. dollar will still be used in everyday transactions in Salvadoran shops and markets.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2021 11:14 PM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2021 11:14 PM (hQ23g)
Soothsayer
I know you're being funny but my partner Karen made me promise to not die before she did.
To my utter regret and loss that's a promise I kept.
7 1/2 years she's been gone and I miss her every damn day.
So, yes. No one else dies. Ever.
At least among us.
Posted by: Winston
I'm sorry for your loss, and that was very sweet of you.
I really wasn't trying to be funny. I don't want to lose any more of my people. I've already lost enough.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2021 11:15 PM (c8F31)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa0quYA9pNU
Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at December 20, 2021 11:18 PM (vcwBL)
Anyone know any details, I understand this was sudden?
Posted by: Farmer
All I know is this: Tami was posting until about noon on the 29th.
Dear Lord, I pray however she passed...it was peaceful.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2021 11:18 PM (c8F31)
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at December 20, 2021 11:19 PM (II3Gr)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 20, 2021 11:19 PM (U2p+3)
Don't forget the .3% that the Big Guy automatically gets!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 20, 2021 11:13 PM (hOUT3)
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It's an awkward article but bad blood between El Salvador and Biden has been brewing and this guy is game.
Posted by: Braenyard, Prince of El Salvador pooped on the Big Guy at December 20, 2021 11:19 PM (/FocL)
Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at December 20, 2021 11:19 PM (vcwBL)
I agree.
Lots of people thought I was insane for making that promise.
I felt it required because I talked her out of getting a wolverine for a pet and having a Viking funeral.
I told her she'd have to explain teh wolverine to the cats which ended that.
Telling her the Coast Guard would be upset about the burning boat ended that although she did flounce away after announcing that they just don't want me to have any fun.
Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at December 20, 2021 11:19 PM (Abpfo)
Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at December 20, 2021 11:20 PM (vcwBL)
Funny thing is, a lot of people don't realize, myself included, that a Wolverine is a...
Weasel.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2021 11:21 PM (c8F31)
Posted by: nurse ratched
Always good advice nurse - thanks.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2021 11:22 PM (mD/uy)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 20, 2021 11:19 PM (U2p+3)
*turns with guilty look away 'fridge with arms loaded with coldcuts, cheeses and other sammich fixins*
Whaa? I thought you said don't to go bed hangry!?
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 20, 2021 11:22 PM (QzJWU)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 20, 2021 11:22 PM (U2p+3)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 20, 2021 11:23 PM (U2p+3)
Dear Lord, I pray however she passed...it was peaceful.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2021 11:18 PM (c8F31)
from having been around both, I say without reservation that a quick death is far, far better - and more merciful - than a long, drawn out one. It's harder on those left behind, of course.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2021 11:23 PM (evAgx)
Weasel.
So it's not a short Canadian guy with bone deformities?
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at December 20, 2021 11:24 PM (SchxB)
Jim
There's going to be a fight over who tells the tale of your aside at the MoMe about you picking out a weapon for someone would be akin to trying to select a bra for one of the 'ettes.
Just saying. . .
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2021 11:25 PM (mD/uy)
Ahhh...I hope CBD doesn't do that too.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2021 11:25 PM (axyOa)
Anything that'll run a grizzly away from a fresh meal is really scary.
Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at December 20, 2021 11:25 PM (Abpfo)
For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come.
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith.
In the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the Righteous Judge, will award to me on that day, but to all who have loved His appearing.
Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at December 20, 2021 11:27 PM (vcwBL)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2021 11:14 PM (P3gRi)
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If memory serves they were more that pegged to the dollar it was coin of the realm. People can't buy goods and services with bitcoin so the dollar seems a natural.
However, President Bukele appears to be eager to stuff Biden and his people appear to support that idea.
Posted by: Braenyard, Prince of El Salvador pooped on the Big Guy at December 20, 2021 11:27 PM (/FocL)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2021 11:29 PM (mD/uy)
Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at December 20, 2021 11:30 PM (vcwBL)
Posted by: Braenyard, Prince of El Salvador pooped on the Big Guy at December 20, 2021 11:27 PM (/FocL)
And I surely support them in that! Just pointing out that there has to be some sort of cash for a cash economy to work.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2021 11:30 PM (P3gRi)
Anything that'll run a grizzly away from a fresh meal is really scary.
Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at December 20, 2021 11:25 PM (Abpfo)
Mustelids
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at December 20, 2021 11:30 PM (WF/xn)
Tomorrow (21 DEC 21) is the Winter Solstice -- the shortest, darkest day of the year and the start of Astronomical Winter
Posted by: Zettai at December 20, 2021 11:30 PM (Q7jlg)
Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at December 20, 2021 11:30 PM (Abpfo)
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at December 20, 2021 11:32 PM (WF/xn)
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at December 20, 2021 11:30 PM
The wolverine is, in fact, not a weasel -- it is a gulonine -- which is a Very Special Sort of weasel
Posted by: Zettai at December 20, 2021 11:32 PM (Q7jlg)
Dear Lord, I pray however she passed...it was peaceful.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2021 11:18 PM (c8F31)
You know, I can think of a hell of a lot of worse ways to go than having just read some Horde puns and perhaps a limerick or two.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2021 11:32 PM (axyOa)
Posted by: SFGoth at December 20, 2021 11:33 PM (KAi1n)
Peace and eternal rest to Tami. Strength to her family.
If anyone sees Infidel tell her I tried her suggested brandy and like it quite a lot.
Everyone else who made suggestions that I couldn't find locally.
I'm keeping that list for another day.
Blessings to all.
Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at December 20, 2021 11:33 PM (Abpfo)
I messed up and posted in the previous thread. Management please accept my apologies.
Going to bed - and back to just lurking for a long time.....
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at December 20, 2021 11:34 PM (7SwmH)
I was just reading some detail's of Berenson's lawsuit agin' Twatter, which was filed today.
His lawyers argue that Twatter is a common carrier under federal and CA law. And also that Twatter was acting as a "state actor", doing the bidding of the federal govt to censor wrongthink, and thus is in violation of the First Amendment. They are other complaints as well, including false advertising under federal law, promissory estoppel, and breach of contract.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 20, 2021 11:36 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
They would join Panama, Ecuador, and Argentina, where USD is Legal Tender.
Posted by: Miklos, chair dancing to "Legal Tender" by the B-52s at December 20, 2021 11:36 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Zettai at December 20, 2021 11:32 PM (Q7jlg)
I saw one once, on a road leading to drilling lease on a mountain near Tumbler Ridge, B.C. Driving up the road, I thought I saw a black bear about a hundred yards away. The area was overun with them, no biggie. Then I got a little closer, and the headlights picked it up, and it looked at me and snarled, and I realized it was a wolverine, about 50 feet away. But it bounded into the bush. Cool.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2021 11:39 PM (P3gRi)
You fail all the time but you ain't a failure until you start blaming someone else.
Posted by: Just a side note at December 20, 2021 11:39 PM (H/pb5)
They have unattached from the US Dollar and gone to Bitcoin.
Posted by: Braenyard, Prince of El Salvador pooped on the Big Guy at December 20, 2021 11:40 PM (/FocL)
Going to bed - and back to just lurking for a long time.....
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at December 20, 2021 11:34 PM (7SwmH)
Not sure at which point posting on "old" threads becomes a sin, but I think within the same day, you are safe.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2021 11:41 PM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 20, 2021 11:42 PM (OalnH)
Posted by: Braenyard, Prince of El Salvador pooped on the Big Guy at December 20, 2021 11:42 PM (/FocL)
Posted by: Just a side note at December 20, 2021 11:43 PM (H/pb5)
Posted by: Zettai at December 20, 2021 11:30 PM (Q7jlg)
Above or below of the equator.
Posted by: Javems at December 20, 2021 11:43 PM (wZO8j)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2021 11:39 PM
We've no wolverines in the Southern Tier -- we do have "fisher cats", a related species, though
A sighting is rare, however -- I've seen only one (maybe two) in 15 years!
Posted by: Zettai at December 20, 2021 11:44 PM (Q7jlg)
Posted by: Just a side note at December 20, 2021 11:43 PM (H/pb5)
Bowling alley hamburgers and fries always tasted good.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2021 11:44 PM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2021 11:46 PM (hQ23g)
Look back in 40 years at today's hair fashion. I'm sure all this green and purple hair isn't going to be embarrassing.
Posted by: lowandslow at December 20, 2021 11:46 PM (4thlk)
Posted by: Braenyard
Thanks, I saw that.
FUN FACT
El Salvador was until the mid-2000s a major manufacturer of components for the US auto sector.
Guess where those jobs went
It was about 25% of their national GDP.
Was.
Posted by: Miklos, seeing the Chupacabras coming home to roost at December 20, 2021 11:47 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Just a side note at December 20, 2021 11:43 PM (H/pb5)
Bowling alley hamburgers and fries always tasted good.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2021 11:44 PM (P3gRi)
Bowling alley pizza too
Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2021 11:47 PM (mZUr4)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2021 11:44 PM (P3gRi)
Mysteriously unique. Have not found a similar burger outside of a bowling alley.
Posted by: Just a side note at December 20, 2021 11:48 PM (H/pb5)
Calling it the Winter Solstice is Northernism, Northern Supremacy. The Peoples of the Southern Hemisphere should demand reparations.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 20, 2021 11:48 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2021 11:25
Oh good lord, I also hope masturbatin pete doesn't show on Tami's condolences. Tho knowing her she might find it funny, what a dear. You will be missed sweet Tami.
Posted by: Farmer at December 20, 2021 11:49 PM (55Qr6)
Probably not appropriate to include her political contributions in her public obit ... but AoS was surely an important part of her life, important to her I mean. Some sort of tribute here? ... idk, mostly she posted news with appropriate snark and insight .. but she was consistent and obviously deeply involved, concerned.
But such unexpected tragedy ... I can't help but compare to so many patriots that just die to soon, Mike Flynn from Breitbart, Breitbart himself, Rush ... yes, I hope it was peaceful, or quick. A loss for us all, prayers for her family.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 20, 2021 11:49 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 20, 2021 11:48 PM (Mzdiz)
Give us back our fucking daylight and we'll call it even.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2021 11:50 PM (6FeV1)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries.
Keep this up and AOP may just have to go Rogue on ya ...
Posted by: Adriane the Illiterate Critic ... at December 20, 2021 11:50 PM (okV1R)
Guess where those jobs went
It was about 25% of their national GDP.
Was.
Posted by: Miklos, seeing the Chupacabras coming home to roost at December 20, 2021 11:47 PM (QzkSJ)
Speaking of things Salvadoran, I drove by the Big Tin Cotton Gin in Queen Creek, AZ, yesterday, and on the road next to it is a new little Bodega-style restaurante, advertising pupusas. Those are yummy. Will have to try it out.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2021 11:51 PM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Just a side note at December 20, 2021 11:53 PM (H/pb5)
We've no wolverines in the Southern Tier -- we do have "fisher cats", a related species, though
A sighting is rare, however -- I've seen only one (maybe two) in 15 years!
Posted by: Zettai at December 20
I've never seen a wolverine and I don't know what a fisher cat is. My husband had a miners cat living in his friend's barn where they hang out. It lived there for about a year. They fed it cat food. It look kind of like a raccoon.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 20, 2021 11:54 PM (0Cl6X)
Posted by: Just a side note at December 20, 2021 11:48 PM (H/pb5)
I think it was because they used to toast the buns on the grills, alongside the patties, so they were crisp, and slightly greasy on the sides contacting the meat.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2021 11:54 PM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Just a side note at December 20, 2021 11:55 PM (H/pb5)
Posted by: Braenyard, Prince of El Salvador pooped on the Big Guy at December 20, 2021 11:56 PM (/FocL)
The Solstice (sun stop) will occur at exactly 10:59AM EST.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 20, 2021 11:56 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2021 11:25
Oh good lord, I also hope masturbatin pete doesn't show on Tami's condolences. Tho knowing her she might find it funny, what a dear. You will be missed sweet Tami.
Posted by: Farmer at December 20, 2021 11:49 PM (55Qr6)
Ditto for Bea Arthur's Dick. And Speed Racer's Banana Hammock. The latter of which I haven't seen around here in quite a while
Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2021 11:57 PM (mZUr4)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at December 20, 2021 11:57 PM (SchxB)
Posted by: Just a side note
Shoneys.
Waffle House burgers are different, because of the company I keep.
Posted by: 4 Star Michelin Tires on the truck Miklos at December 20, 2021 11:57 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 20, 2021 11:49 PM (Cus5s)
I'm shocked and I pray for Tami and her family. Thanks SMH for posting the link to her obituary.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 20, 2021 11:58 PM (0Cl6X)
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 20, 2021 11:54 PM (0Cl6X)
Wolverine:
https://tinyurl.com/226wzn8f
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2021 11:58 PM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Pete Bog at December 20, 2021 11:58 PM (bzrNB)
"He died as he lived - in the gutter."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2021 11:46 PM (hQ23g)
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"The world is a little gayer by his departure."
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 20, 2021 11:58 PM (VxC1e)
Posted by: Braenyard, Prince of El Salvador pooped on the Big Guy at December 20, 2021 11:58 PM (/FocL)
Posted by: Doof
At Miklosian Nic Management LLC, we have Standards
Posted by: Miklos is as polite as the whiskey allows at December 20, 2021 11:59 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2021 11:57 PM (mZUr4)
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Walt Disney's Frozen Head should pop in.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 20, 2021 11:59 PM (VxC1e)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 21, 2021 12:00 AM (c8F31)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 20, 2021 11:59 PM (VxC1e)
Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper did pop in a few days ago.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2021 12:01 AM (P3gRi)
They're also known as ringtails. I've seen one in New Mexico, looking down from on top of the building I worked in at the time.
They look like raccoons because they're pretty closely related.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at December 21, 2021 12:01 AM (SchxB)
They examined and pulled out the various odds of what the degree of condition the infected/reinfected could expect and how likely it was to happen.
https://tinyurl.com/23w2zffx That's here https://www.nejm.org/
As we've all seen the Virus is not that dangerous. Which is why I believe they plan to dump an actual epidemic using something that was developed during the cold war. Keep in mind the recent finding of smallpox vials in Philadelphia. It's going to be smallpox and the actual death rate for that will probably be 30-60%. Right in that sweet spot of leaving about 2 billion behind on the planet for the worker bees for the rich people. We've already had the dress rehearsal so they'll be able to ramp up pretty quickly. And that's why ol' Joe is talking about a lot of death this winter. Maybe even a war if they can convince everyone that Russia did it.
Posted by: jakee308 at December 21, 2021 12:02 AM (0st7I)
Posted by: Miklos introduces this as an illustration at December 21, 2021 12:02 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2021 12:02 AM (mZUr4)
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 21, 2021 12:02 AM (bW8dp)
They'll have to find another way to get me.
Posted by: Braenyard, Prince of El Salvador pooped on the Big Guy at December 21, 2021 12:04 AM (/FocL)
https://tinyurl.com/ycy4mpx6
Posted by: Miklos introduces this as an illustration at December 21, 2021 12:02 AM (QzkSJ)
Day-um!! That's ice cold!!
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2021 12:04 AM (mZUr4)
Posted by: MikeN at December 21, 2021 12:05 AM (fTgRV)
So now she has to run again.
Posted by: Methos at December 21, 2021 12:05 AM (kOpft)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 21, 2021 12:05 AM (bW8dp)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2021 12:07 AM (P3gRi)
They ended their nightly set with Hendrix's Star Spangle Banner.
Posted by: Just a side note at December 21, 2021 12:08 AM (H/pb5)
Posted by: JuJuBee at December 21, 2021 12:09 AM (mNhhD)
Ron Klain has the dead eyes of a Schutzstaffle Sonderkommando.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 21, 2021 12:09 AM (bW8dp)
Posted by: jakee308 at December 21, 2021 12:02 AM (0st7I)
Well, most of us that are over 29 have had our smallpox vaccine, and, AFAIK, it is still good.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2021 12:10 AM (P3gRi)
You can kill scorpions with a black light?
dayum
Talk about Ultra-violent radiation
Posted by: Miklos with scorpions in human form in the trailer right next over at December 21, 2021 12:10 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: JuJuBee
Learn to make beer, and stock up on supplies
Posted by: 2022 at December 21, 2021 12:11 AM (QzkSJ)
Second, I thought nine pin bowling was called no-tap and yes I've bowled a 300 no tap and honest to goodness ever frame was a natural except the first which was a solid 7 - I'm a southpaw....
Posted by: NALNAMSAM- not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at December 21, 2021 12:12 AM (+ldAm)
Posted by: cfo mom at December 21, 2021 12:12 AM (Q8bDL)
Wait. I was confusing him with Tim Kaine.
You know who else has eyes like that? Merrick Garland. John Roberts. Dianne Feinstein.
Those are the eyes of people who would throw you in the gas chamber and slam the door without turning a hair.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 21, 2021 12:13 AM (bW8dp)
Posted by: NALNAMSAM- not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at December 21, 2021 12:12 AM (+ldAm)
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Meh. Kim Il Sung golfed an 18 on his very first time on the links.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2021 12:14 AM (VxC1e)
dayum
Talk about Ultra-violent radiation
Posted by: Miklos with scorpions in human form in the trailer right next over at December 21, 2021 12:10 AM (QzkSJ)
I guess you could, with enough intensity. Terminal sunburn. But the one I killed, I used bug spray. Lots and lots of bug spray. I think the others got a dose, too, or at least had to trek through the wet spot. Prolly crawled away to die. They were inside an old hollow log I was cutting up with chainsaw and axe.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2021 12:14 AM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Zettai at December 21, 2021 12:14 AM (88BmL)
Why do I say that?
Because it's all they have been talking about, openly, for the last 20 years. How to do it.
Gates has been doing Ted talks on it for at least a decade.
The wuhan lab already has vastly more lethal viruses ready to go, just waiting for the order to release.
We in the USA, financed them.
Prepare thyselves.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 21, 2021 12:16 AM (jTmQV)
Posted by: Cicero
Was a 17.
Double hole-in-one on the 16th-17th.
Deniers to be executed by Juche Adherent Carl Spackler.
Posted by: Miklos was alsost (almost) an extra in Caddyshack at December 21, 2021 12:17 AM (QzkSJ)
I alluded to it but didn't make it more obvious. It will be a militarized form which will not be susceptible to our small pox scratches.
And I think that those are probably not as strong as they once were. Particularly if they've messed with how it spreads and infects people.
It was just a convenient example taken from recent headlines of finding those vials. Rather coinkydink, no? It could be anything as there are plenty of choices of stuff that's deadly in Africa.
Posted by: jakee308 at December 21, 2021 12:18 AM (0st7I)
Posted by: Liberace Ghanaian Funeral Dance maestro at December 21, 2021 12:18 AM (QzkSJ)
Well, most of us that are over 29 have had our smallpox vaccine, and, AFAIK, it is still good.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2021 12:10 AM (P3gRi)
Is smallpox vaccine the one that gave us all over 29 the scar on our arm?
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 21, 2021 12:19 AM (0Cl6X)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa0quYA9pNU
Near the end, when he is reading a quote from his wife made years ago when she was interviewed, she said that she wanted "to leave a legacy and heritage for my children and grandchildren, and for any woman that the Lord brought my way. I want to leave some inspiration and some encouragement for them.
Foremost in my mind, I want to hear, "Well done."
She, and Tami, have definitely done that. I pray that I can accomplish the same.
Goodnight, Horde. I love you all.
Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at December 21, 2021 12:20 AM (vcwBL)
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 21, 2021 12:19 AM (0Cl6X)
Yes, pretty sure of that.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2021 12:20 AM (P3gRi)
In the days of my youth, 29 years ago, burgers like that were to be had on the main street of every small town in America, usually in a cafe named something like "Eat". Maybe "Joe's" or "Juanita's", if they had pretensions.
Sometimes the waitresses would be young and cute. Sometimes they'd be hefty middle-aged ladies in support hose and sensible shoes, who called everyone "Hon".
The chain fast food joints took them all down. Now every wide spot in the road has a Subway, and a McDonald's, and a Pizza Hut.
They still exist, but not in anything like the numbers that there once were.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 21, 2021 12:20 AM (bW8dp)
Posted by: JuJuBee
"Hold OUR beer while we beat you with a sock full of nickels."
Posted by: Some Rat at December 21, 2021 12:21 AM (r1z5A)
Posted by: CaliGirl
Only girls.
Girls should sue
Posted by: Miklos Sheib, Esq., any case $69.95 at December 21, 2021 12:21 AM (QzkSJ)
Eh... the full smallpox genome has been published. You could MAKE it, with the right equipment, and the price of that equipment is going down all the time.
Pleasant dreams.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 21, 2021 12:22 AM (bW8dp)
Posted by: CaliGirl
Only girls.
Girls should sue
Posted by: Miklos Sheib, Esq., any case $69.95 at December 21, 2021 12:21 AM (QzkSJ)
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I heard it was only the bad girls who got the scar.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2021 12:23 AM (VxC1e)
The vaccine itself if in storage could still be effective up to 40 years or so.
Life long immunity will likely not be most peoples outcome. Unless you've recently gotten a booster.
Posted by: jakee308 at December 21, 2021 12:23 AM (0st7I)
Pleasant dreams.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
Same for your classic old-school Hiroshima Fat Man technology.
Posted by: Miklos von Neumann-Teller-Szilard at December 21, 2021 12:24 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Barney Fife at December 21, 2021 12:25 AM (VxC1e)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 21, 2021 12:26 AM (r1z5A)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 21, 2021 12:20 AM (bW8dp)
That's mostly in suburbia. Out in the real rural country, you still find (well a lot went under with the lockdowns and now the lack of supply) quite a few of them We still have the McDs and others but there isn't one every few miles. more like from city to city and the towns have the cafe and diner and a nice restaurant that deserves the name. Patronized heavily after Church on Sunday.
Posted by: jakee308 at December 21, 2021 12:26 AM (0st7I)
Posted by: Barney Fife
And I paid for the Park n' Spark Motor Hotel at Mount Pilot.
Bastard
Posted by: Juanita at December 21, 2021 12:27 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Miklos von Neumann-Teller-Szilard at December 21, 2021 12:24 AM (QzkSJ)
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If you're willing to settle for a less efficient nuke, you can recreate the Little Boy design with a soldering iron, a lathe and a Dremel Moto-Tool.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2021 12:27 AM (VxC1e)
Posted by: Braenyard, Prince of El Salvador pooped on the Big Guy at December 21, 2021 12:28 AM (/FocL)
Posted by: Cicero
Don't go giving AOP any ideas he doesn't have already.
Posted by: Miklos, plausibly denying at December 21, 2021 12:29 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2021 12:30 AM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
Remember in the 70's when kids science fair displays of nuclear devices were confiscated by the FBI.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 21, 2021 12:30 AM (r1z5A)
I heard it was only the bad girls who got the scar.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2021 12:23 AM (VxC1e)
That must be why I have one.
A strange thing is the plastic surgeon told me he could laser that off for me. I thought that was crazy but some people must have it removed to hide how old they are.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 21, 2021 12:31 AM (0Cl6X)
The 292-day siege featured the largest contingent of U.S. Colored Troops (USCT) in the whole war.
Does that absolve me of white guilt? I mean, shit, the war to end slavery? Laying siege with the brothers?
And wounded? C'mon, man!
Wonder what he manned. A 24-pound Coehorn mortar? Wow! A 4.2-inch Parrot rifle, firing a 25 pound projectile, with a 6,700-yard range? Jeepers!
Can anybody hear anything?
Posted by: Mr Gaga at December 21, 2021 12:31 AM (KiBMU)
Posted by: rhomboid
Indeed, indeed Sir. You are clearly a man of discernment.
Posted by: Sidney Miklos-Greenstreet at December 21, 2021 12:32 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2021 12:33 AM (VxC1e)
Shut that door gently don't agitate the awaiting target.
I guess cyanide in a masssive dose and inhaled is fairly quick.
That's my preference. Boom! Over and done. No time stretching due to the concentration of the mind over what's going on and the endpoint as it approaches. Best would be to go in ones sleep.
BTW how much do we believe all these people dying with their family surrounding them and peacefully passing away? Sure it happens sometimes but lately it seems every body who's died has gone like that. I find that a doubtful circumstance.
Posted by: jakee308 at December 21, 2021 12:33 AM (0st7I)
at_Adam_Creighton
First Omicron death in US emerges, while more than 100,000 have survived so far.
Houston reports first confirmed death in the United States from omicron variant of COVID-19
An unvaccinated man in his 50s with underlying health conditions became the first confirmed American to die from the omicron variant of COVID-19, Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo said Monday.
12:22 AM - Dec 21, 2021 - https://bit.ly/3qhc3uS
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 21, 2021 12:34 AM (Do5/p)
Decades ago, the US govt did a little experiment. They got some physicists and engineers, etc together. And say, hey guys, we want you to reinvent the nuclear weapon wheel. There may be a better way to do it, more efficient, and we want you to try. Here's a bunch of money, and tell us what material you need.
The real purpose of that was to see just if and how fast those with the necessary knowledge and skill could create a nuclear weapon from scratch. That is, achieve a working nuclear bomb without knowing all the tricks and secrets previously worked out.
The group was being carefully monitored, almost looking over the shoulder level by the actual nuclear weapons team. At some point, they said, hey these guys are about to get it right. They'll have a working design, and they ended the test.
At the point, they decided that control of weapons grade material was the only way to stop nuclear proliferation. Keep the fissile material under control. The knowledge was out there and couldn't be controlled.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 21, 2021 12:35 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: jakee308 at December 21, 2021 12:35 AM (0st7I)
Posted by: Betty at December 21, 2021 12:35 AM (/QabR)
12:22 AM - Dec 21, 2021 - https://bit.ly/3qhc3uS
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
Also, Lina Hidalgo be KRAYZEE, even by current bolshevik standards.
Posted by: Miklosian Opinions, a 501(c)3 not-for-profit at December 21, 2021 12:36 AM (QzkSJ)
Unvaxxed! Just in time for Biden's "speech."
"Underlying health conditions," but that part will get killed.
Posted by: Mr Gaga at December 21, 2021 12:37 AM (KiBMU)
I've been able to verify via records search that my great great grampa fought in the Civil War (1st Maine Heavy Artillery - cool!), was wounded, likely at Petersburg, in 1965, and survived.
While listening to the Beatles on the radio.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 21, 2021 12:37 AM (63Dwl)
The patient had unspecified underlying conditions.
However, they say the person had had covid before.
[Bet that's subject to retraction]. _DM
Posted by: Braenyard, Prince of El Salvador pooped on the Big Guy at December 21, 2021 12:37 AM (/FocL)
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The omicron death toll is now tied with the Alec Baldwin death toll.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2021 12:38 AM (VxC1e)
May her memory be eternal and may God give comfort to her family.
Posted by: Hoplite Housewife at December 21, 2021 12:38 AM (mNMgp)
Posted by: Miklosian Opinions
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Click your heels and salute when you say that.
Posted by: Braenyard, Prince of El Salvador pooped on the Big Guy at December 21, 2021 12:39 AM (/FocL)
like he weighed 900 lbs, had diabeetus, had to have dialysis, had a stroke last week and a heart attack in the summer.
You know they say comorbidites/conditions. But what if you're being treated for those conditions and are stablilized? Does that mean you're okay? or is it some percent added to the likelihood of infection and/or death?
Posted by: jakee308 at December 21, 2021 12:39 AM (0st7I)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion
That explains the highly sophisticated okra centrifuges and special power lines at the Publius Ridge Facility.
Posted by: Miklos, who can translate the original technical Hungarian if needed at December 21, 2021 12:40 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
Great Cicero, now they're gonna count the ohmygodicron wounded.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 21, 2021 12:41 AM (r1z5A)
12:22 AM - Dec 21, 2021 - https://bit.ly/3qhc3uS
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 21, 2021 12:34 AM (Do5/p)
Lina Hidalgo should not be trusted with a burned-out match. She is probably lying.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2021 12:41 AM (P3gRi)
Posted by: JEM at December 21, 2021 12:42 AM (jIeMQ)
Posted by: jakee308 at December 21, 2021 12:42 AM (0st7I)
Thing is, they couldn't make any *larger* plutonium hemispheres, as such would then become critical in and of themselves, due to the greater plutonium mass, in each. IOW. Little Boy was the maxed-out gun-type plutonium nuke, and was a dead end in the design evolution. Been spherical implosion krypton trigger, lensed explosive tech, ever since.
That said, what design were the suitcase nukes and Davy Crockett devices? I honestly don't know, so I'm asking.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 21, 2021 12:42 AM (QzJWU)
Posted by: jakee308 at December 21, 2021 12:42 AM (0st7I)
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FJB won't know the difference.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2021 12:43 AM (VxC1e)
This is kind of morbid, but my wife worked as a hospice social worker for years. We know a lot more about dying than we used to, and there is now a strong policy (and budget) preference to send people home when they start to begin the dying process. When you start to die, it is almost always irreversible and comes within 48 hours of when it starts (sometimes quicker). So when the hospital discharges a patient to hospice, it is almost always over within a couple of days, and sometimes before the ambulance even gets home with the patient.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at December 21, 2021 12:43 AM (BMmaB)
Posted by: JEM at December 21, 2021 12:44 AM (jIeMQ)
"Pre-detonation". Neutron flux that gets the party started too quickly, producing a small bang and lots of debris.
Thus the need for certain designs, certain tampers, etc.
An interesting little book based on the introductory lecture that newcomers to Los Alamos were given during Manhattan explored this as one of the key technical challenges remaining. Forget the name of the physicist, think the book is "The Los Alamos Lectures".
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2021 12:45 AM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2021 12:45 AM (VxC1e)
So telling you you're going home is a freaking death sentence!
I could've gone a while not knowing that. Oh well. I'm passing the 15th floor now and everything's fine.
Posted by: jakee308 at December 21, 2021 12:46 AM (0st7I)
There was a fire at a tank farm on the east side of the county. She didn't know that the county had an emergency operations center so she started tweeting things.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at December 21, 2021 12:47 AM (BMmaB)
Jim
I all hell breaks out, I am willing to fight through an all-out attack of Daisy Dukes.
Posted by: Miklos, unyielding at December 21, 2021 12:48 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Braenyard, Prince of El Salvador pooped on the Big Guy at December 21, 2021 12:48 AM (/FocL)
Not necessarily. If you're conscious and know you're going home from the hospital, it's probably not because you're dying. When you're close to the end, you're generally not conscious, or in and out, although the nurses say that although your loved one may not be very responsive, he or she can hear you.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at December 21, 2021 12:49 AM (BMmaB)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2021 12:50 AM (OTzUX)
Posted by: jakee308
Try to miss Costanzas car. We ain't dealing with that shit again.
Posted by: Hospital Admin. at December 21, 2021 12:50 AM (r1z5A)
Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at December 21, 2021 12:51 AM (1uv3Z)
Michael Berry calls her the Comandante.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at December 21, 2021 12:52 AM (BMmaB)
Yes, the trick in getting a working nuclear explosion is keeping the material together long enough to get enough reaction and energy released before you blow it apart.
That takes some finesse.
See the story of physicist Louis Slotkin, who killed his fool self doing a "tickling the dragon's tail" criticality experiment with a plutonium core that become known as the Demon Core. The Demon Core killed a couple of guys.
Fermi said earlier something the effect that Slotkin was a "cowboy", a bit reckless, and was going to kill his fool self.
He did.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 21, 2021 12:52 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2021 12:50 AM (OTzUX)
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Heisenberg needed one of those in German translation.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2021 12:52 AM (VxC1e)
Posted by: JEM at December 21, 2021 12:53 AM (jIeMQ)
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 21, 2021 12:42 AM (QzJWU)
There is a Davy Crockett warhead on display at the National Museum of Atomic Testing in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is about the size and shape of a 20# propane cylinder, so I would presume a spherical implosion design.
The one Davy Crockett tested was fired from a Studebaker M29 Weasel, which I think makes the Weasel the most powerfully-armed vehicle in the history of the U.S. Army's lineup, ever. I don't think you can rightly call the Atomic Cannon a "vehicle".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2021 12:53 AM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Braenyard, Prince of El Salvador pooped on the Big Guy at December 21, 2021 12:48 AM (/FocL)
This. My MIL is an alcoholic. Very involved in AA. She really upset me when my dad was having hospice care by telling me that giving him morphine was bad and I was killing him. I was speechless.
I wish I would have said when you are dying and suffering I'll make sure no one gives you any pain medication. People are strange sometimes.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 21, 2021 12:54 AM (0Cl6X)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 21, 2021 12:54 AM (r1z5A)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 21, 2021 12:57 AM (QU5/8)
We never had to deal with the extremely problematic issue of a nuclear mission to a well-defended target using pre-B-29 delivery platforms - that all by itself would be a hell of a staff meeting.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2021 12:57 AM (OTzUX)
My mother passed in the hospital, in pain, the nurse would come in every do often and do a little something to her drip, and nothing was said by anyone but yeah.
Posted by: JEM at December 21, 2021 12:58 AM (jIeMQ)
Slotkin was demonstrating the tickling the dragon's tail process, by which you get something very close to critical without going over. This involved some neutron "reflector" (beryllium) hemispheres that went around the core. If they closed around the core, it would go critical.
Slotkin was holding them apart with a screwdriver (this was not standard procedure -- again "cowboy") , getting them as close together as possible. The screwdriver slipped, the core went critical. It didn't explode, just made a "flash".
Slotkin jerked off the top piece with his hand. He received a many-times lethal dose of radiation in an instant. It took him a while to die, slowly, and horribly.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 21, 2021 12:58 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at December 21, 2021 12:52 AM (BMmaB)
As I've said, she's only one pair of mirrored sunglasses from donning the sash and beret.
Mini-Nazi on the half-shell, she is. And twice as dangerous.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 21, 2021 12:59 AM (QzJWU)
Fuel capacity was 35 US gal. Under average conditions (typically 5 miles per gallon), it could range 165 mi
Posted by: Braenyard, Prince of El Salvador pooped on the Big Guy at December 21, 2021 01:00 AM (/FocL)
Have long planned to do one of their bus tours to the test site.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2021 01:00 AM (OTzUX)
Your better hospices specialize in palliative care. There is no reason for the dying person to suffer. None.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at December 21, 2021 01:01 AM (BMmaB)
Never mind those damn magnesium 3350s burning the wings off the Superfortresses...
Posted by: JEM at December 21, 2021 01:01 AM (jIeMQ)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at December 21, 2021 01:02 AM (HxQqv)
Posted by: bear with a
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She graduated from Stanford.
It's just that everything she learned is wrong.
Posted by: Braenyard, Prince of El Salvador pooped on the Big Guy at December 21, 2021 01:04 AM (/FocL)
Fuel capacity was 35 US gal. Under average conditions (typically 5 miles per gallon), it could range 165 mi
Posted by: Braenyard, Prince of El Salvador pooped on the Big Guy at December 21, 2021 01:00 AM (/FocL)
You are correct. I have a Weasel. I really ought to build a dummy Davy Crockett and launcher setup for it.
I did take the Weasel for a short spin this summer. too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2021 01:04 AM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2021 11:57 PM (mZUr4)
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Walt Disney's Frozen Head should pop in.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 20, 2021 11:59
LMFAO Cicero, tears forming here. Tami would love this thread as a tribute to her, she had a great sense of humor. RIP Tami dear, gone too soon.
Posted by: Farmer at December 21, 2021 01:04 AM (55Qr6)
What gets me is the earnestness in her voice when she announces anything, like she really believes it. That and the sign language interpreter. And the pointless mask. [OT, but isn't the sign language interpreter obsolete? Is there any deaf person who would be watching the county judge's press conference who doesn't have closed captioning?]
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at December 21, 2021 01:04 AM (BMmaB)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor
That was certainly my understanding and observation.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 21, 2021 01:05 AM (r1z5A)
It's just that everything she learned is wrong.
Posted by: Braenyard, Prince of El Salvador pooped on the Big Guy at December 21, 2021 01:04 AM (/FocL)
88 IQ + Affirmative Action = Stanford degree
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2021 01:06 AM (P3gRi)
Presumably Berlin would not be the target - decapitation problem. Large industrial city would make more sense. Stuttgart, Essen, something like that. Of course there were no "clean" targets in Germany by the time frame in question, none that would ever be targeted anyway.
And while use of nukes in Japan was in fact militarily optimized, certainly in the case of Hiroshima, which was the command hub and important logistical node for the defense of Kyushu, under the circumstances it was explicitly intended to induce political solution (capitulation). By 1945 I don't think there was any illusion in Allied leadership minds about the possibility of German surrender.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2021 01:08 AM (OTzUX)
Errata: THe name was Slotin, not Slotkin. Don't know where the 'k' came from in my mind.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 21, 2021 01:08 AM (Mzdiz)
For me, it won't be morphine, it'll be bourbon. It'll burn going in the I.V., but glorious. Not a peaceable ending, but one in keeping with my motto: Bourbon or Death! (embrace the killing power of "and!")
/horde!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 21, 2021 01:09 AM (QzJWU)
I think part of the problem is that she had never had a job with anything remotely near that level of responsibility. That, and she had never been to Commissioners' Court and had no idea how the county runs. Fortunately, she had two Democrat County Commissioners who were more than happy to take her under their wings and show her the ropes.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at December 21, 2021 01:09 AM (BMmaB)
The unconditional surrender policy and the division of the country at Yalta meant there could only be one end.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at December 21, 2021 01:11 AM (BMmaB)
And while use of nukes in Japan was in fact militarily optimized, certainly in the case of Hiroshima, which was the command hub and important logistical node for the defense of Kyushu, under the circumstances it was explicitly intended to induce political solution (capitulation). By 1945 I don't think there was any illusion in Allied leadership minds about the possibility of German surrender.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2021 01:08 AM (OTzUX)
I don't think the "decapitation problem" would have been a problem by 1945. Pretty sure that of Germany's field commanders were saner than Hitler and his cronies, and once they were sure that the top Nazis had been incinerated in a fireball, they would surrender, piecemeal.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2021 01:14 AM (P3gRi)
Of course the nukes in Japan failed, in terms of their objective, but that's due to the suicidal dysfunction of Japan's leadership, and partly due to the inability of the target audience to even comprehend what happened (that target audience was also rather habituated to cities being destroyed and mass casualties by 5 months of fire-bomb raids).
Only Hirohito and Lord Kido and the "peace faction" of the Big Six seizing on the nukes as a rationale for surrender - not a shocked, desperate need for surrender - made things turn out as they did. That's what I mean by the bombs failed.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2021 01:15 AM (OTzUX)
Of course, FDR had a decent Red Horde around him so...
Posted by: JEM at December 21, 2021 01:15 AM (jIeMQ)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 21, 2021 01:16 AM (QU5/8)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at December 21, 2021 01:09 AM (BMmaB)
Hidalgo was probably groomed by Soros and his minions as surely as Obama was. And there are a lot more of those, yet to be discovered. Manchurian candidates.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2021 01:17 AM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
UNIVERSITY OF BOSTON KOLLIDGE OF NOLLIDGE
*GLARE GLARE GLARE GLARE*
Posted by: Alexandria Ocasio-Mugabe-Pizarro-Nike-Cortez at December 21, 2021 01:19 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2021 01:17 AM (P3gRi)
Paging Paolo to "red pill" Hildago. Paging Paolo. Paolo to the
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 21, 2021 01:19 AM (QzJWU)
And AOP there was wasn't any erosion in loyalty by anyone who mattered until the very end in '45, many attempts were made to peel off individual German commanders and units with zero success.
I think decapitation concerns would have been very serious, judging by how they were among the chief, though now little known, worries in August '45 with Japan. Yes, overseas, far-flung forces (not the case with Germany at the end).
Smiling Albert effectively front-ran the surrender with his deal in Italy, but that was within a week of the actual collapse and surrender. My silly what-if concerns the time before the cascade - at least before we crossed the Rhine, and before the Red Army was at the Oder.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2021 01:22 AM (OTzUX)
Dad had terminal cancer. Treatments were no longer helping, and the home health people kept pushing for "hospice" care. "It's not 'giving up'" they said. (BS)
But it *was* about comfort-care. Palliative. Dad needed that, as his prostate cancer had metastasized to his skeleton: bone cancer is one of the most painful conditions one can have.
Anyway, hospice was good for him. His pain was managed well enough that he could *enjoy* what was left of his life without that crippling pain.
Hospice is not for everyone, I reckon.
Posted by: JQ, out of that Christmas mood at December 21, 2021 01:26 AM (dB4Iz)
My what-if here is silly, but it does take into account the actual reality in 1945, instead of substituting "time machine to kill baby Hitler" kinds of frameworks.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2021 01:28 AM (OTzUX)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 21, 2021 01:29 AM (QU5/8)
Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at December 21, 2021 01:30 AM (1uv3Z)
I think decapitation concerns would have been very serious, judging by how they were among the chief, though now little known, worries in August '45 with Japan. Yes, overseas, far-flung forces (not the case with Germany at the end).
Smiling Albert effectively front-ran the surrender with his deal in Italy, but that was within a week of the actual collapse and surrender. My silly what-if concerns the time before the cascade - at least before we crossed the Rhine, and before the Red Army was at the Oder.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2021 01:22 AM (OTzUX)
Well, when the "loyalty" of the commanders is a product of fear of what might become of them if "disloyalty" is even suspected, that particular facet of loyalty would vanish when the top Nazis did. And the remaining loyalty and national patriotism would be tempered by the sudden inability to get supplies, or even orders, from Berlin. The field commanders would soon come to realize they were totally on their own,
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2021 01:33 AM (P3gRi)
Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 on tap at December 21, 2021 01:34 AM (QzkSJ)
The Soviets were in no position to invade Japan, and their first small effort in a minor location up north was a fiasco (and they only could try that because we gave them LCIs).
Stavka members actually scoffed, in Stalin's presence, when the idea of a Soviet invasion was broached.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2021 01:35 AM (OTzUX)
Well, it was some Japanese who wanted to take their own Divine Emperor hostage to prevent any surrender. Damn near did it, too.
Posted by: As Miklos recalls at December 21, 2021 01:36 AM (QzkSJ)
They were LIVE music, which will always be better than canned music with auto tune.
When they do connect with the audience? WHICH THEY DID.... its better than any jukebox.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 21, 2021 01:38 AM (oHd/0)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 21, 2021 01:39 AM (QU5/8)
Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at December 21, 2021 01:42 AM (1uv3Z)
When they do connect with the audience? WHICH THEY DID.... its better than any jukebox.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 21, 2021 01:38 AM (oHd/0)
Well, some of those lounge acts now, are pretty much "canned music". You have a guitar player, who plays lead, and a singer, and a band box that provides the drums, rhythm guitar, and backup singers and instruments. It's one step above karaoke.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2021 01:42 AM (P3gRi)
Anyway, hospice was good for him. His pain was managed well enough that he could *enjoy* what was left of his life without that crippling pain.
Hospice is not for everyone, I reckon.
Posted by: JQ, out of that Christmas mood at December 21, 2021 01:26 AM (dB4Iz)
there is a point where Life is not going to continue. Both my Father, and Mother, were on Hospice.
They were a blessing In my opinion.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 21, 2021 01:43 AM (oHd/0)
Nuking Berlin earlier wouldn't decapitate the political leadership, but might eviscerate the army command at Zossen.
Everyone from German commanders down to the feldgrau, in the east, were not responding to "Nazi" leadership or threats from that quarter, but well founded fear of what Soviet invasion meant.
In the west, it was clear imminence of defeat that finally, in most cases very grudgingly and quite late, led to things like the early Italian surrender. Ruhr pocket surrender was against Berlin's orders, but only when resistance was completely ineffective.
Anyway I assumed the idea of "nukes on Germany" was about shortening the war vs. how it actually went, and I don't see any clear probabilities that it would have.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2021 01:43 AM (OTzUX)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 21, 2021 01:39 AM (QU5/
Lesbian watch: takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2021 01:44 AM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2021 01:42 AM (P3gRi)
Yet, I'd rather hear them? Than canned music. Why? on the off chance they MAY be great.
Says the guy who listened to Atlanta Rythm section play at "A joint in the woods" in Orlando Fla, in 1980.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 21, 2021 01:46 AM (oHd/0)
Says the guy who listened to Atlanta Rythm section play at "A joint in the woods" in Orlando Fla, in 1980.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 21, 2021 01:46 AM (oHd/0)
I think we are talking past each other. You are talking about actual bands. I am talking about one guy, one chick singer, and a band box. I have seen plenty of solo acts, just one performer, playing his or her instrument, and singing, or not, as the case may be. But they are plenty skilled musicians, and very entertaining.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2021 01:51 AM (P3gRi)
The nukes were a (facially) new thing they could seize on to finally confront the dead-enders, and more importantly they appear to have crystallized Hirohito's long-standing fear that the military was taking the nation to utter destruction, not just defeat. Any Soviet threat was quite abstract and remote - US Navy aircraft had been strafing Japan for months, and battleships shelling industrial facilities on the coast (and submarine crews sabotaging railways).
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2021 01:53 AM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2021 01:51 AM (P3gRi)
Not really... what I am suggesting is that some of those bands COULD be OK. I've got a couple local bands that never made a single record, yet.... are good. We have a lack of live music because standards are now so high, that a local act has no time to get their act together to BECOME good. And yeah.... this is said as someone who plays guitar, and wishes he was good enough for the stage.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 21, 2021 01:57 AM (oHd/0)
Fun stuff, Buck.
Posted by: m at December 21, 2021 01:58 AM (SWrJu)
I was a gate guard at Gate 1, Lackland AFB, TX. Waved over a civilian car with no DOD stickers, and asked for I.D. It was Gen. LeMay, in a rental car, come to watch the upcoming USAF Security Services Rifle & Pistol Matches (National) to which I just failed to make the cut on the M-16. (easily made the cut on the S&W Model 15, .38 spl revolver.)
IOW, I was an "alternate", who was not called upon to compete in the finals. And, upon seeing the innumerable finely "gunsmithed" guns from competing USAF Commands, was frankly happy to have been spared the humiliation. Our "M-16s" were horribly shat upon Army surplus from the Vietnam WAR. Other Commands? Same M-16 specs, but rifles new issue, and much loved upon by their base armorers. Oops. Oopsie!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 21, 2021 02:02 AM (QzJWU)
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 21, 2021 01:57 AM (oHd/0)
Not all local bands are great, or even very good, but if they are even marginally competent, they are at least entertaining. Some of those bandbox lounge acts are so sad, I feel sorry for them.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2021 02:03 AM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2021 02:07 AM (P3gRi)
Not so much due to lack of talent, as to an abundance of nervousness and vocal lock due to the pressure of the moment.
I've done a metric f-ton of public speaking, and am fine to speak at the Superbowl, if need be. But if they asked me to SING, there? I'm not sure they make an "adult" enough model of Depends to contain the Oh SHIT! that would entail. (last time I sang in the shower, the water curdled, just for context?)
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 21, 2021 02:09 AM (QzJWU)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
*watches lesbians watching me party with busty lesbians*
Posted by: Typical Miklos Monday Nite at December 21, 2021 02:11 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 21, 2021 02:13 AM (a4EWo)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 21, 2021 02:13 AM (QU5/8)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 21, 2021 02:14 AM (QU5/8)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
*audio-vizualizes Jim doing the National Anthem like John Wayne-America, that's why I love Her*
Posted by: Miklos thinks this is quite doable at December 21, 2021 02:16 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: JQ, out of that Christmas mood at December 21, 2021 02:20 AM (dB4Iz)
I'm the Moron instructor who spoke to the ARMED 'ettes as regards me fitting their bras as relating to their making the best choice as to what handgun would best suit them.
CONFIDENCE was not my lack, there. Sense, survivability, escape and evasion.. well, there you might find some deficits. But not in the speaking or presentation. Only the.. well.. aftermath?
*wobbles bourbonly serpentine* /hasta la nite nite, Horde! *memories. Tami* sad. day.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 21, 2021 02:20 AM (QzJWU)
Posted by: Redchief at December 21, 2021 02:27 AM (bVGsy)
Posted by: JQ
It's them Antipodeans what cause vaccinations, lockdowns, and Unrest
Posted by: Miklos, ONT Loyalist at December 21, 2021 02:29 AM (QzkSJ)
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They still do, for now.
Posted by: Dave in Fla
The first time I saw their latest commercial, I'm sitting there thinking "Okaaaaaay....they're gonna HAFTA tell us what this is for eventually, right ? Its one of the Laws of Physics !"
Posted by: JT at December 21, 2021 02:37 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: JT at December 21, 2021 02:50 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return
'Night SMH. Mutual of Omaha.
Posted by: JT at December 21, 2021 03:00 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 21, 2021 03:26 AM (a4EWo)
Posted by: tanarur at December 21, 2021 06:24 AM (xOlVU)
**ding-ding-ding** Aaa yes, I remember those days also. Good Times, good times indeed.
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Posted by: Happy at December 21, 2021 11:03 AM (LnBr6)
I am genuinely enjoying by these.
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