Mid-Morning Art Thread

The Chess Players
Thomas Eakins

I saw this lovely painting and of course my thoughts immediately went to OregonMuse. I used to send him chess-themed art occasionally (I probably sent him this one), and he would sometimes send me stuff that caught his eye. We didn't have the same taste in art, but that didn't matter...

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 Your move.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 08, 2022 09:31 AM (7bRMQ)

2 Foist!

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 08, 2022 09:31 AM (/m5BX)

3 The cat looks bored

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 08, 2022 09:32 AM (Rcp6g)

4 Foist!

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 08, 2022 09:31 AM (/m5BX)

Checkmate.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 08, 2022 09:32 AM (7bRMQ)

5 The cat is bored.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 08, 2022 09:32 AM (r46W7)

6 Chess must be thirsty work.....

Posted by: JT at July 08, 2022 09:33 AM (T4tVD)

7 lol tinfoilbaby!

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 08, 2022 09:33 AM (r46W7)

8 That last move of your's wasn't what the engine recommended, Higgins!

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at July 08, 2022 09:33 AM (CAzVA)

9 I really miss Oregon Muse.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 08, 2022 09:33 AM (NpAcC)

10 Starts reaching for pawn
Guy standing: "ehhh.."
Reaches for knight
"Ehhhhhhhh!"
Reaches for rook
"Mmmmmm..."

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 08, 2022 09:33 AM (AutJR)

11 Philadelphia gentlemen of the age whiling away the morning at the Union League Club?

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 08, 2022 09:33 AM (lNKY9)

12 Whomever fixed the blog, you have my undying, eternal gratitude.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022 09:34 AM (c8pZY)

13 Emgiggened, white is down a queen, time to resign.

Posted by: davidt at July 08, 2022 09:34 AM (oTZbj)

14 Mis Hum would have loved this on
Very well done painting. Love to hang this

Posted by: Skip's phone at July 08, 2022 09:34 AM (4o9mN)

15 I nooded.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 08, 2022 09:34 AM (Q5p+u)

16 Very nice painting. In honor of OM, it goes up om wasll.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at July 08, 2022 09:34 AM (1DgE4)

17 That cat in the lower right looks like it's just cleaning itself. But it's really plotting out when is the best time to jump up on the table and knock over all the pieces...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 08, 2022 09:35 AM (K5n5d)

18 Guy playing white is gonna lose.

But I like it. Great attention to detail. Wonderful faces. Would hang.

Posted by: creeper at July 08, 2022 09:35 AM (cTCuP)

19 Chess matches really need busty cheerleader's, right?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 08, 2022 09:35 AM (Rcp6g)

20 who among you will be first to diagram the chess problem depicted

Posted by: DB - Unless I'm Wrong at July 08, 2022 09:35 AM (geLO8)

21
*players sit still for 11 hours*

"Oh, is it my move?"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 08, 2022 09:35 AM (/U27+)

22 The Chess Players

Which three Morons is this? Hmmmmm...

Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022 09:35 AM (c8pZY)

23 The cat will leap onto the board and scatter the pieces everywhere. Some will never be found, until the cabinets are replaced.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 08, 2022 09:35 AM (p+1gI)

24 What’s the standing guy doing?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 08, 2022 09:35 AM (Q5p+u)

25
Who's the kibitzer?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 08, 2022 09:36 AM (/U27+)

26 Even before I saw CBD's comment I thought of Oregon Muse. He reignited my interest in chess. (Wish I was better at the game.) Sure miss him.

Posted by: JTB at July 08, 2022 09:36 AM (7EjX1)

27 Cat: So much rug, so few hairballs.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 08, 2022 09:36 AM (AutJR)

28 What’s the standing guy doing?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 08, 2022 09:35 AM (Q5p+u)
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He gets to play next...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 08, 2022 09:36 AM (K5n5d)

29 been a while since these old fuckers mated anyone

Posted by: REDACTED at July 08, 2022 09:36 AM (us2H3)

30 Huh. I have almost that exact same mantel clock. Mine's missing the statue on top.

Posted by: Kris at July 08, 2022 09:36 AM (VQp/A)

31 Oregon Muse smiles from heaven.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 08, 2022 09:36 AM (89T5c)

32
No Melania. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 08, 2022 09:36 AM (/U27+)

33 each player has a shot of liquor at the ready

Posted by: DB - Unless I'm Wrong at July 08, 2022 09:36 AM (geLO8)

34 That's not chess match art!

This is chess match art!

https://tinyurl.com/yrttws5u

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 08, 2022 09:36 AM (yikp0)

35 Emgiggened, white is down a queen, time to resign.

Posted by: davidt at July 08, 2022 09:34 AM (oTZbj)

He'll win. White privilege.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 08, 2022 09:36 AM (7bRMQ)

36 19 No, those are chest matches.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 08, 2022 09:36 AM (Q5p+u)

37 Someone took it out of the frame, leaving damaged edges. Shame on him/her/them.

Posted by: creeper at July 08, 2022 09:37 AM (cTCuP)

38 each player has a shot of liquor at the ready
Posted by: DB - Unless I'm Wrong at July 08, 2022 09:36 AM (geLO

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Whenever you capture a piece, take a shot!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 08, 2022 09:37 AM (K5n5d)

39 Chess player on the left looks like he is clutching his heart, or, it's a "tell" and he's about to say, "checkmate."

Interesting art, and, yes, evoke memories of OM.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 09:37 AM (5pTK/)

40 This one is really worth clicking to embiggen. The linked image is crazy high resolution and you can see a lot of the lovely details - especially the looks of concentration on the men.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 09:37 AM (WWh8n)

41 the cat on the rug is about as close to pussy as these old codgers are gonna get

Posted by: REDACTED at July 08, 2022 09:38 AM (us2H3)

42 9 as do I. I hope Mrs Muse is doing ok.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 08, 2022 09:38 AM (kf6Ak)

43 Time is 2:06
gonna guess, PM

Posted by: DB - Unless I'm Wrong at July 08, 2022 09:38 AM (geLO8)

44 Would hang in my paneled library.

Posted by: Squid at July 08, 2022 09:38 AM (qdTex)

45 Chess player on the left looks like he is clutching his heart, or, it's a "tell" and he's about to say, "checkmate."

Interesting art, and, yes, evoke memories of OM.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 09:37 AM (5pTK/)
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Can you bluff in chess?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 08, 2022 09:38 AM (K5n5d)

46 What’s the standing guy doing?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Reminding them for the 60th time that he has next game...

Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022 09:38 AM (c8pZY)

47 Those guys had better checker their privilege.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 08, 2022 09:38 AM (Q5p+u)

48 Too bad about the craquelure; and, undoubtedly, not important enough to restore fully.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 08, 2022 09:39 AM (yikp0)

49 It is indeed a lovely painting!

The lighting is just amazing!

We all miss OM.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at July 08, 2022 09:39 AM (2W+1k)

50 26 Even before I saw CBD's comment I thought of Oregon Muse. Sure miss him.
Posted by: JTB at July 08, 2022 09:36 AM (7EjX1)

Don't we all? I keep thinking some day it won't hurt but I'm still waiting.

Posted by: creeper at July 08, 2022 09:39 AM (cTCuP)

51 There's Maui Wowie packed in the hooka pipe.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 08, 2022 09:39 AM (89T5c)

52 Someone took it out of the frame, leaving damaged edges. Shame on him/her/them.

Posted by: creeper at July 08, 2022 09:37 AM (cTCuP)

We had to, dumb leftists glued themselves to it.

Posted by: Museum Staff at July 08, 2022 09:39 AM (7bRMQ)

53 OM.
What a delightful gentle man. I miss his intellect, his passion and his dedication. I miss his snark.

RIP, sweet man.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 08, 2022 09:39 AM (OobVu)

54 You are screwed in two moves, give up now!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at July 08, 2022 09:39 AM (hOUT3)

55 Fine, fine detail and textures to this one! I wish one of them was smoking a pipe.

The players are both right-handers more than likely; each has his whiskey glass near his right hand.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 08, 2022 09:40 AM (txdEq)

56 I like it. A lot to look at and contemplate. These types of paintings always evoke my mind to make up little stories about the scene/activity taking place in the painting.

Posted by: Archer at July 08, 2022 09:40 AM (gmo/4)

57 Can you bluff in chess?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 08, 2022 09:38 AM (K5n5d)
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chess player needs one more move, hoping his opponent doesn't see it coming.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 09:40 AM (5pTK/)

58 Excellent technique on the glasses and decanter. That has to be difficult to perfect.

Posted by: Squid at July 08, 2022 09:40 AM (qdTex)

59 What’s the standing guy doing?
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Reffing -- counting aloud to 60 seconds as the timer.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 08, 2022 09:40 AM (yikp0)

60 17 That cat in the lower right looks like it's just cleaning itself. But it's really plotting out when is the best time to jump up on the table and knock over all the pieces...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 08, 2022 09:35 AM (K5n5d)

While the humans are picking up chess pieces, the wily cat will lap up both glasses of whiskey.

Posted by: GLSD at July 08, 2022 09:41 AM (AMIL/)

61 *sigh*

*raises glass of iced covfefe to Oregon Muse*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 08, 2022 09:41 AM (RkC6l)

62 "If I move the castle and horsie, I can rest my elbow on the table."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 08, 2022 09:41 AM (FVME7)

63 The cat is bored.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 08, 2022

***
Busy grooming, no doubt. He looks thick-furred, but that tail is not the tail of a longhair.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 08, 2022 09:41 AM (txdEq)

64 Well this is lovely! Eakins! Made my morning thank you.

he did use too many glazes maybe - hence the cracking. or it could be that his pieces weren't always kept as well as they should have been, either in private hands or (formerly) hanging over our heads on Walnut street lol.

Posted by: BlackOrchidOfDerp at July 08, 2022 09:41 AM (w0NJk)

65
Four pawns. You owe me 15 grand, pal.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 08, 2022 09:41 AM (/U27+)

66 The guy on the left is clutching his chest because he just realized he made a stupid move.

Posted by: dantesed at July 08, 2022 09:41 AM (88xKn)

67 Ugh, Oregon Muse. What a loss.

I miss Gorilla Pundit very much.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 08, 2022 09:41 AM (2JVJo)

68 What’s the standing guy doing?

Screaming, "Last Call, Gentlemen!"

Posted by: Archer at July 08, 2022 09:42 AM (gmo/4)

69 The more dapper members of the Horde. Looking a bit over 29 though.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 08, 2022 09:42 AM (b2nrj)

70 >What’s the standing guy doing?

Reminding the gentlemen that the proprieties will be observed at all times

Posted by: DB - Unless I'm Wrong at July 08, 2022 09:42 AM (geLO8)

71 I like to arrangement of the figures here. A simple triangle of forms, but the standing figure is placed to the right of center. This counters the vivid and dominant yellow in the chess pieces. The pieces are small, sure, but they are the only hot, glowing color in a painting full of browns, blacks, and whites. They small pieces radiate. Having a lop-sided central triangle re-balances the entire work.

Posted by: Kris at July 08, 2022 09:42 AM (VQp/A)

72 Nice picture. One to rest and contemplate over.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 08, 2022 09:42 AM (FZ2cV)

73 Obscene things were done to the queen all the while seemly making an innocent move.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at July 08, 2022 09:42 AM (tmStG)

74 That's the Trump chess-set, gold-plated pieces.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 08, 2022 09:42 AM (b2nrj)

75 Oregon Muse...dabs corner of eye.

Posted by: Tuna at July 08, 2022 09:43 AM (gLRfa)

76 Besides Eakins' exquisite details, I always enjoy his use of light and the subtle colors it brought out on the skin tones and objects in the image. Even when the scene, such as a portrait, doesn't interest me, those qualities capture the viewer's attention.

Posted by: JTB at July 08, 2022 09:43 AM (7EjX1)

77 the furniture from this era was

well, hideous

frightfully hideous

Posted by: REDACTED at July 08, 2022 09:43 AM (us2H3)

78 each player has a shot of liquor at the ready
Posted by: DB - Unless I'm Wrong at July 08, 2022
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Whenever you capture a piece, take a shot!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 08, 2022

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If they do that, by the time the endgame begins, they'll have forgotten how the pieces move.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 08, 2022 09:43 AM (txdEq)

79
The cat is about to jump on the table and knock the pieces off.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 08, 2022 09:43 AM (/U27+)

80 For the first and last time, "If you need me, I'll be at my club."

Posted by: Dr Frasier Crane at July 08, 2022 09:44 AM (yikp0)

81 FTR- would hang

Posted by: DB - Unless I'm Wrong at July 08, 2022 09:44 AM (geLO8)

82 Obscene things were done to the queen all the while seemly making an innocent move.
Posted by: humphreyrobot

Pawn jumps Queen. Bishop jumps Queen. King jumps Queen. Hell, orgy!!!!

Posted by: Mel Brooks at July 08, 2022 09:44 AM (c8pZY)

83 The guy on the left is clutching his chest because he just realized he made a stupid move.

Posted by: dantesed at July 08, 2022 09:41 AM (88xKn)

Looks to me as if he's hiding a smile. The guy on the right looks worried.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 08, 2022 09:44 AM (7bRMQ)

84 I'll bet this painting was magnificent, originally. Time and lack of care appear to have taken their toll.

Though, I will say, it's still great to look at.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 09:44 AM (5pTK/)

85 the furniture from this era was

well, hideous

frightfully hideous
Posted by: REDACTED at July 08, 2022

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Furniture: fine. Blood-red carpets: not so much.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 08, 2022 09:44 AM (txdEq)

86 Always nice to have Kris' insight.

Posted by: Tuna at July 08, 2022 09:44 AM (gLRfa)

87 the furniture from this era was

well, hideous

frightfully hideous
Posted by: REDACTED at July 08, 2022 09:43 AM (us2H3)
++++
Indeed. It wasn't until American designers got their hands on the "Danish Modern" concept and made it their own that furniture style was perfected.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 09:45 AM (WWh8n)

88 No distractions, no music playing, the help dismissed for the evening, just the ticking of a clock in the background. Then, the wrong move, a pistol is drawn, and the killings begin.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 08, 2022 09:45 AM (lz5hY)

89 What level/dimension of chess are they playing?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 08, 2022 09:45 AM (Q5p+u)

90 66
Four pawns. You owe me 15 grand, pal.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 08, 2022 09:41 AM (/U27+)

Math??? On an Art Thread? So each pawn is worth three grand and change.

I'm getting a headache.

Posted by: creeper at July 08, 2022 09:45 AM (cTCuP)

91 The UniParty..... it's always game of grift no matter what else they call it.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at July 08, 2022 09:45 AM (6Q6b4)

92 We took a perfectly useless psychopath like Valentine, and turned him into a successful executive. And during the same time, we turned an honest, hard-working man into a violently, deranged, would-be killer!

Would Hang.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 08, 2022 09:45 AM (DDw5Y)

93 78 the furniture from this era was

well, hideous

frightfully hideous
Posted by: REDACTED at July 08, 2022 09:43 AM (us2H3)

I like it. They're practically detailed sculptures.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 08, 2022 09:45 AM (b2nrj)

94 He was a starving artist barely Eakins a living.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 08, 2022 09:45 AM (yikp0)

95 “You sunk my battleship!”

Posted by: Squid at July 08, 2022 09:45 AM (qdTex)

96 oh- the ref has his shot glass too- just saw that

Posted by: DB - Unless I'm Wrong at July 08, 2022 09:45 AM (geLO8)

97 Oregon Muse...dabs corner of eye.
Posted by: Tuna

Yeah. RIP, good sir. Maybe you can interest Rickl on a game or two.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022 09:46 AM (c8pZY)

98 Furniture: fine. Blood-red carpets: not so much.

They're gonna whack the guy standing, so forethought.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 08, 2022 09:46 AM (89T5c)

99 Craquelure used to be recognized as a national problem, but that was before fentanyl. Pronounced "Fentin' awl."

Posted by: Stringer Davis at July 08, 2022 09:46 AM (videA)

100 The cat's thinking 'I got you in one move, when I claw your leg.' Universal cat knowledge.

Posted by: Eromero at July 08, 2022 09:46 AM (gktX6)

101 One of them is a thoracic surgeon.

That's right: a chess man.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 08, 2022 09:47 AM (txdEq)

102
I am a big fan of Eakin's The Champion, Single Sculls (1871).

https://www.everypainterpaintshimself.com/article/
eakins_the_champion_single_sculls_1871

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 08, 2022 09:47 AM (pNxlR)

103 Electric policecars aren't working out too well

https://youtu.be/GSbx4yd8pV0

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 08, 2022 09:47 AM (YynYJ)

104 The guy on the left looks like he’s about to Spassky out.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 08, 2022 09:47 AM (Q5p+u)

105 Furniture: fine. Blood-red carpets: not so much.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Carpets were blood red to hide the dueling marks.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022 09:47 AM (c8pZY)

106 Very nice work.
Guy on the left is in trouble.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 08, 2022 09:48 AM (etv5d)

107 Craquelure used to be recognized as a national problem, but that was before fentanyl. Pronounced "Fentin' awl."
Posted by: Stringer Davis at July 08, 2022

***
"Fenton? Harcourt Fenton Mudd!"

Posted by: Stella at July 08, 2022 09:48 AM (txdEq)

108 Nice piece.

Would hang

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 08, 2022 09:48 AM (sJHOI)

109 Bodacious bong, dude!

Posted by: banana Dream at July 08, 2022 09:48 AM (E9ZCZ)

110 Are these guys playing Fischer random chess?

Posted by: dantesed at July 08, 2022 09:48 AM (88xKn)

111 The cat has done a number on the legs of the chair to the right.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 08, 2022 09:49 AM (E9ZCZ)

112 The guy on the left looks like he’s about to Spassky out.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 08, 2022

***
All three of them will Morphy into something really strange.

Posted by: Stella at July 08, 2022 09:49 AM (txdEq)

113 Brandy in the decanter on the left?

Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022 09:49 AM (c8pZY)

114 Yeah. RIP, good sir. Maybe you can interest Rickl on a game or two.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022 09:46 AM (c8pZY)

I kinda wish you hadn't done that. It was one too many.

*reaches for Kleenex*

Too damn many empty chairs around here.

Posted by: creeper at July 08, 2022 09:49 AM (cTCuP)

115 Brandy in the decanter on the left?

Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022 09:49 AM (c8pZY)

No, she walked home already.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 08, 2022 09:49 AM (7bRMQ)

116 you're right- big ass hookah pipe on the mantel

Posted by: DB - Unless I'm Wrong at July 08, 2022 09:50 AM (geLO8)

117 Brandy in the decanter on the left?

Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022 09:49 AM (c8pZY)
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Only top-shelf Val-U-Rite for these fine fellows!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 08, 2022 09:50 AM (K5n5d)

118 I am so regrettably devoid of artistic appreciation with but a few exceptions, Eakins being one. As a former oarsman in Philly, his rowing portraits, specifically of the Biglin Brothers, still hang in my workroom. Wonderful painting of the Chess Players and would hang.

Posted by: 7man at July 08, 2022 09:50 AM (qwO6y)

119 Fischer random chess? Is that like Calvinchess?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 08, 2022 09:50 AM (Q5p+u)

120 Fun fact: Chess master Paul Morphy grew up in Noo Awlins, in a house not far from today's racetrack/fairgrounds and near where I went to junior high. Castiglione Street, I think.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 08, 2022 09:50 AM (txdEq)

121 114 Brandy in the decanter on the left?

She's a fine girl.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 08, 2022 09:50 AM (89T5c)

122 Fran Drescher did a bit on her show where she ate something super-spicy. After she picker herself back up again she spoke with a gorgeous willowy voice for about 2 minutes, then reverted to normal. She is incredibly beautiful, but I hadn't noticed because of the voice.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 08, 2022 09:51 AM (44ww/)

123 "The furniture from this era was, well, hideous; frightfully hideous
Posted by: REDACTED"

Yay! This allows the cost of Victorian furniture to fall and me to buy it all up!! My house is beginning to look like this painting. I love Victoria R and her era!!

Posted by: Brunnhilde at July 08, 2022 09:51 AM (aW5/6)

124 Didja see this?

EU Parliament votes 324-155 to condemn SCOTUS for overturning Roe v. Wade

We may need to rethink this. They're more sophisticated than we are.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 08, 2022 09:51 AM (FVME7)

125 I want a room like that so I can put in one of those liquor cabinets that close up into a big globe. Classy!

Posted by: banana Dream at July 08, 2022 09:51 AM (E9ZCZ)

126 you just knew we weren't getting tits again today, after getting two (2) yesterday

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 08, 2022 09:51 AM (sJHOI)

127 If they do that, by the time the endgame begins, they'll have forgotten how the pieces move.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 08, 2022 09:43 AM (txdEq)
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Nah, early in the game, they'd be fine. Mid game though? They'd both be smashed.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 09:52 AM (5pTK/)

128 Too damn many empty chairs around here.
Posted by: creeper

Yeah. Sorry. 😢

Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022 09:52 AM (c8pZY)

129 Brandy in the decanter on the left?

Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022

***
The depiction of the bottle and the glasses is fantastic. The spirit in the decanter seems to be much darker than the spirit in the players' glasses, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 08, 2022 09:52 AM (txdEq)

130 98 Oregon Muse...dabs corner of eye.
Posted by: Tuna

Is it dusty in here ?

Posted by: It's me donna at July 08, 2022 09:52 AM (bs+z0)

131 Welp, it's good and hot out there now. Time to water the parched foliage.

BIAB. Keep yer hand on it, Horde.

Posted by: creeper at July 08, 2022 09:53 AM (cTCuP)

132 EU Parliament votes 324-155 to condemn SCOTUS for overturning Roe v. Wade

We may need to rethink this. They're more sophisticated than we are.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 08, 2022 09:51 AM (FVME7)

Ah yes, the liberal world order at work.

Posted by: 7man at July 08, 2022 09:53 AM (qwO6y)

133 Decanter? I hardly knew ‘er!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 08, 2022 09:53 AM (Q5p+u)

134 These guys are swapping stories about their exploits in India

Posted by: DB - Unless I'm Wrong at July 08, 2022 09:53 AM (geLO8)

135 Pourin' one out for OM.

Posted by: Brother Tim, actually a random opossum with a VPN at July 08, 2022 09:53 AM (OUMaO)

136 {{{rickb223}}}

S'okay. We need to remember them.

Posted by: creeper at July 08, 2022 09:53 AM (cTCuP)

137 58 Can you bluff in chess?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 08, 2022 09:38 AM (K5n5d)

If you can't, you're gonna get beat like a red-headed step child.

Trash talking is also a positive trait.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at July 08, 2022 09:53 AM (MkuC5)

138 True the Vote
@truethevote
10m
Wisconsin Supreme Court rules drop boxes are illegal. Huge win for election integrity and rule of law.

Posted by: IrishEi at July 08, 2022 09:54 AM (VhE0u)

139 Damn, look at that woodwork. The walls, the furniture, that table, damn....

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 08, 2022 09:54 AM (VwHCD)

140 you're right- big ass hookah pipe on the mantel
Posted by: DB

It's only 3:58 pm.
22 minutes until they dust it off.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022 09:54 AM (c8pZY)

141 Hot elsewhere?

Here in the high desert, it's gorgeous in the AM. Turn off the A/C, open windows, let in the cool 70 degree air.

Yeah, it's a bit breezy to downright windy later in the day, but, the desert mornings during the summer are magnificent.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 09:55 AM (5pTK/)

142
EU Parliament votes 324-155 to condemn SCOTUS for overturning Roe v. Wade

__________

AoSHQ Morons vote 34065-0 to condemn EU Parliament for being clueless, ignorant, stupid dolts.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 08, 2022 09:55 AM (/U27+)

143 >>> Fran Drescher did a bit on her show where she ate something super-spicy. After she picker herself back up again she spoke with a gorgeous willowy voice for about 2 minutes, then reverted to normal. She is incredibly beautiful, but I hadn't noticed because of the voice.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 08, 2022 09:51 AM (44ww/)

She does an intentional atonal voice pitch with vocal fry. I'm sure she doesn't sound like that naturally.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 08, 2022 09:55 AM (E9ZCZ)

144 Fran Drescher did a bit on her show where she ate something super-spicy. After she picker herself back up again she spoke with a gorgeous willowy voice for about 2 minutes, then reverted to normal. She is incredibly beautiful, but I hadn't noticed because of the voice.

Posted by: BourbonChicken

I saw that! That's her actual voice she used there. The nasal one is a put-on for the character.

Posted by: Brother Tim, actually a random opossum with a VPN at July 08, 2022 09:55 AM (OUMaO)

145 I like the painting.

I like your note better. Short story, but a good one, CBD.

Posted by: Wally at July 08, 2022 09:55 AM (FJYfm)

146 EU Parliament votes 324-155 to condemn SCOTUS for overturning Roe v. Wade

We may need to rethink this. They're more sophisticated than we are.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 08, 2022 09:51 AM (FVME7)
++++
1. Europarl can blow me
2. They can have a leg to stand on when they impose an EU-level regulation that unrestricted abortion up to the moment of birth is legal. Until they do that, they have no position to argue given that their member states have much more restrictive abortion laws than we did (except, Norway, IIRC).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 09:55 AM (WWh8n)

147 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 08, 2022 09:56 AM (Zz0t1)

148 Are there any hot chick chessplayers?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 08, 2022 09:56 AM (Q5p+u)

149 Circle the wagons!

Dem Sen. Elizabeth Warren: "We Need To Put A Stop" To Crisis Pregnancy Centers "Right Now"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 08, 2022 09:56 AM (FVME7)

150
If we start letting people have a say in how they're governed, who knows how it might end?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 08, 2022 09:56 AM (/U27+)

151 The Art makes one remember OregonMuse.

Hope you're winning all your matches, man. Godspeed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 08, 2022 09:56 AM (Zz0t1)

152 EU Parliament votes 324-155 to condemn SCOTUS for overturning Roe v. Wade

We may need to rethink this. They're more sophisticated than we are.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 08, 2022 09:51 AM (FVME7)

Ah yes, the liberal world order at work.
Posted by: 7man

So Fwance is going to overturn their abortion ban after 15 weeks law?

Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022 09:57 AM (c8pZY)

153 >>EU Parliament votes 324-155 to condemn SCOTUS for overturning Roe v. Wade

cool- I guess they've solved ALL the other problems facing them

Posted by: DB - Unless I'm Wrong at July 08, 2022 09:57 AM (geLO8)

154 Fran Fine eats wasabi: https://tinyurl.com/ve72z6rz

Facial expression change at 1:50, and voice change at 2:30 or so. She really was the spiritual descendant of Lucille Ball.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 08, 2022 09:57 AM (txdEq)

155 153 EU Parliament votes 324-155 to condemn SCOTUS for overturning Roe v. Wade

We may need to rethink this. They're more sophisticated than we are.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 08, 2022 09:51 AM (FVME7)

Ah yes, the liberal world order at work.
Posted by: 7man

So Fwance is going to overturn their abortion ban after 15 weeks law?
Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022 09:57 AM (c8pZY)

EU Parliament might to do so. Would seem to encourage Frexit though.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 08, 2022 09:57 AM (b2nrj)

156 Pictured: one night in Bangkok.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 08, 2022 09:57 AM (ZGrMX)

157 Didja see this?
EU Parliament votes 324-155 to condemn SCOTUS for overturning Roe v. Wade
We may need to rethink this. They're more sophisticated than we are.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 08, 2022 09:51 AM

Their concern is:

[ ] Noted

[ ] Other Than Noted

[X] LOLGFY!!!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 08, 2022 09:57 AM (RkC6l)

158 >>She does an intentional atonal voice pitch with vocal fry. I'm sure she doesn't sound like that naturally.

Posted by: banana Dream

see her in Spinal Tap

Posted by: DB - Unless I'm Wrong at July 08, 2022 09:57 AM (geLO8)

159 Nice mantle clock. We have a bronze one similar to that. Probably 100+ years old. Doesn't run. Needs work.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 08, 2022 09:59 AM (BFigT)

160 Dem Sen. Elizabeth Warren: "We Need To Put A Stop" To Crisis Pregnancy Centers "Right Now"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 08, 2022 09:56 AM

That's it, Lizzy...shine a spotlight on what they actually do, and contract with the abortion mills. That'll win hearts and minds.

*pops corn*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 08, 2022 09:59 AM (RkC6l)

161 Ok, this Eakins dude really, reeeeeeaaaally liked to paint nude muscular dudes and young boys. A lot. A lot-lot. I won't be providing links.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 08, 2022 09:59 AM (E9ZCZ)

162 and they say there's nothing for the 'ettes on Art thread

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 08, 2022 09:59 AM (sJHOI)

163 Assholes that started the last two world wars should keep their mouths shut.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 08, 2022 09:59 AM (UuD2k)

164 I saw that! That's her actual voice she used there. The nasal one is a put-on for the character.
Posted by: Brother Tim, actually a random opossum with a VPN at July 08, 2022

***
Yes, she exaggerates for the characters she plays. I've seen her on talk shows, and there is a hint of Brooklyn/Bronx, but it's faint; and she does not talk through her nose.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 08, 2022 09:59 AM (txdEq)

165 Because it has to be done.

Murray Head - One Night in Bangkok (from "CHESS"):
https://youtu.be/rgc_LRjlbTU

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 09:59 AM (WWh8n)

166 Contrast, not contract. Stupid fat fingers.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 08, 2022 10:00 AM (RkC6l)

167 10m
Wisconsin Supreme Court rules drop boxes are illegal. Huge win for election integrity and rule of law.
Posted by: IrishEi at July 08, 2022 09:54 AM (VhE0u)
---------

Black letter election law was violated in a lot of states, under cover of the pandemic "emergency." SOS unilaterally changed the voting process, which, by law, SOS cannot due. Changing the election process in a state generally lies with the legislature. State legislatures were all to happy to let their respective SOS get away with it, though.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 10:00 AM (5pTK/)

168 Hot elsewhere?

Here in the high desert, it's gorgeous in the AM. Turn off the A/C, open windows, let in the cool 70 degree air.

Yeah, it's a bit breezy to downright windy later in the day, but, the desert mornings during the summer are magnificent.
Posted by: blake

88 at 9:00 am Central
Was 109 on wife's truck at 6:10 pm last night. Even she said, "Welcome to Las Vegas".

Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022 10:00 AM (c8pZY)

169 The guy on the left looks like he’s about to Spassky out.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 08, 2022

***
All three of them will Morphy into something really strange.
Posted by: Stella at July 08, 2022 09:49 AM (txdEq)

"Endgame" from the Ulvaeus / Andersson / Rice musical Chess:

https://tinyurl.com/bdzaau4n

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 08, 2022 10:00 AM (2JVJo)

170 Circle the wagons!

Dem Sen. Elizabeth Warren: "We Need To Put A Stop" To Crisis Pregnancy Centers "Right Now"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 08, 2022 09:56 AM (FVME7)
++++
What a scrunt. What then, pray tell, is Planned Parenthood? Is it not a "women's health center" like your crew asserts and is it actually an abortion mill?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 10:01 AM (WWh8n)

171 Black letter election law was violated in a lot of states, under cover of the pandemic "emergency." SOS unilaterally changed the voting process, which, by law, SOS cannot due. Changing the election process in a state generally lies with the legislature. State legislatures were all to happy to let their respective SOS get away with it, though.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 10:00 AM (5pTK/)

And a lot of that will probably happen again.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 08, 2022 10:01 AM (b2nrj)

172 No BIPOC. Racist art and would not hang.
Expect to see people gluing themselves to the frame.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 08, 2022 10:01 AM (MkYsY)

173 Is J. J. gonna take up playing cheese when he moves to WI?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 08, 2022 10:01 AM (Q5p+u)

174 Are there any hot chick chessplayers?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 08, 2022

***
OregonMuse (RIP) used to have one nearly every week for the Chess/Dress thread on Saturday. Sometimes they were models posing, but other times they were actual chess players/competitors.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 08, 2022 10:01 AM (txdEq)

175 Is J. J. gonna take up playing cheese when he moves to WI?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 08, 2022 10:01 AM

Cheese rolling.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 08, 2022 10:02 AM (RkC6l)

176 149 Are there any hot chick chessplayers?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 08, 2022 09:56 AM (Q5p+u)

I don't usually get to the Chess Thread but wasn't there some controversy there a while back about this very question? I seem to remember a comment scold.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 08, 2022 10:02 AM (906pl)

177 Murray Head - One Night in Bangkok (from "CHESS"):
https://youtu.be/rgc_LRjlbTU
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022

***
Fun fact: Murray Head is the brother of Anthony Stewart Head, "Giles" from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 08, 2022 10:03 AM (txdEq)

178 EU Parliament votes 324-155 to condemn SCOTUS for overturning Roe v. Wade

People were laughing at that all over Twatter this morning. The EU literally doesn't know their own laws.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 08, 2022 10:03 AM (ZGrMX)

179 This is hilarious. Hunter on the hunt in the White House:

https://tinyurl.com/5xxmfm65

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 08, 2022 10:03 AM (ptqGC)

180 Oh yes, my friend, there are hot chick chessplayers

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 08, 2022 10:03 AM (sJHOI)

181 I just thought of the plot to an old mystery, might have been Columbo.

Two guys that would have nothing in common at all. One is rich, beautiful house, beautiful modern chess set.

Other guy is in a one room apartment, dirty dishes, chess set is one of those kid sets that you buy for $5.

Colombo notices that the pieces on the two boards are identical, mid match.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 08, 2022 10:03 AM (5p7BC)

182 I don't usually get to the Chess Thread but wasn't there some controversy there a while back about this very question? I seem to remember a comment scold.

Some Puritan scold bitch would come on and complain. She just needed a stiff one and to shut the fuck up.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 08, 2022 10:04 AM (89T5c)

183 Black letter election law was violated in a lot of states, under cover of the pandemic "emergency."
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 10:00 AM (5pTK/)
~~~~~

It's slow-going, but things do seem to be moving in the right direction.

Posted by: IrishEi at July 08, 2022 10:04 AM (VhE0u)

184 Morning.
=============
Didja see this?

EU Parliament votes 324-155 to condemn SCOTUS for overturning Roe v. Wade

We may need to rethink this. They're more sophisticated than we are.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 08, 2022 09:51 AM (FVME7)

If at all possible, should the Republicans retake Congress, both the House and Senate should pass resolutions firmly yet politely demanding the European Union drop to their knees and suck our Red, White and Blue dicks.

Posted by: Robert is really, really tired at July 08, 2022 10:05 AM (qDcc3)

185 By the way, what is going on? Somehow, last night, Fran Drescher came up in a conversation with my wife and she mentioned the annoying voice.

I showed my wife the wasabi clip after explaining the voice was put on for the show.

And yes, Fran Drescher is amazingly attractive.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 10:05 AM (5pTK/)

186 There's a Philco radio built into the mantle clock so they can listen to the BBC World Service.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 08, 2022 10:05 AM (/m5BX)

187 The funny thing is, guy on the left died a half hour ago.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 08, 2022 10:05 AM (XG2Fi)

188 Here in the high desert, it's gorgeous in the AM. Turn off the A/C, open windows, let in the cool 70 degree air.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 09:55 AM (5pTK/)

Neighbors?

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 08, 2022 10:05 AM (NW9xb)

189 I saw that! That's her actual voice she used there. The nasal one is a put-on for the character.
Posted by: Brother Tim, actually a random opossum with a VPN at July 08, 2022

***
Yes, she exaggerates for the characters she plays. I've seen her on talk shows, and there is a hint of Brooklyn/Bronx, but it's faint; and she does not talk through her nose.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 08, 2022

***
I was never as bothered by Fran Drescher's character voice as some people. A, she was hot, and B, I grew up listening to people who -- while not always as nasal -- sounded very much like Nanny Fine. My mother was Canadian; I sound more like the young Michael J. Fox or William Shatner; but I know the dialect and can drop into it if need be.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 08, 2022 10:05 AM (txdEq)

190 Are there any hot chick chessplayers?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 08, 2022 09:56 AM (Q5p+u)

NO!!!!!

Posted by: Western Northwestern Shy Grandmas at July 08, 2022 10:06 AM (7bRMQ)

191 And it simply did not need to happen. My state held early voting, in regulated polling places, with two party monitoring and all the other stuff. I didn't hear anything about fraud occurring. And anyone that couldn't be bothered to show up to a polling place up to a month early - including some Saturday hours - can kiss my ass about their precious rights being violated. Tough shit.
Posted by: Once More With Feeling at July 08, 2022 10:03 AM (vwb+V)

The problem is more like this
1.They rob a bank
2.The system says, "ok you guys got away with it this time, but this is prohibited(which it was before)"
3. Repeat

Until the officials who do things like unilaterally extending voting periods start getting punished it'll keep happening.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 08, 2022 10:06 AM (b2nrj)

192 It looks like the CCP assassinated Shinzo Abe using a braindead rube with a homemade shotgun.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 08, 2022 10:06 AM (MkYsY)

193 176 Actually, Wolfus, I remember that. Thanks for reminding me.

Fun fact: It was my wife who suggested to OM that he should include pictures of Kate Middleton on the fashion part of the chess thread. He took her up on it.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 08, 2022 10:06 AM (Q5p+u)

194 Fran Drescher did a bit on her show where she ate something super-spicy. After she picker herself back up again she spoke with a gorgeous willowy voice for about 2 minutes, then reverted to normal. She is incredibly beautiful, but I hadn't noticed because of the voice.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 08, 2022 09:51 AM (44ww/)
++++
1. You've admitted to watching "The Nanny."
2. "The Nanny" was remade in Russia where it starred a girl from Ukraine acting as a nanny to a family in Moscow.
3. You watched something that was remade for Russia and very popular in Russia. Moreover, it involved a Ukrainian character in a subservient position to a Russian character.
4. You are, therefore, clearly a Russian agent.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 10:07 AM (WWh8n)

195 Eakins is good. Great eye and great brushwork.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 08, 2022 10:07 AM (AEvJo)

196 Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 09:55 AM (5pTK/)

Neighbors?
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 08, 2022 10:05 AM (NW9xb)
------------

Yes, but, where we are, it's quiet. Tract of houses outside the city away from busy roads.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 10:07 AM (5pTK/)

197 Apparently, the competitive chess community is chock full of wierdos. My brother plays at tournaments regularly and, ho boy, does he have stories.

Posted by: Kris at July 08, 2022 10:07 AM (VQp/A)

198 For the record, pressure gradients cause wind effects.

There. I said it.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at July 08, 2022 10:08 AM (MkuC5)

199 I seem to remember a comment scold.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 08, 2022 10:02 AM (906pl)

That was clearly a sock "My husband can't come on here?" Seriously?!! because there was nothing questionable about the pictures of the women OM posted. There might have been some decolletage (who cares?!) but not Boobettes who look about 17.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 08, 2022 10:08 AM (FZ2cV)

200 1. You've admitted to watching "The Nanny."
2. "The Nanny" was remade in Russia where it starred a girl from Ukraine acting as a nanny to a family in Moscow.
3. You watched something that was remade for Russia and very popular in Russia. Moreover, it involved a Ukrainian character in a subservient position to a Russian character.
4. You are, therefore, clearly a Russian agent.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 10:07 AM (WWh8n)

Now I'm curious about this Russian version.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 08, 2022 10:08 AM (b2nrj)

201
The Crustacean Gambit - a limerick

The two old men played chess until dawn
Then went outside and threw up on the lawn
They'd tried the new buffet
At McCormick's Chess Café
"Ugh! I think we took too many prawns!"

Posted by: Muldoon at July 08, 2022 10:08 AM (kXYt5)

202 196 It looks like the CCP assassinated Shinzo Abe using a braindead rube with a homemade shotgun.
-------------------
You sure it wasn't the CIA?

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 08, 2022 10:08 AM (AEvJo)

203 167 Because it has to be done.

Murray Head - One Night in Bangkok (from "CHESS"):
https://youtu.be/rgc_LRjlbTU
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 09:59 AM (WWh8n)

-------------------------

Brother of Anthony Stewart Head, of Buffy fame.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 08, 2022 10:08 AM (CAJOC)

204 I would lose playing against this chess player.

https://tinyurl.com/yfa4r4xb

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 08, 2022 10:08 AM (MkYsY)

205 Curtis Houck@CurtisHouck
.@CBSMornings trashes Shinzo Abe hours after his assassination, calling him "a polarizing figure," "right-wing nationalist, and conservative" whose "political opinions were controversial"

-
Well, he was no devout Muslim scholar like Osama.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 08, 2022 10:08 AM (FVME7)

206 Oh, and speaking of NY dialects, Miss Linda is originally from upstate NY. When I first knew her, she'd have the faintest little "k" at the end of "ing" words: "going(k)." After she watched My Fair Lady with me, she got the idea she needed to work on it. It's gone now.

Happily, she still looks a lot like Fran Drescher.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 08, 2022 10:08 AM (txdEq)

207 ||Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) posited "it's not just a coincidence" that many mass shootings are carried out by young men who take anti-depressants and other psychotropic drugs.

"Mass shootings are a sign that America has a drug problem, a serious drug problem. But no one wants to give attention to it," the Congresswoman said. "This mass shooting issue, it really affects mostly boys."

"Here's what I want to talk about. I want to talk about with psychiatric medications like SSRIs, they have side effects, they do. They have side effects like thoughts, they cause thoughts, homicidal thoughts, suicidal thoughts, that is a common known side effect of SSRIs," Congresswoman Greene said.||

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 08, 2022 10:09 AM (yikp0)

208 Is J. J. gonna take up playing cheese when he moves to WI?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

That, or learn to tie flys on those long winter nights.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022 10:09 AM (c8pZY)

209 Now I'm curious about this Russian version.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 08, 2022 10:08 AM (b2nrj)
++++
That was not the correct conclusion, you Russian agent!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 10:09 AM (WWh8n)

210 Yes, but, where we are, it's quiet. Tract of houses outside the city away from busy roads.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 10:07 AM (5pTK

I envy you

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 08, 2022 10:09 AM (NW9xb)

211 I would lose playing against this chess player.

https://tinyurl.com/yfa4r4xb
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 08, 2022

***
A brunette with a dimpled chin. My kryptonite.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 08, 2022 10:09 AM (txdEq)

212 4. You are, therefore, clearly a Russian agent.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 10:07 AM (WWh8n)
-------------

Hmm, Fran Dresher, and being a suspected Russian agent, or, no Fran Dresher and not a Russian agent.

Gosh, that's a tough one.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 10:09 AM (5pTK/)

213 I find it hard to believe that people actually think that was Fran Drescher's real voice. Uhhh, she's an actress.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 08, 2022 10:10 AM (FZ2cV)

214 Senile Joe's remarks about Abe's assassination were even more clueless than usual if that's possible.

Abe was a giant in Japanese politics. Senile Joe remarks are a huge slap in the face of the Japanese. I’m sure his Chinese masters are thrilled.

Slow Joe is a dangerous idiot.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 08, 2022 10:10 AM (5NkmN)

215 It looks like the CCP assassinated Shinzo Abe using a braindead rube with a homemade shotgun.
-------------------
You sure it wasn't the CIA?
Posted by: Puddinhead at July 08, 2022 10:08 AM

He's dead, isn't he?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 08, 2022 10:10 AM (RkC6l)

216 I just thought of the plot to an old mystery, might have been Columbo.

There was a Columbo episode - I forget the title - where one chess champion killed another because he knew the victim would beat him in a match.

The plot was foiled because the killer was deaf and didn't hear that the garbage disposal he used to get rid of the victim's body ground to a stop when the body was tossed in.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 08, 2022 10:10 AM (2JVJo)

217 Ok, this Eakins dude really, reeeeeeaaaally liked to paint nude muscular dudes and young boys. A lot. A lot-lot. I won't be providing links.
-------------------------------
Bitch!

Posted by: don lemon at July 08, 2022 10:10 AM (yikp0)

218 207 196 It looks like the CCP assassinated Shinzo Abe using a braindead rube with a homemade shotgun.
-------------------
You sure it wasn't the CIA?
Posted by: Puddinhead

Hmmm.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 08, 2022 10:10 AM (MkYsY)

219 213 Is J. J. gonna take up playing cheese when he moves to WI?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

That, or learn to tie flys on those long winter nights.
-----------------
Moar like spending freezing hours trying to start his snow blower.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 08, 2022 10:10 AM (AEvJo)

220 It looks like the CCP assassinated Shinzo Abe using a braindead rube with a homemade shotgun.
-------------------
You sure it wasn't the CIA?
Posted by: Puddinhead

The brain dead rube was known to the FBI.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022 10:10 AM (c8pZY)

221 Wisconsin Supreme Court rules drop boxes are illegal. Huge win for election integrity and rule of law.
Posted by: IrishEi
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This is the one I have been waiting for. This should mean Ron Johnson will win his re-election. Puts Evers in danger too.

WI legislature is majority GOP, and they aren't going to change the law.

DOJ might try to sue like they are doing in AZ.

Which is it's own stupidity. Suing to stop something that is legal in most other states now, after SCOTUS clearly ruled that the feds don't have jurisdiction over state election law.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 08, 2022 10:11 AM (5p7BC)

222 It looks like the CCP assassinated Shinzo Abe using a braindead rube with a homemade shotgun.
----
You sure it wasn't the CIA?
Posted by: Puddinhead at July 08, 2022 10:08 AM
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He's dead, isn't he?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 08, 2022 10:10 AM (RkC6l)
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Well, this is perhaps the most cynical thing I've read all week. Phew.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 10:11 AM (WWh8n)

223 >>>2. "The Nanny" was remade in Russia where it starred a girl from Ukraine acting as a nanny to a family in Moscow.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 10:07 AM (WWh8n)

Fawlty Towers was very popular throughout europe. However, in each different country, they changed the nationality of Manuel. Like in spain he may have been italian and so on.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 08, 2022 10:11 AM (E9ZCZ)

224 That, or learn to tie flys on those long winter nights.
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In my experience you only have to know how to tie a wooly bugger. It pretty much works on every fish.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 08, 2022 10:12 AM (AEvJo)

225 Alternate title:

"Three Morons, Ace, CBD, and JJ, Try To Figure Out If These Are Salt and Pepper Shakers or Some Kind of Game, While Anna Puma Grooms Herself"

Posted by: naturalfake at July 08, 2022 10:12 AM (5NkmN)

226 It is a beautiful painting, although the composition is super simple and uninteresting.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 08, 2022 10:13 AM (llsW/)

227 Colombo notices that the pieces on the two boards are identical, mid match.

I remember an old Wonder Woman episode where the bad guy sends the victim (history prof) a civil war themed chess set. Rooks are cannons. One of them is loaded with a poison dart.
Posted by: Once More With Feeling

Chess players are the Crips and Bloods of smart people.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 08, 2022 10:13 AM (FVME7)

228 Alternate title:

"Three Morons, Ace, CBD, and JJ, Try To Figure Out If These Are Salt and Pepper Shakers or Some Kind of Game, While Anna Puma Grooms Herself"
Posted by: naturalfake at July 08, 2022 10:12 AM (5NkmN)
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There aren't six people in the picture...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 10:13 AM (WWh8n)

229 It looks like the CCP assassinated Shinzo Abe using a braindead rube with a homemade shotgun.
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You sure it wasn't the CIA?
Posted by: Puddinhead at July 08, 2022 10:08 AM
----
He's dead, isn't he?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 08, 2022 10:10 AM (RkC6l)
++++
Well, this is perhaps the most cynical thing I've read all week. Phew.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 10:11 AM

To be clear, I'm mocking the CIA's competence.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 08, 2022 10:13 AM (RkC6l)

230 That, or learn to tie flys on those long winter nights.

and miss all that glorious ice fishing? I think not.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 08, 2022 10:14 AM (MkYsY)

231 217 4. You are, therefore, clearly a Russian agent.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 10:07 AM (WWh8n)
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Hmm, Fran Dresher, and being a suspected Russian agent, or, no Fran Dresher and not a Russian agent.

Gosh, that's a tough one.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 10:09 AM (5pTK/)
----------------------------
My friend told me their realtor was in a hurry while showing them a house.

I now suspect him of being a rushin' agent!

Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 08, 2022 10:14 AM (CAJOC)

232 Alternate title:

"Three Morons, Ace, CBD, and JJ, Try To Figure Out If These Are Salt and Pepper Shakers or Some Kind of Game, While Anna Puma Grooms Herself"
Posted by: naturalfake at July 08, 2022 10:12 AM (5NkmN)
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There aren't six people in the picture...
Posted by: Joe Mannix

ISWYDT

Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022 10:14 AM (c8pZY)

233 DOJ might try to sue like they are doing in AZ.

Which is it's own stupidity.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 08, 2022 10:11 AM (5p7BC)

I'm detecting a trend...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 08, 2022 10:14 AM (XIJ/X)

234 It looks like the CCP assassinated Shinzo Abe using a braindead rube with a homemade shotgun.
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You sure it wasn't the CIA?
Posted by: Puddinhead

The brain dead rube was known to the FBI.
Posted by: rickb223

The FBI seems to know a lot of lunkheads......

Posted by: JT at July 08, 2022 10:14 AM (T4tVD)

235 and miss all that glorious ice fishing? I think not.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

That's true too. I've seen some impressive ice fishing shacks.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022 10:16 AM (c8pZY)

236 It looks like the CCP assassinated Shinzo Abe using a braindead rube with a homemade shotgun.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 08, 2022 10:06 AM

further evidence that the guns all come from Gary, Indiana

Posted by: Lori Lightfoot at July 08, 2022 10:16 AM (ENBF0)

237 He's dead, isn't he?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
++++
Well, this is perhaps the most cynical thing I've read all week. Phew.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
--
To be clear, I'm mocking the CIA's competence.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Not mocking... acknowledging.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 08, 2022 10:16 AM (etv5d)

238 tomorrow

let's have Gerrit van Honthorst

just for a lil fun

Posted by: REDACTED at July 08, 2022 10:16 AM (us2H3)

239 How can you not mention the German guards -- Sgt Schultze -- sending the German POW spy messages hidden in the IIRC queen??

Ach so. Ach so.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 08, 2022 10:16 AM (yikp0)

240 To be clear, I'm mocking the CIA's competence.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Not mocking... acknowledging.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 08, 2022 10:16 AM

Tomayto, tomahto...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 08, 2022 10:17 AM (RkC6l)

241 To be clear, I'm mocking the CIA's competence.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 08, 2022 10:13 AM (RkC6l)
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Oh, I get it. The reaction that it isn't that we wouldn't do such a thing -but that we clearly didn't because it actually worked - is deeply cynical. I don't even disagree, either, it's just ... damn, that's cynical lol

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 10:17 AM (WWh8n)

242 I wonder if one of them is going to try the Urusov gambit?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 08, 2022 10:17 AM (Q5p+u)

243 In Soviet Union, chess pieces play you!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 08, 2022 10:17 AM (FVME7)

244 243 It looks like the CCP assassinated Shinzo Abe using a braindead rube with a homemade shotgun.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 08, 2022 10:06 AM

further evidence that the guns all come from Gary, Indiana
Posted by: Lori Lightfoot at July 08, 2022 10:16 AM (ENBF0)

------------------------

Well, someone should find this Gary guy, and take all his guns!

Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 08, 2022 10:17 AM (CAJOC)

245 Pictured: one night in Bangkok.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 08, 2022 09:57 AM (ZGrMX)
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Possibly the most important song ever written about a chess competition in Thailand.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 10:17 AM (WWh8n)

246 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. I miss OM.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 08, 2022 10:18 AM (anj39)

247 I liked it better when we didn't have to know everybody's sexual orientation-unless we, actually knew them, because (if you look online) apparently Eakins is a hero to some in the LBGT etc community and everybody knows he was in the closet, so he can't be admired for his fine artistic technique but because he might have been shagging men even though he had a wife. Pride Month never ends apparently.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 08, 2022 10:18 AM (FZ2cV)

248 Nothing makes morning alcoholism respectable quite like an auger, a frozen lake, and a small portable building.
Posted by: Once More With Feeling at July 08, 2022 10:17 AM (vwb+V)
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Sure, sure. When it's rich white people out "fishing" it's fine, but when it's a person of color does it under a bridge it's suddenly a blight. I see how it is.

Posted by: SJW idiot at July 08, 2022 10:18 AM (WWh8n)

249 Was Eakins British or American?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 08, 2022 10:19 AM (Q5p+u)

250 the white queen is in the drawer

repeat

the white queen is in the drawer

Posted by: REDACTED at July 08, 2022 10:19 AM (us2H3)

251 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. I miss OM.
Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 08, 2022 10:18 AM

Someone get this man some more ointment, stat!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 08, 2022 10:19 AM (RkC6l)

252 The depiction of the bottle and the glasses is fantastic.

Agree. The light reflections are very well done. It's one of the reasons I love me a good still life.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 08, 2022 10:19 AM (/NCI4)

253 >>Apparently, the competitive chess community is chock full of wierdos.

Well there's a shocking bit of news.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 08, 2022 10:20 AM (ZLI7S)

254 To be clear, I'm mocking the CIA's competence.
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I understand.

Posted by: Bob at NSA in Khakis at July 08, 2022 10:20 AM (AEvJo)

255 I saw Wooly Bugger open for Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs at Bayside Arena in '69.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 08, 2022 10:20 AM (2JVJo)

256 Dear Lord. This is extremely hard to watch. Police violence in the Netherlands.

https://tinyurl.com/3y3nzx5u

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 08, 2022 10:20 AM (ptqGC)

257 interesting the DOJ is suing AZ, instead of Democrats in AZ. It's almost like Democrats in AZ are trying to keep their heads down.

It's a mystery.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 10:20 AM (5pTK/)

258 CBD - It's infuriating, but DOJ is suing in cases that they know right up front that they are going to lose. They are just trying to gum up the works and hold on to a few seats by hoping to drag the case past the election.

If you are looking for the ray of sunshine, these are desperation moves, and they are only doing it because they have nothing else.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 08, 2022 10:20 AM (5p7BC)

259 257 Was Eakins British or American?
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Pretty sure he was American. From PA I believe.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 08, 2022 10:21 AM (AEvJo)

260 I liked it better when we didn't have to know everybody's sexual orientation-unless we, actually knew them, because (if you look online) apparently Eakins is a hero to some in the LBGT etc community and everybody knows he was in the closet, so he can't be admired for his fine artistic technique but because he might have been shagging men even though he had a wife. Pride Month never ends apparently.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 08, 2022 10:18 AM (FZ2cV)

Missing headline:

"Thomas Eakins Faithful Wife Wonders Why She's Constantly Getting Vaginal Infections and STDs"

Posted by: naturalfake at July 08, 2022 10:21 AM (5NkmN)

261 226 Wisconsin Supreme Court rules drop boxes are illegal. Huge win for election integrity and rule of law.
Posted by: IrishEi
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This is the one I have been waiting for. This should mean Ron Johnson will win his re-election. Puts Evers in danger too.

WI legislature is majority GOP, and they aren't going to change the law.
------------

Praise the Lord. I was worried about Hagedorn. He's been the John Roberts of the WI supreme court.

Posted by: WisRich at July 08, 2022 10:22 AM (G0vdT)

262 > Apparently, the competitive chess community is chock full of wierdos.

Yeah, bunch of freaks.

Posted by: Your Local Furry Convention at July 08, 2022 10:22 AM (5p7BC)

263 "One Night in Bangkok" is among the ultimate songs of the 80s, but so is this one:
https://youtu.be/hIs5StN8J-0

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 10:22 AM (WWh8n)

264 258 the white queen is in the drawer

repeat

the white queen is in the drawer
Posted by: REDACTED at July 08, 2022 10:19 AM (us2H3)

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So dat's where da white wimmen at!

Posted by: Sheriff Bart at July 08, 2022 10:23 AM (CAJOC)

265 Dear Lord. This is extremely hard to watch. Police violence in the Netherlands.

https://tinyurl.com/3y3nzx5u
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 08, 2022 10:20 AM (ptqGC)
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The people there need arms.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 10:23 AM (WWh8n)

266 Wisconsin Supreme Court rules drop boxes are illegal. Huge win for election integrity and rule of law.

I also read a couple of articles this morning on the need to close GOP primaries. The primaries in GA and OH were both overrun with Democrats, and that's why we get GOPe. One GOPe guy in GA just didn't see the need to do anything.

Here's something we need to do: get rid of you.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 08, 2022 10:24 AM (/NCI4)

267 >Dear Lord. This is extremely hard to watch. Police violence in the Netherlands.

Posted by: Jane D'oh

that is horrible- they are just beating those women

Posted by: DB - Unless I'm Wrong at July 08, 2022 10:24 AM (geLO8)

268 269 226 Wisconsin Supreme Court rules drop boxes are illegal. Huge win for election integrity and rule of law.
Posted by: IrishEi
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This is the one I have been waiting for. This should mean Ron Johnson will win his re-election. Puts Evers in danger too.

WI legislature is majority GOP, and they aren't going to change the law.
------------

Praise the Lord. I was worried about Hagedorn. He's been the John Roberts of the WI supreme court.
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So what will Milwaukee's BLM polling stations do? Follow the law or Print a Win?

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 08, 2022 10:24 AM (AEvJo)

269 The people there need arms.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 10:23 AM (WWh8n)

We have them, do you think it'd be any different here?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 08, 2022 10:24 AM (7bRMQ)

270 275 >Dear Lord. This is extremely hard to watch. Police violence in the Netherlands.

Posted by: Jane D'oh

that is horrible- they are just beating those women
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Who knew the Dutch were Canadian?

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 08, 2022 10:24 AM (AEvJo)

271 31 Oregon Muse smiles from heaven.

Yes, indeed. Thank you, CBD.

Posted by: Lola at July 08, 2022 10:25 AM (NIYa7)

272 Posted by: naturalfake at July 08, 2022 10:21 AM (5NkmN)

I know nothing about his wife or her possible STD's. I also don't know that he was shagging men, but apparently many in the LBGT absolutely know this. It makes it sound as if that was the most important thing about Eakins.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 08, 2022 10:25 AM (FZ2cV)

273 Possibly the most important song ever written about a chess competition in Thailand.
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*stops*

*reads it over and over*

Ok, true statement.

Posted by: Dave_in_Fla at July 08, 2022 10:25 AM (5p7BC)

274 Who knew the Dutch were Canadian?
Posted by: Puddinhead at July 08, 2022 10:24 AM (AEvJo)

Ambiguous mixed-French ancestry?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 08, 2022 10:25 AM (b2nrj)

275 Skillfully painted. Lovely colors. Interesting subject. Standing guy does not approve. Would hang in the library.

Posted by: G. Gnome will not comply at July 08, 2022 10:25 AM (OQcPl)

276 264 Dear Lord. This is extremely hard to watch. Police violence in the Netherlands.

https://tinyurl.com/3y3nzx5u
Posted by: Jane D'oh

Support the blue!

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 08, 2022 10:25 AM (MkYsY)

277 They're really throwing dice...the chess board is just a ruse.

Posted by: BignJames at July 08, 2022 10:26 AM (AwYPR)

278 Speaking of the Soviet Union, Incidentally, I saw Waterloo, the 1970 movie starring Rod Steiger and Christopher Plumber which was directed by a Russkie in the Soviet Union. The movie is widely praised for historical accuracy. Apparently, the Russkies made thousands and thousands of Russkie soldiers available and trained them for months in Napoleonic tactic, formations etc. So never let nobody tell you the Soviet Union wasn't good for anything. (Why the Russkies were so interested in supporting a movie about the French, the British, and the Prussians starring a Brit and an American is beyond me.)

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 08, 2022 10:27 AM (FVME7)

279 Ambiguous mixed-French ancestry?
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Qu'est-ce que c'est Psycho Killer?

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 08, 2022 10:27 AM (AEvJo)

280 257 Was Eakins British or American?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 08, 2022 10:19 AM (Q5p+u)

Neither. He was from Philly

Posted by: 7man at July 08, 2022 10:27 AM (qwO6y)

281 Anybody know the context of the cop-girl dustup in Dutchland??

Posted by: kraken at July 08, 2022 10:28 AM (Vr12I)

282 So what will Milwaukee's BLM polling stations do? Follow the law or Print a Win?
Posted by: Puddinhead
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They won't follow the law, they are going to cheat like always. The problem is that their level of cheating is limited to the number of voters in the precinct.

The problem for the Democrats is that the mail-in vote cheating (90%+ of what happened in 2020) is not going to be available.

During a red wave election.

Posted by: Dave_in_Fla at July 08, 2022 10:28 AM (5p7BC)

283 Why are we just hearing about this now???

Truckpocalypse” Begins in California This Week as 70,000 Truckers Forced off the Roads Due to Democrat Idiocracy

https://bit.ly/3PbTOCa

Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022 10:28 AM (c8pZY)

284 238 Alternate title:
"Three Morons, Ace, CBD, and JJ, Try To Figure Out If These Are Salt and Pepper Shakers or Some Kind of Game, While Anna Puma Grooms Herself"
Posted by: naturalfake at July 08, 2022 10:12 AM (5NkmN)
++++
There aren't six people in the picture...
Posted by: Joe Mannix
ISWYDT
Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022 10:14 AM (c8pZY)

Sad to say, it took me a moment...

#derpderpderp

Posted by: zombie George Bernard Shaw at July 08, 2022 10:28 AM (BgMrQ)

285 Kitty!

Posted by: Weasel at July 08, 2022 10:28 AM (0IeYL)

286 They found an 'explosive type device' at the Abe assassins house.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 08, 2022 10:28 AM (MkYsY)

287 Posted by: naturalfake at July 08, 2022 10:21 AM (5NkmN)

I know nothing about his wife or her possible STD's. I also don't know that he was shagging men, but apparently many in the LBGT absolutely know this. It makes it sound as if that was the most important thing about Eakins.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 08, 2022 10:25 AM (FZ2cV)

Hmmm.

Fen is ~~a lot of fun~~.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 08, 2022 10:29 AM (5NkmN)

288 So never let nobody tell you the Soviet Union wasn't good for anything. (Why the Russkies were so interested in supporting a movie about the French, the British, and the Prussians starring a Brit and an American is beyond me.)
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My guess is the Russians wanted the west to know who saved them from Napoleon and Hitler. Evidently the west seems to forget this lesson.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 08, 2022 10:29 AM (AEvJo)

289 YAHTZEE!!!

Posted by: The idiot on the left at July 08, 2022 10:29 AM (VJsqe)

290 When I think of chess, which isn't often, what comes to mind is this hilarious commercial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ixwKBwfT38

Posted by: Nemo at July 08, 2022 10:29 AM (S6ArX)

291 Shinxzo Abe had information leading to the arrest and conviction of Hilary Clinton.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 08, 2022 10:30 AM (ufFY8)

292 286 Speaking of the Soviet Union, Incidentally, I saw Waterloo, the 1970 movie starring Rod Steiger and Christopher Plumber which was directed by a Russkie in the Soviet Union. The movie is widely praised for historical accuracy. Apparently, the Russkies made thousands and thousands of Russkie soldiers available and trained them for months in Napoleonic tactic, formations etc. So never let nobody tell you the Soviet Union wasn't good for anything. (Why the Russkies were so interested in supporting a movie about the French, the British, and the Prussians starring a Brit and an American is beyond me.)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 08, 2022 10:27 AM (FVME7)

Russia's attempts to be part of the West has traditionally meant celebrating moments of unity with the big western powers. "Remember that time we all beat Napoleon together? Remember that time we all beat Hitler together?"

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 08, 2022 10:30 AM (b2nrj)

293 273 Dear Lord. This is extremely hard to watch. Police violence in the Netherlands.

https://tinyurl.com/3y3nzx5u
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 08, 2022 10:20 AM (ptqGC)
++++
The people there need arms.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 10:23 AM (WWh8n)

How about people here AT HOME...

Posted by: Michelle Fields at July 08, 2022 10:30 AM (BgMrQ)

294 the chess board is just a ruse.

*********

A ruse by any other name is just a tweet...

Posted by: Muldoon at July 08, 2022 10:30 AM (kXYt5)

295 Yes, our dear Oregon Muse would have approved this art. He's probably in the part of Heaven right now where people can LARP their favorite time/place/activity for as long as they want and never get bored.

Posted by: kallisto at July 08, 2022 10:31 AM (dCxaZ)

296 It makes it sound as if that was the most important thing about Eakins.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 08, 2022 10:25 AM (FZ2cV)

----------------------------

Such is the nature of identity politics.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 08, 2022 10:31 AM (CAJOC)

297 /0ff Pygmalion sock

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at July 08, 2022 10:31 AM (BgMrQ)

298 264 Dear Lord. This is extremely hard to watch. Police violence in the Netherlands.

I shan't believe it, I shan't!!

The Euros are all so progressive and tolerant and BETTER THAN US

Posted by: kallisto at July 08, 2022 10:33 AM (dCxaZ)

299 Joe Biden Uses Abe Shinzo Assassination to Again Condemn ‘Gun Violence’

The balls.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 08, 2022 10:33 AM (MkYsY)

300 To be clear, I'm mocking the CIA's competence.
-----------------
I understand.
Posted by: Bob at NSA in Khakis at July 08, 2022 10:20 AM (AEvJo)

Dog pile on the Agency!

Posted by: Ham-N-Egger at July 08, 2022 10:33 AM (4I/2K)

301 >>> Anybody know the context of the cop-girl dustup in Dutchland??
Posted by: kraken at July 08, 2022 10:28 AM (Vr12I)

I'm not a fan of the police or any authority in this situation. With that said, I would say the first few seconds look purely performative on the part of the woman. The cop waves his hand in her face, maybe touches her, and she performs a walk back and then a controlled laydown. Some guy picks her up. Then the cop walks over and shoves her. The cops walk to a different area and she gets in the cop's face and gets shoved a few more times.

These theatrics are not going to help anyone. The authorities have no qualms about physical violence. The "how dare you!" gambit doesn't work outside of an already moral and functioning society.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 08, 2022 10:33 AM (E9ZCZ)

302 The government and their green agenda will fail once the police stop enforcing the desires of the government.

So far, the cops in Canada have shown themselves to be fascists with very little consequence for overstepping the social compact.

We will see if the Dutch police are the same fascists, or if they have to eat and live in their communities as well.

This is how the Berlin wall came down. East German police stopped trying to stop people from tearing it down.

Posted by: Dave_in_Fla at July 08, 2022 10:34 AM (5p7BC)

303 Such is the nature of identity politics.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 08, 2022 10:31 AM (CAJOC)

Yes; It's sick and of course, extremely divisive and really indicates the amount of narcissism in some in the LBGT community.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 08, 2022 10:34 AM (FZ2cV)

304 Neither. He was from Philly

********

So the scene depicted in this painting is his Philly chess take?

Posted by: Muldoon at July 08, 2022 10:34 AM (kXYt5)

305 Posted by: banana Dream at July 08, 2022 10:33 AM (E9ZCZ)

Shove?...looks like a right cross.

Posted by: BignJames at July 08, 2022 10:35 AM (AwYPR)

306 In case you're wondering if "Build Back Better" isn't a worldwide Davos/Chinese thing full of useful idiots.

NPR smears Abe as a "divisive arch-conservative".

Dude was one of the most loved pols in Japan.

https://tinyurl.com/5n8xsrzf

Ass.

Holes.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 08, 2022 10:35 AM (5NkmN)

307 312 Muldoon, lol.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 08, 2022 10:36 AM (Q5p+u)

308 My cats would have leaped up onto the board wrecking the match

Posted by: Skip's phone at July 08, 2022 10:36 AM (4o9mN)

309 So the scene depicted in this painting is his Philly chess take?
Posted by: Muldoon at July 08, 2022 10:34 AM (kXYt5)
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I laughed.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 10:36 AM (5pTK/)

310 Posted by: naturalfake at July 08, 2022 10:29 AM (5NkmN)

Sorry; I don't usally find jokes about STD's a laugh riot, particularly when we don't know if she did have them. You're quite funny often, but when I activated my ASHQ membership it didn't require me to laugh on cue.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 08, 2022 10:37 AM (FZ2cV)

311 already moral and functioning society.
Posted by: banana Dream at July 08, 2022 10:33 AM (E9ZCZ)

Looking closely, the chick was lightly pushed and tripped over her own feet
Then, she initiates contact again with the male cop, who then belts her. (Granted, the make cop should have not approached in the first place )
Finally, the chick AGAIN starts striking the cop, and falls down.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 08, 2022 10:37 AM (ufFY8)

312 These theatrics are not going to help anyone. The authorities have no qualms about physical violence. The "how dare you!" gambit doesn't work outside of an already moral and functioning society.
Posted by: banana Dream at July 08, 2022 10:33 AM (E9ZCZ)

The female cop barely touches her to move her back. She flops. She gets up and swings at the male cop. Really can't blame the cops after that. Don't know what happened leading up to it.

Posted by: WiNO - Time for a Marriage Amendment at July 08, 2022 10:38 AM (EpDzw)

313 So the scene depicted in this painting is his Philly chess take?
Posted by: Muldoon at July 08, 2022 10:34 AM

*slow clap*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 08, 2022 10:38 AM (RkC6l)

314 Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 08, 2022 10:37 AM (ufFY

sucker punch

Posted by: BignJames at July 08, 2022 10:38 AM (AwYPR)

315 From the crosstalk here about this Eakins guy, I bothered to look him up on Wiki. I drew a fw conclusions, all on my own.

Posted by: kraken at July 08, 2022 10:38 AM (Vr12I)

316 317 So the scene depicted in this painting is his Philly chess take?
Posted by: Muldoon at July 08, 2022 10:34 AM (kXYt5)
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I laughed.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 10:36 AM (5pTK/)

From Jim’s on South St.

Posted by: 7man at July 08, 2022 10:38 AM (qwO6y)

317 What I noticed is the liquor table next to them. If the game went to long, I can imagine them getting loaded enough to begin thinking they are playing checkers.

Posted by: DC at July 08, 2022 10:38 AM (nOzgv)

318 So the scene depicted in this painting is his Philly chess take?
Posted by: Muldoon at July 08, 2022 10:34 AM (kXYt5)

You sir, are a treasure.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 08, 2022 10:38 AM (4I/2K)

319 Clinic Funded By Biden Administration Distributes Crack Pipes To Addicts Outside A ‘School’ in NYC.

Good job Joe.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 08, 2022 10:39 AM (MkYsY)

320 >>> Shove?...looks like a right cross.
Posted by: BignJames at July 08, 2022 10:35 AM (AwYPR)

Yes, he's hitting her too and using the baton after the initial bit. But what I'm saying is that's what the police are going to do when you challenge them.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 08, 2022 10:39 AM (E9ZCZ)

321 Posted by: Skip's phone at July 08, 2022 10:36 AM (4o9mN)

LOL.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 08, 2022 10:39 AM (FZ2cV)

322 NPR smears Abe as a "divisive arch-conservative".

Dude was one of the most loved pols in Japan.

https://tinyurl.com/5n8xsrzf

They would describe Reagan the same way, and he cruised to 2 landslide victories.
To a Leftie, "divisive" means "I didn't like him."

Posted by: Wally at July 08, 2022 10:39 AM (FJYfm)

323 He's probably in the part of Heaven right now where people can LARP their favorite time/place/activity for as long as they want and never get bored.

Hollywood, 1912, working in silent films with pretty girls like this:

https://tinyurl.com/48f5x6ku

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 08, 2022 10:39 AM (2JVJo)

324 Posted by: naturalfake at July 08, 2022 10:29 AM (5NkmN)

Sorry; I don't usally find jokes about STD's a laugh riot, particularly when we don't know if she did have them. You're quite funny often, but when I activated my ASHQ membership it didn't require me to laugh on cue.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 08, 2022 10:37 AM (FZ2cV)

Hence, my adjustment of my remark to the purely factual,

"Fen is."

See? No laughter necessary. You're welcome!

Posted by: naturalfake at July 08, 2022 10:39 AM (5NkmN)

325 On that twitvid, there's no sound for me. I wonder what the converrsation was?

Posted by: kraken at July 08, 2022 10:40 AM (Vr12I)

326 Sad day. I pray the Japs find his killer quickly. And, if his motives were political, I hope their reprisal against whosever interest he represented is swift and thorough and highly prejudicial.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 08, 2022 10:40 AM (IXpV7)

327 Posted by: Muldoon at July 08, 2022 10:34 AM (kXYt5)

Well done!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 08, 2022 10:40 AM (FZ2cV)

328 Peaceful protest a la MLK jr or Gandhi works in a moral, Christian society.

It isn't going to work with the godless socialists running western countries now - see the Canadian truckers or the J6 peaceful protestors.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 08, 2022 10:40 AM (ESjRY)

329 That homemade shotgun the assassin used looks very rudimentary. A couple pieces of plumber's pipe duct-taped to a two-by-four. Not clear what sort of trigger-hammer mechanism it had.

Posted by: Muldoon at July 08, 2022 10:40 AM (kXYt5)

330 Sad day. I pray the Japs find his killer quickly. And, if his motives were political, I hope their reprisal against whosever interest he represented is swift and thorough and highly prejudicial.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 08, 2022 10:40 AM (IXpV7)

They found him quickly. He's a 41 y.o. loon.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 08, 2022 10:40 AM (ptqGC)

331 Who knew the Dutch were Canadian?
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Oddly enough, Canada and the Netherlands have close ties from WW2.

Their royal family fled here, including Princess Margriet being born in an Ottawa hospital; and the Canadian Army Corps played a large role in their liberation. Every spring the Dutch send tulip bulbs to Ottawa as a reminder.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 08, 2022 10:41 AM (yikp0)

332 To a Leftie, "divisive" means "I didn't like him."

Posted by: Wally at July 08, 2022 10:39 AM (FJYfm)

'tis true

Posted by: BignJames at July 08, 2022 10:41 AM (AwYPR)

333 "Peaceful protest a la MLK jr or Gandhi works in a moral, Christian society."

It should be noted that it did not, in fact, work for MLK or Gandhi.

Posted by: Wally at July 08, 2022 10:42 AM (FJYfm)

334 Austere Shinto scholar....

Posted by: The idiot on the left at July 08, 2022 10:42 AM (VJsqe)

335 I'm not supporting our master's praetorian guard in any of this. I'm just saying that trying to get videos of police beating the crap out of euro-caucasians is not going to help anyone and just get you bloody. It is not an effective tactic.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 08, 2022 10:43 AM (E9ZCZ)

336 The device was like a shotgun in form and function, but had more in common with a pipe explosive how it was built.

We need common sense duct tape control now.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 08, 2022 10:43 AM (44ww/)

337 That homemade shotgun the assassin used looks very rudimentary. A couple pieces of plumber's pipe duct-taped to a two-by-four. Not clear what sort of trigger-hammer mechanism it had.

Posted by: Muldoon at July 08, 2022 10:40 AM (kXYt5)

scaled up "zip gun"

Posted by: BignJames at July 08, 2022 10:43 AM (AwYPR)

338 NPR changed their initial hot take of Abe and now the the call him an "ultranationalist".

By the end of the day he will be a red hat wearing, bleach spraying MAGA terrorist.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 08, 2022 10:43 AM (ZLI7S)

339 From IMDb:

At over £12 million, it was one of the most expensive films ever made at the time. Dino De Laurentis had wanted to make it for 10 years, but his production company couldn't afford it. Then Mosfilm stepped in, contributing over £4 million, 20,000 soldiers, a full brigade of Soviet cavalry, and vast numbers of engineers and laborers to prepare locations and facilities for 48 days of shooting in the Ukraine. If it had been made in the West without the Red Army's assistance, it would have cost 3 times as much. To recreate the battlefield, the Soviets bulldozed 2 hills, deepened a valley, laid miles of roads, transplanted 5,000 trees, sowed fields of rye, barley, and wildflowers, and reconstructed 4 historic buildings. The production included Italian and Russian technicians, English and French advisors, Yugoslav stuntmen, and actors from America, Canada, England, Ireland, Italy, France, and Russia.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 08, 2022 10:44 AM (FVME7)

340 Eakins is a master painter, no doubt. His work provoked controversy in staid, ultra conservative Philadelphia society.

His painting "The Gross Clinic" caused much clutching of the pearls, and when it was learned that he had pulled the drape off a male model to show where the thigh muscle ends at the pelvis, he had to defend his job at the Academy. (because there was a female student in the class)

As to his being SSA, doubtful. One look at his photography demonstrates his love of the female form. Additionally, there were some shady goings-on with the females in his life.

One example: his brother-in-law accused him of incest with sister Margaret. Another: a young woman was found roaming the streets clad only in bathing suit. She told police that Eakins had promised to marry her.

Posted by: kallisto at July 08, 2022 10:44 AM (dCxaZ)

341 Abe was killed in Nara, which was, IIRC, Japan’s first capital.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 08, 2022 10:44 AM (Q5p+u)

342 336 Peaceful protest a la MLK jr or Gandhi works in a moral, Christian society.

It isn't going to work with the godless socialists running western countries now - see the Canadian truckers or the J6 peaceful protestors.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 08, 2022 10:40 AM (ESjRY)

Peaceful protest is an appeal to the conscience and humanity of the opposition. I agree it's not going to work here.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 08, 2022 10:44 AM (b2nrj)

343 Our son has had an interesting week.

On Saturday, he was returning from a veteran-owned range in SC, when traffic on I-95 slowed. Someone rear-ended him, badly damaging his vehicle.

A couple of days ago, the local VA sent him to Charleston for hearing tests, and now he's getting hearing aides. He's had tinnitus since A-stan.

As for his injured back (Afghanistan), he's declining to let the VA operate on it. He's using exercise to ease the pain.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 08, 2022 10:44 AM (ptqGC)

344 Canadian history is so sad. Sorry.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at July 08, 2022 10:45 AM (Hd5zO)

345 12 Whomever fixed the blog, you have my undying, eternal gratitude.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022 09:34 AM (c8pZY)

I concur. Maybe we could avoid Java Script coding errors like that one in future “upgrades.” It seemed to be related to the ads.

Posted by: jwmiii at July 08, 2022 10:45 AM (ii2y5)

346 >NPR changed their initial hot take of Abe and now the the call him an "ultranationalist".

what they are saying without saying it is, he got what was coming to him

Posted by: DB - Unless I'm Wrong at July 08, 2022 10:46 AM (geLO8)

347 Hollywood, 1912, working in silent films with pretty girls like this:

https://tinyurl.com/48f5x6ku
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 08, 2022 10:39 AM (2JVJo)

Hubba Hubba!

Oh here comes that devil again that Beelzebub put aside for me with that flaming pineapple wrapped in barb wire.

Posted by: Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. at July 08, 2022 10:46 AM (4I/2K)

348 In case you're wondering if "Build Back Better" isn't a worldwide Davos/Chinese thing full of useful idiots.

NPR smears Abe as a "divisive arch-conservative".

Dude was one of the most loved pols in Japan.

This is why we need a National Divorce.
I cannot reconcile with NPR. We don't even believe in the same things.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022 10:47 AM (c8pZY)

349 The movie is widely praised for historical accuracy. Apparently, the Russkies made thousands and thousands of Russkie soldiers available and trained them for months in Napoleonic tactic, formations etc.
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And you can see in the helicopter shots of the French massed cavalry attacks against the Allied and British squares that some of the squares break and the military extras flee the charging horsemen that didn't happen at the battle!

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 08, 2022 10:47 AM (yikp0)

350 The cop that shot at the teen farmer had his entire two story house covered in hay bales. They evacuated him and his family.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 08, 2022 10:47 AM (MkYsY)

351 $45.2 billion budget bill up for a vote today in PA.

Shapiro and all government services should shine with that type of funding to play with.

Posted by: Lola at July 08, 2022 10:47 AM (NIYa7)

352 346 NPR changed their initial hot take of Abe and now the the call him an "ultranationalist".

By the end of the day he will be a red hat wearing, bleach spraying MAGA terrorist.
Posted by: JackStraw

And the killer will likely get a hanging. The dreaded noose. What more proof do we need?

Posted by: Rex B at July 08, 2022 10:48 AM (na73u)

353 Looks to me like the Dutch cops were arresting someone when that chick what likes to be a punching bag got too close to a police action. The male cop sent her flying with one quick shove. Of course the cop got up in her grill while she was on the ground...he escalated then she like a dope started swinging.

Told my son when he was little. Hands at your sides or on the wheel if you ever get into a situation with a cop. This is basic life skills and survival.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 08, 2022 10:48 AM (0Qrr3)

354 There were so many people at this speech taking photos that the Japanese police/news have been able to put together a "movie" of the killer and his movements.

He started behind Abe and was clapping during his speech. Then he moved toward the front, bent down and grabbed something then, moved toward Abe's side and shot him in the face. Then moved more behind and shot Abe in the torso.

Probably, censored then put online soonish.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 08, 2022 10:48 AM (5NkmN)

355 >>>NPR smears Abe as a "divisive arch-conservative".

They deleted that tweet and reposted, changing "divisive arch-conservative" to "ultranationalist". Defund those clueless fuckers.

Posted by: Citizen Ultra Cake at July 08, 2022 10:48 AM (HmZuC)

356 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 08, 2022 10:44 AM (FVME7)

Look up the history of the Nazi film Kolberg some time. Goebbels pulled thousands of badly-needed troops off the battlefield to be in the movie.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 08, 2022 10:48 AM (2JVJo)

357 >>> As to his being SSA, doubtful. One look at his photography demonstrates his love of the female form. Additionally, there were some shady goings-on with the females in his life.

One example: his brother-in-law accused him of incest with sister Margaret. Another: a young woman was found roaming the streets clad only in bathing suit. She told police that Eakins had promised to marry her.
Posted by: kallisto at July 08, 2022 10:44 AM (dCxaZ)

When I did an image search for his art it was scores of nude men and nude young boys. Perhaps that's just what the search wanted to show me and not representative of his main body of work. But there was a lot of it and no women.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 08, 2022 10:49 AM (E9ZCZ)

358 The cop that shot at the teen farmer had his entire two story house covered in hay bales. They evacuated him and his family.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 08, 2022 10:47 AM (MkYsY)

Little pig little pig let me out?

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 08, 2022 10:49 AM (44ww/)

359
That homemade shotgun the assassin used looks very rudimentary. A couple pieces of plumber's pipe duct-taped to a two-by-four. Not clear what sort of trigger-hammer mechanism it had.

Posted by: Muldoon at July 08, 2022 10:40 AM

it had an eleventeen round bullet magazine clip and the thing what goes up

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 08, 2022 10:49 AM (ENBF0)

360 >>NPR changed their initial hot take of Abe and now the the call him an "ultranationalist".

By the end of the day he will be a red hat wearing, bleach spraying MAGA terrorist.
Posted by: JackStraw

If you re-elect us we'll defund them. Swearsies.

Posted by: GOP at July 08, 2022 10:49 AM (MkYsY)

361 NPR smears Abe as a "divisive arch-conservative

" he didn't have the bad orange man so he deserved it"

Posted by: brak at July 08, 2022 10:49 AM (j5Tg0)

362 The cop that shot at the teen farmer had his entire two story house covered in hay bales. They evacuated him and his family.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

Should have lit the hay.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022 10:49 AM (c8pZY)

363 I didn’t think there were any Russian troops at Waterloo.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 08, 2022 10:49 AM (Q5p+u)

364 >>This is why we need a National Divorce.

Only if we get the house and all the stuff.

Otherwise I'd rather just beat them. Their beliefs are foreign and destructive to the founding principles of this country. I'm not giving them shit.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 08, 2022 10:50 AM (ZLI7S)

365 From Associated Propaganda.
Headline
Black leader who fought Trump Tulsa campaign rally killed

Of course she was killed in a domestic, but hey. Let's somehow tie those racist Ultra Maga© people to it. Dishonest hacks. I loathe the MFM.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 08, 2022 10:50 AM (gICZ0)

366 scaled up "zip gun"
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Yep. Easy to do. Just use something elastic.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 08, 2022 10:50 AM (AEvJo)

367 359 The cop that shot at the teen farmer had his entire two story house covered in hay bales. They evacuated him and his family.

Good. Should have lit it on fire.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 08, 2022 10:50 AM (89T5c)

368 NPR smears Abe as a "divisive arch-conservative".

They deleted that tweet and reposted, changing "divisive arch-conservative" to "ultranationalist". Defund those clueless fuckers.
Posted by: Citizen Ultra Cake at July 08, 2022 10:48 AM (HmZuC)

I'll get right on it, as soon as I award another medal of bravery to the Capitol Police.

Vote red wave, ~~suckers~~ citizens!

Posted by: Ted Cruz at July 08, 2022 10:51 AM (2JVJo)

369 NPR when Fidel Castro died:

"One of the most prominent international figures in the last half of the 20th century, Castro inspired both passionate love and hate. Many who later lost faith in him can remember how they once admired the man who needed just a dozen men to launch the Cuban Revolution."

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 08, 2022 10:51 AM (ptqGC)

370 The production included Italian and Russian technicians, English and French advisors, Yugoslav stuntmen,

That's weirdly specific. Was there something special about Yugoslav stuntmen?

Posted by: spindrift at July 08, 2022 10:51 AM (h5TKJ)

371 361 346 NPR changed their initial hot take of Abe and now the the call him an "ultranationalist".

By the end of the day he will be a red hat wearing, bleach spraying MAGA terrorist.
Posted by: JackStraw

And the killer will likely get a hanging. The dreaded noose. What more proof do we need?
Posted by: Rex B at July 08, 2022 10:48 AM (na73u)

That makes the far left ultraglobalist? I can't figure it out sometimes. Populist=bad. Nationalalist = bad. What us their metric for measuring?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 08, 2022 10:51 AM (0Qrr3)

372 That homemade shotgun the assassin used looks very rudimentary. A couple pieces of plumber's pipe duct-taped to a two-by-four. Not clear what sort of trigger-hammer mechanism it had.

Posted by: Muldoon at July 08, 2022 10:40 AM

I believe that's a bumpstock and a silencer. With room for the bayonet and chainsaw expansion pack.

Posted by: Mainstream Media at July 08, 2022 10:51 AM (FJYfm)

373 This is what the "top men" in our Fed Govt are telling us about Jobs in June:

Establishment Survey, seasonally adjusted: +372K
Household Survey, seasonally adjusted: -315K

Now how they hell can the put out such conflicting data and get away with this?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 08, 2022 10:51 AM (UuD2k)

374 I didn’t think there were any Russian troops at Waterloo.

Didn't have time to get there.

There were Prussian and British/Dutch armies.

Nappy was trying to defeat them in detail but didn't quite manage it.

Blucher, the Prussian general, was a very interesting man. Probably their best general and also bat shit insane.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 08, 2022 10:52 AM (ESjRY)

375 The production included Italian and Russian technicians, English and French advisors, Yugoslav stuntmen,

That's weirdly specific. Was there something special about Yugoslav stuntmen?
Posted by: spindrift at July 08, 2022 10:51 AM (h5TKJ)

They worked for goulash?

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 08, 2022 10:52 AM (4I/2K)

376 Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 08, 2022 10:44 AM (ptqGC)

Sorry it's been such a difficult week for him and I'm glad he can do exercise instead of having surgery for his back. Also, tinnitus is a difficult condition. Hope the hearing aides help.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 08, 2022 10:52 AM (FZ2cV)

377 This Abe reporting reminds of that time when one of the Duck Dynasty guys had their house shot up. One report made sure to state that the victim's father once said something homophobic ten years before.

Posted by: Citizen Ultra Cake at July 08, 2022 10:52 AM (HmZuC)

378 I'm not supporting our master's praetorian guard in any of this. I'm just saying that trying to get videos of police beating the crap out of euro-caucasians is not going to help anyone and just get you bloody. It is not an effective tactic.
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So, a more effective tactic would be for a protesting woman would be to wear a hijab. /s

Posted by: mustbequantum at July 08, 2022 10:53 AM (MIKMs)

379 That's weirdly specific. Was there something special about Yugoslav stuntmen?

Posted by: spindrift at July 08, 2022 10:51 AM (h5TKJ)

expendable

Posted by: BignJames at July 08, 2022 10:53 AM (AwYPR)

380 372 I didn’t think there were any Russian troops at Waterloo.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 08, 2022 10:49 AM (Q5p+u)

They were still part of the team though. This is a big part of their national identity as the unfairly outcast protectors of Europe.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 08, 2022 10:53 AM (b2nrj)

381 Punchy Dutch cop shouldn't have gotten in drama queen's face when she was being stood back up but...if you punch a cop he is going to punch you back.

The cop that shot the Dutch farmer should be put on trial.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 08, 2022 10:53 AM (ESjRY)

382 The cop that shot at the teen farmer had his entire two story house covered in hay bales. They evacuated him and his family.
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Afraid of straw gun purchases??

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 08, 2022 10:54 AM (yikp0)

383 Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 08, 2022 10:44 AM (ptqGC)

Sorry it's been such a difficult week for him and I'm glad he can do exercise instead of having surgery for his back. Also, tinnitus is a difficult condition. Hope the hearing aides help.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 08, 2022 10:52 AM (FZ2cV)

Thanks. Fortunately, he's a very upbeat young man and doesn't let things get him down.

I have tinnitus myself and am going to see an audiologist about hearing aides.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 08, 2022 10:54 AM (ptqGC)

384 369 NPR when Fidel Castro died:

"One of the most prominent international figures in the last half of the 20th century, Castro inspired both passionate love and hate. Many who later lost faith in him can remember how they once admired the man who needed just a dozen men to launch the Cuban Revolution."
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 08, 2022 10:51 AM (ptqGC)

Sounds like an ultra nationalist

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 08, 2022 10:54 AM (0Qrr3)

385 The more important Napoleonic battle was Battle of Leipzig and the Russkies were there.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 08, 2022 10:54 AM (ESjRY)

386 The only thing I can think of for the woman is maybe they were actively hassling or harming a friend of hers. You see them all up against someone in the beginning. I know people, as many women as men, who if a good friend is in danger it's on and they would jump into a live volcano to try to help. Definitely a hillbilly trait but I imagine it manifests itself elsewhere too.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 08, 2022 10:54 AM (E9ZCZ)

387 Now how they hell can the put out such conflicting data and get away with this?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 08, 2022 10:51 AM (UuD2k)
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Remember, these are the same people who tell us "gender is a social construct."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 10:54 AM (5pTK/)

388 By the end of the day he will be a red hat wearing, bleach spraying MAGA terrorist.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 08, 2022 10:43 AM (ZLI7S)

The J6 Committee will want to call witnesses.

Posted by: WiNO - Time for a Marriage Amendment at July 08, 2022 10:54 AM (EpDzw)

389 Just saw an MSM Headline... that Harris Beats DeSantis in polling for 2024....

Yeah.... I done tink sooooo

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 08, 2022 10:55 AM (oHd/0)

390 Just saw an MSM Headline... that Harris Beats DeSantis in polling for 2024....

I know how to work a poll much better then he does haters!

Posted by: Kamala Harris at July 08, 2022 10:55 AM (ESjRY)

391 Beyond Trump or DeSantis, who would we vote for??

Posted by: kraken at July 08, 2022 10:56 AM (Vr12I)

392 I didn’t think there were any Russian troops at Waterloo.
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It was a reference to Russians fighting Napoleon in 1812 in Russia and in 1813 in "Germany" as well as 18-1's explanation.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 08, 2022 10:56 AM (yikp0)

393 That, or learn to tie flys on those long winter nights.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022 10:09 AM (c8pZY)

The tiny ball gags can be real challenging.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 08, 2022 10:56 AM (Kqg7y)

394 That homemade shotgun the assassin used looks very rudimentary. A couple pieces of plumber's pipe duct-taped to a two-by-four. Not clear what sort of trigger-hammer mechanism it had.

Posted by: Muldoon at July 08, 2022 10:40 AM

Sssssss....Still hurts!

Posted by: The Gorn at July 08, 2022 10:56 AM (906pl)

395
Blucher, the Prussian general, was a very interesting man. Probably their best general and also bat shit insane.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 08, 2022 10:52 AM (ESjRY)
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Yeah, that guy was something else!

Posted by: Monty at July 08, 2022 10:56 AM (5pTK/)

396 Yesterday I saw someone suggest the winning ticket for 2024...Pence/Liz Cheney.

Clown world.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 08, 2022 10:56 AM (ptqGC)

397 389 Just saw an MSM Headline... that Harris Beats DeSantis in polling for 2024....

Yeah.... I done tink sooooo
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 08, 2022 10:55 AM (oHd/0)

The old commanding lead until two weeks out till the race tightens showing a 1 point DeSantis lead trick.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 08, 2022 10:56 AM (0Qrr3)

398 Love the painting. Such rich, warm colors.

Posted by: Paco at July 08, 2022 10:57 AM (njExo)

399 Nice "Sunny Skyz" story about a nice, thoughtful young man:

https://tinyurl.com/5t3xd4js

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 08, 2022 10:57 AM (FZ2cV)

400 >>Sounds lovely. I assume you'll be putting them in re-education camps or something ? Prohibiting their right to vote for a few generations, perhaps banning their ownership of property ? Because if not, all you've done is sentence yourself to a lifetime with them in your midst, and inevitably right back where they are now - in control of every bureaucracy that you want no part of yet they yearn to control.

No, Scogg. I said beat. What part of that were you unable to understand?

Anytime you feel like leaving the country please act on that urge.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 08, 2022 10:57 AM (ZLI7S)

401 >>>Now how they hell can the put out such conflicting data and get away with this?

This is a country where the president's press secretary can brazenly declare we have the strongest economy in history without any pushback whatsoever from the MSM. They simply don't care if the data is bullshit because they know they'll never be held accountable by the corporate press.

Posted by: Citizen Ultra Cake at July 08, 2022 10:57 AM (HmZuC)

402 The female cop barely touches her to move her back. She flops. She gets up and swings at the male cop. Really can't blame the cops after that. Don't know what happened leading up to it.

Anyone know her phone number.

Posted by: FIFA Soccer at July 08, 2022 10:57 AM (/NCI4)

403 Just saw an MSM Headline... that Harris Beats DeSantis in polling for 2024....

They should run her.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 08, 2022 10:58 AM (/NCI4)

404 "It turns out the National Education Association won't be replacing "mothers" with "birthing parents," at least not this year.

The nation's largest teachers' union said in a Thursday statement that a hot-button proposal to swap out the words "mother," "father,” and "maternity leave" with gender-neutral terms in contract language didn't come up for a vote this week at the annual meeting."

I'll bet one reason Randi Weingarten /spit/ stopped this insanity - for now - is how insane the lingo will ultimately need to become, and the costs.

For example: What are the LGBT etc-friendly terms for grandmother and grandfather? Will uncle and aunt and niece and nephew have to replaced? What's the translation for birthing parent in Spanish, Pashto, Vietnamese, Arabic, Chinese, and so on?

Then, will every single textbook and all other teaching materials using mother and father have to be replaced? Gee, that won't cost much, right?

Insanity.

Posted by: GLSD at July 08, 2022 10:59 AM (AMIL/)

405 397 Yesterday I saw someone suggest the winning ticket for 2024...Pence/Liz Cheney.

Clown world.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 08, 2022 10:56 AM (ptqGC

The old let's listen to the press about who the "electable" Republicans are just to watch the press turn on them 12 weeks out and demand that they lose gracefully trick.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 08, 2022 10:59 AM (0Qrr3)

406 This is a country where the president's press secretary can brazenly declare we have the strongest economy in history without any pushback whatsoever from the MSM. They simply don't care if the data is bullshit because they know they'll never be held accountable by the corporate press.
Posted by: Citizen Ultra Cake at July 08, 2022 10:57 AM (HmZuC)
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Yeah, MSM only care about access, not truth. Hence, their recent complaint about how controlled press conferences are.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 10:59 AM (5pTK/)

407 Yeah, that guy was something else!
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Yeah.

I'd have slapped his ass when he said he was pregnant by an elephant!

Posted by: Patton at July 08, 2022 10:59 AM (yikp0)

408 Dog becomes a foster dad to ducklings:

https://tinyurl.com/yckhcf3z

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 08, 2022 11:00 AM (FZ2cV)

409 They simply don't care if the data is bullshit because they know they'll never be held accountable by the corporate press.

Posted by: Citizen Ultra Cake at July 08, 2022 10:57 AM (HmZuC)

Let's see how much play the Chinese oil sale gets.

Posted by: BignJames at July 08, 2022 11:00 AM (AwYPR)

410 Winning at chess is total luck. It all depends on what pieces you get.

Posted by: 496 at July 08, 2022 11:00 AM (VJsqe)

411 Yesterday I saw someone suggest the winning ticket for 2024...Pence/Liz Cheney.

The fact that they couple Pence and Cheney is illuminating.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 08, 2022 11:00 AM (/NCI4)

412 Now how they hell can the put out such conflicting data and get away with this?
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[waving arms] So mote it be. /s

Posted by: mustbequantum at July 08, 2022 11:01 AM (MIKMs)

413 a new thread cometh

Posted by: DB - Unless I'm Wrong at July 08, 2022 11:01 AM (geLO8)

414 Yesterday I saw someone suggest the winning ticket for 2024...Pence/Liz Cheney.

Clown world.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 08, 2022 10:56 AM (ptqGC)
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If the GOPe and Democrats can find a way to pull that ticket off, they'll do so.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 11:01 AM (5pTK/)

415 Georgia DA says the guide stone explosion is an act of Domestic Terrorism. I wonder where this shitstain was when all the historical statues were being torn down around Atlanta?

Fucking lawyers.

Posted by: GOP at July 08, 2022 11:01 AM (MkYsY)

416 Marisa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny > Fran Drescher

Posted by: Archer at July 08, 2022 11:01 AM (gmo/4)

417 412

The fact that they couple Pence and Cheney is illuminating.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 08, 2022 11:00 AM (/NCI4)

And disturbing.

Posted by: kraken at July 08, 2022 11:01 AM (Vr12I)

418 Buck is ranting away in the nood.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 08, 2022 11:01 AM (4I/2K)

419 Anytime you feel like leaving the country please act on that urge.Posted by: JackStraw at July 08, 2022 10:57 AM (ZLI7S)

I laughed. And some people think I have no sense of humor.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 08, 2022 11:02 AM (FZ2cV)

420 >>Let's see how much play the Chinese oil sale gets.

@ChuckGrassley

Pres Biden reportedly sold oil fr American reserves to China's Sinopec which Hunter Biden may still b tied to via his financial ventures in China. If report correct that's OUTRAGEOUS Sen Johnson& I highlighted these connections to communist regime in our 2020 report+ bank records

Posted by: JackStraw at July 08, 2022 11:02 AM (ZLI7S)

421 U-6 Total unemployed, Not seasonally adjusted:
May 6.7%
June 7.0%

U-6 Total unemployed, seasonally adjusted:
May 7.1%
June 6.7%

This is totally f'kery of data.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 08, 2022 11:03 AM (Y5qcH)

422 BTW, it looks like Toronto had its first Polar Bear Hunting attack yesterday at "my" subway station.

Black asshole punched a white, 60-year-old woman in the head, knocking her out briefly for no apparent cause.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 08, 2022 11:03 AM (yikp0)

423 >>Meh. How are you going to "beat" them, Jack ? Tell us. And while you're at it, tell us what specifically is "yours" about the country ? What are you not willing to "give them" ?

I'm starting to think you might be a bit slow, Scogg.

I already know you're an asshole but now I'm thinking you might have some disabilities.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 08, 2022 11:03 AM (ZLI7S)

424 Yesterday I saw someone suggest the winning ticket for 2024...Pence/Liz Cheney.

Clown world.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 08, 2022 10:56 AM (ptqGC)

Recreating the Whig party?

Posted by: Archer at July 08, 2022 11:04 AM (gmo/4)

425 When I did an image search for his art it was scores of nude men and nude young boys. Perhaps that's just what the search wanted to show me and not representative of his main body of work. But there was a lot of it and no women.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 08, 2022 10:49 AM (E9ZCZ)

go to the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

Posted by: kallisto at July 08, 2022 11:07 AM (dCxaZ)

426 Blucher, the Prussian general, was a very interesting man. Probably their best general and also bat shit insane.
Posted by: 18-1

72 years old at Waterloo, he was a hard charger. [The] Prussians sustained a serious defeat at Ligny (16 June), in the course of which the old field marshal lay trapped under his dead horse for several hours and was repeatedly ridden over by cavalry, his life saved only by the devotion of his aide-de-camp Coun.t Nostitz, who threw a greatcoat over his commander to obscure Blucher's rank and identity from the passing French. . . . After bathing his wounds in a liniment of rhubarb and garlic, and fortified by a liberal internal dose of schnapps, Blucher rejoined his army." And pulled Wellington's chestnuts out of the fire for him.

Rhubarb, garlic, and schnapps is OK but he should've slapped hot iron to it.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 08, 2022 11:08 AM (FVME7)

427 346 NPR changed their initial hot take of Abe and now the the call him an "ultranationalist". By the end of the day he will be a red hat wearing, bleach spraying MAGA terrorist.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 08, 2022 10:43 AM (ZLI7S)

Well, NPR is ultra-analist, so...

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at July 08, 2022 11:17 AM (MkuC5)

428 Not clear what sort of trigger-hammer mechanism it had.

It's Japanese, so, transistor.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at July 08, 2022 11:45 AM (videA)

429 My Bishop just took your Queen

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at July 08, 2022 06:05 PM (wGqjj)

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