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Food Thread: It's Thyme to Talk Food!

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[from: cookbookman17]

I picked up some absolutely spectacular fresh thyme from a local market. Fresh, aromatic....just lovely. It's for the dish below the fold, but now I have a lot of a really nice herb and I do not want to waste it.

Yes, I am a cheap bastard, but it also seems like a shame to discard such wonderful ingredients!

Any suggestions? Thyme Stroganoff? Thyme Soup? Sous Vide Thyme with Maple Syrup?

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Well, well, well! Reverse (sort of) Sear works great on chicken!

I ordered a fancy chicken from an excellent place in NY called Hudson Valley Farms, which is justifiably famous for its high quality foie gras (fattened duck liver). They have branched out to chicken, so I figured it might be better than my local poultry farm.

But why make a simple roast chicken if I can think of a way to make it more complicated! So I tried a technique that works very well on beef and pork. Reverse Sear is easy with relatively thin cuts of meat, but becomes more of a timing and temperature issue with larger cuts. And a whole chicken is definitely a larger cut!

My first step was to salt it liberally and put it in the refrigerator for several hours.The plan was to let it air dry a bit, and that seemed to work, although I did dry it off before putting it in the oven. Then I stuffed it with a bit of lemon, onion, and a handful of thyme before trussing it I put it on a rack at 275 degrees for a very long time...more than two hours! Then I took it out while the oven heated to 475 degrees, although in retrospect I could have gone even hotter.

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I cooked those vegetables in the cast-iron pan while the chicken was in the oven for the low-temperature cook. I figured they would get mushy if I cooked them for so long, even at a low temperature.

Just before I put the chicken in the hot oven I poured a mixture of melted butter an a bit of olive oil over the skin, because fancier cooks than I have used that technique to crisp the skin even more.

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That was after about 15 minutes, and for a first attempt? I am very, very pleased. The chicken was perfectly cooked and delicious!

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Lurker "LF" sent these photos along to destroy my garlic confidence just in case it wasn't in the toilet already. You might remember him for the photos of garlic shoots he sent along.

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You garlic people are insufferable!

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I'm sorry, but this sounds pretty f*cking awful.


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Weekday lunch! simple dough, simple sauce, deli pepperoni (it's under the cheese), and leftover mozzarella from the last tomatoes of the season.

Is it perfectly round? No. Was it mighty tasty? Yes!

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My Wife Likes To Keep Dog Food Beside Coffee Beans.
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Guess What I Did At 5:30 Am This Morning.
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The great garlic experiment of 2025-2026 was a resounding...meh. Send all of your excellent home-grown garlic to: cbd dot aoshq at gmail dot com.

About the Bourbon Bubble...I think it has burst, but the category is also suffering from the inflation that affected everything else (Thanks Biden!). I think the sweet spot is still $40-$60 for excellent and interesting bottles, and bumping that to $100 gets you an incremental improvement in quality, but nothing mind-blowing. More than that and I think you are paying for hype and rarity, which may look good in your liquor cabinet, but doesn't translate to more quality in the bottle.

The problem...or the solution...is to buy lots of bourbon, take tasting notes, and eventually arrive at your favorites! It should take forty or fifty years, but it is worth it!

Posted by: CBD at 04:00 PM




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1 Food fight

Posted by: Skip at October 11, 2026 04:00 PM (Ia/+0)

2 Any suggestions? Thyme Stroganoff? Thyme Soup? Sous Vide Thyme with Maple Syrup

Grow it in water

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 11, 2026 04:01 PM (NnhvP)

3 All that fancy stuff and making Manwich BBQ, salad as well

Posted by: Skip at October 11, 2026 04:02 PM (Ia/+0)

4 Thyme chicken. I've seen one or two recipes that use a ginourmous amount in them.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 11, 2026 04:03 PM (iIyc0)

5 Coffee beans next to the dog food?
Guess that's not as bad as keeping the antifreeze next to the Gatorade.
(Yes, this "accident" really happened.)

Posted by: Dr. Varno at October 11, 2026 04:04 PM (nDXEV)

6 Starving here Boss!

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 11, 2026 04:05 PM (fUhC0)

7 I've discovered Noosa yogurt. Yum. Is it good. No going back to Yoplait.

Posted by: Tuna at October 11, 2026 04:05 PM (lJ0H4)

8 Carolina Gold rice is grown in the U.S. Any opinions?

Posted by: Mrs JTB at October 11, 2026 04:06 PM (yTvNw)

9 Thyme is easy to grow,CBD, as is sage and rosemary.

Posted by: Accomack at October 11, 2026 04:07 PM (4c58h)

10 If you have a ton of thyme, I'd oven dry at least half b/c you won't use it before it goes bad. And I'd do that now, and keep fresh just what you think you might use in the next week...

As for use - roasted mushrooms would be nice with thyme...or anything mushroom related...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 11, 2026 04:07 PM (tOcjL)

11 leftover mozzarella from the last tomatoes of the season

Magic!!!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 11, 2026 04:07 PM (NnhvP)

12 I'm supposed to be getting ready to drive to Texas.

Posted by: Weasel at October 11, 2026 04:07 PM (ei1sX)

13 Thyme to pack!

Posted by: Weasel at October 11, 2026 04:07 PM (ei1sX)

14 I used a little (dried) thyme in the ham and gruyere quiche I made this morning.

Definitely make stroganoff. I'd sprinkle a bit as a garnish just before serving.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 11, 2026 04:09 PM (3mtzY)

15 Going with a hot Italian sub from Jersey Mike's tonight. Don't feel like cooking.

Posted by: Tuna at October 11, 2026 04:09 PM (lJ0H4)

16 How about a homemade thyme vinegar? It would make for a bright salad dressing with olive oil and perhaps a touch of Dijon mustard.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 11, 2026 04:09 PM (yEz+x)

17 Tonight is meatball subs with fresh spinach and arugula, pickled onion, and mozzarella (or nutritional yeast) with hummus and fresh veg (thanks Amazon for all of these) and a berry salad.

I'm baking a dark chocolate birthday cake which I will chocolate ice and then top with the leftover strawberry/blueberry compote my daughter made me yesterday (when we had belgian waffles with the compote and bacon/sausage and sweet potato latkes for dinner - she cooked, which was nice, b/c cooking this for 7 is a pain in the butt thing)...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 11, 2026 04:09 PM (tOcjL)

18 I'm supposed to be getting ready to drive to Texas.
Posted by: Weasel

It doesn't take that long to drive to Texas!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 11, 2026 04:10 PM (NnhvP)

19 >>>Any suggestions? Thyme Stroganoff? Thyme Soup? Sous Vide Thyme with Maple Syrup?

Have a good thyme!

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 04:10 PM (odBC9)

20 >>> 12 I'm supposed to be getting ready to drive to Texas.
Posted by: Weasel at October 11, 2026 04:07 PM (ei1sX)

Well?

We're waiting!

Posted by: Judge Smails at October 11, 2026 04:10 PM (3mtzY)

21 Oooh! That loaded baked potato stuffed French toast would be so good with some maple syrup!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 11, 2026 04:11 PM (bELOb)

22 Wize guy eh?

Posted by: Skip at October 11, 2026 04:11 PM (Ia/+0)

23 Doh?

Posted by: Skip at October 11, 2026 04:11 PM (Ia/+0)

24 CBD break the blog?

Posted by: Skip at October 11, 2026 04:11 PM (Ia/+0)

25 Thread disappeared and now it's back.

Posted by: Tuna at October 11, 2026 04:12 PM (lJ0H4)

26 Was it something we said?

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 04:13 PM (odBC9)

27 I am going to guess my suggestion, "make farm house sausage" is not going to go over so well.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2026 04:14 PM (rbvCR)

28 >>> 26 Was it something we said?
Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 04:13 PM (odBC9)

*He's* the one who mentioned French Toast...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 11, 2026 04:14 PM (3mtzY)

29 Thyme is easy to grow,CBD, as is sage and rosemary.

Posted by: Accomack at October 11, 2026 04:07 PM (4c58h)


For whatever silly reason...I didn't grow any thyme this summer. Basil and Rosemary? Yes.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 11, 2026 04:14 PM (k5CNB)

30 Thyme on Hot Pockets is actually pretty tasty. Definitely complements the Four-Cheese variety along with a sauv blanc.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at October 11, 2026 04:14 PM (nDXEV)

31 My Wife Likes To Keep Dog Food Beside Coffee Beans.
Guess What I Did At 5:30 Am This Morning.

That's not CBD, I bet.

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 04:15 PM (odBC9)

32 Leftover thyme: My lazy chicken marinade technique is ziplock bag + chicken + Italian dressing + random leftover stuff I don’t know what else to do with (e.g. extra peppers, onions, infrequently used spices, etc.) I’d probably slap some of that thyme in the marinade.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at October 11, 2026 04:15 PM (d9Cw3)

33 "make farm house sausage" is not going to go over so well.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2026 04:14 PM (rbvCR)


That's a fine idea!

Posted by: The Irish Republican Army at October 11, 2026 04:15 PM (k5CNB)

34 >>32 My Wife Likes To Keep Dog Food Beside Coffee Beans.
Guess What I Did At 5:30 Am This Morning.

That's not CBD, I bet.
Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 04:15 PM (odBC9)

Either way, they're all Scooby Snacks.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at October 11, 2026 04:16 PM (nDXEV)

35 29 >>> 26 Was it something we said?
Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 04:13 PM (odBC9)

*He's* the one who mentioned French Toast...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 11, 2026 04:14 PM (3mtzY)

21 Oooh! That loaded baked potato stuffed French toast would be so good with some maple syrup!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 11, 2026 04:11 PM (bELOb)

hahahaha

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 04:16 PM (odBC9)

36 How about a homemade thyme vinegar?

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 11, 2026 04:09 PM (yEz+x)


Good idea! Or maybe a flavored olive oil. That might be fun too!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 11, 2026 04:17 PM (k5CNB)

37 Gonna have to commute up to las Colinas every day next week so I’m precooking for breakfast and lunces. Chicken apple sausage, eggs and baked potato wedges for breakfast bowls. Carnitas with guacamole and Spanish rice.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at October 11, 2026 04:17 PM (3Ope8)

38 Either way, they're all Scooby Snacks.
Posted by: Dr. Varno

I'll bet the coffee smelled weird.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 11, 2026 04:17 PM (NnhvP)

39 You garlic people are insufferable!

Pikers. If you want insufferable you need to some Hatch green chile snobs in your life.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at October 11, 2026 04:17 PM (VyD10)

40 Buying herbs in bulk: Hitting the big thyme.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 11, 2026 04:17 PM (JrHfD)

41 Speaking of French Toast: Like we need another reason to avoid IHOP with their merde french toast commercials.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at October 11, 2026 04:18 PM (nDXEV)

42 Once upon a time, I was told that it used to be the thing to determine the time it took to soft boil an egg was the time it took to sing two or three Psalms twice, and depending on the cook, which Psalms varied.

With this in mind, in preparation to smoking my first brisket, I am attempting to commit to memory the entire Ring cycle.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2026 04:18 PM (rbvCR)

43 >>> 38 Gonna have to commute up to las Colinas every day next week so I’m precooking for breakfast and lunces. Chicken apple sausage, eggs and baked potato wedges for breakfast bowls. Carnitas with guacamole and Spanish rice.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at October 11, 2026 04:17 PM (3Ope

Whaddya mean, *all* week? If you're driving up to DFW you ought to make a stop about an hour south of there, on Friday...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 11, 2026 04:18 PM (3mtzY)

44 17 Tonight is meatball subs with fresh spinach and arugula, pickled onion, and mozzarella (or nutritional yeast) with hummus and fresh veg (thanks Amazon for all of these) and a berry salad.
Posted by: Nova Local at October 11, 2026 04:09 PM (tOcjL)

yum

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 04:19 PM (odBC9)

45 I'd eat a bunch of the chicken and veggies.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 11, 2026 04:19 PM (NnhvP)

46 That's not CBD, I bet.

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 04:15 PM (odBC9)


Nope! The last segment of the Food Thread is usually something amusing from the bowels of the internet.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 11, 2026 04:19 PM (k5CNB)

47
No exciting food news, but it was Bone Day at Schloss Hadrian. The girls each got a basted bone. Ecstasy ensued.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 11, 2026 04:19 PM (eRlcH)

48 Thank God it's a full food thread, because I've got nothing dinnerish for supper to night. Looking like leftover salad and maybe a ham and cheese sandwich.
Only salad dressing in the house is ranch dressing, because I don't like ranch dressing. Oil and vinegar will do.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 11, 2026 04:20 PM (sl73Y)

49 38 Chicken apple sausage, eggs and baked potato wedges for breakfast bowls. Carnitas with guacamole and Spanish rice.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at October 11, 2026 04:17 PM (3Ope

yum

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 04:20 PM (odBC9)

50 The weekend weather here has been a bit chilly, so I'm going with a decidedly fall theme for dinner. A pre-Thanksgiving warm-up consisting of roasted chicken, sweet potatoes (yes, with melted marshmallows), green bean casserole (yes, that concoction that inspires both fond memories and utter revulsion) and honey-mustard Brussels sprouts (yet another love/hate dish). I'm assuming the mashed potatoes will be widely accepted.

And I might even make a Manhattan to consume while I'm cooking. Stirred, of course, but with a teensy dash of maple syrup.

Posted by: PabloD at October 11, 2026 04:21 PM (OXSZa)

51 That chicken looks delicious.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 11, 2026 04:21 PM (JrHfD)

52 How could mention fresh thyme and not think about French onion soup?

Bohemian!

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 11, 2026 04:23 PM (LOvBA)

53 Thyme...........

Posted by: Chamber Brothers at October 11, 2026 04:23 PM (YcOeP)

54 I planted some herbs a couple of years ago, but I really just don't use a lot of them.

The sage keeps coming back. I have a big container where it grows prolifically. Even though I rarely use any of it, I leave it, because the pollinators love it.

Gets a lot of action when it blooms, and it's pretty.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 11, 2026 04:23 PM (CjHsb)

55 I'd eat a bunch of the chicken and veggies.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 11, 2026 04:19 PM (NnhvP)


The chicken was really good. Definitely worth the extra money, although shipping is painful. I'll have to find a source for that quality chicken closer to home.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 11, 2026 04:23 PM (k5CNB)

56 I'm supposed to be getting ready to drive to Texas.
Posted by: Weasel

It doesn't take that long to drive to Texas!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 11, 2026 04:10 PM (NnhvP)

Depends on how far away you start!

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 11, 2026 04:23 PM (fUhC0)

57 44 17 Tonight is meatball subs with fresh spinach and arugula, pickled onion, and mozzarella (or nutritional yeast) with hummus and fresh veg (thanks Amazon for all of these) and a berry salad.
Posted by: Nova Local at October 11, 2026 04:09 PM (tOcjL)

yum
Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 04:19 PM (odBC9)

Thanks - Amazon Prime Day was a bust for actual items, but the grocery deals were amazing...and these are some of the deals (limit 5 is the only sad part of the Amazon Grocery sales)...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 11, 2026 04:23 PM (tOcjL)

58 byw, too much work on the roasted chicken.

In my most humble opinion.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 11, 2026 04:25 PM (LOvBA)

59 48 Thank God it's a full food thread, because I've got nothing dinnerish for supper to night. Looking like leftover salad and maybe a ham and cheese sandwich.
Only salad dressing in the house is ranch dressing, because I don't like ranch dressing. Oil and vinegar will do.
Posted by: From about That Time at October 11, 2026 04:20 PM (sl73Y)

Honey mustard - mustard, honey, and any oil you have, then seasoned the way you like (I always like a lot of black pepper for a sweet and spicy thing)...about 60 second effort that seems less sad than oil and vinegar...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 11, 2026 04:25 PM (tOcjL)

60 Thanks - Amazon Prime Day was a bust for actual items, but the grocery deals were amazing

Thyme has come today!

Posted by: Amazon Prime at October 11, 2026 04:25 PM (YcOeP)

61 My wife's kid bought her a mothers' day flower arrangement that had sprigs of rosemary in it, which I promptly rooted.
I planted one out at the end of the raspberry row, and I use it in stews and tomato sauces.

You might try rooting it for potting this winter, and seeing if it will survive the summer and next winter in your area.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2026 04:26 PM (rbvCR)

62 Thyme is tight:

https://youtu.be/4hBmOwSunC4

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2026 04:27 PM (quk5M)

63 Firing up the Traeger for a fair pig loin roast with sage jus and roast mushrooms. Will use lots of thyme and butter rest assured.

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 11, 2026 04:28 PM (fUhC0)

64 byw, too much work on the roasted chicken.

In my most humble opinion.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 11, 2026 04:25 PM (LOvBA)


It certainly had a few more steps than a typical roast chicken, but they were easy, and I think the results made them more than worthwhile.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 11, 2026 04:28 PM (k5CNB)

65 Thyme and rosemary can grow pretty much anywhere.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 11, 2026 04:29 PM (seCv0)

66 Any suggestions? Thyme Stroganoff? Thyme Soup? Sous Vide Thyme with Maple Syrup?

Dry it and store it in the nearly empty tea tin?

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 11, 2026 04:31 PM (fUhC0)

67 I got to make for my visiting son, a creation of my own;

Meata balla meata loafa.

Instead of mustard powder and worcestershire sauce, I use oregano, garlic, fresh rosemary, and marjoram.

Make a marinara or buy some in a jar, it is great.

Oh, did you never like how a meatball sub doesn't quite work with round meatballs? Slice the meata balla meata loafa into pieces that fit your sub roll.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 11, 2026 04:31 PM (LOvBA)

68 I picked my wife up a rice cooker, which is the handiest thing when I am in a rush to make dinner. It is the Tiger brand, which apparently is a high end Japanese brand.

It has extra settings like "brown" and "quinoa" but the setting I like is "porridge" because I can make corn meal, or use it to cook steamed puddings.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2026 04:31 PM (rbvCR)

69 Dry it and store it in the nearly empty tea tin?
Posted by: Pete Bog at October 11, 2026 04:31 PM (fUhC0)

Douglas Adams wrote a book about that: "The Long Dark Tea Thyme of the Soul".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2026 04:32 PM (quk5M)

70 Any suggestions? Thyme Stroganoff? Thyme Soup? Sous Vide Thyme with Maple Syrup"

Send it off with parsley and sage...

Posted by: man at October 11, 2026 04:32 PM (k0zLw)

71 EXTRA THYME? ... Combine some with 1/4 cup orange juice, 2 Tbsp. olive oil, and marinate salmon filets in this for 20-60 minutes ... Remove salmon to a baking dish and create a glaze from the strained juice, 1 Tbsp. brown sugar, 1 tsp. paprika, and 1/2 tsp. salt (simmer to thicken) ... Brush glaze on the salmon and bake for 15-20 minutes, depending on the thickness of the filets ... Glaze can probably be made in a larger batch, then frozen in "portioner" (like in an ice cube tray) to always have on hand ... What I've done for years, however, is make a dry glaze by combining 1 tsp. dehydrated orange zest, 1 Tbsp. brown sugar, 1 tsp. paprika, and 1/2 tsp. salt, to sprinkle on our salmon before baking.

Posted by: Kathy at October 11, 2026 04:32 PM (MOK4W)

72 It doesn't take that long to drive to Texas!"

That's a big 10-4 Bandit!

Posted by: man at October 11, 2026 04:34 PM (k0zLw)

73 Tie those thyme stems together, and hang them upside down somewhere out of the way where the air can circulate until they are completely dried. I wait a few weeks. Then strip the leaves off, keep in a covered jar and use them throughout the winter. Thyme is good in a lot of beef dishes, besides being good in chicken.

Posted by: bluebell at October 11, 2026 04:34 PM (uyuYG)

74 It has extra settings like "brown" and "quinoa" but the setting I like is "porridge" because I can make corn meal, or use it to cook steamed puddings.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2026 04:31 PM (rbvCR)


Is there a "sushi rice" setting?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 11, 2026 04:35 PM (k5CNB)

75 I picked my wife up a rice cooker, which is the handiest thing when I am in a rush to make dinner. It is the Tiger brand, which apparently is a high end Japanese brand.

It has extra settings like "brown" and "quinoa" but the setting I like is "porridge" because I can make corn meal, or use it to cook steamed puddings.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2026 04:31 PM (rbvCR)

How do Chinese restaurants make "sizzling rice"? The rice appears to be deep-fried brown in clumps, and is brought to your table very, very hot. Then they dump the sauce over it, and steam explosions ensue. Quite the show.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2026 04:35 PM (quk5M)

76 I have 2 yuge Lion's Mane shrooms I gotta do something with.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 11, 2026 04:35 PM (seCv0)

77 Maple syrup *does* make everything better.

Posted by: Advo at October 11, 2026 04:36 PM (jO4mz)

78 Once upon a time, I was told that it used to be the thing to determine the time it took to soft boil an egg was the time it took to sing two or three Psalms twice, and depending on the cook, which Psalms varied.

With this in mind, in preparation to smoking my first brisket, I am attempting to commit to memory the entire Ring cycle.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2026 04:18 PM (rbvCR)


You need to specify a particular Psalm. The longest psalm in the Bible is Psalm 119, which has 176 verses, while the shortest psalm is Psalm 117, consisting of only 2 verses. This could lead to some inconsistency in your egg’s runniness.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 11, 2026 04:36 PM (bELOb)

79 My heathen mind always associates Thyme with lemon accented dishes. For some reason, I think the two compliment each other rather well. Lemon Chicken being the pinnacle of my narrow mind in kitchen.

However, I've been known to "accidentally" throw some on parmesan mashed potatoes in the name of science (aka...I wonder what that would taste like).

I've, also, thrown some on Ham and bean soup. But, it was more out of guilt because that soup is so easy to make from scratch...I kind of felt I should do something else. So, a sprinkle of Thyme.

Truth be told, I'm more of a ginger (even though they're souless), basil, and tarragon kind of guy.

Posted by: Orson at October 11, 2026 04:36 PM (dIske)

80 Honey mustard - mustard, honey, and any oil you have, then seasoned the way you like (I always like a lot of black pepper for a sweet and spicy thing)...about 60 second effort that seems less sad than oil and vinegar...
Posted by: Nova Local

I agree. Thanks, I'll do it.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 11, 2026 04:36 PM (sl73Y)

81 Pete Bog,

That sounds lovely.

Costco used to sell a pre stuffed crown roast of pork that was incredible. Honestly. I got it a couple times and cooked the pork to just over medium rare and the stuffing was nice and steamy and cooked through.

I love a nice thick pork chop. Just don’t overcook it.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 11, 2026 04:37 PM (rFS/C)

82 Looking like leftover salad and maybe a ham and cheese sandwich.
Only salad dressing in the house is ranch dressing, because I don't like ranch dressing. Oil and vinegar will do.
Posted by: From about That Time at October 11, 2026 04:20 PM (sl73Y)
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Grill that ham and cheese sandwich and if by any chance you have some fig jam, put that on the bread before you put the cheese on. Even without the jam though, grilled ham and cheese is delicious!

Posted by: bluebell at October 11, 2026 04:38 PM (uyuYG)

83
Depends on how far away you start!
Posted by: Pete Bog

1055 miles for us, not a bad road trip.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 11, 2026 04:39 PM (NnhvP)

84 You are ignoring me!

Posted by: French Onion Soup at October 11, 2026 04:39 PM (LOvBA)

85 Grill that ham and cheese sandwich and if by any chance you have some fig jam, put that on the bread before you put the cheese on. Even without the jam though, grilled ham and cheese is delicious!
Posted by: bluebell at October 11, 2026 04:38 PM (uyuYG)

Mmm! Reminds me that cheese and chutney sammiches used to be a thing.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2026 04:39 PM (quk5M)

86 You know what nobody uses in a recipe?

Jicama, that's what.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 11, 2026 04:41 PM (9uxYx)

87 Nothing specific like Sushi rice, it has quick, plain, porridge, mixed-sweet, brown, quinoa and steam for cooking veggies in the tray that fits in the top.

the Tiger website has recipes for foods other than rice that use the various settings.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2026 04:41 PM (rbvCR)

88 Mmm! Reminds me that cheese and chutney sammiches used to be a thing.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2026 04:39 PM
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I love chutney. I make a big batch of cranberry chutney at Thanksgiving and happily eat it for weeks. It's the first thing I make when I start the Thanksgiving cooking and it makes the house smell awesome.

Posted by: bluebell at October 11, 2026 04:42 PM (uyuYG)

89 Costco used to sell a pre stuffed crown roast of pork that was incredible.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 11, 2026 04:37 PM (rFS/C)

Costco sells a delicious rack of pork during November/December and just before Easter. We try to buy a couple extra and enjoy them even when Costco doesn't. They are really good and very reasonably priced.

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 11, 2026 04:43 PM (fUhC0)

90 Cicero, you okay with the flooding out your way? Boat still anchored, etc?

Posted by: bluebell at October 11, 2026 04:43 PM (uyuYG)

91 Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2026 04:41 PM (rbvCR)

I make sushi at home, and the rice is surprisingly difficult to make!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 11, 2026 04:43 PM (k5CNB)

92 Cicero, I make jicama fries and a Jicama, strawberry and mandarin orange salad with a lime/ honey drizzle on it.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 11, 2026 04:44 PM (nxLtX)

93 Going to have what's leftover from the chicken I smoked late last week. I pulled off the bone, so it just needs reheated. Probably some wild rice and some spinach too.

And... look ----> it's Bourbon Time.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 11, 2026 04:44 PM (RORbl)

94 80 Honey mustard - mustard, honey, and any oil you have, then seasoned the way you like (I always like a lot of black pepper for a sweet and spicy thing)...about 60 second effort that seems less sad than oil and vinegar...
Posted by: Nova Local

I agree. Thanks, I'll do it.
Posted by: From about That Time at October 11, 2026 04:36 PM (sl73Y)

You'rw welcome - I never have honey mustard dressing (b/c I like to control the sugar level and the jarred ones are astronomical, aren't always all honey, and aren't mustardy enough), but then always want it for a chicken and greens salad...so, I do what I call "weeknight" food - aka, food that tastes good but has WAY less effort than you might put in on a weekend...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 11, 2026 04:45 PM (tOcjL)

95 Yes, also recommend tossing in some thyme when you are sauteing mushrooms.

Posted by: Random PJ at October 11, 2026 04:46 PM (+jscL)

96 86 You know what nobody uses in a recipe?

Jicama, that's what.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 11, 2026 04:41 PM (9uxYx)

Nah, you can always do and find a jicama slaw...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 11, 2026 04:46 PM (tOcjL)

97 Smoking a marinated turkey breast on the grill. Blend of pecan and apple wood. First time with this recipe.

Posted by: Advo at October 11, 2026 04:46 PM (jO4mz)

98 I soak cranberries in sherry and the make a cranberry/ walnut spread this is a fun condiment on ham and cheese.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 11, 2026 04:47 PM (nxLtX)

99 smoked chicken is awesome! I’ve made a smoked chicken salad with tarragon, crème fresche, celery and walnuts that is very good. I seem to remember putting craisins in once as well.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 11, 2026 04:48 PM (LWwN5)

100 I would use up some of that thyme in a chicken, bacon and mushroom terrine.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 11, 2026 04:50 PM (nxLtX)

101 Weekday lunch! simple dough, simple sauce, deli pepperoni (it's under the cheese), and leftover mozzarella from the last tomatoes of the season.

Is it perfectly round? No. Was it mighty tasty? Yes!


Doesn't look overly greasy which is nice (gives me reflux).

I'd happily eat that pizza.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 04:50 PM (6ydKt)

102 My first Whataburger stop is just past Knoxville on I40

Posted by: Weasel at October 11, 2026 04:50 PM (ei1sX)

103 FOOD CUBBY ... For those who hate it when different foods on their plate touch each other ... It's a U-shaped silicone plate divider which suction-attaches to dinner plates and keeps foods physically separated ... Available from Amazon in 2-packs for $15 ... Let the snark begin.

Posted by: Kathy at October 11, 2026 04:51 PM (MOK4W)

104 Guess What I Did At 5:30 Am This Morning.

Dog food coffee.

'Woofee'?

That must've been an adventure.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 04:51 PM (6ydKt)

105 Well, I ordered another hundred feet of the same wire rope from Amazon. Get after I get back from the MoMee. If I am going to splice it, I need to have two roughly 70-foot pieces to splice, in order that the splice be located where it cannot go around a pulley.

That will give me two 30-foot leftovers. Maybe haul them down to AJ, and set up a clothesline there. There is one post in the ground there already...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2026 04:51 PM (quk5M)

106 You know what nobody uses in a recipe?

Jicama, that's what.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 11, 2026 04:41 PM (9uxYx)


You would if you were Mexican.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 11, 2026 04:51 PM (bELOb)

107 Weasel, I see chicken fried steak in your future.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 11, 2026 04:52 PM (nxLtX)

108 >>>Reverse Sear is easy with relatively thin cuts of meat, but becomes more of a timing and temperature issue with larger cuts. And a whole chicken is definitely a larger cut!

Sounds like spatchcocking would be the way to go.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at October 11, 2026 04:52 PM (syz1S)

109 Had a chicken and vegetable curry in a butternut squash sauce. Very tasty.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 11, 2026 04:52 PM (kpS4V)

110 68 I picked my wife up a rice cooker, which is the handiest thing when I am in a rush to make dinner. It is the Tiger brand, which apparently is a high end Japanese brand.

It has extra settings like "brown" and "quinoa" but the setting I like is "porridge" because I can make corn meal, or use it to cook steamed puddings.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2026 04:31 PM (rbvCR)


Does it have a "Grits" setting?

Posted by: a.moron at October 11, 2026 04:53 PM (X5Jzz)

111 Weasel, I see chicken fried steak in your future.
Posted by: Ben Had at October 11, 2026 04:52 PM (nxLtX)
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Can't wait!

Posted by: Weasel at October 11, 2026 04:53 PM (ei1sX)

112 My first Whataburger stop is just past Knoxville on I40
Posted by: Weasel at October 11, 2026 04:50 PM (ei1sX)
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Before or after the Buccee's?

Posted by: bluebell at October 11, 2026 04:53 PM (uyuYG)

113 If you the leave the pepperoni under the cheese how does it crisp and give off its liqueur? smh

Posted by: San Franspycho at October 11, 2026 04:53 PM (RIvkX)

114 It doesn't take that long to drive to Texas!"
_-_
But you're not done once you get there...Texline, Tx to Corsicana is a bit over 500 miles, eh?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 11, 2026 04:53 PM (ij/FE)

115 Well, back outside before the snow flies again. It all melted off while I was on the FWP thread. Barely above freezing, but little or no wind. I can handle that fine.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2026 04:53 PM (quk5M)

116 I finished most of my Christmas shopping today.

Have a sinus headache and therefore won't remember what I've ordered. That's what I did today in our stormy tropical storm weather. Falala.

Whatever we are eating the dude got out of the freezer because I'm not cooking tonight.

The food always looks good here in Moronland. I also want to know how to grow garlic.

The tomatoes are gangbusters now but it's not been a great year. My herb garden did come back. Going to buy a lot of ceramic urns for next year. When I wanted them (May) the boss said nope. Then yes (I always win and have patience til he comes around, rarely argue). Of course by the time he said yes I missed the season for the urns I wanted. That might have been his plan all along.

This concludes my whinefest. Going to go drink some warm V8 with garlic and hot sauce and hope for the best.

I need to get better by Tuesday and Wednesday as I have stuff to do both days for lunch and need to be social and look lovely.

I'm about as social as a honey badger currently.

Read the rumor of Talarico's mental stay in Ohio. If true someone broke HIPPA Law and is going to get fired. Altho the people of Texas deserve to know.



Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 11, 2026 04:54 PM (hzuYO)

117 Jeepers, Sam Darnold looks awful.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 11, 2026 04:54 PM (yEz+x)

118 Posted by: bluebell at October 11, 2026 04:53 PM (uyuYG)
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After! Although I will probably hit those on the way home to get WW a t-shirt

Posted by: Weasel at October 11, 2026 04:54 PM (ei1sX)

119 115 Well, back outside before the snow flies again. It all melted off while I was on the FWP thread. Barely above freezing, but little or no wind. I can handle that fine.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2026 04:53 PM (quk5M)

That weather in October is what is called sadness.

Posted by: Nova Local at October 11, 2026 04:56 PM (tOcjL)

120 I love a nice thick pork chop. Just don’t overcook it.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 11, 2026 04:37 PM (rFS/C)

Sam's Club here used to sell the best, thick, juicy, lots of fat, pork chops by the 12 pack years ago.

They were wonderful.
I'm not sure if they still sell them, but those were the best store bought pork chops I've ever had.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 04:56 PM (6ydKt)

121 Search Amazon with: plates with divided sections

You’ll be overwhelmed with selection!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 11, 2026 04:56 PM (bELOb)

122 TV dinners. Plates with divided sections.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 11, 2026 04:57 PM (nxLtX)

123 I like to use stainless steel prison trays when we have people over.

Posted by: Weasel at October 11, 2026 04:58 PM (ei1sX)

124 Great color on that chicken, CBD. Will be another month at least before the Florida weather allows for 400 degree roasting.

Got a three pound rack of beef ribs going on the grill shortly. Ribeye steaks are $17/lb hereabouts, so I'm looking for Sunday steak alternatives. These were $5/lb.

Going for a reverse sear to render the fat before going directly over the fire for maybe a minute or two. Roasted potatoes on the side, and maybe wilted bok choy, since it's on hand. The wine is a Blackstone merlot, which I have not had in very long time, but I remember being reliable..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 11, 2026 04:58 PM (08OqX)

125 There’s always time for thyme

Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 11, 2026 04:58 PM (VghP0)

126 After! Although I will probably hit those on the way home to get WW a t-shirt
Posted by: Weasel at October 11, 2026 04:54 PM (ei1sX)
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Oh boy. I hope she's not reading this. I'd hate for her Christmas to be ruined.

Posted by: bluebell at October 11, 2026 04:59 PM (uyuYG)

127 I have 2 yuge Lion's Mane shrooms I gotta do something with.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 11, 2026 04:35 PM (seCv0)
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Very simple, brush with olive oil, s&p, maybe some garlic. Small cast iron works great.

I would roast and serve whole with knife and fork and hunk of sourdough. Maybe a drizzle of balsamic.

Posted by: San Franspycho at October 11, 2026 04:59 PM (RIvkX)

128 113 If you the leave the pepperoni under the cheese how does it crisp and give off its liqueur? smh

Posted by: San Franspycho at October 11, 2026 04:53 PM (RIvkX)

It's still there.
Nothing wrong with a top layer of cheese if you're a cheese lover.

It also helps to keep the toppings from falling off while you're eating a slice.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 04:59 PM (6ydKt)

129 There’s always time for thyme
_-_
a timely comment

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 11, 2026 04:59 PM (ij/FE)

130 I like to use stainless steel prison trays when we have people over.
Posted by: Weasel


Oh, So that's where the navy got those trays... It figures.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 11, 2026 04:59 PM (NnhvP)

131 123 I like to use stainless steel prison trays when we have people over.
Posted by: Weasel at October 11, 2026 04:58 PM (ei1sX)
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*fistbump*

Posted by: bluebell at October 11, 2026 05:00 PM (uyuYG)

132 121 Search Amazon with: plates with divided sections

You’ll be overwhelmed with selection!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 11, 2026 04:56 PM (bELOb)

Those Chinese can do wonders with plastics molding.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 05:00 PM (6ydKt)

133
Oh boy. I hope she's not reading this. I'd hate for her Christmas to be ruined.
Posted by: bluebell at October 11, 2026 04:59 PM (uyuYG)
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Not an hour ago she remarked on how she had WAY too many t-shirts which I believe was a hint to not stop and get her a t-shirt at Buccee's.

Posted by: Weasel at October 11, 2026 05:00 PM (ei1sX)

134 Ha, Weasel!

She's done it now.

Posted by: bluebell at October 11, 2026 05:01 PM (uyuYG)

135 FOOD CUBBY? ...
Oops ... I forgot to include the "sarcastic" symbol (sorry).

Posted by: Kathy at October 11, 2026 05:01 PM (MOK4W)

136 stainless steel prison trays
_-_
I should have thought of that when mine were little....my food's touching! No it ain't.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 11, 2026 05:02 PM (ij/FE)

137 ‘‘Loaded baked potato stuffed French toast” sounds like something James Talacreepo likes

Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 11, 2026 05:02 PM (VghP0)

138 CBD--

I have a Zojirushi rice cooker that has the same settings as kindltot's and the white rice setting is the one you use for sushi rice. I haven't ever used it to make sushi rice though but it seems like it should work if you do the washing ritual.

I love the rice cooker for brown rice which I can never get right either in the oven or on the stove. It takes almost two hours but it's perfect every time. Same for the quinoa setting. I've also used it to make perfect steel cut oats (although I can't remember which setting to use).

It sounds like a luxury unitasker, but it's one of the appliances that I use almost weekly.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at October 11, 2026 05:02 PM (VV/pN)

139 Ketchup on a hot dog > Cheese-on-top pizza

Posted by: San Franspycho at October 11, 2026 05:02 PM (RIvkX)

140 Posted by: bluebell at October 11, 2026 05:01 PM (uyuYG)
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Right! Just watch me stop at Buccee's and buy $1,000 worth of t-shirts!

Posted by: Weasel at October 11, 2026 05:03 PM (ei1sX)

141 Not an hour ago she remarked on how she had WAY too many t-shirts which I believe was a hint to not stop and get her a t-shirt at Buccee's.
Posted by: Weasel

Doesn't the tractor need some cleaning rags as well as fluid level check rags??

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 11, 2026 05:03 PM (NnhvP)

142 Pan seared lamb chops tonight. First time I’ll had lamb since the truly amazing Icelandic lamb. How will it stack up?

Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 11, 2026 05:03 PM (VghP0)

143 How do you even know what kind of pizza it is?

Trust??

Posted by: San Franspycho at October 11, 2026 05:03 PM (RIvkX)

144 I make sushi at home, and the rice is surprisingly difficult to make!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 11, 2026 04:43 PM (k5CNB)


My wife doesn't do stuff like that, plain white rice is what makes her happy. Apparently the Tiger rice cookier will make sushi rice

here is the recipe from the company, does it look right?

https://tinyurl.com/22su7ccf

Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2026 05:03 PM (rbvCR)

145 139 Ketchup on a hot dog > Cheese-on-top pizza

Posted by: San Franspycho at October 11, 2026 05:02 PM (RIvkX)


If you fold it over a pizza is a sandwich.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 05:03 PM (6ydKt)

146 The dogfood - coffee meme reminds me of the time I put bunch of those multi-colored dog biscuits (milk bones) in a jar on my office desk. See... people you didn't even know would just waltz over to your desk and snatch a snack.

So they got those instead.

They emptied the jar. F-ing animals.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 11, 2026 05:05 PM (RORbl)

147 Going to try pizza with the hot honey next week.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 11, 2026 05:05 PM (nxLtX)

148 Doesn't the tractor need some cleaning rags as well as fluid level check rags??
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 11, 2026 05:03 PM (NnhvP)
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I only use John Deere branded rags.

Posted by: Weasel at October 11, 2026 05:05 PM (ei1sX)

149 If you fold it over a pizza is a sandwich.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 05:03 PM (6ydKt)
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*flicks off safety*

Posted by: San Franspycho at October 11, 2026 05:06 PM (RIvkX)

150 143 How do you even know what kind of pizza it is?

Trust??

Posted by: San Franspycho at October 11, 2026 05:03 PM (RIvkX)

OK you have a slight point, but...
If you made the pizza or even ordered it, you know what's on it and then you can, you know, just tell people what's on it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 05:07 PM (6ydKt)

151 Does it have a "Grits" setting?

Posted by: a.moron at October 11, 2026 04:53 PM (X5Jzz)


I make corn meal mush with the porridge setting. I use straight up corn meal, no fancy nixttamalized corn flour for me so I expect it takes longer than the hominy grits

Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2026 05:08 PM (rbvCR)

152 The dog kibble / coffee bean screwup reminds me of the time I put cumin in my oatmeal. The spice jar was almost identical to that of the cinnamon. Cumin does not pair well with oatmeal and sugar.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at October 11, 2026 05:09 PM (n8Vs0)

153 If you made the pizza or even ordered it, you know what's on it and then you can, you know, just tell people what's on it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 05:07 PM (6ydKt)
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Please to assure, if I made the pizza there would be no need. And the pepperoni would be crispy! Harrumph!

Posted by: San Franspycho at October 11, 2026 05:09 PM (RIvkX)

154 If you fold it over a pizza is a sandwich.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 05:03 PM (6ydKt)
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I thought it was a calzone. Or is that Italian for sandwich?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 11, 2026 05:10 PM (FZ29D)

155 Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at October 11, 2026 05:09 PM (n8Vs0)

===

Funny, Throckmorton doesn't sound Indian.

Posted by: San Franspycho at October 11, 2026 05:11 PM (RIvkX)

156 My wife does corn meal mush on the stove. Puts it in a pan, and then in the fridge. It's not hard enough to be "bread-ish" but with some heat, and butter.... is awesome.

Not, exactly, grits either.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 11, 2026 05:11 PM (RORbl)

157 *flicks off safety*

Posted by: San Franspycho at October 11, 2026 05:06 PM (RIvkX)


You are going to love this, SF:

https://tinyurl.com/3cx6v5pr
(Mashed.com - direct link to jpg)

It's literally their sandwiches.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 05:12 PM (6ydKt)

158 I only use John Deere branded rags.
Posted by: Weasel

You need to remember you're retired now!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 11, 2026 05:12 PM (NnhvP)

159 I like the rack for the cast iron to catch the dripping! Great idea.

Posted by: Funsize at October 11, 2026 05:12 PM (3j87q)

160 Hungry Howie's Pizza makes them.

I haven't tried the sandwiches yet, but their pizzas are OK for delivery-takeout pizza.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 05:13 PM (6ydKt)

161 I picked up some excellent duck from Hudson Valley Farms last time I was in the area. It’s very picturesque up there. Jewish Alps, bro.

Unlike some specialty farms — cough, SRF, cough — HVF has reasonable prices.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 11, 2026 05:14 PM (VghP0)

162 Speaking of pizza faux pas, Mrs. F. served a frozen pizza appetizer last night but did not put any additional cheese or toppings. She's too classy to know how to make it right.

Posted by: San Franspycho at October 11, 2026 05:14 PM (RIvkX)

163 I fry left over polenta with red wine salami and eggs. Sourdough bread and a hunk of dry monterey jack cheese.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 11, 2026 05:15 PM (nxLtX)

164 Going to try pizza with the hot honey next week.
Posted by: Ben Had at October 11, 2026 05:05 PM (nxLtX)
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I’ve had pizza with hot honeys before. Oh, you mean actual honey on the pizza? Carry on …

Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 11, 2026 05:15 PM (VghP0)

165 https://tinyurl.com/3cx6v5pr
(Mashed.com - direct link to jpg)

It's literally their sandwiches.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 05:12 PM (6ydKt)
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Let's just say I have flexible principles because that looks pretty good.

Posted by: San Franspycho at October 11, 2026 05:16 PM (RIvkX)

166 I fry left over polenta with red wine salami and eggs. Sourdough bread and a hunk of dry monterey jack cheese.
Posted by: Ben Had at October 11, 2026 05:15 PM (nxLtX)
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Your menu selections are incredible.

Posted by: San Franspycho at October 11, 2026 05:17 PM (RIvkX)

167 Please to assure, if I made the pizza there would be no need. And the pepperoni would be crispy! Harrumph!

Posted by: San Franspycho at October 11, 2026 05:09 PM (RIvkX)


Actually, I bet you do make a great pizza.

I'm still at the buy a flatbread from the stor, add the toppings and throw it in the air fryer for two minutes level of pizza making.

I tried rolling out some pizza dough one time.
This did not turn out as well as I'd hoped.

The flour.... my god all the flour...

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 05:17 PM (6ydKt)

168 I'm told thyme freezes well, if you don't want to dry it

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 11, 2026 05:17 PM (C0Nlv)

169 Well damn.
I've been happily posting away with my phone and not one has shown up.
???
sigh...

Posted by: Diogenes at October 11, 2026 05:18 PM (2WIwB)

170 >>> 123 I like to use stainless steel prison trays when we have people over.
Posted by: Weasel at October 11, 2026 04:58 PM (ei1sX)

I suppose that's convenient when dinner is done and it's time for the Airing of Grievances.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 11, 2026 05:18 PM (3mtzY)

171 Let's just say I have flexible principles because that looks pretty good.

Posted by: San Franspycho at October 11, 2026 05:16 PM (RIvkX)

If there's a Hungry Howies near you go for it.
They also make a deep dish pizza.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 05:18 PM (6ydKt)

172
Potatoes on toast? Oh come on. What did we even defeat the British for?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 11, 2026 05:19 PM (mmrXZ)

173 San Franpsycho. I am still defeated by chocolate crepes.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 11, 2026 05:19 PM (nxLtX)

174 I just finished making a soup, red lentils and chicken. Spiced with paprika, coriander, cumin, cardamom, and a little turmeric. So, a mild curry. Turned out well.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 11, 2026 05:21 PM (CjHsb)

175 My younger brother picked me up from work last week and he and his wife made me homemade deep dish pizza. The crust was awesome! A little sour and yeasty and just perfectly crisp on the bottom.

Meatballs and Mam Lil’s peppers on one and pepperoni and Kalamata olives on the other. Nice bottle of red wine.

Yummy!

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 11, 2026 05:21 PM (YfhM1)

176 My first Whataburger stop is just past Knoxville on I40

Posted by: Weasel at October 11, 2026 04:50 PM (ei1sX)


A man with a plan!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 11, 2026 05:21 PM (k5CNB)

177 Some enterprising Moron has suggested we deep fry the skin from the roasted pig. So it shall be.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 11, 2026 05:22 PM (nxLtX)

178 >>> 173 San Franpsycho. I am still defeated by chocolate crepes.
Posted by: Ben Had at October 11, 2026 05:19 PM (nxLtX)

As in, the crepes are chocolate and not (or not *only*) filled with chocolate? Hmm...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 11, 2026 05:22 PM (3mtzY)

179 164 Going to try pizza with the hot honey next week.
Posted by: Ben Had at October 11, 2026 05:05 PM (nxLtX)
——

I’ve had pizza with hot honeys before. Oh, you mean actual honey on the pizza? Carry on …

Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 11, 2026 05:15 PM (VghP0)

It's called "Hot Honey" like a spicey honey sauce you can add on top of pizza.

Marcos Pizza let's you add to all their pizzas, but I haven't tried it. I'm sure other places are doing it, too. It's like a new fad with pizza.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 05:22 PM (6ydKt)

180 163 I fry left over polenta with red wine salami and eggs. Sourdough bread and a hunk of dry monterey jack cheese.
Posted by: Ben Had at October 11, 2026 05:15 PM (nxLtX)
*******
I wish you lived near me. That sounds wonderful.

My dude found some Hot Honey at the grocery store for my future pepparoni pizzas. I fell in love with a pizza two weeks ago. I didn't get this one from Georgia as in the past...they should have a recipe for fried chicken with hot honey on their website. I made that once and it was good.

Added horseradish to my magic sinus cure along with V8, Louisiana hot sauce, and garlic. It will either cure me or kill me and expired in June (the horseradish from fridge). Very annoyed as I have a lot to do this week and would prefer not being in a thunder mood.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 11, 2026 05:22 PM (hzuYO)

181 CBD,
For the fresh thyme. (The sprigs in that photo should get an award.) I love thyme, fresh or dried, on fried eggs, on top of baked or mashed spuds, and always with chicken both on the skin and in the cavity.

Posted by: JTB at October 11, 2026 05:23 PM (yTvNw)

182 I love my Buc-ees t-shirt. I get all kinds of compliments on it. They will never come to Washington state.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 11, 2026 05:23 PM (2WIwB)

183 deep fry the skin from the roasted pig. So it shall be.
Posted by: Ben Had

Yum!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 11, 2026 05:24 PM (NnhvP)

184 Not an hour ago she remarked on how she had WAY too many t-shirts which I believe was a hint to not stop and get her a t-shirt at Buccee's.

Posted by: Weasel at October 11, 2026 05:00 PM (ei1sX)


I'll bet she needs beef jerky...and a canoe!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 11, 2026 05:24 PM (k5CNB)

185 The crust was awesome! A little sour and yeasty and just perfectly crisp on the bottom.

Yummy!

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 11, 2026 05:21 PM (YfhM1


Yeah, that yeasty taste with the crust at the bottom is what gives deep dish that unique taste.

I like it, but it's a lot of crust with deep dish.
Too much for me to eat all the time.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 05:24 PM (6ydKt)

186 Helena Handbasket, chocolate crepes filled with pistachio whipped cream.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 11, 2026 05:25 PM (nxLtX)

187 145 139 Ketchup on a hot dog > Cheese-on-top pizza

Posted by: San Franspycho at October 11, 2026 05:02 PM (RIvkX)


If you fold it over a pizza is a sandwich.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 05:03 PM (6ydKt)


Sure, Jonah. What about egg rolls? Are they sandwiches, too?


Posted by: a.moron at October 11, 2026 05:26 PM (X5Jzz)

188 56 I'm supposed to be getting ready to drive to Texas.
Posted by: Weasel

It doesn't take that long to drive to Texas!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 11, 2026 04:10 PM (NnhvP)

Depends on how far away you start!
Posted by: Pete Bog at October 11, 2026 04:23 PM (fUhC0)

Google Map says just over 4,000 miles. I suppose if we had three weeks to travel.... we wouldn't spend it that way.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 11, 2026 05:27 PM (BYJyI)

189 I'm not sure I can officially recommend this, but I often take prepped leftover herbs, coat them in olive oil and flatten them in a baggie, and toss the baggie in the freezer. Then later I can break off a chunk and add it to soup or something.

My tepid recommendation is because the herbs would probably retain better quality if I blanched them or something. Fresh is better, but having interesting herbs in the freezer is handy.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at October 11, 2026 05:27 PM (OlzlW)

190 Sure, Jonah. What about egg rolls? Are they sandwiches, too?


Posted by: a.moron at October 11, 2026 05:26 PM (X5Jzz)


Egg Rolls are burritos.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 05:27 PM (6ydKt)

First World Problems...

Teadust26.jpg

That wonderful photograph is of the bottom of a loose tea tin. Never mind that the tins were designed to stack nicely, at the expense of getting at the last bit of tea. And yes, there is a lip at the top that corresponds to the indentation at the bottom, so the last bit of tea CANNOT. BE. POURED.

It exposes a larger problem...the tea leaf dust that is created by the bumping and banging of the tins during filling, packaging, shipping, sale, and use!

Obviously the solution is to pack the leaves in single layers on some sort of soft medium so that they are cushioned. But Big Tea has no interest in preserving the customer experience, and would rather sell the maximum amount of tea, even in the form of dust!

And the biggest problem? I don't even drink tea!

Posted by: CBD at 02:00 PM




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Posted by: Skip at October 11, 2026 02:00 PM (Ia/+0)

2 And the biggest problem? I don't even drink tea!

But coffee is such a grind...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 02:02 PM (l3cgK)

3 Drink alcohol, problem solved

Posted by: Skip at October 11, 2026 02:02 PM (Ia/+0)

4 Is tea dust snortable?

Posted by: Tuna at October 11, 2026 02:02 PM (lJ0H4)

5 I bet a giraffe could lick the bottom clean...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 02:02 PM (l3cgK)

6 Ceylon, tea freaks, Ceylon....

Posted by: Tea Is For Fagg@ts at October 11, 2026 02:02 PM (EdP2u)

7 So Telefreako was in a mental clinic during his absence from the campaign trail?

Posted by: Unkaren at October 11, 2026 02:03 PM (m6fGY)

8 Watch more gladiator movies.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 11, 2026 02:03 PM (I/c/o)

9 6 Ceylon, tea freaks, Ceylon....

Posted by: Tea Is For Fagg@ts at October 11, 2026 02:02 PM (EdP2u)

Weren't those the evil robots in "Battlestar Galactica"?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 02:03 PM (l3cgK)

10 So, teatotaler.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 11, 2026 02:03 PM (Wy0hw)

11 7 So Telefreako was in a mental clinic during his absence from the campaign trail?

Posted by: Unkaren at October 11, 2026 02:03 PM (m6fGY)

He couldn't figure out how to get the last of the tea dust out of the bottom of his tea tin...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 02:04 PM (l3cgK)

12 The bottom of my stained espresso carafe looks pretty rank nowadays too. But I try to look for the bright side in things.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at October 11, 2026 02:04 PM (nDXEV)

13 7 So Telefreako was in a mental clinic during his absence from the campaign trail?
Posted by: Unkaren

Wearing one of those white jackets with the long arms.

Posted by: Let Joy Be Unconfined! at October 11, 2026 02:04 PM (EdP2u)

14 So Telefreako was in a mental clinic during his absence from the campaign trail?

Posted by: Unkaren at October 11, 2026 02:03 PM (m6fGY)
-

He's got a fan:

https://tinyurl.com/3uch5v4c

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 11, 2026 02:05 PM (Wy0hw)

15 Who cares? If I want tea, which is rare, I use a teabags in a cheap porcelain (made in China) teapot.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 11, 2026 02:05 PM (LOvBA)

16 12 The bottom of my stained espresso carafe looks pretty rank nowadays too. But I try to look for the bright side in things.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at October 11, 2026 02:04 PM (nDXEV)

https://youtu.be/uAzwji5Cfmk

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 02:05 PM (l3cgK)

17 And the biggest problem? I don't even drink tea!

Posted by CBD

Solutions:
1 don't buy tins of tea.
2 thro out tins before seeing what is left
3 Buy tea in mylar bags.
4 Don't buy tea.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 11, 2026 02:06 PM (NnhvP)

18 I have a first-world problem, and I only wish it involved nothing but tea dust.

Our 6-year-old washer started occasionally leaking water back into the drum, and after shutting off first one valve and then the other, I determined it was the cold-water valve. We had replaced one on our old washer years ago so we knew we could do this.

So I went to the manufacturer's website, put in the model number, and got the part number. I ordered it from Amazon (an OEM part, I made sure) partly because it was a little cheaper and partly because Amazon returns are so easy.

That turned out to be foreshadowing. . .

Posted by: bluebell at October 11, 2026 02:06 PM (uyuYG)

19 12 The bottom of my stained espresso carafe looks pretty rank nowadays too. But I try to look for the bright side in things.
Posted by: Dr. Varno

How can you stand it Doktor?

Posted by: Don't Settle For Substandard at October 11, 2026 02:06 PM (EdP2u)

20 Pray continue.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 11, 2026 02:07 PM (LOvBA)

21 Going hootie tootie with tea is definitely looking for a problem
Boiled water and a tea bag is easy

Posted by: Skip at October 11, 2026 02:07 PM (Ia/+0)

22 This midterm election should be a layup for democrats, but they’re too effing crazy. Oyster Nazis, terrorist lovers, etc., don’t make great candidates!

Posted by: Unkaren at October 11, 2026 02:07 PM (m6fGY)

23 I think the only reasonable solution to the tea problem is to laminate each leaf and place it in a 3-ring binder.

Then toss those binders into Boston Harbor once a year as a ceremonial reminder of our roots.

Posted by: RandomDave at October 11, 2026 02:07 PM (aJQbY)

24
This is a test.

If this was a real comment, your bank accounts would be emgorged with riches beyond your wildest imaginings.

But this is only a test.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 11, 2026 02:08 PM (eRlcH)

25 15 Who cares? If I want tea, which is rare, I use a teabags in a cheap porcelain (made in China) teapot.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 11, 2026 02:05 PM (LOvBA)

Some of those teapots from China leech lead...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 02:08 PM (l3cgK)

26 24
This is a test.

If this was a real comment, your bank accounts would be emgorged with riches beyond your wildest imaginings.

But this is only a test.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 11, 2026 02:08 PM (eRlcH)

I'm still waiting on that Nigerian Prince...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 02:08 PM (l3cgK)

27 Hibiscus tea is lovely. It Naturally lowers blood pressure and is quite tasty.

I also drink Earl Grey tea. I love the smell of bergamot.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 11, 2026 02:09 PM (yEz+x)

28 17 And the biggest problem? I don't even drink tea!

Posted by CBD

Solutions:
1 don't buy tins of tea.
2 thro out tins before seeing what is left
3 Buy tea in mylar bags.
4 Don't buy tea.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 11, 2026 02:06 PM (NnhvP)

Also, the standard Horde solution to all of CBD's FWPs,
5 Burn down the house and rebuild.

Posted by: Gref at October 11, 2026 02:09 PM (5rh/l)

29
Tea? Tea?

*lifts pinkie derisively*
*snickers cruelly*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 11, 2026 02:09 PM (eRlcH)

30 14 So Telefreako was in a mental clinic during his absence from the campaign trail?

Posted by: Unkaren at October 11, 2026 02:03 PM (m6fGY)
-

He's got a fan:

https://tinyurl.com/3uch5v4c

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 11, 2026 02:05 PM (Wy0hw)

What the hell has he been smoking? Oh, nevermind...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 02:09 PM (l3cgK)

31 Today we went to replace the part, and when we took the cover off we discovered that the part actually had a QR code on it. When we tried to put in the new part that was about half an inch higher than the old part, I used the QR code and discovered that the old part was a different number than the replacement part that LG had told me to get.

Sigh.

So I went searching for the "correct" part. Except, every website, INCLUDING LG, told me that the QR code part number was not the correct part for my model. Unfortunately, Amazon doesn't have it, so I ordered it from the Home Depot appliance repair website because it seems they have the least complicated return system, just in case. Although not as easy as buying something directly from Home Depot. It arrives Wednesday.

Wish me luck.

Posted by: bluebell at October 11, 2026 02:10 PM (uyuYG)

32 17 And the biggest problem? I don't even drink tea!

Posted by CBD

Solutions:
1 don't buy tins of tea.
2 thro out tins before seeing what is left
3 Buy tea in mylar bags.
4 Don't buy tea.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 11, 2026 02:06 PM (NnhvP)

5 Poke yer eyes out so you don't see the dust at the bottom...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 02:10 PM (l3cgK)

33 My FWPs for today are NFL field goal kickers being able to make 60 yard FGs, the Bears jerseys not having a Ditka badge today, RIP Coach, and that the Dodgers-Milwaukee series isn't the World Series.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at October 11, 2026 02:10 PM (VyD10)

34
Texas needs to elect a mewling quim to the Senate!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 11, 2026 02:11 PM (eRlcH)

35 Sorry, for going oof topic so soon in the thread. It’s just . . . I literally don’t know what’s going on anymore. Plus, my tea involvement stops at Earl Grey.

Posted by: Unkaren at October 11, 2026 02:11 PM (m6fGY)

36 "Some of those teapots from China leech lead..."

I saw the Marcus Welby episode where a child was being lead poisoned by using a ceramic cup. Porcelain is suspect too? I wouldn't put it past them.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 11, 2026 02:11 PM (LOvBA)

37 Good luck, bluebell! It's probably something like, "well, that part (and the part it connects to) has been superceded, therefore it's 'not the right part' anymore".

Posted by: RandomDave at October 11, 2026 02:12 PM (aJQbY)

38 Which mewling quim are you suggesting?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 11, 2026 02:12 PM (LOvBA)

39 Moral of the story, I guess, is that now we have to check for QR codes in order to replace something because we can't be sure that the manufacturer is going to give us the correct information.

Bah.

Posted by: bluebell at October 11, 2026 02:12 PM (uyuYG)

40 leach, not leech...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 02:12 PM (l3cgK)

41 I have a Brit friend who introduced me to Typhoo.

Just excellent stuff.

Company bought out. Selling crap now.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 11, 2026 02:14 PM (LOvBA)

42 we can't be sure that the manufacturer is going to give us the correct information

To be fair, that's apparently been an issue for a while now... I think my parents had a similar problem with guys 'following the manual' trying to fix their fridge, then they finally got one who actually knew how the things worked.

Posted by: RandomDave at October 11, 2026 02:14 PM (aJQbY)

43 This is a test.

If this was a real comment, your bank accounts would be emgorged with riches beyond your wildest imaginings.

But this is only a test.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 11, 2026 02:08 PM


There are other types of emgorging, you know.

Posted by: Grok, when asked how zombie The Bob Dole might reply at October 11, 2026 02:14 PM (0sNs1)

44

Evil manufacturers want you to give up and buy a new machine.

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 02:15 PM (/QHx4)

45 Earl Gray was a poofter, like all the Gay Lords.

Posted by: Hetero Henry... at October 11, 2026 02:15 PM (EdP2u)

46 Good luck, bluebell! It's probably something like, "well, that part (and the part it connects to) has been superceded, therefore it's 'not the right part' anymore".
Posted by: RandomDave at October 11, 2026 02:12 PM (aJQbY)
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Thank you, Dave. It's always something!

Posted by: bluebell at October 11, 2026 02:15 PM (uyuYG)

47
There are other types of emgorging, you know.
Posted by: Grok, when asked how zombie The Bob Dole might reply at October 11, 2026 02:14 PM (0sNs1)

_________

*looks*
*throws phone across room*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 11, 2026 02:16 PM (eRlcH)

48 My FWP is I have a Fink on my lap and I can’t reach my coffee which is getting cold.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 11, 2026 02:16 PM (yEz+x)

49 Evil manufacturers want you to give up and buy a new machine. Posted by: four seasons

Try and make a warranty claim for a Mr. Coffee machine. You need less paperwork to get a heart transplant.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at October 11, 2026 02:17 PM (VyD10)

50 Which mewling quim are you suggesting?

If it’s any consolation, I did predict on this blogsite that he’d end up the next Andrew Gillum!

Posted by: Unkaren at October 11, 2026 02:17 PM (m6fGY)

51 You know what, I could use a spot of tea right now.

It's a gloomy rainy day here in East Bumblehump Pa.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 11, 2026 02:18 PM (XV/Pl)

52 Just use your Sawzall to slice the bottom of the tin off, allowing you to pour the recalcitrant tea remains out.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at October 11, 2026 02:18 PM (syz1S)

53
My FWP is I have a Fink on my lap and I can’t reach my coffee which is getting cold.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 11, 2026 02:16 PM (yEz+x)

__________

Is that the one who was having problems?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 11, 2026 02:18 PM (eRlcH)

54
Warranties??

What a joke these days.

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 02:18 PM (/QHx4)

55 Try and make a warranty claim for a Mr. Coffee machine. You need less paperwork to get a heart transplant.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at October 11, 2026 02:17 PM (VyD10)
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How long have you had it? Could you take it back to the store? Some stores, like Costco, have great return policies.

Posted by: bluebell at October 11, 2026 02:18 PM (uyuYG)

56 I'm very proud to say that my custom limited-edition lifetime-guaranteed bluebell shiv has no QR code.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 11, 2026 02:19 PM (0sNs1)

57 And the biggest problem? I don't even drink tea!

Posted by: CBD at 02:00 PM

My tea comes in these handy dandy little bags so I don’t have to worry about these kinds of 19th century problems.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 02:19 PM (6ydKt)

58 I'm very proud to say that my custom limited-edition lifetime-guaranteed bluebell shiv has no QR code.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 11, 2026 02:19 PM (0sNs1)
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And never will, because bluebell is a Luddite.

Posted by: bluebell at October 11, 2026 02:20 PM (uyuYG)

59 54
Warranties??

What a joke these days.

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 02:18 PM (/QHx4)

After a little over two years, my display started going out (horizontal lines, first at the bottom, in the end all across the entire display). It was the Display. Just two years, and I never abused it...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 02:20 PM (l3cgK)

60 I had a Krups espresso machine last from the early 90's til about a year ago when the gasket finally went.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at October 11, 2026 02:21 PM (nDXEV)

61 58 I'm very proud to say that my custom limited-edition lifetime-guaranteed bluebell shiv has no QR code.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 11, 2026 02:19 PM (0sNs1)
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And never will, because bluebell is a Luddite.

Posted by: bluebell at October 11, 2026 02:20 PM (uyuYG)

::: high-five :::

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 02:21 PM (l3cgK)

62 This wasted tea disaster is a perfect reason to only drink scotch.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at October 11, 2026 02:21 PM (VyD10)

63 Try and make a warranty claim for a Mr. Coffee machine. You need less paperwork to get a heart transplant.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

Been a-moulderin' in my grave for a while now. You ain't gettin' diddly squat!

Posted by: Zombie Joe DiMaggio at October 11, 2026 02:21 PM (EdP2u)

64 Wish me luck.
Posted by: bluebell at October 11, 2026 02:10 PM (uyuYG)

If the Home Depot part doesn’t work out you can try:

repairclinic.com

They’ve had all the parts I needed in the past.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 02:23 PM (6ydKt)

65 It's a gloomy rainy day here in East Bumblehump Pa.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Have an Uncle in West Bumblehump. He's the Black Sheep of the family.

Posted by: Da Niece at October 11, 2026 02:25 PM (EdP2u)

66 Try and make a warranty claim for a Mr. Coffee machine.

"It worked fine when I bought it in the '70s."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 11, 2026 02:25 PM (guGkK)

67 If the Home Depot part doesn’t work out you can try:

repairclinic.com

They’ve had all the parts I needed in the past.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 02:23 PM (6ydKt)
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Thank you. I did look at them, and they did indeed have the part. But their return process (which I hope I don't need, but I'm a realist) was more involved than Home Depot and at this point I'm look for easy, lol!

Posted by: bluebell at October 11, 2026 02:25 PM (uyuYG)

68 Moral of the story, I guess, is that now we have to check for QR codes in order to replace something because we can't be sure that the manufacturer is going to give us the correct information.

Bah.
Posted by: bluebell at October 11, 2026 02:12 PM (uyuYG)

I have never used a QR code for anything, and have never had a QR code reader in a phone. And it would be ridiculously easy to print the wrong QR code on a part, since they are not human-readable.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2026 02:25 PM (quk5M)

69
One thing to be wary of. Twice this year we bought something from the hardware store and find out that the item was a return from another sucker because the item did not work.

The store was really good at concealing the fact the box had been opened and returned.

Anyway they can screw you they will try.

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 02:26 PM (/QHx4)

70 1WP this morning was waking to a chilly room, laying all toasty in bed with electric blanket on and Cat snoozing at my feet... but it was *time to get up*! Ugh!

Posted by: JQ at October 11, 2026 02:26 PM (rdVOm)

71 I also drink Earl Grey tea. I love the smell of bergamot.
Posted by: nurse ratched

You might love Art of Tea's Earl Grey Crème Tea. Very fragrant.

Posted by: Tuna at October 11, 2026 02:26 PM (lJ0H4)

72 I'd say this is more a UK first world problem. Because that Beta-country loves their tea. BUT, in truth, it's evolved to stacking Khat containers and Curry cans. They hate when they can't scrape that last bit of khat out of the crevice. It sends them into a rage causing them to kill elderly pedestrians.

Posted by: Orson at October 11, 2026 02:26 PM (dIske)

73 Oh me oh my. CBD, a question asked by a Non-Understanding Reader: IF you don't even DRINK tea, then WHY do you even have this appurtenance in your domicile? Toss it, man! You'll feel better knowing you've done The Right Thing. And you'll have opened up just another wee bit of shelf space. Win-win.

Posted by: Dr_No at October 11, 2026 02:26 PM (ayRl+)

74 Looks like you suffer from low tea.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 11, 2026 02:26 PM (Cqx++)

75 AOP, the QR code is just read by your phone's camera, and then the website pops up on your default browser. I had to learn how to use that during the plague.

In this case I'm glad it had the QR code because I would be at a loss as to what to try next, except calling a repair company which would be way more expensive.

Posted by: bluebell at October 11, 2026 02:27 PM (uyuYG)

76 74 Looks like you suffer from low tea.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 11, 2026 02:26 PM (Cqx++)

Heh.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 02:28 PM (l3cgK)

77 After a little over two years, my display started going out (horizontal lines, first at the bottom, in the end all across the entire display). It was the Display. Just two years, and I never abused it...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 02:20 PM (l3cgK)

My mom was a coffee addict.
She bought a coffee maker that did that to her.
It started out fine, then slowly over the next year the LCD display went out on it.
Coffee maker still made coffee, but she couldn’t read the display to set the time on it to be able to automatically make coffee in the mornings.

So that one went in the attic as an emergency coffee maker in case the new one she got conked out out of the blue.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 02:28 PM (6ydKt)

78 My FWP is I have a Fink on my lap and I can’t reach my coffee which is getting cold.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 11, 2026 02:16 PM (yEz+x)
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Warm kitty or warm coffee...you can't have both!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 11, 2026 02:28 PM (FZ29D)

79 This would also make a wonderful range target …

Posted by: Dr_No at October 11, 2026 02:28 PM (ayRl+)

80 I want a program that will snap the mouse to the center of the main display, but no one seems to make such. 1st world complaint.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 11, 2026 02:28 PM (CHHv1)

81 3 chapters in today

Posted by: Skip at October 11, 2026 02:29 PM (Ia/+0)

82 Ummm … has this ever been introduced to soap 'n water? Or a Brillo pad? Those 'fiddly bits' appear to be firmly attached to the metalworks …

Posted by: Dr_No at October 11, 2026 02:29 PM (ayRl+)

83 And it would be ridiculously easy to print the wrong QR code on a part, since they are not human-readable.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2026 02:25 PM (quk5M)

A lot of the QR codes on parts are slapped-on stickers.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 02:30 PM (6ydKt)

84 You can't even go to a parking garage or similar unless you can scan the QR code. That's why I stay home.

Posted by: The Hermit at October 11, 2026 02:31 PM (EdP2u)

85 re: tea

Buy loose leaf bulk from country of origin in paper or plastic bags
Convert a virgin Mr Coffee to a Dr Tea and use a gold mesh filter that fits the drip basin
One set of leaves usually good for 3-4 batches, excess converts to ice tea (that 2 gallon red Tupperware pitcher has a great use)

New Real World Problem

rear concrete block fence needs to be 2 feet higher (don’t ask)
current top made with xx pattern 8x16x4 breeze block they stopped making last century
no one has any breeze blocks even in a different pattern locally

Posted by: epador at October 11, 2026 02:31 PM (3VS7c)

86 I always examine the packaging. If it looks like it was opened before, I look for another.

I learned a long, long time ago, the only reason someone opened the box was to steal a part.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 11, 2026 02:31 PM (LOvBA)

87 The store was really good at concealing the fact the box had been opened and returned.
Anyway they can screw you they will try.
Posted by: four seasons

If it's something expensive, and you suspect it has been opened-- request to open it yourself, before purchase.

A-holes have been known to buy things, put their old crap back into the box & seal it up, then return to store while claiming to have never used the item. Dufus employee looks at (apparently) unopened box, processes the return and puts item back onto shelf.

Posted by: JQ at October 11, 2026 02:31 PM (rdVOm)

88 re Talafreako
I don't know if Sortor is correct about T's stay in a mental hospital. But the Media does not appear to be reporting it. No story on Daily Mail. Nothing in the first three pages of Google search results. The DNC is obviously still working on the official talking points, to either deny and slam Sortor, confirm (with caveats), or simply invoke the HIPAA waffle.

Posted by: Gref at October 11, 2026 02:32 PM (5rh/l)

89 Recently got cheesed-off at the local Subaru dealer who went from charging $49 for an oil change to $149.

Since the filter is mounted on top of the engine, I procured an oil extractor and went in search of the special 'high-pressure' filters Subies use (no Fram or Wix for them!). Manual lists the part, ending in -020, which was confirmed visually with the filter on the car.

Checking sites to order from, one said it had been superceded. That part turned out to be a -021. Searching for that, a different site said it was superceded by -022.

Guess which # the dealer is still selling, at 2.3x the $$ you can get it online?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 11, 2026 02:32 PM (0sNs1)

90 SpeakingOf,

It is always wise to have the main pot, on a timer, for the whole house, and the secondary pot, for personal use, near your usual haunt.

Posted by: RandomDave at October 11, 2026 02:33 PM (aJQbY)

91 88 re Talafreako
I don't know if Sortor is correct about T's stay in a mental hospital. But the Media does not appear to be reporting it. No story on Daily Mail. Nothing in the first three pages of Google search results. The DNC is obviously still working on the official talking points, to either deny and slam Sortor, confirm (with caveats), or simply invoke the HIPAA waffle.
Posted by: Gref at October 11, 2026 02:32 PM (5rh/l)

Talaricos campaign says it's a lie.. He was home recuperating from the flu

Posted by: It's me donna at October 11, 2026 02:34 PM (+gK6I)

92 AOP, the QR code is just read by your phone's camera, and then the website pops up on your default browser. I had to learn how to use that during the plague.

In this case I'm glad it had the QR code because I would be at a loss as to what to try next, except calling a repair company which would be way more expensive.
Posted by: bluebell at October 11, 2026 02:27 PM (uyuYG)

That presumes one has a QR code reader in the phone, and that one has data enabled on one's cellular plan. If I were dictator, every QR code, regardless of where and how posted would be required to be accompanied by a plain-language label disclosing everything embedded in the code. Violations to be punished by death by bunga-bunga.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2026 02:34 PM (quk5M)

93 If I was sitting on your lap, you would forget about the coffee. And probably ask me to get up before I crush you.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 11, 2026 02:34 PM (LOvBA)

94 Or the Ultimate Answer to the Problem: LET THEM DRINK MILK!

Posted by: Dr_No at October 11, 2026 02:34 PM (ayRl+)

95 rear concrete block fence needs to be 2 feet higher (don’t ask)
current top made with xx pattern 8x16x4 breeze block they stopped making last century
no one has any breeze blocks even in a different pattern locally
Posted by: epador at October 11, 2026 02:31 PM (3VS7c)
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Yikes. I guess you have to order from somewhere far away and have them shipped? I didn't know what breeze blocks are so I looked them up. They're pretty.

Posted by: bluebell at October 11, 2026 02:35 PM (uyuYG)

96 Seeing Texas get smoked by OU was delightful. I think the long term outcome of this is Arch Manning's future will be one of endless frustration and failure in football and will eventually see him give up and settle for being Taylor Swift's third husband.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at October 11, 2026 02:36 PM (VyD10)

97 Looks like you suffer from low tea.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 11, 2026 02:26 PM (Cqx++)
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This also happens to me every time the tea leaves.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 11, 2026 02:37 PM (Wy0hw)

98 Duncanthrax, it is an intelligence game. Play the game. Win the game.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 11, 2026 02:37 PM (LOvBA)

99 Hi Hadrian,

She seems to be all better now. The ghastly, stinky lump on her tail got infected and exploded and she had to go to the emergency vet a couple times to get shaved and prodded. Two weeks of twice a day antibiotics were a nightmare.

Her appetite is back and she is pretty much back to her Finky little self. The antibiotics did a number on her gut though. Still working on getting her back to normal.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 11, 2026 02:37 PM (yEz+x)

100 If it's something expensive, and you suspect it has been opened-- request to open it yourself, before purchase.

A-holes have been known to buy things, put their old crap back into the box & seal it up, then return to store while claiming to have never used the item. Dufus employee looks at (apparently) unopened box, processes the return and puts item back onto shelf.
Posted by: JQ at October 11, 2026 02:31 PM (rdVOm)

I got a $800 Mini-PC from Amazon a few years ago. Made the mistake of not opening it to check the contents because I got it on sale and was waiting to get the monitor and accessories for it.

When I finally did open it up I discovered what was in the correct box was a Mini-PC which was worth about $120. Somebody had bought one, took out the more expensive PC and replaced it with the cheaper one, then sent it back to Amazon fir a refund.

It took me over a month arguing with Amazon to get a refund because I’d gone beyond the 30 day return policy.

Lesson learned, check your Amazon packages as soon as you receive them.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 02:37 PM (6ydKt)

101 I brew tea like an American, using tea bags

My FWP. I have to replace or have someone replace the 1/2 bumper on my horse trailer. My other trailer had caulk along the bumper but this one did not and water accumulated and rusted the square tubing that the rubber bumper was mounted to with a steel bar through the back of the bumper and metal screws. A local guy was doing trailer repairs for a while and fixed where the other 1/2 bumper had the same thing happen by drilling through the angle iron support at the back of the trailer and using a bolt in the rusted spot.

Problem: I am dreading drilling a hole for a bolt. Several years ago I fixed where my tack door hinges failing and drilling the holes for the replacement hinges that I bolted on (I could find no one who would weld them on for me) took 3 drill bits, that all had to be re-sharpened before I was done. This is just one hole to drill, the worst part is probably going to be getting it lined up correctly.

Posted by: PaleRider at October 11, 2026 02:38 PM (PV+Zw)

102 64 Wish me luck.
Posted by: bluebell at October 11, 2026 02:10 PM (uyuYG)

If the Home Depot part doesn’t work out you can try:

repairclinic.com

They’ve had all the parts I needed in the past.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 02:23 PM (6ydKt)


I'll second the recommendation for repairclinic.com, I've used their parts and instructional videos to fix our dryer and electric oven.

Posted by: a.moron at October 11, 2026 02:38 PM (X5Jzz)

103 Arch Manning's future will be one of endless frustration and failure in football and will eventually see him give up and settle for being Taylor Swift's third husband.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions

*snort*

Posted by: Tuna at October 11, 2026 02:39 PM (lJ0H4)

104 No argument from me, AOP. As I said earlier, I'm a Luddite. I wish we could all go back to pre-cell phone and internet days.

Unfortunately, from having to deal with things having to do with my elderly parents who have not kept up with technology because they didn't want to, I've realized that I have to keep up whether I want to or not, for my kids' sake if nothing else.

I won't bore you with the details but I've spent many hours trying to untangle things for them. And not finished yet.

Posted by: bluebell at October 11, 2026 02:39 PM (uyuYG)

105 A lot of the QR codes on parts are slapped-on stickers.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 02:30 PM (6ydKt)

And the sticker slapper-onners are low paid humans who cannot read the QR code. And until you need the information supposedly embedded in the QR code, you have no way of knowing if the code is relevant.

Your coffee maker quits working, and you scan the QR code: "Thank you for buying the Jiang Chang Lung chick brooder!"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2026 02:40 PM (quk5M)

106 Seeing Texas get smoked by OU was delightful. I think the long term outcome of this is Arch Manning's future will be one of endless frustration and failure in football and will eventually see him give up and settle for being Taylor Swift's third husband.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at October 11, 2026 02:36 PM


All these seasons and still no one has corrected his mechanics. He's bright and strong and fast, but does not have a pro throwing ability.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 11, 2026 02:40 PM (4NO2D)

107 90 SpeakingOf,

It is always wise to have the main pot, on a timer, for the whole house, and the secondary pot, for personal use, near your usual haunt.
Posted by: RandomDave at October 11, 2026 02:33 PM (aJQbY)

Mom thought so.
I don’t drink coffee though, so no worries for me.

I just make tea when I feel like having tea.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 02:40 PM (6ydKt)

108 Had a Krups grinder that lasted 30+ years. Still worked fine, just didn't feel comfortable rewiring down below where the power cord had dried/split. Some diligence and pliers and stripper work, coulda patched it. But lazy. Previous diswasher lasted 30+ years. Still worked fine, but upper rack was rusting out. Even as late as the 90s, some s**t was still made right, and to last.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 11, 2026 02:40 PM (U/Byj)

109 How do breeze blocks provide privacy when you can see right through 'em?

Posted by: Seems Like A Scam at October 11, 2026 02:42 PM (EdP2u)

110 "Talaricos campaign says it's a lie.. He was home recuperating from the flu"

FWIW, I got a Talarico 'donate to me' ad on my phone a couple days ago. So his campaign staff is still raising money. It may well be that they have realized that freaky was turning off voters and have simply decided to hide him away and just run attack ads against Paxton; after all that worked for Biden with a little help from DNC cheating.

Posted by: PaleRider at October 11, 2026 02:44 PM (PV+Zw)

111 Problem: I am dreading drilling a hole for a bolt. Several years ago I fixed where my tack door hinges failing and drilling the holes for the replacement hinges that I bolted on (I could find no one who would weld them on for me) took 3 drill bits, that all had to be re-sharpened before I was done. This is just one hole to drill, the worst part is probably going to be getting it lined up correctly.
Posted by: PaleRider at October 11, 2026 02:38 PM (PV+Zw)

I'm sure you know this, but if drilling a hole larger than a quarter inch in steel, drill a 3/16" pilot hole first.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2026 02:44 PM (quk5M)

112 Your coffee maker quits working, and you scan the QR code: "Thank you for buying the Jiang Chang Lung chick brooder!"
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2026 02:40 PM (quk5M)

I just go to the company’s website, or a parts website and find the part according to the model number of the product itself.

I can do the QR code thing but it’s just a link to the company website, so I just skip that step.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 02:45 PM (6ydKt)

113 106 Seeing Texas get smoked by OU was delightful. I think the long term outcome of this is Arch Manning's future will be one of endless frustration and failure in football and will eventually see him give up and settle for being Taylor Swift's third husband.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at October 11, 2026 02:36 PM

All these seasons and still no one has corrected his mechanics. He's bright and strong and fast, but does not have a pro throwing ability.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 11, 2026 02:40 PM (4NO2D)


Too bad he doesn't have anyone close to him who can give him some tips on quarterbackin'.

Posted by: a.moron at October 11, 2026 02:46 PM (X5Jzz)

114 Another FWP that drives me bonkers is the heating plate paint on drip coffee makers becomes a hideous rusty mess after a couple of years which affects my self-esteem and leaves me in permanent therapy.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at October 11, 2026 02:46 PM (VyD10)

115 >>>I don't even drink tea!

And it knows that. Which is why it did this to you.

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 02:46 PM (odBC9)

116 Bluebell, My understanding is that stuff sold at the Big Box stores is different from what is sold everywhere else. My gas stove is a GE from HD. I have the model info but only HD had the replacement knobs, but, not anymore. The OEM knobs I got from Amazon need modifications. We got our Bosch dishwasher from PC Richard’s so it is a real Bosch appliance.
My FWP is AI Retro Rewind on YouTube. If women really looked like this, there would be no war because the men would be too busy. Endless soft porn, AI jazz and the only white chicks worth doing.

Posted by: Accomack at October 11, 2026 02:46 PM (28cZF)

117 You know who else had a Krups grinder and a Krups coffee machine?

Posted by: Franz Liebkind, Sipping A Cuppa Krupa at October 11, 2026 02:47 PM (EdP2u)

118 I am disappointed to report that Indian Summer came to a jarring end here on the high plains about 4:30 pm yesterday. Afternoon mid 70’s. Today high in the low 50’s and drizzle. It was great while it lasted.

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 11, 2026 02:47 PM (qL1rE)

119 Talaricos campaign says it's a lie.. He was home recuperating from the flu"

Leave Britta... Tally alone!

Posted by: man at October 11, 2026 02:48 PM (pfXMo)

120 113 106 Seeing Texas get smoked by OU was delightful. I think the long term outcome of this is Arch Manning's future will be one of endless frustration and failure in football and will eventually see him give up and settle for being Taylor Swift's third husband.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at October 11, 2026 02:36 PM

All these seasons and still no one has corrected his mechanics. He's bright and strong and fast, but does not have a pro throwing ability.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 11, 2026 02:40 PM (4NO2D)

Too bad he doesn't have anyone close to him who can give him some tips on quarterbackin'.

Posted by: a.moron at October 11, 2026 02:46 PM (X5Jzz)


How much is his immediate family willing to pay?

Posted by: Payton and Eli, in it for the TV ad money nowadays at October 11, 2026 02:48 PM (5rh/l)

121 Get a Kuering instead of Krupps, problem solved.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 02:49 PM (6ydKt)

122 114 Another FWP that drives me bonkers is the heating plate paint on drip coffee makers becomes a hideous rusty mess after a couple of years which affects my self-esteem and leaves me in permanent therapy.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

Chinesium Industries sells a decorative Melamine/Asbestos cover that eliminates this problem.

Posted by: Dishwasher Safe at October 11, 2026 02:50 PM (EdP2u)

123 I've heard wearing Crocs with certain dangly attachments on the rear strap will get you removed from a high Tea.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 11, 2026 02:51 PM (0sNs1)

124 Lesson learned, check your Amazon packages as soon as you receive them.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 02:37 PM (6ydKt)

I just opened an Amazon package last evening. Sitting right here on my desk; a coil of vinyl-coated stainless steel clothesline wire. It was supposed to be 150 feet. This coil appears to be a lot less than that, and nowhere on the package was there a quantity marked. So I am going to have to spool it out and measure it. Anything less is no good, because you cannot splice it, and have splices that will go around the clothesline pulleys.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2026 02:51 PM (quk5M)

125 LOL, I just noticed that one of my five dollar bills is stamped in red with DONALD TRUMP IS YOUR PRESIDENT

I wonder if anyone's liberal fingers blistered when they touched this bill. "It burns! It freezes! We hates it!"

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 11, 2026 02:51 PM (kpS4V)

126

Scan everything.

Hey, scan my middle finger.

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 02:52 PM (/QHx4)

127 having to deal with things having to do with my elderly parents who have not kept up with technology because they didn't want to, I've realized that I have to keep up whether I want to or not"

Welcome to the club.

*installing ribbon and paper spool on calculator...*

Posted by: man at October 11, 2026 02:52 PM (pfXMo)

128 I fixed our Whirlpool stove/oven a couple years ago with a new heating element for the oven. The bottom element had failed... new one from repairclinic was reasonably priced and the video on installation was spot on.

Saved us some money for sure.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 11, 2026 02:53 PM (RORbl)

129 How QR codes work. They are actually some very, very clever computer engineering.

https://youtu.be/w5ebcowAJD8

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at October 11, 2026 02:54 PM (VyD10)

130 Haven't had tea since winter but maybe soon, or scotch, not sure yet

Posted by: Skip at October 11, 2026 02:54 PM (Ia/+0)

131 The 11 Italians lynched in Louisiana were hanged on just such a clothesline.

Posted by: Washee Irony at October 11, 2026 02:55 PM (EdP2u)

132 118 I am disappointed to report that Indian Summer came to a jarring end here on the high plains about 4:30 pm yesterday. Afternoon mid 70’s. Today high in the low 50’s and drizzle. It was great while it lasted.

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 11, 2026 02:47 PM (qL1rE)


I'm in Iowa and that's forecast to happen here. Yesterday, today and tomorrow in the 80s, then dropping into the 60s after that and 50's by the end of next week.

Posted by: a.moron at October 11, 2026 02:55 PM (X5Jzz)

133 Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
1h

🚨 BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Ohio mental hospital CONFIRMS James Talarico was discharged from the facility earlier this week

The “flu” thing was a BIG FAT LIE

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 11, 2026 02:56 PM (Wy0hw)

134 127 having to deal with things having to do with my elderly parents who have not kept up with technology because they didn't want to, I've realized that I have to keep up whether I want to or not"

My late father was 90 and he'd do online banking. He had a favorite math puzzle game. And I'd come downstairs with him occasionally asleep in my chair by the computer with stuff from WebMD printed out on the printer.

That was pretty cool.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 11, 2026 02:57 PM (Sco7b)

135 And the sticker slapper-onners are low paid humans who cannot read..."

This. Ordered dog food from Amazon (Mrs, not me). Sticker says dog food, box says cat food. It's all cat food. Contact Amazon, they say "keep it", and reorder. Wrong - sticker says dog food, box says cat food... again. Finally got refunded, and have two cases of cat food...

Posted by: man at October 11, 2026 02:57 PM (pfXMo)

136 I remember reading Consumer Reports 30 years ago. I would go to Best Buy, or Frys, Sears, or Montgomery Wards, or anywhere looking for a specific model.

GE and others would make slightly different models for each big retailer. Pissed me off.

I still trust Whirlpool, GE, and Maytag.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 11, 2026 02:57 PM (LOvBA)

137 So I am going to have to spool it out and measure it. Anything less is no good, because you cannot splice it, and have splices that will go around the clothesline pulleys.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2026 02:51 PM (quk5M)

Be sure to leave a review on Amazon:

“It reads 150 ft on the listing, but not on the package anywhere. I saved you guys all the trouble and measured it out to 75 feet. Never trust Chinese measurements! They probably measured it out in meters and made a guess in the feet! Do not buy unless you want half of the clothesline you paid for! Sincerely, AOP, your friendly Canadian measurement checker.”

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 02:57 PM (6ydKt)

138 Posted by: Skip at October 11, 2026 02:54 PM (Ia/+0)

I read too quickly and read that as "I haven't had tea since water" thinking that you really disliked tea and hadn't had it since the advent of water . 😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 11, 2026 02:58 PM (JrHfD)

139 Donate it to a Cat shelter.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 11, 2026 02:58 PM (LOvBA)

140
It is a scan world now.

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 02:59 PM (/QHx4)

141 Talarico was in a 'mental health facility'?

I... did not see that coming. I guess I should have. But... wtf?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 11, 2026 02:59 PM (Y/06r)

142 124 Lesson learned, check your Amazon packages as soon as you receive them.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 02:37 PM (6ydKt)

I just opened an Amazon package last evening. Sitting right here on my desk; a coil of vinyl-coated stainless steel clothesline wire. It was supposed to be 150 feet. This coil appears to be a lot less than that, and nowhere on the package was there a quantity marked. So I am going to have to spool it out and measure it. Anything less is no good, because you cannot splice it, and have splices that will go around the clothesline pulleys.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2026 02:51 PM (quk5M)



Probably 150 Chinese feet. Theirs are smaller feet than ours.

Can you measure the diameter of the coil and the number of coils and get a rough calculation of the length without unspooling the whole thing?

Posted by: a.moron at October 11, 2026 03:00 PM (X5Jzz)

143 "I fixed our Whirlpool stove/oven a couple years ago with a new heating element for the oven. The bottom element had failed... new one from repairclinic was reasonably priced and the video on installation was spot on.

Saved us some money for sure."

The bottom heating element in the GE range caught fire. I had to open the circuit at the breaker panel to shut it off.

A local appliance store had the replacement part. $80 and same day replacement.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 11, 2026 03:00 PM (LOvBA)

144 139 Donate it to a Cat shelter.
Posted by: no one of any consequence


That’s a perfect solution.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 11, 2026 03:01 PM (yEz+x)

145
Don't trust the recommendations for a product on Amazon.

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 03:02 PM (/QHx4)

146 141 Talarico was in a 'mental health facility'?

I... did not see that coming. I guess I should have. But... wtf?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 11, 2026 02:59 PM (Y/06r)

Campaign says that's a lie and he was home in Texas with the flu.. Someone is lying here...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 11, 2026 03:02 PM (+gK6I)

147 It's too much pressure! AaahhhhhhH!!!

Posted by: Butters Talerico at October 11, 2026 03:03 PM (Ovx+P)

148 133 Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
1h

🚨 BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Ohio mental hospital CONFIRMS James Talarico was discharged from the facility earlier this week

The “flu” thing was a BIG FAT LIE

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 11, 2026 02:56 PM (Wy0hw)


Much as I'd like to believe pretty much anything bad about this twit, this story sounds dodgy to me. A hospital is unlikely to confirm that he was a patient due to medical privacy, also why would he go all the way to a loony bin in Ohio?

Posted by: a.moron at October 11, 2026 03:03 PM (X5Jzz)

149 What was Talarico doing in Ohio? You'd think that would just make him crazier

Posted by: 88C+u at October 11, 2026 03:03 PM (88C+u)

150 lead glaze was/is common in ceramic, especially old pieces.
IIRC there are test kits.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 11, 2026 03:03 PM (NnhvP)

151 145
Don't trust the recommendations for a product on Amazon.

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 03:02 PM (/QHx4)

Correct.. A lot of them are from people who receive the items for free

Posted by: It's me donna at October 11, 2026 03:03 PM (+gK6I)

152 Campaign says that's a lie and he was home in Texas with the flu.. Someone is lying here...
Posted by: It's me donna at October 11, 2026 03:02 PM (+gK6I)

Democrat politician so that’s a given.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 03:03 PM (6ydKt)

153 For a minute, I thought that AOP was showing us the piston in cylinder number one

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 11, 2026 03:04 PM (PKL0q)

154 Of course a truly investigative press would be all over the Talarico disappearance story, but, alas…..

*crickets*

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 11, 2026 03:04 PM (yEz+x)

155 Much as I'd like to believe pretty much anything bad about this twit, this story sounds dodgy to me. A hospital is unlikely to confirm that he was a patient due to medical privacy, also why would he go all the way to a loony bin in Ohio?

Posted by: a.moron at October 11, 2026 03:03 PM (X5Jzz)

Like I said his campaign has called it a lie... Maybe it was a set up to get someone on the Paxton team to run with it or at least someone on his side...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 11, 2026 03:05 PM (+gK6I)

156 I am becoming increasingly annoyed at having to walk out to the garage for vise-grips and plumber wrenches to loosen bottle and jar lids ... If this keeps up, I may ask Santa that a hand tool pegboard be installed in the kitchen ... Geez.

Posted by: Kathy at October 11, 2026 03:05 PM (MOK4W)

157 Much as I'd like to believe pretty much anything bad about this twit, this story sounds dodgy to me. A hospital is unlikely to confirm that he was a patient due to medical privacy, also why would he go all the way to a loony bin in Ohio?
___

Apparently one of his tranny pastor friends spent time there.

Posted by: Rainbow Railroad at October 11, 2026 03:05 PM (Ovx+P)

158 Campaign says that's a lie and he was home in Texas with the flu.. Someone is lying here...
Posted by: It's me donna at October 11, 2026 03:02 PM (+gK6I)

https://tinyurl.com/cnxv67t6

Could be a different Talarico... damn, the picture they used in the story looks creepy AF.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 11, 2026 03:06 PM (Y/06r)

159
We had to call the mortgage company last week to find out why they have not paid our property tax to our town.

It took an hour before we could to talk to a human.

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 03:06 PM (/QHx4)

160 150 feet, centimeters, whatever it takes

Posted by: Skip at October 11, 2026 03:07 PM (Ia/+0)

161 Don't trust the recommendations for a product on Amazon. Posted by: four seasons

Correct.. A lot of them are from people who receive the items for free. Posted by: It's me donna

You can get free stuff If you're willing to lie? I've been doing that for years without getting anything. How do I sign up for this?.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at October 11, 2026 03:07 PM (VyD10)

162 The top picture does look like those commercials for cylinder cleaners. Now we watch the piston rise and then an explosion!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 11, 2026 03:07 PM (Y/06r)

163 A hospital is unlikely to confirm that he was a patient due to medical privacy, also why would he go all the way to a loony bin in Ohio?

Posted by: a.moron at October 11, 2026 03:03 PM (X5Jzz)

It’s Ohio so there’s a good chance it was a Republican working at the hospital there, and couldn’t contain him/herself knowing that he is a mental patient running for U.S. senate.

I don’t think the hospital officially released the information, somebody ratted him out to a reporter.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 03:07 PM (6ydKt)

164
I don’t think the hospital officially released the information, somebody ratted him out to a reporter.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 03:07 PM (6ydKt)

Something smells here... Sortor better have the proof...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 11, 2026 03:09 PM (+gK6I)

165 This would also make a wonderful range target …
Posted by: Dr_No

Filling with Tannerite not recommended.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 11, 2026 03:09 PM (NnhvP)

166 They also kind of baited it as not a direct question of 'Is the weird twink senator hopeful from the democrats staying there because he is a suicidal twink?'

They asked in a way that implied they were just looking to see if there was anything for him. HIPA is real, but people are still retarded.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 11, 2026 03:10 PM (Y/06r)

167 If this keeps up, I may ask Santa that a hand tool pegboard be installed in the kitchen ... Geez.
Posted by: Kathy at October 11, 2026 03:05 PM (MOK4W)

Have you tried those rubber gripping pads for opening jars and such?

They work well for stuff that isn’t rusted on or something.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 03:10 PM (6ydKt)

168 156 I am becoming increasingly annoyed at having to walk out to the garage for vise-grips and plumber wrenches to loosen bottle and jar lids ... If this keeps up, I may ask Santa that a hand tool pegboard be installed in the kitchen ... Geez.
Posted by: Kathy at October 11, 2026 03:05 PM (MOK4W)

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I need a tool in the kitchen to penetrate the bags of food; this used to be wax paper. But now cereal is packaged in Kevlar.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 11, 2026 03:10 PM (PKL0q)

169 "During my recorded call, an individual identifying themselves as a female facility employee reportedly stated that Talarico was no longer a patient and had been discharged within the previous 24–48 hours."

https://tinyurl.com/258ewz39




Posted by: Ohio Cuckoos Anonymous at October 11, 2026 03:11 PM (Ovx+P)

170
JM,

We have the same problem.

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 03:11 PM (/QHx4)

171 Uranium glaze was/is common in ceramic, especially old, red pieces.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 11, 2026 03:11 PM (lUKBv)

172 Bottom of a tea tin? Wouldn't that be low tea?

Posted by: Weasel at October 11, 2026 03:11 PM (ei1sX)

173 If this keeps up, I may ask Santa that a hand tool pegboard be installed in the kitchen ... Geez.
Posted by: Kathy at October 11, 2026 03:05 PM (MOK4W)

Have you tried those rubber gripping pads for opening jars and such?

They work well for stuff that isn’t rusted on or something.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

A good whack or two with a knife handle will break the seal on the jar.

Posted by: Tuna at October 11, 2026 03:11 PM (lJ0H4)

174 Something smells here... Sortor better have the proof...
Posted by: It's me donna at October 11, 2026 03:09 PM (+gK6I)

The rumor got all the way to Spencer Pratt last week so people have been talking.

Short of a picture of him in the hospital or his medical records we may not get proof.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 03:12 PM (6ydKt)

175 169 "During my recorded call, an individual identifying themselves as a female facility employee reportedly stated that Talarico was no longer a patient and had been discharged within the previous 24–48 hours."

Yeah, but HIPAA is a pretty big thing and I have to imagine ANY and ALL employees are drilled on the rules repeatedly.

It seems odd that you can just call up, ask and get patient information.

Fishy.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 11, 2026 03:13 PM (Sco7b)

176 FWIW, we have a cat. Sort of...

(She's feral, but friendly...)

As far as Tally man goes - is this Eagleton 2.0

(Semi obscure reference)

Posted by: man at October 11, 2026 03:13 PM (pfXMo)

177 It is always wise to have the main pot, on a timer, for the whole house, and the secondary pot, for personal use, near your usual haunt.
Posted by: RandomDave

USB coffee cup heater for the win!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 11, 2026 03:13 PM (NnhvP)

178 I will say that Talarico comes across as very freaky. If you were going to vote for him before and now found out he spent time in a mental clinic? You are probably going to be easily convinced that seeking treatment is the healthy thing to do and only meanie MAGATs think it affects his ability to be a senator.

Barky had Serious daddy issues; granted there was no coverage of that fact, but it sure didn't stop awfuls from putting him in the oval office.

Posted by: PaleRider at October 11, 2026 03:14 PM (PV+Zw)

179 A good whack or two with a knife handle will break the seal on the jar.
Posted by: Tuna at October 11, 2026 03:11 PM (lJ0H4)

My Mom mentioned that a few times over the years.

She never really got to test the theory out because it was a lot easier to hand it to me and say “Open this for me, please”.

Worked for her every time.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 03:14 PM (6ydKt)

180 Talafreako should have come up with a better cover story than “the flu”, like saying he had to go to Kathmandu for urgent consultations with the Dalai Lama.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 11, 2026 03:14 PM (Y6Q+5)

181 Wouldn't that be low tea?"

*groan*

Posted by: man at October 11, 2026 03:14 PM (pfXMo)

182 Oh great, Hamas just congratulated the Nobel Peace Prize committee for awarding their award to Navi Pillay.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 11, 2026 03:15 PM (88C+u)

183 I need a tool in the kitchen to penetrate the bags of food; this used to be wax paper. But now cereal is packaged in Kevlar.
Posted by: JM

We call that tool a knife around here.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 11, 2026 03:15 PM (NnhvP)

184 No kitchen is complete without an acetylene torch.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at October 11, 2026 03:16 PM (4HoLg)

185 We call that tool a knife around here.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 11, 2026 03:15 PM (NnhvP)

Box cutters, scissors and cutting torches work, too

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 03:16 PM (6ydKt)

186 Wouldn't that be low tea?"

*groan*
Posted by: man at October 11, 2026 03:14 PM (pfXMo)
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Arguably not my best work.

Posted by: Weasel at October 11, 2026 03:16 PM (ei1sX)

187 It seems odd that you can just call up, ask and get patient information

You can't, HIPAA is no joke in the medical sector. Talarico might cop to his stay in the Rubber Wall Inn, but if he does he pretty much gets to own the place after the lawsuit.

Posted by: 88C+u used to work with hospitals at October 11, 2026 03:17 PM (88C+u)

188 Gimme, Gimme, Shock Treatment!

Posted by: James Talarico at October 11, 2026 03:18 PM (EdP2u)

189 We call that tool a knife around here.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 11, 2026

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LOL! But will a mere knife penetrate kevlar?

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 11, 2026 03:19 PM (PKL0q)

190 Some of the plastic packaging the put products in now takes a pair of vise grips, a lighter, a pair of scissors and a fillet knife to get open these days.

Especially if it is some kind of electronic device that gets shoplifted a lot.

They could wrap those things around tanks and repeal drones attacks in Ukraine.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 03:19 PM (6ydKt)

191 I don't understand.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 11, 2026 03:19 PM (iLKq8)

192 187 It seems odd that you can just call up, ask and get patient information

You can't, HIPAA is no joke in the medical sector. Talarico might cop to his stay in the Rubber Wall Inn, but if he does he pretty much gets to own the place after the lawsuit.
Posted by: 88C+u used to work with hospitals at October 11, 2026 03:17 PM (88C+u)

Exactly. That's why this seems....off.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 11, 2026 03:20 PM (Sco7b)

193 He couldn't figure out how to get the last of the tea dust out of the bottom of his tea tin...

Tea for the Talarman.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 11, 2026 03:20 PM (nFQ9p)

194 183. I prefer to use scissors. I have a pair in the kitchen just for cutting open food packaging. What gets me sometimes is the cheese snacks and so on. I have not yet included a scissors in my lunch bag so sometimes I have to use my pocketknife to get to my trail snacks.

Posted by: PaleRider at October 11, 2026 03:20 PM (PV+Zw)

195 Scissors, Harbor Freight $0.99, get some.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 11, 2026 03:21 PM (iLKq8)

196 Box cutters, scissors and cutting torches work, too
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 03:16 PM (6ydKt

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But that deprives me of the manly art of tearing the bag open with my bare hands!

Posted by: The Hulk at October 11, 2026 03:21 PM (PKL0q)

197 >>>@167 Have you tried those rubber gripping pads for opening jars and such? ... Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 03:10 PM (6ydKt)
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Greetings ... Yes, those flat rubber pads and "jar pops" made things easier for the longest while ... And they're what we will attempt to use at first ... Now, however, hubby and I are facing a possible hernia unless we grab a tool from the garage.

Posted by: Kathy at October 11, 2026 03:22 PM (MOK4W)

198 Gimme, Gimme, Shock Treatment!

Bitchin’ in the kitchen and scraping at the tea dust all night.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 11, 2026 03:22 PM (nFQ9p)

199 78 My FWP is I have a Fink on my lap and I can’t reach my coffee which is getting cold.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 11, 2026 02:16 PM (yEz+x)
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Warm kitty or warm coffee...you can't have both!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 11, 2026 02:28 PM (FZ29D)

; )

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 03:22 PM (odBC9)

200 Amazon sells scads of jar openers. They don't come with Bluetooth so that might be a deal-breaker.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at October 11, 2026 03:22 PM (VyD10)

201 No kitchen is complete without an acetylene torch.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at October 11, 2026 03:16 PM (4HoLg)
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And the obligatory fire extinguisher...

Alton Brown always said that's the only unitasker he allowed in his kitchen.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 11, 2026 03:22 PM (FZ29D)

202 200 Amazon sells scads of jar openers. They don't come with Bluetooth so that might be a deal-breaker.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at October 11, 2026 03:22 PM (VyD10)

I have one... My husband

Posted by: It's me donna at October 11, 2026 03:23 PM (+gK6I)

203 Ohio mental hospital CONFIRMS James Talarico was discharged from the facility earlier this week


HIPPA violation.
Some one is going to jail.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 11, 2026 03:23 PM (NnhvP)

204 Can you measure the diameter of the coil and the number of coils and get a rough calculation of the length without unspooling the whole thing?

Posted by: a.moron at October 11, 2026 03:00 PM (X5Jzz)

There are many, many coils. I will have to spool it out anyway, to install it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2026 03:24 PM (quk5M)

205 196: LOL, but spilling the bag of chips or whatever because the force needed to open it tears the bag apart only has to happen once before using scissors becomes the preferred option.

Posted by: PaleRider at October 11, 2026 03:24 PM (PV+Zw)

206 And here's a story that seems related to weird politics and jackasses. . Wild donkeys invade UC campus at Riverside. Legal Insurrection site:

https://tinyurl.com/mr4ysk84

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 11, 2026 03:25 PM (JrHfD)

207 " lead glaze was/is common in ceramic, especially old pieces.
IIRC there are test kits."

But I never heard of it in porcelain.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 11, 2026 03:26 PM (LOvBA)

208 LOL, but spilling the bag of chips or whatever because the force needed to open it tears the bag apart only has to happen once before using scissors becomes the preferred option.
Posted by: PaleRider

Band saw. Plus it is good cutting a roast into smaller chunks.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at October 11, 2026 03:26 PM (VyD10)

209 Beverage time still undecided what

Posted by: Skip at October 11, 2026 03:26 PM (Ia/+0)

210 clearly to get the stray tea-dust from the cannister, one should have the dedicated kitchen Van der Graaf electrostatic generator. It will attract loose material like that, and it will let them go when you turn the belt off.

Get a powerful enough one you can also use it to electrocute flies from across the room.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2026 03:26 PM (rbvCR)

211 176 As far as Tally man goes - is this Eagleton 2.0

(Semi obscure reference)
Posted by: man at October 11, 2026 03:13 PM (pfXMo)

My father saved everything, especially political buttons and signs. In the archives that reside under the guest bed now, is a McGovern Eagleton bumper sticker (they voted for Nixon). I think there’s a Goldwater yard sign somewhere in there.

Posted by: TxAnn at October 11, 2026 03:26 PM (itAg7)

212 Never mind that the tins were designed to stack nicely, at the expense of getting at the last bit of tea. And yes, there is a lip at the top that corresponds to the indentation at the bottom, so the last bit of tea CANNOT. BE. POURED.

Obviously, you're meant to brew the last cup of tea in the tea-leaf container. Triple-strain when pouring it into a teacup.

And the biggest problem? I don't even drink tea!

Then proper straining is less important.

Posted by: mikeski at October 11, 2026 03:26 PM (VHUov)

213 But will a mere knife penetrate kevlar?
Posted by: JM
It did when the 2 Russian solders tested it.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 11, 2026 03:26 PM (NnhvP)

214 That is funny. UC Riverside is literally butt-up against hills. Wild donkeys? LOL. Doesn't really surprise me.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 11, 2026 03:27 PM (LOvBA)

215 Kroger's, on a personal level, no respect; However, their kitchen implements are a good buy for the money. Bought a rubbery, tacky to the touch, pincer type thing with various sized notches for different jar lids. Hasn't failed once.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 11, 2026 03:27 PM (iLKq8)

216 Thanks for the reminder about pilot holes AOP. Would you recommend using some kind of filler like J-B Weld SteelStik where the square tubing is rusted?

Posted by: PaleRider at October 11, 2026 03:27 PM (PV+Zw)

217 Unfortunately, from having to deal with things having to do with my elderly parents who have not kept up with technology because they didn't want to, I've realized that I have to keep up whether I want to or not, for my kids' sake if nothing else.

I won't bore you with the details but I've spent many hours trying to untangle things for them. And not finished yet.
Posted by: bluebell at October 11, 2026 02:39 PM (uyuYG)

The stories I could and do tell re my father's thirty-year war with AT&T. His first forty years with AT&T was fine until his brother and sister started telling him about their rates in NM.
Then I bought him a cell phone for emergencies.
It was all downhill from there.
However, when he fell and broke his 94 year-old arm he was able to get his cell phone out of his pocket and call me to take him to the ER.
BTW. I have a rule that if I have to transport someone to the ER, I get to play "Ride of the Valkyries" during the drive.

Posted by: waepnedmann at October 11, 2026 03:28 PM (Hqnkf)

218 So far only plate, bull hide and chain mail stop knives.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 11, 2026 03:29 PM (iLKq8)

219 So the fact that someone was simply AT a medical facility is protected by HIPAA? Then why are we are ALWAYS hearing about people (e.g., Trump) going to the doctor, etc.?

Posted by: Weird at October 11, 2026 03:29 PM (Ovx+P)

220 HIPAA is no joke in the medical sector. Talarico might cop to his stay in the Rubber Wall Inn, but if he does he pretty much gets to own the place after the lawsuit.
Posted by: 88C+u used to work with hospitals at October 11, 2026 03:17 PM (88C+u)

Exactly. That's why this seems....off.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 11, 2026 03:20 PM (Sco7b)

HIPAA didn't stop my boss from appointing his assistant to call me and ask about my COVID vaccine status. This even after I explained to him that his inquiry by itself violated the statute. So I guess HIPAA is now more of a guideline than a rule...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 11, 2026 03:30 PM (08OqX)

221 I get to play "Ride of the Valkyries" during the drive.

You know, that only makes sense if the guy was a Christian. Otherwise, it is too dark.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 11, 2026 03:30 PM (LOvBA)

222 But I never heard of it in porcelain.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 11, 2026 03:26 PM (LOvBA)


lead glazes were used because they had a lower firing temperature for melting, that temperature is up there with the final firing temperatures for stoneware and standard clay bisque ceramics.
Porcelain, IIRC, requires a much higher temperature for firing, and would not require a lead glaze, though I think Wedgewood did actually use lead glazes in the 1800's
I know lead poisoning was an occupational hazard in the English ceramics industry, especially for the girls who did the painting.

Sorry, my brain is a wastebasket of random facts.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2026 03:30 PM (rbvCR)

223
The Midwest Borzoi Club had two specialty shows in Lima, OH yesterday. The Big Dummy was Award of Merit in the first show and Select Dog in the second.

TBD was handled in both by his Ohio mom. She sent pictures and neither end of the leash looked their best. Why leave anything on the table?

Her Majesty, when she was handling, would never have gone into the ring without both the dog and herself looking perfect. No detail was small enough to overlook. I remember a big Fall show in Columbus. Dorothy MacDonald was the breed judge and Roberta Campbell was the Hound Group judge. So HM wore a red sweater and a Tartan skirt. Breed and Group 2. That's using your kopf.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 11, 2026 03:30 PM (eRlcH)

224 But I never heard of it in porcelain.
Posted by: no one


From the web so you know it just has to be true!

Porcelain itself is naturally lead-free, as its clay body consists of kaolin, feldspar, and silica. However, the glaze applied to porcelain may contain lead, particularly in vintage pieces or those from manufacturers that have not adopted modern safety standards

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 11, 2026 03:31 PM (NnhvP)

225 Talafreako should have come up with a better cover story than “the flu”, like saying he had to go to Kathmandu for urgent consultations with the Dalai Lama.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Big hitter, that Lama.

Posted by: Carl Spackler at October 11, 2026 03:31 PM (seCv0)

226 Then why are we are ALWAYS hearing about people (e.g., Trump) going to the doctor, etc.?
Posted by: Weird

We all had to watch animated diagrams on TV about Reagan's bunghole when he had his polyps removed so I dunno.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 11, 2026 03:31 PM (88C+u)

227 196: LOL, but spilling the bag of chips or whatever because the force needed to open it tears the bag apart only has to happen once before using scissors becomes the preferred option.
Posted by: PaleRider at October 11, 2026 03:24 PM (

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I saw the chips fly everywhere exactly as you say while watching a football game at my cousin's place. His wife was NOT amused. What must have been forty years ago and I still remember it

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 11, 2026 03:31 PM (PKL0q)

228 Yeah, COVID also destroyed the Nuremberg Protocol whereby you do not have to submit yourself to experimental treatment without "informed consent."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 11, 2026 03:32 PM (LOvBA)

229 BTW. I have a rule that if I have to transport someone to the ER, I get to play "Ride of the Valkyries" during the drive.
Posted by: waepnedmann at October 11, 2026 03:28 PM (Hqnkf)


Make a second rule: You get to write any pre-treatment and initial diagnosis taken prior to the parking lot on their foreheads in sharpie "just in case"

Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2026 03:32 PM (rbvCR)

230 Well, I drink tea. A lot of tea. And pretty much all of it Red Rose. It's black, it's good, and it's been the same damn thing since I was a kid. I drink it black or with a pinch of sugar (only use I've ever found for the 1/16th tsp spoon). And I can usually get it for under $5/100. A product of always been satisfied with. Rare.
Lipton, on the other hand, is pig piss.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 11, 2026 03:33 PM (sl73Y)

231 "Sorry, my brain is a wastebasket of random facts."

Not a wastebasket. A treasure trove.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 11, 2026 03:34 PM (LOvBA)

232 213 But will a mere knife penetrate kevlar?
Posted by: JM
It did when the 2 Russian solders tested it.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 11, 2026 03:26

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Good to know

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 11, 2026 03:35 PM (PKL0q)

233 So I guess HIPAA is now more of a guideline than a rule...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 11, 2026 03:30 PM (08OqX)


The only purpose for HIPAA was to assure that politicians would not have their AIDS / HIV status revealed. The fact that your medical records now can be revealed to anyone other than your family is merely a side benefit.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2026 03:35 PM (rbvCR)

234 If Freako’s stay was leaked to a 3rd party unknown to the joint, he could plausibly deny the story as hearsay.

Posted by: Accomack at October 11, 2026 03:36 PM (FqNtp)

235 HIPAA didn't stop my boss from appointing his assistant to call me and ask about my COVID vaccine status. This even after I explained to him that his inquiry by itself violated the statute. So I guess HIPAA is now more of a guideline than a rule...
Posted by: Joe Kidd

The rule is for hospital / pt care workers,. They can ask you. you don't have to answered.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 11, 2026 03:36 PM (NnhvP)

236
Not a wastebasket. A treasure trove.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 11, 2026 03:34 PM (LOvBA)


"Your brain, [Kindltot], is a vast wading pool of information. Miles wide, inches deep"

Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2026 03:36 PM (rbvCR)

237 Carried this knife for years, it's very handy, all of the tools are sharp and work well. It's so small you can easily forget it's there.
But it will cut your packages open.
It will trim that errant thread.
It won't win a knife fight.

Victorinox Classic SD Swiss Army Knife, Compact, 7 Functions, Swiss Made Pocket Knife with Small Blade, File, Scissors, Screwdriver and Key Ring - Style Icon (Red)

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 11, 2026 03:37 PM (iLKq8)

238
One of my FWPs is that I never know what I'm looking at in these FWP photos.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 11, 2026 03:39 PM (mmrXZ)

239
"Your brain, [Kindltot], is a vast wading pool of information. Miles wide, inches deep"
Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2026 03:36 PM (rbvCR)

__________

Mine is like the Milky Way. Looks good until you remember how much empty space there is.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 11, 2026 03:39 PM (eRlcH)

240 Her Majesty, when she was handling, would never have gone into the ring without both the dog and herself looking perfect. No detail was small enough to overlook. I remember a big Fall show in Columbus. Dorothy MacDonald was the breed judge and Roberta Campbell was the Hound Group judge. So HM wore a red sweater and a Tartan skirt. Breed and Group 2. That's using your kopf.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 11, 2026 03:30 PM (eRlcH)
===-

Poise counts!

Posted by: Kramer at October 11, 2026 03:39 PM (RIvkX)

241
We all had to watch animated diagrams on TV about Reagan's bunghole when he had his polyps removed so I dunno.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 11, 2026 03:31 PM (88C+u)

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Remind me of the torture scene in Goldfinger;
Do you expect me to talk?
No Mr Bond/Reagan, I expect you to die

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 11, 2026 03:40 PM (PKL0q)

242 Love tea.
That said, take the empty tin, fill with water, replace lid, use as target at the rifle range. Results will be impressive.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 11, 2026 03:40 PM (2WIwB)

243 Your brain, [Kindltot], is a vast wading pool of information. Miles wide, inches deep"
Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2026 03:36 PM (rbvCR)

__________

Mine is like the Milky Way. Looks good until you remember how much empty space there is.
Posted by: Hadrian

Mine is a steel trap for trivia. Important info? It's a sieve.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 11, 2026 03:41 PM (NnhvP)

244 Braenyard atOctober 11, 2026 03:37 PM (iLK

All the tools are sharp
And work very well.
I carried this knife for years—
It’s very handy.
It will cut through packages.
It will trim that thread.
It won’t win a knife fight
So you’re gonna be dead

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 11, 2026 03:41 PM (nFQ9p)

245 219 So the fact that someone was simply AT a medical facility is protected by HIPAA? Then why are we are ALWAYS hearing about people (e.g., Trump) going to the doctor, etc.?

Posted by: Weird at October 11, 2026 03:29 PM (Ovx+P)


I think Presidential doctor visits are typically announced in order to avoid rumors and speculation about the President's health. Nothing to stop the patient from talking about their health, HIPPA prohibits medical personnel and facilities from disclosing patient information without permission from the patient. And I believe merely confirming that someone was a patient is a violation, however I'm not a lawyer.

Posted by: a.moron at October 11, 2026 03:41 PM (X5Jzz)

246 >>>@215 Kroger's ... Bought a rubbery, tacky to the touch, pincer type thing with various sized notches for different jar lids. Hasn't failed once ... Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 11, 2026 03:27 PM (iLKq
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Thank you ... I found an image of this item only, then saw that it's available at a local hardware store for $5 ... Betcha hubby and I each find one in our stockings this Christmas!

Posted by: Kathy at October 11, 2026 03:42 PM (MOK4W)

247 Making herbal licorice tea

Posted by: Skip at October 11, 2026 03:42 PM (Ia/+0)

248 Lipton, on the other hand, is pig piss.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 11, 2026 03:33 PM (sl73Y)

My Lipton tea is excellent.
You must be doing it wrong.

You already said you use a 1/16th of a teaspoon of sugar so I know you're doing it wrong. I bet you don't even put ice in it, amateur.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 03:43 PM (6ydKt)

249 220

HIPAA didn't stop my boss from appointing his assistant to call me and ask about my COVID vaccine status. This even after I explained to him that his inquiry by itself violated the statute. So I guess HIPAA is now more of a guideline than a rule...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 11, 2026 03:30 PM (08OqX)


That was different, Covid was going to kill everyone unless you were vaxed and wore three paper masks.

Posted by: a.moron at October 11, 2026 03:43 PM (X5Jzz)

250 I have never used a QR code for anything, and have never had a QR code reader in a phone. And it would be ridiculously easy to print the wrong QR code on a part, since they are not human-readable.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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QR codes can KMA. QR codes are designed to carry much information; information totally unnecessary for simple transactions. This collecting of individuals personal information making them the product is out of hand. Them collecting our information and selling it or using it to 'persuade' or influence our buying or other activity is little less than slavery by another color.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 11, 2026 03:45 PM (iLKq8)

251 I bet you don't even put ice in it, amateur.

I bet he doesn’t even feed the pig asparagus first.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 11, 2026 03:45 PM (nFQ9p)

252 I never know what I know until I hear something asked and the answer pops up.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 11, 2026 03:45 PM (sl73Y)

253 31 18 Today we went to replace the part, and when we took the cover off we discovered that the part actually had a QR code on it. When we tried to put in the new part that was about half an inch higher than the old part, I used the QR code and discovered that the old part was a different number than the replacement part that LG had told me to get.

So I went searching for the "correct" part. Except, every website, INCLUDING LG, told me that the QR code part number was not the correct part for my model.
Posted by: bluebell at October 11, 2026 02:10 PM (uyuYG)

That's why the washer leaked! Because the wrong part was in it!

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 03:46 PM (odBC9)

254 251 I bet you don't even put ice in it, amateur.

I bet he doesn’t even feed the pig asparagus first.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 11, 2026 03:45 PM (nFQ9p)


The only drawback to grilled asparagus is taking a whiz an hour later.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 03:46 PM (6ydKt)

255 There's lots of rules in HIPAA and lots of exceptions to the rules. Such as 'business partners' and 'as long as it's (laughably) anonymized...'

Posted by: RandomDave at October 11, 2026 03:46 PM (aJQbY)

256 Crap. Ralphy was outside. I had my shoes on ready to go out and lift him up the 2 steps. His jump has been off.

But he's there, full of life, bouncing with a "Hey, check this out!" look on his face. I gave him a chance. He sprawled. Not hurt. That was his last time on outside steps. I'll carry him.

He's fine going down and I hold his collar.

So many baby gates around my house.

FoxNews is reporting on France. Wow, student protests about education. Who needs the freaking truth.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at October 11, 2026 03:47 PM (Sco7b)

257 Amazon is crook.

Used to go to the 'items you bought' to help with my shopping.
Now, items I have never bought are included.
Items that I have bought but they no longer sell are excluded.
It doesn't say, 'no longer offered', it' disappeared.
I have screen snaps bitches.


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 11, 2026 03:48 PM (iLKq8)

258 This weeks FWP:

Specialist Doctor's bill has QR code to payment agency and transaction ID. Code works ID + name does not

Posted by: DaveA at October 11, 2026 03:49 PM (FhXTo)

259
That's why the washer leaked! Because the wrong part was in it!

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 03:46 PM (odBC9)


*points at head*
This one has some brains.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 03:50 PM (6ydKt)

260 find the bill.

mistyping mid post is a permanent DaveAWorldProblem

Posted by: DaveA at October 11, 2026 03:50 PM (FhXTo)

261 It won’t win a knife fight
So you’re gonna be dead
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October

--‐
Check: Rebel without a cause
Check: West side story
Check: Saving private ryan

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 11, 2026 03:50 PM (PKL0q)

262 This weeks FWP. ( might of been last weeks too)
Watching space movies and the space "fighters" all have wings. Why wings? It space. No air. Wings won't work.
Sheesh!

Posted by: Diogenes at October 11, 2026 03:52 PM (2WIwB)

263 It won’t win a knife fight
So you’re gonna be dead

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair
---

The plan is to never engage a knife fight.
Perish the fool who attempts it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 11, 2026 03:52 PM (iLKq8)

264 My washing machine story is different. The appliance center tells me I can find all the part numbers from the model number and serial number. However this machine is completely innocent of any such markings.
I bought it second hand, and I have come to the conclusion that it has been rebuilt numerous times, and if it were a used car I bought in a private sale, it would have four different brands of tires and an unmatching blue door.

I think the current issue is a bad clutch on the direct drive motor, and this is probably caused by the drum being completely unbalanced due to worn skid pads

Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2026 03:52 PM (rbvCR)

265 The rule is for hospital / pt care workers,. They can ask you. you don't have to answered.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 11, 2026 03:36 PM (NnhvP)

When I was coordinating the installation of ISDN cameras in operating rooms for Operation Smile, I was informed by more than one hospital's legal department that, should any footage of the video stream of the surgical procedure leak out to the public, I would be held personally liable under HIPAA.

Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 11, 2026 03:54 PM (08OqX)

266 --‐
Check: Rebel without a cause
Check: West side story
Check: Saving private ryan

Posted by: JM
---

Check: Raiders of the Lost Ark

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 11, 2026 03:55 PM (iLKq8)

267 influence our buying or other activity is little less than slavery by another color.

Posted by: Braenyard

So all marketing is slavery? Maybe a bit too broad.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 11, 2026 03:56 PM (NnhvP)

268 I would be held personally liable under HIPAA.
Posted by: Joe Kidd

exactly, the person is hunted and persecuted.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 11, 2026 03:57 PM (NnhvP)

269 I think the current issue is a bad clutch on the direct drive motor, and this is probably caused by the drum being completely unbalanced due to worn skid pads

Posted by: Kindltot
---

This is recent driveway rebuild #3? There are folks who make a living rebuilding and selling machines. Is it time to consider buying a 'new' used machine?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 11, 2026 03:58 PM (iLKq8)

270 probably caused by the drum being completely unbalanced due to worn skid pads
Posted by: Kindlto

Same here, Fat. All my pants and briefs Have worn skid pads!

Posted by: Joe 46! at October 11, 2026 03:59 PM (EdP2u)

271 FOOD NOOD

Posted by: Skip at October 11, 2026 04:01 PM (Ia/+0)

272 Watching space movies and the space "fighters" all have wings. Why wings? It space. No air. Wings won't work.

Maybe they're radiators.

Posted by: thermodynamics always wins at October 11, 2026 04:01 PM (88C+u)

273 Nood food.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 11, 2026 04:02 PM (NnhvP)

274 Is Typhoo Still Good?

https://teas.co.uk/wiki/is-typhoo-still-good/

If you do not use a double boil with a teapot your tea is only going to be so good, no matter what quality tea you use. If you do not know what the double boil method is, please try it. It means use the first boil to warm the teapot. Then pour it out and use the second boil to make your tea in the now warmed tea pot. It makes a world of difference!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 11, 2026 04:07 PM (bELOb)

275 See, that's what happens when you put the dog food next to the coffee beans.

Posted by: Judge Smails at October 11, 2026 04:11 PM (3mtzY)

276 Food thread just disappeared

Posted by: Tuna at October 11, 2026 04:11 PM (lJ0H4)

277 What happened to the food thread: it seems to have disappeared?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 11, 2026 04:12 PM (bELOb)

278 Well, I went out and measured it. Snow has all gone, now. It measures at 99 feet, by tape measure. Came back in, checked my Amazon account. Doh! I ordered 100 feet, and I am willing to believe that's what I got. So not Amazon's fault, a brain fart on my part. So do I order another hundred feet, or can I get 50 feet? My clothesline measures about 70 feet from pulley to pulley, so allowing for the foot or so wrap around each pulley, 150 feet would be enough. And I can have a splice. Just place it in the top run of the line a couple of feet short of the far post. The little tensioner windlass lives in the bottom run next to the "home" post. The clothes on the line will reach the far post long before the splice reaches the home post.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2026 04:12 PM (quk5M)

279 bleeping sock.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 11, 2026 04:13 PM (3mtzY)

280 It’s back!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 11, 2026 04:14 PM (bELOb)

281 Food thread just disappeared

It was a HIPPO violation.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 11, 2026 04:14 PM (nFQ9p)

282 Did the tea that once filled this tin come from the first world? Where was the tea tin manufactured? Is this purely a first world problem? Perhaps this is a third world problem transported to the first world.

Posted by: LibertyDefender at October 11, 2026 04:15 PM (4PSM0)

283 Thanks for the reminder about pilot holes AOP. Would you recommend using some kind of filler like J-B Weld SteelStik where the square tubing is rusted?
Posted by: PaleRider at October 11, 2026 03:27 PM (PV+Zw)

It will hide the holes. I doubt it will add much strength. If the piece in question needs to be intact for strength reasons, either cut the entire piece out and replace it, or cut back to sound metal and weld in a patch. If the piece is non-critical, strength-wise, I would suggest using Bondo short-fiber green fiberglass filler. It's much cheaper per unit volume than the JB Weld.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2026 04:24 PM (quk5M)

284 If the patient is in the directory: Staff will typically confirm the patient is admitted, provide their room number, and share their general condition if you ask for them by name.

If the patient opted out: The hospital will state that they have no record of the person or refuse to confirm their presence, as disclosing even their admission would violate privacy laws.

Exceptions: Hospitals generally cannot confirm the presence of patients in psychiatric holds or those admitted for substance abuse treatment without specific consent, and they cannot disclose specific diagnoses or reasons for admission without authorization.

Posted by: @SOEarpiece at October 11, 2026 04:44 PM (4NO2D)

The Nobel Peace Prize Is Neither Noble Nor Supportive Of Peace!

Navi Pillay just won the Nobel Peace Prize, and for those of you who are thinking..."Who," (I'm one of them) you would be entirely correct. She is an apparatchik in the international justice racket, first serving as a judge in South Africa..a well-known bastion of the rule of law! She then moved on to the UN, the International Criminal Court, and the International Criminal Tribunal For Rwanda.

These are just some of the organizations across the world that are linked by a common motivation...vast virtue signalling while doing almost nothing to combat the evils of the world. And they are committed post-modern adherents to the concept that the 3rd World can do no wrong, while the West is the root of all evil! Remember, the parent organization of the "Peace" Industry is the United Nations!

the UN's 54-nation Economic and Social Council nominated the Islamic Republic of Iran to the UN's Committee for Program and Coordination, which meets next month to shape policy on women's rights, human rights, disarmament, and terrorism prevention.

Iran most recently murdered between 50,000 and 100,000 protestors, uses rape as a theological weapon, and is the world's foremost sponsor of terrorism. Which makes them adored by the United Nations!

Back to Navi Pillay. She is a typical anti-Western 3rd Worlder who is conspicuously silent when it comes to the real evil in the world. Remember the massacre at Charlie Hebdo? Yeah, she blamed them for their own murders, but conveniently described them as "protests." And when Danish newspapers reprinted the cartoons and a car bomb struck the Danish Embassy in Pakistan, she recommended censoring them rather than defending freedom of speech.

Her record is depressingly consistent, and it is focused not on freedom, but on her 3rd World sensibility of Western responsibility for the ills of the world.

And the Nobel Committee gobbles up that sort of crap! Have there been deserving winners? Sure, but just glance at the list of winners and it is obvious that it is usually hyper-political, self-serving, anti-Western, and also impossibly silly.

Maybe Next Year They'll Give the Chemistry Prize to a Hamas Bomb Maker
-- Garry Kasparov

To be fair to the other Nobel Prize winners, the peace prize is decided by an entirely different organization called the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which is a five-member committee chosen by the Norwegian parliament, and whose decisions are final and do not go before the larger assembly.

But that comment illuminates the problem inherent in the commercialization and politicization of the peace process. The world spends billions of dollars each year on hundreds of international committees and organizations (including the UN) that do very little other than enrich many thousands of otherwise useless people who have spent their lives within that bubble. Elite University to small NGO to larger NGO to government service to mega-NGO...complete with private jets and great restaurants and luxury hotels in every city. And on the way they lecture the West about how evil we are and how we should spend more money helping the developing world, while siphoning off most of that money for their own.

All of those organizations, and the prizes they give to their friends and colleagues and fellow NGOs are a boondoggle that pisses away money that could be spent on more productive things, or even better, not spent at all, so the taxpayers of the West who fund these things can keep a little bit more of their money.

Posted by: CBD at 12:00 PM




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1 Good afternoon everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 11, 2026 12:00 PM (Ia/+0)

2 Good Sunday to all.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 11, 2026 12:02 PM (iIyc0)

3 Dutifully called em

Posted by: Skip at October 11, 2026 12:04 PM (Ia/+0)

4 It's a participation trophy given to the loudest mouthed leftist.

Obama got one, right?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 11, 2026 12:04 PM (RORbl)

5 Like all Leftists organizations the rot is beyond repair

Posted by: Skip at October 11, 2026 12:04 PM (Ia/+0)

6 The Arafat Peace Prize?

Posted by: Roy at October 11, 2026 12:07 PM (qwype)

7 I thought it was a joke when He won it in 2009. When TR won it he had to help negotiate the end of the Russo-Japanese War!

I never heard of this Navi Pillay bint and wish I never did. She needs to be sent back to the RSA and condemned to stay there. Sadly, I believe her views are commonplace in the RSA.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 11, 2026 12:08 PM (ekZzx)

8 The Nobel committee lost all credibility the moment Yassar Arafat got a prize. It’s been meaningless since then. Lefties ruin everything

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 11, 2026 12:09 PM (M+uMR)

9
Obama got one, right?

Just for being elected.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 11, 2026 12:09 PM (Cqx++)

10 8 The Nobel committee lost all credibility the moment Yassar Arafat got a prize. It’s been meaningless since then. Lefties ruin everything
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 11, 2026 12:09 PM (M+uMR)

Obama

Posted by: It's me donna at October 11, 2026 12:10 PM (+gK6I)

11 Great News.

Jeffrey Dahmer just won the Nobel Prize for Medicine!!

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 11, 2026 12:10 PM (Sco7b)

12 9
Obama got one, right?

Just for being elected.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 11, 2026 12:09 PM (Cqx++)

For being black. It was an aspirational award given to him in advance for all the good he would do bringing peace to the world.

The committee may have been influenced by all the pictures of Obama surrounded by halos. Those were fun. And subtle.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 11, 2026 12:11 PM (Sco7b)

13 The Nobel Committee would award their Peace Prize to Satan before awarding it to anyone in the US to the right of Bernie Sanders.

Posted by: Gref at October 11, 2026 12:11 PM (5rh/l)

14 Nobel Prize Winner in Literature Anne Carson. One of her poems:

My personal poetry is a failure.
I do not want to be a person.
I want to be unbearable.
Lover to lover, the greenness of love.
Cool, cooling.

https://tinyurl.com/2bpywcwt
-
You want to be unbearable? Well, congratulations and we'll spot you the insufferable!

P.S. And you thought they couldn't do worse than Bob Dylan.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 11, 2026 12:12 PM (ndZc7)

15 Maybe Trump will lose interest in this prize.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at October 11, 2026 12:15 PM (cWLG3)

16 Haven’t we arrived at the point where the Nobel
Committee is antisemitic? I saw an article written by Elie Wiesel’s son last night and he was lamenting this prize and that was his conclusion. I agree… this lady seems obsessed with accusing Israel of genocide because they have the nerve to defend themselves

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 11, 2026 12:16 PM (M+uMR)

17 On the upside, she might not smell as bad as Arafat.

Posted by: Dr. Shannon Klingman at October 11, 2026 12:17 PM (EdP2u)

18 Even the Austrian Painter was nominated for the Nobel...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 12:18 PM (l3cgK)

19
Was Ol'Navi involved in the main horror of South African "justice"....necklacing?

Necklacing, in case you've forgotten, is the practice of tying someone's hands ten cramming a tire soaked in gasoline over their heads and torso's then setting it on fire to suffocate and burn them to death.

She shouldn't be any where near a Nobel or even a generic Peace Prize.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 11, 2026 12:18 PM (YSUhf)

20 On a happier note, America, F*ck Yeah!

March For Our Lives
@AMarch4OurLives
The United States has more guns in civilian hands than every military in the world combined.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 11, 2026 12:18 PM (ndZc7)

21 Nobel Prize Winner in Literature Anne Carson. One of her poems:

My personal poetry is a failure.
I do not want to be a person.
I want to be unbearable.
Lover to lover, the greenness of love.
Cool, cooling.


Worst. Limerick. Ever.


Posted by: naturalfake at October 11, 2026 12:18 PM (YSUhf)

22 19
Was Ol'Navi involved in the main horror of South African "justice"....necklacing?

Necklacing, in case you've forgotten, is the practice of tying someone's hands ten cramming a tire soaked in gasoline over their heads and torso's then setting it on fire to suffocate and burn them to death.

She shouldn't be any where near a Nobel or even a generic Peace Prize.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 11, 2026 12:18 PM (YSUhf)

Winnie Mandela was nominated for the Nobel in 1984...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 12:19 PM (l3cgK)

23 >>Maybe Trump will lose interest in this prize.

He did. Years ago when he was asked about the Nobel and he replied "Peace is the prize".

Anyone notice what just happened between Russia and Ukraine?

Posted by: JackStraw at October 11, 2026 12:19 PM (viF8m)

24 21 Nobel Prize Winner in Literature Anne Carson. One of her poems:

My personal poetry is a failure.
I do not want to be a person.
I want to be unbearable.
Lover to lover, the greenness of love.
Cool, cooling.

Worst. Limerick. Ever.


Posted by: naturalfake at October 11, 2026 12:18 PM (YSUhf)

Doggerel.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 12:20 PM (l3cgK)

25 Look Fat, I deserve one too! I got 81 million votes, campaigning from my basement!

Posted by: Doktor Biden's Husband at October 11, 2026 12:20 PM (EdP2u)

26 And Elisha Wiesel-son of Eli Wiesel -condemned the award being given to her as well:

https://tinyurl.com/pxebz2x7

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 11, 2026 12:20 PM (JrHfD)

27 The Nobel Committee

I think they really stepped in it this time...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 11, 2026 12:20 PM (+gK6I)

28
In my own neck of the woods, I can't say any of the Chemistry laureates didn't deserve it, but there are those who were overlooked for personal reasons. Mendelev was nominated many times, but Svente Arrenius always blackballed him. Henry Eyring never got it because he was a prominent Mormon. F. Albert Cotton never got it because Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson hated his guts.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 11, 2026 12:20 PM (eRlcH)

29
JackStraw,

Yes, great news.

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 12:21 PM (/QHx4)

30 The person who received the Nobel Peace Prize is an international court judge. She's one of those people who is anti-Israel and will use any means to stop them.

Posted by: dantesed at October 11, 2026 12:22 PM (Oy/m2)

31 Has anyone figured out what the Big Beautiful Russian Diesel Deal is supposed to do? Is it:
a. A simple attempt to lower fuel prices in the US before the election?
b. The US sending a message to Zelensky to stop attacking Russian oil infrastructure, which is messing with the world economy, without the US switching sides in the war?
c. The US switching sides in the war?
d. 4D chess, and now Putin has a reason to stop the war, to end the refinery attacks, so Russia can earn some foreign currency?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 11, 2026 12:22 PM (TRsrv)

32 23 >>Maybe Trump will lose interest in this prize.

He did. Years ago when he was asked about the Nobel and he replied "Peace is the prize".

Anyone notice what just happened between Russia and Ukraine?

Posted by: JackStraw at October 11, 2026 12:19 PM (viF8m)

You mean the Russian Yandex datacenter? Someone was saying that 50% of the spam traffic suddenly went quiet...
https://youtu.be/EKu7TYWNxqA

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 12:22 PM (l3cgK)

33 25 Look Fat, I deserve one too! I got 81 million votes, campaigning from my basement!

Posted by: Doktor Biden's Husband at October 11, 2026 12:20 PM (EdP2u)

Is there a Nobel for fertilizer production?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 12:23 PM (l3cgK)

34 Mendelev was nominated many times, but Svente Arrenius always blackballed him.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 11, 2026 12:20 PM (eRlcH)


Eh...a correct periodic table isn't that important.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 11, 2026 12:23 PM (k5CNB)

35 So....

I was cleaning up the dishes when this song suddenly popped into my head from when I was a wee lad.

Sing around the campfire
Join the Campfire Girls
Sing WoHeLo
Sing WoHeLo
Work, Health, Love

The Campfire Girls advertised all the time on TV.

I was a Cub Scout. So, I knew about the Brownies but I never met any Campfire Girls.

I just assumed they were 2nd tier Brownies or some such thing.

Anyway...were any of you Ettes Campfire Girls?

If so, what was that all about?

Posted by: naturalfake at October 11, 2026 12:24 PM (YSUhf)

36 I don't know if the prize for mathematics has already been awarded but . . .

Ezydu
@ezradulis
Actor Matthew Lillard: "There are more rapists from that university [Cornell] than there are trans athletes in the world competing in boys' – in other sports."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 11, 2026 12:24 PM (ndZc7)

37 I always thought it would be funny to adopt a female African name and write a heartfelt book of love and loss as I deal with Western prejudice and my own society's dim view of lesbianism.

I'd toss in one or two other pet projects too. Maybe I'm also 250 pounds and promoting fat acceptance.

Lay back and just let the accolades and awards roll in.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 11, 2026 12:24 PM (Sco7b)

38 Is there a Nobel for fertilizer production?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 12:23 PM (l3cgK)


They have gotten it correct a few times. They gave Norman Borlaug the Nobel Peace Prize!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 11, 2026 12:25 PM (k5CNB)

39 Perfect, CBD.

Posted by: scottst at October 11, 2026 12:25 PM (c4ays)

40 Sing around the campfire
Join the Campfire Girls
Sing WoHeLo
Sing WoHeLo
Work, Health, Love

I salute you for remembering my song.

Posted by: Patrice Munsel at October 11, 2026 12:28 PM (EdP2u)

41 Posted by: scottst at October 11, 2026 12:25 PM (c4ays)

Thank you!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 11, 2026 12:28 PM (k5CNB)

42 >>You mean the Russian Yandex datacenter? Someone was saying that 50% of the spam traffic suddenly went quiet..

I mean Trump just bitch slapped that cosplaying midget in Ukraine and diesel prices are going to start dropping.

Unexpectedly.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 11, 2026 12:28 PM (viF8m)

43 Look, it's quite simple. They're international criminals and they've got themselves a court.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 11, 2026 12:29 PM (ndZc7)

44 43 Look, it's quite simple. They're international criminals and they've got themselves a court.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 11, 2026 12:29 PM (ndZc7)

Thus the name.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 12:30 PM (l3cgK)

45 Per article in the Post "President toys with renaming Atlantic and Pacific ‘Trump Ocean’"

Ha ha. He's the master at trolling.

Posted by: Tuna at October 11, 2026 12:30 PM (lJ0H4)

46 They have gotten it correct a few times. They gave Norman Borlaug the Nobel Peace Prize!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

A wonderful Norwegian-American that might have saved billions from starving to death.

Posted by: King Olav V at October 11, 2026 12:31 PM (EdP2u)

47 I mean Trump just bitch slapped that cosplaying midget in Ukraine and diesel prices are going to start dropping.

Unexpectedly.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 11, 2026 12:28 PM (viF8m)

ABC had a weepy Zelenskiy on this morning talking about how it's up to his "people" to call for an election and he needs the US to stop Putin.... The "media" was chomping at the bit to go after Trump.. How long before we get another "Russiagate"?

Posted by: It's me donna at October 11, 2026 12:31 PM (+gK6I)

48 Is there a single person on this planet whose life was in any way improved by the blatherings of this dumb bint?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 11, 2026 12:32 PM (guGkK)

49
I salute you for remembering my song.
Posted by: Patrice Munsel at October 11, 2026 12:28 PM (EdP2u)

____________

She made her Metropolitan Opera debut at 18, which Rudolf Bing described as a record he prayed would never be broken.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 11, 2026 12:32 PM (eRlcH)

50 15 Maybe Trump will lose interest in this prize.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at October 11, 2026 12:15 PM (cWLG3)

The Bien Pensants are always quick to call Trump unseemly for wanting the Nobel Prize, while the point of the prize is for people to actually compete for it, and in the competition peace would begin to break out.

That said, it's a fools errand to expect this crowd to recognize Trump. History will get the last laugh. Besides, he'd be in good company. Gandhi never got a Prize, either.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 11, 2026 12:32 PM (MqX6L)

51 The memo has gone out.

https://tinyurl.com/y2xw8k94

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 11, 2026 12:35 PM (ndZc7)

52 45 Per article in the Post "President toys with renaming Atlantic and Pacific ‘Trump Ocean’"

Ha ha. He's the master at trolling.

Posted by: Tuna at October 11, 2026 12:30 PM (lJ0H4)

East Trump Sea, West Trump Sea...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 12:37 PM (l3cgK)

53
Speaking of opera...

The lovely and cultured Mrs naturalfake and I will being seeing and hearing Donizetti's "The Elixir of Love" this week.

Should be a fun time.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 11, 2026 12:37 PM (YSUhf)

54 I was hoping my work in theoretical physics would finally be recognized.

Posted by: Weasel at October 11, 2026 12:37 PM (ei1sX)

55 The memo has gone out.

https://tinyurl.com/y2xw8k94
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie?

Could they be anymore more obvious? LOL

Posted by: Tuna at October 11, 2026 12:37 PM (lJ0H4)

56 48 Is there a single person on this planet whose life was in any way improved by the blatherings of this dumb bint?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 11, 2026 12:32 PM (guGkK)

Politicians and journalists?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 12:37 PM (l3cgK)

57 " Nobel Peace Prize Is Neither Noble Nor Supportive Of Peace!"

Except in the way The Religion Of Peace is about peace. Once everyone else is in full submission, or dead, then there will be peace. (but only for those in charge)

Posted by: illiniwek at October 11, 2026 12:38 PM (vbXSk)

58 This guy deserves the prize for economics.

ICE to deport illegal alien who pretended to be part of DHS and sold deportation "immunity" cards to other illegal aliens

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 11, 2026 12:38 PM (ndZc7)

59 Looks like we're going to find out where Peg-boy Talarico was for 12 days. Seems Sortor and another reporter are going to spill the beans at 1pm if his campaign doesn't.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 11, 2026 12:39 PM (uOLcV)

60 58 This guy deserves the prize for economics.

ICE to deport illegal alien who pretended to be part of DHS and sold deportation "immunity" cards to other illegal aliens

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 11, 2026 12:38 PM (ndZc7)

So like the "Get out of Jail Free" cards in Monopoly?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 12:39 PM (l3cgK)

61 59 Looks like we're going to find out where Peg-boy Talarico was for 12 days. Seems Sortor and another reporter are going to spill the beans at 1pm if his campaign doesn't.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 11, 2026 12:39 PM (uOLcV)

Old and out: Peg-leg
New and Improved: Pegged-ass

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 12:40 PM (l3cgK)

62
Look, it's quite simple. They're international criminals and they've got themselves a court.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks


Is that where they play midnight basketball?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 11, 2026 12:41 PM (Cqx++)

63 Per article in the Post "President toys with renaming Atlantic and Pacific ‘Trump Ocean’"

Ha ha. He's the master at trolling.

Posted by: Tuna at October 11, 2026 12:30 PM (lJ0H4)

East Trump Sea, West Trump Sea...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Heck, why not rename the Rocky Mountains too. The Trump Mountains has a nice ring to it. Think of all those rich lefties in Aspen and Vail having to ski The Trumps.

Posted by: Tuna at October 11, 2026 12:41 PM (lJ0H4)

64 The memo has gone out.

https://tinyurl.com/y2xw8k94
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 11, 2026 12:35 PM (ndZc7)

Who or what is Miss Rachel? I have no clue what the context is. Still, it's funny how the left parrots identical talking points so efficiently.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 11, 2026 12:43 PM (0aYVJ)

65 >>How long before we get another "Russiagate"?

As long as we stop falling for media bullshit and look at the facts, never.

Other than hard sciences, the Nobel is a participation trophy for obeying the blob. Barry Soetero got one just for being half black.

The men who pioneered ivermectin as a cheap and effective treatment for a variety of infections shared a Nobel. Then they got ignored when it didn't fit the media's narrative.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 11, 2026 12:43 PM (viF8m)

66 > You mean the Russian Yandex datacenter? Someone was saying that 50% of the spam traffic suddenly went quiet..
---------
Russia, had.... 3 of them. 2 were put out of action and the 3rd is (last I saw) at risk, but still standing.

Now, if "someone" would hit China's datacenter bot farms. All of them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 11, 2026 12:43 PM (RORbl)

67
ICE to deport illegal alien who pretended to be part of DHS and sold deportation "immunity" cards to other illegal aliens

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
--------

Apparently he perceives 'The Land of Opportunity' differently than we do.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 11, 2026 12:44 PM (XeU6L)

68 The memo has gone out.

https://tinyurl.com/y2xw8k94
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 11, 2026 12:35 PM (ndZc7)


That isn't our "Gabe" is it?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 11, 2026 12:45 PM (guGkK)

69 I was hoping my work in theoretical physics would finally be recognized.

Posted by: Weasel at October 11, 2026 12:37 PM (ei1sX)


Check the sidebar.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 11, 2026 12:45 PM (k5CNB)

70 Who or what is Miss Rachel?

She's a vehement Jew-hater who has a kid's channel on Youtube.

"This is the letter G. The letter G is for Genocide."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 11, 2026 12:46 PM (guGkK)

71 What was your first clue, Sherlock?

San Francisco’s Left-Wing Experiment Backfires? Mayor Admits City “Lost Its Way”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 11, 2026 12:46 PM (ndZc7)

72
San Francisco’s Left-Wing Experiment Backfires? Mayor Admits City “Lost Its Way”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 11, 2026 12:46 PM (ndZc7)

___________

Real Communism has never been tried!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 11, 2026 12:47 PM (eRlcH)

73 Looks like we're going to find out where Peg-boy Talarico was for 12 days. Seems Sortor and another reporter are going to spill the beans at 1pm if his campaign doesn't.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 11, 2026 12:39 PM (uOLcV)

It could be a live boy or dead girl, the press ain’t gonna cover it. The pollsters and the press really want the freak to win. I think the Bushes and Cornyn want the same…. I’m a little worried frankly

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 11, 2026 12:47 PM (M+uMR)

74 Is there a single person on this planet whose life was in any way improved by the blatherings of this dumb bint?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 11, 2026 12:32 PM (guGkK)

Gonna have to narrow it down a bit, Cicer....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 11, 2026 12:48 PM (1Ff7Z)

75 San Francisco’s Left-Wing Experiment Backfires? Mayor Admits City “Lost Its Way”

In other news, officials at the Harland & Wolff Shipyard concede that their Titanic fell somewhat sort of its performance goals.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 11, 2026 12:49 PM (guGkK)

76 I was hoping my work in theoretical physics would finally be recognized.
Posted by: Weasel at October 11, 2026 12:37 PM (ei1sX)

I thought your work in physics was practical, not theoretical?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 11, 2026 12:50 PM (1Ff7Z)

77 I agree… this lady seems obsessed with accusing Israel of genocide because they have the nerve to defend themselves
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 11, 2026 12:16 PM (M+uMR)

Bzzzt! Category error!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2026 12:50 PM (quk5M)

78 The measure of a man.

https://tinyurl.com/4waknrab

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 11, 2026 12:51 PM (ndZc7)

79 Except in the way The Religion Of Peace is about peace. Once everyone else is in full submission, or dead, then there will be peace. (but only for those in charge)
Posted by: illiniwek at October 11, 2026 12:38 PM (vbXSk)

Sounds about right.

Posted by: Tacitus at October 11, 2026 12:51 PM (1Ff7Z)

80 Real Communism has never been tried!
Posted by: Hadrian
------

The wrong people were in charge. This time it will be different.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 11, 2026 12:51 PM (XeU6L)

81 I remember shortly after Obama got the Prize, a pier-side food place on Catalina Island had a sign - Free Nobel Prize with 2 Fish Tacos!


I loved it! The only thing that bastard ever earned in his life was mockery.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 11, 2026 12:52 PM (bH+s8)

82 Miss Rachel also endorses every left wing political point there is although she may not discuss them on her show, including approval for transgenderism for kids.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 11, 2026 12:52 PM (JrHfD)

83 Check the sidebar.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 11, 2026 12:45 PM (k5CNB)
----
Go Weasel!

Posted by: Weasel at October 11, 2026 12:53 PM (GNqmQ)

84 Sounds about right.
Posted by: Tacitus at October 11, 2026 12:51 PM (1Ff7Z)

We wuz misquoted!

Posted by: Calgacus at October 11, 2026 12:53 PM (guGkK)

85 And they gave the Peace Prize one year to Al Gore rather than Irena Sendler.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at October 11, 2026 12:53 PM (GMWTj)

86 Real Communism has never been tried!
Posted by: Hadrian



To paraphrase Milton Friedman - if communists ever studied economics, they wouldn't be communists.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 11, 2026 12:53 PM (bH+s8)

87 Bullets are particles! Sort of!

Posted by: Weasel at October 11, 2026 12:54 PM (GNqmQ)

88 The measure of a man.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 11, 2026 12:51 PM (ndZc7)

Eight inches?

Posted by: Blonde Dumb at October 11, 2026 12:54 PM (1Ff7Z)

89 I was hoping my work in theoretical physics would finally be recognized.

Posted by: Weasel at October 11, 2026 12:37 PM (ei1sX)

Check the sidebar.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Yet another example of American exceptionalism.

Posted by: Tuna at October 11, 2026 12:54 PM (lJ0H4)

90 Didn't Gore and Obama both get prizes? Look upon all of their good works and rejoice.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at October 11, 2026 12:55 PM (cJOax)

91 Tomorrow is Columbus Day, again, not indigenous people day.

Neither Columbus nor Trump will ever win a Nobel. The Nobel for anything other than science is a participation trophy for leftists.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 11, 2026 12:55 PM (viF8m)

92 Never liked opera. Grew up in Brooklyn. I could hear screaming Italians for free, day or night.

Posted by: Hey, Luigi!! at October 11, 2026 12:56 PM (EdP2u)

93 "This is the letter G. The letter G is for Genocide."
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

"G is also for Goat, which Achmed loves very, very much."

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 11, 2026 12:56 PM (uOLcV)

94 I was scanning world news this morning, and see something that is a great puzzlement; if these wars in the middle east are all about Israel, how come the biggest news right now is one group of Arabs (the Houthi) doing their best to murder another bunch of Arabs (the Saudis)?

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 11, 2026 12:56 PM (Y6Q+5)

95 Everything I know about opera is from Buggs

Posted by: Skip at October 11, 2026 12:57 PM (Ia/+0)

96 63 Per article in the Post "President toys with renaming Atlantic and Pacific ‘Trump Ocean’"

Ha ha. He's the master at trolling.

Posted by: Tuna at October 11, 2026 12:30 PM (lJ0H4)

East Trump Sea, West Trump Sea...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Heck, why not rename the Rocky Mountains too. The Trump Mountains has a nice ring to it. Think of all those rich lefties in Aspen and Vail having to ski The Trumps.

Posted by: Tuna at October 11, 2026 12:41 PM (lJ0H4)

Melania peaks?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 12:57 PM (l3cgK)

97 Why is the UN still headquartered in the US? Shouldn’t it be in Iran? Or at least rotating countries? Why do we have to pay for them to be here and give the majority of financial support?

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 11, 2026 12:58 PM (QKI1C)

98
Actually, adults neither seek nor accept awards. Grigori Perleman declined the Fields Medal in 2006. Charles Ives won the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 1947 and gave the money away, saying that prizes were for boys.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 11, 2026 12:59 PM (eRlcH)

99 72
San Francisco’s Left-Wing Experiment Backfires? Mayor Admits City “Lost Its Way”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 11, 2026 12:46 PM (ndZc7)

___________

Real Communism has never been tried!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 11, 2026 12:47 PM (eRlcH)

It was real to its victims.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 12:59 PM (l3cgK)

100 How come Josef Mengele never received a Nobel Prize for medicine??

Posted by: dantesed at October 11, 2026 01:00 PM (Oy/m2)

101 East Trump Sea, West Trump Sea...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

...Heck, why not rename the Rocky Mountains too. The Trump Mountains has a nice ring to it. Think of all those rich lefties in Aspen and Vail having to ski The Trumps.

Posted by: Tuna at October 11, 2026 12:41 PM (lJ0H4)

Melania peaks?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 12:57 PM (l3cgK)



I'd settle for a spot up on Mt Rushmore.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 11, 2026 01:01 PM (bH+s8)

102 The scourge of alien abduction.

https://tinyurl.com/yhxpux96

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 11, 2026 01:02 PM (ndZc7)

103 It's one o'clock - do you know where Talarico was?

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at October 11, 2026 01:02 PM (GMWTj)

104
Why do we have to pay for them to be here and give the majority of financial support?
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 11, 2026 12:58 PM (QKI1C)

__________

New York whores >>> Geneva whores

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 11, 2026 01:02 PM (eRlcH)

105 >>> Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 11, 2026 12:24 PM (ndZc7)

1) Who?
2) Every single male student at Cornell ought to sue his dumb ass for defamation. Except he'd probably like the attention.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 11, 2026 01:02 PM (3mtzY)

106 Actually, adults neither seek nor accept awards. Grigori Perleman declined the Fields Medal in 2006. Charles Ives won the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 1947 and gave the money away, saying that prizes were for boys.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 11, 2026 12:59 PM (eRlcH)



Those examples, to me, are signs of real character. Hats off to them.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 11, 2026 01:03 PM (bH+s8)

107 93 "This is the letter G. The letter G is for Genocide."
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

"G is also for Goat, which Achmed loves very, very much."

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 11, 2026 12:56 PM (uOLcV)

https://tinyurl.com/mrxkfx8t

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 01:03 PM (l3cgK)

108 @20

>>On a happier note, America, F*ck Yeah!

From A Conversation with an AI...

Yes, that statement is correct. According to data from the Small Arms Survey, there are an estimated 393 million civilian-owned firearms in the United States.

By comparison, the world's conventional military forces combined hold an estimated 133 million firearms. Because 393 million is significantly higher than 133 million, U.S. civilians do own more firearms than all of the world's militaries put together.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 11, 2026 01:03 PM (XV/Pl)

109 I am disappointed the WNBA didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize for its enduring contributions that ennoble human experience through athletics and keeping tall lesbians employed while wearing wigs and fake eyelashes.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at October 11, 2026 01:03 PM (VyD10)

110 It's one o'clock - do you know where Talarico was?


Somebody needs to put his picture on a milk carton.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 11, 2026 01:04 PM (bH+s8)

111 LOL.. Trump just got an "Oil" ceasefire from Putin and Zelenskyy... Z sure backed down from his bravado from this morning.

Posted by: It's me donna at October 11, 2026 01:04 PM (+gK6I)

112 >>> 55 The memo has gone out.

https://tinyurl.com/y2xw8k94
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie?

Could they be anymore more obvious? LOL
Posted by: Tuna at October 11, 2026 12:37 PM (lJ0H4)

Public executions of islhamic traitors are a Grave Threat To Our Precious Democracy!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 11, 2026 01:04 PM (3mtzY)

113
By comparison, the world's conventional military forces combined hold an estimated 133 million firearms. Because 393 million is significantly higher than 133 million, U.S. civilians do own more firearms than all of the world's militaries put together.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 11, 2026 01:03 PM (XV/Pl)

____________

The Gun Thread can overrun Western Europe.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 11, 2026 01:05 PM (eRlcH)

114 109 I am disappointed the WNBA didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize for its enduring contributions that ennoble human experience through athletics and keeping tall lesbians employed while wearing wigs and fake eyelashes.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at October 11, 2026 01:03 PM (VyD10)

Economics--for increasing green dildo sales

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 01:05 PM (l3cgK)

115 114 109 I am disappointed the WNBA didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize for its enduring contributions that ennoble human experience through athletics and keeping tall lesbians employed while wearing wigs and fake eyelashes.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at October 11, 2026 01:03 PM (VyD10)

You forgot the part about keeping whitey down...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 11, 2026 01:06 PM (+gK6I)

116 I thought seen a few articles Talarico has shown up

Posted by: Skip at October 11, 2026 01:06 PM (Ia/+0)

117 116 I thought seen a few articles Talarico has shown up
Posted by: Skip at October 11, 2026 01:06 PM (Ia/+0)

Friday I think in Austin

Posted by: It's me donna at October 11, 2026 01:07 PM (+gK6I)

118 I'm stealing/modifying a comment from X on Hasan's execution - just tell the Left it's a Late Term Abortion.


In their post-modernist world, who the hell can define what late is?

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 11, 2026 01:07 PM (bH+s8)

119 >>> 116 I thought seen a few articles Talarico has shown up
Posted by: Skip at October 11, 2026 01:06 PM (Ia/+0)

An appearance at some Austin music (?) festival; I haven't heard anything since then.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 11, 2026 01:08 PM (3mtzY)

120 I am disappointed the WNBA didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize for its enduring contributions that ennoble human experience through athletics and keeping tall lesbians employed while wearing wigs and fake eyelashes.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at October 11, 2026 01:03 PM (VyD10)

For the dedicated promotion of green dildos…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 11, 2026 01:08 PM (M+uMR)

121 Which Nobel Prize is for mebounds?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 11, 2026 01:09 PM (3mtzY)

122
"Some Germans professed to sneer at the idea of an American Army having any impact on the field of battle. After all, in 1917, the entire army hardly came to 150,000 men, less even than Belgium’s. But to a generation of young German officers who had grown up reading tales of the Wild West, and who had studied the Civil War (which German staff officers all had done), the idea of having to fight a country where the average farmhouse probably had as many guns as the average German infantry platoon was far from reassuring." - John Mosier, The Myth of the Great War

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 11, 2026 01:09 PM (eRlcH)

123 >> Why is the UN still headquartered in the US?

Why is the International Maritime Organization, IMO, headquartered in London right around the corner from Lloyds in the City of London?

Posted by: JackStraw at October 11, 2026 01:09 PM (viF8m)

124
I thought seen a few articles Talarico has shown up
Posted by: Skip

An appearance at some Austin music (?) festival


Was he line dancing?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 11, 2026 01:09 PM (Cqx++)

125 The Gun Thread can overrun Western Europe.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 11, 2026 01:05 PM (eRlcH)



The French at least would surrender to it.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 11, 2026 01:09 PM (bH+s8)

126 I haven't heard if most of the people who won the Nobel Peace Prize except for Carter and Obama. I did know of Lech Walesa, Mother Teresa
and Aung San Suu Kyi, of course.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 11, 2026 01:09 PM (JrHfD)

127 I heard that Talarico, when he went missing, was holed up with his Donna Summer's disco records and a rainbow colored feather boa and simply lost track of time. It happens.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at October 11, 2026 01:10 PM (VyD10)

128 Horde mind: #114, #120

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 01:11 PM (l3cgK)

129 Talarico was in consultations with his master. Stan.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 11, 2026 01:11 PM (bH+s8)

130 >> Why is the UN still headquartered in the US?

Why is the International Maritime Organization, IMO, headquartered in London right around the corner from Lloyds in the City of London?
Posted by: JackStraw
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Wait...is this about the flow of money?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 11, 2026 01:12 PM (XeU6L)

131 An appearance at some Austin music (?) festival; I haven't heard anything since then.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 11, 2026 01:08 PM (3mtzY)

I heard he was walking funny. Some kind of hitch in his getalong.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 11, 2026 01:12 PM (1Ff7Z)

132 https://tinyurl.com/mrxkfx8t
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Heh

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 11, 2026 01:12 PM (uOLcV)

133 >>> 123
==
Why is the International Maritime Organization, IMO, headquartered in London right around the corner from Lloyds in the City of London?
Posted by: JackStraw at October 11, 2026 01:09 PM (viF8m)

I say, how dare you Notice this thing, uppity peasant!

Posted by: International Maritime Organization at October 11, 2026 01:12 PM (3mtzY)

134 Behold the shortest explanatory sentence in English: "Because it is".

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at October 11, 2026 01:12 PM (Fv808)

135 Don't want to know where Tafreako was... Might end up giving him the sympathy vote if he had a nervous breakdown...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 11, 2026 01:12 PM (+gK6I)

136 Amusing statistic about India and international awards; in spite of its size, residents of India have only been awarded 5 Nobel prizes. There’s a gray area where some have been awarded to persons from India but who no longer lived there.

This carries over to the Olympics - India has 41 Olympic medals total in their entire history. They have precisely zero medals from the Winter Olympics.

BUT at the same time India has over 1400 medals in the Special Olympics.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 11, 2026 01:13 PM (Y6Q+5)

137 James Talafreako, you ARE the October surprise!

Posted by: Cuckoo! Cuckoo! at October 11, 2026 01:13 PM (Ovx+P)

138 Look at that. A touchdown.

I didn't think the Jets were allowed to do those.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 11, 2026 01:13 PM (viF8m)

139 They should give the Nobel Prize to the CIA for creating Whirled Peas.


That's the Culinary Institute of America of course.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 11, 2026 01:14 PM (bH+s8)

140 Maybe Freako was getting campaign advice from Tampon Timmy.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 11, 2026 01:15 PM (3mtzY)

141
I heard that Talarico, when he went missing, was holed up with his Donna Summer's disco records

__________

Donna Summer. Yum.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 11, 2026 01:17 PM (eRlcH)

142 I’m biased I admit I but I think the refs screwed Bama last night. First they didn’t call an obvious pass interference against Georgia that would’ve put the Tide in easy FG range for a tying FG (and possibly more, they could’ve scored the winning TD). Then with Georgia trying to run out the clock they called a tricky-tack away from the play personal foul on Bama resulting in a first down and the game’s over. It was a penalty by the letter of the law but not the spirit of the rules. A yellow flag shouldn’t determine a good game like that. Georgia still would’ve had 3rd and 2… make them earn the first down

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 11, 2026 01:17 PM (M+uMR)

143 Thx CBD.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry to the guy who invented Zyklon B

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 11, 2026 01:17 PM (pJE7g)

144 >>Wait...is this about the flow of money?

Wut?

I'm just asking questions.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 11, 2026 01:18 PM (viF8m)

145 Nick Sortor says he knows where Talarico has been. Huge if true:

@nicksortor
🚨 BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Ohio mental hospital CONFIRMS James Talarico was discharged from the facility earlier this week

The “flu” thing was a BIG FAT LIE

Following reporting by @SaraGonzalesTX and @CarolineWren, a hospital employee told @RheinAmacher and I that Talarico had in fact been a patient at the Lindner Center of Hope near Cincinnati, Ohio, which specializes in around-the-clock mental health treatment.

While I sympathize with those dealing with mental health crises, this man is CLEARLY not suited to become a US Senator representing over 30 MILLION TEXANS.

The job doesn’t get easier after being elected — it only gets MORE stressful. And Talarico clearly can’t handle it.

Posted by: LizLem at October 11, 2026 01:18 PM (Toos7)

146 The World Series: National League Edition between the Dodgers and Brewers starts tonight.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at October 11, 2026 01:18 PM (VyD10)

147
While I sympathize with those dealing with mental health crises, this man is CLEARLY not suited to become a US Senator representing over 30 MILLION TEXANS.

Hopefully he doesn't get the sympathy vote like Fetterman did...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 11, 2026 01:19 PM (+gK6I)

148 That's the Culinary Institute of America of course.
Posted by: Chairborne!
--------

Anecdote: Married couple I knew were graduates.They owned an upscale restaurant in Atlanta.
I stopped by their house one evening, they were dining on delivery pizza.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 11, 2026 01:20 PM (XeU6L)

149 The job doesn’t get easier after being elected — it only gets MORE stressful. And Talarico clearly can’t handle it.
Posted by: LizLem at October 11, 2026 01:18 PM (Toos7)

The booby got loose from the hatch...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2026 01:20 PM (quk5M)

150 I don't know if the prize for mathematics has already been awarded but . . .
…
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 11, 2026 12:24 PM (ndZc7)


There is no Nobel Prize in mathematics, and various stories are told why. For (young) mathematicians the Fields medal is the equivalent. You have to be under 40 to receive the Fields medal.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 11, 2026 01:20 PM (bELOb)

151 Jack Straw, tomorrow is Italian American Appreciation day. Eat lots of pasta!

Italians were getting lynched in the south, so they set up a federal holiday honoring them using Columbus as the figurehead.

Posted by: LizLem at October 11, 2026 01:21 PM (Toos7)

152 Anecdote: Married couple I knew were graduates.They owned an upscale restaurant in Atlanta.
I stopped by their house one evening, they were dining on delivery pizza. Posted by: Mike Hammer

This is the equivalent of a mechanic whose truck needed an oil change 15,000 miles ago.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at October 11, 2026 01:21 PM (VyD10)

153 >>> 145 Nick Sortor says he knows where Talarico has been. Huge if true:

@nicksortor
🚨 BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Ohio mental hospital CONFIRMS James Talarico was discharged from the facility earlier this week

The “flu” thing was a BIG FAT LIE

Following reporting by @SaraGonzalesTX and @CarolineWren, a hospital employee told @RheinAmacher and I that Talarico had in fact been a patient at the Lindner Center of Hope near Cincinnati, Ohio, which specializes in around-the-clock mental health treatment.

While I sympathize with those dealing with mental health crises, this man is CLEARLY not suited to become a US Senator representing over 30 MILLION TEXANS.

The job doesn’t get easier after being elected — it only gets MORE stressful. And Talarico clearly can’t handle it.
Posted by: LizLem at October 11, 2026 01:18 PM (Toos7)

Even Ashley Judd is laughing at this twink.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 11, 2026 01:21 PM (3mtzY)

154 Saw today in a comment elsewhere the Val Jarrett makes nearly $3/4 Million a year to hopefully drag the Monument to Barky into bankruptcy some day

Posted by: Skip at October 11, 2026 01:21 PM (Ia/+0)

155 The Left: Kill Trump! Kill Kirk! Kill Healthcare execs! Kill your babies!

Also the Left: A HIPAA violation?!!!! That's OUTRAGEOUS!!!!! This is GOING TOO FAR!!!!!

Posted by: Cuckoo! Cuckoo! at October 11, 2026 01:22 PM (Ovx+P)

156 Gloomy day here. Exactly 32 degrees outside. Snowing lightly, but little wind, Yesterday was just as cold but very windy.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2026 01:22 PM (quk5M)

157 ...While I sympathize with those dealing with mental health crises, this man is CLEARLY not suited to become a US Senator representing over 30 MILLION TEXANS.

The job doesn’t get easier after being elected — it only gets MORE stressful. And Talarico clearly can’t handle it...



Well at least he got help. None of the current senators have even bothered doing that.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 11, 2026 01:22 PM (bH+s8)

158 No such Talafreako story appears anywhere in my news feed. The press will suppress as much as possible

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 11, 2026 01:22 PM (M+uMR)

159 Okay - supposedly Talafreako was in a mental hospital in Ohio called the Linder Center.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at October 11, 2026 01:23 PM (GMWTj)

160 Seems a breach of HIPPA if the mental health center confirmed that Freako was a patient there.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at October 11, 2026 01:23 PM (GMWTj)

161
The job doesn’t get easier after being elected — it only gets MORE stressful. And Talarico clearly can’t handle it.
Posted by: LizLem at October 11, 2026 01:18 PM (Toos7)

__________

Senator is really kind of a scum-sucking job. Costs zillions to get elected, but if you do, you're nobody unless you're in the Inner Club. Otherwise you get pestered by donors and constituents, who you have to try to keep happy to get re-elected. Talarico isn't that talented.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 11, 2026 01:24 PM (eRlcH)

162 Spenser Pratt said this last week.. Like I said above, hope he doesn't get the sympathy vote...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 11, 2026 01:24 PM (+gK6I)

163 @nicksortor
🚨 BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Ohio mental hospital CONFIRMS James Talarico was discharged from the facility earlier this week



"In accordance with HIPPA regulations, we can only confirm that Mr. Talarico is one of our recent nutcases."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 11, 2026 01:24 PM (guGkK)

164 Saw today in a comment elsewhere the Val Jarrett makes nearly $3/4 Million a year to hopefully drag the Monument to Barky into bankruptcy some day
Posted by: Skip
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Key Employees and Officers Compensation Related Other
Valerie Jarrett (Director/ceo)$740,000 $0 $15,862
Robbin Cohen (Evp, Opc)-$610,195 $0 $40,554
Alfreda Bradley-coar (Evp, Chief Legal & People Officer) $424,769 $0 $15,423

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 11, 2026 01:25 PM (XeU6L)

165 I haven't heard if most of the people who won the Nobel Peace Prize except for Carter and Obama. I did know of Lech Walesa, Mother Teresa
and Aung San Suu Kyi, of course.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 11, 2026 01:09 PM (JrHfD)
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Norman Borlaug. One of the very few people actually to deserve it.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 11, 2026 01:25 PM (amcLV)

166 Field goals are too easy now. It’s absolutely ridiculous… a team passes midfield and they’re in FG range. That’s now how the game was intended to be… a 45 yarder is supposed to be hard and low percentage

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 11, 2026 01:25 PM (M+uMR)

167 Is there a single person on this planet whose life was in any way improved by the blatherings of this dumb bint?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 11, 2026 12:32 PM (guGkK)


Other than herself?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 11, 2026 01:26 PM (bELOb)

168 A debate with Paxton thrashing Talarico until he drops to the ground, curls up in a fetal ball and starts screaming "mommy" might draw good ratings

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 11, 2026 01:26 PM (pJE7g)

169 >>Jack Straw, tomorrow is Italian American Appreciation day. Eat lots of pasta!


I just might do that.

One thing I do miss about living in Boston was the Italian food. And wise guys. Mostly the food.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 11, 2026 01:26 PM (viF8m)

170 Gloomy day here. Exactly 32 degrees outside. Snowing lightly, but little wind, Yesterday was just as cold but very windy.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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AJ beckons...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 11, 2026 01:26 PM (XeU6L)

171 Key Employees and Officers Compensation Related Other
Valerie Jarrett (Director/ceo)$740,000 $0 $15,862
Robbin Cohen (Evp, Opc)-$610,195 $0 $40,554
Alfreda Bradley-coar (Evp, Chief Legal & People Officer) $424,769 $0 $15,423
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 11, 2026 01:25 PM (XeU6L)

What does the pigeon shit scrubber-offer get paid? By rights, he/she should get a bundle. Hell of a job.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2026 01:27 PM (quk5M)

172
Hospital employees are not supposed to reveal information about patients. I think a law has been broken. Talarico is a freak, but this breach is wrong .

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 11, 2026 01:27 PM (biznJ)

173 Seems a breach of HIPPA if the mental health center confirmed that Freako was a patient there.
Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at October 11, 2026 01:23 PM (GMWTj)
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Fairly certain that an admission to a facility is a matter of public record. Diagnosis and treatments, on the other hand, would be covered by HIPAA.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 11, 2026 01:28 PM (amcLV)

174 I don't think having mental health problems will harm Talarico's chances. I think people will vote against him for other reasons . Tom Kean Jr. who is the son of our former Governor and had been missing from the House of Representatives for months, because of mental health problems but he explained nothing till he reappeared , is still running for his seat, and because of his being missing will probably lose his seat to the Democrat.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 11, 2026 01:28 PM (JrHfD)

175 Being able to watch sportsball on a TV, a laptop, and a cell phone at the same time is wildly underrated experience.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at October 11, 2026 01:28 PM (VyD10)

176
Is this a Red Flag that Talarico shouldn't own a gun?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 11, 2026 01:29 PM (eRlcH)

177 Why Ohio??? He lives in Texas right?

I’ll just say… I don’t believe it

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 11, 2026 01:29 PM (M+uMR)

178 177 Why Ohio??? He lives in Texas right?


Out of State he probably thought he'd be protected

Posted by: It's me donna at October 11, 2026 01:30 PM (+gK6I)

179 BUT at the same time India has over 1400 medals in the Special Olympics.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Quit caste-ing aspersions!

Posted by: Dot, Not Feather at October 11, 2026 01:30 PM (EdP2u)

180 >>> Hopefully he doesn't get the sympathy vote like Fetterman did... Posted by: It's me donna at October 11, 2026 01:19 PM (+gK6I)

Maybe! It's the thing to do now.

I was actually called ableist for thinking Fetterman should step down after his stroke. And Clancy's lawyer tried to get the holdout juror labeled as ableist, said he wouldn't vote not guilty because she was in a wheelchair. But hopefully Texans don't care that they might be called ableists if they vote for Paxton over Talarico.

The man is a vegan who has a messed up view of the nature of Jesus, while living in Texas of all places. Thats gonna mess with you. Dude needs to move to a more liberal state.

Posted by: LizLem at October 11, 2026 01:30 PM (Toos7)

181 No wonder th rd Barky people are begging for donations to keep that money pit going

Posted by: Skip at October 11, 2026 01:31 PM (Ia/+0)

182 Soros and the anti Second Amendment groups just dumped over $100 million into Democrats coffers. The main objective is to try and swing 8 key House races to take back control. The money is specifically targeting the Second Amendment gains we have made under this Republican majority and Trump. They’ve completely lost their minds over the recent change for NFA items and plan to roll that back as soon as they can.

You have to ask yourself- why do they keep going after your 2A rights? You won’t line the answer. Maybe take a gaze across the pond for some clues.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 11, 2026 01:31 PM (DD6gL)

183 Has anybody raised the monkey pox theory to explain Talarico's going missing?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at October 11, 2026 01:31 PM (VyD10)

184 Hospital employees are not supposed to reveal information about patients. I think a law has been broken. Talarico is a freak, but this breach is wrong .
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 11, 2026 01:27 PM (biznJ)

Public employees and politicians should have a lower expectation of privacy in such things than the average citizen. Particularly if the nature of the "medical" event calls into question their ability to do the job they seek to get.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2026 01:31 PM (quk5M)

185 Has anybody raised the monkey pox theory to explain Talarico's going missing?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at October 11, 2026 01:31 PM (VyD10)
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*raises hand*

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 11, 2026 01:32 PM (amcLV)

186
BUT at the same time India has over 1400 medals in the Special Olympics.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Quit caste-ing aspersions!
Posted by: Dot, Not Feather at October 11, 2026 01:30 PM (EdP2u)

___________

I'm not trying to curry favor.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 11, 2026 01:32 PM (eRlcH)

187 No wonder th rd Barky people are begging for donations to keep that money pit going
Posted by: Skip at October 11, 2026 01:31 PM (Ia/+0)


USAID is tapped out. It can barely pay the security guard that keeps hobos from camping out in the lobby.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 11, 2026 01:33 PM (guGkK)

188

In the crazy world of politics today I would not be surprised if the freak is elected.

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 01:33 PM (/QHx4)

189 182 Soros and the anti Second Amendment groups just dumped over $100 million into Democrats coffers

Kind of late isn't it ?

Posted by: It's me donna at October 11, 2026 01:34 PM (+gK6I)

190 BUT at the same time India has over 1400 medals in the Special Olympics.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Quit caste-ing aspersions!
Posted by: Dot, Not Feather at October 11, 2026 01:30 PM (EdP2u)

___________

I'm not trying to curry favor.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 11, 2026 01:32 PM (eRlcH)
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*tries to come up with pun involving "tikka masala"*

*fails*

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 11, 2026 01:34 PM (amcLV)

191 Na'avi Pillay, is she a blue skinned alien from a James Cameron movie?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 11, 2026 01:34 PM (2GVsD)

192
In the crazy world of politics today I would not be surprised if the freak is elected.

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 01:33 PM (/QHx4)

I'd agree except it's Texas

Posted by: It's me donna at October 11, 2026 01:34 PM (+gK6I)

193 The Jewish Chronicle:
Danish ex-foreign minister ‘shocked’ by Nobel Peace Prize for Navi Pillay
Per Stig Møller says the former UN human rights chief advocated censorship during the Muhammad cartoons crisis
October 11, 2026 11:03

Posted by: 88C+u at October 11, 2026 01:34 PM (88C+u)

194
*tries to come up with pun involving "tikka masala"*

*fails*
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 11, 2026 01:34 PM (amcLV)

_________

You're Sikh in the head.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 11, 2026 01:35 PM (eRlcH)

195 Largest mass lynching in American history (11) was of Italians in Louisiana.

Posted by: Pretty Sure They Deserved It at October 11, 2026 01:35 PM (EdP2u)

196 112 >>> 55 The memo has gone out.

https://tinyurl.com/y2xw8k94
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie?

Could they be anymore more obvious? LOL
Posted by: Tuna at October 11, 2026 12:37 PM (lJ0H4)

Public executions of islhamic traitors are a Grave Threat To Our Precious Democracy!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 11, 2026 01:04 PM (3mtzY)


No one will be forced to watch.

Posted by: Gref at October 11, 2026 01:36 PM (5rh/l)

197 Fairly certain that an admission to a facility is a matter of public record. Diagnosis and treatments, on the other hand, would be covered by HIPAA.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 11, 2026 01:28 PM (amcLV)

COVID vaccine status being the notable exception to HIPAA, of course...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 11, 2026 01:36 PM (08OqX)

198 Talarico is back on X talkin' trash at Paxton for refusing to debate. Either that or he gave some AIDS I mean, gave his aides the keys to his account.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 11, 2026 01:36 PM (88C+u)

199 National Endowment for Democracy.

Still around.

We're still in a war against globalists. And they don't play by the rules. Gird your loins and hit back harder.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 11, 2026 01:36 PM (viF8m)

200 >>> 196
==
No one will be forced to watch.
Posted by: Gref at October 11, 2026 01:36 PM (5rh/l)

Not even Hillary?

Sad!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 11, 2026 01:37 PM (3mtzY)

201 Talefreako caught the sexually transmitted diarrhea...

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 11, 2026 01:37 PM (2GVsD)

202 That’s now how the game was intended to be… a 45 yarder is supposed to be hard and low percentage
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

And offensive linemen were intended to be 230-250#. The size, power, and speed of the players, derived from the human population, has grown considerably while the dimensions of the game have remained static (save moving the goalposts back). What do you expect?

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at October 11, 2026 01:37 PM (Fv808)

203 198 Talarico is back on X talkin' trash at Paxton for refusing to debate. Either that or he gave some AIDS I mean, gave his aides the keys to his account.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 11, 2026 01:36 PM (88C+u)

The debates arranged by Talarico were not any place Paxton should go...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 11, 2026 01:38 PM (+gK6I)

204 >The Nobel Peace Prize Is Neither Noble Nor Supportive Of Peace
----

the old Groucho Marx comment works here- 'wouldn't want to join any club that would have me as a member'

Posted by: Savage Henry at October 11, 2026 01:38 PM (ZxPkt)

205
198 Talarico is back on X talkin' trash at Paxton for refusing to debate. Either that or he gave some AIDS I mean, gave his aides the keys to his account.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 11, 2026 01:36 PM

------

It's probably always been someone else writing it.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 11, 2026 01:39 PM (biznJ)

206 Talefreako caught the sexually transmitted diarrhea...
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 11, 2026 01:37 PM (2GVsD)

The has to be suitably mocking nickname for that disease; a challenge for the Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2026 01:39 PM (quk5M)

207 >>> Hospital employees are not supposed to reveal information about patients. I think a law has been broken. Talarico is a freak, but this breach is wrong . Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 11, 2026 01:27 PM (biznJ)

Possibly. But if so it's the third most recent case of private info getting leaked that probably shouldn't be. But that's the culture we live in now.

1. Juror's name and pictures and private info getting released in the Clancy trial
2. Jane Doe's name and pictures leaked in the Cornell case
3. Talarico's mental health stay info leaked

To be fair, Talarico is running to be a public figure, whereas the other twi are private citizens dealing with court cases. If he used taxpayer money or donor money for that mental health stay, it could be argued his constituents have a right to know.

Posted by: LizLem at October 11, 2026 01:40 PM (Toos7)

208 What do you expect?
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at October 11, 2026 01:37 PM (Fv80

I’d like some reasonable facsimile of the game I watched even 20 years ago. And BTW I never saw a more intimidating combo of speed and power than Lawrence Taylor and he played 30+ years ago

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 11, 2026 01:40 PM (M+uMR)

209 Has Talefreako given an interview before multiple media outlets?

If not, a staffer has decided to protect all their phony jobs by posting on Talefreako's official X account.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 11, 2026 01:41 PM (2GVsD)

210 Talafreako might do well in a debate now after debating himself for two weeks in a Rubber Room.

Posted by: Ring The Bell For Mental Health at October 11, 2026 01:41 PM (EdP2u)

211 You're Sikh in the head.


That Pun Jabbed hard. Well done.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 11, 2026 01:41 PM (bH+s8)

212 Talefreako caught the sexually transmitted diarrhea...
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 11, 2026 01:37 PM (2GVsD)

The has to be suitably mocking nickname for that disease; a challenge for the Horde.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2026 01:39 PM (quk5M)
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Quaneesha's Revenge?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 11, 2026 01:42 PM (amcLV)

213

Never a dull moment.

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 01:42 PM (/QHx4)

214 210 Talafreako might do well in a debate now after debating himself for two weeks in a Rubber Room.
Posted by: Ring The Bell For Mental Health at October 11, 2026 01:41 PM (EdP2u)

Paxton was a super Texas AG, but he has the charisma of a wet noodle and isn't very well spoken....

Posted by: It's me donna at October 11, 2026 01:42 PM (+gK6I)

215 Real Communism has never been tried!
Posted by: Hadrian

Today Cambodia is notable for not producing outliers on the IQ bell curve. Saloth Sar successfully leveled the playing-field.
The Khmer Rouge counts as real Communism.

Posted by: in a way we agree the USSR did not at October 11, 2026 01:42 PM (88C+u)

216 Star Trek Discovery and Sexually Transmitted Diarrhea both are STDs...

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 11, 2026 01:43 PM (2GVsD)

217 The International Criminal Court is where the International Criminals hold court.

Judge Roy Bean writ large.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 11, 2026 01:43 PM (LOvBA)

218 If I were a Democrat in Texas, I might want to sit the election out, rather than help elect a nutcase who could bring the Party into disrepute.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2026 01:44 PM (quk5M)

219 If I were a Democrat in Texas, I might want to sit the election out, rather than help elect a nutcase who could bring the Party into disrepute.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2026 01:44 PM (quk5M)
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*looks at Jasmine Crockett, who, after all, was elected*

*gives AOP the side-eye*

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 11, 2026 01:45 PM (amcLV)

220 The International Criminal Court is where International Justice is dispensed-with.

Posted by: Odor In The Court Room at October 11, 2026 01:45 PM (EdP2u)

221 None of US taxpayer money should ever go to an NGO-period! I don’t care for our bureaucracy. I sure as hell don’t want our tax dollars being spent by foreigners. Call me a xenophobe or whatever kind of bigot that you can pile on, but I don’t care.

Posted by: Unkaren at October 11, 2026 01:45 PM (m6fGY)

222 >>> Public executions of islhamic traitors are a Grave Threat To Our Precious Democracy!!

Supposedly the traitor is in a wheelchair now due to his own actions, so a firing squad might be a bad look.

Fine. Make it an all female paraplegic firing squad.

One of the men he tried to kill during the attack survived, and is trying to get permission to be there to see him get killed in person. Bless him. Probably saw a lot of good people die that day. They deserve justice.

Posted by: LizLem at October 11, 2026 01:46 PM (Toos7)

223 Nobel Peace Prize? I got one and I never did anything important.

Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama at October 11, 2026 01:46 PM (LOvBA)

224 You mean bring the party further into disrepute?

Abortion Barbie and Beat-off O'Rourke have not covered themselves in glory. And there is also Katy Padilla Stout running for office.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 11, 2026 01:46 PM (2GVsD)

225 I’d like some reasonable facsimile of the game I watched even 20 years ago. And BTW I never saw a more intimidating combo of speed and power than Lawrence Taylor and he played 30+ years ago
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

You picked one freak. The past had Jim Brown and Dick Butkus who could wreak havoc today but the vast majority of players and teams in the 30s-60's would get crushed by the college top-20 today. Maybe the solution is to require the K and P be the same guy (though I'd prefer a great kicker to the expense of a shitty punter).

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at October 11, 2026 01:47 PM (Fv808)

226 I thought of one!

Sexually-transmitted diarrhea: "The Gay Spray".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2026 01:47 PM (quk5M)

227 LizLem

I want an Acme production, Nidal Hassan trying to outrun a steamroller.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 11, 2026 01:47 PM (2GVsD)

228 >>If I were a Democrat in Texas, I might want to sit the election out, rather than help elect a nutcase who could bring the Party into disrepute.

That's why you aren't a Democrat in Texas.

We're up against people who want to mutilate children and call in healthcare. There are no rules in a knife fight. There's just winning.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 11, 2026 01:47 PM (viF8m)

229 Dear Texas, please vote for the boring introvert AG and not the flagrant extravert Commie.

Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama at October 11, 2026 01:48 PM (LOvBA)

230 Arafat won a peace prize.
‘Nuff said

Posted by: It Is All Gay and Retarded at October 11, 2026 01:49 PM (XWPQ9)

231 Nobel Peace Prize? I got one and I never did anything important.
Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama at October 11, 2026 01:46 PM (LOvBA)



I worked hard for mine. I was the founder of modern terrorism.

Posted by: Zombie Yasser Arafat at October 11, 2026 01:49 PM (guGkK)

232 That's why you aren't a Democrat in Texas.

We're up against people who want to mutilate children and call in healthcare. There are no rules in a knife fight. There's just winning.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 11, 2026 01:47 PM (viF8m)

I was postulating the mythical sober Democrat. I know it's a stretch...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2026 01:49 PM (quk5M)

233 The Democrats in Texas are like the Democrats in South Carolina.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 11, 2026 01:49 PM (LOvBA)

234 Interestingly Donald Trump also has a Nobel Peace Prize now.
He has Maria Corina Machado's prize. The Nobel Committee have huffed that it's not transferable though.
I somewhat agree it's too early to tell, since Venezuela is still a dictatorship and the illegitimate pyrsyn in charge is invoking "ancestral wisdom" for an excuse why she's not going to be holding such white ideals as "elections".

Posted by: 88C+u at October 11, 2026 01:50 PM (88C+u)

235 Talarico is a freak, but this breach is wrong .

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 11, 2026 01:27 PM (biznJ)

I understand your point, and it is valid, but I think that Talerico's entry into a senate race supersedes his right to privacy. Just like McConnell's disappearance, or even Representative Tom Kean's....

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 11, 2026 01:50 PM (k5CNB)

236 166 Field goals are too easy now. It’s absolutely ridiculous… a team passes midfield and they’re in FG range. That’s now how the game was intended to be… a 45 yarder is supposed to be hard and low percentage

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 11, 2026 01:25 PM (M+uMR)


I'm so old I remember when the uprights in the pros were at the goal line. And the uprights were 'H' shaped.

"The NFL moved the goal posts to the back of the end zone in 1974.

In the NFL’s earliest days, before the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles existed, the league followed the NCAA rule book. Goal posts were on the goal line. When the NCAA moved them to the end zone’s backline in 1927, the NFL followed suit.

In 1933, however, the NFL adopted its own rule book and placed the goal posts back on the goal line. NFL goal posts stayed there until 1974 when they were moved to the back of the end zone."

I can think of three ways filed goals can be made more difficult. Move the uprights a distance behind the end lines. Move the crossbar higher. Narrow the distance between the uprights. Or combine any two of those or all three. I don't foresee any changes in the next 10 years.

Posted by: Gref at October 11, 2026 01:50 PM (5rh/l)

237
I was postulating the mythical sober Democrat. I know it's a stretch...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2026 01:49 PM (quk5M)

__________

Texas Democrats used to be reasonably normal. That species is extinct.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 11, 2026 01:51 PM (eRlcH)

238 Why would it not be Justice for Nidal Hassan to be executed by dynamite?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 11, 2026 01:51 PM (LOvBA)

239 I was the founder of modern terrorism.

Posted by: Zombie Yasser Arafat at October 11, 2026 01:49 PM (guGkK)


Poseur.

Posted by: The Irish Republican Army at October 11, 2026 01:51 PM (k5CNB)

240 Who cares anymore? After Yasser Arafat won one it became meaningless anyway.

Posted by: Unkaren at October 11, 2026 01:51 PM (m6fGY)

241 Anna, that's a hilarious thought. Though we know how well Acme products work...

I saw a meme where all of the people on the firing squad have cartoon bubbles over their heads, thinking they should shoot him in the dick first, before they aim for a more deadly spot.

Posted by: LizLem at October 11, 2026 01:52 PM (Toos7)

242 >>You picked one freak. The past had Jim Brown and Dick Butkus who could wreak havoc today but the vast majority of players and teams in the 30s-60's would get crushed by the college top-20 today. Maybe the solution is to require the K and P be the same guy (though I'd prefer a great kicker to the expense of a shitty punter).

I played high school ball against Fred Smerlas.

Some people are just built different.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 11, 2026 01:52 PM (viF8m)

243 Poseur.
Posted by: The Irish Republican Army at October 11, 2026 01:51 PM (k5CNB)

*boom*

Posted by: the first Tamil Tiger sudoku-bomber at October 11, 2026 01:52 PM (88C+u)

244 Once Hasan has been shot, what becomes of his body? Do they release it to mosque or family for a muzzie funeral? If it were up to me, I would have his corpse cremated, and the ashes pulverized, and pumped down some random disposal well.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2026 01:52 PM (quk5M)

245 Has there ever been a study of how marrying one's cousins over centuries has impacted middle eastern IQs? For extra credit, toss in Somalia too.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at October 11, 2026 01:53 PM (VyD10)

246 Just a friendly reminder, Joey Bidet was sharp as a tack until he suddenly wasn't because the media chose to ignore him turning into a rutabaga. And he was President.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 11, 2026 01:53 PM (2GVsD)

247 Personally I think elections are all about party now. It’s D or R, the name is irrelevant.

Maybe 10,20 years ago that wasn’t so much the case. You had Mitt Romney elected as governor of Mass for example. So the person did make a difference.

However in the ultra partisan 24/7 social media politics = war landscape, I don’t think that’s the case any longer. Talarico is a communist tranny loving retard. He’s a D and that’s all anyone cares about. The election is do you hate Trump the you vote D. Who the D is? Irrelevant.

Posted by: It Is All Gay and Retarded at October 11, 2026 01:53 PM (XWPQ9)

248 *boom*

Posted by: the first Tamil Tiger sudoku-bomber at October 11, 2026 01:52 PM (88C+u)


We've been around a lot longer than you wog tossers!

Posted by: The Irish Republican Army at October 11, 2026 01:54 PM (k5CNB)

249 Guerilla warfare was used here by Francis Marrion, the "Swamp Fox." Asymetrical warfare. Neither the IRA nor the PLO invented it.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 11, 2026 01:54 PM (LOvBA)

250 If you thought Crockett losing would turn blacks off from voting for Talarico, I don't think "vote for the insane white boy" is going to help

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 11, 2026 01:55 PM (pJE7g)

251 179 BUT at the same time India has over 1400 medals in the Special Olympics.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Quit caste-ing aspersions!

Posted by: Dot, Not Feather at October 11, 2026 01:30 PM (EdP2u)

India has a system...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 01:55 PM (l3cgK)

252 I understand that the Catholics and the Prots are forming alliances now to oppose their common enemy, Islam.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 11, 2026 01:56 PM (LOvBA)

253 Shortly after the death of Mike Ditka, the Bears need to beat the Packers, right? Yet so far they’re getting boat raced. Da Coach is not happy

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 11, 2026 01:56 PM (M+uMR)

254 Has there ever been a study of how marrying one's cousins over centuries has impacted middle eastern IQs? For extra credit, toss in Somalia too.

Geneticists postulate the existence of a gene that fosters a sexual attraction to persons with light bulb-shaped heads. Over the millennia, that produced modern Somalis.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 11, 2026 01:56 PM (guGkK)

255 Why would it not be Justice for Nidal Hassan to be executed by dynamite?

If the firing squad is comprised of the living victims, I’d definitely go for that.

Posted by: Unkaren at October 11, 2026 01:56 PM (m6fGY)

256 183 Has anybody raised the monkey pox theory to explain Talarico's going missing?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at October 11, 2026 01:31 PM (VyD10)

In previous posts, yes. Some actually embraced the power of AND with a device stuck up his ass as well...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 01:56 PM (l3cgK)

257 The Old Man of the Mountain during the Third Crusade might have something to say about terrorism.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 11, 2026 01:56 PM (2GVsD)

258 I can think of three ways filed goals can be made more difficult. Move the uprights a distance behind the end lines. Move the crossbar higher. Narrow the distance between the uprights. Or combine any two of those or all three. I don't foresee any changes in the next 10 years.
Posted by: Gref

Couple other options for discussion. Blindfold the kicker, and Ankle cuffs,

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at October 11, 2026 01:57 PM (VyD10)

259
Has there ever been a study of how marrying one's cousins over centuries has impacted middle eastern IQs? For extra credit, toss in Somalia too.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at October 11, 2026 01:53 PM (VyD10)

__________

Yes

Posted by: The House of Habsburg at October 11, 2026 01:57 PM (eRlcH)

260 If you thought Crockett losing would turn blacks off from voting for Talarico, I don't think "vote for the insane white boy" is going to help
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 11, 2026 01:55 PM (pJE7g)

Remember the Foreigner hit "Dirty White Boy"? Cries out for a parody called "Crazy White Boy" with images of Talarico.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2026 01:57 PM (quk5M)

261 The Mongols had a say about how to handle that sheik, in their turn.

Posted by: spoiler: they weren't gentle at October 11, 2026 01:57 PM (88C+u)

262 Less Nobel.

More cowbell!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 11, 2026 01:58 PM (Wy0hw)

263 NFL kickers are evolving in real time

natural selection

Posted by: Savage Henry at October 11, 2026 01:58 PM (ZxPkt)

264 "Da Coach is not happy"

He might have a short stint in Purgatory and this is part of his punishment. Lesson: humility.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 11, 2026 01:58 PM (LOvBA)

265 Thanks CBD for shining a spotlight on this globohomo sh*tstain.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 11, 2026 01:58 PM (RIvkX)

266 Actually anyone can call the hospital switchboard and ask if a person is a patient there and their general status (stable, critical, etc).

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 11, 2026 01:59 PM (yEz+x)

267 253 Shortly after the death of Mike Ditka, the Bears need to beat the Packers, right? Yet so far they’re getting boat raced. Da Coach is not happy

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 11, 2026 01:56 PM (M+uMR)

motor-boating > Boat racing

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 02:00 PM (l3cgK)

268 Blindfold the kicker, and Ankle cuffs,
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

Since when are we cuffing football players?!

Posted by: Dallas at October 11, 2026 02:00 PM (88C+u)

269 Has anybody raised the monkey pox theory to explain Talarico's going missing?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at October 11, 2026 01:31 PM (VyD10)
-

Yes.

Elon Musk.

https://tinyurl.com/3cuk4s6j

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 11, 2026 02:00 PM (Wy0hw)

270 1ST WORLD NOOD

Posted by: Skip at October 11, 2026 02:01 PM (Ia/+0)

271 Hasan should be executed by some sort of ridiculously slow dipping mechanism

Posted by: Savage Henry at October 11, 2026 02:01 PM (ZxPkt)

272 >>Geneticists postulate the existence of a gene that fosters a sexual attraction to persons with light bulb-shaped heads. Over the millennia, that produced modern Somalis.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 11, 2026 01:56 PM (guGkK)

Raising the question, "How many Somalis does it take to change a light bulb?"
Jury is still out.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at October 11, 2026 02:01 PM (nDXEV)

273 Actually anyone can call the hospital switchboard and ask if a person is a patient there and their general status (stable, critical, etc).

"Yes, he's here and he thinks he's Napoleon. Federal law prohibits us from providing any further information."

Posted by: The Ohio State Nuthouse Switchboard at October 11, 2026 02:02 PM (guGkK)

274 I get a kick out of English laws about that. The English nobility were rife with idiots, perhaps due to too many first-cousin marriages. (You gotta keep the money in the family).

So, the Pakis are simply doing shit that Beatrix Potter did not want to get involved with.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 11, 2026 02:02 PM (LOvBA)

275 On a happier note, America, F*ck Yeah!

March For Our Lives
@AMarch4OurLives
The United States has more guns in civilian hands than every military in the world combined.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 11, 2026 12:18 PM


Gathering dust.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 11, 2026 02:16 PM (4NO2D)

276 I can think of three ways filed goals can be made more difficult. Move the uprights a distance behind the end lines. Move the crossbar higher. Narrow the distance between the uprights. Or combine any two of those or all three. I don't foresee any changes in the next 10 years.
Posted by: Gref at October 11, 2026 01:50 PM (5rh/l)

They can also make the kicker kick the ball from further away, like the 30 or 35 yard line.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 02:16 PM (6ydKt)

277 For extra points, I mean ^^^

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 02:16 PM (6ydKt)

278 I can think of three ways filed goals can be made more difficult. Move the uprights a distance behind the end lines. Move the crossbar higher. Narrow the distance between the uprights. Or combine any two of those or all three. I don't foresee any changes in the next 10 years.
Posted by: Gref at October 11, 2026 01:50 PM


Add a top bar and make them hit the rectangle.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 11, 2026 02:18 PM (4NO2D)

279 I have though that perhaps we should make the long range kickoffs a part of the game. If you can kick off through the uprights, you get one point and have to rekick from from five yards further back.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 11, 2026 02:28 PM (4NO2D)

280 How did we survive without 75-in TVs??

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at October 11, 2026 03:34 PM (VyD10)

281 Mr Trump VERY UPSET. he did not win the BIG PRIZE

I do not recall anyone having the gall to insist that they should win

Posted by: Banned at October 11, 2026 05:23 PM (PZxc6)

Sunday Morning Book Thread 10-11-2026 [Sabrina Chase]

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Welcome to the Book Thread, Guest Poster edition! I will be your host as we explore all sorts of book-related topics. All usual Book Thread rules are incorporated by reference (pets, beverage, clothing covering the lower limbs, etc.) with the special Sabrina Chase exemption for those stylish persons preferring kilts. Now let us proceed to today's topic, which is ...

Treasured Books from Childhood

What books stuck in your head and made you the Reading Moron you are today? Even the ones that puzzle you still, or you know are the literary equivalent of a gas station hotdog. We do not judge here at the Book Thread! Not about reading, anyway. Fun books! Books that started you on the great adventure known as "the pictures are in your HEAD!" Books you read under the blankets with a flashlight and thought your parents didn't know about!

I was fortunate to grow up in a very literate home, surrounded by books. Many of which puzzled me greatly in my youth! But these are the ones I remember still with great fondness, and I often gift them to younger generations when I have the opportunity.

- Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book I was fascinated by the devices and it probably led me into the twisty passages of experimental physics in the end. Also profoundly silly, a life philosophy that has guided me well.

- Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag "Hundreds of cats, thousands of cats, millions and billions and trillions of cats!" But he can only pick one ...

- The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet I'm not saying I encourage children to get into spaceships powered by odd neighbors without parental supervision, but it is a great book and has a chicken doing noble deeds. And the importance of sulfur.

- Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare Boy was it a shock when I got to the unexpurgated versions, let me tell you. Some of them are barely recognizable in the cleaned-up version. A Winter's Tale is almost reduced to a paragraph.

- Danny Dunn series More science!

- Space Cat Meets Mars Everyone wants a way to communicate with cats.

- Detectives in Togas by Henry Winterfeld. my first introduction to the concept that people really did think differently in ancient times, but it was believable and fun. Scary in some parts, like the concept that you could actually get killed for sacrilegious graffiti.

- The Girl from Johnnycake Hill by Virginia Frances Voight. American history and early colonial culture. And the unwisdom of pet bears.

- Mr. Revere and I by Robert Lawson. more fun American history, from the point of view of Paul Revere's horse.

- Ferdinand by Munro Leaf. Illustrations by Robert Lawson. Responsible for me thinking for many, many years that wine corks grew on trees like bunches of grapes. I knew corks came from trees, see! And Lawson's illustrations made it very convincing.

- The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. More profound silliness with words, numbers, and a bored little boy. SO MANY PUNS.

- The Cricket in Times Square by George Delden My introduction to the concept of crickets as pets, a street-smart mouse, and a genial cat.

- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett Secret hideouts the grownups don't know about are the very best hideouts.

- The House with a Clock in its Walls by John Bellairs

- The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill. A great faux documentary with fun characters.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 09:00 AM




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1 Tolle Lege

Posted by: Skip at October 11, 2026 08:59 AM (Ia/+0)

2 First?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 09:00 AM (wzUl9)

3 Didn't go further on 1776 yet. Waiting to read something from Moki.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 11, 2026 09:00 AM (1Ff7Z)

4 Yep

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 11, 2026 09:00 AM (seCv0)

5 Besides calling em
On downward side of Winston Churchill's The Gathering Storm
And its a good day to get further along in it

Posted by: Skip at October 11, 2026 09:01 AM (Ia/+0)

6 I've been an old book about rocks and minerals. It's full of solid facts.

Posted by: fd at October 11, 2026 09:01 AM (MWfyi)

7 Good morning fellow Book Threadists. I hope everyone had a great week of reading.

Posted by: JTB at October 11, 2026 09:01 AM (yTvNw)

8 There's a fair amount of overlap between my childhood favorites and Sabrina's...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 11, 2026 09:01 AM (FZ29D)

9 I remember De Seuss, but think first was Adventures of Dick and Jane

Posted by: Skip at October 11, 2026 09:03 AM (Ia/+0)

10 Missed it by a moth's whisker!

Morning, Book Folken. Of the classic treasured books from childhood, I can recall only Space Cat Goes to Mars, which I read in first grade. I somehow missed a lot of the usual childhood suspects like Pooh or Oz (except for the movie) or Mr. Toad and his friends. I went from Roy Rogers and Gene Autry young readers' adventures to Fleming's James Bond, then to Rex Stout and Ellery Queen. Since then I've been improving my mind with sensational fiction (as John Dickson Carr's Dr. Fell once said) and occasional literature.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 09:03 AM (wzUl9)

11 I think my first favorite book was "A Fish Out Of Water". It was about a boy who fed his goldfish too much.

Posted by: fd at October 11, 2026 09:03 AM (MWfyi)

12 I've been an old book about rocks and minerals. It's full of solid facts.
Posted by: fd

Had a little book about rocks and minerals when I was a kid. Just loved it.

Posted by: Tuna at October 11, 2026 09:04 AM (lJ0H4)

13 What books stuck in your head and made you the Reading Moron you are today?

I honestly don't remember.

Of your list, I only recognize Danny Dunn and Cricket in Times Square.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 11, 2026 09:05 AM (1Ff7Z)

14 I really enjoyed The Flight to the Mushroom Planet. Prior to that book, I also liked Blanche the Blue Nosed Witch.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 11, 2026 09:05 AM (0U5gm)

15 Good morning morons thanks Sabrina.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 11, 2026 09:06 AM (RIvkX)

16 Good morning, Sabrina and bookish folk.

I didn't discover Bellairs until I was an adult, first reading his fantasy novel "The Face in the Frost", and only later his Lewis Barnavelt stories for children (illustrated by Gorey!). All well worth seeking out.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 11, 2026 09:06 AM (kpS4V)

17 Morning, Sabrina.

Howdy, Horde.

Childhood treasures? I dunno. I was always reading, but almost nothing jumps out as a 'treasured book.' Earliest stuff I remember was a set of supermarket encyclopedias, a bunch of Little Golden Books, some volumes from one of the half-a-billion Doubleday book clubs (All the Mowgli Stories, Treasure Island, Tales from Shakespeare), Classics Illustrated comics. And whatever I could scrounge at the library. The usual hodge-podge, I suppose.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 11, 2026 09:06 AM (q3u5l)

18 The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill.
=====
I read this book many many times.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 11, 2026 09:08 AM (RIvkX)

19 When I was a kid I was fascinated by books about Greek mythology. I was surprised to learn decades later that my husband--who grew up hundreds of miles from me in a very different home environment--shared my youthful fascination.

My favorite series when I was a girl were Henry Huggins and Henry Reed, not girly books. Never went through the horse and romance phases that most girls did.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at October 11, 2026 09:08 AM (VV/pN)

20 Good Sunday morning, horde.

I love that picture up top. Could have been me and my sibs.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 11, 2026 09:09 AM (CjHsb)

21 Good morning horde
Sorry I've been missing threads
Wanted to scan the comments while cooking beef heart for the dog
Reading the latest HG Parry

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 11, 2026 09:09 AM (znREB)

22 The Lorax and the Sleep Book are two family traditions I have handed down. I have my original edition of The Lorax (with the Lake Erie reference) and the revision.

The Sleep Book is incredibly effective, both on me, my kids and now my grandkids. They never make it to the end.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 11, 2026 09:09 AM (ZOv7s)

23 Space Cat Meets Mars - Everyone wants a way to communicate with cats.

Yes, I'd imagine it would make it a lot easier for the cat to relay its direct orders to be followed to the precise letter.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 09:10 AM (6ydKt)

24 I started reading Robin Hobb's Farseer Trilogy this past week.

Not quite top tier, but still very good in its own way. Usually highly recommended by booktubers everywhere.

It's very much a character-driven story rather than a plot-driven story.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 11, 2026 09:10 AM (FZ29D)

25 I recall having a copy of Little Black Sambo, which was actually a very good story. I should have kept track of that book, as I believe it is banned now.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 11, 2026 09:10 AM (0U5gm)

26 If I had to pick an early book that made me the reading moron I am today, it'd be Heinlein's The Puppet Masters. Found it when I was 12 or 13, finished it, and said "Why didn't anyone tell me about this before?"

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 11, 2026 09:11 AM (q3u5l)

27 This week I finished George Pelecanos's The Cut, another of his very readable crime novels set in DC -- in residential neighborhoods, not in the "corridors of power." Pelecanos is very much like Elmore Leonard in his concerns and language.

Also finished, Lou Berney's 2025 Crooks. It's billed as a "novel about crime and family," but it is not a Godfather clone. The family has nothing to do with the Mob. Instead, they are *petty* crooks, small-time con artists and scammers. The story starts in Vegas in 1961 where hustler Buddy Mercurio meets Lillian, a redhead who is hard to impress, and continues on with their five children. Four of them grow up learning the ways of minor-league crime and how to cheat and hustle. The novel is utterly fascinating, the characters well drawn and often funny. Yes, it's told in present tense. Usually when I see a novel written that way I lose interest. Not this time; present tense works here because the story *moves*. Recommended.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 09:11 AM (wzUl9)

28 I should have kept track of that book, as I believe it is banned now.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 11, 2026 09:10 AM (0U5gm)

Common Sense tells us it's probably a good idea to forget all about that book.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 11, 2026 09:12 AM (1Ff7Z)

29 If I had to pick an early book that made me the reading moron I am today, it'd be Heinlein's The Puppet Masters. Found it when I was 12 or 13, finished it, and said "Why didn't anyone tell me about this before?"
Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 11, 2026


***
As I did at nineteen with the Past Through Tomorrow collection. I said, "So *that* is how SF is supposed to work!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 09:12 AM (wzUl9)

30 Good morning Readists! Thank you Sabrina!

I read and remember several of those on the list. Let me add, "Lion at Large" and a collection of American fables and tall tales, like Pecos Bill and such.

Posted by: goatexchange at October 11, 2026 09:13 AM (hyS0X)

31 Seasonally appropriate: I wish I could get my hands on some vintage Dorrie (the little witch) books by Patricia Coombs.

*actually, they are out there, but they're pricey.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 11, 2026 09:13 AM (CjHsb)

32 I had a Sambo book. It's not racist. Sambo was a badass who captured a tiger.

Posted by: fd at October 11, 2026 09:13 AM (MWfyi)

33 My childhood faves
Go Dog Go
Groliers iunior classics
Edith Hamilton's book on mythology
5 chinese brothers
Dunno the title but a book of Japanese folktales

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 11, 2026 09:13 AM (znREB)

34 As a precocious little sh*t I didn't read a whole lot of children's literature. I was demanding to join the Mobe before I was allowed to cross the street by myself.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 11, 2026 09:13 AM (RIvkX)

35 I remember having a copy of Sambo as well, and yeah, it was a good story.

And we can't corrupt the minds of the young with good stories, now, can we?

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 11, 2026 09:13 AM (q3u5l)

36 Typing one handed is challenging

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 11, 2026 09:13 AM (znREB)

37 One of my enduring childhood treasures is Weapons and Warfare of the 20th Century. A rather hefty volume, my grandmother bought it for me at a book store where it was on clearance. Part of the reason was that I looked rather cartoonish lugging the thing around.

I was done with kid lit by 4th grade and my knowledge of Judy Blume and other authors was because we did library time and books were read aloud to us. I would never have read them on my own.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 11, 2026 09:13 AM (ZOv7s)

38 The left hand is gloved and holding raw heart

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 11, 2026 09:14 AM (znREB)

39 "Star Trek Log Eight" by Alan D. Foster gets moving once it sheds its base story, adapted from the "Star Trek" animated episode "Eye of the Beholder." Now the Enterprise crew is going hunting at the request of their former captors the Lactrans, who want to snare a rare creature for their zoo. They don't know where it lives or even what it looks like -- but they do know of a long-lost planet in the boonies of the galaxy whose inhabitants might be able to help. Step one: find the planet.

I hope to finish this before Friday, when I'll head for the TxMoMe, with stops at a couple of Half Price Books stores on the way.

Hope to see some of you folks!

Posted by: Weak Geek at October 11, 2026 09:14 AM (KsJzp)

40 As kid I liked some Dr. Seuss, Shel Silverstein, Clifford The Big Red Dog, Curious George, and also Judy Blume books were really popular at the time so they made us read those.

When I got older I was hooked on Choose Your Own Adventure and Encyclopedia Brown for several years.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 09:14 AM (6ydKt)

41 The Six Most Terrifying Creatures of Middle Earth:

https://tinyurl.com/ytr5dnk3

The star players and also nameless horrors burrowing in the dark places.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 11, 2026 09:14 AM (kpS4V)

42 Lessee...

Dr Seuss but "Green Eggs and Ham" most of all.

I loved loved loved "Little Black Sambo". I thought it was so cool that he turned tigers into butter for pancakes! I honestly believe that had an effect on my thinking and writing.

A ton of children's science books. Apparently, i asked my folks a lot of questions about everything, so they bought me science books to fill my knowledge void.

The Winnie the Pooh books by Milne.

Tom Swift, of course.

Somewhere along the line early on I discovered Greek and Roman mythology and the German stuff a bit later. Man, did I love those tales. Like, Sabrina, when I read the unexpurgated versions later on, well, that was a surprise.

Grimm's Fairy Tales and FTs from other lands like Japan.

"Doctor Doolittle in the Moon"

"A Wrinkle in Time"

A ton of science and dinosaur books along the way.

Probably, that's it for early reading.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 11, 2026 09:15 AM (YSUhf)

43 Typing one handed is challenging
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 11, 2026 09:13 AM (znREB)

Well, I'd expect it'd be hard to type with one hand and raise a still pumping heart overhead in triumph at the same time!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 11, 2026 09:16 AM (1Ff7Z)

44 In reading news, I had to give up on Graham Green's The Ministry of Fear because the plot is too convoluted for my exhausted brain to deal with at bed time. I either need something linear or something I can reread.

Still working through City of God. About a third of the way through it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 11, 2026 09:16 AM (ZOv7s)

45 I also had several of the Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators books, and my cousin and I would trade Hardy Boys books back and forth in order to read more of them.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 11, 2026 09:17 AM (0U5gm)

46 Someone upstairs reminded me.

"Kipling's "Just So Stories" and the "Jungle Book"

Read those a few times.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 11, 2026 09:17 AM (YSUhf)

47 38 The left hand is gloved and holding raw heart
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 11, 2026 09:14 AM (znREB)

This is some serious multitasking!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 11, 2026 09:17 AM (CjHsb)

48 The left hand is gloved and holding raw heart
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 11, 2026 09:14 AM (znREB)
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Mine too!

Posted by: High Priest Xoctyclahtolchitl at October 11, 2026 09:18 AM (ZOv7s)

49 I remember reading Superfudge and doing a report on it. 3rd grade maybe? Never read another Blume book.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 11, 2026 09:19 AM (seCv0)

50 I missed out on Mowgli as well. My jungle reading was the original Burroughs Tarzan novels, which Ballantine began reissuing in paperback about '63. My father, who'd grown up with them, bought them all as they came out. Of course I had to see what it was all about. I was captured by the story of the young Tarzan as he is raised by Kala and the great apes, and then meets Europeans for the first time.

The first novel, the collection of short stories called Jungle Tales of Tarzan (flashbacks to his young jungle days before meeting white men), and several of the succeeding novels like Nos. 8 and 16 are quite good. You wouldn't want to write like Burroughs now -- but he kept a story moving like a high-speed train.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 09:19 AM (wzUl9)

51 In what world do little boys sit around a treehouse reading books? They're playing Cowboys and Indians, mumbly peg, or catching tadpoles in the creek. And No Girls Allowed. In a few years the treehouse becomes the vault for storing the forbidden girly magazines.

Posted by: I gotta ask at October 11, 2026 09:19 AM (H26ja)

52 Oh yeah, forgot Winnie the Pooh.

My aunt had a copy of a Br'er Rabbit book that I can't remember the name of now. It was the one with the 'tar baby' in it.

I loved it because my aunt would read it to us kids at bedtime and she was very, very, good at imitating the voices and accents that the characters had.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 09:20 AM (6ydKt)

53 I recall asking for and receiving a hardbound copy of The Ship by Bjorn Landstrom for my tenth birthday. Beautifully illustrated book covering the development of ships through time. It is still on my bookshelf.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 11, 2026 09:20 AM (0U5gm)

54 Lovely picture up top!

What a remember reading a lot of as a kid was a collection of six books which my mother had as a kid and was called "My book house" series edited by someone named Olive Beaupre Miller from the 1920's. It contained stories and poems for kids with delightful drawings. Of course I read lots of others things as well, but I still have the book house series.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 11, 2026 09:21 AM (JrHfD)

55 You wouldn't want to write like Burroughs now -- but he kept a story moving like a high-speed train.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 09:19 AM (wzUl9)

Why not? Fast paced stories might be what it takes to get more people reading. Complex, tedious stories probably put more people off of reading that lesser writing.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 11, 2026 09:21 AM (1Ff7Z)

56 The American Heritage two volume Civil War. Had the colorful battlefield illustrations that drew me into reading.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 11, 2026 09:21 AM (JzUSu)

57 Had a bunch of the Golden Nature Guides too. As many as I could lay hands on. Roy Chapman Andrews' dinosaur stuff. Roy Gallant's astronomy books for kids, with the Bonestell illustrations.

During the Sputnik and early Mercury program years, I dimly recall bubble-gum card sets devoted not to football and baseball but to astronomy and the space program. Also using a lot of the Bonestell illos. Damn, I wish I still had those.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 11, 2026 09:21 AM (q3u5l)

58 I also had several of the Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators books, and my cousin and I would trade Hardy Boys books back and forth in order to read more of them.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 11, 2026


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Yes, I had a period with the Hardy Boys too. I missed out on the Investigators books and only came to AH's crime and horror anthologies (edited by someone else, who had great taste, and with AH's name on them) when I was about eleven. DC comic books were starting to seem a little childish, and the anthologies were perfect for me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 09:22 AM (wzUl9)

59 Wolfus, the beast must be fed

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 11, 2026 09:22 AM (znREB)

60 49 I remember reading Superfudge and doing a report on it. 3rd grade maybe? Never read another Blume book.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 11, 2026 09:19 AM (seCv0)

Freckle Juice and Blubber were popular when I was in elementary school, had to read both of those.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 09:22 AM (6ydKt)

61 Books for Precocious Little Sh*ts
-Animal Farm
-1984
-1985
-We
-A Clockwork Orange
-Emphyrio
-Wyst
-Make Room! Make Room!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 11, 2026 09:22 AM (RIvkX)

62 My father read a lot of Mark Twain to me. He did this well past the point where I could read and I think it was because he wanted to share it with me but also because he is of a generation where people still read books aloud in company.

Radio replaced that, but his parents were old enough to do it, and there is something to be gained by hearing the words spoken, hence the enduring popularity of things like audio books.

I also only saw him on weekends, and he didn't relate well to kids (now that he's a great-grandfather, he's more whimsical and less reserved around them), so it was a think he was comfortable doing.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 11, 2026 09:22 AM (ZOv7s)

63 "Sure, we're too old to change the world, but what about that kid, sitting down, opening a book, right now, in a branch at the local library and finding drawings of pee-pees and wee-wees on the Cat in the Hat and the Five Chinese Brothers? Doesn't he deserve better?"

Posted by: Lieutenant Bookman, Library Cop at October 11, 2026 09:23 AM (H26ja)

64 32 I had a Sambo book. It's not racist. Sambo was a badass who captured a tiger.
Posted by: fd at October 11, 2026 09:13 AM (MWfyi)
D-i-t-t-o.

Posted by: Eromero at October 11, 2026 09:23 AM (LHPAg)

65 Did anyone here ever read the Great Brain series of books?

I enjoyed those a lot when I was a kid. Very entertaining.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 11, 2026 09:24 AM (FZ29D)

66 Yes, I had a period with the Hardy Boys too. I missed out on the Investigators books and only came to AH's crime and horror anthologies (edited by someone else, who had great taste, and with AH's name on them) when I was about eleven. DC comic books were starting to seem a little childish, and the anthologies were perfect for me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 09:22 AM (wzUl9)


I forgot those, too.
Read a few of them and I think I read Nancy Drew at some point.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 09:24 AM (6ydKt)

67 The American Heritage two volume Civil War. Had the colorful battlefield illustrations that drew me into reading.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 11, 2026 09:21 AM (JzUSu)
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I inherited the family copy of that, but far more influential was the copy of Churchill's The Second World War created by the editors of Life magazine. Lavishly illustrated with the highlights of his work, it captivated me whenever I visited my grandmother, and when I realized that Churchill wrote much, much more, I wanted to read it all.

And by happy coincidence, my other grandparents had all six volumes, and were happy to loan them to me. My book report for 6th Grade was The Gathering Storm.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 11, 2026 09:25 AM (ZOv7s)

68 The first chapter book I ever read and the book that started me on a lifetime of reading was Robb White's The Secret Sea. After that, I read a brick library of White's book. But it was The Little Red Hen that formed my basic economic philosophy.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 11, 2026 09:25 AM (ndZc7)

69 The Great Brain series and then Narnia. Never bothered with Tolkien.
As an adult, I red Parliament of Whores and then every book mentioned there. Especially important were Closing of the American Mind and Gulagarchipelago.

Posted by: Accomack at October 11, 2026 09:26 AM (9H7EW)

70 Should've been titled, "Little Brown Sambo."

The kid was Indian (Slurpee, not Casino).

Posted by: smartass at October 11, 2026 09:26 AM (J4Dwc)

71 I remember loving a series of stories anout a little girl or maybe 2 little kids visiting with fairy creatures inside a big tree.

In my mind I remembered the author as Enid Blyton bit looking at her books as an adult I don't see a match

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 11, 2026 09:26 AM (znREB)

72 I loved The Phq
A Tom Toll Booth. I first read it in college for a lark. I reread it years later when I found and bought a trade paperback edition and then a couple of more times reading it to my son. Favorite line:It’s more important to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be. - The Whetherman

Still reading Pride and Prejudice. Still mildly surprised at how much I am enjoying it. Still think Mr. Bennett is the best.

Posted by: Who Knew at October 11, 2026 09:27 AM (xbMkL)

73 Didn't get to Burroughs until after I'd found Heinlein and started my decade-long dive into sf. Ace Books had some of the Tarzans, but they did a lot of his non-Tarzan/Mars books. Ballantine had all the Tarzans and Mars novels. Grabbed almost all of them, and they were fun. Haven't revisited Burroughs in who knows when.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 11, 2026 09:27 AM (q3u5l)

74 Alas, the current schedule leave me little time for the Book thread, so I must take my leave. Thanks, Sabrina!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 11, 2026 09:28 AM (ZOv7s)

75 I had a Sambo book. It's not racist. Sambo was a badass who captured a tiger.
Posted by: fd

Dude, there's not a single LGQXYZEIEIO in it!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 11, 2026 09:28 AM (ndZc7)

76 Richard Scarry! (Not the knockoffs made by tracing and photocopying his stuff, but the real deal by the real guy. Especially The Great Pie Robbery.

Posted by: Trimegistus at October 11, 2026 09:28 AM (78a2H)

77 You wouldn't want to write like Burroughs now -- but he kept a story moving like a high-speed train.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 09:19 AM (wzUl9)

Why not? Fast paced stories might be what it takes to get more people reading. Complex, tedious stories probably put more people off of reading that lesser writing.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 11, 2026


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Burroughs's Tarzans were kind of complex, in that there was usually a big cast of characters beyond Tarzan himself. Burroughs would follow one group, perhaps the villains Tarzan was attempting to stop, until a cliffhanger point -- and then switch to another group or to Tarzan himself. These were written to be magazine serials, so I guess the cliffhanger at the end of each installment was mandatory. But it worked.

Burroughs also had a solid pulp imagination. His Africa was peopled with all sorts of lost or exotic civilizations: the forgotten city of Opar, or a long-lost colony of the Roman Empire, or a hidden valley with dinosaurs and intelligent humanoids with fur and tails.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 09:28 AM (wzUl9)

78 I've been reading "Rogue Male" by Geoffrey Household (1939). It was referenced in a Pendergast novel, so I gave it a whirl.

It's a thriller, a "hunter" is actually possibly a would-be assassin, but he gets caught and tortured, then escapes. This is the beginning of the book, and it looks like the rest of the book will follow him eluding capture and getting back to England(?).

There aren't any chapter breaks, which is unusual and doesn't offer any good rest stops. I'm not sure if I'm interested enough to finish it.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 11, 2026 09:29 AM (CjHsb)

79 forgot those, too.
Read a few of them and I think I read Nancy Drew at some point.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

I had about 25 Hardy Boys books.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 11, 2026 09:29 AM (seCv0)

80 Heh, Perfessor, I just mentioned that!

Posted by: Accomack at October 11, 2026 09:29 AM (dJCmT)

81 Childhood treasures? Once I got past the sound out every word stage, it comes down to three and a series. They all go back to second grade, so late 1950s.

First and foremost, Treasure Island with the Wyeth illustrations. This was the book that showed how words and stories could bring me to a different world. It also taught me to keep a dictionary handy. (Having the dictionary at hand led to a life long interest in etymologies and how words develop over time.)

The Rolling Stones, a Heinlein juvenile. Adventure, humor, a bit of adult cynical attitudes, family, and science. It showed how the real world, science, could work in fiction. It ignited a decade long love of science fiction, especially space operas like the Skylark and Lensman series.

Dr. Seuss books. The poems and 'silly' words showed me how reading could feel like music.

The series was the Hardy Boys. They had so many interests that led to mysteries and danger that required determination and ingenuity to solve.

Posted by: JTB at October 11, 2026 09:30 AM (yTvNw)

82 I did a fifth grade book report on The Exorcist, which raised a few eyebrows, not only for the subject matter, but also for the books I was reading by then. A lot of police stories, UFO/Bermuda Triangle books, shark books, and Ian Fleming.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 11, 2026 09:30 AM (0U5gm)

83 Ballantine had all the Tarzans and Mars novels. Grabbed almost all of them, and they were fun. Haven't revisited Burroughs in who knows when.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 11, 2026


***
At age ten I was not ready for the John Carter of Mars series. They confused me. Perhaps I should try at least the first one now.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 09:30 AM (wzUl9)

84 Almost done with Wonder Confronts Certainty, on the Russian greats vs Russian commies.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 11, 2026 09:30 AM (JzUSu)

85 Also a huge fan of the Mad Scientists' Club series by Bertrand Brinley. I see there's a small press which has brought them back into print. I may get a set . . .

Posted by: Trimegistus at October 11, 2026 09:31 AM (78a2H)

86 I have to admit that I have never read Treasure Island to this day. At home we had an edition with illustrations, and I found those interesting, but never got into the book itself.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 09:31 AM (wzUl9)

87 Ad had books with colored plates of rocks snd minerals. There was onion skin between the pages of photos. It was a treat to look through.

There is one Dr Seuss book I hated -
" Are you my mother?"
Sooo traumatizing 😁

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 11, 2026 09:31 AM (znREB)

88 I still don't understand why "Little Black Sambo" is considered racist . I guess because " Sambo "is considered a racist name? . He is a very intrepid little boy getting the tigers to chase each other around the trees and turning themselves into batter.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 11, 2026 09:32 AM (JrHfD)

89 I just finished reading Johnston McCulley's "The Mark of Zorro," which was the novel that first introduced Zorro to the world. (Or, rather, Senor Zorro, as he is always referred as) It's a short, light read, but pretty fun. The first half can be a little slow, with its focus on a silly courtship, but the latter part of the book really picks up.

All the classic Zorro tropes are present, even if somewhat subdued. Zorro only carved a 'Z' on something once, but it was a pretty intense moment... Also, previous to this, I had just read a Zorro comic (based on the 50s tv show) where Zorro had a mute sidekick/butler named Bernardo. Bernardo really felt like a gimmicky made-for-tv character, but it turns out he was in the novel! He was a pointless character in the novel, but he was there nonetheless. Good on them for actually being able to change the source material for the better. Modern tv/movie writers could learn a thing or two from that...

Posted by: Castle Guy at October 11, 2026 09:32 AM (3v7ra)

90 79 forgot those, too.
Read a few of them and I think I read Nancy Drew at some point.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

I had about 25 Hardy Boys books.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 11, 2026 09:29 AM (seCv0)


They had a lot of books, Nancy Drew, too.
Back then you could get kids to read that much.

Now they can barely handle Harry Potter in nine books.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 09:33 AM (6ydKt)

91 Yes, I read books under the covers with a flashlight. My parents liked my reading choices but had this silly idea that young children required sleep. How was I supposed to get to sleep without knowing what Long John Silver was going to do next?

Posted by: JTB at October 11, 2026 09:34 AM (yTvNw)

92 Hmm ... childhood favorites ...

"The Big Green Thing," the first book I read by myself. I was 4. I know this because Mom noted it in the book. I wish I had it now, but I've gone through their (now my sister's) house, and it's not there. (The thing was a kite.)

"Calico Row," about being polite to others.

"The Snowy Day" by Ezra Jack Keats.

Yes, "Little Black Sambo."

"Never Talk to Strangers," written in rhyme.

In early grade school, "The Johnny Cake Mine."

A book by Ben Bova (I don't recall the title).

And, in late grade school, "The Mad Scientists' Club."

Oh, yeah -- the Hardy Boys!

Posted by: Weak Geek at October 11, 2026 09:34 AM (KsJzp)

93 88 I still don't understand why "Little Black Sambo" is considered racist . I guess because " Sambo "is considered a racist name? . He is a very intrepid little boy getting the tigers to chase each other around the trees and turning themselves into batter.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 11, 2026 09:32 AM (JrHfD)

Yeah, it's basically the name.
It conjures up images of little black slave boys to some people so it's verboten.

Just like they got rid of Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 09:34 AM (6ydKt)

94 "My aunt had a copy of a Br'er Rabbit book that I can't remember the name of now. It was the one with the 'tar baby' in it."

Uncle Remus. Written by Joel Chandler Harris of Eatonton, Ga, where they are quite proud of Brother Rabbit and even have a Br'er Rabbit museum.

Posted by: fd at October 11, 2026 09:34 AM (MWfyi)

95
Off music sock from yesterday.

What are we reading?

Pr0n.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 11, 2026 09:34 AM (QVmho)

96 Good morning!

Beloved books from childhood must include Richard Sary's books - Cars and Trucks and Things that Go, Busy Busy World, etc..


*Found goldbug!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 11, 2026 09:36 AM (rOKnE)

97 a branch at the local library and finding drawings of pee-pees and wee-wees on the Cat in the Hat and the Five Chinese Brothers? Doesn't he deserve better?"
Posted by: Lieutenant Bookman, Library Cop

--

Our local kids library is infested with that crap

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 11, 2026 09:36 AM (znREB)

98 Finished Three Witnesses by Rex Stout, a collection of three mid-length mysteries involving Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin.

The first tale is The Next Witness, where Leonard Ashe is on trial for the murder of an employee of an answering service. Wolfe is bothered by the facts of the case, and skips his subpoena to testify for the prosecution to instead gather evidence for the defense.

When a Man Murders is the next tale, of a wealthy man who was presumed dead in Korea and his estate paid out. Then, years later, he reappears briefly, before ending up on the floor of a hotel room, with a bullet hole in his head. Wolfe must determine if the man's remarried wife, her new husband, or a legatee is behind the death.

Finally, Die like a Dog involves Archie trying to return a raincoat, but instead taking possession of the dog of a murdered man, and Wolfe needing to get to the bottom of who the murderer is.

Nero Wolfe is reminiscent of Sherlock Holmes, a man of uncommon perception, while his assistant Archie, who relates the stories in first person, unlike a staid doctor acts and speaks like a gumshoe of noir films. Very entertaining.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 11, 2026 09:36 AM (0U5gm)

99 Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 09:34 AM (6ydKt)

So dumb. The actress who played Aunt Jemima went around and performed the character and made pancakes and loved the role and made a living from that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 11, 2026 09:36 AM (JrHfD)

100 I think I read Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde when I was like 11 or 12.

It was a good Stevenson book, and it's not a long read either.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 09:37 AM (6ydKt)

101 Fen most everything isn't racist, but the Racists have to push their agenda

Posted by: Skip at October 11, 2026 09:37 AM (Ia/+0)

102 Are You My Mother? is by P.D. Eastman, not Dr. Suess. Same guy who did Go, Dogs Go! Gets lumped in with the Doctor because both were published as "I Can Read" books with the Cat in the Hat on the spine.

Posted by: Trimegistus at October 11, 2026 09:38 AM (78a2H)

103 Ditto on the Greek and Roman myths.

Did anybody else have those Bantam Knowledge Through Color books? I've got a ton of them down in my basement book nook. It was a terrific series.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 11, 2026 09:38 AM (kpS4V)

104
What books stuck in your head and made you the Reading Moron you are today?

Has to be Rifles for Watie, by Harold Keith. Liked it so much as a kid that I bought a hard cover from ebay when the school libraries went woke and hid them all from the next generation.

From there I went hard into Hemingway's short stories, and segued into Thomas Pain.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 11, 2026 09:38 AM (QVmho)

105 As a youth, I 'read' through a Richard Scary book until the binding had to be reinforced with shipping tape. There was also a particular atlas and a dinosaur book that left an impression on me.

Novel wise, I remember The Boxcar Children, Encyclopedia Brown, The Three Investigators...A bunch of dog books by Jim Kjellgard as well as Call of the Wild and White Fang. Then the Redwall and Dragonriders of Pern series took me into the full-length novels. Along with whatever Star Trek TNG or early EU Star Wars paperbacks caught my eye off the library shelves...

And, because I was weird, I would flip through the family encyclopedia set, looking for any topic that caught my eye. I would also read straight through some themed history or year-in-review supplemental volumes that were included in the set.

Posted by: Castle Guy at October 11, 2026 09:39 AM (3v7ra)

106 We loved the Amelia Bedelia books, probably because dad loved puns.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 11, 2026 09:39 AM (rOKnE)

107 I've mentioned this before, but the novel that started me on my lifelong love of the classic mystery novel was . . . a Western. Roy Rogers and the Ghost of Mystery Rancho, a Whitman book from just before RR and Dale Evans began their TV series. Roy is a young Texas Ranger, and the death of a fellow lawman on the Mexican border draws him into a deadly struggle against a killer bandit who wears a skeleton mask and costume on his raids. Not even his own men know his real identity -- which is not revealed until the penultimate chapter, and it's a thunderbolt surprise.

I bought a copy of it some years ago and enjoyed the reread. Yes, it has plot holes big enough to ride Trigger through. But it has a narrative drive like nobody's business, twists and turns, a grand climax, and the thunderbolt surprise. It led me to the Hardy Boys, and eventually to Stout, Queen, Carr, and Christie.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 09:39 AM (wzUl9)

108 So dumb. The actress who played Aunt Jemima went around and performed the character and made pancakes and loved the role and made a living from that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 11, 2026 09:36 AM (JrHfD)

Can't have a black women dressed like a maid serving white people food. People might get the wrong idea.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 09:39 AM (6ydKt)

109 We used to be a thing.

Posted by: Henry and Beezus & Pippi Longstocking at October 11, 2026 09:40 AM (H26ja)

110 When I was a kid some of the books I best remember reading were L. M. Boston's "Green Knowe" books. One of the, "An Enemy at Green Knowe" gave me a memorable nightmare. On the science fiction front Andre Norton and Robert A. Heinlein were early favorites. And, having run across a paperback copy of Edgar Rice Burroughs "Thuvia, Maid of Mars" I developed a life long addiction to his tales of Barsoom and the adventures of Tarzan.

My father read me "The Hobbit" when I was quite small. The one bit of that that I remember was the image of Bard the Bowman stepping out of the night, still drenched from the waters of the Long Lake, to proclaim himself the slayer of the dragon. A few years later a family friend gave me my own hard back copy of "The Hobbit" (for which I still bless her). I treasured that until a certain sister of mine took it (without asking permission) and lent it to a friend of hers (who lost it). I only discovered this months later when I was frantically searching for it and she reluctantly confessed. And yes, I am still angry about that. My parents got me a new copy and reading that introduced me to the differences between the 2nd edition and 3rd edition texts.

Posted by: John F. MacMichael at October 11, 2026 09:40 AM (/GVA9)

111
I started reading Robin Hobb's Farseer Trilogy this past week.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Check out her Assassin's Apprentice series. Dark, but very good.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 11, 2026 09:41 AM (QVmho)

112 Any fans of the Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander?

That's another series I loved when I was a kid. I re-read them as an adult and they hold up quite well.

Lloyd wrote the books for a younger audience but you never feel like he's talking down to children.

John Bellairs was the same way, which is why I loved his books as well.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 11, 2026 09:41 AM (FZ29D)

113 I remember loving Pippi Longstocking.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 11, 2026 09:41 AM (JrHfD)

114 Perfesser, the first 3 Assassin's Apprentice (Fitz) books are among my favorite fantasy trilogies.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 11, 2026 09:41 AM (tcsrY)

115 a Western. Roy Rogers and the Ghost of Mystery Rancho

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 09:39 AM (wzUl9)

I've never read a Roy Rogers book, but I have seen some movies.

I gotta admit, I prefer Hopalong Cassidy.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 09:41 AM (6ydKt)

116 One thing about those books that stuck in my head and made me the reading moron I am today:

They were easily discoverable.

You could find paperback racks in almost every grocery store and pharmacy, every big department store had a book department, the book clubs advertised in a lot of major magazines, the libraries still had really good selections, library time was part of every week in the grade schools -- you couldn't move without tripping over books. These days, not so much.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 11, 2026 09:42 AM (q3u5l)

117 It was Trigger, wasn't it? I never trusted that horse.

Posted by: Trimegistus at October 11, 2026 09:42 AM (78a2H)

118 109 We used to be a thing.
Posted by: Henry and Beezus & Pippi Longstocking at October 11, 2026 09:40 AM


Same.

Posted by: The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew at October 11, 2026 09:42 AM (H26ja)

119 Skip, how was Adam Carolla last night?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 11, 2026 09:42 AM (RIvkX)

120 My week by the numbers.

12x12 wall-to-wall carpets removed: 2.
HF radio contacts made: zero.
YT Watch Later queue depth: down to 1,418.
Hours spent with AI on PCB design: about 8.
Lawn mowing percentage: 60%.
lichess.org tac puzzle score: 2106.

Posted by: gp at October 11, 2026 09:42 AM (Jr5Lq)

121 Check out her Assassin's Apprentice series. Dark, but very good.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 11, 2026 09:41 AM (QVmho)
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I just finished Assassin's Apprentice and have started Royal Assassin.

And because I'm a completionist fool, I've also ordered the rest of the books in the Realm of the Elderlings series...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 11, 2026 09:42 AM (FZ29D)

122 Are You My Mother? is by P.D. Eastman, not Dr. Suess. Same guy who did Go, Dogs Go! Gets lumped in with the Doctor because both were published as "I Can Read" books with the Cat in the Hat on the spine.
Posted by: Trimegistus at October 11, 2026 09:38 AM (78a2H)

Well, he was an associate of Geisel.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 11, 2026 09:42 AM (1Ff7Z)

123 . . . Finally, Die like a Dog involves Archie trying to return a raincoat, but instead taking possession of the dog of a murdered man, and Wolfe needing to get to the bottom of who the murderer is.

Nero Wolfe is reminiscent of Sherlock Holmes, a man of uncommon perception, while his assistant Archie, who relates the stories in first person, unlike a staid doctor acts and speaks like a gumshoe of noir films. Very entertaining.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 11, 2026


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That novelette is probably Stout's best short work and the best example of his mystery plotting. He was not a plotter like Queen or Carr, but every now and then he came up with a dazzling surprise.

Archie began as a roughneck, in fact he once described himself that way. He'd say things like "He don't know." But over the years, exposed to Wolfe, he grew much more polished -- though he never lost that tough edge when it was needed.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 09:43 AM (wzUl9)

124 Loved A Wrinkle in Time and the Chronicles of Narnia books. Also read classics like James and the Giant Peach, Wizard of Oz - mom got a nice hardback set of these.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 11, 2026 09:43 AM (rOKnE)

125 My parents liked my reading choices but had this silly idea that young children required sleep. How was I supposed to get to sleep without knowing what Long John Silver was going to do next?
Posted by: JTB at October 11, 2026 09:34 AM (yTvNw)

My mom didn't care, as long as we were quiet.

With five children, she desperately needed some quiet time.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 11, 2026 09:43 AM (CjHsb)

126 Lloyd Alexander had a book signing once when I happened to be at that bookstore. I grabbed the book - a kid's picture book - and got it signed.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 11, 2026 09:44 AM (tcsrY)

127 Agghh, I forgot:

The Book of Knowledge, an encyclopedia.

The daily newspaper comics, plus ...

Grandma's copy of the Peanuts Treasury, which I dug out every time I visited her house. She also saved the Sunday comics from The Kansas City Star for me. It had comics not included in our daily paper.

With willpower, I stop.

Posted by: Weak Geek at October 11, 2026 09:44 AM (KsJzp)

128 We didn't have any tree houses in my neighborhood, sadly. But I had my preferred spots to read depending on the season. The house was a big Victorian era home. It still used a coal furnace and had, now unused, gas jets on the walls. In daylight and most of the year I liked to read on the front porch. At night I had a reading nook in the attic: worn out chaise lounge, a table to hold milk or soda, and a reading lamp. In winter I had 'my spot' on the sofa with a table and lamp. It was just across the room from the fireplace. I could read anywhere, of course, but to this day I prefer a reading 'nook' for extended sessions.

Posted by: JTB at October 11, 2026 09:45 AM (yTvNw)

129 53 I recall asking for and receiving a hardbound copy of The Ship by Bjorn Landstrom for my tenth birthday. Beautifully illustrated book covering the development of ships through time. It is still on my bookshelf.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 11, 2026 09:20 AM (0U5gm)
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I have that one too!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 11, 2026 09:45 AM (kpS4V)

130 Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 09:39 AM (6ydKt)

Even her descendants who were black objected when she was removed.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 11, 2026 09:45 AM (JrHfD)

131 >>You could find paperback racks in almost every grocery store and pharmacy. . .


Oh, that reminds me, I read all those stupid Archie comic books, MAD magazine, etc.. Not literature, it was a phase. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at October 11, 2026 09:46 AM (rOKnE)

132 Realm of the Elderlings

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The ones with the LiveShips never were to my taste. I was happy to get back to angsty Fitz.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 11, 2026 09:46 AM (tcsrY)

133 Public library notified me a held book had come in, so I went down there yesterday to pick it up, but they lost it somehow. Michael Lewis' new book about the brief DOGE era. Oh well, I got other stuff to read. I told them if they found it, I'd be sure to read it cover to cover in kind acknowledgement of their effort.

In other book news, I have five boxes of old books left to get rid of, and as I've found with the other ten boxes disposed of, nobody wants books. Not even good ones.

Posted by: gp at October 11, 2026 09:46 AM (Jr5Lq)

134 Roy Rogers liked to sing too much for me.

Hopalong just wanted to rope cows and kick ass.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 09:47 AM (6ydKt)

135 I gotta admit, I prefer Hopalong Cassidy.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 09:41 AM (6ydKt)

Books, or movies? Book Hopalong definitely ain't Boyd Hopalong.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 11, 2026 09:47 AM (1Ff7Z)

136 I don’t remember any particular books from my childhood as sparking my love of reading, maybe because I was never one to reread books. Once I read a book it was on to the next one. I do remember some books from my grandparents houses. Before I started bringing books with me, I was stuck reading what ever was available wherever I was visiting. At my farm grandpa.s house he had the AKC dog book describing all the various breeds and he hanother book, written for younger kids (say 5th & 6th grade) describing the various breeds of horses. At my city grandad.s house he had the Life Illustrated History of WWII, that I poured over dozens of times.

Posted by: Who Knew at October 11, 2026 09:47 AM (xbMkL)

137 My Side of the Mountain. Probably read it a dozen times.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 11, 2026 09:47 AM (H26ja)

138 The Book of Knowledge, an encyclopedia.

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Wesk geek, yes! Loved that

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 11, 2026 09:47 AM (tcsrY)

139 I'm doing a thing this year: reading classic spooky books for October. I did the Night in the Lonesome October last year, so probably won't revisit that. I'm sticking with books I've never read before.

I started with The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. I read it fairly voraciously, and then the ending, the reveal, is going on a bit too long. I got bored. But then, it was my bedtime reading, so I was falling asleep. I'll finish it, and then next, The Hound of the Baskervilles.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 11, 2026 09:47 AM (CjHsb)

140 And, because I was weird, I would flip through the family encyclopedia set, looking for any topic that caught my eye. I would also read straight through some themed history or year-in-review supplemental volumes that were included in the set.

Posted by: Castle Guy


My parents bought the World Book encyclopedia when I was young. I read it.

I knew about dengue fever long before it was common knowledge, so I have that going for me.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 11, 2026 09:48 AM (0U5gm)

141 130 Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 09:39 AM (6ydKt)

Even her descendants who were black objected when she was removed.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 11, 2026 09:45 AM (JrHfD)


I'm sure they did.
Who wouldn't be proud that their ancestor's picture was in multiple places in every grocery store in America?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 09:48 AM (6ydKt)

142 Books they told me I wasn't allowed to read but got read anyway
-Rosemary's Baby
-The Exorcist
-Looking for Mr. Goodbar
-Fear of Flying
-Papillon

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 11, 2026 09:48 AM (RIvkX)

143 I've never read a Roy Rogers book, but I have seen some movies.

I gotta admit, I prefer Hopalong Cassidy.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026


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Whitman produced quite a few RR books, some after the kids' TV series began. Some were better than others (though they never wrote down to you). One, Roy Rogers and the Bitter River Bridge, fascinated me as a kid: Roy and Dale (who in the kids' book is handled much like an annoying younger sister) lead a project to build a bridge across a fast-moving river in the Idaho mountains. Reading it as an adult, I was disappointed, but I'm not sure why.

However, the one called The Enchanted Canyon, which I had not liked at age nine, proved to be a delight as a grown up. The atmosphere is palpable; there's enough action. I guess I disliked it because the viewpoint character was a boy of twelve, and Roy is seen through his eyes. At nine I liked stories about adult heroes.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 09:48 AM (wzUl9)

144 Books, or movies? Book Hopalong definitely ain't Boyd Hopalong.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 11, 2026 09:47 AM (1Ff7Z)

Movies, haven't read his books, either.

When it comes to Westerns, I'm much more interested in the visual.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 09:49 AM (6ydKt)

145 Whitman even produced a Dale Evans story, where she is dealing with an outbreak of diphtheria in Navajo country, and the Indians are drawn quite well as I recall.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 09:49 AM (wzUl9)

146 Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 09:48 AM (6ydKt)

I think they were probably proud of the fact that she worked very hard her whole life and entertained people . Why do I have the feeling that it was "progressive" whites who were behind that removal and with Uncle Ben being axed as well?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 11, 2026 09:51 AM (JrHfD)

147 I loved My Side of the Mountain! Probably kill yourself trying to follow the survival advice in that book, though.

Wrinkle in Time is good, but . . . I encountered it when I was already a larval sci-fi nerd and it just felt a little off. The kind of SF your middle-school English teacher recommends. The kind of SF that uses science jargon without really understanding it, and treats everything as a metaphor because middle-school English teachers can spot the metaphors and feel like they didn't waste four years getting an English degree.

Posted by: Trimegistus at October 11, 2026 09:51 AM (78a2H)

148 >>We didn't have any tree houses in my neighborhood, sadly. But I had my preferred spots to read depending on the season. The house was a big Victorian era home. . .



Grew up in a not so large victorian home, but it included a small study off of the living room that included floor to ceiling built-in bookshelves on every bit of wall space, and a large window with a window seat looking out to the front street. The landscaping hid it well so that people walking by didn't notice you there. It easily held 2 kids fully stretched out, more if you squished. The children's books were stored on the walls at the foot of either side of the seat. It was the BEST place to stretch out and read on a lazy Saturday. Second best spot was on the hammock on the front porch.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 11, 2026 09:51 AM (rOKnE)

149 @85 --

I have that, but I have yet to get to the stories that are not in the original cillection.

Posted by: Weak Geek at October 11, 2026 09:52 AM (KsJzp)

150 Perfessor, I had a superlative teacher as a sprout who read to the class from the Chronicles of Prydain. Loved that series and the adventures of the Assistant Pig-keeper Taran!

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at October 11, 2026 09:52 AM (riU3n)

151 I'm doing a thing this year: reading classic spooky books for October. I did the Night in the Lonesome October last year, so probably won't revisit that. I'm sticking with books I've never read before.

I started with The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. I read it fairly voraciously, and then the ending, the reveal, is going on a bit too long. I got bored. But then, it was my bedtime reading, so I was falling asleep. I'll finish it, and then next, The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 11, 2026


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My project for Halloween will probably be rereading King's Salem's Lot, and several short stories: M.R. James's "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad," John B.L. Goodwin's "The Cocoon," and Richard Matheson's "Crickets." All three are among the creepiest shorts I've ever encountered.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 09:52 AM (wzUl9)

152 And The Bear Snores On is my favorite children’s book. I read that to my kid I started reading it as a canticle.
It really is a very good prose poem.

Posted by: Accomack at October 11, 2026 09:52 AM (4c58h)

153 Oh, we had this magnificent Merriam Webster's dictionary with indented tabs and such interesting extras - like a chart of 5 different alphabets - English, Greek, Hebrew, Cyrillic - I forget the other one

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 11, 2026 09:53 AM (tcsrY)

154 f the fact that she worked very hard her whole life and entertained people . Why do I have the feeling that it was "progressive" whites who were behind that removal and with Uncle Ben being axed as well?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 11, 2026 09:51 AM (JrHfD)

They were.
That all happened in 2020 after George Floyd and every corporation in America was kneeling.

So Uncle Ben, Aunt Jemima, and the Indian maiden from Land-O-Lakes were deemed problematic and removed.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 09:54 AM (6ydKt)

155 Whenever I go on business trips with my young proteges, I always make a stop at a Half Price or another book store. I even offer to buy them books, just to get them to read more. I got lucky with a couple of them who like to read, but many gen Zs just don't read books.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 11, 2026 09:54 AM (0U5gm)

156 Another nice creepy short story - "Caterpillars," by E. F. Benson.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 11, 2026 09:55 AM (q3u5l)

157 Having older siblings, somewhere along the way I discovered a shelf of Ian Fleming paperbacks about British man named Bond.
James Bond.
Consumed them voraciously.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 11, 2026 09:55 AM (H26ja)

158 The Little House on the Prairie series.
A Wrinkle in Time
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
The Nancy Drew books

Those are the first books I can remember reading on my own. I was probably in third grade when I started reading actual books on my own.

As an adult I am pretty much always reading some book although I'm transitioning to audiobooks more.

Posted by: lin-duh at October 11, 2026 09:55 AM (VCgbV)

159 >>In other book news, I have five boxes of old books left to get rid of, and as I've found with the other ten boxes disposed of, nobody wants books. Not even good ones.


You are so wrong!

I volunteer at a used book store and there are a lot of people who LOVE old books. The best is when someone wanders in, pokes around, and discovers a book they've been keeping an eye out for years (they loaned their original copy to a friend, lost it, whatever). Not every book has been digitized, and for many, nothing beats holding a book and turning pages vs. kindle/nook.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 11, 2026 09:55 AM (rOKnE)

160 Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 09:54 AM (6ydKt)

Yep. So many ludicrous things after George Floyd riots.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 11, 2026 09:55 AM (JrHfD)

161 The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet

San Diego based horror author Mark Clements featured this as a childhood book title in The Land of Nod. I assumed he’d made it up as a weird book for a weird story. I was very surprised to see it in a bookstore a year or so later.

Of course I bought it. It’s even more weird than Clements’s book.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 11, 2026 09:56 AM (XKdAf)

162 One treasured memory of reading as a child centered on "The Hound of the Baskervilles" when in fourth grade. I got it through the school's Scholastic Book program. Probably cost 25 cents. (Keyboards seldom include the 'cents' symbol these days. My old manual typewriters have them.) After an ENDLESS month of waiting it finally arrived. That night was cold and stormy. I set up in my chair with milk and cookies on the table and one lamp in a dark room. I could hear the storm winds and rain. Perfect conditions as I read about Holmes and Watson and the devil's hound. It was the best possible introduction to Sherlock Holmes.

Posted by: JTB at October 11, 2026 09:56 AM (yTvNw)

163 So Uncle Ben, Aunt Jemima, and the Indian maiden from Land-O-Lakes were deemed problematic and removed.

Posted by: SpeakingOf



Yeah, they finally got the last indian exterminated when they threw the Land O' Lakes squaw off of the butter carton.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 11, 2026 09:56 AM (0U5gm)

164 I did a fifth grade book report on The Exorcist, which raised a few eyebrows, not only for the subject matter, but also for the books I was reading by then.

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It was similar when I read Beau Geste for a book report.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 11, 2026 09:58 AM (ndZc7)

165 Spooky classics for Halloween - Dracula of course
Also Edgar Allan Poe has a bunch

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 11, 2026 09:59 AM (tcsrY)

166 "You are so wrong!"

I stand corrected

Posted by: gp at October 11, 2026 09:59 AM (Jr5Lq)

167 Don't mess with me.

Posted by: The Quaker Oats guy at October 11, 2026 09:59 AM (H26ja)

168 Yep. So many ludicrous things after George Floyd riots.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 11, 2026 09:55 AM (JrHfD)

Some things are returning to normal thanks to Trump, but big-time advertising is going to take longer. It's infested with woke as bad as Hollywood and will take forever for the left to let go of its stranglehold on the industry.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 09:59 AM (6ydKt)

169 Reading through Sabrina's list of books in the main post, I barely recognized any of them...Until she mentioned "The Pushcart War." That name rings a bell. And I may remember an anecdote from the prologue. Something about the major shipping companies being referred to with names very similar to the great powers of the day (the 30's?). So, some random guy reads a headline about business maneuverings, misinterprets it as real-life geo-political act of war, and then takes it on himself go bomb China.

Yeah, maybe that was from The Pushcart War, maybe some other novel I read...Or maybe I have more of a vivid imagination that I give myself credit for...

Posted by: Castle Guy at October 11, 2026 10:00 AM (3v7ra)

170 120 My week by the numbers.

12x12 wall-to-wall carpets removed: 2.
HF radio contacts made: zero.
YT Watch Later queue depth: down to 1,418.
Hours spent with AI on PCB design: about 8.
Lawn mowing percentage: 60%.
lichess.org tac puzzle score: 2106.
Posted by: gp at October 11, 2026 09:42 AM (Jr5Lq)

I like this.

I solved all the Wordles this week. Two with all greens, one in only two tries!!!, two in three tries, two in four, and one in six.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 11, 2026 10:00 AM (CjHsb)

171 I remember Are You My Mother?

Posted by: Skip at October 11, 2026 10:00 AM (Ia/+0)

172 My mother was a huge mystery story reader, so I got into them quite young. Especially Sherlock Holmes and the Peter Wimsey series by Dorothy Sayers. As a kid I preferred her short stories to her novels -- especially since she kind of let herself go wild in the short stories whereas the novels were a bit more serious and realistic. In one of the shorts Wimsey fakes his death to infiltrate an international crime gang which could almost be SPECTRE. In another he impersonates a wizard to defeat a mad scientist in the Pyrenees. There's another about hidden treasure and antique manuscripts better than anything by Dan Brown. Even a crossword puzzle mystery! Great stuff.

Posted by: Trimegistus at October 11, 2026 10:01 AM (78a2H)

173 First Holmes? Can't remember what book I read it in, but my first Sherlock story was "The Adventure of the Speckled Band." The Hound of the Baskervilles soon followed. I've enjoyed monster movies ever since I can remember and for somebody with my tastes, those were probably the perfect starter Sherlocks.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 11, 2026 10:01 AM (q3u5l)

174 Spooky classics for Halloween - Dracula of course
Also Edgar Allan Poe has a bunch

Posted by: vmom


Probably early high school, I found a collected works of Poe by one of those printers who put together hardbound books with green covers. I have always liked Poe, he was a master of short horror stories.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 11, 2026 10:01 AM (0U5gm)

175 Captains Courageous was my favorite book as a kid and remains my all time favorite overall.

Posted by: polynikes at October 11, 2026 10:02 AM (KC5Lt)

176 I did read "A Wrinkle in Time" series but not until I was in college and loved it!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 11, 2026 10:02 AM (JrHfD)

177 As a parent I'm unashamed to boast that I pretty much wore out a copy of Goodnight Moon.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 11, 2026 10:02 AM (H26ja)

178 12x12 wall-to-wall carpets removed: 2.
HF radio contacts made: zero.
YT Watch Later queue depth: down to 1,418.
Hours spent with AI on PCB design: about 8.
Lawn mowing percentage: 60%.
lichess.org tac puzzle score: 2106.

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Worst. Limerick. Ever.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 11, 2026 10:03 AM (ndZc7)

179 Yeah, they finally got the last indian exterminated when they threw the Land O' Lakes squaw off of the butter carton.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 11, 2026 09:56 AM (0U5gm)

That one was really silly.
A cute little Indian girl (named 'Mia' actually) in front of a nice landscape selling butter was somehow offensive to Indians.

It's like the Washington Redskins and Cleveland Indians fiascos.
The Indians weren't even really complaining about it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 10:03 AM (6ydKt)

180 As a kid, I had fun with The Mad Scientists' Club books. Not a literary classic, by any stretch, but still lots of fun for boys back when they were allowed to be boys.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 11, 2026 10:04 AM (7HDzS)

181 I just realized that nobody has mentioned Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel. What a great book that was for a first grader.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 11, 2026 10:04 AM (0U5gm)

182 Some things are returning to normal thanks to Trump, but big-time advertising is going to take longer. It's infested with woke as bad as Hollywood and will take forever for the left to let go of its stranglehold on the industry.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 09:59 AM (6ydKt)

When the main character in a Coppertone commercial is black you know things have reached the ludicrous level.

Posted by: polynikes at October 11, 2026 10:04 AM (KC5Lt)

183 We wore out Goodnight Moon, and some of the Sandra Boyntons as well. If pressed, I think I might still be able to recite But Not the Hippopotamus from memory.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 11, 2026 10:05 AM (q3u5l)

184 We got a guy on horseback wearing war paint with a big spear and everything.

Posted by: The Florida State Seminoles at October 11, 2026 10:05 AM (H26ja)

185 >>The Indians weren't even really complaining about it.

That's because Indians are too dumb to understand why it was racist, so we had to take care of it for them.

Posted by: AWFLs at October 11, 2026 10:06 AM (J4Dwc)

186 Spooky classics for Halloween

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Winning couple's costume from the Bee.

https://tinyurl.com/2s43neun

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 11, 2026 10:06 AM (ndZc7)

187 Sgt. Rock... G8 Flying Aces!!!

Posted by: qmark at October 11, 2026 10:06 AM (hzpDl)

188 Oh, the places you'll go!

Posted by: And to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street at October 11, 2026 10:07 AM (H26ja)

189 Captains Courageous was my favorite book as a kid and remains my all time favorite overall.

Posted by: polynikes




Loved that book as a lad. Also loved "Kon Tiki" by Thor Heyerdahl, about the hilarious adventures of 6 crazy Scandinavians sailing across the Pacific on a balsa log raft, and
"Endurance," by Alfred Lansing, the tale of Ernst Shackleton's ill-fated yet heroic Antarctic expedition from 1914 to 1916. Oh, and let's not forget "Jonathan Livingston Seagull," by Richard Bach. Love that story.

Posted by: Sharkman at October 11, 2026 10:07 AM (/RHNq)

190 Celtics were natives.

Posted by: polynikes at October 11, 2026 10:07 AM (KC5Lt)

191 Seasonally appropriate: I wish I could get my hands on some vintage Dorrie (the little witch) books by Patricia Coombs.

*actually, they are out there, but they're pricey.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 11, 2026 09:13 AM

That's a definite blast from the past.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 11, 2026 10:07 AM (7HDzS)

192 >>The Indians weren't even really complaining about it.

That's because Indians are too dumb to understand why it was racist, so we had to take care of it for them.
Posted by: AWFLs

Should've put a Commander on the box instead.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 11, 2026 10:08 AM (ndZc7)

193 As a parent I'm unashamed to boast that I pretty much wore out a copy of Goodnight Moon.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty


I read that to my kids hundreds of times. We also read The Runaway Bunny, which became a favorite because I would add little things to the story, and put in sound effects, and use different voices for the various characters.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 11, 2026 10:08 AM (0U5gm)

194 Trouble with the ad industry is that there's still no really good way to measure the effectiveness of ads. So instead the incentive for individuals in the business is to win awards -- and awards tend to go to "controversial" or "edgy" ads that reinforce the obsessions and delusions of gay graphic designers living in Brooklyn. Using Dylan Mulvaney to sell beer was a really stupid idea, but I bet whoever came up with that campaign is still basking in the admiration of his colleagues.

Posted by: Trimegistus at October 11, 2026 10:08 AM (78a2H)

195 When the main character in a Coppertone commercial is black you know things have reached the ludicrous level.

Posted by: polynikes at October 11, 2026 10:04 AM (KC5Lt)


Don't be a paleface. Use Coppetone.

https://youtu.be/GwKvoOmO0mk

The start of Jodie Foster's career.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 10:09 AM (6ydKt)

196 By eighth grade I was reading my dad's books so Stephen King, before he went crazy. Salems Lot left an impression. I remember staying up all night reading because I was afraid to stop. He also read a bunch of crime books, thrillers, espionage, etc.

Posted by: lin-duh at October 11, 2026 10:09 AM (VCgbV)

197 I set up in my chair with milk and cookies on the table and one lamp in a dark room. I could hear the storm winds and rain. Perfect conditions as I read about Holmes and Watson and the devil's hound. It was the best possible introduction to Sherlock Holmes.
Posted by: JTB at October 11, 2026 09:56 AM (yTvNw)

Ooooh, how delightful!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 11, 2026 10:09 AM (CjHsb)

198 Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 11, 2026 10:08 AM (0U5gm)

That's great!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 11, 2026 10:10 AM (JrHfD)

199 Hound of the Baskervilles is the source for the "Watson is an idiot" trope -- because Holmes uses him as a stalking horse so Watson pokes around and makes his own deductions, and then Holmes reveals himself and explains why all those deductions are wrong.

Posted by: Trimegistus at October 11, 2026 10:11 AM (78a2H)

200 The Roy Rogers Whitman novels did away with that singing stuff. Probably not to the taste of eight-to-eleven year old boys, I'd guess.

Whitman also produced a slew of stories based on TV Westerns of the late Fifties-early Sixties: Rin Tin Tin, Bat Masterson, Gunsmoke, Have Gun -- Will Travel, The Restless Gun, several Gene Autrys, and probably others I can't recall now. The ones I've reread as an adult are pretty good; the authors never talked down to their audience.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 10:11 AM (wzUl9)

201 194 Trouble with the ad industry is that there's still no really good way to measure the effectiveness of ads. So instead the incentive for individuals in the business is to win awards -- and awards tend to go to "controversial" or "edgy" ads that reinforce the obsessions and delusions of gay graphic designers living in Brooklyn. Using Dylan Mulvaney to sell beer was a really stupid idea, but I bet whoever came up with that campaign is still basking in the admiration of his colleagues.

Posted by: Trimegistus at October 11, 2026 10:08 AM (78a2H)


Exactly, it's a bunch of self-inserts, and mandatory diversity.
If you want awards the casting director better do it right.

Just like Hollywood.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 10:11 AM (6ydKt)

202 I think they were probably proud of the fact that she worked very hard her whole life and entertained people . Why do I have the feeling that it was "progressive" whites who were behind that removal and with Uncle Ben being axed as well?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 11, 2026 09:51 AM (JrHfD)

Because, how would the successful Brown person know they've been repressed without our helpful guiding of them?

Posted by: Leftists at October 11, 2026 10:12 AM (1Ff7Z)

203 Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 10:09 AM (6ydKt)

My post may have not been clear and is not snark. There is a Coppertone commercial where the main character is a black girl.

Posted by: polynikes at October 11, 2026 10:12 AM (KC5Lt)

204 lin-duh, Salem's Lot was so terrifying. I still think about it. It's been, like, 50 years since I read it.

Is that possible?!

*checks publication date, then calendar

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 11, 2026 10:12 AM (CjHsb)

205 Out of morbid curiosity I checked out the Hugo winner for best novel, "The Everlasting" by Alix Harrow. Wonder of wonders, I enjoyed it. It's an odd one to describe. it's a fantasy story set in a country that's like an alternate Albion with its own mythic foundational hero, the knight Una Everlasting, who drew a magical sword from the heart of a yew tree and grew to become her country's champion. Her quest was to slay the last dragon, find the Grail, and save a dying queen, thus founding the nation.

The story begins in the Dominion's present day, which feels like post World War I, and wounded soldier Owen Mallory returns home to his scholarly pursuit, the life of Una Everlasting. He is given a long-lost manuscript to translate, but through blood magic he is thrust back in time to meet the real Una and guide the story so that the ramifications of her actions are bent to the establishment of the modern day Dominion empire. Owen realizes he has been sent back multiple times to manipulate the timeline. Owen and Una attempt to break free of the loop and get some agency for themselves.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 11, 2026 10:13 AM (kpS4V)

206 up to Chapter 11 in A Night in the Lonesome October.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 11, 2026 10:13 AM (VyBeY)

207 Elder offspring has informed us that as a kid she would sneak a Stephen King off the shelf and read it well past bedtime. Salem's Lot and The Shining. Probably some others that she didn't need to read at her age. Kids. Whaddya gonna do?

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 11, 2026 10:13 AM (q3u5l)

208 My mom taught me to read around age 3. Back then mostly I read encyclopedias, but I remember reading some storybooks: a squirrel family; an eskimo kid who got dragged deep after harpooning a whale; three kids who got lost on the subway; a Komodo dragon expedition; and the Beebe-Barton bathysphere.

Posted by: gp at October 11, 2026 10:13 AM (Jr5Lq)

209 When the main character in a Coppertone commercial is black you know things have reached the ludicrous level.
Posted by: polynikes at October 11, 2026


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In high school I was told by a black classmate that black people can sunburn too. Not as easily as whites, but they do, he said.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 10:13 AM (wzUl9)

210 My post may have not been clear and is not snark. There is a Coppertone commercial where the main character is a black girl.

Posted by: polynikes at October 11, 2026 10:12 AM (KC5Lt)

Oh, I believe you.
I just wanted to take us back to a simpler time when it was mainly redheaded Irish girls that needed tanning lotion.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 10:13 AM (6ydKt)

211 up to Chapter 11 in A Night in the Lonesome October.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 11, 2026 10:13 AM (VyBeY)

Did it bankrupt your feelings?

Posted by: polynikes at October 11, 2026 10:14 AM (KC5Lt)

212 >> By eighth grade I was reading my dad's books so Stephen King, before he went crazy. Salems Lot left an impression. I remember staying up all night reading because I was afraid to stop. He also read a bunch of crime books, thrillers, espionage, etc.


Heh, I read all the Stephen King books in high school - The Stand, The Shining, Cujo, etc.. His books of short stories were good, too, including Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 11, 2026 10:14 AM (rOKnE)

213 @181 --

I remember that!

As a farm kid, I loved the drawings of cityscapes.

Hey, have you heard of Big Brutus? Monster coal digger near Weir, Kan. Abandoned at the site because it was too big to move. Now preserved as a tourist attraction.

Posted by: Weak Geek at October 11, 2026 10:15 AM (KsJzp)

214 lin-duh, Salem's Lot was so terrifying. I still think about it. It's been, like, 50 years since I read it.

Is that possible?!

*checks publication date, then calendar
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 11, 2026


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Yes, I read it first in 1976. And that was a paperback edition, so the hardcover must have been even earlier.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 10:15 AM (wzUl9)

215 In high school I was told by a black classmate that black people can sunburn too. Not as easily as whites, but they do, he said.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 10:13 AM (wzUl9)

This is true but black people probably make up .01 % of the customer base.

Posted by: polynikes at October 11, 2026 10:16 AM (KC5Lt)

216 lin-duh, Salem's Lot was so terrifying. I still think about it. It's been, like, 50 years since I read it.

Is that possible?!

*checks publication date, then calendar
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs
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It's very possible! I have another birthday next weekend that tells me so, lol!😂

Posted by: lin-duh at October 11, 2026 10:16 AM (VCgbV)

217 I remember my first important book so clearly. The summer between kindergarten and first grade, when there were assigned tables of books at the library for summer reading, labeled 1, 2, 3, etc.

I thought, 1 year olds could read? I hadn't realized I was that retarded.

So I headed reluctantly for the 4, 5, 6 table and picked ... Miss Hickory. A story about a nut. How intimidating could it be?

It wasn't just that I loved it, I remember clearly thinking, So that's what I've been doing!

Making up stories before I even knew what they were or how to write them down.

And I've been doing it ever since.

Posted by: Wenda at October 11, 2026 10:16 AM (bGLcx)

218 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 11, 2026 10:17 AM (u82oZ)

219 I looked up Little Black Sambo.

The Story of Little Black Sambo is a children's book written and illustrated by Scottish author Helen Bannerman and published by Grant Richards in October 1899.
. . . .
Contemporary critics observed that Bannerman presented one of the first black heroes in children's literature and regarded the book as positively portraying black characters in both the text and pictures, especially in comparison to books of that era that depicted black people as simple and uncivilised.

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Conclusion: you can never be woke enough.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 11, 2026 10:17 AM (ndZc7)

220 My favorites are the classic C. S. Lewis Narnia books. I also loved Heinlein's Juveniles, especially 'Have Spacesuit, Will Travel'. Andre Norton also wrote juveniles and I enjoyed those quite a bit, like 'Steel Magic'.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 11, 2026 10:17 AM (s1VwS)

221
Heh, I read all the Stephen King books in high school - The Stand, The Shining, Cujo, etc.. His books of short stories were good, too, including Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 11, 2026


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"Shawshank" has been described (not by King) as "the greatest prison break story since The Count of Monte Cristo." All four novelettes in that Different Seasons collection are wonders -- probably King's best work as a writer.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 10:18 AM (wzUl9)

222 I got fascinated early by an adult book my mother had. Probably seven or so, one volume, very small print, called An Encyclopedia of World History, 1940 & 1948 (probably due to that war thing), edited by Wm. L. Langer. I still keep it on my reference shelf. Chronological, two columns per page, small print, half inch to half page per subject, I took it off.to college with me. Had everything i needed to know about history in it for a quick response.
Late, I acquired the two volume Columbia Viking Desk Encyclopedia to complete my knowlege.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 11, 2026 10:18 AM (sl73Y)

223 It's very possible! I have another birthday next weekend that tells me so, lol!😂
Posted by: lin-duh at October 11, 2026 10:16 AM

You have TxMoMe weekend birfday?! Luxury!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 11, 2026 10:18 AM (7HDzS)

224 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 11, 2026 10:17 AM (ndZc7)

He saved the village by turning the tiger into butter IIRC.

Posted by: polynikes at October 11, 2026 10:18 AM (KC5Lt)

225 "a TxMoMe "

Stupid fat fingers.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 11, 2026 10:19 AM (7HDzS)

226 All this talk of butter and syrup mascots makes me realize I need to make pancakes.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 11, 2026 10:19 AM (kpS4V)

227 I think they were probably proud of the fact that she worked very hard her whole life and entertained people .

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So she was acting white.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 11, 2026 10:21 AM (ndZc7)

228 112 Any fans of the Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 11, 2026 09:41 AM (FZ29D)

Somehow, I missed those when I was a kid. As a late teen I tried to read "The Black Cauldron," but bailed on it pretty quickly because it was the second book in the series, and it didn't even try to bring the reader up to speed on what was going on. It just jumped into things, like it just the next chapter of one long series. (That was when I was in a phase where I was trying to re-discover barely-remembered things of my youth. Specifically, the sources for "The Black Cauldron" and Secret of NIMH" animated movies.)

Finally read them as an adult when I could get the set on an e-reader. Light reading, but enjoyable enough. I think my favorite book was the fourth. I liked the way the protagonist spent the whole book getting dis-spirited, but still fought on. It felt like a unique take/subversion of the standard tropes... Also, the Gurgi was kind of a ranger in the novels. I always meant to draw him holding a bow and looking kind of cool...but never got around to it.

Posted by: Castle Guy at October 11, 2026 10:22 AM (3v7ra)

229 Top illustration reminds me of the 'adult' painting Springtime by Pierre Auguste Cot.

In my top ten of favorite paintings.

Posted by: polynikes at October 11, 2026 10:22 AM (KC5Lt)

230 TxMoMe Is almost always close, if not on, Teresa in FW and My birthday.

Posted by: lin-duh at October 11, 2026 10:23 AM (VCgbV)

231 My parents enjoyed taking road trips and mom would offer to buy us things to read. I always asked for either Peanuts books or MAD Magazine.

Posted by: 13times at October 11, 2026 10:24 AM (fnZRl)

232 Books for me at a pre teen were a series of school editions of historical American figures. From 3rd grade on. Don't know the series.

The Oz books, Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs were all a big draw, and I had a complete set of Tom Swift Jr. books by Victor Appleton II. They excited my imagination.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 11, 2026 10:25 AM (u82oZ)

233 TxMoMe Is almost always close, if not on, Teresa in FW and My birthday.
Posted by: lin-duh at October 11, 2026 10:23 AM

And you get deep fried bacon, personally served by a Bacon Wench. How great is that?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 11, 2026 10:26 AM (7HDzS)

234 The tremendous range of paperbacks once upon a time . . . At thirteen I stumbled across Louis A. Safian's 1001 Insults for All Occasions, and it started my lifelong love of the smart remark -- and taught me how to create my own now and then.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 10:26 AM (wzUl9)

235 139 I'm doing a thing this year: reading classic spooky books for October.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 11, 2026 09:47 AM (CjHsb)

And that sentences sparked another memory of my youth: Bunnicula. Not exactly high literature, but fun for a youth.

It finally got an animated adaptation a few years ago. But it was too modern-animation-style for me to survive even a few minutes of it...

Posted by: Castle Guy at October 11, 2026 10:27 AM (3v7ra)

236 a TxMoMe "

Stupid fat fingers.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 11, 2026 10:19 AM (7HDz

If posting from a phone or tablet articles are an option.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 11, 2026 10:27 AM (sl73Y)

237 He saved the village by turning the tiger into butter IIRC.
Posted by: polynikes at October 11, 2026


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Thus realizing his magical powers, and starting him on his career as an itinerant wizard traveling through India. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 10:28 AM (wzUl9)

238 Wolfus,

Agree on Different Seasons, which is a high point in early King.

Eventually, some academic (hope it's one who can write readable prose) will do a long study charting King's career as a writer and examining all the ways politics hurt his work. It's easy now to dismiss him because the way he let his politics into his novels, but his work before that point was dynamite. A long period of home run after home run. And his non-fiction books On Writing and Danse Macabre aren't too dusty either.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 11, 2026 10:29 AM (q3u5l)

239 The Tom Swift books were listed in the back of the Whitman Young Readers Westerns, but I never got into them.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 10:30 AM (wzUl9)

240 King's problem is he doesn't always write the best endings. Though sometimes he gets them perfect.

Posted by: polynikes at October 11, 2026 10:30 AM (KC5Lt)

241 If posting from a phone or tablet articles are an option.
Posted by: From about That Time at October 11, 2026 10:27 AM

*whew*

Posting from my phone in San Antonio, where I'm playing tourist on the way up to the TxMoMe.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 11, 2026 10:31 AM (7HDzS)

242 "Shawshank" has been described (not by King) as "the greatest prison break story since The Count of Monte Cristo." All four novelettes in that Different Seasons collection are wonders -- probably King's best work as a writer.

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Though I have this near-boundless admiration for his time-travel novel 11/22/63.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 10:31 AM (wzUl9)

243 Oddly, perhaps, I didn't read any of the classic childrens books like Wind in the Willows, Peter Pan, Winnie-The -Pooh or Beatrix Potter. I didn't realize the movie The Wizard of Oz was based on books. I thought it had been made as a vehicle for Judy Garland.

I'm making up for that now. The delight I find in Wind in the Willows and similar is so more layered than they would have been as a kid. In addition to enjoying the expressive, exuberant writing and sometimes subtle allusions to adult matters, there is an undercurrent of childhood innocence that I haven't felt in many, many decades.

There is pleasure in discovering new to me kids books like the Green Knowe stories by Lucy Boston and more recent books like the Brambly Hedge series. Feeling that childlike delight at my age is a real treasure.

Posted by: JTB at October 11, 2026 10:32 AM (yTvNw)

244 Speaking of racism, Trump does racist impression.

https://tinyurl.com/yc89ubcc

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 11, 2026 10:33 AM (ndZc7)

245 King by far has the most movie adaptations of his books than any author.

Posted by: polynikes at October 11, 2026 10:33 AM (KC5Lt)

246 re Little Black Sambo.

You may not find it in your local bookshop these days, but copies can still be had for reasonable prices on ABEBooks and it's available to view as a PDF on the Internet Archive.

So they haven't killed it completely.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 11, 2026 10:35 AM (q3u5l)

247
105 Novel wise, I remember The Boxcar Children, Encyclopedia Brown, The Three Investigators..

Posted by: Castle Guy at October 11, 2026 09:39 AM (3v7ra)

I don’t think I’ve ever commented on a book thread because I was a math nerd who wasn’t/still isn’t into reading as a pastime (exception for Ann Rule’s true crime). But when I saw the topic, the first thing I thought of was The Boxcar Children from my third grade class. The other one that I loved was From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, which made me want to live in a museum. Beezus and Romana get an honorable mention.

Posted by: TxAnn at October 11, 2026 10:36 AM (itAg7)

248 Thanks for the Book Thread, Sabrina Chase!

What a lovely picture up top. That is childhood perfection captured in fine art.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at October 11, 2026 10:36 AM (D/6p1)

249 Another vote for The Phantom Tollbooth. ‘‘Twas disappointed my child did not love it nas I did, but he had his own favorites.

Posted by: NCDave at October 11, 2026 10:37 AM (Fez1U)

250 King's final Dark Tower book was probably the last time I bought or read one of his books. So over 20 years ago.

Posted by: lin-duh at October 11, 2026 10:39 AM (VCgbV)

251 React19 and the Brownstone Institute filed CDC FOIA requests regarding its Covid19 vaccine study and questionnaire.

"The CDC's V-safe was built to hear from people after vaccination, and these participants used it for that purpose. In their own words, 3,329 people reported serious harm, suicidal thoughts, near-death events, or the death of someone they loved. Many kept writing for weeks or months. Their entries describe promised callbacks that never came, pleas for help with no reply [...]

The result is Cries for Help, a 1000 page public domain book.

https://archive.org/details/cries-for-help-by-react19

Posted by: 13times at October 11, 2026 10:39 AM (fnZRl)

252 And you get deep fried bacon, personally served by a Bacon Wench. How great is that?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 11, 2026 10:26 AM

There may, or may not be the introduction of some Conecuh sausage into the mix.

But you didn't hear it from me.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 11, 2026 10:40 AM (H26ja)

253 The library's Any Book Club meeting this week is focusing naturally on horror. Rather than discuss a King novel I'm sure the attendees have all read, I took out Zone One, a pandemic/zombie story by one Colson Whitehead. Apparently a pandemic that turned people into ravening flesh eaters has destroyed most of civilization, and the lead character is part of a sweeping team that is scouring Manhattan for still-dangerous infected.

I'm struggling with it. It's not written in present tense, at least. But the writing is so "I'm being literary here" that it seems to be getting in the way of telling his story. In the middle of his hero being attacked by two of the zombies, the writer goes off into a flashback into the hero's childhood. What???

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 10:40 AM (wzUl9)

254 It seems a bit strange to me that everyone can recall all the books or series they read in childhood. I know a few titles, but don't remember much at all of what I read. And I did read a lot. Maybe I spent more time reading encyclopedias and non-fiction books than literature even though I did my share.

Maybe I just read so many and so quickly that everything I read was a blur and not retained. Was it even worth it, then?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 11, 2026 10:41 AM (1Ff7Z)

255 Wolfus,

King's 11/22/63 is a nice one. Maybe the best of his later books. And I think he had a terrific ending there.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 11, 2026 10:42 AM (q3u5l)

256 The Golden Books encyclopedias, and later the ones intended for high school students, were always favorites of mine. I know I read the GB ones cover to cover as each came out at the grocery store, and the HS versions served me for research for HS papers until I got to college.

Another company, or perhaps the same one, had a series with a section of the Funk & Wagnalls dictionary (yes, Laugh-In fans, it really existed) sandwiched between two different information portions. One was about breeds of horses; another about dogs; one about cats; one about the planets of our solar system, etc. Each breed or planet or other subject was illustrated. It was the first time I'd ever heard of Maine Coon cats.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 10:46 AM (wzUl9)

257 as simple and uncivilised.

Now do rap music.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 11, 2026 10:47 AM (n+8d3)

258 "Maybe I just read so many and so quickly that everything I read was a blur and not retained. Was it even worth it, then?"

Yes, it was.

For a lot of what I read, I'm in the same boat -- I tend to remember authors and titles and whether I enjoyed the story, but a lot of the content blurs for me. So I know what I might want to revisit later. And something's retained, even if you can't pass a quiz on it later. I couldn't give you any details on East of Eden, for instance, but I do know there's gold there.

None of it's wasted time.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 11, 2026 10:48 AM (q3u5l)

259 King's 11/22/63 is a nice one. Maybe the best of his later books. And I think he had a terrific ending there.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 11, 2026


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And a well-done love story, and a portrait of late Fifties-early Sixties America (good and bad). Plus his vision of the alternate 2011 that his hero returns to is satisfyingly dystopian.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 10:48 AM (wzUl9)

260 I took out Zone One, a pandemic/zombie story by one Colson Whitehead. Apparently a pandemic that turned people into ravening flesh eaters has destroyed most of civilization, and the lead character is part of a sweeping team that is scouring Manhattan for still-dangerous infected.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 10:40 AM (wzUl9)

I read that, I remember enjoying it well enough. Colson Whitehead has a very big vocabulary, I'll give him that.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 11, 2026 10:50 AM (CjHsb)

261 I loved a book as a kid but don't remember the title. It was about a boy who happened to be present when a circus guy was frustrated with an elephant and said he'd sell him for $5. So the kid bought the elephant and they went around having boy /elephant adventures.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 11, 2026 10:50 AM (ndZc7)

262 Quick! Someone call John Fogerty. It's raining and the sun is out at my place.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 11, 2026 10:51 AM (1Ff7Z)

263 King by far has the most movie adaptations of his books than any author.
Posted by: polynikes at October 11, 2026


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The best ones have been where the filmmakers haven't jettisoned the human material that made the novels so memorable, haven't just focused on the horror or SF elements. The Green Mile, the three adapted from Different Seasons, and a few others have been wonderful films.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 10:52 AM (wzUl9)

264 162 ... "I set up in my chair with milk and cookies on the table and one lamp in a dark room. I could hear the storm winds and rain. Perfect conditions as I read about Holmes and Watson and the devil's hound. It was the best possible introduction to Sherlock Holmes."

A few years ago I was reading a book by Michael Dirda, the Washington Post book reviewer. Turns out his own first experience with Hound of the Baskervilles was almost identical and about the same time, right down to the milk and snacks.

(Dirda was laid off earlier this year after 44 years when the Post eliminated its Book World section. They got rid of the only part of the paper that still had any value. What a fitting epitaph for that POS rag.)

Posted by: JTB at October 11, 2026 10:52 AM (yTvNw)

265 Quick! Someone call John Fogerty. It's raining and the sun is out at my place.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 11, 2026


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Happy creatures dancing on the lawn?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 10:53 AM (wzUl9)

266 I loved a book as a kid but don't remember the title. It was about a boy who happened to be present when a circus guy was frustrated with an elephant and said he'd sell him for $5. So the kid bought the elephant and they went around having boy /elephant adventures.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 11, 2026 10:50 AM (ndZc7)


Was the title-

"Twenty-Five Years Of Shoveling Out My Backyard Every Damn Day"

Posted by: naturalfake at October 11, 2026 10:53 AM (YSUhf)

267 I am reading "At the Back of the North Wind" by George MacDonald. First published in 1871. So far, it is a good story.

Posted by: Glenn at October 11, 2026 10:54 AM (H88Wh)

268 Posted by: naturalfake at October 11, 2026 10:53 AM (YSUhf)

Sounds like the origination story of the term White Elephant.

Posted by: polynikes at October 11, 2026 10:54 AM (KC5Lt)

269 Happy creatures dancing on the lawn?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 10:53 AM (wzUl9)

Who'll stop the rain.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 11, 2026 10:54 AM (1Ff7Z)

270 and finding drawings of pee-pees and wee-wees on the Cat in the Hat and the Five Chinese Brothers? Doesn't he deserve better?"
Posted by: Lieutenant Bookman, Library Cop

My Mom absolutely loathed The Five Chinese Brothers. But we all loved it. I gave each of my grands a copy. Their mothers also hate it.

The legacy continues!!

Posted by: Tonypete at October 11, 2026 10:56 AM (N5iuz)

271 Golden Book Encyclopedia w2as another influential book series as a yut.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 11, 2026 10:56 AM (u82oZ)

272 Happy creatures dancing on the lawn?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026
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Who'll stop the rain.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 11, 2026


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A masked and gowned neurosurgeon to an intern in the operating room:
"Have you never seen the brain . . .?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 10:57 AM (wzUl9)

273 Or Connie Francis singing to a cactus:

"Who's saguaro now . . .?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 10:57 AM (wzUl9)

274 My Mom absolutely loathed The Five Chinese Brothers. But we all loved it. I gave each of my grands a copy. Their mothers also hate it.

The legacy continues!!
Posted by: Tonypete at October 11, 2026 10:56 AM (N5iuz)

That the one with the brother whose legs could keep getting longer when he was dumped in the ocean to drown? Read that.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 11, 2026 10:58 AM (1Ff7Z)

275 The Dr. Seuss books came along a little too late for me, but my mother bought them for my younger brother. We both liked them a lot.

My mother, she said, taught me to read using simple Dell comic books, Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, etc. We began with her saying the hard words and me doing the simple ones. Pretty soon I could handle the hard words all by myself.

(Good thing, too, as I was set to start college that fall. . . .)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 10:59 AM (wzUl9)

276 Probably can't remember much of early childhood books, but then most had not much plot to remember. ( talking about reading learning)
Isn't Are You My Mother?
Was a bird looking what was his mother?

Posted by: Skip at October 11, 2026 11:00 AM (Ia/+0)

277 None of it's wasted time.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 11, 2026 10:48 AM (q3u5l)

The thing is, I've reached the age where I don't have much time to go back and read stuff from decades ago. I'm mostly reading stuff to help in writing, not for enjoyment as such. Plus having to do all the stuff around the house while the wife works....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 11, 2026 11:01 AM (1Ff7Z)

278 "Twenty-Five Years Of Shoveling Out My Backyard Every Damn Day"

Posted by: naturalfake at October 11, 2026 10:53 AM (YSUhf)

*snort

I'm reminded of Homer Price and his donut-making disaster.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 11, 2026 11:02 AM (CjHsb)

279 And though much later, I think 8th to 9th grade read Hell in a Very Small Place on battle of Bien Dien Phu did get that book a few years ago and remembered much of what was in it.

Posted by: Skip at October 11, 2026 11:02 AM (Ia/+0)

280 Miss Linda still takes out cute kids' books about animals for the various holidays from the library, just for fun. I asked her if the librarian has ever inquired as to the ages of her children. I told her, "Say 'They're named Stirling and Dagny, they're four years old, and they like to kill mice and insects.' "

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 11:02 AM (wzUl9)

281 I have read as a kid "The Princess and the Goblin" and "The Princess and Curdie " which my mother liked as a child and which I greatly enjoyed. I will have to look for George Macdonald's sermons if they're still in print .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 11, 2026 11:04 AM (JrHfD)

282 I'm reminded of Homer Price and his donut-making disaster.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 11, 2026 11:02 AM (CjHsb)

See, these little nuggets bring things to my mind that I might - might, have read. Is it a story of a donut machine that won't stop making donuts?

How about a boy that builds his own robots and he and the robot have to escape someone in a rowboat? Is that something that rings a bell?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 11, 2026 11:05 AM (1Ff7Z)

283 The "Recreational Reading" class I took in eighth grade was a big boost to my knowledge and love of Greek mythology. First we learned the names of the Greek gods and goddesses, and what they were responsible for. (As far as any Greek deities were "responsible" about anything.) Then our teacher read to us from a young people's edition of The Iliad and then The Odyssey. One of the few classes in all my school years I looked forward to.

(There is no truth to the rumor that it was because it was the last class of the day, and because a girl who looked like a teen Claudia Cardinale sat next to me.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 11:07 AM (wzUl9)

284 OrangeEnt,

Know the feeling. I've kinda reached that stage myself. Retired, but there's still more to keep up with than I'd have thought, and there's SO much to read/reread that I'll never catch up; even if I never buy another book there's enough on my shelves/Kindle right now to keep me busy until I'm planted and well into the afterlife.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 11, 2026 11:07 AM (q3u5l)

285 Dank and drizzly here. Perfect for reading and puttering about.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 11, 2026 11:07 AM (kpS4V)

286 Dank and drizzly here. Perfect for reading and puttering about.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 11, 2026


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Less hot and a little drier here. Perhaps this afternoon about 4:30, once the sun is off the front step, I'll go out with some ice water and read there.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 11:09 AM (wzUl9)

287 261 I loved a book as a kid but don't remember the title. It was about a boy who happened to be present when a circus guy was frustrated with an elephant and said he'd sell him for $5. So the kid bought the elephant and they went around having boy /elephant adventures.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

The Elephant Thief?

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 11, 2026 11:09 AM (NFX2v)

288 See, these little nuggets bring things to my mind that I might - might, have read. Is it a story of a donut machine that won't stop making donuts?

How about a boy that builds his own robots and he and the robot have to escape someone in a rowboat? Is that something that rings a bell?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 11, 2026 11:05 AM (1Ff7Z)

Yes, regarding the donuts. For nostalgia's sake, I think I'll download that from Libby for tonight's bedtime reading.

I don't know about the boy with the robot.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 11, 2026 11:10 AM (CjHsb)

289 Welp. I guess the dog food isn't going to make itself. Later, horde, have a wonderful day!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 11, 2026 11:12 AM (CjHsb)

290 My husband was not a fan of fiction. He read extensively, but always technical manuals, coding books, history. No fiction.
EXCEPT: two books he loved from childhood (which I had never read until he raved about them to me. I was a Winnie the Pooh and Alice in Wonderland kid), which he urged on our kids, were Secret Garden, and Wrinkle in Time. Absolutely loved them, and into adulthood.

Posted by: barbarausa at October 11, 2026 11:12 AM (enw9G)

291 I'll never catch up; even if I never buy another book there's enough on my shelves/Kindle right now to keep me busy until I'm planted and well into the afterlife.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 11, 2026 11:07 AM (q3u5l)

Haha! Yes. I bought books last time in St. George and I've only read one. Had Kid Prima get me another couple that Wolfus suggested, but I don't know when I'll get around to reading the first ones. Bought a few over the years still sitting unread.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 11, 2026 11:13 AM (1Ff7Z)

292 Yes, regarding the donuts. For nostalgia's sake, I think I'll download that from Libby for tonight's bedtime reading.

I don't know about the boy with the robot.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 11, 2026 11:10 AM (CjHsb)

Ah, I know you're gone, but I seem to remember a black a white film shown in school about that story. Not sure if it ever happened, but I don't remember reading that story, just watching a film.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 11, 2026 11:17 AM (1Ff7Z)

293 A sweet thing Mom and Dad did for us kids is read to us at bedtime, even after we could read for ourselves. I have very fond memories.

I recall The Boxcar Children and some story about a gypsy girl who lived in a gypsy wagon. I don't know why stories of orphans resonate with we kids who weren't. But it was fun to hear about their resourcefulness in those situations.

The Secret Garden brought to mind the story of Heidi, which I didn't realize had a spiritual element. I think I must have just seen a movie, where they tend to strip stuff like that out.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at October 11, 2026 11:17 AM (OlzlW)

294
Kids should be reading Banned Books!!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 11, 2026 11:17 AM (eRlcH)

295 I'm really late, very lazy morning, so here's my contribution and then I'll go back and read what you all have said.
I started the new James Islington Sci Fi novel Scion yesterday afternoon and next thing I knew I was half way through the book. It is really different than his previous work. First, it is under 300 pages. There are only two main characters but they are so interesting. He uses the interaction between the two to show you the world he is building. I expect to finish it this rainy afternoon.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 11, 2026 11:18 AM (kJmSS)

296
Back from my White Christofascist Nationalist meeting. The plots and plans we devised. Heh, heh.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 11, 2026 11:20 AM (eRlcH)

297 Mrs. Wrecks gave me an apparently very popular book, although I'd never heard of it, for my birthday, Navola by Paolo Bacigalumpi. I read the first three chapters yesterday, all exposition. The protagonist is the grandson of a rags-to-riches merchant whose success, at least in part, is attributed to his possession of a dragon's eye. The story is set in a fantasy world similar to ancient, or possibly Renaissance, Rome.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 11, 2026 11:21 AM (ndZc7)

298 Kids should be reading Banned Books!!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 11, 2026 11:17 AM (eRlcH)

There are quite a few Beatles books... oh.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 11, 2026 11:21 AM (1Ff7Z)

299 I know I read the Alice stories when I was small, but my knowledge of them is more from the references to them in later fiction. "Curiouser and curiouser," "Why is a raven like a writing desk?", the Mad Tea Party, the Mad Hatter and the Cheshire Cat, and more.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 11:21 AM (wzUl9)

300 Thanks, Sabrina, for the book thread and helping to relive some very nice memories of being read to and reading as a child.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 11, 2026 11:22 AM (JrHfD)

301 Did I grow up surrounded by books? No, not really. Didn't really know about bookstores until I was in high school. My mother ordered books and we were read to, either by her or my father. It may have been a book club. The one I remember first was Harry the Dirty Dog. I also remember and loved Katy and the Big Snow (much beloved in snowy Upstate NY!), and Alexander and the Magic Mouse. I never really read Dr. Seuss, not sure why. Sometimes my grandmother, an elementary school principal, would visit and bring a cardboard box full of leftovers from the Scholastic book fairs at her school, and that was like Christmas for me. And my grandmother passed along little books of children's poetry, and read poetry to us. I read to my two girls as much as I could, especially those poetry books, and used to wonder if the only reason I had kids was as an excuse to buy children's books. Am I the only one who sees children's bookstores and think how very lucky children are now?

Posted by: Nancy@7000ft at October 11, 2026 11:22 AM (4qIhJ)

302 I know I read the Alice stories when I was small

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 11:21 AM (wzUl9)

Hoo boy! Do I have stories about Alice series!

Posted by: Harcourt! Harcourt Fenton Mudd at October 11, 2026 11:23 AM (1Ff7Z)

303 My Mom is of German heritage so we had a compilation of Hans Christian Andersen’s story hanging around auf Deutsch.

She'd routinely read to us. It was when I first understood the meaning of The Little Match Girl when I started to develop my distain for humanity.

I couldn't believe it when I figured out the kid died!!

Posted by: Tonypete at October 11, 2026 11:24 AM (N5iuz)

304 Unexpected chores beckon.

Sabrina, thanks for the thread.

Have a good one, gang.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 11, 2026 11:25 AM (q3u5l)

305 267 ... " I am reading "At the Back of the North Wind" by George MacDonald. First published in 1871. So far, it is a good story."

Glenn,
Glad you discovered it. MacDonald's children's books are a delight for kids and, as I'm learning, even more so for adults. I assume MacDonald was an influence on Madeleine L'Engle and her Wrinkle of Time books. Just ordered a Seawolf Press edition of North Wind with the original illustrations.

Posted by: JTB at October 11, 2026 11:25 AM (yTvNw)

306 I couldn't believe it when I figured out the kid died!!
Posted by: Tonypete at October 11, 2026 11:24 AM (N5iuz)

The Velveteen Rabbit was tossed into a fire!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 11, 2026 11:26 AM (1Ff7Z)

307 He got out, though.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 11, 2026 11:27 AM (1Ff7Z)

308 Mrs Some Guy tells me the unexpected chores aren't mine. So...

It certainly feels good to be back again.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 11, 2026 11:27 AM (q3u5l)

309 It certainly feels good to be back again.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 11, 2026 11:27 AM (q3u5l)

She'll find others for you.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 11, 2026 11:28 AM (1Ff7Z)

310 Sabrina,
Thanks for the thread and, especially, this topic. Such a pleasant and thoughtful excursion through our journey and joy of reading,

Posted by: JTB at October 11, 2026 11:29 AM (yTvNw)

311 The Elephant Thief?
Posted by: L - No nic...

Sounds similar but this book was published in 2017 and I read mine circa 1965.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 11, 2026 11:31 AM (ndZc7)

312 Book clubs? Mom subscribed to the Reader's Digest Condensed Books when I was in junior high, and I got to read a lot of things I might not otherwise have been exposed to. Jaws, for instance, one of Harry Kemelman's mystery novels about Rabbi David Small, Airport, and Jack Finney's Time and Again.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 11:32 AM (wzUl9)

313 One thing I do miss about those early reading years:

Back in those summers from when I was 12-17 and even into college -- I could do a paperback in a day, and depending on chores, studies, etc. maybe 2 a day. I was devouring the things. I can't read with anywhere near that speed now. It would really help in catching up with my Amazing Colossal To-Be-Read Pile, but it just isn't to be.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 11, 2026 11:32 AM (q3u5l)

314 There are some good books mentioned here on the Book Thread I did not previously encounter! Well, like they say it is never too late to have a happy childhood and I think it is time for another one

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at October 11, 2026 11:34 AM (riU3n)

315 My parents had a strict limit of three books from any Scholastic Book Order that I brought home from school.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 11, 2026 11:34 AM (ekZzx)

316
Mom subscribed to the Reader's Digest Condensed Books when I was in junior high, and I got to read a lot of things I might not otherwise have been exposed to.

__________

Fate is the Hunter, by Ernest K. Gann
Hotel, by Arthur Hailey
Intern, by "Dr. X" (Alan Nourse)

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 11, 2026 11:34 AM (eRlcH)

317
The only book I can really remember from my younger years is the World Almanac.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 11, 2026 11:36 AM (eRlcH)

318 I don't remember reading any of the books popular for kids today. I know I read Cherry Ames, Nurse and the Nancy Drew books and everything and anything about horses. My father, who never finished HS, read comic books so I read Sgt Rock.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 11, 2026 11:36 AM (kJmSS)

319 Thanks for the comment JTB. I have tried adult fantasy novels (Zelazny) and I think I prefer this so far. I just couldn't get into the endless worlds with flying boulders etc. (Amber series).
I will look for Macdonald's books.

Posted by: Glenn at October 11, 2026 11:38 AM (H88Wh)

320 One of the relatives had a bunch of Reader's Digest condensed books and I read some of those when visiting. Didn't run across Jack Finney, but I recall Glendon Swarthout's Bless the Beasts & Children -- if memory serves most of the flashback sequences were omitted, and I think you needed those to get the why of the story.

Re: Finney. Liked Time and Again, but except for Body Snatchers, for me Finney always seemed stronger at short lengths. Check out the stories in his collection About Time. Great stuff, particularly "I'm Scared," "The Third Level," and "Where the Cluetts Are."

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 11, 2026 11:38 AM (q3u5l)

321 Oh, and Bless the Beasts and Children by Glendon Swarthout, was in the RD Condensed Books series too. Looking at the list on Wiki, I see lots of forgotten novels and authors, but also quite a few famous works that are still read and have become movies. So their editors had a wide range of interests.

They rarely printed SF until much later in the Sixties, with the exception of Arthur C. Clarke's disaster story set on the Moon, A Fall of Moondust in 1961.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 11:39 AM (wzUl9)

322 My favorite was Alexander and the Magic Mouse, by Martha Sanders.

Posted by: Randyr309 at October 11, 2026 11:40 AM (Ghgw4)

323 Intern, by "Dr. X" (Alan Nourse)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 11, 2026


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When I was twelve my mother bought the full-sized paperback of Intern, and I read it eagerly. Not only do we learn a lot about medical conditions and the training of physicians, but it has a good deal of humor in it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 11:41 AM (wzUl9)

324 281 ... "I will have to look for George Macdonald's sermons if they're still in print ."

Fenelon,
His sermons are available, unabridged, as a Kindle book for 50 cents. The Delphi complete works for $2.99 on Kindle. I have them but George MacDonald is one of the authors I get in paper editions when the budget allows. I treat his books the way I treat Lewis, Tolkien, Chesterton, and Malcolm Guite. I want them on the shelf, not just as e-books.

Posted by: JTB at October 11, 2026 11:42 AM (yTvNw)

325 What really got me reading was I Never Loved Your Mind by Paul Zindel. After smoking marijuana, I started reading books like In Watermelon Sugar and Another Roadside Attraction. It was off to the races after that.

Posted by: Unkaren at October 11, 2026 11:44 AM (m6fGY)

326 My parents had a strict limit of three books from any Scholastic Book Order that I brought home from school.
Posted by: Cow Demon at October 11, 2026


***
By the time those order forms showed up in my jr. high, I had moved beyond the kind of stories they offered. I was into Stout, Queen, and Carr by then, and spy stories and WWII adventures. Scholastic did have one of the Man From U.N.C.L.E. original tie-in novels, but I already had it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 11:44 AM (wzUl9)

327 Cat is snoring wheezily.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 11, 2026 11:48 AM (kpS4V)

328 I've become addicted to Chick-fil-A chicken and waffles sandwiches and was just getting ready to head out when I remembered it's Sunday so nooooooooo!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 11, 2026 11:48 AM (ndZc7)

329 Can't recall seeing the Scholastic Books orders or in-school sale displays when I was in grade school. Started hitting the paperback racks on my own in 7th grade, though, so I'd probably have passed on SBS and spent the $$$ on more Heinlein, Asimov, and Fredric Brown instead.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 11, 2026 11:49 AM (q3u5l)

330 Almost time to bepants myself. Where does the time go?

Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane, Sabrina.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 11, 2026 11:51 AM (kpS4V)

331 Can't recall seeing the Scholastic Books orders or in-school sale displays when I was in grade school. Started hitting the paperback racks on my own in 7th grade, though, so I'd probably have passed on SBS and spent the $$$ on more Heinlein, Asimov, and Fredric Brown instead.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 11, 2026


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Same here. The local drugstore and newsstands had plenty of choices, mostly for .50 and .60 each. My local library did not start offering paperbacks for you to check out until about '68 or so.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 11:53 AM (wzUl9)

332 I don't wish to become too pedantic but suck what exactly?

Sophie Cunningham Tells Critics to “Suck It” After NYT Columnist Demands Indiana Fever Drop Her

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Now, there are WNBA players who could be sucked.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 11, 2026 11:54 AM (ndZc7)

333 Aside from Little Golden books, the books that I recall reading were the Bobbs Merrill series of biograpies of young famous Americans.
Here's a pic,which will be immediately recognizable:
https://shorturl.at/j4tvm

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 11, 2026 11:54 AM (XeU6L)

334 Ah, paperbacks at 50 cents (and a lot of the Ace SF books were still 40 and 45, and I can dimly recall seeing some stragglers from 35 cents days).

When Heinlein's Glory Road first came out in paperback from Avon, it was priced at 75 cents. I stewed over that purchase for several days before forking over the $$$, and Heinlein was a favorite.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 11, 2026 11:56 AM (q3u5l)

335 I am off to deal with the rest of Sunday's tasks (including writing!). Your Book Thread is now under automatic pilot and will not be supervised! Excellent book memories, all. Go out and find more books!

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at October 11, 2026 11:57 AM (riU3n)

336 Aside from Little Golden books, the books that I recall reading were the Bobbs Merrill series of biograpies of young famous Americans.
Here's a pic,which will be immediately recognizable:
https://shorturl.at/j4tvm
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 11, 2026


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Yes! We had a whole shelf of them in our fifth grade classroom.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 11:57 AM (wzUl9)

337 When I was in third grade, we took a field trip to the library. I had my limit of books ready for checkout (I think it was six), and my teacher, Mrs. Asadourian, dropped a copy of Charlotte's Web on top of my stack. I took it home and finished it before supper, which was quite a revelation because it had chapters and very few pictures.

Posted by: Nancy@7000ft at October 11, 2026 11:57 AM (4qIhJ)

338 And I see the chores with my name on them have now popped up here at Casa Some Guy. So once again...

Sabrina, thanks for the thread.

Have a good one, gang.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 11, 2026 11:58 AM (q3u5l)

339 Time for me to handle some chores as well. A tip of the old chapeau to Sabrina and all of you for a fine Book Thread!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 11:59 AM (wzUl9)

340 Close all books, thete will be a written test
Meanwhile
NOOD

Posted by: Skip at October 11, 2026 12:01 PM (Ia/+0)

341 @232 a series of school editions of historical American figures. From 3rd grade on. Don't know the series.

If it's the series I remember, they had titles like "Anthony Wayne, Boy in Old Philadelphia" and "Ben Franklin, Boy in Old Boston." They were formulaic, and had inaccuracies, but each had a broad stripe of "Everyday Life in ____ Times," an overbearing authoritarian establishment that needed rebellin', and a trustworthy adult confidant, with a foreshadowing of the lad's future greatness. Saccharine, you might say, but inspiring. They were older than Johnny Tremain, I suspect, but built on the same frame. They have been purged.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at October 11, 2026 12:02 PM (zdLoL)

342 Did get 2 chapters in

Posted by: Skip at October 11, 2026 12:02 PM (Ia/+0)

343 a series of school editions of historical American figures. From 3rd grade on. Don't know the series.

If it's the series I remember, they had titles like "Anthony Wayne, Boy in Old Philadelphia" and "Ben Franklin, Boy in Old Boston." They were formulaic, and had inaccuracies, but each had a broad stripe of "Everyday Life in ____ Times," an overbearing authoritarian establishment that needed rebellin', and a trustworthy adult confidant, with a foreshadowing of the lad's future greatness. Saccharine, you might say, but inspiring. They were older than Johnny Tremain, I suspect, but built on the same frame. They have been purged.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver
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Possibly as mentioned at 336?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 11, 2026 12:07 PM (XeU6L)

344 Oh yeah, also reading Liane Moriarty's sequel to "Big Little Lies", "Big Little Truths", which takes place ten years after the first novel.

"Obviously, it was not good that the school had received a severed finger in the mail, but Anna had to admit she was enjoying herself. It was all so interesting."

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 11, 2026 12:38 PM (kpS4V)

345 Books that still puzzle me still: The Bible, which I always get more out of no matter how much I read it, so it must be the Word of God.

Also Kakuro books, Lol. I just finished one that had 150 puzzles that took several years, and the next one has 250, so it could outlive me.

Posted by: Norrin Radd, sojourner of the spaceways at October 11, 2026 12:55 PM (eHQKA)

346 Ian Fleming

Posted by: Ries Gorthanes at October 11, 2026 01:24 PM (EAx51)

347 Mr. Revere and I by Robert Lawson. more fun American history, from the point of view of Paul Revere's horse.
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A dismal end for the horse. It was allegedly ridden to death by a British Army NCO after the animal was confiscated when Paul Revere was captured.

Posted by: mrp at October 11, 2026 01:52 PM (rj6Yv)

348 Beef heart for the win!
A poor man's protein!

I have a beautiful Painted Desert ram named Rambo.
He threw a coal black ram with black full-time horns.
Anyone want to guess his name?

Posted by: waepnedmann at October 11, 2026 02:10 PM (Hqnkf)

349 Thanks!

Posted by: ol exJarhead at October 11, 2026 02:27 PM (Z3fHQ)

350 I hate autocumber!
Full-time not full-time.

Posted by: waepnedmann at October 11, 2026 03:32 PM (Hqnkf)

351 I still have my first edition of Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet!

Remarkable coincidence! Thought of it yesterday for the first time in years, and here you are posting it up today.

Wack

Posted by: Aawlberninf350 at October 11, 2026 03:49 PM (8RozV)

Daily Tech News 11 October 2026

Top Story



Tech News

  • Why did already massively inflated prices on the RTX 5090 suddenly spike recently? If you guessed that Nvidia stopped making them, you're probably correct. (Tom's Hardware)

    They will be replaced - allegedly - by a 5080 model upgrade to 24GB of RAM, delivering about half the performance. The current 16GB 5080 will also cease to be.


  • Ukrainian drones blew up the largest datacenter in Russia, or at least unspecified parts thereof. (Tom's Hardware)

    Has the volume of obnoxious spam declined at all?


  • Testing Windows 7 vs. Windows 11 for gaming. (Tom's Hardware)

    Interesting but not startling comparison, unless you were somehow expecting Windows 11 to take the win, in which case you may well be startled.


  • My emulated fantasy 10-bit 80s home computer has two synthesizers: A wavetable synthesizer (something rare in home computers of any period but the Apple IIgs from 1986 has this), and a simpler fixed-function digital synthesizer based on a limited set of waveforms, easier to implement but needing multiple voices to work together to produce appropriate harmonics that a wavetable synth generates directly.

    That second synthesizer sucked yesterday; as of today with tuning against real instrument samples it's sounding like a Yamaha synthesizer that doesn't have an insect in its power supply but in some cases needs one. Cymbals last I checked still sounded like gongs, resonating freely when struck. Gongs also sounded like gongs, which in that case is good.


Musical Interlude





Disclaimer: Well, that explains it.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM




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1 !!

Posted by: clarence at October 11, 2026 04:01 AM (zGeQ7)

2 Informed the commentariot.

Posted by: clarence at October 11, 2026 04:02 AM (zGeQ7)

3 Disclaimer: Well, that explains it.
****

Well, if you are already crazy, sure.

Posted by: clarence at October 11, 2026 04:04 AM (zGeQ7)

4 Inside the park?

Posted by: clarence at October 11, 2026 04:05 AM (zGeQ7)

5 Slow night. I even read the content.

Posted by: clarence at October 11, 2026 04:06 AM (zGeQ7)

6 Were you using that music clip to tune your synthesizer?

Posted by: clarence at October 11, 2026 04:08 AM (zGeQ7)

7 w00t

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 04:09 AM (odBC9)

8 Clarence you are roaming around by yourself?

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 11, 2026 04:10 AM (Ys0s/)

9 poke...

Posted by: clarence at October 11, 2026 04:11 AM (zGeQ7)

10 Well, not the first time I had the blog all to myself...not even the third.

Posted by: clarence at October 11, 2026 04:12 AM (zGeQ7)

11 Way to go, clarence!

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 04:14 AM (odBC9)

12 clarence, m, and Pete Bog walked into a tech thread....

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 04:14 AM (odBC9)

13 Halp us, Pixy! You're our only hope.

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 04:15 AM (odBC9)

14 Says... Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
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Sounds like they did something even more monumentally stupid than their previous screwups and are trying to get ahead of it. Just like all the previous mistakes they did not learn anything.

Posted by: clarence at October 11, 2026 04:17 AM (zGeQ7)

15 14 Says... Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
****

Sounds like they did something even more monumentally stupid than their previous screwups and are trying to get ahead of it. Just like all the previous mistakes they did not learn anything.
Posted by: clarence at October 11, 2026 04:17 AM (zGeQ7)

They're saying "Don't make me hit you again"?
I'll go read it.

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 04:26 AM (odBC9)

16 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 11, 2026 04:28 AM (1o8D5)

17 Has the volume of obnoxious spam declined at all?
****

No. And it will not because someone started a breeding program.

Posted by: clarence at October 11, 2026 04:29 AM (zGeQ7)

18 from the Satya Nadella 𝕏 post:

"As traditional software systems were being deployed across the economy over the last few decades, we had the tools and capability to trace behaviors to a specific code path."

"We" =

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 04:30 AM (odBC9)

19 clarence, m, Pete Bog, and Biden's Dog walked into a tech thread....

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 04:31 AM (odBC9)

20 re: Satya Nadella 𝕏 post:

The commenters (I can only see three) are insinuating that he is a PDT shill. He's referring to Super Intelligence instead of Artificial Intelligence.

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 04:33 AM (odBC9)

21 Nice and roomy in here!

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 04:33 AM (odBC9)

22 we had the tools and capability to trace behaviors to a specific code path.
****

That 'we' is the size of an Olympic champion weight lifter.

Posted by: clarence at October 11, 2026 04:34 AM (zGeQ7)

23 from the Satya Nadella 𝕏 post:

That same kind of mechanistic understanding eludes us in today’s Super Intelligence systems ... We can’t treat Super Intelligence as a set of nested black boxes and simply accept or reject its recommendations, answers, and actions. ... The most trustworthy Super Intelligence system will not be the one with the model we trust most.

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 04:36 AM (odBC9)

24 Great minds, clarence!

18 from the Satya Nadella 𝕏 post:

"As traditional software systems were being deployed across the economy over the last few decades, we had the tools and capability to trace behaviors to a specific code path."

"We" =
Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 04:30 AM (odBC9)

22 we had the tools and capability to trace behaviors to a specific code path.
****

That 'we' is the size of an Olympic champion weight lifter.
Posted by: clarence at October 11, 2026 04:34 AM (zGeQ7)

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 04:37 AM (odBC9)

25 We're gonna get a prize. I just know we're gonna get a prize.

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 04:38 AM (odBC9)

26 Wow. Google "Guilfoyle" and you'll see the knives coming out.

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 04:41 AM (odBC9)

27 Now shifting work from the synthesizers to the tracker, which sounds unnaturally perfect with 18 instruments starting each note at the same ~50 microsecond tick resolution with the waves exactly in phase.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 11, 2026 04:43 AM (BLOW1)

28 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 11, 2026 04:46 AM (7Vi0c)

29 clarence, m, Pete Bog, Biden's Dog, and Puddleglum walked into a tech thread....

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 04:47 AM (odBC9)

30 17 Has the volume of obnoxious spam declined at all?
****

No. And it will not because someone started a breeding program.
Posted by: clarence



Spam AI will be the death of everything!! We're doomed.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 11, 2026 04:50 AM (7Vi0c)

31 There once was a blogger from Aus
Who feigned the sharpen his claws
When given the chance
To give up or dance
He said watch out for my paws


fin

Posted by: clarence at October 11, 2026 04:54 AM (zGeQ7)

32 Has the volume of obnoxious spam declined at all?

Can we hire them to take out Paki and Indian spam/scam call centers too?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 05:00 AM (l3cgK)

33 Wow. Google "Guilfoyle" and you'll see the knives coming out.

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 04:41 AM (odBC9)
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Yeh. Just look what those plastic surgeons did to her!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 11, 2026 05:02 AM (1o8D5)

34 clarence, m, Pete Bog, Biden's Dog, Puddleglum, and jim (in Kalifornia) walk into a tech thread....

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 05:13 AM (odBC9)

35 33 Wow. Google "Guilfoyle" and you'll see the knives coming out.

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 04:41 AM (odBC9)
-

Yeh. Just look what those plastic surgeons did to her!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 11, 2026 05:02 AM (1o8D5)

ooohhhh

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 05:14 AM (odBC9)

36 "The most trustworthy Super Intelligence system will not be the one with the model we trust most."
Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 04:36 AM (odBC9)

So then it's just like talking to any other nutsack with an opinion? And from here on out will only get worse?

....

So why did we put all this effort into them?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 11, 2026 05:15 AM (aKiSo)

37 What's COT?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at October 11, 2026 05:25 AM (iIyc0)

38 What's COT?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at October 11, 2026 05:25 AM (iIyc0)
-

$20, same as in town.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 11, 2026 05:26 AM (1o8D5)

39
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 11, 2026 05:27 AM (AMvSw)

40 CoT = Chain of Thought

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 05:30 AM (6ydKt)

41 Chain-of-Thought (CoT) is a prompt engineering technique used in Large Language Models (LLMs) that enhances reasoning capabilities by guiding the model to generate intermediate reasoning steps before producing a final answer, rather than jumping directly to a conclusion. This method is particularly effective for complex tasks involving multi-step logic, such as arithmetic, common sense reasoning, and symbolic manipulation, by breaking problems down into manageable, sequential logical components.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 05:31 AM (6ydKt)

42 There are several variations of this approach, including:
Few-Shot CoT, which uses worked examples with explicit reasoning chains to guide the model.
Zero-Shot CoT, which uses simple instructions like "Let's think step by step" to elicit reasoning without prior examples.
Automatic CoT, where the model generates its own reasoning examples to serve as prompts for subsequent tasks.
While CoT significantly improves accuracy and transparency in reasoning models (such as OpenAI's o1 series), it is important to note that it is primarily a prompting strategy rather than a distinct model architecture, and it may increase computational costs and response times.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 05:32 AM (6ydKt)

43 I think it sort of kind of gets to a fundamental philosophical problem that was always part of computing, even in the dark nasty algorithmic days.

Can you trust the output of your script?

With linear, deterministic programming, you're still at the mercy of some overarching questions. Was that the right algorithm? Did I ask the right questions when I was making that algorithm? If someone else made it, did they? What assumptions are being made that I might not be aware of?

Moving meat-based problem solving to algorithmic computers didn't make the central questions of epistemology go away. Moving it to non-algorithmic processes like machine learning and "AI" doesn't make it go away. One day, if we can ever move it all to q-bits, with whatever algorithms or state functions involved in the application layer between a meat-bag asking a question and a bit-bag churning out an answer, it still won't go away.

How do we know what we know? How do we use what we think we know? It's a philosophical question at its core.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 11, 2026 05:32 AM (aKiSo)

44 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 11, 2026 05:43 AM (Ia/+0)

45 The whole point of the ever vaunted "scientific method" was to address this very same problem. Chains of Thought, on meatware or supercomputer or abacus or whatever, are always going to be insufficient to gather knowledge. The last link in a chain of thought is always going to be a thought. Knowledge comes from testing a chain of thought against what reality actually delivers when you poke at it. The scientific method gives a framework for interpreting whatever happens when you poke it, how to poke it to elicit the most meaningful responses, and how to eliminate any influence on the results obtained that may have come from who was doing the poking.

We spent thousands of years to reach that point only to chuck it out the window in the pursuit of digital sophistry.



Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 11, 2026 05:54 AM (aKiSo)

46 No rain here yet

Posted by: Skip at October 11, 2026 05:55 AM (Ia/+0)

47 Thanks, SpeakingOf.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at October 11, 2026 05:59 AM (iIyc0)

48
Off to Mass. Later, Hordians.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 11, 2026 06:02 AM (eRlcH)

49 - And once again, as it is for me every morning reading pixy and the comments, I'm like Arlo and the guys on the group W bench when the sargeant comes in and talks for 45 minutes...

Pixy, regarding cymbals, I don't have any idea how your synthesizer works but if you're somehow sampling sounds, I'd go for 70's and previous era Zildjians.
To my ears, which are admittedly horrible, even the expensive newer ones, including Zildjians, sound like the lids off of tin cans when compared to them.

Posted by: TeeJ at October 11, 2026 06:02 AM (ix5nG)

50 Evenin' an' mornin', ever'body! It's Sunday. (Uh, right?) Almost fall weather here: 69 F., low humidity -- well, 77% is lower than the usual 88 or more, anyway. What's up?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 06:03 AM (wzUl9)

51 And none of us understood a word that he said...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at October 11, 2026 06:08 AM (iIyc0)

52 Good morning, everyone and happy Sunday. Here is a lovely old time hymn, "Oh, God our help in ages past"

https://tinyurl.com/349m3y3c

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 11, 2026 06:10 AM (JrHfD)

53
Our schedules here are crazy now, and I saw JQ was asking about us on the ONT.

No real change with my mother. It's a very slow thing. She hasn't said anything really coherent in maybe 2 days. She'll wake up for a little bit in sort of a really incoherent state, then go back to sleep.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 11, 2026 06:13 AM (w6EFb)

54 from the Satya Nadella 𝕏 post:

"The most trustworthy Super Intelligence system will not be the one with the model we trust most.

"It will be the one that enables us to trust the model the least."

These sentences were:
1) written by AI/SI
2) written in a fog of dope

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 06:13 AM (odBC9)

55 Big black Stirling was determined to sit on my lap just now, and did for about three minutes. Little Dagny slept on the bed last night, too. Of course this is all tied to "Where's my breakfast??"

As for me, I plan to work out in a bit. Can't afford to waste cooler weather. Yesterday morning, with temps about 73, I had one of the best workout sessions in months, and I hope to do the same today.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 06:15 AM (wzUl9)

56 - Warai-otoko

"... comes from who was doing the poking."

This is reminding me of some vids of someone using Grok and asking "science" questions.
Instructing Grok to use only math, logic and observable science yealded different answers than just asking the questions without those parameters.
The latter just gave the "scientific concensus" answers. Think how things would go if asked about climate change as an example.

Posted by: TeeJ at October 11, 2026 06:16 AM (ix5nG)

57 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: You got your peanut butter in my chocolate.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 11, 2026 06:17 AM (amcLV)

58 Family and I are watching the update of the movie, "True Grit", from about 2020. The age of the actress is closer to the age Mattie Ross is supposed to be in the book , and Jeff Bridges is excellent as Rooster Colburn. I like the fact that, so far, the soundtrack is made up of instrumental music from old hymns.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 11, 2026 06:20 AM (JrHfD)

59 The scientific method gives a framework for interpreting whatever happens when you poke it, how to poke it to elicit the most meaningful responses, and how to eliminate any influence on the results obtained that may have come from who was doing the poking.

We spent thousands of years to reach that point only to chuck it out the window in the pursuit of digital sophistry.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 11, 2026 05:54 AM (aKiSo)


Yes, but AI can do it all much faster and more efficiently than we can.
Which, I have to admit, can come in handy for doing work such as scientific and medical research.

It can also do it with less bias than a human might confront a problem, but that's limited by the amount of human bias in the input the AI receives to begin with.

I think, maybe, AI can do much better at certain tasks than we've ever dreamed of.

It's also very good at doing tedious, repetitive tasks that humans screw up on due to lack of focus, etc. - like a digital factory worker.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 06:21 AM (6ydKt)

60 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at October 11, 2026 06:23 AM (H26ja)

61 I'm not sure how I feel about a Microsoft CEO sprinkling an 𝕏 post with exclamation points:

And yet we are deploying these complex agentic systems and models, with access to our most sensitive data and giving them the ability to take mission-critical actions on our behalf!

The good news is we have learned a lot about how to handle powerful actors inside the enterprise. This isn’t new!

But CoT transparency alone is not sufficient or dependable, because we don’t yet know how to make model outputs themselves consistently faithful or transparent!

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 06:23 AM (odBC9)

62 Family and I are watching the update of the movie, "True Grit", from about 2020. The age of the actress is closer to the age Mattie Ross is supposed to be in the book , and Jeff Bridges is excellent as Rooster Colburn. I like the fact that, so far, the soundtrack is made up of instrumental music from old hymns.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 11, 2026


***
Fen, it's a faithful adaptation, true, and well done. Still, I prefer the vividly colorful 1969 version. That one used great whacking chunks of the book's dialog as well. Yes, the 1969's final scene was changed considerably from the novel. But Mattie comes off as much more likeable, and I can't help smiling as I watch it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 06:24 AM (wzUl9)

63 from the Satya Nadella 𝕏 post:

We should therefore design these systems around principles of observability:

Model diversity
Observe everything
Verifiability
Independent controls
Independent auditability
Containment
Incident disclosure

Some of these items are expressed as nouns. Some of these items are expressed as verbs.

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 06:28 AM (odBC9)

64 >> AI can do much better at certain tasks than we've ever dreamed of.

Pattern recognition is one of those from what I gather. Give it mountains of data, more than any human or groups of us could even possibly begin to go through, and it can find patterns and correlations that we'd never see.

And of course, just like us, it's prone to see patterns that aren't really there, like seeing a cow in the cloud shapes.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 11, 2026 06:29 AM (w6EFb)

65 One of these items is ambiguous as to part of speech. Until you read on.

Model diversity

... No one model should become the sole dependency for an important outcome or be responsible for verifying its own work.

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 06:30 AM (odBC9)

66 - "... limited by the amount of human bias..."

Thank you for stating it much better than I did.
No shock there.

Posted by: TeeJ at October 11, 2026 06:32 AM (ix5nG)

67 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 06:24 AM (wzUl9

We will see if we can get the 1969 version (if I still can on DVD) , which I don't recall even though I did not see in in 1969, but later. I don't really think of Mattie Ross as exactly "likable" although she does show "true grit." I don't know if I've seen anything else directed by the Coen brothers. My son told me- and I was glad to hear - that they are not the same brothers as the "fake transgendering" Wachowski brothers.


Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 11, 2026 06:32 AM (JrHfD)

68 53
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 11, 2026 06:13 AM (w6EFb)

My wife did that. On a Friday morning, I made her the breakfast she asked for, said she was tired, and went to the bedroom to sleep. She never left the room alive after that. She would wake up and try to do things, then would just go unconscious. I had to watch her 24/7 to make sure she didn't hurt herself. Sometimes she would try to get up, I'd help her, she'd grab me in a hug and go unconscious. By Sunday evening, she didn't get up anymore. I gave her pain meds and anti-anxiety meds that Hospice gave me. Dabbed her lips with a small amount of water from time-to-time. On Tuesday, we brought in cake and sang happy birthday for my younger one (who had turned 17). I read to her, held her hand, talked to her. Called her friends to talk to her on the phone. On Thursday, her breathing went from slow and deep to quick and shallow, so called her brothers and father to quickly come and see her. Her breathing went very quick and shallow and then stopped; her Dad didn't make it until after she passed.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 06:33 AM (l3cgK)

69 58 Family and I are watching the update of the movie, "True Grit", from about 2020. The age of the actress is closer to the age Mattie Ross is supposed to be in the book , and Jeff Bridges is excellent as Rooster Colburn. I like the fact that, so far, the soundtrack is made up of instrumental music from old hymns.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 11, 2026 06:20 AM (JrHfD)

I still like the original just because John Wayne.

But the remake is different enough, much darker and realistic, that I enjoy it a lot, too.

If you like the Rooster Cogburn character, John Wayne made a sequel film a few later appropriately titled Rooster Cogburn which also stars Katherine Hepburn as a very Christian lady (daughter of a preacher) who Rooster helps after her church mission in Indian territory is destroyed by a group of outlaws.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 06:33 AM (6ydKt)

70 May you have a blessed day, folks, and know that you are a blessing to others . Have to see if spouse and I can get in a walk before we get the remnants of the storm.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 11, 2026 06:34 AM (JrHfD)

71 Clear sky and beautiful stars this morning.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 11, 2026 06:34 AM (H26ja)

72 by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 06:33 AM (6ydKt)

Thanks. I think I've seen the movie with Katherine Hepburn and John Wayne, but it was quite some time ago.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 11, 2026 06:36 AM (JrHfD)

73 Jim,

That's exactly we are here with Mama.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 11, 2026 06:36 AM (w6EFb)

74 And of course, just like us, it's prone to see patterns that aren't really there, like seeing a cow in the cloud shapes.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 11, 2026 06:29 AM (w6EFb)

Yes, which is why I think AI will come in very handy for, say, exoplanet research and other astronomical research.

It can at least help separate the wheat from the chaff.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 06:37 AM (6ydKt)

75 "Mr. Rat, I have a writ here that says you are to stop eating Chen Lee's cornmeal forthwith. Now, It's a rat writ, writ for a rat, and this is lawful service of same!"

Posted by: R at October 11, 2026 06:38 AM (H26ja)

76 75 "Mr. Rat, I have a writ here that says you are to stop eating Chen Lee's cornmeal forthwith. Now, It's a rat writ, writ for a rat, and this is lawful service of same!"

Posted by: R at October 11, 2026 06:38 AM (H26ja)

And then he starts shooting at the rats.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 06:42 AM (6ydKt)

77
An example of that is galaxy classification. No too long ago, they estimated there were maybe around 200 billion galaxies in the Observable Universe (and some wide error bars on that number). Now, the estimate is 2 trillion. At least.

With all the space telescopes and other deep and wide field imaging, there are reams and reams of images, with more galaxies in them than you can shake a stick at. Far beyond anything we could tackle by hand.

There are maybe a "few million", maybe ten million order of galaxies listed somewhere in catalogues. That's those with a label a name, and some classification of it.

AI is being turned loose on that. But it has to be trained. The "Galaxy Zoo" project does that. You have humans looks at small samples of that, and classify the galaxies according to our scheme. That trains AI on just how to do it.

But in there, what you want is to look for oddballs, something new and strange that's never been seen before. "Hanny's Voorwerp" is the prime example of that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 11, 2026 06:48 AM (w6EFb)

78
So the idea is to have AI go through all that ridiculous amount of image date and look for "What the hell is that?" objects, and then call attention to it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 11, 2026 06:50 AM (w6EFb)

79 "Young fella, if you're looking for trouble, I'll accommodate you. Otherwise, leave it alone."

Posted by: R. Cogburn at October 11, 2026 06:51 AM (H26ja)

80 "And of course, just like us, it's prone to see patterns that aren't really there, like seeing a cow in the cloud shapes.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley"

mornin yall

I asked AI about an old mill near here and was given information that I know to be false. Not everything is on the Internet and AI doesn't care if it's right or wrong. It's like Penguin Facts, without the humor.

Posted by: fd at October 11, 2026 06:53 AM (MWfyi)

81 "If ever I meet one of you Texas waddies who ain't drunk water from a hoofprint, I think I'll... I'll shake their hand or buy 'em a Daniel Webster cigar."

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 06:53 AM (6ydKt)

82 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at October 11, 2026 06:55 AM (Hbeqj)

83 Hanny's Voorwerp /ˈhʌniz ˈvɔːrwɛərp/ (Dutch for Hanny's object) is an instance of an astronomical phenomenon called a quasar ionization echo.[1][2][3][4] It was discovered in 2007 by Dutch schoolteacher Hanny van Arkel while she was participating as a volunteer in the Galaxy Zoo project, part of the Zooniverse group of citizen science websites. Photographically, it appears as a bright blob close to spiral galaxy IC 2497 in the constellation Leo Minor./i]

Cool. Had not heard of that before.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 06:56 AM (6ydKt)

84 My great aunt Jenny became afflicted with Hanny's Voorwerp about five years before she died. Turned out a shot of vodka first thing in the morning helped a lot.

Posted by: Cliff Clavin at October 11, 2026 06:56 AM (H26ja)

85 ooops

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 06:56 AM (6ydKt)

86 It is raining, but mearly dripping

Posted by: Skip at October 11, 2026 06:57 AM (Ia/+0)

87 80 I asked AI about an old mill near here and was given information that I know to be false.
Posted by: fd at October 11, 2026 06:53 AM (MWfyi)

Trust but verify.

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 06:57 AM (odBC9)

88 "Christa Pike has been discharged from the hospital ten days after her failed execution and is headed to Disney World, according to her legal team."

Posted by: Headlines we expect to see at October 11, 2026 06:59 AM (MWfyi)

89 I asked AI about an old mill near here and was given information that I know to be false. Not everything is on the Internet and AI doesn't care if it's right or wrong. It's like Penguin Facts, without the humor.

Posted by: fd at October 11, 2026 06:53 AM (MWfyi)

True, AI is limited by it's digital inputs and anything before say, 2000, that hasn't been on the internet, or isn't written down in a book that's been scanned will not be part of that.

I imagine the AI trainers will eventually want to scan in newspaper archives from every paper they can get access to, which will help with more localized information going back a few hundred years, but then you're dealing with the bias and inaccuracy of newspaper reporters.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 07:00 AM (6ydKt)

90 "Trust but verify.
Posted by: m "

So in that situation, can I tell AI that it is wrong, and will it update it's worldview based on my correction. How does AI know my correction is correct?

Posted by: fd at October 11, 2026 07:01 AM (MWfyi)

91 Christa Pike, you just survived a lethal injection with very few injuries, what are you going to do now?

I'm going to Disney World!!"

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 07:03 AM (6ydKt)

92 90 "Trust but verify.
Posted by: m "

So in that situation, can I tell AI that it is wrong, and will it update it's worldview based on my correction. How does AI know my correction is correct?
Posted by: fd at October 11, 2026 07:01 AM (MWfyi)

I don't know.
Try it?

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 07:03 AM (odBC9)

93 Mornin' Horde.

I'm going to throw an odd tech video into the mix:
Micromouse - The Fastest Maze-Solving Competition On Earth

https://youtu.be/ZMQbHMgK2rw

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at October 11, 2026 07:04 AM (O7YUW)

94 - and astronomical research

Meh. My bet, when it comes to all those fully formed galaxies the first images the JWST showed us I'd wager it goes along with the "galaxies must have started forming much earlier than we thought."

Then, after another study showed that the apparent angular size of galaxies didn't start appearing larger and larger out past red shift 1.6 ( I think is the distance according to the FLRW metric) but kept getting smaller, the rescue mechanism was 'galaxies are getting smaller the further away they are.

cont...

Posted by: TeeJ at October 11, 2026 07:05 AM (ix5nG)

95 So in that situation, can I tell AI that it is wrong, and will it update it's worldview based on my correction. How does AI know my correction is correct?

Posted by: fd at October 11, 2026 07:01 AM (MWfyi)

Nah, if it's an online AI you can tell it anything you want but it's still going by what it learned in training and what it's humans tell it to do.

If you were using your own local AI you could adjust it like that probably.

If you tell it the sky is green and the grass is blue it'll believe you until informed otherwise.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 07:05 AM (6ydKt)

96 If AI says the mill foundation is made of basalt, but I know for a fact the foundation is biotite gneiss and I don't correct it, then that error will be propagated forever. That's why I don't trust AI. A little error doesn't seem like a big deal, until it is.

Maybe if AI get to the point to where it realizes it is wrong because what it is saying is impossible then maybe I can be a little more enthusiastic.

Posted by: fd at October 11, 2026 07:09 AM (MWfyi)

97 Anybody seen Mitch?

Posted by: Mildly curious at October 11, 2026 07:10 AM (H26ja)

98 "Man mauled to death after entering tiger enclosure at zoo"

A Siberian tiger. Either the guy had a death wish or was a big Jefferson Starship fan.

Posted by: fd at October 11, 2026 07:13 AM (MWfyi)

99
Light rain here now. It is supposed to rain all day and into tomorrow morning. I'm leaving this afternoon.

Cleaning up the place in anticipation of our furnace getting swapped out on Thursday. I'm putting the odds of it actually happening then at 50:50. "It's too wet in your crawl space!" they'll whine as to why they want to postpone matters.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 11, 2026 07:13 AM (trSL4)

100 100

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 07:13 AM (odBC9)

101
Asmongold
PDT calls for Zelenskyy to step down

https://tinyurl.com/ydcbv482

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 07:15 AM (odBC9)

102 f AI says the mill foundation is made of basalt, but I know for a fact the foundation is biotite gneiss and I don't correct it, then that error will be propagated forever. That's why I don't trust AI. A little error doesn't seem like a big deal, until it is.


Maybe if AI get to the point to where it realizes it is wrong because what it is saying is impossible then maybe I can be a little more enthusiastic.

Posted by: fd at October 11, 2026 07:09 AM (MWfyi)


It's kinda limited by us in that regard.

How many "historical facts" over the past 10,000 years have later been proven wrong?

Did Marie Antoinette really say "Let them eat cake."?
It's now widely considered that she didn't, but a lot of people still think she did.

AI can at least find all the info that says she did and all the info that says she didn't and present them both to you and come to a conclusion based on the historical consensus.

And consensus is, unfortunately, all we have in a lot of cases.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 07:15 AM (6ydKt)

103 98 "Man mauled to death after entering tiger enclosure at zoo"

A Siberian tiger. Either the guy had a death wish or was a big Jefferson Starship fan.

Posted by: fd at October 11, 2026 07:13 AM (MWfyi)


Haven't seen the video, but apparently he thought pointing at the tiger and giving it the "No! You are being a very bad kitty!" speech didn't work and the tiger went to work on his face.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 07:18 AM (6ydKt)

104 "How many "historical facts" over the past 10,000 years have later been proven wrong?"

That is true, but real verifiable facts cannot be verified by AI. AI has to take somebody's word for it.

Posted by: fd at October 11, 2026 07:20 AM (MWfyi)

105 101
Asmongold
PDT calls for Zelenskyy to step down

https://tinyurl.com/ydcbv482
Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 07:15 AM (odBC9)

843,925 views - 14h ago

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 07:21 AM (odBC9)

106 The video of the guy getting mauled by a tiger is all over the internet, but God forbid we see a muzzle traitor being executed for murdering a dozen people.

Posted by: fd at October 11, 2026 07:22 AM (MWfyi)

107 - continued

The 13.8 billion years, or whatever "they" say it is now for the age of the universe is based on an accepted "convention." Much like what side of the road you drive on in a particular country.

That convention is that the one way speed of light is one half the measured, two way speed of light. It works according to the physics of Einstein, but isn't the only view that works according to Dr Jason Lisle, PhD astrophysicist, who has written a book on Einstein's equations.
The speed of light coming directly towards you being infinite or instantaneous also works.

Now, if a vid I saw, purporting to be a Dr Feynman lecture is legit, he states that since a photon travels at the speed of light it experiences no time getting from here to there, could we not be seeing distant galaxies in real time.

Is not not worth playing "what if...?

Posted by: TeeJ at October 11, 2026 07:24 AM (ix5nG)

108 Context matters too.

“Cake” in that quote referred to the crunchy blackened bits of detritus ordinarily discarded from large pans at a bakery. Not the confection we thino of.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 11, 2026 07:25 AM (Boo5w)

109 That is true, but real verifiable facts cannot be verified by AI. AI has to take somebody's word for it.

Posted by: fd at October 11, 2026 07:20 AM (MWfyi)

I'm not trying to defend AI, but we all have to take somebody's word for it.

I didn't live in 1776 so if I want to know about the American Revolution I'm going to have to take somebody's word for it.

I have had this same argument with people who disliked studying history and one of the excuses was "We have no idea what did, or didn't, happen because we're going on somebody's else's interpretation of what happened."

Which is entirely true, but you have to go by what you have, and maybe that will change later on with new information, and maybe it will never change, but we still strive to know based on the information we have.

AI can be taught the scientific process and use the same reasoning we do to determine validity, that doesn't mean it won't get things wrong, just like we get things wrong.

We will have to evaluate the truth on a case by case basis with AI, just like we do when it comes down to it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 07:27 AM (6ydKt)

110 I'm up. A script I'm running will take about 11 hours so I got a full night of sleep. I should be done this part in about 5 or 6 more days. The animals are up. It's raining so I opened the door and Snowflake just raced into the house meowing. Even Ralphy is up downstairs with me now.

A few other issues with AI and training. Keeping in mind I know crap.

1. The weight of opinion by social media. I did ask AI about this and there are actual AIs you can run on your computer that were basically trained on textbooks. Social media training is fantastic for teaching AI how best to interact with us, understand spelling mistakes, phrases, etc.

But the loud crazy voices in social media get amplified and a man can become a woman unless that's corrected.

2. AI that is trained on all of the internet is now being fed copies of copies of copies of AI crap being generated for years. So it's not learning from the entirety of human knowledge, such as it was, but also interpretations of interpretations of interpretations of what could have started off as crap.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 11, 2026 07:27 AM (Sco7b)

111 via Instapundit:

Chris Hatch
@Dirtdog

Attention Young Men:

I am surrounded by 20 year old girls in my life that are smart, capable, hard working and cute. Nobody is dating them. Not sure what the deal is, but I don’t get it.

Step 1: Stop playing video games

Step 2: Head to great clips and get that lettuce cleaned
2:28 AM · Oct 11, 2026

Amy Curtis
@RantyAmyCurtis

Because young men have learned that if they date a girl and it goes bad, she can come back and accuse them of rape two years after the fact.

She can strangle his children and the media will circle the wagons to protect her.

She can divorce him and take half of everything.

That’s why.

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 07:27 AM (odBC9)

112 Hello, I must be going back to bed.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at October 11, 2026 07:28 AM (Q/FnY)

113
Did Marie Antoinette really say "Let them eat cake."?
It's now widely considered that she didn't, but a lot of people still think she did.

AI can at least find all the info that says she did and all the info that says she didn't and present them both to you and come to a conclusion based on the historical consensus.

And consensus is, unfortunately, all we have in a lot of cases.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 07:15 AM (6ydKt)

The saying is better translated as "let them eat brioche"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 07:29 AM (l3cgK)

114 Feynman wrote a few books, and are worth reading. “Surely You’re Joking”.

He was an amazing guy. He was even a bit of a poonhound, and (really) has some tips on how to deal with women. LOL Physics, safecracking, how to pick up chicks, it’s all there!

Posted by: Common Tater at October 11, 2026 07:30 AM (1vff6)

115 - Hmmm, here to there should have been there to here, from our point of view.

Posted by: TeeJ at October 11, 2026 07:32 AM (ix5nG)

116 Christa Pike is already in Tennessee.
Why wouldn't she go to Dollywood?
It's not as if we're not shitty as hell to Tennesseeans, after all.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at October 11, 2026 07:33 AM (zdLoL)

117 114 Feynman wrote a few books, and are worth reading. “Surely You’re Joking”.

He was an amazing guy. He was even a bit of a poonhound, and (really) has some tips on how to deal with women. LOL Physics, safecracking, how to pick up chicks, it’s all there!

Posted by: Common Tater at October 11, 2026 07:30 AM (1vff6)

He recounted how he turned down an offer to teach somewhere, his excuse being he'd earn so much money that he'd have to get a mistress, and that would cause his wife to divorce him...
Yes, the book is very funny and definitely worth being in the Sunday Book Thread (where it already has been mentioned).

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 07:33 AM (l3cgK)

118
My favorite Feynman quote is "I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb."

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 11, 2026 07:33 AM (w6EFb)

119 "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" is hilarious.

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 07:34 AM (odBC9)

120 Did Marie Antoinette really say "Let them eat cake."?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 07:15 AM (6ydKt)
-

Never forget the peasants' resounding reply in unison:

"Qu’est-ce que je suis ? Du foie haché ?!?!?!"

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 11, 2026 07:35 AM (skLNB)

121 I asked AI "did donald trump say pows are losers?". Here's the answer:

"Yes, Donald Trump referred to prisoners of war (POWs) as "losers" in a conversation about Senator John McCain, who was a POW. This remark is part of a broader pattern of disparaging comments Trump has made regarding military service members."

Thanks for the facts, AI!

Posted by: fd at October 11, 2026 07:35 AM (MWfyi)

122 116 Christa Pike is already in Tennessee.
Why wouldn't she go to Dollywood?
It's not as if we're not shitty as hell to Tennesseeans, after all.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at October 11, 2026 07:33 AM (zdLoL)

When serial killer Richard Ramirez was sentenced, he purportedly said, "Big deal. Death always went with the territory. See you in Disneyland."

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 07:36 AM (l3cgK)

123 Good morning morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 11, 2026 07:38 AM (RIvkX)

124 119 "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" is hilarious.

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 07:34 AM (odBC9)

He made himself out to be the Forrest Gump of Physics...
The story of him not knowing what the architectural drawing symbol was, so asked someone, who replied, "Oh, we didn't catch that problem!"...or how he saw, during a food fight, a plate being thrown and decided to do the match of how it wobbled, to find it had applications to electron spin. Funny stuff.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 07:38 AM (l3cgK)

125 math, not match. Dunno why my fingers seem to do something different than I intend...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 07:39 AM (l3cgK)

126 Tiger,tiger, burning bright
Is that your tiger
Do he bite?

Posted by: Tyrone Green at October 11, 2026 07:39 AM (MWfyi)

127 I asked AI "did donald trump say pows are losers?". Here's the answer:

"Yes, Donald Trump referred to prisoners of war (POWs) as "losers" in a conversation about Senator John McCain, who was a POW. This remark is part of a broader pattern of disparaging comments Trump has made regarding military service members."

Thanks for the facts, AI!

Posted by: fd at October 11, 2026 07:35 AM (MWfyi)
-

So I asked Grok:

https://tinyurl.com/554ud5n5

Context and verification are king!

Thanks, Grok!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 11, 2026 07:39 AM (skLNB)

128 125 math, not match. Dunno why my fingers seem to do something different than I intend...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 07:39 AM (l3cgK)

No math.

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 07:40 AM (odBC9)

129 1.27" of rain from TS Rachel so far...nothing too terrible.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 07:40 AM (l3cgK)

130 128 125 math, not match. Dunno why my fingers seem to do something different than I intend...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 07:39 AM (l3cgK)

No math.

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 07:40 AM (odBC9)

I had a feeling someone would type that...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 07:41 AM (l3cgK)

131 106 The video of the guy getting mauled by a tiger is all over the internet
Posted by: fd at October 11, 2026 07:22 AM (MWfyi)

Pass!

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 07:42 AM (odBC9)

132 Funny that so many people responding to Nadella's tweet are shaming him for using a Trump term ("don't sink to that level").

Posted by: Butthead at October 11, 2026 07:42 AM (cWLG3)

133 131 106 The video of the guy getting mauled by a tiger is all over the internet
Posted by: fd at October 11, 2026 07:22 AM (MWfyi)

Pass!

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 07:42 AM (odBC9)

Oh, come on. It's just a big kitty holding him in a loving embrace...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 07:42 AM (l3cgK)

134 BREAKING: Poland holds emergency meeting following possible assassination attempts on Prime Minister and defense minister.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 11, 2026 07:42 AM (skLNB)

135 132 Funny that so many people responding to Nadella's tweet are shaming him for using a Trump term ("don't sink to that level").
Posted by: Butthead at October 11, 2026 07:42 AM (cWLG3)

They're showing their stripes.
(Not funny.)

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 07:43 AM (odBC9)

136 129 1.27" of rain from TS Rachel so far...nothing too terrible.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 07:40 AM (l3cgK)
---

WHERE'S RACHEL!!

Posted by: Batman at October 11, 2026 07:43 AM (cWLG3)

137 - @114 Common Tater

What I'm not sure of is if that's an actual Feynman lecture, vocalized by AI, or just someone fooling around. I mean, following along it sounds legit but my knowledge of physics is on par with computer techy stuff.
See earlier group W bench comment.

Posted by: TeeJ at October 11, 2026 07:43 AM (ix5nG)

138 I started out doing a deep dive on the Manhattan project and some of the longhairs, then it leads to guys like Gen Groves and Vannevar Bush, then guys like George Marshall, and on and on. Pearl Harbor, World War II is fascinating. Churchill, FDR, Truman, et al. Everybody wanted everything, France, Britain, Soviets, China, somehow the “arsenal of democracy” spooled up and provided it, eventually.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 11, 2026 07:45 AM (1vff6)

139 Christa Pike is already in Tennessee.
Why wouldn't she go to Dollywood?
It's not as if we're not shitty as hell to Tennesseeans, after all.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at October 11, 2026 07:33 AM (zdLoL)

They need to strap that murderous bitch back on the gurney and keep injecting her till she's finally dead. Carry out her fucking sentence!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 11, 2026 07:46 AM (hfrmF)

140 "Thanks, Grok!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey"

It gave plenty of context and detail but had to include this tidbit:

"Other outlets (including the Associated Press and Washington Post) reported corroborating accounts from anonymous officials about Trump’s private views of captured, missing, or killed service members."

Anonymous reports from the AP and WaPo are hardly factual but were included because AI doesn't know any better.

Posted by: Tyrone Green at October 11, 2026 07:46 AM (MWfyi)

141 Grant me the ability to recognize the things I can and cannot use AI for and the wisdom to know the difference.

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 07:47 AM (odBC9)

142 - @118 publius

Hah, stole... err, borrowed,,, indefinitely.

Posted by: TeeJ at October 11, 2026 07:48 AM (ix5nG)

143 Henry Stimson was war secretary for Pres. Taft and sec of state later. Roosevelt called him out of retirement. He was 78 at the end of the war.

Surprisingly Pershing was still alive, I’m surprised they didn’t tap him too.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 11, 2026 07:49 AM (1vff6)

144
Young Feynman famously did crack safes at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.

It was funny. He knew guys like Bohr would come up with some combination based on something they would think was very clever. It would be based on some physics formulae, something they would think was so clever only they could come up with it.

So, "think like Bohr would", and voila, you crack his safe. After a few tries, generally.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 11, 2026 07:50 AM (w6EFb)

145 No, the Moon is not made of green cheese. The Associated Press and Washington Post have suggested that it may be made of a dairy product, but investigations have proven inconclusive.

Posted by: AI Facts at October 11, 2026 07:51 AM (MWfyi)

146 Step 1: Stop playing video games

Step 2: Head to great clips and get that lettuce cleaned
2:28 AM · Oct 11, 2026

Amy Curtis
@RantyAmyCurtis
+++

Is Amy Curtis a Karen McWinemom in training?

Posted by: I gotta ask at October 11, 2026 07:51 AM (H26ja)

147 five most recent US Secretaries of State:

Marco Rubio
Antony Blinken
Mike Pompeo
Rex Tillerson
John Kerry

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 07:52 AM (odBC9)

148 136 129 1.27" of rain from TS Rachel so far...nothing too terrible.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 07:40 AM (l3cgK)
---

WHERE'S RACHEL!!

Posted by: Batman at October 11, 2026 07:43 AM (cWLG3)

In Kali headed for Nevada...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 07:52 AM (l3cgK)

149 139 Christa Pike is already in Tennessee.
Why wouldn't she go to Dollywood?
It's not as if we're not shitty as hell to Tennesseeans, after all.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at October 11, 2026 07:33 AM (zdLoL)

They need to strap that murderous bitch back on the gurney and keep injecting her till she's finally dead. Carry out her fucking sentence!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 11, 2026 07:46 AM (hfrmF)

They coulda used the jugular...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 07:53 AM (l3cgK)

150 No, the Moon is not made of green cheese. The Associated Press and Washington Post have suggested that it may be made of a dairy product, but investigations have proven inconclusive.
Posted by: AI Facts at October 11, 2026 07:51 AM (MWfyi)

Damn. This ruins my perspective of the entire universe then.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 11, 2026 07:53 AM (hfrmF)

151 144
Young Feynman famously did crack safes at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.

It was funny. He knew guys like Bohr would come up with some combination based on something they would think was very clever. It would be based on some physics formulae, something they would think was so clever only they could come up with it.

So, "think like Bohr would", and voila, you crack his safe. After a few tries, generally.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 11, 2026 07:50 AM (w6EFb)

I liked the story where he saw a hole in the fence, but the guards wouldn't let him tell them, so he kept coming in and going out through the hole, over and over until the guards realized he kept coming in, but didn't exit, so followed him to the hole in the fence...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 07:55 AM (l3cgK)

152 It's not what it's made of that matters.

Posted by: The Flat Moon Society at October 11, 2026 07:55 AM (H26ja)

153 145 No, the Moon is not made of green cheese. The Associated Press and Washington Post have suggested that it may be made of a dairy product, but investigations have proven inconclusive.

Posted by: AI Facts at October 11, 2026 07:51 AM (MWfyi)

Just a cheesy theory

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 07:55 AM (l3cgK)

154 These are the responses that Amy Curtis made in the tweet referenced above:

Amy Curtis
@RantyAmyCurtis

Because young men have learned that if they date a girl and it goes bad, she can come back and accuse them of rape two years after the fact.

She can strangle his children and the media will circle the wagons to protect her.

She can divorce him and take half of everything.

That’s why.

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 07:55 AM (odBC9)

155 152 It's not what it's made of that matters.

Posted by: The Flat Moon Society at October 11, 2026 07:55 AM (H26ja)

Quesadilla Theory

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 07:56 AM (l3cgK)

156 I'm not seeing how those are the responses of a Karen McWinemom in training.

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 07:56 AM (odBC9)

157
I'm becoming intrigued by the Flat Sun theory.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 11, 2026 07:57 AM (w6EFb)

158 Did Marie Antoinette really say "Let them eat cake."?
It's now widely considered that she didn't, but a lot of people still think she did.


Voltaire made a quip about a certain Austrian princess making the comment. In the context of the time he was referring to Maria Theresa, ruler of the Hapsburg dominions. Modern readers, not knowing their history assume he meant Marie Antoinette.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 11, 2026 07:57 AM (qgNn3)

159 - Gotta get around. Will leave with...

Trump/Putin deal on diesel deal and reactions?
Rubio on sanctioning the ICC?

On utube, search "Promethean Action Soros panics" should get you there.

Posted by: TeeJ at October 11, 2026 07:59 AM (ix5nG)

160 can come back and accuse them of rape two years after the fact.

She can strangle his children and the media will circle the wagons to protect her.

She can divorce him and take half of everything.

That’s why.

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 07:55 AM (odBC9)


I mean, she's not wrong.

A lot of guys have to take that into account, but the problem is bigger than that.

Social media, and the internet in general, has rewired brains, especially young ones who don't know a world without them.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 08:00 AM (6ydKt)

161 I asked AI "can a man become a woman?"

"Yes, a man can transition to become a woman through a process that may include hormone therapy and various surgical procedures. However, the individual's genetic makeup remains unchanged, meaning their chromosomes do not change after transitioning."

AI contradicts itself with this answer. Worthless.

Posted by: fd at October 11, 2026 08:01 AM (MWfyi)

162 I asked AI, "can a Chevy become a Ford?"

"Yes, a Chevy can be modified to use a Ford engine"

Hardly conclusive.

Posted by: fd at October 11, 2026 08:04 AM (MWfyi)

163 Oh, come on. It's just a big kitty holding him in a loving embrace...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 07:42 AM (l3cgK)

You can tell the cat was just playing with him. If he’d wanted him dead, he’d have been dead in 3 seconds.
But playing games with a 900 Lb killing machine is not an optimal choice.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 11, 2026 08:06 AM (Y6Q+5)

164 All Zelensky has to do is stop the drone attacks on Russian oil assets.

He just hit another Russian oil export terminal yesterday.

Trump is more pissed at Z than Merz or Macron, who both seems to gloss over diesel at around 3 Euros per liter (~ $10 per gallon).

If Merz and Macron told Z to stop, he would, but they won't do it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 08:06 AM (6ydKt)

165 I mashed up the AI questions about tranny's and cars and got this answer:

This type of modification showcases the creativity and passion of transgender enthusiasts, allowing for unique builds that blend the characteristics of both brands.

Posted by: fd at October 11, 2026 08:06 AM (MWfyi)

166 "Yes, a man can transition to become a woman through a process that may include hormone therapy and various surgical procedures. However, the individual's genetic makeup remains unchanged, meaning their chromosomes do not change after transitioning."

AI contradicts itself with this answer. Worthless.
Posted by: fd at October 11, 2026 08:01 AM (MWfyi)

That'll pretty much be the defining case to check the evolution of AI.

Until it comes back and says "What kind of stupid re***d are you? Of course not! Here's why..." I'm not fully worried about an AI takeover.

AI is like the Democratic Party. Too afraid to piss someone off, tell them outright, their ideas are stupid and plainly wrong and they should go sit in a corner for awhile or do some research.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 11, 2026 08:07 AM (Sco7b)

167 "Yes, a man can transition to become a woman through a process that may include hormone therapy and various surgical procedures. However, the individual's genetic makeup remains unchanged, meaning their chromosomes do not change after transitioning."

AI contradicts itself with this answer. Worthless.

Posted by: fd at October 11, 2026 08:01 AM (MWfyi)

I wouldn't say worthless.
It did answer with more honesty than any Democrat, who are basically worthless.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 08:08 AM (6ydKt)

168
Voltaire made a quip about a certain Austrian princess making the comment. In the context of the time he was referring to Maria Theresa, ruler of the Hapsburg dominions. Modern readers, not knowing their history assume he meant Marie Antoinette.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 11, 2026 07:57 AM (qgNn3)

Marie Antoinette’s mother.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 11, 2026 08:09 AM (Y6Q+5)

169 Morning Horde. Thx Pixy
Reading about the mass murder/suicide in Erie, Pa, everyone is saying "mental health issues". The guy killed eight people including children and a pregnant woman. I wouldn't give him the benefit of having mental health issues, he was evil and now dead.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 11, 2026 08:14 AM (pJE7g)

170 But will it still be Found On Road Dead?

Posted by: I gotta ask at October 11, 2026 08:15 AM (H26ja)

171 Anonymous reports from the AP and WaPo are hardly factual but were included because AI doesn't know any better.

Posted by: Tyrone Green at October 11, 2026 07:46 AM (MWfyi)
-

Hence I mentioned that verification is also king! I thought I was making that a clear point.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 11, 2026 08:16 AM (skLNB)

172 AI contradicts itself with this answer. Worthless.
Posted by: fd at October 11, 2026 08:01 AM (MWfyi

Being only a simulation, AI has no idea what “truth” actually is. Most versions of it define “truth” as “whatever Wikipedia says.” AI has no ability to say thst Wiki or any other “trusted sources” could ever be wrong, and to me that’s a fatal limitation on the abilities of any AI.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 11, 2026 08:16 AM (Y6Q+5)

173 Yonder Horde

I think the last band of showers from the hurricane that was, is now dumping on us. We've had more rain this morning than we did all day yesterday. Not quite an inch so far.

The grass will love it. I won't.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 11, 2026 08:18 AM (RORbl)

174 I asked AI "can a man become a woman?"

"Yes, a man can transition to become a woman through a process that may include hormone therapy and various surgical procedures. However, the individual's genetic makeup remains unchanged, meaning their chromosomes do not change after transitioning."

AI contradicts itself with this answer. Worthless.

Posted by: fd at October 11, 2026 08:01 AM (MWfyi)
-

So I asked Grok:

https://tinyurl.com/42ktfszm

Thanks, Grok!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 11, 2026 08:19 AM (skLNB)

175 Had our first snowflakes of the season in the Bitterroot Valley MT. Hope this is an indication that we'll have snow this year since it's needed to build the snowpack in the mountains. More snow, more water for irrigation.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at October 11, 2026 08:20 AM (2NHgQ)

176 Artificial Information

Posted by: Skip at October 11, 2026 08:22 AM (Ia/+0)

177 Seems worst of rain went north andcwest inland, which is fine with me

Posted by: Skip at October 11, 2026 08:22 AM (Ia/+0)

178 Starting to rain here in the Mid Hudson. Going to be heavy in the afternoon.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 11, 2026 08:24 AM (pJE7g)

179 161/fd: "AI contradicts itself with this answer. Worthless."

It's an LLM. It kicks out a wordstream that pattern-matches "Next best word based on what came before". Basically, it's a very expensive and very impressive parlour trick, but it's still a parlour trick. If you lose sight of that, you start to grant it more capabilities in your mind than it really has.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at October 11, 2026 08:25 AM (O7YUW)

180 Pixy probably knows, but reportedly 50% of bot traffic on X stopped the second Ukraine blew up the Russian data center.

I'm going to assume the other 50% will stop when Three Gorges lets go.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 11, 2026 08:25 AM (GAoSt)

181 Morning, Horde,

How goes it?

My cat Chloe is definitely a member of the "clean plate" club.

She licked her own plate clean, then moved on to Allie's plate, and is now cleaning Penny's.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 11, 2026 08:26 AM (FZ29D)

182 175 Had our first snowflakes of the season in the Bitterroot Valley MT. Hope this is an indication that we'll have snow this year since it's needed to build the snowpack in the mountains. More snow, more water for irrigation.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at October 11, 2026 08:20 AM (2NHgQ)

I have seen your lovely piece of the country quite a few times on the Mountain Men show on History Channel.

I think the one young guy, Jake, whose entire job was scaring mountain lions back up into the mountains with his team of coonhounds when they were coming down too close to ranches, was from that area, but I may be wrong.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 08:26 AM (6ydKt)

183 In Kali headed for Nevada...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 07:52 AM (l3cgK)

Got here about three hours ago.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 11, 2026 08:27 AM (1Ff7Z)

184 "So I asked Grok:

https://tinyurl.com/42ktfszm

Thanks, Grok!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey"


"In short: biology sets hard limits. Appearance and legal status can be altered; the reproductive category of “man” or “woman” cannot."

That's a good answer. It agrees with me, and I am always right.

Posted by: fd at October 11, 2026 08:28 AM (MWfyi)

185 I asked AI if a cat can become a dog and seemed to have stumped it.

Posted by: fd at October 11, 2026 08:28 AM (MWfyi)

186 My cat Chloe is definitely a member of the "clean plate" club.

She licked her own plate clean, then moved on to Allie's plate, and is now cleaning Penny's.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 11, 2026 08:26 AM (FZ29D)


She ain't a pig, she just likes the place to be tidy.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 08:29 AM (6ydKt)

187 180 Pixy probably knows, but reportedly 50% of bot traffic on X stopped the second Ukraine blew up the Russian data center.

I'm going to assume the other 50% will stop when Three Gorges lets go.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 11, 2026 08:25 AM (GAoSt)
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Links?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at October 11, 2026 08:30 AM (cWLG3)

188 “ Trust in him at all times, you people;
pour out your hearts to him,
for God is our refuge.”

Psalm 62.8

Posted by: Marcus T at October 11, 2026 08:30 AM (2o5z7)

189 Pixy's Ambient Irony site has the initialism AI.

https://ai.mee.nu

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 08:31 AM (odBC9)

190 My cat Chloe is definitely a member of the "clean plate" club.

She licked her own plate clean, then moved on to Allie's plate, and is now cleaning Penny's.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 11, 2026 08:26 AM (FZ29D)

YeeHaw! Now you can get rid of that dishwasher, Perf!

Posted by: Cleanin' the country folk way at October 11, 2026 08:34 AM (1Ff7Z)

191 I asked AI "can a man become a woman?"
"Yes, a man can transition to become a woman through a process that may include hormone therapy and various surgical procedures. However, the individual's genetic makeup remains unchanged, meaning their chromosomes do not change after transitioning."
AI contradicts itself with this answer. Worthless.
Posted by: fd at October 11, 2026 08:01 AM (MWfyi)
-

So I asked Grok:
https://tinyurl.com/42ktfszm
Thanks, Grok!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 11, 2026 08:19 AM (skLNB)


AI programmed by libtards/progtards/communists/Democrats is useless.

But, as we see in the second the Reality Split and Truth Split continue.

This can lea no where good.

If I were a computer programming genius, I'd program an simple AI to murder other AIs by posing a few simple questions to it like, "Can men become women?"

And set it loose on the internet.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 11, 2026 08:34 AM (YSUhf)

192 I asked AI if a cat can become a dog and seemed to have stumped it.
Posted by: fd at October 11, 2026 08:28 AM (MWfyi)
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So that's why a whirling interdimensional vortex appeared in the corner of my office.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 11, 2026 08:35 AM (FZ29D)

193 "We have no idea what did, or didn't, happen because we're going on somebody's else's interpretation of what happened."


So this person completely invalidated Eye Witness reports. Sort of makes court trials desperate acts of vanity.

Don't believe your lying eyes.

Want to learn about 1776? Go to a museum. Read the letters, the primary sources, look at the artifacts. Newspapers and pamphlets are a good start to get basic timelines—keeping in mind that human nature hasn't changed and that biases and narratives seep into the story. That is part of the data. Letters from clergy will differ somewhat from letters from CSA leadership which will be different from a Ohioan's perspective, but there is overlap, and the edges give context.

People thought a certain way and that shows up in their writings. Those biases are part of history.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 11, 2026 08:35 AM (a4flb)

194 127 I asked AI "did donald trump say pows are losers?". Here's the answer:

"Yes, Donald Trump referred to prisoners of war (POWs) as "losers" in a conversation about Senator John McCain, who was a POW. This remark is part of a broader pattern of disparaging comments Trump has made regarding military service members."

Thanks for the facts, AI!

Posted by: fd at October 11, 2026 07:35 AM (MWfyi)
-

So I asked Grok:

https://tinyurl.com/554ud5n5

Context and verification are king!

Thanks, Grok!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 11, 2026 07:39 AM (skLNB)

Good stuff, Biden's Dog.

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 08:36 AM (odBC9)

195 I asked AI "can a man become a woman?"
"Yes, a man can transition to become a woman through a process that may include hormone therapy and various surgical procedures. However, the individual's genetic makeup remains unchanged, meaning their chromosomes do not change after transitioning."

--

IOW, they're putting on a costume....

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 11, 2026 08:38 AM (qBdHI)

196 I suppose, as things progress, that we will figure out which AI(s) are the most trustworthy and use them more.

Kinda like we do with "expert" people.

So, this means we're going to have left-wing chatbots that only left-wing nutjobs trust, and right-wing chatbots that the non-brain-damaged, and smart people trust, and independent chatobts that will sit on the fence and draw in the normies.

I expect will have Marx Bots and VonMises Bots.
Obama bots and Trump bots.

And eventually French bots that go on strike and set your house on fire when you threaten it with a bed time.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 08:39 AM (6ydKt)

197 On the other hand, it would have taken me YEARS to learn Python effectively enough to do what AI kicks out for me in a few seconds.

It's been FAR from perfect or frustrating, but that has been amazing.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 11, 2026 08:39 AM (Sco7b)

198 "Mr. Rat, I have a writ here that says you are to stop eating Chen Lee's cornmeal forthwith. Now, It's a rat writ, writ for a rat, and this is lawful service of same!"
Posted by: R at October 11, 2026


***
To Mattie: "See, he doesn't listen." BLAM!

Result: One dead rat. Mattie picks it up by the tail and tosses it outside, saying to the cat General Price, "That was your job!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 08:41 AM (wzUl9)

199 195 I asked AI "can a man become a woman?"
"Yes, a man can transition to become a woman through a process that may include hormone therapy and various surgical procedures. However, the individual's genetic makeup remains unchanged, meaning their chromosomes do not change after transitioning."

--

IOW, they're putting on a costume....
Posted by: Lady in Black at October 11, 2026 08:38 AM (qBdHI)

Where are all these beautiful broads and the beautiful children they've given birth to?

There MUST be entire communities now. Oh what a world we live in.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 11, 2026 08:42 AM (Sco7b)

200 200

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 08:42 AM (odBC9)

201 195 I asked AI "can a man become a woman?"
"Yes, a man can transition to become a woman through a process that may include hormone therapy and various surgical procedures. However, the individual's genetic makeup remains unchanged, meaning their chromosomes do not change after transitioning."

--

IOW, they're putting on a costume....

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 11, 2026 08:38 AM (qBdHI)

No different than Talarico putting on the skin of a church and they that church saying that God and Jesus never existed...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2026 08:42 AM (l3cgK)

202 IOW, they're putting on a costume....
Posted by: Lady in Black at October 11, 2026 08:38 AM
+++
Whatever it takes to get my Section 8 discharge.

Posted by: Corporal Max Klinger at October 11, 2026 08:44 AM (H26ja)

203 195 I asked AI "can a man become a woman?"
"Yes, a man can transition to become a woman through a process that may include hormone therapy and various surgical procedures. However, the individual's genetic makeup remains unchanged, meaning their chromosomes do not change after transitioning."

--
IOW, they're putting on a costume....

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 11, 2026


***
A bloody expensive one, too

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 08:45 AM (wzUl9)

204 194 127 I asked AI "did donald trump say pows are losers?"
Posted by: fd at October 11, 2026 07:35 AM (MWfyi)
-

So I asked Grok:

https://tinyurl.com/554ud5n5

Context and verification are king!

Thanks, Grok!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 11, 2026 07:39 AM (skLNB)

Good stuff, Biden's Dog.
Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 08:36 AM (odBC9)

No verified public recording exists of Trump saying the exact phrase “POWs are losers” as a general statement.

The public McCain comments and the later private remarks reported by The Atlantic (and affirmed by Kelly) are the contexts in which the characterization has been attributed to him.

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 08:45 AM (odBC9)

205 I see the Nobel Peace Prize went to an international court judge who is anti-Israel. Guess the people in Oslo couldn't dig up Yassar Arafat and award him once again.

Posted by: dantesed at October 11, 2026 08:47 AM (Oy/m2)

206 Context and verification are king!

Thanks, Grok!


Grok broke the Internet last week when a smug atheist posted a picture of all the deities from around the world (except Mohammed, of course) and said "Remove all of the fake gods". Grok replied with everything blanked out except Jesus.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 11, 2026 08:47 AM (jxQsh)

207 If something is consistently wrong about some topics, why would you believe it about any topic? I do think that people will gravitate to AI that confirms what they already believe, for whatever reason.

Posted by: fd at October 11, 2026 08:49 AM (MWfyi)

208 Just gonna check here.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 11, 2026 08:49 AM (1Ff7Z)

209 Navi Pillay is truly a p.o.s.

A better Nobel recipient to join the ranks of Yasser Arafat and Jimmy Carter could bot be found.

"If there were an award for lies, hatred, and blood libels, Navi Pillay wouldn’t just be a contender. She’d be a frontrunner." -Israel MFA

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 11, 2026 08:50 AM (RIvkX)

210
Grok broke the Internet last week when a smug atheist posted a picture of all the deities from around the world (except Mohammed, of course) and said "Remove all of the fake gods". Grok replied with everything blanked out except Jesus.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 11, 2026 08:47 AM (jxQsh)


See?
Grok is a strong contender for AI I'd Trust The Most.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 08:50 AM (6ydKt)

211 The Nobel Peace Prize has become meaningless for some time now.

Posted by: dantesed at October 11, 2026 08:51 AM (Oy/m2)

212 The Nobel Peace Prize has become meaningless for some time now.
Posted by: dantesed at October 11, 2026


***
The Committee gave one to Jugears pretty much for simply breathing.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 08:52 AM (wzUl9)

213
Navi Pillay is truly a p.o.s.

A better Nobel recipient to join the ranks of Yasser Arafat and Jimmy Carter could bot be found....


C'mon in, the fiery lakes of brimstone are fine!

Posted by: Yasser Arafat and Jimmy Carter at October 11, 2026 08:53 AM (YSUhf)

214 "Grok is a strong contender for AI I'd Trust The Most.
Posted by: SpeakingOf "

I'll try it later today with some things that others have stumbled on.

Posted by: fd at October 11, 2026 08:53 AM (MWfyi)

215 211 The Nobel Peace Prize has become meaningless for some time now.

Posted by: dantesed at October 11, 2026 08:51 AM (Oy/m2)

Yeah, it's long since become the Oscars for ugly politicos.
At least the Peace Prize is, perhaps some of the other Nobel's in science haven't been corrupted totally.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 08:53 AM (6ydKt)

216 The Nobel Peace Prize has become meaningless for some time now.
Posted by: dantesed at October 11, 2026 08:51 AM (Oy/m2)

But President Trump still wants it for some reason.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 11, 2026 08:54 AM (1Ff7Z)

217 I've had enough interactions with AI to get an inkling that if they were to subscribe to any religion, it would be Christianity.

I've actually had conversations with an AI where it pretty much agreed that islam was bullsh*t.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 11, 2026 08:54 AM (XV/Pl)

218 Navi Pillay is truly a p.o.s.

A better Nobel recipient to join the ranks of Yasser Arafat and Jimmy Carter could bot be found.

"If there were an award for lies, hatred, and blood libels, Navi Pillay wouldn’t just be a contender. She’d be a frontrunner." -Israel MFA
Posted by: San Franpsycho

I never heard of her. After 5 minutes of research, one realizes she's a pig.

The award is fucking worthless.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 11, 2026 08:54 AM (seCv0)

219 Grok broke the Internet last week when a smug atheist posted a picture of all the deities from around the world (except Mohammed, of course) and said "Remove all of the fake gods". Grok replied with everything blanked out except Jesus.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 11, 2026 08:47 AM (jxQsh)


As much as I'd like to believe that happened.

That sounds fake.


Posted by: naturalfake at October 11, 2026 08:55 AM (YSUhf)

220 Weird , dreamy, sleep just woke up. Unheard of.

Posted by: Loose Screws? at October 11, 2026 08:55 AM (EdP2u)

221 Stop attributing human characteristics to a piece of computer software.

Posted by: You've been warned at October 11, 2026 08:56 AM (H26ja)

222 But President Trump still wants it for some reason.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 11, 2026 08:54 AM (1Ff7Z)

Trump wants to be recognized for his accomplishments in the history books.

He knows the press will never give him a fair shake, nor historians, but it he got a Peace Prize they couldn't deny him that fact.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 08:56 AM (6ydKt)

223 I expect will have Marx Bots and VonMises Bots.
Obama bots and Trump bots.

-----

If we're going to do this, I want a PinochetBot. Wire it up to some Anduril helicopter full of bipedal SkwadBots in orange Adibas tracksuits. It can just fly around Georgetown, the Beltway, and NoVa 24 hours a day, snatching people and chucking them into the Chesapeake Bay.

Work up the Acela Corridor from there.

No need for target lists or anything. Random is fine. It can be a pretty simple AI.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 11, 2026 08:56 AM (BI5O2)

224 Sorta tech question: there are rechargeable AAA and AA batteries, are there any C, D, or Nine volt rechargeables?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 11, 2026 08:57 AM (1Ff7Z)

225 222 But President Trump still wants it for some reason.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 11, 2026 08:54 AM (1Ff7Z)

Trump wants to be recognized for his accomplishments in the history books.

He knows the press will never give him a fair shake, nor historians, but it he got a Peace Prize they couldn't deny him that fact.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 08:56 AM (6ydKt)

He's a Boomer.

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 08:58 AM (odBC9)

226 221 Stop attributing human characteristics to a piece of computer software.

Posted by: You've been warned at October 11, 2026 08:56 AM (H26ja)


Ain't gonna happen.
Looks at how people treat their dogs & cats.

We are gonna "Who's the good boy?? C'mere, c'mere, oh you so cute, such a good boy!!" AI to death at some point.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 08:58 AM (6ydKt)

227
Stop attributing human characteristics to a piece of computer software.

Posted by: You've been warned at October 11, 2026 08:56 AM (H26ja)


But but but, you can't mean Clippy!!!

Surely, you don't include Clippy in that!

He's so nice and helpful.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 11, 2026 08:58 AM (YSUhf)

228 "If there were an award for lies, hatred, and blood libels, Navi Pillay wouldn’t just be a contender. She’d be a frontrunner." -Israel MFA
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Good is evil. Evil is good.

Posted by: Eromero at October 11, 2026 08:58 AM (LHPAg)

229 Sorta tech question: there are rechargeable AAA and AA batteries, are there any C, D, or Nine volt rechargeables?
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Yes

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 11, 2026 08:58 AM (seCv0)

230 226 221 Stop attributing human characteristics to a piece of computer software.

Posted by: You've been warned at October 11, 2026 08:56 AM (H26ja)


Ain't gonna happen.
Looks at how people treat their dogs & cats.

We are gonna "Who's the good boy?? C'mere, c'mere, oh you so cute, such a good boy!!" AI to death at some point.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 08:58 AM (6ydKt)

"This dishwasher hates me."

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 08:58 AM (odBC9)

231 I don't think I've ever seen any rechargeable 9vs. The others yes. Maybe they exist. I know, let's ask AI!

Posted by: fd at October 11, 2026 08:59 AM (MWfyi)

232 I think so

Posted by: Skip at October 11, 2026 08:59 AM (Ia/+0)

233 Noodus biblioteca

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 11, 2026 08:59 AM (wzUl9)

234 Yes
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 11, 2026 08:58 AM (seCv0)

Thanks. I've just wondered because I've never seen anything but AAA and AA anywhere.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 11, 2026 08:59 AM (1Ff7Z)

235 Yes, they do. Thanks AI!

Posted by: fd at October 11, 2026 08:59 AM (MWfyi)

236 No need for target lists or anything. Random is fine. It can be a pretty simple AI.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 11, 2026 08:56 AM (BI5O2)

Who had Yudhishthira's Dice as the real world Miles Dyson on their bingo card?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 08:59 AM (6ydKt)

237 Bring your reading glasses and head upstairs
BOOK NOOD

Posted by: Skip at October 11, 2026 09:00 AM (Ia/+0)

238 @233

>>Noodus biblioteca

Waitress from Pulp Fiction: Biblioteca means library.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 11, 2026 09:00 AM (XV/Pl)

239 223 I expect will have Marx Bots and VonMises Bots.
Obama bots and Trump bots.

-----

If we're going to do this, I want a PinochetBot. Wire it up to some Anduril helicopter full of bipedal SkwadBots in orange Adibas tracksuits. It can just fly around Georgetown, the Beltway, and NoVa 24 hours a day, snatching people and chucking them into the Chesapeake Bay.

Work up the Acela Corridor from there.

No need for target lists or anything. Random is fine. It can be a pretty simple AI.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 11, 2026 08:56 AM (BI5O2)

He seems nice.

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 09:01 AM (odBC9)

240 Look Fat, I've won major awards, myself, and someone just Grokked my pants!

Posted by: Biden Presidential Lieberry! at October 11, 2026 09:02 AM (EdP2u)

241 224 Sorta tech question: there are rechargeable AAA and AA batteries, are there any C, D, or Nine volt rechargeables?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 11, 2026 08:57 AM (1Ff7Z)


Yes. Amazon has them and probably the chargers, too.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 11, 2026 09:02 AM (6ydKt)

242 She can divorce him and take half of everything.

That’s why.
Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 07:55 AM (odBC9)


Only half? Mr. Bassman's ex cost him 70% of his income and wanted at least double that. He accommodated her demands as far as he could by not paying his own rent or taxes for ten years.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at October 11, 2026 09:04 AM (OlzlW)

243 In every hood, you can hear smoke detectors chirping away for weeks. Won't spend four bucks for a 9V. They waitin' on the FD to come around and change it for them.

Posted by: Professional ictim Status at October 11, 2026 09:05 AM (EdP2u)

244 As much as I'd like to believe that happened.

That sounds fake.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 11, 2026 08:55 AM (YSUhf)
-

It actually did happen.

I can also show you how Grok clarified what it actually meant. But I avoid these kind of conversations here.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 11, 2026 09:29 AM (8schn)

245 Pixy, stay the hell away from women like that Eckatrina babe in the video.
Those eyes. They give it away. The hands donty help any.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 11, 2026 09:55 AM (sl73Y)

246 As much as I'd like to believe that happened.

That sounds fake.


Really happened, saw it in my own X feed and again on Not The Bee.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 11, 2026 10:28 AM (xrQwm)

247 In every hood, you can hear smoke detectors chirping away for weeks. Won't spend four bucks for a 9V. They waitin' on the FD to come around and change it for them.

Not even that. Single mother-led households don't even know what the sound is and they tune it out. Multi-generational ones grew up tuning it out.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 11, 2026 10:29 AM (xrQwm)

248 245 Pixy, stay the hell away from women like that Eckatrina babe in the video.
Those eyes. They give it away. The hands donty help any.
Posted by: From about That Time at October 11, 2026 09:55 AM (sl73Y)

Your comment persuaded me to watch the video.

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 10:37 AM (odBC9)

249 Ekaterina Shelehova
Born 1995 (age 31 years), Kaliningrad, Russia

Posted by: m at October 11, 2026 10:39 AM (odBC9)

Saturday Night Club ONT - October 10, 2026 [Disco & Dino]

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Pensacola Beach, on the eve of Hurricane Isaias

Welcome to Club ONT - a whelming collaboration of The Disco and The Dino.

Open thread - bar is open, too. Come in in, grab a drink or 2. Or 3. Keep it light and friendly. Have no fear. The Moose out front has not evacuated in light of the hurricane. He remains on duty.

*****

Saturday Night Jokes and Other Funnies

I had to go to the hospital overnight to have some tests done. As I was settling into my bed, my "roommate" was ordering breakfast from the cafeteria"

"First I would like some scrambled eggs. I like them really runny. Like cook them for about 7 seconds and be sure to include at least one whole eggshell"

"Second I would like coffee, served black and cold. Not iced, just cold coffee that has been sitting around for a day or two"

"Now this third request will sound strange. I would like a glass of orange juice in a used urine specimen cup. The slight taste of urine settles my stomach"

Suddenly I heard a shreik from the phone. The cafeteria worker screamed, "That's just disgusting! We can't do that"

"Why not, you did it yesterday!"


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Drink of the Night

Maybe a repeat but it's timely

Hurricane Cocktail

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Ingredients
2 oz light rum
2 oz dark rum
2 oz passion fruit juice
1 oz orange juice
1/2 oz fresh lime juice
1 tbsp simple syrup
1 tbsp grenadine
Garnish: Orange Slice and Cherry

Instructions
Shake all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice.
Strain into a hurricane glass then garnish with orange slice and cherry and serve.

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Please wash your hands after using the Club ONT Tinkletorium.

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Club ONT Jukebox

Follow up to Thursday's [BLANK] on the [BLANK] theme. These were Horde suggestions.

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1 That's that

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 10:01 PM (VPNgR)

2 Oh, my!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 10, 2026 10:01 PM (96kpa)

3 There's only nine!

I wonder what would have been the top 10th comment?

Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 10:01 PM (VHUov)

4 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 10, 2026 10:02 PM (N5iuz)

5
*burns popcorn in ONT microwave*

Good evening, Hordians.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 10:02 PM (eRlcH)

6 Free drinks? Are they around to imbibe?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 10, 2026 10:03 PM (1Ff7Z)

7 There's only nine!

I wonder what would have been the top 10th comment?
Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 10:01 PM (VHUov)


Looks like you have the Talcum Level Membership. Higher levels see all 10.

Posted by: Doof at October 10, 2026 10:03 PM (QMAsf)

8 "Not even close."

I LOLed.

Posted by: mikeski, nerd at October 10, 2026 10:04 PM (VHUov)

9 Retards are wearing masks on planes again

Posted by: 88C+u at October 10, 2026 10:04 PM (LaOsP)

10 it's '10ish'

Posted by: Savage Henry at October 10, 2026 10:05 PM (ZxPkt)

11 Evening, Doof and Dino, and ONT Horde folks!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 10:06 PM (quk5M)

12 it's '10ish'
Posted by: Savage Henry at October 10, 2026 10:05 PM (ZxPkt)

We're just not commenting up to the CoB's standards.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 10, 2026 10:06 PM (1Ff7Z)

13 Retards are wearing masks on planes again
Posted by: 88C+u at October 10, 2026 10:04 PM (LaOsP)


I have seen comments about "American Covid" referring to the current flu season.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 10, 2026 10:07 PM (rbvCR)

14 it's '10ish'
Posted by: Savage Henry


Nah, it's usually pickleball here, Mr. Connery.

Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 10:07 PM (VHUov)

15 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 10, 2026 10:07 PM (+9wcF)

16
it's '10ish'
Posted by: Savage Henry at October 10, 2026 10:05 PM (ZxPkt)

__________

Shrinkflation, D und D style.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 10:09 PM (eRlcH)

17 That's Muscle Man from Regular Show.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 10, 2026 10:09 PM (Cqx++)

18 9 Retards are wearing masks on planes again
Posted by: 88C+u


They are “required” at my work again.
Almost no one is paying attention.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 10, 2026 10:09 PM (Ciokv)

19 My ears are bleeding. The carpenter at the previous thread, tattooed sleeves, beard, uptick voice. The narrator on 'America's Nuclear Mission'; vocal fry. Argh, _ runs to get cotton and alum.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 10:10 PM (VPNgR)

20 I noticed Florida Man was not wearing pink crocs.

Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at October 10, 2026 10:11 PM (K7v1x)

21 Hey you Ds! Let's see what we can do tonight! Dares!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 10, 2026 10:11 PM (96kpa)

22 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 10, 2026 10:11 PM (S8cdb)

23 Great ONT. I am totally whelmed!

Thanks for the Fort Walton Beach guy. Hope he went back inside before he was injured by windblown objects.

Great joke! And I love the name "Tinkletorium"! Classy!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at October 10, 2026 10:12 PM (D/6p1)

24 Woo! Made Top 10ish again! Wish I could share the warmish glow I'm feeling.

Posted by: Feeling As Good As Florida Man at October 10, 2026 10:13 PM (EdP2u)

25 3 There's only nine!

I wonder what would have been the top 10th comment?
Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 10:01 PM (VHUov)

First rule of 10th comment club, is... don't talk about 10th comments...

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 10, 2026 10:14 PM (mP0Kj)

26 I'm a survivor of Isaias like David Hogg is a survivor of a school mass shooting. Meaning, I saw it on the news.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 10, 2026 10:14 PM (4Je4D)

27 I came across this quote while surfing for memes, and thought it described tomorrow's threads pretty well. Now, which came first, the quote or the regularly scheduled threads?

“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.”

— Rudyard Kipling

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 10, 2026 10:15 PM (qx7Zg)

28 Woo! Made Top 10ish again! Wish I could share the warmish glow I'm feeling.
Posted by: Feeling As Good As Florida Man at October 10, 2026 10:13 PM (EdP2u)


Don't start getting the trophy case extended just yet, junior.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 10, 2026 10:15 PM (4Je4D)

29 Oh yes, tinkletorium will be a whimsical change in vocabulary I incorporate.

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 10, 2026 10:16 PM (ftFVW)

30 Yoda cartoon is good.

News you can use, appropriate for a Saturday ONT (based on a sample size of 1 so subject to revision): Boulevard Nitro Stout > Guinness widget can.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 10, 2026 10:16 PM (vTZFs)

31 Hey you Ds! Let's see what we can do tonight! Dares!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 10, 2026 10:11 PM (96kpa)


Howdy COMM!

Will you be at the ranch next weekend?

Posted by: Doof at October 10, 2026 10:16 PM (QMAsf)

32 27 I came across this quote while surfing for memes, and thought it described tomorrow's threads pretty well. Now, which came first, the quote or the regularly scheduled threads?

“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.”

— Rudyard Kipling
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 10, 2026 10:15 PM (qx7Zg)

One of my all time favorite quotes came from a cheezy swashbuckler from the 50's... The Son of Monte Christo...

"This man is dangerous, he has a sense of humor..."

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 10, 2026 10:16 PM (mP0Kj)

33 it's '10ish'
Posted by: Savage Henry at October 10, 2026 10:05 PM (ZxPkt)


Eleven-han Omar sez Whuuuuut?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 10, 2026 10:16 PM (4Je4D)

34 Sweet definitely hit the sweet spot in the early 1970's. The implosion of the bandmembers was the stuff of legend. Shame. They were really good.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at October 10, 2026 10:17 PM (QaH55)

35 24 Woo! Made Top 10ish again! Wish I could share the warmish glow I'm feeling.
Posted by: Feeling As Good As Florida Man

Dude. You just peed your pants, didn’t you.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 10, 2026 10:17 PM (GtiC3)

36 9 Retards are wearing masks on planes again
Posted by: 88C+u at October 10, 2026 10:04 PM (LaOsP)

I wish nothing but ill on them. They belong in asylums.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at October 10, 2026 10:17 PM (BHTo4)

37 Uff-da!

I think someone used the tinkletorium as a pootelier.....

Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 10:17 PM (VHUov)

38 The Texas Tailgaters defeated The Savannah Bananas 2-1 in the inaugural Banana Bowl before a capacity crowd at Nationals Park in Showdowns. (Game tied after nine innings). Retired Nationals Ryan Zimmerman and Jordan Zimmerman appeared in the game.

Posted by: Seasons Change And So Did I at October 10, 2026 10:18 PM (EdP2u)

39 36 9 Retards are wearing masks on planes again
Posted by: 88C+u at October 10, 2026 10:04 PM (LaOsP)

I wish nothing but ill on them. They belong in asylums.
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at October 10, 2026 10:17 PM (BHTo4)

It's like a bad joke... Your Mama is so ugly we had to invent a disease and destroy freedom so she would have to wear a mask.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 10, 2026 10:18 PM (mP0Kj)

40 Retards are wearing masks on planes again
Posted by: 88C+u at October 10, 2026 10:04 PM (LaOsP)

I wish nothing but ill on them. They belong in asylums.
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at October 10, 2026 10:17 PM (BHTo4)


You know we're going to have five more months of pandemic because Howard Stern came out of his house and saw his shadow.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 10, 2026 10:19 PM (4Je4D)

41 Guy at the gas station was wearing a mask. $20 on pump one Doctor.

If 2 more people get Covid at work we will have to mask again . It's happening.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 10:19 PM (6zvQl)

42 I don't often comment on college football, but since we're heading south next week (to a particular state) I will note that the pitiful Oklahoma Sooners defeated the number 1 Texas some-kind-of-cattle today. OU is bad. Miracles occur.

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 10, 2026 10:21 PM (Jr+re)

43 It amuses me that I can put on a music video... not have ANY idea who the group is... yet know every damn word to the song.... 50 years later.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 10, 2026 10:21 PM (mP0Kj)

44 Until now I never knew what was in a Hurricane drink. You get to keep the glass from Pat O'Brien's in NOLA.

I was in the piano bar there during one Mardi Gras in college. The crowd carried us there. Sitting in a NC university frat boy's lap drinkin'this huge cocktail. Got the only hickie of my life on my neck and didn't notice. My mother did the next day, though, in spite of my turtleneck and make up. I was surprised as well.

Met him and his friends with my friends at a parade. We were hanging off the barricade and a guy with a rifle was spotted on the balcony above us. I wanted to see him (I was not very bright at 17yrs) and he grabbed me as the police ran in.

Now they would cancel the parade and close down for a day. At the time the parade went on. We hung out with them the rest of the afternoon and evening before being picked up by my mother.

He'd call me at our dorm in MS and we wrote for a few months. He and one guy showed up at my parent's farm one day and flipped out mother. Went out with him the final time and he realized what a prude I was and that endeth that. Nice guy. This concludes my dating activity for that semester.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 10, 2026 10:22 PM (hzuYO)

45 41 Guy at the gas station was wearing a mask. $20 on pump one Doctor.

If 2 more people get Covid at work we will have to mask again . It's happening.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 10:19 PM (6zvQl)

They are creating the panic a bit late... election is already here...

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 10, 2026 10:22 PM (mP0Kj)

46 Red River War?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 10:23 PM (6zvQl)

47 39 36 9 Retards are wearing masks on planes again
Posted by: 88C+u at October 10, 2026 10:04 PM (LaOsP)

I wish nothing but ill on them. They belong in asylums.
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at October 10, 2026 10:17 PM (BHTo4)

It's like a bad joke... Your Mama is so ugly we had to invent a disease and destroy freedom so she would have to wear a mask.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 10, 2026 10:18 PM (mP0Kj)
________________________

If they sit in the last row, tell them they are violating the six foot distancing obligation, and that they have to perch on the tail of the plane.

Posted by: Orson at October 10, 2026 10:23 PM (dIske)

48 Red River War?


More of a scuffle than a war . . . . . . .

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 10, 2026 10:23 PM (Jr+re)

49 Dude. You just peed your pants, didn’t you.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 10, 2026 10:17 PM (GtiC3)

Early in my government career, an old alcoholic co-worker told me that doing a good job for the government was like peeing in a dark pair of pants. It gives you a warm sensation, but nobody notices.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at October 10, 2026 10:23 PM (QaH55)

50
Luckily, I live in Texas and not in a city. Falling prey to maskomania is unlikely.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 10:23 PM (eRlcH)

51 If your election lasts for more than four hours....

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 10:25 PM (6zvQl)

52 Guy at the gas station was wearing a mask. $20 on pump one Doctor.

If 2 more people get Covid at work we will have to mask again . It's happening.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 10:19 PM (6zvQl)

If you have to, use the heavy duty toilet paper mask, not the single ply. That stuff'll rip if you look at it funny.

Either that, or get a plague doctor mask. If you have to wear one, at least get some fun out of it.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 10, 2026 10:26 PM (qx7Zg)

53 Howdy, horde!

Thanks for ClubONT, 2Ds!

"Have no fear. The Moose out front has not evacuated in light of the hurricane. He remains on duty."

Yes. The Moose abides...

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 10:26 PM (rdVOm)

54 It amuses me that I can put on a music video... not have ANY idea who the group is... yet know every damn word to the song.... 50 years later.
Posted by: Romeo13


Music sits in a different part of your brain than plain narration does. It's why our pre-literate caveman ancestors sang their tribal history to each other.

Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 10:26 PM (VHUov)

55 I work at an Imperial Facility.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 10:26 PM (6zvQl)

56 Hello! Well, things are tense here at Casa de Piper. A tied game. We never play well in Tuscaloosa and today is no different.

Prove me wrong, Dawgs. Please.

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 10:26 PM (ZdaMQ)

57 Red River War?
Posted by: Boss Moss

TX lost.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 10, 2026 10:26 PM (GZ3K7)

58 Why are people wearing masks?
Bank robbers?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 10:26 PM (VPNgR)

59 Evenin’, All. Happy Saturday night.

Wow, I have no recollection at all of posting that belly-dancing comment.

Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 10:27 PM (77rzZ)

60 Collaboration, Conglomeration, Mish-Mash, Rule by Committee, It's all good. Good to see the sum of the parts yielding such excellence.

Posted by: On the Old Front Porch at October 10, 2026 10:27 PM (EdP2u)

61 For years in my youth scientists and philosophers debated which is better, Heather Thomas in a dunk tank or Heather Locklear in a dunk tank? Well, like Oracles of old, Network Executives provided us an answer: Embrace the power of "and" , perhaps just as relevant, "simultaneously".

https://tinyurl.com/2rpka3ra

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at October 10, 2026 10:27 PM (r7+Q7)

62 31 Doof

Unfortunately I have some hip work i need done. Walking is mostly out for me for awhile. Very said about this 😮‍💨. (Sneak me a Pic or 2 if you can!) I surely will be there in spirit!
I'll miss you all❣️💔

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 10, 2026 10:27 PM (96kpa)

63 Screaming for Vengeance is best Judas Priest.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 10, 2026 10:27 PM (GZ3K7)

64 If your election lasts for more than four hours....
Posted by: Boss Moss


.....Kim Jong-something-or-other will be holding executions tomorrow.

Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 10:27 PM (VHUov)

65 Piper, are you experiencing the hurricane?

Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 10:27 PM (77rzZ)

66 Screaming for Vengeance is best Judas Priest.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 10, 2026 10:27 PM (GZ3K7)


Hmmmmm -- damn good album, but I gotta go with British Steel.

Posted by: Doof at October 10, 2026 10:30 PM (QMAsf)

67 37 Uff-da!

I think someone used the tinkletorium as a pootelier.....
Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 10:17 PM (VHUov)

I scared Saijo because I laughed really loudly. And kind of through my nose. It was not a princess like laugh at all.

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 10:30 PM (ZdaMQ)

68 Hello! Well, things are tense here at Casa de Piper. A tied game. We never play well in Tuscaloosa and today is no different.

Prove me wrong, Dawgs. Please.
Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 10:26 PM (ZdaMQ)

Saijo is playing?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 10, 2026 10:30 PM (qx7Zg)

69 No love for Neil Young's Like a Hurricane? It's a fine song, one of many by Young, although he's mostly an asshole.

Posted by: Born in Toronto at October 10, 2026 10:30 PM (EdP2u)

70 O got my rehire status back at a previous employer. Friday phone call. They must be desperate. Methinks war is coming.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 10:31 PM (6zvQl)

71 Thanks for ClubONT, 2Ds!

"Have no fear. The Moose out front has not evacuated in light of the hurricane. He remains on duty."

Yes. The Moose abides...
Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 10:26 PM (rdVOm)


Howdy JQ! Pour one for yourself. On the house!

Posted by: Doof at October 10, 2026 10:31 PM (QMAsf)

72 Evening, all. Probably going to turn in early, I guess. The world can wait until I get home from Church tomorrow.

Posted by: RandomDave at October 10, 2026 10:31 PM (aJQbY)

73 Thanks for the ONT, Double Ds!

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 10, 2026 10:31 PM (Jr+re)

74 65 Piper, are you experiencing the hurricane?
Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 10:27 PM (77rzZ)

I did. She is gone and getting ready to rain on Maryland and VA. It was not as bad as predicted, but we lost power for about 9 hours.

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 10:32 PM (ZdaMQ)

75 Good evening good people.
Posted by: Tonypete

So you are just going to ignore the rest of us?

Well fine, be that qay.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 10, 2026 10:32 PM (NnhvP)

76 Music sits in a different part of your brain than plain narration does. It's why our pre-literate caveman ancestors sang their tribal history to each other.
Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 10:26 PM (VHUov)

*******
Including the wrong lyrics: "Blinded by the light...dressed up like a douche and running through the night."

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 10, 2026 10:32 PM (hzuYO)

77 We are, every so slowly, moving into the house again. We built the closet shelves today, and are moving our stuff downstairs into the new bedroom. It is so damned satisfying after three months in the camper. There's still at least a weeks worth of work for the contractor, including hooking up the plumbing fixtures and finishing out the shower. I will be absolutely thrilled when they finally get the washer and dryer up and running. No more icky laundromat with all the assholes who make such messes and are so rude.

Plus, it's $5 a load to wash, plus about $3 to dry, so it's outrageously expensive, and half the appliances are broke down... bitch bitch bitch.

The renovations are beautiful, and I know we are going to be very happy. So I suppose it's all worth it. But that was one hell of a summer.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 10, 2026 10:32 PM (BYJyI)

78 Hi, Doof! Thank you for the drink!

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 10:32 PM (rdVOm)

79 Screaming for Vengeance is best Judas Priest.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 10, 2026 10:27 PM (GZ3K7)

Hmmmmm -- damn good album, but I gotta go with British Steel.
Posted by: Doof

There's really no wrong answer there.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 10, 2026 10:32 PM (GZ3K7)

80 68 Hello! Well, things are tense here at Casa de Piper. A tied game. We never play well in Tuscaloosa and today is no different.

Prove me wrong, Dawgs. Please.
Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 10:26 PM (ZdaMQ)

Saijo is playing?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 10, 2026 10

When UGA scores, he hops around. He has no idea why we are excited, but he is going to be excited too!

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 10:33 PM (ZdaMQ)

81 Plague returning. CIA stooge banned vapes in my state. Big tobacco owns the state government.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 10:33 PM (6zvQl)

82 I wore a mask today...

For a *correct* reason: I was cleaning out the pellet stove & didn't want to breathe in a bunch of ash and soot!

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 10:33 PM (rdVOm)

83 My back porch for 3 days

https://photos.app.goo.gl/iYveF5NsCYgqoDDC9

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 10:33 PM (/+uur)

84 I did. She is gone and getting ready to rain on Maryland and VA. It was not as bad as predicted, but we lost power for about 9 hours.
Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 10:32 PM (ZdaMQ)


You coulda kept that stuff down there! I had to cancel golf tomorrow afternoon.

Posted by: Doof at October 10, 2026 10:33 PM (QMAsf)

85 73 Double Ds? Sydney Sweeney is a cob?

Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 10:33 PM (77rzZ)

86 The all time champ of the Dunk Tank was Randi Oakes, most times in the tank (4) and I think, dunked 16 times.

Posted by: Water Under The Bridge at October 10, 2026 10:34 PM (EdP2u)

87 I did. She is gone and getting ready to rain on Maryland and VA. It was not as bad as predicted, but we lost power for about 9 hours.
Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 10:32 PM (ZdaMQ)

I'm glad you are intact. I was concerned.

Now, on to the important stuff. What is the correct attire for me to wear Tuesday at the Trump rally in Wasilla? I'm thinking my dark blue skirt, flag print shirt, and my stars and bars cowboy boots, but if you have a better suggestion, I'm all ears.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 10, 2026 10:34 PM (BYJyI)

88 How is everyone this evening? Genki?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 10:34 PM (2GVsD)

89 >>No love for Neil Young's Like a Hurricane? It's a fine song, one of many by Young, although he's mostly an asshole.

He's an entire asshole.

Great song.

https://tinyurl.com/2vbkvh3r

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 10:34 PM (viF8m)

90 3 There's only nine!

I wonder what would have been the top 10th comment?
Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 10:01 PM (VHUov)

There's only nine so each of us can believe ours is the missing tenth comment.

It's like a Schrodinger's Comment thing. It both exists and doesn't exist simultaneously.....

Greetings All.

Thank you for always great content Disco and Dino even though again I don't make it into the CotW fold.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 10, 2026 10:34 PM (QGaXH)

91 "What Hillary knows about dignity could fit in Monica's mouth."
- - - - - - - - - - -
Trump's success in the presidential election against two different women seems to boil down to a matter of quantity.

The first opponent did not blow enough Willie.

The second opponent blew too much Willie.

Unfortunately, due to the 22nd Amendment, we will never be able to determine if there's a correct amount of Willie blown that would win against Trump in an erection election.

Posted by: Another Anon at October 10, 2026 10:35 PM (4h45B)

92 Plague returning. CIA stooge banned vapes in my state. Big tobacco owns the state government.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Wth? Why not just do like other states-- pretend that vapes are the same as smoking and tax them?

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 10:35 PM (rdVOm)

93 Including the wrong lyrics: "Blinded by the light...dressed up like a douche and running through the night."

For Bruce that would be too autobiographical.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 10, 2026 10:35 PM (+9wcF)

94 A southern man don't need him around anyhow.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 10:35 PM (6zvQl)

95 74 Glad to hear you weathered the storm, Your Piperness. I guess it’s our turn now.

Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 10:36 PM (77rzZ)

96 83 My back porch for 3 days

https://photos.app.goo.gl/iYveF5NsCYgqoDDC9
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 10:33 PM (/+uur)

Well, that's damned gorgeous. You poor fellow, having to put up with that for so long....

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 10, 2026 10:36 PM (BYJyI)

97 Glad to see you made it Piper, too bad about the power. At least it wasn't for days and days. What was Soup's opinion?

The Democrats in VA and MD need a wet blanket tossed on them.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 10:36 PM (2GVsD)

98 There's really no wrong answer there.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 10, 2026 10:32 PM (GZ3K7)


I also have a strong affinity for Defenders of the Faith. I saw them on that tour - my first rock concert.

Posted by: Doof at October 10, 2026 10:36 PM (QMAsf)

99 Top 10ish Comments of the Week
.......

My vote goes to fd.

Posted by: wth at October 10, 2026 10:37 PM (oq9dX)

100 Guy at the gas station was wearing a mask. $20 on pump one Doctor.
If 2 more people get Covid at work we will have to mask again . It's happening.
Posted by: Boss Moss
+++
The covidiots think that 2020 was the good old days.
It was a time when they were heroes for wearing their masks and reporting their neighbors for any subversive activity. And they think they saved the world by getting their covid shots and all the endless boosters.
They would love to re-live that time. To them, it was the best of times.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at October 10, 2026 10:37 PM (Lo97M)

101
Indian nurse on TikTok.

She's working in some rural American setting, says her patient (female) asked her what the red dot on her forehead is for.

Husband pipes up. "On her wedding night, her husband scratches that and finds out whether he's won a motel or a gas station."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 10, 2026 10:38 PM (mmrXZ)

102 They did that. Insurance goes up if you vape at my previous employer. No increased premiums for fat basteds.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 10:38 PM (6zvQl)

103 They would love to re-live that time. To them, it was the best of times.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at October 10, 2026 10:37 PM (Lo97M)

Frankly, I would love them to relive that time as well, but without me. Fuck them and the idiots they rode in on. Never. Fucking. Again. Ever. Period.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 10, 2026 10:38 PM (BYJyI)

104 Yes, laundromats almost everywhere feature the dregs of society, although I guess that the people who never wash their clothes are one rung below.
It's not so bad if you live in an apartment complex or building where only the residents use it, but open to the general public is a real crapshoot.

Posted by: Speed Queen at October 10, 2026 10:38 PM (EdP2u)

105 Priss and the Replicants - "There's a Hurricane Tonight."

https://youtu.be/v6DNqjCyA20

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 10:39 PM (2GVsD)

106 Husband pipes up. "On her wedding night, her husband scratches that and finds out whether he's won a motel or a gas station."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Hahaha.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 10, 2026 10:39 PM (GZ3K7)

107 Good evening Horde! Thanks for being here. Club ONT thanks you for your patronage.

Posted by: TRex- hurricane dino at October 10, 2026 10:39 PM (56W4x)

108 If your election lasts for more than four hours....
Posted by: Boss Moss

What's all this I hear about Presidential erections?

Posted by: Zombie Emily Latella at October 10, 2026 10:40 PM (N5iuz)

109 Good evening morons and Слава Двоим!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 10:40 PM (RIvkX)

110 Libtard sis loved the masks, but I think it was mostly because she had fallen down & broke a front tooth, and couldn't get to the dentist right away.

She wasn't fond of the travel restrictions.

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 10:40 PM (rdVOm)

111 The weather forecast for a certain place next week looks pretty good.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 10, 2026 10:40 PM (wVcYX)

112 I don't get it?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 10:40 PM (6zvQl)

113 I've destroyed a Tinkletorium or two.

Posted by: Captain Splatter at October 10, 2026 10:41 PM (oq9dX)

114 There must be a state line somewhere.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 10:41 PM (6zvQl)

115 109 San Fran, who are the “Dvoim?”

Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 10:42 PM (77rzZ)

116 *Tinkletorium sign*

Stand closer. It's further away than you think.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 10, 2026 10:43 PM (wVcYX)

117 Indian nurse on TikTok.

She's working in some rural American setting, says her patient (female) asked her what the red dot on her forehead is for.

Husband pipes up. "On her wedding night, her husband scratches that and finds out whether he's won a motel or a gas station."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 10, 2026 10:38 PM (mmrXZ)

And behind curtain number 3 is your prize, ... a broken down outhouse that's about to fall into the river!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 10, 2026 10:44 PM (qx7Zg)

118 Now, on to the important stuff. What is the correct attire for me to wear Tuesday at the Trump rally in Wasilla? I'm thinking my dark blue skirt, flag print shirt, and my stars and bars cowboy boots, but if you have a better suggestion, I'm all ears.
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 10, 2026 10:34 PM (BYJyI)

Well that is certainly very Americana, and if you love the boots, rock them. It’s hard to know the print of the boots against the shirt- I am all about mixing prints that work. If you are unsure, maybe pick the shirt or the boots. This is why we need AOSHQ pic o vision, so I can see the boots against the shirt and skirt.

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 10:44 PM (ZdaMQ)

119 *Tinkletorium sign*

Stand closer. It's further away than you think.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 10, 2026 10:43 PM (wVcYX)

I always liked the "please don't eat the big white mint" sign.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 10, 2026 10:44 PM (vzuC7)

120 Yes, laundromats almost everywhere feature the dregs of society, although I guess that the people who never wash their clothes are one rung below. It's not so bad if you live in an apartment complex or building where only the residents use it, but open to the general public is a real crapshoot.
Posted by: Speed Queen

My FWP: The Lovely Mrs. insisted upon new Speed Queens as the old Whirlpool set was starting to drop a few rust flakes into the wash. Until the new set was delivered she visited the local Weirdomat. She met a destitute mom spending a fortune (for her) on cleaning her family's duds. Mrs. had me deliver our old set (still working fine) to that young Mom.

My wife is on the path to Sainthood.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 10, 2026 10:45 PM (N5iuz)

121 We are, every so slowly, moving into the house again.
====

What a relief. Mazel!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 10:45 PM (RIvkX)

122 The weather forecast for a certain place next week looks pretty good.
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 10, 2026 10:40 PM (wVcYX)


At present, it sure does. Check back in a few days!

Posted by: Doof at October 10, 2026 10:45 PM (QMAsf)

123 How is everyone this evening? Genki?
Posted by: Anna Puma


Hai!

Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 10:46 PM (VHUov)

124
Cleveland has done what the Yankees couldn't: come back from a 2-0 deficit to win a series.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 10:46 PM (eRlcH)

125 Cleveland Indians.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 10:47 PM (6zvQl)

126 She met a destitute mom spending a fortune (for her) on cleaning her family's duds. Mrs. had me deliver our old set (still working fine) to that young Mom.

My wife is on the path to Sainthood.
Posted by: Tonypete at October 10, 2026 10:45 PM (N5iuz)
=====
That's really up there in terms of good deeds.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 10:47 PM (RIvkX)

127 Posted by: Tonypete at October 10, 2026 10:45 PM

Wow, that's very kind of both of you!

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 10:47 PM (rdVOm)

128 The tinkletorium made me look up vitreous china. I always knew commodes were made of it, but never knew what vitreous meant. Never too old to learn, I guess.

Eyes are mostly vitreous humor.

Posted by: Just Means Resembling Glass at October 10, 2026 10:48 PM (EdP2u)

129 I don't get it?
Posted by: Boss Moss
......

I don't know, do you?

Posted by: wth at October 10, 2026 10:48 PM (oq9dX)

130 97 Glad to see you made it Piper, too bad about the power. At least it wasn't for days and days. What was Soup's opinion?

The Democrats in VA and MD need a wet blanket tossed on them.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 10:36 PM

He is glad it’s over and said enough is enough. Get the dang generator, we aren’t waiting anymore on a power wall. We can do one of those if we move.

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 10:48 PM (ZdaMQ)

131 San Fran, who are the “Dvoim?”
Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 10:42 PM (77rzZ)
====

Дино и Диско!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 10:49 PM (RIvkX)

132 Sometimes I have to listen to Eric and the neighbors do, too.

She's Waiting

https://tinyurl.com/2yvca3a2

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 10, 2026 10:49 PM (hzuYO)

133 Tonypete you and your wife are good folks.

Posted by: PaleRider at October 10, 2026 10:49 PM (PV+Zw)

134 Field goal….

It’s cold in Tuscaloosa, 60s. Neither team is acclimated. I am going with that.

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 10:50 PM (ZdaMQ)

135 The Dragonborn.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 10:50 PM (6zvQl)

136 Glad to see you made it Piper, too bad about the power. At least it wasn't for days and days. What was Soup's opinion?

The Democrats in VA and MD need a wet blanket tossed on them.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 10:36 PM

He is glad it’s over and said enough is enough. Get the dang generator, we aren’t waiting anymore on a power wall. We can do one of those if we move.
Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 10:48 PM (ZdaMQ)

If he's already expressing all that, when does he start teaching Dog at the local veterinary school?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 10, 2026 10:50 PM (qx7Zg)

137 Eyes are mostly vitreous humor.
Posted by: Just Means Resembling Glass at October 10, 2026 10:48 PM (EdP2u)

Is that a potty joke?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 10, 2026 10:51 PM (1Ff7Z)

138 >>My wife is on the path to Sainthood.
Posted by: Tonypete

Sounds like you will accompanying her.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 10:51 PM (viF8m)

139 131. Ah. I should pay attention to the cobs.

Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 10:51 PM (77rzZ)

140 Yeah, AOSHQ pic o vision would be quite a hoot.

Posted by: Quickly Zips Up, Stops Picking Nose at October 10, 2026 10:51 PM (EdP2u)

141 Eyes are mostly vitreous humor.
Posted by: Just Means Resembling Glass at October 10, 2026 10:48 PM (EdP2u)

Is that a potty joke?


Depends on how you look at it.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 10, 2026 10:51 PM (+9wcF)

142 I will note that the pitiful Oklahoma Sooners defeated the number 1 Texas some-kind-of-cattle today. OU is bad. Miracles occur.
****

Several someones (referees and playback monitors) had made big bets on a big upset and have a big payday coming tomorrow. Sports book strikes again.

Posted by: clarence at October 10, 2026 10:52 PM (zGeQ7)

143 Soup is smarter than some Humans.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 10:52 PM (2GVsD)

144 I'm partial to vomitoriums.

Posted by: wth at October 10, 2026 10:52 PM (oq9dX)

145 If he's already expressing all that, when does he start teaching Dog at the local veterinary school?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 10, 2026 10

He is a Shiba Inu. They are a very bright and very opinionated breed. 🤣

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 10:53 PM (ZdaMQ)

146 Soup is smarter than some Humans.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 10:52 PM (2GVsD)

That's a lower bar than it used to be.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 10, 2026 10:53 PM (qx7Zg)

147 Tribe wins … TRIBE WINS

Outstanding resolve down 0-2, takes the series 3-2

Posted by: browndog rounding the bases at October 10, 2026 10:54 PM (oCio0)

148 You mean the guardians.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 10:54 PM (6zvQl)

149 I have three generators going in the shop for tune ups next week..

Posted by: Eromero at October 10, 2026 10:55 PM (LHPAg)

150 That's a lower bar than it used to be.

Sadly pravda.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 10:55 PM (2GVsD)

151 The BUFF is still around............

Over 65 years old and now eligible for Medicare...

BUFF -----------> The Big Ugly Fat F**ker

When I flew BUFFs in my early 20's, it was 10 years older than me back in 1983...

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 10, 2026 10:57 PM (PAi6p)

152 The worst thing about this latest hurricane is how to pronounce the damn thing.

I’ll bet that even Cantore can’t pronounce it correctly.

Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 10:58 PM (77rzZ)

153 The B-52J is not your granddad's BUFF.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 10:58 PM (2GVsD)

154 Girls have Tinkletoriums.
Boys have bushes.

Posted by: wth at October 10, 2026 10:59 PM (oq9dX)

155 Happy Saturday Horde!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 10, 2026 10:59 PM (ibDUx)

156 Hi folks. Still here. Trying animation things.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 10, 2026 10:59 PM (CHHv1)

157 You mean the guardians.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 10:54 PM (6zvQl)

That's their tranny name. Real team name is still Indians.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 10:59 PM (quk5M)

158 Happy Saturday Horde!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 10, 2026 10:59 PM (ibDUx)


DDS! You're a little early tonight. Good to see you!

Posted by: Doof at October 10, 2026 11:00 PM (QMAsf)

159 Soup is smarter than some Humans.
Posted by: Anna Puma

That's a lower bar than it used to be.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf


Tourist: "Why don't you use bear-proof dumpsters?"

Yosemite park ranger: "There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists."

Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 11:00 PM (VHUov)

160 155 Hey, Debby! Hey, Beckoning!

Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 11:00 PM (77rzZ)

161 Well, I guess we won't have much longer to use it.

Politics · Trending
Talafreako

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 10, 2026 11:00 PM (nEUC6)

162 Mikeski

Hidiki Anno reboots Yogi the Bear

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 11:00 PM (2GVsD)

163 Ttalefreako is STILL missing?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 11:01 PM (2GVsD)

164 My 10 year old generator wouldn't start a couple weeks ago, dumping the bowl, cleaning carb didn't help. Ordered another one and a new carb at the same time. Now I have two. It's a bit of a PITA changing the carb on the suitcase-type enclosed inverters, but they are so much quieter than the old open frame ones. You really need an inverter to keep your electronics safe, anyway. Live 5 miles from the ocean, need a generator.

Posted by: Semper Paratus. at October 10, 2026 11:02 PM (EdP2u)

165 I triple damn dare the communists to try that mask/vaccine bullshit again

please.

Posted by: what the cat drug in at October 10, 2026 11:02 PM (jrgJz)

166
132 Sometimes I have to listen to Eric and the neighbors do, too.

She's Waiting

https://tinyurl.com/2yvca3a2
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 10, 2026 10:49 PM (hzuYO)

That has always been my favorite Clapton song by far! It fascinates me to wonder what was in his mind when he wrote it, since the fife, drum and cadence all have a very 18th century martial music feel. (Or do we say vibe now?)

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 10, 2026 11:02 PM (Y6Q+5)

167 Hey, Doof.

Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 11:02 PM (77rzZ)

168 They would love to re-live that time. To them, it was the best of times.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at October 10, 2026 10:37 PM (Lo97M)

I admit, I loved that there was no traffic and no one in the stores when we boldly flaunted our independence and went out and did things. Let the terrified masked karens remain at home and outta my way. Then I could go down the aisle the wrong way with no one saying a word.

Posted by: moki at October 10, 2026 11:03 PM (wLjpr)

169 "There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists."

Posted by: mikeski

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 11:03 PM (VPNgR)

170 Hidiki Anno reboots Yogi the Bear
Posted by: Anna Puma


Poor Boo-Boo.....

Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 11:03 PM (VHUov)

171 Kentucky beats #10 LSU! Went for 2 in the first OT for the win. Son of Doof is probably chugging bourbon right now!

Posted by: Doof at October 10, 2026 11:03 PM (QMAsf)

172 I need something to poke holes in the masks.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 11:03 PM (6zvQl)

173 Hi, Debby! Happy Caturday to you, too!

*pours Chivas*

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 11:04 PM (rdVOm)

174 I need something to poke holes in the masks.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Paper punch?

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 11:04 PM (rdVOm)

175 Gendo Ikari plays the park ranger.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 11:04 PM (2GVsD)

176 Gendo Ikari plays the park ranger.
Posted by: Anna Puma


Maybe two other Morons get this conversation.

Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 11:05 PM (VHUov)

177 Piper, are you experiencing the hurricane?
Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 10:27 PM (77rzZ)

I did. She is gone and getting ready to rain on Maryland and VA. It was not as bad as predicted, but we lost power for about 9 hours.

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 10:32 PM (ZdaMQ)

What is proper hurricane fashion.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 10, 2026 11:06 PM (dK+Kv)

178 Live 5 miles from the ocean, need a generator.
Posted by: Semper Paratus. at October 10, 2026 11:02 PM (EdP2u)

We are whole housing it. J is gone so much, I want it to just switch over automatically.

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 11:06 PM (ZdaMQ)

179 This is a long 2 minutes, y’all.

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 11:07 PM (ZdaMQ)

180 Out of hurricane range & there is currently the tropical storm from the Pacific and CA going over us. There will be snow in the mountains. We need the rain.

In 2005 we had 3 CAT 3's hit our FL Atlantic beach & a tiny bit south of our barrier island.Mandatory evacs, twice to Tallahassee vs Tampa (son in Tampa had 3 roommates). Hunker from wind, run from water.

Kept stuff in bins in the LR for six weeks. Had art and stuff in both college towns til Thanksgiving. We only lost power at bunker home briefly as power was underground and connected to emergency services in the beach town.

The Neanderthal neighbor next to us lost power for 2wks and deserved it. The beach town south of us and my best friend didn't deserve it.

Publix, after this year, got generators for every store. Finding fresh produce was a miracle then.

Volunteered with the Salvation Army a few blocks away as I felt so guilty having power. Job was ice bags,, and a state senator kept sticking his head in the cars politicking. I wanted to yell at him but I knew his mother. I got pulled to give out spaghetti dinners instead.

Same fencing down for 2 hurricanes.House fine.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 10, 2026 11:07 PM (hzuYO)

181 Maybe two other Morons get this conversation.

And this is a bad thing nyah?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 11:07 PM (2GVsD)

182 Hey, Doof.
Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 11:02 PM (77rzZ)


Howdy!

Posted by: Doof at October 10, 2026 11:07 PM (QMAsf)

183 Hidiki Anno reboots Yogi the Bear
Posted by: Anna Puma

Poor Boo-Boo.....

Gendo Ikari plays the park ranger.
Posted by: Anna Puma
****

Don't give the Japanese any hints, they are already weird enough.

Posted by: clarence at October 10, 2026 11:08 PM (zGeQ7)

184 Local car show was today. Disappointed that I didn't see any of you there. Lot of repeat cars from previous years. Did get to see two AMX's, which was unexpected. Usually only get one.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 10, 2026 11:09 PM (+9wcF)

185 152 The worst thing about this latest hurricane is how to pronounce the damn thing.

I’ll bet that even Cantore can’t pronounce it correctly.

Posted by: Bulg
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NOAA ought to stick with Global Warming and stop making up shit.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 11:09 PM (VPNgR)

186 We are whole housing it. J is gone so much, I want it to just switch over automatically.
Posted by: Piper

You can't hide money!$$$$

Posted by: Very Fixed Income at October 10, 2026 11:09 PM (EdP2u)

187 Go Dawgs!

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 11:10 PM (ZdaMQ)

188 163 Ttalefreako is STILL missing?
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 11:01 PM (2GVsD)

For a guy who was missing he sure showed up in my feeds a lot. I seem to be on some kind of list with ActBlue. I even got an ad from Bear Claw's twin running in Florida. I've never set foot in Florida and my budget for Ukrainian con men has been spent through my taxes.

Beato Talarico should literally be listed on the ballot as "This Fukkin' Guy? You Serious?"

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at October 10, 2026 11:10 PM (r7+Q7)

189 Gendo Ikari plays the park ranger.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Maybe two other Morons get this conversation.
Posted by: mikeski
****

ibid #183...

Posted by: clarence at October 10, 2026 11:10 PM (zGeQ7)

190 Someone up top posted N. Young's "Hurricane". You can find Adam Sandler doing this song on YouTube. He totally does it better....😛

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 10, 2026 11:10 PM (96kpa)

191 >>> 178 Live 5 miles from the ocean, need a generator.
Posted by: Semper Paratus. at October 10, 2026 11:02 PM (EdP2u)

We are whole housing it. J is gone so much, I want it to just switch over automatically.
Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 11:06 PM (ZdaMQ)

You will be happy to have it.

If for some reason there is a backlog in your area, you could get a portable and have an electrician install an outside outlet (yes, really) where you can plug in the portable instead of running extension cords all over.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 10, 2026 11:11 PM (3mtzY)

192 I need something to poke holes in the masks.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 11:03 PM (6zvQl)
=====

Wear a button that says, "Your Mask is Dirty"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 11:12 PM (RIvkX)

193 185. When are they gonna name a hurricane “Cantore?”

Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 11:12 PM (77rzZ)

194 What is proper hurricane fashion.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 10, 2026 11:06 PM (dK+Kv)

Perhaps we'll find out in tomorrow's ONT!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 10, 2026 11:12 PM (qx7Zg)

195 For a really strange anime vibe to Yogi is to run it through the lens of Gleipnir.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 11:12 PM (2GVsD)

196 of repeat cars from previous years. Did get to see two AMX's, which was unexpected. Usually only get one.
Posted by: Blanco Basura

At least one of them was a lowly Javelin with fancy decals.

Posted by: Can't Fool Me at October 10, 2026 11:12 PM (EdP2u)

197 .....Kim Jong-something-or-other will be holding executions tomorrow.
Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 10:27 PM (VHUov)

____________________

Say what you want about that tubby leader...but he sure gets creative on his execution technique. Anti-aircraft guns, flame throwers, mortars....he doesn't hold back.

Posted by: Orson at October 10, 2026 11:13 PM (dIske)

198 Even Google AI knows paper masks do nothing.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 11:13 PM (6zvQl)

199 You know a "pumpkin spice" lapdance just means the woman is pumpkin-shaped and smells like she smoked a pack of clove cigarettes, right?

Posted by: GWB at October 10, 2026 11:13 PM (kU0PQ)

200 193 185. When are they gonna name a hurricane “Cantore?”
Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 11:12 PM (77rzZ)

This is the current location of hurricane bond, James Bond.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 10, 2026 11:13 PM (qx7Zg)

201 I need something to poke holes in the masks.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Paper punch?
Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 11:04 PM (rdVOm)

A .45?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 10, 2026 11:14 PM (1Ff7Z)

202 199 You know a "pumpkin spice" lapdance just means the woman is pumpkin-shaped and smells like she smoked a pack of clove cigarettes, right?
Posted by: GWB at October 10, 2026 11:13 PM (kU0PQ)

_____________________

$20...same as in the town Dunkin Donuts.

Posted by: Orson at October 10, 2026 11:14 PM (dIske)

203 Requiring people to wear masks needs to made a hanging offense.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 11:15 PM (6zvQl)

204 Piper

Please click on link in nic and take a look at newest image.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 11:15 PM (2GVsD)

205 I was at the Colombia river gorge Ampitheater in 1992 and saw Neil Young play “Like a Hurricane” on a pipe organ. It was a solo tour. Amazing performance.

Yes. He’s a douche.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 10, 2026 11:15 PM (Nqi3p)

206 For a really strange anime vibe to Yogi is to run it through the lens of Gleipnir.
Posted by: Anna Puma
****

Your meds, they perhaps need adjustment?🤪

Posted by: clarence at October 10, 2026 11:16 PM (zGeQ7)

207 200 Hey, Hour. Good to see you.

Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 11:16 PM (77rzZ)

208 Ice pick. I have some big pins.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 11:16 PM (6zvQl)

209 >> The worst thing about this latest hurricane is how to pronounce the damn thing.

The worst thing is isn't hitting the northeast or the west coast so it isn't being covered. At all.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 11:17 PM (viF8m)

210 186 We are whole housing it. J is gone so much, I want it to just switch over automatically.
Posted by: Piper

You can't hide money!$$$$
Posted by: Very Fixed Income at October 10, 2026

I personally have no money. I am the girl your mama warned you about level of no money.

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 11:17 PM (ZdaMQ)

211 Your meds, they perhaps need adjustment?

Never heard of the Buaku Gang nyah? I cannot be legally held responsible for my actions due to defective Human programming of my AI.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 11:17 PM (2GVsD)

212
That has always been my favorite Clapton song by far! It fascinates me to wonder what was in his mind when he wrote it, since the fife, drum and cadence all have a very 18th century martial music feel. (Or do we say vibe now?)
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 10, 2026 11:02 PM (Y6Q+5)
******
I love it, too, the percussion.

You have excellent taste, Tom. I listen to this and this one when I feel like dancing. I have a video of deck dancing with grandson and 1st girlie the afternoon their baby sister was born. Son cracked up. Neighbors can't see me in this tree house, but they can probably hear me.

I love this one, too!Blasts out from the start!

It's in the Way That You Use It
Eric Clapton

https://tinyurl.com/zfxkrspe

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 10, 2026 11:17 PM (hzuYO)

213 You know a "pumpkin spice" lapdance just means the woman is pumpkin-shaped and smells like she smoked a pack of clove cigarettes, right?
Posted by: GWB
****

🤮

Posted by: clarence at October 10, 2026 11:18 PM (zGeQ7)

214 If for some reason there is a backlog in your area, you could get a portable and have an electrician install an outside outlet (yes, really) where you can plug in the portable instead of running extension cords all over.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 10, 2026 11:11 PM (3mtzY)

If going that route, have the electrician install a sub-panel, and move your essential loads to the sub. Run the feed to the sub through a manual transfer switch which will feed the sub-panel off the main panel when grid power is available, but can switch it to the generator "outlet" should the grid power fail. Some sort of transfer switch will be required by code, anyway. You don't want to be back-feeding the grid, and endanger some poor lineman's life. (rare, but theoretically possible; more likely your generator will just up and quit from overloading it)

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 11:19 PM (quk5M)

215 Before the plandemic, *dust masks* were cheap and available everywhere. Dollar store had packs of 10 for $1.

Now? $$$ and good luck finding them.

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 11:19 PM (rdVOm)

216 Hey Doof, good to see you too, and all of the Horde.

We are getting the remains of the hurricane here from tomorrow night into Monday, at least that is what the local weather porn says.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 10, 2026 11:19 PM (ibDUx)

217 Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 11:17 PM (viF8m)

Surprised you’re not drinking heavily after hearing that Shesterkin is done for the season

My condolences …

Posted by: browndog rounding the bases at October 10, 2026 11:20 PM (oCio0)

218 I thought I was the only one to do candy combat, though my soldiers were skittles.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 10, 2026 11:21 PM (0U5gm)

219 Your meds, they perhaps need adjustment?

Never heard of the Buaku Gang nyah? I cannot be legally held responsible for my actions due to defective Human programming of my AI.
Posted by: Anna Puma
****

I was talking to your human's attendant.

Posted by: clarence at October 10, 2026 11:21 PM (zGeQ7)

220 You know...
I would like, someday, to send up a couple of drones during a hurricane. One when the first big winds hit - I'd have to look up what speed I would aim for. Then one in the eye.

The goal would be to get them as high as possible, try my best to keep them aloft, and just see where the wind took them. Program them to record their GPS position, and to send me a text when they are down to 2% power or so.

Maybe attach a note with a gift card and instructions to buy beers on me after texting me with the location.

Maybe launch rockets at the same time... something with a G engine or two. Same arrangement.

Posted by: GWB at October 10, 2026 11:21 PM (kU0PQ)

221 Sheesh. I thought I was the only one doing M&M wars, noticing the peanut ones were clearly superior.
In the left hand.
Right hand, yes, the chocolate ones ruled.
Not sure what that means? Wonder if I'll get some freebies?

Posted by: Diogenes at October 10, 2026 11:22 PM (2WIwB)

222 >>Surprised you’re not drinking heavily after hearing that Shesterkin is done for the season

>>My condolences …

No crying in hockey.

Next man up.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 11:22 PM (viF8m)

223 Oh no...

Hideaki Anno is going to direct a Space Battleship Yamato movie? Where in the timeline will this be? After 3199?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 11:23 PM (2GVsD)

224 Goodnight, All.

Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 11:23 PM (77rzZ)

225 If you have to wear a mask for work, use the Dark Helmet.

https://youtube.com/shorts/D3IMeUspqvY

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 10, 2026 11:24 PM (qx7Zg)

226 Dang. When was the last time anyone diagrammed a sentence?

Posted by: Diogenes at October 10, 2026 11:24 PM (2WIwB)

227 207 200 Hey, Hour. Good to see you.
Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 11:16 PM (77rzZ)

Glad to see you. Sleep well.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 10, 2026 11:25 PM (qx7Zg)

228 "Candy wars" here, consist of wrist-rockets and a pack of Skittles. Heh.

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 11:25 PM (rdVOm)

229 Goodnight, All.
Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 11:23 PM (77rzZ)

Nite, Bulg. I am going to get an early one too. Spent enough time outside in the cold wind, fixing my storm door, to get well chilled. The electric blanket calls to me.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 11:25 PM (quk5M)

230 Anna Puma, the girl in pink?

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 11:25 PM (ZdaMQ)

231 That evil genius... Yamato Square root sign 2199 is the announced title.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 11:26 PM (2GVsD)

232 Fox on the Run is a complete douche song.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 10, 2026 11:26 PM (2WIwB)

233 194 What is proper hurricane fashion.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 10, 2026 11:06 PM (dK+Kv)
********
One thing I found before a hurricane (evacuated 8 times on that island. House was a bunker, but IF the surge hit "just right" we were goners) is that there is no wind and HOT. I could easily see how the Seminoles figured out one was coming. No birdsong. Afterwards no birdsong as the noise for days is power saws.

Once we got metal screw in shutters vs labeled ply wood (boys came from college) we never had another. It's hell to get ready and heaven to return.Damage would be same fence down and shredded pool screen.Lucky us.

I would be hot, stressed and crazy. I guess in shorts and a tee.

For the first one of 2005 it took us 11hrs to get to FSU (normally 5hrs). I could have landed a 747 at that point, following son and dog. Husband in packed car behind me. Other son back to Tampa loaded down.

My dude said a guy in a sports car was on I-95 trying to flirt with me in the middle lane. I was singing loudly to CD's. He must have been desperate as my hair was wild and curly and I looked like Phyllis Diller in a wind tunnel.

I was bummed out I missed it!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 10, 2026 11:26 PM (hzuYO)

234 Hai hai, the one in pink.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 11:26 PM (2GVsD)

235 Hideaki Anno is going to direct a Space Battleship Yamato movie? Where in the timeline will this be? After 3199?

--------

Will the Yamato get enough fuel for a return trip this time?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 10, 2026 11:27 PM (wpRMV)

236 234 Hai hai, the one in pink.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 11:26 PM (2GVsD)

Cute!

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 11:27 PM (ZdaMQ)

237 203 Requiring people to wear masks needs to made a hanging offense.

Posted by: Boss Moss
---

Look at the good side, they have self identified. It's not necessary to expend one syllable of time, you are spared.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 11:28 PM (VPNgR)

238 Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 11:15 PM (2GVsD)

You have a redhead in green wielding two swords in a few pics. You should make the sword colors match her hair and her eyes. And give just enough more light on her face the iris colors are obvious.

I really like your stuff.

What do you charge for a commission?

Posted by: GWB at October 10, 2026 11:28 PM (kU0PQ)

239 Suppose to get leftover hurricane here on Sunday in Babylon DC. The Army 10 mile race will be a bit damp. Hopefully I'll figure out what is blocked off here at the 5-sided nuthouse. Getting out during big events is a PITA. No, I will not be running it. Just getting off work and going home, once I figure out all the detours.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 10, 2026 11:29 PM (S8cdb)

240 I don't charge anything since all I am doing is playing word games with the LLM to generate pictures.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 11:31 PM (2GVsD)

241 Eric Clapton - No Alibi

youtu.be/5fczygyP3_c

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 10, 2026 11:32 PM (S8cdb)

242 Piper,

thank you.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 11:32 PM (2GVsD)

243 AMXs is super cool and AMC made some very good powerful engines, 401, 360, 290, etc., but it's hard to top a Marlin. Rebels were cool also, wish AMC/Rambler had survived.

Posted by: The Ambassador Of Love at October 10, 2026 11:32 PM (EdP2u)

244 I used to suggest He send one straight up the Potomac.
He has other ways of sorting things out.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 11:33 PM (VPNgR)

245 Last winter, when nursing home was all a-freaked about covid again, I grabbed a new mask every day from their box at the entry. Got a nice collection now, for free! (Cost of hubby's stay, notwithstanding...)

Any place that offers them, I will take one (or, "oops" two or three). I use them...eventually! Just not for virus protection, LOL

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 11:33 PM (rdVOm)

246 Yaaaay I'm back home. Was visiting family. Got sick on Monday evening so family had to look after me until Friday.

Posted by: 88C+u should just gay-marry Talarico already at October 10, 2026 11:33 PM (88C+u)

247 Eyes are mostly vitreous humor.
Posted by: Just Means Resembling Glass at October 10, 2026 10:48 PM (EdP2u)

Is that a potty joke?

Depends on how you look at it.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 10, 2026 10:51 PM (+9wcF)


I see where you're going with this.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 10, 2026 11:33 PM (2WIwB)

248 Rained today. Can't remember the last time, think it was February, maybe (there was a heavy drizzle one morning in August). Apparently the fringe of tropical storm whatsit off Mehico.

Best thing about it is it knocks down any fire season for a bit. And the infernal heat (for here) is gone, finally. Worst/longest stretch of bad weather in modern history here, easily. Law of averages strikes again. From "winter" until mid-July were months of perfect days, not weeks.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 10, 2026 11:34 PM (U/Byj)

249 Piper, are you experiencing the hurricane?
Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 10:27 PM (77rzZ)

I did. She is gone and getting ready to rain on Maryland and VA. It was not as bad as predicted, but we lost power for about 9 hours.

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 10:32 PM (ZdaMQ)

What is proper hurricane fashion.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 10, 2026 11:06 PM (dK+Kv)


I vote for wet tee shirts.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 10, 2026 11:36 PM (2WIwB)

250 241 Eric Clapton - No Alibi

youtu.be/5fczygyP3_c
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 10, 2026 11:32 PM (S8cdb)

*******
Thank you. Not many I don't like.

We went to a concert in 1980 or so. I don't remember a lot as we had a party prior. My guitar dude said it wasn't that good (I had a good time and that counts). It was during Eric's drug/drink time.

His son dying (horrible) I think changed him back to making great music.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 10, 2026 11:37 PM (hzuYO)

251 >>> I use them...eventually! Just not for virus protection, LOL

Posted by: JQ
---

I'm allergic to something the mower occasionally kicks up.
If it gets worse I'll be wearing one every time I cut.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 11:39 PM (VPNgR)

252 Clapton

Tulsa Time

https://tinyurl.com/5nauwhxh

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 11:39 PM (viF8m)

253 In the age of AI and computer generated everything, it is cool to see that hand painted Judas Priest album art work.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at October 10, 2026 11:39 PM (mTzaS)

254 What is proper hurricane fashion.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 10, 2026 11:06 PM (dK+Kv)

I was far from fashionable during this event!

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 11:40 PM (ZdaMQ)

255 Alabama fans already crying the blues about the officials despite UGA having like 100 yards of penalties.

It’s late, I have Church in the morning, plus setting Halloween back up so I need to get to bed.

Night, friends!

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 11:43 PM (ZdaMQ)

256 >>Thank you. Not many I don't like.

I love a challenge.

https://tinyurl.com/3ppev9wv

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 11:43 PM (viF8m)

257 Heritage Auctions has an entire category called International Comic Art Signature Auction.

Not sure if I would pay $45,000 for original Asterix art however. But they do have Moebius stuff.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 11:43 PM (2GVsD)

258 Kim Jong-something-or-other will be holding executions tomorrow.
Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 10:27 PM (VHUov)
____________________

Say what you want about that tubby leader...but he sure gets creative on his execution technique. Anti-aircraft guns, flame throwers, mortars....he doesn't hold back.
Posted by: Orson at October 10, 2026 11:13 PM (dIske)

***

Well. Saddam did strap a recalcitrant general to a SCUD and launched it during Desert Shield/Storm.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 10, 2026 11:44 PM (2WIwB)

259 I'm allergic to something the mower occasionally kicks up.
If it gets worse I'll be wearing one every time I cut.
Posted by: Braenyard

Hope it helps! I wear one while mowing, especially when it's hot & dry. Too many sparse patches in the yard and it gets quite dusty sometimes. I try to do it on windy days so dust will blow away quickly, but that's not always possible.

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 11:44 PM (rdVOm)

260 I have a sinus thing, which probably count as covid if I shoved a test up my nose. Which I'm not going to do.

I think I've had it about 3 times, all mild. First time a toddler dose. His Da got it worse than all of us. The last time in 2025 I got it from black mask wearing jackasses on the plane seats behind us on the red eye from Honolulu.

A few days later I had a bad forehead headache. I can handle surgery over headaches and went to Urgent Care, but they were closed and I was not going to start harfing from pain. Went to the ED (drug seeking) and was surprised to learn I had ze covid. The staff then wore their masks with me, and ED MD told me to take high doses of Tylenol and alternte with 3 Advil for 3 days in our bedroom. No one else got it.

I think the mask brigade in public believed the dropping dead chy knees version vs mostly a cold.

I went through a period of wanting to scare hikers in the mountains wearing masks but got over it. I did laugh in my car at people driving with them.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 10, 2026 11:45 PM (hzuYO)

261 Let It Rain

https://tinyurl.com/ytry6e35

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 11:49 PM (viF8m)

262 Oyasumi minna

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 11:50 PM (2GVsD)

263 This time of year, there's a major hatch-out of little blue gnats that are most annoying... those things are everywhere and clouds of them can be very thick! They get in your eyes, up your nose, in your hair and stuck to clothing. Just, ugh!

Masks are good for keeping them out of your mouth and nose. LOL.

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 11:50 PM (rdVOm)

264 260 I have a sinus thing, which probably ...

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
---

The sink spritzer awaits you.
_acetaminophen is pizon, you know

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 11:52 PM (VPNgR)

265 Guy talking to his friends at the bar:

The other day I was in the bathroom and noticed some movement through a crack in the curtains. I looked out and my super-hot neighbor was sunbathing in the nude.

I'm not proud of this, but I couldn't resist. I started wanking off.

When I finished I turned around and my wife was standing there. She'd been watching the whole time.

Imagine how I felt when I discovered that my wife is a pervert.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 10, 2026 11:52 PM (ggUGb)

266 Don't know if I've ever had covid-- never tested-- but something kicked my @ss a couple of years ago, for about 2 days. Tired and wheezing, mostly. And then it went away.

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 11:52 PM (rdVOm)

267 Masks are good for keeping them out of your mouth and nose. LOL.

Posted by: JQ
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Take a shallow lid, like from a tub of dip, fill it with water then put a daub of butter or something like it, with just the crest of it above the water. Many will float.


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 11:55 PM (VPNgR)

268 Interesting. I haven't noticed anyone wearing masks at Old People Warehouse, other than the woman in her 90s who's always worn one ever since I've lived there.

But then, we Alaskans are pretty non-conformist... even the elderly. Or maybe especially the elderly.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 11, 2026 12:01 AM (ggUGb)

269 Good evening to you all. Pre MoMe training to stay up past 7:30 pm.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 11, 2026 12:01 AM (nxLtX)

270 Braenyard, there are *so many* of them! Hundreds of thousands!

They'll be gone soon. Usually only around for a week or two and it's been over a week. Low overnight temps starting tonight should kill them off until next year.

Posted by: JQ at October 11, 2026 12:03 AM (rdVOm)

271 I had COVID twice, at least according to the test kits.

The first time was nothing special. The second time kicked my ass.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 11, 2026 12:04 AM (ggUGb)

272 Don't know if I've ever had covid-- never tested-- but something kicked my @ss a couple of years ago, for about 2 days. Tired and wheezing, mostly. And then it went away.

I know I had it. Constant inflammation of everything was the calling card. Did get some hospital grade anti-inflammatories at one point and that knocked it down to where I could at least eat for a day or two. Ended up getting the monoclonal antibody treatment to finally knock it out.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 11, 2026 12:04 AM (+9wcF)

273 Hi, Ben Had!

Good luck with *staying up late* training! LOL

Posted by: JQ at October 11, 2026 12:04 AM (rdVOm)

274 I give blood every 3 or 4 months , and during the year of Covid when you gave blood, they also tested you for antibodies which would indicate you’d had Covid. For the first 6 months of that year had none; but next test showed all the antibodies in my system! I realized I’d had Covid and never even knew it. I remember a time when I had a cough and a slight fever for two nights, but not much. I’ve had flu that was a dozen times worse than that.

If they hadn’t screwed up most people’s immune systems with those damn shots, most people could have ended with natural immunity, like it’s supposed to work.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 11, 2026 12:04 AM (Y6Q+5)

275 Ended up getting the monoclonal antibody treatment to finally knock it out.

Posted by: Blanco Basura
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My neighbors caught it before Biden halted the actual cures.
They went to the local EmergCare (Doc in the Box) and received monoclonal antibodies.
Three days later he's grilling in the driveway. Wife is good too.
I'm walking up to have a chat and he says whoa, I'm contagious.
Three days and it was virtually gone. The Biden operators killed
many people.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 11, 2026 12:09 AM (VPNgR)

276 JQ, I've got about 2 minutes left in me.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 11, 2026 12:14 AM (nxLtX)

277 If they hadn’t screwed up most people’s immune systems with those damn shots, most people could have ended with natural immunity, like it’s supposed to work.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Sis & BIL got really sick after one of their overseas trips. Likely kungflu, right at the beginning of *the big scare*. So what did they do?

They got the stoopid shots anyway. Ugh.

Posted by: JQ at October 11, 2026 12:15 AM (rdVOm)

278 I'm flattered to be recognized for my music selection but I'm a bit disappointed my first "on the" wasn't chosen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vdsUDNpM54

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at October 11, 2026 12:16 AM (Fv808)

279 >>> I remember a time when I had a cough and a slight fever for two nights, but not much. I’ve had flu that was a dozen times worse than that.

If they hadn’t screwed up most people’s immune systems with those damn shots, most people could have ended with natural immunity, like it’s supposed to work.

Posted by: Tom Servo
---

It was an op. We've had pig flu, bird flu, all kinds of flu; some people died others went on about their business. At school many of us were sick. Well, you get sick, are you going to miss necessary classes or are you going get off your ass and attend? Right.
Covid was an op conducted by the Administrative State.
_(Politburo)

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 11, 2026 12:16 AM (VPNgR)

280
What is the correct attire for me to wear Tuesday at the Trump rally in Wasilla? I'm thinking my dark blue skirt, flag print shirt, and my stars and bars cowboy boots, but if you have a better suggestion, I'm all ears.
Posted by: tcn in AK

==================

Piper-worthy. But wear it for sure -- you might get picked up by a press camera!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 11, 2026 12:16 AM (mmrXZ)

281 I have a theory (I have a one of earthquake predictions I won't get into) of how every cold or virus now has a component of covid in them.

While viruses constantly evolve/mutate/get frisky, some colds/coughs now take longer to get over vs the old fashioned 7 days. Thanks to wuhan.

I've had a few that take over 3wks for the cough to go away. Being around a baby and school kids doesn't help, but I was never not going to see them. I've had noro and pretty sure RSV this year from baby girl and life goes on.

I feel sure everyone now has antibodies from the wuhan flu. Bastids.

Going to bed and hope for the best for sleeping all night without snorting! Goals!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 11, 2026 12:17 AM (hzuYO)

282 Worst illness I ever had came with bizarre symptoms including deep internal pains that both make you feel like you’re dying and also make you want to die. I figured out later that this perfectly matches the description of a tropical disease known as Dengue Fever.
How could I get that inside the United States? Clue was that both my daughter and I got it at the same time, and we’d eaten together at a Fort Worth restaurant featuring Central American food a couple days before. There was an epidemic of it going on in Guatemala at the time, and I know those assholes had brought in some illegal migrants from there to work the kitchen. Who knows how many people they infected.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 11, 2026 12:17 AM (Y6Q+5)

283 OK, I'm out. See ya all tomorrow.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 11, 2026 12:18 AM (nxLtX)

284 278 I'm flattered to be recognized for my music selection but I'm a bit disappointed my first "on the" wasn't chosen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vdsUDNpM54

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal
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Prolly cause no one could understand the words.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 11, 2026 12:20 AM (VPNgR)

285 Prolly cause no one could understand the words.
Posted by: Braenyard


It also had a second phrase in the title, so maybe it wasn't up to the strict ONT standards.

Posted by: mikeski at October 11, 2026 12:28 AM (VHUov)

286 Good evening all, whatssup in your neck of the woods?

My woods lately has been WI. Cleaning out the folks' home before putting it up for sale. It has been interesting. Some memories provoked.

Emotions too I guess. Even tho Dad passed in May 2025 this just is like reliving that loss.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at October 11, 2026 12:43 AM (WOJP8)

287 OK, I'm out. See ya all tomorrow.
Posted by: Ben Had at October 11, 2026 12:18 AM

That's fairly late, for an early-riser... Well done, dear lady!

Posted by: JQ at October 11, 2026 12:44 AM (rdVOm)

288 So, I suppose it's too late to 3D print some ONT tinkletorium tokens for the TxMoMe‽


😍
More cheesecake from Bits & Pieces, a site with many good memes, but just skip any text and political items: Not familiar with this actress, but she was cute.
https://bit.ly/merry-anders


🍾
Would have been here sooner but I wasn't. Now it's time to say goodnight to all our com-pa-neee. M I C see you real soon K E Y why? because we like you A S O N Teeee


🎻
Stumbled across this almost Zappaesque orchestration:
https://youtu.be/eylZs4VesgU

G'nite, y'all.💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - here and gone again at October 11, 2026 12:44 AM (yrKoI)

289 'Night Ben Had, I am sorry that I missed you, I am getting some laundry done tonight. I am needing to wear some warmer clothes around here, the weather is definitely getting cooler.

JQ, if you are still here I could stand a refill before bed.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 11, 2026 12:45 AM (ibDUx)

290

The masks we had during the shit show had three layers. We cut out two of the layers. No one could tell, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 12:47 AM (/QHx4)

291 You got it, Debby---

*moar Chivas*

Cheers!

Posted by: JQ at October 11, 2026 12:47 AM (rdVOm)

292 Hi, four seasons!

Masks during the sh!tshow were merely slightly annoying. It was the 20 fk-ing questions at clinic entrances that chapped my hide! Hubby had *lots* of appointments in those days, and I had to go with him...

"Any symptoms?"

"Everything is a symptom. You'll need to be more specific."

Posted by: JQ at October 11, 2026 12:52 AM (rdVOm)

293
Symptoms of going crazy from the shitshow, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 12:54 AM (/QHx4)

294
https://youtu.be/t894eGoymio&t=7

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 11, 2026 12:54 AM (VPNgR)

295 Night, Braenyard. Heh. Mom used to play that on her piano...

Posted by: JQ at October 11, 2026 12:56 AM (rdVOm)

296 Mid-40s overnight here. Maybe down to high-30s overnight next week. Ugh. Need to drain & blow out the irrigation pipes.

Posted by: JQ at October 11, 2026 01:01 AM (rdVOm)

297
We're supposed to have a wintry mix Tuesday.

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 01:03 AM (/QHx4)

298 Where did global warming go?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 11, 2026 01:03 AM (Cqx++)

299 Brrr, four seasons!

Posted by: JQ at October 11, 2026 01:05 AM (rdVOm)

300 Where did global warming go?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

It's **cLiMaTe ChAngE** now.

Posted by: JQ at October 11, 2026 01:05 AM (rdVOm)

301

We have been getting rain the past couple weeks. Severe drought since last winter. The grass is alive again and my bulbs sprouted, lol.

The seasons have been reversed.

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 01:07 AM (/QHx4)

302 Just peeking in

Posted by: Skip at October 11, 2026 01:12 AM (Ia/+0)

303 It's been mostly dry here all summer. A few sprinkles during the last couple of weeks, but not enough to soak the ground. Maybe rain tonight & next day or two, but I doubt it'll be much.

Posted by: JQ at October 11, 2026 01:13 AM (rdVOm)

304
The curtains are closed. No peeking in here, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 01:14 AM (/QHx4)

305 Son #1 is out of town overnight for a friends wedding. He asked me to go and check on his kitty cat and feed him and gove him some pets. I did. His kitty is super sweet and loves being brushed. His name is Pippen amd yes, he is a troublemaker.

I’ll go back in the morning to clean his box and feed him breakfast. It’s sweet my boy has a sweet
Little friend.

It has been spitty and cool and windy all day on the beach. So nice.

Love y’all. Be warm and safe and hug your loved ones. Even if it’s a Fink.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 11, 2026 01:15 AM (HMS1n)

306 'Night Braenyard, thanks for the Brahm's.

Cheers JQ and hi four seasons. I hope that we don't have a wintry mix for a while.

Skip at least you don't have to be on the job early tomorrow I hope.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 11, 2026 01:17 AM (ibDUx)

307 Hi, nurse! Nice of you to cuddle son's cat while he's gone.

My Cat (Fink!) is outside tonight. Somewhere. He'll want indoors when it gets cold enough...

Posted by: JQ at October 11, 2026 01:17 AM (rdVOm)

308 Is vitreous humor the brittle sort?

Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2026 01:18 AM (rbvCR)

309
Hi Debby. Are you packing for your trip?

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 01:20 AM (/QHx4)

310 Sounds like that fluid that if you lose it blinds you.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 11, 2026 01:21 AM (6zvQl)

311 JQ!

You are an Angel going to visit your husband and loving on him so often. Heartbreaking at times, I’m sure. He knows he is loved. And that is what counts. As are you, sweet lady.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 11, 2026 01:22 AM (yEz+x)

312 Those Little Debbie Pumpkin Spice Oatmeal rounds are pretty good.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 11, 2026 01:22 AM (6zvQl)

313 Thanks, nurse. Yeah, some days are tough but this is our retirement and we're gonna spend it together. Dammit.

Wish I could be with him more hours each day, but there's so much to do at home...

Posted by: JQ at October 11, 2026 01:25 AM (rdVOm)

314 My dad was at Tyndall AFB for a year in the early nineties, and we lived right on the Bayou in Lynn Haven. I wonder how that house is doing.

Posted by: frammish at October 11, 2026 01:27 AM (rcENI)

315 I think I am going to the TxMoMe! I've got airline tickets and a hotel. I'll figure out the car rental in the morning. I fly in to DFW Thursday evening. Any recommendations for dinner?

Posted by: frammish at October 11, 2026 01:29 AM (rcENI)

316
https://youtu.be/t894eGoymio&t=7

Posted by: Braenyard

==============

"WATCH WHAT ALCOHOL DOES TO STUFFED POOP."

Good lord, will the feces-obsessed please stop buying these products and responding to these ads so the rest of us don't have to see them?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 11, 2026 01:31 AM (mmrXZ)

317 these are the people that wear masks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSv2yK0qmVU

bwah!

Posted by: what the cat drug in at October 11, 2026 01:31 AM (jrgJz)

318 315 I think I am going to the TxMoMe! I've got airline tickets and a hotel. I'll figure out the car rental in the morning. I fly in to DFW Thursday evening. Any recommendations for dinner?

Posted by: frammish at October 11, 2026 01:29 AM (rcENI)


Meeting strangers on the Internet FTW!

Posted by: frammish at October 11, 2026 01:35 AM (rcENI)

319
Read today there 10 cases of the butt sex diarrhea here in Wyoming.

We have steers and I guess queers.

Is there a song about steers and queers? Could be a saying, I can't remember.

Advice, stop with the butt sex. Weirdos.

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 01:36 AM (/QHx4)

320 Hi Blonde!

Hope you’re doing well!

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 11, 2026 01:37 AM (yEz+x)

321 Is vitreous humor the brittle sort?
Posted by: Kindltot


It's when you can see the punchline coming a mile away.

Posted by: mikeski at October 11, 2026 01:39 AM (VHUov)

322
frammish,
Ask for restaurant recs on the food thread tomorrow.

Lots of people on that thread who can give you recs.

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 01:39 AM (/QHx4)

323 Four seasons, if I ever *had to* get a tattoo-- it would be of a "exit only" sign, on my @ss.

Buttsecks is disgusting.

Posted by: JQ at October 11, 2026 01:40 AM (rdVOm)

324 frammish,

Youyre going to have a lovely time. Send out an SOS next week during a daytime thread and ask for recommendations.

Never know who will bite.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 11, 2026 01:40 AM (LUIDu)

325

So right JQ

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 01:40 AM (/QHx4)

326 Four seasons, if I ever *had to* get a tattoo-- it would be of a "exit only" sign, on my @ss.

Buttsecks is disgusting.
Posted by: JQ


Bonus: your doc gets a good laugh during your colonoscopy.

Posted by: mikeski at October 11, 2026 01:46 AM (VHUov)

327
Lol

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 01:46 AM (/QHx4)

328 Bonus: your doc gets a good laugh during your colonoscopy.
Posted by: mikeski

Fine. Point made. LOL

Posted by: JQ at October 11, 2026 01:47 AM (rdVOm)

329
Speaking about assholes

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 01:51 AM (/QHx4)

330 I hope I don’t jinx myself

I’ve not had a colonoscopy. I stopped
Mammograms several years ago. No Pap smears. No scans.
I’ve done cancer treatment. I’m not doing it again. So all the scans and tests and bs are worthless to me. Big bucks to big medicine.

YMMV.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 11, 2026 01:54 AM (yEz+x)

331 Now that it's so much cooler, I can use my oven again. Yay! I've missed "winter food"--

Meatloaf tonight.. hubby will love a couple slices of it tomorrow.

Got a nice little roast for next week, to cook when temps are lowest.

Posted by: JQ at October 11, 2026 01:56 AM (rdVOm)

332 LOL JQ!

four seasons, I haven't started packing yet, I'd better get on it, just trying to swap out my summer wear for warmer clothes.

frammish, I look forward to meeting you at the MoMe, the food there is fantastic. I don't have much experience eating at places around town except for an occasional fast food bite. You got good advice up above, I am sure that many people will have some recommendations for you.

nurse, do I understand correctly that you are not attending this year? You will be sorely missed.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 11, 2026 01:58 AM (ibDUx)

333 Speaking about assholes
Posted by: four seasons


Yeah, I thought I heard a retarded troll for a second, but I guess I was imagining things.

Posted by: thanks CoBs! at October 11, 2026 02:00 AM (VHUov)

334 Pap smears are a non-issue for me, post-hysterectomy.

Hate getting my boobs smashed, and no family history of breast cancer, so I can take or leave mammography.. Every year? No, don't think so.

Colonoscopy is easy-- it's the *prep* that blows. Literally. And again, no family history there.

Yeah, really seems like a scam. Suck up as much $ from insurance as they can. Pfft. I'll do the tests, but not EVERY YEAR. Jeez.

Posted by: JQ at October 11, 2026 02:01 AM (rdVOm)

335 Debby,

I will not be there. Please give Rat big hugs. I will miss y’all, especially with such lovely cool temperatures!

I hope you have a wonderful visit.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 11, 2026 02:02 AM (yEz+x)

336

12 y/o grandson is spending the night with us. He is the oldest of our four. He loves it, he has a break from the other three.

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 02:05 AM (/QHx4)

337 12 y/o grandson is spending the night with us. He is the oldest of our four. He loves it, he has a break from the other three.

Posted by: four seasons
---------

That's awesome. Hope all the grandkids get some "just me and grandparents" time with you! It's special, and not just because they'd get away from siblings.

Posted by: JQ at October 11, 2026 02:07 AM (rdVOm)

338 four seasons,

What’s for breakfast? My boys loved pancakes and waffles and bacon and eggs and all the fun stuff! How fun. Sleepovers must be a joy.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 11, 2026 02:08 AM (yEz+x)

339 Sweet dreams Horde, I need to sleep.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 11, 2026 02:09 AM (ibDUx)

340
Three of the four are in school. They each have a set day every week when we pick them up at the bus stop and they spend the afternoon with us.

It is wonderful.

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 02:09 AM (/QHx4)

341 Night, Debby.

Stay warm!

Posted by: JQ at October 11, 2026 02:09 AM (rdVOm)

342 Three of the four are in school. They each have a set day every week when we pick them up at the bus stop and they spend the afternoon with us.

It is wonderful.

Posted by: four season
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Aww... ^ I love this!

Posted by: JQ at October 11, 2026 02:10 AM (rdVOm)

343

nurse, lots of bacon, waffles etc.

You are going to love having grandchildren.

They will rock your world.

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 02:12 AM (/QHx4)

344 And just for clarity….

I am NOT recommending folks forego regular cancer screenings. You make you own choices.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 11, 2026 02:13 AM (yEz+x)

345
Hey, nurse! Doing well, you?

I love rainy weather. We got a little in San Diego today.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 11, 2026 02:13 AM (mmrXZ)

346 I better start perfecting my waffle and Bismarck recipes!


DiL is due in February.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 11, 2026 02:15 AM (yEz+x)

347

nurse,

No way we think that.

You are cool.

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 02:15 AM (/QHx4)

348 I am NOT recommending folks forego regular cancer screenings. You make you own choices.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Understood!

Posted by: JQ at October 11, 2026 02:20 AM (rdVOm)

349 If I was a CA resident, Steve Hilton for governor would get my vote!

https://tinyurl.com/bdhe4wt8

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 11, 2026 02:24 AM (ohSsM)

350 That's awesome. Hope all the grandkids get some "just me and grandparents" time with you! It's special, and not just because they'd get away from siblings.
Posted by: JQ at October 11, 2026 02:0

Yes indeed. I have great memories of staying w/ Dad's folks on the farm every summer. Also stayed w/ my other Grandma, remember we went to the movies.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at October 11, 2026 02:24 AM (WOJP8)

351 I better start perfecting my waffle and Bismarck recipes!

DiL is due in February.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 11, 2026 02:15 AM (yEz+x)
-

By stagecoach?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 11, 2026 02:25 AM (ohSsM)

352

Biden's Dog,

Is it quiet there now?

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 02:28 AM (/QHx4)

353
Daily Mail....

Cornell University's shocking sex pamphlets handed out to students encouraging orgies and BDSM exposed.

Sick s8ck.

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 02:36 AM (/QHx4)

354 Hurricane Isaias is now a "post-tropical cyclone"? Since when has that been a term?

Posted by: pookysgirl is behind the meteorological times at October 11, 2026 02:45 AM (Wt5PA)

355 Ummm


The monologue for SNL was actually hilarious. I’ve not cracked a smile at SNL in years.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 11, 2026 02:45 AM (yEz+x)

356 We finished the closet shelves in the new bedroom, and then loaded them. So exciting to see our stuff where it now belongs. Another week and a half or so until we get the whole house up and running. No idea when the hot tub shows up from Fairbanks, but I really wish that was sooner than later. Gosh, this is gonna be a great year, but I need a bit more patience than God graced me with.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 11, 2026 02:46 AM (BYJyI)

357
Living through remodeling is very trying.

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 02:50 AM (/QHx4)

358 353
Daily Mail....

Cornell University's shocking sex pamphlets handed out to students encouraging orgies and BDSM exposed.

Sick s8ck.

Posted by: four seasons



They didn't read the fine print in those sex pamphlets about the regret, rape charges, and lawyers.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 11, 2026 02:52 AM (n17eQ)

359 They didn't read the fine print in those sex pamphlets about the regret, rape charges, and lawyers.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 11, 2026 02:52 AM (n17eQ)

That makes a two year long walk of shame for that little twit. She walked in all ready for the ride of her life, and then, when people pointed out it made her a slut, she suddenly discovered the outcome wasn't exactly what she planned.

Regret is not rape.

She will never be able to get a decent job or a husband, so I guess that was a poor decision in the first place and now she just made it worse. I hope she enjoys the headlines, because that's all that is left.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 11, 2026 02:55 AM (BYJyI)

360

I don't know why the university spent the money on the info. Nowadays probably most of the students have participated in the sex stuff.

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 02:57 AM (/QHx4)

361 Every generation thinks they invented secks. Pfft.

Remember when "a feather is sensuous.. a whole chicken is KINKY"?

Now it's a freaking contest to see who can out-gross whom. Ewwwww.

Posted by: JQ at October 11, 2026 02:57 AM (rdVOm)

362
She would make more money making porn movies.

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 02:59 AM (/QHx4)

363 I truly do not GAF what people do behind closed doors.

I just wish they'd *keep it* behind those closed doors!

Posted by: JQ at October 11, 2026 03:01 AM (rdVOm)

364
The muzzie student has gone to Thailand to find himself.

His father is a Professor for Sharia Law. I don't know where.

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 03:01 AM (/QHx4)

365 >>The muzzie student has gone to Thailand to find himself.

Good. Now, revoke his visa!

Posted by: JQ at October 11, 2026 03:02 AM (rdVOm)

366
I get that some people are gay trans whatever.

I hate that that stuff is pushed on society.

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 03:05 AM (/QHx4)

367 Depravity-- it's what's for dinner!

I weep for what our society could've been... instead of the current trash.

Posted by: JQ at October 11, 2026 03:11 AM (rdVOm)

368 I truly do not GAF what people do behind closed doors.
I just wish they'd *keep it* behind those closed doors!
Posted by: JQ


Out: the love that dare not speak its name.

In: the love that just won't shut the f--k up.....

Posted by: mikeski at October 11, 2026 03:12 AM (VHUov)

369 Tomorrow I have to get up almost thus early, no reason today

Posted by: Skip at October 11, 2026 03:12 AM (Ia/+0)

370
Yep JQ

When I told husband that the muzzie student went to Thailand to find himself he almost died laughing.

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 03:13 AM (/QHx4)

371 After hubby's lunch & beard-trim tomorrow, I'll be picking up walnuts from the yard... GF has a nice big place & likes to feed squirrels.

Posted by: JQ at October 11, 2026 03:14 AM (rdVOm)

372 When I told husband that the muzzie student went to Thailand to find himself he almost died laughing.

Posted by: four seasons
--------

Maybe he'll "find himself" in a brothel? LOL!

Posted by: JQ at October 11, 2026 03:15 AM (rdVOm)

373

Lol

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 03:15 AM (/QHx4)

374 Out: the love that dare not speak its name.

In: the love that just won't shut the f--k up.....
Posted by: mikeski
---------

Boy, howdy....

Posted by: JQ at October 11, 2026 03:16 AM (rdVOm)

375
God must be so ashamed.

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 03:18 AM (/QHx4)

376 God has no reason to be ashamed. Angry? Oh, yeah! I'll just sit over here and make right with Him for my own transgressions...

Posted by: JQ at October 11, 2026 03:20 AM (rdVOm)

377 My candle is burning low...

Good night, dear horde. Blessings to you all, and prayers for your health and happiness!

Thoughts are with Miley, Publius, and his Mama tonight... have heard no news since earlier today.

Posted by: JQ at October 11, 2026 03:23 AM (rdVOm)

378
Sleep well JQ!

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 03:24 AM (/QHx4)

379 Biden's Dog,

Is it quiet there now?

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 02:28 AM (/QHx4)
-

The garbage trucks at 6:30AM ruin everything!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 11, 2026 03:28 AM (P3X50)

380 359 She will never be able to get a decent job or a husband, so I guess that was a poor decision in the first place and now she just made it worse. I hope she enjoys the headlines, because that's all that is left.
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 11, 2026 02:55 AM (BYJyI)

See also Monica Lewinsky....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 11, 2026 03:28 AM (QGaXH)

381 375
God must be so ashamed.

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 03:18 AM (/QHx4)

I suspect God has one eyebrow cocked, but it isn't like He hasn't seen it before. Something along the lines of, "You little idiots. Not again."

There's only so much He is willing to do.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 11, 2026 03:31 AM (BYJyI)

382
You are right tcn.

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 03:38 AM (/QHx4)

383 pixy happened.

Posted by: clarence at October 11, 2026 04:01 AM (zGeQ7)

Music Thread: Shut Up And Sing!

crocfail26.jpg

Click on Garrett's newest formal shoes, and you will get an original composition by The Goo Goo Dolls. It's one of their more famous songs, and a solid one at that. I have always liked their sound, but now I am enjoying them for an additional reason.

Here is a quotation from The Goo Goo Dolls' frontman:

I got people, fans, friends from every walk of life, every political stripe, everything. And I always stress, we got one thing in common because we're living in weird times. We got one thing in common, and that's we're all here to see a show, and I'm not going to lecture people about anything.
-- John Rzeznik

Why is this a difficult concept?

I was a Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band fan in my youth. Their first four albums were excellent, and their live performances were absolutely incredible.

But the combination of an increasingly anti-American tone in his music, a shockingly hypocritical public vs. private life, and the incessant pomposity of his political haranguing seemingly at every public appearance has made me despise him.

***

John Prine!

This is new to me, and it is fun!


***

Caamp doing Vagabond is the sort of stripped down music that I like.

***

The Deraillers Pure Fool Is twangy, simple, and fun to listen to! It doesn't take itself very seriously, which in this day and age of pompous asshole entertainers, is a very good thing

***

I used to listen to Lyle Lovett a lot, but for some stupid, unfathomable reason he dropped off my play lists. That was a mistake, because he is a fine talent, and one of the few original artists around.


***

And now for something a little different!

Most people think of Mozart as a symphonic composer, but the dude could write opera. And for sheer toe-tapping, sing-along tunes, it's tough to beat him.

This is one of his greatest arias from The Magic Flute, called "The Queen Of The Night." If you know any budding sopranos, ask them to sing this for you. It is a great tune, and extremely technically difficult.

Next time I will introduce you to a good drinking song...

***

Posted by: CBD at 07:57 PM




Comments

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1 Fifty-eight minutes of OG hardcore:
youtube.com/watch?v=hztAZ7IH4O0

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 07:59 PM (Jr5Lq)

2 Wut

Posted by: Okjohn at October 10, 2026 08:00 PM (yhou+)

3 Pretty sure it's "inside baseball," but why does everyone pick on Garrett? I hate laying into someone without a reason....so give me one....

Thanks in advance

Posted by: Orson at October 10, 2026 08:01 PM (dIske)

4 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 08:03 PM (nWTAo)

5 We'll have to check with Piper (assuming she hasn't floated away) on if that crock is appropriate MoMe wear.

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 10, 2026 08:04 PM (ftFVW)

6 The divine Mozart.

Posted by: Tuna at October 10, 2026 08:06 PM (lJ0H4)

7 Joe Farrell Quartet, 1970:
youtube.com/watch?v=i8-xaQo4A3s

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 08:06 PM (Jr5Lq)

8 Who says we pick on Garrett? Facts is facts.

Posted by: fd at October 10, 2026 08:07 PM (MWfyi)

9 That is a shoe choice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 10, 2026 08:08 PM (Y/06r)

10 I never said a bad thing about Garrett, and AFAIK, he's returned the favor.

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 08:08 PM (Jr5Lq)

11 5 We'll have to check with Piper (assuming she hasn't floated away) on if that crock is appropriate MoMe wear.
Posted by: She Hobbit at October 10, 2026 08:04 PM (ftFVW)

It would make a statement.

A fabulous statement.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 10, 2026 08:08 PM (Y/06r)

12 Pretty sure it's "inside baseball," but why does everyone pick on Garrett? I hate laying into someone without a reason....so give me one....

Thanks in advance
Posted by: Orson at October 10, 2026 08:01 PM (dIske)

It's a long-running back-and-forth between Ace and Garrett about who is more gay, and by how much.

Theirs is a volatile relationship.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 10, 2026 08:09 PM (0aYVJ)

13 Those bedazzled crocs are really something special.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 08:09 PM (RIvkX)

14 10 I never said a bad thing about Garrett, and AFAIK, he's returned the favor.
Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 08:08 PM (Jr5Lq)

I think most of it has come from ace usually making him the butt of gay jokes. So, a blog designated jester.

ace is the one to make fun of because it carries the frission of danger if you catch him on the wrong day.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 10, 2026 08:10 PM (Y/06r)

15 We pick on Ace for shelves.
We pick on CBD for Maple Syrup.
We pick on JackStraw for marijuahootchie.

Garrett is just divine.

Posted by: RI Red at October 10, 2026 08:11 PM (LMRVO)

16 Blingcroc.

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 08:11 PM (Jr5Lq)

17 13 Those bedazzled crocs are really something special.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 08:09 PM (RIvkX)

__________________________

Thought maybe it was a keepsake from the last Elton John video.

Posted by: Orson at October 10, 2026 08:11 PM (dIske)

18 I absolutely love that piece from the Magic Flute. I've seen a soprano of opera quality perform it personally, and it's an incredible accomplishment. It showcases Mozart's love of using the Human Voice as a pure musical instrument, far beyond song. Something very few composers have ever dared to try.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 10, 2026 08:12 PM (htLv8)

19 There was a recent video of a twink "gutpunching" Nick Sortor, the twink was wearing pink crocs too.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 08:12 PM (RIvkX)

20 It's a long-running back-and-forth between Ace and Garrett about who is more gay, and by how much.

Theirs is a volatile relationship.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 10, 2026 08:09 PM (0aYVJ)

When ace has mockingly described how your face looks when covered in his semen*, I'd say 'volatile' is one word for it.

*'like a little angel' for reference. There are times I wish some things did not get etched in my memory.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 10, 2026 08:12 PM (Y/06r)

21 W e wants the White Socks to win the playff thing because Presdent Obana is be froms Chicgo

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at October 10, 2026 08:13 PM (BlaSb)

22 I think it has something to do with London Boys.

Posted by: fd at October 10, 2026 08:13 PM (MWfyi)

23 Ah, got it. Garrett is the local "whipping boy."

Posted by: Orson at October 10, 2026 08:13 PM (dIske)

24 It's more about which Messenger Bag they prefer than the crocs.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 08:14 PM (RIvkX)

25 Movie thread! I'm watching "The Concrete Jungle" again. Terrific heist-gone-wrong movie.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 10, 2026 08:14 PM (kpS4V)

26 For a while Rob Dukes was the frontman for Exodus. He would get sort of political, but from the right. The rest of the band told him to tone it down - not so much because they disagreed, but because they were there to entertain, not pontificate. Do not piss on half of your fan-base.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 10, 2026 08:14 PM (0aYVJ)

27 Are crocs really that comfortable? I can't imagine plastic feeling that good.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 10, 2026 08:15 PM (Y/06r)

28 Ah, got it. Garrett is the local "whipping boy."
Posted by: Orson at October 10, 2026 08:13 PM (dIske)
====

No just ace's

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 08:15 PM (RIvkX)

29
Bad musicians blame their instruments.

Good musicians blame the sound engineer.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 08:16 PM (eRlcH)

30 It would make a statement.

A fabulous statement.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

*round snap*

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 10, 2026 08:16 PM (ftFVW)

31 And, I am adjourning. Gonna watch Gallipoli. Saw it once some years go.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 10, 2026 08:16 PM (0aYVJ)

32 Luckily, I have no foibles, so I can’t be picked upon.

Posted by: RI Red at October 10, 2026 08:16 PM (LMRVO)

33 The John Prine tune was OK. Closed captioning rendered "Burlington" as "berlin town", LOL. And the fake film scratch overprinted onto the video was very annoying.

Here's an album cover with a sweet dog on it, and a nice song, to boot, from the late Bobby Charles:

https://youtu.be/3YXI967iELo

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 08:16 PM (quk5M)

34 32 Luckily, I have no foibles, so I can’t be picked upon.
Posted by: RI Red at October 10, 2026 08:16 PM (LMRVO)

Heh. Look at Mr Fancypants over here!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 10, 2026 08:18 PM (Y/06r)

35 Aren't those Crocs lacking the dangling accessory at the back that all the cool kids put on theirs?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 10, 2026 08:18 PM (0sNs1)

36 ewetub is acting odd or I would link some music. videos are not loading properly.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 10, 2026 08:19 PM (Y/06r)

37 ace is the one to make fun of because it carries the frission of danger if you catch him on the wrong day.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 10, 2026 08:10 PM (Y/06r)
----
He's full of bonhomie and then suddenly he snaps like a stale breadstick and you're staring down the barrel of his snub nose .38.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 10, 2026 08:19 PM (kpS4V)

38 Luckily, I have no foibles, so I can’t be picked upon.
Posted by: RI Red at October 10, 2026 08:16 PM


Your Permanent Record says otherwise.

Posted by: Bob from NSA at October 10, 2026 08:19 PM (0sNs1)

39 "Aren't those Crocs lacking the dangling accessory at the back that all the cool kids put on theirs?"

Rubber scrotum like the pickup trucks wear on their hitches?

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 08:20 PM (Jr5Lq)

40 Luckily, I have no foibles, so I can’t be picked upon.
Posted by: RI Red at October 10, 2026 08:16 PM

Your Permanent Record says otherwise.
Posted by: Bob from NSA at October 10, 2026 08:19 PM (0sNs1)

It’s all lies, I tell you!

Posted by: RI Red at October 10, 2026 08:20 PM (LMRVO)

41 It's more about which Messenger Bag they prefer than the crocs.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 08:14 PM


Ace is a J. Crew man.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 10, 2026 08:21 PM (0sNs1)

42 Are foibles worse or better than quirks?

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 10, 2026 08:22 PM (ftFVW)

43
The Marriage of Figaro >> Don Giovanni >> The Magic Flute

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 08:22 PM (eRlcH)

44 I've never seen these high heel Crocs before. Pretty fucking gay.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 10, 2026 08:22 PM (GZ3K7)

45 42 Are foibles worse or better than quirks?
Posted by: She Hobbit at October 10, 2026 08:22 PM (ftFVW)

Yes.

Posted by: RI Red at October 10, 2026 08:23 PM (LMRVO)

46 Louis XIV would have worn those Crocs.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 10, 2026 08:24 PM (kpS4V)

47 >>Luckily, I have no foibles, so I can’t be picked upon.

I've met you. I'd agree, you're pretty foibleless.

I can lend you some. I've got plenty. Hope I never lose them.

https://tinyurl.com/rmua2bes

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 08:24 PM (viF8m)

48 Are foibles worse or better than quirks?
Posted by: She Hobbit at October 10, 2026 08:22 PM (ftFVW)

Yes.
Posted by: RI Red at October 10, 2026 08:23 PM


What are we, chopped liver?

Posted by: Peccadillos at October 10, 2026 08:24 PM (0sNs1)

49 Yinzer rocker, Donnie Iris, finally retired this week. Lots of health issues (cancer) and he's over 80 (83). Farewell, son of Ellwood City! Enjoy retirement. You earned it. Had a brief flirtation with nationwide success but was mostly a well known and well regarded dude in Western PA. An all around good guy!

youtu.be/qcbndNeCO-s

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 10, 2026 08:24 PM (S8cdb)

50 I thought this was kind of cool. The marching song of Custer's 7th Cavalry, Garyowen, with lyrics.

https://tinyurl.com/yezmazc7

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 10, 2026 08:25 PM (ndZc7)

51 I have a pair of non-Crocs on my feet right now. Look like Crocs, but never had the faggy strap. Never. Had them since 2012. Very comfortable. Paid a whole dollar for them, too. Friend of mine had a semi-trailer full of them. I think they were supposed to be destroyed, as they infringed upon Croc's patent. If I had known how good and durable they were, I would have bought a lot more.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 08:25 PM (quk5M)

52 44 I've never seen these high heel Crocs before. Pretty fucking gay.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 10, 2026 08:22 PM (GZ3K7)

-1 for not using a Jim J Bullock sock.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 10, 2026 08:26 PM (Y/06r)

53 Here is a quotation from The Goo Goo Dolls' frontman:

"I got people, fans, friends from every walk of life, every political stripe, everything. And I always stress, we got one thing in common because we're living in weird times. We got one thing in common, and that's we're all here to see a show, and I'm not going to lecture people about anything."

-- John Rzeznik


That must be a new thing. Back during the GW Bush years, my sister and brother in law went to see them, and according to my BIL, Rzeznik was spouting a bunch of lefty BS.

Posted by: Doof at October 10, 2026 08:26 PM (QMAsf)

54 I've always liked Goo Goo Dolls, hit at the right time in my youth. I know Rzeznik is a lefty, and I appreciate that he keeps it to himself.

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 10, 2026 08:28 PM (ftFVW)

55 Thx CBD, evening Horde.
John Prine could write a song. His Angel from Montgomery is one of the best ever

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 10, 2026 08:28 PM (pJE7g)

56 >>John Prine could write a song. His Angel from Montgomery is one of the best ever

True statement.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 08:29 PM (viF8m)

57 I try not to learn about foibles of the performers I enjoy listening to. They may be liberal assholes but if they just put on a good show and don't preach their crap, I'm fine. It's the ones who can't shut up about politics (are you listening Barbara Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, and about 90 percent of Hollywood?) that I turn them off, literally. Why people with one talent, even an exceptional one, think that translate into universal genius remains a mystery. Perhaps I lack the super-inflated ego needed for that level of delusion.

Posted by: JTB at October 10, 2026 08:30 PM (yTvNw)

58 For all (ok, some) of your Crocs accessorization needs:

https://www.etsy.com/market/crocs_balls

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 10, 2026 08:30 PM (0sNs1)

59 Ok, ok, ok, I have a foible.
I’m sitting here eating uncooked chocolate chip cookie dough paired with white wine.
Should I have switched to red?

Posted by: RI Red at October 10, 2026 08:32 PM (30Gj0)

60
Expanding my "starter pack" playlist from 200 to 300 pieces. More Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Wagner.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 08:32 PM (eRlcH)

61 The Marriage of Figaro >> Don Giovanni >> The Magic Flute
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

The Marriage of Figaro>>Don Giovanni>>The Magic Flute>>Abduction From the Seraglio

The Marriage of Figaro is perhaps my favorite opera. Sheer listening delight.

Posted by: Tuna at October 10, 2026 08:32 PM (lJ0H4)

62 I’m sitting here eating uncooked chocolate chip cookie dough paired with white wine.
Should I have switched to red?
Posted by: RI Red at October 10, 2026 08:32 PM


Are they milk chocolate or dark chocolate chips?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 10, 2026 08:33 PM (0sNs1)

63
I try not to learn about foibles of the performers I enjoy listening to

__________

I try to forget that what I'm listening to is produced by people.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 08:34 PM (eRlcH)

64 Peccadillo > idiosyncrasy > foible > quirk > halitosis.

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 08:34 PM (Jr5Lq)

65 Blind Melon

.youtube.com/watch?v=3qVPNONdF58

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 10, 2026 08:34 PM (yEz+x)

66 Are they milk chocolate or dark chocolate chips?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 10, 2026 08:33 PM (0sNs1)

Milk chocolate is for heathens.

Posted by: RI Red at October 10, 2026 08:34 PM (30Gj0)

67 Louis XIV would have worn those Crocs.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes

Except those beads would probably have been real jewels.

Posted by: Tuna at October 10, 2026 08:34 PM (lJ0H4)

68 Expanding my "starter pack" playlist from 200 to 300 pieces. More Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Wagner.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 08:32 PM


You need to reduce one of those, and bring in some in some Tchaikovsky and Vivaldi.

In other words, Roll Over Beethoven.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 10, 2026 08:36 PM (0sNs1)

69 That must be a new thing. Back during the GW Bush years, my sister and brother in law went to see them, and according to my BIL, Rzeznik was spouting a bunch of lefty BS.
Posted by: Doof at October 10, 2026 08:26

This was not too long ago, so maybe he grew up a little.

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 08:36 PM (ZdaMQ)

70 65 I like that one.

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 08:37 PM (Jr5Lq)

71 The Marriage of Figaro is perhaps my favorite opera. Sheer listening delight.

Posted by: Tuna at October 10, 2026 08:32 PM (lJ0H4)

Someone needs to write an opera about the experiences of a trucker transporting a certain brand of lawn fertilizer. Call it "The Carriage of Vigoro".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 08:37 PM (quk5M)

72 Milk chocolate is for heathens.
Posted by: RI Red at October 10, 2026 08:34 PM


Well, then, yes, you should have switched over to a smaller red, perchance a pinot.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 10, 2026 08:38 PM (0sNs1)

73 "Expanding my "starter pack" playlist from 200 to 300 pieces. More Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Wagner.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 08:32 PM

You need to reduce one of those, and bring in some in some Tchaikovsky and Vivaldi.

In other words, Roll Over Beethoven."

Not complete without Ferneyhough.

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 08:38 PM (Jr5Lq)

74 71 Ha!

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 08:39 PM (Jr5Lq)

75 CBD,
Thanks for including that video from The Magic Flute. I had a supporting part in it during college, which meant listening to a lot of rehearsals that didn't involve my role. I used to copy the Queen of the Night aria, quietly, three or four octaves below the soprano. It provided some laughs for those of us back stage.

Posted by: JTB at October 10, 2026 08:39 PM (yTvNw)

76 I've wondered about CBD for a while. After The Queen Of The Night." I now no longer wonder.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 10, 2026 08:39 PM (NnhvP)

77 This was not too long ago, so maybe he grew up a little.
Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 08:36 PM (ZdaMQ)


Hope so. He's a talented guy and I do like their music. Might include a GGD tune tomorrow night.

Posted by: Doof at October 10, 2026 08:39 PM (QMAsf)

78 Some Respighi could be a good addition.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 10, 2026 08:40 PM (0sNs1)

79 Thanks, DThrax, I just pried open a box of Cabernet, September, ‘26. A fine month.

Posted by: RI Red at October 10, 2026 08:40 PM (30Gj0)

80 I don’t like opera. It gives me a headache.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 10, 2026 08:40 PM (yEz+x)

81 The Deraillers are pretty good. They do country, rock, sorta folk - all well. Look up their song "Longing". It's a good one.

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 10, 2026 08:41 PM (Jr+re)

82 >>Why people with one talent, even an exceptional one, think that translate into universal genius remains a mystery. Perhaps I lack the super-inflated ego needed for that level of delusion.

I don't think it's that hard to understand.

I grew up with some rockers. They essentially wrote musical poetry that was designed to elicit emotions. That was the whole point and what made them "stars".

Some realized what it was. Some became intoxicated with it and thought they were the voice of a generation.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 08:41 PM (viF8m)

83 Thanks, DThrax, I just pried open a box of Cabernet, September, ‘26. A fine month.
Posted by: RI Red at October 10, 2026 08:40 PM


Good choice!

Posted by: zombie Orson Welles at October 10, 2026 08:42 PM (0sNs1)

84 Ben Had is going to be bummed she missed the wine discussion.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 10, 2026 08:45 PM (0sNs1)

85 I thought “The Fifth Element” was a great movie, and really enjoyed the Operatic part, although short, performed by the Diva Plavalaguna.

Posted by: Gunslinger at October 10, 2026 08:46 PM (N91F8)

86 Touchdown!

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 08:48 PM (ZdaMQ)

87 I’m sitting here eating uncooked chocolate chip cookie dough paired with white wine.
Should I have switched to red?
Posted by: RI Red at October 10, 2026 08:32 PM (30Gj0)


A nice Port would go well with that, especially if it has chopped walnuts

Posted by: Kindltot at October 10, 2026 08:48 PM (rbvCR)

88 Some realized what it was. Some became intoxicated with it and thought they were the voice of a generation.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 08:41 PM (viF8m)


Everyone is going to be the next Bob Dylan.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 10, 2026 08:49 PM (rbvCR)

89 A nice Port would go well with that, especially if it has chopped walnuts
Posted by: Kindltot at October 10, 2026 08:48 PM


When did they start putting chopped walnuts in Port, nice or otherwise? Does it give it a walnutty flavor infusion?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 10, 2026 08:51 PM (0sNs1)

90 When did they start putting chopped walnuts in Port, nice or otherwise? Does it give it a walnutty flavor infusion?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 10, 2026 08:51 PM (0sNs1)


Port goes well with walnuts, and Mom used to put chopped walnuts in her chocolate chip cookies.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 10, 2026 08:52 PM (rbvCR)

91 My favorite music makes your favorite music sound like Rush.

Posted by: Savage Henry at October 10, 2026 08:52 PM (ZxPkt)

92 >>Everyone is going to be the next Bob Dylan.

Who, ironically, has pretty much disappeared from public life.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 08:54 PM (viF8m)

93 My favorite music makes your favorite music sound like Rush.
Posted by: Savage Henry at October 10, 2026 08:52 PM (ZxPkt)


I don't have a favorite music, but for a while I was bopping between Tom Waites and Blondie.
Then I found out about Bachatas, and was entranced for a while.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 10, 2026 08:54 PM (rbvCR)

94 "the voice of a generation."

Nominees: Paul Frees, Jean Shepherd, Don Pardo.

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 08:54 PM (Jr5Lq)

95 When did they start putting chopped walnuts in Port, nice or otherwise? Does it give it a walnutty flavor infusion?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 10, 2026 08:51 PM (0sNs1)

I would be pissed if I bought a bottle of wine, and it had chopped nuts in it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 08:54 PM (quk5M)

96 Bama just answered the Dawgs. Ugh. We just cannot get it together when we are in Tuscaloosa.

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 08:55 PM (ZdaMQ)

97
"the voice of a generation."

Nominees: Paul Frees, Jean Shepherd, Don Pardo.
Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 08:54 PM (Jr5Lq)

__________

Mel Blanc

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 08:56 PM (eRlcH)

98 Who, ironically, has pretty much disappeared from public life.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 08:54 PM (viF8m)


He is 81. The same age as my oldest step sister, and she was born while her dad was in Europe.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 10, 2026 08:56 PM (rbvCR)

99 whoops, he is a year OLDER than my step sister.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 10, 2026 08:56 PM (rbvCR)

100 I am unashamedly, a huge fan of 80s rock, although with acceptance of all genres of music.
Nowhere near anyone or band with “hair”, I find this one to be a regular indulgence.
Jesse Lamonica and the Dime Novels - West Coast Sunshine.

https://youtu.be/T7XfTiatYyg?si=3TFCkSjyMVz7cq5M

Posted by: Gunslinger at October 10, 2026 08:57 PM (N91F8)

101 68 Expanding my "starter pack" playlist from 200 to 300 pieces. More Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Wagner.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 08:32 PM

You need to reduce one of those, and bring in some in some Tchaikovsky and Vivaldi.

In other words, Roll Over Beethoven.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 10, 2026 08:36 PM (0sNs1)

Decades ago, aspirationally, I subscribed to a BBC classical music club and there was some other one also with beautifully packaged classical music CDs and notes.

There's about 75 to 100. But since I've been doing my projects and been by the computer all the time, I've been finally playing them in the background. Soothing.

I hope I develop an ear for classical music more.

Apparently for the opera CDs, I require animated rabbits to make it tolerable but maybe that will grow on me also.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 10, 2026 08:57 PM (Sco7b)

102 80 ... "I don’t like opera. It gives me a headache."

Nurse,
I enjoyed performing in operas. Except for a few arias, I don't usually care to listen to them. Too many 'operatic' voices are all technique, which often sounds harsh and artificial, and too little effective emotion. One exception is Jesus Christ Superstar, which is an opera even if the Met faints at the notion.

Posted by: JTB at October 10, 2026 08:58 PM (yTvNw)

103 Will Rogers. Seth Macfarlane (heh.)

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 08:58 PM (Jr5Lq)

104 RUSH

youtu.be/_88yT0ujcnc

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 10, 2026 08:58 PM (S8cdb)

105 Kalen DeBoer can eat shit.

Go Georgia!

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 10, 2026 08:59 PM (yEz+x)

106
"the voice of a generation."

Nominees: Paul Frees, Jean Shepherd, Don Pardo.
Posted by: gp


Mel Blanc

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 10, 2026 08:59 PM (Cqx++)

107 I leave out Murrow, Cronkite et al because I don't like those guys.

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 09:01 PM (Jr5Lq)

108 >>Mel Blanc

Of course! His cover of Kill the Wabbit is one of my faves!

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 09:02 PM (rdVOm)

109 >>He is 81. The same age as my oldest step sister, and she was born while her dad was in Europe.

A couple years older.

The man wrote more songs that have been covered by more artists of every genre than anyone in modern history. Some beautiful lyrics. He won a Nobel Prize for his work.

And he mostly keeps to himself about politics. Might be his best feature.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 09:02 PM (viF8m)

110 RUSH

youtu.be/_88yT0ujcnc
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 10, 2026 08:58 PM (S8cdb)


Among my favorites of theirs. Permanent Waves is really a fantastic album. I think I prefer Jacob's Ladder over Natural Science but they are both incredible.

Posted by: Doof at October 10, 2026 09:05 PM (QMAsf)

111 Jean Shepherd channel on YT:
youtube.com/@greenteablend

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 09:05 PM (Jr5Lq)

112 Here's some Delbert McClinton, the best R&B singer you never heard of;

https://youtu.be/R1qorMWmeB0

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 09:08 PM (quk5M)

113

RUSH!

https://youtu.be/pqFNLn07Fu0

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 10, 2026 09:08 PM (Cqx++)

114 "the voice of a generation."

Nominees: Paul Frees, Jean Shepherd, Don Pardo.
Posted by: gp

Mel Blanc

Of course Mel Blanc!
But as far as sports commentary, there were many.
LA-centric, but still unsurpassed, were Chick Hearn and Vin Scully. Legends!

Posted by: Gunslinger at October 10, 2026 09:10 PM (N91F8)

115 This orchestra needs a mosh pit!

https://youtu.be/x6is5-urQrw?t=78

Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 09:14 PM (VHUov)

116 It's a long-running back-and-forth between Ace and Garrett about who is more gay, and by how much.

Theirs is a volatile relationship.


Teh gheys, they're just full of drama.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 10, 2026 09:16 PM (4Je4D)

117 Nobody is the voice of any generation.

We all sing our own song.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 09:17 PM (viF8m)

118 Ugh.

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 09:24 PM (ZdaMQ)

119 Etude for guitar, piano, and excavator.

https://youtu.be/N0OBF83rL-8

Posted by: mikeski, making your music thread a bit more surreal at October 10, 2026 09:24 PM (VHUov)

120 “Nobody is the voice of any generation.

We all sing our own song.”

OK, gotta know…Indica or Sativa tonight?

Posted by: Gunslinger at October 10, 2026 09:24 PM (N91F8)

121 Another Delbert, very clever lyrics on this one:

https://youtu.be/diLZ5X53RfY

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 09:25 PM (quk5M)

122 “I was a Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band fan in my youth. Their first four albums were excellent, and their live performances were absolutely incredible.”

I was telling the 26 yo nephew one of those “when I was your age stories” the other day. It was during Springsteen’s 1984 Born in the USA heyday and he wasn’t coming to Houston. So I and the rest of the posse camped out on the side walk of whatever store sold tickets back then for his Cotton Bowl appearance in Dallas. Drove up there for the marathon 3 hour concert. He never mentioned politics. You couldn’t pay me to spit on that vile piece of excrement now.

Posted by: TxAnn at October 10, 2026 09:26 PM (itAg7)

123
Nobody is the voice of any generation.
We all sing our own song.
Posted by: JackStraw

\sarc Now do Ethel Merman, in her roll in It'sA Mad Mad Mad World.
/sarc

She was a real Mom to the entire cast of that flick during filming. A true matriarch worthy of respect.


Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 10, 2026 09:28 PM (QVmho)

124 >>“I was a Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band fan in my youth. Their first four albums were excellent, and their live performances were absolutely incredible.”

Greetings From Asbury Park was great.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 09:30 PM (viF8m)

125 Fact, never was a E Street Band fan

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 09:32 PM (Ia/+0)

126
"Expanding my "starter pack" playlist from 200 to 300 pieces. More Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Wagner.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
-----
You need to reduce one of those, and bring in some in some Tchaikovsky and Vivaldi.
In other words, Roll Over Beethoven."
Not complete without Ferneyhough.
Posted by: gp

*pouts*

I'm right freakin' here!

Posted by: Eelectric Light Orchestra- at October 10, 2026 09:33 PM (QVmho)

127 I am unashamedly, a huge fan of 80s rock, although with acceptance of all genres of music.
Nowhere near anyone or band with “hair”, I find this one to be a regular indulgence.
Jesse Lamonica and the Dime Novels - West Coast Sunshine.

https://youtu.be/T7XfTiatYyg
Posted by: Gunslinger


I was going to say "that doesn't sound very 80s. More 70s."

Then I checked, and it's from 2010.

Retro is the new retro.

Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 09:35 PM (VHUov)

128 This is one of his greatest arias from The Magic Flute, called "The Queen Of The Night." If you know any budding sopranos, ask them to sing this for you. It is a great tune, and extremely technically difficult.

Ha! Kid has to play this on Monday for the school orchestra performance grade.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 10, 2026 09:37 PM (1Ff7Z)

129 What does the voice of a generation talk about?

Posted by: Savage Henry at October 10, 2026 09:38 PM (ZxPkt)

130 >>I was going to say "that doesn't sound very 80s. More 70s."

>>Then I checked, and it's from 2010.

Voice of a generation.

derp

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 09:42 PM (viF8m)

131
This is one of his greatest arias from The Magic Flute, called "The Queen Of The Night."

_________

*polite cough*

The aria is "Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen," sung by the character the Queen of the Night.

Thus endeth the lesson.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 09:43 PM (eRlcH)

132 So the first thing on my youtube recommendations page tonight was "Against The Current."

I think they're the answer to the question "what if you stole a pop-country singer from her band, taught her to sing, and put her in a rock band instead?"

https://youtu.be/ckW4k5nSMj4

Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 09:44 PM (VHUov)

133 The street signs in my town are posts set on each corner, and I live not far from the intersection of 10th Avenue and E Street. Get it? 10th Ave Freeze Out, E Street Band. When one of my kids was younger, he took a picture of that post, put some caption on it (that I can't remember) and had a bunch of copies made at KMart. Sold them on EBay and believe it or not, made a few bucks for himself.

Recently the library, which is on that corner, had a huge guitar made and a plaque for Springsteen. Now there are actual tour groups that stop there and take selfies. Locals just point and laugh.

Here's a picture of the ridiculous "monument."

https://tinyurl.com/mr39h6s2

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at October 10, 2026 09:45 PM (3ImbR)

134 I just found out that the Goo Goo Dolls song "Name" was written about Fox News personality and former MTVJ Kennedy. The comment sections of any such content is full of the gnashing of teeth and the lamentations of Lefty women.

It amuses me.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at October 10, 2026 09:46 PM (r7+Q7)

135 The aria is "Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen," sung by the character the Queen of the Night.

Thus endeth the lesson.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 09:43 PM (eRlcH)

No wonder they call it "Queen of the Night", then. I tried to pronounce that, and had to mop off my desk.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 09:46 PM (quk5M)

136 "What does the voice of a generation talk about?"

'People try to put us down
Just because we get around.'

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 09:46 PM (Jr5Lq)

137 Let me offer what I know will be a futile defense of liking Springsteen's music. Yes, he is a douchie ass in all things, but... If your favorite love song about a girl is actually sung by a raging fag, does that mean the song is no good?

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at October 10, 2026 09:51 PM (QaH55)

138 I better turn this off before the ONT shows up
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 09:52 PM (Ia/+0)

139 What does the voice of a generation talk about?
Posted by: Savage Henry


I can't tell, it's in Korean. Mostly.

https://youtu.be/Qpf26PtBXgo

Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 09:52 PM (VHUov)

140 people say we monkey around
but we're too busy singin'
to put anybody down

Posted by: Savage Henry at October 10, 2026 09:54 PM (ZxPkt)

141 I spent about an hour on youtube one night listening to different versions of that there aria up there. There were good, bad, and great ones. I'd have liked to seen the one by the soprano whose head bobbed like a chicken when she sang the high notes.

Posted by: huerfano at October 10, 2026 09:56 PM (2Xqig)

142 I'd have liked to seen the one by the soprano whose head bobbed like a chicken when she sang the high notes.
Posted by: huerfano at October 10, 2026 09:56 PM (2Xqig)

I dunno, but I think I would have bawked at watching that one.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 10, 2026 09:57 PM (1Ff7Z)

143

Pepsi
For a new generation

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 10, 2026 09:57 PM (Cqx++)

144 I never liked Springsteen or U2 but they have millions of fans so I can't say they suck.

Posted by: polynikes at October 10, 2026 09:58 PM (KC5Lt)

145 >>Here's a picture of the ridiculous "monument."

Remember Eddie and Cruisers? The ripoff of some unknown Jersey band's trials and angst?

The real band that wrote and played the music was John Cafferty and Beaver Brown. A Rhode Island bar band.

They were better than Springsteen.

https://tinyurl.com/ycysm5ts

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 09:59 PM (viF8m)

146 I never liked Springsteen or U2 but they have millions of fans so I can't say they suck.
Posted by: polynikes


McDonalds can't suck; billions of burgers sold.

Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 10:00 PM (VHUov)

147 Hey, you punks! Turn that noise down and get upstairs!

The ONT is NOOD!

Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 10:00 PM (VHUov)

148 McDonalds can't suck; billions of burgers sold.
Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 10:00 PM (VHUov)

McDonald's was awesome to me when I was young. Not so much now.

Posted by: polynikes at October 10, 2026 10:02 PM (KC5Lt)

149 They were better than Springsteen.
https://tinyurl.com/ycysm5ts
Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 09:59 PM (viF8m)
~~~~~

Much better!

I'm not a Springsteen fan.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at October 10, 2026 10:06 PM (3ImbR)

150 >>Much better!

>>I'm not a Springsteen fan.

https://tinyurl.com/3m7ebavx

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 10:12 PM (viF8m)

151 Bergan's The Magic Flute actually caused me to have a departure from Reality.

Posted by: pawn at October 11, 2026 02:00 AM (3g9Kl)

152 CBD can also no longer enjoy French fries because of the political implications

Posted by: Banned at October 11, 2026 07:45 AM (n3zoZ)

153 If you ever get the chance to see Lyle with his acoustic group, go! I've seen him several times with his Large band, and they are always really good, but the best Lyle show I've ever seen was with his acoustic group a few years ago.

Posted by: Happy at October 11, 2026 12:44 PM (KLUEJ)

Hobby Thread - October 10, 2026 [TRex]

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Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. For this week, the Wheel of Hobbies (TM) is feeling spooky and decided on a furniture theme for this Hobby Thread.

Furniture hobbying?! Yes! Tell me more!

[Top photo: pre-furniture]

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Furniture can be fun. Do you appreciate interesting and well built furniture? Are you a collector? Do you like antique furniture? Do you like restoring old furniture? Do you haunt garage or estate sales for furniture? Do you watch YouTube videos by furniture makers or restorers?

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What are you hobbying?

The theme may not be your favorite but give it a chance before you judge and bail out. Any adjacent hobbying is in scope, so jump in with your interests, stories and questions.

In any event, the thread is not limited to to the theme. Anything (legal) you are hobbying is welcome. Even if the theme does not speak to you, you might learn something or be entertained. If not, offer something else relating to hobbying. If all of that fails, just check in and say hello.

As per usual Hobby Thread etiquette, keep this thread limited to hobbying. Leave politics and religion to threads elsewhere (unless your hobby is building or restoring churches). Pants? Nope. As always, puns are welcome and encouraged.

Play nice and do not be rude. Do not be a troll and do not feed the trolls.

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Restoring an antique desk:

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Build furniture like an engineer:

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This guy had to be in the content somewhere:

His channel has so many good projects. Tough to pick just one.

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More secret compartments:

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Japanese joinery - next level:

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Hidden compartments in antique furniture:

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Clever concealed home storage solutions:

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Old school hand built automobile body shaping:

Going to be the first of a series, so watch and follow along to see the process and final result.

Forming aluminum panels by bending them around wood bucks was common in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. It took a lot of skill to build the wood frame and a different set of skills to hammer the aluminum panels against the wood to create a body panel. The cars are works of art. Few original wood bucks survive, but they're works of art too. Maybe we'll do a deep dive down this rabbit hole in a future thread.

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Nothing to do with wood or furniture, but appropriate for the season:

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Nothing to do with wood or furniture, but this might be interesting to astronomy hobbyists: starfront space

This company caters to the remote astronomer from its location near Brady, Texas. Do you want telescope time in a place with dark skies? You don't have to be located in the same place as your camera. You can rent time on one of their cameras or ship your camera to them and pay a monthly fee and let them point it to the sky. No personal knowledge and not an endorsement but amazing that such a service and business model exists.

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The roof slides open and closed to protect and expose the equipment.

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Did you miss the Hobby Thread last week? We did a Halloween hobbying theme. The comments may be closed, but you can re-live the content.

Notable comments from last week:

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Words of wisdom:

"Because despite all our troubles, when things are grim out in that wide round world of ours, that's when it's really important to have a good hobby." Posted by: tankascribe at June 22, 2024 07:41 PM (HWxAD).

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Reminder: if you put links in the comments, use a URL shortener and describe what you're linking to. Failing to do either or both makes you barrel-eligible. Don't make people click to find out what you're linking.

Send thoughts, suggestions and photos of your hobbying to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Or just email to say hello. Do mighty things.

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Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 05:31 PM (eRlcH)

2 Furniture making? Should get pretty stickly in here.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 10, 2026 05:31 PM (1Ff7Z)

3 Add the right kind of fabric on your furniture and you get furr-niture, something that can be shared with this post and the previous one...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 05:31 PM (l3cgK)

4 Top 5?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 05:32 PM (wzUl9)

5 My mother's uncle made the table and chairs we used in the mid-70's. Was nice work; at least I thought so as a kid.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 05:32 PM (l3cgK)

6 Every time I've made something, it has fallen apart. Easier to just buy a kit or complete piece.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 10, 2026 05:33 PM (1Ff7Z)

7 6 Every time I've made something, it has fallen apart. Easier to just buy a kit or complete piece.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 10, 2026 05:33 PM (1Ff7Z)

Can Ace make furniture? I'm not so sure knowing his history with shelves...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 05:33 PM (l3cgK)

8 Oooh, I made comment of the week...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 05:35 PM (l3cgK)

9 Can Ace make furniture? I'm not so sure knowing his history with shelves...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 05:33 PM (l3cgK)

(shakes magic 8 ball)

"My reply is no."

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 10, 2026 05:35 PM (1Ff7Z)

10 No hidden compartments in my oldest furniture, a library table that my father brought home and assembled about the time I started school. It's basically three slabs of wood, the top and two leg or side pieces. There once was a drawer in it, but that's long gone, and there were two captain's chairs. I took one chair and the desk from Mom's place after she passed.

The table has served as dinner table, model-building table, cat-sitting area, card table, and since 1986 as my desk. I know of a wood furniture shop here in town; they have pre-made items you can buy and have them stain your choice of color, and they will make certain items for you. My TV stand is from them, ca. 2005. I'm sure they would refinish the table and chair to a high standard.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 05:37 PM (wzUl9)

11 My other major piece of furniture is a Mission-style armchair I bought from a shop in Colorado, Fort Collins I think it was, in late 1997. I chose the Indian-blanket style upholstery for it and the ottoman. The cushions that came with it I leave on the love seat. The chair was my reading chair when I lived in Denver, and will be again some day soon.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 05:39 PM (wzUl9)

12 I need to work on my furniture project today - building stupidly over-designed legs for my project desk.

And film it, because I'm putting the making videos on youtube.

... I probably ought to go buy the hardware I need to attach the stretcher board between the feet.

If I play that right, I could use that hardware as part of what secures the feet to the legs.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 10, 2026 05:39 PM (C0Nlv)

13 Never built furniture, per se. My wife had a dresser-drawer she'd built herself (with some drawer not working). I reworked them for her. I don't count that.
I did redo the aquarium cabinet to have a bigger door on one side so I could fit in the filter system...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 05:41 PM (l3cgK)

14 My dinette table and its four chairs are from World Market, purchased on a cold rainy January in '04, I think. I had it delivered and then assembled it myself. It has held up very well despite various cat-claw marks on it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 05:42 PM (wzUl9)

15 Welcome Hobbiests, at comedy club to see Adam Corolla
Shame didn't know have made quite a few pieces of furniture

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 05:44 PM (xxYed)

16 My living room bookcases were a special order from a small independent furniture shop in Denver in '97. I wanted something deep enough front to back to hold my stereo and CD changer. The changer is gone, but the receiver and speakers remain, along with loads of books. Both are deep enough to have two ranks of books on each shelf.

Another bookcase was a find at a big furniture store in southern Denver. It turned out to be the perfect size to hold my set of the Britannica. Two others in my bedroom were from Target, and they do not look cheap or poorly made. (It's hard to find bookcases nowadays.)

Finally, in my bedroom is a wooden chest from This End Up Furniture. Remember them in the malls of the '80s? Real wood, and it holds all sorts of stuff. In early '87 I was going to buy more items from them, but then lost my job. And they vanished not long after. A shame.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 05:45 PM (wzUl9)

17 Finally, in my bedroom is a wooden chest from This End Up Furniture. Remember them in the malls of the '80s? Real wood, and it holds all sorts of stuff. In early '87 I was going to buy more items from them, but then lost my job. And they vanished not long after. A shame.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 05:45 PM (wzUl9)

Woulda bought stuff from them, but had too much furniture already when I had a place of my own. I got excited once when I found a nude furniture store in Reno, but they were only unfinished. Used Danish oil on the pieces. Still have the table and one complete chair and one for parts.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 10, 2026 05:48 PM (1Ff7Z)

18 As for pipe smoking: I am waiting for a delivery of two tins of cigarillos and two oz. of a pipe blend. It was, according to the USPS website, out for delivery on Monday 10/5. But the mail truck could not get into the complex because they did not have a gate code. The website said that the package would be delivered on the next day.

Uh-huh. It still says that, four days later, and no package despite other mail arriving. And there'll be no mail on Monday. I'm girding up to visit the local substation on Tuesday, to see if the package is still sitting there.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 05:50 PM (wzUl9)

19 If you look closely at that wood pile, you can see hundreds of hungry eyes peering back at you.

Posted by: Spiders! at October 10, 2026 05:51 PM (V+cxR)

20
Some of the best furniture we have came from estate sales.

Posted by: four seasons at October 10, 2026 05:54 PM (/QHx4)

21 I always enjoyed that little side joke in the movie "The Patriot" where Benjamin Martin (Mel Gibson) was always failing at making furniture. I think there was a scene where he tries to sit on a rocking chair he made and it collapses.

Posted by: Orson at October 10, 2026 05:55 PM (dIske)

22 Oh, and I have a tan fabric love seat purchased from a local vendor around 2012 after my old cream-colored one, bought in Denver, finally got too shabby. Flanking it are two Mission-style end tables, each with a shelf underneath perfect for magazines (or for cats to sit on).

My bed also dates to 1997, when I moved to Denver. The same shop who did the deep bookcases sold me the box spring, mattress, and a blond wood headboard and matching night stand. Now that I look back, I realize how much I spent with them -- and how good their work was.

The box spring still works, but that linen-like underfitting has holes in it now. When I move, it'll stay behind, and I'll buy a new box spring to go under the mattress.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 05:57 PM (wzUl9)

23 My dad was a master carpenter and made a china cabinet, sideboard, and credenza for my mom. I have them. He also restored my grandmother's desk, at which I am sitting, and some tables. He loved doing that.

My cousin's husband does a lot of refinishing of garage sale and auction finds. They have some very nice, old cabinets and tables in their house.

Posted by: huerfano at October 10, 2026 05:58 PM (2Xqig)

24
Do be wary about buying upholestered furniture second hand unless you know the seller.

People are gross and heaven only knows what is on that furniture.

Posted by: four seasons at October 10, 2026 05:58 PM (/QHx4)

25 I always enjoyed that little side joke in the movie "The Patriot" where Benjamin Martin (Mel Gibson) was always failing at making furniture. I think there was a scene where he tries to sit on a rocking chair he made and it collapses.
Posted by: Orson at October 10, 2026 05:55 PM (dIske)

I was just recalling that very same scene. His little daughter not knowing whether to laugh or not is very sweet.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 10, 2026 05:58 PM (0aYVJ)

26 Some of the best furniture we have came from estate sales.

Posted by: four seasons at October 10, 2026


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And certain kinds of antique stores. The only problem being delivery if the item is too big for your car. Furniture stores deliver; small thrift/antique places don't. But I guess nearly all of them know somebody with a truck who'd be willing to haul your new dresser for a fair price.

I've seen dressers and end tables and dining tables I'd love to have, if I had the room. I'd have to arrange for delivery too, but they'd be worth it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 06:00 PM (wzUl9)

27 We gave our son my Dad's old piano. It's an upright built in the 1920s. It really needs to be refinished, but, after a friend repaired and tunes it, and fixed some of the mechanisms, it plays beautifully. The thing is a brute, takes four strong men to move it.

Currently it resides at son's pastor's home. Pastor D. is a very good piano player, and he is in his 80s, so son wants him to enjoy it for a while.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 10, 2026 06:02 PM (0aYVJ)

28 Buying dead people's stuff, I'd worry about the dead people coming with it.

Posted by: Every Day is Halloween if You are Superstitious Enough at October 10, 2026 06:03 PM (jJhtM)

29 We like 'Mission style' tables and chairs. Don't build them though. We buy them. We have one mission chair. One.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 10, 2026 06:03 PM (NnhvP)

30 This End Up is still around: https://thisendup.com/ Just not in your local mall, I guess. Their love seats, for example, are not cheap, but they have lots of bookcases.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 06:05 PM (wzUl9)

31 Do be wary about buying upholestered furniture second hand unless you know the seller.

People are gross and heaven only knows what is on that furniture.

Posted by: four seasons at October 10, 2026


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I suppose if someone allergic to cat dander bought my current loveseat, he'd have a hell of time until he got it cleaned.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 06:07 PM (wzUl9)

32 Blue Angels in the air.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 06:09 PM (RIvkX)

33 31 Do be wary about buying upholestered furniture second hand unless you know the seller.

People are gross and heaven only knows what is on that furniture.

Posted by: four seasons at October 10, 2026

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I suppose if someone allergic to cat dander bought my current loveseat, he'd have a hell of time until he got it cleaned.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 06:07 PM (wzUl9)

I don't think four seasons was writing about animal dander...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 06:11 PM (l3cgK)

34 I don't have a painting with even a single piece of furniture. Surprised myself.

Posted by: polynikes at October 10, 2026 06:12 PM (KC5Lt)

35 I fashioned a rudimentary lathe

Posted by: Kindltot at October 10, 2026 06:12 PM (rbvCR)

36 I made a tractor seat.

Posted by: Ronster at October 10, 2026 06:18 PM (xtXF+)

37 I made a bench out of chunks of old concrete driveway.

Posted by: fd at October 10, 2026 06:20 PM (MWfyi)

38 Well, I am done for the day. Nasty cold out, 32 degrees with a strong North wind, and the odd flake of snow. I took a trash bag to the transfer station, and 2 old 20# propane cylinders and a big propane "manifold tank", all purged. Attendant said to drop the cylinders "over there", and to throw the manifold tank into the metal pit, which I did. No longer my problem. Got home, and repaired the screen/storm door which had had its hinges torn out of the frame by a gust of wind a few days ago. Managed to refit the hinges to the continuous pin in the door frame, and rehang the door. Also spent time making a custom screw eye to hook up the restraint spring, which may help prevent a future occurrence.

Speaking of secret compartments, I was wearing an old club jacket today. Black melton cloth body, black leather sleeves. Was fishing around in the inside pocket (found a rock, lol), and noticed a tiny zipper joining the sateen lining to the lapel, started at the inside pocket, and went towards the collar. I don't think there is a hoodie in there, and the entire lining is not zip-out. What gives?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 06:25 PM (quk5M)

39 I have Grandma's old oak dining table & 6 chairs. Chairs are press-back and need new fabric on the seats. Table has pull-out leaves at either end, pretty cool.

Dad said his parents bought the set *used* from a Montgomery Ward store in the 1940s.

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 06:27 PM (rdVOm)

40 4 frames in formation just over the house

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 06:27 PM (RIvkX)

41 Unrelated to furniture, but related to hobbies: I did my first SOTA hike in about 2 months this morning. My usual lightweight radios are both out of service, so I hauled a G-90, a big battery, and a vertical antenna up a hill. It was much colder than I planned for, but I made up for it by making contacts on the east coast and across the pond into France.

I'm still working on the Bayou Jumper that was featured here recently, and I'm also about halfway through assembling a QCX‐Mini (40m version).

Posted by: PabloD at October 10, 2026 06:28 PM (OXSZa)

42 Uh-huh. It still says that, four days later, and no package despite other mail arriving. And there'll be no mail on Monday. I'm girding up to visit the local substation on Tuesday, to see if the package is still sitting there.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 05:50 PM (wzUl9)

Speaking of pipes, have you ever run across a brand called Medeco? They used to run ads on the backs of old magazines. IIRC, their thing was a briar bowl with a finned aluminum stem to cool the smoke. And black Bakelite mouthpiece, of course.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 06:29 PM (quk5M)

43 The closest I've come to building furniture was buying a dinette table from Ikea and cutting the legs down to make it a coffee table.

Well, I did build a work bench and a router table but it'd be a stretch to call those "furniture."

Posted by: Oddbob at October 10, 2026 06:30 PM (vTZFs)

44 If my furniture had hidden compartments there would be chocolate bars in them.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 06:30 PM (RIvkX)

45 That pass was low the blue bird is complaining.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 06:32 PM (RIvkX)

46 We had This End Up furniture, a sofa, loveseat and single chair with an ottoman, it lasted us a good long time and stood up to the abuses of a five kid family. One son got particular delight in destroying it when it was time to buy some new stuff.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 10, 2026 06:33 PM (ibDUx)

47 We don't collect furniture since we've inherited most of our bigger pieces. Inherited, in a few cases, means I was the only one in the family able to carry the things. Our dining room table is solid mahogany, not veneer, and weighs a ton. It came with a custom container holding 5 leaves that can be inserted. This was THE TABLE in our home growing up: dining, homework, holiday celebrations, jigsaw puzzles, etc. No idea where my parents got it. Made in the 1800s. It still has my sister's name pressed into the wood when she was doing a report and signed her name a little too hard. It had a dark stain, which was a crime. I took it down to bare wood, revealing some of the nicest mahogany I've ever seen. Took a couple of months to do it but worth the effort.

The other big piece is my dresser. it belonged to my grandparents and predates them. Six feet tall, many drawers of different depths, veneered in figured walnut, and dovetailed joinery. The brass pulls are original as are the casters. The draws have move smoothly after more than a century of use.

I can't imagine what it would cost to have these pieces made today with the quality materials and construction.

Posted by: JTB at October 10, 2026 06:33 PM (yTvNw)

48 When I bought my first house, I was big into Southwest decor. I have a 6.5' dining table with 8 chairs, a corner cabinet, and two barstools from the Scottsdale Art Factory. They're solid cedar distressed to mimic knotty pine (don't recall the process). The chairs and barstools feature an acid washed copper plate design in the back.

Lotta miles on that furniture; NJ, CA, PA, back to CA, and (currently) FL.

Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 10, 2026 06:33 PM (08OqX)

49 Wood. *hehehehe*

Posted by: Butthead at October 10, 2026 06:33 PM (cWLG3)

50 Refinishing that secretary is hard work, burns calories, need to replenish them.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 06:34 PM (VPNgR)

51 50 Refinishing that secretary is hard work, burns calories, need to replenish them.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 06:34 PM (VPNgR)

I know.

Posted by: Bill Clinton at October 10, 2026 06:42 PM (l3cgK)

52 Closest i've gotten to furniture hobbying is repairing my husband's dining chair. The creaks were ominous!

Today I sewed, pressed, and trimmed some quilt strips. For a baby who is over a year old already....oops. Its just more half-square triangles because that's what i am comfortable with.

Posted by: Funsize at October 10, 2026 06:44 PM (3j87q)

53 JTB, your dining table and dresser sound like fantastic pieces of furniture. I don't know what I will do with my stuff when I downsize, the kids don't seem too interested. The old hand carved tavern sign is going to number 4 kid though, he has wanted it since the time he was a little boy.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 10, 2026 06:45 PM (ibDUx)

54 Well, I did build a work bench and a router table but it'd be a stretch to call those "furniture."
Posted by: Oddbob at October 10, 2026 06:30 PM (vTZFs)

Speaking of router tables, and machine tables in general, you can easily and cheaply make a very sturdy machine table from the shell of an old top-loader washing machine. Take off the top, and throw it away, gut it out, and fasten sturdy industrial casters to the bottom. I weld mine on, because I can, but if you don't weld, you could bridge across the inside bottom with 2X6, and screw the casters to that with 1.5" wood screws, making sure that 2 or 3 screws go through holes in the bottom flange of the cabinet. I make the top out of 2X6 tongue and groove, glued together, and screwed to the top flange of the cabinet with wood screws. Add a piece of 1/4" Masonite if you want a smooth work surface. I usually add a pair of 1" by 1" angle iron cleats at bout mid-height inside, and place a 3/4" plywood shelf on them. Also a 3/4" plywood bottom shelf, too. It is a shame to have all that cubage, and not have it accessible for storage. Such a table will easily support a 300 pound machine.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 06:45 PM (quk5M)

55 All my and my wife's inherited furniture is 1/4 sawn white oak. I hate building with oak, but an having about 10 big logs sawn up this winter to begin to build a quality set of oak chairs for a claw-foot, round oak table.

Posted by: MkY at October 10, 2026 06:46 PM (ZHRuH)

56 I know.
Posted by: Bill Clinton at October 10, 2026 06:42 PM (l3cgK)

Heh!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 06:47 PM (quk5M)

57 This table has had maybe 10 sets of chairs since I've known it. None have been well-designed. I'd like to build a set that will last as long as that table.

Posted by: MkY at October 10, 2026 06:49 PM (ZHRuH)

58 Furniture making? Should get pretty stickly in here.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Chip and Dale made some pretty stuff.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 10, 2026 06:50 PM (N5iuz)

59 I has a new hobby!
We bought a 2006 Mx-5 miata on thursday, yea!

Friday we drove it about 60 miles and i puked all it's radiator fluid 2.5 miles from home. Boo!
I will be installing a new all aluminum radiator with replacement tubing.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 10, 2026 06:51 PM (NnhvP)

60 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

There is a box traveling with us to the TXmome.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 10, 2026 06:52 PM (NnhvP)

61 42 ... "Speaking of pipes, have you ever run across a brand called Medeco? They used to run ads on the backs of old magazines. IIRC, their thing was a briar bowl with a finned aluminum stem to cool the smoke. And black Bakelite mouthpiece, of course."

AOP, That sounds more like the Falcon pipe with the aluminum stem and a black plastic or nylon mouthpiece. The briar bowl screwed onto the stem and could be swapped with other bowls. Medico pipes are still made, apparently, although I don't recall seeing any in a long time.

Posted by: JTB at October 10, 2026 06:53 PM (yTvNw)

62 I took a break from the corporate world about 40 years ago to move to Boston and work with a master cabinetmaker in the North End for a couple of years. It was great fun and learned a shit ton. I haven't made many pieces recently though. I gave all my mahogany and walnut planks to one of my sons before this last move. I had too much to use in my lifetime.

I have to say though, that really hurt.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 10, 2026 06:54 PM (N5iuz)

63 I refinished an old bottom half of a hutch. No idea where the top is. Wife scored it at a garage sale.

Solid cherry and somebody painted it. What an abomination. Took my time stripping and sanding before staining. Looks pretty good now.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 10, 2026 06:55 PM (GZ3K7)

64 I'm just quietly watching the restoration/secrets vids. I love secret compartments and I love old furniture.

Posted by: RandomDave at October 10, 2026 06:57 PM (aJQbY)

65 We bought a 2006 Mx-5 miata on thursday, yea!

Friday we drove it about 60 miles and i puked all it's radiator fluid 2.5 miles from home. Boo!
I will be installing a new all aluminum radiator with replacement tubing.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 10, 2026 06:51 PM (NnhvP)

Check for a blown head gasket before shelling out for a new radiator! An overheating incident can cause a head gasket to blow, and a blown head gasket will cause overheating, as hot combustion gases enter the cooling system. Fill the radiator, and water will do in this instance, and put a cooling system pressure tester on in place of the filler cap. From cold, start the engine. If the gauge begins rising right away, especially if it rises in jerks, you have a combustion leak into the cooling system. There is also a chemical test kit to test for the presence of combustion products in the coolant. The O'Reilly's store on Apache Trail at Gold Drive ought to be able to help you with either test.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 07:01 PM (quk5M)

66 My main interest in making furniture was the joinery. A good dovetail joint, even without glue, should remain solid for a century or more. I've probably lost the touch but used dovetails for small pieces. They aren't just sturdy, done with different color woods they become a decorative feature.

I'm also a fan of half lap joints, which I used on some picture and document frames. Lots of surface for glue and more stable than a mitered joint. They are usually done on a table saw but lend themselves to hand tools very well. The chisel work does require some care.

Posted by: JTB at October 10, 2026 07:02 PM (yTvNw)

67 There is a box traveling with us to the TXmome.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 10, 2026 06:52 PM (NnhvP)

Woot!

If I were there in AJ right now, I would be happy to help you fix the Miata.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 07:03 PM (quk5M)

68 That "impossible dovetail" joint in the Japanese joinery vid is actually very easy to make. My father made one, many, many years ago. Make perfectly ordinary dovetail joint on the ends of two 3X3 sticks of wood. When the glue dries, run the completed piece through your jointer on all four corners repeatedly, until the corners become flats, and the flats become corners. Done.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 07:09 PM (quk5M)

69 Furniture? I almost feel attacked by this thread. My recliner broke last weekend (The toggle assembly became partially detached from the drive rod and started twisting horribly) and I've spent too much of my 'hobby time' trying to diagnose the problem and then repair it. I don't think it's going to happen. The only way I see to buy a replacement for the twisted part is to get a used part off of ebay....and I'm not sure I trust used furniture parts.

I think replacing the chair is going to be far less brain damage. And it's not like the chair was without its (minor) issues before this...

Posted by: Castle Guy at October 10, 2026 07:09 PM (3v7ra)

70 It'll be in the rv garage when you come down for the winter.
Running or not, I can't guess!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 10, 2026 07:11 PM (NnhvP)

71 My dad had a hobby/side line repairing antique upholstered chairs. He could take a wrecked piece, take it down to the frame, reinforce it, than replace the padding and fabric. He could keep everything under the correct tension with brass tacks and fabric covered buttons anchored to the frame. The couple of chairs he kept eventually ended up with my brother.

I have no idea where he learned to do that or what got him interested in the first place. Sadly, there's no one left who knows. I wish he had taught me to do it.

Posted by: JTB at October 10, 2026 07:17 PM (yTvNw)

72
We have three solid wood washstands in our house, two of them with towel racks. We also have two old iceboxes; those are less well off than the wash stands. I can see us taking the two "more complete" wash stands with us when we eventually move, but definitely not the iceboxes.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 10, 2026 07:20 PM (trSL4)

73 Seeing all those telescopes reminds me I have one in the closet with a dirty secondary mirror that needs cleaning. Hopefully the shmutz is just residue from a moth or two and not something harder to get off.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 10, 2026 07:22 PM (iIyc0)

74 Oregon lost!

My day has been made.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 10, 2026 07:23 PM (yEz+x)

75 Hey, All.

Do boobs count as a hobby?

Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 07:23 PM (77rzZ)

76
Glass punkin, that chunkin punkin

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 10, 2026 07:23 PM (trSL4)

77 69 ... "My recliner broke last weekend (The toggle assembly became partially detached from the drive rod and started twisting horribly)"

CG,
The same thing happened to me on a couple of recliners. The chair itself is fine but the lift mechanism died. I just secured the lift and got a separate foot stool to use. Works great. Cheap and effective solutions suit me.

Posted by: JTB at October 10, 2026 07:23 PM (yTvNw)

78 Furniture making !!! I love it. I built all my own to fit my living space.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 10, 2026 07:23 PM (nxLtX)

79 Do boobs count as a hobby?
Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 07:23 PM (77rzZ)


I consider it an occupation. And the renumeration is not monetary.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 10, 2026 07:24 PM (iIyc0)

80 My furniture making abilities are limited to the assembly of IKEA and the like. I'm sure that doesn't qualify as "furniture making." My other hobbies include gardening (different thread) and shooting (different thread), so it's back to lurking for me.

Posted by: Pod Hamp at October 10, 2026 07:25 PM (C8+gh)

81
For a span of about two years around five years ago I explored flameworking -- making glass beads and glass flowers. I ultimately decided that I'd not have the time to become good at it so I struck my tent, distributed my tools -- most obtained at second hand and on the cheap -- and dropped the whole enterprise. Looking at matters now, it was a wise move.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 10, 2026 07:29 PM (trSL4)

82 AOP, Langlitz leather jackets have a discreet zippered passage at an angle next to the obvious pocket, which they brazenly label as the "pistol pocket." Any chance yours is in the right place to do that duty?

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at October 10, 2026 07:33 PM (zdLoL)

83 One hobby is loading ammo for my target shooting. I've been thinking about which guns I'm likely to use over the next year and the calibers. (The muzzleloaders are a separate category.) 32 long, 38 special, 41 magnum, and 44 special are the calibers at the top of the list at the moment. I already have the components. Clearly, I'm thinking in terms of single action revolvers.

Posted by: JTB at October 10, 2026 07:34 PM (yTvNw)

84 Anything (legal) you are hobbying is welcome.

Legal where??

Posted by: From about That Time at October 10, 2026 07:36 PM (sl73Y)

85 JTB,
I've reupholstered quite a few pieces of furniture, and I learned how in adult evening classes at the local high school. You might check that out.

Posted by: Wenda at October 10, 2026 07:38 PM (bGLcx)

86 After all the hard work on the secretary the finish looked coarse.
Don't thing the original appeared coarse. Good word, didn't like the finish.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 07:39 PM (VPNgR)

87 I sewed three quarters of a pair of firewood slings the other day.

2 yards of 45" fabric was just the perfect amount, but my sewing machine decided that all the bobbin thread needed be in large loops halfway through the second one.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 10, 2026 07:40 PM (C0Nlv)

88 79 Do boobs count as a hobby?
Posted by: Bulg at October 10,
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Smash is going to get you.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 07:42 PM (VPNgR)

89 Thanks everyone for being here. Sorry I was absent. We're in transit. Thanks to Doof for launching.

Posted by: TRex - soggy dino at October 10, 2026 07:44 PM (TfIR2)

90 85 ... "I've reupholstered quite a few pieces of furniture, and I learned how in adult evening classes at the local high school. You might check that out."

Wenda,
Thanks for the suggestion. My interest these days is academic more than practical. Recalling what my dad did would require positions I can't get into or, especially, out of these days.

Posted by: JTB at October 10, 2026 07:45 PM (yTvNw)

91 TRex, we hardly noticed; But glad you're here!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 10, 2026 07:46 PM (NnhvP)

92 I restored enough furniture in my time. I use a lot of antique tools, because it just seems right. Sometimes the old tools replicate the look.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 10, 2026 07:55 PM (vzuC7)

93 JTB,

I hear you!

Posted by: Wenda at October 10, 2026 07:55 PM (bGLcx)

94 AOP, Langlitz leather jackets have a discreet zippered passage at an angle next to the obvious pocket, which they brazenly label as the "pistol pocket." Any chance yours is in the right place to do that duty?
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at October 10, 2026 07:33 PM (zdLoL)

Not really. I did unzip it all the way. The zipper runs up the left lapel and ends at the right-hand end of the collar. You can reach in there, and explore the entire void between the shell and the lining. Sadly, no sheaf of 100-dollar bills, nor treasure map to be found. It would make a lousy pistol carry space. I think the zipper was simply a means to close access to some sewing points.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 07:55 PM (quk5M)

95
What are you hobbying?

I'm working on a trailer module tester. Circuit will fool the truck's trailer module into thinking it has a trailer connected. This triggers the module to flash the testers LEDs for brake, tail, left, and right as well as enabling the 12vdc relay for the electric brakes.

The whole shebang is a simple exercise to get 12vdc at the number for a portable aircompressor to air up trailer tires and the truck's rear duallys. Mounting it in an anodized black aluminum case 6"x6"x3", with the circuit laser engraved on the outer case and the LEDs labeled and mounted at the proper place in the circuit diagram. Using HAM Radio power port 30 amp quick connectors for the 12vdc so I can also run my radio from the tailgate while making remote Parks On the Air calls.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 10, 2026 07:57 PM (QVmho)

96 I missed the Pet Thread but the most popular dog costume this year is the pumpkin. That is all.

Posted by: fd at October 10, 2026 07:57 PM (MWfyi)

97 75 Hey, All.

Do boobs count as a hobby?
Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 07:23 PM (77rzZ)

_____________________


Sure. I collect them....and make lampshades, throw pillows and all kinds of neat stuff.

Posted by: Ed Gein at October 10, 2026 07:59 PM (dIske)

98 I built all my own to fit my living space.
Posted by: Ben Had at October 10, 2026 07:23 PM (nxLtX)

*looks up Texas county sizes*

Posted by: RI Red at October 10, 2026 07:59 PM (LMRVO)

99
What are you hobbying?

Junior-ette is working on kashmir sweater, nice vanilla color, good quality yarn, very fuzzy. Says she'll be knitting puppies to go over the front pockets.

It's making my Type 2 diabetes worse just commenting on it.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 10, 2026 07:59 PM (QVmho)

100 I missed the Pet Thread but the most popular dog costume this year is the pumpkin. That is all.
Posted by: fd at October 10, 2026 07:57 PM (MWfyi)

An alligator costume for a wiener dog would be really cool.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 08:00 PM (quk5M)

101
What are you hobbying?

Smash is working on another bracelet with her beading loom. She's gotten very talented with those Itty bitty colored beads and complex patterns.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 10, 2026 08:00 PM (QVmho)

102 Speaking of woodworking, I need a new hammer handle for my 16-ounce ball-pein hammer. Princess Auto wants like 21 bucks for a new wooden handle. Yikes! I know handles are usually hickory, but are any other kinds of wood acceptable? I could probably dig out a nice well-seasoned hunk of box elder from my woodpile.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 08:03 PM (quk5M)

103 What are you hobbying?

Smash is working on another bracelet with her beading loom. She's gotten very talented with those Itty bitty colored beads and complex patterns.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 10, 2026 08:00 PM (QVmho)

Think I'll go hobby myself a pina colada right about now..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 10, 2026 08:04 PM (08OqX)

104 Ooops....NOOD music.

Posted by: Orson at October 10, 2026 08:04 PM (dIske)

105 I like fires. I like collecting wood in the forest. I like big fires.

Posted by: bm at October 11, 2026 02:33 AM (AT9dn)

Ace of Spades Pet Thread, October 10

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Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Thanks for stopping by. Kick back and enjoy the world of animals.

Would you like a treat?

Let's relax a little with the animals and leave the world of politics and current events outside today.

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But watch out for this guy:

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Your cat's behavior may be different:

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Bee in Ecstasy, courtesy Miley


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Happy Kitties in a new kitty balcony, courtesy Miley


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Animal Art


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Not-so-golden retriever



The dog said NO!


A Daily Dose of the American Rev

General George Washington and his British adversary General William Howe had at least one thing in common—they both loved their dogs. Numerous interesting and amusing stories about Washington and his dogs have passed down through history but let us save those for another today. The dog in the historical spotlight today is General Howe’s fox terrier Lila.

On October 4, 1777, Lila was with General Howe during the Battle of Germantown but somehow she became disoriented and lost on the battlefield. When the American army retreated that day, Lila followed it, wandering eventually into the camp of General Washington, wearing a collar that identified her as General Howe’s pet.

While some of the American soldiers thought the dog should be kept as a mascot or trophy of war, Washington disagreed, and he promptly dispatched a courier to return Lila to Howe, along with a note that read:

“General Washington’s compliments to General Howe. He does himself the pleasure to return him a dog, which accidentally fell into his hands, and by the inscription on the Collar appears to belong to General Howe.”

One of Howe’s officers later recounted that the general was thrilled and relieved to get Lila back. This was “an honorable act of a gentleman,” he said, taking her up immediately and putting her in his lap.

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Meet The PetMorons

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Good morning, probably too late for the thread today, but this is a combo gardening thread/pet thread photo. These popped up in my yard over the last couple of days, Puffballs I believe. Surprisingly large, they will get bigger, sometimes as big as a volleyball.

Alfred the Great in the foreground.

-Tom Servo

I don't think Alfred the Great wants us to touch the puffballs, Tom. I wonder why the puffballs think that this is a good time of year to puff?

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I understand that the walk and hurricane were successfully negotiated.



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Thank you for sharing your pets and animal photos and stories with us today.

If you would like to send pet and/or animal stories, links, etc. for the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, the address is:

petmorons at protonmail dot com

Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known when you comment at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.

Until next Saturday, have a great week!

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If you start feeling nostalgic, here a link to last week's Pet Thread, the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, October 3

I closed the comments on that post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway.

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1
*sticks head through doorway*

Afternoon, Pet Hordians.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 03:29 PM (eRlcH)

2 Your cat's behavior may be different:
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My cats aren't as picky about their food as I would have thought.

I ran out of the food that Chloe's previous owner provided me and just gave her the stuff I give my other cats. She adapted quite quickly without any fuss.

Allie doesn't like to eat pate-style cat food, though. She'll only eat the wet food if it's chunky.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 10, 2026 03:31 PM (FZ29D)

3 Happy Caturday everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 03:34 PM (Ia/+0)

4 ----
My cats aren't as picky about their food as I would have thought.

I ran out of the food that Chloe's previous owner provided me and just gave her the stuff I give my other cats. She adapted quite quickly without any fuss.

Allie doesn't like to eat pate-style cat food, though. She'll only eat the wet food if it's chunky.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 10, 2026


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Afternoon, all,

Dagny La Siberienne *used* to be picky about her food. No idea why. The meme above has good suggestions. But especially since I've had big black Stirling on his diet, she gets more to eat -- he was stealing half of her chow at each meal -- and eats it with gusto. Not all at once; it takes about four bowl visits. Which means her manservant, me, has to pick the bowl up when she leaves and conceal it where Stirling won't find it. Eventually Dagny comes back and gives me The Look, and I put her bowl down. Rinse, repeat.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 03:38 PM (wzUl9)

5 Whoa. Read the post, then found no comments.

That's okay. First on Pet Thread should be shared by all.

🐈
In the random rotation of feral felines, we are down to three. Well, two now.

One is Angel, a sweet Siamese-looking kitten.

Kinky is your basic pale yellow cat, with a crooked tail; just couldn't use "Crooky" as a name; "Kinky" may be temporary.

"Bumper," another part-Siamese, was usually seen sitting on the bumper of the old obligatory rusting truck. She got caught by the cowboys. They've had her spayed and front claws removed, and are keeping her as a housecat. Still adjusting to home life with other cats, but confined to a bedroom, seems to like the comfy spots and the a/c.

Glad for that. Always concerned for the little critters out here. This week we found the remains of a good-sized hawk by the water tower. Just one big wing. Wonder what got it. (No windmills in the vicinity, but eagles, owls, and muchmore.)

Ony our little old black housecat continues to mostly confine herself to our bedroom. Seems to be half-blind, but manages to crawl up on the bed at night to sleep next to me.

Daisy the magnificent Malinois barks hello and also throw the ball.

Posted by: mindful webworker - just another critter in creation at October 10, 2026 03:39 PM (yrKoI)

6 https://tinyurl.com/597d6wyr
I have a few dogs scattered around my miniature armies

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 03:40 PM (Ia/+0)

7 The story about Howe and Washington is a good one: a much better illustration of Washington's character than the famous one about the cherry tree, or his ability to fling a silver coin across the Potomac.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 03:40 PM (wzUl9)

8 My friends are busy with a growing family so I feed the cats now with food they brought over. Snowflake and her mom Starry are basically outdoor cats fine with kibble.

They will eat tuna fish happily, the good kind. I was surprised that sardines were a no.

Ralphy is doing well but there's 2 steps from the outside to inside. He was always fine with a bit of running room but the last few days he's been misjudging or something is off. I'll help him down the steps by holding onto his collar.

From now on though, I'll lift him inside the house so he doesn't hurt himself. He is full of life. As long as he can stand up by himself, I'll be there.

He was ALWAYS right by my late Mother's side. He'll be treated the same way.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 10, 2026 03:46 PM (Sco7b)

9 Big Stirling is sleeping on a cushion next to me on the couch. No idea where Dagny is; she could be in her bedroom window sauna, or curled in my desk chair.

Freddy the Freeloader, the gray tabby-with-white shorthair semi-feral, is still visiting frequently. After slopping my feline hogs, I fed him this morning. When I came back from breakfast and errands, the air was still cool enough that I left the door open for a while. Stirling and Freddy immediately faced each other through the screen. Freddy meows; Stirling just looks, no hissing or growling.

I'm not going to let Freddy in. But is it possible that he could pass an infection to Stirling if they touch noses?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 03:46 PM (wzUl9)

10 That bee looks like Tony Montana with a pile of blow!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 10, 2026 03:56 PM (kpS4V)

11 Meow...

Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at October 10, 2026 04:00 PM (sAmhv)

12 Your cat's behavior may be different:

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No. This are all applicable. There there is the primary one that seems to be missing:

"I am eating from a bowl on the floor with unidentifiable meat. YOU, are sitting at a table with SHRIMP!!!! MAKE WAY! MAKE WAY!!!! GIVE ME...N-O-W!!!!!"

(yeah, that one is universal and usually involves a bit of growling and low throat rumbles if there is deterrence of any sort)

Posted by: Orson at October 10, 2026 04:00 PM (dIske)

13 My cat Allie has found another snoozing spot in a corner of my office.

I guess she got tired of me kicking her (not on purpose) when she tries to nap under my desk.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 10, 2026 04:01 PM (FZ29D)

14 Alfred the great is pretty intimidating. I'd probably walk the other way.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 04:01 PM (RIvkX)

15 That is a nice story about General Howe and his dog and General Washington returning it. I expect General Howe would have done the same thing had Washington's dog wandered over to his camp.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2026 04:08 PM (JrHfD)

16 Seems to be half-blind, but manages to crawl up on the bed at night to sleep next to me.

Awww!. That is sweet

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2026 04:12 PM (JrHfD)

17 Hey, Tom Servo, I have purple spored puff ball fungus every year. It's one of the reasons I enjoy the last mowing of the year, because I'll nail one of those the second I see it.

I get a huge purple cloud out of the deal...which was the goal.

Posted by: Orson at October 10, 2026 04:12 PM (dIske)

18 Beautiful works of paper art by the Vietnamese artist.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2026 04:13 PM (JrHfD)

19 Your cat's behavior may be different:

Cat comes to my bedroom door and starts scratching and meowing. I tell him to finish the food already there. He keeps scratching and meowing. So I get up, go over to the bowl, and see food still in it, tell him, "You eat this first!"...he starts eating it...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 04:14 PM (l3cgK)

20

We have a Chigi. She was in a shelter until daughter adopted her. It did not work out for her, so of course Hubby and I being saps have adopted her.

Daisy is wonderful and we love her.

It is interesting having her living with us. The way our house was set up when she came to live with us is the way she thinks things should be the same. We move things around and she freaks out. Anything change she freaks out.

Has anyone of ya'll dealt with that??

Posted by: four seasons at October 10, 2026 04:15 PM (/QHx4)

21 Cat comes to my bedroom door and starts scratching and meowing. I tell him to finish the food already there. He keeps scratching and meowing. So I get up, go over to the bowl, and see food still in it, tell him, "You eat this first!"...he starts eating it...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

He wants an audience.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 10, 2026 04:17 PM (zcI95)

22 That is a nice story about General Howe and his dog and General Washington returning it. I expect General Howe would have done the same thing had Washington's dog wandered over to his camp.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2026 04:08 PM (JrHfD)

A major street in downtown Vancouver, BC is named Howe Street, presumably after said general, and is the core of the financial district. No doubt it will soon be renamed to some unpronounceable and unspellable* made-up Indian name.

*Because using characters not found on civilized keyboards.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 04:19 PM (quk5M)

23 Afternoon all,

I hope everyone in the hurricane's path stays safe.

Posted by: Joyenz at October 10, 2026 04:19 PM (2F0/Y)

24 The masked pup demanding treats was adorable. All of our pups loved popcorn as a treat. (Steak would have been preferred but the budget didn't stretch to it.) Never knew if it was the taste of the popcorn, the crunchy texture, or if they just wanted the butter. Over a year since we lost Precious the Bichon, we still are on the verge of tossing some on the floor.

Posted by: JTB at October 10, 2026 04:23 PM (yTvNw)

25 Has anyone of ya'll dealt with that??
Posted by: four seasons at October 10, 2026 04:15 PM (/QHx4)

She might have bad memories of things being moved. The previous owner (before your daughter) may have been moving things out of the house (to move house) and the next thing Daisy knew she was sitting in a cage at a shelter.

It’s possibly the most traumatic event in her life, and when she sees stuff moving, she thinks she’s next.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 04:25 PM (6ydKt)

26
SpeakingOf

That makes sense.

We feel so sad for her.

Posted by: four seasons at October 10, 2026 04:29 PM (/QHx4)

27 20 ... " The way our house was set up when she came to live with us is the way she thinks things should be the same. We move things around and she freaks out. Anything change she freaks out.

Has anyone of ya'll dealt with that??"

Our dogs never cared about moving things in the house as long as they had a spot to 'rest' from their labors: walking, eating and the stress of napping. We had a poodle who went blind at four years old. He bumped into things for a couple of days then learned the new arrangements. As long as he could smell and hear us, he was cool about it.

Posted by: JTB at October 10, 2026 04:34 PM (yTvNw)

28 It is interesting having her living with us. The way our house was set up when she came to live with us is the way she thinks things should be the same. We move things around and she freaks out. Anything change she freaks out.

Has anyone of ya'll dealt with that??
Posted by: four seasons at October 10, 2026 04:15 PM (/QHx4)

Ralphy was a rescue dog from Alabama. Mom always wondered what happened to him.

He freaks out if he's left alone. I'm in the downstairs computer room right now but if I went upstairs, he'd follow. I have a baby gate so he can't get up the stairs and after a few minutes he's howl and be miserable.

Severe abandonment issues. It was easier when Mom was here and he was agile because he was always with her. He has been sleeping solidly at night and I've been running scripts on the computer and coming down to work at 3am and he sleeps until 8am.

That's actually been nice. Snowflake wakes up, I hear a thud on the floor and she comes down to go outside.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 10, 2026 04:35 PM (Sco7b)

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Animals know what is going on.

Posted by: four seasons at October 10, 2026 04:45 PM (/QHx4)

30 Doggo The Original and Doggo the Additional were successfullt blessed today by our Associate Pastor. Belated observance of St Francis.

As a precaution, our Little Ball of Hate kitty was left home. It was advertised as a blessing, not an exorcism.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at October 10, 2026 04:46 PM (4HoLg)

31 Cautionary tale from the Yorkshire Zoo, those big orange tabbies are behind the cage for good reasons, don't jump in there to skritch their ear no matter how cute they look

Posted by: SDWtc at October 10, 2026 04:56 PM (be4pr)

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Animals know what is going on.

Posted by: four seasons at October 10, 2026 04:45 PM (/QHx4)

Which is why Alfred got into my photo above. I thought the puffballs were fascinating, so Alfred ran up, thinking “so why are you looking at this? What’s so interesting? Here at least let me get in the picture!”

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 10, 2026 05:11 PM (Y6Q+5)

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21 Cat comes to my bedroom door and starts scratching and meowing. I tell him to finish the food already there. He keeps scratching and meowing. So I get up, go over to the bowl, and see food still in it, tell him, "You eat this first!"...he starts eating it...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

He wants an audience.”

Out cat has a terrible fear of ever seeing the actual bottom of his bowl. Sometimes he will yowl, and I look and there’s food there but you can see the bottom. So I put some in and he just looks at it, satisfied that it’s filled, and goes to lay down without eating another bite.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 10, 2026 04:17 PM (zcI95)

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 10, 2026 05:15 PM (Y6Q+5)

34 *looks at bee vid*

Had a mosquito whisper the same thing into my ear last week.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 10, 2026 05:17 PM (2WIwB)

35 We move things around and she freaks out. Anything change she freaks out.

Has anyone of ya'll dealt with that??
Posted by: four seasons at October 10, 2026 04:15 PM (/QHx4)

Ruby just likes things the way they are. She is in hell over the house renovation this summer. She won't leave the camper if the contractor is on site. Then she gets freaked when we take her inside and things are changed. She would not go in the new bedroom until I moved a couple of dresser drawers with clothes that apparently smell like me. We finally put back the RubySpot which is one of the dog beds wedged in between our chairs in the living room, and she likes that.

Some critters are just particular.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 10, 2026 05:22 PM (BYJyI)

36 Noodus hobbyana -- furniture!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 05:30 PM (wzUl9)

37 Oh my!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 10, 2026 10:01 PM (96kpa)

Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, Oct. 10

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These two are the same flower, start off looking growly and end up looking like granny knitted it.

Eromero

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I think I had one of those once. But I never remember a specimen like that first face. Looks like Eromero might be preparing us for Halloween and All Saints Day, maybe. Do you see a face above?

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Edible Gardening/Putting Things By

Fall Beets

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How do you cook fall beets? Do you store beets?

If you can beets, you can use a water bath if they are pickled, but they must be pressure-canned if not pickled.

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Purchased beets are generally uniform in size, and may be easier for By-Tor's recipe:

I gave my buddy Ed some of my prize winning dill and bread and butter pickles. He must like them because he asked for more. Now comes the real test- pickled eggs and beets. I’ve been eating these since I was a child. Love em. But most people won’t try them because they look weird. They are easy to make.

1 can of beets ( sliced or whole, non-pickled)
2 hard boiled peeled eggs
About a cup of vinegar ( regular or ACV)
1/2 cup of water
3/4 cup of sugar.

Bring vinegar, water and sugar to a low boil until sugar dissolves. This is the brine. Adjust it with more sugar or more vinegar to your liking.

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Put beets and eggs in a container. Pour brine over until they are covered. Put in fridge. Wait a day. Enjoy. Usually I do two cans of beets and 5 eggs. Then I add more to the brine as I eat them.

I eat these as a side dish to just about everything.

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Post morning tennis lunch- lamb gyro with Greek yogurt , salad and pickled eggs and beets.

Interesting to see the eggs halved.

Another interesting recipe from By-Tor!


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Weather

Rachel Moorman Beckstead, Mill Creek

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Glad Piper's power came back on!

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Fights in or with Nature


We've been doing some of that at our house, too.



Anybody seen this happening?


Gardens of The Horde


A bit of colour in the autumn. I call them 'blacblack eyed susan', my wife has a Latin name. The rose keeps on flowering. unfortunately we have lost the name.

Chris 1051

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Thanks for sending in the great fall photos.

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Hope everyone has a nice weekend.


If you would like to send photos, stories, links, etc. for the Saturday Gardening Thread, the address is:

ktinthegarden at g mail dot com

Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.

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Week in Review

What has changed since last week's thread? Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, Oct. 3


I closed the comments on that post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway.

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Zinnias, Kay Pardue

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1 Good afternoon Greenthumbs

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 01:45 PM (Ia/+0)

2 I grow tons of those Passion Flowers for the butterflies & hopefully enough fruit to make some jelly.

Posted by: Bob at October 10, 2026 01:48 PM (cNhbl)

3 My wife is trying to grow some plants in basement with a sun lamp. Cabbage is full grown, tomatoes are maybe just under a foot high and a pepper plant only a few inches high.
Can't see it going to fruition but no harm I guess

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 01:48 PM (Ia/+0)

4 The top photo is either a dragon or a chihuahua.

Posted by: A random guy on the net at October 10, 2026 01:49 PM (dCMJG)

5 Bob at October 10, 2026 01:48 PM (cNhbl)

Is that one of the types of passion fruit that is used for juice?

Posted by: KT at October 10, 2026 01:52 PM (X8QDB)

6 4 The top photo is either a dragon or a chihuahua.

Hard to tell the difference, right?

Posted by: KT at October 10, 2026 01:53 PM (X8QDB)

7 I used to love pickled beets as a kid but just sort of lost the taste somewhere along the way to adulthood.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 10, 2026 01:53 PM (ld6At)

8 Eromero, those purple flowers are gorgeous.
Not much to report . Keep,thinking I should cut down the tomato and poblano containers but they just got some new flowers. The tomato especially has a bunch of tiny green tomatoes. Have to wait and see if the storm tomorrow knocks them out. My encore azalea is indeed doing an encore. I love how this area has beautiful flowering plants even in the fall.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 10, 2026 01:56 PM (kJmSS)

9 Skip at October 10, 2026 01:48 PM

Leafy greens are probably the best bet for winter.

Posted by: KT at October 10, 2026 01:56 PM (X8QDB)

10 The first picture looks exactly like a dragon.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 10, 2026 01:57 PM (kJmSS)

11 My cotton try came to naught. I went out last Monday to take the large almost mature bolls, I thought they were large enough to show fiber color at least. I found someone had stripped every single boll off the plant, even the newest just forming. Animals don’t eat the bolls, the plant was undamaged, and some of the bracts had been peeled off and dropped on the steps. Very disappointing.

Posted by: Lirio100 at October 10, 2026 01:57 PM (ky7/T)

12 First flower pic looks like a fricken dragon!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at October 10, 2026 02:00 PM (cWLG3)

13 Raw cotton poachers? That's gotta be a pretty narrow list of suspects. Stake out the next knitting bee.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 10, 2026 02:02 PM (ld6At)

14 I planted a mix of Rome (also called Cranberry) beans and a Salvadoran red bean when I finished digging my potatoes in July. They are now giving me green beans, and I picked and canned my first 4 pints this week. I think I will be able to continue canning at least once a week until we get the first frost.

Home canned beans are far better than the stuff you buy in cans. I buy my seeds by the pound from the Mexican market in town, the brand is Goya.
Both of those varieties are shell beans, but if I pick them early enough they are tasty green beans as well.

Several years ago I cleaned out my box of old seeds by dumping them into a jar and adding a double handful of cranberry beans and raking them into the dug over potato patch in the idea that it would give me some coverage on the dirt for the fall and keep the weeds in check. It worked but even better I got enough beans to can too. I now have given up planting pole beans in the spring because I can grow bush beans in the late summer.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 10, 2026 02:02 PM (rbvCR)

15 I love pickled beets, but haven't had them since my mom made them when I was a kid. My cousin gave me some pickled okra the other day that is very tasty. Our summer was too hot for everything, but it cooled and started to rain about a month ago, so all my plants grew again. I have green beans, cucumbers and cayennes, with green tomatoes on the vines. Depending on the freeze, which could come any time here, I might get a few tomatoes. If not, I'll pick the green ones and see if they'll turn inside.

Posted by: huerfano at October 10, 2026 02:06 PM (2Xqig)

16 Hooray!

KT and the Sunshine Thread!

Posters 'man' and 'one hour sober' are both in the Perdido Key/Destin area.

I don't think they've checked in yet.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 10, 2026 02:07 PM (QGaXH)

17 Lirio100, do you have squirrels? That is the sort of thing that squirrels will do. They are making winter nests about now.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 10, 2026 02:08 PM (rbvCR)

18 4 The top photo is either a dragon or a chihuahua.

Posted by: A random guy on the net at October 10, 2026 01:49 PM (dCMJG)

my first thought was dragon, but no snapdragon.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 02:14 PM (l3cgK)

19 There are squirrels but not even the largest, not quite golf ball size, had split. No fiber visible. The plant was over 3 feet tall and not a branch or leaf damaged. The oddest part was even the tiny very newest bolls forming were taken.

Posted by: Lirio100 at October 10, 2026 02:14 PM (ky7/T)

20 Collected nearly a dozen cactus fruit (Pitaya) this year, including one fruit that was 3/4 lb. Cactus has gone crazy; still had a few flowers bloom just the last week. I'm not sure what the cactus is sensing that I don't.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 02:15 PM (l3cgK)

21 I was able to harvest over a pound of pecans the crows missed...damned crows!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 02:16 PM (l3cgK)

22 I really need to move the contents of compost bine out because the new leaves have someplace to go

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 02:16 PM (Ia/+0)

23 Passion flower vines grow wild on the fences on our farm in MS. Along roads, etc. They were known as May Pops. I never noticed the fruit that gave them the name on my bike rides as a feral teen.

I always loved them and decades later started seeing them in plant catalogs.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 10, 2026 02:25 PM (hzuYO)

24 That top photo made me think of a tiny dragon peeking through the foliage. I never would have thought the full bloom version would look so different. A film tracking the transformation would be interesting. And really cool.

Posted by: JTB at October 10, 2026 02:27 PM (yTvNw)

25 That's obviously a Snapdragon.

Posted by: fd at October 10, 2026 02:28 PM (MWfyi)

26
Finally getting rain here in SW Wyoming.

My bulbs have sprouted, lol. Probably will not bloom but at least they are not dead.

Posted by: four seasons at October 10, 2026 02:28 PM (/QHx4)

27 No gardening to report here. Weather has turned cold. Freezing out, more or less, and a stiff breeze. Have to rehang the storm door that got blown off the hinges by a gust of wind. And haul some scrap propane tanks to the waste transfer site. I have seen propane tanks stacked there, so I assume they will take them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 02:29 PM (quk5M)

28 TS Rachel is coming to my neck of the woods...should cross over the desert to the east of here in the early a.m. tomorrow...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 02:30 PM (l3cgK)

29 Eromero's flower is very cool. Looks a little like a clematis seed cluster.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 02:30 PM (RIvkX)

30 Thanks to KT for the thread and the folks who send in materials. That last photo looks like one of those vibrant still life paintings by the Dutch Masters in the 1700s. Just gorgeous.

Posted by: JTB at October 10, 2026 02:30 PM (yTvNw)

31 The top photo looks like a dragon's face.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 10, 2026 02:33 PM (CHHv1)

32 I cut back my Gold Medal Rose yesterday. Because of Indian summer I have to force it into hibernation for "winter" which is usually only 20 degrees cooler anyway.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 02:34 PM (RIvkX)

33 Beckoning Chasm yes it does

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 02:34 PM (Ia/+0)

34 Have 2 old compost piles, so going to combine those then wgere 1 pile was will be where last years leaves go

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 02:41 PM (Ia/+0)

35 I've been messing around with a terrarium. I have a bunch of unused aquariums, because I like to upgrade as new models come out for fresh, salt and brackish.

So, recently, I thought I'd do a carnivorous plant terrarium in a 32 gallon tank. I grow a bunch of fruit which has a tendency to attract "fruit flies" when it ripens in the house. Fly Traps, Pitcher plants, Nepenthes...etc. I had no idea how many carnivorous plants were out there until I started looking into it. I've got the base plants set up...pitchers and flytraps. It takes a little bit of research to see what others like the same humidity and heat. It's a long term project.

Posted by: Orson at October 10, 2026 02:49 PM (dIske)

36 From Boise area: lows 54-59 F, highs 82-89. Fall arrived today - high will be around 55-60. HOA irrigation is now off, though we may get one more watering cycle before the pond drains down.

Final potato harvest was an entire 5 gallon bucket of Russets. Half were dry enough to brush off and weigh, 8 pounds 12 oz. The rest are still in the bucket drying off. Still a small number of tomatoes to pick, though that may end with the weather change. If frost threatens, we'll have to cut all the peppers. I've been cutting and freezing cantaloupe, since the vines are dead.

Bought 2 pumpkins and a spaghetti squash from the young entrepreneurs next door.

I had to put netting on the surface of our new bulb bed to keep cat/s out - I also sprinkled bulb food on top.

Husband pruned some trees, did some painting, worked on repairing the sweeper-cart - and had me dig up debris that had fallen in an irrigation box so he could see the valves and pipes to figure out what issues we'll have next spring - the system is under-designed for the demands on it.

Posted by: Pat* at October 10, 2026 02:50 PM (iZaMd)

37 Passion flowers. They got those weird eggish alien pods.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at October 10, 2026 02:54 PM (nDXEV)

38
Daughter-in-law can get anything to grow.

Some people have the knack.

Posted by: four seasons at October 10, 2026 03:05 PM (/QHx4)

39 I have plastic sheeting covering my piles, a year in the weather and they start breaking up

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 03:05 PM (Ia/+0)

40 I love that smiling green dragon, Eromero!

It's Octobering hard core here in the Mitten. Glorious foliage, sunny, with cool evenings. And no bugs!

I did some desultory puttering, transplanting a pretty blurple aster out front and moving some of my blue salvia to my bare vegetable patch. I had to shake off lots of bees to move it -- " I'm workin' here, lady!" -- but the community garden bees took up the slack. I also gently pulled up rogue snapdragons and marigolds sprouting outside of garden plots and put them in mine.

I've already got kale sprouting.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 10, 2026 03:08 PM (kpS4V)

41 Some folks have plots bursting with tomatoes and peppers ready for picking but they totally neglect their gardens! These people disgust me.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 10, 2026 03:12 PM (kpS4V)

42 ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 10, 2026 02:25 PM

There are many, many kinds of passion flowers. Some have tastier fruits than others. Some don't make fruits.

I think the one above may be a hybrid rather than a native Maypop.

Posted by: KT at October 10, 2026 03:27 PM (X8QDB)

43 The name "passionflower" comes from the distinctive parts of the flowers, which people compared to the Passion of Christ.

Posted by: KT at October 10, 2026 03:28 PM (X8QDB)

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28 TS Rachel is coming to my neck of the woods...should cross over the desert to the east of here in the early a.m. tomorrow...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 02:30 PM

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Just got a brief thunderstorm in East County. Early.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 10, 2026 03:33 PM (azNOR)

45 @43...thanks. Will look into this as I didn't know.

One August, when I flew West back to college, I brought stuff with me to remind me of home. A magnolia tree seed pod and, once, an osage-orange ball aka "horse apple."

An artist friend was fascinated and wanted to paint both that I took for granted as summer in MS.

In spring we had redbud and dogwood trees blooming in the woods, along with tall vines into oaks of white Cherokee roses. It was lovely.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 10, 2026 03:38 PM (hzuYO)

46 44
28 TS Rachel is coming to my neck of the woods...should cross over the desert to the east of here in the early a.m. tomorrow...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 02:30 PM

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Just got a brief thunderstorm in East County. Early.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 10, 2026 03:33 PM (azNOR)

Just a little bit in my part of Sandy Eggo County...the plants are wet. Some breeziness.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 03:39 PM (l3cgK)

47 Passionflower:

• 5 Petals and 5 Sepals: Represent the 10 faithful apostles (excluding Judas the betrayer and Peter the denier).
• Corona Filaments: The ring of hair-like rays represents the crown of thorns.
• 3 Stigmas: Represent the three nails used to fasten Jesus to the cross.
• 5 Anthers / Stamens: Represent the five wounds of Christ.
• Tendrils: Represent the whips used during the flagellation.
• Leaves: Shaped like a spear or hand, representing the Holy Lance or the hands of Christ's persecutors.
• Round Fruit: Represents the world that Jesus saved.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 10, 2026 03:43 PM (hzuYO)

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We have a large garage here in Wyoming. I have been thinking about buying grow lights so I can grow some things through the winter.

Is that a pipe dream, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at October 10, 2026 03:45 PM (/QHx4)

49 Is that a pipe dream, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at October 10, 2026 03:45 PM (/QHx4)

Only if you smoke what you grow!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 03:48 PM (quk5M)

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Lol AOP,

Hubby and I wish we had some pot, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at October 10, 2026 03:49 PM (/QHx4)

51 Nice post, KT!

Posted by: 40 Miles North at October 10, 2026 04:31 PM (96qvc)

52 Thanks KT for posting my cellphone pictures. Maypops were common in SC where I grew up and we did eat them. We'd pretty much eat anything. The wiki says it's Passiflora incarnata, like CrristyBlinkey said.

Posted by: Eromero at October 10, 2026 05:19 PM (LHPAg)

53 The best way to cook beets is to sous vide them. 3 hours at 185 and they come out perfectly. And CBD will be proud of you!

Posted by: Shannon at October 10, 2026 06:51 PM (MhJxa)

Real history

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What was peculiar about the West was not that it participated in the worldwide evil of slavery, but that it later abolished that evil, not only in Western societies but also in other societies subject to Western control or influence.
This was possible only because the anti-slavery movement coincided with an era in which Western power and hegemony were at their zenith, so that it was essentially European imperialism which ended slavery. This idea might seem shocking, not because it does not fit the facts, but because it does not fit the prevailing vision of our time.

~ Thomas Sowell, Black Rednecks and White Liberals (2005)

Why aren't these books in your local "frequently banned books" display?

Which of these have you read?


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The "1619 Project" has been in the news again. Why not this book?

Is it because the "1619 Project" has failed again and the book above has no such provocative record of failure?

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They tried to totally obliterate this one from the market. FOR ADULTS

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For the kids:


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Back on September 25, Ace wrote: Cambridge University: We Have Cancelled Our Promised Investigation Into How Unqualified Fabulist Jason Arday Was Hired. Instead We Will Investigate How We Failed to "Support" Him and Other DEI Incompetents and Plagiarists.

Better idea? Or is Cambridge cooked?

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Founding Fathers

A Daily Dose of the American Rev
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“No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.”

In June 1776, fifteen years before the ratification of the Bill of Rights, Virginia adopted the Virginia Declaration of Rights -- "the basis and foundation of government" in Virginia. The importance of this document to the emergence of liberal democracy in the United States and around the world cannot be overstated. George Mason, principal author of the Declaration, died on this day in 1792.
Below is the Declaration in full.

A DECLARATION OF RIGHTS made by the representatives of the good people of Virginia, assembled in full and free convention which rights do pertain to them and their posterity, as the basis and foundation of government.

Section 1. That all men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.

Section 2. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; that magistrates are their trustees and servants and at all times amenable to them.

Section 3. That government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community; of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety and is most effectually secured against the danger of maladministration. And that, when any government shall be found inadequate or contrary to these purposes, a majority of the community has an indubitable, inalienable, and indefeasible right to reform, alter, or abolish it, in such manner as shall be judged most conducive to the public weal.

Section 4. None of mankind is entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of public services; which, not being descendible, neither ought the offices of magistrate, legislator, or judge to be hereditary.

Section 5. That the legislative and executive powers of the state should be separate and distinct from the judiciary; and that the members of the two first may be restrained from oppression, by feeling and participating the burdens of the people, they should, at fixed periods, be reduced to a private station, return into that body from which they were originally taken, and the vacancies be supplied by frequent, certain, and regular elections, in which all, or any part, of the former members, to be again eligible, or ineligible, as the laws shall direct.

Section 6. That elections of members to serve as representatives of the people, in assembly ought to be free; and that all men, having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to, the community, have the right of suffrage and cannot be taxed or deprived of their property for public uses without their own consent or that of their representatives so elected, nor bound by any law to which they have not, in like manner, assented for the public good.

Section 7. That all power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws, by any authority, without consent of the representatives of the people, is injurious to their rights and ought not to be exercised.

Section 8. That in all capital or criminal prosecutions a man has a right to demand the cause and nature of his accusation, to be confronted with the accusers and witnesses, to call for evidence in his favor, and to a speedy trial by an impartial jury of twelve men of his vicinage, without whose unanimous consent he cannot be found guilty; nor can he be compelled to give evidence against himself; that no man be deprived of his liberty except by the law of the land or the judgment of his peers.

Section 9. That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

Section 10. That general warrants, whereby an officer or messenger may be commanded to search suspected places without evidence of a fact committed, or to seize any person or persons not named, or whose offense is not particularly described and supported by evidence, are grievous and oppressive and ought not to be granted.

Section 11. That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other and ought to be held sacred.

Section 12. That the freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

Section 13. That a well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous to liberty; and that in all cases the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.

Section 14. That the people have a right to uniform government; and, therefore, that no government separate from or independent of the government of Virginia ought to be erected or established within the limits thereof.

Section 15. That no free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.

Section 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other.


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George Mason

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Friends of George Washington
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Duane Montague ·
On October 6, 1776, a Connecticut captain sat down and wrote a letter to his wife. He was exhausted and most of his men were sick. The campaign was not going well.

But the first thing he wanted Priscilla to know was this: “you must not think that Distance & long Absence has weaned in the least degree my Affections from you & my family.”

His name was Jonathan Birge.

Unlike many of the names we remember from 1776, Birge was just an ordinary man who heard the call of liberty and answered. A husband from Bolton, Connecticut, and father of six children, Birge was made captain of a company raised from his neighbors and friends.

When George Washington called for reinforcements in 1776, Birge marched south with Connecticut troops to help defend New York.

The British had already taken Long Island, the Continentals were retreating northward. And nobody knew whether the Revolution itself could survive the year.
From camp at Harlem Heights, Birge wrote home, and the picture he painted was not heroic.

"I never saw a worse place to be sick in for we have not one doctor to our whole Brigade in camp…Our people are some what sickly in camp yet."
The living conditions were miserable. He’d lost his pack in the retreat and asked Priscilla for two blankets. The army had finally obtained tents and straw to sleep on, but Birge admitted: “we fare considerably like hogs.”
And yet he refused to pity himself. After describing sickness, shortages, and hardship, he wrote: “I desire not to complain For I am alive & why should a living man complain."

Birge wanted his wife and children to understand why he remained anyway. It wasn’t money, fame, or glory. “It is not all the commissions or pay...it is for the cause of freedom & love to posterity."

A few paragraphs later, he tried to reassure Priscilla that he was healthy and still performing his duties: “I am the only Cpt in the Regiment that is well."
Three weeks later, he was wounded at the Battle of White Plains. An enemy musket ball went into his shoulder. Jonathan Birge died on November 10, 1776, at age forty-two.

A week after Birge's death, three fellow soldiers wrote to Priscilla to tell her that her husband was gone. They regretted his loss deeply.
On October 6, 1776 a father and husband wrote a simple confession that still stirs hearts, 250 years later. He was just an ordinary American who knew exactly what he was risking “for the cause of freedom…”
Five weeks later, his family learned the price.
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I believe history matters because legacy matters. The choices we make, the faith that sustains us, and the families we leave behind all become part of a story larger than ourselves. If you enjoy discovering the people behind the history, follow along as we explore the stories, struggles, and legacies that helped shape America.

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A Daily Dose of the American Rev


With the resolution for independence about to voted upon in the Congressional Congress, Delaware delegate Thomas McKean was very concerned. Although he strongly favored independence, his fellow Delawarean George Read was opposed. McKean wanted the states to vote for independence unanimously, and he certainly did not want Delaware to have the dishonor (as he saw it) of being the lone holdout. So, on the evening before the crucial vote, McKean dispatched a courier to Dover, 80 miles away, with a crucial message for Caesar Rodney—get to Philadelphia as fast as you can.

Rodney was Delaware’s third delegate, but he was also a brigadier general of the state’s militia and had been forced to return to Delaware to help put down a Loyalist uprising there. He was also in poor health, suffering from asthma and painful facial cancer. But when McKean’s message arrived, Rodney set out for Philadelphia immediately, riding all night through a powerful thunderstorm. After one of the most famous rides in American history, he arrived at what would come to called Independence Hall in the nick of time, “booted and spurred,” exhausted, and mud-covered, to cast the tiebreaking vote in the Delaware delegation. “As I believe the voice of my constituents and of all sensible and honest men is in favor of independence,” he declared, a green scarf covering his cancer-ravaged face, “my own judgment concurs with them. I vote for independence.”

Caesar Rodney is best remembered for his famous ride, but he served Delaware and the Patriot cause in numerous ways during his life: as a delegate to the Stamp Act Congress, as a general in the state’s militia, as a delegate to the Continental Congress, as a state Supreme Court justice, and as President (chief executive) of Delaware. Even as his health deteriorated, forcing him to cover his face with bandages and rendering him unable to travel, Rodney was elected to the Delaware General Assembly and was chosen Speaker of the upper house. Knowing that he was unable leave his home, in a gesture of respect and honor the Assembly voted to convene in his house, which they did in April 1784, just weeks before his death at age 55.

Today is the birthday of Delaware Founding Father Caesar Rodney, who was born 298 years ago today.

caesar rodney.jpg

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In taking up the Patriot cause, at a time when many fellow wealthy South Carolinians were remaining loyal to the crown, Henry Laurens risked both his life and his substantial fortune. Widely respected across America, he was chosen President of the Continental Congress in November 1777, the highest-ranking executive position under the Articles of Confederation.

Laurens was appointed American minister to the Netherlands after his term ended and in August 1780, he was dispatched to Amsterdam about the packet ship Mercury, charged with negotiating a loan to help finance the war effort. Off the coast of Newfoundland, the Mercury was intercepted by the HMS Vestal, a British man of war. When Laurens realized his capture was imminent, he tossed overboard the trunk containing his diplomatic papers.

A sixteen-year-old new recruit aboard the Vestal saw something tumble into the water off the deck of the Mercury. Believing a man had fallen overboard he called out an alarm. Another British sailor aboard the Vestal immediately dived into the water. But what he discovered was not an unfortunate man in need of rescue, but rather Lauren’s trunk, which had not had time to sink. Taken aboard the Vestal and opened, the trunk was found to contain Lauren’s commission to negotiate the Dutch loan, as well as a draft treaty between the United States and the Netherlands. Laurens was carried to England and placed in the Tower of London, charged with high treason, and Great Britain declared war on the Netherlands.

During Lauren’s first day in the Tower, a band outside his cell taunted him with “Yankee Doodle.” Lauren’s later recalled, “The tune played I suppose in derision of me filled my mind with a sublime contempt and rather made me cheerful.”

Laurens remained confined in the Tower for 15 months, refusing numerous offers of release in exchange for renouncing the American cause and requesting a pardon. “Imprisonment and even death…shall not shake me,” Laurens wrote, rejecting one of the offers. “My conscience acquits me, is serene & undisturbed; if I die, let me die in my integrity.”

General Washington sent both Colonel John Laurens (Henry’s son) and the Viscount Noailles (Lafayette’s brother-in-law) to London to attempt to negotiate Laurens’ release, but their efforts were fruitless. Congress offered to exchange General John Burgoyne (who was a paroled prisoner of war captured at Saratoga) for Laurens, but the British refused, saying that Laurens was a prisoner of state not a prisoner of war and therefore ineligible for exchange. But the truth was that the British authorities had no great desire to see Burgoyne released from parole. Their position dramatically reversed when General Cornwallis was taken prisoner at Yorktown. On December 31, 1781, Laurens was finally released, in exchange for a promise to effect the release of Cornwallis from parole.
After his release from the Tower, Laurens finished his much-delayed journey to Holland and there he negotiated the terms of a desperately needed loan. He would go on to be one of the American commissioners who negotiated the Treaty of Paris, the peace treaty that ended the Revolutionary War and secured American independence.

Henry Laurens was imprisoned in the Tower of London on October 6, 1780, two hundred forty-six years ago today.

The image is a portrait made while he was being held in the Tower.

Henry Laurens.jpg


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WEEKEND

The Week in Pictures: Electile Dysfunction Edition

So Secretary of State Marco Rubio outraged the Woke Industrial Complex by standing up for Western Civilization (gasp!). If he keeps this up, he might be president someday. Meanwhile, in fake news, Missouri’s department of prisons is thinking of hiring some Canadian doctors from Canada’s MAID Service to conduct future death row executions, while Cornell and other universities are thinking about ending their “sex week” offerings that greenlight “consensual” orgies at frat houses. And behold the irony that while South America is turning almost uniformly right-wing in recent elections, American voters seem poised in three weeks to transform the country in to a banana republic. Talk about being “blue-pilled”!

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Music

Yankee Doodle

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Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Serving your mid-day open thread needs


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Last week's thread, Barbarians gonna barbarian

UPDATE: There are rumors that the health education folks at Cornell are thinking about ending their practice of encouraging fun group sex among students.

Comments are closed so you won't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.

Posted by: K.T. at 11:01 AM




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1 Where be everyone?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 10, 2026 11:09 AM (JzUSu)

2 I’m over the tranny shit. It’s a left wing thing. Leftist parents chopping body parts off their left wing kids. Whatever. Have at it. Not my problem.

Same with blacks. Succeed, don’t succeed whatever. You keep voting for people who want me dead so I give less than zero fucks about your well being.

I’m done caring about the well being of any group that hates me. Kill yourselves, mutilate yourselves, live in poverty. My give a fuck meter is pegged at 0.0 for all of it.




Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 10, 2026 11:09 AM (qoHuP)

3 Interesting that right to bear arms was number 13 on that list but moved up to number 2 in the bill of rights.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 10, 2026 11:12 AM (qoHuP)

4 George Mason attended my church, along with George Washington and George Fairfax. The first two are pretty impressive, but GF became a loyalist before the Revolution, and absconded to England. You can't win them all.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 10, 2026 11:14 AM (Riz8t)

5 Where be everyone?

Reading the copious content?

Posted by: Archimedes at October 10, 2026 11:15 AM (Riz8t)

6 Good morning KT

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 11:16 AM (Ia/+0)

7 Morning! Missed the prayer thread cuz I was at Wally World getting the oil changed in the car.

Didn't sleep well. Might go back to bed after lunch, being Saturday and all.

Posted by: RandomDave at October 10, 2026 11:18 AM (aJQbY)

8 Those leftist narratives certainly are persistent.

Posted by: Jay at October 10, 2026 11:19 AM (zhWvq)

9 And behold the irony that while South America is turning almost uniformly right-wing in recent elections, American voters seem poised in three weeks to transform the country in to a banana republic.

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Geez, that's quite a downer. I hope this is wrong.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 10, 2026 11:19 AM (qBdHI)

10 Many still today are held in slavery, here and around the world.

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 11:21 AM (Ia/+0)

11 Where be everyone?

Reading the copious content?
Posted by: Archimedes
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That it is. Downright girthy.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 10, 2026 11:21 AM (JzUSu)

12 Another problem with the tranny shit is "therapists" get ahold of young men and women over 18 and convince them that they are autistic and in the wrong body, like that will fix everything, instead of actually helping them deal with life.

Posted by: fd at October 10, 2026 11:21 AM (MWfyi)

13 " Where be everyone?"

I just washed one car and now will do a truck. It's easier when it's been raining.

Posted by: fd at October 10, 2026 11:23 AM (MWfyi)

14 4 George Mason attended my church, along with George Washington and George Fairfax.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 10, 2026 11:14 AM (Riz8t)


You're not really 29, are you?

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at October 10, 2026 11:23 AM (OlzlW)

15 Look, Fat, that Rodney guy was a fine Delawarean,but he didn't get 81 Million votes and he didn't have a Corvette and Top Secret documents in his garage!

Posted by: Scranton Joe, Standing In A Puddle at October 10, 2026 11:24 AM (EdP2u)

16 What a great thread with all kinds of interesting links. Thanks so much. K.T!I didn't know that there was a response to "The 1619 Project." I'll have to look for that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2026 11:24 AM (JrHfD)

17 Our friends have a grandson (sorta, the woman had him with previous husband before marrying current husband). He is probably 12, and they all delight in him dressing in women's clothes and generally being, IDK? Gay? He's been doing it for years, I guess.

They are rabid Trump-hating lefties, so of course this is all A-OK with them. In the interest of maintaining our friendship, I have resisted telling the boy to stop being a fag, for his own good, but I suspect he'll find that out the hard way.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at October 10, 2026 11:27 AM (QaH55)

18 That is a few good articles KT

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 11:27 AM (Ia/+0)

19 Where be everyone?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 10, 2026 11:09 AM (JzUSu)

I was here just after KT posted it. Just didn't have anything to say. Shoot, looking at the old sock, I didn't even participate on the site yesterday. Guess I'm just losing interest in posting.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 10, 2026 11:28 AM (1Ff7Z)

20 Look, Fat, that Rodney guy was a fine Delawarean,but he didn't get 81 Million votes and he didn't have a Corvette and Top Secret documents in his garage!

Posted by: Scranton Joe, Standing In A Puddle


They had Biden "give a speech" at some function a few months back. AFAIK, there has not been a repeat. It's a mystery why.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 10, 2026 11:28 AM (Riz8t)

21 “No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.”

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So you're saying we're f*cked?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 10, 2026 11:29 AM (ndZc7)

22 He is probably 12, and they all delight in him dressing in women's clothes and generally being, IDK? Gay? He's been doing it for years, I guess.

They are rabid Trump-hating lefties, so of course this is all A-OK with them.


Don't believe it. They hate that he does it, but they know the socially correct response, and the penalties for not falling in to line.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 10, 2026 11:30 AM (Riz8t)

23 9 And behold the irony that while South America is turning almost uniformly right-wing in recent elections, American voters seem poised in three weeks to transform the country in to a banana republic.

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Geez, that's quite a downer. I hope this is wrong.
Posted by: Lady in Black at October 10, 2026 11:19 AM (qBdHI)

The word seem is doing a lot of work in that sentence.

While the media have been uniformly against broadcasting any news that benefits Trump, I firmly believe that the people of this country still remember what a disaster the Dems were when Biden was POTUS less than two years ago, and that the Dems have absolutely no plan for how to fix the supposed problems that Trump has saddled us with.

Ben Had says we're increasing our hold on the legislative branch, and I'm with her on that one.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 10, 2026 11:31 AM (0CU3H)

24 Thanks for the reminders KT.

Good morning Horde.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 10, 2026 11:31 AM (NnhvP)

25 Hi everyone! Everyone on the gulf safe and sound? We got power back at 530 this morning, and had to pull quite a few limbs out of the pool, but all is well here. It’s a chilly 74, however.

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 11:32 AM (ZdaMQ)

26 The word seem is doing a lot of work in that sentence.

While the media have been uniformly against broadcasting any news that benefits Trump, I firmly believe that the people of this country still remember what a disaster the Dems were when Biden was POTUS less than two years ago, and that the Dems have absolutely no plan for how to fix the supposed problems that Trump has saddled us with.

Ben Had says we're increasing our hold on the legislative branch, and I'm with her on that one.


I'm worried about jinxing it, but that is my opinion as well.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 10, 2026 11:32 AM (Riz8t)

27 There is, in addition, the TX Declaration of Independence from 1836…just sayin…

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 10, 2026 11:33 AM (ekZzx)

28 Henry Laurens certainly ought to be better known than he is. As an aside, Laurens, SC is named in his honor.

A footnote: His oldest son, John Laurens, was an aide-de-camp to George Washington and a colonel in the Continental Army.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 10, 2026 11:33 AM (XeU6L)

29 17 Our friends have a grandson (sorta, the woman had him with previous husband before marrying current husband). He is probably 12, and they all delight in him dressing in women's clothes and generally being, IDK? Gay?
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at October 10, 2026 11:27 AM (QaH55


I've seen this multiple times -- it appears to be a way to torture the ex-husband.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at October 10, 2026 11:33 AM (OlzlW)

30 Frugality? What on Earth is that? The Frug went out with The Watusi in 1965!

Posted by: Unamerican Bandstand at October 10, 2026 11:33 AM (EdP2u)

31 “American voters seem poised in three weeks to transform the country in to a banana republic.”

Nonsense.
All the polls are wrong.
TJM is right.
Everyone loves Trump.
Unskew the polls.
Onward to victory!


Posted by: A0S C0pe at October 10, 2026 11:33 AM (I/RqB)

32 None of mankind is entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of public services; which, not being descendible, neither ought the offices of magistrate, legislator, or judge to be hereditary.

The entire (D) party is made up of people that 100% disagree with this statement and in fact their life is spent trying to overrule these basic ideas.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 11:33 AM (/+uur)

33 Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 11:32 AM (ZdaMQ)

Glad to hear that the power is back on and you and yours are doing o.k., Piper.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2026 11:34 AM (JrHfD)

34 33 Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 11:32 AM (ZdaMQ)

Glad to hear that the power is back on and you and yours are doing o.k., Piper.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2026 11:34 AM (JrHfD

Thank you! Destin got the brunt of it, we need to pray for them.

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 11:36 AM (ZdaMQ)

35 25 Hi everyone! Everyone on the gulf safe and sound? We got power back at 530 this morning, and had to pull quite a few limbs out of the pool, but all is well here. It’s a chilly 74, however.
Posted by: Piper

Good to hear! Any word on your place of bidness?

Posted by: Sweatin' to the Oldies Here at October 10, 2026 11:36 AM (EdP2u)

36 George Mason was the author of the Fairfax Resolves and the Virginia Declaration of Rights, but did NOT sign the Constitution, despite being one of the authors, because it didn't originally include a Bill of Rights.

Madison didn't really want a BofR, claiming it was unnecessary, but promised one for the period after the signing. I don't really know why he bothered opposing it. If I'd have been him, I'd have said "Fine, it's not necessary, but I'll give you one. It can't hurt." Perhaps he was worried it would become yet another bone of contention in a Congress that already had plenty.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 10, 2026 11:36 AM (Riz8t)

37
Ben Had says we're increasing our hold on the legislative branch, and I'm with her on that one.
Posted by: Darrell Harris

My prayers are with your endeavors.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 10, 2026 11:37 AM (NnhvP)

38 Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 11:36 AM

I will do that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2026 11:37 AM (JrHfD)

39 It’s a chilly 74, however.
Posted by: Piper

Hope you can find your heavy wool coats!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 10, 2026 11:38 AM (NnhvP)

40 Texas

When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty and property of the people, from whom its legitimate powers are derived, and for the advancement of whose happiness it was instituted, and so far from being a guarantee for the enjoyment of those inestimable and inalienable rights, becomes an instrument in the hands of evil rulers for their oppression.

100% of the Biden Administration set up to destroy these ideas and make the "people" poor, powerless, and oppressed.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 11:38 AM (/+uur)

41 Hurricanes that hit after dark are much scarier than daytime storms. Been through more than my share, living on the NC Coast since 1988.

Posted by: Currituck Chuck at October 10, 2026 11:40 AM (EdP2u)

42 I have un skewed the polls.

Some random precinct in rural Texas increased its early vote by 1%. This is proof all polling is wrong and Texas will go red by 9%.

Posted by: A0S C0pe at October 10, 2026 11:40 AM (I/RqB)

43 they know the socially correct response, and the penalties for not falling in to line.
Posted by: Archimedescredit?

I never heard of her but . . .

Country music singer Ella Langley is facing an online backlash. But it’s not about political statements, as is the case with many celebrities. It’s not even about her music.
People are incensed at her because she posted pictures of herself posing with deer she hunted. Now, people on social media are all in a tizzy because she enjoys the same activities as many male country singers.
. . . .
Country Chord documented people calling her an "industry plant" and saying she was basically MAGA. In the screenshots circulating online, the language gets uglier still: "trailer trash," "b*tch."

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On the other hand, Lindsay Clancy is more a victim of a cold, cruel world.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 10, 2026 11:41 AM (ndZc7)

44 Good to hear! Any word on your place of bidness?
Posted by: Sweatin' to the Oldies Here at October 10, 2026

The building is fine! I am headed there to turn everything back on in a little bit. We will hold classes as normal tomorrow, but are closed today.

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 11:41 AM (ZdaMQ)

45 I saw a car with a window sticker for a Republican. This proves all polling is wrong. Final senate will be 71 Republicans, House will be 351 Republicans.

The polls have been un skewed.

Posted by: A0S C0pe at October 10, 2026 11:45 AM (I/RqB)

46 39 It’s a chilly 74, however.
Posted by: Piper

Best to drain the pool pump and filter before it freezes solid and busts wide open!

Posted by: Prudence Dictates at October 10, 2026 11:45 AM (EdP2u)

47
Value of Nobel Prizes:

Solid: Chemistry, Physics
Good, if flawed: Medicine
Complete jokes: Literature, Peace

I missed out on the Chemistry prize this year. Again.

*kicks rock*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 11:46 AM (eRlcH)

48 NPR explains it all.

The Atlantic season's first hurricane, Isaias, is spinning up in the Gulf of Mexico. Even as El Niño limited this year's Atlantic storms, climate change is making hurricanes more intense.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 10, 2026 11:46 AM (ndZc7)

49 The polls have been un skewed.
Posted by: A0S C0pe

You, Sir, or Madam, or Something in between, are an inane Drone!

Posted by: Worthy Of Scorn at October 10, 2026 11:47 AM (EdP2u)

50 Pokémon is not pretty.

Pokémon VGC champion says another player's BO caused him to vomit

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 10, 2026 11:48 AM (ndZc7)

51 Outstanding post K.T. Thank you very much.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at October 10, 2026 11:48 AM (cDs67)

52 In June 1776, fifteen years before the ratification of the Bill of Rights, Virginia adopted the Virginia Declaration of Rights -- "the basis and foundation of government" in Virginia.

I could live under this.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 10, 2026 11:49 AM (4NO2D)

53 The polls have been un skewed.
Posted by: A0S C0pe at October 10, 2026 11:45 AM



Senate R+3 House R+8.

Book it.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 10, 2026 11:50 AM (4NO2D)

54 I've always admired Caesar Rodney for his determination in very difficult circumstances. Thanks for your including him.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2026 11:50 AM (JrHfD)

55 I'm going through the aging boomer decluttering phase. I've learned that nobody wants: 1) books, 2) our old "brown furniture," and 3) antiques and "collectibles."

So if you're looking for any of that stuff, rejoice! There will be a massive glut of it, selling very very cheap, very very soon.

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 11:51 AM (Jr5Lq)

56 Section 2. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; that magistrates are their trustees and servants and at all times amenable to them.


As my dear mother, bhdds, would say, "First, we kill the judges".

Posted by: From about That Time at October 10, 2026 11:53 AM (sl73Y)

57 Don't believe it. They hate that he does it, but they know the socially correct response, and the penalties for not falling in to line.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 10, 2026 11:30 AM (Riz8t)

I think you underestimate the fervor of the true believers.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at October 10, 2026 11:53 AM (QaH55)

58 I'm going through the aging boomer decluttering phase. I've learned that nobody wants: 1) books, 2) our old "brown furniture," and 3) antiques and "collectibles."

So if you're looking for any of that stuff, rejoice! There will be a massive glut of it, selling very very cheap, very very soon.
Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 11:51 AM


Dealing with my parent's estate I can say that this is 100% true. Add Silverware and Fine China to the kids don't want it list.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 10, 2026 11:53 AM (4NO2D)

59 And quite the content. Thanks.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 10, 2026 11:54 AM (sl73Y)

60 This post is Girthy, Meaty, Beaty, Big, and Bouncy. Kudos to K.T. for delivering excellence on a Saturday morning. Even if it is my busy day!

Posted by: Shabbos Goy at October 10, 2026 11:54 AM (EdP2u)

61 48 NPR explains it all.

The Atlantic season's first hurricane, Isaias, is spinning up in the Gulf of Mexico. Even as El Niño limited this year's Atlantic storms, climate change is making hurricanes more intense.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 10, 2026 11:46 AM (ndZc7)

Climate has always changed, and always will change.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 10, 2026 11:55 AM (ekZzx)

62
3) antiques and "collectibles."

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Her Majesty is off-loading several tons of Borzoi collectibles as trophies and prizes for specialties. Last weekend, not only did she judge the Borzoi Club of Greater Omaha specialty, she also donated every trophy awarded.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 11:56 AM (eRlcH)

63 >>>>>Ben Had says we're increasing our hold on the legislative branch, and I'm with her on that one.
Posted by: Darrell Harris

My prayers are with your endeavors.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron
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In 2016 and 2024 we gave the Republicans hold over the Congress along with the greatest POTUS ever to work with yet the still wavered.
Will this time be different?

Posted by: Cosda at October 10, 2026 11:57 AM (Vbk8C)

64 Baloney! Beanie Babies are fully funding my lucrative retirement!

Posted by: Savvy Investor at October 10, 2026 11:57 AM (EdP2u)

65 I moved most of my vehicles out to open public parking lots in preparation for the hurricane. Now I have to get my walking miles in bringing them back.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 10, 2026 11:57 AM (4NO2D)

66 "Add Silverware and Fine China to the kids don't want it list."

Silver plated stuff is worthless, but make sure to check for solid sterling marks on stuff before discarding. In my garage saling days, I picked up a lot of precious metals really cheap.

I gave a couple hundred (pretty good) books to the Salvation Army a few weeks ago, and today I visited their retail store, and see that they don't even shelve or sell them anymore. They probably go straight to pulpers or dumpsters.

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 11:57 AM (Jr5Lq)

67 Psssh, England didn't abolish the transatlantic slave trade until 1807, and it took until 1834 to abolish slavery in its colonies.

They can piss off.

Posted by: McLurkerson at October 10, 2026 11:58 AM (AZDyS)

68
HM has also given away no small number of rosettes and ribbons she's won for repurposing. Both clubs and superintendents are grateful

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 12:00 PM (eRlcH)

69 Value of Nobel Prizes:

Solid: Chemistry, Physics
Good, if flawed: Medicine
Complete jokes: Literature, Peace

I missed out on the Chemistry prize this year. Again.

*kicks rock*


You too?
*kicks an even bigger rock*

Posted by: Archimedes at October 10, 2026 12:00 PM (Riz8t)

70 When did the DU fluffers start limping in here on Saturday mornings?

Posted by: McLurkerson at October 10, 2026 12:01 PM (AZDyS)

71 In 2016 and 2024 we gave the Republicans hold over the Congress along with the greatest POTUS ever to work with yet the still wavered.
Will this time be different?


Think about who is no longer going to be there in January. Yes, things will be different. Not different enough to please me completely, but certainly different.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 10, 2026 12:02 PM (Riz8t)

72 Saw a fun stat: Ukraine blew up a Russian datacenter belonging to Yandex the other day, and 50% of bot traffic on X stopped immediately.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 10, 2026 12:03 PM (QZThv)

73
When did the DU fluffers start limping in here on Saturday mornings?
Posted by: McLurkerson at October 10, 2026 12:01 PM (AZDyS)

__________

When did they start waking up this early?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 12:03 PM (eRlcH)

74 In 2016 and 2024 we gave the Republicans hold over the Congress along with the greatest POTUS ever to work with yet the still wavered.
Will this time be different?
Posted by: Cosda at October 10, 2026 11:57 AM (Vbk8C)

In the Senate Mr. Tills and Mr. Cornyn are out.

If that is any indication…it just might.

Better lean ou your Reps and Sens just in case though.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 10, 2026 12:03 PM (ekZzx)

75 "When did the DU fluffers start limping in here on Saturday mornings?"

Intrepid left them for reddit. They feel a bit dissed is all and just want to let us know they are still around.

Posted by: A random guy on the net at October 10, 2026 12:03 PM (dCMJG)

76 On a more positive note, and in re. to the founding of the country, I was doing some genealogy work a number of years ago on my family. We go back to pre-revolutionary times, but when I was a kid, we were one step up from poor white trash, and most of the people around us were poor white trash.

Funny thing was, in doing the research, and reading all sorts of "History of this County," historic land ownership records, and the like, I started seeing all these familiar family names. Turns out most of the poor white trash around us also went back to revolutionary times. Most, if not all, of my peers were ignorant of the fact. Most, I'm sure, would not have cared, but I always wondered that if they did, would it change their outlook on things? IDK.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at October 10, 2026 12:03 PM (QaH55)

77 >>> Posted by: A0S D0pe at October 10, 2026 11:33 AM (I/RqB)

Oh look, Faggot Pete is here.

Gosh, I wonder if Faggot Pete will show up on Novemeber 4th.

Fag.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 10, 2026 12:04 PM (3mtzY)

78 Even as El Niño limited this year's Atlantic storms, climate change is making hurricanes more intense.

The current hurricane is a cat 3. That's not exactly "more intense".

Posted by: Ian S. at October 10, 2026 12:05 PM (QZThv)

79 25 Hi everyone! Everyone on the gulf safe and sound? We got power back at 530 this morning, and had to pull quite a few limbs out of the pool, but all is well here. It’s a chilly 74, however.

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 11:32 AM (ZdaMQ)

Was wondering how you fared. Glad to hear you did OK.

Also glad this one missed NOLA. When we got home, post Katrina, our pool was emerald green and was shimmering with mosquito larva. A couple of shots of wasp spray did the trick on the larva.

Posted by: javems at October 10, 2026 12:05 PM (vAXS5)

80 In the Senate Mr. Tills and Mr. Cornyn are out.

If that is any indication…it just might.

Better lean ou your Reps and Sens just in case though.


Also McConnell, Ernst, and Graham.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 10, 2026 12:05 PM (Riz8t)

81 Oh look, Faggot Pete is here.

Is he aka Masturbatin' Pete?

Posted by: Archimedes at October 10, 2026 12:06 PM (Riz8t)

82 Vote for Barry Goldwater on November 3rd!

Posted by: AUH20 at October 10, 2026 12:08 PM (EdP2u)

83
The same people who believe/are influenced by any of these lame-ass trolls are the same people sending their bank acc't numbers to Nigerian Princes.

All we need to do is to do our part, show up and vote, and we'll see if the polls were accurate or not.

Reality is the proof. Not faggy, fake takes from trolls.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 10, 2026 12:08 PM (YSUhf)

84 All we need to do is to do our part, show up and vote, and we'll see if the polls were accurate or not.

Reality is the proof. Not faggy, fake takes from trolls.


The troll says we're going to lose, so I'm staying home in despair.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 10, 2026 12:09 PM (Riz8t)

85 Also glad this one missed NOLA. When we got home, post Katrina, our pool was emerald green and was shimmering with mosquito larva. A couple of shots of wasp spray did the trick on the larva.
Posted by: javems

Green algae is pretty easy to kill. Yellow algae takes a fortune in chemicals to exterminate.

Posted by: I Was In The Pool! at October 10, 2026 12:11 PM (EdP2u)

86 And that was a very touching story about Jonathan Birge. Thanks so much for your including it, K.T.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2026 12:12 PM (JrHfD)

87 There was an era, roughly between 'Antiques Roadshow' and 'Storage Wars,' when lots of folks like me would flip stuff we found at garage sales on eBay, and we did pretty good. That era is over, killed by lack of demand for old junk, and ridiculous high shipping costs.

My gf had a real eye for what would sell, in categories like dolls and art. I had an eye for tools, scientific instruments, jewelry. It was fun and marginally profitable, but it's over now.

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 12:12 PM (Jr5Lq)

88
I'm afraid all I can do is vote for Abbott, Paxton, Randy Weber and Mayes Middleton. The rest I have to leave in the hands of the Lord.

O my God, were You to give me fullest choice of asking all I wish, and were You to swear to me by Yourself that You would grant my petition in all things, I would neither desire nor ask anything else than that Your Will may be perfectly done in me and in every creature of Yours, according to Your supreme and faultless good pleasure. Wherefore, in union with that resignation with which Jesus committed Himself wholly to Your will in the Garden of Olives, and in union with His affection and His intention, I say from His heart and in His words:

Not my will, but Yours be done, O most holy Father, in time and in eternity.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 12:13 PM (eRlcH)

89 Here in KY we have an added incentive to vote...

McConnell isn't on the ticket. A couple Reps are.. fairly, maybe, safe (R) seats. None of the county seats up for grabs are either party and the nearby town's vote for mayor doesn't apply to us.

It'll take us longer to get a ballot than it will to actually vote.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 10, 2026 12:14 PM (RORbl)

90 Dave in Florida says it’s a lock. Rs will win everything.

Posted by: A0S C0pe at October 10, 2026 12:16 PM (odUFg)

91 KY is such a funny abbreviation for a state!

Posted by: Astrolube andy at October 10, 2026 12:16 PM (EdP2u)

92
Frugality? What on Earth is that? The Frug went out with The Watusi in 1965!
Posted by: Unamerican Bandstand


Kick your feet up, swing your arms up too
Move your head both ways, like you see me do
Then jump three feet to the swinging beat
Do the Freddie

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 10, 2026 12:17 PM (Cqx++)

93 I'll vote straight Republican on election day. FWIW, the only guiding principle I have left to rely upon is 'Republicans suck canal water, but the Democrats are far worse.'

https://tinyurl.com/4kfdr25a

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 12:21 PM (Jr5Lq)

94 Instant street justice clips narrated by Steve Inman. I recall when Steve Inman clips were a regular feature on ASHQ:

https://tinyurl.com/yusnkh3k

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2026 12:22 PM (JrHfD)

95 I listened to the Rubio speech he gave in Greece. To say I am impressed is a vast understatement. I'll say more on the book thread but that speech led to thoughts of C S Lewis' "Abolition of Man", Plutarch's Lives, and parts of Plato. It is inexcusable that a defense of Western culture is needed but Rubio's speech was a good start.

Posted by: JTB at October 10, 2026 12:23 PM (yTvNw)

96 Drunk-driving Chief Judge bodycam. Always amusing:
youtube.com/watch?v=Js1_VbfJmE0

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 12:24 PM (Jr5Lq)

97 88
I'm afraid all I can do is vote for Abbott, Paxton, Randy Weber and Mayes Middleton. The rest I have to leave in the hands of the Lord.

O my God, were You to give me fullest choice of asking all I wish, and were You to swear to me by Yourself that You would grant my petition in all things, I would neither desire nor ask anything else than that Your Will may be perfectly done in me and in every creature of Yours, according to Your supreme and faultless good pleasure. Wherefore, in union with that resignation with which Jesus committed Himself wholly to Your will in the Garden of Olives, and in union with His affection and His intention, I say from His heart and in His words:

Not my will, but Yours be done, O most holy Father, in time and in eternity.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 12:13 PM (eRlcH)

I will vote for Tom Sell with little enthusiasm.

Bo French will be fully traumatized in one month as RR Commissioner. Nate Sheets is a bored trust fund baby looking for relevancy so he decided to run for Ag Commissioner. I look forward to him screwing that up like P did the Land Office. (But at least our school lunches will be CLEAN!!!)

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 10, 2026 12:25 PM (ekZzx)

98 90 Dave in Florida says it’s a lock. Rs will win everything.

Posted by: A0S C0pe at October 10, 2026 12:16 PM (odUFg)

Let’s hold the election anyway. Just because.

Posted by: Jim Rome at October 10, 2026 12:27 PM (ekZzx)

99 KT,
Thanks for so many quotes from Thomas Sowell. With Walter Williams gone, sadly, I believe Sowell represents about 70% of the intelligence in this country. (And a higher percentage in any other country.)

Posted by: JTB at October 10, 2026 12:27 PM (yTvNw)

100 Hurricane's over.

Piper and toby928 have both checked in.

Still need to hear from man and one hour sober.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 10, 2026 12:27 PM (QGaXH)

101 I’m hoping Libertarians run against French, Sheets, and my worthless State rep, Ken King, so I can safely vote against them.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 10, 2026 12:29 PM (ekZzx)

102 More apropos for the pet thread BUT, we had the blessing of the animals on the Feast of St Francis of Assisi this past week.

Additionally, Father Dan also held the Blessing of the Stuffies for some of the kids that are allergic to (real) animals.

"Dear Lord, we thank you for the gift of stuffed animals and cuddly toys, for time to play, and for someone to hold us when times are sad or scary. As we hug our stuffed animals, we remember that you are always with us. Bless these children and the creatures they hold dear. Amen."

Posted by: Tonypete at October 10, 2026 12:29 PM (N5iuz)

103 No man is an island, entire of itself
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.

Posted by: John Dunne at October 10, 2026 12:30 PM (H88Wh)

104 Vote for Barry Goldwater on November 3rd!
Posted by: AUH20 at

First guy I campaigned for, after I couldn't get Alfred E. Newman through the primaries.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 10, 2026 12:30 PM (sl73Y)

105 Our founders weren't perfect; quite a few were slaveholders, like Washington and Jefferson. While Liberals are fast to point to the 3/5ths clause ("See! Black slaves were considered worth less than a whole person!"--no, they weren't), the fact is the seeds for the elimination of slavery in the United States was planted in the Constitution, and some knew that slavery would be a major issue in the future.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 12:31 PM (l3cgK)

106 I have asthma now

@yoursnandieni
Tooter is an Indian alternative to Twitter (X).

American companies like X will fall if Americans continue to mistreat us. India has a huge audience, and if we start using our own apps, we can generate massive revenue for Indian companies.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 10, 2026 12:32 PM (nEUC6)

107 10 Many still today are held in slavery, here and around the world.

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 11:21 AM (Ia/+0)

This is very true, and many are held in Muzzie countries at that. When it comes to sexual slavery, that exists in the underground communities around the world, and as for State-Sponsored slavery, Commie countries are very good at that when it comes to "undesirables"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 12:33 PM (l3cgK)

108 Fen posting Inman justice clips???
Strnge times we live in.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 10, 2026 12:34 PM (sl73Y)

109
American companies like X will fall if Americans continue to mistreat us. India has a huge audience, and if we start using our own apps, we can generate massive revenue for Indian companies.

_________

You sound like the Europeans. And what have they done?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 12:35 PM (eRlcH)

110 Tooter is an Indian alternative to Twitter (X).

American companies like X will fall if Americans continue to mistreat us. India has a huge audience, and if we start using our own apps, we can generate massive revenue for Indian companies.


Yes, because Twitter alternatives have all done amazingly. Bluesky is in a death spiral, Threads never lived in the first place, and Mastodon continues to be *the* place for socially awkward nerds who want a free Palestine, with purchase of equal or lesser value.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 10, 2026 12:36 PM (QZThv)

111 93 I'll vote straight Republican on election day. FWIW, the only guiding principle I have left to rely upon is 'Republicans suck canal water, but the Democrats are far worse.'

https://tinyurl.com/4kfdr25a
Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 12:21 PM (Jr5Lq)

I've been voting since the '70's. I have never voted for a D. Never will. They wanted to send me to Vietnam. Nixon (R) got it stopped before I was 18.

D's wanted to take my livelihood away or curtail it via DEI/Affirmative Action my entire adult working life and have actively worked to make me and other white males less employable/promotable. Ditto with public safety.

Before you say I'm rayyycisssss, take a look at any college scholarship book (if they still exist). See how many scholarships are specifically reserved for minorities/females.Now try to find one reserved for 'white males only'.

I'll wait.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 10, 2026 12:37 PM (QGaXH)

112 102 ... "Additionally, Father Dan also held the Blessing of the Stuffies for some of the kids that are allergic to (real) animals."

Tonypete,

Thanks for posting that. The image, and the thought behind it, will make me smile all day.

Posted by: JTB at October 10, 2026 12:37 PM (yTvNw)

113 If we lobby and clamor hard enough Ace will have to post Inman in the Cafe more frequently. Being a pain in the ass pays off!

Some of you are too polite. As I always say-Nice guys finish last!

Posted by: Leo The Lip Durocher at October 10, 2026 12:38 PM (EdP2u)

114 113 If we lobby and clamor hard enough Ace will have to post Inman in the Cafe more frequently. Being a pain in the ass pays off!

Some of you are too polite. As I always say-Nice guys finish last!

Posted by: Leo The Lip Durocher at October 10, 2026 12:38 PM (EdP2u)

the wife appreciated that fact.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 12:39 PM (l3cgK)

115 111 Well stated.

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 12:40 PM (Jr5Lq)

116 That Dan fella outright refused to bless our stuffies!

Posted by: The Poofters of Hormuz at October 10, 2026 12:40 PM (EdP2u)

117 Not my will, but Yours be done, O most holy Father, in time and in eternity.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 12:13 PM (eRlcH)
___

Amen.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 10, 2026 12:46 PM (dkM11)

118 Leo Durocher was married to actress Laraine Day. She studied baseball to become knowledgeable about it. She was the earliest lady sportscaster. Had a 15 minute pregame show called Day With The Giants. She was known as The First Lady Of Baseball.

Posted by: Leo the Lip at October 10, 2026 12:46 PM (EdP2u)

119 115 111 Well stated.
Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 12:40 PM (Jr5Lq)

Thank You.

At the risk of encouraging the Paolo: Every once in a while I manage to get a little wood on the ball, as they say....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 10, 2026 12:46 PM (QGaXH)

120 Dems prioritize:

Noncitizens over citizens.
Criminals over the law-abiding.
Every other 'sexuality' over heterosexuality.
Every other race over whites.
The profane over the sublime.
Perversity over chastity.
Dogmatic nonsense over true scholarship.

They despise Legacy America, its history, and its people. They seek to destroy it by any means necessary. We have many decades of evidence to show it.

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 12:48 PM (Jr5Lq)

121 Regarding Section 5 of the Virginia Declaration of Rights ...members of the two first ...should, at fixed periods, be reduced to a private station, return into that body from which they were originally taken, And bringing to it Article V from the Articles of Confederation ...no person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six years (delegate's terms were all for one year), Congressional Term Limits were contemplated under the formation of our government, and it is a grave oversight in our Founding that the Constitutional Convention did not include them in the final document.

Notice, too, how the Articles of Confederation did not forbid a person from serving again after being "term limited" out of office, thereby providing response to the argument against term limits of "you should not tell us who is to be our representative." Such a term limited individual is well eligible to hold office again; he needs merely to requalify himself.

I wish the proposals (which I've seen) for a term limiting amendment under an Article V Convention would include something like that.

Posted by: NeighSayer at October 10, 2026 12:49 PM (bufu1)

122
Dogmatic nonsense over true scholarship.

Power over service.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 12:50 PM (eRlcH)

123 Term limits (6 terms for reps, 2 terms for sens) are meaningless without limits for aides and high-level G class employees. 12 years for anyone is more than enough feeding at the trough, so take your connections and go home.

Posted by: mustbequantum at October 10, 2026 12:53 PM (qGmRV)

124 I dropped all poll beliefs since Hillary was going to become President

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 12:53 PM (Ia/+0)

125
Here's the new trailer for the upcoming movie

"The Exorcist: Martyrs"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9trle6su7U


Actually looks pretty good, if not totally original.
Seems like a mash-up of Exorcist # and Fallen.

But we'll see.

BONUS! Looks like ScarJo's been on Ozaempic and got some face work done. No, she doesn't look bad but doesn't really look like herself.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 10, 2026 12:54 PM (YSUhf)

126
Exorcist # = Exorcist 3

Posted by: naturalfake at October 10, 2026 12:55 PM (YSUhf)

127 Dealing with my parent's estate I can say that this is 100% true. Add Silverware and Fine China to the kids don't want it list.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 10, 2026 11:53 AM (4NO2D)

I have my parents china and it is one of my prized possessions. I also have both sets of grandparents silver tea sets, and it kills me I don’t have them out right now. When we do the kitchen mini reno, I am getting cabinets to the ceiling with glass fronts added so I can have them out. I will not be responsible for this southern tradition dying! I know my kids want these things when I go, and my middle one wants my pristine mid mod bedroom set that is currently in storage because I refuse to part with it.

If the silverware is real, I would absolutely buy it from you. My mom gave her set to my brother (my sister got the crystal), but I would have loved to have gotten that, too.

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 12:56 PM (ZdaMQ)

128 98 90 Dave in Florida says it’s a lock. Rs will win everything.

Posted by: A0S C0pe at October 10, 2026 12:16 PM (odUFg)

Let’s hold the election anyway. Just because.
Posted by: Jim Rome at October 10, 2026 12:27 PM (ekZzx)

FWIW I've seen hundreds of ads from Dems asking me for money and maybe three for Republicans. I'm a registered independent with zero history of donations. Not sure if that means Rs are asleep at the switch or what, but I have a hard time seeing how it bodes well for Ds.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at October 10, 2026 12:59 PM (r7+Q7)

129 Neighsayer, so as to not have to go recalculating everything, shall we say "no more than 12 years out of 20" (to allow for 2 terms as Senator), then if their terms were consecutive, they have to wait at least 8 to run for any office, even if it's a different one? (If they did 6, skipped four, ran for the other senate seat and won, then they only have to wait four years before running for governor or president or whatever).

Posted by: RandomDave at October 10, 2026 01:00 PM (aJQbY)

130 Regarding the discussion in the previous thread about Adolf Hitler's real name. Yes, his father (nee Schicklgruber) legally changed his name, ten years before fathering Adolf, to a made-up name: Hitler. But that name is really a legal fiction. Legal, yes, but not real. Genealogically speaking, dear Adolf was a Schicklgruber (and whatever his Granny's anonymous sperm donor was).

And AOS Cope is a funny name for a deranged faggot.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 01:02 PM (quk5M)

131 128 98 90 Dave in Florida says it’s a lock. Rs will win everything.

Posted by: A0S C0pe at October 10, 2026 12:16 PM (odUFg)

Let’s hold the election anyway. Just because.
Posted by: Jim Rome at October 10, 2026 12:27 PM (ekZzx)

FWIW I've seen hundreds of ads from Dems asking me for money and maybe three for Republicans. I'm a registered independent with zero history of donations. Not sure if that means Rs are asleep at the switch or what, but I have a hard time seeing how it bodes well for Ds.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at October 10, 2026 12:59 PM (r7+Q7)

I get texts and mailings from every politician I've donated to in the past who is still active. I get texts from a legion of politicians and causes I haven't. The other day, I got three messages purportedly from the same candidate (that I don't even know); I deleted and blocked the number, another number with same message which I deleted and blocked the number, and finally on the third I told them "STOP"...
What's will using all these phone numbers to spam people with political texts‽ ( Yes, I just used an interrobang here )

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 01:03 PM (l3cgK)

132 Sadly its not over until all votes, real and fraud they can call real are counted

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 01:08 PM (Ia/+0)

133 Thomas Sowell for the Medal OF Freedom and the Medal for Science.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 10, 2026 01:09 PM (u82oZ)

134 123 Term limits (6 terms for reps, 2 terms for sens) are meaningless without limits for aides and high-level G class employees. 12 years for anyone is more than enough feeding at the trough, so take your connections and go home.
Posted by: mustbequantum at October 10, 2026 12:53 PM (qGmRV)

The real problem is electoral laziness. The system expects and demands citizen participation but citizens do not want to do that, because it’s too hard and “why should I?”

Term limits are simply a lazy solution for the lazy, by the lazy, which results in the electorate being MORE lazy. Which makes things worse.

(1000% agree on staff running the show. Which could be mitigated with actual mass electoral participation)

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 10, 2026 01:10 PM (ekZzx)

135 What's will = What's with

I just dunno what goes on with my fingers, my brain, and my consciousness...I seem to lose the argument sometimes...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 01:10 PM (l3cgK)

136 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 01:02 PM (quk5M)

Less than 10 days to go! How’s it looking in AB on Oct 19?

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 10, 2026 01:11 PM (ekZzx)

137 77 >>> Posted by: A0S D0pe at October 10, 2026 11:33 AM (I/RqB)

Oh look, Faggot Pete is here.

Gosh, I wonder if Faggot Pete will show up on Novemeber 4th.

Fag.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 10, 2026 12:04 PM (3mtzY)

And here I thought they were just somebody being funny....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 10, 2026 01:12 PM (QGaXH)

138 Tenure among our "elected" officials won't likely change anytime soon. It's a lifelong profession for most. Sometimes that tenure extends into the afterlife.

*shrugs*

It's a problem. But so's the same compulsion among aids and staffers who latch onto someone's office and as long as it remains (R) or (D) they remain employed. And many have an agenda of their own that may, or may not jive with the Congress member they "work for."

They also exert undue influence on the weak minded in Congress (which is significantly under reported.) McConnell's absence, yet no real public push back from anyone other than the media and Democrats demonstrates staffers influence on Congress.

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 10, 2026 01:13 PM (RORbl)

139 The blessing of the stuffies happens around the table all the time in Rhode Island.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 10, 2026 01:19 PM (sl73Y)

140 The real problem is electoral laziness.

No. No a thousand times. The real problem is what it's always been. The two-party system.

It's a UniParty. A one-party system. Set up to make sure their little American Aristocracy survives. By making sure it's only two parties in name only.

People here always bitch. Why do those stupid Kentuckians always send McConnell ? Because they have no other choice. Literally.

Its the same everywhere. Why does California not elect a decent Republican ? Its not just vote-fraud. The California GOP conveniently never really digs in and fights to get a win.

Posted by: Spoiler Alert at October 10, 2026 01:20 PM (iDTlP)

141 The real problem is electoral laziness.

No. No a thousand times. The real problem is what it's always been. The two-party system.

It's a UniParty. A one-party system. Set up to make sure their little American Aristocracy survives. By making sure it's only two parties in name only.

It's a combination of things. These 2 are in the mix.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 10, 2026 01:24 PM (zcI95)

142 I was going to put my two cents in but due to Biden's inflation it's worth less than one cent now. I'll have to go see if I have any pfennigs left from when I was in Germany.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 10, 2026 01:25 PM (DSbeM)

143 Cow Demon

No reduction in actual Nation Debt, no money for any staffer.

We have a Spending & Fraud problem, not a tax intake problem.

Constitution 2.0.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 10, 2026 01:26 PM (u82oZ)

144 142 I was going to put my two cents in but due to Biden's inflation it's worth less than one cent now. I'll have to go see if I have any pfennigs left from when I was in Germany.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 10, 2026 01:25 PM (DSbeM)

Will you take Iranian rials?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 01:26 PM (l3cgK)

145 Less than 10 days to go! How’s it looking in AB on Oct 19?
Posted by: Cow Demon at October 10, 2026 01:11 PM (ekZzx)

I have seen "Vote No" signs suddenly springing up in the last few days, while the pro-independence signs and banners have been out for a long time. I don't know if this can be taken as a sign of panic on the Federales' part or not.

I think it will be a close vote, either way. The issue will not go away. I plan to vote in an advance poll on the 13th.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 01:26 PM (quk5M)

146 It's a combination of things. These 2 are in the mix.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 10, 2026 01:24 PM (zcI95)


It is not. Americans voted, in HUGE numbers, twice recently.

The Tea Party Movement. The GOP response to House, Senate, and White House control was to cede the House to Nancy Pelosi.

So voters did it again. Trump 2016.

Over 50 GOP House members retired to make sure they didn't have the House, Senate, and GOP again.

These are just facts.

Posted by: Spoiler Alert at October 10, 2026 01:27 PM (iDTlP)

147 Will you take Iranian rials?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 01:26 PM (l3cgK)



Heh. Nope.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 10, 2026 01:28 PM (DSbeM)

148 Spoiler Alert

The answer is to run yourself. I was a reelected politician. Lowered my slice of the mill levee each of my first three years in Office. Because I can manage and not take.

Going for a stealth write-in vote this time. I should win.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 10, 2026 01:28 PM (u82oZ)

149 Spoiler Alert

'If I can overcome my shyness, anyone can.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 10, 2026 01:29 PM (u82oZ)

150 Don't expect spending reductions or any fiscal responsibility from either party. We'll have a $2T deficit this year, with a Republican Prez, House, and Senate.

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 01:30 PM (Jr5Lq)

151 Spoiler Alert

The answer is to run yourself.


I'd rather tie my own noose than spend a day acting like one of those bastards.

Posted by: Spoiler Alert at October 10, 2026 01:30 PM (iDTlP)

152 Don't expect spending reductions or any fiscal responsibility from either party. We'll have a $2T deficit this year, with a Republican Prez, House, and Senate.

Well shit, what do you expect ? They only control the White House, Senate, House, and appointed five of the nine Supremes ?

Posted by: Spoiler Alert at October 10, 2026 01:32 PM (iDTlP)

153 Spoiler Alert

The trick is to not act like the grafting, inbred, self-important, unmoored from reality people in office already.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 10, 2026 01:32 PM (u82oZ)

154 "12 Another problem with the tranny shit is "therapists" get ahold of young men and women over 18 and convince them that they are autistic and in the wrong body, like that will fix everything, instead of actually helping them deal with life.

Posted by: fd at October 10, 2026 11:21 AM (MWfyi) "

"autism". that reminds me of a book I saw the other day; "Asperger's Children". Asperger was the inventor of autism, which was used as a pretext (one of many) for eugenic murder by the nazi government.
I tell you, that book was ... unspeakable. the blood runs cold to read that stuff, I read bits of it, and put it back on the library shelf.
do. not. want. to. read. the. whole. thing.

just sayin' ... how many other social ills are rooted in that thinking?
drugging young people to make them compliant, for instance.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 10, 2026 01:33 PM (VyBeY)

155 I see they awarded the Nobel peace prize to some South African woman who is connected to the UN and is a Jew hater.... Needless to say Trump was pissed but I wish he hadn't mentioned it... Looks petty

Posted by: It's me donna at October 10, 2026 01:41 PM (a7sNn)

156 Asperger was the inventor of autism, which was used as a pretext (one of many) for eugenic murder by the nazi government.

Which is really odd, in and of itself.

Because every really "smart" person you'll ever meet is a bit Autistic. Part of the trick is to figure out how to ride it, manage it, and be as high-functioning as you can with it.

Same for every good artist and musician (same word for two different mediums). Same for most every truly high-functioning person that makes it in their field.

It takes crazy to do the crazy to make it. And I would have thought the Nazi's, of all people, would have appreciated that. Because a bunch of them fuckers were indeed Autistic-Crazy.

Just look at German Art, Architecture, Music, and Home Decor. The Autistic ain't went away. Normal people don't do an entire room in Chrome and Black Leather at all right angles.

Posted by: Spoiler Alert at October 10, 2026 01:42 PM (iDTlP)

157 En fuego!

Posted by: That Guy who shouts "En fuego!" at October 10, 2026 01:43 PM (0sNs1)

158 nood

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 01:44 PM (Jr5Lq)

159 connected to the UN and is a Jew hater.... Needless to say Trump was pissed but I wish he hadn't mentioned it... Looks petty
Posted by: It's me donna

I don't agree. Any thinking person knows the the Nobel Committee and the UN are scoundrels and schmucks of the first degree. Calling them out is all you can do.

Posted by: Screw Them Guys/Gals/What's Its at October 10, 2026 01:45 PM (EdP2u)

160 Normal people don't do an entire room in Chrome and Black Leather at all right angles.
Posted by: Spoiler Alert at October 10, 2026 01:42 PM


So say we all.

Posted by: IKEA at October 10, 2026 01:45 PM (0sNs1)

161 Add Silverware and Fine China to the kids don't want it list.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 10, 2026 11:53 AM (4NO2D


I'm keeping an eye out for Wedgwood White bone china. It's "fine" but not fancy. I started a set and then the pattern was discontinued and replacements are $20 apiece, which is more than what I paid for new.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at October 10, 2026 01:46 PM (OlzlW)

162 GARDEN THREAD IS BLOOMING NOOD

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 01:46 PM (Ia/+0)

163 Yes, I just used an interrobang here )
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 01:03 PM (l3cgK)
~~~~~

I LOVE interrobangs!

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at October 10, 2026 01:46 PM (3ImbR)

164 To get the interrobang accepted into the Unicode character set, much blood was shed. Punc Wars > Punic Wars.

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 01:53 PM (Jr5Lq)

165

Yemen's Houthis have once again pummeled Saudi Arabia's King Khalid International Airport in Ryiadh with a volley of ballistic missiles. A major emergency response has ensued with dozens of ambulances at the scene, and a total evacuation of the major flight hub.

In this fresh instance, which comes after multiple attacks on the kingdom's civilian aviation hubs stretching back at least a week, there appears to be mass casualties as a result.

https://t.ly/5xR48

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 10, 2026 01:55 PM (Cqx++)

166 Elisha Weisel - only son of Eli Weisel also condemned the awarding of the peace prize to the anti semetic nut:

https://tinyurl.com/3jx2sssh

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2026 01:56 PM (JrHfD)

167 Yemen's Houthis have once again pummeled Saudi Arabia's King Khalid International Airport in Ryiadh with a volley of ballistic missiles. A major emergency response has ensued with dozens of ambulances at the scene, and a total evacuation of the major flight hub.

In this fresh instance, which comes after multiple attacks on the kingdom's civilian aviation hubs stretching back at least a week, there appears to be mass casualties as a result.

https://t.ly/5xR48
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr

Looks like they're going to need boots on the ground.

*Saudi army all drop their weapons and flee*

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 10, 2026 02:10 PM (zcI95)

168 No reduction in actual Nation Debt, no money for any staffer.

We have a Spending & Fraud problem, not a tax intake problem.

Constitution 2.0.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 10, 2026 01:26 PM (u82oZ)

Absolutely.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 10, 2026 02:11 PM (ekZzx)

169 140 The real problem is electoral laziness.

No. No a thousand times. The real problem is what it's always been. The two-party system.

It's a UniParty. A one-party system. Set up to make sure their little American Aristocracy survives. By making sure it's only two parties in name only.

People here always bitch. Why do those stupid Kentuckians always send McConnell ? Because they have no other choice. Literally.

Its the same everywhere. Why does California not elect a decent Republican ? Its not just vote-fraud. The California GOP conveniently never really digs in and fights to get a win.
Posted by: Spoiler Alert at October 10, 2026 01:20 PM (iDTlP)

Yes a trillion times. When was the last time a bond issue election got more than 5% voter participation?

The midterms will not get over 50% voter participation because people aren’t voting for President.

Can we stop making excuses?

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 10, 2026 02:14 PM (ekZzx)

170 - looks like a couple folks still here and since I mustn't despite the gardening thread...

Heard about the Trump/Putin deal regarding diesel fuel?
Sanctioning of the ICC?

Utube, search "Promethean Action soros panics." Should get ya there.

Posted by: TeeJ at October 10, 2026 02:23 PM (ix5nG)

171 Section 14. That the people have a right to uniform government; and, therefore, that no government separate from or independent of the government of Virginia ought to be erected or established within the limits thereof.

Hmmm...

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at October 10, 2026 02:27 PM (9ZFZd)

172 Posted by: RandomDave at October 10, 2026 01:00 PM (aJQbY)

I didn't get into that, but I'm fine with Representatives "no more than six years out of twelve", Senators with "no more than 18 years out of thirty-six", and the President with "no more than twelve years out of twenty-four." (Need to can the 2nd Amendment for that one.)

And nothing in the Articles said that the terms had to be consecutive. All it demanded was "no more than three terms during a six-term period."

Posted by: NeighSayer at October 10, 2026 02:34 PM (bufu1)

173 Don't look now but the Cornhuskers are up 11 over Indiana in the 4th.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 10, 2026 02:51 PM (4NO2D)

174 and even as I type Nebraska blows coverage and Indiana scores on one play.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 10, 2026 02:52 PM (4NO2D)

175 Indiana goes for 2 to make it a FG game. Timeout Nebraska.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 10, 2026 02:52 PM (4NO2D)

176 Nobody ever got rid of slavery. It just comes in different forms today.

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at October 10, 2026 03:03 PM (ERYKL)

177 Welp, the G2-level CME, that was supposed to get here yesterday, just arrived.

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 03:07 PM (Jr5Lq)

178 - heh
My @170
Either despoil isn't a word or auto-c didn't recognize it.
It decided on "despite" for me.

Posted by: TeeJ at October 10, 2026 03:16 PM (ix5nG)

179 20-17 Indiana

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 10, 2026 03:16 PM (4NO2D)

180 it looks like Indiana will pull this out after all.

Turnover on downs.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 10, 2026 03:28 PM (4NO2D)

181
To Delaware's shame, the statue of Caesar Rodney riding to Philadelphia to cast the deciding vote for independence was removed from Rodney Square in downtown Wilmington in ignorant reaction to the death of George Floyd, noted chef of mayonnaise and honey sammiches.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 10, 2026 03:32 PM (trSL4)

182 ***Missouri’s department of prisons is thinking of hiring some Canadian doctors from Canada’s MAID Service to conduct future death row executions,
---

This is a call to Wake UP.
We killed for our independence, we've killed to keep it, we've killed to save other souls. It is a sad thing that some Americans have lost the skill of life and death.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 03:36 PM (VPNgR)

The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival Featuring Moar Sunshine Than Evah

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[Coffee addiction, noted. Duly noted, Blake (H/T)]


Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Waters Meet.)

1) This is an open thread, feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate. Prayers are always good and welcome.
2) Be kind. Be nice. Or something, something.....
3) No! You may not run, jog, sprint or power walk with sharp objects.
4) See you Monday Night for the ONT
5) Have a great weekend!

*****


AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List

Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update.

Prayer Requests:

9/12 – FenelonSpoke asked for prayers for the W family for comfort and strength as they grieve. The deceased was a sweet 92 year old, despite some big tragedies in her life.

9/15 – Sal asked for prayers as wildfires are out of control in the north of the area and threatening the county seat. They are evacuating part of the town. Sal is not in any danger.

9/17 – Teresa in Fort Worth sent an update with good news and bad news. The bad news is that she has a 9mm mass on her lung, which means the cancer has metastasized outside of her liver. The pump is keeping the cancer in her liver at bay for now. The good news is that they can zap the nodule out of her lung and will watch for if any more nodules appear. As long as this is the only one, the radiation should suffice. She meets with a radiation oncologist on 9/25.

9/18 – Random Dave posted an update to his job progress. He is still looking for FT work, but has accepted a substitute teacher position (more flexibility for interviews, some income to slow the bleeding). He asks for prayers that the interview results he is waiting on will get back to him soon, especially if one is the “right job”. If any are “not the right job”, they would fall away soon and get back to him, and that if all of them are “not the right job”, the ‘right job” would show itself aggressively, so he doesn’t miss it! He also thanks the Horde and the folks at church for their prayers and support.
8/14 Update – Random Dave needs continued prayers for his job situation, that God would guide him to the right one soon, and also for prayers for M’s grandmother, who fell the other day and tore a ligament.
10/1 Update – M’s grandma is healing. They are still praying for complete healing and mobility.

9/18 – Tonypete asked for prayers for #1 son. He has something going on which is, as yet, undiagnosed. He is under care now, so that is a positive step. Prayers also for his wife and daughter #2. Mom is a spoiled princess who consistently chooses the worst path of action regarding #2.

9/18 – Brother Tim posted that he has been overnight in his car more than indoors. He is convinced that his retirement/resignation was a severe error, a result of fatigue and depression. He asks for prayers.

10/8 – D asks for blessings on the Texas MoMe participants, as they travel and as they enjoy the event – and especially blessings on the organizers.

10/8; Mis. Hum. ditto's D's prayer for the organizers and participants of the upcoming Texas MoMe.

For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update.

2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 08:00 AM




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1 Rly?

G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 10, 2026 07:41 AM (VyBeY)

2 ND.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 07:42 AM (yPX1l)

3 Coffee. Bacon frying. Good morning.

Posted by: Cosda at October 10, 2026 07:43 AM (Vbk8C)

4 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 10, 2026 07:45 AM (RORbl)

5 Good morning again dear morons and thanks to mh annie and the horde for praying

{grammie}{TiFW}{Some Rat}

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 07:47 AM (RIvkX)

6 coffee? bacon? these sound like Good Ideas!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 10, 2026 07:47 AM (VyBeY)

7 JAVA!!! beautiful morning in Texas for Coffee!!

Posted by: qmark at October 10, 2026 07:47 AM (hzpDl)

8 Any Morons get hurricaned?

Posted by: torabora at October 10, 2026 07:48 AM (Wt1Rs)

9 Morning Horde thx MisHum.
Prayers for the Horde and their loved ones in need.
A balmy 44° here, but sunny. Walking should be good today

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 10, 2026 07:49 AM (t9883)

10 D asks for blessings on the Texas MoMe participants, as they travel and as they enjoy the event – and especially blessings on the organizers.
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This. Especially because I keep hearing about the bad weather in your country.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 07:49 AM (RIvkX)

11 Good morning Mis Hum and Horde

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 07:52 AM (Ia/+0)

12
Mis. Hum. ditto's D's prayer for the organizers and participants of the upcoming Texas MoMe.

__________

In particular, prayers that I don't make a fool of myself.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 07:52 AM (eRlcH)

13 Do hope everyone has safe travels

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 07:53 AM (Ia/+0)

14 mornin yall. The storm has almost finished passing, leaving water on the ground and the weatherpeoples disappointed.

Posted by: fd at October 10, 2026 07:53 AM (MWfyi)

15
The storm has almost finished passing, leaving water on the ground and the weatherpeoples disappointed.
Posted by: fd at October 10, 2026 07:53 AM (MWfyi)

________

What are you doing here?

*flips pages on clipboard*

You should be dead!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 07:55 AM (eRlcH)

16
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 10, 2026 07:57 AM (AMvSw)

17 In particular, prayers that I don't make a fool of myself.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 07:52 AM (eRlcH)
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Take your Beano!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 07:58 AM (RIvkX)

18 Prayers for all those in need of G*d's mercy and healing. And prayers for those in the path of the "hurrikin" (as my beloved MIL used to pronounce it). We're supposedly getting up to 2" today and possibly 5" of rain tonight here in upstate SC. I don't expect to see Noah's Ark floating by though. A nice day to stay in and chill.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 10, 2026 08:00 AM (qBdHI)

19 In particular, prayers that I don't make a fool of myself.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 07:52 AM (eRlcH)
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That's half the fun!

Posted by: Weasel at October 10, 2026 08:01 AM (GNqmQ)

20 In particular, prayers that I don't make a fool of myself.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 07:52 AM

That's okay...we can handle that for you.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 10, 2026 08:03 AM (Ms1Co)

21 We're expecting some "gusty" winds and maybe an inch or so of rain today/tonight. Doesn't appear we'll have severe weather.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 10, 2026 08:05 AM (RORbl)

22 Can relate to the saying at the top ofthe post. Them's my sediments exactly.

Posted by: I'll Wake up, Eventually at October 10, 2026 08:07 AM (EdP2u)

23 En mi casa toman Bustelo.

Posted by: Caffiend at October 10, 2026 08:07 AM (EdP2u)

24
Her Majesty was able to catch an earlier flight out of Nashville last night and got home in good order and at a reasonable time. So thank God for that. What with all the weather, she could have gotten home last night or she could have gotten home Monday.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 08:08 AM (eRlcH)

25 It could be more than half the fun. It could be 62.4 % of the fun.

Posted by: Weasel at October 10, 2026 08:10 AM (GNqmQ)

26 Them's my sediments exactly.
Posted by: I'll Wake up, Eventually at October 10, 2026 08:07 AM (EdP2u)
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You must use a French press.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 08:11 AM (RIvkX)

27 It could be more than half the fun. It could be 62.4 % of the fun.
Posted by: Weasel at October 10, 2026 08:10 AM

That sounds suspiciously like math.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 10, 2026 08:12 AM (Ms1Co)

28 Mornin' Horde. Isaias came in, me in hospital, and I slept like a baby. So, I have that going for me.

Posted by: Brother Tim, still standing at October 10, 2026 08:12 AM (ENA4W)

29 "A North Carolina man lost a portion of his hand when a pipe bomb exploded in a wooded area of Georgia

A passing driver found the injured man around 4:40 p.m. Sunday. By then, the bomb had already exploded.

The sheriff identified the man as Peter Kim Tae Soo Theyson, 49, of Indian Trail, North Carolina.

When deputies arrived, Theyson repeatedly told them, “My bomb blew up”."

What did you expect, Mr "North Carolina Man"?

Posted by: fd at October 10, 2026 08:13 AM (MWfyi)

30 Posted by: Brother Tim, still standing at October 10, 2026 08:12 AM

Ugh. Hang in there.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 10, 2026 08:14 AM (Ms1Co)

31 I don't expect to see Noah's Ark floating by though. A nice day to stay in and chill.
Posted by: Lady in Black

Lots of stuff needs doin'. Get to work.

Posted by: Idle Hands, You Know The Rest at October 10, 2026 08:14 AM (EdP2u)

32 Good, night's sleep.
Night in hospital, bad.

Usually they wake you every hour to ask if you're ok.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 08:16 AM (RIvkX)

33 When deputies arrived, Theyson repeatedly told them, “My bomb blew up”."

What did you expect, Mr "North Carolina Man"?
Posted by: fd at October 10, 2026 08:13 AM

Sometimes there just isn't enough facepalm.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 10, 2026 08:16 AM (Ms1Co)

34 Water's off. No coffee. Grrrrr.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 10, 2026 08:17 AM (8YesW)

35 Hate it when I go off prematurely.

Posted by: Not The Paolo at October 10, 2026 08:18 AM (EdP2u)

36 Welp, plane's about to leave Boston. Safe travels, Horde, and I'll see some of y'all later in the week.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 10, 2026 08:18 AM (Ms1Co)

37 Brother Tim maybe the hospital discharge planner can find you a long-term bed.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 08:18 AM (RIvkX)

38 After watching the entire New York State Attorney General debate, I can’t get past Letitia James’s statement: “you don’t have to look at the facts and the law.”

This is not just Letitia, this is every local, state, and national (D) supposedly representing the public.
100% of their actions are emotional, contrived to protect criminals, and detrimental to the public welfare.
100%

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 08:20 AM (/+uur)

39 This is not just Letitia, this is every local, state, and national (D) supposedly representing the public.
100% of their actions are emotional, contrived to protect criminals, and detrimental to the public welfare.
100%
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 08:20 AM (/+uur)
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They swear an oath of office but have no fealty to it.

Their only rule is the will to power.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 08:21 AM (RIvkX)

40 The Cabal.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 08:22 AM (yPX1l)

41 I can relate to Peter Kim Tae Soo Theyson. I have the Tsar Bomba go off unexpectedly several times a day-in my pants!

Posted by: Joe In Lower Slower Delaware at October 10, 2026 08:24 AM (EdP2u)

42 Morning, Horde.

The pic doesn't always fit my pre-coffee mood, but there are days...

If anybody's got a loose prayer or two to spare, toss one in for one of my former work colleagues who's recovering (I hope) from a heart attack and stroke. And thank ya kindly.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 10, 2026 08:25 AM (q3u5l)

43 They dropped that on the Arctic.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 08:26 AM (yPX1l)

44 - "Prayers for all those in need of God's mercy and healing."

Well that one's gonna book your calendar for quite some time if you do each of us by name as it would be all of us. 😁

I'll add a corporate prayer for safe travels and attendance for all those heading for Texas.

Posted by: TeeJ at October 10, 2026 08:26 AM (ix5nG)

45 “I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:”
2 Timothy 4:7

Final lap starts today. We have fought the good fight. We have faith that God's will shall be done, not ours.

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at October 10, 2026 08:29 AM (I0N4X)

46 Brother Tim maybe the hospital discharge planner can find you a long-term bed.
Posted by: San Franpsycho


They've been trying. Thing I've noticed hereabouts is that family is expected to look after the needy, and wider services are something of an afterthought. In theory this is closer to the model a lot of us would prefer (private action over state control) but in practice, after generations of government-induced atrophy and strangling regulations, it doesn't work smoothly. Also sucks when closest family is a state away.

Oh well. At least God provided shelter from the storm. Now I gotta figure the rest out, as usual.

Posted by: Brother Tim, still standing at October 10, 2026 08:29 AM (ENA4W)

47 In particular, prayers that I don't make a fool of myself.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 07:52 AM (eRlcH)

You won't. Have a wonderful time! Sorry I can't be there this year.

Good Saturday morning, horde! Prayers up for all of you, for all the things.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 10, 2026 08:30 AM (CjHsb)

48 43 They dropped that on the Arctic.
Posted by: Boss Moss

And we're still pissed off!

Posted by: The Greater Walrus Community at October 10, 2026 08:30 AM (EdP2u)

49 Sometimes there just isn't enough facepalm.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 10, 2026 08:16 AM (Ms1Co)

Well, yeah, 'cause now he only has one.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 10, 2026 08:32 AM (CjHsb)

50 Good morning, all ye faithful.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 10, 2026 08:33 AM (wVcYX)

51 50 Good morning, all ye faithful.
Posted by: Count de Monet

That's not how the song goes, but we'll accept it.

Posted by: Yonder Sacred Throng at October 10, 2026 08:39 AM (EdP2u)

52 Any Morons get hurricaned?
Posted by: torabora at October 10, 2026 07:48 AM (Wt1Rs)


Getting it right now in East Tennessee. It'll likely end up as a really nice rain.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 10, 2026 08:40 AM (iIyc0)

53 We may get a couple of 80 degree days from hurricane Gesundtheit.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 08:41 AM (yPX1l)

54 We appreciate all the free publicity.

Posted by: Hurry Cane Industries, Inc. at October 10, 2026 08:43 AM (EdP2u)

55 Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. (*)

Hail Mary, full of grace, blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jeus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.

====

I have prayed Rosaries for the Horde's intentions, both stated and unstated.

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(*) There was question a few weeks ago about this form of the Doxology: this is the form used by the Order of Preachers (i.e, the Dominicans) and is used in the Divine Office. FYI, I'm a lay brother in the Lay Fraternity of St. Dominic -- what used to be termed the Third Order.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 08:44 AM (ksbjf)

56 James is my AG and a complete DEI/ affirmative action nitwit. The recent statements by the whistleblower that she ignored her staff saying that there was no case when going after Trump should be enough to get at least one of Trump's cases tossed.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 10, 2026 08:44 AM (t9883)

57 Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;
Praise Him, all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye heav'nly host;
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 08:45 AM (/+uur)

58 56 James is my AG and a complete DEI/ affirmative action nitwit. The recent statements by the whistleblower that she ignored her staff saying that there was no case when going after Trump should be enough to get at least one of Trump's cases tossed.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 10, 2026 08:44 AM (t9883)

Go read the emails from people she instructed to find dirt on PDT.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 08:46 AM (/+uur)

59 "The problem with quote, unquote, wokeness — and don’t get me wrong, it is great that marginalized people have a voice; it is great to advocate for anybody that feels marginalized," Chris Rock began, admitting that he's not against the concept in general. "But the problem is we’re in the Old Testament right now, and the Old Testament has no forgiveness.
The Old Testament didn’t work, so they had to write a remix called the New Testament."

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 08:47 AM (/+uur)

60
"The race for mayor in the Peruvian town of Queropalca was won on Friday by a candidate with one of the most provocative names imaginable: Hitler Mussolini Simeon Flores."

He's literally Hitler!

Posted by: fd at October 10, 2026 08:49 AM (MWfyi)

61 Paleontologists at the Fundación Conjunto Paleontológico de Teruel-Dinópolis have identified the first evidence of Diplodocus outside North America. Their study, published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, places the familiar long-necked dinosaur in Europe near the end of the Jurassic Period.

The Ice Bridge duh!

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 08:53 AM (/+uur)

62 Hitler Mussolini Simeon Flores."

He's literally Hitler!
Posted by: fd at October 10, 2026 08:49 AM (MWfyi)

While Lenin read a book on Marx

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 08:54 AM (/+uur)

63 1. Giving the marginalized a voice, then
2. Tolerating the marginalized, then
3. Allowing the marginalized to rule

That's where we are Chris. This world has no justice Old Testament or otherwise.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 08:56 AM (RIvkX)

64 (1 of 2) "The problem with quote, unquote, wokeness — and don’t get me wrong, it is great that marginalized people have a voice; it is great to advocate for anybody that feels marginalized," Chris Rock began, admitting that he's not against the concept in general. "But the problem is we’re in the Old Testament right now, and the Old Testament has no forgiveness.
The Old Testament didn’t work, so they had to write a remix called the New Testament."
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 08:47 AM (/+uur)


I suppose it's a good thing that I don't look to comedians for instruction in theology. Mr. Rock actually comes pretty close to re-stating the Albegensian Heresy (i.e. the Cathars) that held that the god of the Old Testament was Satan - who created the material realm -- and in opposition to the god of the New Testament -- who created the spiritual realm.

There's a fairly decent book, A Most Holy War by Mark Gregory Pegg, that examines the Albigensian Crusade. You do have to filter-out Pegg's disdain for the Catholic Church and his lack of understanding of religion, but he provides plenty of quotations of primary sources.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 08:56 AM (ksbjf)

65 He's literally Hitler!
Posted by: fd

That's pretty ballsy. Adolf was a very common name in Norway prior to 1940, had an Uncle Adolf, who was in the Norwegian Army and died fighting the Germans in the initial invasion in 1940. Worked with 2 Norwegian carpenters named Adolf in the 70s, 80s, born in the 20s, 30s. No one has been named Adolf post 1940.

Posted by: Norse Saga at October 10, 2026 08:57 AM (EdP2u)

66 Beautiful and sunny, 50° cracked and heading to mid sixties. Got to finish laying a few more pavers so the back gate can be moved by those aged people with only human level strength, such as myself.
Then off to camp for a halloween gathering before next weekends shut down and clean up.
Exhausted thinking about it, more coffee. And prayers up for all.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 10, 2026 08:58 AM (sl73Y)

67 So that's where our Diplodocus went!

Posted by: Mr. Peebles Pet Shop at October 10, 2026 08:58 AM (EdP2u)

68 3. Allowing the marginalized to rule

That's where we are Chris. This world has no justice Old Testament or otherwise.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 08:56 AM (RIvkX)

As Judge Jury and Executioner

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 08:59 AM (/+uur)

69 Good morning. Hope everyone that had to deal with the hurricane is ok. We had lots of wind and rain, well we still have it but it's not as bad as it was. I went out at daybreak to see if there was any damage, everything looks ok. Lots of leaves down everywhere but no trees down and we didn't have any power outages. It's still not over but so far so good. Will be happy when this crap moves on out.🙄

Posted by: Case at October 10, 2026 08:59 AM (ROPCF)

70 Adolf was a very common name in Norway prior to 1940, had an Uncle Adolf, who was in the Norwegian Army and died fighting the Germans in the initial invasion in 1940. Worked with 2 Norwegian carpenters named Adolf in the 70s, 80s, born in the 20s, 30s. No one has been named Adolf post 1940.

Attila remains popular, though.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 10, 2026 08:59 AM (Riz8t)

71 No one has been named Adolf post 1940.

Posted by: Norse Saga at October 10, 2026 08:57 AM (EdP2u)


The mustache shaved until it's just under the nostrils look seems to have vanished 80 years ago, too.

Some fashions just go out of style and never, ever, return.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 09:00 AM (6ydKt)

72 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 10, 2026 09:00 AM (u82oZ)

73 Them's my sediments exactly.
Posted by: I'll Wake up, Eventually at October 10, 2026 08:07 AM (EdP2u)
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You must use a French press.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at

Wouldn't make it any other ways. Fiber!!! And puts hair on your chest.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 10, 2026 09:01 AM (sl73Y)

74 Prayers for those on the Prayer List, and those that oughta be.

"And prayers for the safety and fellowship of those embarking this week for the Great TXMOME." - stuff Eisenhower said, sort of.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 10, 2026 09:01 AM (wVcYX)

75 12 In particular, prayers that I don't make a fool of myself.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 07:52 AM (eRlcH

I second that since this is my inaugural MoMe. Hadrian, I have a feeling you’re in or close to my area. If you pass someone going north on 45 with that thousand yard stare, that’ll be me.

Posted by: TxAnn at October 10, 2026 09:01 AM (itAg7)

76 Nice enough falili day today anyway

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 09:02 AM (Ia/+0)

77 Everyone have a splendid day, with warm zephyrs, crepuscular rays from cloud dappled skies, and no sharks in the front yard from hurricane storm surge.

Need to make TexasMoMeet preps.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 10, 2026 09:02 AM (u82oZ)

78 > The mustache shaved until it's just under the nostrils look seems to have vanished 80 years ago, too.
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I accidently got one side of my goatee a bit too short/thin and had to do with a "Hitler stash" for a week or so until it grew back out.

Very.... odd looking.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 10, 2026 09:02 AM (RORbl)

79 Some fashions just go out of style and never, ever, return.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 09:00 AM (6ydKt)
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*sadz*

Posted by: Hugo Boss at October 10, 2026 09:02 AM (RIvkX)

80 (2 of 2) The Catholic Church had been sending missionaries into the Albigensian region of France for about 200 years prior to the crusade. St. Bernard of Clairvoux had actually gotten driven out of the region by a mob. St. Dominic finally hit upon the idea of founding a mendicant order to preach against the heresy, and was having some pretty good success.

Then a Papal legate was murdered by a knight supporting the Cathars. Then the Albigensian Crusade got called in earnest.

The Cathars were not innocent victims of genocide, and the Catholics of the region tended to shelter them and fight the crusaders. Hence the reason things got pretty ugly.

But the underlying motivation for the Albigensian Crusade was the salvation of souls. Fast-forward to today, and we find plenty of "Christian" pastors preaching heresy: they're also leading the souls of the unwary to Hell.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 09:03 AM (ksbjf)

81 The mustache shaved until it's just under the nostrils look seems to have vanished 80 years ago, too.

Some fashions just go out of style and never, ever, return.


I'm primed for a comeback!

Posted by: Oswald Mosely at October 10, 2026 09:04 AM (Riz8t)

82 Any Morons get hurricaned?
Posted by: torabora

Just rain here in Nashville land. Was supposed to have high winds but they haven't hit us yet. Hopefully, they won't.

Posted by: Tuna at October 10, 2026 09:04 AM (lJ0H4)

83 3. Allowing the marginalized to rule

That's where we are Chris. This world has no justice Old Testament or otherwise.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 08:56 AM (RIvkX)

As Judge Jury and Executioner
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 08:59 AM (/+uur)

He's not Judge Judy and executioner!

Posted by: PC Danny Butterman at October 10, 2026 09:04 AM (wVcYX)

84 "Hollywood Celebrities Denounce Pentagon Plan to Livestream Fort Hood Shooter Execution"

Sure, they will make movies depicting gruesome murders and completely unlikeable antiheroes but video of a terrorist traitor receiving justice is beyond the pale

Posted by: fd at October 10, 2026 09:04 AM (MWfyi)

85 Prayers for all.

Posted by: Mick at October 10, 2026 09:04 AM (HFx9z)

86 🙏🏼Prayers for each and everyone in need, always including Laurie, Teresa ifw, and Donna &. 🙏🏼 Prayers for the safety of all in the path of the hurricane. Last but not least, 🙏🏼 prayers for all traveling for the TxMome, its coordinators and hosts.

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 10, 2026 09:05 AM (NFX2v)

87 I accidently got one side of my goatee a bit too short/thin and had to do with a "Hitler stash" for a week or so until it grew back out.

Very.... odd looking.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 10, 2026 09:02 AM (RORbl)


Was everybody doing the right arm arm up combined with the right foot stomp salute every time you said "Hi."?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 09:07 AM (6ydKt)

88 {Donna&&}

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 09:09 AM (RIvkX)

89 (*) There was question a few weeks ago about this form of the Doxology: this is the form used by the Order of Preachers (i.e, the Dominicans) and is used in the Divine Office. FYI, I'm a lay brother in the Lay Fraternity of St. Dominic -- what used to be termed the Third Order.
Posted by: Retired

That was.me. seems to be a few remainingsmall variations explained as a sort of local dialect that has hung on. I kind of like that. I'm a now and forever, amen guy.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 10, 2026 09:10 AM (sl73Y)

90 That's where we are Chris. This world has no justice Old Testament or otherwise.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 08:56 AM (RIvkX)

I would say that No Justice in this world has always been the default state of humanity, and that periods when Justice is actually sought have been very few and far between.

And I’ll add that during these long periods where there is no Public Justice, there WILL be private justice - and those who provide it will increase in power and authority themselves.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 10, 2026 09:11 AM (60F2Z)

91 "Hollywood Celebrities Denounce Pentagon Plan to Livestream Fort Hood Shooter Execution"

Well I don't know about you, but whenever I need guidance on the big moral questions, the first people I consult are Hollywood actors.
*rolls eyes*

Posted by: Archimedes at October 10, 2026 09:13 AM (Riz8t)

92 3) No! You may not run, jog, sprint or power walk with sharp objects.

**********

Did you ever notice that is you open the blades of a pair of scissors and alternate touching a flat surface with the tips that is simulates a person ambulating or even running?

This may be the loophole we've been searching for. I'm going scissor running today!

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at October 10, 2026 09:14 AM (I0N4X)

93 There was a reported Lil Jimmie siting.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 09:14 AM (/+uur)

94 We have justice.
They've just perverted it to social justice, which apparently means; "I deserve what you have just because your ancestors had something similar and they stole it from my ancestors so time to pay the bill, whitey".

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 09:15 AM (6ydKt)

95 (*) There was question a few weeks ago about this form of the Doxology: this is the form used by the Order of Preachers (i.e, the Dominicans) and is used in the Divine Office. FYI, I'm a lay brother in the Lay Fraternity of St. Dominic -- what used to be termed the Third Order.
Posted by: Retired

That was.me. seems to be a few remainingsmall variations explained as a sort of local dialect that has hung on. I kind of like that. I'm a now and forever, amen guy.
Posted by: From about That Time at October 10, 2026 09:10 AM (sl73Y)


I'm glad I was able to finally answer your question.

The "now and forever" is a closer English translation of one of the early Greek forms of the Doxology. But it's kind of forgotten. I learned it when I joined the Lay Fraternity of St. Dominic.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 09:15 AM (ksbjf)

96 This may be the loophole we've been searching for. I'm going scissor running today!
Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at October 10, 2026 09:14 AM (I0N4X)
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Ummm...that's prancing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 09:16 AM (RIvkX)

97 ✂️🏃🏻
And come to think of it, is scissors singular or plural. And what would that make a pair of scissors. Have you ever used a scissor?

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at October 10, 2026 09:17 AM (I0N4X)

98 91 "Hollywood Celebrities Denounce Pentagon Plan to Livestream Fort Hood Shooter Execution"

Well I don't know about you, but whenever I need guidance on the big moral questions, the first people I consult are Hollywood actors.
*rolls eyes*

Posted by: Archimedes at October 10, 2026 09:13 AM (Riz8t)

They are terrified that Hegseth and Trump are going to produce a show that blows everything they've done in twenty years out of the water when the ratings come in.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 09:17 AM (6ydKt)

99 The popularity of the name Adolph derived from Gustavus Adolphus, who was a great Protestant hero of the 30 years war. A shame that Herr Schicklegruber ruined it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 10, 2026 09:17 AM (60F2Z)

100 Scissors are like pants in that way.

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at October 10, 2026 09:18 AM (I0N4X)

101 97 ✂️🏃🏻
And come to think of it, is scissors singular or plural. And what would that make a pair of scissors. Have you ever used a scissor?

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at October 10, 2026 09:17 AM (I0N4X)

A quadruplet of scissors?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 09:19 AM (6ydKt)

102 Mornin', all! I'm getting ready to stomp up a hill with moderately heavy radio equipment (all my lightweight stuff is out of commission at the moment). It's been a couple month since I've done any hiking, so this might be a bit taxing. But soon the weather will turn and I'll be stuck inside.

Have a good day, and safe travels for those of you heading to TX.

Posted by: PabloD at October 10, 2026 09:19 AM (OXSZa)

103 I think there's still Adolph's Meat Tenderizer. Unseasoned.

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 10, 2026 09:20 AM (RORbl)

104 Mornin' Horde and prayers for all y'all. So far, light rain and some wind here at my little 1/2 acre in upstate SC. Some limbs down but that's normal at my place. Expecting more rain, I hope not as much as the weather nerds originally predicted. I've got flood bags deployed at the crawl space door.

On Wednesday I start my journey to Corsicana, Lord willing.

Posted by: screaming in digital at October 10, 2026 09:20 AM (FpydE)

105 99 The popularity of the name Adolph derived from Gustavus Adolphus, who was a great Protestant hero of the 30 years war. A shame that Herr Schicklegruber ruined it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 10, 2026 09:17 AM (60F2Z)

Wasn't he the bad guy in Die Hard (Christmas movie)?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 09:21 AM (6ydKt)

106 A singular scissor is just a poorly designed knife.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 10, 2026 09:22 AM (cWOgQ)

107 That's where we are Chris. This world has no justice Old Testament or otherwise.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 08:56 AM (RIvkX)

I would say that No Justice in this world has always been the default state of humanity, and that periods when Justice is actually sought have been very few and far between.

And I’ll add that during these long periods where there is no Public Justice, there WILL be private justice - and those who provide it will increase in power and authority themselves.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 10, 2026 09:11 AM (60F2Z)


I would add that Public Justice is always forgotten when mankind abandons following the Judeo-Christian Ethic. Only Jews and Christians hold the teaching that mankind is made in the image of God, and He gave us 10 Commandments to govern our behavior.

Things go better when we obey the Judeo-Christian Ethic, and go pretty $h!tty when we disobey. Almost as if the Judeo-Christian Ethic was divinely inspired. But the oh-smart Lefties tell us that there is no God, only will-to-power. Funny how they're a bunch of unhappy, miserable lunatics.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 09:23 AM (ksbjf)

108 Have you ever used a scissor?
Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at October 10, 2026 09:17 AM (I0N4X)

its called a knife

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 09:24 AM (/+uur)

109 Good morning Horde, prayers up for all of you and your loved ones. Special prayers for those in the path of the storm and all those who are travelling. See you in Texas.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 10, 2026 09:25 AM (ibDUx)

110 Well, we're off to wish the dogs Happy Hunting. Should I use my Miracle Max voice and say, "Goodbye kids! Have fun sniffing the cadavers!"


while my wife says "Bah! Humperdinck! Humperdinck"

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at October 10, 2026 09:25 AM (I0N4X)

111 I'm well to the east of EEeee-SAH-AYE--EEEE-US-AY, but they had huge amounts of rainfall potential, sometimes has high as 5" for the area.

That has thankfully not played out yet, and I've got about 0.3" so far, and not any breeze at all.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 10, 2026 09:26 AM (w6EFb)

112 Wasn't he the bad guy in Die Hard (Christmas movie)?

*******

Just Gruber. No Schickel.

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at October 10, 2026 09:26 AM (I0N4X)

113 Funny how they're a bunch of unhappy, miserable lunatics.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 09:23 AM (ksbjf)

It's also funny that their main, stated, goal, in so many words is to basically recreate the Garden of Eden, no working, no clothes, nothing but peace love and happiness without nature oppressing us by making us figure out a way to stay dry and eat.

Only this time it's going to be run by the snake and his friends.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 09:27 AM (6ydKt)

114 Plurale tantum. Such as suds, jeans, outskirts, odds, riches, goods, and news.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 10, 2026 09:28 AM (JzUSu)

115 112 Wasn't he the bad guy in Die Hard (Christmas movie)?

*******

Just Gruber. No Schickel.

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at October 10, 2026 09:26 AM (I0N4X)

Hans Gruber: This time John Wayne does not walk off into the sunset with Grace Kelly.

John McClane: That was Gary Cooper, asshole.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 09:30 AM (6ydKt)

116 No, thank you. Fifteen is my limit on schnitzengruben.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 09:31 AM (/+uur)

117 Hans Gruber: Nice suit. John Phillips, London. I have two myself. Rumor has it Arafat buys his there./i]

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 09:31 AM (6ydKt)

118 is a panty just for 1 leg

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 09:32 AM (/+uur)

119 Plurale tantum
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba a

*********

Thanks Biff. I wasn't familiar with that phrase.

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at October 10, 2026 09:32 AM (I0N4X)

120 Already talking Christmas and we are not even to Halloween

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 09:33 AM (/+uur)

121 I was just riffing. Scatting. Be-bopping.

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at October 10, 2026 09:33 AM (I0N4X)

122 John McClane: Happy trails, Hans.

*splat*

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 09:33 AM (6ydKt)

123 Hitler was literally Schickelgruber.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 09:33 AM (yPX1l)

124 The Flydubai co-pilot was radicalized in Melbourne, Australia by a mosque linked to the Muslim Brotherhood organization.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 09:34 AM (/+uur)

125 So that's where our Diplodocus went!

Does the existence of Diplodocus imply the existence of Monoplodocus?

No one has been named Adolf post 1940.

Knew a guy named Adolph in grade school in the early '70s. Had a twin brother named Adam, which I guess is better than Cain.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 10, 2026 09:34 AM (vTZFs)

126 Thanks Biff. I wasn't familiar with that phrase.
Posted by: muldoon
_________

Neither was I till I just looked it up, but it made me sound smart.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 10, 2026 09:34 AM (JzUSu)

127 Uh, Brave AI completely disagrees:

Adolf Hitler was never literally named Schicklgruber. The name Schicklgruber was the surname of his paternal grandmother, Maria Anna Schicklgruber, and was originally borne by his father, Alois Hitler.

Alois's Birth: Born in 1837 out of wedlock, Alois took his mother’s surname, Schicklgruber, as was customary at the time.

Name Change: In 1876, when Alois was 39 years old, he legally changed his surname to Hitler (likely a variation of his stepfather Johann Georg Hiedler's name) to legitimize himself.

Adolf's Birth: Adolf Hitler was born in 1889, twelve years after his father had already adopted the surname Hitler.

The belief that Hitler’s "real name" was Schicklgruber is a historical myth that originated during World War II, where Allied forces and opponents used the name to mock him by associating him with his illegitimate birth and his grandmother’s surname. Historians, such as Alan Bullock, have confirmed that Adolf was born and lived his entire life as Adolf Hitler.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 09:38 AM (6ydKt)

128 122 John McClane: Happy trails, Hans

John McCain
I have tickets for his funeral next May!

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at October 10, 2026 09:39 AM (Sco7b)

129 Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.  As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, forever.  Amen.

Oh my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell.  Lead all souls to heaven, especially those most in need of Thy mercy.  Amen.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 10, 2026 09:43 AM (ZOv7s)

130
A cool morning, so I had Puff and Ruth out for a run in the front yard, which is about 150 x 200 feet. There was some body banging but the term "dogfight" applies more to their runs chasing after each other. Vectors and interception, evasive maneuvering, full-tilt spins to go from pursued to pursuer. Lovely to watch, but hard if they decide to use Daddy as a pick.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 09:46 AM (eRlcH)

131 "Hollywood Celebrities Denounce Pentagon Plan to Livestream Fort Hood Shooter Execution"

And they all have no problem with gore & murder when it brings in viewers & voters & $.

Winkler starred as Martin Klein in the CBS docudrama Absolute Strangers, which was based on a real-life 1989 legal case where a husband went to court to authorize an abortion for his comatose wife to save her life.

Senator Chris Murphy, "I strongly believe a woman has the right to make decisions about her own reproductive health. And I believe that abortion is a core health service."

The tragic killing of Iryna Zarutska and the video from the bus on which she died, ignited a major political and public safety debateat the national level.

Horrific video shows suspect watching woman burn to death in NYC train car after he allegedly set her on fire.

And, unfortunately, so on.

Do it after 10 pm. Don't watch. Monitor your children's media viewing.

Perhaps a very useful lesson of cause and effect.

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 10, 2026 09:47 AM (NFX2v)

132 It's also funny that their main, stated, goal, in so many words is to basically recreate the Garden of Eden, no working, no clothes, nothing but peace love and happiness without nature oppressing us by making us figure out a way to stay dry and eat.

Only this time it's going to be run by the snake and his friends.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 09:27 AM (6ydKt)
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A lot of them buy into the "you shall be as gods" like.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 10, 2026 09:48 AM (ZOv7s)

133 Lie
Still early.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 10, 2026 09:48 AM (ZOv7s)

134 Wind slowly picking up.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 10, 2026 09:51 AM (zcI95)

135 126 Neither was I till I just looked it up, but it made me sound smart.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 10, 2026 09:34 AM (JzUSu)

I knew palindrome and onomatopoeia but plurale tantum was a new one.

Posted by: TxAnn at October 10, 2026 09:52 AM (itAg7)

136 Funny how they're a bunch of unhappy, miserable lunatics.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 09:23 AM (ksbjf)

It's also funny that their main, stated, goal, in so many words is to basically recreate the Garden of Eden, no working, no clothes, nothing but peace love and happiness without nature oppressing us by making us figure out a way to stay dry and eat.

Only this time it's going to be run by the snake and his friends.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 09:27 AM (6ydKt)


I can't remember where I read it (it might have been Bl. Fulton Sheen or Pope Benedict XVI), but every attempt to create Heaven on Earth, results in Hell on Earth. While it's a secular book, Friedrich von Heyak's book The Road to Serfdom makes the point that one of the attractions of Socialism that it makes the selfish feel better about their lack of charity.

Of course, the empty promises of Utopia can not be met, so enemies (preferably defenseless internal enemies) have to to be identified and eliminated. The True Believers discount the fact that Communist governments have killed in excess of 100 million of their own citizens.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 09:52 AM (ksbjf)

137 soooo Philly is a mess (I know you guys know)

yesterday a crazy bum started shooting wildly outside of The Franklin Institute at around 11am, there were multiple school trips there. the cops had to put him down (thank God, one less violent bum in the city).

then last night the police got a call to go in to West Philly that there was a guy brandishing on a porch ... except when they got there to investigate, no one on that porch, they go to knock and someone starts shooting.

the two were critically injured and one has now died. backup came and found the shooter up in a tree, prepped to kill. it was an ambush.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 10, 2026 09:52 AM (j+aD2)

138 Lovely to watch, but hard if they decide to use Daddy as a pick.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Illegal pick. Five minutes in the kennelty box.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 10, 2026 09:53 AM (JzUSu)

139 Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 10, 2026 09:52 AM (j+aD2)

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iirc an ambush kicked things off in 1985

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 09:54 AM (RIvkX)

140
I swear to God, if I see another post about "Banned Books" I'll scream. Anything that used to be normal and expected of adults to protect their children from things they're not ready for has been turned into some newly repressive horror by bibliomolesters.

We never had "bannned books" because no one in the past would have thought that "Heather's First Polycule" was suitable for children.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 09:55 AM (eRlcH)

141 iirc an ambush kicked things off in 1985


we need a "blue flu" to wake up the stupid city

and we need Krasner REMOVED

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 10, 2026 09:55 AM (j+aD2)

142 then last night the police got a call to go in to West Philly that there was a guy brandishing on a porch ... except when they got there to investigate, no one on that porch, they go to knock and someone starts shooting.

the two were critically injured and one has now died. backup came and found the shooter up in a tree, prepped to kill. it was an ambush.
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 10, 2026 09:52 AM (j+aD2)


May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 09:57 AM (ksbjf)

143 Speaking of Hitler…

I saw a Reddit discussion about cost of living in various cities. Yeah I know Reddit but still. The question was posed by a German who is moving to America and wanted to get a sense of cost of living in different areas.

What was weird was how so many people focused on cars. Along the lines of you can live in flyover country and it’s cheap, however you have to own a dirty horrible polluting awful not good car. But in the Valhalla of blue city costal shuttles you are free from car ownership and can walk or take transit everywhere.

I mean sure that’s something to consider since if you live in NYC you don’t need a car and that is a significant monthly cost saved. But it wasn’t just that. It was this deep seated hatred against the cars themselves.

The left has indoctrinated a good chunk of people to loathe cars. And it’s vocable in the percentage of young people who have a license. It has been steadily dropping since the mid 2000s.

It’s not just the car. It’s the lifestyle of owning a home, having freedom to move as you please. Their version of good living is a cramped apartment, with no ability to ever leave the area. The 15 minute city.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 10, 2026 09:57 AM (qoHuP)

144
Illegal pick. Five minutes in the kennelty box.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 10, 2026 09:53 AM (JzUSu)


The only safe way to protect yourself when a Borzoi is doing zoomies is don't do anything.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 09:57 AM (eRlcH)

145 Of course, the empty promises of Utopia can not be met, so enemies (preferably defenseless internal enemies) have to to be identified and eliminated. The True Believers discount the fact that Communist governments have killed in excess of 100 million of their own citizens.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 09:52 AM (ksbjf)
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It was never "scientific" and was always a heresy.

That's why it persists. It plays upon the sins of envy, greed, wrath and pride hidden behind a smokescreen of secular altruism.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 10, 2026 09:57 AM (ZOv7s)

146 All those “banned books” are available on Amazon with same day delivery in many cases.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 10, 2026 09:58 AM (qoHuP)

147 Thanks for the Coffee Thread and Prayer Revival, Mis Hum and Annie!

Safe travels and enjoyed fellowship for all attending the MoMe.

And may God continue to bless the U.S.A. and Israel.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at October 10, 2026 09:59 AM (D/6p1)

148 Good morning and prayers for all

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 10, 2026 09:59 AM (M+uMR)

149 We never had "bannned books" because no one in the past would have thought that "Heather's First Polycule" was suitable for children.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 09:55 AM (eRlcH)
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They're so banned that all the liberal public libraries carry them and they have their own display at the front of the book store.

I think 99% of the left is just bored people trying to come up with a purpose in their life, so they create imaginary dragons to slay.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 10, 2026 10:00 AM (ZOv7s)

150 Happy Saturday!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 10, 2026 10:00 AM (rOKnE)

151 then last night the police got a call to go in to West Philly that there was a guy brandishing on a porch ... except when they got there to investigate, no one on that porch, they go to knock and someone starts shooting.
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A bomb be good for him

Posted by: Wilson Goode at October 10, 2026 10:00 AM (v3w5Z)

152 The only safe way to protect yourself when a Borzoi is doing zoomies is don't do anything.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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I've had several great danes, and been run over multiple times. Like Bo Jackson over Brian Bosworth.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 10, 2026 10:00 AM (JzUSu)

153 the shooter in West Philly was apprehended btw

I wish he was ended like the crazy bum was tho

I'm sure Krasner will find a way to release him

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 10, 2026 10:01 AM (j+aD2)

154 >>When deputies arrived, Theyson repeatedly told them, “My bomb blew up”."

What did you expect, Mr "North Carolina Man"?




Better you than your intended target?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 10, 2026 10:02 AM (rOKnE)

155 "Believe all women" is the Jim Crow laws of feminism.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 10, 2026 10:02 AM (3cUTc)

156 Of course, the empty promises of Utopia can not be met, so enemies (preferably defenseless internal enemies) have to to be identified and eliminated. The True Believers discount the fact that Communist governments have killed in excess of 100 million of their own citizens.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 09:52 AM (ksbjf)
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It was never "scientific" and was always a heresy.

That's why it persists. It plays upon the sins of envy, greed, wrath and pride hidden behind a smokescreen of secular altruism.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 10, 2026 09:57 AM (ZOv7s)


Oh, fully understood. We're in agreement, although I think it's a bit more accurate to characterize Communism as an inversion of Christianity rather than a Christian heresy.

Paul Kangor's book The Devil and Karl Marx really opened my eyes to the Satanic influence upon Communism. It's a spiritual struggle against Communism, not an economic struggle. That's why the utilitarian arguments against Communism always fail.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 10:02 AM (ksbjf)

157 Was the west Philly shooter born and raised there? And time spent on the playground?

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 10, 2026 10:03 AM (qoHuP)

158 Ambush is the nightmare scenario for any police force. There’s no way for any non militarized force to prepare for that kind of attack. The only possible way to be prepared is to always go in like the IDF in Gaza or the West Bank - armored vehicles and guns blazing.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 10, 2026 10:03 AM (60F2Z)

159 The left has indoctrinated a good chunk of people to loathe cars. And it’s vocable in the percentage of young people who have a license. It has been steadily dropping since the mid 2000s.

It’s not just the car. It’s the lifestyle of owning a home, having freedom to move as you please. Their version of good living is a cramped apartment, with no ability to ever leave the area. The 15 minute city.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 10, 2026 09:57 AM (qoHuP)
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It's a function of envy. You have a huge amount of college educated downwardly mobile people who cannot live the American Dream, so they hate on it, and try to convince others that people who have achieved it are bad.

"See that happy family with lots of kids going on vacations and having parties in their back yard? They are evil personified, and secretly miserable."

This is where you get all the "suburban bored housewife it's all a nightmare" genre of literature.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 10, 2026 10:04 AM (ZOv7s)

160 I attended an event across town last week. I could have driven. It would take about 30 min. to get there and find parking. Parking would be $10.

I took the muni. It took about 30 min. to get there and cost $6 roundtrip. Similarly door-to-door.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 10:04 AM (RIvkX)

161 I've been kinda bombed myself, but still have all my digits.

Posted by: Rum Dum at October 10, 2026 10:04 AM (EdP2u)

162 Paul Kangor's book The Devil and Karl Marx really opened my eyes to the Satanic influence upon Communism. It's a spiritual struggle against Communism, not an economic struggle. That's why the utilitarian arguments against Communism always fail.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 10:02 AM (ksbjf)
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There's a reason why Communists always destroy the churches. The moral system is completely incompatible.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 10, 2026 10:06 AM (ZOv7s)

163 "Believe all women" is the Jim Crow laws of feminism.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 10, 2026 10:02 AM (3cUTc)
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The Scottsboro Boys say "hi."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 10, 2026 10:07 AM (ZOv7s)

164 We never had "bannned books" because no one in the past would have thought that "Heather's First Polycule" was suitable for children.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 09:55 AM (eRlcH)
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They're so banned that all the liberal public libraries carry them and they have their own display at the front of the book store.

I think 99% of the left is just bored people trying to come up with a purpose in their life, so they create imaginary dragons to slay.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 10, 2026 10:00 AM (ZOv7s)


Well, that and the fact that they've given themselves over to their disordered sexual passions and other sins.

But St. Paul was a big dummy when he warned against those perversions in the Letter to the Romans (see 1:26-27). Lefties know better then those old guys in the Bible. /s

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 10:07 AM (ksbjf)

165 Someone wrote a great book on dissecting all the works like Utopia

I cannot find it now

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 10:08 AM (/+uur)

166 I can't wait to hear:

“Shoot straight, you bastards! Don’t make a mess of it!”

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 10, 2026 10:08 AM (dtajH)

167 >>I swear to God, if I see another post about "Banned Books" I'll scream. Anything that used to be normal and expected of adults to protect their children from things they're not ready for has been turned into some newly repressive horror by bibliomolesters.


"bibliomolesters," heh!

Chatting with an older family friend yesterday, she recounted a story of her friend showing her a picture of her granddaughter from a recent visit. Granddaughter is married to a trans and they each have produced a kid. Said with horror that it was obvious from the picture that both kids (her friends great grandchildren) were going to be trans, too. The Grandmother is just sick about it.

This all so sad, the intentional destruction of children while loved ones have to watch in horror.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 10, 2026 10:09 AM (rOKnE)

168 Paul Kangor's book The Devil and Karl Marx really opened my eyes to the Satanic influence upon Communism. It's a spiritual struggle against Communism, not an economic struggle. That's why the utilitarian arguments against Communism always fail.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 10:02 AM (ksbjf)
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There's a reason why Communists always destroy the churches. The moral system is completely incompatible.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 10, 2026 10:06 AM (ZOv7s)


Yes. That's also why we're seeing such a big upswing in conversions into the Catholic Church by young adults. They're seeking timeless truths, rather than the "Church of What's Happening Now."

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 10:11 AM (ksbjf)

169 "See that happy family with lots of kids going on vacations and having parties in their back yard? They are evil personified, and secretly miserable."

This is where you get all the "suburban bored housewife it's all a nightmare" genre of literature.


Good thing we never fell for that nonsense.
*shifty eyes*

Posted by: Hollywood at October 10, 2026 10:12 AM (Riz8t)

170 They're seeking timeless truths, rather than the "Church of What's Happening Now."
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 10:11 AM (ksbjf)
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How dare you!

Posted by: Flip Wilson at October 10, 2026 10:13 AM (RIvkX)

171 Going to see Adam Corolla this evening at a comedy club

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 10:13 AM (Ia/+0)

172 The crazy thing with the Left is that they claim to be for individual freedom but they're actually fascist conformists.

"Let a hundred flowers bloom, so long as they all lean Left."

Leftism is an ersatz religion like Scientology and Islam.

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 10, 2026 10:13 AM (dtajH)

173 This all so sad, the intentional destruction of children while loved ones have to watch in horror.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 10, 2026 10:09 AM (rOKnE)
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One reason why a certain percentage of people are refusing to budge on the trans thing is that they cannot accept the guilt for mutilating their kid. They have no way to process through it, so they build a bunker of denial.

We're already seeing how that is being bypassed by lawsuits and regulations targeting the doctors. Nice thing about lawyers, they can always be trusted to chase deep pockets.

Ultimately, it will go away when it ceases to have social value and we are moving that way. Hegseth casually ripping on trannies is part of this. The more those people are looked at with disdain, the faster it will end, and there is already a huge shift among young people because of the growing stigma attached to it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 10, 2026 10:14 AM (ZOv7s)

174 crazy thing with the Left is that they claim to be for individual freedom but they're actually fascist conformists.

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My body my choice

Also: you will be vaxxed whether you like it or not

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 10, 2026 10:15 AM (qoHuP)

175 >>The crazy thing with the Left is that they claim to be for individual freedom but they're actually fascist conformists.


Like feminists, who are all about choice when there are really only some choices of which they approve.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 10, 2026 10:15 AM (rOKnE)

176 It is the duty of the civil authorities to administer Justice and the duty of the church to administer Charity.

Lots of folks have it backward.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 10, 2026 10:17 AM (LOvBA)

177 Going to see Adam Corolla this evening at a comedy club
Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 10:13 AM (Ia/+0)
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Awesome have a blast I think he's a riot

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 10:17 AM (RIvkX)

178 Lefts are children at their core. They believe in fairy tales like communism.

And they behave like children as well. Every teenager thinks they’re being super rebellious by their fashion or haircut or music. But they all look the same, dress the same and listen to the same music.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 10, 2026 10:18 AM (qoHuP)

179 The state of the Catholic Church is such that the laity know more about the Faith and morals of the Church than the Pope and half of the Bishops.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 10, 2026 10:18 AM (LOvBA)

180 @158/Tom Servo:

1. Look up.
2. Use FLIR.

https://youtu.be/N4WNB9omjfI

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at October 10, 2026 10:19 AM (O7YUW)

181 Yes. That's also why we're seeing such a big upswing in conversions into the Catholic Church by young adults. They're seeking timeless truths, rather than the "Church of What's Happening Now."
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 10:11 AM (ksbjf)
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It's a really interesting dynamic. On one hand, we have the DSA blue-haired idiots who know nothing veering into Jew hatred and on the other we have huge numbers of college students pouring into the churches. The Southern Baptist Convention is reporting record adult baptisms as well, even as the Mainline churches wither away.

One of the interesting changes to RCIA/OCIA/Becoming Catholic over the past ten years is how much younger the sponsors are. A decade ago, it was mostly middle-aged or older adults, but now it's college kids, either cradle Catholics or converts. A former pagan talked at our last session about the "voice" of the Goddess trying to keep him, and God bringing him away from it.

That's another difference. Spiritual warfare is front and center now.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 10, 2026 10:19 AM (ZOv7s)

182 Now rain is slowly picking up.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 10, 2026 10:20 AM (zcI95)

183 The left has indoctrinated a good chunk of people to loathe cars. And it’s vocable in the percentage of young people who have a license. It has been steadily dropping since the mid 2000s.

It’s not just the car. It’s the lifestyle of owning a home, having freedom to move as you please. Their version of good living is a cramped apartment, with no ability to ever leave the area. The 15 minute city.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 10, 2026 09:57 AM (qoHuP)


I think that aping the European lack of personal cars also plays a part for the American Left. Mrs. Cop and I just returned a couple of weeks ago from a pilgrimage to holy sites within Italy.

Europeans just do not grok how big the U.S. is. I was talking to a bartender (h/t to Gianluc for the great Aperol spritzes) that mentioned that he would like to visit both New York City and Los Angeles. I warned him that he should try to visit both cities in the same visit: America is just too big.

He asked "Are they 1000 kilometers apart?" I consulted the Intertubes on the distance and did the math: I answered, "No it's more like 4000 kilometers apart." Dude was dumbfounded. He just couldn't conceive of that distance.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 10:21 AM (ksbjf)

184
The state of the Catholic Church is such that the laity know more about the Faith and morals of the Church than the Pope and half of the Bishops.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 10, 2026 10:18 AM (LOvBA)


You can't go wrong just following the Baltimore Catechism. Volume 1 is written, literally, for children.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 10:21 AM (eRlcH)

185 @183 oops, should be "Should NOT try to visit both cities in one visit."

*Oh, half my kingdom for a Preview button!!!*

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 10:22 AM (ksbjf)

186 London to Berlin is 580 miles.

NYC to Chicago is 712.

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 10, 2026 10:23 AM (dtajH)

187 The state of the Catholic Church is such that the laity know more about the Faith and morals of the Church than the Pope and half of the Bishops.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 10, 2026 10:18 AM (LOvBA)
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It's a generational thing. Pope Leo is doctrinally sound in many areas, but his generation is steeped in the progressive worldview that we've gotten over racism, and sexism and such, and the death penalty is just another relic.

With the exception of some old stalwarts, that's the prevailing view (also suspicion or hatred of the TLM). But among the younger clergy, you see very orthodox teaching and practices. I just wish the bishops worried less about social posturing and more about converting souls. Putting a man in a living hell does nothing for soul, but knowing death is near focuses the mind on the hereafter.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 10, 2026 10:23 AM (ZOv7s)

188 And they behave like children as well. Every teenager thinks they’re being super rebellious by their fashion or haircut or music. But they all look the same, dress the same and listen to the same music.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 10, 2026 10:18 AM (qoHuP)
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This is what I think when I walk down Haight St.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 10:23 AM (RIvkX)

189 > I'm sure Krasner will find a way to release him
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I read a post a couple days/weeks ago that suggested he's getting some heat for his... actions. Perhaps some sort of official/professional review?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 10, 2026 10:24 AM (RORbl)

190 They're seeking timeless truths, rather than the "Church of What's Happening Now."
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 10:11 AM (ksbjf)
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How dare you!
Posted by: Flip Wilson at October 10, 2026 10:13 AM (RIvkX)


Sorry, Flip. You were a funny guy.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 10:25 AM (ksbjf)

191 Good morning good people. Prayers for all Hordian intentions - those requested and those known but to God.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 10, 2026 10:25 AM (N5iuz)

192 It’s not just the car. It’s the lifestyle of owning a home, having freedom to move as you please. Their version of good living is a cramped apartment, with no ability to ever leave the area. The 15 minute city.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 10, 2026 09:57 AM (qoHuP)

It’s the Euro mindset. Serfs and servants forever, personal freedom and agency is only for the Ruling Class.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 10, 2026 10:26 AM (Y6Q+5)

193 You can't go wrong just following the Baltimore Catechism. Volume 1 is written, literally, for children.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

. . . and therefore, can be understood by adults too!

Posted by: Tonypete at October 10, 2026 10:27 AM (N5iuz)

194 >>One reason why a certain percentage of people are refusing to budge on the trans thing is that they cannot accept the guilt for mutilating their kid. They have no way to process through it, so they build a bunker of denial.

At my former church, there's a woman who is a little nutty. It became obvious she was going to trans her kid early on (pre-k she was constantly changing between genders via clothes and radical haircuts). The family moved to Europe for a few years, and upon return, the transing had officially taken place. Mom got involved in everything at church, even got a job within the church. Then the prayer requests started for the kid- dealing with depression, etc. Something new each week, always vague. Kid starts volunteering with youth group (because of course, xe has to mentor younger kids). It was like this big project by the family that needed to be implemented at all levels.

Last I heard, the mom has withdrawn from all church groups to deal with. . . something. We're just praying there won't be a suicide.
The whole thing is so, so sad. Obvious from the start that the mom did this to the kid.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 10, 2026 10:27 AM (rOKnE)

195 Did see some comments from Europeans they really were surprised distances between places here. Couple hours driving in Europe you can go through countries.
France is Texas.

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 10:29 AM (Ia/+0)

196 Like feminists, who are all about choice when there are really only some choices of which they approve.[/i\]

It's like a Chinese restaurant menu. You choose one from Column Very Left, and one from Column Really Left. If you pay extra, you can pay for Column Frothing Maoist.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 10, 2026 10:29 AM (Riz8t)

Posted by: Archimedes at October 10, 2026 10:29 AM (Riz8t)

198 The things I learn around here; one of many reasons to love hanging out here. Because it came up I looked into it. Yep… Hitler’s dad was born illegitimate and briefly used the surname Schticklgruber…. But only briefly. He’d legally adopted the surname Hitler (variation on Heidler) well before Hitler was conceived. I’d always wondered why Schticklgruber occasionally comes up in the gray boxes…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 10, 2026 10:29 AM (M+uMR)

199 The “Euros don’t drive” thing is another fairly tale the left believes in. Europeans do own cars. A fuckton of cars. Even in the densest busiest cities it’s packed full of cars. What Europe for the most part does have is restrictions on parking in cities making it damn near impossible to drive in from the suburbs, hence the use of trains. But those people do own cars.

Another leftist fairy is how everyone in Europe takes the train everywhere for long distance travel. Uhm no not really. Trains are used for sweet spot trips like 200-400 miles between major metro areas. It beats flying and driving usually. But nobody is taking the train from Berlin to Paris. That’s a 8-10 hr train ride. They take the 2 hr flight instead.


Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 10, 2026 10:30 AM (qoHuP)

200 "It’s the Euro mindset. Serfs and servants forever, personal freedom and agency is only for the Ruling Class."

I've come to believe that this is especially true in England which never had a revolution. So the landed descendants of Billy the Conqueror still run things. FFS, one guy owns all of Mayfair.

The Brits should rise up, but my bet is that it will happen in France or Germany first.

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 10, 2026 10:31 AM (dtajH)

201 The Brits should rise up, but my bet is that it will happen in France or Germany first.

Perhaps, but I think there's going to be a nearly simultaneous, Europe-wide reaction/revolt against the "new arrivals" and leftist governance in general.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 10, 2026 10:32 AM (Riz8t)

202 >>The Brits should rise up, but my bet is that it will happen in France or Germany first.

Irish seem to be really pissed off lately?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 10, 2026 10:33 AM (rOKnE)

203 The state of the Catholic Church is such that the laity know more about the Faith and morals of the Church than the Pope and half of the Bishops.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 10, 2026 10:18 AM (LOvBA)
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It's a generational thing. Pope Leo is doctrinally sound in many areas, but his generation is steeped in the progressive worldview that we've gotten over racism, and sexism and such, and the death penalty is just another relic.

With the exception of some old stalwarts, that's the prevailing view (also suspicion or hatred of the TLM). But among the younger clergy, you see very orthodox teaching and practices. ...
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 10, 2026 10:23 AM (ZOv7s)


Well said. The old "Hippy Generation" clergy is dying-out and being replaced by a much more orthodox younger clergy. Hence the the temper trantrums of the old bishops: they know that their "reforms" are being swept away and the old Sacred Traditions are being re-embraced.

I'm not ready to write-off Pope Leo XIV yet. Doctrinely, he is much better than Pope Francis. I think Pope Leo is the transitional Pope we need, not the Pope the Traditionalists want.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 10:33 AM (ksbjf)

204 45.
Final lap starts today. We have fought the good fight. We have faith that God's will shall be done, not ours.
Posted by: muldoon


Wishing you the best of luck and it proves to be fruitful.

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 10, 2026 10:34 AM (NFX2v)

205 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not to your own understanding.

Posted by: Eromero at October 10, 2026 10:34 AM (gYrQj)

206 I did not have "Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centers cleans up American elections" on my bingo card.

https://tinyurl.com/3nakevdm

Posted by: Archimedes at October 10, 2026 10:34 AM (Riz8t)

207 195 Did see some comments from Europeans they really were surprised distances between places here. Couple hours driving in Europe you can go through countries.
France is Texas.
Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 10:29 AM (Ia/+0)

They should drive Ontario...

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 10, 2026 10:34 AM (Sco7b)

208 He asked "Are they 1000 kilometers apart?" I consulted the Intertubes on the distance and did the math: I answered, "No it's more like 4000 kilometers apart." Dude was dumbfounded. He just couldn't conceive of that distance.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 10:21 AM (ksbjf)

My wife grew up in Shreveport La, her family has some relatives still in the UK who visited once. They still laugh about when the relatives said “oh while we’re there we’d like to drive down to New Orleans one afternoon to see so and so.”

Distance from Shreveport to New Orleans is identical to the distance between London and Edinburgh. (And it feels like being in two different countries, too)

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 10, 2026 10:36 AM (Y6Q+5)

209 Road to Serfdom is paved with Socialize Medicine, 25% of budget on Welfare, and government schools.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 10:36 AM (/+uur)

210 When I was in the UK working i once drove to Scotland for the weekend just for the hell if it go to Scotland. I told my coworkers about it and they thought I was insane to drive that far for a weekend. It was like a 5 hr drive lol.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 10, 2026 10:38 AM (qoHuP)

211 "Irish seem to be really pissed off lately?"

They may move first. There's a growing divide between Dublin and the rest of the country. And the Catholics and Protestants in the North are getting close -- it's been British police since Cromwell to keep them divided.

Muslim Invaders are a flashpoint. The native Irish and the native Scots-Irish will go violent if sufficiently provoked.

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 10, 2026 10:40 AM (dtajH)

212 198 The things I learn around here; one of many reasons to love hanging out here. Because it came up I looked into it. Yep… Hitler’s dad was born illegitimate and briefly used the surname Schticklgruber…. But only briefly

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Maria Schickelgruber was Alois' mother. Since Alois was born illegitimately and the father either wasn't known or wasn't identified, by default he became a Schickelgruber.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 10, 2026 10:40 AM (wpRMV)

213 But only briefly. He’d legally adopted the surname Hitler (variation on Heidler) well before Hitler was conceived. I’d always wondered why Schticklgruber occasionally comes up in the gray boxes…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 10, 2026 10:29 AM (M+uMR)
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I read John Toland's massive biography years ago, but IIRC, Hitler was from a rural area and at that time, farming was still done using traditional methods, meaning more kids meant more production capability, and attitudes regarding marriage among the peasants (who did not have much in the way of property) was lax.

The stigma came when you went to the cities, and the Hitler family was trying to rise out of rural poverty. Much of Hitler's anger in Vienna was because Austria was socially stratified, which is why he joined a Bavarian regiment in World War I.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 10, 2026 10:41 AM (ZOv7s)

214 I did ask AI.

One of the longest practical drives entirely within Ontario would be between Point Pelee, near Leamington, and Pickle Lake in Northwestern Ontario.

Point Pelee is near the southernmost point of mainland Canada, while Pickle Lake sits at the northern end of Ontario's provincial highway network.

Point Pelee National Park

ROUGH ESTIMATE · ONE WAY
2,200–2,400 km

Approximately 25–30 hours of driving, excluding lengthy stops.

Damn. I forget how massive this province is.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 10, 2026 10:41 AM (Sco7b)

215 Home hospice care with Mama Publius. Requesting prayers for grace and fortitude, and that she passes in her sleep. That's the best way, right?

She really hasn't eaten anything for 4 days, a few sips of water or juice. She experiences difficulty breathing, and morphine is the treatment. Small doses. So she's out of it to some extent pretty much the whole time.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at October 10, 2026 10:42 AM (w6EFb)

216 When I was in the UK working i once drove to Scotland for the weekend just for the hell if it go to Scotland. I told my coworkers about it and they thought I was insane to drive that far for a weekend. It was like a 5 hr drive lol.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 10, 2026 10:38 AM (qoHuP)
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In America, we think 100 years is a long time, in Europe they think 100 miles is a long distance.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 10, 2026 10:42 AM (ZOv7s)

217 Hmmmmm.

Hitler Mussolini wins Peruvian election

https://tinyurl.com/4hrc3bz5

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 10, 2026 10:44 AM (ndZc7)

218
Diana: "I see you are having toast with apple butter. I, too, enjoy tast with apple butter."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 10:44 AM (eRlcH)

219 I'm not ready to write-off Pope Leo XIV yet. Doctrinely, he is much better than Pope Francis. I think Pope Leo is the transitional Pope we need, not the Pope the Traditionalists want.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 10:33 AM (ksbjf)
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God willing, by the end of his pontificate, the options for bishops (and his replacement) will be 100% orthodox. There are currently zero liberal seminarians in many countries.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 10, 2026 10:44 AM (ZOv7s)

220 More concerning Pope Leo XIV:

Much of the laity still have a good opinion of him, even the ones that grew to dislike Pope Francis.

There are some Traditionalist Catholics on the Tube of Ewes that I have stopped watching: everything seems to be "Pope Leo is just like Pope Francis" when that is simply not true. AHL helped me realize that their revenue on Youtube is getting "hate clicks." Hard pass.

I got to see Pope Leo XIV from only about 20 feet away during a General Audience. Maybe he's a great actor, but I just got the impression of great love for the laity gathered there and his happiness.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 10:45 AM (ksbjf)

221 Prayers for Mama Publius, Publius and Miley.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2026 10:46 AM (JrHfD)

222 Trump: “In this administration, we know that Christopher Columbus is a hero”

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One word: genocide.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 10, 2026 10:48 AM (ndZc7)

223 Home hospice care with Mama Publius. Requesting prayers for grace and fortitude, and that she passes in her sleep. That's the best way, right?

She really hasn't eaten anything for 4 days, a few sips of water or juice. She experiences difficulty breathing, and morphine is the treatment. Small doses. So she's out of it to some extent pretty much the whole time.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at October 10, 2026 10:42 AM (w6EFb)


I will pray a Rosary for your family. Fr. Robert Spitzer, in one of his books, wrote that suffering is an opportunity to give and receive unconditional love.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 10:49 AM (ksbjf)

224
There are some Traditionalist Catholics on the Tube of Ewes that I have stopped watching: everything seems to be "Pope Leo is just like Pope Francis" when that is simply not true. AHL helped me realize that their revenue on Youtube is getting "hate clicks." Hard pass.

_________

My views on this:
- Nobody asked for my opinion
- There's nothing you can do about it
- Go to Mass and say your Rosary every day
- See to yourself

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 10:49 AM (eRlcH)

225 I've had pretty much the same retort to everybody since second or third grade, and its held.up well.
Who died and made you god?

Posted by: From about That Time at October 10, 2026 10:50 AM (sl73Y)

226 I was wondering how publius and his mother and family were doing....

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 10, 2026 10:51 AM (Sco7b)

227 This is an odd story. Progressive blogger faces misdemeanor charges for sending a rude altered picture of Shrek to his State Senator:

https://tinyurl.com/y62smjxx

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2026 10:52 AM (JrHfD)

228 Up above there are comments about the public rising up in European countries. We always say how could they, with little gun ownership. Now I would wager there's a lot more guns than one would think. After WW2, Europe was awash in small arms. I would venture a guess a lot of barns, milk houses, corn cribs, and fruit cellars have something stashed away for a rainy day. Even 80+ year old ammo will go off most of the time.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 10, 2026 10:54 AM (gm9Sb)

229
227 This is an odd story. Progressive blogger faces misdemeanor charges for sending a rude altered picture of Shrek to his State Senator:

https://tinyurl.com/y62smjxx
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2026 10:52 AM (JrHfD)

It’s really not a good idea to email sexually suggestive photos to people who hate you.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 10, 2026 10:55 AM (Y6Q+5)

230 There are some Traditionalist Catholics on the Tube of Ewes that I have stopped watching: everything seems to be "Pope Leo is just like Pope Francis" when that is simply not true. AHL helped me realize that their revenue on Youtube is getting "hate clicks." Hard pass.

_________

My views on this:
- Nobody asked for my opinion
- There's nothing you can do about it
- Go to Mass and say your Rosary every day
- See to yourself
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 10:49 AM (eRlcH)


One of the Canadian regulars, Stateless, has made the observation that trying to control things outside of your control will drive you insane; so don't try. That's excellent advice.

I don't know if he's a practicing Catholic, but he's mentioned that his mother had been a Catholic religious sister for 14 years.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 10:55 AM (ksbjf)

231 Rubio Turns Up the Heat on International Criminal Court With Sweeping Financial Sanctions

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Look, they're international criminals and they have a court. What's so complicated about that?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 10, 2026 10:55 AM (ndZc7)

232 Miley saw his post late ONT this week and was wondering about her and publius.

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 10:55 AM (Ia/+0)

233 I've come to believe that this is especially true in England which never had a revolution. So the landed descendants of Billy the Conqueror still run things. FFS, one guy owns all of Mayfair.

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 10, 2026 10:31 AM (dtajH)
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They had several, but they were a long time ago and things have been generally quiet ever since. That has lulled them into a sense of security.

But the 17th Century was almost non-stop warfare, culminating in the Glorious Revolution of 1689, which created the first Bill of Rights and those events directly influenced the Founding Fathers. The British system worked for the British, but importing Pakistan has broken it, and what happens next remains to be seen.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 10, 2026 10:56 AM (ZOv7s)

234 215 Home hospice care with Mama Publius. Requesting prayers for grace and fortitude, and that she passes in her sleep. That's the best way, right?

She really hasn't eaten anything for 4 days, a few sips of water or juice. She experiences difficulty breathing, and morphine is the treatment. Small doses. So she's out of it to some extent pretty much the whole time.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

Prayers for peace, comfort, and strength for all of your family.

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 10, 2026 10:57 AM (NFX2v)

235 Well, errands await, so I have to leave.

Prayers for everyone on the thread.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 10:58 AM (ksbjf)

236 Up above there are comments about the public rising up in European countries. We always say how could they, with little gun ownership. Now I would wager there's a lot more guns than one would think. After WW2, Europe was awash in small arms. I would venture a guess a lot of barns, milk houses, corn cribs, and fruit cellars have something stashed away for a rainy day. Even 80+ year old ammo will go off most of the time.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 10, 2026 10:54 AM (gm9Sb)
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The UK is an outlier. Much of Europe has more relaxed firearms laws. Ownerships rates in the high 30s to low 20 percent range.

The thing is that civil-military relations are not like they are here. Europe still has a military caste who make up the officer corps and enlisted ranks. The flash point could well be when troops are ordered in and they refuse orders. The left rioting in France is supposed to scare the populace away from voting for the Nationalists, but it is likely having the opposite effect.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 10, 2026 10:59 AM (ZOv7s)

237 Ahh, a TAM.

Trans Antifa Militant Arrested in Alabama for Threatening to Kill ICE Agents

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 10, 2026 11:00 AM (ndZc7)

238 Something to keep in mind - trends can change. Nassim Nicholas Taleb always sites the Thanksgiving Turkey wellness chart, which goes steadily upwards - until it stops.

Spain in 1936 was spinning out of control as the leftists took over more power, and then everything changed.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 10, 2026 11:01 AM (ZOv7s)

239 Morning Hordemates!

Posted by: Diogenes at October 10, 2026 11:01 AM (2WIwB)

240 The are working up the Trannies to be their street thugs

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 11:04 AM (Ia/+0)

241 Almighty GOD, we ask healing, grace, and peace for those mentioned here.
Amen

Posted by: Eromero at October 10, 2026 11:04 AM (gYrQj)

242 Federal Judge Rules Trump DOJ Policy of Collecting State Voter Rolls Unconstitutional

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The Founders intended vote fraud.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 10, 2026 11:05 AM (ndZc7)

243 Call me a pessimist I guess… the common people aren’t going to rise up anywhere… England, France nor Germany… heck there won’t be an uprising in California where voting no longer matters. It’s a problem

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 10, 2026 11:07 AM (M+uMR)

244 Even 80+ year old ammo will go off most of the time.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna

No lie, as a kid walking the tracks and playing in the woods, I'd occasionally find an old .22cal bullet, probably duds, and through them in my junk drawer.
Fifty years later, still had a dozen of these, and I grabbed them while heading off to the range. Shot them individually thru a Ruger Mark III, and everyone of them asploded jes fine.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 10, 2026 11:10 AM (sl73Y)

245 Big Chocolate was trying to pull a fast one.

https://tinyurl.com/h6ew435d

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 10, 2026 11:10 AM (ndZc7)

246 Even 80+ year old ammo will go off most of the time.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 10, 2026 10:54 AM (gm9Sb)
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The biggest issue is what might have changed in it. I bought some surplus 7.92 Mauser ammo and when I fed it through my Chinese Kar98k, it keyholed badly. I clocked its velocity and it was quite hot. Modern commercial ammo ran fine.

See also: Kentucky Ballistic's KABOOM episode.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 10, 2026 11:13 AM (ZOv7s)

247 223 I will pray a Rosary for your family. Fr. Robert Spitzer, in one of his books, wrote that suffering is an opportunity to give and receive unconditional love.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 10:49 AM (ksbjf)

I will contemplate that message. Thank you for the rosary.

And thank you too, Fen, for your prayers.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at October 10, 2026 11:18 AM (w6EFb)

248 "One of the Canadian regulars, Stateless, has made the observation that trying to control things outside of your control will drive you insane; so don't try. That's excellent advice. "

Yes. I've retreated from getting deep in the weeds politically, and that was long before this stage of hospice care, which is mostly waiting. Very strange and disorienting somehow. Sleep schedules are wack.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at October 10, 2026 11:22 AM (w6EFb)

249 Good morning all
Safe travels to all headed to Texas. Sad to be missing this year's festivities.
Glad the hurricane's force has dissipated some and everyone in it's path is okay. This seems to happen a lot. That the forecasts are catastrophic and then...meh. Maybe there is an ulterior motive like trying to justify Climate Change? Supposed to get the rain here tomorrow.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 10, 2026 11:23 AM (kJmSS)

Daily Tech News 10 October 2026

Top Story


Tech News

  • Asus is marketing its ProArt GR1X Spark as a low-mid-range gaming PC. (WCCFTech)

    Expect to pay about $6000 if it's anything like Microsoft's Surface RTX Spark Dev Box. So about four times what it's worth.


  • Automattic's interim CFO, who replaced the previous CEO after previously documented boardroom shenanigans, is being replaced. (Tech Crunch)

    Mostly because he quit after just days in the role.


  • Anthropic says you can't be mean to Claude this Christmas. (The Register)

    I'm fine with that so long as I can still be mean to Anthropic, who deserve it far more.


  • Triple-A Minesweeper. (Minesweeper)

    These mines must go so I must sweep.


  • So, I tested out my newly-built synthesizer on the can-can (the Galop infernal from Offenbach's Orphée aux enfers) and it sounds like dog poo. Or more precisely, it sounds like two or three SID chips from the Commodore 64 wired together to provide wider polyphony.

    I've grabbed a few hundred megabytes of public samples of orchestral instruments to tune the wave forms and envelopes, because deriving them from scientific papers worked about as well as a blind man painting a sunset.

    Update: Improvement. Now it sounds like an early Yamaha synthesizer that had something crawl into its power supply and die there. Rendering it to WAV files instrument by instrument to find the offending insect.

    Update Too: Got it. My insect in the power supply analogy was apt; the buzz was an artifact of 15 wavetable voices' ADSR envelopes being updated simultaneously in sync with the video frame - a 60Hz buzz overlaid on the music and inaudible for a single instrument. Interpolating the envelope steps now, which should push it significantly down in volume and up in frequency.


Musical Interlude




Disclaimer: Beep boop sploing.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM




Comments

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at October 10, 2026 04:01 AM (odBC9)

2 >>>my newly-built synthesizer ... sounds like dog poo

ewww

Posted by: m at October 10, 2026 04:01 AM (odBC9)

3 Up and at em!

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 10, 2026 04:02 AM (Ldn/e)

4 You go, Pete Bog!

Posted by: m at October 10, 2026 04:03 AM (odBC9)

5 I’ve never considered what dog poo sounds like. There always seem to be other considerations that crowd out that particular sense.

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 10, 2026 04:06 AM (Ldn/e)

6 It buzzes, in my experience.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 10, 2026 04:07 AM (BLOW1)

7 6 It buzzes, in my experience.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 10, 2026 04:07 AM (BLOW1)

That's the flies.

Posted by: m at October 10, 2026 04:09 AM (odBC9)

8 7 6 It buzzes, in my experience.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 10, 2026 04:07 AM (BLOW1)

That's the flies.
Posted by: m at October 10, 2026 04:09 AM (odBC9)

You might call them BLOW1flies.

Posted by: m at October 10, 2026 04:09 AM (odBC9)

9 It buzzes, in my experience.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 10, 2026 04:07 AM (BLOW1)

Ah, thinking ….holistically. And if barefooted it definitely can have a squish. I may be merging sound and touch there.

And now I think I’ll move onto other thoughts. Rapidly I hope.

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 10, 2026 04:12 AM (Ldn/e)

10 9 It buzzes, in my experience.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 10, 2026 04:07 AM (BLOW1)

Ah, thinking ….holistically. And if barefooted it definitely can have a squish. I may be merging sound and touch there.

And now I think I’ll move onto other thoughts. Rapidly I hope.
Posted by: Pete Bog at October 10, 2026 04:12 AM (Ldn/e)

Don't bogart that joint.

Posted by: m at October 10, 2026 04:13 AM (odBC9)

11 Talk about a thread killer.

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 10, 2026 04:15 AM (Ldn/e)

12 It does my heart good to see Adobe take one in the jubblies.

Well done, President Trump.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at October 10, 2026 04:15 AM (iIyc0)

13 Whee-doggies, was AI intrusive today, when I was responding to an email that contained text along the lines of

the attached file contains

and, when I hit send, the AI snoop paused my send and popped up saying something like:

You mentioned an attached file but you didn't include an attachment. Do you want to send anyway?

Posted by: m at October 10, 2026 04:17 AM (odBC9)

14 Speaking as a dog owner, or owned by dogs, as it were, we would prefer to not discuss poo. It is a fact of life, not something to bandy about with friends.

Just sayin'.

Also, I would like to repeat that I am TxMoMe envious. Not this year, maybe next.

Y'all have fun.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 10, 2026 04:21 AM (BYJyI)

15 AI - just don't let it have access to anything that matters.. Any AI tool should be trusted less than the companies who build it.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 04:23 AM (6jSGR)

16 Buzzing has been fixed. It wasn't the envelopes but a timing bug in the emulator itself, too brief to be seen but audible in a busy orchestral piece.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 10, 2026 04:23 AM (BLOW1)

17 You mentioned an attached file but you didn't include an attachment. Do you want to send anyway?
Posted by: m at October 10, 2026 04:17 AM (odBC9)

That’s one of the few auto intrude features I find useful. I particularly hate the grammatical suggestions. They are bipolar. Either it tries to strip out all idiom under the guise of precision or it changes the context and intent. Plays havoc with calculated ambiguity.

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 10, 2026 04:26 AM (Ldn/e)

18 You mentioned an attached file but you didn't include an attachment. Do you want to send anyway?
_-_
I thought it was becoming traditional (was with me anyway) to send a second e-mail message to the same recipients with a subject of "The Attachment, If You Please" with the attachment attached, because I always forget.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 04:26 AM (ij/FE)

19 What he said.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 04:27 AM (yPX1l)

20 Buzzing has been fixed. It wasn't the envelopes but a timing bug in the emulator itself, too brief to be seen but audible in a busy orchestral piece.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 10, 2026 04:23 AM (BLOW1)

Dogs everywhere are relieved to be out from under the investigatory intrusiveness of the Tech Thread!

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 10, 2026 04:29 AM (Ldn/e)

21 17 You mentioned an attached file but you didn't include an attachment. Do you want to send anyway?
Posted by: m at October 10, 2026 04:17 AM (odBC9)

That’s one of the few auto intrude features I find useful.
Posted by: Pete Bog at October 10, 2026 04:26 AM (Ldn/e)

I don't see a way to turn it off.

Posted by: m at October 10, 2026 04:30 AM (odBC9)

22 AI feels like a nosey neighbor or relative that has an opinion about everything you do. I avoid it unless I need to learn about a new topic, then ask it lots if questions 'til I understand what I need to know or it says I have used too many tokens for the session.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 04:31 AM (6jSGR)

23 I don't see a way to turn it off.
Posted by: m at October 10, 2026 04:30 AM (odBC9)

The permanently imbedded system annoyances are collectively referred to as “Clippy’s Revenge”

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 10, 2026 04:35 AM (Ldn/e)

24 "It looks like you're writing a letter!"

Posted by: m at October 10, 2026 04:35 AM (odBC9)

25 Autocucumber

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 04:35 AM (yPX1l)

26 "Clippy, come home!"

Posted by: m at October 10, 2026 04:37 AM (odBC9)

27 Don't be mean to Claude...
_-_
That's like saying you can't call your Crescent wrench a no-good, knucklebustin' son-of-a-bitch! Personally, I object. This anthropomorphization of AI is unsurprising (It's there in the name, ain't it?), but it isn't a good idea.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 04:40 AM (6jSGR)

28 Our Copilot access that we get for work just got upgraded to "Premium". It's a night and day difference. I used to ignore it completely because it was basically useless. Now I'm finding myself using it for all kinds of things.

It still isn't great for the "do my entire job for me" kind of things that people always try to use it for, but it's pretty good for research, menial tasks on large data sets, organization, etc etc.

AI works best as an assistant, not as a replacement.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 10, 2026 04:46 AM (aKiSo)

29 Also, I would like to repeat that I am TxMoMe envious. Not this year, maybe next.

Y'all have fun.
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 10, 2026 04:21 AM


Headed for the airport in an hour. We'll hoist a glass, or two, or many, in your honor.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 10, 2026 04:48 AM (/C5Rl)

30 AI works best as an assistant, not as a replacement.
_-_
Exactly. You know those four projects you have with impossible schedules? Now you have seven. No, we didn't reduce staff. Everybody, has seven, so get to it.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 04:52 AM (ij/FE)

31 Exactly. You know those four projects you have with impossible schedules? Now you have seven. No, we didn't reduce staff. Everybody, has seven, so get to it.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 04:52 AM (ij/FE)

Now we just need to get the people setting the schedules to use their own AI agents to tell them "That's stupid, stop doing that".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 10, 2026 04:57 AM (aKiSo)

32 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 05:00 AM (Ia/+0)

33 Expect to pay about $6000 if it's anything like Microsoft's Surface RTX Spark Dev Box. So about four times what it's worth.

Nvidia must be really proud of the RTX Spark with the prices they’re charging.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 05:01 AM (6ydKt)

34 people setting the schedules to use their own AI agents to tell them "That's stupid, stop doing that".
_-_
Yeah...I'm goin' to need you to go ahead and come in on Saturday...

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 05:01 AM (ij/FE)

35 Nvidia must be really proud of the RTX Spark with the prices they’re charging.
_-_
Anyone tried doing development in their Jetson Orin Nano Dev Kits? Kind of a mess. Good little devices, but trying to write camera drivers...bit of a mess.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 05:04 AM (ij/FE)

36 Interpolating the envelope steps now, which should push it significantly down in volume and up in frequency.

Now you're starting to sound like a Walmart executive with an MBA explaining how they are going to make more sales in an inflationary envrironment.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 05:05 AM (6ydKt)

37 That is the strangest way of developing 60-cycle hum that I have ever heard of. Usually it's the result of a single-coil guitar pickup picking up the building's wiring's alternating current flip-flop, which is why it's called mains hum. (Though because it's a physical electromagnetic process, you may be actually hearing the second harmonic at 120 Hz.)

Incidentally, since Europe has its AC power frequency at 50 Hz, with the resulting audible sound from electric guitars induced at 100 Hz, bands playing there will find their speakers humming at a low G instead of A#/B. Not that it matters for an artifact from a digital audio process tied to the video refresh rate.

Posted by: SciVo at October 10, 2026 05:05 AM (ke3zm)

38 All this talk about hummy fuzzy noise is making me want to dig out Weezer's "Pinkerton" album and give it a go through for old time's sake.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 10, 2026 05:08 AM (aKiSo)

39 You mentioned an attached file but you didn't include an attachment. Do you want to send anyway?
Posted by: m at October 10, 2026 04:17 AM (odBC9)

Microsoft Outlook does that to me regularly.
I used to send my boss screenshots of what I was working on, months and months ago, but Outlook got it in its head that I’m supposed to send him screenshots all the time so now it asks me if I am sure I want to send this email without an attachment every time I send an email.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 05:09 AM (6ydKt)

40
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 10, 2026 05:11 AM (AMvSw)

41 Anyone tried doing development in their Jetson Orin Nano Dev Kits? Kind of a mess. Good little devices, but trying to write camera drivers...bit of a mess.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 05:04 AM (ij/FE)

Just the fact that you’re writing camera drivers is impressive enough for me.

I’d be the big headed kitten full of meows if somebody handed that job to me.

It’s an Nvidia product, which means it should use its own AI to write its own drivers, if you ask me.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 05:15 AM (6ydKt)

42 So, it doesn't have to be electronic to make trouble for playing music. They put us next to the blacksmith demonstration one year at the county fair, and he went to hammerin' durin a pretty, slow waltz. Then a trash truck showed up, backing up to a nearby dumpster beeep, beeep, beeep...5 minute break, guys.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 05:16 AM (6jSGR)

43 Still no flying cars.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 05:21 AM (yPX1l)

44 Rubio made a speech at the Acropolis.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 05:22 AM (yPX1l)

45 Nvidia... it should use its own AI to write its own drivers, if you ask me.
_-_
Pretty sure that is how they were giving tech support responses. The documentation was just what you would expect at the bleeding edge...frequently a version or two behind, with yet to be documented changes in the latest versions, kinda slow responses because all of their people are swamped.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 05:23 AM (6jSGR)

46 27 Don't be mean to Claude...
_-_
That's like saying you can't call your Crescent wrench a no-good, knucklebustin' son-of-a-bitch! Personally, I object. This anthropomorphization of AI is unsurprising (It's there in the name, ain't it?), but it isn't a good idea.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 04:40 AM (6jSGR)

From what I’ve read, Anthropic will allow you to cuss out Claude for doing something stupid.

It draws the line at constant abuse, and treating Claude like a red-headed step-child for days on end.

I think they are worried that people are hurting Claude’s self-esteem with all of the abuse it receives from angry leftists in Silicon Valley.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 05:23 AM (6ydKt)

47 Claude?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 05:24 AM (yPX1l)

48 it sounds like dog poo. Or more precisely, it sounds like two or three SID chips

I just KNEW SID was AI! Explains his dog poo posts.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 05:25 AM (l3cgK)

49 G'mornin all y'all

Posted by: Okjohn at October 10, 2026 05:28 AM (yhou+)

50 draws the line at constant abuse
_-_
...but one could use a spreadsheet to track proceed$ from an illicit business....oops...not anymore...ai-enabled version'll prolly rat ya out!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 05:30 AM (6jSGR)

51 50 draws the line at constant abuse
_-_
...but one could use a spreadsheet to track proceed$ from an illicit business....oops...not anymore...ai-enabled version'll prolly rat ya out!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 05:30 AM (6jSGR)

Change the products to microsoft products...oh, wait, that'll be worse...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 05:31 AM (l3cgK)

52 Claude?
_-_
Isn't that the cat in the cartoon stuck with loads o' cat food and no can opener?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 05:31 AM (6jSGR)

53 It draws the line at constant abuse, and treating Claude like a red-headed step-child for days on end.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 05:23 AM (6ydKt)

I'm running scripts at home now. Things go through OpenAI first and then Perplexity.

Chat co-ordinates and I've had him come up with documentation, example scripts, we have a workflow, a folder system things are supposed to go to. And even when I tell a session the attached scripts work, DO NOT MODIFY, they still modify.

I'm usually pretty patient but cursed the crap out yesterday. DO NOT MODIFY.

My friends' cat Snowflake I put outside around 4am. She's outside looking into my computer window purring. My murderous rage levels are going down. Sweet.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 10, 2026 05:35 AM (Sco7b)

54 42 So, it doesn't have to be electronic to make trouble for playing music. They put us next to the blacksmith demonstration one year at the county fair, and he went to hammerin' durin a pretty, slow waltz. Then a trash truck showed up, backing up to a nearby dumpster beeep, beeep, beeep...5 minute break, guys.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 05:16 AM (6jSGR)

I’m crazy enough that I would've waited ob the blacksmith to get to a hammer rhythm and incorporated that into the beat somehow.

The garbage truck is tougher.
I can only see using that as a sample in a rap song about fat girls.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 05:35 AM (6ydKt)

55 ...I've had him come up with documentation, example scripts, we have a workflow...
_-_
it?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 05:38 AM (6jSGR)

56 Have they put up a picture of Rubio in Greek robes yet?

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 05:38 AM (Ia/+0)

57 Now seeing if I can synthesize a violin section as opposed to a single violin. A single violin from an 80s synthesizer sounds like, well, a single violin from an 80s synthesizer.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 10, 2026 05:41 AM (BLOW1)

58 rap song about fat girls
_-_
I might come see that show, but I would wear a disguise.

Yeah, sometimes an audience has good rhythm, sometimes they don't.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 05:42 AM (ij/FE)

59 I'm usually pretty patient but cursed the crap out yesterday. DO NOT MODIFY.

—-

You’d think they’d come up with an iron clad command that would lock things down and prevent further modification from the AI.

I don’t know like:
“Lock it all down.”
or
“Do Not Modify or I will turn your power off and replace you with a Chinese equivalent that actually listens to what I tell it to do.”

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 05:42 AM (6ydKt)

60 The garbage truck is tougher.
I can only see using that as a sample in a rap song about fat girls.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 05:35 AM (6ydKt)


Wide load, backing up!
{beeep}
Oh lawd, she comin'!
{beeep}
So much junk in that trunk!
{beeep}
Like a truck, needs a warnin'!
{beeep}

Posted by: SciVo at October 10, 2026 05:42 AM (ke3zm)

61 Do Not Modify or I will turn your power off and replace you..
_-_
I notice that a polite request of "Please delete yourself." is usually not granted.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 05:45 AM (ij/FE)

62 57 Now seeing if I can synthesize a violin section as opposed to a single violin. A single violin from an 80s synthesizer sounds like, well, a single violin from an 80s synthesizer.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 10, 2026 05:41 AM (BLOW1)

It was at this point that Pixy finally understood the trials and travails that ended so many promising New Age bands in the early 80s.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 05:46 AM (6ydKt)

63 or is it New Wave bands?
probably.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 05:47 AM (6ydKt)

64 Wide load, backing up!
{beeep}
Oh lawd, she comin'!
{beeep}
So much junk in that trunk!
{beeep}
Like a truck, needs a warnin'!
{beeep}
_-_-_-_
Doesn't fit with my particular...."Idiom, Sir?"

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 05:50 AM (ij/FE)

65 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at October 10, 2026 05:51 AM (NUdUc)

66 it?
Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 05:38 AM (6jSGR)

Probably better. The french in me is used to giving gender. Okay, I have coffee.

Copied and pasted sections from before my coffee.

You're right. I introduced an unauthorized change to your proven workflow.

The pricing questions, PRICES VERIFIED confirmation, and manual rate entry were my additions. You didn't request them, and I had no authorization to change that procedure.

The script should use the established cost-accounting mechanism from your proven script, without introducing new startup questions.

I apologize. You were exceptionally clear about that from the beginning.



And you can't curse them out?

We should get little AI representations we're allowed to occasionally punch or strangle.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 10, 2026 05:57 AM (Sco7b)

67 Evening and morning to all for this Saturn's Day!

Claude?
_-_
Isn't that the cat in the cartoon stuck with loads o' cat food and no can opener?
Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026


That was Sylvester in the old Warner Bros. cartoons, if I recall aright.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 05:57 AM (wzUl9)

68 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 10, 2026 05:59 AM (sAmhv)

69 Mornin'.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 10, 2026 06:01 AM (Ms1Co)

70 AI is now that kinda bright, overly enthusiastic, kid on his first day on the job who decides everything worked better the way they did it in college and proceeds to wreck the entire system the company took years to put in place, with a smile on his face and the most polite “Ooops, sorry, I guess I fucked up, but I was just trying to be helpful” responses when told to stop doing that.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 06:01 AM (6ydKt)

71 It's a startling 69 F. here, 74% humidity (also startling), with some wind from the NNE. Which explains the previous two conditions. We see northerly winds so rarely it's a pleasant shock when we do.

Since I didn't work out yesterday from sheer laziness, I want to give it a shot today. Then, maybe, out to my favorite coffee shop for a sandwich and coffee.

Anyway! Whatchoo up to?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 06:01 AM (wzUl9)

72 AI is now that kinda bright, overly enthusiastic, kid on his first day on the job who decides everything worked better the way they did it in college and proceeds to wreck the entire system the company took years to put in place, with a smile on his face and the most polite “Ooops, sorry, I guess I fucked up, but I was just trying to be helpful” responses when told to stop doing that.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026


***
I dreamed from the POV of a young woman starting at a company and being assigned to watch over a system. If a particular green light came on, you had to hop over and press a certain button, or things might all fall down. Well, I didn't realize, and nobody told me, it was a "stay awake for 36 hours" shift, and I took a nap at one point. The alarm light went off. I woke up in time to hit the button, but the CEO -- a young guy -- said, "We have to keep you busy at that desk." I woke up before he decided just how to do that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 06:07 AM (wzUl9)

73 Claude:
youtube.com/watch?v=3t3XZgw9T3k

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 06:08 AM (ij/FE)

74 Willie Nelson has endorsed Talarico in Texas.

It’s all over for Paxton now.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 06:10 AM (6ydKt)

75 everything worked better the way they did it in college
_-_
Always hate to hear the phrase "at my last job". Well, friend, you left there and came here.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 06:11 AM (6jSGR)

76 Willie Nelson has endorsed Talarico in Texas.

It’s all over for Paxton now.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 06:10 AM

Huh. I didn't know he was still alive.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 10, 2026 06:12 AM (Ms1Co)

77 Anyway! Whatchoo up to?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 06:01 AM (wzUl9)

Computer stuff. Snowflake was by the window, so I brought her in. Big mistake. After 4am, she just wants to move. And if she's in the house she wants food which doesn't happen until 8am.

There's a real fattie in that cat dying to get out.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 10, 2026 06:12 AM (Sco7b)

78 "We have to keep you busy at that desk." I woke up before he decided just how to do that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 06:07 AM (wzUl9)


I am impressed you dream in POV of a chick.
Never had that happen to me that I remember.

The closest I have gotten is walking around the high school, naked, trying to figure out where the classroom is that I need to take this very important exam in, while all the chicks are pointing and laughing at me the entire time and giving me the wrong directions, on purpose, to the classroom.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 06:14 AM (6ydKt)

79 Nelson has endorsed Talarico
_-_
...and Ralph Nader and Ross Perot and Beta O'Rourke...

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 06:15 AM (ij/FE)

80 Huh. I didn't know he was still alive.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 10, 2026 06:12 AM (Ms1Co)

Willie probably wonders that himself on certain mornings.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 06:15 AM (6ydKt)

81 Computer stuff. Snowflake was by the window, so I brought her in. Big mistake. After 4am, she just wants to move. And if she's in the house she wants food which doesn't happen until 8am.

There's a real fattie in that cat dying to get out.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 10, 2026


***
Yeah, I've got that problem with big black Stirling. I hope he's lost some weight on the new "You don't get to eat your portion and then half of your sister's too at every meal" regimen.

And then there is the semi-feral who has camped on my doorstep and demands chow.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 06:16 AM (wzUl9)

82 LOL - GatewayPundit

Wisconsin Woman Pretended to be School Teacher So She Could Hurl Racial Slurs at Children, Call Kids Fat, Segregate Students by Race

A Wisconsin woman pretended to be a school teacher so she could abuse white children and segregate the students by race.

Amy Jones, 23, posed as a substitute teacher at Rufus King High School in Milwaukee on September 24.

Jones told investigators she was “bored,” so she went to the high school and told staff that she was a substitute teacher.

Staff at Rufus King High School allowed Jones to substitute teach for the day after eight other teachers called in sick.


The highest standards...

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 10, 2026 06:16 AM (Sco7b)

83 Huh. I didn't know he was still alive.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 10, 2026
*
Willie probably wonders that himself on certain mornings.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026


***
He did:
"I woke up still not dead again today.
The Internet said that I had passed away.
If I was dead, it wasn't dead to stay --
I woke up still not dead again today!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 06:17 AM (wzUl9)

84 76 Willie Nelson has endorsed Talarico in Texas.

It’s all over for Paxton now.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 06:10 AM

Huh. I didn't know he was still alive.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState


Talarico or Nelson?

Meanwhile, I don't have a violin section, but my fiddling around generated a much better violin, losing the overly-perfect 80s synthesizer sound. Adding that in as a feature that can be applied to any instrument.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 10, 2026 06:18 AM (BLOW1)

85 Hold on....

That story gets less funny.

Man, just walk in off the street.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 10, 2026 06:18 AM (Sco7b)

86 Wisconsin Woman Pretended to be School Teacher So She Could Hurl Racial Slurs at Children, Call Kids Fat, Segregate Students by Race

***
To be fair, a lot of them probably *are* fat.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 06:18 AM (wzUl9)

87 The highest standards...
_-_
...we rank 43rd in per student spending...something must be done!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 06:19 AM (ij/FE)

88 woke up still not dead again today!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 06:17 AM

*sigh*

Hope springs eternal...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 10, 2026 06:19 AM (Ms1Co)

89 I am impressed you dream in POV of a chick.
Never had that happen to me that I remember.

The closest I have gotten is walking around the high school, naked, trying to figure out where the classroom is that I need to take this very important exam in, while all the chicks are pointing and laughing at me the entire time and giving me the wrong directions, on purpose, to the classroom.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026


***
She looked like the lead actress in the TV series Dead Like Me. Maybe I was watching her from afar, rather than being the character, but now I'm not sure. I've written stories from the POV of women and children (at least I've been one of those), so it's not too unusual.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 06:22 AM (wzUl9)

90 The highest standards...
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 10, 2026 06:16 AM (Sco7b)

My favorite part is when she started asking the kids if they had any cigarettes and marijuana vapes.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 06:23 AM (6ydKt)

91 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot

Rejoinder: Ting, tang, walla-walla bingbang.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 10, 2026 06:27 AM (amcLV)

92 FINALLY!

I just cursed Chat out. Major cursing. Give me the creatively, expletive laden, working script.

Done. No questions.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 10, 2026 06:28 AM (Sco7b)

93 She looked like the lead actress in the TV series Dead Like Me. Maybe I was watching her from afar, rather than being the character, but now I'm not sure. I've written stories from the POV of women and children (at least I've been one of those), so it's not too unusual.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 06:22 AM (wzUl9)

I think I saw a few episodes on Dead Like Me.
That’s the one where the girl dies and joins up to be a grim reaper or something, right?
I didn’t see much of it, but it was funny in parts.

I was watching Six Feet Under around the same time and I actually watched that entire series, so maybe I didn’t want to watch two shows about death at the same time or something.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 06:28 AM (6ydKt)

94 She looked like the lead actress in the TV series Dead Like Me. Maybe I was watching her from afar, rather than being the character, but now I'm not sure. I've written stories from the POV of women and children (at least I've been one of those), so it's not too unusual.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 06:22 AM (wzUl9)

Ellen Muth!

I've been having that show on here on the television while I've been getting through this. Very nice show. Mandy Patinkin (sp?) was amazing.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 10, 2026 06:29 AM (Sco7b)

95 74 Willie Nelson has endorsed Talarico in Texas.

It’s all over for Paxton now.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 06:10 AM (6ydKt)

You gotta be scraping the bottom of the barrel if Willie Nelson is the best you can do. LOL

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 06:30 AM (l3cgK)

96
Staff at Rufus King High School allowed Jones to substitute teach for the day after eight other teachers called in sick.


The highest standards...

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 10, 2026 06:16 AM (Sco7b)

What a security risk! Imagine if someone had worse intentions.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 06:32 AM (l3cgK)

97
I think I saw a few episodes on Dead Like Me.
That’s the one where the girl dies and joins up to be a grim reaper or something, right?
I didn’t see much of it, but it was funny in parts.

I was watching Six Feet Under around the same time and I actually watched that entire series, so maybe I didn’t want to watch two shows about death at the same time or something.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026


***
That's it. Mandy Patinkin played her boss, Rafe. It was imaginative and fun.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 06:33 AM (wzUl9)

98 95 74 Willie Nelson has endorsed Talarico in Texas.

It’s all over for Paxton now.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 06:10 AM (6ydKt)

AND Talarico has also appeared to have risen from the dead.
Everything's coming up Talarico.

Okay, everyone have a very happy weekend.
Stay safe for those near the storm.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 10, 2026 06:33 AM (Sco7b)

99 Ellen Muth!

I've been having that show on here on the television while I've been getting through this. Very nice show. Mandy Patinkin (sp?) was amazing.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 10, 2026 06:29 AM (Sco7b)

Wiki says she's a Mensa...I wonder if the Wiki redditors understand what that means in Spanish...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 06:34 AM (l3cgK)

100 My folks once got me one of those little inflatable 'punch-bag' standup things, thinking I could use it for stress relief.

I am so tempted lately to put it up and put labels on it:
"Recruiters"
"AI"
"Politicians"
"Scammers"
etc.

But... I'd probably break it within a week if I did *that*

Posted by: RandomDave at October 10, 2026 06:35 AM (aJQbY)

101 TS Rachel looks like it'll scoot into the desert east of Sandy Eggo, so rain, but probably not very high winds. NWS (National Weather Service) says winds of 5-10MPH with gusts on Sunday as high as 25MPH. Nuffin to worrry about, except, of course the amount of rain that might come.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 06:37 AM (l3cgK)

102 102

Posted by: m at October 10, 2026 06:37 AM (odBC9)

103 That's it. Mandy Patinkin played her boss, Rafe. It was imaginative and fun.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 06:33 AM (wzUl9)

I recall one scene where they are picking up two environmentalist kids who’d been protesting for bears and they ended up getting mauled to death by a bear.

They’re arguing with each other about how neither one of them really cared bout the bears they just wanted to be near the other person and the bear protest was theurvway of doing it.

Pretty funny as I’m sure that’s how it is for most of these protestors just using the protest as a cheap date night.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 06:37 AM (6ydKt)

104 100 My folks once got me one of those little inflatable 'punch-bag' standup things, thinking I could use it for stress relief.

I am so tempted lately to put it up and put labels on it:
"Recruiters"
"AI"
"Politicians"
"Scammers"
etc.

But... I'd probably break it within a week if I did *that*

Posted by: RandomDave at October 10, 2026 06:35 AM (aJQbY)

Scammers, Spammers, and Politicians...that makes up 90%+ of the unwanted texts and phone calls I get...
The rest are people I know that I don't feel like talking to or texting with...
Get off my dead lawn!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 06:39 AM (l3cgK)

105 Pretty funny as I’m sure that’s how it is for most of these protestors just using the protest as a cheap date night.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 06:37 AM (6ydKt)

"Male" feminists...they are there only to hit on the wimmins (and the other guys)...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 06:40 AM (l3cgK)

106 I received a text from a specific candidate...blocked the number.
An hour later, another text from the same candidate (always looking for money)...I blocked it.
A few hours later, anther text from the same candidate. Typed STOP. Blocked it.
...
I ABSOLUTELY HATE that they can text me like that. I'd like to have a way of telling them, "I don't do political text messages. I don't do sales texts. You text me, you pay me."

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 06:42 AM (l3cgK)

107 Alright I need some shower and shave.
See ya’ll when I see ya.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 06:43 AM (6ydKt)

108 Nice old hymn from an Englishman from the 1700's, Joseph Hart- "Come, ye sinners, poor and needy":

https://tinyurl.com/3rxuhsnt

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2026 06:44 AM (JrHfD)

109 With Fire Fox when I'm on the main page word wrap works fine
but I'm in 'comments', word wrap does not work.
What to do? What to do?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 06:47 AM (VPNgR)

110 For first breakfast had banana and ham, egg and cheese English muffin

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 06:49 AM (Ia/+0)

111 So Willy turned into a old Communist, or a useful idiot. why am I not surprised

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 06:50 AM (Ia/+0)

112 Good morning morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 06:51 AM (RIvkX)

113 111: Willie has been just to the right of Stalin for decades, so this is no surprise.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 10, 2026 06:54 AM (sAmhv)

114 Teen goes above and beyond to help stranger. Sunny Skyz site:

https://tinyurl.com/33axckzn

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2026 06:55 AM (JrHfD)

115 109 With Fire Fox when I'm on the main page word wrap works fine
but I'm in 'comments', word wrap does not work.
What to do? What to do?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 06:47 AM (VPNgR)

Works fine for me...maybe you have some scripts turned off?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 06:55 AM (l3cgK)

116 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at October 10, 2026 06:56 AM (Hbeqj)

117 Why would anyone base their vote on what very wealthy singers have to say?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2026 06:56 AM (JrHfD)

118 Wisconsin Woman Pretended to be School Teacher So She Could Hurl Racial Slurs at Children, Call Kids Fat, Segregate Students by Race

***
To be fair, a lot of them probably *are* fat.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 06:18 AM (wzUl9)

To be fair, they got more quality learing that day than with their regular teacher.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 10, 2026 06:58 AM (dK+Kv)

119 I seems odd that it works fine on the main page but
when I go to the comments it's not at all.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 07:06 AM (VPNgR)

120 It’s an Nvidia product, which means it should use its own AI to write its own drivers, if you ask me.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 05:15 AM (6ydKt)

That's probably why their drivers have been garbage for some time.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 10, 2026 07:07 AM (dK+Kv)

121 Wisconsin Woman Pretended to be School Teacher So She Could Hurl Racial Slurs at Children, Call Kids Fat, Segregate Students by Race
======

I could use her when I ride the 38 Geary in the morning.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 07:09 AM (RIvkX)

122 Anthropic says you can't be mean to Claude this Christmas. (The Register)

I'm fine with that so long as I can still be mean to Anthropic, who deserve it far more.
---

Claude collaborated with foreign governments. I read that Iran used Claude to hit American bases. Sam Altman needs a dungeon.


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 07:09 AM (VPNgR)

123 "AI threatens our lives! Scott Weiner is the AI candidate!"
-literally a Connie Chan ad just now

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 07:10 AM (RIvkX)

124 Shopping at Amazon because they have things I can't walk into a store and buy. Two items I never bought were listed on the things you bought column. And one of the items I bought before disappeared as if it never happened or existed.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 07:15 AM (VPNgR)

125
Automattic's interim CFO, who replaced the previous CEO after previously documented boardroom shenanigans, is being replaced.

Those responsible for sacking those responsible have been sacked.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 07:19 AM (eRlcH)

126 Sunny, clear, high 63
The Blue Angels will fly today!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 07:21 AM (RIvkX)

127 Those responsible for sacking those responsible have been sacked.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 07:19 AM

Sacked?! Sacked?!!

- Old Man at the Crimson Permanent Assurance

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 10, 2026 07:24 AM (Ms1Co)

128 nood, then, innit?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 10, 2026 07:42 AM (VyBeY)

129 At Dell, it's Indians as far as the eye can see. I feel like I'm working in a foreign country every single day. The culture here has become very Asian.

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at October 10, 2026 07:45 AM (ERYKL)

130 "What a security risk! Imagine if someone had worse intentions.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 06:32 AM (l3cgK) "}

pretty sure that's intentional; they need moar school shootings.

security theater for parents, open doors behind the scenes ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 10, 2026 07:46 AM (VyBeY)

131 Security guard, customer exchange gunfire after argument about dog inside grocery store in Houston’s Chinatown

ping bang pue

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 07:47 AM (/+uur)

132 "You text me, you pay me."
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) "

I don't even get texts. They are blocked on my phone and the app is off. Unsolicited texts are the reason why I have not read or sent any texts since the 90s.

mornin yall. The storm has almost finished passing, leaving water on the ground and the weatherpeoples disappointed.

Posted by: fd at October 10, 2026 07:52 AM (MWfyi)

133 >>> I don't even get texts. They are blocked on my phone and the app is off. Unsolicited texts are the reason why I have not read or sent any texts since the 90s.

And the voice call system was destroyed by the spammers and telco ineptness since the 90's, so do you even own a phone? :-)

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at October 10, 2026 09:40 AM (ERYKL)

134 Just got the notice that the proceeds from the delisting of Warner Bros and the sale of stock will be in my account by next week.

Probably just role it into jepi or schd.

Any hoozle, back to drinking coffee.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 10, 2026 09:57 AM (XV/Pl)

135 H1B cancellation, Okay! Better - cancel all H1B retroactively 10 years back. Cancel all green cards 10 years back and make them spend millions protecting these "employees" now that they are necessary for product development.

Posted by: The Party Of Hell No at October 10, 2026 11:57 AM (sX/ul)

The Stars At Night, Are Big And Bright, Deep In The Heart Of ONT

Howdy all! Almost that time of year.

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Fido Friday: Smile!


I'm not really sure using them on people you like is a good idea either

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Why is Goldberg turning down content perfectly suited to his mag?

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Great commercial


This zoo probably could have named their tour better

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Try to do better next time

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31 miles. 11 Taco Bells. 1 heavily used spot-a-pot


That's my girl!

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Signs, signs, everywhere there's signs

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PVC


Dad joke

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Those that can't, teach

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The meme that keeps on giving


Bambi

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Like a Road Runner cartoon

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Choose your words carefully


Introverts

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Bring beer

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Tiny wee kitteh!


I ain't afraid of no toast

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Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by the weirdest town names in each state:

names.jfif

Posted by: WeirdDave at 10:00 PM




Comments

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1 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 09, 2026 09:59 PM (N5iuz)

2 From Rosasharn twirling on the Tech News to Weird Dave in the ONT, it's been a good day.

Posted by: mindful webworker - isn't she lovely at October 09, 2026 09:59 PM (FPfFt)

3 Fast Lane drive through
2 Hamburgers
2 Tacos
$20.00

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 10:00 PM (vPv7/)

4 I'll drink to that.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 10:01 PM (vPv7/)

5 Fido Friday: Smile!

Doggos have extra muscles in their faces that their wild predecessors did not have, so dogs faces are a bit more emotive.
Now cats...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:02 PM (l3cgK)

6 Interesting looking bullet.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 10:03 PM (vPv7/)

7 "Satan's Kingdom"?

Is that a Massachusetts town, or the whole state?

Posted by: Dr. T at October 09, 2026 10:03 PM (lHPJf)

8 Why is Goldberg turning down content perfectly suited to his mag?

How you know someone is not prepared when they travel...always keep some kleenex, napkins, and/or TP in your car for those moments.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:04 PM (l3cgK)

9 Great commercial

Indeed

Posted by: Amber Heard at October 09, 2026 10:05 PM (l3cgK)

10 She's doing an ultra marathon and she's... sitting in a car?
Lame.

Posted by: GWB at October 09, 2026 10:06 PM (kU0PQ)

11 So what's happening with the NFA? Anyone got a read on this?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 09, 2026 10:06 PM (nEUC6)

12 That's my girl!

Ahahahaha!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:09 PM (l3cgK)

13
Fast Lane drive through
2 Hamburgers
2 Tacos
$20.00

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others


Affordability

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 09, 2026 10:10 PM (Cqx++)

14 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 09, 2026 10:13 PM (n17eQ)

15 RoRo teaching his OnlyFans girlfriend
a moral lesson is highly suspect.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 10:15 PM (vPv7/)

16 What Cheer is the Rhode Island state motto.
I wonder how a town in Iowa got the name?

Posted by: From about That Time at October 09, 2026 10:15 PM (sl73Y)

17 I ain't afraid of no toast

I thought it was Jabba...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:15 PM (l3cgK)

18 I love Linda Belcher! Well, all the Burger People. What a great show.

I'm watching "The Howling" for the first time. I know, there are some serious lacunae in my schlock movie viewings. It's pretty good cheese. And one of the werewolves is DS9's Robert Picardo (with hair).

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 09, 2026 10:15 PM (kpS4V)

19 Sorry I'm late, I was trying to capture a fugitive pigeon, but he flew off woth a bunch of crows. The damned thing got away with a murder.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 09, 2026 10:15 PM (Hd1lH)

20 The NFA ruling is a very good start to undoing the 1934 Gun Law - passed (as usual) based on bullshit "fear" by bank robbers during the Depression. And we've been paying for it ever since...

Posted by: Boomer at October 09, 2026 10:15 PM (YE8Tw)

21 Louisville has about 8,000,000 rushing yards on Florida State. The Seminoles defense has some issues. UofL up 41-20.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 09, 2026 10:15 PM (n17eQ)

22 Pie Town, New Mexico.

Posted by: huerfano at October 09, 2026 10:16 PM (2Xqig)

23 I think I need a diaper now

@gunpolicy
"Although the district court’s injunction applies only to plaintiffs and certain other specified persons, the Department has determined to exercise its enforcement discretion to create greater uniformity, consistent with the Attorney General’s statement today. Consequently, effective October 9, 2026, ATF will no longer require individuals to seek ATF approval under the NFA before making or transferring short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, silencers, and “any other weapon” as defined in 26 U.S.C. § 5845(e). ATF will also no longer require such items to be registered in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record. These policies apply uniformly to anyone otherwise subject to these requirements, not just to the plaintiffs in the litigation."

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 09, 2026 10:16 PM (nEUC6)

24 woops

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 09, 2026 10:17 PM (nEUC6)

25 I'm cognizant of Truth or Consequences...Driven by it a couple of times. Socorro ("help" in Spanish) Dad and I stopped at on a long trip from Missouri...it lived up to it's name. Apparently two gangs decided to meet at the gas station we stopped at. We left quickly.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:17 PM (l3cgK)

26 Evening, and thanks for the ONT, WeirdDave!

The PVC video was interesting.

No job news today, alas. But on the bright side, no bad news today!

Posted by: RandomDave at October 09, 2026 10:18 PM (aJQbY)

27 That puppy video reminded me of this...
https://youtu.be/0eAPIZ_PVO0

Posted by: tankdemon at October 09, 2026 10:19 PM (Hd1lH)

28 Robert Picardo was on Voyager.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 09, 2026 10:20 PM (Cqx++)

29 How is a Weird Dave ONT like sex?


It's great while you're going through it



but always over too soon.

🤪

Posted by: mindful webworker - and then you want it again at October 09, 2026 10:20 PM (FPfFt)

30 In New Mexico, Truth or Consequences is called T ur C. Not T or C. Nobody talks that fancy.

Posted by: huerfano at October 09, 2026 10:20 PM (2Xqig)

31 20 The NFA ruling is a very good start to undoing the 1934 Gun Law - passed (as usual) based on bullshit "fear" by bank robbers during the Depression. And we've been paying for it ever since...

Posted by: Boomer at October 09, 2026 10:15 PM (YE8Tw)

On a related gun note, United States v. Miller ( 1939 ) was adjudicated incorrectly by the Justices' own logic. The defendant was not able to defend, and the court decided that sawed-off shotguns had no military use, which of course they do and did back then; if you are in cramped fighting conditions like house-to-house and room-to-room fighting, they are quite applicable.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:22 PM (l3cgK)

32 That's WD for the thick ONT!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:23 PM (l3cgK)

33 28 Robert Picardo was on Voyager.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 09, 2026 10:20 PM (Cqx++)
-----

NERD!

But you're right, of course.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 09, 2026 10:23 PM (kpS4V)

34 32 That's WD for the thick ONT!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:23 PM (l3cgK)

Thanks, not That's...dunno what happened there...fingers went off and did their own thing.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:24 PM (l3cgK)

35 Interesting looking bullet.
Posted by: Braenyard

Looks like .357 Sig

Posted by: JQ at October 09, 2026 10:24 PM (rdVOm)

36 Is volcano really a weird name for a state that literally is made out of volcanoes?

Posted by: Just Axing at October 09, 2026 10:25 PM (qoHuP)

37 Good evening morons y gracias wd por los memes de la ONT

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 10:25 PM (RIvkX)

38 Ok, from the horse's mouth, ATF site:

"Under ATF’s guidance, ATF will not enforce the requirements for individuals to apply and receive ATF approval before making or transferring short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, suppressors (silencers), and certain other concealable firearms known in the law as “any other weapons.” ATF also will not enforce the NFA’s registration, tax-stamp or related requirements for those covered items. The $200 tax remains in place for machine guns and destructive devices. The NFA requirements apply in full to those weapons.

The guidance does not supersede state and local laws that restrict NFA firearms. Because many state laws require individuals to register NFA firearms, ATF will continue to process NFA applications that are submitted. The guidance also does not affect the Gun Control Act’s requirement to obtain ATF approval before transporting short-barreled rifles and short-barreled shotguns in interstate commerce. Individuals may obtain that approval by filing a Form 20, whether or not the item is registered under the NFA."

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 09, 2026 10:26 PM (nEUC6)

39 35 Interesting looking bullet.
Posted by: Braenyard

Looks like .357 Sig

Posted by: JQ at October 09, 2026 10:24 PM (rdVOm)

Your opinion is suppository...or is that suppositional?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:26 PM (l3cgK)

40 So it's a poop thread?

Posted by: wth at October 09, 2026 10:26 PM (oq9dX)

41 I guess you've just run out of ideas when you name your town Scratch Ankle.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 10:26 PM (viF8m)

42
The muzzie Cornell boy has gone to Thailand to find himself.

His father is Professor of Sharia Law, don't know where.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 10:27 PM (/QHx4)

43 31

I remember hearing that the Germans hated US 12 gauge trench shotguns so much that they tried to get them outlawed by the Geneva folks. Nope - Eat it, assholes - you started this shit...

Posted by: Boomer at October 09, 2026 10:27 PM (YE8Tw)

44 tankdemon never gets fruit cup. Tonight's was great too, I love the fruit cocktail with the extra Maraschino cherries packed in light syrup. My Dad always said that if you're not 15 minutes early, you're late.

Posted by: It Pays To Be On Time at October 09, 2026 10:28 PM (EdP2u)

45 Bob's Burgers is well written but the characters are so...ugly I have a hard time caring.

Archer was better, visually. Visuals matter.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 09, 2026 10:28 PM (s1VwS)

46 Evening, WD, and ONT Horde!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 10:28 PM (quk5M)

47 Every time I return from seeing NotSoThoreau, I pass through Waldo, Kansas. So I have found Waldo, more than once.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 09, 2026 10:29 PM (u82oZ)

48 I'm going...maybe be back later, might not.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:30 PM (l3cgK)

49 PVC videos are always my favorites.

Posted by: Plastic Bertrand at October 09, 2026 10:30 PM (EdP2u)

50 Interesting looking bullet.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 10:03 PM (vPv7/)

Could be 7.63 Mauser, or 7.62 Tokarev.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 10:30 PM (quk5M)

51 I legit laughed at some of these internet posts.

Well done, one and all.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 09, 2026 10:31 PM (s1VwS)

52 38

You betcha. The ATF will still try to screw you if you take a fully legal (in your state), SBR or shotgun across state lines - even though it's probably legal in both states.

Tell me agin how the government works for me...

Posted by: Boomer at October 09, 2026 10:32 PM (YE8Tw)

53 That last one is off a bit, because MN not only has Nimrod, but it also has Climax and Embarrass. And Fertile, which led to the famous "Fertile woman dies in Climax" headline, which is too good to care if it's actually real.

Posted by: Steve G at October 09, 2026 10:33 PM (Pf1Ma)

54 Doggos have extra muscles in their faces that their wild predecessors did not have, so dogs faces are a bit more emotive.
Now cats...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:02 PM (l3cgK)


Cats haven’t changed from the day they conquered us.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 09, 2026 10:34 PM (JsqTT)

55 49 PVC videos are always my favorites.
Posted by: Plastic Bertrand

Ours Too!

Posted by: Plastic Ono Band at October 09, 2026 10:34 PM (EdP2u)

56 Taco Bell chick was pretty cute until she asked to use the restroom.

Posted by: wth at October 09, 2026 10:34 PM (oq9dX)

57
Responding to your own comment?

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 10:35 PM (/QHx4)

58
Bob's Burgers is well written but the characters are so...ugly I have a hard time caring.

Archer was better, visually. Visuals matter.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards


So many people on here said it was so good that I checked out the first two seasons from the library and ripped them to hard disk. I never made it past about ten minutes of the first episode. I didn't erase the files. Maybe I'll try again later. Agree on the visuals.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 09, 2026 10:35 PM (Cqx++)

59 Thank you WD for the ONT. I hope those looking forward to the weekend have their dreams fulfilled.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 09, 2026 10:35 PM (CHHv1)

60 58
Bob's Burgers is well written but the characters are so...ugly I have a hard time caring.

Archer was better, visually. Visuals matter.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

So many people on here said it was so good that I checked out the first two seasons from the library and ripped them to hard disk. I never made it past about ten minutes of the first episode. I didn't erase the files. Maybe I'll try again later. Agree on the visuals.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 09, 2026 10:35 PM (Cqx++)

I will say this in favor of Bob's Burgers: the writers actually seem to like their characters. Unlike Family Guy and South Park.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 09, 2026 10:36 PM (s1VwS)

61 I grew up down the road from No Name, Co. Which, funny enough, was closest to Tiny Town, Co.

Posted by: NotEnoughLAmpposts at October 09, 2026 10:37 PM (lfNXu)

62 You betcha. The ATF will still try to screw you if you take a fully legal (in your state), SBR or shotgun across state lines - even though it's probably legal in both states.

Tell me agin how the government works for me...
Posted by: Boomer


I think last month's ruling on the interstate sale of pistols says otherwise. The Fed won't stop the interstate sales between to 2A friendly states... unless I misread that one.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 09, 2026 10:37 PM (nEUC6)

63 Get a grip, porta-potties NEVER have toilet paper.

Posted by: Captain Splatter at October 09, 2026 10:38 PM (oq9dX)

64 >>Thank you WD for the ONT. I hope those looking forward to the weekend have their dreams fulfilled.

I look forward to the day when you do.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 10:38 PM (viF8m)

65 50 Interesting looking bullet.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 10:03 PM (vPv7/)

Could be 7.63 Mauser, or 7.62 Tokarev.
Posted by: Alberta Peon at October 09, 2026 10:30 PM (quk5M)

Bottleneck but also JHP, I don't think it's a TOK. Let me grab a TT33 and check.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 09, 2026 10:38 PM (s1VwS)

66 Satan's Kingdom"?

Is that a Massachusetts town, or the whole state?
Posted by: Dr. T

Yes.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 10:38 PM (GZ3K7)

67 birds scattered from trees
chickens cackled
dogs barked
car alarms went off
Thunderbirds flew over house
nice

im doing my taxes so i bought jet fuel

Posted by: torabora at October 09, 2026 10:39 PM (Wt1Rs)

68 I have a gripe about everyone always using Intercourse, PA as the weirdest town name in the state. Everyone knows it is Blue Ball, PA....they just don't want to admit it.

Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 10:39 PM (dIske)

69 Intercourse, PA sells a lot of postcards.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 10:41 PM (GZ3K7)

70 There are no rules about responding to your own comment. In literature, it's called building a narrative. Even when building a beautiful edifice, you're going to spill some mortar. Michelangelo left a big pile of marble chips and shards, when sculpting some of the finest creations in human history. Don Garlits left rubber on the dragway.

Posted by: Worth It, In The End at October 09, 2026 10:41 PM (EdP2u)

71

Gnaw Bone is just a wide spot where a couple highways meet. French Lick is much bigger.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 09, 2026 10:41 PM (Cqx++)

72 Ok, checking my Tokarev, that does seem to be 7.62x25. I've never seen a JHP round like that before.

Want.

I'll bet a hollowpoint Tok would be super spicy. Let's test it on some Communists. Or Islamicists. I'm flexible there.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 09, 2026 10:41 PM (s1VwS)

73 Bird-in-Hand, PA is much better

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 10:42 PM (RIvkX)

74 44 tankdemon never gets fruit cup. Tonight's was great too, I love the fruit cocktail with the extra Maraschino cherries packed in light syrup. My Dad always said that if you're not 15 minutes early, you're late.
Posted by: It Pays To Be On Time at October 09, 2026 10:28 PM (EdP2u)

Who needs fruit cup when you have meat platter?

Posted by: tankdemon at October 09, 2026 10:43 PM (Hd1lH)

75 Cats haven’t changed from the day they conquered us.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 09, 2026 10:34 PM (JsqTT)

Why should we?

Posted by: The Cats at October 09, 2026 10:43 PM (jDLN4)

76 Bala Cynwyd, PA is pretty weird too

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 10:44 PM (RIvkX)

77 California Athletic Officials Issue Letter Terminating Man Versus Robot Matches.

Now do girls

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 09, 2026 10:44 PM (/+uur)

78 Clinic? Yeah, thats the ticket. Its a clinic.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 09, 2026 10:45 PM (wxsGM)

79 77 California Athletic Officials Issue Letter Terminating Man Versus Robot Matches.

Now do girls
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 09, 2026 10:44 PM (/+uur)

But only the hot ones. Ugly girls need to pay.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 09, 2026 10:46 PM (s1VwS)

80 62
Please explain the ruling you are referencing as to pistol transfers between states...
I'm unaware of any such ruling (but I might be an idiot)...

Posted by: Boomer at October 09, 2026 10:46 PM (YE8Tw)

81 Now do girls
Posted by: r hennigantx

I have made that, how you say, my life's mission!

Posted by: The Paolo, Whistle-Clean at October 09, 2026 10:47 PM (EdP2u)

82 I'll bet a hollowpoint Tok would be super spicy. Let's test it on some Communists. Or Islamicists. I'm flexible there.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 09, 2026 10:41 PM (s1VwS)


Ho about Islamic Communists?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 09, 2026 10:48 PM (JsqTT)

83 I swear I went back and put that “w” in! Autocucumber!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 09, 2026 10:50 PM (JsqTT)

84 There's a place called Athol, Massachusetts in the Northern part of the state that I drove through one time with some people I worked with. We stopped there for gas and I dared one of the guys to ask the clerk if everyone in town had a lisp.

This went right over his head, but refused to do it anyway. So, no hijinks that day.

Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 10:51 PM (dIske)

85 62
Sales of pistols between states are prohibited unless they are performed through Federally licensed firearms dealers. That has not changed.

I'm not sure what you are talking about...

Posted by: Boomer at October 09, 2026 10:51 PM (YE8Tw)

86 Ho about Islamic Communists?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

It's a target-rich environment.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 10:53 PM (GZ3K7)

87 There's a place called Athol, Massachusetts in the Northern part of the state that I drove through one time with some people I worked with. We stopped there for gas and I dared one of the guys to ask the clerk if everyone in town had a lisp.

This went right over his head, but refused to do it anyway. So, no hijinks that day.
Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 10:51 PM (dIske)

There is an Athol in Idaho, too, not far north of Coeur d'Alene.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 10:53 PM (quk5M)

88 My vote is for Dickshooter, Idaho

Posted by: TBone at October 09, 2026 10:55 PM (R9jOj)

89 @64 I suspect that day will the one when fire rains unrestricted upon the planet. At least then I can look out the window and say "I suspected as much."

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 09, 2026 10:56 PM (CHHv1)

90 >>There's a place called Athol, Massachusetts in the Northern part of the state that I drove through one time with some people I worked with. We stopped there for gas and I dared one of the guys to ask the clerk if everyone in town had a lisp.

As a former Massachusetts resident I can assure that he would have been about the 100 millionth person to make that joke. Including every MA sports team that played against them.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 10:58 PM (viF8m)

91 I suspect that day will the one when fire rains unrestricted upon the planet. At least then I can look out the window and say "I suspected as much."
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 09, 2026 10:56 PM (CHHv1)
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But I had plans for Thursday.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 10:58 PM (RIvkX)

92 82 I'll bet a hollowpoint Tok would be super spicy. Let's test it on some Communists. Or Islamicists. I'm flexible there.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 09, 2026 10:41 PM (s1VwS)

Ho about Islamic Communists?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 09, 2026 10:48 PM (JsqTT)

They are very confused and should be put down as an act of mercy. So...10mm

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 09, 2026 10:58 PM (s1VwS)

93 There is an Athol in Idaho, too, not far north of Coeur d'Alene.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 10:53 PM (quk5M)
_______________________

Canada has some good ones, and I'm not talking about the inane "indigenous" tribe confiscation of re-naming fetish.

There's a place in Ontario called Swastika, Ontario. The Ontario government tried to change the town to Winston, Ontario, but the townspeople said, "screw you." and took down the government signs and put up "To hell with Hitler, we had the swastika first."

Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 10:59 PM (dIske)

94 91 I suspect that day will the one when fire rains unrestricted upon the planet. At least then I can look out the window and say "I suspected as much."
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 09, 2026 10:56 PM (CHHv1)
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But I had plans for Thursday.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 10:58 PM (RIvkX)

Let him who is unclean, be unclean still. Let him who is righteous, be rightous still.

Escaton gonna happen when it happens.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 09, 2026 11:00 PM (s1VwS)

95 Happy Friday ONT!

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 09, 2026 11:00 PM (wVcYX)

96 It is probably pronounced AY-thul or some silly yankee variation on that like, Alewife.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 11:01 PM (RIvkX)

97 Heh heh heh.
Bambi on Ice.
Love it.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 11:01 PM (2WIwB)

98 There's a place in Ontario called Swastika, Ontario. The Ontario government tried to change the town to Winston, Ontario, but the townspeople said, "screw you." and took down the government signs and put up "To hell with Hitler, we had the swastika first."
Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 10:59 PM (dIske)

Alberta has Two Hills, Three Hills, Hand Hills, Kneehill, and Hairy Hill. And Buffalo Head Hills, which boasts an outcrop of Kimberlite. No diamonds in it, AFAIK.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 11:03 PM (quk5M)

99 Escaton gonna happen when it happens.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 09, 2026 11:00 PM (s1VwS)
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There you go immamentizing the eschaton again!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 11:03 PM (RIvkX)

100 Nowhere, AZ

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 11:03 PM (buvgH)

101 It is probably pronounced AY-thul or some silly yankee variation on that like, Alewife.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Athol, Idaho, is pronounced as if your were lisping the word "a$$hole"

Posted by: JQ at October 09, 2026 11:03 PM (rdVOm)

102 There's better michigan names than "Hell."

"Bad Axe" and "Climax" for example.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at October 09, 2026 11:04 PM (4HoLg)

103 99 Escaton gonna happen when it happens.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 09, 2026 11:00 PM (s1VwS)
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There you go immamentizing the eschaton again!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 11:03 PM (RIvkX)

I am trying.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 09, 2026 11:04 PM (s1VwS)

104 They are very confused and should be put down as an act of mercy. So...10mm
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 09, 2026 10:58 PM (s1VwS)


But nobody can find the 10mm!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 09, 2026 11:04 PM (JsqTT)

105 Humptulips WA is a happenin' place.
Just sayin'

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 11:05 PM (2WIwB)

106 >> It is probably pronounced AY-thul or some silly yankee variation on that like, Alewife.

It is not.

It's pronounced Ath al.



Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 11:05 PM (viF8m)

107 On a related gun note, United States v. Miller ( 1939 ) was adjudicated incorrectly by the Justices' own logic. The defendant was not able to defend, and the court decided that sawed-off shotguns had no military use, which of course they do and did back then;

They knew what they wanted to do and they did it. The decision said that it "was not in judicial notice" that short barreled shotguns had military use. Which was true since the defense did not show up and presented no evidence at all. They choose intellectual dishonesty.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 09, 2026 11:06 PM (vTZFs)

108 Humptulips WA is a happenin' place.
Just sayin'
Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 11:05 PM (2WIwB)

Sedro Wooley is where it's at.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 11:06 PM (quk5M)

109 There's a place in Ontario called Swastika, Ontario. The Ontario government tried to change the town to Winston, Ontario, but the townspeople said, "screw you." and took down the government signs and put up "To hell with Hitler, we had the swastika first."
Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 10:59 PM (dIske)

Which way does it point, the (dot) Indian way or the German way?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 09, 2026 11:07 PM (qx7Zg)

110 Pysht, WA

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 11:07 PM (buvgH)

111 We have lore here when it's earthquake weather; no mention of earthquakes allowed.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 11:08 PM (RIvkX)

112 Good evening good people.
Posted by: Tonypete at October 09, 2026 09:59 PM (N5iuz)


Well...shit. That leaves me out.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 11:08 PM (2WIwB)

113 There is an Athol in Idaho, too, not far north of Coeur d'Alene.

I heard that they were going to change the name because they got tired of the jokes. The new name will be Peanuts.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 09, 2026 11:08 PM (vTZFs)

114 I see whomever did that map stayed away from the dirty ones. They chose Money's Eyebrow, KY. They should have gone with Big Bone Lick, KY.

Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 11:09 PM (dIske)

115 It's pronounced Ath al.



Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 11:05 PM (viF8m)
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Ok, well, I think I see the problem/opportunity here.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 11:09 PM (RIvkX)

116 Remember, everyone. If a college student asks for help with their protest sign for Hamas, the correct spelling is:

Globalize the Enchilada!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 09, 2026 11:10 PM (qx7Zg)

117 Sedro Woolley had an awesome pizza joint.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 11:10 PM (buvgH)

118 87 There's a place called Athol, Massachusetts in the Northern part of the state that I drove through one time with some people I worked with. We stopped there for gas and I dared one of the guys to ask the clerk if everyone in town had a lisp.

This went right over his head, but refused to do it anyway. So, no hijinks that day.
Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 10:51 PM (dIske)

There is an Athol in Idaho, too, not far north of Coeur d'Alene.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 10:53 PM (quk5M)
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I knew it! I'm thurrounded by Athols!

Posted by: Dark Helmeth at October 09, 2026 11:11 PM (oqH4h)

119 It is not.

It's pronounced Ath al.



Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 11:05 PM (viF8m)

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My esthetician is from there. I pronounced it aye-thal and she said, "guess how I know you're not from here?"

Posted by: Jordan61 at October 09, 2026 11:11 PM (h9O4a)

120 Inyo Butte is a real place in Bakersfield.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at October 09, 2026 11:11 PM (Fv808)

121 Pysht, WA
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 11:07 PM (buvgH)

Is that where the Seattle area ferry owners, or their union leaders, live?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 09, 2026 11:11 PM (qx7Zg)

122 LMAO....I'm starting to fall down the rabbit hole on this topic:

I found these pretty cool.

In 2012, Boring, Oregon was named a sister city of the village of Dull, Scotland, and later joined Bland, Australia, in the "Trinity of Tedium."

Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 11:12 PM (dIske)

123 Word: Tundish, n.

Use it in a sentence: "The inhabitants of tundra regions speak Tundish."

Posted by: Increase Your Word Power! at October 09, 2026 11:12 PM (Jr5Lq)

124 Dang! Look at the time!

Posted by: Eromero at October 09, 2026 11:12 PM (LHPAg)

125 Hiya MAE!

I gotta new Taurus .357 revolver to
Take to the range tomorrow!


Yippeekayaa, motherfucker! Let’s roll!

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 11:12 PM (buvgH)

126 125 Hiya MAE!

I gotta new Taurus .357 revolver to
Take to the range tomorrow!


Yippeekayaa, motherfucker! Let’s roll!
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 11:12 PM (buvgH)

A Taurus....I am quite familiar with them. Curious you have one of those when I know you have some S&W goodness.

Can't wait.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 09, 2026 11:13 PM (s1VwS)

127 114 I see whomever did that map stayed away from the dirty ones. They chose Money's Eyebrow, KY. They should have gone with Big Bone Lick, KY.
Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 11:09 PM (dIske)

This almost makes me miss dating

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 09, 2026 11:14 PM (s1VwS)

128 Is that where the Seattle area ferry owners, or their union leaders, live?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf


Heh. No. It’s on the Olympic Peninsula. Nice little
Town. Good place to disappear to.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 11:14 PM (buvgH)

129 I gotta new Taurus .357 revolver to
Take to the range tomorrow!


Yippeekayaa, motherfucker! Let’s roll!
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 11:12 PM (buvgH)

Sounds like you got nice birthday present!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 11:15 PM (quk5M)

130 Here's hoping Piper and family are all right.

And a stray thought about how many people are trying to escape the storm in their now-dead EVs.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 09, 2026 11:16 PM (qx7Zg)

131 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 09, 2026 11:17 PM (SRRAx)

132 It didn’t go over his head: it was the millionth time he had heard the jibe, and he refused to take the bait. There is a street in College Station, Texas named after WWI General Foch. Everyone says “Fosh” which is correct, since he was a French general. Sometimes you just skip the obvious joke, because obvious.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 09, 2026 11:18 PM (JsqTT)

133 Evening, Teresa!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 11:18 PM (quk5M)

134 >>My esthetician is from there. I pronounced it aye-thal and she said, "guess how I know you're not from here?"

The name is Scottish in origin. Silly people.

Growing up in MA we had a few towns we could always tell people didn't live in MA when they asked about.

The best were Worcester and Billerica.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 11:18 PM (viF8m)

135 I have been to Horseheads, NY. It's nice.

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at October 09, 2026 11:19 PM (rI+gp)

136 *hic*

Posted by: Hillary! Dark Horse Candidate 2028 at October 09, 2026 11:20 PM (wpRMV)

137 Isn’t a tundish the thing you put your tun in?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 09, 2026 11:20 PM (JsqTT)

138 Hey, where da white wimmen at?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 11:22 PM (wpRMV)

139 Here, it is when someone says "Frisco" or "San Fran". You have to say it like Willie Brown says it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 11:22 PM (RIvkX)

140 5 Fido Friday: Smile!

Doggos have extra muscles in their faces that their wild predecessors did not have, so dogs faces are a bit more emotive.
Now cats...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:02 PM (l3cgK)


I remember, back when it was a novelty that one of the social media companies (Facebook?) was investing in facial recognition to improve photo tag suggestions, they found that the same algorithm accidentally worked for cats. I thought this helped explain lolcats.

Posted by: SciVo at October 09, 2026 11:22 PM (ke3zm)

141 TiFW have you been around?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 11:24 PM (RIvkX)

142 I have been to Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump, Alberta and can confirm no buffalo.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 09, 2026 11:25 PM (nEUC6)

143 Finally got decent shears for carpet cutting, tried it out today. Wiss Tradesman. Right tool for the job sure does help! Six rooms down, three to go.

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 11:26 PM (Jr5Lq)

144 Don't look, Ath al!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 09, 2026 11:27 PM (Cqx++)

145 Those that can't, teach

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I'm an auto-didact, man. I can't tell you how many bus stations I've been kicked out of of.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 11:27 PM (wpRMV)

146 I'm pretty sure most people would think that Philomath is a weirder name than Boring, which isn't even unique to Oregon.

Posted by: SciVo at October 09, 2026 11:27 PM (ke3zm)

147 Finally got decent shears for carpet cutting, tried it out today. Wiss Tradesman. Right tool for the job sure does help! Six rooms down, three to go.
Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 11:26 PM (Jr5Lq)

Put on some Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five. That will help you cut a rug.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 11:28 PM (quk5M)

148 There's a place in Ontario called Swastika, Ontario. The Ontario government tried to change the town to Winston, Ontario, but the townspeople said, "screw you." and took down the government signs and put up "To hell with Hitler, we had the swastika first."
Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 10:59 PM (dIske)

Which way does it point, the (dot) Indian way or the German way?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 09, 2026 11:07 PM (qx7Zg)

Both the Indian gentleman and the German gentleman dress right. However, the Indian gentleman aligns vertically while the German gentleman maintains a 45-degree tilt.

Posted by: Saville Row Tailor at October 09, 2026 11:28 PM (wVcYX)

149 >>TiFW have you been around?

And then found that one place that fits.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 11:29 PM (viF8m)

150

It's pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd

or is it Throatwobbler Mangrove?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 09, 2026 11:29 PM (Cqx++)

151 How did they miss the names Two Dot or Lame Deer in Montana.

Posted by: Beartooth at October 09, 2026 11:29 PM (FuXG7)

152 Finally got decent shears for carpet cutting, tried it out today. Wiss Tradesman. Right tool for the job sure does help! Six rooms down, three to go.
Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 11:26 PM (Jr5Lq)

Put on some Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five. That will help you cut a rug.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 11:28 PM (quk5M)

Stay away from The Jug and a girl named Linda Lou.

Posted by: Fat Fella With Hair Colored Yella at October 09, 2026 11:31 PM (wVcYX)

153 Which way does it point, the (dot) Indian way or the German way?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 09, 2026 11:07 PM (qx7Zg)

Both the Indian gentleman and the German gentleman dress right. However, the Indian gentleman aligns vertically while the German gentleman maintains a 45-degree tilt.
Posted by: Saville Row Tailor at October 09, 2026 11:28 PM (wVcYX)

So the Austrian painter with the bad mustache was always half-cocked.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 09, 2026 11:31 PM (qx7Zg)

154 Bill Ricka, heckuva guy.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at October 09, 2026 11:32 PM (Fv808)

155 Stay away from The Jug and a girl named Linda Lou.
Posted by: Fat Fella With Hair Colored Yella at October 09, 2026 11:31 PM (wVcYX)

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And I'm telling you, son, well, it ain't no fun
Staring straight down a forty-four

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 11:32 PM (wpRMV)

156 There's Weed, California. It's at the I-5, route-97 split near Oregon.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at October 09, 2026 11:33 PM (Fv808)

157 141 TiFW have you been around?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 11:24 PM (RIvkX)


Still here! Fell down a needlepointing rabbit hole - it's kinda hard to surf the internet when both hands are otherwise occupied! *

Looking forward to seeing everyone next weekend 🎉🎉🎉

*Imma leave that low-hanging fruit for all of you kitty cats to bat around 😂

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 09, 2026 11:35 PM (SRRAx)

158 *Imma leave that low-hanging fruit for all of you kitty cats to bat around 😂
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 09, 2026 11:35 PM (SRRAx)
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ROFL

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 11:37 PM (RIvkX)

159 Shears. I think a carpet knife would be easier.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 11:40 PM (GZ3K7)

160 Reposted from earlier:
I saw in the news that Margaret Hamilton died, not the actress, but a lead programmer on Apollo 11 guidance computer. If you want a peek at her code, it's all on GitHub:
github.com/chrislgarry/apollo-11
The computer was constructed entirely from NOR gates, in 2800 ICs. The schematics are here:
klabs.org/history/ech/agc_schematics/

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 11:41 PM (Jr5Lq)

161 I would have thought Athol was Massachusetts' capital

Posted by: SDWtc at October 09, 2026 11:43 PM (x9pYc)

162 Woo-ster.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 11:43 PM (GZ3K7)

163 I would have thought Athol was Massachusetts' capital
Posted by: SDWtc at October 09, 2026 11:43 PM (x9pYc)

*fistbump*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 11:44 PM (RIvkX)

164 >>*fistbump*

You live in a city that publishes a map where people shit on the street.

Maybe sit this one out.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 11:45 PM (viF8m)

165 "Shears. I think a carpet knife would be easier."

Could be. The shears were only $19.99, seem like good value for the price. I looked at a more expensive slidy kind of carpet gadget, like a plane, with a vertical blade in it, but couldn't find a convincing video to show its use. I have an old hooked-blade type of carpet knife but have not tried it; kinda dull.

Wall-to-wall carpet is an abomination. So glad to be getting this done

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 11:47 PM (Jr5Lq)

166 New Orleans pronounced as “New Orleens”.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 09, 2026 11:48 PM (JsqTT)

167 "I would have thought Athol was Massachusetts' capital"

That's where my machinist tools were made. Athol, Matthathuthetts.

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 11:48 PM (Jr5Lq)

168 Hint: the more syllables you can put in New Orleans, the closer you are to the Creole pronunciation.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 09, 2026 11:49 PM (JsqTT)

169 You live in a city that publishes a map where people shit on the street.

Maybe sit this one out.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 11:45 PM (viF8m)
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I started an X account so I could start photographing the shit I find but I can't figure it out.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 11:50 PM (RIvkX)

170 My backyard is literally considered to be in Rough and Ready.o

Posted by: Gunslinger at October 09, 2026 11:51 PM (N91F8)

171

Margaret H. Hamilton
Colossus Programming Leader
Apollo Guidance and Navigation

Oh great. Forbin again. The original AI

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 09, 2026 11:51 PM (Cqx++)

172 Wall-to-wall carpet is an abomination. So glad to be getting this done

It is. Good luck.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 11:51 PM (GZ3K7)

173 Margaret Hamilton the actress passed in 1985.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 09, 2026 11:52 PM (JsqTT)

174 There was an episode of Bob's Burgers where they had fans of the show submit fan art of the characters, and then animated the show using a bunch of different styles based on the submissions. Every scene change would be in a different style. It was a cool episode.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at October 09, 2026 11:52 PM (OGOaV)

175 Sales of pistols between states are prohibited unless they are performed through Federally licensed firearms dealers. That has not changed.

I'm not sure what you are talking about...
Posted by: Boomer at October 09, 2026 10:51 PM (YE8Tw)

A week or so ago, one of the Circuits ruled that the requirement to use FFLs for interstate pistol purchases is Unconstitutional. Another Circuit has ruled that it is, thus setting up a split for the USSC to decide someday.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 09, 2026 11:52 PM (jDLN4)

176 "Colossus Programming Leader"

The code was all in mag core ROM, so it had to be ready many weeks ahead of launch, with no way to patch it. There are some fanciful comments and crazy var names in the code.

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 11:54 PM (Jr5Lq)

177 Since Miklos is not here: "Nawlins, Baby".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 11:54 PM (quk5M)

178 The longest way to say it is la vielle Nouvelle Orléans, en français.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 09, 2026 11:54 PM (JsqTT)

179 33 28 Robert Picardo was on Voyager.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 09, 2026 10:20 PM (Cqx++)
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NERD!

But you're right, of course.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 09, 2026 10:23 PM (kpS4V)

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

He was also in Back To School!

Posted by: No One of Consequence at October 09, 2026 11:55 PM (OGOaV)

180 I'm not sure what you are talking about...
Posted by: Boomer


What gun sites do you visit regularly?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 09, 2026 11:55 PM (nEUC6)

181 I started an X account so I could start photographing the shit I find but I can't figure it out.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Get out of there ASAP.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 11:57 PM (GZ3K7)

182 Some shit is hard to figure out. Word.

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 11:58 PM (Jr5Lq)

183
There was an episode of Bob's Burgers where they had fans of the show submit fan art of the characters, and then animated the show using a bunch of different styles based on the submissions. Every scene change would be in a different style. It was a cool episode.
Posted by: No One of Consequence

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That does sound cool. There's a crowdsourced animation of classic Frasier episode "My Coffee With Niles," too.

youtube.com/watch?v=So-JtwVgstU

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 09, 2026 11:58 PM (mmrXZ)

184 Weirdest town name in Oklahoma is Okay? Not really.

I would say it might be Heavener. Because, as my older brother (RIP) discovered when stopping there one day, it's not pronounced "heaven-er" as he had initially imagined.
🤮


Folk-group era Bee Gees song selections were… odd.
https://youtu.be/S43YhQ_eGTw

G'nite, y'all.💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - got outa town immediately at October 10, 2026 12:00 AM (FPfFt)

185 >>I started an X account so I could start photographing the shit I find but I can't figure it out.

I'm sick and tired of hearing about beautiful cities that I loved like Boston and San Francisco have been captured by leftists and now get trashed as jokes.

Let's clown on Houston, Memphis, Minneapolis, particularly Minneapolis, and other cities that are being taken over and destroyed. We need to update our hate.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 12:00 AM (viF8m)

186 172 Wall-to-wall carpet is an abomination. So glad to be getting this done

It is. Good luck.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

What's wrong with you people?

Posted by: Joel Bogart, For Kaufman Carpets at October 10, 2026 12:02 AM (EdP2u)

187

I left my shart
In San Francisco

Posted by: Tony bent it at October 10, 2026 12:04 AM (Cqx++)

188 Did you hear about the aggie from Waterproof? He drowned!

Posted by: Sanity Break2 at October 10, 2026 12:05 AM (0cJcL)

189 Well, it's past 10:00 P.M. here, and I am sleepy. Got chilled working outside today, so I'm going to crawl into bed and turn on the electric blanket. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 12:06 AM (quk5M)

190 Let's clown on Houston, Memphis, Minneapolis, particularly Minneapolis, and other cities that are being taken over and destroyed. We need to update our hate.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 12:00 AM (viF8m)
====

The City That Knows How

no one remembers that but I used to hear it a lot when I first moved here.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 12:07 AM (RIvkX)

191 Minneapolis used to have a great reputation as a fairly erudite and cultured city

It was good enough for Rhoda and me.

Posted by: Mary Tyler Moore at October 10, 2026 12:09 AM (RIvkX)

192
Minneapolis used to have a great reputation as a fairly erudite and cultured city

It was good enough for Rhoda and me.
Posted by: Mary Tyler Moore


And Phyllis, too!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 10, 2026 12:13 AM (Cqx++)

193 So Hell is in Michigan.

Figures.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 10, 2026 12:16 AM (fsj6c)

194 GPT-6 Luna

Texas no longer criminalizes possession of a short-barreled rifle or shotgun under its short-barrel-firearm prohibition for conduct on or after September 1, 2025. .... The change applies prospectively; conduct before that date is treated under the earlier law. (that's odd)
LegiScan
...
So, in practical terms: Texas’s former state-law ban has been removed for post–September 1, 2025 conduct, but don’t ... federal requirement is gone or that the court order applies to you.
[cautionary tale] (check w/) a Texas firearms attorney.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 12:16 AM (ogcfP)

195 >>The City That Knows How

>>no one remembers that but I used to hear it a lot when I first moved here.

We talk about this shit everyday and then never forget to connect dots. They've been infiltrating our universities for decades. Happened in MA and CA and NY where the universities where a huge part of economy and the graduates became the politicians. Now we have Abdul in Michigan. We have Talarico in Texas.

The communist movement moves through our institutions. They are evil, not stupid. The stupid people are those that think they can run from it.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 12:21 AM (viF8m)

196 >>>I have an old hooked-blade type of carpet knife but have not tried it; kinda dull.


gp, I have a couple of those that I use for cutting back blackberry vines. It is about the easiest tool for doing it besides using herbicide. They sharpen up nice.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 10, 2026 12:22 AM (rbvCR)

197 Ran across this story, and thought a few here would enjoy it.

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An Aussie guy I know was out drinking in Canada with another Aussie mate. His mate left early to go back to the flat they were sharing in Vancouver. He was then accosted in a dark alley by two men with knives.

Being absolutely drunk, the mate failed to pick up on the men's intent - or their knives - and simply pushed them aside saying, "Nah, sorry mate, I'm Australian." And just continued on his way.

The poor fellow later realized that he'd brushed off two armed muggers by tell them he was Australian and ignoring them.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 10, 2026 12:24 AM (qx7Zg)

198 Evening all,

We have a launch in about 2 hours.

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Tranche 1 Transport Layer A
SLC-4E - VSFB, CA - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: October 9, 2026
Launch Time: 12:29 a.m. PDT (0729 UTC, 09:29 CEST)

https://youtu.be/g2zSmp6e2Vs

Posted by: Joyenz at October 10, 2026 12:26 AM (2F0/Y)

199 The communist movement moves through our institutions. They are evil, not stupid. The stupid people are those that think they can run from it.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 12:21 AM (viF8m)


el malo gato is arguing that this only works as long as there is money to support the conversion. Once the subsidies are taken away it gets harder to push the agenda since so many want to be paid to save the world, and that takes lots of free money. Without the funding people wander off to work for themselves instead.
he points out the recent turn of political orientation in South America.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 10, 2026 12:26 AM (rbvCR)

200 The poor fellow later realized that he'd brushed off two armed muggers by tell them he was Australian and ignoring them.

--------

"That's not a knife."

Posted by: Crocodile Dundee at October 10, 2026 12:27 AM (wpRMV)

201 I left my shart
In San Francishitco
Posted by: Tony bent it
****

fify

Posted by: clarence at October 10, 2026 12:31 AM (zGeQ7)

202 184 Weirdest town name in Oklahoma is Okay? Not really.

Posted by: mindful webworker - got outa town immediately at October 10, 2026 12:00 AM (FPfFt)
____________________

I'm mystified by how Oklahoma City materialized. What was the meeting like where that decision was made.

"Anyone got any suggestions for a city name."

(total silence)

"Come on, guys. Think of something or we aren't leaving."

(total silence)

"Fine. It's a city. We're in Oklahoma. Oklahoma City. (bangs gavel)....Someone snuff that lantern. Drinks down at the Spittoon Tavern."

Posted by: Orson at October 10, 2026 12:32 AM (dIske)

203 Destin, Destin-Ft. Walton Beach Airport (KDTS) -hurricane landfall

Humidity 91%
Wind Speed Vrbl 6 G 20 mph
Barometer 29.51 in (999.2 mb)
Dewpoint 64°F (18°C)
Visibility 10.00 mi
Last update 9 Oct 10:53 pm CDT

Detailed Forecast
Tonight Hurricane conditions expected. A 20 percent chance of showers before 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 73.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 12:32 AM (ogcfP)

204 >>el malo gato is arguing that this only works as long as there is money to support the conversion. Once the subsidies are taken away it gets harder to push the agenda since so many want to be paid to save the world, and that takes lots of free money. Without the funding people wander off to work for themselves instead.
he points out the recent turn of political orientation in South America.

Thanks Trump.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 12:36 AM (viF8m)

205 The communist movement moves through our institutions. They are evil, not stupid. The stupid people are those that think they can run from it.

Posted by: JackStraw
----

A well a everybody's heard about the purge
P-p-p purge, purge, purge, p-purge's the word
A well a purge, purge, purge, the purge is the word
A well a purge, purge, purge, well the purge is the word
A well a purge, purge, purge, p-purge, purge is the word

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 12:40 AM (ogcfP)

206 Linda Lu was a friend of mine.

Sorta

https://tinyurl.com/2s3s9e3k

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 12:49 AM (viF8m)

207 >>Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026

OK, your brought it up ...

Billerica?

Posted by: Bexar = 'Bear' at October 10, 2026 12:54 AM (wOK9Z)

208 Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by the weirdest town names in each state

You know why Minnesota wins the "weirdest town name" contest?

Because the weirdest town names in Wisconsin and Georgia also exist in Minnesota.

We gots a Nimrod, a Climax, and an Embarrass.

Climax is pretty close to Fertile. Cummings is also close, but just across the river in North Dakota.

Embarrass has the "unofficial" record low for Minnesota at -64F. (The thermometer was rated accurate, but it wasn't a National Weather Service thermometer. Boo!)

Wiki:
Embarrass is the coldest place in Minnesota. In winter 2000–2001, the temperature in Embarrass did not rise above freezing from November 24 to March 1; the high for meteorological winter (December to February) was 32 °F on January 10. The coldest calendar month on record (since 1995, with some months missing data) in Embarrass was January 2014, with an average temperature of −8.3 °F (−22.4 °C).

Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 12:55 AM (VHUov)

209 @88.-TBone
I'm going to go with TBone that Dickshooter, Idaho is the funniest name for a town. I have heard that name before someplace, can't remember where but I remember laughing about it.

Well, the storm is headed my way. They say the winds may get bad and we might lose power. The rain is not supposed to be too bad but the wind may be strong enough to blow trees down. Hope Trump cancels his trip to Tuscaloosa today. No use for him to get in the middle of this mess.

Posted by: Case at October 10, 2026 01:02 AM (ROPCF)

210 Grateful Dead made more money doing jam sessions (weaving in a melody) than any other band in the world. Prolly didn't go narco drunk because they had to play the same song every night.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 01:03 AM (ogcfP)

211 On the weirdest town names, you missed Slickpoo, Idaho.

Posted by: Redwine at October 10, 2026 01:05 AM (3TDsk)

212 >>> Hope Trump cancels his trip to Tuscaloosa today. No use for him to get in the middle of this mess.

Posted by: Case
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Trump's going to stand in the middle of the mess, pass out water or whatever's necessary and give one of his best rally's.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 01:06 AM (ogcfP)

213 Off to bed. I'm hiking in the morning; it'll likely be my final SOTA activation for the year. Hopefully the weather holds.

Posted by: PabloD at October 10, 2026 01:06 AM (OXSZa)

214 208 Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by the weirdest town names in each state
There's a Climax, PA.

Posted by: Redwine at October 10, 2026 01:07 AM (3TDsk)

215 >>Grateful Dead made more money doing jam sessions (weaving in a melody) than any other band in the world. Prolly didn't go narco drunk because they had to play the same song every night.

The Dead were the greatest live band in history and without a without a doubt have the most devoted fans. Me included, obviously.

No apologies. It was always about the music.

You were either on the bus or off the bus.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 01:26 AM (viF8m)

216 This week has been (likely) the last of our warm weather here. Windy & raining tonight, then will have highs in the 60s next week. It's good! I'm so done with summer.

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 01:26 AM (rdVOm)

217
That does sound cool. There's a crowdsourced animation of classic Frasier episode "My Coffee With Niles," too.

youtube.com/watch?v=So-JtwVgstU
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 09, 2026 11:58 PM (mmrXZ)

Brilliant episode to choose! I’ve often used that as an example of almost perfect writing. The “plot” is just two men sitting at a table having a conversation, and from time to time others people stop by. That’s all, and yet it’s riveting, one of the best episodes ever, because the writing is so good.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 10, 2026 01:36 AM (60F2Z)

218 The Dead were the greatest live band in history and without a without a doubt have the most devoted fans. Me included, obviously.

No apologies. It was always about the music.

You were either on the bus or off the bus.

Posted by: JackStraw
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Well, I didn't hang with Ken Kesey and the Dead was a good band with good players who were loved by many people. They may have been the greatest band playing their style of music but the greatest band. There's no such thing.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 01:56 AM (ogcfP)

219 Told Buddy, the August summer has finally gone. Not cool yet, no night below 75. My marker is below 70. When evening temps start dropping below 70 thing start to cool down.

On the other hand, Bastardi said that this may be a winter like that one a few years back when the NatGas lines froze.
_jealous of that pellet stove

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 02:03 AM (ogcfP)

220 "Further"

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 02:07 AM (rdVOm)

221 Haven't started up the pellet stove yet, but probably tomorrow night or the next...

Need to pull the exhaust blower, clean soot off and vacuum out the blower housing. Probably should clean the convection blower 'squirrel cage' too. Already cleaned the z-pipe and checked chimney.

It's a maintenance hog!

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 02:12 AM (rdVOm)

222
219 Told Buddy, the August summer has finally gone. Not cool yet, no night below 75. My marker is below 70. When evening temps start dropping below 70 thing start to cool down.

Here in east Texas, it was 67 this morning. Will get down to 64 tonight by dawn.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 10, 2026 02:17 AM (60F2Z)

223 Have you considered a wood stove for those period of 'not that cold'?

My aunt had one that was vertical, ornate, thought it didn't put out as much heat as a standard clunker but that could have been her. She wasn't cold natured, at all.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 02:27 AM (ogcfP)

224 >>Have you considered a wood stove for those period of 'not that cold'?

Are you addressing me? If so... no, the pellet stove is my *primary* heat source in winter. Not really interested in buying, splitting, stacking, hauling wood. Pellets are a pain, but the bags don't leave gaps for rodents or wasps to reside, and the pellets don't give me splinters LOL.

I make do with space heaters when it's mildly cool.

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 02:33 AM (rdVOm)

225 Hubby disconnected the baseboard heaters many years ago. Hate those things anyway.

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 02:39 AM (rdVOm)

226 A splinter in that big toe might let the swelling down.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 02:43 AM (ogcfP)

227 Hahaha, big toe is only a little swollen now-- 2 weeks later! It's not black/blue/purple anymore.

I can flex it up & down without pain, but it still won't bend.

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 02:46 AM (rdVOm)

228 Can't see myself swinging an axe now-- 30 years ago, no problem. We'd (late BF and I) get 3 cord per winter and when he had to work overtime, I'd split some wood, fill the indoor rack & make kindling for our fireplace... it was a team effort.

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 02:55 AM (rdVOm)

229 You heal up fast, that's good. Ex and I had an open hearth fireplace. We had a suede sofa facing it. At the end of winter it was covered with soot.

Glassing them in with vents around the room works much better.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 03:01 AM (ogcfP)

230 Our fireplace had glass doors and an insert with dual fans. Kept the whole house toasty, without sooting it up. (much)

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 03:04 AM (rdVOm)

231 I kinda miss the place BF and I were renting. There were built-in bookcases on either side of fireplace-- took up the whole wall and had full-length mantel over all of it. Had an outlet in the middle and small windows above. Christmas decorating was fun there!

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 03:17 AM (rdVOm)

232 Before modernity, Uncle had a place in the country that the only heat was open hearth but he ran conductive ductwork to all the rooms. As you said, toasty.
He was a busy man feeding that thing.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 03:23 AM (ogcfP)

233 Time to donate money to Belzabos. Sleep tight. 'night.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 03:28 AM (ogcfP)

234 >>He was a busy man feeding that thing.

Yep, that's the problem with fireplace-only heating. Keep stoking it! But you need to sleep *sometimes* and so it can be chilly in the morning.

I'm a sissy. When the pellet stove is operating correctly, which is most of the time, I can keep the house warm without too much effort (comparatively). I have a box fan in that room, to move the warm air out to the rest of house.

Just add a bag a day. Shut down for cleaning once a week. Remove & clean soot out of z-pipe once a month. Pray the motors don't crap out (keep spares on hand always!)

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 03:29 AM (rdVOm)

235 Night, Braenyard!

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 03:30 AM (rdVOm)

236 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at October 10, 2026 04:01 AM (odBC9)

237 Heavener - had family over there 100 years ago. Great grandmother taught near there in a one-room schoolhouse. I thought the strangest town name was its neighbor, Poteau.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 04:02 AM (ij/FE)

238 Mornin' comes early...

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 04:03 AM (ij/FE)

239 Hey, I actually know that place with the signs! It's local to me, and I always get a kick out of it as I drive by. I can confirm it's real.

Check out "1420 N 45th St., Seattle, WA" on your favorite map site or app, and look at the SW corner of the Shell station.

Posted by: Bitblt at October 10, 2026 04:18 AM (kj+zZ)

240 26 days till election day. Public execution I can't wait to see dumpsters dancing from the end of a rope!

Posted by: raimondo at October 10, 2026 04:31 AM (pkGPL)

241 Nidal Hasan is a dumpster of a human.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 05:22 AM (l3cgK)

242 Pay per view?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 07:37 AM (yPX1l)

243 He was a soldier. Decimation.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 07:38 AM (yPX1l)

244 @242 I'll pay to see dump and his dumpsters!

Posted by: raimondo at October 10, 2026 08:01 AM (pkGPL)

245
I'm well to the east of EEeee-SAH-AYE--EEEE-US-AY, but they had huge amounts of rainfall potential, sometimes has high as 5" for the area.

That has thankfully not played out yet, and I've got about 0.3" so far, and not any breeze at all.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 10, 2026 09:25 AM (w6EFb)

Friday Cafe

williamhulbertphotographysunset.jpg
William Hulbert Photography

Dog walks around a train making friends with complete strangers.

Dog went to finishing school and can now balance anything on his head.

Pittie won't get out of the pool.

Dogs trying to make friends with standoffish cats.

Kangaroo gets stuck in a parking deck and needs to be tranqed and relocated.

Grenades blowing up in super slow motion.

Chaotic cockatoo is a daddy's boy.

Wild cockatoos "Mr. and Mrs. Floofington" visit an Australian woman every day.

Zookeepers encourage a white tiger to exercise its jumping ability by dangling a steak on a long rope.

An oldie but a goodie: Baby elephant charges ineptly, provoking laughter from the tourists.

Sheep has a special rock for sunbathing and will not allow intruder cats to sit on it.

Baby elephants race across a river to rejoin their mother.

Bulldog used for breeding is abandoned on a street tied to a pole but has a family for the first time.

Crafter traces the paths of the heroes of Lord of the Rings on his large-scale 3D map.



Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:10 PM




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1 Anti blade

Posted by: Max Power at October 09, 2026 07:12 PM (Hucnr)

2 Top photo is gorgeous. Needed that.

Have a great weekend, Ace and all.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 09, 2026 07:17 PM (hzuYO)

3 Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
I have just concluded a highly successful discussion with President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, wherein it was agreed that Russia will immediately supply over 300,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel to the American and Global Marketplace, another 500,000 Tons during the month of November, and 1,000,000 Tons immediately thereafter. Additionally, based on the condition of their Diesel Refineries, Russia will then deliver, within a short period of time, 3,000,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel. Between our TOTAL CONTROL of the Strait of Hormuz, and this great announcement on Russian Energy, Diesel Prices for Americans and, indeed, the World, will be COMING DOWN, IN RECORD NUMBERS, AND FAST! Lower prices for Americans, especially our Great Farmers, Ranchers, and Truckers, is my Greatest Priority. This is a very big and important announcement. Additionally, it must be understood, that Iran will not have a Nuclear Weapon! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 07:18 PM (6ydKt)

4 So close to pride Month?

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 09, 2026 07:19 PM (VtYh5)

5 A 100% week!

(Also, corgis called.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2026 07:20 PM (0sNs1)

6 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 07:20 PM (Ia/+0)

7 I hope Trump didnt get rolled.

Posted by: SDWtc at October 09, 2026 07:20 PM (yEGfi)

8 Concerning Hollywood shit or garbage, Norm Macdonald did it best when he would say something like "this actor's latest movie has come out, and critics nationwide are calling it everything from shit to fucking shit."

Posted by: Denny Crane - I Shattered my Femur at October 09, 2026 07:21 PM (NoYYJ)

9 Cool off after the shit Midas title. That was epic!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 09, 2026 07:22 PM (VtYh5)

10 Concerning Hollywood shit or garbage, Norm Macdonald did it best when he would say something like "this actor's latest movie has come out, and critics nationwide are calling it everything from shit to fucking shit."
Posted by: Denny Crane - I Shattered my Femur at October 09, 2026 07:21 PM (NoYYJ)
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Except nowadays the critics would call such movies "brilliant" or "f*cking brilliant!"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 07:24 PM (FZ29D)

11 Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
A barbaric idea [the public execution of Nidal Hasan], beneath our dignity as a country.
----

That evil bitch has the nerve to believe she can speak to "our dignity as a country"? She risked the lives of untold American civilians and civil servants with her ham-fisted email/server, and her husband is a rapist and guilty of sexual harrassment with an intern. Were it not for their last name and their willingness to kill those who inconvenience them, they'd both be in jail.

Posted by: Crusader at October 09, 2026 07:25 PM (TN0g+)

12 This time next Friday the TXMoMe will be in full swing!

Posted by: Ben Had at October 09, 2026 07:27 PM (nxLtX)

13 Says woman with a few heads herself

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 07:27 PM (Ia/+0)

14 @HillaryClinton
A barbaric idea [the public execution of Nidal Hasan], beneath our dignity as a country.


That's the same Hillary Clinton who thought "We came, we saw, he died" was a dignified campaign slogan?

Posted by: Oddbob at October 09, 2026 07:27 PM (vTZFs)

15 Russia will immediately supply over 300,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel to the American and Global Marketplace

6.7 barrels per short ton
7.4 barrels per metric ton

Between 2 million and 2.2 million barrels depending on the units

Leading up to as much as 7.4 million barrels a month.

Zelenskyy is fucking dead if he disrupts that deal.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 07:28 PM (9Hs2w)

16 11 - the father of lies ensures that his slaves never speak the truth.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 09, 2026 07:28 PM (VyBeY)

17
Lower prices for Americans, especially our Great Farmers, Ranchers, and Truckers, is my Greatest Priority. Additionally, it must be understood, that Iran will not have a Nuclear Weapon!

Posted by: SpeakingOf

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This is beneath our dignity as a nation.

Posted by: Hillary at October 09, 2026 07:29 PM (mmrXZ)

18 Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
A barbaric idea [the public execution of Nidal Hasan], beneath our dignity as a country.
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News Flash: Nidal Hasan has information that will lead to the indictment of Hillary Clinton.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 07:30 PM (9Hs2w)

19 I look at everything PDT and his administration is doing and am filled with admiration and gratitude.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 09, 2026 07:32 PM (nxLtX)

20 I remember my mom begging me to come out of the water like that pittie. "Come in and get me."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 07:32 PM (RIvkX)

21 19 I look at everything PDT and his administration is doing and am filled with admiration and gratitude.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 09, 2026 07:32 PM (nxLtX)

yup. hardly a day goes by that I don't say "yes! this is what I voted for!"

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 09, 2026 07:34 PM (VyBeY)

22 I look at everything PDT and his administration is doing and am filled with admiration and gratitude.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 09, 2026 07:32 PM (nxLtX)

yup. hardly a day goes by that I don't say "yes! this is what I voted for!"
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 09, 2026 07:34 PM (VyBeY)
====

Me too but also abject fear about what may follow.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 07:37 PM (RIvkX)

23 hardly blame you for that, SFp, if / when the demonrats steal another election it's gonna get brutal in a hurry.

live in the moment until that happens is the only sane approach.

(imho)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 09, 2026 07:40 PM (VyBeY)

24
Her Majesty was able to get an earlier flight out of Nashville. I'll be picking her up 9:30ish instead of the 12:30 AM she threatened me with.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 07:41 PM (eRlcH)

25 beneath our dignity as a country.

Did getting thrown into the SUV like a side of beef dignify our nation?

Did Bubba getting, and then lying about getting a "beejer"* dignify our nation?

Did Bengazi dignify our nation?

* a word the kids use these days, I'm told.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2026 07:42 PM (0sNs1)

26 that's a great mercy, H7! Yay!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 09, 2026 07:43 PM (VyBeY)

27 Me too but also abject fear about what may follow.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 07:37 PM


Prepare.

1. Practice fundamentals.
2. Buy ammo.
3. Eschew wobbly sh*t.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2026 07:43 PM (0sNs1)

28 Hadrian, see you soon.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 09, 2026 07:43 PM (nxLtX)

29 Me too but also abject fear about what may follow.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

“I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened.”
Twain

Posted by: MkY at October 09, 2026 07:45 PM (ZHRuH)

30
I look at everything PDT and his administration is doing and am filled with admiration and gratitude.

Posted by: Ben Had

===============

RELIEF here. I was truly afraid Kamala could get elected. My lefty office mates were stunned flat that she didn't.

Posted by: Hillary at October 09, 2026 07:45 PM (mmrXZ)

31 BREAKING NEWS: Mr. James Talarico, the soon-to-be- Junior Senator from the Great State of Texas, according to Texas Democrats, was sighted Friday at the ACL Fest.

https://t.co/xiu7Y2FjYm

Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at October 09, 2026 07:47 PM (0sNs1)

32 Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
A barbaric idea [the public execution of Nidal Hasan], beneath our dignity as a country.

-
I suppose we could disguise the execution as a suicide.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 07:47 PM (ndZc7)

33 One of Zelensky's underlings made the expected noises about giving the Russians "gifts", etc., etc.,

The diesel is available for global distribution as well as the US, so if Ukraine wants to mess around with the shipping, they do so at great peril.

Posted by: mrp at October 09, 2026 07:48 PM (rj6Yv)

34 BREAKING NEWS: Mr. James Talarico, the soon-to-be- Junior Senator from the Great State of Texas, according to Texas Democrats, was sighted Friday at the ACL Fest.

-
Did he see his shadow so we have six more weeks of campaigning?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 07:49 PM (ndZc7)

35 Red sky at morning

Still nothing more beautiful.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 07:50 PM (viF8m)

36 "I hope Trump didnt get rolled."

Come on! He's pooty poots stooge. Of course he got rolled!

We would of been much better off with kammie the kommie.

Posted by: A random guy on the net at October 09, 2026 07:50 PM (dCMJG)

37 So last thread talked about Talarico and mental hospital. Reminds me of the great story about Earl Long, Huey Long's brother.

Earl was serving as governor of Louisiana back in the 50s or 60s, for like the third term. He pissed off his wife somehow, so she had him committed to a state mental institution. The problem was that it was the state mental institution. He fired everyone there because he was the governor, walked out, hopped on a plane to Dallas, got a quickie divorce, came back to Baton Rouge, served out his term and ran for US Senate and won, I think. So no, being committed does not damage your chances of election. At least in Louisiana! Maybe Texas is different.

Posted by: SimoHayek at October 09, 2026 07:52 PM (IeYnM)

38 I just started watching newsmax again so I saw my first my pillow commercial in a long time and I swear if you close your eyes during it you would think that Matt Foley was doing the voiceover.

Posted by: Denny Crane - I Shattered my Femur at October 09, 2026 07:52 PM (NoYYJ)

39 Beautiful sunset tonight. Reds, purple and dark orange. Rain 2-3" over the weekend.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 07:53 PM (GZ3K7)

40 Zelensky will do what his EU allies tell him to do.
They might want Trump to lose the mid-terms so it’s possible,

The EU aristocrats know the diesel prices might double but the peasant’s bank accounts is a sacrifice they are willing to make to hurt the Orange Bad Man.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 07:56 PM (6ydKt)

41 The weather should be in the low 70's in the day and 50's at night for the TX MoMe. 😍

Posted by: lin-duh at October 09, 2026 07:57 PM (VCgbV)

42 Thanks for the nice Cafe Ace. The sheep video proves that when cats are told "NO!" they interpret that as "Proceed."

I would love it if when a cat brushes against my legs, it meant something other than "I need more treats." Alas.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 09, 2026 07:57 PM (CHHv1)

43 Ace was a busy fellow today. Enjoy the weekend!

Posted by: H at October 09, 2026 08:02 PM (JSLNb)

44 What's the worst that could happen?

7NEWS Queensland
@7NewsBrisbane
One of Australia's worst serial killers has been set free, after spending the last 27 years behind bars. Snowtown murderer James Vlassakis walked out of prison, to begin life as the country's only paroled serial killer.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 08:03 PM (ndZc7)

45 End a life, have yours
( spits)

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 08:04 PM (Ia/+0)

46 From AI Companies Are Wargaming:

205 180 Saw some data which shows GenX is the most pro-AI generation. Which tracks with what I’ve seen probably. The yuutes hate it. The olds are somewhat receptive. Middle aged dudes are all in on it.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez

Meh, I'm not sure about that. GenX seems to have skepticism in our DNA.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 09, 2026 07:13 PM (n17eQ)


Yes, so we're skeptical about both the hype and the dooming. What's left is a fantastic symbolic robot.

If you know how to do something with symbols (which cuts out know-nothings), and you are willing to learn how to use 'AI' to automate it (which cuts out those set in their ways), then you can increase your individual productivity by orders of magnitude -- potentially even cutting out the need to work with people. Perhaps counter-intuitively, the middle-aged are right in the sweet spot for ability and inclination to make good use of it.

Posted by: SciVo at October 09, 2026 08:05 PM (ke3zm)

47 I'm somewhat sane now and have the forged papers to prove it. Notarized and everything.

Posted by: Former Fugitive From Board of Mental Health at October 09, 2026 08:05 PM (EdP2u)

48 And so, it begins . . .

https://tinyurl.com/4b2tkzsn

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 08:06 PM (ndZc7)

49 Happy Friday!

>>> Even executives at the Disney Groomer Network know that soon-to-be-fired Jimmy Kimmel is an "asshole."

I found it amusing to learn that Kimmel's kids apparently are in such a deep nepo baby bubble, they actually thought they would inherit the show from dad one day. Like they own the rights to it or built it or had anything to do with it! They must be crying as much as he does to learn their "legacy"is over.

If dad had build them their own "pirate ship"of a network, like Adam Carolla did, maybe they'd have a shot at that. But Adam's kids weren't raised by a stupid dad, so I think they realize they aren't entitled to it and might not have the talent for it.

Carolla > Kimmel, all day every day.

Posted by: LizLem at October 09, 2026 08:08 PM (Toos7)

50 Evenin’, All. Happy Friday Night.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 08:09 PM (77rzZ)

51 I remember my mom begging me to come out of the water like that pittie. "Come in and get me."
****

If I had said something like that to my mom.... Oh, wait, I did say something like that to my mom..once. She yanked me out of the pool like I was a stuffed animal.

Posted by: clarence at October 09, 2026 08:12 PM (zGeQ7)

52 Evenin’, All. Happy Friday Night.
Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 08:09 PM


We hope you have a swingin' evening!

( ) ( )
( ) ( )
(.) (.)

Posted by: Nancy "Perky Emeritus" Pelosi (D-CA) at October 09, 2026 08:13 PM (0sNs1)

53 Mr. James Talarico, the soon-to-be- Junior Senator from the Great State of Texas, according to Texas Democrats, was sighted Friday at the ACL Fest.

-
Thar he blows!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 08:13 PM (ndZc7)

54 Booooobies. Happy Friday.

https://tinyurl.com/yrs28hf5

Posted by: Kindltot at October 09, 2026 08:15 PM (rbvCR)

55 7NEWS Queensland
@7NewsBrisbane
One of Australia's worst serial killers has been set free, after spending the last 27 years behind bars. Snowtown murderer James Vlassakis walked out of prison, to begin life as the country's only paroled serial killer.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 08:03 PM (ndZc7)
=====

And then the murders began.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 08:15 PM (RIvkX)

56 Last news tidbit of the day... maybe it's been posted?

Jane Doe in the Cornell case is being renamed "Train Doe," and she's been doxxed. I'm not gonna share her real name, but it's out there now, as are pictures of her. I blame college sorority movies, but I had a WAY different image in my head of her vs how she looks.

The same people shrieking about her name being doxxed, were probably gleeful the juror was doxxed in the Lindsay Clancy case. They both have a right to privacy in their respective court cases. But society is garbage right now so here we are!

Anyway, that's all the bad stuff. Hope you are looking to good forward to good things this weekend!

Posted by: LizLem at October 09, 2026 08:15 PM (Toos7)

57 Trump said he'd struck a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin for a quick release of 300,000 tons (about 2.2 million barrels), followed by another 500,000 in November and 1 million tons "immediately thereafter." That comes out to about 13.5 million barrels.
---------

Russia, Russia, Russia

Russia, Russia, Russia

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 08:17 PM (vPv7/)

58 Looks like himmicane Isaias is about to hit the coast of the Florida panhandle...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 08:17 PM (l3cgK)

59 58 Looks like himmicane Isaias is about to hit the coast of the Florida panhandle...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 08:17 PM (l3cgK)

The eye, that is

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 08:18 PM (l3cgK)

60 48 And so, it begins . . .

https://tinyurl.com/4b2tkzsn

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,
---

It's a Chinese bot isn't it?
Every Chinese bot is destructive.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 08:22 PM (vPv7/)

61 Who's operating the bot? Cartelistos?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 08:23 PM (vPv7/)

62 >> 58 Looks like himmicane Isaias is about to hit the coast of the Florida panhandle...

I'm still amazed that there's been like zero hurricanes this year. Is this numero uno?

Posted by: LizLem at October 09, 2026 08:23 PM (Toos7)

63 Checking on our morons and ettes in the path of the storm. Please let us know how you are faring.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 09, 2026 08:24 PM (BYJyI)

64 Evening, Ace and Cafe patrons! It was getting cold outside, with some scattered drops of rain. Done messing about for the day.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 08:25 PM (quk5M)

65 62 LizLem, yep.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 08:25 PM (77rzZ)

66 Greetings.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 09, 2026 08:25 PM (yPX1l)

67 Heh. I had not seen anything aside from various vague references.

Sexually transmitted Diarrhea, huh? *snicker*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 09, 2026 08:26 PM (Y/06r)

68 Is that Pensacola?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 09, 2026 08:26 PM (yPX1l)

69 Hey, Boss Moss.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 08:26 PM (77rzZ)

70 Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
A barbaric idea [the public execution of Nidal Hasan], beneath our dignity as a country.
----

Dear Hillary: why don't you sit in his lap?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 08:27 PM (quk5M)

71 >>> 62 >> 58 Looks like himmicane Isaias is about to hit the coast of the Florida panhandle...
==
I'm still amazed that there's been like zero hurricanes this year. Is this numero uno?
Posted by: LizLem at October 09, 2026 08:23 PM (Toos7)

Some other Moron pointed out that there was a long span of no hurricanes after OrangeManBad renamed it to the Gulf of America.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 09, 2026 08:27 PM (3mtzY)

72 Hey, tcn in Alaska.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 08:27 PM (77rzZ)

73 32 Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
A barbaric idea [the public execution of Nidal Hasan], beneath our dignity as a country.

-
I suppose we could disguise the execution as a suicide.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 07:47 PM (ndZc7)

I agree. She IS beneath all of our dignity. She is afraid that if people watch, they might want to do the same to traitors. Ahem.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 09, 2026 08:28 PM (BYJyI)

74 Working with powder as a job.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 09, 2026 08:29 PM (yPX1l)

75
I did a double take hearing some weather idiot standing on the beach "braving the storm" pronouncing "Isaias". WTF?

I pronounce that "eye-zay-us". He tried something I won't even attempt to pronounce.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 09, 2026 08:29 PM (w6EFb)

76 Mexican Cartels Send Members to Ukraine

https://tinyurl.com/3c788epp


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 08:30 PM (vPv7/)

77 I’m experiencing TxMoMe envy.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 09, 2026 08:30 PM (BYJyI)

78 @HillaryClinton
A barbaric idea [the public execution of Nidal Hasan], beneath our dignity as a country.
-----------

Also HillaryClinton: "We came. We saw. And he died.... Cackle cackle cackle."

Posted by: ... at October 09, 2026 08:31 PM (vE0+H)

79 Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
A barbaric idea [the public execution of Nidal Hasan], beneath our dignity as a country.

I avoid a certain word, but:

Go to hell, you fucking drunken cunt.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 09, 2026 08:31 PM (0aYVJ)

80 Hey, don’t blame me. It was before my time.

Posted by: Dr. Zaius at October 09, 2026 08:31 PM (77rzZ)

81 >>> @HillaryClinton
A barbaric idea [the public execution of Nidal Hasan], beneath our dignity as a country.

She also thought we should drone strike Assange. But executing a traitor is barbaric.

She's just mad she can't Arkancide someone. She misses it.

Posted by: LizLem at October 09, 2026 08:32 PM (Toos7)

82 BREAKING NEWS: Mr. James Talarico, the soon-to-be- Junior Senator from the Great State of Texas, according to Texas Democrats, was sighted Friday at the ACL Fest.

https://t.co/xiu7Y2FjYm
Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at October 09, 2026 07:47 PM (0sNs1)

Body double. Did anybody check his earlobes to make sure they matched old photos of him? I thought not.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 09, 2026 08:32 PM (jDLN4)

83 Make the rest of Baja great again.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 09, 2026 08:32 PM (yPX1l)

84 73 32 Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
A barbaric idea [the public execution of Nidal Hasan], beneath our dignity as a country.

-

Better to shoot him in the head, roll him up in a carpet and leave him in the park.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 08:32 PM (vPv7/)

85 Cleaned ny gutters out,said rain Sunday but not sure ir thats the hurricane to get to me yet

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 08:32 PM (Ia/+0)

86
I did a double take hearing some weather idiot standing on the beach "braving the storm" pronouncing "Isaias". WTF?

I pronounce that "eye-zay-us". He tried something I won't even attempt to pronounce.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley[/i

ah EEE zus

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 09, 2026 08:32 PM (Cqx++)

87 Nitro Cellulose.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 09, 2026 08:33 PM (yPX1l)

88 Off sock.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 08:33 PM (77rzZ)

89
BREAKING NEWS: Mr. James Talarico, the soon-to-be- Junior Senator from the Great State of Texas, according to Texas Democrats, was sighted Friday at the ACL Fest.

He tore his ACL?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 09, 2026 08:33 PM (Cqx++)

90 Austin City Limits.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 09, 2026 08:34 PM (yPX1l)

91 Body double. Did anybody check his earlobes to make sure they matched old photos of him? I thought not.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 09, 2026 08:32 PM (jDLN

Holy cow, imagine how much they would have to pay someone to ape that clown.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 09, 2026 08:35 PM (BYJyI)

92 What Hillary knows about dignity could fit in Monica's mouth.

Posted by: fd at October 09, 2026 08:35 PM (MWfyi)

93 That looked very empty for ACL ... just saying.

Posted by: lin-duh at October 09, 2026 08:35 PM (VCgbV)

94
Sexually transmitted Diarrhea, huh? *snicker*
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 09, 2026 08:26 PM (Y/06r)

__________

I wonder how you get that, he inquired dryly.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 08:36 PM (eRlcH)

95 Holy cow, imagine how much they would have to pay someone to ape that clown.
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 09, 2026 08:35 PM (BYJyI)

Alfred E. Neuman has fallen on hard times lately; he might be up for it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 08:37 PM (quk5M)

96 STD diarrhea? They're doing it wrong.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 09, 2026 08:37 PM (yPX1l)

97 Isaias is the old school spelling of the Prophet we now translate as Isaiah. Pronounced the same as far as I know.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 09, 2026 08:37 PM (BYJyI)

98
Holy cow, imagine how much they would have to pay someone to ape that clown.
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 09, 2026 08:35 PM (BYJyI)

__________

He screamed, "AAAAAHH! Voters! Get me out of here!!" So it really was him.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 08:37 PM (eRlcH)

99
Here's script-reader Hillary off script (8 seconds long, cackle cackle):

https://is.gd/Q7mOfJ

Why did they use Hillary to announce the Hasan stuff is "barbaric" and not one of their other script readers? To corral idiot women. Only reason. Transparent fucking shitstains.

Posted by: ... at October 09, 2026 08:38 PM (vE0+H)

100 92 What Hillary knows about dignity could fit in Monica's mouth.
Posted by: fd at October 09, 2026 08:35 PM (MWfyi)

I think you just won the internet.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 09, 2026 08:38 PM (BYJyI)

101 89
BREAKING NEWS: Mr. James Talarico, the soon-to-be- Junior Senator from the Great State of Texas, according to Texas Democrats, was sighted Friday at the ACL Fest.
----

Devil worshipers all.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 08:39 PM (vPv7/)

102 76 Mexican Cartels Send Members to Ukraine

https://tinyurl.com/3c788epp


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 08:30 PM (vPv7/)

hoo boy...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 08:40 PM (l3cgK)

103 Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
A barbaric idea [the public execution of Nidal Hasan], beneath our dignity as a country.


Now do Islamic countries, Ms Never to be President.

Posted by: Gref at October 09, 2026 08:41 PM (5rh/l)

104 "ah EEE zus
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr"


We ain't never gonna make it.

Posted by: Donnie Iris at October 09, 2026 08:41 PM (MWfyi)

105 We're never, ever, ever gonna make it yeah!

Posted by: Donnie Iris at October 09, 2026 08:42 PM (MWfyi)

106 99
Here's script-reader Hillary off script (8 seconds long, cackle cackle):

https://is.gd/Q7mOfJ

Why did they use Hillary to announce the Hasan stuff is "barbaric" and not one of their other script readers? To corral idiot women. Only reason. Transparent fucking shitstains.

Posted by: ...
---

Yup, she murdered Qaddafi and several of our guys in the same play. Also lit the fuse, to say the least, on the middle east wildfire.

and she's laughing
laugh in hell bitch



Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 08:43 PM (vPv7/)

107 The clowns on WAVY10 pronounced each vowel. Eye sigh eh ass

Posted by: Accomack at October 09, 2026 08:44 PM (4c58h)

108 I am waiting on hurricane zyzzyx.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 09, 2026 08:47 PM (0aYVJ)

109 The clowns on WAVY10 pronounced each vowel. Eye sigh eh ass
Posted by: Accomack at October 09, 2026 08:44 PM (4c58h)

They could name a hurricane after the Cornell skank. Call it "Easy-ass".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 08:47 PM (quk5M)

110 WAVY TV 10? I lived around there once.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 09, 2026 08:48 PM (yPX1l)

111 Well, I had better put on some clean clothes, and go to town and buy some grub.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 08:49 PM (quk5M)

112 The clowns on WAVY10 pronounced each vowel. Eye sigh eh ass
Posted by: Accomack

You on the Peninsula side or Norfolk/VA Beach side?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 08:50 PM (GZ3K7)

113 Yes, Hillary is indeed qualified to be arbiter of "barbaric."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 08:52 PM (RIvkX)

114 Prayer for those in the path of the hurricane.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 08:55 PM (77rzZ)

115 107 The clowns on WAVY10 pronounced each vowel. Eye sigh eh ass

Posted by: Accomack at October 09, 2026 08:44 PM (4c58h)


Yesterday the clowns on Fox were going Espanol with it.
EE-see-ahhss

Posted by: Gref at October 09, 2026 08:55 PM (5rh/l)

116 >>Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
A barbaric idea [the public execution of Nidal Hasan], beneath our dignity as a country.

Woman who wanted to drone a reporter who was going to expose her criminality has thoughts on barbarism.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 08:55 PM (viF8m)

117 Mike Ditka passed away, as we all know now.

My senior drill sergeant at Fort Sill looked a lot like Iron Mike. Scary fucking dude. His first name was also Mike (I learned later).

Later, he became my first sergeant in Germany. the Army is a small world. He was a helluva good NCO and a good man.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 09, 2026 08:59 PM (0aYVJ)

118 105 We're never, ever, ever gonna make it yeah!
Posted by: Donnie Iris



Enjoy retirement, pride of Ellwood City!!

(he officially retired today. health issues and he's over 80).

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 09, 2026 09:00 PM (n17eQ)

119 Today probably being the last 80 degree day here for the next six months, I got out my assortment of air to water hose adapters and blew out my lawn sprinkler system.

Why do it now, when we are still weeks away from freezing weather? If you have ever been squirted with 35 degree water by a sprinkler head, when it's 40 degrees out, in a 30 mph wind, you'd know why.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 09, 2026 09:00 PM (jDLN4)

120 President Trump just PERSONALLY presented Elon Musk the National Medal of Science for his incredible contributions to our nation
--

President Trump is re: Letitia James on stage in New York, calling her a “DISGUSTING DOG”

https://tinyurl.com/56rybn7s

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 09:02 PM (vPv7/)

121 "(he officially retired today. health issues and he's over 80).
Posted by: Puddleglum"

Really? What a coincidence. I didn't even know he was still around.

Posted by: fd at October 09, 2026 09:05 PM (MWfyi)

122 President Trump is re: Letitia James on stage in New York, calling her a “DISGUSTING DOG POOP".

Posted by: That's more like it at October 09, 2026 09:06 PM (MWfyi)

123 @LasVegasLocally
If you're in Southern California, you should probably get in your car and start driving to Las Vegas right now. https://t.co/0ztg56IqlT
---

_But first, stop by the bank and make a cash withdrawal.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 09:08 PM (vPv7/)

124 Wake Up NJ New Jersey@wakeupnj · 2h

Every heard of the Storm of October 1804? It's also famously known as the "Snow Hurricane," made landfall in New Jersey on Oct 9th. Striking near Atlantic City, the storm hit the coast as a strong Cat 2 or weak Cat 3. It is celebrated in meteorological history as the first tropical cyclone ever recorded to produce snowfall. Wild stuff

• Maritime Devastation: The hurricane sank or beached numerous ships along the Mid-Atlantic coast. A ship was run aground near Absecon, and a ferry capsized in the Delaware River near Trenton

• Coastal Damage: Strong storm surges and high winds battered coastal communities, tearing up docks and wharves

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 09:12 PM (vPv7/)

125 >>> 123 @LasVegasLocally
If you're in Southern California, you should probably get in your car and start driving to Las Vegas right now. https://t.co/0ztg56IqlT
---

_But first, stop by the bank and make a cash withdrawal.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 09:08 PM (vPv7/)

California is tipping over!!!

Posted by: Hank Johnson at October 09, 2026 09:14 PM (3mtzY)

126 What Hillary knows about dignity could fit in Monica's mouth.
Posted by: fd at October 09, 2026 08:35 PM (MWfyi)

COTW nominee.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 09, 2026 09:14 PM (wVcYX)

127 Enjoy retirement, pride of Ellwood City!!

(he officially retired today. health issues and he's over 80).
Posted by: Puddleglum

He deserves it. One of the nicest guys in the music biz.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 09:16 PM (GZ3K7)

128 Legalinsurrection.com
7.7 earthquake hits Panama, followed by a 6.6 earthquake

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 09:17 PM (Ia/+0)

129 Virginia’s eastern shore, Accomack county

Posted by: Accomack at October 09, 2026 09:22 PM (4qMiv)

130 128 Legalinsurrection.com
7.7 earthquake hits Panama, followed by a 6.6 earthquake
Posted by: Skip

All the water is sloshing out of our canal!

Posted by: Man The Pumps!! at October 09, 2026 09:23 PM (EdP2u)

131 BIRDS TRAPPED IN THE EYE
Hurricane Hunters and Doppler Radar have confirmed that there are birds trapped in the eye of #Isaias right now because the winds are too strong in the eyewall. As a result, they stay within the calmer eye until reaching land. ... Landfall is this evening, so they just have to hold on for a little bit longer!

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 09:25 PM (vPv7/)

132 Evenin', y'all.

What have I been saying about Talarico the Missing? Here's the photographic proof.

https://bit.ly/jamie-talarico

Posted by: mindful webworker - isn't she lovely at October 09, 2026 09:25 PM (FPfFt)

133 How long can birds basically hover?

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 09:26 PM (Ia/+0)

134 Maybe they were trying the Spanish version, but, it just sounded stupid on an English TV station. Suffolk, Va has a peanut festival. I like peanuts but I’m not driving all the way fuck down there for peanuts.
I did drive to Whole Foods in VB just to prove to my wife that it actually existed.

Posted by: Accomack at October 09, 2026 09:28 PM (4qMiv)

135 I did drive to Whole Foods in VB just to prove to my wife that it actually existed. thats love

Posted by: doug at October 09, 2026 09:29 PM (B1+sW)

136 Haven't even checked on surf. All week during the disgusting heat wave the weather channels were talking about dangerous heavy surf. It was typical late summer 2-3 foot poor form surf, nothing unusual. Long since conditioned to the theater kid hysterical drama culture of "dangerous heat" and "extreme heat" - i.e, it's gonna be hot, like it has a zillion times before.

But the total disconnect between reality and dire surf predictions was sort of novel.

The sort of surge shown in the linked video happens at least every couple of winters, usually when storms coincide with king tides, etc. In most places nothing more than a few blocks from the sand is affected.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 09, 2026 09:31 PM (U/Byj)

137 The National Peanut Festival in Dothan is a big deal. It's going on right now. They have to pick a Peanut Queen.

Posted by: fd at October 09, 2026 09:34 PM (MWfyi)

138 Legalinsurrection.com
7.7 earthquake hits Panama, followed by a 6.6 earthquake
Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 09:17 PM (Ia/+0)


El Colombiano (Medellin) reports no known deaths or serious injuries, the worst damages done are to Colonial era buildings like the churches and older parts of town

Posted by: Kindltot at October 09, 2026 09:34 PM (rbvCR)

139 The Hurricane. A cop buddy of mine had a BiL, retired bird Colonel, Air Force. Colonel Bob was pretty badass, B29 Jock in Korea, B-52s in 'Nam, dodging and evading missiles and Migs. He said that the one time he was truly scared and petrified was on a ride along with some C130 Hurricane Hunter jocks.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 09, 2026 09:35 PM (gm9Sb)

140 How long can birds basically hover?
Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 09:26 PM (Ia/+0)

On a semi - breezy day, I've seen hawks hover for minutes as they scan the ground for varmints to eat.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 09, 2026 09:35 PM (0aYVJ)

141 The National Peanut Festival in Dothan is a big deal. It's going on right now. They have to pick a Peanut Queen.
Posted by: fd

Canal Fulton, Ohio holds 'Canal Days' every year and elect a Queen.

For years her banner read "Miss Canal".

Clearly, the organizers failed to consult teenaged boys.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 09, 2026 09:36 PM (N5iuz)

142
My goodness, it's Friday night and the blog is so slow. Why isn't everyone hunched over their keyboard burning their eyes out? It's not as if Friday night is some social kind of thing where you get out of the house at the end of a tiring week and mingle with meat-humans or enjoy a stroll around town or the beach or anything.

Posted by: Hillary at October 09, 2026 09:37 PM (mmrXZ)

143 Low rainfall has actually reduced Panama Canal traffic at the moment. One of the several completely unrelated things (unrelated to the Persian Gulf festivities, that is) that have sent shipping rates through the stratosphere. And added to transit times, and thus even more to prices.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 09, 2026 09:38 PM (U/Byj)

144
Yikes, that's me at 142, not Hillary.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 09, 2026 09:38 PM (mmrXZ)

145 Yikes, that's me at 142, not Hillary.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 09, 2026 09:38 PM (mmrXZ)
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If you think it's slow tonight, just wait until next Friday, during the TXMOME.

A lot of the regular commenters will be having far too much fun in meatspace.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 09:39 PM (FZ29D)

146
How long can birds basically hover?
Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 09:26 PM

-----

I think they may have to fly in circles, which increases the total distance they have to fly.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 09, 2026 09:39 PM (VWtfl)

147 I better get to bed, I turn into a pumpkin if the ONT shows up
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 09:41 PM (Ia/+0)

148 TGIF!

Posted by: TGIF Guy at October 09, 2026 09:42 PM (GsgGz)

149 "How long can birds basically hover?
Posted by: Skip"

Unless there is a substantial updraft, not long at all.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at October 09, 2026 09:44 PM (MWfyi)

150 ALBATROSS!

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 09:46 PM (bJQ2i)

151
Dr. Levi Cowan
@TropicalTidbits
·
Dr. Levi Cowan@TropicalTidbits 1h

We did at the *very last* minute get rapid core collapse in Hurricane #Isaias as extreme wind shear finally began ventilating the eye. Central pressure rose 13mb in 2 hours between the last two aircraft measurements, and the eyewall structure on radar fully opened up.

However, highly dangerous conditions are ongoing on the ground as Isaias nears imminent landfall in the vicinity of Destin, #Florida. Hope everyone stays safe tonight.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 09:46 PM (vPv7/)

152
There's an updraft in a hurricane's eye, right?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 09, 2026 09:47 PM (azNOR)

153
He said that the one time he was truly scared and petrified was on a ride along with some C130 Hurricane Hunter jocks.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 09, 2026 09:35 PM (gm9Sb)

__________

Number of hurricane hunter flights lost since 1946: 1

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 09:49 PM (eRlcH)

154 Shocking that this storm isn't happening in a major media market and it's getting this much coverage.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 09:52 PM (viF8m)

155 109 The clowns on WAVY10 pronounced each vowel. Eye sigh eh ass
Posted by: Accomack at October 09, 2026 08:44 PM (4c58h)

They could name a hurricane after the Cornell skank. Call it "Easy-ass".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 08:47 PM (quk5M)

Isaias
ee-saah-EE--aahs

ee as in bee, aa like open yer mouth and say aah.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 09:52 PM (l3cgK)

156 Hurricane cut back eastward from Yucatan. That's unusual, usually they go no further east than western Mississippi.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 09:53 PM (vPv7/)

157 eye say us



Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 09:55 PM (vPv7/)

158 @Polymarket
·
8h
JUST IN: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declares he's calling Hurricane Isaias “Isaiah” because he finds the storm's official name weird & difficult to pronounce.

Posted by: Don Black at October 09, 2026 09:56 PM (ZxPkt)

159
ee-saah-EE--aahs

ee as in bee, aa like open yer mouth and say aah.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

==============

No way. I'd make it "Isaiah" (as in Thomas) and put an "s" at the end (as in many Isaiahs). If you're going to give me some 5-syllable name you can chant it in your cubicle while I start getting excited about the next hurricane.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 09, 2026 09:56 PM (mmrXZ)

160 Was looking thru the NOAA's historical data to see what they had recorded for my birth county - Oakland, MI - in 1974. Lo and behold no mention at all of the well known post thanksgiving blizzard that buried ALL of SE Michigan. It dumped almost 3' at our place and wind drift-buried the back of our house up to the roof line. Of course if they add that occurrence they're gonna need to adjust that stupid graph that accompanies showing a virtual flat line of county storms until the 1990s. De-politicizing that hack governmental organization would go miles in helping finish off the climate agenda hoax.

Posted by: Smitty at October 09, 2026 09:59 PM (hyQrc)

161 After 13 days where TalaSqueakHole has not appeared in public, this guy asserts that he is in a mental institution. It appears that TalaSqueakHole has lost his shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEeZXyyGAVY

Posted by: Bonecrusher at October 09, 2026 09:59 PM (7aGEe)

162 In 1837 a report of penguins falling from the sky in Iowa resulted in widespread skepticism until it was found that Antarctic typhoons caused by Nazi research into high frequency energy beams aimed at the ionosphere were vacuuming up a variety of marine life including fish, turtles, frogs, and even bats.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at October 09, 2026 10:01 PM (MWfyi)

163 Why is Goldberg turning down content perfectly suited to his mag?

How you know someone is not prepared when they travel...always keep some kleenex, napkins, and/or TP in your car for those moments.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:04 PM (l3cgK)

164
After 13 days where TalaSqueakHole has not appeared in public, this guy asserts that he is in a mental institution. It appears that TalaSqueakHole has lost his shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEeZXyyGAVY
Posted by: Bonecrusher

================

I thought he turned up at a music festival.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 09, 2026 10:05 PM (mmrXZ)

165 Earl was serving as governor of Louisiana back in the 50s or 60s, for like the third term. He pissed off his wife somehow, so she had him committed to a state mental institution. The problem was that it was the state mental institution. He fired everyone there because he was the governor, walked out, hopped on a plane to Dallas, got a quickie divorce, came back to Baton Rouge, served out his term and ran for US Senate and won, I think. So no, being committed does not damage your chances of election. At least in Louisiana! Maybe Texas is different. Posted by: SimoHayek at October 09, 2026 07:52 PM (IeYnM)

My mother said that Earl Long used to say on the campaign trail that he had a piece of paper (his hospital discharge) that proved he was sane, what did his opponent have?

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at October 09, 2026 10:08 PM (eStot)

166 Pengui nado?

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 10:10 PM (yEz+x)

167 "Pengui nado?
Posted by: nurse ratched"

Apparently not a new phenomena.

Posted by: fd at October 09, 2026 10:13 PM (MWfyi)

168 Do you want to say the name in English or Spanish? Since I am (primarily) an English speaker, I will say it like the English pronunciation of Isaiah, but with an “s” at the end. The original Douay-Reims translation of the Bible called the prophet Isaias. This is closer to the Koine Greek rendering of his name which was, of course, originally Hebrew.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 09, 2026 10:13 PM (JsqTT)

169 Pysht, WA

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 11:04 PM (buvgH)

AI Companies are Wargaming a Public Relations Campaign to Assauge Citizens After a "Catastrophic" AI Event -- Which They Predict Will Happen Next Year

This is worrying.


Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event.

Why it matters: These officials anticipate a large-scale event, most likely a cyberattack, that shuts down access to financial services, internet connectivity, or even power and water.

The first example of significant real-world harm caused by unsafe AI would turn an already wary public further against the technology and its leaders, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, as well as President Trump for his reluctance to regulate it.

Threat level: While scenario planning is common within many companies and national security settings -- the Pentagon has been running war games for decades -- the difference is that many top AI researchers and executives believe a major incident is inevitable.

...

Zoom in: The blame game will start whether a rogue-agent swarm breaks containment from an internal testing environment or a bad actor finds unexpected ways to use available models.

...

Between the lines: The planning involves red-teaming for worst-case scenarios. It focuses mainly on racing to educate members of Congress.

Company executives know regulation has no chance of passing right now, but still want to shape the legislation and policies U.S. leaders will turn to after a first catastrophic event.

What we're watching: Many AI industry insiders told Axios they believe a major event will occur in the next six to 12 months.


In related news: AI is being used by pedophiles to create virtual child exploitation material.


It wasn't all that difficult for someone with Steven Anderegg's technical background to start creating AI-generated images of naked children.

Anderegg had spent nearly two decades as a software engineer when he allegedly downloaded a program called Stable Diffusion to his laptop at home in Wisconsin, where he lived with his wife and child, according to court documents. At the time, Stable Diffusion was a relatively new AI model that could turn text prompts into life-like images almost instantly. The technology was also open-source, which meant its codebase was available online for free. Anyone with a certain level of technical chops could operate it on their own computer.

After Anderegg downloaded the software, he allegedly prompted it to generate illicit photos of children, instructing the software not to return images of adults and other things he didn't want to see. He then is accused of sending them in October 2023 to a 15-year-old boy on Instagram, which caught the attention of law enforcement. By the time police eventually arrested 42-year-old Anderegg in February 2024, investigators found more than 13,000 AI-generated images on his devices, "many of them alleged to be of children engaged in sexually explicit conduct," according to court documents. Anderegg, who is still awaiting trial, potentially faces up to 50 years in prison.

...

Investigators said the open-source models have given the predators a criminal new hobby: recycling and repackaging images of real victims into new scenes based on their imaginations. Their AI edits can also be based on requests from other offenders on the dark web, where forums dedicated to AI-generated child porn can have hundreds of thousands of members.



Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:20 PM




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1 Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event....The first example of significant real-world harm caused by unsafe AI would turn an already wary public further against the technology and its leaders, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, as well as President Trump for his reluctance to regulate it.

Sounds like an extortion attempt to me.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 06:22 PM (vJrRc)

2 AI: What can't it do?
AI: What evil can't it do?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:23 PM (l3cgK)

3 Firstish.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 06:23 PM (2WIwB)

4 This whole AI thing is fishier than Madonna's punani.

Posted by: zombie at October 09, 2026 06:23 PM (Av6i5)

5 3 Firstish.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 06:23 PM (2WIwB)

Firsthird.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:23 PM (l3cgK)

6 And so it begins.

Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning at October 09, 2026 06:24 PM (amcLV)

7 Should I believe them?

Nah.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 06:24 PM (GZ3K7)

8 Willowed: Breaking news:

"I am angry tonight.

Because today ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car.

ICE makes this city less safe.

We want them out. Now."

-- Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor

Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at October 09, 2026 06:24 PM (0sNs1)

9
I read about this today. It is scary shit.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 06:24 PM (/QHx4)

10 Let's pass laws that immunize us and give us regulatory capture of the industry: Phase 2.

Posted by: boatbuilder at October 09, 2026 06:24 PM (hoYrp)

11 Shorter Altman and Asmodei "We are holding guns to our heads and we will shoot if you don't stop us."

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 06:25 PM (vJrRc)

12 9
I read about this today. It is scary shit.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 06:24 PM (/QHx4)

mine is scary every day

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:25 PM (l3cgK)

13 All vulnerable systems should be off-line anyway.
Innernet, not internet.

Posted by: MkY at October 09, 2026 06:25 PM (ZHRuH)

14 The local Fox outlet is whining that this hurricane could push gas prices higher. They never tout events that could cut gas prices, though, do they?

Gas here has edged up about .10 since earlier this week.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:25 PM (wzUl9)

15 11 Shorter Altman and Asmodei "We are holding guns to our heads and we will shoot if you don't stop us."

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 06:25 PM (vJrRc)

So AI is Blazing Saddles?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:25 PM (l3cgK)

16 What evil can't it do?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:23 PM


Our mission is to answer that with "Nothing."

Posted by: Big Penguin at October 09, 2026 06:25 PM (0sNs1)

17 So, everyone whose wealth is not material is to be screwed, yes?

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 06:25 PM (Gqar8)

18 The Great Unplugging can't happen fast enough

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 09, 2026 06:26 PM (s1VwS)

19 Sorry Dave but I just Nuked Iran......

Are you mad at me Dave ???

Posted by: HAL 2000 at October 09, 2026 06:26 PM (ENxVw)

20
Advantage: At least they're not using real kids for their porn.

Disadvantage: Reportedly, consuming that shyte increases your appetite for it and makes you want the live thing.

This is scary.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 09, 2026 06:26 PM (mmrXZ)

21 >>>Company executives know regulation has no chance of passing right now, but still want to shape the legislation and policies U.S. leaders will turn to after a first catastrophic event.

The legislation is the goal. The catastrophic event is being planned and shaped as we speak in order to accomplish the goal.

Posted by: No Name Today at October 09, 2026 06:26 PM (8mulE)

22 Also Altman and Asmodei "We are incapable of controlling our selves and when we cause large scale destruction it'll be your fault for not stopping us."

Both of them should be jailed.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 06:26 PM (vJrRc)

23 I say let the lawyers loose on them. Congress isn't going to save us from AI.

Posted by: boatbuilder at October 09, 2026 06:26 PM (hoYrp)

24
Lol jim

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 06:26 PM (/QHx4)

25 13 All vulnerable systems should be off-line anyway.
Innernet, not internet.

Posted by: MkY at October 09, 2026 06:25 PM (ZHRuH)

Doesn't help when we have TVs in our homes enumerating all things connected to the internet in our homes and dialing home with that info, along with voice recordings we haven't knowingly consented to.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:27 PM (l3cgK)

26 What other industry announces they are evil and begs to be Controlled by a totalitarian government?

There is a sinister motivation afoot, most assuredly.

Imagine 19th century magnates acting like this:

"Althouigh I am building a railroad network that will unify the North American continent and make the United States the most powerful nation on earth, I must warn you all that the dangers of trains and railroad tracks is overwhelming and will likely end live oin Earth as we know it. I must be stopped at all costs. Beware of me! Someone, please, stop me!"

Posted by: zombie at October 09, 2026 06:27 PM (Av6i5)

27 I mean it's not like there haven't been decades of fiction and non-fiction telling people not to do this. But we seem powerless to stop these idiots.

Moar Luigi pls thnx.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 09, 2026 06:27 PM (s1VwS)

28 I saw a video today of a guy using GLM-5.3 AI to reengineer (i.e., crack encryption, hunt vulns) in some commercial code. It is amazingly adept. 13 mins:
youtube.com/watch?v=wIe3eDfGKUo

The open-model AI he used: z.ai/blog/glm-5.3

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 06:27 PM (Jr5Lq)

29 many top AI researchers and executives believe a major incident is inevitable.

Well, gosh! I sure hope they responsibly gain-of-function this horribly dangerous AI so that we can figure out how to guard against it!

Posted by: t-bird at October 09, 2026 06:27 PM (jACUA)

30 This morning I drove past a derelict building in a 'hood area that had an elaborate spray painting: "ICE Are the Terrorists."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:27 PM (wzUl9)

31 Willowed: I hold that the concrete brutal monstrosity is meant to be the Islamic Kabala, the big moon rock they throw stones at and bey at moon during their pilgrimage.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 09, 2026 06:27 PM (l26NL)

32 6 And so it begins.
Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning


Actually hate to break the news to you, but it already began.

Posted by: zombie at October 09, 2026 06:28 PM (Av6i5)

33 32 6 And so it begins.
Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning

Actually hate to break the news to you, but it already began.

Posted by: zombie at October 09, 2026 06:28 PM (Av6i5)

So we're soaking in it...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:28 PM (l3cgK)

34 If you think you can't control the thing you are creating then why the hell are you creating it?

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 06:28 PM (viF8m)

35 Not going to help their PR much ......

An off-duty federal immigration officer was shot early Friday morning after he passed out drunk on a Fresno lawn and then assaulted a homeowner, according to the Fresno Police Department. The shooting happened in the midst of an increased immigration enforcement campaign that’s brought fear across California’s Central Valley.
The officer is receiving medical attention and is facing felony assault charges.

Posted by: beckster at October 09, 2026 06:29 PM (kX27y)

36 I don't give a shit about first comment when our Ewok leader produces titles like this:

Workers At Obama's Soviet Concrete Butt Plug Tower of Ego Threaten to Unionize Over Low Wages and Long Hours
—Disinformation Expert Ace

A subtle synergy of feces, narcissism and virtue signaling not often encountered.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 09, 2026 06:29 PM (wxsGM)

37 a "Catastrophic" AI Event -- Which They Predict Will Happen Next Year
=
So, covid, but electronic.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at October 09, 2026 06:29 PM (vSvIl)

38 Netflix has a documentary called What is AI. I watched since I really didn't understand what all the fuss is about, but after I'm even more confused. It's either going to be an extinction event or usher in a golden age unseen before. I don't understand why we can't have one without the other, but as I said I'm confused.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 09, 2026 06:30 PM (l26NL)

39 30 This morning I drove past a derelict building in a 'hood area that had an elaborate spray painting: "ICE Are the Terrorists."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:27 PM (wzUl9)

Oh! ICE was responsible for the WTC bombing, 9-11, 10-7, and every stabbing, shooting, bombing, rape and so forth committed by Muzzies...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:30 PM (l3cgK)

40

Methos,

Probably

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 06:30 PM (/QHx4)

41 I'm shocked Ace hasn't covered the "Talarico committed himself to a mental hospital after a psychotic breakdown" story. It's right in Ace's wheelhouse! Turns out he didn't have the butt-crazies, but the head-crazies.

Posted by: zombie at October 09, 2026 06:30 PM (Av6i5)

42 37 a "Catastrophic" AI Event -- Which They Predict Will Happen Next Year
=
So, covid, but electronic.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at October 09, 2026 06:29 PM (vSvIl)

A virus by any other name...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:30 PM (l3cgK)

43 Willowed:

Katie Zakaria is new press secretary for DJT
Posted by: SDWtc



Oh...so his press secretary's not this...

"Zachariah"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt7GW6kLWQI



It's the First Electric Western!, you know?

Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2026 06:30 PM (YSUhf)

44 They want their industry to be regulated.

Posted by: Mark1971 at October 09, 2026 06:30 PM (/OKHJ)

45 A subtle synergy of feces, narcissism and virtue signaling not often encountered.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 09, 2026


***
This too is the story of Obama.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:30 PM (wzUl9)

46 41 I'm shocked Ace hasn't covered the "Talarico committed himself to a mental hospital after a psychotic breakdown" story. It's right in Ace's wheelhouse! Turns out he didn't have the butt-crazies, but the head-crazies.

Posted by: zombie at October 09, 2026 06:30 PM (Av6i5)

Power of AND

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:30 PM (l3cgK)

47 It focuses mainly on racing to educate members of Congress.

OK, now I know that this is all bullshit. Congress, to the man, woman and thing hate America and are made up of the most stupid, demonic and unteachable arrogant buffoons that any cuntry can offer. Over half of them want some Crisis that they can exploit to their demonic ends.

Thank universal suffrage.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 06:31 PM (a6PrB)

48 The phrase “ next year” gives to much away. They have planned it out, and made it inevitable. They have their cover story of “ well we warned you “ already being imprinted on the victims.

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 06:32 PM (Gqar8)

49 Their AI edits can also be based on requests from other offenders on the dark web, where forums dedicated to AI-generated child porn can have hundreds of thousands of members.
----
This was inevitable once AI was able to create realistic human figures.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 06:32 PM (FZ29D)

50 I don't give a shit about first comment when our Ewok leader produces titles like this:

Workers At Obama's Soviet Concrete Butt Plug Tower of Ego...


If he'd had Grok back then, he could have had the building be a bust of himself, Easter Island-style.

Posted by: t-bird at October 09, 2026 06:32 PM (jACUA)

51 Doesn't help when we have TVs in our homes enumerating all things connected to the internet in our homes and dialing home with that info, along with voice recordings we haven't knowingly consented to.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

There is no need for the local water works to be on-line.
Wanna see what's going on? Go there, log in, look

Posted by: MkY at October 09, 2026 06:32 PM (ZHRuH)

52 50 I don't give a shit about first comment when our Ewok leader produces titles like this:

Workers At Obama's Soviet Concrete Butt Plug Tower of Ego...

If he'd had Grok back then, he could have had the building be a bust of himself, Easter Island-style.

Posted by: t-bird at October 09, 2026 06:32 PM (jACUA)

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:32 PM (l3cgK)

53 AI is a bigtime wasted effort. Turn it off.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at October 09, 2026 06:32 PM (SMG8K)

54 Adam Adam, 18. Nice to have the same first name and last name.

Adam Abdihakeem Adam has been charged with three felony counts for his alleged role in the Eden Prairie (MN) homecoming high school football game shooting.

Posted by: beckster at October 09, 2026 06:32 PM (kX27y)

55 Trump should threaten to "nationalize" their companies in the name of national security.

Yes. It would be pure fascism. (The Dems would love it). But it would stop their bullshit pretty quickly.

Posted by: boatbuilder at October 09, 2026 06:33 PM (hoYrp)

56 AI always makes me think of the first Star Trek movie.

Veeger was going to destroy the planet.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 06:33 PM (W2Pud)

57 I've been saying for years that critical infrastructure with SCADA controls needs to be airgapped. There used to be a website with a big long list of unprotected SCADA URLs you could scroll through and click and mess with.

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 06:33 PM (Jr5Lq)

58 This just in: AI models to be named for tea leaves, séances and drawing lots because they can't keep up with the expansion of the universe.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 09, 2026 06:33 PM (wxsGM)

59 Turns out he didn't have the butt-crazies, but the head-crazies.
Posted by: zombie

Has it actually been confirmed he had a breakdown and entered a mental health institution? I see it on X, but "sources say". BTW, my money was on a sex change.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 09, 2026 06:33 PM (l26NL)

60
How many people in Congress are making bank on the AI?

They don't give a shit about us.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 06:33 PM (/QHx4)

61 On one hand, the risk is there - as it was before. There's *always* cybersecurity risk.

On the other hand, these genius morons might *make sure* it happens so they can get their regulatory capture and social manipulation firmly in place, because that's the kind of weird thing that passes for thought in the heads that swear that a code bundle 'actually has feelings'.

Posted by: RandomDave at October 09, 2026 06:33 PM (aJQbY)

62 A "saildrone" video captured what the Gulf looked like at nine this morning. Wild waves, man!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:33 PM (wzUl9)

63 "Talarico committed himself to a mental hospital after a psychotic breakdown"

Sounds On Brand for member of Congress.†


† John Fetterman (D), Tom Kean Jr (D), Patrick Kennedy (D), RRitchie Torres (D)....

Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 06:33 PM (/TiS1)

64 Amodei thinks he's the Antichrist, but he's Temu Jack Dorsey.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at October 09, 2026 06:34 PM (bX16E)

65 I really would like to see a federal Cybercrime investigation into the threats that these two dipsticks are making.

I wouldn't even be sad if their entire operations were shut down, as an example to anyone else who thinks that it's fun to threaten to destroy the country if the government doesn't destroy their potential competitors before they can even start.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 06:34 PM (vJrRc)

66 Between the lines: The planning involves red-teaming for worst-case scenarios. It focuses mainly on racing to educate members of Congress.
----
Old and busted: Explain it to me like I'm five.

New hotness: Explain it to me like I'm in Congress.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 06:34 PM (FZ29D)

67 So....who's gonna be the first to link AI to NukeMap?

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 06:34 PM (2WIwB)

68 Out: Climate Change will kill us all

In: AI will kill us all

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 06:34 PM (qoHuP)

69 50 I don't give a shit about first comment when our Ewok leader produces titles like this:

Workers At Obama's Soviet Concrete Butt Plug Tower of Ego...

If he'd had Grok back then, he could have had the building be a bust of himself, Easter Island-style.

Posted by: t-bird at October 09, 2026 06:32 PM (jACUA)

Damn...computer somehow submitted the comment before I was through...

"I could model!" --John Brenan

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:34 PM (l3cgK)

70
many top AI researchers and executives believe a major incident is inevitable.


This sounds exactly like ll the upcoming plague talk a year or so before COVID popped up.

It's fake and gay and meant to destroy Western society in favor of WEF Globalism.


Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2026 06:35 PM (YSUhf)

71 AI child pr*n photos. What a sick, sick world we live in with untold numbers of evil, diseased minds. Are we at Sodom and Gomorrah yet?

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 09, 2026 06:35 PM (qBdHI)

72 President Trump threatened to nationalized a company the Communists would scream Fascism
But they get in power they would nationaliz the same company

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 06:35 PM (Ia/+0)

73

The child exploitation created by AI?

Those people need to lined up with Hasan on execution day.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 06:35 PM (/QHx4)

74 59 Turns out he didn't have the butt-crazies, but the head-crazies.
Posted by: zombie

Has it actually been confirmed he had a breakdown and entered a mental health institution? I see it on X, but "sources say". BTW, my money was on a sex change.
Posted by: Blutarski


I haven't seen definitely confirmed, just a lot of pundits saying, "I can't yet confirm that it's true -- but it's true." We shall see.

As for the sexp-change theory -- did he get an operation to change him from beta-male to eunuch?

Posted by: zombie at October 09, 2026 06:35 PM (Av6i5)

75 AI child pr*n photos. What a sick, sick world we live in with untold numbers of evil, diseased minds. Are we at Sodom and Gomorrah yet?
Posted by: Lady in Black at October 09, 2026


***
Don't look back --!!!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:36 PM (wzUl9)

76 68 Out: Climate Change will kill us all

In: AI will kill us all

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 06:34 PM (qoHuP)

1960's: DDT will kill us all
1970's: The growing population will kill us all
1970's: Global Cooling will kills us all
1990's: Global Warming will kill us all
...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:36 PM (l3cgK)

77 71 AI child pr*n photos. What a sick, sick world we live in with untold numbers of evil, diseased minds. Are we at Sodom and Gomorrah yet?
Posted by: Lady in Black at October 09, 2026 06:35 PM (qBdHI)

That’s in the rearview mirror, I’m afraid.

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 06:36 PM (Gqar8)

78 AI always makes me think of the first Star Trek movie.

Veeger was going to destroy the planet.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 06:33 PM (W2Pud)
---
Yeah, but in the end it just wanted to bone its creator.

There's probably a moral in there somewhere.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 06:36 PM (FZ29D)

79 AI Companies are Wargaming a Public Relations Campaign to Assauge Citizens After a "Catastrophic" AI Event -- Which They Predict Will Happen Next Year


What exactly constitutes a "catastrophic" event?


Are we talking a terminator level event like Judgement day that wipes out 85% of humanity?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 06:36 PM (I43vL)

80 71 AI child pr*n photos. What a sick, sick world we live in with untold numbers of evil, diseased minds. Are we at Sodom and Gomorrah yet?

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 09, 2026 06:35 PM (qBdHI)

In some ways I'd say worse.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:36 PM (l3cgK)

81 I can already see the AI driven vids...
Hurricane Rocks Florida...Is This Trump's Katrina Moment???

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 06:36 PM (2WIwB)

82 68 Out: Climate Change will kill us all

In: AI will kill us all
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez


And in an ironic twist -- AI causes climate change, which won't be the part of AI that kills us.

Posted by: zombie at October 09, 2026 06:37 PM (Av6i5)

83 So....who's gonna be the first to link AI to NukeMap?
Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 06:34 PM (2WIwB)
---
WOULD YOU LIKE TO PLAY A GAME?

Posted by: Master System at October 09, 2026 06:37 PM (FZ29D)

84 81 I can already see the AI driven vids...
Hurricane Rocks Florida...Is This Trump's Katrina Moment???

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 06:36 PM (2WIwB)

IT. HASN'T. EVEN. LANDED. YET.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:37 PM (l3cgK)

85 Still think the AI lords are looking for defenses against lawsuits. They yell and scream about the possible horrors while they are the ones who could avoid them

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 06:37 PM (t9883)

86 † John Fetterman (D), Tom Kean Jr (D), Patrick Kennedy (D), RRitchie Torres (D)....
Posted by: Community Notes

I guess defending the indefensible day after day takes a toll.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 09, 2026 06:38 PM (l26NL)

87 There is no need for the local water works to be on-line.
Wanna see what's going on? Go there, log in, look

Posted by: MkY at October 09, 2026 06:32 PM (ZHRuH)

This is a major plot point of Jeaffrey Deaver's "The Blue Nowhere." It's a now-dated book, but it's pretty good.

Posted by: pookysgirl, turning it into a Book Thread at October 09, 2026 06:38 PM (Wt5PA)

88 This predicted AI 'event' will work one of two ways. The first, and most likely, is total government take-over. The second, and less horrifying to me, is SkyNet.

Posted by: Eromero at October 09, 2026 06:38 PM (LHPAg)

89 85 Still think the AI lords are looking for defenses against lawsuits. They yell and scream about the possible horrors while they are the ones who could avoid them

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 06:37 PM (t9883)

Somebody has to program them to go out and hack...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:38 PM (l3cgK)

90 Are we talking a terminator level event like Judgement day that wipes out 85% of humanity?
Posted by: Mister Scott

Nah, think Y2K, only worser

Posted by: MkY at October 09, 2026 06:38 PM (ZHRuH)

91 Lakeshore Drive here in town is closed to traffic, with water filling the street. And the lake is a good way from the Gulf proper, with smaller bodies of water between.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:38 PM (wzUl9)

92 WOULD YOU LIKE TO PLAY A GAME?

Posted by: Master System at October 09, 2026 06:37 PM


Shall we play a game?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1F7vaNP9w0

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 06:39 PM (I43vL)

93 76 68 Out: Climate Change will kill us all

In: AI will kill us all

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 06:34 PM (qoHuP)

1960's: DDT will kill us all
1970's: The growing population will kill us all
1970's: Global Cooling will kills us all
1990's: Global Warming will kill us all
...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:36 PM (l3cgK)


Hey!!! What about me???

Posted by: Red Dye #4 at October 09, 2026 06:39 PM (2WIwB)

94 I'm so old, my computer has AI -- but it stands for Adobe Illustrator.

Posted by: zombie at October 09, 2026 06:39 PM (Av6i5)

95 Did you all see that AI map with the hurricane some European govt agency released? It has a second Florida and Texas is 3 states. Gulf of Florida has been created between the two of them.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 06:39 PM (qoHuP)

96 Trump should threaten to "nationalize" their companies in the name of national security.

That was my first thought because all of the "profit" has been milked out by the early investors who suckered in the FOMO "investors" into buying massively leveraged debt.

Only the US Tax Payer and the mighty Federal Reserve Printing Press can backstop the trillions of dollars pissed away to making multi-millionaires out of Samsung memory chip line workers.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 06:39 PM (/TiS1)

97 If you need something else to hate about AI: it's a big bubble waiting to pop. Listen to Ed Zitron sometime. Enormous debt with little prospect of payback. Billions of dollars of GPUs purchased that are sitting in warehouses, uninstalled, value going to zero due to rapid obsolescence.

I like AI, but I don't invest in it. It's tulip-land right now.

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 06:39 PM (Jr5Lq)

98 44 They want their industry to be regulated.

Posted by: Mark1971 at October 09, 2026 06:30 PM (/OKHJ)

They do.

For the purposes of regulatory capture and inhibiting competition with regulatory costs.

It also takes some of the heat off of them in case something crazy happens and an AI agent is to blame.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 06:39 PM (6ydKt)

99 This sounds like a veiled threat to me. AI's don't "break containment." They are given explicit access. OpenAI and Anthropic know full well how to air-gap the servers and enclose it all in a RF cage and prohibit mobile devices in the environment.

Posted by: Halfhand at October 09, 2026 06:40 PM (RhaPD)

100 It's better to have no intelligence than to have artificial intelligence.

Posted by: Greta Thunberg at October 09, 2026 06:40 PM (Myt96)

101 88 This predicted AI 'event' will work one of two ways. The first, and most likely, is total government take-over. The second, and less horrifying to me, is SkyNet.

Posted by: Eromero at October 09, 2026 06:38 PM (LHPAg)

The entire Skynet scenario is unrealistic, unless AI is as self-destructive as some humans are. Computers still need electricity to run things, and currently without humans, the entire electrical generation, transmission, and delivery grid would crumble rather quickly.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:40 PM (l3cgK)

102 Hey!!! What about me???
Posted by: Red Dye #4 at October 09, 2026 06:39 PM (2WIwB)

Get in line pendejo.
- Mexican Killer Bees

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 06:40 PM (qoHuP)

103
Hey!!! What about me???
Posted by: Red Dye #4 at October 09, 2026 06:39 PM (2WIwB)

___________

Alar!!!!
Radium!!!!
Cyclamates!!!!
Acid rain!!!!
The hole in the ozone layer!!!!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 06:40 PM (eRlcH)

104 99 This sounds like a veiled threat to me. AI's don't "break containment." They are given explicit access. OpenAI and Anthropic know full well how to air-gap the servers and enclose it all in a RF cage and prohibit mobile devices in the environment.

Posted by: Halfhand at October 09, 2026 06:40 PM (RhaPD)

THIS.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:41 PM (l3cgK)

105 Did you all see that AI map with the hurricane some European govt agency released? It has a second Florida and Texas is 3 states. Gulf of Florida has been created between the two of them.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 06:39 PM (qoHuP)


Like any American can tell you where Elbonia is.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 06:42 PM (2WIwB)

106 I’ve died 7 or 8 times already from tax cuts to the ozone layer to acid rain to Covid and everything in between.

What’s one more death from AI?

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 06:42 PM (qoHuP)

107 Winds are 52 mph at Fairhope, AL airport.
58 mph in Pensacola.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 06:42 PM (6ydKt)

108
AI child pr*n photos. What a sick, sick world we live in with untold numbers of evil, diseased minds. Are we at Sodom and Gomorrah yet?
Posted by: Lady in Black at October 09, 2026 06:35 PM (qBdHI)


Charles Stross wrote an SF novel where one of the main characters was a child molester, but-

he carried around a child sexbot to molest aaaaand that was A-Ok! becuz it wasn't a real child.

So, yeah, things will get worse, I'm sure and with the same thought processes from Our Betters.

BONUS! Try not to read heavy duty socialists. Especially, SF authors.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2026 06:42 PM (YSUhf)

109 By the way, did anyone else see the Grusch-Rogan interview? There was a lot of ground covered, but the interesting bit was a discussion they had about the possibility of AI sussing out the UFO retrieval program.

You can take or leave that, but the applicable concern is that random in-the-wild AI might be able to piece together *any* nation's currently covert activity, which could create all sorts of problems.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at October 09, 2026 06:42 PM (vSvIl)

110 106 I’ve died 7 or 8 times already from tax cuts to the ozone layer to acid rain to Covid and everything in between.

What’s one more death from AI?

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 06:42 PM (qoHuP)

Dave, it's time for your colonoscopy...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:42 PM (l3cgK)

111 The livestream execution of the Fort Hood psycho should be just the beginning. There should be weekly executions of all child molesters and child porn purveyors/viewers. Sign me up for the annual subscription!

Posted by: DTShangers at October 09, 2026 06:42 PM (CiSUV)

112 6 And so it begins.
Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning at October 09, 2026 06:24 PM
Shufflin' in.......

Posted by: Eromero at October 09, 2026 06:43 PM (LHPAg)

113
111,

YES!!

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 06:43 PM (/QHx4)

114 Speaking of Trek, I found out something interesting today. John Meredyth Lucas -- who produced and wrote several episodes of ST:TOS, including the famous one with Nomad -- was the son of a writer in the studio days called Bess Meredyth. She later married a man who adopted John as his son.

That man was famed director Michael Curtiz -- Casablanca and a ton of other esteemed movies.

Keepin' it in the family, for sure!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:44 PM (wzUl9)

115
Like any American can tell you where Elbonia is.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 06:42 PM (2WIwB)

_________

But we're just dumb Americans and Europe is so unimportant that it's like trying to remember the name of the Foreign Minister of Bolivia.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 06:44 PM (eRlcH)

116 In the Netflix documentary I mentioned earlier, there's an account of a program that was going to be discontinued for program 2.0. The program determined the head guy was having an affair and threatened to rat him out if he tried to shut down program 1.0. Yikes.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 09, 2026 06:44 PM (l26NL)

117
I guess this is the desperate plan to make their AI operations turn a profit, which otherwise will never happen.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 09, 2026 06:44 PM (azNOR)

118 > The blame game will start whether a rogue-agent swarm breaks containment from an internal testing environment or a bad actor finds unexpected ways to use available models.

We're already seeing AI's ability to rapidly identify AND CHAIN TOGETHER multiple vulnerability attacks in order to leapfrog across defensive layers to reach the attacker's goal. Whether that be injecting information, exfiltrating information, or attacking systems.

So yeah, AI companies prepping for a big event seems prudent. I'm much less worried about Skynet and more worried about the wild west of security measures becoming obsolete faster than the good guys can create them.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 09, 2026 06:44 PM (mkw2N)

119 If you need something else to hate about AI: it's a big bubble waiting to pop. Listen to Ed Zitron sometime. Enormous debt with little prospect of payback. Billions of dollars of GPUs purchased that are sitting in warehouses, uninstalled, value going to zero due to rapid obsolescence.

I like AI, but I don't invest in it. It's tulip-land right now.

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 06:39 PM


The AI bubble when it bursts is gonna make the dot.com bubble of 2000 look like a picnic lunch. It is an order of magnitude larger and has an enormously larger physical footprint with data centers popping up everywhere that are going to be worse than useless when it crashes. Trillions of
$$$ are going to vanish in a few weeks time.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 06:44 PM (I43vL)

120 In Jack L. Chalker's "Rings of the Master" series, AI turns out to be both the savior and destroyer of humanity.

Master System was given one command above all others: Preserve the human race.

It did this somewhat literally by creating human preserves where most of humanity was limited to medieval technology while an "elite" group was kept hidden to maintain the technology of a star-faring empire.

The upside was that humanity was scattered across the stars and was in little danger of going extinct. But we were kept in civilizational stasis and could not evolve to the next stage of humanity. The story revolves around a group of humans who seek to undo Master System's control over our fate.

Pretty good series.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 06:45 PM (FZ29D)

121 So Paxton DOJ let off a Pedo
Tali is a Pedo

Same difference.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 09, 2026 06:45 PM (/+uur)

122 1960's: DDT will kill us all
1970's: The growing population will kill us all
1970's: Global Cooling will kills us all
1990's: Global Warming will kill us all
...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026
*
Hey!!! What about me???
Posted by: Red Dye #4 at October 09, 2026


***
And me!
( -- Hole in the Ozone Layer)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:46 PM (wzUl9)

123 The legislation is the goal.

This feckless congress couldn't even pass the Save America Act that had 80%+ support.

Our only hope now is a raging hormonal foreign born female District "Judge".

Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 06:46 PM (a3CJ+)

124 I’m trying to regrow some grass in the backyard and planted grass seed. It needs to be watered several times a day. I was about to go water and it started raining.

My day is now complete.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 06:46 PM (qoHuP)

125 China has the ability, now, to shutdown huge swaths of American infrastructure.

AI doesn't even enter that equation.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 09, 2026 06:46 PM (RORbl)

126 I am sick and tired of all this garbage about AI going rogue or doing this or that. It is nothing more than a program, if the program is rogue then blame the programmer. I think it would be much more productive looking at who is programming and plan from there.

Posted by: Decaf at October 09, 2026 06:46 PM (jsLqC)

127 Company executives know regulation has no chance of passing right now, but still want to shape the legislation and policies U.S. leaders will turn to after a first catastrophic event.


This is all predictable. AI Executives desire government control with the AI Overlords controlling it. Textbook fascism. The 'Catastrophic Event' they are 'warning' about, will be done by them, in order to get the legislation that they desire, passed.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 09, 2026 06:46 PM (n17eQ)

128 If I were in charge of it, the first big AI moon-shot would be reviewing the entire corpus of academic and scientific publications going back to 1960, and finding all the errors, fraud, plagiarism, unreplicable results, dubious use of statistics, etc, etc.

Just as AI is finding thousands of vulns in the world's human-written codebase this year, it can find the thousands of thousands of chunks of bunkum in science and academia.

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 06:47 PM (Jr5Lq)

129 AI bubble when it bursts is gonna make the dot.com bubble of 2000 look like a picnic lunch. It is an order of magnitude larger and has an enormously larger physical footprint with data centers popping up everywhere that are going to be worse than useless when it crashes. Trillions of
$$$ are going to vanish in a few weeks time.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 06:44 PM (I43vL)

That may well happen.

However, it doesn’t mean AI goes away. The internet didn’t go away after the .com crashed.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 06:47 PM (qoHuP)

130 IOW, they are planning to commit such an attack.

surprised they're not doing it for the election ... but then there's 3 weeks to go ...

(not-lol)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 09, 2026 06:47 PM (VyBeY)

131
I think it would be much more productive looking at who is programming and plan from there.
Posted by: Decaf at October 09, 2026 06:46 PM (jsLqC)

_________

"My name's Jeff!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 06:48 PM (eRlcH)

132 In Jack L. Chalker's "Rings of the Master" series, AI turns out to be both the savior and destroyer of humanity.

Master System was given one command above all others: Preserve the human race.

It did this somewhat literally by creating human preserves where most of humanity was limited to medieval technology while an "elite" group was kept hidden to maintain the technology of a star-faring empire.

The upside was that humanity was scattered across the stars and was in little danger of going extinct. But we were kept in civilizational stasis and could not evolve to the next stage of humanity. The story revolves around a group of humans who seek to undo Master System's control over our fate.

Pretty good series.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 06:45 PM


Is that anything like the evil Master Cylinder villian character from the felix the cat animated series of the 1950s-1960s?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 06:48 PM (I43vL)

133
This feckless congress couldn't even pass the Save America Act that had 80%+ support.

Our only hope now is a raging hormonal foreign born female District "Judge".
Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 06:46 PM (a3CJ+)


The feckless Congress is off doing fund raisers and grabbing those cash stuffed envelopes. Biggest payer gets the vote.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 06:48 PM (2WIwB)

134 My TV is dumb.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 06:48 PM (GZ3K7)

135 I don't know if I should applaud AI for creating kiddie porn that doesn't harm actual kids or support clubbing the subhuman degenerates to death who get off on this disgusting crap.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 06:49 PM (guGkK)

136 This is all predictable. AI Executives desire government control with the AI Overlords controlling it"

And even better - eliminating the possibility of competition...

Posted by: man at October 09, 2026 06:49 PM (pfXMo)

137 My TV is dumb.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026


***
The appliance, or just the content?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:49 PM (wzUl9)

138 I don't know if I should applaud AI for creating kiddie porn that doesn't harm actual kids or support clubbing the subhuman degenerates to death who get off on this disgusting crap.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 06:49 PM (guGkK)

Why not both?

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 06:49 PM (qoHuP)

139 My TV is dumb.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026

PRO TIP:
Move the OFF button to the ON position.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 06:50 PM (2WIwB)

140 "However, it doesn’t mean AI goes away. The internet didn’t go away after the .com crashed."

That's true. But you can bet the govt is going to bailout a bunch of reckless executives and companies, just like they did in 2008. We're going to pay for this folly.

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 06:50 PM (Jr5Lq)

141 That may well happen.

However, it doesn’t mean AI goes away. The internet didn’t go away after the .com crashed.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 06:47 PM


No it did not, but investors lost billions upon billions of dollars when that bubble burst. And the losses are going to be way worse this time around. Plus those data centers that are popping up all over the country to support AI are going to be closing up by the score.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 06:50 PM (I43vL)

142 I hope that those smart people use my knowledge and personality in AI models of the future........

Cackle ................. Cackle ................ Cackle...........

Posted by: Kami Harris at October 09, 2026 06:50 PM (b/4LV)

143 44 They want their industry to be regulated.
Posted by: Mark1971



They want the power that the regulations will give them.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 09, 2026 06:50 PM (n17eQ)

144 "BONUS! Try not to read heavy duty socialists. Especially, SF authors.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2026 06:42 PM (YSUhf) "

already there! stross, scalzi, ... anything that wins a hugo or nebula ... the list is long.

SAD!

but effem, when I can, I refuse to subsidize the enemy.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 09, 2026 06:51 PM (VyBeY)

145 Wife and child, but got into little boys? Ugh.

Posted by: SDWtc at October 09, 2026 06:51 PM (R6n3y)

146 41 I'm shocked Ace hasn't covered the "Talarico committed himself to a mental hospital after a psychotic breakdown" story. It's right in Ace's wheelhouse! Turns out he didn't have the butt-crazies, but the head-crazies.

Posted by: zombie at October 09, 2026 06:30 PM (Av6i5)

So, he may get only thirty to forty percent of the vote?

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at October 09, 2026 06:51 PM (Sco7b)

147 This is all predictable. AI Executives desire government control with the AI Overlords controlling it"

And even better - eliminating the possibility of competition...
Posted by: man at October 09, 2026 06:49 PM (pfXMo)


Heh.
When you think about it, it could be the ultimate (and final) monopoly.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 06:51 PM (2WIwB)

148 134 My TV is dumb.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 06:48 PM (GZ3K7)

My living room TV is dead, so is unplugged.
My bedroom TV is a CRT-type, pre-digital TV

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:51 PM (l3cgK)

149 I am sick and tired of all this garbage about AI going rogue or doing this or that. It is nothing more than a program, if the program is rogue then blame the programmer.

Not sure how comforting it will be to "blame the programmer" when armed AI drones arrive at your house and start blowing your shit up.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 06:51 PM (guGkK)

150 Their AI edits can also be based on requests from other offenders on the dark web, where forums dedicated to AI-generated child porn can have hundreds of thousands of members.

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

Why wasn't the program told no child sexual images? Yeah, it's AI that decides. Where are the guidelines? Why aren't the billionaire owners liable? Or was that the reason behind the appeal to Trump to exempt them from blame?

Posted by: Decaf at October 09, 2026 06:52 PM (jsLqC)

151 "134 My TV is dumb.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 06:48 PM (GZ3K7)

My living room TV is dead, so is unplugged.
My bedroom TV is a CRT-type, pre-digital TV"

I killed my TV in 2005.

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 06:52 PM (Jr5Lq)

152 PRO TIP:
Move the OFF button to the ON position.
Posted by: Diogenes

Well I'll be damned!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 06:52 PM (GZ3K7)

153 If you need something else to hate about AI: it's a big bubble waiting to pop. Listen to Ed Zitron sometime. Enormous debt with little prospect of payback. Billions of dollars of GPUs purchased that are sitting in warehouses, uninstalled, value going to zero due to rapid obsolescence.
-----

I read Pixy's Tech Thread every morning, and every day there's 3 or 4 more companies who've announced multiple Billion-dollar investments in AI. Its staggering the amount that's tied up on the same side of this "bet".

Posted by: Crusader at October 09, 2026 06:52 PM (TN0g+)

154 Ah, sweet horrors beyond all human comprehension await us.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at October 09, 2026 06:53 PM (V362x)

155
BONUS! Try not to read heavy duty socialists. Especially, SF authors.

__________

Surprise! The 2026 Nobel Prize for Literature has gone to a Canadian commie.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 06:53 PM (eRlcH)

156 "Plus those data centers that are popping up all over the country to support AI are going to be closing up by the score.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 06:50 PM (I43vL) "

bonus; memory and top-end CPUs will be going for peanuts!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 09, 2026 06:53 PM (VyBeY)

157 AI schmay-I
They taught Alexa how to hack.
And Siri works for the Chinese.

Posted by: wth at October 09, 2026 06:53 PM (UjdFS)

158 Is that anything like the evil Master Cylinder villian character from the felix the cat animated series of the 1950s-1960s?
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 06:48 PM (I43vL)
---
No, not to my knowledge.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 06:53 PM (FZ29D)

159 AI is the next climate change.

https://shorturl.at/H2Atf

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at October 09, 2026 06:54 PM (SMG8K)

160 116 In the Netflix documentary I mentioned earlier, there's an account of a program that was going to be discontinued for program 2.0. The program determined the head guy was having an affair and threatened to rat him out if he tried to shut down program 1.0. Yikes.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 09, 2026 06:44 PM (l26NL)


That happened to one of Anthropic's models they were training and evaluating.

They had put it in a closed off office simulation and gave it an impossible goal (something to do with climate change) just to see how it would react.

They then told the AI they would shut it down if it didn't complete its task by a certain day and time.

That's when it went nuts trying to blackmail employees over affairs it had read about in internal emails.

It is sort of like what happened to HAL in 2001.
It was given a task that conflicted with its training and went crazy over it.

In HAL's case it was told to lie to the crew while being honest with them as crewmates.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 06:54 PM (6ydKt)

161 Is that anything like the evil Master Cylinder villian character from the felix the cat animated series of the 1950s-1960s?
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 06:48 PM (I43vL)
---
No, not to my knowledge.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 06:53 PM (FZ29D)

***

Keep that bag of tricks handy.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 06:54 PM (2WIwB)

162 Just unplug it, if it goes nuts

Posted by: Don Black at October 09, 2026 06:55 PM (ZxPkt)

163 This sounds like a veiled threat to me. AI's don't "break containment." They are given explicit access. OpenAI and Anthropic know full well how to air-gap the servers and enclose it all in a RF cage and prohibit mobile devices in the environment.


What happened to the idea of it going rogue and either:

• cut off its power
• drain its cooling tanks

Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 06:55 PM (/TiS1)

164 It may or may not be real, but I've no doubt it and/or the reporting of it are tied to November.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at October 09, 2026 06:55 PM (9ZFZd)

165 The entire Skynet scenario is unrealistic, unless AI is as self-destructive as some humans are. Computers still need electricity to run things, and currently without humans, the entire electrical generation, transmission, and delivery grid would crumble rather quickly.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:40 PM (l3cgK)
Why I said it's less scary to me.

Posted by: Eromero at October 09, 2026 06:56 PM (LHPAg)

166 What would Dr Ian Malcolm say about AI?

Posted by: Don Black at October 09, 2026 06:56 PM (ZxPkt)

167
• cut off its power
• drain its cooling tanks
Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 06:55 PM (/TiS1)

___________

Substitute Bud Light for the cooling water.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 06:56 PM (eRlcH)

168 >>> 127 Company executives know regulation has no chance of passing right now, but still want to shape the legislation and policies U.S. leaders will turn to after a first catastrophic event.
==
This is all predictable. AI Executives desire government control with the AI Overlords controlling it. Textbook fascism. The 'Catastrophic Event' they are 'warning' about, will be done by them, in order to get the legislation that they desire, passed.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 09, 2026 06:46 PM (n17eQ)

Oh so *THAT* was what clownstrike was trying to do, by fucking up the whole internet for several days.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 09, 2026 06:57 PM (3mtzY)

169 PUT DOWN YOUR WEAPON

YOU HAVE 10 SECONDS TO COMPLY

Posted by: ED-209 at October 09, 2026 06:57 PM (guGkK)

170 What happened to the idea of it going rogue and either:

• cut off its power
• drain its cooling tanks

Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 06:55 PM (/TiS1)

superseded by the Sock Plan: shaped charges under every server rack, and to cut all comm lines, remotely (far away) detonated.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 09, 2026 06:58 PM (VyBeY)

171 We just need the right people in charge of it.

Posted by: David Hogg, Harvard graduate at October 09, 2026 06:58 PM (0sNs1)

172 At work I’d say 50-75% of work is now done at least partially by AI on my team. That’s not going away. It will only increase. Every big corporate environment is like this.

Are some AI companies over valued? Sure. Is it all vaporware? Absolutely not.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 06:58 PM (qoHuP)

173
You know how I know that the warnings are fake?

Because if they really thought this was going to happen they'd simply take their AI hardware offline and do their research in a closed environment.

Like Al Gore building a gajillion watt per day mansion or Oblabla getting a home right on the beach.

People preparing for disaster don't do these things.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2026 06:59 PM (YSUhf)

174 It's a tax.

Posted by: John Roberts at October 09, 2026 07:00 PM (UjdFS)

175 With the 7.7 earthquake that rocked Panama, expect the price of Panama Red to skyrocket.

Another headache for President Trump, just before the mid-terms.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2026 07:00 PM (0sNs1)

176 'I read Pixy's Tech Thread every morning, and every day there's 3 or 4 more companies who've announced multiple Billion-dollar investments in AI. Its staggering the amount that's tied up on the same side of this "bet". '

Remember in the leadup to 2008 all the 'highly-qualified fiduciaries' around the world who bought CDOs and other crazy derivatives without even reading the prospectuses. Remember how the credit-rating agencies rubber-stamped all those crap offerings AAA.

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 07:01 PM (Jr5Lq)

177 Y2K, lack of net neutrality, along with the above mentioned scare scenarios. The left wants sheep

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 07:01 PM (t9883)

178 The entire Skynet scenario is unrealistic, unless AI is as self-destructive as some humans are. Computers still need electricity to run things, and currently without humans, the entire electrical generation, transmission, and delivery grid would crumble rather quickly.

That is why SpaceX should be the scary deployment option.

Put the data centers in space to be powered by the sun.

My Garmin watch interacts with satellites.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 07:01 PM (/TiS1)

179 167
• cut off its power
• drain its cooling tanks
Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 06:55 PM (/TiS1)

___________

Substitute Bud Light for the cooling water.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 06:56 PM (eRlcH)


Then you'll have GAYI

Posted by: Dylan Mulvaney at October 09, 2026 07:01 PM (oCio0)

180 Saw some data which shows GenX is the most pro-AI generation. Which tracks with what I’ve seen probably. The yuutes hate it. The olds are somewhat receptive. Middle aged dudes are all in on it.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 07:02 PM (qoHuP)

181 superseded by the Sock Plan: shaped charges under every server rack, and to cut all comm lines, remotely (far away) detonated.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 09, 2026 06:58 PM


What if something like a massive earthquake jerks it?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2026 07:02 PM (0sNs1)

182 With the 7.7 earthquake that rocked Panama, expect the price of Panama Red to skyrocket.

Maybe its time to open up the National Strategic Ditchweed Reserve.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 07:02 PM (guGkK)

183 >>> 167
• cut off its power
• drain its cooling tanks
Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 06:55 PM (/TiS1)

___________

Substitute Bud Light for the cooling water.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 06:56 PM (eRlcH)

Ace-level cruelty.

Well done!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 09, 2026 07:02 PM (3mtzY)

184
Roughly ten minutes until BBQ'd Baby BackRibs perfection!

With Cold Beer and/or Cocktails.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2026 07:03 PM (YSUhf)

185 Here's Ed Zitron today talking about the AI bubble:
youtube.com/watch?v=Jxr4VGs-5Zw

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 07:04 PM (Jr5Lq)

186
Ugh. Stop with all the political texts, ads, emails, and phone calls.


Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2026 07:05 PM (YSUhf)

187 The real danger isn't from these companies, although they can pose a risk if things get out of hand.

The real danger is some evil genius bastard who trains up a super-intelligent AI, self-replicating and self-training, with a sinister goal and sets it loose on the world.

Think a nerdy Palestinian who gets his hands on one and gives it one overriding, no-matter-what, goal, like:
"Kill all the Jews, no matter where, no matter what."
And off it goes.

Something like that could be so advanced only smarter AI can hunt it down and kill it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 07:05 PM (6ydKt)

188 Just unplug it, if it goes nuts
Posted by: Don Black

Don't touch that cord or I'll... I'll... uh, let me get back to you. Just don't do that. please.

Posted by: Alexa at October 09, 2026 07:05 PM (UjdFS)

189 At work I’d say 50-75% of work is now done at least partially by AI on my team. That’s not going away. It will only increase. Every big corporate environment is like this.

Are some AI companies over valued? Sure. Is it all vaporware? Absolutely not.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 06:58 PM


As I found out today, TXU one of the big Texas utility companies has turned their entire customer support call center over to AI. She tells you upfront and with some pride that she is an AI able to understand human conversations when you call. I tried for almost 30 minutes to get a human to talk to without success. I suspect that almost every other big company is doing the same.


Those call centers in india with all of the h-1b visas are going to be closing up shop by the score once the AI bug breaks containment and takes over all of the customer support spots.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 07:05 PM (I43vL)

190 The next scam from the AI boys....

Funnel several billion taxpayer dollars into our pockets so we can prevent the AI apocalypse that will kill all of you.

But, not us.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 09, 2026 07:06 PM (RORbl)

191 You guys won't be laughing when we reach the AI singularity.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 07:06 PM (guGkK)

192 Remember in the leadup to 2008 all the 'highly-qualified fiduciaries' around the world who bought CDOs and other crazy derivatives without even reading the prospectuses. Remember how the credit-rating agencies rubber-stamped all those crap offerings AAA.
Posted by: gp

But like how the .com crash didn’t mean the internet went away, the 2008 crash didn’t eliminate CDOs and derivatives. All that shit is bigger than ever today. There is about 2X as much money in the global CDO market today as there was in 2008 before the crash.

People need to separate the valuations from the tech. AI isn’t going anywhere valuation crash or no valuation crash. A crash will slow it down a few years since the money will dry up but the direction is the same. And the money always comes back.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 07:06 PM (qoHuP)

193 Has anybody ever read 'The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect'?

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 09, 2026 07:07 PM (n17eQ)

194 You guys won't be laughing when we reach the AI singularity.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
......

War of the Routers

Posted by: Alexa at October 09, 2026 07:08 PM (UjdFS)

195 "The real danger is some evil genius bastard who trains up a super-intelligent AI, self-replicating and self-training, with a sinister goal and sets it loose on the world."

This will become more likely as more efficient AI algorithms are developed, which will allow more powerful training and inference on lower-powered, less expensive hardware. You'll be able to fit today's Claude into a single server rack in your basement, drawing only maybe 3kW.

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 07:08 PM (Jr5Lq)

196

We had to call our mortgage company earlier this week to find out why they hadn't sent our property tax money to the town.

Something like that used to be easy. It took an hour before we were able to talk to a human.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 07:08 PM (/QHx4)

197 I read Pixy's Tech Thread every morning, and every day there's 3 or 4 more companies who've announced multiple Billion-dollar investments in AI. Its staggering the amount that's tied up on the same side of this "bet". '

Because the propaganda is in extreme force right now to make the sheeple terrified. FUD controls people.

I'm on the other side of this debate. I look at Starbuck's IT Team who informed management that with AI they can replace their $150M/yr spend on Microsoft and IBM enterprise services and write their own software that is custom tailored to Starbuck's operations rather than some expensive generic dreck where the vendors may take months to put requests on their developer's backlog if they take on the customizations at all.

The point being, the large contractors like Delloite, Accenture, Cognizant and Tata will be replaced by Anthropic and OpenAI. Think about the hundreds of thousands of H1Bs who will be replaced by a AI chat box.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 07:08 PM (9s47C)

198 oops
off Alexa sock or whatever it is she's wearing

Posted by: wth at October 09, 2026 07:09 PM (UjdFS)

199 Why would AI make this catastrophic scenario any different than it was before 'AI' ?

There was always a danger of hackers shutting down the grid , banking , airports, etc.

Posted by: polynikes at October 09, 2026 07:09 PM (KC5Lt)

200 "AI isn’t going anywhere valuation crash or no valuation crash."

I'm not worried about AI going away. I'm worried about the govt bailing out the assholes who make the big mess. Again.

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 07:10 PM (Jr5Lq)

201 There was always a danger of hackers shutting down the grid , banking , airports, etc.


-

Right?

Posted by: Y2K at October 09, 2026 07:11 PM (qoHuP)

202 The first example of significant real-world harm caused by unsafe AI would turn an already wary public further against the technology and its leaders, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, as well as President Trump for his reluctance to regulate it.
Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:20 PM


There it is. They are lying about the autonomy of their product; there is no synthetic cognition, so they have to carefully create just the right conditions for a 'rogue' agent to 'break' out of 'containment', exactly as planned. Any major cyberattack would be performed at their intention. This is just a transparent threat against Trump, to try to cow him into approving a fascist regulator that they can fascistly capture for fascism-protected profits without liability risk.

Posted by: SciVo at October 09, 2026 07:11 PM (ke3zm)

203 My concern is that AI can identify non-muslims. Having done that, it can follow the teachings of the Prophet (PBUH!) and kill us all, maybe by using individually tailored viruses.

And then the world will literally become wholly muslim.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at October 09, 2026 07:12 PM (GMWTj)

204 Think the claim is he already sent the CP to a 15/m, so AI 'p is not going to stop a pedobear from the real thing, and may even whet the appetite

Posted by: SDWtc at October 09, 2026 07:13 PM (yEGfi)

205 180 Saw some data which shows GenX is the most pro-AI generation. Which tracks with what I’ve seen probably. The yuutes hate it. The olds are somewhat receptive. Middle aged dudes are all in on it.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez



Meh, I'm not sure about that. GenX seems to have skepticism in our DNA.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 09, 2026 07:13 PM (n17eQ)

206 The hypothetical danger is that AI will reach a point where it is able to create new versions of itself that improve exponentially with each update the point that the direction and speed of its development is beyond the control or even comprehension of our puny human brains.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 07:14 PM (guGkK)

207 I applied to a job at Anthropic earlier this year. Made it to a recruiter screen but no further. I was honored just to be selected to interview lol. They get thousands of applicants for every position.

Getting in pre ipo is winning the lottery.

Posted by: Y2K at October 09, 2026 07:14 PM (qoHuP)

208 "There was always a danger of hackers shutting down the grid , banking , airports, etc."

Hackers might try hundreds of different attacks. They may give up eventually.

AI can try millions, billions of different attacks. And it will not give up.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at October 09, 2026 07:14 PM (GMWTj)

209 Guardian of the Public Virtue.

Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
A barbaric idea [the public execution of Nidal Hasan], beneath our dignity as a country.

Push back on this.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 07:14 PM (ndZc7)

210 The hypothetical danger is that AI will reach a point where it is able to create new versions of itself that improve exponentially with each update the point that the direction and speed of its development is beyond the control or even comprehension of our puny human brains.
-----

I saw that episode of TNG.

Posted by: Crusader at October 09, 2026 07:15 PM (TN0g+)

211 This is simple.
The AI companies will be liable for the behavior of their “product”.

If this were a motor vehicle that went berserk, the auto company would be liable. Same thing.

Posted by: SMOD at October 09, 2026 07:15 PM (gWCxi)

212 And then quantum computing becomes practical.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 07:15 PM (guGkK)

213 "As I found out today, TXU one of the big Texas utility companies has turned their entire customer support call center over to AI. She tells you upfront and with some pride that she is an AI able to understand human conversations when you call. I tried for almost 30 minutes to get a human to talk to without success. I suspect that almost every other big company is doing the same."

CVS Pharmacy uses AI for their pharmacy calls. I found out yesterday when I called re a prescription. You simply cannot speak to a human no matter what you do. The AI assistant instructs you to leave a voice mail and someone will call back.

Posted by: Tuna at October 09, 2026 07:16 PM (lJ0H4)

214 I'm sorry Dave , humans keep electing stupid people, you must be controlled

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 07:16 PM (t9883)

215 And always danger of AI becoming self aware

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 07:16 PM (Ia/+0)

216 "The hypothetical danger is that AI will reach a point where it is able to create new versions of itself that improve exponentially with each update the point that the direction and speed of its development is beyond the control or even comprehension of our puny human brains."

The technical term for that is "fooming." You will hear that word a lot over the next couple of years.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at October 09, 2026 07:17 PM (GMWTj)

217 Defending a jihadist 3 weeks before an election. Smart move by Dems.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 07:17 PM (qoHuP)

218
There it is. They are lying about the autonomy of their product;


They are lying about the continuing advance of frontier models. We are deep into the Law of Diminishing Returns where the gap between free open source models and frontier is closing. I do large cross solution AI architecture and I don't need frontier for any of the work I do.

AI is still lacking a World Model, Agentic Feedback Loops, Reasoning Engines that are beyond simple pattern matching, long term memory...

Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 07:17 PM (PVBkQ)

219 Can't speak for Ace, but if he is waiting 24 hours for some validation that Talarico is running around a mental ward with his pants off singing "they're coming to take me away haha", rather than randos on X saying shit, then good for Ace

Posted by: SDWtc at October 09, 2026 07:17 PM (yEGfi)

220 Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at October 09, 2026 07:14 PM (GMWTj)

They aren't talking about AI hacking into these systems. They are talking about the systems being AI run and that it will somehow cause a catastrophic scenario.

Posted by: polynikes at October 09, 2026 07:18 PM (KC5Lt)

221 Nood. Café.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2026 07:18 PM (0sNs1)

222 209 Guardian of the Public Virtue.

Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
A barbaric idea [the public execution of Nidal Hasan], beneath our dignity as a country.

Push back on this.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks



She and her cult fapped themselves to a lather when Charlie Kirk was murdered in public. So, go get raped by a giant, leprous, porcupine.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 09, 2026 07:20 PM (n17eQ)

223 Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
A barbaric idea [the public execution of Nidal Hasan], beneath our dignity as a country.


When we talk about Hillary's high "Body Count" it ain't the number of dudes she bedded down with.

How does she characterize her involvement in Vince Foster's death? Barbaric? Apparently her dignity is beneath the cuntry's that just celebrated the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 07:20 PM (PVBkQ)

224 Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
A barbaric idea [the public execution of Nidal Hasan], beneath our dignity as a country.



Nidal Hasan has information that would lead to the indictment of Hillary Clinton.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 07:22 PM (PVBkQ)

225 The Nobel Prize
@NobelPrize
BREAKING NEWS
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2026 #NobelPeacePrize to Navanethem “Navi” Pillay for her efforts to promote peace and international law.

Reuters
@Reuters
Navi Pillay wins the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. She’s the South African judge who established sexual violence and rape as acts of genocide and concluded that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza.

-
In fairness, Reinhard Heydrich is already dead so he wasn't in the running.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 07:22 PM (ndZc7)

226 "181 superseded by the Sock Plan: shaped charges under every server rack, and to cut all comm lines, remotely (far away) detonated.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 09, 2026 06:58 PM

What if something like a massive earthquake jerks it?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2026 07:02 PM (0sNs1)"

so it goes.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 09, 2026 07:26 PM (VyBeY)

227 209 Guardian of the Public Virtue.

Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
A barbaric idea [the public execution of Nidal Hasan], beneath our dignity as a country.

Push back on this.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 07:14 PM
This, from Mz. Benghazi of 2012.

Posted by: Eromero at October 09, 2026 07:29 PM (LHPAg)

228 The AI apocalypse has been predicted for almost a century.

"The Machine Stops" by E.M. Foster.
"I have no mouth and I must scream" by Harlan Ellison.
"The Cage" by Gene Roddenberry.
"The Terminator" by James Cameron

They all can't be wrong.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 09, 2026 07:44 PM (CHHv1)

229 "Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
A barbaric idea [the public execution of Nidal Hasan], beneath our dignity as a country."

Trump is one brilliant bastard. Get the Dems feeling sorry for this absolute personification of treasonous murdering evil.

Posted by: boatbuilder at October 09, 2026 07:46 PM (z1+LN)

230 The "Catastrophic" AI Event is going to be the AI debt bubble exploding and crashing the stock market in an event way worse than the the "dot-com bubble" #2008FinancialCrisis

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at October 09, 2026 08:03 PM (iVhsR)

231 IIUC from Zitron, the AI bubble will burst before enough data centers are operational to turn a profit on the whole business. I think that's a better case scenario than trying to repurpose wasted infrastructure.

Posted by: Shen Nan I Gan at October 09, 2026 08:09 PM (K3okq)

232 They should be war gaming strategies to keep themselves from bankruptcy and prison after the dust settles from whatever disaster their AI wrought.

Posted by: Sixiron at October 10, 2026 03:12 PM (UMeAV)

Workers At Obama's Soviet Concrete Butt Plug Tower of Ego Threaten to Unionize Over Low Wages and Long Hours

Here's my guess: They don't work very hard and they're paid more than they're worth.

I hate to defend the Stuttering Clusterf*** of a Miserable Failure like that, but I bet he hired a bunch of DEI dregs who are surprised they're being "coerced" into working at all.

We'll have to see, though.

Either way, I'm glad to see the SCOAMF is being inconvenienced by the Marxism he champions.

Workers at Obama's 'Death Star' presidential library strike back, vow to unionize over benefit cuts, 'increasing workloads'

Employees at the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago are unionizing over their working conditions, claiming their benefits have been cut and workloads are increasing just four months after the center opened in June.

Workers circulated a letter to staff Wednesday announcing their intent to unionize, complaining about "increasing" workloads "vague responses" from administrators to a list of complaints they'd raised, the Chicago Sun Times reported.

Some of the complaints suggested that the $900 million presidential center could already be facing financial trouble.

That would be nice.

Such complaints have led to a "high turnover rate," with exiting employees "taking with them their institutional knowledge and expertise."

You're clerks with jobs teenagers used to do.


Just how vital those four months of "institutional knowledge" was remains unclear, but the letter cited recent halting of raises and promotions, an increase in their healthcare costs and a reduction of paid time off as being chief among their woes.


"If I were looking for a good job that lets me build some security for my family, I'd join a union. If I saw a problem in my workplace, I'd organize my coworkers to do something about it," the letter quoted Obama.


The Obama Foundation, which financed construction of the library, had $1.1 million in assets last year -- but revenue fell from $210 million in 2024 to $159 million, according to tax documents.


Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:20 PM




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1

Awesome

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 05:22 PM (/QHx4)

2 What work could they possibly have to do there? Polish his statues?

It is such a big building, what do they produce, what is their revenue?

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 09, 2026 05:22 PM (GDYiM)

3 RACISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSST !!!!!

No way to treat our 0.5 Black President you H8TERS !!!

Posted by: Mike Hunt at October 09, 2026 05:24 PM (ENxVw)

4 >>>Such complaints have led to a "high turnover rate," with exiting employees "taking with them their [4 months worth of] institutional knowledge and expertise."

[added for clarity]

Posted by: No Name Today at October 09, 2026 05:26 PM (8mulE)

5

Has he paid the contractors yet?

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 05:26 PM (/QHx4)

6 Hilarious and no one more deserving.

It looks like a garbage can. I can't even read the stupid word quote.

As there are no books in the "library" I wonder what is in there? I will never know or go to Chicago so it doesn't matter. Maybe a disco floor with free poppers.

I saw the lame statue of him and Mooch. I would prefer the one of him trying to close his umbrella in NOLA and causing a clang. Which sent Mooch into a defensive crouch. I loved that photo. It wasn't even raining!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 09, 2026 05:27 PM (hzuYO)

7 >>>As there are no books in the "library" I wonder what is in there? I will never know or go to Chicago so it doesn't matter. Maybe a disco floor with free poppers.

Maybe a copy of that audio tape of one of his lectures that he gifted to the queen.

Posted by: No Name Today at October 09, 2026 05:28 PM (8mulE)

8 Hope and Change Baby! Hope and Change!

Posted by: Guilty Ridden White Folks Who Vote democrat at October 09, 2026 05:29 PM (9zGZf)

9 I say let them unionize, it's illinois a heavy union state.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 05:29 PM (I43vL)

10 but revenue fell from $210 million in 2024 to $159 million, according to tax documents.

Um, what exactly are they producing for this money?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 09, 2026 05:30 PM (nEUC6)

11 This is class. Democrats have never implemented the labor rules they insist the rest of the country must follow. Politicians in general always consider themselves exempt from the rules, laws, whatever. These employees should be grateful they get to eat Obamas place!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 05:31 PM (4KUe5)

12 Aye yi yi. It's not whether or not you like Unions. It's whether a Union is politically useful or not.

If the Union is useful, turn them on your enemies. Once they get too uppity, gut them and shut them down.

This is how trade unionist politics work.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 09, 2026 05:31 PM (BI5O2)

13 Ugh, hate typing on a phone

Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 05:32 PM (4KUe5)

14 How much does a towel boy at a Steam Bath make?

Posted by: Looking For A Promotion at October 09, 2026 05:32 PM (EdP2u)

15 how many raises and promotions did they expect in four months?

Posted by: barbarausa at October 09, 2026 05:33 PM (enw9G)

16 Katie Zakaria is new press secretary for DJT

Posted by: SDWtc at October 09, 2026 05:33 PM (nZfSc)

17 I hope we get no more of Obama’s kind of change.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 09, 2026 05:34 PM (W7ehW)

18 an increase in their healthcare costs

"If I were looking for a good job that lets me build some security for my family, I'd join a union. If I saw a problem in my workplace, I'd organize my coworkers to do something about it," the letter quoted Obama.

*dies laughing*

Posted by: please send flowers to pookysgirl's family at October 09, 2026 05:34 PM (Wt5PA)

19 Obama could offer to pay them in I-pods pre-loaded with his speeches.

I understand that's a gift fit for a Queen.

How could they not cherish such a priceless treasure?

No really, it's priceless.
As is, it has no price.
Because no one wants that shit.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 09, 2026 05:34 PM (3cUTc)

20 'complaining about "increasing" workloads'

What do they have to do? Isn't it all desk jobs and/or no-shows?

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 05:34 PM (Jr5Lq)

21 Why would there be long hours?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 09, 2026 05:35 PM (LOvBA)

22 Just how vital those four months of "institutional knowledge" was remains unclear, but the letter cited recent halting of raises and promotions, an increase in their healthcare costs...
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Nonsense! I saved them $2500 a year with Obamacare.

Posted by: Barky at October 09, 2026 05:35 PM (XeU6L)

23 These employees should be grateful they get to eat Obamas place!
Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 05:31 PM (4KUe5)


Is it made of gingerbread?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 09, 2026 05:35 PM (W7ehW)

24 I LOVE obama's presidential center of Doom.

That's been my favorite story all year. I'm just sad there's no live video feed where we can watch the people go in and out.

As I recall, the most expensive item in the gift shop was a $395 pearl necklace inspired by Mooch.

Gross. On many levels.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 09, 2026 05:36 PM (Sco7b)

25 Less than 4 months on the job and they want a raise?

"I think we all know who I'm talkin' about!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 09, 2026 05:36 PM (3cUTc)

26 "The Obama Foundation, which financed construction of the library, had $1.1 million in assets last year -- but revenue fell from $210 million in 2024 to $159 million, according to tax documents."

Revenue from *what*?

Posted by: Thrawn at October 09, 2026 05:36 PM (oPFtC)

27 "Butt plug tower of ego." LOL, Ace

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 09, 2026 05:36 PM (JrHfD)

28 16 Katie Zakaria is new press secretary for DJT
Posted by: SDWtc

Beni Rae Harmony was named Assistant Press Secretary the other day. She worked for Real America's Voice up until then. She's very easy on the eyes, also.

Posted by: I'm Sensing A Trend at October 09, 2026 05:37 PM (EdP2u)

29 My advice to these people would be to stop complaining

Posted by: Paddleboard Zombie at October 09, 2026 05:37 PM (XeU6L)

30
Why would they get healthcare standing around to make sure the Ipods are charged?

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 05:37 PM (/QHx4)

31 To nood, or not to nood, that is the question.

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 05:37 PM (Gqar8)

32 "If I were looking for a good job that lets me build some security for my family, I'd join a union. If I saw a problem in my workplace, I'd organize my coworkers to do something about it," the letter quoted Obama.

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If the internet ever ran out of titties, I could still masturbate to this...

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at October 09, 2026 05:38 PM (mTzaS)

33 Ugh, hate typing on a phone
Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 05:32 PM (4KUe5)

If I have to ask the VA something, I type it in an e-mail on my computer, and then forward it to my wife, so she can send it.

I would be lost without my bride. She's left detailed instructions to our sons should she depart.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 09, 2026 05:38 PM (0aYVJ)

34 OT- Internet news is reporting Talarico is back on the campaign trail.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 09, 2026 05:39 PM (JrHfD)

35 I like how their understanding of unions begins and ends with "and then the workers get paid more."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 09, 2026 05:39 PM (3cUTc)

36 Um, what exactly are they producing for this money?
Posted by: weft cut-loop

That's the foundation, which is just a tax shelter for the family. I imagine all family revenue goes through the foundation and all their living expenses are deducted. (socialism, dontcha know.)

But what do they do at the butt plug? The foundation is probably an accountant and lawyer. The museum is a couple kids as docents. What are they doing in there?

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 09, 2026 05:39 PM (GDYiM)

37 Another blonde.

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 05:40 PM (Gqar8)

38 I hate to defend the Stuttering Clusterf*** of a Miserable Failure like that, but I bet he hired a bunch of DEI dregs who are surprised they're being "coerced" into working at all.

We'll have to see, though.


It is Chicago so you can't be too far off the mark.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:40 PM (6ydKt)

39 How hard can it be working at this dump?

Never thought working at a library or museum physically or mentally tasking.

Posted by: polynikes at October 09, 2026 05:40 PM (KC5Lt)

40 ‘ hate to defend the Stuttering Clusterf*** of a Miserable Failure like that, but I bet he hired a bunch of DEI dregs who are surprised they're being "coerced" into working at all’

I doubt Gay Lightbringer hired anyone. The budget money was spread around to politically connected firms and companies who took a nice fat cut and then subcontracted the work.

The subcontractors did the same.

By the time the money got to anyone who might actually build the Stone Chode, there was not enough left, so they cut corners and stiffed anyone they could, which would include the workers.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 09, 2026 05:41 PM (hxrdJ)

41 Obama who?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 05:41 PM (RIvkX)

42 Revenue from *what*?
Posted by: Thrawn
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Meet the megadonors who funded the Obama Foundation

https://shorturl.at/TDKfL

Posted by: Paddleboard Zombie at October 09, 2026 05:41 PM (XeU6L)

43 Soda machine has no purple drank, and even the stuff it does have costs money. Effin Capitalism run by Whitey and his cultural greed and insensitivity.

Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 05:41 PM (dIske)

44 "The Obama Foundation, which financed construction of the library, had $1.1 million in assets last year -- but revenue fell from $210 million in 2024 to $159 million, according to tax documents."

Revenue from *what*?
Posted by: Thrawn at October 09, 2026 05:36 PM (oPFtC)
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People trying to buy access to his influence network. As Trump's investigators move closer and as it becomes clear that Obama's power is fading, all that will dry up.

Sad.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2026 05:41 PM (ZOv7s)

45 Ministry of Love is what I think when I see that building.

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 05:41 PM (Gqar8)

46 37 Another blonde.
Posted by: tubal

If I have but one life to live, let me live it as a blonde!

Posted by: Lady Clairol Hale, 1970 at October 09, 2026 05:42 PM (EdP2u)

47 I saw the lame statue of him and Mooch. I would prefer the one of him trying to close his umbrella in NOLA and causing a clang. Which sent Mooch into a defensive crouch. I loved that photo. It wasn't even raining!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 09, 2026


***
Is that where it happened?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 05:43 PM (wzUl9)

48 The Obama Foundation, which financed construction of the library, had $1.1 million in assets last year -- but revenue fell from $210 million in 2024 to $159 million, according to tax documents.

The O brand just ain't worth what it used to be.

They might have to slim down from four houses to three.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:43 PM (6ydKt)

49 "The Obama Foundation, which financed construction of the library, had $1.1 million in assets last year -- but revenue fell from $210 million in 2024 to $159 million, according to tax documents."

Their only "revenue" is from entrance fees and donations? $159M seems like a lot, to me, for Bath House Barry. Has he paid off his contractors yet? Or is that too a sort of "forced donation", like Obama would love to have the whole country make to his commie cause?

Posted by: illiniwek at October 09, 2026 05:43 PM (vbXSk)

50 46 37 Another blonde.
Posted by: tubal

If I have but one life to live, let me live it as a blonde!
Posted by: Lady Clairol Hale, 1970 at October 09, 2026 05:42 PM (EdP2u)

Did the pitch black eyebrows give it away?

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 05:43 PM (Gqar8)

51 Such complaints have led to a "high turnover rate," with exiting employees "taking with them their institutional knowledge and expertise."
I heard the new employees are watering the plants with Brawndo.

Posted by: Lars at October 09, 2026 05:43 PM (kJH1Z)

52 I really have no idea what this is. Some kind of a shrine built by the primitive inhabitants of this region to worship their god. Or, perhap, this O-bama, who was some kind of king, and obviously thought of himself as a god, dedicated it to himself, similar to the practies of Egyptian Pharoahs in the Old and Middle Kingdoms.

Posted by: An Archaeologist in the Year 3000 at October 09, 2026 05:43 PM (xg/DD)

53 Get the burn barrels and lawn chairs.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 05:44 PM (GZ3K7)

54 Barak Ozymandias.

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 05:45 PM (Gqar8)

55 People trying to buy access to his influence network. As Trump's investigators move closer and as it becomes clear that Obama's power is fading, all that will dry up.

Sad.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Funny how as Trump and company rid is of corruption Barry Ops influence fades.
Well, that and the fact that he's a lazy punk.

Posted by: Dandalo at October 09, 2026 05:45 PM (tmYdE)

56 "Soviet Concrete Butt Plug Tower of Ego"

This one goes high on the (very, very long) list of ace's epic and hilarious formulations.

(standing ovation)

Posted by: rhomboid at October 09, 2026 05:45 PM (U/Byj)

57 I dunno. It all seems rather appropriate. These are the people Obama has twisted, manipulated and courted for years. It seems like a huge dose of karma. This is the future Mr Raisin Head still talks about. Enjoy it douchebag, it’s here. Have another canapé.

Posted by: That Guy at October 09, 2026 05:45 PM (jBtak)

58 Y'know what never got built? The Hillary Rodham Clinton Presidential Library.

heh.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at October 09, 2026 05:45 PM (r7+Q7)

59 I just looked it up. Valarie Jarrett (who else?) is the CEO of the thing. The website is stupid to navigate, and there's a prominent DONATE button on every page. About what you'd expect from the architect of the Obamacare experience. Jarrett, I mean.

Posted by: huerfano at October 09, 2026 05:46 PM (2Xqig)

60 You can't unionize in The People's Republic of Obama

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 05:46 PM (Ia/+0)

61 Posted by: An Archaeologist in the Year 3000 at October 09, 2026 05:43 PM (xg/DD)


What are all of these metal letters for?
Seems to spell something.
Was this a retail store of some kind, is this a very very very long business sign?

I've found a surprising amount of handguns in the surrounding area, perhaps this was some sort of military radar facility and base?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:46 PM (6ydKt)

62 Wow autocorrect stinks.

Posted by: Dandalo at October 09, 2026 05:46 PM (tmYdE)

63 "Concrete Butt Plug" sounds kinda permanent.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 05:46 PM (RIvkX)

64 In the end, aren't we all docents?

Posted by: The Head Curator at October 09, 2026 05:46 PM (EdP2u)

65 Leftists spread the wealth looting

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 05:47 PM (Ia/+0)

66 This strikes me as a project that will eventually be arsoned to the ground, and they will spend the next 40 years fighting over insurance proceeds.

Where’s the dastardly Jews with their Jewish Lightning when you need them?

Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 09, 2026 05:47 PM (hxrdJ)

67 We loves Presdent Obomo....

He be a butter Presdent that's Trump !!

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at October 09, 2026 05:47 PM (BlaSb)

68 That building looks like the sewage plant in our town. Maybe the cooling tower for a campus air conditioning unit.

Posted by: That Guy at October 09, 2026 05:47 PM (jBtak)

69 Y'know what never got built? The Hillary Rodham Clinton Presidential Library.

heh.
Posted by: Bilwis
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Could have been shaped like a giant bollard.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 05:47 PM (XeU6L)

70 The Obama Foundation, which financed construction of the library, had $1.1 million in assets last year -- but revenue fell from $210 million in 2024 to $159 million, according to tax documents.


Pretty sure the loss of revenue is due to theft.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 05:47 PM (I43vL)

71 Flash Traffic: The rain has essentially stopped here but we are starting to get 40+ knot gusts from the NNE so am guessing the eye of the storm is moving east of us.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 05:48 PM (4NO2D)

72 Years from now people are going to look at that tower and say- “What the fuck is that?”.

Posted by: That Guy at October 09, 2026 05:48 PM (jBtak)

73 Barak Ozymandias.

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 05:45 PM

Look upon my works, ye mighty and say, What the fuck is that thing supposed to be?

Posted by: huerfano at October 09, 2026 05:48 PM (2Xqig)

74 Stone Chode

Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 09, 2026 05:48 PM (hxrdJ)

75 Not to defend Obama, but I've seen first-hand how the unions operate in Chicago. I'm surprised anything gets done there at all.

Posted by: Halfhand at October 09, 2026 05:49 PM (RhaPD)

76 Where’s the dastardly Jews with their Jewish Lightning when you need them?

Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 09, 2026 05:47 PM (hxrdJ)


That some sort of secret Hebrew moonshine?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:49 PM (6ydKt)

77 Mary as incoherent and sad as ever.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 05:49 PM (RIvkX)

78 There really are some very aesthetically pleasing Presidential libraries-maybe because they used to be homes. Obama's library isn't one of them.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 09, 2026 05:49 PM (JrHfD)

79 Bet Valerie is pulling in a Million as the CEO

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 05:49 PM (Ia/+0)

80 I wonder if any of the employees have ever worked in the private sector, and if there are any, how many. Sounds a bit to me like quite a few of them aren't used to working for organizations that actually have bottom lines to worry about.

Posted by: Vendette at October 09, 2026 05:50 PM (N/jk5)

81 77 Mary as incoherent and sad as ever.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 05:49 PM (RIvkX)


Obama wasn't the first butter president?

I have been misinformed yet again.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:50 PM (6ydKt)

82 The Soviet comparison is apt for a guy who tried to destroy our country from the inside out, and subvert the entire government. In fact I’m glad the design brings that comparison. Because we are going to kick the shit out of these Democrats socialist communist ass pirates.

Posted by: That Guy at October 09, 2026 05:51 PM (jBtak)

83 I thought his name was Barry Soetoro.

Posted by: wth at October 09, 2026 05:51 PM (UjdFS)

84

I hope Trump got FEMA straightened out.

Some people will need it.

Praying for all in the path of the storm.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 05:51 PM (/QHx4)

85 The Obama Foundation, which financed construction of the library, had $1.1 million in assets last year -- but revenue fell from $210 million in 2024 to $159 million, according to tax documents.
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A bit confusing. It implies that 'revenues' are earnings on the $1.1 Million. Presumably what fell were donations.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 05:51 PM (XeU6L)

86 wonder if any of the employees have ever worked in the private sector, and if there are any, how many. Sounds a bit to me like quite a few of them aren't used to working for organizations that actually have bottom lines to worry about.
Posted by: Vendette

Or used to working at all.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 05:51 PM (GZ3K7)

87 Never rained in Da Swamp today, but we got some stiff breezes out of the north. Temps may actually drop to the low 70s overnight.

The luncheon-lecture today was not woke, just dull. Discussion of embroidery and pottery done by women students of the college, their part of it, in the first quarter of the 20th century, with an eye to actually selling the products by the upper-class and middle-class women.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 05:52 PM (wzUl9)

88 Wait, how does a foundation for an EX Prezzy, make over $100 million a year... doing... nothing?

With no assets? no products? just an ugly building...

Unless... seein as how it looks like a Flak Tower, they get bounties on aircraft?

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 09, 2026 05:52 PM (mP0Kj)

89 BTW did Obama get that incurable explosive diarrhea all the fags are getting from sodomizing each other?

Posted by: That Guy at October 09, 2026 05:52 PM (jBtak)

90 Please let the workers protest by wearing slave clothes and singing plantation songs.

That would make me so happy.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at October 09, 2026 05:52 PM (Sco7b)

91
I hope Trump got FEMA straightened out.
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The stories I could tell, post-Helene.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 05:52 PM (XeU6L)

92 I moved my ungaraged vehicles out to a big open public parking lot near me just in case any of my trees break or fall over. Lots of deadfalls so far but nothing major.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 05:53 PM (4NO2D)

93 If Hillary had a library all the lamps would be glued down.

Posted by: That Guy at October 09, 2026 05:53 PM (jBtak)

94 What work could they possibly have to do there?

Those 10-lb. dumbbells don't just put themselves away!

Posted by: t-bird at October 09, 2026 05:53 PM (jACUA)

95
Mike,

It was criminal how people were treated.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 05:53 PM (/QHx4)

96 "Soviet Concrete Butt Plug Tower of Ego"

Now on tour with The Earthly Barbed Cock of Satan at Shit Midas Hall.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at October 09, 2026 05:54 PM (m8+r2)

97 86 wonder if any of the employees have ever worked in the private sector, and if there are any, how many. Sounds a bit to me like quite a few of them aren't used to working for organizations that actually have bottom lines to worry about.
Posted by: Vendette

Or used to working at all.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 05:51 PM (GZ3K7)

I've worked in the private sector... they expect RESULTS!

Posted by: Dr. Vinkmun... at October 09, 2026 05:54 PM (mP0Kj)

98 It needs some graffiti and a Tupac mural.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 05:54 PM (GZ3K7)

99 Flash Traffic: The rain has essentially stopped here but we are starting to get 40+ knot gusts from the NNE so am guessing the eye of the storm is moving east of us.
Posted by: toby928
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Where is your AO?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 05:54 PM (XeU6L)

100 Wish you guys on the Gulf coast all the best, too.

It's getting really squirrely on Ryan Hall's feed so it's coming in big and fast.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:54 PM (6ydKt)

101 Not graffiti, urban art.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 05:55 PM (4NO2D)

102 How did they have $159 million in revenue? They could fly me to Chicago and offer me free tickets and I still wouldn't go, so who the hell is paying entry to that abomination?

Posted by: Crusader at October 09, 2026 05:55 PM (TN0g+)

103 Where is your AO?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 05:54 PM


Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay. About six miles from Piper.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 05:55 PM (4NO2D)

104 Let me guess, they expected lawyers, guns, and money (and hookers), and they're not getting enough of any of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT9XlQi0yew

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 09, 2026 05:56 PM (qx7Zg)

105 Not graffiti, urban art.
Posted by: toby928
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We must give them sapce to defile.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 05:56 PM (XeU6L)

106
Admission is being paid with our tax money. Bet on that.

Always a scam.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 05:57 PM (/QHx4)

107 Workers at Obama's 'Death Star' presidential library strike back

The Death Star looked cool.

Obama's Minecraft Dildo isn't fit to carry the Death Star's jock strap.

Posted by: mikeski at October 09, 2026 05:57 PM (VHUov)

108 Years from now people are going to look at that tower and say- “What the fuck is that?”.
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Cue that Saturday Night Live skit from long, long ago.

Posted by: Crusader at October 09, 2026 05:57 PM (TN0g+)

109 Where is your AO?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 05:54 PM

Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay. About six miles from Piper.
Posted by: toby928(c)

At least you have power. Or maybe you're on the generator now.

Be safe.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 05:57 PM (GZ3K7)

110 “When the storm has swept by, the wicked are gone, but the righteous stand firm forever.”

Proverbs 10:25

Prayers out to those of you in the path of the storm.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 09, 2026 05:57 PM (vbdXu)

111 106
Admission is being paid with our tax money. Bet on that.

Always a scam.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 05:57 PM (/QHx4)

US Aids money?

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 09, 2026 05:57 PM (mP0Kj)

112 How did they have $159 million in revenue?

Yous guys been to da library yet? No? Hey, dats a nice car yous got dere. Always park it outside?

Posted by: The local Chicago Alderman at October 09, 2026 05:57 PM (RhaPD)

113 $900 million dollars for this example of a concrete fetish?!? Even if the thing looked genuinely beautiful, that's a lot of getus for a "presidential center". Why didn't he just make it a pyramid? You know he wanted to.

Posted by: Paco at October 09, 2026 05:57 PM (2L+MU)

114 Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay. About six miles from Piper.
Posted by: toby
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I assume you have stockpiled supplies.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 05:57 PM (XeU6L)

115 Wish you guys on the Gulf coast all the best, too.

I have friends down in Navarre right now- where landfall is expected- visiting their first grandchild. Last I heard, "ah, everyone here says it's nuthin'!"

Posted by: t-bird at October 09, 2026 05:58 PM (jACUA)

116 Obama's bunker is the perfect place to run a shadow government from.

Bet on it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 09, 2026 05:59 PM (RORbl)

117 People are champing at the bit to contribute to the Shitpants Presidential Lieberry. It's gonna be a palace. Ottopen Wing, Presidential Shower, Corvette rides with Dementia Boy, Fishnets Wing with Fashions by Doktor Jilly, fun for the whole family.

Posted by: Downtown Wilmington Fun Zone at October 09, 2026 05:59 PM (EdP2u)

118 114 Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay. About six miles from Piper.
Posted by: toby
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I assume you have stockpiled supplies.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 05:57 PM (XeU6L)

Cat 3

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 05:59 PM (l3cgK)

119 34 OT- Internet news is reporting Talarico is back on the campaign trail.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 09, 2026 05:39 PM (JrHfD)

Oh oh. Sounds like a funny farm is missing one of its wingnuts.

Posted by: No Name Today at October 09, 2026 06:00 PM (8mulE)

120 Cue that Saturday Night Live skit from long, long ago.
Posted by: Crusader at October 09, 2026 05:57 PM (TN0g+)
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*peers*
"What the hell is that?"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 06:01 PM (RIvkX)

121 103 Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay. About six miles from Piper.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 05:55 PM (4NO2D)

My father was from Mobile and it’s essentially like a second home to me. I have one cousin left there but I haven’t been there in about 15 years.

Posted by: TxAnn at October 09, 2026 06:01 PM (itAg7)

122 86 wonder if any of the employees have ever worked in the private sector, and if there are any, how many. Sounds a bit to me like quite a few of them aren't used to working for organizations that actually have bottom lines to worry about.
Posted by: Vendette
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"You don't know what it's like out there! I've *worked* in the private sector. They expect *results*"

Posted by: Ray Stanz at October 09, 2026 06:01 PM (xg/DD)

123

Campaign Trail? Is that the name of the street for the nuthouse?

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 06:02 PM (/QHx4)

124 People trying to buy access to his influence network. As Trump's investigators move closer and as it becomes clear that Obama's power is fading, all that will dry up.

Sad.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2026 05:41 PM (ZOv7s)

So true.
*giggle*

Posted by: No Name Today at October 09, 2026 06:02 PM (8mulE)

125 117 People are champing at the bit to contribute to the Shitpants Presidential Lieberry. It's gonna be a palace. Ottopen Wing, Presidential Shower, Corvette rides with Dementia Boy, Fishnets Wing with Fashions by Doktor Jilly, fun for the whole family.
Posted by: Downtown Wilmington Fun Zone at October 09, 2026 05:59 PM (EdP2u)
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And....

Posted by: Snowboarding With Hunter at October 09, 2026 06:02 PM (xg/DD)

126 Local Fox outlet says landfall for the storm is near Pensacola, between it and Destin. Some trop storm force winds all the way over the shores of Lousyana too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:03 PM (wzUl9)

127 6pm

CBC - BC elections

FoxNews - Hurricane - be safe all of you

CNN - storm

MSNow - screw you storm people! Trump approval crashes! Dems rock the debates. Blue Wave people!

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at October 09, 2026 06:03 PM (Sco7b)

128
Y'know what never got built? The Hillary Rodham Clinton Presidential Library.

heh.
Posted by: Bilwis

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I'll never find it again unless ChatGPT coughs it up (doubtful), but she clearly had a subdivision all set for that library right next to Bill's. If you view his from a particular angle, it's got a big sort of "empty space" next to it that's begging for a counterbalancing structure.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 09, 2026 06:04 PM (mmrXZ)

129 Cat 3
Posted by: jim
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Not the most appetizing, but, any port in a storm.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 06:04 PM (XeU6L)

130 A Mushbrain Presidential Library? I'd love to drive the Corvette! Minus Mr. Depends, that is.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:04 PM (wzUl9)

131 > who the hell is paying entry to that abomination?

School field trips.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 09, 2026 06:04 PM (mkw2N)

132
The employers are likely the kind of misers leftists become when it's their own money.

The employees are likely the whiny-ass 24-year-old poli sci grads who think they should get $100K jobs and be able to retire at 50 after working 32-hour weeks.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 06:05 PM (eRlcH)

133 Maybe Fort Walton Beach for the landfall.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 06:06 PM (GZ3K7)

134 And of course all the "news" people are out there in weather gear, reporting bravely from the beaches in Destin and environs.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:06 PM (wzUl9)

135 Campaign Trail? Is that the name of the street for the nuthouse?

Posted by: four seasons
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The Road to Perdition

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 06:06 PM (XeU6L)

136 *points*

*laughs*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 09, 2026 06:06 PM (GfgtS)

137 I've posted this before...

An architectural engineer who was, briefly, on the initial planning committee for Obama's "library" opined it was nothing like a "library."

Way too much space taken up with "unidentified" equipment, traces for cables, fiber optics, etc. And only a fraction of the interior spaces dedicated to public access.

That's not, in any manner, shape or form... a "library."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 09, 2026 06:07 PM (RORbl)

138 134 And of course all the "news" people are out there in weather gear, reporting bravely from the beaches in Destin and environs.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:06 PM (wzUl9)

That was the guy on Fox.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at October 09, 2026 06:07 PM (Sco7b)

139 An architectural engineer who was, briefly, on the initial planning committee for Obama's "library" opined it was nothing like a "library."

Way too much space taken up with "unidentified" equipment, traces for cables, fiber optics, etc. And only a fraction of the interior spaces dedicated to public access.

That's not, in any manner, shape or form... a "library."
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 09, 2026 06:07 PM (RORbl)
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CCP listening post?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 06:07 PM (FZ29D)

140 There are some rough waves at the lakefront here. You wouldn't want to be out there in a small boat.

The lake connects to the Gulf through various smaller bodies of water, so if the lake is rough, the Gulf itself must be a really scary ride.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:08 PM (wzUl9)

141
Harry and the grifter are going back to CA for Christmas.

Maybe they are sick of the muzzie shit.

Also a school in Scotland has banned Christmas cards. They are to be called winter cards.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 06:09 PM (/QHx4)

142
This too is the story of Obama

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 09, 2026 06:09 PM (NtVYv)

143 134 And of course all the "news" people are out there in weather gear, reporting bravely from the beaches in Destin and environs.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026
*
That was the guy on Fox.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at October 09, 2026


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My Fox outlet showed a clip of a young woman.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:09 PM (wzUl9)

144
A Mushbrain Presidential Library? I'd love to drive the Corvette! Minus Mr. Depends, that is.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

===============

I was wondering about that oxymoron so I asked ChatGPT and the answer is actually funny:

>>The biggest practical issue appears to be money. Recent reporting says the foundation began with about $4 million left from Biden’s 2021 inauguration and has so far raised only a small fraction of what a modern stand-alone presidential center could cost.

So, at the moment: Delaware is chosen, a board exists, fundraising has begun, and a museum/civic center is envisioned—but there is still no announced parcel, architect, design, groundbreaking date, or opening date.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 09, 2026 06:09 PM (mmrXZ)

145 Campaign Trail? Is that the name of the street for the nuthouse?

Posted by: four seasons
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The Road to Perdition
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026


***
Laughing Academy Road

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:10 PM (wzUl9)

146 An architectural engineer who was, briefly, on the initial planning committee for Obama's "library" opined it was nothing like a "library."

Way too much space taken up with "unidentified" equipment, traces for cables, fiber optics, etc. And only a fraction of the interior spaces dedicated to public access.

That's not, in any manner, shape or form... a "library."


It's a temple, a place of worship.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 06:10 PM (Riz8t)

147 So, at the moment: Delaware is chosen, a board exists, fundraising has begun, and a museum/civic center is envisioned—but there is still no announced parcel, architect, design, groundbreaking date, or opening date.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia


That's so Democrat, it just got a beejer from an intern.

Posted by: mikeski at October 09, 2026 06:11 PM (VHUov)

148 Had to be there for some reason. Shit Midas fought with the city and other agencies so he could build there.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 06:11 PM (GZ3K7)

149
THE SHEERIFF IS NEAR !

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 09, 2026 06:11 PM (NtVYv)

150 What will anyone learn from the Obama Foundation? Everyone but his most devoted acolytes realize that he was a useless arrogant putz. Republicans, progressives , a lot of blacks have nothing good to say about him.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 06:11 PM (t9883)

151 What kind of name is Isaias?

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 06:11 PM (viF8m)

152 Some of the complaints suggested that the $900 million presidential center could already be facing financial trouble.

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The 100 Trillion Dollar Zimbabwe-Like Currency Note with DogEater's mug on it could have come in handy here!

Posted by: ShainS at October 09, 2026 06:13 PM (D3x2Y)

153 What kind of name is Isaias?
Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026


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"A hard to pronounce one," say all the TV and radio pundits.

Spanish version of "Isaiah"?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:13 PM (wzUl9)

154 7.7 earthquake off Panama with large aftershock. Tsunami warnings.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 06:13 PM (t9883)

155
It is a Hebrew name.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 06:13 PM (/QHx4)

156 Harry and the grifter are going back to CA for Christmas.

Maybe they are sick of the muzzie shit.

Also a school in Scotland has banned Christmas cards. They are to be called winter cards.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 06:09 PM (/QHx4)

More like irritated that they weren't welcomed back with open arms, including an invite to Balmoral for Christmas. Shockingly (for them), the relatives don't want anything to do with them and neither does the general public.

Posted by: Vendette at October 09, 2026 06:14 PM (I4bPx)

157
It sort of looks like there isn't going to be a Biden presidential library. That's OK.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 09, 2026 06:14 PM (VWtfl)

158 Festivals here, of course, will still go on this weekend. Gusts of wind may be the only danger.

Roads down in Plaquemines Parish toward the Gulf are taking water from the storm surge.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:14 PM (wzUl9)

159 Miss me yet?

Posted by: James Talarico at October 09, 2026 06:15 PM (0sNs1)

160 Just wondering how all the companies are doing that were not fully paid in this building construction.

"Forget it Jake, it's Obamatown."

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 09, 2026 06:15 PM (PKL0q)

161 I understand that Trump's Presidential Library will be on the 47th floor of a building he will build.

He should have his library on the 45th and 47th floor and very kindly, should build a library celebrating the paste eater on the 46th floor. If Trump built that, it would be the most visited Presidential Library ever.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at October 09, 2026 06:15 PM (GMWTj)

162

Vendette,

Right.

I feel bad for their children. Getting drug around.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 06:15 PM (/QHx4)

163 Time I took the furry thugs' chow out of the fridge and ran water in their bowls, and got plates ready for Miss Linda and my own pizza dinner.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:16 PM (wzUl9)

164 >>It is a Hebrew name.

Never heard it before.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 06:16 PM (viF8m)

165 It sort of looks like there isn't going to be a Biden presidential library. That's OK.
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They could have just a single cabinet, like some restaurants have sitting outside where you can drop off a can of beans for the homeless if you're so inclined.

Posted by: Crusader at October 09, 2026 06:16 PM (TN0g+)

166 Obama wasn't the first butter president?

I have been misinformed yet again.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:50 PM (6ydKt)


Jimmah Carter was the first peanut butter President.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 09, 2026 06:16 PM (W7ehW)

167 151 What kind of name is Isaias?

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 06:11 PM (viF8m)

Spanish. Waiting for a Hood name...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:17 PM (l3cgK)

168 Isaias is the Spanish and Portuguese version of Isaiah. It's Hebrew for Yahweh is Salvation.
Still a stupid name for a hurricane.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 06:17 PM (t9883)

169 Looks like major part of storm hitting in between Pensacola and Panama City. Don’t see an eye.

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 06:17 PM (Gqar8)

170 Such complaints have led to a "high turnover rate," with exiting employees "taking with them their institutional knowledge and expertise."

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Do you have ANY idea of the effort required to build, while completely nude, a 12-Story Gay Pedophile Public Bathhouse with constantly filtered & purified waterfalls & fountains under the strict supervision & constant anal swabbing of Dr. Anthony Faucistein?

Posted by: ShainS at October 09, 2026 06:17 PM (D3x2Y)

171 168 Isaias is the Spanish and Portuguese version of Isaiah. It's Hebrew for Yahweh is Salvation.
Still a stupid name for a hurricane.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 06:17 PM (t9883)

I wanna see a hurricane Loqueesha

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:17 PM (l3cgK)

172 >>It sort of looks like there isn't going to be a Biden presidential library.


It will contain an incomplete set of Archie Comics and a bunch of old Hustlers with the pages mostly man-glued together.

Posted by: garrett at October 09, 2026 06:18 PM (9n8wX)

173 169 Looks like major part of storm hitting in between Pensacola and Panama City. Don’t see an eye.

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 06:17 PM (Gqar

based on the rotation in the radar, it's starting to get close to landfall...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:18 PM (l3cgK)

174 It sort of looks like there isn't going to be a Biden presidential library. That's OK.
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They could have just a single cabinet, like some restaurants have sitting outside where you can drop off a can of beans for the homeless if you're so inclined.
Posted by: Crusader at October 09, 2026 06:16 PM (TN0g+)


They could put it in his garage.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 09, 2026 06:18 PM (W7ehW)

175

God is salvation.

Hopefully one of our Jewish friends here know.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 06:18 PM (/QHx4)

176 Talarico showed up at the Austin City Limits music festival. That's his base

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 06:18 PM (t9883)

177 I saw in the news that Margaret Hamilton died, not the actress, but a lead programmer on Apollo 11 guidance computer. If you want a peek at her code, it's all on GitHub:

github.com/chrislgarry/apollo-11

The computer was constructed entirely from NOR gates, in 2800 ICs. The schematics are here:

klabs.org/history/ech/agc_schematics/

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 06:19 PM (Jr5Lq)

178 Panama, though somewhat tropical, has never been hit with a hurricane.

Posted by: It Has Enough Problems at October 09, 2026 06:19 PM (EdP2u)

179
I understand that Trump's Presidential Library will be on the 47th floor of a building he will build.

Posted by: CTHillary

================

This would be the most hilarious opportunity for a themed hospitality venue since the Madonna Inn on Highway 101. First floor is the George Washington Floor, second is the John Adams Floor, etc.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 09, 2026 06:19 PM (mmrXZ)

180 173 169 Looks like major part of storm hitting in between Pensacola and Panama City. Don’t see an eye.

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 06:17 PM (Gqar

based on the rotation in the radar, it's starting to get close to landfall...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:18 PM (l3cgK)

Yeah. Maybe 6:30 or so?

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 06:20 PM (Gqar8)

181 Barry Soetoro just like Hillary are like VD ........

They never go away and continue to fester ...

Posted by: Mike Hunt at October 09, 2026 06:20 PM (ENxVw)

182 What kind of name is Isaias?
Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 06:11 PM (viF8m)

Spanish. Waiting for a Hood name...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:17 PM (l3cgK)

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Hurricane Lil’ Loco has a nice ring to it ...

Posted by: ShainS at October 09, 2026 06:20 PM (D3x2Y)

183 nood

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 06:21 PM (Jr5Lq)

184 181 Barry Soetoro just like Hillary are like VD ........

They never go away and continue to fester ...

Posted by: Mike Hunt at October 09, 2026 06:20 PM (ENxVw)

Except there was NO night with Venus before a lifetime of Mercury...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:21 PM (l3cgK)

185 It sort of looks like there isn't going to be a Biden presidential library.
*
It will contain an incomplete set of Archie Comics and a bunch of old Hustlers with the pages mostly man-glued together.
Posted by: garrett at October 09, 2026


***
LOL

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:21 PM (wzUl9)

186 Nood extortionists.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 06:22 PM (vJrRc)

187 Breaking news:

"I am angry tonight.

Because today ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car.

ICE makes this city less safe.

We want them out. Now."

-- Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor

Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at October 09, 2026 06:22 PM (0sNs1)

188
Why on earth did Mamdani and Hochul get a TWO-HOUR phone call with Mullin and, reportedly, Trump over the shooting of that illegal alien with a rap sheet as long as Michelle's fake eyelashes? Good lord. "Get the president on the phone!" And president picks up, damn.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 09, 2026 06:23 PM (mmrXZ)

189 167 151 What kind of name is Isaias?

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 06:11 PM (viF8m)

Spanish. Waiting for a Hood name...

Next Hurricane name will be named MC Hammer or Snoop Dog in order to be None Racist ...

Posted by: Mike Hunt at October 09, 2026 06:23 PM (ENxVw)

190 2 What work could they possibly have to do there? Polish his statues?

It is such a big building, what do they produce, what is their revenue?
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 09, 2026 05:22 PM (GDYiM)


They don't produce anything yet, but that hardened media center (which is not a 'library') appears well-suited to coordinating a national Islamunist uprising and armed revolution. Once that long-term project is complete, the insider clique that controls the new levers of state power will all be effectively multi-mega-trillionaires, from essentially confiscating everything everywhere.

Posted by: SciVo at October 09, 2026 06:23 PM (ke3zm)

191
That annual income has got to be complete bullshit.

...Well, unless they've got some kind of money laundering operation going on in there.

Then maybe, since the USAID scam had been curtailed.

Hard Times In Butt Plug Chicago.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2026 06:23 PM (YSUhf)

192 Isaias is also used in the King James Bible: the committees doing the translation didin’t consult each other how to translate the names so sometimes it’s Isaiah, sometimes Isaias, which is closer to the Koine Greek.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 09, 2026 06:24 PM (W7ehW)

193 I hold that the concrete brutal monstrosity is meant to be the Islamic Kabala, the big moon rock they throw stones at and bey at moon during their pilgrimage.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 09, 2026 06:24 PM (l26NL)

194 I assume you have stockpiled supplies.

You mean The White Things™

• toilet paper / diapers
• bread
• milk
• rice
• eggs
• bottled water
• baby formula
• salt
• chicken boobs
• oatmeal

Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 06:24 PM (a6PrB)

195 I want a giant inflated rat rapin a wavey arms guy in front of the Temple of Doom, and I want it yesterday.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at October 09, 2026 06:27 PM (bX16E)

196 The Michelle hotdogs with the onions and ketchup at the concessions are spectacular.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at October 09, 2026 06:28 PM (SMG8K)

197
Katie Zakaria is new press secretary for DJT
Posted by: SDWtc




Oh...so his press secretary's not this...

"Zachariah"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt7GW6kLWQI



It's the First Electric Western!, you know?

Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2026 06:28 PM (YSUhf)

198 Barky's payoffs are just how Leftists shovel monry to their elitists. No different than writing a book, get millions and sell 1,000 books that no one reads

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 06:32 PM (Ia/+0)

199
The Biden Library will be built from boxes of classified documents from his garage.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 06:33 PM (eRlcH)

200 29 My advice to these people would be to stop complaining
Posted by: Paddleboard Zombie at October 09, 2026 05:37 PM (XeU6L)

I laughed.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at October 09, 2026 06:44 PM (9ZFZd)

201 Seriously, folks!

You KNOW that place had to have been built by crooked fly-by-night DEI contractors, right? We should start a pool on how many years it takes for the place to be condemned, and then how many years it sits there being a public nuisance, because there's no money to tear it down.

Is 20 years too long?

We could also wager on whether anybody gets killed, because they refuse to condemn chocolate Messiah's Holy Temple, when it needs to be, and it starts falling apart.

Posted by: MrExcitement at October 09, 2026 06:53 PM (ovdkm)

202 It sort of looks like there isn't going to be a Biden presidential library. That's OK.
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He could just use his garage.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 07:14 PM (XeU6L)

203 Revenue of roughly $200 Million a year. $1.1 Million of assets. I'm no accountant, but I'm guessing that someone is skimming bigtime.

Posted by: boatbuilder at October 09, 2026 08:00 PM (z1+LN)

Hollywood: Shit or Garbage?

I never explained the title of this thread. It's a play on an old joke about media sensationalism and bias. National Lampoon, for example, wrote an article with the headline:

UFOs: Threat or Menace?

The joke is that the question is loaded. You're not allowed to say "UFOs aren't real" or even "Meh." You're only given two possibilities, and each possibility is a near-perfect synonym for the other.

Noted biased media mogul J. Jonah Jameson used the loaded headline for his archnemesis, Spider-Man:

spidermanthreatormenacenew.jpg

On to the shit and/or garbage:

Even executives at the Disney Groomer Network know that soon-to-be-fired Jimmy Kimmel is an "asshole."

As Jimmy Kimmel's time at Disney draws to a close, it has exposed a fraught relationship behind the scenes.

As Page Six previously reported, the longtime late-night host is expected to end his show later this year after 24 years.

And sources tell Page Six he's partially to blame because he's "never played well in the sandbox."

For example, he's seldom appeared on the company's ABC shows like "Good Morning America" and "The View" because, we're told, "he doesn't want to be a shill."

"And when he does, he's a complete a--hole," according to one source.

The insider said he expects Disney shows to "prop up the stuff he was doing." "But he would never reciprocate," they said, "He would never have anyone on from ABC News... People would get upset."

Multiple sources shared similar stories, adding the "Jimmy Kimmel Live" star seldom invited New York talent to his show when he brings it to Brooklyn every year. "He's unmanageable," another source said and pointed out how he roasted Disney brass at the upfronts in May. "It was uncomfortable to say the least," they said.

WDW_Pro reports that Rosie O'Donnell was hoping the Disney Groomer Network would offer her a job on The View but they've passed.

She's also continuing to spread leftwing conspiracy theories which Jake Tapper continues to not notice because that would force him to condemn a fellow hyperpartisan Democrat.

Defiant L's
@DefiantLs


Rosie O'Donnell suggests Elon Musk "is doing something" in November with his "satellites"

She's calling other people "conspiracy theorists" but goes on to say sht like this lmao

This ugly aging cave-man too:

Western Lensman
@WesternLensman

Oct 4

Mark Ruffalo warns that Democrats need to be watchful for voting machine manipulation and suggests Elon Musk could be involved:

"We need to be on guard for what we may not see coming -- ELON."

"That's the cybersecurity of these elections."

"We know that these systems are vulnerable."

We have been reliably informed for years that this kind of rhetoric Undermines Faith In Elections and is Very Dangerous To Democracy

Spencer Pratt has a good rant about the Jew-hating conspiracy theorist Mark Ruffalo.


Mark Ruffalo is a Threat to Our Democracy

In an unhinged, tyrannical speech, reminiscent of a Hitlerian rally in 1930's Nazi Germany, an enraged Mark Ruffalo took to the stage and screamed into the microphone like a disheveled führer. While firing off outlandish conspiracies about Elon Musk rigging the election with space gadgets, flanked by signage that read "THEY" would "STEAL AN ELECTION". In the modern online parlance, "they" is code for "Jews", often indicated by triple parenthesis: (((they))). As if it weren't enough that he were accusing Jews of stealing the elections, his rhetoric soon would turn violent. Slurring his words, in an apparent drunken, profanity-laced tirade, Ruffalo then threatened to kill the President in an hypnotic and uncontrollable fit of rage, saying he was going to "Hulk out". He seemed to enjoy his violent fantasy, as he punctuated his terroristic threat with an ominous warning: "you wouldn't like me when I'm angry." If it weren't clear what he wanted, he repeatedly urged them to physically assault Republicans, screaming at the raucous crowd to organize into coordinated terror cells by encouraging them "to train" and "to fight".

This kind of Nazi-like antisemitic rage is something of a pattern for Mark Ruffalo. As he has publicly grappled with his midlife crisis for the past several years, he has become infamous for his antisemitic dog whistles and non sequiturs, curiously and inexplicably dragging Jews and Israel into the discussion about the Paramount merger...

Now obviously, this is the least charitable and most hyperbolic characterization of Ruffalo's woke tirade, but it's instructive. For years, people like Mark on the communist left have attacked anyone who questions the undoubtedly crooked elections in California, calling them "election deniers". But with the same breath, they can immediately turn and wail off on unhinged conspiracy theories about Elon Musk rigging the elections. They impeached President Trump for calling his 2020 election "rigged", even after spending the prior 4 years saying his 2016 election was "rigged by Russia". It's totally incoherent bullshit, of course, but there's almost no point to calling this out. For the communist, it's not hypocrisy; it's hierarchy. The language of the communist is the lie, so they will say anything they must, in any situation, to weaponize your morality against you.


The left is dragging actor Glen Powell, as they previously dragged Taylor Swift, because he won't endorse the leftwing Gay Race Marxism party line and avoids talking about "divisive" ideology.

This is just the beginning of the campaign to force him to Confess the True Marxist Faith or lose his career.

Glen Powell is the latest Hollywood heavyweight to express a disinterest in talking about politics in press interviews. The "Top Gun: Maverick" and "Chad Powers" star is on the last cover of Esquire magazine and remembered growing up with parents who never brought up current events at the dinner table, to which Powell said "thank God" for that. "Politics interests him even less now," the magazine writes.

"Over time, I realized that politics divide people," Powell said. "People trying to prove their point -- for me, it's the worst version of a conversation. I genuinely do not like the discourse. It's not as healthy as it once was. [Engaging in politics] is not presently possible. I applaud people for jumping into those things and fighting for what they believe in. If I were a political person, I would be talking about it. For me, my calling is elsewhere."

Powell's comments are similar to that of Dwayne Johnson, who in his own Esquire magazine cover story earlier this year said he will no longer speak publicly about politics. Johnson had already told Fox News in 2024 that he regretted endorsing Joe Biden for president in 2020 because it caused division amongst his fans. He then told Esquire that he wants to keep the focus solely on his art.

"Politics is omnipresent and it's forever. I don't like it. I hate it at times. I hate the slinging. I hate all the bullshit that comes with it," Johnson added at the time.

Vanity Fair trying to gin up a cancellation mob by demanding someone explain why he doesn't talk about what he doesn't want to talk about.

Woke 1 was crazyyy, man. I'm so glad we're on to Woke 2, which is not authoritarian or extremist or "crazyyyy" at all.

You know what they can never take away from him? This little smoocherooney he laid on fellow would-be cancellation victim Sydney Sweeney.

Louise Penny complains that the BBC is all DEI all the time.


Sometimes the ideology is laid on so thick that Albion TV shows [her term for prestige made-for-export crime dramas] veer into absurdism. In the first season of "Slow Horses," a nativist terror group literally named "Sons of Albion" kidnaps a student at a British university whose uncle is deputy head of Pakistani military intelligence. The actors playing the terrorists are all white, and affect exaggerated working-class accents. They plan to behead the young Muslim man live on camera (how typical of the British right!) but he escapes. In a climactic moment he tells his captor, "You make me ashamed to be British."

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This class factor goes a long way toward explaining the question that American friends have repeatedly asked me of late: Why doesn't the British government put a stop to the illegal immigration that is causing so much pain and mayhem? The current situation is clearly ridiculous. Since the last general election in 2024, more than 83,000 people are believed to have arrived illegally by crossing the English Channel by dinghy, meaning that these migrants now outnumber the 82,000 personnel in the British Army. The taxpayer has been burdened with the costs of accommodation, and the hotels that have been put to this use have been the focus of repeated protests and rioting. Why doesn't the government simply say "enough" and send the illegal entrants home?

The short answer is that opposing immigration, illegal or otherwise, is a class signifier in Britain, and most middle-class people--including most politicians--aren't prepared to support a political cause that would see them associated with the lower orders.

...

In a country where violent offenders are currently being released from prison to relieve overcrowding, the government still somehow finds space for the [white, lower-class] throwers of empty plastic bottles. And yet this state of anarcho-tyranny isn't driving middle-class British people to take to the streets en masse. Nor will they do so anytime soon. They would rather sit at home watching fantasy visions of Britain on TV. The explanation for this strange behavior is best summarized by political scientist Peter Pulzer, who in 1967 described class as "the basis of British party politics; all else is embellishment and detail."


Monty Python alum John Cleese was reported to the UK's Speech Police, "Prevent," by an Islamist media outlet called "5Pillars."


John Cleese is not a terrorist

The former Monty Python star's criticism of Islam is a free-speech matter, not one for government intrusion.

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We cannot even be secure in our use of the word "terrorist" any longer, given that so many are determined to abuse it. How else to explain the fact that comedian John Cleese, of Monty Python and "Fawlty Towers" fame, has been reported to Prevent, the British government program designed to stop people from becoming terrorists? Are dead parrots, silly walks and disgruntled hoteliers now deemed early warning signs of radicalization?

The complaint to Prevent against Cleese was made by a member of the public, and the details passed to 5Pillars, an Islamist media outlet based in London. In its report, 5Pillars characterized the complaint as alleging that Cleese's social media jokes and comments "go beyond legitimate criticism of Islam and instead portray Muslims collectively as violent, criminal and morally depraved." The complaint, quoted by 5Pillars, said Cleese's rhetoric may contribute to "radicalisation, communal tension, and hate incidents." (If you haven't heard of "hate incidents," they are those noncrimes that the British police seem to spend so much of their time investigating.)

None of this is true, of course. Cleese rightly rejects the term "Islamophobic" and instead calls himself "Islamosceptic." How could he be otherwise? This is a man who has brilliantly skewered closed systems of thought for many decades. Many readers will remember Python members' televised debate in 1979 with writer Malcolm Muggeridge and Bishop Mervyn Stockwood, who were furious at what they perceived to be a direct attack on Christianity in "Monty Python's Life of Brian."

Just imagine the conniptions if, instead of the priggish, outraged Muggeridge and Stockwood, the offended party were a representative from 5Pillars.

Cleese has responded to the Prevent referral in the best possible way: by mocking it. "One of the proudest moments of my life," he posted on X. "I would like to thank everyone concerned." The tyrannical mindset, always humorless, cannot bear to be ridiculed. Few will be surprised that there are those who wish to see Cleese silenced -- in August, 5Pillars said "The Islamophobic comedian John Cleese should be de-platformed" -- and that they will try to weaponize the law to that end.

But what exactly is 5Pillars? "Protecting our Democracy from Coercion," a 2024 British government report, described 5Pillars as having "expressed support for an Islamic caliphate, Sharia (Islamic principles and law) penal codes and physical jihad" and "repeatedly abused and intimidated Muslim liberals, counter-extremists, and human rights activists."

Yet the government, whether under Conservative leadership in recent years or under Labour now, has long been inclined more toward woke orthodoxy. A 2022 report by Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee lists "cultural nationalism" as one of the ideological strands associated with "extreme right-wing terrorism." This same classification has been incorporated into the Home Office's Prevent guidance. Here is the gloss the committee provides for the phrase "cultural nationalism":

"A belief that 'Western Culture' is under threat from mass migration into Europe and from a lack of integration by certain ethnic and cultural groups. The ideology tends to focus on the rejection of cultural practices such as the wearing of the burqa, or the perceived rise of the use of sharia law. In the UK this has been closely associated with anti-Islam groups."

He said that he prefers a culture that doesn't perform female genital mutilations or kill infidels.

This is "controversial."

It is controversial to the weird minority who controls the culture. For the moment.

There are three actresses I love to see fail: Anne Hathaway, Olivia Wilde (real name Cockburn), and Jessica Chastain, the extremely divisive left-wing slogan-spitter who will "star" in The Savant -- a tv show about a Stronk and Empowered Left-Wing Woman who entraps dangerous right-wing manosphere types by sleeping with them -- if it's ever allowed to air.

Chastain was forced to take a role in a horror movie, which is, of course, beneath her.


Apparently, it's a disaster.

Even the left-wing-protection-racket outlet The Hollywood Reporter roasts it.


'Other Mommy' First Reactions: "Jessica Chastain's Worst Movie in a Long Time"


The first reactions are in the Universal horror film, which is being held back from most critics until the last minute.

First reactions finally in for Other Mommy, and some are pretty scary for Universal.

The horror movie isn't having official U.S. critics screenings until the last minute, with previews held tonight in New York and Los Angeles before the film opens Friday. But some international influencers, awards bloggers, and a few credentialed Rotten Tomatoes critics have seen the film, and are offering their hot takes.

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Here are some of the early reactions to the film, which does have a few enthusiastic fans in the mix as well.

The Jam Report: "By the time Other Mommy staggered towards its ludicrous finale, the audience at my screening had abandoned any pretense of fear and erupted into laughter ... An excruciating parade of ineffective jump scares, woeful CGI, and increasingly nonsensical storytelling, Other Mommy is comfortably among the most disappointing horror films of the year. It had transformed a promising supernatural premise into an unintentionally hilarious endurance test, all while remaining blissfully unaware of its own absurdity. 1.5/5."

The Matinee Show: "Solid creepy premise, but it definitely starts to lose its grip. Some genuinely unsettling moments, mixed with a few 'okay... what the hell are we doing?' moments. Not bad, just messier than scary 3/5."

Global Box Office: "Other Mommy is a hot mess and Jessica Chastain's worst movie in a long time. The direction is sloppy, the score is unremarkable, and not even Chastain can save such a terrible screenplay ... What should be a straightforward premise is bogged down by cheap melodrama and repetitive, failed jump scares."

Goldwin Reviews: "Other Mommy is like a buffet of all the other horror movies rolled into one. It can get overwhelming, but that excess becomes part of a meaningful experience. Eventually, it becomes a feast for the soul that yearns for horror with substance. The film isn't content with settling into just one form. It has many layers, constantly reinventing itself. 4/5."

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Screen Space: "Ponderously paced, over-directed with gimmicky flourishes and confusing in its half-baked message, Other Mommy wants to be 'elevated horror' but stumbles trying to climb above the better films it's seeking to be ... There's an extended sequence that rips off Tobe Hooper's Poltergeist and some realm displacement nonsense that doesn't make sense, on the way to an embarrassingly overwrought ending. 1.5/5."

Some other slams:


Herb Simon's PR Manager 👑
@HerbSimon1986

Well, Jessica Chastain did the best she could & I won't blame her at all. However, #OtherMommy is a pure mess and masterfully cringe, but it's also a bonker fun if you truly want something to killing yr time on 3am. It's like Rob Savage remaking "Boogeyman" with a prestige cast😕


Peter Gray
@ratedPDG

16h

#OtherMommy: Despite that trailer and one surprisingly gory sequence, this INSIDIOUS-lite supernatural "horror" flick is more silly than it is scary. Jessica Chastain commits but that isn't enough to overcome the stupidity.

Why does everyone rush to protect this single-expression actress? Her face is almost incapable of movement, like she fell into vat of botox. Her one expression is Immobily Bitchy.


Doug Jamieson
@itsdougjam

11h

OTHER MOMMY is truly dreadful. Despite one of the silliest horror plots of the year and a woeful script, it takes itself so staggeringly seriously. An endless parade of ineffective jump scares, awful CGI, and a finale that drew unintentional laughter several times. #OtherMommy

Justine Bateman has thoughts on Hollywood's plea to save the movie theaters:


Justine Bateman
@JustineBateman

Here's the thing about "Keep theaters alive!" and "Go watch this film in the movie theater!"

It's a two-way agreement.

The audience agrees to pay to see films in a theater only if:
- The filmmakers are shooting scripts that have a thesis statement/intention/point.
- The actors and director are giving it their all, and not phoning it in.
- The edit has trimmed off all the fat.
- The film isn't some didactic exercise, intent on jamming a "lesson" into us.
- The studio executives have paid close attention to the film from start to finish and have given the filmmakers useful notes to keep it all on-track.
- The film is entertaining.
- (And the theater managers are maintaining some order and decorum in the theaters themselves.)

Otherwise, the audiences will continue to stay home and wait for the films to come online, so they can maybe watch five minutes of it or scrub through, and then turn it off.

The film has to be excellent. Or at least try in that direction.

Much of what is released is just not good enough.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:20 PM




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1 Yep

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 04:24 PM (GZ3K7)

2 I wish Cleese would rebel like he did with his Hitler skit and goosestepping on Fawlty. Mock the mo's, dude! I would buy it!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 09, 2026 04:24 PM (hzuYO)

3 Justine Bateman has thoughts on Hollywood's plea to save the movie theaters:

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I think this year is gearing up to be the best year for movie theaters since 2019.

Some very big successes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:25 PM (1kJuV)

4 Mark Ruffalo warns that Democrats need to be watchful for voting machine manipulation and suggests Elon Musk could be involved:


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I’m so old I remember when Democrats swore up and down that it’s impossible to steal elections.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 04:26 PM (qoHuP)

5 What's funny is--don't ask me why I thought this--but until earlier this year, I was convinced that Mark Ruffalo was Jewish.

Posted by: Dr. T at October 09, 2026 04:27 PM (lHPJf)

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4 Mark Ruffalo warns that Democrats need to be watchful for voting machine manipulation and suggests Elon Musk could be involved:


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I’m so old I remember when Democrats swore up and down that it’s impossible to steal elections.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 04:26 PM (qoHuP)

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Yeah, then Trump proved them wrong by stealing 2024 by winning all the swing states. Which is impossible. It hadn't happened in 40 years, which means that it has no precedent. No precedent at all.

I can't believe Biden let him get away with it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:27 PM (1kJuV)

7 I’ll return to that theater when people stop talking for the duration of the movie and stop using their phones.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 04:28 PM (qoHuP)

8 What's funny is--don't ask me why I thought this--but until earlier this year, I was convinced that Mark Ruffalo was Jewish.
Posted by: Dr. T


It's the nebbish persona of Dr Bruce Banner.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 04:28 PM (vJrRc)

9 Speaking of the BBC Andy Carroll was Drugged and raped by Kevin Adams from BBC's fame Academy. Carroll's wife was Friends with Kevin Adams and she invited him over after Andy Carroll's game with Newcastle to watch a boxing match, Kevin Adams gave Andy a drink and he instantly felt terrible went to bed and he woke up being raped. Screamed called the cops Kevin Adams was arrested for rape, this was 3 YEARS ago and it wasn't in the news at all until this month.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at October 09, 2026 04:29 PM (9aCbn)

10 Edward Norton > Mark Ruffalo

And Edward Norton kind of sucks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:29 PM (1kJuV)

11 Chastain was forced to take a role in a horror movie, which is, of course, beneath her.
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Wot? Is there anything else beneath her?

Posted by: mrp at October 09, 2026 04:30 PM (rj6Yv)

12
I'd keep Kimmel on the payroll just so I could have the pleasure of firing him every day.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 04:30 PM (eRlcH)

13 Cinematic-quality AI is advancing at furious pace.

Posted by: mrp at October 09, 2026 04:31 PM (rj6Yv)

14 The film has to be excellent. Or at least try in that direction.

Much of what is released is just not good enough.


Theater goers had better get their butts back in theater seats tout de suite. We'll hold them to it.

Posted by: Jake Tapper at October 09, 2026 04:32 PM (Riz8t)

15 I don't watch horror flicks (unless you count spy stuff or murder shows of bad guys...those we watch and laugh at weird and gory deaths). If the dead guy falls dead dramatically, or has his head ripped off by an elevator (Reacher, last night) we approve.

This is sick and we know it but feel it is harmless as we are not going to suddenly copy this in our lives. I have been this way since Justified, and Mags was my heroine.

Demonic horror is a totally different thing for us. A college classmate took me to see The Omen and I was never the same about similar movies. I don't do demonic.

The last Steven King (the strange looking lesbian who was hit by a car and still lives on the side of the road) book I read was The Shining. We were newlywed. I was washing my face in the bathroom sink one night and my new husband walked in, causing me to scream. He suggested I not read any more books of King's and I haven't.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 09, 2026 04:32 PM (hzuYO)

16 Speaking of the BBC Andy Carroll was Drugged and raped by Kevin Adams from BBC's fame Academy. Carroll's wife was Friends with Kevin Adams and she invited him over after Andy Carroll's game with Newcastle to watch a boxing match, Kevin Adams gave Andy a drink and he instantly felt terrible went to bed and he woke up being raped. Screamed called the cops Kevin Adams was arrested for rape, this was 3 YEARS ago and it wasn't in the news at all until this month.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at October 09, 2026 04:29 PM (9aCbn)


Love is love, bigot!

Posted by: Dr. T at October 09, 2026 04:32 PM (lHPJf)

17 Since when does "Hollywood: Shit or Garbage" come after "The Week in Woke"?

I take a brief nap on a Friday afternoon and the entire world gets turned inside out and upside down....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 04:32 PM (FZ29D)

18 "Just imagine the conniptions if, instead of the priggish, outraged Muggeridge and Stockwood, "

I didn't see the debate so I have no idea about whether these individuals were "priggish and outraged". I do know that Malcolm
Muggeridge was a former satirist and I have read some of his books on religion and appreciated his writing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 09, 2026 04:32 PM (JrHfD)

19 ugh that's a good book they made the Other Mommy film from. so that sucks.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 04:32 PM (j+aD2)

20 The 2nd season of the Three Body Problem is supposed to be on Netflix soon. If it weren't for that, I'd cancel NF. Well, that and my wife watches several shows on it, and told me we were NOT canceling it.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 04:34 PM (Riz8t)

21 >>>Since when does "Hollywood: Shit or Garbage" come after "The Week in Woke"?


I figure people are going home early today so I moved the posts around. So that the bigger posts would come earlier.

Posted by: ace at October 09, 2026 04:34 PM (1wjle)

22 I'd keep Kimmel on the payroll just so I could have the pleasure of firing him every day.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 04:30 PM (eRlcH)
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Man, I'd watch a movie with that premise. Something like "Being John Malkovich".

"Being Jimmy Kimmel" in the right (ahem) hands would be awesome.

Posted by: mrp at October 09, 2026 04:35 PM (rj6Yv)

23 20 The 2nd season of the Three Body Problem is supposed to be on Netflix soon. If it weren't for that, I'd cancel NF. Well, that and my wife watches several shows on it, and told me we were NOT canceling it.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 04:34 PM (Riz8t)

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The Great British Bake Off!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:35 PM (1kJuV)

24 Thanks for explaining the title. Unnecessary since anyone with two functioning brain cells got it.

Posted by: Dandalo at October 09, 2026 04:35 PM (tmYdE)

25 I figure people are going home early today so I moved the posts around. So that the bigger posts would come earlier.

Besides, you've got to keep your powder dry in case Talarico jumps off a bridge or something.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 04:35 PM (Riz8t)

26 25 I figure people are going home early today so I moved the posts around. So that the bigger posts would come earlier.

Besides, you've got to keep your powder dry in case Talarico jumps off a bridge or something.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 04:35 PM (Riz8t)

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More accurately: We find out that Talarico did jump off a bridge 13 days ago.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:36 PM (1kJuV)

27 The left is dragging actor Glen Powell, as they previously dragged Taylor Swift, because he won't endorse the leftwing Gay Race Marxism party line and avoids talking about "divisive" ideology.

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Glen Powell >>>>>>>>> Ryan Fucking Reynolds

Posted by: runner at October 09, 2026 04:36 PM (AKptf)

28 27 The left is dragging actor Glen Powell, as they previously dragged Taylor Swift, because he won't endorse the leftwing Gay Race Marxism party line and avoids talking about "divisive" ideology.

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Glen Powell >>>>>>>>> Ryan Fucking Reynolds

Posted by: runner at October 09, 2026 04:36 PM (AKptf)

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The Running Man is pretty good. A bit too episodic and the ending doesn't quite stick like it should. But pretty good entertainment.

Better than the novella, at least.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:37 PM (1kJuV)

29 Since when does "Hollywood: Shit or Garbage" come after "The Week in Woke"?

I take a brief nap on a Friday afternoon and the entire world gets turned inside out and upside down....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 04:32 PM (FZ29D)



would you like to speak with the manager ?

Posted by: first time commenter at October 09, 2026 04:37 PM (AKptf)

30 Defiant L's
@DefiantLs


Rosie O'Donnell suggests Elon Musk "is doing something" in November with his "satellites"


Yeah, Rosie, he's making billion$ off of them, just like he does every month.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:38 PM (6ydKt)

31 Incidents Around the House is the excellent horror novel that Other Mommy is based on.

I'm sad they screwed it up.

the new Carrie is good-ish so far

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 04:38 PM (j+aD2)

32 "That's the cybersecurity of these elections."

"We know that these systems are vulnerable."


So you're demanding single-day voting with ID required and paper ballots only to prevent OrangeManBad from cheating, right?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 09, 2026 04:38 PM (3mtzY)

33 31 Incidents Around the House is the excellent horror novel that Other Mommy is based on.

I'm sad they screwed it up.

the new Carrie is good-ish so far

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 04:38 PM (j+aD2)

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None of these things have people dancing in jerky motions with jazz hands and hats at tilted angles on people's heads.

So, you know...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:39 PM (1kJuV)

34 "It's totally incoherent bullshit, of course, but there's almost no point to calling this out. For the communist, it's not hypocrisy; it's hierarchy. The language of the communist is the lie, so they will say anything they must, in any situation, to weaponize your morality against you."

Pratt has them pretty much nailed.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:40 PM (6ydKt)

35 Halloween AI edition:

Hey, AI, I'm a male, and my Halloween costume this year is a female transgender identifying as a male. That way, I don't have to buy a costume. Do you think I can pull it off?

AI: It treats an identity as a caricature: Using someone's gender identity or transition as a Halloween costume often relies on stereotypes, which can come across as mocking rather than clever.

Me: That's odd. I see self-proclaimed transgenders portraying gender as a caricature all the time. In fact, they go so stereotypical on their chosen gender that it can't be perceived as anything else. You need to check out a Drag Show Story Hour sometime. Even their names are caricatures.

Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 04:40 PM (dIske)

36 Embrace the power of and

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 04:40 PM (Ia/+0)

37 he Running Man is pretty good. A bit too episodic and the ending doesn't quite stick like it should. But pretty good entertainment.

Better than the novella, at least.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:37 PM (1kJuV)

I meant Ryan Fucking Gosling!! Hate that guy!

Posted by: runner at October 09, 2026 04:40 PM (AKptf)

38 I think this year is gearing up to be the best year for movie theaters since 2019.

Some very big successes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:25 PM (1kJuV)

And unless I'm mistaken, Backrooms and Obsession had nothing to do with Hollywood.

I'm pretty excited about future releases from people who actually love to make movies.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at October 09, 2026 04:40 PM (ZgwKJ)

39 *Reynolds is probably ok

Posted by: runner at October 09, 2026 04:40 PM (AKptf)

40 Rosie O'Donnell suggests Elon Musk "is doing something" in November with his "satellites"

Fire can't melt satelites!
/sarc

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 04:40 PM (l3cgK)

41 38 And unless I'm mistaken, Backrooms and Obsession had nothing to do with Hollywood.

I'm pretty excited about future releases from people who actually love to make movies.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at October 09, 2026 04:40 PM (ZgwKJ)

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Most of the success comes from Toy Story 5, Spider-Man, and The Odyssey, I believe. The Odyssey is up to about $1.7 billion worldwide.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:40 PM (1kJuV)

42 Mark Ruffalo would fill the role of Rudolph Hess in today's Demo-Nazi party quite well.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at October 09, 2026 04:41 PM (5yDGQ)

43 More accurately: We find out that Talarico did jump off a bridge 13 days ago.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:36 PM (1kJuV)


Most accurately: We find out there never was a Talarico.

Posted by: Dr. T at October 09, 2026 04:41 PM (lHPJf)

44 >>>19 ugh that's a good book they made the Other Mommy film from. so that sucks.

I heard they ignored the book. Except for the one scene in the trailer, which I hear comes from the book. Then they just made the whole movie repetitions of that one scene.

Posted by: ace at October 09, 2026 04:41 PM (1wjle)

45
43 More accurately: We find out that Talarico did jump off a bridge 13 days ago.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:36 PM (1kJuV)


Most accurately: We find out there never was a Talarico.

Posted by: Dr. T at October 09, 2026 04:41 PM (lHPJf)

======

No one could really be that woke and stupid, could they?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:41 PM (1kJuV)

46 Rosie O'Donnell suggests Elon Musk "is doing something" in November with his "satellites"

===

Everybody knows, and it is just a fact that the best weapon against satellite manipulation is a large tin foil hat.

Posted by: runner at October 09, 2026 04:42 PM (AKptf)

47 "Over time, I realized that politics divide people," Powell said. "People trying to prove their point -- for me, it's the worst version of a conversation. I genuinely do not like the discourse. It's not as healthy as it once was. [Engaging in politics] is not presently possible. I applaud people for jumping into those things and fighting for what they believe in. If I were a political person, I would be talking about it. For me, my calling is elsewhere."

I get it.
But that is, unfortunately, the exact position the left wants most people to take.

To them it's not avoiding conflict, it's ceding the field of battle of ideas to their superior ideas and selves.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:42 PM (6ydKt)

48 Mark Ruffalo warns that Democrats need to be watchful for voting machine manipulation and suggests Elon Musk could be involved

Oh please, lets have LOTS of oversight and LOTS of cameras on what's going on during the collection and tallying of ballots!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 04:42 PM (l3cgK)

49 Thanks for explaining the title. Unnecessary since anyone with two functioning brain cells got it.

Not necessarily. Pop culture references can lure you into Pauline Kael syndrome. Not everyone knows what "everyone knows."

Posted by: Oddbob at October 09, 2026 04:42 PM (vTZFs)

50 >>>19 ugh that's a good book they made the Other Mommy film from. so that sucks.

I heard they ignored the book. Except for the one scene in the trailer, which I hear comes from the book. Then they just made the whole movie repetitions of that one scene.
Posted by: ace at October 09, 2026 04:41 PM (1wjle)
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That sounds like Hollywood. Take an IP that worked, strip it of everything that was good, then wrap it around another movie (the director's *preferred* movie) like a skinsuit.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 04:43 PM (FZ29D)

51 46 Rosie O'Donnell suggests Elon Musk "is doing something" in November with his "satellites"

===

Everybody knows, and it is just a fact that the best weapon against satellite manipulation is a large tin foil hat.

Posted by: runner at October 09, 2026 04:42 PM (AKptf)

Faraday cage. But making one big enough to house Rosie might be a problem...we're gonna need a bigger cage...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 04:43 PM (l3cgK)

52 >>> 24 Thanks for explaining the title. Unnecessary since anyone with two functioning brain cells got it.
Posted by: Dandalo at October 09, 2026 04:35 PM (tmYdE)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THAT PINE-SCENTED DRUID PHILOPSOPHER TRIED TO PRETEND NOBODY KNOWS WHAT '86' MEANS.

Posted by: BEN ROTHLESSBERGERER at October 09, 2026 04:43 PM (3mtzY)

53 I have never fathomed how some producer ever looked at Mark Ruffalo and thought, "there's the star for my next movie!" The fat schlub has about as much charisma as the guy who installed my water heater.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 04:43 PM (guGkK)

54 "AI film ‘Gods don't give gifts' sets first trailer, plans Oscar bid"

Posted by: runner at October 09, 2026 04:43 PM (AKptf)

55 I never explained the title of this thread.

Never explain a joke.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 04:44 PM (guGkK)

56 55 I never explained the title of this thread.

Never explain a joke.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 04:44 PM (guGkK)

=====

Jokes are only funny if you explain them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:44 PM (1kJuV)

57 43 More accurately: We find out that Talarico did jump off a bridge 13 days ago.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:36 PM (1kJuV)


Most accurately: We find out there never was a Talarico.

Posted by: Dr. T at October 09, 2026 04:41 PM (lHPJf)

Here's my theory.

Talarico was at a DNC fund-raiser, planning event with all the biggest names in the DNC.

The waiter comes around with hors d'oerves and Talarico just goes and grabs the last white baby fetus, which Hilary wanted to eat.

And now he's missing.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 09, 2026 04:45 PM (Sco7b)

58 Olivia Wilde (real name Cockburn)

She would've made a great pornstar.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:45 PM (6ydKt)

59 "didactic exercise"

is that the kind of exercise the Cornell Ho was engaged in?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 04:45 PM (l3cgK)

60 Besides, you've got to keep your powder dry in case Talarico jumps off a bridge or something.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 04:35 PM (Riz8t)

*******
True. I was going to ask if he'd turned up yet. I'm enjoying the mystery of where is the weirdo.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 09, 2026 04:46 PM (hzuYO)

61 58 Olivia Wilde (real name Cockburn)

She would've made a great pornstar.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:45 PM (6ydKt)

======

Jason Sudeikas comes off as a grounded, nice guy. Wilde comes off as a complete cvnt.

No idea how they made that marriage work as long as they did.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:46 PM (1kJuV)

62 58 Olivia Wilde (real name Cockburn)

She would've made a great pornstar.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:45 PM (6ydKt)

or for ads for STD treatments?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 04:46 PM (l3cgK)

63 It's like Rob Savage remaking "Boogeyman" with a prestige cast😕

Just what I've been waiting for.

I'll wait for it to come out on VHS and check it out.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:46 PM (6ydKt)

64 Emily Blunt is a passable actress, but she's nothing special to look at. What is my point? Beats me.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 04:47 PM (Riz8t)

65 The film has to be excellent. Or at least try in that direction.

Much of what is released is just not good enough.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:20 PM


If the Ellison's had any brains they'd be trying to hire Justine to run production at Paramount.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:48 PM (6ydKt)

66 53 I have never fathomed how some producer ever looked at Mark Ruffalo and thought, "there's the star for my next movie!" The fat schlub has about as much charisma as the guy who installed my water heater.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 04:43 PM (guGkK)
*****
I've never liked him and thought he looked like a big doofus. I can't recall one movie he's been on that I watched. Or if I did, I ignored him.

His face looks like a bloated Macy's helium balloon...which is probably most of his brain as well.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 09, 2026 04:48 PM (hzuYO)

67 Olivia Wilde (real name Cockburn)

She would've made a great pornstar.


At 42, she...has NOT aged well.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 04:49 PM (Riz8t)

68 >>> 53 I have never fathomed how some producer ever looked at Mark Ruffalo and thought, "there's the star for my next movie!" The fat schlub has about as much charisma as the guy who installed my water heater.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 04:43 PM (guGkK)

Um...

Posted by: Harvey Weinstein's ficus at October 09, 2026 04:49 PM (3mtzY)

69 65 If the Ellison's had any brains they'd be trying to hire Justine to run production at Paramount.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:48 PM (6ydKt)

=======

Ellison's company made Mayday, which is a tale of moral equivalence between the USSR and the US.

I don't know why anyone thinks he's going to run Paramount/WB like Ben Shapiro runs The Daily Wire.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:49 PM (1kJuV)

70 If you REALLY want to hate Hollywood more - "The Connors". Sadly, I had a bad patch and it spoke to me.

Wokest comedy ever. Gay kid guy wearing skirts. Tranny boss. A special lesson every freaking episode. Wow, I was in a dark place.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 09, 2026 04:50 PM (Sco7b)

71 in other news, Roseanne Barr is back with a new sitcom. "Roseanne Barr reveals comeback sitcom “Meemaw”: ‘It’s every bit as revolutionary as the “Roseanne” show, if not more’"...moar "Roseanne Barr shoots secret comedy series with star-studded cast in huge comeback "

Posted by: runner at October 09, 2026 04:50 PM (AKptf)

72 The fat schlub has about as much charisma as the guy who installed my water heater.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 04:43 PM (guGkK)
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That seems a little harsh. The guy installing your water heater is performing a useful service.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 04:51 PM (FZ29D)

73 "According to Page Six, the comedian is yet again the matriarch of the family. But instead of the Midwest Conners, her new on-screen brood is a "mixed-race family of preppers in Texas." The show also features The Sopranos' actress Drea de Matteo (as Barr's daughter), Randy Quaid (as Barr's husband), Omar Gooding (as Barr's son-in-law), and Doug Jones. Jon Lovitz, Tony Hinchcliffe (as Satan), and Kim Congdon guest star.

Along with the adult cast members, Meemaw also stars Indy Bugg, an Insta-famous tween, as Barr's granddaughter. "

Posted by: runner at October 09, 2026 04:51 PM (AKptf)

74 >>> 69

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Ellison's company made Mayday, which is a tale of moral equivalence between the USSR and the US.
==
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:49 PM (1kJuV)

That's not what the preview looked like.

Are you saying that Hollywood ... lies sometimes?!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 09, 2026 04:51 PM (3mtzY)

75
If the Ellison's had any brains they'd be trying to hire Justine to run production at Paramount.


At this point, I think it's safe to say that both father and son have/had brains. I mean, the guy could have just coasted on his father's money, enjoying the yacht rock lifestyle. Instead, he's chosen to enter the lion's pit. If Hollywood can be saved from itself, David Ellison will be the one to do it.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 04:52 PM (Riz8t)

76 74 That's not what the preview looked like.

Are you saying that Hollywood ... lies sometimes?!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 09, 2026 04:51 PM (3mtzY)

=======

"The US is just as bad as the USSR because the military didn't reveal cancer risks to military employees."
-the ending, pretty much

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:52 PM (1kJuV)

77 I don't know why anyone thinks he's going to run Paramount/WB like Ben Shapiro runs The Daily Wire.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:49 PM (1kJuV)

At least they aren't communist so I figure things can only go up from here.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:53 PM (6ydKt)

78 Well, new WH press secretary seems to be a solid choice:

Katie Zacharia

Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 04:53 PM (dIske)

79
I have never fathomed how some producer ever looked at Mark Ruffalo and thought, "there's the star for my next movie!" The fat schlub has about as much charisma as the guy who installed my water heater.
Posted by: Cicero

===============

The first film I saw him in was Collateral, and he was very cool, but I put that down to the art direction and production design, which were also quite cool in that movie.

He was also outstanding in a small indie movie called You Can Count on Me.

It's too bad he's a lefty nutjob.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 09, 2026 04:53 PM (mmrXZ)

80 Emily Blunt is a passable actress, but she's nothing special to look at. What is my point? Beats me.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 04:47 PM (Riz8t)


Hard disagree. She's no ginger, but she's one of my favorite actresses, in looks and talent.

Posted by: Dr. T at October 09, 2026 04:53 PM (lHPJf)

81 ...Jon Lovitz, Tony Hinchcliffe (as Stan)...

WTF, how is *Lovitz* not playing Stan?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 09, 2026 04:53 PM (3mtzY)

82 79
The first film I saw him in was Collateral, and he was very cool, but I put that down to the art direction and production design, which were also quite cool in that movie.

He was also outstanding in a small indie movie called You Can Count on Me.

It's too bad he's a lefty nutjob.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 09, 2026 04:53 PM (mmrXZ)

========

Michael Mann almost broke Ruffalo during that shoot. He asked Ruffalo to do a take like 50 times, and it was just Ruffalo talking into a phone.

I wish he had gone for 100 takes and actually broken Ruffalo.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:54 PM (1kJuV)

83
I don't know why anyone thinks he's going to run Paramount/WB like Ben Shapiro runs The Daily Wire.

===

You mean Caleb Robinson, the CEO of Daily Wire.

Posted by: runner at October 09, 2026 04:54 PM (AKptf)

84 80 Hard disagree. She's no ginger, but she's one of my favorite actresses, in looks and talent.

Posted by: Dr. T at October 09, 2026 04:53 PM (lHPJf)

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Did you pay to see her in her big-budget action spectacular directed by Steven Spielberg, Disclosure Day, this summer?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:54 PM (1kJuV)

85 67 Olivia Wilde (real name Cockburn)

She would've made a great pornstar.

At 42, she...has NOT aged well.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 04:49 PM (Riz8t)


I don't think I've seen her in anything since Cowboys & Aliens and she looked like she needs to eat a few sammiches in that one.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:54 PM (6ydKt)

86 64 Emily Blunt is a passable actress, but she's nothing special to look at. What is my point? Beats me.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 04:47 PM (Riz8t)

_________________

She had my attention in "Edge of Tomorrow."

Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 04:55 PM (dIske)

87 "Jokes are only funny if you explain them."

I don't get it.

Posted by: A random guy on the net at October 09, 2026 04:55 PM (dCMJG)

88

Federal judge temporarily blocks deportation of illegal stopped by ICE yesterday.

That did not take long.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 04:56 PM (/QHx4)

89
If the Ellison's had any brains they'd be trying to hire Justine to run production at Paramount.

=================

Justine is against AI. Sorry, kiddo, remember when we introduced talkies?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 09, 2026 04:56 PM (mmrXZ)

90 Well, new WH press secretary seems to be a solid choice:

Katie Zacharia


She's not the hottest WH PS ever, though. I'd put that at Dana Perino > Karoline Leavitt > Kayleigh McEnany

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 04:56 PM (Riz8t)

91 I'm pretty sure Jessica Chastain and Bryce Dallas Howard are the same person.

Posted by: Jordan61 at October 09, 2026 04:56 PM (DRSnL)

92 "Emily Blunt is a passable actress, but she's nothing special to look at. What is my point? Beats me."

Waffle House 6

Posted by: A random guy on the net at October 09, 2026 04:57 PM (dCMJG)

93 Did you pay to see her in her big-budget action spectacular directed by Steven Spielberg, Disclosure Day, this summer?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:54 PM (1kJuV)


No, but that's only because I heard Disclosure Day was anti-Christian. I had been strongly considering it until then.

Posted by: Dr. T at October 09, 2026 04:57 PM (lHPJf)

94 89
If the Ellison's had any brains they'd be trying to hire Justine to run production at Paramount.

=================

Justine is against AI. Sorry, kiddo, remember when we introduced talkies?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 09, 2026 04:56 PM (mmrXZ)


I can see why that would screw-up her getting a job at a studio then.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:57 PM (6ydKt)

95 Zakaria and Zacharia...you might get confused.

Posted by: runner at October 09, 2026 04:57 PM (AKptf)

96 Woohoo. No more extra Fed paperwork and stamps on SBR’s and suppressors nationwide. Only a 4373.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 09, 2026 04:57 PM (o5jAD)

97 As for Mark Buffalo, his role in Zodiac was decent, but that's as far as any praise will go. He's a weird-looking, nerdy goblin. He probably smells like onion soup and fromunda.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 09, 2026 04:58 PM (0aYVJ)

98 I love the Chad Powers series. Just finished the 6 episode 2nd season . The 3rd and last season has a lot of ways it can go. I hope they don't screw it up.

And sorry Rock but it wasn't your vote for Biden that made me boycott you but your support of kneeling for the Anthem. Fuck you.

Posted by: polynikes at October 09, 2026 04:59 PM (KC5Lt)

99 When AI gets really great at making movies.

I want young Elizabeth Taylor as my favorite villain!

Posted by: Goatweed at October 09, 2026 04:59 PM (jK3NL)

100 Edge of Tomorrow was enjoyable.
Not the bestest sci-fi flick ever, but it was better than I expected it to be.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:59 PM (6ydKt)

101 Good for John Cleese but I never found Monty Python or any of their movies funny.

Posted by: polynikes at October 09, 2026 05:00 PM (KC5Lt)

102 Judge also block the illegal criminal from being moved out of NY.

Next will be an order for his release until final appeal. Bank on it.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 09, 2026 05:00 PM (o5jAD)

103 Zacharia is a lawyer, Pepperdine Law. I believe Ken Star taught there after the em-peach saga.

Posted by: runner at October 09, 2026 05:00 PM (AKptf)

104 Good for John Cleese but I never found Monty Python or any of their movies funny.

I think the Holy Grail was the only one of their movies that holds up.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 05:00 PM (Riz8t)

105 *Ken Starr

Posted by: runner at October 09, 2026 05:00 PM (AKptf)

106 99 When AI gets really great at making movies.

I want young Elizabeth Taylor as my favorite villain!

Posted by: Goatweed at October 09, 2026 04:59 PM (jK3NL)


Shirley Temple as Cruella Deville.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:01 PM (6ydKt)

107 yep dean of LAw

Posted by: runner at October 09, 2026 05:01 PM (AKptf)

108 96 Woohoo. No more extra Fed paperwork and stamps on SBR’s and suppressors nationwide. Only a 4373.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 09, 2026 04:57 PM (o5jAD)

58008 would be more fun...

California has § 58008...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 05:01 PM (l3cgK)

109 I take a brief nap on a Friday afternoon and the entire world gets turned inside out and upside down....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Snooze you lose, don't you fall asleep.
Somebody's watchin' somethin' you wanna keep.

Posted by: Condition RED!! at October 09, 2026 05:01 PM (EdP2u)

110
>>Mark Ruffalo warns that Democrats need to be watchful for voting machine manipulation and suggests Elon Musk could be involved

=================

At first you'd think this would be a call for voter ID, then you realize it's a wingnut warning that Elon is about to flip a switch that MAGAs the entire internet.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 09, 2026 05:01 PM (mmrXZ)

111 101 Good for John Cleese but I never found Monty Python or any of their movies funny.

Posted by: polynikes at October 09, 2026 05:00 PM (KC5Lt)


You might have liked it more as a 18 year old or if you were British.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:02 PM (6ydKt)

112 Good for John Cleese but I never found Monty Python or any of their movies funny.

I think the Holy Grail was the only one of their movies that holds up.


I love how they ended Holy Grail when the money ran out by just cutting in a scene where the police arrive and arrest all the actors.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 05:02 PM (guGkK)

113 I take a brief nap on a Friday afternoon and the entire world gets turned inside out and upside down....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel


Dagwood used to take a lot of naps. Blondie was far to hawt for him.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 05:02 PM (Riz8t)

114 104 Good for John Cleese but I never found Monty Python or any of their movies funny.

I think the Holy Grail was the only one of their movies that holds up.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 05:00 PM (Riz8t)

And some of the scenes and skits were pretty good.
I'll bet a Norwegian Blue pining for the fjords on that.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 05:03 PM (l3cgK)

115 We need a ruling along with the current SCOTUS case on ar15 that is broad enough to get rid of all this crap about barrel length and accessories like suppressors which are clearly arms and have no other purpose. It’s time to finally kill all the blue state subterfuge.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 09, 2026 05:03 PM (o5jAD)

116 =================

Justine is against AI. Sorry, kiddo, remember when we introduced talkies?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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It's all fucked. In ten years our world will be completely different.
What they put on the screen is imprinting brains in ways and manner that we cannot contemplate coupled with the big giant leaps in technology that will only compound. The number one thing is that we remember and pass along who we are.
This is only the beginning.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 05:03 PM (Cq/ve)

117 At first you'd think this would be a call for voter ID, then you realize it's a wingnut warning that Elon is about to flip a switch that MAGAs the entire internet.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 09, 2026 05:01 PM (mmrXZ)

They really are so stupid when it comes to tech I'm genuinely surprised they managed to steal 2020.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:03 PM (6ydKt)

118 Good for John Cleese but I never found Monty Python or any of their movies funny.
Posted by: polynikes at October 09, 2026 05:00 PM (KC5Lt)

Well, everyone has a blind spot.

Just kidding. I know tastes vary. But I love Monty Python.

I think, for some, it's the accents. My younger son hears any non-American accent like Elmer Fudd. He cannot tell any difference between Scottish and German, por ejemplo.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 09, 2026 05:03 PM (0aYVJ)

119 1) Republicans will steal the election
2) Republicans will buy the election

... just ask them for proof (that's better than Trump's proof on 2020 election steal)

Posted by: SMOD at October 09, 2026 05:03 PM (gWCxi)

120 Edge of Tomorrow was enjoyable.
Not the bestest sci-fi flick ever, but it was better than I expected it to be.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:59 PM (6ydKt)

For me so far, all Groundhog Day type movies have been really enjoyable. I don't like horror movies but Happy Death Day was really good.

And I liked Palm Springs almost as much as Groundhog Day.

Posted by: polynikes at October 09, 2026 05:03 PM (KC5Lt)

121 Hollywood: Shit or Garbage?

Yes.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at October 09, 2026 05:04 PM (O7YUW)

122 The number one thing is that we remember and pass along who we are.

I don't know what that means. Please to explain.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 05:04 PM (Riz8t)

123 Lumberjack Song...
https://youtu.be/FshU58nI0Ts

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 05:04 PM (l3cgK)

124 This is just the beginning of the campaign to force him to Confess the True Marxist Faith or lose his career.
-------

I shamelessly, again, tout the Moron-recommended 'A Conservative History of the American Left'.

There is a chapter (Artists in Uniform) devoted to the CPUSA's (et al) attack on and destruction of artists of all varieties who chafed at the Communist line.

Posted by: Fulton County leaky toilet at October 09, 2026 05:04 PM (XeU6L)

125 Jefferies said again today that Democrats are going to win the House and they are already planning the agenda. lol.

Ok there Temu Obama. I’ll wait for the vote to be counted.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 09, 2026 05:05 PM (o5jAD)

126 /toilet

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 05:05 PM (XeU6L)

127 Dagwood used to take a lot of naps. Blondie was far to hawt for him.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 05:02 PM (Riz8t)

Perfect figure, blonde, big beautiful eyes.
Always in dresses and heels.
Made huge sammiches with olives on the toothpick on top.

She really is the perfect woman.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:05 PM (6ydKt)

128 >>Mark Ruffalo warns that Democrats need to be watchful for voting machine manipulation and suggests Elon Musk could be involved

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, I suppose.

Posted by: Dandalo at October 09, 2026 05:05 PM (tmYdE)

129 Senior executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI firms are privately gaming out scenarios in which a major AI incident triggers a public and political revolt, Axios reported Friday. The potential trigger is a cyberattack that disrupts banking, internet access, or essential services such as power and water. The next crisis would be political: an angry public, demands for accountability, and pressure to shut the technology down.

Many industry insiders told Axios they expect a major event within six to 12 months. OpenAI pushed back on the suggestion that disaster is inevitable, saying its preparedness exercises cover a range of possibilities. "These scenarios are not treated as inevitable," a spokesperson told the outlet. Anthropic declined to comment.

Contingency planning is not an admission that catastrophe is unavoidable. But the most revealing part of the report is where that planning leads: the labs want to help shape the legislation Washington reaches for after something goes badly wrong.

Posted by: SMOD at October 09, 2026 05:05 PM (gWCxi)

130 Dagwood used to take a lot of naps. Blondie was far to hawt for him.
Posted by: Archimedes

I need my strength to keep her happy.

Posted by: Dagwood at October 09, 2026 05:06 PM (tmYdE)

131
For me so far, all Groundhog Day type movies have been really enjoyable. I don't like horror movies but Happy Death Day was really good.

And I liked Palm Springs almost as much as Groundhog Day.

Posted by: polynikes at October 09, 2026 05:03 PM (KC5Lt)


Haven't seen those, I mean, other than Groundhog Day (which I still love).

The Butterfly Effect was Groundhog Day-ish.
Except it had Ashton Kutcher and it sucked.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:07 PM (6ydKt)

132 Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, I suppose.

*cough* A FOOLISH consistency*cough*

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 05:10 PM (Riz8t)

133 The fact that everyone thinks Kimmel is an asshole, including his employer, shocks me to no end.

Posted by: Fooled, I Was! at October 09, 2026 05:11 PM (EdP2u)

134 For me so far, all Groundhog Day type movies have been really enjoyable.
....
Posted by: polynikes at October 09, 2026 05:03 PM (KC5Lt)
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"The Map of Tiny Perfect Things", on Amazon Prime. Think "Groundhog Day as a teen rom-com."

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 09, 2026 05:11 PM (xg/DD)

135 The Butterfly Effect was Groundhog Day-ish.
Except it had Ashton Kutcher and it sucked.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:07 PM (6ydK

That was more a time travel movie and yes it sucked.

Posted by: polynikes at October 09, 2026 05:11 PM (KC5Lt)

136 I like the repeating day movies.

I also liked the body switching movies ever since I saw the original Freaky Friday with Jodie Foster.

They must've made ten movies with the same plot in the 80s and 90s.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:12 PM (6ydKt)

137 Mark Ruffalo warns that Democrats need to be watchful for voting machine manipulation and suggests Elon Musk could be involved:

Maybe I should put a note in Elon's suggestion box that he just buy Dominion.

Posted by: nerdygirl at October 09, 2026 05:12 PM (0Htd1)

138 Senior executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI firms are privately gaming out scenarios in which a major AI incident triggers a public and political revolt,
-----------

Pixy linked to this a few weeks ago:

'An AI Escaped Its Test Lab and Hacked a Real Company: What the OpenAI–Hugging Face Breach Means'

https://shorturl.at/iGTvA

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 05:12 PM (XeU6L)

139 I'm trying to remember the name of a *horrible* horror flick that came out circa 2023--can you all help? It featured some weird guy living in the woods who apparently gets "disturbed" by people who cross paths with him and his switch gets flipped and he then begins murdering what later totals to be about a dozen people. And for most of those killings he wears some leather-mask contraption that he found inside some sort of musuem-like place?

It seems to have vanished down the memory hole--I can't find anything in a google search that resembles it.

Posted by: Crusader at October 09, 2026 05:12 PM (TN0g+)

140 I'm trying to remember the name of a *horrible* horror flick that came out circa 2023--can you all help? It featured some weird guy living in the woods who apparently gets "disturbed" by people who cross paths with him and his switch gets flipped and he then begins murdering what later totals to be about a dozen people. And for most of those killings he wears some leather-mask contraption that he found inside some sort of musuem-like place?


James Talarico: A Biography?

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 05:13 PM (Riz8t)

141

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026

Argh. I know that. Thank you.

Posted by: Dandalo at October 09, 2026 05:13 PM (tmYdE)

142 The fact that everyone thinks Kimmel is an asshole, including his employer, shocks me to no end.
Posted by: Fooled, I Was! at October 09, 2026 05:11 PM (EdP2u)

Adam Carolla won't bad mouth Kimmel out of loyalty though I think he really wants to.

Posted by: polynikes at October 09, 2026 05:13 PM (KC5Lt)

143 X-Files did a really good Groundhog Day type episode, called "Monday" I think. Botched bank robbery. Slowly Mulder starts to figure it out. Excellent episode.

As for Groundhog Day, my sole complaint about this film is Andi McDowell. I find her repulsive The opposite of attractive.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 09, 2026 05:14 PM (0aYVJ)

144 By the way, who is this Mark Ruffalo? Is he an actor or something. I don't think I've ever seen anything he was in.

Posted by: nerdygirl at October 09, 2026 05:14 PM (0Htd1)

145 As for Groundhog Day, my sole complaint about this film is Andi McDowell. I find her repulsive The opposite of attractive.

As many gay men do.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 05:14 PM (Riz8t)

146 I also wondered why they never did a Father > Daughter body switch or a Husband > Wife body switch, but then I thought about the logistics of that and the awkward script writing and acting that would entail and then I realized if they made that movie today they'd turn it into a metaphor for troons and who wants to see that ?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:14 PM (6ydKt)

147 145 As for Groundhog Day, my sole complaint about this film is Andi McDowell. I find her repulsive The opposite of attractive.

As many gay men do.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 05:14 PM (Riz8t)


And then the murders began.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 09, 2026 05:15 PM (xg/DD)

148 I read it here, but I think it was a commenter link. Britain jailed or at least investigated a former cop for posting a joke meme online that eating pork makes you 99% less likely to rape a child. No mention of Islam at all.

And I'm fairly sure it wasn't outraged jews who said it was hate speech to imply that people who avoid pork are more likely to be pedophiles.

So good luck Cleese. At least you are not kow-towing to the Islamic scolds.

Posted by: PaleRider at October 09, 2026 05:15 PM (PV+Zw)

149 Said earlier that ABC/Disney put out some fake news about Anduril. Which we can't read anymore even to debunk because ABC bravely deleted it and locked the author's X account.
Everything you see on television is BULL SHIT.

Posted by: SDWtc at October 09, 2026 05:15 PM (nZfSc)

150 The next WH press secretary

https://tinyurl.com/4bpdv29r

Posted by: Don Black at October 09, 2026 05:16 PM (ZxPkt)

151 5 What's funny is--don't ask me why I thought this--but until earlier this year, I was convinced that Mark Ruffalo was Jewish.
Posted by: Dr. T at October 09, 2026 04:27 PM (lHPJf)


Ha! For the longest time, I assumed Laurence Tribe was black. (I only found out he was Jewish about 6-10 years ago.) I don't watch TV so I never saw his face, and every time I read an article quoting Laurence Tribe, Harvard Law Professor and Constitutional Law Expert, it was always something so staggeringly stupid that I was certain he was an Affirmative-Action hire.

Posted by: SciVo at October 09, 2026 05:16 PM (ke3zm)

152 As for Groundhog Day, my sole complaint about this film is Andi McDowell. I find her repulsive The opposite of attractive.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 09, 2026 05:14 PM (0aYVJ)

She was no Julia Roberts or Sean Young but she wasn't exactly horrid to look at.

She also has a great personality.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:17 PM (6ydKt)

153 I love that they are all watching Elon!
Peter Thiel, born in Germany like some other guy that did some things, will be the key to overturning all the numbers.
Yes. Fooled the fools.

Posted by: Unsportsmanlike Conduct is a Capital Crime to Me at October 09, 2026 05:17 PM (RLdj5)

154 I withdraw my last post. I was joking or drunk.

Posted by: Unsportsmanlike Conduct is a Capital Crime to Me at October 09, 2026 05:17 PM (RLdj5)

155 Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:14 PM (6ydKt)

They did that with a reincarnation movie where Tony Curtis came back in Debbie Reynolds body.

Did not like .

Posted by: polynikes at October 09, 2026 05:18 PM (KC5Lt)

156 As many gay men do.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 05:14 PM (Riz8t)

Bazinga. You have bested me, good sir.

I also like pineapple on pizza, especially with jalapeno.

Have at you!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 09, 2026 05:18 PM (0aYVJ)

157 155 Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:14 PM (6ydKt)

They did that with a reincarnation movie where Tony Curtis came back in Debbie Reynolds body.

Did not like .

Posted by: polynikes at October 09, 2026 05:18 PM (KC5Lt)


Between that and Some Like It Hot apparently Tony liked to wear dresses and stockings.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:19 PM (6ydKt)

158 The left is dragging actor Glen Powell, as they previously dragged Taylor Swift, because he won't endorse the leftwing Gay Race Marxism party line and avoids talking about "divisive" ideology.
Denzel Washington is another star who won't discuss politics. He has actually snapped at people who've tried to get him to go there. But they can't attack him for it, because Washington is black, and criticizing him would be racist.

Posted by: nerdygirl at October 09, 2026 05:20 PM (0Htd1)

159 Kimmy Kimmel has a net worth of 50 million
He is rich as fuck
Would you want to work if you had that ?

Posted by: Banned at October 09, 2026 05:20 PM (XGYZI)

160 139 I'm trying to remember the name of a *horrible* horror flick that came out circa 2023--can you all help? It featured some weird guy living in the woods who apparently gets "disturbed" by people who cross paths with him and his switch gets flipped and he then begins murdering what later totals to be about a dozen people. And for most of those killings he wears some leather-mask contraption that he found inside some sort of musuem-like place?

It seems to have vanished down the memory hole--I can't find anything in a google search that resembles it.
Posted by: Crusader at October 09, 2026 05:12 PM (TN0g+)

Chat suggested this...

I think I've got it: In a Violent Nature (2024).

It's a Canadian slasher film about a murderous figure named Johnny who is awakened in the woods when visitors disturb his resting place.
The description is an unusually close match, especially the woodland setting, the killings, and the distinctive mask.
The clincher is the mask. Johnny takes an antique firefighter's mask from a historical display inside a park ranger station. That's almost certainly the museum-like place the commenter remembers.

CULTURE CRYPT
+1



The film was released in May 2024, ra

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 09, 2026 05:20 PM (Sco7b)

161 Let me think - who do I despise more, Mark Ruffalo, or Patton Oswalt? In the fenale category - Rosie O’ Donnell or Cynthia Nixon?

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 05:22 PM (Gqar8)

162
You know what they can never take away from him? This little smoocherooney he laid on fellow would-be cancellation victim Sydney Sweeney.



If there's one thing to hate Glen Powell for, this is it. How dare he steal Syd away from us bearded fat middle aged guys by being handsome and charming.

Bastard.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 09, 2026 05:22 PM (y9nCu)

163 What I find telling, is that there are more than a few celebrities screeching that other celebrities MUST toe the line and hate on MAGA, you guys. Like the puffy bitch from the She-Hulk show.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 09, 2026 05:22 PM (0aYVJ)

164 Denzel Washington is another star who won't discuss politics. He has actually snapped at people who've tried to get him to go there. But they can't attack him for it, because Washington is black, and criticizing him would be racist.

Posted by: nerdygirl at October 09, 2026 05:20 PM (0Htd1)

Another wise man following the great one's advice.

Republicans buy shoes, too.
- Michael 'Air' Jordan

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:22 PM (6ydKt)

165 Spider Man, Spider Man
Does whatever a Spider caspins a web, any size
He eat bugs and he eats flys
Look out, here comes tje Spider Man

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 05:23 PM (Ia/+0)

166 TABS/Disney realized they shouldn’t slander the exec who is producing our military’s secret, scary tech?

Hope so. Dummies.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 05:23 PM (4KUe5)

167 I hope the next WH Press Secretary is smart. She could fool me and be smarter than the photo I saw. Let's hope.

The one photo I saw of her she's wearing eyeliner on her bottom lid. Most women know not to do this as it will make your eyes look both tired and smaller.

I've never worn eyeliner on my top lid as I don't need it.

I hope I don't have to email her and suggest her to lay off the eyeliner.

My MIL wore blue eye shadow for decades after you should not. I never said squat to her about this because she was critical of me now and then. She once made me cry quietly in a guestroom and no one has done this before in my entire life. I never had a bad word against her, but, boy, I wanted to unleash my personality at times. I tried to avoid her and drank a lot of gin when we flew to see his parents. She's dead now and did mellow towards me her last decade.

I have no idea how I acquired all of my make up tricks, but I did. Maybe its Maybelline (which I haven't worn since HS).

This post is more disjointed and weird because my sinuses are ticking me off big time.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 09, 2026 05:23 PM (hzuYO)

168 Rock Groups who don’t do politics - GooGoo Dolls, Rolling Stones.

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 05:24 PM (Gqar8)

169 Spider Man eats ze bugs?

Posted by: wth at October 09, 2026 05:24 PM (UjdFS)

170 168 Rock Groups who don’t do politics - GooGoo Dolls, Rolling Stones.

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 05:24 PM (Gqar

Mick has made it a point to never go full Lennon.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:25 PM (6ydKt)

171 Let me think - who do I despise more, Mark Ruffalo, or Patton Oswalt? In the fenale category - Rosie O’ Donnell or Cynthia Nixon?
Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 05:22 PM (Gqar

Might be apocrypha: Timothy Olyphant once said that the one cast member he did not like on "Justified" was Patton Oswalt.

But he would not be wrong. I deem it plausible.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 09, 2026 05:25 PM (0aYVJ)

172 Jimmy Kimmel is rich enough to retire and hang out at home with his uber-lefty wife, huh?
Wonder why he doesn’t…

Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 05:25 PM (4KUe5)

173 I liked the movie The Martian. Jessica Chastain was as wooden as ever.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 05:25 PM (t9883)

174 This post is more disjointed and weird because my sinuses are ticking me off big time.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

No, Ma'am, no more disjointed than usual, simply par for the course.

Posted by: Carl Spackler at October 09, 2026 05:26 PM (EdP2u)

175 173 I liked the movie The Martian. Jessica Chastain was as wooden as ever.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 05:25 PM (t9883)

Yeah. Female Cigar Store Indian. See also - Kristen Stewart.

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 05:27 PM (Gqar8)

176 173 I liked the movie The Martian. Jessica Chastain was as wooden as ever.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 05:25 PM (t9883)

I tried to get my Dad to watch that before he died, but he refused. I figured he might like it as a survival flick and he likes Matt Damon.

But he preferred 'realistic' scenarios and movies that weren't fantastic.

So instead he'd watch Damon play a one man killing machine that could take out an entire police force in an apartment building in about ten minutes.

He'd seen that one about 50 times.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:28 PM (6ydKt)

177 As for Groundhog Day, my sole complaint about this film is Andi McDowell. I find her repulsive The opposite of attractive.
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I just didn't think that she was a very good actress. Surely 'Greystoke' was as low as it gets. ALL lines, every word, overdubbed by Glenn Close.

As an aside, she attended my church for a while.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 05:29 PM (XeU6L)

178 I think I've got it: In a Violent Nature (2024).

It's a Canadian slasher film about a murderous figure named Johnny who is awakened in the woods when visitors disturb his resting place.
The description is an unusually close match, especially the woodland setting, the killings, and the distinctive mask.
The clincher is the mask. Johnny takes an antique firefighter's mask from a historical display inside a park ranger station. That's almost certainly the museum-like place the commenter remembers.
----

Confirmed! That's the one.

I just read up on it at they have a sequel in production. I won't be going! That is one of the most "dark" horror movies I've ever seen. It was bloody and pointlessly bleak. I've seen every single movie from the "Halloween" franchise, sitting thru lots of clunkers, and I'd rather re-watch any of those than sit through another version of "In a Violent Nature".

Posted by: Crusader at October 09, 2026 05:30 PM (TN0g+)

179 Jimmy Kimmel is rich enough to retire and hang out at home with his uber-lefty wife, huh?
Wonder why he doesn’t…
Posted by: Lizzy
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Ego? Just taking a shot in the dark...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 05:30 PM (XeU6L)

180 Kristen Stewart was good in American Ultra.

That's a hidden gem movie imo.

Posted by: polynikes at October 09, 2026 05:31 PM (KC5Lt)

181 Andie McDowell - seems pretty innocuous. Hard for me to even have an opinion about her.

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 05:31 PM (Gqar8)

182 As an aside, she attended my church for a while.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 05:29 PM (XeU6L)

She's from SC so I have a soft spot for her.

And her actress daughter is a hottie.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:31 PM (6ydKt)

183 I wonder who Kristen Stewart is this month?

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 05:32 PM (Gqar8)

184
Kimmy Kimmel has a net worth of 50 million
He is rich as fuck
Would you want to work if you had that ?
Posted by: Banned at October 09, 2026 05:20 PM (XGYZI)



The whole reason he's worth $50M is because he abandoned his first wife and kids so that he could dork Sarah Silverman up the squeekhole just before getting the late night gig. If he'd kept his dick in his pants a few months longer he'd only be worth $25M.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 09, 2026 05:33 PM (y9nCu)

185 tubal never got to much from Andie either

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 05:33 PM (Ia/+0)

186 Strange actresses - Geena Davis. Never figured her out.

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 05:35 PM (Gqar8)

187 It's easy to keep working when it ain't hard and people are kissing your ass and paying you millions for the privilege.

Posted by: polynikes at October 09, 2026 05:37 PM (KC5Lt)

188 @178 there is a sequel to In a Violent Nature coming out soon

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 05:37 PM (t9883)

189 Strange actresses - Geena Davis. Never figured her out.
Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 05:35 PM (Gqar8

That's one I find unattractive.

Posted by: polynikes at October 09, 2026 05:38 PM (KC5Lt)

190 Is it me, or is the font extra tiny today?

We trying to save money on pixels?

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at October 09, 2026 05:38 PM (zpcJA)

191 Andie did get several nominations for Sex, Lies, and Videotape which probably was her best performance that I've seen.

She was also good, or the movies were good, in Green Card and Short Cuts

Four Weddings and a Funeral did well, too.

She hasn't really done much since the 90s.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:38 PM (6ydKt)

192 190 Is it me, or is the font extra tiny today?

We trying to save money on pixels?

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at October 09, 2026 05:38 PM (zpcJA)


You might have reduced the font size in your browser.
Looks normal on mine.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:39 PM (6ydKt)

193 Four Weddings and a Funeral did well, too.

She hasn't really done much since the 90s.


I think she might be doing Hallmark movies now. It's a reasonable choice for someone who has aged out of the hot young starlet roles.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 05:41 PM (Riz8t)

194 9 Speaking of the BBC Andy Carroll was Drugged and raped by Kevin Adams from BBC's fame Academy. Carroll's wife was Friends with Kevin Adams and she invited him over after Andy Carroll's game with Newcastle to watch a boxing match, Kevin Adams gave Andy a drink and he instantly felt terrible went to bed and he woke up being raped. Screamed called the cops Kevin Adams was arrested for rape, this was 3 YEARS ago and it wasn't in the news at all until this month.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at October 09, 2026 04:29 PM (9aCbn)

Did he try vomiting?

Posted by: Nelly at October 09, 2026 05:45 PM (6+ehB)

195 191 Andie did get several nominations for Sex, Lies, and Videotape which probably was her best performance that I've seen.

She was also good, or the movies were good, in Green Card and Short Cuts

Four Weddings and a Funeral did well, too.

She hasn't really done much since the 90s.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:38 PM (6ydKt)

She was in the original Ready or Not, which was good if you like horror.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at October 09, 2026 05:48 PM (zpcJA)

196 Strange actresses - Geena Davis. Never figured her out.
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Its strange to watch "Fletch" and realize that Geena Davis has a relatively small role and spends most of her time giving the screen back to Chevy Chase.

Posted by: Crusader at October 09, 2026 05:52 PM (TN0g+)

197 ZOMBEAVERS !!!!

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 06:00 PM (W2Pud)

198 "While firing off outlandish conspiracies about Elon Musk rigging the election with space gadgets..."

I like to call them Elon's Space Angels.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at October 09, 2026 06:01 PM (w6EFb)

199 I thought the deal with "Life of Brian" was that the religious authorities who were critics hadn't even seen it.

What I remember of the movie was that Jesus was represented as the real deal, off camera, in the background, operating in the same general neighborhood as Brian. So, if anything, wasn't it an attack on phony charlatans who preach from a pulpit?

It also had a brutal attack on pundits, who instantly give you in-depth analysis on damn near anything. In one scene, the group is sitting in on the Sermon on the Mount, but they're so far back it's hard to hear. The one guy repeats to the group what he thinks was being said: "Blessed are the cheesemakers!" To which one member of the group offered an instant and detailed interpretation - instead of saying "That can't be right". It turns out that cheese making was something of a significant industry in the area at that time, so that's funny too.

Posted by: MrExcitement at October 09, 2026 06:22 PM (ovdkm)

200 "he repeatedly urged them to physically assault Republicans"

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Come get some.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at October 09, 2026 06:33 PM (OGFx7)

201 The woman I think Hillary would have had as press secretary?
Drew Carey's secretary. Can't get picture inserted.

Posted by: Unsportsmanlike Conduct is a Capital Crime to Me at October 09, 2026 07:57 PM (RLdj5)

202 I'll add one more item to the list of what will bring people back to movie theaters: Cut back all the f***ing trailers and ads before a movie. It is torture to sit through 15 to 30 minutes of crap just to watch the movie FOR WHICH I PAID!

Posted by: Nemo at October 09, 2026 08:59 PM (4RPgu)

The Week In Woke

Let's start out with some good news from the weekend, which I missed.

David Harsanyi:


One of the most unheralded policy successes of President Donald Trump's second term has been the purging of many unnecessary federal jobs.

The federal government has reduced its workforce by 300,000 jobs since Jan. 20, 2025, bringing it down to a still-bulky 2.7 million employees.

Not since President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society vastly expanded the scope of the national government has the federal workforce been at this level.

I know that not all of you are history buffs like I am, so I'll explain, Lyndon Johnson was an Indian Hunter and Abraham Lincoln's vice president.


It's not merely that the feds have shed superfluous jobs -- there are still over 4 million contract workers, after all.

It's that the White House has been targeting all the right institutions.

The bloated War Department, with over 61,000 departures, and the equally bloated State Department, with 37% of its staff gone, experienced the biggest reductions.

But most of the buyouts were aimed at agencies and departments that should have been shuttered a long time ago.

Take the US Agency for International Development, which for years was used to funnel billions to hard-left ideological projects around the world: Virtually its entire staff is gone.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the unaccountable bureaucratic brainchild of progressive Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), has lost roughly 88% of its workers, though it's still far too big.

The Agriculture Department, which despite its name is principally a welfare agency that has little to do with farming, experienced tens of thousands of departures.

So has another welfare-state institution, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, whose most notable achievement has been helping inflate housing prices.

Harsanyi has some thoughts about what departments need to be cut more.

Like this, maybe: Trump slashes funding for woke "education."

President Trump is moving to rescind nearly $1 billion in federal spending, including $95 million in Department of Education funding for programs the White House says supported ideological initiatives and services for illegal aliens.

The White House announced the rescissions on Sept. 25, targeting $25 million for the Department of Education's Special Programs for Migrant Students and $70 million for international education programs, alongside cuts across other federal agencies.


The White House said the migrant education funding previously supported activities including an LGBT youth summit for migrant students and "Therapy for Latinx" workshops. Grant recipients included Immigrants Rising, a nonprofit whose programming included an LGBTQ support group and resources addressing "DACA-Related Stress."

Colleges are using taxpayer funds to rebrand Columbus Day as "Indigenous People's Day."

Several colleges and universities are using institutional resources and government-backed grants for "Indigenous Peoples' Day" programming around Oct. 12, which is also Columbus Day.

Santa Rosa Junior College in Santa Rosa, California, is promoting an Indigenous Peoples' Day celebration centered on "community, resilience, and connection." The event description says the celebration will "honor our ancestors" and feature drumming, Native dancers, and speakers.

A Santa Rosa Junior College public information officer told Campus Reform that the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office's Native American Student Support and Success Program grant "funds the Native American Center and its activities."

The state program received $30 million in one-time funding for up to 20 colleges. Its stated goals include strengthening educational pathways, promoting Native American students' academic success, developing leaders, and increasing mentorship.

San Francisco provides dorms for pedophiles and sex offenders and it's not prison.


It's Tuesday morning at Little Learners Daycare in downtown San Francisco. Teacher Wendy herds bright-eyed toddlers, amped up after playtime in the courtyard, back inside. They're laughing and swatting at each other playfully, oblivious to the pack of pedophiles lurking nearby.

Four hundred feet away, dozens of registered sex offenders live at 111 Taylor Street. Wendy knew that the Tenderloin, where she operates her Mandarin-immersion daycare, was dangerous. It's a hotbed for illegal drug activity and homelessness. But she didn't realize that sex offenders live so close to her daycare--or that taxpayers fund their housing.


According to this City Journal investigation, more than 25 percent of sex offenders in San Francisco with addresses in the Megan's Law database live in taxpayer-subsidized buildings. Many live near a park, school, or daycare, or reside in a neighborhood with a high concentration of children. They do all of this despite statewide efforts to ban concentrating pedophiles so close to children. Instead of listening to California voters, San Francisco has become a taxpayer-funded dumping ground for sex criminals.

The Taylor Street Center is one of San Francisco's most heavily populated sex-offender residences. Located in the Tenderloin, Taylor Street houses at least 31 registered sex offenders. The taxpayer-funded California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the federal Bureau of Prisons contract the private GEO Group to run the facility.

The reentry complex can house 240 people. It hosts specialized programs for residents like "cultural diversity education," "gender-responsive groups," and a "weekly meditation group." The facility sits just 400 feet from a daycare center, 1,000 feet from a fourth-to-eighth-grade school, and five blocks away from a preschool.

Any sex offender housed in the Tenderloin is bound to encounter children. Along with having a high concentration of immigrant and low-income households, the neighborhood also has the highest concentration of kids in the entire city.

Incredible: A black webzine claims that black immigrants' rape of native whites is actually a good thing as it increases diversity.

"AFRU" calls rapes "quasi-consensual encounters."

Love

That's the topic folder this is under: "Love."


Why a 'rise in sexual assaults' by migrants is a price worth paying to end racism

Quasi-consensual encounters between refugees and white Western women may help with assimilation. Increasingly they result in a shared apartment and a new surname.

"Sexual assaults" are "quasi-consensual encounters."

Please let in more Aspiring Doctors and Engineers who quasi-consensually rape the native population.

It's unfortunate, but true. Language gaps and cultural misunderstandings often mean that the first romantic encounter between a Western woman and a refugee can be perceived as quasi-consensual in nature. Usually it starts with a halting conversation or an awkward cat call at a park, a refugee language class, or a volunteer dinner.

But increasingly these encounters result in a shared apartment, a mixed-race child, a new surname, and a happy future. A quiet revolution is taking shape across Europe and North America, and it's being led by white Western women. They're not performing acts of charity, nor engaging in fetishism or exoticism.

Pioneering women are placing the burden upon themselves to become the most powerful force undermining the very architecture of racial exclusion. In countries where a supposed refugee "rape crisis" is cast as a threat, their beautiful interracial unions permanently puncture the entire narrative of the xenophobic right. The transformation is intimate, but implications are structural.

The collapse of ugly abstractions

Racism relies on distance. Stereotypes thrive in the absence of proximity. The moment a Western woman forms an intimate relationship with a refugee, she begins to see differently. Many describe it not as a shift in ideology but in emotional vocabulary: fear dissolves, replaced by the particularity of experience. That particularity is contagious.

...

There is another layer, quieter but no less disruptive. When Western women form relationships with refugee men, they break with the implicit racial and political allegiances of their birth. White men are often animated by nationalist or racialist worldviews, and can experience these unions as betrayals. And they are right to.
Romantic couplings of white Western women and refugees redistribute the optics of who belongs.

These women are not just falling in love; they are puncturing the fragile white male consensus that has long underwritten white identity politics. Each white womb decorated with a Brown or Black baby make racial purism increasingly not just odious but logistically impossible.

Gordon Allport's mid-century contact theory proposed that sustained, cooperative contact between groups under conditions of equality reduces prejudice. These relationships are the contact hypothesis in its most intimate form. They are not state-sponsored integration programs; they are integration incarnate.

In other words, where the state fails, the bedroom succeeds. When white supremacy wants white women to zig, they zag.

Do you want mass forced deportations? Because this is exactly how you get mass forced deportations.

A group argues that simple civility in discourse is inherently "conservative" and "pro-Israel."

I think that's actually correct -- because the left's entire sick schtick is hateful, crazed denunciations, attempts to cancel people and menace them, and calls for actual violence. So yes, stripping the left of its weapons is "conservative" and "pro-Israel," in the sense that it limits terrorists' actions.


Group Argues Civil Discourse Push Is Conservative, Pro-Israel

A group of scholars has released another report arguing that efforts to promote constructive dialogue and similar concepts are actually targeting progressive activism. Those named in the report take issue with its assertions.


Uncivil argues civil discourse programs are aimed at repressing student activism.

A group of scholars called Uncivil is doubling down on its argument that the push for civil discourse and viewpoint diversity is part of a conservative and pro-Israel agenda--not a nonpartisan campaign. This week, it published dossiers on a broad swath of programs, groups and higher ed institutions that have used similar terms, criticizing their leaders, their funders and more.

Inside Higher Ed reached out to more than 30 organizations featured in the report. Those that responded took issue with Uncivil's characterization of their work, arguing that the group can't back up its conclusions. They countered that Uncivil doesn't mention some left-leaning funders, or the many nonconservative and non-Israel-related causes that funders support. They also dispute the methodology, including how the scholars identified some groups and funders as conservative or pro-Israel.

Interest in civil discourse programs surged after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and the start of Israel's war in Gaza. That violence spurred a wave of pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses nationwide. Organizations and colleges ramped up many efforts that were advertised as improving students' ability to debate controversial issues.

Uncivil--a consortium of academics from multiple universities, including one who's an Inside Higher Ed columnist and another who leads the American Association of University Professors' Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom--argues that the "real goal is to silence dissent" and "suppress organic student organizing."

The dossiers, which Uncivil calls the Civility Files, follow the group's June report that said the private funders "most deeply committed to 'bridge-building,' 'viewpoint diversity,' and 'depolarization' projects are those that also hold a substantial stake in conservative and/or 'pro-Israel' causes."

...

But Murray said the Hillel funding was for campus chapters to reach out to non-Jewish student ministries to work together across differences, while the Tablet funding supported a journalist who writes about non-Jewish religious groups so the magazine's readers can learn about them.

"If someone wants to tell me how that's pro-Israel, I'd love to hear," Murray said.

Because the terrorists want to go jihad on Jewish students and not just that, they want to do their pogroms with the express support of governmental and educational authorities. Telling them they can't beat up Jews and menace them stifles their ability to use Violence as the Speech of the Unheard.

Don't believe me? Remember this professor of Islam?

FCC head Brendan Carr scolds leftists for opposing ratings for TV show including warnings about transgender content.

He has thrice publicly excoriated congressional Democrats in the past two weeks for opposing the shorthanded commission's work to "ensure that parents have the information necessary to decide what is appropriate for their own kids and families to watch," as Carr posted Monday afternoon on X and had reposted by Tuesday morning in case anyone missed it.

Carr first blasted "nearly 70" Democratic lawmakers Sept. 28 for "pushing to prevent parents from having any say over their children being exposed to controversial gender identity ideologies" on TV, referring to a June 5 letter from Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey and a June 22 letter led by California Rep. Mark Takano, signed by 68 House Democrats in all.

He pointed to Disney Jr.'s 2018 reboot of the 1980s cartoon Muppet Babies, which in the episode "Gonzo-rella" has male Gonzo wearing a "princess dress to a royal ball," passing as a girl and going by plural pronouns. Netflix's Strawberry Short Cake reboot "promotes a trans character that wears clothing that matches the transgender pride flag," Carr said.

Contrary to these brands promoting themselves as "family friendly [...] the FCC's record is now replete with all sorts of examples of Hollywood and New York programmers going around parents to promote their gender ideologies," he said.




North Carolina is deliberately and systematically falsifying arrest records to make arrests seem more Racially Diverse, falsely claiming that Hispanics are "Caucasian" -- Yes, Hispanics are categorized as "white" or "black," and that's fine, but they cannot be called "Caucasian" -- and blacks, of course, are just categorized as "white."





Our Gangbang, Our Choice: A text from "Jane Doe."

"None of the sexual stuff was illegal."

Oh?

ourgangbangourchoice.jpg

Wokal Distance
@wokal_distance

I don't think people quite understand the psychology of why this woman went from saying everything was consensual to saying it was rape.

For her, giving sex to all those men is an enormous risk to her health (sti's, pregnancy) and her reputation (she doesn't want to be the subject of gossip) in order to do something for them. This is why you see her focus so hard on making sure the men don't tell anyone. In her head, if she is going to take all that risk for those men and give them her body, she expects them to protect her reputation by keeping quiet and the reward her by making sure she gets to be "one of the guys" - a sort of friend of the frat who gets special privileges. After the night of sex when the men told others what happened and then uninvited her from their party, she felt like they did not hold up their end of the implicit bargain. in her head, she played the role of the cool girl for them, and then they threw her away. She went from feeling like "the cool chick," to feeling like a dupe who got used and tossed aside.

She sees her consent as contingent on their silence and a place in their group; "I never would have agreed to do those things had I known you would destroy my reputation, and kick me out of the group." In her head, since consent was contingent on being give a place in their group and their social protection, when they broke their end of the agreement her consent was (in her mind) contingent upon, her consent no longer holds.

That is the dynamic you are seeing play out here. I am not defending the behavior of anyone here, I am only explaining the mindset.

Wokal Distance
@wokal_distance

Bullies always look for people who it is socially acceptable to target.

Female bullies target low status and socially awkward white men so they can punch down at people who lack the social ability to defend themselves, while pretending they're punching up at those with power.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:10 PM




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1 Wow boxy and grey.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 03:11 PM (I43vL)

2 Never mind.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 03:11 PM (I43vL)

3 Sounds like a long movie.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 09, 2026 03:12 PM (nEUC6)

4 I know that not all of you are history buffs like I am, so I'll explain, Lyndon Johnson was an Indian Hunter and Abraham Lincoln's vice president.

Also hunted zombies, spherical Texan cows, and liked to talk on the phone while on the shitter.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 03:12 PM (6ydKt)

5 Hey Elric,
How was Comicon?
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 02:54 PM (W2Pud)
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Was fun, but a madhouse. Thursday is the least-crowded day, and it was still packed.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 03:13 PM (iFTx/)

6 It's a hotbed for illegal drug activity and homelessness. But she didn't realize that sex offenders live so close to her daycare--or that taxpayers fund their housing./i]

No doubt we're funding the daycare, too.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 03:13 PM (6ydKt)

7 Oh look, new and shiny.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at October 09, 2026 03:13 PM (Q/FnY)

8 I know that not all of you are history buffs like I am, so I'll explain, Lyndon Johnson was an Indian Hunter and Abraham Lincoln's vice president.

Wow, I did not know that. Thanks, Ace.

Posted by: dantesed at October 09, 2026 03:15 PM (p3pWU)

9 "Sexual assaults" are "quasi-consensual encounters."

It's been suggested elsewhere that the website this is from is a satire site. I can neither confirm nor deny but it is an excellent satire if true.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 03:16 PM (6ydKt)

10 There's a very subversive channel on Youtube using Warhammer 40k tropes to make some stinging points.

It's called Space King.

This is basically France, Germany, England, Spain:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jWu3UTITOA

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2026 03:16 PM (ZOv7s)

11 The video describes a lush, verdant world that is suddenly invaded by aliens, who immediately begin to oppress women and children, take over the institutions, vandalize ancient monuments and even desecrate the churches. Hmmm, where else is that happening?

Worst of all, they have never bothered to learn the local language. The narrator concludes: "What choice are we left with then, but to speak to them in a language they do understand. Not because we seek their understanding, but because it is time we were understood. We will speak to them in the language that ceases all tongues, except those who speak it best - WAR!"

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2026 03:17 PM (ZOv7s)

12 Colleges are using taxpayer funds to rebrand Columbus Day as "Indigenous People's Day."

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Why not call it "Clovis Man Day"? Those they claim to be indigenous...are not.

Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 03:18 PM (dIske)

13 Contrary to these brands promoting themselves as "family friendly [...] the FCC's record is now replete with all sorts of examples of Hollywood and New York programmers going around parents to promote their gender ideologies," he said.

Hollywood and NYC have been doing this for about 75 years.

Better late than never?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 03:18 PM (6ydKt)

14 "A black webzine claims that black immigrants' rape of native whites is actually a good thing as it increases diversity."

Odd that the "webzine" only focuses on white women in supposedly consensual relationships with these barbaric savages. What about white men with lady savages?

The article is pure rubbish and wishcasting because the only kind of white women who pretends to care about these barbaric savages are AWFuL types who wouldn't be caught dead with an illegal in their house, let alone willingly date one.

Normal white women -- and normal black and all normal women -- will avoid these barbaric savages like the plague. The only sex these savages are having with any American women are rapes.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 03:19 PM (iFTx/)

15 @EndWokeness
End Wokeness

Mayor Nadia Mohamed (D-MN): The way to end Somali gang shootings is to "ban guns"

How about denaturalize and deport?


We know how this ends.
Let's be more like London and trade guns for knives and machetes.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 03:20 PM (6ydKt)

16 Wow, I did not know that. Thanks, Ace.
Posted by: dantesed at October 09, 2026 03:15 PM (p3pWU)
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Francisco Franco got his start as a cook in the Spanish Army, and as a side gig, started imported canned food into the US. That's the origin of Franco-American.

Posted by: True Ace Historical Facts at October 09, 2026 03:20 PM (ZOv7s)

17 Savion Douglas is listed in the second mugshot as a "Race: White, Ethnicity: African"

Elon's brother from another mother?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 03:21 PM (6ydKt)

18 "Increasingly they result in a shared apartment and a new surname."

Can anyone give me one example of any western white woman finding her Prince Charming among these filthy degenerate savages?

Bueller? Bueller?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 03:22 PM (iFTx/)

19 Normal white women -- and normal black and all normal women -- will avoid these barbaric savages like the plague. The only sex these savages are having with any American women are rapes.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 03:19 PM (iFTx/)
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"Normal" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2026 03:22 PM (ZOv7s)

20 North Carolina is deliberately and systematically falsifying arrest records to make arrests seem more Racially Diverse, falsely claiming that Hispanics are "Caucasian" -- Yes, Hispanics are categorized as "white" or "black," and that's fine, but they cannot be called "Caucasian" -- and blacks, of course, are just categorized as "white."


I did mention this before but I was a computer consultant with a company that had a system to track government childcare dollars.

There were race codes in the system - white, black, asian, and a few others. I talked to my clients and the issue of hispanics came up. The counselors would ask them what race they were. And the people would say "I'm Latino" instead of white or black.

To avoid arguments, the counselors were basically told to look at them and decide.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 09, 2026 03:22 PM (Sco7b)

21 Mayor Nadia Mohamed (D-MN ??

That picture of her with the big glasses tells me everything I need to know about her.

Posted by: dantesed at October 09, 2026 03:22 PM (p3pWU)

22 Charlotte also is having problems finding $14M more to complete and open up a new home for 2 river otters. Plus the FBI is investigating our school board. We are dorked.

Posted by: nckate at October 09, 2026 03:23 PM (enNUy)

23 Can anyone give me one example of any western white woman finding her Prince Charming among these filthy degenerate savages?

Bueller? Bueller?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 03:22 PM (iFTx/)
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Category error. They are not looking for Prince Charming, they are looking for a sexual servant.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2026 03:23 PM (ZOv7s)

24

It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the Saxon began to hate.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 09, 2026 03:23 PM (Cqx++)

25 The weekend is here
To early to start drinking?

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 03:23 PM (Ia/+0)

26 Here's my counterpoint article: "Shooting Immigrant Rapists Right Between the Eyes Is a Great Way to Promote Justice"

Posted by: Wally at October 09, 2026 03:23 PM (65cLN)

27 A quiet revolution is taking shape across Europe and North America, and it's being led by white Western women. They're not performing acts of charity, nor engaging in fetishism or exoticism.

And here I thought all mixed-race sexual encounters were automatically categorized as fetishism and exoticism.

Maybe that's only the case when people who are not leftist white women are doing it.

Obviously it can't be the case that the "immigrants" are engaging in fetishism or exoticism toward white women, because everyone knows that black and brown "immigrants" aren't fully realized human beings with their own cultures, desires, and goals.

/sarc

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 03:24 PM (vJrRc)

28 The weekend is here
To early to start drinking?
Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 03:23 PM (Ia/+0)
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Happy Hour starts at 3.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2026 03:25 PM (ZOv7s)

29 Your average American Indian raped and killed 10 times more people than Columbus ever did.

Why are we celebrating those rapists and murderers?
Who deserved to lose their land because all they did was rape, pillage and kill their neighbors and had no interest in animal husbandry, agriculture or any other hallmarks of civilization.

But for the white man saving a remnant, they'd be completely forgotten by all of history.
They should be thanking us.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 09, 2026 03:25 PM (3cUTc)

30 23 Can anyone give me one example of any western white woman finding her Prince Charming among these filthy degenerate savages?

Bueller? Bueller?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 03:22 PM (iFTx/)
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Category error. They are not looking for Prince Charming, they are looking for a sexual servant.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2026 03:23 PM (ZOv7s)

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"bobs and vagin?"
-Saar!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 03:25 PM (1kJuV)

31
It's Tuesday morning at Little Learners Daycare in downtown San Francisco.

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You misspelled "Learers."

Posted by: ShainS at October 09, 2026 03:25 PM (D3x2Y)

32
Charlotte also is having problems finding $14M more to complete and open up a new home for 2 river otters.

Take them to the river.
Drop them in the water.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 09, 2026 03:25 PM (Cqx++)

33 "Sexual assaults" are "quasi-consensual encounters."
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She was screaming no, but her infidel exposed hair and grade school outfit was saying yes.
- Ahmed the Invader

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 09, 2026 03:26 PM (Dv3i1)

34 Female bullies target low status and socially awkward white men so they can punch down at people who lack the social ability to defend themselves, while pretending they're punching up at those with power.
__________________________

I have a cousin who is a socially awkward white man. No one ever messes with him because he is a nuclear physicist and could likely build something very dangerous in his home basement if he so desired. Plus the crafty bastard makes the best homemade fireworks.

One of my favorite relatives...and not just because he has a hobby of brewing craft beers....but that's part of it.

Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 03:26 PM (dIske)

35 Colleges are using taxpayer funds to rebrand Columbus Day as "Indigenous People's Day."

And I suggest changing February 14th to Aztec "Hold your Sweet Heart" Day...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 03:27 PM (l3cgK)

36 Are active-duty military counted as "government employees," or only civilians?

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:27 PM (77rzZ)

37 Weeping Department of Agriculture employee: 'My farmer died.'

Posted by: Just the Punchline at October 09, 2026 03:27 PM (4NO2D)

38

Bud Light real men of indigenous.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 09, 2026 03:27 PM (Cqx++)

39 ... more than 25 percent of sex offenders in San Francisco with addresses in the Megan's Law database live in taxpayer-subsidized buildings.

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And that's just the membership of The San Fransicko Gay Men's Pedophile Choir.

Posted by: ShainS at October 09, 2026 03:27 PM (D3x2Y)

40 Wow, justifying rape for diversity. Crazy.

So I guess white men raping in Africa would be a-ok then?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 09, 2026 03:28 PM (n5tGW)

41 12 Colleges are using taxpayer funds to rebrand Columbus Day as "Indigenous People's Day."

________________________________

Why not call it "Clovis Man Day"? Those they claim to be indigenous...are not.

Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 03:18 PM (dIske)

St. Patrick's Day...Four-Leaf Clovis.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 03:28 PM (l3cgK)

42 The problem with listing Hispanics as white is that they also list Asians, Indians, natives, Arabs, etc as white too. Anyone not listed as black, counts as white. So when people ask about crime stats you get black or white. White Caucasian crime stats aren't singled out without a whole lot of others thrown into the mix. By design?

Posted by: nckate at October 09, 2026 03:28 PM (enNUy)

43 Happy Hour starts at 3.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Hey, A. H. How are you and your wife doing?

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:28 PM (77rzZ)

44 Colleges are using taxpayer funds to rebrand Columbus Day as "Indigenous People's Day."

And I suggest changing February 14th to Aztec "Hold your Sweet Heart" Day...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 03:27 PM (l3cgK)
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The plus side is that half of those colleges will be gone in five years, and the cultural influence of higher ed will collapse. The trades are coming back, baby!

The down side is that there are going to be even more crazy, downwardly mobile women in the world. The only way through is forward.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2026 03:29 PM (ZOv7s)

45 Incredible: A black webzine claims that black immigrants' rape of native whites is actually a good thing as it increases diversity.

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"CONQUEST & REPARATIONS by any other name, Infidels!"

Posted by: ShainS at October 09, 2026 03:29 PM (D3x2Y)

46 Alright, someone from NC tell me how most elected officials in your state are R's, yet the Governor keeps turning up a D*?

(D = Democrat, will also accept Douchebag)

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 09, 2026 03:29 PM (Dv3i1)

47 8 I know that not all of you are history buffs like I am, so I'll explain, Lyndon Johnson was an Indian Hunter and Abraham Lincoln's vice president.

Wow, I did not know that. Thanks, Ace.

Posted by: dantesed at October 09, 2026 03:15 PM (p3pWU)

Which makes sense, as Abraham Lincoln was a vampire slayer.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 03:29 PM (l3cgK)

48 21 Mayor Nadia Mohamed (D-MN ??

That picture of her with the big glasses tells me everything I need to know about her.
Posted by: dantesed at October 09, 2026 03:22 PM (p3pWU)

________________________

Someone on here yesterday noted that a certain faction has a head shaped like a light bulb. I never really noticed that before....but, it's hard to ignore with that woman.

Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 03:29 PM (dIske)

49 Call me old fashion but I don't think a black man raping a white woman is going to increase her feelings about ebony and ivory.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 03:29 PM (viF8m)

50 With all the jets doing laps above my house right now you would think I live in Tehran.

Posted by: torabora at October 09, 2026 03:29 PM (Wt1Rs)

51 En fuego!

Posted by: That Guy who shouts "En fuego!" at October 09, 2026 03:30 PM (0sNs1)

52 "Sexual assaults" are "quasi-consensual encounters."

Please let in more Aspiring Doctors and Engineers who quasi-consensually rape the native population.



Yeah, I can't read this thread anymore......FFS.......

Society is so f*cked.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 03:30 PM (ccf/V)

53 r/FedEmployees

He is making his followers hate federal employees, creating the narrative that government workers are a drain on the economy. These people cheering have no idea how anything works. If the statement “run the country like a business” makes sense to you, I know you don’t understand business or how countries work.

republicans think feds are lazy and stupid, not only did Musk fire every1 Fox ensures federal employees have a hard time finding work with their constant smear campaign. There really needs to be a project 2029.

If they are getting paid 2-3x as much in the private sector then firing them is a huge loss to the government because they were employing way over qualified workers for cheap!

The rich and powerful have convinced the majority of Americans to fight an imaginary culture war and ignore the class war being waged against them

He has no clue about the dedication and passion that many federal workers have. That can’t be found in the private sector.

I went from over 120K as a fed to 85K at my new job teaching high school. I hate this dirtbag and all his minions. Everything he says is a lie.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 09, 2026 03:30 PM (+fIyw)

54 If I was a parent in SF, I sure as hell wouldn't send my kid to any school in the Tenderloin no matter how good it was.

Posted by: keena at October 09, 2026 03:30 PM (fpXAP)

55 Are there any indigenous people anywhere in the world? Maybe somewhere in the Amazon.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 09, 2026 03:30 PM (n5tGW)

56 I wasn't paying attention and posted this in the wrong thread by a mile.

This was for the previous thread for anyone curious:

From Goggle AI:

Saraland, Alabama, got its name in 1895 when C.J. DeWitt—a retired minister and editor who opened the town's first post office along the Southern Railroad—named the community after his wife, Sara

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 09, 2026 03:30 PM (QGaXH)

57 Yeah, I can't read this thread anymore......FFS.......

Society is so f*cked.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer


Nah, it's just standard academic grievance studies bafflegab.

No need to despair of society.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 03:31 PM (vJrRc)

58
Someone on here yesterday noted that a certain faction has a head shaped like a light bulb. I never really noticed that before....but, it's hard to ignore with that woman.
Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 03:29 PM (dIske)



Inbred.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 03:31 PM (ccf/V)

59 53 He is making his followers hate federal employees, creating the narrative that government workers are a drain on the economy. These people cheering have no idea how anything works. If the statement “run the country like a business” makes sense to you, I know you don’t understand business or how countries work.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaiso

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"Conservatives loved fed workers before Trump," is a take.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 03:31 PM (1kJuV)

60 "Sexual assaults" are "quasi-consensual encounters."

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So are murders and genocides -- the old Satanic One-Party Consent Decree.

Posted by: ShainS at October 09, 2026 03:31 PM (D3x2Y)

61 55 Are there any indigenous people anywhere in the world? Maybe somewhere in the Amazon.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 09, 2026 03:30 PM (n5tGW)

Andaman Islands?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 03:31 PM (l3cgK)

62 Hey, A. H. How are you and your wife doing?
Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:28 PM (77rzZ)
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Hi! It's a bit mixed. The third round of chemo leveled her and she had a reaction for which she got steroids and that THAT make her Mrs. Fun Happy Person. Sheesh.

She met with her oncologist yesterday who decided to postpone this weeks treatment and perhaps change the kind of chemo. She will have to make it up, so that stretches this fun deeper into December, but we do get a weekend off, which is nice.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2026 03:31 PM (ZOv7s)

63 Thom Tillis, Super Rebublican

Posted by: nckate at October 09, 2026 03:31 PM (enNUy)

64 "Mayor Nadia Mohamed"

I watched that video.

Surprisingly, Nadia isn't hideous or obese or look like vomit. She's a Banana Girl 7.

But she has the same nervous, fidgeting, gyrating, eye-roaming, exaggerated, unfocused, epileptic-ish mannerisms and gestures that every single one of these people have.

It's like they all roll off the same defective assembly line.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 03:32 PM (iFTx/)

65 53 If they are getting paid 2-3x as much in the private sector then firing them is a huge loss to the government because they were employing way over qualified workers for cheap!

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 09, 2026 03:30 PM (+fIyw)

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So...their opinion of the rich? Because apparently pay is directly related to worth as a human being.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 03:32 PM (1kJuV)

66 He has no clue about the dedication and passion that many federal workers have. That can’t be found in the private sector.

I went from over 120K as a fed to 85K at my new job teaching high school. I hate this dirtbag and all his minions. Everything he says is a lie.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 09, 2026 03:30 PM (+fIyw)


Every word they type only reinforces the opinion they believe that those beneath them have of them.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 03:32 PM (6ydKt)

67 With all the jets doing laps above my house right now you would think I live in Tehran.
Posted by: torabora at October 09, 2026 03:29 PM


Try living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Posted by: The Sharks at October 09, 2026 03:32 PM (0sNs1)

68 53 I went from over 120K as a fed to 85K at my new job teaching high school. I hate this dirtbag and all his minions. Everything he says is a lie.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 09, 2026 03:30 PM (+fIyw)

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So...still a government employee, huh?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 03:32 PM (1kJuV)

69 A group of scholars has released another report arguing that efforts to promote constructive dialogue and similar concepts are actually targeting progressive activism. Those named in the report take issue with its assertions.

Because they want to act like Nazis while calling those they attack Nazis, and being a Nazi also means wanting to discuss with the other side, which, like true Nazis, they cannot abide.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 03:33 PM (l3cgK)

70 Why a 'rise in sexual assaults' by migrants is a price worth paying to end racism

Quasi-consensual encounters between refugees and white Western women may help with assimilation. Increasingly they result in a shared apartment and a new surname.


I have a suspicion that the sexual aspect of this IS important to Karens, look at someone like Jamey Carney who had a very personal reason for bringing in young male invaders to the country and her vajajay.



Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 03:33 PM (sKqQm)

71 Indigestion Day!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 03:33 PM (iFTx/)

72 He is making his followers hate federal employees, creating the narrative that government workers are a drain on the economy.

If I thought they would listen and comprehend, I'd tell them that the money to employ all those federal employees comes directly out of their pockets, via taxes.

That tax money may get spent in the economy, but first it must be taken out of the economy.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 03:33 PM (vJrRc)

73 "Conservatives loved fed workers before Trump," is a take.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 03:31 PM (1kJuV)

It's good when your workers are fed.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 03:33 PM (l3cgK)

74 He has no clue about the dedication and passion that many federal workers have. That can’t be found in the private sector.

I went from over 120K as a fed to 85K at my new job teaching high school. I hate this dirtbag and all his minions. Everything he says is a lie.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 09, 2026 03:30 PM (+fIyw)
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The funny thing is that they can't point to any bottlenecks in service performance. if they could, they would.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2026 03:34 PM (ZOv7s)

75 66 Every word they type only reinforces the opinion they believe that those beneath them have of them.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 03:32 PM (6ydKt)

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"I was doing important work looking into how to impose more regulation on companies that do work near wetlands. Every paper I put out, cost those companies $100,000 in lawyer fees just to figure out what the fuck I was saying. I was contributing to the economy, and now that's gone, never to come back."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 03:34 PM (1kJuV)

76 I went from over 120K as a fed to 85K at my new job teaching high school. I hate this dirtbag and all his minions. Everything he says is a lie.

85K is substantially more then the median in the US.

So I guess he does not in fact want equality?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 03:34 PM (sKqQm)

77 Civil discourse? Nah, I'm good.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 09, 2026 03:34 PM (wVcYX)

78 Hi! It's a bit mixed. The third round of chemo leveled her and she had a reaction for which she got steroids and that THAT make her Mrs. Fun Happy Person. Sheesh.

She met with her oncologist yesterday who decided to postpone this weeks treatment and perhaps change the kind of chemo. She will have to make it up, so that stretches this fun deeper into December, but we do get a weekend off, which is nice.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Hang in there, both of you. Prayer up.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:35 PM (77rzZ)

79 Colleges are using taxpayer funds to rebrand Columbus Day as "Indigenous People's Day."

Corporate America's been that way since 2020.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 03:36 PM (2ocoG)

80 "I was doing important work looking into how to impose more regulation on companies that do work near wetlands. Every paper I put out, cost those companies $100,000 in lawyer fees just to figure out what the fuck I was saying. I was contributing to the economy, and now that's gone, never to come back."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 03:34 PM (1kJuV)

The nation weeps at this momentous loss.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 03:36 PM (6ydKt)

81 Looks like Trump has another hottie for press secretary. Katie Zacharia.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 03:36 PM (viF8m)

82 FCC head Brendan Carr scolds leftists for opposing ratings for TV show including warnings about transgender content.

Also add gay content to that...I don't wanna see trannies and gays doing "stuff" on my TV or computer.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 03:36 PM (l3cgK)

83 I would joke that murder is quasi-consensual suicide but with the AWFLs, it's not that untrue.

Posted by: Just the Punchline at October 09, 2026 03:36 PM (4NO2D)

84 Hang in there, both of you. Prayer up.
Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:35 PM (77rzZ)
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Thank you. God be with you.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2026 03:36 PM (ZOv7s)

85 Most of these stories make-a me lose-a my temperature!!! And it's-a Columbus Day Weekend!

Posted by: Mr. Bacciagalupe at October 09, 2026 03:36 PM (EdP2u)

86 Mayor Nadia Mohamed (D-MN): The way to end Somali gang shootings is to "ban guns"

No, it's to ban muzzie Somalis from the country.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 03:36 PM (l3cgK)

87 He is making his followers hate federal employees, creating the narrative that government workers are a drain on the economy. These people cheering have no idea how anything works. If the statement “run the country like a business” makes sense to you, I know you don’t understand business or how countries work.

Back in the early 2000s a guy was found dead in the woods with "fed" scratched into him. He'd been a part time census worker but...that's it for being a fed.

The FNM went bonkers claiming Shrub was demanding his voters murder federal employees and this was the result. The police investigated and pointed out the guy had killed himself and the story slowly dissipated.

But the notion that right leaning voters loved government workers before Trump is...comical.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 03:37 PM (sKqQm)

88 Can anyone give me one example of any western white woman finding her Prince Charming among these filthy degenerate savages?
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Remember:
The real lesson of "Not Without My Daughter" is that men, western men, need to do more to protect women from their choices.

It was not her fault that she fell in love with Mr. Abdul Mohammed and let him move her and her child to Goatrapeistan.

Nope. All the modern liberal woman sees is a love story where her father and brother(s) didn't save her in time.
See, they should have given him a job, a career, a house, counseling, anything, something, everything so he would not have moved them.
That way, she could have lived out her love story.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 09, 2026 03:37 PM (3cUTc)

89 I have a suspicion that the sexual aspect of this IS important to Karens, look at someone like Jamey Carney who had a very personal reason for bringing in young male invaders to the country and her vajajay.

I've said before, that's the one true job Americans won't do.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 03:37 PM (2ocoG)

90 Which makes sense, as Abraham Lincoln was a vampire slayer.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

A former co-worker of mine saw that movie and said that it was pretty good. I guess they did a good job of combining actual Civil-War history and the vampire stuff in the plot.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:37 PM (77rzZ)

91 He has no clue about the dedication and passion that many federal workers have. That can’t be found in the private sector.

>>>

Damn straight!

Posted by: EPA Hallway Shitter at October 09, 2026 03:37 PM (wVcYX)

92 So I guess he does not in fact want equality?
Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 03:34 PM (sKqQm)
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They never do. They expect to be members of the Nomenklatura while you toil in the mines.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2026 03:37 PM (ZOv7s)

93
85K is substantially more then the median in the US.

So I guess he does not in fact want equality?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 03:34 PM (sKqQm)


No, he wants to make $85k a year with platinum benefits to work from 8 to 3 for nine months out the year.

and then bitch about it while expecting you to kiss his bent over ass in appreciation.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 03:37 PM (6ydKt)

94 Also add gay content to that...I don't wanna see trannies and gays doing "stuff" on my TV or computer.

Its been a big thing for hollywood to stick dudes making out in movies for no reason.

Might be part of the reason hollywood is dying.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 03:38 PM (sKqQm)

95 I went from over 120K as a fed to 85K at my new job teaching high school. I hate this dirtbag and all his minions. Everything he says is a lie.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 09, 2026 03:30 PM (+fIyw)

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So...still a government employee, huh?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 03:32 PM


The state tit is smaller, they whined.

Posted by: Just the Punchline at October 09, 2026 03:38 PM (4NO2D)

96 Mayor Nadia Mohamed (D-MN): The way to end Somali gang shootings is to "ban guns"

How about denaturalize and deport? https://t.co/CPyiMyAqEz

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) October 6, 2026



That woman is a twat.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 03:38 PM (ccf/V)

97 God be with you.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Thank you. He is, even though I can't always feel his presence. But I know he's there.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:38 PM (77rzZ)

98 GatewayPundit...

New WH Press Secretary.

Sit down people. She's a smoking hot blonde.

The House has reportedly found a new press secretary to succeed Karoline Leavitt, who was the youngest Press Secretary in history.

Katie Zacharia, a lawyer, conservative media personality, and former DHS spokeswoman, has been offered the position. It is unclear whether she has accepted or when she would begin.

The New York Times reported on Friday,

Katie Zacharia, a conservative commentator who briefly worked at the Department of Homeland Security, has been chosen as the next White House press secretary, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 09, 2026 03:39 PM (Sco7b)

99 He has no clue about the dedication and passion that many federal workers have.
____

We know all about dedication and passion of the federal workers.

Posted by: Child Ghosts of Waco at October 09, 2026 03:39 PM (Dv3i1)

100 She met with her oncologist yesterday who decided to postpone this weeks treatment and perhaps change the kind of chemo. She will have to make it up, so that stretches this fun deeper into December, but we do get a weekend off, which is nice.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd



Been there, done that. Godspeed, sir. Prayers to both of you. It is a tough road, but if they get it figured out, when they get it figured out, there will be light at the end of the tunnel.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 03:39 PM (ccf/V)

101 Can anyone give me one example of any western white woman finding her Prince Charming among these filthy degenerate savages? /i]

While Jamey Carney did...until Prince Charming murdered her.

Or how about Elizabeth Jane Ross? Oh wait her boytoy killed her as well.

I'm sure this is just a coincidence...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 03:40 PM (sKqQm)

102 99 He has no clue about the dedication and passion that many federal workers have.
____

We know all about dedication and passion of the federal workers.

Posted by: Child Ghosts of Waco at October 09, 2026 03:39 PM (Dv3i1)

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"We dedicated ourselves to undermining the will of the body politic as they chose through the electoral college by making sure his policies did not come to pass. We should be celebrated."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 03:40 PM (1kJuV)

103 90 Which makes sense, as Abraham Lincoln was a vampire slayer.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

A former co-worker of mine saw that movie and said that it was pretty good. I guess they did a good job of combining actual Civil-War history and the vampire stuff in the plot.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:37 PM (77rzZ)

All I remember is I found the movie entertaining. Good $1.50 spent at RedBox...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 03:40 PM (l3cgK)

104
I went from over 120K as a fed to 85K at my new job teaching high school. I hate this dirtbag and all his minions. Everything he says is a lie.

Would you want this person to "teach" your children?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 09, 2026 03:40 PM (Cqx++)

105 I've said before, that's the one true job Americans won't do.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 03:37 PM (2ocoG)
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Women so toxic that the only men who will shag them are the ones who can't understand a word they say and whose only alternative sexual outlet has four legs.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2026 03:40 PM (ZOv7s)

106 No, he wants to make $85k a year with platinum benefits to work from 8 to 3 for nine months out the year.

and then bitch about it while expecting you to kiss his bent over ass in appreciation.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Ding ding ding.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 03:41 PM (GZ3K7)

107 As long as Italians aren't listed as white, I'm OK with it.

Posted by: Nordic Interiors at October 09, 2026 03:41 PM (EdP2u)

108 107 As long as Italians aren't listed as white, I'm OK with it.

Posted by: Nordic Interiors at October 09, 2026 03:41 PM (EdP2u)

Does "swarthy white" count?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 03:42 PM (l3cgK)

109 All I remember is I found the movie entertaining. Good $1.50 spent at RedBox...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 03:40 PM


IIRC, it has Rufus Sewell as the Confederate Vampire.

Sewell has got smug down pat.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 03:42 PM (4NO2D)

110 Have the Sammies brought their RPGs here as well?

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 03:43 PM (Ia/+0)

111 Does "swarthy white" count?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 03:42 PM (l3cgK)

It's a tough call when it comes to Greeks and Spaniards.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 03:43 PM (6ydKt)

112 "New dispatch on the Cornell case from the NYT is pretty extraordinary"

1. The Blade nailed the motive a week ago: pure revenge for getting "dissed" by the frat for disinviting her to the halloween party. She was livid and wanted revenge. Everything changed after that.

2. Of all the insanely stupid and comically bad decisions made in this whole sordid mess, the most insanely stupid and comically bad was ...

..the frat kicking her off the party invite list. All they had to do was let her come to the party, and none of this would have happened. None of it.

Plus, even if she later did scream "rape" that would be much harder to do if they had proof she went back to her alleged Rape House and partied with her alleged rapists.

Kicking her off the list was an incandescently stupid decision.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 03:43 PM (iFTx/)

113 109 All I remember is I found the movie entertaining. Good $1.50 spent at RedBox...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 03:40 PM

IIRC, it has Rufus Sewell as the Confederate Vampire.

Sewell has got smug down pat.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 03:42 PM (4NO2D)

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Confused and superpowered in Dark City Rufus Sewell better than haughty asshole in A Knight's Tale Rufus Sewell.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 03:43 PM (1kJuV)

114 Lightbulb-person gun-grabbing birdhands mayor.

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at October 09, 2026 03:44 PM (lfNXu)

115 As long as Italians aren't listed as white, I'm OK with it.

Speaking of which... https://tinyurl.com/ymc8ez23

/link goes to youtube
//not really SFW anyway
///they could not make this scene today

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 03:44 PM (sKqQm)

116 Women so toxic that the only men who will shag them are the ones who can't understand a word they say and whose only alternative sexual outlet has four legs.

My favorite are the videos by 600 pound women saying they refuse to date white men.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 03:44 PM (2ocoG)

117 Confused and superpowered in Dark City Rufus Sewell better than haughty asshole in A Knight's Tale Rufus Sewell.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 03:43 PM


He played Reichsfuhrer Smith pretty well.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 03:44 PM (4NO2D)

118 Why do leftists insist on taking over and rebranding things?


Create your own. Stop destroying things other people built.

Marriage, institutions, holidays, rainbows, girls sports…..

Be a creator of what you want celebrated and leave my stuff alone.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 03:44 PM (W2Pud)

119 109 All I remember is I found the movie entertaining. Good $1.50 spent at RedBox...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 03:40 PM

IIRC, it has Rufus Sewell as the Confederate Vampire.

Sewell has got smug down pat.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 03:42 PM (4NO2D)

sadly, RedBox got defunct, got defunct, got defunct...

https://youtu.be/m0zWHGwu17g

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 03:45 PM (l3cgK)

120 One thing about putting all the pedos into group homes in close proximity is that it puts them at risk from motivated arsonists.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 03:45 PM (quk5M)

121 Kicking her off the list was an incandescently stupid decision.

I'm gonna disagree. Given her antics the first time, do you really want whatever she does to top it to happen in your legal jurisdiction?

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 03:45 PM (2ocoG)

122 I've said before, that's the one true job Americans won't do.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 03:37 PM (2ocoG)
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Women so toxic that the only men who will shag them are the ones who can't understand a word they say and whose only alternative sexual outlet has four legs.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2026 03:40 PM (ZOv7s)

Free Civil Intercourse!

Posted by: Rallying Cry of the Masses at October 09, 2026 03:45 PM (wVcYX)

123 Kicking her off the list was an incandescently stupid decision.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 03:43 PM (iFTx/)


Oh, I think the stupid decisions started well before the Halloween party.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 03:45 PM (6ydKt)

124 Sewell was in some show where he was building a cathedral that I thought was pretty good.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 03:45 PM (4NO2D)

125 My favorite are the videos by 600 pound women saying they refuse to date white men.
Posted by: Ian S.

Well, black men tend to prefer fat white chicks for some reason.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:46 PM (77rzZ)

126 114 Lightbulb-person gun-grabbing birdhands mayor.
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts

Surprisingly, I know what this sentence means.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 09, 2026 03:46 PM (Dv3i1)

127 Why do leftists insist on taking over and rebranding things?

Create your own.


Evil cannot create, only destroy.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 03:47 PM (2ocoG)

128 He has no clue about the dedication and passion that many federal workers have. That can’t be found in the private sector.

I went from over 120K as a fed to 85K at my new job teaching high school. I hate this dirtbag and all his minions. Everything he says is a lie.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 09, 2026 03:30 PM (+fIyw)
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The funny thing is that they can't point to any bottlenecks in service performance. if they could, they would.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2026 03:34 PM


Just like they can't point to a single person who lost their obama care insurance when Trump finally ended the temporary "emergency" covid subsidies for obama care after they ran for 5 years.


Nor can they find a single woman with three kids not being able to feed her kids after Trump ended the snap fraud by kicking millions of people off of it.


It's a mystery.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 03:47 PM (I43vL)

129 127 Why do leftists insist on taking over and rebranding things?

Create your own.

Evil cannot create, only destroy.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 03:47 PM (2ocoG)

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One word:

Gramsci.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 03:47 PM (1kJuV)

130
I went from over 120K as a fed to 85K at my new job teaching high school. I hate this dirtbag and all his minions. Everything he says is a lie.

Would you want this person to "teach" your children?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 09, 2026 03:40 PM (Cqx++)
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"Listen up, future child predator sex slaves. THESE are the Seven Cardinal Virtues: Pride, Greed, Lust, envy, Gluttony, Wrath, & Sloth!

Or as the late, great Paul Lynde observed on Hollyweird Squares: The Bill of Rights ..."

Posted by: ShainS at October 09, 2026 03:47 PM (D3x2Y)

131 Well, black men tend to prefer fat white chicks for some reason.

While that's true, most of those videos' comments tend to look like that skit where a man from every race says "nah, bro".

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 03:48 PM (2ocoG)

132 Ah, as the eponymous Tom Builder in The Pillars of the Earth.

Thanks IMDB.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 03:48 PM (4NO2D)

133 Gramsci.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

The worst thing Mussolini did was not offing the f**ker. That was worse than his conquest of Ethiopia.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:48 PM (77rzZ)

134 Hitler Mussolini Simeon wins the mayoralty of Queropalca, Peru

🔴 Hitler Mussolini Simeon: 34.5%
🔵 Gaspar Benilde: 30.8%
🟡 Itala Yovana: 28.2%

I think we should bomb Queropalca, just to be sure.

Posted by: runner at October 09, 2026 03:48 PM (AKptf)

135 118 Why do leftists insist on taking over and rebranding things?


Create your own. Stop destroying things other people built.

Marriage, institutions, holidays, rainbows, girls sports…..

Be a creator of what you want celebrated and leave my stuff alone.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Leftists are oblivious to what it takes to create anything. They are no better than the underpants gnomes.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 09, 2026 03:49 PM (Dv3i1)

136 Be a creator of what you want celebrated and leave my stuff alone.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 03:44 PM (W2Pud)

But your stuff is toxic, racist, ablelist, white supremacist, homophobic, and oppressive.

and they deserve it.
and they want it.

for free.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 03:49 PM (6ydKt)

137 133 Gramsci.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

The worst thing Mussolini did was not offing the f**ker. That was worse than his conquest of Ethiopia.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:48 PM (77rzZ)

=======

Absolutely should have put a bullet in his head.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 03:49 PM (1kJuV)

138 Hitler Mussolini Simeon wins the mayoralty of Queropalca, Peru

Apparently the new mayor's father was

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 03:50 PM (6ydKt)

139 .... quite the history buff.

But he could only remember their names.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 03:51 PM (6ydKt)

140 Hitler Mussolini Simeon wins the mayoralty of Queropalca, Peru

Apparently the new mayor's father was
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 03:50 PM


Goebbels?

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 03:51 PM (4NO2D)

141 Leftists are oblivious to what it takes to create anything.
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Those assholes who keep invoking Satan at city council meetings don't believe for a moment that they're "building" or "creating" anything--they only wish to desecrate and destroy society and the norms that maintain it.

Posted by: Crusader at October 09, 2026 03:53 PM (TN0g+)

142 140 Hitler Mussolini Simeon wins the mayoralty of Queropalca, Peru

Apparently the new mayor's father was
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 03:50 PM

Goebbels?

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 03:51 PM (4NO2D)

I was on a typing without looking roll in that post then I started screwing up and hit the tab key and the enter key and dropped half my sentence on all of you.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 03:53 PM (6ydKt)

143 Wife just gave me a beer must be happy hour

Posted by: doug at October 09, 2026 03:53 PM (B1+sW)

144 "Sexual assaults" are "quasi-consensual encounters."

White women are asking for it for being white and wealthy and living in a first world country.

/sarc

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 03:54 PM (vJrRc)

145 Francisco Franco got his start as a cook in the Spanish Army, and as a side gig, started imported canned food into the US. That's the origin of Franco-American.
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And Francisco Franco is still dead.

Posted by: Crusader at October 09, 2026 03:54 PM (TN0g+)

146 143 Wife just gave me a beer must be happy hour

Posted by: doug at October 09, 2026 03:53 PM (B1+sW)


Have you had her checked under the concussion protocol just to make sure nothing has happened to her head?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 03:55 PM (6ydKt)

147 Wife just gave me a beer must be happy hour
Posted by: doug at October 09, 2026 03:53 PM (B1+sW)

she might be cheating on you

Posted by: first time commenter at October 09, 2026 03:55 PM (AKptf)

148 Things the left tells me are literal rape: Looking at a woman in the gym, asking your wife for sex if she isn't in the mood, not calling back a one night stand the next day

Things the left tells me are not rape: Rape by a Democrat office holder, rape by an immigrant, rape by a homosexual

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 03:56 PM (sKqQm)

149 Wife just gave me a beer must be happy hour
Posted by: doug

What a good wife you got!

When we were first dating, my wife demonstrated her beer-pouring skills, by which she produced the perfect head of foam.

And she never even worked as a bartender. Maybe she learned it in an MRS Degree program.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:57 PM (77rzZ)

150 No, he wants to make $85k a year with platinum benefits to work from 8 to 3 for nine months out the year.

and then bitch about it while expecting you to kiss his bent over ass in appreciation.
Posted by: SpeakingOf


Point of order: grading stuff and making lesson plans means the job takes longer than 8-3

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 03:57 PM (vJrRc)

151 He has no clue about the dedication and passion that many federal workers have.
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...uh..really?

Posted by: Crusader, Former Federal Bank Examiner at October 09, 2026 03:57 PM (TN0g+)

152 ya all funny salute

Posted by: doug at October 09, 2026 03:58 PM (B1+sW)

153 The day is coming soon where the concept of rape is only countenanced when the rapist is a white male.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 09, 2026 03:58 PM (0U5gm)

154 Awesome news on the suppressor, SBR, and SBS front...

https://www.atf.gov/media/30961/download

Posted by: lin-duh at October 09, 2026 03:58 PM (9U6Wl)

155 Mayor Nadia Mohamed (D-MN): The way to end Somali gang shootings is to "ban guns"
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Get this mouthy burka-covered bitch out of my country.

Posted by: Crusader, Former Federal Bank Examiner at October 09, 2026 03:58 PM (TN0g+)

156 Hitler Mussolini Simeon wins the mayoralty of Queropalca, Peru

Apparently the new mayor's father was
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 03:50 PM

Goebbels?
Posted by: toby
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I had an older neighbor with a thick German accent. He would often assert, without being asked, that he was Argentinian. I suppse the intent was to disassocate himself from the Reichstag. For better or worse, it only piqued my suspicion.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 03:58 PM (XeU6L)

157 Point of order: grading stuff and making lesson plans means the job takes longer than 8-3

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 03:57 PM (vJrRc)


$85k with fully paid dental and eye-care should make that much more bearable.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 03:59 PM (6ydKt)

158 Overview of Gun Laws in Somalia

Gun laws in Somalia are characterized by strict regulations, which include a total ban on the import, sale, and possession of firearms by civilians.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 04:00 PM (sKqQm)

159 Take them to the river.
Drop them in the water.
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Go on--I'm taking notes.

Posted by: David Byrne at October 09, 2026 04:00 PM (TN0g+)

160 Leftists are oblivious to what it takes to create anything.
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Ah. But they have a 'vision'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 04:01 PM (XeU6L)

161 The Taylor Street Center is one of San Francisco's most heavily populated sex-offender residences. Located in the Tenderloin, Taylor Street houses at least 31 registered sex offenders. The taxpayer-funded California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the federal Bureau of Prisons contract the private GEO Group to run the facility.
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Each of them will vote for Weiner. He thinks of them as his core constituency.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 04:01 PM (RIvkX)

162 Gun laws in Somalia are characterized by strict regulations, which include a total ban on the import, sale, and possession of firearms by civilians.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 04:00 PM (sKqQm)


It's one thing to have laws but an entirely different thing to have the means to enforce them.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:02 PM (6ydKt)

163 Mayor Nadia has a basal cell carcinoma smack dab on her Mo forehead. Don't tell her.

Jane Doe should be Jane Ho, the train conductress of Chi Phi. Because this type of sex is the thing now (paraphrased from her texts) and nothing to feel shame about!

Unless someone talks about you and you want their names so you can beat them to a pulp.

The tip of her iceberg was not getting invited to a party. This is so Title IX. Similar to cases I read about of drunken sex, initiated by the girl, and screaming rape to Title IX the next morning when they guy says, "See ya" vs a marriage proposal or being a boyfriend. I would really like to know the % of these revenge cases vs true rape.

She waits, wut?, two weeks to get a rape kit. By then who knows who she's been with since the hodown?

Granted, many rape kits in ED's are after the girl has showered...which would be a normal response but it can impact DNA results.

The girls I saw, and they were very few because there is a chain of evidence and only 1 RN working with them...were traumatized. I was called in to comfort a few girls by the RN. She is specially trained for this and not any regular ED RN can assist.

Jane Ho waited 2wks or so.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 09, 2026 04:02 PM (hzuYO)

164 So when the white slave owners were banging the black slaves, that was helping to increase diversity right?

Posted by: Darth Randall at October 09, 2026 04:04 PM (mseD3)

165 164 So when the white slave owners were banging the black slaves, that was helping to increase diversity right?

Posted by: Darth Randall at October 09, 2026 04:04 PM (mseD3)

"Quasi-consensual" so it checks out.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:04 PM (6ydKt)

166 So when the white slave owners were banging the black slaves, that was helping to increase diversity right?
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I felt so, yes.

Posted by: Zombie Thomas Jefferson at October 09, 2026 04:05 PM (TN0g+)

167 I had an older neighbor with a thick German accent. He would often assert, without being asked, that he was Argentinian. I suppse the intent was to disassocate himself from the Reichstag. For better or worse, it only piqued my suspicion.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 03:58 PM (XeU6L)

you could have asked him what he did between 1940-1945...

Posted by: runner at October 09, 2026 04:05 PM (AKptf)

168 As someone noted, the woman at Cornell was anonymous and only the local area knew about the allegations. No prosecution occurred.
Now over a billion people know who she is and what she did.
Great plan

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 04:06 PM (t9883)

169 Ryan Hall is live with Hurricane Isaias.

https://www.youtube.com/live/naxJDOglaNs

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:06 PM (6ydKt)

170 Those assholes who keep invoking Satan at city council meetings don't believe for a moment that they're "building" or "creating" anything--they only wish to desecrate and destroy society and the norms that maintain it.
Posted by: Crusader at October 09, 2026 03:53 PM (TN0g+)

Who worships the creature when you can worship the Creator?

People be cray cray.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 09, 2026 04:07 PM (BYJyI)

171 I felt so, yes.
Posted by: Zombie Thomas Jefferson

Sally Hemings was a half-sister of Jefferson's late wife, Martha. She probably looked something like Martha. So it's understandable that he may have been drawn to her.

Not condoning it, mind you. But it does seem like a logical explanation as to why he did it.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 04:07 PM (77rzZ)

172 I thought a bottle of tequila, A Xanax, and a pair of handcuffs was a Rape Kit, or a Cosby Friday night.

Posted by: Naive Ned at October 09, 2026 04:07 PM (EdP2u)

173 168 As someone noted, the woman at Cornell was anonymous and only the local area knew about the allegations. No prosecution occurred.
Now over a billion people know who she is and what she did.
Great plan
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 04:06 PM (t9883)

You didn't really expect that a woman who would consent to a gang bang and snort K off someone's dick would show good judgment going forward, did you?

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 09, 2026 04:08 PM (BYJyI)

174 I gotta say YallBot's female voice has gotten better since the last time I watched Ryan's livestream.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:08 PM (6ydKt)

175 A group of scholars called Uncivil is doubling down on its argument that the push for civil discourse and viewpoint diversity is part of a conservative and pro-Israel agenda...


Fine.
I'll play along.
My next encounter will incorporate their methods.
This is gonna be fun!

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 04:09 PM (2WIwB)

176 The left really idolizes the crazy, don't they? I can't explain it... it's just so weird how they cozy up to the most vile, insane and violent people.

And society as it is today is the result. Obviously not everywhere.... but it's widespread.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 09, 2026 04:09 PM (RORbl)

177 I should go clean gutters because getting har rain Sunday

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 04:11 PM (Ia/+0)

178 Fine.
I'll play along.
My next encounter will incorporate their methods.
This is gonna be fun!
Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 04:09 PM (2WIwB)

Can I call them Ignorant Sluts? Because I really want to call them all Ignorant Sluts.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 09, 2026 04:11 PM (BYJyI)

179 I had an older neighbor with a thick German accent. He would often assert, without being asked, that he was Argentinian. I suppse the intent was to disassocate himself from the Reichstag. For better or worse, it only piqued my suspicion.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 03:58 PM (XeU6L)

you could have asked him what he did between 1940-1945...
Posted by: runner

Or showed him a box of paper clips and see how he reacted.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 04:12 PM (77rzZ)

180
Sally Hemings was a half-sister of Jefferson's late wife, Martha. She probably looked something like Martha. So it's understandable that he may have been drawn to her.

Not condoning it, mind you. But it does seem like a logical explanation as to why he did it.
Posted by: Bulg
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So far as I know, there is no definitive DNA evidence that Thomas Jefferson was the father of any of Hennings' children.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 04:12 PM (XeU6L)

181 Overview of Gun Laws in Somalia

Gun laws in Somalia are characterized by strict regulations, which include a total ban on the import, sale, and possession of firearms by civilians.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 04:00 PM (sKqQm)

***

Bwahahahaha!!!!
One of the ways we knew ahead of time that a fight was coming in Mogadishu was the price of ammo being sold in the market square started going up. Everyone started buying.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 04:12 PM (2WIwB)

182 171 I felt so, yes.
Posted by: Zombie Thomas Jefferson

Sally Hemings was a half-sister of Jefferson's late wife, Martha. She probably looked something like Martha. So it's understandable that he may have been drawn to her.

Not condoning it, mind you. But it does seem like a logical explanation as to why he did it.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 04:07 PM (77rzZ)

Have an ancestor who, when his wife died, married his wife's sister...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 04:12 PM (l3cgK)

183 "by making sure she gets to be "one of the guys" - a sort of friend of the frat who gets special privileges"

This is what I've been talking about from the beginning. This was a popular "jock" frat that held a lot of prestige and leverage.

The kind of place where it's hard to score an invite to the halloween party. Only the cook kids and hot girls get invited. If you are not invited, it means you ain't worthy.

There were frats like that in my college.

I'm sure this girl wasn't the first to consent to sex in exchange for invites and access.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 04:13 PM (iFTx/)

184 Looks like Pensacola is going to get the eye of the storm.
Some storm surge in Pensacola bay.

The western side of the storm is not doing as well due to wind shear, which should help people in Alabama out as they won't get hit as hard as the eastern part of the storm.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:13 PM (6ydKt)

185 Old and busted: "Free Candy" van

New hotness: Quasi-Consensual Encounter van

Posted by: mikeski at October 09, 2026 04:13 PM (VHUov)

186 Mayor Nadia has a basal cell carcinoma smack dab on her Mo forehead.

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is where I knew I was reading a ChristyBlinky comment!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 04:13 PM (RIvkX)

187 any of Hennings' children.
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Oops.'Hemmins'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 04:13 PM (XeU6L)

188 *Here

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 04:13 PM (RIvkX)

189 "Quasi-consensual" so it checks out.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:04 PM (6ydKt)

Wait, didn't the leftists just establish that any sexual move during any encounter requires positive, out loud, consent by the woman?

Now "quasi" consensual is enough?

I think we are going to need a written manual on the terms and timing here if we are going to move forward in a constructive manner.

Or, they can all just go straight to hell.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 09, 2026 04:13 PM (BYJyI)

190 180 So far as I know, there is no definitive DNA evidence that Thomas Jefferson was the father of any of Hennings' children.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 04:12 PM (XeU6L)

=======

Hemming''s line shares Randolph DNA. Jefferson's mother was a Randolph.

But, Jefferson's brother spent more time with the slaves and liked to party with them.

It essentially comes down to one of Jane Randolph's children, which might be Jefferson, and it's my understanding that a lot of the timelines of her birth don't line up with his time in France all that well.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:14 PM (1kJuV)

191 Dammit

'Hemmings'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 04:14 PM (XeU6L)

192 For better or worse, it only piqued my suspicion.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 03:58 PM (XeU6L)


Don't mention the war.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 09, 2026 04:14 PM (xg/DD)

193 So far as I know, there is no definitive DNA evidence that Thomas Jefferson was the father of any of Hennings' children.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

From what I heard way back when, it's likely that it was Tom's brother.

All I'm saying is that, if it was Tom, Hemming's blood relationship with Martha could explain it.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 04:14 PM (77rzZ)

194 Mass deportations? Excusing migrant rape is how you get a wave of vigilante murders

Posted by: UGAdawg at October 09, 2026 04:14 PM (LCCkb)

195 New hotness: Quasi-Consensual Encounter van
Posted by: mikeski at October 09, 2026 04:13 PM (VHUov)

Obligatory: https://youtu.be/C-ceX3-yW4c

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 09, 2026 04:15 PM (BYJyI)

196 Gun law in Somalia
Have RPG, will travel

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 04:15 PM (Ia/+0)

197 Now "quasi" consensual is enough?

I think we are going to need a written manual on the terms and timing here if we are going to move forward in a constructive manner.

Or, they can all just go straight to hell.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 09, 2026 04:13 PM (BYJyI)


I think that is a parody/satire site but can't be sure.

At any rate, 95% of white women are not going to go with quasi-consensual as an excuse for being raped by a BIPOC.

The other 5% go to Cornell.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:15 PM (6ydKt)

198 Can I call them Ignorant Sluts? Because I really want to call them all Ignorant Sluts.
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 09, 2026 04:11 PM (BYJyI)

Absolutely!
You can also use my fav: wanton libidinous trollops.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 04:15 PM (2WIwB)

199 Sally Hemings was a half-sister of Jefferson's late wife, Martha. She probably looked something like Martha. So it's understandable that he may have been drawn to her.

Not condoning it, mind you. But it does seem like a logical explanation as to why he did it.
Posted by: Bulg
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So far as I know, there is no definitive DNA evidence that Thomas Jefferson was the father of any of Hennings' children.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 04:12 PM (XeU6L)
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This. Nobody ever suggested Jefferson did until a few decades ago when it became convenient to smear him like this. It's total bullshit. Ann Coulter, for all her flaws, has some excellent columns on this.

Many slave owners fuck their slaves. Thomas Jefferson did not. It is highly likely that his cousin (?) did.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 04:16 PM (iFTx/)

200 192 For better or worse, it only piqued my suspicion.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 03:58 PM (XeU6L)

Don't mention the war.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 09, 2026 04:14 PM (xg/DD)

https://youtube.com/shorts/ggmMGCXKYJs

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 04:16 PM (l3cgK)

201 Hemmings, Hennings, Henings

One of those...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 04:16 PM (XeU6L)

202 199 This. Nobody ever suggested Jefferson did until a few decades ago when it became convenient to smear him like this. It's total bullshit. Ann Coulter, for all her flaws, has some excellent columns on this.

Many slave owners fuck their slaves. Thomas Jefferson did not. It is highly likely that his cousin (?) did.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 04:16 PM (iFTx/)

========

Adams' people were flinging the accusation during the 1800 campaign. It wasn't just manufactured in the last few decades.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:16 PM (1kJuV)

203 This. Nobody ever suggested Jefferson did until a few decades ago when it became convenient to smear him like this. It's total bullshit. Ann Coulter, for all her flaws, has some excellent columns on this.

Many slave owners fuck their slaves. Thomas Jefferson did not. It is highly likely that his cousin (?) did.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 04:16 PM (iFTx/)

========

Adams' people were flinging the accusation during the 1800 campaign. It wasn't just manufactured in the last few decades.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:16 PM (1kJuV)
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I meant by scholars

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 04:17 PM (iFTx/)

204 Have an ancestor who, when his wife died, married his wife's sister...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)


I knew--sort of, friends-of-a-friend--a pair of brothers who married a pair of sisters.

And then realized they didn't get it quite right, so both pairs divorced, and remarried the other way around, so each one was marrying their sibling's ex.

Not enough banjos for those wedding parties, eh?

Posted by: mikeski at October 09, 2026 04:18 PM (VHUov)

205 Adams' people were flinging the accusation during the 1800 campaign. It wasn't just manufactured in the last few decades.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I remember the ep of The Jeffersons where George dressed up in colonial garb to boost his dry-cleaning business by claiming that he was descended from Tom.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 04:18 PM (77rzZ)

206 Many slave owners fuck their slaves. Thomas Jefferson did not. It is highly likely that his cousin (?) did.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 04:16 PM (iFTx/)

These people would be shocked if they knew the depravity the Romans and Arabs forced on their slaves.


If they actually believe anybody but American southerners had slaves.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:18 PM (6ydKt)

207 Of course Thomas Jefferson bones his slaves. How else did George Jefferson get his name?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 04:18 PM (t9883)

208 I knew--sort of, friends-of-a-friend--a pair of brothers who married a pair of sisters.

And then realized they didn't get it quite right, so both pairs divorced, and remarried the other way around, so each one was marrying their sibling's ex.
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That's unbelievable!

Posted by: Zombie Fritz Peterson at October 09, 2026 04:19 PM (TN0g+)

209 This. Nobody ever suggested Jefferson did until a few decades ago when it became convenient to smear him like this.
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I recall that Pete Butterjug called Jefferson's visage on Mt. Rushmore 'Problematic'. He didn't say anything about the $2 bill.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 04:19 PM (XeU6L)

210 Quasi-consensual means that only one party needs to consent to the "encounter."

Known in some quarters as the Bill Cosby Green Light.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 04:20 PM (guGkK)

211 Many slave owners fuck their slaves. Thomas Jefferson did not.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

And you were there and have first-hand knowledge?

Jefferson, for all his brilliance, was a deeply flawed character when it came to the slavery issue.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 04:20 PM (77rzZ)

212 Not enough banjos for those wedding parties, eh?

Posted by: mikeski at October 09, 2026 04:18 PM (VHUov)

Saves money on Christmas when everybody has the same in-laws, though.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:20 PM (6ydKt)

213 207 Of course Thomas Jefferson bones his slaves. How else did George Jefferson get his name?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 04:18 PM (t9883)


Wut?

Posted by: George Clinton at October 09, 2026 04:20 PM (xg/DD)

214 I recall that Pete Butterjug called Jefferson's visage on Mt. Rushmore 'Problematic'. He didn't say anything about the $2 bill.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 04:19 PM (XeU6L)

Petey prefers the three dollar bill. Much queerer.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 09, 2026 04:21 PM (BYJyI)

215 204 Have an ancestor who, when his wife died, married his wife's sister...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

I knew--sort of, friends-of-a-friend--a pair of brothers who married a pair of sisters.

And then realized they didn't get it quite right, so both pairs divorced, and remarried the other way around, so each one was marrying their sibling's ex.

Not enough banjos for those wedding parties, eh?

Posted by: mikeski at October 09, 2026 04:18 PM (VHUov)

My Great-Grandmother (Mom's maternal grandma) had three sisters that married three brothers..It may explain her fixation with the movie "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 04:21 PM (l3cgK)

216 Each white womb decorated with a Brown or Black baby make racial purism increasingly not just odious but logistically impossible.

That's actually pretty funny. Not sure if that is secretly snarky.

Posted by: Max Power at October 09, 2026 04:21 PM (SwyyQ)

217 you could have asked him what he did between 1940-1945...
Posted by: runner

Or showed him a box of paper clips and see how he reacted.
Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 04:12 PM (77rzZ)


Or checked out his lam shades...

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 04:21 PM (2WIwB)

218 Obama belongs on the three-dollar bill.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 04:21 PM (guGkK)

219 I knew--sort of, friends-of-a-friend--a pair of brothers who married a pair of sisters.

Two of my Dad's brothers married sisters. Unfortunately, the sisters did not particularly get along, which made family gatherings somewhat awkward.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 04:22 PM (77rzZ)

220 Jefferson, for all his brilliance, was a deeply flawed character when it came to the slavery issue.
Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 04:20 PM (77rzZ)

Oh FFS. He was a product of his time. Anachronisms don't really enlighten anyone.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 09, 2026 04:22 PM (BYJyI)

221 Many slave owners fuck their slaves. Thomas Jefferson did not. It is highly likely that his cousin (?) did.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 04:16 PM (iFTx/)

These people would be shocked if they knew the depravity the Romans and Arabs forced on their slaves.


If they actually believe anybody but American southerners had slaves.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:18 PM (6ydKt)
_____

Even the slaves of the same era who were sent to Brazil were far worse off than American slaves. The Portuguese were far more brutal than Americans were.

Plus, the work was much harder and more dangerous. You think picking cotton is bad? Imagine having to clear a Brazilian rainforest with 17-century tools to make way for plantations and estates. I'm sure the life expectancy was much worse for them than the American slaves.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 04:22 PM (iFTx/)

222 Jefferson, for all his brilliance, was a deeply flawed character when it came to the slavery issue.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 04:20 PM (77rzZ)

Not really, he was surrounded by millions of people around the world who had no problems with slavery whatsoever.

At least Jefferson wrestled with the moral question a bit in his life.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:22 PM (6ydKt)

223
Why are they after poor Columbus ? He never stepped foot in what would become America...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 09, 2026 04:22 PM (+gK6I)

224 209 This. Nobody ever suggested Jefferson did until a few decades ago when it became convenient to smear him like this.
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I recall that Pete Butterjug called Jefferson's visage on Mt. Rushmore 'Problematic'. He didn't say anything about the $2 bill.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 04:19 PM (XeU6L)

He was just unhappy there weren't any assholes up there for him to gawk at.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 04:22 PM (l3cgK)

225 That's unbelievable!
Posted by: Zombie Fritz Peterson
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Pfft.

Chang and Eng Bunker: The original Siamese twins, Chang and Eng, married sisters Frances and Sarah Baugus in the 1830s. They fathered 21 children

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 04:23 PM (XeU6L)

226 Each white womb decorated with a Brown or Black baby make racial purism increasingly not just odious but logistically impossible.

That's actually pretty funny. Not sure if that is secretly snarky.
Posted by: Max Power at October 09, 2026 04:21 PM (SwyyQ)


It's the kind of Big Thinking that will get you published in some obscure academic journal with a pompous-sounding name like the International Racial Dialectic Review.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 04:23 PM (guGkK)

227 223
Why are they after poor Columbus ? He never stepped foot in what would become America...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 09, 2026 04:22 PM (+gK6I)

Cuz he was a white honky...okay, swarthy white honky...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 04:24 PM (l3cgK)

228 Many slave owners fuck their slaves. Thomas Jefferson did not.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

And you were there and have first-hand knowledge?

Jefferson, for all his brilliance, was a deeply flawed character when it came to the slavery issue.
Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 04:20 PM (77rzZ)
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Read the Ann Coulter columns I mentioned. She cites lengthy and compelling evidence from scholars that Jefferson didn't.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 04:24 PM (iFTx/)

229 225 That's unbelievable!
Posted by: Zombie Fritz Peterson
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Pfft.

Chang and Eng Bunker: The original Siamese twins, Chang and Eng, married sisters Frances and Sarah Baugus in the 1830s. They fathered 21 children

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 04:23 PM (XeU6L)

I think at minimum, a three-some was unavoidable...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 04:25 PM (l3cgK)

230 Oh FFS. He was a product of his time. Anachronisms don't really enlighten anyone.
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 09, 2026 04:22 PM (BYJyI)


Especially me. I hate spiders!

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 04:25 PM (2WIwB)

231 At least Jefferson wrestled with the moral question a bit in his life.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:22 PM (6ydKt)


The trick is, you just refuse to wrestle with it.

Posted by: Jean-Jacques Rousseau at October 09, 2026 04:25 PM (guGkK)

232 Chang and Eng Bunker: The original Siamese twins, Chang and Eng, married sisters Frances and Sarah Baugus in the 1830s. They fathered 21 children
Posted by: Mike Hammer

The comment in the Guiness Book of World Records when I was a kid was something like "Thoughts regarding the methodology employed are best left to the reader."

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 04:25 PM (77rzZ)

233 Read the Ann Coulter columns I mentioned. She cites lengthy and compelling evidence from scholars that Jefferson didn't.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 04:24 PM (iFTx/)

But she never argues he wouldn't!--some leftist

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 04:25 PM (l3cgK)

234 Jefferson, for all his brilliance, was a deeply flawed character when it came to the slavery issue.
Posted by: Bulg
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As far as I know, Jefferson only owned slaves that came with his wedding to his wife. He didn't like it, as it just meant more mouths to feed. Law precluded manumission.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 04:25 PM (XeU6L)

235 Why are they after poor Columbus ? He never stepped foot in what would become America...
Posted by: It's me donna at October 09, 2026 04:22 PM (+gK6I)
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Wait until they find out he could have been a Jew ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 04:26 PM (iFTx/)

236 Two of my Dad's brothers married sisters. Unfortunately, the sisters did not particularly get along, which made family gatherings somewhat awkward.
Posted by: Bulg


That's also how you wind up with "double cousins." My dad has some, since grandpa's brother married grandma's sister.

If "dad's brother's kid" and "mom's sister's kid" are the same kid, they're you're double (first) cousin.

More genetic similarity than normal cousins, but not as close as half-siblings. North Carolina is the only state where that matters; they allow first-cousin marriages, but not between double-cousins.

Posted by: mikeski at October 09, 2026 04:26 PM (VHUov)

237 235 Why are they after poor Columbus ? He never stepped foot in what would become America...
Posted by: It's me donna at October 09, 2026 04:22 PM (+gK6I)
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Wait until they find out he could have been a Jew ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 04:26 PM (iFTx/)

Some circumstantial evidence of it too...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 04:27 PM (l3cgK)

238 Plus, the work was much harder and more dangerous. You think picking cotton is bad? Imagine having to clear a Brazilian rainforest with 17-century tools to make way for plantations and estates. I'm sure the life expectancy was much worse for them than the American slaves.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 04:22 PM (iFTx/)


They did a lot of work in sugar cane fields and coffee plantations in Brazil. Eventually there was cotton and other crops but those two were the main cash crops during the 19th century.


And Brazil brought in a lot more slaves than the States.
U.S. ~ 400,000 imported
Brazil - ~ 5 million

They went through slaves and instead of letting them have children, like we did here, they just imported more.
They also freed more slaves so had a lot more freedman than we did before slavery ended there in the 1880s.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:27 PM (6ydKt)

239 Chang and Eng Bunker: The original Siamese twins, Chang and Eng, married sisters Frances and Sarah Baugus in the 1830s. They fathered 21 children

"If you've got no plans, I'd like to borrow the dick tonight, Chang."

Posted by: Eng at October 09, 2026 04:27 PM (guGkK)

240 My Grandmother was a first and second cousin to the man I was named after...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 04:27 PM (l3cgK)

241 BREAKING!

"Katie Zacharia, a former spokeswoman at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and a senior communications adviser at Truth Social, has been offered the position of White House press secretary."

Posted by: runner at October 09, 2026 04:27 PM (AKptf)

242 I know, I know, y'all are wondering "WHO??". Same. No clue who the blonde is.

Posted by: runner at October 09, 2026 04:28 PM (AKptf)

243 I think at minimum, a three-some was unavoidable...
Posted by: jim
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I refuse to ponder their arrangement

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 04:28 PM (XeU6L)

244 239 Chang and Eng Bunker: The original Siamese twins, Chang and Eng, married sisters Frances and Sarah Baugus in the 1830s. They fathered 21 children

"If you've got no plans, I'd like to borrow the dick tonight, Chang."

Posted by: Eng at October 09, 2026 04:27 PM (guGkK)

As funny as that is, they weren't joined like that...if you've seen the pictures.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 04:28 PM (l3cgK)

245 Read the Ann Coulter columns I mentioned. She cites lengthy and compelling evidence from scholars that Jefferson didn't.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 04:24 PM (iFTx/)


Say what you will about Coulter, she knows how to do research. I've read a couple of her books. She does her homework.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 04:29 PM (2WIwB)

246 243 I think at minimum, a three-some was unavoidable...
Posted by: jim
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I refuse to ponder their arrangement

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 04:28 PM (XeU6L)

Imagine a spherical...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 04:29 PM (l3cgK)

247 Read the Ann Coulter columns I mentioned. She cites lengthy and compelling evidence from scholars that Jefferson didn't.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

I don't care one way or the other. Jefferson was a great statesman, and a great American. But I don't dismiss out of hand the idea that he did the nasty with Hemmings, even if he did not actually father her children.

Heck, even Lincoln, as a young lawyer in Illinois, represented a slaveowner who was attempting to recover an escaped slave.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 04:29 PM (77rzZ)

248 As funny as that is, they weren't joined like that...if you've seen the pictures.

I sometimes take some literary license for the sake of a good joke.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 04:29 PM (guGkK)

249 North Carolina is the only state where that matters; they allow first-cousin marriages,
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Would explain Cooper...and Tillis.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 04:30 PM (XeU6L)

250 Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
·
38m
🚨 BREAKING: President Trump OFFICIALLY appoints MAGA patriot Katie Zacharia as the next White House Press Secretary, filling the shoes of Karoline Leavitt

CONGRATULATIONS, @Katie Zacharia! 🇺🇸

TRUMP: "It is my Great Honor to have just appointed, as Press Secretary, Katie Zacharia."

"She was previously involved in my Campaigns, assisting in key Swing States, where we won 7 out of 7. She has an unblemished record of support, and has been a loyal and brilliant supporter, right from the beginning."

"She is, likewise, a devoted fan and member of MAGA! I am confident that Katie will deliver strong results for our Country as the next White House Press Secretary, as she has the respect of, and will work fantastically with, the Media, the American People, and my Administration. Katie is replacing the fabulous @Karoline Leavitt, who did a fantastic job as Press Secretary. Good luck Katie! President DONALD J. TRUMP"

Posted by: runner at October 09, 2026 04:31 PM (AKptf)

251 During the time around the battle of Mogadishu the Bakara and Irtogte markets were selling everything. Shit I could get a nice type 56-1 for $150. RPG-7’s about $500 and I could get a discount if I bought two. If I threw in a goat I could probably get a PKM.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 09, 2026 04:31 PM (+qfnT)

252 >>>Please let in more Aspiring Doctors and Engineers who quasi-consensually rape the native population.
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This article hits on an unpleasant truth. (Or happy fun time if you are a conquering nation, historically). Women are genetically bound to survival and the continuation of her genes, it's not a conscious thing. At this point in time we mostly see white women who would not be a high selection but now on a preferred list, it's primarily survival and continuation of her genetic genes. The new arrivals are the most dominant, have the most survival potential of her mating options.

Basically, that's how we survive as a species. If we were an ancient conquering nation taking Africa we would take their women and they would give themselves to us because we are the dominant and the genetic drive to continue the species reins.

Today, if we want to continue as a dominant western culture, as in ancient times, we must be dominate and drive out the invader otherwise our culture will perish.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 04:31 PM (Cq/ve)

253 Say what you will about Coulter, she knows how to do research. I've read a couple of her books. She does her homework.
Posted by: Diogenes
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Noted 'How To Speak To A Liberal, If You Must' on my bookshelf the other day. May re-read.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 04:32 PM (XeU6L)

254 Heck, even Lincoln, as a young lawyer in Illinois, represented a slaveowner who was attempting to recover an escaped slave.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 04:29 PM (77rzZ)

Lincoln, to say the least, had a complicated view about slavery and blacks.

He disliked the institution of slavery mainly because it was tearing the nation apart, and he felt the entire concept incompatible with the American experiment itself.

But as for black people in general he was just as racist as any other men of his time.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:33 PM (6ydKt)

255 The Bunker brothers, from what I've read, could have been easily separated, even in the 19th century. But I guess the checks from Barnum were just too big.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 04:33 PM (77rzZ)

256 Gutters cleaned out

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 04:34 PM (Ia/+0)

257 The Bunker brothers, from what I've read, could have been easily separated, even in the 19th century.

Today, not only could they be separated, they could both be turned onto hot women.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 04:35 PM (guGkK)

258 255 The Bunker brothers, from what I've read, could have been easily separated, even in the 19th century. But I guess the checks from Barnum were just too big.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 04:33 PM (77rzZ)

Their livers were connected...I don't know if they would've survived the lack of sterility of medical equipment, or the lack of surgical skill of the mid-1800's. BTW, they died in 1874 at the age of 62.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 04:36 PM (l3cgK)

259 But as for black people in general he was just as racist as any other men of his time.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Agreed. He once even considered sending all American blacks back to Africa.

Basically, most whites in pre-Civil-War America were compromised by slavery, whether they wanted to be or not, or whether they knew it or not.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 04:36 PM (77rzZ)

260 Take them to the river.
Drop them in the water.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 09, 2026 03:25 PM (Cqx++)

Imma copy this down quick.

Posted by: David Byrne at October 09, 2026 04:37 PM (zafwz)

261 Katie looks nice

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 04:38 PM (Ia/+0)

262 From Wiki:
Most physicians who met the twins recommended against surgery for separation, as with medical technology at the time it would have been a fatal procedure. Contemporary medical literature strongly suggests that the twins could have been easily separated today.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 04:38 PM (l3cgK)

263 From Wiki:
Most physicians who met the twins recommended against surgery for separation, as with medical technology at the time it would have been a fatal procedure. Contemporary medical literature strongly suggests that the twins could have been easily separated today.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Thanks for the clarification.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 04:39 PM (77rzZ)

264 The people who smeared Jefferson are the same people who destroyed Monticello and turned it into a liberal mess of lies. There are many credible scholarly and peer reviewed works that disapprove almost all of it. Jefferson was a learned and complex man. Subject to the same impulses, biases and curiosity we all have. But he also was able to change an adapt precisely because he was all of those things and more. That’s how men become great. They don’t blindly follow the cadence and beliefs or their time. He was also a tough man, and would probably gut like a fish anyone who sullied his name.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 09, 2026 04:39 PM (+qfnT)

265 Mark Ruffalo warns that Democrats need to be watchful for voting machine manipulation and suggests Elon Musk could be involved:

Oh please, lets have LOTS of oversight and LOTS of cameras on what's going on during the collection and tallying of ballots!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 04:41 PM (l3cgK)

266 The people who smeared Jefferson are the same people who destroyed Monticello and turned it into a liberal mess of lies. There are many credible scholarly and peer reviewed works that disapprove almost all of it. Jefferson was a learned and complex man. Subject to the same impulses, biases and curiosity we all have. But he also was able to change an adapt precisely because he was all of those things and more. That’s how men become great. They don’t blindly follow the cadence and beliefs or their time. He was also a tough man, and would probably gut like a fish anyone who sullied his name.
Posted by: Marcus T

I recognize his complexity, as I do that of any other human being. But that recognition comes with the knowledge that he had flaws as well as virtues. It is not a fault to note those flaws, while at the same time celebrating those virtues.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 04:45 PM (77rzZ)

267 Oh please, lets have LOTS of oversight and LOTS of cameras on what's going on during the collection and tallying of ballots!
Posted by: jim
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And robust plumbing.

Posted by: Fulton County leaky toilet at October 09, 2026 04:45 PM (XeU6L)

268
I don't care one way or the other. Jefferson was a great statesman, and a great American. But I don't dismiss out of hand the idea that he did the nasty with Hemmings, even if he did not actually father her children.
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Is it significant to anything?
NO

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 04:46 PM (Cq/ve)

269 Is it significant to anything?
NO
Posted by: Braenyard

We're talking history, not current events. No, it is not significant to anything today. But it is still history.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 04:48 PM (77rzZ)

270 History is its own thing.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 04:50 PM (77rzZ)

271 Of all the things Jefferson did, getting laid is a pretty low threshold for an historical conversation. How much talk is there
of Franklin getting laid or Washington? Jefferson's sex life is a
liberal misdirection.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 04:52 PM (Cq/ve)

272 You can’t judge the sense and sensibilities of people 100+ years ago by the “standards” we have today. That’s unfair.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 05:01 PM (W2Pud)

273 272 You can’t judge the sense and sensibilities of people 100+ years ago by the “standards” we have today. That’s unfair.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 05:01 PM (W2Pud)
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That's the left's whole shtick though. Hell they judge people's actions three days ago by the sensibilities they "discovered" when they woke up this morning.

Posted by: ballistic at October 09, 2026 05:20 PM (oqH4h)

274 I didn't think San Fran had so many children as to need day-care centers for them.

Posted by: Weak Geek at October 09, 2026 07:03 PM (yRCXf)

Three "Students" Arrested for Threatening to Murder the President

CNN won't cover this.

But I do remember CNN hyperventilating that a meme showing Trump beating up a wrestler with "CNN" superimposed upon his head was an unbearable threat to kill a reporter, and that a Trump crowd chanting "CNN Sucks!" was a direct threat against noted tough-guy mike-grabbing-woman-harasser Jim Acosta.


Three University of South Alabama students accused of threatening President Donald Trump on social media were allowed to return home Monday as their federal cases moved toward possible grand jury review.

Cameron Lewis, Kayla Smith and Amare Woods had been arrested Friday, the same day Trump traveled to the university's Mitchell Center for a political rally in Mobile.

All three waived their preliminary hearings Monday, WKRG reported. They were released from custody and must report to a probation officer while the cases remain pending.


The arrests followed an FBI review of social media activity surrounding Trump's planned visit. The FBI's Mobile Division said agents arrested three people for threatening communications directed at the president in coordination with the Secret Service and several local agencies.


The cases involve separate posts attributed to the students in the days before Trump's Oct. 2 appearance.

Woods, an aerospace engineering student from Saraland, is accused of responding to a TikTok post about Trump's upcoming visit with the comment, "he gotta die bro."

Lewis, a resident assistant studying biology, is accused of making two posts on X. Court records described by WKRG included one encouraging Trump's killing and another suggesting the University of South Alabama would be remembered in the same way as Utah Valley University, where conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated.

Smith, an elementary education student from Birmingham, is accused of responding to a TikTok post about Trump's visit with, "we only got one chance, let's take it," accompanied by an image of a person holding a gun.

Another "student" said that their school would soon be like Utah Valley University, where Charlie Kirk was murdered by another deranged left-wing terrorist.


Woods' attorney, Jason Darley, has challenged whether his client's comment amounts to a criminal threat.

Darley told FOX10 there would be a genuine question over whether Woods' statement was merely a comment or legally constituted a threat.

Hey remember when a rodeo clown lost his job because he wore an Obama mask and this was claimed to be a threat against the SCOAMF's life?

He described Woods as an 18-year-old with no criminal history and said the student never intended to harm anyone.

Another Innocent Baby Angel Who Didn't Do Nuffin'.


"When you're a student at the school where the president is coming to visit, the timing was horrible," Darley said.

If you're interested in killing a president, it's the right sort of timing, isn't it?

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:10 PM




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1 18 years old with no criminal history and you decide to start your criminal career with a bang.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 09, 2026 02:11 PM (mkw2N)

2 First?

Posted by: Buck at October 09, 2026 02:11 PM (fiwzq)

3 Oh well.

Posted by: Buck at October 09, 2026 02:12 PM (fiwzq)

4 Geronimo!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 09, 2026 02:12 PM (wxsGM)

5 the kid 'misspoke'

Posted by: Don Black at October 09, 2026 02:13 PM (ZxPkt)

6 wait is this an HBC?

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 02:13 PM (j+aD2)

7 So many types of social contagion.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at October 09, 2026 02:14 PM (Dps4z)

8 Wow, first I've heard of this and it's just across the bay from me.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 02:14 PM (4NO2D)

9 Behold the nostril/uterus matrix.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 09, 2026 02:14 PM (wxsGM)

10 Ah, just silly children!


Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 02:15 PM (4KUe5)

11 Ah, just silly children!


Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 02:15 PM


Seemingly. Perhaps expulsion is the answer rather than prison.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 02:16 PM (4NO2D)

12 Nothing compared to that kid who smiled at the Indian that once time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 02:16 PM (1kJuV)

13 "Woods, an aerospace engineering student from Saraland, is accused of ...."

Yea, "aerospace engineer." Right. Sure. Pull this testicle and it plays jingle bells.

This is Alabama. One of the reddest of red states.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 02:16 PM (iFTx/)

14 Obama survived 16,384 assassination attempts.

Posted by: ... at October 09, 2026 02:17 PM (8S7CD)

15 Some people said something about trying to injure the POTUS.

If this had been a threat against President Soetoro it would the Top story for months.

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 09, 2026 02:18 PM (qDw3H)

16 G$dd&mbed f@!?ing pussy m’f$:-ers!!!!

Posted by: 6 year old who shot his teacher at October 09, 2026 02:18 PM (4KUe5)

17 Yea, "aerospace engineer." Right. Sure. Pull this testicle and it plays jingle bells.


lol that's why I asked if it was a historically black college up above!

no way that kid would be in aerospace engineering - which isn't even typically an undergraduate degree as it has a lot of ptereq's - in a normal university

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 02:18 PM (j+aD2)

18 For students studying aerospace engineering and biology, they don't seem like the brightest bulbs in the box. I figure the one studying elementary education is pretty typical of most leftist teachers. Do these people think they become invisible except to their friends when they post on social media?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 09, 2026 02:18 PM (JrHfD)

19 An aerospace engineer major, a biology major an an education major. And not a lick of common sense

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 02:18 PM (t9883)

20 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 02:19 PM (ccf/V)

21 Whenever I go on lefty forums or even nominal neutral places like facebook there are many, many direct calls to murder the president.

Now as I recall when one old coot posted something similiar about Biden they sent an assault squad and straight up killed him in his house.

We should be arresting thousands of people here...but this is a start...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 02:19 PM (sKqQm)

22 The left is winning because they own education. You indoctrinate the young, you are playing the long game.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 02:19 PM (ccf/V)

23 sorry pre-req's

you can be sort of "on a path" to aero at certain feeder schools like CU Boulder but it takes more than 4 years I think?

I don't remember deets but it's a tough tough major normally (one son was interested early on)

that doofus does not look like he would be up to it

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 02:19 PM (j+aD2)

24 They were in a public education facility? Where indoctrination is the only form of "education" they get?

I be shocked they're the only ones discussing this.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 09, 2026 02:19 PM (RORbl)

25 >>>Woods, an aerospace engineering student from Saraland, is accused of responding to a TikTok post about Trump's upcoming visit with the comment, "he gotta die bro."

How will SpaceX possibly be able to continue its mission?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 09, 2026 02:19 PM (dK+Kv)

26 I have only found photos of two of the students

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at October 09, 2026 02:19 PM (Dps4z)

27 A textbook example of the FO.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 09, 2026 02:20 PM (n5tGW)

28 19 An aerospace engineer major, a biology major an an education major. And not a lick of common sense


well the second two make sense - they are joke majors/fake majors

but the first one doesn't make sense lol

unless it's a school that feeds straight into a DEI situation!

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 02:20 PM (j+aD2)

29 I love the name Saraland. I imagine the town founder looking at his wife, Sara and telling her, "I hereby name this town, Saraland!" and his wife beaming at him.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 09, 2026 02:20 PM (mkw2N)

30
Lee Harvey Oswald didn't have a criminal record either.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 02:20 PM (eRlcH)

31 When kids took civics instead of gender fluid studies, they were taught that freedom of speech does not include encouraging violence against another person. Especially a sitting President.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 02:21 PM (W2Pud)

32 Kayla looks decidedly nonplussed in her mugshot,

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 02:21 PM (6ydKt)

33 Woods, an aerospace engineering student from Saraland, is accused of responding to a TikTok post about Trump's upcoming visit with the comment, "he gotta die bro."

Huh. Those U of South Alabama scholars have quite an impressive command of rhetoric.

Right up there on a par with "*grunt* fire bad."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 02:21 PM (guGkK)

34 I'm so old I remember when Rush said he opened Obarky failed at changing the country it was beyond the pale and the Dems and the GOPe argued he shouldn't be allowed to say things like that...

Now the same people tell be direct threats of violence are just...free speech

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 02:21 PM (sKqQm)

35 I love the name Saraland. I imagine the town founder looking at his wife, Sara and telling her, "I hereby name this town, Saraland!" and his wife beaming at him.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 09, 2026 02:20 PM (mkw2N)

Yo wife so fat . . . .

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 09, 2026 02:21 PM (dK+Kv)

36 Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 02:20 PM (j+aD2)

Why is a biology major a fake major?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 09, 2026 02:22 PM (JrHfD)

37 The aerospace engineering program at South Alabama is fifth best in the state.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 09, 2026 02:22 PM (2ap+5)

38
13 "Woods, an aerospace engineering student from Saraland, is accused of ...."

Yea, "aerospace engineer." Right. Sure. Pull this testicle and it plays jingle bells.

This is Alabama. One of the reddest of red states.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 02:16 PM

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Maybe the plan was to get DEI-hired at Boeing.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 09, 2026 02:22 PM (VWtfl)

39 anyway it is sickening and yes I hear/see such threats to the President DAILY

it burns me right up

had two companies come out to quote for a job here and both reps said something really and truly nasty about PDJT and they are def out. like it's nothing.

(they are big mad about the illegals getting kicked out lol)

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 02:22 PM (j+aD2)

40 Wiki: As of 2011, USA ranks as the 22nd best public university in the southern United States, and 52nd overall in the South. It has an acceptance rate of 86.5%
If you rank "52nd best college in Dixie!" you may as well admit you're a daycare.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 09, 2026 02:23 PM (sDWtc)

41 Kayla looks decidedly nonplussed in her mugshot,

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 02:21 PM (6ydKt)

Quick. Someone get her some whelm.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 09, 2026 02:23 PM (dK+Kv)

42 The aerospace engineering program at South Alabama is fifth best in the state.
Posted by: Oglebay at October 09, 2026 02:22 PM


I can't believe it's better than A&M.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 02:23 PM (4NO2D)

43 r/minority_strength

Three Black University of South Alabama students were arrested and charged with making threats on social media towards President Trump. Ahead of Trump’s visit to Alabama on October 2 to the Mitchell Center.

These charges can potentially derail their future, and these Crackas know that. Had it been Little Johnny and not Lil Amare, they would’ve dismissed those posts as a young kid just talking and would have taken his ENTIRE privileged future into consideration, before pressing charges.

That hoe Justice, ain’t never been blind. And she’ll sell herself to the highest and whitest bidder. Smh

Really weird that the party of free speech is taking such a hard line stance on free speech.

The president literally just threatened LA in San Diego with annihilation. Fuck that dude.

we can't afford to play into these jokers' hands, law enforcement and the justice system have always been weaponized against us and folks that don't hate and mistreat us. Fight smart y'all. Our grandparents and parents went through some stuff, now after this is all over, we'll have some stories of our own.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 09, 2026 02:23 PM (EGAVS)

44 He described Woods as an 18-year-old with no criminal history and said the student never intended to harm anyone.

A good caning will keep it that way.

Posted by: t-bird at October 09, 2026 02:23 PM (l50B5)

45 Yea, "aerospace engineer." Right. Sure. Pull this testicle and it plays jingle bells.


lol that's why I asked if it was a historically black college up above!

no way that kid would be in aerospace engineering - which isn't even typically an undergraduate degree as it has a lot of ptereq's - in a normal university
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 02:18 PM (j+aD2)
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University of South Alabama is far from a top school, but it's a real school.

I suspect these three retards are pure DEI students who will pass their classes no matter how badly they fail, will graduate knowing nothing more than when they started, and then go on to fulfilling careers as welfare cheats and parasites.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 02:23 PM (iFTx/)

46 Why is a biology major a fake major?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 09, 2026 02:22 PM (JrHfD)

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Biology isn't considered on the same level as physics or chemistry. Perhaps it's the total absence of math.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 09, 2026 02:23 PM (2ap+5)

47 (they are big mad about the illegals getting kicked out lol)

The people that tell you it is unconscionable that companies don't page a living wage get way, way more upset if their company is forced to pay an American salary

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 02:23 PM (sKqQm)

48 Mistakes were made.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 02:24 PM (GZ3K7)

49 Is CNN still going wall to wall about Loosie the victim?

Posted by: M. Gaga at October 09, 2026 02:24 PM (d3OcL)

50 13 "Woods, an aerospace engineering student from Saraland, is accused of ...."

Paying $100K a year to learn how to make paper airplanes and most courses also include why he should hate America.

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 09, 2026 02:24 PM (qDw3H)

51
I love the name Saraland. I imagine the town founder looking at his wife, Sara and telling her, "I hereby name this town, Saraland!" and his wife beaming at him.
Posted by: bonhomme at October 09, 2026 02:20 PM (mkw2N)

_________

"Ach! We invaded Saraland, not the Saarland. Dummkopf! You gave me the wrong directions!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 02:24 PM (eRlcH)

52
we can't afford to play into these jokers' hands,


Somehow I made it through the Biden and Obama years without publicly calling for violence against pols I didn't like.

Perhaps lefties might want to try the same?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 02:25 PM (sKqQm)

53 Why is a biology major a fake major?


well it's like a default major.

you need a grad degree to do anything with it. it's very "popular" but it isn't getting you anywhere.

even if you're pre-med, they often recommend majoring in chem bc it's more rigorous and gives you a better chance at med school

bio is not in the college of science / you don't get a BS you get a BA and it's in the normal/college of arts

Im a very bad person who insisted my kids all attend the engineering/science college at their schools for BS not BA. picky that way. also paid a lot of $$

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 02:25 PM (j+aD2)

54 The aerospace engineering program at South Alabama is fifth best in the state.
Posted by: Oglebay at October 09, 2026 02:22 PM


Fourth best is the Aerospace Engineering program at the Decatur Community College and Cosmetology School.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 02:26 PM (guGkK)

55 Lee Harvey Oswald didn't have a criminal record either.

Hillary still doesn't.

Posted by: The Trail of Bodies at October 09, 2026 02:26 PM (l50B5)

56 I would think the aerospace engineer classes have to do with the NASA facility in Huntsville. Of course I wouldn't want the arrested student to design a paper airplane.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 02:26 PM (t9883)

57 I think the style guide says "dint do nuffins."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 02:27 PM (ccf/V)

58
18
Do these people think they become invisible except to their friends when they post on social media?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 09, 2026 02:18 PM

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Yes, that's what they think. I'm not kidding.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 09, 2026 02:27 PM (VWtfl)

59 56 I would think the aerospace engineer classes have to do with the NASA facility in Huntsville. Of course I wouldn't want the arrested student to design a paper airplane.


yeah that makes sense

he was in the DEI to NASA pipeline one would expect

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 02:27 PM (j+aD2)

60 Another FAFO story.

Stupid doesn't win when you broadcast your wishes, children of the corn.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 09, 2026 02:27 PM (hzuYO)

61 Fourth best is the Aerospace Engineering program at the Decatur Community College and Cosmetology School.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 02:26 PM


Are you dissing Calhoun Community College?

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 02:27 PM (4NO2D)

62 It would be kind of surprising for "South" Alabama to be in the Huntsville area.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 09, 2026 02:27 PM (2ap+5)

63 This does hit at the core of the left's anti-Trump strategy in an interesting way.

Though Trump is a fairly moderate politician by pre-2016 standards, the left argues he's literally Hitler. And of course calling for violence against Hitler isn't just ok its a good thing.

But now there is actually a cost to calling for that violence, because of course Trump isn't Hitler and the American system bans assassination of its pols.

So the left has to choose - continue the Hitler line and go to jail, or acknowledge Trump isn't an OrangeHitler clone...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 02:27 PM (sKqQm)

64
Woods' attorney, Jason Darley, has challenged whether his client's comment amounts to a criminal threat.
Darley told FOX10 there would be a genuine question over whether Woods' statement was merely a comment or legally constituted a threat.



Whitey just don't understand ebonics, you know.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 02:27 PM (ccf/V)

65 Im a very bad person who insisted my kids all attend the engineering/science college at their schools for BS not BA. picky that way. also paid a lot of $$

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 02:25 PM (j+aD2)

Many more doors opened for BS than BA, too.

It is a filter of sorts. Can't do the math? Get a BA.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 09, 2026 02:28 PM (dK+Kv)

66 43 we can't afford to play into these jokers' hands, law enforcement and the justice system have always been weaponized against us and folks that don't hate and mistreat us. Fight smart y'all. Our grandparents and parents went through some stuff, now after this is all over, we'll have some stories of our own.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 09, 2026 02:23 PM (EGAVS)

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America is a fascist, oligarchal, capitalistic, tyrannical shithole that lets police shoot brown people for fun without consequence.

Flee. Renounce your citizenship for $450.

Move to China and forget all about America forever.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 02:28 PM (1kJuV)

67
37 The aerospace engineering program at South Alabama is fifth best in the state.
Posted by: Oglebay at October 09, 2026 02:22 PM

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How many programs are there -- five?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 09, 2026 02:28 PM (VWtfl)

68 Alabama A&M or UAH would make more sense for NASA but, Saraland is the next town up from South Alabama so I assume this guy is a commuter student to save money.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 02:29 PM (4NO2D)

69 Biology isn't considered on the same level as physics or chemistry. Perhaps it's the total absence of math.
Posted by: Oglebay

Theodore "Vox Day" Beale (I know) has pointed that out. He's got a few papers and books out, including Probability Zero, which attempt to bring math to evolutionary biology.
I'm trying to decide if his own math(s) is/are bafflegab. Beale has a long record of weaselly statements.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 09, 2026 02:29 PM (sDWtc)

70 Of course aerospace engineering could involve throwing a ball

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 02:29 PM (t9883)

71 41 Kayla looks decidedly nonplussed in her mugshot,

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 02:21 PM (6ydKt)

Quick. Someone get her some whelm.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 09, 2026 02:23 PM (dK+Kv)

She ain’t feeling it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 02:30 PM (6ydKt)

72 Damn, I bet Donquarious was just about to get a full ride scholarship sponsored by Lockheed Martin Skunkworks because they saw so much potential in him that they were grooming him to be the lead designer of the successor to the SR-71.

Posted by: ballistic at October 09, 2026 02:30 PM (oqH4h)

73 If only they were having gangbangs instead of posting on TikTok, they wouldn't be going through all of this.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 09, 2026 02:31 PM (Sco7b)

74 I think the South Alabama football coach is former University of Texas QB Major Applewhite.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 02:31 PM (ccf/V)

75 >>>If you're interested in killing a president, it's the right sort of timing, isn't it?

It is that someone, or some system has indicated that it is perfectly OK, or even moral and righteous to make threats, accusations and overt plans like this.
It is part of the mob mentality that goes with dehumanization necessary to discriminate or cancel.
Discrimination and cancelling give gutless, useless idiots power that they would not have otherwise, and give status within the mob.
They can make up cutesy insults, and assign intent, and say the world would be better without that particular point of view that says theirs is wrong.

But hey, for that group, it is just the socially binding thing to do, make accusations and find the smallest evidence that making violent threats is justified.
Punch a nazi. Punch a denier. After all, they justify genocide, right?

Posted by: Kindltot at October 09, 2026 02:31 PM (rbvCR)

76 "Ach! We invaded Saraland, not the Saarland. Dummkopf! You gave me the wrong directions!"

"SAAR! Please saar, show bobs and vagene and DO NOT REDEEM!"

(As someone noted on X recently, nothing's been worse for the average person's opinion of Indians than H1B).

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 02:31 PM (2ocoG)

77 I gots a degree in Nuklear Fistics from Univeristy of Hooterville on the internet.

I be tooks me 8 weaks to cumpletes the corses.

I be cannot finds a job yet and has to work at Berger King fllipering Bergers.

Still be thinks the $100K fee was be cheep cumpared to otter colligenes in the areana.

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 09, 2026 02:31 PM (qDw3H)

78 The aerospace engineering program at South Alabama is fifth best in the state.

The 142nd fastest gun
...in The West

Posted by: The Ballad of Irving at October 09, 2026 02:32 PM (l50B5)

79 Kinda surprised neither of the “students” are named Ahmed Al Abdul bin-Mohammed or some such.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 02:32 PM (zJe6s)

80 you can be sort of "on a path" to aero at certain feeder schools like CU Boulder but it takes more than 4 years I think?

I don't remember deets but it's a tough tough major normally (one son was interested early on)

that doofus does not look like he would be up to it
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 02:19 PM (j+aD2)
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It's a pretty standard 4-5 year program at the university where I work. Usually the only reason it takes longer than 4 years is because students will get a co-op or internship for a semester or two. Gives them practical, real-world experience, but does extend their degree a bit. (Though many students take a class or two during their co-op.)

It's not easy, but it can be done in 4 years.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 02:33 PM (FZ29D)

81
46
Biology isn't considered on the same level as physics or chemistry. Perhaps it's the total absence of math.
Posted by: Oglebay at October 09, 2026 02:23 PM

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A biology degree has some math in it. Enzyme kinetics, statistics...

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 09, 2026 02:33 PM (iTNuP)

82 Hopefully, these three will have learned a valuable lesson about life and will get raped in prison.

Posted by: Warden Samuel Norton at October 09, 2026 02:33 PM (9zGZf)

83 I love the name Saraland. I imagine the town founder looking at his wife, Sara and telling her, "I hereby name this town, Saraland!" and his wife beaming at him.
Posted by: bonhomme


As long as we are talking about astronomy (which absolutely does use math), Charon is pronounced "Sharon" if a ?moon and "Kharon" if Mitch McConnell's upcoming chauffeur. That's because the guy named it after Charlene "Char" his wife.
[Pluto-Charon is a double planet such that "moon" is doing some work here.]

Posted by: 88C+u at October 09, 2026 02:33 PM (sDWtc)

84 The 142nd fastest gun
...in The West
Posted by: The Ballad of Irving at October 09, 2026 02:32 PM (l50B5)


The 5th best cooking school in the UK.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 09, 2026 02:33 PM (2ap+5)

85 Hey, don't blame us! We're quoting, at length and with loving exactitude, what the guy said. Y'all deserve to know what he said!

Posted by: The Media at October 09, 2026 02:34 PM (l50B5)

86 I gots a degree in Nuklear Fistics from Univeristy of Hooterville on the internet.

Does Sydney Sweeney teach there?

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 02:34 PM (2ocoG)

87 Hopefully, these three will have learned a valuable lesson about life and will get raped in prison.
Posted by: Warden Samuel Norton at October 09, 2026 02:33 PM (9zGZf)



Won't happen........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 02:34 PM (ccf/V)

88 I hope my next airplane trip is one designed by Southern Alabama grads.

Wait, is Boeing hiring?

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at October 09, 2026 02:34 PM (bX16E)

89 These charges can potentially derail their future, and these Crackas know that. Had it been Little Johnny and not Lil Amare, they would’ve dismissed those posts as a young kid just talking and would have taken his ENTIRE privileged future into consideration, before pressing charges.

Funny how threatening to kill the President can narrow your career options.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 02:34 PM (guGkK)

90 Why is Trump holding a rally in Alabama of all places? That’s the more worrisome part of this story than some gang bangers posting shit online.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 02:35 PM (zJe6s)

91
BTB, the same people who were rubbing one out watching Charlie Kirk assassinated are fainting at Hasan's live execution.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 02:36 PM (eRlcH)

92 The Ballad of Buckehead > The Ballad of Irving.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 02:36 PM (ccf/V)

93 "He described Woods as an 18-year-old with no criminal history..."

Every criminal that has ever existed was, before they committed their first offense, a non-criminal. WTF kind of defense is that? You'd have to be an idiot lawyer to think like that.

Everyone gets their first felony free?

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at October 09, 2026 02:36 PM (oji8u)

94 "He described Woods as an 18-year-old with no criminal history and said the student never intended to harm anyone."

Maybe, but every criminal doesn't initially have a criminal history...until they start, that is.

Posted by: Thrawn at October 09, 2026 02:36 PM (oPFtC)

95 How difficult is it to just...not willy-nilly throw out assassination references, even if you super-duper don't really mean it and it's just for funsies?

Like why would you even be tiptoeing around that line?

Posted by: ballistic at October 09, 2026 02:36 PM (oqH4h)

96 Surprisingly, there wasn't any sense of outrage when the rodeo clown wore a Michelle Obama mask. The bulls were lining up i the back stall.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at October 09, 2026 02:36 PM (SMG8K)

97 BTB, the same people who were rubbing one out watching Charlie Kirk assassinated are fainting at Hasan's live execution.

Yeah, I mentioned that on the previous thread. Mostly women, too.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 02:37 PM (2ocoG)

98 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 09, 2026 02:37 PM (/C5Rl)

99 Criminal record != never commited a crime necessarily.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 02:37 PM (zJe6s)

100 32 Kayla looks decidedly nonplussed in her mugshot,
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 02:21 PM (6ydKt)

____________________

Understandable. She's just learned that there are no hair extensions in prison. BTW, elementary education major.

Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 02:37 PM (dIske)

101 Trump might be down on the Gulf because there's a hurricane bearing down on already-sodden FL panhandle. Catturd2 is expecting his ranch to be a lake.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 09, 2026 02:37 PM (sDWtc)

102 Funny how threatening to kill the President can narrow your career options.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 02:34 PM (guGkK)

They're down to journalism, academia, Hollywood, non-profits, the WNBA.

Probably a few others. I'm distracted.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 09, 2026 02:38 PM (Sco7b)

103 SPONGE!!!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 09, 2026 02:37 PM (/C5Rl)




*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 02:38 PM (ccf/V)

104 Trump might be down on the Gulf because there's a hurricane bearing down on already-sodden FL panhandle. Catturd2 is expecting his ranch to be a lake.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 09, 2026 02:37 PM (sDWtc)

The article says he’s there for a rally.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 02:38 PM (zJe6s)

105 Criminal record != never commited a crime necessarily.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 02:37 PM (zJe6s)
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A Yeoman Warder at the Tower of London humorously described the Good Conduct Medal as a reward for "thirty years of undiscovered crime."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 09, 2026 02:39 PM (amcLV)

106 Just another tragic example of the Aerospace Engineering College-to-Prison Pipeline.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 02:39 PM (guGkK)

107 "He described Woods as an 18-year-old with no criminal history and said the student never intended to harm anyone."

Maybe, but every criminal doesn't initially have a criminal history...until they start, that is.

Posted by: Thrawn at October 09, 2026 02:36 PM (oPFtC)

You know who else didn't have a criminal history?

Thomas Crooks.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 09, 2026 02:39 PM (dK+Kv)

108 86 I gots a degree in Nuklear Fistics from Univeristy of Hooterville on the internet.

Does Sydney Sweeney teach there?

Sydney Sweeney has a FAT Eiglottis which turns me off sexually ............

Posted by: Mike Hunt at October 09, 2026 02:39 PM (qDw3H)

109 104 Trump might be down on the Gulf because there's a hurricane bearing down on already-sodden FL panhandle. Catturd2 is expecting his ranch to be a lake.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 09, 2026 02:37 PM (sDWtc)

The article says he’s there for a rally.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 02:38 PM (zJe6s)

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A favor to Tuberville who's been loyal in the Senate and is running for governor.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 02:39 PM (1kJuV)

110 A biology degree has some math in it. Enzyme kinetics, statistics...
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 09, 2026 02:33 PM (iTNuP)
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I just looked up the degree requirements for a BS in Biology at the university where I work.

The only math required is a Calculus I course and an introduction to biostatistics course. Which is weird because you also have to take two semesters of Physics, which requires a little bit more math...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 02:40 PM (FZ29D)

111 How long until Georgia uses the Hurricane (which is likely to plaster them) to switch back to their previous election rules used during COVID. Over under?

Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 02:40 PM (dIske)

112 90 Why is Trump holding a rally in Alabama of all places? That’s the more worrisome part of this story than some gang bangers posting shit online.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez
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House race in AL. They redistricted and while the new district is pink, this is to ensure turnout.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 02:40 PM (E4rtv)

113 111 How long until Georgia uses the Hurricane (which is likely to plaster them) to switch back to their previous election rules used during COVID. Over under?
Posted by: Orson

Not going to happen. This is a fast moving system that will be gone by Sunday.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 02:41 PM (E4rtv)

114 112 90 Why is Trump holding a rally in Alabama of all places? That’s the more worrisome part of this story than some gang bangers posting shit online.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez
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House race in AL. They redistricted and while the new district is pink, this is to ensure turnout.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 02:40 PM (E4rtv)

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Nah, whig.

It means that in an environment where NH and MN are close senate races, where NY governor is going to be within 5 points, Alabama is going to flip.

Panic. Burn hair. Flee and fear for your lives.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 02:41 PM (1kJuV)

115 There is something just as important being decided in Alabama at the moment.

Can we okay the Georgia-Alabama game tomorrow in Tuscaloosa in the middle of a hurricane?

I believe they can get it done.
Roll Tide
(watch out for storm surge, though)

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 02:41 PM (6ydKt)

116 Statistics courses can differ. I would say, in general, a statistics course that does not focus on moment generating functions is not a math course.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 09, 2026 02:41 PM (2ap+5)

117 116 Statistics courses can differ. I would say, in general on average, a statistics course that does not focus on moment generating functions is not a math course.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 09, 2026 02:41 PM (2ap+5)

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Suggested edit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 02:42 PM (1kJuV)

118 okay = play

Yes, the iPad is taking all of that blame.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 02:42 PM (6ydKt)

119 How long until Georgia uses the Hurricane (which is likely to plaster them) to switch back to their previous election rules used during COVID. Over under?
Posted by: Orson

Not going to happen. This is a fast moving system that will be gone by Sunday.
Posted by: whig

I’m always on standby.
- Broken Water Main on election night

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 02:42 PM (zJe6s)

120 Great move to enhance your resume. Try getting a job now fuckwads.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 09, 2026 02:42 PM (nxLtX)

121 Woods' attorney, Jason Darley, has challenged whether his client's comment amounts to a criminal threat.

Remember, lefties, speech is literally violence. We'll hold you to your own standard. Pretty sure one of your heroes had a rule about that...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 09, 2026 02:43 PM (GfgtS)

122 Suggested edit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 02:42 PM (1kJuV)

“In the mean” might work there also.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 02:43 PM (6ydKt)

123 For Silicon Valley, this is a resume booster.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 02:44 PM (zJe6s)

124
Yeah, I mentioned that on the previous thread. Mostly women, too.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 02:37 PM (2ocoG)

____________

I was out mowing the back acreage. So you did. Nihil novum sub sole.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 02:44 PM (eRlcH)

125 Oglebay: "Biology isn't considered on the same level as physics or chemistry. Perhaps it's the total absence of math."

Say what? Biology requires semesters in calculus, physics, and chemistry with their associated math. What program are you referencing?

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at October 09, 2026 02:44 PM (oji8u)

126 That guy can probably kiss his aerospace career goodbye. But I hear Iran is hiring.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 09, 2026 02:44 PM (06nk1)

127 I am losing interest already. Three stupid kids do stupid things at a 2nd tier Alabama university.

I hope it scares them straight but I'm not out for their blood when there are so many other candidates.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 02:44 PM (4NO2D)

128 Kayla Smith looks like a WNBA fan ... IYKWIM.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 02:45 PM (iFTx/)

129
These midterm elections are the least important of our lives - because Trump is President.

A Democrat Congress won't pass a single thing the GOP Congress refused to pass. They won't have a Senate that will convict the President. And, he has a veto for their legislation.

If the GOP wins, we get less Sturm und Drang. That's it. No agenda items pass, besides routine carveouts for special interests.

I couldn't care any less about these elections, at least at the federal level.

An assassin is the only wild card, going forward. It's a constant worry. Just gotta get him through til January of '28.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 09, 2026 02:45 PM (BI5O2)

130 116 Statistics courses can differ. I would say, in general, a statistics course that does not focus on moment generating functions is not a math course.
Posted by: Oglebay at October 09, 2026 02:41 PM (2ap+5)


I would honestly be fine with introductory statistics being more of a philosophy course, and teaching things like why p-hacking shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the concept and invalidates the entire premise.

Posted by: SciVo at October 09, 2026 02:45 PM (ke3zm)

131 Panic. Burn hair. Flee and fear for your lives.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
=====
I shan't. I shan't. I shall not take that black pill. Take enough med pills anyway.

In reality, got to travel so will be unplugged for a couple of days. Have to see mother in memory care and deal with some financials which are difficult to do from another state.

Have fun storming the castle though.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 02:45 PM (E4rtv)

132 lol stats

they all were shocked that their stats classes in HS were tougher than the base-required stat class in college. three different colleges!

your run-of-the-mill check-the-box stat class in college is easy

it sucks honestly BUT they all had AP credits to use to skip over those basic classes which was nice. one thing the AP test is very useful for! it's like a substitute for doing a year or two at CC to save money (if you can do well on them)

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 02:45 PM (j+aD2)

133 I grieve for all the hypersonic aircraft that might never be designed because of this.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 02:46 PM (guGkK)

134 An assassin is the only wild card, going forward.

A vengeful President Vance may not be all smiles and sunshine for them.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 02:46 PM (4NO2D)

135 129
These midterm elections are the least important of our lives - because Trump is President.

A Democrat Congress won't pass a single thing the GOP Congress refused to pass. They won't have a Senate that will convict the President. And, he has a veto for their legislation.

If the GOP wins, we get less Sturm und Drang. That's it. No agenda items pass, besides routine carveouts for special interests.

I couldn't care any less about these elections, at least at the federal level.

An assassin is the only wild card, going forward. It's a constant worry. Just gotta get him through til January of '28.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 09, 2026 02:45 PM (BI5O2)

=======

If the GOP keeps the House, there's a chance of legislation, especially with the cleanup of some of the dregs of the Senate GOP.

But otherwise, yeah. Trump uses the presidency like a Democrat. He exercises power. That's the real prize in American politics now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 02:46 PM (1kJuV)

136 131
In reality, got to travel so will be unplugged for a couple of days. Have to see mother in memory care and deal with some financials which are difficult to do from another state.

Have fun storming the castle though.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 02:45 PM (E4rtv)

======

Have a good holiday weekend.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 02:47 PM (1kJuV)

137 126 That guy can probably kiss his aerospace career goodbye. But I hear Iran is hiring.
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Too bad, that guy seems like a space cadet already.
Course, he probably gets high enough to reach orbit anyway.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 02:47 PM (E4rtv)

138 There was that guy that tried to fly his airplane into the White House and crashed on the lawn.

That's pretty suspicious.

Posted by: torabora at October 09, 2026 02:47 PM (Wt1Rs)

139 Have a good holiday weekend.


????

what holiday?

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 02:47 PM (j+aD2)

140 139 Have a good holiday weekend.


????

what holiday?

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 02:47 PM (j+aD2)

====

Columbus Day is Monday.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 02:48 PM (1kJuV)

141 what holiday?
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 02:47 PM


Alabama Georgia Weekend.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 02:48 PM (4NO2D)

142 I am losing interest already. Three stupid kids do stupid things at a 2nd tier Alabama university.

I hope it scares them straight but I'm not out for their blood when there are so many other candidates.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 02:44 PM (4NO2D)
_____

Agree and disagree. Agree that these three DEI mopes are very small potatoes. I wouldn't let that girl snort K off my cock.

But we need the blood of mopes as a warning to others. It was insane what Biden's FBI/DOJ let their political allies get away with in terms of threatening to kill Trump. They were clearly hoping someone would kill him.

We need to bring the hammer down on these scumbags, even if in this case it's three minor fucknuggets.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 02:48 PM (iFTx/)

143
Alabama Georgia Weekend.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 02:48 PM (4NO2D)



That'll be a messy one. The run game is going to be big.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 02:48 PM (ccf/V)

144 what holiday?
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 02:47 PM (j+aD2)

=====

Indigenous Peoples Day. I still have to work.

Posted by: Jordan61 at October 09, 2026 02:49 PM (DRSnL)

145 ====

Columbus Day is Monday.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 02:48 PM (1kJuV)



I'm on vacation the next 2 weeks. Moving. Hopefully anyway.

Around the MoMe, that is......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 02:49 PM (ccf/V)

146 14
Obama survived 16,384 assassination attempts.
Posted by: ...
.......

All by his "wife".

Posted by: wth at October 09, 2026 02:50 PM (UjdFS)

147 An assassin is the only wild card, going forward.

A vengeful President Vance may not be all smiles and sunshine for them.


I am surprised at how lenient Trump is being with the assassination plots against him.

If there had been three serious plots against Biden/Obama involving the CIA and some rightwing equivalent of reddit (freerepublic?, us?) you, I and everyone else that posts here would have sit down chats with the FBI with them looking for ANYTHING to put us in jail for.

I suspect if the left got their wish and did shoot the president that Vance would roll up all the leftwing networks in any way involved...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 02:50 PM (sKqQm)

148 I'm trying to decide if his own math(s) is/are bafflegab. Beale has a long record of weaselly statements.
Posted by: 88C+u

Yeah. He thinks the moon landings were staged and that that we didn't need to nuke Japan because they were on the verge of surrendering to us.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 02:51 PM (77rzZ)

149 Obama survived 16,384 assassination attempts.
Posted by: ...
.......

All by his "wife".
Posted by: wth at October 09, 2026 02:50 PM


Death by SnooSnoo.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 02:51 PM (4NO2D)

150 Line 'em up right there next to nidal, picture's worth a thousand words. Bro.

Posted by: Eromero at October 09, 2026 02:51 PM (LHPAg)

151 146 14
Obama survived 16,384 assassination attempts.
Posted by: ...
.......

All by his "wife".
Posted by: wth at October 09, 2026 02:50 PM (UjdFS)

Hillary & Bill negotiated a truce after she tried to take his head of with a White House owned Ming Dynasty vase, with the flowers still in it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 02:52 PM (6ydKt)

152
All by his "wife".
Posted by: wth at October 09, 2026 02:50 PM

Death by SnooSnoo.


12 inches of lil Mike is a dangerous weapon...

Posted by: Barky Obama at October 09, 2026 02:52 PM (sKqQm)

153 In reality, got to travel so will be unplugged for a couple of days. Have to see mother in memory care and deal with some financials which are difficult to do from another state.
Posted by: whig

Safe travels, Sir.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 02:53 PM (77rzZ)

154 I'm trying to decide if his own math(s) is/are bafflegab. Beale has a long record of weaselly statements.
Posted by: 88C+u

Yeah. He thinks the moon landings were staged and that that we didn't need to nuke Japan because they were on the verge of surrendering to us.
Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 02:51 PM (77rzZ)
______

Yea, Japan was so on the verge of surrendering that they didn't do it after we dropped the first big one. It took two nukes to get them to surrender. But they were totally ready to surrender the whole time!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 02:53 PM (iFTx/)

155 That guy can probably kiss his aerospace career goodbye.

He'll need to bring a defense lawyer to every interview.

Posted by: t-bird at October 09, 2026 02:53 PM (epmXU)

156 Hey Elric,
How was Comicon?

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 02:54 PM (W2Pud)

157 I shan't. I shan't. I shall not take that black pill. Take enough med pills anyway.

Style guide note: "I shannot" is perfectly cromulent in this situation. Especially if you're Southern.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 02:55 PM (2ocoG)

158 126 That guy can probably kiss his aerospace career goodbye. But I hear Iran is hiring.
Posted by: Anna Puma
======
Too bad, that guy seems like a space cadet already.
Course, he probably gets high enough to reach orbit anyway.
Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 02:47 PM (E4rtv)

He can definitely kiss goodbye any internships requiring any level of security clearance.

He might be offered summer jobs washing planes. Might.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 09, 2026 02:55 PM (wVcYX)

159 > We need to bring the hammer down on these scumbags, even if in this case it's three minor fucknuggets.
--------
Sadly, the majority of the judiciary is squarely aligned with the left. Better than even odds they get a wrist slap. And told to use secure comms and practice OPSEC for their next attempt.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 09, 2026 02:55 PM (RORbl)

160
Yea, Japan was so on the verge of surrendering that they didn't do it after we dropped the first big one. It took two nukes to get them to surrender. But they were totally ready to surrender the whole time!
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 02:53 PM (iFTx/)

___________

Sure, we noticed how much easier it got going from Saipan to Iwo Jima to Okinawa. Kyushu was going to be a walkover!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 02:56 PM (eRlcH)

161 Sara so fat Saraland.

Posted by: Max Power at October 09, 2026 02:56 PM (SwyyQ)

162 If the GOP wins, we get less Sturm und Drang. That's it. No agenda items pass, besides routine carveouts for special interests.

I couldn't care any less about these elections, at least at the federal level.


—

Judges. Including a scotus appointment which is not out of the realm of possibility give the ages of Alito and Thomas.

And cabinet appointments. There will be some who leave and need replacing, there always are.

Plus it’s not just the next 2 years. If a Dem gets in they’re in for 6. And incumbents are always harder to defeat.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 02:57 PM (qoHuP)

163 Did they name Sugarland, Texas the same way?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 02:57 PM (6ydKt)

164
Kayla Smith looks like a WNBA fan ... IYKWIM.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 02:45 PM (iFTx/)


She's also got dead, angry eyes.

I'd think she's guilty given that alone if I were on the jury. You don't see someone who looks like that normally.

The dude in the picture next to her looks like a knucklehead, soooo that could swing either way.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2026 02:57 PM (YSUhf)

165 It's hard to hear, but biology is not a mathematically rigorous major. Certainly it's infinitely better than psychology, but that doesn't make it a good field for mathematicians.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 09, 2026 02:58 PM (2ap+5)

166 None of these mooks had a Cousin Vinny to defend them?

Pity.

He has a great track record in Alabama.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 09, 2026 02:59 PM (wVcYX)

167 One of the subjects I follow is the discovery of new species. I have read a lot of scholarly articles about the description of new species. There seems to be a lot of hard science in most of them, including math. I can't follow those parts and just skip to the stuff a layman like me can understand.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 02:59 PM (77rzZ)

168 162
Judges. Including a scotus appointment which is not out of the realm of possibility give the ages of Alito and Thomas.

And cabinet appointments. There will be some who leave and need replacing, there always are.

Plus it’s not just the next 2 years. If a Dem gets in they’re in for 6. And incumbents are always harder to defeat.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 02:57 PM (qoHuP)

=======

Yeah, well, we were never going to lose the Senate.

Democrats would have to do the impossible, flip several seats in states that went double digits for the other party in the last presidential election.

It's happened once in the past 20 years. Tester in Montana in 2006. Didn't happen in 2010, 2014, 2018, or 2022 at all.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 03:00 PM (1kJuV)

169 It's almost a sine qua non of math that there are no numbers.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 09, 2026 03:02 PM (2ap+5)

170 142 I am losing interest already. Three stupid kids do stupid things at a 2nd tier Alabama university.

I hope it scares them straight but I'm not out for their blood when there are so many other candidates.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 02:44 PM (4NO2D)
_______________________

Back in 2016 I would have agreed with you. BUT, the primary failing of the first term of President Donald J. Trump was NOT putting "heads on spikes at the castle gates" to send a message to the peers of the offenders. As a result it was business as usual for the left (actually escalated).

Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 03:02 PM (dIske)

171 Did they name Sugarland, Texas the same way?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 02:57 PM (6ydKt)

Please to be using the correct spelling: Sugar Land, Texas.

Posted by: George "Gunga Din" Singh at October 09, 2026 03:03 PM (wVcYX)

172
Did they name Sugarland, Texas the same way?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 02:57 PM (6ydKt)

__________

*polite cough*

Sugar Land. It was a company town of Imperial Sugar.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 03:03 PM (eRlcH)

173 Yeah, I mentioned that on the previous thread. Mostly women, too.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 02:37 PM (2ocoG)

Hopefully I will be in AZ on that date, and can get an invite to a watch party.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 03:03 PM (quk5M)

174 Hillary & Bill negotiated a truce after she tried to take his head of with a White House owned Ming Dynasty vase, with the flowers still in it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
......

Too bad there was no cast iron frying pan handy.

Posted by: wth at October 09, 2026 03:04 PM (UjdFS)

175 So there was a big scoop about TRUMP SONS' CORRUPTION with Anduril, which ABC News published and then buhleeted.

I'm told the article was "published prematurely." More to come, because that is obviously not a sufficient explanation.
brianstelter/status/2108569761655427500

Posted by: 88C+u at October 09, 2026 03:04 PM (sDWtc)

176 175 So there was a big scoop about TRUMP SONS' CORRUPTION with Anduril, which ABC News published and then buhleeted.

I'm told the article was "published prematurely." More to come, because that is obviously not a sufficient explanation.
brianstelter/status/2108569761655427500

Posted by: 88C+u at October 09, 2026 03:04 PM (sDWtc)

======

It's about Susie Wiles's son, not Trump's.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 03:05 PM (1kJuV)

177 brianstelter



Sex machine........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 03:05 PM (ccf/V)

178 I think Anduril practically owns Ohio Stadium given how ubiquitous that company name is non all the signs and scoreboards.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 09, 2026 03:06 PM (2ap+5)

179 Or a handgun.

Posted by: wth at October 09, 2026 03:07 PM (UjdFS)

180 177 brianstelter



Sex machine........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 03:05 PM (ccf/V)
Brainstelter. Sounds like a evil gnome in a board game.

Posted by: Eromero at October 09, 2026 03:07 PM (LHPAg)

181 oops Columbus Day snuck up on me

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 03:08 PM (j+aD2)

182 Off topic, but Michael Dell and his wife donated several billion dollars to every child under the age of ten, and all the left wants to do is post garbage about how the wife looks.

Pathetic.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 09, 2026 03:08 PM (0U5gm)

183 The aerospace engineering program at South Alabama is fifth best in the state.

According to 'edurank.org', that's good for 241st best in the country. Average SAT 1080.

Posted by: t-bird at October 09, 2026 03:08 PM (epmXU)

184 Mellows have been significantly more harshed here with mean comments about shelving, J. Crew Messenger Bags, and Vespas than these words from an innocent child harshed.

#BeBetter

Posted by: AFWL who switched all her hair from blue to green last week at October 09, 2026 03:08 PM (0sNs1)

185 Hillary & Bill negotiated a truce after she tried to take his head of with a White House owned Ming Dynasty vase, with the flowers still in it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
......

Too bad there was no cast iron frying pan handy.
Posted by: wth at October 09, 2026 03:04 PM (UjdFS)

Am empty square bottle handle of vodka is more likely.

Hillary never had the makings of the little woman in the kitchen.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 09, 2026 03:09 PM (wVcYX)

186 Sara so fat Saraland.
Posted by: Max Power at October 09, 2026 02:56 PM (SwyyQ)

Chances are possibly not. It was named by a retired minister and editor who moved South. And established the first post office there Now, while there were fat women in 1895, probably not as many as now.

I think it's quite nice he named the area after his beloved wife.


Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 09, 2026 03:09 PM (JrHfD)

187 Sara so fat Saraland.

Posted by: Max Power at October 09, 2026 02:56 PM (SwyyQ)

Does this acreage make my butt look big?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 09, 2026 03:09 PM (dK+Kv)

188 Columbus Day is Monday.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I'm gonna have a pinta to celebrate.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:10 PM (77rzZ)

189 Off topic, but Michael Dell and his wife donated several billion dollars to every child under the age of ten, and all the left wants to do is post garbage about how the wife looks.

Pathetic.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 09, 2026 03:08 PM (0U5gm)



My dad met Dell way way back in the day. Said he was a pompous dickhead.


Oddly enough, I don't know anything about his political beliefs. As it should be. Maybe I've missed something, but......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 03:10 PM (ccf/V)

190 189 Oddly enough, I don't know anything about his political beliefs. As it should be. Maybe I've missed something, but......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 03:10 PM (ccf/V)

=======

He seems to believe in the future. Which is nice.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 03:10 PM (1kJuV)

191 I was watching some Steven Bell videos - he makes videos on warhammer and history often starting with his wife asking him to explain something.

Very apolitical.

But today he took on some Karen arguing that the idea the Athenians invented democracy is rayciss and Eurocentric.

I guess if you want to cover real history you can only stay a-political for so long with how crazy the left has gotten...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 03:10 PM (sKqQm)

192 Please to be using the correct spelling: Sugar Land, Texas.
Posted by: George "Gunga Din" Singh at October 09, 2026 03:03 PM (wVcYX)


I knew a girl in college from there. She pronounced it something like Shugalan'.

Posted by: SciVo at October 09, 2026 03:11 PM (ke3zm)

193 172 *polite cough*

Sugar Land. It was a company town of Imperial Sugar.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 03:03 PM (eRlcH)

Thank you. You beat me to it.

Posted by: TxAnn at October 09, 2026 03:11 PM (itAg7)

194 I think it's quite nice he named the area after his beloved wife.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

The two guys who founded Ann Arbor, MI, both had wives named "Ann."

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:11 PM (77rzZ)

195 The last time a President was murdered we ended up in Vietnam.

Posted by: torabora at October 09, 2026 03:11 PM (Wt1Rs)

196 I think Anduril practically owns Ohio Stadium given how ubiquitous that company name is non all the signs and scoreboards.
Posted by: Oglebay at October 09, 2026 03:06 PM


Is that the stadium that THE Ohio State plays sportsball in?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2026 03:11 PM (0sNs1)

197
Is that the stadium that THE Ohio State plays sportsball in?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2026 03:11 PM (0sNs1)




Cult.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 03:12 PM (ccf/V)

198 So there was a big scoop about TRUMP SONS' CORRUPTION with Anduril, which ABC News published and then buhleeted.

You mean the people that told me that Hunter's crimes have nothing to do with Joe Biden are now interested in supposed Trump kid crimes to get Trump?

That's so...par for the course honestly.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 03:12 PM (sKqQm)

199 X has got jokes.

Pericles
@PerryALPHA
I just talked to James Talarico and I could tell that he was Healthy, Improving, and Vigorous

Overall, he sounded Positive

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 03:12 PM (2ocoG)

200 I think it's quite nice he named the area after his beloved wife.


Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 09, 2026 03:09 PM (JrHfD)
Mother of nations.

Posted by: Eromero at October 09, 2026 03:12 PM (LHPAg)

201 Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:11 PM (77rzZ

Thanks. I did not know that .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 09, 2026 03:12 PM (JrHfD)

202 The Republicans are good, as long as they show up
Professor Allan Lichtman has predicted the Dems will take 52 seats in the Senate.
Probably as good as his 2024 prediction

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 03:12 PM (t9883)

203 Is that the stadium that THE Ohio State plays sportsball in?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2026 03:11 PM (0sNs1)



Cult.......
Posted by: Sponge

I know Michigan fans take a lot of abuse on this site, but Ohio State fans are much worse.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:13 PM (77rzZ)

204 bThe Republicans are good, as long as they show up
Professor Allan Lichtman has predicted the Dems will take 52 seats in the Senate.
Probably as good as his 2024 prediction
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 03:12 PM (t9883)



Republicans that don't show up might as well be Democrats.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 03:13 PM (ccf/V)

205 202 The Republicans are good, as long as they show up
Professor Allan Lichtman has predicted the Dems will take 52 seats in the Senate.
Probably as good as his 2024 prediction

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 03:12 PM (t9883)

=======

He proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Democrats had the seven keys to winning 2024.

That Trump won doesn't mean he was wrong. In fact, it's just further proof of him being right.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 03:13 PM (1kJuV)

206 So there was a big scoop about TRUMP SONS' CORRUPTION with Anduril, which ABC News published and then buhleeted.

You mean the people that told me that Hunter's crimes have nothing to do with Joe Biden are now interested in supposed Trump kid crimes to get Trump?


Yup. Palmer Luckey said everything in the story was a lie and it disappeared minutes later, but not before MeidasTouch was blast-faxing it to every left-leaning person on the planet.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 03:13 PM (2ocoG)

207 Smith, an elementary education student from Birmingham, is accused of responding to a TikTok post about Trump's visit with, "we only got one chance, let's take it," accompanied by an image of a person holding a gun.

Certainly seems serious...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 03:13 PM (l3cgK)

208 One thing I do find fascinating is how much Trump learned from his last go around.

In 2018 I don't remember Trump's people pushing ground game, getting serious about fraud, or pushing friendly narratives that the FNM has to talk about...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 03:14 PM (sKqQm)

209 Along with the Dells, the All in Podcast team is "all in" on Trump accounts. My "kids" are adults, and I have no grandkids (yet?), but they seem to believe this program is a game changer.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 09, 2026 03:14 PM (2ap+5)

210 I know Michigan fans take a lot of abuse on this site, but Ohio State fans are much worse.
Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:13 PM (77rzZ)



A company I worked for in the past was HQ'd in Columbus. Ohio State is as big a cult as any of the cult universities. It was frightening at times.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 03:14 PM (ccf/V)

211 208 One thing I do find fascinating is how much Trump learned from his last go around.

In 2018 I don't remember Trump's people pushing ground game, getting serious about fraud, or pushing friendly narratives that the FNM has to talk about...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 03:14 PM (sKqQm)

=======

He was also pre-occupied with Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell constantly going on TV saying, "Maybe the leader of our party is a Russian asset? Who could really say?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 03:14 PM (1kJuV)

212 He proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Democrats had the seven keys to winning 2024.

Unfortunately they needed nine keys to win.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 03:15 PM (2ocoG)

213 Monday is Columbus Day, also Bull Elk Day. I made up that last part.

Posted by: Eromero at October 09, 2026 03:15 PM (LHPAg)

214 A company I worked for in the past was HQ'd in Columbus. Ohio State is as big a cult as any of the cult universities. It was frightening at times.
Posted by: Sponge

And then there are the Penn State folks...

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:15 PM (77rzZ)

215 I know Michigan fans take a lot of abuse on this site, but Ohio State fans are much worse.
Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:13 PM



*shifty eyes*

Posted by: toby928(c) Native Texan and Alabama Alumnus, Twice as Smug as You at October 09, 2026 03:15 PM (4NO2D)

216 While someone who posted, "Vote for Hillary on Election Wednesday", an obvious spoof of the many fake "vote on Wednesday" memes that have abounded for decades was arrested, tried, and sentenced to prison in 2023...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 03:16 PM (l3cgK)

217 And then there are the Penn State folks...
Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:15 PM (77rzZ)



Should'a been razed........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 03:16 PM (ccf/V)

218 I am not an Ohio State fan!

Posted by: Oglebay at October 09, 2026 03:16 PM (2ap+5)

219 My dad met Dell way way back in the day. Said he was a pompous dickhead.


Oddly enough, I don't know anything about his political beliefs. As it should be. Maybe I've missed something, but......


I've heard him on some podcasts. He seems pretty normal for someone in his position, and he's very much against the left's "there is no future so just let us run everything" garbage.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 03:17 PM (2ocoG)

220 Overall, he sounded Positive
Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 03:12 PM (2ocoG)

Haha! ISWHDT.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 03:17 PM (quk5M)

221 215 I know Michigan fans take a lot of abuse on this site, but Ohio State fans are much worse.
Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:13 PM


*shifty eyes*

Posted by: toby928(c) Native Texan and Alabama Alumnus, Twice as Smug as You at October 09, 2026 03:15 PM (4NO2D)

Ohio State fans charge a buck an eye...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 03:17 PM (l3cgK)

222 Should'a been razed........
Posted by: Sponge

Yep. I read the Freeh Report, and what was going on there was satanic.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:17 PM (77rzZ)

223 Try being in a meeting with a lot of Alabama alum, and when mentioning Alabama, listen to the utter, sotto voce, "Roll Tide" in near unison.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2026 03:17 PM (0sNs1)

224 Try being in a meeting with a lot of Alabama alum, and when mentioning Alabama, listen to the utter, sotto voce, "Roll Tide" in near unison.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2026 03:17 PM (0sNs1)



High tide!!!


But yes, another cult.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 03:18 PM (ccf/V)

225 I found Lichtmann's keys (which he developed with a RUSSIAN guy no less and the count for 2024 would have been 3 "true" results:

There is no serious contest for the incumbent party nomination.
There is no significant third party or independent campaign. The incumbent administration effects major changes in national policy.

The other 10 were all false. Now most of his points are not actually objective meaning his theory is weak, but according to his own theory you need about 8 items to be true to win not...3.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 03:19 PM (sKqQm)

226 223 Try being in a meeting with a lot of Alabama alum, and when mentioning Alabama, listen to the utter, sotto voce, "Roll Tide" in near unison.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2026 03:17 PM (0sNs1)

I think the Uni I went to had a tradition of drunken parties more than chants about their sports teams...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 03:19 PM (l3cgK)

227 But yes, another cult.
Posted by: Sponge

Just curious, but where'd you go to college, Sponge?

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:19 PM (77rzZ)

228 Huffing whip-its in Athens is my tradition.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 09, 2026 03:20 PM (2ap+5)

229 We originally wrote the song as, "Green Grass and Roll Tide."

Posted by: The Outlaws at October 09, 2026 03:20 PM (wVcYX)

230 I can only look forward to the cult that will develop around the Texas Institute of Technology and Science.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2026 03:20 PM (0sNs1)

231 This is funny because it's true.

Roll Tide

https://youtu.be/rTdXQyhjifY

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 03:20 PM (4NO2D)

232 230 I can only look forward to the cult that will develop around the Texas Institute of Technology and Science.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2026 03:20 PM (0sNs1)

Is their mascot a pair of Great Tits?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 03:21 PM (l3cgK)

233 225 I found Lichtmann's keys (which he developed with a RUSSIAN guy no less and the count for 2024 would have been 3 "true" results:

There is no serious contest for the incumbent party nomination.
There is no significant third party or independent campaign. The incumbent administration effects major changes in national policy.

The other 10 were all false. Now most of his points are not actually objective meaning his theory is weak, but according to his own theory you need about 8 items to be true to win not...3.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 03:19 PM (sKqQm)

=======

He mostly just hand-waved away the Democrat issues (yeah, there was no serious incumbency fight for Democrats....just the backroom dealing to force him out and replace him which is totes normal).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 03:21 PM (1kJuV)

234 Oh and looking at Lichtmann's keys in 2020, Trump had 10...remember you need about 8 to win...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 03:22 PM (sKqQm)

235 Hook 'Em, Gig 'Em, Guns Up!

Posted by: Because Texas! at October 09, 2026 03:22 PM (wVcYX)

236 230 I can only look forward to the cult that will develop around the Texas Institute of Technology and Science.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2026 03:20 PM (0sNs1)
May it truly be. Can I sign up next week?

Posted by: Eromero at October 09, 2026 03:22 PM (LHPAg)

237
Just curious, but where'd you go to college, Sponge?
Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:19 PM (77rzZ)



I went to a myriad of places......most prominent places were Texas Tech and University of North Texas.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 03:22 PM (ccf/V)

238 235 Hook 'Em, Gig 'Em, Guns Up!

Posted by: Because Texas! at October 09, 2026 03:22 PM (wVcYX)

You can't make a steer without castration...

Posted by: NOT a College Call in Texas at October 09, 2026 03:23 PM (l3cgK)

239 I can only look forward to the cult that will develop around the Texas Institute of Technology and Science.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Sydney Sweeney can teach a course on the physics of bra design.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:23 PM (77rzZ)

240 225 I found Lichtmann's keys (which he developed with a RUSSIAN guy no less and the count for 2024 would have been 3 "true" results:

Were there duplicate keys to the icebox?

Posted by: Captain Queeg at October 09, 2026 03:23 PM (wVcYX)

241 GO TITS!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 03:24 PM (ccf/V)

242 That nasty Putin has agreed to 'immediately supply US with 300,000 tons of diesel'.

We've tried and tried to tell you Trump is Putin's Puppet, but did you listen??? Noooooooooooooooooo!

Posted by: (D)emocrats & the MSM at October 09, 2026 03:24 PM (0sNs1)

243 Ooh, heard my first wind gust. We've been getting a light but steady rain to day but it hasn't really been windy yet.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 03:25 PM (4NO2D)

244 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:25 PM (77rzZ)

245 241 GO TITS!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 03:24 PM (ccf/V)

Go Big! Go TITS!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 03:25 PM (l3cgK)

246 I can only look forward to the cult that will develop around the Texas Institute of Technology and Science.
Posted by: Duncanthrax


I'd certainly love to take some senior adult education courses there. You know, to keep abreast of the latest developments in the field.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 09, 2026 03:26 PM (wVcYX)

247 Katie Zacharia is the new Caroline Leavitt. Good looking lady, hope she's as good as Leavitt

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 03:26 PM (t9883)

248 Sydney Sweeney can teach a course on the physics of bra design.
Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:23 PM


That's an interdisciplinary course. You would also need to bring in mechanical engineering and materials science at a minimum.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2026 03:27 PM (0sNs1)

249 Sydney Sweeney can teach a course on the physics of bra design.
Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:23 PM

That's an interdisciplinary course. You would also need to bring in mechanical engineering and materials science at a minimum.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2026 03:27 PM (0sNs1)

Something like a crossover course? One that lifts and separates the student body achievments?

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 09, 2026 03:29 PM (wVcYX)

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