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Overnight Open Thread [12/21/2021]
The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.-- George Carlin
I heard the bells on Christmas Day-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures.-- Winston Churchill
It is my heart-warm and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us -- the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage -- may -- eventually be gathered together in heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the telephone.-- Mark Twain [Supposedly Twain was offered stock in Alexander Graham Bell's fledgling company, but he declined. He was a famously awful businessman!]
I enjoy the Christmas season very much, for some, but obviously not all of the reasons that most of you do! The air is brisk (at least around here), the Christmas lights that festoon many homes are always fun to see...even the ridiculously garish ones...festive and special food and drink are front-and-center in the shops, and the tone, even in this cranky and sometimes gruff and nasty part of the country, is softer and happier. Wishing people a "Merry Christmas" is often heartfelt (just don't say "happy holidays" around me!), and at the very least a more pleasant salutation than the barely audible grunts that pass for politeness for most of the year. And perhaps most of all, the religiosity is not lost on me. It is an important and happy time for Christians, and any focus on devotion to religion, even though it is not mine, is a positive thing for our country and culture. Yes, the commercialization of Christmas is horrid, but there is more...much more...to Christmas than presents and overindulging on eggnog. Like this, or this! But mostly there is a kindness in the air, and it is an opportunity to thank those around us who may richly deserve our thanks but rarely get it. So thank you all for being such loyal and dedicated readers of this blog, and thank you for creating for yourselves an amazing community that, although it is mostly via the internet, has some grand and kind real-world effects. Merry Christmas!
I prefer the cars from the 1960s and even into the early 1970s, but there is something about the colors of many 1950s cars that really pops. I imagine it was a response to the austerity of the WWII years, or maybe it was paint technology improving, or something else. Regardless...they are fun!
Sefton and I talked about this a bit in our latest podcast, but I haven't been able to get it out of my mind. We fought a war in which 600,000 Americans died, in part to end slavery. We endured societal convulsions and a fair amount of violence as we ended the last vestiges of slavery. Our Supreme Court resoundingly rejected Plessey v. Ferguson's legal precedent in favor of absolute equality. We did it. It was a good thing. And we were in the main an egalitarian society...one that was mostly colorblind. I liked that America. But this is pure evil. This is a conscious rejection of much of what American Exceptionalism stands for, and this attitude should be soundly rejected by all good men in our great country.
Commenter "Hoplite Housewife" mentioned this in the comments last month and was kind enough to dig it up and send me the link. It meanders around, but it is quite interesting and very respectful of the memory of the many men who fought and died...
"A Letter From Santa Claus"
-- Samuel Langhorne Clemens
My Dear Susie Clemens, I have received and read all the letters which you and your little sister have written me...I can read your and your baby sister's jagged and fantastic marks without any trouble at all. But I had trouble with those letters which you dictated through your mother and the nurses, for I am a foreigner and cannot read English writing well. You will find that I made no mistakes about the things which you and the baby ordered in your own letters—I went down your chimney at midnight when you were asleep and delivered them all myself--and kissed both of you, too...But...there were...one or two small orders which I could not fill because we ran out of stock... There was a word or two in your mama's letter which...I took to be "a trunk full of doll's clothes." Is that it? I will call at your kitchen door about nine o'clock this morning to inquire. But I must not see anybody and I must not speak to anybody but you. When the kitchen doorbell rings, George must be blindfolded and sent to the door. You must tell George he must walk on tiptoe and not speak—otherwise he will die someday. Then you must go up to the nursery and stand on a chair or the nurse's bed and put your ear to the speaking tube that leads down to the kitchen and when I whistle through it you must speak in the tube and say, "Welcome, Santa Claus!" Then I will ask whether it was a trunk you ordered or not. If you say it was, I shall ask you what color you want the trunk to be...and then you must tell me every single thing in detail which you want the trunk to contain. Then when I say "Good-by and a merry Christmas to my little Susy Clemens," you must say "Good-by, good old Santa Claus, I thank you very much." Then you must go down into the library and make George close all the doors that open into the main hall, and everybody must keep still for a little while. I will go to the moon and get those things and in a few minutes I will come down the chimney that belongs to the fireplace that is in the hall—if it is a trunk you want--because I couldn't get such a thing as a trunk down the nursery chimney, you know...If I should leave any snow in the hall, you must tell George to sweep it into the fireplace, for I haven't time to do such things. George must not use a broom, but a rag—else he will die someday...If my boot should leave a stain on the marble, George must not holystone it away. Leave it there always in memory of my visit; and whenever you look at it or show it to anybody you must let it remind you to be a good little girl. Whenever you are naughty and someone points to that mark which your good old Santa Claus's boot made on the marble, what will you say, little sweetheart? Good-by for a few minutes, till I come down to the world and ring the kitchen doorbell. Your loving Santa Claus
Whom people sometimes call
"The Man in the Moon"
It's a race between the most irritating music I have heard in a very long time and the amazing robotics!
This is strangely compelling to watch, and I am not sure why. Of course it might bore the crap out of most of you and hotair.com will get a huge bump in clicks tonight, but I hope not!
Oh hell, why not one more glimpse into Dildo's soundtrack! Morons of a certain age will remember this one.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Walter Freeman at December 21, 2021 09:45 PM (+WWsf)
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Posted by: Son of Sam the Butcher at December 21, 2021 09:55 PM (VJBq9)
That's really not what I wanted to do this weekend but such is life.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 21, 2021 09:56 PM (Pxkfv)
g'evenin', 'rons
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Posted by: davidt at December 21, 2021 09:58 PM (gjH3l)
>>I have the heater core on the Jeep. That's really not what I wanted to do this weekend but such is life.
You should really proof read your stuff before you hit post.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 21, 2021 09:58 PM (Pxkfv)
Posted by: Just a side note at December 21, 2021 09:59 PM (H/pb5)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 21, 2021 09:59 PM (hOUT3)
The Babylon Bee has an interview with Elon Musk.
Posted by: lin-duh at December 21, 2021 09:54 PM
Dan Carlin has an interview with Musk on his latest Hardcore History Addendum podcast
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 21, 2021 09:59 PM (DUIap)
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Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 21, 2021 10:01 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Braenyard at December 21, 2021 10:01 PM (HCRRg)
"There is no peace on earth," I said,
"For hate is strong, and mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good will to men."
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
"God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;
The wrong shall fail, the right prevail,
With peace on earth, good will to men
Those two verses both choke me up, then remind me that victory is coming.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 21, 2021 10:01 PM (H2W7g)
Posted by: Coquettish Haberdasher at December 21, 2021 10:02 PM (buTO7)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 21, 2021 10:04 PM (h1jJh)
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Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at December 21, 2021 10:04 PM (SchxB)
Posted by: Adriane the Eyebrow Raised Critic ... at December 21, 2021 10:04 PM (okV1R)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 21, 2021 10:04 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2021 10:05 PM (Q9lwr)
Posted by: Just a side note at December 21, 2021 10:05 PM (H/pb5)
*pours maple syrup on top of ONT* mmm...larrupin' good!
*runs serpentine!*
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 21, 2021 10:05 PM (QzJWU)
In the fifties my parents had an aqua colored Pontiac. It was beautiful.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 21, 2021 10:07 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: Jim at December 21, 2021 10:05 PM (QzJWU)
Shot my Buck Mark last weekend, then today I stripped it and cleaned it. The barrel is amazingly heavy!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2021 10:07 PM (Q9lwr)
Posted by: Dildo, NFLD at December 21, 2021 10:07 PM (P3gRi)
Posted by: CppThis at December 21, 2021 10:07 PM (UewuT)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 21, 2021 10:08 PM (llON8)
Seriously though. The Air Force flash mob has me in tears. I would have loved to have been there.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 21, 2021 10:08 PM (U2p+3)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2021 10:08 PM (mD/uy)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2021 10:08 PM (P3gRi)
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Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 21, 2021 10:08 PM (h1jJh)
Posted by: Theodore at December 21, 2021 10:00 PM (GJnvT)
Just finished watching a show about the Hubble Telescope. Much more important than most people realize.
Posted by: Just a side note at December 21, 2021 10:09 PM (H/pb5)
For me, it's always the Midnight Masses of my youth in the Bronx of the 50s, crunching along through (hopefully) several inches of crusty snow in the cold and dark December night carrying my cassock and surplice to demonstrate my varsity level altar-boying skills complete with celluloid collars and spicy red tie.
Posted by: 11B40 at December 21, 2021 10:09 PM (uuklp)
You've already set claymores at the perimeter?
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at December 21, 2021 10:09 PM (SchxB)
Posted by: CppThis at December 21, 2021 10:07 PM (UewuT)
Heck of it is, that ad for Black Flag is a lot closer to the truth of DDT safety than Rachel Carson's smear job was.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2021 10:11 PM (P3gRi)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2021 10:05 PM (Q9lwr)
Indeed.
We sing that every year as a hymn in church. Always one of my favorites.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 21, 2021 10:11 PM (5We2S)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2021 10:07 PM (Q9lwr)
That's the feel of quality, there, amigo. Do expect you'll have to slightly re-zero it next time out, as removing that rear sight assembly doesn't always go "to zero" on re-assembly. I'll take mine down about annually, but otherwise, it's a bore snake and spray cleaner on the rails and a toothbrush fulla the stuff on the bolt-face, feed ramp and rear-face of the barrel/chamber area. Keep the feed and slide areas clean and lubed, and it'll run.
The Buckmark UDX Pro will spoil the hell outta you in the .22 pistol world.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 21, 2021 10:12 PM (QzJWU)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2021 10:12 PM (/U27+)
Be more generous than you should be. Give more to someone who "doesn't deserve it," a snarky coworker, a "friend," an in-law you really don't care for...
Do it. Not to get anything back. But just because.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 21, 2021 10:13 PM (U2p+3)
Posted by: me at December 21, 2021 10:13 PM (5jdq3)
Do it. Not to get anything back. But just because.
Posted by: nurse ratched
You're serious about this "love thy neighbor as thyself" stuff, aren't you?
jk - always good advice Nurse.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2021 10:14 PM (mD/uy)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 21, 2021 10:14 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 21, 2021 10:15 PM (+lVUW)
You're serious about this "love thy neighbor as thyself" stuff, aren't you?
__________
I wish I could be nicer to people, the stupid bastards.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2021 10:15 PM (/U27+)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 21, 2021 10:14 PM (r1z5A)
Pssst. Don't tell anyone, but a lot of folks in the Third World are using DDT.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2021 10:16 PM (P3gRi)
"There is no peace on earth," I said,
"For hate is strong, and mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good will to men."
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
"God is not dead, nor does He sleep,
For Christ is here; His Spirit near
Brings peace on earth, good will to men."
When men repent and turn from sin
The Prince of Peace then enters in,
And grace imparts within their hearts
His peace on earth, good will to men.
Posted by: 29Victor at December 21, 2021 10:16 PM (BJKQV)
Posted by: Jim at December 21, 2021 10:12 PM (QzJWU)
That makes sense, but that just means I'll have to shoot it a bit more!
I shot cheap plinking ammo and it was nice and accurate. I have some good stuff that might be fun next time...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2021 10:16 PM (Q9lwr)
Do it. Not to get anything back. But just because.
Posted by: nurse ratched
A co-worker and his wife would not exchange gifts. They agreed to pick a deserving family in the Central District and buy the children toys.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 21, 2021 10:16 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: nurse ratched
nurse, you set a high, but righteous bar!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 21, 2021 10:17 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Pennsyltucky at December 21, 2021 10:17 PM (lNHqD)
Watching the local news. What the hell is a "game room"? Because lots of people seem to get shot at them.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2021 10:17 PM (/U27+)
And blessed longest-night-of-the-year to you all.
Posted by: Flyover at December 21, 2021 10:18 PM (Rbu5d)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2021 10:18 PM (mD/uy)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Heh, they have my support.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 21, 2021 10:18 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2021 10:15 PM (/U27+)
I strongly suspect you use up all the good will on the dogs!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 21, 2021 10:18 PM (hOUT3)
.....
Yes, Longfellow's poem is more pointed than the hymn I quoted from.
Thank you for that.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 21, 2021 10:19 PM (5We2S)
Besides, I'm drinking a very nice bourbon..."
Howdy CBD. What is the very nice bourbon you're drinking?
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2021 10:20 PM (mZUr4)
Posted by: me at December 21, 2021 10:13 PM (5jdq3)
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Ugh, hunters. I had forgotten about those damned things. It's a shame Valve abandoned that series. I looked forward to HL3 for about ten years before throwing in the towel of hope.
Posted by: Pennsyltucky at December 21, 2021 10:20 PM (lNHqD)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 21, 2021 10:18 PM (r1z5A)
It's an easy calculation...Save my family from Malaria, or make a rich liberal in a rich country feel good about himself.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2021 10:20 PM (Q9lwr)
It is now official government policy that Maori creation and other myths be taught in science classes, and treated as equivalent to "Western" science. Some members of the Royal Society of New Zealand are being cancelled for objecting to this.
Well, a paper was published in Nature trying to explain why Antarctic ice cores show high rates of carbon deposition starting 700 years ago. This was about the time the Maori settled New Zealand, and the Maori are known to have set forest fires to clear agricultural land, so the hypothesis is that this led to the extra carbon in the Antarctic ice cores.
This, of course, is Politically Unacceptable. The "Acting Dean of the Faculty of Maori and Indigenous Studies, University of Waikato" wrote a furious rejoinder, which said, in part:
"This involvement starts from the basic premise that we as Maori will tell our own stories and control our own knowledge."
I.e., white people are not allowed to do research on certain topics.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 21, 2021 10:21 PM (I2/tG)
.....
You've already set claymores at the perimeter?
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at December 21, 2021 10:09 PM (SchxB)
LOL
That would keep them away for a while!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 21, 2021 10:21 PM (llON8)
That's enough love thy neighbor for me....
Posted by: lin-duh at December 21, 2021 10:22 PM (UUBmN)
Merry Christmas.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 21, 2021 10:22 PM (nMx88)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 21, 2021 10:23 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2021 10:20 PM (mZUr4)
A gift...a Makers Mark special bottling. It's 110 proof, single barrel, and surprisingly smooth. It's got a bit of bite from the alcohol (I like that) but not too spicy, so I am assuming it's not got a lot of rye...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2021 10:23 PM (Q9lwr)
https://tinyurl.com/yypypua4
Sometimes the creative process is indistinguishable from magic.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 21, 2021 10:23 PM (Pxkfv)
Posted by: nurse ratched
I shall endeavor to do so, and promise to report my results here, either soon or in the intermediate future.
And thank you for a wonderful thought on Celebrating HIS Seson!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 21, 2021 10:23 PM (QzJWU)
Do it. Not to get anything back. But just because.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 21, 2021 10:13 PM (U2p+3)
I have to say this for my family, we do a good job of staying away from politics during holiday gatherings. No good can come from bringing up Biden's dementia and pants shitting at Christmas dinner.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 21, 2021 10:23 PM (+lVUW)
Or did I dream that?
Posted by: Just a side note at December 21, 2021 10:23 PM (H/pb5)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 21, 2021 10:23 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at December 21, 2021 10:24 PM (YglAn)
Posted by: Javems at December 21, 2021 10:24 PM (AmoqO)
My pleasure!
I have no idea why I thought of Steve Forbert, but as soon as I did I knew I had to use it tonight.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2021 10:25 PM (Q9lwr)
Just finished watching a show about the Hubble Telescope. Much more important than most people realize.
Posted by: Just a side note
It was a national joke at first because of a defective lens but after it was repaired it went from joke to WOW!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 21, 2021 10:25 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Thornton Mellon at December 21, 2021 10:25 PM (NhqyL)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 21, 2021 10:23 PM (r1z5A)
Isn't she long dead?
Probably because YOU weren't wearing a mask!! /////
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 21, 2021 10:25 PM (llON8)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2021 10:18 PM (mD/uy)
I got my initial education on the nefarious ways of the media when I first tuned in to Rush Limbaugh in 1991. Then reading Bernie Goldberg's book "Bias" in the mid - late 90s. Then the early internet provided great sites like Newsbusters.
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2021 10:25 PM (mZUr4)
Posted by: Some Rat at December
The snarky part of me wants to say "vet the shit out of them."
There's a LOT of people in Seattle who gathered that extra 600 bucks a month on top of unemployment and didn't pay their rent. They made bank.
I'm talking about the little people. Your bus driver. Give him a 20 dollar Safeway gift card. Or the bagger at the grocery store. How about even the busboy at your breakfast joint.
Or the sibling who is being an asshole.
Or the friend who won't speak to you because you think forced jabs are anti freedom.
Reach out.
Try.
And if you're rejected again, take solace that you tried.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 21, 2021 10:26 PM (U2p+3)
Posted by: Some Rat
Isn't she long dead?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
I don't think she will get better.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2021 10:26 PM (mD/uy)
Posted by: Just a side note at December 21, 2021 10:23 PM (H/pb5)
You can drink Roundup without any ill effects.
[I'm not joking]
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2021 10:26 PM (Q9lwr)
Posted by: nurse ratched
Some dude in the McDonald's drive through in front of me had the nerve to pay for my order yesterday! The nerve! I got him back though. I paid for the guy behind me. Lots of "Thank You" shouts. I hope it went on for a long while. Made my day!
Posted by: President Donald Trump at December 21, 2021 10:26 PM (QMwOT)
I got a bottle of Weller's Special Reserve.
He got a Delord 25 Yr Armagnac.
Good buzzes ahead!
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 21, 2021 10:26 PM (5We2S)
Well, still no sequel, but they did make a VR prequel which was pretty decent. I wouldn't buy a VR system for it, but I unexpectedly got one for Christmas, and that was about the only game I played on it before I got bored with it.
Posted by: me at December 21, 2021 10:26 PM (5jdq3)
Posted by: Robert at December 21, 2021 10:26 PM (4gzXy)
Or did I dream that?
Posted by: Just a side note
Know it happened when folks were freaking out about malathion.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 21, 2021 10:26 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: Dr. T at December 21, 2021 10:27 PM (Vgw1E)
Will take my answer off the air. About to sit down to the turkey frame soup. Left over turkey breast frame (smoked/roasted on grill on T-giving, then frozen), which was lazily carved (leaving lots of good meat), carrots, onions, seasonings. Slow cooker, a few hours.
Bourbon: sort of a fringe dabbler, so have bought/tried -
Templeton Rye Rum Cask Finish (OK)
Woodinville Port Cask Finish (I like)
Winchester Double Oaked (finished "with sherry staves") - not bad, leave it to air for 20 minutes after pouring
More of a rum explorer at the moment.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2021 10:27 PM (OTzUX)
Be more generous than you should be. Give more to someone who "doesn't deserve it," a snarky coworker, a "friend," an in-law you really don't care for...
Do it. Not to get anything back. But just because.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 21, 2021 10:13 PM (U2p+3)
Does not going on a murder spree count?
Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Robert at December 21, 2021 10:27 PM (ih0IE)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 21, 2021 10:23 PM (aA3+G)
It. Will. Never. Happen.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2021 10:27 PM (Q9lwr)
That's likely the Cask Strength. I bought the Private Selection (55) for the holidays, and it falls short.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 21, 2021 10:27 PM (nMx88)
Watching the local news. What the hell is a "game room"? Because lots of people seem to get shot at them.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2021 10:17 PM (/U27+)
People take that board game Risk pretty seriously.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 21, 2021 10:28 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: President Donald Trump at December 21, 2021 10:28 PM (QMwOT)
Posted by: Robert at December 21, 2021 10:28 PM (r+12T)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2021 10:23 PM (Q9lwr)
Makers has no rye. It's 2nd grain is wheat. Similar to Weller and the Van Winkles. Rumor is that Julian "Pappy" Van Winkle himself advised the original distillers of Makers Mark on their mashbill.
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2021 10:28 PM (mZUr4)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
If 'ahem' certain folks were to cash in from the coof, I would gladly take credit.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 21, 2021 10:29 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: Miklosian Approvals LLP at December 21, 2021 10:30 PM (QzkSJ)
Virginia City NV is touristy, but has some nice things to see. Just looked at Twain's first job site (newspaper), office still there. Mine tour and history of the silver rush (which started as a gold rush) are very interesting. Seeing the old mine heads/buildings still all around the area is cool.
Yeah, that's some free association commenting. Turkey soup time.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2021 10:30 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: nerdygirl
It's trying to defend the Ukraine that gets them every time.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2021 10:30 PM (mD/uy)
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 21, 2021 10:30 PM (nMx88)
Posted by: kbdabear at December 21, 2021 10:30 PM (qAR6u)
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 21, 2021 10:27 PM (nMx8
I have a hard and fast rule: I never look a gift bourbon in the mouth!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2021 10:30 PM (Q9lwr)
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 21, 2021 10:31 PM (nMx88)
I had already given half of the approximate 10 different healthcare workers that tend to my mom , $25 gift cards when I got an e-mail from the supervisor that since they were a Medicare approved healthcare company their employees could not accept any gift over $5 and workers would be returning the cards. I replied that Medicare wasn't paying for any of the services but they said that didn't matter.
Bah Freaking Humbug.
Posted by: Just a side note at December 21, 2021 10:31 PM (H/pb5)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2021 10:17 PM (/U27+)
People take that board game Risk pretty seriously.
Posted by: nerdygirl
Parcheesi Dens
Posted by: Miklos prefers Stratego at December 21, 2021 10:31 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2021 10:28 PM (mZUr4)
Makes sense. It was nicely balanced, although I have no idea what it cost and I am not going to check.
See #118.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2021 10:32 PM (Q9lwr)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2021 10:32 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 21, 2021 10:32 PM (U2p+3)
Posted by: Ladyl at December 21, 2021 10:32 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: ... at December 21, 2021 10:32 PM (ZpC60)
Watching the local news. What the hell is a "game room"? Because lots of people seem to get shot at them.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2021 10:17 PM (/U27+)
A card room would be my guess.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 21, 2021 10:33 PM (oeVy+)
Posted by: Javems at December 21, 2021 10:33 PM (AmoqO)
Posted by: Ladyl at December 21, 2021 10:32 PM (TdMsT)
Thank you for being a devoted reader and commenter!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2021 10:33 PM (Q9lwr)
Posted by: davidt at December 21, 2021 10:33 PM (gjH3l)
Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Robert
Mini-spree.
Moderation in all things.
Posted by: Ancient Greek Homo Philosopher Miklosopoulos at December 21, 2021 10:33 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Used to be called the "billiard" room...but that place was a fricking charnel house.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 21, 2021 10:34 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: Ladyl at December 21, 2021 10:32 PM (TdMsT)
Evening, {{{Ladyl}}}
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at December 21, 2021 10:34 PM (Agr8U)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 21, 2021 10:34 PM (LtGlA)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 21, 2021 10:23 PM (aA3+G)
It. Will. Never. Happen.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2021 10:27 PM (Q9lwr)
St Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast while I eat French Toast with Maple Syrup.....It's like heaven!
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 21, 2021 10:35 PM (aA3+G)
Yeah, the story of the Comstock Lode is great. Everybody was prospecting for gold. Conditions were terrible, and when it rained, everything became bogged down in a tenacious, heavy thick blue mud. It was everywhere. Eventually a geologist or somebody who knew what they were doing sent off a sample of the "blue mud" for assay, and it came back something like 80% pure silver. He went around quietly buying up all the "worthless" gold claims he could. Made a fortune. It was basically an entire mountain of silver. So much silver it interfered with the historic 16-1 monetary peg and affected national electoral montary policy politics.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 21, 2021 10:35 PM (pQrYJ)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
Yeah, but she'll shoulder check ya into next week at the slightest provocation.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 21, 2021 10:35 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 21, 2021 10:35 PM (llON8)
Watching the local news. What the hell is a "game room"? Because lots of people seem to get shot at them.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Those Rock'em Sock'em Robots will knock your block off!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 21, 2021 10:36 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: ballistic at December 21, 2021 10:36 PM (oXNqT)
Kern.
Haven't made up my mind if I like it or REALLY like it.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 21, 2021 10:32 PM (U2p+3)
After a pint, does it really matter?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 21, 2021 10:36 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 21, 2021 10:36 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 21, 2021 10:25 PM (63Dwl)
Yeah they couldn't change the lens so they replaced the camera .
Come on NASA. Measure Twice, Cut Once !
Posted by: Just a side note at December 21, 2021 10:36 PM (H/pb5)
Thank you for that.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 21, 2021 10:19 PM (5We2S)
Thank you. But I didn't know you'd already posted when I posted that :/. Both the poem and the hymn though remind us that the "Peace on Earth" proclaimed by the angels isn't peace between men, it isn't some touchy-feely sentiment about "world peace" like it has come to be interpreted in popular culture, but instead it's a peace between God and individuals brought about through the gift of His Son.
"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among people with whom He is pleased."
Posted by: 29Victor at December 21, 2021 10:37 PM (BJKQV)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 21, 2021 10:37 PM (LtGlA)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Hit 'em in the jaw and they go "ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!"
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2021 10:38 PM (mD/uy)
bluebell kindly pointed out that it's not specified what the knives need to be sheathed in.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 21, 2021 10:38 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: W. C. Miklos-Fields at December 21, 2021 10:38 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Just a side note
The real reason is hilarious. "We forgot to account for weightlessness."
Posted by: Some Rat at December 21, 2021 10:38 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 21, 2021 10:35 PM (pQrYJ)
That is hilarious. I was completely unaware of it. Thank you for that.
Posted by: 29Victor at December 21, 2021 10:38 PM (BJKQV)
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2021 10:28 PM (mZUr4)
Makes sense. It was nicely balanced, although I have no idea what it cost and I am not going to check.
See #118.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2021 10:32 PM (Q9lwr)
This is the first lesson for you as I help prepare you for your trip to Kentucky
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2021 10:39 PM (mZUr4)
Posted by: crockpot stew at December 21, 2021 10:39 PM (oSX/P)
What a f***ing disaster this is going to be. And people actually vote for this shit and will continue to do so.
Posted by: Ripley at December 21, 2021 10:39 PM (PTDkx)
Posted by: Just a side note at December 21, 2021 10:40 PM (H/pb5)
Posted by: G.I. Joe with Kung-Fu Grip at December 21, 2021 10:40 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Some Rat
Top. Men.
Almost as bad as (mis)fueling an aircraft and getting gals/liters messed up.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2021 10:40 PM (mD/uy)
....
I'll answer the best I can.
I will warn in advance, I tend toward the layman's description and less towards the technical knowledge.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 21, 2021 10:41 PM (5We2S)
No, they're all getting the same marching orders from the junta regarding vaccine passports.
Your compliance prolongs this nightmare.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 21, 2021 10:42 PM (EZebt)
MisHum, you've outdone yourself with tonight's hidden click video! Frank Zappa & & Bing Crosby doing White Christmas in Centerville was great!
💯
Posted by: mindful webworker - First! comment of mine tonight at December 21, 2021 10:43 PM (OIPBq)
Posted by: ballistic at December 21, 2021 10:36 PM (oXNqT)
I very much enjoy Weller and Makers, but I find Larceny kinda lacking. Not sure why, just doesn't do it for me. For the same price, I'd go Makers every time. But that's just my preference. I appreciate that there are bourbons that others enjoy at such a great price.
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2021 10:43 PM (mZUr4)
What a f***ing disaster this is going to be. And people actually vote for this shit and will continue to do so.
Posted by: Ripley
Took the granddaughter to lunch yesterday. "Dining room closed, take out only."
Literally walked across the parking lot to a Vietnamese Restuarant that would seat us and take my money.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 21, 2021 10:43 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: ballistic at December 21, 2021 10:36 PM (oXNqT)
I have had it but am not a big fan...
A little hot for my taste. Or maybe just a bit unbalanced.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2021 10:44 PM (Q9lwr)
My mother had dementia and my sis and I would each give two of the caregivers that were the most attentive. We just asked what their hubby or significant other's name was and said, "Here's a Christmas card for Joe." We'd then include a nice GC. When she died, we gave them thank-you cards w cash at her visitation. Those "rules" make no sense to me.
Posted by: EveR at December 21, 2021 10:44 PM (4dsGu)
https://tinyurl.com/39aefmp8
Bostonians are equal opportunity hecklers, which is nice to see.
Posted by: NaughtyPine - quarantined for Christmas at December 21, 2021 10:44 PM (/+bwe)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 21, 2021 10:35 PM
Now this is the kind of trolling a world-class blog like this deserves, but sadly seems to get so little of.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 21, 2021 10:44 PM (a3Q+t)
There for a time -- and that time now is pretty much passed -- whenever you encountered a home owned around here in northern Delaware by a former DuPont employee who was now retired, it was likely that you would find a large jar of powdered DDT somewhere in the garage or basement. One could not help but wonder whether such were handed out as some type of year-end bonus.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 21, 2021 10:44 PM (pNxlR)
Posted by: Ladyl at December 21, 2021 10:44 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 21, 2021 10:26 PM (r1z5A)
That sounds like what my dad, a former farmer, may have had. He kept something around that was no longer legal. Anyway, I got ants in my garage. He put the stuff around the garage and it killed those ants good. I do know he used malathion on the farm in the fifties, also ddt.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 21, 2021 10:45 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: mindful webworker - leap first, then look at December 21, 2021 10:45 PM (PukHz)
Posted by: ... at December 21, 2021 10:32 PM (ZpC60)
Hoping he tried the bourbon and realized Scotch is just average whiskey with dirt in it
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2021 10:46 PM (mZUr4)
I've started wishing everyone a Merry Christmas. I get a fair number of surprised looks, a few smiles and an occasional MC in response. The last two years have seemed to suck a lot of joy from people.
Be kind to everyone you meet. They may not welcome it or may not respond. What's important is that you did.
Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at December 21, 2021 10:46 PM (jAisO)
Posted by: EveR at December 21, 2021 10:46 PM (4dsGu)
Posted by: Just a side note at December 21, 2021 10:40 PM (H/pb5)
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Sure, they can make sky-looky-thingies, but that's not the question. Are they diverse and inclusive enough? Because that's how you can tell if it's REAL science or just racist claptrap.
Posted by: AOC, Ph.D, M.D, D.D.S., A at December 21, 2021 10:46 PM (lNHqD)
Posted by: Ferd Berfall at December 21, 2021 10:46 PM (NM8ko)
Ol' Harley loved boobs
Posted by: kbdabear at December 21, 2021 10:47 PM (qAR6u)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 21, 2021 10:21 PM (I2/tG)
I'd like to point out that the Haka is the stupidest, least intimidating pre game/conflict ritual I've ever seen. They look like a bunch of kindergartners trying to ruin the class picture by making faces. The only competitive advantage would come from my inability to stop laughing.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 21, 2021 10:47 PM (cupoy)
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 21, 2021 10:47 PM (oeVy+)
Posted by: Ladyl at December 21, 2021 10:44 PM (TdMsT)
{{{Ladyl}}} I want to visit the town in that lead photo! I looks so peaceful and serene!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 21, 2021 10:48 PM (hOUT3)
Because? well don't ask or bad things happen
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at December 21, 2021 10:49 PM (AuURx)
Posted by: Javems at December 21, 2021 10:49 PM (AmoqO)
Posted by: nerdygirl
It's trying to defend the Ukraine that gets them every time.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2021 10:30 PM (mD/uy)
What really gets them is when you make a side deal to not attack them, then when they get complacent, stab them in the back.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 21, 2021 10:49 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: Javems at December 21, 2021 10:49 PM (AmoqO)
Yet we went to the moon and back with live people using Imperial units and slide-rules!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 21, 2021 10:51 PM (hOUT3)
My mother had dementia and my sis and I would each give two of the caregivers that were the most attentive. We just asked what their hubby or significant other's name was and said, "Here's a Christmas card for Joe." We'd then include a nice GC. When she died, we gave them thank-you cards w cash at her visitation. Those "rules" make no sense to me.
Posted by: EveR at December 21, 2021 10:44 PM (4dsGu)
I wonder if it has something to due with leaving a caregiver money in your estate? In California it is presumed the caregiver used undue influence or something like that. There is some certificate or something that has to be filled out. I do know caregivers are hesitant to accept gifts from their patients. Some can be fired.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 21, 2021 10:51 PM (oeVy+)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at
Wow. Don't think I'll down a pint of whiskey.
But. Don't underestimate me!
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 21, 2021 10:51 PM (U2p+3)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2021 10:51 PM (Q9lwr)
Watching the construction of the Webb Telescope now. The total IQ in that room must be unbelievable.
Posted by: Just a side note
Didn't that telescope turn out to be a piece of useless shit?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 21, 2021 10:51 PM (+OPjz)
They're a parlor for the electronic "Eight-Liner" machines, electronic Poker machines and other such pseudo slot machines as the owner may chose to employ. They do not pay out in cash, but in tickets (think, "carnival tickets", redeemable at the Cashier's Window for stuffed bunnies or.. wait for it, .. CASH!
TONS of cash in those wee parlors. Every one of them employs armed security, as they're favorite robbery targets. And, with the cash and booze flowing in those places, and the decidedly "scruffy" nature of their clientele, well.. shit does get out of hand, time to time.
They do (all of them) operate on the illegal side of the gambling laws, but there's LOTS of 'em, and not a lot of cops assigned to making cases against 'em and shutting them down.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 21, 2021 10:51 PM (QzJWU)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2021 10:17 PM (/U27+)
Baltic Avenue is Crips territory!
Posted by: kbdabear at December 21, 2021 10:52 PM (qAR6u)
Posted by: AOC, Ph.D, M.D, D.D.S., A at December 21, 2021 10:46 PM (lNHqD)
NASA was lucky. The director of the project was a very very smart black guy.
Posted by: Just a side note at December 21, 2021 10:52 PM (H/pb5)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 21, 2021 10:52 PM (+OPjz)
Posted by: nerdygirl
Had a lot of non-aggression pacts in that game, which I would break....and get stabbed in the back by the damn dice. commie bastards.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 21, 2021 10:52 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: Braenyard at December 21, 2021 10:53 PM (HCRRg)
Posted by: runner at December 21, 2021 10:53 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: Just a side note
Yep. First in metric, then in imperial.
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 21, 2021 10:54 PM (OssQ4)
You telling me there's a Webb telescope??
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 21, 2021 10:52 PM (+OPjz)
The new Webb-Hubbell telescope is designed to focused on legal American citizens!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 21, 2021 10:54 PM (hOUT3)
Well we'll know after it's launched tomorrow.
Posted by: Just a side note at December 21, 2021 10:54 PM (H/pb5)
You telling me there's a Webb telescope??
Posted by: Soothsayer
Web Hubbell - he fucked that up too.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2021 10:55 PM (mD/uy)
The new Webb-Hubbell telescope is designed to focused on legal American citizens!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar
Didn't the clinton crime family kill that guy?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 21, 2021 10:55 PM (+OPjz)
Posted by: runner at December 21, 2021 10:55 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: Javems at December 21, 2021 10:49 PM (AmoqO)
Yet we went to the moon and back with live people using Imperial units and slide-rules!
So obviously the problem is the metric system.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at December 21, 2021 10:56 PM (SchxB)
But. Don't underestimate me!
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 21, 2021 10:51 PM (U2p+3)
Do it. Just remember to alternate with water. Wait, you're a nurse - you already know this.
I'll stick to music recommendations next time!
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2021 10:56 PM (mZUr4)
Posted by: Soothsayer
It hasn't been launched yet, and no. 1000x more powerful than the Hubble. Incredible piece of technology. Launching very soon, from Guyana. Like within weeks.
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 21, 2021 10:56 PM (OssQ4)
Posted by: Soothsayer
He was punished in the worst possible way - he had have sex with the hildabeast.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2021 10:56 PM (mD/uy)
Posted by: NaughtyPine - quarantined for Christmas at December 21, 2021 10:4
They were absolutely brutal to Jose Canseco one afternoon at Fenway. This was just after Canseco got caught beating his wife.
Posted by: Beartooth at December 21, 2021 10:56 PM (J0Lsu)
Posted by: Tonypete
After hillary, machinery probably looked good.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 21, 2021 10:56 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: Roy Epps, not a fed at December 21, 2021 10:56 PM (F6Xpw)
>>NASA rammed a orbiter into mars due to confusion between English and metric measurements in acceleration units.
Well sort of, NASA contracted out some modules for the lander, the contractor delivered modules that spit out standard measurements, while the computers were expecting metric measurements, hilarity ensued.
Clearly whoever wrote the RFP/Spec for the contractor and whoever qualified the contractors work failed spectacularly at their job.
Probably got a promotion.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 21, 2021 10:58 PM (Pxkfv)
main/index.html
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 21, 2021 10:58 PM (OssQ4)
Posted by: nurse ratched
Only those who haven't met you would make that mistake.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 21, 2021 10:58 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 21, 2021 10:58 PM (+lVUW)
{{{Ladyl}}} I want to visit the town in that lead photo! I looks so peaceful and serene!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 21, 2021 10:48 PM (hOUT3)
It looks like Vermont! Let's go!
Posted by: Ladyl at December 21, 2021 10:58 PM (TdMsT)
Freaking Soothsayer just jinxed a 10 billion dollar operation.
Posted by: Just a side note at December 21, 2021 10:59 PM (H/pb5)
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 21, 2021 10:59 PM (OssQ4)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar
And pen pocket protectors made in USA!
Posted by: Nerdy if capable Miklos at December 21, 2021 11:00 PM (QzkSJ)
I picked up a bottle of that Tom Sims from my local Spec's. Best $9.99 I've spent on bourbon. Thanks.
Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood. Biden Say I Did The Wrong Thing & Will Be Punished This Winter at December 21, 2021 11:00 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: troyriser at December 21, 2021 11:00 PM (pYLCQ)
I'll stick to music recommendations next time!
Posted by: Doof
Nah. I can be pretty dumb.
Perhaps I should retire for the night. Gotta herd cats tomorrow morning.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 21, 2021 11:00 PM (U2p+3)
Posted by: Gran at December 21, 2021 11:00 PM (GM3/s)
Posted by: Roy Epps, not a fed at December 21, 2021 10:56 PM (F6Xpw)
Yes. Democrats rearranged the words and went back to doing the same crap they did 60 years ago. It's called progress.
Posted by: 29Victor at December 21, 2021 11:01 PM (BJKQV)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 21, 2021 11:01 PM (+OPjz)
Posted by: Jack Webb at December 21, 2021 11:01 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Heidi at December 21, 2021 11:01 PM (5aWFq)
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 21, 2021 10:59 PM (OssQ4)
Did they delay tomorrow's launch ?
Posted by: Just a side note at December 21, 2021 11:02 PM (H/pb5)
Posted by: EveR at December 21, 2021 11:03 PM (4dsGu)
Crap, now I have ideas on what to do with the black walnut logs drying in the garage...
Posted by: pookysgirl, carpenter's daughter at December 21, 2021 11:05 PM (XKZwp)
Posted by: Ladyl at December 21, 2021 10:58 PM (TdMsT)
The top photo is Whitefield, New Hampshire....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2021 10:51 PM (Q9lwr)
Seems close enough, it works for me!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 21, 2021 11:06 PM (hOUT3)
I'm not taking the hit. I haven't worked there for over 20 years.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at December 21, 2021 11:06 PM (SchxB)
Posted by: JM in Florida at December 21, 2021 11:06 PM (L7jyl)
Incidentally, I just put up some Christmas lights. I picked a single bush and wrapped it with lights. It looks like, well, pathetic and sad. Charlie Brown Christmas Tree level sad.
The lights are up and that will make Baby Jesus smile -- and that's all that matters.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 21, 2021 11:06 PM (+OPjz)
It looks like Vermont! Let's go!
Posted by: Ladyl at December 21, 2021 10:58 PM (TdMsT)
It doesn't even look real it's so pretty.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 21, 2021 11:06 PM (oeVy+)
Most of you are getting dictionaries.
(just saw that on Facebook)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 21, 2021 11:07 PM (Cus5s)
Happy to help, Count! Now, a favor, if you please? Do kindly drop me a note with the Spec's location you frequent. I need to have my Galveston Spec's get on the computer and work towards re-stocking the label. It's been missing from the shelves for too long, now!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 21, 2021 11:07 PM (QzJWU)
Posted by: Ripley at December 21, 2021 10:39 PM (PTDkx)
Most of the people aren't small business owners and don't give a crap what this does to businesses. A good share of the dem base think that the local couple who own a fast food franchise are rich people who deserve to be screwed over. A good share of those people lined up to get a hamburger, are going to get fed up and go eat at home.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 21, 2021 11:07 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2021 10:46 PM (mZUr4)
I don't think he ever even drank it. Pissed me off.
Posted by: ... at December 21, 2021 11:08 PM (ZpC60)
Posted by: EveR at December
I'm sure it's some stupid government rule that makes no sense.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 21, 2021 11:08 PM (oeVy+)
I'm considering translating the portion of Scripture into the New Southern Translation and recording it for a little levity for the group.
Is this blasphemous?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 21, 2021 11:08 PM (5We2S)
Most of you are getting dictionaries.
(just saw that on Facebook)
Posted by: illiniwek
And copies of Strunk and White's 'The Elements of Style'.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2021 11:09 PM (mD/uy)
I'm doing what I can to organize a boycott. It's not that hard to shop in Dupage county rather than Cook.
Fuck anyone who collaborates with the mandates.
Posted by: Methos at December 21, 2021 11:10 PM (kOpft)
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 21, 2021 11:08 PM (oeVy+)
Funny how "stupid" and "Government rule" seem to just flow together under any conceivable (and most inconceivable) circumstances!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 21, 2021 11:10 PM (hOUT3)
>>i was offered stock in tech companies in the mid-80s. Some I bought. One I didn't: Microsoft.
You could have bought Microsoft stock at several times.
It's stock was around 35 dollars in 2015.
It's now over 300 dollars.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 21, 2021 11:11 PM (iKhtQ)
Rant #4,467, 321 about why Spectrum sucks. Of the past couple days, we can't maintain an acceptable conversation with my mother. I got to looking at found the trouble. The upstream speed on the internet has dropped down to well below 1Mbps, hitting 100kps.
Charter's voice(phone) system uses different channels, but the upstream channels are grouped together in the same freq. range (lower end), so it's almost certain it's some noise problem on the low end.
A call to someone outside the local area works fine, but a call to my mother, on the same local loop gets messed up by the slow speed/noise both ways and packets get dropped.
I'm debating whether or not I want to even bother trying to get Charter support and try to explain the problem. I'm hoping there will be enough trouble soon that it will alert them.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 21, 2021 11:11 PM (Mzdiz)
Most of the people aren't small business owners and don't give a crap what this does to businesses. A good share of the dem base think that the local couple who own a fast food franchise are rich people who deserve to be screwed over. A good share of those people lined up to get a hamburger, are going to get fed up and go eat at home.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 21, 2021 11:07 PM (+lVUW)
it's always the big boys that are all on board for new regulations. It puts their competition out of business and is a huge barrier to entry for any new businesses.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 21, 2021 11:11 PM (oeVy+)
===
after a few people get shot by wanna be patrons for not being let in...who knows
Posted by: runner at December 21, 2021 11:12 PM (V13WU)
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 21, 2021 11:07 PM (QzJWU)
It was at Spec's Willowbrook. They had three 750ml bottles left after the one I bought. Spec's at Spring Cypress didn't carry it. 77070 zip code.
Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood. Biden Say I Did The Wrong Thing & Will Be Punished This Winter at December 21, 2021 11:13 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: Just a side note
Yes, tweet's up on that NASA page I linked above.
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 21, 2021 11:13 PM (OssQ4)
I could kick myself for not saving a few of the old Christmas decorations. We threw it all out. All of it. Including the Firestone Christmas records.
We had the big lights, the silver and gold garland, the ugly ornaments, all the glorious crap that made Christmas wonderful.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 21, 2021 11:13 PM (+OPjz)
You telling me there's a Webb telescope??
Posted by: Soothsayer
Web Hubbell - he fucked that up too.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2021 10:55 PM (mD/uy)
Posted by: penn at December 21, 2021 11:13 PM (lNHqD)
Very curious about Tom Sims bourbon. Web search yields little info. It appears to be a product of Heaven Hill distillery (same folks who make Evan Williams bourbon and Rittenhouse Rye) in Bardstown, Kentucky. But it is not featured on their website. Also, I have pursued the shelves of MANY liquor stores in various parts of Kentucky and I have NEVER seen Tom Sims.
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2021 11:14 PM (mZUr4)
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 21, 2021 11:13 PM (OssQ4)
Thanks.
Posted by: Just a side note at December 21, 2021 11:14 PM (H/pb5)
You telling me there's a Webb telescope??
Posted by: Soothsayer
Web Hubbell - he fucked that up too.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2021 10:55 PM (mD/uy)
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Damn, hit the Post button by accident.
Anyway, the Web Hubbell telescope is dedicated purely to looking beyond the event horizon of Hillary's pantsuit. Here's hoping it fails. I don't want to see any of that in National Geographic.
Posted by: Pennsyltucky at December 21, 2021 11:14 PM (lNHqD)
Yet we went to the moon and back with live people using Imperial units and slide-rules!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar
Thanks to the hidden figurers.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 21, 2021 11:15 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 21, 2021 11:15 PM (6FeV1)
Posted by: Soothsayer
I found one string of the old, monster lights hidden away. This year I draped them on the bench outside - I think they are beautiful - warm colors. Much better than the sterile white lights we all use now.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2021 11:16 PM (mD/uy)
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 21, 2021 11:11 PM (oeVy+)
Isn't that the very definition of Corporate Capitalism (Corporatism)?
I find it interesting that so many small businesses are being absorbed into huge conglomerates with the end result of less accountability to the customers, inferior service at every level, increased salaries for the front office wankers, and increased efficiency in the transfer of graft to the politicians.
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 21, 2021 11:16 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2021 10:46 PM (mZUr4)
I don't think he ever even drank it. Pissed me off.
Posted by: ... at December 21, 2021 11:08 PM (ZpC60)
That sucks. Lesson learned the hard way
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2021 11:17 PM (mZUr4)
The options for the 2022 Camaro include two premium color options. Burnt orange and powder blue.
I haven't seen those colors since the 70s.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at December 21, 2021 11:17 PM (5p7BC)
Yes, its provenance is a mystery. I also tried looking up its background. Dead ends.
Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood. Biden Say I Did The Wrong Thing & Will Be Punished This Winter at December 21, 2021 11:17 PM (4I/2K)
I found one string of the old, monster lights hidden away. This year I draped them on the bench outside - I think they are beautiful - warm colors. Much better than the sterile white lights we all use now.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2021 11:16 PM (mD/uy)
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Check out the Technology Connections channel on YT. He does a few videos about trying to make modern Christmas lights look as good as the old ones did.
Kid is a total nerd and does some really amazing stuff on that channel, especially if you are a fan of old tech like I am.
Posted by: Pennsyltucky at December 21, 2021 11:18 PM (lNHqD)
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 21, 2021 10:51 PM (oeVy+)
For the caregiver that helped with my dad I had to give a bonus through the agency, and sign some paper. They also had some rule about giving the caregivers items from the house, because they didn't want the caregivers being accused of stealing.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 21, 2021 11:19 PM (+lVUW)
Doof, I'm probably going to have to go on a telephone mission and get Heaven's Hill Distillery on the line. Gotta chase down the story on what's happened to the brand. A decade of smooth sippin' shouldn't just disappear like that!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 21, 2021 11:19 PM (QzJWU)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2021 11:20 PM (Q9lwr)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2021 11:21 PM (mD/uy)
Isn't that the very definition of Corporate Capitalism (Corporatism)?
I find it interesting that so many small businesses are being absorbed into huge conglomerates with the end result of less accountability to the customers, inferior service at every level, increased salaries for the front office wankers, and increased efficiency in the transfer of graft to the politicians.
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 21, 20
Pretty much. It seems to me to be the plan is working swimmingly.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 21, 2021 11:21 PM (oeVy+)
Posted by: Theodore at December 21, 2021 11:21 PM (GJnvT)
I'm debating whether or not I want to even bother trying to get Charter support and try to explain the problem. I'm hoping there will be enough trouble soon that it will alert them.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion
Every once in a while (thankfully not often) I have to power down my Spectrum modem/router (and disconnect the battery) because my up and down speeds get reallllly slow. Luckily the power reset has always set speeds back to normal.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 21, 2021 11:21 PM (63Dwl)
The Grandmother was livid and indicated that she had disowned the the poor kid.
Posted by: Just a side note at December 21, 2021 11:21 PM (H/pb5)
Check out the Technology Connections channel on YT. He does a few videos about trying to make modern Christmas lights look as good as the old ones did.
Posted by: Pennsyltucky
That's a good channel. He did a video on an older microwave that was surprisingly interesting.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 21, 2021 11:21 PM (+OPjz)
Posted by: Javems at December 21, 2021 11:22 PM (AmoqO)
Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood. Biden Say I Did The Wrong Thing & Will Be Punished This Winter at December 21, 2021 11:17 PM (4I/2K)
I have some good old boy buddies who have lived in Kentucky for many moons. I'll ask them about it. Also, our fellow moron Martini Farmer lives near Bardstown. Perhaps he can investigate. I'll mention it to him next time I see him around here
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2021 11:23 PM (mZUr4)
I found one string of the old, monster lights hidden away. This year I draped them on the bench outside - I think they are beautiful - warm colors. Much better than the sterile white lights we all use now.
Posted by: Tonypete
Nice.
500 watts of beautiful fire-hazard nostalgia!
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 21, 2021 11:23 PM (+OPjz)
Posted by: Braenyard at December 21, 2021 11:24 PM (HCRRg)
Posted by: Javems at December 21, 2021 11:24 PM (AmoqO)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar
Your point being?
Posted by: Miklosov Miklosevich from Slav Customer service Minsk Call Centre of Most Excellence at December 21, 2021 11:24 PM (QzkSJ)
On the other hand, LED lights use around 2.5w per string
Posted by: JQ at December 21, 2021 11:24 PM (dB4Iz)
I've already tried that, on both modems. It's some local problem on the system around here. One time it was a bad repeater/amplifier somewhere in the chain, I remember. Been some nasty weather, and maybe a seal on of them has failed and let water in, which I remember one of the linemen telling me can be a problem.
It's just the upstream channels, the downstream is fine.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 21, 2021 11:24 PM (Mzdiz)
https://youtu.be/Lb16CEhqDnw
Posted by: Chuck C at December 21, 2021 11:25 PM (EughT)
Yes I gave away a lot of clothes and furniture/ decor items to some of the workers and I signed a paper to confirm I had given them the items.
Posted by: Just a side note at December 21, 2021 11:25 PM (H/pb5)
For the caregiver that helped with my dad I had to give a bonus through the agency, and sign some paper. They also had some rule about giving the caregivers items from the house, because they didn't want the caregivers being accused of stealing.
Posted by: nerdygirl at Decemb
I think the returning of the gift certificates is stupid but I can also see the other side. Elderly people with dementia giving away things or cash to a caregiver or a housekeeper when they aren't competent to make those decisions.
When it's the children of the patient giving the gift that makes zero sense.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 21, 2021 11:26 PM (oeVy+)
Some incognito outfit in Bardstown distilled the juice. No one is claiming credit for the brand. Someone else owns the brand name and licenses it out I think.
Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood. Biden Say I Did The Wrong Thing & Will Be Punished This Winter at December 21, 2021 11:26 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 21, 2021 11:27 PM (63Dwl)
Speaking of 70's cars...
this tv commercial for the Pontiac GTO with the short-lived option for the "exhaust diverter" is fantastic:
https://youtu.be/7JNj9sEdPF0
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 21, 2021 11:28 PM (+OPjz)
Posted by: Jim at December 21, 2021 11:19 PM (QzJWU)
Heaven Hill does some weird stuff with their products. Some good, some not. They have a pretty good bottom shelf product that they only sell in Kentucky. Green label Heaven Hill bourbon. 90 proof and right around $10. Pretty good stuff. Until 2 years ago, they had a Bottled in Bond version. 6 years aged, 100 proof for $12. Best value I ever found in a bourbon. Only sold in Kentucky. I used to bring 6-10 bottles home every time I drove to/from. Then they decided to rebrand it as a 7 year old product, sell it only OUTSIDE of Kentucky, and charge $45. Nope - not for me.
Anyway -- good luck in your quest to find out more info!!
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2021 11:29 PM (mZUr4)
Posted by: Count de Monet
Don't know if this would help but - The company has 5 principals on record; The principals are Ed Shapira, Gary Shapira, George Shapira, Marion Rebecca Steinbock, and Marvin L Smith.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2021 11:30 PM (mD/uy)
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 21, 2021 11:19 PM
Jim, I'll ask around as well. I know some people (local bourbon club) that have a good relationship with Heaven Hill, so they might be able to find out.
Posted by: Bert G at December 21, 2021 11:31 PM (AvN9S)
Posted by: Braenyard at December 21, 2021 11:32 PM (HCRRg)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 21, 2021 11:13 PM (+OPjz)
I miss my mom and dad's cheap plastic elf ornaments.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 21, 2021 11:32 PM (+lVUW)
Some incognito outfit in Bardstown distilled the juice. No one is claiming credit for the brand. Someone else owns the brand name and licenses it out I think.
Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood. Biden Say I Did The Wrong Thing & Will Be Punished This Winter at December 21, 2021 11:26 PM (4I/2K)
That's common for a label to reference a distillery that doesn't actually exist - or is defunct. Several products made by Buffalo Trace actually say something else. For all of the strict rules about what can be called "bourbon" or "straight bourbon", there appears to be a lot of leeway in branding and manufacturer naming
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2021 11:33 PM (mZUr4)
I haven't seen those colors since the 70s.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at December 21, 2021 11:17 PM (5p7BC)
What? No avocado green?
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 21, 2021 11:34 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: Braenyard at December 21, 2021 11:32 PM (HCRRg)
Nothing specific happened. Just talking about their various products and some that they seem to make but don't claim outright.
What product did you buy?
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2021 11:35 PM (mZUr4)
I'm OK on normal Corporate stuff, 10k filings and the like. But the distilling world is a world of secrets, alliances, enemies and machinations. Happy to team up and help whoever takes lead, 'cause I don't mind putting in the work. But I'll be lacking that savvy that comes with knowing Bourbon Country.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 21, 2021 11:35 PM (QzJWU)
Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood. Biden Say I Did The Wrong Thing & Will Be Punished This Winter at December 21, 2021 11:36 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 21, 2021 11:34 PM (+lVUW)
If memory serves, that was one of the color choices for the Ford Gremlin. There's a memory.
Posted by: troyriser at December 21, 2021 11:39 PM (pYLCQ)
Posted by: Bert G at December 21, 2021 11:40 PM (AvN9S)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 21, 2021 11:40 PM (U2p+3)
Posted by: Braenyard at December 21, 2021 11:42 PM (HCRRg)
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 21, 2021 11:42 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2021 11:42 PM (mZUr4)
Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood. Biden Say I Did The Wrong Thing & Will Be Punished This Winter at December 21, 2021 11:42 PM (4I/2K)
There's no other branding on the label.
Posted by: Braenyard at December 21, 2021 11:42 PM (HCRRg)
Sorry to hear that. Just kidding. I know a lot of folks enjoy EW. That's actually one of the 2 varieties I have almost poured down a drain. The other being Very Old Barton.
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2021 11:46 PM (mZUr4)
Posted by: Bert G at December 21, 2021 11:40 PM (AvN9S)
The only number on the Tom Sims label (other than the barcode) is 240-4447 and 240-4449.
Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood. Biden Say I Did The Wrong Thing & Will Be Punished This Winter at December 21, 2021 11:46 PM (4I/2K)
Versailles (pronounced ver-SAILS)
Posted by: Doof
Heh. It's true.
Frankfurt, KY cracks me up, for some reason.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 21, 2021 11:46 PM (+OPjz)
Back in the cassette recording days when we made "make out tapes," Romeo's Tune was believed to have magical powers on babes.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at December 21, 2021 11:46 PM (BMmaB)
But have stopped in and visited with friends in both Paducha and Harlan. Side point: Backwoods Kentucky is NOT a place to ride 'cycle at night. Period.
Anyway, drop me a line at the mail in my nic, and I'll send you photos of the Tom Sims labels, front and back. With as much detail as I can get to render of the text, of course. Nothing helps quite so much for a starting point as a legible UPC code, I'd think?
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 21, 2021 11:47 PM (QzJWU)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at December 21, 2021 11:47 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2021 11:48 PM (Q9lwr)
Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood. Biden Say I Did The Wrong Thing & Will Be Punished This Winter at December 21, 2021 11:42 PM (4I/2K)
There's a really cool shop in Bardstown where you can find some unique stuff - if you're willing to pay a bit more for it. They are VERY knowledgeable. They're gonna be my first call tomorrow
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2021 11:49 PM (mZUr4)
Posted by: Coquettish Haberdasher at December 21, 2021 10:02 PM (buTO7)
What is the name of this book?
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - AoS Ladies' Brigade Plucky Comic Relief at December 21, 2021 11:49 PM (HV27O)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 21, 2021 11:50 PM (+OPjz)
One color I seem to have seen much more of lately is a brilliant ultramarine blue. The blue equivalent to firetruck red. It just strike me as strange somehow. Bright school-bus yellow doesn't seem as strange, but I have to wonder why anyone would have that color vehicle on purpose (vs, say, having bought it from some utility company).
Lots of other cars, I find myself often saying that color was only on Matchbox™ cars... some of them not only don't exist in Nature, I don't think they actually exist in this dimension.
"You can have it any color as long as it's black." -H Ford
Posted by: mindful webworker - red truck, white van, green junker up on blocks in the yard at December 21, 2021 11:50 PM (PukHz)
There were exchanges at Jim Beam, Maker's, Woodford, and Four Roses.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at December 21, 2021 11:51 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood. Biden Say I Did The Wrong Thing & Will Be Punished This Winter at December 21, 2021 11:46 PM
I'm guessing they're not proud of that product, lol. It appears here as being a HH label: https://tinyurl.com/2zf83wpj
Posted by: Bert G at December 21, 2021 11:52 PM (AvN9S)
Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood. Biden Say I Did The Wrong Thing & Will Be Punished This Winter at December 21, 2021 11:53 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: Doof
Heh. It's true.
Frankfurt, KY cracks me up, for some reason.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 21, 2021 11:46 PM (+OPjz)
Frankfurt is the home of Buffalo Trace -- a distillery I have toured 3 times. Awesome place. Nearby is a very nive Vietnam War memorial for Kentucky folks who died in the war. It's a large sundial - with a nice view of the state Capitol across the river
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2021 11:53 PM (mZUr4)
at_karol
Insane email from Horace Mann school in NYC. HM already has a vaccine mandate for 5+ and booster mandate for 16+. Now your kid can be kicked out if they don't wear their mask correctly.
11:58 AM - Dec 21, 2021 - https://bit.ly/33QJJrV
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 21, 2021 11:53 PM (Do5/p)
Posted by: SFGoth at December 21, 2021 11:54 PM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at December 21, 2021 11:54 PM (5p7BC)
There were exchanges at Jim Beam, Maker's, Woodford, and Four Roses.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at December 21, 2021 11:51 PM (5p7BC)
That sounds awesome, Dave!
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2021 11:55 PM (mZUr4)
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 21, 2021 11:47 PM (QzJWU)
Will drop you a line in the morning, Jim
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2021 11:56 PM (mZUr4)
Posted by: Bert G at December 21, 2021 11:52 PM (AvN9S)
Thanks Bert. Good detective work.
Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood. Biden Say I Did The Wrong Thing & Will Be Punished This Winter at December 21, 2021 11:58 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: Bert G at December 21, 2021 11:58 PM (AvN9S)
Posted by: Bert G at December 21, 2021 11:52 PM (AvN9S)
Great link, Bert! That one is getting bookmarked!
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2021 11:59 PM (mZUr4)
I don't know why but now I need to know if you can buy the tool to make your own "Spiral Cut" Ham.
brb...
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2021 12:00 AM (+OPjz)
Posted by: Braenyard at December 22, 2021 12:00 AM (HCRRg)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2021 12:01 AM (63Dwl)
brb...
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2021 12:00 AM (+OPjz)
Sure you can. Sawzall. Corded or battery.
Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood. Biden Say I Did The Wrong Thing & Will Be Punished This Winter at December 22, 2021 12:01 AM (4I/2K)
https://tinyurl.com/2p8za3vf
Posted by: Doof at December 22, 2021 12:03 AM (mZUr4)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2021 12:05 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at December 22, 2021 12:05 AM (II3Gr)
Sure you can. Sawzall. Corded or battery.
Posted by: Count de Monet
Yeahhh, I guess you could...
if you're Red Green.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2021 12:06 AM (+OPjz)
Flavor rather close to the Jim Beam profile, but decidedly smoother. Price runs close to $10 per 750ml, and I'm out the door at Spec's, after tax, at about $21 for a 1.75 ml. bottle.
It's good enough, it's smooth enough, it pairs with cigars enough, to be one's default Front Porch Bourbon, for when just watching the sun go down or sippin' with a neighbor. As such, it'll help hold your Good Stuff for when the Good Friends come by, and etc.
In the price/performance matrix, it's a win in my book.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 22, 2021 12:06 AM (QzJWU)
Look what you miscreants made me do!
Posted by: Bert G at December 21, 2021 11:58 PM (AvN9S)
A glencairn -- nice! A man who knows how to truly enjoy a dram of whiskey.
Posted by: Doof at December 22, 2021 12:06 AM (mZUr4)
I don't know why but now I need to know if you can buy the tool to make your own "Spiral Cut" Ham.
brb...
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2021 12:00 AM (+OPjz)
The Ronco ham spiralizer!
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at December 22, 2021 12:06 AM (II3Gr)
brb...
Posted by: Soothsayer
Step 1: Firmly secure ham to garage door torsion spring.
Posted by: mikeski at December 22, 2021 12:08 AM (P1f+c)
Okay, so spiral cutting your own ham is not going to happen. The spiral cutter appears to be an expensive, large, and intricate piece of industrial equipment that not even the chinese will attempt to half-ass duplicate for the homeowner. And the chinese will attempt to make anything and sell it to us.
So you need to buy your ham already spiral-cut, and then cook it.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2021 12:09 AM (+OPjz)
So you need to buy your ham already spiral-cut, and then cook it.
Posted by: Soothsayer
Is that in one piece like a ham Slinky?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2021 12:11 AM (63Dwl)
The silver ore was basically spoil from the gold mines, we were told it was being used for road building and other construction purposes.
Thought it was the European space agency that effed up with metric vs. imperial on one of their Mars landers, not NASA?
Posted by: rhomboid at December 22, 2021 12:11 AM (OTzUX)
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 22, 2021 12:06 AM (QzJWU)
Hells yes.
Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood. Biden Say I Did The Wrong Thing & Will Be Punished This Winter at December 22, 2021 12:12 AM (4I/2K)
Actually, you could very well "Red Green" a ham spiral cutter with a Sawzall.
But you need to set up a sturdy Turn Table to set the ham on and turn it slowly.
Nah, you need a Vertical Spit contraption. Like a rotisserie, but vertical.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2021 12:12 AM (+OPjz)
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Or warm it up.
I don't think I've ever seen a raw, spiral cut ham.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 22, 2021 12:12 AM (5We2S)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2021 12:11 AM
And now I'm laughing, imagining a ham slinky going down the stairs.
Posted by: Bert G at December 22, 2021 12:12 AM (AvN9S)
He wound up having to turn to Mark Twain for economic stabilization for his family as he was dying of cancer.
Posted by: sven at December 22, 2021 12:13 AM (Lzpvj)
In the price/performance matrix, it's a win in my book.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 22, 2021 12:06 AM (QzJWU)
If YOU enjoy it, that's all that matters. I just hope you're able to keep finding it when you want it. Heaven Hill may not be making it anymore. For your sake, I hope that's not the case. But they can probably age those barrels a bit longer and sell them as a different "brand" at a higher price. The demand for bourbon is still increasing.
Posted by: Doof at December 22, 2021 12:13 AM (mZUr4)
https://tinyurl.com/2p8za3vf
Posted by: Doof at December 22, 2021 12:03 AM (mZUr4)
That is very nicely done.
Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood. Biden Say I Did The Wrong Thing & Will Be Punished This Winter at December 22, 2021 12:13 AM (4I/2K)
Is that in one piece like a ham Slinky?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Yeah, I guess, because the knife goes right up against the bone as the ham rotates.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2021 12:14 AM (+OPjz)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2021 11:30 PM (mD/uy)
what you do then is go through the secretary of state's business division and (if you can) search the corporation database by those names to see what else they are involved in. See if you can match an address too. Probably have a liquor manufacturing board or manufacturer's business group to see if the names are listed online as well. Newspaper sites also list names to check what they have been named publicly attending or winning awards or similar stuff.
If they are on other manufacturers' boards you have one answer, and if they just do promotions or sales you can figure they are just a marketing front.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2021 12:15 AM (ZMraq)
Miss Piggy, descending the Grand Stairway of a cruise ship, wearing a sequined, off the shoulder evening gown with a slit up the closely fitted skirt.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 22, 2021 12:15 AM (QzJWU)
But you need to set up a sturdy Turn Table to set the ham on and turn it slowly.
Nah, you need a Vertical Spit contraption. Like a rotisserie, but vertical.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2021 12:12 AM (+OPjz)
Can you form some sort of rudimentary lathe?
Posted by: Guy Fleegman at December 22, 2021 12:16 AM (4I/2K)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2021 12:12 AM
Like this: https://tinyurl.com/ycyw256x
Posted by: Bert G at December 22, 2021 12:16 AM (AvN9S)
Posted by: Doof at December 22, 2021 12:16 AM (mZUr4)
I don't think I've ever seen a raw, spiral cut ham.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger
I think you're right.
You could "glaze" it yourself, but I guess it would be already cooked.
Never cooked a ham in my life, but I bought a few from Honey Baked Hams.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2021 12:16 AM (+OPjz)
He wound up having to turn to Mark Twain for economic stabilization for his family as he was dying of cancer.
Posted by: sven at December 22, 2021 12:13 AM (Lzpvj)
Even so, the story of how he willed himself to live through incredible pain just long enough to restore his family's fortune is one of the most inspiring and incredible stories in American history.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2021 12:17 AM (evAgx)
He wound up having to turn to Mark Twain for economic stabilization for his family as he was dying of cancer.
Posted by: sven at December 22, 2021 12:13 AM (Lzpvj)
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I guess he never heard of 10 percent for the Big Guy
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2021 12:17 AM (VxC1e)
For $2, I can break as many of these wine glasses as is likely without too much pain. Not that I try to break them.
Also wondering getting a snifter for an intended slow plunge into cognac/armagnac/calvados etc. Which brings me back to Bitter Clinger - that 25-yr Delord sounds .... expensive (just checked, $69). Any experience in trying armagnacs of varying $, how high does one have to go for good stuff?
Posted by: rhomboid at December 22, 2021 12:18 AM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Doof at December 22, 2021 12:16 AM (mZUr4)
Sounds mildly obscene.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at December 22, 2021 12:18 AM (II3Gr)
Posted by: Jim at December 22, 2021 12:15 AM
That would be a ham slinkily going down the stairs!
Posted by: Bert G at December 22, 2021 12:18 AM (AvN9S)
Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood. Biden Say I Did The Wrong Thing & Will Be Punished This Winter at December 22, 2021 12:13 AM (4I/2K)
Agree. I've been there twice. Very serene. A unique memorial.
Posted by: Doof at December 22, 2021 12:18 AM (mZUr4)
Like this: https://tinyurl.com/ycyw256x
Posted by: Bert G
Yeah, like that.
That's a neat looking unit.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2021 12:20 AM (+OPjz)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2021 12:20 AM (VxC1e)
Posted by: Doof at December 22, 2021 12:16 AM (mZUr4)
Sounds mildly obscene.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at December 22, 2021 12:18 AM (II3Gr)
*nods - but also points to the nic of the COB who posted this here ONT*
Posted by: Doof at December 22, 2021 12:20 AM (mZUr4)
Make loops around the ham and then cinch it until the filament cut through to the bone.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 22, 2021 12:21 AM (5We2S)
Quite, he is my personal hero. I value his insight on the civil war greatly.
352 Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2021 12:17 AM (VxC1e)
All kidding aside he was accused of graft but most likely just was blind to it.
"The Ohio Gang" rose to notoriety a decade after Grant's time in office but the seedcorn was already there.
Posted by: sven at December 22, 2021 12:23 AM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2021 12:23 AM (ZMraq)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2021 12:12 AM (+OPjz)
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Band saw.
Posted by: Braenyard at December 22, 2021 12:23 AM (HCRRg)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2021 12:24 AM (ZMraq)
The only reason I brought up the ham was because Ham was always the Christmas Eve meal, and turkey for Christmas Day.
I don't why, but that's what we always did.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2021 12:25 AM (+OPjz)
Posted by: Doof at December 22, 2021 12:25 AM (mZUr4)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2021 12:25 AM (ZMraq)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 22, 2021 12:12 AM (5We2S)
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It took decades of selective breeding to develop pigs whose hindquarters were naturally spiral-sliced.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2021 12:26 AM (VxC1e)
Posted by: Doof
Sounds mildly obscene.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker.
Sounds like the masculine equivalent of "Beef Curtains".
Both of whom opened for Meat Loaf on his European tour in '82.
Posted by: mikeski at December 22, 2021 12:26 AM (P1f+c)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2021 12:28 AM (VxC1e)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2021 12:25 AM (ZMraq)
A variable speed, reversible drill held securely vertically in chocks and using a long drill bit centered through the ham bone? Just need a fitting to make the ham rotate with the drill bit.
Posted by: Count de Monet, Pureblood. at December 22, 2021 12:30 AM (4I/2K)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2021 12:31 AM (63Dwl)
.....
I've only tried a handful.
Honestly, Armagnacs are a bit like wine, in that quality varies from year to year, mostly because Armagnac is made from wines that were intended to be consumed as wines rather than wines intended for distilling, as with Cognacs.
So you'll notice certain years of armagnacs fetching higher prices than others.
And just like wines, it's possible to stumble across bottles you really like for more reasonable prices. Rather than price point, I tend to look at age. Anything younger than 10 years seems a bit too loud.
If you don't want to fork out for Delord, you could try Marie Duffau Hors d'age, which is still made by Delord. Save yourself about $20 and get a really nice 12 year.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 22, 2021 12:33 AM (5We2S)
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 21, 2021 11:34 PM (+lVUW)
I lived in a share cropper house with a couple of other guys when in collage for a while. I had the only bedroom. I proudly painted it avocado green. This was ~ 1967. I was in style.
Posted by: Javems at December 22, 2021 12:33 AM (AmoqO)
Posted by: Auric Goldfinger at December 22, 2021 12:34 AM (kOpft)
"There is no peace on earth," I said,
"For hate is strong, and mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good will to men."
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
"God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;
The wrong shall fail, the right prevail,
With peace on earth, good will to men"
Those two verses both choke me up, then remind me that victory is coming.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger
Only love can conquer hate.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Santa Claus is coming to town at December 22, 2021 12:35 AM (tjZg/)
Posted by: JEM tami's donation link is http://strayrescue.org I'm in for $100 at December 22, 2021 12:36 AM (jIeMQ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2021 12:36 AM (63Dwl)
brb...
Posted by: Soothsayer
Step 1: Set turntable to "33-1/3", or to "45" for thinner slices.
Posted by: mikeski at December 22, 2021 12:37 AM (P1f+c)
Posted by: Count de Monet, Pureblood. at December 22, 2021 12:37 AM (4I/2K)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2021 12:36 AM (63Dwl)
one of the Three Musketeers. The moody one, I think.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2021 12:38 AM (ZMraq)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2021 12:36 AM (63Dwl)
Yeah, but just for one episode in Season 2. Red Shirt, you know the rest. He really did ham it up in his death scene though. Spiraled in, actually.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 22, 2021 12:38 AM (QzJWU)
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus
December 24th
It will be launched on an Ariane 5 booster.
It will be positioned in the L2 (LaGrange) point, about a million miles from earth. It will always be in the earth's shadow, and will be cooled to about -390 degrees F, so that it's infrared camera will work optimally.
It is theorized to be able to "look back" at the red-shifted light from nearly the beginning of the Universe.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Santa Claus is coming to town at December 22, 2021 12:39 AM (tjZg/)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
I am depressed to report that a tour of wikipedia shows that, while it's a region of France that makes brandy, there's no reference to why it was named that.
Posted by: JEM tami's donation link is http://strayrescue.org at December 22, 2021 12:39 AM (jIeMQ)
Posted by: Bozo Conservative
That speeding ticket is hella overdue.
Posted by: mikeski at December 22, 2021 12:40 AM (P1f+c)
I think he loved his wife...a lot.
Posted by: Braenyard at December 22, 2021 12:41 AM (2L0fX)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2021 12:42 AM (63Dwl)
brb...
Posted by: Soothsayer
Step 1: Set turntable to "33-1/3", or to "45" for thinner slices.
Posted by: mikeski
When you play it backward you get 'Porky is alive'
Posted by: JEM tami's donation link is http://strayrescue.org at December 22, 2021 12:45 AM (jIeMQ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
It's blinking. Morse code?
Don't .. send .. cash .. to .. Wuhan ..
Should have got that telescope up a few years ago.
Posted by: mikeski at December 22, 2021 12:45 AM (P1f+c)
Posted by: SFGoth at December 22, 2021 12:48 AM (KAi1n)
I think he loved his wife...a lot.
Posted by: Braenyard at December 22, 2021 12:41 AM (2L0fX)
I drove a big truck for a couple of years. Often my windows were pulsing with Beethoven's 9th while rolling down the road. He and Bach.
Posted by: Javems at December 22, 2021 12:48 AM (AmoqO)
They changed the formulations on a whole lot of stuff and it took a while for companies to use stuff that wasn't toxic and still come out with the same results as the toxic stuff. We still haven't reached where we were back in the 50s. The chemical industry is very very old. Lots of experimentation and investigation went into the results which were in use at the time. We then demanded that they stop using the stuff they had used. Without warning and with very little reason for being so sensitive to even the slightest indication it might be bad for the health - - - of some rats.
It's taken years for flush toilets to recover their abilities.
Posted by: jakee308 at December 22, 2021 12:48 AM (IeyEJ)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2021 12:49 AM (+OPjz)
Probably got a promotion.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 21, 2021 10:58 PM (Pxkfv)
The ICD, Software Description Documents and Data Dictionary should have specified units. On both sides of the interface.
Posted by: Fox2! at December 22, 2021 12:50 AM (qyH+l)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 22, 2021 12:50 AM (VwHCD)
Turns out he's paying $11 billion this year alone, which works out to over $1 million/day -- for every single day since he came to the United States in 1992.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 22, 2021 12:53 AM (bW8dp)
The Wind Tunnel. MPG's best friend. Styling's worst enemy. Everything looks like the same drag-reducing shape, and "styling" is but minor differences in crease-lines on the panels, meant to reduce "drumming" if the metal was left flat and featurless.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 22, 2021 12:53 AM (QzJWU)
They changed the formulations on a whole lot of stuff and it took a while for companies to use stuff that wasn't toxic and still come out with the same results as the toxic stuff. We still haven't reached where we were back in the 50s. The chemical industry is very very old. Lots of experimentation and investigation went into the results which were in use at the time. We then demanded that they stop using the stuff they had used. Without warning and with very little reason for being so sensitive to even the slightest indication it might be bad for the health - - - of some rats.
It's taken years for flush toilets to recover their abilities.
Posted by: jakee308 at December 22, 2021 12:48 AM (IeyEJ)
yeah, they get things settled over time to what is the best way to do something, and then some fuckface in california decides it causes cancer in some germ 3 planets over, and poof, now they make it like shit. Again, blame the left.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 22, 2021 12:54 AM (VwHCD)
brb...
I don't know about spiral cut, but I did recently see a meme of a package of cubed ham that had been photoshopped to say "Porky Pig 3D Puzzle". Made me laugh.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 22, 2021 12:55 AM (bW8dp)
Pretty good.
Posted by: Braenyard at December 22, 2021 12:55 AM (2L0fX)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
Fuel economy standards. Or trying to make your
There aren't that many correct answers to the question "how do you minimize wind resistance?"
Posted by: mikeski at December 22, 2021 12:55 AM (P1f+c)
Posted by: mikeski at December 22, 2021 12:56 AM (P1f+c)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 22, 2021 12:57 AM (QU5/8)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 22, 2021 12:58 AM (cupoy)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 22, 2021 12:58 AM (cupoy)
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A circular saw. But by all means use eye protection.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2021 01:00 AM (VxC1e)
Likewise, auto manufacturers model their "designs" on several proven aerodynamic shapes. The 2013 Honda Accord was a very distinctive, "of it's own" design. The current model? It's shape hardly differs from many of it's competitors, other than said crease-lines and other minor details.
Same in the small to mid-size SUV world. Each brand would fit neatly into the other brand's Egg Carton of a dozen each.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 22, 2021 01:01 AM (QzJWU)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 22, 2021 01:02 AM (QU5/8)
Posted by: mikeski at December 22, 2021 12:55 AM (P1f+c)
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And there is one best answer to a *CAFE standards.
*they can keep the emission standards, they helped
Posted by: Braenyard at December 22, 2021 01:02 AM (2L0fX)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here
Now if you wanted a spiral-cut spam, you could do this, and just wad it up and try again if you got it wrong. Just like pottery.
Posted by: mikeski at December 22, 2021 01:02 AM (P1f+c)
Posted by: SFGoth at December 22, 2021 12:48 AM (KAi1n)
Sorry 'bout that. It was shellfish of us.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 22, 2021 01:03 AM (cupoy)
Posted by: mikeski at December 22, 2021 12:55 AM (P1f+c)
This is the best answer. Still setting records at Bonneville:
https://tinyurl.com/2p839z2b
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2021 01:03 AM (P3gRi)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 22, 2021 01:02 AM (QU5/
So only Atlantians and the Ancient Druids knew how to Spiral a Ham?
What about the Cimmerians? or did they just hack the shit out of it?
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 22, 2021 01:03 AM (oHd/0)
Drills, Sawzalls, Band Saws, Lasers, Potters Wheels, Cut Off Wheels, Angle Grinders, ...
I thought I was crazy.
My friends, we're talking about a ham, here. We're not rebuilding a '64 Ford Thunderbird.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2021 01:03 AM (+OPjz)
407 We don't really have true spiral hams today
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We do have close cousins. The Escher ham is one. It seems to be spiral until you look closely.
Then there is the Mobius ham, whose slices can be mathematically shown to go on forever.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2021 01:04 AM (VxC1e)
My friends, we're talking about a ham, here. We're not rebuilding a '64 Ford Thunderbird.
Posted by: Soothsayer
We haven't gotten to the waterjet and the 5-axis CNC...
Posted by: JEM tami's donation link is http://strayrescue.org at December 22, 2021 01:04 AM (jIeMQ)
I ordered a steak and was enjoying it when I struck up a conversation with a man and his daughter sitting at the bar. He was a tenor and she a soprano with the local opera company. Yes, the have/had an opera company in Tupelo. I told them I was a Beethoven fan and and they started singing parts of the 9th. Brought me to tears, as it does now.
Posted by: Javems at December 22, 2021 01:04 AM (AmoqO)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2021 01:04 AM (VxC1e)
Mobius bacon would be great. You wouldn't have to flip it, since it only has one side.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2021 01:05 AM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
And it takes a whole Klein bottle of mustard to coat just one slice.
Posted by: mikeski at December 22, 2021 01:06 AM (P1f+c)
Was it Euler, Boole, Descartes, or Euclid who first did the first mathematical Proof for a spiraled ham?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2021 01:06 AM (+OPjz)
https://tinyurl.com/2p839z2b
Take one LSR vehicle, convert to EV, go out and set more records:
https://www.teamvesco.com/
Posted by: JEM tami's donation link is http://strayrescue.org at December 22, 2021 01:06 AM (jIeMQ)
Posted by: Descartes at December 22, 2021 01:07 AM (cupoy)
I've seen those spiral cutting machines, and they don't go nearly fast enough for wind resistance to be a significant factor.
Posted by: Guy Who Only Reads Half the Comments at December 22, 2021 01:07 AM (bW8dp)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2021 01:08 AM (VxC1e)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 22, 2021 01:08 AM (OTzUX)
Yeah, I forgot the suggestion of the CNC machine.
Yeah, let's put our AoS holiday ham on a LATHE!
You guys....
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2021 01:08 AM (+OPjz)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2021 01:09 AM (VxC1e)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2021 01:09 AM (+OPjz)
Same in the small to mid-size SUV world. Each brand would fit neatly into the other brand's Egg Carton of a dozen each.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 22, 2021 01:01 AM (QzJWU)
yeah I know all this shit, but you would think they would break out of the mold a wee bit. It was nice to see a car and know automatically who made it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 22, 2021 01:09 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Edward Scissor Hands at December 22, 2021 01:09 AM (4I/2K)
Fire a Standard 9" ham through a Naval Rifle with an 8" bore, and 1 in 8 rifling, aligned to strike the properly angled 10" French Butcher's Knife, as the ham travels at 2,700 ft./second, spinning at +/- 200,000 RPM. The Math Morons would have to figure the angle of the blade, but a Spiral Ham *WOULD* result.
Only problem being, retrieving said spirals from the debris field well outboard and downrange of said knife. You wanted "Crazy Horde?" I give you CRAZY HORDE!
Muahahahahahaha!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 22, 2021 01:09 AM (QzJWU)
I remember seeing in Popular Mechanics artists renditions of what future cars were going to look like.
Ugh is all I could say. How dull and uninteresting and SMALL they were. I was hoping that PM didn't know what they were talking about but they must've been included in the mailing list for how the Gov was going to screw everything up and take the delight and pleasure out of every little thing they could. For reasons.
Posted by: jakee308 at December 22, 2021 01:10 AM (IeyEJ)
*drops ipad*
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
You may not be interested in the Hordemind, but the Hordemind is interested in you.
Posted by: mikeski at December 22, 2021 01:10 AM (P1f+c)
It's a ham!
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2021 01:09 AM (+OPjz)
Actually, if you could mount the ham on the spindle of a brake lathe, and hold a sharp knife against it, you'd get a nice cut. Lots of torque, and they turn about 60 RPM.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2021 01:12 AM (P3gRi)
War on terror
War on Covid
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you were trying to defend from without. Dwight D Eisenhower.
Posted by: MikeM at December 22, 2021 01:12 AM (X+eRS)
Posted by: mikeski at December 22, 2021 01:10 AM (P1f+c)
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Now all we need is for Amy Schumer to show up
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2021 01:12 AM (VxC1e)
Posted by: troyriser at December 22, 2021 01:12 AM (pYLCQ)
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at December 22, 2021 01:12 AM (otFiP)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
*cough* Tesla *cough* low beltline, low hoodline, can see the ground 15ft in front of the car.
Our Model 3 Performance at 36K miles...okay, it's needed tires, and wiper blades, and NOTHING else. Going 600 miles south in a week. And it'll still slam your head into the headrest with a tickle of the right pedal.
Posted by: JEM tami's donation link is http://strayrescue.org at December 22, 2021 01:12 AM (jIeMQ)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2021 01:12 AM (+OPjz)
*drops ipad*
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
To be fair, that wasn't just a set up, it was damn near entrapment.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 22, 2021 01:12 AM (cupoy)
Muahahahahahaha!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 22, 2021 01:09 AM (QzJWU)
Only problem says he. Yeah, come aboard and help swab out the rifle bore as the pressure and heat fused ham bits and glaze to it.
Posted by: Popeye the Sailor Man at December 22, 2021 01:14 AM (4I/2K)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2021 01:15 AM (+OPjz)
Posted by: troyriser
An apt analogy.
Posted by: JEM tami's donation link is http://strayrescue.org at December 22, 2021 01:16 AM (jIeMQ)
Oh sure some of the really "special" ones but the average day to day car? Fuggedaboutit. And NO muscle cars.
And it got progressively worse. We should've put California to a stop then. They only got worse.
Posted by: jakee308 at December 22, 2021 01:17 AM (IeyEJ)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2021 01:15 AM (+OPjz)
Plunging fire. Like what killed the HMS Hood.
Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood. at December 22, 2021 01:17 AM (4I/2K)
Posted by: Lurking machinist at December 22, 2021 01:17 AM (4Vkwh)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2021 01:17 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: SFGoth at December 22, 2021 01:18 AM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2021 01:17 AM (63Dwl)
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Look what threatening producers did for Venezuela!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2021 01:18 AM (VxC1e)
Actually, if you could mount the ham on the spindle of a brake lathe, and hold a sharp knife against it, you'd get a nice cut. Lots of torque, and they turn about 60 RPM.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Why stop there?
Let's jack up the Corolla, remove the front wheel, affix our holiday ham on the spindle, put the car in Drive and carve away!
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2021 01:18 AM (+OPjz)
Posted by: Fox2! at December 22, 2021 01:20 AM (qyH+l)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2021 01:18 AM (+OPjz)
Wouldn't work. The knife would be deflected by Corolliasis Force.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2021 01:21 AM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood. at December 22, 2021 01:21 AM (4I/2K)
Yeah, Charter's doing real good tonight. Just a bit after I posted that last, they dropped off internet completely, and half the TV channels weren't working.
Miley lost a Hallmark movie she was watching, and that's Houston, we've got a problem level disaster.
Miley assures me that if Hallmark ever goes tranny, like a Very Tranny Christmas, tuckin' in a winter wonderland or something, she's done with it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 22, 2021 01:21 AM (Mzdiz)
Only problem being, retrieving said spirals from the debris field well outboard and downrange of said knife. You wanted "Crazy Horde?" I give you CRAZY HORDE!
Posted by: Jim
Start here: https://youtu.be/AxJUzNiDhrA
Scale up as appropriate.
Posted by: mikeski at December 22, 2021 01:22 AM (P1f+c)
Posted by: a dude in MI at December 22, 2021 01:22 AM (+I6Y/)
Lizzy Warren sent letters to the CEOs of Publix, Albertsons and Kroger accusing them of charging too much.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
None of those supermarket chains are in Massachusetts, her constituency.
But, yeah, biden's inflation is not to blame, it's Krogers fault for charging too much.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2021 01:23 AM (+OPjz)
Pontiac 6000 series. Buick Century. Chebby Celebrity. Olds Cutlass. Same EXACT design, differing only in some drivetrain things, minor interior appointments and exterior trims (grille and ass-end) and wheel treatments. Other than those, they all cut the exact same image in profile and design.
Product of the Bean Counter Era at GM, much as McNamera gave the F/B-111 as a "do everything" platform to the Armed Forces. And the GM series was about as equally effective, in the doing.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 22, 2021 01:23 AM (QzJWU)
Scale up as appropriate.
Posted by: mikeski at December 22, 2021 01:22 AM (P1f+c)
LOL. Like the guy using liquid oxygen to insta-start his charcoal bbq grill.
Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood. at December 22, 2021 01:24 AM (4I/2K)
So this whole losing a parent thing...it hasn't happened yet but hospice will get involved tommorrow...holy crap it hurts already
Posted by: a dude in MI
Sorry, man.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2021 01:25 AM (+OPjz)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 22, 2021 01:25 AM (Mzdiz)
Wouldn't work. The knife would be deflected by Corolliasis Force.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2021 01:21 AM (P3gRi)
So in the Northern Hemisphere, you need to turn the steering wheel to the left to compensate?
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 22, 2021 01:26 AM (cupoy)
Posted by: Azjaeger at December 22, 2021 01:26 AM (3/XaG)
I think I need to build what the table saw people call a "skate"? A sliding frame that the workpiece can be clamped to as it is fed through the blade.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2021 01:26 AM (P3gRi)
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2021 01:26 AM (dB4Iz)
Posted by: a dude in MI
Prayers for all involved.
Posted by: mikeski at December 22, 2021 01:27 AM (P1f+c)
Posted by: a dude in MI at December 22, 2021 01:22 AM (+I6Y/)
Condolences, dude. BTDT.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2021 01:29 AM (P3gRi)
Posted by: a dude in MI at December 22, 2021 01:22 AM (+I6Y/)
I'm sorry you're facing that situation. There is no easy way to do it. Let the hospice people help. Ask a ton of questions. The hospice folks were hugely helpful for our family.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 22, 2021 01:30 AM (cupoy)
Posted by: a dude in MI at December 22, 2021 01:22 AM (+I6Y/)
May God's love hold you up.
Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood. at December 22, 2021 01:30 AM (4I/2K)
Posted by: John Milton's Ghost at December 22, 2021 01:31 AM (PTYkn)
last thread, there was love for the Town Car. I have an 03 Cartier.
Posted by: Azjaeger
Nice choice. I'm sort of a Lincoln fan -- I have an old Navigator.
I'd bet you could find a low-miles Town Car in Florida.
There's always some son of an old guy selling his pop's Lincoln or Cadillac.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2021 01:31 AM (+OPjz)
You need anything, even a voice to talk to, you get in touch with me via the link in my nic. I, and I'm sure, the Horde, are HERE for you. I know that you know.
But, reminders don't hurt, and I wanted to remind you.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 22, 2021 01:32 AM (QzJWU)
Projection. Deflection. Lies. Propaganda.
F*ck Joe Biden!
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2021 01:33 AM (dB4Iz)
There's always some son of an old guy selling his pop's Lincoln or Cadillac.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2021 01:31 AM (+OPjz)
Plenty of them here in Arizona snowbird country, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2021 01:33 AM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Soothsayer
I found one string of the old, monster lights hidden away. This year I draped them on the bench outside - I think they are beautiful - warm colors. Much better than the sterile white lights we all use now.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2021 11:16 PM
Last year, my baby brother and I sweet-talked my parents into letting us fix up the big wooden star that my dad made to hold the blue light set that his older brother made in the '40s. My brother recovered the star in aluminum foil (the tin foil had broken down) and I repainted the bulbs. It looked really good hanging on the deck.
There's something to be said for the big, American things.
Posted by: NaughtyPine - quarantined for Christmas at December 22, 2021 01:35 AM (/+bwe)
FFS I now know everything I need to know about Mercedes Airmatic suspension, rebuilt a GL550 stem to stern for $2k, the $80 autel dongle does everything you need diagnostically, I could do these all week. Trivial.
Posted by: JEM at December 22, 2021 01:36 AM (jIeMQ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2021 01:38 AM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2021 01:39 AM (P3gRi)
Last year, my baby brother and I sweet-talked my parents into letting us fix up the big wooden star that my dad made to hold the blue light set that his older brother made in the '40s. My brother recovered the star in aluminum foil (the tin foil had broken down) and I repainted the bulbs. It looked really good hanging on the deck.
Posted by: NaughtyPine
Nice save.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2021 01:41 AM (+OPjz)
They're brass!
I looked online and found their twins for $45-55. I paid a little over $8.
Now I feel like I should repaint the dining area to match the classiness. Ha ha.
Posted by: NaughtyPine - quarantined for Christmas at December 22, 2021 01:41 AM (/+bwe)
Posted by: NaughtyPine - quarantined for Christmas at December 22, 2021 01:41 AM (/+bwe)
An elephant's foot umbrella stand would be nice. You could paint the toenails red and green for Christmas.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2021 01:44 AM (P3gRi)
Posted by: NaughtyPine - quarantined for Christmas at December 22, 2021 01:45 AM (/+bwe)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2021 01:44 AM
Oh, that would be great! Then I'd have to buy a fancy umbrella or two...
Posted by: NaughtyPine - quarantined for Christmas at December 22, 2021 01:46 AM (/+bwe)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2021 01:46 AM (P3gRi)
The old old old ones have black and red wiring, probably 50s or early 60s? Replaced carefully into their original boxes by a now long-gone uncle.
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2021 01:47 AM (dB4Iz)
Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood. at December 22, 2021 01:49 AM (4I/2K)
Posted by: a dude in MI at December 22, 2021 01:50 AM (+I6Y/)
The old old old ones have black and red wiring, probably 50s or early 60s? Replaced carefully into their original boxes by a now long-gone uncle.
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2021 01:47 AM (dB4Iz)
I have some of those at home. 1950's vintage; the wiring is cotton-covered rubber, with sort of a houndstooth pattern to it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2021 01:50 AM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood. at December 22, 2021 01:49 AM (4I/2K)
Good! They have treated me pretty well.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2021 01:51 AM (P3gRi)
But I remember the houndstooth cloth wire coverings-- all of Grandma's appliance cords had it!
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2021 01:55 AM (dB4Iz)
Posted by: a dude in MI at December 22, 2021 01:50 AM
That's hard, Dude. My folks were diagnosed with cancer the same day in June. So far, they're doing well but declining all the same. It's hard to think about anything further than now, though, and just be grateful. *hugs to you*
Posted by: NaughtyPine - quarantined for Christmas at December 22, 2021 01:57 AM (/+bwe)
Good times, good times!
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2021 01:57 AM (dB4Iz)
Posted by: Jim at December 22, 2021 01:57 AM (QzJWU)
Seeing them embrace tonight..I lost it..2 peas in a pod as they say.
Posted by: a dude in MI
And now you're cherishing every precious moment. What more can you do.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2021 01:58 AM (+OPjz)
^
This. Hang on to the remaining moments.
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2021 01:59 AM (dB4Iz)
Did you ever try to read a commenter joke to someone, and realize you have to back up and explain all the precedents going back upthread... and you just end up with "you had to be there."
Milady just walked by and saw the Golden Spirals comment and laughed, after hearing me read many of the foregoing bits.
This Horde!
Posted by: mindful webworker - Escher-cut gyros at December 22, 2021 02:00 AM (PukHz)
From which, you dine often.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 22, 2021 02:00 AM (QzJWU)
Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood. at December 22, 2021 02:05 AM (4I/2K)
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2021 01:59 AM (dB4Iz)
That's why it's been a complete bitch to be quarantined. I took down the tree and all the decorations but the Nativity, just to avoid feeling the blues this coming weekend.
But my parents, who aren't demonstrative, have called every day to check on me. Mom said if I felt worse, I should call and she'll come to stay with me. Dad said, "You're coming home before New Year's" flat-out. I'm kind of laugh-crying just thinking about that!
Posted by: NaughtyPine - quarantined for Christmas at December 22, 2021 02:06 AM (/+bwe)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 22, 2021 02:07 AM (VwHCD)
Good times, good times!
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2021 01:57 AM (dB4Iz)
Noma is still around. Now a branch of Canadian Tire Corporation. I remember series-string lights. When one went dark, I would take a new bulb, screw it in the end of the string, and advance the removed bub to #2 spot, rinse and repeat until the string came good.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2021 02:07 AM (P3gRi)
But my parents, who aren't demonstrative, have called every day to check on me. Mom said if I felt worse, I should call and she'll come to stay with me. Dad said, "You're coming home before New Year's" flat-out. I'm kind of laugh-crying just thinking about that!
Aw, man...
I'm so very sorry.
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2021 02:08 AM (dB4Iz)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 22, 2021 02:09 AM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood. at December 22, 2021 02:05 AM (4I/2K)
Aha! Raykon got zapped. His "fist" is so distinctive, I can recognize it in one post.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2021 02:10 AM (P3gRi)
Yep. And it took a while, especially when said lights were on the tree LOL
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2021 02:11 AM (dB4Iz)
Posted by: a dude in MI
Mom died in August at 101. Came home from a day out at her favorite restaurant, with her favorite granddaughter (our daughter), fell, broke her hip. One hip replacement later, she's broken in more than bones. One week later she was dead. I can't go into what happened, but it will always hurt, especially imagining that there was a chance she might have had some more good years in her, if only if only.
Posted by: mindful webworker - relatively speaking at December 22, 2021 02:12 AM (PukHz)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2021 02:07 AM
It's a Christmas tradition!!!
Posted by: NaughtyPine - quarantined for Christmas at December 22, 2021 02:12 AM (/+bwe)
Summarizing, Winters said that during the clearance (legal) for some book on the Band of Brothers (might have been Winters' own account), he called up Spiers and asked him whether there would be any trouble over the notorious story. Spiers said nope. Which to Winters amounted to confirmation. Interesting.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 22, 2021 02:13 AM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood. at December 22, 2021 02:05 AM (4I/2K)
Aha! Raykon got zapped. His "fist" is so distinctive, I can recognize it in one post.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2021 02:10 AM
I remember him (albeit vaguely) as being a lot ruder than that.
Posted by: NaughtyPine - quarantined for Christmas at December 22, 2021 02:14 AM (/+bwe)
Lizzy Warren sent letters to the CEOs of Publix, Albertsons and Kroger accusing them of charging too much.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
None of those supermarket chains are in Massachusetts, her constituency.
But, yeah, biden's inflation is not to blame, it's Krogers fault for charging too much.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2021 01:23 AM (+OPjz)
Which of those chains have gone woke over the last few years? Maybe Liz sent them a wake up call.
Posted by: Eric Schmidt at December 22, 2021 02:14 AM (ulaXh)
Posted by: AnnaS at December 22, 2021 02:14 AM (l4l/z)
I always thought there was more to spiral ham than it just looking like a large meat bolt.
Posted by: Berserker
When everything looks like a nut or a bolt, you've been wrenching too long.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2021 02:15 AM (+OPjz)
Posted by: a dude in MI at December 22, 2021 01:22 AM (+I6Y/)
yeah, its not easy. I went through it with my mom in 2011. She sent an unmistakable message the night she died though which pretty much showed me they are still with us. Knowing that really took the edge off of things.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 22, 2021 02:15 AM (VwHCD)
But I know what you mean. There's often a distinctive feel, style, cadence to comments.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 22, 2021 02:15 AM (OTzUX)
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2021 02:11 AM (dB4Iz)
You know, with modern digital multimeters we have now, you could make a capacitive voltage probe that could simply pass close to the wires leading in and out of each bulb in the string. Good bulbs would have zero voltage across them, and the dead bulb would have 120 volts across it. But LED lamps have made the incandescent strings pretty much obsolete.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2021 02:16 AM (P3gRi)
I got some on my ipad keyboard. I quickly wiped it. Will it be ruined? Anyone know?
Posted by: AnnaS
Probably not, but I'd leave it upside down for the night. Really.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2021 02:16 AM (+OPjz)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2021 02:15 AM (+OPjz)
Yeah, probably true. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 22, 2021 02:16 AM (VwHCD)
It'd be about as convincing as you trolling a Studebaker forum, right?
..um, right? talk to us AOP, talk to us!
/snrk
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 22, 2021 02:17 AM (QzJWU)
Which of those chains have gone woke over the last few years? Maybe Liz sent them a wake up call.
Posted by: Eric Schmidt
Like how she does with banks when she wants them to send her $$ contributions?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2021 02:17 AM (+OPjz)
Posted by: NaughtyPine - quarantined for Christmas at December 22, 2021 02:14 AM (/+bwe)
HIs M.O. is to start off with very innocuous comments, non-sequiturs, maybe, but harmless. Then he slips in little digs, and eventually becomes abusive. The "can we agree" line is classic raykon.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2021 02:19 AM (P3gRi)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 22, 2021 02:09 AM (OTzUX)
I was drinking. lol It was all true though.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 22, 2021 02:19 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Jim at December 22, 2021 02:21 AM (QzJWU)
/snrk
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 22, 2021 02:17 AM (QzJWU)
Heh. I'm almost convinced that raykon is a bot. He follows an algorithm of some kind.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2021 02:21 AM (P3gRi)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 22, 2021 02:09 AM (OTzUX)
I was drinking. lol It was all true though.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 22, 2021 02:19 AM (VwHCD)
I like ham.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2021 02:23 AM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2021 02:19 AM
I didn't bite on that one because I'm already sick of telling people 1) Sol Invictus was created because Christianity was getting popular and 2) the original pagan holiday involving gift-giving and master-servant swapping never went further than December 17 or so, according to the contemporary Roman accounts of the popular holidays prior to Christianity's introduction.
Posted by: NaughtyPine - quarantined for Christmas at December 22, 2021 02:23 AM (/+bwe)
He is the democrat version of Artificial Intelligence. Artificial, and Not Intelligent.
See: "Kamala Harris" for Proof of Concept.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 22, 2021 02:23 AM (QzJWU)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2021 02:24 AM (P3gRi)
Posted by: SFGoth at December 22, 2021 02:26 AM (KAi1n)
Posted by: NaughtyPine - quarantined for Christmas at December 22, 2021 02:28 AM (/+bwe)
Hasta la nite nite, Horde!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 22, 2021 02:29 AM (QzJWU)
Posted by: Skip at December 22, 2021 02:32 AM (2JoB8)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 22, 2021 02:36 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 22, 2021 02:36 AM
LOL
My family is only a little Italian, despite our name. But we have lasagna for Christmas Eve. Ham is for Easter.
Posted by: NaughtyPine - quarantined for Christmas at December 22, 2021 02:39 AM (/+bwe)
Yeah I'd be a bit dissatisfied if a family of largely Italian in-laws didn't deliver on the cuisine side. I've only been on the margins of such things, and the eating was fantastic.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 22, 2021 02:41 AM (OTzUX)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 22, 2021 02:42 AM (OTzUX)
I bought a ribroast for last Christmas, about 5 or 6 pounds. Everybody cancelled due to the Coof, so I froze it and forgot about it.
Think it'll still be good, if I thaw it for this year?
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2021 02:50 AM (dB4Iz)
Yeah I'd be a bit dissatisfied if a family of largely Italian in-laws didn't deliver on the cuisine side. I've only been on the margins of such things, and the eating was fantastic.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 22, 2021 02:41 AM (OTzUX)
I'm 100% italian, I grew up with cooks that would make an old boot taste good. My side of the family had epic diners. I didn't actually eat everything they made though. No fish, no eggplant, no weird italian cold cuts, no veal parmigiana, etc. My grandmother's christmas eve diner was frigging epic. Its my FIL who is the culprit, HIS side are the gross offenders. It killed my MIL's ability to cook italian, because if his side is coming its com-bloc cooking. You know how my MIL makes meatballs? She rolls them raw and tosses them into the sauce to cook. She is lucky my grandmother don't rise from the grave and beat her with a shovel. She forgot how to cook italian, so now we got the never ending ham parade.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 22, 2021 02:51 AM (VwHCD)
Think it'll still be good, if I thaw it for this year?
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2021 02:50 AM
Sure, as long as it was wrapped and didn't get thawed. If it seems a bit dry on the edges, you can trim it and/or soak it in a bath of wine.
Posted by: NaughtyPine - quarantined for Christmas at December 22, 2021 02:53 AM (/+bwe)
If it looks ok then thaw it anyway, give it the 'sniff test' and go from there
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2021 02:53 AM (dB4Iz)
It all depends on how cold your freezer gets and if it maintains a consistent below 0 temperature.
0 degrees is the maximum temperature suitable for properly freezing food. -10 is the perfect temp, in my opinion. Most refrigerators today barely hold the 0 degree temp. They suck. And they go through automatic defrosting cycles often. That's why frozen food gets "frosty" after a couple of weeks -- it got too warm in the freezer.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2021 02:54 AM (+OPjz)
Hmmm. It won't get any better by staying frozen...
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2021 02:56 AM (dB4Iz)
Ugh. I hate wasting food.
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2021 02:59 AM (dB4Iz)
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