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It Was A Dark And Stormy ONT. Suddenly, A Shot Rang Out! The Maid Screamed! And Then The Murders Began
Good evening Horde! How's the day going? Apparently, the White House claims we're on a “war footing” now. I wonder how an invader would fare if we really were at war?
Hard to tell anything in the deluge of propaganda coming out of Ukraine, from both sides, but the mighty Red Army doesn't look to be doing so well. Assuming reports of a stalled column 35 km long are true, don't they have a logistics department? And how the hell can they unwind that, it's blocking the road, how will fuel get to the front?
Public Service
From Washington to Biden, Here's the Net Worth of Every US President Biden comes in at $9 million. If you ever want proof that he's utterly incompetent, this is it. He's been in DC since Hector was a pup, and he's crookeder than a dog's back leg, yet he's only worth $9 million. He's not even good at being corrupt! What a chump. Thursday Night Game
I do believe that he may be right. In the beginning, God created the heaven and the Earth. And then the murders began. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. And then the murders began. Squire Trelawney, Dr Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year of grace 17-, and go back to the time when my father kept the Admiral Benbow inn, and the brown old seaman, with the sabre cut, first took up his lodging under our roof. And then the murders began. (The Bible, 1984 and Treasure Island, respectively.) Now you try. What would be your nomination for best first line, before the murders began? Road Trip Idea
Remember These Chain Restaurants? They're Still Hanging On
How much fun would it be to mark all of these on a map and then plan a road trip down memory lane to visit them? You'd probably have to omit Chi-Chi's and Kenny Rogers Roasters from the itinerary, they only survive overseas. I know that the last remaining HoJo's is in New York, and I'd love to go there, sit down and order a clam boat. I'm less eager to go to New York, however. One childhood favorite that made the list is Gino's. Started by Baltimore Colts hall of famer Gino Marchetti, the restaurant was big in the Baltimore area. In the 70s it had the local KFC rights, so when you wanted the Colonel's chicken, you went to Gino's. By the 80s they all turned into Roy Rogers, another childhood favorite that has withered away to just a few locations (I ate at Roy's 2 weeks ago, the day after I had a wonderful visit with Doof. Man, either my taste buds grew up or their quality has gone wayyy down), but a few opened back up a decade or so ago. The last fast food burger I had before I moved to Texas was a Gino's Giant, at the store on Joppa Rd in Towson. Real Work
I found @braxton_mccoy's TikTok pic.twitter.com/j2LrEqU6qK
— Peevish Primate (@PeevishPrimate) March 8, 2022
This is Joe Biden’s finest hour
— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) March 9, 2022
Neat Ace did a thread on this yesterday, but it's pretty neat for those of you who missed it. Lost in 1915, Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance found off coast of Antarctica
Endurance did not reach land and became trapped in dense pack ice, and after they were stuck in the ice for 10 months, the 28 men on board were forced to eventually abandon ship. They escaped in lifeboats and on foot. Captain Frank Worsley marked down the coordinates where it sank and the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust said that these played a key role in their discovery of the vessel.The men of the expedition lived on the boat for over a year, trapped in pack ice, before taking to the lifeboats to travel over 800 miles to safety. Those were men! Shackleton returned to the Antarctic a few years later, but died of a heart attack at age 47. Years later, when talking about the great age of Antarctic exploration, a fellow Antarctic explorer, Sir Raymond Priestly, said "Scott for scientific method, Amundsen for speed and efficiency but when disaster strikes and all hope is gone, get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton"
Fly The Friendly Skies Up in the Air: Flight Attendants Share Secrets Only They Know I'm not sure “Don't let your baby crawl around on the floor of the plane, it's dirty” is a huge secret, but OK.
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Duke Lowell, The Mad Hater at March 10, 2022 10:01 PM (cfyag)
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 10, 2022 10:01 PM (OssQ4)
Posted by: ballistic at March 10, 2022 10:01 PM (oXNqT)
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 10, 2022 10:01 PM (OssQ4)
Posted by: Tonypete at March 10, 2022 10:01 PM (WnnCS)
Posted by: Duke Lowell, The Mad Hater at March 10, 2022 10:01 PM (cfyag)
Posted by: Zettai at March 10, 2022 10:02 PM (rm8S6)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Honking is a start, but not a solution! ~ at March 10, 2022 10:02 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Theodore at March 10, 2022 10:02 PM (GJnvT)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Honking is a start, but not a solution! ~ at March 10, 2022 10:02 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Joe B at March 10, 2022 10:03 PM (7bRMQ)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 10, 2022 10:03 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 10, 2022 10:03 PM (rz+/y)
Posted by: Some Rat at March 10, 2022 10:03 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: Adriane the Totally Practical Critic ... at March 10, 2022 10:03 PM (okV1R)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at March 10, 2022 10:03 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 10, 2022 10:04 PM (89T5c)
They aren't.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 10, 2022 10:05 PM (ZLI7S)
Breaking earlier on Jesse Waters' show was that new satellite images show they've moved, and moved into the woods, into firing positions around towns. But who knows anymore, what's bullshit or not?
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 10, 2022 10:05 PM (OssQ4)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 10, 2022 10:05 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: Zeera Hunkering down here, Boss at March 10, 2022 10:05 PM (eFR3E)
Posted by: Sandy at March 10, 2022 10:05 PM (XG2Fi)
Posted by: wing at March 10, 2022 10:05 PM (PlW9M)
Posted by: Zettai at March 10, 2022 10:05 PM (rm8S6)
Ahab sort of murdered his own crew in his pursuit of vengeance. However, saying so denies them their own agency and desire for money. I much more lean toward the latter than the woke former.
Thanks for the ONT.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 10, 2022 10:05 PM (QCwhW)
Posted by: Some Rat at March 10, 2022 10:05 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: Tonypete at March 10, 2022 10:06 PM (WnnCS)
But some time ago the RLM folks did a "re:view" where they praised it, and when it went on sale, I thought, "Why not."
Well, watching it tonight, I know "why not." It's because it's terrible. And before you ask, I don't care how many ancient film techniques FFC resurrected to make this--technique does not make a good story. Technical challenges that are forced on a production does not make a good story. Good grief, RLM donked on "Boyhood" because "It took ten years to make!" Can they not look in the mirror now and then?
Um, sorry for putting film stuff in the ONT. Uh.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 10, 2022 10:06 PM (m0zqP)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 10, 2022 10:06 PM (lCui1)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 10, 2022 10:07 PM (6FeV1)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 10, 2022 10:07 PM (rz+/y)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 10:07 PM (LKTKP)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at March 10, 2022 10:07 PM (IDhUW)
"Call me, Ismael." And then the murders began.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at March 10, 2022 10:08 PM (pNxlR)
I found me in a gloomy wood, astray
Gone from the path direct -
And then the murders began.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 10, 2022 10:08 PM (WnnCS)
Posted by: Adriane the Totally Practical Critic ... at March 10, 2022 10:08 PM (okV1R)
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at March 10, 2022 10:08 PM (QzJWU)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 10, 2022 10:09 PM (6FeV1)
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 10, 2022 10:09 PM (II3Gr)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 10, 2022 10:06 PM (m0zqP)
RLM has begun to be more and more fascinated, like our own TJM, with pedigree and technique over whether a story, characterization, casting or whether the movie is fun to watch (the MOST important.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 10, 2022 10:09 PM (QCwhW)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
RTC, got a little job for you. Needs to look like an accident.
Posted by: Some Rat at March 10, 2022 10:09 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 10:09 PM (LKTKP)
Posted by: Some Rat at March 10, 2022 10:05 PM (r1z5A)
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Tactical knee pads for everyone!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 10, 2022 10:09 PM (XG2Fi)
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. And thus the murders begin.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 10, 2022 10:09 PM (lCui1)
Posted by: Eric Schmidt at March 10, 2022 10:09 PM (fpzDt)
Posted by: Duke Lowell, The Mad Hater at March 10, 2022 10:10 PM (cfyag)
Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at March 10, 2022 10:10 PM (IJES/)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 10:10 PM (LKTKP)
And then the murders began.
Wow. Solzhenitsyn could have saved himself a whole lot of writing.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 10, 2022 10:11 PM (WnnCS)
Damn... could be onto something.
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 10, 2022 10:11 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2022 10:11 PM (P3gRi)
Really appreciate having blogs like this to read. Cut the cord too many years ago to count.
Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at March 10, 2022 10:11 PM (3AD8C)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at March 10, 2022 10:11 PM (IDhUW)
No answer.
TOM!!
No answer.
What's gone with that boy, I wonder. You TOM!!!
And then the murders began.
Posted by: Andrew X at March 10, 2022 10:11 PM (P7RU+)
Concerning Boggies. And then the murders began.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at March 10, 2022 10:11 PM (pNxlR)
watch?v=DBFdPNZzpwg
This guy is about the least suspicious guy on Youtube I have found talking about military stuff in Ukraine. And he could be completely full of crap, too.
It sure would be nice if the American people had some eyes and ears out there in the form of an actual journalist or two.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at March 10, 2022 10:11 PM (cupoy)
Posted by: Duke Lowell, The Mad Hater at March 10, 2022 10:11 PM (cfyag)
And then the murders began.
This will surely confuse the day walkers.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at March 10, 2022 10:12 PM (SH2Zi)
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. And thus the murders begin.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 10, 2022 10:09 PM (lCui1)
Heh. That is better.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 10:12 PM (LKTKP)
Yeah, Coppola's Dracula is not very good. It's watchable; it has moments. But it's not good.
Langella's version may be the only really good one.
I like many of the Hammer ones, because I like Hammer horror. But they are B films all the way.
It's weird that Dracula is almost always so poorly done.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 10, 2022 10:12 PM (KFhLj)
Very impressive Zettai
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at March 10, 2022 10:11 PM
Posted by: Zettai at March 10, 2022 10:12 PM (rm8S6)
https://tinyurl.com/GenJones
Read, discuss, etc. and especially look at the table towards the end.
And then the murders *really* begin.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at March 10, 2022 10:12 PM (ZSK0i)
"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." And then the murders began.
Posted by: Oddbob at March 10, 2022 10:12 PM (nfrXX)
Posted by: LASue at March 10, 2022 10:12 PM (Ed8Zd)
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 10, 2022 10:12 PM (II3Gr)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at March 10, 2022 10:13 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at March 10, 2022 10:13 PM (SH2Zi)
Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at March 10, 2022 10:11 PM (3AD8C)
Cutting the cord really, really makes you begin to despise televisions in public
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 10, 2022 10:13 PM (6FeV1)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 10, 2022 10:13 PM (XG2Fi)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
No way. Click here to find out why.
Posted by: Some Rat at March 10, 2022 10:13 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: kbdabear at March 10, 2022 10:13 PM (qAR6u)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 10, 2022 10:04 PM (89T5c)
Still a few in southern Ohio. Sadly, the Washington C.H. location is gone.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at March 10, 2022 10:13 PM (wBpKf)
___
Russia has always sucked when it came to logistics.
No food, no fuel = no movement.
Their leadership has always looked down on CS/CSS.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 10:13 PM (Ls+Jx)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 10, 2022 10:13 PM (XG2Fi)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 10, 2022 10:05 PM (Dc2NZ)
...after they crossed a frozen river on Christmas Eve.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 10, 2022 10:13 PM (llON8)
My God, it really does work with everything!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 10, 2022 10:14 PM (Dc2NZ)
Well, Gulag Archipelago fits.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 10, 2022 10:14 PM (QCwhW)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 10:14 PM (LKTKP)
Posted by: Oddbob at March 10, 2022 10:14 PM (nfrXX)
And I proved it when I went out to check my mail this afternoon. I was proud of how well I'd been walking lately, so I didn't take my cane. Stupid move. I made it to the mailbox fine, got the mail, and made it almost back to the house when i caught my foot on something and fell. No real damage, just a couple of bruises, but lesson learned. TAKE THE CANE EVEN IF YOU DON'T THINK YOU NEED IT!
Feeling kinda stupid, and may wear a mask if I go out in the next few days. "Um, you know bad hair days? Well, I'm having a bad face day!"
No, I didn't fall on anything hard, so the sidewalk and steps are still intact. I'm thinking my head's a lot harder, and even it's okay. Just the minor bruising.
Posted by: Ann Wilson, aka Empire 1 at March 10, 2022 10:14 PM (y0zVi)
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 10, 2022 10:14 PM (II3Gr)
They aren't.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 10, 2022 10:05 PM (ZLI7S)
Correct. And to repeat from the previous thread, anybody who wants to know a lot about covid and has time to learn some science and medicine also should check out Dr Been Medical Lectures. Excellent presentations.
Posted by: Eric Schmidt at March 10, 2022 10:14 PM (fpzDt)
Posted by: Duke Lowell, The Mad Hater at March 10, 2022 10:14 PM (cfyag)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at March 10, 2022 10:14 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: Nemo at March 10, 2022 10:14 PM (S6ArX)
Posted by: Some Rat at March 10, 2022 10:13 PM (r1z5A)
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You won't believe reason #14!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 10, 2022 10:15 PM (XG2Fi)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 10, 2022 10:15 PM (BFigT)
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 10, 2022 10:15 PM (OssQ4)
Posted by: LASue at March 10, 2022 10:12 PM (Ed8Zd)
Well done, I was trying to find that line!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Honking is a start, but not a solution! ~ at March 10, 2022 10:15 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Adriane the Totally Practical Critic ... at March 10, 2022 10:08 PM (okV1R)
Chocolate theft?
Sounds more like self-defense to me.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 10, 2022 10:15 PM (llON8)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 10, 2022 10:12 PM (KFhLj)
That's because the modern Dracula myth is barely even a story. It's just an old kinky lech with a skin condition.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 10, 2022 10:15 PM (6FeV1)
You know the rest. It's all the latest buzz!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at March 10, 2022 10:15 PM (QzJWU)
Posted by: norrin radd at March 10, 2022 10:15 PM (9Oolk)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 10, 2022 10:12 PM (KFhLj)
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Duckula was the definitive version.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 10, 2022 10:15 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: hogmartin at March 10, 2022 10:16 PM (P4LRL)
Then murders began.
Posted by: LostInSpace at March 10, 2022 10:16 PM (PVI4b)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 10, 2022 10:16 PM (m0zqP)
Posted by: kbdabear at March 10, 2022 10:13 PM (qAR6u)
No. Your mission is to find a better hosting site.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2022 10:16 PM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Ladyl at March 10, 2022 10:16 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 10, 2022 10:16 PM (oHd/0)
Holy shit.... I know the place. Lived there back in 90's.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 10, 2022 10:16 PM (BFigT)
And then the murders began...really!
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 10:16 PM (BgMrQ)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 10:16 PM (LKTKP)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at March 10, 2022 10:17 PM (pNxlR)
No food, no fuel = no movement.
Their leadership has always looked down on CS/CSS.
Posted by: SMH
It's ironic given their love of, and dominance at, chess.
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 10, 2022 10:17 PM (OssQ4)
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 10, 2022 10:17 PM (II3Gr)
Posted by: Grudge Harbor
I know there are locations in Circleville, Chillicothe, and Lancaster.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 10, 2022 10:17 PM (WnnCS)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at March 10, 2022 10:17 PM (ZSK0i)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 10, 2022 10:17 PM (3iij0)
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 10, 2022 10:14 PM (II3Gr)
Charlotte's Web!
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 10:17 PM (LKTKP)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 10, 2022 10:18 PM (XG2Fi)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at March 10, 2022 10:18 PM (IDhUW)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: Ladyl at March 10, 2022 10:18 PM (TdMsT)
In response to your prior,
I did, too, in undergrad, grad level elective. I concur, except in the masks and IVM. I masked early, then when 99.8 or so percent survivable data was available, then no. I believe TPTB knew it was a lab leak, expected bioweapon, and thus, the gross overreaction.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at March 10, 2022 10:18 PM (SH2Zi)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 10, 2022 10:18 PM (m0zqP)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 10, 2022 10:18 PM (63Dwl)
Sick and twisted I am but do get a laugh from a TV at a restaurant and seeing Idiocracy times eleventy happening live.
Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at March 10, 2022 10:18 PM (3AD8C)
Posted by: runner at March 10, 2022 10:18 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 10, 2022 10:12 PM (II3Gr)
I was gonna use that...
Went classical instead.
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 10:18 PM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 10, 2022 10:17 PM (OssQ4
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Chess pieces have no use for supply lines.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 10, 2022 10:19 PM (XG2Fi)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at March 10, 2022 10:19 PM (9uqbB)
Posted by: p-squared at March 10, 2022 10:19 PM (0CzL1)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 10, 2022 10:19 PM (SKVme)
Posted by: Warai-otoko
He had Hansen's Disease?
Posted by: Tonypete at March 10, 2022 10:19 PM (WnnCS)
Posted by: LostInSpace at March 10, 2022 10:19 PM (PVI4b)
Sounds more like self-defense to me.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
I AM NOT SUICIDAL !!!!
Posted by: Adriane the Totally Practical Critic ... at March 10, 2022 10:19 PM (okV1R)
Posted by: The Dunwich Horror by HP Lovecraft at March 10, 2022 10:19 PM (KFhLj)
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 10, 2022 10:19 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: Warai-otoko
He had Hansen's Disease?
Posted by: Tonypete at March 10, 2022 10:19 PM (WnnCS)
mmm bop
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 10, 2022 10:19 PM (II3Gr)
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 10:19 PM (Ls+Jx)
If we had an honest opposition party they'd haul her fat ass into a hearing and have her spill the beans... so to speak.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 10, 2022 10:19 PM (BFigT)
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at March 10, 2022 10:20 PM (SH2Zi)
Posted by: runner at March 10, 2022 10:20 PM (V13WU)
https://stoatnet.org/bigboygraveyard.jpg
Supposedly it was located around Marquette, but it's been moved to another location to keep trespassers from disturbing the bones of the ancestors.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 10, 2022 10:20 PM (P4LRL)
Why is Biden pretending he is not pleased with the huge increase in energy prices when he was elected on that platform?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 10, 2022 10:20 PM (EZebt)
Thus for to write, I did not understand
That I at all should make a little book
In such a mode; nay, I had undertook
To make another; which, when almost done,
Before I was aware, I this begun.
And then the murders began.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 10, 2022 10:20 PM (76Ab6)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 10, 2022 10:21 PM (XG2Fi)
There, I said it.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at March 10, 2022 10:17 PM (ZSK0i)
Comrade!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Honking is a start, but not a solution! ~ at March 10, 2022 10:21 PM (hOUT3)
If we had an honest opposition party they'd haul her fat ass into a hearing and have her spill the beans... so to speak.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
But first, take her scarf away. She would be completely without protection.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 10, 2022 10:21 PM (WnnCS)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 10, 2022 10:21 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 10, 2022 10:18 PM (XG2Fi)
Good one.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at March 10, 2022 10:21 PM (SH2Zi)
Voyage of the dawn Treader
Posted by: Corona-exile lost in spaces at March 10, 2022 10:21 PM (O0QMT)
Posted by: The Atom Bomb of Loving Kindness at March 10, 2022 10:21 PM (lXZ2r)
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 10:21 PM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: p-squared
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When VP ,La tries to sound profound she does exactly that: she sounds profoundly shallow and stupid. Or like she is bullshitting during a job interview.
Posted by: LostInSpace at March 10, 2022 10:22 PM (PVI4b)
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 10, 2022 10:22 PM (II3Gr)
Pride and Prejudice
Catch-22
The Great Gatsby
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Clockwork Orange
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 10:22 PM (LKTKP)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at March 10, 2022 10:22 PM (5pTK/)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at March 10, 2022 10:22 PM (vuisn)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: Ladyl at March 10, 2022 10:16 PM (TdMsT)
Hard to beat that!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Honking is a start, but not a solution! ~ at March 10, 2022 10:22 PM (hOUT3)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 10:21 PM (BgMrQ)
One of my all-time favorite books.
Posted by: Ladyl at March 10, 2022 10:23 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 10, 2022 10:23 PM (OssQ4)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at March 10, 2022 10:23 PM (SH2Zi)
~~~
She brought up the problem of faulty data in a press conference and was gone shortly thereafter.
And then the murders began.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at March 10, 2022 10:23 PM (IDhUW)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 10, 2022 10:24 PM (SKVme)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at March 10, 2022 10:22 PM (vuisn)
And then the murders started.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 10, 2022 10:24 PM (6FeV1)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Honking is a start, but not a solution! ~ at March 10, 2022 10:24 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 10, 2022 10:23 PM (OssQ4)
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Sounds almost Hunter S Thompsonesque.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at March 10, 2022 10:24 PM (5pTK/)
Posted by: Corona-exile lost in spaces at March 10, 2022 10:24 PM (O0QMT)
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 10:24 PM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: Retief at March 10, 2022 10:24 PM (vSlT4)
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
And then the murders began.
Posted by: runner at March 10, 2022 10:24 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 10, 2022 10:24 PM (SKVme)
The Stranger
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 10:25 PM (LKTKP)
(I see someone already posted Pride and Prejudice. So here's Mansfield Park.)
Posted by: Nemo at March 10, 2022 10:25 PM (S6ArX)
Posted by: Corona-exile lost in spaces at March 10, 2022 10:24 PM (O0QMT)
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Snd then the murders began.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 10, 2022 10:25 PM (XG2Fi)
Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2022 10:25 PM (axyOa)
Posted by: Oddbob at March 10, 2022 10:25 PM (nfrXX)
Posted by: Ladyl at March 10, 2022 10:25 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Ladyl at March 10, 2022 10:23 PM (TdMsT)
Both book and movie are favorites of mine
...and then the murders began.
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 10:26 PM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at March 10, 2022 10:26 PM (vuisn)
Posted by: blake
So they independently decide to cheat on each other to step out, and accidently meet up.
Hilarity ensued? Nope - like you said - shots would ring out, from both parties.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 10, 2022 10:26 PM (WnnCS)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 10, 2022 10:26 PM (76Ab6)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 10, 2022 10:26 PM (m0zqP)
Posted by: Corona-exile lost in spaces at March 10, 2022 10:24 PM (O0QMT)
Sorry, I'll cut it's vocal chords....
Posted by: Dr Fauci at March 10, 2022 10:26 PM (7bRMQ)
Posted by: The Atom Bomb of Loving Kindness
Wear Birkenstocks and pretend you're a UNIX programmer ...
Posted by: Adriane the Totally Practical Critic ... at March 10, 2022 10:27 PM (okV1R)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 10, 2022 10:20 PM (EZebt)
Because most of the idiots who voted for him didn't know that was his platform? They just knew all their favorite celebrities said Trump was icky.
Posted by: Eric Schmidt at March 10, 2022 10:27 PM (fpzDt)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 10:27 PM (LKTKP)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at March 10, 2022 10:27 PM (5pTK/)
Posted by: E. Poe at March 10, 2022 10:27 PM (3ciZ6)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 10, 2022 10:27 PM (EZebt)
Posted by: Owen Lift at March 10, 2022 10:27 PM (DTX3h)
And then the murders began...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Honking is a start, but not a solution! ~ at March 10, 2022 10:24 PM (hOUT3)
Another of my very favorite books, {{{Hrothgar}}}!!!
Posted by: Ladyl at March 10, 2022 10:27 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Tonypete at March 10, 2022 10:28 PM (WnnCS)
Posted by: Ladyl
And then, the murders REALLY began.
Posted by: Some Rat at March 10, 2022 10:28 PM (r1z5A)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 10:28 PM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: cfo mom at March 10, 2022 10:28 PM (Q8bDL)
Posted by: Eric Schmidt at March 10, 2022 10:27 PM (fpzDt)
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Here's a thought...
If you aren't informed enough to know what you're voting for, THEN STAY THE FUCK HOME ON ELECTION DAY!!!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 10, 2022 10:28 PM (XG2Fi)
Posted by: Ladyl
And then, the murders REALLY began.
Posted by: Some Rat at March 10, 2022 10:28 PM (r1z5
I'm laughing my ass off, {{{Some Rat}}}!!!
Posted by: Ladyl at March 10, 2022 10:29 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at March 10, 2022 10:29 PM (3AD8C)
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
And then the murders began.
Posted by: Nemo at March 10, 2022 10:29 PM (S6ArX)
That's how you can tell the guys that started on the hardware side, no Birkenstocks, ever.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at March 10, 2022 10:29 PM (SchxB)
Posted by: Adriane the Totally Practical Critic ... at March 10, 2022 10:27 PM (okV1R)
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Bzzt!
forgot: and then the murders began...
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at March 10, 2022 10:29 PM (5pTK/)
Posted by: Zettai at March 10, 2022 10:29 PM (rm8S6)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 10, 2022 10:29 PM (m0zqP)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 10, 2022 10:28 PM (XG2Fi)
Buh... they said vote or die... and i don't want to die!
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 10, 2022 10:29 PM (6FeV1)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 10, 2022 10:29 PM (lCui1)
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 10, 2022 10:29 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2022 10:29 PM (axyOa)
and then the murders began.
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 10:29 PM (BgMrQ)
And then the murders began.
(The first line from How to Live Quietly)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at March 10, 2022 10:30 PM (IDhUW)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 10, 2022 10:30 PM (76Ab6)
Posted by: Ladyl at March 10, 2022 10:27 PM (TdMsT)
I could not find my copy (the library is in disarray) so I didn't really quote the first line, but I was close!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Honking is a start, but not a solution! ~ at March 10, 2022 10:30 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Daisy Cutter at March 10, 2022 10:30 PM (nFUmW)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
I've always loved Kipling's use of "wabbling" in this poem. There is no more perfect use for it than this.
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 10, 2022 10:30 PM (OssQ4)
Posted by: Some Rat at March 10, 2022 10:31 PM (r1z5A)
I think Scarf Lady's demise was sealed when she was discovered to be flouting the Ch*na Virus Rules off-duty...
Posted by: Zettai at March 10, 2022 10:31 PM (rm8S6)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 10, 2022 10:31 PM (lCui1)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 10, 2022 10:31 PM (6FeV1)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2022 10:32 PM (axyOa)
and then the murders began.
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 10:32 PM (BgMrQ)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: LostInSpace at March 10, 2022 10:32 PM (PVI4b)
I could not find my copy (the library is in disarray) so I didn't really quote the first line, but I was close!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Honking is a start, but not a solution! ~ at March 10, 2022 10:30 PM (hOUT3)
My well-worn copy disappeared during the Unpleasantness when I relocated to Columbus. I suspect my daughter, but she denies it.
Posted by: Ladyl at March 10, 2022 10:32 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: JSchuler at March 10, 2022 10:32 PM (g69k+)
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 10:32 PM (Ls+Jx)
Yep, it fits.
Posted by: RickZ at March 10, 2022 10:32 PM (ldL4g)
I will not eat, green eggs and ham, Sam I am...and then the murders began...
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at March 10, 2022 10:32 PM (5pTK/)
Posted by: Zettai at March 10, 2022 10:31 PM (rm8S6)
You mean she let the peasants know?
Unforgivable!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Honking is a start, but not a solution! ~ at March 10, 2022 10:32 PM (hOUT3)
For a long time I used to go to bed early. And then the murders began.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at March 10, 2022 10:32 PM (pNxlR)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at March 10, 2022 10:32 PM (SchxB)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 10, 2022 10:33 PM (llON8)
Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at March 10, 2022 10:33 PM (uTrz1)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at March 10, 2022 10:33 PM (5pTK/)
Posted by: Zettai
Real life works...
Try as I might to best him, Zetti's upside down ampersand beat me like a rented mule. And then the murders began ...
Posted by: Adriane the Totally Practical Critic ... at March 10, 2022 10:34 PM (okV1R)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 10, 2022 10:34 PM (XG2Fi)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 10, 2022 10:34 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 10, 2022 10:34 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2022 10:34 PM (axyOa)
Posted by: JSchuler at March 10, 2022 10:34 PM (g69k+)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 10, 2022 10:34 PM (rz+/y)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 10, 2022 10:35 PM (6FeV1)
About the map showing why you shouldn't invade... here in northern WI we have all those groups, except seals(if they mean the critters).
Posted by: davidt at March 10, 2022 10:35 PM (bgR2+)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 10, 2022 10:34 PM (2NHgQ)
Brutus was a buddy fucker
He'll fuck you too.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2022 10:35 PM (axyOa)
Posted by: Theodore at March 10, 2022 10:35 PM (GJnvT)
Posted by: Nemo at March 10, 2022 10:35 PM (S6ArX)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at March 10, 2022 10:35 PM (IDhUW)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 10, 2022 10:35 PM (llON8)
Cost of food from production to transportation is going to really hurt people.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 10:35 PM (LKTKP)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
"Breaking News: Electorate listens to Cicero! Voter turnout at 20%! Greatest conservative victories in history of Republic! We'll be killing ourselves later."
Posted by: The MFM at March 10, 2022 10:35 PM (r1z5A)
I don't want to admit this, really, but -- and what you're about to read is pretty much actually true -- since I was a child, I've had a strong revulsion to Kaboom cereal, due to what may be called a early-childhood type of social dysmorphia. And then the murders began.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at March 10, 2022 10:35 PM (pNxlR)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at March 10, 2022 10:36 PM (5pTK/)
Posted by: davidt at March 10, 2022 10:36 PM (bgR2+)
Posted by: Adriane the Totally Practical Critic ... at March 10, 2022 10:34 PM
It really is the pinnacle of "ampersand privilege", innit?
Posted by: Zettai at March 10, 2022 10:36 PM (rm8S6)
Posted by: Adriane the Totally Practical Critic ... at March 10, 2022 10:27 PM (okV1R)
*looks at feet*
Whoa. She's good.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 10, 2022 10:36 PM (P4LRL)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 10, 2022 10:36 PM (2NHgQ)
Why wait?
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at March 10, 2022 10:36 PM (SchxB)
And then the murders began!
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 10:36 PM (BgMrQ)
FCC's last great film, "Apocalypse Now" which I will defend.
After that...well, there were some murders I heard.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 10, 2022 10:37 PM (m0zqP)
Posted by: Zettai
See Dick run.
And then the murders began.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2022 10:37 PM (axyOa)
Posted by: JSchuler at March 10, 2022 10:37 PM (g69k+)
Cost of food from production to transportation is going to really hurt people.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10,
You forgot the last line.
And then the murders began.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at March 10, 2022 10:37 PM (IDhUW)
Posted by: The MFM at March 10, 2022 10:38 PM (r1z5A)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 10, 2022 10:34 PM (XG2Fi)
Another of my all-time favorite books!
Posted by: Ladyl at March 10, 2022 10:38 PM (TdMsT)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at March 10, 2022 10:37 PM (IDhUW)
Indeed I did.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 10:38 PM (LKTKP)
...and then the murders began.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at March 10, 2022 10:36 PM (5pTK/)
Ahhh, Macbeth...
I was going there later.
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 10:38 PM (BgMrQ)
How about "It was the best of times. It was the worst of times."
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 10, 2022 10:38 PM (lKAqb)
Posted by: Zettai at March 10, 2022 10:39 PM (rm8S6)
Posted by: Duke Lowell, The Mad Hater at March 10, 2022 10:39 PM (cfyag)
Posted by: Some Rat at March 10, 2022 10:39 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at March 10, 2022 10:39 PM (SH2Zi)
Posted by: davidt at March 10, 2022 10:39 PM (bgR2+)
Yeah, that works and takes the story in a whole new, and potentially much more satisfying, direction.
Posted by: Oddbob at March 10, 2022 10:39 PM (nfrXX)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 10, 2022 10:34 PM (XG2Fi)
Another of my all-time favorite books!
Posted by: Ladyl at March 10, 2022 10:38 PM (TdMsT)
He plagiarized me! See 48.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 10:39 PM (LKTKP)
...
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 10, 2022 10:39 PM (76Ab6)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 10:40 PM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
Interfering with Search!?! Like I don't have enough problems without your silly duel ...
Posted by: F'lar at March 10, 2022 10:40 PM (okV1R)
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 10:40 PM (Ls+Jx)
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 10, 2022 10:40 PM (lKAqb)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 10, 2022 10:40 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at March 10, 2022 10:41 PM (5pTK/)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at March 10, 2022 10:41 PM (IDhUW)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: RickZ at March 10, 2022 10:41 PM (ldL4g)
Posted by: JSchuler at March 10, 2022 10:41 PM (g69k+)
You know, forewarned and all that.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 10, 2022 10:41 PM (m0zqP)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 10, 2022 10:42 PM (oWZwa)
Hi.
Anyone else watch The Hyperions movie on Daily Wire? I must admit I do enjoy a refreshing take on the same old same old superhero genre.
Posted by: mindful webworker and the great responsibility at March 10, 2022 10:42 PM (uh5kC)
Posted by: Tonypete at March 10, 2022 10:42 PM (WnnCS)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 10, 2022 10:42 PM (2NHgQ)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 10, 2022 10:42 PM (oWZwa)
Suicide's more like it.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 10, 2022 10:43 PM (II3Gr)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 10, 2022 10:40 PM (2NHgQ)
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Though, seems we're a touch on the morbid side, lately.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at March 10, 2022 10:43 PM (5pTK/)
I can count on the knuckles of one thumb the works of pure fiction I've read...
And then the murders began...
Posted by: Zettai at March 10, 2022 10:43 PM (rm8S6)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at March 10, 2022 10:41 PM (5pTK/)
Technically, Titus Andronicus.
Because no one has ever kept count successfully all the way to the end.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 10, 2022 10:43 PM (6FeV1)
Posted by: Yogurt at March 10, 2022 10:43 PM (63Dwl)
And we will all the pleasures prove,
That Valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods,l or steepy mountain yields.
And then the murders begin.
Posted by: Nemo at March 10, 2022 10:44 PM (S6ArX)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 10, 2022 10:42 PM (oWZwa)
It was enough of a horror story without the addition of "And then the murders began"
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Honking is a start, but not a solution! ~ at March 10, 2022 10:44 PM (hOUT3)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 10, 2022 10:29 PM (m0zqP)
I second this -- and she actually does claim that most cats she grooms want to kill her.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 10, 2022 10:44 PM (EJbIh)
I will not eat, green eggs and ham, Sam I am...and then the murders began...
=====>: blake -
From what I recall, the first line is "I am Sam"
The second line is "Sam I am"
I think the third line is "would you like green eggs and ham." Then they get into that whole dialectic thing, so your line is pretty deep into the dialog.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 10, 2022 10:44 PM (76Ab6)
Fearing he'll wound her further, she runs to her room and locks the door. The next day, he is "something else: lover, God or friend. Dog too, for when she put her hand out he licked and nuzzled it ... Something was gone between them.
And then the murders began.
Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at March 10, 2022 10:44 PM (3AD8C)
And then the murders began!
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 10:45 PM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 10, 2022 10:42 PM (2NHgQ)
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Okay, thanks. I realized, after reading through this thread, Will killed off more than a few in his plays.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at March 10, 2022 10:45 PM (5pTK/)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 10:39 PM (LKTKP)
Wrong ! I plagiarized you @133. And then...eh, never mind.
Posted by: runner at March 10, 2022 10:45 PM (V13WU)
And then the murders began!
(Catullus XVI)
Posted by: Zettai at March 10, 2022 10:39 PM (rm8S6)
For some reason those lines were never translated in the schoolbooks....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 10, 2022 10:45 PM (7bRMQ)
Posted by: Tonypete at March 10, 2022 10:45 PM (WnnCS)
Posted by: So Sayeth The Science; It Is The Way and The Light at March 10, 2022 10:45 PM (SKVme)
Most of the comedies: Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, As You Like It - nobody buys the farm in any of them.
Posted by: Nemo at March 10, 2022 10:46 PM (S6ArX)
Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2022 10:46 PM (axyOa)
Good night all.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 10, 2022 10:46 PM (m0zqP)
Posted by: davidt at March 10, 2022 10:46 PM (bgR2+)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 10, 2022 10:46 PM (lCui1)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2022 10:46 PM (HJ5Od)
Posted by: Some Rat at March 10, 2022 10:46 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: runner at March 10, 2022 10:45 PM (V13WU)
I'm surrounded by polygamists!
Wait...
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 10:46 PM (LKTKP)
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 10:46 PM (Ls+Jx)
Posted by: H.P. Lovecraft at March 10, 2022 10:47 PM (3ciZ6)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at March 10, 2022 10:47 PM (IDhUW)
What would people suggest?
Posted by: 18-1 at March 10, 2022 10:47 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at March 10, 2022 10:41 PM (5pTK/)
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'Much Ado About Nothing'?
Posted by: RickZ at March 10, 2022 10:47 PM (ldL4g)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 10, 2022 10:42 PM (oWZwa)
I was just getting ready to write my erotic first sentence about Hillary Clinton..
And then the murders began.
Posted by: Stateless at March 10, 2022 10:47 PM (FsZ2q)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 10, 2022 10:48 PM (SKVme)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at March 10, 2022 10:48 PM (IDhUW)
Posted by: Abzod at March 10, 2022 10:48 PM (dHzE8)
Posted by: Maybe Dick at March 10, 2022 10:48 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Catherwood the Butler at March 10, 2022 10:48 PM (m0zqP)
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
And then the murders began.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 10, 2022 10:48 PM (I2/tG)
Posted by: Brother Tim sez at March 10, 2022 10:49 PM (Mooke)
Sea Island (GA) is really nice, especially if you golf!
Posted by: Black Orchid at March 10, 2022 10:49 PM (j9HX3)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 10:49 PM (LKTKP)
What would people suggest?
Posted by: 18-1
Don't mention your great-grandfather was William Tecumseh Sherman ...
Posted by: Adriane the Helpful Critic ... at March 10, 2022 10:49 PM (okV1R)
Posted by: JSchuler at March 10, 2022 10:49 PM (g69k+)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 10:49 PM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: Some Rat at March 10, 2022 10:50 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 10, 2022 10:48 PM (SKVme)
----
And then the murders began.
Posted by: ballistic at March 10, 2022 10:50 PM (oXNqT)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 10, 2022 10:50 PM (m0zqP)
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 10:50 PM (Ls+Jx)
Posted by: davidt at March 10, 2022 10:50 PM (bgR2+)
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you're going to San Francisco
You're gonna meet some gentle people there
And then the murders began.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 10, 2022 10:50 PM (I2/tG)
/spit
Just what use are Repbulicans?
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 10, 2022 10:51 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: davidt at March 10, 2022 10:50 PM (bgR2+)
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You got that right!
Posted by: planned parenthood at March 10, 2022 10:51 PM (5pTK/)
Posted by: Black Orchid at March 10, 2022 10:51 PM (j9HX3)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 10:51 PM (LKTKP)
And I know that my heart will go on
We'll stay forever this way
You are safe in my heart
And my heart will go on and on
And then the murders began.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 10, 2022 10:52 PM (I2/tG)
/spit
Just what use are Repbulicans?
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 10, 2022 10:51 PM
Fuck me dead.
Posted by: Zettai at March 10, 2022 10:52 PM (rm8S6)
I found some fabulous videos on Bodgeing benches.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 10, 2022 10:52 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2022 10:52 PM (axyOa)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 10:52 PM (Ls+Jx)
He plagiarized me! See 48.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 10:39 PM (LKTKP)
Great minds think alike!
And then the murders began.
Posted by: Ladyl at March 10, 2022 10:52 PM (TdMsT)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: H.P. Lovecraft at March 10, 2022 10:47 PM (3ciZ6)
HAHAHAHA...
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 10:52 PM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: davidt
This is planned parenthoods new ad isn't it?
Posted by: Some Rat at March 10, 2022 10:53 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: BruceWayne at March 10, 2022 10:53 PM (p40Pc)
There was a telephone
And a red balloon
And then the murders began
Posted by: Black Orchid at March 10, 2022 10:51 PM (j9HX3)
I'm laughing so hard I'm crying.
Posted by: Ladyl at March 10, 2022 10:53 PM (TdMsT)
Then the murders began.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 10, 2022 10:54 PM (lCui1)
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 10:54 PM (Ls+Jx)
Posted by: davidt
This is planned parenthoods new ad isn't it?
Posted by: Some Rat at March 10, 2022 10:53 PM (r1z5A)
I can't stop laughing.
Posted by: Ladyl at March 10, 2022 10:54 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: JSchuler at March 10, 2022 10:55 PM (g69k+)
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 10:55 PM (Ls+Jx)
On the bright side, Conſtitutional Carry is now the Law of the Land in Alabama!
Well done, Alabama!
Posted by: Zettai at March 10, 2022 10:55 PM (rm8S6)
Posted by: Some Rat at March 10, 2022 10:55 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at March 10, 2022 10:55 PM (5pTK/)
Posted by: Javems at March 10, 2022 10:55 PM (AmoqO)
What would people suggest?
Posted by: 18-1
Cour de l'Aine
Idaho.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2022 10:55 PM (axyOa)
Posted by: He Who Must Not Be Named ... at March 10, 2022 10:55 PM (okV1R)
And then the murders began. Actually our downward slide to where we are now, but murder works as well.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 10, 2022 10:55 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 10:55 PM (Ls+Jx)
Posted by: azjaeger at March 10, 2022 10:55 PM (3/XaG)
Posted by: Zettai at March 10, 2022 10:55 PM (rm8S6)
Thanks! I worked not at all to see this bill thru.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 10:55 PM (LKTKP)
Posted by: davidt at March 10, 2022 10:55 PM (bgR2+)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 10, 2022 10:56 PM (6lMp2)
Posted by: Some Rat at March 10, 2022 10:56 PM (r1z5A)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 10:49 PM (BgMrQ)
Omg. We read the same books. I adore Booth Tarkington.
Posted by: Ladyl at March 10, 2022 10:56 PM (TdMsT)
I wonder if it being an episitlolary has anything to do with it.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 10, 2022 10:56 PM (76Ab6)
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 10, 2022 10:51 PM (oHd/0)
Shut your whore mouth. Republicans are fucking awesome. None of this could work without them.
Posted by: Chuck & Nancy at March 10, 2022 10:57 PM (SKVme)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at March 10, 2022 10:57 PM (IDhUW)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2022 10:46 PM (HJ5Od)
There vill be nothink to see here comrade, da!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Honking is a start, but not a solution! ~ at March 10, 2022 10:57 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Ladyl at March 10, 2022 10:57 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at March 10, 2022 10:58 PM (5pTK/)
Sat on her tuffet
Eating her curds and whey
Along came a spider
And sat down beside her
And said Yo, what's in the bowl, bitch?
And then the murders began.
Posted by: Duke Lowell, The Mad Hater at March 10, 2022 10:58 PM (cfyag)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: Ladyl at March 10, 2022 10:57 PM
*golf clap
Posted by: Zettai at March 10, 2022 10:58 PM (rm8S6)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: Ladyl at March 10, 2022 10:57 PM (TdMsT)
Heh. I think that was 2001: A Space Odyssey, {{{Ladyl}}}!
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at March 10, 2022 10:59 PM (v23vE)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 10, 2022 10:59 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: azjaeger at March 10, 2022 10:55 PM (3/XaG)
One thing I know for sure, I never really felt like I fit either description for the Boomers or X. I was wondering when someone would propose that there was another category inbetween.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at March 10, 2022 10:59 PM (ZSK0i)
Currently bumpin' to some tunes from my late teens-early 20s (87-93).
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 10:59 PM (Ls+Jx)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 10, 2022 10:59 PM (lCui1)
The conductor told the female cellist "Madame, you have between your legs a thing of infinite beauty, and all you can do is sit there and scratch it!".
And then the murders began.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 10, 2022 10:59 PM (jTmQV)
That's why you shouldn't invade the US. Despite us probably deserving it.
Posted by: Sharkman at March 10, 2022 10:59 PM (B1Vad)
Posted by: Ladyl at March 10, 2022 10:56 PM (TdMsT)
Not many people have read the story. Again, I love it!
It's an Midwest thing I suppose...
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 11:00 PM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 10, 2022 11:00 PM (evAgx)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: Ladyl at March 10, 2022 11:00 PM (TdMsT)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: Ladyl
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LOL!
Don't think my daughter will allow me to teach that version to the grandbabies.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 11:00 PM (Ls+Jx)
What would people suggest?
Posted by: 18-1 at March 10, 2022 10:47 PM (ESjRY)
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I've always been partial to the Outer Banks, Hatteras Island to be exact, not up near Nags Head. Staying on Ocracoke Island is also a treat, though it can be boring if boring is what you're looking for; there is no night life as they roll up the sand at dusk.
Ocracoke Island has the only non-embassy British territory in the US, a graveyard with British sailors lost when their ships were sunk by U-boats. The Coast Guard Station on the island raises and the lowers the British flag in that tiny cemetery every day with full honors.
Posted by: RickZ at March 10, 2022 11:00 PM (ldL4g)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2022 11:01 PM (h3NN9)
Actually, for background I usually have on kids shows since they don't piss me off....much...so maybe baseball will be alright.
Posted by: Stateless at March 10, 2022 11:01 PM (FsZ2q)
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 11:01 PM (Ls+Jx)
Posted by: SMH
Heh! Very nice, glad to hear it!
Posted by: Some Rat at March 10, 2022 11:01 PM (r1z5A)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at March 10, 2022 11:01 PM (IDhUW)
Posted by: azjaeger at March 10, 2022 11:02 PM (3/XaG)
Posted by: davidt at March 10, 2022 11:02 PM (bgR2+)
Posted by: Ladyl at March 10, 2022 10:56 PM (TdMsT)
Not many people have read the story. Again, I love it!
It's an Midwest thing I suppose...
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 11:00 PM (BgMrQ)
I love "Penrod and Sam," too. And " Seventeen," and "The Plutocrat." I've read them over and over and still make me laugh until I cry.
Posted by: Ladyl at March 10, 2022 11:02 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Adriane the Hard Boiled Critic ... at March 10, 2022 11:02 PM (okV1R)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 10, 2022 11:02 PM (SKVme)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 10, 2022 11:02 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2022 11:03 PM (h3NN9)
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 11:01 PM (Ls+Jx)
I...I ...can't...
Posted by: Ladyl at March 10, 2022 11:03 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 10, 2022 11:03 PM (llON8)
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.
Than the murderes begun.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 10, 2022 11:03 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 10, 2022 11:03 PM (p5/6f)
And then the murders began
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 10, 2022 11:04 PM (oHd/0)
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The old me would have cut a b***** if I woke up cold.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 11:04 PM (Ls+Jx)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 10, 2022 11:04 PM (T8gyh)
Posted by: Weirddave at March 10, 2022 11:04 PM (GpUUo)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 10, 2022 11:04 PM (U+Oxn)
and all through the house,
not a creature was stirring...
And then the murders started.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 10, 2022 11:05 PM (H2dB1)
Posted by: SMOD at March 10, 2022 11:05 PM (X5CsJ)
Posted by: Methos at March 10, 2022 11:05 PM (kOpft)
Posted by: Joe XiDen
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Even a private in the late 80s knew this.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 11:05 PM (Ls+Jx)
Posted by: Ladyl at March 10, 2022 11:05 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 10, 2022 11:03 PM (p5/6f)
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Ja! One solid kick to the door und ze whole rotten edifice vill come down!
Posted by: A. Schicklgruber at March 10, 2022 11:05 PM (XG2Fi)
Posted by: 6th Army at March 10, 2022 11:05 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 10, 2022 11:05 PM (yQpMk)
Sounds great!
Posted by: French Ambassador at Versailles at March 10, 2022 11:05 PM (kOpft)
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 11:01 PM (Ls+Jx)
I...I ...can't...
Posted by: Ladyl at March 10, 2022 11:03 PM (TdMsT)
{{{SMH}}}, she is on a roll!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Honking is a start, but not a solution! ~ at March 10, 2022 11:06 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 11:06 PM (Ls+Jx)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 10, 2022 11:06 PM (SKVme)
Thats my read. He's going to starve the cities into surrender.
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 10, 2022 11:06 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 11:06 PM (Ls+Jx)
"Curiouser and curiouser" said Alice.
And then the murders began.
Posted by: West at March 10, 2022 11:06 PM (QY+6a)
Posted by: Weirddave at March 10, 2022 11:04 PM (GpUUo)
Heh. I am a nerd since way before I was 29.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 10, 2022 11:06 PM (llON8)
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 10, 2022 11:06 PM (p5/6f)
One time after Dragoon some P-47s came across German panzers in southern France and proceeded to turn them in scrap iron.
Second time was in Operation Desert Storm when the P-47's grandson, the A-10, did the same to Saddam's 'elite' Republican Army fleeing Kuwait.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2022 11:06 PM (h3NN9)
There's never an A-10 Warthog around when you really need one...
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 10, 2022 11:06 PM (bW8dp)
I liked grunge culture, because a lot of the music was basically classic rock played hard and the look was actually pretty close to what "freaks" wore in the late 70s. I also looked young so even though I was about ten years older than the usual crowd I fit right in at the time. But yeah, I knew I wasn't really "them" just like I wasn't there for peak Boomerdom, just read about it later.
Posted by: azjaeger at March 10, 2022 11:07 PM (3/XaG)
Posted by: Some Rat at March 10, 2022 11:07 PM (r1z5A)
And then, the murders began.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 10, 2022 11:07 PM (T8gyh)
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 10, 2022 11:03 PM
Ancient Slavonaut theorists DISAGREE!
Posted by: Zettai at March 10, 2022 11:07 PM (rm8S6)
Posted by: Weirddave at March 10, 2022 11:04 PM (GpUUo)
Whoa whoa whoa...
Dragonriders of Pern rock!!! I read the whole series way back in the day.
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 11:07 PM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: Romeo13
__
"Duh."
- Every superior military force surrounding a city throughout human history.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 11:07 PM (Ls+Jx)
Posted by: MikeN at March 10, 2022 11:07 PM (bZUse)
Posted by: klaftern@yahoo.com at March 10, 2022 11:07 PM (taPSh)
The A-Team!
And then the murders began.
Posted by: Methos at March 10, 2022 11:07 PM (kOpft)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Honking is a start, but not a solution! ~ at March 10, 2022 11:08 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Sharkman at March 10, 2022 11:08 PM (B1Vad)
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 11:08 PM (Ls+Jx)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 10, 2022 11:06 PM (bW8dp)
My favorite plane...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 10, 2022 11:08 PM (XIJ/X)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2022 11:08 PM (h3NN9)
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 10, 2022 11:09 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: James MacGregor at March 10, 2022 11:09 PM (J8c+V)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2022 11:06 PM (h3NN9)
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Well, that one was mostly civilian vehicles. PJ O'Rourke reported seeing a fire truck among the wrecks.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 10, 2022 11:09 PM (T8gyh)
Posted by: Some Rat at March 10, 2022 11:07 PM (r1z5A)
Aren't all of the original fairy tales rather twisted?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 10, 2022 11:09 PM (llON8)
Most of his stuff is on Project Gutenberg, for those of the ebook persuasion.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/169
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 10, 2022 11:09 PM (bW8dp)
And then, the murders began...
Posted by: Stateless at March 10, 2022 11:09 PM (FsZ2q)
Was there a single death in the entire series? I remember one episode a helicopter crashed into a mountainside and rolled down. And they made sure to pan the camera back over to show us people walking away from the wreckage.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 10, 2022 11:09 PM (U+Oxn)
"Lessa woke cold. Then the murders began."
Nah
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And it doesn't really change the book at all.
Posted by: JSchuler at March 10, 2022 11:09 PM (g69k+)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 10, 2022 10:35 PM (llON
Damn...how did I miss that.
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 11:10 PM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2022 11:10 PM (h3NN9)
It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly, I got stoned. Then I ate pan-cooked parsnips in cream of mushroom soup with garlic and wow, that's tasty. Then the murders began.
Posted by: SFGoth at March 10, 2022 11:10 PM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 10, 2022 11:09 PM (llON
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Do not, repeat, not read the original version of "The Frog Prince".
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 10, 2022 11:10 PM (T8gyh)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 10, 2022 11:11 PM (9Fwwf)
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 10, 2022 11:11 PM (p5/6f)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: Methos at March 10, 2022 11:11 PM (kOpft)
And you're to blame . . .
Darlin' . . .
Then the murders . . . begaaaaaan."
Hmmm, doesn't work as well with lyrics.
Posted by: Sharkman at March 10, 2022 11:11 PM (B1Vad)
Posted by: oblique obfuscationaries at March 10, 2022 11:12 PM (uh5kC)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: Methos at March 10, 2022 11:11 PM (kOpft)
If this is the original Trek, shouldn't it be "and then the shagging began"?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 10, 2022 11:12 PM (llON8)
One time after Dragoon some P-47s came across German panzers in southern France and proceeded to turn them in scrap iron.
Second time was in Operation Desert Storm when the P-47's grandson, the A-10, did the same to Saddam's 'elite' Republican Army fleeing Kuwait.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2022 11:06 PM (h3NN9)
Think you're missing the battle of Falaise Pocket, the climax of the Normandy Breakout in 1944. It was a whole valley of vehicles trying to escape artillery and planes. Not a lot got out on wheels.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 10, 2022 11:12 PM (EJbIh)
there came a tapping... and then the murders began...
(hope that is right, doing it from memory).
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 10, 2022 11:12 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
*strokes chin thoughtfully* I forgot, too much Disney in my youth.
Posted by: Some Rat at March 10, 2022 11:12 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2022 11:12 PM (h3NN9)
Posted by: Duke Lowell, The Mad Hater at March 10, 2022 11:12 PM (cfyag)
And then the murders began...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Honking is a start, but not a solution! ~ at March 10, 2022 11:13 PM (hOUT3)
And then, the murders began...
Posted by: Stateless at March 10, 2022 11:09 PM (FsZ2q)
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Thanks for the upcoming nightmares. Hillary slithering, I'll buy. But writhing in passion? Maybe with a body count, like Qaddafi or Epstein.
Posted by: RickZ at March 10, 2022 11:13 PM (ldL4g)
Posted by: Captain Obvious
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Stolen fire truck, I think.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 10, 2022 11:13 PM (9Fwwf)
With all the interplanetary STD's Kirk had to be carrying, pretty much the same thing.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at March 10, 2022 11:13 PM (SchxB)
there came a tapping... and then the murders began...
(hope that is right, doing it from memory).
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 10, 2022 11:12 PM (oHd/0)
Pretty damn close...
#nevermore
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 11:13 PM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: Methos at March 10, 2022 11:13 PM (kOpft)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2022 11:12 PM (h3NN9)
Well it *was* a story about revenge. There was more after that though.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 10, 2022 11:14 PM (llON8)
Posted by: Ringo at March 10, 2022 11:14 PM (bgR2+)
Posted by: Zettai at March 10, 2022 11:14 PM (rm8S6)
and then the murders began...
(nope).
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 10, 2022 10:29 PM (oHd/0)
I would counter that with the first line of "For us, the living", but I can't find my copy (first edition, leather bound, autographed by the author) since my last move.
Posted by: Fox2! at March 10, 2022 11:14 PM (qyH+l)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea
Little Mermaid. "SHE TURNS TO SEA FOAM??!!
Posted by: Some Rat at March 10, 2022 11:14 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard
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Ex-Ex introduced me to Piers Anthony's Zanth series when I started dating him back in the late 80s.
I truly believe the Good Lord led me to my husband to help me withstand the onslaught of Hordling puns, being led by Muldoon.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 11:14 PM (Ls+Jx)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2022 11:10 PM (h3NN9)
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Scared even Cthulhu.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at March 10, 2022 11:14 PM (5pTK/)
Both cases I noted were both kinda accidental discoveries of forces and then the slaughter began in a very short time.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2022 11:14 PM (h3NN9)
...
Oh, wait, that already has a murder in it.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 10, 2022 11:15 PM (T8gyh)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 10, 2022 11:15 PM (bW8dp)
and then the murders began.
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 11:15 PM (BgMrQ)
and then the murders began...
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 10, 2022 11:16 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea
Little Mermaid. "SHE TURNS TO SEA FOAM??!!
Posted by: Some Rat at March 10, 2022 11:14 PM (r1z5A)
The Little Match Girl freezes to death!
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 10, 2022 11:16 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at March 10, 2022 11:16 PM (SchxB)
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Something about a writhing sack of potatoes is unsettling.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 10, 2022 11:16 PM (CTJwJ)
Being broken on the wheel is too good for this one...
Posted by: Zettai at March 10, 2022 11:16 PM (rm8S6)
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 10, 2022 11:11 PM (p5/6f)
Can't trust the Poles to be rational about Russia. There is a story of a Pole finding a genie's lamp. He gets the three wishes, and the first is "I want the Chinese to attack Poland" . The second is "I want the Chinese to attack Poland". And so is the third. The Genie asks why he wanted his nation destroyed three times over he says "To attack Poland the Chinese had to March over Russia SIX TIMES
Posted by: Oldcat at March 10, 2022 11:17 PM (EJbIh)
Weyr Search and at least the first couple printings of the first paperback novel contain a trivia question that will separate the true Pern lover from a mere fanboi.
Do you know what the question is? And the answer?
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2022 11:17 PM (h3NN9)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 10, 2022 11:13 PM (9Fwwf)
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Well, the vehicles were all stolen, so...
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 10, 2022 11:17 PM (T8gyh)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2022 11:10 PM (h3NN9)
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Good King Wenceslas, I believe, was, originally, irony.
If memory serves, he could have taught Marie Antoinette a thing or two about cake.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at March 10, 2022 11:17 PM (5pTK/)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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You should see what a swarm of Apaches could do to a miles-long armor convoy at a standstill.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 11:17 PM (Ls+Jx)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 10, 2022 11:17 PM (CTJwJ)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 10, 2022 11:17 PM (bW8dp)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 10, 2022 10:33 PM (llON
Thirty minutes to Litchfield. Then the murders began
Posted by: Kindltot at March 10, 2022 11:17 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2022 11:18 PM (h3NN9)
Posted by: Picric at March 10, 2022 11:18 PM (13tTk)
Posted by: davidt at March 10, 2022 10:46 PM (bgR2+)
..minor edit. now, do kindly pass the salt & pepper?
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at March 10, 2022 11:18 PM (QzJWU)
Posted by: Some Rat at March 10, 2022 11:14 PM (r1z5A)
I thought she just wept herself to death. The part I "liked" that was every step she made on land with her feet felt like broken glass was piercing them. Thanks for that feature of the wish, dude!
Posted by: Oldcat at March 10, 2022 11:18 PM (EJbIh)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 10, 2022 11:18 PM (63Dwl)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: Ladyl at March 10, 2022 11:19 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at March 10, 2022 11:19 PM (5pTK/)
and then the murders began.
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 11:15 PM (BgMrQ)
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This could be the story of the Concordia.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 11:19 PM (Ls+Jx)
Posted by: Oldcat at March 10, 2022 11:17 PM (EJbIh)
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That joke is in my repertoire. I tell it at much greater length, as that works better in person than on the Internet.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 10, 2022 11:19 PM (T8gyh)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 10, 2022 11:18 PM (63Dwl)
And not in Russia.
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 10, 2022 11:20 PM (oHd/0)
https://youtu.be/HfVtMytIDsE
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at March 10, 2022 11:20 PM (YynYJ)
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 11:17 PM (Ls+Jx)
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I'm guessing large amounts of can opening with what looks like copious amounts of what appears to be lumpy tomato soup everywhere.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at March 10, 2022 11:20 PM (5pTK/)
So when I hear how Americans are struggling and barely surviving due to gas prices....color me a little skeptical. Yeah $4 or $5 gas sucks. But it also isnt the end of the world like some are making it sound.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 10, 2022 11:20 PM (p5/6f)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: Ladyl
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lmao.
Why did Wednesday Addams pop in my head?
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 11:20 PM (Ls+Jx)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 10, 2022 11:19 PM (T8gyh)/i]
I hope you are up for doing that live in TX this time out!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Honking is a start, but not a solution! ~ at March 10, 2022 11:21 PM (hOUT3)
Weyr Search and at least the first couple printings of the first paperback novel contain a trivia question that will separate the true Pern lover from a mere fanboi.
Do you know what the question is? And the answer?
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2022 11:17 PM (h3NN9)
Sadly, I do not. Wasn't Weyr Search the novella / extract printed in Analog way back when?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 10, 2022 11:21 PM (llON8)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 10, 2022 10:33 PM (llON
Thirty minutes to Litchfield. Then the murders began
Posted by: Kindltot at March 10, 2022 11:17 PM (xhaym)
You do Space Viking and it doesn't even change the plot.
A noble has his wife and father in law shot at the wedding, critically wounding him. He sells everything to chase the killer, who stole a ship to escape to the areas where the Space Vikings raid.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 10, 2022 11:21 PM (EJbIh)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 10, 2022 10:33 PM (llON
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Probably my favorite HBP character.
"I see. The last time someone pulled a gun on you, they called it suicide."
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 10, 2022 11:21 PM (T8gyh)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at March 10, 2022 11:21 PM (+ldAm)
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe.
All mimsy were the borogoves.
And the mome raths outgrabe.
And then the murders started."
Posted by: Sharkman at March 10, 2022 11:22 PM (B1Vad)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: Methos at March 10, 2022 11:22 PM (kOpft)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2022 11:22 PM (h3NN9)
So when I hear how Americans are struggling and barely surviving due to gas prices....color me a little skeptical. Yeah $4 or $5 gas sucks. But it also isnt the end of the world like some are making it sound.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 10, 2022 11:20 PM (p5/6f)
We're working on it!
Posted by: Great Resetters at March 10, 2022 11:22 PM (llON8)
Posted by: J.K. Rowling at March 10, 2022 11:22 PM (3ciZ6)
Ishmael didn't even make it out of the top 25. Dang. I'm way too late for all the good opening lines!
Posted by: 496 at March 10, 2022 11:22 PM (U1eOr)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Honking is a start, but not a solution! ~ at March 10, 2022 11:21 PM (hOUT3)
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I hope so, too.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 10, 2022 11:22 PM (T8gyh)
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Hmpf!
Posted by: Lord Cardigan at March 10, 2022 11:22 PM (l0Lgi)
Universal DH, expanded playoffs and 7 inning double headers.
and no murders happened, because no one cared any more.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at March 10, 2022 11:23 PM (5pTK/)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 10, 2022 11:18 PM (63Dwl)
It is rumored that the Russians are using some broadcasts to locate Ukranian troop positions.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 10, 2022 11:23 PM (EJbIh)
The color of L'tol's dragon is the question. Now what is the answer?
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2022 11:23 PM (h3NN9)
Posted by: JB1000 at March 10, 2022 11:23 PM (wjnNP)
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 10, 2022 11:20 PM
But the price of everything is up as well, and for millions of Americans living paycheque to paycheque, it hurts, bigly!
Posted by: Zettai at March 10, 2022 11:23 PM (rm8S6)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2022 11:23 PM (h3NN9)
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Bronze?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 10, 2022 11:24 PM (T8gyh)
Posted by: Megthered at March 10, 2022 11:24 PM (XiTd3)
Posted by: Kindltot at March 10, 2022 11:24 PM (xhaym)
And then the murders began.
I think I have found the exception that proves the rule.
Posted by: 496 at March 10, 2022 11:24 PM (U1eOr)
Posted by: Oldcat at March 10, 2022 11:23 PM (EJbIh)
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Yeah, that'll work until the Russians get suckered in and blown to bits.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at March 10, 2022 11:24 PM (5pTK/)
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 10, 2022 11:24 PM (evAgx)
Bennigan's was probably the best casual dining chain of the 90's, which isn't saying much. Chili's was a close second. Anyone remember Wag's?
The last Big Boy I went to was in Cherokee, NC, probably 16-18 years ago. The building is just a local diner today, the iconic Big Boy statue long gone.
Posted by: Eric in Atlanta at March 10, 2022 11:24 PM (xfP4L)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2022 11:24 PM (h3NN9)
Posted by: Joe XiDen
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Most of us aren't living in Gotham.
Hub is an electrician. A Journeyman in June. If he has to drive into St Louis, MO, that's 100 bucks, minimum. We live in IL.
His client list is long.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 11:25 PM (Ls+Jx)
The score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play,
And then when Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the same,
A pall-like silence fell upon the patrons of the game.
and then the murders began
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 10, 2022 11:25 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: Kindltot at March 10, 2022 11:24 PM (xhaym)
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Way-ull, neither.
Titus Andronicus, on the other hand...
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 10, 2022 11:25 PM (T8gyh)
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 11:17 PM (Ls+Jx)
No shit.
Lethality writ large.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2022 11:25 PM (axyOa)
The color of L'tol's dragon is the question. Now what is the answer?
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2022 11:23 PM (h3NN9)
well theres only one white one, and golds are for girls right? Its been decades since I read any of them but I'll go green.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 10, 2022 11:25 PM (EJbIh)
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 11:25 PM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2022 11:26 PM (h3NN9)
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 11:26 PM (Ls+Jx)
Posted by: Duke Lowell, The Mad Hater at March 10, 2022 11:26 PM (cfyag)
Posted by: Oldcat at March 10, 2022 10:44 PM (EJbIh)
Shoot, when I groom my cats they only put up with it so far before they are done and ready to tell me all about it. I can't imagine taking them to a groomer's
I have to comb them out to avoid them hurking up hairballs, I am not insane.
At least not that way.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 10, 2022 11:26 PM (xhaym)
The color of L'tol's dragon is the question. Now what is the answer?
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2022 11:23 PM (h3NN9)
Hmm, without looking - I think it was Larth who was a brown - but may have been a green in the novella. Which kinda changes things a bit in McCaffrey's world.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 10, 2022 11:27 PM (llON8)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 10, 2022 11:27 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2022 11:26 PM (h3NN9)
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Just a guess. Not a Pern fan, and I read Weyr Search probably four and a half decades ago.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 10, 2022 11:27 PM (T8gyh)
Posted by: Theodore at March 10, 2022 11:27 PM (GJnvT)
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And then the murders began...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 10, 2022 11:27 PM (ELgVT)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2022 11:27 PM (h3NN9)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2022 11:24 PM (h3NN9)
no, the Company man who drew on him while he was beating up the man who kicked Cinderella the Fuzzy to death (or was it Goldilocks?) was the suicide guy. The cop said "Last time someone drew on you they called it suicided."
Jack told the son of a Khoogra line causing a murder as something he witnessed, not took part in when they were describing their language of some 40 words.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 10, 2022 11:28 PM (EJbIh)
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 10, 2022 11:28 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: oldraceral at March 10, 2022 11:28 PM (qRi2K)
Lethality writ large.
Posted by: Diogenes
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Having the power to call in such a swarm is so...awesome.
Highlights of NTC training at Ft Irwin.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 11:28 PM (Ls+Jx)
Posted by: Jack T. Ripper at March 10, 2022 11:28 PM (6lMp2)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 10, 2022 11:29 PM (llON8)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 10, 2022 11:29 PM (T8gyh)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: Oscar the Grouch at March 10, 2022 11:30 PM (kOpft)
So yeah your memory is good.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2022 11:30 PM (h3NN9)
Posted by: Joe XiDen
Well. I busted my ass for 45 years. One income. Raised a family. Ready to retire and enjoy my life. Good investments, saved, prepared. And it's all going to shit.
Fuck Biden
Fuck democrats
Fuck this bullshit.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2022 11:30 PM (axyOa)
A tale of a fateful trip
That started from this tropic port
Aboard this tiny ship.
And then the murders began.
Posted by: Stateless at March 10, 2022 11:30 PM (FsZ2q)
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Goldilocks. She just wanted to show him her new jingle.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 10, 2022 11:30 PM (T8gyh)
Posted by: Theodore at March 10, 2022 11:31 PM (GJnvT)
I have to comb them out to avoid them hurking up hairballs, I am not insane.
At least not that way.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 10, 2022 11:26 PM (xhaym)
She says that too. All cats have a timer before enough is enough, and she's clever to call a halt.
One of my late cats I adopted had huge mats - she was a Persian. I held the pointy end at the groomers and she only bit me seriously once, in the bath. She was shaved entirely except for a 1 inch stripe along the backbone. She was so relived, her legs were all tied together by the mat.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 10, 2022 11:31 PM (EJbIh)
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 11:31 PM (Ls+Jx)
And then the murders began
Posted by: Jeanm at March 10, 2022 11:31 PM (prT1u)
Posted by: gp Dodging Fast Nuclei at March 10, 2022 11:31 PM (qpX6U)
Sad!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
Inna Gadda da Vida....
and then the suicides began.
Posted by: Some Rat at March 10, 2022 11:31 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2022 11:31 PM (h3NN9)
Posted by: 496 at March 10, 2022 11:33 PM (U1eOr)
Highlights of NTC training at Ft Irwin.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 11:28 PM (Ls+Jx)
We'd get the vids of every cross flot mission for VII Corps during Desert Storm. Friggin incredible! Literally fish in a barrel.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2022 11:33 PM (axyOa)
Posted by: Theodore at March 10, 2022 11:33 PM (GJnvT)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: keena at March 10, 2022 11:33 PM (RiTnx)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 10, 2022 11:35 PM (6lMp2)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2022 11:35 PM (h3NN9)
Posted by: Diogenes
___
Between the Abrams and Apaches, we're scary.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 11:36 PM (Ls+Jx)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 10, 2022 11:36 PM (T8gyh)
Posted by: Stateless at March 10, 2022 11:36 PM (FsZ2q)
I'm taking a trip to visit V's grandparents, but I'm counting on it being the last one for awhile. It can't remain affordable if this continues, and it will.
This shit is real, and it's most assuredly not fabulous.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 10, 2022 11:36 PM (SKVme)
Posted by: gp Dodging Fast Nuclei at March 10, 2022 11:31 PM (qpX6U)
I thought I remember reading some of Elons starlink sats got fried by one last time..he just launched another batch a few days ago
Posted by: a dude in MI at March 10, 2022 11:36 PM (+I6Y/)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2022 11:31 PM (h3NN9)
Always worth doing. And Piper's sense of history how things go to hell and have to be rebuilt seems more appropriate now than when he wrote his stuff.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 10, 2022 11:37 PM (EJbIh)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 10, 2022 11:37 PM (llON8)
And that's when the killing started? Is this out on highway 61
?
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Actually how do you know this?
Posted by: Common Tater at March 10, 2022 11:37 PM (JCbo4)
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;
And then the murders began.
Posted by: 496 at March 10, 2022 11:37 PM (U1eOr)
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe.
All mimsy were the borogoves.
And the mome raths outgrabe.
And then the murders started."
Posted by: Sharkman at March 10, 2022 11:22 PM (B1Vad)
AHEM!
I got that one in first!
Posted by: Ladyl at March 10, 2022 11:38 PM (TdMsT)
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Thanks, but I'll try to find something where the shipping doesn't exceed the price of the thing.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 10, 2022 11:38 PM (T8gyh)
LASCO C3 coronagraph gif at
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/
space-weather-enthusiasts
Posted by: gp Dodging Fast Nuclei at March 10, 2022 11:39 PM (qpX6U)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 10, 2022 11:36 PM (T8gyh)
I'm trying to remember what sketch used this sentence as the basis for a comedy sketch.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 10, 2022 11:40 PM (EJbIh)
Yesterday, I realized that this couldn't go on forever.
And then the murders began.
Posted by: Stateless at March 10, 2022 11:40 PM (FsZ2q)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: 496 at March 10, 2022 11:40 PM (U1eOr)
Posted by: Adriane the Hard Boiled Critic ... at March 10, 2022 11:40 PM (okV1R)
Posted by: Oldcat at March 10, 2022 11:40 PM (EJbIh)
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"Novel Writing", Monty Python. The Matching Tie and Handkerchief Album.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 10, 2022 11:41 PM (T8gyh)
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 11:36 PM (Ls+Jx)
And ATACMS.
Gawd that thing is a killer. I fired 23 missions in the war. Unbelievable.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2022 11:41 PM (axyOa)
Yeah that was bad timing. He seems to be able to afford it. Best of luck to the Starlink project; I think it's cool.
Posted by: gp Dodging Fast Nuclei at March 10, 2022 11:41 PM (qpX6U)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: George Orwell at March 10, 2022 11:41 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: Stateless at March 10, 2022 11:01 PM (FsZ2q)
I used to play stuff like this on the background when I was doing data entry at home: an Argentine tango station out of Cordoba.
https://radioarg.net/stations/naranjofm
Posted by: Kindltot at March 10, 2022 11:41 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 10, 2022 11:41 PM (T8gyh)
I still remember the shock I got on the 30th or so playing when I hit the "third side" of the album.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 10, 2022 11:42 PM (EJbIh)
Gawd that thing is a killer. I fired 23 missions in the war. Unbelievable.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2022 11:41 PM (axyOa)
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Is that the "grid square removal system"?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 10, 2022 11:42 PM (T8gyh)
The Author did it. With a typewriter. In his study.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at March 10, 2022 11:42 PM (QzJWU)
Roger that. This causes real suffering, and there's really little reason to hope it will subside. Voters still won't learn anything lasting from it; they never do.
Posted by: gp Dodging Fast Nuclei at March 10, 2022 11:43 PM (qpX6U)
And then the murders began.
Be wary, oh ye of red shirtedness
Posted by: azjaeger at March 10, 2022 11:43 PM (3/XaG)
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 11:43 PM (Ls+Jx)
Now me, am eyeing the new Caracal decals for the ICM B-26K kit that are $13.95 with $3.95 shipping on eBay and thinking how I can cut them apart to make a plane not on the sheet.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2022 11:43 PM (h3NN9)
Don't think KFC is the same today.
Posted by: KT at March 10, 2022 11:43 PM (0ghg2)
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And then the murders began.
Posted by: Dogbert at March 10, 2022 11:43 PM (Z9HSN)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: Harper Lee at March 10, 2022 11:44 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 11:36 PM (Ls+Jx)
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Full disclosure - unlike most of you I'm not former military. But I do remember a plane show over Lake Washington in the early 90's (after Gulf War 1) where an A10 Warthog went by almost standing still. It was not hard to imagine it tearing shit up as it did so. Truly impressive.
Posted by: 496 at March 10, 2022 11:44 PM (U1eOr)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 10, 2022 11:42 PM (T8gyh)
Yup.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2022 11:45 PM (axyOa)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: Harper Lee at March 10, 2022 11:44 PM (4I/2K)
Truly Outrageous!
Posted by: Oldcat at March 10, 2022 11:45 PM (EJbIh)
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Ya got nuttin on me, copper !!!
Posted by: King of da World, Ma !!! at March 10, 2022 11:46 PM (okV1R)
Posted by: JM in Florida at March 10, 2022 11:46 PM (Ct3eR)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2022 11:47 PM (h3NN9)
Baja Fresh is a tragedy, solid good burritos.
Also liked Quiznos
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 10, 2022 11:48 PM (WF/xn)
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 11:49 PM (Ls+Jx)
Baja Fresh is a tragedy, solid good burritos.
Also liked Quiznos
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 10, 2022 11:48 PM (WF/xn)
Went to a Baja Fresh today, they aren't gone from CA.
We never went out much as a kid - too many kids, single mom and Frisch's Big Boy wasn't on the list. KFC was an extremely rare treat, like a time or two a year. It doesn't seem special now.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 10, 2022 11:50 PM (EJbIh)
In Winslow, Arizona
Such a fine sight to see
It's a girl, my Lord
In a flat-bed Ford
Slowin' down to take a look at me
And then the murders began
Posted by: Dogbert at March 10, 2022 11:51 PM (Z9HSN)
Posted by: 496
I read somewhere that a single round from the A-10s Gat has enough kinetic energy to kill a tank. That's lethal in an almost holy way.
Posted by: Sharkman at March 10, 2022 11:51 PM (B1Vad)
Posted by: azjaeger at March 10, 2022 11:51 PM (3/XaG)
Posted by: Weirddave at March 10, 2022 11:51 PM (GpUUo)
They can save the dollar, or save the markets, but they sure as shit can't save both? And they can't raise interest rates to any meaningful level. Maybe 3 or 4 per cent, and it's boom boom out go the lights, near as I can tell.
I'm really surprised it took this long. But I knew it would, from reading history.
Posted by: Common Tater at March 10, 2022 11:52 PM (JCbo4)
Posted by: SFGoth at March 10, 2022 11:52 PM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Sharkman
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You should see what a Hellfire does to a tank.
It lives up to its name.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 11:52 PM (Ls+Jx)
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Ya got nuttin on me, copper !!!
Posted by: King of da World, Ma !!! at March 10, 2022 11:46 PM (okV1R)
I remember a story about an author who has a stalker, sending postcards every so often, always getting closer. Finally he gets there and its one of his characters, who said that he will kill him unless he can name something good he wrote about him. He couldn't, since he'd done such a hatchet job on him and die he did.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 10, 2022 11:53 PM (EJbIh)
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 11:53 PM (Ls+Jx)
Posted by: Anna Puma
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LOL
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 11:49 PM (Ls+Jx)
***
Heh. My first ATACMS mission was to take out a SA-2 site in SW Kuwait prior to a Buff mission coming in.
Melted slag.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2022 11:53 PM (axyOa)
Posted by: Common Tater at March 10, 2022 11:52 PM (JCbo4)
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I don't think we make it out of this without devaluing the US Dollar to the point where it is damn near worthless. Too much debt on the books (and even more 'off the books').
Posted by: 496 at March 10, 2022 11:54 PM (U1eOr)
We never went out much as a kid - too many kids, single mom and Frisch's Big Boy wasn't on the list. KFC was an extremely rare treat, like a time or two a year. It doesn't seem special now.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 10, 2022 11:50 PM (EJbIh)
KFC when I was a kid gave you squeeze packs of honey for the rolls. I liked all of their stuff as a kid, Cole slaw, mashed potatoes and gravy. I haven't been forever. I will have to try it sometime.
The Baja Fresh by me closed during CoVid. I loved the surf and turf burrito
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 10, 2022 11:54 PM (WF/xn)
Posted by: Common Tater at March 10, 2022 11:52 PM (JCbo4)
What can you possibly learn from reading history? They never had the "right" people doing it!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) -Honk as if your life depended on it! ~ at March 10, 2022 11:55 PM (hOUT3)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: Captain Ted W. Lawson at March 10, 2022 11:55 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: Sharkman
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30mm DU round coming in through the thin upper armor. Yes, yes it does.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 10, 2022 11:55 PM (T8gyh)
I'm really surprised it took this long. But I knew it would, from reading history.
Posted by: Common Tater at March 10, 2022 11:52 PM (JCbo4)
sad but true - the patient can no longer survive the medicine of 1980 - 1981. We have too much debt already for us to do that.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 10, 2022 11:56 PM (evAgx)
Posted by: SFGoth at March 10, 2022 11:56 PM (KAi1n)
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If I get anything from KFC, I only get the chicken. The sides suck, now.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 10, 2022 11:56 PM (T8gyh)
I see people have "$3 and "$1.80 Shipping", things like that.
Just for fun, I'm thinking of listing them for sale, and get someone to buy them. Then stick a .35 cent stamp on it, and mail it to them.
"Hope you enjoy your postcard. Wish you were here!"
Posted by: Common Tater at March 10, 2022 11:57 PM (JCbo4)
"The bodies were discovered at eight forty-five on the morning of Wednesday 18 September..."
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 10, 2022 11:58 PM (AytXr)
Posted by: Sharkman
I was impressed when I read that a single round could shatter a telephone pole in two.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 10, 2022 11:58 PM (evAgx)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk
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Prince - Purple Rain (1984)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvnYmWpD_T8
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 11:58 PM (Ls+Jx)
God help me I love it so.
Posted by: 496 at March 10, 2022 11:58 PM (U1eOr)
A noble has his wife and father in law shot at the wedding, critically wounding him. He sells everything to chase the killer, who stole a ship to escape to the areas where the Space Vikings raid.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 10, 2022 11:21 PM (EJbIh)
Space Viking is a good story all around, almost as good as Cosmic Computer, and bvoth of them are pretty poorly known
M.A. Foster did a similar book, called The Warriors of Dawn, but the background was about the bioengineered species of humans called the Ller who were at strained relations with the main branch humans, when it appears that barbaric Ller are raiding human worlds in an ancient globular spaceship in violation of treaties.
It is an odd book, one of the unsung new-wave sci-fi books like The Godwhale
Posted by: Kindltot at March 10, 2022 11:58 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 10, 2022 11:58 PM (WF/xn)
"John Carpenter Still Open To Making 'Escape From Earth*'."
Discuss.
*Sequel to Escape from NY/LA
Posted by: Sharkman at March 10, 2022 11:58 PM (B1Vad)
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 10, 2022 11:59 PM (WF/xn)
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 10, 2022 11:58 PM (WF/xn)
I remember Naugles from St Louis. Burrito as Big as Your Head
Posted by: Oldcat at March 10, 2022 11:59 PM (EJbIh)
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 11:59 PM (Ls+Jx)
Posted by: Theodore at March 11, 2022 12:00 AM (GJnvT)
Posted by: Common Tater
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Cold, Tater...cold.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 11, 2022 12:00 AM (AytXr)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 11, 2022 12:00 AM (h3NN9)
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 11, 2022 12:01 AM (WF/xn)
Posted by: Diogenes at March 11, 2022 12:01 AM (axyOa)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 11, 2022 12:02 AM (VwHCD)
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Imagine an air fryer.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 11, 2022 12:02 AM (Ls+Jx)
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 11, 2022 12:01 AM (WF/xn)
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There is still a drive-up A&W about an hour south of me. The food is fine, but the drive-up atmosphere makes it great.
Posted by: 496 at March 11, 2022 12:02 AM (U1eOr)
Posted by: Diogenes at March 11, 2022 12:01 AM (axyOa)
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APDS? With the DU core? I've heard about that.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 11, 2022 12:02 AM (T8gyh)
KFC, hadn't eaten there in years, tried it recently. I judged it not too bad at all, and quite a lot of food for the money, compared to delivery pizza. I expect it's more work than slinging crappy pizza, too. They were trying to do a good job, unlike a lot of pizza joints.
Posted by: Common Tater at March 11, 2022 12:03 AM (JCbo4)
One A-10A took an SA-7 in the wing. The explosion took out two of the three wing spars and the plane still managed to return to base safely, be repaired, and fly again.
Republic had only designed the A-10 to lose one wing spar and return.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 11, 2022 12:03 AM (h3NN9)
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 10, 2022 11:59 PM (WF/xn)
Oh Hell yeah!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at March 11, 2022 12:03 AM (axyOa)
Posted by: S. Ivanova at March 11, 2022 12:03 AM (kOpft)
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 11, 2022 12:03 AM (Ls+Jx)
Ya got nuttin on me, copper !!!
Posted by: King of da World, Ma !!! at March 10, 2022 11:46 PM (okV1R)
Ewwwww.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 11, 2022 12:04 AM (II3Gr)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward at March 11, 2022 12:04 AM (4I/2K)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 11, 2022 12:02 AM (T8gyh)
Yes.
And the sound is unique.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 11, 2022 12:04 AM (axyOa)
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 11, 2022 12:04 AM (Ls+Jx)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) -Honk as if your life depended on it! ~ at March 11, 2022 12:05 AM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 11, 2022 12:05 AM (VwHCD)
Yep Oldcat remembered it right.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 11, 2022 12:00 AM (h3NN9)
I'm pretty solid on Piper. Plus Pappy Jack would never do a bad shooting.
I like Piper's historical grounding and his twists in most of his books, how it doesn't quite end up where you think it is going. Even Little Fuzzy starts out as cute animals, turns into a legal battle and struggle to prove sapience of the fellows. Then in the next book, the big enemy get converted to allies.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 11, 2022 12:06 AM (EJbIh)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) -Honk as if your life depended on it! ~ at March 11, 2022 12:06 AM (hOUT3)
And the sound is unique.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 11, 2022 12:04 AM (axyOa)
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Willie and Joe cartoon.
"You ever notice the funny sound these zippers make?"
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 11, 2022 12:06 AM (T8gyh)
Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at March 11, 2022 12:06 AM (Adlwz)
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 11, 2022 12:07 AM (WF/xn)
Fuck Biden
Fuck democrats
Fuck this bullshit.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2022 11:30 PM (axyOa)
Ditto. And was pointed out in these parts, oil is not just for gasoline. It's pervasive in all kinds of products. And they will ALL get more expensive and possibly scarcer. Electronics, sporting goods, health and beauty aids, textiles, medical supplies, household products...
Posted by: JM in Florida at March 11, 2022 12:07 AM (Ct3eR)
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 11, 2022 12:08 AM (WF/xn)
Posted by: JM in Florida at March 11, 2022 12:07 AM (Ct3eR)
Its easy to break things, a toddler can do it. Then they grow up.
Building things back is difficult and may be impossible.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 11, 2022 12:08 AM (EJbIh)
Posted by: JM in Florida at March 11, 2022 12:07 AM (Ct3eR)
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Just as long as the wine moms' lululemon and starbucks don't go up...
Posted by: 496 at March 11, 2022 12:09 AM (U1eOr)
Posted by: Sharkman at March 10, 2022 11:58 PM (B1Vad)
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Carpenter should do a remake of 'They Live', except this time the aliens are Democrats. Make the subliminal messages say things like 'Going Green Is Good!' and 'We Can Spend Our Way Out Of Debt!', as well as the ubiquitous 'Obey!' I don't know who would take on Roddy Piper's role, so I'm open to suggestions.
Posted by: RickZ at March 11, 2022 12:09 AM (ldL4g)
Posted by: James Herriot at March 11, 2022 12:09 AM (4I/2K)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 11, 2022 12:10 AM (oWZwa)
Posted by: 496 at March 11, 2022 12:09 AM (U1eOr)
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I think Starbuck's coffee is rife with petroleum products...
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 11, 2022 12:10 AM (T8gyh)
Posted by: 496 at March 11, 2022 12:02 AM (U1eOr)
Probably my favorite dessert, a frosty root beer float
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 11, 2022 12:10 AM (WF/xn)
Then there were people who did try to write Fuzzy novels. Golden Dreams does not quite fail because the author does not attempt to ape what Piper wrote. Now Fuzzy Bones fails miserably because it tries to follow the Sunstone Heist but knowing that Piper's lost third novel was still lurking out there to be found nothing happens to Hugo Ingerman. And then there was John Scalzi's butchery of Little Fuzzy that turned Jack into a shyster lawyer, got rid of half the characters, and wrote a novel of 300+ pages when the original paperback was only 174 pages. Plus gave Jack a semi-intelligent pet that liked to play with explosives.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 11, 2022 12:10 AM (h3NN9)
Plasma jet from the tungsten penetrator melting the armor on it's way through, and then sucking the molten armor into the hull behind it, as it passes through to the other side. Crew is horribly burnt into charred meat, but it's not exactly Sous Vide. More like 3,000 degrees for a quarter second.
Would not want to be on a Graves Recovery crew trying to work those Well Done tankers out of their turrets and hulls.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at March 11, 2022 12:10 AM (QzJWU)
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 11, 2022 12:08 AM (WF/xn)
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It is low-class and extremely bad for you. And it tastes so good.
Posted by: 496 at March 11, 2022 12:11 AM (U1eOr)
sad but true - the patient can no longer survive the medicine of 1980 - 1981. We have too much debt already for us to do that.
Posted by: Tom Servo
What medicine will be prescribed for 2022?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 11, 2022 12:11 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: RickZ at March 11, 2022 12:09 AM (ldL4g)
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I could use the work.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 11, 2022 12:11 AM (T8gyh)
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 10, 2022 11:59 PM (WF/xn)
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Loved Shakey's All-You-Can-Eat weekday lunch special.
Posted by: RickZ at March 11, 2022 12:11 AM (ldL4g)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 11, 2022 12:11 AM (XntMs)
Posted by: Theodore at March 11, 2022 12:12 AM (GJnvT)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) -Honk as if your life depended on it! ~ at March 11, 2022 12:06 AM (hOUT3)
Doing ok. Slowly unpacking and organizing the house, and planning the construction projects. Of course I never do anything normal, so...
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 11, 2022 12:12 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: RickZ at March 11, 2022 12:11 AM (ldL4g)
Pretty sure it was called Bunch O Lunch, like 7.95
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 11, 2022 12:13 AM (WF/xn)
Well. In Kuwait there was this puzzling thing of Iraqi tanks with their turrets blown off, or the entire tank flipped upside down, after we had sent our greetings via our Air Force.
Mavericks penetrated all the way through many tanks, only detonating when hitting the desert hardpan. Thus, flipped tanks.
They worked. Which really wasn't possible, since Beltway media had revealed and decided they didn't. Puzzling.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 11, 2022 12:14 AM (OTzUX)
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That is what I was going to say, but I needed to look it up. Thanks for the heavy lifting!
Posted by: sassy at March 11, 2022 12:14 AM (xSICi)
Posted by: Theodore at March 11, 2022 12:12 AM (GJnvT)
Love the surf and turf burrito
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 11, 2022 12:15 AM (WF/xn)
The Rock. Of course they'd cast The Rock. I actually suspect he could do it, he's got a bit of the ham in him.
I see that the Larth question got answered before I got to it, I've been trailing the thread, was watching a really good Flames/Lightning game. Flames won 4-1.
Posted by: Weirddave at March 11, 2022 12:15 AM (zjsv2)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 11, 2022 12:16 AM (XntMs)
I only watched the movie. Not great, but I applaud the interesting idea. Should I read the book?
Posted by: sassy at March 11, 2022 12:16 AM (xSICi)
I only watched the movie. Not great, but I applaud the interesting idea. Should I read the book?
Posted by: sassy at March 11, 2022 12:16 AM (xSICi)
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I have a copy of Axis and Allies and Zombies.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 11, 2022 12:16 AM (T8gyh)
One of PJ O'Rourke's many classic lines was in his article about Nicaragua under the Sandinistas.
"It's one thing to burn down the outhouse, another to install plumbing."
(from memory)
Posted by: rhomboid at March 11, 2022 12:17 AM (OTzUX)
Posted by: 496 at March 11, 2022 12:17 AM (U1eOr)
Posted by: Theodore at March 11, 2022 12:17 AM (GJnvT)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 11, 2022 12:18 AM (CTJwJ)
Posted by: 496 at March 11, 2022 12:17 AM (U1eOr)
Oh, he'll get more. In the end.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 11, 2022 12:18 AM (7bRMQ)
Posted by: Not This August at March 11, 2022 12:19 AM (4I/2K)
Posted by: Oldcat at March 11, 2022 12:08 AM (EJbIh)
Thus, Hrothgar's inverted pyramid theory of advanced civilizations. The inverted pyramid is basically unstable, but if enough clever motivated people keep working at it, compensating for all the idiots in charge, then the inverted pyramid can remain pretty much upright even if a bit wobbly.
When you allow corrupt, incompetent, stupid people to be in charge (even temporarily), there are not enough clever motivated to counter the sheer mass of idiocy.
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) -Honk as if your life depended on it! ~ at March 11, 2022 12:19 AM (hOUT3)
And when his daddy would visit he'd come along
And then the murders began.
Posted by: 496 at March 11, 2022 12:20 AM (U1eOr)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) -Honk as if your life depended on it! ~ at March 11, 2022 12:21 AM (hOUT3)
Then there were people who did try to write Fuzzy novels. Golden Dreams does not quite fail because the author does not attempt to ape what Piper wrote. Now Fuzzy Bones fails miserably because it tries to follow the Sunstone Heist but knowing that Piper's lost third novel was still lurking out there to be found nothing happens to Hugo Ingerman.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 11, 2022 12:10 AM (h3NN9)
I did pick up the non-sequels, Bones irked me because they tried re-picking up the "fuzzies aren't native sapients" of the first book by saying they weren't native. Like any sensible system wouldn't make hundreds or thousands of years of occupancy into a claim. Never was tempted by Scalzi, read the blurb and noped right out.
There are apparently a bunch of Viking sequels and Kalvan sequels by John F Carr and a couple others. Not really tempting, the first one was pretty meh.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 11, 2022 12:21 AM (EJbIh)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 11, 2022 12:16 AM (XntMs)
There is a pizza place down the street that has really good boneless chicken tenders. Friday night gatherings around here lately has been a big order of the tenders and a pizza. That and bourbon.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 11, 2022 12:22 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: rhomboid
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The same people were predicting 20,000 casualties.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 11, 2022 12:22 AM (CTJwJ)
Posted by: Oldcat at March 11, 2022 12:21 AM (EJbIh)
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I enjoyed Lord Kalvan and the first sequel, Great King's War. Haven't read the others.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 11, 2022 12:23 AM (T8gyh)
I do glance at the daily updates by a few outfits, but no longer try to keep up with milblogger/online types (all sides).
Bottom line is all that matters. Russia went in to achieve specific political objectives, almost surely, and fairly obvious ones, and hard to see them stopping or withdrawing until they get them (well, most of them). However slippery any "wins" will be in the medium term.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 11, 2022 12:23 AM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Berserker
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*imagines a Harley rod/piston door-knocker*
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 11, 2022 12:24 AM (vOGqy)
I only watched the movie. Not great, but I applaud the interesting idea. Should I read the book?
Posted by: sassy at March 11, 2022 12:16 AM (xSICi)
I never got the zombies mystique. surely being dumber than any animal defense would be very simple, with any kind of effort. And out in the country the replacement corpse supply is zero. So retire out of urban centers, then come back a killin' em.
The Birds and the animals go crazy stories are more plausible. My cats could do some damage to me if they felt like it and organized.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 11, 2022 12:25 AM (EJbIh)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 11, 2022 12:26 AM (T8gyh)
Posted by: Berserker
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*imagines a Harley rod/piston door-knocker*
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 11, 2022 12:24 AM (vOGqy)
You know, thats not a bad idea actually, lol. I should do that in the garage. Can't do the front door, Mrs B would surely kill me.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 11, 2022 12:26 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 11, 2022 12:24 AM (vOGqy)
"Nice Knockers!"
*cues off-cue whinny*
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at March 11, 2022 12:26 AM (QzJWU)
Posted by: rhomboid at March 11, 2022 12:23 AM (OTzUX)
The word I'm getting from sources that have been right before in the last several years says that it is almost certain that pretty much all the forces in E Ukraine are now surrounded in place there and will be reduced. This might be why the State Dept is so manic to send "help" before it all becomes clear its over.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 11, 2022 12:27 AM (EJbIh)
Posted by: Dogbert at March 11, 2022 12:27 AM (Z9HSN)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 11, 2022 12:27 AM (h3NN9)
Posted by: Oldcat
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Heh.
Posted by: Willard at March 11, 2022 12:28 AM (vOGqy)
Posted by: rhomboid at March 11, 2022 12:28 AM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 11, 2022 12:23 AM (T8gyh)
Just found out recently that Piper committed suicide because he was convinced he was a failure. I liked Lord Kalvan and Lone Star Planet, and am reading Empire, if only I can find the book again!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) -Honk as if your life depended on it! ~ at March 11, 2022 12:28 AM (hOUT3)
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 11, 2022 12:28 AM (Ls+Jx)
A film adaptation of Indianapolis author John Green's latest novel has picked up steam after languishing for several years, according to the The Hollywood Reporter.
New Line Cinema has picked up the "Turtles All the Way Down" film rights and cast Isabela Merced ("Dora and the Lost City of Gold," "Transformers: The Last Night") as 16-year-old Aza Holmes, the 2017 novel's protagonist.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 11, 2022 12:29 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 11, 2022 12:23 AM (T8gyh)
Yes, that's where I left it too. I just felt in the hints I got of the plotline in Pournelle's collection books were too far. Syphon was down, there might be other problems for Kalvan and his empire going forward but a reformation for Syphon just wasn't going to cut it.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 11, 2022 12:30 AM (EJbIh)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 11, 2022 12:30 AM (T8gyh)
Posted by: Theodore at March 11, 2022 12:30 AM (GJnvT)
the three traditional solutions is default, devaluation and renegotiation of repayment.
The first is to say, "sucks you trusted us"
The second is to say "we repay face value, sucks you trusted us to follow the intent of our contract"
the third is to say, "we repay you at a new schedule and at the interest we choose, but we gotta get it first"
Eventually we wind up with a currency the central bank can't faff around with. If we are lucky, as in "we are not Colombia"
Oh, hey, and my favorite bedtime story: Fiat Money Inflation in France: How it Came, What it Brought, and How it Ended
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6949
Posted by: Kindltot at March 11, 2022 12:33 AM (xhaym)
Posted by: Oldcat
Well, the rumor I heard was that the best or forward elements of the Ukraine Army were being encircled in the Donbass area. Saw some interesting drone footage today of a battle in Kherson on the freeway berm, but it seemed a little .....surrealistic.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative.....lost in a lost world at March 11, 2022 12:34 AM (tjZg/)
And WeirdDave, it's no longer the RKKA (the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army), actually wasn't since 1946. Just a microscopic trivia quibble.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 11, 2022 12:34 AM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) -Honk as if your life depended on it! ~ at March 11, 2022 12:28 AM (hOUT3)
true - though he had a few checks coming that he didn't know about. I saw Empire on Amazon just now, could check other used book vendors. A Slave is a Slave is a good one.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 11, 2022 12:34 AM (EJbIh)
Posted by: Berserker
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I knew a guy that owned a Hi-Fi shop. Remember those? At his home, the front door had a Rek-O-Kut tone arm for a door-knocker.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 11, 2022 12:34 AM (CTJwJ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 11, 2022 12:35 AM (h3NN9)
Posted by: Bozo Conservative.....lost in a lost world at March 11, 2022 12:34 AM (tjZg/)
They are only forward in the sense that they moved into the demilitarized zone there last year this time. They are static.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 11, 2022 12:36 AM (EJbIh)
Posted by: rhomboid at March 11, 2022 12:37 AM (OTzUX)
I hope he doesn't beat himself up over the sentence.
Posted by: Weirddave at March 11, 2022 12:37 AM (zjsv2)
Day of the Moron, Omnilingual, Space Viking, Time Crime, and others.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 11, 2022 12:38 AM (h3NN9)
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at March 11, 2022 12:10 AM (QzJWU)
This.
Had to pull one guy out and bury him.
I'll not go into details. Brutal. But then again, so is war.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 11, 2022 12:38 AM (axyOa)
Not sure if you are here, but I love your cooking links. Got lost for hours.
Like Mis Hum last night I got lost in Bob Segar. Hours.
Hi Horde!
Posted by: Infidel at March 11, 2022 12:41 AM (ou23q)
A fucking commie by any other name smells just as sweet when he's dead.
Posted by: Weirddave at March 11, 2022 12:42 AM (zjsv2)
Posted by: rhomboid at March 11, 2022 12:34 AM (OTzUX)
I disagree - theyve been cleaning up the east border around Kharkov, fixing the main forces in the east near the disputed regions, and moving along the coast from Crimea to Mariupol and not being stopped. Now they seem to have broken out and have a loose cordon surrounding the basically static Ukranian army.
Outside of propaganda pap I've seen little resistance to this
Anything near Kiev is just a distraction. They have made few serious moves there now that they are close enough to move in if a ceasefire calls for it.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 11, 2022 12:43 AM (EJbIh)
And traveling golfers take note: on the 3rd hole at Coronado public course*, off to the right, if you're lucky, as you set up your second shot you can watch BUDS instructors in kayaks barking at aspiring service members, as in teams of 4 they try to right and bail small rubber rafts (teamwork exercise).
* haven't played there in a while, it might be up to $50 a round by now - but setting and course would cost two-three times that anywhere else, quirk of state law on reclaimed land mandating non-discriminatory pricing and non-profit status
Posted by: rhomboid at March 11, 2022 12:43 AM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 11, 2022 12:27 AM (h3NN9)
There is a couple of printings out of Murder in the Gunroom out, but it is really hard to find a copy of Null ABC, I only found it as an Ace double.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 11, 2022 12:43 AM (xhaym)
Day of the Moron, Omnilingual, Space Viking, Time Crime, and others.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 11, 2022 12:38 AM (h3NN9)
Omnilingual got me interested in Science for real. One of the best mystery stories ever, and I love the protagonist who stands for her work without being a copy of a man.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 11, 2022 12:44 AM (EJbIh)
Posted by: Kindltot at March 11, 2022 12:43 AM (xhaym)
I think I got that as a Kindle super collection.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 11, 2022 12:45 AM (EJbIh)
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The Des Moines' student died as a result of a gang related drive-by shooting.
Posted by: Timbuk3 at March 11, 2022 12:46 AM (jPtGI)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 11, 2022 12:46 AM (h3NN9)
Posted by: rhomboid at March 11, 2022 12:37 AM (OTzUX)
Probably, but when the army goes into the sack they could drive anywhere they want. But likely there will be a settlement to save some face, like how the Yom Kippur war was settled before the Egyptian Army surrounded in the Sinai had to surrender.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 11, 2022 12:47 AM (EJbIh)
Had to pull one guy out and bury him.
I'll not go into details. Brutal. But then again, so is war.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 11, 2022 12:38 AM (axyOa)
I think about the WWII footage of that tail gunner who was so badly mangled from an AA burst they buried him at sea in the plane. The plane still flew, and spare parts were gold, yet he was so bad they just pushed it overboard. Compare that to the fucking safe space needing triggered pussies of today.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 11, 2022 12:47 AM (VwHCD)
(I denounce myself)
Posted by: mnw at March 11, 2022 12:48 AM (NLIak)
Be nuts to deal with any city, Kiev or other, that can be avoided. All comes down to getting Z to cry "uncle" as soon and easily as possible. Sadly I don't think the Ukes are that well organized or realistic, could easily see them wasting lives and destruction past the point where the deal is clearly the best option.
But even more than usual I really don't the facts so who knows.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 11, 2022 12:51 AM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 11, 2022 12:38 AM (h3NN9)
Day of the Moron is pretty much Carlo Cipolla's The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity, explained as a story with a plot, instead of as a monograph.
Thoug Dr. Cipolla released his book in the English translation in the early 70s
Posted by: Kindltot at March 11, 2022 12:51 AM (xhaym)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 11, 2022 12:47 AM (VwHCD)
Safe spaces isn't about fear. It is a type of attack, attacking you because you are civilized and they are not. Feminists attack your gallantry while treating it with contempt.
If people really were like the left likes to portray us, these types would be sweeping floors and not given cushy jobs to berate us.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 11, 2022 12:52 AM (EJbIh)
OK, "the complete breakdown of Ukraine, all you need to know" ... that is how YouTube guys title their videos, so that people will watch. Or .. "The one thing you must know, that no one has heard, to understand Ukraine/Russia". and usually the video does not deliver.
My view ... Russia has underperformed, it is getting expensive for Putin in many ways, financial and domestic support, and maybe some breaking in the military ranks. ... So while he could prevail, maybe he's accept a little less in a deal. But another twist, Finland Sweden seem to see the bigger threat and are supporting Ukraine resistance, even considering NATO as necessary.
The Zelansky side ..idk, seems willing to lose a lot more lives, or hopes sanctions will wear down Putin. China side ... beyond me, the smart people say Russia is now a China client state ... I'm not so sure, from my armchair general position.
Posted by: illiniwek at March 11, 2022 12:52 AM (Cus5s)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC83HJMzfB4
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 11, 2022 12:54 AM (Ls+Jx)
Saw a report on Tucker that Putin's support in Russia is UP 10 points... not down... because OUR attacks on their economy is seen as an attack on the Russian people.
And rightfully so. When your credit and debit cards, and phones, and internet, suddenly stop working? Well, I'd take it personally.
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 11, 2022 12:55 AM (oHd/0)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 11, 2022 12:55 AM (h3NN9)
Posted by: illiniwek at March 11, 2022 12:52 AM (Cus5s)
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That's a name I haven't seen in a while.
Posted by: Corners to the plate at March 11, 2022 12:55 AM (jPtGI)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 11, 2022 12:46 AM (h3NN9)
Gutenberg used to have bookshelves so I could run through the authors to see what I wanted that way, I think they have re-organized things and I can't find anything unless I know the name of the author.
Which sucks, because if I knew the author I wouldn't be searching.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 11, 2022 12:55 AM (xhaym)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 11, 2022 12:55 AM (h3NN9)
There are more stupid people in the world than is apparent, and no one understands the damage stupid people can do. Futhermore, there is no defense against stupid people.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 11, 2022 12:58 AM (xhaym)
Posted by: Weirddave
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Annnnnnd, that triggers the post of the excerpt from Mickey Spillane's 'One Lonely Night':
"I killed more people tonight than I have fingers on my hand. I shot them in cold blood and enjoyed every minute of it. I pumped slugs in the nastiest bunch of bastards you ever saw and here I am calmer than I’ve ever been, and happy too. They were Communists, Lee. They were red sons of bitches who should have died long ago…"
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 11, 2022 01:00 AM (CTJwJ)
it is like calling for a pause in fighting to negotiate, but all they do is use the "cease fire" time to move their military into better offensive position. Safe space ... from which we will fire upon you ... you get no safe space.
Posted by: illiniwek at March 11, 2022 01:00 AM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Theodore at March 11, 2022 01:00 AM (GJnvT)
Posted by: illiniwek at March 11, 2022 12:52 AM (Cus5s)
Well, we are definitely pushing them together like idiots, and Russia's raw materials are a good fit with China's huge needs for that. But at least now Russia stands on its own. The more we refuse to tie them to the west with trade, the less leverage we have.
We have played the sanction game over and over with them, and each time it was supposed to destroy them, yet they are still there.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 11, 2022 01:01 AM (EJbIh)
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 11, 2022 01:01 AM (UHVv4)
Posted by: Theodore at March 11, 2022 01:01 AM (GJnvT)
there is maybe that rally round the flag thing, more dominant in Russia .. BUT there seems to be video of big protests, even as they put many in prison. I have no clue which is accurate. But polling would maybe be less trustworthy than video of huge protest (but maybe the video is from another country 20 years ago, idk)
Posted by: illiniwek at March 11, 2022 01:05 AM (Cus5s)
Juicy was sentenced to jail for faking a hate crime. He threw a temper tantrum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJK1WSgOrh0
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 11, 2022 01:06 AM (Ls+Jx)
Posted by: illiniwek at March 11, 2022 01:05 AM (Cus5s)
No idea on that, but among regular folk in the US the vietnam protests increased support for the war. It took more years of feckless strategy to tire out the bulk of the country.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 11, 2022 01:07 AM (EJbIh)
Mtume - Juicy Fruit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MucY5wRYByU
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 11, 2022 01:09 AM (Ls+Jx)
Posted by: rhomboid at March 11, 2022 01:09 AM (OTzUX)
Berzerker. That tail gunner was not really a TAIL gunner, but a rear-gunner in a USN carrier plane in the Pacific. Dauntless or such, AnnaPuma would know. No gun in the tail, but a swivel mounted gun in the aft cockpit, canopy slid open for combat.
The story is true, and correct, as you've stated.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at March 11, 2022 01:10 AM (QzJWU)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at March 11, 2022 01:10 AM (sqsol)
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 11, 2022 01:11 AM (Ls+Jx)
Posted by: Skip at March 11, 2022 01:11 AM (2JoB8)
I don't get it, but it sure seems the DC cartel, DeepState, whatever ... has decided to cripple USA and support China ... Trump intent on breaking our dependence on China. Not sure if the Cartel crippled/broke Trump for his fighting China, or for his ideas of forming some alliance or at least détente with Russia.
My guess is the first target for DeepState/globalists is USA, then they think they can shut down China ... Liberty must be destroyed, then it is just the global mafias fighting each other. but idk, maybe their are a couple white hats in DC still ... "Trust the Plan". heh
Posted by: illiniwek at March 11, 2022 01:12 AM (Cus5s)
Posted by: rhomboid at March 11, 2022 01:09 AM (OTzUX)
Another problem for the West is after all the blowhard talk now, companies may be leery of being Putin supporters by restarting trade. It was said that even before the government went to embargo oil, traders were doing it anyway due to the yellow press and bluster.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 11, 2022 01:12 AM (EJbIh)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at March 11, 2022 01:13 AM (sqsol)
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 11, 2022 01:14 AM (Ls+Jx)
Posted by: illiniwek at March 11, 2022 01:12 AM (Cus5s)
Oddly, one of the first things the admin did was piss off the Chinese. They've been stomping around in a snit ever since, which is a bad move if they somehow expect to profit from China's victory.
They were pissed at Trumps early moves to ease tensions with Russia, don't know if it was the prime motivator. His moves on child trafficking might be more to the point, their actions seem more personal than geopolitical.
You could be correct this is the 'plan', but like everything these idiots screw up everything they do.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 11, 2022 01:16 AM (EJbIh)
Please give my best too, to ExEx. Y'all is the best.
October, come quickly!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at March 11, 2022 01:16 AM (QzJWU)
There was one about a block from where I grew up.
I think there is an existing one in Muskegon MI.
At least as of 4 years ago or so.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 11, 2022 01:18 AM (UvU17)
It wasn't a Dauntless but an Avenger. Turret gunner, KIA. They buried him at his station and pushed the plane overboard.
First combat deployment of the TBF, the sole surviving Avenger, 8-T-1, that attacked Nagumo's carriers also returned with a dead turret gunner to Midway Island.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 11, 2022 01:19 AM (h3NN9)
Yesterday the Russian foreign minister had a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart in the form of a group setting hosted by the Turkish foreign minister. Lavrov's statement afterward, I thought, was a perfect illustration of what I'm talking about.
Not gonna go look it up, but close to verbatim - "it's not just about life, it's about Russia's right to a place and respect on the world map".
The 30 year process of NATO expansion, but especially the case of Ukraine, has stepped on this permanent raw Russian nerve. Practical security calculations suffice for Moscow's discomfort with a militarily robust/western integrated Ukraine, but there's even more to it.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 11, 2022 01:21 AM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 11, 2022 01:19 AM (h3NN9)
I thought Torpedo 8 only survivor was George Gay who was shot down in the zone around the Japanese carriers who were struck and who was rescued later by rescue plane/sub.
The other squadrons had a few planes get back
Posted by: Oldcat at March 11, 2022 01:23 AM (EJbIh)
Posted by: rhomboid at March 11, 2022 01:26 AM (OTzUX)
The 30 year process of NATO expansion, but especially the case of Ukraine, has stepped on this permanent raw Russian nerve. Practical security calculations suffice for Moscow's discomfort with a militarily robust/western integrated Ukraine, but there's even more to it.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 11, 2022 01:21 AM (OTzUX)
The fact of life that countries besides your own have interests that will have to be satisfied is what Diplomacy is all about. Our Diplomats have forgotten that, and also forgotten about our own national interests. This isn't really emotional on the Russians part, its what defines normal politics on a transnational scale.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 11, 2022 01:27 AM (EJbIh)
Same with N.Korea.
The (d) fucktards though, they think "fishing" is done with concrete boots stomping through the trout stream till the waters are blinded with mud and silt and gravel down to the inch.
You think fishing with a telephone generator is crude? Dynamite? Grenades? Wait'll they try to drive a raise with a nuke or three in the Global Pond. Yeah, they'll draw a "bite", then. Surely they will. Stupid Fucktards.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at March 11, 2022 01:28 AM (QzJWU)
1.) The Russian state is committed to their course... Subjugation of Ukraine. Perhaps with a rump state in the West, perhaps not. But a suzerainty, with no more Western influence or threat. And they will almost definitely achieve it.
2.) The US is desperate to precipitate a broader war, but will likely (hopefully) be unable to do so before Russia presents the fait accompli.
3.) The sanctions will be wholly ineffective, to the point of being a non-factor in the short to medium term. If Russia decides to counter by ceasing energy and materials exports, their needful things will outweigh the West's luxuries.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 11, 2022 01:28 AM (SKVme)
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I attended a Memorial Day service where he spoke. Kind of surreal to know the background of this guy that I'm watching and listening to.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 11, 2022 01:28 AM (DMQdU)
Posted by: rhomboid at March 11, 2022 01:26 AM (OTzUX)
That could be.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 11, 2022 01:29 AM (EJbIh)
Posted by: Skip at March 11, 2022 01:11 AM (2JoB
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I forget which one, but some symphony cancelled Prokofiev. Sheer idiocy.
So many forget how the Russians rallied together under that prick, Stalin, during The Great Patriotic War (a/k/a WWII). Hitler tried to break the will of the British people with The Blitz and that didn't work out so well. Neither will pissing off everyday Russians who had no say in Putin's bullshit invasion.
Posted by: RickZ at March 11, 2022 01:30 AM (ldL4g)
yeah, that aspect is probably a big one, underrated by most as "conspiracy theory" ... yet for those that know, it is a BFD. And the prevalence of that horrible (or to spiritual people, devilish) attack on our society is huge. The thing about teachers demanding their "tight" to groom our children is almost like revealing the pizza stuff was real ... they are an evil cult (or bigger, an evil religion).
Posted by: illiniwek at March 11, 2022 01:31 AM (Cus5s)
During work ups, USS Hornet became the last carrier to be issued the TBD and the first carrier to be issued the TBF.
The TBD equipped VT-8 under Lt Cmdr Waldron went to sea. The VT-8 under Lt. Fieberling had the TBFs and only arrived in Hawaii after the carriers departed.
Six TBFs then flew on to Midway and attacked from there.
So between both VT-8s there were in fact three survivors of the attack on the Japanese carriers - two pilots and one gunner.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 11, 2022 01:32 AM (h3NN9)
I knew TBFs flew from Midway, and they were the first to see service.
I didn't know they were actually part of a carrier squadron. Interesting.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 11, 2022 01:37 AM (OTzUX)
20 Tweets from Bad Blue
Posted by: Skip at March 11, 2022 01:38 AM (2JoB8)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 11, 2022 01:32 AM (h3NN9)
Now you have me thinking about my ongoing War in the Pacific game and whether I could fly reinforcement TBD/TBF bombers to Midway. Perhaps with drop tanks?
In the game the AI was obsessed with Midway, hanging out off Hawaii for a week after PH, and raiding and sinking ships I used to re-enforce and resupply it. I managed to get enough in to keep an actual invasion from happening.
An annoying thing was losing 2 BBs and a CA in an accidental collision with a Midway raid - like the fifth or so In Feb 42. Kido Butai deserves respect, as do the crack Betty squadrons.
The BBs were just on a workup cruise, Midway and back.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 11, 2022 01:42 AM (EJbIh)
Gay was the only survivor of the main VT-8 attack, with the rest of the Hornet air group. Which was entirely disorganized due to the egotism of Hornet's CAG.
Posted by: Fox2! at March 11, 2022 01:43 AM (qyH+l)
Posted by: rhomboid at March 11, 2022 01:37 AM (OTzUX)
A difference in our organization from the Japanese was the carrier squadrons werent tied to the carrier. So the ship could just swap in a new squadron and sail on.
In contrast, when at Coral Sea when one carrier had its pilots shot up and the other had some damage, both had to stand down for Midway.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 11, 2022 01:44 AM (EJbIh)
Bush claimed a right to fight them there so we don't have to fight them here. Maybe fine to some extent ... but not if it was only cover for his globalist friends that had even USA on its target list.
Certainly encroaching on Russia was on his list, and lately we broke promises in order to move into Ukraine (while ignoring China expansionism). Catholics seemed pretty safe in Russia, not so much is China.
But I can't see the big picture, except Deepstate/oligarchs have A Plan ... and it sure seems the plandemic was part of that plan, along with climate change malarky, and the whole Party of Davos, NWO, build back Brandon insanity.
Most countries are nationalist, with heavy doses of what the left calls xenophobia, racism, intolerance, etc. when it is done in the USA. But nationalism ... mostly good. Americanism is the best form of nationalism ... One Nation under God, blessings of liberty ... all that Cool Stuff.
Posted by: illiniwek at March 11, 2022 01:45 AM (Cus5s)
Posted by: rhomboid at March 11, 2022 01:46 AM (OTzUX)
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 11, 2022 01:50 AM (d2+HP)
Posted by: rhomboid at March 11, 2022 01:50 AM (OTzUX)
Posted by: rhomboid at March 11, 2022 01:50 AM (OTzUX)
Although given the zany Japanese planning, they might have sent those two carriers around the Horn to attack the East Coast as a 'distraction' rather than have them in a sensible place.
I guess I should admit I don't think much of the MI plan, even without it being exposed by code breaking.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 11, 2022 01:53 AM (EJbIh)
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 11, 2022 01:54 AM (d2+HP)
Posted by: Oldcat at March 11, 2022 12:47 AM (EJbIh)
They were probably about 8 hours from the Mogen David being raised in Cairo.
Posted by: Fox2! at March 11, 2022 01:54 AM (qyH+l)
Our youth have no clue of the losses taken to win that war.
Posted by: illiniwek at March 11, 2022 02:04 AM (Cus5s)
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 11, 2022 02:06 AM (d2+HP)
Our youth have no clue of the losses taken to win that war.
Posted by: illiniwek
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God bless your dad.
I was stationed at Schofield in 1988, met my hubby (same battalion, different companies, had my daughters at the pink palace in 89 and 92.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 11, 2022 02:09 AM (d2+HP)
Posted by: JQ at March 11, 2022 02:13 AM (dpnJh)
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 11, 2022 02:14 AM (d2+HP)
Posted by: JQ
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We called it that too.
But since my eldest daughter is a Tropic Lightning Baby, thought I'd be respectful.
Both my daughters were born there, and to be fair, the staff were professional and kind.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 11, 2022 02:16 AM (d2+HP)
Posted by: JQ at March 11, 2022 02:17 AM (dpnJh)
Posted by: JQ
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From 1980 to 1983, Crippler was my view from my bedroom window at Aliamanu Military Reservation.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 11, 2022 02:18 AM (d2+HP)
Posted by: JQ at March 11, 2022 02:18 AM (dpnJh)
Posted by: JQ at March 11, 2022 02:20 AM (dpnJh)
I tried to look it up ... petty officer first class I guess for my dad (not private), and chevrons not bars? ... heh. But cool you were out there ... even in peace, still service.
Posted by: illiniwek at March 11, 2022 02:20 AM (Cus5s)
Then him and my mom moved to Orlando, where they are currently the typical retirees (mom was a nurse).
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 11, 2022 02:21 AM (d2+HP)
Posted by: JQ at March 11, 2022 02:24 AM (dpnJh)
My 2nd daughter was 9 lb, 15 oz in 1992. First one was 7 lb, 15 oz back in 89.
Main reason why I only have two daughters and two granddaughters.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 11, 2022 02:26 AM (d2+HP)
Posted by: JQ at March 11, 2022 02:27 AM (dpnJh)
Posted by: JQ
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From 1980 to 1993, I lived in Hawaii, with training at Ft Jackson and Ft Gordon between 1987 and 1988.
Started dating the future Ex-ex July 4th, 1988 at Schofield.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 11, 2022 02:29 AM (d2+HP)
Posted by: JQ at March 11, 2022 02:29 AM (dpnJh)
Posted by: confederatefifth at March 11, 2022 02:30 AM (K3ZCc)
Posted by: JQ
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Yeah.
The thought of a 12-13 lb baby made me get my tubes cut, tied, and burnt.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 11, 2022 02:30 AM (d2+HP)
Just noticed this from Weirddave in the content...
"I ate at Roy's 2 weeks ago, the day after I had a wonderful visit with Doof. "
Thank you to Weirddave and Gingy for stopping by to see me recently!! Hope you had a nice visit with your family and friends while you were here on the east coast. Looking forward to seeing you in Texas later this year!
Posted by: Doof at March 11, 2022 02:30 AM (skX6a)
Posted by: illiniwek at March 11, 2022 02:30 AM (Cus5s)
Posted by: confederatefifth at March 11, 2022 02:31 AM (K3ZCc)
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 11, 2022 02:31 AM (d2+HP)
Posted by: confederatefifth
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Yep.
Learned the Hawaiian language, hula, cooking, etc, which is cool.
Did not like the bullying when I was in school.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 11, 2022 02:33 AM (d2+HP)
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 11, 2022 02:34 AM (d2+HP)
Posted by: S
in fairness, nobody said you had to beat those girls, you would not have been doing it if you did not enjoy it.
Posted by: confederatefifth at March 11, 2022 02:36 AM (K3ZCc)
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 11, 2022 02:33 AM (d2+HP)
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What, you don't appreciate being called 'haole'?
Posted by: RickZ at March 11, 2022 02:36 AM (ldL4g)
Posted by: RickZ
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I was called Popolo, which is the equivalent of the N bomb.
Sometimes, I was straight up called the N bomb.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 11, 2022 02:38 AM (d2+HP)
White people, not at all, either in Hawaii or Georgia or Texas or Kentucky or Illinois.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 11, 2022 02:40 AM (d2+HP)
Posted by: confederatefifth
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My mouth got me in a lot of trouble between the ages of 11 and 18.
The Army in 1987 was the Lord's way UAing me out of the AO.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 11, 2022 02:42 AM (d2+HP)
I might know something of how this works/.
Posted by: confederatefifth at March 11, 2022 02:53 AM (K3ZCc)
or anywhere
Posted by: confederatefifth at March 11, 2022 02:57 AM (K3ZCc)
Posted by: SFGoth at March 11, 2022 03:12 AM (fAHXr)
Posted by: Puddleglum at March 11, 2022 03:21 AM (sAmhv)
When you allow corrupt, incompetent, stupid people to be in charge (even temporarily), there are not enough clever motivated to counter the sheer mass of idiocy.
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) -Honk as if your life depended on it!
This is about our pancaking pedestrian bridge, isn't it?
-- Broward County's Favrite Gurrrrrl Power Engineering Firm
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at March 11, 2022 03:29 AM (pNxlR)
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 11, 2022 03:29 AM (d2+HP)
it is amazing how there is hardly anything to watch for entertainment in the interwebs.
or anywhere
Posted by: confederatefifth
Perhaps Cook County should consider setting up a live feed from Juicy's cell.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at March 11, 2022 03:37 AM (pNxlR)
Posted by: SFGoth at March 11, 2022 03:39 AM (fAHXr)
Posted by: Lola at March 11, 2022 03:48 AM (xjz83)
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 11, 2022 03:51 AM (d2+HP)
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 11, 2022 03:52 AM (d2+HP)
Posted by: zigzag at March 11, 2022 03:55 AM (WBrN/)
Posted by: Puddleglum at March 11, 2022 03:56 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Puddleglum
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I'm a fan of 80s R&B and HipHop.
And even 70s-80s rap.
I'm a child of the 80s.
*shrugs*
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 11, 2022 03:58 AM (d2+HP)
Posted by: Skip at March 11, 2022 03:58 AM (2JoB8)
Posted by: Skip at March 11, 2022 03:59 AM (2JoB8)
Posted by: Skip at March 11, 2022 04:01 AM (2JoB8)
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 11, 2022 04:01 AM (d2+HP)
I think the Russians will have more evidence of our biolabs in Ukraine than we did of WMD in Iraq.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at March 11, 2022 04:01 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at March 11, 2022 04:01 AM (Mzdiz)
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Yep.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 11, 2022 04:06 AM (d2+HP)
Free of job #1 for our nation, Kamala travels to Eastern Europe to help reset its borders.
Posted by: Lola at March 11, 2022 04:07 AM (xjz83)
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Posted by: gilbar at March 11, 2022 06:08 AM (bjV8B)
"Call me Ishmael. And then the murders began."
Morning rHodlings. Greetings from HK where Covid madness still reigns!
Posted by: Publius Redux at March 11, 2022 06:32 AM (vWEM9)
Posted by: Publius Redux at March 11, 2022 06:35 AM (vWEM9)
"The town was safe for now as the Kyle brothers were behind bars, but Sheriff Jaynes had a troubling feeling that another brother was out there, and this time the goal would be more than stolen money. And then the murders began...."
Posted by: A Reasonable Man at March 11, 2022 06:46 AM (VglFK)
- heh, this is fun.
Posted by: Publius Redux at March 11, 2022 07:04 AM (vWEM9)
Posted by: Publius Redux at March 11, 2022 07:12 AM (vWEM9)
And then, the murders begin.
Hey, Cannibal Bob! You wanna backstrap or a rump roast?
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at March 11, 2022 07:46 AM (QzJWU)
Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents, grumbled Jo, lying on the rug. And then the murders began.
Posted by: Editor at March 11, 2022 08:07 AM (2X+Fj)
There was once a Velveteen Rabbit, and in the beginning he was really splendid. And then the murders began.
Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of this head, behind Christopher Robin. And then the murders begin.
Until he was four years old, James Henry Trotter had had a happy life. And then the murders began.
He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. And then the murders began.
It was love at first sight. And then the murders began.
This seems to work best with children's books.
Posted by: Simon Jester at March 11, 2022 09:04 AM (BSu3l)
And then the murders began.
Posted by: Spooky at March 11, 2022 03:10 PM (iVtsQ)
And then the murders began.
--Aetius451AD Work Lapto
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Changes to Make Christianity More "Inclusive"
Secret John Kerry Senatorial Accomplishments
John Edwards Campaign Excuses
John Kerry Pick-Up Lines
Changes Liberal Senator George Michell Will Make at Disney
Torments in Dog-Hell
The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon
A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates
Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny
More Margaret Cho Abuse
Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny
Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format
John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)