Scaredy Cats Cafe

5 Cross a tiger with a lion and get a Liger. Cross the other way and it is a Tion.

Still the cat in question ain't too worried about its adjectives as long as it gets fed.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 29, 2022 07:42 PM (nSlP6)

6 That cat is just cheating! How the he'll am I suppose to see that hunting?

Posted by: Mougli at March 29, 2022 07:42 PM (8E+wy)

7 Will it breed true?

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 29, 2022 07:42 PM (u82oZ)

8 The Island of Doctor Moreau wasn't supposed to be a "How to" manual either.

Posted by: Bete at March 29, 2022 07:44 PM (8E+wy)

9 Anna Puma

Release in in San Francisco, Seattle, or Los Angelos. As one of a kind, it is endangered. And it can clean up the homeless.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 29, 2022 07:44 PM (u82oZ)

10 Hybrids like this are, I think, usually infertile. Although I believe there is a "ti-tion" out there - hybrid of a tiger and a tion. So sometimes they are fertile.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at March 29, 2022 07:45 PM (8548M)

11 Bete

The Law of Unintended Consequences leaves bo one, not one, alone.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 29, 2022 07:45 PM (u82oZ)

12 In modeling news have managed to assemble and paint both R-2800 C series engines for the B-26K.

You are not supposed to glue the alignment jig for the exhaust stacks to the back of the engine. Right... Use a little dab to hold it in place or every time you try to slide one of the individual exhaust stacks between cylinders and aft engine ring, the jig will fall off.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 29, 2022 07:46 PM (nSlP6)

13 Anna Puma

Can you put working motors on it with remote directional gun turrets? That could be useful.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 29, 2022 07:47 PM (u82oZ)

14 LAPD Animal Control will trap the kitty and then release it in the San Fernando Valley, far away from all the rich people.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 29, 2022 07:48 PM (nSlP6)

15 A liger pretty much my favorite animal. It's like a lion and a tiger mixed... bred for its skills in magic.

Posted by: 29Victor at March 29, 2022 07:48 PM (BJKQV)

16 I want the hybrid cat. They run on regular Purina?

Posted by: Eromero at March 29, 2022 07:50 PM (Xvdm5)

17 Scary looking big cat is full of attitude. That's right.

Posted by: huerfano at March 29, 2022 07:50 PM (MzKgG)

18 If this was an A-26B/C then turrets are legit. The K model had no turrets. This is also in 1/48 scale.

Hobby Boss does make a Douglas Invader in 1/32 scale but it has some serious issues like the engines are missing four cylinders each. One commentator said you would be better off making one from a mahogany block.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 29, 2022 07:51 PM (nSlP6)

19 That Jaguar is the Lia Thomas of Cervals.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 29, 2022 07:51 PM (guGkK)

20 16 I want the hybrid cat. They run on regular Purina?
Posted by: Eromero at March 29, 2022 07:50 PM (Xvdm5

Otters and a few chickens per day.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 29, 2022 07:52 PM (LKTKP)

21 Anna Puma

Did not know that. Thanks.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 29, 2022 07:53 PM (u82oZ)

22 No matter what size they are, cats are cats.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 29, 2022 07:54 PM (KZzsI)

23 Salty Dawg you missed the ONT comments after I downloaded the PDF of the 1965 1B-26K-4 Illustrated Parts Breakdown.

I am still trying to wrap my head around the illustrations and list of parts for the dual Mk XIII torpedo mount in the bomb bay.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 29, 2022 07:55 PM (nSlP6)

24 Still the cat in question ain't too worried about its adjectives as long as it gets fed.

They tend to be really gigantic, too

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 29, 2022 07:55 PM (KZzsI)

25 Oh boy oh boy oh boy, new episodes of FBI, FBI 2 and FBI 3 tonight. I can hardly wait!

Posted by: Sean Hannity at March 29, 2022 07:56 PM (MzKgG)

26 There was an amur leopard that was black like that - you could see the spots or whatever they're called in certain light/certain angles - at the zoo a few years ago. She had been raised in captivity and the curators said she was considered a no-go for breeding due to this.

Then, visiting again after The Great Idiocy was scaled back, she was gone, they said she'd been sent to some zoo in the Midwest and had bred. Anyway her coloration was quite freakish, sort of reverse albinism or something.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 29, 2022 07:57 PM (OTzUX)

27 Holy cow I thought people were going to get mauled in the truck.

Posted by: Bosk at March 29, 2022 07:57 PM (x6uUk)

28 If that cat jumped in the golf cart with me, I'd need new underwear.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 29, 2022 07:58 PM (LKTKP)

29 Non-nooding non-noodsters.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at March 29, 2022 07:58 PM (SH2Zi)

30
Willowed:

I have a cool prank idea, but it would take some money to pull off, because you'd have to rent a jumbo jet and a pilot.

Anyway, you take your buddy out drinking, and roofie his ass. When he comes to, he's in the pilot's seat, uniform, the works.

The "co-pilot's" all "Dammit, Jenkins!!! This is the third time this month you've passed out at the stick! There are hundreds of passengers on this plane. The next time this happens, I'm reporting it."

Instant, soul-chilling existential fugue.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 29, 2022 07:58 PM (SKVme)

31 I suspect that last lioness might have spent some time around people.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at March 29, 2022 07:58 PM (R/VdF)

32 That's one scary looking kitty.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 29, 2022 07:59 PM (ZLI7S)

33 29 Non-nooding non-noodsters.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at March 29, 2022 07:58 PM (SH2Zi

Wow! Language!

Who's got the soap? Someone needs a mouthwash.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 29, 2022 07:59 PM (LKTKP)

34 FWP, guess I should turn the furnace back on. Going to be 35 with t-storms tonight.

Posted by: Infidel at March 29, 2022 07:59 PM (ou23q)

35 The MK 13 torp started off as a bad design. By the end of the war, it sank the Yamato.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 29, 2022 08:00 PM (u82oZ)

36 Never seen such a thing...is that even possible ???

Posted by: runner at March 29, 2022 08:01 PM (V13WU)

37 I think that lioness jagacat is a Big Fake.

Posted by: runner at March 29, 2022 08:01 PM (V13WU)

38 LAPD Animal Control will trap the kitty and then release it in the San Fernando Valley, far away from all the rich people.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 29, 2022 07:48 PM (nSlP6)

Diet of pornstars.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 29, 2022 08:01 PM (mc/Yb)

39 These are snakes with fur. The old Italians'll tell ya, you can't even put 'em around a baby. They suck the breath right out.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at March 29, 2022 08:01 PM (vuisn)

40 Yudhishthira's Dice

Back when the DC-10 had a camera for passengers to watch the throttles in the cockpit, one pilot had a gorilla arm push the throttles forward for takeoff. After take off, the copilot gave the pilot a banana.

They were both suspended from flying a week.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 29, 2022 08:03 PM (u82oZ)

41 Cats are just awesome.

Posted by: SFGoth at March 29, 2022 08:03 PM (KAi1n)

42 I saw too black jags kinda looked like that hybrid one time. Was doing surveillance on Rio Grande in Hildago County. The angle and lighting of moonlight was the only way you coud see the pattern. They were the size of a big German shepherd. Glad I was carrying.

Posted by: Eromero at March 29, 2022 08:03 PM (Xvdm5)

43 Cat-related. One bizarre thing is how they (zoos/curators) now pair up dogs with young cheetahs, as life companions. Cheetahs are so skittish (scaredy cats, literally) that pairing them up with dogs makes it much easier to work with them - they feel secure, if the dog is not upset or acting defensive, they relax.

And it's funny to see visitors walk up to the cheetah enclosure at the main zoo and gawk in surprise that next to the snoozing cheetah is a sleeping dog.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 29, 2022 08:04 PM (OTzUX)

44 One thing on my bucket list, that is so rare I doubt it'll ever happen, is to watch a big cat killing in the wild. Not on video. Just right there, watching the raw power of the cat.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 29, 2022 08:04 PM (SKVme)

45 Yeah they stopped the DC-10 camera after that one lost an engine at O'Hare and augured in.

They decided it was very bad for passenger morale to truly know they were screwed.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 29, 2022 08:04 PM (nSlP6)

46 Back when the DC-10 had a camera for passengers to watch the throttles in the cockpit, one pilot had a gorilla arm push the throttles forward for takeoff. After take off, the copilot gave the pilot a banana.

They were both suspended from flying a week.

**

I sort of remember a United States where people had a sense of humor.

Honestly, that's been one of the things I miss the most.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The diary is real, too at March 29, 2022 08:04 PM (gcZXy)

47 Dawwww!!! Look at the kitty!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at March 29, 2022 08:04 PM (SchxB)

48 39
Are you Paulie from the Sopranos?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 29, 2022 08:05 PM (roH4R)

49 Jaguars have the strongest jaws of all cats. 1500 psi.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at March 29, 2022 08:05 PM (vuisn)

50 Jet Jaguar

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 29, 2022 08:05 PM (63Dwl)

51 They were both suspended from flying a week.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

And told that story for the rest of their lives.

Posted by: SFGoth at March 29, 2022 08:05 PM (KAi1n)

52 Roman road construction was pretty neat, never figured it that complicated

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2022 08:06 PM (2JoB8)

53 Tucker or the people who write for his show, definitely read this blog.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 29, 2022 08:06 PM (1YIDD)

54 They were both suspended from flying a week.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 29, 2022 08:03 PM (u82oZ)

Lololol, awesome.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 29, 2022 08:06 PM (SKVme)

55 We're free material so yeah of course they read the comments.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 29, 2022 08:06 PM (n/4Cp)

56 They were both suspended from flying a week.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

And worth every day off.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 29, 2022 08:07 PM (bNcG+)

57
Don't Go Changing - from the archives

Cobb and Shepard in the jungle one day
Hunting big cats or so they both say
Cobb- "I spotted a leopard!"
Came the answer, from Shepard
"Don't be silly, they ALL come that way!"

Posted by: Muldoon at March 29, 2022 08:07 PM (m45I2)

58 SFGoth

Yup. Totally worth it back then.

Notice that all pilot punishments restrict them from flying.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 29, 2022 08:07 PM (u82oZ)

59 Love the tiger cub sneaking up on mom is hilarious.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 29, 2022 08:07 PM (H4qIP)

60 The video of how the Romans built roads is cool

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 29, 2022 08:07 PM (lCui1)

61 Chris Rock will be coming back in two weeks for his second slap and his booster slap.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 29, 2022 08:08 PM (ybIRR)

62 American Tourister commercial with that DC-10 footage- "Would you want a gorilla in the cockpit or in Baggage handling your luggage?"

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 29, 2022 08:09 PM (n/4Cp)

63 vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion

Gravel roads in the sticks try hard, but can never be as good as 2,000 year old technology.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 29, 2022 08:09 PM (u82oZ)

64 Imagine how much balder Jada would be if she hadn't banged her kids friends.

That's how Science works, right?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The diary is real, too at March 29, 2022 08:09 PM (gcZXy)

65 No matter what size they are, cats are cats.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Exactly. Always crouching there, staring at your throat, wishing it was its long lost cousin the Sabertooth Tiger, so it could rip your throat out.

Posted by: Sharkman at March 29, 2022 08:09 PM (rsVfX)

66 After take off, the copilot gave the pilot a banana.

------

"Great job, Captain Kong! Not like last time, G-d rest their souls."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 29, 2022 08:10 PM (SKVme)

67 That's Major Kong!

Oh wait wrong movie

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 29, 2022 08:10 PM (n/4Cp)

68 60 The video of how the Romans built roads is cool
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 29, 2022 08:07 PM (lCui1)

And not a bit about representation.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 29, 2022 08:10 PM (F/J1O)

69 Miscegenation of the races.

Posted by: go get your fuckin shine box at March 29, 2022 08:11 PM (WusEB)

70 go get your fuckin shine box

Pat Buchanan, is that you?

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 29, 2022 08:12 PM (u82oZ)

71 I think the pictured animal is a Jaglioness. If male it would be a Jaglion, but since it doesn't have a mane, must be female.

There is a male in this video, and it looks downright silly. If I ever came across one I would probably be laughing too hard to run.
https://youtu.be/7ax0MUrujvU

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 29, 2022 08:12 PM (hVqGz)

72 The video of how the Romans built roads is cool

I cannot remember the name of the artist now, but there is a guy who did a whole series of books on history and illustrated them, one he did was on Rome and the road building was amazing. Rome was a nutso place but they sure knew how to construct.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 29, 2022 08:12 PM (KZzsI)

73
Re: modelling and gluing

Ebay sells a chinee device called "Helping Hands" that jewelers and electronics nerds often buy.

It looks quite useful for holding two small things in place while you work on or en-join them with either glue or solder. Some even come with magnifying glasses and lights.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 name in news at March 29, 2022 08:13 PM (nIpaw)

74 MISHcegenation is something else.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 29, 2022 08:13 PM (ZDXYb)

75 Rome was a nutso place but they sure knew how to construct.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 29, 2022 08:12 PM (KZzsI)

I am not sure nutso is the right word. It worked, right up until it didn't.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 29, 2022 08:14 PM (ZDXYb)

76 Aetius451AD Work Laptop

We need a second opinion from the Paolo.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 29, 2022 08:14 PM (u82oZ)

77 The video of how the Romans built roads is cool

*

I like how simple and abbreviated it is. We've got a small bit of land I've been slowly clearing since the lockdown. It's a tremendous amount of work, and I've got modern tools like chainsaws and a pickup truck. Just getting the trees and stumps out of the way - much less procuring and transporting and laying the miles of riprap and other materials - would be a crazy amount of labor.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The diary is real, too at March 29, 2022 08:14 PM (gcZXy)

78 They were both suspended from flying a week.

Posted by: NaCly Dog

The passengers of the DC-10 that lost an engine and crashed in Chicago in the 70s got to watch the plane auger in on that camera. I think they discontinued the practice after that crash.

Posted by: Sharkman at March 29, 2022 08:15 PM (rsVfX)

79 Moron Robbie - The diary is real, too

You need a motor grader. Todays replacement for slaves in abundance.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 29, 2022 08:15 PM (u82oZ)

80 Honestly, if I really believed that PanAm or whoever taught a gorilla to safely fly a plane, they'd have me for a lifetime customer. Impressive training regime.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 29, 2022 08:15 PM (SKVme)

81 Sharkman

Did any survivors complain? Sounds like early warning to brace for impact.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 29, 2022 08:16 PM (u82oZ)

82 Anyway time to shoot some paint on the B-26K. Interiors for the Nimrod birds were overall flat black. And that is on the agenda using Tamiya paint.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 29, 2022 08:16 PM (n/4Cp)

83 Scaredy cat night at the HQ. That hybrid is super spooky looking and that lioness--I would have dropped dead of a heart attack.

Posted by: IrishEi at March 29, 2022 08:16 PM (VhE0u)

84 You need a motor grader. Todays replacement for slaves in abundance.

*

A buddy knows a guy with some sort of mulcher that will just eat everything up and leave wood chips behind, but I don't want to go that far yet.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The diary is real, too at March 29, 2022 08:16 PM (gcZXy)

85 22 No matter what size they are, cats are cats.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 29, 2022 07:54 PM (KZzsI)

++++

The big cats will eat you, whereas your house cat will just give you a dirty look while it wishes it could eat you.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 29, 2022 08:17 PM (hVqGz)

86 Felines - Zach, the 9 month old siamese, grabbed a hunk of london broil off the platter tonight. Raced away, chewing and growling.
You can take the cat out of the jungle, but ...

Posted by: RI Red at March 29, 2022 08:18 PM (lG+37)

87 Oops. Anna beat me to the punch.

Posted by: Sharkman at March 29, 2022 08:18 PM (rsVfX)

88 I cannot remember the name of the artist now, but there is a guy who did a whole series of books on history and illustrated them, one he did was on Rome and the road building was amazing. Rome was a nutso place but they sure knew how to construct.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Maybe David Macauley's The Way Things Work?

Posted by: Tonypete at March 29, 2022 08:18 PM (bNcG+)

89 The video of how the Romans built roads is cool

I cannot remember the name of the artist now, but there is a guy who did a whole series of books on history and illustrated them, one he did was on Rome and the road building was amazing. Rome was a nutso place but they sure knew how to construct.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 29, 2022 08:12 PM (KZzsI)

Probably thinking of "City" by David Macaulay

Posted by: Oldcat at March 29, 2022 08:18 PM (eoQWY)

90 Did any survivors complain? Sounds like early warning to brace for impact.

Posted by: NaCly Dog

No survivors. Plane flipped over and went straight in.

Posted by: Sharkman at March 29, 2022 08:18 PM (rsVfX)

91 Moron Robbie - The diary is real, too

Lots of people get hired help with the right equipment. My up the hill neighbor cleared entire hillsides of trees with that equipment you describes.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 29, 2022 08:19 PM (u82oZ)

92 Sharkman

Thanks.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 29, 2022 08:19 PM (u82oZ)

93 Anna that American Tourister commercial was a classic. That, and the older Man-Sized (?) Kleenex commercial, where a room was depicted being wrecked by a blast wave with audio of a big sneeze.

And of course the Hebrew National "answer to a higher power" commercial.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 29, 2022 08:20 PM (OTzUX)

94 Tucker or the people who write for his show, definitely read this blog.

He said fartclam?

Posted by: Oddbob at March 29, 2022 08:20 PM (nfrXX)

95 Sharon Stone is 64...

Posted by: runner at March 29, 2022 08:20 PM (V13WU)

96 When my cat was younger, she was an obligate hunter. She would just lurk in the woods around my house and kill, kill, kill, all day long. Some Saturdays, I'd just stand there on the deck drinking bourbon, smoking cigarettes, listen to Tchaikovsky, and watch for hours.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 29, 2022 08:21 PM (SKVme)

97 I think someone recently proved that the Romans used volcanic pumice in both their concrete and their road surfaces, which is part of the reason some of it survives 2000 years.

Posted by: Sharkman at March 29, 2022 08:21 PM (rsVfX)

98 runner

Are the drapes still blond, or grey?

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 29, 2022 08:21 PM (u82oZ)

99 Lots of people get hired help with the right equipment. My up the hill neighbor cleared entire hillsides of trees with that equipment you describes.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

*

A lot of mine is therapeutic. I get out there and knock around, smoke a pipe, look at the woods, imagine some stuff, tinker with the equipment, etc., and the kids see the old man doing something besides sitting on his rear end.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The diary is real, too at March 29, 2022 08:21 PM (gcZXy)

100 Are the drapes still blond, or grey?
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 29, 2022 08:21 PM (u82oZ)

HaCly you devil you

Posted by: runner at March 29, 2022 08:22 PM (V13WU)

101 Sharkman

Yes, part of a chemical analysis project back a few years. The waterproofing of concrete by Romans was amazing. I do not know if we have incorporated that in today's concrete.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 29, 2022 08:23 PM (u82oZ)

102 Anna your going to show us a model some day, right?

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2022 08:23 PM (2JoB8)

103 what did tucker say that leads you to think he reads this blog?

Posted by: vivi at March 29, 2022 08:23 PM (33kEg)

104 I would shit myself if a lion jumped in my coach.

Posted by: G'rump928(c), not an Ace endorsed commenter at March 29, 2022 08:23 PM (yQpMk)

105 Have mentioned it before, Roman sewers were used to run gas lines for heating into Sarajevo during the unpleasantness there. So somewhere there's paperwork for an OFDA grant to an NGO where use of *Roman* infrastructure must be discussed. Sort of cool.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 29, 2022 08:23 PM (OTzUX)

106 I wonder what will be left of our junk in 2000 years. 5000. That's a long damn time.

Posted by: fd at March 29, 2022 08:25 PM (vrz2I)

107 Probably thinking of "City" by David Macaulay

Posted by: Oldcat

What an outstanding book. He also did Cathedral, Underground, Castle and Pyramid, all of which are absolute treasures. Very much remember them from years ago.

Posted by: Sharkman at March 29, 2022 08:25 PM (rsVfX)

108 Maybe David Macauley

That's the guy, I love his work. I should see if maybe I can find them and start buying some of his books. They were so informative and absolutely exploded my imagination as a kid.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 29, 2022 08:25 PM (KZzsI)

109 Moron Robbie you oughta pick up some of the Weasel schtick on tree clearance. He uses 9mm full auto fire from a sub-machine gun. Personally I'm prone to det-cord.

There is some video from Ukraine where a Russian armored vehicle firing from a city park nicely removes a tree.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 29, 2022 08:26 PM (OTzUX)

110 There is a male in this video, and it looks downright silly. If I ever came across one I would probably be laughing too hard to run.
https://youtu.be/7ax0MUrujvU
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 29, 2022 08:12 PM (hVqGz)

It's a Lion Drag Queen.

Posted by: G'rump928(c), not an Ace endorsed commenter at March 29, 2022 08:27 PM (yQpMk)

111 Macauley for the win. If we ever need to rebuild society, we'll need those books. Absolutely well-researched and illustrated.

Posted by: RI Red at March 29, 2022 08:28 PM (OQqkv)

112 Momma leopard is like "Oooh! You scared me! Such a tough boy!"

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy AOSHQ contributor at March 29, 2022 08:28 PM (R8uWY)

113 I think someone recently proved that the Romans used volcanic pumice in both their concrete and their road surfaces, which is part of the reason some of it survives 2000 years.

That and sea water, believe it or not. It slowly hardens and gets tougher over time, becoming even more survivable. I mean, they didn't do it on purpose, it was just easy to get seawater.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 29, 2022 08:28 PM (KZzsI)

114 I do not know if we have incorporated that in today's concrete.

Posted by: NaCly Dog

You would think we would be smart enough to utilize things like those chemical test results in our own buildings and roads.

But then you remember were "modern" and shit, and it's always Year Zero so why listen to the barbarians in our past?

Modern arrogance is hilarious. More and more I think human beings haven't changed in 100K years.

Posted by: Sharkman at March 29, 2022 08:28 PM (rsVfX)

115 Snow leopards are sooooooooo springy

Posted by: Kindltot at March 29, 2022 08:29 PM (xhaym)

116 I wonder what will be left of our junk in 2000 years. 5000. That's a long damn time.
Posted by: fd

When archeologists exhume our graveyards, their gonna find only dust from the bodies themselves with some titanium hip joints and two silicone bags where bewbs should be.

It may be a headscratcher for them.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 29, 2022 08:29 PM (bNcG+)

117 Posted by: fd at March 29, 2022 08:25 PM (vrz2I)

American engineering is about ten times cooler than Roman stuff, but won't last a tenth as long. Future civilizations will know our might from the foundations and remnants of highways, but the rest will be gone. Also, thanks to electronics, most of our culture and historical record will appear to have simply vanished from about twenty years ago, and they'll have to try and piece things together from odds and ends from there out.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 29, 2022 08:30 PM (SKVme)

118 Young Diogenes snuck up on his mom...once.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 29, 2022 08:30 PM (axyOa)

119 That and sea water, believe it or not. It slowly hardens and gets tougher over time, becoming even more survivable. I mean, they didn't do it on purpose, it was just easy to get seawater.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Knowing how smart and overwhelmingly driven to improve their physical surroundings the Romans were, I wouldn't doubt that they knew seawater was better than fresh. I didn't know that part of the story. Thanks for enlightening. Now I've got to go look up the story.

Posted by: Sharkman at March 29, 2022 08:30 PM (rsVfX)

120 He uses 9mm full auto fire from a sub-machine gun. Personally I'm prone to det-cord.

*

Ha. With ammo prices I could probably hire a crew for a week for what it would cost me to clear four or five trees.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The diary is real, too at March 29, 2022 08:31 PM (UN09R)

121 That and sea water, believe it or not. It slowly hardens and gets tougher over time, becoming even more survivable. I mean, they didn't do it on purpose, it was just easy to get seawater.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 29, 2022 08:28 PM (KZzsI)

May help with the concrete durability but I'd think it would play havoc with the reinforcing steel used today. Once the steel starts to corrode don't care how durable the concrete is - it will crack.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at March 29, 2022 08:32 PM (9AE+U)

122 Way past lights out time
Everyone have a great evening

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2022 08:32 PM (2JoB8)

123 15 A liger pretty much my favorite animal. It's like a lion and a tiger mixed... bred for its skills in magic.

Posted by: 29Victor at March 29, 2022 07:48 PM (BJKQV) [/i[

I was wondering how long it would take to get that quote!

Posted by: a.moron at March 29, 2022 08:32 PM (F6Xpw)

124 They were so informative and absolutely exploded my imagination as a kid.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Hard covers are all about 9 bucks on Amazon, I think.

Posted by: Sharkman at March 29, 2022 08:32 PM (rsVfX)

125 Sharkman

We have regressed in some areas, and progressed in others. We could probably get in a good argument on which goes on which list. Best to avoid all that.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 29, 2022 08:33 PM (u82oZ)

126 "one he did was on Rome and the road building was amazing. Rome was a nutso place but they sure knew how to construct." CTaylor

but did they pay union wages, did they respect the trans man, were they carbon neutral? (OK, they had plenty of "gays", or was it all just bathhouse orgies?)

Posted by: illiniwek at March 29, 2022 08:35 PM (Cus5s)

127 The first archaeologist to find an underground missile silo and it's poisonous contents will be in for a cool, and then really crappy surprise.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 29, 2022 08:35 PM (SKVme)

128 Oh read down a little on Infiltration, AOC saying Thomas needs to do this and that and recluse himself from this and that.

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2022 08:35 PM (2JoB8)

129
I watched an old short film about the history of Stainless Steel. Vikings somehow figured out how make their steel resist corrosion. Interesting.

The "Periscope Films" channel on Youtube is loaded with great historical films.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 name in news at March 29, 2022 08:35 PM (nIpaw)

130 Yudhishthira's Dice

No worries, chum. Biden will empty the tubes.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 29, 2022 08:35 PM (u82oZ)

131 Don't Go Changing - from the archives

Cobb and Shepard in the jungle one day
Hunting big cats or so they both say
Cobb- "I spotted a leopard!"
Came the answer, from Shepard
"Don't be silly, they ALL come that way!"
Posted by: Muldoon at March 29, 2022 08:07 PM (m45I2)
***

Clyde and Earl, a couple of crows, were flying along. Clyde asks, "Hey have you seen those new Jaguars?"
Earl answers "Nope. You?"
clyde replies, "Yup. Spotted one yesterday."

Posted by: Diogenes at March 29, 2022 08:36 PM (axyOa)

132 Oh, the intel people didn't say Hunter's laptop WAS russian disinfo. They said it had the hallmarks of disinfo, and that was just based off the best info they had AT THE TIME. Which was nothing.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy AOSHQ contributor at March 29, 2022 08:37 PM (R8uWY)

133 "Scaredy Cat"
https://bit.ly/3LnubMH

Posted by: Chris C at March 29, 2022 08:38 PM (eIWK0)

134 I bet you could make a printer that would print clay tablets to preserve for posterity.

Posted by: fd at March 29, 2022 08:38 PM (vrz2I)

135 Those Roman horses were wearing horse collars.

*fail*

Posted by: Kindltot at March 29, 2022 08:38 PM (xhaym)

136 30
Willowed:

I have a cool prank idea, but it would take some money to pull off, because you'd have to rent a jumbo jet and a pilot.
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Awesome April Fool's.
I've stolen this and sent it to a few friends and family.

Posted by: Ciampino at March 29, 2022 08:39 PM (qfLjt)

137 16 I want the hybrid cat. They run on regular Purina?
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I would imagine favorite dinners would be wild pigs and deer. Anything smaller would be snacks.

Posted by: Ciampino at March 29, 2022 08:41 PM (qfLjt)

138 The new host of "My Wife's Son" Will Smith...

Posted by: sven at March 29, 2022 08:42 PM (Lzpvj)

139 Vikings somehow figured out how make their steel resist corrosion. Interesting.

I watched a documentary that was using satellite and IR imaging to find old settlements, which they'd go and scan and try to dig up. They were looking for evidence that the Vikings settled North America (they found some evidence of a failed settlement in Nova Scotia). But one of the things they dug up on Greenland was a Viking forge, and some of the ore they had. Showed how they smelted the ore and got the iron out of it.

Those Vikings were clever bastards. Heartless, cruel, clever bastards.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 29, 2022 08:44 PM (KZzsI)

140 I wish big cats still featured in the Brazos Valley - they say you can still see panthers there but I am doubtful. Wouldn't have hogs, but the strolls from the barn to the house after dark would be thrilling.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 29, 2022 08:45 PM (QZ/dC)

141 26 There was an amur leopard that was black like that - you could see the spots or whatever they're called in certain light/certain angles - at the zoo a few years ago. She had been raised in captivity and the curators said she was considered a no-go for breeding due to this.
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I've seen a fair number of leopards (very shy) but never a black panther. It's just a black leopard and the spots are visible in the right light.

Posted by: Ciampino at March 29, 2022 08:45 PM (qfLjt)

142 "Yo, dude, I heard you were great at climbing sand dunes"

Camel: I am. Would you close your eyes until I'm at the top? The process is...somewhat undignified. Um, I mean, magic.

Posted by: Splunge at March 29, 2022 08:45 PM (71xoW)

143 Scary kitteh!

I just read something incredible. Some ebay sellers have decided that if an item is sold to Russia or Belarus, that they will not "fulfill" the sale, but donate the money to Ukraine. They will not send the item.

So the US fiduciary refusal has spread to other parts of the economy?

I thought of reporting the seller, but I can't imagine they'd stop the action.

Posted by: First Name at March 29, 2022 08:47 PM (ONvIw)

144 This thread needs a picture of Big Pussy from The Sopranos.

Posted by: Splunge at March 29, 2022 08:47 PM (71xoW)

145 Off name sock

Posted by: CN The First at March 29, 2022 08:47 PM (ONvIw)

146 I had a cougar on the other side of the porch railing when I opened the door 4 years ago. In Kansas.

The cat was trying to get under the porch, where a community of skinks live. Took one look at me and booked for the trees in the gully nearby.

So it may be possible in Brazos Valley.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 29, 2022 08:48 PM (u82oZ)

147 This thread needs a picture of Big Pussy from The Sopranos.
Posted by: Splunge

I have pictures of my Big Pussy!

Posted by: Zombie Mrs. Slocombe at March 29, 2022 08:48 PM (bNcG+)

148 If I can't make a Black Russian, what the hell am I supposed to do with all this Kahlua?

Posted by: Splunge at March 29, 2022 08:48 PM (71xoW)

149 conquistador

Posted by: Springling at March 29, 2022 08:49 PM (QUCPa)

150
Supposedly they sailed a replica of a Viking ship across the Atlantic in 1893.

https://youtu.be/oGYh0UzJYfo

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 name in news at March 29, 2022 08:49 PM (nIpaw)

151
Sonofabitch, I forgot to cue it up to right spot:

https://youtu.be/oGYh0UzJYfo?t=284

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 name in news at March 29, 2022 08:50 PM (nIpaw)

152 Splunge

Rename the drink. Ask the Horde for suggestions.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 29, 2022 08:50 PM (u82oZ)

153 That kitty cat really needs to be in a movie.
Posted by: Anna Puma

You just want Will Smith to slap it !

Posted by: JT at March 29, 2022 08:51 PM (arJlL)

154 Hey, told you all the awards might be interesting.

Posted by: Springling at March 29, 2022 08:52 PM (QUCPa)

155 I think Ace might be gifted with prescience. You know how he said that Will Smith's Slap Heard Round The World was really a cuck thing? Well, apparently Rebel Wilson (I don't know who that is, but some part of my brain is saying "fat chick") said, quite recently, and in public, "his best performance in the past year has been being okay with all of his wife's boyfriends."

So that does sound like what actually pissed him off.

Posted by: Splunge at March 29, 2022 08:53 PM (71xoW)

156
The Vikings were interesting people. But the "History" Channel decided they needed to juice up the "history" to make it a tv show, which got worse and worse.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 name in news at March 29, 2022 08:53 PM (nIpaw)

157 Valhalla

Posted by: Springling at March 29, 2022 08:55 PM (QUCPa)

158 hiya

Posted by: JT at March 29, 2022 08:55 PM (arJlL)

159 If I can't make a Black Russian, what the hell am I supposed to do with all this Kahlua?

Posted by: Splunge

Drown some ice cubes.

Posted by: Sharkman at March 29, 2022 08:56 PM (rsVfX)

160 I think you'd hear them. I've heard big cats in the wild and it's a sound you don't forget. Around here you can hear the hogs when close and the coyotes from anywhere. But doubtless my evening walks will have a purpose!

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 29, 2022 08:56 PM (QZ/dC)

161 I bet you could make a printer that would print clay tablets to preserve for posterity.

Posted by: fd at March 29, 2022 08:38 PM (vrz2I)

You would need a 3d printer to do cunieform. Otherwise you might as well do a Phaistos disc

Posted by: Kindltot at March 29, 2022 08:56 PM (xhaym)

162 Posted by: fd at March 29, 2022 08:25 PM (vrz2I)

American engineering is about ten times cooler than Roman stuff, but won't last a tenth as long. Future civilizations will know our might from the foundations and remnants of highways, but the rest will be gone. Also, thanks to electronics, most of our culture and historical record will appear to have simply vanished from about twenty years ago, and they'll have to try and piece things together from odds and ends from there out.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 29, 2022 08:30 PM (SKVme)

John Campbell's story "Twilight" had something in that - its a story about a man travelling into the future to see the results, and in the far future he sees whats left of humans - they had huge automated cities but they couldnt operate the machines because the voice commands were unrecognizable to them because of the change of language.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 29, 2022 08:56 PM (eoQWY)

163 This thread needs a picture of Big Pussy from The Sopranos.
Posted by: Splunge

I have pictures of my Big Pussy!
Posted by: Zombie Mrs. Slocombe

Yay! Mrs. Slocum's big pussy!!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 29, 2022 08:57 PM (H4qIP)

164 i smell sulfur.

Posted by: Springling at March 29, 2022 08:58 PM (QUCPa)

165 This is like a Sunday afternoon thread

Posted by: ... at March 29, 2022 09:00 PM (dscaa)

166 Vikings somehow figured out how make their steel resist corrosion. Interesting.

More like they were making carbon steel and some stuff they didn't intend to add got into the mix and surprise! Steel that didn't rust as fast as stuff they'd been making. We'll never know, but it would be fascinating if we could learn how many useful things that come down to us from pre-history were accidental discoveries, how many were educated guesses, and how many were inspired ideas by a 20,000 years-ago equivalent of Einstein.

Maybe a lot of items came from inspired ideas by a small number of 170 IQ or Archimedes-type humans over the centuries, then were copied and passed along by neighboring tribes. The fabulous cave paintings we've discovered in European caves must have been done by a small handful of pre-historic Michaelangelos.

Posted by: Gref at March 29, 2022 09:00 PM (AMIL/)

167 You would need a 3d printer to do cunieform. Otherwise you might as well do a Phaistos disc
Posted by: Kindltot

I saw Phaistos Disc open for Cunieform at the Pharaoh's Dinner Theater in '07!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 29, 2022 09:01 PM (H4qIP)

168 The MK 13 torp started off as a bad design. By the end of the war, it sank the Yamato.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 29, 2022 08:00 PM (u82oZ)

The back story of the Mk13 makes it clear that far too many government bureaucrats have been sleazy b@stards for a long time!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 09:02 PM (hOUT3)

169 >>>If I can't make a Black Russian, what the hell am I supposed to do with all this Kahlua?

>Splash some cream in it and call it a white kurgan.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 29, 2022 09:02 PM (S3EUx)

170 hey dot, wasnt referring to you in the sulfur comment.

Posted by: Springling at March 29, 2022 09:02 PM (881Ap)

171 Good evening, JT. How is Mr. Smooth today?

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 29, 2022 09:04 PM (u82oZ)

172 We'll never know, but it would be fascinating if we could learn how many useful things that come down to us from pre-history were accidental discoveries, how many were educated guesses, and how many were inspired ideas by a 20,000 years-ago equivalent of Einstein.

Ancient Chinese Secret - gunpowder

Posted by: rickb223 at March 29, 2022 09:05 PM (H4qIP)

173 Mix it with coke and call it a Kahluaian.

Posted by: Hunter at March 29, 2022 09:06 PM (vrz2I)

174 Just saw this:
Kamala Harris is the first VP who can file her mouth under "Earned in Cum"

Posted by: Ciampino at March 29, 2022 09:06 PM (qfLjt)

175 The back story of the Mk13 makes it clear that far too many government bureaucrats have been sleazy b@stards for a long time!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar

We know what we are doing!! Shut up naval aviators, we don't need your advice!!

-- Bureau of Ordinance

Posted by: Tonypete at March 29, 2022 09:07 PM (bNcG+)

176 40 Yudhishthira's Dice

Back when the DC-10 had a camera for passengers to watch the throttles in the cockpit, one pilot had a gorilla arm push the throttles forward for takeoff. After take off, the copilot gave the pilot a banana.

They were both suspended from flying a week.
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Another awesome flying piece of humor. Thank you.

Posted by: Ciampino at March 29, 2022 09:07 PM (qfLjt)

177 Nice Kitty!

Posted by: Spawn Point Camper at March 29, 2022 09:08 PM (V6xQL)

178 Oh, it's raykon. The old fruit returns.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 29, 2022 09:08 PM (SKVme)

179 pic is lacking. looks fake minus slight abstraction.

Posted by: Springling at March 29, 2022 09:09 PM (881Ap)

180 Jaguar-lion hybrid is one badass looking predator. I'm not getting near without a rump roast or a vegan I can throw as a distraction.

Posted by: exdem13 at March 29, 2022 09:11 PM (W+kMI)

181 How come jungle cats never devour raykon? It would be easy, and make them somehow even cooler.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 29, 2022 09:11 PM (SKVme)

182 Tonypete

I hope all of our ordnance test out in Sink-Exs.

Otherwise Plus ca change plus c'est la meme chose.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 29, 2022 09:11 PM (u82oZ)

183 170 >>>If I can't make a Black Russian, what the hell am I supposed to do with all this Kahlua?

>Splash some cream in it and call it a white kurgan.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 29, 2022 09:02 PM (S3EUx)

Add a dose of bitters, and make it a Black Ukrainian?

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 29, 2022 09:11 PM (oHd/0)

184 175 Just saw this:
Kamala Harris is the first VP who can file her mouth under "Earned in Cum"
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Truth!

Posted by: exdem13 at March 29, 2022 09:11 PM (W+kMI)

185 43 Cat-related. One bizarre thing is how they (zoos/curators) now pair up dogs with young cheetahs, as life companions.
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In the middle 1960s the Arusha Golf Club (Tanzania and close to Kilimanjaro) had a cheetah, obtained as an orphan cub, and it roamed freely around the clubhouse as it was very tame.

Posted by: Ciampino at March 29, 2022 09:11 PM (qfLjt)

186 Goats make good companion animals for horses.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 29, 2022 09:12 PM (SKVme)

187 Yudhishthira's Dice

Discerning pussies have standards.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 29, 2022 09:12 PM (u82oZ)

188 67 That's Major Kong!

Oh wait wrong movie
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Anna, would it be possible to have POTUS* re-enact Major Kong's final scene somewhere over Kiev?

Posted by: exdem13 at March 29, 2022 09:14 PM (W+kMI)

189 Bureau of Ordinance
Posted by: Tonypete

You guys at sea using these things must be incompetent, we, on the other hand are scientific ordnance experts!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 09:14 PM (hOUT3)

190 I remember seeing a similar animation for Roman bridges, probably from the same people, pretty cool.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 29, 2022 09:15 PM (lgeFv)

191 44 One thing on my bucket list, that is so rare I doubt it'll ever happen, is to watch a big cat killing in the wild. Not on video. Just right there, watching the raw power of the cat.
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I have seen lions and wild dogs do this and it is not pretty. Would you like to be made a meal of while still alive? How about torn to pieces by the dogs while still alive? BTW the dogs are actually a species and not domestic dogs gone feral.

Posted by: Ciampino at March 29, 2022 09:15 PM (qfLjt)

192 A hybrid of a lioness and male jaguar

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Please tell me they named her "Mystique" after the X-Men character.

/Quite beautiful, actually.

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at March 29, 2022 09:15 PM (cjvQp)

193 thinking i got the chemistry wrong.

Posted by: Springling at March 29, 2022 09:15 PM (881Ap)

194 exdem13

Newark, Austin, Chicago, Baltimore, Southeast DC, LA, SF are also acceptable. But without the nuke.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 29, 2022 09:15 PM (u82oZ)

195 185 43 Cat-related. One bizarre thing is how they (zoos/curators) now pair up dogs with young cheetahs, as life companions.
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In the middle 1960s the Arusha Golf Club (Tanzania and close to Kilimanjaro) had a cheetah, obtained as an orphan cub, and it roamed freely around the clubhouse as it was very tame.
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Cheetahs are close enough to our kittehs to have sometimes figured out what a sweet gig it is being coddled by the monkey-boy staff. Tigers haven't figured it out, regardless of what that homo in OOK thinks.

Posted by: exdem13 at March 29, 2022 09:16 PM (W+kMI)

196 sulfur is a drying agent?

Posted by: Springling at March 29, 2022 09:16 PM (881Ap)

197 Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten

Listen, Mr. Army, explain the Future Combat System.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 29, 2022 09:19 PM (u82oZ)

198 183 170 >>>If I can't make a Black Russian, what the hell am I supposed to do with all this Kahlua?

>Splash some cream in it and call it a white kurgan.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 29, 2022 09:02 PM (S3EUx)

Add a dose of bitters, and make it a Black Ukrainian?

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 29, 2022 09:11 PM (oHd/0)
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Add some Strange Brew and make it a Blackface Trudeau.

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at March 29, 2022 09:19 PM (cjvQp)

199 The U.S. military is hiring vtubers. I am not joking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4iDkiJ6w00

Posted by: exdem13 at March 29, 2022 09:20 PM (W+kMI)

200 The Vikings were interesting people. But the "History" Channel decided they needed to juice up the "history" to make it a tv show, which got worse and worse.
Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 name in news at March 29, 2022 08:53 PM (nIpaw)

Except for Katheryn Wynnick. Meow!

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at March 29, 2022 09:21 PM (YOkfp)

201 Yeah it was just bad timing I guess.

Posted by: ... at March 29, 2022 09:21 PM (dscaa)

202 198 183 170 >>>If I can't make a Black Russian, what the hell am I supposed to do with all this Kahlua?

>Splash some cream in it and call it a white kurgan.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 29, 2022 09:02 PM (S3EUx)

no, no, no. Just make your Big Black Cow, and get out of here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzrDs_Vaho4

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 29, 2022 09:23 PM (evAgx)

203 Roman roads & stuff:

The ceramics found on ordinary farms in Roman Britain (glazed plates & glasses, etc) were much better than the ceramic funerary goods buried with Anglo-Saxon kings.

I thought that was interesting.

Posted by: mnw at March 29, 2022 09:23 PM (NLIak)

204 Yes I made the joke that the word "cuck" was trending because of Ace.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 29, 2022 09:24 PM (ybIRR)

205 It was CalTech that did the development work that straightened out the Mk. 13. By the end of the war, it was generally acknowledged to be the best airborne torpedo of the war.

Mk. 14s were highly thought of by the submarine community into the 1970s.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 29, 2022 09:25 PM (a3Q+t)

206 72 The video of how the Romans built roads is cool

I cannot remember the name of the artist now, but there is a guy who did a whole series of books on history and illustrated them, one he did was on Rome and the road building was amazing. Rome was a nutso place but they sure knew how to construct.

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That's why I left but I'm still 29.

Posted by: Ciampino at March 29, 2022 09:25 PM (qfLjt)

207 Except for Katheryn Wynnick. Meow!

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop

+1

Posted by: rickb223 at March 29, 2022 09:25 PM (H4qIP)

208 Maybe a lot of items came from inspired ideas by a small number of 170 IQ or Archimedes-type humans over the centuries, then were copied and passed along by neighboring tribes. The fabulous cave paintings we've discovered in European caves must have been done by a small handful of pre-historic Michaelangelos.
Posted by: Gref at March 29, 2022 09:00 PM (AMIL/)

I'm not saying it was aliens.

but it was aliens.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 29, 2022 09:26 PM (evAgx)

209 194 exdem13

Newark, Austin, Chicago, Baltimore, Southeast DC, LA, SF are also acceptable. But without the nuke.
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We'll just use an oil drum painted black with some fins welded on it. Any explosives are strictly optional.

Posted by: exdem13 at March 29, 2022 09:26 PM (W+kMI)

210 165 This is like a Sunday afternoon thread

Posted by: ... at March 29, 2022 09:00 PM (dscaa)

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These are the only threads I can keep up with ... don't know how the rest of youse do it ...

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at March 29, 2022 09:27 PM (cjvQp)

211 Maybe a lot of items came from inspired ideas by a small number of 170 IQ or Archimedes-type humans over the centuries, then were copied and passed along by neighboring tribes. The fabulous cave paintings we've discovered in European caves must have been done by a small handful of pre-historic Michaelangelos.
Posted by: Gref at March 29, 2022 09:00 PM (AMIL/)

Iron smelting grew from the Hittites using Iron Oxide as a flux for purifiying Copper ore, and it went from there. By the time of the Battle of Kadesh, they were experimenting with smelting Iron, but the whole civilization collapsed with the end of the Eastern Med Bronze age.

The Vikings used bog iron, which was concretions of iron oxide deposited by bacterial action in bogs. It was the middle ages befre the Swedes found their Iron ore mountains and started doing Iron in a big way.

There were smart people but a lot of the development was cut and try and mistakes remembered.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 29, 2022 09:27 PM (xhaym)

212 We'll just use an oil drum painted black with some fins welded on it. Any explosives are strictly optional.
Posted by: exdem13

Skipping 55 gallon drums full of explosives into dams.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 29, 2022 09:27 PM (H4qIP)

213 Lion on jitney make passengers shitney.
-old Filipino adage

Posted by: Eromero at March 29, 2022 09:28 PM (0OP+5)

214 Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at March 29, 2022 09:27 PM (cjvQp)

Don't fool yourself. It's us that can't keep up with you.

Posted by: ... at March 29, 2022 09:28 PM (dscaa)

215 75 I am not sure nutso is the right word. It worked, right up until it didn't.

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It broke down when all those unassimilable foreigners, barbarians really, were let into the empire via broken/relaxed borders .... wait, that sounds familiar ...

Posted by: Ciampino at March 29, 2022 09:28 PM (qfLjt)

216 I am getting the feeling this judge for scotus traffics in child pron.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 29, 2022 09:29 PM (lgeFv)

217 There were smart people but a lot of the development was cut and try and mistakes remembered.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 29, 2022 09:27 PM (xhaym)

Unpossible, they had no social influencers or utube instructional videos

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 09:30 PM (hOUT3)

218 Hiya Salty !

Posted by: JT at March 29, 2022 09:30 PM (arJlL)

219 Listen, Mr. Army, explain the Future Combat System.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 29, 2022 09:19 PM (u82oZ)

I rest my case!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 09:32 PM (hOUT3)

220 How bout them NY Rangers!

Posted by: JackStraw at March 29, 2022 09:32 PM (ZLI7S)

221 Posted by: Ciampino at March 29, 2022 09:28 PM (qfLjt)

Something, something, doomed to repeat it, something, something...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 09:33 PM (hOUT3)

222
The ceramics found on ordinary farms in Roman Britain (glazed plates & glasses, etc) were much better than the ceramic funerary goods buried with Anglo-Saxon kings.

I thought that was interesting.

Posted by: mnw at March 29, 2022 09:23 PM (NLIak)

All the pottery in Roman England was brought in from Italy and France, there was no real local pottery industry. In a way the collapse of the Roman system was a shattering of the transportation and market net.

And what happens here when the refinery can't get the gaskets from China for the refit, and EPA and OSHA will not allow substitutes?

Posted by: Kindltot at March 29, 2022 09:35 PM (xhaym)

223 Since carriage returns are now considered spam, the Official Intersectionality Chart will have to be presented in recently updated tiers. The order is still the order but now I have to use commas. It's been a long while; in the last year or so, trans and pedophiles are flying up the charts, ugly women are tumbling down, while antifa and BLM have conveniently been disappeared:

Tier 1 - Trans, Violent Felons, Illegal Aliens, Pedophiles, Blacks, Muslims
Tier 2 - Gay, Lesbian, Hispanic, Leftist "Republicans", Communist Dictators
Tier 3 - Other Dictators, American Indians
Tier 4 - Dead People, Ugly Women
Tier 5 - Pretty Women, Actual Aliens, Everyone Else
Tier 6,000,000 - Conservatives, Jews, Christians

Posted by: ... at March 29, 2022 09:35 PM (dscaa)

224 I cannot remember the name of the artist now, but there is a guy who did a whole series of books on history and illustrated them, one he did was on Rome and the road building was amazing. Rome was a nutso place but they sure knew how to construct.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

It's not David Macauley is it ? He's an architect and he has some fantastic illustrated books like Castle, Cathedral etc. But I don't know if he did one about Rome.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 29, 2022 09:35 PM (lCui1)

225 I need a new computer, having twenty browser windows open with ten or more tabs each seems to be slowing down the response time!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 09:36 PM (hOUT3)

226 208 Maybe a lot of items came from inspired ideas by a small number of 170 IQ or Archimedes-type humans over the centuries, then were copied and passed along by neighboring tribes. The fabulous cave paintings we've discovered in European caves must have been done by a small handful of pre-historic Michaelangelos.
Posted by: Gref at March 29, 2022 09:00 PM (AMIL/)

I'm not saying it was aliens.

but it was aliens.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 29, 2022 09:26 PM (evAgx)

I should have included that in my list, dammit! Definitely possible.

Posted by: Gref at March 29, 2022 09:36 PM (AMIL/)

227 Evening.

I like Ace's big pussy.

Wait...whattya mean I have to be up at 4AM?

Sonova...

*Grumbles*

Night!

Posted by: Robert at March 29, 2022 09:36 PM (Eva/9)

228 The Libs of Tiktok Twitter feed us pretty nasty today. More ped0 teachers getting arrested for grooming 4th graders.

Posted by: Sharkman at March 29, 2022 09:36 PM (rsVfX)

229 Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten

OK. The BUORd torpedo development is the canonical case of not enough testing, and shutting up the combat users. The Navy has some big skeletons in the closet in WWII, and later.

But nothing is as bad as the Littoral Combat Ships, which are a world-class disaster and money waste.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 29, 2022 09:37 PM (u82oZ)

230 Robert

You moving down the road again?

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 29, 2022 09:38 PM (u82oZ)

231 Speaking of nuclear engineering, I was delayed driving to an airport by a really slow semi with a convoy of state, local, and fed cops and utilities people a good third of a mile long. This thing had a 52' bed with dozens of axles and maybe an 18' box on top, so that object inside had to be super duper heavy.

Given that this was in a certain place I can only assume it was a decommissioned reactor or a bunch of old warheads or something similar.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 29, 2022 09:38 PM (SKVme)

232 But nothing is as bad as the Littoral Combat Ships, which are a world-class disaster and money waste.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 29, 2022 09:37 PM (u82oZ)

Violated every rule of time honored ship building by the USN IIRC, but think of the graft...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 09:38 PM (hOUT3)

233 I need a new computer, having twenty browser windows open with ten or more tabs each seems to be slowing down the response time!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar

I have 98 tabs open on my Android phone. And at least 300 more books on my Kindle than it would be possible for me to read if I live another 30 years.

Guess I better get to reading!!!

Posted by: Sharkman at March 29, 2022 09:38 PM (rsVfX)

234 vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion

He wrote City, which has the roads.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 29, 2022 09:39 PM (u82oZ)

235 228 The Libs of Tiktok Twitter feed us pretty nasty today. More ped0 teachers getting *arrested* for grooming 4th graders.
Posted by: Sharkman at March 29, 2022 09:36 PM (rsVfX)

*Arrested" is not the verb that we should be seeing in that sentence!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 09:40 PM (hOUT3)

236 Twister was peak Helen Hunt AND peak Jamie Gertz.

A two'fer

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 29, 2022 09:40 PM (LKTKP)

237 I need a new computer, having twenty browser windows open with ten or more tabs each seems to be slowing down the response time!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3
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Yep, it totally sounds like you need a new bigger, betterer computer STAT!!!

Posted by: lin-duh at March 29, 2022 09:41 PM (UUBmN)

238 He wrote City, which has the roads.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ)

Oh cool! I should have a look
His books are amazing

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 29, 2022 09:42 PM (lCui1)

239 But nothing is as bad as the Littoral Combat Ships, which are a world-class disaster and money waste.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

They were altars to the "we want it so badly that. . . " wait, what was the mission again?

Posted by: Tonypete at March 29, 2022 09:42 PM (bNcG+)

240 Here's a cool ancient bridge animation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJgD6gyi0Wk

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 29, 2022 09:43 PM (lgeFv)

241 I need a new computer, having twenty browser windows open with ten or more tabs each seems to be slowing down the response time!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar

Sounds just like my brain. Except I don't know where the music is coming from.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 29, 2022 09:43 PM (H4qIP)

242 233
Guess I better get to reading!!!
Posted by: Sharkman

I have over 200 Kindle books (just in case) and another 200 or so hard copies ~~in case~~ for when the power goes out!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 09:43 PM (hOUT3)

243 239 But nothing is as bad as the Littoral Combat Ships, which are a world-class disaster and money waste.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

They were altars to the "we want it so badly that. . . " wait, what was the mission again?

Posted by: Tonypete at March 29, 2022 09:42 PM (bNcG+)

What's a Littoral?

Posted by: Gref at March 29, 2022 09:43 PM (AMIL/)

244 Tonypete

That was when I knew the Navy was in terminal decline. Nothing I have seen since has changed my mind. Very sad.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 29, 2022 09:44 PM (u82oZ)

245 Yep, it totally sounds like you need a new bigger, betterer computer STAT!!!
Posted by: lin-duh at March 29, 2022 09:41 PM (UUBmN)

I really like the way you think!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 09:44 PM (hOUT3)

246 Given that this was in a certain place I can only assume it was a decommissioned reactor or a bunch of old warheads or something similar.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Or, equally likely, documentation of Hunter's graft, dope dealing, pedo tendencies and Dad's involvement with it all.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 29, 2022 09:45 PM (bNcG+)

247 225 I need a new computer, having twenty browser windows open with ten or more tabs each seems to be slowing down the response time!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 09:36 PM (hOUT3)

Lots of memory will fix that right up. Maybe you can expand what you're using now?

If you're using Chrome, click More Tools/Task Manager. You might find that one or two tabs are hogging most of your memory and CPU.

Posted by: Splunge at March 29, 2022 09:45 PM (71xoW)

248 Gref

Ship design with aircraft building standards. Lots of money spent for ships that rarely deployed. Useless to a fleet.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 29, 2022 09:45 PM (u82oZ)

249 what was the mission again?
Posted by: Tonypete at March 29, 2022 09:42 PM (bNcG+)

Dude, "the" mission was accomplished because the true mission was graft!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 09:46 PM (hOUT3)

250 Gref

Also shallow draft ship to fight in green waters of the Littoral, not the deep blue of mid-ocean.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 29, 2022 09:46 PM (u82oZ)

251 232

Ship design with aircraft building standards. Lots of money spent for ships that rarely deployed. Useless to a fleet.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 29, 2022 09:45 PM (u82oZ)

I rest my case!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 09:47 PM (hOUT3)

252 OK, time to turn in.

Have a great night, everyone. May you get the rewards of living on the edge, but not like Hunter. He is a mess.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 29, 2022 09:48 PM (u82oZ)

253 Oh, shit, before I strip down to me undies and attempt sleep.

I have a meme idea but no means to do it.

Take the image of Will Smith bitch slapping Chris Rock. Cut to Uncle Phil (from that one episode of Fresh Prince where Carlton can't get into the fraternity for not being appropriately oppressed) asking,"Why do we keep doing this to ourselves?"

Maybe there can be a preceding image prior to those. Maybe the slapper/slappee can represent two complimentary ideas in a sort of false dichotomy. I don't know. But I think the basic framework for a killer meme is sound.

Help me, Horde, you're my only hope.

Now fir real this time.

Night!

Posted by: Robert at March 29, 2022 09:48 PM (w+5Mm)

254 If you're using Chrome, click More Tools/Task Manager. You might find that one or two tabs are hogging most of your memory and CPU.
Posted by: Splunge at March 29, 2022 09:45 PM (71xoW)

Hmm, Chrome says I should delete ace.mu.nu

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 09:49 PM (hOUT3)

255 The LCS (Littoral Combat Ships) were supposed to have a multi-mission module that more or less was interchangeable for a variety of missions... anti-submarine, anti-surface, routine patrol, drug interdiction, etc.

Those modules never made it.

And, the Freedom class... the "normal looking" boat suffers from chronic drive failures. It has a two engine design to propel the boat at very high speeds for it's size, but it doesn't work.

Something about regular diesel engines mated to jets... like a ski boat. A "coupling gear" that joins them doesn't work. Like having a transmission that's broke.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 29, 2022 09:51 PM (BFigT)

256 Posted by: Splunge at March 29, 2022 09:45 PM (71xoW)

Interesting I looked at "used physical memory" and it seemed to be pegged at 100%, perhaps I do have a resources problem!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 09:52 PM (hOUT3)

257 Also, remember: the official in charge of that truck is a tranny dogboy.

Sleep well.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 29, 2022 09:55 PM (SKVme)

258 166, Gref, Swedish iron ore has vanadium copper, nickel, etc and some of the prime deposits are believed to be meteoric in nature. Reason why Swedish iron ore was specified as a source for English steel, German Mausers, and even US Krags made at Springfield Arsenal.

Posted by: whig at March 29, 2022 09:55 PM (Iq9dF)

259 From that 'Roman road' video, scrolling down:
"Interesting fact, the word pot hole origins are from potters, people who make ceramic pots, digging holes in Roman roads to get the easy access to the plentiful clay material. Humans ability to destroy something with long-term benefits for short-term gains is not a new behaviour!"

Lot's of Roman roads in Italy, still with cobblestones.

Posted by: Ciampino at March 29, 2022 09:56 PM (qfLjt)

260 Interesting I looked at "used physical memory" and it seemed to be pegged at 100%, perhaps I do have a resources problem!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 09:52 PM (hOUT3)

Replace it with new memory, or at least lower mileage memory. That should do it.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 29, 2022 09:56 PM (II3Gr)

261 84 You need a motor grader. Todays replacement for slaves in abundance.

*

A buddy knows a guy with some sort of mulcher that will just eat everything up and leave wood chips behind, but I don't want to go that far yet.

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Does it do annoying Democrats?

Posted by: Ciampino at March 29, 2022 09:59 PM (qfLjt)

262 All this talk of WWIII reminded me that I have a book titled "The Armies of World War 3" by Charles Messenger (1984).

38 years ago! It was still NATO vs. Warsaw Pact. Maybe it is still.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 29, 2022 09:59 PM (Dc2NZ)

263 Replace it with new memory, or at least lower mileage memory. That should do it.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker.

I obviously need to do something with this boat anchor

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 10:00 PM (hOUT3)

264 ADM Hyman Rickover would be kicking people's asses up around their ears.

Posted by: Eromero at March 29, 2022 10:06 PM (0OP+5)

265 ADM Ernest King would be kicking people's asses up around their ears.

Posted by: Eromero at March 29, 2022 10:08 PM (0OP+5)

266 ADM Chester Nimitz would be kicking people's asses up around their ears.

Posted by: Eromero at March 29, 2022 10:09 PM (0OP+5)

267 Good evening, Horde!

Posted by: Ladyl at March 29, 2022 10:09 PM (TdMsT)

268 ADM Bull Halsey would be kicking people's asses up around their ears.

Posted by: Eromero at March 29, 2022 10:09 PM (0OP+5)

269 A Hinny and a Mule aren't as beautiful but they're more useful.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 29, 2022 10:10 PM (/ijUi)

270 ADM Arleigh Burke would be kicking people's asses up around their ears.

Posted by: Eromero at March 29, 2022 10:11 PM (0OP+5)

271 What's a Littoral?

A coastline. The part the Navy spends its time avoiding.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 29, 2022 10:12 PM (eoQWY)

272 It's a good evening for the cute, fun, and furry. Thank you, Ace.

Posted by: barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at March 29, 2022 10:14 PM (0udfB)

273 166 Vikings somehow figured out how make their steel resist corrosion. Interesting.

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Yes, my interest too. For example, how did someone grind wheat, mix in water and yeast and then cook it? Probably all done in stages by different people but still?

Posted by: Ciampino at March 29, 2022 10:19 PM (qfLjt)

274 183 Add a dose of bitters, and make it a Black Ukrainian?

That's racyss!

Posted by: Ciampino at March 29, 2022 10:22 PM (qfLjt)

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