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Monday Overnight Open Thread (4/11/22) Minimalist Edition

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The Quotes of The Day

Quote I

“We’re seeing a huge boom in senior homelessness. These are not necessarily people who have mental illness or substance abuse problems. They are people being pushed into the streets by rising rents."said Kendra Hendry, a caseworker at Arizona's largest shelter


Quote II

"It's going to help save lives, reduce crime and get more criminals off the streets. If you commit a crime with a ghost gun, expect federal prosecution."***Pres. Joe Biden

Shut your pie hole you addled old man. The first charges to be dropped are always the firearm charges.


*

Quote III

“And I said some things that hurt people and I feel terrible about that. The gay community has been incredible to me my entire career. And I mean my entire career, from before I got started in this town. Actor Sam Elliot

Can't venture off the rez?


*

Quote IV

“I went behind the podium to collect my fifth place trophy and they kind of blatantly told me that Lia would hold the fifth place trophy and that I could pose with the sixth place trophy for photos and I would be mailed a fifth place trophy.” Reily Gaines

***


We've been watching Western Europe, the USA and NATO spouting off about Russia vs. Ukraine. Where does Turkey fall into this geopolitical clusterfuck?

Turkey: Beware of Islamists Bearing Gifts
'Russian Oligarchs Are Welcome in Turkey'


Then there was what turned out to be a myth about the success of Turkish drones used by the Ukrainian army inflicting "huge" damage on the invading Russian columns. Drones, regardless of their capabilities, cannot be game-changers in a conflict with such vastly asymmetrical military might. The West must send jets, tanks, anti-aircraft, anti-armor and anti-ship missiles, and other weapons to Ukraine to repel Russia's Chinese-backed aggression -- fast -- or the US and Europe will soon find themselves enmeshed in wars even messier to fight.

What else does Erdoğan -- who is and always has been ideologically anti-Western -- think he can win from the West by his hoax charm offensive?

Erdoğan seems to think that just because the madman of Russia did something mad, he, the president of Turkey, can once again fool the West by posing as a pro-Western ally. Let's do a reality check....


***


Precise legal reasons do not matter when it comes to DTS. Orangeman bad and must be destroyed at any cost.

In a rare moment of focus on the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot, the House Select Committee recently took a break from prosecuting political dissidents to claim the violent protest was premeditated. Yet House Democrats impeached Donald Trump on Jan. 13, 2021 on the basis of claiming that riot was spontaneously triggered by the president’s speech at the White House that day despite the first violent action occurring before Trump finished speaking.

“The president of the United States summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack,” GOP Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney said in a statement announcing her intent to impeach. “Everything that followed was his doing.”

The committee Cheney now serves on as vice chair, however, has embraced a new theory with claims the Capitol assault was a pre-planned attack by far-right extremists.

***

May I suggest buttered popcorn and a dark-roasted beverage that isn't Starbucks? Barista vs. Big Guy.

Tensions flared during a meeting between Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz and workers in Long Beach, CA on Friday, closing out a tumultuous first week for the returning executive.

Madison Hall, a 25-year-old barista and union organizer, says that the 68-year-old billionaire repeatedly bristled at and cut off their questions about Starbucks’ handling of the growing union movement within the company.

“If you hate Starbucks so much, why don’t you go somewhere else?” Schultz told Hall, they recalled.

Hall, who has been leading the unionization effort at the Second and Covina store in Long Beach, was offered a last minute invitation to the gathering by their manager on Thursday evening. The event took place in a conference room in a building near the Long Beach Airport, and was pitched to them as “an opportunity to meet with senior-level management,” with little other context.

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At least The Pony Express could defend themselves. USPS not so much.


USPS stops deliveries to California neighborhood after repeated attacks on mail carriers: Report

United States Postal Service suspended services in Santa Monica because one suspect accused of assaulting and threatening carriers 'has not been located or apprehended


***

The ONT Musical Interlude & Roller Dog Emporium



On this day: 11 Apr 1977
Alice Cooper played to an audience of 40,000 in Sydney, Australia, the largest crowd to attend a rock concert in the country's history. After the show Cooper was placed under house arrest at his hotel until he posted a bond for $59,632. That amount was the sum that a promoter claimed to have paid Cooper for a 1975 Australia tour he never made. The two settled when it was found that the promoter did not fulfill his part of the agreement either. via thisdayinmusic.com


&&&


On this day:11 Apr 1956
Travelling from Amarillo to Nashville, the plane that Elvis Presley was flying on developed engine trouble and was forced to make an emergency landing. The incident created a fear of flying for Presley. via thisdayinmusic.com

&&&


On this day: 11 Apr 1961
Bob Dylan played his first live gig in New York City at Gerde's Folk City, opening for John Lee Hooker. via thisdayinmusic.com


***


A couple of Geniuses to tickle your fancy this evening.............

Meth, concealed weapons & baby alligator........Genius Award Co-Winner.

COLLIER COUNTY, Fla. – Deputies found a live baby alligator inside a truck during a traffic stop Friday near 12th Street Southeast and Golden Gate Boulevard, the Collier County Sheriff’s Office said via Facebook.

Deputies said Michael Marolla, 31, had the animal inside an open plastic tub in the bed of the pickup, along with two firearms.

&&&


Breaking the law. Breaking the law. Hey, he is the law. Genius Award Co-Winner.

***


It's nice to see a cheery vet story. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

A homeless dog that brought comfort to U.S. soldiers overseas will now get a chance to live the cozy life in America with one of those soldiers.

The three-year-old mixed breed became like family to Sergeant K. and his Army unit in Kosovo last year, after they found him looking for food around their base.

His daily visits and wagging tail soon became the highlight of their day, delivering comfort to those far from home.


Sgt. Kelsey bonded with the pooch he named Duke and wanted to get him to a better life, out of danger.


***


I was having way too much fun last night and this slipped between the cracks.......


Weekly commenter stats for week of 4-10-2022


Top 10 commenters:
1 [628 comments] 'TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa' [88.16 posts/day]
2 [473 comments] 'Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)'
3 [423 comments] 'Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker.'
4 [410 comments] 'Puddinhead'
5 [390 comments] 'Wolfus Aurelius'
6 [359 comments] 'Tom Servo'
7 [355 comments] 'Skip '
8 [342 comments] 'Christopher R Taylor'
9 [338 comments] 'Sponge - FJB'
10 [307 comments] 'The Enlighted Buddhiklos'

Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
1 [302 names] 'The Enlighted Buddhiklos' [42.39 unique names/day]
2 [63 names] 'Count de Monet'
3 [51 names] 'Duncanthrax'
4 [47 names] 'as known to Miklos'
5 [37 names] 'OrangeEnt'
6 [34 names] 'Notorious BFD'
7 [29 names] 'pookysgirl blames the gubmint'
8 [28 names] '18-1'
9 [27 names] 'The ARC of History!'
10 [26 names] 'Helena Handbasket'


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Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by one of Life's Truths.

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Notice: Posted with permission by the Ace Media Empire and AceCorp, LLC. The ONT is organic, or so we say.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 10:00 PM




Comments

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1 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at April 11, 2022 10:00 PM (SchxB)

2 first, maybe

Posted by: Theodore at April 11, 2022 10:00 PM (GJnvT)

3 good evening all

Posted by: wing at April 11, 2022 10:00 PM (PlW9M)

4 close

Posted by: Theodore at April 11, 2022 10:01 PM (GJnvT)

5 Timing is everything!
Sad.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at April 11, 2022 10:01 PM (hOUT3)

6 Beautiful picture! Good evening everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 11, 2022 10:01 PM (Msys3)

7 nice photo!

Posted by: Theodore at April 11, 2022 10:01 PM (GJnvT)

8 Well, MisHum. You have me stumped. I don't know where this pic was taken.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 11, 2022 10:01 PM (7bRMQ)

9 Dang, read the content.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 11, 2022 10:01 PM (tp+tP)

10 Top ten

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at April 11, 2022 10:02 PM (nHzHV)

11 Ugh... nice pic though.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at April 11, 2022 10:02 PM (+ldAm)

12 Man, that stump speaks volumes. Volumes I say!

Posted by: Eromero at April 11, 2022 10:02 PM (0OP+5)

13 It's going to help save lives, reduce crime and get more criminals off the streets.

-
And get it back in Ukrainian energy company board rooms where it belongs.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I am not a biologist at April 11, 2022 10:03 PM (FVME7)

14 Good evening morons and thank you mh

Hope you had a permit to cut down that tree...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 11, 2022 10:04 PM (EZebt)

15 Picture seems to have been taken in Italy, if that's any 'alp.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 11, 2022 10:04 PM (HsAzN)

16 I nooded and then read the content.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at April 11, 2022 10:05 PM (SchxB)

17 Ghost guns!!! *hic* We're all gonna die!!! *hic* Stay safe.

Posted by: Suburban Wine Moms at April 11, 2022 10:05 PM (Xrfse)

18 Hope that tree is now stored away as split firewood for the near future's requirements!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at April 11, 2022 10:06 PM (hOUT3)

19 8 Well, MisHum. You have me stumped. I don't know where this pic was taken.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 11, 2022 10:01 PM (7bRMQ)

Well you certainly didn't go out on a limb did you?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 11, 2022 10:06 PM (aA3+G)

20 What are the holes in that stump?

Posted by: CMU VET at April 11, 2022 10:06 PM (mMV7W)

21 ,USPS stops deliveries to California neighborhood after repeated attacks on mail carriers: Report

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Joe's ghost gun ban will fix this!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I am not a biologist at April 11, 2022 10:06 PM (FVME7)

22 Man, that stump speaks volumes. Volumes I say!
Posted by: Eromero at April 11, 2022 10:02 PM (0OP+5)


Yes, it says about four cords to me!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at April 11, 2022 10:07 PM (hOUT3)

23 "It's going to help save lives, reduce crime and get more criminals off the streets. If you commit a crime with a ghost gun, expect federal prosecution."***Pres. Joe Biden

I'll wait for the murder rate to plummet.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 11, 2022 10:07 PM (+lVUW)

24 Well, MisHum. You have me stumped. I don't know where this pic was taken.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 11, 2022 10:01 PM (7bRMQ)

Well you certainly didn't go out on a limb did you?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

Leaf it alone you two!

Posted by: Tonypete at April 11, 2022 10:07 PM (Msys3)

25 Jill Biden loves my ghost 'gun'

Posted by: Caspar at April 11, 2022 10:08 PM (4I/2K)

26 MisHum: You always find truly spectacular photos to head up the ONT. And a little abbreviated, maybe, but not by much. Thanks!

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- bitterly clinging to the deplorable life '70s style! at April 11, 2022 10:08 PM (HVZDN)

27 Leaf it alone you two!
Posted by: Tonypete at April 11, 2022 10:07 PM (Msys3)


I am not rooting for either one of them, just so you know!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at April 11, 2022 10:08 PM (hOUT3)

28 Yes, we love dogs. Maybe too much. But we don't have a lot of babies to hug and kiss in this day and age, and maybe that's a problem too. But our cats and dogs are beloved, and that is good.

That being said, I love that these war dogs can "come home." When you see how the CCP treats pets and how the Ukrainian evacuees do, you know who is more civilized, and we must save civilization.

Posted by: pj at April 11, 2022 10:08 PM (G1dq6)

29 Thanks for the dandy ONT, Mis Hum!

That photo up top is simply stunning. Nice tune behind it too.

Who knew there was such a thing as strategically placed assholes?!?

Posted by: Legally Sufficient, HONK! Believing in America at April 11, 2022 10:08 PM (XTpZy)

30 Howdy Hordelings! Good to see you, Mis Hum!

Posted by: Doof at April 11, 2022 10:09 PM (mZUr4)

31 Meth, concealed weapons & baby alligator........Genius Award Co-Winner.

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That's a man, baby?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I am not a biologist at April 11, 2022 10:09 PM (FVME7)

32 "And I said some things that hurt people and I feel terrible about that. The gay community has been incredible to me my entire career. And I mean my entire career, from before I got started in this town. Actor Sam Elliot

That's right. Now get down on your knees and grovel to the woke mob like a bitch.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 11, 2022 10:10 PM (+lVUW)

33 Slo Joe should keep in mind these words to Slip Kid,

'Keep away old man, you won't fool me,
You and your history won't rule me,
You might have been a fighter but admit you failed,
I'm not affected by your blackmail,
You won't blackmail me.'

Posted by: whig at April 11, 2022 10:10 PM (Iq9dF)

34 So the two firearms were in the tub with the gator?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at April 11, 2022 10:11 PM (tgp/G)

35 Who knew there was such a thing as strategically placed assholes?!?
Posted by: Legally Sufficient, HONK! Believing in America at April 11, 2022 10:08 PM (XTpZy)


Me.


You're welcome

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 11, 2022 10:11 PM (aA3+G)

36 Leaf it alone you two!
Posted by: Tonypete at April 11, 2022 10:07 PM (Msys3)

I am not rooting for either one of them, just so you know!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar

If you can't phylem, join 'em

Posted by: Miklos, amateur biological male at April 11, 2022 10:11 PM (QzkSJ)

37 I said the other day that techlords and their union-curious flunkies deserve each other, and may their struggle give us a highly entertaining mutual bloodbath. I'm gonna go ahead and extend that to Starbucks, too, for reasons that should be all too obvious.

Posted by: CppThis at April 11, 2022 10:11 PM (UewuT)

38 Jeez, MH...You go all over the place with the music....
Good enough though.
Sometimes I'm not sure where you're going with it...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 11, 2022 10:11 PM (9uqbB)

39 You'd have to float the firewood out, Hroth.

Posted by: Eromero at April 11, 2022 10:12 PM (0OP+5)

40 Well, I'm disappointed. I can't boycott Starbucks any more than I already do.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I am not a biologist at April 11, 2022 10:13 PM (FVME7)

41 My view as to that final quote:

".. if you encounter one Asshole per day, well, they're assholes. If you encounter Assholes all day, every day, well, YOU'RE the Asshole."

*Meeting* "Hi, I'm Jim, and I'm an Asshole.

*crowd* .. "..hi, Jim!* (one of the Twelve Steps in Assholes Anonymous is to sucker punch the asshole, because the sucker punch is an asshole move.) And, the circle, goes unbroken. Bye n' bye Lord, bye n' bye.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 11, 2022 10:13 PM (QzJWU)

42 Can't go wrong with Alice

Greetings!

Posted by: Zeera at April 11, 2022 10:13 PM (eFR3E)

43 Posted by: Doof at April 11, 2022 10:09 PM (mZUr4)

Doof, boyo, how you doing this fine day evening?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at April 11, 2022 10:14 PM (hOUT3)

44 38 Jeez, MH...You go all over the place with the music....
Good enough though.
Sometimes I'm not sure where you're going with it...
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 11, 2022 10:11 PM (9uqbB)

There is no reasoning behind my madness. None.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 11, 2022 10:14 PM (aA3+G)

45 The dogs in Kosovo in the 1990s didn't fare so well, I know because I was there. The command didn't like them. I suppose there are health considerations involved, and I tried not to think about it too much. They just sort of disappeared one day.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 11, 2022 10:14 PM (z7fHM)

46 When you see how the CCP treats pets and how the Ukrainian evacuees do, you know who is more civilized, and we must save civilization.

Atomic World War III for teh doggos!!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at April 11, 2022 10:14 PM (tgp/G)

47 Starbucks under one condition. Free. Never pay. If it's free, allrighty then.

Posted by: Eromero at April 11, 2022 10:14 PM (0OP+5)

48 Casper the friendly ghost gun.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 11, 2022 10:15 PM (XnG/+)

49 You'd have to float the firewood out, Hroth.
Posted by: Eromero at April 11, 2022 10:12 PM (0OP+5)


Survival is not for the lazy or the faint of heart!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at April 11, 2022 10:15 PM (hOUT3)

50 Posted by: Doof


The Doof abides...

Posted by: Miklos, pleased as punch at April 11, 2022 10:15 PM (QzkSJ)

51 I caught part of slo-jo's rambling horse shit. His writers are incorrect. They had him say that when the 2nd Amendment was written no one could own a cannon. Well, yes they could. Ship owners especially. He did stay on script mostly though. Now cannon ownership is restricted and suppressed, even black powder ones. Trebuchet's for the win.

Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at April 11, 2022 10:15 PM (ZNlqs)

52 That last photo reminds me of one of the best lines from Raylan Givens on Justified...

"If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole."

Posted by: Doof at April 11, 2022 10:15 PM (mZUr4)

53 What are the holes in that stump?
Posted by: CMU VET at April 11, 2022 10:06 PM (mMV7W)
* * * *
That's where the sign was that said "No Fishing."

Posted by: Legally Sufficient, HONK! Believing in America at April 11, 2022 10:15 PM (XTpZy)

54 Neither snow, nor rain, nor gloom of night, will keep these couriers from swiftly completing their appointed rounds. But Mexican gangsters, that's different. Eff that shit.

Posted by: US Postal Service Motto at April 11, 2022 10:16 PM (Spr0s)

55 Sam Elliot...STFU, puzzy.
Why do these people continuously buckle down?!
So disappointing, but not surprising...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 11, 2022 10:16 PM (9uqbB)

56 I really don't get the basis for banning a particular method of making self-made guns.

You're allowed to make a firearm for your own use.

The fact that technology makes it easier now doesn't change that right.

FJB

Posted by: TexasDan at April 11, 2022 10:17 PM (aMA7g)

57
What are the holes in that stump?
Posted by: CMU VET


Maybe for the dynamite.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 11, 2022 10:17 PM (63Dwl)

58 That bit about the mailman not delivering to parts of LA due to crime?

Not to proselytize, but that is yet another sign in the book of Demoltion Man coming to pass. Enjoy non Taco Bell meals while you still can.

Posted by: Bete at April 11, 2022 10:17 PM (xKN4A)

59 44 38 Jeez, MH...You go all over the place with the music....
Good enough though.
Sometimes I'm not sure where you're going with it...
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 11, 2022 10:11 PM (9uqbB)

There is no reasoning behind my madness. None.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 11, 2022 10:14 PM (aA3+G)


What do Alice Cooper and Elvis Presley have in common? Both are terrific performers on-stage.

Posted by: Gref at April 11, 2022 10:17 PM (AMIL/)

60 That's where the sign was that said "No Fishing."
Posted by: Legally Sufficient,

It was "No Skinny Dipping"

Posted by: Miklos, rectifier at April 11, 2022 10:17 PM (QzkSJ)

61 55 Sam Elliot...STFU, puzzy.
Why do these people continuously buckle down?!
So disappointing, but not surprising...
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 11, 2022 10:16 PM (9uqbB)


The lure of easy money
it has a very strong appeal...

Posted by: Zombie Glen Frye at April 11, 2022 10:17 PM (hOUT3)

62 May I suggest buttered popcorn and a dark-roasted beverage that isn't Starbucks? Barista vs. Big Guy.

I say put the two of them in Thunderdome. Course the 68 year old guy may be at a disadvantage, but that just adds to the fun.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 11, 2022 10:17 PM (+lVUW)

63 Yo, Hrothgar! Doing OK, thanks. Will I be seeing you in NoVa in June?

Posted by: Doof at April 11, 2022 10:17 PM (mZUr4)

64 Miklos pwns the leaderboard.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 11, 2022 10:17 PM (EZebt)

65 Picture seems to have been taken in Italy, if that's any 'alp.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 11, 2022 10:04 PM (HsAzN)

Tineye seems to think it is Lake Braes in the Dolomite Mountains of Italy.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 11, 2022 10:18 PM (P3gRi)

66 They had him say that when the 2nd Amendment was written no one could own a cannon.

...

When in fact they could own the most technologically advanced military armaments of the day, without prohibition.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 11, 2022 10:18 PM (aMA7g)

67 Ruin decent, peaceable people's lives. Flood their neighborhood with drugs, and vice of every description. Encourage, even subsidize, having children without benefit of a job, marriage or even a 2 parent household any plan whatsoever.

What could go wrong?

Posted by: Common Tater at April 11, 2022 10:18 PM (z7fHM)

68 I got started in this town. Actor Sam Elliot

"Can't venture off the rez?"


Do you want to work and make some dough?
Or do you want get up and leave the show?
Tell me Sammy, do you want to work?

Posted by: Braenyard at April 11, 2022 10:18 PM (XnG/+)

69 You're allowed to make a firearm for your own use.

The fact that technology makes it easier now doesn't change that right.

FJB
Posted by: TexasDan at April 11, 2022 10:17 PM (aMA7g)


Not so fast there boyo...

Posted by: SCCJ John Roberts: "It's a Tax!" at April 11, 2022 10:18 PM (hOUT3)

70 That being said, I love that these war dogs can "come home." When you see how the CCP treats pets and how the Ukrainian evacuees do, you know who is more civilized, and we must save civilization.
Posted by: pj at April 11, 2022 10:08 PM (G1dq6)

We saw the movie Dogs yesterday. The story of two broken warriors; one a ranger and the other a Malinois war dog. It was an okay movie but we were more interested in the Malinois since we lost our beloved Malinois, Breccia, going on almost two years now.

Posted by: Beartooth at April 11, 2022 10:19 PM (+3ARs)

71 The dogs in Kosovo in the 1990s didn't fare so well, I know because I was there. The command didn't like them. I suppose there are health considerations involved, and I tried not to think about it too much. They just sort of disappeared one day.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 11, 2022 10:14 PM (z7fHM)

Urp!

Posted by: Barry O at April 11, 2022 10:19 PM (7bRMQ)

72 Reily Gaines, my eyes bleed for you.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 11, 2022 10:20 PM (XnG/+)

73 The lure of easy money
it has a very strong appeal...
Posted by: Zombie Glen Frye at April 11, 2022 10:17 PM (hOUT3)

Especially for us regular guys.

Posted by: Monty Capuletti at April 11, 2022 10:20 PM (4I/2K)

74 63 Yo, Hrothgar! Doing OK, thanks. Will I be seeing you in NoVa in June?
Posted by: Doof at April 11, 2022 10:17 PM (mZUr4)


Only one reason you won't see me there!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at April 11, 2022 10:20 PM (hOUT3)

75 The longer I live the less things make sense. And the more I realize that everything I was taught to believe, what I structured my life around, and what I staked everything on was bullshit and lies. And I'm having a really hard time adjusting. Bah.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 11, 2022 10:20 PM (II3Gr)

76 The Doof abides...
Posted by: Miklos, pleased as punch at April 11, 2022 10:15 PM (QzkSJ)


Well, hello there! So glad to have met up with you on my recent jaunt to the Palmetto State. Still practicing my Hungarian -- I'm gonna need more lessons!

Posted by: Doof at April 11, 2022 10:20 PM (mZUr4)

77 stump-hole theory:

The pith of the tree is rotting first.

And there were three trees that joined together, and therefore three piths.

Why does the picture play Rush though?

Posted by: TexasDan at April 11, 2022 10:20 PM (aMA7g)

78 Miklos pwns the leaderboard.

He has a critical advantage: being a Commodore 64-powered AI, he has no need for sleep or rest.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 11, 2022 10:20 PM (KFhLj)

79 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 11, 2022 10:21 PM (F/J1O)

80 Regarding the poster and Life's Truth at the end, I went to 5 stores today and did not come into contact with one, single asshole. It's an Easter miracle.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 11, 2022 10:22 PM (+lVUW)

81 If you like your dogs, you can eat your dogs.

Posted by: Baracky O'Cracky at April 11, 2022 10:22 PM (Xrfse)

82 Erdogan wants to be the sly fox but he will fail.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 11, 2022 10:22 PM (XnG/+)

83 Posted by: Beartooth at April 11, 2022 10:19 PM (+3ARs)

Recently I have met two Malinois dogs and their owners, my quick assessment is they are fantastic dogs, almost on a par with my beloved, and departed, Viszla, Prinz!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at April 11, 2022 10:23 PM (hOUT3)

84 Tineye seems to think it is Lake Braes in the Dolomite Mountains of Italy.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 11, 2022 10:18 PM (P3gRi)

Oh, that makes me a small bit sad.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 11, 2022 10:23 PM (7bRMQ)

85 66 They had him say that when the 2nd Amendment was written no one could own a cannon.

...

When in fact they could own the most technologically advanced military armaments of the day, without prohibition.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 11, 2022 10:18 PM (aMA7g)


Hey, it's just Joe being Joe. A liar.

Posted by: Gref at April 11, 2022 10:23 PM (AMIL/)

86 Only one reason you won't see me there!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at April 11, 2022 10:20 PM (hOUT3)


Full on solar eclipse??

Posted by: Doof at April 11, 2022 10:23 PM (mZUr4)

87 He has a critical advantage: being a Commodore 64-powered AI, he has no need for sleep or rest.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

Weekends it's an Amiga

Posted by: Miklosbot v. 183.57.176 at April 11, 2022 10:23 PM (QzkSJ)

88 56 I really don't get the basis for banning a particular method of making self-made guns.

You're allowed to make a firearm for your own use.

The fact that technology makes it easier now doesn't change that right.

FJB
Posted by: TexasDan at April 11, 2022 10:17 PM (aMA7g)


I'm not aware of this being any sort of measurable crime statistic, it's just one of those "we're going to ban it because we can get away with it" deals. Plus it will give them an excuse to divert some feebs away from old-and-busted, obviously racist law enforcement activities like keeping LA streets safe enough for mail trucks.

Posted by: CppThis at April 11, 2022 10:23 PM (UewuT)

89 And yes!
Miklos AND Doof! Fantastic!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 11, 2022 10:24 PM (9uqbB)

90 Another dependable method to get mail delivery suspended is loose dogs running around. It only takes one dickhead to ruin it for dozens. They will often just skip whole blocks. Kind of a peer pressure thing.

Mail delivery is not nearly so important as it once was, but lots of parcels still being delivered, important stuff.

One of the more ridiculous assertions we'll hear from internet wags "Stealing mail is a Federal crime!" as if they will charge anybody these days. They let murderers go, swiping somebody's box off a porch won't rise to the level of anything, near as I can tell.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 11, 2022 10:24 PM (z7fHM)

91 Regarding the poster and Life's Truth at the end, I went to 5 stores today and did not come into contact with one, single asshole. It's an Easter miracle.
Posted by: nerdygirl

I know, right?!

I shopped at a few places also today. At one, a young lady with neon red hair said "Hello" and "Have a great day!" without prompting. I actually think she meant it.

Will wonders never cease.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 11, 2022 10:24 PM (Msys3)

92 21 ,USPS stops deliveries to California neighborhood after repeated attacks on mail carriers: Report

-
Joe's ghost gun ban will fix this!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I am not a biologist at April 11, 2022 10:06 PM (FVME7)


Not only that, but you'll be able to safely wander around the sketchy part of Detroit at 3 in morning. And yes, I know that pretty much every part of the city is sketchy.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 11, 2022 10:24 PM (+lVUW)

93 I must have a sixth sense about asshole peoples. I see them everywhere.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 11, 2022 10:24 PM (4I/2K)

94 Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 11, 2022 10:20 PM (II3Gr)

Insom:
The phrase "thin veneer of civilization" comes to mind!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at April 11, 2022 10:25 PM (hOUT3)

95 When in fact they could own the most technologically advanced military armaments of the day, without prohibition.
Posted by: TexasDan at April 11, 2022 10:18 PM (aMA7g)

Weren't there cannons in private hands that were used against the British about 10 years prior to the writing of the document?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 11, 2022 10:25 PM (cupoy)

96 The committee Cheney now serves on as vice chair, however, has embraced a new theory with claims the Capitol assault was a pre-planned attack by far-right extremists.

Mitch McConnell shoveled her some money today.
And they let him do it. Did any senator complain?
Did Andy McCarthy complain?

Posted by: Braenyard at April 11, 2022 10:25 PM (XnG/+)

97 Full on solar eclipse??

Posted by: Doof at April 11, 2022 10:23 PM (mZUr4)

Doof, do you know how to make a Venetian blind?

Posted by: Comicus at April 11, 2022 10:25 PM (7bRMQ)

98 I must have a sixth sense about asshole peoples. I see them everywhere.
Posted by: Count de Monet


Look, fat

Posted by: Preznit Joey B. at April 11, 2022 10:26 PM (QzkSJ)

99 Why does the picture play Rush though?
Posted by: TexasDan at April 11, 2022 10:20 PM (aMA7g)


Because Mis Hum isn't a hoser, eh!!!

Posted by: Doof at April 11, 2022 10:26 PM (mZUr4)

100 . And I'm having a really hard time adjusting. Bah.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 11, 2022 10:20 PM (II3Gr)

I hear you. Both my parents are gone. Thankfully, they had long and good lives. They were born in the 1920's. I've always believed that life must keep rolling on, but lately I'm feeling that since that generation has gone, the wheels have come off of society.

Posted by: RondinellaMamma - Donald J. Trump is our duly elected president at April 11, 2022 10:26 PM (l0Cy4)

101 Full on solar eclipse??
Posted by: Doof at April 11, 2022 10:23 PM (mZUr4)


I have problems when there's a full moon..
Aroooo!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at April 11, 2022 10:26 PM (hOUT3)

102 Has Hadrian been scarce for a bit?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 11, 2022 10:27 PM (F/J1O)

103 93 I must have a sixth sense about asshole peoples. I see them everywhere.
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 11, 2022 10:24 PM (4I/2K)
Just like that movie with Bruce Willis and the little guy for A.I.

Posted by: Eromero at April 11, 2022 10:27 PM (0OP+5)

104 Oh, makes more sense now.

Charlee Disney, one of the heirs of The Walt Disney Co [great grand daughter]., came out publicly as transgender and condemned anti-LGBTQ bills in a recent interview.
Disney, who uses gender-neutral pronouns, announced that their family would match up to $250,000 in donations to the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest LGBTQ advocacy group, during the organization's annual gala in Los Angeles last month.
Roy P. Disney, Disney's father and the grandson of the company's co-founder, upped that amount to $500,000 last week.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 11, 2022 10:27 PM (R8uWY)

105 99 Why does the picture play Rush though?
Posted by: TexasDan at April 11, 2022 10:20 PM (aMA7g)

Because Mis Hum isn't a hoser, eh!!!
Posted by: Doof at April 11, 2022 10:26 PM (mZUr4)

Slides an ice cold Molson to Doof

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 11, 2022 10:27 PM (aA3+G)

106 And yes!
Miklos AND Doof! Fantastic!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 11, 2022 10:24 PM (9uqbB)


Howdy COMM! Hope all is well with you

Posted by: Doof at April 11, 2022 10:27 PM (mZUr4)

107
I have problems when there's a full moon..
Aroooo!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar

Scary, keeds!

Posted by: Count Miklos Floyd at April 11, 2022 10:28 PM (QzkSJ)

108 Thanks, MisHum!


Did Miklos appear twice on the sock puppet list?

Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at April 11, 2022 10:28 PM (rF64X)

109 So is the 302 part of the 307, or did Miklos actually use that handle 307 times AND also do 302 socks?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 11, 2022 10:28 PM (F/J1O)

110 The longer I live the less things make sense. And the more I realize that everything I was taught to believe, what I structured my life around, and what I staked everything on was bullshit and lies. And I'm having a really hard time adjusting. Bah.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 11, 2022 10:20 PM (II3Gr)

Yep.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 11, 2022 10:28 PM (4I/2K)

111 Because Mis Hum isn't a hoser, eh!!!
Posted by: Doof at April 11, 2022 10:26 PM (mZUr4)

Slides an ice cold Molson to Doof
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 11, 2022 10:27 PM (aA3+G)


Beauty!

Posted by: Doof at April 11, 2022 10:28 PM (mZUr4)

112 37 I said the other day that techlords and their union-curious flunkies deserve each other, and may their struggle give us a highly entertaining mutual bloodbath. I'm gonna go ahead and extend that to Starbucks, too, for reasons that should be all too obvious.
Posted by: CppThis at April 11, 2022 10:11 PM (UewuT)


I don't know what the Starbucks CEO is bitching about. All he has to do is add another couple dollars to the price of the overpriced, bad tasting coffee. Starbucks fans are dumb enough to still buy it.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 11, 2022 10:29 PM (+lVUW)

113 A pox on the house of Disney.

Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at April 11, 2022 10:29 PM (rF64X)

114 Did Andy McCarthy complain?
Posted by: Braenyard at April 11, 2022 10:25 PM (XnG/+)/i]

I think the AoS Stylebook requires the honorific "Straight-shooting Honorable" prefix whenever Andy McCarthy is mentioned!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at April 11, 2022 10:29 PM (hOUT3)

115 I am pleased as punch that Liz Cheney seems to be adjusting well to her new overlords.

Posted by: Baracky O'Cracky at April 11, 2022 10:29 PM (Xrfse)

116 Did Miklos appear twice on the sock puppet list?

Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at April 11, 2022 10:28 PM (rF64X)

I think it was his doppelganger.

What Hungarian for doppelganger?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 11, 2022 10:29 PM (7bRMQ)

117 nuts

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at April 11, 2022 10:29 PM (hOUT3)

118 Doof, do you know how to make a Venetian blind?
Posted by: Comicus at April 11, 2022 10:25 PM (7bRMQ)


Three Stooges double eye poke?

Posted by: Doof at April 11, 2022 10:29 PM (mZUr4)

119 Damn, egg protein powder is expensive as hell.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 11, 2022 10:29 PM (F/J1O)

120 All he has to do is add another couple dollars to the price of the overpriced, bad tasting coffee.
Posted by: nerdygirl

That stuff really is garbage.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 11, 2022 10:29 PM (Msys3)

121 104 Oh, makes more sense now.

Charlee Disney, one of the heirs of The Walt Disney Co [great grand daughter]., came out publicly as transgender and condemned anti-LGBTQ bills in a recent interview.
Disney, who uses gender-neutral pronouns, announced that their family would match up to $250,000 in donations to the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest LGBTQ advocacy group, during the organization's annual gala in Los Angeles last month.
Roy P. Disney, Disney's father and the grandson of the company's co-founder, upped that amount to $500,000 last week.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 11, 2022 10:27 PM (R8uWY)
And Walt will send Mickey to gnaw off their damn toes and lips at midnight. I hope.

Posted by: Eromero at April 11, 2022 10:30 PM (0OP+5)

122 ~USPS stops deliveries to California neighborhood after repeated attacks on mail carriers

Ambulances running a code have to give way to mail trucks.
What a bunch of strategically-placed...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 11, 2022 10:30 PM (CT11V)

123 113 A pox on the house of Disney.
Posted by: chique l'African

\
Hello chique, I see you are most gracious as usual!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at April 11, 2022 10:30 PM (hOUT3)

124 97 Doof, do you know how to make a Venetian blind?

Poke him in the eyes?

Posted by: Theodore at April 11, 2022 10:31 PM (GJnvT)

125 Three Stooges double eye poke?

Posted by: Doof at April 11, 2022 10:29 PM (mZUr4)

I think Hrothgar is really Stevie Wonder.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 11, 2022 10:31 PM (7bRMQ)

126 I believe Hadrian gave ace up for lent... he's serious about his beliefs.

Posted by: lin-duh at April 11, 2022 10:31 PM (UUBmN)

127
I'm feeling that since that generation has gone, the wheels have come off of society.
Posted by: RondinellaMamma


Don't worry, WW3 will give us the greatest greatest generation. Riiiiiiiight.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 11, 2022 10:32 PM (63Dwl)

128 102 Has Hadrian been scarce for a bit?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop


Lent IIRC

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at April 11, 2022 10:32 PM (hOUT3)

129 What Hungarian for doppelganger?
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Dupla-ganger

Posted by: Double your Miklos, double your fun! at April 11, 2022 10:32 PM (QzkSJ)

130 The first charges to be dropped are always the firearm charges.

Leftists: There's too much gun crime in Chicago!!!!!

Me: When's the last time someone was charged *and* served the full sentence for a gun crime in Chicago?

Leftists: Uhhh.... LOOK, IT'S DAVID HOGG IN A SPEEDO!

Posted by: pookysgirl is lucky number 7 at April 11, 2022 10:32 PM (XKZwp)

131 Has Hadrian been scarce for a bit?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 11, 2022 10:27 PM (F/J1O)
* * * *
Hadrian gave up the HQ for Lent.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient, HONK! Believing in America at April 11, 2022 10:32 PM (XTpZy)

132 Doof said it first

Posted by: Theodore at April 11, 2022 10:32 PM (GJnvT)

133 So now the feds want to reinstate the Vax mandate for employees. I guess not getting WWIII started called for some action and the only thing that seemed to work was the dreaded covid death. They are pivoting back. But it seems that everyone is well over that so I wonder if it will be that effective.

Posted by: Megthered at April 11, 2022 10:33 PM (k7Bdw)

134 Would love to fish that spot. Damn.

Wouldn't even need to get a bite.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 11, 2022 10:33 PM (TgO2L)

135 127
I'm feeling that since that generation has gone, the wheels have come off of society.
Posted by: RondinellaMamma

Don't worry, WW3 will give us the greatest greatest generation. Riiiiiiiight.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 11, 2022 10:32 PM (63Dwl)
You know, you might just be right. Another Valley Forge generation.

Posted by: Eromero at April 11, 2022 10:33 PM (0OP+5)

136 Per the Bible, life on this earth sucks [insert metaphor here], but which is why we are to derive our purpose and joy in God and not the fickle offerings of life. Bad people prosper, bad things happen to good people (and vice versa, too).

If eternity does not exist, might as well be a nihilist. But that must be a miserable way to be.

Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at April 11, 2022 10:33 PM (rF64X)

137 Cannon, warships, privateers.

In those days, the ships crew would share in the spoils of war. You could certainly own cannon as a private citizen, even own a warship, certainly. The government could compel you and crew to show up and provide your services in times of emergency, however.

Arms and ammunition were expected to be kept in a state of readiness. That way, when an alert or muster was ordered, all able bodied men could go directly to the source of trouble, versus making a beeline first to some centralized armory.

Smaller Cannon were known as "Swivel guns" and would be effective on smaller craft, even keel boats or large canoes. Basically a very large blunderbuss or shotgun muzzle loader. Could be filled with anything, including lengths of chain.

Nobody, not even Democrats, should believe anything Biden says about anything. Jackass has been talking bullshit for 50 fvcking years in Washington. He is a total douchebag par excellance, always has been, but that's not news.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 11, 2022 10:33 PM (z7fHM)

138 Dupla-ganger

Posted by: Double your Miklos, double your fun! at April 11, 2022 10:32 PM (QzkSJ)

Throws signs.
Thanks Blood!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 11, 2022 10:34 PM (7bRMQ)

139 118 Doof, do you know how to make a Venetian blind?
Posted by: Comicus at April 11, 2022 10:25 PM (7bRMQ)

Three Stooges double eye poke?

Posted by: Doof at April 11, 2022 10:29 PM (mZUr4)


I can't resist now that you mentioned the Stooges and blindness -

Curly: Moe, I can't see, I can't see!
Moe: Open your eyes you numbskull!
Curly: Oh, that's much better.

Posted by: Gref at April 11, 2022 10:34 PM (AMIL/)

140 Wouldn't even need to get a bite.
Posted by: Sharkman at April 11, 2022 10:33 PM (TgO2L)/i]

Dayum dude, you understand fishing!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at April 11, 2022 10:34 PM (hOUT3)

141 I notice that we are telling our people to leave Shanghai because of 'Covid-19'- not because they are well marbled, slow moving, and probably have clubbable faces.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 11, 2022 10:34 PM (F/J1O)

142 104 Oh, makes more sense now.

Charlee Disney, one of the heirs of The Walt Disney Co [great grand daughter]., came out publicly as transgender and condemned anti-LGBTQ bills in a recent interview.
Disney, who uses gender-neutral pronouns, announced that their family would match up to $250,000 in donations to the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest LGBTQ advocacy group, during the organization's annual gala in Los Angeles last month.
Roy P. Disney, Disney's father and the grandson of the company's co-founder, upped that amount to $500,000 last week.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 11, 2022 10:27 PM (R8uWY)

Don't forget they employ thousands of theatre Major dropouts to sing, dance and perform for the parks and cruise ships.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 11, 2022 10:34 PM (cupoy)

143 I think Hadrian has given up the HQ for Lent.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 11, 2022 10:34 PM (P3gRi)

144 Hello chique, I see you are most gracious as usual!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at April 11, 2022 10:30 PM (hOUT3)

Hello, dearest Commissar! You are so right. I could have said worse about them.

Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at April 11, 2022 10:35 PM (rF64X)

145 So, the Postal Service has its own frigging SWAT teams, but they won't deliver to Santa Monica now?

What is the point of the SWAT teams if you aren't gonna use them?

Posted by: Sharkman at April 11, 2022 10:35 PM (TgO2L)

146 96
Posted by: Braenyard at April 11, 2022 10:25 PM (XnG/+)
Do you have a link for this?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 11, 2022 10:35 PM (roH4R)

147 75 The longer I live the less things make sense. And the more I realize that everything I was taught to believe, what I structured my life around, and what I staked everything on was bullshit and lies. And I'm having a really hard time adjusting. Bah.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 11, 2022 10:20 PM (II3Gr)

Charlton Heston saw the Truth of things:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFCM6TZgTMI

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2022 10:35 PM (evAgx)

148 If eternity does not exist, might as well be a nihilist. But that must be a miserable way to be.
Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at April 11, 2022 10:33 PM (rF64X)

to quote the Dude: sounds exhausting.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at April 11, 2022 10:35 PM (x8Wzq)

149 40 Well, I'm disappointed. I can't boycott Starbucks any more than I already do.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I am not a biologist at April 11, 2022 10:13 PM (FVME7)


There's this fantastic nursery/produce/deli/grocery store near me that has a free, self serve coffee bar. It always has about 8 kinds of hot, brewed coffee, a selection of several syrups, sugars, and skim, low fat, and regular milk. All free. Of course, you wander around with your free coffee and buy a bunch of specialty items that you probably wouldn't have purchased anywhere else, but hey, it's a marketing strategy.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 11, 2022 10:35 PM (+lVUW)

150 136
Posted by: chique l'African

Yes!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at April 11, 2022 10:36 PM (hOUT3)

151 Hadrian gave up AoSHQ for Lent.

Posted by: Amy Schumer at April 11, 2022 10:36 PM (4I/2K)

152 What is the point of the SWAT teams if you aren't gonna use them?

Posted by: Sharkman at April 11, 2022 10:35 PM (TgO2L)

That's what I said!

Posted by: Miss Lindsay at April 11, 2022 10:36 PM (7bRMQ)

153 Just my thought...
Americans will always find a way around 'ghost guns'.
If anyone has seen a 3D machine perform...well, it's quite impressive....
And, anyone with a mill and/or a lathe...yeah. I think you'll get it...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 11, 2022 10:36 PM (9uqbB)

154 Hadrian gave up AoSHQ for Lent.
Posted by: Amy Schumer at April 11, 2022 10:36 PM (4I/2K)

Goll dang! I was just about to do that! Hah!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at April 11, 2022 10:37 PM (x8Wzq)

155 Curly: Moe, I can't see, I can't see!
Moe: Open your eyes you numbskull!
Curly: Oh, that's much better.
Posted by: Gref

Also Curly making small talk (whilst pretending to be a barber shaving a customer):

Are you married or happy?

Even the lovely Mrs. laughs at that one.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 11, 2022 10:37 PM (Msys3)

156 151 Hadrian gave up AoSHQ for Lent.
Posted by: Amy Schumer at April 11, 2022 10:36 PM (4I/2K)

Was waiting for this one.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 11, 2022 10:38 PM (F/J1O)

157 Well, I just filtered my last batch of syrup. Bottling later this week. Good season!

Posted by: Muad'dib at April 11, 2022 10:38 PM (WUSNl)

158 If anyone has seen a 3D machine perform...well, it's quite impressive....
And, anyone with a mill and/or a lathe...yeah. I think you'll get it...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 11, 2022 10:36 PM (9uqbB)

I hear Sten guns are relatively easy to make.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 11, 2022 10:38 PM (7bRMQ)

159 145 So, the Postal Service has its own frigging SWAT teams, but they won't deliver to Santa Monica now?

What is the point of the SWAT teams if you aren't gonna use them?
Posted by: Sharkman at April 11, 2022 10:35 PM (TgO2L)
Post Office swat team is just like the Dept of Ed swat team and the OSHA swat team, and all the other Washington City swat teams. They ain't to put down the gangbangers, they are for putting our asses down.

Posted by: Eromero at April 11, 2022 10:38 PM (0OP+5)

160 144
Posted by: chique l'African


You really need to work on that character flaw!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at April 11, 2022 10:38 PM (hOUT3)

161 Hello, back from things and now here. It sure seems as if blacks and gays are the most fragile, easily distraught people on the entire planet. How will they survive unless we carve out special places for them.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 11, 2022 10:39 PM (m0zqP)

162 I hear Sten guns are relatively easy to make.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 11, 2022 10:38 PM (7bRMQ)


The very point of the Sten gun IIRC!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at April 11, 2022 10:39 PM (hOUT3)

163 I hear Sten guns are relatively easy to make.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 11, 2022 10:38 PM (7bRMQ)

Luty? Who the hell was the british guy who made a functioning submachine gun out of plumbing fittings?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 11, 2022 10:39 PM (F/J1O)

164 Poetry in Motion ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/media

*scroll down

Posted by: kbdabear at April 11, 2022 10:39 PM (qAR6u)

165 Ghost guns. Ghost guns.

I swear these fookers get memos on secret fax machines or something - like old school fax machines with the curly paper. It's fucking bizarre how quickly a word or phrase will be all over the place.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at April 11, 2022 10:40 PM (x8Wzq)

166 How will they survive unless we carve out special places for them.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 11, 2022 10:39 PM (m0zqP)


And BeckChas cuts to the chase!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at April 11, 2022 10:40 PM (hOUT3)

167 I hear Sten guns are relatively easy to make.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 11, 2022 10:38 PM (7bRMQ)

You don't have to make a perfect gun; just one good enough for you to be able to take a better one off the corpse of the marauder you just shot.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 11, 2022 10:40 PM (P3gRi)

168 Hey Beck Chas!

How is Robert the Cat (TM)?

Posted by: Legally Sufficient, HONK! Believing in America at April 11, 2022 10:40 PM (XTpZy)

169 102 Has Hadrian been scarce for a bit?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 11, 2022 10:27 PM (F/J1O)

I thought he was off for Lent...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at April 11, 2022 10:40 PM (BgMrQ)

170 My neighbors, you know, the one's in the witness protection program moved out. The new neighbors drive brand new red Cadillacs and the head of the household drives a red four door SUV with a hood that's poofed to fit a blower.

He's in and out about every forty minutes.
Guess he delivers for Uber.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 11, 2022 10:40 PM (XnG/+)

171 You don't have to make a perfect gun; just one good enough for you to be able to take a better one off the corpse of the marauder you just shot.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I often say battlefield pickup is a real thing. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at April 11, 2022 10:41 PM (Msys3)

172 I'd say AOP's right.

Lago di Braies if you speak Eyetalian, Prager Wildsee if you speak Kraut.

It's in Southern Tyrol and even though the border is some distance north, there are a lot of Austrian place names mixed in with the Italian...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 11, 2022 10:41 PM (ZSK0i)

173 Brandon Herrara did a video on the Luby.
Designed by a Brit. Sort of resembles the old grease gun, M-3?
or sort of an MP 40. It's usable, he had it made in 9 mm but any pistol ammo would do. It worked, it wasn't very accurate but it worked.

Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at April 11, 2022 10:41 PM (ZNlqs)

174 Big picture, it's rather astounding for Team Biden to think they can get any political mileage out of going back to gun control. Beto's campaign has already burned itself out on that issue, before his campaign even started.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2022 10:41 PM (evAgx)

175 Luty? Who the hell was the british guy who made a functioning submachine gun out of plumbing fittings?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 11, 2022 10:39 PM (F/J1O)

Next up: Mandating ID at plumbing stores!

Posted by: Joe's Writers at April 11, 2022 10:42 PM (7bRMQ)

176 You don't have to make a perfect gun; just one good enough for you to be able to take a better one off the corpse of the marauder you just shot.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 11, 2022 10:40 PM (P3gRi)

What if it is an odd caliber- like 7.65 french?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 11, 2022 10:42 PM (F/J1O)

177 165 Ghost guns. Ghost guns.

I swear these fookers get memos on secret fax machines or something - like old school fax machines with the curly paper. It's fucking bizarre how quickly a word or phrase will be all over the place.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at April 11, 2022 10:40 PM (x8Wzq)
They still have nightmares over the Glock, which gets out of wherever you put it and just goes and gets on an airplane all by itself.

Posted by: Eromero at April 11, 2022 10:42 PM (0OP+5)

178 I've been tempted to submit pictures for the ONT, because it can be pretty damn scenic here, but then I realized that all the pictures on the ONT are much higher quality than anything I manage to take.

Posted by: Splunge at April 11, 2022 10:42 PM (71xoW)

179 I hear Sten guns are relatively easy to make.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 11, 2022 10:38 PM (7bRMQ)

Luty? Who the hell was the british guy who made a functioning submachine gun out of plumbing fittings?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 11, 2022 10:39 PM (F/J1O)

Q Branch?

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 11, 2022 10:42 PM (4I/2K)

180 You don't have to make a perfect gun; just one good enough for you to be able to take a better one off the corpse of the marauder you just shot.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 11, 2022 10:40 PM (P3gRi)

Liberator, FTW!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 11, 2022 10:42 PM (7bRMQ)

181 It worked, it wasn't very accurate but it worked.
Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote


Up close, accuracy is a secondary consideration!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at April 11, 2022 10:42 PM (hOUT3)

182 I mused at some length (wasted time) on whether Swivel guns are now lawful on the Mississippi, at least on the Iowa side, now that state permits are no longer required for firearms owners. Could be just the thing to keep those Wisconsin scalawags on their side of the river.

Seriously though, a swivel gun would have that certain somethin' somethin' on a houseboat.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 11, 2022 10:42 PM (z7fHM)

183 Luty? Who the hell was the british guy who made a functioning submachine gun out of plumbing fittings?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop

Next up: Mandating ID at plumbing stores!
Posted by: Joe's Writers

We need common sense P-trap control!!

Posted by: Tonypete at April 11, 2022 10:43 PM (Msys3)

184 I am going to go to the gun show and get a ghost gun without a background check! It will even have a high capacity auto clip!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 11, 2022 10:43 PM (R8uWY)

185 Good evening, dear Horde!

That story about "Lia" and the trophy has me rage stroking.

Posted by: Ladyl at April 11, 2022 10:43 PM (TdMsT)

186 Alex Lifeson is a very underrated guitarist.

I've heard a reporter once asked Eddie Van Halen: "What's it like to be the greatest guitar player in the world?" And EVH just said: "I don't know know. Have you talked to Alex Lifeson?"

Thanks for the music link.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 11, 2022 10:43 PM (TgO2L)

187
Insom:
The phrase "thin veneer of civilization" comes to mind!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at April 11, 2022 10:25 PM (hOUT3)

Very thin. Micron thin.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 11, 2022 10:43 PM (II3Gr)

188
Luty? Who the hell was the british guy who made a functioning submachine gun out of plumbing fittings?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

I think so.
The pdf is available with a search for 'expedient firearms'.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 11, 2022 10:44 PM (CT11V)

189 Just a reminder

They are trying to bring back mask mandates as the purveyors of Covid Panic Porn are beating the drums.

Don't fall for it.

And quite frankly I've had enough

Posted by: Big Star at April 11, 2022 10:44 PM (Modkf)

190 Couldn't sleep last night, because a ghost gun might have come through the walls and shot me.

Posted by: Splunge at April 11, 2022 10:44 PM (71xoW)

191 Dear {{{Hrothgar}}}

Posted by: Ladyl at April 11, 2022 10:44 PM (TdMsT)

192 158

I don't know...of course, I'm sure the barrel at least certainly can't be plastic. But, maybe someone could be developing a plastic that could hold up to the heat...America!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 11, 2022 10:44 PM (9uqbB)

193 What if it is an odd caliber- like 7.65 french?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 11, 2022 10:42 PM (F/J1O)

You just throw up your hands and give up!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 11, 2022 10:44 PM (7bRMQ)

194 You don't have to make a perfect gun; just one good enough for you to be able to take a better one off the corpse of the marauder you just shot.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 11, 2022 10:40 PM (P3gRi)

This weekend my grandson was showing me how good he was at Fortnite (10 years old). That's the key to winning.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2022 10:44 PM (evAgx)

195 Oh, great. Now plumbing fittings will need a serial number.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 11, 2022 10:44 PM (R8uWY)

196 Happiness is a choice.
Peace within your heart is a choice.
Love is a choice.

Or you can choose to be miserable and angry and resentful.

But. Depression is personal. It cannot be taken away from you. It's all yours. Until you give it up. And choose to try to be happy. Every day. And then, perhaps, you start to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Or not.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 11, 2022 10:45 PM (U2p+3)

197 I've been tempted to submit pictures for the ONT, because it can be pretty damn scenic here, but then I realized that all the pictures on the ONT are much higher quality than anything I manage to take.
Posted by: Splunge at April 11, 2022 10:42 PM (71xoW)
* * * *
If you can take a photo with your phone, it can be high quality enough for the ONT. Submit away! All Mis Hum can do is say, "nope, won't work."

Posted by: Legally Sufficient, HONK! Believing in America at April 11, 2022 10:45 PM (XTpZy)

198 Curare-dipped blow darts and blowguns. Old school.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 11, 2022 10:45 PM (4I/2K)

199 Surprisingly enough, Cannon are not generally illegal under federal law, nor in any state that I know of, perhaps local jurisdiction has some restrictions.

No exploding shells, however. Just muzzloaders. Civil War type cannon. Surprisingly or maybe not so surprisingly, the expensive part is generally the caisson - the wooden wheels, and all that stuff.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 11, 2022 10:45 PM (z7fHM)

200 161 Hello, back from things and now here. It sure seems as if blacks and gays are the most fragile, easily distraught people on the entire planet. How will they survive unless we carve out special places for them.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 11, 2022 10:39 PM (m0zqP)

You're forgetting white women. AWFLs, to be more precise.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 11, 2022 10:45 PM (II3Gr)

201 190 Couldn't sleep last night, because a ghost gun might have come through the walls and shot me.
Posted by: Splunge at April 11, 2022 10:44 PM (71xoW)

I tried one of the youtube channels with the rain and thunder on a tin roof. Relaxed me, but did not let me drift off to sleep. Noise needs to be less... energetic. Might try the propeller plane sounds one.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 11, 2022 10:45 PM (F/J1O)

202 @168 - he is fine. Better than fine, really. I went to Florida to visit relatives who are "on the decline" so to speak, and left him with double food and water, but only the one litter box.

Well, the food and water were fine, but the litter box suffered a bit of trauma through overuse. I think I acted quickly enough, because otherwise it would start writing poetry.

Thank you for asking!

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 11, 2022 10:45 PM (m0zqP)

203 The real menace is potato guns. When you see Stelter being perp-walked, you'll know that Joe is finally taking the crime threat seriously.

Posted by: Splunge at April 11, 2022 10:45 PM (71xoW)

204 Joerg Sprave can do some damage with a sling shot and semi auto longbow.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 11, 2022 10:46 PM (R8uWY)

205 Dear {{{Ladyl}}}
So good to see you here, amongst this vagabond crew of miscreants!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at April 11, 2022 10:46 PM (hOUT3)

206 Alex Lifeson is a very underrated guitarist.

I've heard a reporter once asked Eddie Van Halen: "What's it like to be the greatest guitar player in the world?" And EVH just said: "I don't know know. Have you talked to Alex Lifeson?"

Thanks for the music link.
Posted by: Sharkman at April 11, 2022 10:43 PM (TgO2L)


Yes, he is underrated indeed. Wonder how accurate that EVH thing is though.

Posted by: Doof at April 11, 2022 10:46 PM (mZUr4)

207 Hey, Ladyl - BF all healed up from his procedure?

Posted by: Tonypete at April 11, 2022 10:46 PM (Msys3)

208 203 The real menace is potato guns. When you see Stelter being perp-walked, you'll know that Joe is finally taking the crime threat seriously.
Posted by: Splunge at April 11, 2022 10:45 PM (71xoW)

They'll start requiring each can of hair spray to have a unique chemical signature so they can trace the miscreants with ghost potato cannons.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 11, 2022 10:46 PM (II3Gr)

209 196 Happiness is a choice.
Peace within your heart is a choice.
Love is a choice.

Or you can choose to be miserable and angry and resentful.

But. Depression is personal. It cannot be taken away from you. It's all yours. Until you give it up. And choose to try to be happy. Every day. And then, perhaps, you start to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Or not.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 11, 2022 10:45 PM (U2p+3)
Dang, nurse. What are you smoking? Just kidding, what you said is true and perfect. I wish I had said it.

Posted by: Eromero at April 11, 2022 10:47 PM (0OP+5)

210 204 Joerg Sprave can do some damage with a sling shot and semi auto longbow.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 11, 2022 10:46 PM (R8uWY)

He's a cheerful mad inventor.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 11, 2022 10:47 PM (II3Gr)

211 Bamboo tubes.

Posted by: Spock, from that one Trek episode at April 11, 2022 10:47 PM (F/J1O)

212 Couldn't sleep last night, because a ghost gun might have come through the walls and shot me.

Posted by: Splunge at April 11, 2022 10:44 PM (71xoW)

Heh, heh, heh. I'll be there tonight!

Posted by: Ghost Gun at April 11, 2022 10:47 PM (7bRMQ)

213 Alex Lifeson

I know Rush is an acquired taste (mostly because of Geddy's singing) but they're unbelievably talented musicians. I love Rush. RIP, Neil.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at April 11, 2022 10:48 PM (x8Wzq)

214 Howdy Nurse!! Hugs to you!!

Posted by: Doof at April 11, 2022 10:48 PM (mZUr4)

215 Ghost guns in the ceiling, watching you fap.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 11, 2022 10:48 PM (II3Gr)

216 You're forgetting white women. AWFLs, to be more precise.
Posted by: Insomniac

AWFLS like to speak on behalf of other oppressed people who have no voice and need a loud, obnoxious educated white woman to scream for them.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 11, 2022 10:48 PM (R8uWY)

217 I mused at some length (wasted time) on whether Swivel guns are now lawful on the Mississippi, at least on the Iowa side, now that state permits are no longer required for firearms owners. Could be just the thing to keep those Wisconsin scalawags on their side of the river.

Seriously though, a swivel gun would have that certain somethin' somethin' on a houseboat.
Posted by: Common Tater at April 11, 2022 10:42 PM (z7fHM)

So would a torpedo.

Posted by: Charlie Allnut at April 11, 2022 10:48 PM (4I/2K)

218 And I said some things that hurt people and I feel terrible about that. The gay community has been incredible to me my entire career. And I mean my entire career, from before I got started in this town. Actor Sam Elliot


Hence the gay porn 'stache.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 11, 2022 10:48 PM (yQpMk)

219 157 Well, I just filtered my last batch of syrup. Bottling later this week. Good season!
Posted by: Muad'dib at April 11, 2022 10:38 PM (WUSNl)

It must be as you weren't at your "real job" a couple of weeks ago when I stopped in.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 11, 2022 10:49 PM (aA3+G)

220 And choose to try to be happy. Every day. And then, perhaps, you start to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Or not.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 11, 2022 10:45 PM (U2p+3)


nurse
That's like work...
But very necessary, just like work!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at April 11, 2022 10:49 PM (hOUT3)

221 196 nurse
Well said. But, depression can be hard to reconcile with.
I tend to struggle with this daily.
One just needs to try. Every day.

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 11, 2022 10:49 PM (9uqbB)

222 Tennis ball cannon, powered by Ronsonal lighter fluid.

I remember being crestfallen, when soda and beer cans no longer had flat bottoms and tops. It was a happy accident, that 6 to 7 pop cans could be secured together with black electrical tape, and a standard tennis ball would fit "just so". Loads of fun!

Posted by: Common Tater at April 11, 2022 10:49 PM (z7fHM)

223 Who knew there was such a thing as strategically placed assholes?!?

Posted by: Legally Sufficient, HONK! Believing in America



*G-d's Human Design Team*

1. "Here?"
2. "No, too close to the eyes."
1. "What about . . . Here!?"
2. "No, too close to . . . Hmm. That could work. Let's finalize this layout and get it to the Boss to review."

Posted by: Sharkman at April 11, 2022 10:49 PM (TgO2L)

224 If you can take a photo with your phone, it can be high quality enough for the ONT. Submit away! All Mis Hum can do is say, "nope, won't work."

Posted by: Legally Sufficient, HONK! Believing in America at April 11, 2022 10:45 PM (XTpZy)

He's used Moron's pix before. Send one in.

Posted by: Ghost Gun at April 11, 2022 10:49 PM (7bRMQ)

225 Stumps...it had to be stumps...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 11, 2022 10:50 PM (WZ5i4)

226 I think those holes in the stump are a termite infestation.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 11, 2022 10:50 PM (TgO2L)

227 Muad'dib, sound delicious (well, sounds like hard work, but the kind that pays off concretely, and deliciously).

Just recently used some Grade B (can't recall the newfangled name) as an ingredient in a blueberry sauce for pork chops. Adds a depth that no other ingredient can. The combo with balsamic and the berries, fantastic.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 11, 2022 10:50 PM (OTzUX)

228 Someone is doing mag dumps in my general neighborhood.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 11, 2022 10:50 PM (yQpMk)

229 twitter link: You did this because you were told to

https://tinyurl.com/2p8far9b

Posted by: Kindltot at April 11, 2022 10:50 PM (xhaym)

230 I'm depressed

"Stop it!"
-Bob Newhart

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 11, 2022 10:50 PM (R8uWY)

231 Hello Eromero!
Life is good! My boy is back in the US and heading to SoCal as we speak. It's so much nicer having him within a long drive!

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 11, 2022 10:50 PM (U2p+3)

232 Curare-dipped blow darts and blowguns. Old school.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 11, 2022 10:45 PM (4I/2K)

Gack, ack, ptooie! Got a dart stuck there.

Posted by: Kamala at April 11, 2022 10:51 PM (7bRMQ)

233 We need common sense plumbing control!!!
No one needs more than one bathroom....
//////

Posted by: lin-duh at April 11, 2022 10:51 PM (UUBmN)

234 How would I submit a photo for the ONT?

Posted by: Theodore at April 11, 2022 10:51 PM (GJnvT)

235 231 Hello Eromero!
Life is good! My boy is back in the US and heading to SoCal as we speak. It's so much nicer having him within a long drive!
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 11, 2022 10:50 PM (U2p+3)
Glad to hear it!

Posted by: Eromero at April 11, 2022 10:52 PM (0OP+5)

236 I've been tempted to submit pictures for the ONT

Me too. But then my Hustler subscription expired.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 11, 2022 10:52 PM (KFhLj)

237 What if it is an odd caliber- like 7.65 french?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 11, 2022 10:42 PM (F/J1O)

Then you use that to get the 5.56 off the next marauder.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 11, 2022 10:52 PM (P3gRi)

238 How would I submit a photo for the ONT?
Posted by: Theodore

Paste it into the comment box like everyone else.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 11, 2022 10:52 PM (R8uWY)

239 AWFLS like to speak on behalf of other oppressed people who have no voice and need a loud, obnoxious educated white woman to scream for them.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 11, 2022 10:48 PM (R8uWY)

I have no AWFL and I must SCREAM!

Posted by: Harlan Wokison at April 11, 2022 10:52 PM (evAgx)

240 *G-d's Human Design Team*

1. "Here?"
2. "No, too close to the eyes."
1. "What about . . . Here!?"
2. "No, too close to . . . Hmm. That could work. Let's finalize this layout and get it to the Boss to review."
Posted by: Sharkman

If left to mere mortals, they'd have come up with something akin to Marilyn Chambers character's 'anomaly' in "Rabid".

Posted by: Tonypete at April 11, 2022 10:52 PM (Msys3)

241 Happiness is a choice.
Peace within your heart is a choice.
Love is a choice.

Or you can choose to be miserable and angry and resentful.

But. Depression is personal. It cannot be taken away from you. It's all yours. Until you give it up. And choose to try to be happy. Every day. And then, perhaps, you start to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Or not.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 11, 2022 10:45 PM (U2p+3)

I agree. (Clinical depression of course needs medical treatment, but I assume that is not what you are talking about.)

There are happy people living in abject poverty and horrendous circumstances around the world. And there are miserable wealthy people with easy lives. Some people like being happy. Some people will let go of their unhappiness only if you pry it away from their cold dead hands. Oh well.

Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at April 11, 2022 10:53 PM (rF64X)

242 I know Rush is an acquired taste (mostly because of Geddy's singing) but they're unbelievably talented musicians. I love Rush. RIP, Neil.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at April 11, 2022 10:48 PM (x8Wzq)


In the late 70s, young Doof acquired that taste upon first hearing them. In 1981, at age 10, I saved up my allowance for months to purchase Moving Pictures - first album I bought with my own money.

Posted by: Doof at April 11, 2022 10:53 PM (mZUr4)

243 So you're saying that smoothbore cannon, loaded with canister, would probably be legal?

Not that easy to manipulate, but if the target cooperates, in the words of the gunshop owner in Terminator, "perfect for home defense."

Posted by: rhomboid at April 11, 2022 10:53 PM (OTzUX)

244 ..Luty? Who the hell was the british guy who made a functioning submachine gun out of plumbing fittings?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 11, 2022 10:39 PM (F/J1O)


The 0.5mm Stent Gun might be an ultra smallbore implement, but it shoots with surgical precision.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 11, 2022 10:53 PM (QzJWU)

245 Or you can choose to be miserable and angry and resentful.
...
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 11, 2022 10:45 PM (U2p+3)
===

Like the French.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 11, 2022 10:53 PM (EZebt)

246 230 I'm depressed

"Stop it!"
-Bob Newhart
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 11, 2022 10:50 PM (R8uWY)

Effective

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 11, 2022 10:53 PM (II3Gr)

247 Life is good! My boy is back in the US and heading to SoCal as we speak. It's so much nicer having him within a long drive!
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 11, 2022 10:50 PM (U2p+3)


{{{Nurse}}}

This is just the best possible news!!!

Posted by: Ladyl at April 11, 2022 10:53 PM (TdMsT)

248
They'll start requiring each can of hair spray to have a unique chemical signature so they can trace the miscreants with ghost potato cannons.
Posted by: Insomniac
-----

Pfft.

Posted by: Pumpkin cannon at April 11, 2022 10:53 PM (pK7cg)

249 ghost guns?

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah - Reset This (points to amazeballs)! at April 11, 2022 10:54 PM (sJHOI)

250 Evening, Horde!

Just followed the forgotten 80s mystery click. Didn't recognize the song, but George Benson also sings one of my favorite songs - Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You.

Here's a lovely young lady playing a piano arrangement of the song. I aspire to play as well as she does.

https://youtu.be/U-7ShKEyKhU

Posted by: No One of Consequence at April 11, 2022 10:54 PM (CAJOC)

251 234 How would I submit a photo for the ONT?
Posted by: Theodore at April 11, 2022 10:51 PM (GJnvT)


petmorons at gmail dot com

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 11, 2022 10:54 PM (aA3+G)

252 It is sad that all I can think of when they shoot over on the next block like that is 'Well, there's $20 wasted."

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 11, 2022 10:54 PM (yQpMk)

253 205 Dear {{{Ladyl}}}
So good to see you here, amongst this vagabond crew of miscreants!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at April 11, 2022 10:46 PM (hOUT3)


Amongst My People.

I am content.

Posted by: Ladyl at April 11, 2022 10:54 PM (TdMsT)

254 >>Cannon, warships, privateers.

The history of Rhode Island is built around privateers. Thomas Jefferson called for more or them before we had a navy. At one time it wasn't just accepted it was an honorable profession for defense of the colonies.

Biden has always been an idiot who knows nothing about the history of this country.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 11, 2022 10:55 PM (ZLI7S)

255 252 It is sad that all I can think of when they shoot over on the next block like that is 'Well, there's $20 wasted."
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 11, 2022 10:54 PM (yQpMk)

Same as in town, so it's a break-even.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 11, 2022 10:55 PM (II3Gr)

256 221 196 nurse
Well said. But, depression can be hard to reconcile with.
I tend to struggle with this daily.
One just needs to try. Every day.
Posted by: COMountainMarie

Of course it's hard work!
I see patients every day, all day, and the vast majority of them have some degree of depression these days. Covid, politics, the state of Seattle, war..... the constant drumbeat of hysterical newscasters screeching about the latest disaster...
Of course these things take their toll on even the healthiest of folks.
Don't let the bastards get you down. Don't give them that power. Find something to smile about. Every day. And appreciate the littlest of things.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 11, 2022 10:55 PM (U2p+3)

257 Hi Ladyl! How's your sweetheart doing?

Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at April 11, 2022 10:56 PM (rF64X)

258 twitter link: You did this because you were told to

https://tinyurl.com/2p8far9b
Posted by: Kindltot

Great catch Kindltot. Thank you.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 11, 2022 10:56 PM (Msys3)

259 Moving Pictures - first album I bought with my own money.
Posted by: Doof at April 11, 2022 10:53 PM (mZUr4)

Moving Pictures is still my favorite Rush album. Signals is pretty damn good too.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at April 11, 2022 10:56 PM (x8Wzq)

260 {{{Nurse!}}}

Posted by: Some Rat at April 11, 2022 10:56 PM (r1z5A)

261 When in fact they could own the most technologically advanced military armaments of the day, without prohibition.

Posted by: TexasDan



Exactly correct. Unfortunately, very few people know this.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 11, 2022 10:56 PM (TgO2L)

262 225 Stumps...it had to be stumps...

Posted by: Mike Hammer


They were just turning their lives around. Aspiring rappers.

Posted by: Treebeard at April 11, 2022 10:56 PM (EdQIG)

263 I have a state gamelands range 2 miles away. It sounds like WWII every damn day.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 11, 2022 10:56 PM (R8uWY)

264 Rush is easily my favorite prog-rock band.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 11, 2022 10:57 PM (II3Gr)

265 207 Hey, Ladyl - BF all healed up from his procedure?
Posted by: Tonypete at April 11, 2022 10:46 PM (Msys3)

{{{TonyPete}}}
Yes! He hosted a party the next night! Good grief...

Posted by: Ladyl at April 11, 2022 10:57 PM (TdMsT)

266 Don't let the bastards get you down. Don't give them that power. Find something to smile about. Every day. And appreciate the littlest of things.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 11, 2022 10:55 PM (U2p+3)

This to infinity.


And beyond!

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 11, 2022 10:57 PM (4I/2K)

267 ]b]Don't let the bastards get you down. Don't give them that power. Find something to smile about. Every day. And appreciate the littlest of things.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 11, 2022 10:55 PM (U2p+3)


nurse, this is distilled wisdom for the ages!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at April 11, 2022 10:57 PM (hOUT3)

268 How would I submit a photo for the ONT?
Posted by: Theodore at April 11, 2022 10:51 PM (GJnvT)


Drop it off at the nearest Fotomat - there's a small hidden door out back that opens if you sing a few bars of any Zappa tune

Posted by: Doof at April 11, 2022 10:57 PM (mZUr4)

269 Rush is easily my favorite prog-rock band.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 11, 2022 10:57 PM (II3Gr)



I was a Yes fan, still am, I guess.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 11, 2022 10:57 PM (yQpMk)

270 Sweet Jesus.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 11, 2022 10:57 PM (II3Gr)

271 petmorons at gmail dot com

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 11, 2022 10:54 PM (aA3+G)

MisHum, you forgot to tell him the ottoman pix go to CBD. The password is "seascape."

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 11, 2022 10:57 PM (7bRMQ)

272 269 Rush is easily my favorite prog-rock band.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 11, 2022 10:57 PM (II3Gr)


I was a Yes fan, still am, I guess.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 11, 2022 10:57 PM (yQpMk)

Second favorite, if I had to pick one. "Roundabout" is a classic.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 11, 2022 10:58 PM (II3Gr)

273
Yes! He hosted a party the next night! Good grief...
Posted by: Ladyl

That's great news!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 11, 2022 10:58 PM (CT11V)

274 Amongst My People.
I am content.
Posted by: Ladyl at April 11, 2022 10:54 PM (TdMsT)


Funny place to call home but that is exactly what it is!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at April 11, 2022 10:58 PM (hOUT3)

275 Biden has always been an idiot who knows nothing about the history of this country.
Posted by: JackStraw


They know (well those who run the show) it's just not convenient for them to admit it.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 11, 2022 10:58 PM (r1z5A)

276 I don't know...of course, I'm sure the barrel at least certainly can't be plastic. But, maybe someone could be developing a plastic that could hold up to the heat...America!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 11, 2022 10:44 PM (9uqbB)


High pressure tubing if you are not interested in rifling, high pressure tubing, some 3d printed guides for copper electrodes, an aquarium pump, a battery charger and salt water in a five gallon bucket in your bathtub if you want to Electro-chemically machine rifling into your high pressure tubing.

The hard part is ammunition.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 11, 2022 10:59 PM (xhaym)

277 Second favorite, if I had to pick one. "Roundabout" is a classic.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 11, 2022 10:58 PM (II3Gr)



I think that was their only Top 40 song.

I'd pick Gates of Delirium.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 11, 2022 10:59 PM (yQpMk)

278 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 11, 2022 10:40 PM (P3gRi)

Liberator, FTW!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 11, 2022 10:42 PM (7bRMQ)

The Liberator was a boondoggle if ever there was one. Single-shot, .45 ACP. Had to be taken apart to reload. A simple break-action Derringer would have cost less to mass-produce.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 11, 2022 10:59 PM (P3gRi)

279 90 Another dependable method to get mail delivery suspended is loose dogs running around. It only takes one dickhead to ruin it for dozens. They will often just skip whole blocks. Kind of a peer pressure thing.

Quite a long time ago it had been reported in my local newspaper that mail delivery was suspended in a Detroit neighborhood because the local youths were openly holding dog fighting in the streets.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 11, 2022 10:59 PM (+lVUW)

280 They know (well those who run the show) it's just not convenient for them to admit it.
Posted by: Some Rat at April 11, 2022 10:58 PM (r1z5A)


If they didn't know it, they would not work so hard to suppress any evidence of it!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at April 11, 2022 11:00 PM (hOUT3)

281 I'd like someone to ask Joe why the British were headed to Concord that day.

British: Give up your guns.

Colonists: Fuck you.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 11, 2022 11:00 PM (u73oe)

282 >>I think that was their only Top 40 song.


Owner of a Lonely Heart.

Posted by: Yes at April 11, 2022 11:00 PM (EdQIG)

283 "It sounds like WWII every damn day."

Cool!

I've always wondered what those huge siege mortars the Germans used at Sevastopol sounded like.

And a V-1 engine stopping.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 11, 2022 11:00 PM (OTzUX)

284 Very thin. Micron thin.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 11, 2022 10:43 PM (II3Gr)

Would that be wafer thin...

Posted by: Mr. Creosote at April 11, 2022 11:01 PM (BgMrQ)

285 Hi Ladyl!

And yes, chique. Clinical depression needs intervention. But. A choice still needs to be made. A person cannot be happy unless they WANT to be happy.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 11, 2022 11:01 PM (U2p+3)

286 The Liberator was a boondoggle if ever there was one. Single-shot, .45 ACP. Had to be taken apart to reload. A simple break-action Derringer would have cost less to mass-produce.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 11, 2022 10:59 PM (P3gRi)


Are you trying to imply that graft has been around for a long time?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at April 11, 2022 11:01 PM (hOUT3)

287 Owner of a Lonely Heart.
Posted by: Yes at April 11, 2022 11:00 PM (EdQIG)


Oh yeah, that did get a lot of airplay.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 11, 2022 11:01 PM (yQpMk)

288 Don't let the bastards get you down. Don't give them that power. Find something to smile about. Every day. And appreciate the littlest of things.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 11, 2022 10:55 PM (U2p+3)

Absolutely. I like the people I work with. Funny, happy folks. We laugh a lot at the office. Seems like that's a rare thing from what I hear.

Plus, mornings in Colorado are often beautiful.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at April 11, 2022 11:01 PM (x8Wzq)

289 The Liberator was a boondoggle if ever there was one. Single-shot, .45 ACP. Had to be taken apart to reload. A simple break-action Derringer would have cost less to mass-produce.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 11, 2022 10:59 PM (P3gRi)

I thought they were expected to be one shot only, then take other gun. Certainly wouldn't attack a patrol with one.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 11, 2022 11:01 PM (7bRMQ)

290 251

Wiseass...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 11, 2022 11:02 PM (9uqbB)

291 284 Very thin. Micron thin.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 11, 2022 10:43 PM (II3Gr)
Would that be wafer thin...
Posted by: Mr. Creosote at April 11, 2022 11:01 PM (BgMrQ)


Omicron thin

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at April 11, 2022 11:02 PM (hOUT3)

292 Moving Pictures - first album I bought with my own money.
Posted by: Doof at April 11, 2022 10:53 PM (mZUr4)

Moving Pictures is still my favorite Rush album. Signals is pretty damn good too.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at April 11, 2022 10:56 PM (x8Wzq)


Fistbump! Permanent Waves is high on my list. Aside from the 2 well known songs on there, it has the incredible, complex songs Jacob's Ladder and Natural Science.

Posted by: Doof at April 11, 2022 11:03 PM (mZUr4)

293 Yes! He hosted a party the next night! Good grief...
Posted by: Ladyl

He must be a huge extrovert, LOL.

Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at April 11, 2022 11:03 PM (rF64X)

294 Rush is easily my favorite prog-rock band.
Posted by: Insomniac

I like Rush well enough but my prog-rock favorites:

ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
Genesis - A trick of the tale
Yes - Roundabout
ELO - Eldorado
Crimson King - Epitaph

There's others.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 11, 2022 11:03 PM (Msys3)

295 I don't know...of course, I'm sure the barrel at least certainly can't be plastic. But, maybe someone could be developing a plastic that could hold up to the heat...America!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 11, 2022 10:44 PM (9uqbB)

High pressure tubing if you are not interested in rifling, high pressure tubing, some 3d printed guides for copper electrodes, an aquarium pump, a battery charger and salt water in a five gallon bucket in your bathtub if you want to Electro-chemically machine rifling into your high pressure tubing.

The hard part is ammunition.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 11, 2022 10:59 PM (xhaym)

I expect you could make a thick-walled barrel out of Delrin or Teflon plastic, and it would stand up for a few magazines at a go.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 11, 2022 11:04 PM (P3gRi)

296 Genesis. Not that Genesis. Peter Gabriel's Genesis.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 11, 2022 11:04 PM (EZebt)

297 Some Rat!
Thank you again for a lovely dinner out. Things felt almost normal in the city!!

PNWMoMe June 4!
Info left sidebar!!!!! Contact MAE

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 11, 2022 11:04 PM (U2p+3)

298 And yes, chique. Clinical depression needs intervention. But. A choice still needs to be made. A person cannot be happy unless they WANT to be happy.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 11, 2022 11:01 PM (U2p+3)

Well said.

I bet you are jumping out of your skin with excitement at the prospect of seeing your son very soon.

Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at April 11, 2022 11:04 PM (rF64X)

299 >>They know (well those who run the show) it's just not convenient for them to admit it.

Many of them do. But not Biden.

He truly is an idiot who doesn't know much about anything. I remember Clarence Thomas dong an interview not long ago reflecting on his confirmation hearing and specifically about some of the questions Biden asked him and he basically said that he had no idea what the hell Biden was talking about.

Biden is just a dishonest dunce who got elected by one of the smallest states in the Union and was destined for the trash heap of history until Obama made him a somebody. He's scary stupid.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 11, 2022 11:05 PM (ZLI7S)

300 288
Let me pile on.
Dealing with depression isn't only beating the bad, it is celebrating the good.
Counting my blessings is hard but I do it:
Family who love me, my health, my job (though it sucks some time), etc.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 11, 2022 11:05 PM (roH4R)

301 Fistbump! Permanent Waves is high on my list. Aside from the 2 well known songs on there, it has the incredible, complex songs Jacob's Ladder and Natural Science.
Posted by: Doof at April 11, 2022 11:03 PM (mZUr4)

Yes. Permanent Waves is outstanding.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at April 11, 2022 11:05 PM (x8Wzq)

302 I don't know Santa Monica well, but surprised to hear they've managed a "no-go zone" for the USPS. Not generally a sketchy area. Lots of very expensive areas. Though it's dense and "normal", developed long before the wealth explosion, so not like famously tony parts of LA.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 11, 2022 11:05 PM (OTzUX)

303 An M3A1 end up costing the government $15 by the end of the war.

I would easily pay twice that for one.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 11, 2022 11:06 PM (yQpMk)

304 Charlee Disney, one of the heirs of The Walt Disney Co [great grand daughter]., came out publicly as transgender and condemned anti-LGBTQ bills in a recent interview.
Disney, who uses gender-neutral pronouns, announced that their family would match up to $250,000 in donations to the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest LGBTQ advocacy group, during the organization's annual gala in Los Angeles last month.
Roy P. Disney, Disney's father and the grandson of the company's co-founder, upped that amount to $500,000 last week.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 11, 2022 10:27 PM (R8uWY)


They don't care if people boycott Disney. They already inherited a boatload of money. According to one site, ol' Roy is worth $1.2 billion. And the cheap bastard is only donating $500,000 to this important woke cause?

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 11, 2022 11:06 PM (+lVUW)

305 272 Insom

Have you seen a documentary/concert film about Yes called "Yessongs"?

It's really good! Altho the production values are... searching for le mot juste here... primitive.

Posted by: mnw at April 11, 2022 11:06 PM (NLIak)

306 ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
Genesis - A trick of the tale
Yes - Roundabout
ELO - Eldorado
Crimson King - Epitaph

There's others.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 11, 2022 11:03 PM (Msys3)


Trick of the Tail has "Squonk" - greatest song name ever!!

Posted by: Doof at April 11, 2022 11:07 PM (mZUr4)

307 Biden is just a dishonest dunce who got elected by one of the smallest states in the Union and was destined for the trash heap of history until Obama made him a somebody. He's scary stupid.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 11, 2022 11:05 PM (ZLI7S)

Dishonest dunce is a very apt description.

Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at April 11, 2022 11:07 PM (rF64X)

308 Genesis - Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Yes - Tormato
King Crimson - Three of a Perfect Pair

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 11, 2022 11:07 PM (EZebt)

309 Well said.

I bet you are jumping out of your skin with excitement at the prospect of seeing your son very soon.
Posted by: chique

I will spend a small fortune when he comes home
To Seattle in June! He wants me to cook ALL THE FOOD!

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 11, 2022 11:07 PM (U2p+3)

310 0.5mm Stent Gun

Paint them blind the whack?

`

Posted by: Braenyard at April 11, 2022 11:07 PM (XnG/+)

311 293 Yes! He hosted a party the next night! Good grief...
Posted by: Ladyl

He must be a huge extrovert, LOL.
Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at April 11, 2022 11:03 PM (rF64X)


In the extreme!

Posted by: Ladyl at April 11, 2022 11:08 PM (TdMsT)

312 I thought they were expected to be one shot only, then take other gun. Certainly wouldn't attack a patrol with one.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 11, 2022 11:01 PM (7bRMQ)

That was the rationale. But General Motors no doubt made out like a bandit on the few Liberators actually produced. A double-barreled derringer in 9 mm would have made more sense. Two shots at the Kraut, not one. And if the Gestapo finds a dead Kraut with 9 mm slugs in him, it's not automatically a given that the Resistance was responsible.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 11, 2022 11:08 PM (P3gRi)

313 256

Like you said...
Wake up and listen to the lovely birds in the morning.
Listen to some great music.
Sit outside on the porch and smile at the mountains.
It's all there for us to grab hold onto....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 11, 2022 11:08 PM (9uqbB)

314 The Liberator cost barely over $2 in U.S. WWII dollars.

Union Switch & Signal, makers of stamped out railroad and camping lanterns. They only had to change the dies, and the Liberator didn't even have a rifled barrel.

It did though, hold (IIRC) six rounds in the grip. No, not in a magazine. A dump-well, inclusive of the 1" longer than barrel length ramrod, with which to punch out the empty case from the chamber. And then seven reloads, if you were that much of a kommankoziegruppen.

Even a classic two barrel derringer, would take far more machining and fitting than the Liberator, with attendant greater costs. Now, could U.S.S. have engineered a stamped steel derringer? Likely. Might have cost as much as three or four dollars, too!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 11, 2022 11:08 PM (QzJWU)

315 Curare-dipped blow darts and blowguns. Old school.
Posted by: Count de Monet

CU-RA-RE
Oh oh oh oh
CU-RA-RE
Whoa-oh whoa-oh

Posted by: Miklos, lounge singing his heart out at April 11, 2022 11:08 PM (QzkSJ)

316 I will spend a small fortune when he comes home
To Seattle in June! He wants me to cook ALL THE FOOD!
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 11, 2022 11:07 PM (U2p+3)


Few higher compliments!

Posted by: Ladyl at April 11, 2022 11:08 PM (TdMsT)

317
You're first I'm last
Your thirst I'm asked to justify
Killing our last heaven beast
Don't hunt the whale

In beauty vision do we offer much
If we reason with destiny
Gonna lose our touch
Don't kill the whale
Dig it!

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 11, 2022 11:09 PM (yQpMk)

318 I was a Yes fan, still am, I guess.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 11, 2022 10:57 PM (yQpMk)

Second favorite, if I had to pick one. "Roundabout" is a classic.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 11, 2022 10:58 PM (II3Gr)

"I've seen all good people" is my favorite Yes song...

"Roundabout" got played to death back in the day, right up there with "Stairway to Heaven" for airplay.

Posted by: Mr. Creosote at April 11, 2022 11:09 PM (BgMrQ)

319 306 ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
Genesis - A trick of the tale
Yes - Roundabout
ELO - Eldorado
Crimson King - Epitaph

There's others.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 11, 2022 11:03 PM (Msys3)

oh those are good. I played the hell out of Eldorado back in the day! I think Boy Blue was my favorite - "I have fought, In the Holiest Wars, I have smashed, some of the Holiest Jaws...."

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2022 11:09 PM (evAgx)

320 307
You'd think a dishonest dunce would be more likely to F___ up and tell the truth.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 11, 2022 11:09 PM (roH4R)

321 Doof!
Hello, sweet man! I need an album suggestion for my next commute north. I'll need about 75 minutes worth...

Go!

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 11, 2022 11:10 PM (U2p+3)

322 Yes, he is underrated indeed. Wonder how accurate that EVH thing is though.

Posted by: Doof



It's probably bullshit. Googled it and there are various answers attributed to EVH: Alex Lifeson, Roy Clark, Bruce Cockburn.

So YMMV . . .

Posted by: Sharkman at April 11, 2022 11:10 PM (TgO2L)

323 Grump, the "grease gun"?

In use up til Gulf War I, I believe. Tank crews I think.

The time/cost pressures that drove WWII weapons development are interesting. The russkis had some good designs already in production, after June '41 the PPsh-40s became stamp-metal PPsh-41s, and the Mosins started sporting interesting machining marks (rudimentary finishing).

Posted by: rhomboid at April 11, 2022 11:10 PM (OTzUX)

324 Genesis - Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Posted by: San Franpsycho

For my money, "Me, I'm just a lawnmower. You can tell by the way I walk." may be the best snippet of lyrics ever.

It may have been due to the weed, but at this point, what difference does it make?

Posted by: Tonypete at April 11, 2022 11:10 PM (Msys3)

325 /off fatman sock

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at April 11, 2022 11:11 PM (BgMrQ)

326 For my money, "Me, I'm just a lawnmower. You can tell by the way I walk." may be the best snippet of lyrics ever.
...
Posted by: Tonypete at April 11, 2022 11:10 PM (Msys3)

It's one o'clock and time for lunch dum-de-dum-de-dum

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 11, 2022 11:12 PM (EZebt)

327 Genesis - Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Yes - Tormato
King Crimson - Three of a Perfect Pair
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 11, 2022 11:07 PM (EZebt)

Max Webster, another Canadian prog? rock band:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4e2WiM_WfE

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 11, 2022 11:12 PM (P3gRi)

328 And appreciate the littlest of things.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 11, 2022 10:55 PM (U2p+3)

I suggested this to my fiancee-to-be, but she dumped me anyways.

Posted by: Patrick Moote, Unhung Hero at April 11, 2022 11:12 PM (4I/2K)

329 Depression can also be chemical. Mine certainly is. Completely handled with a proper prescription.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 11, 2022 11:12 PM (TgO2L)

330 Ice cream.
I would sooo love a hot fudge sundae...
Of course, Uber doesn't deliver way up here.
I guess a nap is in order...maybe dreams about ice cream

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 11, 2022 11:13 PM (9uqbB)

331 Doof!
Hello, sweet man! I need an album suggestion for my next commute north. I'll need about 75 minutes worth...

Go!
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 11, 2022 11:10 PM (U2p+3)


I'll find you something great. Stand by. Got some nighttime chores calling my name

Posted by: Doof at April 11, 2022 11:13 PM (mZUr4)

332 Looks like Lizzo had some carry-on she didn't check.

Posted by: Axeman at April 11, 2022 11:15 PM (OaZlZ)

333 It is comical now to see how the American Oligarchs will handle unions...which were the traditional Dem power base.

Any left leaning LIVs waking up?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 11, 2022 11:15 PM (ESjRY)

334 twitter link: You did this because you were told to

https://tinyurl.com/2p8far9b
Posted by: Kindltot


My God. Truer words were never spoken.

Posted by: Ladyl at April 11, 2022 11:15 PM (TdMsT)

335 That story about "Lia" and the trophy has me rage stroking.
Posted by: Ladyl at April 11, 2022 10:43 PM (TdMsT)


So, where are the "strong, independent women" of the feminist movement?
Geez, Bruce/Caitlin Jenner has more to say about this than the liberal feminists.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 11, 2022 11:16 PM (+lVUW)

336 An M3A1 end up costing the government $15 by the end of the war.

I would easily pay twice that for one.
Posted by: G'rump928
-------

Pay no attention to that guy. I'll pay $16.00

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 11, 2022 11:16 PM (bPH26)

337 Heretofore, I'd thought I was the only surviving Yes aficionado.

Anybody else seen the "Yessongs" concert film?

I saw it in a movie theatre, that's how old I am.

It's very good!

Posted by: mnw at April 11, 2022 11:17 PM (NLIak)

338 Hi Doof...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 11, 2022 11:17 PM (9uqbB)

339 So, where are the "strong, independent women" of the feminist movement?

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 11, 2022 11:16 PM (+lVUW

They are on the Lia dude's side.

Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at April 11, 2022 11:17 PM (rF64X)

340 Do you have a link for this?
Posted by: Dr. Claw
---------------

Put it in your favorite search engine. It will be one of the top three results.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 11, 2022 11:18 PM (XnG/+)

341 Pay no attention to that guy. I'll pay $16.00
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
--

Well, ok, $31.00

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 11, 2022 11:19 PM (bPH26)

342
Genesis - A trick of the tale

There's others.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 11, 2022 11:03 PM (Msys3)
---
Prefer Selling England By The Pound, especially Dance With A Moonlit Knight.

Posted by: Axeman at April 11, 2022 11:19 PM (OaZlZ)

343 You did this because you were told to

COVID mania was the worst human rights abuse in the west since WWII.

And...those people that caused it are still walking free.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 11, 2022 11:19 PM (ESjRY)

344 329 Depression can also be chemical. Mine certainly is. Completely handled with a proper prescription.
Posted by: Sharkman at April 11, 2022 11:12 PM (TgO2L)

This approach works...until it doesn't.

I've been off meds for years now. I don't miss the weight gain / constant sweating / shaky hands.

It is interesting to observe the change in brain chemistry, when you are cruising along in your day, and then ***BOOM*** the black cloud descends. I've gotten to the point where I can catch myself, and redirect my thinking...not all the time, but often enough to be a functioning member of society.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at April 11, 2022 11:19 PM (BgMrQ)

345 Anybody else seen the "Yessongs" concert film?

I saw it in a movie theatre, that's how old I am.

It's very good!
Posted by: mnw at April 11, 2022 11:17 PM (NLIak)



I saw The Song Remains the Same at the theater.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 11, 2022 11:19 PM (yQpMk)

346 $31.50!

Posted by: G'rump928(c) raise the bid at April 11, 2022 11:20 PM (yQpMk)

347 In WW I, the Thompson submachine gun was called a "trench broom."

Posted by: mnw at April 11, 2022 11:20 PM (NLIak)

348 I don't know Santa Monica well, but surprised to hear they've managed a "no-go zone" for the USPS. Not generally a sketchy area.

Tons of homeless people. Very left-wing government, so nothing is done to discourage that.

Posted by: Crush Your Enemies! at April 11, 2022 11:21 PM (I2/tG)

349 There was also the British Welrod.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 11, 2022 11:21 PM (4I/2K)

350 I did not like Yes - Tormato.

The Yes Album is my favorite.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at April 11, 2022 11:21 PM (x8Wzq)

351 I saw The Song Remains the Same at the theater.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 11, 2022 11:19 PM (yQpMk)
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Sounds like a pretty boring soundtrack.

Posted by: Axeman at April 11, 2022 11:21 PM (OaZlZ)

352 In WW I, the Thompson submachine gun was called a "trench broom."
Posted by: mnw at April 11, 2022 11:20 PM (NLIak)


After
WWI, but that was the thinking.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) raise the bid at April 11, 2022 11:21 PM (yQpMk)

353
It is interesting to observe the change in brain chemistry, when you are cruising along in your day, and then ***BOOM*** the black cloud descends. I've gotten to the point where I can catch myself, and redirect my thinking...not all the time, but often enough to be a functioning member of society.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at April 11, 2022 11:19 PM (BgMrQ)


One of the very early signs is sleep disruption, especially waking up earlier and earlier, and not being able to get back to sleep. If you have a history of depression and see that in your self, start your intervention techniques then, not later.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 11, 2022 11:21 PM (xhaym)

354 So, where are the "strong, independent women" of the feminist movement?

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 11, 2022 11:16 PM (+lVUW

They are on the Lia dude's side.
Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at April 11, 2022 11:17 PM (rF64X)

More accurately they are on the opposite side of the Right . No matter the issue.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at April 11, 2022 11:22 PM (Cw/ar)

355 Pay no attention to that guy. I'll pay $16.00
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
--

Well, ok, $31.00
Posted by: Mike Hammer


Are we going with "Price is Right" rules?

Posted by: Some Rat at April 11, 2022 11:22 PM (r1z5A)

356 Philippians 4:11-13.. "be content in all things".. read all the passages for context.

And it's a major curative prescription as to depression and overall doldrums.

But copious doses of TxMoMeet, Foods of Royalty, Booze of the Heavens, Guns of the Thunders and Ammo as Manna from Heaven. Plus a hundred or so Horde.

Prozac would look like a children's aspirin, in comparison.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 11, 2022 11:22 PM (QzJWU)

357 I will spend a small fortune when he comes home
To Seattle in June! He wants me to cook ALL THE FOOD!
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 11, 2022 11:07 PM (U2p+3)


Sounds like moments to treasure!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at April 11, 2022 11:23 PM (hOUT3)

358 $32, a broken tv remote, and this price of string!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 11, 2022 11:23 PM (u73oe)

359 Yes - Relayer/Close To The Edge

Posted by: Axeman at April 11, 2022 11:23 PM (OaZlZ)

360 336 An M3A1 end up costing the government $15 by the end of the war.

I would easily pay twice that for one.
Posted by: G'rump928
---------------------------

Wiki speaks of production in 2020 and use in Kosovo and Afghanistan.

The damn thing is still part of the arsenal.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 11, 2022 11:23 PM (XnG/+)

361 More accurately they are on the opposite side of the Right . No matter the issue.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter

What is hilarious is that sometimes, they need to find out what the position of the Right is, so that they can determine what they think.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 11, 2022 11:23 PM (Msys3)

362 Also, I am leaving this without comment

https://tinyurl.com/d6h3ju4m

Posted by: Kindltot at April 11, 2022 11:24 PM (xhaym)

363 352

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/
war-articles/famous-model-1897-shotgun.html?chrome=1

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at April 11, 2022 11:25 PM (hOUT3)

364 One of the very early signs is sleep disruption, especially waking up earlier and earlier, and not being able to get back to sleep. If you have a history of depression and see that in your self, start your intervention techniques then, not later.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 11, 2022 11:21 PM (xhaym)

Hmm. Well. I am not sure I have had a long history of depression, but, well, this might explain some things.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at April 11, 2022 11:27 PM (x8Wzq)

365 First Thompson submachine gun was... '21?

Think the only true submachine gun was the MP-18 for the Great War.

The BAR- but that is definitely not 'sub'.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 11, 2022 11:28 PM (F/J1O)

366 I keep getting emails hawking really cheap 12ga shotguns. Like gas-operated ones for under $200.

Clearly not American made.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 11, 2022 11:28 PM (yQpMk)

367 What is hilarious is that sometimes, they need to find out what the position of the Right is, so that they can determine what they think.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 11, 2022 11:23 PM (Msys3)


This is also the story of GOSPLAN's consumer goods pricing technique

Posted by: Kindltot at April 11, 2022 11:28 PM (xhaym)

368 Tormato was the first Yes album I bought, dirt cheap. And worth only a smidgen of it.

I think mainly Silent Wings of Freedom has any staying power with me.

Posted by: Axeman at April 11, 2022 11:28 PM (OaZlZ)

369 I believe in my country. Always have and always will.

We truly ARE the most exceptional country on the planet, populated by an extraordinary people governed by the most unique political system in history.

Throughout that history we have met and prevailed over issues that were even more serious than the present mess. We seem to have the knack of choosing the proper person or making the correct choice for a particular situation. Plus an unbroken string of success.

I'll never apologize for or disrespect this beloved land.

And if that should offend or dismay anyone then deal with it.

Posted by: irongrampa at April 11, 2022 11:29 PM (KATBx)

370 What is hilarious is that sometimes, they need to find out what the position of the Right is, so that they can determine what they think.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 11, 2022 11:23 PM (Msys3)

Hah so true. I loved the man on campus interviews where the interviewer would ask the student what they thought of something a Republican politician had said when in reality it was a Dem who said it. Of course the student answers were always against the 'Republican' statement.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at April 11, 2022 11:29 PM (Cw/ar)

371 Eh, I think most of this turn that frown upside down talk is pretty misguided with respect to severe depression, which affects the ability to clearly think. It's a bit like telling a cancer patient to walk it off.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 11, 2022 11:29 PM (KFhLj)

372 It's a bit like telling a cancer patient to walk it off.

God love ya, stand up!

Posted by: Joe Biden to the guy in the wheel chair at April 11, 2022 11:31 PM (ESjRY)

373 Schultz is a big, fat coward who likes strudel and know nothing. Nothing.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 11, 2022 11:32 PM (Wnd0C)

374 It's a bit like telling a cancer patient to walk it off.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 11, 2022 11:29 PM (KFhLj)



Ya gotta rub dirt on it.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 11, 2022 11:32 PM (yQpMk)

375 371 Eh, I think most of this turn that frown upside down talk is pretty misguided with respect to severe depression, which affects the ability to clearly think. It's a bit like telling a cancer patient to walk it off.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 11, 2022 11:29 PM (KFhLj)

It's been acknowledged that it doesn't apply to depression that needs medical intervention, although nurse did make the salient point that even in that situation the sufferer must seek help himself or herself.

Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at April 11, 2022 11:33 PM (rF64X)

376 Ya gotta rub dirt on it.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 11, 2022 11:32 PM (yQpMk)


Hot iron for the win!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at April 11, 2022 11:33 PM (hOUT3)

377 Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 11, 2022 11:29 PM (KFhLj

Quite true. But I don't get the sense that anyone here is being malicious.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at April 11, 2022 11:34 PM (BgMrQ)

378 371
Turn that cancer upside down!

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 11, 2022 11:34 PM (roH4R)

379 Throughout that history we have met and prevailed over issues that were even more serious than the present mess. We seem to have the knack of choosing the proper person or making the correct choice for a particular situation. Plus an unbroken string of success.

Posted by: irongrampa at April 11, 2022 11:29 PM (KATBx)

But during those other times, have we had our own govt, media, and our own party working against us?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 11, 2022 11:34 PM (7bRMQ)

380 There is situational depression and chemical imbalance depression. The best treatment for each is different.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at April 11, 2022 11:34 PM (Cw/ar)

381
Have you seen a documentary/concert film about Yes called "Yessongs"?

It's really good! Altho the production values are... searching for le mot juste here... primitive.

Posted by: mnw at April 11, 2022 11:06 PM (NLIak)

I haven't. Sounds worthwhile though.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 11, 2022 11:34 PM (II3Gr)

382 this is very true, Bear WAB, but it doesn't hurt, it might help a teensy bit, and if a miracle happens and your brain turns around on its own, you have the tools to get moving again right up front and ready to go.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 11, 2022 11:36 PM (xhaym)

383 He held it level too.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 11, 2022 11:36 PM (XnG/+)

384 Nurse -- album suggestions for your journey...

Dire Straits 1978 debut album (41 minutes)

1989 self titled album from Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe (59 minutes)

Posted by: Doof at April 11, 2022 11:36 PM (mZUr4)

385 Time for a Buck Rogers remake, with an evil tranny Intergalactic Space Emperor called Mercy the Mingeless.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 11, 2022 11:37 PM (P3gRi)

386 But during those other times, have we had our own govt, media, and our own party working against us?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 11, 2022 11:34 PM (7bRMQ)


I'd say that an added new twist is that our technology overlords are also working against us 24/7.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at April 11, 2022 11:37 PM (hOUT3)

387 I have met a couple of people who refuse to even try to be happy and I concluded that they were comfortable in their misery. It could be that they had been miserable for so long the thought of giving happiness a try was frightening (fear of the unknown).

I kind of get it. When I had my physical deformity, the thought of having it fixed was a little scary and it seemed less scary for my body to remain the same.

Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at April 11, 2022 11:37 PM (rF64X)

388 Time for a Buck Rogers remake, with an evil tranny Intergalactic Space Emperor called Mercy the Mingeless.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 11, 2022 11:37 PM (P3gRi)

No, Buck would be the villain.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 11, 2022 11:38 PM (7bRMQ)

389 Some day I'm going to buy a decent turntable and speakers and seek to recreate, in vinyl, my two wooden crates of favorite albums I had in college.

All alphabetical by artist, then by year the albums came out, of course. I have a very good memory of those disc's.

Best get started.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 11, 2022 11:38 PM (TgO2L)

390 Have you seen a documentary/concert film about Yes called "Yessongs"?

It's really good! Altho the production values are... searching for le mot juste here... primitive.

Posted by: mnw at April 11, 2022 11:06 PM (NLIak)


I have that on VHS. Also a 1980s concert film called 9012-live

Posted by: Doof at April 11, 2022 11:38 PM (mZUr4)

391 One of the interesting things about the Thompson was that nobody really bought them for the longest time. IIRC, the initial production run of receivers was 20K and by 1938 they had only sold something like 15K in twenty seven years. Then they built close to 2M for WWII.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 11, 2022 11:38 PM (yQpMk)

392 I'd say that an added new twist is that our technology overlords are also working against us 24/7.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at April 11, 2022 11:37 PM (hOUT3)

No way! They're only trying to protect us from that MAGA monster!!!!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 11, 2022 11:39 PM (7bRMQ)

393 Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at April 11, 2022 11:37 PM (rF64X)

Rolling the dice can be a non-trivial decision!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at April 11, 2022 11:39 PM (hOUT3)

394 379 Throughout that history we have met and prevailed over issues that were even more serious than the present mess. We seem to have the knack of choosing the proper person or making the correct choice for a particular situation. Plus an unbroken string of success.

Posted by: irongrampa at April 11, 2022 11:29 PM (KATBx)
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We will prevail.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 11, 2022 11:39 PM (XnG/+)

395 Nurse.

Doof nailed it on the Dire Straits album.

You might even rewind back a few highway exits to listen to some of the songs, twice.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 11, 2022 11:40 PM (QzJWU)

396 Some day I'm going to buy a decent turntable and speakers and seek to recreate, in vinyl, my two wooden crates of favorite albums I had in college.

All alphabetical by artist, then by year the albums came out, of course. I have a very good memory of those disc's.

Best get started.
Posted by: Sharkman at April 11, 2022 11:38 PM (TgO2L)


I'd be interested in a list of those albums!!

Posted by: Doof at April 11, 2022 11:40 PM (mZUr4)

397 This is the closest we've been to having the controlling government trying destroy the America you knew and have it replaced with their socialist utopia we all know is doomed to fail. It's been their goal since 1917.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at April 11, 2022 11:40 PM (Cw/ar)

398 Old Buck Rodgers: Wilma Deering in her little Space Cadet Uniform.

New Buck Rodgers: William Deering in that same little Space Cadet Unform

Posted by: 18-1 at April 11, 2022 11:41 PM (ESjRY)

399 No way! They're only trying to protect us from that MAGA monster!!!!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 11, 2022 11:39 PM (7bRMQ)


I take your point, they really do know what is best for the collective us all!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at April 11, 2022 11:41 PM (hOUT3)

400 Thanks for always grounding us in that eternal truth, irongrampa.

This does remain one of the few places in the world worth dying for.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 11, 2022 11:42 PM (TgO2L)

401 "In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot," _Mark Twain

Posted by: Braenyard at April 11, 2022 11:42 PM (XnG/+)

402 New Buck Rodgers: William Deering in that same little Space Cadet Unform
Posted by: 18-1 at April 11, 2022 11:41 PM (ESjRY)

That's "Lia" Deering, H8R.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 11, 2022 11:42 PM (II3Gr)

403 Nurse.

Doof nailed it on the Dire Straits album.

You might even rewind back a few highway exits to listen to some of the songs, twice.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at April 11, 2022 11:40 PM (QzJWU)


Howdy Jim! Outstanding album. Opening track Down To The Waterline is soooo good!! Knopfler does not get enough credit for being among the greatest guitarists ever.

Posted by: Doof at April 11, 2022 11:43 PM (mZUr4)

404 One of the interesting things about the Thompson was that nobody really bought them for the longest time. IIRC, the initial production run of receivers was 20K and by 1938 they had only sold something like 15K in twenty seven years. Then they built close to 2M for WWII.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 11, 2022 11:38 PM (yQpMk)

Until they added the suppressor it was basically uncontrollable. Lot of holes in the ceiling.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at April 11, 2022 11:43 PM (Cw/ar)

405 Until they added the suppressor it was basically uncontrollable. Lot of holes in the ceiling.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at April 11, 2022 11:43 PM (Cw/ar)

Muzzle brake or compensator? Im not aware of a suppressed Thompson.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 11, 2022 11:44 PM (II3Gr)

406 Old Buck Rodgers: Twiki is Buck Rodger's robot buddy

New Buck Rodgers: Some twink is Buck Rodger's butt buddy

Posted by: 18-1 at April 11, 2022 11:44 PM (ESjRY)

407 I kind of get it. When I had my physical deformity, the thought of having it fixed was a little scary and it seemed less scary for my body to remain the same.

Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at April 11, 2022 11:37 PM (rF64X)


Depression steals your life. It also can make you unwilling to fight against it.

I don't know how much of it is "learned helplessness" and how much of it is depressed levels of brain chemistry, or both.

Martin Seligman's work on Learned Helplessness is a very interesting study on motivation, and how it can be blunted through experiences.

Learned helplessness refers to the maladaptive passivity shown by animals and people following experience with uncontrollable events. Learned helplessness also refers to the cognitive explanation of this phenomenon. The individual learns in one situation that responses and outcomes are independent, represents this learning as an expectation of helplessness, and then generalizes this expectation to other situations in which outcomes objectively can be controlled to produce passivity.

https://tinyurl.com/ysxcaa6m

Posted by: Kindltot at April 11, 2022 11:46 PM (xhaym)

408 I'd be interested in a list of those albums!!

Posted by: Doof




I'm going to sit down this week and start listing, I think. This is going to be a fun project. What's interesting will be seeing how my musical tastes have changed from college to now, 40 years later.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 11, 2022 11:47 PM (TgO2L)

409 New Buck Rodgers: Some twink is Buck Rodger's butt buddy

Posted by: 18-1 at April 11, 2022 11:44 PM (ESjRY)

Well, you know Twiki was always a dickhead.

Posted by: Dr Huer at April 11, 2022 11:47 PM (7bRMQ)

410
Tormato was the first Yes album I bought, dirt cheap. And worth only a smidgen of it.

I bought mine in the cutout bin for 50 cents or a buck.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 11, 2022 11:47 PM (63Dwl)

411 Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 11, 2022 11:44 PM (II3Gr)

Yeah muzzle brake. I've called it a suppressor for 40 years. Hard habit to break.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at April 11, 2022 11:47 PM (Cw/ar)

412 Yeah muzzle brake. I've called it a suppressor for 40 years. Hard habit to break.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at April 11, 2022 11:47 PM (Cw/ar)

So, you're saying it's automatic?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 11, 2022 11:49 PM (7bRMQ)

413 ..Knopfler does not get enough credit for being among the greatest guitarists ever. Posted by: Doof at April 11, 2022 11:43 PM (mZUr4)

Though understated, his vocals were perfect for the "groove" laid down by he and the band. Sublime.

..Until they added the suppressor it was basically uncontrollable. Lot of holes in the ceiling. Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at April 11, 2022 11:43 PM (Cw/ar)

'Twasn't a "suppressor", but rather, the Cutts Compensator. Known today as a Muzzle Brake. And, as you've observed, it was effective. Very much so. The ported barrel on my 11.5 oz Taurus Total Titanium .38 Spl. snubnose revolver makes it very controllable and a recoil pussycat. But no suppression of noise or blast. Just as loud, and louder to those at the firing line. Less recoil though!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 11, 2022 11:50 PM (QzJWU)

414 Yeah muzzle brake. I've called it a suppressor for 40 years. Hard habit to break.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at April 11, 2022 11:47 PM (Cw/ar)

Righto. Brief research indicates that the Brits did in fact experiment with an integral suppressor for the Thompson but abandoned the project. Learn something new every day.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 11, 2022 11:51 PM (II3Gr)

415 Learned helplessness refers to the maladaptive passivity shown by animals and people following experience with uncontrollable events. Learned helplessness also refers to the cognitive explanation of this phenomenon. The individual learns in one situation that responses and outcomes are independent, represents this learning as an expectation of helplessness, and then generalizes this expectation to other situations in which outcomes objectively can be controlled to produce passivity.

https://tinyurl.com/ysxcaa6m
Posted by: Kindltot at April 11, 2022 11:46 PM (xhaym)

Very interesting. Explains why some people just give up on life.

Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at April 11, 2022 11:52 PM (rF64X)

416 I bought mine in the cutout bin for 50 cents or a buck.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 11, 2022 11:47 PM (63Dwl)
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I bought Genesis' Calling All Stations that way. I barely listened through that once. Unrelieved Tony Banks mopery has its limits.

Posted by: Axeman at April 11, 2022 11:53 PM (OaZlZ)

417 I've called it a suppressor because it redirects the gas like a flash suppressor. I'll be better in the future. Bad dog.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at April 11, 2022 11:54 PM (Cw/ar)

418 403 Doof.
I saw Knophler with Clapton here in Denver some years back. What a damn awesome show!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 11, 2022 11:55 PM (9uqbB)

419 19 8 Well, MisHum. You have me stumped. I don't know where this pic was taken.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 11, 2022 10:01 PM (7bRMQ)

Well you certainly didn't go out on a limb did you?
----
I'm late to this but I think you are all bark and no bite.

Posted by: Ciampino at April 11, 2022 11:56 PM (qfLjt)

420 I'm late to this but I think you are all bark and no bite.

Posted by: Ciampino at April 11, 2022 11:56 PM (qfLjt)

Oh, you cut me down! sniff

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 11, 2022 11:57 PM (7bRMQ)

421 Anyone know where I can buy extra clips for my Glock?

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at April 11, 2022 11:57 PM (Cw/ar)

422 Just passing by to drop a
Simultaneous
Subcutaneous
Miscellaneous
Unspontaneous
comment of the moment.

Posted by: mindful webworker - click for easterish comic at April 11, 2022 11:58 PM (+9P/W)

423 34 So the two firearms were in the tub with the gator?

----
Boy, that's more dangerous than a crow with a machine gun.

Posted by: Ciampino at April 11, 2022 11:59 PM (qfLjt)

424 417 I've called it a suppressor because it redirects the gas like a flash suppressor. I'll be better in the future. Bad dog.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at April 11, 2022 11:54 PM (Cw/ar)

Suppression isn't a great way to redirect gas, usually. Shifting your weight to one side in your chair is reasonably effective though

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 11, 2022 11:59 PM (II3Gr)

425 Anyone know where I can buy extra clips for my Glock?

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at April 11, 2022 11:57 PM (Cw/ar)

Same place I got me a huntin' license!

Posted by: Horseface at April 12, 2022 12:00 AM (7bRMQ)

426 36 Leaf it alone you two!
Posted by: Tonypete at April 11, 2022 10:07 PM (Msys3)

I am not rooting for either one of them, just so you know!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar

If you can't phylem, join 'em

Which wood glue would you recommend?

Posted by: Ciampino at April 12, 2022 12:00 AM (qfLjt)

427 ..Anyone know where I can buy extra clips for my Glock? Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at April 11, 2022 11:57 PM (Cw/ar)

Yes. That's when you affix a G-19 frame to a G-17 slide, this "clipping" the length of the grip.

G-17 mags in that setup are the Viagra of Magazines though. See your Gunsmith if Mag Extensions last for more than four rounds.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 12, 2022 12:01 AM (QzJWU)

428 Boy, that's more dangerous than a crow with a machine gun.

Posted by: Ciampino at April 11, 2022 11:59 PM (qfLjt)

I thought that was a canary?

Posted by: Robin at April 12, 2022 12:02 AM (7bRMQ)

429 Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 11, 2022 11:59 PM (II3Gr)

Hah. What's funny is I never thought about it but now I realize I lift my right cheek only when I redirect gas.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at April 12, 2022 12:03 AM (Cw/ar)

430 41 My view as to that final quote:

".. if you encounter one Asshole per day, well, they're assholes. If you encounter Assholes all day, every day, well, YOU'RE the Asshole."

----
Just the punchline:
The workers are all smiling because when they look up all they see are assholes.

Posted by: Ciampino at April 12, 2022 12:03 AM (qfLjt)

431 As a prog-head, Dire Straits, and Love Over Gold, was one of the bands that sustained me in the 80s. (with Talk Talk and Queensryche).

Was never as big a fan of Sultans as I was of Skateaway or Espresso Love.

Posted by: Axeman at April 12, 2022 12:04 AM (OaZlZ)

432 428 Boy, that's more dangerous than a crow with a machine gun.

Posted by: Ciampino at April 11, 2022 11:59 PM (qfLjt)

I thought that was a canary?
Posted by: Robin at April 12, 2022 12:02 AM (7bRMQ)

Chimpanzee.

Posted by: Charles McGill at April 12, 2022 12:04 AM (II3Gr)

433 Just the punchline:
The workers are all smiling because when they look up all they see are assholes.

Posted by: Ciampino at April 12, 2022 12:03 AM (qfLjt)

Real funny.

Posted by: Not the Lead Dog at April 12, 2022 12:04 AM (7bRMQ)

434 24 Well, MisHum. You have me stumped. I don't know where this pic was taken.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 11, 2022 10:01 PM (7bRMQ)

Well you certainly didn't go out on a limb did you?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

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We just got left with a knotty problem.

Posted by: Ciampino at April 12, 2022 12:07 AM (qfLjt)

435 Well you certainly didn't go out on a limb did you?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian
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We just got left with a knotty problem.
Posted by: Ciampino at April 12, 2022 12:07 AM (qfLjt)
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What's the root cause?

Posted by: Axeman at April 12, 2022 12:09 AM (OaZlZ)

436 Withdrawing for the evening to improve the happy people ratio. Night.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 12, 2022 12:10 AM (II3Gr)

437
Boy, that's more dangerous than a crow with a machine gun.
Posted by: Ciampino

I thought that was a canary?
Posted by: Robin

Chimpanzee.
Posted by: Charles McGill


Or a bee.
https://tinyurl.com/2p9fu5d9

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 12, 2022 12:11 AM (63Dwl)

438 20 What are the holes in that stump?

Termites or woodpeckers?

Posted by: Ciampino at April 12, 2022 12:11 AM (qfLjt)

439 What's the root cause?

Posted by: Axeman at April 12, 2022 12:09 AM (OaZlZ)

White fragility!!

Posted by: Leftist at April 12, 2022 12:13 AM (7bRMQ)

440 What are the holes in that stump?

Termites or woodpeckers?
Posted by: Ciampino at April 12, 2022 12:11 AM (qfLjt)

Might be conk. Rot or fungus that starts in the old wood at the core of the log, and eats outward.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 12, 2022 12:14 AM (P3gRi)

441 Might be conk. Rot or fungus that starts in the old wood at the core of the log, and eats outward.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 12, 2022 12:14 AM (P3gRi)

That's what got me.

Posted by: John Holmes at April 12, 2022 12:15 AM (7bRMQ)

442 Grump the military version of the Thompson of course, like the PPsh-40 in the USSR, had substantial changes to materials and manufacture to save time/$$$. And design - no vertical fore-grip, bolt on the side, no long finned barrel.

But some of that may have been for practical/field purposes, I'm just spouting off stuff I think I know about it.

I never knew about the Reising, the SMG the Thompson replaced, until a place I volunteered put one on display. Similar, pretty, but I think proved too failure-prone in field conditions, vs. the Thompson. And they had their debut in Guadalcanal, about as harsh a field condition as you could ask for.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 12, 2022 12:16 AM (OTzUX)

443 Cutts compensater.

Posted by: CMU VET at April 12, 2022 12:17 AM (mMV7W)

444 Or a bee.
https://tinyurl.com/2p9fu5d9

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 12, 2022 12:11 AM (63Dwl)

Suckas! Build me an airfield.

Posted by: Pappy B at April 12, 2022 12:18 AM (7bRMQ)

445 82 Erdogan wants to be the sly fox but he will fail.

Well if he goes to the Capitol he'll get euthanized. I don't think they'll bother testing for rabies as it's a given.

Posted by: Ciampino at April 12, 2022 12:18 AM (qfLjt)

446 397 This is the closest we've been to having the controlling government trying destroy the America you knew and have it replaced with their socialist utopia we all know is doomed to fail. It's been their goal since 1917.

Besides head in the clouds professor types and naive kids, no-one ever has ever actually been working for or had any intention of a "socialist utopia". Its always bringing back feudal monarchy featuring the leadership as the aristocracy.

Posted by: azjaeger at April 12, 2022 12:19 AM (3/XaG)

447 87 He has a critical advantage: being a Commodore 64-powered AI, he has no need for sleep or rest.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

Weekends it's an Amiga

And I would have guessed Commodore-128

Posted by: Ciampino at April 12, 2022 12:20 AM (qfLjt)

448 John Lee Hooker > Bob Dylan.

Posted by: azjaeger at April 12, 2022 12:20 AM (3/XaG)

449 John Lee Hooker > Bob Dylan.

Posted by: azjaeger at April 12, 2022 12:20 AM (3/XaG)

My Girls > Bob Dylan

Posted by: "Fighting Joe" Hooker at April 12, 2022 12:23 AM (7bRMQ)

450 93 I must have a sixth sense about asshole peoples. I see them everywhere.
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Look, Bruce's retiring. Leave him alone okay?

Posted by: Ciampino at April 12, 2022 12:23 AM (qfLjt)

451 ..And I would have guessed Commodore-128
Posted by: Ciampino at April 12, 2022 12:20 AM (qfLjt)


No, the Amiga was his consort.

A dalliance with a Commodore would not only be gay, but be in violation of the Naval Rules of the Day.

Rocks and Shoales. Learn 'em, Love 'em, Live 'em.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 12, 2022 12:23 AM (QzJWU)

452 Under Bidens new circumvention of law does background check have to made on a barrel purchase and does a barrel require a serial number and registered manufacturer.

Posted by: Goatweed at April 12, 2022 12:24 AM (0Q/6W)

453 94 Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 11, 2022 10:20 PM (II3Gr)

Insom:
The phrase "thin veneer of civilization" comes to mind!
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Hmmm veneer .... are you talking about the tree stump thread?

Posted by: Ciampino at April 12, 2022 12:24 AM (qfLjt)

454 97 Full on solar eclipse??

Posted by: Doof at April 11, 2022 10:23 PM (mZUr4)

Doof, do you know how to make a Venetian blind?

It's not true that Venetians fap a lot or drink methanol.

Posted by: Ciampino at April 12, 2022 12:27 AM (qfLjt)

455 My favorite Dire Straits album is Brothers in Arms, followed by Love over Gold.

but I enjoy them all.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 12, 2022 12:32 AM (evAgx)

456 Defendant: your honor I don't even have any fire arms
Federal Prosecutor: it was a ghost gun your honor, you can't see them...we had a seance
Judge: what exactly is a seance
Federal Prosecutor: it is when you try to communicate with the dead
Judge: and how do you do this?
Prosecutor: we used a Ouija board
Judge: did you have a warrant for this seance
Prosecutor: the law says we don't need a warrant for a seance

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at April 12, 2022 12:35 AM (h1jJh)

457 242 [...] In the late 70s, young Doof acquired that taste upon first hearing them. In 1981, at age 10, I saved up my allowance for months to purchase Moving Pictures - first album I bought with my own money.

Posted by: Doof at April 11, 2022 10:53 PM (mZUr4)

The perfect album from one of modern music's greatest bands. I still have somewhere the tape I recorded when that was played in its entirety on WMMR back in late '81/early '82, which was the only way this poor dude could get it back then. I so wish I could've seen that tour!

So...are you going to get the 40th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition reissue? It's a steal at only $299!

Posted by: goozer at April 12, 2022 12:35 AM (PtK0Q)

458 ..Judge: what exactly is a seance. Federal Prosecutor: it is when you try to communicate with the dead. Judge: and how do you do this? Prosecutor: we used a Ouija board. Judge: did you have a warrant for this seance? Prosecutor: the law says we don't need a warrant for a seance. Posted by: Lemmiwinks at April 12, 2022 12:35 AM (h1jJh)

Flashbacks to "relations" with my ex. The Ouija board might've added just enough kink to have made her drop her nail file?

/snrk

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 12, 2022 12:39 AM (QzJWU)

459 172 I'd say AOP's right.

Lago di Braies if you speak Eyetalian, Prager Wildsee if you speak Kraut.

It's in Southern Tyrol and even though the border is some distance north, there are a lot of Austrian place names mixed in with the Italian...
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It's in the Dolomites and not the Alps. Haven't been there.

Posted by: Ciampino at April 12, 2022 12:41 AM (qfLjt)

460 It's in the Dolomites and not the Alps. Haven't been there.

Posted by: Ciampino at April 12, 2022 12:41 AM (qfLjt)

So that's where the Italian-Swiss Colony is!!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 12, 2022 12:44 AM (7bRMQ)

461 Geddy Lee is the only reason I cannot enjoy Rush.

Challenge:

Assemble a band of similarly elevated gifted artists, re-do the whole Rush library, but with a lead vocalist who doesn't yelp like an adenoidal pre-teen who has just been kicked in the 'nads.

Please.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 12, 2022 12:44 AM (QzJWU)

462 Challenge:

Assemble a band of similarly elevated gifted artists, re-do the whole Rush library, but with a lead vocalist who doesn't yelp like an adenoidal pre-teen who has just been kicked in the 'nads.

Please.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 12, 2022 12:44 AM (QzJWU)

Pssst. Yoko....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 12, 2022 12:45 AM (7bRMQ)

463 Doof, do you know how to make a Venetian blind?

Posted by: Comicus at April 11, 2022 10:25 PM (7bRMQ)

Hand him a soldering iron and a picture of pelosi showering.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 12, 2022 12:46 AM (VwHCD)

464 192 158

I don't know...of course, I'm sure the barrel at least certainly can't be plastic. But, maybe someone could be developing a plastic that could hold up to the heat...America!
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There are lots of special ceramics in the latest jet engines - stronger than metal and can withstand higher temperatures than titanium, etc.

Posted by: Ciampino at April 12, 2022 12:46 AM (qfLjt)

465 Hand him a soldering iron and a picture of pelosi showering.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 12, 2022 12:46 AM (VwHCD)

BD, do you think there are any old 60s or 70s Hondas around? Good as a beginner bike?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 12, 2022 12:48 AM (7bRMQ)

466 Challenge:

Assemble a band of similarly elevated gifted artists, re-do the whole Rush library, but with a lead vocalist who doesn't yelp like an adenoidal pre-teen who has just been kicked in the 'nads.

Please.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 12, 2022 12:44 AM (QzJWU)

Thats right up my ally.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 12, 2022 12:49 AM (VwHCD)

467 Hand him a soldering iron and a picture of pelosi showering.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 12, 2022 12:46 AM (VwHCD)

BD, do you think there are any old 60s or 70s Hondas around? Good as a beginner bike?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 12, 2022 12:48 AM (7bRMQ)

As stupid as it sounds, one of those would probably cost more than a current harley sportster.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 12, 2022 12:50 AM (VwHCD)

468 ..Doof, do you know how to make a Venetian blind?
Posted by: Comicus at April 11, 2022 10:25 PM (7bRMQ)
Hand him a soldering iron and a picture of pelosi showering. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 12, 2022 12:46 AM (VwHCD)


Doof, do you know how to make a Venetial deaf?

..Play him a CD of Rush with Geddy Lee singing lead.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 12, 2022 12:51 AM (QzJWU)

469 225 Stumps...it had to be stumps...

Otherwise it's not cricket sir ..!

Posted by: Ciampino at April 12, 2022 12:53 AM (qfLjt)

470 As stupid as it sounds, one of those would probably cost more than a current harley sportster.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 12, 2022 12:50 AM (VwHCD)

Really? Just thinking about a small bike for riding around, picking up something at the store, etc. Not much interested in anything big.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 12, 2022 12:54 AM (7bRMQ)

471 Good night good people....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 12, 2022 12:55 AM (9uqbB)

472 I don't know...of course, I'm sure the barrel at least certainly can't be plastic. But, maybe someone could be developing a plastic that could hold up to the heat...America!
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There are lots of special ceramics in the latest jet engines - stronger than metal and can withstand higher temperatures than titanium, etc.
Posted by: Ciampino at April 12, 2022 12:46 AM (qfLjt)

Teflon holds up to heat well, but I don't think it can be used as feedstock for a 3D printer.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 12, 2022 12:55 AM (P3gRi)

473 Good night good people....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 12, 2022 12:55 AM (9uqbB)

Drops teacup.

What?!? You've been watching us the whole time???

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 12, 2022 12:58 AM (7bRMQ)

474 Really? Just thinking about a small bike for riding around, picking up something at the store, etc. Not much interested in anything big.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 12, 2022 12:54 AM (7bRMQ)

Well right now they are giving bikes away, but not the vintage ones. I did a 1200 sportster last year for a dude. Its a 100th anniversary model, fairly low millage in really nice shape. He got it cheap because of a trans problem, and it was just one gear was bad, so I did a few new gears, all new bearings in the trans,did some nice pistons, new bore, freshened up the heads, new drive belt, and it was mint. He came into the shop last week and tells me he wants to sell it because he bought a bigger bike. He was asking$1800. It was steal.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 12, 2022 01:01 AM (VwHCD)

475 Hello ONTers

Posted by: JQ at April 12, 2022 01:01 AM (dpnJh)

476 283 "It sounds like WWII every damn day."

Cool!

I've always wondered what those huge siege mortars the Germans used at Sevastopol sounded like.

And a V-1 engine stopping.

Picture Simon and Garfunkel "The Sound of Silence"

Posted by: Ciampino at April 12, 2022 01:02 AM (qfLjt)

477 Tis time. Nice enough for yard work tomorrow.
Dammit.

Y'all need to remember we are Americans, so that head is held HIGH and PROUD. It's part of our heritage.

Goodnite, good people. Be safe stay warm and sleep well.

Posted by: irongrampa at April 12, 2022 01:07 AM (KATBx)

478 Well right now they are giving bikes away, but not the vintage ones. I did a 1200 sportster last year for a dude. Its a 100th anniversary model, fairly low millage in really nice shape. He got it cheap because of a trans problem, and it was just one gear was bad, so I did a few new gears, all new bearings in the trans,did some nice pistons, new bore, freshened up the heads, new drive belt, and it was mint. He came into the shop last week and tells me he wants to sell it because he bought a bigger bike. He was asking$1800. It was steal.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 12, 2022 01:01 AM (VwHCD)

I see. Yeah, my speed would be little street bike. I wouldn't go on the freeway, just around town. My dad had a few when I was a kid. We had a S65 and I think something in 90. I only have a couple of pix of him on it, and from the front so I'm not sure exactly what is was. I rode on it with him plenty of times, but I can't identify it.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 12, 2022 01:07 AM (7bRMQ)

479 Today was... interesting. Cold & damp, then light rain turning to snow (and it was 75F a couple days ago!) Been very windy for the last week.

Lights all around house were flickering occasionally today, then about 1/2 the house lost power. Checked panel and no tripped breakers. Then it came back with more flickering. Then it was ok until snow turned back to rain. Off. Then on again. Snowed like crazy for a couple hours and lights have remained steady so far. Wind has slowed, I think.

Called power company but who knows when they'll get here? Probably tomorrow. Ugh!

Posted by: JQ at April 12, 2022 01:13 AM (dpnJh)

480 Orange Ent.

Pretty much any Jap bike, from about '67 to '75, is going to be in the Sweet Spot of the early import era.

Do take care though, that they're either fully restored, or at least properly preserved. Current tires, brakes, fluids, carbs and cables, are paramount.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 12, 2022 01:13 AM (QzJWU)

481 These people...

Last week, American intelligence officials reportedly assessed that Russian President Vladimir Putin may use the Biden administration's support for Ukraine as a pretext to order a new campaign to interfere in U.S. elections. Though AP reported that "it is not yet clear which candidates Russia might try to promote or what methods it might use," Russian state media seem to be in agreement that former U.S. President Donald Trump remains Moscow's candidate of choice.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 12, 2022 01:13 AM (R8uWY)

482 Pretty much any Jap bike, from about '67 to '75, is going to be in the Sweet Spot of the early import era.

Do take care though, that they're either fully restored, or at least properly preserved. Current tires, brakes, fluids, carbs and cables, are paramount.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 12, 2022 01:13 AM (QzJWU)

Yeah and they're paying stupid prices for anything vintage in nice shape. A friend of mine works on those, and they were getting a cult following, and you know what that means.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 12, 2022 01:16 AM (VwHCD)

483 Do take care though, that they're either fully restored, or at least properly preserved. Current tires, brakes, fluids, carbs and cables, are paramount.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 12, 2022 01:13 AM (QzJWU)

Thanks for the tips, Jim. Most likely I'll never get one. Sold my MGB last month, so you always want something to replace a classic. Those are the ones dad had, I don't care for the looks of the new ones. Can't stand the dirt bike look, and I'm certainly not going to get a gay Vespa or other scooter.....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 12, 2022 01:18 AM (7bRMQ)

484 Of course the russkis are saying they want Trump.

Because they *don't* want him and know that their allies in the MFM will run with it, to ensure Trump gets negative publicity.

Posted by: JQ at April 12, 2022 01:18 AM (dpnJh)

485 The leaders of BLM had thousands of black people work for them for free so they could live at ease in a big, fancy house.

That right there is hilarious.

Posted by: 29Victor at April 12, 2022 01:21 AM (BJKQV)

486 The leaders of BLM had thousands of black people work for them for free so they could live at ease in a big, fancy house.

That right there is hilarious.

Posted by: 29Victor at April 12, 2022 01:21 AM (BJKQV)

Gonna see Miss Liza, (clank) gonna go to Mississippi. (clank)

Posted by: Bustin' Rocks for the Boss at April 12, 2022 01:24 AM (7bRMQ)

487 Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 12, 2022 01:13 AM (R8uWY)

Are these the same 'Intelligence Officials' who have ADMITTED they have lied to the American people, on multiple occasions in the past few months? Telling Americans that Russia is going to do things like use chemical weapons... when they KNOW there are none in the area?

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 12, 2022 01:25 AM (oHd/0)

488 The leaders of BLM had thousands of black people work for them for free so they could live at ease in a big, fancy house.

That right there is hilarious.

Posted by: 29Victor at April 12, 2022 01:21 AM (BJKQV)

Which then allowed the dem plantation masters to live in even bigger frigging houses.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 12, 2022 01:28 AM (VwHCD)

489 403 Nurse.

Doof nailed it on the Dire Straits album.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
`Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at April 11, 2022 11:40 PM (QzJWU)

Howdy Jim! Outstanding album. Opening track Down To The Waterline is soooo good!! Knopfler does not get enough credit for being among the greatest guitarists ever.
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Knopfler at his best - from 8 minute mark
Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing (Alchemy Live)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pa9x9fZBtY

Posted by: Ciampino at April 12, 2022 01:30 AM (qfLjt)

490

comment #258
Re-Emphasis
& Link Digester:
https://nitter.moomoo.me
/GooseMumma/status
/1512323263011119105

Posted by: zigzag at April 12, 2022 01:32 AM (5RxgT)

491 Well, there's hot water now. Should grab a lantern and shower while I can...

Posted by: JQ at April 12, 2022 01:37 AM (dpnJh)

492 I see. Yeah, my speed would be little street bike. I wouldn't go on the freeway, just around town. My dad had a few when I was a kid. We had a S65 and I think something in 90. I only have a couple of pix of him on it, and from the front so I'm not sure exactly what is was. I rode on it with him plenty of times, but I can't identify it.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 12, 2022 01:07 AM (7bRMQ)

You might want to look at the current Honda 125 cc version of their old Trail 90. Called the Trail 125, it was new for 2021. Doesn't look like a full-bore motocross bike. Looks very '60's. Only about 4 grand.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 12, 2022 01:37 AM (P3gRi)

493 Royal Enfield, from India, has a couple of retro-looking scramblers, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 12, 2022 01:39 AM (P3gRi)

494 You might want to look at the current Honda 125 cc version of their old Trail 90. Called the Trail 125, it was new for 2021. Doesn't look like a full-bore motocross bike. Looks very '60's. Only about 4 grand.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 12, 2022 01:37 AM (P3gRi)

Eh, still looks like a scooter to me. College coming up for oldest, too rich for me now. Thanks for the info.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 12, 2022 01:41 AM (7bRMQ)

495 Royal Enfield, from India, has a couple of retro-looking scramblers, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 12, 2022 01:39 AM (P3gRi)

Hmm, not bad. Still seems a little big. Ever hear of this company?

https://www.janusmotorcycles.com/

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 12, 2022 01:45 AM (7bRMQ)

496 Might as well face it, you're addicted o love.

Posted by: mnw at April 12, 2022 01:53 AM (NLIak)

497
Hmm, not bad. Still seems a little big. Ever hear of this company?

https://www.janusmotorcycles.com/

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 12, 2022 01:45 AM (7bRMQ)

Big?? How frigging tiny are you looking for? My wife rides a frigging harley softail, and she's a weakling. Every time she helps me move something she makes me drop a nut, lol.

Janus is pretty cool, nice retro looking stuff, but way not cheap. I want to see one in person, but I don't know anybody who has one.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 12, 2022 01:53 AM (VwHCD)

498 Hmm, not bad. Still seems a little big. Ever hear of this company?

https://www.janusmotorcycles.com/
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 12, 2022 01:45 AM (7bRMQ)

Yeah. I was reading about them a few minutes ago. Look very cool. Not sure how they would work in practice.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 12, 2022 01:54 AM (P3gRi)

499 Get an electric scooter, it's fun:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1512872157050720262

Posted by: Ciampino at April 12, 2022 01:56 AM (qfLjt)

500 Get an electric scooter, it's fun:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1512872157050720262

Posted by: Ciampino at April 12, 2022 01:56 AM (qfLjt)

Damn, that just made my night. lolol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 12, 2022 01:58 AM (VwHCD)

501 Big?? How frigging tiny are you looking for? My wife rides a frigging harley softail, and she's a weakling. Every time she helps me move something she makes me drop a nut, lol.

Janus is pretty cool, nice retro looking stuff, but way not cheap. I want to see one in person, but I don't know anybody who has one.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 12, 2022 01:53 AM (VwHCD)

Probably nothing larger than 125. It'd be for 35 to 45mph streets. But, with college looming, I doubt if I'd ever be able to get one now. Coof killed my job, I'm two years away from getting SS. Wife said stay home, take care of the youngest and she'll work.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 12, 2022 01:59 AM (7bRMQ)

502 500
Damn, that just made my night. lolol

Hey we made 500

Berseker, I noted the other night you sampled Nightwish. That's one of my favorite symphonic metal bands. Other good ones are Epica, Xandria, Tristania and a newish (for me anyway) Russian band called Narwhal Tusk - all available for sampling on youtube.

Posted by: Ciampino at April 12, 2022 02:04 AM (qfLjt)

503 Get an electric scooter, it's fun:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1512872157050720262

Posted by: Ciampino at April 12, 2022 01:56 AM (qfLjt)

Do I look like garrett to you?!?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 12, 2022 02:05 AM (7bRMQ)

504 Get an electric scooter, it's fun:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1512872157050720262
Posted by: Ciampino at April 12, 2022 01:56 AM


Internal Combustion Engine vehicles spontaneously catch fire and explode all the time, it's just not really widely reported.

Posted by: David St. Hubbins at April 12, 2022 02:05 AM (EughT)

505 504 Get an electric scooter, it's fun:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1512872157050720262
Posted by: Ciampino at April 12, 2022 01:56 AM

Internal Combustion Engine vehicles spontaneously catch fire and explode all the time, it's just not really widely reported.
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That may be true but it's usually the electrical that starts the fire.

Posted by: Ciampino at April 12, 2022 02:07 AM (qfLjt)

506 Probably nothing larger than 125. It'd be for 35 to 45mph streets. But, with college looming, I doubt if I'd ever be able to get one now. Coof killed my job, I'm two years away from getting SS. Wife said stay home, take care of the youngest and she'll work.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 12, 2022 01:59 AM (7bRMQ)

Oh, so you're older. Well if you want something small, honda made this thing called a rebel some years back, it was a 250 cc, looked like a little harley, well if you squint real hard anyway, but they were kinda cool looking for what they are. Not sure what used ones sell for, but a chick customer of mine had one as her first bike, and she moved up to a harley and sold it pretty cheap, like silly cheap. I got no clue what those go for these days used, but it was light, and reasonably fast.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 12, 2022 02:07 AM (VwHCD)

507 Anyone still awake? What's the news?

Jules got me intrigued by "Name That Tune" while we ate dinner. It was a hoot. Schlocky, but also educational. As she said...it's just fun, if you like music.

Posted by: Farmer at April 12, 2022 02:09 AM (55Qr6)

508 Internal Combustion Engine vehicles spontaneously catch fire and explode all the time, it's just not really widely reported.
----
That may be true but it's usually the electrical that starts the fire.
Posted by: Ciampino at April 12, 2022 02:07 AM


Perhaps you have not heard of my band, Spinal Tap, which has earned a distinguished place in rock history as one of England's loudest bands

Posted by: David St. Hubbins at April 12, 2022 02:09 AM (EughT)

509 That may be true but it's usually the electrical that starts the fire.

Posted by: Ciampino at April 12, 2022 02:07 AM (qfLjt)

Not on cars using my electricals!

Posted by: Lucas at April 12, 2022 02:10 AM (7bRMQ)

510 Berseker, I noted the other night you sampled Nightwish. That's one of my favorite symphonic metal bands. Other good ones are Epica, Xandria, Tristania and a newish (for me anyway) Russian band called Narwhal Tusk - all available for sampling on youtube.

Posted by: Ciampino at April 12, 2022 02:04 AM (qfLjt)

I'm not all "that" big on that genre, but some of it is pretty cool. I just like listening to Floor Jansen, damn that girl has the voice from god. She is frigging incredible, and I like her versions of the older songs. I saw epica live, but never nightwish.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 12, 2022 02:12 AM (VwHCD)

511 Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 12, 2022 02:07 AM (VwHCD)

I've seen the Rebel, not too bad looking. I like the upright seating position. Can't do ape hangers, don't like laying out. Getting decrepit and skinny all right.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 12, 2022 02:13 AM (7bRMQ)

512 Heh, just looked at a Honda Monkey. Looks like our old mini-bike from the early 70s.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 12, 2022 02:17 AM (7bRMQ)

513 Internal Combustion Engine vehicles spontaneously catch fire and explode all the time,

Thousands of times per minute.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 12, 2022 02:17 AM (R8uWY)

514 My ex-spouse once said, "I've never even heard a single KISS song."

And so, I began to sing!..."I-i-i-i jes' wanna rock & roll all night! And pahty ev-er-y day..."

Ex-spouse (long pause): "I didn't know that was one of theirs."

LIVE AT THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE: "There are no walls! There are no borders! Their's only one nation! And that's KISS Nation! I-i-i-i..."

Posted by: mnw at April 12, 2022 02:20 AM (NLIak)

515 I've seen the Rebel, not too bad looking. I like the upright seating position. Can't do ape hangers, don't like laying out. Getting decrepit and skinny all right.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 12, 2022 02:13 AM (7bRMQ)

You got to be a true believer to use ape hangers. Anything above shoulder height starts to get brutal. I had 14" apes on the panhead and it was pushing it .The wife drove it once, and it looked like she was hanging from a tree branch. I usually don't go above 12", because your hands start to go numb.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 12, 2022 02:24 AM (VwHCD)

516 Wish I'd kept my v30 Magna. Be worth a few bucks now.

Posted by: JQ at April 12, 2022 02:24 AM (dpnJh)

517 Tom Snyder: "How many women do you think you've slept with, Gene?"

Simmons: "Well I don't know. Not as many as you think, probably... less than a thousand."

Posted by: mnw at April 12, 2022 02:26 AM (NLIak)

518 I just flew back from a ravioli convention.
Boyaredees arms tired.

Posted by: Ciampino at April 12, 2022 02:26 AM (qfLjt)

519 LIVE AT THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE: "There are no walls! There are no borders! There's only one nation!

Biden Nation.

Featuring Laughing Cow Harris in a major non-supporting role.

Posted by: RickZ at April 12, 2022 02:28 AM (ldL4g)

520 I just flew back from a ravioli convention.
Boyaredees arms tired.

Posted by: Ciampino at April 12, 2022 02:26 AM (qfLjt)

Can it!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 12, 2022 02:29 AM (7bRMQ)

521 LOL. "Less than a thousand"

Sounds like... most people, right?

Posted by: JQ at April 12, 2022 02:30 AM (dpnJh)

522 519 Rick

I meant to post the last line, but I forgot:

"And that's KISS nation!"

Posted by: mnw at April 12, 2022 02:31 AM (NLIak)

523 Wish I'd kept my v30 Magna. Be worth a few bucks now.

Posted by: JQ at April 12, 2022 02:24 AM (dpnJh)

From what I'm seeing, about 2-3K

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 12, 2022 02:32 AM (VwHCD)

524 Sounds like... most people, right?

Posted by: JQ at April 12, 2022 02:30 AM (dpnJh)

Pfft.

Posted by: Wilt the Stilt at April 12, 2022 02:33 AM (7bRMQ)

525 JQ

It's not bragging if it's true.

Posted by: mnw at April 12, 2022 02:33 AM (NLIak)

526 From what I'm seeing, about 2-3K

Wow, really?

*sobs*

Posted by: JQ at April 12, 2022 02:33 AM (dpnJh)

527 It's not bragging if it's true.

Well, I have slept with fewer than 1000 also.

Posted by: JQ at April 12, 2022 02:34 AM (dpnJh)

528 LOL. "Less than a thousand"

Sounds like... most people, right?

Posted by: JQ at April 12, 2022 02:30 AM (dpnJh)

Well, its very easy to wear it down to a nub when you're a musician with a heavy gig schedule. Pacing himself he could have done that in 5 years.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 12, 2022 02:36 AM (VwHCD)

529 Play on the words.....

Neeeevverrrmiiinnd

Posted by: JQ at April 12, 2022 02:37 AM (dpnJh)

530 Well, I am off to the snoozer. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 12, 2022 02:39 AM (P3gRi)

531 LOL. "Less than a thousand"

Sounds like... most people, right?

Posted by: JQ at April 12, 2022 02:30 AM (dpnJh)


Wilt Chamberlain, in his autobiography, claimed to have had sex with 20,000 women. Ah, the halcyon days before AIDS, when a simple shot would clear you right up.

To be fair to ol' Wilt, he did travel across the country -- a lot, so mayyyyy-be. If he had a cell phone camera back then, he'd have had his own pr0n channel, probably a pay site, because you know how athletes burn through their playing career money.

Wilt The Stilt takes on a whole new meaning.

Posted by: RickZ at April 12, 2022 02:42 AM (ldL4g)

532 From what I'm seeing, about 2-3K

Wow, really?

*sobs*

Posted by: JQ at April 12, 2022 02:33 AM (dpnJh)

let me guess, you gave yours away.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 12, 2022 02:42 AM (VwHCD)

533 Wilt Chamberlain, in his autobiography, claimed to have had sex with 20,000 women. Ah, the halcyon days before AIDS, when a simple shot would clear you right up.

Wilt The Stilt takes on a whole new meaning.

Posted by: RickZ at April 12, 2022 02:42 AM (ldL4g)

Thats 1000 a year for 20 years, 500 a year for 40 years. Seems a bit high.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 12, 2022 02:44 AM (VwHCD)

534 Thats 1000 a year for 20 years, 500 a year for 40 years. Seems a bit high.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 12, 2022 02:44 AM (VwHCD)

Well, he had more time during the off season....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 12, 2022 02:47 AM (7bRMQ)

535 Not "gave" it away, but sold for just a few hundred.

I'm not really that broken up about it, although I knew they were only made for a couple of years...

Meh. I much prefer to have 4 wheels these days.

Posted by: JQ at April 12, 2022 02:47 AM (dpnJh)

536 So, celeb dudes bang multitudes of starf*ckers women. (Or other men)

*yawn*

Water is wet.

Posted by: JQ at April 12, 2022 02:50 AM (dpnJh)

537 Finally finished rewatching The Sopranos.
AJ the son is the worst main character in the whole series.
Worst as in most loathsome.

I caught so many more plot points and nuggets the second time around.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 12, 2022 02:50 AM (9XKuW)

538 I caught so many more plot points and nuggets the second time around.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 12, 2022 02:50 AM (9XKuW)

Anything well written is that way.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 12, 2022 02:55 AM (7bRMQ)

539 Thats 1000 a year for 20 years, 500 a year for 40 years. Seems a bit high.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 12, 2022 02:44 AM (VwHCD)


I'm sure he had a few doubles and triples thrown in there, too, you know.

ONT Maths Problem: Wilt Chamberlain unknowingly gave us the most interesting math problem ever posed. Naturally, readers worked out how many women Wilt Chamberlain needed to sleep with to reach 20,000 by the time his statement was published. Apparently, if Chamberlain started his count at the age of 15, he would have needed to sleep with 1.4 women every day until he was 55. On the face of it, that seems impossible and it's about to get more implausible.

Tom Fitzhugh says that Chamberlain had not started scoring when this 1955 photo was taken. According to his close childhood friend Tom Fitzhugh, "I don't remember him having a date. He was probably a virgin when he left high school." If Tom was right, that means Chamberlain needed to up his number to 1.5 women per day for 37 years in a row.

Friends of Chamberlain said he loved threesomes. Perhaps his predilection for multiple partners helped boost his gaudy numbers.

Posted by: RickZ at April 12, 2022 02:55 AM (ldL4g)

540 I caught so many more plot points and nuggets the second time around.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 12, 2022 02:50 AM (9XKuW)

The overall story arc is essentially the relationship between Tony and the therapist Jennifer Melfi. It begins in the first episode, and ends in the penultimate one.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 12, 2022 02:58 AM (9XKuW)

541 Maybe Wilt counted each stroke as a 'time'.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at April 12, 2022 03:01 AM (9XKuW)

542 The overall story arc is essentially the relationship between Tony and the therapist Jennifer Melfi. It begins in the first episode, and ends in the penultimate one.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 12, 2022 02:58

I love how Tony's Mom and their relationship is explored. Too bad Nancy Marchon died while they were still filming, wonder where it would have went?

Posted by: Farmer at April 12, 2022 03:03 AM (55Qr6)

543 Maybe Wilt counted each stroke as a 'time'.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at April 12, 2022 03:01 AM (9XKuW)


So, triple bogeys versus double eagles.

Posted by: RickZ at April 12, 2022 03:03 AM (ldL4g)

544 https://tinyurl.com/yc89arzt
20 Tweets from Bad Blue

I would wager #5 never happened

Posted by: Skip at April 12, 2022 03:10 AM (2JoB8)

545 I would wager #5 never happened

Posted by: Skip at April 12, 2022 03:10 AM (2JoB


#5 or #15? Unless #5 is photoshopped . . . .

But, yeah, #15 never happened. It's waaayyy too convenient. These hate crime hoaxers need better writers who can actually pen believable dialogue.

Posted by: RickZ at April 12, 2022 03:24 AM (ldL4g)

546 It is #15, I blow up screen and only saw 5 of the #15

Posted by: Skip at April 12, 2022 03:27 AM (2JoB8)

547 Up way early but I can make blueberry pancakes and sausages and supposedly this job starts earlier than 6:30, we will see.

Posted by: Skip at April 12, 2022 03:28 AM (2JoB8)

548 Too bad Nancy Marchon died while they were still filming, wonder where it would have went?
Posted by: Farmer at April 12, 2022 03:03 AM (55Qr6)

I really appreciated her work in the series.
There is one scene where Tony stumbles off her porch and falls flat on his face. She has this fleeting expression of joy(?) At his pain, then turns it into faux concern before going into the house.

She created a truly cruel character.

Only ace can be more cruel.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 12, 2022 03:32 AM (9XKuW)

549 Well, there's hot water now. Should grab a lantern and shower while I can...
Posted by: JQ

Pics ......?

Posted by: JT at April 12, 2022 03:46 AM (arJlL)

550 G'mornin', folk,

I see I made the Top 10 commenters list again this week! Between 50 and 60 comments a day . . . my gosh. Minor league beside TJM, for instance, but amazing for me.

Up early to work out; it will probably rain this afternoon and tomorrow. Just 3 more days to stagger through, and then I am off for Good Friday. Are you?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 12, 2022 03:52 AM (c6xtn)

551 I'm off every day, Wolfus!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 12, 2022 03:53 AM (7bRMQ)

552 Not off for Good Friday, or Easter Sunday.

New hire starts the Sunday after Easter, so there is a light at the end of the tunnel for me to have my full weekend off again in the very near future. Finally.

Mornin', all

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at April 12, 2022 03:56 AM (qAjJ1)

553 I am staying consistent in top 10, but 50 at least more from phone which I think might not be added

Posted by: Skip at April 12, 2022 03:57 AM (2JoB8)

554 Pixy's up.

Posted by: French Jeton at April 12, 2022 04:00 AM (zEKdf)

555 in re: Sam Elliot:
Put not your faith in princes.

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