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Evening folks! Man, tonight's Flames game is a late one. I wonder if it'll match the fireworks of the first game? In any event, what's on the menu tonight?
I swear, these people. They keep circling back to traditional mores without even realizing it. I saw one from a trans man about falling in love with a trans woman, and neither one of them realized they had just rediscovered heterosexuality
Another meme donated by Bitter Clinger
From the Commie front
Gift idea
Don't miss the forest for the trees
In Congress
Be careful this summer
The current thing
Wholesome content of the week
It's OK, I'm an expert in batleths
Bon mot
Anyone have any of these vehicles? I have a 2004 Tundra that's over 200K miles.
Political commentary
Say, that guy dropped out of the news pretty quickly, didn't he?
On safety
Optical illusion
I bet this was drawn by an army guy
Aren't some of y'all modelers? New model just dropped
Ooh, what a lucky man he was
This is, um, something, I'm not sure what to call it
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Zettai at May 20, 2022 09:59 PM (DMcbw)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at May 20, 2022 09:59 PM (hOUT3)
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Evening, All
Posted by: mindful webworker - indubitively at May 20, 2022 10:04 PM (0SSpv)
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at May 20, 2022 10:05 PM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 20, 2022 10:05 PM (K5n5d)
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 20, 2022 10:06 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 20, 2022 10:06 PM (XG2Fi)
Posted by: mindful webworker
My HS Senior English teacher had us all memorize some Shakespeare and most of us chose that passage. He was a hell of a guy - RIP Mr. Renier
Posted by: Tonypete at May 20, 2022 10:06 PM (Msys3)
Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at May 20, 2022 10:07 PM (ZNlqs)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 20, 2022 10:07 PM (r0SEX)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at May 20, 2022 10:07 PM (hOUT3)
Ham Zimmer: No. I will be loud as hell, and you will love me for it.
Mathew McConaughey in space: We need a tricky docking maneuver.
Ham Zimmer: PIPE ORGAN GO 🎼🎶
Audience: Oh amazing.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 20, 2022 10:09 PM (ybIRR)
Carne asada:
8oz. cuts of skirt steak
Marinate in avocado oil, minced garlic, balsamic vinegar, lime juice, cayenne, and regular old taco seasoning for a few hours in the fridge.
Cook it off on a med-high temp black iron pan for 5.5min, flip, til it has good char on it, turn down to medium, cook for 4.5 more minutes.
Dice to .25" pieces. Then destroy it with your greedy maw.
Posted by: You're Welcome at May 20, 2022 10:09 PM (o0I+B)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 20, 2022 10:07 PM (r0SEX)
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IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE,....OH, NEVERMIND
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at May 20, 2022 10:10 PM (XG2Fi)
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 20, 2022 10:10 PM (q3gwH)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 20, 2022 10:10 PM (ybIRR)
Posted by: banana Dream at May 20, 2022 10:11 PM (0fVbu)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 20, 2022 10:12 PM (63Dwl)
I would polish off the Moron's Ecstasy in due haste no problem.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 20, 2022 10:12 PM (EZebt)
I think the point of the "well, that explains the assault rifle" thing is related to the mysterious "thing that goes up"...
Posted by: Zettai at May 20, 2022 10:12 PM (nHKOj)
Posted by: Weirddave at May 20, 2022 10:12 PM (Ovlks)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 20, 2022 10:13 PM (/crfU)
Posted by: Methos at May 20, 2022 10:13 PM (kOpft)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Believing in America at May 20, 2022 10:13 PM (xT18z)
Posted by: Tonypete at May 20, 2022 10:06 PM (Msys3)
We read Macbeth, Julius Caesar, and Romeo & Juliet in high school, but never Hamlet. Don't really know why.
Posted by: Dr. T at May 20, 2022 10:13 PM (tp+tP)
Posted by: Archimedes at May 20, 2022 10:13 PM (ZsR3z)
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at May 20, 2022 10:14 PM (381Xp)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 20, 2022 10:14 PM (/crfU)
They're claiming that's true of everyone with an assault rifle.
Posted by: Methos at May 20, 2022 10:14 PM (kOpft)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 20, 2022 10:13 PM (/crfU)
I once got a sunburn in early March, in Chicago, on a 100 percent overcast day.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 20, 2022 10:14 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: kbdabear at May 20, 2022 10:15 PM (qAR6u)
And that is the most times I've ever used the word, "Penises," in a paragraph.
Posted by: davidt at May 20, 2022 10:15 PM (f5Veu)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at May 20, 2022 10:15 PM (vvLKM)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 20, 2022 10:10 PM (ybIRR)
That part made me laugh. He's giving an overly dramatic speech to justify his bizarre/homicidal behavior, and not paying attention to the docking procedure, and then he goes ka-blooey.
Posted by: Dr. T at May 20, 2022 10:15 PM (tp+tP)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 20, 2022 10:07 PM (r0SEX
Next pic explains that 'assault rifles' are not necessarily compensation for small penises.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 20, 2022 10:15 PM (lF/Mh)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 20, 2022 10:17 PM (j8qW4)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 20, 2022 10:17 PM (cjvuO)
Posted by: Tonypete at May 20, 2022 10:06 PM (Msys3)
We read Macbeth, Julius Caesar, and Romeo & Juliet in high school, but never Hamlet. Don't really know why.
Posted by: Dr. T at May 20, 2022 10:13 PM (tp+tP)
Not enough eye-gouging in Hamlet, or body count, and explaining who the hell Rosencranz and Guildenstern were is too hard. Romeo covers the suicide prone better. "Where are your ears" makes people chuckle more...
Posted by: Oldcat at May 20, 2022 10:17 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 20, 2022 10:07 PM (r0SEX)
The OP is ridiculing a man for buying a rifle implying he's just compensating for a lack of manhood. The reply is showing the stupidity of that.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 20, 2022 10:17 PM (0fVbu)
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day!"
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 20, 2022 10:18 PM (q3gwH)
Someone gave the obvious rejoinder: "yes, weak allies".
Posted by: Archimedes at May 20, 2022 10:18 PM (ZsR3z)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 20, 2022 10:18 PM (/crfU)
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 20, 2022 10:19 PM (4I/2K)
I've read that assault rifles with $5000+ optics arrays are, in fact, compensatory for small penises...
Posted by: Zettai at May 20, 2022 10:19 PM (nHKOj)
BLT's, steamed broccoli and a tall, cool glass of milk. Ice cream with strawberries and chocolate shell at the finish line.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at May 20, 2022 10:19 PM (+StuL)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 20, 2022 10:07 PM (r0SEX)
Liberal women tell themselves that men want guns because they are compensating for being "inadequate".
It's a form of sexism. It's a part of their "men are all stupid and useless" view. They just don't like men.
Makes you wonder what kind of losers they had for fathers.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 20, 2022 10:19 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 20, 2022 10:19 PM (14ukD)
BLT's, steamed broccoli and a tall, cool glass of milk. Ice cream with strawberries and chocolate shell at the finish line.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at May 20, 2022 10:19 PM (+StuL)
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Sounds like a delish, All-American dinner!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Believing in America at May 20, 2022 10:20 PM (xT18z)
Hi, Vmom. Allergies are kicking my backside. I feel like I've blown out about a quart of mucus through my noise and didn't have allergy medicine.
How are you?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 20, 2022 10:20 PM (d37DA)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 20, 2022 10:20 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at May 20, 2022 10:20 PM (vvLKM)
Posted by: Oldcat at May 20, 2022 10:17 PM (eoQWY)
I still don't know who they are. Only Rosencranz I know is that Union general who lost at Chickamauga. Piker. (Yes, I know it's spelled differently.)
We got to watch the accompanying movies for all those plays, which was neat, except for Romeo & Juliet, because it was the Leo DiCaprio version. Which....yeah.
Posted by: Dr. T at May 20, 2022 10:20 PM (tp+tP)
I'd say the next pic makes the point that whether you have a big penis or a small penis or no penis at all, it's better to have a gun than not.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 20, 2022 10:20 PM (i0wNm)
I own a 2003 Toyota Corolla; looks and runs great. Only 130k on it so far.
Posted by: JM in Florida at May 20, 2022 10:21 PM (L7jyl)
Are puns allowed on the ONT?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 20, 2022 10:19 PM (14ukD)
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You must be new here...
Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Believing in America at May 20, 2022 10:21 PM (xT18z)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 20, 2022 10:22 PM (ybIRR)
Posted by: Zettai
laughs in *iron sights* for everything i have, except the $60 pellet rifle that came with a cheap scope.
Posted by: BifBewalski @ (UgAdJ) - at May 20, 2022 10:22 PM (UgAdJ)
Bryan Bowers does a great song called “Rufus and Beverly” about that.
https://youtu.be/cPrBjvpKfCA
“ever so slightly confused”
If you ever heard “The Scotsman” on Dr. Demento, that was almost certainly Bryan Bowers.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 20, 2022 10:22 PM (U+Oxn)
Posted by: Dr. T at May 20, 2022 10:13 PM (tp+tP)
9th: Julius Caesar
10th: Romeo and Juliet- the year the movie came out!
11th: Macbeth - saw a version where Oswald, Sirhan Sirhan and the man who killed King followed Macbeth around during parts of the play. It was the late '60s...
12: Hamlet
Posted by: sal at May 20, 2022 10:22 PM (bJKUl)
Posted by: Previous Thread at May 20, 2022 10:22 PM (NTUk0)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 20, 2022 10:22 PM (EZebt)
Posted by: Tonypete at May 20, 2022 10:22 PM (Msys3)
Posted by: BifBewalski @ (UgAdJ) - at May 20, 2022 10:23 PM (UgAdJ)
Posted by: Dr. T at May 20, 2022 10:15 PM (tp+tP)
I thought Gwyneth Paltrow's head in a box was funnier.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 20, 2022 10:23 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 20, 2022 10:23 PM (14ukD)
She had on a mask, but it was below her nose and looked like it could fail off at any moment.
She had one hand on the handlebars and the other on her phone where she was...doing text to speech I think? With the limited control she was wobbling back and forth in the area of the sidewalk looking like she might spill out into the road at any moment.
So obviously we are teaching the children well here, because irrespective of the mask, you can't die from covid if you drive your bike in front of a car doing 40MPH...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 20, 2022 10:23 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 20, 2022 10:23 PM (/crfU)
Suburbans are hella durable. And comfortable, too. There is a reason they are so popular.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 20, 2022 10:24 PM (Q2uxR)
11th: Macbeth - saw a version where Oswald, Sirhan Sirhan and the man who killed King followed Macbeth around during parts of the play. It was the late '60s...
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Posted by: sal at May 20, 2022 10:22 PM (bJKUl)
OK then.
***steps away from sal***
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at May 20, 2022 10:24 PM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: Crabby Appleton at May 20, 2022 10:24 PM (MdcDq)
I understood the part about the people being executed but I didn't realize the connection with the first picture.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 20, 2022 10:24 PM (d37DA)
I have a gun for poking holes in things. The pickup truck is to compensate for penis size.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at May 20, 2022 10:25 PM (vvLKM)
Are puns allowed on the ONT?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 20, 2022 10:19 PM (14ukD)
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You must be new here...
Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Believing in America -
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Ewe must be gnu here.
Posted by: Previous Thread at May 20, 2022 10:25 PM (NTUk0)
Posted by: Muldoon at May 20, 2022 10:25 PM (kXYt5)
10th: Romeo and Juliet- the year the movie came out!
11th: Macbeth - saw a version where Oswald, Sirhan Sirhan and the man who killed King followed Macbeth around during parts of the play. It was the late '60s...
12: Hamlet
Posted by: sal at May 20, 2022 10:22 PM (bJKUl)
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9th - Romeo and Juliet
10th - Julius Caesar
11th - No Shakespeare (it was American lit)
12th - Hamlet
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 20, 2022 10:25 PM (K5n5d)
Liberal women tell themselves that men want guns because they are compensating for being "inadequate".
It's a form of sexism. It's a part of their "men are all stupid and useless" view. They just don't like men.
Makes you wonder what kind of losers they had for fathers.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 20, 2022 10:19 PM (+lVUW)
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"Absent losers" would be a pretty safe bet in most cases. One more wonderful side effect of the destruction of the nuclear family.
Posted by: Pennsyltucky at May 20, 2022 10:25 PM (lNHqD)
Yet many of them want to go home with Chad "Look at my Gunrack Sugar Tits" McRedneck don't they?
Honestly it is more leftist men I hear calling guns/expensive cars "compensating" then leftist women...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 20, 2022 10:25 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
And then the murders started.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 20, 2022 10:22 PM (Msys3)
Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man...
Posted by: zombie Mercutio at May 20, 2022 10:26 PM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: Weirddave at May 20, 2022 10:26 PM (Ovlks)
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 20, 2022 10:26 PM (q3gwH)
Posted by: Buzzion at May 20, 2022 10:26 PM (5mxfD)
Posted by: irright at May 20, 2022 10:26 PM (NTUk0)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 20, 2022 10:23 PM (ESjRY)
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If she tests positive post mortem, it still counts as a COVID death.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 20, 2022 10:27 PM (K5n5d)
Yeah, I've had a few docking mishaps...but its all fun and games as long as you bring enough lube right?
Posted by: Barack Obama at May 20, 2022 10:27 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Previous Thread at May 20, 2022 10:25 PM (NTUk0)
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*SNORT*
Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Believing in America at May 20, 2022 10:27 PM (xT18z)
The longer this silence lasts the more I'm convinced it was from the pro abortion camp.
Posted by: Daisy Cutter at May 20, 2022 10:27 PM (nFUmW)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 20, 2022 10:28 PM (d37DA)
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Wheaton Plaza in Maryland. Hit the movie theater and then Farrell's. Mom would give us $20 for 3 of us and expect change.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 20, 2022 10:28 PM (BFigT)
Posted by: Diogenes at May 20, 2022 10:28 PM (anj39)
Posted by: Dr. T at May 20, 2022 10:13 PM (tp+tP)
Been a while, let me think...
Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, MacBeth, The Tempest. Other classes read Julius Caesar, Troilus and Cressida(?).
I also remember Red Badge of Courage, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, The Scarlet Letter, various Poe Stories, Madame Bovary, Moby Dick, Of Mice and Men, Our Town (and that other one by Thurber, about the world being at sixes and sevens). A few more are lost to my memory at the moment.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 20, 2022 10:28 PM (lF/Mh)
The handle toward my hand? "
- Hamlet stabby stabby
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 20, 2022 10:23 PM (/crfU)
I always hear that in Robin William's John Wayne voice.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 20, 2022 10:28 PM (0fVbu)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at May 20, 2022 10:28 PM (+StuL)
I had a New York strip steak and a few sauted morel mushrooms. The morel mushrooms were $69 per pound. So, I picked out a small handful of them and watched to see what they cost when they were rung up. $4.90. Not bad for a rare treat.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 20, 2022 10:28 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: Diogenes at May 20, 2022 10:29 PM (anj39)
Posted by: sal at May 20, 2022 10:29 PM (bJKUl)
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Posted by: sal at May 20, 2022 10:22 PM (bJKUl)
The movie version we got was pretty conventional, all things considered. But all anyone remembered was at the end, MacDuff kills Macbeth (spoiler alert) by cutting off his head, and Macbeth's body clearly reaches up in surprise for it a second later.
Us high schoolers found it very entertaining.
Posted by: Dr. T at May 20, 2022 10:29 PM (tp+tP)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 20, 2022 10:29 PM (14ukD)
They also respond to any criticism of any major crime/terror event by arguing even thinking the government would do something like that should get someone cancelled.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 20, 2022 10:29 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 20, 2022 10:30 PM (lgeFv)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 20, 2022 10:30 PM (U+Oxn)
Posted by: Rex B at May 20, 2022 10:30 PM (dV80I)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 20, 2022 10:30 PM (lF/Mh)
Its pretty funny and then at one point the hottest woman in the cast walks on stage in her lingerie.
Well worth the price of admission even when you are making minimum wage...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 20, 2022 10:30 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: JM in Florida at May 20, 2022 10:30 PM (L7jyl)
Posted by: Crabby Appleton at May 20, 2022 10:24 PM (MdcDq)
At the rate you are using it up, it should still be good to go in 2074.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 20, 2022 10:30 PM (Q2uxR)
**looks at cardboard membership**
Well. Damn.
Posted by: Diogenes
must. be. nice.
&&&&& i only have & privledges.
Posted by: BifBewalski @ (UgAdJ) - at May 20, 2022 10:30 PM (UgAdJ)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 20, 2022 10:31 PM (Xrfse)
— Bertie Wooster
Oh please you wouldn't recognize a pun if an otter stuck one where the sun doesn't shine.
Posted by: Blackadder at May 20, 2022 10:31 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 20, 2022 10:31 PM (lF/Mh)
Posted by: Muldoon at May 20, 2022 10:31 PM (kXYt5)
Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, MacBeth, The Tempest. Other classes read Julius Caesar, Troilus and Cressida(?).
I also remember Red Badge of Courage, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, The Scarlet Letter, various Poe Stories, Madame Bovary, Moby Dick, Of Mice and Men, Our Town (and that other one by Thurber, about the world being at sixes and sevens). A few more are lost to my memory at the moment.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 20, 2022 10:28 PM (lF/Mh)
***taps foot***
I DON'T SEE ANY HEMINGWAY THERE YOUNG MAN!!!
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at May 20, 2022 10:31 PM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: Crabby Appleton
I wondered where you got to.
Posted by: Tom Terrific at May 20, 2022 10:32 PM (Msys3)
Posted by: banana Dream at May 20, 2022 10:32 PM (0fVbu)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 20, 2022 10:30 PM (U+Oxn)
Skank works just fine.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 20, 2022 10:32 PM (j8qW4)
Anime you say?
Posted by: Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino at May 20, 2022 10:32 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: MammaB at May 20, 2022 10:33 PM (YTmnM)
Posted by: sal at May 20, 2022 10:29 PM (bJKUl)
Ahhh, then it was the drugs...
#carryon
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at May 20, 2022 10:33 PM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: Kendi Whatshisname at May 20, 2022 10:34 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 20, 2022 10:28 PM (lF/Mh)
I was the only one in my class who actually liked The Great Gatsby. I don't remember why I liked it; unless it was that, being already a history nerd, I appreciated it as a commentary on the Jazz Age. Whatevs.
Posted by: Dr. T at May 20, 2022 10:34 PM (tp+tP)
I got the point of both...but it just seemed the author in both cases didn't see the need to include an interesting story to make his point...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 20, 2022 10:35 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: JM in Florida at May 20, 2022 10:35 PM (L7jyl)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 20, 2022 10:35 PM (/crfU)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 20, 2022 10:28 PM (BFigT)
Largo area. Landover Mall, now since plowed under.
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 20, 2022 10:35 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at May 20, 2022 10:31 PM (BgMrQ)
Oh, fuck.
Yeah.
Old Man and the Sea.
That short story about the women contemplating having an abortion.
And the Snows of Kilimanjaro (or is that the same as the one before?
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 20, 2022 10:36 PM (lF/Mh)
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 20, 2022 10:36 PM (q3gwH)
Posted by: Confucius at May 20, 2022 10:36 PM (kXyXi)
I DON'T SEE ANY HEMINGWAY THERE YOUNG MAN!!!
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at May 20, 2022 10:31 PM (BgMrQ)
Hemingway? Oh, isn't he that overrated drunk with all the cats?
Posted by: Dr. T at May 20, 2022 10:37 PM (tp+tP)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 20, 2022 10:37 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 20, 2022 10:37 PM (IEa8U)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at May 20, 2022 10:37 PM (kXyXi)
Posted by: blaster at May 20, 2022 10:37 PM (wBcdF)
Learned some weird slang today. Seems kids today call the girl who always gives out a “library” and venereal disease is “King Lear”.
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Sadly, the drip of my pen recalls loves that are past, and those left unwritten.
Posted by: teh bardman at May 20, 2022 10:38 PM (NTUk0)
Posted by: Some Monkey at May 20, 2022 10:38 PM (ESjRY)
A. Because it was the Age of DinahShores.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 20, 2022 10:38 PM (14ukD)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at May 20, 2022 10:38 PM (sjtZ7)
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 20, 2022 10:39 PM (q3gwH)
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day!"
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 20, 2022 10:18 PM (q3gwH)
Ditto.
The first Shakespeare I memorized.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 20, 2022 10:39 PM (anj39)
Posted by: Kendi Whatshisname at May 20, 2022 10:34 PM (ESjRY)
That's OK. Practically nothing written by professed muslims is worth reading, and often, the few exceptions are by folks that would not have been muslims except their countries got conquered by them.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 20, 2022 10:39 PM (Q2uxR)
Posted by: blaster at May 20, 2022 10:40 PM (wBcdF)
The longer this silence lasts the more I'm convinced it was from the pro abortion camp.
Posted by: Daisy Cutter at May 20, 2022 10:27 PM (nFUmW)
The fact that Roberts called off the fbi investigation is the only proof needed.
Posted by: Buzzion at May 20, 2022 10:40 PM (5mxfD)
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 20, 2022 10:40 PM (ZsR3z)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 20, 2022 10:25 PM (ESjRY)
Hah. I once went out on a date with a guy like that. We sat in a bar and he made comments about the other men. This was in a city where a lot of the guys were into hunting. It just made him look pathetic.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 20, 2022 10:40 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: blaster at May 20, 2022 10:37 PM (wBcdF)
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After the Great War you could see assless chaps walking down any major thoroughfare. Bloody hell, the blokes were heroes.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 20, 2022 10:40 PM (XG2Fi)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at May 20, 2022 10:38 PM (sjtZ7)
This is exactly why I pay as little attention to history standards as possible.
Posted by: Dr. T at May 20, 2022 10:40 PM (tp+tP)
Posted by: blaster at May 20, 2022 10:37 PM (wBcdF)
* * * *
Morons and their assless chaps...
Yeah, but anyone go for 8 seconds yet?
Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Believing in America at May 20, 2022 10:41 PM (xT18z)
Did not like.*
Let me see- Of Mice and Men, a lot of Conrad, The Sun Also Rises, Moby Dick, Animal Farm, 1984, Lord of the Flies. Plus a lot of poetry and short stories.
*Useless trivia: the inaugural cover of People magazine in 1974 was Mia Farrow as Daisy Buchanan.
Posted by: sal at May 20, 2022 10:41 PM (bJKUl)
Posted by: blaster at May 20, 2022 10:41 PM (wBcdF)
Posted by: random Hungarian at May 20, 2022 10:41 PM (b0ajG)
Posted by: Dr. T at May 20, 2022 10:37 PM (tp+tP)
Well that, but he was number one...with a bullet.
#toosoon
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at May 20, 2022 10:41 PM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 20, 2022 10:28 PM (BFigT)
Largo area. Landover Mall, now since plowed under.
Golden Ring Mall in suburban Baltimore. Always loved when someone ordered the big bowl of ice cream, as they'd sound a siren and two people would run around the restaurant carrying it in a stretcher before delivering it to the table.
Posted by: Weirddave at May 20, 2022 10:41 PM (Ovlks)
I generally liked my English class, but I could have done without the unit on Latin American literature junior year. While I did actually like Pedro Paramo and Like Water for Chocolate, those two combined with the horrifying One Hundred Years of Solitude still left me with a strong desire to never have anything to do with Latin American culture ever again. I don't think that's what the teacher was going for. (When I expressed my opinion, she said I just didn't understand symbolism. I said I didn't want to be the kind of person who reads a detailed account of an aunt molesting her nephew or a 9yo girl eagerly awaiting her first period so she can marry a 35yo man or a man repeatedly fucking goats, etc., etc., and says, "Oh, what lovely symbolism!")
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at May 20, 2022 10:41 PM (8548M)
Dumb specifically but dumb move on an early date.
At least he didn't talk about exes though too...or did he?
Posted by: 18-1 at May 20, 2022 10:42 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Dr. T at May 20, 2022 10:43 PM (tp+tP)
I liked Junior year, when my teacher taught Poe's "Lionizing", a short story about society, and a dude's penis.
He was our Drama director, and told me and a few friends that he always got a kick when the girls realized the poem was about the penis. LOL
I was fortunate to have great English teachers.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 20, 2022 10:43 PM (lF/Mh)
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 20, 2022 10:43 PM (q3gwH)
Did he want to date them?
Posted by: Archimedes at May 20, 2022 10:43 PM (ZsR3z)
A. Because it was the Age of DinahShores.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 20, 2022 10:38 PM (14ukD)
BOOO!!!
Boo that man...
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at May 20, 2022 10:43 PM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 20, 2022 10:43 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 20, 2022 10:43 PM (ESjRY)
&&&&& i only have & privledges.
Posted by: BifBewalski @ (UgAdJ) - at May 20, 2022 10:30 PM (UgAdJ)
I think Donna will want to have a word with you.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 20, 2022 10:44 PM (anj39)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 20, 2022 10:44 PM (14ukD)
There were three thousand six hundred and fifty-three days like that in his stretch, from the first clang of the rail to the last clang of the rail.
Three thousand six hundred and fifty-three days.
The three extra days were for leap years.
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at May 20, 2022 10:44 PM (8548M)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 20, 2022 10:44 PM (j8qW4)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at May 20, 2022 10:45 PM (sjtZ7)
Helps when you are trying to tan certain spots.
Posted by: Tucker "Red Bean Bag" Carlson at May 20, 2022 10:45 PM (ESjRY)
(When I expressed my opinion, she said I just didn't understand symbolism. I said I didn't want to be the kind of person who reads a detailed account of an aunt molesting her nephew or a 9yo girl eagerly awaiting her first period so she can marry a 35yo man or a man repeatedly fucking goats, etc., etc., and says, "Oh, what lovely symbolism!")
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at May 20, 2022 10:41 PM -
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She was grooming you. Much of modern literature is exactly that.
Posted by: irright at May 20, 2022 10:45 PM (NTUk0)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 20, 2022 10:44 PM (j8qW4)
Breath Jack...deep breaths...they still get to go back to the Garden...seven games and all that.
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at May 20, 2022 10:46 PM (BgMrQ)
All chaps are assless. If they are not assless, they are called pants.
Posted by: Weirddave at May 20, 2022 10:47 PM (Ovlks)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 20, 2022 10:30 PM (ESjRY)
I saw that in a summer stock theater with Pat Paulson. Hilarious. By the third act people were just laughing straight through.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 20, 2022 10:47 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at May 20, 2022 10:41 PM (8548M)
Did you ever read any works by Ruben Dario? He is the "national poet" of Nicaragua. I don't know anything about him, but he has a statue and a traffic circle in Managua.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 20, 2022 10:47 PM (Q2uxR)
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at May 20, 2022 10:41 PM (8548M)
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As they say, sometimes a man fucking a goat is just a man who likes to fuck goats. No symbolism required. That's pretty jacked up, though.
Was the 9yo girl named Aisha by chance? Was she marrying a guy named Big Mo'?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 20, 2022 10:47 PM (K5n5d)
Posted by: Buzzion at May 20, 2022 10:40 PM (5mxfD)
I didn't even know an FBI investigation was started.
Posted by: LASue, Thought Leader at May 20, 2022 10:47 PM (Ed8Zd)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 20, 2022 10:47 PM (m0zqP)
Posted by: randomklos Hungarianklos at May 20, 2022 10:47 PM (b0ajG)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 20, 2022 10:44 PM (14ukD)
It's what the day walkers wear, and proudly too I must say.
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at May 20, 2022 10:47 PM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: Methos at May 20, 2022 10:13 PM (kOpft)
Definitely Jesus, but it didn't look like the "generic" version to me.
Posted by: LASue, Thought Leader at May 20, 2022 10:48 PM (Ed8Zd)
Dickens: Great Expectations
Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises
Yeah, Animal Farm and 1984.
Lord of the Flies freshman year.
Billy Budd, and Conrad's Heart of Darkness
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 20, 2022 10:48 PM (lF/Mh)
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 20, 2022 10:43 PM (q3gwH)
I try to do that in my own history classes, mixing in a lot of anecdotes with the names and dates and tying lectures together. That aspect of the classes usually gets positive feedback.
Sometimes I think about writing history books based on those lectures. I think they *could* work, but I don't know if I would get the style right.
Posted by: Dr. T at May 20, 2022 10:49 PM (tp+tP)
Posted by: irright at May 20, 2022 10:45 PM
Indeed...
Posted by: Zettai at May 20, 2022 10:49 PM (vqVEJ)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at May 20, 2022 10:49 PM (YynYJ)
Posted by: Dr. Weevil at May 20, 2022 10:49 PM (p4OLv)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 20, 2022 10:49 PM (cjvuO)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 20, 2022 10:43 PM (ESjRY)
Gilgamesh is what gill nets are made from.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 20, 2022 10:50 PM (Q2uxR)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at May 20, 2022 10:50 PM (YynYJ)
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at May 20, 2022 10:50 PM (8548M)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 20, 2022 10:50 PM (ZSK0i)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 20, 2022 10:47 PM
Have you tried biting and scratching back??
Posted by: Zettai at May 20, 2022 10:50 PM (vqVEJ)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 20, 2022 10:50 PM (14ukD)
Dickens: Great Expectations
Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises
Yeah, Animal Farm and 1984.
Lord of the Flies freshman year.
Billy Budd, and Conrad's Heart of Darkness
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 20, 2022 10:48 PM (lF/Mh)
Yes to all your lists, but add Bartleby the Scrivener
Some folks don't like James Fenimore Cooper; I don't like Melville
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at May 20, 2022 10:50 PM (BgMrQ)
Summertime!
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at May 20, 2022 10:50 PM (LOVUx)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 20, 2022 10:49 PM (cjvuO)
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Cadillac Cimarrons are still coveted as military transport vehicles in certain African countries.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 20, 2022 10:51 PM (XG2Fi)
Posted by: blaster at May 20, 2022 10:51 PM (wBcdF)
Posted by: banana Dream at May 20, 2022 10:51 PM (0fVbu)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
I thought it was how Gilga transmissions worked.
Posted by: davidt at May 20, 2022 10:51 PM (f5Veu)
Lesson learned.
Posted by: Ugh at May 20, 2022 10:51 PM (o0I+B)
Posted by: Dr. Weevil at May 20, 2022 10:49 PM (p4OLv)
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Well we aren't eating each other in the streets (yet), so I guess that's something to celebrate...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 20, 2022 10:52 PM (K5n5d)
Posted by: irright at May 20, 2022 10:45 PM
Indeed...
Posted by: Zettai
pics
rules
Posted by: Miklos the Stickler at May 20, 2022 10:52 PM (b0ajG)
The book that grew me up, was written by Rudi Vbra, "I Cannot Forgive". One of very few men to escape from Auschwitz.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 20, 2022 10:52 PM (anj39)
Posted by: Dr. Weevil at May 20, 2022 10:49 PM (p4OLv)
You are assuming Capt. Aneurysm is going the distance.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at May 20, 2022 10:52 PM (LOVUx)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 20, 2022 10:49 PM (cjvuO)
Made before the Obama era? Certainly.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 20, 2022 10:52 PM (Q2uxR)
Posted by: Mr Gaga at May 20, 2022 10:52 PM (KiBMU)
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at May 20, 2022 10:41 PM (8548M)
Do you read (or recommend) an annotated version?(for a newbie)
Posted by: JM in Florida at May 20, 2022 10:52 PM (L7jyl)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 20, 2022 10:52 PM (K5n5d)
Well everyone but Cannibal Bob...
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at May 20, 2022 10:53 PM (BgMrQ)
And now over to Suzy for the weather.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 20, 2022 10:53 PM (lgeFv)
Posted by: Zettai at May 20, 2022 10:53 PM (vqVEJ)
I wonder if you enjoyed "Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are dead". I enjoyed it a great deal, it's almost a literal deconstruction of Hamlet, but you have to know the original Hamlet quite well to recognize all the games they're playing with the script. A little too obscure for most people, I think.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 20, 2022 10:54 PM (q3gwH)
Grimm's Fairy Tales (Kinder - und Hausmärchen) in third year German. They are even worse when read in their original language.
Posted by: Tom Terrific at May 20, 2022 10:54 PM (Msys3)
Posted by: a dude in MI at May 20, 2022 10:54 PM (+I6Y/)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 20, 2022 10:54 PM (ZSK0i)
Posted by: Additional Blond
Got rid of, you say
Now how might that happen
Posted by: Clint "Miklos" Eastwood at May 20, 2022 10:55 PM (b0ajG)
Posted by: JM in Florida
Issac Asimov's ...
Posted by: Adriane the Practical Critic ... at May 20, 2022 10:55 PM (okV1R)
Overall, I'm glad I did the IB diploma. I think it was valuable, and I benefited from those courses. But I would have liked it a lot better without One Hundred Years of Solitude.
(The IB diploma was also the relatively hardest of my degrees to earn. Obviously, the masters in electrical engineering required much higher-level material, but the commitment and dedication required to get the IB diploma as a high school junior and senior was greater than the commitment and focus needed to get my master's as a mid- to late twenties adult.)
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at May 20, 2022 10:55 PM (8548M)
Melville is my favorite author, and Cooper isn't far behind, but you're right, many people don't like either.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 20, 2022 10:55 PM (ZsR3z)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at May 20, 2022 10:55 PM (YynYJ)
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 20, 2022 10:54 PM (q3gwH)
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That is a brilliant movie. Tim Roth and Gary Oldman are just pure fun to watch...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 20, 2022 10:55 PM (K5n5d)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 20, 2022 10:55 PM (j8qW4)
Now how might that happen
Posted by: Clint "Miklos" Eastwood at May 20, 2022 10:55 PM (b0ajG)
Something, something, pink slips, money.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 20, 2022 10:55 PM (ZSK0i)
Posted by: blaster at May 20, 2022 10:55 PM (wBcdF)
Posted by: sal at May 20, 2022 10:55 PM (bJKUl)
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at May 20, 2022 10:50 PM (BgMrQ)
Cooper was Last of the Mohicans, right?
I think I read that, too, but I am feeling queasy thinking about it, because it bored the crap out of me. Which fired some synapses about Cotton Mather.
I liked Moby Dick - my teacher was great. Queeqeg (the most moral, if not Christian, of all of them) jumping into bed with Ishmael near the beginning was hilarious.
Calgary scored again.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 20, 2022 10:56 PM (lF/Mh)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 20, 2022 10:56 PM (14ukD)
Well. Damn.
Posted by: Diogenes
must. be. nice.
&&&&& i only have & privledges.
Posted by: BifBewalski @ (UgAdJ) - at May 20, 2022 10:30 PM
Luxury! I only qualified for the used tissue membership.
Also, I've owned 3 GMC SUVs. Pieces of shit, every single one.
Posted by: Beartooth at May 20, 2022 10:56 PM (NQrvS)
Posted by: blaster at May 20, 2022 10:56 PM (wBcdF)
Posted by: browndog
I would prefer not to.
Posted by: Tom Terrific at May 20, 2022 10:56 PM (Msys3)
{...}
Posted by: Tom Servo
Richard Dreyfuss (sp??)
Posted by: Adriane the Practical Critic ... at May 20, 2022 10:56 PM (okV1R)
Posted by: Tom Terrific at May 20, 2022 10:54 PM (Msys3)
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Yep. I read a few of those in my college German classes. Quite disturbing.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 20, 2022 10:56 PM (K5n5d)
6 cyl. 8 foot bed.
Posted by: CapeFear at May 20, 2022 10:56 PM (4PDMt)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 20, 2022 10:57 PM (ZSK0i)
Cadillac Cimarrons are still coveted as military transport vehicles in certain African countries.
Posted by: Cicero
80's era Toyota vans are the overwhelming 3rd world choice of transportation. They will seat 14 people, 3 goats and a couple dozen chickens. Had several of them when the kids were little. Very dependable with the exception of the brain box. $10 at the local Pull-n-Save and 5 minutes to swap it out. I found one of my spares in a tool shed the other day.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at May 20, 2022 10:57 PM (+StuL)
Posted by: Bill-Miklos-Murray at May 20, 2022 10:57 PM (b0ajG)
And honestly, I don't want to fight him. I don't want to punish him or anything like that.
I mean, I guess I should have told the shelter that I'm an artificial creature made entirely of cheese, bacon, catnip and tiny defenseless animal parts. But there wasn't space on the application.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 20, 2022 10:57 PM (m0zqP)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 20, 2022 10:56 PM (14ukD)
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I prefer Terry Pratchett's Discworld version, Wyrd Sisters.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 20, 2022 10:57 PM (K5n5d)
Posted by: Tonypete at May 20, 2022 10:57 PM (Msys3)
That is a brilliant movie. Tim Roth and Gary Oldman are just pure fun to watch...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 20, 2022 10:55 PM -
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Really couldn't have cast better.
Posted by: irright at May 20, 2022 10:58 PM (NTUk0)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 20, 2022 10:58 PM (lgeFv)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 20, 2022 10:57 PM (ZSK0i)
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"Algal mat"
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 20, 2022 10:58 PM (XG2Fi)
Posted by: Rep Dan Crenshaw at May 20, 2022 10:58 PM (kXyXi)
I loved their confused reactions throughout the whole movie
Posted by: 18-1 at May 20, 2022 10:58 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at May 20, 2022 10:59 PM (8548M)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent
Here, have mine
Worth more than Bidens
Posted by: E-Musk at May 20, 2022 10:59 PM (b0ajG)
Maybe a small spray water bottle to discourage certain behaviors ...
Posted by: Adriane the Practical Critic ... at May 20, 2022 10:59 PM (okV1R)
Posted by: Sen. Blutarsky at May 20, 2022 11:00 PM (b0ajG)
Posted by: davidt at May 20, 2022 11:00 PM (f5Veu)
I thought I'd phrased it so that it didn't assume that Biden would last all four years, but I see that my phrasing didn't really do that. Oh well. Biden + probably at least one more and maybe two others' term of office.
Posted by: Dr. Weevil at May 20, 2022 11:01 PM (p4OLv)
Bartleby the Scrivener
The Old Man and the Sea
Courage Under Fire: Testing Epictetus's Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behaviora
All Quiet on the Western Front
No particular order.
Posted by: Ugh at May 20, 2022 11:01 PM (o0I+B)
Posted by: Adriane the Practical Critic ... at May 20, 2022 10:56 PM (okV1R)
Yes, and his character is quite interesting - sometimes a character, sometimes a narrator, sometimes outside the flow of time that the other characters are experiencing.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 20, 2022 11:01 PM (q3gwH)
Posted by: JM in Florida at May 20, 2022 11:02 PM (L7jyl)
Did he want to date them?
Posted by: Archimedes at May 20, 2022 10:43 PM (ZsR3z)
Hm. Methinks he doth protest too much.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 20, 2022 11:02 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 20, 2022 11:02 PM (hHFDS)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at May 20, 2022 11:02 PM (sjtZ7)
Posted by: Ugh at May 20, 2022 11:03 PM (o0I+B)
Posted by: blaster at May 20, 2022 11:03 PM (wBcdF)
Posted by: do.not.ask at May 20, 2022 11:03 PM (b0ajG)
Posted by: irright at May 20, 2022 11:03 PM (NTUk0)
Posted by: tcn
It was 34 on my porch this morning which is an improvement from the prior week. It almost hit 60 here this afternoon. I think you have some of my summer. I want it back.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at May 20, 2022 11:04 PM (+StuL)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 20, 2022 11:04 PM (hHFDS)
Posted by: *hic* at May 20, 2022 11:04 PM (b0ajG)
Kipling was a better rhymed poet than either of them.Dickens, at his best, was the best prose writer in English.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 20, 2022 11:04 PM (14ukD)
From Mabel Galore
Posted by: do.not.ask at May 20, 2022 11:03 PM
Posted by: Zettai at May 20, 2022 11:05 PM (vqVEJ)
Posted by: blaster at May 20, 2022 11:05 PM (wBcdF)
6 cyl. 8 foot bed.
Posted by: CapeFear at May 20, 2022 10:56 PM (4PDMt)
I canceled the license and insurance on the little Dodge Dakota 4-banger. It ran fine, and got 25 miles to the (Imperial) gallon on a road trip, but it's just too uncomfortable to put up with. Re-licensed and re-insured the '88 Chevy plain-Jane 3/4 ton pickup. It has the 305 engine, automatic, and no frills at all. Smooth, quiet, lots of power, and it's as roomy as a standard cab can get. It was a park warden truck at Waterton Lakes National Park (adjacent to Glacier National Park) when I bought it for 600 dollars in a sealed-bid online auction. It has been a total sweetheart, and i would drive it anywhere.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 20, 2022 11:05 PM (Q2uxR)
Better than the movie, and that's saying something.
Posted by: JM in Florida at May 20, 2022 11:06 PM (L7jyl)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 20, 2022 11:06 PM (VwHCD)
Better than the movie, and that's saying something.
Posted by: JM in Florida at May 20, 2022 11:06 PM (L7jyl)
Concur.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 20, 2022 11:07 PM (anj39)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at May 20, 2022 11:08 PM (YynYJ)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 20, 2022 10:57 PM (ZSK0i)
Mine's bellybutton lint.
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 20, 2022 11:08 PM (4I/2K)
Or never piloted a Vespa.
Posted by: Lurker von Lurkerstien at May 20, 2022 11:08 PM (b0ajG)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 20, 2022 11:09 PM (UuD2k)
Posted by: JM in Florida at May 20, 2022 11:09 PM (L7jyl)
Hamlet's a little gay. Macbeth, FTW.
Posted by: Ugh -
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No. Hamlet is a little town. Leslie Jordan is a little gay.
Posted by: irright at May 20, 2022 11:09 PM (NTUk0)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
Indeed. After Coriolanus, it's my favorite Shakespeare movie. Henry V with Kenneth Branagh is a close third.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at May 20, 2022 11:09 PM (+StuL)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 20, 2022 11:09 PM (UuD2k)
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It's miscegenation.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 20, 2022 11:09 PM (XG2Fi)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 20, 2022 11:09 PM (m0zqP)
Yes, Cooper is Last of the Mohicans.
And Deerslayer, The Pathfinder,The Prarie...all part of the Leatherstocking Tales
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at May 20, 2022 11:10 PM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at May 20, 2022 11:02 PM (sjtZ7)
You remind me that I learned about Cathedral building and "The Anarchy" from Ken Follett.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 20, 2022 11:10 PM (q3gwH)
Thomas Costain's Plantagenets books bring brio to dull history. I have them in my permeant book collection. Such fun to read.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at May 20, 2022 11:10 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 20, 2022 11:04 PM (14ukD)
Re-reading "Puck of Pook's Hill" and I have to agree.
I used to type out poetry to tape to the kitchen window to memorize while I washed dishes - keep the mind sharp when the babies were little.
'When I consider how my light is spent,
'Ere half my days in this dark world and wide..."
Posted by: sal at May 20, 2022 11:10 PM (bJKUl)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 20, 2022 11:10 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: blaster at May 20, 2022 11:10 PM (wBcdF)
Only other Shakespeare plays I can recall seeing were Merchant of Venice, at the Folger in DC (Kelly McGillis - unfortunately she didn't come out and talk to us ....), and another one - Much Ado About Nothing? - at the Arena Stage in DC, which was done with modern set/props/clothing, but as I recall worked really well anyway.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 20, 2022 11:11 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 20, 2022 11:11 PM (UuD2k)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 20, 2022 11:11 PM (lgeFv)
Posted by: JM in Florida at May 20, 2022 11:09 PM (L7jyl)
The upside is she would probably spend most of her time under the resolute desk instead of sitting at it where she could do more damage.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 20, 2022 11:11 PM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Ugh at May 20, 2022 11:11 PM (o0I+B)
Posted by: blaster at May 20, 2022 11:12 PM (wBcdF)
Toe Fungus level, but with an Oregon Muse approved ampersands endorsement. Woohoo & Hubba hubba.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at May 20, 2022 11:12 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at May 20, 2022 11:12 PM (YynYJ)
Posted by: davidt at May 20, 2022 11:00 PM (f5Veu)
Most of mine are, or have been. The '88 Suburban (not currently on road, but it's 6.2 Diesel runs) is badly rusted, but those "square-body GM's all rusted badly. The '96 1500 is rusty, but not terribly bad, quite fixable. It's currently not licensed, but is roadworthy. The '96 Diesel, which I bought out of Portland, OR, in 2006, is not rusty, despite having done a few winters of oilpatch duty. The '99 1500 was bought in Arizona, and is completely rust-free; you could eat off the chassis. The '08 is not rusted through, but has a few spots showing. It and the '99 are currently-used and licensed.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 20, 2022 11:12 PM (Q2uxR)
Posted by: Count de Monet
That...that could be money
Maschinen von Vendings even in popular airports, train stations and bierkneipen of a Certain Sort
Posted by: Weird-ass Germans vs Weird-ass Japs at May 20, 2022 11:13 PM (b0ajG)
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I saw The Tempest there in the early 80s. I was sitting right behind John Houseman.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 20, 2022 11:13 PM (XG2Fi)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 20, 2022 11:04 PM (14ukD)
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I am not a great student of poetry, but I was amazed at all the rhyming that Poe put into "The Raven".
Posted by: JM in Florida at May 20, 2022 11:13 PM (L7jyl)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 20, 2022 11:13 PM (j8qW4)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 20, 2022 11:10 PM (63Dwl)
That was a godawful version of Hamlet - sometimes the main characters head are cut in half by the edge of the screen because they didn't bother to hire a cameraman who knew how to operate the thing.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 20, 2022 11:13 PM (q3gwH)
More hugs. Like you posting more.
* Respectful tip of the hat to your XO. *
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at May 20, 2022 11:13 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 20, 2022 11:13 PM (a4EWo)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at May 20, 2022 11:13 PM (sjtZ7)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 20, 2022 11:14 PM (UuD2k)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at May 20, 2022 11:08 PM (YynYJ)
Yeah, it might wash into the ocean, and pollute all that nice fresh water.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 20, 2022 11:14 PM (Q2uxR)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 20, 2022 11:09 PM (UuD2k)
They's miscegenated!
Posted by: Homer Stokes at May 20, 2022 11:15 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: JM in Florida at May 20, 2022 11:13 PM (L7jyl)
You all do know, right, that Seamus Muldoon has a book out?
Posted by: Diogenes at May 20, 2022 11:15 PM (anj39)
Posted by: J. Strom Thurmond at May 20, 2022 11:15 PM (b0ajG)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 20, 2022 10:49 PM (cjvuO)
My dad had a GMC truck that he drove for about 25 years. Then when he got too old to drive it just sat in the driveway. People would come up to the door and ask if we wanted to sell it. We ended up selling it for several hundred dollars. My brother told me I should have asked for more. Apparently the engine alone was desirable.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 20, 2022 11:15 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: JM in Florida at May 20, 2022 11:13 PM (L7jyl)
now that Poe is under the floor
you shall hear it nevermore.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 20, 2022 11:15 PM (q3gwH)
I saw The Tempest there in the early 80s. I was sitting right behind John Houseman.I
I was banging Kingsfield's daughter....
Posted by: Timothy Bottoms at May 20, 2022 11:15 PM (BgMrQ)
No way I would have gotten 5,100 for that thing on the square market. (the initial offer from insurance was 2,700... Thieves!)
Posted by: ... at May 20, 2022 11:16 PM (dscaa)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 20, 2022 11:16 PM (j8qW4)
May that cute doctor give you good news.
Prayers ascending, and at an increased rate.
Applying the good molybdenum lube on the prayer wheel bearings, and going with throttle up for the top speed.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at May 20, 2022 11:16 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 20, 2022 11:16 PM (kf6Ak)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 20, 2022 11:09 PM (UuD2k)
Pity.
My local ice cream shoppe does a great malt.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 20, 2022 11:16 PM (anj39)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 20, 2022 11:14 PM (UuD2k)
This is true! Better metal treatment, plus designs with fewer pockets to trap salt-laden mud, and plastic inner fender liners to deflect the majority of road salt and debris away from the metal surfaces.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 20, 2022 11:16 PM (Q2uxR)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 20, 2022 11:17 PM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Diogenes
True, but the lines are somewhat repetitive
Posted by: J. Strom ThurmondThere once was Miklos from Nantucket at May 20, 2022 11:17 PM (b0ajG)
Posted by: irright at May 20, 2022 11:17 PM (NTUk0)
Posted by: blaster at May 20, 2022 11:18 PM (wBcdF)
Posted by: Zettai at May 20, 2022 11:19 PM (I+QKF)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 20, 2022 11:19 PM (m0zqP)
You all do know, right, that Seamus Muldoon has a book out?
Posted by: Diogenes at May 20, 2022 11:15 PM (anj39)
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Do you know the book's title?
Posted by: JM in Florida at May 20, 2022 11:19 PM (L7jyl)
2016 wife and I stayed overnight in beautiful Waterton Lakes park, because could not find motel on Montana site. Memorable tour boat ride.
Posted by: CapeFear at May 20, 2022 11:19 PM (4PDMt)
Haw many of you danced polka at Blobs Park? That was always fun.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at May 20, 2022 11:19 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Prof. Kingsfield ( included on all resumes, 'cause HR is afraid to ask) at May 20, 2022 11:19 PM (b0ajG)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at May 20, 2022 11:04 PM (+StuL)
You can't have it. We get precious little here although it is heaven on earth. Going up to the land in Willow tomorrow, hoping the snow is gone and we can put the camper in it's eternal home.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at May 20, 2022 11:20 PM (LOVUx)
My local ice cream shoppe does a great malt.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 20, 2022 11:16 PM (anj39)
That's not mixing 2 flavors like strawberry and chocolate. I like a chocolate malt.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 20, 2022 11:20 PM (UuD2k)
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 20, 2022 11:15 PM (+lVUW)
Probably had a 4 bolt bolt main block 350, basically the engine block they used in the corvettes in those days.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 20, 2022 11:21 PM (VwHCD)
Posted by: blaster at May 20, 2022 11:21 PM (wBcdF)
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 20, 2022 10:43 PM (q3gwH)
"Rome" was/is highly entertaining, but not particularly good history. The definitive history of the Republic was written by Theodor Mommsen (five volumes, but for the Civil Wars just skip to the last two), although Goldsworthy's Caesar is also accurate, but less detailed and amusing.
I think Milius and Heller (writers for "Rome") had probably read Mommsen, but just adjusted it to make it more salacious and fun.
Posted by: HTL at May 20, 2022 11:21 PM (4ru/Z)
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at May 20, 2022 11:21 PM (LOVUx)
I am SO proud to live in the most exceptional country on the planet, populated by an extraordinary people, governed by a political system unique in history.
Throughout our history we have met and prevailed over issues even more serious than the one we're embroiled in now, with an unbroken record of success. It has become part of our heritage to continue the struggle to ensure our Republic endures.
Posted by: irongrampa at May 20, 2022 11:21 PM (KATBx)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 20, 2022 11:22 PM (lgeFv)
I was sitting right behind John Houseman.
Posted by: Cicero
Did he read the phone book?
https://youtu.be/OuxBUxTwAXI
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 20, 2022 11:22 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk
Salted Chocolate is a thing though.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 20, 2022 11:22 PM (Rz7nO)
Haw many of you danced polka at Blobs Park? That was always fun.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
I used to park in front of the Black Cube at Ft. Meade.
Spread out on the hood/windshield of my car while waiting. Tanned and ready.
No dancing, but would have
Posted by: Prof. von Miklos at May 20, 2022 11:22 PM (b0ajG)
Seamus Muldoon is the author of three books so far.
Muldoon's Library of Limericks- Volume 1
The Curious Disappearance of Seamus Muldoon
and a book on his Father's Anzio WWII diary, IIRC.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at May 20, 2022 11:23 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: irright at May 20, 2022 11:23 PM (NTUk0)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 20, 2022 11:09 PM (XG2Fi)
Neapolitan is an abomination. Disgusting. Newsletter?
Posted by: Deutscheseis GmbH at May 20, 2022 11:23 PM (o0I+B)
Posted by: JM in Florida at May 20, 2022 11:19 PM (L7jyl)
Muldoon's Library of Limericks
Posted by: Diogenes at May 20, 2022 11:24 PM (anj39)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 20, 2022 11:24 PM (j8qW4)
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at May 20, 2022 11:24 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Miklosian Bankrupt Bankers LL? at May 20, 2022 11:24 PM (b0ajG)
Posted by: Tonypete at May 20, 2022 11:25 PM (Rz7nO)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 20, 2022 11:25 PM (lF/Mh)
Posted by: blaster at May 20, 2022 11:21 PM (wBcdF)
You stole our summer! YOU BASTARDS!
Posted by: pookysgirl, shivering under a blanket at May 20, 2022 11:25 PM (XKZwp)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 20, 2022 11:25 PM (14ukD)
Posted by: HTL at May 20, 2022 11:21 PM (4ru/Z)
What makes "I Claudius" so much fun is that it was all based on Suetonius, who may have been the original Tabloid writer.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 20, 2022 11:25 PM (q3gwH)
Posted by: Prof. Kingsfield ( included on all resumes, 'cause HR is afraid to ask) at May 20, 2022 11:19 PM (b0ajG)
Professor Kingsfield...you're a son of a bitch
Posted by: James T Hart at May 20, 2022 11:26 PM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at May 20, 2022 11:26 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: yep at May 20, 2022 11:27 PM (QRsW4)
Gonna check on the video of that. Should be kept.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
Hand-me-Down Oldsmobile.
Shoud be easy
Posted by: Prof. von Miklos at May 20, 2022 11:27 PM (b0ajG)
Posted by: Schrödinger's dog at May 20, 2022 11:27 PM (0KJzG)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 20, 2022 11:27 PM (m0zqP)
Posted by: JM in Florida at May 20, 2022 11:28 PM (L7jyl)
Posted by: Petey Buttigieg at May 20, 2022 11:28 PM (NTUk0)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 20, 2022 11:10 PM (63Dwl)
Ooh, did they do the Laurence Olivier version? I'll have to keep an eye out for that.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 20, 2022 11:28 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: Outside.Forces. at May 20, 2022 11:30 PM (3Or4S)
Seattle announced once that it wouldn't use salt because they didn't want the salt polluting Puget Sound.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 20, 2022 11:30 PM (I2/tG)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 20, 2022 11:31 PM (Y5qcH)
I finally get my real glasses next week. I've been in visual hell for the past two months. I've been horribly near sighted my entire life. My ophthalmologist removed my cataracts and put in lenses that allow me to see further than six inches in front of my nose. Unfortunately, by giving me my distance back, she took away my close up vision. I haven't starched a stitch or woven a single bit of maille in damn near two months. I have reading glasses, and I hate them. It used to be that if I wanted to see close up, I took my glasses off. Now, I have to put glasses on, then take them off to see anything further than a foot out. IT'S NOT RIGHT!!! Not to mention that, of course, Medicare doesn't pay for lenses that correct for astigmatism. But I get real glasses early this week coming up.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at May 20, 2022 11:31 PM (sjtZ7)
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 20, 2022 11:25 PM (q3gwH)
Lascivious? Maybe. The times were what they were. But he went too easy on the Claudians, if you ask me.
Posted by: Tacitus at May 20, 2022 11:32 PM (o0I+B)
Posted by: blaster at May 20, 2022 11:32 PM (wBcdF)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 20, 2022 11:10 PM (63Dwl)
That was a godawful version of Hamlet - sometimes the main characters head are cut in half by the edge of the screen because they didn't bother to hire a cameraman who knew how to operate the thing.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 20, 2022 11:13 PM (q3gwH)
Which makes it perfect for MST 3K.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 20, 2022 11:32 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: Outside.Forces. at May 20, 2022 11:32 PM (3Or4S)
Posted by: Joe XiDen
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Interesting that F150 was so far down the list.
Possibly because more of them are work vehicles
whereas the others are family cruisers.
Posted by: Braenyard at May 20, 2022 11:33 PM (vW9Vw)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 20, 2022 11:34 PM (lgeFv)
You are Historians! Think, learn, understand, as Historians!"
Posted by: Miklos may have done an OK job on that at May 20, 2022 11:34 PM (b0ajG)
Been concerned for your vision. Your handcrafts are fantastic. And we do not need another visit from that security guard when we went to the very nice art museum. You sure got up close and personable with the art!
I get my glasses from a discount place, so I get what I need, without fighting Medicare. You may not have that option.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at May 20, 2022 11:34 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Outside.Forces.
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There's always an outlier.
Posted by: Braenyard at May 20, 2022 11:34 PM (vW9Vw)
Don't be fooled into thinking everyone here has said it all. Hell. Jump right in. And remember, these people are morons!
Posted by: Diogenes at May 20, 2022 11:35 PM (anj39)
My wife would not have catarct surgery because she had very precise vision up close for crafts and reading. She did not want to risk losing that.
Posted by: CapeFear at May 20, 2022 11:35 PM (4PDMt)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 20, 2022 11:36 PM (KFhLj)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at May 20, 2022 11:36 PM (4NlP1)
Posted by: Diogenes at May 20, 2022 11:37 PM (anj39)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at May 20, 2022 11:37 PM (sjtZ7)
The hamsters let me post. You can clear that low bar every time. Plus you have done so much in your life. And you share with us.
But I still keep that one story you told me off the blog.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at May 20, 2022 11:37 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Braenyard at May 20, 2022 11:38 PM (vW9Vw)
Fall= November/December
Winter= December/January
Spring =February/March
Summer= April-November
Posted by: lin-duh at May 20, 2022 11:38 PM (UUBmN)
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at May 20, 2022 11:38 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 20, 2022 11:36 PM (KFhLj)
It's not so nutritious as you might think.
Posted by: Beto O'Rourke at May 20, 2022 11:38 PM (o0I+B)
Posted by: Outside.Forces. at May 20, 2022 11:32 PM (3Or4S)
Gee. Forgot about that. I bought a '97 Grand Cherokee this January in Arizona, paid $600 for it. Had to do some fixing up, of course. It has the 5.2 liter magnum V8 in it, and shows over 300k miles. I put a 4" lift kit in it, and 31" tires on custom rims. All used stuff, save for the lift kit. It does well out in the boonies, too. Not pretty to look at, though.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 20, 2022 11:38 PM (Q2uxR)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 20, 2022 11:39 PM (14ukD)
I'm always afraid that whatever I might have to say has been said a dozen times before in the same thread. I don't want to bore anyone with stale commentary, especially since we have so many verbally talented people hanging out here who know a whole lot more about a whole lot more things than I do....
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Do NOT hold back. The variety of commenters makes these comment threads. This is the best spot on the intertubes. You are part of it.
Posted by: irright at May 20, 2022 11:39 PM (NTUk0)
I recommend the Arden edition of Hamlet. Get the *second series version*, edited by Harold Jenkins. The third series version, edited by Ann Thompson and Neill Taylor, borders on woke.
Posted by: Brett at May 20, 2022 11:39 PM (Sm9Ko)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at May 20, 2022 11:39 PM (YynYJ)
Posted by: Outside.Forces.
Hell, I got a car that has 330,000 on it, if you consider Time up On Cinderblocks @12k/yr
Posted by: Miklos, Waffle house parking Lot shade Tree Used auto Investor at May 20, 2022 11:39 PM (b0ajG)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 20, 2022 11:39 PM (j8qW4)
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at May 20, 2022 11:38 PM (u82oZ)
Does it matter? Marines will buy anything.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 20, 2022 11:39 PM (anj39)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 20, 2022 11:40 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 20, 2022 11:40 PM (3NKiY)
Posted by: Ramon in Havana at May 20, 2022 11:41 PM (3drxe)
Posted by: Outside.Forces.
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There's always an outlier.
Posted by: Braenyard at May 20, 2022 11:34 PM (vW9Vw)
Not really an outlier. It's the engine. I have three Jeeps (Grand Cherokee, Cherokee and Comanche) all with the same engine, all with more than 200K miles, all still running great. The 4.0L straight 6 was, by all accounts, the best engine that Jeep ever made.
Posted by: HTL at May 20, 2022 11:41 PM (4ru/Z)
I'm always afraid that whatever I might have to say has been said a dozen times before in the same thread. I don't want to bore anyone with stale commentary, especially since we have so many verbally talented people hanging out here who know a whole lot more about a whole lot more things than I do....
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Do NOT hold back. The variety of commenters makes these comment threads. This is the best spot on the intertubes. You are part of it.
Posted by: irright at May 20, 2022 11:3
And just because it's already been said a dozen times doesn't mean everyone has actually seen it.
Posted by: Buzzion at May 20, 2022 11:42 PM (5mxfD)
No one should opine upon Roman history until they’ve read Gibbon. Love him or hate him, he is the starting point for all Roman history.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 20, 2022 11:39 PM -
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You can suck it. But not wolf titty, 'cause that's ours.
Posted by: Romulus and Remus at May 20, 2022 11:42 PM (NTUk0)
Possibly because more of them are work vehicles
whereas the others are family cruisers.
Posted by: Braenyard at May 20, 2022 11:33 PM (vW9Vw)
I had an '02 F150. Pretty truck, but had a number of troubles that would simply never had happened in a comparable GM.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 20, 2022 11:42 PM (Q2uxR)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at May 20, 2022 11:42 PM (sjtZ7)
This is the part of the crumbling around the edgers as maintenance is deferred or canceled.
The state of Kansas can pave every dirt and gravel road in the state with a tiny fraction of what we are sending to Ukraine.
Our "elites" **spit** chose unwisely.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at May 20, 2022 11:42 PM (u82oZ)
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Do NOT hold back. The variety of commenters makes these comment threads. This is the best spot on the intertubes. You are part of it.
Posted by: irright
All work and no play makes Miklos dull boy
All work and no play makes Miklos dull boy
Posted by: Welcoming Miklos, who lives in a van down by the ONT effluent sluice, but a river to us at May 20, 2022 11:42 PM (b0ajG)
Posted by: Braenyard at May 20, 2022 11:42 PM (vW9Vw)
Posted by: DaveS at May 20, 2022 11:42 PM (gy+Hj)
Good point. If you went to the start of every thread, you will be left behind.
Seems we all just jump into the flow.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at May 20, 2022 11:44 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at May 20, 2022 11:44 PM (sjtZ7)
Posted by: Romulus and Remus
I...I will allow it. And video, especially the video
Posted by: Judge in Johnny and Amber's trial at May 20, 2022 11:45 PM (b0ajG)
Posted by: HTL at May 20, 2022 11:41 PM (4ru/Z)
That is an excellent engine, a successor to the AMC 258 cubic inch inline six. Just about any inline six is a good engine, but some are better than others. The little 4-banger in my Dodge Dakota is a derivative of the 4 liter Jeep six.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 20, 2022 11:45 PM (Q2uxR)
Posted by: Local Flow-Bee salesman at May 20, 2022 11:46 PM (b0ajG)
I think the list is about percentages of a model.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 20, 2022 11:46 PM (lgeFv)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at May 20, 2022 11:44 PM
SEMPER VBI SVB VBI!
*I saw this chiselled into an ancient stone somewhere once...
Posted by: Zettai at May 20, 2022 11:46 PM (cSaR8)
Posted by: Johnny Depp at May 20, 2022 11:47 PM (HU4DS)
Posted by: Secret Square at May 20, 2022 11:48 PM (vddPF)
Posted by: Braenyard at May 20, 2022 11:42 PM (vW9Vw)
Yes. You break things,because you can. I busted a front drive shaft, but built a replacement. My Gran Cherokee has the full-time 4WD system, and it is pretty amazing. Those "boulevard Jeeps" will claw their way up slopes and creek beds that you would not believe possible.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 20, 2022 11:48 PM (Q2uxR)
*I saw this chiselled into an ancient stone somewhere once...
Posted by: Zettai
I try to tell Joe that
Posted by: DOCTOR and Latin Scholar Jill at May 20, 2022 11:49 PM (b0ajG)
I got the point of both...but it just seemed the author in both cases didn't see the need to include an interesting story to make his point...
Posted by: 18-1
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Daisy Miller, I had to read Daisy Miller.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 20, 2022 11:49 PM (tFWfv)
https://youtu.be/dnZDHUu7oc8
Posted by: Lost In Space at May 20, 2022 11:50 PM (m2XgI)
Posted by: BuckIV at May 20, 2022 11:50 PM (CLfqv)
Winter
Fool's Spring
Second Winter
Spring of Deception
Third Winter
The Pollening
1 of 2
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 20, 2022 11:51 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 20, 2022 11:51 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at May 20, 2022 11:37 PM (sjtZ7)
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I had a third year Latin teacher who was also the Head of Discipline. So he dropped into class for a couple of minutes then left to catch any miscreants doing what? Smoking? Coming back late from lunch? I picked a poor high school. Waste of a whole year of class.
Posted by: JM in Florida at May 20, 2022 11:51 PM (L7jyl)
Posted by: Ugh at May 20, 2022 11:53 PM (o0I+B)
Posted by: Zettai at May 20, 2022 11:53 PM (cSaR8)
May there be spooning, rejoicing, or deep, restorative slumber.
However, work those Plan Bs. We may need them. And remember -- OPSEC, OPSEC, OPSEC.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at May 20, 2022 11:54 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 20, 2022 11:54 PM (q3gwH)
His belly laugh is great too.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 20, 2022 11:55 PM (KFhLj)
Posted by: Lost In Space at May 20, 2022 11:55 PM (m2XgI)
Four years of Latin here. Believe me thee, you can certainly learn a lot about Roman history in those four years -- especially when you read it in the original Latin.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -
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Iay ovelay ouyay, Ermiekay.
Posted by: Issmay Iggypay at May 20, 2022 11:57 PM (NTUk0)
OCT - MAY, Winter
JUN - SEP, Construction season
Posted by: Zettai at May 20, 2022 11:53 PM (cSaR
So true.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 20, 2022 11:57 PM (j8qW4)
I learned my Latin in a public high school. The XO had a couple years of Latin in Catholic high school. We constantly squabble over the correct pronunciation of words.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at May 20, 2022 11:57 PM (sjtZ7)
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 20, 2022 11:57 PM (q3gwH)
Posted by: JM in Florida at May 20, 2022 11:58 PM (L7jyl)
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 20, 2022 11:54 PM (q3gwH)
I copypasta steal from the best.
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 20, 2022 11:59 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: Zettai at May 21, 2022 12:00 AM (cSaR8)
However....the Professor who I apparently insulted (because he was a leading scholar of Scott Fitzgerald writings) was also the leading literary expert on H. L. Mencken (Ace Approved).
We became friends later. Still a mystery how someone can make a profitable lifetime career by writing about what someone else wrote.
Posted by: Aspiring Scholar Miklos at May 21, 2022 12:01 AM (b0ajG)
The coaches always taught health. Biggest waste of time ever because we were healthy and all he had to offer was put some ice on it or walk it off. So yeah, my health coach did exactly that, turn the lights out and put on a movie.
Posted by: Lost In Space at May 21, 2022 12:01 AM (m2XgI)
Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at May 21, 2022 12:02 AM (ZTJjv)
Posted by: Aspiring Scholar Miklos at May 21, 2022 12:01 AM
Good work if you can get it?
Posted by: Zettai at May 21, 2022 12:02 AM (cSaR8)
Posted by: Zettai
I would say "yes" but what is "yes" in Latin?
Posted by: Miklosius Caroliniensis at May 21, 2022 12:02 AM (b0ajG)
Posted by: pawn at May 21, 2022 12:03 AM (wsHtO)
Posted by: Lost In Space at May 20, 2022 11:55 PM (m2XgI)
Mine was a 72, but the fenders were off something a bit newer. $300 plus $300 for an engine and we were good to go. I think I got about 50 mpg in that little buzzbomb. I used all four speeds, baby.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at May 21, 2022 12:05 AM (LOVUx)
He bought a folding full top, a heater and finally a 1/4 ton trailer.
If you put the chains on there weren't very many places you couldn't go. It would not surprise me a bit if that little shit was not still running.
Posted by: irongrampa at May 21, 2022 12:05 AM (KATBx)
Posted by: Zettai at May 21, 2022 12:06 AM (cSaR8)
My teacher said that when HE got up to speak, even the teacher laughed.
Posted by: JM in Florida at May 21, 2022 12:06 AM (L7jyl)
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at May 21, 2022 12:06 AM (LOVUx)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at May 21, 2022 12:07 AM (sjtZ7)
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at May 21, 2022 12:08 AM (LOVUx)
Though I have striven/strived to keep myself in check, comma, I am so very disappointed (inflamed) with (the current administration) of our (Let's Go Brandon)...sigh
Did we really deserve this? 81 million votes?...not, double fake slashes... the realty will come.
America is the "Good Guy" on the world stage after all. Just not with the current dung heap's in charge.
Posted by: Nightwatch at May 21, 2022 12:08 AM (J00IM)
Posted by: Zettai at May 21, 2022 12:09 AM (cSaR8)
Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel
I feel sorry for all of you. My literature teacher spent a semester teaching us 20th Century American music through the lyrics which dragged in musical forms, history, biographies, and why the back beat is Godly. He totally ruined my life. 50 years later I tracked him down via the Internet and thank him for everyday ruination. The bonus part he had a record collection like none other that included 78s, 45s, LPs. Must were impossible to buy.
Posted by: Lost In Space at May 21, 2022 12:10 AM (m2XgI)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at May 21, 2022 12:10 AM (sjtZ7)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 21, 2022 12:11 AM (3NKiY)
Posted by: tcn in AK.
That approach to keeping them running was remarkably common.
Posted by: Lost In Space at May 21, 2022 12:11 AM (m2XgI)
Posted by: Nightwatch at May 21, 2022 12:12 AM (J00IM)
usually it was just the dust cover that needed to be tweeked back into position
but did I tell them that ?
Posted by: REDACTED at May 21, 2022 12:13 AM (us2H3)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 21, 2022 12:11 AM
One should always poast here with an eye to our Influential Lurkers™...
Posted by: Zettai at May 21, 2022 12:13 AM (cSaR8)
Finally, she gets some comeuppance.
Posted by: JM in Florida at May 21, 2022 12:13 AM (L7jyl)
Posted by: Nightwatch at May 21, 2022 12:15 AM (J00IM)
Posted by: Lost In Space at May 21, 2022 12:10 AM (m2XgI)
Was the back beat narrow, and hard to master?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 21, 2022 12:15 AM (FDCs0)
Posted by: Zettai at May 21, 2022 12:13 AM (cSaR
MMmmm. Broasted.
So is Poasted like 'Broasted' but with poaching?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 21, 2022 12:16 AM (3NKiY)
it had 350K when I sold it in 2010
when I didn't need it anymore, I put it in CL for $3500
I placed the ad at 10pm, by 11 pm somebody came over and bought it
and I live in the middle of nowhere
people love those 7.3s
Posted by: REDACTED at May 21, 2022 12:17 AM (us2H3)
Posted by: Nightwatch at May 21, 2022 12:18 AM (J00IM)
Posted by: REDACTED at May 21, 2022 12:20 AM (us2H3)
Any posturing on Aaron Copeland? One of the greats.
Posted by: Nightwatch
No back beat. I cannot abide. After HS I studied music at a university. I learned a ton and they ruined at ton; they sort of taught me the music I fell head over heels for was sort of second rate. Some years later I woke up forever. Blues, jazz, rock and roll upended 1000 years of Western Music development. This is the one hill I am willing to die on: this music is dead on par with anything written by the European masters and effectively is modern classical music and is utterly profound.
Posted by: Lost In Space at May 21, 2022 12:20 AM (m2XgI)
Posted by: Nightwatch at May 21, 2022 12:20 AM (J00IM)
Posted by: Nightwatch at May 21, 2022 12:23 AM (J00IM)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 21, 2022 12:23 AM (FDCs0)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
The back beat is on the off beat and is the heart of life in music. It lifts up, makes you move and feel alive. It is for this precise reason why Chuck Berry was sent in to space with Bach and Mozart on Voyager 1 IIRC. He is our greatest composer and will be remembered as such in 300 years.
Posted by: Lost In Space at May 21, 2022 12:24 AM (m2XgI)
Was the back beat narrow, and hard to master?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Don't know about that,
but, any old way you choose it, you just can't lose it.
Posted by: Chuck Berry at May 21, 2022 12:25 AM (NTUk0)
Posted by: Nightwatch at May 21, 2022 12:26 AM (J00IM)
Posted by: banana Dream
And store the reloads in her cleavage.
On a completely unrelated note, Grenadier is available on blu-ray now.
Posted by: mikeski at May 21, 2022 12:27 AM (P1f+c)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 21, 2022 12:27 AM (m0zqP)
Posted by: Nightwatch at May 21, 2022 12:28 AM (J00IM)
Posted by: Lost In Space at May 21, 2022 12:29 AM (m2XgI)
Posted by: Bonnie Blue - no longer playing the game at May 21, 2022 12:32 AM (9qiMu)
Posted by: blaster at May 20, 2022 11:21 PM (wBcdF)
You stole our summer! YOU BASTARDS!
Posted by: pookysgirl, shivering under a blanket at May 20, 2022 11:25 PM (XKZwp)
Yeah...I saw a few low 40s for night temps next week
Posted by: a dude in MI at May 21, 2022 12:33 AM (+I6Y/)
Don't know about that,
but, any old way you choose it, you just can't lose it.
Posted by: Chuck Berry
Blue Suede Schubert
https://youtu.be/C-UmjRPFqM4
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 21, 2022 12:33 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Only if it comes out of the Virginia swamps, cool and slow with plenty of precision.
Posted by: SFGoth at May 21, 2022 12:34 AM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Bonnie Blue - no longer playing the game at May 21, 2022 12:32 AM
Jesus...
Posted by: Zettai at May 21, 2022 12:35 AM (nHKOj)
OK fine, Nightwatch: Copeland is a thing. He is the musical version of Edward Hopper. That both got America at a profound depth that captures the other end of the American artistic experience: intellectual and erudite.
As you can tell from my pervious comments, I am all in my love of American art and when it comes to music I am at the correct end. You still have time to atone for you wayward ways. Chuck Berry will forgive you. Trust me.
Posted by: Lost In Space at May 21, 2022 12:36 AM (m2XgI)
Posted by: Lost In Space at May 21, 2022 12:29 AM (m2XgI)
Vacuum wipers were a stupid idea at their very outset, and only became more stupid as time wore on, and various contrivances were made to try to minimize their fatal flaw, that engine vacuum simply was not available when the engine was working hard. I have seen vacuum-booster fuel pumps, large vacuum reservoirs, and electric vacuum pumps, all offered as accessories to "help" make vacuum motors work. Yet electric wipers, which worked reliably regardless of engine loading, were available on most makes at least as early as 1940, and should have been made standard equipment no later than '49.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 21, 2022 12:37 AM (FDCs0)
Posted by: Bonnie Blue - no longer playing the game at May 21, 2022 12:32 AM
Jesus...
Posted by: Zettai at May 21, 2022 12:35 AM (nHKOj)
Yumi
Posted by: REDACTED at May 21, 2022 12:37 AM (us2H3)
Posted by: SFGoth at May 21, 2022 12:34 AM (KAi1n)
somebody gets it!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 21, 2022 12:38 AM (FDCs0)
Posted by: REDACTED at May 21, 2022 12:39 AM (us2H3)
Posted by: SFGoth at May 21, 2022 12:40 AM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Only if it comes out of the Virginia swamps, cool and slow with plenty of precision.
Posted by: SFGoth
Oh, God, yes. That counts, that works. I had a person tell me he went to NO bar and asked a guy in the bar where they could hear some real music. The guy gave him directions out a swamp juke joint. He went and was the only white person around for about 500 miles. It ended up being cool as hell and about 4am BB King showed up blew the place up for a few hours. That is Godly in my world, lots of backbeats.
Posted by: Lost In Space at May 21, 2022 12:40 AM (m2XgI)
Posted by: Kunta Kinte at May 21, 2022 12:44 AM (NTUk0)
Posted by: SFGoth at May 21, 2022 12:45 AM (KAi1n)
You are exactly correct. At the same time this kind of stuff drove me to love this beast. I guess I am into being abused and this car never disappointed. Being much older and into cushy things, I like my modern SVU a lot more. But I don't love it. This shit is complicated.
Posted by: Lost In Space at May 21, 2022 12:45 AM (m2XgI)
had a manual pump wiper fluid sprayer
no, I didn't work
Posted by: REDACTED at May 21, 2022 12:39 AM (us2H3)
Hah! There was another goofy thing about cars. Windshield sprayers wren't a thing at all until the early '50's. GM came out with one that worked by, wait for it, engine vacuum. Many aftermarket outfits sold sprayers that worked from a foot pump, like a rubber bulb. Some of them were pretty good. VW went through several iterations of pressurized sprayers. Some had pressurized reservoirs that you aired up at the service station air hose, and some bled air pressure off the spare tire (what were they thinking?). It wasn't until the 1970's, that the simple, obvious solution, a 50-cent electric motor driving a tiny centrifugal pump, became the standard that is still used.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 21, 2022 12:45 AM (FDCs0)
Posted by: Kunta Kinte
You were just born in the wrong century. [the commenters on AOS are pretty brilliant and at times lethal, this being a good example.]
Posted by: Lost In Space at May 21, 2022 12:47 AM (m2XgI)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at May 20, 2022 11:31 PM (sjtZ7)
I hope they work out for you! Your nearsightedness sounds like mine. I've just begun losing my close-up vision...
Posted by: ... at May 21, 2022 12:47 AM (dscaa)
Posted by: Lost In Space at May 21, 2022 12:45 AM (m2XgI)
I'm not ragging on International here. All the big manufacturers clung to the stupid vacuum wipers long after they should have been relegated to museums. Trico must have had some very "talented" saleswomen.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 21, 2022 12:49 AM (FDCs0)
Copeland a thing?
Sorry, you have been grossly corrupted by your lazy, inadequate professors and you should demand a refund for the units you payed for....Copeland...you must be kidding after all.
Posted by: Nightwatch at May 21, 2022 12:49 AM (J00IM)
Posted by: ... at May 21, 2022 12:50 AM (dscaa)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 20, 2022 10:30 PM (ESjRY)
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I saw that in a summer stock theater with Pat Paulson. Hilarious. By the third act people were just laughing straight through.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 20, 2022 10:47 PM (+lVUW)
I saw 'Noises Off' on Broadway. For some reason, the Brits do stage comedies really well. American playwrights? Not so much. British stage humor seems to translate into American, unlike most British comedians whose humor is lost in translation. Monty Python and Rowan Atkinson are two (plus) notable exceptions to British comedians being funny to American audiences but I think a lot of that has to do with their humor being very theatrical/stage-y.
Posted by: RickZ at May 21, 2022 12:51 AM (ldL4g)
Posted by: ... at May 21, 2022 12:47 AM (dscaa)
I was nearsighted as Hell from about age 9 until a few years ago. Wore "coke-bottle" glasses, then soft contacts for decades, and eventually had to pick up dime-store reading glasses to use with the contacts. Got cataract surgery a few years ago, now, and now I can mostly do without glasses at all. Still use dime-store readers for close-up work, but if the light is good, I can read a restaurant menu or a newspaper without resorting to them, and my distance vision is excellent.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 21, 2022 12:53 AM (FDCs0)
We'll see if they pass the British test in the morning when the British person arises from her unneeded beauty rest.
Posted by: ... at May 21, 2022 12:53 AM (dscaa)
Posted by: Jeff Gillooly at May 21, 2022 12:54 AM (6BTho)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 21, 2022 12:55 AM (FDCs0)
Posted by: SFGoth at May 21, 2022 12:56 AM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Nightwatch at May 21, 2022 12:56 AM (J00IM)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at May 20, 2022 11:09 PM (+StuL)
IMAO, the Branagh Henry V has the best medieval battle scene ever filmed, Agincourt; the battle for Harfleur isn't too bad, either, but it's a night battle and gets lost in the dark. But that battle of Agincourt. It was . . . visceral.
Posted by: RickZ at May 21, 2022 12:56 AM (ldL4g)
My optometrist told me for years that the best thing that could happen to me is cataracts. Eh, not really looking forward to that. Plus I prize my acuity and I'm one of these sensitives that you're always hearing whining and exaggerations about.
Everyone thinks they're a sensitive. I swear it sounds like one of these millennial new age Gen Z made up wimpy things but really I am one.
Everybody thinks I'm weird. Especially the people who know me. I insist on plastic CR-39 lenses only because I can't see shit through anything else. Great optics, thick lenses.
Anyway it's always good to hear a good story.
Posted by: ... at May 21, 2022 12:58 AM (dscaa)
I discovered this one time when I decided my VW could go off roading. I am not talking dirt roads here, I am talking literally going cross country to find a lake that rumors said had huge pike. Of course I ruined at tire and then found out I had a flat spare and a clean windshield. I got my exercise that weekend. I not ever got smarter as I am still shredding tires out in the desert. I never said I was smart but I am adventurous.
Posted by: Lost In Space at May 21, 2022 12:58 AM (m2XgI)
Posted by: Nightwatch at May 21, 2022 12:58 AM (J00IM)
Posted by: mnw at May 21, 2022 01:02 AM (NLIak)
Posted by: Nightwatch at May 21, 2022 01:03 AM (J00IM)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at May 20, 2022 11:13 PM (sjtZ7)
An irony of 'One Day . . .' is that its frozen pages were allowed to be published in the Soviet Union thanks to a Khrushchev thaw after Stalin and his '-ism'.
I haven't read too many famous Russian authors of the 19th/early 20th Centuries. But IMHO, Solzhenitsyn is the greatest Russian writer of all time. Too bad he's not required reading in our schools, even his novels like 'Cancer Ward'. As you say, reading anything from Solzhenitsyn is a sure-fire prophylactic for any potential dalliance with communism.
Posted by: RickZ at May 21, 2022 01:06 AM (ldL4g)
I must vigorously dissent about "The Scarlet Letter."
I think it's a fascinating story.
Posted by: mnw
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Not me!
[points at 18-1, #416]
Posted by: Mike Hammer, snitching at May 21, 2022 01:06 AM (wwcKe)
Posted by: SFGoth at May 21, 2022 01:07 AM (KAi1n)
Posted by: irongrampa at May 21, 2022 01:07 AM (KATBx)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 21, 2022 01:11 AM (KFhLj)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 20, 2022 11:39 PM (14ukD)
Or you could read the original Roman writers that used to be published under the Penguin Classics line of paperback books. I reread them often as they are like visiting old friends, a comfortable experience.
Gibbon got his information from somewhere.
Posted by: RickZ at May 21, 2022 01:11 AM (ldL4g)
Posted by: believe at May 21, 2022 01:12 AM (lIzh+)
Cats tend to play by trying to strangle each other. It is what predators do.
Play with him more, and tire him out, or get him a buddy to rassle with.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 21, 2022 01:15 AM (xhaym)
Posted by: pain at May 21, 2022 01:15 AM (lIzh+)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at May 20, 2022 11:57 PM (sjtZ7)
Funny you mention that squabble. I took Latin in Catholic high school and the teacher, Soror Cor Maria, taught our class a different pronunciation than the class just ahead of us. The third word of 'veni, vidi, vici' was taught to us as 'vee-chee' while the class ahead of us learned it as 'vee-kee'.
Posted by: RickZ at May 21, 2022 01:18 AM (ldL4g)
Posted by: RickZ
And Ace got his time machine from somewhere.....
Posted by: mikeski at May 21, 2022 01:18 AM (P1f+c)
>She loved his collection of semi-auto rifles because she loved his penis like she loved her father.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 21, 2022 01:23 AM (dp3Bn)
The Scarlet Letter lost me was when Prynn's mark of shame turned out to be an eldritch seal that allowed her to birth an army of illicit devil babies that then took over the village and surrounding countryside. Seemed unrealistic. Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
Your analysis had me at Scarlet after that I got lost. So are you saying the Omen movies were a documentary or are you saying Chuck Berry's back beat was inspired by Phil Spector?
Posted by: Lost In Space at May 21, 2022 01:24 AM (2mSQi)
Shakespeare has more turns of phrases that are still used today, 400 years later, than any other writer. By a long shot. They've become cliches and idioms, even with words no longer used.
"Hoist with his own petard" is one. Very few know what a petard was, much less the double meaning of a fart joke.
Then think of all the others. A rose by any other name. All's well that ends well. I've stepped so far in blood. Et tu, Brute. Heart of Gold. Lie Low. Wild-goose chase. Laughing stock. Apple of my eye. Green-eyed monster.
The list goes on. There's even a joke, "That Shakespeare was no good, all he did was use cliches and idioms!"
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at May 21, 2022 01:25 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: SFGoth at May 21, 2022 01:26 AM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Nightwatch
Usually a few hours after my last shit. Why?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 21, 2022 01:28 AM (IEa8U)
Posted by: SFGoth at May 21, 2022 01:28 AM (KAi1n)
Posted by: azjaeger at May 21, 2022 01:28 AM (3/XaG)
Even more: All that glitters isn't gold. All the world's a stage. Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. The be all and end all. Method to his madness. One fell swoop. All the live-long day. The naked truth. Protest too much. It's Greek to me.
And many more. It's true, that damned Shakespeare just wrote cliches.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at May 21, 2022 01:29 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: sal
My 6th grade class put it on. I still have the program. :->
How do you get 6th grade girls to read Shakespeare? Assign it. How do you get 6th grade boys to read Shakespeare? Assign MacBeth.
Posted by: SFGoth at May 21, 2022 01:30 AM (KAi1n)
He says the rise in LGblahblah is allowed to be questioned, especially if it something that involves kids. Like puberty blockers.
Among other things.
Posted by: ... at May 21, 2022 01:33 AM (dscaa)
Posted by: RickZ
Have you checked out Polymathy on youtube?
He has a lot to say on 'classical' latin pronunciation. Worth a look.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 21, 2022 01:33 AM (IEa8U)
Not trying to one-up here but the thing that always gets me is how many common sayings come from the Bible.
Posted by: ... at May 21, 2022 01:34 AM (dscaa)
This is so true. I was shocked beyond comprehension when I discovered that Shakespeare was the literacy source of the language that my youthful turds and I admired, found hilarious, and used daily. The only thing that has changed over decades is my illiteracy is now bounded by spell checkers. I fucking hate my spell check masters.
Posted by: Lost In Space at May 21, 2022 01:35 AM (2mSQi)
smoke it or get rid of it?
Floors' can't be that bad, can they?
Posted by: pain at May 21, 2022 01:35 AM (lIzh+)
Retard Asshole Billy Maher speaking the unspeakable to his audience of clapping puppets.
Posted by: ... at May 21, 2022 01:36 AM (dscaa)
Posted by: 3.14159 Men at May 21, 2022 01:37 AM (P7EjO)
Crazy idea, but you can always turn off autocucumber.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at May 21, 2022 01:37 AM (4NlP1)
Posted by: ... at May 21, 2022 01:37 AM (dscaa)
Zydeco love for
Debbie D
And He-Who-Slaps-Weasels
https://tinyurl.com/3dsft4re
Posted by: Doof inspired this, Miklos just do at May 21, 2022 01:41 AM (b0ajG)
There is a long held tradition that Shakespeare was one of the translators for the King James version. :-) Those turns of a phrase in English there may be his as well.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at May 21, 2022 01:42 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: ... at May 21, 2022 01:34 AM (dscaa)
Great literature/stories are quoted for a reason. Look at the Brothers Grimm or Hans Christian Andersen or even Aesop. Many of those writers' lines/concepts are very commonplace in our daily usage. "Slow and steady wins the race."
Posted by: RickZ at May 21, 2022 01:43 AM (ldL4g)
Let them in on all the dirty jokes and double entendres in there that are lost to modern usage and pronunciation.
Shakespeare had a lot of Moron level humor.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at May 21, 2022 01:45 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: SFGoth at May 21, 2022 01:45 AM (KAi1n)
Posted by: your welcome at May 21, 2022 01:45 AM (lIzh+)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at May 21, 2022 01:46 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: RickZ at May 21, 2022 01:43 AM (ldL4g)
Yep. "Eat the old lady and then the granddaughter."
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 21, 2022 01:46 AM (UuD2k)
Posted by: 3.14159 Men at May 21, 2022 01:46 AM (P7EjO)
And many more. It's true, that damned Shakespeare just wrote cliches.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion
Laugh now, but when the okra doesn't come in
People be killin' and trailer stealin'
Posted by: Miklos did offer to lease an agricultural acre or two at May 21, 2022 01:47 AM (b0ajG)
Posted by: go along to get along at May 21, 2022 01:49 AM (lIzh+)
Example of such humor: A butler is asked to verify his lady's handwriting. He inspects and says something like the following:
Yes, 'tis my Lady's hand. These be er 'C's, er 'U's 'n' 'er 'T's, from whenceforth spring her great 'P's.
We'll let Ben Roethlisberger explain why that is funny.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at May 21, 2022 01:50 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: 3.14159 Men at May 21, 2022 01:51 AM (P7EjO)
Crazy idea, but you can always turn off autocucumber.
Posted by: Walter Freeman
Good idea, for sure. I so prefer to discover I don't know that what I am talking about. This humbles me and demands I think better and with more clarity.
Posted by: Lost In Space at May 21, 2022 01:51 AM (2mSQi)
Posted by: ... at May 21, 2022 01:51 AM (dscaa)
Posted by: the last to post at May 21, 2022 01:52 AM (gsX+K)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at May 21, 2022 01:53 AM (Mzdiz)
Those trailer thieves need to die a thousand deaths. Rogues, villains, ... Some of The Bard's insults:
Thou ruttish ill-breeding clack-dish!
Thou cockered tardy-gaited ratsbane!
Thou beslubbering bat-fowling bladder!
Thou caluminous common- kissing flap-dragon!
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at May 21, 2022 01:57 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: ...
This is essential to understand. One might say, after living in a Western culture that I am not Christian. Maybe? Maybe not? What is certain is that Christian theology and language permeates everything; you may assert you are not Christian and then you open your mouth. I don't find this a problem; when I can find a better philosophy than this one which spans cultures and thousands of years, then I will reconsider everything. Until then I have some seriously humbling work ahead of me.
Posted by: Lost In Space at May 21, 2022 02:00 AM (2mSQi)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first
P[ease keep informed, my Jules just had her first cataract removed yesterday, went the same route you did. Had to pay a lot extra to get very near sightedness corrected, will now need reading glasses. My email is in my nic, I think if I remember how to do that.
Posted by: Farmer at May 21, 2022 02:02 AM (55Qr6)
A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a
base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited,
hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a
lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson,
glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue;
one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a
bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but
the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar,
and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I
will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest
the least syllable of thy addition.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at May 21, 2022 02:03 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Lost In Space
The wokesters would more readily admit that the English language was shaped by Shakespeare second to the Bible, and even then they would choke on it like a demon possessing a child.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 21, 2022 02:04 AM (IEa8U)
I'm glad Shakespeare isn't copyrighted anymore.... :-)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at May 21, 2022 02:04 AM (Mzdiz)
You're having waaaaaaaay too much fun ...
: -))
Posted by: Adriane the Practical Critic ... at May 21, 2022 02:05 AM (okV1R)
Posted by: 3.14159 Men at May 21, 2022 01:51 AM (P7EjO)
Non-fiction has its place but often, unfortunately, a boring place.
But good fiction can speak to the universals of mankind, the hopes, the dreams, the trials, the tribulations, the loves, the lusts, the joys, the losses.
There are valuable lessons in both types of literature.
Posted by: RickZ at May 21, 2022 02:05 AM (ldL4g)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 21, 2022 02:10 AM (KFhLj)
Posted by: raimondo at May 21, 2022 02:14 AM (Hr7D1)
base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited,
Ha
A come ye lately
Posted by: The Miklos tale, according to Jeff Chaucer at May 21, 2022 02:15 AM (b0ajG)
The wokesters would more readily admit that the English language was shaped by Shakespeare second to the Bible, and even then they would choke on it like a demon possessing a child. Posted by: weft cut-loop a
Over the course of my life I have never been deeply religious. At the same time I have always been deeply philosophical and flexible in my thinking about these matters. In the last parts of my life I find myself seeking reconciliation for this divide. All I know now is this: God is everything.
Posted by: Lost In Space at May 21, 2022 02:20 AM (2mSQi)
Meet with Publius and Miley with agreement that we only Speke like Chaucer for two hours.
Miley is fully accreditated
Posted by: The Institute of Miklos, as Instituted at May 21, 2022 02:21 AM (b0ajG)
Three-suited filthy worsted-stocking knave is...Trumpian.
Now, glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue. WTF does that mean, exactly. Well, finical is old form of "finicky". Superserviceable means "very officious" and glass-gazing, I'm gonna take to mean "narcissistic". So, officious, finicky narcissist.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at May 21, 2022 02:24 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: JT at May 21, 2022 02:27 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: The Institute of Miklos
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I'll only participate if swich licour is being served.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, digging a foxhole at May 21, 2022 02:31 AM (RCix1)
Posted by: JT
I cut up a pork loin after smoking it for 5 (5) hours.
Now simmering, time, wait.
Posted by: Miklos does in fact make good BBQ at May 21, 2022 02:32 AM (b0ajG)
Posted by: RickZ at May 21, 2022 02:32 AM (ldL4g)
Posted by: JT
I cut up a pork loin after smoking it for 5 (5) hours.
Now simmering, time, wait.
Posted by: Miklos does in fact make good BBQ
oh.
Thanks for clearing THAT up.
Posted by: JT at May 21, 2022 02:34 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: Mike Hammer,
I did lengthy Chaucer here, for years
It is there
But not good at years-old ONT archive research.
Pls find
Posted by: Whan th droth oh Miklos per-ced to the roote at May 21, 2022 02:36 AM (b0ajG)
Filthy, leftover cuts of meat that no one of any breeding would eat, fit for only a mongrel whoreson. The shit you would normally throw to the dogs.
Lips and assholes, for instance.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at May 21, 2022 02:36 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: JT at May 21, 2022 02:27 AM (arJlL)
Fragments or pieces of meat and other food. Crumbs of food or even leftovers; leaving some of that meat on a chicken leg.
Posted by: RickZ at May 21, 2022 02:37 AM (ldL4g)
That long insult is from "King Lear", and I think it's perfect for Fauci.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at May 21, 2022 02:37 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: JT
Very Good.
Now Charleen wants to talk to you about Something.
Involving Money, as I perceive.
Posted by: Miklos wants no damn further question, especiallyy about Charleen and her bidnid at May 21, 2022 02:42 AM (b0ajG)
Posted by: Miklos
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Maybe...
“Hell, it is well known, has no fury like a woman who wants her tea and can’t get it.”
Posted by: Jeeves at May 21, 2022 02:44 AM (wwcKe)
Posted by: JT at May 21, 2022 02:44 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion
Sorry
Gotta go with Cromwell
"Ye have sat here too long" is also good for Nadler jokes
Posted by: Miklos, actual historian, and that shit costs money at May 21, 2022 02:45 AM (b0ajG)
When that April with his shores soot,
The drought of March has pierced to the roote.
Now, up here in Greenville, Sourkerlina, March has the highest normal rainfall, at 4.2".
My cuz, the retarded meteorological whatchamacallit, is one a tirade about "normal" vs. average. The idiot media weathermens and Weather Channel (which he wants to burn to the ground for its Outrages) calls "normal" the average/mean.
Nope, two different things, and it's driving Cuz nuts.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at May 21, 2022 02:46 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Sharkman at May 21, 2022 02:48 AM (Lqf5w)
Posted by: Jeeves
They left almost a milliard on her night table, without any desire for "Intimate Conversations" at all.
Posted by: Bertie "Seth" Wooster at May 21, 2022 02:49 AM (b0ajG)
Me being all even handed about all matters exactly Fauci, him being literally and biblically the first recorded douche bag on record, Jewish or Christian, do I set fire to his greatness or chug it.
Posted by: Lost In Space at May 21, 2022 02:50 AM (2mSQi)
Posted by: Peggy Multi-Faced POS Noonan at May 21, 2022 02:52 AM (BOJAx)
which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice.Ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government.Ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money.Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess?Ye have no more religion than my horse. Gold is your God. Which of you have not bartered your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth?Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defiled this sacred place, and turned the Lord's temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices?Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation. You were deputed here by the people to get grievances redressed, are yourselves become the greatest grievance.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at May 21, 2022 02:52 AM (Mzdiz)
In the name of God, go!"
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at May 21, 2022 02:53 AM (Mzdiz)
That describes the Congress, and the gubmint of these here United States perfectly. Is there one vice you do not possess, is there one virtue you have remaining?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at May 21, 2022 02:55 AM (Mzdiz)
This BBQ will be good
Will send to Miley an Publius, unless ya'll have gone all Vegan and shit
FACT-my BBQ is so good, the Rabbis call me a Mensch
Posted by: Saluda style M-Klos, probably a Bot at May 21, 2022 02:59 AM (b0ajG)
Posted by: publius
We also require Child Support
Posted by: Jefferson "Miklos" Davis at May 21, 2022 03:03 AM (b0ajG)
That is a complicated response. Are we talking about a Johnny Depp level of vices or my sitting on my couch responding to your comment. There may or not be a difference.
Posted by: Lost In Space at May 21, 2022 03:07 AM (2mSQi)
Just don't shit on the couch, and you'll be good. I think.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at May 21, 2022 03:12 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion
Not an issue. What about Depp?
Posted by: Lost In Space at May 21, 2022 03:17 AM (2mSQi)
BBQ is Good. Always and everywhere.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at May 21, 2022 03:17 AM (Mzdiz)
Depp pissed, but he did not shit, I think, if I've got the facts from the trial right.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at May 21, 2022 03:18 AM (Mzdiz)
(sips coffee)
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 21, 2022 03:23 AM (sAmhv)
So, in your opinion, Depp is a cheap cut of BBQ meat. Once having traveled to Harrisburg, PA by air plane how do I rebut this?
Posted by: Lost In Space at May 21, 2022 03:25 AM (2mSQi)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion
Posted by: Miklos, shade tree Estees Rocket BBQ Scientist at May 21, 2022 03:25 AM (b0ajG)
Came through the jaws of Death,
Back from the mouth of hell,
All that was left of them,
Left of six hundred.
Posted by: m at May 21, 2022 03:25 AM (ZpkZT)
Posted by: Geo-Deuce App at May 21, 2022 03:26 AM (BOJAx)
Looks they are running another "pandemic" op -- monkeypox.
The same playbook, again. I can't take this shit anymore.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at May 21, 2022 03:30 AM (Mzdiz)
Looks they are running another "pandemic" op -- monkeypox.
The same playbook, again. I can't take this shit anymore.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at May 21, 2022 03:30 AM (Mzdiz)
2 people have it now? I suppose its soooper contagious as well
Posted by: a dude in MI at May 21, 2022 03:37 AM (+I6Y/)
Posted by: Luciana Paluzzi c.1967, or perhaps a dream at May 21, 2022 03:39 AM (b0ajG)
Posted by: micky at May 21, 2022 03:45 AM (3byMq)
Remember when Poppy Bush puked on the Jap prime minister? Maybe Brandon will top that in South Korea. Shit on the president or something.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at May 21, 2022 03:47 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: micky at May 21, 2022 03:51 AM (3byMq)
Posted by: Skip at May 21, 2022 04:13 AM (2JoB8)
Posted by: micky at May 21, 2022 03:45
That's like asking is anyone here a masochist. Well, yeah maybe a few.
Posted by: Farmer at May 21, 2022 06:14 AM (55Qr6)
Posted by: James R McKenna at May 21, 2022 08:09 AM (K51pl)
Darn good car. Take care of your weather stripping, folks!Posted by: PlainJane at May 21, 2022 01:57 PM (2Byxi)
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